Bowen Island Undercurrent October 16 2015

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 2015 VOL. 42, NO. 38

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Council backs Bowen’s hope for control of Grafton Lake lands LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Tuesday morning’s council meeting (Oct. 13) marked a turning point for the 350-acre Grafton Lake Lands.

After “a year of just listening,” developer John Reid and his team had distilled all the community input into a concise presentation for council. Now Reid was stepping back, waiting to gauge council’s support for the project. The response would determine the future direction for the development.

“This is the most significant piece of natural infrastructure on the island. Securing municipal ownership of this (area) is the best outcome we could hope for,” said Reid.

Prior to the presentation, Reid was emphatic. “I’m not doing this to put houses on the island. This is what the community says they need and want. What is the better outcome?”

Reid is referring to a remarkable opportunity for council to acquire control of the land and the deep lake, a creek, bench lands, agricultural land, trails and lush forest. The land was already broken into five parcels available for purchase and development but Bowen’s great fortune is that the owner, Primex Investments Ltd., is amenable to conservation and the community vision.

Art Rennison, who founded the real estate investment company Primex Investments Ltd., purchased the land in the 1970s. His company has remained family-run though he has passed on.

At the heart of the plan would be the dedication of 200 acres to an “Art Rennison Nature Preserve,” by the Rennison family. The preserve would be part of municipally-owned land.

“For Bowen to have control of the greenway and 200 acres around this lake, what’s not to like?” asks Reid.

While most people here think of Grafton Lake lands as the area around the lake, the land across the road is part of the package. A nature preserve would centre on the lake and the flat land across the street would be maintained for an agricultural reserve.

Community input has helped to lay the groundwork in the Grafton Lake Lands proposal. Above, Lisa Holland and Kim Hauner exchange ideas in the Agricultural Lands. Below right, John Reid spent one year listening to what the community wants. Louise Loik photos Reid says that he wants to create space to continue to grow food together with three acres on the north side set aside as a public orchard and four acres on the south side for agriculture.

Down beside the road across from the lake on the flat land, Reid envisions a patio for community gatherings.

“There could be long table dinners and music, there could be people selling produce and crafts,” he said.

Reid is putting in a well for the community garden this week.

A trail from the flat land beside the road climbs alongside a fern gully that would remain a green belt leading to a bench land. The flatland, in full sun had previously been a site cleared for milling wood. In the future, this could become a playing field with houses tucked into the trees further up the wooded ridge.

The development would also accommodate space for the Orchard Recovery Centre to expand. Reid

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thinks that taking this opportunity to zone space for wellness and retreats would create economic opportunities that are well suited to Bowen.

Reid says that he’s read pages and pages of what people want on the island, and what they love about the island. Ultimately, “people come to Bowen to get away from the city and breathe,” and, says Reid, “a quiet economy based on wellness and walks” is a direction that fits.

“Look at the map,” he says. “This is the last chance to get anything like this for the island.”

Council unanimously supported the plans Tuesday. With a green light to pursue this vision, Reid says the next steps will be to gauge the housing needs of the community.

Currently the Official Community Plan has allowed for 70 units regardless of their footprint. This plan is seeking 100 units with small footprints.

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→ WAT E R M A I N F L U S H I N G As part of the regular municipal water system maintenance program, Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) will be flushing water mains in all municipal water systems; Cove Bay, Eagle Cliff, Hood Point, Bowen Bay, Blue Water Park, King Edward Bay, and Tunstall Bay from October 3 – November 13, 2015.

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. in most neighbourhoods. 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.

→ B I M P E R M I S S I V E TA X EXEMPTION BYLAW NO. 394, 2015

Pursuant to Section 224 of the Community Charter, Bowen Island Municipal Council intends to adopt a bylaw exempting from property taxation for four years (2016-2019) the lands and improvements or both that are owned or held by charitable, philanthropic or other not for profit organizations and that Council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the Corporation. The properties being considered at the Council meeting of October 26th, 2015, and the estimated total property taxes that would otherwise be imposed if they were not exempt are:

Reminder: It is recommended that water users with compromised immune systems ensure their drinking water is boiled, filtered or distilled.

→ REQUEST FOR QUOTES Bowen Island Public Library Exterior Re-Painting

Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) is requesting quotes for the provision of supplying materials, equipment and labour to complete the proposed exterior re-painting of BI Public Library. For more information regarding the RFQ, please visit the BIM website at www.bimbc.ca.

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OPPORTUNITIES

Bowen Island Municpality is seeking applicants for Temporary On-Call Ice Patrol/Snow Removal Operators. For more information, please visit the BIM website at www.bimbc.ca. This opportunity closes on October 30, 2015 at 4:00 pm.

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This is your opportunity to focus on what’s right about Bowen by sharing your story. Your stories will help support and sustain the values of our community, assist in municipal communications and provide input for the Bowen Island branding initiative.Don’t have a computer? Please go to the Bowen Library or contact municipal staff at 604-947-4255 for a printed copy.

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→ ABANDONED VESSEL Pursuant to Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) Wharf Services Bylaw No. 59, 2002, the vessel “Lightning Strike”, registration number 13K95133 is considered abandoned as it has been left unattended at the Snug Cove (South) Dock for longer than seven (7) days and the applicable moorage has not been paid. Unless this vessel is removed and moorage fees paid prior to October 30, 2015 it will be removed at the owner’s expense. If you have any questions or information regarding the above noted vessel, please contact Tess Taylor, Bowen Island Municipality Wharfinger, at 604-328-5499.

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FOR DOGS IN SNUG COVE

Council recently adopted an amendment to BIM’s Dog Control Bylaw making Snug Cove an “On Leash Dog Area”. Please see the map below for the area affected by this new section of the bylaw. For more information regarding this change or other bylaws, please call Bylaw Services at 604 328-5499 or email bim@bimbc.ca.

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From field to fork and tank to table LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Heidi Kuhrt and David Demner have a beautiful home perched high above a lake, facing across to mountain views. Before the land drops down to the lake, the land has been built up to hold soil in place for Mediterranean plants, fruit trees and a hot tub.

It’s an idyllic October day and lush rosemary bushes more than a metre tall are still in bloom just outside the doors of their bed and breakfast, Bowen Island Hideaway.

There’s purple sage, wooly thyme, a kiwi vine, three pear trees grafted so that they bear five types of pears. There’s also apple and Italian plum trees. They have pots and planters too with onions, and parsley and even some flowers.

If you take a look in your cupboards and fridge, you may notice that your food will have travelled an average 2,400 km to get to your table. The Pinot Grigio is from Italy; the Brie is from France, the mandarin oranges from China.

The downside of great food and drink from around the world is that there’s a very high carbon cost to the processing, packaging and shipping of consumables from all over the world. On the flipside, Bowen’s mild climate and space for gardens makes it easier to grow what we eat and drink. .

David and Heidi can get food from field to fork in less than 10 km. The couple and their kids are part of a community-supported farm near Collins Farm. Members of that community help out on the farm in exchange for a share in the harvest.

“There’s tomatoes, tayberries, blueberries, garlic, pumpkins, and sometimes enough left over to sell,” says Demner.

The family even have their own chickens and an apiary on the community farmland. This year, however, the bees only made a small amount of honey, possibly due to our drought. Now, Demner says, “any honey in the hive is food the bees will need for themselves for the winter. “ Demner and Kuhrt address their own heating issues by incorporating solar thermal or “heat differentiation system,” which captures heat even on cloudy days providing hot

David Demner gathers fresh herbs for dinner from Mediterranean plants that grow abundantly around his family home. Louise Loik photo water for the whole house, including the B&B. “It’s much more efficient than photovoltaic in this climate,” adds Demner.

In simple terms, this system uses metal panels with a liquid running through. “As the liquid heats up, it turns to gas, the gas goes into a compressor and is squeezed back into liquid. Heat taken from the gas gets concentrated and heats the water,” he says.

“So, a heat differential system means that it can generate heat if the day is sunny and cold but not really cold and no sun.”

On this day, it’s sunny and the panels have no problem capturing heat. The warm fall weather has also meant a long growing season.

The family is still pulling up a few cold-weather vegetables from

pots and planters around their home. For Demner, that still isn’t enough.

“When we moved in we had some open deck space and I wanted to put a green house there for more efficient growing.“ Demner looked into hydroponics, a system that grows plants without the need for soil but is heavily reliant on fertilizing. Then he heard that someone was selling an aquaponics system. Demner, who has an engineering background, was interested. He went from thinking about a greenhouse on the deck to bringing home a whole closed-loop system for growing food indoors.

Downstairs, in an unfinished part of his basement, Demner set up a series of five tanks. Two large, table sized tanks are full of water

with a board suspended over the water, The board had loonie-sized holes in a grid and plants fill each hole in the grid, dropping their roots, while the rest of the plant is suspended, down into the water.

The plants, Brussels sprouts, basil, hot peppers and cabbage in this case, are tall and lush.

Demner explains that the plants absorb the nitrogen from fish feces in the water, by doing this they act like filters, allowing clean water to flow back to the four bubbling tanks full of varying sizes of fish.

The tanks themselves range in size and shape from tall rain barrel to large aquarium. It’s a simple process and there’s also no damp or fishy smell.

The tilapia in the tanks are a dull grey fish with a mild flavour. The fish are usually purchased from

growers as fingerlings, and then grown to plate-size within the year.

“We’ll have friends over for dinner and pull out three fish for a meal, maybe once a week,” says Demner.

From the time the fish are pulled from the tank it takes around 25 minutes from tank to table, with home grown greens grown downstairs on the side. Now that’s fresh.

In spite of having both a home office and a B&B business on site, abundant local variety of foods and flavourings, the family still feels the need to head to the mainland for some items and yes, some of those things may come from far away.

Demner and Kuhrt are still miles ahead of most in their commitment eating locally. For most, being a conscious consumer is a good first step.

INVITATION TO ATTEND

Seymour Shores — New Waterfront Homes

Bowen Island Properties is pleased to announce that its waterfront development at “SEYMOUR SHORES” is nearing completion. The “pre-marketing” phase will start shortly.

SEYMOUR SHORES — 9 outstanding waterfront properties, and 3 very special hillside view properties with stunning views into Howe Sound, English Bay, West Vancouver, downtown Vancouver, UBC, and beyond.

SEYMOUR SHORES — within easy walking distance to Seymour Bay beach and waterfront park, to Bowen Island Golf Course, and to the coming amenities of the Seymour Landing residential/resort community.

SEYMOUR SHORES — Homes will be built by Bowen Island Properties, ranging from 1,250 square feet to 3,000 square feet.

Hillside view homes start at $637,500.

Waterfront homes start at $1,043,000.

On October 24 and 25 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (rain or shine) we will be on site (follow the directional signs) to answer questions and to provide further information.

You are also welcome to visit our website at www.bowenislandproperties.ca.

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Life happens Martha Perkins reflects on the month ahead

Strategic voting not the way

My Newfoundland grandmother’s philosophy has done me well over the years: “Life’s unfair. Get over it.”

I don’t spend a lot of energy on things I can’t change. I let them remain unchangeable and either find a way around them or head off in a different direction.

So there I was in the radiologist’s office a month ago, being told that he was pretty sure that the lump he’d just biopsied was cancerous. I said, “Shit,” and then reverted to my brain’s favourite way of coping with stress — planning what to do next.

The question “Why me?” never crossed my mind. I instantly accepted it as one of those crappy things that happens. Just as instantly, I was fully prepared to give myself over to the health system to make me better.

It was the Friday of a beautiful weekend and, as luck would indeed have it, my husband and I had friends visiting from Ontario. The two of us — and this is something we are going through together — decided that we could spend the weekend worrying about the results or we could spend the weekend enjoying our friends’ company in a beautiful environment. No matter which choice we made, Monday would arrive at exactly the same time and the biopsy results would be exactly the same. We could never get the weekend back so why spend it worrying?

We had a wonderful time. Don’t think there weren’t moments when we felt stressed and anxious. We did.

But we were also feeling very lucky and blessed: the cancer had been caught relatively early and something could be done about it. We’d get through it. We knew (and know) that.

For me, the two biggest anxieties have been the distress that I’m “causing” the people who love me and the fact I’ll be off work for a while.

I love my job — the licence it gives me to be curious, the challenge of sending one week’s paper to the printer and starting the next day with 12 blank pages to fill, the opportunity to be creative and talk to neat people. This island also drives me crazy but in that better-crazy-than-bored kind of way.

Every time over the past month that someone said “Welcome back to Bowen,” they unwittingly pressed directly on my guilt button. I felt I was about to let people down. I have also been a bit off my game; once you give yourself over to the people who will fix you, they have the right to be demanding of your time. And, no matter how natural it has been for me to stare down anxiety and feel positive, it takes energy. My brain has been demanding a little downtime at night.

Please welcome Louise Loik as the interim interim editor. (I’m interim editor during Meribeth Deen’s maternity leave.) She knows and loves this island, too; we graduated from Ryerson’s School of Journalism at the same time and the paper is in good hands, especially since she has Maureen Sawasy’s support and backup.

Each person deals with cancer in their own way. I don’t want it to define me, or how people respond to me.

I don’t want it to consume my thoughts or conversation.

In that way, I’m discovering that I’ve borrowed a lot more than a useful philosophy from that Newfoundland grandmother. I remember visiting her during her chemotherapy treatment for lung cancer. I asked her how she was doing and she said, “I’m feeling crappy so let’s talk about something else.”

Forty years later, I get it. The next time you see me, and ask how I’m doing, don’t be surprised if I reply, “I’m a little sore, I’m a little tired but tell me what you think about council’s recent decision to….”

I note some of your readers are promoting strategic voting here on Bowen Island or in this instance - code for voting Liberal.

Just to be clear, the stated platform of the Liberal Party if they succeed and form the next government is to run significant deficits over the next several years. Their intent is to fund the largest infrastructure spend ever in Canada.

Guess what part of the country needs significant expenditures in infrastructure? Yes, Justin’s home province of Quebec. Decades of corruption, neglect and just poor governance have left many of its cities in dire need of re-builds.

Documented construction costs of roads/highways in Quebec are more than 20 per centgreater than their provincial neighbours. Huge cost overruns in the building of hospitals, Olympic Stadiums and bridges are the norm – not anomalies. Big deficits to pay for the incompetence and corruption of others could be the result of strategic voting. Big deficits mean increased taxes for everyone – that’s the way it works!

The lady running for the Liberals in our riding might be a very nice lady but she is out of her league in dealing with Justin’s backroom supporters. If the Liberals were to form the next government (and it’s a big if) likely the only beneficiaries from our riding will be shareholders of SNC Lavalin –a company whose business practices in Libya and other jurisdictions was honed in their head office in Montreal. It will be no surprise to see SNC bidding on and overseeing many of these infrastructure spends, particularly in Quebec.

I’ve always practised voting for person and party that best represents my values, ideals and objectives. I like the idea of a balanced budget with good governance. And if my preferred candidate and party don’t succeed I can at least have a clear conscience.

Doug Leishman Bowen Island

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Liberal ad ‘rather bullying’

Christine Roocroft and John Riley examine some of this season’s apple crop at Applefest.

Riley grows numerous varieties of apples on his land on Bowen’s west side. Louise Loik photo #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

Interim Editor Louise Loik

I am writing to respond to an ad in the October 2 Undercurrent or, rather, an ad endorsement for the Liberal Party from a formidable group of Bowen Islanders.

Of course, they all have the right to shout our political preferences from the rooftop. I must concede that. At the same time I confess that I find this ad rather bullying. So I call this group the DzWe like hairdz group to soften its image.

What bothers me greatly is that the ad is to further the ambition of Justin Trudeau (or his handlers) to become the next Prime Minister of Canada. I don’t mean to belittle the man but compared to Thomas Mulcair... !

In Mulcair we have someone we can be proud of as Prime Minister of Canada.

Moreover, he has a plan for restoring Canada to its rightful place as a caring, democratic and proud country, looking after the weaker among us while building a strong economy and furthering the arts.

So I will be voting NDP in this election as I have for many years. And hoping that our next prime minister will be Thomas Mulcair.

Jean Jamieson

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Grateful for Stephen Harper Thanksgiving gives us all an opportunity to reflect on the things we are grateful for in our personal lives, and given our exposure to the startling items we call the news, grateful for our lives as Canadians.

Stephen Harper has brought Canada together. I believe that many of his actions during his reign have reduced political apathy in Canada.

Lately, many journalists have chastised Mr. Harper for his policies. The extreme of this is a list printed in TheTyee.ca recently ostensibly of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. Now how negative is that? Perhaps we are being short sighted. Let us look at the gains.

If we are willing to explore a different neural pathway; one of appreciation, we call all reflect on the many ways that Steve has brought us together. ! He has inspired the young voters, seniors, the under-employed, many veterans and First Nations all to participate more strongly in our electoral process. ! I believe that many of his actions during his reign have reduced political apathy in Canada and have led to greater voter participation. Advanced polls show a substantial increase in participation. ! He has shown us that in a politically apathetic nation 25 per cent of registered voters can elect a majority government. Now we know this and will adjust. ! He has stimulated groups to start “get out the vote” campaigns which promote the power of voting strategically. ! He has inspired the opposition candidates in this election to imagine a better version of Canada. ! His challenges to the Supreme Court have reassured us of the strength of our independent judicial system. ! Musicians, young and old, have been inspired to create songs about the importance of voting ! The Harper Song - Steve Roby ! Harperman - Tony Turner ! Take Back this Land - Bill and May Henderson ! Stealin’ all my dreams - Blue Rodeo ! Land you love - Hey Rosetta & Yukon Blond ! Vote that ****** out – Paul Kolinski So, thank you Steve, for waking up Canada.

Richard Best

A cure for our democracy blues I think it’s important to shake ourselves out of this democracy depression we have found ourselves in, one which ultimately results in lower voter turnout of the people who are dissatisfied/disillusioned – the people who can make all the difference!

The good news is you CAN make a real difference, just come out and vote! Extra points if you try to find out if your chosen party is planning on implementing electoral reform (aka getting rid of first past the post—I promise, this will cure the democracy blues you’ve been feeling).

Regardless of how you may feel or what you’ve been told, if you are feeling like your vote doesn’t count, you have extra reason to vote; every vote missed is a vote for the status quo.

I am voting for our Green candidate Ken Melamed, for so many reasons. To me, he is the strongest clearest voice in our riding standing up for our Canadian values, and as a Green Party MP he will actually have the power to fight for us in Ottawa; the other party MPs are all whipped, meaning when it comes down to important issues-think pipelines-they are forced to tow the party line and vote the way the party dictates. It’s a no brainer.

For those of you who have found themselves saying/thinking “I would like to vote Green but...” take heart; our riding is much greener than you think. The Greens have canvassed most of Bowen at this point, much of the Sunshine Coast, Lions Bay, not to mention Green pockets in West Vancouver, and the numbers for our whole riding are right on target so far in terms of the support we need to elect Ken. Now I could tell you why “strategic voting” is a terrible idea, but frankly I’m tired of that argument and I’ll let you do your homework for yourselves. What I will tell you is this – VOTE FOR WHAT YOU STAND FOR. Voting for any other reason is just ludicrous. If we don’t use our heads, and we don’t follow our hearts how do we ever expect our government to represent our views?

Fenella Jacquet

Unhappy with Hydro cutoff Today, after four years of disputing and rejecting the smart meter program (along with hundreds of other Bowen home owners), BC Hydro came and cut off my power to my house on Bowen. No knock on the door to give me a heads up.

The BC Hydro agent was caught damaging my house by sneakily attempting to remove a very secure wire cage surrounding my analog meter. (They can cut power but they cannot tamper with your house.) From my deck I said “Hey, don’t do that,” but by the time I walked around to talk with him he had left. Minutes later I was in the dark, they had cut my power.

If you do not comply to this form of extortion and decline on these known “fire meters”, they officially now will cut off your power. These meters are not CSA- or UL-approved and that typically means your house will not be insured if it burns down). The Province of Saskatchewan recalled more than 100,000 of these cheap plastic meters because of known fires but here in BC they are ignoring all the warnings including those from growing number of scientists and doctors who are blowing the health whistle on this technology. (http://emfsafetynetwork.org/physicians-groups-says-smart-meters-effect-health-the-evidence-is-irrefutable/.)

Now I’m starting to understand why the word “authority” is in the name “ BC Hydro and Authority”. It is clear they are not trying to win over any friends and could care less about their customers’ concerns.

Paul Beck

Fall is here and the meadow is alive with creatures who are preparing for the colder weather. Grade 7 IPS students were lucky to learn all about the insects in the meadow ecosystem from Bowen Island’s famous entomologist Will Husby.

IPS is grateful to Will for sharing his fascination of the natural world with the students and for bringing the meadow alive with stories of the critters who live there. Pam Mathews photo

Vote with your values Montreal, 1982. A group of us have covered the walls in our student apartment with rolls of paper, each headed with a key word. Underneath it are statements from weeks of brainstorming, listing values like consensus decision-making and grass roots democracy, peaceful conflict resolution, social justice, and environmental responsibility.

Those were the beginnings, reflective of similar events happening on the other side of our country, right here, in our own riding, on the Sunshine Coast, where Adriane Carr and Paul George were also busy creating the Green Party in B.C. Today, most of our values have become mainstream.

In those days, many journalists found environmental concerns risible and had no idea about the plight of residential school inmates and consequences of our institutionalized disrespect for Aboriginal peoples. But today, surveys (designed to help Canadians chose what Party affiliations align with their values) have revealed that the Green Party platform is most reflective of these Canadian mainstream values.

Sadly, this is not reflective of how people vote. This is mostly due to our “first past the post” electoral system. It is also, in part, the fault of the mainstream media, who continue to sideline the Greens and undermine their credibility as an electable party by systematically referring to the party leaders of “all parties” while excluding the Green Party and their sole female leader, Elizabeth May; and by not including references to our party platform and values when discussing those of the other parties.

This patronizing attitude undermines our democracy, does not create an informed electorate, and is designed to prevent us from being taken seriously. It is in sharp contrast with our Canadian sense of fairness, in fact, it reeks of such arrogance that I fully understand, although I do not condone, those who simply refuse to participate in our system, and don’t vote.

I have canvassed hundreds of doors on Bowen Island, and spoken with many sincere and concerned citizens, the overwhelming majority of which have told me “I would love to vote Green, but we have to get Harper out”...The assumption is that Greens are not electable under the current system, and so people believe they have to cast their vote for the mainstream party that has “the best chance” of defeating the (insert currently disliked government) i.e. the Conservatives.

Friends, neighbours, family members, look me in the eye and explain to me (with an expression of pity/apology/contempt) that this time, they’ll have to ‘vote strategically’. I have had to listen to this refrain for 33 years. Paradoxically, three weeks ago, voting strategically would have meant voting for the Greens in this riding, (Ken had 27 per cent support, the Liberals and NDP were in the teens, and the Cons were losing, and while 29 per cent were undecided).

I was tempted to sing that strategy song.

But nothing works as well as negative campaigning, and the Conservatives are not the only ones who know this. So when the Liberals call on people to say the only way to beat Harper is to vote Liberal, the vicious circle continues.

I really wish people campaigned with the courage of their convictions, and voted with their values. If they did, we would elect Ken Melamed in this riding.

Silvaine Zimmermann, M.Sc.

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Doc discusses getting unstuck from fear Dr. Dooley Goumeniouk speaks to SKY about what we can do to keep mentally healthy MARTHA PERKINS EDITOR

Jack and Jill are swimming in the ocean when they come upon a large jellyfish. Jack thinks it’s an amazing experience and marvels at the jellyfish’s eerie beauty. Jill automatically fears that not only is the jellyfish toxic, but that it will bite her and she will drown.

Jill is a “catastrophizer”, someone whose thoughts leap into the brain’s little house of horrors where fears and anxieties lurk around every corner.

Dr. Dooley Goumeniouk is also a catastrophizer. A psychiatrist with a whole bunch of letters after his name, he travels the world giving presentations at symposiums and conferences when he’s not seeing patients at The Orchard Recovery and Treatment Centre on Bowen Island. And when the man sitting a few rows over on the plane sneezes, Dr. Gouneniouk is just like Jill — he automatically assumes his fellow passenger has a undiscovered strain of H1N1 and everyone on the plane will die of the flu.

But, in a “physician, heal thyself ” approach, he’s learned how to deal with his negative thought patterns.

And one way is by spending as much time as possible in his lush

garden near Mount Gardner.

As he explained at a recent meeting of Seniors Keeping Young, the area of the brain where emotions are processed is the hippocampus. The hippocampus is also where information gets transferred into memories.

When Jane feels fear, her hippocampus usually has the ability to swat it away. However, if she lives in constant fear or anxiety — either real or imagined — the hippocampus’s defences are down and it can’t keep up. The fearful memories stick.

Cognitive behaviour therapy is a deceptively simple way to get it unstuck. It’s based on “what you think about affects what you feel.

You can control what you think about, you can control your emotions,” says Dr. Goumeniouk.

The same is true when we, like Jill, consistently have negative thought processes.

“The mind is a powerful organ and we let it run us more than we run it,” Dr. Goumeniouk says. “We let it take us places we don’t want to go.”

He recommends that everyone follows a 14-page handout by Mark J. Berber, a psychotherapist who’s come up with a way to retrain the brain. If you recognize yourself as

someone with BADMOODS (see sidebar), you can help your brain find healthier thought processes.

But back to the hippocampus and gardening.

The hippocampus is also the only place where the brain can grow new cells in a process called neurogenesis.

Studies have shown there are ways you can promote neurogenesis, including moderate to heavy exercising for 30 minutes three times a week and interacting in the environment in a way that you perceive as meaningful.

“Doing what you think is meaningfully important is critical,” he says, putting stress on the “doing.”

It’s the active verb that makes a difference; sitting and reading a meaningful article about brain health won’t do it.

However, sometimes our behaviours have a negative effect on neurogenesis. When we feel fear, our brain produces cortisol, a handy “fight or flight” evolutionary tool to get us out of scary situations. In the short term, cortisol helps us. If it is constantly being produced, it is toxic and works against all those other factors that help produce new brain cells.

And then there’s stress. Stress activates the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. “Life is 10 per cent of what happens and 90 per cent of what you make of it,” Dr. Goumeniouk said at the SKY meeting. “That 90 per cent determines how much you activate that axis.”

BADMOODS

Unhealthy self-talk Psychotherapist Mark J. Berber says, “People upset themselves by developing the habit of viewing things in a negative and unreasonable manner. The phrase BAD MOODS identifies the destructive types of self-talk that makes people feel depressed and anxious.”

B is for black-andwhite thinking.

A is for “awfulizing” or “catastrophizing.”

D is for discounting the positives.

M is for maximizing the negatives.

O is for overgeneralizing.

O is for overestimating the likelihood of a negative outcome.

D is for demanding.

S is for a self-blaming event.

To download a workbook on how to deal with BAD MOODS, go to creatinginnercalm. com/pdf/Psychotherapy. pdf.

Bowen Island psychiatrist Dooley Goumeniouk says we let our brains take us places we don’t want to go. One way to counteract that is by interacting with our environment in a way we perceive as meaningful.

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Stourhead, Trebah and Peto Gardens of England: Three Living works of Art On October 19, 2015 The Bowen Island Garden Club welcomes Lisa Gardner, a visual artist, teacher and garden designer. Lisa will take us on a photographic tour of Stourhead, Trebah and Peto three great English gardens in Southern England. Ever since her first visit to the Stourhead Estate Garden Lisa has made a point of visiting landscape gardens whenever and wherever she travels.

She has researched English gardens and even introduced relatives who live in England to gardening in their “own backyards” During her presentation Lisa will tell us what aspects of these gardens have inspired her in her own design business and offer Bowen Island gardeners landscaping and garden ideas.

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Please join us at the Gallery at Artisan Square on October 19, 2015 at 1 PM for an inspiring tour of three English gardens.

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Brothers Stephen and Simon Fisk have been collaborating with Buff Allen. Following their concert on Bowen Island, they will be recording a set of material for release in 2016. photo supplied

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The retreat of Stephen Fisk and family to Bowen Island in 2012 was an opportunity for the guitarist to draw a deep creative breath and refresh his artistic direction.

What Fisk didn’t expect to find across the moat was a deep affinity with one of Bowen’s musical gems, Buff Allen.

The seasoned drummer’s vast depth of experience re-ignited Fisk’s improvising skills and his shared love of all things trio, the ultimate interactive setting in jazz.

The two have since become regular band mates and fast friends on and off island.

Meanwhile, Fisk’s younger sibling Simon, a formidable improvising bassist in his own right, was conspiring to bring his family back to the coast from a decade-long sojourn in Calgary.

When the trio got together for an impromptu concert in March of this year they discovered, not surprisingly, a genuine musical chemistry and shared sensibility for probing interplay and dynamic subtlety. Transitioning this winter to a new home in Gibsons, Simon’s talents and availability suddenly became logistically viable for the Bowen duo.

Collectively Buff, Simon and Stephen have performed, recorded, toured and apprenticed with a who’s who of internationally acclaimed jazz artists including Ed Bickert, Jerry Granelli, Jim Hall, Gary Peacock and Danilo Perez, to name but a few. Their SONGS trio, performing Saturday, Oct. 17 at Cates Hill Chapel, explores a broad spectrum of song form drawing on original material, jazz standards, improvisations and contemporary songs running the gamut from Leonard Cohen to Wilco. Taking key influences from the great trios of Keith Jarrett and Jim Hall in particular, SONGS continues a long-standing tradition of experimentation with divergent repertoire, stylistic approach and boundary-pushing aesthetic.

Following their Bowen Island performance, SONGS heads off to Sarah McLachlan’s studio to record a set of material for release in 2016 through Uncommongold Media. SONGS will present concert workshops at The Sarah McLachlan School of Music and Vancouver Community College (Oct. 15/16), followed by an evening concert on Bowen Island at Cate’s Hill Chapel, Saturday, Oct. 17at 7 p.m.; tickets are $25 at the door.

Gino Rutigliano is going crema a crema against some of the Pacific Coast’s best coffee roasters. The owner of Bowen Island Roasting Company made the cut for the America’s Best Espresso competition in Portland on Oct. 23 and 24. As well, because he was a winner last year, he’s got a bye for the quarterfinals.

The island-based business is one of only three Canadian competitors, with Vancouver’s Milano Coffee Roasters and West End Coffee Roasters also vying for the judges’ favour.

“What I’m trying to accomplish this year is finding the perfect blend of old-school with newschool via the type of beans, origins of beans, roast methods, pre and post blending techniques.... easier said than done,” Gino says.

He’s experimenting with beans from Bali, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Peru, Java and

Gino and Victoria Rutigliano of Bowen Island Roasting company, along with friend Tatiana Quintana, are exctied about the upcoming Amercia’s Best Espresso competition. Martha Perkins photo Sumatra to come up with two of the blends he’ll be bringing with him. He’s also packing the Valhalla Espresso Royale. It was part of his 2012 win in Seattle. “The Valhalla is a old-school Italian espresso — sweet, velvety, smooth, with hints of caramel, cocoa, and light berry tones throughout,” he says.

“It cuts well through milk but is delicate enough to sip on its own.”

He knows, however, that this year’s judges are the world barista champions who usually

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competition will continue in this fashion all the way down to the championship final at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Competitors will have 10 minutes to prepare three espressos that will be submitted to the judging table of three baristas competing in the Latte Art World Championship Open.

Judges will evaluate the shots of espresso from each competitor in the categories of: Flavour complexity/balance; Mouthfeel and appeal/ body; Aftertaste/session.

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work with and like “the lighter, brighter coffees — referred to as third wave coffees — that offer more citrus rather than the old school style darker sweeter espressos.” It’s all a bit of a science, which is why Gino loves it so much.

For the competition, each roaster will pull one separate shot on one of the espresso machines at the competition venue for each of the three judges.

Competitors will go head to head in a winner-moveon, loser-go-home tournament competition. The

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through the sands of time/To wonder at our wonders, our passions and our crimes/What will they say?” he asks in Filament. And his ironic lyrics — “the body was snatched long ago” and “our collective Coney Island of the Mind’ — offer opportunities for amusement and reflection.

Matt has assembled a great band for the Superstorm album-release concert: Peter Parkin and Peter Dives in the rhythm section, Thomas Beckman on viola, Teun Schut on guitars, Carrie Thiel on backing vocals, and Matt

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on guitars, keyboard and vocals. The multi-talented Shael Wrinch, who also plays guitar and bass on some of the recorded tracks, will be mixing sound. The concert takes place at TirNa-Nog Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on October 24.

Matt believes “all art should be transformative and inspire psychological and emotional growth, and help us engage with the strange and wonderful universe of which we are a small part.”

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s the Knick Knack Nook has increasingly become part of the social network of our island so has the daily volume of our donations increased to the extent that we desperately need more space. Our great news is that the municipality has given us the green light to begin work on a muchneeded extension which will significantly increase our working and storage spaces, but also provide a bathroom. A well will be dug on the land we lease to provide potable running water. Several volunteer members have steered this project through municipal hall and the Coastal Health Authority with patient tenacity.

In keeping with our re-use-it principles, the one sick and bruised tree on the property will be sawn into lumber, dried and reused to provide the exterior siding in our new facility. John Willis, our volunteer and master carpenter, is in charge of this part of the project.

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att Maxwell and I arrived on Bowen around the same time, almost 16 years ago. Since then, I’ve sung and recorded his songs in both French and English, and I’m always intrigued to find out what he’s up to next.

When he phoned and asked me to review his latest CD, Superstorm, I agreed, even though he said I wouldn’t like a couple of the tracks which were “hard rock”. I suppose he was referring to Controlled Demolition, which I really enjoyed. Good dance groove with an ominous marching beat at the conclusion, and the repeated “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”

Over the last several years, Matt has written and recorded countless original songs, chronicling the joy, pain, strangeness and wonder of living as a human being on this Earth. He’s compiled some of these songs into his new album Superstorm. No ordinary CD in a plastic box, it’s more like a credit card with a 2GB flash drive containing songs and lyrics ready to be downloaded onto iTunes. Welcome to the 21st Century.

The themes on the Superstorm album are as varied as the musical styles he uses: tender love ballads (Drawn To You), aggressive, rage-against-the-machine rants (Controlled Demolition), spoken-word deconstructions of our consumer culture (Deoccupy Your Mind) and songs chronicling our collective existential angst about impending ecological destruction (Filament).

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SKY Legion lunches are a hit!

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It’s a Tuesday afternoon and 88-year-old Joyce Slade is enjoying a bowl of homemade soup with her son, Keith, at the Bowen Island Legion.

With her new hearing aids in place, she joins in the conversation swirling around her, breaking into a smile whenever someone drops by the table to say hello.

“Now that Keith is giving me a social life, I’d better be able to hear what they’re saying,” she says.

This may not seem like much of a big occasion, but when Mrs.

Slade started coming to the SKY luncheons a few Tuesdays ago, it was the first time she’d set foot in the Legion since moving to the island in 1973.

“This is her social life,” says Keith, who’s been helping his mother continue to live at home.

While there are benefits to being able to stay on Bowen as we age, island life can be very isolating as mobility issues start to set in.

“He’s trying to get me out more,” Mrs. Slade says with a smile, gesturing to her son.

That’s one of the goals of the fortnightly lunches.

However, although the lunches are organized by SKY — Seniors Keeping

Young — they are by no means limited to seniors.

For instance, every two weeks there’s a group of three friends who work in the Cove who come to the lunch because it’s fast, social and inexpensive — $5 for a bowl of homemade soup, bread, dessert and tea or coffee.

One thing that’s gratifying for people such as Elizabeth Storry, SKY’s treasurer, is the number of men in the room.

At the Monday morning SKY gatherings at Bowen Court, men tend to drop off their wives and leave. Not much for group activities, men tend to like the less structured format of the every-second-andfourth-Tuesday-of-the-

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Bowen Island may soon have scanable codes posted in parks to help park users learn about the history and ecology of that location. By using a special app and scanning the code with a cell phone, park users will be able to access trail maps as well as information on the area. Each time the code is scanned, information from the users, regarding time of use, number of times the code was used and which sites were used will be tracked. This allows for anonymous information regarding park usage to become available for park-planning purposes. John Dowler, on behalf of the Parks, Trails and Greenways advisory group is proposing first setting up a pilot project in Quarry Park and Mannion Bay or Sandy Beach as it is more commonly known. month lunches. And who doesn’t need lunch?

SKY initiated the luncheons as a way of getting new members. With the help of funding from New Horizons for Seniors, as well as Bowen Island’s Caring Circle, the luncheons were originally held at Bowen Court but the space proved too small. They approached

the Legion and were gratified by the welcoming response.

Bowen Island Recreation joined in by offering to bring games but most people seem content to just sit and chat as they enjoy a lunch organized by Maxine Alcock. (She has a hand injury so is unable to cook at the moment; she

is appreciative of the volunteers who have stepped in to help.)

Snug Cove House and the Little Red Church have also stepped up to the lunch plate to host some of the lunches, and Artisan Eats donates the dessert once a month.

“We want to do whatever we can to reduce social isolation, not just

with seniors,” says the Caring Circle’s Colleen O’Neil of her group’s enthusiastic involvement, which includes volunteer drivers to help people get to and from the Legion.

The community lunches are the second and fourth Tuesday of every month from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Bowen Island Legion.

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Firehall planning moves ahead Briefs from Bowen Island Council’s meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13:

Plans for construction of a new main fire hall, ambulance station and emergency operations centre is moving ahead. Council has approved construction at the north end of Lot 3 of community lands, allowing for a change in zoning to allow for institutional and emergency response buildings.

Metro Parks is aware that a trail on the lot that connects with Crippen Park trails would have to be relocated.

In order to allow for up to 3 double drive-through bays as well as the emergency response training room, offices and emergency operations area the project needs” a minimum of one acre of land .” With rezoning in place, the next steps will be to get cost estimates on more definitive plans.

A company, OHM Medical has been selected to review and update Bowen’s Emergency Management Plan.

The First Credit Union closed early last Thursday but that doesn’t mean the staff was taking an extra long Thanksgiving weekend. As part of Community Impact Day, they spent the afternoon beautifying the BICS recreation fields. Branch manager Kevin Manning re-painted a shed while Opal Eriksson and Kathleen Ainscough planted bulbs to add a little bit of colour next spring.

QR codes coming

Two of Bowen’s parks will soon have Quick Response Codes at Quarry Park and Mannion Bay , also known as Sandy Beach. The QR codes would allow people to get information about ecosystems and site history using code readers on their cell phones.

John Dowler presented computer graphic designs called Quick Louise Loik Response for mobile devices that CONTRIBUTOR could be installed at locations for quick reference to ecological or historical information about the site.

The Bowen Island Yacht Club, home Council had a favourable response to to the Bowen Island Learn to Sail continue with the idea.

Program, has never had a home to call their own. At this week’s council meeting the Club requested designated Noise complaint space in Tunstall Bay. Council heard a complaint about For the entire history of the club, the noise from the Dog Ranch and got a request to consider preventative mea- various little learn-to-sail boats have been parked on the edge of the beach sures for this and any similar busior the municipal parking lot, sharnesses.

Debra Springfellow photo

Yacht Club asks council for space for Learn to Sail program ing a storage space in the Tunstall Bay Community Association’s boathouse.

Kids and adults would meet on the deck of the boathouse, trying to keep out of the way of TBCA members coming and going for kayaks. With beach erosion and fish habitat restoration at Explosives Creek, the sailing club was feeling lost at sea.

The sailing club wants to build storage sheds for their boats and construct bathroom and changing facilities and make a parking lot on waterfront municipal green space for joint use.

Florrie Levine spoke on behalf of the club requesting that council come to a decision to allow the club to begin assessing costs and moving forward.

The challenge is that there is demand for both a turnaround at the end of Tunstall Blvd., and the growing demands for parking that tie in to increased tourism and the boat launch.

Planner Emma Chow stated in her summary that the facility would be both unique and valuable; however, it would reduce available space for other users.

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