In the Community

Are you looking for a New Year’s resolution to get excited about? Come and join a fantastic group of devoted people every Saturday morning for 13 weeks.

“Gardening can teach us something of what we must know to survive. We have believed that what is good for us is good for the world and we have been wrong. We haven’t thought deeply enough. We must change our thinking.

I had a very moving experience at Bowen Children’s Centre on Dec. 19.

In the midst of the cold and clouds, why would anyone choose to swim in the frigidity of our local ocean –let alone in the morning, when the light’s barely risen to reveal the icicles stuck to your eyelids? Okay, maybe not icicles.

Downward Facing Broad Feb. 8 – 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Expect to hear chuckles, giggles and guffaws emanating from Tir-na-nOg Feb. 8, courtesy of one funny lady.

As the holiday fog lifts and 2020 gets underway, 'tis the season to dispose of Christmas trees. Bowen Islanders who don't want to use this year's tree as next year's yule log have a couple of options. Bowen Island Recycling Depot on Mt. Gardner Rd.

Here's our annual roundup of local success stories from the past year! Happy New Year Bowen! Books published by Bowen authors A Blooming - Jude Neale We Sing Ourselves Back - Jude Neale Carpe Fin - Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Grotesque Tenderness - Da

We've compiled the Coles Notes version of a year of joy and sorrow on Bowen Island. What was significant for you in 2019? Let us know at [email protected]. January Emergency weather shelter opens at Collins Hall.

New Year’s resolutions! What often seems like a great idea on December 31 is routinely forgotten by the first of February.

The week before Christmas holidays, our entire school at Ridgeway Elementary in North Vancouver would congregate in the school gym to sing Christmas carols, sitting cross legged on the gritty, cold floor, vaguely uncomfortable against my bare legs (s