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Bowen Island’s Emergency Management Program is rolling out a new tool to help residents prepare for emergencies called BowENS – the Bowen Island Emergency Notification System.

The children are in school, the nights are getting longer and the weather, well the weather is just BC weather. This seasonal change, inevitably, is causing many of our thoughts to turn towards tidying up the yard and house.

Looking back nine years, Iris Carr recalls the arrival of three skunks and three racoons on Bowen Island, brought by pest control workers on the mainland. The racoons, she says, seem to have not prospered, but the skunk population is exploding.

In August, reports of an injured gosling in the lagoon circulated on social media and among CAWES volunteers.

The first time I met Chief Robert Joseph was in early 2003.

Bowen Island’s elected officials are in Vancouver this week meeting with municipal leaders from across the province as well as provincial ministers talking about big issues and how best to move forward on them.

In 2015, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans put fisheries closures in place to protect nine glass sponge reefs in Howe Sound and the Georgia Strait.

In the event of an emergency on Bowen Island where an evacuation order is issued, a Reception Centre will be opened by Emergency Social Services volunteers to receive evacuees.

It was four years ago, roughly, that Ann Silberman, executive director of the Bowen Children’s Centre (BCC), observed that the needs of local parents started shifting to require more care for children under three.

First Credit Union is pleased by the Government of British Columbia (B.C.)’s decision to reinstate the credit union tax treatment, which was announced in the September 11 B.C. budget update.