Bowen Island Undercurrent, August 23, 2013

Ferry cost acts as a deterrent for visitors

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As an island community, Bowen is dependent on the ferry, says Adam Holbrook, chair of the Bowen Island Municipal Transportation Advisory Committee, who presented his views about trans-portation issues to council last month.

“We are an island community that is defined by that particular transportation system,” he said. “For instance when you look at the difference between Bowen and Gambier, you could imagine that Gambier is what Bowen would be without the ferry system.”

One of the issues Holbrook spoke about is Bowen Island’s dependence on one vessel.

“The Queen of Capilano has to sail on the hour. If it breaks down, there is no replacement vessel,” he said. “It’s a fact that we have to rely on that ves-sel not only for the transport of people but also for supplies and food.”

The Horseshoe Bay to Snug Cove route is also a commuter run. That impacts the way the ferry is utilized, says Holbrook, adding that there is little seasonal variation, unlike on most other minor routes. Utilization rates vary over the course of a day and a couple of runs approach the capac-ity level for carrying foot passengers, especially at the time of day when the island’s circa 200 high school students commute.

“We have many people who live on Bowen and work in town,” Holbrook said. “That leads to the ferry being overloaded in one direction in the

morning and in the other direction in the after-noon.” The overloads throttle access to the island and inhibit economic growth and social diversity, says Holbrook, adding that due to the high annual utilization rate “the consequent provincial contri-bution on a per-vehicle basis is the lowest of the minor routes.

Holbrook said that the Ministry of Transportation ran a series of ferry consultations with the aim to find and implement saving to bal-ance the budget.

“I’m afraid that I don’t see the consultation as a success,” he said, adding that the outcome can potentially have a huge impact on Bowen Island.

“If you look at the statistics, the numbers for passengers as well as vehicles have gone down,” Holbrook explained.

The number of passengers has decreased by 1.2 per cent and the number of vehicles by 4 per cent compared to 2011/12. Although the average annual vehicle utilization rate by vehicle count comes to 51.6 per cent, Holbrook says that given that trucks and larger vehicles take up more deck space, the actual utilization based on automobile equivalents was closer to 58 per cent.

The lowest month for overloads was February where 37 out of 857 cars were overloaded (4.3 per cent). The highest was October with 186 out of 949 cars overloaded (19.6 per cent).

Experience cards are used for 86 per cent of travel.

“Why would you pay so much for a family outing if you can get to Whistler or Pemberton for the price of gas?”

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Keep a sharp lookout this year at Bowfest as the Bowen Scouts prepare to launch their biggest project yet!

These kids have been busy building Puddle Duck Racer sailboats and will proudly set afloat two hand-crafted wooden boats at the beach in Crippen Park on Saturday, Aug 24th.

It started back in February when the scouts took on this monumental challenge of building a workable sailboat with the help of many volunteers. Labeled “the easiest boat in the world to build” (see pdracer.com for details), it took the scouts six months to complete two racers.

They first started off by making scale models of the boat, this introduced them to some of the tools and methods involved in the engineering of such a vessel. They learned how to read a basic plan, mea-sure accurately and use cutting tools.

“They used squares, straight edges and utility knives (and not a small amount of tape!), they man-aged to make some nice little quarter-scale models helping them to understand how the bigger wood-pieces of a real 8 foot long boat would fit together,” explains Jud BerryM volunteer scout leader.

The kids are excited and extremely proud of their

accomplishments but they could not have done it without the help of some great volunteers and our community.

The Bowen Scouts would like to send out a big thank you to the Bowen Building Centre (IRLY) for supporting their project. IRLY has a history of facili-tating community initiatives and the scouts were delighted to receive their generous donation of build-ing materials. They would also like to thank Florrie and Doug Levine for donating a much needed sail and to Chris Barnett for contributing paint and a hatch.

Scouts Canada caters to both boys and girls and have been around for more than 100 years. According to the organization, it currently has a membership of 17 million Canadian youths nation-wide. Scouts use to be offered on island but a lack of interest soon dissolved the group. Three years ago Leslie and Steven Blais along with Jud Berry decided to start the scouting groups back up again, since “there were few activities for boys aged 5-7 that didn’t revolve around sports. For girls there was the Sparks, Brownies, and Guide groups, however they do not include boys. Scouting involves both boys and girls.” states Leslie.

With the help of volunteer leaders Jud Berry, Dave Jones, Michael Kerr and Frank Olsen the Scouts are back up in numbers, “we currently have a Cub Scout (age 8-10) and a Scout group (age 11-14) with 15 reg-istered youth to date, six leaders and a small group of volunteer parents and relatives to assist with the organization of the group. We currently do not have a Beaver group due to a lack of leadership (volunteers welcome), however there is a waiting list of approxi-mately 8 kids who are interested in joining.” says Leslie

Registration is still open with spaces in both groups. For more information on the Bowen branch go to http://bowenscouts.wordpress.com.

“BC Ferries has been raising its fares,” Holbrook said, adding that rather than increasing the viability of the ferry service, this has led to an economic tipping point and placed stress on ferry-dependent communi-ties.

The ferry cost actively acts as a deterrent for visitors, says Holbrook.

“It costs $65 for a car with two adults and two children. Why would you pay so much for a family out-ing if you can get to Whistler or Pemberton for the price of gas?”

Another issue the advisory com-mittee is trying to address is the upcoming midlife refit of the Bowen ferry.

“The Queen of Capilano is 25, 26 years old and is approaching the mid life refit in January 2015,” Holbrook said. He explained that according to BC Ferries, there are only three other vessels in the fleet with a capac-ity comparable to or larger than the Queen of Capilano that will fit into Snug Cove and they are in regular use on other routes.

“What BC Ferries has done in the past is that it’s provided a smaller

replacement vessel, the Bowen Queen. Last year, the resulting over-loads and delays caused major eco-nomic hardship for Bowen residents,” Holbrook said. The committee has asked BC Ferries to share its plans in advance and sees a replacement with a vessel of this capacity for at least five months as not acceptable.

“This specific issue is symptomatic of a much greater concern and that is that BC Ferries can unilaterally throttle this place,” Holbrook said. He believes that more affordable ferry services are called for to provide access to jobs and schooling, as well as health care services. And the fer-ries need to link up with bus services.

“We are looking for a seamless system to downtown but the prob-lem is that the ferry is irregular. There are rules about which ferry goes into what berth in Horseshoe Bay. For a trip downtown on pub-lic transportation, you need a lot of time,” he said.

Holbrook believes that alternatives for getting on and off the island are needed and mentioned commer-cial water taxis and barges. He also stressed the need for a “real health evacuation plan.”

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Despite rising fares and looming service cuts, top executives at BC Ferries still collected big perfor-

mance bonuses this year.President and CEO Michael Corrigan

got a $64,421 “incentive payment” on top of a base salary that was up eight per cent to $364,000 for a total of $563,000 in over-all remuneration – the maximum allowed after a cap on payouts was put in place last year.

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closure says Corrigan’s bonus reflects his “exemplary leadership” that was borne out by the corporation beating its financial tar-get for the 2012-13 fiscal year.

Chief financial officer Robert Clark got more than $133,000 in incentive pay and executive vice-president Glen Schwartz got an extra $127,000 based on performance.

Both of their bonuses were almost twice as high as a year earlier and the two col-lected close to $500,000 overall.

None of the payouts are anywhere near as high as the more than $1 million that former CEO David Hahn received in some past years until he left the corporation and the government eliminated additional long-term bonuses and imposed the compensa-tion cap.

Managers were eligible for their full incen-tive pay this year because of the $15-million surplus BC Ferries posted for last year.

In the previous two years, they got only half as much incentive pay because the cor-poration missed its financial targets.

But NDP critic Nicholas Simons said the new surplus is a fiction because of the $21.5 million in additional subsidies the province injected.

“The only reason they got their full bonuses was because the government pro-vided that increased service fee,” Simons said.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone wasn’t available for an interview but issued a statement saying the executive pay-outs send the “wrong message” at a time when BC Ferries is struggling to reduce its expenses.

He said he will speak to the BC Ferries board to outline the province’s expectations for all executives at Crown corporations.

“While BC Ferries isn’t a Crown corpo-

ration, they do receive provincial govern-ment funding and we would expect them to follow suit,” Stone said. “Government is tightening its belt, along with many British Columbians, and I believe that BC Ferries should take the same approach.”

Simons, however, said the BC Liberals have had plenty of time to act.

“Four ministers in a row have been say-ing how disappointed or disturbed or shocked they are when they see this exor-bitant compensation,” Simons said. “The reality is they’ve done nothing about it.”

The Powell-River Sunshine Coast MLA said his constituents are apoplectic because they’re ferry-dependent and have seen fares rise on average 75 per cent over the last 10 years.

BC Ferries has reduced its executive by almost half and cut their overall salaries by more than 50 per cent, Stone noted.

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TOM FLETCHERB l a c k P r e s s

Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk has offered some advice for students heading for

post-secondary education this fall.In a commentary sent to B.C.

newspapers, Virk reminded stu-dents that his task “is to ensure post-secondary students obtain the experience and qualifications needed to put a paycheque in their back pocket.”

B.C. is forecast to have one mil-lion jobs to fill by 2020, through a combination of retirements and economic growth. More than 40 per cent of them will require trades and technical training, and for students, likely a move north.

“My advice to students is to look at where the jobs are based and tailor their education and training to match,” Virk wrote. “Our popu-lation is concentrated in the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island, but as a resource-based economy, many directly and indi-rectly related jobs are located else-where.”

That’s not the only blunt mes-sage for students deciding on a career. While defending his minis-try’s spending plans in the recent legislature session, Virk described some of the problems that are entrenched.

Parents, particularly in immi-grant communities, push their children towards medicine, law, dentistry or engineering, he noted. Students themselves gravitate toward areas that are familiar to them, such as teaching.

B.C. universities graduated 2,000 new teachers last year. Another 850 arrived from out of province and were licensed to teach in B.C. During the same year, the B.C. school system hired 800 teachers. And many of those jobs were out-side metropolitan areas.

It’s been hammered into us by the B.C. government’s end-less “jobs plan” advertising, and a similar campaign by Ottawa, that more students need to focus on trades and resource industries. Virk acknowledges that his budget contains another $1 million for advertising, the same as last year, much of it to reinforce the need to fill skilled jobs. But he danced around the question of whether there will be spaces in technical programs.

NDP critics say the waiting list for these kinds of programs at Kwantlen University and B.C. Institute of Technology are run-ning between a year and three years. And they have frequently noted that advanced education spending is budgeted to decline by $42 million over the next three years.

Virk said post-secondary insti-

tutions working with industry have produced 456 additional seats in high-demand programs for this year. It’s a start.

In July, Premier Christy Clark joined the chorus of premiers protesting Ottawa’s plan to claw back $300 million in federal train-ing money to provinces, for its new employer-driven Canada Jobs Grant. Clark and New Brunswick Premier David Alward were assigned to find an alternative to this drastic shift and report back in the fall.

As usual, the NDP spent lots of time grilling Virk about stu-dent debt and the alleged need to reduce it. Ministry statistics show that about 30 per cent of students take out loans from the federal-provincial program, and the aver-age is $20,000.

One of the latest changes is a program of grants that go toward student debt as a reward for those who complete their chosen pro-gram. With 23,000 students col-lecting $41 million in grants, it might be working. For all the fuss about student debt, students pay only about a third of costs. The rest is on taxpayers, whether it produces any useful education or not.

Virk is under instructions to review the student loan program “to find further improvements to meet students’ needs.” Given the magnitude of the gap between what skills our education system produces and what the economy needs, a larger shift in priorities is needed.

Tom Fletcher is legislative report-er and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com [email protected]

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To the editor

The ongoing construction of very large docks on Cape Roger Curtis represents a significant loss to the people of Bowen Island. Others have writ-ten articulately here about the many aesthetic and spiritual values of the unique CRC foreshore, which no one has disputed is public property.

I also wish to add the view that, in light of the value that this Council has purported to place on our local economy, Council has placed the private economic interests of a very few non-residents in front of the (now) undeniable broad public expres-sion of value in the CRC coast. These docks not only return nothing to our island’s economy, they have also destroyed in perpetuity the economic value to islanders inherent in the Cape’s uninter-rupted seascapes. This value would only have grown over time to those island businesspersons who rely in part on the until-now beauty of the Cape to draw visitors looking for solace and rejuve-nation, and benefit us all in so doing. Council sadly failed to see that.

In June 2012, I spoke about my opposition with a municipal Councilor, soon after the initial dock

applications and when Council still had the means to protect the public interest. With little equivoca-tion, I was told that CRC had nothing about it that warranted special treatment, and that Council had not discussed a public interest statement.

So it surprised me to hear the narrative ema-nating recently from municipal hall that Council, too, did not like the applications when they were submitted, but were stymied by problematic legal counsel.

Whether Council really was opposed as year ago to the applications or not is secondary right now to this question: does Council intend to fulfil its duty to actively protect the public trust? The horse-left-barn proposed bylaw is clearly not satisfying the unprecedented outpouring of expression for a change in tack. If Council acts now to stop these inappropriate structures, yes, it will likely come at a cost. But weigh that against the cost to our island of inaction - for decades to come. A mistake has been made; I urge Council to return the public interest to its rightful place in this matter. There is clearly public will to do so.

Ian Thomson

To The Editor,

On August 17, there was a memorial on Bowen Island for Gregory Clive Cope, a man whose memory brought together a very large number of people of great diversity - a fitting testi-mony to a life which transcended any differences we might per-ceive among us.

Above all, beyond a life fully lived in every respect, Greg united all of us that day because

of what we simply felt when we were in his gentle, calm and peaceful presence. Beyond any words or activities we might have shared with him, we always knew that we were in the presence of a man with an authentic, remark-able quality of heart, full of kind-ness and positive energy. He gave us all the precious gift of being fully human, and he showed us that the face of that humanity is love.

I know I speak for his friends

who were at the memorial and many others who could not attend in extending our warm-est and deepest sympathies to his wife Coral, to his children and to all the members of his family.

To his family and to all of us who are his friends, Greg will always be in our hearts - hearts ever grateful for being made whole and for being put to rest in his graceful presence.

John Sbragia

Bowfest is back tomorrow. Here’s a scene

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large docks a loss to Bowen Island residents

remembering Greg copeIt’s been hammered

into us by the B.C. government’s

endless “jobs plan” advertising, and a

similar campaign by Ottawa, that more

students need to focus on trades and resource industries.

Tom FletcherB l a c k P r e s s

A glass of wine at the spa? A craft beer at the farm-

er’s market? Can B.C. survive the next wave

of modernization of its archaic liquor laws?

These suggestions are part of a review of liquor policy promised by the B.C. government in its February throne speech and rolled out earlier this month.

Richmond MLA John Yap has been assigned to examine regula-tions that unnecessarily restrict business, mak-ing recommendations to the provincial cabi-net by November.

One proposal is

allowing under-aged children to have lunch at a pub with their parents during the day, as they can do in a licensed restaurant. As well as consider-ing licences for farm markets and spas, the

review is to look at why it takes up to a year to issue a liquor licence to a business.

Letters are going out to 10,000 licence hold-ers and rural liquor agency stores looking for feedback, and a website for public com-ments is to be added in September.

Don’t expect a price break, however. The terms of the review include ensuring that the $1 billion annual government revenue from liquor sales and sales tax is maintained or increased. The

review will not look at privatization of liquor distribution, a contro-versial suggestion the government backed away from last year.

Recent reforms in B.C. have included allowing people to bring their own wine to a restaurant, and removing restrictions on buying wine from another province for personal use. B.C. has yet to convince Ontario and other provinces to lift their protectionist wine rules.

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A University of Victoria study released Wednesday called for B.C. to impose a mini-mum drink price of $1.50 on licensed estab-lishments and charge higher prices for drinks with more alcohol, to discourage over-con-sumption.

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additional changes will also require disclo-sure and registration of third-party adver-tisers in local government elections.

Sponsorship information will also be mandatory on all election advertising, and campaign finance disclosures will have to be filed within 90 days, instead of 120 days.

Limits on campaign spending for candi-dates, organizations and third-party adver-tisers are also coming, but they will be held back for implementation for the 2017 elections in order to allow more time for consultations.

The province is also expected to push municipal campaigns up one month, to run in the third week of October starting in 2017.

Oakes said the changes will improve transparency and accountability, calling them the most significant modernization of local election legislation in nearly two decades.

The changes will apply to elections for municipalities, regional districts, park boards, the Islands Trust and boards of education.

Union of B.C. Municipalities president

Mary Sjostrom said she’s pleased with the commitment and said the government’s phased approach should ensure the chang-es work well for the full range of B.C. com-munities.

NDP local government critic Selina Robinson was critical of the delay to impose a campaign spending cap and said she’s not sure why the province needs more time and a white paper to act.

“What have they been doing?” she asked, adding six different ministers have had a combined six years to deliver reforms sought by UBCM.


Municipal election reform pledged by province for 2014 campaign

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Tory blasts telcosFederal Industry Minister James Moore has fired

back at Canada’s big three telecom firms in response to their campaign against the potential entry of U.S. mobile phone carrier Verizon.

Incumbent phone companies Bell Canada, Telus and Rogers have taken to the airwaves with ads objecting to Verizon’s ability to use existing infrastructure without having to build its own network if the U.S. giant buys up one of Canada’s two smaller wireless firms that are up for sale. They also have a website, fairforcanada.ca, that con-tends Verizon would threaten Canadian jobs and poten-tially the privacy and security of cellphone users.

Their spokesman accused the Tories of scoring popu-list political points by tempting a “misinformed” public with the lure of lower prices through more competition.

Moore said the companies’ claims are filled with assumptions and misinformation about the federal gov-ernment’s intent in allowing a new foreign wireless com-petitor.

“I think Canadians know very well what is at stake and they know dishonest attempts to skew debates via misleading campaigns when they see them,” Moore said in a letter on his website. “Our responsibility is toward a broader public interest, and we are serving Canadians with our policy approach.”

Ottawa launched its own website Friday to counter the telcos – consumersfirst.ca. It underscores the high prices Canadians pay compared to other countries and argues Canada’s big three carriers won’t be forced out by Verizon because they own 85 per cent of the spectrum.

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The BC Liberals spent $11.75 mil-lion this year on their way to a come-from-behind provincial election vic-tory.

The governing party, which listed $8.5 million in donations, out-spent the NDP, which listed spending of $9.4 million and received $9.7 million.

The disclosures released by Elections BC Monday include amounts spent before the formal 60-day campaign period when specific limits apply.

The Liberals spent more in advance of the May 15 election.

Within the 60-day campaign itself, the Liberals spent nearly $4.3 million to the NDP’s $4.1 million.

Corporate contributors gave $5 mil-lion in donations to the Liberals, fol-lowed by individuals at $2.4 million, unincorporated businesses at $420,000 and $385,000 from other sources.

NDP got nearly $2.6 million from individuals, $2.5 million from trade unions and $2.1 million from corpora-tions.

The Green Party of B.C., which won its historic first seat in Oak Bay-Gordon Head, did so on spending of just $180,000.

The Green Party spent more than the B.C. Conservative Party, which listed $155,000 in expenses.

The central party expenses don’t count the additional spending at the local level by individual candidates or constituency associations.

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates there are more than 7,300 back-pack-related injuries per year. Children routinely carry more than the recommended weight in school backpacks and, compound-ing the problem, also carry their bags incorrectly.

Medical agencies recommend that a child's backpack should weigh no more than 10 to 20 per-cent of the child's body weight. However, this figure should be adjusted based on a child's fitness level and strength. That means that the average seven-year-old second grader who weighs between 55 and 60 pounds should be carrying no more than 11 to 12 pounds in his or her backpack. A backpack that is too heavy may

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109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

111 CARETAKERS/RESIDENTIAL MANAGERS

115 EDUCATION


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138 LABOURERS

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The NDP’s justice critic is urging the province to overhaul its process for reviewing roadside driving bans

imposed on drinking drivers in light of a recent court ruling.

Leonard Krog said the government should proactively offer to re-review other cases if the procedure for weighing challenges turns out to have been incorrect.

The B.C. Supreme Court this month quashed one roadside driving ban that had been upheld in the review process, deciding a report setting out guidelines for use of alcohol screening devices was inadmissible.

Defence lawyers say the ruling could be grounds for many more roadside prohibitions to be appealed.

Krog said the government must be scrupu-lously fair in how it handles challenges of the penalties, because they take effect immediately and are dispensed at the roadside by police, not a judge.

“In our zeal to get drunk drivers off the road, which is something we all share, it doesn’t mean you get to disregard the rights of citizens to fairness in the hearing process,” he said.

“It clearly opens up the possibility of many other people asking for judicial reviews.”

Government lawyers are still reviewing the implications of the overturned decision.

But Justice Minister Suzanne Anton said the ruling appears to be largely procedural and unlikely to threaten the three-year-old legis-lation underpinning the Immediate Roadside Prohibitions.

“When you have a new program, you can expect that people are going to take runs at it,” she said. “But fundamentally, the legislation remains very sound.”

Anton said about 1,500 roadside prohibi-tions are issued each month and just two per cent on average are successfully challenged.

Alcohol-related fatalities have plunged 51 per cent since the expanded system of suspen-sions kicked in nearly three years ago – replac-ing criminal prosecutions of many impaired drivers – and the government estimates 143 lives have been saved.

Anton said the regulations continue to have a powerful effect deterring people from drink-

ing and then driving.“People understand the immediate serious

consequences that flow from that.”Drivers who get an Immediate Roadside

Prohibition can lose their driving privi-leges for up to 90 days, have their vehicle impounded and face hefty fines as well as costly installation of an ignition interlock device in their vehicle.

Documents recently disclosed under Freedom of Information show drivers who

challenge their rulings to the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles aren’t told if the screening device used to test them was later found to be inaccurate.

They’re merely told their driving prohibi-tion was deemed invalid, without provision of specific reasons, usually weeks after the vehicle was impounded and the licence sus-pended.

The province pays towing and storage bills of appellants who are successful.

Province should review roadside driving bans

The B.C. Supreme Court this month quashed one roadside driving ban that had been upheld in the review process, deciding a report setting out guidelines for use of alcohol screening devices was inadmissible.

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The kids at the Bowen Island Community Daycare are busy making their special sea stars, birds of paradise and butterfly crowns to wear in the annual Bowfest parade, the theme this year is Island Paradise. Their float is sure to be a crowd pleaser as it is each year and the children are very excited to be a part of all the festivities. Debra Stringfellow photos

The kids are gearing up for Bowfest

On Tuesday, Aug. 20th, 24 youths all over the city of New Westminster took a hike

on Bowen Island.The hike was organized by two

youths, Bill He and Isaac Bennett Fox, who had already started a regional out-door movement through Get Outside BC, a program aimed at creating a network of young natural leaders. This hike is actually a sequel to a similar one taken place last year. This year’s outcome doubled that of last year’s.

Get Out and Hike Mount Gardner was open to any youth that had signed up through New Westminster Secondary. After the hikers came down, they retired to the cabin of Jonathan and Gillian Bennett, where they were well received.

The hike aimed to reconnect youth to the outdoors. “In the world that the youths live in today, the only patch of green we see is if we have a green screensaver that pops up as we busily fondly with our phones” Andrew, one of the participants, says. “The out-doors should be where the action is at, not our computer screens.”

Get Outside BC is a collabora-tive, youth-led project that strength-ens youth attachment to British Columbia’s natural heritage and wil-derness, and aims to create a network of young natural leaders across the province. Get Outside BC is orga-nized by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society- BC Chapter (CPAWS-BC), BC Parks, Mountain Equipment Co-operative (MEC) and the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada.

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Caring Circle receives donationIn addition to holding its sixth annual Movie Under the Stars, First Credit Union was proud to donate $500 to The Caring Circle and provide islander Lucy Beck with a $1500 scholarship for her science degree at the University of B.C.

Get Out and Hike Mount Gardner was open to any youth that had signed up through New Westminster Secondary.

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Wishing everyone a great BOWFESTWe ask you to bring a non-perishable food bank donation. It can be deposited at one of theentrance gates. Thanks!

— The Bowfest Board[ Pam Culver, Shawn Nagy, Adam Taylor, Holly Graff, Tony Dominelli, Andrew Stone and Lynne Hartle ]

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Noon to 12:30 Korean Dancers

Announcements12:45 to 1:30

Shari Ulrich Trio

Brittni & Georgia Dominelli1:45 to 2:30

Earl Jenkins Band

Carrie DeJong – Games2:45 to 3:15

Nicole Gibson Band

Ron van Dyke & Brenda Reid4:00 to 4:45

Tony Beck Band

Best Legs Contest5:00 to 5:45

Walk on Dead

6:00 to 6:45Deer in the Headlights

7:00 to 7:45Nelson Lapine Band

8:00 to 8:45John Stiver Band

9:00 to 10:30The Adam Woodall Band

the Adam Woodall Band

the Adam Woodall Band

Nicole gibson Band

Brittni & georgia Dominelli

Nelson Lapine Band.

The day that we celebrate Bowen Island and come

together as a commu-nity for our annual end of summer festival has finally arrived!

We hope that every-one comes out to enjoy the day, spend time with your family, reconnect with friends and neighbours, and celebrate all that our lovely island has to offer.

The Bowfest Board has tried to round up as many homegrown items as possible for this event, and we are happy to say that without exception, everything we have to offer is because of, and highlighting, all that is Bowen Island.

Our main stage tal-ent is a veritable who’s who of Bowen person-alities, and includes a few performers who have had the privilege of growing up here. We kick off the day with the Shari Ulrich Trio, which includes 23 year old Julia Graff, and 22 year old Ted Littlemore, both of whom can remem-ber their days of pre-school on the island, and who have for the last 3 summers toured all across Canada per-

forming with Shari Ulrich. Sisters Brittni and Georgia Dominelli continue the family musical legacy with another performance showcasing their sweet harmonies. Finally, not to be outdone on the youth front, IPS graduate Nicole Gibson brings her band to the Bowfest stage for the first time.

We have a number of reliable Bowen classics also slated to perform, including Earl Jenkins, Tony Beck, Nelson Lepine (who first per-formed at Bowfest in the 80’s), Ron Van Dyke and Brenda Reid (back from their other home in Mexico!), Deer in the Headlights, and the Walk on Dead.

Our Youth Centre leader, and musician extraordinaire, John Stiver brings with him harmonica player Jerome Godboo, who has performed with the likes of Prince, The Tragically Hip, Levon Helm, Jeff Healey, Ronnie Hawkins and many more. The eve-ning culminates with favorite local boy done good, Adam Woodall and his band of sea-soned rockers.

The rest of the day equally reflects our

community, with a concerted effort to have a near-zero waste event with Bowen Island Waste/Metro Vancouver/CAWES, the Legion’s Beer Garden and our Food Vendors all doing their part. We are lucky to have Bowen’s Flow Riders bring their dare-devil antics to our crowd, our Games and Rides company is Bowen owned and employs some island-ers, and all of our Food Vendors are local folks, including a salad food truck run by local Hood Point girl Christina Culver!

We would be remiss to not mention the perennial favourite of Bowfest, the Country Fair, where for decades the homegrown flavor of Bowen Island could be seen and tasted. Finally, what would Bowfest be without the memories of the adren-aline pumping action of the Slug Races?

We hope everyone enjoys the day, and we wish to thank our gen-erous sponsors and the volunteers who have helped make this event happen. Bowen Island has once again lived up to this year’s theme of “Island Paradise!”

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Bowfest is backSome scenes from last year’s Bowfest. The popular annual event returns tomorrow.

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