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Finding a sober space

SOCIAL OPTIONS ARE LIMITED FOR BOWEN YOUNG PEOPLE

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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DRUM ROLL PLEASE: Marcus Hondro (left) plays the air drums with a pair of “magic wands” Ian Henley bought from

local photographer Emmett Sparling at a craft fair when Sparling was a young boy. Henley was in the midst of showing Hondro and Undercurrent editor Bronwyn Beairsto his collection of over 200 Bowen art pieces. See page 17 for the stories and more photos.

“I hate calling a movement. That’s not really the word I’m looking for,” muses Xandra Cunningham.

“I want to start a sort of thing. To give people more options on Bowen Island, to hang out and have fun without drinking and using being involved.

“I’ve wanted to do that for a really long time.”

At 26, too old for the teen centre or other youth initiatives and younger than the average islander, Cunningham says that there aren’t a lot of places for her and her peers to socialize in the evenings that aren’t liquor establishments or parties.

“Your options are either go hang out at a bar or go to somebody else’s house, and usually that’s after parties because transportation is difficult, where there’s not only alcohol but drugs involved as well.”

Cunningham says that Cove-proximity is a factor in event accessibility as not all young people have a reliable car.

“If you’re under 30 on this island and you are here trying to support yourself, you probably don’t have a lot of money. You probably don’t have a lot of resources because it’s very expensive to live here,” she says.

“We don’t have the means, the resources or the space to be able to choose the way that we socialize with each other –in a way that’s best for us, or in a way that’s healthy for us.

“I think we sort of need to band together in a grassroots, community kind of way to create opportunities and alternatives.”

To that end, Cunningham has teamed up with another local, James Michael Barker, 26, to create a weekly Friday night substance-free event.

Held at Barker’s house on Cates Hill, the casual evening’s activities range from pizza-making (with dough donated from Tuscany), to board games, to movies, to yoga, to painting.

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Event Calendar Feb 1 2019 9:30 am

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Economic Development Committee

Business Summit

Community Grants program is changing in 2019

Save the Date!

Housing Advisory Committee

The annual EDC Business Summit will be held on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 from 4:00-9:00pm.

Meeting

Feb 5 2019 5:00 pm

Bowen business owners welcome!

Advisory Design Panel Meeting

Feb 6 2019 1:00 pm

Please RSVP at this link: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/rsvp

Emergency Program Management Committee Meeting

For more information please contact Stef Shortt, committee clerk, at sshortt@bimbc.ca

Bowen Island Municipality has a grants program to help fund not-for-profit organizations that propose, through projects and/ or programs, to improve the well-being of the Bowen Island community as a whole. Grants are funded from the Municipality’s annual operating budget.

Grants-in-Aid are typically for amounts up to $2,000.

Community Grants are typically for amounts over $2,000.

Committee Meeting

Beginning in 2019, there is one annual intake for Grants-in-Aid and Community Grants. The application deadline is April 15, 2019.

Feb 11 2019 6:15 pm

Please go to our website for more information and to download an application form:

Economic Development

Regular Council Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

Council and Committee meetings are open to the public. We encourage you to attend in person or watch online.

Committees seeking members Bowen Island Municipality is seeking volunteers to serve on the following Committees of Council: Advisory Design Panel (approximately 4 meetings a year) Advisory Planning Commission (approximately 9 meetings a year) Community Grants Advisory Committee (approximately 2 meetings a year) Environment and Climate Action Advisory Committee (approximately 10 meetings a year) Heritage Commission (approximately 4 meetings a year)

Questions? Please contact the Finance Department at 604-947-4255 or bim@bimbc.ca

Your Bowen.

Your Budget.

Save the Date: Budget Open House Bowen Island Municipality has begun the 2019 Budget process. The Community Charter requires that local governments approve a Five Year Financial Plan bylaw each year prior to the adoption of the annual property tax bylaw. The Financial Plan is also commonly referred to as “The Budget”.

Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee (approximately 10 meetings a year)

The draft 2019-2023 Budget will be available in late January, 2019. This is a draft because Council has not approved the Budget yet. We will be seeking your feedback through our budget consultation process in February.

Recreation and Community Services Commission (approximately 6 meetings a year)

We will hold public Budget Open Houses at Municipal Hall on the following dates:

Transportation Advisory Committee (approximately 10 meetings a year)

For more information and to download an application form www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/committees Please submit your application to Stef Shortt, Committee Clerk at sshortt@bimbc.ca by Monday, February 11, 2019. You may also obtain a paper copy at Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane. For questions, please call 604-947-4255.

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ISLAND NEWS Another face of the housing crisis CHOIR DIRECTOR HAS BEEN SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOME FOR NINE MONTHS

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

The following are briefs from the Jan. 28 municipal council meeting.

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO Editor

“Is it still possible to find a home for someone like me?” Nicole Zyczynski asked in her newspaper ad.

After five years living on Woods Road, Nicole has to find a new place to live and, as any Bowen renter will tell you, it’s not easy. For nine months, Nicole has been searching for her new home.

As Nicole doesn’t use Facebook or other social media (though she did use MySpace in its day) the choral director for Men on the Rock and three other choirs, took out a half-page ad in the Undercurrent last October.

“I do ads all the time for Men on the Rock men’s choir and I thought, ‘Wait a minute, this is how I’ve got to do it,’” she says. She took out the biggest ad she could afford and laid it all out there.

“Born October 11, 1975 in West Vancouver,” her ad read.

“The first time I set eyes on this beautiful paradise I fell in love with it,” it read. “I have family and friends on the other side of the water but not even they can convince me to stay a night away from this paradise.”

“People know me because of the [Men on the Rock] concerts,” says Nicole. “People have seen my face enough now in the community. So I’m a friendly face. They know they can trust me.

“So what. I’ll give them all my telephone number and my email and tell them what colour my underwear are,” she laughs. “It was just my little bio, my little CV, basically saying I’m an honest person, consider me in your rental and if you have a home.”

But Nicole still hasn’t found a home. After the first ad, she had a few people call her up with either places or suggestions, but nothing quite fit.

Some of the problem, as with much of B.C. housing, is cost.

“I know my rent, something that I’m looking for, has doubled. Like, what I have now for $1,500, I know if I were to get it now would probably be $3,000,” she says. “I wonder how anyone can expect a single person with one income to come up with $3,000 a month plus utilities?”

“It’s my fault. I chose this profession,” she says.

“I’m a musician, but I still do earn a living which is still for a lot of people a decent living.”

Nicole notes that it is the rare musician that

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With a single income, Nicole Zyczynski cannot afford the $3,000 rents on places that were half that when she arrived on Bowen five years ago. Facing a June 1 deadline to find a new home, Zyczynski is considering her options, which include leaving Bowen. can totally live off of music. Nicole pays the bills through teaching private lessons, directing choirs and having been music director at a church in West Vancouver, a job she just left.

“I’m lucky for that,” she says. “But again, it’s my fault. I didn’t choose to be a lawyer or something like that.”

Nicole does have some needs for her new home. As a musician, sometimes she needs to play piano for six hours at a time, plonking out simple accompaniments but that’s not every day. And then there’s the room for her instruments – her four guitars, three accordions, a hurdy-gurdy, a harpsichord and at least one piano. Which is why she’s looking for a place that offers some space and independence.

“What should a person like myself do in this current housing crisis?” She asks. “Forty-three, living on my own since I was 17, supporting myself modestly by working hard, diversifying

my talents.”

“It just seems so retro-productive…in a sense for a professional just to go back to living in a basement and basically having to restrict myself,” she says. “That would mean no music.

Like, give up everything.

“I’m not alone as many people and families have been forced to move away,” she notes.

“And I’m very open minded person, [open to] out of the box ideas, but would not be an ideal roommate.

“It’s not just a crisis, that there’s nowhere to live. But it’s forcing people to redesign how they live totally. And that takes time.

“I don’t want to sound desperate. But it is kind of a desperate situation,” she says. “I mean, in reality, June 1 I’ll have to go somewhere.”

Nicole took out another ad in this edition of the Undercurrent. If you have ideas for her, her information is on page 6.

Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH) executive director Robyn Fenton came before council to request funding of $100,000 over four years ($25,000 a year) for the organization from the community grants fund. The funding would be to support vital operations, to maintain momentum for the lot 3 housing project and would involve the organization taking on responsibilities such as surveying annual housing needs, maintaining an affordable housing wait list and advocating for innovative housing projects and policies. Fenton noted that although she was paid a small honorarium last year, many of her 211 hours of BIRCH work last year were on a volunteer basis.

“I feel like the grinch,” said chief financial officer Raj Hayre as he recommended against approving the grant. The fund is a budgeted $142,800 for 2019, most of which is already spoken for ($58,040 for the arts council, $32,000 for the museum and archives, $12,440 for the community school.)

“I don’t know if this is the right avenue,” said Mayor Gary Ander.

Councillor Maureen Nicholson noted that every councillor has said that they are concerned about the housing shortage on island.

In the end, council deferred the decision to February and plans to ask the Community Foundation if it might be willing to support BIRCH. The Islands Trust released its proposed 2019 budget last week.

Bowen has a 13 per cent projected tax levy increase, $38,725 over last year.

This brings Bowen’s 2019 Island’s Trust contribution up to $332,658.

To learn more and give feed back visit islandstrust.bc.ca/trust-council/budget/.

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VIEWPOINT

EDITORIAL

Reporting the local news remains a challenge

W

ith the proliferation of social media as alternative source for “news” and the persistent rhetoric of “fake news” from the Republican administration in the U.S., continued access to local news is as concerning as ever. Many newspapers are facing seemingly insurmountable challenges. Many communities are losing their local papers and more importantly, they are losing the journalists who brought them that news.

It’s with this cocktail of threats always on the edge of our minds that we are so grateful to be able to continue doing our jobs here on Bowen.

There were many changes at the Bowen Island Undercurrent in 2018. Meribeth Deen resigned her editor-reporter role after many years and Chantal Eustace did a brilliant job of picking up where Meribeth left off, keeping us all reading through the spring. In May we were lucky enough to have Bronwyn Beairsto join us and bring new, fresh ideas from her education at Carleton University and her Yukon roots.

We are proud of how our team has rallied over the past year and thank you all for your lively participation. In submitting great local stories. In buying ads. In buying subscriptions or in buying single copies every week. It has been an encouraging year.

Late last fall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government pledged significant support for the local news industry. The feds are developing a funding program of upwards of $600 million over five years. It is still unclear as to how that may or may not help the Undercurrent. We weren’t looking for this type of support and are unsure of how it might actually support us here on Bowen.

The Bowen Island Undercurrent has received a small but important grant from The Department of Canadian Heritage since our early days. That grant is meant to ensure access to local newspapers in small and rural markets. It has been in place since before Confederation. It is widely expected that newspapers that draw on that grant won’t get any further help at all. As such, we do not expect the government to somehow miraculously change the reality in front of us.

What we did hope that the government might actually do, is to move its advertising spend back to Canadian-owned, tax-paying organizations like the Undercurrent. Instead they continue to spend their ad dollars with Google and Facebook, feeling they get more

“bang for their buck” there. We also hoped that they might level the playing field and ensure that the duopoly of Google and Facebook collected and paid taxes from its business activities in our country. We are significantly disadvantaged as advertising bought from those international players is not taxed with the GST. Any advertising we sell has GST applied to it by law.

Local news continues to be under enormous pressures. During 2018, Bowen Islanders stepped up and supported the Undercurrent more than in recent memory by purchasing more subscriptions, more single copies at the General Store (and other locales) and more advertising. This is how we will continue to survive and serve our community. By your support and caring. Keep the flow of stories coming and simply make sure to buy the paper every week, by mail or at the store.

Through our greatly-expanded circulation over the past year, we have been able to provide greater value and audience access to our advertisers and sponsors.

You have been encouraged to shop locally and support those local businesses that support our community in so many ways. It is very encouraging but just the start.

Bowen is great because of its residents, politicians, media, community groups and very importantly its business community. Without them, who would pay the taxes, hire the young people, sponsor events and support every team. Before you get on the ferry to go shopping, think of how important community is to you, and make sure to support the local businesses that support all of us in this great community.

As such, today marks another occasion when we are mailing a copy of the Undercurrent to every household on the island. We want you to know what a great local paper is and we encourage you to follow through on buying the paper next week and every week. It is critically important for us all.

We do have a special offer on all new subscriptions this week. Bring in a receipt from any advertiser in this week’s paper for a $10 discount on your annual subscription. Come on by and sign up today.

We look forward to “reflecting” our community in our pages for many years to come.

Peter Kvarnstrom Publisher

THE WRITE STUFF. The Undercurrent encourages reader participation in your community newspaper. You must include your full name and a daytime phone number (for verification only). The editor reserves the right to edit for clarity, legality, brevity and taste.

HERE’S HOW: To submit a letter to the editor, fax 604-947-0148 or mail it to #102, 495 Government Rd., PO Box 130, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0 or email editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com.

EDITORIAL And here it is! Our new look consists of mostly cosmetic changes: the headlines are bigger, the pictures are (supposed to) have more prominence, the heron changed sides.

While the designer, Shelley Ackerman, handed me a ready-to-go template, my novice layout skills are still trying to catch up with our modernized look. Please bear with me as I iron out the kinks!

Nine months after arriving at the Undercurrent, I’m still really excited to be part of this team. Tracey Wait, her decades-long advertising career infusing creativity and spirit in her half of the paper (the money-making parts). Peter Kvarnstrom, our publisher who keeps the paper running from a business perspective (and who took a chance on an untested, new J-school graduate). Ron Woodall, our cartoonist who will leave you hurting from

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The Undercurrent is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, art work and photographs.

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side-splitting laughter or leave you in muddled contemplation about the state of the island. And of course our stellar cast of contributors.

We’re slightly less opinionated than our fiery beginnings, but we’re just as dedicated to bringing you the news.

We have some great content from contributors this week but I’d like to highlight Sarah Haxby’s story about the seed exchange and the seed library on page 13. It seems that every day we hear more dire warnings about climate change. One of the best antidotes to despair is action. Eating sustainably, planting gardens, learning what can and cannot grow on Bowen are all small but important steps toward lowering your greenhouse gas footprint (yes, and an electric ferry, please do keep working on that).

Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

National NewsMedia Council.

EDITOR BronwynBeairsto editor@bowenisland undercurrent.com

ADVERTISING Tracey Wait ads@bowenisland undercurrent.com

PUBLISHER Peter Kvarnstrom publisher@bowenisland undercurrent.com

CARTOONIST Ron Woodall

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CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2011

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If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit the website at mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free 1-844-877-1163 for additional information.

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Navel gazing: an Undercurrent history BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

1975: “Newsworthy...informative…opinionated,” read the Undercurrent’s first tagline.

Born of a dispute between the Times of North and West Vancouver and its Bowen columnist Pat Weaver, the mimeographed, hand-stapled, three-page first edition had a 50-copy “run” and cost $0.15. Weaver had created her own newspaper in the wake of her column’s cancellation after a disagreement with the GVRD director of the day.

An aside: our sister paper, the North Shore News, was too the result of a disagreement with the Times of North and West Vancouver: then ad-salesperson Peter Speck left the paper to create the flyer North Shore Shopper, which would go on to become the North Shore News. The Times folded soon after the North Shore News incorporated. (Ed. Note: is the Undercurrent therefore the better-behaved older sister to the News?)

“Undercurrent: a current flowing beneath the surface: an underlying tendency, opinion,” read that first edition. Inviting letters, stories and any manner of submission, Weaver promised to insert any editorial as-submitted (no editing).

Twelve editions after she began her “free speech” project, Weaver took a two-edition vacation to the Maritimes and left the paper in the care of Larry Reid, only she never returned.

And so Reid began his 13-year tenure as publisher and editor of the paper.

Among his many steps to “legitimize” the paper, Reid incorporated as the Undercurrent Publishing Corporation in 1977.

“During the first year of the new life, [the Undercurrent] lost $1,700,” wrote Reid in a 1981 editorial. “Lots of people spend that

PAPER RETRIEVED AT BOWEN ISLAND ARCHIVES

The very first edition of the Undercurrent in 1975.

much on beer, it was rationalized – so we just kept on.”

By 1981, the paper was up to 40 legal-sized pages and a circulation of 800. Though Reid had a ragtag team to keep the paper going: ad salespeople, columnists, reporters, typists, cartoonists and his sister Dorthey Moon, the printing job was getting to be unmanageable.

So that year the Undercurrent became a tabloid.

Spreading to the North Shore, the Undercurrent grew to 10,000 circulation, and while still Bowen-focused, included news from the mainland.

In 1988, Reid sold the paper to Eric Cardwell, owner and publisher of the Westender and East Ender.

Columnist, Felix Caleb, in his final column, reflecting upon the sale wrote, “Undercurrent has taken one more step toward perfection, but in doing so has it lost its soul?”

An unattributed article in 1996 (though likely penned by Meyers-Carter) read about the sale, “Editorial policies concerning pseudonyms and libellous material were circulated to the Bowen community. Subtly the paper began to change. Letters gradually became less outrageous but Bowen Islanders learned to cope with new rules.”

And so began the corporate history of the Undercurrent. The local rag has changed hands several times over the years. The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo bought the chain of three papers in 1990. Black Press bought the paper in 1997 and Glacier Media acquired the paper as part of a newspaper PAPER RETRIEVED AT BOWEN ISLAND ARCHIVES swap in 2013.

A December 1993 edition of the Undercurrent.

The Undercurrent front page has had many makeovers. From its beginning with “But the content was the same,” wrote undulating letters (Lois Meyers-Carter’s word) (very) longtime Undercurrent columnist Lois to a light house accenting “Undercurrent” in Meyers-Carter decades later. “Uniquely Larry.” the ‘90s.

The heron dates back only a decade to when “Before email and fax, getting something in the paper required a personal visit to the the North Shore Outlook was looking after the Undercurrent office,” wrote Meyers-Carter in paper with the dynamic duo of Tracey Wait the 2012 column. “Larry was often crunchy and Marcus Hondro selling ads and writing but his sister Dorthea smoothed things over local stories respectively. Tracey noted the and made people welcome. Many islanders need for something on the front page and can confirm that delivering material to Larry suggested a heron. And so was born our new mascot. was never dull.”

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NICOLE NEEDS A HOME JAMES MICHAEL BARKER, PHOTO

Club not preaching sobriety CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

I love Bowen. Bowen is for me. The first time I set eyes on this beautiful paradise I fell in love with it. Never have I felt so at home in a community and surroundings in my 43 years. Five years a full time resident and I still love every minute here. I have family and friends on the other side of the water but not even they can convince me to stay a night away from my paradise.

I have been fortunate to live on Woods Road for these past 5 years, but sadly my rental accommodation is soon coming to an end I am needing to relocate by June 1st, or before. I dread the thought of having to leave this beautiful island, like so many have had to... Here on Bowen I have made so many roots, friends and connections, not to mention our well loved choir Men On the Rock that I formed in September 2016. My work is Music, my life is Music and my native language is Music (in addition to English and French). To exercise my art and maintain my musical activities on and off the Rock I require a modest, quiet, private, independent space to live. This could be a cabin or a small house, or even a bigger house at a smaller price. I can assure you that I am responsible and trustworthy, have an extensive resumé, good credit report and can provide excellent references. Please be assured I will love and look after your home as if it were my own. I am a very open minded person and have several out of the box ideas, but would not be an ideal roommate, is anyone willing to discuss?

You can contact me by email: ntzharmonium@mac.com or by phone 778-926-4286.

“We wanted to start something new, something different,” says Barker. “Whether you want to be sober or just want something to do other than the pub, it’s just something else to do.”

Barker’s been hosting the event since the beginning of January, though figuring out who to include has been a process – should it just be people who are sober? Should it include people who want to be sober? Should it be open to everyone?

It has also been part of Barker’s sobriety journey as he quit both alcohol and marijuana over the fall.

“One of the hardest things for me is sifting through the plethora of information,” Barker said. Many people he spoke with had opinions, needs and suggestions.

But in the end, Barker and Cunningham decided that the event needed to be inclusive and a legitimate alternative for people who don’t want to go to the pub.

“We’re not turning anybody away as long as they’re not contributing negatively to the energy,” says Barker.

They both hope it will grow into something bigger.

Barker would ultimately like to found a non-profit and host at a location that isn’t as limiting as his house. Cunningham would like to, person by person, build a support network

of people willing to host sober events and just hang out without controlled substances.

But Cunningham says that she finds it very important that this “thing” be inclusive.

“I’m not here to preach sobriety or to wag my finger at anybody,” she says. “Because I’ve got no business judging how somebody else chooses to cope.

“There’s so many reasons that are underlying alcohol and drug use in everybody’s life.

Everybody habits and vices are personal to them and I have no idea what their life looks like.

“The only sort of rule, if there is a rule, is just maybe leave the booze at home this time. Like, maybe just try it out. Because you know, a lot of us are dying,” says Cunningham.

Cunningham lost her partner of five years to a drug overdose last year.

“And I’ve had countless friends die,” she says. “I think that right now is actually a really good time for Bowen as a community to have this conversation. Because I think we’re all feeling the impact of drugs and alcohol.”

The one thing that Barker and Cunningham are sure this is not is an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. There’s no twelve step.

“Just come have some good, old fashioned sober fun,” says Barker.

If you’re interested in joining the weekly event, Barker says that you can contact him on Facebook (James Michael Barker).

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Left: Hilary Butler takes a brief tea break during her talk about fundraising for Rwandan girls’ education, Sunday.

The talk, held at Collins Hall, attracted a full audience of islanders, eager to share their thoughts on how best to help the young women half a world away.

Above: After living in Rwanda in 2007, Butler’s daughter Margaret started the organization Komera. Komera has grown over the past decade, providing full scholarships for girls from rural Rwandan communities. Bowen Island raises thousands of dollars every year for the organization through the annual Run for Rwanda.

SHEANA STEVENSON

Top and above: BICR Pro-D camps with Rebecca and Jared were lots of fun on Friday for fiveto-12 years olds.

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Above: Bowen Island Community Recreation Thursday night badminton (6:30 to 8 p.m.) in the BICS gym has been loud – come see what all the racquet has been about.

Left: Wondering where all of Bowen was on Thursday night (8 to 9 p.m.)? They were in the gym, playing floor hockey! No ghosts allowed – because they don’t score ghouls.

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What does one give their oncologist on their last appointment after perhaps the most important relationship, spanning the most difficult time in one’s life?

Last October I graduated from the standard five-year period (what is the magic of five years?) of regular checkups, all the while wondering if that odd pain or ache was something more ominous than it really was. What could I bring my doctor to express my joy, my unfathomable gratitude to finally arrive at my cancer-free destination? I pondered this the day before my last appointment while my son’s dog and I tromped through the woods – an activity that usually triggers creative brainstorming. Alas, no perfect gift ideas came to me until dog and I returned home and walked into our autumn garden where a smattering of purple dahlias, monkshood and deep orange calendulas continued to thrive in the tangle of deadness. Eureka. Like a symbol of tenacity and hope, a small bouquet from my end-of-season garden was just the ticket. This along with one my Plumeria Sneaker cards was personal. A meaningful thank you.

The next morning with bouquet and card in hand along with a fistful of SwimBowen brochures I made my way across town anticipating, salivating for the utter sense of freedom that was just around the corner. No more tamoxifen (an estrogen blocker designed to starve my particular brand of breast cancer) and all its less-than-awesome side effects. The pill that every morning reminded me where I had been and the

MARY LETSON, PHOTO

Mary Letson presented this bouquet of flowers to her oncologist at their last appointment.

possibility that the cancer may still lurk somewhere in me.

I understand that for some this last appointment proves difficult as it is the end of an epic relationship. You no longer have the regular assurance of your specialist watching over you, declaring you are cancer free. I didn’t feel this way in the least. I couldn’t wait to never go back to that particular building on Broadway, to sit in the waiting room filled with people in various stages of treatment. I couldn’t wait to close the door, shed that identity and walk away the new, old me.

There was a definite celebratory air

in the examining room that day and after all the regular checks and questions and when it was time to go, I handed my specialist the bouquet, card and a SwimBowen Bursary brochure (shameless promoter that I am) explaining the superbly positive project created out of my negative experience. Doc was thrilled of course, we hugged, and, with eyes welling a little we said our last goodbye.

My feet did not touch the ground as I left her office. I felt unshackled, keen to embrace my new identity free of any tags, medications or appointments to remind me of the C word. Now that’s a graduation worth working and waiting for.

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Prices up slightly, volume down in 2018 TIMOTHY RHODES

Contributor

The market for detached properties on Bowen Island has slowed dramatically as we enter 2019.

Compared to 2017, length of time on the market increased 64 per cent in 2018 and number of sales decreased 13 per cent.

The dramatic change in market activity are a reaction to taxes introduced in B.C., including the foreign buyer’s tax and the speculation tax (although Bowen Island is excluded from the speculation tax), the school tax increase for properties over $3 million and increases in Property Transfer Tax. As we enter 2019, perhaps the 35

biggest impediment to domestic buyer is the mortgage stress test which has effectively reduced the ability of many to qualify for the financing they need.

The stress test was introduced to reduce mortgage default rates although industry statistics demonstrate that “default rates are sensitive to job losses, not interest rate changes.”

(Haider-Moranis Bulletin) Headlines continue to proclaim “Housing Prices Down,” and readers who rely on the headline rather than reading the article, miss the fact that ‘housing’ refers to the luxury homes and condo market.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver MLS® statistics for de-

Change in Annual $$$ Volume

Percentage Change in Sales Price

30

BOWEN

25

REBGV

2016-2017

Change in Annual Number of Sales

2016-2017 2017-2018

listing prices will likely reflect values set in 2018, perhaps with modest increases over the year. (In 2018, sold prices averaged 97 per cent of the list price, suggesting that buyers were relatively comfortable with sellers’ prices.)

Buyers are not likely to see price reductions but will likely see more choice as the pace of new listings outstrips the pace of sales.

Predictions are all over the map with some suggesting very modest recovery in 2019 and others suggesting further downward pressure for the next couple of years.

Although most predictions see prices increasing substantially over the next decade, no surprises are anticipated for the Bowen Island market in 2019.

Timothy Rhodes, REALTOR® Angell Hasman & Associates, Realty, Ltd. For more information: www.rhodesonbowen.com/blog-main

2017-2018

-20.7%

-11.6% -36.0%

-28.0% -33.3%

-13.4% -34.3%

Days on Market (Median) Bowen Island

2016—2017

15

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 AVERAGE MLS®HPI -2 -3 2016-2017 2017-2018 -4 AVERAGE MLS®HPI

2017—2018

2016—2017

2017—2018

Sold Price as Percentage of Original Price Bowen Island REBGV

10

0

What sold in 2018? The highest price for a property (detached home) was $3.58 million and the lowest price was $450,000. The 58 homes purchased in 2018 on Bowen totaled $66.7 million. Thirty homes sold in the range of $800,000 to $1.4 million, 17 at less than $800,000, and 11 over $1.4 million.

At 31 December 2018, on Bowen Island, the Average Sale Price was $1.14 million, the MLS®HPI price was $991,720, and the Median Sale Price was $966,000.

Entering 2019, patience will be a virtue for sellers, as the median number of days on market has increased, and given public perception of the market on the mainland,

+8.0%

20

5

tached homes indicate that overall, compared to 2017, the market in 2018 saw only a 1 per cent drop in Median Sales Price and a 0.1 per cent increase in MLS®HPI (Home Price Index or benchmark price).

Given these stats include the luxury market which experienced deep discounts, the market for more modest homes on the mainland saw slight price increases.

While Bowen Island experienced a similar slow down in activity compared to 2017, with a 13 per cent drop in the number of sales and a 12 per cent drop in the dollar volume of sales, our Median Sales Price was up almost 1 per cent and our MLS®HPI was up almost 10 per cent.

MEDIAN

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2017

2018

97.8%

97.5%

97.0%

2016

97.5%

2017

2018

97.5% 96.0%

2016

30

2017

22

2018

36

REBGV 2016

12

2017

18

2018

25

MEDIAN

Data represents the MLS® detached home data only as at 31 December 2018. Data source © 2018 BC Northern Real Estate Board, Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, and Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. All rights reserved. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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A sedge, a seige, a boil HEAR ABOUT THE BIRDS OF BOWEN

BOB TURNER

Bowen Island Conservancy

What’s the big idea? Or the small idea?

We’re hoping you can tell us.

The Bowen Island Community Foundation has approximately $35,000 to grant for projects that improve our community.

We need two things from you (in addition to your great idea): a 500 word proposal and that you be partnered with (or just be) a charitable organization.

The detailed application package is available on the Foundation’s home page: bowenfoundation.com. You might want to have a look at our 2017 Vital Conversations report to see the issues that our community is interested in addressing.

Applications are due February 15th before midnight.

Applicants must email their proposal to grants@bowenfoundation.com.

Successful applicants will be announced at the Bowen Island Community Foundation AGM on April 26, 2019.

We want your input!

Have you ever been on the ferry as it glides past a great blue heron in the Cove, the long neck and spindly legs catching your eye, while its eye remains trained on the water, watching for fish?

Or have you noticed that winter birds include hummingbirds these days, along with dramatic flocks of sea ducks?

Want to know more about these Bowen ornithological staples?

Stepping out from under her politician hat, sliding into her conservation and learning consultant hat, Sue Ellen Fast will be speaking about “Herons, Hummingbirds and Hawks of Bowen Island” on Feb. 9.

Part of the Bowen Island Conservancy speaker series, at this by-donation event you

BOB TURNER, PHOTO

Cormorants compare wingspans.

can find out about Bowen’s special bird life, with the help of the Bowen Nature Club’s checklist, slides, and a few bones and feathers. Catch the latest about our nesting colony of great blue herons, still producing chicks after 20 years – a conservation success story worthy of such a beautiful part of the world.

We’d also like to hear your observations about how bird life on Bowen has changed and you can take a checklist away to use on the trails.

The talk is in the multipurpose room at BICS at 1 p.m.

Feb. 9.

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2019/20 Islands Trust Budget

The Islands Trust Council is looking for your input on the proposed 2019/20 budget. Your comments will help the trustees make their decision when they set the budget in March.

Learn more about the budget and how to express your opinions (including via our online survey) at:

islandstrust.bc.ca/budget Deadline for comments is February 11th, 2019.

Ifyou would like paper copies ofthe surveyor anyofthe budget documentation, please call us at 250.405.5151 or via email, budget@islandstrust.bc.ca.

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Seeding a library

WHEN GARDENERS GATHER AT THE FEB. 9 SEED EXCHANGE THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO BOWEN’S NEWEST LIBRARY

SARAH HAXBY

Timothy Rhodes REALTOR® 604-341-9488

Contributor

Hey Bowen, let’s get seedy… and veggie!

In the last few years there has been an increasing awareness of the importance of understanding where our food comes from, how it is grown and how we can all partake in growing some of our own food.

The Bowen Agriculture Alliance is launching the first Bowen Island Seed Library and is hosting the eighth annual seed exchange and second annual veg talk at Bowen Island Community School Saturday, February 9 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All ages are invited to this fun social event. It is free to attend or have a table.

Whether you are an experienced Bowen gardener and would just love to share your experiences, your successes and challenges of growing food on Bowen Island or you’d love to learn some basic tips on how you can grow in a yard, on a porch, a windowsill, or are looking to join a community or shared garden, the Veg Talk is for you. Participants will select the vegetables or fruit they want to focus on and participants will share questions and information with one another in a round table conversation led by Jessica Mitts of Grafton Gardens.

The schedule

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9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m. Set up tables to trade, sell or swap seeds, garden and farm books, seed catalogues (new and old) and tools.

Information tables will include news about the upcoming farmers’ market season and an information display about the new Bowen Island Seed Library. The seed library is being

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SARAH HAXBY, PHOTO

created in partnership with the BICS student garden club and will be opening at the Bowen Island Public Library in April. It is being made possible thanks to a Knick Knack Nook grant and support from the Bowen Public Library, BICS Student Garden Club and the Bowen Agricultural Alliance.

10 to 11 a.m. Seed Swap, sale and displays; coffee and tea (the seed swap tables will remain set-up until the end of the event).

11 a.m. Veg talk for new and experienced gardeners to share tips and experiences and questions about growing food on Bowen Island –what works (and doesn’t work) locally.

At the seed sale tables, you can buy, sell, trade or exchange your seeds, so please do bring seeds you have collected, saved, or have too many of. Please bring your open pollination seeds labelled and dated. People can bring varieties from their gardens, or bring in extra purchased seeds so long as the seeds aren’t’ more than three years old.

You may also bring garden books and tools to trade or sell or other garden related items or photos of those items if they’re too big to bring.

For more information, or to book a table, please contact Sarah Haxby, community school coordinator at shaxby@wvschools.ca, 604 947-0389.

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It’s going to be a BIAC ball BOWEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL’S MINI GALA FUNDRAISER THEME IS BLACK AND WHITE BALL

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Each year, local artists, and a few from away, donate creations with heart and soul, on 8” x 8” canvases or mounted in frames (donated by Opus Framing and Art.) Our Visual Arts Committee and volunteers organize the exhibition and transform the Gallery @ Cove Commons with festive decorations.

Every year, art lovers and party goers come out in droves to attend the gala and live auction in anticipation of taking home a mini masterpiece. And in the process, by supporting this fundraiser, they help the Bowen Island Arts Council keep the doors open at the gallery.

Tickets are now on sale for the (often sold out) event of the season on February 23.

More than 60 artists have created the spectacular mini-masterpieces to be offered for auction. Our auctioneer is Tim Hausch, of Shaw Cable fame, with the talented and irrepressible Marc Gawthrop providing musical entertainment. As always, there will be delicious treats and a cash wine bar. The theme is black and white ball and we encourage everyone to dress accordingly for this festive occasion.

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The annual BIAC mini gala a perennial island favourite and an important fundraiser for the organization. More than 60 artists have donated small paintings to be auctioned off at the Feb. 23 ball.

Gallery @ Cove Commons reopens on February 6, with the mini-gala exhibit.

We will be resuming our opening hours of Wednesday to Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on that date. Drop by to view the exhibition and be the first to bid on these anonymous original artworks. All bidding starts at $125, an incredible deal for an original artwork from one of our much-celebrated artists or up-and-com-

ing talent.

Mini-gala tickets are only $20 and available online at the Bowen Island Arts Council website thehearth.ca/mini-gala.php, at Phoenix on Bowen or at the Gallery. Act fast and purchase your tickets early to this fabulous evening as tickets sell out quickly.

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The other papers

Bette, the zen master, Westerleigh PARC

WHILE THE UNDERCURRENT IS OUR FIRST AND LONGESTRUNNING REGULAR NEWSPAPER, IT’S FAR FROM THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE COVERED BOWEN’S QUIRKS AND QUARRELS

CATHERINE BAYLY

Archivist, B.I. Museum and Archives

I love the Undercurrent. It is amazing how many times I refer to back issues at the archives when looking for information. It is always interesting to look back (the first issue was in 1975) and see how many things have changed – and how many things remain the same.

Did you know you can visit the archives to look at back issues of the Undercurrent? And while you are here you can also look at all the other papers that have been produced on Bowen.

If you have never read a High Tide – the randomly-printed satirical publication by Robert Wright, Ed Sanders and Karen Peteren – you are in for a treat. Only in the High Tide can you read about secret lab experiments at the fish hatchery. Supported by a photograph TOof a lab-raven cross, you will discover the rsecret “goings on” at the hatchery involving tionedchickens, black labs, deer, crows and the odd salmon. You can also read about the results of a $20,000 dollar Ministry of the Environment study that focused on the black lab herds on andBowen Island. It was determined that this herd tsis unhealthy – overweight and displaying few -signs of normal, or even below-normal canine theintelligence. Curiosity aroused?

- Our “newspaper” inventory at the archives -is diverse. We have single issue papers - such as the Bowen Communicator, Bow’ner, Bowen 604-Times and The Rock. In 1994 The Rock was published by Bowen’s youth, supervised by Barbara Wiltshire. Page three reveals the answers to the question posed to the students

at West Vancouver School, “What was the first word that comes to your head when you think of Bowen?” The answers: no electricity, pot, drinking, Bowmart, rock, water, lonely, parties, deserted, trees, drug abusers, sex. Not one mention of black labs!

We also have the Bowen Breeze. This was a two-issue political publication produced

by Ed Keate, voicing the viewpoint of those who favoured development in 1975. In 1994 the Bowen Breeze name was used by Sandi Whyte in her publication that ran from 1994 to 1996. We also have the following: Building Community on Bowen (2012), the Bulletin (1997-2013), Gulf Island Guardians (19911996), the Bowen Communication (2011), Island News (1999-2001), Moats (2010), Office at Home (1997-2001), Tunstall Telegraph (1994-2000) and the Bowen Island Times Edition BITE (2009-2010).

One of my favourite publications is The Bowen Broadsheet. This anonymous satirical issue featured articles such as: “Pod of orcas spotted in Killarney Lake,” “Tunnel to mainland almost complete,” “Bowen Island Arts Council Awarded $50,000 government grant to study how arts affect the arts” and “the artificial wturf is spreading.” This is a not-forchildren, or those who are easily offended, publication!

We are a quirky, wonderful, intelligent and highly creative community and this is reflected in the number and content of our shortrun publications. The archive is a community asset and while our collections cannot be “signed out” they are available to be viewed in-house. Drop by and find out what those black labs are up to now!

LOOK FOR IT NEXT WEEK We’ll have an interview with Foundry team leader Terry Bulych. The Foundry is a youth support centre in North Vancouver. On March 2, Terry and a couple of her peer support staff with give a talk on Bowen about the resources available to youth.

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Life’s better here On a typical day, you’d be hard pressed to keep up with Bette.

You’ll often find her on a resident bus trip, at a fitness class or out walking around the picturesque Westerleigh PARC neighbourhood.

One activity that Bette always makes time for is meditation. In fact, she started the healing circle – a group of residents that meet to practice mindfulness together. “I’ve been meditating for over 40 years. It’s a wonderful way to relax,” she says.

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The art Henley tour

The Slow Lane Chronicles MARCUS HONDRO Columnist

It is the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 17 and I am at the home of noted islanders Ian and Joan Henley for a tour of their art collection. I plan to write this column in my mind right here on site and upon returning to my office (read: a desk crammed into a corner of the bedroom) transcribe it from my temporal lobe onto a Word file.

For example, this paragraph you read now is, word for word, exactly how I ‘thought’ it.

I am accompanied by Undercurrent editor, Bronwyn Beairsto, whom readers are well acquainted with. Bronwyn, I call her Bronwyn-er, works at the paper with my wife, Tracey Wait, whom I call Teedub and a host of other names, a few of which she approves of, many she does not approve of and others she pays no attention to whatever.

Let’s see if that paragraph stands.

Ian is conducting the tour toute seule as Joan is off-island with daughter, Jane Henley, who is receiving an award for the nursing work she does on-island. The lovely Henley home has one of those breathtaking Bowen ocean views but their art collection makes it all the more arresting, and not simply because it is art, no the story is more unique.

For all the art, some 200 pieces, is Bowen art.

Yes, each piece was created by a Bowen Islander. You will not find in this collection an artist who does not live upon, or did not once live upon, our Happy Isle. Or okay, wait..maybe there is like one or two pieces in a corner somewhere that are the work of people who are not islanders but just people he knows.

But I ain’t planning on viewing those ones.

The creators of these works are a who’s who of Bowen artists and I shall include many as we go. The Henley home has work

by Roger Willoughby-Price, Andrew Cameron, from Andrew’s younger years, the renowned Ron Woodall, Doloroes Capdevila and the admired Bill Hoopes. There’s also art by Ron Tribe, by Matthew Smith, Jan Wells, Kim Kassassian and the potty Sue Clarke.

And here’s this: the Henleys don’t simply support island artists by buying their work. No, they love their collection and view it with frequency. Indeed, Ian said that when in a reflective mood he will choose a room to sit in – the art is principally in four areas throughout the house – and simply take them in.

A rather nice option to have, no?

Mr. Henley, a retired provincial court judge and a young 91, is generous with his time and happy to detail how each piece was acquired, one of the more interesting stories involving an artist (Rockin’ Rhonda, as I recall) who used the money from the sale to join a rock band in Germany.

Ian is effusive in his praise for the artists who created the work he so admires. He speaks warmly of the late Sam Black, a Scottish-Canadian artist who saw action in the Second World

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Marcus Hondro examines one of more than 200 pieces in the Henley art collection.

War and later moved to Canada to became an art professor at UBC, retiring to Bowen in 1978 and continuing to create here.

Five of his paintings are in the British Imperial War Museum while others – are here on Henley walls.

As Ian walks us through their collection I struggle with a way to describe all of this. I’m not a scribe who could write “the enchanting cornflower blue highlights the frondescence in the breeze-laden hills.” I’m more the ‘there are some real nice colors’ kind of an art critic.

And in this collection there are real nice colors or, to grow as an art critic, rich and vibrant hues. It is quality work, and varied, and it’s not hard to see why Ian enjoys sitting back and breathing these works of art in. Indeed, it would be easy to spend a day with them and not exhaust all the feelings they engender.

Work by traveler and blogger, Emmett Sparling and by his mom, Tiffanee Scorer. Work by Ann Beatty. No Bowen collection would be complete without art by Stuart Slind. Angie Bosworth (hubbie Greg our fastpitch league’s 1995 Rookie of the Year), Marie Neys, Marg Witty, David Graff (drummer, guitarist, singer, songwriter) are here. So too Lynda Eustace, Jenny Welsh, Vicki Fuller, Megan Lewicki and Katherine Lawrence.

Pastels and watercolours, sketches, oil paintings, photographs, prints, pottery, scultures and all manner of art are in this wonderous collection, all of those techniques utilized by your neighbours and mine, islanders present and past, to make

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art. A few of the artists are now deceased but their work lives on.

On Henley walls.

There are portraits and self-portraits, often of locals, oil paintings and sketches of Bowen beaches, boats, docks, forests, trees and homes. There’s the ocean and flowers and animals.

Modes of transporation and so much more. Here’s this: life is depicted on the Henley walls, most of it as experienced on this island we all call home.

Former Undercurrent reporter, current arts counil exec. director, Jacqueline M. Massey is here. So is Anne Spindler and May Hall, ditto Ian Fry, Erwin Smith, Michael Epp and Madeline Epps Conn’s mom, Katherine Epps. Naturally Gregg Simpson is here, as are Robin Westcott and Janet Wrenshall.

I can’t possibly compile a fully inclusive list and some artists I come away unsure if I saw their work. I later realize I did not ask if Carol Fancy, Simon Winadzi James or Hans-Christian Behm, well-known island artists, are here. There’s others I’ve missed but there’s no time to view every piece in a single showing.

Finally then here’s this: My editor and I just viewed what is surely one of the most comprehensive collections of a community’s art as exists in our country. Creating such a vast and colorful (and rich and vibrantly hued) collection is arguably a work of art in itself so there are two more island artists to include in the Henley collection: Ian and Joan Henley.

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Through the museum of Bowenia BRONWYN BEAIRSTO Editor

Marcus and I conducted an experiment. Two reporters go into an interview: will they come out with the same story? Turns out we did have very similar stories (though Marcus’s was much more thorough than mine.) So I’ve cut mine down and included some of the many pictures we took while we visited the Henley home.

Where once Ian Henley saw crisp lines and vivid life, now there are blurs of colour: some that move and speak, some that rest in an eternal pause on his walls.

Fading eyesight, however, doesn’t stop Ian’s passion for his collection of over 200 pieces of Bowen artwork.

He delights in the portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, pottery, sculpted fish and whimsical caricatures that cover his walls, the backs of book shelves, that sit on easels and rest on counters, that lean one up against another for lack of space.

His face lights up as he points out the painting he bought for from a 13-year-old at a BICS or the “woman in the green dress,” the piece that started it all just over a decade ago.

Ian, 91, is a lively tour guide through his informal museum of Bowenia in his and Joan’s home, perched on the very edge of the island.

It is a tribute to an island he helped shape, not only as a long-time resident, but as the chair of the first Official Community Plan in 1975.

The house itself was a 20-year endeavour, built piece-by-piece as the couple had time and money. Some of it was done by Ian himself as he learned how to pour concrete and do other odd jobs.

Off the west face, one can see out over Georgia Strait, Worlcombe Island interrupting the darkened sea. The architect who designed the Henley home, more than 40 years ago, lived on Worlocombe. The house is designed to blend into its surroundings.

With each piece of art comes a story. Of the artist, of how Ian acquired it, of why it’s interesting. Some are from friends, some acquaintances, some from the weekly art group Ian attended until his eye sight deteriorated to the point where he could no longer paint.

Interspersed with the paintings is the story of Ian and Joan’s lives.

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Parts of the house are noticably light on the art work. Ian explains that these are “Joan’s areas” and she gets to choose the paintings that hang there. Joan and Ian first met at school in Grade one. It wasn’t until their late 20s that they saw one another at a party, Ian was by then a lawyer and Joan an airline attendant. “I fell in love with her right there,” said Ian. They went on to have three children together, a daughter (Jane, a nurse on island) and twin sons.

The painting above is one of Ian’s, done of Joan.

“It sends shivers up and down my spine.” Ian is particularly entranced by this exceptionally smooth piece of pottery by Anne Spindler. in the Henley art collection. This piece rests in his basement, which along with his art collection, holds his stationary bike.

It’s probably the best-decorated workout room on Bowen.

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Bronwyn and Ian having a serious discussion outside.

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Ian’s study is chock full of paintings, so many that there’s no longer space for more purchases.

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My Clay Valentine ceramics workshop Cloudworks at Artisan Square 1-3 pm For ages 5-95. To reserve a space, please call Jeanne at 604-947-2522. $50 Handcrafted Jewellery Demonstration Catching Stars Gallery, 479 Bowen Trunk Road 2 p.m.

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