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On June 1, members of the C3 expedition departed Toronto on a 67 meter Canadian-flagged research icebreaker to travel and explore the length of Canada’s three coastlines. On October 22, the ship will stop near Gambier Island.

It is probably a happy accident, says Jana Honing, that the playground space at Bowen Children’s Centre (BCC) allowed her son Matthew to spend his pre-school days playing happily and independently with his peers.

It was more than three years ago now that the Caring Circle’s director, Colleen O’Neil first heard of the BC Community Paramedicine Pilot Program. “I saw this as a critical opportunity for Bowen Island,” says O’Neil.

On June 1, members of the C3 expedition departed Toronto on a 67 meter Canadian-flagged research icebreaker to travel and explore the length of Canada’s three coastlines. On October 22, the ship will stop near Gambier Island.

This fall, business owners in Snug Cove, including Glenn Cormier owner of the Bowen Island Pub and Daniel Heald, owner of the Ruddy Potato, have been asking council for help to find affordable rental housing for their staff.

An estimated $20,000 amount required for construction

Most readers will have heard by now that Metro Parks will act upon one of their two options for the Davies Orchard area: Option 1 will see the removal of six out of the ten remaining cottages at a cost of nearly $ 800,000.

Tim Calder says the desire to climb Mount Everest is more of a life-wish than a death-wish, ultimately, a bid to get the most out of life.

Islanders may have grumbled on Monday when a power outage hit parts of Bowen Island, thinking that perhaps the outage was caused by construction on Trunk Road.

Representatives from TransLink presented their idea for a new pilot project to improve bus service on Bowen Island at this week’s Transportation Advisory Committee meeting (BIMTAC).