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100 yearsThe Museum & Archives mark 100 years since the outbreak of WW1
All candidates meetingHighlights
Letters galoreIslanders have their say
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Starting with a long-list of 109 questions posed by Bowen Islanders, Andrea Little, Joyce Ganong, Gordon Reid, Sheilagh Sparks and Tina Nielson honed-in on 15 key questions to pose to mayoral candidates on Monday evening. The questions, at times, sounded like ones a person might have to respond to at a job interview. Some others asked for the specifics of issues and municipal business. Audience members, packed into Cates Hill Chapel listened intently.
The candidates, Stacy Beamer, Tim Rhodes and Murray Skeels talked about their strengths and weaknesses and also elaborated on the relevance of their past experiences to the job
of mayor.“A good leader drives the bus,” Beamer told the audience. “A
good leader is able to admit that they are wrong and says ‘we’ more than ‘I’.”
His strength, he said, is looking at a complicated project and figuring out how to get “from here to there,” but his weakness is looking at the minutia.
“The details, the paperwork, that is my weakness, but I’m not afraid to seek help when I need it,” he said.
Tim Rhodes said that for him, a good mayor was a person who built consensus to help move the community into the future, adding that serving on nine commities taught him how municipality works. He said that good communication has been the basis for all of his work as a councillor, and that his greatest strength is also his Achilles heel.
“I care deeply about Bowen,” Rhodes told the audience. “Because of that, I agonize about every decision – we have to get this right.”
Murray Skeels told the audience that his experience work-ing as a project manager on multi-million dollar construction projects for fifteen years proves his ability to lead a team.
“These projects follow a critical timeline and a disciplined process, and their success lies not in telling people what to do, but ensuring that all the correct steps had been taken previ-ously so people can get on with their job.”
Skeels added that his strength is knowing Bowen intimately. Selling flooring on the island, he said gave him the opportu-nity to work with islanders from all walks of life.
Council supports application to New Building Canada FundMERIBETH DEENE D I T O R
As of October 22nd, more than $218 million dollars of funding for infrastructure projects is on the table for British Columbia communities. Last week, council gave staff its support in applying to the New Building Canada Fund for support in the construction of a water treatment plant on Bowen Island.
Building such a plant is predicted to cost $7.5 million, and Bowen Island has $1 million set aside in a reserve fund that could be used for the project.
“Through this grant, we could ask for $2.5 million from Federal Government and $2.5 million from the province. That would leave us requiring a loan of $1.5 million to build the water treatment plant, and Cove Bay water users would need to approve that loan through a referendum,” says Kirsten Watson, the municipality’s manager of finance.
The last time this grant was available was in 2009, when Bowen Island received 1.4 million for the upgrade of a sewage treatment facility. Mayoral candidates Stacy Beamer, Tim Rhodes and Murray Skeels take the stage at Cates Hill Chapel.
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Mayoral candidates face tough questions at library Question & Answer
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There is the idea on Bowen Islandthat you are either environmentalor pro-development and thatthose who are for one are againstthe other.This is utter nonsense.
I believe we need to supportdevelopment for growth whilemaintaining a respect for theenvironment and the wonderfulplace we love so much.
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“You’ve asked about my weakness: I can be curt. It is a holdover from the con-struction culture,” said Skeels. “But it isn’t polite and certainly wouldn’t be appropri-ate for a mayor. I am working on it, I have worked on it and I am getting better.”
Joyce Ganong asked the mayoral candidates how their leadership skills would help Bowen to move forward on the issues that everyone seems to agree upon, and, asked them to tell a story about how they have done this in the past.
Skeels told the audience that the key to moving forward on Bowen is simple: sell the surplus lands, retire the debt and move forward on the projects we all agree on including the community hall, Snug Cove house, affordable housing and the firehall.
“Establishing the priorities and how to move forward, I don’t see this as a big problem,” said Skeels. “But as far as a story demonstrating how I’ve done this in the past is a little beyond the level of my nerves for this evening.”
Beamer followed this response by stating that on Bowen Island, we look at all of our priorities and projects as separate issues.
“But Bowen is dynamic and all of these issues are interconnected,” he said. “We have to look at infrastructure not just as pipes, but also as social services, parks and rec, or things for seniors or the young, these things are all interconnected. My style is to bring this big picture into the equation – but not in a way that doesn’t honour the details.”
Beamer offered the story of the turf field as an example of how he is capable of getting things done.
“We had a field designed that was beyond our ability to pay for,” Beamer told the audience. “I stepped into the background… looked at the drawings and rede-signed them changing the storm sewers, and then oversaw the construction on behalf of the municipality, which is one of the times that I stepped forward to do what I do.”
Tim Rhodes said that moving forward has been an issue with the council he served on, and those previous to that.
“I think at some point we get stuck in an idea a little too rigidly,” he said. “We need to re-assess things as we’re moving forward and that doesn’t mean starting over, but it means finding other ways to do it.”
Rhodes told the audience that his trick to getting things done was to approach problems from a business perspective, and he told the story of a call for proposals by the Chamber of Commerce for a new Bowen Island guide.
“We put forward a proposal that was a business plan that showed where rev-enues could be made through the guide, several years later tourism was up on Bowen 85 percent.”
The candidates also faced specific questions on their vision for a commu-nity centre, on lot 2, and on development in Howe Sound. They moved quickly enough through the 15 slated questions efficiently enough that Nielsen and Ganong had time to add two more: one on engaging youth, and another on cli-mate change.
Strengths, weaknesses and moving Bowen forward
All candidates meeting: highlights
From left, candidates: Gary Ander, Michael Chapman, Sue Ellen Fast, Marcus Freeman, Stacy Beamer, Tim Rhodes, Murray Skeels, Yvette Gabrielle, Michael Kaile, Melanie Mason, Alison Morse, Maureen Nicholson, Peter Williamson, George Zawadzki.Meribeth Deen, photo
Tim Rhodes, municipal councillor for one term:
Even something that appears to be stand-alone, like the re-zoning of Lot 2 – should that not proceed, everything that goes with that gets unbundled: that is Snug Cove House, diversity of housing, a community centre: we need to keep the momentum moving. To provide these healthcare facilities we need to attract health-care professionals to the island, they need hous-ing, a diversity of housing, if they’re going to move here and live here.
Murray Skeels, retired project manager, local business owner, founder of the Bowen Bulletin:
My idea is to start very quickly on a whole bunch of things. The trick I believe is to start with small steps. We’ve been dancing for a long time – its time to take those first committed steps. Will we make mistakes? Sure. But we will learn from our mistakes, we will admit our mistakes. We will gain consensus as we move forward. And some projects will die. But some projects will come to life, and they will become
our creation. I’m talking about the community hall, Snug Cove house, affordable housing, the firehall…
Stacy Beamer, artist, and Bowen’s first Public Works Manager: Addressing large rural lot rezonings or development proposals:
I’m going to use Roger Curtis as an example. It was our choice to say 10 acre lots on Roger Curtis, not theirs, and I think the environment that led to that result still exists for large lots on the island, many of them are still zoned for 10 acre lots. I think the community can agree that 10 acre lots on Roger Curtis is a bit of a tragedy, and ideally we don’t do it again. That’s going to require us to be pro-active, not re-active. We often enter battles long after we have any hope of changing the outcome. At the end of the day, had we thought it through when we said 10 acre lots on Roger Curtis, we might have been able to ask ourselves, what does that actually look like and are we going to be happy with that?
Gary Ander, Bowen resident since 1970:I look at council’s job in a two phase opera-
tion. One is the business of council: That’s the CEO and the board of directors, we look after the budgets and try to spend some money and we look after the committees, we deal with infrastructure – all the nuts and bolts stuff. The other part, and the most important part, is we look at what defines Bowen Island. Every deci-sion that is made in council matters, we cannot be divisive… every decision that we make in council we have to keep our eyes on the prize, and the prize is defined by the OCP. That’s what defines our island and where we want to go.
Michael Chapman, moved to Bowen in the 1970s as a 14 year old:
We need to be innovative. We send about 3 million dollars a year off-island for slow
internet connectivity. Let’s build our own broadband network on the island. Keep that money here. One-hundred and thirty commu-nities are doing that already in North America.
Sue Ellen Fast, nature interpreter and consultant, on docks:
I don’t think the current bylaw is adequate, because right now there are several other enor-mous docks being proposed for Bowen Island, some of them beside Bowen Bay – that includes a giant boat lift, it is not really clear what the impact on the beach users will be and it is not in the bylaw. My first thing would be to pro-tect the beaches… and then, I kind of think we might need to go back to the first bylaw and put more things in it…
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SENIORS• expand Cove BayWater and Snug Cove Sewer district to Snug Cove House• pursue rezoning negotiations to provide independent and assisted-living housing
ON-ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES• create a program for ‘attraction and retention’of medical practitioners• pursue the Community Paramedicine program
ALTERNATIVE HOUSING FOR SENIORS - AFFORDABILITY FOR ALL• pursue rezoning negotiations to provide affordability through diversity with townhouses,apartments (including rental) and smaller homes on smaller lots
A COMMUNITY CENTRE• complete Lot 2 rezoning and pursue private funding through donations and rezonings
“[Tim]was not afraid to go against the status quo if he felt that was where the solution lay ...Tim Rhodes is the onlyMayoral Candidate who can do this job.” Roger McGillivray, Board Member, Bowen Community Housing Association & BowenIsland resident
MYPROMISE–Iwill continueto: listenuntil Iunderstand,buildconsensusaroundpragmatic approaches and implementplans for action.
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• Medical Clinic - engage FinanceAdvisory Committeeto assist in business plan
• On-islandHealth Services - create program for‘attraction and retention’of medical practitioners
• Safe drinkingwater - New Building Canada Fundapplication and Cove BayWater users referendum
• Seniors & Snug CoveHouse - expand Cove BayWater and Snug Cove Sewer district; encourageprivate sector proposals
• Marginalized Citizens - pursue CommunityParamedicine program
• Diversity of Housing - encourage private sector proposals• Economic Vibrancy - advance thework of the EconomicDevelopment Committee to articulate our advantages
• Senior Government Funding - partner with Islands Trustmembers to pursue special designation as Rural Communities
• Private Sector Relationships - pursue funding or provisionof community needs through rezoning negotiations andDevelopment Cost Charges
• Snug Cove Revitalization - continuework on creation of SnugCove Business Improvement District
• Families & Children - build recreational and social spaces;advocate for senior government funding for daycare and earlychildhood development
• Volunteerism - continue Community Grants funding• Community Centre - complete rezoning and pursueprivate sector funding through donations & rezonings
• Arts and Culture - provide performance space• Recreation Opportunities - use rezoning proposalsto expand trails and parkland
• Transportation&Mobility - negotiate trailsthrough rezoning proposals; widen road shoulders;pursuewater taxi options
• Metro Vancouver & Islands Trust - continue tobuild on high level contacts to advance our interests
• Howe Sound - work with Squamish Nation & Howe Soundcommunities on amarine plan and environmental protections
• ParksMaster Plan - provide resources to update• Environmentally Sensitive Areas Bylaw - establish aMayor’sCommittee on the Environment
• Beaches andMannion Bay - pursue License of Occupation forDeep Bay to providemunicipal control
• Heritage&History - create an registry of historically relevantbuildings and places
• Fire Hall - find a site for a practical, efficient, effective building• Fiscal Restraint - ensure funding for operation and maintenance of new facilities• Leadership - continue to build on high level contacts in senior government• Infrastructure Maintenance - monitor the Asset Management Plan• Hazardous Slopes Bylaw - establish a Mayor’s Committee on the Environment
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Dear Editor and Community,
Moderating the All Candidates Meeting on November 3rd was a real honour for me. The job of moderator is all glory. I don’t need to make any controversial statements and everyone is so appreciative. Truth be told, the heavy lifting work gets done behind the scenes by a committed group of citizen vol-unteers, the candidates, our Municipal elec-toral officers and a handful of professionals.
A very big thanks goes out to Gillian Darling Kovanic for rallying the commu-nity and organizing every aspect of the All Candidates Meeting.
Next, the committee who with non-partisan and discerning advice helped vet all the questions prior to and on the day of the event: Jack Little, Rondy Dike, Gayle Stevenson, Peter Frinton and Hans Behm. Thanks to Tom Matzen we had a neutral, comfortable place to meet in Artisan Square.
On the day of, setup would not have been possible without Gayle Stevenson ral-
lying volunteers: Peter Baumgartner, Tom Edwards, Richard Goth, John Green, Gerry Sear and many other hands. Special thanks go to Devon McLeod and Sarah Haxby for leading the child minding as well as Susanna Braund for serving coffee, tea and cookies from the Snug Cafe.
Our pros were: Meribeth Deen and Maureen Sawasy at The Undercurrent news-paper for receiving questions from the com-munity and promoting the event, Kathy Lalonde and Casey Grundy, the Municipal election officers, Shael for the AV support and Cam and Kat Hayduk for the video work.
If I missed anyone please know your help was still appreciated. Thank-you for asking me to moderate and making it so easy. It was my pleasure to do so.
Rod Marsh
Dear Editor,
A group of boaters asked the municipality to provide an access to water using the existing boat ramp at Tunstall Bay.
The repair/improvement would be minimal and was ini-tially approved but here is how Bowen Island works (or does not). The Manager of Development and Operations in his report to the municipality stated that different groups with different views had put forward their concerns. So here comes the list: need for a vehicle turn-around, need for a parking for car/truck and boat trailer, beach erosion and beach access improvements, access for persons with disabili-ties, Explosive Creek improvements, need for a boat school location, a boat rack location and a boat house location, con-struction timing (not during peak season), moorage problems, power boat and sail boat conflicts, aesthetics, pedestrian/vehicle interface, walking path for pedestrians and not the least, the Capital cost and maintenance. The result: nothing was done!
Surprise? Not for Bowen Island!If there is a forest fire in the middle of the island, an earth-
quake or any other type of natural disasters, there is noboat access or exit on the west side of the island. Are we waiting for a loss of life to provide a second ramp to Bowen Island?
A simple repair of the existing boat ramp was all that was asked!
Denise Rankin
Dear Editor,
I want to say thank you to everyone for helping me with my fund-raiser for the Burn Fund’s new building. I’ve now dou-bled my original goal which was $3000, more than doubled it and made $ $6133.45!
I made and sold 42 boxes of kindling from 3 pick-up trucks of the old shingles from the library roof and made $482.35 from returnable bottles and cans. That was a LOT of drink containers. The rest of the money came from many donations of friends, family and islanders. I hope the anonymous donors read this as I couldn’t thank them myself.
They are starting work on the building soon. It is on Main and 23rd Street. I hope you never, ever have to stay there but I’m glad it’s going to be there for you if you do and you won’t have to pay. Thank you everyone who donated, bought kin-dling and saved bottles and cans for me for the last 10 weeks.
Oscar Knowles-Dekker
$6133.45 raised for Burn Fund
Let’s not wait: the Tunstall Bay boat ramp needs an upgrade
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KIP ANASTASIOUS C I E N C E C O L U M N I S T
Way back in 1964, when I was working in Boston with a very high-powered team of developers work-ing on elementary science curriculum, I was abso-lutely surrounded by brilliant people. There was one very penetrating and definite voice in particular, that drifted over the temporary partitions into our zone.
It belonged to a professor from Boston University. Though Lynn Margulis was only 26 years old, she had already been married to scientist and science popularizer, Carl Sagan and had two kids with him. Divorced, she was living with her new husband, the easy going and likeable Tom Margulis. He was also working with us in still another team developing elementary science curriculum.
When it came to morning tea, we often had visi-tors and if we had a good crowd, Lynn would be unstoppable. She would introduce herself and then begin talking about her theory: she passionately believed that chloroplasts, the plant cell units which manufacture food for the plant and give plants their green color, were actually very primitive cyanobacte-rial cells (you might recognize them as blue-green algae) which had been gobbled up and then put to work making sugars as food for the gobbling cell.
There were a couple of papers early in the last century that vaguely suggested the idea. For Lynn it was an idea, a very big idea, that she had and consid-ered very carefully and was trying it out at our coffee table. Every so often she also suggested that the pow-erhouse of almost all cells, certainly all of yours and mine, the mitochondria, were actually gobbled up intact and very much reduced bacterial cells.
We often had the very top scientific minds visit us who had the opportunity to hear Lynn expounding this theory. Other than vague suggestions, nothing like these ideas had ever been expressed so forcefully before and Lynn was still a very young science pro-fessor. I heard more that one top scientific mind ask the question: ‘Who is this woman with this strange idea?’ We were listening in 1964 as she bounced her scientifically youthful ideas off these top scientific minds. Mostly, they were not amused, it seemed ridiculous to most of them.
At that time I was also a Harvard College (now Harvard University) Fellow. I spent quite a bit of time at Harvard and occasionally asked my colleagues what they thought about Lynn’s theory. The most common comment I heard was, ‘It will blow over.’ It was thought to be an interesting idea with no future.
Lynn submitted her first paper on her theories in 1966. As she told the story, it went to 15 scientific journals before it was accepted. It caused an enor-mous stir among biologists who read it- but today the theory is almost universally accepted and that paper, so disturbingly agitating to so many biologists, has become one of the cornerstone articles in 20th century biological history.
When two organisms live together in extremely close quarters, each benefiting from the other in some important way, we call the relationship sym-biosis. In this case described by Lynn Margulis, when one kind of cell lives inside the other, the relation-ship could still be beneficial to both, In these cases,
the result is called endosymbiosis, the ‘endo’ meaning ‘inside’. The host cell provides protection and perhaps some important chemicals. The gobbled cell uses car-bon dioxide and water to make the nutrient, sugar, necessary for the life of the gobbling cell.
It sounds like a great partnership, and it seems to have worked for millions of years. However, though the algal cells still contain at least some of their DNA in a single ring, typical of the simple cells of their group, they have become more and more reduced over time. Their job now is to manufacture and pump out sugars for the benefit of the gobbling plant cell.
However, each time the gobbling cell divides, the chloroplasts divide and they divide just as cyano-bacteria divide. Some chloroplasts go into one of the divided cells and the rest go into the other offspring cell. The division is almost never equal. There are almost always many chloroplasts in every gobbling cell or as we call them, in each plant cell. It does happen rarely that one of the divided cells gets no chloroplasts and then that cell will simply eventually starve to death. I can recall a corn plant germinat-ing to grow into a pure white seedling. Pure white means that the egg cell from which the seedling grew, received no chloroplasts during the division of the mother cell. By chance, all the chloroplasts went into the other cell during division. When the storage food was exhausted the seedling died for lack of food. Food in plant cells is provided by chloroplasts.
As mentioned above the other subject of Lynn’s big idea was the mitochondrium. Mitochondria are often referred to as the ‘power houses’ of the cell. Cell processes are powered when the chemical ‘ATP’ releases a lot of energy to become the chemical ‘ADP’. When I type this column, my mitochondria are producing ATP and when my fingers work to do the keyboarding, that work is powered when the ATP changes to ADP producing the energy needed. I just don’t know what I would do without my mito-chondria making ATP. I couldn’t operate this key-board and most certainly would be dead!
To Lynn, the answer to the question of mitochon-dria was solved. They were engulfed primitive bacte-ria which have become much reduced over the multi-millions of years they have lived inside the cells of all advanced organisms and almost all living cells which contain nuclei, That excludes the bacteria and the cyanobacteria which still form an important part of the living world.
When did the world of science finally accept Lynn’s idea that chloroplasts were reduced and enslaved cyanobacterial cells and mitochondria are reduced and enslaved bacterial cells? Electron microscopes provided the crucial evidence: every chloroplast and every mitochondrium contains a ring of DNA typical of all bacteria, whether cyano or just plain bacteria. That did it.
Though she continued to be feisty all her life, Lynn Margulis was eventually recognized with a number of medals and prizes. Perhaps the most prestigious of all was the Darwin Wallace Medal, given by the Linnaean Society of London every 50 years! In 2008 they gave out 13 of the coveted medals for contribu-tions to the understanding of evolution, and to the dismay of her detractors, one went to went to Lynn. In this writer’s opinion, it was well deserved.
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Dear Editor After attending yesterday evenings Q & A session between the candidates for
Mayor it appears there is a clear distinction in the way in which they plan to han-dle the sale and development of the community lands.
Mr. Skeels, with all of his stated large scale construction background thinks selling individual lots to various builders is the way to move forward. As he stat-ed in his election flyer, “choose the first parcel, put it on the market and see how it goes.” In my opinion, this is a pretty poor plan.
This is in contrast to Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Beamer who both presented very clear vision’s on how to deal with the sale and development of these properties. Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Beamer understand that without a clear plan and under-standing of the cost of infrastructure these lands have limited value. They under-stand that any affordable housing on these properties, whether rental or free hold won’t happen unless they are part of an amenity package secured from a devel-oper willing to make an investment in these properties.
The sale and development of these lands is a very important step in the up-grading of Snug Cove and in providing an amenity package for all Bowen Island. All three candidates talk of recovering cost of purchase of these lands and sub-sequent development. Only Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Beamer seem to understand the how part.
Sincerely, Doug Leishman
How to get where we want to go
Dear Editor,
I am writing to offer my support for Carolyn Broady in the upcoming West Vancouver School District election. Carolyn understands the uniqueness of Bowen Island and the challenges that older students face when heading to West Vancouver for their Secondary education. She is dedicated to providing the best opportunities and education for students of all ages. She is inclusive and collab-orative and I know she will represent Bowen well at the Board table.
Please feel free to contact me for further information about Carolyn. Sincerely,
Colleen Huskisson
School trustee candidate Carolyn Broady
Dear Editor,
Andrew Stone, sitting Councillor and declared candidate for Mayor has withdrawn from the race. Stone was one of four mayoral candidates follow-ing the official finalization of candidates by 4:00 p.m., Friday, 17 October. A number of candidates had withdrawn prior to this official deadline. What makes Stone’s withdrawal different is that it came two weeks after the official exit deadline had passed and after Stone had launched what appeared to be a committed campaign with costly adds in The Undercurrent, a dedicated Facebook site and the posting of an ambitious profile and platform on the municipality’s website.
His surprise exit required high-level approvals of the Bowen Island Municipality and the Provincial Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.
From the onset Mr. Stone’s candidacy appeared to be overshadowed by the campaign of Mr. Rhodes, the more obvious representative of the pro-development fraction. It seems that Stone’s candidacy carried the risk of splitting the vote and his withdrawal creates more control over the outcome.
Mr. Stone has not offered any sincere reasons for his decision to the public and the electorate is left to speculate. Was Mr. Stone strategically pitched as a throw away candidate? Is there a rift in the pro-development camp? Was Stone bought or bullied?
Whatever the answers to these questions, the campaign appears to be on track for Tim Rhodes. The electorate is free to evaluate and respond on voting day.
For me Stone’s conduct makes a mockery of the democratic process on Bowen Island.
Lesley Gaunt
Rumours don’t make us better
Casual contemplations from the fringes of “Silly Season”
Dear Editor,
As I ready to head to warmer climes I, first wish to thank all of the candidates for taking that HUGE step in putting your names forth to represent Bowen at the Municipal Council table. Whether you are running for mayor or councillor, making a four year commitment to running our island is so commendable.
In the last election I was proud to have assisted Andrew Stone in his very suc-cessful campaign for Council.This year, because of travel plans made before I realized I would be missing these last 2 weeks prior to voting day, I could not offer my services to anyone as campaign manager but I have been honoured to assist a long-time friend, Michael Kaile in his first venture into island politics.
We have held a number of meetings over the past month planning not only Michael’s campaign but also assisting Tim Rhodes in his quest to lead council as mayor. I was proud to have turned over the Presidency of the Chamber of Commerce to Tim prior to my total involvement in the Winter Olympics and do support him for the Mayor’s position.
I have been saddened to hear rumours that Tim’s supporters allegedly pres-sured Andrew Stone to withdraw from running for mayor. While Andrew may have been pressured, it most certainly was not by Tim’s supporters. I know this because I have been intimately connected with his group since the beginning of the election period. There has never been even a hint of any such impropriety; in fact, Andrew’s withdrawal came as a complete surprise. Tim and his support-ers are as honourable a group of people as it has ever been my privilege to work with. Spreading unfounded and malicious rumours of this nature is not the kind of politics we need or want on Bowen. That is not the community I am so proud to be part of.
Again, hats off to all of the candidates. I do look forward to returning in time for the inaugural council meeting on December 1 to congratulate the newly elect-ed.
Murray Atherton
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Dear Editor,
In his recent Bulletin article, candidate Tim Rhodes says that much of this Council’s work in the past term has gone “largely unseen”.
If only that were true. Unfortunately, there is highly visible evidence of this Council’s work in allowing the inappropriate docks at Cape Roger Curtis, and the enviromental destruction at the Seymour Bay waterfront park.
What was unseen were the closed door meetings where decisions enabling this destruction were made.
John Rich
Last council’s accomplishments are sadly, obvious
Dear Editor,
From our volunteer work together designing two Library calendars, Len Gilday knows I have some facility in graphic design and I suspect he knows I have some facility with words. What he may not know is that my wife has a similar if not greater facility. So I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Len and the rest of the community to my ‘focus-group’ and the group responsible for the ‘slick and colourful campaign ads’ he mentioned: She is Darcie Buzzelle, my wife, whose tireless support in this campaign has been invaluable, inspiring and hum-bling.
Tim Rhodes
Re: Time to change the channel
Dear Editor,
In almost every part of Canada, municipal elections are held in the fall. There must be a logic in choosing this particular time of year. We have come to the end of an endless and care-free summer, have watched the bright flowers and leaves in our gardens first fade and then droop before lying in heaps on sodden ground. The air is now crisp and tingling, with a linger-ing scent of cedar.
There is reality in beginning a new school year, of rekindling the book clubs and other orga-nizations put on hold, of finally beginning projects in abeyance. For me, it is a time when walks around the island take on a deeper, more intense meaning. I tread carefully on slithery maple leaves, linger over new fallen branches and marvel at the depth of green moss. The Japanese have a name for this action, Shinrinyoku, meaning “forest bathing.” Since 1982 the Forest Agency of Japan has encouraged Shinrinyoku as a healthy lifestyle: research has shown that inhaling the essential oils of wood leads to reduced stress levels. On Bowen, we don’t need this scientific evidence to know that our natural places are good for the body and soul. The recent survey by the Economic Development Committee also clearly demonstrates that they are the main focus for tourism.
Whenever I walk in Crippen Park, I mentally thank the powers that were for convincing GVRD to save the land and put in trails. Developers have done their part: John Reid has set aside hectares of beautiful land to build Quarry Park, Headwaters Park, as well as all the trails of Arbutus Ridge, and Evergreen. Wolfgang Duntz has provided much parkland on Cates Hill. Places such as Singing Woods have been set aside as conservation zones and many individuals and organizations on this island have worked to keep these areas unspoiled and intact for wild-life. There is just enough infrastructure in the form of trails, boardwalks, parking, and signage for us to immerse ourselves in the forest without losing our way.
I don’t keep a journal anymore, but remember Peter beginning his exhausting, inescapable chemo journey in November three years ago. And I walk into Fairy Fen, that precious oasis of bright air and water at the end of a steep woodland path, and find solace in a dream realized.
Our last council is almost finished, and a new, revitalized one will pursue worthy and nec-essary projects such as a community centre, housing and health care. It must also cherish our natural assets and keep safe the less tangible dreams we all share.
Allie Drake
Thanking the powers that be for allowing us to get just lost enough on island forests
Bowen Island is a community of some 3,700 residents located approximately 20 minutes by BC Ferries fromHorseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British Columbia.
Approximately 1,300 residents receive weekly curbside pick-up of organics (kitchen scraps and yard waste)and bi-weekly curbside pick-up of non-organic waste. A contractor delivers these materials to a central site onBowen Island at which location loads are consolidated prior to shipment to the Metro Transfer Station in NorthVancouver, BC.
Residents separate recyclable materials and deliver these to the same central location from which a contractorhauls the products to the appropriate brokers.
The work described above is being performed by a firm in accordance with a municipal contract which willexpire December 31, 2018. The Municipality wishes to examine the potential for a private contractor to compostorganics on Bowen Island that can be proven technically, environmentally and economically feasible.
Bowen Island Municipality is seeking Expressions of Interest from companies that may ultimately wish toreceive a Request for a Proposal. Expressions of Interest, together with Statements of Qualifications, shouldbe sent to:
Interested parties are requested to submit Expressions of Interest/Statements of Qualifications by December1, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.
Please note that respondents are solely responsible for their own expenses in preparing a response. BowenIsland Municipality will not be liable to any respondent for any claims, whether for costs or damages incurred bythe respondent in preparing the response, loss of anticipated profit in connection with any final contract, or anyother matter whatsoever. In addition, this EOI is not an agreement to purchase goods or services. Bowen IslandMunicipality is not bound to enter into a contract with any respondent and will be under no obligation to receivefurther information, whether written or oral, from any respondent.
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COMPOSTING ON BOWEN ISLAND
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
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ATTENTION: Al Fontes, Engineering AssistantPublic Works [email protected]
As part of its regular water system maintenance program, the Municipality will flush water mains in Bowen Bay,Bluewater Park, Cove Bay, Eagle Cliff, Hood Point, King Edward Bay and Tunstall Bay from November 8, 2014to December 13, 2014. This procedure is necessary to remove sediment that gradually deposits in the pipesand will not pose a health hazard. Municipal staff will try to minimize any inconvenience. Flushing will take place7 days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please note: Snug Cove and Cates Hill to Millers Landing areas willbe flushed on November 8th and 9th to alleviate water interruption for Bowen Island Community School.
Every effort will be made to ensure that water quality is not affected. Some turbidity and higher than normalchlorine concentrations may be present for short periods, as well as reduced and fluctuating water pressureduring flushing times. Running your tap briefly should clear this up.
For more information call Public Works at 604-947-4255.
Reminder
It is recommended that water users with compromised immune systems ensure that their drinking water isboiled, filtered or distilled.
WATER MAIN FLUSHING
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Request for Expressions of Interest:Library Board Vacancy
The Bowen Island Municipality and Bowen Island Public Library are seeking expressions of interest fromBowen Island residents to fill five volunteer positions on the Library Board. The Board meets on the thirdThursday of every month.
We are seeking applications from residents with diverse skills and interests who are committed to the idealsof open and equitable access to information through public library service.
Interested individuals are asked to submit a one page summary of their background, skills and a briefstatement of their interests in public library service. For more information please call Tina Nielsen, ChiefLibrarian, at 604‐947‐9788 or email questions to [email protected].
Those interested in sitting on the Library Board are asked to respond in writing, via email, fax or regularmail, with the requested information by Monday, November 17, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. to:
Lisa Wrinch, Deputy Corporate OfficerBowen Island Municipality981 Artisan LaneBowen Island, BC V0N 1G2
FAX: 604-947-0193EMAIL: [email protected]: www.bimbc.ca
For information call 604-947-4255
Dear Editor,
When I first moved to Bowen Island more than 35 years ago, there were only about 750 full-time residents on the island; we were an “unorganized territory”, governed by the “preserve and protect” mandate of the Islands Trust.
During that first decade, Bowen Island changed quite dramatically. Even with the philosophical backdrop of the Islands Trust mandate, and a series of elected Trustees devoted to keeping Bowen “small and rural”, the population expanded rapidly – between 1986 and 1991 alone we experienced a 56 per increase in full-time residents.
In 1999 we became a municipality within the Islands Trust, and contrary to fears that this change in political structure would spur rapid population growth, the converse has occurred. Between 2006 and 2011, for example, our population grew at the relatively paltry rate of 1.2 per cent. Not only that, but a comparison of our housing prices with Metro Vancouver from 20 years ago demonstrates that we have lost a significant amount of economic value, in relative terms.
How are we to understand these changes? Was old Bowen more appealing to potential newcomers? Has our growth under the Islands Trust become our down-fall, with the increasing costs of ferry travel and the increased lengths of ferry lineups serving as disincentives for potential buyers? Why haven’t the increasingly virtual workplace and a wealthy and retiring baby boom generation served to offset those disincentives? Why is Bowen perceived, in economic terms, as a less desirable place to live than it was 20 years ago?
I can’t provide any definitive answers to those questions, but I can say that Bowen of 2014 is a more interesting, more diverse and more pleasant place to live than Bowen of 1979. We now have more economic and social diversity within our population: not just the hippies and rednecks and the summer folks of the 1970s. We have a vastly expanded range of amenities – physicians, a pharmacy, a golf course, a year round synthetic turf field, a newly expanded Ruddy Potato, Artisan Square, some wonderful restaurants, bakeries, Cates Hill Chapel, and the list goes on. All thanks to developers and private capital, we should acknowledge.
I suppose that the only lingering detraction is a sense that Bowen Island is, on the eve of another election, a socially and politically divided community. Most of us can recall the conflicts over Cape Roger Curtis in 2009. We experienced a council between 2008 and 2011 that refused to negotiate with the developers, playing hard ball, and insisting that the owners would never be able to obtain a 10 acre lot subdivision for the property.
Their champion – and probably the most unwilling to compromise or co-oper-ate was our current mayoralty candidate Murray Skeels. In the Bowen Bulletin of March 2009 he confidently asserted, “People forget that there is no 58 lot subdi-vision. It died.” And to those of us who then sent out a flyer, urging negotiations and compromise with the developer, he issued what turned out to be an entirely incorrect rebuke, “…this flyer actually states as fact ……..[58 lots] is what we will get. They even end their incredible and totally unfounded assertion with the statement, And yes, it is perfectly legal.”
Well, Murray was clearly mistaken in his many rants against those of us who wanted compromise – something better than the 59 large acreages that we now have. He was one of the principal architects of division within the community, but I should also say, in fairness, that Murray does love Bowen and works hard to try to create a future that fits with his vision. That’s admirable, but it cannot overcome his lack of political experience and his commentaries to date.
We need calm and reasonable people who don’t resort to vilification of those who disagree with them. And we do have an opportunity on November 15th to elect such people. Tim Rhodes for Mayor and a council with four women – Alison Morse, Maureen Nicholson, Melanie Mason, and Yvette Gabrielle, along
with two men, Michael Kaile and Gary Ander. It would be a council with a more diverse rep-resentation of age and gender and, most important, with a clear commitment to working con-structively with each other for the good of the community.
Neil Boyd
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Dear Editor,
I moved to this small community over 16 years ago with three young children in tow. I’ve worked for several local entrepreneurs and managed and owned small businesses over that time. I’ve seen how who is elected to municipal office can dramatically affect how our businesses succeed or fail, often because of issues such as poor ferry marshaling, insufficient parking and unenforced bylaws.
I’ve watched as friends move away due to lack of healthcare and affordably priced housing, and I’ve watched as my adult children juggle multiple jobs, shunting from rental place to rent-al place while facing grueling commutes to college or university, so they can stay in this community near friends and family.
When I lived in larger urban centres prior to moving to Bowen, I seldom voted in local elections. I was busy raising a family, running my own business and staying afloat. I didn’t feel my vote would make a big difference and honestly, I sim-ply didn’t have time to breathe most days. But I now realize that being in such a small community means that not only does my vote matter, it can directly impact the day-to-day lives of myself, my family and my friends.
Like most people I know, I dedicate many volunteer hours on several boards, and support local groups, organizations and businesses. I respect others’ privacy, for the purposes of these organizations and the confidentiality I bear. So an election in my small community makes me and others I know uneasy. We are fearful of declaring allegiances, losing customers, upsetting friends…
But I’ve come to realize that I need to do my homework and judge the best person for the important jobs in Municipal office. Each candidate sets themselves up as the best one, and I need to filter through the mire of information coming at me, and look at the track record of each candidate, to make up my mind.
When Murray Skeels says his biggest contribution to this community is his articles in “The Bulletin,” I have to consider whether those articles have contributed to consensus, inclu-siveness and civil discourse, and I find them wanting. I am also concerned about how he disguises his opinions as facts, and I wonder whether he’s prepared to be accountable for his rhetoric, or just prefers to get “tired of the conversation” as he states here in an exchange with Meredith Botta (http://timrhodesbowen.com/issues-relevant-to-many-development-
conflicts).Tim Rhodes has worked in the trenches, both before local
politics with the Chamber of Commerce and in the trenches on council for the past 3 years. He’s worked tirelessly for the things we desperately need on Bowen…a Medical Centre to address the gaps in healthcare we have, ferry marshaling and Snug Cove improvement, a variety of affordable housing… and so much more…
He has a track record and has worked very hard with the current council to create a good working environment with staff at the Municipal Hall. To elect someone for the position of Mayor, who has never sat on council, would be a mistake.
This weekend I had the pleasure to meet personally with these candidates running for council:
Gary Ander, Yvette Gabrielle, Michael Kaile, Melanie Mason, Alison Morse and Maureen Nicholson
They are a diverse group in age and backgrounds and they spoke passionately about ferry and alternate transportation issues, diverse housing options, destination schooling, new developments incorporating affordable housing, home based businesses, artisanal areas, the need for more light industry and much more. It was inspiring and heart warming and along with Tim Rhodes, I believe we’d be on the way to a great dia-logue, consensus and community building for the next four years.
Please make sure you know the facts and vote at this munic-ipal election…your business, your family, friends and your lifestyle depend on it.
Julia McCaig
Dear Editor, It’s been 26 years since I wrote a letter to the Undercurrent;
but recent election buzz has prompted me to talk about why I will vote for Murray Skeels for mayor.
For those who might not know, Murray moved to Bowen 36
years ago. He worked in Vancouver and is well familiar with the challenge of commuting and dealing with the ferry. Later, he ran a business in Artisan Square, so he also knows the chal-lenges of being self- employed on Bowen. He raised a family with two kids, so he knows the joys of raising a family here as well. And while I am comforted by the fact he was part of Bowen’s early days, (and I am), this is not the reason I am vot-ing for him.
I am voting for Murray because for almost a decade, he has selflessly written in the bi-weekly Bulletin to inform every-one about what the last three councils were doing. I, for one, am grateful for this! I am too lazy to stay informed. I have attended only one council meeting in the last 10 years. And as someone who makes a living writing for newspapers, I know writing is hard work. Furthermore, his articles demonstrate intelligence, insight and humour about the political process on this island.
Anyone who has read his words knows he is passionate about Bowen; and in particular, he is passionate about the process by which this island is governed. He values a public process with input from islanders and is vigilant about special-interest groups intent on creating their own personal profits.
Now that he has been nominated for mayor (by Bob Turner, a previous mayor) I am thrilled to vote for someone who is knowledgeable of the issues Bowen has faced for the last thirty years, as well as the issues it currently faces. Furthermore, Murray is committed to keeping the council’s business open to the public; and most importantly, Murray does not have a pri-vate agenda. He is retired and committed to steering Bowen in the direction of the consensus of the majority of Bowen resi-dents. He will not work to benefit a privileged few.
I will vote for anyone who will protect and respect this beautiful island.
Sincerely,
Georgia Nicols
Dear Editor,
The primary purpose of a Municipality is to direct and regulate development towards the best interests of the community, both in the short and long term. We will certainly need many forms of development on Bowen over the next few years. It is very important that our Mayor and Councillors are, without any doubt, willing to act as an effective regulator to meet the greater good in the face of substantial pressure to satisfy the financial ambitions of particular compa-nies. The approach should be friendly but firm. The Municipality should lead the development agenda, meeting community needs, rather than simply react-ing to a random series of development proposals. Murray Skeels is very well informed, capable, and has a good sensible vision for the future of Bowen Island; I’m very pleased that he decided to offer his services to our community if elected as Mayor.
Richard Helm
Know your Candidates
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Dear Editor,
On October 25, Stop the Docks sent all municipal elec-tion candidates a short questionnaire on the subject of private docks on public beaches and the Cape Roger Curtis shoreline. Repeated efforts were made to solicit responses from our local candidates. In total, 9 of 14 candidates replied to the survey request. The full survey results are posted under ‘Recent Posts’ at www.stopthedocks.ca.
Candidates Michael Chapman, Sue-Ellen Fast, Yvette Gabrielle, Melanie Mason, Maureen Nicolson, Murray Skeels, Peter Williamson and George Zawadzki oppose the construc-tion of private docks at Cape Roger Curtis. Candidate Gary Ander supports the existing dock bylaw (which allows private docks at the Cape). All candidates, except Mr. Ander and Mr. Zawadzki, are opposed to the construction of private docks on Bowen Island’s public beaches. Responding candidates indi-cated a high priority to dealing with the matter, to resolve the long outstanding debate and conflicts over the issue.
Stop the Docks is a grass-roots group of Bowen Islanders opposed to the construction of private docks at Cape Roger Curtis. The group was established in May 2013, after Council failed to oppose the construction of massive docks at the Cape. Despite high public interest and use of the Cape’s beaches, tidal pools and foreshore, and the dedication of three munici-pal access points, a public waterfront walkway and a 30 meter ‘do not disturb’ protection covenant on the foreshore, Council over-turned staff recommendations to oppose docks at the Cape in 2012. Over 1385 petitioners joined together in calling on Council to keep the Cape shoreline in its natural state.
In response to our efforts, Council adopted the first phase of a new docks bylaw on November 25, 2013. Unfortunately, the new bylaw fails to achieve protection for the Cape Roger Curtis shoreline and Bowen’s other public beaches. A sev-enth dock application is actively under review at Lot 17 at the Cape (see: www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/viewpost.jsp?PostID=47476) - concerned citizens need to submit com-ments by December 4th. A second phase effort to define ‘public beach protection’ was abandoned by Council in its 2014 strategic plan. Incumbent candidates, councillors Alison Morse and Tim Rhodes, did not respond to the survey.
Stop the Docks is asking all candidates, and the Bowen elec-torate, to consider the issues concerning permanent impair-ment of public beaches caused by private docks. The province is relying on Bowen Island’s local government to establish rules governing where private docks are appropriate. Please use your vote to protect Cape Roger Curtis and our public beaches.
Doug HooperStop the Docks
Dear Editor,
Having been on this island for over ¼ of a century now and still hanging onto some remnants of sanity because of it, we would like to pass on our views of Mr. Murray Skeels. He and his wife Janice were two of the first people we met here and they could not have been more welcoming. At the time, the island was just over 1000 people and had just started to show signs of increasing population growth. Our house that we bought and still live in was the first ‘spec’ house to be built on this island, the island was that under-developed.
We watched as the residents voted down the first referen-dum seeking municipal status, then again 4 years later when more were living on the island and the referendum passed. For the first election as a municipality, we watched as some-one ran for Mayor who had just moved here. They left the island after about 2 years. Our turnover on this island is quite great and quite often, those with the loudest voices demanding change are often gone just after 4 or 5 years of island living.
Those with staying power, such as Murray Skeels, have been through it all, witnessed the myriad changes, adjusted to the ever-changing times and learned to live with compromise and, above all, to listen. This last, “to listen”, is very, very impor-tant. We have many grand talkers on this island who can spiel on for hours on end about how and what they will do for the island’s residents but few actual “doers” who have listened to the various voices and taken these differing views into effect. Murray Skeels is a listener and a doer. He does not make empty promises and his record, if elected, will demonstrate that. Too many of our latest council have just talked a good story but really let many of us down. Forget the rhetoric and the fancy spiels, just observe the record of past election prom-ises by some who are running again. Actions really do speak louder than words.
Murray would be a most excellent Mayor. His business experience, his social acumen, his grasp of local issues from ALL sides is acute and, most importantly, “he walks his talk”. What comes out of one side of his mouth is exactly the same as what comes out of the other side of his mouth. There will be no double-speak from this Mayor.
We have not been so involved before in any of our elections, but this one has brought us out as we were so very disap-pointed with what we have just had to go through these past 3 years. We feel that what so many of us came to this island for is slowly being eroded by a few for personal gain only. For this reason, and for how well we know and respect the views and introspection that Murray Skeels will bring to the table, we fully endorse this man as our next Mayor. For those of you who have kept out of this fray or do not really know any of the candidates running for mayor, you will not be disappointed with Murray. In over 26 years, he has yet to disappoint us. He is a man of his word
John and Sue Barr
To the Editor,I must take issue with a couple of points made by Graham
Ritchie in his letter in the last Undercurrent in which he emphasizes the importance of “opinions based on facts.” In his letter he states that Tim Rhodes was running for mayor unop-posed which has never been the case. A simple check with the Bowen Island Municipal website, would have shown that Stacey Beamer had submitted his nomination papers before Mr. Rhodes.
Mr. Ritchie also challenges Shari Ulrich’s comment about Mr. Skeels personality. Graham is fortu-nate to have never been the recipient of Mr. Skeels’ sarcasm. I have been on the receiving end of a highly dismissive email from this mayoralty candidate wherein Mr. Skeels, after hearing me speak to council in support of the Cape Roger Curtis neigh-bourhood plan, questioned my understand-ing the issues and stated that the CRC
application for subdivision into 10 acres lots had been turned down. I do not want to reopen the CRC debate but once again, had Mr. Skeels checked the BIM website he would have realized that his statement was not true. This is not the type of behaviour I am looking for in a mayor. I want someone who shows respect to all, whether they are supportive or not. Having worked with Tim Rhodes on a number of committees and groups over the years, I know that the Bowen community can count on Tim to be a mayor who will encourage respectful dialogue and get his facts right.
Jane Kellett
Dear Editor,
We do not want to repeat the defamation campaign we wit-nessed at the last election. But we do want to correct a few things where the pro development went overboard:
It is too late to prevent the docks council already built, but we should not allow more docks to ruin public beaches. Wherever boats dock, the coliform count goes up, which is detrimental to public health.
We do need environmental and earthquake assessment before big developments go ahead, especially on steep slopes. We do live in an earthquake zone after all!
Builders make more money building high and dense. It is up to us to decide if we want that in each case and make sure that experts make sure it is safe when the earth moves. It is not the builders who will live there, but people like us.
People were fired from committees because they were “green.” That is totally undemocratic. It should never happen again. We need all the different voices to be heard on all the issues.
Listening to the candidates speeches, they seem to be all green at heart. I hope, that even the pro-development candi-dates will have the guts to stand up to their friends to tell them the truth if they go too far and become reckless. True friends are honest with each other.
The last council made big promises that went nowhere, because they found out what former councils already knew: That we cannot afford big plans on our very limited tax base. So let’s sell the surplus lands as soon as possible.
We do not want to loose the green entrance to our island, but we do need to broaden our main street, since it is also our ferry marshalling area. That will take a strip off Crippen Park’s blackberry bushes. It will be worth it.
I agree with Murray Skeels, that an expert assessment of the resulting traffic situation has to be performed before any building plans on the slope below the school can go any fur-ther. The sidewalk there is swarming with kids at certain times. That sidewalk is needed for the kids, it should even be extended to the playground.
Lots of work for the new Council wherever you look. All the best!
Imke Zimmermann
Candidates state their positions on docks
Skeels has staying power
Skeels’ facts and the facts on Skeels
The pro development council
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Carolyn BroadyOn November 15th, please re-elect:
For School Trustee“Engage, Educate, Excel”
FromouryoungeststudentstoourEnglishLanguageLearners; from students with special needs to thosethat excel, I believe all our children deserve to havethe best educational experience possible.
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Bowen Island’s annual
Parade and FestivalSaturday December 6, 2014
Sponsored in part by:Tourism Bowen IslandThe Bowen Island UndercurrentUnion Steamship CompanyFirst Credit UnionBowen Island PubThe Office at Artisan SquareStay tuned to the Undercurrent for upcominginformation on workshop and event locationsand times.A traditional Bowen event, not to be missed!
Light upBowen
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“With that, we increased the capac-ity of the sewage treatment plant from roughly 100 homes to 200 homes,” says Watson.
Councillor Cro Lucas, who has acted as the liaison to the CBWS Advisory Committee over the past three years, says that the competition for this money is going to be stiffer this time around.
“Infrastructure across the province, from sewage systems to roads and bridges, is in decay. There are a lot of communities in need right now,” he says. “There are very few municipali-ties who have the tax base required to tackle these projects. However, based on conversations we had at the Union of BC Municipalities, we’ve been advised to look at our infrastruc-ture in terms of phases, so that we can
make several applications for smaller amounts over the 10 year period in question.”
Lucas ads that one factor that might work to the advantage of Bowen Island in this case, is that most of the com-munities competing for this grant money already have water treatment plants.
“It’s not as though we have one but it needs an upgrade,” says Lucas. “We lack one entirely, and we have direc-tives from Vancouver Coastal Health saying that we need to create a road-map to building a water treatment plant and that this is a requirement.”
Municipal staff with the assistance of an engineering consultant will take on the task of filling out the grant applica-tion. This process could take up to two months.
Grant to help pay for water treatment
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We remember…Bowen Island Municipality honors the many menand women who have served and continue toserve and protect our freedom.
On November 11th please join us at the BowenIsland Cenotaph to remember and honor thosewho have served us.
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CATHY BAYLYB O W E N I S L A N D M U S E U M A N D A R C H I V E S
Why remember? It has been more than 100 years since the newspaper headlines read “War Declared By All.” In 1914, The Canadian Corps, were little more than a collection of civilians in military uniform. They marched off to battle with only six weeks of training, carrying rifles that jammed when they needed them most. They faced rats, lice, thigh-deep mud, and infectious disease. They were shot at, bombed and attacked with poisonous gas. For the first time in their lives, they both witnessed and were responsible for death. The final death toll for the First World War was more than 13 mil-lion people. Canadians lost one in 10 men who served. Many returned home broken in mind and body.
How is it possible to comprehend the horror of the war? Perhaps it is easier to understand when you are able to place names and faces to the individuals who sacrificed so much.
One of our treasured artifacts at the museum is the framed, hand-written “Bowen Island Roll of Honor” dedicated to the World War One Veterans. This document is the focus of the 2014 Remembrance Day exhibit. It is sobering to read the names of the Bowen men who volunteered to serve. Out of a population of approximately 90 people there are 15 names carefully written out in calligraphy. They are fathers and sons, uncles and friends.
• Frederick Billington• Charles Brewer• Ernest Brewer• Walter Brewer• James Collins• Jacob Dorman• Alfred Dorman• George Dorman• Miles Green• Joseph Lessard• Basil Malaher• Fred Magee• Charles Redmond• Cameron Smith• Norman Vickery
We are fortunate to have photographs and histories to go with many of these recorded names.
James Collins and his brother-in-law Fred Magee joined the 242nd Battalion C.E.F. on September 6, 1916. They served in France together along with Isaac Miller. The Magee and Collins farms were close to each other, and before they left, Fred and James cut a new trail and a narrow road linking the two, so the families would have easier access to each other. In the fall of 1916 Irene Collins, with three children, Margaret, Bertha, and Jimmy went down to the float in Deep Bay to watch as James and Fred boarded a small boat and headed off to war.
In the exhibit there is a lovely photo of Irene Laura Collins holding the daughter that James would not meet until he returned from the war.
Frederick Albert Billington and his wife Annie Laurie moved to Bowen in 1905 to work with Isaac Miller on his 145-acre property. They eventually settled in Grafton Bay. He farmed the land, discovering like so many others that farming on Bowen was difficult. Fortunately deer were plentiful as were grouse. An abundance of trout populated Grafton Lake. The sea provided early settlers with herring, salmon, catfish and dogfish. And the logging operations provided a way of making a living for some homesteaders. The war would change his life forever.
In 1915 Frederick joined the 72nd Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force – the Seaforth Highlanders. They were involved in some of the bloodiest battles of the war including Ypres, the Somme, and Vimy Ridge. He was wounded at the battle of Vimy Ridge in April of 1917. While it was a victory, the cost for the Canadian Corps was huge. There were 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded.
Cameron Linklater Smith moved with his parents, Herbert and Margaret Smith (nee Linklater), to Bowen prior to 1901. He was the only son out of the six children. Cameron was as an outstanding marathon runner. He participated in numerous races, won the Goldseal and B.C. Open in 1912, the Winnipeg race in 1913, and numerous trophies and medals. Margaret Foughberg (nee Collins), remembered Cameron as a kind uncle who left behind money for Christmas gifts for his sisters’ children before he went overseas. It was Margaret who deliv-ered the telegram that announced Cameron’s death. He was killed in action April 9, 1917 at Vimy Ridge.
Jacob Dorman was a steam operator by trade. He once ran
a merry-go-round with a calliope that played three tunes at the Snug Cove picnic grounds. Jacob served in the British Army and in 1914 at the age of 58 he served at the Vernon Internment Camp that opened September 18, 1914 and closed February 20, 1920. His son’s Alfred and George served over-seas.
The Brewer family history is vague. Charles and his two sons, Ernest and Walter, listed Bowen Island as their home address on their Attestation papers. Charles was a carpenter and both sons were farmers. However, all that exists in our archives is a photo of Ernest and Walter.
On November 11, the museum’s Remembrance exhibit is dedicated to remembering the lives of these veterans. We are very fortunate to include a variety of WW1 items loaned to us for this exhibit, including a “Dead man’s penny,” regimental badges, censored mail, a military cross, a German kerosene lamp, a saber and many more artifacts that these veterans owned (or were awarded posthumously).
Please join use at the museum after the ceremony at the cenotaph to see our digital presentation and to learn more about our veterans.
We are open November 11 until 3:00.
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MERIBETH DEENE D I T O R
Dr. Shona Kowetcky grew up in small town Ontario surrounded by horses, cats and dogs. Now, for three days a week, the recent graduate from the Ontario Veterinary College will be
offering her services on Bowen Island alongside Dr. Alastair Westcott at the Bowen Island Vet clinic.
Westcott says Dr. Kowetcky’s pres-ence will allow the clinic to remain open Monday through Saturday, and will also help ensure that round-the-clock care is available to Bowen’s animals.
The new vet in town
Dr. Alaistair Westcott and Dr. Shona Kowetcky.Meribeth Deen, photo
MERIBETH DEENE D I T O R
This election season, Bowen Islanders have had numerous oppor-tunities to hear from candidates. We’ve had several all-candidate meetings, a mayoral debate and, I’m told, lots of dinner party-style events with candi-dates showing up to meet and greet. Big meetings, though, are not every-one’s style, and the invites to “candidate dinner parties” usually only happen when people have links to those candi-dates – and even on this small Island, we are not always linked in that way.
So, in an effort to make sure every-one gets a chance to be informed and feel confident in casting a ballot, The Undercurrent has invited all candidates to the Bowen Island Pub on November 12. Each will be assigned a seat, and voters will get three minutes to rotate from candidate to candidate. So if you’ve got one burning question, want to get a personal impression, or sim-ply have not had the chance to make it out to any previous events, come out to the Pub on November 12 at 6 p.m. for Candidate Speed Dating (well, not really dating!).
Cast your ballot with confidence on election day, November 15!
Get face to face with candidates
SASKIA TAITS U B M I S S I O N
I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. - Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama, famous for his writings on happiness, believes that “the purpose of life is to be happy”. Some might posit that this is a paradoxical statement coming from the world’s figurehead for Buddhism, which at its core is about recognizing the truth human suffering. But perhaps this is exactly what is happening—as we grow more connected and aware of our collective and personal suffering, the question of what makes humans happy has become increasingly popular. And for good reason.
According to recent research, roughly only 2 in 10 North Americans are consider themselves to be “flourishing”. This statistic is quite alarming—only 20% of North Americans are
“flourishing”? Given these numbers, research on happiness—why it matters, and how to attain it—is becoming hard to ignore, dismiss, or write off as “soft science”.
Consider the emergence of global research organizations, like the Happy Planet Index, and in Canada, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and Genuine Progress Index Atlantic. The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan is making big waves because of it’s commitment to making “Gross National Happiness” the core of its development plan—specifically, har-monizing sustainable and equitable socio-economic develop-ment with environmental conservation, cultural promotion, and good governance. On a macro-scale, these efforts evidence a growing concern on the global stage for healthier growth—growth that has a concern for wellbeing at its heart.
But what do we really mean by “wellbeing” and “happiness”? These are the questions that are at the heart of the compel-
ling documentary, Happy (2012), that is screening this Friday, November 7 at Bowen Island Yoga (doors open at 7pm).
From the Academy Award nominated filmmakers of Genghis Blues and Long Night’s Journey Into Day, this film is not to be missed by anyone interested in exploring the rela-
tionship between happiness and health, connection, commu-nity, cooperation, and compassion.
A magnifying glass is held up to things we’ve been taught will make us happy, like success, money, and beauty. It does so much more than this, though. Subjects like positive psychol-ogy, dopamine, and hedonic adaptation are translated in terms approachable. Technical facts are woven together with explora-tions of ordinary human behavior so beautifully that it’s hard not to be moved. It’s also beautifully filmed. You’ll be thinking of lists of people to recommend it to before the credits roll, guaranteed.
The film is simply so revealing, inspiring, sobering, and convincing that we personally feel that it should be watched in groups, as couples, as families, as friends, as coworkers, as companies. It’s that powerful. That’s why we are bringing it to Bowen Island Yoga and inviting everybody to enjoy the show and join in the conversation that we will host afterwards.
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Free film screening at Bowen Island Yoga on Friday, November 7 at 7 p.m.
BOWEN ISLAND ROTARYS U B M I S S I O N
You are invited to the Rotary Variety Show, a fun-draiser put on by the Rotary Club of Bowen Island. It promises to be a great night of fun featuring local Bowen talent, including dancers, singers and musi-cians, a skit, poetry reading and a stand-up comic competition.
The show will be held at 7:00pm on Saturday, November 22, at Cates Hill Chapel on Bowen Island. The Bowen Rotary Club is raising funds for two Bowen-based organizations: the Africa Village Project and the Bowen Island Firefighters. As well, local Rotary Club initiatives, such as education projects and trail building, will be funded from the Variety Show proceeds.
You’ll enjoy a fabulous program of entertainment in a cabaret-style venue at the Variety Show. Shari Ulrich is going to be singing, and the Bowen fire-fighters will be performing a dance routine. David Cameron is the emcee. Jackie Minns and Bawn Campbell are putting on a comedy skit, and Jude Neale will do a poetry reading. You’ll be delighted and entertained by the musical talents of Nicole Zyczynski and the classical music selections of the Arbutus String Trio. The Perform Art Studios stu-dents are doing a dance routine accompanied by singer Carlos Vela-Martinez. And last but not least, local stand-up comics will be making you laugh throughout the show.
Save the date: Saturday, November 22nd! Tickets will be available soon at Phoenix or from your Rotary Club neighbor or friend. See you there!
Save the Date: November 22 for the Rotary Variety Show on Bowen Island
MARTHA PERKINSG L A C I E R M E D I A
Bowen Islanders are known for their generosity. Time and time again, they give whatever they can to help someone, or some group, in need of financial assistance.
Donor fatigue can be a challenge, though. It’s a small island with many needs, and sometimes people feel tapped out.
Crowdfunding isn’t a magic wand but it can be a highly effective way to let people know their support is needed — and appreciated.
The Bowen Island Rotary Club has invited me to give a presentation about crowdfunding’s poten-tial on November 13. I’m spearheading FundAid, a crowdfunding initiative by Glacier Media to help people raise money. It uses the resources available through Glacier Media’s newspapers, including the Undercurrent, and online platforms to give cam-paigns a fighting chance for success.
For organizations and non-profits, crowdfunding can offer fun and rewarding ways to get donor sup-port through perks and incentives. It also provides an opportunity to have people raise money on your behalf, which allows you to reach out to a new set of donors.
For individuals, the possibilities are endless. You can raise money for your favourite charity or for your own needs. In times of distress, and in times of hope and optimism, crowdfunding gives you an easy way to let people support you.
The meeting is open to the public. It’s at Collins Hall at 7:30pm on November 13. It would be appre-ciated if you can let Jen McGowan know of your interest in attending. Please email her [email protected].
Want to tap into crowdfunding’s potential?Rotary hosts presentation on November 13
Bowen gymnasts head to Helsinki
Help the Bowen Island Gymnastics Club send 10 gymnasts to Helsinki, Findland, for the World Gymnaestrada Event by participating in the sports swap at BICS on November 15.
Places of Worship WelcomeYou
BOWEN ISLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH
Pastor Clinton Neal1070 Miller Road 604-947-0384
Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
FOODBANKDROP-OFF
BOWEN ISLAND UNITED CHURCHRev. Shelagh MacKinnon
Service and Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.Collins Hall Bookings: HelenWallwork
Minister of Music: LynnWilliams
CATES HILL CHAPEL www.cateshillchapel.com 604-947-4260
10:00 a.m. Worship • Sunday School: Tots to Teens
Pastor: Dr. James B. Krohn
(661 Carter Rd.)
ST. GERARD’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHMass: 10:30 a.m. Priest: Father James Comey
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Melanie Masonfor Bowen 2014
Vote forMelanie MasonCouncillor
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westvancouver.ca/election
Persons nominated as candidates and for whomvotes will be received are:
For the Office of School Trustee for SD45(five to be elected for a four-year term):
BOYD, Jim 1395 Camridge Road,West VancouverBROADY, Carolyn 1520 Rena Crescent,West VancouverBROWN, Nicole 2025 27th Street, West VancouverDONAHUE, SheelahWest VancouverDORSMAN, Pieter Lions BayINMAN, Rob West VancouverLESCHERT, Irene West VancouverSTEVENSON,Dave 2270HaywoodAvenue,WestVancouver
For the Office of Councillor for the DWV(six to be elected for a four-year term)
BAXTER, Joanna West VancouverBOOTH, Mary-Ann West VancouverCAMERON, Craig West VancouverCASSIDY, Christine West VancouverCLOUGH, Max 1575 TaylorWay,West VancouverEVISON,Michael 4087 Rose Crescent,West VancouverFINKBEINER, Jim West VancouverGAMBIOLI, Nora West VancouverJOHNSON, Jon West VancouverLAMBUR, Peter 1060 Clyde Avenue,West VancouverLEWIS, Michael 4485 Ross Lane,West VancouverMALLAKIN, Ali West VancouverPLATT, Terry 1555 Fulton Avenue,West VancouverREYNOLDS,Carolanne 2545QueensAvenue,WestVancouverSOPROVICH,Bill 1203-2180ArgyleAvenue,WestVancouver
The one candidate,Michael Smith, for the Office ofMayor,District of West Vancouver, was elected by acclamationpursuant to section 76 of the Local Government Act.
For the School Trustee election for SD45 only:Notice of general voting and advance voting for SD45SD45 includes West Vancouver, Bowen IslandMunicipality, Village of Lions Bay and part of GVRDElectoral Area A (that portion of GVRD ElectoralArea A lying along, or within Howe Sound adjacentto the municipalities of Bowen Island, Lions Bay andWest Vancouver). For School Trustee elections, theBoard of Education for the SD45, has, by resolutionand bylaw, agreed that the Chief Election Officer andDeputy Chief Election Officer appointed by the DWVwill also act on the board’s behalf, and has designatedlocations at which qualified electors may vote forSchool Trustees only within their voting divisions.
Voting Division 1:West VancouverSame locations, dates and times as listed in next column.
Voting Division 2: Bowen Island Municipalityon November 15, from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:Bowen Island Community School, 1041 Mt. Gardner RoadWestcotElementarySchool,760WestcotRoad,WestVancouverfrom 1 p.m.–2 p.m. at:1070Miller Road only for residents and staff of BowenCourtAdvance voting is onNovember 5 from8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:Bowen Island Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane
Voting Division 3: Village of Lions Bayon November 15, from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:the Lions Bay Village Hall, 400 Centre RoadAdvance voting is onNovember 5 from8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:the Lions Bay Village Hall, 400 Centre Road
Voting Division 4: The portion of GVRD Electoral AreaA lyingalong, orwithinHoweSoundadjacent to themuni-cipalities of Bowen Island, LionsBayandWestVancouveron November 15, from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:Gleneagles Community Centre, 6262 Marine Drive.Advance voting is onNovember 5 from8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:West Vancouver Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street
Notice of general voting and advance voting forDWV:Advance voting will be held at the West VancouverMunicipal Hall at 750 17th Street from 8 a.m.–8 p.m.on November 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10, 2014.
General voting day:Open to qualified electors of the DWV on Saturday,November 15, 2014 from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. at:
Eagle HarbourMontessori School, 5575Marine Drive*Rockridge Secondary School, 5350 Headland Drive*Gleneagles Community Centre, 6262 Marine Drive*Seniors’ Activity Center, 695 21st Street*Hollyburn Elementary School, 1329 Duchess Avenue*Sentinel Secondary School, 1250 Chartwell Drive*Irwin Park Elementary School, 2455HaywoodAvenue*Westcot Elementary School, 760Westcot Road*Presbyterian Church, 2893 Marine DriveAmbleside Youth Centre, 1018 Pound Road*Ridgeview Elementary School, 1250Mathers Avenue*
Wheelchair access and curbside voting is available at alllocations. Locations marked with * are most accessible.
Mail ballot voting:Electors who may vote by mail ballot are personswho have a physical disability, illness or injurythat affects their ability to vote at another votingopportunity and persons who expect to beabsent from the municipality or electoral area ongeneral voting day and at the times of all advancevoting opportunities. The application is availableat westvancouver.ca/election and at the WestVancouver municipal hall. Completed mail ballotsmust be received by the District of West VancouverChief Election Officer at West Vancouver MunicipalHall no later than 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 15,2014 in order to be counted for the election.
Elector Qualifications and Registration:Qualifications: 18 years of age or older on generalvoting day; a Canadian citizen; a resident of BritishColumbia for at least 6 months immediatelybefore the day of registration; a resident of, or aregistered owner of real property in the municipalityor electoral area for at least 30 days immediatelybefore the day of registration; and not disqualifiedby any enactment from voting in an election orotherwise disqualified by law. If you are a residentelector and are not on the list of registeredelectors: bring two pieces of identification thatprove your identity and residence; one must haveyour signature. Photo ID is not required. If youare a non-resident property elector: bring twopieces of identification that prove your identity andresidence, one must have your signature; proof ofproperty ownership (certificate of title, tax notice,assessment notice or a current title search); and ifthere is more than one owner, written consent fromthe majority of the owners, including yourself, foryou to register as the elector. Contact the ElectionOffice at 604-925-7045 or 604-925-7049 for moreinformation.
The registered owner of real property meanswhichever of the following is applicable: (a) theowner of a registered estate in fee simple of theproperty unless another person holds an interestin the property referred to in (b) to (d) as follows;(b) the holder of the last registered agreement forsale unless another person holds an interest in theproperty referred to in (c) or (d) as follows; (c) thetenant for life under a registered life interest in theproperty unless another person holds an interestin the property referred to in (d) as follows; (d) theholder of a registered lease of the property for aterm of at least 99 years.
No corporation is entitled to be registered asan elector or have a representative registeredas an elector, no corporation is entitled to vote,and permanent residents of Canada (landedimmigrants) who have not become Canadiancitizens are not permitted to vote.
Documents acceptable for ID include: A BC Driver’sLicence, a BC ID Card, an Owner’s Certificate ofInsurance and Vehicle Licence issued by ICBC,a BC CareCard or BC Gold CareCard, a Requestfor Continued Assistance Form SDES8, a SocialInsurance Number Card, a Canadian CitizenshipCard, a real property tax notice, a credit/debitcard issued by a savings institution and a utilitybill issued for the supply of electricity, natural gas,water, telephone or coaxial cable services.
S. Scholes, Chief Election OfficerOctober 29, 2014
Notice of Election2014GeneralLocalElection:DistrictofWestVancouver&WestVancouverSchoolDistrict (SD45)PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the District of West Vancouver (DWV) andWest Vancouver School District 45 (SD45) that anelection by voting is necessary to elect School Trustees for SD45 and Councillors for the DWV. The election will be held on November 15, 2014.
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Contact the Election Office with enquiries or if you require more information:Legislative Services Department | District of West Vancouver Municipal Hall750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC | t: 604-925-7045 or 604-925-7049e: [email protected] | hours: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. regular business days
ALISON MORSEC A N D I D A T E F O R C O U N C I L
1. What triggered you to make this step and run for municipal office?
I am standing for re-election because I am committed to Bowen, and believe in giving
back to my community. There are projects in progress and other initiatives which I would like to see through to completion.
2. What common ground do you share with the other candidates running in this election?
I believe we all appreciate the natural green space that is so much a part of the island. I think we all want to see affordable housing, and other services so that our seniors can age in place on Bowen. We also all seem to want a community center: a multi-purpose area that could be a gathering or performance space as well as a place for other community activities and events.
3. What are your top three priorities for Bowen?
First and foremost we need to be good stew-ards. We need to look after what we have. That means the built infrastructure, the natural green space around us and the people who live here. I want to keep the caring, diverse com-munity that we have. To help do that I would push the municipality, through its actions, policies and working with other levels of Government and service providers, to facili-
tate a vibrant economy, appropriate on-island health care services, diversity of housing, and transportation services that meet the needs of Bowen islanders.
The Community Lands are a priority. When we bought them we committed to sell some of them to pay off the purchase price. They were also intended to provide land for com-munity facilities. The lot 2 rezoning is the first step to getting a community center, as well as some diversity of housing and paying down some of the debt. Other uses for some of the community lands could include space for light industry such as warehousing or construction workshops.
Another priority is the replacement of the main fire hall with a seismically sound build-ing that meets WCB standards, and has space for an emergency command center.
4. Tell me about the community work you have done that you are most proud of?
A Bowen project I am very proud of being involved with is the creation of a first class public golf course on Bowen, which was done with hours of volunteer effort and private funds. Another is being a member of the
steering committee for the bi-annual People Plants and Places Tour which raises money for the Bowen Island Museum and Archives; I co-ordinate approximately 100 volunteers who make the event such a success.
5. How will you work to make council open to the concerns and ideas of all Bowen Islanders?
I will listen respectfully to those that pres-ent at council and promote respectful dia-logue. In the summer of 2012 BIM conducted a householder survey and the respondents indicated that their preferred method for pro-viding input to council was through surveys like that one. The second choice was public consultations or open houses where residents could observe and comment on information posted on display boards.
6. What do you love most about living on Bowen Island?
The tranquility, natural green spaces, and friendliness of the island.
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New doctor brings incremental increase to medical services on BowenMERIBETH DEENE D I T O R
Last week, Bowen Islanders took the rare opportunity to visit a local physician on a Saturday, when Dr. Keith Symon offered his services at the office of Dr. Susanne Schloegl. Dr. Symon is new
to Bowen Island and plans to work at Dr. Schloegl’s clinic two Saturday’s per month.
Trained in South Africa, Symon has been practicing as a physi-cian in Canada for 20 years now. He says he is familiar practic-ing medicine in a small town, having worked in Port Alice on Vancouver Island for twelve years.
Symon is part of a medical practice in Burnaby where he works four to five days per week. He says that he moved to Bowen so that his daughter could attend IPS, and he con-siders his time here a “trial period.”
“If things work out and my daughter is happy here, I could wind things down in Burnaby and start spending more time on Bowen,” he says, adding that as a physician, having more services to offer (such as emergency services and a clinic) is helpful. However, Symon says it is too early for him to say what would make Bowen an attractive place for him to work on a more full-time basis.
Dr. Kieth Symon and Dr. Susanne Schloegl.Meribeth Deen, photo
BOWEN ISLAND LEGIONS U B M I S S I O N
Bowen Island has a long history of high turn out for the Remembrance day service held at the cenotaph in the cove. On the cenotaph are the names of 5 Bowen Islanders that served in World War I. Service starts when the 10:30am ferry departs Snug Cove
Every year after the service the Legion opens it's doors (and the bar)
to serve up soup and sandwiches to all those that wish to attend. They are still looking for help making soup and sandwiches to serve following the Remembrance Day services.
Call Nairn at 0210 to volunteer and for more info.
The Legion would like thank Mr. & Mrs. Canada for your wonderful dona-tion of two new Canadian flags. One for the Legion building and the other for the cenotaph.
Remembrance Day at the LegionVolunteers needed
You are Invited To AttendA Public Information Session regarding the
re-zonIng of the “Pub Building” andadjacent vacant lot
(477 & 479 Bowen Trunk rd.)Monday November 17th at 6:00pm
Evergreen Hall
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7Legion Dinner
Doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30
Corbin Keep and Oliver Swain in concert 7:30 at Tir-na-nOg Theatre Tickets in advance at Phoenix $20 or at the door $22 (Under 12 free) or Paypal, e-transfer at [email protected]
Free film screening at Bowen Island Yoga “Happy” the documentary Doors open at 7 p.m. Free admission, donations welcome
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8Book launch for “The Town Slut’s Daughter”
1567 Tunstall Blvd. at 6 p.m.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10S.K.Y. Seniors Keeping Young
9:00am - exercises 9:45am - refreshments 10:00am - Speaker (to be confirmed) 1100am - Seniors yoga with Diane Kaile All are welcome.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11AA Meeting
Collins Hall 7:15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12Knitting Circle
2 - 5 p.m. Bowen Court - All levels welcome!
Candidate “Speed Dating,” come face to face with candidates for council and the mayor’s seat Bowen Island Pub 6 p.m.
Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Cenotaph, 11 a.m.
Lunch at the Legion
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12Duplicate Bridge @ Bowen Court
Call Irene @ 2955
Rotary Meeting – Martha Perkins discussing FundAid and Crowdfunding. 7:30pm at Collins Hall. All are welcome.
UPCOMING
NOVEMBER 15 Bootcamp for Procrastinators workshop with Ivan
Coyote - tickets on sale at the Gallery at Artisan Square or at www.biac.ca
Bowen Island Gymnastics Club Sports Swap Fundraiser to send 10 gymnasts to the 2015 World Gymnaestrada Event in Helsinki, Finland in July 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at BICS, $30 per table
1950s Hot Havana Night, IPS Fundraiser Live Latin Music, DJ & Dancing 7 - 11:30 at Cates Hill ChapelTickets $35 at Phoenix and IPS
ELECTION!
NOVEMBER 22Rotary Variety Show
7 p.m. Cates Hill Chapel Funds raised go to the Africa Village Project and the Bowen Island Firefighters
On the calendar
JULIE VIKS U B M I S S I O N
Come and celebrate the release of island poet Heather Haley’s debut novel ‘The Town Slut’s Daughter’ Saturday November 8th at 1567 Tunstall Blvd. We’ll get started at 6 p.m. with a potluck, then carry on with a reading by the author around 7:30, followed by a book signing.
From the illusory safety of her girl-punk-band coven to an isolating universe dominated by a craven producer cum lover, Fiona Larochelle must break all her molds and chart her own course. Reviews have been rolling in after the highly successful Vancouver launch of the book a month ago.
“Fiona tells it all, unflinching, with a survivor's wry humor.”“The pace is electric, the scenes pulsate with energy … A punk Moveable Feast”.“Haley has written a coming-of-age-novel in which Holden Caulfield is a street-
walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.”
Hope to see you fireside! Call 2345 for more information.
Book launch: The Town Slut’s Daughter
Check out Oliver Swain and Corbin Keep at 7:30 p.m this Saturday!
MERIBETH DEEnE D I T O R
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REVISED 2014 NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING
Kathy LalondeChief Election Officer
Casey GrundyDeputy Chief Election Officer
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of Bowen IslandMunicipality that an election by voting is necessary to elect aMayor, six Councillors and two Municipal Trustees for the IslandsTrust Council for a four year term commencing December 2014,and that the persons nominated as candidates at the election forwhom votes will be received are:
Mayor - One (1) to be Elected
Surname Usual Names Residential Address
BEAMER ............STACY .................757 Channelview Drive, Bowen Island
RHODES.............TIM......................1255 Deerwalk, Bowen Island
SKEELS..............MURRAY..............851 Valhalla Place, Bowen Island
STONE ......................................... ANDREW ......................... (Withdrawn)
Councillor - Six (6) to be Elected
Surname Usual Names Residential Address
ANDER...............GARY...................23 Arbutus Lane, Bowen Island
CHAPMAN .........MICHAEL .............438 Cardena Road, Bowen Island
FAST..................SUE ELLEN...........504 Reed Road, Bowen Island
FREEMAN ..........MARCUS..............424 Smugglers Cove Road, Bowen Island
GABRIELLE ........YVETTE................1125 Lenora Road, Bowen Island
KAILE ................MICHAEL .............835 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island
MASON..............MELANIE .............840 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island
MORSE ..............ALISON M............1235 Fairweather Road, Bowen Island
NICHOLSON .......MAUREEN............1104 Harding Road, Bowen Island
WILLIAMSON .....PETER .................1471 Tunstall Blvd., Bowen Island
ZAWADZKI .........GEORGE...............967 Village Drive, Bowen Island
Municipal Trustee for the Islands Trust Council - Two (2) to be Elected
Surname Usual Names Residential Address
CHAPMAN .........MICHAEL .............438 Cardena Road., Bowen Island
FAST..................SUE ELLEN...........504 Reed Road, Bowen Island
GABRIELLE ........YVETTE................1125 Lenora Road, Bowen Island
KAILE ................MICHAEL .............835 Hummingbird Lane, Bowen Island
MORSE ..............ALISON M............1235 Fairweather Road, Bowen Island
NICHOLSON .......MAUREEN............1104 Harding Road, Bowen Island
STONE ......................................... ANDREW ............................ (Withdrawn)
WILLIAMSON .....PETER .................1471 Tunstall Boulevard, Bowen Island
GENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to qualified electors of Bowen
Island Municipality on:
Saturday, November 15, 2014between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the following locations: Bowen Island Community School, 1041 Mt. Gardner Road, Bowen Island, B.C.;
Westcot Elementary School, 760 Westcot Road, West Vancouver, B.C.; or
1070 Miller Road, Bowen Island, B.C. (1:00 – 2:00 p.m. only for residents and staff
of Bowen Court).
ADVANCE VOTING DAY be open to qualified electors of Bowen IslandMunicipality on:
Wednesday, November 5, 2014between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
at Bowen Island Municipal Hall, 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, B.C.
ELECTOR REGISTRATIONIf you are not on the Lists of Registered Electors, you may register at the time ofvoting by completing the required application form available at the voting place.To register you must meet the following requirements:• 18 years of age or older on general voting day;• Canadian citizen;• Resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately precedingthe day of registration;
• Resident of OR registered owner of real property in Bowen IslandMunicipality for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day ofregistration;
• Not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment fromvoting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.
Resident electors will also be required to produce two (2) pieces ofidentification (at least one with signature). Picture identification is notnecessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.Non-resident property electors must produce two (2) pieces of identification(at least one with signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled toregister in relation to the property, and, if there is more than one owner of theproperty,written consent from the other property owners.
MAIL BALLOT VOTINGQualified electors may vote by mail if they:• Have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability tovote at another voting opportunity; OR
• Expect to be absent from Bowen Island Municipality on general votingday and at the times of the advance voting opportunity.
Requesting a Mail Ballot package:Before 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2014 you must completeand submit an application for a mail ballot package by mail. Theapplication can be obtained by contacting Municipal Hall or is available onthe municipal website at www.bimbc.ca.The Municipality will send out mail ballot packages commencing on orabout October 27, 2014. To be counted, your mail ballot must be receivedby the Chief Election Officer before the close of voting on general votingday (8:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 15, 2014). It is the obligationof the person applying to vote by mail ballot to ensure that themail ballot is received by the Chief Election Officer within this timelimit. Additionally, mail ballots can only be counted if all the requiredinformation and signatures are provided.
SCHOOL TRUSTEE ELECTIONSThe School District #45 Trustee Election is administered through the District of WestVancouver. For further information please contact their Election Office via telephone at604-925-7045, via e-mail at [email protected] or visit their website atwww.westvancouver.ca
FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting:
Bowen Island Municipality981 Artisan Lane
Bowen Island, B.C. V0N 1G2Tel: 604-947-4255 Fax: 604-947-0193 E-mail: [email protected]
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Marcus Freeman, running independently to represent open-anonymity of Bowen Residents:
I want council to focus on the large demographic of senior, fixed income residents; the disadvan-taged, and just as importantly, your children and youth, who in their life find advanced education and employment elsewhere. Young families can envision a more inclusive and accessible island that makes ends meet.
Yvette Gabrielle, human resource specialist mother of three, on infrastructure:When we want to make progress on something, then we’re going to have to look at what gains
and losses we’re going to incur along the way. If we want a community centre or any sort of devel-opment, then we’re going to have to look at how we’re going to create that. I think that when I look at a problem then I look at the how, and all the possibilities around that… water and sewer are not a choice, there needs to be some upgrades, and we need to look at the whole picture before moving ahead
Michael Kaile, 35 years in the international hotel industry:In our Cove, our front door where I’m told the welcome mat needs a good Cove and a clean, I
think there are two issues. First of all there’s a parking issue. Now the only address to the parking issue is by very small, incremental improvements. As for ferry marshalling, I’m not sure how long we’ve been talking about ferry marshalling but I’m 66 so I guess it started when I was a boy. I’m more in fussed about of cleaning up the Cove and getting our parking improved to the rest of our ability, then slowly working our way through ferry marshalling.
Melanie Mason, GIS specialist and mother of young daughtersIn response to a question on using Crippen Park Lands for parking and ferry marshalling: I think we need to step back on this one a bit. There are discussions now about undertaking an
integrated transportation plan and that’s where I’d like to start. There was a plan done in 1999… I’d like to have an overall look at what’s happening with our transportation. If we had maybe bet-ter bus service coming into the Cove coming from different parts of the island, would that take some of our pressure off?
Alison Morse, incumbent councillor and retired accountant:A closed-door meeting is advertised and noticed, and when you’re talking about land, it is one
of those situations that is allowed for a closed meeting. And thinking about it – do you want to tell a person who is making a proposal as to how much they might pay you for that land, what you’re willing to accept and how much you think it might cost up front – so that they can come in and know, rather than an open bidding process?
Maureen Nicholson, freelance editor and program co-ordiantor at Douglas College:I think Bowen Island has quite a lot of unfinished business... so, if I were on council, I would
like to do an audit of the unfinished business for Bowen Island – all the projects, all the great ideas that have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another, because I certainly don’t understand why they fell by the wayside. I think taking stock in such a way could be a very invigorating process for a new council to go through.
Peter Williamson, new Canadian, PhD in Economic Geography:One of the things that is particularly of interest of me is environment, and development: I don’t
want to play down the development side of it, I am very interested in the opportunities that it offers to Bowen Island. We have an Economic Development Committee, and I’d love to be able to work with them on getting Bowen’s economy vibrant and happening.
George Zawadzky, creator of “Bowen TV”:What do I define as affordable housing? That probably differs from many of you. I prefer the
term affordable rental housing. I’m not in a position where I can own property or land so, for me, I would like to see more rental units… we need to give special consideration to development projects that come our way that have an affordable rental housing, low-market housing element in place. As long as it follows the OCP.
Highlights from the All Candidates Question and Answer session at BICS, Nov 1
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Trick or treating at Artisan Square. For more halloween photos check out the Undercurrent website in the community section.Meribeth Deen photo
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