Bowen Island Undercurrent November 15 2018

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2018 VOL. 44, NO. 44

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REMEMBRANCE DAY

Bowen had gorgeous weather for Sunday’s ceremony. Photos on page 7.

BIKE BARN

With the rainy season underway, Bowen’s ferry bike shed is under construction.

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Islander awarded Meritous Service Cross

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

A few months ago, islander Kahlil Baker was having a bad day. Things just weren’t going his way and to make matters worse, he had an incoming call from an Ottawa number. The only people who called him from Ottawa were from the government, invariably asking for money.

So Baker didn’t pick up. He let the voicemail sit for a few days before finally clenching his teeth and listening to the message.

Turns out, it was a call from the government.

Last week, Governor General Julie Payette awarded Baker the Meritous Service Cross (civil division) for his work with Taking Root, a reforestation organization he co-founded in 2007.

The award recognizes Canadian and foreign individuals’ meritous acts.

“Everyone was pretty caught by surprise,” said Baker, who moved to Bowen in August. The other co-founders, Samuel Gervais, Laura Howard and Brooke van MosselForrester, who live in Montreal where Taking Roots began, received the award as well.

“We never thought we’d get something from Canada as almost our work is international,” said Baker.

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Farewell old pub. A demolition team tears down the defunct Bowen institution Wednesday morning. More than a dozen people stood in the drizzling rain to watch the show.

Sharing dreams and actions for a more peaceful future

SHASTA MARTINUK CONTRIBUTOR

On November 10, 30 people gathered in the common house at Belterra for an event called “War, Remembrance and Reconciliation: Creating a Peaceful Future for All.” We watched the award-winning documentary Village of Widows about the Sahtu Dene people from the village of Deline on the banks of Great Bear Lake, many of whom died from radiation poisoning due to their work mining and transporting uranium ore. When they learned that the ore they had mined was used, unbeknownst to

them, in the creation of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were horrified. They wanted to make what reparations they could.

Believing that all people are sisters and brothers in humanity, in 1998 a group from Deline travelled to Japan to meet with survivors of the bomb and participate in the annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. Amongst the many extraordinary images in this film, the most outstanding one for me is the many thousand glowing peace message paper lanterns set afloat on the Motayasu River in evening’s darkness to console the spirits of the dead.

Following the film, we had a community conversation on the impact of war on each of us. It was deeply moving to both witness the film and hear what each person present shared afterward. What was striking in the stories was that there was no one at our gathering whose family had not been impacted by war, either directly or indirectly.

Several of those present had lost family members in the Second World War Jewish Holocaust. Many others had fathers and grandfathers who had fought with the Allies in the First or Second World Wars.

Still others came from families who had been on the “other side.” Ellen Hayakawa had family on all sides of

the Second World War. Her grandparents and parents, loyal Canadian citizens, were wrongfully incarcerated by the Canadian government.

Ellen shared the story in her great aunt Sumie Shiraishi’s words of surviving the Hiroshima bomb and its horrors. She wore the kimono sewed for her by Sumie Shiraishi in remembrance of all who have died in wars and all those who survived with trauma post-war. Sharing of all these unique stories revealed our common humanity. We ended the night on a hopeful, inspiring note with each person in the circle saying what they feel they can do in their lives to move toward a more peaceful future for all.

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Seeking Volunteers Bowen Island Municipality is seeking volunteers to serve on the following Committees of Council:

Finance Advisory Committee

Economic Development Committee Meeting

Nov 17 2018 9:00 am - 1:00 pm CPR/AED Training (COURSE FULL)

Nov 19 2018 7:00 pm

The Finance Advisory Committee provides oversight to the preparation of the five-year financial plan, development of a long-term capital plan and the conduct of the annual external audit. It also provides advice and recommendations to Council and staff as appropriate with respect to finance related matters including risk management, budget policies and accounting systems. Volunteer commitment comprises approximately four two-hour meetings per year, preparation for which includes reading financial reports.

Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee

Advisory Planning Commission Meeting

Nov 26 2018 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting

Nov 27 2018 7:00 pm Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

The Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee provides recommendations to Council and staff regarding outdoor, natural and recreational space on Bowen Island, including beaches. The Committee advises on parks planning; comments on development proposals including rezoning and sub-division applications; and maps and maintains an inventory of greenspaces. Volunteer commitment comprises monthly meetings (held on the third Tuesday of the month except in August and December) and the opportunity to participate in subcommittee projects and walkabouts.

SEEKING PUBLIC COMMENT FOR TWO APPLICATIONS (203-992 Dorman Rd) 1. TUP-02-2018 2. Provincial Referral 04-2018 PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

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As of October 17, 2018, Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act, created a national framework enabling access to a regulated supply of cannabis. In response to this, the Province established regulatory requirements for private cannabis retail store licences in B.C. The applicant is simultaneously pursuing an application with the Province for a non-medical cannabis retail license.

Bluewater Park Water System Local Advisory Committee The Bluewater Park Water System Local Advisory Committee provides recommendations to Council and staff regarding the operation and maintenance of the water supply and distribution system, along with operating and capital budgets for the utility. Volunteer commitment comprises one or two meetings a year, preparation for which may include reading engineering and financial reports.

Heritage Commission Bowen Island Municipal Council is seeking community members to serve on the BIM Heritage Commission for a two-year term with the following areas of knowledge or interest: • Local heritage conservation • Architecture, planning and design • Landscape architecture and horticulture • Building construction • Business and tourism • Nature conservation • History Volunteer commitment comprises four meetings per year in addition to subcommittee participation.

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Fighting Finding a collective spirituality on Bowen climate change with trees BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

Continued from page 1 Baker then added that it’s nice that Canada is recognizing Canadians doing work abroad to combat climate change.

Taking Root is a non-profit organization that uses reforestation to fight climate change and poverty.

Working primarily with farmers in Nicaragua, the organization incentivizes farmers to plant trees in underutilized parts of their farms.

In a 2017 CBC documentary, Baker said that some of the highest rates of deforestation in the world were happening in Nicaragua and the forests’ biggest threats weren’t large companies but small-scale farmers just trying to scrape by. So the non-profit works with the farmers, helping them economically so the farmers in turn may help the environment.

Baker, who has a PhD in forest economics, is currently Taking Root’s executive director.

“With the support of partners and a local team in Nicaragua, Taking Root has [ since 2007] channeled over $3 million from global partners to 800 farming families in rural communities who are otherwise living on less than $2 a day. This work has created over 1,000 jobs per year for the local economy. Farmers have grown over three million trees on 2,500 hectares of their own land and participated in more than 10,000 farmer trainings. These trees will offset 550,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the annual emissions of 119,000 cars,” reads a blog post on the organization’s website.

Baker says that as he was the western-most recipient at the ceremony, Bowen Island got a few special mentions as Payette described the geographical diversity of attendees.

Some other Meritous Service Cross recipients included Shopify’s founder Tobias Lütke and Richard Howard Gimblett, a post-cold war navel historian.

How are you feeling about religion and spirituality these days?

Feeling a little lost?

Well, islander Shahar Rabi is stepping into the fray, taking on globalization and the complexity of today’s world, trying to help people find paths to a new collective spirituality.

Earlier this month, Rabi launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to publish his new book on the future of community, culture and religion.

This is Rabi’s first book, though he’s written a couple of masters theses and a PhD dissertation (on ecology and globalization.)

“This is much more of a personal piece,” he says. “It’s more edgy because I’m writing about religion, the religions of tomorrow and the future of God.” The therapist, assistant professor at Adler University, former clinical program director at the Orchard and father of two, has lived on Bowen for the past seven years.

“I make the joke that I am talking about everything that nobody wants to hear,” he laughs. “I could probably write a book about parenting that would be much more successful.”

But Rabi says that he felt he had to write this book. That even on Bowen, “The disease of loneliness is a real thing.

“I’m saying that we’re at this interesting place. That people have a lot of access to personal growth and there are fantastic books about how to become a mature person, how to heal.

“My curiosity is about what happens beyond that. Because a lot of us can’t go back to traditions, to religion, to structures that don’t work for us anymore. There are not a lot of structures to take us beyond the individual journey, back into a collaborative-collective space.”

Rabi says that he’s interested in the structures that could help people find the context and depth with one another that they no longer feel they can get from a church.

But Rabi doesn’t see this book as an instruction manual.

“I don’t think I can give answers,” he says. “I think nobody can give answers anymore because [the world is] too complex and too diverse. So each community has to come up with their own answers. “[The book]’s like an open source code, where people can take the code that I wrote and then do whatever they want with it.”

Part of what Rabi is trying to remedy is polarization.

“If you look at culture right now, you’ll notice that there are a lot of attempts to move collaboratively but also, in that movement, there’s a lot of ‘us versus them.’”

He says that in the media, on social media, in politics, there’s often a lack of nuance.

“There is a lot of if you don’t agree with us you’re our enemy.”

Again, collaboration and listening to peoples’ fears, rather than dismissing them is key. “This the dislocation that’s happened because of globalization. The sense of isolation, the radicalization, the ethnocentricity, all of these phenomena are symptoms of a system that can’t handle complexity on a social and cultural level,” he says.

“Beyond that there giant forces that are like waves [economics and the like.] We lost that battle in a way. But it doesn’t mean that we can’t, in our small communities, still find in connection and in collaboration, meaning and context.

“Reality is always moving to more dialogue. Into more understanding and more empathy. And when people are grounded in themselves and grounded in whatever their perception of reality is, there is goodness.

There’s an acceptance. There’s open mindedness. It’s built into us. From the beginning of time. You don’t have to do anything, you just have to not put blocks in the way.”

“Trees know how to grow to the sun.”

There’s a month left in Rabi’s fundraising campaign at indiegogo.com/projects/why-you-matter-to-the-evolution-of-spirituality#/.

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Fast elected to Islands Trust executive committee, Hocking on Metro board

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

In the first regular council meeting since the election, mayor Gary Ander took his seat at the head of the table and new councillors David Hocking and Rob Wynen tested out their new iPads (which you receive upon being elected to council.)

The following are reports from the regular municipal council meeting November 13.

Councillor David Hocking will be Bowen’s new representative on the Metro Vancouver board.

Hocking was a director on the board a decade ago, the last time he was on council, and has held senior staff positions with Metro Vancouver in the intervening years.

Hocking is replacing councillor Maureen Nicholson, who, had she been re-elected to the board, would have been one of the few returning members.

“On behalf of the municipality and council, you did an incredible job,” mayor Gary Ander thanked Nicholson.

New councillor Rob Wynen was acclaimed as the alternate director.

Councillors Sue Ellen Fast and Michael Kaile were sworn into their roles as Island Trustees last week.

Fast, who was one of Bowen’s two representatives on the federation’s council last term, was elected to the executive committee, which oversees the Trust’s daily business (this includes considering bylaw approvals.) The committee is comprised of four people: returning chair, Peter Luckham of the Thetis Island Local Trust Area; Laura Patrick, a trustee from the Salt Spring Island Local Trust Area; Dan Rogers from the Gambier Island Local Trust Area and Fast. The executive committee

elected Fast as its representative on the Islands Trust Conservancy, a conservation land trust.

Council committed to leasing Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH) approximately 0.48 hectares of lot three of the Community Lands. Executive director Robyn Fenton says that this commitment should help with grant applications. The organization has been busy in the past month. It has hired development consultants and is working on a phased master plan for its proposed land parcel, phase one of which is around 20 market and below market rental housing units. The organization has also formed an advisory group of community members to help BIRCH decide who will benefit from the below-market housing.

Council sent the land use bylaw amendment for the United Steamship Marina’s floating houses back to first reading. The bylaw had undergone first and second readings as well as an open house and hearing over the past few months, but marina owner Rondy Dike’s plans for the floating buildings changed, meaning the process had to go back to step one. Dike’s plans are now for up to 16 living units in six floating houses. The current land use bylaw allows for three floating houses.

Dike is building the new dwellings to house some of the staff needed for Doc Morgan’s Pub and the marina. The floating buildings are to be regulated through a housing agreement with the municipality so that priority be given to Bowen workers when they’re not occupied by Dike’s employees. The bylaw passed first reading. Dike’s second of the six proposed floating units is expected to launch next week.

Four Harvards do a Remembrance Day flyby.

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Short term rentals misunderstood

Dear Editor: Over the course of the election campaign there were numerous questions regarding Airbnbs and the effect they have had on housing on Bowen.

There seems to be an overall assumption that the new sharing economy and in particular short term vacation rentals are the underlying reason we have no affordable long-term rentals on the island. Unfortunately, there has been no study and so there are no statistics, only rumours about the overall problem.

From what I understand, there are around 400 non-resident houses on the island. Many of these are weekender cabins or vacation homes that the owners use primarily through the summer months but also on long weekends and for family getaways throughout the year. These properties will never be on the long-term vacation market. Until the sharing economy emerged, there was no vehicle such as Airbnb to assist owners in their mortgage and tax payments. Remember, these owners do not receive homeowner grants. They pay full taxes for services they seldom use like garbage, schools, roads and the operation of the municipality.

Many cabins were purchased years ago for affordable prices. For years, there was a minimal real estate market. There were hundreds of properties listed for sale and while the owners waited for the market to match the demand, many of those unused properties were rented to islanders. Fast forward to the market we have experienced in the past two years. The $70,000 cabins of 20 years ago are selling for hundreds of thousands, if not for millions. What’s happened? Those cabins have been sold and are now homes for new families on the island.

The introduction of business licences and the (hopeful) legalization of short term vacation rentals will finally give the municipality the data they need to truly address the problem. Until then, I’m hoping that the blame unduly placed on the operators of short term rentals will subside.

Please note, I do not have a vacation rental nor a weekend property and have not made a penny on Bowen since I transformed our “summer cabin” and moved here full time 18 years ago.

Murray Atherton

BIRCH looking to house Bowen recipes Dear Editor: Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH) has launched a cookbook fundraiser this week: Good Ol’ HOME Cookin’ – recipes from Bowen Island Kitchens.

We are seeking submissions of recipes, preferably with a story!

Please send submissions by November 30 to: info@birchousing.org or PO Box 8.

Thank you, Robyn Fenton Executive Director, BIRCH

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FISH MAKING LOVE If you are not from Kyoto and therefore lost down at the end of Melmore, you will probably already know about the little path to the causeway and you have probably stood there at the lagoon and watched the salmon have sex. What they do is called spawning and however that may look to you, it is considered a sanctioned PUnb`Q^ N\ Obkjn^ bO_ Um m^nUNjm mkj]X oV^f _N kVUm nUZVk UO kV^ lagoon or up the stream and don’t seem to care that everyone is watching. Stranger still, they kill themselves in the process of making kids who then head out to sea without so much as a thank you. oV^f bn^ n^PbnRbaQf QbnZ^ anjk^mY MbnkU`jQbnQf UO kV^ ZUnkVY hVU`V Um baNjk kV^ mUe^ N\ fNjn kVUZVX oV^f _NOSk aNkV^n hUkV ZnNNPUOZY either. By the time they get to Bowen, they are disgustingly batk^n^_ bO_ _Um`NQNjn^_ QUR^ ^gknbm UO b eNPaU^ PNiU^X oV^Un b_Tjmkment from salt water to fresh seems remarkable but perhaps only kN P^X oVbk hNjQ_ MnNabaQf njUO bO NjkaNbn_ PNkNnX dNn mNP^ n^bmNOY PNmk N\ kV^P UZONn^ kV^ lmV Qb__^n kVbk hbm kindly built for them and after some contemplation, choose the agonizing wriggle up the spillway of the dam. For this, Bowen’s best free show, they are photographed and rewarded with rounds N\ `V^^nUOZ bO_ mNP^kUP^m k^bnmX oV^f bn^ QUR^ nN`R mkbnmX c lO_ Uk _U[`jQk kN jO_^nmkbO_ kV^ nNPbOkU` QU\^ N\ lmV Nn hVf kV^f _N hVbk kV^f _NX WkV^nm jO_^nmkbO_ Uk M^n\^`kQfX oV^ mbQPNO seem to like it very much.

Ron Woodall

Ok, now it’s really happening! We’ve got the designs back for our brand new Bowen social pages (the ones we promised you over the summer.)

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Bowen’s skunks are spawning too Dear Editor: If you don’t take care of a skunk problem, it will become a serious skunk problem. Bowen has a skunk problem that’s been growing over the past three years.

Looking at the Bowen Island Municipality website, I found the following documentation from January 2016, addressing the problem of transporting and relocating trapped skunks from the mainland.

Summary of the solicitor’s advice: “Under the Designation and Exemption Regulation to the British Columbian Wildlife Act, Section 3(2) it is deemed unlawful to release a skunk or any other wildlife on any island, other than the island it was captured on unless specific approval has been attained from the Ministry of Environment.”

Conclusion: “Provincial regulations prohibiting the transport of skunk and other wildlife onto islands in British Columbia exist.

Under the Community Charter and the Wildlife Act, BIM is authorized to adopt a bylaw related to the transport and release of wildlife on

Bowen Island. However, to avoid redundancy, BIM could continue to request that the province enforce relevant, instated Wildlife Act provisions.”

That deals only with the legalities of the release of skunks on Bowen.

Two and a half years later, what is being done to address the immediate problem? Skunks are everywhere now. I think that readers will agree that there is an infestation.

I know first hand because I walk trails all over the island on a daily basis. There are no trails on which I walk, that I do not encounter a skunk or smell a skunk. They are in Quarry Park now, even in Ferry Fen. They are at Huszar Creek and all over the Cape lands. They are in Blue Water, Sealeigh Park, Tunstall, Crayolla and Evergreen. They are at the golf course, Kilarney Lake, Eaglecliff, Hood Point and Mt. Gardner. They are in Valhalla and throughout Crippen and the cove.

They are probably in your yard too! Let’s modestly assume we have only 100 skunks on island and 60 of them are female. Statistics suggest

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Craftily making a difference

that in another year you could have 300 because each litter on average has five to seven kits. Once weaned, the babies leave their birth nest and travel 10 km, on average, to make their own home. Fast forward another few years and they will be even more rampant. The life span of a skunk is seven to ten years. Does Bowen have the habitat and space to maintain the exploding skunk population?

My research tells me that the only skunk predator might be a great horned owl. The only other factor that would decrease the population would be disease or maybe damage caused by genetic inbreeding.

Skunks are also prone to distemper and rabies. If we are lucky there might even be a skunk flu that will wipe them out. The skunks are not going to swim off the island like a raccoon or coyote would.

My question is: what is the new council going to do to address the skunk problem that the last council did not?

Josie Farrell

BIAC AGM welcomes everyone

JACQUELINE MASSEY

SARAH HAXBY CONTRIBUTOR

The Community School Association’s annual craft fair has been one of the biggest and most anticipated events on Bowen since 1984. The craft fair has always included crafters and artisans of all ages and has always made room for youth to encourage the next generation. A few years ago, the association created the youth craft fair rooms in the upper part of the school as well as a youth entrepreneurship education program to strengthen skills needed for success.

You will see some youth, grades five and up, in the main part of the craft fair in the gym and they are to be congratulated for graduating from the youth craft fair into the main craft fair!

With the youth craft fair, children as young as five have the opportunity to create works and to sell them.

During the craft fair, be sure to go upstairs and check out what the youth, ages five to 19, have created as it’s important to recognize the work of youth as they grow. There will be over forty youth at tables upstairs with everything from baked goods, to candles, to ornaments, to hand sewn item, to jewelry and more. It’s always wonderful to see what the youth create and often

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Thank you, for Bowen Halloween

The Rhythm Dancers will perform at the AGM.

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bought to life and also witness the historic unveiling of our new graphic identity. Of course there will be elections and refreshments and a chance to join our group or update your membership and catch up with neighbours and friends. We hope to see you there.

For more information, please visit our website at www.biac.ca or contact us at 604-947-2454.

p.m. to 6 p.m. at our annual general meeting at the Cove Commons.

In our usual creative style, we’ll be presenting much more than a staid meeting. First off, we’ll be introducing a performance by the Rhythm Rebel dancers, a B Boy troupe, known far and wide for their athletic dance moves. You’ll hear a presentation about the community centre – soon to be a dream

Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Shelagh Mackinnon Marie Paul Rev.Rev. Shelagh MacKinnon

Helan Wallwork Helen Minister of Music: Lynn Williams

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FOOD DROP-OFF BANK DROP-OFF

BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH Pastor Clinton Neal ST. GERARD’S ROMAN 1070 Miller Road 604-947-0384 Service 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 11:00 a.m.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sunday Mass: 10:30 a.m.

ST. GERARD’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Administration Office: 604-682-6774 Mass: 10:30 a.m. Priest: Father James Comey

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CATES HILL CHAPEL

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10:00 a.m. Worship • Sunday School: Tots to Teens Sunday School: Tots to Teens

Pastor: Dr. James B. Krohn

Pastor: Phil Adkins

door-knocking ghosts, goblins and other creatures; the good-spirited homeowners themselves; members of the community who donate money, candy or other treats in this unique campaign; the Snug Cove General store for collecting the donations; Sarah Haxby and her committee for dealing with the donations and of course our volunteer firefighters for their highly professional, safe and entertaining fireworks display, which is secondto-none. Move over Vancouver with your Festival of Lights. On behalf of the community-at-large, thank you.

Bruce and Dorene Russell

On December 25, & January 1 service will begin with the 8:35 am sailing from Bowen Island and the 8:00 am sailing from Horseshoe Bay.

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BOWEN ISLAND Snug Cove

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VANCOUVER Horseshoe Bay 5:50 am> 6:50 am< 8:00 am 9:05 am† 10:15 am 11:25 am 12:35 pm 2:20 pm 3:30 pm 4:35 pm 5:45 pm* 6:50 pm 8:00 pm* 9:00 pm# 10:00 pm

Distance: 3 NAUTICAL MILES Crossing Time: 20 MINUTES

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Service and Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Service and Sunday School 10:30 am Collins Hall Bookings: Helen Wallwork MinisterCollins of Music: Williams HallLynn Bookings:

Dear Editor: As I have yet to see anyone else express their thanks for the way Bowen Islanders celebrate Halloween, permit me to offer a few comments. I question, “what would Halloween be without kids in costumes, knocking on doors for tricks or treats and a great display of fireworks?”

My wife and I think Bowen’s Halloweens are unique and special because of the teamwork that prevails, including those who organize the collection of community handouts for the homeowners in the Mannion Bay neighbourhood who are inundated with hundreds of

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A year sure passes quickly. This time last year, the Bowen Island Arts Council was preparing for its very last exhibit at the Gallery @ Artisan Square. We were celebrating the Gallery’s 20th anniversary and the nonprofit organization’s 30th year supporting arts and culture on the island. Fast forward to today and we’ve settled in to our new space at Cove Commons, welcomed a record number of visitors into the new gallery, completed a branding process and are ready to launch our new identity. Welcome to the Hearth, Arts on Bowen!

We’d like to tell you more about our crazy busy year enhancing opportunities for artists and building community. Please join us on Sunday, November 18 from 4:30

their prices are very reasonable – thanks to support from their parents who are a key part of helping the youth craft fair alive. The youth craft fair is also run by the craft fair subcommittee members: Jennifer Pardee and Sarah Haxby.

Youth entrepreneurship should be supported as it builds resilience, encourages creativity, innovation and mathematics. The youth craft fair is a complex experiential learning opportunity which includes a social element as well as a charitable element. Plus, there’s something for everyone! Who can resist a jar of snowman poo, a hand felted tree ornament or a carved piece of Bowen driftwood? A half dozen of last year’s youth crafters donated hundreds of dollars to various local and global causes and won the 2018 ACEbc Youth Leadership Award, and many more are fundraising so that they can travel, participate in events and continue their education and growth.

So please plan to spend a bit of extra time at the CSA’s craft fair (10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sunday Dec. 2) and make the trek upstairs to see this year’s youngest crafters and artisans. Help them build their entrepreneurial skills, help build community through intergenerational social activities and help keep community spirits bright.

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Bike barn a step toward transportation goals ROB WYNEN

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Over the course of the election campaign it was clear to me, as I worked the ferry lineups, that transportation on Bowen is a big issue. We heard, loud and clear, that there are few options for moving around the island. The lack of active transportation infrastructure permeates our newly-adopted transportation plan –it was the primary reason residents felt they had to use a car. They felt they didn’t have a choice. While we will probably be complaining about traffic and ferry marshalling in 20 years, I think most would agree that the “build it to meet demand” model has hit a wall and no amount of blasting is likely to provide a solution that will meet our future needs.

We are starting to see issues that will need a different mindset, one that doesn’t push the problem down the road for another generation to solve.

Solutions that are affordable, create a safe and pleasant community and are environmentally sustainable.

The construction of the new bike barn is a great example of a new way of thinking about transportation and it is why I was so giddy recently when I saw a number of young students using their woodworking skills erecting one of the walls. The project will hopefully be the start of many new projects identified in our transportation plan, a plan that has, at its core, a goal to move people, not cars.

The bike barn, at a cost of $35,000 (paid for through a Translink program and reportedly under budget) is a relatively small project and won’t solve all of our traffic problems but it will be one of many initiatives that will hopefully

High school students working on the bike barn. Photo: Rob Wynen lead to happier commuters. This is, in my opinion, the goal of any successful transportation plan.

My most memorable experience running for council this past election was a conversation I had with a young mother waiting for the ferry to load.

She brought up her number one concern, transportation, and teared up as she explained to me how she leaves the house before her kids get up and gets home late at night, just in time to cook supper and go to bed. “My commutes are taking away so much of my family time, it has really been stressful for my entire family,” she told me. Her commutes were definitely the most miserable part of her day. If happiness is at the heart of good transportation planning, for this Islander we have fallen short.

So, how does the bike barn relate to happiness and a better transportation future on island? Why the excitement?

For starters, this project will save our

municipality a tonne of money. You can translate that to lower taxes and a more affordable lifestyle. In speaking with many summer cyclists and motorcyclists, the mother I spoke with being a cyclist, winters are miserable. Many give up the two wheels for four, not by choice but by necessity. Leaving your bike in the rain for the entire day is just not feasible: it destroys the bike and who wants to return from a tough day at the office to a wet bike, seat and helmet? A covered bike parking area will change all that. A secure location, protected from the elements is often all that is needed to encourage year-round, two-wheeled commuting. And I believe it will. The winter switch back to the car leads to more people parking in our “free” parking lot, taking away space for others. I highlight the word “free” because there is of course nothing free about this parking. It sits on land worth upwards of two million dollars, a bill we all pay for through taxes. It is the most costly parking we can possibly provide, space that is very limited in the cove. Projects such as the bike barn save us an incredible amount of money, provide residents with a healthy and environmentally-sustainable way to move and are meeting the need of Boweners to travel in an enjoyable manner. I suspect the barn will fill up fast, especially when we begin work next year on our cross-island path. What a nice problem to have.

Whether it is a bike barn, a walk-on ferry to downtown, a transit-fare-free zone on Bowen or simply better sidewalks to encourage walking, I see a very bright future ahead of us when it comes to increasing transportation choices.

These choices will ultimately make all of us happier and save the Muni (us) a whole whack of money.

Bowen Island Arts Council Annual General Meeting ts h g li gh AGM i H he e: t d of nclu i

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Scenes from Remembrance Day on Bowen 2018.

Top left: spectators watch the first half of the ceremony, where the community choir sang, Lorraine Ashdown said a prayer and Richard Goth recited “In Flanders Fields.”

Top Right: Second World War Veteran Jim Moore watches proceedings (foreground) with his daughter standing beside him.

Bottom: the audience watches the wreath laying.

Photos: Bronwyn Beairsto

Bowen Island Conservancy November 24: Annual General Meeting Bowen Island Community School, Multipurpose Room Agenda: 1:00 pm: Formal business meeting 1:45 pm: Coffee break 2:00 pm: Dr. Andrew Wright will talk about his exhibit GroundTruth: Anatomy of a Pipeline Andrew has travelled 20,000 km on land and spent 100 days in a boat along the route of the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Our economy supports a prosperous life, but it is also dependent on the extraction of resources. In a world of accelerating climate change and diminishing biodiversity, we need to ask ourselves ‘How does Canada transform its economy, in order to preserve its prosperity and contribute to the conservation of the country and the planet?’

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CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR Sunday November 25 11 am - 4 pm 15 tables of local crafts.

Proceeds from concession supports Bowen Gymnastics Festive fun for the whole family.

The Little Red Church Christmas Craft Fair

Sat. Nov 24th, 11am-4pm & Sun. Nov 25th, 12pm-4pm Collins’ Hall Local crafts, concession by Little Red Church. Please join us for Christmas treats.

Chanukah ABC or Aleph, Bet, Gimmel

ARYANA RAYNE CONTRIBUTOR

We all know when Christmas is but when the heck is Chanukah? Well, it changes each year. The Jewish calendar is based on the moon cycle, with each month beginning at the new moon. The months have different names than the Gregorian Calendar such as Nissan, Adar, Tammuz and Tishrei. Chanukah begins on 25 Kislev which will fall sometime in December. This year, Chanukah begins on the evening of December 2.

The 25th day of each Jewish month is close to its darkest time with the moon just a sliver. And the Festival of Lights, as Chanukah is sometimes called, starts at the darkest time of the year near the winter solstice. Jewish families world-wide bring out their menorahs, or candelabras, and candles and, starting on the first evening, gradually light from one to eight candles.

But what are they actually celebrating?

This is the only festival that has a clear historical record. During the second century BCE, the land of Israel was under Greek domination and and all local religions were being rooted out. Over a three year period, a group of Jewish fighters called the Maccabees staged a revolt, recaptured Jerusalem and set out to re-dedicate the Temple. While what truly happened is unclear, the story that has been handed down is that when the Maccabees went to light the lamps using the holy oil, only one day’s supply was found and it would take eight days to procure new oil. But the lamp stayed lit the whole eight days and it was declared a miracle.

So how do we celebrate this? With the lighting of a candle, adding one each night until there are eight candles glowing. But also with foods that reflect the oil theme: potato latkes (pancakes) and special doughnuts called sufganiyot. And the custom has been to give children Chanukah gelt, or money, each evening;

Some creative menorahs at a past Chanukah party on Bowen. Photo: Aryana Rayne

some families now give small gifts.

The Bowen Island Jewish community has traditionally gathered for a yearly Chanukah party, where we have made menorahs (you can make the candelabras from driftwood, play-clay or even a potato,) sang songs, lit the candles, played games such as spin the dreidel, and then, of course, eaten.

Bowen Islanders have many customs to bring light during this long dark month of December. The lighting of the cove is the usual start. People put up their Christmas trees and place outside house lights. Jewish families on Bowen get out their candelabras; tradition says that they should be placed at an outside window and the candles lit as soon “as the stars come out each evening.” In this way, we all contribute in making things a little brighter.

The Bowen Agricultural Alliance (BAA) is hosting a

BAA Winter Market and Craft Fair Bowen Island Community School Sat. Dec. 8th, 10-1pm, BICS gym

Crafters, sauces, jams, preserves, food, fruit leather, kale, squash, Winter vegetables, baked goods, seeds, artisans and more!

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Doc’s Open Mic Night Doc Morgan’s Pub & Restauran 8:00 p.m.

Soundwaves Cates Hill Chapel 3:00 p.m.

Earthsounds & Harmony Mountain Singers, under the direction of Karla Mundy featuring Kathleen Nisbet on Fiddle and Andy Hillhouse on guitar. Tix at Phoenix Books.

Adults $15, Concession $10

Friday Night Live with Adam Bailie Bowen Island Pub 7:00 p.m.

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Offering Circle and Potluck 340 Royal View Place (off Sunset) 5:30 p.m. Presented

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Knowing Our Place: The Book Club Library Flex Room 11:0012:30 pm The Book Club discusses Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Islands of Decolonial Love.” Register at bit.ly/ BookClub2Fall2018 . Second session on December 1.

IPS Annual Fall Bash : Under the Stars Cates Chapel 7-11:30 pm Feauturing DJs Sly Virus & guests. Tix $25 at IPS or Phoenix 100% of proceeds go to Student Financial Aid. Complimetary shuttle, cash bar, and door prizes.

Live Music & Chanting The Well in Artisan Square Join the “Vibrations of Love” & sing your hearts open.

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Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. Open to everyone. Dress warmly, tea will be served. No cost. lisa. shatsky@gmail.com BIAC AGM Gallery at Cove Commons 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Highlights include unveiling of a new identity, presentation on the community centre project and Cian Mulchay and the Rhythm Rebels

Saturday November 24

Little Red Church Christmas Craft Fair Collins Hall at the Little Red Church 11 - 4 pm Local crafts, goodies and treats.

Bowen Island Conservancy AGM BICS, Multipurpose Room 1 p.m. Guest speaker Dr Andrew Wright will talk about his exhibit “GroundTruth: Anatomy of a Pipeline Brandon Hart with Bowen DJ RoRaven & DJ Natural Bowen Island Pub 9 p.m.

Get ready for a dance party!

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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.

Oil Pastel Demo with artist Denise Richard Arts Pacific Gallery at Artisan Square 1 p.m.

“The Aliens are Coming” Bowen Legion 1 p.m.

Bowen Island Garden Club speaker series presents “The Aliens are Coming” with Tasha Murray.

Men On the Rock Winter Concert Tir-na-nOg Theatre 7:30 p.m.

Advance Tix at Cates Pharmacy

Tuesday November 20

Snug Cove House AGM Bowen Court 10:30 a.m. All very welcome.

Art Workshop 1070 Miller Road(Seniors Court) 9 noon. Informal paintingdrawing group meets every Tuesday. All stages and ages welcome. Drop-in $7

Wed. November 21

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

Friday November 23

BI Legion Christmas Craft Fair Bowen Island Legion 11 - 4 pm Fifteen tables of local crafts, fun for everyone, concession in suppport of Bowen Gymnastics.

Sunday November 25

Children’s lantern workshop BICS 3-6 p.m. Your children can create a unique lantern for Light Up Bowen lantern parade. Register at Bowencommunityrecreation. com $15/child

Little Red Church Christmas Craft Fair Collins Hall at the Little Red Church 12 - 4 pm Local crafts, goodies and treats.

It’s a Wrap - Annual Exhibit & Sale Gallery at Cove Commons Festive reception 7-9 pm The Bowen Island Arts Council’s annual exhibit and sale of fine art, crafts, giftware, furniture, decor, jewellery, books, cards, and toys runs until December 30th during gallery hours.

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.

Monday November 26

Regular council meeting BIM 6:15 p.m.

Sunday Dec 16th, 2 pm

LANTERN WORKSHOP Friday November 23rd ~ 3pm to 6pm

LIGHT UP BOWEN LANTERN WORKSHOP BICS Multi-Purpose Room

Cost: $15.00 per child

Take this opportunity for your child to create a unique lantern for the LIGHT UP BOWEN Lantern Parade, Saturday December 1st.

Cost Includes: paper lantern, supplies for decorating, LED lights, bamboo pole & instruction by Tammy Brockmeyer.

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Medication Matters

The common cold is as old as the hills, but still eludes a cure. Part of the reason is how quick viruses can change. We now have more than 200 different viral strains that give rise to cold symptoms. Whether it’s attributable to a type of rhinovirus or coronavirus, or the more recently identified metapneumovirus, the “cold” is really a pain in the posterior.

When the virus strikes it is not always possible to stay in bed for three or four days with room service, a good novel and a box of Kleenex.

There are other ways to manage the symptoms some that can help, as well as others that don’t, and some that are potentially harmful.

The evidence for Vitamin C and echinacea as well as homeopathics is thin, but can do little harm and may have psychological benefit.

Most remedies offer benefits as well as potential risks.

[Zinc, for example, taken orally or as lozenges, shows some promise in slightly limiting the duration of a cold, but in inappropriate doses can disrupt the body’s

mineral balance with serious consequences.]

So what does work?

For sore throat and/or mild fever and headache, acetaminophen (unless you have liver disease) and ibuprofen or naproxen (unless you have poorly controlled hypertension or gastrointestinal ulcers) is useful. At the sneezing/ runny nose stage, a secondgeneration antihistamine, such as fexofenadine or desloratadine helps dry things up. The latter also has some decongestant properties. Nasal/sinus congestion may be treated with plain saline drops or spray or with a decongestant.

Nasal application has the advantage of limited systemic absorption, but because of a rebound effect is limited to about three consecutive days of use.

Pseudoephedrine is the only commonly used oral decongestant and while probably more effective than the nasal form, taken by mouth may be problematic for people with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, prostatitis or thyroid disease.

Many common remedies are combinations of decongestant and antihistamine, but it is better to use the ingredients separately to treat the dominant symptom.

Cough is usually annoying, but a productive cough should be allowed to do its job. Stubborn dry cough that cannot be eased with proper hydration, including honey and lemon drinks, may respond to dextromethorphan. A codeine product can be effective, but carries serious risks, not the least of which is habituation. It should be use only as a last resort where the risk is warranted in consultation with a health care professional.

Cold symptoms are a serious concern for parents of young children. The use of decongestants, antihistamines and antitussives for children under six years is discouraged because there is little evidence that they provide relief and because children that young are not able to properly understand or report serious side effects.

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Two weeks ago, observers spotted several coho salmon at the top of the Bridal Veil Falls fish ladders. They were on their way to spawn in the gravel of Terminal Creek. As coho are powerful swimmers and very difficult to see, if several were seen in the fish ladders, it’s likely that many more fish made it to Terminal Creek unseen and have since spawned.

A few days after the coho sightings, a few dozen chum salmon spawners were observed in Mannion Bay and under the causeway as they entered the lagoon. Chum do not swim up the fish ladders, preferring to spawn in gravelled areas in the lagoon near the causeway or at the bottom of the ladders. A number of seals have been feasting on returning spawners for the last several weeks. The 2018 spawning season on Bowen is coming to a close but it was fun for visitors and residents to witness the excitement of this year’s salmon run.

Bowen Island Fish & Wildlife Club volunteers will soon be preparing the Terminal Creek Salmon Hatchery for another season. We expect to receive 200,000 eyed chum eggs from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ Tenderfoot Hatchery near Squamish in late December or early January and 20,000 eyed coho eggs from the Capilano Hatchery in late January.

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Bowen in Transition is hosting an offering circle this weekend

MERIBETH DEEN CONTRIBUTOR

Great, you say, but what is an “offering circle” and wait a second, what is Bowen In Transition” The organization Bowen in Transition is part of a world-wide network of “transition” initiatives in more than 1400 communities.

These initiatives sprouted from an exercise carried out by permaculture students at Kinsale College in Ireland where they designed a theoretical fossil-free community. Their teacher, Rob Hopkins, moved to the Town of Totnes, England in 2005 and began what is now known as the first “Transition Town.”

Participants in the movement

support one another on sustainable community-building projects. Some of these projects, oriented toward say green building or food security, are considered “outer transition.”

Other projects, ones that have people gather together to deal with the emotional aspects of climate change and other stressful events, or the personal aspects of community-building, are considered “inner transition.”

Bowen in Transition has a similar approach. Activities such as the recent Fix-it-Fair, annual energy audits and sustainability tours fall under the banner of “outer transition.” Events like the upcoming offering circle would be considered “inner transition.”

The Offering Circle is an opportunity for Bowen Islanders to come together and connect over a potluck but also to offer and receive services or gifts from other participating islanders. It is not about a direct exchange of quantifiable goods or services but rather about making an offering that feels good for you, feeling safe asking for something that you need or taking someone up on an offer that sounds appealing. In the process, community members learn about one other’s unique gifts and needs and how we can better support one another beyond economic exchanges.

Pauline Le Bel recalls that at the last circle of this kind she offered to write and sing a song for someone’s

birthday. Phil Gregory and Jackie Bradley took her up on this offer, but not for a birthday — they wanted a song for their garden.

“So I went to their place and had a tour of their garden for the first time,” says Pauline. “It was so beautiful and until then I had no idea of the magnitude of this project. Jackie was organizing a tea party for later that day and that’s when I sang the song. I really got to know them better, so in a way, it was like a gift that kept giving.”

Bowen in Transition co-founder Dave Pollard describes this event as inner transition as it is about stress release and reassurance.

“When we put our minds together and learn about each other, we

break through our preconceptions and silos,” he says. “On Bowen, people are generally good about stepping up and coming to their neighbour’s aid. As a society, and as a community, what we need to come to grips with is that we are living in the midst of a long emergency, a time of upheaval and great change.

The challenge is to work together to relearn the skills that will be needed to deal with that.”

He adds that the Offering Circle works best with between 10 and 20 people participating.

All are welcome on Sunday, November 18. It starts with a potluck at 5:30 p.m. at 340 Royal View Place, just off Sunset Road past Thompson Rd.

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