FRIDAY APRIL 29, 2016 VOL. 42, NO. 65
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Groundbreaking to begin for new pub LOUISE LOIK EDITOR
The Bowen Island Pub has been iconic in the cove, anchoring the corner of Bowen Trunk Road and Dorman Road with funny messages on its sign board, and bulky blue barn appearance. Visitors and locals alike know that it’s the kind of place that you won’t find anywhere else. It’s worn around the edges, even “falling apart,” as owner Glenn Cormier will tell you. But this is the kind of place where esthetics have never mattered. It draws boaters in summer and dancers in the winter. When a band is playing there are 19-yearolds dancing alongside the seniors in the community. The layout is bad, the dance floor barely there and the stage for the band is always cramped to overflowing, but it’s a part of community life. There has been a ska band complete with two trumpets, a saxophone, drummer, guitarist and singer rocking that stage. The local bands, including Black Molly, Ginger 66, Walk on Dead, Adam Woodall Band and numerous others, know that stage like their own instruments. When a good band is playing, word gets out and the place is packed from one end to the other. Movember moustaches have been shaved off at the pub, birthdays celebrated and dark days have been danced away. People meet there for a beer or some gossip and a bite to eat. Even though the location offers mountain views off the patio for daytime noshing on fish and chips, it’s the evenings when the pub rocks into life. “Since we took over we’ve seen the business grow,” says Cormier. “On rib nights there’s not enough tables and chairs for everyone.” The new pub will have a better layout, and a better kitchen for preparing foods for dinners for families. He would like the new pub to be a place where seniors are comfortable coming for some fish and chips and families can come and feel welcome, away from the bar.
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Families of the co-owners of the Bowen Pub gathered on Sunday for a ceremonial groundbreaking in the location of the new pub. Farrah Cormier, whose dad has been running the pub, is proud to celebrate the groundbreaking with family and friends. Using a specially made shovel, co-owners Nick Shaw, Glenn Cormier, Connie Shaw and toddler son Wyatt, and Meredith Cormier move the first pile of dirt to make way for their new business. LOUISE LOIK photo
Local scholar wins prestigious award LOUISE LOIK EDITOR
Bowen’s Susanna Braund received a top Canadian award in the world of higher learning last week. The University of British Columbia humanities professor is one of six scholars to receive a Killam Research Fellowship, granting her full teaching and administrative release to pursue independent research. For Braund, funding from the award gives her “possibly the best award a researcher can receive – time.” Recipients get
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two years “relieved from all teaching and administrative duties, with a properly funded replacement position for the department.” Braund’s peers selected the winners and the process was administered through an independent committee. The prestigious privately funded award from the Killam Trust, supports creativity and innovation through research and higher learning. Braun’s project, Virgil Translated, is “about the power of the written
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