Bowen Island Undercurrent November 1 2018

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2018 VOL. 44, NO. 42

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THE SLOW LANE

Marcus Hondro’s classic Undercurrent column returns.

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Community members sound off about the provincial referendum in letters to the editor.

More home health services coming to Bowen Island

KEITH TYLER

COMMUNITY PARAMEDIC

We are very fortunate here on Bowen to have the Community Paramedicine Service.

In addition to visiting patients in their own homes and providing community education, they are now offering a new service - home health monitoring.

Community Paramedicine Home Health Monitoring is a service to support primarily older adults living with chronic diseases such as COPD, heart failure or diabetes.

Home health monitoring is an advanced tool to aid community paramedics in helping patients improve self-management of their condition from the comfort of their own home.

Easy-to-use equipment is provided at no cost through a partnership with Telus Health and is delivered to the patient’s home by the community paramedic who will explain and demonstrate the system.

Typical equipment consists of a tablet computer, weigh scale, blood pressure monitor and education binder.

Once it’s set up, the tablet will prompt the patient to take measurements, perform activities or answer questions on a daily basis. The system will automatically send the results to the community paramedic for review and the community paramedic will check in with the patient on a regular schedule to review the results.

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A mysterious hand grabs Deep Bay resident Annabelle Pykalo on Halloween as she tries to enter her home to get ready for the night’s trick or treaters. A giant spider hides in the bushes behind Pykalo, ready to pounce on its prey. Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto

Queen of Capilano keeping licence A, for now BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

The Ferry Advisory Committee had their biannual meeting with B.C. Ferries representatives Oct. 25. Chair Susanna Braund reports that B.C. Ferries’ representatives said more than once that the recent

Licence A crew level increase (which sees the passenger capacity go from 392 passengers to 432 passengers) will remain in place until they can find a solution that meets community needs. Braund reports that Captain Lance Lomax says that he’s talking with Transport Canada to see if the licence numbers have

any flexibility.

Among Braund’s highlights: • The committee brought up the inconsistencies with loading patterns and passenger counts among the four ferry watches and asked for some consistency.

• B.C. Ferries and the municipality will work at getting a parking

space near the front of the ferry lineup for passengers with disabilities who need to be parked near the ferry elevators.

• The digital display at the Horseshoe Bay terminal’s vehicle booth for Bowen now reads “return fare included” (for the tourists).

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Event Calendar Nov 1 2018 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Inaugural Council Meeting Cates Hill Chapel, 661 Carter Road

Nov 5 2018 9:00 am Community Grants Advisory Committee Meeting

Nov 6 - Nov 8 2018 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Islands Trust Council Victoria, BC

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Request for Volunteer Library Board members

Help build the Community Centre

The Bowen Island Municipality and Bowen Island Public Library are seeking applications from Bowen Island residents interested in joining the Bowen Island Public Library Board. We are seeking applications from members of the public with diverse skills and interests who are committed to the ideals of open and equitable access to information through public library service.

Key duties of the Library Board are: • Setting the strategic direction and goals of the library.

• Determining policy and rules for managing the provision of public library services and for regulating the use of the library facilities and programs by the public.

• Appointing and reviewing performance of the Chief Librarian.

• Preparing an annual operating budget to present to Council.

• Reviewing the annual operating budget and monitoring revenue and expenditures through the year.

HELP BUILD THE COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Board meets 10 times per year on the third Thursday of the month.

Nov 7 2018 1:00 pm Emergency Program Executive Committee Meeting

Nov 7 2018 5:00 pm Recreation and Community Services Commission Meeting

Interested individuals are asked to submit a one-page summary of their background, skills and expertise relative to the duties and responsibilities of the position.

Information about the role of Library Board members can be found at bowenlibrary.ca/about-us/library-information/board-members/ and further questions can be emailed to info@bowenlibrary.ca.

Interested applicants are asked to respond in writing, via email, fax or regular mail, with the requested information by Friday, November 16, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. to:

Housing Advisory Committee

Nov 13 2018 7:15 pm Regular Council Meeting

Hope Dallas, Deputy Corporate Officer Bowen Island Municipality 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2 FAX: 604-947-0193 EMAIL: hdallas@bimbc.ca

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

First Aid with Amanda

Keep Culverts Clear

Nov 16 2018 9:30 am Economic Development Committee Meeting

Nov 17 2018 9:00 am - 1:00 pm CPR/AED Training All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

Dangerous road conditions can be created by the discharge of water, dirt and gravel from private property onto public roads. Culverts under private driveways and next to roads often need to be cleared at this time of year to make sure water can flow through. Property owners are responsible for controlling runoff onto roadways from their property, and for maintaining culverts.

CPR/AED Training

Learn the skills needed to recognize and respond to cardiovascular emergencies and choking for adults, children, and babies.

Learn to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Come learn with your Emergency Program volunteers. No charge.

Contact Jennifer McGowan, BIM Emergency Program Coordinator to register jmcgowan@bimbc.ca

ESS volunteers are trained to provide for the immediate needs of evacuees and emergency responders affected by an emergency or disaster. Services provided by ESS include food, clothing, lodging and family reunification.

To ensure safe travel on Bowen Island’s roads during heavy rainfall and to reduce the risk of flooding, we ask all property owners to control runoff and to keep culverts clear. Failure to do so may result in fining under the Bowen Island Municipality Traffic and Use of Streets Bylaw No. 133, 2005.

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If you are interested in learning more about becoming a community ESS volunteer, please visit http://www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/ess or contact the Emergency Social Services Director at bowenESS@bimbc.ca

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The slow lane chronicles Marcus Hondro revisits his classic column with what brings Boweners together: a ferry ride

MARCUS HONDRO CONTRIBUTOR

The Slow Lane Chronicles is a column the Undercurrent began running in 2005. It’s been absent a while so, being rusty, bear with me. Oh, and apologies for the rather heavy use of brackets (I shall work on that).

Okay, so say I’m on the ferry talking. To whomsoever. Let’s say Dean Nickle. Great guy, amusing children, nose to the grindstone etc. We’ve only just sat down and the ferry is easing out of Horseshoe Bay; people greet one another, a man orders a bagel, a toddler lurches by.

Another trip on our beloved Q of C. After that overlong departure announcement that needlessly uses the word “deemed,” Dean tells me something. Anything. Like maybe – and this is an example, Dean didn’t actually tell me this (nor did anyone) – he says a petition has been presented to our newly elected council seeking a bylaw that would make it illegal to build a new home on Bowen.

“The issue has split council down the middle but there’s no word yet on the mayor,” Dean adds (but not really.) “The petition is from Preserve Our Ontologically Pristine Island (POOPI), a group lead by long-time islander, Nimby Bowen.”

(Slow Lane note: in real life there is surely no actual person named ‘Nimby Bowen’ and if there is then he [for Nimby is almost certainly a male name] was likely bullied as a child, which is a tragic and entirely different story.)

Anyhow, after the Queen of Capilano’s mercifully shorter arrival

announcement (that is now inexplicably played about halfway through the trip) comes and goes we make land in Snug Cove. I walk off thinking about Dean’s dramatic news concerning Nimby Bowen, POOPI and the proposed bylaw.

(Bear with me, we begin to approach the crux of this.)

I venture up my street to find none of my neighbours about, not Mary-Ann or Paul Welsh, Carmen or Mikey, not Hudson Henrique and his Amazing Band of Brothers, not Chris Speight, Susan Hogan or Joy Nickle. Neither Eve or Jackie LeRoy or their father, Rod is around; ditto Paulo Schneller-Wayne. Tracey’s at work, the Boy away playing hockey.

No one to share the big news with.

So two days pass in which, occupied by life, I do not think of Nimby Bowen. Then a friend, this time let’s say it’s Paul Lieske (who is in fact my best friend, on Bowen) reminds me of what I heard by saying (though not really): “Sure was a close election, hey?”

In this fictitious scenario, by association Paul’s rhetorical question brings back that ferry conversation. (The crux grows ever-near!)

However, what would almost certainly happen is this: I will remember what I was told that day but not who told me.

“Maybe it was, Matthew Harrison. Doug Wood?” I might say to Paul (but didn’t). “No, it wasn’t Doug. Barry Pynn? Sarah Haxby?

Will Husby? Nah, I’m jamming on phonetics now. Oh, hey: Keona Hammond. Ann Ramsay? Dave Taylor? Wait, Dave moved off-island a while ago. Jeez, no idea who told me.”

This doesn’t only happen on the ferry (an extension of our Happy Isle) but anywhere on Bowen, and only on Bowen. I’ll remember what I was told, where I was when told (third set of comfy seats up from cafeteria, facing Rich at the till, for example) but not who told me.

Likewise, I often can’t recall which islander I’ve told something to.

I could worry about advancing age over this but since arriving 15 years ago it has always been so. No, it is more apt to blame this not on a poor memory but a quirk of memory. On my simply having a hippocampus for which Bowenians present as a kind of homogeneous and friendly lump of one. A giant fleshy, effusive aggregate, akin to a single individual creature.

And why not? After all, we have more similarities than differences, sharing not only our humanity but Bowen places (the Tuscany, turf field, Knick Knack Nook, that pathway up to Village Square, etc.) and a multitude of Bowen experiences (hiking up Mt. Gardner, ferry overloads, Bowen Facebook sites, Halloween in Deep Bay, etc.)

So then finally we arrive at the crux: leaving aside my quirk of memory I submit our similarities help us through events like oh say…a razor close election that made Skeels over Rhodes by 14 votes in 2014 seem a landslide. We can still warmly greet one another in the line-up at the Ruddy, stand side-by-side in a Spelling Bee or collectively rant at the next car to butt into the ferry line-up. We remain (as my hippocampus insists upon seeing us) as one.

And I wasn’t told that – I figured it out on my own.

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Mason concedes, Grafton covenanted

Continued from page 1 However, B.C. Ferries maintains that it’s not possible for vehicle tickets to read “lanes 65-72” (rather than listing only one lane.)

• BC Ferries expects the new Snug Cove terminal building to be operational in 2021.

• The committee asked for better communication from B.C. Ferries, which the representatives said they’d try to remedy.

Other municipal tidbits:

It’s finally over: defeated mayoral candidate Melanie Mason, who lost to mayor-elect Gary Ander by a mere two votes, wrote up a concession post on Facebook last Friday. Election night, Mason formally requested a recount which happened the following Tuesday and came out exactly the same as the first count.

“My thanks to everyone for helping to carry out the recount,” reads Mason’s statement. “It is a testament to the Municipality that the recount was literally identical to the preliminary count.

“My thanks also to everyone who supported me on the trail. I really enjoyed talking to everyone about our beautiful island so thank you so much. My heart was so warmed by the island-wide commitment to building a diverse, inclusive and vibrant community and I know that Gary and the rest of council will work hard to achieve this for the community.”

Mason and mayor Murray Skeels are the only members of the current council who will not be returning to chambers in November.

Conservation development in action: In a special council meeting Monday morning (their really final one), council unanimously approved a covenant for the Grafton Lakes development. The covenant will see a portion of the property transferred to the municipality (for use as a water treatment plant), another portion designated park land, trail and path construction and provisions for rental and affordable housing.

The 350 acre parcel of land near the centre of the island is to have no more than 120 units, not including affordable housing and caretaker residences.

Wildlife benefit from “On the Wings of Trees” exhibit

Keith Tyler stands before his community paramedicine vehicle

BARB RENDELL

Wellness clinic coming

CONTRIBUTOR

On a warm mid-October weekend, over 150 folks meandered through “On the Wings of Trees,” an exhibit of carvings, violins and violas created by Bob Miller and photographs by Cherie Westmoreland.

The tree images were displayed on walls and easels in and amongst

the carvings and instruments.

Bob and Cherie wanted to exhibit their work for the community while supporting the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.

Cherie recently delivered the centre a cheque for over $600, which will enable Irene and Clint Davy to continue their work.

Each year, many distressed wild animals and birds are brought to the centre to be cared for by Clint

and Irene and their team of volunteers. The centre has admitted birds as small as nestling hummingbirds and as large as mature bald eagles.

They have also cared for bats, squirrels, raccoons, fawns and seals.

The reception on Friday night highlighted the sound of the violins as Alison Nixon, Alexis and Melissa Graves dropped in to play for the visitors who enjoyed punch, appetizers and cookies.

Photo: Colleen O’Neil

Continued from page 1 To join the program patients need to be referred by their doctor or community case manager As another addition to our services, starting November 6 and on the first Tuesday of every month, the community paramedics will host a wellness clinic from 10 a.m.

to noon at the Caring Circle beside Cove Commons. This clinic will provide basic services such as blood pressure and vital signs assessment, information about health conditions or medications and assessment of minor ailments. No appointments are necessary as it will be a first come first served basis.

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The next edition of Thank you, from Thank you, from the Undercurrent the mayor-elect one of council’s is a Remembrance Dear Editor: Thank-you Bowen Islanders. fresh faces Day issue Now that the dust has settled, I would like Dear Editor: Looking toward Remembrance Day in a couple of weeks, we’re planning a special edition of the Undercurrent. It will come out November 8, so any submissions must be in

by Monday at 5 p.m.

If you have stories of war, of peace, of struggle that you’d like to share and remember, please consider sending them in. If you want some help with a story, please reach out and I’ll do what I can to help you.

If you have a story about how war or struggle affected Bowen Island, we are interested in that too.

Though it will be 100 years since the end of the First World War, we’re not just interested in the world wars.

Struggle exists in many forms. War has transformed with technology, globalization and climate change. It’s sometimes easier to grapple with the distant past. How does war and struggle affect you today? When is it okay to go to war? What can we do to make the world better?

I welcome all stories and perspectives, so long as they don’t fall into the racism that can come with conflict. These aren’t easy topics.

They shouldn’t be easy.

Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

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to take this opportunity to reflect on the election.

As far as the mayoral contest goes, Melanie ran an impeccable campaign and it is quite evident that a large demographic feel that they will not be represented during my tenure.

This has to be addressed.

The council the community has chosen is open-minded and has a vast amount of experience and depth. I envision a well-functioning, collaborative but independent, approach to the tasks ahead.

Thank-you also to the runner-up candidates, Robin, Lawrence and Peter who generously offered up the next four years of their lives to public service. I respect your passion and commitment to the island and hope you will continue to advocate for the betterment of the community.

The politics are over and it is time to get down to work. With another record voter turn-out, Bowen Islanders have chosen a local government they feel represent their wishes to not only protect but secure our precious island and community, not only for the next four years but for the foreseeable future.

That is our mandate as council and my promise to you.

Gary Ander, mayor-elect

I want to thank all those who voted me on to our new council this election. The honour of serving one’s community, representing residents on how their taxes are spent and being entrusted to help shape the future of our incredible island is not lost on me. For those who did not vote for me, I am going to work my hardest to earn your vote the next time around. I look forward to working with our new council on the many upcoming projects we have coming before us, it is going to be a busy and exciting term. I also hope that Boweners will always feel welcome to contact me if they wish to discuss issues we will be facing over the next four years.

Rob Wynen

Halloween approach to electoral reform

Dear Editor: I got a kick out of Bruce Russell’s letter in the pre-Halloween edition suggesting how spooky-scary it would be to change electoral systems.

All for now, Richard Best

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I promised my children ProRep Dear Editor: To understand why I’m campaigning for proportional representation, let me take you back to when I met my wife. She was born in Saskatoon and I first met her in Creel, Mexico. Somewhere along the way to living together, we talked about elections. She mentioned that although she had always voted in provincial and federal elections, she had never been represented by the party of her choice. I was dumbfounded. My experience in the Netherlands had been the total opposite: I had voted for the party of my choice and have always seen that party get seats (and I had not been voting for big tent parties.)

Years later, I made the promise to my Canadian-born daughter and son that by the time they were old enough to vote they should be able to vote for the party of their choice and see their votes represented by that party. My daughter turns 18 next year, no pressure there!

I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and did a talk on proportional representation last Friday.

About 50 Bowen Islanders and one Vancouverite attended the talk, organized by the B.C. Greens and held at Cates Hill Chapel.

What I learned from that night was that many people want our election system to be changed to make it proportional. They want a party that gets 35 per cent of the vote get 35 per cent of the seats; when it gets 20 per cent of the vote, it gets 20 per cent of the seats, etc.

I also learned that, more than anything, people want to vote for the party of their choice and not be forced to vote for the party they dislike, to keep the party they detest from winning.

They also don’t see anything right with parties that receive less than 50 per cent of the vote being able to get 100 per cent of the power in the B.C. Legislature.

During the talk I shared my experience of living in the Netherlands, a country that uses a proportional representation electoral system.

I explained how the Netherlands political culture is different because of it. Parties that form majority coalitions have the support of more than 50 per cent of the vote. Smaller parties have seats in the Dutch parliament and have made important contributions to legislation over the years. Things get done, the country is stable.

I also shared that currently in the Netherlands, a right wing populist party has seats. It has since 2006.

But it is kept out of power through a cordon sanitair and the support for this party has stabilized. Please note that this is not a neo-nazi party, if it was, its chances of gaining seats would have been practically zero.

Having a right wing populist party in a parliament is a concern, but I must say, I would rather have that limited representation of a right wing populist party than a takeover with 40 per cent of the vote getting 100 per cent of the power as we have seen in Ontario and the

U.S. With first-past-the-post, rightwing populists are unable to gain seats at first, but after a while, as socio-economic conditions further deteriorate, they very much do.

What I also heard Friday night was that some people are confused by having to rank the three options since not everything is known about them. Some even said that they feel the referendum is designed to fail because of this confusing ranking of the three systems. I agree with this, as it unreasonable to assume that every person is an election systems expert when most of us are not. That’s why the site referendumguide.ca is very useful. After working through straightforward quiz questions, the site tells you what system you likely prefer.

More than anything, this referendum is about if we want to stay with first-past-the-post or modernize our electoral system and adopt proportional representation.

What we need is people and political parties to work together on issues like truth and reconciliation, climate change, affordability of living in our province, affordable housing and the threat of right wing populism. So don’t let this opportunity fail. We have to modernize our electoral system.

Proportional representation will force us to work together. That’s why I am all for it.

Vote “yes” to proportional representation.

Sincerely, Anton van Walraven

Vote yes: I want my vote to count Dear Editor: I shall be voting enthusiastically in favour of proportional representation this month. Proportional representation will give us the opportunity to vote for what we want, instead of voting against things we don’t want.

That is the fundamental difference between first-pastthe-post and proportional representation. Instead of having to figure out how best to oppose policies you cannot support, you cast your vote for policies you do support, knowing that your views will be reflected in the make-up of the provincial government. Yes, the result is likely to be minority governments that have to discuss matters issue by issue and find common ground.

Common ground! Ground the majority can stand on.

Sounds good to me.

I understand that people feel it’s important to have local MLAs representing them. But the present system doesn’t always deliver that. After all, Christy Clark,

originally from Burnaby and elected as MLA in three different Lower Mainland ridings, was dropped into a Kelowna riding after she lost Point Grey in 2013. Hardly a “local” with local knowledge! The proportional representation systems proposed do deliver local representation. I suggest you do an online quiz (the Lime Survey referendum guide at referendumguide.ca is helpful) and find out which of the three models most closely reflects your preferences. Mine comes out strongly to the rural-urban model. Or if you prefer, simply do not answer question two.

There is nothing to fear and nothing to lose by voting in favour of proportional representation. Whatever system is adopted will be adopted for two electoral terms and then there will be another vote. If the majority is unhappy with proportional representation, we will revert to first-past-the-post within a decade.

Susanna Braund

Deconstructing the ProRep criticisms Dear Editor: I’d like to respond to some of the common proportional representation criticisms in the media.

1. “I’ll lose my MLA!” This is false. One great feature of stproportional representation is that we’d get more representation than we do currently. In some systems, we might even get two MLAs — double the representation!

2.“I don’t want Vancouver to make decisions for the whole province.”

Of course that wouldn’t be fair.

Proportional representation systems are designed to ensure all parts of B.C. are represented fairly.

Currently, rural ridings have very few MLAs in government, meaning they get little to no representation at all.

3.“We’d always have unstable minority governments” Stability is important. But often, the first thing majority governments do when elected is undo all the work of the previous government.

Proportional representation would indeed create more minority governments, meaning more stability, not less. When parties work together they make better laws that don’t get undone after the next election.

4.“Extremists would gain power.”

This concern is raised a lot by lobbyists on the radio, but proportional representation has excellent safeguards in place. Under proportional representation a party must get more than five per cent of the popular vote to get any seats. If the Nazi Party or other extremist groups gets more than five per cent

of the vote, we don’t have a democracy problem, we have a Nazi problem.

5.“It’s too complicated.”

Forty per cent of vote gets 40 per cent power is very simple. You know what is complicated? Our current first-past-the-post model.

Explain how in the last B.C. election, the liberals won 43 seats with 40 per cent of the vote, but the Green Party won three seats with 17 per cent of the vote?

6.“People won’t understand the ballots.”

Different doesn’t mean complicated. The option is to rank candidates in order of preference instead of agonizing over one choice. I think that actually makes things easier, don’t you?

Fenella Jacquet

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ProRep jeopardizes localized accountability

Dear Editor: Accountable, direct, local representation is a hallmark of our current first-past-the-post electoral system. It’s a system where constituents know their member of the legislative assembly and the MLA is responsible for the needs of the communities he or she serves. With proportional representation we would be moving away from this direct voter relationship to a vague party-driven system where your representative could very well live in some other part of the province.

I’ve been involved in municipal, regional and provincial government for at least the last 15 years and have come to be certain of the value of knowledgeable, local and direct representation.

In 2004 and 2005 I followed with interest the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, a non-partisan review and recommendation process that, unlike today, was populated and driven by citizens, not politicians. After nearly two years the assembly delivered a report to the B.C. Legislature recommending a system called BC-STV. Accompanied by a hard-to-arguewith tag line of “make every vote count” in 2005, I was swayed and voted in favour of proportional representation, at the time not really appreciating the potential implications. Regardless, that referendum failed.

But in 2005 I also became the mayor of Pemberton and over the course of the next four years I learned how very important it is to have a locally-elected provincial representative who is uniquely accountable to my community. It became very clear to me that the issues that are important to the Pemberton Valley, the Sea to Sky Corridor or any community of interest outside the big metropolitan areas, are by nature more regionally and locally specific. Special projects, transportation, local health care and education issues, economic development priorities and more are better managed and monitored when you have an accountable politician.

In 2009 there was a second vote on proportional representation. This time the number of MLAs per riding and maps for the proposed riding boundaries were published. This new information confirmed in my mind that the Sea to Sky’s influence would be diminished if we went to a proportional representation system.

Our voice would be overwhelmed by super-sized ridings, little or no MLA accountability and conflicting priorities. We would be absorbed within Metro Vancouver and move from a riding of 50,000 people to 250,000 people. With a total population of 35,000 people, the Sea to Sky would become a rounding error with a little voice. In the second referendum, lack of local representa-

tion and accountability was a showstopper for me and so I voted in opposition to the reform and to this day I haven’t changed my mind.

Be it mixed member, dual member or rural-urban, by the very nature of proportional representation, ridings must get bigger in order to create space for the proportionality and reflect the 5 per cent of the vote threshold that gets the parties’ appointed MLAs. Under what is currently being proposed, to suggest knowledge of a particular view of the future political landscape is disingenuous. To believe that special interest advocacies won’t meet that 5 per cent threshold needed to elect members is naïve and is certainly not the experience in other jurisdictions.

Here in B.C., where in 2001 the Marijuana Party received 3.2 per cent of the vote without any hope of electing a member we should recognize that a 5 per cent threshold is quite doable. Depending on how many votes you are entitled to cast per election (this will be decided by the NDP and Green Party at a later date) throwing one vote to a special interest is predictable. Imagine you rely on BC Ferries and are provided an opportunity to give a “BC Free Ferry Party” your vote and perhaps the balance of power. The 5 per cent threshold to elect MLA’s is then a pretty low bar.

I hear the Green Party and the NDP going on about a more cooperative approach. Well we are currently living one version of our future and the Greens and the NDP show no sign of governing in a more cooperative manner.

Amendments to bills are rejected, not because they are not thoughtful but because they are generated by the opposition. Committees are formed, such as the rental taskforce and the opposition is excluded.

Conferences are held and the opposition is denied access. This isn’t a cooperative government, this is a government that with their minority Green partners simply seeks to keep their grip on power.

At the end of the day the “Art of the Deal” will dominate, the makeup of the government will be decided behind closed doors by backroom power brokers. It will be high stakes poker, with your government at play. As the Green Party leader Andrew Weaver famously said, election promises are “irrelevant” and with proportional representation, truer words were never said.

By the time coalition negotiations are complete all accountability will be buried, your MLA may be party appointed and the never-ending struggle to maintain the tenuous grip on power will dominate. This is not fearmongering, this is the future as I see it.

Jordan Sturdy MLA, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

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Finding common humanity through and after war

ELLEN HAYAKAWA CONTRIBUTOR

What is the impact of war on you and your children?

Do you find yourself torn about war? When is it right and okay? If it’s ever right and okay?

You’re not alone.

As a Jewish person, Rebecca Van Der Giessen says that she’s torn.

“On one hand, I stand for peace not war.

On the other hand, I feel that Hitler needed to be stopped, otherwise there would possibly have been more genocide of the Jewish people and tragic circumstances world-wide.

“My father was in the Navy and was sent to Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Wanting to spare me and perhaps himself the horror of those memories, he was

always reluctant to speak about his war time experiences. As a teenager living in New York, I was part of the anti-war movement in the late ‘60’s and protested America’s participation in the Vietnam War,” she says.

I have found, too, that for different reasons I have a dilemma with war. My parents and grandparents, loyal Canadian citizens, were amongst the 21,000 people (including families from Bowen Island) wrongfully incarcerated by the Canadian government.

As a child, I was taught in school that war was necessary and that Canadians were part of the heroes and heroines of the Second World War and on the “right” side.

When I reflected on history and the circumstances of my family, I realized that I had family members on all “sides” of the war.

Ellen Hayakawa and Rebecca Van Der Glessen will be hosting “War, Remembrance and Reconcilliation: Creating a Peaceful Future for All” at Belterra on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto

My own family were loyal citizens of Canada and I had relatives who were loyal American citizens who were also wrongfully incarcerated after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And as Americans, they had figuratively dropped the bomb on their family in Hiroshima. My grandfather’s youngest brother was within 500 metres of the hypocentre of that bomb and survived, as did his family. I began to question what being a citizen meant, whether war was ever the “right” action. My family circumstances gave me a different perspective on war.

A few years ago, Rebecca and I were brought together at an event held annually on Remembrance Day on Nexwlélexm (one of the original names of Bowen Island before colonial times). It is an event for people who want to remember those on all sides who died in all wars and to take a stand for global peace.

I shared the story of my family. Rebecca shared the story of her son in law’s village, Deline on the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. The Sahtu Dene men mined and transported radioactive uranium from their land. Unbeknownst to them, Canada sold that uranium to the US for the creation of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. As a result of their participation

in breathing in and handling the radioactive materials, almost all the men from the village died of cancer, leaving the village without fathers and grandfathers. Many women and children have also died.

Despite their own tragic circumstances, in a remarkable display of their compassion, empathy and belief that all are brothers and sisters in humanity, the Sahtu Dene of Deline travel to Japan meet survivors of the Hiroshima bomb.

At an upcoming event called “War, Remembrance and Reconciliation: Creating a Peaceful Future for All,” this award-winning and inspiring film, “Village of Widows” chronicles the Sahtu Dene’s struggle to come to terms with the impacts of the war on them and their traditional homelands. It will be shown on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Belterra Common House (by donation), followed by community discussion on how war has impacted each one of us and what can be done to heal our past and move forward to create an exciting, bright, peaceful future.

Everyone is welcome at what promises to be a powerful evening of insight, inspiration and healing.

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There were some bloodied faces at Bowen Rec’s Spooky Trails event Monday night as the island’s youth gathered for some haunting activities, some of which a mad scientest (far right) presided over. Photos: Sheana Stevenson

Above: Melissa and Alexis Graves play violins crafted by Bob Miller. They were at the “On the Wings of Trees” exhibit a few weeks ago. Proceeds from the weekend-long pop up presentation at Evergreen Hall went to the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre.

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Right: Cherie Westmoreland (left) presents a cheque for more than $600 to the Irene Davy of the wildlife centre. Photo: submitted

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From the archives

It’s said that newspapers are the first draft of history. In a (hopefully) regular column, Bowen’s local archivist revisits some of the big stories of the island’s past, perhaps writing the next draft.

CATHERINE BAYLY B.I. MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES

The Bowen Island Archives have the complete run of the Undercurrents from 1978 to present. It is always interesting to look back.

Ten years ago - November 2008

Public notice was given to the electors of Bowen Island Municipality to announce that Alan Mills and Bob Turner were running for mayor and Lisa Barrett, Sally Freeman, Peter Frinton, Doug Hooper, Cro Lucas, Alison Morse, Nerys Poole, Tim Rhodes, Lisa Shatzky, David Wrinch and George Zawadzki were running for council.

The Bowen Island Recycling Depot asked the community to temporarily store plastics and glass at home because a global economic slowdown caused prices paid for used materials to plunge.

Islanders learned that Bowen Island would be part of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay race.

Twenty five years ago November 1993

Alan Still wrote that the season of stormy weather means that more volunteers were needed for the neighbourhood emergency program to assist with weather-related issues.

Volunteer options ranged from taking in evacuated neighbours, checking up on your neighbours or being a part of the communication network.

Rondy Dike wrote a letter to the editor about the lack of action in parking and ferry

traffic problems in Snug Cove. He stated that in 1988 the Island Trust and Greater Vancouver Regional District had spent considerable time and money to come up with a conceptual plan that had off-street parking behind the library with a loop around the parking area which provided a larger ferry holding or marshalling area with faster ferry unloading lanes.

B.C. Ferries hinted that there might be a fare increase and reduced services, stating that it loses about $6.50 for every car and driver it carries to Bowen.

Forty years ago - November 1978

Bowen Island News by Les Wallwork “November is the time of year when Bowen Island really feels like an island. The mainland seems to have receded further off and a trip to the mainland becomes quite an event.

Only the regular inhabitants live here now.

Everyone knows everyone else and a strange face is as noticeable as a skunk in a bed.

“The big event of each day is the mail call when practically the entire population of Bowen gathers in the Union Store at 11 o’clock each morning to collect their letters and newspapers. This is the time when all local news and gossip is exchanged and the store does a roaring trade in hot coffee. How much more pleasant this is then having some impersonal mailman push one’s letters through the door each day.

“One thing about living on Bowen Island is that it breeds a detachment from the more lurid newspaper headlines while one can still maintain a spectator’s interest.”

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Islander’s new album lets go

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BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

A few years ago, islander Alicia Hansen didn’t know if she’d ever be a musician again.

She’d just had her son. She was busy working as a production manager for Early Music Vancouver. With an already extensive musical resume, including two studio records, a degree in jazz piano and a stint with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Hansen found herself serving other musicians rather than playing herself. For a couple of years, she barely touched her piano.

“I thought maybe I wasn’t a creator anymore,” says Hansen. “I had a crisis of identity.

“It was a deep ache.

“I had to carve a place for [music] or, or I would die.”

So the islander of eight years moved her piano out into the shed, carved down her work hours and started writing and writing and writing.

Within a couple of months, she had enough songs for an album.

“The music had been a pressure cooker from that time,” she says.

That was two years ago.

On Nov. 1, Hansen is launching her third studio album, Before You. The cross-genre, non-mainstream work is produced by Juno and Polaris Award-winning musician and producer Jesse Zubot, who’s worked with Tanya Tagaq among others.

“It’s about my life now as an artist living on Bowen Island as an artist, as a mother, as someone trying to find a place as a musician in this culture,” says Hansen.

Hansen says that the current culture tends to prioritize music’s entertainment value over its artistic value, a worry she let drop for this album.

“For the most part the piano parts are simpler,” says Hansen. She describes the piano in her earlier work, which includes Fractography (2011) and Alicia Hansen & Ben Brown: Companion (2015), as dense and thorny.

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Hansen says that voice, piano and drums provide the musical foundation, with sparse strings and electronics providing the atmosphere.

“I stopped worrying about if something a cliché,” says Hansen. She also stopped resisting a back beat.

“It’s amazing when you let go of impressing anybody.

“There are always a few people in the world you imagine listening and judging and it’s nice to let go of that.”

It’s not only the music that’s simpler, but the lyrics. Hansen says that where heavy metaphor shrouded her earlier work, with Before You she made sure every lyric and metaphor is exactly what she means.

“Maybe it’s not the music that’ll reach gazillions of people, but I’m ok with that,” says Hansen.

Hansen will be launching her album at Pyatt Hall, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.

The album launch concert will be repeated at a house-concert on Bowen (Bluewater area) in late November. For reservations and details email bowenhouseconcerts@gmail.com.

Tuesday November 13th

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While Bowen Veterinary Services is temporarily closed, Mountainside Animal Hospital is available to take care of all your pets needs including 24/7 emergency and critical care services, routine appointments, vaccinations and surgeries etc. Located only 10 minutes from Horseshoe Bay just off Hwy. 1 at the Capilano Road exit.

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Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

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Lest we forget.

To honour all those who have sacrificed, the Undercurrent Remembrance Day edition will feature stories of Islanders and loved ones who served for their country.

Please submit your photos or stories to

editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com before Monday November 5th 5 p.m.

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CALENDAR Thursday November 1

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 pm Info call Irene 604-947-2955

Friday November 2

Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Doors 5:30 pm Dinner served at 6:30 pm “Members and guests welcome.”

Jazz at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7 - 10 pm Featuring Steve Fisk, John Stiver, Steve Smith and Buff Allen and a Prime Rib special too.

Saturday November 3

Burn Barrel Classic Bowen Island Golf Course 11 a.m. Join us for our twoperson scramble, followed by Frank Patt’s famous chili at this annual event. Members and non-members welcome.

Book by October 31. 604947-GOLF (4653).

Estella Woo at Doc’s Doc Morgan’s Pub & Restaurant 7-9 p.m. Enjoy Estella’s song stylings and the chef’s fresh sheet. No cover.

Sunday November 4

Submission deadline for BIAC annual exhibit and sale For more information,

contact Emilie Kaplun at Gallery@BIAC.ca United Church Fall Supper Bowen Lodge by the Sea 5 and 7 p.m. sittings Tix. at pharmacy or call Lynn 0090 Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. Open to everyone. No cost. Dress warmly. Tea will be provided. More info: lisa. shatzky@gmail.com First Nations 101 Cove Commons 2 - 4 p.m.

Join author Lynda Gray for a reading of her book, First Nations 101. Part of the Knowing Our Place series of events presented by Pauline Le Bell, the Bowen Island Public Library and the Bowen Island Arts Council.

Bowen Island Pub 5- 7:30 pm

Tuesday November 6

Art Workshop 1070 Miller Road(Seniors Court) 9 a.m. - noon.

Informal painting-drawing group meets every Tuesday.

All stages and ages welcome.

Drop-in $7 Eat, Drink, and Write!

Gallery at Cove Commons Doors open at 7 p.m.

Relaxed fun travel writing workshop with local award-winning writer, Carol Cram. Register at bowencommunityrec.com or call 604-947-2216 Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 p.m.

Wednesday November 7

Free Poker League Bowen Island Pub 7 -10 pm

12 Step Codependency Group Elliott Hall, 1070 Miller Road 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Monday November 5

Thursday November 8

Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Road Exercise at 9 am, coffee at 9:45, Guest speaker at 10, Yoga at 11:15.

Annual membership $20 or drop in $3.

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of The Eagle Cliff Community Association

Saturday, November 10th, 2018 At Collins Hall, 1120 Miller Road

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 pm Info call Irene 604-947-2955

Medication Matters

The most unwelcome part of Fall is here; the flu season. It’s time to prepare your immune system for battle. But, those lazy T-cells won’t respond until they’re challenged. The choice is simple: let your immune system be surprised by the live virus, or wake it up ahead of time with parts of inactivated ones.

The usual trivalent vaccine, which contains bits of three inactivated viral strains, is free for almost everyone, including people deemed at risk and those closely associated with them. A high-dose version of the vaccine that contains four times as much antigen is recommended for seniors, since the immune system becomes less robust with age. It is not clear how much more effective it will be however, and its cost is not covered in B.C. There is also a quadrivalent

vaccine recommended for children two to seventeen, appropriate for less developed immune systems.

Because even healthy people can get the flu and pass it on to those more at risk, it is important for everyone to get the flu shot.

The more people immunized means the less chance the disease can spread.

The health of the herd is everyone’s responsibility.

Though the flu vaccine is not without risk, most adverse reactions, if any, are mild. According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, the odds of a very serious reaction are 1 in 1,000,000. On the other hand, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, there are in a given year roughly 3500 deaths attributed to the flu.

All of the pharmacists at Cates Pharmacy are certified to administer vaccines and

Friday November 9

“Tone & Texture” New works by Janet Esseiva Catching Stars Gallery 11 am - 5 pm

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INTERNATIONAL MENU SERIES Join us every Sunday starting at 5pm, at Doc Morgan's for Prix Fix Family Style Menu of International Cuisine

11:00 AM Doors open for Membership Sign-up & Renewal 11:30 AM Annual General Meeting including Election of Board & Executive Sandwiches, coffee and tea provided.

Questions? Contact us at eccabowenisland@gmail.com

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I am looking forward to the next 4 years and working for you to get diverse and affordable rental and purchase housing, the fire hall, the medical clinic and the community center built. Alison amorse@bimbc.ca authorized by Alison Morse, as financial agent, amm5@shaw.ca

there is presently a good supply. Other vaccines that protect against pneumonia and shingles are available as well. The new shingles vaccine, reported to be 90% effective, is given as two injections, two to six months apart. For the best pneumonia protection, the recommendation is to have Prevnar (not publicly funded) first, followed by at least 8 weeks by Pneumovax which is free. Those who have had Pneumovax may add Prevnar a year or more later. Pharmacies have access to other vaccines for preventable diseases such as human papilloamavirus (HPV), tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid, hepatitis A and B, a pertussis (whooping cough) For more information, visit the Immunize B.C website or, as always, talk to your pharmacist.

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