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A senior on the edge of homelessness MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
LEFT: Carol Fancy after shaving her head, to donate for the creation of wigs for women with cancer. Right, Carol walking up Eaglecliff Road (2016).
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Every face that whisks by brings a memory, says Carol Fancy. At the bank she sees adults who she knew as babies and small children. At the Village Baker she sits in “Carol Cram’s chair,” and then she recalls her 77th birthday, on November 10. “I told them it was my birthday up at the pharmacy and they said, double digits! That’s good luck, so they sent me straight to the General Store to buy a lottery ticket,” says Carol. “I got there and saw Michael Epp, I said Michael, I have no one to sing me happy birthday, so he sang it for me right then and there.” Carol Fancy says she has been on Bowen Island for 31 years, living either as a renter or a house-sitter. Currently, the place she calls home is a very small space that she rents for $550 per month. “John, my support worker, came to see me and said I can’t live there, it’s not meant to be a permanent living space,” says Fancy. “Well, I know that but it’s what I’ve got. Well, he is taking me for an interview somewhere on the North Shore where maybe I could live. Well, I’ll do the interview but I’ve found out that the place he is taking me costs more than $2,000 per month for a room and I can’t afford that anyways.” When asked what she needs she says: A place to live here on Bowen Island, and love. If you can help Carol out, you can contact her through Silvaine Zimmerman.
Metro chooses “Heritage Coho carry hope for Option” for Davies Orchard 2017 salmon returns MERIBETH DEEN
EDITOR
On Friday November 24, the board of Metro Parks voted unanimously to support the second of the two options it offered to Bowen Islanders for the “revitalization” of Davies Orchard. This Heritage Plan means six of the existing cottages (two of which are in need of major renovations) will remain standing and four will be demolished, as opposed to
the Open Space plan which would have seen more cottages torn down. Members of Bowen Island Heritage say this plan still fails to honour the important history of the area and is being forced upon a large group of Islanders who want more cottages restored. “This is rot by design,” says Bowen Heritage member Hans Behm. “We have tried very hard over 26 years to save those cottages, but in the past decade progress was stalled. Their study stated
they were not beyond repair, but their sorry state is the doing of Metro Parks. As for the designs they are choosing for us, well, we never had any input on them.” Behm, other Bowen Islanders and a representative of the Vancouver Marine Museum attended a Metro Parks meeting on November 8, where Behm intended to present a petition with the signatures of more than 500 Bowen Islanders supporting a plan to keep all cottages standing.
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According to Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club President Tim Pardee 10 coho salmon have been spotted swimming into Bowen’s lagoon in the past week. This is very good news, he adds, because other than a few spotted last year, coho have not been seen coming into Bowen waters in a decade, and a strong return of them would mean that at least one kind of salmon has returned to our fresh water streams this season. Pardee says members of the Fish and Wildlife Club were anticipating a return or
pink salmon towards the end of August, but they did not come. “We released 100,000 pink eggs for the first time two years ago,” says Pardee. “They spend two years in the ocean before spawning, so this was the year for them to return. Unfortunately, the number of pink that returned to Squamish was also low, so low that we will not get more eggs to release this year.” After last year’s record return of roughly 1,200 chum to Bowen’s lagoon, salmon-watchers had their eyes on the waters of Mannion Bay hoping for another strong return this October and November.
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Meeting Calendar December 04, 2017 7:00 pm Public Hearing
December 06, 2017 1:00 pm Emergency Program Management Committee Meeting
December 11, 2017 7:15 pm Regular Council All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.
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Notice of Public Hearing
Seeking Public Comment
7:00 PM on Monday, December 4th, 2017 in Council Chambers Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island
7:15 PM on Monday, December 11, 2017 in Council Chambers, Municipal Hall
Bowen Island Municipality Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 439, 2017 Bowen Island Municipality Land Use Bylaw No. 57, 2002 Amendment Bylaw No. 440, 2017 GRAFTON LAKE LANDS Amendments to the Official Community Plan and the Land Use Bylaw are being considered by Bowen Island Council for a series of properties surrounding Grafton Lake in the centre of Bowen. Highlights of the proposed development include:
• Permit the development of up to 120 market dwelling units; • Provide 45 units of affordable housing, in a mixture of rental and home ownership dwellings; • Expand the site for the Orchard Recovery Centre, and allow Recovery Care Housing for up to 40 clients on their site; • Dedicate 91-hectares (227 acres) of land as a Nature Preserve; and • Provide land for a municipal water treatment plant to serve the Cove Bay Water System
Starting Monday November 27th, 2017, the proposed bylaw and background material may be viewed at Municipal Hall between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays) or on the Municipal website at www.bimbc.ca/planning.
For DVP-08-2017 (1160 Ecclestone Rd) A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 1160 Ecclestone Rd (shown on map) to reduce setback to the sea, increase deck projection into a setback, and increase height of a stairway within a setback. Variance will enable additions to the house and decks to help facilitate aging in place.
The application may be viewed at Municipal Hall between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays) or on the Municipal website at www.bimbc.ca/planning.
Written submissions may be delivered to Municipal Hall (contact information below): • In person • By mail • By fax • By email to bim@bimbc.ca Submissions may also be made to Mayor and Council at the meeting: To ensure a fair process, submissions cannot be accepted once the meeting has ended. Questions? Please contact Emma Chow, Island Community Planner 1, at 604-947-4255 or by email at echow@bimbc.ca.
Written submissions may be delivered to Municipal Hall (contact information below): • In person • By mail • By fax • By email to bim@bimbc.ca Submissions may also be made to the Mayor and Council at the public hearing. To ensure a fair process, submissions cannot be accepted once the public hearing has ended.
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On the calendar Friday December 1
Family Place Festival of Trees Decorating Party at the USSC Lawn by the Marina, 3 4:30pm
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War of the Blink: A story older than all of us, that we need right now
Tuesday December 3
Bowen Island AA 7:15 Collins Hall
Thursday December 7
Duplicate Bridge, 6:45 - 10pm at Bowen Court For more information, please call Irene at 2955.
The Ladies Madrigal Singers Cates Hill Chapel, 7:30 pm It’s a Wrap, Gallery at Artisan Square Opening reception 7 -9 pm
Saturday, December 9
Dinner at the Legion Doors open at 5:30, dinner starts at 6pm Jazz Night at the Bowen Island Pub 7 - 9:30 Featuring Stephen Fisk, John Stiver, Steve Smith and Buff Allen
Bowen Island Winter Market 10am - Noon, BICS Knick Knack Nook Kids Shopping Day For children ages 3 - 12. The Nook will be closed to adults ALL DAY
Saturday, December 2
Bowen Island Community Choir (BICC) winter concerts 2 & 7:30pm, Cates Hill Chapel
Sunday, December 3
A Merry Beary December Bash Bowen Island Museum & Archives 12 - 2pm Teddy Bear Exhibit Runs until Dec 28
Light Up Bowen, starts in Cates Village 6pm CSA Craft Fair at BICS 10am - 3pm
Sunday, December 10
Monday December 4
SKY will have exercise at 9:00, coffee at 9:45, author Pauline Le Bel talking about her book at 10:00, and Yoga at 11:00.
West Coast Symphony Winter Concert 2pm in the BICS gym, admission by donation Rivindell Community Open House A Blessing of the Light, 2:30 - 5:30pm
Islanders doubt Davies Orchard Plan Behm was given the chance to speak, but was cut off before being able to present the entirety of his idea. “With the $1.3 million they had planned to use to destroy four cottages, Bowen Islanders, with the commitment of 23 local contractors who have volunteered their time, could rebuild the six cottages that are currently in a state of disrepair,” explains Behm, “but I never got far enough in explaining this plan. I was cut off after 5 minutes.” Jeff Fitzpatrick, Division Manager for Metro Parks, says a copy of the petition was included in the report
to “the committee”. “There was a lot of public engagement done on this project,” says Fitzpatrick. “In total, we had 226 surveys completed as part of the engagement process.” The cost of the project is now stated to be $2.1 million, which Fitzpatrick attributes to having had more in-depth conversations with contractors. He adds that a more detailed design for the Orchard will be released in 2018, but offers no time-line on when construction might begin. Judi Gedye, also with Bowen Heritage, says she is skeptical about any revital-
ization plan moving forward: “I think all we are going to see is some cottages being torn down”, says Gedye. “The saddest part is that if Metro would engage better with the community, that kind of money could be leveraged or simply used far more effectively so that more of what Bowen Islanders care about could be saved and put to some really interesting uses. We are losing evidence of several wonderful decades of our resort era which has always been important for Snug Cove and should be for Crippen Park.”
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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas new graphic novel, War of the Blink, is based on an old but true story, and the author and artist says its re-crafting in this form was inspired by what he sees in the world today, and right here on Bowen Island. “It’s a story of two communities meeting, one from what is now Canada, and the other from Haida Gwaii. The two communities have different languages and different cultures,” explains Yahgulanaas. “In the one community a young many suffering from an overdose of aggression and testosterone convinces someone of more influence to go to the other community and knock heads, and off they go. The story ends with a sort of duel that allows both communities to save face. In actual fact, these two particular communities continue to have a positive and enduring relationship.” Yahgulanaas says that while the story is in part about conflict resolution (“there are better ways to solving a conflict than slaughtering one another,” he says) it is also about the wealth of knowledge that Canada has chosen to ignore.
“It is a tap on Canada’s shoulders, it is a critique that there is so much sophisticated problem solving readily available and it is being ignored,” he says. “Taxol, one of the key components in breast cancer treatment, it comes from a tree in my community. This is one example of that sophisticated knowledge. Conflict and the rules of engagement, and systems of resolving that conflict, are complex, and that’s what is pointed to in War of the Blink.” Bowen Island does this as the First Nations history of the place is continuously dismissed. “We keep hearing that this was just a stopoff place,” says Yahgulanaas. “But we know that human remains have been found by an archeologist, and removed. We ought not to sanitize Bowen Island and its relationship to the Skwxwú7mesh snichim speakers. If we are willing to engage in a relationship, we will tap into a treasure box of resources.” Yahgulanaas first created War of the Blink as a mural, and it was displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He is currently working on a mural for the Seattle Art Museum that will be displayed in 2018, he says that will eventually become a book as well.
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Fireplaces to be licenced, eventually banned? Dear Editor, Metro Vancouver wants to licence all fireplaces and stoves. Then eventually restrict their use. Makes you wonder why Bowen Island is part of Metro Vancouver. Controlling wood smoke in major cities might make sense but not on windy Bowen Island. We lose our power so much due to blown over trees! Please go on line and make your opinions known. Go to www.metrovancouver.org and search “residential wood smoke”. Then send your thoughts to: RWB@metrovancouver.org John O’Donnell
Mannion Bay Dear Editor, Thank you for the frontpage coverage on the recent havoc an unforgiving Mother Nature caused with the sinking of two boats and the beaching of another three in Mannion Bay. As a resident in the bay for 75 years, I believe we can expect more such mishaps due to its exposure to the strong winter storms. While a long-time advocate for the cleanup of the bay, my heart nonetheless goes out to the five affected owners and especially the owners who advised the municipality of their willingness accept responsibility for the salvage
costs, thereby sparing the taxpayers a substantial cost that in the past has all too often been at our expense. There is a lesson to be learned from the foregoing incidents and the expression, “it is an ill wind that blows no good.” There is a strong case to be made for all caring and responsible boat owners NOT to anchor their boats in Mannion Bay from October 31st to late April, as the bay is a precarious, unforgiving exposed body of water with frequent high winds from the south east. I know, as I watch them all winter long! Bruce Russell
Seeing things anew: G-day welcomes a girl into adolesence, and heals old wounds MARY LETSON SUBMISSION
I took a friend’s 12 year old daughter to G Day - a day long rite of passage signaling, celebrating and supporting 10 – 12 year old girls on the cusp of womanhood. I could have really used an event like this when I was a preteen in the mid 70’s. My entry to womanhood was a little like parachuting from a low flying plane into a foreign country without a road map, all the while attempting to navigate in a new body (that seemed to arrive overnight) that I didn’t recognize nor understand. I look back on that phase of my life with regret. I know. Not healthy. But I have scratched below the surface of regret and discovered a gift – three gifts in fact. Three dear friends (one of whom is Madeleine Shaw, creator of G Day!) All have amazing pre-teen daughters who I love to spend time with. Anything I can do to be a fun and supportive mentor during their pending hormonal maelstrom is a gift for me. They are my antidote for any lingering regret. When G Day came along I jumped at the chance to
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secure tickets, book off my day and treat Elan. Who knew what morsels of joy and wisdom we might discover and share? And a bonus was Elan was super excited to attend G Day and her parents were thrilled for her to attend with me. Mutually positive anticipation is a beautiful thing to share. Elan and I arrived at the Ismaili Centre, an architecturally stunning oasis in the heart of Burnaby. A perfect venue for G Day. The day began with 120 girls and me along with the rest of the 80 attending adults (champions) enjoying a heartfelt welcome including Coast Salish speaker Rebecca Duncan describing among other things the hand language for welcome and goodbye: arms outstretched with palms up. The spirit of the day was set: this is your day, have fun, and we are all in this together! The girls and champions cantered through their own programming for the rest of the day with speakers and topics tailored to each group. The champion’s speakers ranged from the director of the Dalai Lama Centre Fiona Douglas Crampton speaking on “Educating the Heart” to Lori Boland of the WYCA Culture Shift Program expertly outlining the tools for media
literacy and critical thinking to help us navigate the quagmire of sexualized advertising and social media. This is a topic that could potentially leave you feeling depressed, discouraged and at a loss for the future of our girls but in fact I felt the opposite, as the speakers brimmed with hope, inspired stories and coaching strategies encouraging us to spearhead the “teachable” moments when they present themselves. The G Day finale was a perfect celebratory triptych. The champions sang the girls up a spiral staircase (amazing), followed by a dance party (I danced like a 12 year old) and donuts. Elan and I chatted about our day as we headed back to the North Shore with the late afternoon sun striking the mountains framed against blue-black clouds. Inspired and energized by G-day, Elan chattered away candidly about her experience. I listened intently, honoured to share the day with her. Reveling in the unexpected late afternoon sun we strolled Ambleside Beach and came upon the Coast Salish Welcoming Totem Pole with arms outstretched to the sea. A totem I’ve passed a thousand times but saw for the first time that
afternoon – thanks to Elan. Thanks to G Day. A totem that seemed to be welcoming Elan to the wild and wonderful landscape of womanhood that’s just around the corner. Road maps at the ready when she is.
Elan and the Welcoming Pole.
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First Credit Union establishes Food Bank thanks donors and a Community Initiatives Fund tireless volunteer, Sue Clarke JULIA MCCAIG SUBMISSION
First Credit Union has established a fund with the Bowen Island Community Foundation to support community initiatives on Bowen
Island. This fund continues FCU’s tradition of supporting their local community — the organization has established funds with community foundations in each of the communities in which they operate. The initial invest-
Sue Clark co-founded the food bank with Angie McCullough 20 years ago, and has been volunteering to keep it running ever since.
ment of $5,000 will be added to by FCU annually, and will help finance community grants provided through the Community Foundation’s Community Impact Fund. Thank you First Credit Union!
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Kevin Manning (left), First Credit Union Bowen Island Branch Manager, and Soren Hammerberg, Bowen Island Community Foundation Chair, celebrate the opening of FCU’s new fund to support community grants on Bowen Island.
The Food Bank is so grateful for all the organizations and individuals that support us year-round. It allows us to provide more food security here on Bowen Island. At Christmas, it is natural for us to say THANK YOU for all your “in-kind” donations that appear on our shelves week after week. Our guest book near the Food Bank frequently includes heart warming notes of thanks and gratitude from those who access the food bank. And if anyone doesn’t know, the main volunteer for the Food Bank is Sue Clarke, pictured above. So we want to publicly acknowledge and thank her for her energy, dedication
and commitment. Virtually every morning Sue checks the shelves and freezer to make sure there is a variety of food available, and also does the weekly shopping to make that possible. Sue and Angela McCulloch originally founded the food bank, over twenty years. This “pantry-style” Food Bank is always open, 365 days a year, in the front of the Little Red Church. If you care to make a donation, particularly at this time of year of gratitude and giving, please make your cheque payable to The Bowen Island United Church, with “Food Bank” written on the memo line on the cheque, and you will receive a tax receipt in the new year. MERRY CHRISTMAS from all of us at The Little Red Church.
Giving on Bowen Bowen Island Memorial Garden
THANK YOU Thank you to the board of the former Bowen Island Health Centre Society, who were instrumental in laying
Memories... quiet thoughts.... to counteract the activities of an ordinary day, all these are the heart of a memorial garden.
the groundwork for the
Did you know that Bowen Island has just such a garden? It exists and is a place of meaning for friends, neighbours and strangers alike where families can have plaques installed in honour of loved ones who are no longer with us. The present memorial garden consists of one acre of leased land from Metro Vancouver Parks and is located in Crippen Park across from Snug Cove with easy access from Cardena Road. You may order a memorial plaque on our website and we will install for you on one of our garden archways. Bequests and donations are ways to contribute to our Bowen Island Memorial Garden. Membership and involvement of time and interest above all are key to the success of a vital living memorial society. As a registered charity we will be happy to give tax receipts for all donations of $10.00 and over.
Foundation, including Maureen Mackey, Pieter Verwey, Bud Massender, Susan Howe, Jaye Routledge, and Paul Stafford. Thank you to Jaye Routledge and Jane Henley for their
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Bowen Island Arts Council (BIAC) The Bowen Island Arts Council is so grateful to this community – our local government, our supporters, members, volunteers and partners. It’s been a busy and productive year, and 2018 is shaping up to be no less stellar. We’ll be opening the doors at the Cove Commons, implementing the new Cultural Plan for Bowen, delivering our ongoing array of services and programs that build community capacity and enhance the experience of calling this gem of an island home. During this season and always, we wish our neighbours beauty and creativity, peace and joy – all obtainable, we might add – through expressions of art.
Illustration courtesy of Ron Woodall
Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation
Bringing health care close to home The goal of the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation is to open a health centre on Bowen Island. Our community health centre will greatly improve on-island access to primary and urgent health care. This is a critical and basic need, close to the hearts of many Bowen Islanders, with wide support in the community. The path to a goal is never a straight line. We have recently learned that we may have to refocus our efforts on a new location, and we are already addressing this challenge.
A community effort
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Thank you to the dedicated group of our friends and neighbours who have been working tirelessly for over four years to make accessible healthcare a reality on our island home. Thank you to our current board members: Tim Rhodes, Colleen O’Neil, Ken McArthur, Bill Brown, Cro Lucas, and Dr. Bruce Wallace; and to our past board members: Dr. Susanne Schloegl, Dr. Gail Eyssen, Sylvie Vander Cruyssen, Derek Long, and David Leishman.
assistance with the clinical service model, and to Sheree Johnson and Dan Roden for their assistance with our communications. Thank you to all the experts who have offered their time and advice to the board and its committees. And thank you to the many generous Bowen Islanders whose commitments over just the first 3 months of our capital campaign total $1 million. We are well on our way to our goal of $2 million.
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Service is a foundational principle at Island Pacific School BARB BINGHAM SUBMISSION
Whether enjoying tea with a new, much older friend, building a local trail, or stacking blocks into a tower with preschool students, service experiences provide meaningful learning for middle school students. Service is a foundational principle at Island Pacific School. We believe that service starts at home and school and spreads to the world around us. Grade by grade community service happens monthly and on an ongoing basis over the school year. We gift a wholeschool service day to the community every December. IPS uses a teaching model that combines volunteer service with classroom learning. The aim of the program is to instill a sense of citizenship and civic engagement in response to the needs of a ‘community’ and create long-term relationships with community partners. It is further linked to the International Baccalaureate values of Action and Service: “Students take action when they apply what they are learning in the classroom and beyond. IB learners strive to be caring members of the community who demonstrate a commitment to service—making a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment.” Before students engage in service projects they are asked to try to understand the current needs of the community partner, and plan to commit in a way that will be relevant and of benefit for others. After participating,
they reflect on how they felt whilst participating, what they learned, and how their actions affect others. After a recent visit to the Bowen Seniors Centre one student said “I felt good, because I got to hear all their stories and it made them happy that we cared for them.” Another commented, “I learned a lot about where some of the people came from and what life was like when they were my age. I also learned that seniors are very fun to talk to!”
I felt that I was included and treated as a respected citizen, not a child. Being of service also creates a sense of agency in students that they can become active members of the community. After being involved with Bowen Island Trails in November, one student wrote, “I felt that I was included and treated as a respected citizen, not a child. I also felt as though it was a learning experience; it has made me more interested in trails.” Over the last year IPS student’s learned from local opportunities with Bowen Children’s Centre, the Bowen Food Bank, Bowen Senior’s Centre, Great Canadian Shoreline Clean Up.
Grades sixes and sevens helping out at Collinsia Farm with Sue Ellen Fast. photo submitted
Giving on Bowen Bowen Island Community School Association (CSA) 1041 Mt Gardner Rd V0N 1G2
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.
What does the CSA do?
Bowen Children’s Centre (BCC) Infant & Toddler Centre 650 Carter Rd, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2 With thanks, The BCC Infant & Toddler Centre Fundraising Committee Joseph Cooke Andrea Layzell Caroline Parker Noah Pryce-Jones Sheana Stevenson Diana Zwanenburg
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The Bowen Children’s Centre has embarked on a new building project to create much needed space to provide on-island, licensed care for children under the age of three years old. BCC is a not-for-profit organization which relies heavily on government grants, parent volunteers, private donations, and a volunteer Board of Directors. BCC is seeking donations to see this need and vision to reality. BCC has served as Bowen Island’s childcare anchor for over 45 years. With over 3,000 children cared for, few families on the island have not been touched by the organization. BCC’s Infant & Toddler daycare program will provide much needed support to Bowen families for generations to come. Are you grandparents whose children have infants and toddlers on Bowen? Or a parent who remembers the challenge of finding childcare when your little one was under three? Or maybe you simply want to contribute to an important service for young families in the community? No amount is too small, all donations over $20 will receive tax receipts and will be greatly appreciated.
• Assist in coordinating community involvement in the community school and school involvement in the community • Promote and support community use of BICS facilities through community engagement • Fund community projects and events that will bring together various community groups
How can you get involved? • The Christmas Craft Fair – Our Biggest Event and Fundraiser of the Year! https://www.slotted.co/csaccf2017 • BIRD Refundable Containers – Recycling fun! https://www.slotted.co/csabird2017
Bowen Heritage Cottage 20, Orchard Lane. PO Box 78, Bowen Island, B.C., V0N 1G0
Bowen Heritage was formed 26 years ago to preserve Bowen’s unique and fascinating heritage. We’re active on issues concerning the last 10 cottages (four cottages are now fully restored) of the Union Steamship era and organizing events like Applefest, Light Up Bowen, Long Table Dinner, Heritage Week. Grants allow us to hire local summer students who help tourists enjoy several projects in Davies Orchard: the Cottage Museum, the Heritage Orchard, the Demonstration Perennial garden and the Union Steamship Display Boards. The students created the popular Heritage Precinct Map. Your donations supplement student wages, help advertise events and ultimately realize our goal of making Davies Orchard the heritage centre of Snug Cove
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Giving voice to the voiceless Beatys recognized for environmental philanthropy MARTHA PERKINS CONTRIBUTOR
Ninety-eight per cent of all donations go to charities and causes that are about people, says Ross Beaty. Of the remaining two per cent, more than half of those donations go to charities that
support animal welfare. While all those other causes are important and have value, Beaty and his wife Tricia have dedicated their formidable resources to address the philanthropy gap — nature. On November 16, Beaty was at the Vancouver Convention Centre to be presented with an award as
Outstanding Philanthropist to an Organization Raising Up to $15 Million. The Giving Hearts awards are presented by the Vancouver chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.” “From a very young age I was always drawn to be outside,” he said in a video presentation at the luncheon. “I
Ross and Tricia Beaty after receiving a Giving Hearts Award. Martha Perkins
went into geology in university because it spoke to me. I went into the economic geology and the mining industry because I was able to get paid to work outside.” “Tremendously lucky” in his career, Beaty and his wife Tricia created the Sitka Foundation in 2008. It has donated more than $30 million, including $15 million towards protecting biodiversity and land conversation. He was nominated for the award by the David Suzuki Foundation, which is one of the core groups that Sitka Foundation funds. “Only 0.8 per cent [of donations go] goes to real nature to protect a biodiverse world that gives humans sustenance and healthy food, healthy water, healthy air,” Beaty says. In giving a shout out to Tricia — whom he calls “a very brilliant woman, incredibly skilled” — Beaty says, “We have our greatest moments together when we’re outside. My wife and I give to nature. We are trying to help support the natural world thatis so pounded by the human footprint. There are million of species that don’t have a voice and we’re helping them with a little voice.”
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Jewal Maxwell: She helps out because she cares... BASIA LIESKE SUBMISSION
Jewal Maxwell is a woman who really gives her all to the community on Bowen Island, and beyond - she will help anyone she sees who needs assistance. She volunteers for ‘Dog Days of Summer’, raising funds for BC Guide Dogs, she puts in a ton of effort to keep ‘Light Up Bowen’ going every Christmas. She organizes play camps for kids during school breaks, helps with the elderly, will volunteer as a safety flagger when she sees a need, she always stops and helps people with vehicle problems on the highway, pitches in at almost every island community event, helps people to find jobs and places to live ... she has a knack for connecting people. Jewal is one of Bowen’s great volunteers because she is energetic; she gets enthusiastic about a cause and her energy becomes contagious and spreads to others. Jewal is flexible; she is willing to jump in and help with any tasks that may arise. She is imaginative and passionate and this makes a difference, bringing a fun and loving spirit to every volunteer opportunity. Jewal is reliable and committed, she always follows through with the cause at hand making a lasting impact. Jewal is a team player, she works with others to make a difference, to achieve something wonderful. Jewal is selfless, giving time to causes she believes in, in order to help others in the process. Most importantly, Jewal is one of Bowen’s greatest volunteers because she cares! She has become my ‘wing woman’ on the events I organize because she cares. Thank you so much for your work Jewal, and inspiration to others! ~ Basia Lieske
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Bowen Island Community Foundation P.O. Box 18 Bowen Island BC V0N 1G0 Dear Neighbour, Fall 2017 Like you, we are proud to call Bowen Island our home. We are proud to live in a place where community is celebrated, and where strong connections are formed among neighbours – both young, and young at heart. Today, we are asking you to help make positive change in your community. Working together, we can build on what is best about Bowen to make it even better. How do we begin? With your generosity, we already have. Powered by community donations, the Bowen Island Community Foundation granted $185,000 back to our Island home in 2017 alone. The Foundation’s largest grant to date was given to the Bowen Island Library Foundation to help build the Cove Commons; construction began on the West Side Children’s Park; the Bowen Island Community School was able to purchase a new screen and projector for the gym so they can host community events, and plans are underway to build the Infant and Toddler Annex at The Bowen Children’s Centre, to name a few of the highlights from the past year. As well, this last year $5,000 was awarded in scholarships to Bowen students. These projects have truly had an impact on people of all ages in our community. Since its inception in 2002, donations from Bowen friends and neighbours have allowed the Community Foundation to support local causes and organizations through grants back to Bowen. We are grateful for what you have helped us accomplish, and we know that there is still much work to be done. With your continued support, we can invest in initiatives that benefit children and youth, families and seniors; that care for those who are marginalized in our community, and that protect
our natural environment. This giving season, we hope you will give back to Bowen through our annual campaign: “For Bowen, For Ever.” A contribution to our Community Impact Fund provides the most flexibility, enabling us to respond to community needs as priorities emerge. Our Helping Hand Fund provides emergency assistance to Islanders in crisis. A gift to one of our endowed funds generates earnings that are reinvested in our community year after year. As our funds continue to grow, so will our ability to provide support for community projects, large and small, that matter most to you. You can donate online at bowenfoundation.com, or complete the form on reverse. Please say “Yes!” to the future of Bowen by sending in your contribution today. No gift is too small and tax receipts are issued for all donations over $20.00. With your help, we can ensure that Bowen continues to be a place that nurtures intergenerational connections for many years to come. If you have any questions, I would welcome the opportunity to hear from you. On behalf of the Foundation Board, I wish you and your loved ones a warm and peaceful holiday season. Thank you for considering a gift to your community.
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The Rotary Club of Bowen Island BOWEN TRAILS GUIDE Bowen Island has many wonderful, and often hidden, trails. For the past three years Rotary has published the Bowen Island Trails Guide. Share this with your visitors and discover the byways of Bowen.
ROTARY RUN FOR RWANDA The next run is the morning of Bowfest, Aug. 25, 2018. Consider running, walking or volunteering. This project funds scholarships for rural Rwandan high school and university girls. Last year the program raised about $7000. http://komeracanada.ca/
contact us President Ross Patterson (604) 947-9062 http://bowenrotary.com
The Rotary Club of Bowen Island
Each year the Rotary Club of Bowen Island manages several projects. Here are those that are currently active on Bowen Island. Bowen Rotary welcomes and appreciates the financial support and volunteer participation of many islanders who are not members of the club. Consider becoming a member of Rotary. Rotary is a worldwide organization of 1.2 million Rotarians. It is non-political and nonreligious. All Rotarians subscribe to the philosophy of Service above Self. Read about the Avenues of Service and the 4-Way Test at About Us: http://bowenrotary.com.
Defibrillators Deployed on Bowen
Rotary is working with island neighbourhoods to install AED units at key locations around the island. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable device that checks the heart rhythm and can send an electric shock to the heart to try to restore a normal rhythm. AEDs are used to treat sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). SCA is a condition in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.
Street Number Signs
The RCMP and the Fire Department told Rotary that, on Bowen Island, emergency vehicles often have difficulty finding an address. In response to this need, Rotary is selling very low cost blue and white reflective number signs. http://bowenrotary.com/rotary-street-numbers/
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Eva enjoyed seasonal cheer and smiles from Harriet at the Little Red Church craft fair. Jamie and Maya selling their wares at the Little Red Church Craft Fair. Maya is raising money for a trip to Tanzania with Me to We next summer.
Top: Viggo, Max, Yorrik and Joanna helped serve lunch at the Legion Craft Fair to raise money for the Bike Park. With help from a host of other islanders, they raised more than $500.
Kami and Vera on their way into Collins Hall for some shopping.
The Rivendell Community invites you to join us for our
Left: The Legion Craft Fair was a family affair for Eileen, Kerry and Bowen.
PRE-CHRISTMAS Open House
A BLESSING OF LIGHT Rivendell Retreat Centre at the top of Cates Hill
Sunday, December 10, 2017 2:30 – 5:30 pm. We will pause at 4:00 pm around our traditional candlelit tree to share some reflections on the spirit of the season Refreshments provided
32nd Annual
CSA Christmas Craft Fair Sunday, December 3rd, 2017• 10:00 am – 3:00 pm BICS Gym
Youth Craft Fair • 10:00 am – 12:30 pm BICS Upstairs
Unique local crafts, yummy Café menu, Cake Walk, face painting, exciting silent auction, raffle draws and more!
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“Our winter ocean is an active place,” Turner.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 2017 • 9 CELEBRATE the 3rd Anniversary of
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Left: Keep your eyes peeled for humpbacks off the south coast of Bowen. Right: Chum salmon are running strong near Squamish. Bob Turner photos
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“We were really pumped,” says Pardee. “But in the end, we didn’t see any. It was tremendously disappointing. Fortunately, enough Chum returned to Squamish that it looks as though we will be getting our full allotment of 200,000 eggs for this year.” Bob Turner says he’s spent a time this season in the streams and rivers near Squamish, and says he has been able to see the chum filling up the smaller streams. Around Bowen what he has seen is large schools of anchovies. “I’ve seen huge schools off Tunstall Bay, with 20 seals swimming alongside, a huge sea lion and hundreds of gulls,” says Turner. “A sea lion or seal will come up through the school creating an eruption of fish on the surface, and that’s when the gulls go crazy.” Humpbacks, he says, seem to also be
enjoying the anchovies as they’ve been appearing on the south-west side of the island regularly over the past few weeks. “I suspect that warmer waters may be impacting the salmon return,” says Turner. “Salmon prefer cold water, and anchovies are a warm water fish.” This is a theory that Tim Pardee seems to agree. “There’s no silver bullet as to why the returns have been low but we know salmon don’t like warm water and there is this blob of warm water out in the Pacific,” says Pardee. “When the fry entered the ocean two or three years ago, they would have entered into warmer and less nutrition waters with more predators, like mackrel. This meant a high mortality rate for those young salmon. The interesting thing is, that the pink salmon that did survive and make it back into the cooler Pacific waters had
less competition for food, and so when they did return to Squamish this year, they were larger than usual.” As for the Coho, several were spotted entering the lagoon two weeks ago, and then more were spotted last week. “Rob Bell-Irving from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans recommends that we multiply the number seen by 10,” says Pardee. “They tend to hide in shadows and under logs. The way we’re taught to look for them is to get out in the stream with hip waders on and poke into the shadowy places with a long stick, looking for movement. So, while we are happy to report that the coho are coming back, and that they are strong swimmers that should be able to make it right up to the fish ladder and into Terminal Creek, the run will likely not be as visually spectacular as last year’s chum run.”
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Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon
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BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH Minister: Bill Absolom Pastor Clinton Neal www.bowencommunitychurch.org 1070 MillerRoad Road at Millard st. 1070 Miller 604-947-0384 Service 10:00 a.m. Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Contact Barb at 604-947-2430
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Island jazz and pop singer releases jewel of a Christmas Classic MARCUS HONDRO CONTRIBUTOR
If you are a lover of traditional Christmas music but like to hear it made anew, then Bowen’s sweet-voiced Christie Grace has a welcome addition to your musical stocking. Just in time for the holidays Grace has released a unique and sensuous version of the Irving Berlin classic, ‘I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm.’ In addition to Grace, the recording features many notable Canadian artists and together they’ve created a version that is slower and more heated than traditional covers. It retains the song’s distinct charm – the band is subtle but superb - and despite slowing it down, Grace loses none of the melody. Also a jeweler, the island songstress is no stranger to the studio and has three albums to her credit. Her second, ‘Contemplation’ (2007) gave her the chance to reunite with musicians from her home town of Thunder Bay, Ontario. One of those home-town musicians on the album is Paul Shaffer. For years, Shaffer was the musical director of The David Letterman Show.
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Her most recent album, ‘Golden Thread’ was introduced at a bravo live performance at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Pyatt Hall in September of 2016; some of that evening’s performance can be viewed on Youtube. The songwriter has called ‘Golden Thread’ her most personal work. Along for much of Grace’s musical journey has been keyboardist and producer Chris Gestrin, a winner of numerous music awards, including 9 Junos. Gestrin, who trained at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, is also an accomplished songwriter and he and Grace often write together. He engineered and produced ‘I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm’ and plays keyboards on it. Other players on the Christmas offering include guitarist Daryl Jahnke, Steve Kaldestad on sax and the eclectic MacDonald, who is one of Canada’s finest percussionists and has performed and recorded with the likes of DOA, Johnny Cash’s former guitar player Bob Wooten and a long list of jazz and Latin-influenced bands. You can download Grace’s version of ‘I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm’ by viewing her blog on her website at christiegracemusic. com and clicking on the link provided.
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What you need to know about the recycling triangle SUSAN REDMOND SUBMISSION
“But it has a triangle on it!” This is a something recycling depot staff hear a lot. To borrow from Aristotle, a triangle does not a recyclable make, especially when it comes to plastics. Many manufacturers, to appear green, will print a triangle on their packaging even if facilities do not exist locally that take these materials. This is why when Bowen Recyclers come into the depot wondering if they can leave their plastic container that has a triangle on it they may be told that the particular type of plastic is not accepted at the Depot. The Bowen Island Recycling Depot is bound by an organization called Recycle BC. Recycle BC is a non-profit organization responsible for residential packaging and printed paper recycling throughout British Columbia. If you want to get a better idea of what can and cannot be recycled in B.C. check out their site (https://recyclebc.ca/). It is really well laid out and is full of easy to access the information. The front page has great news and education articles. For example, did you know that as of September 1, 2017 you could take your Styrofoam to London Drugs to be recycled? Let’s talk about what plastics we can take at the depot. There are two areas for plastic collection and that is because the Depot collects two types of plastics – plastic bags and overwrap and plastic packaging containers. These plastics are collected separately as they are recycled into different products, which is why it is really important to be familiar with what goes into these collections. Again, check out Recycle B.C.’s site. Please do not leave old toothbrushes, deodorant containers, plastic hypodermic needles or tampon holders. These items are not recyclable and should be placed in your garbage. Just a reminder, your recycling should be clean! So spend some time on the Recycle BC site. Remember, if you have any questions, the staff at the Depot are always happy to help!
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