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Students strike Friday FRIDAY, PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE POISED STRIKE TO DEMAND CLIMATE ACTION, INCLUDING MANY STUDENTS

BRENT RICHTER

North Shore News

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Lizzie Borden (Morgan Darcy, in the striped shirt) and “the actress” (Kat Stephens, in the pink shirt) in the Blood Relations rehearsal. Director Calder Stewart (in green) and actor Frazer Elliott look on. See the story below.

Lizzie Borden’s coming to Bowen Island BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

It’s one of the most famous murder mysteries in popular memory: the case of Lizzie Borden.

This October, nearly 130 years after the Borden murders, Lizzie’s coming to Bowen Island.

Next month, Theatre on the Isle is performing the Governor General’s Awardwinning play Blood Relations by Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock.

In the first Theatre on the Isle play since

2017’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Calder Stewart makes his theatre directorial debut.

The Bowen-raised youth acting teacher is no stranger to the stage. Stewart started out acting at Tir-na-nOg as a six-year-old (shortly after he had moved to the island) and continued honing the art through his childhood until he moved off-island at about 20.

At that point Stewart stopped doing plays in favour of a career teaching martial arts.

A couple of years ago, Stewart returned to what he’d always wanted to do: acting.

While Stewart now lives on the mainland

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and works where he can in the industry, the (relatively) young director’s connection to Bowen is still strong and Stewart frequently acts in local plays (most recently, Much Ado About Nothing).

Stewart first read Blood Relations about a decade ago. Through the years, the play stuck with him. When contemplating directing his first play, Stewart knew what he wanted to show.

“It’s an incredibly well-written piece, there’s almost no wasted time,” says Stewart.

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Class is in session on Friday but hundreds of North Shore students won’t be there.

Young people from around the Lower Mainland are pledging to converge at Vancouver city hall Friday for the Global Climate Strike inspired by activist Greta Thunberg.

Among them will be 12-year-old Mulgrave School student Grace Wootten.

“Honestly, I think I really need to do this. I guess, my whole life I’m going to be worried about this,” she said. “I really shouldn’t have to worry about climate change while I should be focusing on my education.”

The movement calls for all countries to transition “fairly and swiftly away from fossil fuels” in the hope of preserving a habitable climate, but some countries have further to go than others, Wootten added.

“I want the U.S. to really step in, along with China and same with Canada. Honestly, I know we produce a lot of oil and it’s really hard for our economy, but I think we need to suck it up and just deal with it because this is a big problem,” Wooten said.

The existential dread Wootten feels is palpable when she forecasts a worst-case scenario. “I imagine tonnes of people squished into one continent and millions starving because obviously food won’t be able to grow. Imagine if Indonesia lost their staple food, rice. All of that country would starve. Most animals on the planet will probably go extinct,” she said.

Dozens of Argyle Secondary students are planning to walk out of class and bus to the protest, which organizers are hoping will draw upwards of 10,000 people.

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Event Calendar September 30, 2019 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting

October 1, 2019 7:00 pm Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting

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BowENS test on October 15th Heads up! We’re testing the Bowen Island Public Notification System on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at around 3:00 pm. If you’re registered for BowENS, you’ll receive a test notification on the devices you chose when you signed up. Make sure to listen to the end of the message so that the system doesn’t try to reach you again!

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October 2, 2019 5:00 pm Advisory Design Panel Meeting

October 3, 2019 7:00 pm Environment and Climate Action Advisory Committee 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.

What are your childcare needs?

This comprehensive survey is part of a BC Government grant to explore child care needs in communities like Bowen Island.

In order to fulfill the requirements of the grant and provide community specific data, it requests detailed information about child care arrangements and needs. If you are a parent on Bowen Island and can spare 20 to 30 minutes to answer questions about your child care arrangements and what you’d like to see in the future, please head to the link below. For those unable to participate online, stay tuned for face-to-face sessions in and around our community to provide valuable input.

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Seeking Public Comment for DVP Applications Five (5) Development Variance Permit applications will be considered by Council at the September 30th Council meeting: DVP-06-2019 For 971 Seaview Pl to reduce side setback and increase maximum height. Variance will legalize existing nonconforming house.

DVP-07-2019 For 375 Cardena Dr to increase maximum floor area for a secondary suite. Variance will allow secondary suite use within the existing floorplan of the lower floor.

DVP-08-2019 For 1122 Miller Rd to reduce front and side setbacks, reduce parking minimums, and increase maximum lot coverage. Variance will allow construction of two small additions: an office and a food bank storage area.

DVP-09-2019 For 334 Cardena Dr to reduce side setbacks and the sea setback. Variance will enable renovation work to an existing home, including an enclosed porch, new front porch, and a deck replacement.

DVP-10-2019 For 1495 Willliams Rd to reduce front and side setbacks.

Variance will allow a new house to replace an existing house on the property.

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A Climate Conversation With Harold Steves, the Father of the BC Agricultural Land Reserve Municipal Hall, Sunday October 6, 2pm - 4pm For the past two years Bowen Island Food Sovereignty group has been grappling with food security in an era of climate change and serious agricultural soil degradation. Harold Steves has been addressing these issues for the past 40 years as a 4th generation farmer, Richmond Councillor, and Provincial MLA. Harold will offer a presentation on the benefits of regenerative agriculture in addressing the climate emergency.

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ISLAND NEWS CALLING FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE

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Bowen Island Food Sovereignty made a visit to Harold Steves’ farm back in June.

There they learned about Steves’ work in farmland preservation, seed saving and land stewardship.

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“They’re all working towards this one goal and that will grab a lot of attention from people who are going about their daily lives in Vancouver and also maybe people in higher positions and government,” said Adreanna Cundiff, co-founder of the school’s Environment Club. “If we don’t make change now, we’re facing a really bleak future.”

While the prospects may seem dire, club member Amelia Burggraf said she feels the older generations are starting to get the message that young people are already so attuned to, despite climate action not being part of the school curriculum.

“A really important part of climate action is system change,” she said. “A lot of older people have developed bad habits in sustainability just because that’s what they grew up with. That’s what they live with. … But if we educate kids now all over every high school, they’re not going to develop those bad habits. Then it’s just going to become normal.”

Neither of the North Shore’s school districts have sanctioned students striking but parents may sign their kids out for the day in advance.

“We’re planning to run a regular school day but certainly appreciate that there will be some families and some students who are going to choose to participate in a protest, and that’s completely fine. We’re just asking that they would follow normal procedures,” said Sean Nosek, West Vancouver Schools associate superintendent. “We obviously recognize, for many of us, young people included, the environment, the impact of climate change is a huge concern and what’s more, the desire to take action is laudable.”

The Capilano Students’ Union will be leading its members to the protest, although the school is also not cancelling classes.

“We strike because we are in the midst of a crisis — one that threatens to destroy our collective future,” an open letter from the CSU read. “Our leaders have failed to recognize climate change as the emergency it is and we no longer accept their promises of incremental change.”

On Bowen Island: Island Pacific School is participating in the strike (see a letter from its grade nine class on page 4.) Bowen Island Community School is part of the West Vancouver School District. In an email to parents BICS principal Scott Slater said that, “As a school system we cannot avoid, and shouldn’t, influencing the values of the children in our care. We transmit these values in what is taught and not taught, and how.

“This is an awesome responsibility but we will continue to keep our focus on informing and empowering students with the skills to understand complex issues and make decisions rather than teaching or telling them what to think.

“The decision to join a climate strike…is up to families, and the school supports children regardless of their choices.”

This story has been edited from the original version published on the North Shore News website September 24. With files from Bronwyn Beairsto at the Bowen Island Undercurrent.

Farming for generations: Harold Steves PHIL GREGORY

Bowen Island Food Sovereignty

Harold Steves’ family has been farming in Richmond since 1877 and his sons are now the fifth generation. Over his lifetime as a farmer, Harold has been at the forefront of many agricultural issues, championing farmland preservation, seed saving and good stewardship of the land.

As a member of the Dave Barrett NDP government in the early ’70s, Harold helped set up the Agricultural Land Reserve and he continues to champion the saving of farmland. He is acutely aware that this region has only about a three-day supply of food in the event of any emergency.

A contingent from Bowen Island Food Sovereignty, Julie Sage, Meribeth Deen and I, visited Harold on his farm in June of this year to learn from his insights, stories and wisdom. The family’s farm history was evident all around us; it appeared they had never thrown out any of the farm’s nearly 150 years’ worth of implements or artifacts.

Only 15 acres of the original farm is left. Most of it was lost in the Great Depression in a $3-per-acre tax sale but the family later acquired more farmland near Cache Creek, which their son Jerry manages.

They raise all grass-fed organic beef, which they direct market to the public along with organic eggs. At one time, they had difficulty getting their cattle slaughtered as the abattoir was frequently shut down because of e-coli outbreaks.

As it turned out, the abattoir was slaughtering their grass-fed beef together with grain-fed beef. According to Harold, grain increases the acidity in the rumen of the cow, which encourages bacteria that can survive that acidity. The e-coli problem disappeared when they moved to an abattoir that only slaughters grass-fed animals.

Harold studied genetics at UBC, which he puts to good use in the family’s heirloom seed business. The Steves’ started B.C.’s first seed company around 1888. As we were leaving, Harold’s eyes lit up when he showed us his special variety of heirloom tomatoes called “Alpha tomatoes,” which ripen two weeks earlier than any other variety.

At UBC, he was exposed to two professors with completely opposite views on the future of agriculture. One warned that farmers who didn’t convert to chemical agriculture wouldn’t last. He chose to follow the advice of Professor McKenzie, who

was bucking the trend and advocated the organic point of view.

Interestingly, all his friends who went into chemical agriculture are no longer farming.

Harold is now a big proponent of regenerative agriculture. This is a farming method that regenerates soil fertility, improves water retention, fosters biodiversity, and sequesters carbon.

Harold recalls class discussions about climate change at UBC in 1959-60. The well-known climatologist, Dr. Peterson, had warned that within 50 years there would be very little ice in the Arctic. In Harold’s opinion, the climate has changed so much in the B.C. interior that we’re not going to get trees growing back and the big problem will be grass and underbrush fires.

Harold sees an important role for the holistic grazing approach as proposed by Allan Savory: moving large herds of herbivores to recycle the grass and brush, reducing of the risk of fire while rebuilding the fertility of the soil and its ability to infiltrate and store more water.

Harold has been a Richmond Councillor since 1977 and is a current member of the Metro Vancouver Board. The City of Richmond has worked in very creative ways to rescue what remains of its urban farmland. The land is used to develop incubator farms with Kwantlen University’s farm school program, set up allotment gardens, and establish a community garden where they grow food for the food bank.

Harold also brought us up to date on Richmond’s system for composting green yard waste. First, the city successfully banned the use of pesticides in residential areas and then it banned the growing of genetically modified crops (GMOs).

Richmond Food and Fibre recycled the green waste in an anaerobic digester and the result was good enough to put on organic crops.

Unfortunately, the company was bought out by Harvest Power, which mixed the Richmond yard waste with food waste from elsewhere, thereby creating serious odour problems and material that could no longer be used for organic farming. In the last few months, Harvest Power shut down completely, leaving Richmond in limbo. Harold expressed the view that different streams of waste needed to be treated separately.

Come hear Harold’s Climate Conversation: Farmland Preservation & Revitalization on Sunday, October 6, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Municipal Hall.

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‘Our future is in jeopardy’: Island Pacific School students DEAR BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY: Our future is in jeopardy. Our future is being destroyed. Our future doesn’t leave us with much hope. It’s time to take action against climate change. Recently, Canada declared a climate emergency. Now it is time to ACT on it. More than 125 countries are taking part in this strike and we need to join them.

This coming Friday, September 27, members of the Island Pacific School community will be raising their voices outside Vancouver City Hall to help send a clear message: we need climate action now. We ask for your support and urge you to join us in this international fight for our future.

Our carbon footprint has been getting larger and larger every year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reported that we only have 11 years to stop the warming of our climate before it can’t be turned around. If we fail to act now, we lose our future.

The time is long overdue, we need to take action now. We need to reverse what we have done.

We are taking the initiative to make our voices heard. We are going to make the government listen to what scientists have been trying to say for years. We need to make them listen.

Join us on Friday, September 27 to strike for our future. #fridaysforfuture.

Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue at 1 p.m.

Sincerely, ––The grade nine class of Island Pacific School

IslandsTrust should prioritize antilogging advocacy

DEAR EDITOR: The Islands Trust should make it one of their main priorities to get the Ministry of Forests to take all of the islands off the B.C. coast out of their cutblocks, TFL, whoever, for all time. Doing this would accomplish many of the Islands Trusts goals at once: protecting nature, protecting and enhancing the sustainable livelihoods of the local populations, and conserving the precarious water tables we have, especially in the age of global climate crisis.

Specifically, on these islands, those of us with on-island jobs basically live off tourism in one way or another. If the forests are clear-cut, visiting our islands loses all attractiveness for modern visitors. Even artists who sell to tourists would lose customers because tourists would not come here anymore if faced with a desecrated landscape. The marine life would also be protected by preventing harmful runoff into streams, foreshore environments where eelgrass grows and estuaries, all of which are vital spawning grounds for a great many coastal marine species and food sources for both man and animal, such as bears, etc.

Clear-cutting has an especially detrimental effect on the water systems of islands.

The forest keeps the drinking water topped up and prevents the invasion of salt water into our aquifers, by allowing the watershed and water tables to be maximally replenished, instead rain water runoff taking our precious and limited supply of soil with it.

It is really a question of the long term survival of the islands. The Islands Trust should negotiate with the Ministry of Forests to change its policy towards the Islands once and for all, for the future. That does not mean that we cannot have some single-tree selective logging or that we must put a stop to every building lot.

It does mean an end to proportionally massive clear cuts and land developments that undermine the fisheries, wildlife, and tourism values we need to protect and enhance.

––Imke and Silvaine Zimmermann

Christianity, faith and the environment Thank you for kindness DEAR EDITOR: Cates Hill Chapel is hosting a series of talks in our morning worship services through the end of October about the relationship between faith and environmental concerns. This series is called “Green: In the beginning God created… trees.” We feel the Christian story has something to offer about matters of climate change, hope, and our responsibility. In addition to the perspective from scientists, politicians, activists, and economists, faith communities also have someone to share. If you feel comfortable in a church, please consider joining us as we express prayers of hope and healing, sing songs about the beauty of creation, teach our children about the forests on Bowen, and learn about how the Christian Scriptures portray of all of creation. We hope that our faith and imaginations are stretched as we engage in a faith response to this critical issue. Childcare provided.

––Phil Adkins, Cates Hill Chapel pastor

DEAR EDITOR: I would like to take this time to thank all the good people of Bowen Island who these past two months have sent letters/cards/flowers/ gifts of yummy food in the form of condolences and warm hugs to me regarding the passing of my husband Roy McKinley. These acknowledgements have reinforced how wonderfully caring our community is and I have been so appreciative and thank everyone so much.

Sincerely, ––Monica McKinley

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IPS founderTed Spear releases Education Reimagined

SPEAR DISCUSSES A POSSIBLE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: ‘TO EQUIP AND INSPIRE KIDS TO CULTIVATE THEIR HUMANITY’

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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It’s a lofty ambition, reforming the public educational system.

But Ted Spear’s no stranger to lofty ambitions.

The founder of Island Pacific School (IPS) released his book, Education Reimagined: The Schools our Children Need, back in July.

The somewhat philosophical, somewhat autobiographical, somewhat manual-y book from the islander of nearly 30 years is about the future of education.

“It’s a dead simple book, there’s only two moves in it,” says Spear.

The first move is asking “why before how.” In other words, asking what schools are for (which he has a proposal of what they should be for) and then once you’ve got that philosophical core down, then you can go off and make innovative and disruptive changes. He’s got ideas about those too.

Spear’s ideas have been crafted through decades of work in the education field. He did a bachelor of education and a master and PhD of philosophy of education. He taught in Northern Manitoba, in Haida Gwaii and at Columbia College, becoming more and more impatient with the mainstream education system. So in 1995, along with a few other people, he started his own school. Spear was head of IPS on and off before retiring in 2017.

Spear’s experiences starting and moulding the private island middle school, which today serves more than 60 kids between grades six and nine, provide lessons and possible models for mainstream improvement. While IPS is a foundational piece of the book and its ideas, Spear concerns himself more with the public education system as that is where the majority of the population is educated.

Spear says that the book is directed toward both parents and educators.

“People talk about education reform and the hope is this time around, we get a period of educators on the same page about what direction we could go,” says Spear. “So it’s a critical book but it’s also a hopeful book.”

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Ted Spear holds the recently-released Education Reimagined.

In what Spear calls a “bald critique,” he says that one way to look at schools is as “giant accreditation mechanisms to figure out winners and losers and who goes to university.”

“We train people for the workforce,” he says. “So I’m saying that’s not really good enough for what a [kindergarten] to [grade] 12 education should be.”

Instead, Spear proposes that the idea should be to “equip and inspire kids to cultivate their humanity.”

“Those are code words for big ideas,” says Spear. “Cultivating

humanity is an old-fashioned classical liberal education and that says human beings have these capacities, these powers, to reason and to be moral agents and to be creative, to be physically intentional and you get the most out of your humaneness by cultivating those things.”

Spear highlights that teachers everywhere are “working their butts off” and it’s despite their best intentions that the structure has a few problems.

Spear says that his most controversial chapter is the one on student assessment.

He says that grade 12 transcripts don’t tell enough about what kids can actually do.

“So what I’m looking for, in terms of a solution is a broader, deeper, richer profile of who kids are. What they’re interested in. What their strengths are.” He suggests a model where teachers spend less time doing “classificatory assessment” and spend more time talking with students about what they’re working on. It’s worth noting here that this book is far from a dry recitation of high theory, at one point Spear compares student grade assessments with dating –– how would you feel about an end-of-night mark out of 10?

Far from offering easy fixes, Spear acknowledges that educational reform is a difficult, convoluted problem. But the payoff is worth it.

“I want parents to read the book because when they see some educator trying something different, I want them to support the educator and the knowledge of what they’re trying to pull off,” says Spear. “And I want educators to understand parents a bit more and to know where they’re coming from and what their aspirations are.”

“The final chapter is about happiness,” says Spear. “That’s actually what we want, is a particular kind of happiness for our kids.”

Education Reimagined: The Schools Our Children Need is available at Phoenix and on Amazon for $20.

Spear is also hosting an EdTalk and book launch at the Library Annex on Tuesday, Oct. 1 between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

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Understanding the Village: a workshop PAULINE LE BEL

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For 27 years, Kathi Camilleri has been passionate about healing the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. Knowing Our Place is honoured to be bring her workshop, Building Bridges Through Understanding the Village, to Bowen on Saturday, October 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Library Annex.

This is a powerful participatory workshop. With humour and kindness, Kathi will guide us toward solutions rather than recrimination. We will be exploring our personal role in supporting the revival of the values that worked so beautifully in Indigenous villages for thousands of years. The effects of residential schools and Canada’s policy of assimilation will also be addressed.

Kathi is Cree/Métis on her mother’s side, Irish on her father’s, proud of both sides of her ancestry. She has a master of leadership studies. “I began by counselling residential school survivors when the federal government provided funding,” she tells me.

She also worked as a journalist for the Awa’k’wis Kwaikutl District Council newspaper.

Kathi became a counsellor with the Laichwilltact Family Life Society, a notfor-profit society providing healing programs, and ran a parenting group. She also went out into the broader community to let people know about the programs the society offered, including residential school healing programs. “Inevitably,” she says, “an educated person would ask: ‘What’s a residential school?’”

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Kathi Camilleri will host “Bulding Bridges Trhough Understanding the Village Oct. 12 at the Library Annex.

She interviewed Elders and wrote down their life stories. “In those days, people weren’t talking about residential school. They would skip over that part of their story. Three paragraphs about how many oolichan there were in Kincome Inlet. One sentence about attending Kuper Island.” She wasn’t aware that Kuper Island referred to a residential school. “I knew, by the way they said it, not to ask. No place for them to talk about it.” Service providers for the Ministry of Children and Families had no knowledge of how to address the trauma of residential schools.

Since then she has provided healing programs, consultation and workshops with aboriginal communities, all levels

of government, health providers, social workers and educators.

Kathi’s hope for the future? “That we see each other as relatives. That we come together. We all need to heal. We can move mountains when we figure out how to work with one another rather than against one another.

“The more understanding, the more healing can happen. This is what fills my heart.”

Knowing Our Place is an initiative brought to you by Pauline Le Bel, the Bowen Library, Bowen Arts Council and Bowen Island Literacy Task Group. The aim is to learn our true history with Indigenous Peoples and to foster mutually-enhancing relationships.

Kathi shares her experience with a gentleman who attended one of her workshops.

“He was very much in his head,” she says, wondering if he was getting it. “The workshop can be emotional.”

At the end of the day, the man approached her and said: “I don’t think reconciliation will be about the grand gesture. I am going to be different in every action with all the Indigenous people I meet because now I understand so deeply.”

We invite you to be part of this workshop, to be part of the healing that is already taking place. Saturday, October 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bowen Library.

Please bring your lunch and beverage.

Morning coffee, tea and snacks will be provided. The workshop is free but you must register as space is limited. Please register at: bit.ly/KOPBuildingBridges or go to the Bowen Library website bowenlibrary.ca.

Nookian 10-year celebrations JOHN LAWRENCE

Knick Knack Nook

Ten years ago, a small committee of public-spirited islanders met at Island Pacific School to plan a reuse-it store, with the expressed intention of keeping reusable materials out of the landfill. A major step forward was when Morganne Keplar and Diane Marshall spied an ad for a 50 per cent sale on a demountable building from Ontario’s Future Steel. Not wishing to lose this heaven-sent opportunity, they clubbed together and bought the structure, sight unseen, on their credit cards for $11,000. Such was the beginning of today’s store.

The store has long since paid off its early debts, more than doubled in size and today is a major financial supporter of our community’s many organizations and institutions. These are achievements worth celebrating.

Our journey has gathered in its own unique stories and cast of colourful characters. Indeed we have become a Bowen Island institution.

The volunteers of the KKN wish to invite islanders to celebrate 10 wonderful years at the Nook. The celebration will take place on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Legion. Please note the date in your diaries.

In the weeks leading up to the event look out for the online auction of specially selected donations. Bidding will close on the evening of Nov. 8 and winners will be posted at the Legion during the evening where the prizes may be collected.

The evening will feature: a small silent auction; recognition of the community members who made it possible; a bottle drive, the bottles to be presented by fashionably dressed volunteers dressed solely in Nookian high couture; a cash bar and a cheese board with a mouth-watering collection from around the world; food, stories, music and lots of laughs.

All Proceeds of the event will go to the new health centre.

The volunteers have chosen to make the occasion an opportunity to raise funds for that long awaited, island medical centre.

The Bowen Island Heath Centre Foundation has received a donation, which has been invested in a piece of land for the building. It has received pledges of over $1 million toward a $5 million target for a large generously appointed facility. The Nook, with your support, would like to make its contribution too.

EDUCATION REIMAGINED The Schools Our Children Need

Patient of the Week MEET GIPSY & FLASH This brother and sister duo put aside any sibling rivalries and braved their first vet visit together. They are off to a good start after having a thorough head-to-tail examination done along with vaccinations, internal parasite control and flea and tick prevention. As you can see, they sought comfort in each other’s arms after their big day at the Doctor’s office.

HOURS: Tuesday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm Saturdays from 9:00am – 1:00pm.

Dr. Midge Ritchie and veterinary assistants are also available 24/7 for urgent care.

Call the regular line at 604.947.9247 and press “1” to be forwarded to the doctor.

To schedule appointments, please call

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(Founding Head of Island Pacific School)

EDTalk and Book Launch Tuesday, Oct 1 7:00-8:30 pm Bowen Library Annex

No admission charge. Refreshments served.

“If you have kids, teach kids, or know kids, you must read this book.”

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BOWEN ISLAND real estate guide • what sold what’s next

949 w'%#j&mm"! r$&# Specializing in BOWEN ISLAND and HOWE SOUND

FRAZER ELLIOTT REALTOR®

604.910.3401 felliottbowen@gmail.com

www.bowenhomes.ca

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949 Windjammer Road

$1,149,000

The Bridge House is a one-of-a-kind custom Bowen gem. Built across a creek that flows through the property’s gardens and orchard, this sunny SW facing home captures a creative balance between nature and architecture. Inside features custom cabinetry throughout, and comforts such as a gas FP, infloor radiant heat, and an HRV. Three bedrooms upstairs, including a gorgeous master suite, and a den/4th bedroom on the main floor with its own bathroom. Below is a rec room/office with separate entrance. Meticulously maintained inside and out, and sited at the back of the property for plenty of privacy. Embraced by oversized decks positioned to take in the incredible evening sunsets with views over the Pasleys and out to the Salish Sea. Just a short walk to Crayola Beach and Handlogger’s Trail.

935 Windjammer Road $1,850,000

1467 Tunstall Boulevard $675,000

Lots 3, 4 and 11 Foxglove Lane $326,000 to $382,000

Stunning four bedroom Bluewater estate on nearly an acre

Cute, cared-for and creative Panabode

Single family or duplex building lots

1625 Evergreen Lane $349,000

347 Aerie Tree Lane $668,000

580 Dulcie Road - Gambier Island. $579,000

Gently sloped and largely cleared half acre lot

2.72 acre building lot bordering the Ecological Reserve

2 bedroom home on 6.3 acres, with one of the premier views on Gambier

Specializing in BOWEN ISLAND and HOWE SOUND

FRAZER ELLIOTT REALTOR®

604.910.3401 felliottbowen@gmail.com www.bowenhomes.ca

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Continued indications that the market is stabilizing Sales Closed in August

TIMOTHY RHODES CONTRIBUTOR

As summer draws to an end, the Bowen Island market continues to show signs that it is stabilizing.

Comparing year-over-year, many of the indicators in August 2019 are up over July 2019, including Average Price per Square Foot, Sale Price as a Per Cent of Original Price, Median Price, Average Price, and MLS® Home Price Index. The year-overyear Average Sales price was up +4.4 per cent from June 2019 to July 2019 and up +2.6 per cent from July 2019 to August 2019.

Comparing the month of August 2018 to the August 2019, the Average Price was up 21.4 per cent; however, comparing year-over-year (12 months from September 2018 through August 2018), the Average Price was down -7.0 per cent and year-to-date was down -10.0 per cent. The market still lags well behind 2018 for dollar volume and total number of sales, with dollar volume YoY at October 2014 levels and number of sales at September 2012 levels.

The Bowen Island market

continues to be more resilient than our Metro Vancouver neighbours.

Our YoY decline in the MLS®HPI at less than 1 per cent per cent was the lowest followed by Pitt Meadows at -2.0 per cent. During the same period, West Vancouver experienced the highest YoY decline at -15.4 per cent.

Bowen Island real estate has also held its value over the last 2 years. The YoY MLS®HPI was up 14.5 per cent from 2017 followed

by Pitt Meadows at 11.9 per cent, while White Rock, Burnaby, North Vancouver, Richmond, Vancouver, and West Vancouver losses ranged from -5.6 per cent to -15.4 per cent over the same period.

BOWEN ISLAND YOY STATS @31 August 2019: • MLS®HPI: $954,800 • Median Price: $965,000 • Average Price: $1,040,338 @31 July 2019 • MLS®HPI: $950,600 • Median Price: $940,000 • Average Price: $1,022,333

Per Cent Change in MLS®Home Price Index Bowen Island Langley City Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Surrey Langley Belcarra

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New Listings in August

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503 Collins Lane $988,000 WALKING DISTANCE TO SNUG COVE, THE FERRY, SCHOOL, AND BEACHES, AND BORDERING ON CRIPPEN PARK

This very private, sunny, mountain-view property is a 3-acre lot with a drilled well, approval for septic, two building sites with a building permit for a carriage house/detached suite, and roughed-in driveways and utilities.

Timothy Rhodes REALTOR®

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604-341-9488

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YoY Jul ‘19

Jun ‘19

$970,788

$1,013,958

$1,400,338

$980,767

$982,138

$989,144

Average Sales Price

20%

Timothy Rhodes, REALTOR®

Angell Hasman & Associates, Realty, Ltd. For more information: www.rhodesonbowen.com/blog-main Data represents the MLS® detached home data only as at 30 August 2019. Data source © 2019 BC Northern Real Estate Board, Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, and Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. All rights reserved. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

527 Collins Lane $2,990,000 CONTEMPORARY MEETS COUNTRY

WALKING DISTANCE TO SNUG COVE AND FERRY 6657 sq. ft. designed for family and entertaining, this awardwinning architectural design overlooks a sunny, 4-acre, park-like setting with sports pool, detached suite, barn, workshop, and orchard. Level entry with master suite on main and upper floor.

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1300 Hillcrest

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892 Schooner Lane

1130 Miller

1673 Woods Road

Oldtimer Cottage with Character and Charm on .46 acre 2 bedrms/2 bath ML# R2364546

Live in the cottage while you build a new home Stunning West side view on .4 of an acre ML# R2323322

Easy walk to the Cove, 2 bedrm/2 bath with a separate studio out back Well maintained and oozing charm.

ML# R2368204

3 bedrm/2 bath. Views to the Sunshine Coast Hop, skip and a jump to Woods Beach ML# R2398559

$589,000

$725,000

$759,000

$789,000

636 Cowan Road

4 bedrm/3 bath. Close to the cove Popular B&B since 1992 ML# R2349605

3 bedrm/ 3 bath On the sunny south slope Priced to sell and wont last long ML# R2397966

921 Fairway Lane

1489 Williams Road South facing Eaglecliff WATERFRONT 2/3 bedrm/ 2 bath ML# R23837008

3 bedrm/2 bath on a sunny acre Craftsmanship extraordinaire plus the dream workshop ML# R2267856

$849,000

$999,800

$998,000

$1,225,000

1142 Miller Road

871 Valhalla

361 Cardena Drive

925 Elrond Court

464 Melmore

4 bedrms/5 baths in Valhalla Great family home Huge view from the north to the south ML# R23867117

Prestigious Snug Point Waterfront Cottage Quiet neighbourhood while watching the activity of the Cove ML# R2347243

Meticulously designed and built 3 bedrm/2 bath Enthralling view of Howe Sound ML# R2325755

Inviting home with a historical significance 4 bedrm/4 bath Easy walk across the Lagoon to Snug Cove and the ferries ML# R2292370

$1,299,000

$1,359,000

$1,548,000

$1,679,000

New Price

341 Aerie Tree Lane

292 Smugglers Cove Road

1099 Brookside Drive

925 Arbutus Bay Lane

A country estate on Island time 4. bedrm/4 bath Privacy & acreage on the sunny south slope ML# R2391780

Architecturally designed Waterfront in Hood Point Extraordinary views from this home located above a lovely pebbled beach ML# R2319563

One of kind Estate nestled in a 2.5 acre park-like setting Infinity swimming pool with endless view south over the Straight of Georgia Stunning contemporary home with aSeparate cottage, water garden and so much more ML# R2378335

1.14 acre Garden Estate with 2 bedrm/2 bath coach house at the entry gate leading to a second custom built luxury home.

Southerly view over Georgia Straight ML# R2279402

$1,895,000

$2,280,000

$2,688,000

$2,888,000

604.612.7798 Dee Elliott

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Rivendell Heights INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL Perched just below its peak, Cates Hill’s Rivendell Heights is the newest addition to the neighbourhood. Enjoy the convenience of flat and easy build sites, with sewer already to the lot line. The view is framed by Mt Gardner and Mt Collins, and looks out over Killarney Lake towards Gambier Island and northern Howe Sound - a vista that is unique on Bowen. Right next to the trail down to Artisan Square, within walking distance of the school, and close to all the amenities that Snug Cove has to offer, including shops, restaurants and the ferry. Call now to find out about discounts for the first three accepted offers from buyers looking to do a build themselves. One of five lots available.

Address

Price (Excluding GST)

Lot 1

901 Rivendell Drive

$ 450,000

$ 428,571

Lot 2

899 Rivendell Drive

$ 440,000

$ 419,048

Lot 3

897 Rivendell Drive

$ 430,000

$ 409,524

Lot 4

895 Rivendell Drive

$ 420,000

$ 400,000

Lot 5

893 Rivendell Drive

$ 390,000

$ 371,429

Sale Promotion

935 Fairway Lane $549,000 ML#R2337747

Price (Including GST)

Discount (Including GST)

Discount (Excluding GST)

First Accepted Offer

$ 45,000

$ 42,857

Second Accepted Offer

$ 35,000

$ 33,333

Third Accepted Offer

$ 25,000

$ 23,810

1630 Evergreen Lane $515,000 ML#R2239640

1620 Evergreen Lane $599,000 ML#R2211814

COMING SOON

West side panabode. Waterfront

Josephine Ridge Family Home

Bluewater 3 bed 2 bath B&B potential

For more information on individual listings go to http://www.bowenhomes.ca

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881 RUSSELL LANE (Lot 4)

Dream of homeownership realized with patience and guidance.

BOWEN ISLAND

“Greg went out of his way to lead us through a complicated purchase with patient explanations and guidance allowing us to realize our dream of home ownership on Bowen”.

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The Hearth hosts Still/ed Here, a story of displacement Thursday, September 26, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Library Annex: Still/ed Here––A story of displacement. Conversation on collaboration, co-creation with community, poetry and new media.

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Events such as the Still/ed Here presentation, a story of displacement and healing, coming to Bowen Island on September 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 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 September 26, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visit Still/ed Here.ca for more about this project. Admission is by donation.

––Kathleen Ainscough, The Hearth, Arts on Bowen

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BOWEN BEAT

Opening scenes: change/able

Emily van Lidth de Jeude’s change/able Gallery at Cove Commons exhibit opening Sept. 21 saw islanders of all ages playing with the exhibit pieces. Upon entering the show, gallery guests are met with a row of white gloves, which, once donned, allow the inclined to rearrange exhibit components. The show runs until Oct. 20.

PHOTOS BY ANNE BOA

Exhibit artist Emily van Lidth de Jeude (left).

Gallery curator Emilie Kaplun.

A show for the young and young at heart.

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ARTISAN SQUARE

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Tattoo Artist, Kelly Miller

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Inspired by the spirit of the sea: Becca Fairbairn NICOLE BARRATT

WomenClan

The lap of water has been ever-present in Becca Fairbairn’s life.

There were windswept days spent on sunfish sailboats as a child, holidays spent by alpine lakes with her own children, and in recent years, summers spent drifting between the islands– often solo– of Desolation Sound.

Becca’s current Bowen home sits fittingly on the water’s edge; a historic cottage peering out at the churning ocean and vast horizon. Her art desk is perched on the balcony, where she paints (predominantly boats) on wooden exhibition panels and recycled wood.

Her adventurous spirit stemmed from an upbringing in Coboconk, central Ontario, where her great-grandfather opened a saw mill, general store and hotel. More than 2200 acres were backyard to Becca and her four siblings. “It was a ranch-style house on a peninsula that ran out into a lake, so from the time I was seven I ran a boat.

Mostly we had run-about tin boats and canoes, then I graduated to a Hobie Cat.” They housed a collection of pets– “my parents never said no to any animal brought home”. There were sibling pheasants Antony and Cleopatra who resided in a dollhouse, and four golden retrievers who dotted sofas and clothes with trails of fur. “I was definitely a country mouse. The thrill of a subway and elevator ride in the city was still fresh when I was 10, but I preferred the country.”

Becca grew up with an appreciation for the arts. Her aunt was a sculptor who had a studio in an old morgue, and her mother painted and drew. “I remember my mom drawing people with charcoal when they came to visit; that’s when I saw the magic of what it means to be an artist. She’d have a blank piece of paper, and I’d just sit and watch this

person’s image evolve on it.”

Art’s validation in her childhood steered her towards her future education in arts. “I grew up in a household that really didn’t give me any message that going into the arts wasn’t a good idea.” Studies in Art History at Western University in Ontario followed her school years.

After earning a Master’s degree at UBC, she took on a role as an art history professor at Kwantlen University. “That fed two ambitions, I could teach, and at the time they were also developing curriculum there for a degree in liberal arts, so I helped with that too.” Becca says the engagement in a classroom setting fed her. “I loved the dynamic. It was my quest to engage the students fully, to try entice them into a love of learning using art history as the medium.”

Becca’s three sons were in tow by this time. Term breaks were spent in a remote cabin past Whistler, where Becca drew her boys in charcoal like her mother had done. “I brought print making materials up, we did casting of our faces, then we took up potting wheels. The boys started teaching people who visited us there how to throw pots.”

An attraction to painting was spurred by a fall trip back East to care for her mother. “I was driving around Ontario and it was ablaze in colour, and I had this dream of a rainbow of paint cascading down a waterfall. I woke up and thought, ‘I’ve got to paint. I’ve got to do colour.’”

So she painted old cigar boxes her mother had kept for her grandchildren to paint. “Then I opened up her cupboard and found a wooden scrubbing brush– I grabbed it and started painting that too. I started painting anything that was wooden and blank.”

Becca’s interest in painting on wood was sparked further with the purchase of her 50ft sailboat, Spring Moon. Returning to life in Vancouver and feeling suffocated in the city, she converted to life on water. “My

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Becca Fairbairn’s current Bowen home sits overlooking the sea. sons had nearly all graduated, so I bought this sailboat so that all I had to do when I felt confined was untie the lines and go.”

Becca’s partner at the time was also a keen sailor. “I thought if he can do it, so can I.” She took a course in navigation and learned from others she sailed with. Spring Moon’s interior was Burmese Teak wood; “I loved the stain of that, then I was doing the brightwork on my boat and I got interested in the varnishes.”

Becca’s signature style is to use the grain of the wood she paints on

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as part of the composition of her painting. The grain often suggests current, movement, or the material of the boat itself. Sometimes she sees figures in the grain and uses the lines to form people. “I had a stocked pond of images and techniques from my teaching years, so I was applying that knowledge to my own work. Then I found my niche painting these boats.” Oil paints, stains and Q-tips (to control the stains) became regular purchases.

Living on her boat, docking at various ports around Vancouver and exploring the Sound was freeing,

Becca says. “I love the marine environment and people who live on their boats. We all help each other in the marine community. It was about 95 percent men, and mostly salty types– very down to earth, cautious about their relationship to the environment, but risk takers too.”

Wildlife in the Sound is spectacular, Becca says, but its the richness of the communities she finds sailing she loves most. She recalls meeting an eccentric pair of brothers on Lasqueti Island one year when her boat’s batteries failed. “We pull up and there’s this massive wing of a plane on the dock, a big metal barge and a couch decorated in Christmas lights. Then there were these massive vats of algae by their house, which they were growing for aquariums around the world.” The day was complete with a BBQ held on the barge, where Lasqueti locals arrived and rafted their boats to climb aboard.

Eventually the need for an art studio led Becca to Bowen. She’d spent time in the forested hills of Fairweather years before with her sons visiting friends. She connected with fellow artist Vikki Fuller, who helped set her up with a studio space. Finding her land-legs again, Spring Moon was docked at Union Steamship Marina. “I thought, ‘This is it, I’m happy here’. It just worked out.”

Currently Becca can peer out at the ocean behind her easel, where she continues to conjure sea, sky and sailboats on wood. Her two faithful collies (Meg and Rose) bolt around the cottage’s grounds and happily sniff at salty breezes that drift by. Recently a heron landed on Becca’s desk amidst her paints and brushes. It seems her work is drawing in fans of both the human and feathered variety.

Find Becca’s work: Arts Pacific Gallery, 587a Artisan Ln, Bowen Island. This story was orignally published at womenclan.com by New Zealand journalist Nicole Barratt.

Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Reverend Lorraine Ashdown and Tina Overbury Service and Sunday School 10:30 am Collins Hall Bookings: Helen Wallwork Minister of Music: Lynn Williams

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

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Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation’s concept drawing for the new facility planned on Lot 3 of the Community Lands. Bowen Island Municipality has accepted an offer from the Heath Centre Foundation to buy a portion of the Lot 3 land.

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2019 BOWEN STUDIO TOURS

Presented by the HEARTH in celebration of BC Culture Days

Answering couple more health centre questions SHEREE JOHNSON

Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation

This story is a continuation of last week’s story “The Health Centre Foundation answers some common questions.” See the Sept. 19 edition to read more answers to common questions about the health centre.

The following are answers to some questions we hear often--drop us a line at info@ bowenhealthcentre.com or call 604-341-9488 if you have others.

How will we be able to raise $5 million?

The Bowen community is known for its generosity of spirit and funding. Our fundraising target for the facility is $5 million for 10,000 sq. ft. The preliminary construction budget for a health centre is running between $4.5 and $5.5 million and includes architectural costs, site costs, furniture, fixtures, and equipment costs, and costs for surveys, permits, approvals, design, and engineering. We’ve raised more than $1.2 million even before our current capital campaign began. This health centre belongs to all of us....and we need everyone to give like your health depends on it. Every fam-

ily, every individual will have the opportunity to use the services of the new health centre.

Whether you can give $300 or $300,000 over the next two-to-four years, we want to know your pledge amount as soon as possible so that we can continue to plan and make progress on this much needed initiative. Pledge forms can be found on our website at bowenhealthcentre.com/make-a-pledge/.

Can we get a mortgage to build the health centre?

While a mortgage for part of the capital budget is an option, we’d rather raise all the funds required to build this facility so we can begin operations with a clean balance sheet, without debt or constraints on our ability to deliver health services to the community. One of our benefits for recruitment is the very reasonable lease rate we plan to offer to tenants, and even a small mortgage would erode this benefit. We’d much rather have the income from operations be reinvested in health services and equipment than in interest payments on a mortgage. That said, “never say never” –– if needed we would not ignore any options down the road to get across the finish line and make this project happen.

Artists of Bowen bid you welcome to their studios and galleries on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29, 10am - 4pm.

If you see the STUDIO OPEN sign, please drop in.

We look forward to seeing you!

For complete listing of participating studios and galleries visit:

bowenstudiotours.ca

Please pick up a free colour map from the Gallery @ Cove Commons 430 Bowen Island Trunk Road, Cardena Entrance 604-947-2454 Hours: Mon - Wed 10am - 4pm thehearth.ca or the Visitor Information Centre

What did you think of our pilot?

From July 15–September 15, we trialed the Bowen Island Transit On-Demand Pilot to explore ways of improving mobility throughout communities.

Now, we need your help to shape the future of regional transportation.

Have your say by completing our online survey from Sept 16– Sept 29.

Fill out the survey at: translink.ca/bowen

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AT THE LEGION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th 1:00 – 5:00 Enjoy snacks and a big Birthday Cake Music including Moritz Behm’s - violin & vinyl playing No presents please, just bring a hug a story or an instrument to play.

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2019 Bowen Studio Tours 10-4:00 p.m Self guided tour of Bowen studios and galleries. More information at bowenstudiotours.ca Collections at Catching Stars Gallery 11- 5 pm Discover the works of 55 artists Annual Bowen Studio Tour.

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Child care planning focus group Library Annex 8:30 -11 a.m.

Share your thoughts on the child care needs assessment.

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Author Talk: Daniel Cowper Bowen Library 2 p.m. Bowen writer Daniel Cowper presents on his poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, and speaks on poetry-writing that depicts our Pacific Northwest home.

Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. No cost. More info at lisa.shatzky@gmail.com Norma Dallas’ 80th Birthday Bowen Island Legion1-5 pm There’ll be cake, snacks, and music with Moritz Behm. Everyone invited - no presents please just bring a hug, a story or an instrument to play.

Give it a Try: pickleball BICS 1 p.m. to 3 p.m Free, 55+ event Bowen Studio Tours continue 10-4:00 p.m More info at bowenstudiotours.com Yoga on the Pier Meet at the large dock in Snug Cove Marina where the ferry comes in 9 -10

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Talk: the climate emergency and the future of food SHASTA MARTINUK

Bowen Island Food Sovereignty

For the past six months, the Bowen Island Food Sovereignty (BIFS) group has been working on our project “Toward a Resilient Food System for Bowen Island” under the able direction of project manager Julie Sage, a local professional agrologist. After sifting through an impressive amount of data gathered from a stakeholders workshop, an online survey, and a dozen or so oneon-one interviews with Bowen farmers and natural resource experts, as well as information gleaned from our own research, we have produced two reports: “Communication and Engagement Groundwork” and “Agrarian Analysis.”

On Sunday Sept. 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Municipal Hall, we will be presenting the highlights from our research at a meeting co-sponsored by BIFS and the Bowen Island Municipality (BIM) as part of BIM’s Climate Conversation series. Everyone is invited to join a dynamic discussion about climate change, food, and farming on Bowen Island. Our dependency on the mainland and food imports is real. So are the challenges of food production on our rocky island. Come and get inspired by the findings of our reports and tell us what you think about this critical topic. Let’s talk about some steps our community could explore to create a vibrant and viable ‘placebased food system’ and how such a system can help adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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What’s in a fireplace? Tips for stove season VAUNE KOLBER

Even though cedar can smell amazing, Tristan points out, “it is typically quite soft and has a high moisture content. Cedar is not recommended. Quality hardwoods such as maple and alder will give you more heat and the lower moisture content is less of a safety hazard.”

Chase notes that there shouldn’t be a lot of black on the glass of your appliance nor should you be having a lot of black soot coming out of the chimney, because that is basically just creosote. If that’s the case then “you need to clean [your chimney] or your fires are burning too cold.

[Ideally] if you’re burning your wood stove correctly you shouldn’t see a lot of smoke at all because it’s all being combusted.”

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Who doesn’t love a warm fire on a cold, rainy, night. One of the many benefits of living on Bowen Island is that most homes have a fireplace or wood stove.

If you have either, you need to be familiar with WETT certification. All home insurance companies require at least a level one “Wood Energy Technical Transfer” or WETT inspection (wettinc.ca). As Richard Chase, a level one WETT Inspector on Bowen Island, explains pyrolysis and creosote are serious concerns.

So how do you contain fires in your home so that they’re safe?

Creosote is a highly combustible, black or brown, residue that can build up inside your chimney.

Smoke water vapor, gases, and unburned wood particles are the by-products of wood-burning fires and combustion. As these substances leave your fireplace or wood stove, they flow up into the relatively cooler chimney and condensation occurs. Creosote is the resulting residue and it can stick to the inner walls of your chimney.

As Chase notes, creosote ignites at 451 degrees [the same as paper], but can burn at temperatures easily exceeding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

According to the Chimney Safety Institute of America, that is hot enough to “melt mortar, crack tiles, cause liners to collapse and dam-

PHOTO COURTESY OF VAUNE KOLBER

Article author Vaune Kolber with Julian Tristan from Tristan Chimney. age the outer masonry material.”

The resulting inferno can quickly incinerate the chimney and create an eruption that can result in total property loss and death.

Always remember to use seasoned firewood.

Julian Tristan from Tristan Chimney recommends that for maximum safety and heat efficiency you always want to burn “seasoned” wood, as it lessens the chance of creosote build-up. Seasoned wood means that either it’s been treated or has actually been drying for at least a year or more. After a year,

moisture within the wood has likely dissipated.

“You also want to make sure you’re getting your wood from a good source –definitely not just picking up any wood from the outside and burning it. If you get wood out of your backyard and it’s been sitting there in the rain it’s probably water logged and that can affect your fireplace.”

Tristan explains that the higher the moisture content in firewood the more steam is produced. Along with reducing your heating efficiency, the steam can lead to dampness within your chimney. The dampness

attracts more creosote. As the material builds up and you keep using your fireplace, the creosote can melt and become a glaze. That glazing is highly combustible, which can then produce a chimney fire.

Tristan also says that steam can damage the metal in your chimney through warping and rusting. Holes in your chimney can be a “big, big, problem.”

The steam from high moisture content firewood can also breakdown your firebricks.

Don’t burn cedar? But I love cedar! It smells amazing!

Is there anything else that homeowners can do?

Both Chase and Tristan highly recommend having your chimneys cleaned to get rid of creosote and excess debris at least once a year, depending upon the amount of use.

If you are hiring a chimney sweeper make sure that they are willing to go up on the roof or at least have a good visual look.

And if you’re really lucky you’ll find a chimney sweeper that sings as well as Dick Van Dyke. “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” indeed.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace the reader’s due diligence around fire safety.

BOWEN ISLAND MUNICIPALITY PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTION BYLAW 493, 2019 Pursuant to Section 224 of the Community Charter, Bowen Island Municipal Council intends to adopt a bylaw exempting from property taxation for four years (2020-2023) the lands and improvements or both that are owned or held by charitable, philanthropic or other not for profit organizations and that Council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the Corporation. The properties being considered at the Council meeting of September 30, 2019, and the estimated total property taxes that would otherwise be imposed if they were not exempt are: Municipal Taxes 2020

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3080000

4,200

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4,200

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3,100

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2,500

6,600

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2,700

7,200

2,800

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2,100

2,800

2,200

2,900

2,300

3,000

2,400

3,100

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2,100

4,600

2,200

4,800

2,300

5,000

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Bowen Island Museum & Archives

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2,200

1,700

2,300

1,800

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1,600

2,100

1,700

2,200

1,800

2,300

1,900

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1,500

2,000

1,600

2,100

1,700

2,200

1,800

2,300

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #150

4452000

1,400

1,900

1,500

2,000

1,600

2,100

1,700

2,200

Seymour Bay Foundation - Bowen Island Golf Association

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700

1,900

700

2,000

700

2,100

700

2,200

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67,900

53,100

70,800

55,400

73,700

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76,600

The United Church of Canada Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver - St. Geralds Church

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‘It was like the O.J. Simpson trial of the 1890s’: Blood Relations reanimates Lizzie Borden drama CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“It really speaks to me on the level of identity and the truth of these characters,” says Stewart. “It’s probably my favorite player I’ve ever read.”

The play is set a decade after the murders of Lizzie’s father and step-mother. Lizzie is visiting her friend, an actress, who is playing Lizzie in a play. The actress asks the real Lizzie if she “did it” (the real Lizzie was famously acquitted after a widely publicized trial, but popular opinion is that she killed her parents

and got away with it). In response, Lizzie suggests the two act out what might have happened that summer a decade earlier.

“The author doesn’t try and make it a big mystery about like, ‘did she, didn’t she?’” Says Stewart. “Even though that’s a question that’s asked within the play, that’s not the point.”

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Because it’s not okay the way that women were treated at that point,” says Stewart “Because what [Lizzie] wants and what she wants to be is definitely not a wife.”

“It’s all very human,” says Kat Stephens, who plays Lizzie’s actress friend. “We all pretty much know how it ends and yet this whole story, people are still going to be pulled in to see how and why.

“To see the raw, human traits that attract people to do what they do.”

“It was like the O.J. Simpson trial of the 1890s,” said actor Frazer Elliott. “This gives it a human side of the story.”

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Blood Relations stars Kat Stephens, Morgan Darcy, Graham Ritchie, Ann-Marie Delawsky, Frazer Elliott,

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