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IS THIS RECONCILIATION?
A BOOK FOR 2019
Anton van Walraven grapples with the Braiding Sweetgrass touches two implications of the Wet’suwet’en struggle, p. 5 contributors on p. 6
THE NEW YEAR PLUNGE
Bowen’s Polar Swim had eccentric beginnings as HC Behm explains, p. 9
Two donors pledge $1 million each for community centre
B.I. MUNICIPALITY CONTRIBUTOR
Over a very short period – in fact, in less than four months – the community has risen to the call for pledges and donations in support of the Bowen Island Community Centre Project. In addition to over $80,000 committed from dozens of community members, a major donor has pledged $1 M toward the capital cost and another anonymous donor has dedicated a legacy gift, valued at approximately $1 M. The Bowen Island Community Centre will provide 12,000 sq. ft. of highly versatile community spaces for indoor and outdoor recreation, performing arts, meetings, classes and social functions of all kinds from fitness and child-minding, to dance, parent and tot, painting, concerts, theatre events and more. It will also include 4,000 sq. ft. of municipal offices, where residents can access municipal services, all from one convenient, accessible location. It will be a “hive” of community activity, welcome to all. The municipality is facing a very tight deadline for a grant application to the federal-provincial Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program. If successful, the grant – due January 23 – will pay up to 73 per cent of eligible building costs. Continued on page 2
Jordan Sturdy, MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky (centre, in black), met with islanders Tuesday afternoon. After meeting with council, Sturdy visited the Bowen Island Pub. Pictured: councillor Alison Morse, Sturdy’s constituency assistant Sharon Thompson, pub owner Glenn Cormier, Sturdy, local business person Gary Anderson, Mayor Gary Ander and Al Morse.
Bowen property assessments up 8 per cent Jump in asssessments is unrelated to any potential property tax increase - BIM
BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR
With the release of B.C.’s tax assessments last week, Bowen saw an average 8.3 per cent rise in assessed residential property values between 2017 and 2018. Business and other assessments rose by 9 per cent. Tim Rhodes, a realtor on-island says that in the past, tax assessments have been much lower than market values. He notes that between 2014 and 2016, the residential assess-
ments rose a mere 9.8 per cent, but between 2016 and 2018, the jump was 46 per cent. “[Past tax assessments] were unrealistically low and they’ve been playing a bit of catch up,” he said. On January 3, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released the December benchmark (typical) home price, which is now $1,001,800. The average tax assessment value is $966,000. However, Rhodes notes that determining average prices on Bowen is tricky as there is a diverse
price range. Bowen also has a smaller market than its mainland neighbours. Rhodes said that tax assessments more aligned with market values are good for people trying to sell their homes. “The problem has been that buyers will go and look up the assessed value and in 2014-2016, those assessed values were very low,” he said. “As they approach market value, you wind up, as a seller, or a seller’s realtor, in a better position to support the price you’re asking.”
High overall assessments does not equate tax increase
Bowen Island Municipality chief financial officer Raj Hayre stresses that an overall rise in property assessments does not mean an overall rise in property taxes. “What assessments do is they change the distribution among properties,” said Hayre. As an example, if everyone on Bowen’s taxes rose by exactly eight per cent, then everyone would pay the same proportion of taxes they did last year. Continued on page 2
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Taxing clarifications
Continued from page 1 If your property is assessed at more than your neighbour’s, you’ll be paying more taxes than they will be and vice versa. If property taxes don’t rise this year, the municipality will collect the same amount of money it did last year, though the distribution of who pays how much could have changed with the newest tax assessment. We won’t know for a month or so if Bowen’s property taxes will rise or by how much. “Tax increase is informed through the budget process,” said Hayre. In the budget process, the municipality looks at its revenue sources and its expected expenditures and the difference is funded through taxation, upon council approval. The municipality is currently in the budget process and will be consulting the public in the next month or so. Budget open house dates will be published in the Undercurrent. Islands Trust In another taxation stream, Bowen’s contribution to the Islands Trust is based on its total assessed property value. “They do the same thing we do in establishing their budget,” said Hayre.
Basically, if Bowen’s assessment went up by more than other islands’ then we could be paying more than we did last year and if the Trust’s budget is higher than last year’s, we also could be paying more. In 2017, Bowen Island paid $242,048 to the Islands Trust. As for this year, “It’s a little bit early to say what the levy from them might be,” said Hayre.
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A note from your Emergency Program Coordinator.
Alix MacDonald now sits at the window where once the Undercurrent editors sat. Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto
Learning centre opens BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR
Pens are once again a-scribbling at 102 Trunk Road. The former Undercurrent office is now the site of the Bowen Island Learning Centre, a tutoring studio run by The Gym co-owner Alix MacDonald. MacDonald’s path to opening the centre is more than a decade long. MacDonald took an OrtonGillingham course in 2003, shortly after graduating high school. OrtonGillingham is a multisensory teaching approach that’s been around for a century. It’s particularly known for helping students with dyslexia. Sixteen years, a degree in communications, jobs with both the Little House of Tutoring and the Fraser Academy (for youth with learning differences) and many, many students later, MacDonald is opening her own tutoring space. “There’s a huge demand for this type of tutoring,” says MacDonald. MacDonald has been tutoring
on-island for the past three years from her home but when she and her husband sold their place, she decided to expand her business. Two more OG-trained tutors have joined MacDonald’s team as well as a math tutor who is not OG-trained. Though MacDonald’s slate of students is full and she has a waiting list, at least one of her tutors has some space remaining. She says that after more than a decade and a half of tutoring, she’s still passionate about her work. “Actual non-readers, like kids who come in and are unable to read, after some OG tutoring, they are reading chapter books,” she said. “It’s amazing to see. “Especially since a lot of those students are crushed from those early ages and they just need that one-on-one support to figure out how they learn best.” “When they’re in a class with 30 kids, the teachers just don’t have the time to spend, to be able to figure out how they learn best,” she said. “But we’re able to do that.”
With the recent sailing cancellations of the Queen of Capilano due to extreme weather, I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind residents of a few things worth noting should we find ourselves without a way on and off the island overnight. Emergency Support Services (ESS) is a province-wide program made up of local volunteers working together to provide for the immediate needs of people evacuated from their homes due to emergencies such as flooding, fires or earthquakes. Essential services provided include food, clothing, lodging, registration and family reunification. If travelers are stranded on Bowen Island, they are encouraged to stay with friends or family and to take care of their own needs if they are able, however ESS is available stranded travelers unable to support themselves. This also applies to Bowen residents on the mainland who are unable to return home. In this case, ESS on the North Shore is likely to assist with food and lodging for Bowen residents unable to take care of their own needs for the
As Gary Ander, mayor, and chair of the Community Centre Steering Committee has pointed out, “This is an incredible opportunity that may never come our way again. We have to give this our best shot.” Total project construction costs are estimated to be $14.5 M. The municipality has $1.2 M in reserves earmarked for a community centre and expects to raise $2 M for the municipal hall component through a tax neutral loan. It is hoped that the senior levels of government will chip in $7.3 M through grants such as the Investing in Canada
Infrastructure Program, which leaves $4 M for the community to contribute. Accompanying the grant application will be the dozens of letters received to date in support of the project. Here’s what some of you have had to say: “The Community Centre will provide a place where [we] can meet with friends and neighbours to socialize, participate in community activities and celebrations, and discuss important matters relating to the civic life of Bowen Island. It is time for our long-held dream to become a reality.” “[This] facility is sorely needed
and would be an enormously popular and heavily-used space, adding significantly to the quality of life, the sense of community and the economy of the island.” “Bowen Islanders need a locale to meet, connect, share cultural experiences and celebrate our community. The proposed building…will fill a need for all of us, from young parents to seniors.” We would like to thank everyone who has supported the project so far, either through donations, pledges or letters of support. And there is still time to donate and pledge support, as well as add your voice those rallying togeth-
time that they are unable to return home. The municipal Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is likely to be activated to monitor the situation, to share information with residents and stakeholders and to support the ESS response. The EOC is likely to be located at the Satellite Fire Hall on Adams Road or at Municipal Hall and would be staffed by trained municipal employees and volunteers. On December 20, Bowen Island Municipality’s EOC was activated to monitor the weather event and ferry cancellations and the EOC was demobilized that same evening once the ferry service resumed. The municipality invested in a public notification system in 2017, called BowENS, that can be used to share relevant information with residents in an emergency by phone, text or email. Residents are encouraged to sign up for BowENS either online at bowenislandmunicipality. ca/ens or by calling municipal hall at 604 947 4255. You can also monitor the municipal website for information in an emergency. Listen to the radio in the event of a disaster that disrupts normal methods of communication such as phone and internet.
December police briefs CPL. PAULO ARREAGA BOWEN RCMP
Bowen Island responded to 57 calls for service in the month
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er for this important cause. Come together Bowen Island. It’s your continued pledges and letters of support that will help us make a successful grant application and build this community centre for all of us. So, if you can, please help make our dream of a Community Centre come true. Submit your letter today to ourislandplace.com/letters. To make a pledge, you can do so at ourislandplace.com/pledge before January 20, 2019. “This is the right team, with the right plan, at the right time. It’s time to get this done.”
of December. These are files of interest: • Two impaired driving investigations • Seven road blocks • One utter threats • Three trespass investigations • One assault • Four mischief complaints • One weapons call • Four thefts • Two collisions • Three suspicious person/ vehicle/occurrences December traffic statistics are not yet available. November saw 10 traffic violations issued. Bowen Island RCMP would like to remind drivers that roads in front of Bowen Island Community School, Bowen Island Trunk Rd, Grafton Rd and Mt Gardner Rd are designated playground zones- 30 km/h limit is in effect every day from dawn to dusk.
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Editorial: context is key in coverage of Indigenous issues in Canada
In journalism school I took a course called Reporting on Indigenous Communities. The professor wasn’t a journalist but rather a well-respected Gchi’mnissing Anishinaabe writer and academic. One of his criticisms of mainstream media coverage of Indigenous issues was lack of context. When issues such as the current Wet’suwt’en territorial struggle arise, journalists jump into a centuries-old conversation and frequently miss necessary nuances that historical and cultural context can provide. And context is key. It’s how we can build conversations that go beyond stereotypes, racism and assumptions. In these situations, when sussing out the context, look for sources from affected communities (in media stories and beyond). Look for voices historically silenced. Look for people with different perspectives. And too, examine what government or industry representatives are saying. Read the press releases, not just the headlines. It’s not just that these issues are complicated – NAFTA is complicated – but as people living in a colonial state, we have a responsibility to read deeper into issues affecting the nations that precede ours by, at least, centuries. Journalists are working hard to bring you the news but I encourage you to dig deeper. Bronwyn Beairsto, editor
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Karaoke machines on the 6:20 a.m. ferry. Handing out chocolate covered espresso beans to every child leaving daycare. Using mad science to bring the Mastodon to life and attempt to tame it—only to have it escape and run wild, causing destruction and mayhem. These are all examples of bad ideas. Your Bowen Island Community Foundation is looking for some good ideas for our 2019 grants. In fact, we’re looking for more great ideas like we’ve seen in the past –everything from bike parks, to playgrounds, to gardens, to archives, to landscaping, to festivals. If it improves the quality of life on Bowen, we’re interested in hearing about it. We can even help get you started – at the 2017 Vital Conversations event, eight Bowen priorities emerged: develop housing for all, bring healthcare close to home, support our youth, celebrate diversity and inclusion, increase our volunteer pool, expand our transportation options, create gathering places for all, and take responsibility for the stewardship of our environment. You can read the full report at bowenfoundation.com/vital-conversations/ to get your great idea juices flowing. Thanks to the generosity of Bowen Islanders, the foundation has given 68 grants to-date, totalling over $600,000. Applying is very easy. You need two things: 1. A (maximum) 500 word summary of your idea. 2. A partnership with an on-island charity There are many Bowen charities and find-
ing out who they are is very easy. Just use the Canada Revenue Agency’s search engine (bit. ly/BowenCharities) and define the charity’s status as “registered” and the city as “Bowen Island.” Odds are good that you know someone who volunteers with one of the charities. And they may be interested in helping you make your idea a reality. Application forms can be found on the BICF website: bowenfoundation.com/grants/ grant-application/. Be sure to submit your completed applications before 5 p.m. February 15 to grants@bowenfoundation.com. Successful applicants will be announced at the Foundation’s AGM on April 26.
In 2017, the Community Foundation sponsored conversations with a diverse selection of islanders in order to understand Bowen’s needs and priorities. Those insights then guide the foundation’s granting work.
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Protesters rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en nation Tuesday. Photo: Gillian Darling Kovanic Affairs for funding, which inherbefore sovereignty, there must be a ently shifts the power of these continuity between present occu“democratically-elected officials” in pation and occupation before the declaration of sovereignty. However, favour of cooperation with the govit is not necessary to prove a perfect ernment. This imposed leadership structure was created as a colonial continuity; the demonstration of a substantial maintenance of the bond instrument and continues to act as one. It explains, at least in part, between the people and the territory is sufficient. In this respect, the why elected band councils signed onto the TransCanada LNG pipeline Supreme Court held that oral eviproject. If councils didn’t sign on, dence could be admitted as proof. they risked seeing their funding cut 3) “At the time of declaration of by the ministry, resulting in greater sovereignty, this occupation must hardship for themselves and their have been exclusive. This means communities. that the land had to have been the Hereditary chiefs carry inherited exclusive territory of an Indigenous responsibility over their full terrination, although they could have tories. Elected band councils, on the shared it with another Indigenous other hand, function through the nation.” provisions of the Indian Act and are Delgamuukw, by the way, was responsible for the day-to-day busialso the first case in which the ness on reserves. Supreme Court gave standing to Hereditary chiefs have provided hereditary chiefs, acknowledging continuous leadership in Indigenous that hereditary chiefs have always Nations, just like successive monbeen the leaders within Indigenous archs have done for the British. communities. After the Delgamuukw case, the What role do the elected band Supreme Court took its decision councils play you might ask? further with the Tsilhgotin case in The elected chief and council 2014. system was implemented through Through this case, the court the Indian Act, it was and is a way confirmed that Indigenous title to divide Indigenous communities. applies to the whole Indigenous Elected band councils rely on the territory, not just “postage stamp” Ministry of Indian and Northern
sized reserves. Secondly, the court confirmed that the Tsilhgotin can manage their lands according to their own laws. You would expect this ruling to give Wet’suwet’en and any other Indigenous Nation similar powers. Not in Canada, successive federal governments have ignored court rulings, even section 35 of its own constitution, as it tries to extinguish Indigenous rights and title. Today it uses the “Reconciliation Framework Agreements” for the same purpose. It is the same political agenda, just under a different name. In light of so many rulings confirming Indigenous rights and title, why did the courts issue an injunction in favour of TransCanada that led to the raid on the Wet’suwet’en camp? This, just half a year after parliament stood and voted to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Nations. We need to keep asking, demanding answers to these questions. We also need to come back to our initial question: can Canada talk reconciliation in the face of what happened on January 7? I don’t think it can. The RCMP raid on the Wet’suwet’en camp has made it very clear: this country’s political class continues to ignore the legal reality of Indigenous rights and title in Canada. Before non-Indigenous people can engage in a process of reconciliation, we have to accept the harsh truth of how poorly Indigenous people have been treated in Canada from the moment of first contact. We also need to acknowledge that this treatment continues. I am not saying that Canadians should be walking around feeling shame and guilt for this system. We must, however, at least, take the step to condemn colonialism and commit to make right what is wrong. We must choose to enter into a sincere process of decolonization. That is true reconciliation. That is committing to building a better and just Canada.
Opinion: before reconciliation, let’s acknowledge the truth ANTON VAN WALRAVEN COLUMNIST
Burrows points out in his definitive study of the Delgamuukw case, “It does not make sense that one could secure a legal entitlement to land over another merely through raw assertion.” Similarly, Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court once observed, it is an, “extravagant and absurd idea.” All the assertions and doctrines Canadian governments have used to justify colonization can be boiled down to: Canada stole it, fair and square. This, of course, is not a solid base to build legal title, it is however the legal foundation of Canada. Confused? Upset? I would be surprised if you weren’t. Maybe this knowledge might change a few long-held impressions about Canada. What happened on January 7 shows the government’s disregard of the key findings of the Delgamuukw case: 1) “When it comes to occupation of Indigenous territory before the declaration of Crown sovereignty, it is sufficient to say that occupied land was integral to the Indigenous culture at the time of contact. 2) “If present occupation is invoked as evidence of occupation
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The Canadian government loves talking about reconciliation but is it in a position to do so? On January 7, a heavily-armed RCMP force raided a camp set-up to block TransCanada Corp. (the company changed its name to TC Energy on January 9) from building a natural gas pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. The Wet’suwet’en people have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They have never given up rights and title to their land, nor have most of the other nations in the area known as British Columbia. The British colonial government simply took this land, and denied that the original inhabitants had rights and title to it. However, in 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed this claim in Delgamuukw v. BC. The court ruled that the B.C. government had no right to extinguish the Indigenous peoples’ rights to their ancestral territories. The hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en people fought this all the way up to the Supreme Court and won. It is important for those of us living in Canada to understand the implications of this decision. Delgamuukw v. BC Supreme Court defined Aboriginal title as “Indigenous peoples’ exclusive right to the land, and affirmed that Aboriginal title is recognized as an ‘existing Aboriginal right’ in section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.” Of course there are limitations to what the Supreme Court can rule on, since it is part of the “Crown.” Since the Crown brought the Supreme Court into existence, the court cannot rule on the legality of the Crown in Canada itself and the way the Crown claimed sovereignty over Indigenous lands in North America. Therein lies the problem. As an internationally-recognized scholar of Indigenous legal traditions and Aboriginal rights, John
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A book for 2019: Braiding Sweetgrass Part of Knowing our Place Part of an inner transition PAULINE LE BEL
KNOWING OUR PLACE
“Can we learn to live here as if we are staying?” asks Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants. “What happens when we truly become native to a place?” Kimmerer, a plant ecologist and distinguished professor of Environmental Biology, is a member of the Potawatomi Nation. Her book invites the reader to accompany her as she harvests sweetgrass and strawberries, as she guides her students to experience the generosity of the earth, as she discovers her own way to live as if she were staying. Since last March, the Knowing Our Place book club has been reading books by Indigenous authors. The book club is part of a reconciliation initiative presented by the Bowen Island Library, the Bowen Island Arts Council and me. We aim to learn our true history with Indigenous peoples and to foster mutually-enhancing relationships. Stimulating and mind-expanding discussions have come out of reading The Truth About Stories by Thomas King, My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle, The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King, and Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson, each author offering another way of thinking about and acting on reconciliation. Braiding Sweetgrass, the subject of the next two club meetings, has been described as a hymn of love to the world. At a time when it’s all too easy to feel hopeless, this thoughtful
book, bringing together science, Indigenous knowledge and spirit, offers an antidote. “Despair is paralysis,” Kimmerer writes. “It robs us of agency. It blinds us to our own power and the power of the earth.” She suggests restoration as a powerful antidote to despair, “Restoration offers concrete means by which humans can once again enter into positive, creative relationship with the more-than-human world.” Living as if we were planning to stay. Kimmerer helps us to understand that it is not the land that is broken, it is our relationship to it. To love where we live is not enough, we have to heal it. Braiding Sweetgrass is available at the Bowen Library and Phoenix on Bowen. This is such a powerful and life-changing book, you may want your own copy to keep and savour over time. Phoenix has two copies and can process orders in a few days. Let them know you are part of the Knowing Our Place book club and receive a 10 per cent discount. Be a part of the conversation January 26 and February 16. You can register for either one or both dates at bit.ly/bookclub2019 or email or phone the Bowen Library.
MERIBETH DEEN CONTRIBUTOR
This book is a gift. It was given to me by Jackie Bradley, whom I met through the Bowen in Transition Offering Circle. I made an offer, she accepted, and soon we found ourselves in beautiful cycle of reciprocity without a hint of obligation. It was early December when Jackie put Braiding Sweetgrass in my hands. In the preceding months as the days grew shorter and the news cycle grew darker, I had been fighting an overwhelming feeling of pessimism about the world. To be more precise, I was feeling particularly pessimistic about human beings and their impact on the world. Robin Wall Kimmerer forced me to reconsider my pessimism. In the first chapter, Kimmerer tells the story of Skywoman, who fell to earth when it was covered in water. After being rescued by the otters, the muskrats, the fish and the birds and so on, Skywoman “sang in thanksgiving and then began to dance, her feet caressing the earth. The land grew and grew as she danced her thanks, from the dab of mud on Turtle’s back until the whole Earth was made. Not by Skywoman alone, but from the alchemy of all the animals’ gifts coupled with her deep grati-
tude.” Skywoman also happened to bring seeds with her and as she planted them. She provided an abundance of new foods for her animal friends. Kimmerer contrasts this myth to the story of Adam and Eve. The descendants of both Eve and Skywoman met here on Turtle Island, she writes, and the land still bears the scars of this meeting. “They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I can only imagine the conversation between Eve and Skywoman: sister, you got the short end of the stick.” Indeed. For me, Eve’s story always did point to the mean, furious, vengeful God aiming to instill fear. After this comparison, the Euro-Christian foundation myth sounds even worse. What a way to treat the first mother! Never mind the impact on human curiosity and people’s relationship to beauty. Is this where the self-loathing started? I ask myself again, would the world be off without humans? The answer, despite everything, is no. We’ve got learn our purpose here and dive into it. Braiding Sweetgrass explores that purpose through the author’s relationship with the plants and animals around her. That relationship is both simple and complicated. Take the entire chapter devoted to “A Mother’s Work.” This is the story of a years-long project to “rehabilitate” a small pond to make it swimmable for the author’s children. In the process of caring for the pond, Kimmerer becomes the reluctant executioner to countless tadpoles and plants. She questions her own narrow interests and the meaning of “good.” The work, as it turns out,
is not about reaching the desired outcome but the relationship that develops in the meantime. “The pond built my muscles, wove my baskets, mulched my garden, made my tea and trellised my morning glories. Our lives became entwined in ways both material and spiritual. It’s been a balanced exchange: I worked on the pond and the pond worked on me, and together, we made a good home.” As for the simple aspect of the relationship between the earth and her humans, there is just one word: gratitude. When we love the land, the land loves us back, and our co-evolution with plants proves it. “The sweeter the peach, the more frequently we disperse its seeds, nurture its young and protect them from harm.” This, is reciprocity. On top of everything else, Braiding Sweetgrass is a book about reconciling science and Indigenous knowledge. It is sure to inspire rich conversations. My copy of this book is littered with bookmarks, underlines, notes in the margins. Every page is rich with beauty and the kind of truth that runs deeper than shifting statistics. It is the truth of love, the opening of a window into a world where human beings are not plagued by isolation and constantly driven by not being enough, not having enough. This is one way to explain Inner Transition: it’s the emotional and spiritual work of learning to cope with and adapt to the damage we’ve done to our planet. If that sounds like something you’d like to delve into, Bowen In Transition will be hosting a meeting on this subject on January 20. Details in calendar.
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Business Licence Workshop Municipal Hall 2 - 6 p.m. Drop in workshop to help with your application and answer your questions Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m. Info call Irene 604-947-2955
Friday January 11
If you’re among BC’s approximately 2 million property owners, you should receive your 2019 property assessment in the mail early in January. If you haven’t, call us toll-free at 1-866-valueBC.
Storytime Library 10:30 a.m. Free dropin for 2-4 year olds
Access and compare property assessment information using our f ree assessment search service at bcassessment.ca. The 2019 assessments are based on market value as of July 1, 2018.
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Lorna Crozier reading & talk Annie Laurie Wood Annex (Cove Commons) 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tix. $10 available at library and BIAC.
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Sunday January 13
Free poker league Bowen Island Pub 6 p.m. Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. Dress warmly. Tea will be served. No cost. More info: lisa.shatsky@gmail.com
Monday January 14
Bowen Island Conservancy Talk Series: Bob Turner, “The Orcas of Howe Sound” BICS multipurpose room 1 p.m.
Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Rd. Exercise at 9 a.m., coffee at 9:45, Tim Parlee from the Fish and Wildlife Club speaking at 11 and yoga at 11:45. Annual membership $20, drop-in $3
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang screening
Regular Council Meeting Municipal Hall 6:15 p.m.
Saturday January 12
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BICS 4 p.m. In honour of Kipp Thompson, the Bowen-made film screens for a second time. Entrance is by donation. All proceeds go toward Bowen youth pursuing the arts.
Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 p.m. Montessori school fundraiser Bowen Island Pub 6-7 family hour; 7-10 DJ M.U.M and Leo Chan Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m. Info call Irene 604-947-2955 Business Licence Workshop Municipal Hall 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Drop-in assistance for businesses applying for a licence
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Winter Blast camps Bowen Island Community Recreation held Winter Blast Camps January 2, 3 and 4. The mornings were sports-themed, while the afternoons were drama-themed. Left: Kian Bristowe shows perfect form for soccer. Above: campers line up for a photo, though one camper opted for a dab. Right: What’s on a Mountain? Bowen kids come up with some creative ideas. Below: Bowen kids love playing BICR’s version of Gaga Ball. All photos: Sheana Stevenson
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Squamish boats sunk December 20 still underwater
STEVEN CHUA
SQUAMISH CHIEF
Aging boats that sank during the Dec. 20 windstorm are still below the water at Darrell Bay, according to a local conservationist. John Buchanan says the J.S. Polhemus is still underwater. The 79-foot vessel sank about 100 feet to the bottom of Howe Sound after being battered by 111-kilometre-per-hour winds last month. Shortly after the storm, the Coast Guard said this boat was leaking fuel. Aircrews spotted an oily sheen on the water. A containment boom was then set up in an effort to prevent the spread of hydrocarbons — a compound commonly found in gas and fuel. A sailboat that plunged about 20 feet underwater still remains submerged right beside the Darrell Bay ferry terminal. It’s been tied to a nearby tree. Buchanan says the Zena, a former fishing boat, appears to be in dire condition. The vessel was partially submerged after the storm cast it onto the rocks. At least 10 feet of the vessel’s bow is split open, with miscellaneous items strewn along the boat, he says. A strong fuel smell was still in the air as of Jan. 6, Buchanan told The Chief. He noted that the port side fuel tank appears to be three-quarters full. Another boat, La Rata Bastarda, has been tied up with a single rope and rests on the seafloor at low tide,
A sunken sailboat in Squamish. Photo: Steven Chua says Buchanan. He expressed concern that another big storm could set the vessel adrift. Finally, a vessel known as the Sea Angel II is afloat in the area as well. There were no reports of this pleasurecraft incurring damage during the windstorm, but it has lately drawn the attention of authorities. On Jan. 8, Coast Guard officials said that they would be doing assessments of the sunken or possibly damaged boats. Jeff Brady, the deputy superintendent for environmental response, said that commercial divers would be going down to take a look at the wreck of the Polhemus. “The objective is to assess the wreck of the J.S. Polhemus for the feasibility of salvage or removal,” said Brady. “The next objective is to take measures to mitigate any future pollution damages from the vessel J.S. Polhemus.” Divers may start removing pollutants or patching up any leaks, if possible. He said crews would also be examining the other boats in the area — the La Rata Bastarda, the
Sea Angel II, and the Zena. They’ll be looking to see if these vessels are in danger of leaking pollutants. “We have a contractor doing a... survey of those other three vessels,” Brady said. Brady said the Marine Liability Act makes boat owners liable for the costs incurred by the Coast Guard, as well as any bills involving cleaning up pollution damages and prevention measures. “If it’s determined that there is cost, then the owner will be liable,” he added. “If the owner doesn’t pay, then we go to the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund.” The fund is administered by the federal government in cases where vessels cause oil pollution. The province will also be on hand to examine the potential impacts of the vessels. “From a provincial standpoint, we’re just here to assess any pollution impacts to human health and public safety, and to protect any provincial resources or assets, as well,” said Rhonda Brett, emergency response officer with the Ministry of Environment.
It’s still unclear as to when the damaged or sunken vessels will be removed from the area. However, there is a possible way in which local government may be able to seize ownership and remove abandoned boats. Under a federal initiative called the Abandoned Boats Program, local governments can claim ownership of abandoned vessels and then apply to Ottawa for funding to remove the boats. But, legal notices must be posted. Owners can then contest whether or not the boat should be considered abandoned. If the municipality can then successfully classify the vessels as abandoned and then claim them, Transport Canada would then pay up to 75 per cent of the bill for removing the boat. A comment from the District of Squamish was not immediately available. Another law, which is due to come into effect this year may also be of assistance. Jason van der Valk, a vessels of concern officer with the Coast Guard, said that Bill C-64, or the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act could be of help. It’s expected to give authorities more power to deal with abandoned derelict vessels. “They will have [vessels of concern] officers — which is what I am — that will be able to enforce this act,” said van der Valk. “This is the legislation that’s been needed for quite some time.” Boats would be evaluated by authorities for risk of pollution and
danger to humans and animals, among other things. If the assessed risk is high enough, boats could be removed, van der Valk said. “This area, it’s been a hotspot on our Coast Guard environmental response team and other partner agencies as well,” he said. Authorities also asked that the public stay clear as government crews work in the area. Since the sinkings, much local attention was drawn to Steen Larsen, a Squamish resident whom many believe is responsible for the boats. Larsen previously told The Chief he owns the sailboat and the La Rata Bastarda. He also said he is not the owner of the Zena and the Polhemus — rather, he was looking after the boats on behalf of his friends. It is unclear who owns or has been taking care of the Sea Angel II. In late December, Larsen said that he’d have the sailboat lifted out before New Year’s, though as of Jan. 8 it’s still underwater. He also said at the time he’d bring in one of his large vessels from the U.S. to help remove the Zena, though that would take about a month. The Chief contacted Larsen on Jan. 7, but he said he wouldn’t be able to comment before press time. He asked The Chief to contact him again on Jan. 8, which the paper did, but this time he said he had to attend to an urgent personal matter.
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Bowen Bay Polar Bear Swim: a brief history
HC BEHM
CONTRIBUTOR
The goose bumps, blue lips and chattering teeth followed a long standing Bowen ritual. With a cheering crowd of easily one hundred onlookers, participants dunked their whole bodies into the frigid waters of Bowen Bay on January 1 at 2 p.m. sharp. A week and a half earlier, on December 20, one of the fiercest storms to hit the south coast of Bowen in recent memory, created a three meter high surge, moving logs that had rested there for decades off beaches, smashed boats and ripped docks off their footings –Bowen Bay was jammed tight. By a miracle of nature or eager hands, by January 1 the beach had been sufficiently cleared of debris to give the “brave bathers” running access to the water. This years event was the 41st, in a tradition dating back to 1978, when Frank (Robbie) Robertson, decked out in a fur coat and bowler hat, donning a 1920’s swim suit, officially called together any “brave bathers” who would join him. Robbie was a consummate planner, great showman and congenial host with an upbeat sense of humour. He commissioned Len Norris, the Vancouver Sun cartoonist, to create a certificate to be given each year “in recognition of bravery and total disregard for personal comfort in the immersion of their whole self into the cold grey waters of Bowen Bay on the first day of the
HC Behm, Frank (Robbie) Robertson and Ian Henley at the 2013 polar dip. Photo: Andreas Behm
Robertson inducting Andreas Behm into the Polar Cub Club.
Frank (Robbie) Robertson dressed for the Polar Bear Swim.
Photo: Marianne Behm
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year of our Lord.” It showed Robbie under an umbrella with his loyal companion, the black poodle “Stanley.” On shore watching, Len’s traditional public including the forever umbrella swinging, irate grandma, plus a few Bowen Bay neighbours, yet to be identified. Peter and Ann Davidson earned the first two Bowen Bay Brave
Bather Awards and became the first Bowen Bay Polar Cub Club Members. The numbers swelled quickly. Over the years, amongst the bravest have been Harry Patrick, John Rich and Ian Henley as well as three generations of the Behm Family and others. An hour before the gun fired, a bonfire was started to help feeling return to many numbed bodies.
This has been was the job of Pat Buchanan, George Proudlock, Bob Ede, Nelson Riley and others and later Ken and Sue Miller. After the plunge, Sheila and Robbie invited new B.B.P Cub Club members to their cottage in Arbutus Point for an induction ceremony. The recipient sat in a throne like grandfather chair and Robbie anointed them with a golden plunger on the head, while he handed out the completed certificate citing the act of bravery. The whole affair was accompanied by copious amounts of “Soup,” an oxtail broth spiked with a drop of dry sherry, or two, or three. After
about nine years, when the number of new members swelled beyond the capacity of the Arbutus Point cottage, the ceremony moved to the beach and certificates were handed right after the swim. We have to thank Kelly Miller who so ably and with good spirits is carrying on one of Bowen’s finest and craziest traditions. Robbie and Sheila were Albertans and settled in Vancouver as he was rapidly rising in the ranks of The Woodward’s Departments Stores, eventually becoming its final president. In 2013 Robbie paid a surprise visit to the Polar Bear Swim and was duly celebrated.
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THE WELL Enjoy our new 2019 schedule, join our January Yoga Bingo Challenge or try our Special Unlimited Class Pass this month for $99. Try a variety of new classes including Restorative Yoga, Core Fusion, Pre-Natal, Transformative Yoga for Men and New Moon Yin. Visit thewellonbowen.com to learn more.
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1 BOWEN ISLAND FC We are a non-profit volunteer-based club striving to promote a life-long love of the “The Beautiful Game”. We offer programs for adults and children. Please visit www.bowenfc.com or email 4 info@bowenfc.com for information and registration. FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE AT THE PUB Join us every Friday night from 7-9pm for an evening of live music and great dinner specials. Different musical artists each week with something for everyone from jazz to blues to country to singersongwriters. Follow us on Facebook to see whats happening each week. No cover charge. www.bowenpub.com
MEN ON THE ROCK Making music should be fun, challenging and rewarding, a blend not easy to optimize. Thanks largely to director/ composer/arranger Nicole Thomas Zyczynski, Men on the Rock are in danger of achieving that balance.. There’s room for a few more men who are able to sing either Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis or Happy Birthday in tune. Rehearsals are Mondays 7:30 p.m. at the legion. 778 926-4286 or ntzharmonium@mac.com.
9 FRESH OYSTERS ON THE HALF SHELL At Doc Morgan’s every night of the week! “ …I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” From Hemmingway’s memoir, “Moveable Feast”
7 WINTER BALL Grade 6 & 7 Girls and Boys can stay active this winter with BICR’s Co-Ed Winter Ball Combo (b-ball & v-ball) program on Mondays with Rebecca from 4:30 – 5:45, Jan 14 – Mar 11. Sign up now at www.bowencommunityrecreation.com
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COMMUNITY LUNCH Join your friends and neighbours at the Bowen Island Community Lunch and melt away those winter blues. Next lunch is Tuesday January 22. The Legion doors will be open from 11:30am to 1pm and for $5 you can have a bowl of soup, bread, dessert and coffee or tea. Open to everyone 18+.
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