Bowen Island Undercurrent February 26 2016

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2016 VOL. 42, NO. 56

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The frogs are back

Bidding frenzy raises the roof at art auction LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Marc Baur is very pleased to have helped raise funds for the Arts Council. The picture that was auctioned was only a fraction of the size of the one behind him but was created with the same inspiration and technique.

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Input wanted on transportation LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Bowen Island Municipality has launched a program to engage the community in decision-making around an Integrated Transportation Master Plan.

Looking for a way to create a more efficient and sustainable transportation system, the municipality wants input planning for active and alternative transportation, transit, regional connections, roads and parking. It takes a few minutes to join the PlaceSpeak system but this may ideally reduce the chance of a single user posing as a majority by submitting

multiple responses.

Once you are into the system you can choose the area or region, or topics you would like to follow. The subjects currently up for discussion include: Bowen’s transportation plan; greenhouse gas emissions; improving bus service; walking around Bowen; and cycling on Bowen.

Currently discussions meant to focus on transportation issues range from a comment about wanting taller buildings in the cove to a point made about looking at new technologies in eco-transportation. Someone else joined the commen-

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There were a few surprises in store for people who showed up at the Art Gallery on Friday night last weekend. For one thing, they had come to bid on small, unsigned paintings, the artists, supposedly a secret. Naturally, some artists have a signature style or favoured theme that makes it easy to guess which painting came from their hands. Nonetheless, there are always surprises, which is a big part of the evening’s fun.

The auction drew a sell-out crowd as it does year after year, but this year, the 12th annual Minis Gala, the sales broke all records.

With bidding going higher than usual on three of the most sought-after paintings, the artists and patrons raised $10,000.

Two paintings the size of a paperback novel went for $500, and the highest-priced painting, done by Marc Baur, went for $700.

Art at these auctions may sell because a bidder wants to be supportive of a friend’s artwork, it depicts a relatable scene for them, or the colours resonate with the bidder. A professional artist may see his or her art sold for less than a weekend painter’s work.

Auctions like this are somewhat unpredictable.

The evening, which started with wine, snacks and piano music, moved quickly into the auctioneering, led by David Cameron.

Friends began bidding against friends while others watched, curious to see who would go the furthest with their bids.

Baur was there, watching the process unfold as his painting came up for bid. “This was a real thrill for me. There were several people aggressively bidding back and forth. It was kind of funny.”

One of the bidders, Doug Leishman, already owned a few works by Baur and was clearly a fan.

Baur’s work stood out with its bright colours and unusual technique. Baur uses fibrous coloured paper layered onto the canvas instead of paint. Based on an art form called Chigiri-e that originated in Japan, the paper isn’t pasted. Instead, the pieces of roughly torn paper are soaked in a polymer before Baur applies them to canvas. The process builds layers drenched in rich and brilliant, high-gloss colour. Baur says the technique isn’t true to the Japanese art form in that his work is “highly impressionistic.”

From a distance, the work looks painted, but upon approach, the texture shows itself to be different from the painted works.

Baur was an actor for 30 years, and prior to that worked as an art director for film after studying at the college that is Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He only began to really explore the possibility of being a full-time artist after arriving on Bowen in 2011.

He credits the Arts Council for, “putting a boot in my back,”

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NEWS from

Municipal Hall MEETING CALENDAR March 2, 2016 10:00 AM On-Island Composting Facility Working Group

March 8, 2016 5:00 PM Internet Connectivity Working Group

Ö REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Ö C O M M U N I T Y R E C R E AT I O N

Bowen Island Municipality is seeking proposals from suitably qualified consultants for Project Management Services to work with BIM on the planning, site analysis, servicing requirements, transportation access, conceptual design and funding capacity leading to the construction of the Bowen Island Community Centre. Copies of the Request for Proposal may be obtained from www.bimbc.ca or on BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca

Ö PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Notice that a public open house will be held:

March 2, 2016 9:30 AM Economic Development Committee All meetings are held in BIM Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

Monday, March 7, 2016 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Municipal Hall The purpose of the Open House is to provide information and receive feedback on a proposed Official Plan Amendment and Rezoning by Snug Cove House for the property at 1080 Miller Road (between Bowen Court and Miller Road). To read the full notice please visit the BIM website at www.bimbc.ca

Ö 2016 B U D G E T C O N S U LTAT I O N Bowen Island Municipality is launching a public consultation to obtain feedback from Bowen Island residents and non-resident property owners on the 2016 – 2020 Financial Plan.

BIM is using PlaceSpeak for this consultation. To connect and engage on this topic, please go to: www.bimbc.ca/content/public-consultations Along with PlaceSpeak, BIM will host a public information session: Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:30 PM Municipal Hall

PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS Integrated Transportation Master Plan www.transportationbowen.com

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COMMITTEE SEEKING NEW MEMBERS

The Cove Bay Water System Local Advisory Committee is seeking new members to provide advice and recommendations to Council on the water supply and distribution system in Cove Bay. To read the full terms of reference, please visit the committee page on the BIM website at www.bimbc.ca.

If you are interested in joining, please download a committee application form from www.bimbc.ca, and submit your application by Friday, March 11, 2016 to Stef Shortt, Committee Clerk at sshortt@bimbc.ca.

You may also obtain a paper copy of the application form from Municipal Hall at 981 Artisan Lane.

Ö N A P T E P I N F O R M AT I O N SESSIONS

The Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program is available on Bowen Island. Through NAPTEP, landowners who permanently protect natural features on their land with a conservation covenant can apply to receive up to a 65% exemption on their annual property taxes.

A public information session will be held: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:30 PM Municipal Hall

Budget Consultation Public Information Session www.bimbc.ca/content/ public-consultations

Ö C O V E B AY WAT E R

Please RSVP by e-mail to itfmail@islandstrust.bc.ca, or by phone to 250-405-5186 (toll free through Enquiry BC at 1-800-663-7867).

For more information, please go to www.islandstrustfund.bc.ca/naptep A webinar option is also available on March 8, 2016 at 6:30 PM. Register online at www.islandstrust.bc.ca/naptep.

Ö C L I M AT E A C T I O N DISCUSSION

Join Councillors Maureen Nicholson and Sue Ellen Fast for an informal evening discussion to help provide feedback on phase 2 of the Province’s Climate Leadership Plan. This discussion follows up on an August 2015 session where participants reviewed both the draft plan from the Province and climate actions we could take at a community level.

Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Municipal Hall If you wish to attend, please RSVP by March 1, 2016 to bim@bimbc.ca using “Climate Action Discussion” in the subject line.

For more information on phase 2, including the 32 recommendations being considered, please go to www.engage.gov.bc.ca/climateleadership/phase2

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Wild things: Northern red-legged frog BILLI GOWANS CONTRIBUTOR

Why did the frog cross the road? To get to breeding habitat on the other side! This is happening now at several locations on Bowen Island because the road extends through the migration routes of amphibians moving from moist terrestrial areas to the ponds, wetlands or streams where they gather to mate. This is a pretty strong drive, as you can imagine.

We have two species of frogs; the Pacific chorus frog (Pseudacris regilla) and the Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora). Chorus frogs are small (approximately five centimetres) with a black mask from nose to shoulder, and may be green to brown or bronze in color. These are the frogs you hear croaking in the evening; I could even hear “ribbit-ribbit” in my yard during this past winter. The redlegged frog is medium-sized (seven to 10 cm) with a brown or olive-brown upper body and black freckles. There are distinct folds extending from the eye down the back, a dark eye mask and pale upper jaw stripe. The undersides of the rear legs are orange-red; hence their name. They are active both day and night and blend

well into their surroundings.

Home, for most of the year, is a moist forest, shrubby area or streamside with abundant woody debris and understory vegetation. Adults stay sheltered here to keep their bodies damp and cool, avoid predation, and find prey such as slugs, spiders and insects.

Red-legged frogs aren’t sexually mature until three to four years of age. They are generally not very vocal, although in the breeding season, males attract nearby females by calling from underwater with a quiet, stuttering sound at one pitch – “uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.” Mating typically begins in February, or when ambient temperatures are ≥ 4 C, and lasts only a couple of weeks. When water temperatures reach about 6 C, females lay eggs in large jellylike clusters, attaching them to aquatic plants below the surface. The embryos hatch into tadpoles in three to five weeks.

In late summer, after months of grazing on algae, the little tadpoles transform into tiny froglets only two cm long. This metamorphosis is a significant life stage and, those froglets that survived as embryos and then tadpoles, are now vulnerable as they emerge from aquatic areas to begin life on land.

We have red-legged frogs

in several aquatic areas of the island, and because they are very sensitive to change in a range of environmental conditions, they can be good indicators of ecosystem health.

Population declines from the effects of urbanization include habitat loss and alteration, predation by invasive species and pets, contaminants and road mortality. Red-legged frogs are considered a vulnerable species at risk in B.C. They are also listed in the federal Species at Risk Act as a species of special concern.

Frog migrations occur when adults are moving to and from preferred breeding sites, and when froglets are dispersing from these streams, ponds and wetlands to sheltered forest habitats. At this time they can be exposed to predation and road mortality. Key migration areas of Bowen Island include Mount Gardner Road at Killarney Lake, Grafton Road at Grafton Lake, Cowan Point Road at Josephine Lake and on Bowen Bay Road past Evergreen Lane. At this time of year, and during wet summer nights, when frogs and salamanders are faced with crossing our busy roads, please drive cautiously so they can also get safely where they need to go.

Billi Gowans is an ecologist.

This is an adult red-legged frog found at the trail edge moving away from Killarney Lake into the upland forest in late summer. BILLI GOWANS photo

Share your views on the draft Bowen Island Municipality is launching a public consultation to obtain feedback from Bowen Island residents and non-resident property owners on the 2016-2020 Financial Plan.

The Five-Year Financial Plan contemplates all expected revenues and expenditures in 2016 and the subsequent four years, as required by the province, identifying the ways and means to achieve

the municipality’s financial objectives and strategic priorities as determined by council.

The plan includes an effective tax increase of 2.67 per cent to help fund capital projects (such as a replacement fire hall and community centre), while continuing to provide adequate funds to meet the future renewal and replacement needs of community infrastructure.

For this consultation,

BIM is using PlaceSpeak, an online platform that allows them to connect with residents to gather feedback and share information.

Along with PlaceSpeak, BIM will host a public information session at Municipal Hall on March 3 at 5:30 p.m.

To connect and engage on the budget consultation topic, please go to the BIM Public Consultations webpage at bimbc.ca/ content/public-consultations.

PlaceSpeak has the potential to be Artist inspired by ‘spiritual mystique’ engaging and thought-provoking

The annual art auction is a sold-out event every year and this crowd was no different. JACQUELINE MASSEY photo

from PAGE 1 and encouraging him to put on a show. Prior to that, he says, he didn’t seriously cast his eye on painting for a living. He put on a joint show with David Graff from Gilt Studio and sold all his paintings. He did another successful joint show with Janet Esseiva and Georgina Farah called Vanishing, a response to climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

Baur’s dad, Albert Baur, was a successful artist, who studied with Frederick Varley

of the Group of Seven, and was inspired, like his son, by nature.

“The island is really my muse,” says Baur. Friday’s bidding war also inspired Baur.

“You need these milestones to keep going,” he says.

Baur has sold his work in a number of galleries but reflects on the challenge of being successful in the art world. He talks about the difference in producing for a solo show as compared to one work on commission, on agents, social media and marketing. “It’s a steep learning curve.”

Baur talks about the business side of art but looks out at the ocean and trees as he talks.

He says he is highly attuned to the energy of the land. He would like to lead forest walks and help others feel that physical and spiritual connection to the trees and the land. Baur runs workshops called Being Real, and is looking forward to offering some “forest therapy,” to people to help them feel the inspiration that he feels from Bowen’s “spiritual mystique.”

It’s an inspiration that comes through in each of his artworks.

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tary wanting to talk about water issues and drought.

PlaceSpeak allows you to explore consultation subjects beyond Bowen Island by topic or region, from transportation to economic development. You are free to join any discussion.

Once into the Place Speak portal you can follow off-Bowen headings like one on the women’s economic business advisory council. For instance, WEBAC wants to hear from women entrepreneurs in British Columbia.

WEBAC is a platform to have your voice heard so you can improve economic outcomes through access to markets, capital and finance, leadership development and skilled labour, technology and training to build your

business and strengthen the B.C. economy.

Its objective is to enhance economic growth for families and businesses throughout British Columbia by creating an environment that supports businesses owned or led by women, as well as women professionals and business leaders.

With a large population of women entrepreneurs on Bowen, this could lead to some topics worth pursuing.

At this point islanders are just beginning to engage in PlaceSpeak on the topic of transportation. It has the potential to be engaging and thought-provoking and a great opportunity to influence the future transportation possibilities. To register and begin engaging in the Bowen Island Integrated Transportation Master Plan dialogue, go to transportationbowen.com to register.

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Art inspires After all the great thoughts we heard from Merran Smith last week about clean energy prospects for B.C., it was extremely disappointing to then hear that our provincial government has tabled a budget that appears to ignore recommendations from their Climate Leadership Team and instead keeps chasing after the fossil fuel industry and LNG. On a more positive note, the Arts Council hosted a successful and fun fundraiser over the weekend and I got a chance to talk to one of the artists, Marc Baur, about art and inspiration. I also had a chance to talk with another local entrepreneur, Jan Stevens, about her business in vacation rentals.

The common link between Merran’s talk, and the conversations with Marc and Jan is about how to be good business thinkers, and the role that a healthy environment plays into economic prosperity and overall well-being.

I am also enjoying the energy that our council exudes with determination to communicate and engage residents. They are embracing every possible method to engage with constituents in an open manner.

As a journalist I find them unguarded and forthcoming, which makes my job a lot easier.

One of the big efforts to get as many people involved in planning has to do with transportation. I have

known people to move off island because the time spent commuting and waiting for ferries has been too disruptive to family life. With the extra ferry space, overloads are less of an issue at the moment, but the population keeps growing, here and on the mainland. We face bottlenecks to get across the water both at the ferry terminals and at the bridges once on the mainland.

It’s encouraging to hear that our local leaders are speaking with other municipalities to find solutions that will keep us moving with reduced reliance on cars. It’ll be interesting to watch where this goes.

Billi Gowans has shared her expertise again this week, this time on the red-legged frog. They can be seen hopping across the road after it rains near Grafton Lake so you can expect

Art auction a success Thank you to all the very talented, very generous artists of Bowen who participated in our best ever Mini-Gala!

We auctioned off more than 60 mini-masterpieces this past Friday night, raising over $10,000 to help keep the doors open at the Gallery at Artisan Square.

Thanks also to our masterful, hilarious auctioneer, David Cameron, our fantastic entertainers, Marc and Rob Gawthrop, and everyone who purchased a ticket and artwork in support of this very lively event – this year with a tropical theme thanks to the magic of decorator Diane Buchanan.

A round of applause also to Opus Framing, our sponsor that donated the canvases and frames, Personal Travel Management for the gift voucher, Phoenix on Bowen that helped us with ticket sales and David and Shirley Wrinch, who provided their tent.

Last but not least, we raise a toast to our marvelous organizing committee and event volunteers who worked hard to create a spectacular splash and ensured a good time was had by all.

These amazing people include the Visual Arts Committee (Greta Smith, Andrea Little, Betty Dhont, Bette Morton, Shannon Rondeau, Susan Alexander and Kim Kasasian), and volunteers (Kate Coffey,

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Bidding got heated for this paper on canvas work of art which garnered the top bid of the night at $700.

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Dorothy Geisler, Zoe Esseiva, Jane Dunfield, Diane Buchanan, Kate Thomas-Peters and Denise Richard).

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Janet Esseiva, curator Jacqueline Massey, executive director Bowen Island Arts Council

a traffic slow-down as drivers stop to let them pass. It’s a Bowen thing.

Later on, in the same area, it’s sure to be the geese nesting at the side of the road that will cause a slowdown.

It’s part of living with nature, the very thing that draws most people to Bowen in the first place.

I hope you enjoy this week’s stories.

Louise

Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program The Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program is available on Bowen Island.

Through NAPTEP, landowners who permanently protect natural features on their land with a conservation covenant can apply to receive up to a 65 per cent exemption on their annual property taxes.

The deadline for a 2017 property tax exemption is April 1, 2016.

To learn more, please join us for an information session: Wednesday,

March 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane Bowen Island.

Please RSVP by email to itfmail@islandstrust.bc.ca or by telephone at 250-405-5186 (toll-free through Enquiry BC at 1-800-663-7867).

For more information, please visit the Islands Trust Fund website at islandstrustfund.bc.ca/naptep.

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Cupcakes for animals

Monday, Feb. 29 is National Cupcake Day. National Cupcake Day is a delicious way to show your support for animals in need.

Pop into First Credit Union to pick up a freshly baked cupcake and donate to the local SPCA. Karis Clayton Financial services representative

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Camps offer variety of activity for Spring Break Spring Break is awesome!

The flowers will soon be blooming and the birds will be singing, bringing an end to this wet and cold winter. But the kids have two weeks off school. Yikes! Plus an extra day to account for Easter as well. Whew. What to do?

Bowen Island Community Recreation is running camps on both weeks of Spring Break and we invite you to join us for a great lineup of activities.

March 14-18 is a full day-camp week for seven to 11-year-olds.

We have three day trips off island and two special on-island days planned. Register for the whole week or individual days. Monday, March 14 we visit our undersea friends at the Vancouver Aquarium. Wednesday, March 16 we head to the West VancouverAquatic Centre for swimming, and Friday, March 18 we are playing laser tag in North Vancouver.

On-island day Tuesday March 15 is all about Star Wars. Bring your child to our Jedi training ground in the BICS gym and Jedi Master Carrie Thiel will teach them the ways of the Force. Learn how to wield a lightsaber like a Jedi knight and all the skills to fight safely that go with it. This camp is part physical, part craft, and part theatre. Leave the space heroes and come back down to Earth on Thursday, March 17 with Eco Hero Camp. Rebecca Lyne leads this camp through trail and forest hiking, running, and exploration, eco-themed games, outdoor eco-heroes boot camp, and some other interesting eco-learning along the way. And that’s just week one. Biking camps start up with Dan Cowan March 21, 23, 24 for six- to eight-year-olds and nine- to 11-year-olds. Cowan knows the Bowen trails like nobody else and will have your child riding, learning new skills, and having fun on their bike just in time for the nice weather. Week two also holds a new opportunity to try out a Youth Drama Camp from March 21-24 for 10- to 13-year-olds. This exciting class will allow young people to perform in many different, dynamic aspects of drama including improvisation, scene study, voice, movement, mask, and much more. Our four-day camp will allow young people to learn from a professional actor and teacher, while having the opportunity to perform live and enhance their confidence and creativity.

All camps require registration. More details and registration can be found at bowenrecreation.com or give us a call at the rec office at 604-947-2216. Our fantastic staff can’t wait to see you and make Spring Break fun and memorable. We hope you can join us.

Shauna Jennings Bowen Island Community Recreation

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The band Black Molly performed at the legion Saturday night for the Bowen Children’s Centre Wild WhoopUp fundraiser. The event benefitted the centre’s preschool bursary program. photo LOUISE LOIK

Thanks for fundraiser support

Dear Editor, We organized this year’s Wild Whoop-Up party with two goals in mind: to offer a fun and fabulous evening out for Bowen Islanders and parents in particular, and to raise money for the Bowen Children’s Centre preschool bursary program. We are pleased to announce that the evening delivered on both objectives.

There are so many people to thank, including the many parent volunteers who helped to organize, decorate and clean up the legion. The legion let us use their space free of charge. The fabulous musicians in Black Molly offered a discounted rate on their services. Peter King stepped up to safely deliver revelers home, and Bonnie Wright at Phoenix was kind enough to sell tickets for us.

Thank you as well to the businesses and individuals who kindly donated prizes for the evenings competitions including Stong’s Groceries, Cypress Mountain, Rustique Bistro, Courtney Morris Acupuncture and Crazy Beautiful hair styling.

Congratulations as well to chilli cook-off winner Adele Turner and bake-off winner Beth Legacy-Cole.

Sincerely, The BCC Fundraising Committee

Bowen Island Art Gallery welcomes local singers for show On Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m., two of Bowen’s jazz pianist singer-songwriters will take the stage at Bowen Island’s Gallery to share their unique and spirited songs.

The evening will be the first time both performers have come together to feature their original music on the island.

Alicia Hansen will be celebrating the recent release of her new album Companion, and Mary Kastle will feature a wide variety of new songs written since becoming a Bowen Island resident.

Both women are new mothers on Bowen and celebrating making music from this new vantage point in life.

Each songwriter will perform with her respective band. For Hansen, that includes drummer Ben Brown, bassist James Meger, and guitarist David Sikula, and for Mary Kastle it includes local jazz guitarist Teun Schut, as well as Bowen native drummer Cam Stephens, and bassist Alex Kelly.

The two songwriters share the ideal of blending the eclectic rhythms and harmonies of jazz within the framework of the pop song environment, but both do so with incredible variety and style.

Hansen’s music has been featured on CBC’s eclectic latenight new music show The Signal, and Kastle’s sound is based heavily in soul and R&B and reminiscent of early Carole King and Stevie Wonder.

The evening is sure to delight concert-goers looking for fresh and uplifting sounds to inspire this spring.

Tickets are $20 and available in advance by emailing mk@ marykastle.com, or by calling 604-889-3207.

They are also available for purchase online at songsforspring.brownpapertickets.com.

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Local kids get the dirt on brickworks

The photo at top shows one of the buildings in Vancouver that used Bowen Island bricks. Student clay works, above, are part of a special project with ceramic artist Susannah Montague. photos supplied/SARAH HAXBY

Thanks to funding from ArtStarts, the CSA, PAC, and Opus Art Supplies, the BICS Earth Labyrinth Project began this month with a bit of history about Bowen Island and the chance for students to meet local ceramic artist Susannah Montague and create a small clay sampler to inspire students to think about their larger clay art works, which they will make at the end of February or March.

The unveiling of the BICS Earth Labyrinth will take place in a one-day, whole-school, interactive art installation in the gym on April 20 to celebrate Earth Day. In addition to learning about the hands-on art of clay, students also learned some fun, local historical facts: ! In the 1880s 68 acres of rare blue clay were discovered in Bowen Island’s Deep Bay. ! Clay is an essential ingredient in making bricks and clay beds are a key part of Bowen’s geological composition. ! By 1886 Joseph Mannion and David Oppenheimer’s two brickworks were in the news. Vancouver was just being built and needed the bricks for its buildings. The first brickyard on Bowen was owned and run by the Mannion family. This is the family that Mannion Bay is named after. The Oppenheimer Brickyard (also called The Syndicate) had four owners and contracted workers.

Their brickyard was running by 1887 and sold their bricks for $3 per thousand. Can you imagine what it would have looked like to have thousands of bricks travelling from Bowen Island to Vancouver and beyond? At least one load of bricks tipped over and sunk into the sea. The students would like to know if any local divers have found underwater piles of bricks, as well as wanting to see photos of the local water wheel or the horses that the Mannions used at their brick factory. If anyone has any old Bowen brick-making photos please let us know as soon as possible.

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Chamber award nominations LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Sarah Yu Rutherford recently opened her new shop The Soap Box in Artisan Square. The soap dispensary features locally produced soaps . photo LOUISE LOIK

New soap store opens in Artisan Square

LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Bubbling with enthusiasm about her new business, Sarah Yu Rutherford dispenses locally produced soaps for refillable bottles.

The entrepreneurial spirit combined with the constraints of island living inspired the start-up business in Artisan Square called The Soap Box. Open two weeks now, The Soap Box sells bulk soap for laundry, dishes and body made by Sapadilla in North Vancouver and Nelly’s Laundry Soda from Burnaby.

“My sister-in-law was going out to Commercial Drive from Bowen to get her soap refills,” says Yu Rutherford. Having newly purchased a home on Bowen with her husband, who is a builder, she saw a golden opportu-

With a small business base here on island many Bowen businesses are happy for a chance to increase their exposure to a larger mainland audience.

To help your local businesses, nominate them for a business award being given out by the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce that now also represents the island business community. You can nominate yourself or your business.

Nominations are now open for businesses and individuals who have made a positive impact within their trade or industry, have a reputation for providing a superior level of customer service, show sales increase, client growth and/ or support the community in some capacity. Explain why you believe this organization/ individual is eligible for this award.

Nominations close Wednesday, March 2, 5 p.m.

Members currently listed

with WVCC include: Blue Eyed Mary’s – Stephen Biddiscombe Bluffs on Bowen B& B Wynn Nielsen Bowen Building Centre – Anna Donnelly Bowen Island Accommodations – Jan Stevens Bowen Island Arts Council Jacqueline Massey Bowen Island Glass - Denise Lockett Bowen Island Golf Club - Gordon Campbell Bowen Island Pub - Glenn Cormier Bowen Island Sea Kayaking Brent O’Malley Bowen Island Municipality Hope Dallas Bowenshire Stoneworks and Landscaping Ltd.,- Andy Rainsely Cocoa West Chocolatier and the Chocolate Suite – Joanne Mogridge Hempgcrete Natural Builiding Ltd. -Jayeson Hendrickson Evergreen Hall - Maureen Armstrong First Credit Union - Kevin Manning

Glave Communications – James Glave Katherine Gish Mary Kay Cosmetics, Donna Bottay Nature Encounters Tours and Travel Ltd., Carol Petersen Nectar Yoga B & B Andrea Clark Orchard Recovery Centre Ltd Lorinda Strang Positively Fit – Mary Letson Quickway Paint & DrywallRoderick Marsh Redmond Law - Karen Redmond The Snug Café- Piers Hayes TSG Construction Ltd. – Ian Stuart The Treehouse studio Rob Bailey Tourism Bowen Island Murray Atherton USSC Marine Oydis Nickle Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, March 15.

Submit form and all supporting material by email to: leagh@westvanchamber.com.

For more information call 604-926-6614 or drop by the chamber office at 2235 Marine Dr., West Vancouver

nity. “My brother, who lives here, has an MBA and he thought it was a good idea.”

She decided to keep her day job as a graphic designer and open the new store on Fridays and weekends. Having moved from Vancouver last summer, Sarah has been here long enough to have caught the local passion for taking care of the environment. She says this kind of business is important to people who care about the three Rs: reduce, re-use and recycle.

In the shop, Yu Rutherford shows some re-purposed coloured bottles once filled with gin and whisky.

She can provide bottles and spouts, but you can use a water bottle or wine bottle or whatever you like for the liquid soaps and the same goes for the powders.

It’s Midsummer! Tickets are now available at the library for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (cast shown above) Feb. 24-27. All performances 7:15 p.m. at Cates Hill Chapel. Tickets $20. Cash or cheque only. photo PAUL WINNY

Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon

Service and Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Collins Hall Bookings: Helen Wallwork Minister of Music: Lynn Williams

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New tax breaks for conservation LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

A wild native aster called a Gumweed pokes out of a rock in the photo at top.

Salmonberry flowers in the photo above. photos LOUISE LOIK

Citizens can help mapping LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

With the help of crowd-sourced photography, the scientific community is getting a better idea of what grows in places like Bowen Island. E-Flora BC, a project out of UBC, compiles scientific information on B.C.’ s wild species but also incorporates a crowd-sourced photo gallery of species charted onto a map. Every photo adds another piece of information into the puzzle of what lives where, plant by plant. Species covered in the atlas are considered part of the official flora of B.C. including native species, naturalized introduced species, invasive species, and species at risk. Information on incoming or non-established species is also provided and species that have been excluded from the flora are also noted. Participants can map any photo record of a species, but the point is to try to map range changes and fill in gaps left by researchers regarding species distributions.

If you have a photo record that shows the occurrence of a species that is farther north than E-Flora’s present mapping shows, or if you document a record of a species in a region where it is not known, then your information helps to expand the information base.

Mapping photo records is particularly valuable for groups like invasive plants, where some species are moving quickly into new territory as the climate changes. It is also valuable for species at risk where mapping of new sites is important for protection and management. Photo record mapping will be particularly useful for adding dots to distribution maps that are currently blank. Your photo records may give insights into where these species occur.

How to participate as a citizen scientist: If you submit photos to E-Flora and include precise location information (latitude/longitude), then UBC will map your photo record. A dot will appear on their interactive map. For more information, go to ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/CitizenSciencePhotoMapping.

If you have a special piece of land that you would like to see preserved forever, you will be happy to know that The Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program (NAPTEP) is now available on Bowen Island. Through NAPTEP landowners who permanently protect natural features on their land with a conservation covenant can apply to receive up to a 65 per cent exemption on their annual property taxes.

To qualify for NAPTEP, you need one or more of the eligible features on your property: ! Relatively undisturbed sensitive ecosystems ! Habitat for rare native plant species or plant communities ! Habitat critical to native animal species’ breeding, rearing, feeding or staging ! Special geological features A conservation covenant provides protection to your property from ecological destruction by future owners.

You can still live on your property and sell it when you like with a conservation covenant in place. The Islands Trust Fund continues to monitor its conservation covenants annually, at no cost to the landowners.

The covenant binds future owners to the same promises you made.

By registering a covenant through NAPTEP, you receive an annual property tax exemption of 65 per cent on the protected portion of the land. You get an annual savings in taxes the size of which is determined by the size of the land you’re able to protect.

Bowen Island has land protected by the Islands Trust Fund. Examples of protected lands include the David Otter Nature Reserve, Singing Woods Nature Re-

serve and Fairy Fen. Islands Trust Fund descriptions of the lands: David Otter Nature Reserve was protected in 2006. The three-hectare (7.4-acre) reserve protects two creeks and a riparian forest, including a stand of 200-year-old Douglas firs. Some of these old fir trees died over the years and now offer nesting cavities and habitat for owls, eagles, hawks and a variety of songbirds. Maturing western hemlock and western red cedar trees can be found scattered across the reserve.

The reserve borders Crippen Regional Park and a large Crown land parcel encompassing Mount Gardner.

The protected area acts as a corridor for species to move between these two large natural areas. Rocky outcrops, rock piles and steep slopes offer ideal reptile habitat on the upper slopes of the reserve.

Singing Woods Nature Reserve: This nine-hectare property transferred to the Islands Trust Fund in 1999 as a requirement of development. Big-leaf maples, Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock make up the second-growth forest on the property, while tall sword fern, salal and salmonberry form a rich, green understory.

Singing Woods Nature Reserve protects the headwaters for Davies Creek flowing east and Dorothy Creek flowing west.

A marsh and swamp regulate and clean the freshwater leaving the property, making this reserve an important piece of Bowen’s freshwater supply. The reserve, together with adjacent areas, including parks, an ecological reserve, properties protected by conservation covenants, and Crown land, comprise an important wildlife corridor between Crippen Park and Josephine Lake.

Fairy Fen: Fairy Fen is a clearing hidden deep in a forest of cedars and Douglasfir, shadowed by surrounding hills. You might only stumble across it when lifting one of the thick branches of needles that hide it from view. Fairy Fen contains a Bowen Island gem: a peat-forming fen, intact and undisturbed, which is rare in the islands.

The moss-covered ground is firm enough to walk on, but poking a walking stick into the soggy earth reveals water hiding just below. Coastal reindeer lichen, Labrador tea, bog cranberry and yellow starry feather-moss are just a sampling of the plants found at Fairy Fen. The Bowen Island Conservancy and the Islands Trust Fund collaborated to protect an 18-hectare (44acre) nature reserve around Fairy Fen through a 2010 provincial grant. The reserve protects the fen, a second wetland, and the headwaters of Huszar Creek, an important watershed.

Type of Protected Area Area (ha), portion (%) of municipality Conservation Covenant 2.7 0.1 Ecological Reserve 395.1 7.8 Nature Reserve 30.4 0.6 Park - Community 61.5 1.2 Park - Provincial 9.5 0.2 Park - Regional 220.4 4.4 Total 719.6 14.2

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The local upside of a down dollar

Bowen bed and breakfasts booming LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Tourism is the fastest-growing sector in the B.C. economy American tourist spending in Canada is the highest in more than a decade according to BC Stats, and tourism on Bowen is no exception.

Jan Stevens is a property manager for five vacation or short-term rentals on Bowen.

Her company, Bowen Island Accommodation, has seen a big jump in rentals since January. With three properties on Eaglecliff and two on Mount Gardner, she says she will be full booked by March for the whole summer.

Stevens says January is usually slow and by February she is normally, “full speed into bookings.” This year, “it started on New Year’s Day and business jumped by 30 per cent.

The holidays and long weekends got booked up by the end of January,” says Stevens.

She says that the rentals are her only source of income so

Tourists from France, Columbia and Vancouver take a rest after a hike up and down Mount Gardner. The group spent their time on island both hiking and dining in the cove. According to BC Stats, tourism in Canada has seen the sharpest rise in tourists coming from France, up 27 per cent over last year, largely due to an expansion in flight availability from France. LOUISE LOIK photo she puts effort into making the business work. In 2010 she created a duplex waterfront suite so that it can be rented as a whole or two separate units.

She applies seasonal pricing, she says, even though it’s more expensive to run heat and supply wood over the winter, it’s worth it to keep business up.

“A friend of mine doesn’t apply seasonal pricing and her place

is empty in the winter.”

Stevens says her properties are booked every weekend, all winter. “When I’m fully booked I send the overflow to other B& Bs, like Evergreen.”

Stevens acknowledges that she has seen an increase in bookings from Americans, and from Albertans, but this year, “65 per cent come from around Vancouver, all within an

hour’s drive.”

The businesswoman says that the guests may just stay put, making their own food, relaxing and reading, but she says the guest book records tell her that most people go for hikes and dine out.

“One couple booked Matt Matheson to come and prepare a meal for them for Valentine’s Day,” she says. The lower

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Jan Stevens started her vacation rental business three years ago with great results. She inherited the first property, the Lazy Bowen Hideaway, then neighbours asked her to help them, and her business continued to grow. Now she has five properties that she manages as rentals. photo supplied Canadian dollar is a boon for local businesses such as hers.

“People are vacationing locally and U.S. visitors have doubled.

We just finalized a booking from New York.” Americans, she says, see Canada as having a “fire sale,” because of the low dollar.

Though Barbara Wilshire runs a website listing Bowen’s short-term rentals, she says her bookings are primarily done through Vacation Rentals By Owner, commonly known as VRBO. Stevens says that her sum-

mer prices for accommodation for two people start at $165 per night but depending on the location, go as high as $575 per night. “In the off-season I drop it to $145 to $475.

Consistent with the branding work being done on Bowen, she says her guests write words in the guestbook that describe this island. “Beautiful” and “peaceful” are the words she says are repeated over and over again.

What else draws her guests to Bowen? “They are outdoor enthusiasts.”

2016 Community Impact Grants 2016 Knick Knack Nook Environmental and Social Sustainability Grants At the Bowen Island Community Foundation AGM on April 21, 2016, the Foundation will award $25,000 in 2016 Community Impact Grants for projects to beneZit Bowen Island and its residents, and the Knick Knack Nook will award up to $7,500 in grants for environmental sustainability initiatives and up to $7,500 in grants for social sustainability initiatives.

Applications for both grant programs are due on March 10th Eligible applicants must email a short (500 words max) proposal to the Foundation by March 10, 2016 at 5pm.

How to get more information • For the Community Impact Grants, take a look at the complete application package on the Foundation’s home page: www.communityfoundation.com.

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Ski resort planned for Sea to Sky corridor clears hurdle LOUISE LOIK and JENNIFER THUNCHER Bowen Island, along with the North Shore communities, will need to plan transportation not just on Bowen, but from Bowen into the downtown core.

Looking at the increasing densities along the Sea to Sky corridor is something that Coun.

Melanie Mason says is being taken into consideration in transportation planning. Mason says that the island and the mainland communities along the corridor, including the Sunshine Coast, have a mutual need to look ahead for transportation planning as a group, feel the pinch spots in Horseshoe Bay and at the approach to the Lions Gate Bridge and that a coordinated effort with the various districts gives all of them more leverage for progressive solutions.

“The Howe Sound Forum on April 29 will be a place for high level discussion,” says Mason.

We are looking at regional connections and we play an integral part in the economies of scale.”

Mason says the municipal transportation

team “brought it up with Pam Goldsmith Jones.” There is concern, she says, that the Sea to Sky corridor is already at maximum transportation capacity. “It’s packed on a Sunday and one accident shuts it down.”

Meanwhile, the Aquilini Investment Group and Northlands Properties are planning a development for atop Brohm Ridge which is aproximately 50 kilometres from the ferry. It will have 23 ski lifts on 124 developed ski trails, as well as both private and commercial accommodations. The overall resort area would be 2,759 hectares and include accommodations for 22,000, as well as restaurants, skiing and mountain biking trails.

The $3.5-billion proposed Garibaldi at Squamish year-round resort has been granted a conditional nod from the province.

“This is an important step, but not the final step,” said Jim Chu, vice-president of the Aquilini Investment Group.

The District of Squamish and Resort Municipality of Whistler, among others, have opposed the project. On hearing of the approval Friday, Mayor Patricia Heintzman said the

district has, on multiple occasions, raised significant concerns about the project, including the socioeconomic and environmental impacts, size, scale and layout.

Environment Minister Mary Polak and Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced the decision two weeks ago.

“The certificate conditions were developed following consultation and input from Squamish Nation, government agencies, local governments, communities and the public,” reads the release.

The environmental certificate has 40 conditions attached.

“The next step for this project is to listen and work in cooperation with the community, local governments and other stakeholders to ensure that this project is done right. We expect this process to take at least two years,” says Chu. Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell said the Nation had been involved with the EA process from the start and conducted a “rigorous” review.

“Although the project is controversial,

Squamish Nation is comfortable that its cultural and environmental interests have been protected and that it will share appropriately in the economic benefits of the project,” he said.

The Nation has achieved the ability to approve management plans for the project to ensure their interests are being included in these plans, Campbell added.

“This provides Squamish Nation control to protect its cultural and environmental interests.”

Squamish Nation will obtain a licence over a wilderness area that will be equal in size to the project area to practise its aboriginal rights, he said.

The year-round resort proposal includes four major phases, which will be built over an estimated 20-year construction period on Crown land on Brohm Ridge.

The proposal still has several steps left in the approval process including, among others, local government approval of a master plan by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

MLA Jordan Sturdy’s office said he did not yet have a comment on the decision.

Online services offer free lessons for lifelong learning LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Without quick and easy access to the local college campus to pick up a new business or language skill, or study a subject at a new level, online learning is a godsend.

Whether you are school-aged or well beyond, there is something online for everyone.

If you are yearning to learn a new skill or need homework help, more than 6,300 courses and more than

267,000 video tutorials are free with your Bowen library card.

Libraries on the North Shore have launched access to what is normally a subscription service to online learning with Lynda.com free of charge and Bowen Island residents can also access the remote learning service with their library card. In order to access the online learning courses provided for anyone with a West Vancouver or North Vancouver City library card, as an islander you

have to bring your Bowen card and you register it in person at the West Vancouver library.

Subscription to the service would normally start at $20 a month if you were to sign up for a basic plan outside of the library. Programs run a full gamut of options. You can learn computer and software skills, business and management, presentation skills, design or high school subjects and much more with the ability to work at your own pace. You don’t get high

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school or university accreditation for the courses but you can use the credentials for completed courses on your LinkedIn profile.

“In today’s world, learning doesn’t stop when people leave formal educational settings; we’re all learning all the time,” says Deb Koep, deputy director at West Vancouver Memorial Library.

To get started, register your card, and then visit westvanlibrary.ca or nvcl.ca to start learning with Lynda.

Most people these days know about Khan Academy, an online, free source of tutoring on almost any school subject. What’s new with the academy is its collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios.

Pixar in A Box is free, and doesn’t require registration or a background in animation. The course allows you to choose which lesson you want to do in the order you choose. It introduces students to how Pixar

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Is LNG better than coal?

Scientist David Hughes debunks myths about energy JENNIFER THUNCHER CONTRIBUTOR

Earth scientist David Hughes of the Post Carbon Institute has researched the energy sector for four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada. Here’s what Hughes said about liquefied natural gas production and the role fossil fuels play in our future. Hughes presented “LNG: Debunking the Myths” at the Gleneagles Golf Club in West Vancouver last Thursday.

Hughes: If you look at LNG prices right now, the price in China is about $7 per million btu.

The gas coming out of northeast B.C., I would expect that you need to pay $3 or $4 for the gas. The cost of liquefying it, putting it in a ship and moving it to China is about $6. So that is $9 and you can only sell it for $7. I would sort of question the sanity of that looking at those prices, in the short term. Of course, these are 20-year projects so they have to look at the longer term.

Q: One argument is we are not being fair to the people in China who are suffering from coal production and that liquefied natural gas from here will save them from that.

A: On a full-cycle emissions basis, the planet would be better off if China built state-of-theart coal plants rather than burning B.C. LNG for at least the next 50 years. It is true that at the burner tip gas produces about half the CO2 of coal. But you have to consider full cycle emissions from the wellhead to the burner tip for gas. The hydraulic fracturing process and the supply chain – pipelines, processing plants – emit considerable amounts of methane, which is 73 times as potent as CO2 on a 20-year timeframe and 25 times as potent on a 100-year time frame (because methane leaves the atmosphere more quickly than CO2). Plus, about 20 per cent of the gas must be burned to provide power for the liquefaction and shipping process.

If you compare full-cycle emissions from B.C. LNG burned in China to a state-of-the-art Chinese coal plant, which runs at 46 per cent efficiency (compared to 33 per cent efficiency for an old coal plant), B.C. LNG is 27 per cent worse than burning coal over a 20-year timeframe and seven per cent better on a 100-year timeframe. So, you’d need to wait more than 50 years until you break even, while suffering from the effects of increased greenhouse gases in the meantime.

Q: What about the goal of getting off fossil fuels and turning to renewables?

A: I think that is laudable, but the fact of the matter is, 80 per cent of the energy we use today is fossil fuel.

I think we should be building windmills and solar, certainly, but we have to be realistic in how much they would have to be scaled to get anything close to the consumption Canadians have.

Q: What should the government do?

A: I would cap growth in the oil sands. I would look at what is left of our gas as being a strategic, long-term resource and I would not recommend growing production so we can liquidate it at bargain-basement prices now, because it is going to be valuable later. There is no doubt in my mind that fossil fuels will be used for decades.

Q: So, you are saying slow everything down, simplify it and use what we have for ourselves while we are still dependent on fossil fuels?

A: Right, if we do that, we immediately stop growing our emissions. Fossil fuels could be more usefully diverted [to the production of renewables], or some of them anyways.

What do you need to build a windmill? It turns out you need fossil fuels to turn it into steel, and you need diesel trucks to move it all.

As soon as you have built the windmill and it is up, the fuel cost is free. You might have to run it two or three years to pay off the energy it took to build it, but then you get 17 years of free fuel. The same thing can be said for solar panels.

I am convinced we do need to ramp up renewables aggressively, but we have to do the math as well. I don’t think anybody has done the math. There is so much emotion built into this on all sides.

Q: What can local governments do?

A: We need to put money into infrastructure so people can use less energy and still have a good life.

World oil is going to peak at some point, if you have thought about it and planned ahead and reduced your consumption you are much less vulnerable.

Give people an alternative so they don’t have to drive 40 miles to work.

Q: So as an individual, does it help if I make changes like putting up solar panels or driving a more fuel-efficient car?

A: I think it helps you. It helps you become a lot more resilient. If prices go up a lot and you are only using half as much energy, then you are protected.

Allie Schubert and instructor Kelly Konno at a cardio dance workout that started this month with such an overwhelming response that classes were immediately wait-listed. LOUISE LOIK photo

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