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ISLAND DISCOVERY LEARNING COMMUNITY WILL NOW OFFER GRADES 10, 11 AND 12

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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time by a score of 14-13. The Diggers won in dramatic fashion, tying it in the bottom of the seventh and taking it to extra innings where newly-acquired Marlon Strang knocked in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

Game two saw the Fireman beat the Twins in a see-saw affair, 13-11.

As of next school year, students will (theoretically) be able to do their entire grade schooling on-island.

The Island Discovery Learning Community (IDLC) is expanding its program to include grades 10, 11 and 12.

Founded in 2003, IDLC offers flexible learning opportunities to youth on Bowen and in the Lower Mainland.

Until now it has only served students up to grade nine (the same grade at which Island Pacific School ends).

With a mix-and-match teaching approach, the organization has some students who attend class part-time while other students get support for full-time homeschooling.

IDLC principal and co-founder Allan Saugstad says that this program gives another option to students who have a hard time with the commute to the North Shore or who have anxiety or who find the large high schools of the mainland alienating (a maximum IDLC class size is 12 students). Some students attend IDLC to accommodate a busy extracurricular schedule (working school in with competitive sports or other activities) or attend some classes on the mainland some classtime at IDLC. “I think that it’s such a great thing, for any teen, having that freedom to really control their own learning a little more,” says Saugstad.

Along with the new services for the advanced grades, IDLC is revitalizing its grades eight and nine program to accommodate challenges parents may face teaching their older children.

“We’ve always found that what happens is that our families love our program, they love how they are involved in their relationship with the teacher but as the kids get older, they [say] ‘this is a little overwhelming,’” says Saugstad.

He says that with the revamped program, the higher grades will have a more structured, teacher-directed curriculum than they did previously.

“So our kids will be accountable to the teacher and the parents don’t have to worry so much,” he explains.

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WEDDING STARS: The Hallmark Channel’s movie for television Perfect Harmony filmed for three days on Bowen last

week and the production and director Clare Niederpruem used islanders as wedding guests for a scene on a trolley. Top row left to right: Paul Hooson, Carlos Vela-Martinez, Vikki Michèle Freckelton, Bob Doucet, Sarah Haxby; bottom row: Markus Behm, Marley Behm and Heather Hodson.

Fastballs fly into 34th season BOWEN’S MEN’S FASTPICH SEASON OPENED MARCUS HONDRO

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The Bowen Island Fastpitch League opened it’s 34th season on Sunday, April 28 with all six teams in action at Snug Cove Field. There was sunshine

throughout the afternoon and plenty of fans on-hand to usher in another season of Bowen ball.

The first game of the triple-header saw a rematch of last year’s tournament final with the end result the same, the Diggers beating the Cruisers, this

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It’s the circle of life. Or at least the circle of Bowen’s eateries.

A decade ago, one could find Nancy’s Tacos in the westernmost-building on the Bowen Island Marina dock. Then came the Japanese rice bowl-serving Shika, replaced by the artisanal toast eatery Branch and Butter. Now, islanders can once again get tacos on the marina’s dock.

Britt and Tim Yu launched the Branch on Bowen, tacos and ice cream, earlier this month. Former owners Robin McMillan and Brent Freedman are still minor partners in the business and the Branch still serves the famed Earnest Ice Cream.

The Yus are no strangers to the food world – they have several other businesses in Vancouver, including Koener’s Pub, Loafe Café and Café MOA on the UBC campus.

Having moved to Bowen five years ago, the parents of two leapt at the opportunity to bring their culinary business savvy to Bowen.

With four tacos on the menu, the choices are simple and personal: There’s the JuJu, a Korean bulgogi (beef) braise, kimchi and black sesame taco named for the couple’s nephew Julian (who is Korean).

There’s the Tinga taco with a chipotle adobo (chicken) braise and coconut nectar aioli.

There’s the Zo zo, vegan taco with smoked sweet potato, toasted pumpkin seeds and coconut nectar aioli, and named for a vegan friend of the couple (named Zoe).

Then there’s the Nuni’e. The Haida Gwaii

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Tim and Britt Yu (pictured with their two sons) are the new owners of Branch on Bowen (the former Branch and Butter) on the Bowen Island Marina Dock. The taco eatery is open five days a week and also serves Earnest Ice Cream. smoked salmon taco has chevre, aioli and uses Britt’s grandmother’s rhubarb relish recipe, which gives the taco its name. Britt is Haida and in Haida “grandmother” is “nuni’e.”

The meat is ethically-sourced, free range and the taco shells gluten-free. Britt says that they’re hoping to also get as much produce as possible locally.

There’s also the dozen or so flavours of East Vancouver-based Earnest Ice Cream for a sweet treat after a taco.

For May the Branch on Bowen is open five days a week and June onward this summer it will be open seven days a week. Islanders, if they discretely mention they’re from Bowen, get a 10 per cent discount.

Municipality receives funding for a plan for child care BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

Ann Silberman, long-time executive director of the Bowen Children’s Centre, can tell you that Bowen needs more childcare spaces. After-school spaces, infant toddler spaces, Bowen needs more childcare. In the 2016 census, Bowen had 604 children under the age of 14. The trick is knowing how many spaces Bowen needs and how services should be offered.

And in this regard, the island’s

in luck.

Bowen Island Municipality is getting a 10-year child care spaces action plan, thanks to a $22,520 Union of B.C. Municipalitiesprovincial government grant, the municipality announced last month.

The money will fund one parttime municipal staff person to create an inventory of existing childcare spaces and to identify current and future childcare needs.

Following this research, the municipality, with support from

the children’s centre, will create the action plan.

Silberman said that having this information and plan will help Bowen access more provincial funding.

“We’re thrilled,” said Silberman earlier this month. “It speaks to the muni’s commitment to young children.”

Silberman said that the 12-month project will involve interviews with parents and non-profit and private childcare organizations.

The project will also involve the

Early Childhood Development Table, a group of organizations, educators and caregivers working with children under 12.

“I hope we can move forward quickly so we can access some of the current funding for opening new spaces,” said Silberman.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better outcome,” said Mayor Gary Ander in the press release. “We look forward to seeing improvements to the availability of affordable childcare spaces that this action plan will help bring to our community.”

Blooming flowers and warm spring breezes may have some sighing in relief after a harsh winter but others are looking ahead to fire season – a season that’s already begun with at least one fire along the Southwest coast (Squamish).

In 2019, Bowen Islanders can continue their FireSmart education and action through workshops, free home assessments and rebates for removing fire hazards around their properties.

Bowen Island Municipality is offering these services in part thanks to a $25,000 Community Resiliency Investment grant from the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) and the B.C. government.

“The Community Resiliency Investment program is intended to reduce the risk and impact of wildfire to communities in B.C. For 2019, the program is structured to fund FireSmart activities,” read a BIM press release last week.

BIM holds semi-regular free FireSmart workshops with wildfire expert Bruce Blackwell.

The home assessments are new in 2019. A local certified FireSmart representative visits your home makes recommendations such as removing combustible debris and tree pruning. The municipality will reimburse 50 per cent of the costs of the FireSmarting work recommended on said property, up to $250. If five or more properties in the area participate, BIM will bring a wood chipper to the neighbourhood. Islanders can sign up on the BIM website.

BIM will receive an additional $75,000 from UBCM’s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund for emergency support services, evacuation route planning and an emergency operations centre, the municipality said in the press release.

BIM will recognize emergency preparedness week May 5 to 11.

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Anniversaries!

After 51 issues, I feel like I’ve written this editorial dozens of times: 1) I’m grateful, 2) we need money. Both remain true.

But today marks one year since I stumbled off of the Queen of Capilano, a change of clothes in my backpack (along with a toothbrush, a recorder and my laptop) and started up the hill to the Undercurrent.

I thought I would be here a week, two max. I was helping out, finishing my journalism school internship on-island under the careful guidance of former editor Martha Perkins.

But that first day, an older man walked in.

Kind eyes, the easy attitude of an oldtimer, he asked to subscribe to the paper. He talked about the importance of the paper with conviction. If I remember correctly, he even left and came back in order to have exact change for his subscription.

That night I stayed with family friends on-island and they gave me the whirlwind tour of Bowen’s 29 (?) neighbourhoods and a brief history of their 25 years on-island. By the end of that first day, I wasn’t sure that I would stay on Bowen (I didn’t yet have the job!), but I knew I wanted to be somewhere with the intimacy of Bowen.

And I did stay (though at first every day felt like the Dread Pirate Roberts scene from the Princess Bride “Good night, Westley.

Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”)

And at some point people stopped asking me when I planned on leaving and I took that as as close to acceptance I would get without submitting to the tri-lords of yoga, artisan chocolate, and ferry complaints.

And the Undercurrent has been like a womb for a cub reporter. I’ve never had to knock on a recently-bereaved person’s door asking about their loved one (a much-dreaded job for reporters) and for the most part, have been allowed time for thought and research rather than having to hustle a story online for fear of being scooped or need for content. This comes with advantages and disadvantages, but I’ve been most grateful for people’s thoughtful responses to the paper.

Now also a year ago, I met Tracey Wait.

The glue of this paper, Tracey (who has more than 30 years experience at papers much larger than ours) works harder than anyone here to make sure this paper ends up in your mailboxes and on newsstands.

The great themed issues are always the result of Tracey’s head popping up over the computer with her next plan (which will inevitably mean late nights for both of us but a paper we’re both extremely proud of.)

Thank you Tracey.

Thank you Bowen, for your submissions and your enthusiasm – they make my job a lot of fun.

Oh yes, and subscribe, advertise, buy local. It’s the only way we can keep doing what we do. Thank you!

— Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Blasting on Cates Hill

DEAR EDITOR: As far as I know the work on Cates Hill is for a small subdivision.

Not as exciting as the carving of Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota that started in 1946 and is still going on today. Or Mt. Rushmore. Or the spiral tunnels (Yoho National Park).

Blasting in conjunction with other machinery have done many accomplishments: the Fraser Canyon, Squamish Highway, Coquihalla Highway, Cleaveland Dam. Blasting on Bowen made the Artisan Square, Roocroft homes, all of the roads, water and sewer for Cates Hill. Blasting and excavating was done for the mall where the Beer and Wine Store is and the Village Baker and the new pub.

I could go on about all of the blasting that has helped build roads, houses, tunnels, dams.

When we blast in someone’s house, or under it, we use smaller charges. As when we blast near houses we use shorter holes and smaller diameter holes. We do this to cut down on ground vibration and for safety. But when we do this it makes the job take longer.

— Gary Anderson, Metro Blasting

Gymnastics fundraising

DEAR EDITOR: Athletes from Bowen Island Gymnastics and Britannia Gymnastics Vancouver have come together to send a team of 25 to World Gymnaestrada in Austria this July. This international event is the largest general gymnastics exhibition in the world, and welcomes thousands of athlete participants every four years. There are a range of competition fees that come along with athlete registration, so on May 11 there will be a cash bar and live music night at the Legion to raise funds for the young Canadian team. It will be a full night of dancing, drinks, and raffles, followed by free transportation home.

Come have fun and help us send this team to Austria.

Tickets can be purchased for $20 at The Phoenix, Pharmacy, and Bowen Building Centre. It’s an over 19 event.

— Bowen Island Gymnastics It was in my hometown paper, years ago, that the editorial staff snuck in “May the 4th be with you” on the front page.

We didn’t yet have high speed internet at my house (which is probably why a 10-year-old was reading the paper) so it was my first exposure to Star Wars Day. A day I haven’t failed to celebrate since. So May the 4th be with you. — Bronwyn

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The walk with your doc team: Jen McGowan, Dr. Susanne Schloegl, Dr. Ailve McNestry, Dr. Matt Blackwood, Sandy Logan and Janis Treleaven.

Take a walk with your doc

DEAR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS: Do you have a half hour to spare? Put your walking shoes on. You see it only takes 30 minutes of daily physical activity to start down the road to healthy living and minimize the risk of developing diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s. Exercise can also alleviate depression, anxiety and stress related disorders by as much as 30 to 50 per cent What are you waiting for? Time to lace up and take that first step out your front door.

Join Doctors Schloegl and Blackwood for the first annual “Walk with your Doc” event on Saturday May 11 at 10 a.m. in front of the library.

Find out more about healthy living strategies as we stroll around the Snug Cove neighbourhood.

You might win a nifty door prize from Kintec or The Running Room.

Please bring your own water bottle; there will be refreshments provided.

Go online to register for the event at WalkwithyourDoc.ca. Let’s get moving Bowen!

––Sandy Logan, Walk with your Doc

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MAY DAY TRADITION: After a year’s hiatus, the Bowen Island Black Sheep gathered at the causeway for the Morris Dancing tradition of dancing up the sun at dawn to ensure a good spring and growing season. The members of this volunteer folk dance troupe also threw flowers into the sea in honour of the “lost sheep” who have passed on or who are no longer able to dance with us.

There is hope that the Black Sheep will be back again in the future, if more people are interested in this island trandition, which is open for anyone to join. Musicians and dancers are needed. Contact us on Facebook or call Bob Doucet at 604947-0698. –Sarah Haxby

Clothing sale good for wallet and environment MIRANDA FORSTER Contributor

Dear Editor: The Plant Sale and Raffle, a major event for the Bowen Island Garden Club and the gardening community, takes place this Saturday, May 4 from 11 a.m. until noon, at the school.

There are a dozen splendid prizes in the raffle. They will be on display during the sale and tickets can be purchased on-site. The draw for the raffle will start promptly at noon. If you can’t be present at that time, and your ticket is drawn, do not despair. You will be informed by telephone, and a prize will be held in your name.

The Club would like to thank our donors for their generosity in supporting us. They include: The Bowen Island Building Centre, Maple Leaf Garden Centrse (Dundarave and Lynn Valley) and Snug Cove General Store. Other gifts were purchased by the club.

See you Saturday.

–– John Lawrence, B.I. Garden Club

Would you like an inexpensive way to revamp your wardrobe? Are you trying to declutter your closet?

Do you want to give back to your community? The opportunity has arrived!

Fewer than 10 days away, the Big Annual Clothing Sale will take place on Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cates Hill Chapel. Up until May 7, please feel free to donate men’s, women’s, and teens’ clothing, as well as outerwear, shoes, scarves, belts, jewelry, and other accessories. If it is clean and intact, it is welcome.

You can leave any donations in the bins at Bowen Island Community School, or in the lower parking lot of Bowen Children’s Centre (the red building at 650 Carter Road). If you have a large volume of items to donate, please email bowenclothingsale@gmail. com. All items will be sold as a fundraiser for the Bowen Island Community School Parent Advisory

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

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Council (BICS PAC). BICS PAC supports the school by providing additional resources for classrooms, PE equipment, the music program, and other important school initiatives.

Used clothing sales such as this are an environmentally-friendly way to expand your clothing horizons, helping to combat the 9.5 million tonnes of clothing and fabrics North Americans send to landfills each year (according to Waste Reduction Week in Canada’s website).

This long-standing Bowen tradition is also a great way to support other families on the island, offering a very affordable way to purchase some unique, gently-used clothes.

And let’s not forget the incredible support this sale offers our local elementary school.

Entrance fee is by donation to our local food bank; please come and make a contribution to the beautiful community we call home.

Miranda Forster is a grade 8 student and former student of BICS.

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Feeding sustainability : B.I. Food Sovereignty B.I. FOOD SOVEREIGNTY RECEIVES A KNICK KNACK NOOK GRANT FOR ITS RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEM INITIATIVE

SUSAN SWIFT

Bowen Island Food Sovereignty

We have booklets telling us how to prepare for sudden emergencies, like power outages and earthquakes, but what about a long, slow emergency like climate change?

What is our response to the threats that weather poses to our food supply? According to the 2018 Bowen Island Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, the General Store has about three days’ worth of food before shortages occur.

Remember your frustration at not finding what you wanted at The Ruddy Potato after a holiday weekend? Where would you get your food if that inconvenience stretched into a week or longer?

Whether it is an untimely freeze that destroys a harvest of oranges in Florida, or widespread bee colony collapse that prevents the pollination of our favorite fruits and vegetables, we need to plan for such contingencies, according to members of Bowen Island Food Sovereignty (BIFS).

In January, BIFS teamed up with Julie Sage, a researcher and agrologist living on Bowen Island, to explore ideas for making Bowen Island’s food system more resilient in times of emergency. Recently, the group was notified that their first grant application was awarded. In May, BIFS will receive funding from the Knick Knack Nook’s Environmental Sustainability program to further its groundwork on a new initiative called “Toward a Resilient Food System for Bowen Island.”

To create a clearer picture of where we are now and what needs to be done, BIFS is reaching out to farmers, gardeners, businesses, and other community members.

Bowen-specific information will be collected from in-person interviews, online surveys as well as government data and academic studies.

Many of these sources point to the need for more local food production and that will be a focus of BIFS’ research.

Most of the fruits and vegetables consumed in Canada come from somewhere else. Research by Kwantlen Polytechnical University found that in Southwest B.C., we only produce 40 per cent of what we eat, and that figure is projected to be drastically lower in coming years if we con-

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Members of Bowen Island Food Sovereignty (left to right) Phil Gregory, Susan Swift, Shasta Martinuk, Jackie Bradley, Elaine Cameron, Meribeth Deen, and Julie Sage (present by phone: Rabia Wilcox). tinue in a business-as-usual way.

As the initiative’s Project Lead, Julie is coordinating BIFS’ research into natural resources, land use, and food production on the island. Volunteers are assisting her with interviews and surveys to include as many people as possible.

One fertile area that they will be evaluating is on-island composting. The expense of trucking waste off island and then importing soil seems counter-intuitive and produces excess greenhouse gases (GHGs). BIFS is gathering information from a number of municipalities and facilities.

As Julie explains, “we want to measure how much ‘organic waste’ is exported every year and how many yards of soil are imported for island gardens and farm operations to see if we can make healthy soil on island.”

Using a collaborative approach, the initiative will seek out those familiar with Bowen’s rural heritage, as well as restaurateurs and everyone else involved in the local food chain. One opportunity for community participation is coming in early May, when the first of two stakeholders

meetings will be convened.

At the same time, BIFS members are continuing their outreach and education efforts. Starting in May, look for Rabia Wilcox, Phil Gregory and Jackie Bradley’s weekly information table at the Farmers’ Market. And, on Sunday, July 28, BIFS and Bowen in Transition (BIT) will cosponsor a day-long introduction to permaculture.

“We all have a stake in building more self-reliance and resiliency where we live,” says Shasta Martinuk who is a member of BIT as well as BIFS. “Maybe this is obvious but it isn’t just the farmers, stores, and restaurants that are threatened by disruptions in our food system. “ As we know, living on an island compounds every challenge we might face. But, if our community makes growing food a priority, and respects and protects the natural resources used to produce that food, we could boost Bowen Island’s resilience.

For more information, please contact: hellobifs@gmail. com.

Opportunity to Comment on Preliminary Price Cap Decision for Next Performance Term On April 1, 2019 the British Columbia Ferries Commissioner (“Commissioner”) announced his decision regarding the preliminary price caps for the next performance term. The Commissioner set the preliminary price caps at a maximum increase of 2.3% annually from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2024. The Commissioner is seeking public comment on his preliminary price cap decision by June 30, 2019 as part of the process of making a final decision on the price caps for the next performance term by September 30, 2019.

The Commissioner’s report on his preliminary price cap decision, his News Release and the Assessment of BC Ferries’ submissions for the next performance term may be found on the Commissioner’s website at www.bcferrycommission.ca Comments or submissions can be sent by email to info@bcferrycommission.ca or by mail to: Office of the BC Ferries Commissioner PO Box 9279 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC V8W 9J7 Deadline for public comments is June 30, 2019. Comments submitted to the Office of the BC Ferries Commissioner may be published on its website.

Program Support Staff Island Pacific School is looking for a creative, committed, & cool team member for the 2019-20 academic year & beyond.

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The Reluctant Radical screening KEN WARD’S FILM CONSIDERS “APPROPRIATE” ACTIONS IN A CLIMATE CRISIS MERIBETH DEEN

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On Monday of this week, a 71 year-old grandfather named Terry Christenson camped out in a Burnaby tree-top to protest the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain expansion project. On Tuesday, he rappelled down, “in order to protect the safety of the RCMP officers” who were trying to climb up the tree to arrest him.

Christenson told the media that he’s more afraid of climate change than jail, and that he’s not going to stand around and let this pipeline get built.

In 2016, Oregon’s Ken Ward contemplated what may be considered a more extreme action. He was a long-time environmental and climate activist, but felt that his efforts yielded insufficient results, given the scale of the crisis.

“What we really needed to be doing, from the very beginning,” says Ward, “was raising hell. If you’ve done all the legal, available methods and they don’t work, the only thing left is to put your body in the way.”

In October of that year, Ward and five other activists decided to risk their freedom to stop the flow of crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the U.S. By cutting the fences surrounding the shut off valves at five Enbridge pipeline locations, the protestors stopped the movement of 70 per cent of the Alberta oil being

shipped to the US that day.

The Reluctant Radical tells the story of those actions, as well as the waves of emotions, and internal struggles that led Ken Ward, a normally law-abiding citizen, to do something that would ultimately land him in jail.

Bowen In Transition’s Dave Pollard says that he’s met Ward, and even tried out the type of bolt cutters used to break through the fencing to the pipeline valve near Anacortes, Washington.

“Ken and his group were careful to plan the action in a way that would not result in violence or danger to safety or to the land,” says Pollard.

“But he did feel the necessity to push the limits of direct action. I think many of us will come to a point where we consider the necessity of direct action, and may need to ask ourselves questions similar to those Ken Ward asked himself. What would we have done here on Bowen, for example, if following our community protest, the province decided to go ahead with logging anyway? It wouldn’t have surprised me to see people chained to bulldozers.”

Bowen in Transition will be screening The Reluctant Radical on Wednesday, May 8 (7 p.m. at the Library Annex) with a follow-up question and answer video call with Ken Ward. The library is co-sponsoring the screening and will make the film available for rental after the event.

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Jazz up your Saturday night KATHLEEN AINSCOUGH/MARC ATKINSON TRIO

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Jazz up your weekend on May 11 with some really great music. The Hearth presents the Marc Atkinson Trio – Gypsy Jazz Concert at the Cove Commons. From the further shores of Hornby Island, these fine musicians will dazzle us with their award-winning talents and lively tunes.

Marc Atkinson is one of Canada’s finest JUNOnominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. He is the leader and composer of the internationally renowned Marc Atkinson Trio (and co-founder, composer and performer in the acclaimed, The Bills). The music of this virtuosic group is melodically captivating, sensually charged and ferociously, technically awe-inspiring. Embracing a lifetime of musical influences, Marc and the Trio have just released their fourth album, The Marc Atkinson Trio IV, praised as the finest yet. The Trio, formed in 2000, has toured North America, England and Europe and has received standing ovations everywhere they perform from the Montreal Jazz Festival to the Vancouver International Folk Festival to DjangoFest Northwest.

The many original Marc Atkinson compositions are jewels in Canadian guitar repertoire.

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The Mark Atkinson trio plays Cove Commons May 11.

The first three albums are still garnering international attention for their stunning compositions and extraordinary guitar dexterity.

The music of the Marc Atkinson Trio good-naturedly welcomes all listeners aboard for an intriguing, exhilarating and unforgettable ride.

Marc Atkinson is backed by Joey Smith on bass and Brett Martens on rhythm guitar. Hear their music online at marcatkinson.com.

Get your tickets early as you don’t want to miss this show. Purchase tickets for $30 in advance: thehearth.ca/marcatkinson.php or at the Gallery at Cove Commons. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

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BOWEN BEAT Apple blossoms

While the wind cooled Bowen’s inaugural Apple Blossom Festival, it was a lovely day and the children ( young and old) enjoyed the parasol painting and face painting activites.

The day included period costumes and a tea house in the Bowen Heritage office.

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Judi Gedye (in pink) receives a gift of gratitude for keeping Bowen Heritage alive for decades as Vikki Michèle Freckelton, Sarah Haxby, Pernille Nielsen and Helen Wallwork watch on.

Vikki Michèle Freckelton (in blue on the left) led a parasol painting workshop for youth.

Despite the wind, Bowen’s next generation painted with enthusiasm.

Logger sports

Bowen Island Logger Sports Society held a country western fundraiser at the Legion last weekend. A band, raffle and logger sports made for some stompin’ fun. This year’s event is in the Cove July 27 and 28.

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The band: Ricardo, Roger Ardnt and Peter Clarke.

Doug Jamieson and Cal Misener take command of the BBQ.

Katle Hartle and Mary Letson, meanwhile, take command of the saw.

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BOWEN BEAT RCM visists Bowen scouts

Local scouts got a treat Tuesday April 23 when they got a visit from local Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue members.

The local Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue station is based at Horseshoe Bay and covers Howe Sound. It is crewed by volunteers and funded by donation, and works closely with the coastguard.

The boat that visited Bowen is crewed by five people and has two jet propelled engines, making it extremely manoeuvrable (it can crab or pivot round from the centre) with a top speed 32 knots. The $750,000 vessel is designed to be able to roll right round in heavy seas and is equipped with radar and a FLIR heat sensor.

RCM had a talk with scouts on safety at sea, demonstrated heaving a lifebelt and using walkie talkies.

As you can imagine, the youth (and the adults) were very engaged and we are very grateful to the RCM crew for coming over in Tuesday night.

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Left to right: Robert Alexander, Martin Pykalo (scouter), Oliver, Eric, Kalvin, Brad, Mizuki, Isaac, Ryuki, Henry, Euan Sinclair (Akela), Megan Bassendale, Ian Grantham (coxswain), Adam, James Burdett.

Not pictured: Steve Hathaway.

Release the chums

Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club, with support from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, released approximately 20,000 chum fry, from the Terminal Creel hatchery, into the lagoon last Friday.

This wasn’t Coho Bon Voyage, the larger release that happens in June.

A couple of families showed up to help the chum on their journey.

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Pat Adams shows off soon-to-be released fry.

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Foundation awards thousands in community grants SHEREE JOHNSON

Bowen Island Community Foundation

The 2019 Bowen Island Community Foundation’s annual general meeting on April 26 was a celebration for the entire community. The foundation awarded $35,500 to various Bowen charitable organizations and the Knick Knack Nook awarded an additional $40,000 for community initiatives.

The foundation also announced new funds: the Kipp Thompson Memorial Bursary and the Bowen Youth at Risk Fund and a new Neighbourhood Small Grants program.

Kipp Thompson grew up on Bowen Island. He was a talented musician who also experienced difficulties with drug dependence. He died last year at the age of 24. The Kipp Thompson Memorial Bursary celebrates the many strengths of Kipp’s life. As many of his friends and family have noted, he was happiest on stage, performing. This annual bursary will provide funds for a Bowen Islander to pursue the performing arts in Kipp’s memory. In concert with the Bowen Arts Council, the first award will be made later this year.

The Bowen Youth at Risk Fund is, at least in part, related to the tragedy of Kipp Thompson’s early death. There is a need for more support of young people on Bowen Island, whose lives and opportunities are frequently compromised as a result of drug use. This fund will provide substance use education for the community and treatment and counseling for young islanders.

Contributions to these two funds can be made at any time on the foundation’s website bowenfoundation.com.

In addition to these two new endowment funds, the foundation announced that it is partnering with the Vancouver Foundation to provide the Neighbourhood Small Grants program. The Neighbourhood Small Grants program will provide grants of up to $500 to people who want to make a difference in their neighbourhoods on Bowen. A grassroots community committee will consider requests. More information will come later this year.

The $35,500 in grants announced Friday came from the foundation’s Community Impact Fund. Project-based grants are selected on their potential for measurable and sustainable impact. Here are the 2019 grant recipients:

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Laura Ruloff (Cates Hill Chapel), Jack Resels (BIRCH), Robyn Fenton (BIRCH), Jacqueline Massey (BIAC), David McCullum (BIRCH), Sam Nosek (Disc golf course), Julie and Jack Headley (Tir-na-nOg), Nerys Poole (B.I. Conservancy) and Holly Graff (Community Foundation).

Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing Society (BIRCH) received $15,000 for affordable housing. BIRCH’s purpose is to develop and manage diverse, permanently affordable housing on Bowen Island. With 87 per cent of Bowen’s housing stock being single family homes, there is a severe lack of diverse and affordable housing options.

This grant will go toward the phase one feasibility stage of BIRCH’s first project to build approximately 20 units of rental housing on Lot 3 of the Community Lands.

Cates Hill Chapel received $2,500 for kitchen renovations. Cates Hill Chapel is widely used by the entire Bowen community. Rent is kept low to make the available spaces affordable. With few larger facilities available for public use, the chapel has been more widely used than anticipated and often at maximum capacity. Over time it has become evident that a more functional kitchen would greatly benefit all who use the space. This $2,500 grant will help with the

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renovation of the existing kitchen so that food can be prepared and heated, large quantities of dishes can be quickly cleaned, and tableware can be stored efficiently.

Bowen Disc Golf Club and Island Pacific School received $7,500 for the construction of a disc golf course. Partnering with Island Pacific School, the Bowen Disc Golf Club has secured 2.3 hectares of land in Veterans Park from the municipality to build an 18-hole disc golf course. The course has many benefits including being a year-round outdoor recreation area, preserving the land as park space and attracting visitors. This grant will help prepare the land for the course.

Bowen Island Conservancy received $5,000 for a Marine Conservation Atlas. The Bowen Marine Conservation Atlas will inspire awareness of and engagement in local marine conservation issues and celebrate the recovery of our marine neighbourhood. The atlas will have layers, from scientific to local knowledge from citizen scientists, divers, and fishers to traditional knowledge from Coast Salish members. The grant is for the general design of the atlas, layout and maps.

Bowen Island Arts Council and Bowen Island Public Library received $3,000 for a truth and reconciliation workshop. For the past three years, under the banner of Knowing Our Place, the Bowen Island Public Library and the Bowen Island Arts Council have organized events and activities to help develop our community’s relationship with and stronger ties to local First Nations. This grant will go toward a workshop for community leaders and representatives of nonprofits on how to develop meaningful relationships and work with local First Nations.

Tir-na-nOg Theatre School Society received $2,500 for a sound system. Tir-na-nOg provides year-round courses in theatre arts education for young people. In addition to providing educational and a performance space for the students of Tir-na-nOg, the auditorium is frequently available for concerts and performances of other groups. For many of these events, a sound system is an essential ingredient and this grant will go toward such a system.

The Bowen Island Community Foundation helps build a resilient community and strengthens Bowen Islanders’ sense of belonging by engaging citizens, organizations and local government to work together and contribute their money, time, ideas, expertise and energy to serve the community. Additional information on the foundation can be found on its website bowenfoundation.com.

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Also announced at the AGM was $40,000 in Knick Knack Nook grants. These include $1,500 to BIAC for a Syrian art exhibit, $4,100 to Bowen Children’s Centre to support children with special needs to attend day camp and financial assistance for families in need, $9,800 to the library for Cove Commons furniture, $3,000 for the disc golf course, $3,800 for Seniors Keeping Young, $6,300 to BICS for accessible playground elements, $1,000 to the conservancy for outdoor events, $5,000 for B.I. Food Sovereignty’s future of food program and $5,500 to Bowen Heritage for programs and events.

As of the meeting, James Glave, Amanda Ockeloen and Rob Purdy have replaced Soren Hammerberg, Jennifer Pardee and Eve Leroy on the foundation board.

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A look back to the May(s) of 1974, 1994, 2009 CATHERINE BAYLY

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The following are unedited snippets from past Undercurrents. To read the complete articles or to follow up on information please contact the Bowen Museum & Archives at bihistorians@telus.net or 604.947.2655.

40 years ago - May 1974

To the editor: Without announcing it at all our good friend B. C. Tel, has fixed the Bowen Island service so that now, we must dial all seven numbers in order to make a call.

From the Observations by C. Gull column: The rain is keeping the dust down on the gravel roads, and potholes are easier to spot when they are mini-lakes.

Hope the road crew are prepared to oil, or better yet, black top those dusty roads.

In case anyone is wondering, the Union Steamship sold its fleet of floating equipment in January, 1959. Snug Cove Point, all 17 acres of it, was subdivided in 1962. In 1963, 48 acres of the Deep Bay area was subdivided, complete with blacktop roads, electricity, water and telephone. Stanley James took over the Union Steamships estate in the summer of 1972. And now in 1979????? A park? A subdivision? A ferry parking lot?

In July, 1960, four businessmen commuted to Vancouver daily. The fare on the Bainbridge, was $3.90 return for car and driver.

Three hour waits were the order of the day on Monday.

Despite the fact the beautiful hot weather made waiting in line fiendishly uncomfortable, most people were cheerful and congenial. One unfortunate incident aroused the ire of a few drivers when a car blatantly jumped the line - tempers flared, but cooled as quickly when the RCMP intervened, and sent them back to the ever-growing lineup - play fair.

To the editor: THE SIDEWALK: Yes, we have some sidewalk - at least a hundred feet in front of the biffy down by the ferry slip.

When there is a lineup of cars for the ferry, the cars arriving have a difficult time navigating between the Scylla of the waiting cars and the Charybidis of the meandering would be ferry-foot passengers.

We hope no passenger get squished–but perhaps it’s nature’s way of removing the weak.

Ads: For sale: SNUG COVE VARIETY STORE & HIZ ’N HURZ BEAUTY SALON. Will consider property in trade. (For the archives - Does anyone have a photograph of the Variety Store or beauty salon?)

Cedar and Glass - contemporary 3 bedroom house, 2 fireplaces, choose colour of 3 appliances - brand new $74,900.

Dorman Bay - View is unsurpassed from this one acre with 106’ of waterfront, $47,500.

10 years ago - May 2009

Shaw chooses Bowen Island for leading edge digital conversion Bowen Island residence are to become the most connected digital community in Canada. Today Shaw Communication Inc. announced it had chosen Bowen Island to be the first in Canada to move from analog system to a leading edge 100% digital television system.

Generous donation jumpstarts Knick Knack Nook construction by Diane Marshall Knick Knack Nook, Bowen Island reuse-it stare, has the green light to begin to erect their building. A generous gift from Wolfgang Duntz Will enable us to begin construction much sooner than anticipated. Wolfgang will be donating the expertise of one of his experienced building crews to put up our 24 x 40’ building. This gift demonstrates Wolfgang’s vision for a more BOWEN ISLAND MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES, PHOTO sustainable Bowen. His building supervisor, Darren Jennings, will be coordi- Teenagers pose for the Undercurrent of 1994. nating the project and his intention is to begin within the next few weeks. ology professor at UBC who was growing geraniums hydroponically. The story opens with the line “one need not fear Info Center’s future up in the air by Julie Andres The visitor information Centre in Snug Cove may have to to be called a visionary if he says that plants in the future be closed at the end of this month every shortfall in funding may grow and bear fruit in tanks containing a nutritive solution” that visionary, Dr. G. Howell Harris, was the father is not solved. of our very own Daphne Shaw, an extraordinary volunteer, April weather by Eric Lawson recorded on Jason Road who has lived, and worked, for decades on Bowen with her miller’s landing Maximum temperature 22° Celsius minimum tempera- family.

While the chemical nutrients and the methods of cloning ture 3°C Wind chill-6°C maximum wind gust 23 km/h total plans have surpassed the modest claims of Dr. Harris, the snow 5 cm total rainfall 66.8 mm geranium he was also perfecting has not receive the same Pink geraniums available at this week’s Bookfest by attention. He wanted to develop a healthy geranium that Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association On February 5, 1938, a local newspaper, then called the could bloom all year long, reproduce easily, and provide a Vancouver Daily Province, ran a story about a plant physi- clear, strong colour.

25 years ago - May 1994

Bowen Nature Club Buffalo caught in Snug Cove! Buffalo Sculpin, that is, and it won the “Ugliest Fish” award during the Girl Guides Father-Taught Fishing Derby. This creature was about a foot long and looked like a monstrous tadpole with wings when it was reeled in off the far end of the government wharf by contestants Stephanie Stevens and her dad, Peter.

Nature Flash by Alan Shatwell The recent warm weather has many species that hibernate over winter becoming active again. The appearance of a few early carpenter ants in the living room did cause too much concern to a Bowen resident with an old secluded cabin, but when they were followed by a 25cm long lizard, it wasn’t the only the animals that started to wake up! It was of course a northern alligator lizard that can be recognized by its long and slender body.

Teens pick island clean by Elaine Loree Knack Teen’s litter collection was an opportunity to give back to t the community for everything they have given us.

It all began in the far reaches of Bluewater. In the wee hours of last Saturday morning (any time before 9 a.m. on a Saturday is “wee”), four young Bowen Islanders slipped out of their beds and set out on a mission. Armed with nothing more than black garbage bags, they began their patrol for along the roadside and ditches of Bowen. Their target - the of litter of Bowen. Their names - Bob Schultz, Tammy Schultz, Ashley Watson and Heidi Pelto.

Meanwhile, in Tunstall Bay, three more teen residents Josef Krief, Ruban Fleming - began their garbage collection.

By the time all seven converged at the Tunstall Bay/Bowen Bay crossroads the bags were filling and the first load was ready for transport the dumpster.

Patient of the Week MEET CHEESECAKE Cheesecake wasn’t thinking about the consequences as she ate a raisin cookie but fortunately her owners brought her in immediately. She was given a drug to induce vomiting and up came a raisin! Raisins along with grapes, onions, cannabis, chocolate, ibuprofen and acetometaphine and xylitol which is found in gum and candy, can have serious health problems in dogs. They can cause acute liver and kidney failure, anemia, and death.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY MAY 2

Housing Survey Deadline Help identify housing issues, priorities, and opportunities on Bowen Island. Results will inform BIRCH’s proposed nonprofit rental project on Lot 3 of the Community Lands. www.birchhousing.org/survey How do you access healthcare in your community?

B.I. Community School 5 7 p.m. Vancouver Coastal Health wants to hear about how you access health care in your community. Join the conversation register via email at ce@vch.ca, via phone at 604-714-3779 Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m.

Info call Irene 604-947-2955

FRIDAY MAY 3

Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Doors at 5:30 Dinner at 6:30 Chinese food is on the menu for this week. Members and Guests welcome.

Jazz Night at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7-10 p.m.

Live music, dinner specials, and no cover.

SATURDAY MAY 4

Hazardous Waste & Paint Recycling Drop Off Bowen Building Centre 9 - 3 p.m.

Help Improve Trail Navigation on Mt Gardner Park and meet at the Laura Road Trailhead 10- 1 p.m. Trail blaze with the Bowen Island Trail Society. RSVP to info@ bowenislandtrailsociety.ca B.I. Garden Club Plant Annual Plant Sale BI Community School 11noon Vines, herbs, trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and vegetables.

BI Conservancy: Herons, Hummingbirds, and Hawks of Bowen Island B.I. Community School multipurpose room 1 p.m Find out about Bowen’s special bird life in this talk by Sue Ellen Fast.

Admission by donation Bowen Island Community Choir Spring Concerts Cates Hill Chapel 2:30 p.m and a 7:30 p.m. concert Featuring Bossa Nova, Doo Wop, Kentucky Folk, Samba, Salsa, Folk Ballad, Big Band Swing, Calypso, Pure Country and ..Bohemian Rhapsody!

Plus special guest musicians!

Tickets $20 adult, Seniors

PARADISE IS BACK! PARADISE GRILL’S 23RD YEAR OPENING FRIDAY MAY 3 We’re HIRING 604-908-9112 We are sad to say so long to our lovely Milly, who after 6 years of working with Paradise Grill has moved on and upward to the movie idustry. It’s a natural progression, of course. LOL

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Author Talk: Timothy Taylor Bowen Library 2 p.m. Doors at 1:30 p.m. The author of Stanley Park and awardwinning Canadian novelist, journalist, and UBC Creative Writing professor presents on his newest novel, The Rule of Stephens, and answers your creative-writing questions in this interactive session.

Asa’s Thank You Bash with Ginger 66 Bowen Island Pub 8:00 p.m Asa wants to thank the community of Bowen Island for the love and support given to him during his battle with cancer. Please come out and celebrate with Asa and GINGER 66 as they put on this FREE SHOW!!!

SUNDAY MAY 5

Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. Open to everyone.

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about their on island grade 8 -12 public school program.

For more info please call Al Saugstad at 604-992-2370

This week Catching Stars Gallery Celebrates our Inner Goddess 479 Bowen Trunk Road Each day of this week until Sunday features a different artist starting Monday with Chelsea Mainwaring; Tues.

Marie Neys; Weds. Julianna Zwierciadlowska; Thurs. Lorna Moffat; Fri. Emilie Kaplun; Sat. Malene R Hansen and ending Sunday with Cindy May. catchingstarsgallery.com Fire Smart Workshop Fire Hall #2 7 p.m. Join us for a presentation by wildfire expert Bruce Blackwell, and learn what you can do to make your home and your island more resilient to wildfires. There’s lots of time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

TUESDAY MAY 7

Art Group Gallery at Cove Commons 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Drop in $2 For more nfo call 604-947-9623

MONDAY MAY 6

Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Road Exercise at 9 a.m., coffee at 9:45, Carol McKinnon speaking on Seniors Hub (Snug Cove) at 10 and yoga at 11 a.m. Annual membership is $20, first-time drop in fee is $3 and $2 for members.

Island Discovery Learning Open House at the Fish Hatchery next to Bowen Recyling Depot 7-8:30 p.m Island Discovery invites you to learn more

Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 p.m.

Home Shall Be Here: An Immersive Musical Journey The Well on Bowen -2589 Artisan Lane 7 p.m. Featuring Eily Aurora and Evan Freeman. Delve into meditative soundscapes and rhythms that connect you to the ‘home’ of your body, community and planet. Tickets at EilyAurora. eventbrite.com

WEDNESDAY MAY 8

WorkBC Career Advisor Bowen Library Flex Room WorkBC Career Advisor available for free dropin sessions every 2nd Wednesday of the month, until -Nov 2019. Come by any time from 2pm - 5pm for resume, interview, career etc. help.

The Reluctant Radical film screening Bowen Library Annex 7 - 9 p.m. Follow the story of Ken Ward, Oregon activist and environmentalist. There will be an on-line Q&A with Ken after the screening. A Bowen In Transition program sponsored by the Bowen Island LIbrary.

THURSDAY MAY 9

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m.

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FRIDAY MAY 10

Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Doors at 5:30 Dinner at 6:30 Snug Cove Blues Band Bowen Island Pub 7 - 10 p.m.

Dinner specials. No cover charge.

SATURDAY MAY 11

Walk with your Doc Meet in front of library 10 a.m. Find out more about healthy living strategies as we stroll around the Snug Cove neighbourhood.

Big Annual Clothing Sale Cates Hill Chapel 10 a.m.

- 2 p.m. Don’t miss the shopping event of the year: Men’s, Women’s, and Teens’ clothing and accessories at bargain prices. Admission by

BOSSA NOVA * DOO WOP * KENTUCKY FOLK * SAMBA SALSA * FOLK BALLAD * BIG BAND SWING * CALYPSO

Laura Rd. Trail Marking Event

Help us improve navigation on Mt. Gardner!

When: Saturday May 4th, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Where: Park and meet at the Laura Rd. Trailhead Scope: 8 teams blaze 140 trees with 2”x2” markers Please join us and bring: • Backpack, Pen & Lunch • Hammer & metal extraction tool(s) • Pruners and/or handsaw (optional) • Short step ladder (if you have one) RSVP: info@bowenislandtrailsociety.ca

$20 Adult

$15 Seniors & Students

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CATES PHARMACY OR AT THE DOOR

How to Change the World Movie Night Tunstall Bay Beach Club 1666Tunstall Blvd. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show at 6:30 “ How to Change the World” is a documentary about the formation of the movement to save the whales. Special guest Rod Marining. Tickets are $20 and can be booked by contacting Gary at garyod@ shaw.ca All proceeds to benefit The Sea Shepherd Society.

Marc Atkinson Trio Gypsy Jazz Concert Cove Commons 7:30 p.m Doors open at 7 Marc is one of Canada’s finest Junonominated, Western Canadian award-winning musicians. www.marcatkinson.com Tickets $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Available at the Gallery at Cove Commons or online at thehearth.ca B.I. Gymnastics fundraiser: Ginger Tompkins and the Love Lads Legion 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Fundraiser for the 2019 World Gymnaestrada team.

Fundraiser includes raffles, 50/50, cash bar, a safe ride home. $20/person. 19+ Ticket available at Phoenix, Cates Pharmacy, and the Building Centre.

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Dog, Meet Horse Crippen Park Equestrian Ring 10 a.m.-3 p.m. A special event from bringing dogs and horses together. Limited space for dogs, so sign up early. Minimum $10 donation per dog. To sign up email Katrina at hylyte.of.my. summer@hotmail.com

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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. More info: lisa.shatsky@gmail.com Cindy May: Catching Stars Gallery 479 Bowen Trunk Road 115 p.m Meet photographer Cindy May and discover her Mother’s Day photo sessions.

CORRECTION Oops we’re sorry we made a mistake last week the film screening of “How to Change the World” is Saturday May 11th not May 4th.

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Fittingly Johnny Franklin, last season’s MVP and home run champ (17), hit the first homer of the 2019 season, in doing so knocking in his brother Adam, who had just hit the season’s first triple.

The big outfielder’s blast was followed by another dinger, this one from Ewan McEachern, and, despite the efforts of pitcher Dan Moats, the Twins couldn’t recover.

While the Fireman have a lineup that is much like the one they fielded last season, the Twins are on a bit of a youth movement, adding, among others, the hulking Blomberg brothers, Jonas, Niko and Mattias. Their father, Eric, now retired, was a stand-out right-fielder for the Fireman in years past.

In the day’s final game the Brewers hammered the Shakers, 12-2. The match-up had extra intrigue as Brewer pitcher Steve ‘the Mound of’ Baskerville was signed in the off-season after playing the last nine years on the Shakers.

The veteran kept his former teammates off-balance with a mix of fastballs and junk and got the win for his new club.

Other ‘firsts’ this year include the first pitch; it was a foul ball strike thrown by the Digger Dan Guillon to Cruiser Jack DeSante. DeSante then swung and missed a wicked change-up before lacing a one hopper past Digger third-baseman Ross McCorquodale for the season’s first hit.

He came around to score the season’s first run.

The first double of the year was either from Digger Ethan McCorquodale…or Cruiser Erik Hunter-James. In any case, they both doubled early in the game.

On the dubious distinction side, the first strikeout victim of 2019 was Cruiser Peter Blomberg (cousin of the hulking Blomberg boys on the Twins); Blomberg made up for it with some slick fielding plays at third base.

Michael Dawson of the Diggers was the first player to make an error, turning a routine ground-ball into a bit of an adventure. However, the normally sure-handed Dawson atoned for his gaffe with quality hitting throughout the game, including a double that gave his team an early lead.

Veteran Eddie Weismiller, somewhere north of 70, started the game for the Cruisers and pitched one inning; in doing so, he became the first pitcher of 2019 to get three up and three down. Weismiller, who has pitched in every opening

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Connor McLeod waits with outstretched mitt at third for a throw that came too late to get Shaker runner Mike Vertlieb. McLeod’s team, the Brewers, beat the Shakers, 12-2 on opening day of the Bowen Island Men’s Fastpitch League 2019 season. day in league history, came out of the game with a 3-0 lead.

The first first-base coach of the season was Greg Bosworth.

Some of many fans on the day included Livea and Lochlan Stevenson, George and Sheila Hunter, Alexis and Samantha ‘Sam’ Stevenson and Edmund Cowper, who brought along his mother, Emily; the two-week-old Edmund was attending his first baseball game ever, there to watch his dad play.

He was the season’s first fan to fall asleep during a game.

League games now switch to evenings, starting at 6:30 p.m., until the season-ending weekend tournament in early

August.

Upcoming games include the Diggers and the Fireman on Thursday, May 2 and the Diggers and Shakers on Friday, May 3.

In other league news, at the recent AGM the league voted to raise the minimum number of games played to be eligible for the tournament from five to seven. In what can only be qualified as happy news, they also announced that the Bowen Pub is sponsoring the league.

Adam Woodward is the new league VP to work alongside ‘El Presidente’ Spencer Grundy.

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