In the Community

The 29th Annual Bowen Island Community School Association (CSA)Christmas Craft Fair is set to showcase an abundance of creative, decorative, delicious and delightful local fare on December 7! The vendors are polishing and preparing their wares for th

Playing to a full house, this Monday's concert of romantic, evocative songs, performed by Susanna Braund, Doug Hillhouse and Doug Stepple set the pace for S.K.Y. activities in the weeks ahead.

The Friends of the Bowen Island Library who bring you the huge annual book sale face a big dilemma and need the community’s help to solve it.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21 Legion Dinner Doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30 Circus Show featuring Vancouver Circus performers: jugglers, acrobats, dragon act, contortionist and Bowen gymnasts BICS gym, $5 entry, starts at 7 p.m.

Have you heard of Vanuatu? It’s a smattering of more than 80 islands found in the South Pacific Ocean, inside an imaginary triangle formed by the Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia.

In the past week or so, one little dog and two cats on Bowen have died apparently from poisoning.

On November 17, the Bowen Island Garden Club welcomes Paul Spriggs. Spriggs will give a presentation about rock gardening highlighting a new style of called crevice gardening.

The Bowen Island Dog Ranch celebrates eight years in business this month and in dog years that makes them 45 years old. In Bowen Island years that makes them almost local, and in business it makes them a success.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14 Legion Dinner Doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 Crippen Stewardship Group Weed Warriors 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM We will meet by the bridge at the mouth of Davie’s Creek (at nearby picnic table in field).

This week we remembered the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, the most horrific conflict the world had seen to date only to be followed by an even worse one 25 years later.