Bowen Island Undercurrent June 10 2016

FRIDAY JUNE 10, 2016 VOL. 42, NO. 71

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Wade Davis

Discovering Bowen

Explorer for the Millennium

Tourism is on the rise on island

Weekend travel

Ferry schedules may need changes

Coho salmon send-off a success LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

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Metro Parks representatives spent the afternoon on island Saturday to get face-to-face with islanders, walk the area and discuss the use of a $250,000 grant for revitalizing the Davies Orchard part of Crippen Regional Park.

The Davies Orchard is on 2.3 acres (0.9 ha) with its fruit trees, open space, access routes and 10 cottages, some of which are in extreme states of disrepair. William Davies planted the Davies Orchard in the late-1880s, providing fruit for sale to Bowen Island and Vancouver residents. By the early 1900s, Davies shifted into the hospitality industry, renting tents to island visitors for a couple of decades until the construction of 10 rental cottages set in the orchard. The cot-

tages are still standing, but some of them, barely so.

The Metro Parks system is mandated to provide “opportunities for the region’s growing and diverse population, and to connect with, enjoy, be active within and learn about the region’s environment and protect the region’s important natural areas and ecosystems.”

Though the orchard part of Crippen Park is no longer wild and natural, it is still an important part of the park with potential to become so much more, due to its accessibility and prime location. The visit on Saturday is part of an ongoing study to help develop a plan to improve the integration of the orchard area with the rest of park, improve access and use of the orchard area while respecting the unique heritage

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A young boy releases coho fry into Terminal Creek on Saturday. “The little ones see the salmon for the first time, and their eyes light up,” says Tim Pardee, a volunteer at the fish hatchery, and driving force for the Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club. According to Metro Parks, in the past year, volunteers with Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife gave 1,000 hours of service to salmon projects and public engagement. photo LOUISE LOIK

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Bucket by bucket, children carried coho salmon spawn from the Bowen Island fish hatchery to Terminal Creek last Sunday, releasing little salmon for their first experience with life outside a tank.

In the hopes that Bowen will have some wild salmon return to these shores over the next couple of years, the hatchery releases three types of salmon fry in a variety of creeks over the course of the year every year. Every year in June, hundreds of locals turn up in Crippen Park to learn about salmon, their habitat, and to help release the thousands of coho fry into the creek adjacent to the fish hatchery. This year approximately 400 people turned up to help the Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club release the 12,000 fry.

Tim Pardee, a volunteer with the club, enjoys seeing the children at the hatchery.

“The little ones see the salmon for the first time, and their eyes light up,” says Pardee,.

“There was a time, 10-15 years ago, when the creek up here was red with salmon. That doesn’t happen anymore and we don’t know why,” he adds.

A decade ago, large powerful coho salmon would dodge past a gauntlet of seals guarding access to the Terminal Creek pond.

The fish, after avoiding predators for two years of life in the open ocean, would come back to where their lives began. The fish would line up, nosing the causeway ramp, side by side at a high tide. They waited for just the right rush of water to release a burst of energy that might be enough to propel them up the ramp and into the pond. Sometimes they made it, and sometimes the fish would have to try again and again.

Crowds used to gather along the causeway, watching the spectacle of the return of the salmon. Some salmon spawned in the pond, but the coho were compelled to tackle the waterfalls before spawning. At the falls, fish would do leaps of two metres or more, and even then, some would not clear the falls. Instead, they bounced off a rock at the top of their leap and slid back to the bottom to rest and try again.

The club typically releases 100,000 each of pink and chum salmon annually to creeks around the island, including Davies, Terminal, Grafton and Killarney. These salmon arrive at the hatchery as eggs in the fall, and are ready for release in the spring, prior to the coho. While the coho need to spend one year in streams and creeks before heading to sea, the pink and chum must get to salt water as soon as they are four or five inches long. When the pink are released, they stay in the fresh water for only a day or two, while the spring will stay in the fresh water after release for around one week, then they need

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Wade Davis, Explorer for the Millennium LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

What is left to ask the man who has spoken before audiences and individuals in every corner of the world, published his thoughts in dozens of books and magazines, and been interviewed by innumerable journalists?

“Why are you here?” Is what some have suggested as a point of inquiry; not in an esoteric kind of way, but in a physical, geographical way.

“Here,” being Bowen Island.

It’s a place that seems to draw the people who push away from the mainstream. Bowen is Wade Davis’ home.

It seems natural that a man like Davis might be drawn to this place of contradictions.

Surrounded by water and locked to the land, it’s home to free spirits and leading edge thinkers. It’s both creative and casual but also constrained and contained, as life revolves around the schedule of a ferry.

Davis is both a linear and creative thinker; an adventurer and a family man. He protests against LNG in Howe Sound, but he’s worked for LNG in Peru. Having lived and travelled to the most remote, exotic and wild places, Davis now lives in this placid community. He lives in a small town, but his influence is global. He is both a creative free spirit and an astute, disciplined man of science, one of National Geographic’s Explorers for the Millennium.

Davis, who grew up in Montreal and West Vancouver, is here on this island because

his heart has always drawn him back under the familiar coastal canopy of the forest. When he describes the beauty of the area, there is passion in his blue eyes as if having just seen this area for the first time. He refers to Vancouver as one of the greatest cities in the world.

“We live on the edge of the wild. Salmon spawn up the rivers and the black bear descend out of the mountain to feast on them. Where else can you be surrounded by orcas so close to a city?” says Davis.

With extended family nearby and friendly faces on the trails and in the shops, Bowen Island has an irresistible small town feeling for Davis and his highly accomplished wife, Gail Percy.

From their home with whimsical architecture that includes a small onion dome, Davis walks alongside a pond to get to his studio. Frogs pause in their chorus and Davis comments on how remarkable it is that frogs appear out of nowhere to establish themselves at this pond. He stops to check on the progress of a sapling he planted a year ago, disappointed to find that it isn’t doing as well as he’d hoped. Like any other islander, he talks about renovating his home and landscaping, and gives a recommendation about a local construction crew that have become his friends.

Though he’s a local, it’s still a challenge to catch up with Davis between his travels to Tibet, Columbia, California, Tanzania and Jordan, where one of his daughters is living.

Davis has been in demand the word over as a speaker and a

Wade Davis, seen in the photo at top and above, is a well-knwon ethno-botanist and author. Among other things, he is the B.C. Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at UBC. photos supplied

thought-leader since the late 1980s and the release of his international bestseller, The Serpent and the Rainbow. David Suzuki described Davis as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”

His list of accomplishments and awards would more than fill this page and yet, for a man whose time is so valuable and in such demand, he is not reclusive. Instead, he is a friendly local, chatting at the checkout counter like everyone else.

Though Davis would seem to prefer to shine the spotlight on his wife and her accomplishments in anthropology and the fashion industry than to do yet another interview about his work, he is nonetheless gracious and patient.

In his studio lined with books, Davis explains that he arrived here with 1,500 boxes of books. His studio, overlooking a fairy tale setting, is lined with books grouped by category relating to a book he’s written, or is writing, from botanicals to the Himalaya. He points to one section and explains that he used 600 books in order to write one non-fiction book.

Davis is a stickler for detail in his writing.

“I feel I need an understanding of every component of the story,” he says. He is proud of the depth of his research for each book. “If I mention the sound of a throaty gurgle when a bullet hits a head, it’s because a physician described it as a throaty gurgle. I don’t take poetic license, that’s what gives a work of non-fiction its authenticity.”

In spite of the fact that Davis may be in three countries in a month, or that he is writing five books, speaking in front of thousands of people at a time, lecturing, and exploring new ideas, his studio is meticulously organized, his reference books almost all leather-bound and thick. With warm woods and homey touches, the room feels like a place for science, contemplation, inspiration and study.

The grey-haired explorer talks about his work and his life with the quiet well-modulated voice of a professional presenter; the names of well-known authors, poets, philosophers, and world leaders are reference points that dot the dialogue. From an office swivel chair, he offers up an overwhelming feast of topics and thoughts on everything from the Dalai Lama to raising daughters.

His is a quick mind, touching briefly here and there, but then delving into matters of the heart, like the importance of young adults maintaining an optimistic outlook. Davis feels that this generation of young adults is inundated with pessimistic predictions and a heavy burden to fix the world’s problems.

“It’s not up to them. It’s up

to us to fix it,” he says. As a father to two adult daughters, Reina and Tara, and as a UBC professor, he observes that this generation “wants to be doing meaningful work that is authentic and true, and to contribute in a real meaningful way. They don’t want to hear that the sky is falling.” Tara, 27, is living in Columbia, where she and her boyfriend run guided river trips. Reina, at 24, is in Amman, Jordan, working on a book on educational reform in Tunisia.

The girls grew up spending their summers in the forest and paddling wild rivers with their parents. “Every summer the kids got three months of uninterrupted time with mom and dad, off the grid, in the Canadian bush with all the incredible people that came through,” says Davis.

He is referring to time spent at their Stikine, B.C. fishing lodge. The lodge, located on a lake on Wolf Creek has been part of his life for 37 years.

Though seven hours from the nearest town, the lodge was a hub of activity for adventurers who came for rafting, fishing and hunting. Davis says the richness of the relationships with the locals and the beauty of the location was “soul food” for the family and “that was the well that we drank from the rest of the year.”

He is passionate about his family life. “My sister lives here on Bowen,” says Davis with great warmth. ”She is the most decent human being I’ve ever met. She’s a very special person.”

He reflects on the two of them growing up in the 1950s, as a generation when “technically, fathers didn’t travel, but they were never at home. They worked, came home, had a couple of drinks, watched TV, went to bed. The parent figure was there, but not there.” He pauses, “people ask me ‘How did you manage to have such a happy family, with such incredible girls?’ I give a lot of credit to Gail. And yes, I was away a lot, but when I was home, I was home.”

He says he made sure his girls understood why he was away so that they would never feel that he was being neglectful. “They were proud of what I was doing,” he says. “I always made sure I wasn’t away for more than three-and-a-half to four weeks. When I was home, I was home for afternoon snacks, and I’d read them stories and put them to bed.”

Davis also has great respect for his parents, who made sure he and his sister went to Ivy League schools. “Every day I was there widened the gap between myself an my father, which is what made his gesture so generous . . . I never would have had the opportunity I had if I’d been in Canada.” He describes Canada of having a culture of caution, a culture of

“no.” He recalls walking into his professor’s office and stating that he would like to study ethno-botany and the professor immediately facilitated an opportunity for Davis to go study plants in South America. “That never would have happened here,” he says.

When Davis eventually grew restless, he moved on to anthropology; specifically studying voodoo culture in Haiti.

As Jane Goodall is to primatology, Davis is to social anthropology. Both are audacious, rule breakers, both showing the world a new way to see.

Ostensibly, he’s a rock star of the science world on his way to becoming iconic in Canada. He isn’t at all comfortable with the concept.

“Canada has five icons: the hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, the writer, Margaret Atwood . . .” Before he can finish the list, he stops, wanting to be clear that on one hand, “there are advantages to being known, but I’m not looking for fame.”

Davis says he isn’t interested in being the pop star of anthropology. He is interested in having an impact on the world, on having a lasting legacy for good. He adds, “Regarding changing the world, anyone who wants to change the world is delusional and dangerous.

Like Mao Zedong.”

Davis is taking part in social change. He wrote a speech for Justin Trudeau before he became prime minister and received the Honour of Canada. He has given TED talks and is on the board of advisers for TED Talks. He’s been a National Geographic Explorer in Residence, is a bestselling author of numerous books, and is an adviser to Cirque du Soleil on a new production. He was recently in Columbia, his favourite place in the world, working alongside Columbian naturalists for a government project to depict the beauty of Columbia for school children around Columbia. Davis is also working on a book about cowboys while helping his longtime friend, guitarist and founder of The Grateful Dead, Bob Weir, to write a book. Davis says that

when people ask him why he is working on the book, his answer is simply, “because I want to.” He is also compiling a book of his National Geographic photos from 2002 to the present.

What the various accomplishments reflect is Davis’ propensity to pivot and face new directions and new challenges, and to push the limits. He says that every thing he has done in his life, in school and work has served him further down the line. Davis learned about writing and film which would serve him later in life. To his father’s horror, he abandoned university at 22 and headed off to study ethno-botany, which led to an opportunity to study Haitian voodoo and zombies.

Davis’ quest for knowledge would take him on a journey of lifelong learning. His insights are documented in all manner of media, from National Geographic to books and his TED Talks. His work as an anthropologist has recently garnered him an award of Canada, one of many awards and credentials accumulated over the decades.

For young adults today, he advises, “You can’t have just one specialty any more,” says Davis.

“You have to put yourself in the way of opportunities, where success is the only option, the only possible outcome and you will find yourself achieving things you might not have thought possible.” It’s the same advice he’s given over and over, with unflagging passion.

“Maybe because I grew up in the bourgeois middle-class suburban scene, I wanted to get out at every single level, and I learned to do that by jumping off cliffs. I kinda came to discover that when you jump off a cliff you land on a feather bed. The world doesn’t beat you down it lifts you up. If you give it a chance.”

Davis continues to take big leaps forward. He is working on no less than five books now, all on contract.

What next? For Davis, it’s simple. “I want to celebrate the wonder of what is.” No doubt he will find many new ways to do just that.

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How not to conduct an interview Sometimes I can be such a dolt. The time I met Dr. Jane Goodall, in my excitement, I knocked a glass of water over on her desk. There was a time when I was meant to meet Russia’s Prime Minister Gorbachev, and had it not been cancelled due to political upheaval, I wonder what clumsy mayhem I might have unleashed in his office. I do usually manage to hold it together, but not this week.

When I got a chance to ask Wade Davis some questions, in spite of all my preparations, to my embarrassment, I stared back at him in a quiet state of awe and wonder.

Years ago someone on the island that I barely knew saw me in the cove. Unexpectedly, she told me she had a book that would resonate with me. She said I had to read it, and she showed up at my door two days later with a Wade Davis book. It was The Wayfinders. I loved the book. I never imagined that years later, I’d be sitting with the author as he pointed out the collection of books he’d used for some of his references while writing that very book.

People who push commonly held boundaries of knowledge and beliefs intrigue me. Their work fires up my own aspirations and passion for exploration and learning.

set off to learn about life beyond books and the Canadian border. I searched for water with Samburu in Africa, travelled under veil among the Kurds, staying in their homes. I made my way into Nepal and India, taking part in the rituals of weddings and funerals and everyday life. When Glasnost came into being, I was allowed to follow a river up past the Arctic Circle, engaging with reindeer herders, elders, and the first freely elected politicians.

As Davis said in one of his TED talks, “All of these peoples teach us that there are other ways of being, other ways of thinking, other ways of

orienting yourself in the Earth.”

These days, adventures are sold in bulk. The authentic encounters, the one-on-one interaction where communication is an expression in the eyes and in the movements of the body, where we gain even a momentary understanding of someone or something else, can be transcendent. Within this context, it is small wonder that a researcher like Wade Davis would cause me a moment of pause.

I hope you enjoy this week’s pictures and stories as much as I did capturing them.

Louise

Peter King gets accolades Newborn fawns around from local fans This letter is to recognize the generosity of Peter King, who is always there to help the seniors of Bowen.

For a number of years, thanks to a Smooth Stone and now a Community Municipal Grant to Seniors Keeping Young (55+) Peter has been busing seniors to various venues off island.

One of our best summer outings was a trip to the gondola up the Chief.

He arranged this trip in between his community commitments.

Just before Christmas, he drove SKY members and others to the Arts Club

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June 11 Round Bowen Sailboat Race – all day. Concert and entertainment provided Farmers’ Market 10 a.m. to noon at BICS A Taste of Bowen

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While growing up, I had an uncle who had left Saskatoon at 16 to join the United States Merchant Marine using my grandmother’s forged signature. Many years later, he would show up and tell stories in his smooth southern drawl. He’d tell of being made an honorary chief in a village in the South Pacific after rescuing a drowning member of the local tribe. He would describe rituals, animals, exotic plants and strange events from around the world. He was a traveller and a great storyteller and I was hooked on every word.

As soon as I finished university, I

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Theatre on Granville Island for a wonderful afternoon performance. Some of the participants had not been to a live performance in years.

Also in December 2015, he took a full bus of seniors to see the Christmas lights at Endswell Farm and arranged that they turn on the lights just for our visit.

The seniors are grateful to Peter King; a very caring man.

Thank you Peter King.

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CAWES would like to remind readers that we are now entering the time of year when the new fawns will be venturing out and about with their moms for the first time.

They need to learn about cars and how dangerous they can be.

We can help these fragile little creatures by observing the speed limits on the island, which are designed to allow us time to brake or avoid anyone or anything in the road, and by being more vigilant than usual, especially around dusk and at known deer crossings, many of which are posted by the municipality.

It’s also good to remember that the mother deer seem to congregate in nursery groups at this time of year, so when we see one deer, there will likely be more around.

In cases of injured deer, please call Bowen Veterinary Services at 604-947-9247.

It’s also really important for all dog owners to make a special effort to keep dogs leashed at this time.

June 18 Legion’s 80th Birthday Party Noon-4 p.m. Kids Carnival; Barbecue, hot dogs, burgers; 5-7 p.m. Pig Roast Buffet Dinner; 8 p.m.-midnight, Dance your blues away with David Graff & the Continental Grifters and then the Dustin Bentall Band with

Kendal Carson Solo Flamenco 7-9:30 p.m. at Tir-na-nOg June 19 Inviting all Bowen Grade 12 grads and their families to an evening get-together at Rustique Bistro at 7:30 p.m.

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Ready to set sail for Round Bowen Race LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

On Saturday morning you can expect to see more than 100 sailboats racing around the island.

All the boats will be jostling for position in the only “single start” race on the coast, making the Snug Cove start quite a spectacle.

Organizers will not know which direction the boats will head until that morning, but any location from the shores will provide great views of the race.

The event winds down with a barbecue and dance on the Steamships lawn in the evening, open to everyone, landlubbers and sailors alike.

Save room for the delicious treats of the Strawberry Tea The Strawberries are coming! The Strawberries are coming!

Every year at this time, Bowen Island United Church, a.k.a, the Little Red Church in the Apple Orchard, welcomes the community to its annual Strawberry Tea weekend. On Saturday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, June 12 from noon to 4 p.m., the community is invited to come and enjoy the renowned hospitably of the Little Red Church.

Strawberry shortcake will be available with yummy sandwiches. Strawberry pie will also be on the menu. In addition to this, a barbecue will feature hamburgers, veggie burgers and hot dogs.

There will be a silent auction with some amazing items and a raffle that is bound to make several winners leap for joy.

Gently used clothing will be onsite to assist you in enhancing your summer and winter wardrobe and the dazzling Mr. Potts will be onsite to sell their wonderful green and colourful growing things.

All of the above is very enticing but the real thrill of the tea is to come and visit with friends and neighbours who you may not ordinarily see or may have lost touch with. And, it is an opportunity to meet new friends as well.

Bowen Island welcomes new residents on a regular basis and the tea is a natural meeting place for folks wanting to experience the Little Red Church’s wonderful spirit of hospitality.

On both Saturday and Sunday, there will be live music to add to the charm of the setting. Rain or shine, the Little Red Church in the Apple Orchard looks forward to welcoming you and showing off its shiny, sparkling fresh look.

Lorraine Ashdown Bowen Island United Church

Discouraged by slow progress with distillery It is discouraging to hear the challenges faced by the proponents of Copper Spirit Distillery in establishing a business in the Cove.

To have businesses structure their operations around parking requirements is unfortunate. The new proposal, which seeks to diminish the number of patrons the establishment could handle, thereby possibly eliminating the need for so much parking, seems like a poor way to build a community in the Cove. While I can understand the challenges council may face with more people and businesses locating in the Cove, the assumption that more people will auto-

matically lead to more cars I would question. Many Metro Vancouver communities, all of which are seeing an increase in population, have had great success limiting car use through progressive transportation management solutions and centralized dense development. With the reality of not only space limitations but also the need to address global warming, I think it is a bit pessimistic to think that Bowen Islanders will not follow in the footsteps of many of our surrounding communities that are making smarter and sustainable transportation choices.

Rob Wynen

Sail races are common around Bowen. This fleet rounded the south side of the island during cooler weather with good wind for racing. photo HAIG FARRIS

Howe Sound should be named a National Park A move towards National Park status is needed for Howe Sound immediately.

Howe Sound is a spiritual and recreational area for Vancouver, tourists and seaside communities of B.C. This area is under threat by what I have come to refer to as the “Environmental Axis of Evil” armed with industrial weapons of mass destruction.

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On March 6, 1973, after hearing from a delegation having grave concerns about the development of a coal port in Squamish with ships passing through Howe Sound for loading, Vancouver’s

Mayor Phillips and council passed a resolution unanimously, stating that not only should the provincial government immediately halt all plans concerning the coal port developments but that the Howe Sound area should be considered primarily as a recreational area.

So here is the challenge I throw out there today. I dare a group to approach Vancouver Mayor and council, to again renew a resolution condemning the reindustrialization of Howe Sound, and again call for the Howe Sound area to be left for all time as primarily a tourism recreation area.

John Buchanan

Green Man and Frost Queen say “thanks” The Green Man wants to thank the children of Bowen Island for coming to his festival.

He is especially happy to see them with decorated faces and bikes and helmets! There were sure a lot of kids! That was great!

The Towne Crier did an excellent job of directing all the boys and girls and grown-ups too! Thanks, Murray!

The Green Man had a wonderful time at the Maypole and says a big thank you to Sarah Haxby and members of the Black Sheep who were there.

And how proud the Green Man was to see his beautiful banner high above the main street! Hobie Walker bound the banner so that Tim and Shaw Cable were able to hang it up: Thanks to you all!

The Frost Queen was very pleased with how pretty it all looked: and so she thanks Tracey Lee Hearst, Helen Wallwork and the MacKinnon sisters for adding beautiful ribbons and greenery and fabric to make the whole area seem so inviting and special!

And the Medieval Feast was so yummy! The Queen says she thought Joan, Diana and Stephanie of The Snug Cafe looked very fetching serving up Master William’s stews.

She also really appreciated having beautiful music by Doug

Stepple and his friends playing as she shopped at the many Medieval stalls of homemade foods and goods. She knows that twas Rosie Montgomery who organized that, as well as brought her two beautiful donkeys to lead the parade!

Thank you to Kory of the RCMP for making sure everyone was totally safe in our parade!

Both the Ice Queen and the Green Man were thrilled to see the faces painted by the wonderful crew of Brian, Pamela and Meghan Creswick, Liz Watson and Emilie van Lidth de Jeude!

And the 83 magic wands were decorated by Lynn McArthur and Carol MacKinnon!

It was such a pleasure to welcome Maggie Menzies as May Queen, beautiful in Shirley Wrinch’s creation celebrating the Wisteria blossoms.

The Frost Queen, the Green Man and the Green Team thank everyone who participated, took pictures, spread the word (special shout out to The Undercurrent and Margaret Miller at the Office at Artisan Square) and especially to the Community School Association for their funding, support and encouragement!

Until next year, thank you Bowen Island!

Shelagh MacKinnon

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Bud Massender wins top community pharmacist award

Eco-Alliance

Annual General Meeting

LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

June 19, (Sun.) at Collins Hall at 1:00 PM

Guest Speaker:

Bowen Island Municipal Councillor Maureen Nicholson “Water Conservation Strategies for Bowen Island”

Everybody is Welcome!

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Bowen’s Bud Massender, pharmacist and co-owner of Cates Pharmacy, recently won The Consumer Health Bowl of Hygeia, the top award for community pharmacists.

Massender received the award for his outstanding community service and for going above and beyond the call of duty, as recognized by his peers in The British Columbia Pharmacy Association.

Information from the organization noted that the award is

Masterworks Presentations 2016

What is Masterworks?

Join us June 13-16 Can a 14-year-old be expected to conduct a public presentation similar to a TED talk? IPS students have been doing so for over 15 years through a program called Masterworks.

M orks Self-selected, self-directed, and self-presented, the Masterworks independent study project is compulsory for every Grade 9 student and marks a significant academic achievement at IPS. Successful completion of the project results in students gaining 4-credits toward their high school graduating program.

2016 MASTERWORKS PRESENTATIONS

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time

presentation

presenter

faculty advisor

external advisor(s)

Mon, June 13

9:00am

The History of 2D animation

Bret Graham

Ted Spear

Rick Stringfellow, Brian Creswick

10:00am

Attachment – In theory and practice in a Ghanaian orphanage

Allegra Nesbitt-Jerman

Jen Henrichsen

Andrea Bastin, Kelly Matzen

11:00am

Genocide: Definition, Structure, Story and Effect

Julia van Walraven

Victoria Van Schowen

Michael Nichol, Rudy Kovanic

9:00am

How Geography Affects Music

Karina Jorgensen-Fullam

Victoria Van Schowen

Bronwyn Churcher, Buff Allen

10:00am

Growing North - Food security in the Arctic

Liliana Belluk-Orlikow

Ted Spear

David Willis, Denise Lockett

11:00am

Building a Ukulele

Devin MacGregor

Adrian van Lidth de Jeude

Meredith Coloma, Michael Dunn

1:00pm

A Sweet Topic

Hana Wilke

Chelsea Luchenski

Sarah Haxby, Jan Chilvers

2:00pm

The Impact of Sugar - Past and present

Sadie Tokarchuk

Diana Ray

Jack Little, Jen Zdril

9:00am

Rebuilding a Scooter

Matthew Fayle

Adrian van Lidth de Jeude

Geoff Degner

10:00am

Architecture - A study of environmentally friendly residential structures

Scott Peregoodoff

Pam Matthews

Don Nicolson, James Tuer

11:00am

ADHD From My Point of View

Fergus Clarke

Amanda Szabo

Sharon Selby, Jeff Ballou

1:00pm

Building a Business

Jack Wilson

Jen Henrichsen

David Verlee, Elena Verlee

9:00am

The Art of Special Effects

Ben Foster

Christian MacInnis

Daniel Roizman, John White

10:00am

How are Music and Emotion Connected?

Lucia Bicknell

Chelsea Luchenski

Amy Usher, Hamish Thomson

11:00am

Fusion: Energy of the Future

Mattheus Bicknell

Pam Matthews

Reed Bement, Michael Delage

1:00pm

The Sound of Music; An in Depth Look into the Physics of Sound

Ryan Coyle

Christian MacInnis

Rob Bailey

Wed, June 15

Thurs. June 16

For decades, the pharmacy has supported community endeavours, including the local Little League team, fundraising opportunities and ticket sales for choir performances.

A passionate advocate for on-island healthcare services, Massender works in close partnership with all of the island’s healthcare practitioners and centres. His dedicated support of the Orchard Recovery Centre has allowed it to thrive as western Canada’s premier addiction treatment centre.

Most recently, Massender served as president of a local healthcare committee striving to develop a full-service community medical clinic on the island.

The British Columbia Pharmacy Association is a not-forprofit, voluntary, professional association of pharmacists and pharmacies throughout B.C.

Pharmacist Budd Massender is part of the team at Cates Pharmacy. file photo

Local teen supports anti-poaching efforts to protect rhinos LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Grade 9 students at IPS will be publicly presenting their projects at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island. The public is welcome to attend. Please join us.

Tues, June 14

given in recognition of the time and personal sacrifice devoted by pharmacists to the welfare of their respective communities.

Massender, who brought the island its first pharmacy 25 years ago, has taken the time to build relationships with many healthcare professionals, community service groups and patients on Bowen Island. He is also known for his willingness to open the pharmacy during emergency situations at any hour of the day or night.

“There is a really thin line between being in business and being part of the community.

You have to be both and that’s part of the enjoyment of it,” Massender says. “Bowen is absolutely different from anywhere else in the world. People are interested in what’s going on in each other’s lives; that’s pretty infectious.”

For further info please call: 604 947 9311 or view the schedule at

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The remaining wild population of rhinos has dropped to 29,000, and one island teen has decided to try to do something to stop the problem.

Chloe Thompson, 13, says that it is “heartbreaking” to her that today, in South Africa, a Rhino is killed every seven hours.

“To help save the rhinos from going extinct, we are raising $10,000 to send to an organization called Rhinos Without Borders,” says the ambitious teen.

“Rhinos Without Borders is a campaign by the Great Plains Foundation to complete a mission: to save the rhinos.

They shoot tranquillizer darts at rhinos in high-risk areas like South Africa from a helicopter and then airlift them in a cargo plane to relative safety in Botswana.”

Compared to South Africa, Botswana has aggressive

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anti-poaching measures. The journey between countries takes 24 hours.

Chloe says it costs about $45,000 US per rescue including rhino capture, tranquilizing, quarantines, release, monitoring and security.

To raise funds so far, Chloe, along with the help of classmate Ben Calder, have set up an online account on the Philanthropy Project site, generating $450 in donations this year.

“To save the rhinos, we are raising $10,000,” says Chloe.

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Good news for researchers at Tunstall Bay LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

As a team poured over a grid created by strings stretched out above the rocks on Tunstall Bay Beach, the researchers and volunteers made a great discovery.

After a horrifying die-off of sea stars in what was called a state of marine ecological emergency a few years back, the researchers had good news. There are still sea stars in the bay and there has been some recovery in the marine life.

Researcher Shannon Bard says that the group didn’t see any sea stars with wasting disease, which turned the animals, limb by limb, to mush.

On Saturday afternoon, as the tide pulled away from the headland, the group counted a small number of adult sea stars. Because the disease was the most devastating to adult sea stars, any remaining adults managed to survive the disease, which was great news on Bowen’s shores. Most of the other sea stars were half the size of an adult or younger, says Bard.

Bard was on Bowen to do a follow-up to a study she began two decades ago, when she studied the impact of pulp mills along the North American coast in relation to dioxins and furans, the compounds that result from the paper bleaching process. Now, with cleaner technology at mills and with some of the earlier mill sites Bard tested shut down, she is seeing some dramatic improvements to ecosystems.

“Since 1990 there have been increases in species and diversity overall,” she says. “Howe Sound is recovering, but not at the rate of some other areas like Powell River where marine life tripled after closure of a mill.”

She notes that she doesn’t have historical data for Tunstall Bay or Howe Sound, so it is hard to know what a fully recovered region would look like, but the area is still in recovery.

It will be a while before the hard data is in and analyzed and Bard says that tests for dioxins and furans are still very expensive per sample. Tests for metals are less expensive, making it easier to test for metals and mercury mined along the coast. Bard says that even without the data she can see something else that represents good news.

“It is most interesting that there was a large number of red rock crabs in addition to the purple sea stars,” says Bard.

Bard adds words of caution for parents of little beach explorers who may find the sea stars and red crabs.

“It’s important that people understand beach etiquette.

It’s also important that kids don’t pick up a species from one zone, like a low-tide zone, and then leave it in a high-tide zone, or take something from a low-tide area and leave it to dry out in a high-tide zone,” she explains.

Each animal needs to be returned to its original location, and within a short time frame, as soon as possible. Bard also asks that people rolling rocks away to look for crabs return the rocks facing the same side down as before, being careful not to crush the animals, and to leave the habitat under the rock the same as before.

There have been other unusual marine life sightings, says Bob Turner, a local naturalist who is also a long distance ocean swimmer. He notes the sudden appearance of large schools of northern sardines that may be attracting predators. Turner says there is even a report of a humpback whale catching sardines by Tunstall Bay last week. There have also been more sightings of sea lions close to shore and on one south-side dock.

Bard says there is a lot of complexity around the recovery of a species. The top of the food chain is impacted from what goes on at the bottom of the food chain. Missing sea stars allow for proliferation of other species that impacts kelp beds, which impacts small fish that impacts bigger fish and then

Marine scientist Shannon Bard leads a research team on Sunday looking for biodiversity recovery at Tunstall Bay. LOUISE LOIK photo

Shannon Bard, a marine environmental scientist and ecological toxicologist, examines ecology in the intertidal zones. Bard says marine life at Tunstall Bay is improving. LOUISE LOIK photo marine mammals.

“With invertebrates, we want to do things that will help the recovery of a species not to get stalled out,” she says.

Sometimes that means rebuilding shoreline habitat or introducing larvae to a site or adults from a species. On Tunstall Bay Beach, however, there has been no local intervention, just pollution controls.

Bard notes that the number of individuals has increased 50 per cent.

She adds that the biodiversity has a ways to go before reaching its full potential, though it is difficult to know what that level may be.

For now, the red crabs and purple sea stars are making headway on the road to recovery.

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The Asian Paints company employees top performers enjoyed friendly competitions, music, food and getting their nails done as part of an incentive trip from India. LOUISE LOIK photo

The Yoyo Hikers Club spent a day exploring the trails around Killarney Lake.

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A big week for tourism on Bowen LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Bowen Island tourism has had a heck of a boost in the last couple of weeks.

Two weeks ago, a Vancouver hiking group came over to walk Killarney Lake trails with 150 of their 400 members. “We find a different place every week where we can walk 10 kilometres,” said hiker Monica Mo. This was their 115th hike as a club. They arrived in Horseshoe Bay by tour buses, walked into Crippen Park, some with dogs or children, and picnicked in the sun in the bike park and around the picnic tables, lakeside.

Just a few days later, on Wednesday, 300 tourists from India, in B.C. for two weeks, arrived by boats organized out of Horseshoe

Bay. As the top Indian producers for Asian Paints, the group celebrated their success with a corporate event on the Union Steamships lawn and the Bowfest field. The group started their tour earlier in the week in Victoria, and after Bowen headed to Whistler. Because this event was staged in New York City last year, the company was looking for the antithesis of big city excitement this year, instead wanting to focus on the beauty of nature.

Doc Morgan’s staff helped at the event where there was everything from mini golf to races, a sit-down meal, live music and dancing before wrapping up at 4 p.m. Union Steamship, Doc Morgan’s and Sewell’s are in conversation with Thomas Cook Vacations of India to bring smaller groups of tourists to Bowen from India next year.

Entertainers from the B.C. Culture Musical Group helped raise the energy for a large corporate event in the cove on Wednesday. Minalkshi dances to the drumbeat of Desraj while Jyoti looks on. LOUISE LOIK photo

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Fire hall Open House attracts crowd of hundreds LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

There’s something about a fire truck on display that changes adult men and women into a junior version of themselves.

At the fire station Open House on Saturday kids popped on firefighters’ helmets to look at trucks and watch a rescue demonstration. Men and women stepped up onto the trucks, feeling momentarily like a kid playing at being a firefighting superhero.

To entice the crowds to the event, for weeks in advance of the day, the fire crew had a banner hanging across the parking lot of the new fire station announcing that an Open House was imminent. The planning paid off. Knowing

that an Open House at the fire hall means playing with equipment, putting on hard hats and climbing around on shiny red fire trucks, dozens of families, amounting to hundreds of individuals, came out to the event.

On the ground, there was more going on than a display of fire trucks and equipment. A group of firefighters demonstrated how they do a rescue in a car crash with a crushed car. Kids were riveted watching a car get cut open by the crew. There were also experts on hand to explain the Neighbourhood Emergency Response program as well as the Social Services Emergency program.

The neighbourhood program is new this year and incorporates technology that

could allow for efficient emergency communications around the island and to the mainland, in addition to hands-on emergency response.

The social services program is part of a provincial program that supports the local emergency response program that would help out with shortterm needs of evacuees and response workers in a disaster or emergency.

While the volunteer firefighters are trained to deal with many forms of emergencies, they also know how to impress children and visitors at the fire hall. One little boy, Tyler, who had fun climbing into the fire trucks, summed up his experience at Fire Station No.2. “It was so fun,” said the six-year old. “And the fire trucks are really cool.”

What could be more fun for a little boy than putting on a firefighter’s helmet and climbing behind the steering wheel of a fire truck? Liam is ready to roll into action.

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Advisory committee seeking input on weekend ferry service Have you ever had your Saturday morning thrown off entirely, because there is no 7:30 a.m. ferry and the 8:30 a.m. ferry just won’t get you where you need to go in time?

Do you miss the convenience of the 9:30 a.m.

Sunday ferry when running a full day of errands and visiting family off island? Shown up at the ferry dock in time for the 7:30 p.m. ferry on Saturday only to remember there is no 7:30 on Saturday!

The Bowen Island Ferry Advisory Committee seeks your input on how you and your household have been affected by the reduction in weekend ferry service. The survey also asks for input on alternative schedule amendments that

will be suggested to BC Ferries to better match sailing times with the needs of the Bowen Island community.

In 2014, the provincial government mandated that BC Ferries find $15 million in efficiency improvements which resulted in the cancellation of nine weekly sailings on the Horseshoe Bay to Bowen Island route (Route 8) for an approximate cost saving of $270,000.

In March 2014, Bowen Islanders protested fare hikes and service cuts to our weekend schedule.

BC Ferries and its sole shareholder, the provincial government, failed to conduct any socioeconomic impact studies on the impact of the proposed cuts.

BC Ferries implemented the final revised weekend schedule with the cancellation of nine sailings in April 2014 with no final community consultation.

We have received feedback from the community that the current weekend schedule is not meeting the needs of Bowen Island residents needing to travel off island. We have heard from families who participate in sports or travel frequently on the weekends that this has been a real issue. Households have had to give up activities, arrive late or get up excessively earlier, or make arrangements to travel the night before.

We have also heard from individuals who work off island on the weekend that the morning

schedule is ill-timed.

To improve the situation we want to open up a dialogue with BC Ferries to see if we can amend the schedule so it better reflects the needs of the community.

The next FAC with BC Ferries meeting is Tuesday, June 14, 9:30-noon at Municipal Hall.

The community is welcome to attend.

Visit bimbc.ca/ferry-survey to take the survey, which will remain open until June 20. We thank you in advance for your valuable input and feedback.

Coun. Melanie Mason is a member of the Bowen Island Ferry Advisory Committee.

Dear Friends: I would like to share with you a note I sent to family on the morning of May 17

Island Discovery’s New Grade 7-9 Program

A limited number of select spots still available in our new program!

Overview: • a group of only 12 students grades 7-9 • classes at a teen centre close to the cove and only 3-4 days a week • students have time to pursue their passions as part of their curriculum • fully accredited public program, supervised by B.C. certified teachers • no tuition (fees only for field trips and workshops) • flexible, creative, and individually-designed learning plans

“It is with a heaviness of heart and deep sadness that I will tell you of the passing of my dear wife Liz. She moved on just before three this morning. I held her left hand in mine while my right hovered just above her heart, sharing energy and love. I know many are waiting to greet her on the next part of her journey, not the least of who are her parents and sisters. At this moment sitting quietly beside her I ache to grieve her loss yet am strangely pulled toward the light of family and friends, enjoying the warmth of what has been, what is and what can be. This warmth is the spirit of Liz surrounding me in my hour of need. She is with me and I am heartened.”

A celebration of life will be held on Saturday July 9th from 1-3:30 at our home, 1691 Whitesails Dr. here on Bowen.

The Callanish Society and the work she did as part of that team brought Liz much peace and personal fulfillment. I know, rather than any other memoriam, she would appreciate any and all who would help sponsor the Callanish fondo team which is riding this fall to raise funds for the Society’s work. Just google Callanish Society and follow the links.

Highlights: • tow overnight outdoor trips per year, and one extended trip • science connections with UBC and SFU • classes designed to suit students’ own specifications and interests • a reasonable amount of homework - not hours every day!

• strong focus on developing emotional intelligence • a compassionate and caring environment • interesting workshops with many community partners • teen nights and family social events monthly For 13 years, our students have excelled when moving into grade 10 at other schools, because we prepare them with what is most important to learn in order to be successful in today’s world, and because they are creative, confident, excited about learning, and happy with who they are.

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Park study to be carried through to the fall from PAGE 1 of the site.

One idea that is being proposed by Family Place is to create a small children’s play and picnic area using natural materials that blend into the site. Though the idea has been tabled, there is no design being proposed. What comes to mind might be a climbing structure like the cedar log structures in Ambleside at the waterfront park, at Whistler, or in many other communities around the province. The idea is to “modestly enhance the lower picnic area in Crippen Park’s Bowfest field with a small play area for those too young to hike, but old enough to develop an appreciation of the outdoors while their parents, extended family or friends relax on nearby picnic benches.”

The value of the entire park as part of the Metro parks system is significant. Overall, Crippen Park sees an increasing number of

visitors every year. In spite of the additional cost of the ferry, and the time to travel to the park, visits to Crippen Park have kept pace with the rest of Metro Vancouver’s regional park visits. Bowen’s annual rate of increase in visitors last year was up four per cent, jumping from 270,000 visitors to 281,000.

The regional average was only five per cent higher. As far as bookings for the park, 42 days were used for special events that hosted close to 12,000 guests; a number higher than in almost any other regional park. The picnic shelter bookings were the highest of any Metro park. Just last week, one event in the park hosted 300 non-resident visitors in one day, and in the area by the lake, a group consisting of 150 hikers gathered for a walk and a picnic. This weekend, the 100-boat Round Bowen sailing race will also have spillover from the docks into the park, and into the Davies Orchard.

The park study will be carried through to the fall.

Bob Turner chats casually with local resident Kevin Huskisson, who works for Metro Vancouver Parks, about salmon fry in the Crippen Park stream by the Bowfest field and boardwalk. photo LOUISE LOIK

Local fish and wildlife advocates giving salmon a fighting chance from PAGE 1 the salt water. The coho may be in the same creek as the chum and pink, but they

stay hidden as much as possible during their long wait to swim in the sea. Much of the time they will hide under logs.

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Pardee says coho are in distress up and down the West Coast, adding that he hasn’t seen any returning coho.

Pardee says that someone

Monday June 13th 7:00 pm Evening highlights include three fun, fast paced, Pecha Kucha style presentations on the intersection of heritage, arts and culture on Bowen Island. Presented

by Judi Gedye, Jacqueline Massey and Tina Nielsen

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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BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH www.bowencommunitychurch.org Pastor Clinton Neal 1070 1070 Miller Miller Road 604-947-0384 604-947-0441 Service 10:30Service a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m.

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noticed salmon fry in a Deep Bay Creek. When he went to check out the fish, he discovered that they were coho fry, approximately 100 of them, unexpectedly in a creek that would be dry within a month as summer rolled in. “We rescued the salmon, brought them to the hatchery and

fed them and after a week, released them into Terminal Creek.”

This sort of vigilance and effort is nothing unusual for the members of the club.

According to Metro Parks, in the past year, volunteers with Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife gave 1,000 hours of

service to salmon projects and public engagement.

For Pardee, the time is well-spent. “It’s all to support wild salmon,” he says. “All the habitat work we do is for the salmon. It’s all very worthwhile.”

We’re giving wild salmon a fighting chance.

Belterra Cohousing FOR SALE BY OWNER $495,000

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Belterra is a strata community where resident-members share decisionmaking, volunteer projects, vegetable gardens, and a wood shop, while maintaining privacy and home ownership.

The home for sale has in-floor heahng, double-wall construchon, propane range, custom features and private balcony off upstairs bedroom. Common amenihes includeo a 3r00 sk. �. Common House, with 2 guest rooms, children’s playroom, an industrial-sized gourmet kitchen and more.

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Bowen golfers celebrate a decade on the greens BRUCE RUSSELL CONTRIBUTOR

It was 10 years ago that Bush Golf gave way to real nine-hole public golf course here on Bowen.

To celebrate the anniversary on May 10, the club offered free golf to all players, along with speeches and birthday cake at the clubhouse. It was a fitting celebration for the broad-based community effort that turned the 77-year dream of a public course into a reality.

President Al Morse was on hand to introduce the speakers, including Mayor Skeels who applauded the effort to create a public amenity of which the members and island community could be proud.

The course, was created by volunteers, from its initial concept into to a course winning accolades from beyond the local shores. In 2012, the course was chosen by the Professional Golfers Association of B.C., as the “third best hidden gem in the province,” and in 2014, by Canadian Golf Magazine as “one of the best nine-hole courses in Canada.”

This summer, the course has the distinction of hosting the B.C. Bantam Provincial Championships for golfers 14-years-old and under on Aug. 22, 23 and 24.

The timing of the anniversary celebration coincided perfectly with the eve of the club’s Community Challenge where 18 neighbourhood foursomes vied for the coveted Gwynneth Rogers trophy.

Rogers’ daughter Jill Purdy presented the trophy, a Green Wing Teal, carved by Reverend Bob Miller. The trophy bears the name of a pioneer Bowen family, on whose former lands the golf course is located.

Penny Moul, one of the founders of the club, was instrumental in starting the Bowen Island Women’s League. HEATHER COULTHART photo

Grady Huskisson received one of the two $750 scholarships presented by Soren Hammerberg, chair, Bowen Island Community Foundation. Charlie Welsh (missing from photo) also received $750. BIGC photo

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