Bowen Island Undercurrent August 7 2015

FRIDAY AUGUST 7, 2015 VOL. 42, NO. 28

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Businesses of the Year

West Van Chamber of Commerce gives Excellence Awards to Bowenshire and Pub

Travelling solo

Kami Kanetsuka shares her experiences in new anthology of women writers

Dog of the Year 2015

Duke gets to wear the coveted crown in this year’s Dog Days of Summer

On the hustings Website says Liberal candidate has a 73 per cent chance of beating the incumbent Tory BRENT RICHTER NORTH SHORE NEWS

Do you think Skipper is practising for the best kisser contest at this Sunday’s Dog Days of Summer? His owner, Basia Lieske of USSC Marina, is in full organizational mode for the return of the popular event. Details page 4. Martha Perkins photo

Renters need a voice: Rhodes MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

Tim Rhodes has always been a bit of a policy wonk when it comes to municipal affairs but his recent research into Bowen Island’s shortage of rental accommodation was much more personal — and public.

At the end of June, Rhodes and his wife Darcy Buzzelle found out that the owners of three-bedroom home they’d been renting for eight years needed it for a family member. When Buzzelle wrote about their search online, saying there was a risk they’d have to leave Bowen if they couldn’t find someplace to

live, they became the face of a growing problem on the island.

As Meribeth Deen reported in last week’s Undercurrent, when real estate was in the doldrums, property owners who wanted to sell decided to bide their time by renting out their houses instead. Now that sales have warmed up considerably, a lot of renters are worried that they’ll have to find new accommodation if the new owners want to move in.

It won’t be easy.

As Rhodes is now painfully aware, there are very few rental opportunities on the island.

Wolfgang Duntz is the only developer who has built rental spaces — apartments above

businesses in Village Square and triplexes below the municipal hall — since the General Store was built in the 1960s/70s.

Secondary suites were allowed a few years ago but that bylaw primarily served to legalize existing rental spaces rather than create new ones, Rhodes says.

Even if the municipality decides to go ahead with an accessory building bylaw, the cost of construction won’t make them very affordable, he adds. Rhodes does the math: an 800 sq.ft. accessory building would cost $200 to $250 a square foot to construct ($200,000) and then there are permit fees,

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Would-be MPs are out knocking on doors after the prime minister officially called Canada’s 42nd federal election on Sunday.

The West Vancouver-Sunshine CoastSea to Sky Country riding, which includes Bowen Island, has lost Powell River in boundary redrawings since the last election.

Conservative incumbent John Weston is facing a high-profile Liberal challenger in former West Vancouver mayor Pamela Goldsmith Jones. Former Whistler mayor Ken Melamed is the Green candidate and the NDP has chosen Gibsons business owner Larry Koopman.

The Tories won the riding in 2011 with 45 per cent of the vote. The NDP and Liberals finished with 24 and 23 per cent, respectively.

The Green Party finished with just above seven per cent.

Poll aggregating website ThreeHundredEight.com goes as far as making predictions, riding by riding.

Three Hundred Eight founder Éric Grenier’s calculations on Wednesday indicate a 73 per cent chance of the riding switching to the Liberals on October 19.

Even though Grenier is highly respected among political scientists, those numbers should be taken with a large grain of salt, said Richard Johnston, UBC political scientist.

Most polling firms don’t use a large enough sample from individual ridings to have confidence in their predictions, Johnston said, so they instead apply regional or provincial data into a formula. That formula doesn’t take into account on-the-ground knowledge that locals would have including how strong the individual candidates are and how effectively they’re campaigning.

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Medium Business of the Year Excellence Award

The Pub plans for the future MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

Andy Rainsley of Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscaping was given simple instructions when asked to design and build the staircase at Village Square: Make it look and feel good. Bowenshire recently won Small Business of the Year ain the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce Excellence Awards. Martha Perkins photo

Small Business of the Year Excellence Award

Bowenshire turns landscape into creative spaces MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

Where some people see only the challenges of turning rocks and cliffs and forests into liveable spaces, Andy Rainsley sees exciting possibilities.

“I can picture it all in my mind,” the owner of Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscaping says of his ability to create beautiful and yet practical solutions for any of the obstacles the landscape throws at him. “People will look at me bewildered and say, ‘How will you do it?’, but I can close my eyes and visualize it.”

It’s partly years of experience — it used to drive his mother nuts when he built ponds in her backyard garden in Coventry, England — but also the part of the job he thrives on.

“We get to be really creative,” he says of why he loves his work. “Every job is completely different. We’re working on a waterfront property one day and in the forest the next. It’s never the same. The job is always changing.”

The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce recently recognized this dedication to craftsmanship by naming Bowenshire the Best Small Business of the Year in its 2015 Business Excellence Awards. (Rainsley was so surprised by the nomination that he had to borrow a suit for the banquet; he was so surprised by the win that he didn’t have a speech prepared.)

Considering how many well-established businesses he was up against for such an honour, it’s a remarkable achievement for someone who started his business with “a truck and a lot of hard work” 13 years ago. Rainsley owns the business with his wife Diana Ray and they currently employ 12 people because they have so many projects on the go.

One job they just finished was in Hood Point west. The owner had a rough idea of

what he wanted and asked if Bowenshire could make it happen. Rainsley closed his eyes and…. The result is like a personal resort right on the ocean, with features such as a gorgeous outdoor kitchen.

He also worked on an adventurous project on Cape Roger Curtis. He started it as a subcontractor for Wakefield Construction but when Wakefield went bankrupt (owing Bowen Island suppliers a reported total of $400,000), the owner asked Bowenshire to continue working on the project. “That was just a delight,” Rainsley says with his trademark good humour.

He wouldn’t be surprised if either of these houses land in the centre of a magazine spread.

“You’ve got to take pride in what you do,” he says. “If you don’t care, the results won’t be favourable. We’re a little boutique company and all the staff is very conscientious and wants the best results.”

He certainly got a favourable rating when he designed new stone stairs at Village Square.

The former stairs were awkward to traverse because they didn’t conform to a normal footfall. “The specs of the job were ‘Make it look good and feel good.’”

He couldn’t change the space restrictions but he was able to use landings to create a natural rise and fall.

Although the business is growing and he has projects off the island, there’s no other place he’d rather be than on Bowen Island.

He thrives on the strong sense of community, which includes his business relationship with First Credit Union. “It’s fantastic,” he says.

“I used to bank with HSBC and was just a number; I was always rushing for the ferry.

With First Credit Union it’s like going back 50 years; you can just phone them up and ask them to do something for you. They’re a breath of fresh air in the banking world.”

In his 30 years in the food and beverage industry, Glenn Cormier has learned how to do virtually every job in the business. As the owner of the Bowen Island Pub, that experience has come in very handy. If any of his 20 staff calls in sick or has an emergency to attend to, he can roll up his sleeves and step right in.

Now he’s adding a new job description, one that requires the passion of a dreamer, the pragmatism of a banker and the patience of… well, someone who accepts that the wheels of municipal hall can sometimes turn more slowly than first expected.

Cormier takes out his iPhone and shows an artist’s drawing of his plans for the corner of Bowen Trunk Road and Dorman Road. The design includes a new building that will occupy what’s now the parking lot in front of the existing Pub building. It will house retail spaces on the first level, the Pub on the second level and four staff accommodations on the second level.

Once that is built, he’ll be able to tear down the old Pub and, it’s hoped, build four two-level townhouses (1,500 to 1,600 sq. ft. each), two ground-floor apartments, more retail space and underground parking for 19 vehicles.

“That corner deserves so much more,” he says. “The biggest thing people want to know is ‘When, when, when?’ There’s already a huge number of inquiries about the townhouses. There are a lot of empty nesters who have too much house and not enough people to fill it.”

The plan first got tied up by the municipal elections and then there were changes in planning staff. The zoning, however, has passed fourth reading and he hopes it will be approved in September so he can stick to his goal of starting construction next spring.

“It’s been frustrating but at the end of

Glenn Cormier’s Bowen Island Pub was chosen as the Medium Business of the Year by the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. Martha Perkins photo the day I’m comfortable with it as long as the [existing] building stays standing,” he says.

The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce recently gave Cormier a vote of confidence by choosing the Pub as the MediaumBusiness of the Year at its recent Excellence Awards. Like the other Bowen Island recipient, Andy Rainsley of Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscaping, Cormier was totally taken aback by the win.

Cormier and his wife Meredith, whose work for the BC Medical Association includes recruiting doctors to rural areas, bought the Pub as a lifestyle choice three years ago this week. The previous owner had shut down its food operations a month before shuttering the windows and everything was in disarray.

When everyone told the Cormiers that they simply had to be open for the fastpitch weekend, they scrambled to get everything ready.

A barbecue on the patio acted as a fill-in for the kitchen.

It was worth it. Not only were the hordes of baseball players happy but it cemented a relationship with the community that’s only grown stronger.

“Obviously the Pub had seen better days,” he says. But he knew he could work through that and, in fact, relished being able to start everything from scratch. And even though he has a lot of experience, he also wanted to adapt to what islanders wanted.

The pleasant surprise, he says, is how much the community has embraced them and the atmosphere they’re working hard to create.

The plan for the corner at Bowen Trunk Road and Dorman Road is to build a new pub, with retail space and staff apartments, in the space currently occupied

by Pub’s parking lot and, when finished, to tear down the existing building and build townhouses, two apartments, retail space and underground parking lot.

Glenn Cormier hopes construction on the first phase can begin next spring.

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This past Saturday I witnessed one more reason why it is so important to keep dogs on leashes in the Cove. I work at Tuscany and while cleaning the patio near the end of service, I saw a dog chase a large buck right in front of the oncoming ambulance. It all happened so fast that the ambulance driver had no time to react fast enough to avoid the collision.

The deer went flying through the air, and then tumbled down the street. The buck then tried to get up to continue running from the dog, but both its back legs were broken and one of his large horns was ripped off.

A Tuscany chef ran to the deer and the dog backed away, but the situation was hopeless. All we could do was wait for the police to come and put the poor animal out of its misery. It was a horrible sight to see, and it brought some customers sitting on our patio to tears. Had this event occurred during full service hours, many customers would have surely lost their appetites. And had it been a small vehicle that hit the deer, human lives may also have been lost.

So I plea to all dog owners: Please keep your dogs on leashes in the Cove!!!

Carina Basile

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Duke to wear the crown of Dog of the Year 2015 MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

The Duke and Duchess were quite a pair. The Yorkie siblings often promenaded through Snug Cove followed by their loyal patrons, Lyn and Keith Watson.

When Duchess was killed in a dog attack two years ago, Duke soldiered on, says Lyn’s daughter Karen Redmond, in one of the nominations for Duke as Dog of the Year 2015.

“Duke is a regular fixture in the Cove and can often be seen out with Keith on his morning and evening walks, although I’m not sure if it’s Keith or Duke who is leading the walk these days. ” she writes. “Duke is happiest when lying in front of the fire on a winter evening in Lyn and Keith’s cozy cottage in the cove or basking in the sun in their lovely garden on a summer day. He doesn’t like to swim but he will tolerate a bath in the sink every now and then!”

Lyn also nominated Duke for the prestigious title. “Duke is 14 years old and has been a Cove dog since he was 12 weeks old. Duke is a favourite to all who meet him and he can put a smile on anyone’s face. He knows every inch of Snug Cove as well as all the various trails around Bowen. He is very healthy but going a little deaf and we aren’t too sure his eyesight is all that good. He still loves his walkies and his food though. “ The organizers of Dog Days of Summer have appointed Duke as the Dog of the Year 2015. He will be crowned at the August 9 event and then get to ride in the convertible during the Bowfest parade on August 29. #102–495 Bowen Trunk Road, PO Box 130, Bowen Island BC, V0N 1G0 Phone: 604.947.2442 Fax: 604.947.0148 Deadline for all advertising and editorial: Monday, 4:00p.m. www.bowenislandundercurrent.com

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Anyone who has visited the recycling depot recently knows how bad the wasp situation at BIRD is this year. Bowen Waste Services has tried using wasp traps but the wasps find the dregs of pop, juice and beer way more enticing than anything on offer in a trap.

Whilst you get to dash in, drop your recycling in the bins, and make for the door, the volunteers who are running the bottle sorting area are stuck there with the wasps for most of the day. PLEASE think of them, and rinse out your bottles and cans before bringing them to BIRD.

Duke, a 14-year-old Yorkie, is a much loved fixture in the Cove.

Dog Days is Sunday, August 9. There are many other titles being vied for including Best Dressed Dog and Best Dog Trick. Registration for the various competitions is at 11 and the event gets underway with a costumed parade at noon. The afternoon is filled with an array of activities, demonstrations and contests, including bobbing for wieners, flyball races, agility, dog-themed entertainment, refreshments and exhibits.

Registration is $5; the money goes to BC Guide Dog Services.

Pet blessing ceremony at Little Red Church is Sunday All of her life, the Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon has had a strong connection with animals.

This Sunday she will be blessing pets at the Little Red Church at 10:30am.

“It’s an ancient part of spirituality,” she says, adding that our love for animals is an organic part of who we are as humans.

Please bring pets on a leash or in a cage. If that’s not possible, bring a photo.

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Travelling solo

The peripatetic Kami Kanetsuka shares her insights in new anthology MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

The first time Kami Kanetsuka travelled by herself, it was not intentional.

She and some friends had arranged to meet at the train station in London, England, to start their journey to France.

When she got to the station, her friends weren’t there. Since cellphones were the stuff of science fiction, she simply shrugged her shoulders and got on the train anyway. She was 17.

The second time she was 21 and bound for Israel in “a very cheap — in vogue, mind you — ship that went from Venice to Haifa.”

In hindsight she realized she should have gone to a kibbutz; instead she got an office job in old Tel Aviv and hated it. When she decided to quit and take the return trip back to Venice, there was a slight complication: the ship had sunk.

She met an American woman who wanted to go to Italy so they ended up travelling to Rome, where young Kami got a job looking after the children of a tremendously wealthy aristocratic family. “I’d never even babysat before.”

Despite the lavish surroundings, the work conditions were less than desirable so she went to work for a woman who had just left her husband and then….

Thus begins what Kanetsuka describes as a peripatetic life of “adventures.”

It’s also what makes her a perfect contributor to Caitlin Press’s new book, This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone. Her chapter — What Am I Doing Here? — describes one of those adventures in Nagaland, India, the tribal state of former headhunters.

“I’m much better on the road than dealing with things here,” she says, sitting under the shade of a tree on Bowen Island, where she’s based her life for the past several years. “I’m scared of heights, I don’t swim, but travel and trying something new has never scared me.

“I’ve always wanted something different,” says the woman who has slept under the stars in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, backpacked through India, been changed forever by living five years in Nepal, accepted invitations from strangers and been able to deal with unwelcome advances from men with a shriek or slap across the face. (Not surprisingly, she’s writing her memoirs.)

In her heart, she is still the young woman who felt that England “was too small for me” but now that she’s in her seventies, she’s faced with a new reality: even though in many ways it’s far easier to get to any corner of the world, travel is much more complicated than it was when she kept opting for

Martha Perkins happily returns to the editor’s desk this week. Maureen Sawasy photo

How I Got Here

The Undercurrent represents everything Martha Perkins loves about community newspapers Kami Kanetsuka says life will always give you reasons not to travel but if you really want to, “just go!” Alan

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the road less taken.

Her advice to solo travellers used to include hints on how to pack light and save money. She’d tell the story about a farmer in Afghanistan who came across Kanetsuka and her female travelling companions and locked them in a shed before taking them back to his village. “Everyone filed in to take a look at us. I don’t remember feeling fear because he was very nice to us.”

In today’s world, however, she says only the very naïve think they don’t have to plan or be careful about where they venture, which deeply saddens her. “I can’t relate to modern-day times, the stories and the wars.

You’re seeing the worst of people today but in those days you saw generosity. People always wanted to open their doors and feed us. It’s always confusing to me because you know most people are really kind deep down.”

Nonetheless, she says, it’s vitally important that wherever you go, you respect the mores of the country you’re visiting. “You can’t want to impose your own culture on a country,” she says. i.e. Don’t take nude photographs of yourself atop a sacred mountain in Malaysia.

This doesn’t mean people should stop venturing outside of tourist areas or their own comfort zones.

“Just go,” she says to people who want to get into another country’s skin. Life will always give you lots of reasons not to travel but it’s important to listen to your heart. “If you have the feeling to go, it’s something you must do.”

This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone is available at either Phoenix or the Bowen Island Library.

Please send your letters and submissions to editor@ bowenislandundercurrent.com by Tuesdays at noon.

MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

“We have this newspaper on Bone Island…”

It was August 2009 and I was sitting in Black Press’s Surrey office talking with the president of their Lower Mainland newspapers about what opportunities were available for me. A few days earlier, my husband and I had flown to Vancouver on an exploratory mission. After 25 years of living on the shores of a lake at the end of the road surrounded by forest, we were in the mood for a change. What would be my career’s piece of the puzzle?

As editor of four weekly newspapers back in Ontario’s cottage country, becoming the Undercurrent’s editor wasn’t quite what I’d envisioned but, after the interview, my husband and I decided to postpone our trip home by a day so we could check out what I’d mistakenly heard as Bone Island.

The ferry ride was spent “under cover”, striking up conversations with complete strangers and asking them what they thought about the paper. I remember that the everjovial Piers Hayes, owner of the Snug Café, wanted more letters to the editor. (Wouldn’t you know it that this week we have only one!)

We drove off the ferry, crossed to Tunstall Bay, walked along the beach and then dropped by the Undercurrent’s office where I introduced myself to the sole staff person, Tracey Wait, as a visiting newspaper editor who made this sort of courtesy drop-in visit a vacation habit. (I think she was soon on to me.)

That night I lurked on the Phorum and started hyperventilating. To the rest of Canada, British Columbia has a reputation for many things including its beauty, its quirky politics and the querulous nature of its debates. Ample evidence of the latter two were on the Phorum and I worried that someone with my personality would be eaten alive as the paper’s editor.

You see, my nature is to be an observer, not a participant. I will gladly report on controversial issues but I don’t want the newspaper to be controversial. And, as a person who believes that two opposing views can each be right and valid, would readers want someone a little more feisty, a little more Jack Websterish?

With some trepidation, I accepted the job. It turned out to be one of the happiest decisions I/we have ever made. (It’s impossible to do this job without a partner who puts up with your deadline anxiety, delayed ETA[H]s — estimated time of arrival home — and constantly being “on” whenever you’re out of the office.)

The Undercurrent got me back to everything I love about community journalism. I felt connected, invigorated, challenged. My husband and I both embraced being part of Bowen life, especially after we bought a sailboat and kept it docked at USSC Marina.

In February of 2011, when I was asked to be editor of the North Shore Outlook and, later, switch jobs with the editor of the Westender, I was saddened to have to let go of my formal ties to the Undercurrent. My multi-tasking skills had met their limit. But, always up for a challenge, I embraced my new jobs and we got our Bowen fix during weekend trips to the boat.

After the papers were bought by Glacier Media, the company asked me to spearhead one of its new ventures: a crowdfunding platform called FundAid.ca. I loved that job, too, because it got me back into the community where I could help people with their fundraising challenges. (I also love how Glacier Media embraces new digital opportunities.)

I was thrilled, though, when the Undercurrent’s publisher asked me to fill in for a year while Meribeth Deen, the current editor, enjoyed her maternity leave. I took the call while walking along a park next to the Fraser River in Burnaby, where I was filling in as editor for a month. It was a sunny spring day and the thought of being back on Bowen warmed my heart. No trepidation this time.

Everyone’s read the news about the challenges facing newspapers these days. It’s all true. But Glacier Media believes in the Undercurrent’s role on the island and there are many ideas of how we can strengthen its print and online presence, while at the same time strengthening the community. The company can’t do it alone, though. We need readers buying newspapers and businesses and organizations turning to us to help with their marketing.

It takes an island to give readers the best newspaper possible.

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With 70 days to go in federal election, anything is possible from page 1 “I would be pretty distrustful of any poll claims about riding-level stuff but I think the patterns are pretty broad and pretty clear and that is the NDP votes have lifted,” he said.

The current vote split and prospect of a minority government is likely to revive talk of a formal coalition between NDP and Liberals, Moscrop said.

“The Liberals foolishly ruled them out.

They may well have to walk that back in October,” he said While there are some local issues that will influence votes, at the end of the day, he says, “these ridings are going to vote on the same issues that the rest of Canadians vote on, which is the economy. That’s what

people are thinking about first and foremost when they’re casting their ballot.”

That may prove trickier for the Conservatives than it has been in the past as the country’s economy is in a technical recession with a deficit budget projected and the Canadian dollar floundering with oil prices, Moscrop said.

Still, more than 70 days until the polls close, a lot can happen, Moscrop said.

The North Shore is now carved up into three ridings, including the new Burnaby North-Seymour, which spans the Burrard Inlet and covers everything east of the Seymour River, plus a swath of land that curves along Lynn Creek south of Highway 1.

The North Shore’s new riding has drawn a number of high-profile candidates

including retired judge Carol Baird Ellan who will run for the NDP, former District of North Vancouver council member Mike Little for the Conservatives, the Green Party’s s Lynn Quarmby an SFU prof who gained national attention during the protests against Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain and Liberal Terry Beech, also an SFU prof.

North Vancouver voters will see incumbent Conservative Andrew Saxton seeking re-election. The Liberals have nominated green tech CEO Jonathan Wilkinson to run while the NDP has chosen TsleilWaututh member and pipeline activist Carleen Thomas. The Green Party debuted star candidate former CBC meteorologist Claire Martin in April.

Calling all NERPs: the island needs you Don’t chuck it — MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

When smoke from nearby forest fires descended on the Howe Sound a few weeks ago, there was one question on many Bowen Islanders’ minds: what would happen if a massive forest fire prompted an evacuation here?

The island used to have a program in which NERPs — Neighbourhood Emergency Resources Persons — volunteered to take the lead in their neighbourhoods to prepare and cope with such emergencies. But it has fallen by the wayside. Now the Bowen Island Volunteer Fire Department is looking for volunteers

to get it going again.

A NERP needs to live on the island fulltime. If there’s an evacuation, they’d be the ones who let their neighbours know and make sure that any vulnerable residents are assisted.

“You can’t do a whole neighbourhood yourself,” says Bruce Steele, so a NERP would also work on building a team that could be readily called into action to assist.

If you’re interested in either a leadership role, or want to be a foot soldier, you’re asked to contact him at binerps@gmail. com or 604-947-9473.

A meeting will be planned for a future date to discuss roles and responsibilities.

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“Everything helps,” says the former mayoral candidate, “but “its certainly not going to make a dramatic difference.”

Most rental stock on the island is houses, which leaves tenants vulnerable. Already, many tenants have to find ways to cope with owners who want use of their houses during the summer months. The Rhodeses spent seven years on a month-by-month renewal instead of a yearly lease because rules otherwise make it difficult to evict someone who don’t want to leave, he says.

Rental housing security is therefore also an issue for Rhodes, who’s started using the term housing diversity instead of affordability to reflect the issues facing islanders.

He’s one of the lucky ones, having finally found a place last week.

Now he’s thinking of starting a renters’ group to give voice to some of these concerns, which are much more prevalent than many people think because people who rent aren’t often very vocal.

“Renters tend to be a little bit under the radar,” says Rhodes, who would like the municipality to consider giving developers the option of creating rental units instead of donating parkland.

“If people assume you own your own home, you let them make that assumption because there’s a stigma. People tend to look at renters as a problem, not as fully vested members of a community.”

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On the Calendar Bowen Summer Market Saturdays and Sundays USSC Marina lawn 10am to 5pm The Adventures of Piratess Tilley Original artwork by Karen Watson Runs until 16 Gallery @ Artisan Square Wednesdays to Sundays 10am to 5pm Baseball Tournament August 7 to 9 Ball Diamond See page 12 for schedule

costume parade at noon followed by do games Free for spectators; $5 for dog participants

Jazz at The Pub August 7 Stephen Fisk, Cindy Fairbank, John Stiver and Buff Allen Jazz from 6 to 8pm; other genres 8 to close Tailgate Market August 8 BICS parking lot Local producers share bounty of their garden from 10am until they sell out

Vintage Car Display August 9 Noon to 1:30pm Derek Long and friends display 10-15 vintage cars at the Bowen Island Golf Course.

Visit and chat with owners; enjoy lunch at Cup Cutter.

Dog Days of Summer August 9 USSC Marina Registration at 11am; dog

Movie Under the Stars Home August 10 at dusk Crippen Park

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by Tourism Bowen Island opens at 7:30pm Community Lunch August 11 11:30am to 1pm Legion $5; adult event The Glass Menagerie August 13-22 at Tir Na Nog Starring Frazer Elliott, Bronwyn Churcher, Andrew Cameron and Jackie Minns.

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Kalash’a hit again by devastating floods GILLIAN DARLING KOVANIC CONTRIBUTOR

Between 1973 and 1990 I spent two years doing anthropology research in three narrow valleys nestled high in the Hindu Kush mountains on the Pakistan/Afghan border. These valleys are home to an ancient, pre-Islamic tribe called the Kalash’a.

Saifullah Jan, the first Kalash’a to ever receive a Western education, was about 17 when I first met him back in the early 1970s. In August 2010, I received a panicked phone call from Saifullah, now a respected Tribal Elder, telling me that the Kalash’a valleys had been hit by a devastating flood. This terrifying flood was caused by melting glaciers high in the Hindu Kush.

Glacial slumping engorged local rivers that then roared down upon Kalash’a settlements -- destroying homes, barns, bridges, hydro-electric plants, roads, kilometres of irrigation channels, and water-driven grinding mills.

Living as subsistent agriculturalists and transhumant herders, this IndoEuropean tribe of about 3,000 people have a miniscule carbon footprint but, like so many marginalized people today, are experiencing the full force of global climate change.

Saifullah asked for help. So in September 2010 we held a fundraiser at which many friends, family and Bowen Islanders gave generously. One 12-year-old Islander asked his friends to donate rather than bring presents to his birthday. Those kids raised about $130 which we sent along with another $3,000 in donations. Via Saifullah, the villagers immediately sent a huge thank-you to all the Bowen Islanders who contributed. With these funds the Kalash’a built several large flood barriers -- heavy wire-mesh cages packed with boulders on the river above Balanguru, the uppermost village in Rombour valley.

I talk regularly by phone with Saifullah, but 10 days ago I received several distressing calls from him.

Lashing rain storms had again turned their rivers into raging torrents, propelling boulders the size of cars downstream. The good news, Saifullah told me, was that the protection barriers built with funds sent by Bowen Islanders had saved Balanguru village and the bridge below.

But when this year’s floods hit, the Kalash’a were harvesting their wheat crops and huge sections of ripened wheat fields caved off, crashing down into the raging river below. In this

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they’ve picked themselves up and started to repair the damage. They’ve started to rebuild the irrigation system and have decided to buy cement to reinforce the flood barriers above the uppermost village. We are again raising funds to help them. This is a situation of “direct giving” -- nothing is subtracted for administration fees -- every cent raised goes directly to the Kalash’a.

If you are able to help, please get in touch with me, Gillian Darling Kovanic, at 947-2914. I am sending all donations via Western Union to Saifullah Jan who’s organizing his tribe’s flood relief efforts.

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year’s floods, all the irrigation channels the length of Rombour valley and the hydro-electric plant were destroyed. Saifullah says 50 families in the Valley are severely affected.

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Living for over 1,000 years in their narrow rugged valleys, the Kalash’a have nowhere to move. So again

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Why we run for Rwanda Hilary Butler visits the girls whose lives will be changed thanks to monies raised

With Komera Canada’s help, these young women can attend high school rather than face a future of continued impoverishment in a country where unemployment is rampant. The August 29 Rotary Run for Rwanda will raise money to help pay for school and boarding fees, uniforms, school materials and health products.

HILARY BUTLER RUN FOR RWANDA

Seven years ago, our daughter Margaret (who grew up on Bowen Island) was working for Partners in Health in rural Rwanda and we visited her there, doing all the tourist calls – the Genocide Museum, the gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park, the churches filled with skulls and bones of the victims of the genocide and, of course, sightseeing in the 10,000 hills of this beautiful country. We loved the country and the people, all of whom were anxious to tell us that they were Rwandans, not Tutsis or Hutus.

We were aware of a tension in the air but on the whole Rwandans seemed contented with the way that life was going and there was evidence of rebuilding and excitement.

Now, seven years on, I returned to Rwanda last month with my daughter on a very different mission. In those seven years, Margaret had set up and was running a US-based non-profit called Komera to support teenaged girls and their families in their efforts to achieve a high school education and transition to the world beyond.

On Bowen Island we had taken over the Run for the Ferry and renamed it Rotary Run for Rwanda.

We also set up a CRA-registered charity, Komera Canada, in order to support 10 of the girls our daughter was supporting: funds to pay for their school and boarding fees, uniforms, school materials, health products, everything that an impoverished girl would need in order to complete her education.

What a fascinating time I had! We spent three days in Kigali, the capital, where high rises are being built, coffee shops and restaurants are filled with ex-pats and local business men, and the political chaos of Burundi seems very far removed. Once we left Kigali,

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life changed dramatically. Our days were filled with rides on the bumpiest roads I have ever experienced to visit families who live in the utmost poverty on little plots with a few chickens, a banana palm and some vegetables which provide the basics for the family’s meals, with the possibility of trading bananas and cassava at the local market.

I gave a four-hour English lesson to a group of 20 girls attending a Komera transition program recently set in place to help them move from high school to the world outside. Many of these girls will probably start their own small businesses as unemployment is rampant in country districts and the only other outlets for them are the tourism or banking fields, for which they need good English skills. Perhaps one or two of them will gain entrance to the local university, and in that case Komera will help them with board and lodging expenses.

What impressed me most was the enthusiasm of these girls and their determination to leave a world where their future would be early pregnancy and

then tilling their family plots and caring for their extended families, if it were not for the fact that Komera is giving them the opportunity to take a step out of this world. Komera also provides entrepreneurship and leadership camps, and has set up a parent cooperative.

Our week finished with a 3K run with at least 250 young girls on a very dusty road on an extremely hot day.

The annual run, which is a highlight for the Komera scholars and the surrounding schools, was sandwiched between music, dancing, speeches and presentations. The Rwandans certainly know how to orchestrate an event!

And then there is our commu-

nity run here on Bowen. Rotary Run for Rwanda is our major fundraiser.

Registration forms are available in various outlets on the island and at North Shore Athletics, and online registration is open too. There is something for everybody: a 1.5K run for kids nine and under, a 10K run and a 5K run or walk for everyone else.

Check out RotaryRunForRwanda. com for some fun Rwandan prizes, bought on my recent trip, gift certificates from North Shore Athletics and others from generous Bowen Island sponsors. We have extremely low overheads, thanks to our sponsors, and all registration and donation funds go to Rwanda to help our girls in their lives.

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Dancers inspire participants in Komera’s Run for Rwanda — in Rwanda . Hilary Butler photo

With breaking hearts, we said goodbye to our sweet little Girly last Friday afternoon. Girly’s last couple of days were spent breathing in the beach air, cuddling on the couch and eating (ironically) whatever she wanted which included sushi, deli meats, popcorn and a lot of blue cheese. She was showered with extra love by all her favorite people, especially Jordan and auntie Phaedra. I’m so grateful we were all together to help her pass on to her next great adventure.

The hole she has left in our hearts is disproportionate to her wee size. Despite her declining health over the past year she became more loving than ever, letting pretty much everyone pick her up and offering free licks to anyone who could stand her breath.

Girly posed for dozens of photos with friends, clients and people in the community whose lives she touched.

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A friend recently said, “I can’t imagine you without her”. She is right; I am not the same. We were symbiotic. I needed Girly as much as Girly needed me. Everything is different without her, especially my routine. She was my little anchor; my compass point when I felt adrift. She was my one constant throughout countless difficult times in my life. I wished she had made it to one last Blessing of the Animals and Dog Days but I will still go, in part to honor Girly and in part to get some much needed puppy love.

For those of you who know what The Dog Days of Summer means, we couldn’t have picked a better time for her leave this earth.

She truly was our brightest little star.

- Leah Darling

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ArtsPacific Co-op’s wearable art show on until end of August ARTSPACIFIC CO-OP SUBMISSION

Have you seen the videotape dress and hat from the Wearable Art Show? Have you seen Jane Dunfield’s latest paintings?

If you haven’t then you really should stop by ArtsPacific Co-op Gallery at Artisan Square while they are still on display until the end of August.

Dunfield will be taking at least a year’s sabbatical to paint for a group show coming in September 2016. Her last show at the main gallery was almost a sell out! We will be looking forward to seeing what she will be coming out with.

Jane Dunfield’s work is also on display.

The VCR dress and hat, knitted and crocheted by Jani Carroll, were an homage to the work of international artist Evelyn Roth. Some of us were fortunate enough to meet the flamboyant artist while she was visiting Bowen Island. We were delighted to see some of her special pieces that may be featured at another Wearable Art Show in 2016. We hope she will be able to return from Australia for this event at the BIAC gallery.

ArtsPacific Co-op Gallery continues to attract both new and established artists. Two of our newest members are Marie Neys, a landscape painter formerly of Alberta who does lovely representations of Bowen Island, and Julia Courtenay, a long-time resident who makes unusual stained glass mosaic pieces .

We are expecting to add a few new members in September. In the meantime, please stop by to see the wonderful variety of arts/gifts and a great selection of cards from some of the artists.

We are open everyday from at least 11-4.

Frazer Elliott and Bronwyn Churcher star in Kingbaby Production’s The Glass Menagerie along with Andrew Cameron and Jackie Minns. The play will run August 13-22 at the Tir Na Nog theatre. Show times and tickets are available at bowenglassmenagerie. brownpapertickets.com. Tickets will also be available at Phoenix. Lorraine Ashdown photo

Jani Carroll made this dress and hat from old VCR tape; the glass mosaic is by Julia Courtenay. Both are on display at Arts Pacific Co-op until the end of the month.

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AUGUST 7 6:30pm: Brewers vs Diggers AUGUST 8 9am: Shakers vs Twins 10:45am: Firemen vs Cruisers

Saturday night’s Dock Dance turned the Cove into an outdoor party. With bands such as Dr. Strangelove, above, (with a guest appearance from Barney Bentall) and Black Molly providing the entertainment for the hundreds of revellers, it was a chance for everyone to support the Bowen Island Fire Department’s annual fundraiser with a smile on their face. Susan Kvarnstrom photos

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