Bowen Island Undercurrent, March 15, 2013

FRIDAY MAR. 15, 2013 VOL. 38, NO. 43

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Committee makes recommendations for Seymour Bay

Happy St. Paddy’s Day?

There’s bound to be a mix of emotions at the Barber Shop’s annual celebration

Learning to juggle

Dropping a ball doesn’t need to diminish the joy

A camera that saves lives Through Foundation’s generosity, firemen add thermal imaging camera to their equipment SUSANNE MARTIN EDITOR

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Miguel and the prawn on the dock at the Union Steamship Company Marina.

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Community grants to be reviewed by committee SUSANNE MARTIN EDITOR

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ebruary 22 was the deadline for community groups and non-profit organizations to submit their applications for spring grants-in-aid and community grants.

At the Monday, March 11, special council meeting, Kristen Watson, the municipality’s interim manager of finance, presented the terms of reference for establishing a Community Grants Advisory Committee. The role of this volunteer committee will be to review all applications for assistance in

the form of grants and permissive tax exemptions, as well as provide input and assistance to staff in drafting policy.

“This is an initiative that was brought up in the last round of tax exemption applications. It was identified by staff that there needs continued, PAGE 3

t’s roughly the same size as the Undercurrent camera. It weighs less and costs more. The thermal imaging camera is kept next to the driver’s seat of the fire truck - it is the newest piece of equipment of the Bowen Island Volunteer Fire Department, purchased with funding from the Bowen Island Community Foundation.

Fire chief Brian Biddlecombe and volunteer fire fighters Mike Laudrum and Scott Begg met with Joyce Ganong, chair of the Community Foundation, to express their appreciation.

Biddlecombe explained that even though there is a lot of wealth on the island and we are very close to Metro Vancouver, Bowen Island has a rural volunteer fire department. “[Funding] is not falling out of the sky for us and we have to make sure that it first goes to the turnout gear for the guys,” Biddlecombe says.

“After that, there is a case to be made for stuff that would be nice to have and the thermal imaging camera fits into that category.”

Biddlecombe said that cameras like this are part of the equipment of the major fire departments in the lower mainland but not in rural areas in B.C. A few years ago, Begg suggested getting one for Bowen Island.

“When I was in training in Comox, these devices were available

to use,” Begg said. “They are very useful, especially when you’re going into a room with limited visibility.

It’s hard enough to see out of your mask with a flashlight. With that camera, you can see everything perfectly and that can help find a child or someone who’s passed out from smoke inhalation.”

Biddlecombe added that it doesn’t happen that often but approaching a house full of smoke can be a fire department’s “worst nightmare,” especially if not everyone is accounted for. “Of course, the first priority is to get everyone out,” he said.

By rendering infrared radiation as visible light, the camera allows the firefighters to see areas of heat through smoke, darkness or a heat permeable barrier, including heat signatures of visually obscured victims. The camera can also be used to pinpoint the source of the seat of the fire.

“There may be a house full of smoke but no visible sign of the fire,” Begg said. “With the camera, you can see if there is a hot spot behind a wall.”

Another area where the camera can be useful are scenes of car accidents, according to Biddlecombe, who said, “Quite often you come to an accident and there is a question where somebody might have been injured and might have stumbled away from the car. Sometimes we’ve ended up looking up and down the road in the ditches.”

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With the help of Mr. K., students showed of their skills, hinting at what they could do with all the new instruments that will be purchased with the proceeds from the PAC Island Jam fundraiser. Sarah Haxby photo kicked off with a 120-person icebreaker led by Mr. K. who recreated kindergarten music class, featuring adults on percussion using claves, rhythm sticks and boomwhackers. After that, several accomplished young musicians provided music on piano and violin. Another eight adult guests were lucky to enjoy an improvisational experience led by Laurence Santos. With help from over 100 singers, the adult improv group performed Don’t Worry Be Happy.

Two student performances featured over 30 BICS students on xylophones, glockenspiels, violins and piano. The kids programming ended with the Grade 6 and 7

bands. The green room shut down for the night at nine o’clock as caregivers escorted the happy student musicians home. John Stiver’s Island Jam house band, “Stiver Steves y Los Santos del Ritmo”, took over and delivered two hot sets to a full dance floor.

The event would not have been possible without the involvement of a very large number of BICS parents, teachers, and staff. All jobs associated with the event, other than the preparation food was performed by volunteers.

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he need to have new class sets of musical instruments belonging to BICS was identified at the start of the school year, and the cost for the wish list put together by music teacher Steve Karagianis, a.k.a. Mr. K, was going to be over $9,000. Most of the current instruments are currently on loan, not part of a class set, and don’t meet the needs of our expanded music program. Parents, students and community members were inspired by the winter concert, and began donating, fundraising and grant-writing. Now, tallying up the Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) Island Jam fundraiser, the grant from the Gift of Music SD45 Trust Fund, and the donations from the West Coast Symphony, a private donor, and students Duncan and Sabrina Glave (who donated part of their Bowfest logo contest winnings towards the music fundraising,) it all adds up to $9,347.99!

“We will be able to buy all the basics we hoped we could purchase and then get some really nice extras like the contrabass bars, the chromatic attachment racks and the PA,” Mr. K said, adding that on his shopping list are 12 xylophones, six contrabass xylophone bars, three or four chromatic xylophone attachment racks, 21 hand drums (dumbeks and djembes), one keyboard amp, five guitars, four ukuleles and a PA to use in the classroom and at concerts.

Mr. K wanted to extend a personal thank you to the organizers of the Island Jam fundraiser Kristin Jarvis, Carmen Lane, Sue McIntyre, Sarah Wilson, all the volunteers that helped the night of the event and the generous souls who made donations.

The PAC Island Jam Fundraiser raised an incredible $5,797.99 and the SD45 A Gift of Music Trust Fund granted $3,000.

A Gift of Music SD45 Trust Fund: As part of his retirement gift to the school district, former Superintendent Geoff Jopson established

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Committee recommends next steps for Seymour Bay Park gestions include covering the lower rip rap overflow sections of the drainage with additional soil and vegetation and changing the grading of the open drainage to create a cascading effect with a series of pools to mimic a more natural stream.

The committee further suggested to investigate the possibility of having parking outside of the park boundaries since the park is small and to provide a public washroom. For the full report, please see: bimbc.ca/files/ embedded2010/130311SpC9-3a.

Wahlstrom suggested that council accepts the recommendations of the committee in general and includes them in the 2013 budget. “The committee recommends that we hire a landscape architect to make sure we get a good design. From that design, we can move forward as the budget permits,” he said, adding that the requirement from the developer is to “put in some plantings once it is determined what that should look like.”

Wahlstrom explained that normally a developer would be asked to provide parkland as part of a development plan but it’s up to the municipality to decide what the park should look like. “The municipality programs and decides which elements are desirable,” Wahlstrom said. “In this case, the developer did put a drainage channel through the parkland. Moving forward, we need to determine how to restore the park and have a plan in place.”

Councillor Cro Lucas suggested to include the Trails, Parks and Greenways Advisory Committee in the development stage in the future to avoid situations where parks potentially become a cost liability to the municipality.

Wahlstrom said, “Eventually, we should be looking at the parks, trails and greenways master plan to see where we want to have parks, what they should look like and what the park elements should be.”

Mayor Jack Adelaar had concerns about one of the recommendations of the committee suggested planting site appropriate trees on the upper slopes of the park to create a screen from future buildings above. “Part of the appeal of the golf course is coming down the green and seeing the water,” he said, adding that he would like to see that view preserved. And Lucas added that the Bowen Island Golf Course is a designated night time landing area and access point for emergency services that places restrictions on tree cover.

Wahlstrom recommended to get a plan in place “so that Bowen Island Properties can go ahead with replacing the plantings.”

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t the special council meeting on Monday, March 11, Keith Wahlstrom, the municipality’s manager of development and operations, presented the findings of the Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee and its recommendations for park design elements for Seymour Bay Park.

“The committee was given the task of looking at what we should put into Seymour Bay Park after the storm drainage was installed,” Wahlstrom said.

Wahlstrom said that committee members did a great job envisioning what the park could be over the long term and what elements could be used to enhance it. “It was never the requirement of the developer to determine what [the park elements] should be,” he said.

The committee’s report clarifies Seymour Bay Park’s designation as a passive park, explaining that “the emphasis in passive parks is on accommodating users and providing a variety of activities. They are multi-purpose sites often used for three to eight hours per day by residents accessing the site by bike, trail, ocean or private vehicles.

Less emphasis is placed on retention of natural vegetation and more on use by visitors.” The committee also found that passive parks may typically include open areas for picnics with picnic sites with tables, firepits and sometimes shelters, playscapes for children, trails, on-site washroom facilities and on-site parking for a small number of vehicles.

“A passive park situated by the ocean would also seek to provide visitors with views to the water. The perspective of visitors approaching the park by kayak or boat must also be considered,” the report says about passive parks.

Specifically for Seymour Bay Park, the committee recommended that all existing trees and native vegetation should be retained and that all plantings should be with native plants appropriate for the site. For trails and access to the water, “a new gentle pathway from the existing road down to the beach on the north side of the rocky outcrop” and “two sets of dry-stacked rock steps or ramps (using materials that will be unaffected by wave action) down to the beach” are recommended.

The committee also envisions developing the old road into an easy-access picnic area with tables and view seating and suggests to “daylight the stream where it currently flows through a culvert under the old road, by replacing the culvert with a bridge.” Other sug-

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to be a more transparent and objective process in decision making when it comes to awarding permissive tax exemptions and community grants,” Watson said. “We consulted with the finance committee and we invited Joyce Ganong, [chair of the Bowen Island Community Foundation,] to attend one of our meetings where we discussed establishing the committee and its terms of reference.”

Watson explained that the purpose of the committee is to provide recommendations to council on community grants, grants-in-aid and permissive tax exemptions that set out to enhance the quality of life while delivering services economically to Bowen Islanders.

Together with staff, the committee will draft policies that relate to grant applications for council’s consideration. Watson explained that Ganong discussed how to implement a weighted criteria system based on strategic objectives. “We hope to come up with very clear and objective weighted criteria in order to accurately evaluate and make recommendations to council to make decisions on these applications,” Watson said, adding that this

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would lead to an objective process to assess and prioritize grant requests and permissive tax exemption applications.

For the community grant advisory committee’s draft terms of reference, Watson recommended “that the members of the committee will be selected from a wide range of stakeholder groups and will include one member of council and one representative from the Bowen Island Community Foundation. Members will serve for a term of three years and will meet semi annually in accordance with the municipal grant cycle.”

Watson also envisions that the committee will consult with relevant organizations, such as the Bowen Island Arts Council, the Bowen Island Museum and Archives, the West Vancouver School District, Camp Bow Isle, the Rivendell Foundation and Tir-na-nOg. Taxpayers and recipient organizations will benefit through an objective and transparent decision making process aligned with the mission and values as defined by municipal grant policy. “The benefits to the community at large would be that in the future, on the advice of the committee, council will be able to make objective and transparent decisions,” Watson said.

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he saying “Irish eyes are smiling” is not quite true for me these days and there is a good reason... I have chosen St. Patrick’s Day to announce that I will be moving to Australia sometime this year. This is something I have always wanted to venture into since I came back in 2008.

That’s the good news.

The bad news, and why I am not smiling, is that I feel I am leaving the biggest and most wonderful family I have ever had - all of you on this wonderful island. You are not just customers at my wonderful Barber Shop, but you have all become such amazing friends. And I hate to leave you. But this opportunity only comes around once in a lifetime, so I have decided to explore this adventure.

I will be advertising my business and pray that the right person comes

along to look after you with the joy I have had over the past 12 years. If you know of anyone who is looking for the best job in the world, please get them to contact me. I am waiting to complete the challenge that I have committed to, representing my wonderful friends in the Cancer Ride to Seattle. So many of you have donated money for this ride that I cannot leave without fulfilling my promise to you and raising as much money for cancer research as possible.

Over the next few months, I am hoping it will get easier to say that word that catches in my throat each and every time I even think about it: Goodbye. Why do I feel it’s not going to get easier?

Please drop by The Barber Shop tomorrow, March 16, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with me and my new adventure.

Barbara, the Barber

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pring time! Daffodils are poking up, worry if the wood pile is going to last reduces, we look ahead to our glorious Bowen summers and all they bring; BBQs, kayaking, dips in the ocean, visits with friends, the Dock Dance and ultimately Bowfest to crown it off.

Your Bowfest committee has been listening hard and hearing the concerns around the proposed theme (Zombies - what were we thinking!) and hearing too the concern around the efforts of the board to make Bowfest financially sustainable.

We felt it might be important to reiterate why Bowfest occurs and what its purpose is. Basically, the mandate and mission statement declares that Bowfest is a community festival created to celebrate our community while raising money for local organizations.

Bowfest is a non-profit organization run completely by volunteers and as such depends on grants, sponsorships and monies raised at the gate to cover all expenses associated with the event.

Our intention is not to grow the festival but rather to grow the volunteer and charity involvement in order to develop sustainable relationships where volunteers and charities make longer term commitments to help the board make Bowfest possible perennially. While we greatly appreciate the support of the Municipality and our sponsors and we realize many requests for support are received by them, it is a challenge every year for us to meet our financial goals. Given this we have to ensure any shortfalls are made up through gate sales and vendor fees and we need to rely on as much volunteer contributions as we can find. Revenues can then be fairly and equally distributed to island organizations that want to partner with us while also putting

aside monies each year to build a reserve fund.

Lately a number of people in the community have been very vocal around a suggestion that one of our board members had made to ask the musicians to volunteer this year rather than getting paid. It came from the need to save costs but it elicited some strong reactions. We would like to say that at this point as a board we do not have a policy around paying the musicians. We need to examine our budget and explore this year’s possibilities before we make a decision as a board. Please be patient with us while we work through the issue.

As stewards of the festival our job is to make the festival viable, affordable and fun for all and most importantly meet the mandate. As any organization, this is no easy task and requires a great deal of time and attention to address the varying needs. We know there is much work ahead of us, but are excited about what we can achieve this year and appreciate everyone’s patience as we work responding to community feedback and addressing operational needs.

If you are part of a charity that would like to be involved in Bowfest or if you would like to volunteer, we are always looking for new enthusiasm and involvement to make our festival the best it can be.

We recently had our AGM and are delighted to have enthusiastic new board members join us, they are Noah Pryce-Jones, Tony Dominelli, Burle Konopa, Damien Bryan. They join last year’s members Pam Matthews, Ellen White and Yvonne McSkimming. Our thanks and appreciation go to retiring board members Sarah Haxby and Peter Courtenay.

Our website to keep abreast of all things Bowfest or to contact us is www.bowfest.org. Roll on summer!

The Bowfest board

Budget process and public consultation To the Editor: Re: open letter to mayor and councillors am curious to know what will be the format of the public consultation regarding the proposed budget.

Will you use a minimalist format? Will you publish the planned budget on a Wednesday night in the agenda of a regular council meeting? Read and passed five days later, the following Monday?

Will it be with a lengthier public consultation? Are you planning an advertised, well in advance,

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Saturday public meeting? As you will have the planned budget presented by your financial officer, will you listen to every comment presented by the public in attendance? Will you be available to answer questions from the public?

And will you integrate some of those comments into this year’s budget?

Section 166 of the Community Charter is very clear: ”A council must undertake a process of public consultation regarding the proposed financial plan before it is adopted”.

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‘Slow Lane in passing’ chronicles islanders

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grew up in Victoria and for years the old Victoria Colonist ran a column called ‘Seen in Passing’ whereby the writer would note various Victorians he or she had crossed paths with that week. Way back on June 16, 2006, I wrote a ‘Slow Lane in Passing’, though only chronicling Bowen dogs I`d seen. Here’s another such column, this time including humans, cats and Sarah-Jo Lightbody’s fish .

I reckon it was Friday last that I spotted Will and Kit giving their mom, Sarah Cummins, a cuddle on the pier before hopping on the 6 o`clock. Without a doubt, a heartwarming scene. Then last week, saw the twins` brother, Beau Cummins, smelling grass in Snug Cove; he`s a cheerful sort.

Here are a few islanders I saw working out hard at the Gym on Bowen: Dennis Molnar, the alwaysamusing Dee Anderson, Angus McTavish, Herb Paterson, Annabelle Coon, Alex Kirkpatrick, Ryan Gisby, Patricia Boston, Marie Boissonneault and Ayden Radley. David Cameron was in but David mostly talks and flexes his muscles in the mirror. He’s an actor.

Saw 40 or so Bowenians one evening last week at Ambleside Park, there for a soccer game against a North Van team. Bowen lost 3-2 but while the other team, older and bigger, played kick and chase, the Bowen Bears moved the ball, often connecting five or more passes and Cole Jennings, Ben Welsh, Tobin Sparling, Thomas Bement, Molly Quarry, Gabrielle Santiago and Romeo `the Moose` Minoose were awesome.

The kids’ coaches, Burns Jennings, Chris Wilson and Morgan Quarry, have taught them that winning and losing each carry lessons and that the joy comes from together playing the game as it was meant to be played.

The team, who won most of their games this season, played the beautiful game beautifully.

It was a fine night.

I passed roofer Mike ‘the Cannon’ newsroom@bowenislandunder-

Bannon working hard…but not as hard as brother Steve. Max Dyke was working hard; Max has various duties down at the Marina, as does co-worker Jessica Mitts. Spotted Jack and Stephan Lowdon making their way along the lawn down there; those two are from Turkey and though brothers, look nothing alike (one’s both black and white, the other orange).

There was a group of Ruddy Potato staff in one corner of the store getting in the way of clientele trying to buy the ready-made meals; that group included Louise Wright, Bill Hoopes, R. Kynaston Kemble and… was it Ryan Matthews?

No, Ryan was busy working.

And this week there was Susan Lin keeping the General Store orderly and showing me how to spell my surname in Mandarin; it’s a special name, she tells me, which I’m somewhat chuffed about. Rick the Painter was there, boasting that he married well. Working the counter was young Lucy Robichaud.

Saw Bridget Knipe backing a car up, Ed the Kane at the Knick Knack Nook (Angie McCulloch was there, too, handing out good cheer and change), Bob Doucette at the Snug Café and Bob and Henry Lightbody at home going around in circles.

I both saw and experienced Tracey Wait raining on her husband’s parade by pointing out the new wallet he bought, which he’d been quite pleased with, lacks a pocket for change.

Later saw her flick a bug a good 10 feet across a room: “Well, it was crawling on my leg,” she said.

Saw Rick Sinke coming off the ferry. Saw Mimi Jones coming off the ferry. Saw Charlie Welsh coming off the ferry. Saw Doug Davis coming off the ferry. Saw Moira Greaven coming off the ferry. Saw Rob Forbes coming off the ferry. Saw Jessie Milstead coming off the ferry.

Saw Jim Coker and his bike coming off the ferry.

And finally, witnessed Goldie Urquhart go past our gate, smelling the ground. She stopped and left something and Chris White came along and picked it up with a plastic bag. I happen to know that Chris is getting married this summer.

I’ll be there to see that, too.

Bowen Island Conservancy 2013 Speaker Series: The ISlandS TruST Saturday, March 16, 2013, 3:30 pm, at Collins Hall The Islands Trust was created in the 1970s to preserve and protect the Trust Area and its unique amenities and environment, for the benefit of local residents and of BC generally.

Bowen Island is part of the Trust Area and our local Islands Trust Municipal Trustees, Wolfgang Duntz and Andrew Stone, will talk about the Trust, its role, and its goals.

For more information, email info@bowenislandconservancy.org (Please note our next session, a screening of the documentary “Green Fire”, about the environmentalist Aldo Leopold, on April 20th.)

Please join us; everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served.

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ince The Tempest has finished its run, it can now be revealed that the play’s mysterious flying elf Ariel was not, as advertised, a sprite, but was actually a human. The obnoxious elf ’s pervasive presence throughout the play was achieved

by Katalina Bernards, hiding in a corner of Cates Chapel and armed only with a microphone and her impressive speaking and haunting singing skills.

She’s, of course, the one in the middle of the back row, standing above Alonso (David Shadbolt), the King of Naples whom she drove mad with the mean-spirited sprite’s arsenal of threats and dire predictions. On the left is the Prince of Naples (Joe Henderson McCance), also driven to near-distraction

by Ariel, but luckily for him driven into the arms of Prospero’s daughter Miranda (Robyn Westcott). On the right are Tina Nielsen, temporarily taking a break from Bowen’s chief librarianship to play the tipsy Neapolitan Trinculo, and Graham Ritchie (Prospero).

Below are Martin Clarke (Stephano), and Michael Epp (Caliban).

Ariel’s identity was not the only surprise of the production. Several members of the audience, especially Jim McConnan, realised for the first time that they liked Shakespeare. It probably helped that the 400-year-old script was trimmed quite a bit, reduc-

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ing the length to an hour and 15 minutes while still keeping the good stuff.

Thanks to the wonderful production team of stage manager Maureen Sawasy and lighting director Ian Davidson, sound effects whiz Jon Ritchie, house manager Irene Wanless and her fellow costumed ticket-takers Sonia Usmiani, Leah Cline, Angela McCulloch and Hilary Butler.

The costumes for them and for the cast came from that unassuming powerhouse of Bowen’s theatreworld, Shirley Wrinch. Tanya de Zwart created the poster and Rosemarie Leverton the website, and Island Pacific School donated the use of space for a cast dressing-room. And many thanks to the library volunteers who handled all the tickets.

NEIL THOMAS GRAY April 12, 1938 - January 27, 2013

Neil passed away from a heart attack while being treated at Lions Gate Hospital.

He is lovingly remembered by his wife Jaye Routledge and their children Matthew and Margaret along with children Brent (Michelle), Charles (Deb) and Janene (Brad); nine grandchildren and step-grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. We will miss his humour and wit.

Born in Vancouver, Neil graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science. He enjoyed successful careers in the roofing and sheet metal industry and training consulting field.

Neil was committed to amateur sport, as a coach and president of the BC and Canadian Lacrosse Associations. He moved to Bowen Island in 1977 and was very active in the community and United Church.

A celebration of Neil’s life will be held at 1pm, Saturday March 23, 2013 at Cates Hill Chapel, 661Carter Road, Bowen Island. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Alzheimer Society of BC or the Bowen Island Golf Club Junior Scholarship Program would be appreciated.

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t’s that time again: a new session of partner dance classes is starting up next month on Bowen Island, and everyone is invited. As usual, there are two dance genres on offer. This time they are Country two-step and West-Coast Swing. Both are for beginners, and beyond. No dance background is needed.

And here are 10 reasons to accept the invitation: #1 – Show off your cowboy boots Boots not required, of course, but they do add to the flair on the floor. Country twostep is a “travelling dance” that is usually (but not always) danced to country music. If you can walk, you can Country two-step. #2– Look good for your friends West-Coast Swing is a “slot dance” that gets you out on the dance floor looking smooth and stylish to a really wide range of music, great for the first-time partner dancer. WestCoast is one of several swing-type dances.

If you enjoyed the big-band sounds at last summer’s Steamship Days, you’ll enjoy swing dancing. #3 (a) – If you’re a dance leader, enjoy getting your own way No questions asked. #3 (b) – If you’re a dance follower, enjoy

watching him think he’s getting his own way Enough said… #4 – No partner? No problem Dancing on Bowen is not a couples sport.

Singles have been signing up for our partner dance classes all along, and it’s amazing how often the number of leaders matches the number of followers. In a pinch, our teacher fills in as leader or follower, whichever is needed. #5 – Pump up your heart, build up your bones It’s easy on the joints, but a real workout, even for the abs – all the class-time laughs will tighten that area right up. #6 – Pump up your spirit Rough day on the job? An hour or two on the dance floor will turn your day around and put the spring back in your step. #7 – It’s way more fun than hitting the gym Dancing is both cardio and weight-bearing exercise without all the grunts and groans. #8 – Kick-start your brain by learning something new You could work on a crossword or sudoku and, when it’s all over, it’s all over. Or you

could learn a new dance step that you’ll have forever. Your neural pathways will thank you, and so will future dance partners. #9 – Laugh lines are cool Not only are Bowen dancers a friendly bunch but we love to laugh. I think that’s really what brings our dance teacher extraordinaire, Pamela Podmoroff, back each season. #10 – Opportunities to practise your dance moves abound Last summer, it was the Dock Dance, Steamship Days, Bowfest, and any number of weddings and parties with some kind of dance floor. On top of that, throughout the year, dancers drop in at Collins Hall on Friday evenings for casual dance socials.

There we practise the moves we can remember and make up some of our own (sorry, teacher Pamela).

And so there you have it: 10 reasons to sign up for dance classes.

For more information on Country twostep and West-Coast Swing classes for beginners and beyond, please call the Bowen Island Community Recreation Office at 604947-2216.

Don’t wait too long to sign up – classes start on April 8.

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he Rakish Angles are bringing their new acoustic music back to the Gallery at Artisan Square this Friday, March 15. Tickets are $20 and are available at the door, which opens at 7:30 p.m. The Rakish Angles have played a number of times on Bowen Island to delighted audiences.

British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast is a tranquil neck-of-the-woods beside the Pacific Ocean that resonates with a woody timbre. This unique place conjured up a definitive sonic quartet called The Rakish Angles. Newgrass, Latin, gypsy-jazz, old-time music.

None of these styles were born there, yet they have given inspiration to the vision of these musicians, who hail from various locations around Canada.

There’s gentle counterpoint to the band and maybe that’s why their music and performances strike a chord - they simultaneously say sweet and mysterious, novel and ageless. The quiet complexity is honest and musical and natural.

Since forming in 2007, The Rakish Angles - made up of Dan Richter (guitar) Simon Hocking (mandolin), Boyd Norman (bass), and Ali Romanow (violin) - have been making their own unique sound. They have earned nominations for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2009 as well as Western Canadian Music Awards in 2010 and 2012. In the process, they’ve shared the stage with Tony Trischka, Doug Cox, Po’Girl, Celso Machado, The Red Clay Ramblers, Frazey Ford, Jesse Zubot, and Tanya Tagaq.

As word of the band spreads, the emotional con-

Ali Romanow (violin), Simon Hocking (mandolin), Dan Richter (guitar) and Boyd Norman (bass) will perform on Friday, March 15, at the Gallery at Artisan Square.

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nection is the characteristic that comes through the loudest. The musicians will tell you their raison d’ètre isn’t necessarily about unfolding the corners of musical innovation until the wheels come off, although they dabble in that regard. They are capable of finding new latitude, but it isn’t that, their technical proficiency or their well-chosen lyrics - it’s much more basic than that. They bypass the intellectual filters and spark something in the emotional centre of the brain, and they’re doing what they’re supposed to do.

Listen to the title track of their second album, Cottonwood Moon (released 2011), created during that winter in a musty A-frame cabin over looking Georgia Strait and belonging to the album’s engineer Montreal musician Courtney Wing. A simple, clean progression. Perfect and unpolished notes. Timeless, broken words such as “...time drains like wine.” It does, doesn’t it?

A word about the name. ‘Rakish’ is an adjective meaning, ‘having or displaying a dashing, jaunty or slightly disreputable quality or appearance.’ How this embodies the band, it can’t quite be told exactly. Sure, you’ll probably find them jaunty and jovial, but they ain’t so disreputable. They’re family people. They sing into one collective microphone. They themselves are warm, wooden-timbred, natural, mysterious folk much like the place where they live.

Maybe time will tell just what exactly the word can mean and what it is meant to sound like. Until then, it’s about playing music.

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Ganong also drew attention to the fact that the camera will contribute to the safety of the fire department by cutting down the time before anyone in a precarious situation and the source of the fire can be discovered as well as when a fire fighter is in danger.

Biddlecombe explained that the Bowen Island Community Foundation purchased the thermal imaging camera that cost around $8,000 after learning that it was on the top of the fire department’s wish list. It hasn’t been put to use other than in practice sessions.

“We want to thank the Foundation for making this possible,” he said.

Two different cameras captured the images at the firehall in different ways. The above image of Scott Begg, Joyce Ganong and Mike Laudrum was taken with the Undercurrent camera. In the photo on the right, the three appear on the screen of the thermal imaging camera that records their heat signature. This camera even picked up the residue of heat transfer left from a hand placed on a table for a moment. It was donated by the Bowen Island Community Foundation and will be an asset to the Bowen Island Fire Department.

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Growing nutritionally dense foods namely liquid fish hydrolysate, EM (effective microorganisms) and a ‘nopreservative’ molasses from the Snug Cove General Store. Fertilizing with f we are to garden, in an effort to this simple combination, produced move toward the most nutritionincredible (to me) and very productive ally dense foods, (as our own Lisa Roma tomato vines, seven feet tall!

Marie Bhattacharya, a registered holisI feel like I have only scratched the tic nutritionist, would undoubtedly surface so to speak, as Nauta suggests guide us), common gardening practicthat we are looking at a three to four es such as deep roto-tilling and adding year process to create the optimally dolomite lime to the soil may prove of balanced soil for food production. short lived benefit or even completely Soil testing, recognizing soil defiwrong. ciencies by what weeds grow, applicaYoung genius gardener, Phil Nauta, tions of compost, has dedicated mulch and sea himself to the minerals are all bottom line covered brilliantof nutritionly in Building ally dense food, Soils Naturally. namely healthy It has taken soils. His book me about two Building Soils weeks to read Naturally, steers through, even in us away from my state of semimany mindless retirement, but but traditional my conclusion practices and is that this is a toward the crereference book of ation of a healthy incredible value. living soil food For those web. who are serious As I enter my about growing semi-retirement, nutritionally what makes dense foods for a sense to me healthier life, this financially and book inoculates in terms of cheap our brains with health insurthe best available ance, is to eat Phil Nauta’s advice on creatung a the healthiest, healthy living soil food web can be information.

So impressed most nutritionhelpful for Bowen gardeners. was I with ally dense foods Submitted photo this book that I can buy, but I bought two preferably grow additional copies, one is in circulation in my back yard. at the Bowen Island Library and the I have been aware of Nauta’s work other through gardening friends who for a few years now, but only last year will pass it forward. had the opportunity to create some Get in touch with Angela at Phoenix raised beds and fill them with our on Bowen and get your own copy. local mountain sub soil. It didn’t look Nauta told me he’d be delighted for the too promising, but there were some information to be passed around. This worms, and I suspect some minerals, young Bodhisattva is far more interin there as well. ested in the propagation of soil health My main fertilizer concoction used truths than he is with book royalties, only three of several soil amendment/ but buy his book anyway. fertilizers, that Nauta recommends, RICHARD BEST

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Trees are pruned using the best arboriculture (tree care) practices. Skilled workers employed by BC Hydro are trained in both electrical safety and tree care. Only correct and proper techniques are used to eliminate any safety hazards.

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Solve the cipher 3

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ongratulations to the winner of the last cipher contest, David Demner, and to Louis Belluk who came in second Solve by 10 minutes. the cipher The first person to submit the correct solution to this week’s new cipher contest will receive a gift certificate for Cocoa West. Just email your solution to the following address: bowenislandciphercontest@gmail.com You can get a head start on the cipher contest, if you check the online version of the Undercurrent on Thursday afternoon.

The cipher below is a number slide cipher. The numbers correspond to

places shifted in the alphabet from the previous letter, and it is slightly harder than the last cipher: 19-14-23-14-19-23-21-1-24-6-7-1823-13-17-10-17-11-24-1-7-18-12-2218-6-21-21-4-22-23-10-9-22-18-8-1816-4-3-22-19-14-2-7-17-1-15-11-1-2515-6-25-15-6-7-18-23-13-2-14-23-814-9-5-3-12-5-23-0-25-13-13-9-15-24-10-1-14-19-19-7-18-19-23-21-1-246-7-18-23-13-11-24-13-7-24-12-22-113-0-22-21-9-3-9-10-20-20-14-8-8-55-2-3-13-0-22-18-16-3-13 I am doing a masterworks project on Codes and Ciphers. If you have any questions, or would like to know more, please email them to the gmail address above, and I will try to answer them as quickly as possible.

If you are curious, you can ask me what the solutions are to the previous cipher contests.

Spot the ball update

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Once again, Bowen Islanders have come forward and offered to help.

Christine Walker and family are off to Africa this week and are taking a hockey bag full of balls with them, along

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Thanks to the support of all Spot the Ball players, Social Conscience Fair Trade balls have so far been welcomed with big thankful grins in Peru, Cuba, Mexico and Africa. To be continued!

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TIMESHARE

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TRUCK & TRAILER MECHANIC

Class 1 license req. Preference will be given to applicants with previous Super B & Mountain driving experience.

TEAM DRIVERS required for regular USA runs. Must have 2 years mountain and highway experience and a clean driving record. $22.50 per hour. Contact Ron Hutton at Coastal Pacific Xpress at 604-5750983 ext 351 or fax resume to 604575-0973

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TRADES, TECHNICAL

Full Time - Day & Nights Casual Part Time & Saturdays

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Mega Cranes Ltd. an industry leader, is seeking an energetic, aggressive, self starter for a full time truck and trailer mechanic for full time position. If you are interested in this exciting and unique opportunity!

SUMAS TRANSPORT INC. is a locally owned & operated transport company with a Competitive Compensation Package.

AGREEMENT It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event of failure to publish an advertisement shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for that portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement. The publisher shall not be liable for slight changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value of an advertisement.

DRIVERS/COURIER/ TRUCKING

EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

604.339.1989 Lower Mainland 604.996.8128 Fraser Valley Running this ad for 8yrs

PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $299, 2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint.

NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services.

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PLUMBING

• Twins • Fulls • Queens • Kings 100’s in stock! www.Direct Liquidation.ca (604)294-2331 *NEW QUEEN MATTRESS SET* Pillow Top in Plastic. Mfr. Warranty Must Sell $200 ~ 604-484-0379

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HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673 The Scrapper

Take notice that Lise Goumeniouk of 1658 Mount Gardner Road, Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2 intends to make application to the Province of British Columbia, for a Crown Land permit for Transportation/Roadway purposes covering UCL in the vicinity of District Lot 6698, Group 1, New Westminster Land District situated on Provincial Crown Land located near the north-west section of Bowen Island, BC. The Land File Number is 2410850.

Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decisions Database website at: www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp where details of this application, including maps can also be found.

2) By mail to the 6enior Land OfÀcer at 200-10 28 15 rd 6treet, 6urrey, BC, V R 1(1. Comments will be received by the Ministry of )orests Lands and Natural Resource Operations until April 19, 201 .

Comments received after this date may not be considered.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be provided to the public upon request. For information, contact the FOI Advisor at the Ministry of Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations regional ofÀce.

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UNCLASSIFIED ARTISAN EATS Cafe is HIRING P/T Prep/Line Cook and P/T dishwasher email info@artisaneats.ca

For Rent: Fully furnished room for April 1st. Minutes walk to cove and trails. $550/month plus shared utilities (604) 763-8397 LANCE’S RECYCLING I’ll pick up your recycling and deliver to BIRD for $25/load.

Kindling $20/box at Building Centre.

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BOATS

15’ Welded aluminum boat, 6’10� wide, 44 inches deep v-hull with stand up fisherman’s top, sst steering lights horn bilge pump. Boats are new. Trailers available. $6750.

Chilliwack 250-244-1704 quintrex@telus.net

Lost: Large black wool shawl/ scarf with fringe. Reward.

Call Becky 604-8381275

The Gallery@Artisan Square MINI GALA March 8 - April 1 Live Auction March 16th 7 pm Tickets $15 at Phoenix

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McTaggart Water Systems Inc. is looking for an individual who is willing to be trained as a technician to help support our growing Hot Tub, Pool and Water Treatment Service department. The position is 2-3 days per week with the intent to make it a full time position. Applicants need to have a valid driver’s license and be willing to work outdoors in a physical environment. The position is available immediately.

Please send your resume to info@mctaggartwater.com VACANCY COMMERCIAL SPACE Location: Artisan Square, 569 A Prometheus Place (Next to the Dentist office)

Size: 400 sq. feet Available Feb 1st 2013 Long term or short term for workshops meetings & seminars.

Contact: Audra 604 908-0545 778-374-0158

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2007 HARLEY SPORTSTER Factory custom, 74 cube (1200) big bore by Denco Cycle, Bassani pipe, windshield, sissy bar, leather bags. 27,000km, one old guy owner, $7450 obo (604)817-1945

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On the calendar FRIDAY, MAR. 15

SUNDAY, MAR. 17

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t -FHJPO %JOOFS 6:30 p.m. Members and guests welcome. t 3BLJTI "OHMFT 7:30 p.m.

Gallery at Artisan Square.

SATURDAY, MAR. 16 t.JOJ (BMB BVDUJPO Gallery at Artisan Square, doors open at 7, auction begins at 8 p.m. t $SJQQFO 4UFXBSETIJQ (SPVQ 8FFE 8BSSJPST 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Meeting as usual by the bridge at the mouth of Davies Creek. t #PXFO *TMBOE $POTFSWBODZ TQFBLFS TFSJFT 3:30 p.m. Collins Hall. Topic: The Islands Trust. t #PXFO *TMBOE &DP "MMJBODF "OOVBM (FOFSBM .FFUJOH 2 p.m. Collins Hall, Speaker Murray Skeels, publisher of the Bulletin.

t # * /BUVSF $MVC TQFBLFS Bob Turner on the local geological landscape. 7 p.m. See bowennatureclub. blogspot.ca.

t .0/%": ."3 t /" .FFUJOH Open meeting, 7:15 p.m. Cates Hill Chapel. t 4FOJPST ,FFQJOH :PVOH 9 a.m. line-dancing, 9:45 a.m. exercises, singing and refreshments, 11a.m. speakers Diane Marshall and Colleen O’Neil “Caring Circle�. t *TMBOE 7JMMBHF 4POH$JSDMF 7 to 9 p.m. Bowen Court, call 2283 for info. t (BSEFO $MVC NPOUIMZ NFFUJOH Gallery at Artisan Square, 1 p.m

Speaker: Alan Whitehead, “Sustaining Streams and Other Sensitive Ecosystems (on your property).

TUESDAY, MAR. 19 t "" .FFUJOH 7:15 p.m.

Collins Hall. 604-434-3933.

WED., MAR. 20 t %SPQ JO LOJUUJOH 2 to 5 p.m. at Bowen Court with Pat Durrant. All levels welcome. t 8FJHIU 8BUDIFST Collins Hall. 6:15-7:15 p.m. Call 604-947-2880. Join for free until March 23.

THURSDAY, MAR. 21 t %VQMJDBUF TUZMF CSJEHF 7 p.m. sharp. Bowen Court lounge. Call Irene at 2955.

UPCOMING t %FBEMJOF GPS TDIPMBSTIJQ BOE CVSTBSZ BQQMJDBUJPOT March 31. See www. bowenfoundation.com.

Alan Whitehead, here surrounded by the cattails at Fairy Fen, will speak at the Garden Club’s monthly meeting on March 18. Martha Perkins file photo

The value of Bowen’s ecosystems

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he first meeting of the Bowen Island Garden Club’s monthly program of visiting presenters in 2013 will take place at 1 p.m. in the Gallery at Artisan Square on Monday, March 18.

Our presenter is Alan Whitehead, a Bowen resident since 1988. His topic will be: Sustaining steams and other sensitive ecosystems on the island and on your property.

His presentation will provide an overview of the ecosystems that exist on Bowen, what makes them sensitive and of value to the community. In the process, he will consider their protection under the law and the threats

that endanger them from careless land use.

Alan was born and raised in Guatemala City and has a BSc from Victoria (biology), and a MSc from UBC (bio-resource engineering) His work as an environmental consultant has taken him to BC, Alberta, the USA and Central and South America. He has been active on Bowen in many different roles over the past two decades. They include: the Bowen Conservancy, the Bowen Island Nature Club, heron watch, the ecological reserve, and the Crown lands committee to name but a few.

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Juggling act It’s really no big deal to drop a ball and it doesn’t need to take the joy out of juggling.

That’s the main lesson the Bowen Island Montessori students taught the adults when they learned to juggle under the guidance of Paul Stewart. Joanne Raymont photos

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