In the Community

It will be almost a week after Valentines' Day, but red will still be front row centre at next Mondays' meeting of the Bowen Island Garden Club. Speaker Daniel Mosquin will be talking about plants and not about valentines.

My garden is kind of an amorphous (fluid) garden that is, let's say, open to suggestion, but not instruction. This the garden taught me early on it has a mind of its own.

Residents of Bowen Island will be in for a treat on the afternoon of Sunday, March 4, when Shirley Wrinch will be showing some of the marvelous period costumes that she has created over the years.

The years that Jane Kenyon spent on Bowen Island proved to be transformative. She arrived here as a weaver and left working primarily in embroidery.

Obedient chickens?Self-illuminating speed bumps?Invisible humans? A world featuring these possibilities and more will be opened up by Island Pacific School students at the annual science fair and open house to be held at their school Wednesday, Febru

"The Merchant of Death is Dead." When Alfred Nobel read this obituary, he was horrified. A Paris newspaper mistakenly thought that he was dead instead of his wealthier older oil baron brother, Ludwig.

It started with the metallic sound of a tin spoon scraping over a dish and the feeling of being restless and tethered at the same time.

There is a consensus that our local recycling depot is doing a great job and that the community is pulling its weight.

"Schools are in a period of transition," Dr. Ted Spear said. "I see the current school system as an aircraft carrier that is being retrofitted to become a luxury liner.

Are you feeling a little weary of Hallmark holidays and mushy love stories? Then this evening was created with you in mind.