Canada Post Strike
Canada Post delivery staff is on strike. Sounders are not being delivered to mailboxes. During the strike, Sounders will still be available on newsstands with additional stands set up at Mailboxes at North Road and Barrett; Front walkway at Twin Beaches Centre; Mailboxes at Peterson and North Road; and Mailboxes at Peterson and South Road.
Nov. 13, 2024
Gabriolans gathered on November 11 at the memorial cairn at the RCMP detachment for the annual Remembrance Day ceremony. Derek Kilbourn photo
Gabriola Fire Board adjourns meeting after individual refuses to stop video recording
Derek Kilbourn Sounder News The Gabriola Fire Protection Improvement District Board will now be holding a General Meeting at 4pm on November 14. This comes after it had already set (and now postponed) a meeting for November 7. No reason was given for the postponment...
RDN expanding Organics Yard Waste stream – survey available
Sounder News In March 2023, the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) began allowing RDN curbside collection customers to put yard waste into their green-lidded organics cart. The service level expansion applied to all single-family dwellings in the RDN and is included...
School District will not increase maintenance funding for Gabriola Elementary School field
Field to be closed to community groups for winter Nicole Knowles Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Gabriola Sounder On September 25, coaches with the Gabriola Soccer Association made a presentation to the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District Board, requesting an...
RDN Parks staff cautious in saying youth soccer can use Rollo
Derek Kilbourn Sounder News Representatives of the Gabriola Soccer Association (GSA)once again presented to Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) regarding how to improve access to sports field for youth soccer use on Gabriola. This time, it was at the Oct. 21 meeting of...
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