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The sun shone for Bowen’s teachers picketing outside the Bowen Island Community School grounds on Tuesday morning, but the greater gift for them was the morning’s news that the BC Teachers Federation and the provincial government had reached a tentat

Former municipal councilors Wolfgang Duntz and Daron Jennings took the floor at this week’s council meeting to pitch two large developments that they say are connected through the demographic necessities of Bowen Island.

A vote by BC teacher’s to drop a contract clause about class size and composition and leave the dispute with the provincial government in the hands of a third party will not mean an end to the strike, whateer the outcome.

Tom Matzen says he’s been pitching the idea of using two lanes in the Lower Cove to just about everyone since he first heard the idea, and this week, he pitched it to council.

“I was eating lunch and heard a horrible thud,” says Barbara Colquhoun, describing the moments before she discovered that a bird had flown into the glass window leading to her back deck in Sealeigh Park last Tuesday (August 26).

The water bottles, sweatshirts, stray shoes, and countless other odds and ends that were gathered into a lost and found pile are a tribute to a summer full of action and laughter at the grounds of the Bowen Island Community School.

Bowen Island RCMP received information of a male in full cardiac arrest on the government dock in Snug Cove. Cst. Mulrooney was on scene within 2-3 minutes and brought the AED (Automated external defibrillator) to the dock.

Over the summer, Bowen Islanders for Ferry Fairness (BIFF) continued advocating for and facilitating change in transportation services on Bowen Island. The focus this season shifted from protest to conversation.

We do NOT talk much about how we die. Yet facing death is thoroughly interesting and absorbing and challenging. I have choices which I have reviewed, and either adopted or discarded. I think I have hit upon the right choice for me.

By the time this paper is published and delivered, chairs of Ferry Advisory Committees from coastal communities will have met in person, in Vancouver.