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Artistic Endeavours

Two artists stage an eclectic exhibit with holograms and projections

Water watching

Food for your face

A look at how Bowen used water during the drought

Malene Hansen creates cosmetics from products you can eat

Bowen Island group rallies to raise $30,000 in 30 days for refugees LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Remembrance Day drew a huge crowd to Snug Cove, including representatives from a number of groups represented by the flag bearers who marched in to pay respects at the cenotaph. There were readings, music and silence as we remembered the losses due to the ravages of war. Groups gathered afterwards to share food at Doc Morgan’s and The Legion. photo: Louise Loik

church has a proven track record of having the capacity, resources, and expertise to successfully sponsor a family’s transition into Canada,” says Turner, “We will be a community in spirit. We will raise the money that is required by the federal government to facilitate this sponsorship.“We already have

$1,500,” says Bastin. The effort got rolling only six weeks ago and Bastin is confident the group can achieve their goals.

“This community has raised thousands upon thousands of dollars to educate girls in Ghana.

Bowen is amazing for helping out in a crisis.“

When asked how she plans to raise money she doesn’t pause for a second. “I’m going to ask.”

Turner says that islanders will also have the opportunity to provide hands on support to this family upon arrival. An account is being set up for donations n at The First Credit Union on Bowen.

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collaborated and Turner organized a volunteer meeting where they came up with a plan.” Because small communities like Bowen are not equipped to provide all the services needed for refugees fleeing terrorism, the group on island has partnered with St.Andrews Wesley United Church in Vancouver. “This

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If there was a dollar for every ounce of compassion and determination embodied by people on Bowen like Andrea Bastin, her group’s fund-raising challenges would be over.

Bastin has gotten behind other social causes in the past, lending expertise and energy in spite of having the life of a busy mom with young children. Bastin is now collaborating with a group of four other islanders including Lizbeth Turner, to raise enough funds to sponsor a refugee family from Syria.

The group has set their sights on raising $30,000 in 30 days.

While Bastin takes little credit for the effort, every cog in the wheel keeps the efforts rolling. Bastin says that her impetus came from watching the news and seeing the body of a little boy washed up on shore.

Striking a chord in the heart of this mother, she decided to take action. “As a parent, I couldn’t imagine the feeling a parent would have in finding your child like that.” With the help of Doc Morgan’s restaurant, she and Sasha Buchanan decided to raise funds for a European nonprofit Mobile Aid Station.

The Station does the work of “plucking the bodies of refugees out of the sea,” says Bastin. The Aid Station received $4000 from island contributions that week.

“Good work with refugees was already happening on Bowen with Lizbeth Turner,” says Bastin. They

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Council will be considering an application at its November 23, 2015 meeting for a Development Variance Permit for 431 Bowen Island Trunk Road. The Union Steamship Company has applied to reduce the required zoning setbacks from the front (north) and side (east) property lines to enable the construction for a building to be used for boat storage and maintenance, marina maintenance, coffee roasting facility, and coffee kiosk.

Upon observing a possible Fisheries Violation or Environmental issues please contact one of the following numbers: Environmental Emergencies and Spill Reporting (24 hours) 1-800-663-3456 Fisheries Violation Report Line (24 hours) 1-800-465-4336 Once you have reported the incident to the appropriate government agency, please call Bonny Brokenshire, Manager of Parks and Environment at 604 947-4255 to relay your concerns.

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Dangerous road conditions can be created by the discharge of water, dirt and gravel from private property onto public roadways. Property owners are responsible for controlling run-off onto roadways from their property.

Culverts under private driveways and adjacent to roadways often require maintenance at this time of the year. Property owners are responsible for keeping these culverts clear of debris in order to reduce the risk of flooding.

To ensure safe travel on Bowen Island’s roadways this rainy season, the municipality asks all property owners to control runoff and to maintain their culverts. Failure to do so may result in fining under the Bowen Island Municipality Traffic and Use of Streets Bylaw, No. 133, 2005.

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Malene Hansen finds herself worked up into a lather about green-washing within the cosmetics industry LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Formaldehyde, Phthalates, carcinogens, hormone disrupters; You would think that no one would put these kind of toxins into a gift basket or Christmas stocking, but you would be wrong. According to the Suzuki Foundation, anything from plasticizers that are used in cement, to pesticides and industrial strength degreasers; they can all be found in the vast majority of gifts that come in the form of bubble baths, body creams, soaps, shampoos, and makeup. Even products from companies that may position themselves as socially responsible, still use a slurry of cosmetic chemicals that are bad for you, tend to bio-accumulate in the marine environment, and are unregulated in Canada. No matter how you wrap it, that bath bomb could be a gift that backfires.

As a new mom, Malene Hansen looked at the ingredients in skin care products and decided to take matters into her own hands. “The beauty industry,” she says, “is full of green-washed products claiming “all-natural ingredients; petroleum is a naturally occurring product. So is alcohol. That doesn’t mean they are good for your skin.”

Unwilling to subject her baby to the ingredients she was finding in mass-produced products, she began making her own creams.

“I wanted to use natural products and started looking carefully at the ingredients of body creams on the market.” Dissatisfied with what she found, she founded Conscious Cosmetics in 2011 and began creating products “good for the body and mind. I use essential oils in minimal amounts,” says Hansen.

She uses lavender to evoke a state of calm, or citrus or mint for invigoration and to lift the spirits. “Some products have the scent from the cocoa, shea and mango butters which are the base of the product.

Products labeled unscented in the store often have so many masking agents that they can be worse for you than the product with an advertised scent.” In Canada, fragrances are often created as a trade secret so companies do not have to list the numerous fragrance chemicals in their products. “Smell this,” says Hansen, holding out a tub of cream. The scent from the jar is of almond oil and coconut. “This is what unscented should be, the smell of the product without masking agents.”

Since she began with her first creams, Hansen has developed product lines ranging from eye shadows to a deodorant; all of them developed with a careful eye to ingredients that are beneficial to the body. She has no desire to use fillers and emulsifiers or chemicals to prevent product decay. She advises instead, to store some of the

Products on the shelves in Hansen’s home-based business are all made from ingredients you can pronounce.

Conscious Cosmetics founder Malene Hansen has created a plethora of products that act like food for the skin. photo: Louise Loik products in the fridge to increase the longevity.

She has three body creams, a rejuvenating night cream for older skin, four face creams and a special cream for women she calls “V-cream.” She laughs at the idea that the name might suggest “victory.” “I had friends going through menopause asking for a specific kind of moisturizer so I came up with this. You could say the cream is a victory for women.”

As for men, when you look at a man’s daily habits, he probably uses soap all over his body, shampoo, and shaving cream and deodorant or antiperspirant. With pores open from the warm water, depending on the products he uses, he absorbs toxins “which bypass the metabolic process and enter the blood stream and body organs intact.” Parabens are easily absorbed through the skin and are considered to be hormone disruptors.

Deodorants and antiperspirants contain questionable ingredients, according to Hansen, but they also stop the body from clearing toxins from their glands. Aftershave has drying ingredients instead of healing and soothing components.

Women and some men, may add another layer of chemicals in the form of skin protection for their faces as well as other choices

that may include dyes mixed into creams, liquids and powders. “Red dye is the worst,” says Hansen.

Hansen makes lip balm and lip colour as well as foundation powder, and eye shadows using a mineral ingredient called mica. She does not use the industry standard of silicone for a binder or talc as filler. “I don’t use fillers,” she says.

Hansen takes various colours,

“Just because a product occurs naturally, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.” mixes them with either water or balm and draws them onto her own hand to show how well they apply and stay on the skin. “You are in control of the intensity of the colour,” she says.

“On a daily basis people slather the toxins into their skin. When a toxin is absorbed through your skin, it doesn’t give your liver a chance to clear it out.”

Hansen created a deodorant she calls a “semi-perspirant” that causes the pores to contract slightly, kills bacteria on the skin that cause odour and soothes the surface and absorbs any wetness. “I’ve tried

all the natural products out there including crystals. Nothing worked so I experimented and came up with this.“ She says this product is the most time-consuming to create, but she feels it’s worth the effort.

What also bothers Hansen about the industry, aside from the toxic products and the green-washing, are the labels that refer to a high quality ingredient which she believes is only in the product in a negligible amount. “I use argan oil in some of my products like the eye cream and face butter. Argan oil is only derived from a small number of trees that grow Morocco.” She says it’s difficult and very expensive to get a very small amount of oil.

“When I see a bottle of product that claims to be an argan oil product and it’s selling for $6., I wonder.”

Hansen is selling her product at the Bowen pharmacy and at Greens +, a privately owned grocery store in town, but she isn’t intending do mass distribution. In order to stock and store products for large distribution, she would have to compromise the quality and integrity of her products and business. She sells her product direct, on-line and at craft fairs. “I would be happy just selling a little more,” she says, blue eyes twinkling. “That would be nice.”

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Craft Fair introduces a new soap and cosmetics vendor Submitted by: CSA, Christmas Craft Fair Committee When a young Bavarian woman Janina Micko arrived in Canada around Christmas in 2005, she was writing her PhD thesis in Geology at UBC. She met Frazer Elliott; fell in love with him and his family as well as their beautiful island home.

The couple got married became Janina Elliott. For a woman from a Bavarian village, Bowen Island instantly felt like home.

After attending a soap-making workshop held by Bowen’s own “Wild and Wise,” Elliott began making natural soaps and cosmetic products that are 100% natural, vegan and ethically produced.

At first the products were gifts

for friends and family. Encouraged by the response to her gifts, she decided to move beyond simply giving away her products to selling them under the name of Tree Top Artisan.

Elliott’s products, selling in the range of $3-$10, will be at the 30th annual CSA Christmas Craft Fair is on Sunday, December 6.

This is Elliott’s debut at the fair.

You can expect to find lots of luscious body care products like these Tree Top Artisan soaps at the CSA Craft Fair.

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Last week Riley Culver, a top-ranked Canadian Development team skier walked into our office looking different from his recent pictures. Instead of the long hair I’d expected to see on the 21-year-old, his hair was closely cropped.

When I asked about the change, he told me he’d just had it cut and had grown it out to donate.

This week, Councilor Gary Ander has said that he is willing cut his facial hair to help raise money for prostate cancer.

His asking price is $4000 worth of donations to the cause.

Another form of generosity and commitment to a cause is Angelyn Toth’s sharing of her land at Xenia. Angelyn has been welcoming to thousands of people who come to walk the labyrinth, meditate in the sanctuary, or sit on a bench under the tree that’s been growing there for a millennium.

In a similar spirit of generosity, a group of islanders led by Andrea Bastin and Lisbeth Haige are planning to raise $30,000 in 30 days to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees. The Bowen group is working with a community sponsor in town to help with the logistics and process. The group is now working to set up a system for collection of the donations.

We will keep you posted.

I hope you enjoy this week’s stories about your friends and neighbours.

Explosive enthusiasm for BICS science fair projects and for the community support What do dry ice tornados, rainbow-colored crystals, exploding vinegar, Anna’s Hummingbirds and homemade paper have to do with science? Everything if you are one of the curious student scientists who participated in the Bowen Island Community School’s First Annual Science Fair.

Held Thursday, November 12th, students presented their scientific works to teachers, school administrators, parents and scientists from our community. The celebration of curiosity as it was called included over 60 student projects across a broad spectrum of scientific interests.

Students from BICS spent the afternoon touring the project displays and asking Science Fair participants questions about their experiments.

That evening, parents and community members were invited to tour the student projects and participate in the Egg Drop Challenge!

Imagine designing a case to protect an egg from a 30-foot drop using nothing but paper, popsicle sticks, straws, adhesive and string! Only 6 of the 24 submissions survived with the final winner being declared based on the lightest design.

On behalf of the Science Fair Committee and the staff at BICS, we would like to thank all the people who made this outstanding event possible.

Scott Slater and the Science Fair Committee Principal, Bowen Island Community School

Wine tastings give helping hand to island We are participating in a BC wine promotion sponsored by the BC Wine Institute (BCWI) and are one of only 24 stores in the whole Province in this - which says great things about your support of BC wines here. You will notice that we have bottle toppers on many of our BC wines, these indicate eligible wines for entry into a competition run by BCWI for a deluxe BC wine tour - all you have to do is post a photo on Instagram or Twitter of a food and wine pairing with a VQA BC wine using hashtag #BCVQAPourandPair. You can enter as many times as you like as each post goes into the draw.

Since we are supporting local wines it is appropriate that we also support a worthy Bowen cause, so on both the complimentary BC tastings we will be donating 50c/bottle of these wines sold on the day to Bowen Island Community Foundation Helping Hand Fund.

These are all great BC wines and both Spierhead and Terravista have interesting connections to Bowen Island.

Upcoming tastings will be on Friday, November 20, 3 - 6:30pm - Spierhead Winery, from Kelowna, Friday November 27, 3-7pm - Bench 1775 Winery, from Penticton & Terravista Vineyards, from Naramata Bench

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Having fun skating on Grafton Lake a memory from decades in the The Grafton Lake lands have been the focus of some attention from developer recently. This started me thinking of the family from which the lake got its name.

Tom and Jesse Grafton and daughter Gertrude(Gurtie) lived beside the Lake. They were very much an important part of the community, Tom as a respected elder statesman, Jesse for her help as midwife who ushered several Bowen babies into the world. As well she was a marvelous cook.

What I remember vividly were the skating parties the Graftons held when the lake was frozen solid in the winter. We would skate( or play around on the ice) until we were tired and cold. Then we were asked into the warm house where Mrs Grafton;s wonderful refreshments were laid out. This was over eighty years ago. It is still alive in my memory!

There is a sad postscript to this story. Tom Grafton , crawling through a fence with his rifle after him, was accidentally shot and killed. A shock ran through the community and reverberates to this day among those who remember.

The Grafton Lake lands hold a special place in Island history.

Yours Sincerely, Jean Jamieson

Remembrance day on Bowen Island, with silence, thoughts, songs and prayers for the lives lost in wars. photo: Louise Loik

Are pipeline companies ill-prepared for a crisis?

Ill-prepared to deliver Canada’s energy? I’m not sure whether to laugh or to shake my head when I see ads such as the one on the back page of the November 13th edition of the Undercurrent. Paid for by the “Canadian Energy Pipeline Association” and entitled “Prepared”, the ad presents pipeline companies as being “prepared 24/7” to handle the “incidents that do occur from time to time.” Enbridge is one of those pipeline companies and is pushing the Northern Gateway Pipeline. How prepared is Enbridge to deal with incidents that would occur in our BC communities?

In July 2010, a pipeline operated by Enbridge burst and heavy crude oil originating from Alberta and Saskatchewan flowed into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Despite alarm bells sounding in Enbridge’s Edmonton headquarters, it was 18 hours after the rupture that the pipeline company finally learned of the spill. The disaster was the largest on-land spill

in American history. The EPA estimated that in excess of 1 million US gallons spilled into and poisoned the local environment. Originally estimated at $5 million, clean up costs as of the summer 2012 totaled more than $765 million.

The pipeline companies are right: “incidents do occur from time to time.” And those ‘occasional’ incidents are costly, destructive to our environment, and they endanger our families and communities.

As far as being “prepared” goes, the EPA fined Enbridge, listing 22 probable violations, including within the Edmonton control room.

As a cub scout in Edmonton, I was taught to always “be prepared”.

In reality, my fellow Cubs and I were often goofing off, negligent, and ill-prepared. Seems to me pipeline companies, such as Enbridge, are about as ready to deal with oil spills as a bunch of boy scouts.

Sincerely, David Adams

Book donations are being welcomed At long last, Friends of the Bowen Island Library (F.O.B.I.L.S) are now in a position to begin to accept book donations for the annual book sale in May. Donations of books in good condition may be dropped off at the library during regular hours.

PLEASE NOTE: We are unable

to accept textbooks, encyclopedia, magazines or VCR tapes. Please no musty or books in poor condition.

Our deep appreciation to Judi Gedye and the Historians as well as Metro Vancouver for their cooperation in providing space to sort the books.

Greta Smith Chair F.O.B.I.L.S.

War and Remembrance Day Dear Editor:

I’d been mulling over writing a letter for Remembrance Day, suggesting that maybe it was time to retire In Flanders Fields from active duty, firing a 21-gun salute over its grave if necessary, given that it is now 100 years old, and is blatantly pro-war. But I decided against that, because I already have enough of a reputation as a sour-faced curmudgeon, thanks.

Imagine my surprise, though, when the poem was read out at the Remembrance Day service omitting the first line of the third stanza – ‘Take up our quarrel with the Foe’ – and proceeding directly to ‘To you from failing hands we throw’…etc. I can certainly understand, and sympathize with, the impetus to do this. I think it is, by now, well enough understood that ‘the Foe’ is not the boys in the other trench, but the whole rotten system that created, and continues to create, war after war. ‘We have met the Enemy, and He is Us’ (unfortunate perhaps that the rhetorical force of my argument relies on the utterance of a cartoon opposum, but there we are).

Having said that, who gets to decide to change a work of art (even bad art) to make it more palatable to modern sensibilities? We’re only talking about 15 lines of poetry here. Wouldn’t it be better to just dispense with the poem entirely if we can’t treat it with respect?

Maybe get a Bowen Island poet to write a replacement?

Or perhaps, read one of the other magnificent poems that came out of that war, all written by combatants. In terms of remembrance, the one that comes immediately to my mind is Sassoon’s ‘The Hero’: “Jack fell as he’d have wished,’ the Mother said, And folded up the letter that she’d read.

“The Colonel writes so nicely.” Something broke In the tired voice that quavered to a choke.

She half looked up. “We mothers are so proud Of our dead soldiers.” Then her face was bowed.

Quietly the Brother Officer went out.

He’d told the poor old dear some gallant lies That she would nourish all her days, no doubt.

For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, Because he’d been so brave, her glorious boy.

He thought how “Jack,” cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the trench that night the mine

On the Calendar The Lawn Dogs are playing at The Bowen Pub November 20 Music starts around 7 Eat, drink, paint led by Janet Esseiva November 21 7 pm Gallery @ Artisan Square bowenislandrecreation.com IPS Annual Gala Dance Party November 21 7pm, Island Pacific School

theme: 1930s New Orleans Tix: Phoenix & islandpacific.org.

Cultivating Creativity with Andrea Klann Sugar Cube Gallery: Nov 21 or 28 11:00 am - 3 pm $100, lunch and supplies included eaklann@gmail.com Legion Christmas Craft Fair November 22 11am -3pm Lunch: $8

Nick Faragher Book Launch November 22 4 to 6pm Gallery @ Artisan Square

SKY: Seniors Keeping Young November 23 Bowen Court 9am Exercises with Ali Hartwick 10:15 am Speaker: Kip Anastasiou 11:15 am Yoga with Diana Kaile Painting workshops with Janet Esseiva November 23/24 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Gallery @ Artisan Square Community Lunch November 24

Went up at Wicked Corner; how he’d tried To get sent home, and how, at last, he died, Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care Except that lonely woman with white hair.

There are many others, of course. Isaac Rosenberg’s ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’* (maybe the finest poem of the war, according to Paul Fussell, the Entire Thing compressed into 26 lines of pastoral); Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’**, and so on.

But getting back to ‘We have met the Enemy, and He is Us’. This cartoon first appeared on Earth Day, 1971. I have this idea, derived from Freud’s Eros & Thanatos, that the sum total of human aggression is a constant (as is love). Since nuclear weapons made war ‘obsolete’, and modern weapons removed all chance of glory from acts of war, our species has had to find other outlets for its aggressive instincts. Where, 100 years ago, the west saw an entire generation of its young men – many of them highly cultured, in the flower of their youth -- wiped out, in our own time, species are disappearing at the rate of dozens per day, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century. The rain forests are cut down, and they burn….take a look at one of those scenes and tell me you aren’t reminded of the Somme or Passchendaele. Meanwhile, we all ‘soldier on’ at our jobs, waiting for the day when we can get ourselves ‘pensioned off ’ and out of the whole blatant mess…. sounds like a War to me….

Incidentally, I’m sick of being told that Canada ‘became a nation’ at Vimy Ridge. I’d nominate the day we introduced universal health care, instead.

But that’s another rant for another day.

Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.

--Wilfred Owen

11:30am to 1pm Legion $5: adult event Alzheimer Caregiver Support group: Tues Nov 24, 7:30-9pm

contact Kerri Sutherland at 604-9848348 or ksutherland@alzeimerbc.org

David Graff, Solo Art Show Art Works Gallery, Yaletown November 25 - Jan 1.

Mowing moustaches for cancer November 28 The Pub starts at 8 pm Bowen Island Conservancy’s AGM

Michael Epp November 28 10:00 am. BICS SKY: Seniors Keeping Young November 30 Bowen Court 9am Exercises with Ali Hartwick 10:15am Speaker 11:15am Yoga with Diana Kaile Bowen Island gymnastics is hosting a free concussion workshop Dec 1 7-9 pm Bowen Is. Comm. School Light Up Bowen & Lantern Parade December 5.

5:40-8 pm Snug Cove

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Looking to launch an island taxi service LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Bowen had a taxi service years ago, run by Cecile and Wes Magee.

The Magees seemed to know everyone, and passengers could always count on a good story from Wes. Now, that tradition may carry on.

Bowen’s “English Bay Launch “ may expand its business to include a taxi on island.

Mike Shannon from The Launch, and local George Zawadski have asked for a letter of support from the municipality to be submitted to The BC Passenger Transportation Board. The subject will be tabled at the next council meeting.

Meanwhile the men are also hoping for community members who will use the service to write letters confirming their intended usage.

According to the licensing website, the board will approve the application provided the answer is “yes” to the following questions: 1. Is there a public need for a new taxi service?

2. Are the people proposing the service a fit and proper person and capable of providing a taxi service?

3. Would approving the application promote sound economic conditions in the transportation industry?

The applicant has to provide “information that is factual and objective. This information should show that there are people who would use the taxi service. “ Opinion or general statements will not be considered. Send letters to:bowentaxi@gmail.com.

Island family competing for $1,000,000 prize needs your votes for superbowl ad LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

A corn chip company asked the pubic to come up with a commercial for its product, Doritos, with a chance at a $1,000,000 prize for the winning ad. The ads are being voted on by the public on the company website.

Upon hearing of this opportunity, it was only natural for Bowen’s de Zwart family to jump at the chance to compete. With Robin’s recent win in film making competition, and the family’s penchant for fun, they created a commercial that will now be seen by a huge international audience during the voting process.

The winning ad will be aired during the Super Bowl broadcast. The 3 finalists will get a private suite at the Super Bowl, and $1,000,000 goes to the grand winner.

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Playtime in the park

Sarah Peel, and her nephew James play in the sunshine and leaves in Crippen Park on a remarkably warm and dry Remembrance Day. The two had joined hundreds who turned up in Snug Cove for the annual Remembrance Day service.

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6:30 pm LOWER SNUG COVE & DAVIES ORCHARD Eggnog & cookies from local merchants GIANT WALL OF LIGHTS FESTIVAL OF TREES LIVE NATIVITY HERITAGE MUSEUM COTTAGE 7:30 pm SANTA ARRIVES at the USSC Marina Children’s crafts, hot mulled wine, sweets, live music & a visit with Santa

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Bowen Island Community School staged a science fair that sparked the imagination of many students and guests alike. Shelby won the egg drop contest where students designed and built protective containers for eggs, competing to see which design would allow the egg to safely drop from the greatest height.

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Xenia Creative Development Centre draws thousands of visitors LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

The retreat is tucked between two small lakes with linking trails that also lead to the nearby ocean. Close by to Opa, there is a sanctuary for meditation which Toth generously keeps open for anyone to use at any time.

Toth says what she has created is a safe sanctuary in nature. “When people get here I tell them to go walk the labyrinth and they’ll get here faster.” Toth is referring to the Celtic styled labyrinth, created by 50 volunteers over the course of four days. “It’s been walked by thousands of people from all over the world. I don’t know how they find it, “ says the dynamic woman.

“People come by in droves every weekend.”

This sanctuary has served many purposes including providing space for Covenant House. The organization brought young adults with drug addictions from downtown and kids from West Vancouver with drug problems to find some solace. ”It’s a sanctuary in which many programs occur,” says Toth.

It’s also been a place for weddings.

Now Toth, in conjunction with psychologists, will be starting a program of empowerment for people dealing with cancer.

Toth understands about overcoming challenges as she almost lost Xenia because of a bad investment. She describes the desperation and terror she felt. When she was in her darkest hours, she said she would drop off her daughter, who she has since put through veterinary college, at school and come back home feeling numb and defeated. A friend convinced Toth to join her in a new business venture with a global focus on health and wellness. It saved Xenia Angelyn won the top award in the company “in education and transformational work.” Toth has recently released a business book, “From Squeak to Roar, Unleashing the Potential in your Relationship

Angelyn Toth comes back from feeding the horses, her jacket dripping from rain, and a smile on her face. She is in her element at Xenia.

This is where a huge ancient tree named Opa has stretched out its roots. This is the land with the labyrinth designed from a pattern that dates back to medieval times, and where a potbelly pig acts as a guest greeter. Toth has been sharing Xenia with the island for 20 years.

Xenia, the name refers to crosspollination, and the property inspires a cross-pollination of ideas between the people that come here.

The reason that some people first come to Xenia is curiosity about the big tree. Not every tree at Xenia has a name, but the grand daddy of the trees is called “Opa.” A tree estimated to be 1100-yearsold, Opa, is a Douglas fir, and, according to a Vancouver paper, has the reputation of being ”one of BC’s most visited trees.” You can Undeterred by the elements, Angelyn Toth shares her passion for life at her retreat in the woods on see where early loggers slashed into Bowen Island. the trunk to make a place where photo: Louise Loik they could jam a board into the tree and stand on that board to just put new blue metal roofing on into Xenia.”

Marketing Tribe.” She has other start sawing from 4’ off the ground.

Toth’s golden lab wriggles with irons in the fire as well. Toth will be the buildings and she asks nothing They never managed to complete from the thousands of people that happiness as her owner approaches offering courses based on “Instinx,” their mission and so, Opa, viccome to see Opa or walk the labyafter visiting the lodge. In the diswhich she describes as the most torious, still stands. Angelyn has rinth, or meditate in the comforttance, the horse whinnies and just profound “self-actualization” tool placed a bench that is tilted back, able hut. “Sometimes people will inside the door the fire in the fireshe’s ever come across in her life. below Opa so that people can sit leave money in the donation box,” place is crackling. Torrential rain She also looks out over the old on the bench and gaze up into the says Toth, who would never think to drums against the new roof. The sheep farm that she’s turned into tree. On the other hand, you can shut her property off from the pubsounds meld into a rhythm, a crossthis retreat centre and talks about also find Opa using the Google lic. “The money I make, I put back pollination of sensuous experience. plans to incorporate permaculture Earth app. farming to the property. She is Toth says that when she first planning traditional native cerbought the property she felt comemonies in the spring. pelled to share the tranquil location “I would like to put a little prowith anyone who cared to visit. Her pane stove into the sanctuary, and home sits on a rise overlooking the some windows with wood frames large property that accommodates that we can open. space for guest houses, yurts, a It would be nice to have launsanctuary for meditation, a horse dry too.” The problem is, this is a stable and a central lodge, which is big property with a lot of maintethe oldest building on Bowen. nance. Toth admits that she could While Toth has had numeruse some help with upkeep. She’s ous types of gatherings and retreats at the property, she is open to numerous possibilities that come her BC Ferries REGULAR SCHEDULE way. Last week personal October to15 December 19,2014 2015 In Effect13 May to October 13, motivator and life coach Distance: Tina Overbury hosted her 3 NAUTICAL MILES fourth event, “Live your Best Story,” at Xenia with Crossing Time: plans to rebook. Toth has 20 MINUTES also has held silent retreats and hosted world famous * 5:30 am* 6:00 am DAILY EXCEPT speakers. “Eckhart Tolle * 5:30 am ** 6:00 am 6:30 am SATURDAYS 7:00 am* has been here,” says Toth, * DAILY EXCEPT 6:30 am 7:00 am * and the translator to the # 7:30 am* 8:00 am SUNDAYS Dalai Lama captivated an 7:30 am * 8:00 am DAILY EXCEPT 8:30 am 9:00 am††# audience of school-aged SUNDAYS DAILY EXCEPT 8:35 am 9:05 am# listeners in the yurt one SATURDAYS & 9:30 am# 10:00 am 10:05 am 9:35 am # SUNDAYS * afternoon.

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Reflections on water use and the preparing for drought

by NICK PAGE CONTRIBUTOR

Like the rest of the coastal BC, Bowen Island experienced its driest summer in many decades in 2015: only 44% (155 mm) of the normal rain fell at Lighthouse Park between May 1 and September 30th. April, May, and June were even drier with only 21% (66 mm) of their combined normal rainfall.

Temperatures were also about 2oC above normal putting more stress on gardens, streams, and our water system. Remember the first week in July when temperatures were consistently above 25oC and peaked at 31oC on the afternoon of July 5th? Gardens wilted, streams dried up, and the news was dominated by a worsening fire season.

Overall, summer 2015 was unprecedented in terms of warmth and drought even for those of us accustomed to the warm, dry summers of coastal BC. But how did we do in terms of water use? Did Bowen Island adapt to conditions many experts say will be the “new normal” in a few decades?

A little background to start. The Cove Bay Water System provides water to almost half of Bowen’s 3,400 residents and most of Bowen’s businesses and institutions; have a coffee at the Snug or a soup at the Village Baker and you’re drinking water from the Cove Bay Water System. Cove Bay is a surface water system fed by the hillsides and rural areas that drain into Grafton Lake in the mid-island

valley.

The Cove Bay System is also a useful example for understanding water use in the region. Unlike most local governments in Metro Vancouver, the Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) meters our water use by connection and monitors overall daily use. And while the system’s overall land use is not urban, it is a typical mix of urban, suburban, and rural land uses that is common in coastal BC. Bob Robinson of BIM helpfully provided the daily water use for the Cove Bay system for 2014 and 2015, and I pulled other data on air temperature and rainfall from Environment Canada’s records (Point Atkinson and Vancouver Airport) for my analysis.

The short answer is we did pretty well, although it took us a while to get serious about reducing water use through the summer of 2015. But in other ways it showed that we have a long way to go to be leaders in managing water use. Here are some facts to help us understand what happened in summer 2015.

Total rainfall at Point Atkinson (the closest long-term station) was abnormally low between May (5.5 mm; 5% of normal), June (14.3 mm; 16%), and July (39.7 mm; 57%) in 2015, although August (57.7 mm; 104%) had a little more rain than normal mainly because one storm brought close to 40 mm at the end of the month. September was dry again (37.8 mm; 40% of normal).

Water use in Cove Bay system was

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Grafton Lake is a source for drinking water but it is also significantly affected by the summer use of water for gardens in Cove Bay water district. photo: Claudia Shaefer

substantially higher through spring 2015 compared to 2014 with warmer temperatures and the increased demands as 30 new units in Belterra and a few new houses came on-line. We used 31% more water in May 2015 compared to May 2014, and over 22% more in June 2015. But when Metro Vancouver’s water use restrictions kicked in on July 3 and media attention increased, our use started to decline. Water use in July 2015 was 2% less than the year before, August was 13% less, and September was an impressive 30% less.

Our overall water use in the Cove Bay Water System from May 1 to September 30, 2015 was 100,857 m3 which is almost the same (+617 m3; +1%) as the same period in 2014. We use about 300 liters per resident per day on an annual basis which is substantially less than Metro Vancouver’s average of about 470 liters per resident per day. Still our per capita use is about twice as much as the UK, Germany, France, or Japan.

Another thing was noteworthy from the water use data in summer 2015: when we had a brief change in weather with showers and cooler temperatures, water use declined noticeably for a day or two. It’s not an unexpected result but it tells me we still aren’t adjusting our discretionary outdoor use for our gardens and yards. We may not have a lot of lawn on Bowen but we are no different than many urban areas which pour a lot of costly, treated water on trees, shrubs, and vegetable gardens. Based on the decline of water use during the small storms in May, June, and July, as well as the difference between spring/fall (nonwatering period) and summer (when we water our gardens), I estimate that about 20% to 25% of Cove Bay water is used for gardens. This is important because while it’s a challenge to get people to reduce household use (dishwashers, washing machines, toilets, etc), outdoor water use is easier to change with substantial benefit.

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The other thing that stands out is that weekends and other holidays aren’t periods of high water use.

There’s a perception that the B&B’s and restaurants are one of the drivers of summer water use in the Cove Bay System and are harder to manage compared to on-island residents. The data doesn’t support this. In 2014 and 2015, the highest daily use occurred on Friday, followed by Wednesday, Saturday, and Thursday. Not really a pattern driven by weekend tourists. And the 14 days before and after Labour Day (the traditional end of the summer tourist season) are almost identical in terms of water use in 2014 and 2015 (579 m3/day before Labour Day and 568 m3/day after). So it’s not about the tourists, it’s about us regular Bowen folks.

I was surprised how little the Bowen Island Municipality used the summer drought as a “teaching moment” to get us to think about the island’s water use and plan for a future with more residents and less summer rainfall. While other Gulf Islands passed out information on water use to residents and visitors as they passed through the ferry, our local government was strangely silent: a few signs here and there, a bulletin for residents with wells, but no formal water restrictions for the Cove Bay System or information to get us thinking about water conservation. What about publishing the weekly water use data and the level of Grafton Lake on the web so people can better understand water use? Or providing recommendations for cost-effective water conservation with our water bills? Many people were confused about whether Metro Vancouver’s water restrictions even applied to Bowen Island – in fact they didn’t apply (we’re in Metro Vancouver but not in the water district) although the confusion and the media attention likely influenced our water use.

Part of this complacency was because the Grafton Lake dam was recently improved to give us more storage for these dry years (about 18 inches of extra storage in late spring). It proved its worth this year but even at modest population growth, we’ll eventually use up this extra capacity. The projection is that Bowen will use 57% more water by 2030 based on population growth. What Bowen Island really needs is better education on water use, water pricing that actually reflects what water we use, and better regulation of water systems in new and redeveloping houses. Rainwater storage (cisterns) should be mandatory for new houses and greywater systems need to be supported by the permitting and inspection process.

Changes to water pricing are also essential: we need to create a financial disincentive for excessive summer use. Water meters in the Cove Bay Water System are checked 3 times per year but pricing is really just a lump sum ($600 per year) unless you use more than 34 m3 per month (or actually 136 m3 during a four month billing period). Once you reach this higher use threshold, you are charged $1.10 per cubic meter for “excess use”. But for many residential users it’s basically a flat rate system because we don’t reach this threshold.

There either needs to

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When blasting wind knocked a tree onto the wires it snapped a hydro pole on Grafton Rd. at Charlies Lane, most of the island lost power on Tuesday afternoon.

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Magic and mayhem is rampant at the new exhibit at Artisan Square art gallery

An award-winning business that started on Bowen Island LOUISE LOIK

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Magic & Mayhem,” running at the Art Gallery at Artisan is a combined staging of the works of Carol Fancy and Melissa Crenshaw.

Fancy’s contribution is whimsical and poignant, with drawings, collages and installation art using mannequins and partial mannequins that have been adorned in stickers that spell out “reduce” or it may have open, staring eyes appliquéd to form a bikini. Fancy has messages written above the artworks such as: ”in a world where you can be anything, be yourself.”

A slideshow is projected across another figure, whose arms are outstretched to the ceiling, with words inscribed on the wall that say “be your own kind of beautiful.” Fancy, a grandmother, takes her jacket off and, in keeping with her own message, poses in a headstand in front of her art.

Melissa Crenshaw makes her artistic commentary as an internationally recognized holographer. Crenshaw’s holograms have been on display around the world.

Holography is an art form that Crenshaw has worked on developing, leading the way with her innovative technology.

With holograms, objects appear in three dimensions though the object is not present.

Magic and Mayhem runs until December 6.

Carol Fancy provides some unexpected performance art in front of one of her art installations.

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One of Melissa Crenshaw’s colourful holograms that is on view in the Magic and Mahem exhibit.

AIM Language Learning and Wendy Maxwell are being honoured for excellence at the BC Export Award for Professional Services. AIM also won the North Shore Business Excellence Award last week. Maxwell, who is winning all the acclaim for her language teaching business has already won the Prime Minister’s award for excellence in teaching.

Maxwell is an energetic language-teaching innovator who, in the past, taught her program to students and teachers on Bowen. AIM was, until recently, one of the biggest employers on Bowen with 20 full time employees.

Now Maxwell focuses on teaching teachers and building programs used in more than 10,000 classrooms around the world.

AIM incorporates a natural style of language acquisition and an immersive strategy with plays, conversations and its own unique sign language to build vocabulary.

Verb tense awareness is acquired in the context of conversation and activities.

AIM is being used to teach French and Spanish and it is being implemented in schools in Europe, Asia and around North America.

In spite of international demand for the product that includes DVDs, workbooks, posters, and music, a year and a half ago,

Maxwell was going bankrupt.

The teacher got advice from the Business Development Bank of Canada on the economic state of her business and she was advised, “to pull the plug,” on it. The determined businesswoman, refused to give up, knowing that she had a product that works. She decided to take drastic measures to save her business, streamlining her staffing and moving her business to the north shore.

The Business Development Committee assessed the business and gave advice and support to the company to help it work out the bugs.

Within a year AIM had turned the business around.

Maxwell explains that this transition was a big part of what the North Shore Business award recognizes. Of the six categories, Maxwell says “this one was Innovative endeavours, our response to adversity in business and the methods we used to solve them.“ Maxwell sees an opportunity to focus on exporting her product to schools south of the border.

The upcoming BC Export award incorporates a variety of industries in a dozen different categories of excellence. Maxwell and the little company that started on Bowen, will be recognized as “contributing as an exporter to the provincial and national economy.”

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One of Bowen’s most recognizable moustaches is destined to be mowed at the end of Movember LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

If Nancy Lee has it her way, councilor Gary Ander will be almost unrecognizable at the end of Movember. Nancy Lee says she’s “been bugging him for a year and he said “absolutely not,” Lee laughs, “he says it’s taken him 40 years to grow it.” She says his reason for not wanting to mow his moustache, in his words, is that he doesn’t think he has “40 years to grow it back.” Ander’s offspring have never seen him without it.

Lee managed to win him over, reminding Ander, “That’s not how facial hair works.“ Ander finally agreed that if Nancy Lee and her team can raise $4000, he would shave his moustache.

Nancy has raised $620. She is hoping people will go online to donate. You can also donate directly through Nancy Lee at the gen-

eral store or at the store collection box. Online, you can get a charitable receipt, and if you use visa, they will add $10 per donation and you get entered to win a trip to Boston.

Last year Lee raised over $7000. This year she is aiming for $10,000. Nancy Lee has been a “Mo Sista” for the past few years, and this year she is on the Mowen Island Fire team.

You can go to Movember.com and a tax receipt will be issued. When you donate to Nancy Lee’s account you can see how her fund raising goal is going. On the other hand, you can pop by the general store and keep track of her progress by watching Nancy’s moustache grow along with the funds donated. The more money she raises the bigger it gets.

Moustachioed men will be getting their moustaches mowed for money for prostate cancer research, on November 28th at The Pub.

Councilor Gary Ander wants $4000 to shave his moustache to help fight prostate cancer. ...cont’d from pg 8

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Why meter at all if you really just charge the same flat rate for most users?

And why charge the high users only $1.10 per extra cubic meter of water when those that under the excess use threshold are charged $3 to $5 per cubic meter?

In our household, for example, we used 39 cubic meters during the fall billing period last year and were charged $200.

Our water use over the last three months of the summer showed that we can adapt when the need becomes urgent. But it also highlighted the need for improvement around water use, both in terms of changes we can make at the household level and by our local government.

Our local government has the misconception that since we use less water per capital than others in Metro Vancouver, conservation is not a priority. But we don’t have the large reservoirs, diversion tunnels, and billion dollar filtration plants that support’s Metro Vancouver’s world class drinking water system.

It’s also important to remember that water conservation reduces the amount of wastewater we treat at the Snug Cove Wastewater Treatment Plant, which postpones or avoids expensive upgrades.

2016 is predicted to be dry again with a strong El Nino extending into the early summer so start thinking of rainwater capture and cisterns, greywater systems, and garden modifications over the winter.

Ask your local government representatives what they’re doing now to plan for a drier and warmer future on Bowen Island.