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Rental debate rages on AND MORE MUNI MORSELS

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Tina Nielsen and Marysia McGilvray unveil the Nexwlélexwm sign at a the blessing ceremony last Sunday. Coral Louie, who made the sign watches from the right while Alroy “Bucky” Baker K’etximtn, speaker for the Squamish Nation, is on the left. Read the entire story and see more photos of the unveiling on page 5

Cut ferry sailings returned until Sept BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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After a brief hiatus, the Queen of Capilano’s 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. sailings on Sunday and Tuesday from Snug Cove and Horseshoe Bay returned June 19.

BC Ferries is restoring the runs until September following a deal with a province that will see the province paying for discretionary sailings cut as a COVID cost-saving measure. The province is providing funding of around $180,000 to restore cut sailings across 11 routes.

“Obviously we weren’t the only community that had been impacted by these

discretionary sailings being cut,” said Bowen Island Ferry Advisory Committee chair Melanie Mason Thursday. “So there’s been a lot of conversation happening…between the FACs and BC Ferries and a lot of discussion as well between BC Ferries and the ministry [of transportation].”

As it stands, the Sunday and Tuesday runs are to be removed after the Labour Day weekend as they’re still considered discretionary. Mason said that the FAC is still advocating to get the sailings restored permanently. “I’ve just gotten off a conference call with the minister [of transportation] and they are aware

that these types of sailings have fallen through the cracks.”

The discretionary sailings are leftover from sailings cut in 2014 but restored in 2017 and not added to the core services contract in 2019 when the province mandated that remainder of the sailings cut in 2014 be restored. There are therefore two regular Queen of Capilano runs not in the core service agreement.

Mason said that the FAC had heard concerns from the community––on Sundays from those wanting to travel within the province for a weekend and on Tuesdays from commuters. “I’m very grateful for this news,” she said.

The short-term rental debate raged on in the municipal public hearing on Zoom Monday evening.

Amendments to the Land Use Bylaw would see shortterm rental legalized across the island but with limitations in number of days a year rented out (120) and occupancy.

Amendments to business licensing would set the STR fee at $300 and require a designated person to respond to any complaints within two hours. Amendments to the bylaw notice enforcement bylaw would set penalties at $150 for a first offence and $500 for every one thereafter.

Like councillors have been, community was split on whether the regulations were too harsh or not harsh enough.

Concerns included lack of enforceability (is bylaw working at 11 p.m. on a Friday), that the onus is on neighbours to report neighbours possibly causing community division and concerns for neighbourhood character with a revolving door of occupants. The potential for negative effects on already stressed rental housing stock concerned some though opinion was split on if there should be a lower number of days one can rent out accommodation or outright prohibition (as exists across much of the island now).

Another suggestion was to limit the number of short-term rental licences issued.

On the other hand, several people advocated for removing the 120 day limitation entirely, arguing that the 120 days pushes rentals in the summer months and has the potential to limit tourism and tourism-related businesses. Jody Lorenz of Tourism Bowen Island suggested that instead of a blanket limitation, the muni could have commercial licence options for those who wish to rent out more than 120 days.

Public comments for the short-term rental bylaws are now closed and the bylaws pass to third reading.

During the regular council meeting: Council passed first reading on an Official Community Plan amendment to designate the entire municipality as a temporary use permit issuing area. While the municipality has long issued TUPs, under the provincial Local Government Act the OCP must designate a TUP area, which Bowen hasn’t done. Council also requested the Advisory Planning Commission review the definition of “short-term” in the context of TUPs given recent IDLC controversy.

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‘To be bold enough and care enough to challenge each other to change’ AND OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FROM FROM THE WELL’S COMPASSION MEDITATION SUNDAY BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Fifty Foxgloves placed at two-metre distances greeted the islanders who attended the Well’s sold-out compassion meditation on Snug Cove dock Sunday morning. The hour of music, stories, reflections and meditation was held in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Proceeds from the fundraiser went to community bail funds and Hogan’s Alley Society.

Ellen Hayakawa opened the event with an acknowledgment of the land and ocean where she invited islanders to learn how to pronounce Nexwlélexwm from Khelsílem’s YouTube video. “And to actually use the name when people ask you, where are you from and when they ask you about this island,” she said.

“That would be a next step in decolonization.”

Hayakawa said her primary motivator to stand in solidarity with BLM was that her parents and grandparents were among the 22,000 Canadians of Japanese ancestry from whom the government illegally took land and property and put in incarceration camps during the Second World War. As a result she must stand in solidarity with those who are experiencing racism.

“We’re also invited at this time to look at the racism that each of us has inside of us––and I don’t exclude myself from that––and the racism that exists here in our community.

“This is the dawning of a new day, of a new time when we also have to have conversations about our relationship to land, about ownership of land.

“We have to look at our colonial relationship to lands everywhere and think about how we give back to the land and water.

“I invite each person to use their passions, gifts and talents and co-create a community and a world where we recognize all people as Brothers and Sisters,” she later said.

Next, Phil Adkins of Cates Hill Chapel sang a spiritual song, accompanied by Michelle and Matthew Harrison and organizer Chantal Russell of the Well invited people to discuss what compassion means.

Karen Windeler shared her experiences after moving to the island with her husband and two children three years ago. “When I showed up here, I didn’t even see the house––I was like, babe, I trust you, just pick a house,” said Windeler. “I didn’t know what the people would be like on the island.”

“I’m used to being one of the only Black people in the room,” she told the crowd.

“I remember one day, my husband [who is white] and I were at this function and I said to him, ‘Just once, I’d like to see someone at one of these parties that looks like me,’” she said. “So it’s so cute. Every time we went somewhere, anytime my

husband saw a Black person, he’d be like, ‘babe, babe, a sister or a brother.’”

“It meant the world to me because he understood…you want to look over and you want to know that someone understands your plight in the world.”

Windeler also drew parallels between racism and COVID. “Racism is also a pandemic,” she said. “You feel unsafe being at a rally. Guess what, there are people like us that feel unsafe lot. Some people feel unsafe every single day of their lives.

“We have to teach our children very different lessons.”

Windeler recounted the experience of offering to check on her neighbour’s house when they were away but then seeing a car in the driveway when she went over. “I’m thinking, ‘[I’m] trespassing and…

Black.’

“So I went home and I sent my husband because I felt that it was safer for him to go than it was for me.

“These are the lessons that we teach our children.”

But Windeler said she looks to how much has changed to find hope.

“I try to be very positive. I think of all the things that we have achieved,” she said. “There is so much good in the world and I refuse to let it overshadow the bad that I see.”

“Yes, it’s hard. And I was angry.

And I was sad. When you see people on TV that look like you that are dying, just for the color of their skin.”

While calling out the biases and discrimination that she sees and engaging in so many difficult con-

versations is emotionally draining, Windeler said if she doesn’t do it, it doesn’t help.

These days, she calls out her friends. “It’s okay because challenging someone is not labelling someone. Because I know that people have good hearts. And because it’s so systemic, you don’t even know that you have these biases.

“Hate is learned, but you know what the good thing is? That it can be unlearned.”

“And so thank you for being here, I love Bowen Island. My family loves Bowen Island.”

Windeler also added later that calling each other out is a two-way street, “My husband and kids check me, call me out every time I say something biased,” she said. “We all have prejudices and everyone needs to be bold enough and care enough to challenge each other to change.

Charlie Segal and his glee choir sang a heartfelt rendition of “Start of something new” and his brother William Segal and a friend recited resonant quotes from famous Black thinkers, writers and activists including Malcolm X, Trevor Noah, Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass.

William and Charlie’s mother, Andrea Bastin, talked about her gratefulness when Windeler, as a Black woman, moved to the island as she and her husband had long talked about moving somewhere with more diversity (their sons are Black). “That becomes harder as you grow up––representation matters,” said Bastin.

Bastin invited the crowd to sit

with their discomfort––acknowledging her and their racism. “We’ve got maybe 400 years of catching up to do and that’s ok,” she said. “We can catch up. We can talk. We can be challenged.

“So now, it’s my job to unburden my friends of color, my children, so that their weight in this lifetime can be a little bit easy.”

Lusungu Kayani Stearns lead the Tonglen meditation near the conclusion of the event. “This meditation practice allows us to replace negativity with compassion,” she said. “We’re in turn stronger, more resilient, and awake in the midst of heartbreak.

“The tremendous energy felt in this space where Here has the power to heal.

“I invite you to stay awake. Keep your hearts open to the suffering.

“Being awake makes us perceptible to action.”

Watch the entire event on the Well’s Facebook page: @thewellonbowen.

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Fifty islanders socially spaced on the dock for Sunday’s event.

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VIEWPOINT EDITORIAL

Celebrating our grads Congratulations to everyone graduating this year!

The grad edition is my favourite edition of the year. This island has so many incredible young people and getting to help celebrate you is one of the great joys of this job.

The hope and excitement that leaps off the newsprint in the pages that follow has brought a lot of happiness to my week. I wish each and every one of you the best in what’s to come. It’s not going to be what you imagined but then again it never is.

Graduation is about leaving behind your old “normal” and stepping into a new stage of your life––looks like you have some company this year.

This year is unique but I hope you and your families are finding ways to celebrate what you’ve accomplished, and in a pandemic no less! To be honest, I can’t remember much about any of my graduation ceremonies or events, but I remember moments with my friends, celebratory dinners with my families and those moments of wild happiness (accompanied by moments of fear, sadness and indecision). Cancelled or altered ceremonies be darned, this is an important time and you deserve every second of celebration. Bask in it!

Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thank-you to those who helped with unveiling DEAR EDITOR: In typical island fashion, many people jumped on board to ensure the success of the most recent and most important Knowing Our Place event: the blessing of our new sign – Nexwlélexwm – the Squamish name for the island. The library has been supportive right from the beginning and was represented on Sunday by Tina Nielsen and Marysia McGilvray on the organizing team, and Elizabeth Bowker of the library board, who joined us as part of the Bowen Family. The arts council, also a dedicated supporter of Knowing Our Place, was represented by Jami Scheffer and Kathleen Ainscough on the organizing team. Gratitude to Jacqueline Massey, former arts council executive director who was there at the very beginning.

So many people to thank. Three years ago, when Rina Freed of Source Environmental Associates heard about the sign project, she offered to contribute to the cost and got the ball rolling. Coral Louie was hired to build the sign, to be positioned above our Bowen Island Welcomes You Sign. Thanks for a magnificent sign Coral. You looked beautiful wrapped up in that red blanket. Bowen Island Municipality stepped in to contribute to the cost, installation and maintenance of the sign.

To do a proper Coast Salish Ceremony you need commemorative blankets with a crest, designed by Ron Woodall and adapted for the digital world by Emily McCullum. Many thanks Ron and Emily! Thanks to Tiffany Scorer, a whiz with those Pantone colours. Deep gratitude for the Responsive Neighbourhood Small Grant Program (Bowen Island Community Foundation, the Bowen Municipality and the Vancouver Foundation) to pay for the blan-

kets. How do we bless a sign that’s up on a hill?

Trying to catch people as they fall off is bad form. Thanks to Kevin Toews of BIM Public Works for moving the sign – twice! – to the municipal dock for the ceremony.

Can’t give enough thanks to my friend, Brenda Morrison, who has been involved in many Coast Salish ceremonies, and graciously joined us to provide her expertise on purchasing, folding, and placing of blankets, and provided many of the beautiful things at the ceremony. And thanks to Brigitte Karst for hand knitting the lovely quarter bags.

Thanks to Zac and Renée at Tell Your Friends Café for creating a special menu for the occasion and to the anonymous donor who paid for the lunch. Thanks to Sheana Stevenson, crowd control expert. You were right! Bowen Islanders were kind enough to stay home and wait for the video that Meribeth Deen is making. Thanks Leo Pedersen, David McCullum and Frank Kemble for technical help, Len Gilday for taking photos and Constable Greg Copeland for standing by in your red serge. Thanks to the witnesses Chris Corrigan, Susan Munro, Mayor Gary Ander, Michael Yahgulanaas, Rob Gloor and Patrick Weiler. We know you were moved by the experience and will share this with your people.

Chen kwen mantumi to Alroy “Bucky” Baker K’etximtn, Stewart Sempulyan Gonzales, Mary Capilano, and Dennis Joseph, the Squamish Seagoing Canoe Family for making the trip to the island. You honoured us with your presence and your powerful ceremony. We are grateful for your generosity of spirit, and look forward to your return home. Very soon.

Pauline Le Bel

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Bittersweet Ruddy news

DEAR EDITOR: It was with mixed emotions that I announced to staff last week that the Ruddy Potato has entered into an agreement of purchase to sell all of its assets and undertakings to Summer Equinox Fine Foods Inc. The Ruddy Potato began as Dunfield and Daughters in a tiny space in lower Snug Cove. In 2001 and after I purchased the business, the Ruddy opened its present location in the beautiful custom-built building in Village Square. The Ruddy Kitchen on Sunset Road was added in 2007. For the past 19 years my general manager, Ellen MacIntosh, has dedicated her career to overseeing the operations of the company and to advise and guide me in developing the architecture of the business to ensure growth and financial health of the Ruddy. Known as the “community store with a heart” the Ruddy employs a full complement of local island staff and I am very proud of the company we have all built together. A company like ours doesn’t just happen. It takes hard work and real commitment.

The closing sale transactions will be completed Aug. 9 and Bowen resident Tony Davis will take the helm on Aug 10. Summer Equinox Fine Foods Inc. will continue doing business as “The Ruddy Potato” and all staff have been offered an employment opportunity under the new ownership.

I’m excited about the potential this sale brings for the business, and optimistic that the new owner will share in our goals and vision, and continue to provide essential services to the customers who rely on us. I’m also excited to be able to begin a new chapter in my life and I will take fond memories with me and treasure the friendships I have made.

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‘Beginning of a healing journey’: sign blessing PAULINE LE BEL

Knowing Our Place

I’ve just returned from the Nexwlélexwm sign blessing ceremony, and I want to share my experience with you and what I learned.

Because of the pandemic there was no physical contact, but I witnessed what I can only describe as a formal handshake between Skwxwú7mesh Nation and islanders.

Four members of the Squamish Seagoing Canoe Family (Alroy “Bucky” Baker K’etximtn, Stewart Sempulyan Gonzales, Mary Capilano, and Dennis Joseph) arrived off the noon ferry to do the ceremony. The first visit of the Canoe Family was in 2006 for the Voices in the Sound Festival and they paddled over in their 45-foot cedar dugout canoe. What an honour it was today, to place the red blanket on my friend “Bucky,” the speaker for the Squamish Nation, placing it in the traditional way so his heart would be protected, the headband around his forehead keeping his mind focused on the thoughts of the host family.

The purpose of the ceremony was to separate the carver - Coral Louie from the sign, which now belongs to the community. This also frees Coral to work on her next project. I placed the blanket, according to tradition, around her shoulders for protection and recognition. The blanket says we love her and want to care for her. The Coast Salish take their artists seriously.

According to Squamish Nation tradition, witnesses are invited to take in the ceremony and bring it back to their communities. Near the conclusion of the ceremony each spoke from the heart about what it all meant to them and how they will bring it back to their people and their communities.

The sign, described by Bucky as “a beautiful spirit” for which we are all responsible, is a visible manifestation of the desire for restoration with the people on whose unceded land we thrive.

“A powerful reminder of where we live,” said Chris Corrigan, a friend whom I called as witness to the ceremony.

“An amazing statement,” said Mayor Gary Ander, another called to witness.

“As we invite people onto the island, it says we are together on the sign, together in our thoughts.” Next time you go to the Cove, pause and gaze at the two names for our island - Bowen and Nexwlélexwm - co-existing.

As a witness, Michael Yahgulanaas, called the sign “a big step forward, with another step to follow, I hope to be around for that next step.” I hope you are, Michael, and me too. We still have lots of work to do.

If only there was some kind of medicine to keep your eyes dry at times like these. I managed –– with some difficulty –– until Dennis Joseph spoke as a witness. I will leave the last words to this Squamish Nation Elder and Knowledge Keeper, who carries two traditional names: a Hawaiian name meaning man with a strong heart and Xwechtàal, a Squamish name meaning serpent slayer.

“A healing journey has begun with this sign,” Dennis said. “We are no longer strangers. By sharing our ancestral name, our ancestors will know you from this day forward… A mighty bridge is being built and we have a foundation to work from.” Dennis expressed gratitude for the invitation, for being part of the ceremony. “It’s like coming home,” he said. “We are home together.”

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Brenda Morrison, Mary Capilano, Dennis Joseph, Alroy “Bucky” Baker K’etximtn and Pauline Le Bel.

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In my previous article, I wrote that the sign meant we were “reclaiming part of our history.” It sounded good, positive. But in conversation with Michael Yahgulanaas, he pointed out, gently, that reclaiming was not the best choice of words. He helped me see that settlers have done way too much “claiming” – of land, of title, status, and the right to decision making. A shift in my thinking and my language was in order.

As a writer, it is my responsibility to take a good look at the lens through which I see the world. When it comes to writing about Indigenous people, that means understanding the colonial bias I inherited, as well as my privilege in having my voice heard. Indigenous people take their teaching from the land.

So I considered the good things taking place in Howe Sound/Atl’ka7tsem: the restoration of the waters, the ongoing restoration of the Squamish Estuary, restoration of fish habitat. There’s my word.

Knowing Our Place, our reconciliation initiative which hosted the ceremony, exists to foster the restoration of relationship between Squamish Nation and islanders. No claiming or reclaiming necessary, but a humble acceptance of their history as our history.

––Pauline Le Bel

David Michael Parkin June 13, 1941 – June 8, 2020

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Dennis Joseph (foreground) and Stewart Sempulyan Gonzales

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Pauline Le Bel and Coral Louie LEN GILDAY PHOTO

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

David was not your average bloke. A man who liked to figure things out, he was largely self-taught. After short stints at university and art school, he went on to design and build houses for clients and family, including the Gabriola cabin that he and Dan built for their parents, Dorothy and Paul. Then there were experimental projects: a tiny, one-man-and-adog houseboat on a Bailey pontoon, and his original hand-built full-size prototype for a sportscar. When he and Elaine bought a rundown little house on Bowen Island in 1991, he transformed it over the next decades into the charming and quirky Onimod Cottage, a name he coined to describe the backwards domino effect of wanting to fix something, but before that you need to fix something else, and so on and so on, before getting to the task at hand.

Word play was one of his great pleasures and he reveled in a good pun run.

As a young man he wrote poetry; later it was a collection of short stories about his adventures that he titled “CV”. They were always in demand at the Bowen kitchen junkets, the first of which was held at Onimod. He mined his youthful experiences as short order cook, mill worker, and coffee house proprietor, as well as travels across North America, hitching in Australia, Fiji and Europe, and, memorably, stowing away to England on a cruise ship and returning gratis in the ship’s brig.

His keen wit, a talent for observation, and compassion for the human condition informed David’s writing. His explorations and a lifetime study of metaphysics underpinned his personal philosophy, which he enjoyed sharing. Good-natured and generous, he would also call out bigotry or hypocrisy as he saw it.

David loved his life and didn’t let go easily. He battled the progression of COPD, giving in at each stage only when he had to and maintaining his sense of humour to the end. He died as he wished to, peacefully at home at Onimod Cottage with Elaine, his partner of 40 years, by his side.

David was deeply loyal to his loved ones and was loved in return: Elaine; Linnea and Heather; Jed and TJ; Athena; his grandchildren Melina, Quincy, Beck and Maeve; Julia and other extended family; and many dear friends.

We miss him greatly. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Eliot

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Island Pacific School’s grade nine graduating class adapted to COVID restrictions with this socially distanced photo in the IPS yard. Congratulations to all!

(From left) Noah Robichaud, Kole Bentley, Mike Fields, Hasina Warren, Lucy Chase, Kai Scarfe, Molly Quarry, Dylan Pike, Nicholas Walker, Jackson Jones, Nathan Taylor, Molly Cole, Roma Gurney, Matt Fields, Sienna De Vries, Anna Bryan, Lauren Catchlove, Malia Van Strien, Sabrina Glave, Briar Blomberg, Casey Wright, Megan Wall, Claire Squire and Jewel Minoose Atop the Stawamus Chief in grade seven: Jackson Jones, Hasina Warren, Lucy Chase, Molly Quarry, Nathan Taylor, Nicholas Walker, Briar Blomberg, Kole Bentley, Anna Bryan, Megan Wall, Malia Van Strien, Sabrina Glave, Claire Squire, Kai Scarfe, Mike Fields, Jewel Minoose, Noah Robichaud, Dylan Pink (front row) Casey Wright, Molly Cole, Sienna De Vries, Roma Gurney and Lauren Catchlove

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Grad formal: Molly Quarry, Malia Van Strien, Nathan Taylor, Nicholas Walker, Casey Wright, Hudson Stiver, Lauren Catchlove (middle row) Jewel Minoose, Claire Squire, Roma Gurney, Anna Bryan, Molly Cole (bottom row) Elisabeth Herrington, Briar Blomberg, Lucy Chase, Hasina Warren and Jackson Jones

Over the years...this year’s high school graduating class Courtesy of Claire Squire

Ashala Matthew was a young woman who grew up on Bowen Island in the 80’s and 90’s. She was brave, witty, irreverent, beautiful and bright. Tragically, she passed away just before her graduation. I my mind, Ashala is forever young and following her post-HS dream: kicking around in a VW van exploring the highways and byways of Latin America. ––Wendy Holm foxgloves that twenty-four foxgloves that now — as foxgloves stand sudden and amazing smile… years ago spring optimistically rushes in glorious attention along i can’t yet pick the foxgloves August 4, 1979 - June 24, 1996 fell all over themselves volheadlong into summer and our road ways, that before you unteering to grace the earth is lush and the days it’s almost as if the tall ones left used to tumble out from i can’t yet pick the foxgloves — a foxglove fantasy — are long and warm — become you, every container we that before you CNIB’s Lodge by the Sea fill the island (evermoreso) standing there, thumb out, could find this time of year, left used to tumble out from that bright sunshiny morning with your (incredible) pres(amber) eyes meeting eyes, filling our home with every container we when we all tried our very ence. the epitome of youthful their beauty… could find this time of year, best and your (equally incredible) insouciance. filling our home with to begin to say goodbye… absence… bowen’s everychild, and with surely, something deserves their beauty… to stay… wild and free? this time of year, when the that

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GRADUATING CLASSES 2020 SFU. Thank you to all those on Bowen who made a difference during Natalie’s younger years and all those at UVIC who helped her grow into adulthood. Congratulations Natalie with love from all your families.

more proud of the amazing individual he is turning into and look forward to seeing him accomplish his dreams.

The sky is the limit Wilson and we love you with all our hearts! Mom and Dad

Emma Reynolds

Tara Cole

Natalie Helm

Natalie grew up attending BCC, BICS, IPS and WVSS. Natalie has benefitted from friends, teachers, sports coaches and the island community that provided such a strong head-start and good head on her shoulders.

Natalie spent the next six years with worldwide travel, working and completing a BA, history at UVIC in June, 2019. She had a wonderful time at UVIC and was on the executive of the Surf Club. Natalie has returned to Van and is working for a human resources consultancy and has almost completed her Human Resources Management Certificate at

Tara graduated from Ryerson University this winter with a major in communication and design. She is beginning to pursue a career in branding and creative direction.

Tara would like to thank her family and friends for the continuous love and support throughout her years of education.

Wilson Dives

Wilson would like to thank his Mom, Dad, aunt Ceci, extended family, Uncle Tony and personal and family friends for their love, help, and support. Wilson is a smart, caring, loyal individual who loves sports particularly playing soccer. He helped his teams win three championships in their division as part of the WVSC. He is excited about starting work, travel, and study marketing. He loves and appreciates the privilege it is to have grown on Bowen Island and being part of such a supportive and caring community.

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We’re so proud of our Bowen Grads!

Emma, daughter of Neil and Helen Reynolds from The Village Baker, hopes to become a veterinary technician in the future.

She is happy not to get up at 6 a.m. for school for her gap year.

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I’ve loved every minute of my years so far on Bowen.

From the time I moved here, my family was a large part of the community. I would never trade the experience of spending my teenage years on Bowen for anything. I always struggled in school, especially when I went off to high school. This year was different I really wanted to make a change and was able to do just that. I graduated with honours with distinction and got into the university of my dreams. Despite all the trying times I would never take anything back as I have grown into a person I can be proud of.

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CONGRATULATIONS Chai Graham

Take advantage of the small opportunities life drops on our lap and the big ones that may change our lives forever.

Katelyn Honing

I graduated from Mulgrave school and have received a scholarship from the University of Victoria where I will be attending school this coming fall. I will be studying marine biology.

Mason Enemark-Mullie

To my parents and my community, thank you for showing me the depth and truth of the idiom “The world is your oyster.” That seizing every opportunity that life presents us will help us grow as people and eventually, discover our place in the world. As 2020 brings a rapidly changing social climate, opportunities are abundant, and so I would like to invite my community on Bowen Island to keep that idiom in mind in the coming months.

Megan Wall

Attending Sutherland Secondary in North Van for my final two years of high school was both a valuable and memorable experience, involving a lot of personal growth and development. I will be taking a year off, hoping to visit Europe in the fall.

After travelling abroad, I plan to get my bachelor’s degree and eventually go to law school.

Thanks to all my teachers and staff at Sutherland who made my time enjoyable.

Thanks to my parents for all their support. I wish everyone the best in the future.

Chai would like to thank his Thai and Canadian friends and family and all of his amazing teachers for helping him successfully complete his high-school years.

Chai hopes to work through his gap year, wait out COVID and then return to Thailand to visit family as soon as possible.

Then off to university in the future!

Sabrina Glave

Thank you to all of my friends for the laughs and to my family for always supporting me. I plan to take a gap year to live and work in Kyoto, Japan, and then study biochemistry at either York University in England or the University of Toronto. I feel lucky to have grown up on Bowen and will never forget the adventures I had at BICS and in our caring community. Thank you to Bowen for being the best place I could ask for to grow up in, and I look forward to the next chapter in my life!

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GRADUATING CLASSES 2020 Molly Cole

Kole Bentley

Hudson Stiver

Bowen has been one of the defining aspects of my K-12 experience. Bowen’s tightknit relationships, ever-present beauty, and community spirit have allowed me to develop and strengthen the virtues of compassion, self-pride and confidence. I would like to thank my family for their overwhelming support. I would also like to thank my fellow Bowen grads for sticking by my side through all of the ups and downs we’ve faced, and for making my past 12 years an absolute blast. In the fall I will be heading to London, ON to attend Huron University College’s Social Science Program.

Huge congratulations Kole!

To you and all your classmates graduating this spring from Rockridge. From those initial sailings across in grade 8 to finishing grade 12 during such a difficult time. From your first job at the Tuscany and then at Cypress. From BICS to Rockridge and on to university. We’re all very proud of all the effort you have put into completing grade 12 and look forward to watching you accomplish all the goals you set for yourself in the future. With lots of love Mom, Dad, Kaia and Trey.

Drake Ogden Nickle

Drake Ogden Nickle we are so proud of you! You have set goals and made them happen. Your career path as a diesel marine mechanic can take you anywhere in the world and you will always have a job. You have been a friend to many and always there for when your friends and family need you. You are intelligent and witty, always making us laugh. Keep making it happen! Love Oydis, Miles, Ellen, Nana and Chief

Molly would like to thank her family for supporting her throughout her life while giving unconditional inspiration and love. She’ll treasure the experiences she gained while living on Bowen and the whole community for painting a picture of kindness and spirit that kept her going throughout her education. Molly plans to attend Ryerson’s film studies program this fall. She wants to say congratulations to everyone for completing school during this troubling time.

She’s excited to see all her fellow grads at the pub in the coming summers.

Molly Quarry

Molly had an amazing childhood on Bowen and time attending Rockridge and Burnaby Central. Molly plans to study and play soccer at the U of Nebraska where she’ll be doing a health sciences major and psychology minor. While in NE, Molly will also compete in the prestigious BIG 10 conference.

Molly would like to thank all those in the community who’ve given a smile along the way or a coaching tip or two. Here’s to this amazing group of grads, we sure have had some good times. Best of luck everyone!

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CONGRATULATIONS

Elisabeth Herrington

attending Huron at Western University in London, ON to study business for the following four years.

Anna would like to thank her friends and family for supporting her throughout her years at BICS and Rockridge.

In the fall, she is planning to attend Queens University to study in the Faculty of Science.

She is grateful for growing up on Bowen and for all the amazing memories.

I go to Rockridge and we celebrated our graduation by having a socially distanced ceremony on June 5. This fall I will be attending UBC (online of course), where prior to COVID I planned to live in residence. I am excited to see how the next few months of first year will play out. I know it will be very different from how we were all expecting, but I’m sure memories and friendships will still be made.

Emily Ockeloen

Rockridge Rocked! Big shout out to all the Grads of 2020.

We did it!

A future with a microphone somewhere in it will be paramount. Thanks to everyone who supported this journey.

Ryan Hanen

Ryan Hanen has lived on Bowen his whole life, where his family has lived dating back to 1934. Ryan would like to thank his friends and family for supporting him through his whole high school journey. Next year he will be taking a gap year to work at the Ruddy Potato and (hopefully) travel to Australia if travel restrictions are lifted.

After his gap year he will be

Congratulations to the grads of 2020 I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

Casey Wright

Casey would like to thank her friends and family for their encouragement throughout her time at BICS and Rockridge.

She is so thankful that she grew up on Bowen and will never forget the friendships and memories she created here.

Casey is attending Saint Francis Xavier University in the fall to study Aquatic Resources and play rugby.

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GRADUATING CLASSES 2020 University in the fall to study sciences.

Thanks for everything Bowen!

roots. I will spend the next year working and saving up for traveling. Congrats to my fellow COVID-19 grads...we will have a big party soon.

Lauren Catchlove

Ava Gruft

Lauren has lived on Bowen island for 15 years.

She is looking forward to taking a year off to travel and work before deciding on her post secondary studies the following year.

Claire Squire

Claire would like to foremost thank her family and friends for all their love and support.

She would also like to thank her teachers for their guidance and inspiration over the years, from BICS to present.

Claire is so grateful to have been raised as a part of such a tight knit community and will forever cherish calling an amazing place like Bowen home.

Claire plans to attend Queens

Ava’s future plans are to keep dancing and designing. Ava received an award for mastery in fashion design, and was awarded a district scholarship to help her achieve her future goals.

Briar Blomberg

I spent the past 17 years growing up on Bowen and I wouldn’t change that for anything in the world. From playing in the back forest to countless unforgettable summer night bonfires, I enjoyed it all and will cherish these memories forever. I will like to thank my friends, family and everyone else that’s been a part of my journey. There is no doubt in my mind that I will always make time to come back to my Bowen

Jackson Jones

Jackson is graduating from Rockridge Secondary School and plans to attend post-secondary school in September. Thank you to his teachers from BICS, IPS and Rockridge. He would also like to thank the many people of Bowen who have supported him in his passion for all things bikes, motorcycles and cars. And of course, many thanks to his family and friends for all of their love and support throughout his years growing up on Bowen.

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Congratulations!

BIMS would also like to congratulate all the island’s graduates, both young and old as each steps bravely onto a new path, taking an exciting journey into whatever life offers!

Well done.

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GRADUATING CLASSES 2020 Ewan Roden-Buchanan

Congratulations Ewan! We are all very proud of you and look forward to seeing what you do with your future. May this be the beginning of a long, happy life, full of friendship, laughter and adventure.

It is a joy to watch your character grow every day.

Congratulations grade sevens!

SARAH HAXBY

Community School Coordinator

This has been a year like no other, and although we have not had the opportunity to create the traditional BICS grade seven photo in person, we have held an online event and slideshow, as well as kept

the tradition of having a yearbook. This year is a very special edition with and abundance of photo content thanks to the generous and enthusiastic grade seven parents, staff and parent volunteer Kristin Jarvis who took on the big job of doing the layout of the yearbook. All the BICS grade seven students have the opportunity to have a wonderful yearbook as a keepsake of this year, and of all their years at elementary school (and a guess-that-baby photo

page too!) Filled with fun quotes, and photos of them growing up, the yearbook is a beautiful way to feel connected and to remember their years at BICS, to reflect on their lives and the to remember the first chapters of their education.

A big thank you to everyone who helped to create the yearbook and congratulations to all of the grade sevens. We wish you every success as you continue your educational journey to high school!

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Sink into community seaweed challenge

Any islander can be a citizen scientist thanks to the iNaturalist app

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A survey of seaweed diversity and abundance on Vancouver and Bowen Island shorelines hasn’t been done since the mid ’80s. Boat traffic and globalisation has increased dramatically since then, bringing in and killing off many species of seaweed.

As a biology student at UBC, I’m working with my phycology (study of seaweeds) professor, Dr. Bridgette Clarkson on such a study this summer and we need your help.

I would like to invite all of you to help participate in science to help our coastal waters by collecting seaweed photos and uploading them to iNaturalist (a free app available for Android and Apple). The objective is to create a summary of all the species in the area and where exactly they are found. Typical maps of species habitats are very vague. Species may be listed as being found from Alaska down to the Baha Peninsula, but the individuals may be picky about where they live. If you have ever been out to Tofino, you’ll have noticed that the types of habitats and species therin can be very different from those on Bowen. There are even noticeable differences between places on Bowen. The Cove has fairly different speciation compared to Hood Point.

Using iNaturalist, anybody can contribute to and collect data for the scientific community while also learning something.

The app is very simple, even for elementary school aged children. You find a seaweed on the beach, photograph it, then use the app to choose from its suggested IDs, and share. Datapoints such as GPS coordinates, time of day or year and the identification (or observations) are all kept together and uploaded to a massive database, which is then connected to an even bigger international database (GBIF). Your phone automatically collects all of this data but if you don’t have internet, or have location services turned off, adding these points of data is still very easy and quick.

You can use iNaturalist for identifying any form of life - seaweed, trees, bugs, fish, birds- basically anything you can get a good photo of. I want to see how many observations the Bowen Island community can make this year. I challenge Bowen Island to make 500 observations of seaweeds this summer.

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UBC biology student Tobin Sparling is asking islanders for help with a seaweed diversity study this summer.

Even if someone has already identified the one you find, it’s still valuable information.

Whether scouring the beach or on an evening amble through the forest, iNaturalist drives you to find different types of life, not just the common ones. You can observe species in your backyard (be sure to mark any ‘captive’––i.e. plants in your garden––observations as such), or seaweed species on the beach.

Please, introduce this app to your kids, your friends, your students, anyone and everyone. Citizen science becomes more effective as more people take part.

I would like to mention as a heads up that many species of seaweed can look very different from one another and still be the same species (similar to dogs) and some species of seaweed may look very similar but be completely different species (similar to mushrooms). If this happens, please label your observation as best you can as this will result in more people having the chance of reviewing your observation, this could be as vague as “algae.” Anything helps. Observations that have not been reviewed by other people won’t be uploaded to the databases until they have been reviewed.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions: tobinsparling@gmail.com.

Thanks everyone, I look forward to seeing your observations!

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