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PULLING FOR CANADA: Crippen Park was alight Monday afternoon as islanders crowded onto Bowfest field

for music, games and birthday cake. Bowen Island Community Recreation organizes the annual celebration and employees set up various competitions in the centre of the field. A perennial favourite game is tug-of-war (especially when it’s kids vs. adults).

Potato sack races, croquet, face painting, mural painting and community centre information dissemination were other activities.

For more Canada Day photos see Bowen Beat on page 7.

Editor’s note: as Bowen’s soccer league is called Bowen Island Football Club, it behooves us to clarify that in this story we’re talking about Canadian football, played with the proverbial pigskin.

When Jim Mullin was a boy, the local football program didn’t have space for equipment, so they kept it in Mullin’s family’s White Rock car port.

“When you’re 12, 13, 14 years old, it’s the greatest thing in the world, [to] have all this football equipment in your car port” said Mullin. “Our family really came together around those Saturdays and Sundays where we had football.

“That’s one of the reasons why it was so special to me.”

Decades later, a couple of weeks ago to be more specific, the sports journalist, media personality, events manager and islander of nearly three years would be elected president of the governing body for Canadian amateur football: Football Canada.

Mullin has been around high-level sports for much of his adult life. He’s been a newspaper journalist, a play-by-play announcer, a radio sports director, coordinator of Olympic media coverage, and for the past nine years, the producer, writer and host of Canada’s only amateur football TV show (formerly known as Krown Countdown U but recently renamed Krown Gridiron Nation upon a move to TSN).

Taking on his new Football Canada role, Mullin says that his mandate is to reach out to everyone involved in football in Canada, from the schools to the elite teams. He acknowledges the more controversial aspects of the game, notably repeated head trauma, but says that the organization is working to address this with safety initiatives and promotion of flag football among younger players.

Mullin says he sees the good in football.

“I think there are benefits right across the board for a game like football, that accommodates every different type of personality and every body type,” he said. “In the age that we’re in right now, where we’re splintered and isolated by technology, the ability to connect with somebody beside you and connect with that teamwork, it is something that I think is important, not just for the individual, but all of society.”

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Event Calendar July 5, 2019 9:30 am Housing Advisory Committee

July 8, 2019 6:15 pm Regular Council meeting

July 11, 2019 6:30 pm Mayor’s Standing Committee on Community Lands

July 12, 2019 9:30 am

Water System Local Advisory Committees provide recommendations to Council and staff regarding the operation and maintenance of each district’s water supply and distribution system, along with operating and capital budgets for the utility.

A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 1281 Oceanview Road (shown on map) to reduce the required side yard setback from 3.0 metres to 1.5 to add a second story on an existing garage to build a detached secondary suite.

Council is seeking volunteer members for the following committees: • • •

Questions? Please contact Daniel Martin at 604-947-4255 or dmartin@bimbc.ca.

TUP-01-2019 (1441 Adams Road)

Development Committee

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

Water System Local Advisory Committees

DVP-04-2019 (1281 Oceanview Road)

Community Economic

All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

Seeking volunteers for

Public Notice

A Temporary Use Permit application has been submitted for 1441 Adams Rd (shown on map) to permit assembly use.

The length of this permit is three years to allow for one single-day event on a rural residential property.

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Volunteer commitment comprises one or two meetings a year, preparation for which may include reading engineering and financial reports.

If you are interested in joining a committee, please apply by 4:00 pm on Monday, July 22 to Stef Shortt, Committee Clerk at sshortt@bimbc.ca. You can download an application form from our website, or get a paper copy from Municipal Hall.

Questions? Please call Stef Shortt at 604-947-4255.

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Dogs on beaches in the summer

The proposed event is a motor show with an estimated 25 display cars, music and art.

Questions? Please contact Emma Chow at 604-947-4255 or echow@bimbc.ca.

The applications may be viewed at Municipal Hall between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays) or on the municipal website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning.

Written submissions may be delivered to Municipal Hall (contact information below): In person By mail By fax By email to bim@bimbc.ca

6: 15 PM on Monday, July 8, 2019 in Council Chambers, Municipal Hall To ensure a fair process, written submissions cannot be accepted after the meeting has begun.

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While welcome on all other beaches, please ensure that everyone can enjoy the beach. Keep your dog under control and within 3 metres of you at all times. Do your doo diligence and clean up after your dog.

Water Conservation Guidelines Bowen Island water comes from rainfall collected in the aquifers and water sheds. We do not have a unlimited amount of water.

Please read about water conservation methods for all Municipal Water Systems and well users on our website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/water-conservation By helping to conserve water, we can all minimize the impact on our environment and make our water systems more sustainable.

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The indefatigable Mrs. Mac’s Endswell legacy NICOLETTE MCINTOSH OF ENDSWELL FARM DIED LAST MONTH AT 89

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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As a pre-teen Nicolette Cross surveyed the war-stricken English countryside for fallen aircraft. As a young woman she became the youngest member of the U.K.’s United Society of Artists. In her 20’s the farm-raised Englishwoman left everything she knew for a new country and a new love.

And in her 30’s, Nicolette and husband George Buchan (Buck) McIntosh took on a piece of Bowen history that would mould their family and the rest of their lives. And that was just the beginning.

Nicolette Cross was born in 1930 and grew up on a large farm near Oxford, England. As a girl during the Second World War she was a pony messenger, riding out to any downed planes or fallen bombs in the vicinity and reporting back what she saw. When Nicolette got older, she was a steeplechase jockey, guiding horses over fences at high speeds.

As she grew into adulthood, Nicolette studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art for five years. She exhibited her work from her early student days and became the youngest member of the U.K.’s United Society of Artists. She had hoped to continue studying art in London, but while on a trip to Italy, a serendipitous invite to an acquaintance of her parents’ Florentine home saw Nicolette’s life change course. “[They] just happened to be invited to tea at that house on that day, and that’s where they met,” explained Nicolette and Buck McIntosh’s daughter Fiona.

It was 1954, Buck was on sabbatical from his law firm in Vancouver and Nicolette was travelling. The two saw one another seven times before Buck departed for Canada.

“When he returned to Vancouver, he then called and proposed,” said the couple’s younger daughter, Georgia. “And she said that for some reason she accepted.”

The two were married in 1955 in England and settled in Vancouver.

Nearly a decade later UBC called up Buck. As a young man, Buck had spent a lot of time on Bowen at the Galbraith Bay-bordering property that would later become Endswell Farm. Its owners, Wallace Wilson, a UBC professor, and his wife Ethel, a well-known writer, gave the property to the university in the 1950s to be used as a retreat.

But the Wilsons set up the gift so that should the university ever want to sell or significantly modify the property, Buck would get first right of refusal to buy the land. Buck got the call in 1964. UBC wanted to log the land but needed Buck’s permission. So Buck and Nicolette had a decision to make: let the logging go ahead or buy the land.

“As somebody pointed out, they said, ‘If you don’t get it now, you’re never going to see it again,’” said the couple’s son, Cameron. “That was pretty sage advice.”

Today, Patrick Buchanan, who was caretaker at Endswell for 35 years, describes the farm as a little Garden of Eden.

Eden it was not, however, in the ’60s.

“At that point, the farm wasn’t really much of what looks like today,” said Cameron.

“The cottage was dilapidated,” recalled Fiona. “And basically the mice let us come up for the weekend.”

The family still lived in town, Buck kept up his job as a corporate lawyer and Nicolette looked after the three children, but the weekends belonged to Bowen.

“For basically, as long as any of us have been alive, we went up there every weekend, all summers,” said Cameron.

“And it just, it became us, and we became it.” “[Our dad] always wanted to be a farmer,” said Fiona.

“But after the war, he needed to needed to have a career and he went to law school. “[Nicolette and Buck] were a good fit in that way, because she brought that intuitive knowledge of animals and farming. And together, they made that farm.”

Endswell (named for the Shakespeare play) took decades of work. There was the field that “was and still wants to be a swamp” as Georgia described it that took cutting, blasting, drainage building, and getting equipment unstuck from the muck. There was the grassy field for sheep that each of the McIntoshes spent hours ridding of rocks. There were the buildings that needed repairing. There was the hay field built on a slope.

And then there were the animals.

“Mrs. Mac and I had a love for farming,” said Patrick, who joined the farm in the ’70s. “And we would we’d get all sorts of weird animals without telling [Buck]. Like bantams, 10 different kinds, and we had peacocks and we raised pheasants one year, she thought it’d be good idea, and then we let them all go…they didn’t survive after about three or four

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Buck and Nicolette McIntosh were married in 1955 and bought Endswell in 1964. years.

“She was always into doing stuff like that.”

“There was also attempts at cattle, which was a disaster,” said Cameron. “And we had pigs, which was exciting, but probably not the best.”

The farm was best known for its eggs. For 35 years Endswell had hundreds of chickens laying fresh brown eggs.

Eggs that would need to be sorted by Douglas.

“Douglas was a candling and grading machine that was probably state of the art, once. But that was a long time ago,” said Fiona.

Douglas was named for a 1970s Ministry of Agriculture poultry specialist, (who called himself the “[Fraser] Valley Chicken Man”) Doug Hamilton. While the human Doug was famous among Lower Mainland chicken farmers, Douglas the egg sorting machine was a hit with the Bowen youngsters who would take tours of Endswell in later years.

“Douglas has gone to the Egg Marketing Board Museum, he’s not with us any longer,” said Georgia. “But he was with us for a very long time.”

Beyond the farming, the McIntoshes also enjoyed the sea, taking out their Flying Dutchman Jr. sailing dinghy only when winds were strong enough to warrant a small craft warning.

“A nice gentle breeze was no good. It had to be a very stiff wind,” recalled Fiona.

“They were a lot of fun,” said Patrick.

Nicolette and Buck moved to Bowen full time in the late 1980s, when Buck retired and the last of their children left for university. They kept up the farm along with Patrick until Buck died in 2000. Then it was Nicolette, or Mrs. Mac as much of Bowen knew her, and Patrick on Endswell.

“She was sort of a second Mom to me,” said Patrick. “We both became best friends. She really spoiled me. I was the bad son, the adopted one. But she spoiled me.”

He recalls Mrs. Mac, into her ’70s, taking her turn with the lambing in the cool January and February nights. “She was always hands-on with our animals.”

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Nicolette was a lifelong painter. She trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London, England.

At 75 Mrs. Mac went on a two-week horse riding tour in Botswana for her birthday and she stayed an equestrian into her eighties.

“She was tough as nails,” said Georgia. “She was not one to mince her words. If she liked you, that was high praise.

And she didn’t like you, it was pretty clear.”

Mrs. Mac also held more than one fundraising art auction out at Endswell, selling some of her landscapes and still lifes.

About a decade ago, Patrick and his wife moved from Endswell to their own property and the farming side of Nicolette’s life lessened. A couple of years later, another Bowen family started up Home Farm Gardens on Endswell.

While farming continued on other parts of the property, Mrs. Mac kept up the renovated cabin (the original structure built in 1889) she and Buck moved to in the late 1980s.

“She was very determined, and she never liked to be idle,” said Patrick. He’d still visit Mrs. Mac every Saturday and help with the odd job.

“She still went to the gym for two or three times a week, exercised and painted,” he said. “She was pretty good on a computer, she was way better than me.

“She was 89, always on her computer in the morning looking at the news. She liked to read. She just lived life to the fullest.”

“There was nowhere that she wanted to be more than at Bowen and she loved it so much,” said Georgia.

After a short illness, Nicolette McIntosh died on June 3.

A service will be held on July 19 at 2 p.m. at St. Francis In The Wood, West Vancouver.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Nicolette’s memory can be made to Bowen Island Arts Council or BC SPCA.

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VIEWPOINT Dad’s bowls MARY LETSON

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Every day I wash Dad’s wooden salad bowl and I remember him. Sometimes I have a little chat and tell him about the wonderful things that are happening and ache that he is not here to experience it: how proud he would be of his grandson, my joy of singing in the choir, our flourishing businesses and happy homes. When there is bad news, I quietly wash the wood, grateful that he is not here to experience the grief. For although Dad was all fun-loving and bluster on the outside, anyone close to him knew that he was all soft on the inside and would cry at the drop of a hat, a sing of a song, a mention of anything truly close to him. He felt everything deeply and was not necessarily good at expressing himself – unless of course it was through his creations.

From my earliest memory, Dad was always crafting, building, creating something. As a child I remember him spending countless hours in his basement workshop making remote-control model airplanes (that he would crash and then have to re-build). After that it was, among other things, backgammon boards using light and dark wood painstakingly cut and glued together to create pattern. The workshop was directly below the kitchen, and I remember Mom stomping three times to let him know when dinner was ready. He would holler back an “OK!” and would surface invariably covered in dust with a partly smoked cigarette dangling out of his mouth.

Once retired, Mom and Dad moved fulltime to King Edward Bay and his creative streak ramped up to prolific. He went back to art school and learned how to sculpt marble, he turned wooden bowls on his lathe, and dove passionately into metal works, casting and hammering everything from door handles, door knockers, to bells, bowls, jewellery, and beautiful copper kettles with ornate leaves and flowers applied like embroidery.

He was un-stoppable. Soon after he reached out to Granville Island and quickly became a fixture at their craft market hawking his wares with his signature flourish, story and love of the dramatic that was as unique and show stopping as his wares.

Dad is gone but his creations continue to tell his story. Used every day, they are beautifully functional, wonderfully memorable, and perfect legacy to everything that dear “Pops” was to me. Of all his work, his wooden salad bowls remain as my soft spot. A quintessential conversation piece I continue to have with him long after he’s gone.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

5G lecturer coming to Bowen

DEAR EDITOR: There is a looming health crisis that may be affecting our island, and probably already is, according to Martin Pall, professor emeritus at Washington State University. In fact medical professionals in Ontario have recently held a “Medical Symposium on Wireless Radiation Illnesses” on May 30, to address the coming issue. A growing group of concerned B.C. communities have invited Professor Pall, to educate citizens and policy makers of the possibly imminent health problems caused by the rollout to of high-intensity wireless radiation.

Professor Pall will be on Bowen Island for a community potluck and presentation, July 5. He was interviewed in last week’s Undercurrent.

We have purchased a Cornet “Electrosmog” meter and have found extremely high readings on Bowen. The three highest so far are located at 1) The ferry lineup by the soccer field, 2) Dorman road and all of the houses across from the Village Baker and 3) the BICS playground and bus stop.

Also, in the last few months, readings on the main roads across Bowen have gone up between four and 20 times from “ambient “ levels recorded since March. Please make it a priority to come and talk to an expert in the field ––we are extremely fortunate to have him come to Bowen Island during his busy tour. Please feel free to contact me with any questions (info@hempcrete.ca) and thanks for your time!

Jayeson Hendyrsan

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DEAR EDITOR: Is it real? Is it true?

Bowen Island Council have voted to spend $650,000 on 1.2 kilometres of bike trail?

Surely not real or true when we all could benefit more for those monies being spent on our yet to be built health centre.

Wonder if this were put to an all island vote where Bowen Islanders would prefer the funds to be spent?

Jeanie Seward-Magee

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A look back: July CICELY ASHLEY

Bowen Island Museum and Archives

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: July 1979

Bowen Island Park & Store Use Society The drive to save and refurbish the old General Store continues. The Provincial Heritage Advisory Board has deemed the building worthy of a heritage designation. The provincial Heritage Trust, a group responsible for allocating government funds for heritage projects, has pledged $15,000 towards restoration of the building’s exterior. The store itself is owned by Crippen Engineering of North Vancouver and we wish to thank them for generously allowing us use of the building while negotiations concerning the land surrounding the store continue.

Ferry sailing cancelled because worker overslept A late-sleeping ferry worker forced the cancellation of a [ferry] sailing last week.

The 5:45 a.m. Thursday trip from Bowen did not sail when a crew member failed to show up for work on time.

Bowen transportation committee member Pat McGuire said a missing crew member should not have disrupted service.

“Everyone has the right to sleep in, once in a while,” McGuire said. “But I’m amazed that there’s no backup so the ship could sail.

Horseshoe Bay terminal manager Dave Elliott said the Capilano, which leaves Horseshoe Bay at 5:15 each morning en route to its first official sailing, cannot sail without a full complement of qualified staff.

Coast Guard regulations require a minimum number of trained crew.

Just in case a crew member doesn’t arrive on time for work, terminal staff are certified to operate Capilano’s emergency escape, but they are not always available to replace a missing worker, Elliott said.

25 years ago: July 1994

Baby arrives on local dock At 2 a.m. this past Tuesday morning, Brian Biddlecombe of Cormorant Marine received a call from the local Ambulance Service, asking him to be at the dock in two minutes to transport a local resident in labour.

Brian hurried off and arrived at the dock (two minutes later) to discover that a new island resident had just been born.

Garth and Midge Meeres are the proud parents of a new baby boy, delivered by two members of the Bowen Ambulance Service.

It has been approximately eight years since a baby was born on the water taxi. This birth was close enough – on the dock – and so will be awarded a lifetime water taxi pass from Cormorant Marine.

10 years ago: July 2009

Slow down for deer crossing by Susanna Braund I’d like to remind everyone that this is the time of year the mother deer are out with their new fawns who haven’t yet learned about cars and roads.

Baby deer at the side of the road can easily panic and run into the road instead of into the bush, as I unfortunately found out last Friday night while driving by the Mitts’ place mid-island.

A wise saying I have heard is that where there is one deer, there are likely to be several. The young does typically have one baby but the more mature ones have twins – so if you see one fawn, there could easily be a sibling nearby as well as the mother.

Innovative infill to be used for new turf field by Marcus Hondro At Monday’s council meeting it was revealed that the infill material to be used in the artificial turf at BICS will be made of an organic, recyclable material, not the crumb rubber and silica many Islanders have opposed.

Community services manager Christine Walker says they worked to find a safe material for the field and this material can be used for kids to play on beyond soccer.

“It will actually be the first installation of this organic material in Canada,” Walker said, noting that when the life of the field is done, the infill can be used for other purposes such as mulch.

Walker said the president of Geo Safe Play plans to fly out from New York next month to speak to council about Geo Turf. Members of the public may be invited along to listen.

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THURSDAY July JULY4,42019 2019 •• 5 5 Thursday, “Our son Georg Waschke, a preschooler at Bowen Children’s Center, reached the summit of Mount Gardner on June 29, 2019, aged three years and 345 days, totally unassisted by his mother or father.

We had tried already in 2018 on Father’s Day where he made it about 80 per cent of the way before we had to carry him the final 20 per cent, but this year he made it all the way to the top by himself.

Perhaps it’s the start of a BCC mountaineering club?”

Eric and Alisa Waschke

With profound feelings of sadness, we announce that our beloved mother

Angela Clair McCulloch (nee Hartridge) died peacefully on June 17th 2019 at the age of 83.

Born in 1936 in England, Angie though small in stature was larger than life and quickly outgrew that island and settled in Montreal where Christopher, Jennifer and Jessica were born. Angie and her family moved to West Vancouver where her fourth child Julia was born. Later, her family moved to England then Greece and finally returned to Canada in 1975 where she settled at Rosebank Cottage on Bowen Island. Her grandchildren Luke, Leah, Isabella, Cameron, Raphael and her two great grandchildren TJ and Leo enjoyed her lush overgrown garden and fun-filled home. Mum’s irreplaceable ability to create beauty and warmth in her home will be indelibly imprinted on our hearts forever.

Angie will be remembered for her quick wit, charming smile, and her ability to love and spiritually connect with everyone around her. Her greatest gift was her ability to make others feel loved and be loved in return. She enjoyed painting, knitting, cordon bleu cooking (while listening to CBC), reading (voraciously), playing scrabble (two-word wizard!), watching Coronation Street, and more recently Facebooking. In addition to her enduring commitments to family and friends, she also found time to volunteer.

Angie was a pillar of the community with her involvement mostly recently in Knick Knack Nook where she greeted customers with a beaming smile, a clever one-liner and a heck of discount! She was known to delegate, rally, encourage and contribute her passion and energy to many community groups, some of which included: choir member at the Little Red Church - hitting notes while her ever faithful Pekinese Tricky-Woo snoozed under her chair; former top dog at Caws (the island furry friend society), cast member of many Theatre-on-the-Isle productions, co-founder of the food bank on Bowen Island, grand-friend at the elementary school and library volunteer where late fees went waived on her watch. Her contributions to the community were recognized with the Bowen Island Citizen of the Year award as well as acknowledgement from the Canadian government for her outstanding community service. Angie, as mother and friend, will be dearly missed, living forever in our hearts and inspiring us to contribute to our community wherever and whenever we can. A celebration of Angie’s life will be held at the United Church on Bowen Island on July 12th from 2:00-5:00pm We would love to hear how Angie touched your life and/or inspired you.

The family would like to compile your stories into a little memoir.

You can email your stories to us at myfondestmemoryofangie@hotmail.com Please in lieu of cards or flowers a contribution in Angie’s honour to CAWS, the SPCA or a charity of your choice would be lovely.

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Learning to love our carbon-holding soil MERIBETH DEEN

Bowen Island Food Sovereignty

Every week, Bowen Islanders ship our green waste off-island in big trucks. Every spring we pay to haul it back in big trucks and dump it on our gardens or future lawns. While many of us seem to love the organics program, others have worked hard on finding a better way by researching what a local green waste facility could look like. While Bowen Food Sovereignty would support this kind of action, we’d also like to see our friends and neighbours get as nerdy about soil as we are.

Did you know soils are some of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet? In a healthy spoonful, you’re likely to find more than a billion different microbes. These microbes, which include bacteria and fungi and their microscopic predators, interact in all kinds of crazy ways. They release hormones and chemical signals to communicate with one another and with the plants they support. They can protect those plants from drought, and help them fight off harmful diseases.

They work with nematodes (tiny worm-like things) and protozoa ( “micro-predators”) to process organic nutrients through the “soil food web” and consequently, to us.

Phil Gregory is the Bowen Food Sovereignty member with the most extensive scientific training. He is a retired UBC professor of physics and astronomy and until five years ago was focused on the discovery of exoplanets.

Then, he turned his attention to life here on Earth, in Earth, actually.

“Plants and the other life forms in soil have developed a complex bartering system over 450 million years,” says Phil. “Plants give up to 40 per cent of the sugars they make to the soil microbes. In return, the microbes give the plants all the other elements they require. Most plant biologists believe that plants require 42 different elements. Conventional farming not only destroys this bartering system but it also largely relies on just three elements (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) to fulfill a plant’s nutritional requirements.”

If you happen to find yourself in conversation with Phil, he just might go on to tell you about the dire impacts eating these nutritionally deficient plants. The good news is that it is possible to grow food in a way that

respects and even enhances the microbial life in soils.

This is what regenerative agriculture is all about.

It’s a term you’re going to be hearing more in coming years because soil regeneration is a critical tool for fighting runaway global climate change. Soil holds more carbon than the earth’s atmosphere and all the organisms that live on this planet combined, but that tool for carbon sequestration is being lost to ploughs, chemicals, bulldozers and desertification.

Project Drawdown (an organization made up of researchers, scientists and policy makers whose mission it is to explain climate solutions in a way that “bridges the divide between urgency and agency”) acknowledges the importance of soil in its list of seventeen food and agriculture-related solutions. The French government looked to soil as a solution when they realized the talks international climate talks in 2015 were not going to deliver the required emissions cut. They launched an initiative known as 4 pour 1000, which invites stakeholders around the world “to transition towards a productive, highly resilient agriculture, based on the appropriate management of lands and soils, creating jobs and incomes, hence ensuring sustainable development.”

The goal is to increase the amount of carbon stored in soils around the world by 0.4 per cent annually––and in doing so, significantly reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere related to human activities.

You might not know what to do with this information, because you live on an island covered in trees and you’re not a soil scientist or a farmer and that’s ok. We believe that simply understanding the impact of growing our food with care, attention and an ever-expanding love for the world beneath our feet can inspire truly positive action. How does our behaviour change when we understand our potential to be a help, instead of just a hindrance on this planet? Let’s repeat: we can actually help restore the balance of this out of control atmosphere we live in. Maybe we can restore balance in our own bodies while we’re at it.

Bowen Island Food Sovereignty is working on projects to move this restoration, or regeneration if you prefer, forward in our community. We’re starting small, and moving forward step by step. We don’t know where this is going, exactly, but we know we want you to join us.

Bowen police statistics for June CPL. PAULO ARREAGA

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Bowen Island responded to 89 calls for service in the month of June. These are some files interest.

• 3 impaired investigations • 1 fraud investigation • 8 road blocks • 5 suspicious persons / occurrences • 3 assault investigations • 1 uttering threats • 1 cause disturbance • 1 criminal harassment June traffic stats not yet available.

Bowen Island RCMP would like everyone to enjoy their summer responsibly. Alcohol over consumption is behind most of our more serious calls for service. We ask that if you choose to drink or smoke, that you have a plan in place where a sober friend or family member can keep you safe and get you home safely.

Now that summer months are upon us, The Bowen Island RCMP are reminding drivers that the playground zone at the Bowen Island Community School is in effect from dawn till dusk 365 days per year. The charge for speeding in a playground zone is $196 to $253 and three demerit points on the drivers licence.

Threatening notes left at local shop BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Bowen Island RCMP say they’re looking for two young people who left two threatening notes at a local shop. The notes were left May 20 at around 2:30 a.m. and June 28 at around the same time.

RCMP say the youth are likely female and between 12 and 15 years of age. They say the youth may have left a sleepover to leave the notes as school was not in session on either day.

“Police are hoping to speak with the youth in order to prevent any damage to the store and to avoid any criminal investigation,” said Cpl. Paulo Arreaga in an email.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Bowen Island RCMP at 604-947-0516.

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Rebecca Smith (in the black the Opus t-shirt) organizes a community painting every July 1. This is Bowen’s sixth such painting. It features a floral mandala theme. (Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto) people re same and to ent land Lawrence Phillips captured this moment during the Canada Day finale where the Bowen Fire Department sprayed the kids (and kids at heart) with water from the fire truck.

Cst. Greg Copeland (in the uniform) took a moment with his young one to pose for the camera. (Photo: Sheana Stevenson)

Long-time Bowen Islanders, Lloyd Harding and Jim Dorman showed their community spirit at Canada Day. (Photo: Sheana Stevenson)

A Bowen Moment: BICS Alumni, Maesy Hartwick and Amelia Sorrentino, volunteered their time to help out with face painting on Canada Day. (Photo: Sheana Stevenson)

The Cormiers and the Bowen Island Pub generously donated the cake(s) for Canada Day. (Photo: Sheana Stevenson)

Bowen Island visitor Lisa Carlson (foreground) captured a unique angle at Cape Roger Curtis Lighthouse just before sunset on Sunday evening (June 30), with her mom, Paula Carlson, seemingly poised on her fingertips while walking on the rocks below. The mother-daugher pair were day-tripping on the island from Vancouver. (Photo: Lisa Carlson)

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Meditation and activism: Lisa Shatzky Don’t let reading skills slip on running her first ultra-trail run KATIE WELSH

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Local poet and runner Lisa Shatzky is doing the ultramarathon Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run June 13. She is dedicating the run to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. She was kind enough to answer some questions for the Undercurrent.

How long have you been running?

I have been running since I was 16 years old, and my first marathon (42 kms) was at 18 in Montreal. Since then I have run 28 marathons in Canada, the U.S. and a few in Europe. I run six days out of seven, usually first thing in the morning, an hour a day. Running has become a moving meditation for me, a way of entering a space of prayer, of gratitude, and a way of connecting with something greater. In some way it is a celebration of life for me. I believe the poems I write are first born when I am running. These last few years I only run in the forests and trails.

What is the Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run? It is a 50 km ultramarathon trail run that takes place in B.C., on the second Saturday of July each year. This year it is happening on July 13. The route comprises of about 8000 ft of vertical climb and descent, and generally follows the Baden Powell trail through the North Shore Mountains, starting in Horseshoe Bay and ending in Deep Cove.

What makes this run different from any run you’ve done before?

It is entirely in the forest and very steep. Only a small part of the Knee Knacker course is flat. It’s nearly constant ups and downs, with jutting roots, rocks, and boulders. It can become a bit treacherous in the damp of the forest, especially as one gets tired. Less than 1.5 miles of this race is on tarmac, with the vast majority technical singletrack. I learned recently that Running Wild Magazine has recognized this race as one of the 25 toughest races in North America. Needless to say, I do feel a bit nervous about the day. I absolutely love forest and mountain running but this will be my first time doing an ultramarathon completely in this setting. I

hope to go easy and slow and keep the energy of meditation and gratitude throughout the run. It’s all about having a little fun and the privilege of running in beautiful British Columbia.

Why are you dedicating the run to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society?

Every marathon I have run becomes a dedication to an environmental or social cause that is important to me.

This year’s ultramarathon is being dedicated spiritually and financially to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Like so many people everywhere, I am deeply concerned about our oceans and marine wildlife and in this time of climate change. Now more than ever we need to do everything we can to care for our oceans. Bowen Island is blessed to have whales returning to our waters and we all get so excited when we see them from our shores! But we must not become complacent. There is so much work to be done to keep Howe Sound healthy. Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit marine wildlife conservation organization. Their mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. They have offices all around the world as well as in Vancouver and are very active and involved in the marine health of our region.

How can Bowen Islanders support you?

Please consider a donation to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society though my fundraising page on Facebook. Just go to my page and click on the donation button or follow the link. Even a small donation like 10 or 20 dollars makes all the difference. Plus, you will be supporting my 50 km run on July 13. I will be using the run as a long meditation and prayer for our oceans and our planet. How lovely it will be to know that I have your support and can bring you with me on this run. If you are not on Facebook, please feel free to contact me (lisa. shatzky@gmail.com) if you wish to make a donation and we will figure out another way. For the oceans! Join me.

Summer is an opportunity to escape some of the monotonous schedules of winter; a chance to enjoy the liberty of warm weather and long days. In these moments, the last thing on our minds is working to sustain the skills we’ve gained through the working months. This is especially true of youth on holiday.

During the summer months it can be difficult to sustain the motivation to engage in academically-rigorous activities such as reading, and youth can easily slip into what is called “the summer slide.” Studies show that students who do not read over the summer can lose about three months of reading progression made in the previous academic year. This may come as no surprise, as the same can be seen with other skills; people who continue to practice a musical instrument throughout the summer will be better players than those who do not touch their instrument at all for two months. So how can we fix it?

Making reading fun is key for children’s engagement. This is often easier said than done as frustration with reading can occur during early learning stages. As with anything, reading takes practice, but the better children become at it, the easier it is and the more enjoyment they derive from the activity, which leads into a positive upward spiral. Choice and reading at an appropriate level is crucial for fun reading. This is where public libraries are wonderful resources as the options are many, and there are people who can help children find literature of interest to them.

And this is just the start of how public libraries can help.

Bowen Library, along with most public libraries across the province, is presenting a summer reading club. A primary element of this program is the 50 Day Reading Challenge, which challenges kids to track their reading and earn a medal for 50 days of reading. This motivation might just be the catalyst for a reluctant reader’s journey toward a love of reading. To complement this challenge, Bowen Library also offers free programs for children over the summer. Through games, read alouds, crafts, and more, children in these programs will explore facets of literacy and hopefully build positive associations with reading.

Summer Reading Club’s 50 Day Reading Challenge is open to anyone under 18. Weekly programs for youth between the ages of five and nine and workshops for youth over 10 are offered beginning July 9 and running until August 22. For more information head to www.bowenlibrary.ca.

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A summer’s evening treat for the ears: young pianists delight friends, family BAIBA THOMSON

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On a balmy Bowen evening, island friends, neighbours and children gather, eager and poised for the night ahead.

We are at the beautiful home of Elaine Taylor for one of Bowen’s annual treasures: the end of year recital by Elaine’s piano students. From little ones as young as five clutching music for their first recital, to the confident and flourishing princes of the piano with virtuosic deliveries, all the students have prepared their favourite pieces and have stepped up to offer their best. This is all part of the training ground for the arts and culture that we value so highly on Bowen. Elaine has been contributing to that since 1997,

when she opened her piano studio in our community.

Elaine Taylor is a gold medal-delivering ARCT piano instructor. She consistently sets high standards for her students whilst carefully nurturing them to achievement. That achievement translates as first-class honours for those who sit the Royal Conservatory of Music exams. For those who take a different path, this musical training with a much loved teacher sets a foundation of confidence and committed work ethic that yields not only professional benefits, but also a lifetime of musical knowledge and pleasure.

In Elaine’s conservatory, gold stars sprinkled across a deep, dark blue ceiling, and walls featuring art by favourite local painters, we listen as each student settles at the grand piano and delivers his or her best. I was moved by

the students’ rendering of impressionistic pieces, noting their careful attention to timing and sound modulation.

Whether these were scenes of Arctic wonders, the prancing of clowns, or Mozart’s jaunty Rondo alla Turca, students’ nimble fingers evoked pictures of sound. This is how art is born. Sometimes the small hands are guided by Elaine to get beyond a falter; other times, she sits in duet with her young charges, easing their growing confidence with her participation. Certainly, her older students have claimed a confident musical world they are proud to inhabit, having worked with commitment and diligence to hone their performance skills. This is what comes of years of training.

Those little ones with their tiny feet swinging in the air as they wend their way through a basic tune will get there too.

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Moulding her own journey: Jeanne Sarich NICOLE BARRATT

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On arrival to Jeanne Sarich’s ceramics studio, she appears lugging bags of clay, dust settling on her hands and forearms. Paints, brushes, glazes and sponges line the shelves behind her. There are days working with clay requires some heavy lifting, Jeanne explains. The reward is hours spent moulding, shaping and imprinting the earth. “I’m an experimenter, I couldn’t make the same thing over and over. My favourite thing is coming in here and just playing, that’s when the magic happens.”

Sounds of a piano and harp drift into Jeanne’s Cloudflower Clayworks at Artisan Square.

“There’s a music teacher upstairs and it’s the soundtrack to my work day. She plays so beautifully I never really listen to my own music.”

Raised in British Columbia’s Surrey, Jeanne recalls building dams out of clay in a river with her brother. “I liked the feeling of clay and the musty smell, and that you could pretty much do anything you wanted with it. If you wanted to make a dog or a cat or something to drink out of, you could.”

Jeanne creates today with the functionality of her pieces in mind. Teapots, bowls, plates, and handleless cups inspired by the Japanese yunomi in a variety of her colourful handmade glazes feature in her studio.

It was a number of years before Jeanne settled on Bowen and established her ceramics base.

Studying towards an arts degree in her twenties, she watched a woman roll out long snakes of clay one afternoon in the basement of the university’s theatre. “I watched her a while and she showed me the kiln and I thought, ‘Gee, I’d like to get involved with clay’.”

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Jeanne Sarich’s journey has taken her from building clay dams in the river as a child, to teaching ceramics in Arctic winters, to owning an Artisan Square studio. The local potter spoke with journalist Nicole Barratt. in Terrace, she discovered a kiln in the school’s furnace room and a pottery teacher who taught her the basics of throwing, moulding and firing clay. “I decided clay was really where I wanted my main focus to be and my career, even if it took a little while longer.”

Jeanne later returned to school to study ceramics for three years, following a stint selling Haida

Gwaii art. She built her own wood firing outdoor kiln in the 1970’s with second-hand bricks and began firing pots.

Then came the glazes. Jeanne drew on techniques from Sung Dynasty Chinese and Momoyama Japanese ceramics. “The natural glazing process, that’s what drew me and got me learning a whole lot of chemistry about glaze make-

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up. It’s quite a magical process.” A trip to Tokyo in 1982 allowed her to learn from a Living National Treasure first-hand, specialising in the shino ware glaze.

Following Japan: a relocation to the Arctic. Jeanne worked with First Nations communities in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago as an arts and crafts officer, supporting the development of arts in towns as small as 300 people. It took some adjusting to the -50°C climate in winter. “The wind would be howling like the devil and I’d be in my goose parka five inches thick, moose hide gloves with a wool glove inside and seal skin boots.”

She says a number of the towns she worked in were still hunter-gatherer communities. Men would return home with tales of being chased from their ice fishing spots by polar bears. “A lot of them worked outdoors too. You’d see a carver in front of his house carving soapstone with a chisel and axe wearing a mask and the mask would freeze to his skin. It’s tough up there.”

In her free time in the Arctic, she ran ceramics evening classes with another New York artist in his studio. “We’d bundle up and trek out at night in -50°C for these classes. I also got really interested in square dancing. So that’s what we used to do, square dance and make ceramics at the studio.”

Jeanne’s surroundings provided her with inspiration to create, particularly the Northern Lights, which would wake her in the middle of the night with their crackling. “It scared me, it was frightening to see it the first time being so bright and loud. It’s like a zig zag pattern across the sky, like a curtain. Sometimes they were so close they felt like they could fall down on your head.”

Small community living appealed to Jeanne, she enjoyed being able to commute without

a car and living somewhere she could really get to know people. “I wanted to set that up here for me in our society. I also knew I wanted to be a full time potter and live on an island.”

Bowen Island emerged as the perfect opportunity to do so. She bought her island studio in 1998 and lived amongst her pots and boxes while house hunting for three months. “My family didn’t support me, they thought I was crazy to be a potter. They never really offered much support throughout my life.

“I remember telling my father as a child I wanted to be a teacher, and he said, ‘Well you better save your pennies girl, because I’m not going to pay to educate a girl’. I grew up thinking that if I’m going to do something with my life it’s going to be on me, I can’t rely on other people.”

She enjoys combining the ancient techniques of glaze making with motifs inspired by her time spent in the outdoors– the ocean, forest, deer and fish often feature in her work. Jeanne also runs ceramics workshops frequently for children and adults.

It’s therapeutic, she says, for people to get their hands on clay.

“On a practical level, it’s just something nice to do. But clay is cosmic dust. It’s the stuff of us...

When an artist creates a figure out of clay, it feels like being very god-like.”

She notes throughout her life, clay has always been there for her.

“To smell clay, to look at it, to squeeze it, shape it, fire and colour it, it makes me happy. To me, you have to ask yourself, ‘Well why am I here?’ I’m here to have fun. This is what I love. That’s how basic it is.”

This story was first published on womenclan.com by New Zealand journalist (now based on Bowen) Nicole Barratt. Reprinted with permission.

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