In the Community

The 20th annual Restorative Justice Week is just wrapping up, making this an occasion to note the concept and all the local people who have engaged to further it. Jane Miller is one.

As this year’s incredible chum spawner return becomes a fond memory, we realize that all good things must come to an end.

Event deals with managing pain as well as coping with loss

November is Movember month, the popular mustache growing phenomenon that has swept the nation! The motto for this movement is “Stop Men dying too young.” Men’s health has become a popular issue lately and for good reason.

Caring Circle is hosting another educational talk on concussion and brain injury. This is the second in our series and Sandy Logan will be our guest speaker.

Piano teacher Elaine Taylor says she was delighted, although not entirely surprised to learn that two of her students, Nevé Freed and Miranda Forster won First Class Honours with Distinction in their Royal Conservatory of Music exams that took place

Nine years ago I started the Reindeer Run as I wanted to offer a winter walk/run event to get us outside and moving in the grey and drizzle and at the same time support Bowen Island’s Christmas Hamper Fund.

Last January, Kate Coffey brought Bowen Islanders together at the Gallery at Artisan Square to talk about her work at the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre (SIRC)in Sangh, Nepal.

To ensure that we do not forget those who did not return home from the war cenotaphs were built in cities, towns and villages. Bowen Island was no exception. The men on our cenotaph are remembered every Nov. 11, as are all the victims of every war.

I was born in the Netherlands and moved to Canada 36 years later, in 1999.