In the Community

Willow Gilbert auditioned for the West Vancouver Strings Orchestra in June of 2010. She was accepted to play with this orchestra and just loves the experience. Willow has also played for a season with the Vancouver debut Symphony from 2009 to 2010.

This year, the youth curator program looked at the history of energy in B.C. Students were interested in a wide range of topics, including how we lived before electricity, and what type of transportation people used to get to and from the island.

The Gallery at Artisan Square will soon be opening its doors to the annual Mini-Gala fundraising event and exhibition.

Usually Bowen Island Golf Club tournaments produce an incredible performance by a competitor that allows him or her to stand ahead of fellow competitors and win the top prize.

At almost 5 feet 11, she usually towers over the wooden pulpit at the Bowen Island United Church but today Reverend Shelagh MacKinnon delivers her sermon from a more humbling height of her wheelchair - a true testament of her dedication to, and love

I've grown accustomed to seeing evidence of confusion at the depot: other plastics in the translucent milk jugs' bin.

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.