Bowen Island Undercurrent February 13 2020

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Island soccer star joins U-20 women’s national team

MOLLY QUARRY GREW UP PLAYING WITH B.I. FOOTBALL CLUB. NOW, SHE COULD GO TO THE U-20 WORLD CUP MORGAN QUARRY

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waterfront preserved in exchange for higher density inland. The controversy ended with the developer parcelling the land into 10-acre lots. However, with 24 lots sold and 35 remaining, the Cape on Bowen is once again trying at a rezoning, this time with Candy Ho at the helm. No zoning proposal has been made public yet, though Ho said that she hopes to have something tangible for people to look at in coming months.

Molly Quarry, 17, who grew up playing for Bowen Island FC, has been selected to Canada’s Women’s Under-20 National Team, Canada Soccer announced Wednesday.

The 20-player squad––chosen by former women’s national team player and current Women’s Under20 head coach Rhian Wilkinson––was announced Wednesday with Quarry among four players chosen from B.C. The team will assmble on Feb. 17 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to compete in the Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championships, which takes place from Feb. 22 to March 8.

The top two teams from the tournament will advance to the 2020 FIFA Women’s Under-20 World Cup which will take place in Costa Rica and Panama in August. The host countries automatically qualify for the World Cup so Canada will likely have to beat out either the United States or Mexico for one of the two remaining Concacaf spots. Canada will open the tournament in round-robin play on February 22 against El Salvador and will play Guatemala (Feb 24) and Jamaica (Feb 26). The top three teams of that group will then advance to the knockout round. The tournament culminates on March 8 with the final.

Quarry began playing for BIFC when she was five years old with a boys team coached by her father Morgan and Burns Jennings. She spent seven seasons with BIFC before moving on to play with the BC Soccer Premier League’s Mountain United.

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BRAND NEW CENTENARIAN: Jean Jamieson celebrated her 100th birthday Feb. 9. Friends and family marked

the occasion with a party at Collins’ Hall (particularly noteworthy as Jamieson is one of the Collins). See more photos on p. 7.

Cape lots stir philanthropic interest DONOR WANTS TO BUY WATERFRONT LOTS AND CREATE A PARK

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

Cape Roger Curtis is back in the public eye after news broke Tuesday afternoon that an anonymous donor is interested in buying the three unsold Cape waterfront lots––a total of 30 acres––to donate as parkland.

However, as the Cape on Bowen (the developer) is considering applying to rezone much of the undeveloped

Capelands, these three lots have been pulled from the market and are being incorporated into a new masterplan, said Candy Ho, CEO of the Cape on Bowen Wednesday. Ho said that she has approached shareholders with the idea of the sale and they have decided not to proceed for various reasons.

The Cape has long been a controversial development. The community was split over a rezoning application a decade ago that would have seen the

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Event Calendar February 13, 2020 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Budget Information Session

February 18, 2020 9:00 am Emergency Program Executive Committee Meeting

February 18, 2020 7:00 pm Parks, Trails and Greenways Committee Meeting

February 19, 2020 7:00 pm Advisory Planning Commission Meeting

February 20, 2020 7:00 pm Environment and Climate Action Advisory Committee Meeting

February 24, 2020 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting All meetings are held in Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

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

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Bowen Island Fire Rescue recruiting new members

Municipal & Regional District Tax

INFO SESSION

Bowen Island Fire Rescue is accepting applications for volunteer members.

Municipal Hall Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 3:00 - 6:00 PM

Applicants must:

The Municipality is applying to be part of the Municipal & Regional District Tax (MRDT) program. The MRDT will be applied to sales of short term accommodations on Bowen.

MRDT revenue will go directly to fund tourism and affordable housing initiatives.

Come to the information session to learn more!

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BC Heritage Week Events

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Sat, Feb 15 at Library Annex

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2:30-4:30 pm Davies Cottage Museum will open its doors for visitors.

2:45-4:30 pm Meet at front entrance of Library, then head out for a 1.5 hour Heritage Tour led by Peter Vaisbord and Melissa Harrison. Peter has been active in heritage advocacy since 1989 and was a co-founder of Heritage Vancouver. Melissa is co-chair of the BIM Heritage Commission. The tour will feature a selection of the top 10 sites currently being proposed for Bowen’s Heritage Register. Rain or Shine – dress for walking and weather.

4:30-6:30 pm Heritage Public Engagement including: Watch the trailer for Bowen’s first shadow puppet film series by Bowen Fables and Bowen community members! The film series will be presented March 7 at the Annex, 7-9pm.

Presentation on Bowen’s heritage story by Cathy Bayly, archivist at the BI Museum and Archives.

Presentation by BIM Planner 1 on the new engagement platform where members of the public can: Review the Heritage Register Suggest items to include in the Heritage Inventory Learn about and discuss heritage conservation tools Upcoming Events Look for the upcoming Youth Bowen Heritage exhibit at the BI Museum and Archives throughout April and May. This exhibit continues the BC Heritage Week theme with students presenting Bowen’s unique history.

Questions? Contact Jennifer Rae Pierce, Planner I, at 604-9474255 or jpierce@bimbc.ca

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be 19 years of age or older live on Bowen Island have a valid BC driver’s license be willing to undergo a criminal background check be available and willing to be called out at any time be willing to undergo training for first responder medical situations, in addition to firefighting

If you are interested in joining our team and serving the community, please download an application form or pick one up from Municipal Hall, then submit your application to bim@bimbc.ca or drop it off at Municipal Hall. www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/apply-fire-fighter

Builders and developers: new Development Cost Charges in 2020 As of January 15, 2020, Bowen Island Municipality, on behalf of Translink, is required to collect Regional Transportation Development Cost Charges (DCC) for all building permits issued and subdivisions approved on Bowen Island. This means that an additional fee on top of the BIM building permit and/or subdivision fees must be paid.

Bowen Island is within Translink’s Transportation Service Region.

This DCC contributes to the regional share of funding for paying for growth related expansion and upgrade projects in Translink’s 10-Year Vision. These projects will benefit many Bowen Island residents and commuters who travel to the Lower Mainland, helping create greater transit capacity that will attract greater transit ridership, which in turn will also assist in lowering traffic congestion throughout the region. That means more transit, better roads, safer cycling and pedestrian access for everyone.

Please go to our website for more information:

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Committees seeking members The FAC provides oversight to the preparation of the five-year financial plan, development of a long-term capital plan and the conduct of the annual external audit. It also provides advice and recommendations to Council and staff as appropriate with respect to finance related matters including risk management, budget policies and accounting systems.

Volunteer commitment comprises approximately four twohour meetings per year, preparation for which includes reading financial reports.

Please apply by 4 pm, March 3, 2020.

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ISLAND NEWS

Muni Morsels:

Is on-island composting feasible?

HOW THE ISLAND MIGHT FINALLY KEEP ITS COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

While Bowen’s organic waste is currently shipped to Pemberton, local organizations have long looked for a way that the island’s food and yard waste can decompose on-island.

As a conscientious bunch, Bowen’s first green waste pilot was in 1998 and the island started officially separating food waste in 2012, before Metro Vancouver’s 2015 ban. So why hasn’t on-island composting happened? Well, it’s smelly, expensive and complicated.

However, a 75-page feasibility study from BIM contractor Timmenga & Associates Inc. suggests a path forward. Though we’ve been at the report stage before, what’s changed is that tipping fees have increased more than 40 per cent since 2016 and food waste increased more than 30 per cent in the same time. Between 2018 and 2019 on-island green waste rose from 540 tonnes to 582 tonnes.

In a presentation to mayor and councillors Monday, Hubert Timmenga made the case for a HotRot “in-vessel” system made by New Zealand company Global Composting Solutions.

With HotRot, there’s a steel tunnel with a bladed auger, mixing and aerating the compost and then beds where the compost is cured. Timmenga said that it doesn’t produce leachate and is almost if not completely odourless (odour is a big factor––it’s the reason the Richmond composting location shut down). It has a life of 35 to 40 years and can also process compostable plastics.

The system is use in more than 20 locations around the world, many with similar conditions to Bowen (remoteness, population, wasteflow), according to Timmenga’s report.

Timmenga forsees the system enclosed in a fabric building on the Bowen Island Recycle Depot site and too operated by Bowen Waste Solutions.

The facility’s capital cost is estimated at just under $1.1 million but considerations include savings in tipping fees, the capacity to sell the compost after the 10-to-14 days inside the steel tube and 35 days of curing (with HotRot, your Christmas turkey scraps could return to you in time for planting season) and the potential for grant funding. A BIM staff report on the meeting agenda said that with the island’s current green waste volume, the facility would have a slight loss.

The greenhouse gas analysis predicts such a facility would see an annual net decrease of 24.1 tonnes to 28.8 tonnes of CO2, about the emissions of five or six cars.

“Even though an increase in volume increases the facility’s profitability, the best-case scenario would be

an overall reduction in food waste – particularly from a GHG perspective,” reads the staff report. Louise McIntosh of Bowen Waste Solutions said at the meeting that somewhere around 25 per cent of the food people buy goes into green waste.

However, yard waste––including firesmarted trees–– could also be rerouted to the composter rather than the backyard bonfire.

As the presentation was in a committee of the whole rather than a council meeting, councillors recommended that council support the on-island facility in principle and that BIM do community consultation to get feedback on the feasibility study and investigate grant options.

Highlights from the Feb. 9 council meeting:

The big story this week is about the possibility of Island Discovery Learning Community moving to Evergreen Hall in Deep Bay. See that standalone story on p. 12.

If everything goes according to plan, BIM is on track to have the province impose a three per cent Municipal & Regional District Tax (MRDT) on short-term rentals starting Jan. 1, 2021. This money is turned over to the municipality to be used for tourism management and affordable housing initiatives––the current thought is a 50/50 split, though there was some council discussion about how to have more go toward housing. A staff report from community planner Emma Chow estimates an annual revenue of $42,300 to $58,500 (three per cent of the between $1.41 million and $1.95 million estimated annual revenue of local short-term rental providers).

Council passed first reading of a bylaw requesting that the province impose the tax.

Property owners at a Josephine Lake property applied to modify the covenant on their land to reduce the protected wetland area to enable landscaping work. A staff report from Chow says that an environmental assessment found that the reduction wouldn’t be detrimental to the habitat, groundwater recharge functions of the wetlands or the covenant’s intent to protect lake water quality. The staff report notes that the property is still subject to Watershed, Aquifer and Stream Protection Development Permit Area guidelines and any development would require a permit, which wouldn’t be given for anything within the wetland itself. Council deferred consideration of the covenant, among their concerns was setting a precedent as many of the Josephine Lake properties have similar covenants. Coun. Sue Ellen Fast also asked for more information about how the wetlands and surroundings might be affected by climate change.

Next week is Heritage Week! Watch for a special history feature pullout with stories from Bowen Island Museum and Archives, the Heritage Commission, BICS and (of course) the Undercurrent!

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Public warning issued about sex offender with Bowen ties JANE SEYD

North Shore News

Authorities are warning the public about a former Bowen Island man considered a high-risk sex offender who has served his time in jail and will likely be living in the Lower Mainland, possibly in North Vancouver, Vancouver or Bowen Island.

Daniel Justin Isto, 48, is the subject of an unusual public notification issued Wednesday by Corrections.

In February 2018, Isto pled guilty in North Vancouver provincial court to sexually touching a nine-year-old girl, after being released from jail for a similar previous offence, and was sent back to prison for 18 months on top of six months spent previously in custody. He was also placed on the sex offender registry for life.

Isto was handed the federal jail term after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting the girl and to breaching the terms of a previous court order by attending a park where children were likely to be.

Isto had a previous criminal record for sexual touching of preteen girls.

In 2012, he was sentenced to two years and six months in jail for sexually abusing two 11-year-old girls. When the judge sentenced him in 2012, the man was deemed a “moderate risk” to reoffend.

The most recent offences happened despite Isto receiving sex offender treatment while in jail.

Corrections authorities noted this week that Isto is subject to close monitoring, and is subject to 18 court-ordered conditions. Among those, he must not go to any public park, public swimming area, community centre, school or playground where children under the age of 16

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years are present.

He must stay away from volunteer work or employment involving contact with children under 16 and must not be alone in the presence of anyone under 16.

Isto is also banned from dating or being in a relationship with any person who has the care or access to children under the age of 16 years, must not consume alcohol or drugs and must not posess or access pornography.

The public is asked to call police if they observe Isto in violation of any of those conditions.

Isto is described as a Caucasian man with brown hair and blue eyes who is 5’4”and weighs 150 pounds.

According to BC Corrections, public notifications are issued when an offender has “an extensive and escalating criminal history and there is a high likelihood to reoffend violently and/or sexually.”

Approval of the deputy Solicitor General and notification to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is also required prior to the notification being issued.

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VIEWPOINT EDITORIAL

Looking for the hallmarks of compassion

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’ve been thinking a lot about compassion these days.

Not the skin-deep “I’m better than you so out of the goodness of my heart, I’ll listen or help,” compassion.

The compassion that leaves you vulnerable to discomfort.

The compassion that takes your excess energy to supplement, to support someone who’s exerted much of theirs.

The compassion that harnesses your best skills for someone else.

In some ways, a compassion that’s the opposite of capitalism. An optimism outside of the exchange of money for labour (hey-o Marxians).

In conversation this week, someone noted that Valentine’s Day is “too Hallmark” (a sentiment I heartily agree with) but I love the idea of looking for where people put their energy. Their love.

Many of us on Bowen live privileged lives where we get to search for love of work, love of place, love of person, love of dog, because we have the space, time and energy to do so. But in the face of so much freedom (and so much tangible stuff) are we more compassionate?

I don’t know. But I do hope that before using our energy to tear down, we first look to if, where and how we can build.

I would also like to say, for those who use their energy every day to build a better future in the face of humanity’s most complex and darkest questions (I mean this on a local, regional and global scale), thank you. Compassionate capacity is infectious and we need more of it.

— Bronwyn Beairsto, editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Bowen Island Trail Society seeking volunteers for trail stewardship activities DEAR EDITOR: Since we began in Feb. 2017, our Bowen Island Trail Society has advocated for non-motorized trail users on Bowen Island and that includes mountain bikers, horse riders and the thousands of visitors who set foot on our trails every year.

From the beginning, our members saw that Mt. Gardner’s trails needed urgent care, so from November that year to May 2018, we played the lead role in facilitating a partnership agreement with the Crown for each of the three organizations who expressed a long-term interest in rejuvenating these trails at that time, including Bowen Trail Riders Association and B.I. Horse Owners & Riders Association.

Our Trail Society wasted no time in launching a major multi-pronged navigation project to make Mt. Gardner’s trails safer and easier to navigate. If you’ve hiked on any of the major hiking trails you’ve no doubt seen our reflective orange blazes marking the way and, more recently, rugged cedar posts at important trail junctions. Soon our volunteers will complete the post installation and then fasten cedar sign badges to each post to enhance navigating the trails.

And while we love the feeling of making our trails better, we are still few in number and limited in our volunteer resources. So, yes, we need your help.

And not just for Mt. Gardner, because our mandate is to help improve all of Bowen’s non-motorized trails. That means we’d like to help the municipality maintain their trails. We’d like to attend to other Crown trails outside of Mt. Gardner, as well.

But, clearly, to broaden our footprint we need more volunteers.

As a Trail Society, we cherish our non-motorized trail experience. Our goal is to enhance and safeguard our trails to make our time spent in nature even more satisfying.

Whether you can volunteer on a work party or be an articulate voice to amplify our mission or help with administration, we need you. In fact, you are most welcome to attend our next Trail Society all-members meeting this coming Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. in the Non-Fiction Room at Bowen Island Community School. Simply email your RSVP to info@bowenislandtrailsociety.ca.

Chuck Venhuizen, Bowen Island Trail Society Board

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HELLO BOWEN ISLAND: Thank you for your donations and thank you to all the businesses that helped by having my collection jars on display for people to see. I’m excited to say that together we raised $447.56 to send to WIRES animal rescue in Australia! This will really help the animals in need of food, water and care to help them get better.

From Zac

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Letter: dissecting the health hazards of liquefied natural gas DEAR EDITOR: An opinion piece by Anton van Walraven in a recent Undercurrent (Jan. 30, page 6) explored further the issue of the impact of liquefied natural gas. Clearly, this is a complex issue, not to mention immediate dangers posed by the proposed marine transport route of this gas from Squamish through highly populated areas of Howe Sound and the Salish Sea, including Bowen Island. Also very significant are the effects on health that will inevitably impact all of us, recently noted in the New England Journal of Medicine (Jan. 9, p. 104 to 107).

To summarize that article, the authors noted a 400 per cent increase in natural gas production in the U.S. alone since 1950 due to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This process uses large volumes of water, sand and chemicals for injection deep underground at high pressure to fracture shale deposits, sand and coal beds to release trapped gas. Similar activity is occurring in British Columbia. The gas consists largely of methane, a so-called “clean” energy by the proponents of this industry (“apples versus oranges” compared to coal and gas). The authors of this article emphasize that this is only partially true. While gas combustion produces only negligible amounts of sulfur dioxide, mercury and particulates, this “clean claim” should not be interpreted as less polluting. Nor a “net” benefit to human health.

Indeed, this story is much bigger. Fracking has been linked to ground and surface water contamination, air pollution, noise and light pollution, release of radiation, ecosystem damage and earthquakes. Transport and storage of gas have caused fires and explosions. Recent experience has shown that pipelines are aging, inadequately maintained and rarely inspected. In the U.S. alone, one or more serious explosions occur annually. In September 2018, for example, explosions in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts were reported to have caused 80 fires, damaged 131 homes, led to evacuation of 30,000 people, and caused serious injury and death. Gas compressors release toxic and carcinogenic substances, including benzene, 1,3-butadiene and formaldehyde. Eventual gas combustion generates nitrogen oxides that increase asthma risk and aggravate other

forms of chronic lung disease. An impact has already been demonstrated on our climate. About four per cent or more of all fracked gas is lost to leakage, causing sharp increases in atmospheric nitrogen reported to have heat-trapping potential up to 85 times that of carbon dioxide over a 20-year span. The combustion of gas also contributes to global warming by generating carbon dioxide. It appears that the benefit of gas over coal and oil has been overly exaggerated.

Economically, there are other arguments, especially since the cost of producing electricity from renewables is falling rapidly. Within the next three years, the Energy Information Administration in the U.S. estimated that it will cost $36.60 per megawatt-hour to produce electricity from wind and, $37.60 from solar, compared to $40.20 from gas. Thus, even in the short term, investment in gas represents a risk of failed economic return and a stranded asset. This reduction in economic return may be made even more signif-

icant if the recommendation made by the International Monetary Fund is followed: cut government subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Add to this the likely added societal costs of dealing with the results of this increasing hazard to our health in the future.

Some health hazards were noted by the authors and summarized in the attached Table, even though this list will be likely lengthen with time with increased detection by physicians and increased awareness by the public.

We really need to support the comments of Anton van Walraven and other serious thinkers about this issue and urge our local, provincial and federal governments to remove any form of support for their activities. They need to be accountable. For instance, drug companies and the tobacco industry must now note health dangers and side effects of their products in advertising to the public. So should “big oil and gas.”

Dr. Hugh Freeman

SIX VOICES

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February 16

Debra Bowman

February 23 March 22 & 29

Chris Corrigan March 1 May31

Lorraine Ashdown

March 8 Apr 19, May 10

Andria Irwin

March 15

Kathleen Barber

April 5, May 3

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WHO IS YOUR BOWEN QUEEN? Who holds your heart on Bowen? In honour of Valentine’s Day, we asked for nominations for who you see as your Bowen Queen (romantic or not).

What a heart-y crew of islanders!

The vintage Bowen Queen is in her last days serving the Bowen route. So in honour of the historic (and outdated) vessel, we’re holding a contest. While everyone can be a Bowen Queen, we can only have one winner of the BC Ferries vouchers. We will announce the winner (chosen by draw) on Feb. 14.

Kyyle Pendleton & Sarah Haxbyy

Siggy Basia Lieske & Jewal Maxwell

From Deb Stringfellow Bowen Queen Siggy. She definitely thinks she’s the queen around here.

I actually want to nominate two people if I may for my Bowen Queen vote.

Firstly, I would like to nominate Basia Lieske for her stunning Light Up The Cove display in December. Basia loves hospitality and she is the grand dame representative of all things hospitable on this island. She cares so much and loves to show people a good time. I always advise her to slow down on her crazy volunteering but she won’t listen to me because she loves it. I commend her for being such a generous community member and for showing us all a good time.

Secondly, I would like to vote for Jewel Maxwell. I always call her Bowen Queen on social media because she marshals us with efficiency and a smile. Everytime I see her doing her job, I feel grateful for her more than capable smiling presence. Ferry marshaling is a bit like conducting an orchestra without the standing ovation. It’s part of our lives on this island and I for one thank Jewal for leading us like the pro she is.

From Charmaine Heffelfinger

Darcie Buzzelle

From Kyle Pendleton & Sarah Haxby

Kirsten Kelly My Bowen Queen is my darling, curly-haired wife, Kirsten Kelly.

Kyle Pendleton and Sarah Haxby would like to nominate each other in the Bowen Queen contest. As this is a long distance love, they would both royally appreciate a ferry gift certificate to be able to keep seeing each other! Kyle and Sarah were spotted shopping locally at The Real Rapunzel.

From Martin Kelly

Queen of Capilano

FromTim Rhodes

Happy Valentine’s Day Bowen, from your Bowen Island Undercurrent crew.

We love you!

From Bronwyn Beairsto You might not be electric, but your connection with the island is. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and your recent vacation from our waters has made us value you all the more. You see us at in our worst pre-coffee mornings and in our best mid-weekendday, overloadless moods. Thank you for carrying us safe from shore to shore.

Note: neither Bronwyn nor the Cap. are eligible for the contest.

In light of the wide parameters of your Valentine contest I am like the proverbial kid in the candy shop with so many choices to make for my favourite Valentine. Having enjoyed 77 years on the rock my options are endless, starting with my love and appreciation for the community-at-large; its natural beauty; the many volunteers and their organizations, without which our community could not survive, and our wide circle of dear friends that make Bowen such a special place to live. Notwithstanding the foregoing my choice is really very simple. Because of the time, passion and attention that I, and many like me, have dedicated to the conception, birth, fundraising, design, construction and operation of our beautiful Bowen Island community golf course, for over two decades, even my wife refers to the course as my mistress. Sorry mistress, no contest as my lovely wife of 45+ years and mother of our 2 wonderful children and grandmother of our 4 delightful grandchildren is without question, my special Valentine. The wine, flowers and dinner we will enjoy on February 14th will attest to our special relationship but that is a distant second to the love and respect we have shared during our marriage and will share as we move forward hopefully to another few decades of marital bliss.

Happy Valentine’s Day Dorene, love always, Bruce.

From Bruce Russell

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BIRTHDAY BEAT

Happy 100th birthday Jean Jamieson celebrated her 100th birthday Feb. 9 with friends and family at Collins’ Hall.

Next week’s paper will feature a story about Jamieson so stay tuned!

PHOTOS BY BRONWYN BEAIRSTO Lyn van Lidth de Jeude Everhard poses with the Collins farmhouse birthday cake she and her daughter Emily made for Jamieson.

Sue Ellen Fast (in green and orange) speaks with Jim Moore, Jean’s brother-in-law who also celebrated a birthday this week. Marion Moore (in the grey vest) is Jamieson’s younger sister.

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How do we love you Bowen: let us count the ways.

ELLA, FRANK, & LOUISE

EMILIE, THI & MARIE

CAROL & SUSAN

DEVON, CHANELLE, & CAROLINE

KELLY

DR. MIDGE

ANNA & KATHRYN

ROBBIE

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Warm a heart, support local

RODGER

SARAH

TINA O

MILAD SEANNA

NANCY

GAR Y & BI Health Centre team

WILL & the BOSS

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Bowen Island Film Festival premieres Friday at BICS What’s it all about?

SARAH HAXBY

B.I. Film Festival

The Bowen Island Film Festival features short movies made by local filmmakers of all ages. It is for all ages and is a by-donation event thanks to sponsorship by the Community School Association (CSA), which is committed to supporting the Bowen Island Community School as the welcoming heart and hub of the community.

The BIFF event features short films by youth who were part of the Mobile Film Camp, such as the Queen of the Southern Seas by Hannah Florendo and Joley Durrand, and independent youth film maker Duncan Glave who documented his efforts to learn how to help save coral.

Other young filmmakers whose work will be featured include Tristan Deggan’s movie about mountain biking and Emmett Sparling’s short film about adventures in Turkey.

Bob Turner’s short documentary about the BICS Welcome Pole and how students helped to create the

Turner’s Welcome Pole movie screening at fest carving will be shown for the first time, as will Stanka Banasova’s short documentary about a Bowen Island family’s efforts to go plastic-free.

Everyone is welcome to come to the BICS gym on Friday Feb.14 for this event which creatively kicks off the Family Day weekend.

Doors at 5:30 p.m., show 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Don’t forget to bring pillows, or a blanket if you want to soften up the plastic folding chairs, or to sit on the floor. There will also be a concession selling popcorn, pizza, etc.

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Hannah Florendo and Joley Durrand’s film Queen of the Southern Seas

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Duncan Glave documented his efforts to help save coral in his short film, showing at Friday’s festival.

BOB TURNER

Filmmaker

In June 2019, a Welcome Pole was unveiled at Bowen Island Community School (BICS). It was a great privilege for me to be able to attend the ceremony and also witness some of the carving of the Pole. This Friday, Feb.14, at the Bowen Island Film Festival at BICS, I will be showing a new short movie “Celebrating the Welcome Pole” about the carving and unveiling of the Welcome Pole.

The Pole was a collaboration between the carver, Simon James, members of Squamish Nation who led the blessing ceremonies, and students and staff of BICS. Simon, whose ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw Nation name is Winadzi, designed the Pole based on input from BICS students, and so includes a wolf wearing a police officer’s hat, and an eagle holding a book that represents educators.

Squamish Nation member Ywalacktun led both the ceremony to bless the log before carving commenced, as well as the unveiling ceremony that brought the Welcome Pole to life. Sam Dawson, of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation, also assisted with the ceremony, as did Jada Harry, the BICS Aboriginal Success Teacher, who is also known as Temi’xw Spak’em in her Squamish Nation language.

It is my observation that Bowen Island Community School and West Vancouver School District are playing a wonderful leadership role that is connecting the Bowen Island community with First Nations members and culture.

BICS Principal Scott Slater, Community School Coordinator Sarah Haxby, staff, students and community volunteers deserve our thanks.

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Winadzi and his daughter at the Welcome Pole’ unveiling ceremony.

I think it is worthwhile to learn the names for Bowen Island in the Squamish Nation language. Nex wlélex wem translates to “beat a fast rhythm” and is roughly pronounced Nook-LALle-quwam. Snug Cove and Deep Bay are called Kwil’akm (roughly pronounced kwi-LA-kum) that translates as “calm bay” or “clam bay”, and this name is also applied to all of Bowen Island by some sources.

I have posted the movie “Celebrating the Welcome Pole” on my YouTube Channel which you can find if you search “Bob Turner, Howe Sound.”

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“I’m a late bloomer,” says Caro Pierotto.

The singer-songwriter, who is playing a Hearth concert at Cove Commons Feb. 23, started her musical journey at 28-years old.

Caro had been living the corporate life in Brazil for seven years and had anything money could buy.

“But [I] still felt empty inside, like there was something missing,” she says.

Then, she saw a small ad for a choir. She auditioned for the choir as a side-gig and made the cut. For four years Caro sang with the 20-odd voices of all sorts of backgrounds.

“It was a beautiful thing to experience just being part of something,” she says. They’d rehearse twice a week along with touring and it became a sort of lifestyle.

“That was what helped me break out of that routine because I realized that when I was singing was the only time that I felt like myself, that I felt like nothing was missing.”

But the choir ended and her marriage was ending and Caro needed a change. ’ So she moved to Los Angeles where she’d gone to school in earlier years and went into singing full-time.

“At that time being Brazilian was my was my only weapon,” she says, “was my only tool that I could offer.”

Through Craigslist Caro joined up with folks putting together a world band and then she branched into her own

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song writing.

“I was going through my divorce…and then all that process of finding myself and finding who I was and finding what I wanted,” she says. “It was what I was writing about.

It was like a little journal exercise for me.”

They recorded an album that made it to the Grammy bal-

lot for best world music album.

“And that was 12 years ago and now it’s been a beautiful journey I couldn’t be happier with myself and where I am with myself,” she says. “Musically speaking, I still want to achieve a lot but if I didn’t wake up tomorrow, it would have been a great life because I definitely have found myself.”

About five years ago, Caro went solo, meaning she writes and can perform all the music herself (though she still likes having a band) and this is the third year she’s been touring.

She’s played in London and France among other places.

“My music has been able to connect with people from everywhere and for an artist that’s the biggest blessing.”

As for her show on Bowen, while it’ll be Caro’s first time here, islanders may recognize drummer Felipe Fraga from last month’s lauded Quarteto Nuevo concert.

Caro says that concert goers can expect a Brazillian pop music show but with classical elements such as Bossa Nova and Samba.

“Because everybody in the band is Brazilian, and we joke about it ––like everything we play ends up in Samba,” she laughs. “It’s how we’re programmed I guess.”

“Myself and the band, we try to really have fun with what we’re doing,” says Caro. “The goal is to just like share that fun with the audience.

“Just really connect through music.”

The concert is Feb. 23 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $38 and available at kaymeek.com/events/caro-pierotto-the-hearth.

Bowen Island United Church holding a Festival of Hope

Is this an impasse in Cape discussions?

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Owen Plowman is president of Bowen Island Conservancy. He said that the donor, who approached him in October, wants to buy the properties at market value (as they know what the properties were listed at before being removed from market).

Plowman said he met with Ho on behalf of the donor in late November and then again in early December when he was told that the shareholders wouldn’t entertain an offer at this time.

The news of the proposition (no formal offer has been made) spread through a Bowen Island Conservancy email to conservancy supporters Tuesday. The email detailed the proposal from the anonymous local family. “The family want this land to be preserved for conservation purposes in perpetuity and made available for the enjoyment of residents and visitors to Bowen Island,” read the email, which quickly spread to Facebook.

When asked why the email was sent out when the parties appear to be at a standstill, Plowman said, “I think the community has to decide what’s important and whether they buy into whatever rezoning plan is put forth by the owners because that is potentially what is causing the blockage.”

Ho said that the rezoning plan and plan for these lots is still evolving. She said that she is envisioning public access to the waterfront lots.

“We took [them] off the market and that was because I wanted to make [the lots] available for the public waterfront and trail...and that in advance of having completed the actual planning, I don’t know what it will be or what how it is done.”

Ho said that among the reasons for not wanting to sell the waterfront lots is that their environmental assessments say those are not the most ecologically valuable lots for conservation purposes. She says she’s

REV. LORRAINE ASHDOWN

We are living in interesting times.

Within the context of the climate crisis; a pandemic of a brand new virus; political turmoil with our neighbours to the south; pipeline protests and our Indigenous siblings still struggling to receive what’s rightfully theirs––a voice of hope is desperately needed. Bowen Island United Church has assembled six such voices and we will be offering a “Festival of Hope” from Feb. 16 through until May 31. Join us each Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. at 1122 Miller Road for an hour of peace, encouragement, music, humour and community. Six United Church speakers will be gracing the pulpit to offer words of comfort and hope as we prepare to enter the season of Lent and journey towards Easter. Rev. Debra Bowman, having attempted to retire from ministry after 25 years and living in Squamish, is now on our rotating list of speakers ( Feb. 23, March 23, March 29, April 12-Easter Sunday-April 26, May 24). Kathleen Barber, a Spiritual Director and former Minister of Community Life at Ryerson United, now known as Pacific Spirit, also joins us. ( April 5, May 3). Lauren Kirkney (February 16) and Andria Irwin (March 15) , both Vancouver School of Theology students working on their Masters of Divinity will bring their own refreshing voices. Local Islander and long time Bowen Island United Church member Chris Corrigan (March 1, May 31) and myself, Rev. Lorraine Ashdown ( March 8, April 19, May 10) will complete the pack.

We are all challenged when we look at some of the darker aspects of our journey as humans. Yet, we are committed to offering a simultaneous glimpse at the Light.

There is no need for you to be a member of our church or any church at all in order to be welcomed by us. We are on openhearted, open minded faith community. No matter who you love, no matter the colour of your skin, no matter where you are on your faith journey-you are welcome to walk through our doors.

Please join us any Sunday. New voices and a new faith community await you.

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instead eyeing 140 acres of non-waterfront land, much of which backs onto the Fairy Fen nature reserve, to conserve.

Plowman said that the donor is only interested in the three waterfront lots.

“The donor is interested in creating a park on the waterfront, for the residents and visitors to the island, to be preserved in perpetuity for conservation purposes and for the enjoyment of the people,” said Plowman.

“The land around Fairy Fen would be nice but really has nothing to do with what they want.

“This represents an amazing opportunity, which is a sort of once in a lifetime potential,” he said. “We have somebody who has basically deep pockets and they’re willing to do this, make this fabulous philanthropic gesture.”

Plowman said that he is meeting with the donor next week and that he conjectures that the donor’s next move will be to put together a formal offer that they hope to present directly to the shareholders.

“Why would you not want to look at an offer with hard cash now and wait potentially a year or two for a rezoning plan, which may or may not be accepted, so it has a very uncertain outcome,” mused Plowman. “I don’t really understand that. I’m sure that the owners have their reasons but I don’t understand it and I work in business.”

Ho said that the owners are not planning on jumping just because money is offered.

“They don’t want to be reactive and just, you know, ‘oh, there’s a big waddle of cash and we’ll jump on it without really thinking it through.’”

Ho said that they instead want to look at what they’re trying to accomplish and how that’s best achieved.

Meanwhile, a Bowen Island Everything Else Facebook post announcing that the donor was proposing the purchase has garnered more than 300 “likes” and 100 comments.

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IDLC proposes moving to Evergreen Hall BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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The Bowen Island Garden Club is Water Wise this year and our February speaker is no exception.

Amanda Jarrett tells us that it is possible to have a lush and thriving garden while conserving water. Come and learn the techniques of how to preserve and use water in the landscape. At the same time discover methods that are touted to work, but do more harm than good.

Though the debaucherous days of the Union Steamship Company-built Evergreen Hall are long gone (it was built as a clubhouse in 1941) the old building still has a controversy or two left in her.

The Island Discovery Learning Community (IDLC) is proposing to move its school to the Melmore Rd. building––a proposal that drummed up a loud local opposition at Monday’s regular council meeting.

With six staff and about 50 students, IDLC offers flexible learning opportunities and includes home-based and classroom components. Come June, IDLC needs to move from the Cowan Pt. location it has occupied for 10 years. A third party has offered to purchase Evergreen Hall and lease it to the school, with everything contingent on IDLC receiving a temporary use permit from the municipality.

As the Deep Bay lot has residential zoning, the organization has applied for a three-year temporary use permit to allow a school use of the property. It is currently used as a bed and breakfast.

As part of the application, IDLC submitted a traffic management plan that has parents dropping children off at the Catholic Church or on Cardena (so youth would walk up from the Causeway) or walking or biking to work. For building permit reasons, the building capacity would be capped at 30.

But for at least some neighbours, this hasn’t assuaged concerns.

Two neighbourhood residents spoke at Monday’s council meeting against the proposal, noting safety issues for children walking along Melmore, concern about an increase of traffic and noise in the neighbourhood and taking issue with the use of a temporary use permit rather than a rezoning application. Council also received ten letters against and one in support of the application, all of which are viewable on the Feb. 9 council agenda.

Another concern is that the school could alter the quiet neighbourhood character with increased foot traffic and noise.

Local realtor and Melmore resident Mary Lynn Machado wrote in a letter to council that in her opinion a school at Evergreen could negatively affect nearby property values.

“In other locations buying a home located close to a good school might be a plus,” wrote Machado. “But on Bowen, I feel that being in a quiet, peaceful location is more important to buyers than being close to a good school.”

The most significant discussion among councillors was over the idea of this application being a temporary use permit rather than a rezoning.

Coun. Michael Kaile quoted Deep Bay resident John Rich’s letter to council, which asserted that the use of a temporary use permit in this case would be to “achieve a rezoning through the back door” (rather than to temporarily use

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a site for a non-zoned purpose). He noted that rezoning applications trigger a more stringent public engagement process that’s in line with a complete change of use of an area.

“There’s nothing temporary about three years,” he said.

Manager of planning and development, Daniel Martin said that part of the reason for the temporary use permit is as the school needs to be out of their current location before the next school year and rezonings can take years months. He also said that with temporary use, there’s the opportunity for the neighbourhood to have a two-year trial period with the school and then decide if it should become permanent.

Several councillors voiced concern about the school’s investment in the Melmore location being indicative of long-term intent rather than short-term use intended by such a permit.

Coun. Alison Morse suggested a one-year permit instead of three.

Mayor Gary Ander, on the other hand, appeared baffled by the neighbourhood response.

“I drive by [the Cowan location] 100 times a day,” he said.

“It’s the most benign operation I’ve ever seen.”

“I don’t know why the community is so afraid of it.”

IDLC founder and principle Allan Staugstad also spoke at the meeting. He said that the learning community is excited at the prospect of moving to Evergreen Hall but that they also want to be good neighbours. He said that about a third of their families could walk to the school and that the submitted traffic mitigation plan would be strictly enforced. He noted the carbon benefits of a cove-adjacent building as currently parents have to drive children to the distant Cowan location. He also said that IDLC would only be onsite from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (school hours) and on the busiest days would have fewer than 30 people, with no weekend or summer activity.

Despite councillors’ doubts, they decided to consider issuing the temporary use permit at the March 9 meeting.

In the meantime, IDLC is to hold a community engagement meeting at Evergreen Hall.

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Annual Mini Gala Exhibit Gallery at Cove Commons Over 50 Bowen artists create mini masterpieces to be auctioned at the Gala event Saturday Feb 29 proceeds go to support the Gallery at Cove Commons. View the mini works of art exhibit from Feb 12th Wednesday through Monday, 10 AM – 4 PM, closed Tuesdays.

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2020 budget information session Bowen Island Municipality 10 a.m.-noon Public information session about the draft 2020 Budget.

Couples Thai Yoga Massage Workshop The Well 4-7 p.m. Learn techniques to practice at home. Not just for couples, sign up with any friend or loved one! Limited to 10 couples.

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Celebrate Heritage Week on Bowen 2:30 - 6pm Davies Cottage Museum opens for visitors 2:30 pm . Heritage 1.5 hour tour of 10 sites proposed for Bowen’s Heritage register starts from library at 2:45. Heritage public discussion at Library annex begins at 4:30 6:30 pm

SUNDAY FEB 16

Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 am. No cost. More info at lisa. shatzky@gmail.com Bowen In Transition :Biodiversity Planning Bowen Court Noon - 3 pm Monthly Potluck, a special presentation on biodiversity planning, and our 2020 activities planning session.

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TUESDAY FEB 18

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 pm Info call Pat at 778288-7090

Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 pm

Rotary talk: “Shapeshifting in the sustainability field” Collins’ Hall 7:30 pm “Adrianne Gilbride is the Sustainability Strategist & Project Manager at Arc’teryx, having spent the last 15 years directing and implementing complex projects by balancing environmental, economic and stakeholder interest.” More info: bowenrotary. com/speaker/discover-arcteryx/

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Bowen Film Festival BICS Gym Doors 5:30 Locally made short films by youth and locals. By donation.

Snug Cove Blues Band Bowen Island Pub 7-10 pm With Cindy Fairbank, Teun Schut, Matt Van Dyke and Doug Woods. Blue Valentine dinner special and no cover.

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 pm Info call Pat at 778288-7090

FRIDAY FEB 21

Storytime Storytime at the Library! 10:30 am on Fridays, join this free program for 2- to 4-year-olds and their caregivers.

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Bowen Island Library 11 am - 12:30 pm Join us on February 22 and March 14 when we discuss Memory Serves, by Lee Maracle. Always open to new members. For more information Bowen Children’s Centre Open House Children’s Centre 650 Carter Road 10 - noon Tour the centre, meet the early childhood educators, and register for 2020-21 For more information call Ann Silberman 604-947-9626 or email info@bowenchildrenscentre.ca or visit www.bowenchildrenscentre.ca Hamlet Cates Hill Chapel 7:15 pm Bard on the Rock presents the story of everyone’s favourite prince of Denmark. Tix. $25 at the Pharmacy Conservancy talk: “The ongoing necessity of land and marine protection” BICS Rm. 2 1 pm Vicky Husband, “an internationally renowned forest and marine conservation advocate, acknowledged by the 1988 United Nations Global 500 Award. Vicky is a passionate defender of BC’s natural heritage, in support of parks and proper regional planning and land use,” gives a talk. Hosted

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SUNDAY FEB 23

Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 am. No cost. More info at lisa. shatzky@gmail.com Caro Pierotto: Brazilian Vocalist Cove Commons 7:30 pm “Vocalist Caro Pierotto smoulders with smoking hot rhythms and sensuous melodies from the musical heritage of her homeland, performing with Brazil’s

Farofa.” Tickets at https://kaymeek.com/ events/caro-pierotto-the-hearth Men on the Rock House Concert “Men On the Rock winter house concert. A special evening of diverse works from Tom Waits to Robbie Burns. 7:30pm. Limited seating, reserve early. Tix $20 at Cate’s Pharmacy or phone Nicole at 778 926-4286.

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Regular Council meeting Bowen Island Municipality 6:15 pm Garden Club: Waterwise with Amanda Jarrett Legion Hall 1:pm Learn the techniques of how to preserve and use water in the landscape.

At the same time discover methods that are touted to work, but do more harm than good.

Garden Club members free. Guests $3. A membership is only $15 until end of Feb.

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Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 pm

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Storytime Storytime at the Library! 10:30 am on Fridays, join this free program for 2- to 4-year-olds and their caregivers.

Hamlet Cates Hill Chapel 7:15 pm Bard on the Rock presents the story of everyone’s favourite prince of Denmark. Tix. $25 at the Pharmacy

SATURDAY FEB 29

Mini Gala Gallery at Cove Commons 6:30- 9:30

Hamlet Cates Hill Chapel 7:15 pm Bard on the Rock presents the story of everyone’s favourite prince of Denmark. Tix. $25 at the Pharmacy

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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Bowen Island Pub Advance tix $20 at eventbrite.ca

Mini Gala 2020

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Quarry to attend University of Nebraska on soccer scholarship CONTINUED FROM P. 1

Quarry then was selected to the provincial program and played at every age level until she was invited to join the full-time Vancouver Whitecaps Girls Elite Super REX program in 2017. The program runs out of Fortius Sport and Health in Burnaby requiring her to billet with a family in Surrey and then Burnaby and change high schools from Rockridge Secondary to Burnaby Central.

“Bowen Island FC gave me the opportunity

to discover and pursue my love of soccer. The commitment of the players and coaches to develop one another was remarkable,” said Quarry. “I love that I come from a community and club like Bowen island.”

Quarry, who was born in 2002 and will turn 18 during the tournament, is also eligible for the 2022 Under-20 World Cup cycle.

Molly will be attending the University of Nebraska on a soccer scholarship this summer.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MORGAN QUARRY PHOTO COURTESY OF MORGAN QUARRY

Quarry as a Bowen Island FC player.

Quarry as Whitecaps Girls Elite Super REX program player.

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The 2010 Winter Olympics opened a decade ago, on Feb. 12, 2010.

But a small group of Bowen Islanders had been looking forward to that day for three years prior. When we found out that Bowen Island did not qualify for one of the hundreds of Spirit Square community grants to build a gathering spot to watch the nightly award ceremonies and to view the various game activities because we are part of Metro Vancouver, we formed the Bowen Island Spirit of Bowen Island Committee. I was chair and Christine Walker, vice-chair. The amazing Jacqueline Massey worked tirelessly doing grant applications (which have resulted in well over $50,000 in grants coming to our shores over the years) and Alice Bernards, Alison Morse, Andrea Bastin, Catherine Patterson, Darcie Buzzelle, Teal Ander and Sarah Haxby worked on the organizing committee.

The Olympics had conceived the Spirit program to bring the upcoming festival to communities around the province. They came up with programs and ideas of how to promote the games.

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For about three years, on February 12, this small group of “spirited” individuals would host a series of activities culminating with entertainment and a beach bonfire sing-along, regardless of weather.

Because of our enthusiastic involvement and with help from some other islanders, we were ecstatic when we were advised that Bowen Island would have the Olympic Torch Relay start on Bowen the day before the official opening of the games: February 11.

That was the good news. The challenge? The torch run on Bowen would be from Bowen Island Community School to the 6:30 a.m. ferry! Yikes

–– 6:30 a.m. in February? Dark! Cold!

Who would come? Would there be a crowd except for those intrepid daily commuters?

Undaunted, the committee was convinced there would be at least 300 islanders who had the Olympic Spirit.

We convinced the island’s restaurants to provide some muffins, juices, coffee and goodies and had a nice “spread” on the pier.

The official Olympic Committee had chosen two “off-island” torchbearers and I had been chosen to “run the torch” in Lillooet the week prior. When the committee contacted us to nominate an island runner, the overwhelming choice was the wonderful Rosie Ander. With that choice and the fact that it wasn’t raining, approximately 1,500 islanders turned out to join Mr. and Mrs. Canada, MLA John Weston, Mayor Bob Turner and Olympic Games Board member, Peter Boronkay to not only cheer the three torchbearers running from BICS to the ferry but when the ferry departed and the torch ignited on the top deck of the Queen of Capilano all 1,500 broke into an emotional singing of Oh Canada!

All agreed that it was the best morning gathering ever to be held on Bowen!

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