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Bowen pair team up with Bobs & Lolo and receive grant for educational app about salmon life cycle.

Bowen pair team up with Bobs & Lolo and receive grant for educational app about salmon life cycle.

educational app gets funding
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earth day

Earth Day labyrinth
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Ferry costs

The cost of commuting
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A poem for a blue-eyed charmer

A poem for a blue-eyed charmer

We lost Piers Hayes, a dear member of our community today. Any of you who visited Bowen Island would have met him at The Snug where he held court and almost certainly called you “Blue.
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Community meetings with MP draw anti-LNG crowds

Community meetings with MP draw anti-LNG crowds

Pamela Goldsmith-Jones hosted town hall LNG meetings in Squamish, Gibsons, and West Vancouver to overflowing crowds. In Squamish, organizers had to open up the stage and bring in chairs.
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Porpoises are making a splash around Bowen

Porpoises are making a splash around Bowen

With smelt growingg on the pilings around Squamish, we may see more cetacean activity around Bowen Island as they hatch and become a food source for a wide range of predators from fish to porpoises.
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Wynn’s Garden Island Style

Wynn’s Garden Island Style

The topic of "garden style" comes up often in gardening circles, traditionally a region, culture and/or ecology of a place, including familiar ones like English style, Mediterranean or Japanese.
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Island is grieving

Island is grieving

Condolences for the Hayes family
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The global energy revolution

The global energy revolution

“This is the biggest market opportunity the world has ever seen.”
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Rotary aims to bring AEDs to Bowen

Rotary aims to bring AEDs to Bowen

Jump Start program may help save lives
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