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To get her Yellow Belt, seven year-old Lucy Robichaud had to do a set of jumping jacks, fifty push-ups and break a board by performing an axe-kick.

Bowen's new online store launched in the first week of December, just on time for holiday shopping. The Island Shoppe (www.theislandshoppe.

The annual 'Spirit of Solstice' concert, presented by the Bowen Island Arts Council, is back for its second year, building on its resounding success last year.

In the past month, council has approved the purchase of a Bobcat Versahandler with a total cost of more than $70 thousand as well as a contract, worth a maximum cost of $40 thousand dollars, to build a lock-block retaining wall on Bowen Island Trunk

Of the two hundred and fifteen people who responded to a survey distributed, over two weekends, on the ferry runs which are slated to be cut by April of 2014, one-hundred and thirty four said they were travelling for work.

Ron Woodall's new book of comics The guy who makes the heron sounds will be ready in time for Christmas, and on sale at the Gallery@Artisan Square, as well as theislandshoppe.ca and numerous other locations for $20.

Almost every day for the past 15 years Sue Clark has stocked the shelves of Bowen's Food Bank at the Little Red Church.

Last week the Bowen Island Chamber of Commerce sent a letter out to its members stating that the organization has "reached an impasse where membership dues and fund raising do not cover the costs to properly run the organization.

Here on Bowen many of us have lived through last week's major shopping events south of the border, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, blissfully unaware.

In early November, local diver Adam Taylor participated in a group dive off of Dorman Point to explore a local Glass Sponge Reef Bioherm.