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Tim Pardee and Mike von Zuben made up the delegation from the Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club (BIFWC) that attended the Sea to Sky Fisheries Advisory Group roundtable in Squamish on July 9.

Commercial guest accommodation in residential buildings address a growing demand on Bowen Island, especially in the busy summer season, but, according to the Land Use Bylaw (LUB), they are not legal outside of Snug Cove.

What could be the purpose of accessory buildings? Could they, for example, be used to provide affordable rental housing? Where would they fit on Bowen Island and how should they be regulated? Those are a few of the questions the Advisory Planning Com

For the past few months, Bowen Island Municipal Council has worked with planning consultant Judy McLeod to amend the Land Use Bylaw and Building Bylaw to regulate the construction of docks.

The small home is fully equipped with a heater, a shower, a composting toilet and lights. It currently sits on Granville Island but Charles Dobson says that it cannot stay there, and that it has been built with Bowen Island in mind.

There have been three cases of measles on the North Shore, including Bowen Island, and Dr. Réka Gustafson, Vancouver Coastal Health's medical director of communicable disease control, says this is a very unusual occurrence.

David Verlee and Thierry Mohrbach did not bring any food to the Monday, June 10, council meeting but the description of their plans sounded mouth-watering enough.

Eric Lawson has accumulated approximately 13 years of data relating to the weather on Bowen Island. He recently enlisted Dominique Kluyskens' help to determine whether Bowen's weather patterns have undergone any changes over the last decade.

Last week, the Bowen Island Community Foundation presented Snug Cove House Society with a cheque from the Maggie Cumming's Estate to support the Better Meals program.

This coming week, from Monday, June 24, to Thursday, June 27, Bowen Lift is hosting an on-board ferry ride sharing week during the commuter ferry runs on the 4:45, 5:50 and 6:50 p.m. sailings from Horseshoe Bay to Snug Cove.