In the Community

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

Exciting news flash! Returning coho spawners are difficult to observe because their dark reddish colour makes them hard to see in the water, they are fast swimmers and coho like to travel and spawn at night.

Everyone’s relationship with Christmas seems to be complicated mix of expectations and emotions. Personally, I wasn’t raised in any religion, so its meaning has always been about the gathering of family and the giving of gifts.

The initiative is part of the 120th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running citizen science bird census in the world

Snug Cove House board director Ida Goodreau died last week.

Christmastime is meant to be a season when friends and family gather to share laughter, food and drink and count their many blessings. But, this is not the case for everyone. Grief and sadness can also play a role at this time of year.

It’s that time of year again! Get in the holiday spirit and bring your children, aged three to 12, to the Knick Knack Nook for the special Children’s Holiday Shopping afternoon.

By the looks of her suitcase, Holly Elf sure likes to travel. Holly’s frosted journeys are the subject of the Sweet Stand’s 2019 entry for the Grouse Mountain Gingerbread Village Challenge, a fundraiser for B.C. Children’s Hospital.