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SUSPENSION OF BOWEN’S BUSES PART OF TRANSLINK COST SAVING

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THE ESSENTIALS: Ella, Sabine and Dylan take a brief pause from ensuring islanders get their groceries Tuesday

afternoon at the Ruddy Potato. Over the weekend the Ruddy instituted a new policy where customers enter through the cafe entrance and then follow arrows on the ground as they maneuver through the store, staying six feet from others at all times.

Considering Mt. Gardner paths COUNCIL ASKING PROVINCE TO BAN MOTORIZED VEHICLE USE OF MT. GARDNER BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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Bowen council is appealing to the province to ban motorized use on Mt. Gardner.

Council voted to prepare a submission to Recreation, Sites and Trails BC requesting the prohibition at its regular council meeting April 27.

Tom Blackbird, district recreation officer for Recreation, Sites and Trails BC

had told council in a presentation earlier in the evening that as a statutory decision maker over the section of Crown Land, to consider such a move he’d be looking for a written submission with an outline of the issue and rationale.

To come to a decision Blackbird would look at all the information he’s got and maybe do some fact-finding, he said.

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Friday evening, at 8:45 p.m. the 280 Bluewater bus will make one last stop on Windjammer and then bus service will end on the island, for now.

All three Bowen bus routes (280, 281 and 282) are suspended beginning May 2 confirmed TransLink spokesperson Lida Palsar Tuesday morning.

TransLink announced sweeping cutbacks in public transit, including dozens of bus routes, last week as a cost-saving measure to cope with the effects of COVID-19. The company is losing $75 million a month and ridership is down 83%.

TransLink had previously announced that it expected to cut Bowen’s routes but hadn’t specified a date.

TransLink said that it selected routes with low ridership or that duplicate other routes for suspension. Palsar said in an email that there are 20 or fewer bus boardings per day across the Bowen routes.

TransLink said it was working with the province to have the cutbacks reversed in time for fall. “TransLink and the province of B.C. have been working closely to ensure that funding is available to allow TransLink to reverse layoffs and return to near-regular operations in time for back-to-school in September,” said the press release.

The move came a day after Bowen council voted to send a letter to TransLink asking that it reconsider cutting Bowen’s routes.

Mayor Gary Ander noted that the bus carries essential service workers and people without vehicles and that there are no consistent on-island transportation alternatives.

“We’re in a very unique situation and it’s not like shutting down Bowen Island is going to save TransLink a lot of money,” said Ander.

“It is an essential service for us, there’s no question about that,” said Ander.

One alternative councillors proposed was reviving last summer’s TapRide on-demand bus service, so as to cut down on buses and costs.

Bowen Island Municipality issued an emergency operations centre update Wednesday stating that it was considering transportation alternatives for when service ceases.

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May 11 2020 6:15 pm Regular Council Meeting Municipal Hall is closed to the public.

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Bowen Island Municipality has a grants program to help fund not-for-profit organizations that propose, through projects and/or programs, to improve the well-being of the Bowen Island community as a whole. Grants are funded from the Municipality’s annual operating budget.

2020 Application deadline is 5:00 PM on Sunday, May 17, 2020 www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/grants-for-the-community

DVP -02-2020 (Grafton Lake Subdivision Road “N”) Regular Council Meeting 6:15 PM on Tuesday, May 11, 2020 Virtual Meeting PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted regarding new Road “N”, a road to serve the first phase of the Grafton Lake development (shown on map). Road “N” will serve residential development and provide access to the Rennison Nature Reserve and to the Cove Bay Water Treatment Plant.

The application is to vary the provisions of Bylaw No.447, 2017, the Subdivision and Development Servicing Bylaw, to reduce the lane and shoulder widths of Road “N” and to allow overhead hydro and utility lines along the roadway.

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These grants will help keep our community resilient and able to recover sooner after this crisis.

The Responsive Neighbourhood Small Grants Program funds smallscale projects that reduce social isolation. R-NSG projects will adhere to physical distancing guidelines in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic and invite individuals to dream up creative projects that address the following areas: tackle and address social isolation; build community strength and resilience; and foster community creativity and wellbeing.

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Municipalities are given more weight in these decisions than other organizations due to their vested interests, Blackbird said.

Council’s request comes after Bowen Trail Riders’ Association’s proposal for a two-track motorized trail up Mt. Gardner trail roused a public debate last fall. Blackbird said in January that that project wouldn’t be proceeding for now due to the public outcry.

Several members of the public, including representatives from the Bowen Island Conservancy and the Bowen Island Nature club voiced their opposition to motorized use of the Mt. Gardner trails in the public comments section of Monday’s meeting, also noting a need for public consultation when it comes to substantive changes to the trails’ usage.

Blackbird said that public consultation is part of the mandate of the Bowen Trails Coalition, which holds a partnership with the province to maintain the trails of the Mt. Gardner Crown lands. BTRA is a member of the coalition along with the Bowen Island Trail Society and Bowen Island Horse Riders and Owners Association. The coalition is up for renewal and Blackbird raised the idea of adding more parties to the partnership. “If that’s where we want to have an open forum, we want to have the ability to share ideas and raise, you know, whether people are supportive or not supportive of it.”

Blackbird told council that the only motorized trail on the Province’s books right now on Mt. Garner is Easy Street. He noted that Easy Street was constructed before the partnership agreement with the Trails Coalition and was authorized (after the trail was constructed) under section 57 of the Forest Range Practices Act so as to allow the trail to be brought up to a higher standard.

Blackbird noted that there are liability concerns when it comes to trail standards.

The following are further briefs from the April 27 council meeting.

MRDT review

It’s back to the drawing board for the short term accommodation tax.

Council was set to ask the province to impose a three per cent Municipal & Regional District Tax (MRDT) on short term rentals on Bowen, the proceeds of which were to go to affordable housing initiatives and tourism destination management.

However, the application requires 51 per cent support (based on units) from accommodation providers who have more than four units. A staff report from community planner Emma Chow states that Bowen has seven accommodation providers who have more than four units (the total among the seven is 65 units) and the application has received a response of 77 per cent against the proposal. Among the comments from the public listed in Chow’s report are a desire for a two per cent tax rate instead and for more of the money to go toward affordable housing initiatives. With the three per cent rate, the estimated annual MRDT revenue is $42,300 to $58,500 a year. Tourism Bowen Island has offered to work with the accommodation providers to come to a resolution. Councillors and Chow also noted that the industry is at a standstill currently due to COVID-19.

Short term rentals

Three bylaws addressing short term vacation rentals passed first reading Monday. The amendments to the Land Use Bylaw, business licence bylaw and noise enforcement bylaw would permit “residential guest accommodation” (short term rentals) on all residential lots, including those with suites, but impose a 120 days per year limit on this use. Rooms would be limited to two guests and require one parking space per room. The business licence cost would be set at $300 under the bylaw, so as to cover staff time to licence the accommodation providers and enforce the regulations. There’s also a provision that there must be a designated contact, available 24 hours a day to respond to any nuisance complaint about the rental within two hours.

The sticking point for councillors and public alike has been the 120 day limit. Tourism and industry advocates argue that this is too short a time and will mean providers will only rent out in the summer months instead of spreading business out over the less lucrative shoulder sea-

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sons and winter. Housing advocates and others in opposition argue 120 days is too long and have taken issue with allowing entire dwellings to be rented out. The short term rental policy council passed last November says that short term rental use of more than 120 days is considered commercial use, which could be allowed with a temporary use permit (when council can once again issue temporary use permits) or rezoning. “[So] that the use of short term rental of a dwelling unit stays…secondary to the use of the dwelling unit as a residence for someone that is part of the community,” community planner Emma Chow said.

Coun. Michael Kaile has long argued against the 120 day limit, calling it the “complete antithesis to any form of tourism planning” at Monday’s meeting.

Kaile noted the frustration in the industry with the proposed limitations but also that the industry doesn’t currently exist due to COVID-19 and what the industry will look like in the future is uncertain. He urged deferring the matter while the industry’s stalled.

Coun. Maureen Nicholson noted that this project has been in the works a long time and these are just the first steps so that the bylaws can be sent out for consultations.

While the first readings passed unanimously, Kaile and Coun. Alison Morse said that they only voted in favour so that the bylaws could be put out for public comment.

and playground zones are exceptions) and so Bowen needs a bylaw in order to enforce different speed limits (such as the island-wide 40 km/hr limit).

Mayor Gary Ander, Kaile and Morse voiced concern with some of the speed limits laid out in Chow’s report, including pockets of 20 km/ hr limits on Grafton Rd. and a 20 km/ hr speed limit from Forest Ridge Rd. down to the golf course. Morse said there was no logic, rhyme or reason to the speed limits. Chow noted that the current maps are a starting point based on the data public works has and welomed input.

Coun. Sue Ellen Fast said people are frequently asking BIM to slow traffic down and Nicholson noted how this bylaw is a part of BIM’s 20-year transportation plan.

The first reading of the bylaw passed with Ander, Kaile and Morse against.

The other emergency

BIM now has a climate action strategy. Council passed the 10-point strategy that aims to align with Bowen becoming a zero emissions community by 2050 and to boost community resilience to the effects

of climate change. Coun. David Hocking (who has been the council driver of the strategy) and BIM’s interim manager of parks and the environment, Bonny Brokenshire, presented the plan.

The plan broadly looks to move people out of cars through clustering homes, active transportation and advocacy with public transportation providers. It encourages e-vehicles, public and private alike, and looks at ways to reduce travelling need (more working on-island, on-island services, on-island composting).

To build resilience the plan looks to protecting current infrastructure (the asset management plan being a part of this), increase protection from droughts (including storing more water from the winter rains), increase wildfire protection, protect and enhance natural systems and support regenerative agriculture.

Public engagement is the final pillar of the strategy.

Council acknowledged “that climate change represents an emergency for Bowen Island” and committed to “developing a strategy to reduce emissions in alignment with the targets to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,” last October.

Need for less speed Council passed first reading of a speed bylaw.

Community planner Emma Chow said that under the Motor Vehicles Act, the enforceHAIG FARRIS PHOTO able speed limit in HERRING CURRENT: “For the first time in years, [Monday] morning off Fairweather point municipalities is there was an enormous herring spawn,” writes Haig Farris. “This photo only captures less than 50 km/hr (school one half of what I could see. Hopefully this is good news for herring stocks in years to come.”

A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

from the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation We’ve made sensational headway in the Community Health Centre Capital Campaign.

The vision of healthcare close to home is rapidly becoming a reality! when: 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 2, 2020

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Be one of the first to hear the news and take this opportunity to ask questions.

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VIEWPOINT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Considering environment over turf field DEAR EDITOR: Now, keep your hand up if you support the replacement of the artificial turf field at BICS. Right ...

We have both lost count of the number of times in the last few years that we’ve been involved in a conversation about climate change. It’s on people’s minds all the time, our governments at all levels are very concerned about it, and, in fact, mayor and council have declared a climate emergency here on Bowen Island. And now we are, once again, hearing

and reading about the artificial turf field and its costly replacement.

How on earth can anybody possibly think that these two things are in harmony with one another?

In 2009, at the time of the initial debate about the installation of the field, we wrote a letter to Mayor and Council that stated, among other things: “Proceeding with this project will send a message to the community, particularly to our young people, that continuing the domination of

nature by humankind is a good thing, that spending in the face of economic uncertainty is not problematic, and that the throwaway society is alive and well on Bowen Island. It’s time to think about a new message.”

Indeed it is time to think about a new message. What kind of world do we all really want to live in? Let’s focus on that and live within our means: not just our economic means, but in a way that puts the planet first.

Owen Plowman Doug Elliott

Health Centre Foundation has exciting news DEAR EDITOR: This coming Saturday, the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation will be sharing some great news.

Exciting developments in recent weeks have brought our health centre a giant step closer to reality, and we are eager to let the community know the details.

We are using the same forum and time slot for this major announcement as we used for our three recent Saturday morning

Town Halls on managing through the COVID pandemic. This gives everyone a chance to ask questions about the announcement, or anything else about the Health Centre project.

Never before has health security and the vital need for adequate health care resources seemed so important, wherever we live.

Our health centre addresses the urgent need to improve health security on Bowen – for now and the future -- by bringing health

care close to home.

Please join us at 10 a.m. this Saturday, May 2, to find out how close we now are to reaching that goal.

Zoom link : bit.ly/ GoodNewsTownHall (case sensitive), Meeting ID: 635 941 026, Password: 745472, Telephone: 778-907-2071 Tim Rhodes President, Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation

April 18 COVID town hall worth a watch DEAR EDITOR: I was riveted to Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation’s April 18 online presentation. I have sent the link to three friends who are feeling anxious in these uncertain times, as are all of us to some degree. Thank you to members of the Health Centre Foundation board, to Stephen Mitchell as moderator, Tim Rhodes managing the technology, featured guests and especially the shared wisdom and practical coping skills for both children and adults.

I have forwarded my appreciation of the forum to Lynn Williams and Rev. Lorraine Ashdown, both now serving in the field of Pastoral Care through the

Food Bank and the United Church. We are so blessed in this community to have Colleen O’Neil spearheading support initiatives through The Caring Circle.

As well, we owe a huge amount of gratitude to the medical centre team for their due diligence and gentle persistence in efforts to bring to this community what we most collectively need. Thank you for the special gift of the town hall production and for all the others past and in the planning stages.

Sylvia Boss Editor’s note: see the recorded town hall at this link: bit.ly/2WbwwST

EDITORIAL

Celebrating moms (and food) It feels like yesterday we entered isolation but alas, more than a month’s passed and Mother’s Day is rounding the bend.

Acknowledging that this is a bit of a different Mother’s Day, we’re wondering if islanders’ mothers have a few “comfort food” recipes up their sleeves.

We’ll publish our favourites in next week’s edition.

We miss singing for you: community choir For more than 25 years, the Bowen Island Community Choir has been celebrating the arrival of spring with a concert for islanders.

This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the difficult decision was made to suspend the choir session and to cancel our concert, scheduled for May 2.

It is our hopes that we will be able to resume

singing in September, culminating in a joyful island concert at Christmas!

In the meantime, we miss you and encourage you to visit our Facebook page to enjoy songs from previous Spring concerts.

Submitted by Jane Kellett on behalf of Bowen Island Community Choir

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Recognizing our essential and front-line workers The first in a series of five workers who will receive $100 in recognition of their essential work during the pandemic is Cheryl Evans

Last week, we announced that an anonymous donor came forward with a proposition to recognize some of Bowen’s front-line and essential service workers. The idea is that people nominate those who are in the public sphere, continuing to do their jobs to keep our society functioning during the pandemic.

These can be paid workers or volunteers.

Once a week for the next five weeks we’re drawing at random someone who works in the public sphere. This person will receive $100 to recognize their service to the community and society. (This money is coming from the donor, not the Undercurrent!)

So far, we’ve received 72 nominations, but it’s not too late! There are four more weeks of this, so please send in your nominees to editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com. Though we can’t recognize everyone with $100, I’ll do my best to publish as many notes that accompany the nominations as possible. The work you’re all doing is important and valued.

As the anonymous donor puts it, “We see what you’re doing for us and we want to thank you.”

This week’s recognized worker, Cheryl Evans, works at the post office and the recycling depot. Thank you for all you do Cheryl!

––Bronwyn Beairsto, editor

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JUST SOME OF THE NOMINATION NOTES: Christine and Heather Miller at Artisan Office Services, working daily from dawn to dusk with packages and deliveries - many free to help community members in isolation/quarantine.

Thank you!

––Bryoni Miller Jane Henley is an RN who lives on Bowen and works home care nursing for wound care and palliative care for West Van and Bowen Island. She has to commute back and forth on the ferry to be able to do her job on the front line. Her work load has dramatically increased since she now has more patients to visit as they are not able to be cared for in hospitals where they normally would. But she also has patients being admitted to or released from hospital, for example Lions Gate which has been a hot spot.

The irony of all of this is that Jane is caring for others and having to distance herself from own aging parents and family to keep them safe while she cares for others.

–– Jeanine Ziolkoski

OTHER THANKYOUS A big Thank YOU to Casey at the Watering Can for supplying us in a safe way with high quality soaps and other products, while reducing plastic waste.

We are happy to support this innovative Island Business !

––Jayeson Hendyrsan I’d like to thank Sheila Wade and the Canada Post Team for keeping our mail and online shipments moving. Though we don’t always see them in person, it takes these great people to fill our old fashioned mailboxes each day.

Thank you for the behind-the-scenes commitment to keeping some of our day-to-day “normal.”

––William Burrows

MISSING YOU! Though we can’t be together this Spring to share our songs and hearts with you ... we will be back! Looking forward to our next “Musical Date Together”! www.bowenislandcommunitychoir.ca

Bowen Island Community Choir Be Calm. Be Kind. Be Safe.

Most of our local shops have closed their store fronts, but many are still offering alternative ways you can shop, or certain days of the week you can shop in person.

Even though they have had to close their dining rooms, many of our local restaurants are offering take out or delivery options, with delicious weekly features.

Whether it’s online ordering, buying a gift card now and using it later, or taking advantage of their alternative arrangements, now more than ever is the time we need to be supporting our local small businesses.

Why not take the day off from cooking and help our restaurants stay in business.

They were here for us before the pandemic and we’d like them to be here after.

Why not check around for local options before considering your Amazon purchase or trip into town.

You can also check out the local farms who are still growing and selling fresh, local food. #buyonbowen

Our grocery stores provide an essential service on Bowen Island by ensuring safe and reliable access to food, supplies and other provisions. Now more than ever, our local small businesses need your support.

Our local stores are offering convenient delivery and pickup options, and supply chains are good.

Check them out before considering a shopping trip to town, and help them stay open and supporting our community.

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Community Foundation 2020 grant recipients unveiled THE DESERVING ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING THE FOUNDATION’S COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANTS

SHEREE JOHNSON

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Before this current crisis hit, numerous organizations came forward with project ideas for the Bowen Island Community Foundation Impact Grant that have the potential for measurable and sustainable impact on our community. While the start of these projects may be delayed because of the crisis, we felt it was important that the funds be made available as a sign of optimism and hope for our return to normalcy.

For the 2020 grant cycle, BICF has granted $36,650 to organizations addressing community priorities as identified during 2017’s Vital Conversations. Here are the 2020 recipients: Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation (BIHCF) will receive $15,000 to develop an operations and governance model for organizing and managing the physical, human, and technology resources of a new health centre. The BIHCF will own and operate the community health centre, which will offer health and well-being services and programs to residents and visitors, including primary care, extended health services, community clinics and education opportunities The results of this project will guide the operational plans and organizational structure of the health centre and will be used to support donor presentations, physician recruitment, health service provider recruitment, staff hiring, identification of future board member requirements and future policies and procedures.

Island Pacific School Society (IPSS) will receive $2,500 to create and enhance a community seating area, play area and install fitness circuit equipment for community use. This initial phase of a long-term vision will address the play area between IPS and Cates Hill Chapel and a fitness circuit on the common strata property. It will be designed for young children up to teenagers with other equipment geared toward older teens and adults. Equipment will be selected to complement each piece and encourage multi-age interactions. The IPSS vision, in collaboration with their strata partners and neighbours, is to eventually build a field house which could house a variety

of athletic facilities, including basketball and volleyball courts, exercise equipment, a bouldering wall, tetherballs and remote mobile fitness stations.

Bowen Island Archery Club in partnership with IPS will receive $2,500 to help make the sport of archery an accessible activity on Bowen. These funds will go toward equipping the club with essential equipment and expertise: bows for youth and adults, field equipment and skills acquisition. The longterm vision for the club is the construction of a permanent archery course.

Bowen Island Respite Care Society in partnership with the Snug Cove House Society will receive $5,500 to provide transportation to or from the new Adult Care Program. The Respite Society received funding from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) to run a one-year pilot project (with the potential for continuation) for an Adult Day Program on Bowen. This program will provide respite to those providing care to someone living with a debilitating disease. It will also provide stimulating programming meaningful social connections and a shared meal for those receiving care. The Community Impact Grant will go towards eliminating the potential transportation barrier for participation.

Caring Circle Health and Wellness Society in partnership with Snug Cove House Society will receive $2,500 for a much-needed update of their website. The Caring Circle website provides invaluable health information and navigation resources for islanders. Caring Circle’s work and associated website is particularly vital to the needs of seniors, as the lion’s share of requests for health navigation support come from the senior population.

Bowen Island Trail Society in partnership with Island Pacific School will receive $5,000 for their Mt. Gardner Project. Over the past few years, the dedicated volunteers of the Trail Society have been working diligently to improve the safety and route finding of Mt. Gardner trails. So far, all trails have been reblazed with new orange reflective blazes and approximately a third of the new cedar sign posts have been installed. The remaining sign posts will be installed this year. The Community Impact Grant funds will go toward new blazes, signs at all intersections, and maps at trailheads.

Bowen Children’s Centre Society (BCCS) will receive $3,650 for a collaborative children’s garden. Community volunteers will bring expertise and educational information so the chil-

dren will learn about growing, harvesting, composing, and cooking as well as putting up food (from “seed to plate”) and all the steps in between. BCCS will call on seniors who love gardening, composting, etc. and who would like to share their passion and expertise to inform young children. BCCS will also ask organizations and people on the island working with sustainable gardening projects or ventures to get involved.

The BICF assists the Knick Knack Nook (KKN) with its grants program by carrying out administrative tasks on behalf of the KKN Board. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the KKN Re-Use it Store, like many businesses, is closed indefinitely.

The money raised through the store is used to fund the KKN Environmental and Social Sustainability Small Grants program.

With uncertainty around the timing for the reopening of the Store, KKN has decided to suspend most of their grants at this time. KKN received 15 grant applications for the 2020 grant cycle; all important projects. KKN will be making two grants that can provide immediate or short-term assistance supporting the repercussions of the virus.

The Bowen Island Food Bank will receive $5,000 in support of building additional storage space for food supplies adjacent to the existing food bank. Through the Bowen Island United Church, the Food Bank sponsors an honour system of distribution to all islanders in need of assistance, respecting their honesty and privacy. These funds will help to accommodate additional shelving and a refrigerator and freezer in a new space accessed separately from the open food bank.

The Bowen Island Refundables Assist Program in partnership with the Rotary Club and will receive $3,000 for a new aluminum frame and waterproof canvas cover to repurpose a second 40-yard bin. This newly refurbished bin will be used to transport recycled beverage containers from the Bowen Island Refundable Assist Program to the North Vancouver Return-it Depot. The goal for this project is to reduce the handling and loading of refundable materials by volunteer groups and to improve the overall safety at the Bowen Island Recycling Depot.

The beneficiaries of this project will be the 18 Not-For-Profit groups currently participating in the Bowen Island Refundables Assist Program. Last year the Program raised $60,000.

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Islanders will no longer need to resort to mini-putt championships in the backyard to satisfy their golf cravings––the Bowen Island Golf Course is reopening, sort of.

[Editor’s note: the Undercurrent hasn’t actually received reports of backyard miniputt championships but would dearly like pictures if they’re happening.]

The Bowen public will once again be able to book tee times, starting in the early days of May, but with strict rules for COVID protection: Hours are Wednesday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Monday, Tuesday for maintenance).

Reservations must be made online (www. bowengolf.com/teetimes) and green fees pre-purchased (sc.cps.golf/BowenWebstore).

Twosomes or singles only and six-foot distance must be maintained always.

Tee times are at 15-minute intervals (again, a max. of two per tee time).

Show up within 15 minutes of tee-time, not early, as the previous golfers must be teed off before you enter the parking lot.

No playing without reservations.

The pro shop, range, practice greens, vending machines and washroom are closed. No garbage cans either.

No rentals of any kind (though you can buy balls online and they’ll be waiting for you at tee-time).

No flags (a sign is posted each morning of where the holes have been cut on the greens in lieu of a flag) and ball cups are upside down (so balls rest near the surface).

No bunker rakes or ball washers and players must dispose of their own broken tees at home.

No alcohol allowed.

Leave a car’s width between cars when parking.

And don’t go if you’re showing COVID-19 symptoms or have travelled in the last two weeks.

Golf courses across the lower mainland are reopening with similar measures in place.

Pro Shop manager Les Meszaros says that the Bowen course been running a twoweek test of these measures with members, which has been a success. With the limited tee times and hours, capacity’s been at 90 to a hundred per cent and golfers have self-enforced the rules.

“People took it seriously,” said Meszaros. “They understood what we’re trying to do.”

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While the golf course had closed as a COVID prevention measure, it’s slowly reopening with strict distancing and no-contact rules. Registration is exclusively online and mandatory.

Golfers noted that with so few people on the course (eight in an hour) it’s like having your own private golf course, Meszaros relayed. While some have asked about raising the number of people allowed in a tee time, Meszaros said they’re taking it slow and going with what they know works.

“Could we have more people on here?

Probably, but I’m in no hurry,” said Meszaros.

“We’ll get to the right time with the right number of people.”

Meszaros said that Vancouver Coastal Health approved golf course operations under their current COVID rules.

Whereas there’s usually a golf course staff of eight to 10 people, it’s been just the superintendent Frank Griffiths and Meszaros running the course, working seven days a week.

However, Meszaros did get funding to hire a couple of students for the summer season––a season that’s sure to look different from any before it. Golf tournaments are cancelled and the clubhouse shuttered for now.

“We just adapt and adjust and try to figure out how we keep working,” said Meszaros.

Also to note, the course is opening to islanders only. “This isn’t about tourism,” said Meszaros. “This is about providing an outlet for people to do something in a really nice, safe way.”

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Memories of war’s end: 1945

It was 75 years ago this week that H.C. Behm and his family were among the last refugees to cross the Stöhr Kanal in the closing days of the Second World War H.C. BEHM

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Editor’s note: we first printed this story in 2015. As this week marks the 75th anniversary of the events described in this feature and this year the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, we’re reprinting it here.

The following narrative is what I remember from the end of World War II. I was four and a half years old so of course I do not remember dates and names, these were given to me in later years. But the images described here are the events and interaction with people is from my own recollection as I experienced them.

I was born in North Eastern Germany, in the Province of Mecklenburg, a farming country bordering on the Baltic Sea with hundreds of lakes, beech and pine forests, red brick houses and people with a good sense of humour and wisdom.

The village of Mestlin, to which our farm belonged, was on one of the most direct East-West routes used by refugees fleeing from the Russian advances. Looking through an upstairs window I remember seeing this endless stream from early morning into the dark of night. It must have started a year earlier, before I could remember.

My mother ran the farm for her father, who worked the family estate, about 60 Km away. My father had been in the Africa Corps, Rommel’s Army, and having surrendered to the Americans in 1943 was a prisoner of war in the U.S. My mother’s three brothers had died, two in the war, and one sister died by suicide.

Of their six children, my grandparents had two daughters left and 14 grandchildren.

We had a large farmhouse and sometimes 30 or more people stayed overnight or a few days. It was in late March when relatives from Estonia came to stay with us on their way West. Snow had melted and the muck in the farmyard was ankledeep for a youngster like me. I had shown my aunt the cow stable when my boot got stuck. As I tried to pull my foot up, it slipped out of the boot.

My aunt lifted me up and began to cry inconsolably, holding me tightly.

Later my mother told me that she had received news that morning of her husband’s death in France. She was 29 and he was 31. They had been married seven months.

Easter 1945 fell on April 1. Our barns sheltered some 900 Russian PoWs. The Mestlin Farm was ordered to shelter and feed them.

Every day a horse or cow had to be slaughtered and hygiene had to be provided.

For all Christians, Easter is the day when Christ’s resurrection is celebrated as the sign of ultimate redemption and forgiveness.

For Russians, Easter is the greatest spiritual event each year––when families unite. For those 900 men, brutalized by years of war, await-

PHOTO COURTESY OF HC BEHM

HC Behm and his mother in January 1945. Behind Behm is the white picket fence Russian prisoners of war used to make Easter carvings, creating a gap through which Behm’s family crawled through to escape.

ing an uncertain future and without news from home, we, the children on the farm, became the vision of their dream of home.

The commanding officer asked my mother whether the men could give us small presents they had made.

They came and sang in a language I could not understand and the music was so different from the songs I knew. One song I remember began with a whisper and ended in a loud cry of pain and hope.

And then they pulled out the toys.

There were tiny carved animals, Easter eggs, toys rich in Russian folklore.

I remember one man, he seemed old to me, with his weather-beaten face unshaven, teeth missing, reeking of garlic and sweat, bending down, picking me up, hugging me and kissing me on the head, tears running down his face and sobbing. After he put me on the ground again, he reached into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a ping pong racket with a number of small carved hens mounted on the edge facing the centre. Under their tails, strings were attached and knotted together underneath with a small weight. Through their feet were stuck small pins, which allowed the hens to rock, as if they were picking. The man placed the handle in my hand, put his gently over mine and began to move the toy in a horizontal circle. One by one the hens would pick and then raise their heads again as the weighted knot underneath rotated. In the calm

position they had their heads down.

I have not forgotten the picking hens and the man’s face.

Much later I learned that those Russian PoWs, more than 36,000, were handed over by the British and American forces and shot, because, according to Russian military law, to surrender or be taken prisoner was equal to desertion and punishable by death.

Shortly after Easter the Russians left, but the refugees needing help from us, increased. The news from the advancing Russian front must have been horrifying. I remember the screams of babies and so many faces and voices I did not know, day and night. I felt, that something dark, heavy and gloomy was approaching.

Mother had less and less time for my one and one half year old brother and me. So I was put in charge when one of mother’s helpers could not look after us. I remember feeling abandoned and desperately looking for my mother.

Meanwhile, she was preparing the village and us to flee, to join the stream of refugees, if necessary. All motorized transport had been confiscated for the war effort.

But we had horses and each family in the village was given a horse, if they wanted to leave. People loaded a wagon in front of our house with important farm and family things.

On the evening before we wanted to leave (April 27), Hitler forbade anyone who was not already on the road to flee because he wanted to bring any available troops to Berlin

in a last effort to stop the Russian advance. To enforce this command, two armed guards were placed at the two main exits of our farmhouse.

One was 15-year old member of the Hitler Youth the other was a clubfooted man in his ‘70s. Both were armed and ordered to shoot.

That evening, two ladies from mother’s school days stopped in to feed and rest their horses. Hearing of our situation, they convinced mother to pack the absolute necessities and climb onto their wagon early next morning.

Before dawn we crawled out of a basement window undetected, mother carrying my little brother and I dragging a small suitcase. The farmhouse and garden were surrounded by a white picket fence. We slipped through a hole in the fence, where the Russians had pulled off slats to make the toys for us children.

Hiding behind a hedge we spotted our friends’ horse-drawn wagon and settled amongst several big crates.

It took us an hour and a half to break into that panic-driven, endless stream of refugees.

Both sides of the road leaving the village of Mestlin were lined with mounds of all types of broken down transport and abandoned belongings.

Mid-morning we heard the drone of aircraft engines. Within seconds they were upon us. Russian, English, American? We never found out.

Mother’s friend, who rode the lead horse pulling the wagon, was able to reach a small forest. Thick branch-

es gave us cover. As I looked across the country highway I saw a woman handing a small bundle to a man on the ground. I blinked for a moment.

When I opened my eyes again I saw the two figures and the little bundle collapse in an explosion of blood.

That same blast from an aircraft also spooked our horses so much that they suddenly jerked forward and dislodged the crates. Between them our friends’ little dachshund was crushed. I can still hear his last gasping yelp.

Apparently, the air raid was triggered because German military units were using the same road, which made the refugees targets.

I heard screaming and yelling and saw fires. Ahead of us were several destroyed wagons, injured and dead people and animals. It took a while for survivors and helpers to make the road passable again, until the trek could continue to move.

After several hours of crawling forward, at about noon, we were stopped again. We had come close to the Stöhr Kanal, carrying waters out of the Schwerin Lake near Mecklenburg’s capital. At the Yalta Conference Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt had declared this waterway as part of the boundary between the future Russian Zone to the East and the British to the West. Across it led one of the few bridges still intact.

It was a drawbridge in two sections, one on either shore, which could be raised to let boat traffic through.

Late that afternoon it was our turn to cross. The bridge was so worn out that the weight of the horses pulling our wagon pushed the half under us down. The horses spooked, but our friend reigning them from the saddle, was able to calm them enough to climb on the other half, bringing it down to an even level so that the wheels could roll across the crack without getting stuck. We made it.

After a while, the rider pulled over, slipped out of her saddle in utter exhaustion and walked back to the wagon. I saw my mother and her two friends hug and embrace one another and the horses were fed and given water and a few pieces of sugar.

That evening, about five hours later, the Russians reached the bridge and no one was allowed to cross anymore. It was April 28.

We by-passed the city moving West and reached my mother’s uncle’s farm late that evening. All of us, and the horses, had a few hours of rest. Some time after midnight we were on the road again to avoid air raids. Traffic was light. At dawn we reached my grandparents’ estate, the house where I was born.

I ran toward them. I can still feel their arms around me. Breakfast was waiting and it smelled good.

The radio was switched on and the program was interrupted with sombre music and then a voice came on. I saw all the adults around me stiffen. After a moment my grandmother raised her hand and laid it on grandfather’s with words: “Finally, finally the monster is dead.”

Hitler had killed himself.

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