By Hope Lompe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Gabriola Sounder, Gabriola Sounder Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Gabriola Sounder An early morning power outage affecting 1,117 customers on the south end of Gabriola Island and Mudge Island didn’t stop the organizers of the Ask Anything event on Sept. 27. False candles adorned the stage of the dark Gabriola Theatre Centre as people took their seats to listen and ask questions from a panel of community survivors of addiction, and newly minted Chief Medical officer for Central Vancouver Island, Dr. Tribesty Ngyuen. The Gabriola Health and Wellbeing Collaborative (GHWC) organized the event as a wrap-up to their collaborative Building Hope series with the Gabriola Sounder. * “I think it was enormously successful. I think we heard some real, hard truths from people who…
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