In the Community

It's that time again: a new session of partner dance classes is starting up next month on Bowen Island, and everyone is invited. As usual, there are two dance genres on offer. This time they are Country two-step and West-Coast Swing.

The need to have new class sets of musical instruments belonging to BICS was identified at the start of the school year, and the cost for the wish list put together by music teacher Steve Karagianis, a.k.a. Mr. K, was going to be over $9,000.

In real life, the saddle-back bush cricket stands maybe two centimetres tall, taking into account the bend of its legs. In Tristan Deggan's photo displayed at the Undercurrent office, the insect is nearly 10 times that size.

Last week, a group of Grade 6 and 7 Bowen students spent a snowy winter night camping on Hollyburn Mountain, snowshoeing, conducting avalanche search and rescue training and building snow shelters.

The Bowen Island Nature Club began the year in style with a traditional AGM potluck and an excellent presentation by UBC marine mammal expert Andrew Trites, explaining why B.C.

SKY has invited Barbara Wahler to be the speaker of the week on Monday March 11, at 11 a.m. Barbara is an interior designer practicing out of her studio on Bowen Island.

Congratulations to last cipher contest's winner, Beth Legacy-Cole. Tanya Voormeij-de Zwart came in as a close second. The first person to submit the correct solution to this week's Cipher Contest will receive a gift certificate for Cocoa West.

The end of an era the end of the penny no more penny candies (wait, those were gone a long time ago), no more $1.99 days. From now on, we round up or down when we buy something and the difference is absorbed by the store or the shopper.

Theirs is a winter union they met in their advanced years on Bowen Island. They were drawn to one another, yet they argued a lot. He's a scientist, she is an artist and their views seemed to clash over almost everything.

I've known Victor Chan since Audrey and I moved to Bowen nearly two decades ago when this particle physicist from Hong Kong was improbably running a restaurant in Snug Cove.