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The ferry running between Horseshoe Bay and Snug Cove is now, officially, running on the summer schedule.

The spring of 2017 has seen flooding in the Okanagan, record rainfalls and, according to Environment Canada the “gloomiest” day on record (March 28).

After releasing the two proposed options for the future of the Davies Orchard portion of Crippen Park in late April, eleven Committee members and five staff from Metro Parks came to Bowen Island and toured the site.

A tiny home is defined as a home that is less than 500 square feet, and mobile.

With 9,649 votes cast in his favour, Liberal MLA Jordan Sturdy will continue to represent the West Vancouver Sea to Sky riding in the BC Legislature.

On Monday, Andrea Layzell’s grade four and five students at Bowen Island Community School (BICS) turned their classroom into a voting station, complete with electoral officers, scrutineers and ballot boxes.

Thirty-eight warmhearted, courageous people sat in circle last Sunday at The Gallery and began the messy and glorious business of reconciliation. They shed many tears, laughed a lot, and made a genuine commitment to making a difference.

On Saturday evening at Collins Hall, Green Party candidate Dana Taylor told an audience of Bowen Islanders that his candidacy started in February, after he asked some friends who were members of the BC Green Party who would be running in the Sea to S

An all-candidates meeting brought more than a dozen Bowen Islanders to Lion’s Bay last Thursday. Many had strong opinions on the industrialization of Howe Sound and Woodfibre LNG.

Angered by the need to continually pick up garbage off the side of Adams road near the Dog Ranch, Karen Munroe organized last weekend’s island-wide Earth Day clean-up. “Our roads are a giant garbage box,” she says.