Bowen Island Undercurrent January 11 2018

THURSDAY JAN 11, 2018 VOL. 44, NO. 02

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2018

Changes on the horizon in the year ahead

Bowen Beat

Perspective

Community Lunch is the place to be

Life in the ferry line-up

2018 Island Survey Islanders say life is good, but express concern about housing and active transportation MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club volunteers received 106,000 eyed chum salmon eggs from DFO’s Tenderfoot Hatchery near Squamish on Friday, January 5th. The chum eggs were placed in incubation trays at the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery and will be cared for until they are released as fry in April. Above, Jlonka Bally-Brown is removing morts (unfertilized or dead eggs) and assuring other eggs are healthy. Different volunteers do this every day until release.

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The Municipality released the results of its 2018 Island Survey last week and results show, as Councillor Maureen Nicholson told council on Monday, “overall quality of life ranks very highly,” with 94 percent of respondents rating quality of life as good or excellent.

The last comparable survey taken on Bowen Island was done in 2012. While that survey emphasized financial decisions in the municipality, this year’s focused on housing.

Questions about transportation were also included in the survey. Of the 608 survey respondents, 46 percent said they were dis-satisfied with support for modes of active transportation, and more than 50 percent of respondents expressed their dis-satisfaction with pedestrian and bicycle safety.

Chair of the Bowen Island Municipal Transportation Action Committee (BIMTAC) David Hocking, says these results are in-line with research done in the recent Island Transportation Master Plan, but they are notable.

More than 76 percent of Bowen Islanders believe that more housing is needed on Bowen, and 48 percent believe the Municipality is responsible for housing.

“The opinion is, that we are on the hook,” said Nicholson.

The results of this survey will be used to inform council’s strategic plan for the coming year, and collect a baseline of information for comparisons over time.

Tax Assessments: Island property values keep climbing MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

BC Assessment has released the results of their work over the past year, and for Bowen Island, that work shows the value of homes up an average of 10.5 percent.

This increase is smaller than last year’s, when a number of property owners got early assessment letters showing increases of between 30 -50 percent. On average, property values on Bowen increased by 20 -25 percent in 2016.

Realtors Dee and Frazer Elliott say they consider tax assessed values irrelevant in comparison to market price.

“There is a very wide spread in how far above and below tax

assessed value properties on Bowen sell for,” says Frazer.

BC Assessment, however, does not agree.

“Prices are evergreen, but we tie our assessments to the date of July 1,” says Paul Borgo, assessor for the Greater Vancouver Region. “We gather information from permitting and reviewing building plans. If we know that a renovation permit has been acquired, we will go to homes - home owners are not always home so they don’t necessarily know we are there. We also periodically overlay aerial photos with existing building sketches that we have and this helps us find construction that has been done without a permit.”

Home owners who have seen their tax assessed values increase may be concerned about property tax increases.

Bowen Island’s Municipal communication’s coordinator points to a information video released by the City of Surrey that explains how property taxes are determined, and adds that no decisions can be made until BC Assessments sends the roll (which shows the value of all properties on Bowen) in March.

Also, Bowen Island Municipality does not currently have a chief financial officer. This role must be filled before any property tax decisions can be made.

Home owners who are concerned that their new assessments may exclude them the BC Home Owner Grant may find comfort in the news that all houses valued at less than $1.6 million are now eligible for the assistance.

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Meeting Calendar January 12, 2018 9:30am Economic Development Committee Meeting

January 15, 2018 7:00pm Advisory Planning Commission Meeting

January 16, 2018 7:00pm Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee Meeting

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Notice of Public Hearing

Our volunteer fire department is recruiting

11:30 am on Monday January 22, 2018 Notice of public in Council Chambers,hearing Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island

Bowen Island Municipality Land Use Bylaw No. 57, 2002, Amendment Bylaw No. 445, 2017 CAPE ROGER CURTIS WATER ZONE AMENDMENT Bowen Island Council is considering changes to Water General 1(b) (WG1b) Zone (shown on map) to clarify the prohibition in the Land Use Bylaw for docks or other structures in the WG1b Zone. The amended zone would prohibit the following structures, facilities, and uses: • Dock, pier, wharf, piling or other structures; and • Moorage, other than moorage necessary for navigational or emergency situations

January 17, 2018 9:00am Finance Advisory Committee Meeting

Applicants must: • be 19 years of age or older • live and work on Bowen Island • have a valid BC driver’s license • be willing to undergo a criminal background check • be available and willing to be called out at any time • be willing to undergo training for first responder medical situations, in addition to firefighting Email bim@bimbc.ca for an application form or pick one up from Municipal Hall. Closing date for applications is Thursday, February 15 at 4:30pm.

January 17, 2018 1:00pm Emergency Program Management

Driveway runoff and culvert cleaning

Committee Meeting

Heritage Commission Meeting

Culverts under private driveways and adjacent to roadways often require maintenance at this time of the year. Property owners are responsible for keeping these culverts clear of debris in order to reduce the risk of flooding.

All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

For more information, please contact Bylaw Services at 604 328-5499 or 604-947-4255 or email bim@bimbc.ca.

January 18, 2018 7:00pm

Starting Monday, January 8, 2018 the proposed bylaw and background material may be viewed at Municipal Hall between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays) or on the Municipal website at www.bimbc.ca/planning.

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• In person • By mail • By fax • By email to bim@bimbc.ca Submissions may also be made to the Mayor and Council at the public hearing. To ensure a fair process, submissions cannot be accepted once the public hearing has ended.

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Drinking water notice The Provincial Health Officer advises all British Columbians with compromised immune systems (such as HIV, organ or bone transplants, chemotherapy or medications that suppress the immune system) to avoid drinking water from any surface water or ground water that is under the influence of surface water, unless it has been boiled, filtered, distilled or treated with UV. Bowen Island and other areas in British Columbia use surface water sources (lakes, rivers, streams). This is not a general boil-water advisory for the general public, but rather is directed only at persons with compromised immune systems. If in doubt about your immune system status, please discuss this further with your physician.

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New signs aim to change perspectives on physical disabilities MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

The clearing of the land where Bowen’s new fire hall will be built started this week.

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A question to the mayor: what will 2018 bring to Bowen?

MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

Last week, The Undercurrent checked-in with Mayor Murray Skeels the big changes he sees on the horizon for Bowen Island in 2018.

Here’s his list:

The new fire hall In August, 2017, Bowen Islanders voted to allow the municipality to borrow up to $3 million, repayable over 30 years, to build a new fire hall. Skeels says that although the construction management team for the building is still up in the air, the plan is to get started right away with the clearing of the chosen site, “before bird-nesting season gets in the way.”

The water treatment plant In 2016, Vancouver Coastal Health informed Bowen Island that the Cove Bay Water System (which serves roughly half of all homes here) was inadequate to address protozoan contamination and expansion of the system would be put on hold until plans for a new system were put in place. In March of 2017, the Provincial and Federal governments awarded Bowen close to $4 million towards the construction of that new system. Primex Investments offered to donate a site for the plant, on part of what is known as the Grafton Lake Lands. A pilot ceramic filter-style system was run in the fall because fallen leaves tend to make September and October the most challenging in terms of water colouration – but the new system worked well. Plans for the plant have stalled, however, because the Agricultural Land Commission has rejected requests to take that chunk of land out of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). Figuring out whether the new treatment plant will be

Bowen Island is ready to move forward, at least in terms of how we view and portray people with physical disabilities.

On December 11, Paulo Arreaga requested that council consider changing the signs that indicate barrier free access (known as the International symbol of access) to the Dynamic Access Symbol.

This symbol, championed in Canada by Torontonian Dylan Itzikowitz after a car accident that bound him temporarily to a wheelchair, shows the person sitting in the wheelchair as being active

as opposed to sitting, passively.

Arreaga told council the symbol is “going rogue” in Canada, with a number of municipalities, mostly in Ontario, making the change.

“Taking this on,” he said, “shows the world that we are forward thinking.”

In conversation with The Undercurrent, Arreaga said he first saw the sign at a strip-mall in Chilliwack, not long after his daughter was diagnosed with a genetic condition known as ADCY5 Related Dyskinesia, that causes low muscle-tone and involuntary movements.

“At the time, we were not sure if she would ever be able be able to walk, so when I

saw this, I happened to be thinking about all the things that she would be able to do,” says Arreaga. “The sign motivated me, and when I saw it pop up on social media recently, I decided to take the step of sending it to various municipalities.”

Arreaga presented the idea to Squamish council in November, and they adopted the idea.

Following Arreaga’s presentation, Municipal Chief Administrative Officer Kathy Lalonde announced that the change was already underway. Whenever any municipal signs need to be updated, they will be replaced with the dynamic movement sign.

allowed on the chosen site, or whether municipal lands between Artisan Square and the Bowen Children’s Centre will be needed is the next job before the water treatment plant project can move forward.

The construction of affordable housing in co-operation with BC Housing The Mayor says “this is a big one, up in the air. BC Housing is telling us they are good to go with a 20 unit apartment rental, that we are at the top of their list.” To make it happen, a million dollar subsidy is required. The Provincial budget comes down in February, the Federal budget will be in March – if both levels of government agree to kick-in $500k to the project, than Bowen Island is likely to see these plans become a reality on Lot 2, down Senior’s Lane near Bowen Court.

The sale of Lot 2, on Bowen Island Trunk Rd. This chunk of municipal land is on the market again after a recent accepted offer that was pulled in December after the developer was quoted construction costs that would make the project planned on that lot unfeasible. “They got a second quote, and that didn’t help matters,” says Mayor Skeels. “Combined with fears that recent mortgage changes may bring down the price of condominiums in Vancouver, the offer was pulled. We really hope that this piece of land sells in 2018.”

An election In the fall, Bowen Islanders will go to the polls after four years with the current Mayor and group of six councillors. Will Mayor Skeels step-up and run again?

“That’s really not a question I can answer right now,” he says.

In wheel chair at two, five year-old Maya Arreaga can now walk with a walker and also enjoys scooting around on her run-trike.

Brush up on life-saving skills, January 21 AMANDA OCKELOEN SUBMISSION

Since 2014, the Municipality, Bowen Rotary and many generous residents have brought fifteen Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) to our Island. This is a critical tool to save a life when someone’s heart has stopped, and more people are saying, “it would be irresponsible not to learn how to use them properly!”

Well this is true.

We have organized a friendly event where you can ask all of those burning questions you may have to everyone that helps keep our friends and neighbours safe. All the 9-1-1 players will be there: our local Police, Fire, and Ambulance.

The Emergency Planning Coordinator with ESS, NERPs , and BEARS volunteers as well as the company, IRIDIA, supplying the AED’s to the island. Iridia will be bringing some Smartman manikins, which allow you

to get life changing feedback from these interactive dolls.

Also Lifesavers First Aid training will have kits, and dolls handy to practice on.

The Rotary will have reflective address signs, which are vital to shaving minutes off a response time in an emergency.

Please carve out a couple of hours on January 21st, from122 at the BICS gym to feel comfortable with all that we have that makes Bowen Island Safe!

There will be prizes, and plenty of fun to be had.

The International Symbol of Access (left) was popularized by the Swedish Handicap Institute in 1969 and has since become internationally accepted as the means of indicating places that are barrier-free. The icon on the right was created in 2013 by Brian Glenney and Sarah Henderson. They see changing the symbol as being similar to change in language to reflect new standards of acceptability.

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Thoughts on life with The Bowen Queen Martin Pykalo I think that there is only one way to make the capacity work for all. Retract the Experience Card discount on cars (or even increase it beyond the full fare rate) and exponentially decrease the walk on fares, or even make them free.

I will continue to drive on as I have no other choice. As such I would happily pay the additional price whatever it may be.

BCF could introduce car discounts for those who can substantiate real reasons beyond mere convenience, likely through a signature honour system similar to what we already have for school activities.

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Gary Fields I guess if the smaller ferry prompts anybody sitting on the fence to consider commuting via transit, that will be a good long term outcome. I will consider scheduling vehicular errand travel separate from person-only transit travel.

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What to complain about in 2018 Community efforts brighten life for everyone There are plenty of things to complain about in 2018.

Personally, my list is long and if we bump into one another at the Snug, I’d be happy to share it.

I’ll let you in on my one, current, pet-complaint though: I’m tired of hearing people complain about The Bowen Queen.

Yes, it’s true. Bowen is bigger and busier than it used to be, and The Queen is too small for us.

She’s only here for a month, though, and we are already halfway through that month!

Also, if you talk to any 5 year-old she’ll tell you, this boat has better snacks. In particular, I am talking about those giant rice-crispy squares available, only for a limited time, to people traveling to and from Bowen Island.

I don’t want to get all self-righteous and snooty and remind you that you live on a rural island, and quick trips to big box stores are just not part of the deal you signed on to when you moved here. I will remind you, that part of living on an island is embracing the challenge of getting on and off as a sort of sport.

That day I left the West Vancouver Arena at 3:15 and miraculously made the 3:30 ferry, I won. That time I nearly cried to the woman at the BC Ferries sales booth because she closed sales two seconds before I got there, I lost. So it goes.

The last chunk of time with The Queen gave us the commuter express bus. News from BC Ferries indicates they are open to innovation. Making the best of this situation, and figuring out creative ways to get where we need to go just might deliver another radical transportation transformation that makes living on an island even better.

Send me your ideas. editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

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Dear Editor, Each December, the Festival of Trees brightens the evening commute off the ferry and provides cheer to passersby during the day.

How does this happen?

A team of volunteers for Family Place sets up the trees with lights, and then various island organizations support Family Place by sponsoring and decorating a tree. The trees are sourced from Aunt Leah’s Place, a charity that helps prevent foster children from becoming homeless.

Family Place would like to thank our community sponsors for generously donating their time and/or resources to make the 2017 Festival of Trees fundraiser possible: Belterra; Bowen Building Centre; Bowen Children’s Centre; Bowen Freight; Bowen Island Community Foundation; Bowen Island Community Recreation; Bowen Island Dog Ranch;

Bowen Island Montessori School; Bowen Island Municipality; Bowen Island Septic Services; Bowen Island Volunteer Fire Department; Bowen Waste Service; First Credit Union; Friends of the Food Bank; Home Farm Gardens; Knick Knack Nook; MetroBlasting; Movement Global Design; Tourism Bowen Island; Westland Insurance; The Snug Cafe; The Village Baker; and The Union Steamship Company.

In addition, we would like to thank the following individuals for their invaluable help: Deb Blenkhorn; Stu Bristowe and Deidre Farah; Rondy Dike; Anna Donnelly; Chris Farah; Steve Forster; Basia Lieske; Fae Logie; Jordan McLean; Michelle Mountain; John Parker; and MaryAnn Person.

Special thanks to Merewyn Hines for a creative decorating solution after one of the trees and its stand mysteriously went missing one night.

We appreciate the community effort to locate the missing tree and stand, and thanks to Sarah Haxby for spotting it.

We also appreciate the additional requests to sponsor trees that we recently received. Please let us know by early fall if your organization or business would also like to sponsor a tree next December, so that we’ll have enough time for our handy parent volunteers to build additional outdoor tree stands.

By donating or volunteering for the Festival of Trees, you help Family Place continue to provide drop-in and other important services for families with young children on Bowen Island. We deeply appreciate your support.

Sincerely, Caroline Parker Noah Pryce-Jones Co-Coordinators, Family Place Festival of Trees

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The Path The path will present itself when you are ready.

All this time you thought you had to find it, dig for it, bushwack your way up the mountain make it happen white knuckled and gritting your teeth.

Random Bowen moments with Ron One of my first years here, we have a first birthday party.

There are tiaras. I wear one and forget to take it off. Later, I go to the store, pharmacy, Snug... everywhere. No one says a word.

I pick up a hitch-hiker. As he’s getting out, he says, very softly, “Thanks for the ride. Nice tiara.”

-Ron Woodall

But it does not happen like that.

You must wait but even more you must open yourself up and even more you must pour yourself out so there is room for something else.

That thing hovering in the background wait for it eventually the fog lifts the light returns.

All you have to do is listen to the sounds beyond the night. lisa shatzky, from her new book The Bells that Ring,

The indomitable Angie McCullough, and Angel serving customers at the Nook.

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Do you have Wind Cold or Wind Heat?

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With so many colds and flu’s going through the island I am asked often what to take to get better. I often ask a few questions, these are to determine in Chinese Medicine if you have Wind-Cold or Wind Heat.

If you have Wind Cold, you may feel chills, with aversion to cold/drafts, headaches, stiffness of the neck or body and crave warmth.

Your phlegm is usually clear or white.

For Wind Heat, there is a feeling of heat and wanting to be cooled down. There may be a sore throat and the phlegm is usually yellow or green.

A way to prevent this is to keep your feet warm and wear a scarf when going outside in the cold. Get lots of sleep, avoid excessive amounts of sugar and stress.

If you do contract something and get early signs of Wind-Heat or Cold and you are not sweating, it can be effective to try to induce a sweat. To do this make a strong cup of ginger root tea and run an epsom salt bath. Drink the tea and get into the bath and wait until you start to sweat and stay for 5 minutes if possible. After bundle up and avoid getting any chills and go to bed for a long sleep. This can sometimes kick out the pathogen before it

takes hold.

If it gets in, the best way to treat yourself if through lots of fluids and rest. Cut out sugar and dairy and bananas. In almost every culture bananas are eliminated from diets during periods of colds and flu’s. They are a damp food and can make more mucus.

If you have a Wind-Cold illness, hot epsom baths with eucalyptus, warming teas and herbs, cayenne, ginger, cinnamon are best.

Soups and broths made with ginger and garlic are the best foods for this. Ginger root should be simmered for 15 minutes.

If you have Wind-Heat, opt for cooling foods and teas. Peppermint is a great cooling herb, avoid all the warming ones (with the exception of inducing sweat at first signs of illness). Fresh mint can be simmered for 5 minutes.

For a sore throat I like to recommend colloidal silver, zinc lozenges and gargling with salt.

For a cough, lots of fluids again to keep things loose and thin. When you do cough up phlegm make sure to expel it. Not doing this can prolong your illness.

There are lots and lots of great supplements and foods you can takes for Wind-Cold and Heat. This is only a sampling., if you see me I would love to know your favourite recipes when you are sick.

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A correspondence with Stephen Hawking April 19, 2017

Reply email:

Dear Stephen Hawking, I’ve always wanted to let you know that during the original theatrical release in 1991, I had a private matinee viewing of your movie “A Brief History Of Time”. Fascinated by “Black Holes” I was eager to attend a showing.

It was my habit back then to always sit in the very front row in the center seat. When the movie start time arrived I turned around and looked up at the wee window where the projectionist was. I quickly came to the realization that he and I were the only two humans in the theatre. He no doubt was wishing that I would just get up and go. NO WAY! I quickly turned back to the screen and sunk deeper into my seat to enjoy your marvelous presentation.

Currently another Black Hole enters the picture. This one is approximately eight acres of forested land with beach front on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada. My dad John Nathan Fuller traded for it with a neighborhood farmer when I was eight years old.

Believe it or not the property is titled Black Hole! Over the years our family has spent many memorable times there. At age seventy six I am now the executrix of this land and it is time to let it go.

If by any chance you would be interested in obtaining your very own Black Hole right here on planet earth please feel free to contact me.

I do hope this little letter at least brings you a smile - Fancy that!

With deepest admiration -

Subject: Your recent email to Professor Hawking Date: Friday, April 21, 2017 Thank you for your email to Professor Hawking.

As you can imagine, Prof. Hawking receives many such every day. He very much regrets that due to the severe limitations he works under, and the enormous number of requests he receives, he is unable to compose a reply to every message, and we do not have the resources to deal with many of the specific scientific enquiries and theories we receive.

Please see the website Stephen Hawking for more information about Professor Hawking, his life and his work.

Yours faithfully Sam Blackburn Technical Assistant to Professor S W Hawking CH CBE FRS Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA. United Kingdom.

Carol Ann Fuller Fancy Bowen Island, BC. Canada

A big THANK YOU from the Community School Association (CSA)

The joys of free pilates!

After the death of my husband, I came to Bowen Island to live closer to my family. A month later I happened to be climbing up the steps outside the Ruddy when I heard, “can I help you?”

“No thank you,” I replied. “I have to keep moving or I won’t move at all.”

“Why don’t you come and join our pilates group?”

Now I am a convert to pilates at 80 years old. The activity is good for my body. One is inclined to believe that the aging process involves inevitable deterioration, but pilates has given me a different outlook.

The group has also been a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends, share experiences and offer mutual support.

The pilates group is geared towards helping the participants to meet new friends, share experiences and offer mutual support.

The pilates group is geared towards helping participants achieve a healthy body and mind in a calm and caring environment. It has helped me to feel more positive about the future after the loss of my husband. Joining the pilates group has started me on the road to a different life. More than the physical or psychological benefits, pilates on Bowen has helped me to see a new way of life is possible.

-- Sheena Smith Free drop-in Pilates on Tuesdays at Cates Hill Chapel, 9am -10am

As Erika Mitchell and Gillian Drake clearly demonstrate, volunteering makes you happy!

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As 2017 closed out last Sunday, so did the CSA’s month long refundable fundraising program at the Bowen Island Recycling Depot (BIRD). The CSA (Community School Association) would like to say a big thank you to all the volunteers that signed up throughout the month for some chilly shifts at BIRD to help raise money for our

2018 initiatives. Without all those helping hands we wouldn’t be able to take BIRD up on their very kind offer to donate the money raised from the refundables to our organization. Thank you also to Bowen Waste (Louise Macintosh, Susan Redmond, Sean Delaney and the whole crew) for providing the CSA with this fundraising opportunity in December. Last but

not least - thank you to all the Bowen Island residents that donate their refundables to BIRD. You may not realize where the money goes from your refundables after you drop them off at BIRD but every month a charitable organization on our island is receiving the funds from them.

-Alexis Cooper

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Speedy loading and unloading of When forgiveness ferry leads to danger and confusion is not an option Flagger Jewal Maxwell, with Greenscapes Traffic Control, stands at the “zipper,” helping to direct traffic in the lead-up to a 12:30pm overloaded ferry.

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Since the 60-car capacity Bowen Queen has been running between Snug Cove and Horseshoe Bay, overloads to start at 7:30 am and wrap-up by 10:30, says flagger and de-facto ferry marshall Jewal Maxwell. She adds that a ferry running early if not on-time seems to be leading to extra chaos and confusion in the line-up.

“It’s the worst for the 7:30 ferry,” she says. “Everyone’s rushing, people aren’t even in their cars when the loading

begins and they’re running through moving traffic. I see parents dropping off their kids right in the middle of ferry traffic because they are stuck waiting to turn left on Cardena Rd. On top of everything else, everyone is wearing black.”

She adds that drivers still seem to be confused about how the two-lane “zipper” on the hill works.

“People are supposed to go into the shortest lane, they’re starting to get that,” she says. “But somehow, the inside lane still seems to move more quickly. When people get overloaded and are parked

closer to the ferry line up, they get out of their cars and yell about it. They even complain about their friends getting ahead of them.”

Maxwell says that she is accustomed to people’s short tempers in the ferry line-up, and that most Islanders express a great deal of generosity.

“People tell me they feel safer knowing someone is there to enforce the rules,” she says. “And so many people offer to buy me coffee.”

While she appreciates these offers, Maxwell says she doesn’t drink coffee and buys her own lunch.

An Open Invitation to the Community What does Bowen Island really need? How can we make our community stronger?

What can our volunteers do to help? What are Bowen’s priorities? Housing? Diversity and Inclusion? Healthcare?

We were interested. So we asked Bowen Islanders. Sixty-one of them. We did our best to find people that represented Bowen’s demographics - not just the voices that are typically heard. We wanted plaid and paisley. Pink hair and gray hair. Golf course and gravel pit. A diverse range of ages, experiences, walks of life and interests. A little more than half were individually selected and invited to participate. The remaining 45% were randomly chosen through a community-wide lottery.

Then on September 9th 2017, with the help of a gifted facilitator, we gathered everyone in Cates Hill Chapel and talked. And listened. And imagined. We recorded all of it. And now it’s compiled into a report with some potential solutions.

On January 20th, at 2:30pm, the Bowen Island Community Foundation will proudly present the 2017 Vital Conversations Report at Doc Morgan’s. A follow up to the 2014 Vital Conversations Report, it’s a good picture of the Bowen Island community’s current needs. Some are obvious, but some of the opportunities for improvement that our community identified are truly inspired.

And how will this help?

That’s where you come in. As we kick off our yearly cycle of making grants to the community, we’re after volunteerism and good ideas.

We’re hoping you might have a little of both.

Municipality considers appropriate response to illegal builds MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

By the end of November, 2017, Bowen Islanders contacted the municipality 128 times regarding Land Use concerns including land alteration such as tree cutting or stream diversion, property uses such as short-term rentals, and non-conforming buildings and structures.

These concerns are up 40% from 2016, and have doubled since 2014.

Two cases of construction projects undertaken without building permits have come before council in the past year. In one situation, a builder created the forms for the foundation of a 5,500 square foot house without a permit and then went on to apply for a Development Variance Permit (DVP) so that the structure and deck could be closer to the water than normally allowable.

Council debated offering the permit and decided against it.

In another situation, a property owner wanted to legalize a non-conforming building with a variance to the new detached secondary suite regulations. The property owners legally built a home in the 1990s. More recently, they re-built the previously existing cabin to a size larger than allowable under the detached secondary suites regulations – with out a permit. In 2015, BC Assessments alerted the municipality to the existence of this newly built non-conforming building. On November 27, 2017, council decided not to give the permit that would make the second building legal, and left staff with the project of determining how to deal with

these situations in the future.

We don’t have a strong sense of what our powers are, and what are obligations are in this situation...

Mayor Murray Skeels “We don’t have a strong sense of what our powers are, and what are obligations are in this situation,” said Mayor Skeels.

In conversation with The Undercurrent, Municipal Planner Daniel Martin said that if it is clear that the building doesn’t conform or the proper permits have not been issued, the municipality would simply act by issuing a stop work order. However, in situations where the building is already complete, municipal action is trickier.

“The Municipality of West Vancouver has gone to court in the effort to carry out it’s plan to demolish a home that was built without proper permits or inspections,” says Martin. “The other option is fining, but even with fining mechanisms in place, the municipality would likely need to go to court.”

Councillor Gary Ander says that in his view, the practice of asking for forgiveness instead of permission was “worse in the old days, when we were asking Victoria what we were allowed to do, but something needs to be done to stop people from doing it. There has to be a fee structure, and it’s got to be very punitive. That said, I do have empathy for people in situations where they’ve gone forward after having been given the wrong information.”

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BOWEN BEAT Lunch at the Legion, $5 There’s not much you can buy for $5 these days, but on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month you can get a delicious lunch made up of soup, bread, coffee and dessert.

Starting as a collaboration between Caring Circle and SKY (Seniors Keeping Young) the Bowen Island Community Lunch was created with the intention of pulling seniors out of isolation and facilitating social engagement.

Caring Circle Executive Director Colleen O’Neil says that this is still the intention, the lunch has evolved into something more than a seniors affair.

“There are a number of our senior-elders, people who are over 80, who never miss a week,” says O’Neil. “But there are also a number of us who are retirement-age who have come regularly to enjoy the food, see our friends and laugh our guts out. Also, a number of people who work in the Cove have started showing up every now and then.”

Caring Circle, Sky, The Bowen Island Legion, Snug Cove House and the Little Red Church take turns hosting the lunches and providing volunteers. The program is also supported by the Municipality and the Knick Knack Nook.

Keep an eye on the calendar for the details on the next Bowen Island Community Lunch.

Cheryl Landry (far left) enjoying a meal with Bob Miller and Cherie Westmoreland.

Susan Nelson takes a seat with Annie O’Dea.

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Bottom: Julia McCaig and Steve Frazer talking over tea.

Hard at work in the kitchen Bella Peroni (left), chef Maxine Alcock and Ellen McMahon. Chef Maxine prepared a delicious west coast seafood chowder as well as a squash soup with a beautiful squash donated by Alderwood Farms.

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Friday, January 12 Community health nurse visits Family Place Talk on healthy sleep patterns for infants and toddlers

the meaning of “home”

MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

For Bowen Islander Emily van Lidth de Jeude, making art provides the opportunity to delve deep into a world of experience on her subject of choice. The work she creates, like the

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Sunday, January 14 Parent & Tot Gym time, 10am. $3 per child Community Meditation Circle 7:30 at the Seabreeze building, right above the Barber Shop

Monday, January 15 SKY: exercise at 9:00, coffee at 9:45, Emily van Lidth de Jeude speaking on unschooling at 10:00, yoga at 11:00.

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MAMA Project, brings her audience into that world. The project she is working on now, called what.home, will explore the meaning of “home” in an increasingly globalized world.

She says people’s definitions of “home,” have been fractured by globalism, transience and social media, and she uses that fractured landscape as a foundation for art.

“You’re likely to find strong similarities between this and the MAMA Project,” says Emily. “My process, or my goal in both of these projects is to show so many diverse and scattered experiences of the theme, that you find threads of commonality throughout.” “ Emily adds that home for her, is decidedly here in coastal British Columbia.

“Between all four of my parents’ backgrounds I have quite a mix of heritage, from generations of family ranching in the Black Hills, to Mexican, Irish and Ukrainian immigrants, to my Dutch father, who brought himself to Canada just fifty years ago and yet nurtured in me the deepest connection to this land. None of us is Salish. My sense of home is informed by knowing I am living on un-ceded Salish territory. There is a lot of conflict in my heart around the fact that I don’t personally belong to any other place, but I am living as a settler here,” she says.

Emily adds that most people, she thinks, probably share some sense of conflict around the idea of home and belonging, so in what.home she aims to create a space where viewers can re-assemble their own experience and pull together across experiential divides.

To find these stories of scattered and fractured experience, Emily is interviewing people on Bowen and in the lower mainland, Victoria, Germany and Switzerland.

She’s already started this process (and you can follow snippets of these interviews online, via links at http://whathome. org) but she continues to look for more people to interview.

“Well, it doesn’t really make sense for us to own land. More like the land owns us, I suppose. And that’s, I guess, part of why I feel connected to the land. I feel that it nurtures us and makes us who we are. At least that’s what it’s done for me.”

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Singers aim to provide comfort in times of need

A school of anchovy in Mannion Bay being bombed by seals and sea lion from below, and gulls, cormorants and mergansers from above.

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Threshold Singers Carol Shatford, Liz Watson, Dyan Spear, Angie Bosworth, Julie Rogers, Wendy Alexander, Lorraine Ashdown and Shasta Martinuk at Rivindell Retreat Centre this summer.

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MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

If you show up to listen to the Bowen Island Threshold Singers, don’t expect to hear any familiar songs. Every song is composed and written with the intention of being unfamiliar.

“We don’t want to trigger any memories or potentially uncomfortable emotions,” says the group’s song-leader, Shasta Martinuk.

“The whole point is to provide comfort, ‘comfort made audible’ is in fact the motto of the Threshold Choir.”

There are 150 Threshold Choirs around the world, and roughly 1,500 members. The organization’s founder is a woman named Kate Munger. In 1990, while sitting at the bedside of a dying friend she started to sing. The sense of calm that came over both of them inspired her to start the Threshold Choir.

The experience of being sung-to moved Bowen Islander Angie Bosworth to form our local chapter of the organization.

“It was about seven years ago, I’d say, that I was visiting my sister in Ohio and I attended her practice with the local Threshold group,” says Bosworth. “I lay there in the reclining chair at the centre of this group of singers and just cried and cried.”

Upon returning to Bowen, she tried to connect and attend practices with the Vancouver and Sunshine Coast groups, but their timing didn’t line up with Bosworth’s schedule.

Later, she found out that Munger was coming to Vancouver for an event, so Bosworth pulled together a small group of islanders and

brought them there.

“This was the beginning,” she says. “And when Shasta found out about it, she asked to join and knowing her musical background, I asked her to lead us!”

Martinuk says that while there are many groups led by professional musicians, there are many groups that are not.

“It’s not about sounding perfect, it’s not a performance,” says Martinuk. “We find that it is the intention, the aim of providing love and connection, that makes an impact.”

Bosworth points to one man the Bowen Threshold Singers sang for at Evergeen House Care Home in North Vancouver as an example.

“He was agitated at the beginning, and just kept talking to himself,” she says. “And then, he started to calm down and a tear just ran down his cheek.”

Three or four members of the Threshold Singers go to Evergreen House on a monthly basis. Bosworth also says it is a mis-conception that they sing only for the dying.

“We’ve sung to many people who are recovering from surgery, or grieving the loss of a loved one,” she says. “We want to provide comfort for anyone who might be in need of it.”

In order to connect, and give more Bowen Islanders a chance to understand what they do, the Threshold Singers and members of the Crossing Over Choir (the men’s group on-island that sings with the same intention) will sing at the Caring Circle cottage on Cardena Rd. from 7:3- -8:30pm on the third Tuesday of every month. All are welcome to be sung to, or simply to stand back and listen.

Bowen Legion Branch 150 ROBBIE BURNS

Garden Club Meeting: Who do you want to see on the Speaker Series?

LINDA BARRATT SUBMISSION

At the January 15, 2018 meeting the speaker coordinator will lead a discussion and activity designed to meet two goals: one, to review the 2017 speaker presentations and other club activities and

two, to determine members’ interests in speakers and activities for 2018. Resources and prizes will be provided to stimulate discussion and involvement by everyone.

Bring any ideas you may have to this discussion. All input will be considered for future speakers and activities.

Please join us at the January 15, 2015 meeting at 1 PM at the Legion. Let’s keep the club vibrant, one that meets the wishes and needs of all members and that encouragers new people to join and actively participate in the club’s activities.

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Dec 1929 - Dec 15 2017 Joe passed away peacefully, just before Christmas, after a brief illness.

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Born in Germany, he enjoyed sailing on the Baltic Sea as a youth and he brought this love of boats to his successful career in Canada as a boatbuilder. He met Mae late in life and enjoyed their life by the sea here on Bowen for over 10 years. The joys they shared will be lasting memories to enrich Mae’s life.

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‘Million dollar line’ of detached homes erased NORTH SHORE NEWS

Almost every owner of a nondescript 1950s bungalow on the North Shore is now a millionaire.

In fact, the “million dollar line” that used to divide West Vancouver and most of North Vancouver in the past has all but disappeared, with 98 per cent of single-family homes on the North Shore worth more than $1 million.

That’s among the highest percentage of million-dollar homes in the region, ranging from 97.4 per cent of all detached homes in the District of North Vancouver to 99.4 per cent in the City of North Vancouver – the same percentage in the City of Vancouver, and just under the percentage for the University Endowment Lands.

That’s among the highest percentage of million-dollar homes in the region, ranging from 97.4 per cent of all detached homes in the District of North Vancouver to 99.4 per cent in the City of North Vancouver – the same percentage in the City of Vancouver, and just under the percentage for the University Endowment Lands.

That 73 per cent of single-family homes in the region are now worth more than $1 million – and that the “million dollar line” has now been pushed out into the Fraser Valley and other surrounding suburbs – is an indication of how fast real estate values have risen, said Yan. As late as 2014, million-dollar homes were largely concentrated in affluent neighbourhoods of West Vancouver and the west side of Vancouver, said Yan. But that’s changed dramatically. Large areas of North Vancouver were pushed over the million-dollar line starting in 2016.

A million-dollar home used to be the upper crust of residential real estate. Now it’s become the whole loaf...

Andy Yan

“A million-dollar home used to be the upper crust of residential real estate. Now it’s become the whole loaf,” said Yan. “That leads into some profound challenges.”

“Is $2 million the new $1 million line?” he asked. ”How do you create family friendly neighbourhoods when a single-family detached home may not be attainable on local incomes? That’s really going to be the challenge for the community.”

Those squeezed out of the market for single-family homes – or downsizing from them – are now putting pressure on the condo market, which has seen some of the largest jumps in assessed values this year.

Condos in view areas like Lower Lonsdale, Deep Cove, the West Vancouver waterfront and the Hamilton neighbourhood near Pemberton Heights all increased in value between 20 and 37 per cent this year, according to Landcor Data Corp., which analyses BC Assessment data by neighbourhood.

Condos in many areas of the North Shore – from Lynnmour to Caulfeild – saw values rise between 10 and 25 per cent.

Hikes to the assessments of single-family homes were largely confined to single-digit increases.

Again, areas like Lonsdale and Hamilton saw some of the bigger increases, although detached homes in Lynnmour – once considered one of the last affordable areas of the North Shore – went from an average value of $1.2 million to $1.5 million last year.

Last week, the province raised the threshold at which property owners stand to lose part of the homeowners grant from $1.6 million to $1.65 million.

The grant provides $570 towards property taxes for owners who qualify for the basic grant and more for seniors.

On the North Shore, about 33,500 homeowners – about half the total number – will qualify for the grant this year, according to Landcor data.

That’s about the same as received the grant last year, after the previous Liberal government hiked the threshold from $1.2 million to $1.6 million.

Owners of both condos and single-family homes in the District of North Vancouver and condo owners in the City of North Vancouver made up the bulk of grant recipients.

A record number of property owners in the province – more than 4,458 – also had their

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A total of 207 homeowners on the North Shore qualified for that help this year – just slightly more than last year. Over half of those were homeowners in the City of North Vancouver.

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To help minimize overloads, BC Ferries will be providing reduced parking rates at Horseshoe Bay terminal and assured loading for HOV. Assured Loading Vehicles with four (4) or more persons will be for High Occupancy provided assured loading on the 4:35pm, 5:45pm Vehicles and 6:50pm sailings from Horseshoe Bay to Bowen Island each weekday.* *Maximum 10 vehicles per sailing. Vehicles must arrive at Horseshoe Bay no later than 20 minutes prior to departure time.

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As Oprah Winfrey once said, “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

Never have truer words been spoken, particularly as they apply to the world of recycling. If you have been following the news, then you will know that last week China refused to take recycled plastics from the City of Halifax.

It will be no surprise that much of the world’s recycling makes its way to China for processing. Last year the Chinese ran a program between March 1 and November 30 called the Chinese National Sword. It focused on the quality of waste paper and plastics coming into their country. They used x-ray machines to examine each container of recycling and determine the level of non-fibre impurities and excessive moisture. These examinations revealed loads and loads of contaminated recycling. Based on this, China decided to stop taking recycling from various

regions.

Contaminants in recycling lead to the growth of fungi and bacteria. When recycled materials containing these contaminants are processed fungi and bacteria are released into the environment resulting in a potentially hazardous workplace for the workers.

As a result of the National Sword program, China has decided that they will stop taking any recycling material that they deem carries significant health or environmental risks that might impact their country and workforce.

China’s new standard – acceptable materials may only have a 1-1.5% rate of out-throw or contaminants.

Here’s the good news for Bowen Island. Our contamination rates are between 1-2%. Here’s a little secret, though: part of the reason for our low contamination rates is that the depot staff does such a terrific job at monitoring what comes into the depot. If it is too wet or too dirty, more often than not, staff will simply throw it out or turn it away rather than have it pollute a load. So why not help them out and make 2018 the year of “If in doubt, throw it out!”

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