Bowen Island Undercurrent February 4, 2021

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Nature reserve neighbour ISLANDS TRUST ESTABLISHES ITS 30TH NATURE RESERVE ON NEIGBOURING LHEK’TÍNES _

ELISIA SEEBER

Local Journalism Initiative

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RESCUE EFFORT: Phil Kemp rescues an exhausted young buck from the Cape Roger Curtis shoreline. The deer

had managed to swim to a rock near the lighthouse and Kemp waded out to lift the deer out of the water. Onlookers helped dry off the young fella and, after consulting Critter Care and the conservation officer, he was left in some ferns in the woods.

Despite the best efforts of kind onlookers, the deer didn’t survive the night.

A serene beach on an island in Howe Sound, British Columbia, with remarkable biodiversity and First Nations cultural significance, is now a protected nature reserve.

Sandy Beach on Lheḵ’tínes (also known as Keats Island) has made history as the Islands Trust Conservancy’s 30th nature reserve created in 30 years. (Bowen Island has three of those nature reserves).

Lheḵ’tínes is one of the larger islands in Átl’ḵa7tsem (Howe Sound), directly west of Bowen Island.

The beach, on the southwest shoreline of Lheḵ’tínes, has 3.4 hectares (8.4 acres) of Coastal Douglas-fir forest and over 250 metres of beachfront. The area is habitat for a number of threatened and endangered species, and is home to birds, such as the Northern goshawk, great blue heron, as well as the olive-sided flycatcher, and the little brown myotis bat.

The beach has also been identified as spawning habitat for surf smelt and Pacific sand lance, two fish species that are important food sources for wild salmon.

The new nature reserve is within the territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (TsleilWaututh) First Nations and is an area of cultural significance and use since time immemorial.

“The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people have a long interconnected history with Lheḵ’tínes,” said Syeta’xtn, Chris Lewis, Squamish Nation spokesperson and councillor, in a release.

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BOWEN NATURE CLUB

Arachnids that suck: let’s talk about ticks PREDATOR, PREY...

PRURIENT PESTS?

JEN RITCHIE

Bowen Nature Club

For almost a year now, pandemic restrictions have pushed people to spend more time in the great outdoors. In my opinion, everyone could use a little more fresh air, green space and exposure to friendly forest critters. However, at least one critter doesn’t seem quite so pleasant—the tick.

Many people have been surprised to see ticks active and feeding in January this year. In fact, ticks do live here year-round, and can be active any time the temperature is above freezing.

These tiny arachnids (yep, eightlegged arthropods, like spiders) are a type of mite that eats the blood of animals.

Contrary to popular belief, ticks do not live on or drop down from trees. They cannot jump or fly.

They “quest” for hosts by sitting on tall grasses and underbrush with one pair of legs outstretched. As an animal (or person) walks by, the tick climbs onto its unsuspecting host, then buries its barbed mouth into the thinnest, most tender and moist skin it can find. This is why we often find ticks on our hairlines (as well as armpits and other more — ahem — delicate areas).

Their usual hosts in our neck of the woods, are deer, squirrels, rodents, birds, rabbits, horses, cattle, cats and dogs, and humans.

Some ticks, like the winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus), only feed on one host per life cycle, only live one season and don’t feed on humans. Others, like the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick (Dermacentor andersoni), have complicated life cycles with multiple hosts over multiple years.

Only three of the 20+ ticks that

live in B.C. feed on humans: • The Rocky Mountain Wood Tick (Dermacentor andersoni), fortunately, is not found west of the Coast Range mountains. Thank goodness we don’t have to worry about this one here on Bowen!

• The Western Black-legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus) lives on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, along the mainland coast up to Powell River, and along the Fraser River up to Boston Bar. These tiny red and black females (and even tinier black males) will feast on deer, cats and dogs, as well as humans.

• The Brown Dog Tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) is found all over B.C. and usually feeds on dogs, but also occasionally on humans. Check around your pet’s ears, neck, and toes for these reddish-brown pests, who grow engorged with blood then drop off to lay their eggs (often inside your house!)

Why worry about ticks? Many carry micro-organisms and neurotoxins that cause disease, paralysis and (rarely) even death.

According to the BC CDC, “most ticks that carry lyme disease are found in southwestern B.C., including Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser Valley.” Lyme disease risk areas map: maps.bccdc.ca/Lyme/ The organism that causes lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been found all over B.C., but mainly in Southwestern B.C. We have had a number of cases of lyme contracted on-island.

Lyme infection doesn’t always cause a telltale “bulls-eye” rash,

and many of the other dozen-plus tick-borne infections can also be symptom-less at first. Lyme and other infections can remain dormant for years or even decades, before causing a wide range of confusing symptoms over a long period of time (including fever, fatigue, vision problems, joint problems, muscle spasms, and symptoms that mimic MS).

So it’s always best to check in with your doctor if you’ve found a tick feeding on you: you may require antibiotics.

With so many horrible consequences to having a tick population, it may seem inconceivable that this pest plays positive roles in the ecosystem.

How can ticks be beneficial? As part of a greater web of predator-prey relations, ticks can help control wild animal populations (as predators), just as they themselves provide sustenance to others (as prey).

Ticks are a plentiful food source for many reptiles, birds and amphibians, as well as for insects such as ants, ladybugs (they can eat 60+ ticks per day!), chiggers, wolf spiders and various beetles.

Various nematodes and fungi also feed on ticks. Metarhizium anisopliae is a fungus commonly found in forest floors in Southwest B.C. that penetrates the tick as it grows. Nematodes like Steinernema carpocapsae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora inject bacteria into ticks pre-digesting and killing them within days.

Squirrels and chipmunks turn the tables on ticks: these animals are quite adept at removing ticks that try to feed on them, and eat them as a tasty snack.

On the other hand, deer and mice will host ticks without removing them—and potentially pass them on to humans and pets.

Parting tip: Ticks often walk

around on their host for a while before burying into thinner moister skin, like the scalp, underarms, and undercarriage. So get your hiking buddy to check those hard-

to-see places for you, and whether with a partner or alone, remember that a good hike often includes “butt stuff.” (Check your sensitive areas.)

How can I protect myself while enjoying the outdoors?

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The best defense is a good offense: avoid tall grasses and bushy undergrowth while hiking, wear long sleeves and pants, and tuck your pants into your socks.

Immediately after returning home, remove clothing into the laundry and do a tick check of your body.

There are monthly anti-tick medications available for pets (unfortunately not for humans).

Insecticides like permethrin sprayed on your clothing can protect you, and last on clothing for weeks, even through repeated washings.

A simple plastic tool called a Tick Remover or Tick Twister (available at Cates Pharmacy) does the job much more easily and efficiently than tweezers.

PHOTO AND CAPTION: JEN RITCHIE

A female Western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) found on Bowen Island. A simple plastic tool called a tick remover or tick twister (available at Cates Pharmacy) does the job much more easily and efficiently than tweezers. Tiny claws on the tips of a tick’s legs help it grab onto its prey.

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VIEWPOINTS EDITORIAL

‘I miss you’edition

When we were brainstorming for next week’s Valentine’s Day edition, Tracey was ruminating on an Atlantic article she’d just read.

In, ‘The pandemic has erased entire categories of friendship,’ Amanda Mull mourns the “periphery friends” of our former lives.

The casual banter with bartenders and servers, catching up with ferry commute buddies, even a smile in the grocery store – the casual interactions with people you may not follow on social media or even know their names (all too common on Bowen). The article articulates a loss we’ve all felt, even those of us who tend to isolate ourselves from other humans, and digs into the science of why those “periphery” people are important to us. It’s a worthwhile read for those so inclined.

In some ways, on Bowen, we’re lucky because we do have opportunities for casual interactions. While we now stay in our cars on the ferry and hidden behind masks in the grocery store, as Tina Nielsen pointed out a couple of weeks ago in the “Get to know your Bowen Island neighbours” column, walking around Killarney Lake has become a social endeavour. I walked from the Cove to the lake last Friday afternoon – I think I saw 15 acquaintances (and many more folks I didn’t know) over the hour of wandering. Head nods and smiles, even from strangers, lifted some of the weight on my heart. (Fresh air I s’pose goes a long way too.)

All that to say, Tracey suggested that this Valentine’s Day we recognize our casual acquaintances – those we’re missing from the before.

Send in your ‘I miss yous’ to editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com before Feb. 9 at 5 p.m.

Anonymous notes (so long as they’re kind) are welcome too.

—Bronwyn Beairsto, Editor

A romantic evening with Zoom andTOTI A COVID-19 Valentine’s Day will probably feature fewer communal cinnamon heart bowls but Theatre on the Isle is doing its best to make sure there’s no shortage of love.

The theatre organization is inviting the community to an amorous evening Feb 11 over Zoom.

“It’s a bit of a variety night celebrat-

ing love and Valentine’s Day,” explains TOTI’s Kat Stephens.

Part of the live-streamed event will feature published island authors sharing from their works, including Audrey and Paul Grescoe reading from their collection Book of Love Letters: Canadian Kinship, Friendship and Romance and Jude Neale reciting one of her poems.

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‘It’s okay to not be okay’

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Retired psychiatrist weighs in on pandemic mental health: ‘To feel that something is wrong with you when you have a normal and natural response is really bizarre’ DEAR EDITOR: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed several inequalities and injustices inherent in our society. What is of special interest to me is the way it is affecting our prejudices about mental illness.

In our shame-based culture, stigmatization (stigma: mark of infamy, token of disgrace) of emotional distress and mental illness is rampant. It is inappropriate at any time, but now, with anxiety about the uncertainty of COVID, the effects of pandemic restrictions and especially social isolation, stigmatization is not only inappropriate, it is hugely harmful. To feel that something is wrong with you is one thing but to feel that something is wrong with you when you have a normal and natural response is really bizarre. I ask, are we stigmatizing people as being sick when they are just being sane? Does that not discourage them from getting help?

Aside from the drama created by the media and impressionable people, there are facts about COVID-19 that we all have to live with. Wearing a mask, distancing and avoiding crowds are fundamental – they really work – and we must live with that. However, those public health measures do have the effects

of creating social isolation. It is distressing to live without being able to attend a concert, theatre, choir, go to house parties, family get-togethers and other social activities, which are so rejuvenating.

Speaking with friends and family is probably the best way to reduce anxiety but congregating is discouraged by the regulations.

Also, for all of us, there is the stress of uncertainty about the future. So, if you have anxiety or depression as a result of social deprivation, you are certainly experiencing normal feelings and you are certainly not alone. However, if this forces you to be withdrawn and lonely, that may start a vicious cycle where you will feel worse, withdraw more, feel worse again, avoid more friends or family and so forth. That could spiral into serious illness. Your COVID anxiety is nothing to be ashamed of. The best response to it is to take ownership of it and talk to people and get help. Don’t forget, strong people are the ones who get help.

There are a number of public B.C. websites that can direct you and give you much information. There are also online therapy sites. There are ways to get funded for clinical help from regis-

tered counsellors through our (Bowen Island) Adult Mental Health Support Program. There is also a Youth At Risk Support Program.

So, chase away those automatic negative thoughts (ANTs). Kill the ANTs! If you do something definitive to help yourself or others you will have a glorious feeling. It’s better to be a doing rather than just a being. A little self-examination and moral reasoning will set you in the right direction: through getting help for yourself, as you would for others, you will be healthier and happier.

Your self-esteem will be better, and you will be a better and wiser person.

Listen to the lyrics to “OK Not to be OK” focusing on supporting those who may be struggling with anxiety or depression.

Demi Lovato sings: “When you’re high on emotion / And you’re losing your focus / And you feel too exhausted to pray / Don’t get lost in the moment / Or give up when you’re closest / All you need is somebody to say / It’s okay not to be okay.”

Stephen J. Kiraly MD. FRCPC, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

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Where do deer go when they die?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DEER EXPIRES IN THE COVE OR ON A ROADSIDE?

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

Everyone eventually dies, including Bowen Island’s many, many deer. But, there’s no such thing as an ungulate undertaker – or is there?

While many deer die away from heavy human traffic, it’s not infrequent that one appears at the side of the road or, as happened last week, in front of the Hearth Gallery.

In that case, Bowen Waste Solutions picks up and brings the carcasses to a municipally designated site on the island. (This is a solution many rural places use – some more urban locations use animal crematoriums.)

When someone sees a dead deer on public property, they’re to call Bowen Waste (604-947-2255) and leave a message with an approximate location.

“A lot of people don’t know, north from south or east or west so sometimes it takes us a day to find it,” says Louise McIntosh, owner of Bowen Waste.

For deer found on private property there is a fee for Bowen Waste to pick it up. If one has a large property, one may also chose to simply bury the deer.

Most of the calls Bowen Waste gets are for dead deer but there’s the occasional call for a dead squirrel (“That’s usually somebody who has just moved

to Bowen,”) or dead skunk.

In the winter months, deer deaths rise – right now Bowen Waste is seeing probably a few dead deer a week. “Often it’s weather related,” says McIntosh.

“Or the deer population has had a late birthing date.” When the does drop their young a bit too late in the season, the fawns don’t get the chance to fatten up for winter. They find more yearlings than mature deer – the mature deer apparently finding less populated locations to die.

Sometimes summer residents return to their island homes after winter and find something under the porch. “That’s usually where we send the rookies,” says McIntosh.

On the other hand, in the summer, McIntosh might not have a call for a dead deer for a couple of months.

The annual cycle aside, the year-toyear deer call-in numbers are pretty steady, says McIntosh.

McIntosh also adds that no deer, or any other animal (bird, chicken, skunk, rat included) belong in the garbage or compost bins. Food scraps are allowed but no intact dead animals.

Do you have a ‘How does this Bowen thing work’ question? Email editor@ bowenislandundercurrent.com and we’ll ask around.

Get to know your neighbour NEXT UP IN OUR NEW Q&A SERIES: JENNIFER HENRICHSEN

A few weeks ago we launched our new Q&A “Get to know your Bowen Island neighbours” series with randomly selected Undercurrent subscribers. Fourth up is Jennifer Henrichsen When did you come to Bowen?

I came to Bowen and got married on Bowen in 2000.

How did you get here?

My husband’s parents had retired here from Quesnel. They had a cottage on their property and when my husband got accepted into the UBC master’s program, we moved into the cottage and I got a job at Island Pacific School.

Where on Bowen do you live?

Now we’ve built a house in Sealeigh Park.

The cottage was in Bluewater. We had to leave Bowen to work overseas to afford to build on Bowen.

Fill the ferry lineup gap or don’t fill the gap?

I fill the gap because there’s a space there.

What’s your favourite Bowen fact?

It’s my fact – my wedding was the last event to be held in the library before it became a

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Some may know Jen Henrichsen as the assistant head of Island Pacific School.

library.

What’s a Bowen Islander?

Someone who believes in and works toward a better community And what’s your favourite COVID-19 balm or activity?

I started beekeeping.

How’s that worked so far?

It’s worked great, a little bit of Queen drama in the beginning because they killed their queen and had to raise a new one. And then everything was groovy until the end of the summer when I had a full systemic reaction to a bee sting. So come spring I’ll have to make some hard decisions. Not great, but also kind of interesting.

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"To all the faces we used to see on our Thursday paper route.

We miss you," Bronwyn & Tracey

Tell us who you're missing: your favourite ferry worker, the server who knows you like two pats of butter on that bun, your neighbourhood pals, your shop chats, your dog pats...

Send your "I miss yous" to the Undercurrent for our Valentine edition.

Email Bronwyn by Tuesday, Feb. 9, 5 p.m. editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

Annoymous cupids welcome.

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How’s Bowen doing with its greenhouse gas emission targets?

What more can we do?

PREVIEW: FEB. 4 CLIMATE CONVERSATION Upcoming event: Update to the Community Energy Emissions Plan - a Climate Conversation. Hosted by Bowen Island Municipality on Zoom Feb. 4 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. nity – the latest workshop taking place this Thursday evening.

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO Editor Thursday’s climate conversation will discuss the process of updating the plan and If letters to the editor are any indication, how emission-reducing actions are chosen Bowen Islanders are aware of and care about but also go more into what individual Bowen the climate crisis – but how are we doing Islanders can do to reduce their footprints. lowering our greenhouse gas emissions?

Previous emissions studies have found That’s a complicated question but at the that 80 per cent of the island’s greenhouse forefront of the effort is BIM’s Community gas footprint is transportation related and Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP). It’s a while much of that is the ferry, which we “long-term plan to improve energy efficien- have no control over, other initiatives – betcy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ter bus service, commuting service, encourfoster local green energy solutions,” last aging electric vehicles – can help. As can done in 2016. carbon-reducing activities in other secNow, CEEP is getting an update. “So that tors: stricter building standards (as BIM is we can get a good idea of where we’re at and imposing, step three of provincial STEP code what we need to do in order to get to where is mandated as of last October), organics we need to be,” explained BIM’s environ- diversion (the new proposed composting ment and parks planning coordinator Carla facility) and more.

Skuce .

The Official Community Plan set out the “We already have our climate action plan,” goal of reducing Bowen Island’s 2020 greenexplained Skuce. (BIM’s Climate Action house gas emissions to 33 per cent of what Strategy, adopted in 2020.) “We complet- they were in 2007 (a province-wide goal set ed that subsequent to the climate strikes that year). Did we make it? because…when we declared a climate emerTo hear where we’re at as a community gency, it was important to demonstrate and where we need to be, tune into the clito the community that we wanted to take mate conversation on Zoom Thursday eveaction right away. ning: Meeting ID: 862 7706 2223 Passcode: “This is just a little bit different because 717457. they’re delving into the numbers a bit more.”

The event will be recorded (not the quesThe Community Energy Association, con- tion and answer period though) and subsetracted to do the plan, does a gap analysis, quently a survey available at bowenislandmodelling and workshops with the commu- municipality.ca/climate-action-program.

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More artists than ever before contributed works to this year’s Mini Art Works...with a Twist fundraiser at the Hearth. The silent auction is open for bidding until Feb. 20 when the perennial favourite exhibit is capped off with final bids and a pick-up party.

For those not comfortable visiting the gallery - the nearly 90 artworks are all viewable at thehearthartsonbowen.ca.

The Hearth is open Thursday to Monday 11 a.m .to 4 p.m.

You can’t buy happiness.

But you can buy local.

That’s sort of the same thing.

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NorthVan-based Cree actress plays lead role in futuristic sci-fi podcast THIS NEW CANADIAN PODCAST HELPS AMPLIFY INDIGENOUS VOICES AND RENEW HOPE FOR THE ARTS INDUSTRY

ELISIA SEEBER

North Shore News / Local Journalism Initiative

A North Shore-based Cree actress has stepped into a futuristic world in a lead role in a new science-fiction podcast inspiring hope.

The podcast explores the experiences of Canadian artists during the COVID-19 pandemic through a sci-fi story with Indigenous themes set in an ‘Age of Symbiosis.’

The rather interesting concept was thought up by re:Naissance Opera, a Vancouver-based indie company, as a way of creating new opportunities for performing artists in an industry devastated by the pandemic.

At the end of 2020 they commissioned 18 artists to create short digital works on their reflections on COVID-19, and then tasked their core creative team with imagining what would happen if these works were discovered 150 years in the future.

The result is The Apocrypha Chronicles podcast, which has just dropped on Spotify.

The experimental, futuristic story is told by an award-winning team of Canadian public radio veterans, Indigenous storytellers, opera and new music composers, and theatre-makers.

The podcast imagines a more organic future, where people are connected to the lands on which

they live, and the performing arts are integral to the ways they communicate with one another.

The podcast is based in the year 2156. A young relic hunter, Phe, has just discovered an antiquated digital time capsule from the year 2020, the year of the first of the Great Pandemics. The young archivist is on a mushroom walk in the woods, experimenting with the piece of ancient digital tech when suddenly, it starts to transmit sound – voices from the past.

Phe’s fascination with the time capsule concerns mentor, Lar, but they believe the voices of the past are hinting to a coming disaster.

“This podcast aims to explore a hopeful view of the future on planet Earth,” said Paolo Pietropaolo, one of the podcast’s writers and a two-time Prix Italia and Peabody award winner.

“It creates a conversation about our uncertain digital present and a more hopeful, more organic future.”

North Vancouver Indigenous actress plays a lead role Renae Morriseau, a North Vancouver-based Cree actress, who is the voice of character Lar, an Elder and bio-engineer, said the project highlighted an important Indigenous world-view that “we are connected to our land.”

“There’s a lot of teachings of Earth, of the relationship that we have with the Earth,” she said.

“And, I think, that we all need to

be able to understand our own place on the planet and what we give back to the Earth, and that was something, I think, rings true within this podcast.

“For people that are listening to the podcast, I hope they are tweaked to do some further research on what it means when we acknowledge the land.”

She said any art project that utilized an Indigenous world-view helped to break down the misconceptions that Canadians might have to climate change, reconciliation, and in understanding of who’s in their community.

The podcast also offers an opportunity to hear the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem) language of Musqueam Nation – which is spoken at times in the podcast.

Morriseau, who had to learn some of the language, said it was a rewarding challenge and a pleasure to work with Victor Guerin, who’s been involved in the revitalization of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ for almost 30 years.

“Utilizing the Halkomelem language … I thought really added a contemporary opportunity to hear the language.”

It’s the first podcast Morriseau, who usually works in theatre and Indigenous music, has been a part of.

She said it also encapsulated how artists had to adapt and modify their practices and reflects on how they felt when they could no

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“There’s a lot of opportunities for people to hear from these artists,” she said.

“I think it really encapsulates how artists are having to redefine their voice, within this time that we’re in right now.

“As we continue with these lockdowns and of course, with new COVID variants, a lot of people are feeling isolated and lonely. I think that, you know, we have a chance to have Canadian work that is responsive to what we’re experiencing.

“I think that when people listen

to the podcast, it will ring true on a number of fronts, in terms of looking to the future with a good eye and with hope. I hope they get some inspiration from the piece.”

The Apocrypha Chronicles is free to download and releases weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, iTunes and Google Play.

Elisia Seeber is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

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“The island is laden with place names and areas of cultural significance that remind us, as Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, who we are and how the island provided for our people since the beginning of creation.”

He said the Nation relied on the aquatic and terrestrial resources of the island to maintain its culture and way of life.

“The Nation looks forward to continuing our relationship with the Islands Trust Conservancy to ensure that we are protecting both our environment and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh connections to the land and the resources.”

Sandy Beach was a part of Keats Camp, a Baptist summer youth camp operated by the Convention of Baptist Churches of British Columbia, which was founded in 1926. The land was transferred to the Island Trust Conservancy on Dec. 18, 2020, as part of a rezoning and subdivision application and comes with a $12,000 contribution that has been allocated to a land management fund.

Kate-Louise Stamford, Islands Trust Conservancy Board chair, said the beach “holds a special place in the hearts of the Keats community members” and it’s the first protected area on the island. She said the next steps for the land will include the development of a management plan and negotiation of a conservation covenant to provide an additional layer of protection.

Dan Rogers, Gambier Island trustee and Keats Island resident, said he was thrilled by the transfer of the Sandy Beach property to the Islands Trust Conservancy.

“This land is treasured by islanders for its beauty and important ecological values,” he said in a release. “We are now assured that the southwest section of Keats will never face development.”

The Islands Trust Conservancy is the conservation land trust for over 450 islands of the Salish Sea and is a part of Islands Trust.

Since 1990, the Islands Trust Conservancy has protected more than 1,300 hectares of island ecosystems.

Elisia Seeber is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

Thursday, February 4, 2021 • A9

Comment on Islands Trust budget until Feb. 7 BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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The Islands Trust budget is open for comment until Feb. 7 ahead of next month’s Trust council meeting (visit islandstrust.bc.ca/trust-council/budget).

Bowen’s requisition (tax levy) is set to rise by 4.78 per cent. Bowen is to pay $317,517 where last year it paid $302,021.

The Trust’s $8.8 million proposed operating budget sees maintained service levels, a new species-at-risk program, heritage preservation overlay map development, and climate action initiatives, according to a press release.

Before Christmas, Bowen’s 2021 Trust levy had been set to decrease 4.1 per cent but the latest draft has Bowen’s levy going up. “What has tipped the balance as much as anything else is updated information from BC Assessment, said Bowen Trustee Michael Kaile. The Jan. 1 BC Assessment release saw the value of a typical Bowen home rise nine per cent.

The formula for Islands Trust taxes, including the Bowen levy, is provincially legislated. “This is not a decision someone has taken,” said Kaile. “This is just the way the formula computes.”

Whereas last year, Bowen held 17.6 per cent of the entire Trust’s property value, now it holds 18.5 per cent.

(Salt Spring is in a similar boat with high property values – its federation-wide levy in 2019 was $568,343 where

Bowen’s was $329,894. That doesn’t include planning services.) Also of note here is that Bowen’s levy was 3.7 per cent of the Trust’s 2020 budget.

Other factors in the budget rise were federation-wide charges – staffing and bureaucratic changes as well as a budget for in-person meetings, said Kaile.

While Kaile has long railed against the Bowen requisition amount, two-term Trustee and Trust executive council member Sue Ellen Fast sees it as fair.

“Bowen is inside the Islands Trust Area, which is a protected area, like a green way, or a blue way, where… we have a higher level of nature protection,” said Fast.

“The whole area was set aside by the province for special protection to make sure it didn’t disappear under houses and subdivisions.

“Bowen Islanders chip in our share, to receive the extra level of protection.”

While Fast doesn’t know how many Bowen Islanders participated in last year’s budget consultation, she said 33 per cent of respondents in 2020 thought the budget should be higher.

“Everybody can see the pressure of development and industrialization and climate change and species-at-risk that need more protection, all those things,” she said.

“Islanders live on islands because they care about those things.”

Last budget season, Bowen’s Islands Trust levy decreased 8.1 per cent. (The rest of the federation saw an average 0 per cent increase in 2020.)

Comment on Islands Trust policy direction until Feb. 5

The Islands Trust released the high-level policy direction for its policy statement update last month. (Some might remember Islands Trust staff visiting Bowen mid-2019 asking for islanders’ opinions.) Trustee and BIM councillor Sue Ellen Fast, who also sits on the Trust executive committee, has likened the policy statement to a regional growth strategy for the whole Islands Trust area. Official Community Plans and Land Use Bylaws of the local trust areas and Bowen Island Municipality have to align with the policy statement. The three major themes of the high-level report are reconciliation and First Nations engagement; climate action and affordable housing. One can provide feedback through an online survey until Feb. 5 at islandstrust.bc.ca/trust-council/projects/islands-2050/

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Hygge, a Danish word that translates roughly into coziness or well-being has become fashionable, especially during this pandemic when normal human contact and family closeness have been sorely affected by social distancing. For the Danes, hygge meant the flickering light of candles to see them through dreary northern winters. My family and I, having spent all our summers (except this last one) in the sunshine of France, have kept our spirits up during the dark days of winter on Bowen by dining every night by candlelight and then nurturing our san-

ity in the evenings by watching the friendly flames of cedar and fir logs behind the glass of our wood stove.

Is this love affair with flames an atavistic need for protection against predators and the necessary warmth to survive in those millennia when we lived in caves or other shelters?

Could this account for the incredible demand for pottery lanterns in the form of little round houses that overwhelmed me before Christmas?

So, if you are feeling a trifle atavistic, or simply wish to rekindle a flame, you can light up your life and your love with tea lights in little ceramic lanterns, bearing, you guessed it, Valentine’s hearts.

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Health authorities are reminding people wanting to take the gargle COVID test that they need to prepare properly for it.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) said on Tuesday that staff at testing sites across the region are reporting more and more people arriving to take the gargle test – as opposed to the less popular nose swab – without having followed pre-test instructions.

VCH is reminding the public that, if they prefer the saline gargle test, they need to avoid eating, drinking, vaping or smoking, brushing their teeth or chewing gum for at least one hour prior to arrival.

Research, according to VCH, has shown this is necessary to ensure the test provides an accurate and reliable result.

To properly complete the gargle test collection, recipients must swish and gargle saline water in their mouth for 30 seconds under the supervision of a test administrator.

Saline gargle collection is currently available at 14 test collection sites across urban and rural VCH communities, and accounts for just over 30 per cent of all COVID-19 tests performed in the region. Locations include: Three Bridges Test Collection Centre, Vancouver Community College, Honoria Conway at St. Vincent’s, DTES COVID-19 Test Collection Centre, North Vancouver Test Collection Centre (ICBC Capilano Claims Centre), Richmond Test Collection Centre (jetSET parking lot), Richmond Test Collection Centre (Richmond Hospital) and others.

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Community Energy and Emissions Plan update Zoom 7-8:30 pm The

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Agent: ADC Plant Science, 32 Falshire Terrace NE, Calgary, A.B., T3J 3B1, telephone: 1-833-852-3939, email: pmpconsultation@outlook.com.

The purpose of the proposed multi-agency PMP is to manage invasive alien plants and/or noxious weeds on Provincial public land in the South Coastal Mainland of B.C. The PMP applies to areas located in the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley and Sunshine Coast Regional Districts, the southwest half of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, and a small area in the southwest region of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.

The PMP applies to areas near the communities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Mission, Harrison Hot Springs, Richmond, Delta, Surrey, White Rock, Langley, Aldergrove, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Agassiz, Hope, Eastgate, Boston Bar, North Vancouver, Bowen Island, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Gibsons and Sechelt.

The pest management methods proposed for use include mechanical, cultural and biological control, and use of herbicides within the area to which the PMP applies. The active ingredients and examples of the trade names of herbicides proposed for use under this plan include: aminocyclopyrachlor (Truvist, Navius VM), aminopyralid (Milestone, Restore A, Clearview, Reclaim II A), chlorsulfuron (Truvist), clopyralid (Lontrel 360), dicamba (DyVel, Vanquish, Banvel II), diflufenzopyr (Overdrive), flazasulfuron (LongRun 25WG), flumioxazin and pyroxasulfone (Torpedo EZ), fluroxypyr (Starane, Pulsar, Sightline B), glyphosate (Roundup WeatherMAX, Vantage Plus MAX, Vantage XRT, VP480, Roundup Transorb HC), halosulfuron (Sandea WG), imazapyr (Arsenal, Arsenal Powerline, Habitat), indaziflam (Esplanade SC), MCPA (DyVel), mecoprop-p (Trillion, DyVel DSp), metsulfuron-methyl (Escort, Navius VM, Clearview, Reclaim II A), picloram (Tordon 22K, Grazon XC), rimsulfuron (Prism SG), triclopyr (Garlon XRT), 2,4-D (2,4-D Amine 600, Grazon XC, Restore B, Reclaim II B), and rinskor (Rinskor Active). Selective application methods include: backpack, handheld and vehicle mounted sprayers and wick/wipe on, cut surface and injection tool applications.

The proposed duration of the PMP is from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2026.

A draft copy of the proposed PMP and a map of the proposed treatment area may be viewed at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s South Coast Regional Office listed above, online at gov.bc.ca/plantpestmanagementplan, or by contacting the Agent listed above.

A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the pest management plan, may send copies of the information to the Agent at the address above within 30 days of the publication of this notice.

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