Active Page Article October, 2023
By Alison Colwell
Blackberry Festival
This year the Galiano Club’s Blackberry Tea will be on Saturday October 7th. Doors will open at 11am, and you can pick up your pies, or enjoy a soup, or a slice of pie and ice cream until 2pm.
We will be accepting pre-orders for pies again this year. Email the galianoclub@gmail.com with your request. We will have Blackberry, Blackberry & Apple, Blackberry & Peach, Apple Cinnamon, or Maple Pumpkin Pies. Pies are $20 each.
We will need volunteers to serve and help with the clean up on Saturday. Plus, pie making volunteers all week – contact Alison for more information.
The Galiano Club’s New Truck
Three years ago, the gleaning coordinator for the Community Food Program, asked if the Club would consider purchasing a truck. Moving the orchard ladders was sometimes challenging, plus hauling the rest of the equipment and the boxes of fruit. “A truck would make life easier,” said Emma.
It took two grants and two years but this winter the Galiano Club purchased a work truck.And we never anticipated how much we’d use it, or just how much easier it would make life. It’s being used for gleaning, of course. And the garlic co-op. But I also use the truck to pick up supplies for the food bank. The first time I took it to town, I got almost 1700 cans of salmon in the back, plus three carts of groceries for Soup Monday.
And thanks to the United Way and The Victoria Foundation for making life easier for all of us moving food around Galiano.
Galiano Club’s Annual Christmas Market
The Galiano Club’s Annual Christmas Market will be happening over two days again this year. Saturday Dec 2nd and Sunday Dec 3rd. If you would like to be a vendor, please send us an email at galianoclub@gmail.com with your preferred day. (Day requests will be accommodated on a first come basis.)
Galiano Players
By Sonia Baker
Not long after arriving on Galiano, I became involved with the Galiano Players and began producing a Christmas pantomime. Our first Panto was Cinderella, and very quickly the Christmas Panto became a fantastic success. I have directed seven Panto’s so far on Galiano, but now I’ve turned the tradition over to new director, Brahmi Brenner. The Panto is in very good hands, and we can look forward to a wonderful production again this December.
Now I’m moving in a new direction. I’m privileged to be directing a dark comedy with two very talented actors, Joy Wilson, and Christina Stechishin. Working on their character development has been fun for us all. This one-act play will keep you wondering about the outcome until the very end. Please join me Friday October 20th or Saturday 21st, at 7pm at the South Hall.
Come watch these two incredible actors in a play you’ll be talking about for a long time.