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Li Read and Celia Duffy-Hunt talk about the 21st Century “shift” and her local business, “Salt Spring Woodworks“
Salt Spring Arts Council
…is a community arts organization serving residents of Salt Spring Island and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada. Salt Spring is known around the globe for its arts tourism, and diverse and talented artists.
Salt Spring Island Sailing Club
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We are dedicated to fostering and promoting interest in sailing and cruising in the waters off the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and to develop seamanship and a knowledge of navigation.
Salt Spring Island Market
Vendors must “make it, bake it, or grow it” themselves, and all products must be “vendor produced and sold”. These simple mandates are the essence of our market. Visitors are treated to local creations stemming from Salt Spring’s unique brand of “island ingenuity“. Highest caliber creativity and production standards make Salt Spring Island home to the greatest collection of artists in Canada.
Treehouse Café
We are passionate about serving delicious, wholesome food prepared from scratch. Our cafe is located in the heritage cottage next to Mouat’s in the heart of Ganges village on beautiful Salt Spring Island. The building itself was built in the 1920s and has a long and diverse history which includes being the site of the first electrical generating station on the island and later as a home for one of the Mouat family’s favorite aunts, Margaret. It’s even been a smoke house, crystal shop and music school.
Salt Spring Island Blues
Our Mission: to produce jazz concerts and workshops, meaning jazz in the broadest sense, including blues, Latin and world music, on Salt Spring Island. Our purpose is to provide a platform for local and visiting artists that will nurture the local musical community and promote these genres of music on our island, reaching audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
[podcast]https://lireadgroup.com/blog/wp-content/podcasts/Li-Read-Molly-Sinclair.mp3[/podcast]
Li Read interviews Milly Sinclair of the Hastings House.
Hastings House
I love the photos from Florida, and the Gulf Coast, and Southern California, and even off to Austrailia’s Gold Coast…endless sweeps of sandy beach, for what seem like miles!
Mariner's Cross
That’s not the kind of beach we get in the Southern Gulf Islands, though.
Sometimes, it’s crushed shell and sand tiny coves, sometimes it’s a shingle beach, smooth pebbles, a somewhat larger cove, sometimes it’s sandstone, shelving from exposed smooth rock into deep water….you’d have to travel to Vancouver Island’s west side, to enjoy the long ribbons of wonderful sand, or to parts of the east side of Vancouver Island.
The interesting thing about the Southern Gulf Islands is that they allow for great sailing waters, idling between the various islands, and even extending into the adjacent U.S. San Juans grouping.
With the coves and the mix of beach and deep water foreshore, it allows for docks. Ah…the eternal dream of the mariner…to keep one’s boat at home!
It seems that in the few Paciific Northwest Coast areas that mimic the Florida sweeps of beach, the trade off is beachcombing versus dock/moorage for a boater.
Surfer's Paradise
It’s two kinds of waterfront seekers, always, it seems….those who like to “walk for miles” on a sandy beach and those who want to create a dock/moorage for their yacht, and would prefer that deep water aspect.
And you are what kind of waterfront seeker???
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Part III of an interview with Murray Schoolbraid.
At a recent international real estate conference that I attended, realtors from other secondary home/discretionary areas, including hard hit Spain, were noting that tiny baby steps of uptick in sales volume were being detected…just since end of August, so it’s very recent, indeed.
Some saavy and major developers, in Canadian cities, are also newly targeting early Spring as going to be very different, on an upward momentum, for sales volume if not prices, in spite of continuing media reports of impending double dip concerns for the U.S. economy, over supply of inventory in many sunbelt states, and jobless numbers increasing.
It’s almost a given that what used to work won’t anymore, and what is emerging as the new paradigm will work. This is true of the real estate industry, too. Franchise models are in disarray, the entire mls system in Canada is dramatically changing, for the benefit of consumers, (a.k.a., the “enduser“) and the sacrosanct referral system of old is vanishing as a key element in a real estate agent’s business model
A recent Time Magazine (U.S. Edition) article drew attention to parallel universes in economic conditions: digital worlds (iphone 4, ipad, etc) being one kind of Jobs report, and manufacturing aspects being an opposite jobs report. One more example of the schism between the known of the 20th and the unknown of the 21st centuries.
It’s almost a given that what used to work won’t anymore, and what is emerging as the new paradigm will work.
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