About PINA
Join Us!
Your Protection Island Neighbourhood Association is your liaison with the agencies and services that are important to this island. Any Protection Island resident, whether they rent or own property, is encouraged to join us. Membership is $10 a year per person.
Make cheques out to PINA. Please deliver or mail annual dues to our treasurer:
Veronica Zehntner, 160 Pirates Lane, Nanaimo, BC, V9R 6R1
PINA members are encouraged to stand for election to the Board. Our annual general meeting is an opportunity for all residents and property owners to discuss issues of importance to Islanders. The Board would like to extend a special welcome to our new Islanders.
Who We Are
An elected group of your neighbours who get together to manage PI assets, organize quality services, and work to resolve island issues.
PINA Board
Ken Pepperdine – President
Lin Neufeld – Vice President
TBA – Secretary
Veronica Zehntner – Treasurer
Kevin Pistor
Richard Gafney
Gerald Halabura
Dominique Sullivan
Ken Corteau
Vision Statement
We envision Protections Island as a unique, quiet, friendly, beautiful and safe community, in which residents cooperate to maintain the natural setting, with its beaches, parks, trees, wild life and native plants.
Our mission is to work together to find the most acceptable and respectful ways of dealing with problems and points of difference, (access, moorage, garbage disposal, vehicles, streetlights, pets, etc.) while maintaining our informal non-bureaucratic, easy-going Protection Island life style.
The purpose of