Salt Spring keeper Miguel Alvarado deflects a hard shot by a Prospect Laker forward. In this final game of the Division Two season, Miguel also scored the lone Salt Spring goal.

Another famous and beautiful person works with the lucky dance students at Gulf Islands Secondary School.

“Margie Gillis has just been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. Margie Gillis is one of the few dancers in the world who has sustained a solo career for more than 35 years. As a choreographer and performer, she mesmerizes audiences throughout the world with her personal, emotional, and dramatic portrayals of human experience. In 1988 she was appointed to the Order of Canada. In 2009 she was awarded the insignia of the Ordre national du Québec. She is the 2011 recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.”

Margie’s website.

Where are the groceries? Rider on jazzy scooter leaves the Salt Spring Country Grocer parking lot.

The youth soccer season wrapped up with this U15 cup challenge game. Tournaments are next. See the Saltspring United website for details.

A fun family portrait. A Salt Spring family many of you may know, now living in the Victoria area. I’d forgotten about this one, shot in December 2006, until prints from the shoot were ordered this week. It’s never too late, but you do have to get the shots done!