The Island’s Snug Cove House Society has ended its 20th year of operations one giant step closer to its dream of a supportive residence for seniors, with the receipt last month of conditional subdivision approval for its Miller Road property. The conditional subdivision will allow the society to offer, in the Spring, nine building lots to the general public, the sale of which will enable the creation, on the tenth lot, of the seniors’ residence.
At the society’s annual general meeting on the weekend, chair Graham Ritchie thanked all those who made the year successful: the planning and public works staff at municipal hall, John Reid, George Bernard, Carol MacKinnon, real estate lawyers Duff Waddell and Sky Anderson of Kaplan and Waddell, the Knick Knack Nook and the Bowen Island Legion, society directors including retiring director Geoff Jarvis, and especially the society’s building committee chair John Greene and architect and project manager Don Nicolson.
Ritchie also thanked April Sear and her family for the continuing Better Meals pre-prepared meals program, and all those who helped in the various community consciousness-raising activities in the past year: Norma Dallas, Alderwood Farm, the General Store and the World Famous Snug Cove House Ukelele Band for the Steamship Days BBQ, and the amazing David and Shirley Wrinch for all their work on creating the first-prize-winning Three Little Pigs and Big Bad Wolf float at Bowfest. The society’s next event is of course the dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on Saturday December 14th, 7:30pm at Collins Hall, tickets $20 at Phoenix.
The society’s directors are: Irene Wanless, Gillian Eades Telford, Pernille Nielsen, Thijs Dhont, Graham Ritchie, the Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon and Ida Goodreau. They are joined now by new directors Bill Kitchen, a recently-retired Provincial Court judge, and intellectual property rights lawyer Tamsin Miley.
