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The Knick Knack Nook Re-Use-It Store Society is pleased to announce the publication of their Bowen Island Organic Resource Recovery Report researched and written by Morganne Keplar.

Sue Ellen Fast is a household name on Bowen Island. With the younger crowd she has shared her knowledge of how to make midges dance, the best way to spot a bat and what to do with heritage household items.

Moldy fruit salad in a container? Lettuce that seems to have melted into the bag? Tossing it into the garbage might seem the easiest recourse but soon that's going to cost you extra.

It has been a great honour and pleasure to be your mayor.

After a lengthy process that involved extensive consultation as well as legal advice, the new bylaw that lays out the guidelines for watershed, aquifer and stream protection (WASP) has been adopted at the September 23 council meeting.

It's been a problem for the soccer players for some time that there was no access to washrooms during part of the practice. Debra Springfellow coaches the U 4-5 team. She said, "In the past, the school used to close at 3 p.m.

Bowen's Wendy Holm knows about how Canada may be putting cows, and dairy farmers, out of work. She has a lot of information for those who want to make sure they're getting the real deal when it comes to milk. She's just won an award to prove it.

Quite a few people have set their sight on Belterra, the property west of Island Pacific School, as their future home. But they don't plan on outbidding one another, no, they are going to live there together.

The development of Cape Roger Curtis took another step on Friday, Sept. 16 with the opening of the one-kilometre oceanfront trail called the Roger Curtis Seawalk.

One of the reasons council decided to hold a community vote on the national park issue at election time was that it had made a commitment to Bowen residents to gauge public opinion.