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On our own together: NERP REVIVING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM TO BUILD ISLAND COMMUNITIES’ DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
BRONWYN BEAIRSTO
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meaning and belonging and those of us who are now long past those years know from experience and observation that this can be an especially vulnerable time. Some young men and women experience traumatic events and others may begin to develop problems with issues of mental health.
To state the obvious, Bowen is an island. In a major disaster it’ll be an island without stable mainland support. Emergency services on and off island will be overwhelmed by sheer demand and short supply. So in preparation for a potential disaster, Bowen Island Municipality is hoping to draw on one resource Bowen has in spades: community. The municipality is revitalizing the Neighbourhood Emergency Response Program (NERP) that looks to boost island communities’ preparedness and self-sufficiency. NERP was born of the particularly devastating storm of 1990 that left much of the island without reliable power for two weeks. “Meanwhile a number of people were caught in dangerous situations. As it became known later, a widow in her eighties, living alone, was without heat, light or warm food for two days. She was discovered burning books to keep warm,” Undercurrent columnist Lois Meyers Carter wrote in 2010. “By the way, it became clear that the island needed an organized method for finding and helping people when catastrophe struck,” wrote Meyers Carter. NERP has ebbed and flowed as volunteers came and went but BIM is putting renewed energy into strengthening the program and is sending a callout for volunteers. “I would like, ideally, to have every volunteer be responsible for no more than 18 homes,” said Edward Wachtman, NERP’s lead coordinator. He calculates that with 800-odd households on Bowen, between 70 and 80 strategically placed volunteers would give the island good coverage. “The goal of having the entire island covered is ambitious,” acknowledged BIM’s emergency program coordinator Jennifer McGowan.
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EGGING ON THE SALMON: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans delivered 100,000 pink salmon eggs to
the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery Tuesday. Pictured: Tim Pardee (left) and Jlonka Bally-Brown (right) show a new volunteer, Denise Richard, the salmon eggs. Within the next several months BIFWC volunteers will also receive chum and coho eggs which will be cared for at the hatchery. More on page 9.
Providing help for youth at risk COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FUND AVAILABLE NEIL BOYD
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The tragic death of Kipp Thompson last fall and the recent heartbreaking loss of Shilanne Stedmances have reminded us of the vulnerability of youth and the need for our community to make a greater effort to provide
resources for youth at risk. Both Kipp and Shilanne were in their early 20s, much loved and well-supported by their family and friends. But, both grappled with issues that placed them at risk of harm. The transition from adolescence to adulthood can often be difficult. We are all trying to make some sense of
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Event Calendar November 25, 2019 4:30 pm Committee of the Whole
6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting
Council approved its 2020 meeting schedule on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.
Bowen Housing: Local Solutions
November 27, 2019 7:00 pm Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting
November 30, 2019 9:30 am RentSmart Workshop for Landlords
All Council meetings will be held in Municipal Hall Council Chambers at 6:15 pm on the following dates:
RentSmart Workshop for Landlords
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November 30th, 2019
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The Neighbourhood Emergency Response Program (NERP) is a Municipality-sponsored, grassroots program of neighbours supporting neighbours in emergency situations. The NERP’s purpose is to increase our personal and collective level of preparedness and self-sufficiency in the event of an emergency, such as an earthquake, wildfire, or extended power outage. As a NERP volunteer, you will take an active role in your neighbourhood’s emergency preparation. In the event of an emergency, you will help coordinate your neighbourhood’s response and recovery, ensuring the safety and security of you, your family and your neighbours. In doing this, you will be playing a significant role in the resilience of our island community. If you’re interested in volunteering for NERP, or if you have any questions about the program, please visit our website for more information: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/nerps
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ISLAND NEWS Bowen scents for stars BOWEN-BASED SANGRE DE FRUTA BOTANICALS HAS THEIR PRODUCT SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL EMMYS GIFT BAG
BRONWYN BEAIRSTO
Editor
When the curtains rise at the 47th International Emmys in New York next Monday, each of the guests will carry a little bit of Bowen Island with them. The award ceremony gift bags will include products from Sangre de Fruta Botanicals, a local organic skincare and hair care boutique. The gift bags for the hundreds of guests will include the Artisan Square-based boutique’s Solis Flower Nectar Face Serum while the bags for presenters and special award winners will also have Rose No.1 and Jasmine de Nuit perfume roll-ons. The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards International Emmys to exceptional television programmes produced outside of the U.S. Renowned CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour and Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are 2019 special award recipients while Daily Show senior correspondent Ronny Chieng is hosting the gala. The initial email offering to include a Sangre de Fruta product in the International Emmys gift bags sat unread in Sangre de Fruta founder Allison Audrey Weldon’s inbox for about a week before it piqued her interest. “She thought it was fake in the beginning,” says Nicholas Fritz, one of the company’s co-owners. “But we looked into it deeper and we’re like, oh, this is actually legit. This is crazy.” So began months of preparation for the massive shipment. Weldon, Fritz and their team began filling the order in the summertime, 60 bottles at a time: the small-batch product hand-made, the bottles hand-labelled. “It was a pallet full that left…off to New York,” says Fritz. “Of the small bottles,” adds Weldon. But their painstaking work paid off and come Monday, the essential oil scents from a studio on Bowen Island will envelop some of TV’s brightest and boldest. “I think it’ll be a thing where over time it’ll create a bit of awareness with a different clientele that we
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Each guest at the International Emmys Monday will receive this little bit of Bowen in their gift bag.
don’t have access to from here,” says Weldon. Weldon also notes that there’s a sort of fascination surrounding the gift bags of award ceremonies. The Oscars famously have unofficial $100,000 swag bags for nominees of the top awards. “Some people get interested in what’s in those bags,” says Weldon. “[Organizers] try to have innovative, different things with stories around them.” She notes that the organizers were also looking to feature international brands or products. “Considering the organizers of the International Emmy Awards have their pick of the world’s best products, my small team and I are incredibly honoured,” said Weldon in an earlier press release. “We’re just a small company on a tiny island off Vancouver so it just seemed too good to be true that the International Emmy’s would seek us out like that.”
Next week’s giving on Bowen edition will explore Islanders’ generosity as well as profiling some local initiatives. (What does Rotary do on Bowen Island? What’s the Early Childhood Development Table?) If you have ideas or submissions, please contact Bronwyn at editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com.
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Kindred Spirits: Ed and Shilanne took great pleasure in one another’s company Ed, a wise, kind and gentle man played a loving grandfather role in Shilanne’s life. Her vibrant energy, sense of humour and kindness was his delight. Ed and Shilanne lived in the same house when she was very young, their paths crossing daily. He was the school bus driver for her first day of school and many more following. They spent Christmas together more than once, providing the joy of extended family they both would have missed otherwise. Shilanne and Ed died within days of each other. Friends to the end, both of them are now desperately missed. Editor’s note: Bowen-raised woman Shilanne Stedmances, 22, disappeared into the ocean Nov. 4. Longtime islander living on the mainland Ed Sanders died a week later. Shilanne’s mother Joanne Raymont submitted the above photo and writeup as a tribute to the two well-loved islanders.
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Help celebrate Islanders’ generosity
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id you know that every day this winter a volunteer will check on the salmon eggs at the Terminal Creek Hatchery? Or that the Knick Knack Nook has never had to close because of a lack of volunteers to run the shop? Did you know that the municipality has 26-odd committees filled with community members who advise on everything from development to finance? Volunteers on Bowen spend thousands of hours each month organizing fairs and markets, training for disaster response, helping injured neighbours, keeping local sports organizations running, tending to gardens, reading to kids and generally guiding the direction of our community. We want to thank them. Next week is our “Giving on Bowen” edition. From Bowfest to firefighting, fundraising to foot racing, we want to recognize as many people as possible. But, I am only one woman with one pair of eyes and one pair of ears. I really need your help to celebrate the people who make this town a special place to live. Do you have a story of how a non-profit organization helped you? Do you want to send a (platonic) Valentine to a loyal volunteer three months early? Do you have a lovely story of giving or kindness to share? Or did you capture a lovely giving moment on-camera? Help us celebrate Bowen’s giving spirit. Please send submissions of between 25 and 250 words to editor@bowenislandundercurrent. com by 3 p.m. Nov. 25. Thank you so much Bowen. — Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor
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While the program is up and running with a skeleton crew, Wachtman hopes to have more of the island covered by the start of next year’s wildfire season. NERP is a grassroots organization stressed McGowan and Wachtman. The program will look different in each neighbourhood as NERPers build resilience in each hub. “Our role is coordination,” saidWachtman. “When it’s all said and done it’s up to each NERP volunteer and his or her neighborhood as to how they want to do this. “We’re not mandating this or that. “We just coordinate it and then the muni supports it.” But what is key is preparation for wildfire, earthquake, severe weather or other emergencies said Wachtman. “Because good chance, maybe not next week or next year, but a good chance is we’re going to see some of this sometime in the future.” NERP volunteers prepare for emergencies by knowing all their neighbours, including
those who may need extra help and those with helpful skills (first aid and the like); knowing the hazards and resources of their neighbourhood; and building relationships within the community. The NERP volunteer will also be the liaison between the BIM emergency response centre and their community. Potential training available for volunteers includes light urban search and rescue, first-aid and rapid damage assessment for post-earthquake. “If something bad happens, we’re on our own. And you can be on your own as a family but probably you’re better off on your own as a neighborhood,” said Wachtman. “In the neighborhood you probably have a number of tools that would be very useful in the case of an emergency.” McGowan noted that with Bowen’s oneway roads, a large tree could come down over a powerline and cut off an entire neighbourhood for days if BC Hydro wasn’t on hand. One of the suggestions for resil-
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ience-building is hosting neighbourhood potlucks. To help your neighbours, first you’ve got to know them. Bowen Island Community Foundation’s new neighbourhood small grants program is one resource for those interested in community-building activities. The NERP revitalisation coincides with McGowan finishing up the draft evacuation plan, parts of which she says could be public by February. She says that there’s a potential role for NERPers in an evacuation in spreading information and working assembly areas. “There’s all sorts of different potential roles,” said McGowan. “And it is supposed to be organic to a large degree,” she said. “I think that whatever the community identifies as useful or important is the direction that the program will take.” To volunteer, contact edward@bimbc.ca. To read Bowen’s Emergency Guide, visit BIM’s website: bowenislandmunicipality.ca/ emergency-program.
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Light Up Bowen adds a dash of Tchaikovsky to lineup
THE ANNUAL SNUG COVE EVENING OF HOLIDAY CHEER, INCLUDING A LIVE NATIVITY AND SANTA, IS NOVEMBER 30
BRONWYN BEAIRSTO
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Visions of sugar plum fairies will dance on the terrace between the Snug Café and Copper Spirit Distillery Nov. 30. A Nutcracker-inspired stop is the latest addition to the island’s Light Up Bowen tradition. The cove Christmas kickoff is a little earlier than islanders may expect as it’s happening the last evening of November rather than the first Saturday of December, but organizer Basia Lieske expects this year’s event to be as illuminating as ever. The evening starts at 6 p.m. in Village Square. Phoenix is handing out glow sticks while the Ruddy has an open house and the Bowen Island Community Choir accompanies the merriment. This year, the procession will go down Trunk Road rather than behind Davies Orchard. Candy Cane lane will run beside First Credit Union while the white birch tree display will be in front of Bowen Island Integrated Health and the Bowen Island Learning Centre. Mascots will lead the revellers down the hill, first through the crossroads building, where there’s an open house, and down to around the Sea Breeze building where there’s a live nativity at about 6:30 p.m. Tuscany will provide hot chocolate and candy canes. A bit further down the road is the gathering of the sugar plum fairies. Basia encourages everyone to come dressed as the Nutcracker character (moms, dads, kids, dogs, grandparents, local reporters, you get the picture) for a Tchaikovskian treat!
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While nutcrackers and a sugar plum fairy have long been a part of Light Up Bowen, this year organizer Basia Lieske is encouraging all participants to dress up as the sugar plum fairy.
Copper Spirit Distillery, Connie Wright Originals Boutique and Squirrel will also have goodies.
Then, in true Tchaikovskian form, at promptly 7 p.m. Union Steamship Company Marina will set off its cannon and the Family
Place’s Festival of Trees will illuminate. And, as he does every year, Santa will arrive on Cormorant Marine’s tug boat. The jolly fellow will greet children in Doc Morgan’s. Basia says that families with young kids should ask to go to the front of the line while other children can write letters and decorate cookies at Santa’s Workshop while they wait their turns. The Undercurrent got a hold of Basia while she was on a Christmas lights shopping mission. While she has many, many lights from previous years, more strings are always needed as Basia tries to include new elements each year. Next year she hopes to convince some folks to dress up their trucks in the ferry lineup. If islanders are in the cove this week, they may see the Bowen volunteer extraordinaire stringing lights and setting up snowmen. However, Basia’s always looking for help, installing lights, for mascots, elves and donations for more decorations. She can be contacted at lightupbowen@gmail.com. “I appreciate all the donations for the cove,” says Basia, recognizing particularly Jewal Maxwell, Jen Rtichie and the Light Up Bowen team. Basia also notes that Light Up Bowen once again has the help of L.A. costume designer Liz Nankin. Last year, Nankin designed the Snow King and Queen costumes to be donned this year by Michael Nankin and Cynthia Van Hoof Barthel. This year, Nankin is designing the lead Sugar Plum Fairy costume, a role Michelle Harrison of Ginger 66 will take up. One of the advantages of the Trunk Roadside procession is that Basia says that the cove lights will stay up for all of December.
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Tir-na-nOg Theatre 585 Rivendell Drive, Bowen Island
Sunday, November 24th 7:30 PM Tickets $20 at the Hearth and Phoenix Books and online wildcoastsbowen.eventbrite.ca
The Bennett Sun Copper Spirit Distillery 7 10pm Hailing from the Yukon, the band’s music ranges from folk, country and roots while drawing on the bluegrass tradition. By donation. $20 recommended. Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m. info call Pat at 778-288-7090
FRIDAY NOV. 22
Dinner at the Legion Doors at 5:30. Dinner at
The West Coast Symphony and guests chamber concert
Sunday Dec 15, 2 pm
6:30 Members and guests welcome.
Lantern workshop BICS multipurpose room 3-6 p.m. $15/child. Take this opportunity for your child to create a Light Up Bowen lantern Youth Centre Drop-In 4-9:30 p.m. bowenyouthcentre.com Friday Night Live at the Pub 7-10 pm Live music, dinner specials and no cover charge.
SATURDAY NOV. 23
Knowing Our Place: The Book Club Bowen Library Flex Room1112:30 pm The Book Club discusses Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry edited by Steve Heinrichs. Register and find more info at bit.ly/ bookclub2019-3 Festive Reception: It’s A Wrap-gift giving exhibit and sale Gallery at Cove Commons Reception: 6- 8 pm with Cindy Fairburn. Exhibit runs Nov 20 - December 30 open daily 10 -4 pm except Tuesdays. The United Church Christmas Craft Fair Collins Hall 11- 3 pm Local gifts, crafts, and concession. Please join us for a taste of Christmas.
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Fine Art Creations by Local Artistts November 20 - December 30, 2019 Saturday, November 23 FESTIVE RECEPTION 6 - 8 pm Music by Cindy Fairbank
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, December 5 VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION 4 - 6 pm Volunteers & Members LATE NIGHT SHOPPING 6 - 8 pm P Open to the Public
BI Conservancy AGM BICS Room 2 1 pm Sound Water documentary screening a 2 pm. Everyone welcome Musical Celebration:Christie Grace & Peter McLean Arts Pacific Gallery 3 - 5 pm
SUNDAY NOV. 24
Legion Christmas Craft Fair 11 - 4 pm Local crafts, treats and concession Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 am. No cost. More info at lisa.shatsky@gmail.com Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association
AGM Cottage 20 Davies Orchard 4-5 p.m. Volunteers wanted to find new ways to celebrate, educate, activate and preserve the agricultural, architectural and cultural history of Davies Orchard.
Shari Ulrich Trust Me Series presents, “The Wild Coasts of Canada” Tir-na-nOg 7:30 pm David Newland, musician and Artic adventurer released his album “Northbound” and Scott Forsyth, photographer and fellow Artic shipmate has just published his book, “Wild Coasts of Canada”. Together they bring a night of music, images, and stories. Tickets available at Phoenix and the Hearth.
MONDAY NOV. 25
Seniors Keeping Young (SKY) For 55+ at 1070 Senior Road will have exercise at 9 a.m., coffee at 9:45 a.m., a visit from BICS children at 10, and yoga at 11:15.
TUESDAY NOV. 26
Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 pm
THURSDAY NOV. 28
Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m. Info call Pat at 778-288-7090
FRIDAY NOV. 29
Dinner at the Legion Doors at 5:30. Dinner at 6:30 Members and guests welcome. Youth Centre Drop-In 4-9:30 p.m. bowenyouthcentre.com Friday Night Live at the Pub 7-10 pm Live music, dinner specials and no cover charge. Sounds of Christmas Cates Hill Chapel 7:30 pm Get into the spirit with the Ladies Madrigal Singers’ Directed by Lynn Ellis-Williams. Tickets at Cates Pharmacy and at the door.
SATURDAY NOV. 30
BIT free energy audits Learn how to save energy and money. To make an appointment, please contact email: bowenenergyaudits@ gmail.com. LIght Up Bowen! Starts 6 pm in Village Square. The Lantern parade begins at 6:20 from the quare , Live Nativity at the Seabreeze Building 6:30 pm, Gathering of the Sugar Plum Fairies 6:40 pm beside Snug, 7:10 Santa arrives at the USSC Marina and the merry making begins! Straight Up Seven Hills Bowen Island Pub 8 pm Local band Straight Up Seven Hills bring their roots-rock to the Bowen Island Pub. Tickets $10 available at the door, 8 PM
SUNDAY DEC. 1
CSA Christmas Craft Fair BICS Gym 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The 34th annual Christmas Craft Fair. Unique local crafts, yummy Cafe, Cake walk for the kids, silent auction items, raffle and more! Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 am. No cost. More info at lisa.shatsky@gmail.com
THURSDAY DEC. 5
Late Night Shopping and Volunteer Appreciation evening Gallery at Cove Commons 6-8 pm Hearth volunteers and members. The public is welcome.
FRIDAY DEC. 6
Jazz Night at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7- 10 pm Live Jazz, dinner specials, no cover.
SATURDAY DEC. 7
Winter Artisan and Farmers’ Market BICS10am-12:30pm ($25 per table, 25 tables) shaxby@ hotmail.com with WINTER MARKET or talk to Sarah Haxby to reserve your place/ space.
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Crafting Christmas: Bowen Island’s first
COUNTRY & WESTERN
craft fair of the season is coming up Saturday SARAH HAXBY
Dutiful daughter
The Bowen Island United Church, also known as The Little Red Church and the site of Collins’ Hall, is hosting its annual Christmas Craft Fair on Saturday Nov. 23, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1122 Miller Road. Local crafters and artisans will be selling an array of jams, preserves, baked goods, woodwork, knitwear, textiles, fruit leather, locally made cards, tea, dried herbs, wreaths, jewelry, stocking stuffers and more! The concession will offer tea, coffee and vegetarian and meat chili as well as other treats. One of the tables at this annual event is the Little Red Church’s fundraising table where they sell an array of items including Crowstone pottery donated by long-time food-
bank volunteer and master potter Susan Clarke. Helen Wallwork, organizer of the annual Collins’ Hall Craft Fair would like to let everyone know that this year they are fundraising to increase the size and capacity of the Bowen Island Foodbank at the Little Red Church. More space is much needed to continue to serve the needs of the community. Donations of over $25 are eligible to receive a charitable tax receipt. Please indicate at the time of donation that the donation is for the building of the foodbank and let the United Church know that you would like a donation receipt. You can donate directly at the Collins’ Hall Craft Fair or contact the United Church. It is free to attend the Collins’ Hall Craft Fair, but donations of food are always appreciated to help fill the basket!
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Bowen Buckaroos December 7 Royal Canadian Legion 7:30-11:30pm
tickets $15 available at Phoenix all proceeds to local charities
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LIGHT UP BOWEN SAT NOVEMBER 30th 6:00 pm VILLAGE SQUARE
RUDDY POTATO Open House, Glow sticks at PHOENIX. Visit BOWEN PET SUPPLY, Carols by BI COMMUNITY CHOIR
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OPEN HOUSES at the CROSSROADS BUILDING BOWEN ISLAND REMAX , FABULOUS FINDS and BOWEN PUB for warm mini donuts
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10:00 a.m. Worship Sunday School: Tots to Teens
Pastor: Phil Adkins
On December 25, & January 1 service will begin with the 8:35 am sailing from Bowen Island and the 8:00 am sailing from Horseshoe Bay.
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BOWEN ISLAND Snug Cove
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Distance: 3 NAUTICAL MILES Crossing Time: 20 MINUTES
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Reverend Lorraine Ashdown and Tina Overbury Service and Sunday School 10:30 am Collins Hall Bookings: Helen Wallwork Minister of Music: Lynn Williams
have teamed up to share their works in concerts across the country. David will share songs from his latest album Northbound, a descriptive and moving culmination of seven trips to the truly Great White North. Scott will share images from his new book The Wild Coasts of Canada, an astounding collection of photographs and essays celebrating the grandeur of Canada’s most remote regions along the three ocean coastlines. I can promise you a very special evening. You can learn more about David’s music at davidnewland.com and Scott’s photography at scottforsyth.ca and adventurecanada.com. If Barney can make it back from Calgary in time he will reunite with his shipmates for couple of songs. Tickets ($20) are available at The Hearth, Phoenix Books (where you might get to meet my favourite dog ever, Buttercup) or online at wildcoastsbowen.eventbrite.ca.
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Editor’s note: My dad is notorious for keeping every single semibroken thing he can hide from my more purge-friendly stepmother. It’s too bad there’s not a fix-it fair back in Whitehorse (that I know of) because Dad could open his own re-use it store with all his revitalized stuff. All this to say, Bowen in Transition holds a biannual fair to vindicate hopeless thing-keepers like my dad. (Unfortunately, the trait is hereditary, so I’ll see you all at the next Fix-It Fair.) One such fair was last Sunday and islanders turned up to save household things from the landfill. ––Bronwyn Beairsto, editor PHOTOS BY SHASTA MARTINUK Sue Fairburn (right) hard at work sewing.
Reed Bement was master of the toasters.
Glen Pierce (left) examines a broken thing while Steve Frazer holds it.
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Wendy Holm (left) was one of the many islanders who attended the fair.
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Sandra Hollick-Kenyon of Fisheries & Oceans Canada explains to Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club volunteers how to care for 100,000 pink salmon eggs placed in incubation trays at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery in Crippen Park Tuesday morning. (Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto)
Tinkerers and craftspeople of many disciplines came together for the Fix-It Fair including Elena Waldman (left) and Deanna Adams.
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There are also challenges that emerge with dependence and addiction––youth seeking what may be a destructive solace in mind-active substances. At times, all of these issues collide: trauma, mental health and substance dependence. The Bowen Island Community Foundation has taken steps to create a fund for youth who find themselves at risk (those between the ages of 15 and 29), in the hope that we can provide forms of support that might help avoid future tragedies. Young people who are struggling––who are at risk of harm––can now apply for assistance. Counselling and psychological assessment can be made available, with the confidentiality of our support as a guarantee.
There are many different ways to request this help from the Bowen Island Community Foundation. Those who view themselves at risk may feel most comfortable in contacting a licenced counsellor or psychologist rather than contacting a member of our Youth at Risk Committee. The counsellor or psychologist can then make an application on behalf of the young person and we can provide funding for this intervention. We want to make this process of requesting support one that is easy for youth to access. Alternatively, youth should also feel free to contact any of the current members of our committee. Confidentiality is guaranteed. We have all lived on Bowen Island for many years and feel a strong sense of commitment to this com-
munity: Lorinda Strang, executive director of The Orchard Recovery Center; Colleen O’Neil, program director of the Caring Circle; John Stiver, youth services co-ordinator for Bowen Island Municipality, and Neil Boyd, a director of Bowen Island Community Foundation. Finally, as we approach the end of this calendar year, many of us are considering where we might best donate locally––to which Bowen Island charity. One option I’d recommend is a contribution to the Bowen Island Community Foundation and more specifically to our Youth at Risk Fund. That will be my own commitment in 2019. For more information please contact youthatrisk@bowenfoundation. com.
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