Work on the new road in the community forest across from the highway shed has resumed now that the rains have started. The new road is called Gorge Harbour Main and construction is expected to be completed around by the second week of November.

There will be a community firewood day along the new road on Saturday Nov 12, starting at 9am. The community firewood day will work the same as it has in previous years where volunteers come out and help to deliver pickup loads of firewood to seniors or other people in the community who are in need.

If you know of someone who is in need and could use a free load of firewood, please contact Mark Lombard by email at misterlombard@gmail.com.

To make the community firewood day work, we need volunteers with pickups to come out and help to make the deliveries. We also need volunteers to come out and help load the pickups. All the volunteers will receive a free load of firewood. If you would like to volunteer please contact Mark as well.

The firewood logs for the firewood day are from the trees that were recently cut for the road building and are therefore still green and not suitable for burning this winter. There is also a chance we will need some help with bucking the firewood, so if anyone with chainsaw experience would like to help with the bucking please contact Mark as well.

In other news, the wildfire mitigation project around the recycling centre is also set to get under way this month. Look for a notice on the Tideline for and exact start up date in the coming weeks.