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Last Wednesday, when veterinarian Alastair Westcott received a call reporting a deer with an arrow through one of its hind quarters, he put his appointments on hold and headed to the deer’s reported location on Cates Lane.

“Usually in a situation like this, the deer is gone by the time you get there, but this time it wasn’t. It was just standing there eating at the end of some-one’s driveway,” says Dr. Westcott, who adds, such reports are not actually all that unusual.

“You obviously can’t just go and pull the arrow out of the deer’s thigh, you have to sedate it. I shot it twice with my tranquilizer gun but the effect of that takes seven to ten minutes, and you have to be care-ful not to spook the deer or else you’ll just loose it in the woods.”

Dr. Westcott and his assistant, Marla Brillinger, followed the deer until it lay down and fell asleep. Unfortunately, this happened not just on a hillside but in a sort of crater, and Dr. Westcott had to lift the deer up onto a flat surface nearby.

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On Bowen Island, tourism is one of three industries that has been singled-out by the munici-pality’s Economic Development Committee (EDC) offering potential for growth on the Island. As Shawna Leung, Community Manager of the Vancouver Coast & Mountains Tourism Region told a full audience at the municipal hall this week, this is a belief that hasn’t changed since the first Bowen Island Tourism Strategy was created in 2006. That plan was never implemented, and attendees at this week’s Bowen Tourism Initiative meeting as well as EDC hosts agreed, that without proper community support this new plan will never be implemented either.

Leung offered up a number of strengths (spa and wellness oppor-tunities, arts and culture, ecotour-ism) and challenges (the perceived attitudes of locals towards tourism, no local organization focused on tourism, and a low awareness of Bowen in the tourist market) Bowen faces when it comes to building a its tourism industry. She also offered up a key goal that a tourism strategy should focus on: get people to stay here longer and spend more money.

Leung also made suggestions to get there: create a web-presence for tourism on Bowen, create itin-eraries for tourists so that people know what to do if they spend a

day or three on-island, and get more media-relations savvy.

Following her thorough presen-tation, Leung gave her audience a chance to ask questions, offer feed-back, and brainstorm.

Peter Vaisbord, proprietor of Artisan Guest Suite, said he was impressed by the depth of research in the updated strategic plan, but daunted by the number of priorities.

“Looking at the detail of all the actions under all the categories, I almost fainted, because there’s so much. I’ve been involved in not-for-profit organizations trying to achieve sustainable funding, and, as volun-teers, to do things, and every one of those actions is inter-related to other actions and its a circle of: you need funding to have the capacity to do what you need to do but, you need to have the capacity to get the fund-ing,” said Vaisbord, bringing up the example of the Bowen Chamber of Commerce as an organization that did not have the necessary funding or people-power to get the job done. “We have a real challenge here in terms of capacity. We’re a small island with a small population, a lot of brilliant people, and passionate, but its really difficult.”

Vaisbord suggested the model of Business Improvement Associations (BIA), which he is familiar with because of his work at Vancouver’s city hall. as a possible solution.

Taking action on tourism priorities requires more than volunteers alone can provide, says EDC

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Last week, David Wilmot, great-grandson of Joseph Craddock Mannion presented a framed picture of his grandfather to Cathy Bayly and Deirdre Farah of the Bowen Island Museum and Archives, and it now hangs on the wall of the archives.

Bayly mentioned that the archives have lots of interesting documentation of Mannion Bay from days gone-by. One of these gems is a piece written by Norah Mannion Wilmot recalling her childhood in the 1880s. Her father, Joseph, ran a brickworks factory in the neighbourhood we now know as Deep Bay.

Here’s a snippet:

Memories of the late 80s, when my family camped on the little point between Mannion’s Bay and Snug Cove while the “big house” was being built, are now vague pictures of a very happy, carefree childhood.

My father owned a 640-acre piece of land, which included two points and extended back to Sucker Lake (Killarney). The house and orchard and some cleared land were situation on the middle part of the bay, where the present resort hotel now is.

We lived there for ten or twelve years before moving back to Vancouver. It was then sold to Jack Cates, who called it “Terminal Farms.”

There was no school, post office, nor any settlers on the Island when we moved there permanently - possibly in 1886. A few Spaniards had some fishing huts on the far side of Snug Cove, and the Davis family came soon after, also the Andersons and the Dormans....

We had many visitors - all from Vancouver. They came over by private row-boats, etc. and later the Union S.S. ferry, which predated Jack Cates, the Terminal S.S. Co....

My brothers (one a year older and one a year younger) and I had a very happy but unusual childhood. My father was a wonderful swimmer and taught us to swim and row when we were very young, and at six, seven, and eight years of age we could swim across the bay and around to Snug Cove (followed by father in a row-boat). We used to walk back through the woods sometimes and cross the lagoon by a huge log with a plank spiked at each end and anchored above high tide mark. My mother would never cross on this, but we always scampered over…

We did a lot of fishing - trolling - inside the bay from point to point, for salmon. We caught red cod (or snapper) off the rocky point towards the Becker farm and flounders and sole off our own dock...

We could always get large, beautiful crabs off our own little dock, in a home-made net (barrel hoop with fish netting) and cooked them on the beach. We had built a little fire-place and father put a sheet of iron across the top, and in a big black pot of salt water our crabs were boiled. What feasts we had - with a great plate of fresh home-made bread and butter, salt and pepper, and a fresh lemon - and all the milk we wanted to drink.

An historic snapshot of Mannion Bay

This photo of Joseph Craddock Mannion (1839 - 1918) now hangs in the Bowen Island Museum & Archives with the inscription “He sold too soon,” below it.

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Reporting to the Chief Administrative Offi cer, the Fire Chief will administer, plan, direct and control all aspects of the Fire Department including the administration, fi re suppression, fi re prevention and rescue activities. In addition, the Fire Chief will abide by and implement applicable local, provincial and federal regulations. Please visit the BIM website to view the full job description at www.bimbc.ca

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When it’s cold and wet outside, most of us choose a nice dry place to hide from the elements. We are not alone in this preference, but we are very good at creating nice cozy places from which to hide from the winter. Which means, not only do we humans need to spend the win-ter months fighting-off the cold, we need to fight-off the rats desperate to get into our space.

“You look at rat statistics from any city, and they’re all the same,” says David Pinner. “When the cold weather hits in October and November, the rat problems sky-rocket. They know, instinctually that if they don’t find food and some-where warm, they’ll die.”

Pinner is a self-educated and he says, unfortunate rat expert.

“Years ago, when my son was little I had a seriouzs rat problem in my house,” he says. “My roof was being renovated and it started getting real-ly expensive, so I told the contrac-tor to just finish up as quickly as he could. Well there were holes where rats could get in and let me tell you, it turned into something out of a Stephen King novel.”

Pinner says that after dealing with his own rat problem, people started asking him for help. The more he helped people the more he learned.

“Like the south-side of the house,” says Pinner. “I put my poison pipes on the south-side because that’s where its warmest and that’s where they want to be.”

His method of dealing with rat infestation is a three-foot, two-inch in diameter pvc pipe cut diagonally on either end to prevent the mois-ture from coming in, with a sliding window on top in which to put to poison.

“If you put it out at night and look in the morning and see the poison’s gone, you’ve got to put it in there again right away,” says Pinner. “And you’ve got to keep doing that until the poison stops disappearing.”

Pinner says he’s been viciously criticized for his methods, but he believes in them.

“I’ve seen how bad it can get,” he says. “I’ve had a woman come to me and say she’s moving out of her house and going to sell it because of

rats. I’ve seen three entire floors of a house taken over by rats. They’ll get in your barbeque, they’ll get in your compost, in your walls, and the only way of fighting back is to make sure they’re bringing poison back to their nests.”

Pinner says he believes there are two kinds of rats on Bowen: roof rats (otherwise known as black rats) and the slightly larger norway rats; and that neither of these lived here 30 years ago, when he first moved here.

“I’ve heard some stories and I don’t know which are true,” says Pinner. “I’ve heard rats were first seen scurrying out of a pile of top-soil somewhere near Miller’s land-ing. I’ve also heard that they came in on a shipment of road-fill when they were building Sunset Road. It’s hard to know, but I can tell you for sure, that rats are here to stay.”

Pinner calls Bowen a “rat uto-pia” given the multitude of home composters, bird feeders, pet food doled out outside, outbuildings, and hot-tubs. He says he does not par-ticularly want to be in the business of rat control, but will help people when they ask for it. Ideally, though, Pinner says he wants people to edu-cate themselves about rats and how to keep them under control.

“We are supporting their pop-ulation with our ignorance,” says Pinner. “If you just start looking on the internet, there you can learn everything you need to know and pick your method of fighting this battle. If you educate yourself, you can save a lot of money.”

In 2011, people living on Cates Hill reported a major rat infestation, and the creatures’ prediliction for car engines and chewing through wiring.

Cates Hill resident Elle Glave says that while some neighbours have had success using chili oil on their car engines, but both traps and cats have proved useless in keeping the rat population down in the area.

“The rats nest in all the rock walls around and really only poison kills them. But there are so many, it just goes on. They are like the deer and very brazen. You often see them trotting past in the daylight,” says Glave. “I think it’d take a concerted, BIM-led island-wide effort to eradi-cate (no pun intended) the vermin.”

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“I am guessing the deer was about 200 pounds,” says Dr. Westcott. “You need a descent estimation when you are administering drugs. In any case, it was quite emaciated as most of the deer are this time of year, and the arrow was right through it’s right thigh. I pulled the arrow out, and cleaned the wound and then gave the deer an injection with a long-acting antibiotic, as well as something to reverse the tranquilizer because the tranquilizer makes them kind of sick.”

Dr. Westcott says he and Brillinger went back to work, but checked on the deer repeatedly throughout the day. The next morning, the deer was gone.

“We can assume that the deer is okay, but we don’t know if it will survive in the long-term. It could get an infection, there is just no way of knowing.”

Dr Westcott says he does not think the arrow was shot by a licensed bow hunter, as hunting arrows usually have an extra cutting agent, or barbs, so that they stay in the animal.

“Also, most hunters with a bow know what they’re doing, and they wouldn’t leave an animal like this,” he says. “Ultimately, I just want people to know that they should call me if they see an injured wild animal, or even if they’ve done some-thing stupid and injured an animal because of it

- there’s no culpability if you call me, I just don’t want to see animals suffer. There’s no conserva-tion officer on Bowen so, as the only vet I see it as my job to step in and help out. I believe in a lot of cases, there is a process of natural selection that we shouldn’t interfere in, but here on Bowen, that process happens in people’s front yards.”

Two days following the report of the deer shot through its hindquarter’s, the vet’s office took another call about a fawn with an injured leg.

“In that case, the deer was still moving around so I don’t think it needed help,” says Dr. Westcott. “It was with its mother and that’s the best thing. There are all kinds of deer around here with limps caused by various injuries and they go a little slower than the other ones, but it doesn’t matter because there are no predators around here. If the fawn had a compound fracture, that would be a different story, I would have to euthanize it.”

BOW HUNTING ON BOWEN:

As of 2013, the Municipality (as opposed to the RCMP) gives out licenses to use a bow. In 2013 and into 2014 (the hunting season ended on January 15th) they gave twoof these.

Hunting licences are granted by British Columbia’s Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

Dr. Alastair Westcott caring for the deer with the arrow through its leg on Cates Hill.Marla Brillinger, photo

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I walked into this New Year carry-ing with me the belief that optimism is essential, and whining is not just annoying, but also shows a lack of appreciation. Not everyone can wake up at 4:45am with a toddler smashing them in the forehead and know that they are lucky. I do… three hours and a pot of coffee later. Having an office and a really good excuse to go there is another blessing.

In any case, I’m going to diverge from my commitment to positivity in order to put things into context.

We have a lot of things to be grateful for here on Bowen: multi-ple three-generation families in one place, clear night skies… I could go on and on.

We also have a lot to work on: local businesses have to fight hard to keep afloat, as do lots of families, and single people, and seniors, in

the face of rising ferry costs, fewer ferry sailings, etc.

Now to put things in context, let’s remember that we’re not alone. There are island problems (largely ferry related) and then there are the things that just go with being here, now. We live, right next door, to the second-most unaffordable housing market IN THE WORLD.

Is it any wonder that the pressure of that spill over onto us?

If you google this statistic, you’ll find a lot of articles quoting econo-mists saying that exceedingly expen-sive housing prices are bad for econ-omies. The cost of buying a home on Bowen is significantly lower then in Vancouver (which is a small part of the reason my husband and I bought here), and it seems to be a common gripe that prices are low. The reality is, they are only low compared to our utterly ridiculous neighbours, but while we are separated by salty water, our problems, big picture, are

shared.Now let me gripe about work,

and business and keeping our heads above water.

The Undercurrent, as I see it, is a community service. It’s a place where you can find out what happened at the last council meeting without having to sit through a three-hour video (although I am astonished and impressed by how many people on this island are actually willing to do just that.) It’s also, as it happens, a business, and one that pays just enough for me to justify me skipping out on domestic chores and taking care of Bam-Bam. I also, apparently get benefits, and when they kick-in it will be the first benefits I’ve had in a decade I’ve spent in the “grown-up” workforce.

I’m not asking anyone to care about either of these facts, but if you appreciate the service, recognize the fact that the Undercurrent is also a business. Despite the woderful world

of the web, I know that people still count on this newspaper as a source of information. I know because you tell me. Sometimes a conversation at the General Store leaves me baffled at how well you pay attention.

We’ve got new owners now, and they’re promising all this fancy digi-tal stuff to tack-on to online ads, and access to a broader market. Maureen made a great pitch for these offerings at this week’s EDC tourism meeting, come and talk to her about it.

So, if you think it might be worthwhile printing an article in the Undercurrent, it might also be worthwhile running an ad. If you don’t have anything to promote or advertise, write a letter to the editor and tell me what you think. I want to hear from you, in print!

If not, that’s cool… we can all go back to Facebook and I’ll sit on my favourite rock, singing the corpo-rate-social-media-home’s too expen-sive blues.

Dear Editor,

The Rotary Club of Bowen Island (RCBI) completed the fourth annu-al Operation Red Nose (ORN) 2013 with the help of Rudy and his many friends and supporters on Bowen Island. We were enabled by The Snug Café and The Caring Circle, for providing space and a telephone for the operations office and volunteer lounge.

This year there were 37 volunteers. Members of The RCBI were joined by the following “Friends of Rotary”. Thanks so much to the Friends: Kim Brooks, Ann Campbell, Jason Campbell, Shaun Campbell, Terri

Dewar, Casey Grundy, Lynne Hartle, Corrina Headley, Jayeson Hendyrsan, Adam Holbrook, David Jones, James Krohn, Portia Lynn, Anne O’Dea, Alfred Rahn, Bruce Russell, Maureen Sawasy, Susanne Schloegl, Michael Segal, Seanna Strubin, and Lynn Williams. We also thank Melanie McLeod at the RCMP Detachment for processing Criminal Record checks so efficiently.

We are grateful to the following Bowen Island businesses who pro-vided gifts and/or gift certificates as “thank you’s” to our volunteers: Bowen Village Video, The Ruddy Potato, Bell Occhio, The Gym, Wren, The Bowen Island Golf Club, Cocoa

West Chocolatier, Studio B, and Body Vitality Massage Therapy. Thanks to The Tuscany Restaurant, Mik’sa, and The Snug Café, our volunteers were well fed!!

Our sponsors are recognized for cash donations of $100.00 or more to the ORN program, which will be used by The RCBI to support youth programs on Bowen Island. We are deeply thankful to the fol-lowing sponsors: the Bowen Island Golf Club, Bowen Irly Building Centre, The General Store, First Credit Union, Wolfgang Duntz, The Bowen Island Pub, and The Orchard Recovery Center. In addition to these sponsors, we are grateful to our

clients who both responsibly took Rudy’s option of having ORN drive them home and also provided us with cash donations.

Overall, ORN 2013 raised over $2,500.00 to support youth programs on Bowen Island.

The RCBI is interested in receiving suggestions from the Bowen Island community on how these funds might be used. Please drop off your proposals at The Snug Café! Be sure to include your contact information.

With sincere thanks again to all involved,

Denis Lynn and Robert Ballantyne, RCBI Coordinators ORN 2013

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Dear Editor,

I have learned that our MP, John Weston, will be host-ing a Telephone Town Hall event this coming Tuesday, January 28th at 7pm. To join phone 1-877-353-4701

What an opportunity to hear what Weston has been doing on our behalf with regard to proposed ferry trans-portation cutbacks. This is a non-partisan issue that affects us all. Even though it is under provincial jurisdic-tion, let us raise awareness about this and other issues that matter to us; and do so in a civil way as we zero in with proposed solutions, making our points as succinct as possible.

We can pull together on this one, friends.

Mary Ann Smith

Telephone town-hall on ferries

As I started to write my first Mayor’s Message of 2014, I thought that I would look to the reasons that I put forward when I ran for office in 2011. Here is a quote from my “bookmark”:

“Let’s balance social, economic and environmental priorities to bring our community together”.

OK, I realize now that this may have been a little ambitious but let’s look at the big picture. To bring our realities to the fore, we need proper finances. So there is a plus. This Council has managed to hold the line on operating costs, leaving only our capital costs for debate. We have managed to hold the line on operating costs with the co-operation and input of staff. Without being gushy, our staff has been the real reason that this Council has been able to move ahead on our Strategic Plan priorities.

One of our most current issues is infrastructure, specifically related to Snug Cove. We are extremely fortunate to have a knowledgeable and enthusias-tic Infrastructure Advisory Committee that is finalizing a realistic report that balances our needs with our abilities to finance those needs. Regulations under the Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines and BC Drinking Water Protection Act will mean that -- in the very near future – we will be obligated to undertake a major upgrade to our present Cove Bay water system. So the big question now is ‘how do we finance the inevitable?’ This is one of the items we are present-ly working on. Of course, sewage issues continue to bubble up for action. Again, finances present a hurdle which we con-tinue to deal with.

In Snug Cove, we must bring Government Road up to present-day standards. But in order to do that in the most economical and financially respon-sible way, we must first deal with water, sewer, lighting, access to ferry marshal-ling and parking, a true village concept which takes this main artery in context and what to do about the north side of

Government Road. It is a domino effect; everything is tied together and we as a Council cannot deal with any one item in isolation. But we are proud in having forged a very good working relationship with Metro Vancouver, our Provincial MLA and Federal Member of Parliament. These relationships will benefit Bowen in many different forms including finances, acquisition of lands, development of our Community Lands, and infrastructure costs.

One of the things we are studying is our status within the Metro Vancouver hierarchy. As a unique, small-communi-ty part of Metro Vancouver, we are losing out on the benefits of such things as Gas Tax payments which now flow directly to Metro Vancouver and complete the jour-ney directly into the coffers of TransLink. Sort of like a double contribution, if you will, in that we make a further annual contribution to TransLink for the ser-vices they provide to the Island.

We have to revisit our relationship with the Islands Trust and ask of our-selves if it is of value to our Island in its present structure. In other words, could we better use the $225,000 sent annual-ly to the coffers of the Islands Trust by keeping it here for direct benefit to our community?

Like the rest of Canada, we have an aging population. We must push forward with proposals for a medical center and seniors’ housing and your Council is doing exactly that.

There are always issues that are pre-sented to Council over which we have little control; BC Ferries is a prime exam-ple of that. It is obvious that this lifeline to the mainland is of serious concern to all island residents. Of course the ques-tion is how to deal with this issue for greatest effect for our whole community? We and a small handful of other small coastal communities are unique in the overall ferry system as we are predomi-nately a commuter run. The ferry is our highway, a bridge to things for which

we’re required to travel to the mainland: employment, schooling, our children’s sporting commitments, airline travel, to name a few. Instead of dealing with this one issue in isolation to other provincial issues, we are attempting to put forth a basket of provincial/municipal issues which are inter-related for discussion and more importantly resolution.

I will report on economic develop-ment, in all its different forms for the island, in a future Mayor’s Message. But I do want to highlight the dedica-tion and hard work of our Economic Development Committee who continue to make positive strides in garnering support and cooperation from the pro-vincial government in spite of top-down decisions by the Province on ferry sched-ules and fares.

In conclusion, I would like to make a few further comments of a gener-al nature. Over the years, I worry that some of us in our community may have lost sight of what Council’s role is on the island. Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City, summarized a Council’s duties as follows:

“Local elected officials are responsible for doing, not debating.

For innovating, not arguing. For prag-matism, not partisanship.”

Over a century ago in Birmingham, England a retired Mayor likened local government to a company “in which every citizen is a shareholder, and of which the dividends are receivable in the improved health and the increase in the comfort and happiness of the communi-ty”. I want all Bowen Islanders to know that your Council is keenly aware of its duty and obligations to you in this won-derful community of ours.

Happy New Year,Mayor Jack Adelaar

Mayor’s Message: January 2014

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MAUREEN SAWASYU N D E R C U R R E N T H I S T O R I A N

20 years ago in the UndercurrentBowen residents could get their water tested for arsenic through Cates Pharmacy. Fee for the testing would be charged to the residents. This followed testing on some wells of residents liv-ing in the Queen Charlotte Heights area that found arsenic levels at 11 times the allowed levels under provincial govern-ment guidelines.Bowen Teen Centre held it’s first official Sat. night at Collins Hall. Open from 3pm to 11pm planned activities included painting and improv theatre.

15 years ago in the Undercurrent

Officers and engineers of the Queen of Capilano met with members of the board of directors of the BC Ferry Corporation to argue their case for keeping the Queen of Capilano on the Bowen run. Approx. 140 people showed up to the Legion for an event billed as ‘Save Our Service” to protest the proposed ferry ser-vice cuts.A Bowen resident was startled to come home in the middle of the afternoon to find an intruder in their home. The intruder fled with nothing, but there was evidence that the house had been searched and the resident reported some damage to the house including locked doors that had been kicked in.

10 years ago in the UndercurrentThree public forums were held to help assess the “temperature” of the community in regards to the future of Snug Cove. This was billed as an attempt to “seek common ground in the guiding principles, vision and strategic policy recommendations of the Snug Cove Village Plan (SCVP)”. While most residents agreed that the over-all ambience of the village was to be pre-served, issues such as ferry marshalling and nature preservation left community members divided.Doug Berry’s rezoning application for the development of Artisan Square, to include a 15 room inn, a two story stand-alone building, and a permanent location for a gas station was put forward by the com-mittee of the whole to be referred to the appropriate agencies.

5 years ago in the UndercurrentA three and half hour long public infor-mation meeting was held to discuss the issue of installing a synthetic grass playing filed at BICS. The project, which was par-tially funded through a provincial School Community Connections grant, was hotly debated with proponents saying it would allow for year round use of BICS fields while most opponents were upset that other uses for the grant money couldn’t be sought out. BC Ferries cut 35 management positions due to a decline in revenue which was attributed to a significant drop in ferry ridership.No less then three letters to the editor were weather related with accolades and criti-cism being rallied regarding the snow and ice that had hit Bowen the previous week. Clearing efforts or lack there of were the featured topic of conversation.

Celebrating the chill of winter

Kids enjoy Curtis Wright’s backyard rink which he floods every time theirs a cold-snap. Wright’s got four kids of his own, but says that when the rink is up and running, usually three or four family’s pop by to skate every day. They also enjoy a bonfire and hot chocolate in the evenings.Meribeth Deen, photo

This week in Undercurrent history

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Business Improvement Associations (BIA), which he is familiar with because of his work at Vancouver’s city hall. as a possible solution.

“They’re funded through a special tax levy that the city flows through after an approval process. The benefit of it is that unlike merchant associations which are membership-based, and you can never get more than a small percentage of people funding it and you can never afford to hire staff and usually people burn-out, the idea was, if you support some-thing through a commercial tax levy, everyone con-tributes.”

On this note Leung added that many municipal-ities collect a regional hotel tax, but Pemberton, which only has one actual hotel, collects such a tax from patrons on a voluntary basis. The next step for Pemberton will be to add a similar levy at the local golf course. Leung also noted that Port Hardy uses a sewer tax to collect similar funds and in the Fraser Canyon residents are taxed.

Kathy Lalonde, Bowen Island Chief Administrative Officer, told the audience that the municipality is looking at the BIA model to create a fund to support local businesses.

Jan Stevens, organizer of the Bowen Island Accommodations Associations, dismissed the idea of a hotel tax, considering there are only three hotels that offer more than three rooms on Bowen, and objected to the idea that tourists themselves should be taxed.

“I live in Henderson Nevada, right next door to Las Vegas,” explained Stevens, “If anybody’s taken a trip to Las Vegas you’ll know that they charge tourists a big chunk. There’s no meal less than $20 if you’re eating on the strip. I don’t know if that’s increased tourism or not, but I certainly would hate to see a tax on tourists deter tourism on Bowen.”

EDC member Murray Atherton agreed with Peter Vaisbord about the need for funding to launch a tour-ism strategy.

“We can’t have this run strictly by volunteers,” said Atherton. “We need to set up a tourism board with a municipal employee responsible for making sure the municipality is behind tourism and initiating the work of the board.”

EDC member Gordon Ganong noted that there are chunks of funding from various agencies that could help get a tourism strategy rolling, but before accessing those, it is critical that concerned citizens get together and commit their time to accessing that funding. Ganong also noted that, while there is much to be done, work by the municipality on improving signage, the formation of an accommodations associ-ation, and the current plans to have a new Welcome Centre built by summer prove that the work required to improve tourism on Bowen is already underway.

BOWEN ISLAND TOURISM STRATEGY HIGHLIGHTS:

In 2011, the tourism industry contribut-ed $6.5 billion of added value to the BC economy, and paid $4.4 billion in wages and salariesAccording to numbers collected at the Bowen Island Welcome Centre, Sunday August 4th saw 242 visitors come to Bowen Island. The most in any one day all summer.The current tagline used in the brand-ing of Bowen is “Within reach. Beyond Compare,” along with “BC’s marine play-ground.” The phrase “the island of walks and wellness” also speaks to the core tourist experience on Bowen. The EDC will be hosting a branding workshop to find a solid tag-line.

Tourism initiative

Events such as the annual Steamship Days are thought to be a big draw for tourists to Bowen.Debra Stringfellow photo

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MERIBETH DEENE D I T O R

The world will remember December 5th, 2013 as the day Nelson Mandela died. It was also the 83rd birthday to one of the world’s greatest jazz impro-visers, Jim Hall, who passed away five days later on December 10th. For Bowen Island guitarist Stephen Fisk, who had the great fortune not only to know Hall but also to be mentored by him, the depth of that loss needed to be acknowledged. So to pay trib-ute to Hall and celebrate his life, Fisk will be playing two shows alongside drummer Buff Allen, bass play-er Andre Lachance and another student of Jim’s, Bill Coon.

“When I was younger, I had the opportunity to study privately with him in Manhattan,” says Fisk. “Sitting with him in his stu-dio was like being in the presence of Picasso at work, so fluid, so effortless! The language of jazz improvisa-tion for Jim seemed to be the language of life itself.”

Fisk says that Hall talents as a musician were just part of what made the man great.

“He was a consummate gentleman - erudite, worldly, wise gracious - and he was funny.”

Fisk recalls his last encoun-ter with Jim Hall, which included an introduction to

cartoonist Gary Larson.“It was at Jazz Alley in Seattle, and Jim said, ‘Gary,

I’d like you to meet Steve, a fine young guitarist from Vancouver.’ To which Larson looked up over his glasses with a ly smile and responded ‘Vancouver North or South?’ …Eh? I replied. ‘Vancouver North,’ Larson definitively concluded out loud to a round of laughs.”

The quartet of Fisk, Lachance, Allen and Coon will play the first of two shows dubbed The Far Side: Celebrating Jim Hall on Friday, January 31st at the VCC Auditorium in Vancouver. They’ll be playing the next night, Saturday February 1 at Tir Na Nog Theatre at 7pm. Tickets are $15 for students and seniors, $20 for general admission.

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MERIBETH DEENE D I T O R

We’re surrounded by water, but most of us only ever get to see what’s on the surface. A lively day on the ocean for us is seeing a seal pop its head out of the water.

For local diver Adam Taylor, the view of life in Howe Sound is entirely different. He sees what lurks beneath the surface and at its depths. He also happens to take great photos, so the Undercurrent will be printing these on a weekly basis so that Bowen Islanders can get a better idea about who’s living in the surrounding waters (and not just the people living on boats in Mannion Bay).

Taylor found the above Plumose Anemone on the south side of King Edward Bay on October 6th. He explains:

It is partially retracted, either to digest or it had been disturbed. The outer tentacles are retracted towards the oral disk (mouth). They are normal-ly open, more like flowers and filter food from the current. This one was partially retracted and as my light passed over it the colour & texture reminded me of a faux-fur liner in the hood of a winter jacket.

Plumose Anemone found off King Edward Bay.Adam Taylor photo

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Description of The Project

The Project would expand the existing Trans Mountain pipeline system located between Edmonton, AB and Burnaby, BC. It would include

existing pipeline. There would also be an expansion of the Westridge Marine Terminal.

New pipeline segments would be added between

Edmonton to Hinton, AB, Hargreaves, BC to

Reactivation of existing pipeline segments would

occur between Hinton, AB to Hargreaves, BC and

The application can be found on the NEB website.

Participation in NEB Hearing

The NEB will determine if the application is

complete and if so, it will hold a public hearing.

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must apply to participate. Applicants must

clearly describe their interest in relation to the

List of Issues for the hearing, which is on the

NEB website and included in the application to

participate. Those who are directly affected by the

proposed project will be allowed to participate in

the hearing and those with relevant information or

expertise may be allowed to participate.

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FRIDAY JANUARY 24TH & SATURDAY JANUARY 25TH

Youth Centre 6pm - 9pm Snacks, video-games and movies ages 12 +

SATURDAY JANUARY 25TH

Bowen Agricultural Alliance Seed Exchange 11:30 - 12:30 at BICS multi-purpose room

BAA Community Gathering 12:30 -4 at the BICS gymnasium

MONDAY JANUARY 27TH

S.K.Y. (Seniors Keeping Young) 9:00 - 9:45am: Yoga with Lois McLaren 9:45 - 10:25am: Exercises followed by Singing and Refreshments. 11am - 12pm: “The Evolution of Cells”, presented by Denis Lynn, professor of biology and zoology. Everyone welcome.

FREE Pilates class for teens with Gail Lotenberg 4:25-5:10pm FREE Contemporary Dance Class with Gail Lotenberg 6:20 - 7:50pm Fitness Centre 650 Carter Road Register through Bowen Community recreation

UPCOMING

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1

Bowen Island Children’s Centre (BCC)Wildchild Party, liscenced event in support of the BCC bursary fund 7pm - 12am tickets $20 at Pheonix or BCC

Steve Fisk, Buff Allen, Andre Lachance and Bill Coon pay tribute to jazz great Jim Hall at Tir Na Nog Theatre

7pm, tickets $15 for students and seniors, $20 general admission

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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

FEBRUARY 3-28, 2014

The Woodfibre LNG Project is a proposed small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing and export facility, located approximately seven kilometres southwest of Squamish, British Columbia.

You are invited to participate in this round of Woodfibre LNG-led consultations, which will seek community input in the development of the Woodfibre LNG Project. Woodfibre LNG-led consultation is in addition to regulator-led public comment periods that will be part of the environmental assessment for the Project.

You can learn more at woodfibrelngproject.ca and provide feedback by:• Reading the consultation discussion guide and completing the

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• Attending a small group meeting or open house (see schedule below)

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• PO Box 280, Squamish, B.C. V8B 0A3

COMMUNITY DATE TIME

Squamish Tuesday, February 4 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

West Vancouver Tuesday, February 4 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Whistler Wednesday, February 5 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Squamish Thursday, February 6 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Squamish Thursday, February 6 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Britannia Beach Wednesday, February 12 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

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Woodfibre LNG will provide information about and seek feedback regarding elements of the Project. Input received will be considered by the project team, along with technical and socio-economic considerations, in the plans for the Woodfibre LNG Project as well as the development of mitigation measures for potential project effects.

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

FEBRUARY 3-28, 2014

The Woodfibre LNG Project is a proposed small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing and export facility, located approximately seven kilometres southwest of Squamish, British Columbia.

You are invited to participate in this round of Woodfibre LNG-led consultations, which will seek community input in the development of the Woodfibre LNG Project. Woodfibre LNG-led consultation is in addition to regulator-led public comment periods that will be part of the environmental assessment for the Project.

You can learn more at woodfibrelngproject.ca and provide feedback by:• Reading the consultation discussion guide and completing the

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• Attending a small group meeting or open house (see schedule below)

• Providing a written submission:

• Email: info@woodfibrelngproject.ca

• PO Box 280, Squamish, B.C. V8B 0A3

COMMUNITY DATE TIME

Squamish Tuesday, February 4 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

West Vancouver Tuesday, February 4 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Whistler Wednesday, February 5 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Squamish Thursday, February 6 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Squamish Thursday, February 6 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Britannia Beach Wednesday, February 12 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

COMMUNITY DATE TIME LOCATION

Squamish Wednesday, February 5 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.Howe Sound Inn

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Squamish Saturday, February 15 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Executive Suites Hotel & Resort

40900 Tantalus Road

Open House Schedule Open houses are a drop-in format. No RSVP is required.

Small Group Meeting Schedule

If you would like to attend a small group meeting, please email info@woodfibrelngproject.ca or call 1-888-801-7929 with your name, contact information and the date, time and location of the meeting you would like to attend.

As space is limited for small group meetings, your RSVP is appreciated.

Woodfibre LNG will provide information about and seek feedback regarding elements of the Project. Input received will be considered by the project team, along with technical and socio-economic considerations, in the plans for the Woodfibre LNG Project as well as the development of mitigation measures for potential project effects.

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139 MEDICAL/DENTAL

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Are you on the fence about whether to dance or try a Pilates Mat Class this year? Well, here’s your chance to get more information. On Monday January 27th, Gail Lotenberg will open some of her classes to prospective new students who want to find out what goes on in a movement class, both Contemporary Dance and Pilates Mat Classes.

Teens are encouraged to check out a Pilates Mat Class on Mondays from 4:25-5:10pm designed especially for teens. This class will improve body posture, flexibility, look, and feel while challeng-

ing teens to know and understand how their bod-ies work, inside and out. 

Next up, one of Gail’s favorite classes. Adults are encouraged to try a Contemporary Dance Class from 6:20-7:50pm. You will start on the floor and end up nearly at the ceiling, dancing to fabulous music from around the world. The atmosphere in this class is encouraging, inspiring and fun.

All classes will be held at the Fitness Studio, next to the Teen Centre at 650 Carter Road. Call Gail directly with questions if you have some, at 604-763-4027 and to register either call 604-947-2216 Bowen Community Recreation or register online at www.bowencommunityrecreation.com

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ROB BAILEYM Y F A V O U R I T E T H I N G S

We’ve all done it. You plan a leisurely trip into town to do a small errand, and then more and more

things get added to the list, and before you know it, you’re leading an urban assault team on a mission that requires the military precision of a highly trained Navy Seal. If you’re lucky, you can keep your nine hurried stops confined to the North Shore before you turn around and rush back for the ferry in a vehicle stuffed with Home Depot boxes, Costco bags, and bottles of cheap, but effective wine.

Around noon, and in the midst of your personal shopping tornado, you find yourself at odds with what to do about the inevitable hunger pangs. Fear not. Relief is at hand. Get thee to Lonsdale and 15th, and look for the sign on the East side of Lonsdale that reads “Tamarind Hill”. All will be well…

“What is a tamarind?” you might well ask. A tamarind is the large brown slender pod of a tree that grows all over Asia. When you break open a fresh one, you will find it filled with a sticky and fibrous mass that contains smooth dark seeds. This sticky mass is an integral part of many curries and sauces in India, Thailand, and Malaysia. It adds that essential “sour” component to a well-balanced curry, which must always contain a harmonious mix of hot, sour, salty, and sweet flavours. In Kerala, we could pull fresh pods off the trees, but you can buy it prepackaged here quite easily at the Osaka Asian Supermarket in Park Royal, or at my personal favorite, Asia Market on Hastings Street near Gore. It’s my one-stop shop for really cheap noodles, fresh Thai herbs, fish sauce, and so on. The added bonus is that it’s really easy to purchase many types of narcotics just outside the front door, but I digress…

Tamarind Hill is another of my personal favorites for Malaysian food, It’s a little more “upscale” than some others, but only in the sense that the décor is well thought out, and the cutlery matches. It’s a favorite for our whole family, and we find ourselves there once or twice a month. Their food is screamingly authentic without being overly challenging for someone just branching out into exploring the back roads of this cui-sine. In my last column, I rightfully raved about the roti canai at Bo Laksa King in East Vancouver. The roti canai at Tamarind Hill come in second in my opinion, easily out-doing many I’ve sampled in Malaysia.

As I’ve mentioned before, the venerable laksa, that savory mix of goodies floating in a coconut and chicken broth bath, is as varied as the many manifestations of Shiva. Tamarind Hill’s version is quite excellent, and I strongly recommend getting a bowl to share with a friend, so that you can taste as many things as you can on the menu. It’s

very, very good, and my only complaint is that they put out those awful stainless steel chopsticks which never feel as good in the hand as the wooden ones when dealing with the noodles. Small quibble.

Those of us who grew up in a household where the “cuisine” had roots in England are intimately familiar with the concept of the vegetable that has been boiled until only a gray shapeless mass remained. In order to be served, every last cell wall needed to be broken down, and every nutrient had to be studiously removed, lest some actual com-ponent of flavor remain. With this upbringing in mind, it’s not surprising that I hated green beans until I was in my mid-20s. If you think you don’t like green beans, you have to try the Sambal Green Beans at Tamarind Hill. It’s not on the menu, but you can ask for “all beans” for their Green Bean lunch special, which will bring you a plate with-out any rice, just lots of very well cooked green beans that have been sautéed in a sam-bal made of chili, garlic, and that hallmark of Malaysian food, fermented shrimp paste. The shrimp paste adds that funky umami base note that makes it impossible to stop eating! It’s an ingredient that smells quite dreadful by itself, but is absolutely crucial in many Thai and Malaysian dishes. Gotta have.

The only version of this I had that was better was in Penang,

where I ordered it from a street hawker, and it came with

“noodles” made with “carrot cake”, which is a half inch thick

cake made from shredded white daikon radish.

Another personal favorite here is a killer noodle dish called Char Kway Teow. Broad rice noodles are wok-fried is a spicy sweet soy sauce, along with bean sprouts, Chinese sausage, fish cake, and prawns. It can be ordered hot or mild. It’s fantastic. The only version of this I had that was better was in Penang, where I ordered it from a street hawker, and it came with “noodles” made with “carrot cake”, which is a half inch thick cake made from shredded white daikon radish.

Tamarind Hill is a strong recommendation for the hungry Islander trekking about in the wilds of the North Shore. There are actually two locations, the other being in New Westminster. I’ve tried both, and the North Shore location is better I think. It’s located at 1440 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, and it’s open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Lunch for two is under 30 bucks, which is a little more than the Penang street food price, but it’s a whole lot cheaper than a plane ticket!

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