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TOURISTS CAUGHT OFF-GUARD BY QUEEN OF CAP’S TLC EVENING
BRONWYN BEAIRSTO
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Keen-eyed Bowen Islanders noticed the Queen of Capilano steaming off into the sunset Saturday evening, deviating from its regular five-kilometre sea route. Of course, Cap was just headed off for scheduled maintenance April 17 but on a sunny spring evening, it left behind a Cove in some chaos.
Ferry delays earlier in the day
Earlier that day, at about 3 p.m., there was an impaired vehicle driver requiring medical assistance on the ferry, causing the boat to hold in dock. Paramedics had to medically clear the vehicle’s occupants and a tow truck had to remove the vehicle before the sailings could resume, which they did at 4 p.m. Bowen Islanders took to Facebook, voicing distress with delays.
Hundreds caught unaware
PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHLEEN AINSCOUGH, THE HEARTH GALLERY
BLIND CONTOURS HOMAGE SERIES: Marlene Lowden’s touring show opened atThe Hearth Gallery
April 15 and is on until May 3. Lowden is a West Coast-based abstract painter and alumni of Thrive Art Sudios, an international collective of women artists. “This series emerged from Marlene Lowden’s captivation with female Canadian artists, many of whom are significantly under-recognized in the Canadian art canon,” reads Lowden’s artist statement on the Hearth website. “Their contributions deserve to be celebrated as singular expressions of dedication, endurance, and rebelliousness.” “Lowden’s encounters with this work transformed her understanding of Canadian art history. Thus this series operates as an homage to those artists whose work was overlooked and turned aside, even as it helped to shape the Canadian aesthetic landscape we know today.” The Hearth is open Thursday to Monday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The pieces are also viewable at thehearthartsonbowen.ca.ca
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But it was the tourists who were left inconvenienced after the Queen of Capilano’s last sailing from Bowen Island at 6:15 p.m. Hundreds of tourists – unaware of the cancellations – were left stuck on the island, said Cpl. Adam Koehle of Bowen Island RCMP in an email. Cormorant Marine had been hired to provide water taxi service instead of the scheduled sailings (three Bowen to Horseshoe Bay sailings were cancelled) but were shuttling people back to the mainland well after 11 p.m. said Koehle. There was a line of well over a hundred people on the Government Dock waiting for the water taxi and 30 to 40 more who chose to sleep in their cars, said Koehle. CONTINUED ON P. 8
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