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Businesses of the YearWest Van Chamber of Commerce givesExcellence Awards to Bowenshire and Pub

Travelling soloKami Kanetsuka shares her experiencesin new anthology of women writers

Dog of the Year 2015Duke gets to wear the coveted crown inthis year’s Dog Days of Summer

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Do you think Skipper is practising for the best kisser contest at this Sunday’s Dog Days of Summer? His owner, BasiaLieske of USSC Marina, is in full organizational mode for the return of the popular event. Details page 4. Martha Perkins photo

Renters need a voice: RhodesMARTHA PERKINSE D I T O R

Tim Rhodes has always been a bit of a pol-icy wonk when it comes to municipal affairsbut his recent research into Bowen Island’sshortage of rental accommodation was muchmore personal — and public.At the end of June, Rhodes and his wife

Darcy Buzzelle found out that the ownersof three-bedroom home they’d been rentingfor eight years needed it for a family mem-ber. When Buzzelle wrote about their searchonline, saying there was a risk they’d have toleave Bowen if they couldn’t find someplace to

On thehustings

BRENT RICHTERN O R T H S H O R E N E W S

Would-be MPs are out knocking on doorsafter the prime minister officially calledCanada’s 42nd federal election on Sunday.The West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-

Sea to Sky Country riding, which includesBowen Island, has lost Powell River inboundary redrawings since the last election.Conservative incumbent John Weston is fac-ing a high-profile Liberal challenger in formerWest Vancouver mayor Pamela GoldsmithJones. Former Whistler mayor Ken Melamedis the Green candidate and the NDP has cho-sen Gibsons business owner Larry Koopman.The Tories won the riding in 2011 with 45

per cent of the vote. The NDP and Liberalsfinished with 24 and 23 per cent, respectively.The Green Party finished with just aboveseven per cent.Poll aggregating website

ThreeHundredEight.com goes as far as mak-ing predictions, riding by riding.Three Hundred Eight founder Éric

Grenier’s calculations on Wednesday indicatea 73 per cent chance of the riding switching tothe Liberals on October 19.Even though Grenier is highly respected

among political scientists, those numbersshould be taken with a large grain of salt, saidRichard Johnston, UBC political scientist.Most polling firms don’t use a large enough

sample from individual ridings to have con-fidence in their predictions, Johnston said, sothey instead apply regional or provincial datainto a formula. That formula doesn’t take intoaccount on-the-ground knowledge that localswould have including how strong the individ-ual candidates are and how effectively they’recampaigning.

live, they became the face of a growing prob-lem on the island.As Meribeth Deen reported in last week’s

Undercurrent, when real estate was in the dol-drums, property owners who wanted to selldecided to bide their time by renting out theirhouses instead. Now that sales have warmedup considerably, a lot of renters are worriedthat they’ll have to find new accommodationif the new owners want to move in.It won’t be easy.As Rhodes is now painfully aware, there are

very few rental opportunities on the island.Wolfgang Duntz is the only developer whohas built rental spaces — apartments above

businesses in Village Square and triplexesbelow the municipal hall — since theGeneral Store was built in the 1960s/70s.Secondary suites were allowed a few

years ago but that bylaw primarily servedto legalize existing rental spaces rather thancreate new ones, Rhodes says.Even if the municipality decides to go

ahead with an accessory building bylaw, thecost of construction won’t make them veryaffordable, he adds. Rhodes does the math:an 800 sq.ft. accessory building would cost$200 to $250 a square foot to construct($200,000) and then there are permit fees,

Website says Liberal candidatehas a 73 per cent chance ofbeating the incumbent Tory

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Bowenshire turns landscapeinto creative spaces

Medium Business of theYear Excellence Award

MARTHA PERKINSE D I T O R

Where some people see only the challengesof turning rocks and cliffs and forests intoliveable spaces, Andy Rainsley sees excitingpossibilities.“I can picture it all in my mind,” the owner

of Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscapingsays of his ability to create beautiful and yetpractical solutions for any of the obstacles thelandscape throws at him. “People will look atme bewildered and say, ‘How will you do it?’,but I can close my eyes and visualize it.”It’s partly years of experience — it used to

drive his mother nuts when he built ponds inher backyard garden in Coventry, England —but also the part of the job he thrives on.“We get to be really creative,” he says of why

he loves his work. “Every job is completelydifferent. We’re working on a waterfront prop-erty one day and in the forest the next. It’snever the same. The job is always changing.”The West Vancouver Chamber of

Commerce recently recognized this dedica-tion to craftsmanship by naming Bowenshirethe Best Small Business of the Year in its 2015Business Excellence Awards. (Rainsley was sosurprised by the nomination that he had toborrow a suit for the banquet; he was so sur-prised by the win that he didn’t have a speechprepared.)Considering how many well-established

businesses he was up against for such an hon-our, it’s a remarkable achievement for some-one who started his business with “a truckand a lot of hard work” 13 years ago. Rainsleyowns the business with his wife Diana Rayand they currently employ 12 people becausethey have so many projects on the go.One job they just finished was in Hood

Point west. The owner had a rough idea of

what he wanted and asked if Bowenshirecould make it happen. Rainsley closed hiseyes and…. The result is like a personal resortright on the ocean, with features such as agorgeous outdoor kitchen.He also worked on an adventurous proj-

ect on Cape Roger Curtis. He started it as asubcontractor for Wakefield Constructionbut when Wakefield went bankrupt (owingBowen Island suppliers a reported total of$400,000), the owner asked Bowenshire tocontinue working on the project. “That wasjust a delight,” Rainsley says with his trade-mark good humour.He wouldn’t be surprised if either of these

houses land in the centre of a magazinespread.“You’ve got to take pride in what you do,”

he says. “If you don’t care, the results won’t befavourable. We’re a little boutique companyand all the staff is very conscientious andwants the best results.”He certainly got a favourable rating when

he designed new stone stairs at Village Square.The former stairs were awkward to traversebecause they didn’t conform to a normal foot-fall. “The specs of the job were ‘Make it lookgood and feel good.’”He couldn’t change the space restrictions

but he was able to use landings to create anatural rise and fall.Although the business is growing and he

has projects off the island, there’s no otherplace he’d rather be than on Bowen Island.He thrives on the strong sense of community,which includes his business relationship withFirst Credit Union. “It’s fantastic,” he says.“I used to bank with HSBC and was just anumber; I was always rushing for the ferry.With First Credit Union it’s like going back50 years; you can just phone them up andask them to do something for you. They’re abreath of fresh air in the banking world.”

Andy Rainsley of Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscaping wasgiven simple instructions when asked to design and build thestaircase at Village Square: Make it look and feel good. Bowenshirerecently won Small Business of the Year ain the West VancouverChamber of Commerce Excellence Awards. Martha Perkins photo


In his 30 years in the food and beverageindustry, Glenn Cormier has learned howto do virtually every job in the business. Asthe owner of the Bowen Island Pub, thatexperience has come in very handy. If anyof his 20 staff calls in sick or has an emer-gency to attend to, he can roll up his sleevesand step right in.Now he’s adding a new job description,

one that requires the passion of a dream-er, the pragmatism of a banker and thepatience of… well, someone who acceptsthat the wheels of municipal hall can some-times turn more slowly than first expected.Cormier takes out his iPhone and shows

an artist’s drawing of his plans for the cor-ner of Bowen Trunk Road and DormanRoad. The design includes a new buildingthat will occupy what’s now the parking lotin front of the existing Pub building. It willhouse retail spaces on the first level, the Pubon the second level and four staff accom-modations on the second level.Once that is built, he’ll be able to tear

down the old Pub and, it’s hoped, build fourtwo-level townhouses (1,500 to 1,600 sq. ft.each), two ground-floor apartments, moreretail space and underground parking for19 vehicles.“That corner deserves so much more,”

he says. “The biggest thing people wantto know is ‘When, when, when?’ There’salready a huge number of inquiries aboutthe townhouses. There are a lot of emptynesters who have too much house and notenough people to fill it.”The plan first got tied up by the munici-

pal elections and then there were changesin planning staff. The zoning, however, haspassed fourth reading and he hopes it willbe approved in September so he can stickto his goal of starting construction nextspring.“It’s been frustrating but at the end of

Glenn Cormier’s Bowen Island Pub waschosen as the Medium Business of theYear by the West Vancouver Chamberof Commerce. Martha Perkins photo

The plan for the corner at Bowen Trunk Road and Dorman Road is to build anew pub, with retail space and staff apartments, in the space currently occupiedby Pub’s parking lot and, when finished, to tear down the existing building andbuild townhouses, two apartments, retail space and underground parking lot.Glenn Cormier hopes construction on the first phase can begin next spring.

the day I’m comfortable with it as long as the[existing] building stays standing,” he says.The West Vancouver Chamber of

Commerce recently gave Cormier a voteof confidence by choosing the Pub as theMediaumBusiness of the Year at its recentExcellence Awards. Like the other BowenIsland recipient, Andy Rainsley of BowenshireStoneworks and Landscaping, Cormier wastotally taken aback by the win.Cormier and his wife Meredith, whose

work for the BC Medical Association includesrecruiting doctors to rural areas, bought thePub as a lifestyle choice three years ago thisweek. The previous owner had shut down itsfood operations a month before shutteringthe windows and everything was in disarray.When everyone told the Cormiers that theysimply had to be open for the fastpitch week-end, they scrambled to get everything ready.A barbecue on the patio acted as a fill-in forthe kitchen.It was worth it. Not only were the hordes

of baseball players happy but it cemented arelationship with the community that’s onlygrown stronger.“Obviously the Pub had seen better days,”

he says. But he knew he could work throughthat and, in fact, relished being able to starteverything from scratch. And even thoughhe has a lot of experience, he also wanted toadapt to what islanders wanted.The pleasant surprise, he says, is how much

the community has embraced them and theatmosphere they’re working hard to create.

Small Business of the Year Excellence Award

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Deer’s deathhighlights needfor leash bylawThis past Saturday I witnessed one more reason

why it is so important to keep dogs on leashes inthe Cove. I work at Tuscany and while cleaningthe patio near the end of service, I saw a dog chasea large buck right in front of the oncoming ambu-lance. It all happened so fast that the ambulancedriver had no time to react fast enough to avoidthe collision.The deer went flying through the air, and then

tumbled down the street. The buck then triedto get up to continue running from the dog, butboth its back legs were broken and one of his largehorns was ripped off.A Tuscany chef ran to the deer and the dog

backed away, but the situation was hopeless. Allwe could do was wait for the police to come andput the poor animal out of its misery. It was ahorrible sight to see, and it brought some custom-ers sitting on our patio to tears. Had this eventoccurred during full service hours, many custom-ers would have surely lost their appetites. And hadit been a small vehicle that hit the deer, humanlives may also have been lost.So I plea to all dog owners: Please keep your

dogs on leashes in the Cove!!!

Carina Basile

Duke to wear thecrown of Dog ofthe Year 2015MARTHA PERKINSE D I T O R

The Duke and Duchess were quite a pair. TheYorkie siblings often promenaded through SnugCove followed by their loyal patrons, Lyn andKeith Watson.When Duchess was killed in a dog attack two

years ago, Duke soldiered on, says Lyn’s daughterKaren Redmond, in one of the nominations forDuke as Dog of the Year 2015.“Duke is a regular fixture in the Cove and can

often be seen out with Keith on his morning andevening walks, although I’m not sure if it’s Keithor Duke who is leading the walk these days. ” shewrites. “Duke is happiest when lying in front ofthe fire on a winter evening in Lyn and Keith’scozy cottage in the cove or basking in the sun intheir lovely garden on a summer day. He doesn’tlike to swim but he will tolerate a bath in the sinkevery now and then!”Lyn also nominated Duke for the prestigious

title. “Duke is 14 years old and has been a Covedog since he was 12 weeks old. Duke is a favouriteto all who meet him and he can put a smile onanyone’s face. He knows every inch of Snug Coveas well as all the various trails around Bowen. Heis very healthy but going a little deaf and we aren’ttoo sure his eyesight is all that good. He still loveshis walkies and his food though. “The organizers of Dog Days of Summer have

appointed Duke as the Dog of the Year 2015. Hewill be crowned at the August 9 event and thenget to ride in the convertible during the Bowfestparade on August 29.

Duke, a 14-year-old Yorkie, is a much lovedfixture in the Cove.

Dog Days is Sunday, August 9. There are manyother titles being vied for including Best Dressed Dogand Best Dog Trick. Registration for the various com-petitions is at 11 and the event gets underway with acostumed parade at noon. The afternoon is filled withan array of activities, demonstrations and contests,including bobbing for wieners, flyball races, agility,dog-themed entertainment, refreshments and exhibits.Registration is $5; the money goes to BC Guide DogServices.

Help take thesting out ofvolunteering atrecycling depotKim KasasianC O N T I B U T O R

Anyone who has visited the recycling depotrecently knows how bad the wasp situation atBIRD is this year. Bowen Waste Services has triedusing wasp traps but the wasps find the dregs ofpop, juice and beer way more enticing than any-thing on offer in a trap.Whilst you get to dash in, drop your recycling

in the bins, and make for the door, the volunteerswho are running the bottle sorting area are stuckthere with the wasps for most of the day. PLEASEthink of them, and rinse out your bottles andcans before bringing them to BIRD.

Pet blessing ceremony atLittle Red Church is SundayAll of her life, the Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon has

had a strong connection with animals.This Sunday she will be blessing pets at the

Little Red Church at 10:30am.“It’s an ancient part of spirituality,” she says,

adding that our love for animals is an organicpart of who we are as humans.Please bring pets on a leash or in a cage. If

that’s not possible, bring a photo.


“We have this newspaper on Bone Island…”It was August 2009 and I was sitting in Black

Press’s Surrey office talking with the presidentof their Lower Mainland newspapers aboutwhat opportunities were available for me. Afew days earlier, my husband and I had flownto Vancouver on an exploratory mission. After25 years of living on the shores of a lake at theend of the road surrounded by forest, we werein the mood for a change. What would be mycareer’s piece of the puzzle?As editor of four weekly newspapers back

in Ontario’s cottage country, becoming theUndercurrent’s editor wasn’t quite what I’denvisioned but, after the interview, my hus-band and I decided to postpone our trip homeby a day so we could check out what I’d mis-takenly heard as Bone Island.The ferry ride was spent “under cover”,

striking up conversations with completestrangers and asking them what they thoughtabout the paper. I remember that the ever-jovial Piers Hayes, owner of the Snug Café,wanted more letters to the editor. (Wouldn’tyou know it that this week we have only one!)We drove off the ferry, crossed to Tunstall

Bay, walked along the beach and thendropped by the Undercurrent’s office whereI introduced myself to the sole staff person,Tracey Wait, as a visiting newspaper editorwho made this sort of courtesy drop-in visita vacation habit. (I think she was soon on tome.)That night I lurked on the Phorum and

started hyperventilating. To the rest ofCanada, British Columbia has a reputa-tion for many things including its beauty, itsquirky politics and the querulous nature ofits debates. Ample evidence of the latter twowere on the Phorum and I worried that some-one with my personality would be eaten aliveas the paper’s editor.You see, my nature is to be an observer,

not a participant. I will gladly report on con-troversial issues but I don’t want the news-paper to be controversial. And, as a personwho believes that two opposing views caneach be right and valid, would readers wantsomeone a little more feisty, a little more JackWebsterish?

With some trepidation, I accepted the job. Itturned out to be one of the happiest decisionsI/we have ever made. (It’s impossible to do thisjob without a partner who puts up with yourdeadline anxiety, delayed ETA[H]s — esti-mated time of arrival home — and constantlybeing “on” whenever you’re out of the office.)The Undercurrent got me back to every-

thing I love about community journalism. Ifelt connected, invigorated, challenged. Myhusband and I both embraced being part ofBowen life, especially after we bought a sail-boat and kept it docked at USSC Marina.In February of 2011, when I was asked to be

editor of the North Shore Outlook and, later,switch jobs with the editor of theWestender,I was saddened to have to let go of my formalties to the Undercurrent. My multi-taskingskills had met their limit. But, always up fora challenge, I embraced my new jobs and wegot our Bowen fix during weekend trips to theboat.After the papers were bought by Glacier

Media, the company asked me to spearheadone of its new ventures: a crowdfunding plat-form called FundAid.ca. I loved that job, too,because it got me back into the communitywhere I could help people with their fundrais-ing challenges. (I also love how Glacier Mediaembraces new digital opportunities.)I was thrilled, though, when the

Undercurrent’s publisher asked me to fill infor a year while Meribeth Deen, the currenteditor, enjoyed her maternity leave. I took thecall while walking along a park next to theFraser River in Burnaby, where I was filling inas editor for a month. It was a sunny springday and the thought of being back on Bowenwarmed my heart. No trepidation this time.Everyone’s read the news about the chal-

lenges facing newspapers these days. It’sall true. But Glacier Media believes in theUndercurrent’s role on the island and thereare many ideas of how we can strengthen itsprint and online presence, while at the sametime strengthening the community. The com-pany can’t do it alone, though. We need read-ers buying newspapers and businesses andorganizations turning to us to help with theirmarketing.It takes an island to give readers the best

newspaper possible.

How I Got Here

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The first time Kami Kanetsuka travelledby herself, it was not intentional.She and some friends had arranged

to meet at the train station in London,England, to start their journey to France.When she got to the station, her friendsweren’t there. Since cellphones were the stuffof science fiction, she simply shrugged hershoulders and got on the train anyway. Shewas 17.The second time she was 21 and bound

for Israel in “a very cheap — in vogue, mindyou — ship that went from Venice to Haifa.”In hindsight she realized she should have

gone to a kibbutz; instead she got an officejob in old Tel Aviv and hated it. When shedecided to quit and take the return trip backto Venice, there was a slight complication:the ship had sunk.She met an American woman who wanted

to go to Italy so they ended up travelling toRome, where young Kami got a job lookingafter the children of a tremendously wealthyaristocratic family. “I’d never even babysatbefore.”Despite the lavish surroundings, the work

conditions were less than desirable so shewent to work for a woman who had just lefther husband and then….Thus begins what Kanetsuka describes as

a peripatetic life of “adventures.”It’s also

what makesher a perfectcontributorto CaitlinPress’s newbook, ThisPlace aStranger:CanadianWomenTravellingAlone. Herchapter —What AmI DoingHere? —describesone of those

adventures in Nagaland, India, the tribalstate of former headhunters.“I’m much better on the road than dealing

with things here,” she says, sitting under theshade of a tree on Bowen Island, where she’sbased her life for the past several years. “I’mscared of heights, I don’t swim, but traveland trying something new has never scaredme.“I’ve always wanted something different,”

says the woman who has slept under thestars in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, back-packed through India, been changed foreverby living five years in Nepal, accepted invita-tions from strangers and been able to dealwith unwelcome advances from men with ashriek or slap across the face. (Not surpris-ingly, she’s writing her memoirs.)In her heart, she is still the young woman

who felt that England “was too small forme” but now that she’s in her seventies, she’sfaced with a new reality: even though inmany ways it’s far easier to get to any cornerof the world, travel is much more compli-cated than it was when she kept opting for

the road less taken.Her advice to solo travellers used to

include hints on how to pack light and savemoney. She’d tell the story about a farmerin Afghanistan who came across Kanetsukaand her female travelling companions andlocked them in a shed before taking themback to his village. “Everyone filed in to takea look at us. I don’t remember feeling fearbecause he was very nice to us.”In today’s world, however, she says only

the very naïve think they don’t have to planor be careful about where they venture,which deeply saddens her. “I can’t relate tomodern-day times, the stories and the wars.You’re seeing the worst of people today butin those days you saw generosity. Peoplealways wanted to open their doors andfeed us. It’s always confusing to me becauseyou know most people are really kind deepdown.”Nonetheless, she says, it’s vitally impor-

tant that wherever you go, you respect themores of the country you’re visiting. “Youcan’t want to impose your own culture on acountry,” she says. i.e. Don’t take nude pho-tographs of yourself atop a sacred mountainin Malaysia.This doesn’t mean people should stop

venturing outside of tourist areas or theirown comfort zones.“Just go,” she says to people who want

to get into another country’s skin. Life willalways give you lots of reasons not to travelbut it’s important to listen to your heart. “Ifyou have the feeling to go, it’s something youmust do.”

This Place a Stranger: Canadian WomenTravelling Alone is available at either Phoenixor the Bowen Island Library.

Travelling soloThe peripatetic Kami Kanetsukashares her insights in new anthology

Kami Kanetsuka says life will alwaysgive you reasons not to travel but ifyou really want to, “just go!” AlanKatowitz photo

Martha Perkins happily returns to theeditor’s desk this week. Maureen Sawasy photo

The Undercurrent representseverything Martha Perkins lovesabout community newspapers



from page 1taxes and financing costs on top of that.“Everything helps,” says the former mayoral candi-

date, “but “its certainly not going to make a dramaticdifference.”Most rental stock on the island is houses, which

leaves tenants vulnerable. Already, many tenantshave to find ways to cope with owners who wantuse of their houses during the summer months. TheRhodeses spent seven years on a month-by-monthrenewal instead of a yearly lease because rules oth-erwise make it difficult to evict someone who don’twant to leave, he says.Rental housing security is therefore also an issue

for Rhodes, who’s started using the term housingdiversity instead of affordability to reflect the issuesfacing islanders.He’s one of the lucky ones, having finally found a

place last week.Now he’s thinking of starting a renters’ group to

give voice to some of these concerns, which are muchmore prevalent than many people think because peo-ple who rent aren’t often very vocal.“Renters tend to be a little bit under the radar,”

says Rhodes, who would like the municipality to con-sider giving developers the option of creating rentalunits instead of donating parkland.“If people assume you own your own home, you

let them make that assumption because there’s a stig-ma. People tend to look at renters as a problem, notas fully vested members of a community.”

With 70 days to go in federalelection, anything is possiblefrom page 1

“I would be pretty distrustful of any pollclaims about riding-level stuff but I thinkthe patterns are pretty broad and prettyclear and that is the NDP votes have lift-ed,” he said.The current vote split and prospect of

a minority government is likely to revivetalk of a formal coalition between NDPand Liberals, Moscrop said.“The Liberals foolishly ruled them out.

They may well have to walk that back inOctober,” he saidWhile there are some local issues that

will influence votes, at the end of the day,he says, “these ridings are going to vote onthe same issues that the rest of Canadiansvote on, which is the economy. That’s what

people are thinking about first and fore-most when they’re casting their ballot.”That may prove trickier for the

Conservatives than it has been in the pastas the country’s economy is in a technicalrecession with a deficit budget projectedand the Canadian dollar floundering withoil prices, Moscrop said.Still, more than 70 days until the polls

close, a lot can happen, Moscrop said.The North Shore is now carved up into

three ridings, including the new BurnabyNorth-Seymour, which spans the BurrardInlet and covers everything east of theSeymour River, plus a swath of landthat curves along Lynn Creek south ofHighway 1.The North Shore’s new riding has drawn

a number of high-profile candidates

including retired judge Carol Baird Ellanwho will run for the NDP, former Districtof North Vancouver council member MikeLittle for the Conservatives, the GreenParty’s s Lynn Quarmby an SFU prof whogained national attention during the pro-tests against Kinder Morgan on BurnabyMountain and Liberal Terry Beech, also anSFU prof.North Vancouver voters will see incum-

bent Conservative Andrew Saxton seekingre-election. The Liberals have nominatedgreen tech CEO Jonathan Wilkinson torun while the NDP has chosen Tsleil-Waututh member and pipeline activistCarleen Thomas. The Green Party debutedstar candidate former CBC meteorologistClaire Martin in April.

Calling all NERPs: the island needs youTim Rhodes thinks that developers should beencouraged to create more rental units. MarthaPerkins photo

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Following on the success of theFix-it-Fair earlier this year, Bowen inTransition is offering another event onSaturday, August 15 in the foyer to theBICS gym from 10am to 1pm. That isthe same day as the farmer’s market, soyou can pop into the fair after shoppingfor your veggies.You will find various Bowen folks

who will be offering their expertise andenthusiasm for free, and are willing tohave a go at fixing most things. Smallappliances, bicycles, clothing, computerand phone issues are examples of whatgot fixed at the last fair. Expect to hangout and learn something new.


When smoke from nearby forest firesdescended on the Howe Sound a fewweeks ago, there was one question onmany Bowen Islanders’ minds: whatwould happen if a massive forest fireprompted an evacuation here?The island used to have a program

in which NERPs — NeighbourhoodEmergency Resources Persons — volun-teered to take the lead in their neighbour-hoods to prepare and cope with suchemergencies. But it has fallen by the way-side. Now the Bowen Island VolunteerFire Department is looking for volunteers

to get it going again.A NERP needs to live on the island full-

time. If there’s an evacuation, they’d be theones who let their neighbours know andmake sure that any vulnerable residentsare assisted.“You can’t do a whole neighbourhood

yourself,” says Bruce Steele, so a NERPwould also work on building a team thatcould be readily called into action toassist.If you’re interested in either a leadership

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Baseball TournamentAugust 7 to 9Ball DiamondSee page 12 for schedule

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Vintage Car DisplayAugust 9Noon to 1:30pmDerek Long and friends display10-15 vintage cars at theBowen Island Golf Course.Visit and chat with owners;enjoy lunch at Cup Cutter.

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Between 1973 and 1990 I spent twoyears doing anthropology researchin three narrow valleys nestled highin the Hindu Kush mountains on thePakistan/Afghan border. These valleysare home to an ancient, pre-Islamictribe called the Kalash’a.Saifullah Jan, the first Kalash’a to

ever receive a Western education, wasabout 17 when I first met him backin the early 1970s. In August 2010, Ireceived a panicked phone call fromSaifullah, now a respected Tribal Elder,telling me that the Kalash’a valleys hadbeen hit by a devastating flood. Thisterrifying flood was caused by melt-ing glaciers high in the Hindu Kush.Glacial slumping engorged local riversthat then roared down upon Kalash’asettlements -- destroying homes, barns,bridges, hydro-electric plants, roads,kilometres of irrigation channels, andwater-driven grinding mills.Living as subsistent agriculturalists

and transhumant herders, this Indo-European tribe of about 3,000 peoplehave a miniscule carbon footprintbut, like so many marginalized peopletoday, are experiencing the full force ofglobal climate change.

Saifullah asked for help. So inSeptember 2010 we held a fundraiserat which many friends, family andBowen Islanders gave generously. One12-year-old Islander asked his friendsto donate rather than bring presents tohis birthday. Those kids raised about$130 which we sent along with another$3,000 in donations. Via Saifullah,the villagers immediately sent a hugethank-you to all the Bowen Islanderswho contributed. With these funds theKalash’a built several large flood bar-riers -- heavy wire-mesh cages packedwith boulders on the river aboveBalanguru, the uppermost village inRombour valley.I talk regularly by phone with

Saifullah, but 10 days ago I receivedseveral distressing calls from him.Lashing rain storms had again turnedtheir rivers into raging torrents, pro-pelling boulders the size of cars down-stream. The good news, Saifullahtold me, was that the protection bar-riers built with funds sent by BowenIslanders had saved Balanguru villageand the bridge below.But when this year’s floods hit, the

Kalash’a were harvesting their wheatcrops and huge sections of ripenedwheat fields caved off, crashing downinto the raging river below. In this

year’s floods, all the irrigation channels the length ofRombour valley and the hydro-electric plant weredestroyed. Saifullah says 50 families in the Valley areseverely affected.The Kalash’a valleys are just north of Swat, home

of the world’s youngest Nobel prize winner, MalalaYousafzai, shot by the Taliban in 2012 for attend-ing school. The Kalash’a are one of Pakistan’s mostthreatened minority groups. Calling them infidels,the Pakistani Taliban have put a ‘fatwa’ out againstthe Kalash’a, ordering them to ‘convert to Islam or bekilled’.Living for over 1,000 years in their narrow rugged

valleys, the Kalash’a have nowhere to move. So again

they’ve picked themselves up and started to repairthe damage. They’ve started to rebuild the irrigationsystem and have decided to buy cement to reinforcethe flood barriers above the uppermost village. Weare again raising funds to help them. This is a situ-ation of “direct giving” -- nothing is subtracted foradministration fees -- every cent raised goes directlyto the Kalash’a.If you are able to help, please get in touch with

me, Gillian Darling Kovanic, at 947-2914. I am send-ing all donations via Western Union to Saifullah Janwho’s organizing his tribe’s flood relief efforts.Many thanks in advance for any assistance you are

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Why we run for RwandaHilary Butler visits the girlswhose lives will be changedthanks to monies raised

HILARY BUTLERR U N F O R R W A N D A

Seven years ago, our daughter Margaret (whogrew up on Bowen Island) was working for Partnersin Health in rural Rwanda and we visited her there,doing all the tourist calls – the Genocide Museum,the gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park, thechurches filled with skulls and bones of the victimsof the genocide and, of course, sightseeing in the10,000 hills of this beautiful country. We loved thecountry and the people, all of whom were anxious totell us that they were Rwandans, not Tutsis or Hutus.We were aware of a tension in the air but on the

whole Rwandans seemed contented with the way thatlife was going and there was evidence of rebuildingand excitement.Now, seven years on, I returned to Rwanda last

month with my daughter on a very different mis-sion. In those seven years, Margaret had set up andwas running a US-based non-profit called Komerato support teenaged girls and their families in theirefforts to achieve a high school education and transi-tion to the world beyond.On Bowen Island we had taken over the Run for

the Ferry and renamed it Rotary Run for Rwanda.We also set up a CRA-registered charity, KomeraCanada, in order to support 10 of the girls ourdaughter was supporting: funds to pay for theirschool and boarding fees, uniforms, school materials,health products, everything that an impoverished girlwould need in order to complete her education.What a fascinating time I had! We spent three days

in Kigali, the capital, where high rises are being built,coffee shops and restaurants are filled with ex-patsand local business men, and the political chaos ofBurundi seems very far removed. Once we left Kigali,

life changed dramatically. Our days were filled withrides on the bumpiest roads I have ever experiencedto visit families who live in the utmost poverty onlittle plots with a few chickens, a banana palm andsome vegetables which provide the basics for thefamily’s meals, with the possibility of trading bananasand cassava at the local market.I gave a four-hour English lesson to a group of 20

girls attending a Komera transition program recentlyset in place to help them move from high school tothe world outside. Many of these girls will probablystart their own small businesses as unemployment isrampant in country districts and the only other out-lets for them are the tourism or banking fields, forwhich they need good English skills. Perhaps one ortwo of them will gain entrance to the local university,and in that case Komera will help them with boardand lodging expenses.What impressed me most was the enthusiasm of

these girls and their determination to leave a worldwhere their future would be early pregnancy and

then tilling their family plots and car-ing for their extended families, if itwere not for the fact that Komera isgiving them the opportunity to takea step out of this world. Komera alsoprovides entrepreneurship and leader-ship camps, and has set up a parentcooperative.Our week finished with a 3K run

with at least 250 young girls on a verydusty road on an extremely hot day.The annual run, which is a highlightfor the Komera scholars and the sur-rounding schools, was sandwichedbetween music, dancing, speeches andpresentations. The Rwandans certainlyknow how to orchestrate an event!And then there is our commu-

nity run here on Bowen. Rotary Runfor Rwanda is our major fundraiser.Registration forms are available in var-ious outlets on the island and at NorthShore Athletics, and online registra-tion is open too. There is somethingfor everybody: a 1.5K run for kids nineand under, a 10K run and a 5K run orwalk for everyone else.Check out RotaryRunForRwanda.

com for some fun Rwandan prizes,bought on my recent trip, gift certifi-cates from North Shore Athletics andothers from generous Bowen Islandsponsors. We have extremely low over-heads, thanks to our sponsors, and allregistration and donation funds go toRwanda to help our girls in their lives.

Dancers inspire participants in Komera’s Run for Rwanda — in Rwanda . Hilary Butler photo

With KomeraCanada’s help, theseyoung women canattend high schoolrather than face afuture of continuedimpoverishment ina country whereunemploymentis rampant. TheAugust 29 RotaryRun for Rwandawill raise money tohelp pay for schooland boarding fees,uniforms, schoolmaterials and healthproducts.Hilary Butler photo


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With breaking hearts, we said goodbye to our sweet little Girly lastFriday afternoon. Girly’s last couple of days were spent breathingin the beach air, cuddling on the couch and eating (ironically)whatever she wanted which included sushi, deli meats, popcornand a lot of blue cheese. She was showered with extra love by allher favorite people, especially Jordan and auntie Phaedra. I’m sograteful we were all together to help her pass on to her next greatadventure.

The hole she has left in our hearts is disproportionate to her weesize. Despite her declining health over the past year she becamemore loving than ever, letting pretty much everyone pick her upand offering free licks to anyone who could stand her breath.Girly posed for dozens of photos with friends, clients and peoplein the community whose lives she touched.

A friend recently said, “I can’t imagine you without her”. She isright; I am not the same. We were symbiotic. I needed Girly asmuch as Girly needed me. Everything is different without her,especially my routine. She was my little anchor; my compass pointwhen I felt adrift. She was my one constant throughout countlessdifficult times in my life. I wished she had made it to one lastBlessing of the Animals and Dog Days but I will still go, in partto honor Girly and in part to get some much needed puppy love.

For those of you who know what The Dog Days of Summer means,we couldn’t have picked a better time for her leave this earth.She truly was our brightest little star.

Girly1999-2015

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Frazer Elliott and Bronwyn Churcher starin Kingbaby Production’s The GlassMenagerie along with Andrew Cameron andJackie Minns. The play will run August 13-22at the Tir Na Nog theatre. Show times andtickets are available at bowenglassmenagerie.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets will also beavailable at Phoenix. Lorraine Ashdown photo

ARTSPACIFIC CO-OPS U B M I S S I O N

Have you seen the videotapedress and hat from the WearableArt Show? Have you seen JaneDunfield’s latest paintings?If you haven’t then you really

should stop by ArtsPacific Co-opGallery at Artisan Square whilethey are still on display until theend of August.Dunfield will be taking at

least a year’s sabbatical to paintfor a group show coming inSeptember 2016. Her last show atthe main gallery was almost a sellout! We will be looking forwardto seeing what she will be com-ing out with.

The VCR dress and hat, knit-ted and crocheted by Jani Carroll,were an homage to the workof international artist EvelynRoth. Some of us were fortunateenough to meet the flamboy-ant artist while she was visitingBowen Island. We were delightedto see some of her special piecesthat may be featured at anotherWearable Art Show in 2016. Wehope she will be able to returnfrom Australia for this event atthe BIAC gallery.ArtsPacific Co-op Gallery con-

tinues to attract both new andestablished artists. Two of ournewest members are Marie Neys,a landscape painter formerly ofAlberta who does lovely repre-sentations of Bowen Island, andJulia Courtenay, a long-time resi-dent who makes unusual stainedglass mosaic pieces .We are expecting to add a few

new members in September. Inthe meantime, please stop byto see the wonderful variety ofarts/gifts and a great selectionof cards from some of the artists.We are open everyday from atleast 11-4.

Jani Carroll made this dress and hat from old VCRtape; the glass mosaic is by Julia Courtenay. Bothare on display at Arts Pacific Co-op until the end ofthe month.

ArtsPacificCo-op’s wearableart show on untilend of August

The creative team behind Brain Maker havebuilt a replica of the Mercury space capsulefor the scenes in which the film’s maincharacter imagines he is an astronaut as away of coping with brain cancer. The film isbased on the real-life story of director EmmettSparling’s father. A new fundraising campaignfor the movie has been set up at www.brainmaker2015.weebly.com

Jane Dunfield’s work is alsoon display.

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Rudie Dobchuk, owner of Metro Spring Ltd., has donated$2,500 to sponsor Colin and his support team during the3,000-km journey.

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Bowen Island’s biggest sportingevent of the year is thisweekend. Teams will competefor the championship title in theBowen Island fast pitch baseballtournament.

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Saturday night’s Dock Dance turned the Cove into an outdoor party. With bands such as Dr. Strangelove, above, (with a guestappearance from Barney Bentall) and Black Molly providing the entertainment for the hundreds of revellers, it was a chance foreveryone to support the Bowen Island Fire Department’s annual fundraiser with a smile on their face. Susan Kvarnstrom photos

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