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Exploring the exponential gifts of swim training

Exploring the exponential gifts of swim training

For the last four weeks rain or shine, long or short, energetic or dragging my butt, cold or not, with friends or solo - I’ve been training to swim 1.
Rooted in history and home: Orbaek Farm to Table Takeaway & Meats

Rooted in history and home: Orbaek Farm to Table Takeaway & Meats

A farm-to-table food lounge quietly opened at Meadowbrook Corner last year but due to COVID-19 Orbaek Farm to Table Takeaway & Meats looks a little different this year
Managing tourism: what’s up at the Bowen visitor’s centre

Managing tourism: what’s up at the Bowen visitor’s centre

It’s been two weeks since B.C. opened up to non-essential travel in phase three of the provincial restart plan so the Undercurrent dropped by Tourism Bowen Island’s Cardena Rd. office to see what greets our off-island visitors.
Celebrating community spirit and volunteers

Celebrating community spirit and volunteers

Here are the 2020 Community Spirit Award recipients
Bowen-raised musician Le Ren talks her upcoming EP, COVID-19 and social revolution

Bowen-raised musician Le Ren talks her upcoming EP, COVID-19 and social revolution

A pandemic hasn't stopped Lauren Spear, Le Ren, from releasing music
‘Beginning of a healing journey’: Nexwlélexwm sign blessing

‘Beginning of a healing journey’: Nexwlélexwm sign blessing

I’ve just returned from the Nexwlélexwm sign blessing ceremony, and I want to share my experience with you and what I learned.
‘To be bold enough and care enough to challenge each other to change’: compassion meditation

‘To be bold enough and care enough to challenge each other to change’: compassion meditation

Highlights from from the Well's compassion meditation last week
Sink into community seaweed challenge

Sink into community seaweed challenge

Any islander can be a citizen scientist thanks to the iNaturalist app
Art of the dog paddle

Art of the dog paddle

Mary Letson’s love of ocean swimming is nothing new – she first swam across King Edward Bay at four years old – but with each decade, her relationship with the ocean transforms, as does her style
Q&A: aging in place on Bowen Island, tips from an interior designer

Q&A: aging in place on Bowen Island, tips from an interior designer

Barbara Wahler is a local professional interior designer of more than 30 years of experience, a member of the interior designers of Canada and a member of the American Society of Interior Design.