In the Community

Food waste does not equal compost, in André Chollat's book, at least not here and now. He thinks that the decision to ban food waste from general waste later this year will require a shift in how we look at food.

Shauna Jennings is the community recreation programmer of the Bowen Island Municipality. The Victoria University graduate, BCRPA certified personal trainer and mother of two is dedicated to helping our community stay fit.

Featuring new works by Bowen Island based artist/painter Georgina Farah, I'll Follow You into Quiet, is the title of a forthcoming solo exhibition with Buckland Southerst Gallery located at 2460 Marine Drive, West Vancouver.

If it's true what they say, "you are what you eat" then I'd like to have a huge helping of what Ellie Mackey is serving up. She makes juggling numerous jobs, volunteer work and family life look easy.

Over the years, few people have ventured near the Fairy Fen area, but this has changed.

Setting high expectations and goals for oneself is easy but to have the awareness, dedication and expertise to actually achieve them is something Fawn Gill, owner of The Gym here on Bowen (www.thegymonbowen.com), has definitely mastered.

When I won the Every Kid's Dream contest and went to the game on January 21, I had so much fun. I can remember it all like it was one second ago.

Joanna Quarry is often seen volunteering her time and expertise as a Sun Run Coordinator, the BIFC U-8 girls soccer coach and the Ultimate team coach for IPS.

"The thing is to be in your heart and not your head," I am told as I stand in the cozy and intimate candle-lit studio of Healing Song; a unique sound therapy practice on Bowen Island.

On December 28, 2011, 33 people spent the day counting birds in Bowen's various habitats and on the water surrounding us.