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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.

Side-stepping, Fire Chief Ian Thompson can walk comfortably, but with little extra room between the front of the fire-truck and the garage door that the truck will exit when necessary.

On Tuesday morning at 6:45 a.m., the Bowen Island Fire Department received a call about a brush fire on the wooded hillside between the upper ferry line-up and Artisan Square.

RCMP Constable Kory Hendricks has been waiting four years to call Bowen Island home, and after five weeks, says he is settling in and getting accustomed to the speed limit.