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Rental policy draft draws controversy

COMMUNITY DIVIDED OVER FIRST DRAFT OF AN ISLAND STR POLICY

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

The following are briefs from the Sept. 30 regular council meeting.

The housing paradox

day, I hope there will be so many people at city hall that I won’t even see you. After running into a few friends and losing the person I came with, I found myself walking solo over the bridge, surrounded by the masses. As I looked around at all the young people and some with babies in strollers I experienced a kind of déjà vu, with the realization that I had been going to protest marches for six decades.

It’s a pickle of a problem and one not unique to Bowen. Towns want tourism dollars to support the local economy. Tourists need places to stay but those spaces are also needed for the staff to work said businesses and destinations and to maintain economically diverse populations. Some argue those spaces wouldn’t be available for long-term rent anyway, others argue they would.

So what do you do if you’re an island without a hotel, with an established seasonal population, with a booming illegal Airbnb presence (the only non-commercial, non-retreat short-term rentals currently allowed on-island are bed and breakfasts) and a housing crisis?

To address the long-standing problem, Bowen Island Municipality is in the process of developing a short-term rental (STR) policy that moves beyond blanket prohibition. BIM has been conducting community engagement on the subject since February. Monday evening Community planner Emma Chow presented the first draft of the policy to council.

Key points of the policy include requiring that shortterm rentals have business licences, limiting rental of entire dwellings (not B&Bs) to 120 days of a calendar year, allowing “limited kitchen facilities” in B&B accommodations and not allowing short-term rental of secondary suites. (The idea is that secondary suites can be used for long-term rental whereas entire dwellings may be rented while the owners are on vacation.) The idea of entire-dwelling rentals is they would be seasonally used by the owner and seasonally by renters.

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YOUTH STRIKE: Bowen Island youth, including all of Island Pacific School, and other community members headed to

Vancouver Sept. 27 for the city’s climate strike march. The city’s event drew approximately 100,000 people (organizers had hoped to attract 15,000). On Bowen, several businesses closed for part or all of Friday in support of the strikes and islanders gathered on the ferry dock for a smaller protest. Pictured above, youth on the Queen of Capilano hold up signs and call to the youth on the shore.

Still marching six decades later

KAMI KANETSUKA FIRST MARCHED FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NOW SHE MARCHES FOR THE CLIMATE KAMI KANETSUKA

Contributor

It was a great turnout for the climate action rally last Friday with a significant number of Bowen Islanders attending. And for some of us we had the luxury of traveling to City Hall in Peter King’s comfortable Bowen Island

Express bus. It was good to be in the middle of the action below the steps where the speakers were and to hear the First Nations greetings and drumming and the voices of youth. As I looked at the sea of youthful energy in front of me, with their many signs, I felt that perhaps change is possible.

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

October 4, 2019 9:30 am Housing Advisory Committee Meeting

BowENS test on October 15th Permissive Tax Exemption Heads up! We’re testing the Bowen Island Public Notification Bylaw 493, 2019 System on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 at around 3:00 pm. If

you’re registered for BowENS, you’ll receive a test notification on the devices you chose when you signed up. Make sure to listen to the end of the message so that the system doesn’t try to reach you again!

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Please note: the BowENS notification system is different than Alert Ready, Canada’s emergency alerting system. You have to register to receive notifications from BowENS. Questions? Please contact us at 604-947-4255 or bim@bimbc.ca.

New Building Bylaw

RentSmart Workshop for Landlords Workshop FULL

Climate Conversation: Farmland Preservation and Revitalization

October 8, 2019 5:00 pm Hood Point Water System Community Information Meeting

October 10, 2019 5:00 pm Recreation and Community Services Commission Meeting

October 11, 2019 9:30 am Community Economic Development Committee Meeting

October 15, 2019 6:15 pm

What do you think of life on Bowen Island?

Island Survey 2019 is intended for Bowen Island residents and property owners. The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete and addresses municipal services, transportation, emergency preparedness, housing and the local economy on Bowen Island.

The goals of the survey include: • to inform the development of our strategic plan, Island Plan 2020 • to allow for current community feedback • to assess your satisfaction with current municipal services • to collect baseline information to allow for annual comparisons

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

Bowen Island Municipality is considering a new building bylaw (Bylaw No. 489) to replace the existing Building Bylaw No. 65.

In addition to including Step Code requirements, the bylaw would align with recent updates to the BC Building Code, provide clarity on matters such as temporary buildings, security deposits, and fire access requirements. The Bylaw can be viewed online, and is available for review at Municipal Hall.

Questions? Please contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning and Development at dmartin@bimbc.ca or 604-947-4255.

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Regular Council Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

The bylaw will be considered at the October 15, 2019 council meeting and will be adopted on October 28, 2019. Questions?

Contact Raj Hayre, Chief Financial Officer at rhayre@bimbc.ca or 604-947-4255.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 3 2019 • 3

ISLAND NEWS

Saturday is Applefest, a core community tradition SARAH HAXBY

Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association

Candy apples, apple pies, smoked apple salts, apple fruit leather, apple rings, apple jam, apple jelly, apple tart, apple crisp, fresh apples, apple information, apple cider press, apple, apple, Applefest!

Got apples? Bring them to applefest and put them through the apple juice press. Applefest will have some apples this year, but unfortunately not very many for the juice press, as there has been a shortage of fall harvest apples (the summer-ripening varieties did well, but all across the island, the fall pie and cider apples have been in short supply.) Still, we managed to get some local and heritage apples, which will be featured for sale, tasting, as well as in a wide array of apple-themed products, from smoked apple salt to apple pies.

The annual pie-making contest is on, with the winner receiving $100 and bragging rights for a year. Please bring your apple pies to Applefest between 11 and 11:30 a.m. so it can be ready for judging. There is no cost to enter.

One of the special judges this year is part of the Davies family who originally planted Davies orchard in 1887!

The Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association is a small group of local volunteers who believe in the importance of preserving, celebrating and educating our past, with a special focus on the Davies Orchard cottages and apple and fruit trees. Nestled in Davies Orchard, which is situated in Metro Vancouver’s Crippen Park, BIHPA has been working to preserve the cottages, agricultural heritage and space of Davies Orchard for more than thirty years.

In the past year BIHPA has received a Knick Knack Nook grant thanks to the Community Foundation and set about running a series of special events as well as keeping the annual traditions running, such as the beloved Applefest.

Due to a volunteer shortage, as well as an apple shortage this year, we are trying a few new things as well as trying to keep the old favourites.

What is new this year? Applefest is on the Saturday before the Thanksgiving weekend this year, October 5, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., in Davies Orchard in Crippen Park, in

Snug Cove, down Cottage Lane, in behind the Tuscany restaurant.

Bowen Cider House at Meadowbrook Corner is creating a display of specialty heritage cider apples for Applefest. Christine Hardie is working on continuing the Riley Orchard and will be setting up a display. Ian Kennard and Nancy Leonard will have Bowen honey for sale as well as pollinator information and news about the next bee keeping course.

The BAA Farmers’ Market will be at the market with jams, fruit leather, baked goods, fresh, locally grown produce and much more.

Metro Parks interpreters will have a special children’s activity tent. The Museum Cottage 10 and Rocking Horse Tea House cottages will be open. Face painting music, and more will be part of this free, fun, family-friendly event.

Youth are invited to bring the biggest big leaf maple leaves that they can find to be measured and see who has found the biggest Bowen Island maple leaf this year. This event is based on an event in 1932, when the world’s largest maple leaf was found on Bowen Island (Vancouver Museum). The search was revived last year with amazing results. The Bigleaf maple has the largest leaves of any North American maple tree, with the leaves ranging from four to 10 inches (10 to 25 cm) across. The official Guinness Book of Records title for largest maple leaf is held by Vikas Tanwar and family in Richmond. In December 2010, they found a maple leaf that measured 53 cm wide and 52.2 cm long, but unofficially the biggest Maple leaf was found in Victoria, in November 2014, by Marilyn deHaan that was 60.9 cm wide and 72 cm long.

Hans Behm will be running the maple leaf contest as well as making an announcement about the theme of the BIHPA 2020’s displays and activities.

Everyone in the community is invited to wear old fashioned or farm clothes to Applefest.

Youth buskers and other volunteers are still needed so please email shaxby@hotmail. com and put APPLE in the subject line to get involved and be part of this important island tradition.

Please note: the Farmers Market at BICS moves down to Applefest Oct 5, and then will return to BICS for the last market on the Thanksgiving Saturday Oct 12, which is also being called pie day.

Celebrating 100th anniversary of Union Steamship Company HANS-CHRISTIAN BEHM

BIHPA Director

Among the highlights of this year’s Applefest will be the official kick-off at noon to the preparations for next year’s 100 year anniversary of the Union Steamship Company’s Bowen resort, which flourished between the 1920s and 1940s. In 1946, the Union’s steamships brought 101,000 visitors to the “Happy Isle,” while Vancouver had only 365,000 inhabitants.

For more than 30 years it was the largest and most sought after seaside resort in Western Canada and the Davies Orchard is the last vestige of those splendid days gone by.

The festivities will begin on Canada Day 2020 and conclude with BowFest August 29,

2020. A variety of activities invoking the past will be included in the two month’s long program, perhaps even a visit of the last surviving Union Steamship vessel, the venerable “Lady Rose.”

Because of the extra ordinary importance of this anniversary celebration representatives of the Vancouver Maritime Museum, with whom BIHPA and the Bowen Island Museum and Archives will partner, are invited to the announcement as are Bowen’s Council members, representatives of Metro Parks, of Heritage B.C. , Heritage Canada and the Provincial Maritime Museum and representatives of the Sechelt Historical Society, where the USSC had a strong presence, as well. The owner of the “Lady Rose” will also attend.

Various media will be invited.

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Nicholas Lendvoy (left) and Greg Smith (right), owners of Bowen Island Integrated Health

New health clinic opens BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

Bowen Island still waits for a health centre but in the meantime a new health and performance clinic is opening on-island.

Dr. Nicholas Lendvoy, a chiropractor and neuro-musculoskeletal clinician and Greg Smith, a registered physiotherapist, have started Bowen Island Integrated Health in Dr. Zandy’s old office beneath the pharmacy.

The newly renovated space has three multi-use treatment rooms and will feature a multi-disciplinary team including owners Lendvoy and Smith as well as registered nurse Sarah Kraatz, registered clinical dietician Ellie MacKay, kinesiologist Rachel Canning, speech-language pathologist Michael Witten and other health practitioners as they are recruited.

The clinic’s grand opening is this coming Sunday, Oct. 6 from noon to 4 p.m.

“We’re trying to create something for the community, says Smith. “The biggest thing that we’re looking to do is to provide new and different services.”

The two note that while there are several health professionals on-island, those people are often booked solid. Smith and Lendvoy say they hope to ease some of that stress, offer different hours (for example, early mornings, evenings and weekends) and integrated service.

“The whole integrated approach is to get people not just working in the same space but actually working together as a team to better serve the community,” says Lendvoy. “So our goal is to get everyone communicating, bring in everyone under one roof, get services on-island that aren’t here yet and try and increase the accessibility a little bit.”

While this clinic is completely separate from the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation (which is purchasing land on Miller Road to build a standalone clinic), Smith has joined the foundation board and the two say that they’re committed to supporting the foundation.

“A lot of people might see it as ‘There’s this other clinic, why do we

need to fundraise?’” Says Lendvoy. “But it’s apples to oranges.”

“We’re making use of what we have to our best ability and trying to give the services prior to that being built,” he says. “But that’s always the priority.

“Get Bowen everything that it needs long term, because this isn’t a longterm solution.”

But in the short term, Smith and Lendvoy are excited.

Though they both grew up in the Lower Mainland, played sports at UBC (basketball and soccer respectively) and work in the health field, Lendvoy and Smith didn’t know one another before undertaking this venture.

Lendvoy moved to Bowen two years ago and has been commuting to a sport therapy clinic he owns in Vancouver’s West End. “Just the feedback from people on island was, we need you here and we need a clinic here, so quit messing around and start something,” he laughs.

In the meantime, Smith, who moved to Bowen two months ago, was looking around at island spaces for himself.

Then six degrees of separation worked its magic (Lendvoy’s cousin is best friends with Smith’s girlfriend’s brother) and the two connected.

“It’s nice to because the way that we approach therapy and treatment and just dealing with people in general is pretty on par,” says Lendvoy. “It’s very functional. It’s very evidence-based.”

Smith and Lendvoy assure islanders that Life Labs will continue in the clinic space and there’s the potential for extending hours (but no promises).

They also want people to know that they want the clinic to be involved in the community.

“We want to be as integrated within ourselves but also within the community as much as possible,” says Lendvoy.

“We’re very interested in getting involved in terms of fundraisers and those sort of things,” says Smith.

We’re super thankful for how supportive the community has been so far, because everyone has been really excited about it,” says Lendvoy.

Lendvoy and Smith currently have bookings open on the BIIH website.

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VIEWPOINT EDITORIAL

Sifting through the news

In a few weeks, we’ll be casting ballots.

As promises from all parties ramp up, so has media coverage of politicians and issues. There’s also coverage of the climate emergency, impeachment proceedings, Orange Shirt Day, hurricanes and murders. Turning on the TV or opening the paper can’t help but remind one of just how complicated the world, our country and our little island can be. Even I, as someone adding to the barrage, feel stressed trying to read it all.

But we’re nearly there. Just a few more weeks!

As we near voting day, turn off the chatter for just a moment and reflect on what’s really most important to you. And then ask what the parties, what the candidates have said they can and will do. What their histories suggest they might do. If you don’t know, send candidates an email, show up at one of the all-candidates meetings and look at what’s been said in the media. And then exercise one of our most powerful decision-making tools.

I cannot tell you who to vote for. Your spouse cannot tell you who to vote for. Your daughter cannot tell you who to vote for.

But, we will do our best to help you be an informed voter. In our Oct. 17 edition, the last before the election, we will have a “question grid,” where we ask all the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky candidates the same questions. If there’s a question you would like asked in that edition, please send an email to editor@ bowenislandundercurrent. com before 3 p.m. Friday Oct. 4 (sorry for the late notice!)

Don’t forget to register to vote at ereg.elections.ca/ CWelcome.aspx.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

STRs: what is council thinking? Lizzie play has no gore DEAR EDITOR: I was enraged to read the draft policy that is being brought forward to the council meeting on September 30, 2019 with respect to changing our bylaws on what is permissible for short term rentals.

Our bylaws currently allow for home occupations of bed and breakfasts––the bylaw requires the owner to live in the home. This has been the case for a long time, although there clearly have been illegal operations of single dwelling rentals. That does not mean these operations have been acceptable in many residential neighbourhoods.

Council asked the public to respond in a survey that accompanied our tax notices this year. In the report by the community planner presented to Council on Sept.30, 2019, she notes under feedback considerations: “Entire home rentals received the most concern for potential negative impacts.”

This is a pretty clear response to me, yet council is ignoring it. The draft policy proposes that single fam-

ily dwellings be permitted as seasonal rental use for a period of up to a maximum of 120 days a year. This means your neighbour could rent out his/ her home every weekend for the full year, or for a week here and a week there––or for one night at a time. I have some experience with the problems that occur with single family dwellings being rented out. There is no one on site to control the noise that results from these places being used as party houses. There is no one on site to control the parking issues that result. Sure, Council’s draft policy suggests some ways to help control this––like a “Good Neighbour Policy” and a contact for a property manager.

This will of course require enforcement––which means more of your tax dollars being used to enforce a policy that the majority have already said they do not want.

There is still time to send council your thoughts. Still a draft bylaw.

Please take the time to tell them what you think of these draft bylaw changes.

Nerys Poole

DEAR EDITOR: I’m helping a little with the upcoming play and have been encouraging people to attend, but, one common concern is about violence and gore––after all, it is Lizzie Borden’s story.

Lizzie was acquitted of butchering her parents with an axe, and there is “blood” in the title and an axe on the poster, and it is that time of year. Nevertheless, I’d like to reassure people, I read the play when TOTI agreed to produce it and there is no gore or blood. No jump-outof-your-seat scares and no physical contact. The setting is Lizzie visiting with a friend who keeps begging her to confide and tell what happened.

That content is not recommended for children, but for adults and adolescents it will make you think about human tragedy that results in violence. Hopefully, most of us can consider those issues. As Frazer Elliott, one of the actors, all of whom have been studying the play and its nuances in depth, says, this play is all about relationships: strained, difficult, beautiful, loving, hateful. We are only two weeks away from the opening and some of the island’s best young actors are working hard and getting into their characters–– I think this will be yet another great TOTI production, and the debut of yet another great director.

Tickets are available at Phoenix and still only $20. P.S. If you have friends or family joining you for a night of good theatre, there will be plenty of time to get either the 9:50 p.m. or 10:50 p.m. boat back to the mainland.

Judi Gedye

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 3 2019 • 5

A look back: the Octobers of ‘79, ’94 and ‘09 CATHERINE BAYLY

Bowen Island Museum and Archives

The following are snippets from Undercurrents past. To read the past Undercurrents or to follow up on information contact the Bowen Museum & Archives at bihistorians@telus.net or 604.947.2655 How do we keep busy on Bowen after the long, warm days of summer have come to a close?

40 years ago: October 1979

From the Spread the Word Column: Free buffet for all senior citizens and their partners at the legion Weigh-In’s meeting Wednesday evening.

Mom and Tot playgroup meets one morning per week.

Halloween costume dance at the Legion on October 27.

Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion bridge games on Thursday at the Legion.

Theatre on the Isle presented The Mouse Trap. Bowen Island Credit Union open on Sunday, October 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Clinic open at the CNIB Lodge Thursday afternoon from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., with Dr. Sam Slade replacing Dr. Glynn-Morris.

Saturday Skating Program began with children 6 and up leaving on the 11:15 a.m. ferry and returning on the 5 p.m.ferry.

Marie Buchanan was looking for recipes to be published in a Bowen

Cookbook.

UNICEF boxes available it BICS for children to carry at Halloween.

Legion Turkey Shoot announced.

Fright Night and Fireworks at Evergreen Hall at 7 p.m., Oct 31.

25 years ago: October 1994

From the Island Calendar: Legion opened Oct 7, for Libra’s birthday party.

Teen Centre open Saturdays from 3:00 to 11:00 at Collins Hall.

Canadian Cancer Society hosted Breast Self-Examination clinic at the Ambulance Station.

Bowen Island Art Workshop Tuesdays at 1 p.m.

Adult Roller Hockey at BICS on Tuesdays 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Duplicate Bridge at Bowen Court on Thursdays.

Darts League at the Legion on Fridays.

Oct 16, B.I.H.O.R.A held the Autumn Potpourri Horse Show at the Equestrian Ring in the Meadows.

Bowen Nature Club held a Bowen Mushroom Walk.

Bowen Island Pet Registry was held at Bowen Pet Supplies.

Family Dance and Pot Luck, October 16, at the Old Store.

Young Artists of Bowen show at Plum Gallery.

Carpet Bowling on Thursdays from 3:00 – 5:00 at BICS. Bowen Island United Church held the annual Fall Supper

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Legion Halloween party of 1973. Muriel Nelson is at the piano; Scott Helenius dressed as a girl and George Helenius.

October 22, at Collins Hall.

Teen Masquerade at BICS, Oct 29.

Adult Masquerade at the Legion, Oct 29.

Haunted House held at the Old Store followed by fireworks at Sandy Beach.

Special Announcement “The Malamute Cowboy Museum” Bowen Island, went into hiatus following the retirement of Devo

Farrone. (Does anyone have any information, photographs, videos about this?)

10 years ago: October 2009

From the On the Calendar: Legion dinners on Fridays.

Community BBQ with John Weston and Bowen Municipality on Doc Morgan’s lawn, Oct 2.

Gallery at Artisan Square presented Susan Hillman, “Brush

Strokes and Stitches.”

Bowen Island Library presented paintings by Tiffanee Scorer.

Artisan Radio on Fridays.

World Wide breastfeeding challenge at BICS, Oct 3.

Apple picking at Camp Bow Isle Apple Orchard, Oct 3.

Apple Fest at Davies Orchard, Oct 3.

Juggling Club on Saturdays, BICS gym.

Drop-in Meditation, Sunday evenings, 7:15-8:30 pm at the Yurt.

Seniors Keeping Young, Monday morning exercises followed by speakers and refreshments. group, Drop-in knitting Wednesdays in the lounge at Bowen Court.

Needle in Cotton: soft style Kung Fu at Tir-Na-Nog on Thursdays.

Buddhist meditation classes at The Gallery at Artisan Square.

Turkey Dance and Social, Oct 9 at BICS. Annual Fall Supper at Bowen United Church – two sittings.

Kat Snacks Drop-In at the Youth Centre, Fridays.

Crippen Stewardship Group the Weed Warriors tree planting work party, Oct 17.

Afghans for Afghanistan knitting at the Gallery, Oct 9.

Halloween Dance at the Legion, Oct 31.

Pumpkin Display at McDonald’s Farm, Oct 31.

Bowen Food & Agriculture workshop at BICS.

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Bowen Moments

Bowen Island Community School’s new giant multiplication table

Years ago we stayed at a friend’s apartment in London, England and from a window that overlooked a private school across the road, I saw one painted on their playground.

I thought it was a brilliant idea as math was a very difficult class for me in my day.In Guatemala I volunteered at an NGO school in Ciudad Vieja called Niños de Guatemala. The younger eleBowen Island Community Foundation held a community mentary kids loved it, familiarevent Saturday afternoon at Doc Morgan’s. Murray Former Bowen Island Marina owner izing themselves with numbers Atherton sent in this photo of past and current chairs Norma Dallas celebrated her 80th and the grade three and four chilof the foundation including: Soren Hammerberg, David birthday at the Legion over the dren loved it making up a game. Volunteers work on a giant multiplication table at Bowen Podmore, Holly Graff (current chair), Atherton and Joyce weekend. Murray Atherton sent in For example what is 8 x 7 + 4. Island Community School. (Photo: courtesy of John Givins) Ganong. this photo of Norma with her cake.

It allowed the children to learn their numbers in a kinaesthetic way instead of memorizing them in a classroom desk.

I approached Scott Slater with the idea and he gave it a thumbs up. I drew and cut custom stencils 1 to 0 out of sheet plastic to fit in a square 14W x 10H. Anna and Leanne at the Building Centre ordered in two gallons of parking lot line paint, white and yellow, and donated them to the school.

Multiplication is so fundamental in daily life as well as accounting. Now it is complete, the quesShasta Martinuk Jackie Bradley tion will be if the math teachers Island Pacific School founder Ted Spear held an “ed talk” like it as there are today different Bowen Island Food Sovereignty presented and book launch Tuesday evening for his book Education ways of learning multiplication the findings of their “Toward a Resilient Food Reimagined: The Schools our Children Need at the library and above will be how the stuSystem for Bowen Island” project to a crowd of annex. In the photo above, snapped by David McCullum, dents benefit from it as a learning more than 40 people Sunday. Meribeth Deen Spear is receiving an “award” presented by former IPS device. snapped these photos of the group’s members teacher John Hoover. See last week’s edition for a story on ––John Givins & volunteers (above) and some keen audience members Spear’s book. (right). Read all about it in next week’s paper.

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Now they need to bury two recent events just to maintain the deception a little longer. The Greens are in denial of recent scientific developments.

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created by the United Nations, it was instructed to investigate human causes of global warming and told not to look too closely at any natural causes. The game was rigged from the start.

Climate models that included only ultraviolet solar radiation underestimated the contribution of the sun to global warming.

Recently, and for the first time, data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) also includes solar radiation due to protons, mediumenergy electrons, and also galactic cosmic rays.

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Another problem for Greens is a recent peer-reviewed paper that says measurement error in the historical temperature record is so high that predictions of future global temperature are meaningless. Greens managed to delay publication of this report for 6 full years, but now it’s out.

It will be difficult for the IPCC to finally admit that they have been wrong about CO2, particularly because global warming research has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Will Greens abandon their climate hysteria, now that science has turned against them? Or, will they continue to yell “fire” in classrooms overcrowded with frightened young children, simply to advance their globalist political agenda?

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My first protest march was the CND, (campaign for nuclear disarmament) march from Trafalgar Square, London, to Aldermaston, Atomic Weapons Establishment, when I was still a teenager. It was a four-day march that involved camping out or sleeping in halls and churches. My parents did not approve -but I went anyway. The marches became a yearly event for years and in 1960 it was reported that 100,000 people marched in reverse from the Aldermaston Nuclear Establishment to Trafalgar Square -- 40% were young people. At the Vancouver Climate Action march on Friday, roughly the same number turned up, and on the Cambie Bridge, I was surrounded by youth.

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play and half-sister of Pete Seeger, was on the first London to Aldermaston march. In an interview a few years ago, she was asked about that march, which she said was all about peace. ‘I would do it again for peace, if it helps,’ she said. ‘Now, we still feel so desperate and depressed about so many things, ‘Like global warming. How do you deal with that? You can’t march against global warming, can you?’

Perhaps now she has seen the tiny powerhouse Greta Thunberg, who has created universal awareness that it imperative that we march for climate change, she may be more hopeful. The pictures from all over the globe, do show that people are waking up.

But the big question is can we march to change those in power? Only time can tell.

Scenes of a climate strike

Thousands in Vancouver and more than a hundred on Bowen gathered to demand climate action Sept. 27. The so-called “strikes” saw students skipping school and businesses closing their doors in order to participate in the events. The following are photos from the march in Vancouver and the smaller event on Bowen.

Scenes from the Bowen protest. (Photos: BIU)

Above: the Island Pacific School crowd at the Vancouver Climate Strike. (Photo: Deb Stringfellow)

Above: the Bowen Island crowd hold their own Climate Strike. (Photo: BIU)

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These rentals would also have to enter into a yet-to-bewritten “good neighbour agreement.” Under this STR policy, BIM would also apply for the Municipal and Regional District Tax program, which applies a tax of up to three per cent on each rental, those funds then used for local tourism and housing initiatives.

Chow noted that in the 2018 Island Survey, lack of longterm rental housing was the top housing challenge for the island. She said that that the community feedback had shown the most concern with rentals of entire dwellings while B&B’s were the most favoured form of STR. Chow said that considerations of fairness, mitigating negative impacts on community and a “residents first” approach went into drafting the plan.

A sticking point for councillors and members of the public who spoke at the head of the meeting, was the nature of entire-dwelling rentals.

Former municipal councillor Nerys Poole said she thinks that allowing any seasonal rental of single-family dwellings and rental of properties with secondary suites (the suite itself wouldn’t be allowed to be rented, but the main dwelling could be) would be a mistake. Poole was concerned about noise and disruption from these rentals as well as impact on housing stock.

“I think this bylaw has been drafted to represent the interests of a very few on the island,” she said.

Chair of Tourism Bowen Island, Joan Vyner, on the other hand, was concerned with the “arbitrary number of STRs nights” (120 days).

“This limitation on rental nights may be detrimental to the accommodation providers,” she said.

Vyner said that when it comes to the tax and the rest of the policy, Tourism Bowen is in support.

Among councillors, the 120 day limit was an issue, but from opposing perspectives –– Councillor Sue Ellen Fast said that it “seems like a long time.”

Councillor Michael Kaile, however, said that from a hospitality or tourism point of view, it will be argued that 120 days makes “little or no sense.”

Mayor Gary Ander, after noting that it’s early days for this

policy said that he’s got a problem with the 120 day limit.

“The rest of the year isn’t much good to anybody, might as well be renting it out,” he said, calling the limit “a little restrictive.”

The policy was referred to the Community Economic Development Committee, Housing Advisory Committee and public open house for comment.

Trust tax

In the ongoing discussion over Bowen’s Islands Trust tax, council voted five to two (Fast and Councillor Maureen Nicholson against) to authorize Kaile, Fast and Ander to engage in discussions with Trust chair Peter Luckham about the requisition formula. (Kaile and Fast are Bowen’s Island Trustees).

Kaile said that this resolution was just a means of opening talks between parties and something Luckham had requested before discussing the matter. “[Luckham’s] very keen to open up a negotiation on this,” said Ander. “And he said it might go beyond the present parameters. Who knows.”

“He’s very keen to have us settle this, or at least be happy with our lot in the Trust,” said Ander.

“What was really important to [Luckham] is that approved by his exec. and approved by our council, would be something jointly agreed, he could then take to the minister,” said Kaile.

Fast raised the Trust’s three-part report analyzing Bowen’s tax levy from the Trust’s administrative services director Julia Mobbs. (Mobbs presented the final part of the report to the Trust council two weeks ago). Mobbs’ analysis found no “inappropriate” expenditure allocations in Bowen’s requisition. The report hasn’t yet appeared on the BIM council agenda.

Ander and Kaile said that the discussions they want to open go beyond this report, they want to discuss changing the requisition formula.

“Obviously the formula that we have, this is the conclusion. It doesn’t make a lot of people really happy,” said Ander. Ander had also noted earlier in the meeting that he told Luckham that Bowen doesn’t want to leave the Trust.

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“Whereas all this work has been done by the Islands Trust already and it’s shown no unfairness, and this proposal is about engaging in discussions about fairness, I think it’s a waste of time,” said Fast.

No waves here

There wasn’t even a ripple as council passed Bowen’s Tsunami Hazard and Risk Assessment. The report prepared

by John Clague, a professor of earth sciences at Simon Fraser University, said that tsunamis triggered by earthquakes do not pose a risk to Bowen.

“While a tsunami generated by a great Cascadia earthquake would probably be very large along the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, it would diminish to a series of small waves less than one to two metres in height in the Salish Sea and Howe Sound, and thus would not affect homes on Bowen Island,” said the report.

However, there is potential for damage from even small tsunamis to marinas, docks and boats along the shoreline.

The report said that the only credible tsunami source for Bowen would be a rock slide into Howe Sound, the probability of which is low.

Clague came to these conclusions after analysing the geological record, historical tsunamis and current research.

Spirited start: Knick Knack Nook JOHN LAWRENCE

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The following is part of a series of articles celebrating the Knick Knack Nook’s 10th anniversary.

A small committee of six got the Nook ball rolling but quickly grew to 16 as the momentum started to build once councilor Wrinch had secured a piece of land through the generosity of the municipality. Upward of 150 volunteers, including strong representation from island youth, soon got to work formulating a grand plan.

Out of their deliberations came our name, the brainchild of Lauren Spear, then only a child herself. It has become a touchstone of so many good things, resonating with the community, both young and old.

Contributions were many and included cash donations, expertise, labour, transportation and storage.

The Irly stored the building until the site was ready; Jim Clark moved the building from Burnaby to the Island.

Young people helped to fashion the tiles, which honour our many contributors. They hang under a canopy on the left of the building, Daren Jennings, assisted by our mayor Gary Anders as KKN liaison, put the building together. In the absence of a set of drawings, more than one start was required before they got it right!

One outstanding contributor was John Willis who used the hemlock cleared from the site for the construction, after drying and milling, to make the furniture and cupboards which so graciously complement the building of today.

With a touch of genius he put everything on wheels, facilitating the recent laying of a new floor!

To support the new medical centre, and make our anniversary an occasion to raise them some much needed cash, there will be will an online auction. If you would like to make a donation for the fundraiser please hand it personally to a volunteer at the Nook or email Katherine Lawrence at: kathjohn@fastmail.fm.

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Daniella Sorrentino (left) and Liz Nankin (right) play with shadow puppets. The two are facilitating a history-themed shadow puppet workshop starting Oct. 12.

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Though the logging trucks have long faded from Bowen’s roads, the mining equipment long retired, the Rogers family train long derailed, their shadows linger in Bowen memories.

Now, two islanders are looking to bring those shadows to the stage, with your help.

“Our theatres are cardboard boxes,” explains Liz Nankin, co-creator of Bowen Fables, a free shadow puppet workshop starting Oct. 12. The Los Angeles costume designer-turned Bowener clasps a handful of silhouettes depicting one tragic Bowen incident –– a 1910 powder factory explosion in Tunstall Bay. It’s just one of several Bowen-themed story ideas the islander has for participants of the six-week series of workshops she’s leading with island filmmaker Daniella Sorrentino. Over the course of the workshops, puppeteers-in-the-making will each create a one-to-two-minute shadow puppet film. The films will be set against images from the Museum and Archives. The stories may be factual, based on real events, or completely invented.

“It is spring boarding, hopefully from the archives,” says Nankin. “But you can come in with your fable because that’s part of the lore.

“Everyone tells a story. How do you tell a story? How do you share it?”

“What it is, is an opportunity for the community to come together and create something that has cultural legacy,” says Sorrentino.

“Even in the seven years that I’ve been here, the community of Bowen has changed very, very rapidly,” she says. “I think that having that legacy is important because it allows the community to hold onto something that is distinctly Bowen.”

Though when this idea came about neither woman had extensive experience with shadow puppetry, both are experienced with aesthetics and storytelling. On top of her work as a costume designer for theatre, film and TV, Nankin has trained with a puppeteer in L.A. And Daniella, as a freelance filmmaker, has run a mobile film camp for the past few years.

Bowen Fables, funded through a municipal grant and crowd-funding, run in partnership with Island Pacific School and Bowen Island Museum and Archives, is open to puppeteers-to-be of all ages (though youth under 12 must be accompanied by an older person).

“In North America, particularly, there’s not a lot of opportunities for different generations to work together,” says Sorrentino.

“People end up getting very compartmentalized.

“We’re hoping to get a really good broad age range out and skill range out to make these community days.”

The three-hour Saturday weekly workshops will cover storytelling, set-building, character development, puppet-making, storyboarding, story editing and more. Once the films are made, Nankin and Sorrentino will hold a public screening.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 9

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WorkBC Career Advisor Bowen Library Flex Room 2-5 p.m. WorkBC Career

Advisor available for free drop-in sessions every 2nd Wednesday of the month, until Nov 2019. Come by any time from 2pm - 5pm for resume, interview, career etc. help.

Eagle Cliff Water System community information meeting BIM 5 pm

THURSDAY OCTOBER 10

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

Info call Pat at 778-288-7090

FRIDAY OCTOBER 11

Storytime for 2-4 year olds Bowen Island Library 10:30 am A free drop-in program for 2- to 4-year-olds and their care-givers Dinner at the Legion Doors at 5:30. Dinner at 6:30 Members and guests welcome.

Youth Centre Drop-In 4-9:30 p.m. bowenyouthcentre.com Snug Cove Blues Band at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7-10 pm Live music. Dinner specials.

No cover.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 12

Last Farmers’ Market of the season BICS 10- 12:30 p.m.

Building Bridges Through Understanding the Village Bowen Island Library 9 am - 5 pm A Knowing Our Place Truth & Reconciliation educational/experiential workshop with Kathi Camilleri Free/spaces limited. Register at bit/ly/KOPBuildingBridges Youth Power- Asian Cooking Bowen Youth Centre 3 -5 pm Register at bowencommunityrecreation. com Youth Centre Drop-In 6-9:30 p.m.

Bowen Fables: A free community arts program Island Pacific School, noon - 3 pm Learn and create Shadow Puppetry Films about Bowen Island , inspired by archival images from the Bowen Museum. Workshops for ALL ages . Six weeks -Saturdays October 12 th - Nov 16th , 12 noon to 3 pm. register on line : mobilefilmcamp.ca/ bowenfables