If there’s one place on Bowen Island where a little slug-like behaviour is called for, it’s in front of BICS.
So it seemed fitting for Bowen Island Municipality to use Oscar Knowles-Dekkers’ slug design for the crosswalk in front of the school.
Oscar is 10 and when his fellow students at BICS learned that he had to skip class early on Monday to paint the crosswalk, a cheer went up. Slug power!
“There are a lot of slugs on Bowen,” Oscar wrote when he entered the Snug Cove Beautification Committee’s crosswalk competition as part of the paving project. “It’s part of living here and going slow….
“The slugs could be getting ready for the annual slug race at Bowfest, heading up the Cove, but some of them don’t know what they are doing and are turned around. This makes it more interesting than all of them lined up facing the same way. Some of them are a bit ahead of the others, not all in line which is just what happens at the slug race! One or two of them have gone ahead of the line-up.”
Oscar’s design was one of the three finalists and the online voters’-choice competition, which was won by Diana Izdebski’s salmon design. The other finalist was Burle Konopa’s tree design.
