In the Community

Bownen Island Trail Society and Bowen Trail Riders Association marked Mt. Gardner Summit Trail last weekend, just a they did Upper, Mid and Lower Skid Trails last fall.

Talks, fundraisers, workshops AGMs and a brand new apple blossom festival

Bid the locally incubated fry adieu as they begin their lives in the ocean Friday at about 5 p.m.

Spring is here and Bowen’s insects are on the move. In the forest, the best places for insect watching are where there are flowers. The salmonberry and huckleberry bushes are coming into full flower along the trails in Crippen Park near where I live.

Ginger Meatballs and Disco Monkey Busters put Bowen’s best foot forward earlier this month. The Bowen Island Community School teams both placed in their divisions in the provincial Destination Imagination competition in West Vancouver.

Let’s go around in a circle and talk about our kids the moderator instructed. After the eighth “father” related their “fathering” experience I was looking for the exit. I was number 10 so felt a bit sheepish about hitting the door.

In the first week of April, eight Island Pacific School students attended the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair at UBC.

A revitalized Bowen Heritage board is celebrating spring with a blossoming new tradition.

Marcus Hondro thoroughly deconstructs the speech every Bowen Islander knows off by heart.