Bowen Island Undercurrent June 17 2016

FRIDAY JUNE 17, 2016 VOL. 42, NO. 72

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Life in a Tibetan monastery

Grandmother helps young monks

Words of wisdom

Wade Davis speaks to graduates

Island talk

Gratitude and fury in the community

Participants head out for the annual Round Bowen race Saturday morning. The event had a good turnout despite the grey, rainy weather, and a serious lack of wind.

More than 100 boats participated. The event was followed by a reception barbecue (photo below). photos Ron Van Dyke / Louise Loik

Sailing race draws large crowd LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

The annual Round Bowen race had a huge turnout on Saturday morning in spite of the grey rainy weather and a serious lack of wind.

With more than 100 boats maneuvering for a starting

position, the adrenaline was pumping at this single-start race, the only one of its kind on the coast.

Organized by the local yacht club, competitors from all around the area joined in on the fun.

Typically there is a staggered start in sailing races,

but as wind and currents continuously change, the single start has some advantages.

Winners are determined by type and size of boat, with seven different categories starting with boats under 60 feet, and including multihull boats like catamarans, cruis-

ing boats, and martins.

The annual race started at 10 a.m. and wound up around 5:30 p.m.

The event was followed by a reception barbecue, awards and dancing on the decks to local band Black Molly, winding up the celebrations under clear moonlit skies.

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Effective July 1, 2016, each residential property will be entitled to put out ONE can of non-organic garbage without requiring a valid garbage decal.

June 17, 2016 9:30 AM

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From Capital Hill to the Himalaya LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Before Caroline Orr can open the pathway gate to her home, Tashi shoves her little black nose under the gate letting Orr know that she has a visitor.

“Her name comes from the Tibetan greeting, Tashi delek,” says the silver-haired woman whose hair is youthfully tied back in a smooth ponytail. Her little dog, a silky Himalayan breed, has been named appropriately. Tashi greets with big eyes and friendly attitude.

Orr and Tashi live in a one-bedroom suite adjacent to Orr’s daughter Suki, and Suki’s family. Orr likes the simplicity of her home, having become accustomed to living a simple life after spending months teaching at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northern India. She’s had her arthritic hands cramp up from the cold of the unheated monastery after nights curled up in a sleeping bag. She’s gone without hot showers until she was advised by a medical practitioner to move out to where she could warm up her joints and have a warm shower. It’s clear that Carolyn Orr, or “Momo” as the monks call her, is not your typical grandmother.

For starters, the Scottish-born woman gave birth to Suki in Bangkok and has lived in Australia, Hong Kong, the U.S., different parts of Canada, and Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It’s hard to focus on Orr’s work in Tibet once these morsels of information have spilled out into the conversation.

“It’s not something I talk about,” says Orr, but it’s too late. The cat is out of the bag, and there is a whole pot of tea to tide us over as she backtracks on a fascinating life. It’s a story that will tack back to her work in a monastery. Orr says that when she was living in Scotland, she had a map of the British Empire.

“I looked at it and decided I wanted to go all over the map,” says Orr. She describes how, inspired by the map, she set out by boat from Scotland to Australia. After some exploring in Australia, she continued onto the other side of the world. Orr stopped in San Francisco where she met the man she would marry.

“This was during the Vietnam draft,” she says. He went to Stanford and Harvard and was selected to work for the Agency for International Development and the Hudson Institute in New York, a policy research organization. He was sent to Vietnam as the advance man, and Orr went with him. She doesn’t like talking about “that dark era.” The Hudson Institute advised against counter-insurgency in Vietnam, but once it had begun, Orr was there, to learn firsthand about some of the unfolding atrocities in the war. Orr wasn’t hidden safely away. Her own life was in jeopardy as a jeep was blown up on the road in front of her, and the car she was in ended up with more than a dozen bullet holes in the side. She saw what was going on in the field, and behind the scenes. Orr was in many ways, a fly on the wall of an era, seeing and hearing things that never went into the history books. “That was also when Martin Luther King was shot,” she adds sadly.

When Orr became pregnant, she went to nearby Thailand to give birth to her daughter. After the baby was born, the young family moved to Washington. Orr’s husband was one of 18 intellectuals brought to Capital Hill as a thought-leader. Lyndon B. Johnson was in power, and her husband worked under Johnson.

Caroline Orr enjoys a moment with two young monks. photo supplied

Caroline Orr stands among the monks at a monastery in Bir, India where she taught English and is working to solve problems with eyesight and hearing. photo supplied “We went to all the Whitehouse functions,” says Orr. “Then Nixon came in.” Even though her husband’s one-year term was only halfway done, the change in leadership forced him out to Alaska to work for the Secretary of the Interior. “There was such paranoia in the Whitehouse. Everything was bugged. If we wanted to talk we had to go out to our car.”

From Alaska, the family moved to Fernie, B.C. “I had a three-year-old and there was 14 feet of snow, but it was OK.” Her husband spent much of his time in New York on business, and ultimately the couple parted ways. Orr moved back to the U.S., to the seaside city of Carmel wih Suki, and eventually came to Canada, finding her way, as adventurers do, to Bowen Island.

With a grown-up daughter, Orr decided to pursue her old love of travel and, specifically, a longing to travel to Tibet. “I’ve always felt a pull to Tibet,” she says. In Tibet, however, she was faced with the harsh realities of the Tibetans living under Chinese rule. The soft-spoken, articulate woman who studies spiritual philosophy is very upset by what she has seen happening to Tibetans. She talks about the destruction of the people, the place, the land and water problems, and the destruction of the Tibetan culture with compassion and grief.

“The Tibetans were the happiest people I ever met. In spite of the atrocities.” She continues, “India is an unsung hero here. They gave land to the Tibetans, and allowed the refugees in.” What has been happening in Tibet is no secret to the world, and Orr finds the international disinterest disturbing. On top of everything else, “127 monks have self-immolated and nobody cares.”

After her first visit to Tibet, she knew she would want to do something to help. Orr found a remote town in Northern India that is home to Tibetan Refuges. Her plan was to help out with refugee children in a town called Bir. “I was planning to help 12 kids under the age of three,” but plans have a way of changing.

Bir was freezing, and with no heating in the schools, the schools were closed. Monks asked Orr instead to teach in a monestary.

“I ended up with 32 kids aged four to 17, teaching English and math.” She’d never taught before but adapted quickly to the unexpected situation. “Within one week they were calling me ‘Momo,’ which means grandma.”

Orr took on a full 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work load every day for three months without pay. While Orr was there teaching, she taught English for classes of 15, rotating through groups of monks.

“English teachers cost $100 a month,” she says, and they are hard to find. She helped set up a curriculum so that as teachers rotate through, there is continuity in the lessons. “I felt vital. I have never felt more wanted.”

She says the boys would come get her to include her in their activities and outings. “Momo” nurtured the children who never complained when they were tired or sick. Most of these boys, who were sent out of Tibet by their parents to escape persecution, will never see their parents again. Orr says in spite of being so young and away from their families, the monks appear happy and at peace. “There is never a discipline problem.” She can leave the children in a room, come back 15 minutes later and they are still at their desks focused on their work. The Tibetan children living in India have had to learn the local Indian dialect, as well as

Nepali, with English as a fourth language. “And they are very good at math,” says Orr. The monks of all ages got up every morning at 5 a.m. for prayers. Their classes ended at 5 p.m., with an afternoon nap at 2 p.m. What Orr noticed more than anything wasn’t that the kids were worn out from their long days, or bored by a lack places to go and things to do. Instead, “they had a fascination with everything. They weren’t embarrassed to be silly. There was such laughter and fun.” The monks live at the monastery until they are 18. At that age, they are free to leave. But few choose to leave this particular monastery, says Orr. She reflects that leaving the monks was harder on her than it was for them to see her go. She credits their Tibetan Buddhist philosophy ,which helps them to accept that “whatever is happening in the moment is right.” She taps pictures on her iPad and a video pops up of young monks being very animated and seemingly confrontational with each other. She explains that this is a debating team. “They debate philosophy, and have to be able to defend their beliefs,” she explains, adding that this is the only time the monks will argue a point.

Aside from their usually placid personalities, Orr noticed something else about the boys. Orr noticed that no one was wearing glasses. “I found a company in San Francisco who designed glasses for kids, with plastic, flexible, lightweight frames.”

The glass frames were designed for children in need in Mexico.

The frames were made in Mexico for Augen Optics. Orr rallied support from friends and got enough funds to help the kids living in the monastery in India, to see. She got a local clinic to organize help from doctors in a nearby town to do some eye tests. She then had the custom-made glasses distributed to the children. She finds it amusing that the young monks typically chose bright coloured frames instead of basic black. For the future, Orr is looking at technology developed at MIT called an EyeNetra. It attaches to an iPhone and electronically does an eye test. She also wants to get the children’s hearing tested. “A lot of them have had prolonged infections that affected their hearing.” She adds that she doesn’t know how she’ll solve the problem, but she’ll try.

She also has plans for more adventure. “This time I will also go to Ladakh,” she says. Ladakh is in the northern tip of India, an area that is remote, difficult to access, and a combination of mountain and desert. “It will take two days to drive 400 kilometres along the most dangerous road in the world, to get up to 5,500 metres.”

Caroline Orr’s ambitions don’t end with eyesight, hearing and education. Orr also wants to do some fundraising for a clinic where “they don’t even have a table to lie on.”

She describes people having to lie on the floor or sit on a chair while they get their leg stitched.

“There is an X-ray machine but the cartridge is almost out, and it costs 24,000 rupees,” (around $460) to replace. She plans to do another trip to India in the fall and by then she hopes she will have raised the funds for the clinic, to supply glasses to the kids and have a way to do something for the hearing impaired. Meanwhile, she has her own extended family who wants her company on this Sunday afternoon. And now, the teapot is finally empty.

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A celebration of youth taking flight With the conclusion of the school year, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate the island’s young graduates as they move into a new stage of life. We wish the graduates of all ages growth, wonder, courage and joy in the years ahead.

To the parents who are watching and supporting the fledging of their young, we congratulate you on raising a great group of young adults.

The community has watched and supported these students over the years. We’ve seen the children grow up into teens who have added to the character of the island and have shown great character and leadership while they’ve been in town at high school.

We can be proud of this group as they prepare for a life that may take them, if only for a while, away from the island.

Congratulations to the parents and the graduates, and may the next stage for both

groups be lots of fun.

My own daughter Becky is among the high school graduates, and as she wraps up at high school, I am wrapping up my stint as editor at the Undercurrent. I am grateful for the support and encouragement you have given me over the course of this term.

It’s been quite a journey. We’ve shared laughter and tears and I’ve been honoured to have this special role in the community.

It’s been great to meet so many new islanders in the course of this job, as well as getting to know long-time locals with whom I’d never before crossed paths. It’s been hard work, but ever so interesting.

Meribeth will be back next month.

I hope you enjoy this edition, and have a wonderful summer.

Louise

Nearly three decades later, still missing island life I left Bowen Island 27 years ago and I have been living in England for 13 years but I just can’t get Bowen out of my mind. This year, June 19, I turn 70. Where did the time go?

And what do you do to celebrate such a milestone?

As we sat in our seaside home, in Leigh on Sea in Essex, we contemplated where in the world we could go to mark this very special occasion? When my wife Lorraine asked me to choose the first place that came to mind, it was Bowen Island, without hesitation.

Lorraine was not so convinced until I explained that Bowen Island is a place where I felt I was part of a wonderful community. From 1974 to 1987 it was where my kids Kipper and Kimberley were raised.

One of the crazy things we used to do was to saddle the horses and the three of us would ride from the old fire hall down to the cove. We would leave the horses behind my salon and they would walk to school. In those days the salon was called Union Hair

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Company, just behind the bakery. After school, Kipper and Miss. Kim would walk back to the salon, get on the horses and ride home with their mum Renie following close behind in the car. Once my day was over I would ride my horse Gwen, home. It was a simple life.

Bowen was small in population back then, but big in heart.

I sometimes dropped off my car at Don Leigh’s garage and walked around the corner to the post office. This was home to two very interesting characters, Larry Reid and Don Smith, who worked side by side. It was always fun watching the cat fight. Then I’d be off to Bowmart for a coffee where Alec and Helen worked. That was an intoxicating experience.

I’d eventually get to the General Store where Angie McCallop and Ruth Berube, would greet me. They’d always be laughing and joking with whoever walked through the door.

No one could ever feel alone on Bowen. New people would move onto the island and that Interim Editor Louise Loik

would mean new friends.

There’s a saying, “Strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet.” How true that was on Bowen.

The island has a soul, where people have time to get to

know you, and want to get to know you. If you need a helping hand, it is there, you just have to ask. I know I was very lucky to have been a part of Bowen history for a short while. The memories will be

with me forever.

So when I am asked the question, where do I want to celebrate my 70th with friends and family? The answer is simple: Bowen Island.

Peter Nash

Fun on Father’s Day with Family Place picnic Father’s Day is once again upon us and the Father’s Day Picnic on Bowen Island provides a fun opportunity for playful interactions with other fathers/parents and some quality downtime with dad. Pack up a picnic, pick up a blanket and head down to Crippen Park and join us in play

in a tug of war, cup cake walk, nature hunt and much more. Not to forget the photo opportunity for all babies born in 2015!

Mark your calendar for June 19 and join the fun from 10 a.m. to noon in Crippen Park, brought to you by Family Place.

Bowen Island celebrates Canada Day Put your maple leaf on, wear your best red and white and come join Bowen Island Community Recreation in celebrating Canada’s 149th birthday. This fun-filled free event is being held noon to 3 p.m. in Crippen Park on July 1. Gather the whole family and boogie to music by Back

Eddy and the Procrastinators, an inspired West Coast-style ska-reggae band from Cortez Island. While the tunes are pumping visit the reptile booth, get your face painted, play badminton, bocce or take part in family relays and the tug of war. Bring your own picnic or enjoy some

yummy food provided by Alderwood Farm and Artisan Eats. At the end of the afternoon enjoy some birthday cake donated by The Bowen Island Pub. It’s a party you don’t want to miss! Many thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding the event.

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Poop on trails: facts, fictions, truths and taboos Should we be concerned when we find horse poop on the trails and roads around Bowen? No! Horse poop is very different from dog poop.

Horse poop is recycled grass and entirely biodegradable.

In fact, gardeners regard it as “black gold.” Topsoil and fertilizers contain horse poop. Pumpkins and tomatoes, roses and dahlias flourish on horse poop. Horse manure compost provides a natural source of nitrogen for plants and improves soil structure, drainage, aeration and moisture retention.

Just think, every spring, people flock to purchase the bags of horse manure sold by BIHORA as one of the best possible fertilizers for their gardens.

Any kind of poop that comes from herbivores (creatures that eat grasses) – that includes deer, rabbits and geese – is virtually harmless to humans. The parasites in the guts of herbivores are specific to them and will not cause disease in carnivores.

By contrast, dog poop, like cat poop and human poop – all poop from carnivores – poses considerable risks to health.

Dog feces can carry common diseases that can be transmitted to people such as giardia, roundworms, salmonella and E.coli. For example, toxocariasis, contracted from dog roundworms, can cause blindness in children. And infected feces

can spread parvovirus to other dogs. All of these diseases are very serious and common. If your dog is inclined to coprophagia (eating poop), you should ensure it has regular fecal examinations and dewormings if needed.

How to explain some people’s yuck response to finding horse poop on trails? Probably those people are applying to horses what they have learned about their own excrement.

Human society tends to be very secretive about excretion habits and rituals. But this cultural response is not applicable to the poop of animals, least of all strictly vegetarian creatures such as horses and deer, rabbits and geese.

Poop is natural: all living things make manure.

Yes, I agree that it boggles the imagination to think about all of the poop created by the birds, squirrels, deer and bears in the forest. Not to mention all the fish, pooping away in our creeks and lakes. But that poop is not a problem. The manure created by the billions of people on this planet is a much more serious concern, as is the methane produced by the millions of cattle kept in the barren feed lots of North American agri-business.

Back to horse poop: more than 80 per cent of horse manure is water that quickly evaporates or leaches into the ground. The rest of the manure is made up of indigestible

Bursaries toward Youth centre thanks supporters environmental for a great night sustainability Bowen Island Community Recreation and the Bowen Youth Centre would like to thank all of the volunteers for participating in our Leaders In Training Night.

With more than 30 participants, it was one of our busiest years yet!

A big thanks to Jeff Willis from Creative Toolbox for facilitating the evening and bringing his wisdom and enthusiasm yet again to Bowen.

This would not be possible without the financial support of First Credit Union. Kevin Manning and everyone at First Credit Union have been instrumental in the success of this program.

LIT is a volunteer program for youth on Bowen, which allows them to help with kids’ summer camps and community events to gain volunteer hours, leadership skills and life experiences.

Thanks to you all again!

For more information, contact Bowen Community Recreation at 604-947-2216.

John Stiver

The purpose of Knick Knack Nook Re-Use It Store Society is to foster leadership in environmental sustainability through both action and education. To that end, a total of $15,000 will be awarded in 2016 to individuals with strong ties to Bowen who are pursuing learning opportunities in support of their capacity to advance environmental sustainability.

Two types of bursaries will be available this year: 1. Bursaries for Students Pursuing Academic Studies: This category is in support of students proceeding to studies at a post-secondary level that clearly develop the capacity

Dog kills deer while on a run with owner I just witnessed a horrific event and I’m furious.

In the morning I sit and have my coffee looking out over the lagoon.

We live in the corner house, high enough to view and enjoy all the pleasures of the lagoon and Sandy Beach area.

Before I could blink an eye a deer ran across the causeway with a black, spaniel/lab cross in hot pursuit. The deer jumped off of the landing onto the small beach at the far end of the causeway.

The dog was in hot pursuit. I ran out onto my deck and shouted to no avail then I heard a voice in Crippen Park directly across from the house. It was obvious that she was trying to find her dog as she was calling out a name.

I called to her and told her that her dog chased a deer into the water in front of the causeway.

“Please control your dog,” I yelled. “It’s going to kill the deer.”

The dog was an expert swimmer and was relentless. The deer did not have a hope in hell and is now floating lifeless in the water.

The dog’s owner showed up. It was obvious that she was distressed over the terrible situation as her hands covered her face as if to erase the horrific sight.

The dog had finished off the poor animal and was obeying the owner’s calls to heed.

Within a few seconds they were both gone in a full sprint towards the cove. She must have realized the gravity of the situation, knowing that her dog could be impounded and she could be fined heavily.

You see, they – the owner and the dog – were having a pleasant morning jog along the winding trails within Crippen Park.

The dog was not on a leash. The owner was not in control.

Dog owners please take charge of your animal. This is the law.

Louise Carachelo Davis Sleepy Lagoon

of this individual to advance environmental sustainability.

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The application deadline has been extended to June 30.

2. Bursaries in Support of Alternative Paths of Environmental Learning: This category is in support of individuals of all ages who want to pursue alternative paths of learning that clearly develop their capacity to advance environmental sustainability.

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plant parts such as grass fibres and grain hulls. This material dries quickly and breaks down into small bits of organic matter that naturally fertilizes the ground. It’s essentially the same as the dried grass on a mowed lawn and it disappears in less than three weeks.

It is not necessary and it is definitely not practical to remove horse manure.

A moment’s thought suggests that expecting riders to dismount and scoop the horse poop while maintaining control of a 1,000 pound highly-strung animal on a path or roadway is likely to be dangerous. Birds and insects and weather will help disperse the manure, if an avid gardener doesn’t get there first.

Fact: Horse manure is recycled grass.

Fact: Horse manure does not spread disease.

Fact: Horse manure doesn’t require removal.

For more information on the benefits of horse manure see the website, manuremaiden.com, run by Langley Environmental Partners Society.

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Lee Dulong passed away at North Shore Hospice at 1:50 pm on Friday, June 3rd 2016, surrounded by friends and family.

Lee and his family are incredibly thankful to all those who visited and for the outpour of support from the Bowen Island community.

He left this world knowing he was indeed well loved!

On a personal note from Patricia Laursen: Lee was one of the first people I met when I came to Bowen in 1978. He became part of my family and I his. I feel his loss to my core but take solace in knowing he is in the light, has no pain and is reunited with his beloved children, Shawn and Danielle and his mom.

Shelagh, thank you so much for your words to him just before he left. You calmed his apprehensions and helped him to the light.

Your support, kindness and wisdom is truly a gift to us all.

A memorial service will be held at a later date to allow his family time to re-group. The date and other particulars will be advertised in a future issue of the Undercurrent.

Our dear old ‘cowboy’ has ridden into the light, unburdened and at peace.

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Advice for the graduates Wade Davis CONTRIBUTOR

There are tens of thousands of teachers out there in every corner of the world that you did not even know you had. You can sail with Polynesian Wayfinders, navigators who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessels.

You can follow the Tendai monks in Japan, who as part of their initiation run 17 hours at a stretch every day for seven years, wearing out five pairs of sandals a day.

You can join a caravan of blue robed Taureg in the searing sands of the Sahara, or hunt narwhal with the Inuit in the light of the midnight sun.

Sit by the side of a Bodhisattva in a Tibetan cave, or study medicine at the foot

of an Amazonian shaman. Or you can pursue completely different avenues of adventure and discovery, in science, the arts, social justice, engineering, medicine, the military or the clergy. No generation has had so many options, or shown such promise. . . .

Life is neither linear nor predictable. A career is not something that you put on like a coat. It is something that grows organically around you, step-by-step, choice-bychoice, and experience-byexperience. Everything adds up. No work is beneath you.

Nothing is a waste of time unless you make it so. An elderly cab driver in New York may well have as much to teach you as a wandering saint in India, a madman in the Sahara, certainly a university professor.

If you place yourself in the way of opportunities, in situations where there is no choice but to move forward, no

option but success, you create a momentum that in the end propels you to new levels of experience and engagement that would have seemed beyond reach only months before.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible or permissible.

Pessimism is an indulgence, orthodoxy is the enemy of invention, despair an insult to the imagination.

Dream the impossible and the world will not drag you under, it will lift you up. This is the great surprise, the message of the saints. You hurl yourself into the abyss only to discover that it’s a feather bed. . . . I don’t imagine many of you will find a single slot into which to plug your entire existence. But what you will do is work, and no doubt as ferociously hard as I have all

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my life. The word work . . . comes from the old English, meaning action and deed.

And you’ll find that the work you do is just a lens through which to view and experience the world, and only for a time.

The goal is to make living itself, the act of being alive, one’s vocation, knowing full well that nothing ultimately can be planned or anticipated, no blueprint found to predict the outcome of something as complex as a human life.

If one can remain open to the potential of the new, the promise of the unimagined, then magic happens and a life takes form.

To parents I say please be patient. The best of things come out of those incapable of compromise. It takes time

for an individual to create a new world of possibilities, to imagine and bring into being that which has never before existed, the wonder of a full and realized life.

And to the graduates, please give as much thought to the person you will become, as to the vocation you will pursue. Money in the end means very little. Acts of compassion and lovingkindness resonate through eternity.

When I was young, living in the mountains of Colombia, a Kamsa Indian told me something I have never forgotten. “In the first years of your life,” Pedro said, “You live beneath the shadow of the past, too young to know what to do. In your last years you find that you are too old to understand the

world coming at you from behind. In between there is a small and narrow beam of light that illuminates your life.”

If you can look back over a long life and see that you have owned your choices, then there is little ground for resentment. Bitterness comes to those who look back with regret on the choices imposed upon them. The greatest creative challenge is the struggle to be the architect of your own life. So be patient.

Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

Wade Davis lives on Bowen, and has been awarded the Order of Canada. This is an excerpt of a speech he wrote for his daughter’s university graduation.

Island Pacific middle school grads

Congratulations to our Grade 9 class on the completion of their Masterworks graduation requirement. All the best to you in your future endeavours.

Top row: Scott Peregoodoff, Jack Wilson, Hana Wilke, Lucia Bicknell, Sadie Tokarchuk, Ryan Coyle, Mattheus Bicknell; middle row: Devin Davis-McGregor, Matthew Fayle; front row: Liliana Belluk-Orlikow, Karina Jorgensen-Fullam, Ben Foster, Fergus Clarke, Allegra Nesbitt-Jerman, Julia van Walraven, Jen Henrichsen (teacher). Missing: Bret Graham. photo supplied

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 Road 604-947-0384 604-947-0441 Service 10:30Service a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m.

10:30 School a.m.

All babies born in 2015 please join us on Sunday June 19th at the Bowfest Field for individual and group photos.We will meet and celebrate 10am -11am. Please RSVP to Bonnie at Phoenix 604 947-2793 or phoenixbonnie@hotmail.com Sponsored by Family Place, Phoenix on Bowen and First Credit Union with cake by the Village Baker.

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CONGRATULATIONS 2016 BOWEN ISLAND GRADS

NATHAN BEATTY

When we first held you as a baby, everything seemed possible. Nobel PrizeWinner? Olympic Athlete? Prime Minister? Why not? We proudly watched each small achievement and, once you could walk, noted your tendency to run as far and as fast as possible. Now you are completing another big step on the path of your life and entering the University of British Columbia; congratulations on your $10,000 scholarship! We’d like to think that we played some small part in your success, reading to you before bed, taking you places around the world, giving opportunities to express and test yourself. But we also realize that you began life with your personality largely intact and the empathy, ambition, and perseverance you’ve shown in your studies and your other interests have largely carried you this far and will carry you much farther. Parents are naturally cautious, but our cautiousness has been replaced with confidence. We know there will be many obstacles ahead, but we also know you will surround yourself with the ideas, morals, and friends to help you face them. Your life is a map of wonder, and we delight in surveying your progress across it.

Love, Mom and Dad

PHILLIP BEMENT

I came to Bowen Island in the fall of 2006. Growing up here has been a great experience for me, and I have really enjoyed the island’s small community culture, exploring the island’s forests and learning skills such as acting, Tae Kwon Do, and piano. I went to school at the Learning Centre and at home, then Island Pacific School, and finally Rockridge Secondary.

Next stop for me is studying Physics at UBC. I will really miss this island, though I will be coming back to visit often.

Congratulations, Bowen Graduates!

CHRISTINA BERTI

Congratulations on a wonderful achievement and the first of many milestones.

Many accomplish great things in life, but to do so without compromising your values and that which hold dear is true success. This you have done and we are very proud..

All our love, Dad and Mom

ISABELLA BOTTAY

Dream big Isabella and trust your journey!

Where ever life takes you next our heart goes with you.

So proud… much love, Mum, Dad and Ruby

GRACIE FARAGHER

Gracie is graduating from West Van Secondary and attending UBC in the fall.

Congratulations Gracie! You have knocked my socks off since the day you were born and I am so very proud of you! Love Mum

Building a future for yourselves....

Scholarship Opportunity First Credit Union is currently accepting applications for their annual scholarship program on Bowen Island.

In the nine years since Bowen Island branch opened its doors, assets have grown to 43 million dollars. Based on these assets, the Bowen branch will proudly award two scholarships of $1,200 each to two local students; open to both new and returning students. As the assets of the branch grow, so does the amount of the annual scholarships.

Graduating grade 12 students and others can apply for these scholarships by submitting a letter outlining their academic pursuit, and how they could benefit from the contribution.

Letters can be dropped off at 106-996 Dorman Rd. Deadline for submissions is July 31, 2016.

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JASMINE GISH

After 18 wonderful years living on Bowen, I am both excited and sad to be leaving to move to the East Coast where I will be attending University of Toronto, Mississauga for a Specialist Bachelor of Arts. My time on Bowen has been amazing: 8 years at BICS, followed by 5 years at Rockridge for high school. I want to thank my family for all of their support and for putting up with me.The friends I have on Bowen are different from any others I have made, and I look forward to knowing them for the rest of my life. Best of luck to all the other Grad’s of 2016! See you guys in the summer, and back on the Rock for Christmas!

NINA GOUS

Congratulations Nina! We are so proud of you just for being you. Remember that there is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

-Euripides

GRADY HUSKISSON

Grady had a great time at West Van Secondary and is very excited to be graduating. One of his highlights was winning two Provincial Championships in Grade 10 in Basketball and Cross Country. Next year he will be attending the Business program at Capilano University and playing for the Capilano Blues Basketball team. He would like to give a special thanks to his family and friends for all their help over the years and he wishes the rest of the Bowen grads good luck in their future endeavors.

To the graduates of 2016,

My classmates and I wish you a very happy graduation.

ELIZA KING

“There are no words to describe how incredible the past five years at Rockridge have been.

I have met some of my closest friends and had the opportunity to work with many hard working and inspirational teachers. I would especially like to thank Ms. Lehman for her constant support and encouragement through all of my art adventures during my time at Rockridge.

I would also like to thank my parents, siblings, and my best friends for putting up with me for so long. I am so excited to see what the future holds for us Bowen kids. See you all on the ferry”

HOPE MURRAY-GOLAS

Hope has many fond memories of growing up on Bowen, arriving here when she was in preschool and graduating with many of the same friends. Hope is looking forward to planning her year of travel and adventure. She plans to go into nursing in the future. Wishing Hope and all the Bowen grads best of luck with the next chapter in your lives.

Proud parents wait for the start of the Grade 12 graduation banquet at the Bayshore Westin on Friday night. Ian Thomson, Katherine Gish, Deb Thomson, Phil Kemp and Richard Underdown have students graduating from Rockridge secondary. photo Louise Loik

Jasmine Gish, Nathan Beatty, Devon Thomson, Isabella Bottay and Emmett Sparling at a pre-banquet gathering. photo Tifannee

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CONGRATULATIONS 2016 BOWEN ISLAND GRADS

ANNIE RAINSLEY

ISABELLA PERRONI Congratulations Isabella!

Congratulations Annie!

You have had an amazing journey for your education, through schools in Costa Rica, Bowen’s Montesorri, Learning Centre and IPS,and finishing with Squamish’s Coast Mountain Academy and Argyle’s Digital Media Academy.We are very proud of you for following your interests over the last few years,and handling all of your various commutes with good(‘ish) humour! Enjoy next year with work and travels.

Yesterday, today seemed a long way away…

We are all so proud of you! You have worked very hard and have always dedicated yourself to your interests and in particular- your art, music and dance.We can hardly wait to see you spread your wings and fly (hopefully not too far away!). Many exciting adventures await you baby bear!!

Lots and lots of love, Mom, Dad and Finn. xoxo

EMMET SPARLING

I am looking forward to a gap year following my time at Rockridge with plans of travel, photography and film making. After that I’ll return to Vancouver to pursue a degree in motion picture arts at Capilano University.Thanks to everyone who’s been part of making Bowen such an amazing place to grow up!

TROY STUART

Troy is extremely grateful to have graduated from not one but two North Shore high schools, completing a victory lap at Sutherland after finishing at Sentinel Secondary. Attending a total of 6 public and private schools throughout his scholastic career, Troy is quite pleased to be done. He hopes that despite dropping 15% in Pre-Calculus, McGill will still take him in the fall.

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CONGRATULATIONS 2016 BOWEN ISLAND GRADS

DEVON THOMSON

I will be attending the University of Victoria in the fall and I’m very excited to move on to the next big adventure. Thank you to all my friends, teachers and counsellors for your hard work helping me through high school. I would like to say a very special thank you to my parents for supporting my sports and schooling over the years.

JACK TURNER

Jack is heading for Ottawa in September to study Electrical Engineering at Carlton University.

Jack loved growing up on Bowen and he’ll miss his friends, but he’s excited about the co-op work experience opportunities available in Ottawa, and the chance to experience real Canadian winters.

BECKY UNDERDOWN

Believe in possibilities. Believe in yourself. Believe in the goodness of others. Be kind and generous. Keep on singing at the top of your lungs, dancing when you feel moved to dance, laughing til you cry. You are brave and strong and smart. You grew up rocked on the waves on the ocean, climbing the rocks and the trees. Let nature bring you calm when life gets crazy. Use the lessons that life provides you. Know that your family is always there for you and proud of you.

With love from Mom, Dad and Lindsay

CHARLIE WELSH

Here is Charlie’s blurb: I attended BICS for elementary school and West Vancouver Secondary School for my five years of high school.

I’d like to thank my parents and teachers for helping me through it all. I’m looking forward to attending Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick this fall, where I’ve been recruited to play football for the Mounties.

Well Done!

Congratulations to our Bowen grads and those teeing it up for the next level of their education.

The knowledge and friendships you gain in the classroom will serve you well for the rest of your life.

We salute our 2016 BIGC Junior Scholarship recipients, Grady Huskisson and Charlie Welsh.

Go FORE it grads!

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