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Scientist urges public to keep a close eye on life in local waters

According to statistics collected by the Bowen Island Visitors Centre, Bowen Island has welcomed more visitors this year than last - but only since the weather has improved.

Bowen Islanders Betty Morton and Anton Van Walraven jumped at the opportunity to stand outside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in West Vancouver while federal ministers and members of parliament an action plan on sockeye salmon Tuesday.

With a laugh and the assurance that she was not hurt, Alice Jennings says it was years ago that she nearly fell off a cliff walking home from work along Dorman Road, but the road itself has changed little.

How critical is the housing crisis on Bowen Island, and what are the factors contributing to it? Well, as council plugs away on initiatives such as Snug Cove House and the Grafton Lake development, attends webinars and follows procedure, islanders Mi

It’s been a wonderful, exhausting and occasionally maddening year away from this desk. It has also been, without a doubt, one that has zipped by so quickly I’m not sure if I’ve managed to catch my breath.

Thanks to a $400,000 cheque handed over to the municipality by representatives of Snug Cove House, Carol Mackinnon and Graham Ritchie, the development of Snug Cove House lands on Miller Road is one step closer to reality.

On Sunday afternoon, Bella Bottay returned to work at the dock at the Union Steamship Marina to find a huge crowd of people around a seal and its newborn pup.

Better communication, a lower buy-in for the Experience Card and, most importantly, the reinstating of some lost weekend sailings, drove the conversation during a biannual sitdown in mid-June between Bowen’s ferry advisory committee and B.C. Ferries.

A civil trial against the Bowen Island Municipality filed by Zongshen Envirotech Ltd. was put on hold last week due to the illness of the municipality’s lawyer.