EPISODE 3: "Letters to Santa"

The anti-Luth letter writing campaign really heats up with thousands of letters going astray to the North Pole... Santa tells all... (played by Dietrich Luth). A fantastic interview with Bruce Ruddell, local composer and historian... Bruce talks about the Wilson Duff story of the sacred Poles that were removed from the Charlottes. The Geezers do Breakfast. A year-end fireside chat with Dietrich Luth. The viewpoint is scruffy!

EPISODE 4: "Shoreline Sealife"

New Years Message from CRD Director Luth, Marine Biologist David Denning speaks eloquently about a glass of sea water and more. The Lonely Geezer... Viewpoint.

EPISODE 5: "Let the Saltspring Island Political Games Begin!"

(2hr. Strictly Political Special) The Queen visits the annex of Government House and kicks off the Saltspring Island Political Games... Sliding into a serious documentation of the ant-Luth letter campaign's final treacherous influence on the CRD Board's January 10th meeting. The Geezers do some shopping... and Paul Marcano and Sid Filkow give their political commentary on the morning after... the campaign.

EPISODE 6: "Mid-Winter's Lullaby"

(45 min. Isle of Views - The Album) With Sid Filkow off on holiday in Mexico, Paul Marcano presents a new album of music, aptly named Isle of Views featuring the theme music from the show and a dozen odd new compositions... all instrumental and accompanied by beautiful video footage taken on Salt Spring as well as abstract art video when appropriate. A very easy and loose program with no recognizable political commentary.

EPISODE 7: "Coming Back on Line"

With Sid Filkow extending his holiday in Mexico, Paul Marcano hosts an episode himself and interviews Lynda Laushway just prior to her successful bid to become the local NDP candidate, the show features a compilation of footage shot before Sid Filkow left, including a new phone 'out' segment of the show with our man in Beaver Point, Shilo. The Geezers show us one of the oldest Cell phones and Satva and Claudio shoot some final shots at the pool hall.

EPISODE 8: "The Salt Spring Fever of Eros"

Erotica overtakes the Saltspring Community, with the Erotic Artshow and Eros by the Hysterical Society featured. The featured interview is with long-time Salt Spring resident Lillian Horsdal.

As much as the show tries to stay out of politics, it is such a fact of life on Salt Spring Island that when The Official Community Plan hit the fan, it was immediate fodder for many an Isle of View skit... enter Officer Smeed of the 'Official Community Police' and the raids begin... possession of more than an ounce of brightly coloured paint is sufficient cause to search and seize an entire store of restricted paint and colour charts! Alan Redpath of Calyso Carpets is first to fall under the might weight of rules and regulations suggested in the Community Plan... Mike Levy enlightens us on the importance of an OCP and our Update with Dietrich Luth reveals what processes could have improved the community input. Lynda Laushway makes a final appearance before the 1996 Provincial Election.

EPISODE 10: "The Saturday Market - Where Are They Now?"

While no-one on Salt Spring wishes to re-live the Saturday Market Controversy, the fact remains that livelihoods were lost and lives were changed. In an attempt to organize the market and run it more efficiently, unjust and exclusionary bylaws were passed. To this day these bylaws have alienated local residents, vendors and shoppers alike from participating in what was essentially a time-honoured community event.
Episode 10 re-visits some of these "missing" people to find out how they are doing, what their sentiments are and how they reflect on what has happened to island community spirit.

EPISODE 11: "To Trust or Not to Trust"

It's an interesting question... our interview finds us on the highway of life with local resident Drew Clarke, whose campaign to "Bust the Trust" is finding a surprising amount of support from island residents. Drew asks islanders to question whether the latest draft of the OCP will in fact lead to a new draft or perhaps simply a higher level rewrite of the bylaw governing all island OCP's in general? The timing of the Trust's new bylaw 42 (July 19-29) seems to suggest that perhaps a more all-encompassing bylaw might prevent individual islands like Saltspring from customizing their OCPs to perhaps their own satisfaction???
Episode 11 gives a voice to the sentiment that independence is hard won and shouldn't be so easily relinquished.