In the Community

Stuff your stockings with fun and fitness this year. Bowen Island Community Recreation Gift Certificates (any $ amount) available right up til noon on Christmas Eve! Just pick them up at the Rec office! www.bowencommunityrecreation.

I love Christmas on Bowen Island. Our celebrations have evolved into a traditional pattern with simple but festive components. The season opens with Light up Bowen, Saturday December 6th (this year falling on St Nicholas Day).

2010 was the anniversary of Captain Cates’s Terminal Farms – 300 acres of agricultural land stretching from what is now the meadow all the way to Collins Farm.

Remember the classroom scene at the start of the movie ELF starring Will Ferrell? According to Buddy and the North Pole, the code of the elves is*: Treat everyday like Christmas.

The motivation of the 19 moustache growers on Bowen Island in the month of November was to show Canada what a difference a small island can make.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 5 Legion Dinner Doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30 Sears Christmas Wish Dinner Documentary film screening: I Am 7 p.m. start, free public event. Bring favourite pillow, blanket and snacks. Children welcome.

The 2015 Bowen Reads calendar is out and available for purchase at the library, and many other locations on Bowen. This is our second calendar celebrating our community members and the joy of reading.

What if the person giving you a massage knew how to work on just the right spot, found just the right pressure, and stayed there exactly the right length of time? With self massage using yoga balls, you get to be that perfect therapist.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28 Legion Dinner Doors open at 5 p.m. dinner starts at 6:30 Sears Christmas Wish Dinner SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29 Snug Cove House Society AGM 11 a.m.

Can we find other ways to give this Christmas? Consider the mind-numbing malls, the desperate searching, the dubious expenditures, the time, the driving, the stress.