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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.

Louise McIntosh with Bowen Waste says that Saturday’s special waste day brought approximately 30 tonnes of junk to the recycling depot. “That’s pretty typical,” she says. “Add to the 30 mattresses and 20 appliances brought in.

The Union Steamship Company (USSC), Bowen Dog Ranch and Michelle Nelson were all nominated for Excellence Awards through the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

For years, NDP Sea to Sky candidate Michelle Livaja commuted to a full-time job and taking on university courses. “So I feel the pain of the commuter,” she says, adding that she also understands the struggle just to make life work here.

After more than two decades, the 95 foot boat Black Eyes made a permanent departure from Mannion Bay last Sunday.

Visitors to Cape Roger Curtis have been known to keep their eyes on the ocean, and every now and then, when a whale flips its tail or a pod swims by their hopes are fulfilled.