In the Community

The Plant Sale and Raffle is the Bowen Island Garden Club's annual fundraiser.

Should democracies be moving to Internet voting?Should we be deploying electronic voting machines to speed up the counting of ballots?What kinds of protections need to be in place when computers are introduced into the election process?These and othe

On Tuesday, May 15, SKY has arranged a trip to the George Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Delta and afterwards a "do it yourself" lunch at Steveston. The bus will be going on the 9:30 a.m.

Over the last five years, Phillip Vannini's conducted 400 interviews in three dozen B.C.

Thanks to funding from Art Starts, theBICS Action Group (Community School Association and Parent Advisory Council,) and a generous donation from Opus Art Supplies, the Virtues Made Visible project brings three artists-in-residence to the Bowen Island

It's 1 p.m. and Spider Robinson is surprised that there's someone ringing his doorbell. It turns out that he hasn't written the interview time in his calendar and hasn't expected anyone.

Bowen Islanders already participate actively in the multi-faceted recycling program at BIRD and they will soon be able to do even more to decrease our carbon-footprint.

Two weeks ago, James Tuer invited me to be one of four critics for the projects presented by his second year landscape students at UBC. It was a rewarding experience to review14 student projects that rejuvenate Bowen Island's Snug Cove village.

If you have children aged two to six and you want to create a climate of respect and safety at home, help your children develop critical thinking skills and/or have challenges due to sibling rivalry, you could contact staff from the following centres

Sometimes Lisa Shatzky carries around a few of her poetry books. She leaves them behind on a bus, at a train station or the airport. Once she got a phone call from a stranger who found her book in the Montreal subway.