Bowen Island Undercurrent, November 08, 2013

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The long road to peace Islander heads to Democratic Republic of Congo to work with the UN

Remembering Bowen’s fighting men

Time Capsule A young man’s life at war, packed away in a trunk

The stories behind the Cenotaph

There’s more at stake than the Cape Bowen Island Conservancy President says the organization will continue to fight for the protection of public beaches

MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

A sub-adult Quillback Rockfish enjoys the habitat offered by a Glass Sponge Reef in Dorman Bay. Until these reefs were discovered in the Hecate Straight in the late 1980s, scientists believed the sponges had gone extinct in prehistoric times.

Diane Reid, photo

Divers explore rare reef off Dorman Point

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he sun was bright and the wind strong last Sunday as a group of recreational divers cruised across choppy waters to the middle of Dorman Bay to sink into its depths and explore a rare and prehistoric Glass Sponge reef. The group, which included Bowen Island resident Adam Taylor, are all avid divers who are admittedly hooked on their sport, so last weekend’s journey was much about the thrill of seeing life underwater. However, the divers also set out to document their expedition in the hopes they can prove the reef is worthy of protection.

“We’re worried that the reef will be destroyed before we even learn anything about it,” says Taylor.

Two years ago, he encouraged fellow diver and explorer Glen Dennison to explore Dorman Bay with his depth-sounder.

“My Dad used to tell me stories about, when he was a kid in the late 30s, early 40s, he used to sit on a rock overlooking Dorman Bay and watch these old Portuguese fishermen who’d rowed over from Whitecliff and they’d be handlining without rods, very large, mature Yelloweye Rockfish. The way he described it was that the fish were bigger than the five gallon pails the fishermen were throwing them in. So, that would be a substantial fish that would probably be a hundred, a hundred and fifty years old at the time.”

Taylor knew Dennison had noted an abundance of Rockfish in other Glass Sponge reefs in Howe Sound, so thought that might explain the previous abundance in Dorman Bay. Dennison has spent five years charting the waters of Howe Sound in his boat, The Skyliner, guided by a depth-sounder and a computer system that he uses

to chart the under-water geography. He’s found seven of the nine known sponge reefs in the area. Many of these sit at a depth of 150 or 250 feet below sea-level, which is well beyond the limits of the recreational diving. Given these circumstances, Dennison has conducted much of his exploration with a a drop-camera he built and design himself (he’s an electrical engineer). With this, he has acquired hours of video footage of the deep-water reefs and the life that gravitates towards them.

After Dennison located what he thought was a reef in Dorman Bay, he and Taylor headed out for a dive.

“What we found was not simply a coral garden,” says Taylor. “It’s a whole bioherm, and it appeared to be about the size of the General Store.” continued, PAGE 3

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Anyone strolling along the waterfront pathway at Cape Roger Curtis will see that, despite all the public discontent, one large dock already juts into the ocean from the high ground above the foreshore.

A trip to the beach at Cape Roger Curtis offers a view of another future dock. These structures are forged from metal and concrete. They’re not going anywhere, the deal is done. Owen Ploughman, President of the Bowen Island Conservancy, says the politics of docks on Bowen is far from over, and there is much more to lose than Cape Roger Curtis.

“When the application for construction of the docks at Cape Roger Curtis came in, there was no bylaw regulating dock construction,” says Ploughman. “Which means they could’ve built docks even longer than they did, so long as the Province granted the approval. Cape Roger Curtis is the front and centre issue where this has been brought to a head, but these regulations are about Bowen’s whole shoreline.”

Petitions and actions by the Stop the Dock Campaign, which Ploughman says his group is not directly related to, but with which his group shares members and values, forced council to set in motion the process of updating the Municipal Land-Use Bylaw to include dock construction.

Ploughman says the purpose of this process is to protect the environment, but also to protect the “public interest.” In this case, he describes the public interest as access to and enjoyment of the island’s shoreline and beaches.

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REMINDER Ice Patrol & Snow Clearing During winter road maintenance operations, trucks fitted with ploughs and salt/sand dispensers need to be able to manoeuvre freely throughout the island. Please ensure that vehicles or other items are not parked on or blocking roadways and/or cul-de-sacs.

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Despite the best effort of the crew, conditions can deteriorate and roads can become treacherous. In such conditions, residents are advised to use public transit.

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WATER MAIN FLUSHING As part of its regular water system maintenance program, the Municipality will flush water mains in Cove Bay and Eagle Cliff from November 10 – December 4, 2013. This procedure is necessary to remove sediment that gradually deposits in the pipes and will not pose a health hazard. Municipal staff will try to minimize any inconvenience.

Flushing will take place 7 days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please note: Snug Cove and Cates Hill to Millers Landing areas will be flushed on November 10th to alleviate water interruption for Bowen Island Community School.

Every effort will be made to ensure that water quality is not affected but some turbidity and higher than normal chlorine concentrations may be present for short periods of time. Running your tap briefly should clear this up. In addition, temporary pressure fluctuations may occur.

For more information call Bob Robinson, Public Works Superintendent at 604-947-4255.

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Subsequently, if not removed by the date specified on the notices, these structures will be disposed of.

To avoid legislated action pursuant to the Provincial Land Act, all unauthorized structures and abandoned vessels in Mannion Bay must be removed. Owners requiring additional information may contact Bowen Island Municipality’s Senior Bylaw Services Officer at the number below.

Wind farm development in northeastern B.C. Proponents of a new power line between Vancouver Island and Washington say it would make wind power a more stable source.

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Undersea cable pitched for clean energy TOM FLETCHER BLACK PRESS

VICTORIA – With BC Hydro struggling to control electricity rate increases and cutting back on private power acquisition, a company known mostly for wind projects is reviving a proposal to connect the Vancouver Island and Washington electricity grids.

Sea Breeze Power Corp. wants to build a 50 km transmission cable under the Strait of Juan de Fuca to connect substations near Port Angeles and Victoria. To finance the project, it’s looking for a 10-year deal to assemble surplus U.S. power and sell it to BC Hydro at a flat rate of $69 per megawatt hour.

Sea Breeze CEO Paul Manson said the power purchase would finance the construction of the cable and deliver a steady source of electricity to B.C. at lower cost than new sources built in the province. It would also improve power quality and reliability for Vancouver Island residents, he said.

First proposed in 2006, the project has received environmental permits from both sides of the border. It was rejected by the B.C. Utilities Commission, which approved upgrading the existing power line from the B.C. mainland to Vancouver Island instead.

Sea Breeze developed a wind project at

Cape Scott on northern Vancouver Island, and has plans and permits for other wind sites on the B.C. coast and the Peace River region. Manson said the Juan de Fuca cable would stabilize wind power supply on the B.C. coast, where wind speeds peak in winter, with inland Washington sites where it’s windiest in summer.

Manson said U.S. policy led to major wind development that leaves the the Pacific Northwest with an excess of power in spring, meaning the Washington power utility has paid BC Hydro to take its excess when hydro dams are full.

The cable would also give B.C. more capacity to buy cheap overnight coal and nuclear power from the U.S., which BC Hydro already does with its main connecting line along Interstate 5, he said.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett said the Juan de Fuca cable is one of many proposals that came forward as BC Hydro developed its integrated resource plan. That plan estimates that with conservation and efficiency improvements in B.C., the province will need more electricity supplies within eight years.

The company has not yet demonstrated that it can assemble the firm electricity it proposes to sell, and the project has “a pretty steep slope to climb,” Bennett said.

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Glass Sponges off Dorman Point could be thousands of years old continued PAGE 1

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The divers were excited to find the reef in Dorman Bay, but they also saw cause for concern: a large hole, probably caused by a prawn or a crab trap.

Taylor and Dennison wanted to make a second dive to gather general information aboutthis sponge, but also to check out the hole again and determine there was further damage to the reef.

The challenge of this particular exploration is that the reef, at its top, sits at 36 metres (120 feet) below sea-level. A typical recreational dive involves a descent of between 24 to 30 metres (80 to 100 feet). The deeper the diver goes, the higher the pressure of the air entering his or her lungs. As the diver stays at a certain depth, nitrogen is released into his or her body. To ensure that the nitrogen causes no ill effects, the diver needs to rise back up to the surface slowly, making stops to “decompress� on the way up. The crew on last Sunday’s dive determined they could stay at the depth of the reef for a maximum of ten minutes.

For the dive, Taylor buddied up with Diane Reid, an avid diver and photographer who lives in East Vancouver. They geared up in their dry suits and dropped off the back of the boat first, followed by Dennison and David Park.

Upon returning to the boat some 20 minutes later, all the divers reported to clear waters offering a great view of the sponge. Taylor and Reid saw plenty of juvenile Rockfish, Galatheid crabs, hundreds of Squat lobster, Vermillion stars, Blood stars and lots of Perch, and a single Dungeness crab, but no damaged area on the sponge.

Dennison however, was able to find the damaged spot, which he described as a “cook-

Taylor says a coral garden is made up of sponge growing on a rock, whereas a bioherm is living sponge growing on top of a dead sponge. As the sponge grows, the currents shift around it causing sedimentation at the base which slowly smothers and kills the bottom portion, but the skeletal remains support the new growth above. “From the limited research that has been done,� says Taylor, “we know that these [coral gardens and bioherms] are two very different habitats. A coral garden will have a much greater diversity of species than a bioherm, but a bioherm will have a much greater density of life, but with just a few different species represented.�

Taylor says the Glass Sponge Bioherms could be hundreds, or even thousands of years old.

Ask Dennison about what they found in Dorman Bay and he’ll launch into details. “It’s called Aphrocallistes vastus, and the common name is Cloud Sponge,� he says, explaining that Cloud Sponge is a kind of Glass Sponge, a rare, prehistoric species found only off the coast of British Columbia. Different Glass Sponges are different colours. The Basket Sponge near Passage Island, for example, is bright orange in colour. At Dorman point, the Cloud Sponge is bright white.

These sponges filter huge amount of water, says Dennison. “A bioherm like the Galleano Ridge out in the Georgia Straight there, they’ll be running 90 thousand litres a second through them.

They’re having an effect on the water purity and they may be coliform chewers too so, coming off the sewer plant, its great we got

Diver Diane Reid is to the right of the Glass Sponge bioherm with her camera.

White sponge is alive, grey sponge is dead.

Adam Taylor photo

ie-cutter hole.� “When we first saw it, the bottom of the hole was covered in live sponge, and the walls were all live sponge, but today, everything was dead.�

He also says he saw what appears to be a far greater expanse of dead sponge then he saw on the first dive. “My feeling is that it’s caused by temperature changes down there, but there’s so little known about Glass Sponges and the environment down there that its hard to say.�

Both Taylor and Dennison were encouraged by the number of juvenile Rockfish they saw inside the sponge. “There were five, possibly six different species of juvenile and sub-adult rockfish in the reef,� says Taylor. “In those conditions it can be difficult to tell the difference between them, but the confirmed species were Quillback, Puget Sound, Yelloweye and Yellow Tail. I’d say that some of those will be a catchable size in 5 or 10 years.�

Dennison says that in his exploration of other sponges, he’s seen numerous pregnant Rockfish and he thinks the sponge might act as a nursery habitat for them. “Rockfish give birth to live young,� he says, “and usually they don’t reproduce until they are at least 15 years old. So if we are going to support this population, it’s critical that we protect the young until they are at least old enough to start reproducing.�

In the same way that Dennison shares his drop-camera videos with researchers at the Adam Taylor started diving at age 19. “In part I was inspired by a friend’s Dad, who was a Vancouver Aquarium to study, marine biologist, but I also wanted to overcome my fear of the deep, dark water.� the divers will pass on their phoMeribeth Deen, photo

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tos and observations from the expedition to the Dorman bioherm.

Taylor says he plans on putting together a roundtable discussion with various scientific groups as well as politicians from different levels of government to discuss the Sponge reefs in Howe Sound. “We want to know what we, as the dive community can do to support researchers because there’s a lot of ground to cover. And right now, the scientific community doesn’t have the manpower or the funding to do it themselves. So, what could we do in terms of gathering information about how much life exists in these sponges so we can establish a baseline to compare what might exist there in the future.�

Taylor says the the bioherm off Dorman Point is close enough to Bowen Island to fall within the jurisdiction of the municipal government, and it is close enough to Crippen Park that it could be included as part of it, and then, be relevant to Metro Parks. “We want to start talking with local levels of government, including the Islands Trust, to find a way to protect this unique habitat. We’re hoping that by working with the lower-levels of government we can put pressure on the higher levels, and eventually maybe create some kind of Marine Protected Zone here.�

While the fishing of Lingcod and Rockfish is currently prohibited in Howe Sound, Taylor would like to see all forms of fishing, including prawning and crabbing made illegal in areas where there are known Glass sponges. “I don’t know who said it,� says Taylor, “but I heard someone say once, that Glass sponge reefs have such high habitat values that trawling through one would be like cutting down a rainforest to get to the squirrels.�

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Halloween inspires hope MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

In brainstorming this article, I realized something about myself: I’m a bit of a curmudgeon. I can come up with a criticism of any widely celebrated public holiday I’ve ever participated in. Even Halloween, I’ll admit. I’m not big on candy and, in adult versions of Halloween, I have found sexed up versions of everyday animals (cats) and professionals (nurses) to be offputting.

My first Halloween in Deep Bay put a big chip in that cynicism. It was so great to see the community out enmasse, to see parents dressed-up in goofy costumes alongside their kids,

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and with bonfires and wine-offerings, actually enjoying themselves.

Walking back to the car I thought about one of the things that drew me to this place: community.

Halloween in Deep Bay proves that this community is healthy, strong and vibrant. Bowen’s sense of community is not represented by what goes on in our Municipal Council meetings, or people spouting off in anger online, or anywhere else, for that matter.

It’s true: there are lots of things people on this island disagree on, and sometimes they get overly heated about them, sometimes they communicate badly and sometimes they’re downright rude.

In talking about these disagree-

ments, sometimes people get divided up into camps: the golfers vs. the artists, the treehuggers vs. the builders, but I don’t believe these divisions actually exist in a meaningful way. I think the people on this island have more in common than they have setting them apart. Set aside the odd grumbling teenager and I’m pretty sure almost all of us feel lucky to live here.

When we consider the future of this place, there is a lot of stake, but we probably have more common values than disagreements.

In speaking with Madeleine Schwartz, before she left to begin her work on the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I was

awed by the idea that her job will be to bring parties who are profiting enormously from the war to the same table as entire communities that have suffered rape, and the loss of family members. I can’t imagine how to forge a productive dialogue in that kind of situation.

However, as Madeleine told me, peace is a long, hard road, and there have been many peace processes that have succeeded (to varying degrees) before this one.

So as we approach Remembrance Day, let’s not just mourn the losses caused by war, but remember that there is always hope as long as we can find a way to have civil conversation.

Veterans paid ultimate price so you could save?

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I take a somewhat dim view of cross-border shopping at the best of times.

But Remembrance Day puts me over the top.

You can pretty much guarantee that on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, B.C. shoppers will be lined up at the border in an immense, idling column, waiting to advance deep into U.S. territory to invade the malls of Bellingham.

The R-Day landings will once again see battalions of Canadians head south to triumphantly capture retail products for a few dollars cheaper than at home.

Never mind that they had to burn extra fuel to do it, and in some cases subject themselves to iris scans

by U.S. authorities for a quicker crossing.

Really, people.

Is this your idea of why Canadian soldiers died on distant battlefields?

They fought to protect your freedoms and the one you choose to exercise – on this of all days – is your freedom to leave Canada for a few hours to pour money into a foreign country, supporting foreign businesses, jobs, taxes and services?

It makes me wish the old WW2 warbirds that perform fly-bys at local Remembrance Day ceremonies would take a detour over to the Peace Arch and buzz the southbound lineup after the minute of silence.

Not for a strafing run but rather a shaming run, ideally with a plane sarcastically towing a 'Thank You For Your Support' banner.

Heck, I'd love to see Royal Canadian Legion members mount a ground counteroffensive and go from car to car in the lineup soliciting contributions for the Poppy Fund from these patriots.

Can't afford that? How tragic. Enjoy your retail conquest. Perhaps you'd like to renounce your

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Canadian Medicare at the same time?

If you've marked me as a sucker who stupidly pays too much when bargains can be had, you're right.

I do like to shop Canadian.

I like to shop local, too, even when I know it costs more.

My White Rock neighbourhood has a rich diversity of shops, services and restaurants I can walk to from my home. That's something I value and choose to support because I want those local merchants to still be in business the next time I want to buy groceries without getting in the car.

On Remembrance Day, we also have a scarce commodity we take for granted: the first-hand human knowledge of wars past.

Canada lost its last veteran of the First World

War in 2010.

The number of surviving Second World War vets still healthy enough to speak publicly about the events of 70 years ago is rapidly dwindling. Their average age is 89 and the average age of Korean War vets is 81.

Spare them all a thought – as well as Canada's younger veterans and former peacekeepers who bear their own scars from service – if you find yourself handing over your credit card at a U.S. big box store on Monday.

And consider that you might instead be watching what may be the last ceremony at your local cenotaph with live WW2 vets.

Alas, we're at no risk of running out of veterans of the Battle For Bellis Fair.

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The Bowen times they are a-changing MARCUS HONDRO THE SLOW LANE CHRONICLES

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Deep Bay Halloween Thank you Dear Editor, On behalf of everyone on the Lenore/Melmore loop, I would like to single out andthank Nancy Lee for another fabulous job in organizing this year's candy donations for Deep Bay residents. It seems that just about every Halloween house on the loop was visited by more than 400 children. So, believe me, the donations were greatly appreciated and they were distributed to more than 40 homes.

I'd also like to thank the General Store staff for storing the donations, Deb Stringfellow for the advertising, all of the generous candy donors, the Volunteer Fire Department for a terrific fireworks display and finally to each and every fairy, goblin or ninja, who made the evening such a joy.

Sincerely Joe Lewicki and the residents of Deep Bay

This may wind up a mixed-bag but I been thinking about change of late and intend to consider it here. Maybe it’s because the engine almost fell right out of my car and after buying it 3 months ago I now need another.

That is change that’s not so nice.

More often I like change though and one change I really like is when a new business comes to Bowen, like when the Knick Knack Nook arrived or Miksa moved in to the old Bowmart building. And it’s nice when new people arrive, but not when others go (still miss Paul Magel, who moved to Winnipeg five years ago).

Still with the Bowmart, we moved here after Helen Holt died and it closed so the only experience I had with the property was spotting my neighbour’s missing bike along the side of the building one day in 2005. As I recall Dale Reinhardt borrowed it and neglected to tell Mike, nor did he tell him where he’d left it. For newer islanders, suffice to say Dale, who since moved off-island, is a character.

When Miksa opened I had conversations there with long-time residents who told stories about Helen and her husband Archie. Helen was famously quirky and legend has it that she did things like tell customers who weren’t Bowmart regulars, to never come back.

In the building now housing The Left Bank, on the left side of the road as you come off the ferry, there’s been plenty of changes. Blue-Eyed Mary’s was there before The Left Bank and many other restaurants went before it.

Thirty years ago Sarah Allen’s Deep Bay Cafe was in that location. The Flintstone’s Family Restaurant was once there. Keith Stanfield and Richard Grierson had a place in that building, too, I’m told. The Black Pearl was a restaurant run by

Larry Waldman, but it was out across from where the main Firehall is.

Other names from Bowen’s past include the lateLarry Reid, who was known for strong opinions.

He started the newspaper on Bowen and had a palm tree in his front yard. He also worked delivering the mail and the story goes that he and then-postmaster, Ron Smith, had a legendary dislike of one another.

Years before the Knick Knack Nook there was a similar store called The Tacky Shop run by Bonnie Bolton and Caroline McNeill, the late great Charlie McNeill’s daughters. Elena Puga ran a clothing store in behind the Snug Cafe at one time called The Big Idea.

Let’s hope I’m getting all this right.

More recently, it was unhappy change in 2006 when The Oven Door Bakery burnt down and it’d be great to have something there again instead of an empty lot. I liked the change that came in 2007 when Brian and Karen Park and their family bought the General Store.

Despite a vocal but small group of well-intentioned though misguided protestors, I really liked it when the organic-mulched, recyclable carpeted (thank you, Christine Walker and Sue McIntyre) turf-field opened in 2009. It’s gotta be the most used piece of real-estate on Bowen.

The change of our previous council to our new council was dramatic. A related change is that now all those citizens who used to complain don’t, while the citizens who used to be happy - complain.

That dynamic never changes.

Finally then it was exciting to read a recent piece

by Adam Holbrook (our transportation committee chair) in the Undercurrent about the change coming in 2015 to our beloved Queen of Capilano: The major construction item of interest...will be provision for direct boarding at HSB on to the lounge deck for all foot passengers, including those in wheelchairs, baby carriages, etc. by cutting a new entry port into the vessel on the lounge deck. No more boarding at HSB on the sundeck!

Okay so to finish, here is something that never changes: a need to honor our war dead in a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph. The greatest coming-together of islanders goes this Monday, November 11.

It starts shortly after the (10:30) ferry has changed direction and left.

Too many politicians in the municipal kitchen Who knew? Count ‘em all up and B.C. has 1,660 elected officials sitting on 250 local councils and school boards across the province. That works out to one for every 2,000 registered voters.

It’s also a lot of paycheques. Some of the lucky ones get to collect two paycheques, if they happen to be chosen to sit on a regional district. The two biggies of course being Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District.

According to their websites, “Metro Vancouver delivers regional services, planning and political leadership on behalf of 24 local authorities” and “the Capital Regional District is the regional government for the 13 municipalities and three electoral areas that are located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.”

That’s 40 communities with a combined population of 2.7 million or a little more than 60 per cent of B.C.’s total population each elbowing the other for political space within the two districts. The City of Toronto is home to 2.8 million residents.

Practically speaking though neither Metro Vancouver or the Capital Regional District have much in the way of real authority despite their lofty mission statements, because Big Brother is never really far behind. Think debating clubs with privileges.

Should one of the districts actually choose to bite off something contentious, chances are it will still need Victoria’s stamp of approval.

Metro Vancouver wants to burn a cool half billion dollars

on a new garbage incinerator, but they’ll need Victoria’s a-ok before striking the match. In fact, they need it just to put a proposed solid waste management bylaw into effect.

The folks at the Capital Regional District are being called upon to make all the politically smelly decisions regarding a new sewage treatment plant, while the purse strings remain tightly controlled over at the offices of Partnerships B.C. The federal and provincial governments called it a condition of funding. Cynics might have another expression for it.

So if it’s all mostly show, imagine how local taxpayers must feel. Voters don’t get to choose their district representatives, local councils do. The power of the ballot box is far removed from the daily goings-on at the two regional districts.

That’s why it’s far easier to vote to try and place a sewage sludge treatment facility in someone else’s backyard as the Capital Regional District sewage committee wanted to do earlier this year, if you don’t have to face those voters yourself.

But even though the regional districts aren’t exactly omnipotent, sitting on one does make balancing the family budget a little easier.

Last year, councillors and mayors from the Lower Mainland who were among the lucky few to be chosen as Metro Vancouver directors collectively took home $870,000 in stipends plus $61,000 in expenses; and all of it on top of their local council salaries.

Christmas even came early for them. Last month, Metro

Vancouver awarded its directors a 2.3 per cent pay increase retroactive to the beginning of 2013; despite the fact that there were no reports of directors panhandling to make ends meet during the year.

For a Metro Vancouver director that means $354 for every regional district meeting that is wrapped up within four hours or $88.50 per hour. God forbid the meeting should run over four hours because then the fee doubles.

For directors with additional responsibilities or titles, it can bring a whole new meaning to two-income households.

The mayors of Burnaby, New Westminster, Richmond and the district of North Vancouver all took home at least $26,500 from their gigs at Metro Vancouver last year and that’s on top of the average $105,000 that they were each paid by their respective communities.

And for Metro Vancouver’s top dog, Greg Moore, it means an extra $70,865 from Metro Vancouver over and above his $85,418 salary as mayor of Port Coquitlam.

All nice work if you can get it, but likely not the most ideal model for regional governance in 2013. Two mega cities isn’t the answer, but maybe 40 communities is no longer appropriate. And it’s time for the provincial government to step up and show some leadership on the issue.

Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC. www.integritybc.ca

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Transit ‘Yes’ forces on defensive, seeking allies Bowen Island has roughly 40 kilometers of shoreline currently available for public use and enjoyment.

Referendum on TransLink taxes overshadows conference

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Bylaws should be fair to all residents continued PAGE 1 “There have been various statements over the past few months saying this regulation is interfering with private property rights. It certainly is not, because in BC, private property on a waterfront property ends at the high water mark,” says Ploughman. “The bylaw should be fair to all. It shouldn’t impose onerous constraints on a property owner who wants to build a dock, but a bylaw should also take into account the fact that 80% of people living on Bowen Island don’t have waterfront lots, and if they want to see the ocean, they need to go to the beach.”

Ploughman calls the Land-Use Bylaw, as it has been amended, “permissive and lax” in regard to the ways that it regulates dock construction on Bowen.

“We don’t even have any protection in place to say what a dock may or may not do with respect to where it is located on a beach. The councillors basically said, ‘don’t worry about the definition of a beach, we’ll deal with that later on,’ but we don’t know when later on is. The issue of environmen-

tal impact is not being addressed at all in the bylaw either, because we are still relying on the person applying for permission to build the dock to hire someone to assess the environmental impact of it, which is like having the fox guard the hen-house.

And with a maximum dock-length at 60 meters, that pretty much means it’s open season for anyone who wants to build a dock anywhere on the island.”

He says that it is likely, given the Provincial deadline for the finalization of this bylaw at the end of November, that the Municipal Council is likely to finalize the bylaw regardless of the public’s opinion of it. Still, he says his organization plans to keep bringing up these issues.

“As part of the public process, we get the right to comment and have our views entered into the public record. Things get said at council, and that gets preserved on video, and that is permanent, its part of the public record. We can go back to those records at election time and decide whether the officials who made those statements are appropriate as public officials.”

JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

Speaker after speaker at a regional transportation conference last Thursday called for a massive expansion of transit in Metro Vancouver and urged the province to provide the leadership to ensure it happens.

The Oct. 31 Moving The Future conference in Vancouver drew 500 academics, engineers, economists, politicians and others.

Presenters warned traffic jams will throttle the economy unless a solution to congestion is found and outlined many advantages of transit investment, from more affordable housing to a healthier population.

Urban Futures demographer Andrew Ramlo noted the Lower Mainland’s population, from Squamish to Chilliwack, is set to grow 56 per cent to 4.3 million by 2046.

If the region doesn’t build more transit and make better use of the infrastructure it already has, he said, it faces a “gridlocked” future.

High real estate prices already deter people and businesses from locating in the Vancouver area, delegates heard, and a failed transportation system will render the region less competitive and livable.

“If we design our cities around cars what do we get? More cars,” said Gil Peñalosa, a keynote speaker and advocate for healthy cities. “It’s like trying to put out a fire using gasoline.”

The conference came against the backdrop of a looming referendum on transit investment that Metro Vancouver mayors fear may fail and run the expansion agenda off the rails for years.

Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson said defeat would be “disastrous.”

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said better transit is the only way to get more single-occupant vehicles off the road.

A show of hands in the room revealed the vast majority don’t think the referendum will pass.

“If anyone thinks a referendum is winnable, I’m amazed,” SFU City Program Director Gordon Price said, adding the province’s decision to force the vote on the region reflects a “crisis of leadership.”

The question has not yet been decided by the province, but others in the room saw the gathering as a chance to build an alliance of leaders to campaign in support of the expected vote to raise billions in taxes to build new transit lines.

The problem, many delegates admitted privately, is that the academics, business leaders, planners and other elites present don’t hold a majority of the vote.

And they concede they face broad public opposition to more taxes of any kind – be it a possible regional sales tax, a vehicle levy or the more distant prospect of comprehensive road tolling.

It doesn’t help, some say, that the debate is inaccurately cast as a struggle between two tribes – transit users versus motorists who supposedly won’t benefit from new rapid transit lines but may end up footing a disproportionate share of the bill.

“To me, it would be tragic if it’s a ‘No’ vote,” said Michael Goldberg, a conference presenter and dean emeritus at UBC’s Sauder School of Business.

“I think it’s terribly unfortunate that we’re having a referendum.”

Goldberg said opposition voices, amplified by the media, recite a simple but short-sighted no-new-taxes mantra and unfairly attack TransLink without acknowledging that transit is a public good that’s crucial to making the region more competitive.

“I hope we can marshall the forces to inform the general public why this is good for them.”

Bob Wilds, general manager of the Greater Vancouver Gateway Council, was one of the business leaders in the audience who is outspoken about the dangers of road congestion and a likely ally.

“There would be a real problem if there isn’t a successful referendum,” said Wilds, whose group represents shippers, port terminals and goods movers.

He declined to say if he opposes the premier’s decision to order the plebiscite.

“We are where we’re at. It’s been announced. We just have to figure out a way to deal with it and be successful at it.”

Blair Qualey, president and CEO of the New Car Dealers’ Association of B.C., was another attendee whose presence raised some eyebrows.

“Public transit is an integral part of the overall transportation system,” he said in an interview later, adding it’s important for the whole province that solutions be found.

Qualey wouldn’t say what funding source the car dealers’ group would support, but added spending on roads and bridges is also needed.

“How it’s paid for, I guess, becomes the big question,” Qualey said. “We’re a bit concerned that the costs of financing more public transit may be put on the backs of working people. We are supporters of user pay to the extent that it needs to be fair and equitable.

It’s a tough discussion.”

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Bowen’s boys did not die unknown A little research can bring to life the stories of the men who lost their lives too soon CATHY BAYLY SPECIAL TO THE UNDERCURRENT

To write about our Canadian military history is not to glorify, glamorize or condone war. Nor is it to perpetuate the sentiment of rosy-cheeked young men marching off to fight the glorious battle. Instead it is to record the effects of the war years ordinary Canadians.

In 1914 the Canadian Corps were little more then a collection of civilians in military uniform. They marched off to Armageddon with only six weeks of training, carrying rifles that jammed when they needed the most. They faced rats, lice, thigh-deep mud, an infectious disease. They were shot at, bombed and attacked with poisonous gas. For the first time in their lives, they both witnessed and were responsible for death.

The final death toll for the First World War was over 13 million people. Canadians lost one in 10 men who served. Despite the odds, the Canadian Corps prove themselves to be an essential fighting unit that demonstrated their worth on many occasions. The Canadian Battalions played fundamental roles at the Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme and the Battles at Vimy Ridge. On November 11 at 11a.m., World War I was over. It would end with soldiers from the Royal Highlanders of Canada, and the Royal Canadian Regiment entering the very town where the British Army first met with the Germans in 1914.

To ensure that we would not forget those who did not return home from the war cenotaphs were built. The names of the dead veterans were inscribed on monuments in many villages, towns and cities. When E.P. Taylor wrote, “The Unknown Soldier was the hero of the first world war. He has vanished except as a cipher, from the written records”; he was partially correct. The Unknown Soldier was indeed the hero of World War I, however he has not vanished. The Unknown Soldier lies waiting to be discovered in the diaries, letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings we have stored away for safekeeping. We only need to dig deep enough to bring their names tonight once again. The men on our cenotaph deserve to be remembered every November 11, as do all the victims of every war.

Members of the Bowen Island Legion, Branch 150, built our Cenotaph in 1937. Although the early records from the Legion are missing, community involvement and archival research has helped to reconstruct the lives of the five men listed on our cenotaph. We do know that William Linklater, Cameron Smith’s uncle, built the form for the Cenotaph out of an old army cot. James Collins, along with other community members mixed the concrete. Cal Frost recalled, as a young boy, throwing two pennies into the concrete as it was being poured.

On June 14, 1937, the Vancouver Daily Province printed an article about the dedication of the Bowen Cenotaph. The ceremony was headed by Col. Victor Spencer and attended by nearly 100 of “Spencer’s Remnants”. They planted an evergreen at each corner of the monument.While the evergreens have

disappeared the Cenotaph remains as a monument that allows for public expressions of grief and reflection. The monument serves today, as it did in the past, as a public place to pay tribute to those whose lives have been cut short.

During the First World War, family and friends must have waited anxiously for the mail, hoping that today would not be the day when the dreaded telegram would arrive. Imagine the joy that Charles Redman’s mother must have felt when she received the following letter from her son:

Dear mother, You will know that I came through, for I cabled, and also that Fraser did. I hope you understood to let Mrs. Fraser know.

The Germans broke through and we charged them (the 18th and the 16th battalions together on the left), and done them out of the trench and through the woods, holding them there all day and most of the night. How anyone came out it is a miracle. The gunfight was awful.

They attacked us on our right and the 48th and the 5th Royals held them back.

The whole Canadian division was in action and we held them until the British division came up. The 10th Canadian Battalion fired its last shots at 200 yards, point-blank at the Germans before they retired. The battle lasted a week and is still going on, but not so vigorously. They say that this was the worst battle of the war. Anyway, I don’t want to see another like it. Our drafts arrived from England and I expect that we should have a rest soon to refit. I have been sick for the last three days. I think it must have been the

gas used by the Germans. I have been back with the transport, but I’m now nearly recovered, so soon will join the boys again. You will see by the papers that we have much to be thankful for. Tell Mrs. Harvey I received your parcel a few hours before we started into action and we ate the contents (chocolates) sitting on the canal and very nice they were. The weather here is lovely, which is a good thing for the wounded. Tell the boys to list. We need them, as a casualties are enormous and the Germans have lots of men, food and guns, despite what the papers say.

Frances Dalrymple Redmond received this letter dated April 30, 1915. The letter was printed in the Daily Province on Thursday, May 20, 1915. Charles Redman died the following day. The gas that Charles Redman described was a deadly chlorine gas, heavier than air, designed to invade the trenches and dugouts. The Germans avoided using the gas cylinders until April because the winds were blowing in the wrong direction. On April 22, 1915, near Ypres in Belgium, two greenish-yellow clouds rose from behind the German lines, merged and rolled forward towards the front lines.

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Lest we forget “ On November 11th, we stop to honour those who protected our freedoms and stood up for our responsibilities.”

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This week, while Declan and Alexander Morris-Schwarz participated in the Remembrance Day activities at BICS, their mom, Madeleine Schwarz, attended a training course in Italy on staying safe, and keeping your family safe when in proximity to zones of conflict.

“I’ve taken these courses before,” she says.

“I’m familiar with the material but still keen to review it.”

Madeleine Schwartz, David Morris and their sons, Alexander and Declan in Arusha National Park, Tanzania, shortly after moving to Arusha in 2006 Following the training course, Schwarz will fly to Nairobi where she will take up her post working with the UN to implement its Framework for Peace, Security and Cooperation addressing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the eleven countries which neighbour it.

Like the training course, this kind of work is not new for Schwarz. She and her husband Dave Morris worked between 2006 and 2010 with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). They lived in Arusha, Tanzania. When they arrived, Alexander had just turned three, and Declan was three months old.

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“Alexander remembers friends in Arusha and going on safari, and Declan thinks he remembers driving a jeep in the safari, so, as blurry as those memories are they are pretty excited to go back,” says Schwarz.

She doesn’t know where the family will be based when Morris and the boys join her in December, but both her and Morris are looking forward to sinking their teeth into the challenge of this kind of work again.

Schwarz says this career just seems like a natural progression in her life.

“As a kid, I read so much on the holocaust,” she says. “Child of the Holocaust, Diary of Anne Frank, and everything by Elie Wiesel.”

Through school she was always involved in social justice groups, and after, in 1989, she lived in Chile where she witnessed the transition to democracy from the rule of Augusto Pinochet. She went on to do development work in Indonesia, and did an internship working with refugees from the Philippines.

Schwarz says her job can be hard to explain, especially to her kids, but she does it, ultimately because she believes it can make an impact.

“Focusing on international criminal law, I think this kind of work can help prevent future atrocities,” she says. “It makes sense for us to pursue people who commit crimes internationally, we do it domestically, but there are certain crimes, like genocide and crimes against humanity that have a wider impact on peace, security and society at large.

These cannot always be addressed domestically. International prosecutions do a lot to raise the awareness about crimes committed during war, and reinforces the role the international community has to play in ensuring perpetrators are held accountable.”

Schwartz points to rape, used as a weapon in war, as such a crime.

“Theoretically speaking,” she says, “If Bowen was attacked, and the attackers decided that instead of using guns and killing people their weapon of choice was rape, they would destroy this place more effectively than if they killed a handful of men. And they would have destroyed it for the long-term, because victims and their families would be destroyed, and the community would be divided on how to deal with it. It would be a very long, hard recovery.” continued, PAGE 11

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On November 11th please join us at the Bowen Island Cenotaph to remember and honor those who have served us.

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A soldier’s life Students at BICS get a perspective life as one of Canada’s Seaforth Highlanders in WWII

Sarah Haxby holds a photo album showing snapshots from Andrew Guy Clunas’s time fighint in Italy.

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Just in time for this year’s the Remembrance Day Ceremonies, the students at BICS received a rare opportunity to explore a stash of WWII memorabilia left to Dave McIntosh by his uncle, Andrew Guy Clunas. McIntosh entrusted the trunk to Sarah Haxby, who opened it up for students yesterday following a one-hour presentation on all wars from the First World War to Afghanistan by author Linda Grandfield.

“I said to the kids, ‘Now that you know a little bit about war in a historical sense, I want you to look at the items in this trunk and imagine what it would be like to use these things.”

Inside the trunk the kids found uniforms, supplies including anti-gas ointment, a quilted blanket and army bag, boots, and, as Haxby describes, “a pair of sunglasses barely held together by anything, nothing like what we have today.”

Granfield said she’d never seen such a complete capsule of a soldier’s life, even in a museum.

The kids were equally awed, and are looking forward to a better look at the items in the trunk when Haxby takes it around from class to class.

McIntosh’s uncle served in the Seaforth Highlanders during the Second World War and spent most of his time in Italy and Holland. The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada were first established in 1910, these volunteer soldiers supported Canada in both WWl and WW2 as an infantry regiment.

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The achievement of Canadian soldiers at Vimy helped forge a national identity without heavy loss. The Canadians suffered 10,602 casualties.

It was here on April 9, 1917 that Cameron Linklater Smith.

At the age of 29, became a Vimy Ridge statistic.

Although the number of casualties was astounding, the battle of Vimy Ridge gave the Canadian Corps an opportunity to prove themselves as more than just civilians in military garb.

At this time, the population of Canada was just over 7 million people with equal proportions of native-born and foreign-born inhabitants. There were only four major cities with populations of more than 100,000 people. The rest of the population live in isolated pockets in the countryside. Canada was a country divided by geography, heritage and politics. The battle of Vimy Ridge saw immigrants and native-born Canadians, from all parts of Canada, fighting shoulder to shoulder for a common goal. Their military achievement formed a national bond that helps define the Canadian identity.

continued PAGE 7 This gas immobilized the men who had no protection from the lung searing fumes. This left four miles of defense abandoned and allowed the German troops to advance over Pilken Ridge, past Langemark and Kitchener’s Woods toward Ypres.

The 10th Battalion from Alberta and the 16th Canadian Scottish Battalion from British Columbia were ordered to retake the Kitchener’s Woods that Charles mentioned in his letter. At 11:30 PM on April 24th, 1,500 Canadians attempted to retake this area and failed. By dawn, only 500 or so men returned. The rest were either dead or captured. It is little wonder that Charles Redmond hoped he would never see another battle like it.

Major John McRae, a medical officer, treated the wounded at Ypres. In between treating the injured soldiers, he managed to scribble some verses on a scrap piece of paper. Every year school children rehearse his prose in preparation for Remembrance Day ceremonies.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Green lived on the Bowen property which is Loved and were loved, and now we lie Miles now camp Bow-Isle. He died on April 10th, 1916 at In Flanders fields. the age of 20. His name is on our cenotaph.

Bowen Island Museum and Archives Take up our quarrel with the foe: Cameron Linklater Smith would be the next young man To you from failing hands we throw from Bowen to die in the war. Prior to 1901, Cameron Smith moved with his parents, Herbert and Margaret Smith (nee The torch; be yours to hold it high.

Linklater), to Bowen. He was the only son, and the third If ye break faith with us who die oldest of six children. Cameron was remembered as an outWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow standing long-distance runner. He participated in numerous long distance races, won the Goldseal and B.C. Open in In Flanders fields.

1912, the Winnipeg race in 1913, and numerous other tro Perhaps Major John McRae treated Lewen Tugwell, of the 7th Battalion, at the Battle of Ypres. Lewen Tugwell was listed as wounded and presumed missing April 24, 1915. He died as a result of his wounds May 15th, 1915 at the age of 22.

He was buried in Belgium at the Ypres Memorial Cemetery.

Lewen Tugwell was born at Oxford, England and was the son of an Anglican Rector. Although he is listed on our cenotaph we have not yet discovered Lewen’s connection to Bowen Island.

Charles Redman died on May 21, 1915 he was most likely wounded at the Battle of Festubert since he was buried in the Hinges Military Cemetery in France. Charles Redmond was a real estate developer who helped subdivide lots around the Scarborough area. At the age of 40, Charles was the oldest Bowen islander to die in World War I. Miles Green was very young when he died. He enlisted at the age of 18, not long out of school. He was the son of Robert and Matilda Green (nee Horne). The Green family was a large, hard-working family who lived on the property that is now Camp Bow-Isle. Miles joined up with the seventh Battalion at the beginning of the war. Miles died as a result of the wounds April 10, 1916 at the age of 20. Both his parents predeceased him. Miles was buried in Belgium at the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

phies and medals. Margaret Fougberg (nee Collins), remembered Cameron as a kind uncle who left behind money for Christmas gifts for his sisters children before he went overseas. It was Margaret who delivered the telegram that announced Cameron’s death. He was killed in action April 9, 1917 at Vimy Ridge.

The majority of the Canadian Battalions spent the winter and spring of 1917 at Vimy Ridge. When the Canadians arrived in the late 1916, Vimy Ridge was a relatively quiet place to be stationed. Earlier attempts to take the ridge had cost the French 150,000 casualties in 1915, and the British 50,000 casualties in 1916. The Canadians did not sit idle.

Men from all four Canadian divisions were united for the first time to prepare for battle. The Canadians spent the months prior to the initial attack digging tunnels from the rear to the frontline. Some of the tunnels extended as far as the craters in no man’s land. They spent the six weeks prior to the battle of Vimy Ridge in strenuous preparation, rehearsing every detail of the planned attack. At 5:30 a.m. on April 9th, all four Canadian divisions in line on a four-mile front opened fire on the German lines. The first, second and third Canadian division achieved their goal on the first day.

The fourth Canadian division captured Hill 145 the following day. On April 12, the final knoll was taken and the entire Vimy Ridge belong to the Canadians. Victory did not come

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Cameron Smith was an outstanding long-distance runner from Bowen Island. He was killed at Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917. His name is on our cenotaph.

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Norman Vickery of the 43rd Battalion died towards the end of the war. The 43rd Battalion was raised in Winnipeg in 1915 and served overseas in the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 3rdCanadian division. Norman Vickery’s name is one of the 11,285 names of Canadian soldiers found on the base of the Vimy Ridge Memorial who were listed as “Missing and presumed dead”. These soldiers disappeared in the chaos of war and their bodies were never found. In 1922, France ceded to the Canadians in perpetuity 250 acres at Hill 145.

The white stone monument now stands above the old shell craters on Vimy Ridge.

On the Bowen Island cenotaph, Norman Vickery’s name is one of the five men who left our island never to return. When Norman lived on Bowen, he ran the Davies general store with his partner Mr. Walsh in 1912.The cenotaph is a public monument dedicated to those who lost their lives in war and are buried elsewhere. It stands to remind us of how war irrevocably alters the lives of everyone involved. Our Cenotaph is a valuable reminder of our history, our culture, and ultimately our own personal responsibility to preserve our heritage. While we may never discover what brought Lewen Tugwell to our island, there are countless others who have played a vital role in our community and have disappeared from our records.

They too lie waiting to be rediscovered.

Cathy Bayly is the curator of the Bowen Island Museum and Archives

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The most dangerous place in the world to be a woman continued PAGE 7 Last year, Schwarz and her family moved to New York so she could take a job with a UN Team of Experts on Sexual Violence in Conflict. The team’s job was, and continues to be, to help governments in post-conflict situations address impunity for sexual violence. Most of the governments Schwarz worked with during this year-long conflict were in Africa.

This experience will likely serve Schwarz well in her new position.

Former UN representative Margot Wallström said the Eastern DRC is the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, and went on to call it the “rape capital of the world.” In 2011, the American Journal of Public Health published a study that said more than 1,100 women are raped in DRC every day.

Schwarz’s new boss, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and Special Envoy to the SecretaryGeneral for the Great Lakes Region has said that peace in DRC cannot be achieved without the participation of women and girls.

“As men take up arms, women hold communities together in times of war,” writes Robinson in The Guardian. “This makes them stronger and better equipped to play a key role in securing real peace, as we have seen in Northern Ireland, Liberia and elsewhere.”

Schwarz says, it is important in this work, to understand that women can be guilty of these crimes, and men and boys are often the victims, as well.

One case she worked on in Rwanda, for example, was against a woman accused not only of inciting genocide, but encouraging troops and militias to rape their victims before killing them. After a ten year trial the defendant, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, became the first ever woman to be convicted of genocide.

In her new job, Schwarz won’t be working toward

such clear outcomes.

The ‘Framework for Peace, Security and Cooperation’ sets out commitments for the DRC, the governments in the Great Lakes Region” and the international community to help build peace in the Region. Schwarz will be working the Special Envoy’s team towards the implementation of the commitments. This will entail working with all the different members in the Region, including governments, women, religious groups, human rights organizations and civil societies, businesses in the hope that a lasting peace is possible.

On Remembrance Day, Schwarz says that as we remember all the soldiers who lost their lives and suffered in wars, we should also think about all the other people affected by war.

“I worked with a general who had done a lot in DRC and he told me, it is far more dangerous to be a woman or child in a conflict zone now than it is to be a soldier. So, I think that’s something to think about.”

Clockwise from Left: Dave, Alexander, Madeleine and Declan on Bowen this summer.

Medals, buttons and anti-gas ointment from WWII. Debra Stringfellow, photo

Second World War time-capsule continued PAGE 8 According to McIntosh, his uncle managed to avoid much of the horrific action during the war and as a result was able to talk about his experiences a little easier then most. McIntosh recalls one such story his Uncle told him: They were in Northern Italy, it was a beautiful day with not much activity going on. Uncle Guy (as we liked to call him) and the troops were on one side of this valley with the enemy on the other. One day my uncle wandered off about 30 feet down into the valley, he was admiring the landscape when suddenly a projectile came down and landed about 10 meters from where he was standing and knocked him off his feet. He of course got back up and scrambled back up the hill side as fast as he could. When he got back to his bunker everyone was laughing as they

had witnessed his mishap.”

McIntosh’s father, James H. McIntosh also served in the Second World War however his experience was vastly different. James fought at the front lines and on the beaches in France. He recounts to his son the horrific sound of the bombs falling from the planes.

He was shot twice, sent to Britain to be patched up and then sent back to fight.

“It took him a long time to open up and talk about his experiences, his stories were very different”, states McIntosh.

They both served 5 long years.

“Innocently at the age of 20, both men signed up for the Canadian army,” says McIntosh. “They thought it was the right thing to do even though they didn’t fully comprehend the political situation in the world at the time. Both were treated as Canadian heroes upon their return.”

The proposed Dock Bylaws will NOT protect the public shoreline at Cape Roger Curtis!

To Mayor & Council: We oppose the construction of private docks on the public shores of Cape Roger Curtis.

We ask Bowen Council to take immediate action to keep the Cape waterfront in its natural state.

Stop The Docks at Cape Roger Curtis (www.stopthedocks.ca) Over 1,350 Bowen residents and visitors care: • Brenda Achison-Jones • Cheryl Ackerman • Deanna Adams • John Adams • Mike Adams • Patricia Adams • Robert Adams • Guenter Adolphs • Helga Adolphs • Susan Alexander • Wendy Alexander • BJ Allan • Danielle Allan • Lissy Allan • Sheila Allan • Suzanne Allan • Buff Allen • Claire Allen • Mike Amouie • Joan Anastasiou • Kip Anastasiou • Dee Anderson • Doreen Anderson • Gord Anderson • Maurice Anderson • Anonymous • Anonymous • Jenny Anstey • Ira Applebaum • Trish Arnes • Michael William Arthur • Lorraine Ashdown • Sheena Ashdown • Helen Ashmore • Anonymous • Blair Atkinson • Chris Atkinson • Christine Atkinson • Hinda Avery • Lisa Avery • Anne Ayre • John Ayre • Surinda Bacon • Alison Baker • Anita Baldwin • Bruce Baldwin • Huck Baldwin • Judy Balko • Jeff Ballou • Anonymous • Jeremy Bally • Marcel Bally • Jlonka Bally Brown • Marian Bantjes • Tony Bar • Gillian Barker • June Barnwell • John Barr • Sue Barr • Chet Barrett • Lisa Barrett • Andrea Bastin • William Bates • Marc Bauer • C Bawden • Warwick Bay • Catherine Bayly • Jeb Beach • Anonymous • Alison Beale • Carolyn Beaty • Fiona Beaty • Ian Beaty • Joan Beaty • Karen Beaty • Len Beaty • Mark Beaty • Ross Beaty • Trisha Beaty • Pierre Beaudry • Libby Beck • Lisa Beck • Lucy Beck • Martin Beck • Quentin Beck • Anonymous • Tony Beck • Shayla Beedie • Steph Begg

• Summerly Begg • Hans Behm • Hans-C Behm • Jonathan Bell • Liz Belluk • Reed Bement • Gillian Bennett • Guy Bennett • Anonymous • Jonothan Bennett • Sara Bennett Fox • Debbie Benson • Ted Benson • Barbara Best • Zoe Bezpalko • Lisa Marie Bhattacharya • Shabir Bhimji • Barb Bingham • Anonymous • Birch • M. Blackwall • R Blackwell • Alan Blair • Dorothy Blair • E Booth • Tony Bosley • April Bosshard • Gabriel Bouthead • David Bowen • Jennifer Bowie • Jackie Bradley • Ted Bradley • Gord Braener • Anonymous • Ross Bragg • Debra Bram • Susanna Braund • Dawn Brett • Michael Brewer • Marla Brillinger • Anonymous • D Bristow • Stuart Bristowe • N Broderick • Janine Brossard • Court Brousson • Adelle Brown • Amber Brown • Bill Brown • Christian Brown • Cindy Brown • Anonymous • P Brownsey • Roger Brownsey • Ian Bruce • Shirley Brunke • Larry Bruton • Damien Bryan • Cathy Buchanan • Diane Buchanan • Carol Buckner • Luz Budzinski • Anonymous • Adeline Bueckert • Magi Bullock • Gale Burdock • Liz Burdock • Trevor Burdock • Juliee Burrows • Anonymous • Don Bury • Felicity Buskard • Jim Bydak • N Cagalese • Rob Cairns • Phil Calder • Rebecca Calder • Ed Callaghan • Ann Cameron • David Cameron • Owen Cameron • Anonymous • Bawn Campbell • Keith Campden • S Campden • Rick Cannell • Dennis Cannon • Leanne Caradeen • Anonymous

• Michelle Carchrae • Tom Carchrae • Phil Carlington • Bill Carr • Iris Carr • Jani Carroll • Richard Carroll • Brenda Carson • Jazzmin Carson • Sherri Carson • Anonymous • Susan Carson • Tim Carson • Bill Carter • Suzy Casilio • Wendy Cellick • Joy Celline • Roy Celline • Abe Chaiton • Rob Champoux • Joe Charles • Jan Chilvers • Trish Chinnery • Andre Chollat • Gerry Chow • Ruth Christie • Anonymous • Bronwyn Churcher • Dale Churcher • Martin Clarke • Sue Clarke • Jean Cleator • Leah Cline • Barabar Clow • E Coburn • Marco Coda • Lise Cole • Shawn Cole • Anonymous • Mary Coleman • Joan Collins • Marian Coope • R. Cooper • Jen Cormack • Mark Cormack • Sean Corney • Lauren Cornwell • Chris Corrigan • Julia Courtnay • Margaret Coutts • Dan Cowan • Daniel Cowper • Karen Cowper • Anonymous • Al Cox • Nancy Cox • Peter Cox • Carol Cram • Brian Creswick • Pamela Creswick • Sara J. Crossen • Jane Cruz • Robyn Culter • Sarah Cumming • Tarla Curran • Joy Currnan • Sarah Curry • Michael Curtis • Safron Cy • Gurston Dacks • Gurston Dacks • F Dale • John Dale • Judith Dale • Viire Daniels • Ian Davidson • Cara Davies • Eric Davies • Jeffrey Davies • Jill Davies • Jonathan Davies • Nancy Davies • Shawn Davies • Tim Davies • Ronald Davis • Kenlp Daw • Neil Daw • Sandra Dawson • Liesl De Beer

• Robin De Zwart • Ella de Meester • Cindy DeConnick • Donnita Deen • Meribeth Deen • Babette Deggan • MaryEllen Degrace • Daniel Dekker • Sean Delaney • Andrew Delong • David Demner • Chelsea Denholm • Alex Denis-Lay • Jeff Derbyshire • Kim Desante • Terri Dewar • Sum Dhillon • Elizabeth Dhont • Betty Dhont Tigs • Pam Dicer • Marian Dill-Jones • Jens Diricks • Jo Anne Docker • Heather Doherty • Richard Dohmeier • Pam Dominelli • Jamie K Donaldson • Heather Dorman • Jim Dorman • Nancy Dorman • Stephan Dorman • Bob Doucet • Steve Dougherty • Anonymous • Brett Dowler • John Dowler • Lenya Dowler • Wolf Draegestein • Allene Drake • Erinne Drake • Gillian Drake • C Drew • Georgiana Drew • Rick Drew • Tom Drews • Karen Drexel • Peter Drummond • Scott Ducharme • Harvey Dueck • Madeleine Duff • Merlissa Dundas • Jane Dunfield • Elizabeth Dunlop • Bridget Dunne • Fraser Durrant • Pat Durrant • Lisa Duval • S Dworlan • Jane Dyson • Rogers Eaman • Judi Eden • Anonymous • Mich Eden • Mark Edmonds • Janet Effan • Brent Ehrl • Kim Eifler • Dr. Guenter Eigendorf • Frazer Elliott • Paul Epp • Mike Epps • Mayran Erfani • Ginger Erskine • Sarah L Estrange • Liz Evans • Ted Evans • Karla Everitt • Nathan Evetts • Alice Ewart • Danny Ewart • Keith Ewart • Theresa Ewat • M Exiffitys • Benjamin Faber • Joanne Fallow • Nick Faragher • Anonymous • Deidre Farah • Georgina Farah

• Josie Farrell • Paul Fast • SueEllen Fast • Patricia Fentie • Bob Ferguson • Gayle Ferguson • Jim Ferguson • Louise Ferguson • Stephen Fisk • Tatin Flad • Doug Fleetham • Anonymous • Mariah Fleetham • Ralph Fleming • Ruben Fleming • Hanna Ford • Gwen Forrest • Kit Fortune • Stephen Foster • Isaac Fox • Anne Franc de Ferriere • Steve Frazer • Tracey Frazer • Keren Freed • Neve Freed • Rina Freed • Ursula Freed • Debby Freima • Dallas Fresman • J Fretwurst • Alejandro Frid • Leonardo Frid • Peter Frinton • Nicholas Bradford Fritz • Caitlin Frost • Peggy Frulling • Soian Fry • Lynn Fuhr • Britt Fuller • Valerie Fuller • Donna Fullerton (nee Sbragia) • Kathy Gagner • Gail Gallander • Gabrielle Garcia • Lesley Gaunt • Elizabeth Gautschi • Paul Geddes • Val Geddes • River Gedland • Dorothy Geisler • Ted Geisler • Susan Geist • Jerry George • Fred Ghatala • Wade Gibbons • D Gifford • Dirk Gigling • Len Gilday • Matthew Gildersteene • Katherine Gish • John Givins • Jerome Godboo • Shawna Goodrich • Kelley Goodwin • Saskia Gould • Billi Gowans • David Graff • Elaine Graham • Paul Grant • Lynette Grants • Jane Gray • Matt Gray • Moira Greaven • Gloria Green • Lachie Green • Susan Green • Alison Greig • Audrey Grescoe • Paul Grescoe • Anonymous • Dorothy Griesbrecht • Frank Griffiths • Ronnie Grigg • Darla Grohne • Raef Grohne • Myah Grundy • Payton Grundy • M GRVFT

• Paul Guencette • Morris Guerney • Anonymous • Andrew Gurlay • Natalie H • Russell Hackney • Wendy Hackney • David Hadrill • J Hadrill • Joan Hadrill • Sarah Haggerstone • Sheila Haggerstone • Sharon Haggerty • Davina Haisell • Heather Haley • Linda Halischuk • Bill Hall • Jennifer Hall • Susan Hall • Andy Hall-Patch • Vanessa Hall-Patch • Graham Hallat • Robert Hamel • Anonymous • Dale Hamilton • Keona Hammond • Neil Hammond • Jenny Hanen • James Hangarey • Alicia Hansen • Ron Hansen • F Harder • Roberta Hardie • Gary Harman • Michele Harrigan • Michelle Harrigan • David Harrington • Melissa Harrison • Glenn Harse • Brian Hartwick • Tim Hausch • Patrick Hawkes • Sarah Haxby • Anonymous • Ellen Hayakaura • Cam Hayduk • Kat Hayduk • J Hayes • Miles Hayes • Will Hayes • Hayward • John Hazell • C Headley • Corrina Headley • Jack Headley • Anonymous • Daniel Heald • Elsa Heath • Jon Heath • Kann Heath • Margaret Hecker • S. Hecker • Charmain Heffelfinger • Teresa Hefti • Matthew Helm • Richard Helm • Jason Hendyrson • Freja Henrichsen • Lotte Henrichsen • Anonymous • Per Henrichsen • Jen Henrickson • Carlos Henriques • Rick Herding • Dan Heringa • Donald Heth • Susan Heth • J Hickling • Laura Higgins • Colburn Hobrook • Brian Hodgins • Heather Hodson • Susan Hogan • Matt Hogg • Anonymous • Adam Holbrook • Jane Holland • Rory Holland • D Hollinger

• Hector Holsman • Nedenie Hom • Bob Hooper • Doug Hooper • John Hooper • Mary Hooper • River Hooper • Robyn Hooper • Paul Hooson • Alica Hoppenrath • Anonymous • Andy Hoppenrath • Irmi Hoppenrath • Mal Hoskin • Rick Hovey • Kim Howden • Susan Howe • Howl • Tim Hoynihan • Thomas Hubbal • Dai Hughes • Karen Hughes • Hughes • Caroline Hurd • Andrea Hurlburt • Anonymous • Tracy Hurst • Will Husby • Cheryl Hutton • Trent Hutton • Charly Huxford • Ingela Hyatt • Tomoyo Ihaya • Cat Immen • Todd Ingram • Corinne Ives • Shantel Ivits • Dana Izdebski • Eryn Jackson • Marc Jalbert • B James • Anonymous • Elaine James • Kevin James • Lisa James • Oli James • Ryland James • Jean Jamieson • Laura Jamieson • Boysen Jay • Earl Jenkins • John Jensen • Julie Jensen • Yvonne Jensen • Caro Johnson • D. Johnson • Sheree Johnson • Anonymous • Amanda Jones • Carol Jones • Elaine Jones • Trevor Jones • Jay Jubenvill • Kim Juneja • Conrad Jurushka • Ture Kallstrom • Kami Kanetsuka • Kim Kassasian • Mary Kastle • Mitsumi Kawai • Sue Kay • A Keane • Anonymous • Peter Kearney • Trish Keating • Rick Keen • Cindy Keep • Corbin Keep • Carole Kemble • Francis Kemble • Roberta Kennard • Gail S Kenner • Vera Keogh • Anonymous • Eva Kepesora • Bob Kerr • Heather Kerr • Michael Kerr • Ian Kewnard • James Keyton • Virginia Keyton • Poong Kil Chung • Kari Killy

• Tannis Killy • Tanya Kim • Anri Kimura • Jonas Kinakin • Marilynn King • Anonymous • Stephen Kirdy • Andrea Klann • EA Klann • G A Klann • James Klearrar • Louise Klein • Dominique Kluyskens • Adam Knight • Bev Knight • Rob Knight • Rosemary Knight • Samantha Knowles • Linda Koch • Jane Kokolakis • Anonymous • M Konzicka • John Kotz • Gillian Darling Kovanic • Rudi Kovanic • Magdalena Kozicka • C Krahn • Anonymous • Kristine Krinitzky • J Kristinsson • Avril Kulbida • HT Kulbida • Heidi Kurt • Nancy Kyle • Edward L Flupy • Richard Labonté • Erica Ladner • Alexa Laidlaw • Jeanie Lamb • Cheryl Landry • Mike Lang • Carolyn Langley • Anonymous • Christopher Langlois • Jean Lapointe • Marcel Laroche • Natasha LaRoche • Mike Lasdrum • Rebecca Laursen • Rita Laursen • Denise Lawson • Jay Laycell • Tanis Layzell • Pauline LeBel • Anonymous • Rosalind Leggatt • Sally Lehman • Curtis Leigh • Bill Leithead • Susan Leithead • J Lellner • Glenn Leonard • Anonymous • Shari Leonard • Natalie Leunar • Marty Levenson • Toni Leverett • Mo Levi • Anonymous • Randy Levine • Asa Liles • Jeff Lind • Beverley Lindsay • Morley Lipsatt • Andrew Little • Erin Little • Jack Little • Sandy Logan • L Loik • Anonymous • Nicholas Long • Elaine Loree • Jen Loree • Escher Lorenz • Jody Lorenz • Gail Lotenberg • Twyla Lotenberg • Coral Louie • Bo Lunguist • Brita Lunguist • Eddie Lunn • Maureen Lunn • Suzy Blown Lunn

• Rika Lyne • Deirdre MacCarthy • Craig MacDonald • S. Macfarlane • Christian MacInnis • Rory MacIntosh • Mark MacLeod • Kirstie Maclise • Anonymous • Rhonda MacWilliams • Sandra Madden • Lauren Magner • Chelsea Mainwaring • Tony Mainwaring • LW Mair • Oon Malton • Rene Mandigo • Gary Mangel • Jacqui Mani • M. Manifold • Annemarie Mann • Jennifer Manning • Ainslie Manson • David Manson • Moore Marion • Olive Marison • Kate Markham-Zantvoort • Jess Marshall • Stewart Marshall • Isabel Martin • Janice Martin • Marie Martinez • A Massender • Jacqueline Massey • Galit Mastai • Jeff Matheson • Ally Matthews • Anonymous • Dwayne Matthews • Joyce Matthews • Pam Matthews • Patti Matthews • Ryan Matthews • Susan Matthews • Jewal Maxwell • Matt Maxwell • Cindy May • Jary May • Jane McBride • Keith Mccall • Pam McCall • Sheila McCall • Ben McCallum • Anonymous • Emily McCallum • Norma McCarthy • Stu McCormack • Genevieve McCorquodale • Andrew McCracken • Julia McCulloch • Mary McDonagh • Ross McDonald • Anonymous • Shelley McDonald • Kendra Mceown • Doug McGilivray • Marysia McGilvray • Karen McGregor • Mary McGregor • Dave McIntosh • Ellen McIntosh • Harry McKay • Terence McKeown • Monica McKinley • Carol McKinnon • Anonymous • Sheilagh McKinnon • Bob McKnight • Will McKnight • Phil McKracken • Tracey McLachlan • Judith McLaren • Ian McLennan • Brenda McLuhan • Muriel McMillan • Suzanne McNeil • Catherine McTaggart • Anonymous • Beth McTavish • Stella Meal • Hans Merkelbach

• Corinnee Metcalf • Barb Metcalfe • Connie Metcalfe • Tania Michniewicz • Janina Micko • Janette Miguel • Tamsin Miley • Alex Millar • Heather Miller • Jackson Miller • John Miller • Anonymous • Kelly Miller • Margaret Miller • Pam Miller • Terry Mills • Jesse Milsted • Bob Milward • Elizabeth Milward • Jackie Minns • Alison Mitchell • Betty Mitchell • Anonymous • Heather Mitchell • Heike Mitchell • Robert Mitchell • J Mogridge • Wade Moisette • Kim Molinski • Rosie Montgomery • Leanne Moore • Jeff Morales • Paul Morgan • Anonymous • Geo Morrow • Larry Morse • Adam Morton • Betty Morton • Mike Mountain • Bonnie Muiller • Anonymous • Karen Munro • Susan Munro • Barbara Murphy • Kathy Murphy • Nicola Murray • Erin Naismith • Kim Nattress • Roger Neal • Jude Neale • Anonymous • Dorothy Nelson • Deborah Neville • Heather Neville • John Neville • Maureen Nicholson • Mary Nicoll • Georgia Nicols • Anonymous • Francis Nielsen • Pernilla Nielsen • Tina Nielsen • Wynn Nielsen • Ben Nixon • Mike Nolan • Tallis Norlund • Derek Norris • Murray Nosek • Adriana Novirov • Anonymous • Andriy Novirov • Svitlana Novirov • Annie O’Dea • Chris Oben • Joseph Ocana • Amanda Ockeloen • David Ogden • Elsie Ogden • James Ogden • Cherylyne Olson • Michael Ondaatje • Quintin Ondaatje • Anonymous • Garlon Orlikiov • Margo Osinski • Carmen Otero • Tina Overbury • John Overbye • Nick Page • Joanna Pakendorf • Igor Palkocre • Peter Palmer-Hunt • Sharon Palmer-Hunt

• Anonymous • Singne Palmquist • Daniele Parent • Daniel Parke • Caroline Parker • Dan Parker • John Parker • Daniel Parkin • David Parkin • Peter Parkin • Aery Parle • Linda Patriasz • Ross Patterson • Kevin Payne • Vivian Pearce • Tamara Pearl • Craig Pearman • Leo Pedersen • Kate Peer • M Penn • Muriel Penn • Virginia Penny • Graham Perkins • Anonymous • Dominique Perronii • Allan Peter • Carolyn Peters • Jodi Peters • Carol Peterson • Linda Pfeiff • Wiefels Phett • David Phillips • Picard • Terry Pike • Dave Pinner • Malcolm Pitches • Cindy Platt • Owen Plowman • Teresa Plowright • Dave Pollard • Greg Pollard • John C Poole • Nerys Poole • Anonymous • Sharon Poske • Shea Powell • Robert Pratt • Susan Pratt • Wilma Pretorius • Hannah Price • Lissa Price • Susan Price • Anita Priest • Donna Pringle • Peggy Proudlock • Rob Purdy • Gordon Purser • Annabelle Pycalo • Martin Pykalo • Ben Rader • Jeffery Radke • Anonymous • Christine Radley • Ian Radley • Jason Rahara • Alfred Rahn • Laura Rahn • Lisa Rainbird • Andrew Rainsley • Finn Rainsley-Ray • Annie Rainslyey-Ray • Karen Ramage • Anonymous • Ann Ramsey • Ethelyn Rankin • Bev Rapley • Zoe Rappard • Diana Ray • Aryana Rayne • Matthew Reddekopp • Jeni Redekopp • Donovan Reeves • Anya Reid • Gordon Reid • Dawn Reily • Jack Resels • Ray Resels • Emma Reynolds • Neil Reynolds • John Rich • Kim Rich • Anonymous • Paul Rickett

• Su Rickett • J Riley • Graham Ritchie • Jonathan Ritchie • Juian Ritchie • Matt Ritchie • Rupert Ritchie • Sue Ritchie • Dai Roberts • Wendy Roberts • Ashli Robertson • Carli Robertson • Cathy Robertson • Peter Robinson • Milena Robledo • German Rodgriguez • Markus Roemer • Beverley Rogan • Julie Rogers • Anonymous • Lea Roghon • Ron Roghon • Leanne Romak • Gregory Ronczewski • Ariel Rose • SM Rose • Rose • Anonymous • J Rosenberg • Jeffrey Rosenfeld • Peter Ross • Tobyn Ross • Jay Routledge • C. Charles Rudd • Isabel Ruedigo • Oliver Ruse • Julie Rush • Peter Ryan • Ed Sanders • Anonymous • Kalindi Sani • Santosha • C Saria • Jeanne Sarich • Donaleen Saul • Julia Saunders • Julie Saxton • Anonymous • John Sbragia • Meredith Sbragia • Mariane Schedler • James Scherer • Sue Schloegl • Suzanne Schloegl • Robi Schuber • Teun Schut • David Schwartz • M Schwartzel • Jason Schwetzer • Anonymous • Tiffanee Scorer • Wendy Seale-Bakes • Finn Segal • Michael Segal • Mary Selman • Richard Selman • Bob Semeniak • Brad Senn • Monika Senn • Leah Serna • Ron Serna • Aynsley Severide • Brian Seward • Anonymous • D. Shadbolt • Claudia Shaefer • Chris Shank • Lisa Shatzkey • Jamie Shaw • Jim Shaw • Anne Shaw • Karen Shea • Robert Shea • Megan Sheffer • Michael Shelt • Eric Sherlock • A. Shields • Jasper Shore • Anonymous • Stef Shortt • Kevin Sidette • Elin Sigurdson • Ben Silberman

• Jack Silberman • Ann Silbermann • Christiane Silva • Mario Silva • Richard Sim • Fraser Simmons • Jen Simms • Barbara Simons • Jeffrey Simons • Christina Simpson • Donna Sinclair • Owen Sitnam • Janice Skeels • Anonymous • Murray Skeels • Mrs.K.C. Skillen • Jane Skipey • Sara Skuce • M Slade • Heather Sloat • Sharon Slugget • Amelia Smith • Brian Smith • Anonymous • Christine Smith • George A M Smith • Graham Smith • Griffin Smith • Kelly Smith • Matthew Smith • Merran Smith • Patti Smith • Rosie Smith • Russell Smith • Thomas Smith • Gal Smoer • Anonymous • Vicki Smye • Martha Snodgrass • Amrita Sondhi • Gail Soones • Anonymous • Gary Sparks • Sheailagh Sparks • Lawrence Sparling • Dyan Spear • Kailey Spear • Sam Spear • Ted Spear • Andree Srelias • Jane Srivastava • Anonymous • Joern Staege • Ute Staege • Katharine Steig • Heather Stephens • Kim A Stephens • Claire Stewart • Jean Stewart • Anonymous • Pam Stimpson • John Stiver • Anonymous • Elizabeth Storry • Mike Strain • Lorinda Strang • Deb Stringfellow • Joanna Strubin • Daryl Sturdy • Brian Sturley • Tim Sulhar • Mary Sullivan • Margaret Swain • Anonymous • Kim Syer • Amanda Szaho • Caelan T. • Saskia Tait • Neil H. Talbot • Starla Talbot • Bob Tanner • Jean Tassen • Wayne Tatlow • Anonymous • John Tavares • Elaine Taylor • Gary Taylor • Jamie Taylor • Jim Taylor • Judy Taylor • Sophie Taylor • Tess Taylor • Paul Tenant

• Susan Tennant • Anonymous • James Thangarey • Steph Thatcher • Carrie Thiel • A Thomas • Kate Thomas-Peter • Anelie Thomes • B Thompson • E Thompson • Eric Thompson • Ivan Thompson • Beverly Thomson • David Thomson • Deb Thomson • Anonymous • Devon Thomson • Edna Thomson • Ian Thomson • Kathryn Thomson • W Tilly • Andrew Todd • Richard Tom • Don Toungsan • Alan Trejillo • Richard Tremblane • Teresa Triska • Janis Trleavan • Avril Trudeau • Rebecca Tunnacliffe • Maria Turnbull • Bob Turner • Anonymous • Scott Turner • P. Turratt • J P Tweten • Chris Tyldesley • Tristan Tyldesley • Shari Ulrich • Richard Underdown • Dee Vallee • Aubin Van Berckel • David Van Berckel • R Van Kenel • Adrian Van Lidth de Jeude • Emily Van Lidth de Jeude • Everhard Van Lidth de Jeude • Anonymous • Lyn Van Lidth de Jeude • Victoria Van Sdowen • Anton Van Walraven • Mark Vanderbyl • Mike Vandergugten • Rob Veades • Jacqui Verkley • Andrea Verwey • Pieter Verwey • Dennis Vetter • Sheila Vetter • Julie Vik • Tanya Voormeij De Zwart • Kelley Voyer • Anonymous • Edward Wachtman • Lindsay Walker • Kate Wall • R Wall • Janice Wallace • Karen Wallace • Kelcie Walther • Irene Wanless • Kim Wanless • Wendy Wanvig • Lorne Warr • Ian Watson • Liz Watson • Mike Watson • Millie Watson • Sheila Webster • Anonymous • Kim Weedmark • Claire Weeks • Joel Weise • Eddie Weismiller • Elise West • James West • Richard West • Alastair Westcott • Sam Westgard • Jennifer Wheatley

• Hans When • Natasha When • Emma Whilte • Chris White • E White • Jason White • Kit White • Maria Whitehead • Lily Whitehead-Delong • Anonymous • Thomas Whiteur • C Dianne Whitmore • Todd Whitworth • Wolf Wickman • Richard Wiefelspuett • Patti-Jo Wiese • Alex Wild • Sheila Wild • Linda Wilke • Judy Emily Williams • Lynn Williams • Penny Williams • Anonymous • Renate Williams • T. Williams • Peter Williamson • Arla Willis • Jocelyn Willis • John A. Willis • Peter Willis • Anne Wilson • Dennis Wilson • Sarah Wilson • Barbara Wiltshire • Peter Wing • Richard Wing • Chantel Wingheld • Anonymous • Peter Winton • Sandra Winton • Maureen Witney • Dave Witty • Marg Witty • Jayne & Kornel Wolters • Katherine Wolters • Tony Wood • Heather Woodall • Anonymous • Ron Woodall • Melanie Worobec • Bonnie Wrenshall • Jeanette Wrenshall • Bruce Wright • C Wright • Fiona Wright • Jeremy Wright • Robert Wright • S Wriley • Anonymous • Karen Wristen • Cordell Wynne • Gil Yaron • Mai Yasue • Elisa York • Pere Youngson • Mary Ann Zakreska • Adriana Zamparoni • Imke Zimmermann • Anonymous • Oliver Zimmermann • Silvaine Zimmermann • Hayes Zirnhelt • Joanne Zutter • Andrea • Anonyomous • Daphne • Jeffray • John • Kamile • Kanatiio • Laurisse • Rob • Tim • Viggo •

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Use Feng Shui and Transform Your Life DONALEEN SAUL SUBMISSION

The Big Funk at Tir-na-nOg JACK HEADLEY SUBMISSION

Calling all intrepid theatre lovers!

The Big Funk, second of two plays

by John Patrick Shanley, running at the Tir-na-nOg Theatre, is poised for blast-off this weekend. Three trips only: Friday, Saturday & Sunday evenings at 8:00. Our captainless crew of oddball misfits — two circus performers, an unemployed actor, one battered & abused semi-tragic anti-heroine — has charted a course through a maze of antics both hilarious & heart-wrenching to the far reaches of the human

imagination. There Mr. Shanley’s hardedged, streetwise humour confronts our contemporary Gordian Knot of desires & dissatisfactions, and deftly cleaves a pathway through to the open heart. The seats are comfortable, the coffee good, come on aboard!

WARNING: laced with deep bellylaughs and course language throughout — good medicine, but for adults only. Suggested minimum age of admittance: sixteen years. For more information, inquire at tirnanog@ telus.net, or visit www.tirnanogtheatreschool.org

Who are the Walk-On-Dead? Why do they keep following me around?

JAMES TUER SUBMISSION

If you’ve been watching local music comings-and-goings, you may have noticed this “new” band called Walkon Dead, and you may have wondered who are they and why are they here?

Who they are is locals James Tuer (lead guitar), Peter Dives (drums), and White Rock’s Sean Schonfeld (rhythm guitar, vocals) with special guests Shael Wrinch on bass and Jordon Whyte on keys.

The band first got together in early 2012 when Sean the “then” lead singer and guitar player for Token Rhyme

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came to Bowen and for a weekend jam and met James, Peter Dives, and local recording artist and music engineer Shael Wrinch. The tunes at that first jam flowed pretty effortlessly, and a new Bowen band was born. The gigs soon followed, including slots at BowFest, the Summer Sessions, Steamship Days, and at the Bowen Pub. You can dance your November blues away by catching Walk-on Dead along with Courtenay’s tye dye artwork in the midst of a 5 show Sea to Sky tour at the Bowen Pub this Saturday at 9pm, with Shael and Jordan and some special guests. $7 at the door.

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In promoting my work as a certified Essential Feng Shui™ practitioner, I find that many people have heard of it and are curious, but hardly anyone knows what the heck Feng Shui is.

Feng shui (pronounced “fung shway”) is the ancient Chinese art of placement, which has been applied for over 3000 years to bring more harmony, health, prosperity, and success into people’s lives.

Feng, meaning “wind,” and Shui, meaning “water,” are two forces that play a vital role in energizing rooms and places. Water, or “heaven’s luck,” is the source of prosperity in its purest sense, essential for the growth of all living beings. Wind, or “divine breath,” refers to the movement of chi, or life force.

Careful placement of furniture and objects in your home or office will allow for an easy flow of both wind and water so that all parts of your house or business, including the most remote ones, are well-nourished with chi, which can then support the needs and desires of the people who live and/or work there.

This way of thinking can seem “woo-woo” to many

Westerners who are used to “what you see is what you get” and who are unaccustomed to considering the unseen world of energy. Even those of us who have benefitted from energy-based practices like yoga, acupuncture, and tai chi will balk at the core Feng Shui principle that furniture, electronics, and artwork are actually alive.

However, our knickknacks, house wares, clothing and other objects are all alive with the memories and associations that we place upon them. The picture your child gave to you on your birthday will likely energize you, whereas the expensive porcelain coffee mug given to you by an ex-spouse in happier times will likely drain you. Guess which object you may need to let go of?

One of the first things that you can do to improve the Feng Shui of your home or office is to take an objective look at the space and ask yourself how those things make you feel. Replacing unloved or unwanted items with things that have positive associations is bound to make a difference in your environment and in your life.

Find out more at two upcoming workshops at The Gallery.

Youth injury in sports SHAUNA JENNINGS SUBMISSION

Sport and Physical Activity is a great way for people of all ages to spend time with friends, have fun, socialize, learn about team work, and enjoy numerous health benefits. But what happens when your young athlete is sidelined by an injury or a sore knee or sprained ankle?

Sandy Logan, local Registered Physiotherapist for the past 10 years and avid outdoor sports enthusiast, has partnered with Bowen Island Community Recreation to present a talk on Injury Prevention and Maintenance related to Sports in Children and

Youth. The talk takes place on Tuesday Nov. 12 from 7-8:30pm in the BICS Multipurpose Room. Some topics that will be covered include: physiological changes during puberty, posture “it’s never too late to start”, body image vs body awareness and Injury prevention – when to stretch, when to strengthen, ice or heat, balance and coordination, signs and symptoms of head injuries, and when to ask for professional help.

Pre-Registration is required in person at the Rec office, by phone at 604-947-2216 or online at www. bowencommunityrecreation.com. Course Fee is $10.50.

Classic Cake-Walk comes back to Bowen SHEANA STEVENSON SUBMISSION

The Community School Association’s (CSA) Christmas Craft Fair is just around the corner and this year’s event will include the return of the classic Cake Walk. A traditional favourite for Bowen children and parents alike, the Cake Walk will be held on Sunday, December 1 in the Modular Classroom (the Mod) at Bowen Island Community School (BICS), during the Christmas Craft Fair, starting at 10:00am and finishing once all the cakes have walked!

Those who have lived on Bowen for many years may remember the Cake Walks of days gone by - a long standing tradition for families to kick off the Holiday season. Traditionally, parents and kids bake cakes/cupcakes, decorating their entries either classically or in some very unique styles. The creations are then dropped off the day before or the morning of the CSA Christmas Craft Fair.

On the day of the event, the undercurrent of excitement leading up to the Cake Walk is palpable.

Children can purchase their tickets to take part ($2 for one, $5 for three) in the Mod at 10:00 am. The format is similar to musical chairs where the winners win one of the cakes/cupcakes as their prize. All proceeds go towards the CSA which supports various community and BICS programs.

The cakewalk will be set up in the Mod at BICS. Organizers are requesting that cakes/cupcakes be dropped off there on Saturday November 30 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm. Cakes will also be accepted on Sunday December 1 at 10:00am but please keep in mind the heavy traffic you will encounter that morning!

An information sheet from North Shore Health containing pointers on in-home preparation will be sent home to all BICS parents. If you are interested in making a cake/cupcakes for the Cake Walk and have not received this information please contact Katherine Gish at foodies2@shaw.ca We look forward to seeing everyone at the CSA Christmas Craft Fair on December 1st from 10:00am – 2:00pm for the return of this festive Bowen tradition you won’t want to miss!

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West Coast tales of the Middle East Local writers tackle stories about Iraq and Syria ANDREA VERWEY SUBMITTED

On Saturday, November 16th, two BC authors will join us at the Gallery @ Artisan Square for an evening of stories about the Middle East and the effect that the wars in Iraq and Syria have had on people – in those countries, and here in Canada.

Leilah Nadir is a Vancouver writer whose family memoir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family, “reminds us that Iraq is not just a war; it is a country”(Naomi Klein). The opening lines take us there with a rush to the senses, and show us Nadir’s perspective as she begins her quest to find her family:

I feel Iraq in my bones, though I have never been there. I have never lazed in the shade of the date palm on a stifling hot day or underneath the grape leaves hanging on the vine in the evening. I haven’t smelled jasmine or orange blossom scenting a Baghdad night. I’ve never tasted mango pickle with masgouf—the speciality fish dish of Baghdad—at an open-air restaurant on the banks of the Tigris. My father Ibrahim has done none of these things either since he left Iraq at age 16 in 1960 to go to college in England. Around the world, there are approximately five million exiles from a country of twenty-five million; about one in five Iraqis does not live in Iraq. Most of them, like my father, are afraid to go back, even in peacetime. So we never have.

Mom and tots yoga, led by Chantal Russell at Bowen Island Yoga.

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Yoga is about feeling good while we’re here Chantal Russell takes what the yoga studio below Artisan Square in new directions MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

What was the Bowen Yoga Co-op has a new name, Bowen Island Yoga, and a new director, Chantal Russell.

If you attend her Friday morning Fyoga session, you may notice she’s not thrown off by babbling, or half the class failing to pay attention entirely. She keeps breathing deeply, stretching, and offering her class a sense of calm and relaxation. Like most yoga classes, the Friday session ends with Child’s Pose and a Namaste, but there’s also a good amount time for snuggling.

“I’ve got a toddler myself so I found I needed something to do Friday mornings,” says Chantal Russell about the Mom & Tots yoga class at Bowen Yoga. “Its not about a hard-core yoga practice, its about getting out of the house, connecting with other moms, and moving.”

Russell’s been directing Bowen Yoga since September, and has plans for more kid and family oriented yoga classes, as well as nutrition workshops.

“I’d like to see it become something of a lifestyle and wellness hub,” she says.

She’s been teaching yoga for eight years, and is a graduate of the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition in Toronto. She says she’s dedicated her life to the study, practice and teaching of healthy living, and this fact made a cancer diagnosis following the birth of her son Ben (almost 2) an acute shock.

“I was almost angry at yoga, and everything to do with it, because I felt like it had let me down somehow,” Russell says. “I think I looked at yoga, and everything to do with it, as some kind of pill for immortality.”

Lymphoma typically strikes young, healthy people. It is an aggressive form of cancer, but it is also highly treatable.

“One of my doctors told me, ‘Think of this like a virus, a flu. You will get through this.’”

Russell attributes positive thinking and healthy habits to the fact that she got through her cancer treatments “relatively well.” And once she was strong enough to do yoga, she started teaching again, and she says that helped her re-build her strength. The experience she says, has changed her perspective on practicing yoga and made her a better teacher.

“You never know [what will happen in life], but my focus has shifted now it’s not about trying to perfect ourselves, but trying to enjoy it and feel the best we can while we’re here.”

Russell says with this approach yoga can be a great tool for kids.

“They can learn to appreciate the simple things in life, like their breath. They can learn to focus, and to relax.”

Bowen Yoga held the first of what Russell is hoping will be a monthly workshop for kids between the ages of 3 and 8 last weekend.

Incorporating more family-friendly programming into the yoga studio is just one idea Chantal as she moves forward in her role as director.

She’s also looking for community input and is hoping that people will fill out the survey on the studio’s website: www.bowenislandyoga.com

The Orange Trees of Baghdad won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2008 – an award that Bowen Island’s Neil Boyd shared with his co-authors in 2010 for A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future. Nadir’s book is about to be re-issued by Read Leaf Press in Canada and the US with a new epilogue that completes the story of her search for her family during the six years since it was first published.

Kathryn Para’s brand new novel Lucky won the 2nd Search for the Great BC Novel Contest and will be launched in Vancouver the night before Kathy joins us here from her home in Gibsons. Set in Vancouver and in the Middle East (mainly Fallujah in Iraq), Lucky explores the ideas of war as news entertainment for the West, the price paid by journalists, and the moral dilemmas of love and conflict. Its the story of an ambitious conflict photographer from Vancouver, Anika Lund, and her translator and friend Viva, a language instructor in Syria whose husband has disappeared. It is published by Mother Tongue.

“I am very interested in what war does to people,” Para says. She spent several years reading in preparation for the novel, focussing on journalists’ lives in the Middle East as they head into places that others want to run from – and the kinds of things they will do under pressure.

We will have hot off the press copies of both books for sale at the event.

The BIAC Authors Series event with Leilah Nadir and Kathryn Para will take place on Saturday, November 16th from 8.00 pm to 9.30 pm at the Gallery @ Artisan Square. Admission is FREE thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the Bowen Island Public Library. Refreshments for sale will include wine, soft drinks, and Middle Eastern treats.

DON’T LET WINTER STOP THE BOATING SEASON BIYC is hosting a social and movie (tbd) night @ Doc Morgan’s Pub on Monday, November 18, 2013 • 7:00pm.

Exchange stories from the summer, get tips or boating dilemmas answered from other seasoned boaters.

All are welcome.

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You will carry out a variety of general / preventative maint. activities throughout our plant & equipment, as well as monitor our waste water treatment facility.

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CRESCENT Plumbing & Heating Licensed Residential 24hr. Service • Hot water tanks • Furnaces • Broilers • Plugged Drains 778-862-0560

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Canuck Roofing All Roof Repairs Any job big or small. Free Est. *WCB *Insured *BBB 778-772-1969

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HIGHWAY OWNER OPERATORS $3500 SIGNING BONUS Van Kam’s group of companies req. Highway linehaul owner operators based in our Surrey terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain driving experience/training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent employee benefits package.

To join our team of professional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driver’s abstract and details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com or Call 604-968-5488 or Fax: 604-587-9889 Only those of interest will be contacted.

Van Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

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CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

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GL ROOFING. Cedar/Asphalt, Flat roofs, WCB Clean Gutters - $80.

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Located 150km Northwest of Prince George, BC Mount Milligan is one of British Columbia’s first major metals mine of this century.

Are you having problems with: BYLAWS.ALC/ALR. Assistance is available. Contact: buisfarm1968@hotmail.com.

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THE Cascades, a residential care home in Chilliwack is seeking RNs. FT & Casuals. Resume & Cover letter to jobs@balticproperties.ca or fax: 604-795-5693

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District of Kitimat, full time permanent, wage range $37.01 $44.78, over two years. Civil Technologist diploma required.

Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, duties include a variety of infrastructure investigations, surveying, design, contract preparation, inspection and material testing on projects related to the municipality’s water, sewer, drainage and transportation systems. Candidates should be proficient in using electronic survey equipment, computer assisted design using AutoCad 3D, and MS Office. Valid BC driver’s license required. Submit resumes

by November 29, 2013, 4:30 pm, to Personnel, District of Kitimat, 270 City Centre, Kitimat, BC, V8C 2H7, Fax (250) 632-4995, or email dok@kitimat.ca

FORESTRY TECHNICIANS, Layout Engineers and Timber Cruisers from $4000$7000/month plus bonus. Live Crown Forestry Ltd. is an established and growing forestry resource management consulting firm in Prince George providing multiphase timber development services since 1995. Send Cover Letter and Resume to Brian Telford: btelford@livecrown.com FRASER SHINGLING & EXTERIORS LTD. - Wanted Aluminum and Vinyl siding installers. Full Crews with own equipment only. Contact Giselle at 780 962 1320, or at giselle@fraserexteriors.com

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Tech-help critical service for seniors KAMI KANETSUKA SPECIAL TO THE UNDERCURRENT

Anyone who has had the pleasure of tech support from Leo Pedersen, the tech tutor at the library, will know how important this service is. Having been the happy recipient of his help I am wondering how we can do without him. At present the library receives a grant for Leo, who only works on Tuesdays and Fridays and his appointment book fills up quickly. As he himself says, “computers, iPads, phones etc. have become more and more complex and the library is a safe place to come and ask questions and learn some of their features with no pressure.” I could not agree more.

Speaking as a senior and including others I know, these highly technical machines came to us rather late in life and for many seem overwhelming. For once our grandchildren know infinitely more than

we do but too often they live far away from us to be able to help. From my first visit the all-smiling Leo put me at ease and I am now mastering some of the key features of my computer with his guidance.

Before having this support I always felt somewhat embarrassed with my lack of knowledge and only waited until something went horribly wrong with my computer before hiring help.

Libraries themselves are changing dramatically -- some folk even believe that books are dying out (heaven forbid.) Most Libraries now have computers, which appear to be in use all the time, so it certainly seems like there is a need to employ a technician along with regular library staff. Although we have the much needed and appreciated Leo for a little while longer, I am routing for some little magic that will enable him to become part of the permanent staff.

At present Leo can be reached at techtutor@ bowenlibrary.ca

Bowen Scouts and Cubs looking for leaders LESLIE BLAIS SUBMISSION

Do you enjoy the outdoors? Have the desire to learn new skills? Like to make new friends? Want to spend quality time with your children? If you said yes to the above then you have found the right place!

Scouting volunteers provide youth with many first opportunities, to experience leadership and to build self-reliance and self-confidence. Volunteer dedication, resourcefulness and enthusiasm are vital to Scouting and to make our programs fun.

We have flexible volunteering opportunities that fit around you and your schedule. Currently we have many children interested in our Beaver program (ages 5-7), but sadly no leaders. If you would like to or know of someone who would like to volunteer to help get this great program up and running again for our children please let us know. If we don’t have any Beavers today this runs the risk of eliminating our

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CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977 CHIHUAHUAS, tiny tea cups, ready to go now, 3 males. $700. Call 604794-7347 GERMAN SHEPHERD Pups from German Import. Black/Red, Sable, & Solid Black $800 604-856-8161.

NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com

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AUCTIONS

GROCERY STORE AUCTION November 16 @11am, Burnaby Hobart meat equipment & dishwashers, True coolers & freezers.

View @www.KwikAuctions.com

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HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

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LAB PITBULL CROSS PUPPIES 4M 4F. 8 weeks, $300.

604-530-8810 ~ 778-927-5592 MINI GOLDENDOODLE PUPPIES $1750 - 3 males. Ready early Dec. minigoldendoodlestolove.ca 1-877-534-2667

Cubs and Scouts programs for the future.

The 16th West Vancouver Bowen Island Scouting groups have enjoyed many fun activities including weekend camps, Science World Sleepover, kayaking, climbing, archery, and much, much more.

Please check out our new website and logo at www.

BowenScouts.com. Thank you to Fanella Jacquet for her time in the designing of our new logo.

We would also like to say a big Thank You to Irly Building Centres for donating the wood for our boat builders, and the very generous check that they presented to us on Saturday October 25, 2013.

Also a Big Thank You to Bowen Island Municipality for the Grant that we received this fall.

All of these contributions are very much appreciated by the Cubs and Scouts and will go towards their many activities.

Like our facebook page. Contact Leslie Blais, 778788-8475 or by email at leslie@leslieblais.com for more information. www.BowenScouts.com

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AUCTION. Antiques & Collectable’s, Large Selection.

November 17th, 1 PM, Dodds Auction Vernon. 1 (250)5453259 doddsauction.com AUCTION. Antiques & Collectable’s, Large Selection.

November 17th, 1 PM, Dodds Auction Vernon. 1 (250)5453259 doddsauction.com

Friday November 8 “Inner Transition: Finding our way in times of collapse” 7:30pm A free talk by Carolyn Baker put on by Bowen in Transition Cates Hill Chapel Youth Centre 6pm-9pm Snacks, video-games, Movies, Food and Fun! Ages 12 +

SKY Raffle ticket sale at General Store - 10:00am to 4:00pm

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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Difficulty Making Payments?

No Equity? Penalty? Expired Listing?

We Buy Homes! No Fees! No Risk! www.GVCPS.ca / 604-786-4663

STEEL BUILDINGS/ METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed!

Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

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Need a car? We can help. Free Delivery. Apply online at www.jacobsonford.com.

Toll Free at 1-877-814-5534.

Bowen Island Museum & Archives Remembrance Day Exhibit 10am - 3pm

Sunday November 10 Bowen Island Museum & Archives Remembrance Day Exhibit 10am - 3pm

Monday November 11 Mon. Nov. 11 Remembrance Day ceremony for the community. Gather at the cenotaph in Snug Cove, 10:30am (after ferry leaves) Bowen Island Museum & Archives Remembrance Day Exhibit 11:30am - 4pm

Tuesday November 12 Bowen Island Museum & Archives

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BOWEN GARDENING Fall cleanup, mowing Weeding, planting, pruning and clean-up. Certified friendly gardener with experience on Bowen. Excellent rates (special senior rates). Call Paula 604 -910-0978 604-947-0390 paukin70@hotmail.com Christmas Craft Market at the Little Red Church on Dec. 14 & 15. To book a table, call 604-947-2294

Need A Vehicle! Guaranteed Auto Loan. Apply Now, 1.877.680.1231 www.UapplyUdrive.ca

Wednesday November 13

Youth Centre 6pm-9pm Snacks, video-games, Movies, Food and Fun! Ages 12 +

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Community Recreation Speaker Series - 7-8:30 pm.

Join Sandy Logan, Registered Physiotherapist, for this talk on Prevention & Maintenance of Injuries related to sports in children and youth aged 10-14 yrs. Pre-Registration is required.

AA meeting 7:15, Collins Hall 604-434-3933

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Remembrance Day Exhibit 10am - 3pm

Drop-in knitting Bowen Court - 2 to 5 p.m.

Update your skills, begin from scratch, share your expertise Weight Watchers Collins Hall - 6:15 to 7:15 p.m.

Thursday November 15 Alanon on Bowen: 7:15 p.m.

Call 604-947-9675 or email bowenalanon@gmail.com for more info.

Upcoming: November 17 -19. 10am - 3pm Bowen Island Museum & Archives Remembrance Day Exhibit

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P/B PAPILLON PUPS, adorable, 8 wks, 1st shots. Ready to go to loving home $950 firm. 604-944-6502

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STEEL BUILDING - THE GREAT SUPER SALE! 20X20 $4,070.

25X26 $4,879. 30X32 $6,695.

32X40 $8,374. 35X38 $9,540.

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LANCE’S RECYCLING I’ll pick up your recycling and deliver to BIRD for $25/load.

Kindling $20/box at Building Centre.

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Moving/Estate Sale EVERYTHING MUST GO! Living Room/Bedroom/Family Room/ furniture and contents.

Outdoor furniture, barbecue, small power tools for inside and out, small freezer, ping pong table.

Saturday and Sunday Nov.16th & 17th, 10-3pm.

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To all our Movement customers, we will be semi closed from Nov 6th - Nov 24th and we will reopen our regular hours starting Nov 27 in time for the Xmas season.

Kaitey will be present to assist you at the Movement store for anything on Mondays between 9-4pm and Fridays between 8:30-2pm while we are closed.

Vikki Fuller, of the Juniper Gallery, next door, can assist you if you really need to shop.

Watch for updates for our annual Movement/Fashion show November 30th in “The Gallery” in Artisan Square.

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Visiting the Centotaph

Debra Stringfellow, photo

DEBRA STRINGFELLOW CONTRIBUUTOR

On wednesday the grade 6 and 7 students from BICS walked down to the cenotaph and the memorial gardens to learn and honor those who served in the war. David Wrinch, who was there representing the Royal

Canadian Legion Branch 150, greeted the students and explained the history behind our cenotaph.

He told students about the five men whose names are listed on this monument and how they lost their lives in the first world war.

No names are listed on the monument from the second world war and the Korean war because all

who served from Bowen returned safely.

After visiting the cenotaph the students paid their respects at the Memorial Gardens. They took notes in their journals and cleaned the plaques in prepara-tion for the Remembrance Day ceremonies on November 11.

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