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Assorted items….

To soften the journey (a bit)… Corporate blue seat padding has belatedly appeared on the new metal seating on the Mayne Queen.

Visioning the schedule…. In early July Southern Gulf Island ferry advisory committee representatives will meet with Saltspring Island reps to discuss ideas about scheduling for both route 9 (that’s the mainland) and route 5. The SSIFAC has been working on some possible schedules and this is the other islands’ first chance to see what they've achieved and add their input.

Dear Members,

Recently I heard about and researched the British Colubmia Property Tax Deferment Program, a little known and relatively little used, program sponsored by the provincial government.

Now that property tax time is upon us you may wish to give some thought to using the British Columbia Property Tax Deferment Program (BCPTDP) as well. The program has been around since the 1970's and is user-friendly.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Here are the essentials:

If you:

SATURNA ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

DATE HELD: Saturday, 28 May 2011

LOCATION: Saturna Island Rec Centre

Saturna, British Columbia

CALL TO ORDER: 11:06 am

Board Members Murray Rankin President

Present: Ron Monk Vice-President

Bernie Ziegler Past President

Susie Washington-Smyth

Bill Schermbrucker

Ron Hall

Regrets: Ellen Bourassa Treasurer

Susan Jamieson-McLarnon Correspondence Secretary

SATURNA ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION

MINUTES OF POST AGM DIRECTORS’ MEETING

DATE HELD: Saturday 28 May 2011

LOCATION: Saturna Island Recreation Centre

Saturna, British Columbia

CALL TO ORDER: 1:28 pm

In attendance: Murray Rankin

Ron Monk

Susie Washington-Smyth

Ron Hall

Paul Brent

Michael Fry

Regrets: Bill Schermbrucker

Ellen Bourassa

Susan Jamieson-McLarnon

TELUS Corporation

5 – 3777 Kingsway

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5H 3Z7

www.telus.com

Fraser Pajak604.695.3555 Telephone

Member of the TELUS teamfraser.pajak@telus.com

May 27, 2011

Dear Mr. Rankin,

From: Hollett, Grant [mailto:Grant.Hollett@viha.ca]
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 06:00 PM
To: Rankin, Murray (Heenan Blaikie); 'Ron Monk' <rmreservices@gmail.com>

THE EMERGENCY & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS TEAMS ON SATURNA

by Dawn Wood, Coordinator

Besides the volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders of SIR (Saturna Island Rescue), there are many other residents trained to help out under certain emergency circumstances. This first week of May is a time to acknowledge what they do and who they are.