Bowen Island Undercurrent, April 19, 2013

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FRIDAY APRIL 19, 2013 VOL. 38, NO. 47

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Money and children

Workshop will explain that allowance can be divided into different categories

Scholarship deadlines

Bowen students can apply to Bowen Community Foundation until April 30

Salmon Confidential

Documentary follows biologist’s quest to save wild salmon

Red tape for tiny homes Homes for Less II is looking for a good location for a tiny house SUSANNE MARTIN EDITOR

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tudents of Emily Carr University of Art and Design are working to create a tiny home that packs living essentials into 150 square feet. The model will be built on Granville Island but it can’t stay there and Robin Burger believes that this could present an opportunity for Bowen Island. At the April 8 council meeting, Burger presented a report on the second Homes for Less program, together with Charles Dobson, associate professor at Emily Carr University. They suggested that the Bowen Island Municipality could take a role in the project. “We have homeless people on Bowen and I would like to dedicate my presentation to all the local homeless people in the past as well as the present,” said Burger who is currently working on a community service practicum for a master’s degree in community psychology. She explained that the original Homes for Less project was built at the Emily Carr University site in 2008 and that four of the tiny homes were subsequently brought to Bowen by the Bowen Community Housing Association in an effort to highlight the reality of homelessness and create awareness of the need for affordable housing options. Burger presented statistics that show that 116,000 people in B.C. are in a housing crisis, with 11,000 being visibly homeless. “Another 65,000 people are at risk of homelessness – they spend more than 50 per cent of their income on rent and many live in substandard housing,” Burger said, adding that Homes for Less II’s goal is to design a unit adopting sustainable design practices using recycled material. Dobson explained that the original Homes for Less buildings were “just shells” and that this time, the emphasis is on designing a place for a single homeless person that is truck transportable and includes amenities for washroom, heating and other services to make the building livable. Dobson said, “I was impressed that Bowen stepped up to the plate when the tiny houses needed a home [in 2008].” continued, PAGE 2

Students at Island Pacific School re-imagine the story of Romeo and Juliet. More on page 12. Deb Stringfellow photo

Disposal of abandoned items depletes roads’ budget SUSANNE MARTIN EDITOR

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bandoned sofas, mattresses and TV sets have been spotted on Bowen Island not just near the roads, where they could potentially find a new

owner, but also in ditches and pushed over embankments, says Wil Hilsen, the Bowen Island Municipality’s manager of public works. “We want the public to know that there are options for disposing those items responsibly,” Hilsen said, adding that the

annual residential clean-up is scheduled for Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of the Bowen Island Recycling Depot on Mount Gardner Road. Bowen Waste Service will provide large containers where household items, appliances and continued, PAGE 2

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