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As of last week, people heading to Horseshoe Bay who’ve never heard of Bowen Island will know that that yet another island destination lies ahead – as Bowen Island was added to the highway sign listing the destinations of Gibsons and Nanaimo.

Bowen remains the only island within Islands Trust to not adopt Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program

The Executive Director of the Future of Howe Sound Society , Ruth Simons, came to Bowen on Monday to discuss the Howe Sound Community Forum and urge council to accept the invitation to host the Forum this coming April.

The Knick Knack Nook has tallied the donations made in 2014, and in terms of financial funds dispersed, the total exceeds more than $40,000.

1. BAA has the farming/agriculture history wrong: We got our info from a well-respected Bowen history book.

Sometime between the afternoon of Sunday January 18 and the following morning an unknown person took an Irish Terrier from the area of Arbutus Lane. The dog was found abandoned and uninjured in a dog crate in Stanley Park.

On Friday, January 9th, Bowen Islanders working for Wakefield Construction Inc. were informed that their employer was headed for receivership.

Linda Hurlburt says that when she and her husband bought their waterfront property on Mannion Bay in 1990, they were sure they had found the most beautiful spot on Bowen Island.

On the morning of Thursday, January 8, I held a vigil in Snug Cove in honour of the people killed in the Wednesday attacks in Paris. It was just me on that very cold morning, and my little sign, “not afraid.

Last week, the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia announced its plan to sink the decomissioned Canadian naval destroyer, the HMCS Annapolis, off of Gambier Island on January 16.