In the Community

Sign up for the library's writing contest. The theme is food. Submissions are due Thursday, August 11. There are weekly events for children ages five to nine starting Wednesday, July 6 from 11 a.m. to noon and Thursday, July 7 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.

With just two weeks to go until Write on Bowen, several workshops are filling up. Local writers interested in attending one, two, or more workshops (or purchasing a pass) should register soon to secure the events they want to attend.

There was a time when the island's Summer Market was a bustling, thriving social centre. On a holiday weekend in the summer, there could be 30 vendors selling everything from organic pies to jewellery to handknit sweaters to crafts.

If you can talk, you can write. If you can spin life's whimsical moments into stories that make friends laugh, you might want to incorporate humour into your writing.

Almost 200 people bid farewell to more than 5,000 tiny coho salmon on June 5. The 18th annual Bowen Island Coho Bon Voyage, sponsored by Bowen Fish and Wildlife, took place at the Terminal Creek Hatchery and Lagoon Causeway.

The following letter was first sent to the Aaron Sluggett Memorial Scholarship committee by this year's scholarship recipient. Running is therapeutic for me, as I'm sure it is for many of you.

What a turnout we had for Aaron's Run on Sunday morning - and a beautiful day too! Many thanks to the 118 runners, walkers and families with strollers who came out to support Aaron's Run, get some exercise and eat pie.

Twenty of Bowen's youth came out last Thursday night for the annual Leaders in Training event led by Bowen Island Community Recreation and sponsored by Bowen Island First Credit Union.

Please join us in congratulating the Island Pacific School Grade 9 graduating class of 2011.

With the great outdoors right outside the door, Bowen gives kids and adults get plenty of opportunity to see and learn about their environment. There is, however, an environment that isn't as easy to access the shores around Bowen Island.