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Author: admin Created: 12/25/2006 7:09 PM
Web log of the IslandSoaring.com site administrator
2008 Awards
By admin on 12/2/2008 8:41 AM
We held the 2008 Annual Social and Awards on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2008. Thanks to all who came out! Read the details to see who won....congratulations! Go to the Pictures->Events->2008 Annual Social to see some photos.
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Island Soaring Christmas Social and Annual Awards
By admin on 11/8/2008 4:38 PM
The Christmas Social and Annual Awards are coming up soon....
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Club Meeting - Thursday, Sept. 4 - 8pm
By admin on 8/29/2008 11:45 AM
At Sir James Douglas School, 401 Moss St. in Fairfield.
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Reserve Parachute Repack!!! Friday, April 11
By admin on 4/7/2008 7:33 PM
The annual parachute repack is Friday, April 11th from 7-10pm at Sir Francis Kelsey school in Mill Bay.
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Annual General Meeting Results
By admin on 2/28/2008 8:48 PM
The annual general meeting was held on Thursday, Feb. 21. The new executive was elected and the basic running of the club was discussed. The meeting minutes have been posted (under the Club section).
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POSTPONED - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Now on Feb. 21, 8:00pm
By admin on 1/31/2008 7:09 PM
At Sir James Douglas School, 401 Moss St. in Fairfield.
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2007 Award Nominations, Christmas Social, Meeting Minutes
By admin on 11/5/2007 4:24 PM
At the last meeting we took nominations for the annual awards. Please email me (daveunderdog @gmail.com - remove the space) if you would like to add anyone to any category. I will be putting up the voting survey in a couple of days so act fast if you would like to see someone else nominated.

The Christmas social will be on Dec. 1, at the Victoria Flying Club. More details to come.

FYI, last meeting's minutes have been posted. Next meeting is Dec. 6.
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HAM Radio Course/Exam - New Location - Victoria Flying Club
By admin on 10/20/2007 4:50 PM
The address is 101-1852 Canso Road by the airport (where we have our Christmas socials). The course will run from 9-5pm on Sunday Oct. 28.
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October Club Meeting - Thursday, Oct. 4 - Please read on....
By admin on 9/26/2007 1:21 PM
We are meeting at the school portable on Thursday, Oct. 4, 8:00pm. Hopefully it will be a short meeting (since we just had one on Sept 13) and then afterwards we plan on....wait for it....read below....
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El Presidente Plucked from Peril
By admin on 7/15/2007 5:46 PM
I had the best flight I've ever had at Dallas on July 8th...followed by a "bit of a back breaker".
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Saltspring Island Fly-in
By admin on 7/11/2007 7:20 AM
August 4,5,6 is the 30th Annual Saltspring Island Fly-in
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July Club Meeting - Thursday, July 5 - Sir James Douglas School
By admin on 7/4/2007 7:43 PM
8pm - Sir James Douglas School at Thurlow Rd. and Moss St. in the portable
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South African Slide Show - This Thursday, June 14
By admin on 6/12/2007 8:29 PM
Birdmen Paragliding will present the flying opportunities in South Africa.
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June Club Meeting - Thursday, June 7 - Sir James Douglas School portable
By admin on 6/6/2007 7:36 PM
8pm - Sir James Douglas School at Thurlow Rd. and Moss St. in the portable
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May Club Meeting - Thursday, May 3 - New Location!
By admin on 5/2/2007 9:07 AM
8pm - Sir James Douglas School at Thurlow Rd. and Moss St. in the portable
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Timberwest Contract Signed
By admin on 4/25/2007 12:58 PM
Margit Nance sent the following open letter regarding the status of our Timberwest Contract
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IslandSoaring.com gone forever.
By admin on 4/20/2007 7:00 AM
An update on the status of IslandSoaring.com
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April's Club Meeting - New time and venue!!
By admin on 4/4/2007 1:31 PM
Meeting is on Thursday, April 12th, from 7-10pm (meeting will start at 7:30) at JK Do-Forno cafe in Fernwood.
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Reserve Parachute Repack - March 30th
By admin on 3/6/2007 6:24 PM
The reserve parachute repack is on Friday, March 30th (7-10pm) at Sir Francis Kelsey school (953 Shawnigan-Mill Bay Road, Mill Bay).
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Timberwest Update
By admin on 2/23/2007 8:30 AM
An open letter from Margit Nance regarding the land use negotiation with Timberwest.
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Why have Blog, Chat Box, Forums and Yahoo groups?
By admin on 2/10/2007 5:34 PM
I've added a few tools to IslandSoaring.com. There is more than a little confusion about these things. Hopefully, this little post will clear this up.
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Chat Box / Shout Box Update
By admin on 2/5/2007 10:46 PM
I added the CBOX sevice used by windlines.net. We can try it out for a while as well.
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New Forum
By admin on 1/22/2007 7:24 PM
Should we phase out the YAHOO.COM group and try to get all the traffice moved to the (underused) IslandSoaring.com forum... feedback please.
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New Shout box
By admin on 1/14/2007 7:05 PM
Read about the new shout box feature on IslandSoaring.com
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New web log features
By admin on 1/3/2007 9:42 AM

I've added a "blogging" module to islandsoaring.com.  Log in with your IslandSoaring.com ID and you should see a "Create my Blog" link.

Enjoy.
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