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Headmaster heads off
Reflecting on Ted Spear’s 17 years of dedication to Island Pacific School
Land Art
Footy-families
Bowen Dad’s talk about sharing the pitch with their daughters
BIAC wants your input to help put Bowen on the map
Carbon tax grant to go into solar panels MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Teacher Bryn Hammett, Kieran, Oscar, Principal Scott Slater, Sophia and Ainslie were among the 58 people who kicked off Bike to School Week by riding to BICS on Monday.
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Livaja hopeful that BC will see NDP leadership in place
MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Elections BC announced the final results of the BC Election nearly a month after the vote, and soon after, the BC NDP and Green Parties announced they would work together. Christy Clark has said she will stay on as premier, but the Bowen-based NDP candidate West Vancouver Sea to Sky Candidate Michelle Livaja, says she sees that lasting only for a short while. “There will be a confidence vote and it is likely she will lose,” says Livija. “British Columbians voted for a change in government and they are going to get it.”
If her prediction pans out, NDP leader John Horgan will become premier. “I’m looking forward to having a government that will do whatever it can to fight against the Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion,” says Livaja. “And for me, the other big priorities are proportional representation and finance reform. Having big money in elections undermines democracy, so having leadership dedicated to changing that is going to make an important difference. Together, the Greens and the NDP say they will also increase the stock of affordable housing, implement a mental health and addictions strategy, and create a Fair Wages Commission tasked with planning the route to a $15 minimum wage.
In exchange for the calculation and reporting of Bowen’s greenhouse gas emissions, the municipality will receive a grant of $3,781 from the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP). On Monday, council approved the report detailing those calculations and its submission to the program, and also agreed to devote the grant money to the planned solar panels on the Cove Commons project. While presenting the report to council, the municipality’s Manager of Parks and Environment, Bonny Brokenshire, noted that last year, the CARIP grant amounted to $2,844. This year’s increase, she added, is a nice bonus financially but does not necessarily reflect on any improvements in the environmental sense: the CARIP grant reflects one hundred percent of the carbon tax paid by the municipality as a direct expenditure. The initiation of a Climate Action Plan is a strategic priority in the municipality’s 2017 Island Plan. Brokenshire says she has worked on carrying out the initiatives of the action plan at an operational level. “When you look at some climate action initiatives, on the surface they may seem tangential, but you don’t need to look far in order to connect the dots,” says Brokenshire. “Take enforcing riparian area setbacks as an example. This protects our streams from sedimentation, which ultimately helps to protect sea life such as eelgrass and plankton, and the carbon sequestration effects of these life-forms is well-documented.” Brokenshire adds that while it is complex, looking at carbon-emissions from a holistic perspective shows that municipal actions can make a significant difference on carbon emissions. Towards the end of council’s discussion on the CARIP grant, Councillor Maureen Nicholson suggested putting the funds into the Cove Commons project. The estimated cost of solar panels, she says, is $50,000. So far, $20,000 has been donated by the office of MLA Jordan Sturdy, and the Bowen Island Community Foundation has donated $7,000. She added that current construction plans see the roof going on the project in the next month. Councillor Sue Ellen Fast offered her support to this suggestion, stating that research indicates that public demonstrations such as putting solar panels on the roof of a public building “actually helps sustainability happen in communities.”
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Meeting Calendar June 7, 2017
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Seeking Public Comment Monday, June 12, 2017 7:15 pm Municipal Hall
Emergency Program Management Committee
Committee
June 12, 2017 7:15 pm
This summer, Bowen Island electors will be asked to vote in a referendum to decide if the Municipality can borrow up to $3 million to build it.
DVP-03-2017 650 Carter Rd
June 9, 2017 Economic Development
Bowen Island Municipality is proposing to build a New Fire Hall and Emergency Operations Centre on part of Lot 3 of the Community Lands.
Council will be considering two Development Variance Applications at its regular meeting scheduled on:
1:00 pm
8:30 am
Invested in Safety: A New Fire Hall for Bowen Island
A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 650 Carter Rd (shown on map) to reduce the front setback. The variance will enable construction of an accessory building to increase infant/toddler care capacity.
Investing in a new Fire Hall will make Bowen Island a safer, more responsible community, with a facility we can all be proud of.
Questions about DVP-03-2017 can be directed to Emma Chow, Island Community Planner 1 at 604-947-4255 or echow@bimbc.ca.
We are inviting you to learn more.
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Regular Council Meeting
All meetings are held in Council Chambers at Municipal Hall unless otherwise noted.
DVP-04-2017 1174 Miller Rd A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 1174 Miller Road (shown on map) to reduce the required rear and side yard setbacks and to reduce the required parking. Variance would allow the expansion of an existing cabin at the rear of 1174 Miller further into the required setbacks. Variance would also allow expansion to occur without triggering the need to provide an on-site parking space. Questions about DVP-04-2017 can be directed to Daniel Martin, Island Community Planner at 604-947-4255 or dmartin@bimbc.ca.
Annual Fire Department Open House The Bowen Island Volunteer Fire Department would like to invite you and your family to the Annual Open House.
Saturday, June 10 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Satellite Fire Hall 1421 Adams Rd -hot dogs, snacks and fun stuff for the kids! -smoke house simulation display -automobile-extrication display
Written submissions may be delivered to Municipal Hall in person, by mail, by fax or by e-mail (contact information below).
-learn about the proposed new Fire Hall and EOC
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Submissions may also be made to Mayor and Council at the meeting on June 12, 2017. To ensure a fair process, submissions cannot be accepted once the meeting has ended.
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More information about the applications above can be found at Municipal Hall or on our website at www.bimbc.ca/planning.
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On the calendar Friday June 2 Friday night dinner at the Legion, doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday June 6 BIAC Conversation on Land Art Bowen Island Lodge, 7pm
Saturday June 3 Tailgate Sales for Bowen Farmers: BICS 10am
Saturday June 10 Tourism Bowen Island Pancake Breakfast 7-10am outside Docs, by donation
SoccerFest at BICS Fun for everyone, cheer on your favourite adult co-ed team and give human foosball a try. Starts at 1pm, everyone welcome
Sunday June 3 Raven Speaks: Family reconciliation event Bowen Children’s Centre, 10am - 12pm Jackson Jones showed up to BICS on Monday morning to offer his bike repair services to anyone who needed a tune-up. The IPS student will be presenting his Masterworks project on “Bikes for Humanity” on June 15.
Coho Bon Voyage Release tiny salmon fry into Terminal Creek 11am - 2pm
Fire Department Open House 11am - 3pm satellite firehall on Adams Rd Martin Marine Round Bowen Race More than 100 boats start their circumnavigation of Bowen, 10am, Snug Cove
Sunday June 11 Will Stroet concert 11am - 1pm at the BICS gym Tickets available at Phoenix and the Soap Box
Bowen Islanders nominated for Water taxi crash under investigation Islands Trust stewardship awards BRENT RICHTER to arrive on the scene and start checking the NORTH SHORE NEWS
From left: Bob Turner, Everhard van Lidthe de Jeude, Michelle Catherine Nelson MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Bowen Islanders Bob Turner, Everhard van Lidthe de Jeude, and Michelle Catherine Nelson have all been nominated for the 15th annual Islands Trust Community Stewardship awards. The awards are meant to recognize individuals and organizations for their efforts to support and protect the unique communities found within the Islands Trust. Former mayor of Bowen Island, Bob Turner, has been nominated for three projects he has undertaken related to the conservation of Howe Sound: the OceanWatch Howe Sound report and website, the Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative, and Howe Sound Films –
Turner has produced seven films on Howe Sound to date, the most recent of which, The Salmon are Back! was screened last week at the Bowen Island Adventure Film Festival The Islands Trusts nominated Everhard van Lidth de Jeude for his work, over a 30 year period, on conservation activities on Bowen. The existence of the Mount Gardner Trail network, a new walking trail in Fairy Fen and ATV trails in the same location can all be attributed to van Lidth de Jeude’s work and willingness to collaborate with local organizations. For a decade, he has acted as the treasurer of the Bowen Island Conservancy and was the president of the Bowen Nature Club for a decade. Michelle Catherine Nelson has been nominated for her food sustainability initia-
tives including workshops on collecting wild foods and invasive species and her work with the Economic Development Committee and Tourism Bowen Island. Other initiatives that have been nominated within the Islands Trust area include the Denman Island Memorial Society for the creation of a “green” cemetery for local residents, the Gabriola Arts Council for its work over 20 years including three annual arts events and the upgrade of the community arts centre, and Mudge Island’s Citizens Society, which helps Mudge Island (60 year-round residents) remain self-sufficient by supporting fire prevention, firefighting equipment, and emergency and medical services. The Islands Trust will select award winners at its annual meeting on Lasqueti Island on June 20.
The Transportation Safety Board and RCMP are investigating an incident that saw a private water taxi slam into the rocks off Bowen Island last week. The incident happened just after 5:30 p.m. May 25 when the Coastal Runner with its 39 passengers and three crew, ran into Hood Point. It was taking commuters from Horseshoe Bay to Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast. “The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is gathering information on this occurrence and following up with the owner. We’re going to interview the vessel’s master and once the vessel is taken out of the water for further inspection, we’ll await to see what the damage is,” said Chris Krepski, TSB spokesman. “Once we’ve taken a look at that information, we’ll assess what we’re going to do next.” A statement from the RCMP confirmed the West Coast Marine Services Unit would also be looking into what caused the crash. Gibsons resident Karin Singbeil said everyone was enjoying the smooth conditions on the water right up until another passenger noticed the boat was off course. “I heard somebody shout ‘There’s a cliff. There’s a cliff.’ Stop. Stop. We’re going to crash.’” The deckhand bolted toward the wheelhouse, calling out for the captain to cut power to the engine, Singbeil said. But there wasn’t much space or time left before the boat hit the rocks. “And then, wham, when we hit, I was thrown forward and my face planted into the seatback in front of me,” she said. “Everybody sort of screamed when we hit and then there was silence because we thought ‘Well now what? Does it start to fill with water?’” The Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue unit from Horseshoe Bay was the first
passengers for injuries and the hull for damage. The Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft showed up to escort the vessel to Gibsons. “Everyone was happy to be back on terra firma. We were really, really lucky it did not end worse because, had he not cut the engine when everyone screamed, he could have hit that cliff with a great deal more force and I don’t know what would have happened,” Singbeil said. Pacific Ferries’ owner Ihab Shaker said he was “thanking his stars” following the crash. “We were very lucky. It could have been worse. It could have been way, way worse,” he said. The boat’s pilot is certified by Transport Canada and has made the crossing safely and on time, hundreds of times, Shaker said. In this case, he was off course. “He feels so bad. He feels so sorry,” Shaker said. “In his own words, he said ‘I wasn’t paying enough attention.’” Shaker said he’s still assessing whether the employee will face disciplinary action but he is temporarily off the job. “We all are humans. We make mistakes.” Shaker said he too apologized to the passengers. Moving forward, Shaker said he will enforce new means of making sure his staff follow operational procedures. After meetings with TSB and Transport Canada staff on Monday and Tuesday, the Coastal Runner has been deemed to be in operational condition. Unsettling as the incident was, Singbeil was back on the company’s other vessel the next morning. “Even with all of that commotion, we still got home a half-hour before the ferry would have gotten us home. It just shows how desperate we are to get home for supper and how inadequate BC Ferries’ service is,” she said.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Board of Directors of the Bowen Island Community School Association hereby give notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held at Bowen Island Community School on Wednesday, June 14 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm For the following purposes: • To receive the financial statements of the Association • To receive reports of Board Members • To elect Board Members of the Association to fill required vacancies on the Board; and most importantly • To welcome new members and invite them to learn more about the CSA! Mission Statement: The CSA supports the Bowen Island Community School as the hub of community life on Bowen by encouraging community development and life-long learning, leading to strong families, a healthier community and enhancement of the quality of life for all ages.
Administrative Services Manager for 3-4 days/week starting in late August. This role requires independent decision-making in a high-paced, deadline-driven, passionate team environment. Please review the full job posting at http://islandpacific.org/employment-opportunities/ and send a cover letter and resume to barb@go.islandpacific.org by no later than Friday, June 16th.
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Thank you, for helping FOBILS support the library Dear editor and community, With Bookfest 2017 now successfully completed, Friends of the Bowen Island Library want to express our deep appreciation to everyone who participated in this annual event. We want to thank islanders for their ongoing generosity by donating the books throughout the year that make this event possible. There are many unsung heroes during the year who are key components in making Bookfest a success - the library staff who receive the donations and store them in the shed, the sorters who painstakingly sort, pack and store the books during the year and then all the volunteers who turn up for the setup, sale days and pack up at the school. We could not do this without their help. To the Bowen Irly Building Centre for their incredible contribution of truck loan to transport the books to and from the school, our deep appreciation. And last but not least, special thanks go to our very generous landlords who continue to provide us with the space to sort and store books. All the proceeds from Bookfest are used to support various library projects Thank you, Bowen Island. Greta Smith Chair, Friends of the Bowen Island Library Society.
So much help to make another great festival! Dear Bowen Island, The Green Man would like to pass along his deep appreciation to all of the children who came out for our Green Man Festival this May long week-end. We love this festival based on the ancient drama of the Green Man and the Ice Queen. The Green Man is very pleased to have the whole festival named for him, even though some of the children cheer on our beautiful Ice Queen! But we know it is about both of them, and the lovely May Queen as well! And to the Library who made their lawn available: Thanks for allowing us to be there for an afternoon of merriement and joy! The Green Man and The Ice Queen agree on one thing: they want to express their appreciation to all of the wonderful people who were instrumental in delivering this first class event. Many volunteer hours made it such a fabulous time. The USSC lawn hosted the face painting, the wand making and the Medieval market. It looked enchanting, as a result of the decorating help of Sue Corlett, Cheryl Black, Sheila McBurney and Caroline Goodson Parker, and her daughters Lizzie and Katie. The face painters were Pamela, Brian and Meghan Creswick, and the Magical Wand crew was made up of Sue Corlett and Carol
MacKinnon. The costumes, by Shirley Wrinch, were as perfect as ever, you rock Shirley!! Thanks go to Murray, who was perfect as our town crier. But the Green Man really wants to salute the Morris Dancers, the Black Sheep! Sarah Haxby lent us the Maypole with lovely fresh ribbons, and then she organized the dancing: thanks for everything, Sarah!!Tracey Lee Hearst lent us her ‘dress-up’ box. Paulo Arreaga, of the RCMP, made sure all the folks in the Parade were totally safe. Shelagh MacKinnon also lent a hand…. Tim and Martin of Shaw Cable hung the banner in the Cove, we are so grateful! Thanks, guys…We are so very grateful to our funding partner, the CSA. We are proud to be members of the BIAC. But most of all? Thanks to all the children who came and cheered and danced and enjoyed our very sunny time together!! The Ice Queen, the May Queen and the Green Man are already looking forward to 2018! See you there! Thanks so much, The Green Man
The sunshine edition of the Undercurrent, and the Community Cup Dear Editor, Your May 26th issue was full of good stories as to the happiness enjoyed by many locals and visitors from the overdue arrival of sunny, warm weather on the May long weekend. A BIG congratulations to the Puri family for their repeat success as the winning team in the Bowen Island Golf Club’s Community Challenge, which proves “the family that golfs together, stays together.” Kudos to the Miller Landing/Mannion
Bay communities for fielding three teams. As to any concern about the liberal determination of boundaries to form, not “stack”, our teams, we are universal in our thinking and consider the island as one big, happy community. We would welcome a defection of some of our “borderline” members playing for their closer-to-home team next year, as long as they have a foursome and get a chance to play in THE EVENT that defines our course for what it was intended to be, and is…a community course. It has brought people together far beyond
anyone’s expectations. Thank you to Reverend Bob Miller for the lovely carved trophy and thanks to Jill Purdy for organizing, her mother Gwynneth Rogers involvement in co-donating it, and having it named after her and the iconic Rogers family. Isn’t sunshine great! Bruce Russell
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Six family screen-time detox rules: plug out some, to plug back in PARENTING COLUMNIST
Warning: If you’re blissfully happy with your family screentime usage, stop reading now. It was 2005 P.F. (Pre-FaceBook) when I first witnessed the addictive power of the screen. A mommy friend called her kiddos to their favourite pancake breakfast, but all was silent—a little worrisome, when it comes to preschoolers. Being a helpful house-guest, I began to search and found them glued to the biggest TV screen I’d ever seen outside a movie house. Zombie-like, they were both deaf to my words and completely blind to my presence. It wasn’t until I stood between them and the screen that I got a response—a mighty annoyed one. I managed to get them to the kitchen table, but only after finding the off-button. Fast forward a decade, and screens are significantly smaller and more portable. This convenience makes constant tech temptations and distractions endless—the beeps, that post, another text, an app, that dog video, and the endless maze of links. Sure, there’s merit to technology—educational apps, on-line banking, our prized FitBit (and what would we do without Skype to touch base with long distance grandparents or keeping in touch with our kids while on the road?) but all this can make slipping into screen dependency dangerously easy. My concern isn’t about what technology provides, it’s about what it often replaces: things like sleep, creative play, emotional and cognitive learning, exercise and yes, even the dying arts of eye contact and belly-button gazing. Seeing as screens are here to stay, I’ve got six screen-time detox rules to help ease the anxiety and struggle we modern parents face when navigating screen time and using our devices wisely: 1. Be a media mentor. This step is important because if you’re jumping at every text and tethered to your iPhone, your children will follow suit. Children watch what we do, infinitely more than they listen to what we say. Could you do 3, 6 or 12 hours without a device? Do you ever put your device away for a whole afternoon? If these questions have got your eye twitching or give you the heebie-jeebies, then Houston we may have a problem because one screen-time junkie can’t help another. 2. Set screen-time limits as early as possible - too much screen time can keep children in a constant state of fight or flight, increase their anxiety, increase behavioural challenges, contribute to sleep problems and impair their health and wellbeing. So do establish rules you’ll follow through on. 3. People and connections are more important than screens. It’s sound advice, but often overlooked. Face-to-face contact over FaceTime and Facebook is imperative. Actively
6. Establish media transparency and connection. As carve out time for face to face eye contact in your daily routine. Use screens to connect to others, to connect to ideas your responsible parents, we’ve gotta have a pulse on how and what our children are being exposed to, as they can be exposed to children are passionate about and to support their curiosity. much in the blink of an eye. Aside from keeping devices in the Gathering around the dinner table without screen interrupshared areas of our home, delay giving younger children their tions can be one of the most important house rules you set. own devices for as long as possible. Just because used phones Another may be putting your phone away while breast-feedare a dime a dozen doesn’t mean your children are ready for ing, using it as a time to belly-button gaze and keep eye conthe responsibility—nor should they necessarily have one. tact with your infant. Despite popular belief, our brain doesn’t As busy parents, it’s easy to become overly dependent on multi-task any of the non-automatic things—it just toggles devices and use them to become the homework helper, the free back and forth. Earl Miller, MIT professor says: “People can’t multi-task very well, and when people say they 24/7 babysitter and the virtual body guard who can quickly locate your teen at the drop of a hat. But without helping our can, they’re deluding themselves…” children to gradually learn self-regulation and putting limits So when you think you’re sending that text and simultaon their technology, the downsides, like the world-wide web neously listening to your child…you aren’t doing either well. itself, are virtually endless. Media can be highly addictive, and Screen multi-tasking is not only soul-sucking but a myth. The executive functioning develops over the course of your chilmore we multi-task, the more we fatigue the brain (ever heard dren’s maturation. You need to set healthy technological limits of mommy brain?). Better delineating between family-time that are in harmony with your values and connect your world, and work-time, or between your screen-time and non-screenrather than disconnect you. time means giving your children more of your quality presence and being more efficient in your work. Kelly Elise Nault, M.A. recovering-people pleaser & family 4. Put your family’s biological needs first - Are you counsellor is seeking a handful of busy moms, wanting to tame aware that light emitting from screens alters our natural sleep their busy schedules and boost their family’s patience levels, to rhythms? Making bedrooms in your home screen-free zones, join her Mommy Calm, Kids Calm Success Habitsonline parentat least ninety minutes before bedtime, is critical. Another ing course. Email kelly@joyfullyparenting.com for more info. issue is that too much sedentary screen-time can turn kids into sloths—replacing exercise and play and minimizing happy stress-reducing endorphins. Not only does this habit increase the chances of obesity but also of sleep issues. That’s why sound sleep habits and exercise need to come before screen-time privileges. 5. Mindfully prioritize your family’s emotional and spiritual needs. Perhaps, the reason so few of our grandparents used yoga or meditation was that their life was a walking meditation—filled with daily routines and chores that naturally nurtured and fed their biological needs and soul. One of the most important changes I’ve made is to make most Sundays our weekly unscheduled wifi-free days, and unplugging means we plug back in on Monday with Kelly Elise Nault and her puppet, Razzle Frazzle. Debra Stringfellow, photo more energy and zest.
Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon
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BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH www.bowencommunitychurch.org Pastor Clinton Neal 1070 Miller Road 604-947-0384 1070 Miller Road Service 10:30Service a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. 10:30 School a.m.
ST. GERARD’S CATHOLIC CHURCH ST. GERARD’SROMAN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Mass: 10:30 Sunday a.m. Priest: James Comey Mass:Father 10:30 a.m.
604-988-6304 Administration Office: 604-682-6774
CATES HILL CHAPEL www.cateshillchapel.com 604-947-4260
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10:00 a.m. Worship • Sunday School: Tots to Teens Phil James Adkins B. Krohn Pastor: Dr.
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Help Bowen become a world-class Land Art centre BOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL SUBMISSION
On Tuesday, June 6, at 7 pm come discover the exhilaration of rock balancing and join in the discussions of the inaugural Bowen Island Land Art salon. Land art (also known as Environmental or Earth art) is “a movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.” It is “art that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, organic materials, and water, sometimes with introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation.” We believe – and as reflected in the newly-minted Bowen Island Cultural Plan -- that Bowen Island is ideally suited to the creation of Land Art. Land Art could further a host of other desired opportunities on the Island, including locally-based economic and tourist initiatives. The opportunities for creating Land Art are limited only by one’s imagination and the natural materials at hand. Art can vary from the simplest/smallest creations using leaves, stones, or flowers to large-scale pieces. Materials are often free and found at-hand. Land Art creation is accessible to all ages and demographic groups regardless of background, skills, abilities, or finances. Come Tuesday June 6th [in the Great Room at Bowen Island Lodge to explore the opportunities for Land Art on Bowen and to help answer a few questions such as: • How can we move Land Art forward on Bowen Island? • What might a concerted initiative look like? For example, could we host a series of
workshops, leading up to a Land Art Festival, and if so what might the events look like, and who wants to help make this happen? This initiative could theoretically involve all island residents and tourists, including artists, seniors, students, children, youth, and businesses. The project could have natural linkages with established groups such as schools, businesses, and the Garden Club. Land Art can be thought of as a type of folk art, the reification of our sense of belonging to place, and even as a representation of our beneficent tribalism. On Bowen, a Land Art initiative might start with rock balancing and progress to the creative uses of wood, leaves, water, earth and other abundant natural materials. It might follow a seasonal arc. It could intensely involve our young people. Land Art could tie in to conservation efforts such as rain-barrel water catchment. The only limit is our imagination. If creating awesome Land Art on Bowen resonates with you please contact us to attend the salon at 7pm on June 6th at the Bowen Island Lodge (followed by rock balancing on the beach). Seating is limited so please reserve your spot. Just bring your excitement and imagination —Nexwlélexwem (Bowen Island) will supply all materials needed. Contacts: David Adams, project leader (davidjadams@shaw.ca / 604-947-0811) Chris Corrigan, salon facilitator Jacqueline Massey, Executive Director, Bowen Island Arts Council Dave Pollard, Chair, Cultural Master Plan
Bowen Island artist Guthrie Gloag has built a driftwood sculpture of a mastodon in an undisclosed location in British Columbia. This piece is a perfect example of “land art.” Lisa Wu, photo
Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club Salmon Enhancement, Streamkeeping and Education (since 1967)
COHO BON VOYAGE will take place Sunday, June 4th, between 11 AM and 2 PM at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park. Parking is available across from the Public Works Yard and gas station on Mount Gardner Road. Please join the BIFWC and Metro Vancouver Parks to celebrate our 50th anniversaries. Most importantly, please join us to see the smiles on children’s faces as they carry and release salmon fry into Terminal Creek.
Everybody is welcome. Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club http://www.bowenhatchery.org
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Retiring Spear celebrates hard work, integrity and fun LOIS BELLUK SPECIAL TO THE UNDERCURRENT
Ted Spear is a rebel. Sure, he wants his students ferociously excited to learn, but he teaches them philosophy and logic so they can form better arguments when negotiating with their parents. His senior students prepare year-long projects, compose 25-page papers, and defend their thesis before a public audience of more than 100 unfamiliar faces. And then he piles them into a school bus, drives them to the U.S. for an Ultimate tournament, and en route makes a ‘health food stop’ where the students are encouraged to buy all the candy and junk food they want. School rules include having students stand up when a teacher enters the room, publicly apologizing for interruptions, or having ‘Lunch with Ted’ – a de facto detention hall. But wander the halls on a Freaky Friday or House Lunch day and you’ll see staff in green wigs, hockey helmets, grass skirts or black robes, enacting scenes from Lord of the Rings or Hawaii Five-O. “I like to do stuff we shouldn’t do,” says Spear, sitting in his yellow stickie-peppered office on a sunny Monday morning. “We take ourselves way too seriously as teachers.” Spear, who retires this month after 17 years as Head of Island Pacific School, has brought a unique amalgam of energy and intensity to his tiny independent school, promoting a work hard/play hard culture that pushes the comfortable away from their comforts: Students sleep outside on sheets of cardboard to raise funds and awareness for a downtown Vancouver organization that supports homeless youth. Each September the school population hikes some aspect of Mount Garibaldi, setting up campsites, cooking meals, sleeping in tents, dismantling the site the next day. Every year ambitious students build go-carts and skate boards, write musicals, display their massive science projects at UBC, collect supplies for Bowen’s food bank. “I want these kids to ask themselves, ‘What’s my calling? What’s my obligation and capacity as a human being?’ Those aren’t easy questions,” says Spear. “We are asking them to take responsibility for themselves in middle school.” Middle school, defined loosely as the years between elementary and high school, is a period of massive physical and emotional upheaval and maturation. Students enter the doors of IPS as playful children and after four years make their exit secure and confident as capable young men and women. And every step in that four-year educational journey is intentional. The stamina required to teach students in the middle years is indisputable and Spear recruits energetic and passionate educators who challenge emerging adolescents to slow down for a moment, to pause and look within. Responsibilities and challenges increase incrementally so that after four years it’s logical to cede some key responsibilities to the senior students. By their Grade 9 year, IPS students plan and lead morning and special school assemblies. They supervise the daily school clean-up. They cap their year-end kayak trip with a ‘solo’ – one night where they’re given a sleeping bag, a plastic tarp and a rope, and are left alone – to sleep, by themselves, in the woods. Demanding? Scary? Character-building? Too much? What is the purpose of pushing young teens so hard? “Self confidence. Warranted, earned self-confidence,” says Spear. “They get self-confidence because they’ve done things. Made things happen. By themselves, on their own. Maybe they don’t know it right away but it’s in there, inside them.” Spear leans back in a black swivel chair, fingers laced behind his head. His office is a cosy cluster of binders, academic texts, photos of his three daughters, souvenirs brought to him after school trips to Quebec, boxes of sports uniforms, statues and trophies. A larger school might disperse some of the clutter to out-of-sight shelves and storage areas but that Spear’s command-central office seems the logical choice for drop-offs, the jumble becomes something comfortable and familiar. He pulls a favourite book off the shelf -- Sophie’s World. The novel is studied each year by Spear’s Grade 9 students, and explores the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. Over the course of the year students find the relevance of certain philosophers’ teachings in their own lives. They talk about Socratic irony, about the illusory nature of free will, about motifs, myths and dreams. Lining the wall behind him is a series of Frisbees™, or as they’re known in the parlance of the sport, Ultimate discs. Ultimate is the school sport, the raison d’etre of the three-day cross-border trips to Ultimate tournaments. Ultimate is a passing game, similar in theme to soccer, fast, noisy, athletic and fun. Teams are co-ed, games are self-refereed, and every level of ability can be accommodated in a single game. Carrying spirit and fair play to the tourney is just as important as passing the disc with an accurate throw. Ultimate became the school’s sport because pragmatical-
ly, lacking a gymnasium and equipment, the game could be IPS and setting out for adventures of his own. played year ‘round, outdoors, with no more gear than a disc And how will Dr. Ted Spear, PhD, recall IPS, this child of and a pair of runners. Complexity made simple. his, his teacher, his student, his muse, his sleepless night, his And if Ultimate is the school’s sport then Sophie’s World crowning accomplishment? is the school’s heart. Young minds entering the school at age “Zany. A zany middle school in the middle of the Pacific.” 11 or 12, examining logical fallacies and the art of the debate, learning that “because I don’t want to” has no more merit than “because I said so.” And that a simple “Who are you?” can lead to meaty philosophical answers that excite, demand and promote self-reflection. Simplicity made complex. All the year-end activities of this month will culminate with each grade’s forward move to the next, as the Grade 9s head off-island to high school next fall. Spear’s replacement, Scott Herrington, arrives midmonth to commence his role as Head of IPS and to be welcomed by the community. For the most part, it will be typical June festivities. Spear has long resisted calling these events ‘graduation,’ seeing not a culminating experience but rather another step along a meandering path, one with limitless opportunities to equip, inspire, and cultivate one’s humanity. He prefers instead, “Rites of Passage.” Appropriately, the path turns as well for Spear, who joins his students on their Ted Spear has welcomed hundreds of middle school students to his unique and rite of passage this June, leav- innovative program at Island Pacific School. ing behind the familiarity of Nicolas Belluk, photo
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The Bowen Island Community Foundation wants to send you to see Adele We’re kidding. But we do want to send scholarships to your high school student. We oversee more than $25,000 in scholarships and bursaries. That’s a lot of Adele concerts. And now that your teenager is going away to school you’re going to have a lot more free time to do the things you want to do. Hello from the other side.
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Bowen FC helps pass passion for sport through generations MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
Phil Carlington says that when his family was living in the UK, “football” was not an option for his young daughter, Emily. Moving to Bowen when she was four years old changed that, and Carlington says his daughter fell into the sport led by his passion for it. “Now she’s more passionate about it than I am,” he says. Emily started playing with Bowen FC when she was six,
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and has just completed her season with the West Van Soccer Club. Matilda Shapland played with her the whole way through, and as they finish high school, both young women have been recognized for their skill and dedication to the sport. Emily won the West Van Girl’s Soccer Scholarship for university, and Matilda was named their team’s MVP. Both young women are now playing with their dads in the Bowen FC Adult Co-Ed League. “I’m advancing in the years so am glad to be playing at all, but to be playing with my daughter is absolutely amazing,” says Carlington. “I remember one game last year, we won 2 to 1. Emily set me up for the first goal, and then she scored the winning goal. At that point, I thought: if I never get to play another game, I’m satisfied with this. It is not the highest level league but it is so much fun.” Nine year-old Ela Viziri traded in gymnastics for soccer two-years ago after several years standing on the sidelines cheering on her dad, Barash. She says that it would be really cool to go to the Olympics, but she is also looking forward to turning
sixteen, so like Emily, Matilda and many other young Bowen players, she can join her dad on the pitch as part of the Co-Ed league. Barash Viziri says that, like Phil Carlington, there was a time when he didn’t see soccer as an option for his daughter. “But she loves it, and works really hard,” he says. “This year she’s been participating in the Soccer Academy and her skills have improved dramatically.” This weekend, Soccerfest will celebrate this inter-generational love of the sport. On Saturday at 3pm, the youngest members of Bowen Island FC will walk players with the “Bowen Men’s Team” (an amalgam of some of the best players in the Co-Ed League) onto the field where they will go head to head with the Bowen Bears, players between the age of 18 - 25 who have come up through the ranks of the Club. This will give Julian Barrerra and his 16 year-old son Aure a chance to play against each other. Normally, they’re on the same team. Don’t miss out on the fun... Soccerfest starts at 1pm on Saturday at the BICS field.
Can a 14-year-old be expected to conduct a public presentation tation tatio similar to a TED talk? IPS students have been doing so for over 15 years through a program called Masterworks. Self-selected, self-directed, and self-presented, the Masterworks independent study project is compulsory for every Grade 9 student and marks a significant academic achievement at IPS. Successful completion of the project results in students gaining 4-credits toward their high school graduating program.
MASTERWORKS PRESENTATIONS
Grade 9 students at IPS will be publicly presenting their projects at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island. The public is welcome to attend. Please join us. date
time
presentation
presenter
faculty advisor
external advisor(s)
Tues, June 13
9:00am
Tasting the World: The Making of a Cookbook
Hudson Stiver
Laura Meagher
Park Heffelfinger, Jennifer Stamper
10:00am
The Sound of My Music
Chai Graham
Adrian van Lidth de Jeude
Rob Bailey, Christiian Venter
11:00am
Behind the Magic
Kallum Fraser
Ted Spear
Paul Hooson, John Malone
1:00pm
Creating a Travel Blog
Kate Honing
Charlotte Paterson
Amelia Thomas, Emmett Sparling
9:00am
Electromagnetic Radiation in Medicine
Quinn Cameron
Pam Matthews
Simon Bicknell
10:00am
Culture and History of Skateboarding
Cameron Purdy
Adrian van Lidth de Jeude
Alan Harrison
11:00am
Purple: The Process of Telling Someone's Story
Colleen GibneyTreleaven
Jennifer Henrichsen
Nina Winham, Nel Dumbrille-Meyrink, Jesse Gotfrit
1:00pm
Making my own Skis
Jackson Baker
Laura Meagher
John Chilton
9:00am
From Road Bike to Racer
Drake Nickle
Jennifer Henrichsen
Randy Levine, Peter Ryan
10:00am
The Effect of Captivity on Dolphins
Chloe Thompson
Pam Matthews
Kathy Heise
11:00am
Changing the World One Bicycle at a Time: My story with Bikes for Humanity
Jackson Jones
Ted Spear
Michael Kirk, Danielle Allan
1:00pm
The Making of a Soccer Nation
Elliott Deveau
Charlotte Paterson
Stuart McGee, Morgan Quarry
Wed, June 14
Thurs, June 15
For further info please call: 604 947 9311 or view the schedule at
islandpacific.org/masterworks
Top: Ela stuck around after her own soccer practice to warm-up her dad and cheer him on in his game with the Adult Co-Ed Soccer League Bottom: Matilda Shapland and Emily Carlington in the early days of their soccer careers.
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Join us on June 9th as we celebrate 10 Years on Bowen Island! JUNE 9, 2007
JUN 2008
AUG 2008
JUN 2009
MAY 2010
JUN 2010
Grand Opening of Bowen Island’s first financial institution.
1 year, 589 members, 2.9M in assets.
First Movie Under the Stars.
2 years, 869 members, 6.4M in assets.
1000 members!
10K Giveaway goes to the Bowen Island Golf Course.
JUN 2014
NOV 2013
JUN 2013
JUN 2012
JUN 2011
APR 2011
7 years, 1497 members, 33M in assets.
Construction on the new branch begins.
6 years, 1360 members, 26.7M in assets.
5 years, 1239 members, 21M in assets.
4 years, 1100 members, 17.1M in assets.
Banking on Bowen surcharge (BOB Fee) is eliminated.
SEP 2014
APR 2015
AUG 2015
JUN 2016
JUN 2017
JUNE 9, 2017
New branch opens its doors on Dorman Road.
First Saturday of new 6 day per week business hours.
Dick Van Aelst Memorial Gazebo is completed.
9 years, 1690 members, 43.4M in assets.
FCU creates a named fund with Bowen Community Foundation.
First Credit Union celebrates 10 Years on Bowen Island!
Come down to First Credit Union for food, refreshments and fun as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary on Bowen Island!
June 9th | 12:00 - 2:30 pm 106-996 Dorman Road, Bowen Island
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A personal history of the Orchard Cottages
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For two summers Solveig Uldall, had worked in a variety of jobs , in the kitchen and garden and later in the hotel and some cabins. A glow came over her face and a sheen in her eyes when her memory ran past pictures and events . “It was such a beautiful place with comfort and elegance surrounded by a rugged landscape, several beaches and waters teaming with life. We worked long hours but there was always time for a quick swim or walk and even a dance or two. And one day he came,” she said after a pause. “I was listening to the band in the evening and watching the dancers when he stood in front of me and asked me to dance. He said his name was Fred Talbott and he had rowed into Mannion Bay all the way from Coal Harbour in Vancouver. A couple of weeks later he showed up like that again. On his third visit he announced that he had hired on with the Union Steamship Company. The next year we got married and spent our honeymoon in the Orchard., hiking to Killarney Lake past the stables and even up to Honeymoon Lake. When we wanted to be alone we took the deer trails.” Eventually Fred Talbot became a USSC captain and the couple bought a house on the water in Cameron Avenue. When I moved there in 1964, he had already passed away. Made curious by Solveig’s stories Marianne and I visited Bowen for the first time later in 1968 on the then fairly new Bowen Queen. The two-lane Bowen Trunk Road was still lined with a number of cabins on the north side but they were already being engulfed by blackberries. Perl’s Café was open for meals and the Bow Mart for coffee and ice cream. Traffic was sparse. As we drove north on Miller Road we could see a number of cottag-
es to the right in the forest. On the winding dirt road toward Hood Point we got stuck behind a car at about ten miles an hour. Later we heard that it was Einar Nielsen, who had the local taxi and never took it out of first gear. The vistas were spectacular but the No Trespassing signs began to distract us to the point that we decided, after driving through a clear-cut Bluewater and more unwelcoming signs on the way to Seymour Bay, to return home. Much later we learned that the Keep Out signs were posted because every fall groups of merry men showed up to hunt accompanied by gallons of home-made wine. By noon they had not seen a single deer and the wine was almost gone. Merriment turned into frustration and traffic signs were used for target practice. Rumour had it that a stray bullet tore a newspaper out of the hands of the someone sitting serenely on his porch. Not long after, Bowen Island banned hunting with guns. Back then, most of the island’s roads were unpaved and some were truly “rustic.” Waiting for the ferry we had some time to walk through the Orchard and there we caught a glimpse of the past holiday spirit since several cottages were occupied and surrounded by gardens, others were boarded up. Solveig’s golden past had crumbled and we decided not to return. Our resolve changed in 1971 when a friend of ours who worked with the Department of Highways had to check out the Arbutus Point subdivision in Bowen Bay. He left me at the beach. The only sound was the rustle of the receding waves in the gravel. A seal popped his head out of the water and there was golden sand on the beach. I was looking at Vancouver Island and imagined the sunsets in summer and my children in the water…. To be continued…
Pruning and removing hazard trees and plants Bowen Island Protecting our power lines When: May 25 to October 31, 2017 Time:
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As important as they are, trees and other plants can cause significant power interruptions. Contact between trees and power lines can be very dangerous, which is why over the next few months, we’ll be pruning and removing trees and other plants on Bowen Island. At BC Hydro, we ensure trees and plants are pruned using the best arboriculture (tree care) practices possible. We employ skilled workers— trained in both electrical safety and plant care—who only use proper techniques to eliminate safety hazards. To learn more about this work, please contact Brian Priest at 604 983 8293.
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The first Sunday in June is always a special day for the Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club (BIFWC) volunteers who have worked so hard over the last six months incubating, feeding, and releasing salmon fry from the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery into Bowen waterways: 200,000 chum fry were released last month and 20,000 coho fry will be released in early June. BIFWC volunteers need help from Bowen children to release the last of the coho fry into nearby Terminal Creek. Parents, grandparents, and great grandparents can assist, observe, and ask questions about wild salmon and the importance of protecting salmon habitat. This is our favourite annual community event before closing the hatchery for the summer. Metro Vancouver Parks, an important partner of the BIFWC, is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. They will have an interactive nature-themed display during Coho Bon Voyage that will
engage ‘children’ of all ages. The BIFWC is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of our formation as a NonProfit Society in 1967. COHO BON VOYAGE will take place Sunday, June 4th, between 11am and 2pm at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park. Parking is available across from the Public Works Yard and gas station on Mount Gardner Road. Please join the BIFWC and Metro Vancouver Parks to celebrate our 50th anniversaries. Most importantly, please join us to see the smiles on children’s faces as they carry and release salmon fry into Terminal Creek. Everybody is welcome. To illustrate the beauty of salmon and the importance of salmon enhancement work on Bowen Island, check out Bob Turner’s film showing chum adults returning to The Lagoon last fall on YouTube and ask members of the Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club for details about the work we do. Thank you for your support of wild salmon.
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Registered Acupuncturist, Homeopath, Doula
604-338-5001
Mary Coleman MSW, RSW Compassion minded counseling
778-233-4425
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Hearing Testing On Bowen Island @ Caring Circle West Vancouver
CATHERINE SHAW Dr. Traditional Chinese Medicine/Acupuncturist
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MARY MCDONAGH
HARMONY SHIRE RMT
RMT, DCH Registered Massage Therapist
ALICIA HOPPENRATH RMT
SANDY LOGAN
Celebrating 29 years
Community Healthcare
NexGen Hearing Psychologist 604-281-3691
At entrance to Artisan Square Suite #597
Dr. Carolyn Nesbitt PhD, R.Psych #1484
604-376-9801 www.CarolynNesbitt.com
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Registered Physiotherapist
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HEIDI MATHER
Acupuncturist Registered Nutritionist
Life Labs Tue @ Dr. Schloegl Thur @ Dr. Zandy 6:45am - 8:45am
For routine lab tests. Specialized tests & children may be referred to the mainland.