In the Community

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.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, one of the first acts was to set up an institute to produce biographies of Alexander von Humboldt. He was beautifully blonde and blue-eyed, the ideal Aryan.

It is obvious that Seaside Cottage has gotten a new lease on life. There is a new porch out back, the inside walls are painted and the cabinets have been repaired.

Are you looking for some fun for spring break? Bowen Island Community Recreation daycamps for ages eight to 11 will have a private tour through the Vancouver Art Gallery, a bike ride in Stanley Park, a swim in West Vancouver, play disc golf in Queen