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As of Monday evening, every resident of Bowen Island has the right to live in a healthy environment including the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, consume safe food, have access to nature, know about pollutants and contaminants released

Pearl Gottschalk was teaching 30 kids between the ages of 3 and 16 to do the hokey-pokey when the earth started to shake.

In the year 2000, the Howe Sound Community Forum’s principles of co-operation were signed on Bowen Island and last week, the biannual meeting brought mayors, councillors and other leaders from the region together on Bowen once again.

On May 5, a revamped Queen of Capilano will be back in action between Horseshoe Bay and Snug Cove, with room for 15 extra cars on deck.

On Wednesday, municipal councilors unanimously approved of a 2.4% increase in property taxes for this year as well as a plan for the next five years of the Bowen Island’s financial future.

“This past week has not been a good week for the environment, not that we’ve had many good weeks in the past 10 years,” Liberal Member of Parliament John McKay told Bowen Islanders last weekend. “This past week was budget week, and Mr.

A healthy shoreline is good for human security, ecology and economics, and Bowen’s shores have a lot of potential, says biologist Ramona DeGraaf.

At 10:30 on Sunday evening, Áine Corrigan-Frost was walking to a friend’s house near the Bowen Island Legion when she saw a large, “fluffy” brown and black dog emerge from what appeared to be a shared driveway.

Year eighteen of heron nesting season in Snug Cove is underway, and as Senior Bylaw Officer Bonny Brokenshire told council last week, Bylaw Services has yet again received numerous inquiries about activities that may or may not contravene the municip

At 35 years of age, Bowen Islander Monika Sabathil was diagnosed with a kidney disease called Glomerulonephritis, a condition, she says, that she has probably had since she was a teenager and may not have ever been diagnosed in earlier times.