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Perspectives on Bowen’s Five Year Financial Plan, 2017

We’re good to go! The project thermometer in front of the Library has hit our construction fundraising target; the six-handled “Shovel in the Ground” was wielded by our MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones and other dignitaries at our launch ceremony; and our c

Bowen Islanders stand-out for contributions to report on Howe Sound’s health

This week’s council meeting kicked off with a staunch objection from Edna Thomson, a homeowner on Miller Road, to council’s plans to create parking on Lot 3, across the street from the Snug Cove House lands.

Islander Kim Hauner is the owner of three electric vehicles: two bicycles, a GEM (which drives a top speed of 40km per hour and a total of 40km on a full charge) and a Nissan Leaf.

Guillaume Gros has a seven-year history as a seasonal worker on Bowen (you may recognize him from Tuscany), and as his fiancée and business partner Yuki Goto says, he just completely loves this place.

Leah May Walker says she had recently had someone over to look at the trees in her yard, and had a few that were marked to come down. Then on Tuesday, a gust of wind blew and she heard a huge crash.

Snow and storms have forced workers to stop construction repeatedly throughout the winter on the new pub building at the corner of Bowen Island Trunk Road and Dorman Road.

At an open house held last Wednesday by D.K. Harris properties about the rezoning for its medical centre project, attendees offered almost universal support and said there was little standing in the way of council’s approval.

Louise McIntosh, owner operator of Bowen Waste, says that due to a high level of participation in the refundable beverage containers program at BIRD (Bowen Island Recycling Depot), has put $44,000 into the hands of local community groups in the past