In the Community

The Remembrance Day ceremony on Bowen is a favorite gathering but in the past I have felt somewhat guilty about liking it so much.

On November 10, 30 people gathered in the common house at Belterra for an event called “War, Remembrance and Reconciliation: Creating a Peaceful Future for All.

The craft fair will be 10-12:30 Dec. 2.

Two weeks ago, observers spotted several coho salmon at the top of the Bridal Veil Falls fish ladders. They were on their way to spawn in the gravel of Terminal Creek.

High school students have been building a new shed for bikes on the government dock.

Bowen in Transition is part of a world-wide network of “transition” initiatives in more than 1400 communities. These initiatives sprouted from an exercise carried out by permaculture students at Kinsale College in Ireland where they designed a theoretical fossil-free community.

My dad, flight-lieutenant Bruce Mitchell enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and learned to fly in 1941, when he was just 18. After basic training he was stationed in Northern England and flew U-Boat patrols over the North Sea.

Born in Toronto in 1921, as a young boy Bob Pratt’s family moved West. His father worked for the railway and so Robert, his two older sisters, mother and father when he was home, spent a few years living on Bowen Island.

Stanley Cameron set his pacifism aside during the Second World War.

At my first Bowen Remembrance Day commemoration, I was amazed by the crowd filling the street, spilling over onto the sidewalks and grass.