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Snow day redux
A tricky day on Bowen’s roads, and the choir determined to sing
Work ethic
Young athlete proves hard work can take you a long way.
Fire fighters bring hikers down from Mt. Gardner MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Bella and Jasmine enjoy a snowy lunch hour at BICS.
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Council decides on minimum lotsize for detached secondary suites MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
According to the report submitted to council last week by planner Daniel Martin, the idea of allowing detached secondary suites - otherwise known as granny flats or laneway houses -has been under consideration since Bowen became incorporated as a municipality in the 1990s. On Monday evening, the bylaw that will make such structures legal moved one step forward, with council deciding that they will only be permitted on properties one-acre or larger. Out of 99 respondents to on-line survey launched after
council passed the detached secondary suites bylaws through first reading, 62 percent of people had no concerns about such suites being built in their neighbourhoods. However, respondents and people making public comment on the proposal sited density, loss of privacy and views, and a fear that these suites would not be “affordable” as concerns. Martin told council that while according to the bylaw as written following first reading, there was no proposed minimum lots size for the building of detached suites, but anyone who wanted to build one would have to comply with lot coverage and maximum floor area regulations. continued P3
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At 3:45 pm on Monday afternoon the Bowen Island Fire Department got a call from dispatch telling them to meet the RCMP on Hiker’s Trail to help out hikers on Mt. Gardner. Fire chief Ian Thompson says he immediately called the RCMP’s Chris Coulter and learned that two hikers from the city, who had started up the mountain at 10am that, had called for help from the radio tower as they were uncertain about their ability to get down safely. Thompson called North Shore Search and Rescue to ask whether they would be willing to fly over to get the hikers. “They said no, as it would set a bad precedent to use the helicopter to get people who were basically tired,” says Thompson. “They did offer to send over a team of three to hike up the mountain and help the hikers, but by the time they would’ve made it over to Bowen our guys would’ve been up the mountain, so we said no to that.” Fire fighter Colin Kerr says he met at the fire hall around 4pm. After being briefed on the situation he rushed home to get gear and proceeded to tackle Mt. Gardner from the Laura Road entrance. “I brought snowshoes with me, but that side of Mt. Gardner had much less snow than the north side, and I didn’t need to use them until the last third of the mountain,” says Kerr. “I started hiking just before 5, and made it to the top around 6pm.” Meanwhile, Ivor Kerr, Colin’s brother, brought his two snowmobiles up to Hiker’s Trail Road. Ivor and Alex Clayton snowmobiled up to the end of the skid road, and started following the footprints in the snow left by the hikers earlier in the day. Colin Kerr helped the hikers down along the Mt. Gardner loop trail. “One of the guys was okay, but the other one was extremely tired and really didn’t want to be on his feet,” says Kerr. “But we met up with Ivor and Alex within about 40 minutes, and from there it was smooth sailing.” Ian Thompson says he brought the two hikers to their car at 7:15, and they took the next ferry off Bowen. “They were both well equipped and prepared to be out there for the day,” says Thompson. “They had lighters, food, waters, cellphones and a hand-held radio. The smartest thing they did though was call from the top and stay there, because if they had tried to make their way down and gotten into trouble it could’ve been a lot more challenging to get to them and help them out.”
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25 Land Use 26 Bylaw 27 28metre setback 29 31 Current requires a 3 from30 Senior Road. An active subdivision application would increase the width of Senior CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED Road from 6 metres to 12 metres. If issued, the permit would reduce the required from the January 1 setback 2 to 0 metres 3 4 widened 5 Senior Road. 6 7 CLOSED
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The future looks bright for Bowen athlete MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Elliott Beamer with his dad, Stacy, after the provincial All-Star Awards Banquet. photo submitted
Before entering grade eight, Elliott Beamer had never played a team sport, but when he started at West Vancouver Secondary School he decided to take up football. Five years later, Beamer is one of 11 offensive players from across the province to be awarded a spot on the AAA All-Star team, he has also been awarded scholarships from a number of Canadian Universities. “When I started out, I wasn’t very big for the position I was playing so I started working out and going to extra camps so that I could get better,” says Beamer. “I wasn’t really thinking about university as something I even wanted to do at that point, but I was introduced to the recruitment process at those camps and in grade 10, I realized that it was something I could maybe be a part of.” Beamer says he started working harder at the gym, and in school. “Football is a sport where the returns come slowly. You work out all year, and then only have an 8-week long
season. I wasn’t getting very good grades early in high school, but football taught me to work hard at things and slowly reap the benefits.” Now in grade 12, Beamer’s marks have increased to a 90 percent average. His coach, Shawn Anderson, says that it is his performance off the field that really makes Beamer stand out to universities. “Being big and strong opens doors, but what every university recruiter really wants to know is, can he get in and stay in? If not, you are not particularly useful to a university football program,” says Anderson. Anderson adds that being awarded with a spot on the provincial all star team is a big deal. “In my nine years of coaching at WVSS, only one other player has been awarded this,” says Anderson. “That player is now at the University of Texas, which is a division one school. Elliott is strong but he isn’t the biggest in his position, what he really gets on the field is what he needs to do in his position to help the rest of the team. And his work ethic really makes him stand out.”
Martin Clark reads a Child’s Christmas in Wales to the students at Island Discovery School. Amy Nosek, photo
Weather holds up roads, but not Bowen Island Community Choir
J&E Backhoe pulls a moving truck up Miller Road. Kim Natress, photo
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Tow truck driver Peter Du Plessis says he’s lost track of the number of vehicles he’s moved since the snow started falling
on Bowen Island. With a truck that only has front wheel drive, he says he’s used his winch four times to dislodge his own vehicle. “This is such a rare occurrence, last winter there was hardly anything in terms of snow or ice on the road,” he says. “I think some people assume that because I drive a tow-truck I can go anywhere, but that is just not the case.” Snug Cove, he said, was one of the hardest hit areas of Bowen, while Fairweather “was like Hawaii, with only an inch or so of snow.” Du Plessis adds that he has been particularly impressed at how well the municipality has done in keeping the Bowen’s main roads clear. “Other years, your car turns into a sleigh on Seven Hills, but it really has not been too bad,” he says. That said, on Saturday afternoon, just after the snow started falling intensely again, a large moving truck got stuck halfway up Seven Hills. Jaime Weismiller says he was at the school and got a call to help out, and used the back hoe (J&E Backhoe) to pull the truck up to the Legion parking lot. “It was really no problem,” he said. Despite the challenging road conditions on Saturday, the Bowen Island Community Choir still managed to pull off two shows to a nearly full-house for both. Choir member Alfred Rahn says that when he left Schooner Lane in the morning to make the re-scheduled dress rehearsal at Cates Hill Chapel that started at 8:30am he got a ride with a
neighbour. “There were five of us in the car, and at least twice we held our breath, prayed that we would make it,” he says. “Later as we watched the snow fall, all we could think of was who is going to come to this?” Rahn’s wife, Laura started walking in the hopes of attending the afternoon performance thinking the evening show would be cancelled for sure. “She ended up getting a ride from Bowen Bay,” says Rahn. “And in the end, it was an almost packed house - the evening performance as well.” Choir director Ellen McIntosh says that normally, the choir would warm up at IPS, but because of the snow they were forced to warm up right at the chapel’s entrance. “We would end up cheering and clapping every time an audience member came in,” she says. “Really though, I would have had them sing in front of an audience of two, if necessary. The choir just worked so hard on this.” She adds that Duncan Shaw, the principle horn player from the West Coast Symphony Orchestra came from town to join the choir, as well as other accompanying musicians Brian Hoover and Shasta Martinuk, Phil Atkins, Shelagh Sparks and Terry Oswald synthesizing the orchestra on keyboard. “It was a very long day, but what could be better than beautiful choral music with the snow falling outside? After the first show, we got a standing ovation, and at the end of the evening performance, everyone sang Silent Night together.”
Detached secondary suite bylaw moves ahead, with restrictions on land size, footprint from P1
This means that on a lot size of 0.1 hectares (the size of most lots in the Deep Bay loop) you would not be able to cover more than 200 square meters of the lot or construct an accessory building more than 160 square meters in size. Martin recommended creating a sliding scale of allowable detached or attached secondary suites in order to address people’s concerns about small lots becoming too crowded. “If you had one acre, you’d be permitted 90 square metres, if you had a half acre, you’d be permitted 55 square metres, which is about 600 square feet. And essentially as you get bigger, if you had say two hectares you would max out at 130 square metres,” explained Martin. Councillor Melanie Mason said she liked the idea of the sliding scale, but asked whether it could be tweaked to provide
slightly larger buildings on the smaller lots therefore facilitating more family-appropriate housing closer to Snug Cove. “At 0.4 hectares you are hovering around 1000 square feet, which is too big for two people, but not big enough for a family of four,” she said. When Councillor Mason asked Martin how he came up with the numbers, he responded that they were created in order to address the specific concerns about detached suites on properties smaller than 1 acre (0.4 hectares). Mayor Murray Skeels noted that “we have a lot of communities outside Snug Cove-Deep Bay, so when we talk about allowing densification on smaller lots it isn’t really true. We have very de-centralized system of neighbourhoods on Bowen now... it doesn’t address doing more in Snug Cove and less elsewhere.” Skeels added that he was impressed by the number of people
who said they would be comfortable with detached suites on lots larger than one acre. Making one acre the minimum size would be clean and simple, he said. Councillor Gary Ander agreed with this point. “Based on the feedback it seemed people weren’t happy with the wholesale development of the island. People were looking for a starting point, and I think there would be something like 700 units that could be built at the one-acre level,” he said. “My personal thought is to start at that level and see how it shakes out. If we find that it is not well subscribe, we can always lower it - go to half an acre and try it out.” Council voted unanimously to move the detached secondary suites bylaw through second reading while setting a minimum lot size of 0.4 hectares, and a maximum square footage for a detached suite at 115 square meters.
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Fifteen years makes a big difference Dear Editor: Just recently Woodfibre LNG has applied to have its Natural Gas Export license extended from 25 to 40 years. Yes, you heard me right. Just after we have gone through an environmental assessment process in which we were told that Woodfibre LNG would be using seawater cooling for 25 years, LNG tankers would be traveling up and down Howe Sound for 25 years, the environmental impacts of this project would be for 25 years, Woodfibre LNG has decided to add another 15 years, just because it can. LNG Canada, Pacific Northwest LNG and WCC LNG already have theirs approved by the National Energy Board. The companies use an amendment made by the former government and supported by the present one: the option for energy companies to extend their energy export licenses even before a project is built. Of course these energy exporting companies love it. They can profit from their capital investments 15 years longer at minimal costs: the costs of the application. And even better, in case Canada decides it can no longer export fossil fuels, the energy companies can claim a lot more compensation for lost profits. What a deal! But what about the costs for taxpayers? In case of compensations, we will be paying for them together with the recently announced reduced hydro rates for LNG companies, the so called LNG eDrive. You wonder, will Canada make any money from these LNG projects at all? And what are the implications of this extension for Woodfibre LNG’s Environmental Assessment Certificate? None! There is not a word in it about the number of years the plant is allowed to operate. So much for the environmental assessment, which is not about accumulated effects over time anyway, rather it is all about how far you can go per year and not have any environmental damage to show for. The reality is the real damage is done by the accumulation of small damage done year after year after year. There are plenty of past examples of this in Howe Sound with industry. So yes, 40 years instead of 25 years is a big issue. By going through all of this again, it is hard to realize that the whole system is set up to produce certain results. Yet with all our honesty, we have been taking part in public comment periods, letter-writing drives, because we expected the process and the people behind it to be honest. It turns out they are not, we have been lied to over and over again and that is hard for honest people to accept, so we won’t! In light of this, glad we helped kill the seawater cooling. On behalf of Concerned Citizens Bowen, Anton van Walraven
Plowing priority for Seniors Road should remain Dear mayor and council: Thank you for having Seniors Road plowed after I phoned on Monday morning. The road was dangerous for many days due to the accumulation of snow and ice. Many seniors at Bowen Court do not own cars and their principle way of getting to the Cove for groceries is walking down Seniors Road. It is also the primary emergency access to Bowen Court when the hill down to Miller Road is slippery. Not many winters ago, during a similar snowy time, one of our residents fell in her unit and broke her hip. Neither the ambulance nor the fire truck were able to get to her and eventually they had to lift her – painfully – into a high pickup truck onto the seat to take her to the ferry.
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After that unfortunate incident, I requested of the muni that the priority for plowing the road be raised to prevent that happening again, and it was for some time. But now it seems to have reverted to one of the
last roads to get cleared. Please, in the name of safety and caring for our seniors, make sure that Seniors Road is a top priority for snow removal. Paul Fast
Save your stamps for children in need Dear Editor: Bowen Islanders! Please save the stamps from your Christmas cards and take them to the Bowen post office. They will be sent on to Save the Children Canada and sold to stamp dealers, with the money received being used to fund programs for children in need. International
stamps are particularly appreciated as they sell for more. Please cut around the stamp, leaving a quarter of an inch on each side of the stamp. Stamps are collected not only at Christmas but all year long. Thank you for remembering Save the Children. Susan Tennant
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Pets may be a gift, but they shouldn’t be Xmas presents Susanna Braund BOWEN ANIMAL AFFAIRS
Loic and Cole enjoy a cookie and hot chocolate while waiting their turn to shop for presents at the Knick Knack Nook. photo Meribeth Deen
Holiday driving: stay safe and sober this season Cpl. Paulo Arreaga CONTRIBUTOR
The Bowen Island RCMP continue to remove impaired drivers from Bowen Island roads as the months go by. This holiday season we will
be increasing our sobriety checks. The penalties for drinking and driving are financially and emotionally draining. Above all, driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs has the potential to nega-
tively impact someone’s life forever. Plan ahead if you are going to be drinking. Arrange a designated driver or plan to stay over. Never drive impaired or ride with an impaired driver.
If you see a driver you suspect is impaired, call 9-1-1 to report it to police. The call you make could save a life. We hope everyone has a safe and cosy winter on our little corner of the world.
Coping with grief during the holidays Managing the stress of the winter holidays can be difficult at the best of times, and even more so for those experiencing grief and loss. Grief is many things, a range of emotions from sadness, guilt, or loneliness when we experience a loss. Many underestimate the physical impact of grief. It can be thought of as a stress response that disrupts our nervous system and our body’s resilience. Just like any stressful event, grief can take over our automatic brain with a fight/flight/ freeze response. This means without even knowing we can find ourselves flooded in the moment with anxiety, irritability or with the opposite sensations of numbness and fatigue. These are natural, protective responses our body engages to help us cope, a way of directing our attention towards self care and compassion. One way to help the body and mind regulate is to pay attention to the signals of stress. Take short two
to five breaks throughout the day especially during difficult days or events, to simply take note of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations and to practise relaxation skills. Here are two practices that can be done quickly. Breathe. When you focus on the sensations of breath, breathing tends to slow down the heart rate and mind chatter. Breathe slowly in for a count of two; hold for a count of two, breathe out for a count of two, hold out for a count of two. 2) Focus on your Senses: Notice five things that you are see/hear/feel through touch. Then notice 4 things that you see/hear/feel. Then 3 things, 2 things, then 1 of each. Mary Coleman, MSW, RSW. Private Counseling Practice at Docs on the Bay and Bowen Island Naturopath and Acupuncture Center; social worker with North Shore Palliative Care Program and Canuck Place Children’s Hospice
Jay White encountered this lovely buck in his back yard. photo Jay White
“How much is that puppy in the window?” If you have ever been tempted by a cuddly kitten or puppy in the pet store window, please think again. Pets do not make good gifts, especially not at Christmastime. One reason is that the holiday season is so hectic, full of excitement and lacking in routine, that it causes high levels of stress in us and in our own companion animals! A new animal needs the exact opposite of this: she needs a quiet and calm environment where her new family can pay special attention to helping her settle into her new home. Establishing definite patterns and expectations is the best way to help everyone make a good start. It’s especially important not to give an animal as an unexpected gift. Taking on a companion animal requires thought about which breed of animal will fit best in your household and realism about the level of commitment involved: the animal will not only change your routines, he will cost you money for years. Expenses for feeding and housing and regular vet care, without any emergencies, can easily run to $1500$2000 a year. And your kitten or puppy could live to be 15 or even 20 years old. And a kitten or puppy purchased from a pet store or online is very likely to come from a kitten or puppy mill, where the mothers are bred till they are worn out and then disposed of. Below is a poem from the website greyhoundmuses.com, reproduced with permission, which expresses the tragedy of puppy mills. A better option is to adopt a cat or dog from a rescue organisation. Huge numbers of healthy cats and dogs are euthanised every single week in Canada and the U.S. because no one offers them a home. Your Christmas gift to the animals could be to help end irresponsible breeding and to work towards a world of no-kill animal shelters. That’s my challenge to you. With best wishes for the holiday season and 2017! How much is that puppy in the window? By Kathy Coffman My bones ache, my muscles are sore, so tired I have grown, I sit within the small confines of this tiny cage I call home. Many friends surround me, lots of different breeds, They too share my aches and pains, with no humans to tend our needs. I am a bitch or so they call me, I hear it’s not a bad name, Lots of puppies I have whelped, to them its just a game. I sit and watch day after day, so many puppies being born, Where do they go, what happens to them, when from their Moms they’re torn? I can see the grass growing tall and green, I long to sniff and feel it. I’ve never walked upon that field nor have they let me near it. Instead I walk upon this screen, so hard, so rough, so cold. My feet ache, my toes are sore, I’m exhausted and feel so old. My friends have told me they lived in places, long before this one, Where humans touched them every day and with children they could run. I long to have just one human pet and kiss me, and maybe play a game. I know it will never happen, but I wish it all the same. Instead they bring another dog and toss him in with me, Another litter I must bear, there’s no end that I can see. The little girl that sits beside me, cried out the other day, She screamed out loud then she went limp and the pups were taken away. She was gone but just a day, when her sister was beside me, She too had some more puppies, so small and weak and tiny. The other day they came and checked me, while my puppies were being born, “This one’s too big, she’s no use now, her insides are too torn.” They scooped me up, it hurt so bad, my blood was everywhere, They never tried to help me, they didn’t seem to care. They took me to that big green field and laid me on the ground, The smell was heaven and the ground so soft, I tried to look around. They covered me with more soft soil, I had nothing to fear. I closed my eyes and just relaxed, I knew the end was near. No longer do I imagine the feel of human touch, Or how it feels to run and play, here I have so much. There is a great big colored bridge, and fields that go on forever, I’m happy, I’m home, I’m someone’s friend. It couldn’t get much better.
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She once followed bear scat to find the low-bush blueberries hidden… Mary Greener Thompson crossed the Rockies on horseback and built a cabin with her husband in Blue River. She was a pioneer, an opera singer, and Jude Neale’s grandmother. Some 45 years after her death, Neale has paid tribute to her in the poem Wild Berry. Why poetry? Neale says that while she’s written prose, what she really loves about poetry is “how you can make something so large or so small with a single word.” Wild Berry does seem to prove this point. While the poem tells only parts of her grandmother’s story, it somehow manages to bring to life a full and complex person. It is evocative
of time and place and spirit, and a journey through the different lives a person can live in a single life time. Or, as Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate George Mcwhirter described it in honouring the poem with a Magpi award, reading Wild Berry “We are almost able to savour the fruit.” Neale says she has been writing poetry since she was four years old, but only started calling herself a poet about 15 years ago. “I signed up for a mentorship program at Humber College in Toronto and had the opportunity to work with poet and fiction writer Elisabeth Harvor for three years. It was after that that I started actually editing my work like crazy.” All that editing does not seem to be holding her up, as she writes roughly a book of poetry a year. Her latest, Splendid in Silence, contains Wild Berry and was recently one of three books awarded SPM Publications annual prize for poetry. The manuscript will be published through SPM, and launched in April.
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Wild Berry: In memory of Mary Greener Thompson She once followed bear scat to find the low-bush blueberries hidden high above the wide emerald mouth of the North Thompson river. She was still and unguarded and let the swarm of blackflies crawl in her ears down the back of her neck. She knelt beside the fruit
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