FRIDAY NOVEMBER,13, 2015 VOL. 42, NO. 42
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Innovation with Glass
Kim Hauner has a fresh approach to business
Rewards of Recycling
Clubs are benefitting from bottle drop-offs
Skier Takes Flight
Riley Culver is setting his sights high as a competitive freestyler
A new gateway to Snug Cove? Council approves first step for Rondy Dike’s building near ferry entrance MARTHA PERKINS CONTRIBUTOR
Tyler Wallace paints on the Village Square patio. Willing to paint “in any weather,” he is working in the rain on a water colour painting for a client who has commissioned Wallace for four paintings of her Tunstall Bay home, each one depicting the home in a different season. Louise Loik photo
Dave McIntosh hopes to be home soon LOUISE LOIK EDITOR
Everyone who does their recycling on Bowen will have bumped into Dave and Louise McIntosh. You could find them at the recycling centre just as it was closing, or see them driving their Bowen Waste Service trucks off island and back. Dave, “a workaholic,” as Louise describes him, was always buzzing around organizing the recycling centre, and overseeing activities of trucks, and their staff. Unfortunately, the only work for Dave right now is to get himself healthier. In mid-August, Dave had a stroke, and has since remained in hospital working to regain his strength and mobility. McIntosh does physiotherapy a couple times a day, hoping for speedy discharge this month.
“When Dave and I first moved to Bowen, we were commercial fishers. In winter Dave volunteered with Hank Strubin with recycling,” Louise says. Using their own initiative, the men pulled out the returnable bottles. Strubin offered the bottles to the local Scouts for fundraising. Back then, the Scouts, and later other groups, were responsible for taking bottles into town. Louise says it became more challenging because sometimes a group that wanted to get the bottles to town wouldn’t have a truck, “so they would borrow ours.” McIntosh says that her husband “got idea to put a bin for bottles across the road.” Dave would take the bin into town for the organization. After waiting for the bottles to be weighed, he’d drive back to Bowen and give the cheque to the organization. When the new depot on Bowen moved
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across to street to where it is now, some suggestions were made to remove the bottles and cans. “Dave was adamant that that section stay available as a fundraiser,” says his wife. “It’s less of a burden on taxpayers because groups would go to the government for grants instead.” Dave advocated for the bottles and cans to remain as an on-going money making opportunity for island organizations. “The idea was very appealing for the groups so the depot kept the bottles and cans and the groups came up with the configuration would work. Today, a dozen groups benefit from the proceeds from the recycled bottles, with four groups on the waiting list.
In an architectural slight of hand, a new building at the entrance of Snug Cove is designed to camouflage one of the island’s less attractive features. On Monday night, council agreed to authorize staff to give notice that it will consider a development variance permit for Rondy Dike’s proposed twostorey building in the parking lot of Union Steamship Marina parallel to the southern walkway leading to and from the ferry dock. Designed in the same heritage style as his USSC Marina building, and to be painted with the same colours, one storey would be visible from the road while, from the parking lot, two stories would be visible. If a change in set-back is approved, the building will be one of the first things people see getting off the ferry. Dike says it will also mask the part of the parking lot that’s now filled with parked boats and vehicles. “Although it blocks the long-distance view of Snug Cove, it also blocks the industrial effects of the parking lot,” Dike told the Undercurrent on Tuesday morning. Every effort has been made to keep the storey that’s visible from the ferry dock as short as possible, he says. He’s also very pleased that he’s working in tandem with the Gateway Garden landscaping design team spearheaded by Holly Graff. Graff is working with landscape designer Wynn Nielsen and landscape architect James Tuer to create a “welcome to Bowen Island” garden from the ferry dock to the green space next to the marina. Dike’s new building is designed to serve several functions. It will provide a home base for Cormorant Marina and Bowen Island Roasting Company and give plenty of space for the marina to rebuild the “fingers” of its docks. By not having to do the work off-island, Dike will be able to re-use the existing foam and treated lumber.
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