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The Canadian Education Association (CAE) has awarded Bowen Island’s Island Discovery Learning Community (IDLC) with the Ken Spencer Award for innovation.

This week’s municipal council meeting started with a plea to hold-off on a resolution made by councillor Sue Ellen Fast that recommended taking a position on the Woodfibre LNG project.

Hired at the end of the summer, Municipal Planner Cari St. Pierre has settled in with a Bowen address and is, as she says, is getting her feet on the ground, literally.

The remnants of bon fires, bottles, beer cans, oyster shells and random home appliances piled up outside the garbage can at Sandy Beach are a frustrating problem for local residents who make continuous efforts to keep the beach clean.

Roughly 30 people from various groups considered to be active stakeholders in Bowen Island’s parks and trails gathered at the Municipal Hall on Tuesday in order to begin fleshing out the parameters of a new Parks and Trails Master Plan for the island

On Saturday, a group of Bowen Islanders spent their day picking up plastic, cigarette packages, candy wrappers, and empty beer cans (mostly Budweiser) from the shoulders and ditches of several of the islands main roads.

The week of January 5, the first week of life with the Bowen Queen and the first week Peter King drove commuters downtown and back to Horseshoe Bay in the afternoon, the Bowen Express bus transported 322 passengers.

Bowen is peaceful, beautiful, relaxing and oh so close to Vancouver...

The Bowen branch of First Credit Union recently announced a Community Impact Fund which will be awarded annually to a local non-profit organization on Bowen Island.

Ann Silberman, executive director of the Bowen Island Children’s Centre, says that when she looks around at the programs and services offered to local families, she sees solid programming for children up to age 12, and for mothers and children.