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Housing activist counts himself among islanders with “inadequate housing”

Throughout a two and a half year consultation process, Bowen Islanders had their say about parks and trails on Bowen Island. Unsurprisingly, islanders said they enjoy walking, hiking, swimming and searching for dinosaur bones in these spaces.

According to Ocean Ambassadors Canada, there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean.

Council confirmed Bowen’s commitment to community co-operation in Howe Sound by agreeing to annual contributions funding the creation of a marine reference guide. This is the first action item in the Ocean Watch – Howe Sound Edition (oceanwatch.

At midnight on Sunday, October 29, the paramedics on Bowen informed the RCMP of a vehicle that drove over an embankment on Charlie’s Lane. Both driver and passenger were injured in the crash and taken to the hospital by water taxi.

Lots 62, 64, 65 and 68 on Rivendell Drive sat bare for years. The owner of these lots looked to a new kind of zoning on Bowen Island in the hopes that they would sell.

Last weekend, The Orchard Recovery Centre armed thirteen Bowen Islanders with their own Naloxone overdose kits and the knowledge required to use them if they find someone in an overdose situation.

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.