Bowen Island Undercurrent August 26 2021

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Health steps HERE’S WHO’LL BE GUIDING THE HEALTH CENTRE’S NEXT STAGES

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com

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BITING INTO A CHALLENGE: Christine Hardie holds up a red-fleshed Pendragon apple, one of the

hundreds of varieties of heirloom apples in the Westside Road orchard created by John and Josephine Riley. Hardie and her husband, Rob Purdy, launched Riley’s Cidery earlier this summer in the island-famous orchard. See the story on p. 13.

After years of anticipation, the Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation is hoping to break ground come fall.

Should everything go to plan, they’re looking at a 2023 opening date.

The woman who’ll be keeping everything on track started as the foundation’s first executive director June 14. “The analogy I gave to the board is start with a pixelated picture and then you try to focus,” says Suzanne Saatchi, the new executive director. The big stuff is under way – now it’s time to dig into the details.

“One of the things that attracted me to this position is that you have this really highly skilled group of professionals but they’re volunteering their expertise and time,” explains Saatchi. “They’ve been very successful in fundraising but at this stage, we’re getting more into the details of the services – What will they look like? What are the operational plans? How will we integrate? How will we recruit?” There’s also the business model – understanding where the money’s coming from and what it’ll get spent on.

“All that work takes an understanding of our healthcare system and its key stakeholders,” she says. “And it’s also very time consuming.

“It’s very much a full-time job.”

Saatchi’s no stranger to building health facilities. After an MBA at UBC, 14 years ago Saatchi started working with health authorities. Six years ago, she started working as a management consultant specializing in health care operational planning, operational readiness assessments and strategic planning for new health centres. She has been responsible for implementing facility and non-clinical operations at two large-scale Surrey Memorial Hospital projects.

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Events

Fire Extinguisher Inspection Day

Notice of Public Hearing

August 26, 2021 5:00 pm

Land use amendment for sale of retail Cannabis Bylaw No. 530, 2020

HAVE YOUR SAY.

Special Council Meeting

September 13, 2021 5:30 pm Public Hearing

September 27, 2021 6:15 pm

The owners of Happy Isle Cannabis Company, operating at 203-992 Dorman Road (shown on map), have applied to amend the zoning to permit their store, currently operating under a Temporary Use Permit, to have permanent zoning approval.

In response, Bowen Island Council is considering changes to the Land Use Bylaw to permit the sale of retail cannabis anywhere a retail use is permitted, subject to receiving a Provincial Licence. Land Use Bylaw Amendment Bylaw No. 530, 2020 was given First Reading at the January 11, 2021 Council Meeting to enact those changes. Bowen Island Council is also considering a policy that would provide items for Council to consider when reviewing an application for a retail cannabis store.

Public Hearing Monday, September 13, 2021

Regular Council Meeting

5:30 pm

All meetings are online via Zoom and

open to the public, unless noted

Online via Zoom

otherwise.

Questions?

Contact Daniel Martin, Manager of Planning and Development

Council 1st Introduction Reading

September 2020

January 2021

Bylaw timeline

Open House

2nd Reading

Public Hearing

June 2021

July 2021

September 2021

Bylaw Adoption

3rd Reading

(Estimated) October 2021

How to get more information

604-947-4255

The proposed bylaw and background material, including staff reports, presentations, and explanatory material, may be viewed at Municipal Hall (Mon-Fri, 8:30-4:30, closed on stat holidays) or on the Municipal website at www.bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning

Ways you can Have Your Say

Help stop COVID-19: dmartin @bimbc.ca

Get vaccinated - everyone over 12 is eligible

bowenisland municipality.ca /planning

• Speak at the Public Hearing: September 13 at 5:30 pm: 1. Email the Corporate Officer (hdallas@bimbc.ca) BEFORE the start of the hearing to register for the speakers list: • Subject line: Public Hearing - Verbal Submission 2. Join via Zoom and wait for your name to be called out. Get the Zoom meeting details at: bowenislandmunicipality.ca/planning • Write to the attention of Mayor and Council: E-mail: mayorandcouncil@bimbc.ca Mail: 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, BC, V0N1G2

Bowen Island Fire Rescue is hosting a fire extinguisher servicing and inspection day on Saturday, September 11 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Bring your extinguishers to Fire Hall 2 located at 1421 Adams Road to be inspected and serviced. Inspections are free. Fire extinguishers will be available for purchase.

Cash preferred.

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6 year service 2.5lb extinguisher $19 6 year service 5lb extinguisher $24 2.5lb new $50 5lb new $70 Hydro testing $51

Emergency Support Services (ESS) will also be selling emergency kits and supplies: • • • • •

2 person emergency kits Vehicle kit Solar radios Emergency ladders Food rations

To ensure a fair process, submissions are accepted up until the end of the public hearing. Council cannot consider any submissions received after the Public Hearing has ended. If your written submission is received after the public hearing has ended your submission will be circulated to staff for information.

Exciting career opportunities at BIM Stay home if you’re sick

Consider wearing a mask in indoor public spaces

Do you love Bowen Island? Are you looking for a new job? We’re looking for dynamic, community-minded individuals to join the team at BIM! Your career at Bowen Island Municipality will come with the following perks: • • • • •

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You’ll be doing interesting work, taking care of our island and our community y.ca/ t i l a p i You’ll be working in a fun team of dedicated, hardworking co-workers munic d Competitive wages n a l is Extended health benefits, Municipal pension and vacation package owen b Work on island, enjoying a short commute!

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Eliminating radio ‘dead zones’

The peaks and valleys of Bowen may make the island picturesque, but they make radio communication difficult.

Mt. Gardner’s position and other landscape obstacles have caused communication problems for municipal workers and emergency response.

“While we don’t have too many ‘dead spots’ on the island we do still have some small areas where radio communications can be challenging,” says Fire Chief Aaron Hanen.

A new $25,000 Union of BC Municipalities and B.C. government grant will fund an upgrade for a repeater – a piece of equipment that bolsters the communication signal – on Mt. Gardner. “The addition of a repeater atop Mt. Gardner will mitigate these issues and significantly improve Bowen Island’s ability to communicate with a multitude of organizations in the event of a local or

regional disaster,” said a BIM press release.

There is a repeater at the Coast Guard Station on Radar Hill, said BIM’s emergency program coordinator Christie Stashyn, but it’s not quite central enough or high enough.

The new repeater also gives the capability of switching to digital communications at some point, said Stashyn. “Right now we’re on an analog system, which is getting antiquated.”

The digital radio communication system is clearer and more reliable, she said.

(The repeater is just for radio – it won’t help your cell signal – but amateur radio enthusiasts may notice a difference.)

BIM is probably looking at an early 2022 installation, said Stashyn. She also gave a shoutout to Bruce Steele who was a driving force in the project. “He’s done a lot of volunteer hours to try and enhance Bowen Island’s communication strategy.”

Cove Bay activation could come in next few weeks

That clear cup of Cove Bay water could come soon.

A defective piece of equipment in the Cove Bay Water Treatment Plant has been replaced, allowing commissioning to resume, said Bowen Island Municipality’s director of engineering Patrick Graham. The replacement immersion heater is installed and now they’re working out some communication issues with the main filtration unit and replacing some PVC pipe with stainless steel, said Graham. “We hope to have every-

thing sorted out and up and running in the next few weeks.”

“I understand it’s frustrating for everybody. It’s frustrating for us, too,” said Graham. “It’s a priority. We’re working on it and trying to get it going as soon as we can.

“I’m a little hesitant to give people dates.”

The multi-million dollar filtration plant for Bowen’s biggest water system had been set to come online in mid-May until the heater that heats up the water at the start of the filter cleaning cycle proved defective.

Get to know your neighbour THIS WEEK MEET: ROD MARSH When did you arrive on Bowen?

Valentines Day, 2003.

How did you come to be on Bowen?

Was recommended that we visit by a friend. Biked to Bowen Bay for a picnic and decided to stay.

Where on Bowen do you live?

We live in Deep Bay in a little house on the corner of Melmore and Lenora.

What’s your favourite place on the island?

My neighbourhood.

What’s your favourite Bowen story?

So many stories but, I always tell guests about the tens of thousands of visitors that danced, camped and played on Bowen in the early 1900s.

What’s something Bowen Islanders have in common?

We love our families, for-

SEEKING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for two volunteer director roles: TREASURER & STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS JOIN OUR VIBRANT HIGH-IMPACT BOARD The Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation is a society registered in BC and a charitable organization registered with the Canada Revenue Agency. The Foundation has raised $6 million to date to build and furnish a 10,500 square foot community health centre to provide much needed on-island access to healthcare.

Ground-breaking is planned for September 2021 and the opening in early 2023. The Foundation’s Board of Directors, with the assistance of the Executive Director, is also finalizing a multi-year funding proposal for the Ministry of Health to be submitted in September/October 2021.

With a significant amount of pre-planning now complete, the Board is currently transitioning from a working board to a focus on governance and oversight.

TREASURER The Foundation is currently looking for a qualified individual to join our dynamic board and serve as the Treasurer.

Responsibilities include: Serve as the Treasurer of the Society • Attend monthly meetings of the Board • Prepare all required financial filings required by the Societies Act of BC and CRA • Provide general accounting services and prepare annual financial statements • Chair the Finance Committee • Assist the Executive Director in the preparation of annual financial budgets For more information, please visit bowenhealthcentre.com/treasurer/

Titania Michniewicz & Rod Marsh moved to Bowen Valentine’s Day, 2003 ests, lands and waters.

What’s been keeping you going during the pandemic?

My family, my wonderful Bowen customers, my bees and roof gardens.

Happy happy 90th birthday to this beauty.

Always our guiding star, we love you to the moon Mom. Xx Xxx xx love your family ‘FOREVER YOUNG’

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS The Foundation is currently looking for a qualified individual with a Strategic Communications background to join our dynamic board Responsibilities include: Serve as a Director of the Society • Attend monthly meetings of the Board • Chair the Communications Committee and work with the Committee and the Executive Director to: • Develop an annual communications plan including key strategic messaging • Co-ordinate and implement advertising and public relations activities • Ensure all communications are in alignment with our Mission Statement and Values • Assess the effectiveness of the strategies and take corrective action if necessary • Co-ordinate with other Committees for consistency of image and branding For more information, please visit bowenhealthcentre.com/strategic-communications/ BIHCFiscommittedtocreatingadiverseandinclusiveteamandproviding equitable opportunities in our recruitment processes. Community members with life experience and knowledge of equity, diversity, and inclusion practices and approaches are encouraged to apply.

If you are interested in joining this dynamic board, please contactTim Rhodes, President, timrhodes@bowenhealthcentre.com or any board member you know.

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VIEWPOINTS LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Camp Ignite thank you: ‘I have never felt so excited about an experience ever’

DEAR BOWEN ISLAND FIRE RESCUE: On Aug. 14 and 15, I was lucky enough to attend Camp Ignite, sponsored by Bowen Island Fire Rescue. Camp Ignite is a program for girls between 15 and 18 years old to experience fire and rescue training. This program is organized and carried out by female firefighters from across the province.

As soon as I saw this opportunity, I knew it was something that was exciting and I wanted to be involved.

Bowen Island Fire Rescue sponsored my attendance. They outfitted me with full firefighting turn out gear and sent me to camp with the coolest department T-shirt ever.

The skills firefighters have and their training are extraordinary. Even the “simplest” of activities, like unrolling hoses, is tricky.

I received training in putting out car fires, taking cars apart to get car crash victims out, hazardous material training, entering buildings with respirators, training on ladder trucks and an emergency line exits from five stories up.

I have never been so hot and never had such continued physical effort over two days and I have never felt so excited about an experience ever.

I want to sincerely thank the organizers of Camp Ignite and Bowen Island Fire Rescue for the opportunity to do something completely inspiring, that has left me hungry for more experience in this exciting and important community service.

Makena Coker

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL

DEAR EDITOR: Just now someone helped themselves, with our full encouragement, to two antique headboards we had left in our parking lot.

I thought the history behind them might interest your readers. They have a full provenance, suited to the Antique Roadshow! The headboards belonged to William May, born in Naples in 1880. William was a descendant of Richard May, a naval engineer from Plymouth, England, part of Admiral Nelson’s retinue, who followed the famous admiral to go work

Nominations for the 44th federal election close Monday but so far, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country still has five candidates: Liberal incumbent Patrick Weiler, former Conservative MP John Weston, Avi Lewis for the NDP, Mike Simpson for the Green Party, and Doug Bebb for the People’s Party of Canada. I suspect many (if not most or all) of the candidates will be at Bowfest-ish.

Our election special edition, delivered to every island mailbox, will be published Sept. 16. We’ll have a Q&A with each candidate, asking about islanders’ big election issues.

SO! I need your help. What matters to you, your family and your friends? If you have questions for candidates or issues you’d like to see covered, please email me (editor@bowenislandundercurrent.com) before Sept. 3 or call 604-314-3004.

Whistler has an all candidates meeting set for Sept. 9 and there’s an English-language federal leaders debate the same evening. If you hear of other all-candidates meetings, please let me know!

In the meantime, see you at Bowfest-ish!

Bronwyn Beairsto, editor

Your new headboards from Naples

in Naples in the early 1800s.

There, Richard became a favourite of the Bourbon King of Naples and Sicily and was made chief of the Port of Naples. It was even said that he used to ride in the king’s coach. All of the May descendants wisely decided to stay on in Italy and a large group of Mays can still be found there!

So whoever took the headboards and footboards, with their exotic inlays of real mother of pearl, now has real conversation pieces in their homes!

Good for them.

Lori May Brind

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We’re walking for a CAWES

DEAR EDITOR: September 11 will always be a date that sends waves of dread through most of the world. On the 20th anniversary of that horrific day, we at CAWES (Coast Animal Welfare & Education Society) in conjunction with Bowen Vet decided to turn the date into a much more positive day.

After the last year or so we all deserve something fun and rewarding to look forward to. We wanted to get outside and do something that benefits the community.

We will still be following social distancing guidelines, but this year September 11 will mark the day of the first annual Walk for a CAWES. This is a chance for city dwellers and islanders alike to have a fun day out with their trusty canines, while helping CAWES with their fundraising efforts.

Start and finish in Killarney Meadows where you will find our dedicated volunteers collecting pledge forms and handing out goody bags for all the participants. There is an amazing prize for the walker who collects the largest amount of money: a two-night stay in English Rose B & B and a complimentary Equine Therapy Session. Such a wonderful prize and a great incentive to collect those pledges. There are lots of other prizes too.

There will be a barbecue lunch available and served by Artisan Eats, a Canine Good Neighbour Contest (with great prizes) and a 50/50 draw that will be drawn at the walk by our celebrity judge. Oh YES! We have a celebrity patron of the event too, who will be on hand to award prizes and draw winning

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PETER MONTGOMERY

DARRYL DEEGAN PHOTO

Islanders will be walking to raise money for Bowen’s CAWES, Sept. 11.

tickets. 50/50 tickets are already on sale and can be purchased from Cates Pharmacy, from the CAWES office in Artisan Square or from one of the board members. I will also be selling them on my way around the island so if you see me, feel free to stop me and make a purchase. Official Pledge forms are available at the Bowen Vet, from me or the CAWES office and at Cates Pharmacy.

Don’t have a dog? No worries! Come along and register, walk the route and watch the contests and make sure you bring a photo of your favourite furry, feathered, or scaled companion and you could win a prize for the best photo.

And as always there is a need for volunteers to help with the event. If you can donate a couple of hours of your time to a fun event, please give me a call at 604 947 2555. Or drop me a line at info@cawes.org.

Thank you and hope to see you all there, Kim Sinclair

Proud father, devoted husband, loving grandfather, active citizen, reliable friend, master builder and 47 year resident of Bowen Island passed away August 17, 2021, 8 days short of his 76th birthday. Peter died peacefully surrounded by his wife and 5 of his children.

His family is deeply grateful to the dedicated staff of the Palliative Care Unit at Lions Gate Hospital and Dr. Matthew Blackwood for their extraordinary care in making Peter’s final days so comfortable for him and his loved ones. A small private service will be held for family, to be followed at the end of September by an old-fashioned Wake outside. The Wake will be open to any and all who wish to celebrate Pete’s life.

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We’re still here for essential services such as ambulance transport and we’re here for your private charter needs. Please feel free to call us with your questions as we chart these waters together.

Proudly Celebrating 42 Years of Trusted Transport for Bowen Island & Howe Sound

Please slow onWhitesails

DEAR EDITOR: This is a plea for drivers and cyclists to please slow down on Whitesails Drive. This is a family area with small children, seniors and several pets. The speed limit is 30km per hour and the reasons for that should be obvious, think how you would feel if a person or another pet got hit!

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It is with profound sadness Tom Gratton and Lenny Gagnon wish to announce the passing of their son Adrien Fleet Gratton at the age of 28 on July 28th.

Adrien is survived by his sister Chrystal Marie Gratton, seven month old sonTyson Jacob and Tyson’s mother Hayley Elizabeth. In lieu of flowers donations toTyson Jacob’s registered education fund may be made directly to Lenny Gagnon for transfer into his RESP.

NO CAMPFIRES NO BEACH FIRES

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Still time to sign up for Rotary Run for Rwanda

Back to School

HILARY BUTLER

Back to School Specials are on at The Ruddy! We’ve got you covered to help get you back into the early morning routine.

Come check out our rolling specials on coffee, breakfast cereals, lunch snacks, fruit & veg, and yogurts!

Rotary Run for Rwanda

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Find fabulous macrame wares and kits from Sarah Kraatz of Frayed at the Farmers’ Market Saturday morning.

Double the community: visit both Bowfest-ish & farmers’market Saturday

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The Bowen Island Farmers’ Market will be open in its usual location and times at Bowen Island Community School (BICS) from 10 a.m. until noon, with all the regular vendors. There will be time to buy items made, baked and grown on Bowen, take them home, and then come out for Bowfest-ish from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Festival Field.

You’ll see a few of the familiar farmers’ market faces down at Bowfest-ish. Sisters Christine and Danna of Riley’s Cidery are running the Bowfest-ish Beer Garden with a selection of new craft brews as well as the old favourite beverages, and Dylan and Alexis of Orbaek Meats will be leading the crew firing up the barbecues!

As farmers’ market lead, I will be heading down the hill after the farmers’ market to be the community volunteer running the Bowfest-ish Mini Country Fair Contests from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. including slug races and the biggest zucchini contest. It’s all part of making a community event happen. Some volunteers are still needed, so help make Bowfest-ish great by volunteering.

Sign-up is online at slotted.co/bowfest-ish2021 and it’s important to be part of the fabric of the community and to keep our traditions alive.

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ST. GERARD’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 00 Sunday Mass at 9.30

Contact Angela Powell 604-947-2515

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A link available on website.

Pastor: Phil Adkins

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Many thanks to everyone who has signed up for the Rotary Run for Rwanda, an annual event that takes participants (runners and walkers) on a 5 km route through our lovely Crippen Park trails this Saturday, Aug. 28. We have several seven and eight year olds who are signed up to run, and we are hoping for more to join us to compete for some excellent prizes for their age groups.

There is still time to register, so sign up at rotaryrunforrwanda.com by Friday evening or come down to the library lawn on Saturday morning from 8 a.m. for a 9 a.m. start. Bibs for all registrants will be given out at

PHOTO COURTESY OF HILARY BUTLER

Run for Rwanda starts at 9 a.m. Saturday on the ferry dock.

that time too.

We at the Rotary Club of Bowen Island and Komera Canada are particularly grateful to all our sponsors who support this event year after year, which means that all registrations and donations go straight to Rwanda to support the 12 high school girls and five university students we are currently supporting. We have treats and prizes for winners of various age groups, so look forward to a fun event!

PAT PARSONS PHOTO

Earlier this month, Pat Parsons spotted Leila Kamil carefully place her towel on the waterfront rocks. “Before she could turn around to sit down, her pooch usurped her spot! So they shared. “

Queen of Capilano Ferry Schedule June 25 to September 6 2021

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Note: Schedules subject to change without notice: Please check BCFERRIES.COM Schedule changes on statutory holidays

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Happy Bowfest - thanks for a great Summer and for your patience during all the hot times and busy tourism season.

Snug and Artisan Eats and Tuscany

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HAPPY BOWFEST!

COURIER

SERVICE TO and FROm ThE COnTInEnT

TUESdayS and ThURSdayS

HOT TIPS: Extreme Fire Hazard – no smoking allowed in Metro Vancouver Parks Sorry, no dogs allowed this year Admission is by donation

(cash only or etransfer to: finance.bowfest@gmail.com) If you are feeling sick, please stay home

Please call

Masks optional, please respect people’s choices

604-947-9703

Cash Only for entry, dunk tank, food and alcohol

or email us at bowenislandfreight@gmail.com to schedule a pick up or drop off.

Safe-Ride-Home-Shuttle provided from 6:00 – 9:00 pm from gate 3 Please keep our community safe – drink

First Credit Union a proud sponsor of

responsibly and plan a safe ride home in advance Please be prepared to show two pieces of ID for alcohol purchase & service All those consuming alcohol will be required to wear a wristband as provided Bowfest-ish is adhering to all Provincial Health Authority protocols for outdoor festivals

HAPPY BOWFEST 2021 from all of us at Bowen Island Properties LP www.bowenislandproperties.ca 604-947-0000

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COMMUNITY EVENT AT THE BOWFEST FIELD 2:00 pm Bowfest-ish 2021 Gates Open (entry by donation, cash or etransfer to finance.bowfest@gmail.com food sales (cash only) cider, beer, vodka/gin sodas and wine sales (cash only) 2:00 – 6:00 pm Games and activities for all ages (included in your admission donation) 2:00 pm

on stage

2:00 pm Country Fair - biggest zucchini to be weighed until 3:00 pm 2:30 pm Country Fair – World famous Slug Race #1 3:00 pm Country Fair – World famous Slug Race #2 3:30 pm Country Fair – World famous Slug Race #3 3:00 – 5:00 pm Dunk Tank (3 balls for $5.00, cash only) 3:20 pm

dance performance

3:50 pm Country Fair winners announced on stage 4:00 pm

on stage

5:30 pm

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The Archives frequently receives photo requests from islanders wondering what their homes or businesses looked like a 10, 20, 30 years ago. More often than not, there aren’t any such photos. So, the Archives is planning to have folks document the island every five years – sending in photos of their contemporary Bowen Island.

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The Bowen Island Museum & Archives have recently received funding which is allowing us to digitize more of the 9000 photographs in our archive and make them accessible online. As part of this endeavour, we want to continue expanding the scope of our photographs. One popular request that the Archives receives is from community members who wish to see their house as it was 10 years ago, or to see photographs of a business or street that they remember, but which has since changed or been replaced.

The Archives is in the process of creating a collection which will provide these insights.

It will be a collection with photographs of homes, businesses, buildings and neighbourhoods that will showcase another side of how Bowen has changed and will continue to change over the years. We are hoping that this collection will help to preserve the memory of beloved homes and businesses, as well as serve community members present and future who wish to explore the history of their homes and of different neighbourhoods on Bowen.

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We are also inviting the community to take pictures of their storefronts, buildings, houseboats, and homes, if they would like them to be added to the collection as well.

Photographs can be hard copy or digital. We would love to see what you find important and what you think others will be glad to see 10, 20, or 30 years from now.

Furthermore, the Archives aims to make this an ongoing project, so that we can continue to document the island’s changes. Our current plan is to add a new round of photographs every five years, so keep an eye out for the next intake in 2026.

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A goodbye chat with Richard Goth AFTER 43 YEARS ON BOWEN ISLAND, RICHARD AND LINDA GOTH MOVED TO ALBERTA LAST MONTH

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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The last Sunday evening in July, the Goths hitched up one last trailer at their Mount Gardner property – gathering up their goats, sheep, chickens, love birds and cockateels, dogs, cats and a lama. They spent that last night at the Union Steamship Company Marina and then left on the 5:20 a.m. ferry, ending a 43-year stint on Bowen Island.

Richard and Linda Goth arrived on Bowen July 1, 1978. They were to spend just a couple of years here and then return to Calgary.

Obviously, that didn’t happen.

Richard grew up in a theatrical family in Alberta. He describes his father as a powerhouse of theatre and entertainment who worked for Shell Oil for 30 years – “That’s what paid the bills and paid for his passion in theatre.”

Where his father would be directing full-cast, full-orchestra productions in the 2,700-seater Jubilee Auditorium, Richard ended up working on the projects and taking on technical roles, which translated into a career in theatre and television, working in lighting and stage management. At one point, Richard was working as regional sales manager for the company that produced the highly specialized lighting dimming and control equipment that was CBC broadcast standard. “When you’ve got that kind of dimming in a studio, it has to be quiet. Not just noise you can hear, but noise in terms of electronic interference.”

Richard started at that company February 2, 1976 – he remembers the date because that’s when he met Linda, a secretary in the department. Friendliness turned to fondness turned to love and the two were married in December that year. (Linda adds that the swift wedding was coordinated with a visit from Richard’s English vaudevillian grandfather – another great entertainer.)

A couple of years later, when CBC was constructing its new Vancouver building, Richard commissioned its lighting system.

When the prospect of a job in the Vancouver studio came up, he and Linda moved west.

The job wasn’t to start until fall of 1978, so Richard worked some temporary contracts

to fill the gap but a federal hiring freeze soon derailed his plans. With the CBC job no longer available, Richard was unemployed.

A chance meeting in town with the woman who’d been renting the couple a place in the Cove set the course of their next 30 years.

“She says, ‘Well, I need a driver. I’ve got this little freight truck as a part of our business.’”

“And that got this thing rolling,” says Richard.

In 1980, for $24,000, the young couple bought a two-bedroom cottage on wooden rounds on a flat quarter acre on Oceanview Road. The plan was to expand it, fix it, sell it and head back to Alberta. (Obviously, that too didn’t happen.)

“We ended up having three babies and starting a freight business and living in that house for 17 years,” says Richard. “We got absorbed.”

The Goths started Bowen Freight in 1984 (there had been a plan to buy their former landlords’ business but that didn’t end up happening) – Richard doing the driving, Linda doing the bookkeeping, accounting, answering phones and doing dispatch. They ran the business for the next 25 years.

“It was a terrific relationship in that regard,” says Richard. “We were a husband and wife and having the babies and all that that was involved there, but we were also business partners.”

“We both worked very hard at that and it was a good thing.”

Hauling freight exposed Richard to little-known corners of Bowen and the ebbs and flows of its people. “Somebody once said there’s a contest between me and the phone guy and Santa Claus as to who’d been in more houses on Bowen Island.

“I got to see and meet and get to know this community in a very, very deep, deep way,” he says. From folks camping in their partially constructed homes, as he brought them their windows or doors, to those starting new businesses. “I’ve seen people really try and knock themselves out trying to make something work over here that wasn’t really going and then I’ve seen people start things and they really get taken up.”

After selling Bowen Freight to a couple of the drivers, Richard was tapped to drive the school bus. A year later, Peter King convinced him to start driving for the communi-

ty shuttle buses, which he continued driving for more than a decade.

“I’ve driven an awful lot of roads on Bowen Island,” says Richard. “And it wasn’t planned that way.”

He was a longtime member of the Legion, which he joined shortly after moving to the island. Back then, there was no liquor agency on Bowen. “It was the only place you could get a beer on Bowen Island without going and buying it in the store in town.”

Along with Andrea McKay, Richard helped launch the island Scouts group and – beyond the usual camping and adventuring – Richard would teach the boys to recite “In Flanders Fields” for the Remembrance Day service. When that dropped off, Richard started taking on the recitations himself.

“It’s a superb piece of art,” he reflects. “It’s my honour to be able to do that and people tell me they like what they hear.”

Richard was an iconic presence around town, while his annual recitation of John McCrae’s poem is a Bowen tradition.

But as it did for many former and departing islanders, the housing crisis and affordability pushed the Goths into moving. Their children haven’t been able to afford to stay on Bowen and Richard and Linda are getting older (he just turned 70). So, last September, the Goths, their son, who lives with them as he has a disability, and their daughter and her partner started looking at real estate around Calgary. The family found a 17-acre property north of the city with a large house they’re all going to share. “It’s absolutely gorgeous,” gushes Richard.

Richard’s Bowen existence hasn’t been a quiet one. “I’ve had my opinions – no question about that,” he says. “I’ve had a lot of people tell me that they really liked my opinions. And I’ve had some people tell me that they don’t but I don’t like those people.

“That’s just the way it works. We can’t all be on the same page.”

Moving doesn’t mean Richard is logging off the online community. “Now that I’m no longer driving a public service… [when] you can’t be as vociferous one might want to be in certain situations, well, that’s going to change now.”

Digging into the opinions: the Goths have been on Bowen for nearly half a century – so what’s changed in that time?

“It’s become far more uptight, in a lot of ways,” says Richard. “People did what they wanted to do and nobody really fussed about things.

“It was a much smaller population,” he says. “Everybody knew everybody.

“We’d get together and do Bowfest and there was no going to parks and getting permission or permits or anything like that.

We’d just take over the horse field and go and do it.

“Unfortunately, officialdom has really taken over and a lot of people really like to make rules and be in charge of things,” he says. “Rather than just letting people be free with the rational way they want to do things.

Because for the most part, people will do the right thing.”

He’s also disappointed about Bowen’s missed opportunities – like manufactured home parks. “Every [B.C.] community you go to, you’re going to find one, two, or three or more manufactured home parks,” he says.

“They’re filled with people who are retiring or young families.

“Some of them can be a little on the decrepit side but you also find that there’s a significant number of them that are absolutely gorgeous.

“We have been denied that as an option [on Bowen],” he says. “We have the property, we have the water, we have the ability to do those things. But systemically we have been chasing away the people with the money, who could do those kinds of things. And we’re suffering for that.

“Consequently, for example, my wife and I, we have to leave because our children can’t find a place [on Bowen] that they can afford to live in.

“And that’s not good for our community to chase away your progeny.”

This was a trend Richard would see in the freight business. “I would move them here and then I would come back later on, and I’d pick them up and I’d move them away.”

But when all is said and done, Richard sees their departure as bittersweet. “It’s been a fun time,” he says. “But it’s time to move on.”

That’s not to say he won’t be back: “I’ve got a motorcycle and needs to be ridden.” As well, the Goths’ phone numbers are staying the same.

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RILEY’S CIDERY OPENS IN ISLAND-FAMOUS ORCHARD

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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The five-acre legacy orchard of John and Josephine Riley nestled on Mt. Gardner’s south slope is Bowen legend. The jungle-esque property has hundreds of neatly labelled heirloom apple trees growing at 26-inch intervals – the trees carefully collected and nurtured over nearly 30 years.

But John Riley’s collecting branched well beyond apples – fruits and plants are tucked throughout the orchard: pears and quince, figs and grapes, even medlar. Then there are the specialty rhododendrons in the upper part of the property.

“He just couldn’t help himself with the collecting,” says Christine Hardie. “There’s just so many things shoved in.” (She credits his excellent record keeping to John’s professional career as an accountant.)

Hardie and husband, Rob Purdy, and their two young sons bought the property a couple of years ago, following the Rileys’ retirement. As a means of preserving the exceptional orchard (Bowen’s mayor has likened it to a national treasure), the couple opened Riley’s Cidery last month.

Hardie is a nurse by trade but took a year off to study sustainable agriculture a few years back. She and Purdy were living just down the road from the Rileys at the time and ended up helping out for a couple of years, “just because I was really interested in what [John] was doing here,” explains Hardie. Finding that was a lot of excess fruit, Hardie and Purdy started making cider. In 2018, Hardie did a cider-making course in the U.K. “I got a lot better,” she says. “It’s part science but a lot of it is an art...tuning your palate into the different flavours.”

When the Rileys were ready to move a couple of years ago, the younger couple felt ready to take over the property.

Hardie still talks with John once a week, going through the apple varieties (two years in, they’ve reached “S.”) “Every one of these has a story,” says Hardie. “Some are really well documented, others are harder to find. But they all came from somebody saying this is great for [something].” There are varieties that have been grafted for more than 600 years, others that were a king’s favourite apple.

Preserving the diversity is paramount.

“When anything’s solely commercial based, it doesn’t make sense to have 1,000 different varieties,” says Isaac KnowlesGruft. He used to visit the orchard as a child but has returned as a brewer.

“When you talk to commercial apple growers, they’re like – what are you doing,” says Hardie. “Apples now are basically grown for how they look and how they store.

So we’ve lost so much.

“A place like this, I just feel like it’s so important to preserve, but also to connect people to it.”

She and Purdy have already made use of the gene bank and familiarity with what does well in the orchard’s climate to select traditional cider varieties to grow for more cider production. (They have 150 to 200 cider-specific varieties – “spitters” – that are higher in tannins but aren’t so good for eating.) “We’ll be getting a lot of really cool

cider varieties that you won’t really find anywhere else,” says Hardie. It’ll be at least another five years before the new crew of trees reaches top production. That being said, the young trees have already faced this summer’s drought and survived. While the young trees have had some drip irrigation help, the established apple trees are hardier.

“Most of those, we have irrigation but we don’t use it,” says Hardie.

Riley’ Cidery has two ciders available now: they’ve partnered with a Similkameen organic MacIntosh orchard to produce a fruity, fresh cider – a very different flavour from the cidery’s other tannin-heavy blend of up to 500 apple varieties.

Knowles-Gruft is working on blending their third cider – adding hard-to-press but all-too-tasty orchard-harvested quince. “I have to keep telling myself it’s not beer,” he laughs.

The cider itself doesn’t take water, just a few pounds of apples.

Controversy over the cidery did arise earlier this year when Hardie and Purdy applied for a temporary use permit from the municipality. Some neighbours had concerns of increased tourism and traffic to the property – seven kilometres from the ferry dock – and feared effects on a nearby equestrian business, neighbourhood character and water use. (Other neighbours were in vocal support.) “That was really challenging,” says Hardie. “I genuinely feel though, that it’s just such a happy, welcoming environment and I think a lot of people have really enjoyed coming.

“It’s just such a nice place to have on Bowen and I really am passionate about connecting people to that biodiversity.”

Bowen council unanimously issued the three-year TUP in March.

The cidery opened at the beginning of July. “It’s been so fun to share the space with everybody,” says Hardie.

A familiar face behind the tasting room counter adds to the cidery jovial atmosphere. Frank Patt walked into the refurbished tractor shed opening day – “I was like, tell me the story. Take my money. I want to try the cider,” he gushes. “I walked through that top gate and didn’t even feel like I was on Bowen anymore.”

Soon enough, Patt was offering his help and Purdy and Hardie were quick to hire the well-known islander.

July marked the beginning of stage three of the COVID-19 restart plan, so the newly opened cidery got to be a place of reunion.

“We were getting to see people see each other and hold each other for the first time in a really long time, and experience something that Bowen’s been anticipating for a long time,” says Patt. “This is like the happiest place on Bowen for me.”

“All of the people laughing and having such a great time – it’s awesome,” says Knowles-Gruft.

“I don’t think you could have a bad day here,” says Patt.

The cidery with its picnic area and tasting area is open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday to Sunday. They encourage customers to bring back their bottles so that the glass can be reused.

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‘Almost everything [on Bowen] has been started by volunteers and people leaning in and working together’ CONTINUED FROM P. 1

Health care in B.C. is siloed and regionalized. While Saatchi’s long worked in the health field (and even lives on the North Shore), she’s never worked in health in this region. “The structures are very familiar but different people,” she explains.

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So far, Saatchi’s been talking with health authorities and industry folks on both sides of the water: “There’s been a lot of conversations and building familiarity.”

One of Saatchi’s first priorities over coming months is to submit the formal community health cen-

tre application to the Ministry of Health. “If we can get most of our operational dollars from the ministry, management of the health centre will be a lot easier,” she says.

“Of course, it will be prudent to have other funding streams and that is part of the plan as well.”

The plan, as it stands, is to lease the bottom floor of the centre to allied health providers to help offset cost.

But the biggest challenge facing the health centre, is recruiting physicians or nurse practitioners.

“This is not only a challenge for Bowen and all B.C. communities are facing the challenge of recruiting physicians,” says Saatchi.

This being said, Saatchi says she’s impressed by islanders.

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