Local News

On Saturday evening, the candidate for the federal Liberals in West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country visited Bowen Island to meet with constituents at Collins Hall.

The owner of the Bowen Island Pub, Glenn Cormier, introduced his off-island business partner Nicholas Shaw prior to briefly presenting his plans to re-develop the corner of Bowen Island Trunk and Dorman Road.

At council this week the municipality’s chief bylaw officer, Bonnie Brokenshire offered statistics proving that Bowen Islanders don’t pay fines when they are ticketed. In a typical year, she said, just 30 percent of bylaw notices are paid.

On Tuesday, September 30th, Bowen Island Municipal Council is scheduled to consider adoption of Bowen Island Municipality Special Waste Fees Bylaw No. 370, 2014.

Until last week, Suzanne Schloegel had never seen a humpback whale in the waters around Bowen. When it finally happened, she was a little too panicked to take a good look.

Purveyors of accommodation on Bowen Island had a typically busy summer this year, with those who are a part of the Accommodations Association being booked up into mid-September by mid-July.

On Wednesday morning, community leaders attending the Union of BC Municipality’s (UBCM) annual convention in Whistler voted unanimously in support of a resolution requesting the province of British Columbia to reverse changes made to ferry services a

Back in May, when council rejected a request for $10,000 to study the feasibility of using the Gore Composting method to process Bowen’s domestic organic waste-on island, the Knick Knack Nook stepped in with funding.

The economic impact of the ferry system stretches well beyond impacts to coastal communities and, in an era of rising fares and increasingly limited services, those impacts come at a high price.

According to the statistics released by the Bowen Island Visitor’s Centre, the total number of visitors greeted by staff there this summer was 5,388.