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Going well beyond the fifteen minutes allotted to public comment at this week’s Council of the Whole meeting, Bowen Islanders brought forward a variety of perspectives on plans for the long-term management of Mannion Bay.

Bowen LIFT (Linking Islanders through Friendly Transportation) is growing and we’d like to give you an update.

By the beginning of this week, the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce had sold 40 of 100 tickets to the inaugural Taste of Bowen event.

Thirteen year-old Finn Corrigan-Frost says he was one of four “hard-core” users of the bike park on Mount Gardner Road, and that there were at least four other kids who used the park two or three times per week, most weeks.

On Saturday, May 24, September Morn Beach and Mannion Bay hosted scenes of simulated marine rescues by the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCMSAR).

While council came to a decision to support the Bowen Island library in its efforts to build an extension this week, they were also confronted by a new request concerning the library’s property.

The bus drivers for Bowen Island Community Transit will be letting riders on for free on June 6th in order to celebrate the service’s 15th anniversary.

This Tuesday evening at 7p.m. the Bowen Island Garden Club welcomes west coast gardening expert Linda Gilkeson, Ph.D. for a presentation titled “Grow the Most Food in the Smallest Space (with the least work).

As Rudy North recalls, the fishing off the West side of Bowen Island was pretty good back in the 1970s. “When I got home from work in the summer, if I wasn’t dragging the kids around on water skis I was off fishing by myself,” he says.