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We See	Sunday May 29th
	Dragon Boats and sunshine

Forecasted rain did not happen

An eventful weekend

From Dragon Boat ‘races’ to Transition Town initiatives to sunny weather

And SQCRD meeting Friday—First look

Here I just touch on a few of the topics

	The fellows replacing roof on Domenica Villa lucked out with the sunny weather
	While it was still early when I was by – looks like they should get this side done today

	Surprise!!! Looks like Jerry will comply with City rulings before end of month
	When I took these pictures the crew was just putting away the scaffolding etc at end of day --- looks like power washed and concrete facing prepared so can soon paint it --- almost looks like an abstract art work

And the Elderberries (Sambucus) almost at end of their bloom (see end this file) --- here is City owned property

And when are they going to sell this property? I suggest it might be appropriate for Garden and Green House --- perhaps using the standing building --- there is shed area etc --- and it might fit the Transition Town theme (more on this later--- but a talk was given Saturday on this theme --- along the lines of weaning ourselves from peak oil --- and inventing a viable future) --- below I have pictured one of the ornamental ‘fruit tree’ flowers now in full bloom --- the idea would be to replace them with ‘real' apple trees etc – that could bear real fruit – not just flowers – along lines of ‘permaculture’

	And as the Sambucus white flowers ‘peak’ – the Sorbus ones come into bloom
	On Sunday only a few flowers have actually opened --- see my earlier (scroll down page) for botany and previous years etc for Mountain Ash --- looks like blooming at least a couple weeks late this year -- earliest I have was May 10th during an 2005 El Nino year

SQCRD -- 1st look

	The Graham Island OCP is visually and conceptually attractive document – available online at the SQCRD web site – now it will go for Community comments on Graham

	There is a sub text to this too
	As I have argued elsewhere – the SQCRD is a vestige of Neo-colonialism – Oona River and Dodge Cove each have their own rep while the vast majority of population live on reserves --- From the Graham Island OCP we see that about 2/3rds there live on Haida lands

Lax Kwaxl/Dundas and Melville Islands Conservancy More of the info here http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/cnsrvncy/lax_lwax_dundas_melville_islands/ Good map from their site 33k PDF K’sgaxl /Stephens Islands Conservancy http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/cnsrvncy/k_sgaxl_stephens_is/index.html Visit the K’sgaxl/Stephens Islands Conservancy management planning page to provide your input on the management plan for this conservancy

Looking for public input on new Conservancies

David Brown – familiar with the area from the LRMP days gave a short presentation at SQCRD meeting --- Eamon (MOF) unable to attend)

	Surprisingly PNCIMA brought a lot of discussion
	More on this later

Again – end of the Dandelion bloom period and the commencement of the ‘white flower’ phase of Spring flowers The arrow points to Sambus in full bloom

Created by LG on May 29^th
Last updated on Monday, May 30, 2011