Bowen Island Undercurrent April 8 2021

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COVID, vaccines and Bowen Island

ASTRAZENECA, BICS EXPOSURE ONLINE BOOKING AND MORE

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

As cases of COVID-19 reach new highs in B.C., Bowen Island Community School sent out its first exposure notice last week. Meanwhile, the largest vaccination program in B.C. history continues with Cates Medicine Centre Pharmacy now providing AstraZeneca (though available slots are now booked up).

Vaccines on Bowen

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‘VENTING FRUSTRATION’: A mature bald eagle flies off after trying and failing to catch an otter.

When the province first unveiled a plan to offer the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine at select Lower Mainland pharmacies last week, Cates Pharmacy wasn’t included. However, April 1, the province added a further 375 pharmacy locations including Bowen.

The vaccination opportunity for 55-to-65-year-olds came as B.C. suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on those younger than 55 due to concerns that the vaccine was linked to blood clots in a small number of cases overseas. The doses had been earmarked for essential service workers but were rerouted to pharmacies for the 10-year-age cohort when the medical guidance changed.

Cates Pharmacy launched an online booking system the evening of April 1 and slots were gone by April 3.

Pharmacy staff drove out to Richmond Monday morning to ensure they’d get their first shipment of 100 AstraZeneca vaccines and they started immunizations Tuesday.

“People are so happy to be getting it,” said pharmacist Simin Mirpourzadeh Tuesday. She said that some do worry about this particular vaccine. “I tell people not to worry about the blood clots issue…it’s super rare and mostly happens in people younger than 55.

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Seeking Public Comment

Events

Spring Clean-UP 2021

For DVP-11-2020

April 19 to April 24

310 Salal Rd

April 12, 2021 6:15 pm

Reduction of side setback for new garage/workshop

Regular Council Meeting

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 310 Salal Road (shown below) to reduce the required setback from 7.5 metres to 3.0 metres.

All meetings are online via Zoom and

open to the public, unless noted otherwise.

The variance is to enable the construction of a garage/ workshop accessory building on an existing parking area.

The reduction in the setback will enable the construction to maximize the existing cleared area.

Help slow the spread of COVID-19:

Buy your decal before April 13 at the General Store, then make your drop-off appointment by calling Bowen Waste at 604-947-2255.

www.bowenwastesolutions.com

Water Main Flushing begins April 11 Flushing of municipal water systems will start Sunday, April 11 for approximately 6 – 8 weeks. This procedure is necessary to remove sediment that gradually deposits in pipes, and does not pose a health hazard.

Most water systems will be flushed between Monday and Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, as crews rotate through each neighbourhood, with the exception of those listed below.

Snug Cove, Cates Hill, and Village Square, including BICS, BCC, and IPS will be flushed early in the morning of Sunday, April 11. Artisan Square will be flushed early in the morning of April 12-13, 2021.

www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/alerts

Use of Public Places Bylaw Council is considering regulating certain uses on the Island’s public places. We would like to receive your comments about the proposed Use of Public Places Bylaw which will be considered

by Council for a second time on May 10, 2021. Please email your feedback to bim@bimbc.ca by April 23, 2021.

Stay home if you’re sick

MORE INFORMATION AT MUNICIPAL HALL: The application may be viewed at Municipal Hall between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays) or on the municipal website at

Clean your hands frequently

www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning

Community Grants Several community grant programs are now taking applications to help fund your project or program. Grants are funded from the Municipality’s annual operating budget.

TIMELINE:

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Application deadline at 5pm on Friday, April 30, 2021 Keep a safe physical distance

YOUR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME: Written submissions may be delivered to Municipal Hall: In person, by mail, by fax or by email to bim@bimbc.ca Submissions may also be made to Mayor and Council at the meeting: 6:15 PM on Monday, April 12, 2021 Online via Zoom For instructions on how to submit comment, go to: www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/council-meetings

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Questions? Please contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning & Development, at 604-947-4255 ext 230 or by email at dmartin@bimbc.ca

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COVID-19 news snippets: Who’s eligible for which vaccine? How does the online booking work?

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“Also, there are so many other things that can cause blood clots a lot easier than this vaccine,” said Mirpourzadeh. “The benefits of the vaccine are so much greater than the risks.”

The pharmacy expects a further 100 doses next week, though those doses have also already been claimed.

Mirpourzadeh said people should watch the pharmacy’s Facebook page (facebook. com/CatesMedicineCentre/) for updates and future availabilities.

Two tracks of vaccinations

With the opening of the AstraZeneca track of vaccinations, there’s a vaccination gap for Bowen Islanders between 66 and 69.

Pfizer and Moderna vaccinations continue for Bowen Islanders 70 and older, Indigenous people 18 and over and for those considered extremely medically vulnerable. This program is through Vancouver Coastal Health (watch for updates at vch. ca/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine).

As the vaccine age threshold gets younger, the age cohorts get bigger, affecting the speed with which eligibility opens to younger people. The vaccine program has also prioritized extremely medically vulnerable people.

While until now people in the VCH region have had to call 1-833-838-2323 for an appointment (which they still can from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.), online booking opened April 6.

Those who are eligible may register for immunization at getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca.

Once someone registers, they receive a confirmation code and will need to await a prompt from health officials via email, text or phone informing them they can book the appointment itself.

Within six hours of opening, the online booking system saw 160,464 registrations province-wide, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix shared Tuesday.

The next Bowen Island VCH COVID-19 vaccine clinic is April 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

-With files from Jane Seyd, North Shore News and Tyler Orton, Business in

Vancouver

Exposure at BICS

Bowen Island Community School sent out its first exposure notice last week.

After a member of BICS tested positive for COVID-19, one division three class was possibly exposed to the virus on March 29 and 30 and has been asked to self-monitor.

The BICS exposure comes as the North Shore saw a spike in COVID-19 cases following spring break with 19 notices going out to North and West Vancouver schools, the North Shore News reports: On Tuesday, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s medical health officer, said the reason cases have been surging recently is that the numbers of social contacts people have been having are increasing, despite pleas from health officials.

She rejected suggestions that schools should be closed, however, saying the cases in children are more likely to increase when kids are not in school and have more unstructured time.

According to B.C.’s Centre for Disease Control, there have been 1,964 cases in kids and teens aged 10 to 19 in Vancouver Coastal Health since the start of the pandemic and 987 cases of COVID in children under 10 in VCH. –Jane Seyd, North Shore News

North Shore seeing more COVID cases than ever JANE SEYD

North Shore News

Note: Bowen Island’s COVID-19 cases are lumped in with the West Vancouver numbers.

The third phase of the vaccine rollout is happening as B.C. recently recorded its highest numbers of daily COVID-19 cases, reporting over 1,000 cases on several days in the past week.

The North Shore also reported its highest ever number of COVID cases last week, with 272 new cases of COVID reported in the week ending March 27, according to information released by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. That’s dramatically higher than the 162 cases recorded the week

before.

The spike in local COVID cases has put West Vancouver among the hot spots in the Lower Mainland, with an average daily infection rate of over 20 per 100,000.

There were 98 cases of COVID reported in the past week in West Vancouver – up from 38 the week before.

In North Vancouver there were 174 new cases – up from 124 the previous week.

North Vancouver’s average daily infection rate now stands at between 15 and 20 per 100,000.

COVID infections in the Whistler area – which have included cases of the Brazilian variant - have also spiked, with 247 new cases, prompting Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s medical health officer, to close the ski resort for three weeks.

Health authorities have not so far said what has been driving cases in West Vancouver or whether any “variants of concern” have been recorded among those.

Brazilian variant a concern

But Health Minister Adrian Dix said the Brazilian variant has been reported in clusters within the Vancouver Coastal Health region.

The Brazilian variant is particularly concerning to health officials because it has shown signs of being more resistant to vaccines, as well as more transmissible. The median age for those with the Brazilian variant form of COVID is 28, said Dix. Younger people have also been coming into hospital much sicker with COVID-19 in the past week, according to Dr. Kevin McLeod, who works in the COVID-19 ward at North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital.

Many patients in the 20-to-50-year-old age group have recently been admitted to hospital, McLeod wrote in post on Twitter.

“Younger people think they are invincible,” he wrote. “That feeling quickly fades when we are blasting you with 100 per cent oxygen and your saturations are sitting high 80’s and all you really hear is a team debating pros and cons of intubating you and hooking you up to a ventilator.”

Keep checking vch.ca/covid-19/covid19-vaccine for the latest Bowen Island vaccination eligibility information.

SOME BC FERRIES UPDATES

Evening sailings cancelled April 17 The Queen of Capilano’s run will end early April 17.

The boat’s five sailings from 8:30 p.m. onward are cancelled that evening to allow the Queen of Cap “undergo necessary repairs overnight,” said a BC Ferries release.

The last sailing from Horseshoe Bay will be the 6:50 p.m. and then a foot passenger water taxi will replace the scheduled sailings. There will be no charge for the water taxi in that time and parking service in Horseshoe Bay surface parking lot will be complimentary for those taking the water taxi after the 6:50 sailing. Customers are to get a temporary parking pass from customer service instead of paying at the Impark machine.

Work in Horseshoe Bay terminal to go on until July

Work is beginning on some major infrastructure maintenance at B.C. Ferries’ Horseshoe Bay terminal. Crews will be doing concrete restoration work on the terminal’s elevated vehicle transfer deck, a project expected to last until July.

While the work is going on, ferry passengers should expect some extra noise and changes to traffic patterns for loading and unloading.

“The work may increase the normal sound levels within the terminal Monday to Friday between 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and throughout the night for the first two months of the project,” a release from the ferry corp. stated in March. “This work needs to be completed overnight to minimize the impact to sailings operating out of the terminal. BC Ferries will work closely with the contractor to minimize noise.”

The company will be making earplugs available upon request for customers who have to wait near the job site.

“We apologize for any inconvenience this work may cause. BC Ferries would like to thank its customers and neighbours for their patience and understanding as we complete this necessary work,” the release stated.

Over the longer term, BC Ferries still intends to redevelop the terminal, although budgeting for when that project may happen has been impacted by COVID-19, the release adds.

–Brent Richter, North Shore News

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VIEWPOINTS EDITORIAL

‘No’

A friend likes to say that “’No’ is a complete sentence,” and during COVID, we need to get used to saying it.

I like the advice that if you wonder if you should be doing something, don’t do it.

Default to no. When it comes to socializing, if you wonder if it’s ok, “just this once” to see a friend outside of the group of up to 10 you’re already socializing with (allowed under current restrictions), don’t do it. If you’re wondering about visiting friends or family outside of our health area, don’t do it. If you’re uncomfortable with the health protocols of a given place, don’t go. COVID-19 doesn’t care how nice someone is or what a good person they are or what a good friend they’ve been. If you have that voice in the back of your head softly suggesting this isn’t necessarily COVID safe, don’t do it. –Bronwyn Beairsto, editor

POEM Visionary acupuncture, from earth to sky

With permission, Catherine twirled the needles divinely arched over my tummy, stirring a vision that took me to a sandbox in a sunny playground.

Three young girls, wearing pretty dresses, their pigtails tied back with brightly coloured bows, were sprawled in the sand, their leggings dusted with golden granules.

They were giggling.

Such delightful giggling too, innocent and yet purposeful in the moment, one voice united, drawing my essence into the sandbox, and into the sun.

I blinked with surprise in that light, when next, Giraffe greeted me, one long, beautiful neck lengthening with pleasant grace, reaching skyward.

A dashing fellow he was.

Giraffe faced me, watching, with twinkling eyes— ohhhh that graceful uprising energy, forever carrying me upwards, until I realized how very tall I had grown.

Davina Haisell

POEM

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What’s happening with the tree clearing atTunstall Bay?

DEAR EDITOR: I decided to take a ride to Tunstall Bay Beach Easter Weekend, a beautiful day on Bowen, only to discover all the trees cut down and more signs put up. I am sure they have something fabulous planned but are we clearcutting the whole island now? Are we not yet at the moment where every tree counts? Surely the last year has taught us that our collective lifestyle is no longer sustainable. The green movement is now at the forefront, gaining momentum and support daily, so wouldn’t local government be more reflective of a preservationist approach in planning? It is a shame to see what so many residents fought so hard to preserve being carved up piece by piece. There is a point where the quality and value are lost as the aesthetic is degraded, bringing the Joni Mitchell song to mind that we “Paved Paradise and Put up a Parking Lot.” Julia McCulloch Long time resident

It is international poetry month this month. Like the last three years, I have written a poem a day for all of April and intend to do so this year too. I make up my own prompts, so maybe someone would like to give this one a go!

Jude Neale Prompt 1: Write a poem about a weird fact only you know about yourself.

A 24 week infant The Beginning

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She weighed a pound.

Could fit in the palm of your hand.

Too small, too undone, she didn’t remember the skin of her mother.

She was born before she could suck or blink her lashless eyes.

Her life teetered, an unshed tear.

She had no finger nails,

All she ever wanted was the dark comfort

yet they wrapped her hands with cloth.

of her mama’s amniotic seas.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Legitimate cidery TUP concerns should have been addressed

DEAR EDITOR: There are several legitimate concerns that could affect our island’s rural lifestyle which should have been more carefully considered before council issued a temporary use permit on Laura Road.

Foremost, this is not an issue of nice people.

Rob Purdy and Christine Hardie, stewards of the Riley orchard, are nice people. Similarly, the neighbours are nice people. The issue is land use in residential areas and significant changes that stay with the land regardless of the people.

And the use of a TUP to get there.

Democracy is time-consuming but the process is important. Rezoning allows us time, hearings, consultations to prepare thoughtful comments before council makes decisions.

Ignoring this process with a TUP because it’s “temporary” is absurd. These are not merely bylaw issues, although those too are important.

This is a significant change of land use and if the cidery succeeds, it will be far more difficult to properly address legitimate concerns later.

The timeline for neighbours was short: the proposal was first tabled Feb. 22. Notice went out in the Undercurrent March 4 and letters arrived that week, just over two weeks before the matter was back for a vote on March 22.

There is no mention in the application of the size of the proposed operation – there was a brief reply in the February meeting when Rob Purdy seemed to say 50,000 litres would make the business viable.

Purdy also commented that apple growing conditions on Bowen were not ideal, comparing it to 1/20th of the typical yield in the Similkameen. The cidery, under the TUP, may import 75 per cent of the juice needed for the business. If this land was designated Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) they would be limited to importing only 50 per cent of their juice.

Environmental concerns were mentioned in the Feb. 22 staff report: “Encouraging at least 50 per cent of the fruit be produced on the lot could lower emissions related impacts of importing fruit onto Bowen Island. Increased emissions from on and off Island visitation to the cidery could be expected. With objectives outlined in both BIM’s Climate Action Strategy and the Community Energy and Emissions Plan, the growing of fruit for alcoholic beverage production does not promote food security on Bowen Island.” The March 22 staff report stated: “No direct ecological/climate impacts are expected.”

The site is seven km from Snug Cove and on the corner of two quiet cul-de-sacs, with a popular trail head at the end of Laura Road. Private vehicles will be needed for both locals and visitors, contrary to OCP objectives to reduce GHG emissions (OCP Objective 15, Policy 26) and not encouraging commercial uses that increase the use of vehicles (OCP, Objective 75).

Also, not mentioned in either staff report or any comments by council, is that one neighbour has an established horse-riding stable.

There is specific mention in our OCP, Section 8.3 (social wellbeing), which says the municipality acknowledges the equestrian community’s contribution to Bowen’s unique character and will take into account its needs in future planning and in planning for roadside safety.

And, OCP Objective 53 states land use planning is supposed to ensure only compatible land

uses are located in a given area. Horse riding and possible drunk driving suggests problems with compatibility, an objection which was not addressed.

All agree that orchards fit any definition of agriculture. Both staff reports highlighted OCP references to “agriculture” and promoting local food security. But, the deleted mention that growing fruit for alcoholic beverage production does not promote food security is concerning.

Were this a rezoning application, the cidery would rely on OCP objective 86, mentioned in both staff reports, encouraging land use compatible with farming and agriculture, and “domestic agriculture is acceptable on any property”. The policy question that needs more discussion is what size and scale of commercial production would be considered a stretch of the OCP’s words “productive ... use.”?

Finally, there is the question of solid waste disposal. Assuming there is adequate on-site water (while water is not used to produce cider, the apples and tanks will need cleaning, and adjacent neighbourhoods regularly have stage 4 water restrictions) and assuming there is sufficient septic treatment on that five-acre property (the applicants have not asked for toilets but drinkers will want and need toilets), there remains an issue of solid waste – the apple pulp.

Purdy described how last year they laid the pulp on the ground and the deer were “happy” with the “feast.” Everyone at that first meeting smiled at the idea and there was no further discussion.

The neighbours raised questions but again the issue was not addressed. You cannot feed horses, another ruminant, a lot of sugary apples or carrots without their getting profoundly sick. Such is one of the very good reasons why it is illegal to feed wildlife.

This TUP has been issued but in my opinion its process and content were markedly flawed. I am concerned about the function of staff in helping council navigate a huge volume of material. Councillors could not manage typically 300-page meeting agendas without staff summaries and recommendations.

Planners’ training is to outline conflicts between a proposal and legislation so that council can make the best informed decisions on our behalf. So why, when there were numerous serious objections to a proposal, would a TUP proceed?

Support letters outnumbered those with concerns, but most were simple one line “yes” responses. Surely the neighbours’ thoughtful concerns, on issues other than merely bylaw matters, should have trumped the far less informed, however enthusiastic, at least to the extent that the matter defaulted to a rezoning application.

There was insufficient reference to our guiding documents. It seems there is a basic lack of understanding of what we are trying to protect, and the need to not change land use unless we fully appreciate the possible long-term effects.

A TUP “to help develop viability” is putting the cart well before the horse.

Judi Gedye

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Sailing is back for Bowen kids this summer BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

Noah Callewaert sailed for the first time five days after moving to Bowen Island in 2018. The youth attended Bowen Island Yacht Club’s Learn to Sail summer camp and there’s been wind in his sails ever since. “It was really fun,” says the now 14-year-old volunteer with the program. “And then I kept doing it every summer.”

Registration is now open for Bowen Island Yacht Club’s 2021 July and August summer sailing camps at Tunstall Bay. Sailors can start as young as seven out on Optimist boats – learning about ocean safety, steering, and doing the mainsheet (the line connected to the boom) to control the sail and not hitting one’s head on the boom.

At seven kids can join the Wet Feet program and about 10 graduate to CANSail – a Sail Canada approved program – which then has four levels the kids can do on Bowen.

Last summer, given the pandemic, BIYC wasn’t even sure they’d be able to run the program, but they managed to pull together a COVID-19 safety policy and make it all work.

“It was all very new and there were certainly a lot of hurdles,” says Margo Osinski, the Learn to Sail program coordinator. “It was hard for us because we are a small sailing program. We don’t have many boats; we have a very small budget.”

Given the need for social distancing, the program tried to have kids who were in the same bubble sail together or otherwise wear masks.

There was also the trouble of having use of only the public bathroom at Tunstall Bay, and the constant sanitization.

“This year, I think it will be easier because we know what to expect.”

The kids and counsellors are also used to COVID safety at this point and masks and sanitizing are the norm.

Places of Worship Welcome You BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCH Now offering a youtube channel of reflections and hymn/songs with Reverend Lorraine Ashdown and Lynn Williams. youtubewatch?v=tejV7Y6jo

FOOD BANK DROP-OFF

Masses are live streamed everyday.

Times posted at holyrosarycathedral.org Contact Angela Powell 604-947-2515

www.cateshillchapel.com 604-947-4260 (661 Carter Rd.)

Now offering worship services via Zoom.

A link available on website.

Pastor: Phil Adkins

Queen of Capilano Ferry Schedule October 13 to May 15 2021 DEPART BOWEN ISLAND DEPART HORSESHOE BAY

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Kids learn the basics of sailing at B.I. Yacht Club Noah Callewaert started sailing in 2018 and hasn’t looked back. summer camps.

While the program may have had fewer sailors last year, 2019. “I can definitely speak to the sense of community that the sailors who did attend, attended for several consecutive you get from the sailing program,” says Ellie. “I think that’s weeks, says Osinski. “Because it was often the only thing that one of the many great things about it.”

The program usually sees between 70 and 100 sailors they could do that summer,” she says. “And I think they really in a given year, five coaches and five to 10 volunteers. enjoyed that.”

One of the changes to the camp program this year is that Registration is open at biyc.bc.ca/training/registration/ and most of the sailing camps will be two weeks instead of one. there’s an early bird discount before June 1. There’s also a “That’s what most families seem to prefer,” says Osinski. “I discount for Tunstall Bay Community Association members.

“My favourite part of the program is seeing all of the kids think that’s going to work better with COVID in our lives.”

Most, if not all, of the coaches have gone through the on the first day come in all shy, no one really talks to each BIYC’s camps over the past two decades of its existence. “So other, and then by the end of the week, they’re all playing, they know each other, they get the sailors year after year,” splashing in the water, having a great time,” says Ellie. “They says Osinski. Both of her sons sail as well – within and out- all connect on some level, whether it’s a fear of the water or just loving it. And I think that’s really cool to be able to see side of the club.

“For some kids it’s a sense of community and a sense of that. “[Sailing] it made me a lot more confident and it continpurpose,” she says. “And some kids develop a huge passion for sailing that takes them outside of what our club can offer ues to give me a leadership opportunity and an opportunity to do something that might be a little bit out of my comfort as well.”

Ellie Walters started sailing with the Wet Feet program as zone.” a seven-year-old. She’s now been a junior instructor since

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JAMES DENNIS WILSON

June 25, 1945 – March 24, 2021 James Dennis Wilson, 75, passed away peacefully at home on Bowen Island, British Columbia, after a long battle with Prostate Cancer. Predeceased by his parents Lena Bessie Parsons of Change Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador and James Rowland Wilson of Philadelphia, PA Dennis was born in Long Beach, CA, lived his pre-school years in Florida and was raised in Houston, TX.

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Teun Schut (with the glasses) with daughters Lisa Schut, 23, Roos Schut, 26 , and wife Marianne Schedler.

Bowen stepping up to help out beloved local musician with cancer

LOCAL MUSIC TEACHER AND PERFORMER TEUN SCHUT HAS HAD TO CURTAIL TEACHING FOLLOWING CANCER DIAGNOSIS

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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When Teun Schut’s energy for playing guitar waned earlier this year, the well-known island musician chalked it up to pandemic fatigue – the winter, the rain, the lack of concerts and students for both work and inspiration. COVID has taken its toll on musicians.

“With everybody, things come in ebbs and flows,” says Teun. “Sometimes you can be highly energized and motivated and sometimes it’s a bit slow. I am used to that.

But this was more than normal.

“But, that’s the thing – COVID is also abnormal, right? We’ve never been in a situation like [this].

“It is weird to be locked up in your house and hardly able to see people,” he says. “I don’t really like the spotlight, to be honest, but love to play and I love to play for people.

Sharing, playing music and people listening and sharing that, that is a magical thing and that was just not happening.”

“I thought it was more a mental thing,” says Teun. “But in hindsight, it must have already been the cancer draining me of my energy.”

Nearly all of his life, Teun’s been in music.

He studied jazz guitar in Holland where later he and a few friends started a studio, played in bands and Teun toured in Europe with various ensembles.

After moving to Bowen Island in 2000, Teun got a little studio, started playing with all kinds of musicians and teaching.

(Teaching became a big part of his life and Teun’s taught many, many Bowen Islanders.)

As well as jazz, Teun teaches rock and funk, rhythm and blues, ukulele, base guitar and more – “It’s all music. I love it all.”

But the freedom of jazz guitar is what Teun loves most. “With almost any other kind of music, you know this is what you’re supposed to play – this is bar one and this

is how it ends,” he explains. “Everything in between is more or less laid out.”

With jazz, a lot is improvised. “With jazz, it’s way more an adventure.”

Teun, his wife Marianne and their daughters Roos (now 26) and Lisa (now 23) moved to Bowen after visiting Vancouver while on holiday in 1998. “We loved it so much that we thought well, how about it,” says Teun.

“And well, we’re still here.”

Marianne has a degree in creative therapy from Holland and for the past decade she’s been an educational assistant in North Vancouver. But this winter, she’s had to take a leave of absence to care for Teun.

In February, doctors found a tumour on Teun’s liver, which turned out to be part of a metastasized colon cancer.

Since COVID-19 started, Teun has been able to teach a little online but after the chemotherapy starts Thursday, he’ll likely be feeling worse. This leaves the family with virtually no income.

So friends started a GoFundMe campaign for the family this week.

“It is really uncomfortable asking for money,” says Teun. “But several friends already said, ‘Hey, people want to help.’

“Everybody tells us, ‘Hey, man, you don’t want to worry about that on top of everything else.’”

“We love our community,” says Marianne.

“You never know when you make a big move from another country,” she says. “But from beginning [this was the right] place.

“This is where we belong.”

The GoFundMe hadn’t launched when the Undercurrent spoke with Teun and Marianne but has since launched. In its first day, the fund has received $28,500 of its $50,000 goal. Notes of love and encouragement fill both the GoFundMe page and the link on the Bowen Island Everything Else Facebook page.

See the GoFundMe at gofundme.com/f/ help-teun-schut-fight-cancer.

He was trained as an Architect (BArch. Honours. University of Texas at Austin) and as a city planner/urban designer (Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania). While in Philadelphia he worked for Wallace, McHarg, Robert rts t and Todd as he completed his studies. The City of Toronto: Waterf rfront f Planning Group, as the Housing Planner was his next destination. He met Bonnie on that team they married in 1978. He was recruited by the City of Calgary ry, y for the position of Downtown Development Officer in 1979, followed by years with the Chandler Kennedy Architectural Group. He was subsequently headhunted to the City of Dallas to be their City Planner. Until he formed his own firm in 1986 as Townscape Planning Inc. Dennis focused his career on the creation of public places and communities of enduring value, winning numerous awards from local and national professional and civic associations for major planning and urban design projects in both the U.S. and Canada. Throughout his career he focused on support rting t both graduate and undergraduate courses in architecture, city planning and urban design for the University of Toronto and special graduate level Architectural Studio on Transit Oriented Development at University of Texas at Arlington.

Dennis was a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Cert rtified t Planners (FAICP), a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (MRAIC) and was a founder and director of the Congress for New Urbanism, Nort rth t Texas Chapter.

Retiring in 2012, he was ever thankful that he was so lucky to arrive in Paradise.

On Bowen, Dennis had an easy transition to retirement thanks to the inhabitants of this special island. Notably his appointment to the Advisory ry y Planning Commission, with its challenging Subcommittee work, and his subsequent selection by the Mayor to his Standing Committee on Community Lands, provided outlets in which to contribute and to carry ry y on his love of planning.

He was a proud founding member of the Bowen Island Men’s Single Malt Scotch Research Society. (You (Y Y know how special you boys are!) He often gave thanks to the Bowen Island Garden Club, for its energetic members who renewed his interest in gardening. Once again full of plans and ideas to pursue. He also found joy in working through his tool-belt projects. The Adams Rd. propert rty t gave him all he wanted in that depart rtment, t always a new talented tradesperson to meet and with whom to talk tools and help revise his project list.

Dennis brought his love of nature into his professional work but, took greater joy in exploring its span. From Bowen Island to Gros Morne and its diverse majesty, from Telluride to Terlingua and the Gold Coast of OZ to ballooning over Cappadocia he preferred the tent over the hotel and the margarita over the Bordeaux. It was not a solitary ry y pursuit but one he loved to share with Bonnie and friends who were willing to travel the road and trail with him.

Dennis is surv rvived v

by Bonnie Jean Miller Wilson, his wife of 43 years: his sister Sheri Mitchell (Gary ry) y of Dallas, Texas, nephews Cody Mitchell (Krista) and Grant Mitchell (Amanda) of Houston, Texas and his brother-in-law Paul Miller and nephew Liam Miller of London, Ontario. Dear cousins Kathleen Parsons and Agnes Mae Slade (Gordon) of St. John’s, Newfoundland and numerous cousins from the Miller and Hamilton Clans in Ontario.

Deepest thanks to Dr. Andrew Sear of Docs on the Bay and Jane Henley of Coastal Health Nort rth t Shore Home Care Support rtt and that team for their complete attentiveness. Each and every ry y one has gone above and beyond what anyone could wish for. Always a step ahead of us and coaching us up this steep trail. We are also so thankful for the compassionate and comprehensive care of the staff at Lions Gate Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency. Absolutely world class care by all. We also want to acknowledge the professionalism of the Medical Assistance in Dying team. They are an incredibly unique and empathetic group of individuals, enabling a loved one full autonomy to life’s end.

Every ryone y has been so kind. If you wish to donate a memorial in Dennis’ name, please consider: Bowen Island Health Center Foundation; Lions Gate Hospital Foundation perhaps support rting t the Palliative & Hospice Programs or a Charity of your choice

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Garden Club members Cathy Buchanan, Marcel Bally, Rafal and Diana Izdebski, David and Aubin van Berckel as well as with Doug Elliott showcase their greenhouses, talk

Doug Elliott of Cates Hill on Bowen in his greenhouse in the shadow of Apodaca Ridge.

about design, how they use them and why they were built the way they are.

Marcel enjoys his greenhouse-grown hot, hot peppers and the coveted Beefsteak tomatoes without the deer eating them.

Rafal and Diana live in Tunstall Bay and built their own greenhouse out of repurposed windows. They use aquaponic gardening for food and overwinter tropical plants.

Doug’s greenhouse is in the shadow of Apodaca Ridge up on Cates Hill.

Doug starts spring seedlings and overwinters tender plants. Their greenhouse is an expansion of an existing garden shed.

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David and Aubin purchased their lot on Cates Hill in 1994 and began to develop their garden and home at that time. In 2013 they added “The Orangerie” in the sunniest part of the property because, as David says, “it would be nice to grow oranges.”

After each video segment there will be a brief Q and A period where you can ask the owners questions and get ideas. All of this from the comfort of your own home via the magic of Zoom.

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Libraries are known for planting seeds – of wonder, of curiosity, of passion – but not always so literally as at the Bowen Island Public Library.

The local book haven is now also the home of the Bowen Island Seed Library.

Origins

During the great gardening boom of 2020, several local initiatives sprouted.

Jillian Rushton started the Bowen Island Gardeners Facebook group, a lively resource for Bowen Islanders learning (sometimes succeeding) to grow plants. Questions posed (and answered) range from whether certain plants are deer proof to whether praying mantises are good bug control (no, they are a very bad idea, commenters concluded). Rushton also helped launch a seed exchange that was outside of the Bowen Island Flower Shop last year.

At about the same time last year, the Bowen Island Community School Garden Club was working on its own seed library.

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The seed library at Bowen Island Public Library. mostly closed in those early days) and so instead there was a seed giveaway at the Ruddy Potato.

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Now, with the great remember-how-webought-all-these-supplies-to-garden-lastyear-and-forgot-but-this-year-we’re-reallyreally-going-to garden boom of 2021, the seed library is opening thanks to the teamwork of Rushton, Haxby and head librarian Tina Nielsen.

The library is starting with nearly a hundred seed packages donated by the BICS student gardening program, and includes the Collins’ family’s kale blend – which has thrived on Bowen for nearly a century.

What’s the deal?

Seeds are free and available for people to take, trade, exchange and donate. The library requests users let some of the plants go to seed, save the seeds and donate them for future gardeners.

The library is accepting donations of seeds, which library and seed library volunteers will process (please label and date all donations), bulk seeds and cash. To volunteer or donate, sign up at the Bowen library.

Seeds aren’t the only non-book item or service at the Bowen Island Public Library. There’s the Med Shed, there are puzzles, there are two birdwatching kits and so many other things to discover. See more information at bowenlibrary.ca.

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When did you come to Bowen Island? We came around Christmas 2009, when my youngest was just a baby, less than one year old. It snowed the day we moved, which didn’t seem too welcoming. But my neighbour

How did you come to be on Bowen Island? We were looking for somewhere lovely to live and I had visited for a day trip once, walked around the lake, so we had the idea of looking here and it worked out.

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Fill the ferry lineup gap or don’t fill the gap? If the line up isn’t full then it makes sense to fill the gaps.

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What’s your favourite Bowen fact? Bowen was once covered in over a kilometer of the glacial ice that carved our fjord, Howe Sound, and barely the tops of the mountains would have been visible.

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What’s your favourite COVID19 balm or activity? Running and gardening are the two activities I have more time for, but I’m teaching a natural history class at IDLC and the kids bring me so much joy. Those kids are my balm.

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Here are the March RCMP statistics for Bowen Island: 50 calls for service CPL. ADAM KOEHLE

impaired driving; 3 of those files were requests to check a persons well being; 3 of those files were reports of a telephone fraud.

underway I would like to remind drivers that Section 141 of the BC Motor Vehicle Act requires them to follow the directions of a traffic control person, and failing to do so could result in a $196 fine and three demerit points.

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The Bowen Island RCMP responded to 50 calls for service in March of 2021: • 1 of those files was a helicopter crash; • 10 of those files were related to traffic complaints or enforcement; • 2 of those files were drivers licence suspensions for

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CALENDAR ONGOING MARCH 25  APRIL 12

Primary Colours Art Show The Hearth ThursdayMonday 11 am-4 pm BICS youths’ art works

APRIL 1  30

April 30x30 Outside Challenge 2021 “We’re challenging you to get outside for a minimum of 30 minutes every day in April. You can run, walk, hike, bike, golf, paddle, swim heck you can rollerskate or chop firewood if you want. Sign up by emailing: bowenislandtrailsociety@ gmail.com to get your April 30 X 30 Outside Challenge tracking sheet

APRIL 8  26

Catching Stars featured artist: Thiago Ramirez Open daily 11 - 5, catchingstarsgallery.com

MONDAY APRIL 12

Regular Council meeting Zoom 6:15 pm

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14

B.I. Archery Club Open House Camp Bow-Isle, Two sessions available: 5:30 - 6:15 or 6:157:00. Email clandry100@ gmail.com to indicate which session you’d like to attend. No drop-ins due to covid limitations on group gatherings of 10 people max. Equipment available to try out. FREE!

SUNDAY APRIL 18

Artist Talk: Can You Name five Canadian women artists?

Zoom 3-4 pm””Not that long ago, artist Marlene Lowden couldn’t! Join her for an artist talk about her series called a “Blind Contour Homage.” The work is a celebration of Canadian female artists and the result of her exploration in our art history. Many of these women are significantly

under-recognized in the Canadian art canon and she is pleased to introduce you to their work.” Sign up (to receive the Zoom invite) by emailing hello@ thehearthartsonbowen.ca Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at undercover area at entrance to Crippen park in the Cove 11 am “There is a guided part ( in the gentle tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh) and a silent part. Dress warmly because we meet regardless of the weather. Please wear a mask.” No cost. More information: lisa.shatzky@ gmail.com

MONDAY APRIL 19

Greenhouse gardening on Bowen Island: Garden Club talk Zoom 7 pm “Have you ever thought about having your own greenhouse to extend your gardening season, start your own seeds in spring, or perhaps even grow tropical plants? Doug Elliott, our Garden Club Member has pulled together a group of 5 Bowen Gardners and their Greenhouses.

We will explore several green house designs and their uses.” More info: bowenislandgardenclub.ca/

MONDAY APRIL 26

Regular Council meeting Zoom 6:15 pm

TUESDAY MAY 4

TOTI Presents: A New Hope by William Shakespeare YouTube and Zoom Webinar 7:30 pm What if the bard had written Star Wars? A Star Wars Day special

And, why cook in pandemic when there’s Bowen take-out eats and drinks for every day of the week!