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stop Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
From left: Jim Firth, Dorothy Buckland, Brent O’Malley, Sheree Johnson, Susan Swift, Leah Walker, Janice Martin, David Adams (front) Laura Robertson, photo
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It took less than a week for Bowen Islanders to rally around the remaining vegetables in the field of Primrose Farm and turn it into more than 70 litres of soup for the Bowen Island Food Bank. David Adams says his mother-in-law, Barbara Adams, knew that Clemencia Braraton had vegetables to spare in her garden, and urged him to get to work. “She told me I make great soup,” he said. That was Monday. On Tuesday, David and Barbara went to Primrose Farm and collected leeks, parsley, bay leaves, garlic and “lots” of beets. The next step was to call the Ruddy Potato and ask for donations of some of the missing ingredients. “Next thing I knew we had another 200 lbs in produce,” says
Adams. After a positive response from volunteer chefs willing to help make the soup, Adams asked Alderwood farms for the use of their kitchen, and they responded with an immediate yes. Copper Kettle Sauces offered up any of their on-hand herbs to help with the soup making process. On Sunday, the group delivered the 70 litres of soup to the food bank’s freezer. This all came as a pleasant surprise to Sue Clarke, who oversees the operation of the food bank. “People and organizations have done this kind of thing before, but I had no idea it was in the works,” says Clarke, who adds that food bank usage seems to increase every year. Susan Swift, who helped make the soup, says she hopes that the tradition of making soup for the food bank continues. “Really, though, I don’t think we need to wait until the next holiday season to make this happen again,” she says.
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On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the stamp of approval to Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans-Mountain pipeline project calling it safe, necessary for creating middle-class jobs and ensuring Canada is economically strong enough to transition to a carbon-free economy. “We also know this transition requires investment and that this will not happen overnight to fund this change to a carbon-free world,” he said. “We said that major pipelines could only get built if we had a price on carbon and strong environmental protections in place. We said that Indigenous peoples must be respected and be a part of the process and we said we would only build projects that could be built and run safely.” This decision amounted to the last regulatory hurdle before Kinder Morgan can build the pipeline, which will triple the amount of bitumen destined for the Westridge terminal and increase five-fold the number of Aframax Tankers departing from Burrard Inlet. It just so happened that this announcement was made almost two years to the day following Bowen Islander Alejandro Frid’s arrest while protesting this plan on Burnaby Mountain. “Right from the time of the federal election, it was clear to me that the Liberals were talking out both sides of their mouth,” says Frid. “They had a lot of nice platitudes about climate change but at the same time, Justin Trudeau made it clear that he thought we needed more oil coming out of the ground and pipelines.” Frid says that the one thing he can give the Liberals credit for, are their plans to eliminate coal-fired power plants in Canada. “This is the one thing that is consistent with their statements on climate change,” says Frid, a conservation biologist. “But in building more pipelines, they are committing us to decades of tar sands exploitation. They are not investing in re-training oil and gas workers, they are just not showing leadership on this at all.” Frid says that he is prepared to get arrested to stop this pipeline yet again. continued page 3
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Meeting Calendar December 2, 2016 9:00 am Community Centre Select Steering Committee
December 2, 2016 1:00 pm Snug Cove Improvements Working Group
December 12, 2016 7:15 pm Regular Council Meeting
December 14, 2016 9:00 am Finance Advisory Committee
December 14, 2016 7:00 pm Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee
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The rainy season is upon us!
Thermal imaging cameras now available for loan through our library
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.
Bowen Island Municipality, Bowen Island Public Library and Bowen in Transition are pleased to announce that three thermal imaging cameras have been added to the library’s equipment lending program and are now available for residents to borrow through the library.
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.
If you’re looking for a professional thermal imaging camera for energy audits (finding thermal leaks etc) or fire safety purposes, you should borrow the larger Flir e5 camera. Resources for using this camera including user guides, interpretation manuals, worksheets, software downloads, and guidance on insulation, weather-stripping and other energy-saving opportunities, and rebates available, are provided in an information sheet available at the library.
Driveway runoff and culvert cleaning
To ensure safe travel on Bowen Island’s roadways this rainy season, we ask 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.
Request for Proposals: IT Support
This camera is the property of Bowen Island Municipality and was acquired through a grant under the Climate Action Plan program.
Bowen Island Municipality is seeking to partner with a single preferred vendor to supply the municipality with computer hardware, network support and management, warranty and break fix service, as well as other potential value added services that will drive efficiencies around technology acquisition and procurement. Full details of the RFP can be found on our website at www.bimbc.ca. The deadline for submission of proposals is Friday, January 13, 2017 at 4:00 pm. For more information, please contact Hope Dallas, IT Coordinator at hdallas@bimbc.ca or 604-947-4255.
Municipal Hall Holiday Hours Municipal Hall closures during the winter holiday season will be as follows:
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If you’re looking for a simple thermal imaging camera for nonprofessional applications (night vision, locating wires/heating pipes/wet spots behind walls, animal rescue, experimental art, non-professional medical self-diagnostics etc), you should consider borrowing one of the two smaller Seek Compact thermal imaging cameras that attach to your smartphone (one works with iPhones, the other with Android phones). Resources for using these cameras including user manuals and guides, software downloads and videos are also on the information sheet available at the library. The Seek Compact cameras were gifted to the Municipality by Bowen in Transition, for lending through the library. For more information about mini energy audits provided by Bowen in Transition and the thermal cameras, please visit the library’s website at www.bowenlibrary.ca
Please do not tamper with trail counters Parks workers have repeatedly repaired cut wires on trail counters placed at trail entrances around Sandy Beach recently.
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Charles Robichaud, a local film editor, says he plans to be right beside Frid and other activists in the fight against this pipeline expansion. “My wife and I have already had the talk, and yes I am willing to be arrested,” he says. “If people like me, white males who own a house and have two kids and a dog are outraged about this, the government is really on the wrong track.” Robichaud adds that as a Calgarian by birth, he’s seen the fallout of broken promises. “There numerous elections where the Alberta government promised to diversify the economy by using the heritage fund created by resource revenues. They never did that, and when the oil economy crashed lots of
people lost their jobs, their houses, and some people even committed suicide,” he says. “And now that fund is gone.” Robichaud, who has been on Bowen for twelve years, says he sees Liberal promises to cut emission in much the same way. “They say they want to cut emissions by a certain amount by some date eight years down the road, six years in they say it’s impossible - because by then, we’ve invested in this huge pipeline,” says Robichaud. “I would really like to see leadership on this. Instead of investing $3 billion on preventing oil spills, spend $3 billion on alternative energy and retraining engineers and pipe fitters in Alberta to work on geothermal.” Robichaud adds that while he is not surprised by the decision, he still finds it demoralizing.
TOP: Charles Robichaud’s sign at the recent protest against the TransMountain Pipeline in Vancouver. RIGHT: Alejandro Frid and his daughter Twyla Bella at the same protest. photos submitted
Municipality waiting on more help for sunken boats in Mannion Bay MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Last Wednesday evening, a boat came loose from its mooring in Mannion Bay and floated around without causing any damage before someone re-attached it. On Thursday, a second boat came loose from its mooring and ended up crashing into a dock. Cormorant Marine helped to remove the boat from the dock but a short time later the boat started to take on water and sunk. Senior Bylaw Services Officer Bonny Brokenshire says she called the Coast Guard, and they responded within an hour. “They mopped up some of the diesel that spilled,” says Brokenshire. “I am now in conversation with federal and provincial agencies to see whether there might be some recourse. We have the name of the owner, but no paper trail. Further action might be able to be taken through either the Fisheries Act or the Environmental Protection Act.” Brokenshire says that the municipality’s application to obtain a License of Occupation for Mannion Bay has not yet been approved, but is currently under consideration. “This will allow us to charge a nominal fee to anyone whose boats are in the Bay for more than 48 hours,
Bowen Island Children’s Centre hopes to have new wing up and running by September, 2017 14 month -old Edith Cole is on the wait-list for a daycare spot at Bowen Island Children’s Centre. Previously, parents had to wait until their child was 18 months old to get them on the wait-list, now parents can do that as soon as they feel ready.
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Now in its 45th year, the Bowen Island Children’s Centre (BCC) can claim to have put 3,080 children through its preschool program. On Monday, the organization’s board-chair, David McCullum, told council that the centre hopes to have an 850 square foot expansion up and running by the end of next summer. The additional space will provide daycare spaces for eight children under the age of three. BCC’s executive director, Ann Silberman, says she began hearing an inquiries about daycare spots for two-year olds roughly three years ago. “I had a talk with Vancouver Coastal Health’s licensing, and they were very understanding of our situation as an isolated community,” she says. “They created a variance for us that made space for up to six two year-olds in our existing space.”
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Silberman says that it was around this time that the Centre started looking for ways to expand and accommodate more children under the age of three. One option was to expand into the lower level of the building, into the area currently used by Bowen Island Community Recreation. Bowen Rec’s lease on that space expired last year. “Ultimately, we are partners,” says Silberman. “Here at BCC, it is our mandate to provide education and care for children on Bowen Island, but Bowen Rec uses that space for close to 90 percent of their programming, so it would be unfair to take that away from the rest of the community.” With the lease on that space renewed to Bowen Rec, BCC started looking into expansion. The new plan is to create another 850 square foot wing that from the current building into some of the existing outdoor play space. Silberman says they hope to begin construction this December. Before that happens, McCullum told council, the parking area for parents dropping off their children needs to be made more safe. “This is one of the two biggest traffic issues on Bowen Island,” McCullum said, explaining that there is technically only one parking space in the area, which is cut in half by the road connecting to IPS, Cates Hill Chapel and Belterra. The plan to improve the safety and parking situation involves widening the shoulders of the road and stretching the parking onto the septic field. McCullum said that the expansion project has a strict budget of $200,000 and asked for municipal help in carrying out the road work. He also asked that the municipality waive permitting fees, which planner Daniel Martin estimated would amount to less than $3,000. Council agreed to investigate parking solutions on Carter Road, and referred McCullum’s request to Public Works. With regards to permitting, directed municipal staff to prioritize permits required for the new wing and look into the financial implications of refunding the permitting fees.
creating a paper trail,” says Brokenshire. “With the License of Occupation, we could request that all boats in the Bay have to be insured. With that, and all of the money from the collected fees going back into the restoration of Mannion Bay, we would be in a better position to deal with these incidents when they happen.” Brokenshire says that boats coming loose from their moorings and washing ashore or sinking is a regular occurrence, both in summer and winter. However, there is particular concern now due to the fact that Coho have been spotted coming into Mannion Bay and the Lagoon to spawn.
The second boat to come loose from its moorings in Mannion Bay last week, is now in the Union Steamship parking lot. Meribeth Deen, photo
On the Calendar SATURDAY DECEMBER 3
Light up Bowen Starts at 6pm Village Square Enjoy singing, lantern parade and nativity scene Santa arrive on Bowen at 7:20
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
CSA Christmas Craft Fair at BICS, 10am – 3pm
MONDAY DECEMBER 5
Seniors Keeping Young, Exercises start at 9:45 Followed by piano played by 10 year-old Tyler Matzen and Yoga with Diana Kaile
Book launch: The Last Truth by Brian Thomas-Peter The Gallery at Artisan Square, 4 – 6pm
SATURDAY DECEMBER 10
Bowen Island Community Choir’s Winter Celebration performances at 2pm and 7:30pm, tickets available at Cates Hill Pharmacy and at the door
SUNDAY DECEMBER 11
“Peace on Earth” Exhibition at the Museum & Archives opens 2 – 4pm Holiday Shopping for the Kids at the Knick Knack Nook 12 – 3pm
TUESDAY DECEMBER 13
Special Christmas Lunch at the Legion, 11:30 am Beef Bourguignon, followed by tea/coffee and dessert, cost $10.00 To reserve, please call Caring Circle @ 604-947-9100. Adult event
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The beginning of a long process Dear Editor, The above quote comes from our Mayor, Murray Skeels, speaking about the housing situation here on Bowen. It jumped out at me as I feel he spoke what I see as a sad truth. In this particular article he is referring to possible development of Lot 1. It might not be such a long process if we didn’t keep studying the same issues over and over. Some of the best minds of Bowen came together with a development plan for the community lands under the name ‘surplus lands working group’ in May 2007. In another article in the same issue of The Undercurrent, councillors were fawning over the sagacity of a representative of BC Housing about solving housing issues. When asked about specific needs, his honour suggested with an amazing lack of clarity that our housing needs were “a mile wide and an inch deep.” The helpful representative of BC Housing suggested that a needs analysis and business plan would be necessary, guessing that the cost would be $25,000, but that BC Housing would pick up half the tab. This was where the “F’ word involuntarily left my lips, but harkens back to the mayors recognition of the beginning of a very long process. You see we already did the needs assessment (also May of 2007) and strategic plan (August
2007). The irony is that these reports by Eberle Planning, for which Bowen Community Housing Association fund raised to the tune of $40,000, were adopted as Municipal Policy on Affordable Housing in June 2008 and can be found on the Municipal website under “bylaws & policies.” Surely we know there’s a problem and surely we can simply extrapolate the changes from 2007 to 2016 and make adjustments rather than, as with Snug Cove Plans, doing studies over and over for decades. Let’s not quibble over a need for 50 units or 63, or get all bent out of shape over the possibility of someone making a buck or someone taking advantage of cheaper housing. Let’s just get on with healing the community by
Caring Circle gives thanks to Community Foundation Dear Editor, Caring Circle would like to extend our deep gratitude to the Bowen Island Community Foundation for their generous donation to our Connections Program which is being launched this month. You will see an article in this week’s Undercurrent about this program and you will also receive a rack card in your mail that you can keep if you think you might ever need this service. This visiting program is not just for isolated elders, who might seem to be the most likely user of this program. There are also young moms who find it difficult to get out of the house with their new baby, or people recovering from surgery who are
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restricted to their homes. So if you would just like someone to drop in for a cup of tea and a chat or to play cards or work on a puzzle or some other social activity, give us a call. This is the pre-Christmas season when the Community Foundation reaches out asking for consideration to be given to their work when you’re making decisions about charitable giving. Our program is just one of the worthwhile projects they have funded this year and we are such a lucky community to have such a dedicated group of Islanders working for the benefit of all of us on Bowen. With gratitude, Colleen O’Neil Program Director of Caring Circle
housing instead of losing citizens. There is a problem in the functioning of the municipality in my humble opinion. It may be an over focus on process instead of results; it may be a belief that the arbitrarily established 10 acre rule is some kind of sacred thing not to be messed with, or it may be that whomever controls this system simply does not have community health as their highest interest. I honestly don’t believe that there is any real political will to allow for the creation of diverse housing for a healthy community. If there were political will, there would be action, not simply more “council is considering” type headlines. Sincerely, Richard Best
Keep Bowen ‘Bowenish’ Dear Editor, I think the proposed bylaw encouraging detached suites can solve some problems of availability & affordability of housing for people, and that’s a good thing. The downsides that I see could be fixed. If given as a blanket entitlement, land values will rise, and therefore rents - and it will anger owners if you ever try to change it. Instead, conditions should be added to the law so that we as a community retain control of growth. This would include an
annual adjustment of how many suites can be built, in what areas, and to what size. This creates a little healthy competition to actually get the buildings built and doesn’t result in the effective subdivision of the entire island - which frankly scares me. Most important, we should give priority to offers that include greenways - public or private - to create wildlife corridors that last for generations. All this would allow Bowen to remain Bowenish. My thanks to everyone working on this. John Dowler
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Movember for health and for Harry MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
It’s Movember all year long for Shawn Cole.
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Movember is one of the many things Bowen Island does well. Every year, the men and women of this island get together to grow (and sometime stick on) facial hair, raise money for men’s health, and have a great time doing it. This year, the Mowen Balls Street-Hockey tournament saw six teams, with more than 40 players enjoy a day of action and raise more than $1,000 in the process. The stash-shave-down at the Pub on Saturday night raised more than $3,000. Instead of sending off the money to the Movember Foundation, the donations were given to Harry Monahan to help him get on his feet after losing his home to a fire. Harry walked out of the pub that night with $2,000 raised by the shave-down, and a cheque for $3,100 collected through First Credit Union in community donations.
Taylor Jones, Paul Whitecotton, Jason Jacquet represent the best of Mowen Island. photo Courtney Morris
For the record: some of the top mustaches of Movember, 2016.
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A lack of facial hair did not stop Julia Tweeten from participating in the fundraising for Harry Monahan. photo submitted Bowen Island Pub
Were the Beatles right - all you need is love? JACK AND SOORYA RESELS As winter settles in, with holidays approaching, the romance of cozying up by the fire with a loved one or a drink and one’s cat is conjured up. We hear the Beatles singing “All You Need is Love” on the radio and we sing along….. But, is it true that all we need is love? So many movies, songs and romantic novels, as well as poetry and advertising are all about the highs (and lows) of falling in love. Many of us have been indoctrinated into believing ‘love is all we need’ to create a happy life. Sure we need love to have loving relationships; but we’ve discovered that we need more than love to maintain them. It is much easier to fall in love than to remain in love. Falling in love and staying in love are not the same thing.
Falling in love is emotional, euphoric, exciting, hormonal and temporary. It is absolutely wonderful. It seems to just happen, as if by magic ... the birth of your child, the new puppy or kitten, finding your mate, a new flower in your garden. Remaining in love however, is up to you. It requires conscious choice and a commitment to tend to the relationship first. Not me first or you first, but your relationship comes first. Usually, after some time, one or both of you discover that you are different. Your needs are different. Your understanding is different and your behaviour is different. Inevitably conflict appears. How you deal with conflict often determines whether you remain in or fall out of love. Frequently people stuff their feelings and don’t speak their truth in the hope that
the conflict will quietly go away or their differences will not show up. Avoiding conflict may seem like the easier path. However, it is a ‘flee’ move, based in fear. In the attempt to avoid conflict, you can avoid your partner and disconnect from your relationship and from love. Here’s the better option. We can consciously choose to embrace conflict, invite connection, and raise the bar of what is possible in our relationships. We can use every opportunity to get closer, to learn more about ourselves and the other; and ultimately build stronger relationships. Conflict in any relationship is unavoidable. It means that we are alive. What if our differences are showing up to allow us to expand! How so? This is how: We recognize and accept our differences.
We acknowledge we don’t have to agree. We listen generously to each others’ needs. We wonder and actively investigate, together, what we can learn from this conundrum. When we choose to accept conflict and embrace our differences, our relationships become both a safe ground in which trust can grow and a springboard to new possibilities. Therefore, in order to maintain a long term loving relationship, we need to learn how to see conflict as an opportunity to get closer rather than something to be avoided. Then, isn’t embracing conflict a bid for connection based in love? Hmmm, maybe the Beatles had it right after all. “All you need is love.” Soorya and Jack Resels have studied and trained with
Soorya and Jack are spiritual mentors and life/ relationship coaches. They lead relationship workshops at Bowen Island Yoga (www. BowenIslandYoga.com) and will lead two ‘Rejuvenate Your Relationship’ retreat weekends in 2017 at Nectar Yoga (www.NectarYoga.ca). world renowned relationship experts Drs Katie and Gay Hendricks (hendricks.com). They are certified Conscious
Loving and Living Coaches and have worked with 100’s of individuals and couples (JackandSoorya.com).
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Ferry committee pushes to restore weekend sailings Response expected in early 2017
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Some of the young helpers who “cleared the broom” on the land slated to be a new playground at the Arbutus Ridge development. Roughly 15 families participated, and had the benefit of using weed-pullers lent by the Bowen Island Garden Club. photo Nick Mitchell
Making it happen: A park on Bowen`s West Side
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With last weekend’s “clear the broom” event at Arbutus Ridge, the building of a West Side children’s park is officially underway. Nick Mitchell, who is one of the proponents of the project, says that some fundraising is required to make the park a reality. “We have a budget of about $100,000 of required in-kind trade services,” he says. “We need timber framers, timber or someone with a sawmill, carpenters and drafts-people,” says Mitchell. “We also need another $10,000 in cash, as we’ve raised $20,000 already.” Mitchell says that a number of individuals have already stepped up to help out. Chris Kaiser-King helped with the design of a “mudkitchen,” which is a small kitchen where kids
can have their way with mud and dirt they find on-site. “This is a piece of equipment recommended by Ann Silbermann at the Bowen Island Children’s Centre,” says Mitchell. “The idea is that even very young children can play and work collaboratively without adult supervision.” He says that Noah Pryce-Jones and Home Farm Gardens have offered to help with site preparation, including building a rock wall and adding fill. Also, the Irly Bird has created an account for park builders to access what they need at cost. Paul Winny of Ecoclix did all the printing and J&E Backhoe is donating fill. Mitchell says that he would like to see the playground up and running in the spring of 2017. Donations can be made at municipal hall and at the First Credit Union.
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In its recent meeting with BC Ferries, our Ferry Advisory Committee (FAC) focused on restoring two of the sailings cut in 2014: the 7:30 a.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday sailings from Snug Cove. We thank Islanders for their input on the ferry survey, which had a very high rate of return and helped identify the sailings which are most needed by the community, especially families and businesses. It’s been a challenge to make the case, because BC Ferries insists that they can only consider a business case, unless the provincial government alters their service contract. Issues of social hardship and inconvenience are not within their remit, BC Ferries officials say. For those issues, they told us to lobby the province, and your councillors did indeed lobby Minister of Transportation Todd Stone at the Union of B.C. Municipalities meeting in September. Our case for restoration was based on the survey, BC Ferries returning to profitable operations, the precedent of restored sailings on other routes, and data on the chang-
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ing demographics on Bowen with the increase in young families. We asked BC Ferries to consider adding these sailings back for a one-year pilot. Our request is now in the system and we expect an answer early in the New Year. Other issues discussed included the recent double-lane loading experiment at Snug Cove on morning commuter runs. According to BC Ferries, the results were ‘encouraging’. Shaving 60-90 seconds off loading time at Snug Cove makes a lot of difference in getting the Queen of Capilano in and out of Horseshoe Bay before other ferries arrive and cause delays. BC Ferries may well introduce double-lane loading before long. We will give you as much notice as we can when we hear from them. We discussed incidents over the summer where large walk-on groups travelling to Bowen in the morning overloaded the ferry in the afternoon and cut off vehicle traffic. The groups had been asked to spread themselves over two sailings, but had not complied. So we asked BC Ferries to devise a protocol for such situations. They already add extra staff to handle the afternoon return, but even with that can still face overload situations. BC Ferries promised to notify the FAC when large morning crowds could be problematic, so that we can alert the community. This is not entirely satisfactory, but let us try this out and if the communications fail, we will push for stronger measures. BC Ferries reported that the ferry has been in good mechanical order, but during the summer had a terrible ontime performance (OTP) of only 69 per cent. The Bowen service gets caught up in berth congestion at Horseshoe Bay, and when the Langdale service gets behind – and it has the worst OTP in the fleet
– that has a knock-on effect on us. We mentioned our impression that the Queen of Capilano is held at Horseshoe Bay while other, larger, ferries unload. This has some truth, but is a standard operational procedure for safety reasons: priority is always given to the discharging vessel, irrespective of size, because of the cars and trucks starting up their engines. Between Jan. 19 and April 6, 2017, one of the berths at Langdale is being upgraded. During that time, BC Ferries will be providing two smaller vessels to the Sunshine Coast, sailing every hour. The increased number of sailings may cause congestion in Horseshoe Bay, though this will be offset by the more rapid loading of smaller vessels. BC Ferries has recently announced another vehicle discount scheme between Nov. 14 and Dec. 18. Their aim is to move traffic from popular to undersubscribed sailings. For Bowen, the discount fare is $17.45, about $5 less than the Experience Card fare. Consult the BC Ferries website for details of eligible sailings. The FAC reported how difficult it is for scooters to access the Horseshoe Bay terminal and requested that attention be paid to access for two-wheelers when the Horseshoe Bay terminal is redesigned starting in 2021. BC Ferries quickly conceded that their thinking had been focused on vehicles and foot passengers and seemed grateful for encouragement to consider scooters and bicycles as an important third category. We expect to have more information from later meetings with BC Ferries about the consultation process for the redesign of the terminal. Please feel free to share any concerns about the ferry service with your FAC, by sending an email to BIMTAC@bimbc.ca.
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Did you know that some kids love acupuncture? COURTNEY MORRIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
It’s true! I was as shocked as you. I remember taking my pediatrics course in school and getting so excited about treating kids. But then I thought, no kid will ever come for acupuncture. That was until I had my own kids and they started needing support. And from there I started treating more and more kids and I realised they love it! Acupuncture does not need to use needles to use the meridians and points. You can use non needle techniques like lasers, micro-currents, acupressure and tuning forks. When kids ask me how it works i say it’s helping your body heal itself. Each treatment is tailored to the symptoms and picture of what is going on. More and more parents are turning to it as it is natural, safe and effective treatment. Chinese medicine treats many childhood illnesses such as colds, coughs, digestive disorders, asthma, eczema, allergies, anxiety, ADHD, autism, headaches, body pains and much more. Every treatment I try to
teach the parents points they can use for their kids. With the holidays coming up and lots of delicious foods. Digestion can be something that comes up for families. Below is an acupressure massage for digestion and abdominal pain: Rubbing the abdomen around the belly button in a clockwise manner with your four fingers or palm promotes proper digestion and elimination. This technique can also be used for abdominal pain, too. Make sure to push in so you can feel the organs but not too hard that it is painful. For ages infant to 2 years rub 100 times For ages 2 – 5 years rub 200 times For ages 6 – 12 rub 300 times *kids are often covered under their parents extended health care coverage for acupuncture. Courtney Morris is a Registered Acupuncturist and Classical Homeopath and Co-Owner of Bowen Island Naturopathic and Acupuncture Clinic.
Visits are about companionship COLLEEN O’NEIL CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Abigail Harkness, age 6, gets an acupuncture treatment. photo submitted
Bowen Homes congratulates Mary Lynn Machado REALTOR® on recently obtaining her Real Estate license and welcomes her to our office. Mary Lynn brings a unique blend of technical, creative, and people skills from her previous career in Visual Effects for film and tv. She has also had a long time passion for Bowen. As Mary Lynn joins forces with us – Dee Elliott (Personal Real Estate Corporation) and Frazer Elliott – our focus continues to be exclusively on Bowen to serve you better. We will share our knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm with you, and we look forward to helping you sell or purchase your Bowen home or property in the future!
Caring Circle’s Connections Program launches Caring Circle has a broad vision of reaching out to our entire community in as many ways as needed with health and wellness support. In response to feedback from our community, Caring Circle is launching a new program. Caring Circle’s Connections Program aims to provide companionship to those on the Island who are seeking social contact and companionship. The volunteers in our Connections program will come and visit people in their home to chat, share stories, read, play a game or do a craft, take a walk together, or perhaps be a grand-figure to a family. Perhaps once a week – whatever works for both parties. Last week we mailed out a rack card describing the Connections Program to everyone on Bowen. In the next few months we will be finding and training
volunteers with the intention of launching the program early in the New Year. Interested in being a volunteer? This may be the opportunity for you - visit someone in their home offering connection, presence, and laughter! For the next few months we will be gathering people who want to volunteer in our Connections program. We will provide training so that volunteers are comfortable in their role in offering companionship and coming into the homes and lives of other people. Once trained, we will align volunteers with those seeking social connection at home. As a volunteer, you would not run errands or do jobs around the house. This is about companionship. Interested in having a visitor? This program is for you if you feel that you would like more social connection and
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What the Fascia? Adventures in anatomy EMILY ERICKSON MCCULLUM CONTRIBUTING WRITER
There’s an exciting revolution occurring in our understanding of anatomy. It’s called biotensegrity, and it has made a big difference in my personal recovery of health, which is why I want to tell you about it. Remember that old song: The hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone… Well, it turns out that there’s more to that story. Medical researchers doing dissections used to just literally throw out the stuff covering the muscles and bones. Then in the late 1980s, scientists began to really investigate the layers of tissue between skin, muscle and bone. They discovered that these layers were mostly fascia, and that fascia not only lines body cavities, but wraps organs and bones and muscles and even individual muscle fibres. Full of moisture, nerves, and blood vessels, this surprisingly strong fascial web forms a tensional system that supports the bones and organs of the body. And there’s more to this story, too. Fascia by itself has limited resilience, but when it’s layered within a web whose tension is maintained by attachment to struts (bones) that act as compression elements, we get a structure with whole new properties. These emergent properties include: resilience, energy efficiency, ability to expand in all directions at once, reflection of movement or stimulus response throughout the entire structure, and form held together by internal forces, meaning that you can turn it any which way and it will hold its shape, indepen-
Needle Tower, designed by Kenneth Snelson, outside the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum. This 60-foot tower has barely 14 inches of contact with the ground and demonstrates the mechanical strength of a structure in which the tension and compression units balance one another, called a tensegrity structure when not applied to biological material. photo courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum. dent of gravity, for example. So the body structure is not hierarchical as once thought, but heterarchical. The sum of the parts exhibits characteristics not available to the individual parts alone, and those characteristics are shared throughout the body. This kind of structure is called a biotensegrity structure, and the father of biotensegrity research is Dr. Stephen Levin who recently gave a fascinating talk at UBC. If you want to learn more about this stuff, I recommend you read an interview with him on theliberatedbody.com Fascia is a big buzzword these days in the healing arts, and there’s a lot of confusion between the properties of fas-
cia and those of a biotensegrity structure. Even the medical experts are still arguing about the finer points of what exactly is classified as fascia versus connective tissue. I’m more interested in the practical application of this knowledge to the health of our bodies, and one good example of this may be found in the Tensegrity Repair Series. This deceptively simple series of meditative movements is based upon recognition of the biotensegrity nature of the body—that not only are all the elements of the body connected, but stress in one area has ramifications throughout the body. The gentle movements of the Tensegrity Series teach us
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how to access deep muscle and connective tissue layers throughout the body, not just in the abdomen. These layers connect us from our toes to the tips of our fingers to the tops of our heads, and the tensegrity exercises get the layers moving smoothly as they are meant to do, gradually releasing adhesions due to old injuries and stress. Adhesions block the flow of blood and nutrients, so releasing them not only restores connective tissue and muscle tone, resilience, strength and mobility, it also enables rehydration, which is key to healthy aging. Plus, it just feels good! I got into this because I wanted to feel good—to
reduce my aches and pains from old injuries—and because I’d seen how a good friend who is about ten years older than me had flourished with this practice. I had done my first 500 hour teacher training nearly ten years ago, and although I practiced yoga intermittently, I found that it was easy to hurt myself even when I tried not to overstretch. Once I began practicing the Tensegrity Series, which I did almost exclusively for about a year and a half, the greater strength and connectivity combined with the ability to read my body from the inside began to protect me from injury not only on the yoga mat, but in everyday life as well. And my aches and pains are mostly gone too. Last weekend people came from North Vancouver, Tsawwassen and Washington, as well as Bowen Island, to attend the Tensegrity Repair Series Workshop at the Bowen Island Yoga Studio, and everyone left with new ideas for body and mind. If you missed the workshop and are interested in this gentle approach to rediscovering the strength and flexibility of your body, you might want to sign up for the Tensegrity Repair Series session beginning at the Bowen Island Yoga Studio in the New Year. It will run for 12 classes on Monday evenings from 7:15 - 8:45 pm, January 16th to April 10th, excluding statutory holidays. All but two the exercises in this slow and meditative practice are done lying on one’s back; of the remaining two, one is done sitting up and the other on hands and knees. These exercises are, therefore, ideal for those recovering from injury.
Consider visiting with an islander in need this season continued from PAGE 7 have someone visit you and share companionship. We are aware that Bowen’s rough terrain can sometimes make getting out and about difficult. Or maybe you have responsibilities at home and can’t get up and leave the way you would like to. Perhaps a little more social contact might help you feel a greater sense of connection. Caring Circle and our volunteers would like to make a difference in your life. This is about socializing with another Islander. If, on the other hand, you need help with running errands or doing jobs around the house, there are plenty of people on the Island available for this kind of work - just ask Colleen at Caring Circle. Caring Circle would like to extend our gratitude to the Bowen Island Community Foundation for funding the start-up of this program designed to bring well-being to more Islanders. To become a part of Connections, either as someone interested in a regular visit, or as someone interested in volunteering to visit, please contact Colleen O’Neil at 604-947-9100 or email: info@caringcircle. Sincerely, Maureen Witney, Chair, Caring Circle
Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon
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Happiness is homemade for Bowen`s Bean Benson KATIE SWIFT CONTRIBUTOR
Bean Benson and her family moved to Bowen Island in December of 2013. She and her husband were living in a tiny townhouse in the heart of Vancouver with their two young children and two dogs when, after much searching, they found their dream piece of mountainside on the island. They knew it would be the complete opposite of their city life and that was exactly what they had been waiting and hoping for. Making the move to Bowen has been life changing for the Benson family and Bean says they count themselves to be “incredibly blessed to be a part of this idyllic, familyfocused community.” After attending the CSA Christmas Craft Fair for the past three years and finding so many local gems and oneof-a-kind gifts for friends, Bean wanted in on the holiday cheer. This will be Bean’s first year as a vendor at the CSA Christmas Craft Fair. The craft fair offers such an eclectic sampling of Bowen’s many styles of art-
ists and vendors and Bean feels that her knits will fit in very well with the array wonderfully crafted items. She will be selling cozy, comfortable knits, all handmade on Bowen Island. Along with larger items such as blankets and scarves, she will have lots of small holiday gifts for sale in the range of $5 to $10. Bean has been busy making hand knit wraps for small jars and vases to house festive bits of nature. “They’re just adorable and so much fun to make,” she says. Bean picked up her first pair of knitting needles last year when her daughter, Journey Bloom, expressed an interest in learning how to knit. They started together at the very beginning with a how-to book a friend passed along and Bean was instantly drawn into the whole world of the craft. She quickly began researching online and in other books and soon found herself staying up late every night ... just one more row! For Bean, knitting is a slow, peaceful and thoughtful process that you can’t rush. “It’s not meant to be fast and that’s part of its appeal,”
she says. Her favourite tools are circular needles because she loves to knit in the round, creating seamless items such as her beautiful infinity scarves. She also uses circular needles with long cables for flat knitting her cozy blankets. Bean says that blankets are her favourite to create because she enjoys working on large pieces that take several days to complete. Bean feels most at home in the great outdoors, so she often takes her work outside to be surrounded by nature while she creates. If you are one of Bean’s followers on Instagram (@beanbenson) you will see where much of her inspiration comes from for her knits, as she posts stunning images of scarves and blankets being worked on in a magical forest setting. Whether she is knitting amongst a deep carpet of succulents and moss or perched carefully on the rocky edge of the mountainside, Bean often looks like a forest fairy in her workspace. When the wet and cold West Coast weather rolls in, Bean retreats inside and knits by her crackling wood stove
with a cup of tea and some good music. She says she’s really into chunky knits at the moment – warm, thick and durable wool blends – because she’s always looking for maximum coziness and easy care. Over the next few years, Bean would like to begin custom creating her own yarn. She is already well into researching what will go into spinning and dyeing her own wool and she is poring over blueprints to build her own spinning wheel. “My dream is to create lasting, handmade pieces on my quiet mountainside,” she says. “To me, that is happiness.” Make sure you visit Bean’s table at the CSA Christmas Craft Fair at BICS on Sunday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bean Benson will be selling her knitted products alongside plenty of other Bowen Island artisans and vendors at the CSA Christmas Craft Fair on Dec. 4. photo submitted Bean Benson
The Magnificat of “Yes” The Rivendell community invites you to join us for our pre-Christmas Open House At Rivendell Retreat Centre on the top of Cates Hill December 4, 2016 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. We will pause at 4:00 to gather round our traditional candlelit tree, to tell some stories, and to reflect together in the spirit of Christmas. This year our theme comes from Mary’s song The Magnificat. Mary says “Yes” in the midst of many unknowns and great uncertainty. We are invited into our own YES in the midst of the uncertainties of our own times.
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31st Annual CSA Christmas Craft Fair Sunday, December 4th, 2016 Fair 10:00 am - 3:00 pm t f a r m uth aCm – 12:30Rpm o Y 0 BICS Gym e 10: 0 -Purpos Multi
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BRIAN THOMAS-PETER Author The Last Truth published by Unbound Press
- a psychological journey towards mayhem, and the struggle to find meaning and hope, before all is lost. Sunday, December 4 Gallery @ Artisan Square 4 pm - 6 pm Admission by donation Q&A and Reception to follow reading
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The Last Truth: Forensic psychiatrist delves into fiction Book launch for Brian Thomas-Peter, Sunday at the Gallery at Artisan Square
MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
In 1982, Brian ThomasPeter joined a high-security forensic psychiatry service and worked primarily with young personality-disordered offenders whilst studying for a PhD. Understanding and working with those with damaged and difficult backgrounds became his life’s work. He trained others to do
this complex work, too, in Australia and the U.K., and was in demand to provide expert psychological evidence in major criminal trials in the UK and advice to Parole Boards and Inquiries. While teaching doctoral students at the University of Birmingham, Thomas-Peter started an academic exercise aimed at ensuring his students would know how to identify, assess and manage personal-
ity disorders. The project got so big, he figured he would need to get creative in order to ensure anyone bothered to read it. The result is his first work of fiction: The Last Truth. Peters-Thomas says that this work challenged him in many ways. “As a clinician I’ve done a lot of writing but, of course, this is a very different style of writing,” he says. “The thing
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that was really problematic is that in my previous work,
I had a suit of armour on that helped me to deal with very difficult and horrifying material. Writing this, there were times I just had to stop because I was engaging with it in a different way. Also, I have not enjoyed reading this work during the editing process.” Peters-Thomas says that as this work came about as a teaching tool, it is his hope that members of the public will come away with a strong
understanding of psychological disorders as well. “I want people to know that none of us is very far away from people suffering from various disorders. I also hope to clarify the belief that mental illness is equated with violence and want people to understand that in order to help people who are suffering to live safely in our society, we must radically change the kind of services we offer to them.”
“Creating safe communities means protecting the environment and the people.” – Dion Arnouse, Emergency Management Consultant, Kinder Morgan Canada
Trans Mountain’s emergency management team has connected with over 100 Aboriginal communities along the BC-Alberta pipeline route. We assess each community’s capacity to respond to a civil emergency, then provide support to upgrade emergency response skills accordingly. The primary objective is to ensure an organized response to a spill. However, as the chances of a spill are low, local residents who are trained well with a safety mindset are equally prepared to respond to a more likely natural event, such as a fire, flood or ice storm. Putting safety first is our number one priority.
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There is a constant focus on community safety, emergency preparedness and environmental protection.
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Emergency preparedness training benefits include skills in dealing with all hazards, including fires, floods and extreme storms.
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To date, 40 Aboriginal communities located along the pipeline and marine corridor in British Columbia and Alberta have signed Mutual Benefit Agreements.
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For both Trans Mountain and Aboriginal training, we conduct exercises and drills year-round in all seasons and conditions – on land, water, even on ice – throughout the entire system.
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We have connected with more than 100 Aboriginal communities along the entire pipeline route.
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There are 15 equipment caches along the pipeline and over $3 million will be invested in new emergency response equipment.
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BICC Winter Concert to be a Musicological Journey CHERYL HUTTON CONTRIBUTOR
Richard Wagner believed that the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was proof that music works better with words. This was in opposition to the idea at that time of instrumental music being “absolute music.” Music history or historical musicology, like art history, researches music over time. In order to analyze a piece of music better it is sometimes broken down to simpler and smaller parts. And that’s where our Musicological Journey primer begins. Let’s say you take a song like “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” However, you change the name to “A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas” (Craig Courtney). Then you break it down into 12 smaller parts, one for each of the 12 days. Now, you assign a specific music composer to each of those 12 days from various countries around the world (France, Rome, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russia and United States) in chronological order! But here’s the rub — you still continue to sing “The Twelve Days of
The Bowen Island Community Choir warms up for last year’s concert at Cates Hill Chapel. Its Winter Concert takes place Dec. 10. photo Julie Saxton Christmas” on top of the variations of composition, anywhere from Gregorian chant to early 20th-century Sousa. If this sounds amazing, it is! The remarkable Ellen MacIntosh, musical director, brings a new “best” to the choir’s repertoire. Not to mention how extremely versatile accompanist Sheilagh Sparks has to be in performing and quickly switching from each of the famous classic works. Come and try to see if you can match the composer and style with the correct day. Helpful hints: Plainchant, Wagner, Mozart, Haydn, Sousa, Strauss, Rameau, di Lasso, Saint Saëns, Vivaldi,
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Offenbach and Tchaikovsky. And if that isn’t enough, MacIntosh has pulled together a wonderful supporting program of songs this year to delight all ages. The choir invites you to join it for an enchanting celebration of the musicology of sound and words! The BICC Winter Celebration Concert will be held Dec. 10 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at Cates Hill Chapel. Tickets are available at the pharmacy and at the door: adults $15, seniors and students $10, children (aged 6 to 12) $5. Make sure to secure your tickets soon as December concerts usually sell out.
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