Undercurrent June 3, 2011

Election season beginsMARTHA PERKINS

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There are 154 days until November’s municipal election but the campaign season has already started.

A new group called OneBowen is hop-ing to bring together various special inter-est groups, find out what their common goals are, come up with an election plat-form and invite people who share those goals to run for council.

Instead of putting out a call for a slate of candidates, they’re looking for a slate of ideas first.

“We don’t have candidates, we don’t have a secret plan,” says member Colleen O’Neil. “We want to reach out to the com-munity to help us develop a platform and find people to run.”

Fellow member James Glave says, “We’re in the listening phase. We’re not prescribing the answers. We want cre-ate solutions and we want them from all across the spectrum.”

Their hope is that by uniting candidates behind common goals - and winning at least four seats on council - there won’t be the split votes that can sometimes prevent progress.

Although island groups may have sepa-rate agendas, they often want the same outcome - they want the island to move forward, says member Ken Beatty. He uses the example of ferry marshalling, which has been on the agenda for 30 years and is still in the process of being debated.

“We’re trying to make people look at the future,” he says.

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CANUCKS FEVER– Woe betide the organization that tries to compete with the Vancouver Canucks on game nights of the Stanley Cup finals. Africa Night has been postponed and many sports teams are calling game nights “rain outs.” But that doesn’t mean the island has gone quiet. People are gathering with friends and in local eating establishments to cheer on the Canucks. On Wednesday, Deb Davidson had fun preparing for the Game #1 at Docs. Lorraine Ashdown photo

Metro debates possibility of giving up Crippen ParkJEFF NAGEL

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Regional district officials say they haven’t decided whether they’d consent to giving up Crippen Park

because Parks Canada has yet to formally ask.

“It’s quite amazing – Crippen is such a big park but we haven’t really been told what they want,” Metro parks committee chair Gayle Martin said.

The Metro board would make any final decision on whether to relinquish Crippen, which stretches from Dorman Point and Snug Cove to inland Killarney Lake, including several trails, picnic shelters and a softball field.

Bowen residents are split on the merits of creating a national park reserve, Bowen Island Coun. Doug Hooper told Metro’s parks committee June 1.

More than a third of residents polled recently supported the creation of a national park, he said, but 20 per cent were opposed and the rest were unde-cided.

Key issues on the island are what might happen to Crippen Park, increased con-gestion and parking problems near the ferry terminal and how the park would be governed.

Hooper said Bowen council wants a stronger indication of voters’ wishes, so it plans to conduct a community refer-endum that would bind the municipality on whether to support the national park reserve or not.

Parks Canada has also been asked to consider proceeding without Crippen, says Bowen Coun. Peter Frinton.

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The annual tradition of Run for the Ferry has attracted runners from Bowen as well

across the Lower Mainland since 1995. This year, the event will change its name and take on a slightly different look and feel.

Run for Rwanda will take place on Saturday, August 27, the morn-ing of Bowfest.

In the past, the run has been a fundraiser for various groups such as Bowen Island Children’s Centre and the housing association. For the last four years it has been organized and coordinated by a committee led by Richard Best. Best has done an extraordinary job and now he feels the time has come for him to pass the reins on to a new leader.

No one had come forward until Bowen Rotarians Hilary and Robin Butler thought of the pos-sibility of taking on this year’s event as a fundraiser for the orga-nization their daughter Margaret founded.

“Run for Rwanda is only tak-ing the time slot of Run for the Ferry for 2011,” Best says. “It is not taking over RFTF and it is not planning a run the scope of RFTF. The event is on hold for

the year while it is seen if another local group who is also focused on creating a healthier commu-nity, is organizationally prepared to take on the event in 2012. The event requires a minimum of nine months to plan and a committee of about seven people dedicated to its smooth functioning.”

For now, Bowen is fortunate to have the Butler family, long-time residents of Bowen, step up to the starting line.

Margaret Butler, who has lived and worked in Rwanda and is now based in Boston, grew up on Bowen and participated in orga-nizing the run in its early years. Her new passion is The Komera Project. Komera means “be strong and have courage.” It assist girls in Rwanda who have the courage and desire to pursue a second-ary education but do not have the resources to do so.

“I was very lucky,” Butler says. “I grew up in a family of educa-tors. I know how important an education is.”

Since Margaret lives in Boston, her parents will be pulling the race together for this year, although Margaret is arriving in August to help with the event.

To help volunteer, call Hilary Butler at 947-2315.

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Michael Kaile works downtown but he lives in a place that is surrounded by gardens and trees. And he walks to

work. At least he covers the land portion of his commute on foot. The rest of the trip is taken care of by English Bay Launch.

“I am lucky,” he says. “I can just walk down [to the dock] in 20 minutes. Then 35 minutes on the water. At the other end, at Coal Harbour, it’s an eight-minute-walk. I work right downtown, at Terminal City.”

When he heard that Mike Shannon, co-owner and operator of the English Bay Launch, had plans to discontinue the service after the sum-mer, Kaile got together with a group of like-minded commuters. He said the service “is invaluable. I am actually surprised that there aren’t more people using it.”

Ridership is one of the difficulties that Shannon is grappling with. “We are competing against BC Ferries and we have a hard time fill-ing the boat,” he says. “It is okay in the afternoon but I think that quite a few people are carpool-ing to work and then returning with us. We have a 10-pack of tickets that reduces the rates. But that doesn’t work if we’re running empty in the morning or with only two to three passengers. The problem is that we’re not subsidized like BC Ferries. We are averaging 70 people a day for the two boats on the regular rides. But we need 100 passengers a day to break even.”

Shannon has looked into applying for a sub-

sidy from the provincial government but was told that he will only be eligible after two years in operation. He will reach that milestone in November. “My experience with bureaucracy is that it takes a lot of time and a lot of patience. And my patience is starting to wear thin.”

The number or passengers is not the only issue that keeps English Bay Launch from making a profit. There are rising fuel prices, the weather, the winter and the cost of keeping the vessels sea-worthy. “I have to bite my tongue when people complain about prices. They don’t realize that repairs are so expensive. We spend a lot of money but the price point is wrong and the rid-ership is too low.

“We told [the commuters] that we would shut down in September. They want us to keep run-ning. They even told us to raise prices. Nearly all of the people at the meeting said they were fine with this. Fuel prices have gone up. If we added $2 per trip, that would only cover the fuel bill. We are planning to run the business through the summer to have a chance to recoup some of what we lost.”

The recent meeting was attended by 30 of the 40 or 50 regular commuters who were inter-ested in exploring options of helping English Bay Launch succeed. Kaile says, “We realize that it is tough because there are a lot of expenses. We appreciate the difficulties of keeping it going. We have a lot of loyal fans here and hopefully this will become a way of life. It gets people off the road and that was one of the objectives for many of us. So there we go. We’re rather proud of it and we will work very hard to keep it going.”

Commuters rally behind water taxi

With the help of the water taxi, Michael Kaile doesn’t need to have a car to get to work at Terminal City in downtown Vancouver. He and a group of other water taxi commuters are trying to come up with ways to ensure that the water taxi survives the summer and continues as a year-round business.Susanne Martin photo

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“I want a community centre now but I also want a summer job for my kids. I’d love for them to have a career here,” Beatty says

“We think Bowen is ready for a Yes, We Can moment.”

Glave says, “We have the perception that there’s a broad majority of islanders who want these festering issues resolved.... Our past approach is broken. The dynam-ics of six councillors and a mayor, each with their own assumptions and quirks - we’ve reached a point where it’s not work-ing. It’s not that they’re individually incom-petent. The whole council is not working.”

They don’t want to demonize the cur-rent councillors. “It’s a hard job with no pay, and you risk the wrath of the com-munity every Monday night,” says O’Neil.

OneBowen has framed the issues it has identified this way:

• Are tax dollars being put to good use?• How can Snug Cove look more like a

village and less like a parking lot?• Why can’t people afford to live and

stay here?• Why aren’t there more jobs here?• Will our natural environment be pro-

tected?• Why is there still no progress on a

ferry marshalling solution?• Where is the community centre?“We have a starting point,” says Glave,

“and then “we want to develop a platform and identify candidates. We’ll talk to any-body and everybody.”

The slate - and they’re not discounting the possibility of some current members of council being on it - would be a col-lection of like-minded people; four is the ideal number on a seven-member council to avoid so many tied votes.

And while there’s strength in numbers when it comes to voting on issues, there’s also comfort in not feeling you’re alone as a candidate.

“There’s a lot of fear around running for council,” says O’Neil. “It’s so personal and there’s so much acrimony.”

OneBowen will support candidates in the election but can also be available as resources for research on issues that arise, she adds. “But,” she says, “we’re not a shadow cabinet in the background.”

Glave says, “We think there are candi-dates out there. Our biggest fear is that the burn-out level is so high, people won’t consider it as an option.”

Beatty says that with so many initia-tives on the island relying on volunteers,

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Long-time Islander, realtor, developer (he prefers community builder) and philanthropist Wolfgang Duntz has

added another job title to his list - blogger. Duntz started Thoughts on Bowen earlier this month and it promises to be an interesting read.

“I will not die before I tell people what I think, especially about all the people who are egotists and have hidden agendas and who probably are not as honest as they pretend to be,” the 70-year-old told the Undercurrent.

Duntz says he is not adept at computers and had his business partner Larry Adams get www.thoughtsaboutbowen.ca up and run-ning. But the content is all his and he says, as he get nears his retirement, he sees no rea-son he shouldn’t tell people “the truth about Bowen” and the events which have shaped the island.

Duntz said the biggest issue propelling him to create his blog was the “absolute disaster” that occurred when council did not take Don Ho and Edwin Lee’s offer to build Bowen a neighbourhood at Cape Roger Curtis and donate a large park to the Island. He says that decision is irreversible and Bowen will feel the fallout for many years to come.

“Instead of a wonderful community they now have the most boring place you can imagine,” he said of the 59 10-acre lots which the community has ended up with. “There will be no people. They could have had peo-ple and hundreds of acres of park and now what do they have? A peopleless non-park.”

He questions the actions of the now-dis-solved Cape Roger Curtis Trust Society, and many councillors, and others, and says the Island is “ruled by a core group of people who fear change.” But Duntz believes most Islanders are intelligent and if they hear the truth will form a movement to fight back at those who are “completely delusional.”

“There is a mental blockage here on Bowen,” he said. “That’s why I started a blog. I will challenge them and challenge them until eventually some of their lights will turn on.””

Thus far he’s enjoying the blog and has left space for people to respond, as some have. He’s also taken out ad space in this paper to offer up clips of what he’s posted and says that he will be regularly adding new material, revealing more as he goes along. This week, he is writing about the national park issue.

“I am vulnerable and I can’t afford to have too many people get mad at me,” he said. “But if I would not be able to vent my frus-trations in one way or the other I would get sick.”

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there’s also a fear that if there’s no progress on issues, volunteers will also burn out. “Nothing is more frustrating than going to committee meetings and nothing happens.”

OneBowen feels some members of council, and the community, naively think that if you do nothing, everything will stay the same. OneBowen says change is coming and it’s better to pre-pare for it.

They want to get local developers more involved, since it’s developers who will create housing and jobs and help pay for the costs of building the island’s much-needed infrastructure.

O’Neil says, “We feel there needs to be a co-operative model not based on fear but on our common goals.”

Beatty says, “Take away all of the things that the ‘evil’ developers have built on Bowen and ask what’s left.” His list of what developers have done for Bowen include Cates Hill Chapel, Island Pacific School, Artisan Square, Village Square, and Tir-na-nOg theatre - all mainstays of community life.

OneBowen invites community mem-

bers to host kitchen table meetings with OneBowen members. If inter-ested, email [email protected] or leave a message at 604-947-0232. You can also approach the following supporters: Murray Atherton, Chris Barnett, James Barton, Andrea Bastin, Peter Baumgartner, Richard Best, Alan Boniface, Tony Dominelli, Gordon Ganong, James Glave, Michelle Pentz Glave, John Greene, Don Marshall, Colleen O’Neil, Brian McCaig, Julia McCaig, Sue McIntyre, Richard Smith, Shari Ulrich, Barbara Wahler, Tim Wake, Bruce Wallace, John Williams, Gil Yaron, Leah Walker and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

Countdown beginsThe process for the election is:October 4: Nomination period begins

at 9 a.m.October 14 at 4 p.m.: Nomination

period endsOctober 21 at 4 p.m.: Deadline for

withdrawal of candidates November 9: Advance voting daySaturday, November 19: Election day

Present system isn’t working: OneBowencontinued, PAGE 1

Colleen O’Neil, James Glave and Ken Beatty are members of OneBowen, which wants to come up with a slate of ideas and then find a slate of candidates for November’s municipal election. Martha Perkins photo


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Bowen Island Legion Branch 150 held a family celebration last

Saturday to mark 75 years of existence, with events in the parking lot and inside tak-ing place throughout the day. Brickhouse, a funky Vancouver R & B band who’s played at the Bowen Pub, kept a packed house dancing throughout the night.

Tim Hausch, president of the Legion, said that this was one of two celebrations they plan for the year; the other will be more formal and closer to Remembrance Day. “This first one was just to have the com-munity over for some fun,” Hausch told the Undercurrent.

During the day there was bingo, face painting and other events for kids and many Bowen wee ones showed up to take part. There was a commu-nity meal that included a roast pig and corn on the cob.

Our Legion was formed in 1936, 11 years after the orga-nization began existence in Canada. It was started by a group of First World War Island veterans and while it started small, the Legion keeps growing.

Nairn Knipe, a past secre-tary, treasurer and president, says the Legion has over 160 members. Those first members met at one another’s homes until members built the hall on

Scarborough in 1965.“The community seems

to have a connection to the Legion - it’s been around as a community meeting place for as long as many people can remember,” Hausch said, noting you don’t have to have been in the military to join. “Just about anyone 19 or older, regardless of citizenship, can join.”

Many members did serve but of the many who did not, a respect for the military and a desire to be part of a group of well-intentioned citizens were part of the reason they join. Hausch had family in the military - his grandfather was wounded in World War 1 and his father served.

“I joined the Bowen Legion when I moved here. I didn’t know anyone and it was a place where I could help out and get to know people and the island,” he says. “One thing led to another and they asked me to join the board and then to take over as treasurer for a year. Now with the support of a number of terrific volunteers, both on and off the board, I am on my third term as president.”

Knipe also was not a member of the Canadian military but it ran in her family.

“My grandfather and father both served in France in the First World War,” she says. “My father served in the Second World War and was Sergeant Major at the Old Vancouver Hotel.”

She’s been involved at the

Bowen branch for 12 years.The Legion sponsors many

events on Bowen, including a dinner most Friday nights starting at 6 p.m., one of the more popular weekly events on Bowen’s calendar.

Hausch said if you’re not a member, you’ll need someone to sign you in. If you don’t know a member he can be con-tacted and will make arrange-ments.

They seek to increase mem-bership but not simply for the sake of getting names on a list. “The Legion is run with a phi-losophy of being a part of the island community and regularly gives back both publicly and privately,” Hausch said. “We are not looking to just increase membership as much as look-ing for members that will help out and continue to improve the Legion.”

Details of the marking of the 75th anniversary in the fall will be announced later in the year.

Bowen Legion Branch 150 turns 75

Face painting was a part of Saturday’s anniversary celebration of the Legion. More events are planned for later this fall. Rebecca Henderson

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With building expenses covered for the first time since opening, the board

of Knick Knack Nook, Bowen Island’s re-use-store, has been able to consider how to return our community’s generosity by donat-ing funds to an island project.

The Nook was founded out of a deep concern to save valuable materials from the landfill; from this original impetus we created a mission statement fostering envi-ronmental responsibility. This philosophy has led to our commit-ment to contribute to future Island initiatives in resource recovery.

As we began to explore future possibilities, we realized that this is an area of enormous complex-ity. There are many options for processing which may involve the municipality as well as several interested community businesses and organizations. There are also issues particular to Bowen such as concern for our unique environ-ment, availability of organic mate-rials, land and funding, expense of taking waste to the mainland, a need for locally produced soil.

Needing comprehensive infor-mation before funding any resource management process, we engaged Morganne Keplar, ReSource-Full Habitats, to do a feasibility study for us. She has extensive knowledge of resource recovery systems, a commitment to waste management on Bowen and knowledge of Bowen Island com-

munity interactions. Some weeks later, the scope

of this report was expanded in response to a need for a more comprehensive overview as expressed by Bowen Island Municipality CAO Brent Mahood. As the municipality does not have funds available for such a project, it was decided that the Nook form a collaborative role with BIM by funding this report. This report will contain an examination of current resource management issues, organic processes, stake-holders and strategies, and options for future resource recovery enter-prises on Bowen.

When the board receives Keplar’s report, we will carefully review options and decide on next steps. They will include consulta-tion with Mahood followed by a preliminary meeting with BIM, Bowen Waste Management, Zero Waste, Bowen Island Recycling Depot.

Since requesting the report on waste retrieval on Bowen, we have learned that by December 2012, food waste and yard trimmings will no longer be allowed in our gar-bage. This knowledge has intensi-fied our interest to collaborate in creating the best possible resource recovery system.

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Graham Ritchie and Bob Doucet went deep into the heart of enemy country last weekend, charming their fanatically Boston Bruin-supporting hosts with soothing songs and persuading them that “Go Canucks Go!” was just a harmless medieval Celtic incantation used by the ancient Druids before downing a shot of mead. Bob Doucet was leading a band of 10 Bowen Island Black Sheep Morris Dancers to southern Vermont on the weekend. The Sheep had been invited to the prestigious Marlboro Ale, a 36-year-old large annual gathering of Cotswold Morris Dancers from all over the northeast from Toronto to New York and all points between. Bob danced and played with many of those teams when he lived in and around Boston back in the mists of time, and he seems to be quite an icon for the Morris community there.

Black sheep in Boston

Islanders opposed to the inclusion of Crippen are circulating a petition.

“I haven’t heard anybody say they are in favour of this yet,” Martin said.

Metro’s policy is to buy and sell park land at market value.

Among the concerns are that a change in Crippen’s status to federally owned Crown land

could open it up to acquisition and development by First Nations through land claim settlements.

Parks Canada officials have said they see Crippen as an important part of a future national park reserve there and would seek alternate ways to accommodate any future request from a First Nation, such as the Squamish Nation, for part of the parkland.

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To the Editor:

Words cannot express my thanks and gratitude to all who helped to find my son on the 4 p.m. sailing on May

27. In a matter of seconds my three-year-old disappeared from my sight. While playing with his brother, he had decided to push the eleva-tor button. When the door opened, he walked in and became stuck, not knowing what to do or how to get out. As I began to look for him, panic ensued. A mass search found him sitting and crying in the middle of the elevator on the car deck.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who got out of their cars, to the Queen of Capilano staff, Scott Begg, Scott Witty, Elena Waldman and everyone else whose names I don’t know. You are what truly makes this community great.

Becca Laursen

Thank you to ferry riders

To the Editor:

Notwithstanding our less than wonderful weather, the sun shines brightly on the golf course clubhouse construction! If a

picture is worth a thousand words a quick drive by is worth a million. It looks magnificent. I’ll share the most prevailing observation: “the facil-ity is far better than we ever expected”!

On an equally positive note, I am pleased to report at council’s meeting, on May 24, they unanimously approved a resolution in support of our liquor licence. Please note, this is not the final approval. It is merely one of “fore” steps. The B.C. Liquor Board must now inspect the premises and approve as the final stage of the six-plus-month application process. We have known from the outset we most likely would be open before we have final approval which is not a problem. Jane Kellett has done such a wonder-ful job stick handling the application that the Vancouver Canucks have drafted her!

We thank council and staff for their support on the aforementioned application and thanks as well to those members of the community who submitted 99 letters of support (representing 111 people). As there was no opposition, that has to be some kind of record in our community. It should be noted, many of the supporters were not club members and many were neighbours, who acknowledged the professional and respon-sible manner in which the golf course was oper-ated.

Our May 31 “final drive” fundraising date has passed. We still have a nominal shortfall ($4,190) which we expect will be raised before the com-pletion of construction. As I said at the outset, the sun is shining brightly on the clubhouse proj-ect. Thanks again to everyone for their broad based support.

Bruce Russell, President & Director

Sun is shining brightly on golf club’s endeavour

The following letter was first sent to MP John Weston.

Dear Mr. Weston: Congratulations at your re-election.

Many people on Bowen Island support you because you are clearly the most hard-working MP we ever had.

I hope that the Child Tax Credit for children in the arts is fully implemented in the actual budget. It is the right thing to do and your gov-ernment has taken this ethical step to establish

fairness for families. In fact, I believe that this action clearly helped your party to win the election landslide.

Fairness and equality are the most important values in Canada which we teach already to our three-year olds. In terms of “fitness” there are many “fitnesses” that are transmitted in arts and culture, which are essential to the modern society that Canada has become.

So, thanks again for your hard work!

Sigurd Sabathil

Tax credit for children in arts step in right direction; local MP’s efforts lauded


CALLING ALL GRADS!It’s time to start thinking about being part of our 2011

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Stories of Island history, people, activities and events.

The lower Snug Cove area hasn’t yet reached its needed

refurbishing. One of the major needs is, as always, money. The other ingredi-ent may well be imagina-tion. Case in point: the Seabreeze building.

This is the handsome blue building which hous-es, among others, Out of

the Blue, our Irish barber and our nota-ry. When I first transplanted myself to Bowen, that structure was a one-storey green cottage facing the lane leading to the Davies Orchard. Access was from the lane. The building had started life much earlier as a summer-time lodge and its life over the years had been varied but since 1973, it had housed Bill and Jane Riddell’s realty office. The Riddells occupied the main room which still retained its 1920s sleeping loft. Two tiny spaces housed the island’s insur-ance agent and notary. The working spaces for the Riddells and their tenants were inadequate but what options did they have?

Bill once said that two assets made the remodelling a possibility. First, the building was on an oversize lot - 55 feet wide. Second, there was a five-foot crawl space under the lodge. So? It took a good deal of imagination to create the plan which eventually came together. It involved raising the build-ing three feet, turning it 90 degrees and moving it closer to Government Road. That gave space for parking in the back of the building. As the rais-ing and remodeling took place, the Riddells documented the project’s prog-ress. Since then, the stylish building with its two and a half storeys has been home to a number of island businesses. Newcomers think the building has been there a long time. Of course, it has, sort of.

An added note: for some time after the beautiful building opened, there was a sign in the Seabreeze parking lot which said:

Seabreeze customers and tenant parking only.

All other cars may be smashed and melted.

Bill had read that one somewhere and it intrigued him. When the chance to use it came along, he did. (But only

for a short time!)•Ten Years Ago in the Undercurrent

issue of June 1, 2001, While, the munic-ipality and BC Ferries were turning over the concept of a new ferry shelter for Bowen Island, the Undercurrent’sfront page featured the design of an island-friendly ferry shelter proposed by artist Emily Van Lidth de Jeude. • The charming sculpture in Snug Cove’s Davies Orchard was unveiled, with appropriate ceremony and thanks. Bowen’s first piece of public art called Children at Play was created by a part-nership of GVRD Parks, the federal government’s Millennium Project and the Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association. (BIHPA) • The municipal council endorsed the planning process of the arts and culture master plan. • Bowen Conservancy spokesperson Sue Ellen Fast said “As a community we must work together to balance our various needs and to ensure that we sustain a vibrant community. As part of that, we must look at our natural and cultural landscapes and determine how best to protect the values that brought us to the island - while recognizing our ever changing needs and desires.” • Jane Kellett was coordinating the 15th year of sailing courses being offered by the Bowen Island Yacht Club.

• Birthdays June 5 through June 18: Three well known Bowen couples were married on June 5 but our first June birthday is Cameron Swan’s on June 6. Next, on June 7 are Taryn Haggerstone, Shannon Parry and Julian Droniewicz. June 8 is the birthday of Matthew Jacquet, Linda McKnight, Zoe Schubert and Joy Davies. Inga Behm’s birthday is on June 9. The two June 11 birthdays are those of former resident Margaret Karibjanian and Liz Gourlay. June 12 is for Nicholas Chase and Kelsey Watson while June 13 celebrants are Chris Corrigan, Kai Watkins and music host David Parkin. June 14? Brian Biddlecombe, Christoph Strubin, painter Susan Hillman and Carol Buckner. On June 15, the birthdays are for James Darling, Daphne Shaw, and the versa-tile Laurie Macdonald. Next up is the June 16 birthday of Lana McIntosh. Last birthdays are those of June 17: Brandon Goth and Kathryn Ovenell-Carter. New birthdays are always welcome as are corrections. Next birthdays will be in the June 17 issue.

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To the Editor:

I think that the annual book sale for the Friends of the Library is one of the most amaz-ing community events that exist. So many people make that large event happen smoothly. Special thanks to Tyler Wallace, Huck, Lonn (the window guy), his son Tyler, Mark Ferguson, Fox, Jen at the General Store, Cody and Peter Isto. Without their help and enthusiasm, the 1 1/2 tons of books wouldn’t have arrived in a timely manner.

Bill Pocklington

To the Editor:

It was gratifying to read Susanne Martin’s article reporting on delegations to coun-cil regarding grant requests. However, it

did not explain the reason for Bowen Court Seniors’ Co-operative’s first attempt at going “cap in hand” to our municipality.

Our septic repairs are proceeding and the cost will be covered by our replacement reserve fund which is very much depleted and necessitates large increases in our hous-ing charges. Independently, we have raised $55,288 in federal grants and a benefit to replace our water pipes and paint the out-sides of our community area and residences.

However, the building comprising units #9-18 is sagging in the middle and must be shored up to prevent further rot and water damage. Two years ago we received quotes for this work at around $12,000. At that time, we simply could not afford to have the job done, but hoped that with the new sewer along Miller Road and money from the approved subdivision of our land, we would be able to do so.

This has not proved to be the case and unless these repairs are completed as soon as possible, we cannot guarantee adequate housing for our occupants.

Pam Stimpson, PresidentB. I. Seniors Housing Co-operative

Book sale an amazing community effort

The Friends of the Library books sale was made possible by countless volunteers who helped at every stage along the way. Thank you, everyone!Susanne Martin photo

To the Editor:

Re: “Raising hypothetical situations....” (Letter to the Editor, May 27 Undercurrent).

On first seeing the above, I thought, at last someone is cutting to the chase in regards to the fear-mongering

and hypothetical situations being thrown at Bowen Islanders pertaining to the protec-tion of the Crown lands.

Alas, how foolish of me!Lonnie Hindle’s letter to the Undercurrent

of May 20 states that, should Crippen Park become a national park reserve, it would be susceptible to a First Nations land claim and future development without further restric-tion by BIM.

In his letter of May 27th, Chris Corrigan concurs with Lonnie’s concern, but then dis-misses it as being hypothetical conjecture.

He further glosses over and obscures the issue by claiming that, “with no particu-lar special input from Bowen Islanders,” Crippen Park would be in equal danger if private interests were to purchase Crippen

and proceed with development. He misses the point entirely. Here are the

facts as I understand them. Private development of Crippen Park

could only take place with all necessary zoning, development approval and provision of services from BIM.

In contrast, under the 1991 Tripartite Agreement, First Nations development of Crippen could take place without any say or control whatsoever by BIM.

That is the simple point I believe Lonnie was attempting to bring to Bowen Islanders’ attention. I’m also led to believe that this land claim holds true for any other lands or assets that council transfers/sells/exchanges with Parks Canada, which could include The Old General Store or the Snug Cove dock. Council has been in possession of Lonnie’s letter since March 15. I would like to know why they have not imparted any of this information to the citizens of Bowen Island, and, now that it has become public, what they plan to do about it.

John Greene

Any lands transferred to national park open to claims


To the Editor:

Re: CRC Trust Society dissolves itself

Everyone is disappointed that the Cape Roger Curtis Trust Society failed to achieve its

goal of a park at the cape; howev-er, the real reasons we do not have a park at CRC were missing from the article. Historians in the future will look to the Undercurrent for information, so for accuracy’s sake I would like to clarify a few points.

The density was never about 600 units but about 395. This was the number of units the owners needed in order to contribute 53 per cent of the land and 80 per cent of the waterfront as park. This number was confirmed by the municipal-ity’s own consultants as the mini-mum requirement. This number was 161 units over the OCP (224) for a development on 600 acres that would have take 30 years to build-out. The 600-unit number (actually 666) was the total once all of the community’s asks were met: 150 for a seniors continuum of care, 114 for affordable housing, and 12 for live-work units. None of these extra 276 units were required to provide for a park - the owners did not have to build any of these

in order to justify the economics of contributing the land for the waterfront park. They needed only the 395.

The extra 276 were all commu-nity asks: all amenities that would only be built at the community’s discretion. All 276 units could have been taken off the table without affecting the economics. Why was this possibility never made public?

“Everyone was hoping that we could work with [the owners] but at the end of the day we couldn’t.” The “we” in this statement must surely refer to the society and to council. The owners, who added 276 units to the plan at our request, consistently demonstrated a will-ingness to work with us.

If one understands the process, it is not a surprise that the 58-lot subdivision was approved after the neighbourhood plan was rejected - it was a foregone conclusion and certainly the owners made it clear this would be their path. The approval process is not a politi-cal but rather a technical process. If prescribed conditions are met, a subdivision application must be approved, and as the article states, the owners met the required condi-tions.

Unfortunately the society became its own worst enemy. Its leaders were ultimately unwilling to accept 53 per cent of the land with 80 per cent of the waterfront as a win, and regardless of regu-lations clearly laid out, had convinced them-selves they could stop a 58-lot subdivision from proceeding. Greed and arrogance lost the prize - but they couldn’t have done it without the sup-port of our council.

I agree that it was “an opportunity lost,” and we have yet to appreci-ate just how much was lost - and not just at CRC.

Tim Rhodes

To the Editor:

Just when you think politics have reached a new low on Bowen, you realize that

there are always two ways to look at the cup, half empty or half full. Looking back at my first six years on Bowen, I see many accomplishments. This weekend on a glorious Sunday afternoon I took a stealthy walk down to the water at Cape Roger Curtis. What many do not realize, but soon will, is that contrary to public opin-ion, something extraordinary has happened as a result of the CRC process. Bowen now has over 1km of waterfront board-walks, trails over the first phase of waterfront of this new com-munity, all of which is marked with municipal logos as being public access.

The trail as constructed offers some views that are perhaps the most stunning of any trail on Bowen. A heroic boardwalk cantilevers off a cliff, trails wind around a sandy cove and frame storied views of the Cape Roger Curtis lighthouse. I am not sure who gets credit for this public amenity but no doubt it is both an olive branch extended by

the good will of the developer as well as the hard work of all of the committees, council members and staff that have worked so hard on the issues that are anything but black and white. It is hard to put a value on 1km of shoreline walkway, but try buying the right to con-struct a public promenade over $8 or $9 million lots after they have been sold off and I am sure you would be looking at a price tag of millions of dol-lars. As an architect and plan-ner who has worked on similar projects around the world I have never seen a result so pos-itive out of design of just a few single family lots. This is a job well done by all involved, espe-cially The Cape on Bowen!

What has also come out of the CRC process that is truly extraordinary is the opportunity for Bowen Islanders to discuss the fate of their prized Crown lands and the opportunity to create one of the first near urban national parks. Credit needs to be given here to coun-cil as this was their initiative. While this initiative may fail, it will have at least have had the opportunity to be part of a very comprehensive public process.

What Bowen Islanders some-times forget is that in some parts of the world these and often much harder decisions are made for the people. They have no voice. We are truly lucky to live in both a beautiful place and a democracy where the people are listened to!

While it easy to judge oth-ers by the decisions they make, it is the decisions that are not made that can sometimes have the most profound effect on how communities evolve. Case in point is Snug Cove. After waiting for five years the pub-lic now can weigh in on ferry marshalling options. It would have been easy for council to endorse any of the earlier plans spending millions on trans-portation solutions that would be now obsolete (now that we realize ferry traffic is static) and would have contravened some of the most important environmental bylaws we have in place. Most importantly the public would have missed out on having the opportunity to weigh in on options.

While on the topic of plan-ning, it looks like we are almost ready to have an updated and polished OCP. At the core of

the document is envi-ronmental protection. Developers and home owners will no longer be able to clear cut large areas of unique and sensitive ecological areas without a devel-opment permit. While CRC has done an out-standing job dedicat-ing public access to and above the water’s edge, they have made a few tree clearing mis-haps along the way, no doubt following some bad advice or perhaps just not seeing the opportunity to frame views by siting archi-tecture within a forest rather than a clearing! With the OCP in place municipal staff have the tools to be better stew-ards of the land.

It does not hurt to step back and smell the roses!

James Tuer

CRC: the glass is half full

Clarification on a few points about Cape Roger Curtis

To the Editor:

Thank you for managing to get Thursday’s story about the wolf-dog into Friday’s

paper: that must have taken a complete revision of the layout on Thursday afternoon.

I don’t think I was alone in feeling conflicted about the death of the wolf-dog. I was certainly very scared for what it might do to my dogs, and I feel the deepest sympathy for all those who lost their dogs, cats, sheep, chickens and ducks to the creature. I was one of those who appealed to the municipality to take action and I am pleased that action was taken eventually; I only wish it had hap-pened sooner. But I also wept for the killing of the creature.

The fact is, the situation should never have arisen in the first

place. In my view, no one should be cross-breeding wolves with dogs, no one should be selling them, and no one should be buy-ing them. Then no one would be dumping them, when the ani-mals become too hard to handle. Bowen Island now knows all too well what effect a roaming preda-tor such as a wolf-dog can have on an entire community. It would be great if we can use our horrible experience to help stop this hap-pening again, here or anywhere else.

I would like to lobby our politi-cians to enact a provincial ban on such cross-breeding.

If you agree with me and would be prepared to sign a petition to this effect, please email me at [email protected].

Susanna Braund

Situation with hybrid should never have arisen

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High school sweethearts married in Calgary on June 2, 1956. Their fi rst home was a cottage at Chestermere Lake . in 1965 the couple drove across the rockies in their 63 volvo with their 5 young daughters settling in West Vancouver where George built the family home. In 1971 George and Sheila set out to build a cottage in Tunstall Bay showing the girls how to use tools and work. That fi rst summer while building they camped then bunked next door at the monks place with their kids and enjoyed many fun summers with friends and fellow Bowen islanders. Thanks for the memories. The couple have 9 grandchildren are snowbirds and still active playing tennis.

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Sunday, June 12 is an opportunity to celebrate Aaron Sluggett’s life and support an endowment fund that ensures that selected Bowen graduates

have a head start in university tuition fees. Yes, the 10km route from Bluewater to the Bowfest

field is challenging, but worth the distance and worth the effort and satisfaction once you’ve crossed the fin-ish line. Thanks to John Reid’s beautiful trail system, the hardy 10ker’s can avoid the Bowen Bay hill, and instead, wind up the lovely trails through Evergreen Acres.

Perhaps the 10km is a little steep for you right now? No problem! The 5km route is flat and wonderful. Okay, maybe not completely flat as there is a wee hill as participants climb Cates Hill Rd to enter Bowfest Field from Dorman Rd. But that’s what separates the Bowen runners from the mainlanders... those hills make us stronger!

And for those wishing just a taste of a run, join us at the firehall for a 2km jaunt to the Bowfest field. Cates Hill is included so you don’t feel left out.

Once you finish, delightful refreshments await you. But the food’s nothing like you would normally see at a race finish: fresh baked pies, compliments of Savoury Island Pie Company, fresh muffins donated by Artisan Eats, watermelon and strawberries. Oh, yum.

Aaron’s Scholarship will be awarded at the finish line at 10:30, and we will wish on and release 19 bal-loons celebrating Aaron’s 19 years.

Registration deadline is Friday, June 10, 4 p.m. at Bowen Island Community Recreation. Or you can drop off your completed registration forms at Positively Fit Studio, 1044 Senior Rd. Maps and registration forms are available at positivelyfit.ca/events. For information and encouragement, call Mary 947 9601, or email [email protected].

Aaron’s Run supports Bowen grads

Top: These BICS lads were part of the 50-member BICS track and field team who headed over to the district track meet at West Van Secondary on Tuesday morning, May 31. BICS competed hard in a number of races including 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x100m, a medley relay (100m, 100m, 200m, 400m) and co-ed relays. Vice-principal Scott Slater says, all students tried their hardest and performed well. When they were not racing, they enthusiastically cheered on their teammates from the stands.” They also held up well when a late bus saw them miss the 4:30 ferry.Right: These two outstanding athletes, Brylie and Robin, are also highly amusing and capable of tolerating bouncy and boisterous BICS boys on a bus. Marcus Hondro photos

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The Bowen Agriculture Alliance (BAA) has found a way to expand its increas-

ingly-popular annual August cel-ebration of locally grown food, BowFEAST, and it involves Island children. With the help of young gardeners at BICS, there will be a monthly farmers’ market six months out of the year.

The market is the first Sunday of each month. The first one is in May and the last one will be in October. While some of the produce and seedlings you’ll be able to buy at the markets will be brought to you by local farm-ers, some will also be courtesy of BICS students.

BAA and BICs are cosponsor-ing a program called ‘Grow to the Market’. Students plant seedlings and start the growing process for a variety of food items. Working with the fledgling BICS garden-ers - the students volunteered for the program - to get their seeds and produce grown, packaged, labelled and ready for market is

Last year the Bowen Island Garden Club hosted an open garden at the home of John

and Katherine Lawrence in daffodil season (March 2010). A year later, and summer about to explode, an entirely different garden experience greets the visitor.

Many of the former large open bare patches of earth in the south-ern part of the property (which housed the former expo building) have been filled with a variety of new plantings. Trees, scrubs and a wide variety of perennials have already begun to establish them-selves in the short time the south-ern part of the garden has existed.

The development of the newer part of the garden includes an irri-

gation system and two decks sal-vaged from the original building. One of the latter has been modi-fied to provide an attractive area of raised beds; the other features a large dining table from timbers recovered from the original house.

The garden has an extensive sys-tem of intersecting pathways, which provide visitors with splendid views of the garden and its backdrop of sea, sky and mountain ridges.

The garden is located at 105 Baker Road and will be open from 2 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 5. Visitors should park on Old Eagle Cliff road and walk down to the property on Baker. All are welcome. Memberships to the club can be bought on-site.

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Interested in knowing more about veggie gardening? The right kind of soil? The right

location? About how to prepare raised beds? About the how and when of watering? Drip irriga-tion? Growing fruit trees in boxes? “Succession gardening” and “square foot gardening”? About the right things for your veggie/fruit garden? Another thing: how to remedy the bugs that devour your tomatoes and the diseases that destroy your peas?

We’ve got the answers - or at least, the master gardeners do. The Bowen Agricultural Alliance is hosting a master gardener clinic at the Bowen Community School

Community Use Room on Saturday, June 18 at 10 a.m.. The topic: home fruit and vegetable gardening. Two Van Dusen mastergardener pros will speak, then lead a Q and A ses-sion where you can ask them ques-tions - all intended to make Bowen more self-sufficient by producing more of what we eat.

Bring yourselves, bring leaves or branches from plants that are infected or being eaten (the master gardeners will help diagnose and suggest cures) and bring your gar-dening questions. Exchange your experiences with others. Learn from each other. Learn how to grow more, so you can eat more of your own produce. Be healthy. Be envi-ronmentally aware. Be more self-sufficient. Be a gardener!

BICS kids learn to ‘grow to the market’

Jarod and Olivia are two of Daphne Fargher’s ‘Grow to the Market’ student farmers. Marcus Hondro photo

Daphne Fargher of Foxglove Ranch.

Bowen kids taking part will be also be selling foods such as chives, alpine straw-berries and ripe-red rasp-berries. The program was made possible by a grant from the Vancouver Coastal Health Urban Agricultural Initiatives.

Five of the six monthly markets are from 10 a.m. to noon at the blacktop under-cover area near the BICS playground. There will be no market on the first Saturday of August; instead there will be the 5th Annual Bowfeast on August 20 on the front lawn of the library.

Michelle Pentz Glave of

the BAA says that the mar-kets are open to farmers and to any growers who care to come along and set up a table and sell their locally produced food items and/or seeds. The cost is a mere five bucks per table and the profit goes to the sellers. Children get to sell their pro-duce for free.

The next farmers’ market is Saturday, June 4 at BICS. There’ll be rhubarb, basil, bok choy, spring greens, honey, jam, dahlia tubers, plus a local medicinal herbs table.

Please call Glave if you plan to sell at 604-833-4638.

For details go to www.bowenagalliance.ca.

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“It was dusk when I crossed over the top of one dune and then slipped down the edge and, suddenly, found

myself alone in the silence. It could have been a thousand years ago.”

Artist Ann Beatty is talking about her time in the Middle East, where she spent two years, returning last August. Paintings from her time there, as well as more recent landscapes of Bowen, are fea-tured this month at the Gallery@Artisan Square.

“The Middle East was a completely dif-ferent experience,” Ann says. “The heat, the sun-baked colours, the mosque’s call to prayer, the scent of incense... every-thing was a constant reminder of how far we were from Bowen.”

And, being an artist, Ann’s way of bet-ter understanding the world around her was to draw and paint it. “A lot of the work was done in my home studio,” she explains. “More so than in the other countries I’ve travelled as crowds tended to gather; young men twice chatted me up and the second or third question out of their mouths would be, ‘Would you marry me?’”

Still, she found several opportunities to sketch in the open air, not just around the United Arab Emirates but in her travels to

Travels to the Rainforest

Oman, Egypt, Turkey, Italy and Greece. Added to the three years she lived in Beijing, where she studied traditional Chinese painting, and 12 years in Hong Kong where she helped found a women artists’ group and became the first non-Chinese member of the Hong Kong Watercolour Society, Ann has now spent a third of her life abroad. After growing up in Ottawa and attending the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, does Bowen really feel like home?

“Oh yes,” she says. “I loved living in Abu Dhabi, but I still missed home so I painted a forest scene and hung it in our bedroom like a kind of window. Coming home some days, drenched from the 40

to 50 degree heat, I often wanted to slip through that window and be back here.

The Bowen landscapes in the show depict the island’s moods in its four sea-sons.

Most are in watercolour, with others in acrylic. “I’m fascinated by the light,” Ann says. “The same scene can change dramatically throughout the day or even with the passing of a single cloud. The urge to share what I see - what I think is beautiful and emotional - drives me to paint.”

From the Desert to the Rainforest is open from May 26 to June 19, Fridays to Sunday, 12 noon to 4 p.m. You can also see the show at www.annbeatty.com.

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Recording technology has made incred-ible strides in making you feel as if you have a symphony orchestra in your liv-

ing room every time you put on your favou-rite CD. But no technology can match the feeling of watching a live performance, and the connection that occurs between musician and audience, says a group of volunteers who is bringing a classical music series back to Bowen Island.

“Live classical music is different,” says Mariana Holbrook. Recordings can “take the life out of the music” and make it seem flat-ter. That’s why she and Sonia Usmiani and Dorothy and Ted Chiasson are organizing a three-concert series on Bowen.

The concert line-up has yet to be chosen but they expect it to include small ensembles, piano and perhaps a choir. The first concert would be in the early fall.

Tickets to the concerts will not be available at the door. Instead, they are selling subscrip-tions for $95 for all three concerts. (No out-side funding is available for the first year; they plan to apply for assistance next year.)

Holbrook notes that if you go to town for a concert, you’d have to pay for a ferry, park-ing and the ticket, let alone a drink or a meal. The concerts on Bowen are an inexpensive alternative and just as enjoyable.

To enquire about buying a subscription, call Mariana Holbrook at 947-9834.

Classical concerts on Bowen

Ann Beatty in Abu Dhabi. Ken Beatty photo


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• Youth Centre: 6 -10:30 p.m. Free food, free movies. Drop in.

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• Free barbecue sponsored by Superior Propane at Bowen Building Centre. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Donors to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation will receive a ballot for a draw to win 500 free litres of propane, held at 3 p.m. (the customer does not need to be present). Barbecue fills offered at a discount and portion of the proceeds go to the CBCF.

• Africa Night: Postponed until October.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5

• Coho Bon Voyage: Help the fish hatchery release thousands of small salmon. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Terminal Creek Hatchery and 1 to 2 p.m. at the Lagoon Causeway.

• Gallery at Artisan Square: Travels to the Rainforest - paintings by Ann Beatty. runs until June 19.

• Parent and Tot Drop-In: 9:45-11:15 a.m. in BICS gym.

• Drop-in Meditation Circle 7:15 p.m. in the yurt at 903 Windjammer. Call Lisa 947-2246.

• Bowen Island Community Museum & Archives: Open Sun. and Mon., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Tues. and Thurs., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by appt. For appt. call 947-9526 or 947-2440.

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• AA Meeting: Women’s: 9:15 a.m., Collins Hall.

• Bowen Children’s Centre: Community Daycare, and Bowen Island Preschool, 947-9626.

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• AA Meetings: Open Meetings, 7:15 p.m. Collins Hall/United Church. 434-3933.

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• Bridge Club: 7 p.m. Bowen Court.

• Taketina open practice groups: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at yoga co-op at Artisan Square, free.Call Shasta and Brian 947-2283.

• Rotary Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m., Snug Cafe. Patricia Boston, Director for Palliative Care at UBC will talk about a project in India. Guests welcome.

The Canucks have made the finals - yay! Bowen Islanders will be cheering them all the way. However, because the second

game of the series falls on June 4, organizers have decided to postpone the Africa Night fund-raiser for the Africa Village Project. No point in trying to compete with this big event.

Africa Night is being rescheduled for October, perhaps on the 15th. Organizers will let the com-munity know as soon as the bookings are con-firmed.

If you already have tickets for the event, you can get a refund or donate the ticket amount to the Africa Village Project Association and get an official tax receipt.Please call 947-2811 to arrange this.

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477 PETSAmerican Cocker Spaniel pups, p/b CKC registered, health tested, champion parents. $1000. Email: for info [email protected]: www.abbykrystcockers.com.AUSTRALIAN CATTLE dogs, blue-healer puppies, born April 26.,vet checked, 1st shots, working par-ents, $550. Call (604)860-4400Beautiful Golden Retriever Pups-1st shots. Dewormed. Farm Raised. Avail June 4th. $575: 604-463-9841BLACK LAB puppies, 4 M. 2 F. Family raised, ready to go. $350. Phone (604)703-1388. (Chilliwack)BORDER COLLIE pups. 1st shots & worming. Ready to go. Both par-ents to view. $450. 604-782-8571BOSTON Terriers CKC reg Vet ck 1st shots Rep Breeder avail now 604.868.7212 or 604.794.3786BOXER PUPS, (white) M/F, micro chipped, dewormed, shots, good family dog. 604-463-4602CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES, ready to go now. $700. Call (604)794-7347COCKATIEL, Two females. Comes with large cage. $200 obo. Call 604-763-6912ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIELS CKC reg puppies. Champ lines. Tails docked, vet checked, 1st shots, guaranteed. Home raised, well socialized. Ready June 12. $1200 [email protected]. 250-392-1440GERMAN Shepherd pups, ckc reg. parents German bloodlines with no slope, exc temperament. $750. (604)796-3026. No sun callsKITTENS 8 wks. old, 2 long hair, 1 short hair tabbies, litter trained, well socialized. $30/ea. 604-533-3954.LAB RETRIEVER PUP, yellow, fe-male $400. 1st/2nd shots, de-wormed. (604)702-0217NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.comPRESA CANARIO pups, $700-$1200. Black, fawn & brindle. Dad 150lbs, Mom 120lbs. 778-552-1525RETRIEVER / LAB puppies, family raised, vet checked, fi rst shots, $550 each. Call (604)869-0424ROTTI PUPPIES, Male & Female. All shots and dewclaws. $500 each. Ready June 3rd. 604-767-4793Shih-tzu/Pug pups, family raised, 2M, 1F- all black, 1st vet, shots, de-wormed, $375. (604)393-7294

PETS

477 PETSTOY POODLE puppies. 2 apricot, 1 white. Adorable. Ready to go July 1.$700. 778-240-2400 (Cloverdale)

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

518 BUILDING SUPPLIESBUILDING SALE... “”Rock Bottom Prices!””. 25x40 $7995. 30x40 $9840. 35x50 $12,995. 40x80 $22,600. 47x100 $35,690. Ends in-cluded. Many others. Pioneer Steel Manufacturers since 1980. Call 1-800-668-5422.DO-IT-YOURSELF STEEL BUILD-INGS Priced to Clear - Make an Of-fer! Ask About Free Delivery, most areas! Call for Quick Quote and Free Brochure - 1-800-668-5111 ext. 170.MOULDING,FLOORS,DOORS and More!!! Ultra LOW builder pricing on Moulding,Laminate and Engineered Flooring,Interior and Exterior Doors.Public Welcome.I would have to double and triple my prices to match the big box stores. Mon-day to Friday 7:30-5:00,Sat 9:00-5:00 Unit #106 6448 148 Street,Surrey 604-889-2840 [email protected] - Band/Chainsaw - SPRING SALE - Cut lumber any di-mension, anytime. MAKE MONEY and SAVE MONEY In stock ready to ship. Starting at $1,195.00. www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext.400OT

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563 MISC. WANTEDINSULATOR collection wanted. Telephone & Railway types. Prefer a large amount. 250-539-2031

566 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS40” High Piano, Henry Herbert by Mason Rich - needs tuning. $500/obo. 604-531-9842

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The Bowen Island Community Museum’s doors

are now open seven days a week, and the museum invites all community members and visitors to pay us a visit.

The upcoming sum-mer exhibit, set to open on May 29, features the introduction of the car ferry onto the island. Ferry memorabilia, arti-facts, and photographs open dialogue on the ferry’s effect on island culture, and spark discus-sion on different issues like population growth, water consumption, and development.

The rapid cultural

changes that took place beginning in the 1950s raised concerns for resi-dents and visitors about preserving the island’s natural beauty and serene seclusion, while still remaining a close place of refuge from the city. The exhibit features interactive activities, a multimedia presentation, and plenty of enticing objects.

One such photograph, above, features ‘Cappy’ Reid, a well known char-acter cutting the ribbon for the inaugural run of the MV Bainbridge, Bowen’s first car ferry. The ribbon cascades down toward the fore-

ground of the photo and you see above your head the same banner which is laid in front of Captain Reid’s feet.

Perhaps the exhibit will strike up memories from the days of old, or incite new interests in the fas-cinating history of the island. Whatever it may be, we at the museum would love to be your destination for a voyage into Bowen history. The museum is by donation, and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day. Feel free to stroll through the exhibit, ‘Higgins’ our his-torical logger’s cabin, or do some research of your own in the archives.

Exhibit explores ferry historyJACQUELINE MASSEY

W R I T E O N B O W E N

If you ask a writer why they write, they may not be able to specifically name what it is that drives them. But if asked

what stops them from writing, expect a detailed, possibly emotional account.

In Jennifer Getsinger’s case she says it is embarrassment,“Embarrassment that my writing is not scintillating enough. Embarrassment about trying to write inti-mate moments without creating mockery in the reader. Embarrassment about weak sto-ries. And lately, embarrassment that it has taken me so long to write them down.”

Clearly, the published author has largely succeeded in surmounting this barrier. Getsinger, a graduate of SFU’s Writers’ Studio in creative writing, will be facilitat-ing a Nature Journaling workshop during the Write on Bowen Festival. In addition to journaling daily, Getsinger has written fiction, nonfiction, poetry and even geo-logical and other scientific reports. With a background in anthropology and geol-ogy, Getsinger has developed a style of “describing the natural world around me as I proceed through life as more of an observ-er than participant.” In her workshop, Getsinger will teach participants how to use a nature journal as a valuable primary resource for writing non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.

Annie Daylon believes a good way to jump into writing is through contests. Her workshop will focus on honing the craft of writing by going the competitive route. With a background in music, teaching and fiction writing, Daylon has entered and won numerous short story contests. She main-tains that contests are an effective exercise for writers. They provide inspiration, moti-

vation and the most important thing of all - a deadline. Daylon says that she loves “to get up at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning and go to my computer where I spend numer-ous hours crafting characters who tell me their stories.” During her workshop on Sunday, Daylon will share tips on sharpen-ing the craft and provide information about contest opportunities in Canada and the U.S.

Back by popular demand (she was a great hit at Write on Bowen 2010), freelance writer and poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner will be leading a workshop on Unbuilding the Blocks, as well as co-hosting the Saturday dinner event (with Michael Turner): Write to the Island: Adventures in Social Writing. Kraljii Gardiner is an adjunct member of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University who teaches creative writing at the Carnegie Community Centre. She is the director of Thursdays Writing Collective and the founder of Otter Press.

Kraljii Gardner says that she writes “in gushes, generating a lot and then settling into a fallow period that is perfect for tin-kering.” When it comes to revision, she says the trick is to give it time and patience. “Revision is like hooking up with your first lover years later. You have such tender-ness for the poem’s intent, its charm and awkwardness, but you are clear about why things can’t stay as they are.”

Participants at Write on Bowen can choose from 16 interactive writing work-shops along with several special events including opening night with Annabel Lyon and Timothy Taylor. To register, go online at www.writeonbowen.com. Write on Bowen 2011 is made possible through the support of the Canadian Heritage department of the Government of Canada and the Bowen Island Municipality.

Why write at Write on Bowen

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

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RV SITES

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660 LANGLEY/ALDERGROVE

HOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYSwww.dannyevans.ca

Homelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley

750 SUITES, LOWER

CLAYTON 2 br bsmt suite $875 , N/S N/P all util w/d. Resp. persons [email protected] 604 839 3678

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

$0 DOWN & we make your 1st pay-ment at auto credit fast. Need a ve-hicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599. www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309

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810 AUTO FINANCING

818 CARS - DOMESTIC

1990 CADILLAC Allante convertible white, “rare”, 2 seater, 155,000 kms Must sell. $6,900. 604-309-4001

1997 BUICK PARK AVE loaded, leather, heated seats new brakes & tires, private. $4900. 778-565-4230

2000 LASABRE LTD. All options, certifi ed. Grand Touring. pkg. 124K Spotless. $5900 778-565-4334

2009 CADILLAC DTS, black, grey leather, loaded, showroom cond, 47K. $31,000 obo. 604-805-4545

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2005 HONDA Civic, auto, 2dr, No accidents, great cond. 230kms, lady driven. $5800. (778)855-6037

2010 SMART CAR - Passion mod-el. 5000 kms. Black. Automatic. Asking $9000 fi rm. 604-538-4883.

838 RECREATIONAL/SALE

2006 NORTHSHORE 30ft Travel trlr dble 36” slide w/rear bunk beds full load $19,900. 604-819-3803

2008 NASH 22 GQ, Q. size bed, fully loaded, like new, must sell, $16,500. (604)850-1684/ 866-2179

8.3 CUMMINS DIESEL Pusher 36’, 85,000 mi., W/D, rear came-ra, $27,900. (604)539-0506

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

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SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED We buy scrap batteries from cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Min. 10. Toll Free Call:1.877.334.2288

SCRAP BATTERIES WANTED We buy scrap batteries from cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Min. 10. Toll Free Call:1.877.334.2288

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVALThe Scrapper

851 TRUCKS & VANS

1980 CHEV crane truck, 8 ton lift, $7000 obo. Call Doug @ 604-750-0194

851 TRUCKS & VANS1988 Chevrolet 1500. 305 V8. Auto-matic. Very good condition. $3500 OBO. 604-853-1352 (Abbotsford)1997 RANGER XLT super cab, 4 X 2, 1 owner, loaded, extras. $3,500 obo. Phone (604)463-25072002 CHEV VAN Commercial vehi-cle, A/C, 100K, interior like new Air-Cared, $8300/obo 604-598-0405.

MARINE

912 BOATSALUM. BOAT WANTED

10 12 or 14’ with our w/o motor or trailer. Will pay cash 604-319-5720.

BOOKKEEPERUnion Steamship Co Marina

looking for part-time computer experienced in-house

bookkeeper. Call 947-0703

BOWEN BUILDING CENTRENow Hiring- Yard Personnel

Fax or email your resume.947-0166

[email protected] License an asset

Bowen Island Montessori Preschool seeks an energetic & enthusiastic individual to join our preschool teaching team

part time the fall of 2011. Preferably Montessori or ECE certifi ed. Ideal candidate will

be dedicated to guiding & caring for young children, to

supporting all aspects of childhood development within our learning setting & have an

open and fl exible attitude. Must have or obtain

emergency fi rst aid and a CRC. Pls. send resume to

[email protected]

SUB LET OF MOORAGEUSSC Marina 35’ Slip

until April 2012 604-830-5679

BowFEAST Farmers’ Market1st Sat. each month

@BICS undercover area near rec offi ce. Join us Sat. June 4, 9 am to 12 pm.

All island growers welcome! [email protected]

Break out the BBQ Come get your “Custom Cut”Steaks, Chops and Bowen-

Made Smokiesat the Bowen Butcher Shop

on Alderwood Farm1351 Adams Rd- 947-9434

Open Wed-Sun 10-5pm

CLEAN SLATE CLEANING SER-VICE Weekly, biweekly or month-ly,special event and spring clean-ing. Dependable personal service with attention to detail. For more in-formation call 604 947-2779 or email [email protected]

DOC MORGAN’S HIRING

Front & Back of House StaffTim and/or Sean 947-9443

Have you lost a dove?White dove found with alum

band. Call 947-2422

Lance’s RecyclingI’ll pick up your recycling and deliver to BIRD for $20/load.

Kindling - $20 a boxCall 947-2430

NOTICEBowen Island Public Library

FoundationANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Tuesday, June 14, 20117:00 pm at Bowen Island

Public Library

OUT OF THE BLUESeeking P/T & F/T Staff

If you love sales & people, you’ll love it here - we have

great customers! Call Lisa at 604-240-3301 or fax resume

to 604-921-4010

TILER FOR HIREChris Joseph604-312-2676

Travels to the RainforestPaintings by Ann Beatty

The Gallery @ Artisan Sq.May 27 - June 19

Fri-Sun, noon - 4 p.m.Bowen Island Arts Council

947-2454

VACANCY COMMERCIAL SPACE

Location: Artisan Square, 569 A Prometheus Place

Size: 400 sq. feetAvailable Now

1st Month Rent FreeContact: Audra Orring

604 908-0545 604-565-0750

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Please give generously to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Enter to win 500L of propane!Draw at 3pm. Winner need not be present. No purchase necessary.

Customer Appreciation Day

Bring your BBQ tank for a refi llat a discounted rate and a portion

of the proceeds will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation

Pink!Pink!Hungry?

Think

Saturday, June 4th • 11am - 3pmBowen Building Centre, 1013 Grafton Road

Join us for a FREE BBQEveryone is welcome!

Truck delivered via barge courtesy of

ADVICE YOU CAN BANK ON™RBC Royal Bank

RBC Royal Bank presents...

Summer Planter SeminarSummer Planter SeminarArtisan Square, Bowen IslandSaturday, June 11th10:00am to 11:30am

Michael AlexanderMortgage Specialist

604-961-6457

Sue TaylorFinancial Planner

604-981-5033

PleaseRSVP to:604-908-9786

Learn from the Bowen Island Flower Shop how to make the best planters for the summer!

Planter Giveaways!

Len Gilday took this photo of a black bear when it came to visit his house below Valhalla

ridge one morning at 7:30. He says the bear very calmly came out of the forest, ambled up the drive, investigated the small garbage can, saw it was empty, then wandered off towards Taylor Road.

Last year a bear raided his bird feeder several times, bending the pole to the ground. This year, he suspended the bird feeder from a wire 10 feet off the ground.

The Undercurrent noticed that

there was a tag in the bear’s left ear so it sent a copy of the photo to Simon Gravel, the conservation officer who removed a black bear from the island last year.

Gravel confirms that the bear has been tagged but says it’s not the bear that was removed last year. That bear was tagged in the right ear.

Gravel reminds people not to have food sources, such as garbage and bird feed, available to bears.

Martha Perkins

A visit from the black bear don’t leave any food out

Undercurrent June 3, 2011

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