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Reviving Applefest SARAH HAXBY APPLEFEST RESCUER

“Applefest is cancelled.”

“I’m going to un-cancel it.”

“You’re too busy, so why would you take Applefest on?”

“Because it is Applefest! It can’t be cancelled. It is too fun and too important. It has been an incredibly abundant harvest this year and it feels like we owe it to the trees to celebrate the super-abundance.

Besides, people count on those heritage apple pies as part of their Thanksgiving weekend family celebrations and Applefest is one of those island traditions that helps to support Bowen Heritage. It connects people to local heritage, a sense of community and celebrates the heritage trees in Davies Orchard. Some of those trees are over 130 years old.

Applefest is sort of like their annual Birthday party.”

So: you are invited to join us for Applefest 2018, Sunday, October 7, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is nestled in Davies Orchard in Snug Cove, Crippen Park, in behind the Tuscany restaurant. It is, as it has always been, a free, fun, family event. John and Josephine Riley will have their wonderful apple display with over 100 varieties – bring your mystery apple for identification.

This will be their last year creating this display as they are retiring after many years of providing this display.

Heritage apples will be available for tasting and sales, as well as for fresh juice as the cider press has been booked. You can take a turn pressing your own juice. There will be delicious Bowen-grown, heritage apple pies for sale as a fundraiser for Bowen Heritage.

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Lynda Phillips, Darcie Buzzelle, Diana Kaile, Cilla Kotz and Sheila Hunter share a laugh at the Discover 479 fall mingler in the shops beneath the new pub Saturday. Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto

USSC floating homes finding some buoyancy MARCUS HONDRO CONTRIBUTOR

The Union Steamship Marina’s efforts to build and put into use six floating housing buildings, collectively numbering as many as 16 separate small-sized dwellings, took a step forward Tuesday, Sept. 25 at a public open house. The floating homes are intended as living quarters for staff at the marina and Doc

Morgan’s.

The open house was over a three-hour period and islanders who attended were able to learn more about the proposal from the Marina’s Rondy Dike and Oydis Nickle, with Daniel Martin, the manager of planning and development for the municipality, also on hand.

People were also able to view both the only completed floating

house, situated on waters near the Marina office, and a second one now in construction. Attendees were encouraged to fill out a municipal questionnaire seeking their opinion on the project. Martin said some 40 comment forms were filled out, that number considered high.

The proposed amendment to the Land Use By-law that will allow the buildings to operate has had two readings and the open house was a

requirement before moving on to a third.

The next step in the process is a public hearing on Monday, Oct. 1 at 7:15 p.m. in the Municipal Hall.

The comments gathered at the hearing will be part of the information package given to council who will then decide on the amendment.

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Sep 27 2018 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Free FireSmart Workshop Fire Hall #2, 1421 Adams Rd

Sep 29 2018 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm All Candidiates Meeting Bowen Island Community School

We are hiring Permanent Full-Time Utility Operator Bowen Island Municipality seeks a Permanent Full-Time Utility Operator. This position will primarily be responsible for the operations and maintenance of the Municipality’s Utility Systems (water and sewer). Additional labour tasks may include roads maintenance and assisting other staff within the Municipality.

The Operator must be comfortable working outside under varying weather conditions and hold a valid class 5 driver’s license. Related experience will be considered an asset.

A complete posting and job description is available on the Municipal website or from the Municipal Hall.

Oct 1 2018 7:00 pm Public Hearing re: Bylaw Nos. 459, 2018 & 460, 2018 (RZ-05-2017: 391 Salal Road)

7:15 pm Public Hearing re: Bylaw No. 461, 2018 (RZ-02-2017: 431 Bowen Island

Please submit your covering letter and resume via e-mail, fax or mail by Friday, September 28th, 2018 at 4:00 PM to: Shayle Duffield, Human Resources Coordinator 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2 Email: hr@bimbc.ca Fax: 604-947-0193

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7:30 pm Public Hearing re: Bylaw No. 466, 2018 (RZ-03-2018: Docks Bylaw)

Oct 10 2018 8:00 am - 8:00 pm ADVANCE VOTING DAY Bowen Island Municipal Hall

Oct 13 2018 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Emergency Preparedness Introduction to Pet Services

Oct 20 2018 8:00 am - 8:00 pm GENERAL VOTING DAY Bowen Island Community School 1042 Mt. Gardner Road, Bowen Island or Westcot Elementary School 760 Westcot Road, West Vancouver

Oct 20 2018 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Special Waste Clean Up Day Outside Recycling Centre All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

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All Candidates Meeting Bowen Island Municipality will host an All Candidates Meeting facilitated by Andrea Rayment. Child care is available, and complimentary coffee, tea and snacks will be available.

Saturday, September 29th, 2018 1:30 - 4:30 pm Bowen Island Community School Gymnasium 1041 Mt. Gardner Rd

Check your mail box!

The Candidate Information Guide has been sent to all Bowen Island mailboxes and registered NonResident Property Electors. The guide includes candidate photos and profiles, as well as the agenda for the All Candidates Meeting, and information about voting opportunities.

Bowen Island Municipality seeks a full-time temporary Community Centre Fundraising Assistant for employment for the period from October 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019.

The Community Centre Fundraising Assistant works alongside BIM staff to provide support during the fundraising campaign for the Bowen Island Community Centre project.

Main duties include various fundraising campaign related tasks, preparation and distribution of communications materials, event and meeting coordination, and other administrative tasks as required to meet project deliverables.

Work will occur at Municipal Hall. Regular office hours are Monday to Friday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. A requirement to be flexible to attend meetings or events outside of normal working hours, on evenings and weekends, is essential.

Free FireSmart Workshop Thursday, September 27th, 7:00 pm Fire Halll #2, 1421 Adams Rd Everyone welcome FireSmart@bimbc.ca www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/fire-smart

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Muni Morsels: the four weeks to election edition

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

Bursts of progress and excitement interrupted the tedium of council this week.

In their second-to-last sitting before the election, council passed some long-lingering bylaws and resolutions.

But first, they had a visit from the police.

The following are reports from the Monday, September 24 council meeting.

But still no word on a Bowen RCMP music video: The RCMP officer in charge of the Sea to Sky detachment, Kara Triance, introduced herself to council this week and presented an update on Bowen policing.

Triance highlighted some local initiatives. Community engagement and participation in local celebrations remains important. She mentioned the Garage 529 program, where bicycle owners can register their wheels for free so that if their bike is stolen, it’s easily traceable.

She also noted that Bowen RCMP investigative work has targeted local drug traffickers and resulted in three arrests earlier this year (charges are pending.) Triance said that in a community such as Bowen Island, where tipsters potentially fear retribution, Crime Stoppers is an excellent tool for those who would like to help the police but wish to remain anonymous.

A written report accompanied Triance’s visit, which included some local statistical highlights.

There have been six reported assaults in the first half of 2018.

This is as many as were reported in all of 2017. However, there were 14 reported assaults in 2016.

“Such incidents were typically unrelated to one another and in cases of domestic violence the Bowen Island RCMP use RCMP Victim Services in every instance,” says the report. “RCMP have a zero tolerance policy for domestic vio-

lence.”

The property crime statistics came with a caveat: “The majority of property crime (thefts, break and enters, mischief) is a result of opportunistic thieves,” says the report. “When such crimes occur, they tend to be unreported due to the minimal amount of value of the items stolen.”

In 2018 there have been (reported): • three break and enters (four in 2017) • three bike thefts (two in 2017) • And since 2006 only 15 shoplifting cases have been reported.

The RCMP encourage islanders to report all property crime.

And as drivers have likely noticed, the blue and red flashing lights have been increasingly common on Bowen roads, especially around school zones and the ferry lineup.

This has been a conscious effort on the part of police.

“Bowen Island RCMP has seen a high increase of violation tickets and impaired driving related charges this year, all in part of adjusting working hours and focusing on specific areas of concern,” reads the report.

Triance noted in her presentation that this doesn’t mean that there are more driving and inebriation infractions, rather that enforcement has been more stringent.

“Traffic safety continues to be a primary concern to Bowen Island RCMP, in part due to public request,” reads the document. “The pro-active efforts have also seen an increase in impaired driving charges.”

Impaired driving charges have gone up for the past four years: 2015: five charges, 2016: 11 charges, 2017: 17 charges, 2018: 13 charges.

However, the report ends on a high note: “We are also seeing an increase in designated drivers and responsible decisions being made,” it says.

A little shelter from the controversial topics: Dave

Pollard is leading the charge on a new bus shelter in front of the library, which he hopes will be installed next summer during the Cardena Road improvements. The project budget is around $7,000, with the potential for funding from Translink. Current plans have the shelter adorned in Bowen art and it is to be fancier than Powell River’s bus shelter and less fancy than New Westminster’s public art bus shelter.

The council voted unanimously to move ahead with a collaborative agreement.

Collaring local businesses:

The video camera that live streams council meetings must have buckled under the pressure of the controversial topic of business licensing, as it cut out before airing the council’s vote. Technical difficulty aside, the business licence bylaw passed second and third readings (despite Mayor Murray Skeels’ strong objections to the legislation.) Now the bylaw need only pass fourth reading for its adoption.

With proposed rollout in January 2019, the bylaw would require any Bowen business to register with the municipality and pay a fee (up to $125, depending on the business.)

Yard sales, fundraising by non-profits and busking are among the activities excluded from requiring a business licence.

The bylaw would require a parttime employee (costing $35,000) but is designed to be revenue-neutral.

According to community planner Daniel Martin’s report, 350 licences (at $100 each) would cover the cost of the position.

In the more than a dozen letters submitted to council, some local business owners expressed concern about the fee eating into already marginal profits, especially for artists and small home businesses. Others were concerned about increasing government regulation with little foreseeable benefit to

Let’s move on to some of the issues; Affordable Housing; the #1 issue, of course, is the lack of affordable housing, both in the rental and market ownership. This creates a very vulnerable situation for a large segment of our community and threatens the economic stability of our business owners, There are a myriad of reasons why we face this dilemma: increasing property values, increased demand, building costs, changing accommodation models, to name a few. And we are not alone in this. Most communities in the lower mainland, in other areas of BC and Canada are suffering the same pressures.

So how do we fix this inequity in the housing market? First and foremost, there is no “magic bullet. Council has the ability,with community approval, to establish policy,change zoning, adjust the OCP and negotiate developmental amenities. To date this is what we have done: A 15% long term requirement for rental housing or, cash in lieu, is attached to any development proposal.

Allowing “detached” secondary homes which can be built on many lots on Bowen 12 Units of floating home accommodation which are going through the approval process Split strata models on Cates Hill for low cost ownership.

Rezoning of some of the Community Lands to pay off debt and create housing lots.

The Grafton Lake Land swill produce over 100 living units of various typologies.

Other development proposals are on the horizon.

Have established the Housing Advisory Committee to compile data on current housing needs and types and investigate financing options, p3’s grants etc.

The “Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing” (Birch) is actively planning and doing feasibility studies for a project on lot 3 of the Community Lands We have an open dialogue with BC housing to help finance housing All these initiatives are moving us in the direction of alleviating our housing deficit.

As a council, we have to augment our traditional housing model. We have to start looking at other models; co-ops (Belterra), apartments, multi-family units, manufactured homes and even trailer park type communities. We have to be creative and open minded to alternative housing. We have to inventory all our rental accommodation. And it would be nice to somehow create incentives to rent out accommodation. This is a work in progress. But what I can promise is that this will remain the #1 priority until the pressure eases considerably, And I will also entertain any plausible housing solution and see if we can make it work.... Bring it on!

The Firehall; The new Firehall and Emergency Operations Centre will be built on lot 3 as per the successful referendum. It will provide expanded service and capabilities for many years to come.

The Docks; The ongoing docks bylaw is very close to resolution and should be completed before the present council steps down.

Environmental Stewardship; At the current time we seem to be in balance with our natural environment. But we cannot let our guard down! Every decision that is made MUST be measured against it’s environmental impact. We live on an Island and are natural resources are finite. With climate change comes pressure on our water supplies, rising sea levels and increased fire potential.

Council has formed the Environment and Climate Change Advisory Committee to monitor and advise on the impacts of global warming on our island.

I will advocate to adopt the principals of “conservation development” to increase green space in perpetuity.

We should also identify, quantify and eradicate invasive species on our island, starting with the toxic plants.

Commercial logging is still a threat. This Mayor and council with help from the Islands Trust and Metro are all lobbying fiercely to be exepted from the annual cut but nothing firm has been achieved.

The cross-island pathway has been approved and there is some funding to get it started. When completed it will be a welcome option for active transportation.

The upcoming “on-demand” bus experiment by BC Transit should provide the unserved sections of the island with an option.

The Salish Sea appears to be healthy as Sea life is returning to everyone’s joy. This is what makes Bowen Island the place we want to live and we must never compromise our natural capital.

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businesses.

On the other side of the coin, one the primary arguments given by the municipality and business licence proponents is that the data collected through this process would be invaluable not only for the municipality, but residents. BIM currently doesn’t know how many businesses are on Bowen or what they all do – what is the Bowen economy?

Better statistics also make for better grant applications for community projects.

Councillor Sue Ellen Fast pointed out that it’s been difficult to argue for better internet connectivity when they didn’t know how many home-based businesses are on Bowen.

“There seems to be a lack of communication here,” noted councillor Gary Ander. “We’re only doing it as a data measure.”

“We’re not here to control you,” he said. “It’s good government.”

Bowen and Lions Bay are the only Metro Vancouver municipalities that don’t currently require business licences.

Light industrial is getting in the zone: In a 4-3 vote, the

lot 1 zoning of Community Lands passed third reading. It will come before council one last time to pass adoption.

The saga of lot 1 has been drawn out over the summer, with two public hearings (one the continuation of the other) and several referrals to staff.

Michael Kaile was the swing vote, teetering between capitulating to public resistance to the “light industrial” designation (though the words “light industrial” don’t appear in the “permitted uses” list) and wanting to pass the rezoning before council term was up.

Councillors Sue Ellen Fast, Melanie Mason and Gary Ander voted against the motion, citing concern with the permitted uses’ proximity to Bowen Island Community School, traffic concerns, the need for comprehensive

planning of the area and the land’s desirability for residential use.

Mayor Murray Skeels, the loudest supporter of the bylaw, was visibly joyful when the bylaw passed third reading.

“I apologise for taking such glee,” Skeels told his more subdued colleagues.

The election issue that’s not the ferry: As the election looms

and affordable housing is, as it is in many parts of the B.C., a muchdiscussed issue, a local development inched forward.

After a committee of the whole meeting Monday, the subdivision of lot 2 of Community Lands is all but assured. This area is perhaps better known as the land adjacent to the RCMP station, just off Miller Road.

The land would be divided into three: one chunk for the firehall, one chunk for the new health centre and one chunk for BIRCH. For Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH), which already has an understanding with the municipality to work together, this means that they can start applying for funding says executive director Robyn Fenton. The plan is for around (give or take a few) 20 affordable housing units on the area behind the RCMP station.

Though the housing is still in the conceptual stages, Fenton is cautiously throwing out 2020 as a possible date for completion This development also allows BIRCH to start looking into a community advisory group of eight to 12 community members to meet every few months, likely starting this October.

“We want them to check in, to review what we’ve done and give us feedback. We have really important questions to ask, like who qualifies to get in here – who’s going to get those subsidized units,” says Fenton.

Anyone interested in being on the advisory group is asked to email birchousing@gmail.com.

The last council meeting beofore the election will be October 9.

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Dear Editor: A huge THANK YOU from the Radley family to Bowen’s emergency response team: our paramedics, fire chief and our wonderful volunteer firemen, and the Cormorant Marine Water Taxi.

All of you saved Ian’s life on Thursday, September 13, and we couldn’t be more grateful. At 8 a.m. Ian came home from the gas station with what he said felt like the worst indigestion ever. He was dripping sweat, looked waxen and felt nauseous. I gave him two baby aspirin, followed by two more and called 911. The fire chief was on-site within minutes, followed by the paramedics and firemen. Ian was loaded onto the ambulance and then the water taxi transferred him to Horseshoe Bay where he was put into an ambulance and it was confirmed with an ECG that he was having a heart attack. At 10 a.m. I walked into the cardiac ward at St. Paul’s as Ian was being wheeled out of surgery. His main artery had been 100 per cent blocked, which is commonly referred to as the widow maker. The reason we are describing the symptoms is in the hopes that anyone else who is in this situation might be able to identify the symptoms of a heart attack and call 911. We would also like to thank everybody who was there for us with their support, food and best wishes!

As for Bowen Fuels, we will be doing our best to keep the gas station and fuel deliveries running as normal with much thanks to Rick Jones for stepping in.

Ian, Christine, Ayden and Ally Radley

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Challenging editorial and letters

Dear Editor: You’ve made an impressive debut as Undercurrent editor. Many of us sense a renewed quality and vitality in our community newspaper and expect your role and influence to grow in future.

BUT, your editorial of September 20 proclaimed the Undercurrent’s “strict neutrality” regarding Bowen’s upcoming elections. You further stated that you won’t be “running endorsement letters” in support of candidates.

How incongruous, therefore, that alongside your position statement, you published a letter blatantly endorsing three council candidates and acrimoniously attacking three others.

Letter-writer Eric Sherlock urges voters to support councilors Fast, Mason and Nicholson, who share his ideologically-driven position on the prohibition of docks on Cape Roger Curtis. If that’s not an endorsement, what is?

In the same screed, Mr. Sherlock attacks councilors Ander, Morse and Kaile for their record on the dock issue, accusing them of

intransigence, when their approach is, in fact, one of caution. We are an island, and a blanket prohibition of dock construction could very well result in unintended and expensive consequences. We may be grateful to these councilors in future for supporting a case-bycase, rather than ideological, approach to this issue.

It’s also appropriate to challenge another letter-writer, Michael Chapman, who infers that “old, rich white people” have too much influence on Bowen’s council. His statements are not only insulting and unseemly, but dead wrong. Yes, our council members are white, which simply reflects Bowen’s population.

But the majority are female; none are “rich”; and only two could be categorized as “old” –in years, that is, clearly not in energy and ability. If Mr. Chapman cared to check his facts, he’d realize that, given Bowen’s demographics, older people are actually under-represented on council.

Gayle Stevenson

We’ll be there: the all candidates meeting is Saturday The municipality-run all candidates meeting will be this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at BICS. The Undercurrent will be livestreaming on Facebook (so long as the internet holds up) and live updating. We’ll post information on Facebook and on our website leading up to the event.

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The Undercurrent will accept questions for our October 11 ask-the-candidates issue until September 30, so keep them coming to Editor@BowenIslandUndercurrent.com.

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Thinking about conservation development Dear Editor: Bowen Island has a beautiful rainforest stretching right across the island. As we know, this is a delicate and temporary situation, given the vast changes in climate and urban growth. Our forest and the creatures who live there are rare on Earth, so protecting them is a chance to ‘think globally and act locally.’

This election, we have an opportunity to underline the importance of preserving as much of that forest as possible and to seek candidates who will make it their goal to investigate the idea of conservation development as an integral part of growing Bowen. This simple idea encourages higher density of units on smaller portions of a given piece of land, while preserving land as part of a greenway system. I think of this network of preserved forest as a kind of Bowen Ark, where people, plants and sensitive animals can find sanctuary forever.

This type of development also makes it easier to create attainable and varied housing, as to date we have mainly created single family properties. Our Official Community

I fully agree with the views expressed by former Islands Trust trustee Eric Sherlock in the Sept.

20 issue of Undercurrent (“Docking an election issue”.) While it is easy for any of our seven council members to give general lip service to the environment as a critical aspect of our quality of life, actions speak louder than words. As Sherlock indicates in his letter on the issue of docks, mayor Murray Skeels and councillors Melanie Mason, Sue Ellen Fast and Maureen Nicholson have spoken very clearly, with their actions in support of the fundamental environmental values which characterize our island way of life – as reflected in their support for a bylaw protecting our public foreshore.

Those environmental values form an intrinsic, vital part of the sustainable and comprehensive land use planning policies at the core of our Official Community Plan. When our community plan was created

A still of John Dowler and John Reid’s conservation development video showing “a Bowen dystopia.” Submitted: John Dowler Plan and Parks Master Plan provide much of the vision for these ideas, so we hope the next council can find the missing pieces that can make conservation an everyday aspect of new developments, providing positive incentives for developers.

John Reid and I have created a three-minute film called ‘The Future of Bowen’. It’s kind of a horror movie, showing what development looks like in the lower main-

land from space. We posted it a short while back on Facebook and felt a bit guilty because of its scary message. So we created a couple of more upbeat antidotes, in the form of presentations about why people love forests, and what conservation development is. You can find them all at graftonlake.ca/conservationdev. We hope you’ll support candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to saving our forest.

John Dowler

in the late seventies, Brian Fawcett, the GVRD planner who oversaw that process, explained to me how he had never before witnessed so much democratic zeal among the members of a community. He went on to explain that the comprehensive framework and policies of our community plan are what planners learn in their textbooks, but do not experience in the heavily influenced urban political context.

Accordingly, a critical safeguard in maintaining the integrity of our community plan is for our island municipality to remain within the Islands Trust –which also maintains a crucial political balance, reflecting an island within Howe Sound and Metro Vancouver.

It is important for islanders to understand that the unique and exceptional quality of life enjoyed by all of us did not fall out of the sky.

It is the result of enormous, valiant and democratic long term efforts in a true to life David and Goliath story where a small community of islanders, a short distance from

Canada’s third largest city, has been able to sustain its island way of life.

The Bowen Island story can be summarized in the words of anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.”

Through our Official Community Plan, our participation in the Islands Trust and our ongoing support, we are changing the world for the better by providing an example of sustainable, balanced and gradual growth. In the upcoming election, I encourage islanders to honour all those who upheld their way of life by going to the polls and to build a better community for their children by voting for candidates who support our Official Community Plan, the environmental protections in the mandate of the Islands Trust, and our continuing role within that federation of islands. In doing so, we will keep standing on the right side of history on October 20.

John Sbragia

For the negative: docking an election issue

Dear Editor: A letter in the Undercurrent last week, from Eric Sherlock, a 1990’s Islands Trustee, wants to change the council composition, because only four of those current seven members of council subscribe to his beliefs. Apparently a majority of seats on council is not satisfactory for the gentleman. It would be better to increase the number of seats held by his version of the good guys from four to more.

He sees a “consistent ideological divide” on council.

This defies the reality of the last

Proportional representation

When it comes to democracy we need to aim high, not low

For the affirmative: docking an election issue Dear Editor:

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four years. In chats with islanders, I heard over and over, they felt they have had articulate, open, clever, diverse, set of councillors.

Obviously, not all of the public backed all of the councillors, but virtually all felt they had strong voices at the table. In other words, in councillor diversity was council strength.

I find Mr. Sherlock’s position infuriating and arrogant.

Infuriating, because those of us with long histories of political involvement remember the old Islands Trust elections. Invariably,

two from the left politically ran against two from the right. One side got both seats. The side that didn’t win was out of the decision making process. It was a highly polarized time.

Arrogant, in the assumption that is there is a certain single political Gospel that needs be subscribed to.

Let us hope our next council will continue the success of current council in representing the diverse views of Islanders, not one silo or trench over the other, as Mr. Sherlock may be suggesting.

Brian Hodgins

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Charlie Monks found a subaru gas cap on Mt. Gardner Road on September 24. If you think it could be yours, give him a ring at 604-947-8072.

Dear Editor: In democracies, you aim high, not low.

The most important thing to look for in government is good outcomes for all in society. So the question before you is: do we get those outcomes in countries or provinces that use the first-past-the-post electoral system?

According to former political strategist and current columnist for the Tyee, Bill Tieleman, there is no need to explain how first past the post works as it is very simple.

I hope this presumed general understanding includes that when 87 individual riding elections are held, instead of one province-wide election, the results are not the same. Strategic voting further increases the difference in results.

It makes possible for a party to receive a majority of the seats in the Legislature with only 40 per cent of the vote.

Although first-past-the-post seems to be stable as a purely political system, it doesn’t necessarily mean that will make for good governance. We can see this currently in B.C. The lack of affordable housing is an almost province-wide issue; the previous government also failed to address the Casino money laundering and foreign speculation with B.C. real estate; both ICBC and B.C. Hydro ran into debt; long term planning for addiction treatment facilities has resulted in staggering numbers of overdose deaths; overall societal inequality and injustice has deepened.

In B.C., Indigenous people continue to live in poverty as the settler governments continue in their quest to extinguish Indigenous rights and title. Resource extraction without Indigenous consent continues, often leading to serious environmental degradation. One in five children live in poverty. Parents are unable to pay for their children’s and their own dental care and people are unable to afford their prescribed medicines. Students take on huge debts for post-secondary education.

These results are the outcome of poor governance.

So what happens in a proportional representation election? Every voter casts a vote for the political party candidate of his, her or their choice. All of those votes together reflect the political preference of the voters. The seats are assigned based on the percentage of the votes a party receives. If a party gets 30 per cent of the vote, it gets 30 per cent of the seats, etc.

There are different ways of doing this, but all methods provide for proportionality. There are questions about local MLAs, and all systems currently proposed in the upcoming referendum – from October 22 to

Nov 30 – provide for local MLAs. So you won’t loose that familiar face in the riding.

Thirty-seven years in a country that uses a proportional election system (the Netherlands) has given me a very good understanding of the different kind of culture that develops with it and helps creating better outcomes for all citizens.

ProRep politics is gentler, more consensus-based, and when a new government starts, I have never seen them tear down what the previous governments have build up, something we have seen in B.C. many times over. This practice is currently on full display in Ontario.

Tearing down what has been built up is considered bad governance as its wastes years of societal investments.

Proportional election results reflect the political preferences of the voters. To govern, a government must have at least 50 per cent of the vote, so majority coalitions must be formed. Bill Tieleman would shout: “Coalitions are weak!”

Not really, as it is all about the policies and those are good in areas, from affordable housing to health care, from addiction treatment to infrastructure, from education to dental care for all children and adults, from economic and societal innovation to climate action.

Yet, I can hear Tieleman exclaim: “proportional representation allows for extremist parties to gain seats in parliaments!” That is true and as the son of a holocaust survivor, I share this concern fully. Yet, these parties have been kept out of power in number of ProRep countries as other parties don’t want to work with them. I rather like to have those parties in clear view, and work on taking away the grievances that make people vote for them.

Although that must be within reason, racism and discrimination we cannot tolerate.

As I am writing this column I know that my father in the Netherlands is in the last days of his life. He worked for the country’s oldest water board. This 770-yearold organization is responsible for dikes, for keeping the polders dry, for monitoring water quality and for treatment of waste and sewage water. Without these water boards the country would not exist. That is societal investment and the result of good governance.

When I hear some tell us to look at some of the ProRep countries that seem to struggle for to cultural and historical reasons, I respond, “This can never be a reason to ignore the countries where proportional representation leads to very good outcomes for all.”

As father says: “Aim high, not low.”

Anton van Walraven

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Collars or harnesses for dogs?

CAWES president Susanna Braund digs into the complicated topic SUSANNA BRAUND BOWEN ANIMAL AFFAIRS

Last year, CAWES (Coast Animal Welfare & Education Society) put on an educational event called “Ask an Animal Expert” where a panel of two off-island animal experts answered questions from the public.

One of the many things I learned that afternoon is the risk to our dogs from wearing certain kinds of collar. For many breeds of dog, using a collar for restraint can cause real problems with the trachea (windpipe) and the larynx (voice box), because of the stress on the throat.

To get technical, inappropriate collars can cause laryngeal hemiplegia and laryngeal paralysis, a respiratory disorder where one or both of the vocal chords become paralyzed. This restricts airflow and can cause an obstruction if one of them gets sucked into the airway during breathing. Although it is not common, it can be fatal if left untreated.

This is not anything a loving dog owner willingly does to their dog.

So what is the low-down on collars and harnesses?

Experts emphasize that there is no single answer. It depends on your particular dog – its size, its breed, its health, its behaviour, its personality and why you are using a collar or harness anyway. So, as usual with our companion animals, choosing what is best for them

Rosie Montgomery’s gorgeous corgi puppy, the Honourable Sionnach Elizabeth Montgomery aka “Little,” is modelling an ideal harness for a smaller dog. We would do well to follow Rosie’s lead and just use collars for our dogs’ tags and not for restraining them.

requires us to pay attention and get curious about the animal’s experience.

Using a collar may well be fine if your dog has no trachea or respiratory issues or if s/he does not pull or lunge on the leash. That said, experts do not recommend the metal choke collar or the pinchprong collar. Both can hurt your dog and both involve choking your dog to get her/his attention. There are better ways to do that. Positive reinforcement of desired behaviour is always better than negative reaction to unwanted behaviour.

One variation on the conventional necklace type collar is the Martingale, also known as a slip collar or ‘greyhound collar’. This works well for slender dogs that can slip out of their collars because of their build, such as Greyhounds, Whippets, Afghan Hounds, and also for dogs with thick necks and little difference in diameter of head and neck, such as French Bulldogs.

Martingales gently close around the neck when a dog pulls or backs up.

One important point about collars on dogs and cats too is that they need to fit just right: too tight will cause the animal distress, but too loose creates a danger of the collar snagging on a branch or fence if the animal is out and about (or in the case of cats, putting their leg through their collar). The experts recommend that you should be able to insert two fingers under the col-

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Harnesses work really well for dogs that pull or lunge when on the leash and for toy breeds and dogs with short muzzles. For tiny, delicate dogs such as toy poodles and chihuahuas, a collar can hurt their necks. Breeds with short muzzles, such as pugs, also benefit from harnesses because they have a pronounced tendency to breathing complications and tracheal collapse.

This said, there are different kinds of harness to choose from. Experts often recommend a front-attaching harness for larger dogs: this attaches in the front of the dog’s chest and gently tightens when the dog pulls, offering restraint and guidance. The back-attaching harness is better for small breeds, which are more sensitive to pressure. (Using the back-attaching harness for large breeds or breeds originating as sled dogs can actually exacerbate pulling behavior.) A third option that gives you the opportunity to restrain and guide your dog is the head halter, which has straps that run around the back of the head and around the muzzle. Popular brands include the Halti and the Gentle Leader.

I can confirm from personal experience that a dog wearing a head halter becomes very responsive very quickly. Expect a few minutes of resistance and head shaking initially, but once the dog associates the head halter with a wonderful walk s/he will accept it happily.

Good news for Community Centre capital funding BRONWYN BEAIRSTO EDITOR

The stars have aligned for the Community Centre’s recently-launched capital funding campaign.

At the Union of BC Municipalities convention on September 12, B.C. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Selina Robinson, announced $134 million in funding for community, culture and recreation. The funding is through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.

“Bowen Island Municipality can now apply for funding that will pay up to 73 per cent of the costs of building a community centre and space for arts and culture,” reads a press release from BIM. “Our community has a short window of opportunity to take advantage of this grant program to realize one of its longheld dreams.

The Community Centre has a budget of around $14 million, a significant portion of which they hope to receive through provincial and federal grants.

“The grant application – with a deadline of January 23, 2019 – must clearly demonstrate community support for the project to be considered for eligible funding,” reads the BIM press release. “Meeting - or better, exceeding - the fundraising target, through immediate or pledged donations, is an excellent way to show that the community supports the Bowen Island Community Centre.

“Writing letters of support, participating in fundraising events, advocating for the Community Centre and even taking selfies on social media (hashtag #bowenislandcommunitycentre) will help as BIM gathers the necessary documentation.

“For decades, Islanders have envisioned a place where community can better flourish, and lives are enriched in multiple and profound ways. Now, we are within reach of realizing that vision.”

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Bowen Island and the mainland market TIMOTHY RHODES CONTRIBUTOR

This month the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) shared a forecast from Bryan Yu, the Deputy Chief Economist of the Central 1 Credit Union: “Looking ahead Provincial tax policy uncertainty, related to increases in the foreign buyer tax and the speculation tax, [Bowen Island is excluded from the speculation tax] will continue dampening detached home sales.

Investors looking for a quick flip have largely disappeared. For the second half of 2018, Yu forecasts resale transactions province-wide will decline by 11 per cent, led by Vancouver and other urban centres.

This decline results from tighter credit availability and tighter housing policy rather than economic weakness or increasing interest rates.

A significant correction is not forecast.

Home sales have peaked, and the market is forecast to trend to a lower volume with slower price growth in 2019 and 2020.

Resale housing transactions are forecast to rise modestly in 2019 and 2020.

Metro Vancouver detached and luxury markets will see modest price declines.

New housing starts will reach 42,000 units province-wide in 2018, a three per cent decline from 2017.

Starts will average 40,000 units in both 2019 and 2020.

Waiting the market out A strong economy and insufficient

inventory means owners will likely sit back and wait out the market.”1 Bowen Island is part of the REBGV and is performing better than the region as a whole. Because the Bowen Island market is predominantly detached homes, the following figures are based on detached home sales only.

The graphs represent the percentage change from 2016–2017 and from 2017–2018. Year-To-Date (YTD) figures are January 01 through August 31, and Year-Over-Year (YOY) figures are September 01 through August 31.

The REBGV region lost ground in 2017 and again in 2018 for a net change over the two-year period of –54.8 per cent in number of sales and –56.7 per cent dollar volume. Bowen Island also lost ground in 2017 but rebounded in 2018 for a net change over the 2-year period of –14.8 per cent in number of sales and +8.0 per cent in dollar volume.

Both the REBGV and Bowen Island showed growth in the MLS® HPI YOY numbers over the two-year period and growth slowed in 2018. Net change for

the REBGV from 2017 to 2018 was just +3.4 per cent compared to Bowen at +15.5 per cent. The REBGV net change over the 2-year period 2016– 2018 was +16 per cent compared to Bowen Island at +42.8 per cent.

The market has slowed on Bowen.

Although total inventory in August 2018 was 5.9 per cent higher than August 2017, new listings were down -9.1 per cent. Sales in the month showed no change over 2017; however, both YTD and YOY dollar volume

and number of sales were up over 2017 as was the median sales price, demonstrating more resilience than the REBGV region as a whole.

Readers should note that Bowen Island is a micro-market, so small numbers can register as big percentages; however, percentage change is a method to compare the island market to the much larger mainland market.

Bowen’s sales for the first three weeks of September 2018 YTD and YOY are

down—MLS® indicates only 1 sale this month as of September 21, compared to 9 sales during the same period in 2017.

—and inventory is at August 2018 levels.

Sales to date were 50 and 47 in 2017 and 2018 respectively (59 and 58 respectively if land-only sales are included).

September YTD dollar volume was $54.8 million in 2017 vs $52.4 million in 2018 ($58.7 million vs $59.8 million if land-only sales included).

Although September is not performing as well as August, with only 10 days left in the month, YTD figures compared to 2017 are not significantly different.

Current data is indicates 2018 is likely to finish with the number and dollar value of sales not significantly changed over 2017.

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Data gathered from MLS® Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Timothy Rhodes is a REALTOR® with Angell Hasman & Associates, Realty, Ltd.

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Task force calls for B.C. government to cut annual rent increase MIKE HOWELL VANCOUVER COURIER

B.C.’s rental housing task force is recommending the provincial government cut the 4.5 per cent allowable rent increase for next year to 2.5 per cent but still give landlords the ability to raise rents to cover maintenance and other costs.

The recommendation calls for the formula that led to the 4.5 per cent increase for 2019 be changed and instead tie the increase to the inflation rate only, making it 2.5 per cent for 2019. The current formula calculates the inflation rate, plus two per cent, and has been in place for 16 years.

“It’s a formula, which we’ve been told by renters, has been making life increasingly unaffordable for them as the cost of living, plus two per cent, keeps going above their ability to pay, as their wages have not kept pace,” said Spencer Chandra Herbert, the chairperson of the rental task force and NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End, at a news conference.

Chandra Herbert said he and the

task force also heard from landlords who were concerned rent increases were not keeping pace with the costs to operate a suite or building.

The recommendation to change the formula is based on models in Manitoba and Ontario.

The move by the rental housing task force comes three weeks after the provincial government announced that landlords could raise rent next year by a maximum of 4.5 per cent. It is now up to the provincial government to decide whether it will act on the task force’s recommendations before next year.

If the recommendations were to be implemented, landlords would have to apply for an additional increase on top of the 2.5 per cent.

An increase would only be granted if a landlord can prove the new formula would not cover maintenance and other costs.

Asked what the maximum increase might be for a landlord, and whether a renter could effectively be facing a rent increase higher than the forecasted 4.5 per cent next year, Chandra Herbert did not provide a figure.

“What we’re recommending is that government work with landlords and tenants, look at the formula that they use in Ontario and Manitoba, and make a decision around whether there should be a cap, how much should the cap be, and for how many years,” he said.

LandlordBC issued a news release last week saying it was concerned the 4.5 per cent increase would be altered or rescinded. Even at 4.5 per cent, the association that represents 3,300 owners and managers said it would not be enough to cover costs landlords face in renting one or more suites.

The association conducted a recent analysis of the costs — including property taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance — to operate a 1970s-era mid-sized building in Metro Vancouver. It found operating costs increased at the building 7.6 per cent per annum between 2009 and 2018, surpassing allowable rent increases.

David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, said Monday a decrease in the allowable rent increase presents several problems,

including the cost and hassle for a landlord to apply for an additional rent increase and the chill it would put on the development industry interested in building purpose-built rental buildings.

“I’m really nervous about that because we’ve been working really hard to get people to build it,” he said, noting landlords might also consider taking their suites off the market and place them on home sharing platforms such as Airbnb.

“We can work within the context of the current rent control formula. We’ve had it for a while, we’ve adjusted to it, even though there’s issues to it — whatever, at least there’s a certain predictability to it that we’ve built in to our business models.”

Liam McClure, a steering committee member of the Vancouver Tenants’ Union, said the task force’s recommendations are a step in the right direction. But, he said, the union doesn’t believe the task force has gone far enough and should adopt a temporary rent freeze like New York City did between 2015 and 2017.

McClure said rents have soared in Vancouver in recent years and longtime renters have lost their places because of “renovictions,” where the landlord decides to renovate a suite or building and then charge the tenant a premium price.

McClure pointed to a report released in May by the B.C. Nonprofit Housing Association that showed nearly half of renter households are spending more than the recommended 30 per cent of their income on housing while nearly one in five are spending more than 50 per cent on rent.

To Hutniak’s concern about operating costs, McClure said many landlords have made enormous profits from renters over the years.

“It’s not up to the government to assist landlords in running their business,” he said. “If a landlord doesn’t have a long-term capital plan to account for necessary maintenance, that’s sort of their problem.

The tenants shouldn’t be bearing the burden of a landlord’s inability to manage their own enterprise.”

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Public Notice: Notice of Election by Voting Public notice is given to the electors of the District of West Vancouver and West Vancouver Schools (School District 45) that an election by voting is necessary to elect a mayor, six councillors, and five school trustees, and that the persons nominated as candidates for whom votes will be received are:

For the Office of Mayor

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BOOTH, Mary-Ann 1309 Gordon Avenue, West Vancouver CASSIDY, Christine 2065 Fulton Avenue, West Vancouver JAFARI, Rosa 1407 1552 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver SAGER, Mark 5751 Seaview Place, West Vancouver STRONG, Nolan 1180 Lawson Avenue, West Vancouver

For the Office of Councillor

Six (6) to be elected for a four-year term:

CAMERON, Craig 920 16th Street, West Vancouver FINKBEINER, Jim 510 Southborough Drive, West Vancouver GAMBIOLI, Nora West Vancouver JONES, David Alexander 1462 Gordon Avenue, West Vancouver KRAWCZYK, Andy 5389 Aspen Drive, West Vancouver LAMBUR, Peter 1060 Clyde Avenue, West Vancouver LOREN, Gabrielle 2489 Caledonia Avenue, North Vancouver MANVELL, Kate 11 2150 Marine Drive, West Vancouver MERSEY, Heather 772 20th Street, West Vancouver REYNOLDS, Carolanne West Vancouver SOPROVICH, Bill 1203 2180 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver THOMPSON, Sharon 4747 Pilot House Road, West Vancouver WONG, Marcus West Vancouver

For the Office of School Trustee Five (5) to be elected for a four-year term

BLOCK, Lynne 504 1555 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver BROADY, Carolyn 1520 Rena Crescent, West Vancouver BROWN, Nicole 2025 27th Street, West Vancouver BURNS, Charlotte 6380 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver DONAHUE, Sheelah 6805 Hycroft Road, West Vancouver DORSMAN, Pieter 70 Oceanview Road, Lions Bay STEVENSON, Dave 2270 Haywood Avenue, West Vancouver

General Voting Day

Saturday October 20, 2018 is general voting day in British Columbia (BC). Eligible electors will vote to elect a mayor and councillors for the District of West Vancouver and school trustees for West Vancouver Schools (School District 45). Voting places for October 20 are as follows; all are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.: Eagle Harbour Montessori School Gleneagles Community Centre Hollyburn Elementary School Irwin Park Elementary School Presbyterian Church Ridgeview Elementary School Rockridge Secondary School Seniors’ Activity Centre Sentinel Secondary School Westcot Elementary School

5575 Marine Drive * 6262 Marine Drive * 1329 Duchess Avenue * 2455 Haywood Avenue 2893 Marine Drive 1250 Mathers Avenue * 5350 Headland Drive * 695 21st Street * 1250 Chartwell Drive * 760 Westcot Road *

Wheelchair access and curbside voting are available at all locations. Locations marked above with * are most accessible

Advance Voting Opportunities

For those who are unable to vote on general voting day, advance voting opportunities will be held at West Vancouver Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (except 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on October 14) on the following days: Saturday, October 6 Tuesday, October 9 Wednesday, October 10 Thursday, October 11

Friday, October 12 Sunday, October 14 Monday, October 15

Mail Ballot Voting

Electors may vote by mail if 1) they have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability to vote in person, or 2) if they expect to be absent during all of the advance voting days and on general voting day. Electors must apply to vote by mail; the application to vote by mail is available online at election.westvancouver.ca and at Municipal Hall. Mail ballot packages will be available on or about October 1. If you are

election.westvancouver.ca

unable to pick up a mail ballot package, submit your application

by September 30, to allow time for a package to be delivered to you. Completed mail ballots must be returned to the Chief Election Officer at Municipal Hall before 8 p.m. on October 20, 2018.

Registering to Vote

Electors whose names are not on the List of Registered Electors may register at the time of voting by completing the required application form and providing the required identification.

A Resident Elector must meet all the following requirements:

• 18 years of age or older on general voting day for the election; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a resident of the District of West Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and • not be disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.

To register, Resident Electors will be required to produce two pieces of identification (at least one with a signature; photo identification is unnecessary) to prove both residency and identity.

A Non-Resident Property Elector must meet all the following requirements:

• 18 years of age or older on general voting day for the election; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a registered owner of real property in the District of West Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law; and • not registered as a Non-Resident Property Elector in relation to any other parcel of real property in the District of West Vancouver.

Note: If there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a Non-Resident Property Elector.

To register, Non-Resident Property Electors will be required to produce two pieces of identification (at least one with a signature; photo identification is unnecessary), AND proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and if applicable, written consent from the other property owners. A property tax notice/certificate, a property assessment notice from BC Assessment, a State of Title Certificate, Title Search or Certificate of Indefeasible Title are acceptable proof of property ownership.

No corporation is entitled to be registered as an elector or have a representative registered as an elector and no corporation is entitled to vote. Permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrants) who have not yet become Canadian citizens are not entitled to vote.

The registered owner of real property means whichever of the following is applicable: (a) the owner of a registered estate in fee simple of the property unless another person holds an interest in the property referred to in (b) to (d) as follows; (b) the holder of the last registered agreement for sale unless another person holds an interest in the property referred to in (c) or (d) as follows; (c) the tenant for life under a registered life interest in the property, unless another person holds an interest in the property referred to in (d) as follows; (d) the holder of a registered lease of the property for a term of at least 99 years.

Identification Requirements

Two documents are required that provide evidence of an applicant’s identity and place of residence, one with signature, for example: a BC Driver’s Licence; a BC Identification card; a BC Services card; an Owner’s Certificate of ICBC insurance and

vehicle licence; BC CareCard, BC Gold CareCard; Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security Request for Continued Assistance Form SDES8; Social Insurance Number card or confirmation of Social Insurance Number letter issued by the government of Canada; a Citizenship Card issued by Citizenship and Immigration Canada; a District of West Vancouver real property tax notice; a credit card; a debit card; or a utility bill.

School Trustee Electors

The requirements for electors voting for school trustees are the same as those for Resident and Non-Resident Property Electors above, except that the elector must be a resident of the registered owner of real property in School District 45 (District of West Vancouver, Bowen Island Municipality, Village of Lions Bay, and Metro Vancouver Electoral Area A) for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration.

School Trustee Election for School District 45 only:

For school trustee elections, the Board of Education for School District 45 has, by resolution and bylaw, agreed that the Chief Election Officer and Deputy Chief Election Officer appointed by the District of West Vancouver will also act on the Board’s behalf, and has designated locations at which qualified electors may vote for school trustees only within their voting divisions.

Voting Division 1 - West Vancouver: same locations as listed for general voting day and advance voting days in West Vancouver, BC.

Voting Division 2 - Bowen Island Municipality: on general voting day October 20, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Bowen Island Community School, 1041 Mt. Gardner Road, Bowen Island, BC; and at Westcot Elementary School, 760 Westcot Road, West Vancouver, BC. Advance voting is on October 10, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Bowen Island Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC. Voting Division 3 - Village of Lions Bay: on general voting day October 20, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Broughton Hall, 400 Centre Road, Lions Bay, BC. Advance voting is on October 10, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Broughton Hall, 400 Centre Road, Lions Bay, BC. Voting Division 4 - That portion of Metro Vancouver Electoral Area “A” and Gambier Island Local Trust Area lying along, or within Howe Sound adjacent to the municipalities of Bowen Island, Lions Bay, and West Vancouver: on general voting day October 20, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Gleneagles Community Centre at 6262 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Advance voting is on October 10, 2018, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at West Vancouver Municipal Hall at 750 17th Street, West Vancouver.

The preceding is important information. Please have someone translate it for you.

MORE INFORMATION

Visit election.westvancouver.ca or contact the election office at West Vancouver Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC.

Mark Brown Chief Election Officer 604-925-7048 ceo@westvancouver.ca

Kelly Wharton Deputy Chief Election Officer 604-925-7048 dceo@westvancouver.ca

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Revitalizing Heritage Bowen: the best and even better news JUDI GEDYE CONTRIBUTOR

The best news:

Michael Kluckner has agreed to be our speaker at our annual general meeting on October 13, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the community school.

Michael is a staunch supporter of heritage policy and practices in B.C. and Canada, sustainable farming and the arts. He has written several books and is perhaps best known for his beautiful watercolours.

The better news:

Three people have stepped forward to stand for election to the board of directors so that the asso-

need help with peeling and slicing apples from now until October 6, and on October 6 we will need help with baking. On October 7, we need help with set up, selling pies and we’d like more servers in the tea room. There will be a farmers’ market, the Riley’s outstanding apple display (bring your apples for identification), a tearoom, cupcake walk, a Mason Bee housing demonstration, a Metro naturalist to help better understand pollinators, fresh squeezed apple juice, face-painting and a chess game laid out. Please remember – there is a $100 cash prize in the pie baking contest.

Donate your entry no later than 12 p.m.

ciation will continue with renewed interest. There is still a need for help with book-keeping, membership outreach, event planning and production, school liaison and education, tour guides to increase open hours for the museum, landscape planning and installation and negotiating with Metro as their plans unfold. More people helping makes the list shorter and the work far more enjoyable. If you have time and skills to contribute it would be much appreciated.

The really good news:

Applefest will be celebrated in Davies Orchard on October 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In order to guarantee enough apple pies, we

A Michael Kluckner watercolour of Bowen.

YOURE INVITED!

Notice of Public Hearing

The Bowen Agricultural Alliance after-market social followed by AGM

Oct 13/2018, 12:30-2:00pm.

We will be discussing what we enjoy about the Farmer’s Market over delicious home made soups.

If you are interested in keeping the market growing, bring your energy and ideas to our social - it’s a great chance to come meet us!

Please RSVP: BowenAgAlliance@gmail.com or speak to us at the Farmers Market every Sat. 10am-12pm at BICS.

391 Salal Road Rezoning

HAVE YOUR SAY. Public Hearing October 1, 2018 7:00 pm Council Chambers

Municipal Hall

981 Artisan Lane

Questions?

. . . because growing is shear fun!

Contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning and Development

604-947-4255

Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 459, 2018 Land Use Bylaw Amendment No. 460, 2018 About the bylaw

391 Salal Road is a 2.55 ha (6.3 acre) property located adjacent to Josephine Lake. The property owner wishes to subdivide the property into two properties. Current land use regulations would not permit the subdivision of the property.

391 Salal Road is currently designated R1-Rural (2 ha) in Bowen Island’s Official Community Plan, and Rural Residential 3 (RR3) zone in the Land Use Bylaw.

To permit the subdivision, the property owners have applied to amend the Official Community Plan land use designation to the RS - Residential (1 ha) designation, and to amend the Land Use Bylaw zone to the Rural Residential 3(b) zone.

As a part of the application, the property owners have proposed a trail right-of-way be dedicated to pass from Salal Road to the Crown Land to the west of the property.

Bylaw timeline Council 1st Direction Reading

November April 2017 2018

External 2nd Referrals Reading

July 2018

Public 3rd Reading Bylaw Hearing Adoption

October 2018

(Estimated) (Estimated) Fall 2018 Fall 2018

How to get more information

dmartin @bimbc.ca

The proposed bylaw and background material may be viewed at Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, during office hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays), or on the Municipal website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning

Ways you can Have Your Say bowenisland municipality.ca /planning Wherever you are don’t miss a moment of what matters

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Speak at the Public Hearing: October 1st at 7:00 pm at Municipal Hall.

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Write to the attention of Mayor and Council: E-mail: mayorandcouncil@bimbc.ca Mail: 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2 To ensure a fair process, Council cannot consider any submissions received after the Public Hearing has ended.

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CALENDAR

WHY I’M RUNNING AGAIN

I was privileged to be elected to Council in 2014. As an active member of Council for the past four years, I found the work challenging and rewarding, and with the other members of Council, take and pride in our accomplishments.

I have heard that I am often referred to as ‘the voice of reason’ on Council.

I look forward to bringing this voice to the table over the next four years

ENVIRONMENT: Protect the natural surroundings that first attracted us to Bowen.

HOUSING & COMMUNITY LANDS: Improve opportunities to live and work on Bowen.

ECONOMIC (COMMUNITY) DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE: Manage the challenges of growth and change.

INTERNET CONNECTIVITY: Advocate for reliable high-speed access.

SNUG COVE WORKING GROUP: Support aesthetic, cultural, and business growth to reflect the spirit of our unique community.

FINANCE COMMITTEE: Ensure funding before spending and maximize value for taxpayers’ investments.

HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE: Developing our greatest asset.

Authorized by Michael Cornelissen, financial agent, 604-947-9352

because there is still much to be done!

Thursday, September 27 Free FireSmart Workshop Fire Hall #2, 1421 Adams Road 7 pm. Everyone welcome

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COMMITTEE AND WORKING GROUP SERVICE 2014–2018 Housing Advisory, Economic (Community) Development, Finance Advisory, and Human Resources Committee Internet Connectivity (Chair), and Snug Cove Improvements Working Group

LAND ACT: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that David and Carol Reece from North Vancouver, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Surrey for a residential dock consisting of float and pier situated on Provincial Crown land located at Block C, Collingwood Channel, Bowen Island, BC, Dist 295, Group1, NWD - Water access only.

The Lands File Number for this application is 2412085. Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp.

2) By mail to the Senior Land Officer at 200 – 10428 153rd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1E1. Comments will be received by the Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations until November 8th, 2018.

Comments received after this date may not be considered.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact Information Access Operations at the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services in Victoria at: www.gov.bc.ca/citz/iao/.

Friday, September 28 Wine Tasting Bowen Beer and Wine Cellar 3:15-6:15 pm.

Paul Martin, CEO Peacock and Martin pouring wine from Oliver, BC Gold Hill Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Doors open at 5:30 pm Dinner at 6:30 pm Members and guests welcome.

Friday Night Live at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7-10 pm Live music, dinner specials, and no cover.

Saturday September 29 Knowing Our Place: The Book Club Library Flex Room 11-12:30 pm The Book Club discusses Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian.

Register at bit.ly/ BookClubFall2018.

All candidates meeting BICS gym 1:30-4:30 pm Candidates will answer pre-selected questions.

2018 Studio Tours 10- 4 pm A self guided tour of Bowen art studios and galleries. Meet the artists and be inspired by the 24 creative haunts on

the tour. Info and map at bowenstudiotours.com

Destination: Earth exhibit opening Gallery@Cove Commons 6-8 pm. Emmett Sparling shares pictures from his travels around the world.

Some are so spectacular, they don’t even look like Earth.

Sunday September 30 2018 Studio Tours 10- 4 pm Map and info at bowenstudiotours.com Monday October 1 Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Road Exercise at 9 am, coffee at 9:45, author Carol Cram speaking at 11 and Yoga at 11:15. Annual membership is $20.00 and one time drop in is $3.00.

Public Hearing BIM 7 pm. Discussing the rezoning of 391 Salal Road Public Hearing BIM 7:15 pm. Discussing rezoning of 431 Trunk Road Public Hearing BIM 7:30 pm. Discussing the docks bylaw Tuesday October 2 Art Workshop 1070 Miller Road (seniors court) 9-11 am Informal painting -drawing group meets every Tuesday. All stages & ages welcome.

Drop-in $7

Bowen Island Arts Council

Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 pm.

“Joint Ownership: The Good, the Bad, and The Risky.”

Library Flex Room 10:30- 12 pm. NIDUS.ca Personal Planning presentation. Register and view the other presentations in this series at bit.ly/planningpresentations Saturday October 6 Author Reading: Chantal Eustace Library Flex Room 2:30 -3:30 pm. Local writer Chantal Eustace talks on her first book, Do You Take This Man, Elli Moon?

Turkey Feast BBQ at Doc’s Doc Morgan’s Pub & Restaurant 1-5 pm BBQ Beer can Turkey with all the seasonal fixings plus live music with Karen Fowlie. Tickets $30 partial proceeds go to support Bowen Children’s Centre Sunday October 7 Applefest!

Davies Heritage Orchard Mark your calendars, invite your nearest and dearest, Applefest is back!!

Meat Bingo Bowen Island Legion 2 pm.

Tuesday October 9 Regular council meeting BIM 7:15 p.m.

Wednesday Oct. 10

STUDIO TOURS September 29 & 30, 2018 10 am - 4 pm

We invite you to take a selfguided tour of 24 galleries and studios showcasing some of Bowen’s most talented artists and artisans.

Meet our artists; they are not only talented, they are warm and engaging. Be sure to take home wonderful memories and maybe a beautiful treasure or two.

Studio Open

For more information, and to download a brochure and access the online map, visit:

bowenstudiostours.com

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Advance Voting Day BIM 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

WorkBC Career Advisor Library Flex Room 2-5 pm. Free drop-in sessions with a WorkBC career advisor. Career advice, including resume, and interview help.

Friday, October 12 On the Wings: Reflections in object and image opening Elliott Hall, Bowen Court 6-9 p.m. An exhibition of instruments and carvings by Bob Miller.

Photographic images by Cherie Westmoreland

Saturday October 13 Farmers’ Market Wrap-Up Lunch and Discussion BICS 12:30 - 2 pm followed by the Bowen Agriculture Alliance AGM On the Wings: Reflections in object and image Elliott Hall, Bowen Court Noon-8 p.m. An exhibition of instruments and carvings by Bob Miller. Photographic images by Cherie Westmoreland 3rd Annual Adult Spelling Bee Cove Commons 7:30 pm.

3rd Annual Adult Spelling Bee, fundraiser for Library Annex furnishings. Come out and cheer your favourite team, spell along, and support the library! Tickets 15.00 in-library or online at bit. ly/3rdAdultSpellingBee

Tuesday October 16 “Dying Without a Will & Tips on Making a Will” Library Flex Room 10:30-12 pm NIDUS.ca Personal Planning presentation Register and view the other presentations in this series at bit.ly/planningpresentations Saturday October 20 Election Day BICS 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

Register to vote today: bowenislandmunicipality. ca/election-voters

Tickets at Beer and Wine cellar $55 Saturday October 27 Black Molly Halloween Dance Bowen Island Legion

Knowing Our Place: The Book Club Library Flex Room 11-12:30 pm Knowing Our Place: The Book Club discusses Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian.

Register at bit.ly/ BookClubFall2018

Dump Day BIRD For items too large for weekly pickup.

For more information: bowenislandmunicipality. ca/clean-up-days Live Music & Chanting The Well in Artisan Square Monday October 22 Council meeting BIM 9:30 a.m. This term’s councillors take to the table to hack through one last agenda Tuesday October 23 “Consent to Healthcare & Facility Care” Library Flex Room 10:3012 pm NIDUS.ca Personal Planning presentation Register and view the other presentations in this series at bit.ly/planningpresentations Thursday October 25 5th Bowen Island Intl.

Wine Festival Evergreen Hall 6:30-9 pm.

SNUG COVE HOUSE SOCIETY, with funding from the Bowen Community Foundation, is looking for expressions of interest from facilitators and researchers (preferably based in the Bowen Island community) to assess how to create a physical and virtual SENIORS HUB. The project will consist of three phases: 1. From October to November, doing research on services available and seniors’ needs, as well as best practices from other communities.

2. December will be the presentation of a report with recommendations, and 3. January to May, 2019 (after these recommendations are reviewed) will be the preparation and implementation of a plan to create a Seniors Hub, including a Coordinator of Volunteers role.

A fuller description of the project, including fees and timing, as well as the criteria by which we will select the successful consultant, may be found by emailing carolamackinnon@gmail.com. Proposals will be due by 4:00 p.m. October 4th, 2018.

Tuesday October 30 “The Planning Continuum: A Will is NOT Enough!”

Library Flex Room 10:30-12 pm NIDUS. ca Personal Planning presentation Register and view the other presentations in this series at bit.ly/planningpresentations Tuesday November 13 Regular council meeting

BIM 7:15 p.m.

The new council meets for the first time

Wednesday November 14 WorkBC Career Advisor Library Flex Room 2-5 pm. Free drop-in sessions with a WorkBC career advisor. Career advice, including resume, and interview help.

Saturday November 17 Knowing Our Place: The Book Club

Library Flex Room 1112:30 pm The Book Club discusses Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s “Islands of Decolonial Love.” Register at bit.ly/ BookClub2Fall2018 .

Saturday November 17 Live Music & Chanting The Well in Artisan Square Join the Vibrations of Love & sing your hearts open.No experience required.

Notice of Public Hearing Docks Across Beaches

HAVE YOUR SAY. Public Hearing October 1st 2018 7:30 pm Council Chambers

Municipal Hall

Land Use Bylaw Amendment No. 466, 2018

About the bylaw Council is considering changes to the Water General 1 Zone. The proposed changes would create an additional requirement that any community docks, private moorage facilities, or group moorage facilities be located such that they would not physically divide a beach, limit or restrict public use of a beach, or negatively impact eelgrass beds or patches.

981 Artisan Lane

Bylaw timeline Questions?

Council 1st Direction Reading

Contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning and Development

April 2018

July 2018

External 2nd Referrals Reading

September 2018

Public 3rd Reading Bylaw Hearing Adoption

October 2018

(Estimated) (Estimated) October Fall 2018 2018

How to get more information 604-947-4255

The proposed bylaw and background material may be viewed at Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, during office hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays), or on the Municipal website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning

dmartin @bimbc.ca

Ways you can Have Your Say bowenisland municipality.ca /planning

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Speak at the Public Hearing: October 1st at 7:30 pm at Municipal Hall.

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Write to the attention of Mayor and Council: E-mail: mayorandcouncil@bimbc.ca Mail: 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2 To ensure a fair process, Council cannot consider any submissions received after the Public Hearing has ended.

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2018 ELECTION

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Notice of Advanced Voting

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of Bowen Island Municipality that an election by voting is necessary to elect a Mayor, six Councillors, and two Municipal Trustees for the Islands Trust Council, and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:

MAYOR - One (1) to be elected Surname ANDER MASON

Usual Names Gary Melanie

Residential Address 23 Arbutus Bay Lane, Bowen Island 814 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island

COUNCILLOR - Six (6) to be elected Surname BURGER FAST HOCKING KAILE MORSE NICHOLSON PHILLIPS WILLIAMSON WYNEN

Usual Names Robin Sue Ellen David Michael Alison Maureen Lawrence Peter Rob

Residential Address 3-983 Davies Rd, Bowen Island 504 Reed Rd, Bowen Island 822 Captains Way, Bowen Island 835 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island 1235 Fairweather Rd, Bowen Island 1104 Harding Rd, Bowen Island 946 Windjammer Rd, Bowen Island 1471 Tunstall Blvd, Bowen Island 725 Smith Rd, Bowen Island

MUNICIPAL TRUSTEES FOR ISLANDS TRUST COUNCIL – Two (2) to be elected Surname FAST KAILE MORSE WILLIAMSON

Usual Names Sue Ellen Michael Alison Peter

Residential Address 504 Reed Rd, Bowen Island 835 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island 1235 Fairweather Rd, Bowen Island 1471 Tunstall Blvd, Bowen Island

SCHOOL TRUSTEE ELECTIONS: The School District #45 Trustee Election is administered through the District of West Vancouver. For further information, please contact their Election Office via telephone at 604-925-7048, via e-mail at election@westvancouver.ca or visit their website at https://election.westvancouver.ca.

VOTING DATES AND LOCATIONS ADVANCED VOTING will be open to qualified electors of Bowen Island Municipality on:

GENERAL VOTING will be open to qualified electors of Bowen Island Municipality on:

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Saturday, October 20, 2018

between the hours of 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM

between the hours of 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM

at Bowen Island Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island

at the following locations: •

MAIL BALLOT VOTING is available for eligible electors who are unable to vote in person. See next page for details.

QUESTIONS? Hope Dallas, Chief Election Officer Phone: 604-947-4255 E-mail: Election2018@bimbc.ca Website: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/elections

Bowen Island Community School, 1041 Mt. Gardner Road, Bowen Island • Westcot Elementary School, 760 Westcot Road, West Vancouver

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Lying back in the bubble bath of fake news

GARY KINNEY

MUSINGS ON RETIREMENT

They keep changing their minds, don’t they? Each time I think I’ve got it figured out, somebody reports another study that kiboshes the previous ones. I wish they’d make up their minds so I can decide whether or not I agree with them. Whether or not they still fall within my cognitive biases.

Echo chambers, bubbles, coaxing –the world seems to be increasingly geared to children in a bathtub doesn’t it? But I think the problem is not so much the method, or even the message anymore, but of whom to be intolerant. I keep switching.

I wonder if that’s what they want, though –keep me so confused that I just stay in the bath where I’m easier to control.

At least that’s how it sometimes seems: that I am a sacrificial pawn in a game whose rules I struggle to understand, and which, even if I made the effort, might be changed before I left the square. News is an ever moving target, a perspective game, and yet can it be reliably gainsaid simply by shifting the viewpoint? We each see the world through different eyes. Different backgrounds. Different agendas.

But even though the same event can have different interpretations, we must be alert to what actually happened before we attempt to append the slippery why. It is in the former that there is fodder for deception. It is in the facts about the what that we can be led astray.

The what is the noun, the whys merely descriptive adjectives -opin-

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ions, if you will- that we pin to it for flavour. For colour. And often as ephemeral as the dawning sun on the morning clouds. Or the time spent lingering in a warm bath…

I, however, am now inoculated against baths. I just completed an online game designed to make me a fake news purveyor and I passed (barely). I got my certificate: cbc. ca/radio/quirks/this-online-gamecould-be-a-psychological-vaccinefor-fake-news-1.4547138.

It’s an interesting idea: understand the mechanism for producing misleading news, and how to counter allegations of lying by attacking the credibility of the attacker, things like that. The reward is simple: followers.

“Researchers think an online game in which the goal is to produce convincing fake news can act as a psychological vaccine that teaches people how to recognize deception and misinformation.

Sander van der Linden, director of the Cambridge Social DecisionMaking Laboratory and a psychologist at Cambridge University, has worked with a group of Dutch media literacy activists, to produce an online game called the Fake News Game. In the game players pretend to distribute fake news through Twitter, blogs and online newspapers, and make choices that allow them to add to their score by building up followers and using deceptive techniques to maintain credibility. The techniques the players use in the game are modelled on those used by fake news producers in the real world.”

The problem, of course, is that maybe everybody wins the game, and gets the certificate. Maybe everybody comes away with the same sense of power I got when I supposedly manipulated the public into believing outrageous lies. And, maybe it’s not only the public who is inadvertently seduced.

But I am, if the credits are to be believed, now more immune from fake news -or perhaps more aware of it, or something. It’s just that, well, I like the process. The hoax.

There is something immensely satisfying about puppet-mastership.

About pulling strings from a closet, hidden from all but conscience. And yet, I suppose one could get used to the ever lessening choke of even that. After all, Fake News works both ways doesn’t it? And so does immunity; it’s called accommodation when one ceases to notice an annoying odour after being exposed to it for a while. Ceases to be bothered by it. And what if I get so good at spotting misinformation that I begin to look forward to it? There’s no harm in that, right?

Perhaps. Although if the truth be told, I’m more entertained by some news than concerned about its accuracy. In the larger scheme of things, some news just isn’t important, and much of the rest is simply disconcerting. Or titillating. And yet, in that same scheme, I have to wonder why I am so attracted to news in the first place. I have several news apps on my phone -each one from a different country, and each seemingly independent, often even claiming different sources for their informa-

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tion. But it’s the same news, albeit in different words, and from different perspectives. But I have to ask why I was drawn to it at all. I read each account of the same event with an eagerness bordering on schadenfreude and that bothers me as much as the import of what I’ve absorbed.

The accuracy of the information is important, obviously; but the effect it has on me, true or false, is as much of a worry.

I doubt that I am alone in my fascination with what’s going on around me, but let’s face it, the issues that get the most attention are almost always of the same sort -sexual improprieties, senseless violence, horrendous accidents, or political intrigue. Shocking things.

Fake news readily cashes in on those themes because they more predictably attract our attention, although often by using unrecognized hyperbole, or thinly camouflaged untruths: Janus-faces. But why is that? Why do we seem so needful of being shocked -so willing to believe something that is counterintuitive or too terrible to be true if we stopped to analyze it further?

It strikes me that we are the raison d’être for Fake News, by being so eager to absorb it. To believe it. I wonder if it’s not so much an echo chamber as a recording studio. A broadcasting node. Fake news–disinformation–travels only as far as the next transmitter.

We are the willing fomites of our own deception.

Originally published by islander Gary Kinney on musingsonretirementblog.com.

Applefest lives

Continued from page 1 The Museum cottage will be open for tours and a peek into the Union Steamship Company days.

There is an apple pie baking contest and everyone is welcome to bake. Get it to the judging table before noon. Best pie wins $100 There will be a farmers’ market featuring locally grown, baked and made items, including apple rings, fruit leather, jams, jellies, sauces, baked items such as pumpkin pies, fresh made-on-the-spot pitas with local ingredients, Bowen salts, greens, farm fresh produce, honey, wool socks, plants and more!

The Cottage Tea House will be open and will serve slices of apple pie, apple scones and tea in a lovely setting. Local musicians will be playing and the cupcake walk will take place for all ages.

Volunteers are still needed to help with the event and the pie making extravaganza in the BICS kitchen 5-7 p.m. Friday Oct. 5 and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat. Oct 6.

Applefest runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Davies Orchard Sunday Oct. 7.

“So will this be the last Applefest?”

“I don’t know, we’ll have to see how this year turns out. We look forward to seeing you at the event this year. We can’t do it without you, so please come out to show your support and love of Applefest by joining in the fun, volunteering if you have some time, saying hello to fellow islanders at the event, buying a pie, enjoying the festivities and sharing what you love best about this traditional island event.”

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Qualified electors may vote by mail if they: • have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability to vote at another voting opportunity, OR • expect to be absent from Bowen Island Municipality on general voting day and on advanced voting day.

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To register, resident electors must produce two (2) pieces of identification (at least one with a signature). Picture identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.

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The application is available on our website at: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/elections Mail ballot packages will be mailed as early as October 3, 2018.

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Doc Morgan’s summer staff float housing could be let out to other renters in off-season Continued from page 1 The USSC Marina’s intention is to build as many as four duplexes and two four-plexes and they plan to have four of the dwellings completed by spring.

Rondy Dike notes that the floating homes are a unique design supported not by a concrete foundation but in part by two Styrofoam-coated pontoons.

This is one of a number of projects builder Mark Turk has worked in the two-and-a-half years he’s lived and built on Bowen. Turk more often builds larger structures but said he is enjoying the uniqueness of this project, a project he said he loves for its practicality, neces-

sity and for the efficient design of the structures.

The dwellings are being built using SIPS (Structural Insulated Panels). SIPS consist of two structural facings made of OSB (oriented strand board) that sandwich an insulated foam core. Dike said SIPS were chosen for energy efficiency, strength and cost effectiveness.

Each unit has its own septic system, an aerobic three-stage system called Go Green. They will also be backed up to the Cove sewer system.

The first duplex has each of the two suites occupied. Two relatively new employees to Doc’s, executive chef Erik

Miller and the manager of Doc’s, Cam Lawton, are comfortably set-up and, as full-time employees, will live there yearround.

Should the amendment be passed and the floating buildings completed, they will house regular employees and seasonal employees. In the winter should there be vacancies due to less of a need for staff housing, the dwellings may be temporarily rented out to non-staff until the greater need for staff housing returns each summer.

The floating units will be designated as affordable housing.

Notice of Public Hearing

431 Bowen Island Trunk Road Rezoning

HAVE YOUR SAY. Public Hearing October 1st 2018 7:15 pm

Land Use Bylaw Amendment No. 461, 2018

About the bylaw

431 Bowen Island Trunk Road is the site of the Union Steamship Marina. The marina has applied for permission to build up to 6 floating buildings and up to 12 dwelling units to house marina staff. The buildings would be governed by a Housing Agreement requiring that the units be available for Bowen workers throughout the summer months.

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Contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning and Development

604-947-4255

Bylaw timeline Council 1st Direction Reading

September 2017

April 2018

External 2nd Referrals Reading

July 2018

Public 3rd Reading Bylaw Hearing Adoption

October 2018

(Estimated) (Estimated) Fall 2018 Fall 2018

How to get more information

The proposed bylaw and background material may be viewed at Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, during office hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays), or on the Municipal website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning

dmartin @bimbc.ca

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Bowen Island poet co-writes 50 poems in 50 days BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Council Chambers

Questions?

Jude Neale holds her new co-authored book Cantata in Two Voices. Photo: Bronwyn Beairsto

Ways you can Have Your Say •

Speak at the Public Hearing: October 1st at 7:15 pm at Municipal Hall.

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Write to the attention of Mayor and Council: E-mail: mayorandcouncil@bimbc.ca Mail: 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2

It’s no walk in the park to sit down and write a poem, but try writing one with another person –or an entire book of poems.

That’s just what local poet Jude Neale has done. She and Vancouverite Bonnie Nish wrote Cantata in Two Voices, a series of 50 epigraphs written in 50 days, published by Ekstasis Editions.

An epigraph is a type of literary work that opens or is prefaced by a line or excerpt from another work.

In this case each poem opens with a line from another poem, inspiration ranging from Margaret Atwood to Robert Haas to even Neale herself.

“You see what that line triggers and they’re all different,” says Jude. “We both felt we couldn’t have a book if we didn’t have the epigraphs because they’re key to the writing itself.”

The two authors took turns picking the epigraphs, the deal being that the other person would write the first line of the poem. This was sometimes a challenge as the other person could take the poem in a totally different direction and the epigraph chooser was held to continuing that story.

“I wrote the poetry on my phone,” says Jude. She was off camping and so would send the lines off to her writing partner.

Alternating line by line (or stanza by stanza) Bonnie and Jude worked through the poems.

While for some, that might be enough tension to challenge a friendship, Bonnie and Jude’s survived. “We’re still speaking,” laughs Jude. “We’re great friends.”

Jude has written six other books with another in the wings.

Bonnie is the executive director of Pandora’s Collective, which is a Vancouver non-profit dedicated to the literary arts.

There will be a book launch on October 28, but in the meantime, Jude will be reading at the Word Vancouver Sunrise Suite on Sunday, September 30 at 12:10 p.m.

To ensure a fair process, Council cannot consider any submissions received after the Public Hearing has ended.

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