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Muni Morsels COVE BAY WATER TREATMENT PLANT BORROWING PUT TO THE ELECTORS AND TURF FIELD NEEDS REPLACING BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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They’re back! Summer is over and so is mayor and council’s (somewhat) break from municipal meetings. The following are briefs from the Sept. 9 regular council meeting.

Water your opinions: The Cove Bay water treatment

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LOIS MEYERS-CARTER: the longtime Undercurrent columnist died Aug. 30. Lois was known for her volunteerism,

particularly her involvement with the Bowen Island Library and Bowen Island Museum and Archives. She’s pictured here in the old general store (new library) in 1992. The paper pays tribute to one of its most dedicated contributors on pages 6 & 7.

SloPitch wraps up a stellar season HENRY CAMPBELL

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After a regular season filled with laughs, good plays, and the occasional adult beverage, the six teams of the Bowen Island Co-Ed SloPitch league were fired up for playoffs—and the day did not disappoint.

Coach of the Year Iain Mitchell and his first year team, The Blu’s, took the field against the Mad Batters in the 9 a.m. game. The Blu’s play was unrecognizable compared to the start

of the year. To a player, their game was excellent. They played the Mad Batters to a very respectable 14-12 loss and, deservedly, walked off the field with their heads held high. You can bet that Most Valuable Player Rachel Klingler and her crew will be ready to do some damage in 2020.

Considered by many to be the best precision hitting team in the league, the Mad Batters came to play and had a fun time doing it.

Led by the fielding of Gillian Drake, the speed of Bruce Lyne, the highlight

reel catches of Andrew Monaghan, and the shrewd coaching of Jay Cottrell, the Batters had the 4 p.m. championship game in their sights all day long.

The 10:30 a.m. game saw the Cruisers take on the Loggers. As a nod to the injured, Most Sportsmanlike, lead singer of Ginger 66, and all around badass Michelle Harrison, the Cruisers sported faux black eyes as they took on a Loggers team many considered the strong favourite.

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plant requires an additional $2.5 million dollars to proceed. In order to borrow the money, BIM needs elector approval. However, rather than go immediately to referendum, they’re undertaking an “alternative approval process.” The current plan is to have the cost of borrowing built into the Cove Bay water user fees so BIM needs the permission of the 1190 identified electors (18 and over, Canadian citizens who’ve lived in the area for more than 30 days and in B.C. for longer than six months and who live in or own property in the zone). For the approval process to fail and therefore push the issue to referendum, 10 per cent of the electorate (119 people) would need to sign and submit response forms to the municipality. The deadline is October 21 (coincidentally, federal election day).

Time to turf it: Now that a decade’s passed since the turf wars of 2009 (when there was debate over whether there should be a turf field put in at BICS and if so, what it should be made of) the expected lifespan of the coconut husk-cork turf field (10-12 years) is nearly up.

Manager of Recreation and Community Services Shauna Jennings told council that the field is extremely well-used.

Replacing the field is expected to be between $200,000 and $350,000 though council agreed to engage in preliminary discussions with the Bowen Island Football Club (which was instrumental in getting the first field built) about the feasibility of building a full-size field (about double the size of the current field.) The cost for a full-sized field is estimated at $1.5 to 1.8 million.

Suite story: Council voted to consider amendments to

the business licence bylaw that would regulate kennels. It also voted not to consider requiring business licences for secondary suites just yet (for 2020) due to concern that it could reduce the rental stock on-island. (Suites built before 2008 were technically illegal and so frequently don’t have occupancy permits and aren’t to regulation.)

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Event Calendar September 12, 2019 7:00 pm Heritage Commission Meeting

September 13, 2019 9:30 am Community Economic Development Committee Meeting

September 14, 2019 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

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BC Energy Step Code Roll-out Events Sep 17 Starting on Oct 9, all new construction and major renovations on the island will be required to meet Step 1 of the BC Energy Step Code.

We’re Hiring: Temporary Part-time Parks Maintenance Crew Person

What does this mean? Find out at one of our upcoming roll-out events. Members of the public are invited to swing by our open house on Sep 17 from 4-6pm. Professionals in the industry are invited to our Builder’s Breakfast on Sep 17 from 7:30-9:30am.

Please rsvp for the morning event and find out more at

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RentSmart Workshop for Tenants

September 16, 2019 4:00 pm

Bowen Island Municipality seeks a temporary part-time Parks Maintenance Crewperson. This is a position that has flexible hours ranging from 7 to 35 hours per week during the hours of 8:00 am-3:30 pm Monday-Friday. Occasional weekend work as required. The position is for three months ending in December, 2019.

Finance Advisory Committee Meeting

September 16, 2019 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm Islands 2050 Community Open Library

September 16, 2019 7:00 pm Advisory Planning Commission Meeting

September 17, 2019 7:00 pm Parks, Trails and Greenways Advisory Committee Meeting

September 19, 2019 7:00 pm Cove Bay Water System Local Advisory Committee Meeting

September 30, 2019 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

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

We’re getting ready to develop Island Plan 2020, and we’d like to hear from you about municipal services, emergency preparedness, transportation, housing, and the local economy on Bowen Island.

Submissions accepted until Friday, September 27th, 2019 at 4pm.

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The idea is to collect local, relevant data that will complement Census data in order to inform Council’s decisions on services, to support grant applications and to help anticipate demand. The survey will also provide baseline information for year over year comparisons.

Island Survey 2019 is available online until October 11, 2019, and takes only 15 minutes to complete. Responses are collected anonymously, and a summary of the results will be publicly available next year.

www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/island-survey If you don’t have a computer, or if you wish to complete the survey in an alternative format, you can get help from staff at Municipal Hall.

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Q&A:What’s up with RentSmart?

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‘We’re looking for solutions’: the faces behind Bowen’s ‘tent city’ BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Davies Orchard has some new tenants this week.

A few Bowen Islanders have set up four tents on the Metro Vancouver-owned property to bring awareness to Bowen’s housing crisis and to push for a solution.

Michael Chapman is heading up the protest, “We’ve set up a tent city here in Crippen Park…to help people visualize the housing emergency that we’ve been going through for last approximately seven years on this island,” he said. Chapman points to seven years ago as a turning point for housing stock on-island.

“A community has to have some balance in it and the balance is gone right now,” he said. “One house comes up with 25 people showing up.”

He says that they’re going to be there until they get some housing.

While camping isn’t technically allowed on Bowen, in the absence of available shelter in a given community (and since Bowen has no active shelter), people may erect their own on Metro Parks property. (A 2015 B.C. Supreme Court ruling established a precedent for allowing homeless people to camp in public spaces in communities where there is insufficient shelter as part of their charter rights to “life, liberty and security of the person.”)

“What inspired me is having seen the tent cities popping up all over British Columbia. Every time there’s been a tent city, [it seems that] government has been proactive and provided housing, so it seems to be this is the commodity they understand,” said Chapman.

“More than anything, this has been a slow moving issue that’s becoming a crisis,” says Peter Frinton, a long-time islander and former municipal councillor. He noted that the tents are set up on the sites of now-demolished cottages, trees covering sewer hookups the only remnants of the buildings.

“Fifty years ago, around the time I moved here, there were all kinds of cottages that people lived in and rented for very little money. There was a surplus of rental accommodations.”

But with the rise in housing prices, the discovery of the island as a good place to raise a family and many argue the rise of AirBnB and its strain on the long-term rental stock, the

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housing landscape on-island has changed dramatically.

“And this affects not just people who have very little money, it affects all kinds of people that want to sell the family home and move into a different form of housing,” says Frinton. “[There] simply isn’t a range of housing available on this island. So people move off. So long-term residents are lost.”

Jennifer Davidson has lived on Bowen since 2011. For many years, Jen lived in her boat in the Bowen Island Marina and Mannion Bay but then, with Bylaw 418 (use of public beaches and water areas), she was no longer allowed to live aboard her boat for more than 48 hours in a 30-day period.

“I’ve had to stay in tents in and around Bowen over not this last year but the year before, once they put their bylaws into effect and started enforcing it,” said Davidson. Though she currently has housing, she and her partner will need to move next spring.

“Hopefully this will make a difference,” she said. “I know Robyn Fenton is doing the BIRCH stuff, which is really great, which will be affordable and diverse housing. But that’s looking like it’ll be [a few] years down the road and something needs to be done now.”

“We’re doing everything we can,” said Mayor Gary Ander.

“There is an affordable housing crisis.”

“They certainly have the right to do that [tent village],” he said. “Unfortunately it won’t expedite our process at this time... we’re doing all we can.”

Ander said that while the municipality doesn’t have the money to do its own housing projects, it has land and has been trying to build housing development partnerships.

A spokesperson for Metro Vancouver said that staff are monitoring the Crippen Park situation with no enforcement plan.

Last month Bowen Island Municipality announced that it received a $15,000 grant to conduct a housing needs report to assess key housing needs in order to inform local housing priorities and development.

In the meantime, with fall on its way, Chapman is going to continue camping in the orchard.

We’re looking for solutions now,” he says. “There’s no need to waste time identifying the problem, we know there’s a problem.

“It’s not huge in the sense of big numbers but it’s huge in the sense of the effect it has on people’s lives.”

The following is a Q&A with Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH) executive director Robyn Fenton about the upcoming RentSmart workshops at Bowen Island Municipality.

What is RentSmart?

RentSmart is a program developed by the Ready to Rent BC Association––they “believe in the power of education to transform lives”––see more: readytorentbc.org/rent-smart/ Key points in the program for both tenants and landlords: 1. understand their rights and responsibilities; 2. understand how the law protects both landlords and tenants; 3. effective communication skills to avoid conflict.

Who facilitates the workshop?

Earlier this year, Tess Taylor undertook the training program––supported by BIRCH and the municipality. The program has been designed to be fun and interactive, with exercises and different modules to complete––so it is not just a boring lecture with someone at the front of the room talking for three hours.

How could this help people with their housing situations (renting or letting?)

BIRCH is actively working on a new rental apartment building but we are two to three years from opening our doors. Our hope in offering this program is to unlock some of the existing housing on Bowen and open up some rental units much faster.

We know there are rentable spaces out there on Bowen that - for a variety of reasons - aren’t being rented (or at least not advertised publicly). We hope that by offering education to (A) tenants, we will create a great pool of eligible tenants out there; and (B) landlords, we can take away some of the fear that may be associated with becoming a landlord, and give them confidence to rent out their space.

What does this have to do with BIRCH and the muni?

BIRCH and the muni partnered to have Tess Taylor trained as facilitator and to offer this program to the public. It’s a way of taking action to help with the affordable housing crisis we are facing.

BIRCH was able to provide this support thanks to a donation from the Knick Knack Nook, and BIM’s support is coming from the Housing Speaker Series.

How many people can attend?

Up to 15 people for each workshop How long are the workshops?

Both workshops run 11 a.m. to 2 p.m, three hours and include refreshments. Register now: tenants, Sept. 14: bowenrentsmart1.eventbrite.ca.

Landlords, Oct. 5: bowenrentsmart2.eventbrite.ca.

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VIEWPOINT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Islands Trust is coming to town DEAR EDITOR: I last wrote in July, following Bowen island’s payment of $329,913.24 to the Islands Trust, which represents that agency’s “requisition” for last year. At the time, I reported that the Islands Trust would be holding its meeting here on Bowen next week––Tuesday and Wednesday, September 17 and 18.

Now, we’ve had an addition to that schedule. On Monday, September 16, starting at 6:15 p.m., at the library annex, the Trust will launch an information session titled The Islands Trust––Islands 2050. This exercise is being conducted throughout the entire area under Trust jurisdiction at a cost of $60,000 +, not including a cent for staff time and expenses!

Trust chair Peter Luckham is expected to be present. I’m sure he would welcome thoughts from members of our community. Or, possibly not, but please feel free to attend and express your opinions to the fullest.

Here is an excerpt from information distributed by the Trust: “Expect to learn about the issues facing the Trust Area as a whole and Gambier Island Local Trust Area in particular. There will be

information on climate change, reconciliationandecosystemprotectiontonameafew.

We want to hear your stories, thoughts and ideas. What do you value about the Trust Area? What do you see as opportunities and concerns for the future of the region?

We will have snacks, desserts and door prizes from local vendors.

This is just the start of a long conversation. If you can’t make it, but want to find out more and share your views, take action by visiting the Islands Trust website (islandstrust.bc.ca/islands2050).

We will continue to update you on more engagement opportunities including a full schedule of sessions being held in the Trust Area and an online survey.

The September 17 and 18 meeting with the Trustees takes place at Bowen Lodge. I am beginning to detect some independent thinking among the 26 trustees (picture a board style meeting with all 26 at the table) so this highly scripted event just might have a few moments of excitement.

Thanks for your continued interest and support.

Michael Kaile Bowen Island Islands Trustee BIM councillor

Thank-you to Bowen’s volunteers

DEAR EDITOR: As someone who has been quite involved in a variety of organizations over the past 20 years I just would like to express my personal thanks to a huge army of volunteers who make things happen on this island.

I was so impressed with Gary Anderson in bringing his dream of a Logger’s Show to Bowen. I’ve attended each year and it just keeps getting better and better. The group who have kept Bowfest alive and bringing it back to such a great community gathering. It’s amazing the job the volunteers do for the Rotary Run for Rwanda, the Handloggers Half Marathon and Mary Letson’s SwimBowen. Love the AppleFest, the Farmer’s Market and (even though I’ve never been) the Dock Dance. The Martin Marine Round Bowen Sailboat Race with the pancake breakfast and the Kayak Bowen’s great paddle race and Snug Cove House Salmon BBQ. There’s nothing like the Friends of the Bowen Island Library (FOBILS) three-day book sale in May, the start of the Christmas season with Light Up Bowen and the craft fair along with so many amazing choir concerts. The addition of the Bowen Island Golf Course has brought together another number of gatherings throughout the summer months

ending with last week’s annual fundraising tournament that keeps the operation of this valuable organization alive. The list goes on and one and I apologize to those events I might have missed.

Not only events but just the ongoing activities of the 48 groups and organizations that are listed in the gold pages offering opportunities for anyone who wants to get involved as a volunteer. If those don’t appeal, look on the BIM website for the list of all of the council committees you can join. Anyone who says Bowen is boring just has not read through those listings, there has to be an organization out there who would love to have your involvement.

Groups like the Knick Knack Nook and the Bowen Island Community Foundation give back so much to the island’s wellbeing. Just attend the AGM of the foundation to see how over $50,000 is spread around the island in grants and scholarship, plus the thousand that have been returned to the community by the First Credit Union. All money raised on the island for the island.

This is an amazing community. And community is what it is all about. We are truly blessed.

Murray Atherton Bowen Island

Pickleball comes to 55+‘Give it aTry’program RYLEY MCLEOD & KAT STEPHENS

Bowen Island Community Recreation

At any stage of life, trying something new is a good idea. This fall, Bowen Island Community Recreation is pleased to be hosting a free Give it a Try! event for islanders aged 55+ who are interested in trying their hand at pickleball. This badminton-like sport is gaining popularity all over the province in all age groups and we are very grateful to the Give it a Try grant program and the financial support of the Province of British Columbia and the Government of Canada for bringing this event to Bowen.

Never heard of pickleball? Not to worry, there will be volunteer mentors on hand to help you out at any level of play, whether you are there to learn the basics or to hone your existing skills. And of course, we will have some great prizes to hand out.

Why 55+? Give it a Try is a grant program focused on delivering quality recreation programming to people who are over the age of 55 and building support for the 55+ B.C. Games. Pickleball is a great fit for any age range and we are excited to take this opportunity to encourage our community members to engage in this sport that is available

for year-round indoor play.

Why Pickleball? Physical health: pickleball gets your heart pumping, which helps to lower blood pressure and increase lung capacity while also facilitating the release of feel-good endorphins. Social: pickleball is a multi-player sport, which makes it a great way to socialize and connect. Coordination: pickleball requires hand-eye coordination, which helps to improve cognitive health and promote brain stimulation.

Mental health: both physical activity and social connection contribute to positive mental health by reducing anxiety and depression levels, while increasing satisfaction and belongingness.

If you fall in love with the sport at this Give it a Try event, you can drop in for regular Monday evening play.

This event is Sunday, September 29 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. If you would like more info about the event, or would like to register, please contact the recreation office at 604-947-2216. Although the event is free, pre-registration is recommended––you may also register online through bowencommunityrecreation.com/registernow or drop by and visit us in the Rec office.

We hope to see you there!

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FerryTales pile up for fundraising play CINDI KEEP

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Whether you are new to the rock or a tenured resident, whether you vote blue or you vote green, whether your dog is off leash or on, there’s something that binds us together as Bowen Islanders: the ferry.

Don’t we all have tales of our ferry misadventures? Just one look at Bowen Everything Else Facebook page will tell you this is one topic that will never see an end. Is the ferry on time (and what is on time)? Why is there a 10-minute cut-off? Is it ok to fill in the gaps? Why does one lane move faster than the other? How do we zipper appropriately? What the heck is deck four? Are there seating rules on the school ferries? There are stories of hilarious misadventures, and stories of great human kindness. Just take a look at your comments: Why is it if the ferry is less then 10 mins late it is on time but if you are not holding a ticket ten minutes before sailing you are too late? …Here goes the rant... again... can someone explain why the outside ferry queue lane moves faster than the inside lane? Without fail. If everyone is merging like a zipper, does it not stand to reason that they would move at the same pace? … Hypothetical: the ferry line-up is in overload territory, but you spot a gap in the line down by the ball field, drive down, and fill the gap. You catch the boat, when someone who simply went to the back of the line before you arrived is overloaded. How would you describe what you did? …Why is there no consequence to people who park in the ferry line up when they are not going on the ferry? …Today the Bowen ferry waited for me! I was walking off the Nanaimo ferry as Bowen

ferry was getting ready to leave. Ferry workers texted our Bowen captain and asked him to wait and they did! …BC Ferries, We take it all back!!! A very patient and cheerful worker came to the Troller to inform some happy Nanaimo travellers that their boat is sailing! He says he’ll be back for us Boweners. I guess that means there’s time for another round! …I am told not to park in ferry line... so I don’t. They are told to fill the gaps...so they do. Now I wait for a ferry that I am not getting on...great. Shouldn’t common sense trump a bylaw in such a situation? …Total wow! Yesterday lost my wallet on 4:45 p.m. ferry back to Bowen. Not sure if it was Horseshoe Bay or on the ferry where it was lost? short version......BC ferries staff found my wallet then they contacted Bowen RCMP who then went to pick it up and personally delivered it to my house last night! ...I was there before cut off. And there were well more than 15 people behind me (yes possibly after the 7:25 p.m. cut off but before 7:30 p.m.). Look it’s September. Are we all really going to deal with this for the entire school year? Bring on an extra deck hand or get that water taxi running.

You get it. We Bowen Islanders love to talk about the ferry!

This weekend, in support of Connolly Ingram (son of Tina Overbury) who is off to play with the Comox Glacier Kings, we are going to gather at Tir-na-nOg Theatre to share some of these stories, with humour and connection, on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Your ticket will help us fundraise for Connolly’s new adventure and perhaps even prompt a story or two of your own. Tickets at Phoenix $25, or at the door $30. You can also donate (with a ticket) online at: gofundme.com/f/connollys-junior-bfund. See you at the theatre!

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After a fruitful life filled with happiness, Lois Meyers Carter, longtime Bowen Island resident, passed away peacefully on August 30, at the age of 90.

Lois was born in Bellingham, Washington on February 7, 1929, to Charles Wayne Byron and Doris Holmes. Her love of music and books began at an early age. In fact, when she had eye surgery as a young child, she got in trouble because she kept trying to peek out of her bandages to read. When she was in her teens, her parents divorced, and she moved with her mother to Seattle. She graduated from Lincoln High School, and went on to attend the University of Washington, where she enjoyed membership in the Delta Zeta Sorority.

While attending university, Lois accepted a life-changing blind date with a dashing marine, Andrew Laurence Meyers. Four years later, Lois and Larry, as she always called him, were married. Lois grew up with only one sibling, so marrying into the Meyers family meant a bit of a change, since Larry came from a very loving Iowa family of 13 brothers and sisters.

Lois and Larry weren’t aiming for 13 children, but they did have four, and they raised them in Bothell, Washington. Large family get-togethers always included music, and parents Lois and Larry took their children to plays, trying to introduce them to the world of drama.

With four kids to raise, Lois decided it was time to make a career of her love of books, and she earned a master’s degree in library science. She worked for the King County Library System as Children’s Librarian, and then served as a director for several King County libraries. After years of working for libraries in King County, Lois switched it up and joined the administration team at the Everett Public Library. She even worked at the Bellingham Public Library for a bit. Lois was known in the library community for her dramatic readings of stories, for which she might wear a costume, if it was a holiday reading.

As her 25-year marriage to Larry was coming to its end, Lois met Ross Carter, a charismatic redheaded librarian from Canada. There were sparks from the moment they met. Both acknowledged they were soulmates, and they married a couple of years after meeting.

Ross introduced Lois to the next love of her life, Bowen Island. The couple built a house on the Island, where they couldn’t have been happier. Their home was filled with books of all sorts, covering every wall that would hold them. Both Ross and Lois had huge hearts for volunteering. Lois worked hard to set up the Bowen Library in the old general store, and she always participated in the collection and sorting of books for the Library’s annual book sale. She also shared her love of books, and her storytelling talents, by volunteering at the local school, reading to the grade 5 students.

Writing was one of Lois’s interests, and for two decades she had the pleasure of writing the Island Neighbours column in the Undercurrent. The column shared the general goings-on of the Island, and the birthdays and other special days of its residents. She was also interested in history and genealogy, so it was natural for her to work at the Bowen Island Museum & Archives, and on the annual People, Plants, and Places tour. Lois was passionate about “the Archives” for all the years she volunteered, and she was proud to be following the same path as Ross’s mother Katie, a founder of the Museum & Archives.

Lois loved and admired her in-laws Dick and Katie Carter, and felt blessed to be part of the Carter family, with its long history of volunteering and giving back on Bowen.

In 2007, Ross and Lois were honoured as Bowen Island’s Citizens of the Year. Lois participated in her beloved Island community for as long as she could. In her later years, she reconnected with music, relearning to play the violin. She had great fun as a member of the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra, and playing with Contraband, a Bowen Island group.

Although family members remained in Washington, they always felt lucky to be able to visit Lois on beautiful Bowen Island, to which she was so devoted, and where she flourished for so many years. Lois is preceded in death by both her husbands, her beloved son Andrew, and brother Art. She is survived by sons Dennis Meyers (Tammie) and Robert Meyers (Kelley), daughter Jeanie Thoman (Jim), daughter-in-law Susan Meyers, 7 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, and her very dear friend and caregiver Sandra Wank. Lois made her mark on this world, and will be greatly missed by family and friends.

A celebration of life will be held on Bowen Island, on October 12th at 1:00 at the Bowen Island United Church. Remembrance messages are invited on the Amherst Funeral Services Memorial Pages. Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to Bowen Island Museum & Archives.

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Lois Meyers-Carter receives 14 years of the Undercurrent (1974-1988) on behalf of the Bowen Island Library from Larry Reid, then-owner and editor of the Undercurrent. Bowen Islander Pat Weaver, a columnist for the Times of North and West Vancouver launched the Undercurrent in 1974.

After editing 12 editions, she turned the mimeographed, hand-stapled, three-page paper over to Larry Reid, left for the Maritimes and never returned. The delightful — and so appropriate — name Weaver chose has endured for 45 years.

Lois: an editor’s tribute EDYTHE HANEN

Former Undercurrent editor

Island Neighbours first graced the pages of the Bowen Island Undercurrent in February, 1991 when Lois Meyers Carter inherited Laura Cochrane’s long-running Island View. But Lois had her own view as to what she wanted to offer her readers, highlighted in the opening paragraph of her column: A weekly gathering of items about island people, activities and events.

Her writing was breezy, but often in-depth.

Compelling, but never political. Committed to being the community archivist, Lois chronicled not only the lives and loves of Bowen Islanders, she also wove the threads of island history into her stories.

Ross Carter was the love of Lois’s life and there were frequent references in her column to “the old redhead.” Although that red hair had long since turned grey, there was no mistaking the reference to the man who first brought her to Bowen. The island had been a part of Ross’s family’s life from the time they first built their cottage in Scarborough in the 1940s. Lois, a lover of history, embraced what she gleaned of Bowen’s storied past. She became an active member of the Bowen Island Historians, and for many years contributed her knowledge and wealth of historical exploration to the Undercurrent’s Annual Heritage Edition.

Newspaper columnists would agree that ‘editing’ — which usually means ‘cutting copy’ — is the bane of all writers. When I was occasionally forced to cut Lois’s Neighbours column, she never failed, in her following week’s column, to make reference to the ‘gremlins’ who were responsible for those mysterious disappearances. Having been on both ends of the blue pencil, I understood her commitment to her readers and her deep concern that no one should be forgotten or left out, no person or event left uncelebrated.

Lois was a perfectionist. Her earliest columns arrived on my desk, delivered in person on Monday mornings, carefully hand-written, with only the occasional tiny white sticker covering an altered word.

Eventually she graduated to typing the copy

and in the last few years of her writing she composed Island Neighbours on a computer. That was a celebration.

But Elaine Loree and I missed those Monday morning visits when Lois would drop off her column. It was our beginningof-the-week time to share stories and catch up on island news. There was no internet.

And there was much to talk about. Bowen politics were feisty then, and at times, all-consuming. The furor of election cycles.

Letters to the editors during those frenetic days often filled two — sometimes three — pages of the paper. The Undercurrent became the unofficial meeting-place for anyone with an opinion.

And there were many.

On those mornings our office was filled with laughter and with tears. Sometimes dismay over a perceived community outrage. Sadness for the lost ones. There were tales told out of school that never saw the pages of the newspaper. Many of our favourite memories and island stories from that time never went beyond those office walls.

Lois’s legacy lies in her deep commitment to her readers, her love and sharing of island history and — of course — her devotion to ‘the old redhead.’ Her dream was to give as many people as possible their ‘day in the sun’ and to honour the many-faceted lives of islanders. Her Island Chronicles addition, celebrating birthdays, was always read with an eagle eye. She sometimes ended her columns with a joke of the week.

Lois wrote her last ‘official’ Island Neighbours column for the Undercurrent on September 28, 2007. She began writing again in 2009 and wrote occasionally until 2013. Twenty three years. Over 900 columns. Thousands of words.

No small feat.

These words today are my own offering of heartfelt thanks to Lois for her years of writing, and sharing so much of Bowen’s history, and for her many contributions to our island story. But most of all I am grateful for the time she so willingly and joyfully gave, both to me and to the Undercurrent, and her caring and unwavering dedication to her beloved community of island neighbours.

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Lois Meyers-Carter: Bowen’s quiet chronologist BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

Lois Meyers-Carter loved obituaries. For decades Lois would clip out the obits from the Vancouver papers for inclusion in the Bowen archives. And for the past year, her daughter, Jeanie Thoman, has been getting notes of what to be sure to include when Lois’s time came.

“She actually wanted me to write it before she even passed,” says Jeanie. “She wanted to edit it, I’m sure.”

Aug. 30, the time came.

So this week, the Undercurrent pays tribute to one of its longest running columnists, author of Island Neighbours.

Former editor, Edye Hanen, has a tribute on the page opposite (beside Jeanie’s obituary), and Cathy Bayly of Lois’s beloved museum and archives dug up some photos.

Lois’s caregiver of seven years, Sandra Wank, and Jeanie sat down with the paper to share some memories of the Undercurrent icon.

“She was quiet,” says Jeanie, “and very proper.

“She was never a gossip and she didn’t ever talk bad about people.”

“She just really she really enjoyed people’s stories,” says Jeanie. “If my mom ever had conversations, she always wanted them to be meaningful.”

On Bowen, Lois, a librarian, was instrumental in getting the library set up in the old general store and was highly involved with Eagle Cliff’s neighbourhood association.

She played fiddle in the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra and in the local musical group, Contraband. As the daughter-in-law of Bowen’s first archivist (Katie Carter), Lois was a staunch supporter of and volunteer with the museum and archives.

In the last couple years of her life Lois undertook the “letter project” with Sandra.

Lois would keep everything: Christmas cards, birthday cards, notes, (Undercurrents), and letters. Through those letters, in the waning years of Lois’s life, she and Sandra re-lived the loves of Lois’s life. They read dozens and dozens of letters from Lois’s three great suitors.

The letters served as historical tethers to a life Lois couldn’t fully remember.

“She had them dated and all in order,” says Sandra.

They began with Victor.

Victor was an English merchant who started off as a pen pal in 1946, but gradually became more romantic.

“They had exactly the same taste in music and the classical stuff, and the stuff they read and going to plays, going to dances,” says Sandra. “They really had a lot in common.”

BOWEN ISLAND MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES PHOTO

Lois Meyers-Carter, Betty MacIntyre and another islander in the Old Store, during Heritage Day.

Victor wrote of his travels through the Mediterranean and the British and Palestinian conflict of the era.

“He was madly in love with mom,” says Jeanie. Lois did travel to see Victor once, but for some reason or other, he couldn’t get off the ship. Following that, Lois had a choice to make between the merchant and a dashing marine.

Lois met Andrew Laurence Meyers on a blind date while in university.

“It’s funny because someone else was supposed to come to the blind date,” says Jeanie. “And that guy couldn’t get off duty or some-

thing so my dad came to the blind date instead.”

“So there’s these letters from when my dad was in the Korean War and away various Marine Corps things,” explains Jeanie.

While Lois married “Larry” as she called him, Victor stayed in her life in a platonic way, writing through to his death in the early 2000s. Their families even met once or twice.

Lois and Larry had four children and lived in Bothell, Washington.

“My dad used to chase her around the house,” remembers Jeanie. “They really were a fun, loving couple together.”

“When I was reading [the letters] to her, we’d stop and discuss them because there’d be something like he’d say that was really cheeky, romantic and some of the older ones, the language was hilarious,” says Sandra. “She said she was getting to know herself all over again.”

As a young mother, with four children, Lois went back to university to earn a master’s in library science. It was there, just in passing, that she first met Ross Carter.

It wasn’t until a decade later, when her marriage to Larry was winding down, that Lois and Ross reconnected at a library conference.

“It was just instant with her and Ross,” says Jeanie.

Lois and Ross married sometime around 1980. Ross was the son of Katie and Dick Carter, who had long owned property on Bowen.

“Ross would tell mom all about Bowen,” says Jeanie “And once they came over here was like, this is where we’re going to be.”

The librarians built a house in Eagle Cliff, covered it with books, and, for the most part, lived out their days on Bowen (Ross died in 2008 but Lois moved to a care facility a couple of years ago.)

“It’s like her three loves of her life in all these letters,” says Jeanie.

“And Mom, just, I think that really, really helped her stay engaged.

She revisited so many times of her life through the letters.”

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SLOPITCH BEAT

Rise of the Phoenixes

Team Phoenix won the SloPitch championship Saturday, ending what folks are calling “the best season ever.”

An awards ceremony at Doc Morgan’s followed the tournament To see more coverage, see pages 1 and 13.

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GREEN GOLF BEAT

The great green golfers

If one had wandered out to Bowen Island Golf Course last weekend, they might’ve thought it was March 17.

All manner of golfers clad in emerald shades took to the course for the club’s annual fundraiser, this year with an Irish theme.

“There was lots of green with leprechauns and glitter and pots of gold,” laughs pro shop manager Les Meszaros. (Islanders might remember last year’s discothemed “stayin’ alive” fundraiser.)

The club raised tens of thousands of dollars through silent and live auctions, donations, sponsorship and more. The tournament had 80 golfers with a further 40 people up for dinner at Montgomery’s Grill.

“The community supported us tremendously,” says Meszaros. “Everyone was very pleased.”

Winners included: Lucas Puri, David Bellringer, Steve Bellringer, and Kathy Thom with a Texas scramble core of eight under par. There was also a shootout competition of 60 yards closest to the pin won by Melissa Roocroft and Peter Goumeniouk.

The club would like to thank: Cheryl Baillie, Sandra Dawson, Ruth Openshaw, Kathy Clarke, Heather Coulghart, Bill Brown, Cro Lucas, Bob Sangster, Al Morse, Bruce Russell, Sandra Dawson, Sue Hoffar, Linnea McCaskill, Dorene Russell, Audrey Shirley, Marge Swain, Gael Booth, Jeannie Seward-Magee, Peter Clarke, Rob Purdy, Pat Adams, Terry Boss, Bill Hayes, Dale Hewitt, Les Meszaros and Jamie Smith.

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Vance Hackett won “best dressed” for his lively dedication to the Irish theme.

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Notice to Electors of an Alternative Approval Process

This notice is the first of two notices to advise electors in the Cove Bay Water System Local Service Area, within Bowen Island Municipality, of the intention to adopt “Bowen Island Municipality Loan Authorization (Cove Bay Water Treatment Plant) Bylaw No.488, 2019”. The purpose of Bylaw No.488, 2019 is to authorize the municipality to borrow up to $2,533,000, to be repaid over a period not exceeding 30 years, in order to finance the municipal portion of the Cove Bay Water Treatment Plant project.

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Based on current users connected to the water system, user rates will increase by $213 per connected property. This project will also allow new users to connect to the system, and as these users join, the water system impact per connected property will decrease.

A copy of Bylaw No.488, 2019 and background reports are available at Municipal Hall, Monday-Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, excluding statutory holidays.

The Bowen Island Municipal Council proposes to borrow the money and undertake construction of the Cove Bay Water Treatment plant unless, by 4:30 PM on Monday, October 21, 2019, at least 10 percent of the electors in the Cove Bay Water System Local Service Area sign an elector response form opposing the implementation of the proposed bylaw.

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The number of electors in the area defined for the Alternative Approval Process (AAP) is estimated to be 1,190. The number of responses required (10%) to prevent the local government from proceeding unless a vote is held (for example, a referendum), is estimated to be 119. A report respecting the basis on which this determination was made, is available on the municipal website at: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/cove-bay-water-treatment-plant Elector Eligibility In order to sign an elector response form, a person must be either a resident elector or a non-resident property elector.

A Resident Elector must: • be 18 years of age or older; • be a Canadian citizen; • have lived in British Columbia for at least six months; • have lived in the jurisdiction for at least 30 days; • live in the area defined for the AAP; and • not be disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in a local election, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

A Non-Resident Property Elector must: • be 18 years of age or older; • be a Canadian citizen; • have lived in British Columbia for at least six months; • have owned property in the jurisdiction for at least 30 days; • own property in the area defined for the AAP; and • not be disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in a local election, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

How to submit an Elector Response Form

Note: Only one non-resident property elector may sign an elector response form per property, regardless of how many people own the property; and, that owner must have the written consent of a majority of the other property owners to sign the response form on their behalf. Property owned in whole or in part by a corporation does not qualify under the non-resident property elector provisions.

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Terry Fox Run takes to the trails Sunday “The Terry Fox Run has been with us in Bowen Island since 2001”, praises Donna White, British Columbia and Yukon provincial director. “An astounding $26,000 has been raised at the Bowen Island run for innovative cancer research.”

The runs are a non-competitive, all-inclusive, family-oriented activity where participants can run, walk, or blade.

Registration is by donation and there is no minimum pledge amount. Participants have the option to be recognized as a corporate team, individual participants, or even a member of “Terry’s Team” of cancer survivors. Every participant is a special part of the cause, as living proof that cancer research saves lives.

“If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope.” Terry taught us that every contribution matters. We urge you to come out as a participant or volunteer to support a truly grassroots organization and help us continue to work together to outrun cancer.

To register, volunteer or for more information, please contact: Pam Matthews pmatthews@go.islandpacific.org.

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Just a reminder that the Outdoor Meditation Circle meets every Sunday at 11 a.m. at Bowfest Field. We then walk to our special tree together.

If the weather is bad we stay in the undercover area. You are most welcome to join us. This outdoor meditation circle is going into its third year and we have a lot of fun together. Whether you are very experienced in meditation or have never done it, you are welcome to drop in. We are all students of life. Come every week or just once in a while. Whatever works for you. We follow the gentle tradition and practice of Tich Naht Han and I guide us through some breath work, visualization, and then we enjoy some silence. Meditation opens unexplored realms of experience and personal insight, leading to fresh and vivid opportunities for renewal, well-being, and joy. When we practice in nature, the beautiful landscape becomes a wonder-filled experience, merging outer and inner discoveries. Please don’t hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions. Lisa. shatzky@gmail.com ––Lisa Shatzky

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It won’t take a newcomer to Bowen Island long to discover that, at the heart of this vibrant community, children are its heartbeat. This is a place where the mantra that “it takes a village to raise a child” rings true and parents and community members have always, in true Bowen style, found innovative ways to support one another in the care and raising of our most valuable island resource.

Perhaps it is this sense of community that draws so many families to our little island.

Census data from 2006 to 2016 indicates that the number of children living on our island has increased by nearly 20 per cent over a 10-year period, while the number of single and two caregiver families has increased by 15 per cent since 2011.

With growing numbers of families on Bowen Island comes a growing need for child care. The challenge to meet this demand has prompted the municipality to apply for a grant to study this need, understand the current challenges and create short and long-term plans to guide future

decisions. With this in mind, a robust child care needs assessment is set to begin in September. With your input, we are hoping to learn more about fulltime and after school child care needs for all children from birth to 12 years of age and our community’s current capacity to meet those needs.

The study will include a comprehensive survey to gather data to explore how families are currently meeting their child care needs and how they would like to see services develop into the future. In addition to the survey, parents and caregivers will have opportunities to provide in-person feedback at several face-to-face sessions in the community throughout the month of October. The combined information, once gathered, will be used to formulate a community specific action plan that will outline short, medium and long-term goals to help inform future decisions regarding child care in our community .

The child care needs assessment survey can be completed at surveymonkey.com/r/ bowenchildcare.

Watch the Bowen Island Municipality Facebook page for more information about locations for face to face sessions.

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“I’m not a dreamer, and I’m not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to,” the words spoken by a true Canadian hero.

Terry Fox had a single dream: a world without cancer. He sought to reach out to every corner of Canada, and beyond, when he embarked on his Marathon of Hope. Terry Fox ran the equivalent of a marathon a day for 143 days straight on one leg. He did this to raise awareness of the need for cancer research funding.

When his own cancer spread, Terry was forced to stop running but his journey and his dream to find a cure for cancer lives on. We invite you to join your community to help keep Terry’s message alive.

This year’s event in Bowen Island takes place at Collins Hall on our National Run Day, September 15, 2018. Bowen Island’s registration opens at 11 a.m. and the event commences at 11:30 a.m. Participants can run, walk, and blade and have the option of 1, 5, and 8 km distances. By joining, you will be an integral part of carrying Terry’s torch and helping your community contribute to the $750 million already raised for cancer research worldwide.

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What do you think?

Island survey 2019 BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Back in 2017, Boweners gave island quality of life an average 4.5 points out of five in the municipal Island Survey.

Eighty-nine percent of respondents said that they lived full-time on Bowen and 79 per cent said that they owned and lived in their home.

One can find all sorts of interesting information about the makeup of the island in the sort-of-regular survey. But only if islanders complete the questionnaire.

The 15-ish minute survey is now available on the Bowen Island Municipality website (www. surveymonkey.com/r/IslandSurvey2019) and is open until October 11. The survey covers topics such as quality of life, transportation, the environment, housing, emergency preparedness and the island’s economy.

“The intent is to collect relevant, Bowenspecific data that will complement census data, in order to inform Council’s decisions on services, support grant applications and to help anticipate demand,” said a press release from the municipality Friday afternoon. “The survey will also provide baseline information for year over year comparisons.”

It is an anonymous survey that can be completed online or alternative formats. To complete in an alternative format, contact BIM at 604-9474255 or at bim@bimbc.ca.

Bowen Island Municipality is reminding residents of the Eagle Cliff Water System that they are still on stage four water restrictions until substantial rains return. More information: bowenislandmunicipality.ca

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Fall for the arts at the Hearth KATHLEEN AINSCOUGH

The Hearth, Arts on Bowen

Transitions are in the air along with the crispness of a new season. Fall brings with it an enticing variety of exhibitions, programming and events from the Hearth. The arts council on Bowen Island continues to uphold the mandate to further opportunities for the arts and artists and to work in a way that will socially and economically benefit our community.

Events such as the Still/ed Here presentation, a story of displacement and healing, coming to Bowen Island on Sept. 26, are an example of the social impact that arts and culture has on the local and global community. The Hearth is proud to present this free, interactive event to the Bowen community.

This collaboration between a poet and a multi-media artist uses poetry, photography and new media called Augmented Reality, to tell the collective story of displacement as it shapes our world. Pandora’s Collective, an organization some of our celebrated Bowen poets belong to, sponsors this project. Join us at the library annex on Sept. 26, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visit Still/ed Here.ca for more about this project.

Bowen Studio Tours will give visitors a peek inside the creative spaces of many of Bowen’s artists and artisans. In conjunction with B.C. Culture Days, the Hearth presents the second annual Bowen Studio Tour on Sept. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Save the dates and invite your friends from the mainland to take the self-guided tour. Watch for the signs indicating open studios. Get the details and complete listing of participating studios and galleries at bowenstudiotours.com.

Fall programming continues with a new offering of Eat Drink Write: Postcards and Prompts presented by the Writer’s Adventure team, Meribeth Deen and Tina Overbury. This dynamic duo will inspire the writer in you in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. Secure your spot for Oct. 17, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Now that we are spending a little more time indoors, thoughts turn to our surroundings. Insider Secrets: Interior Design Basics is offered for two Tuesday evening sessions, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.

Interior Designer, Anne Boa, will guide you to create the room of your dreams! The popular Eat Drink Paint sessions continue with facilitator, Kathleen Ainscough. The next is one set for Nov. 16 and is inspired by Tom Thomson’s Autumn Birches.

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Check out the Bowen Community Recreation website to sign up for these programs.

Exhibitions in the Gallery @ Cove Commons have had great success this year with close to 7,500 visitors coming through the gallery from May to September.

New Works––sculptures and printmaking by four Bowen artists: Vanessa Hall-Patch, Julie York, Russell Hackney and Marty Levenson, continues until Sept. 16. Opening on Sept. 18, Emily Van Lidth de Jeude will have a solo exhibition titled change/ able, an immersive, interactive installation with soundscape

by Bevvy Swift.

Join us for the opening reception on Sept. 21, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The exhibition runs until Oct. 20. You may have spotted the artist Jose De Juan painting scenes around Bowen this summer.

Lightscapes, a solo exhibition of his plein air paintings will run from Oct. 23 to Nov. 17 and you can meet the artist at the reception on Oct. 26, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

And calling all Bowen artists, it’s time to get your creations ready. Applications for It’s A Wrap! are available now at the gallery and the Hearth website. The deadline for applications is Nov. 3 and the exhibit runs from Nov. 20 to Dec. 30.

Membership in the arts council continues to be key to our ability to support arts and culture on Bowen Island and beyond the physical borders of the island. We welcome community members to join our amazing team of volunteers to keep the arts council and the gallery running smoothly. Working in tandem with the municipality, we’ve been intent on moving forward the community centre project while we await results of a grant application submitted in early January.

As the news of the resignation of Jacqueline Massey, the executive director of the Hearth, reaches the community, one can rest assured that she will be on hand for the transition to the new executive director. She will be leaving a strong organization in capable hands of a new leader, a strong board of directors and a team of dedicated volunteers and staff.

“Jacqueline’s decision has triggered reflections on all our many achievements during her tenure,” said Rob Gloor, chair our organization. “Her leadership, excellent rapport with colleagues and supporters, extensive knowledge base and incredibly strong work ethic will be difficult to match.”

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The Bowen Ballers team that will be competing in the SloPitch provincial tournament in Langley this weekend.

Bowen Ballers to compete in provincials HENRY CAMPBELL

Contributor

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

In practice, there is.” The words of baseball sage Yogi Berra ring more true than ever as the Bowen Island Co-Ed SloPitch league prepares to send a team of its best, and “best of Bowen,” players to compete against teams from all over British Columbia in the SPN Provincial Tournament in Langley this coming weekend (September 13 through 15).

George Zawadzki, president of the Bowen Island Co-Ed SloPitch league and coach of the provincials team, says: “[t]he Ballers are a talented and well-balanced squad that will play hard, and

represent the league and Bowen Island with pride.” Drawing as equally as possible from the six teams in the league, George and the executive have put together a team that, on paper, has no weaknesses—but will they be able to execute in crunch time?

Made possible by extremely generous contributions from Ed Weismiller and J & E Backhoe, Bowen Island Pub, and the First Credit Union, the Ballers would love to have a few familiar faces in the stands at McLeod Athletic Park in Langley (should any islanders feel compelled to cross the water to watch some extremely…enthusiastic…softball).

Whatever the outcome, the Ballers will heed the immortal words of Jimmy Dugan: “there’s

no crying in baseball!”

Team roster: Andrea Layzell, Ben Sunderland, Brad “Ripper” Rypien, Bruce Lyne, Casey Grundy, Courtney Morris, Duy Son, Gillian Drake, Henry Campbell, Iain Mitchell, James Lafferty, Jessie Perry, Kevin Manning, Lee Vincent, Rachel Klingler, Randi Topp, Rebecca Lyne, Rich Ralph, Robert Clayton, Spencer Grundy.

Ballers’ game schedule: first is Friday 7:40 p.m. vs. Sitters and Hitters at McLeod Athletic Park.

Second is Saturday at 10:40 a.m. vs. Mariners at Ron Ralph Field.

Third game is at 2:40 p.m. vs. Hot Pockets at Brown Park - Diamond 1. Brown Park. It is a three-game round robin format followed by single elimination!

Elimination games start Sunday.

Led by the Most Fun Couple, Scott and Sheana Stevenson, and the Most Outstanding Pitcher, Ben Sunderland, the Loggers enjoy their well-earned reputation as the most lubricated and vocal team in the league. They treated the Cruisers to an incredible back and forth battle that ended in a “walk off” home run. Though disappointed by a season cut short, the Loggers took up residence in the bleachers and channelled their energy into boisterous cheering.

The Sluggers, perennial regular season champions, finished second in the overall standings this year and faced the lower-ranked Mad Batters in the 12 p.m. game.

The veteran squad, led by Most Valuable Player Spencer Grundy and coached by league president George Zawadzki, gave the Mad Batters all they could handle for the first few innings but started squeezing the bats a little too tightly as the game approached the seventh. The Batters prevailed in the second upset of the day.

Led by the dynamic and Most Dedicated duo of Jared Brown and Andrea Layzell, the Phoenix were regular season champions and the only team to play five women and five men in every game—a trend they continued in the playoffs.

The Phoenix took on the underdog Cruisers in the 2 p.m. game.

Lead off hitter and crowd-favourite Daniel McGregor started the Cruisers off with a bang but

Phoenix ultimately prevailed in a hard-fought contest.

The 4 p.m. game was the Batters versus Phoenix for the whole shebang. Tight defence from both teams yielded a low-scoring affair that saw both teams get blanked in one inning…and run up five runs in another. The game ended in a 12-11 nail-biter. The Phoenix became the league’s first back-toback champion.

The league accurately proclaimed this the “best season ever” and it ended with the best “wrap-up party ever.” Some hard work from a hardworking executive (including Bowen Superstar Casey Grundy) enabled players to eat tasty tacos at Doc Morgan’s while watching video montages assembled by Clive John Scarff. In a surprise twist, President George announced that he was stepping down and proposed league Treasurer, Chief Umpire, Most Sportsmanlike Player, and off the charts good guy Lee Vincent to step into the role. Will he accept?

Only time will tell.

As the party took off, Ginger 66 rocked the house with a well-curated set of bangin’ cover tunes to the delight of a packed dance floor. At the end of the night, six teams of weary ball players found their way safely home. One can’t help but be comforted by the wisdom of the Bad News Bears: “there’s always next year.”

Do we really have to wait that long?

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