FRIDAY MARCH 11, 2016 VOL. 42, NO. 58
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A café with the blues A photo tribute to a friend
The clown cure
Smiling through the tears
Winning form
Young skier takes it to the slopes
Piers Hayes was famous among his friends for his storytelling. In the photo above left Piers was telling a story about a friend he made on a sailing adventure. An outpouring of emotion has washed over the Island like a wave after news of Piers’ passing. Dozens of community members have dressed in blue and left messages on blue hearts on the walls of The Snug. See photos on pages 6 and 7. photos LOUISE LOIK (left), KATE BREW (right)
A poem for a blue-eyed charmer CHRIS CORRIGAN CONTRIBUTOR
We lost Piers Hayes, a dear member of our community today. Any of you who visited Bowen Island would have met him at The Snug where he held court and almost certainly called you “Blue.”
So many of us never had a name when we walked through the door of the snug but it was all the same to him; he knew that you would always respond if he just called you “Blue” Blue He was a blue eyed charmer
a maitre d’ for a whole community, a casual character that buzzed like a bee from table to table, knitting together strangers with his self-deprecating humour, but with a laser focus on what he could do to make the world a little less blue.
I heard him once tell the story of how he left the azure skies of Africa, and shipped his family on the turquoise sea, and for years they saw every colour it could be: the greys and greens and dark blue deep, storm tossed and washed in adventure, held in the currents that carried them between
continents. He never entered quietly But he blew into a room like a Salish Sea southeasterly or hollered out hellos and bellowed greetings from behind the bar, meeting each customer as a friend, tending tender connections The day he died, the rain was
steely grey. As if the blue had seeped out of the sea and the sky and pierced every heart that broke and every soul that cried with the news that he was gone. He left us stories and affection and a recognition that we will always remember how we belong.
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