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Bowen Island Family Place has a new home: it now shares with the teenagers from the Bowen Youth Centre. Family Place celebrated its arrival on Carter Rd. on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Does everybody remember the Neighbourhood Plan? The one where Bowen Island gets a massive park, over 300 acres of some of the best land Cape Roger Curtis has to offer, and other amenities, while the developers get an increase in density? That plan is

They came, they saw and they cleaned up. That was the case last Saturday in the waters of Deep Bay as a volunteer group led by Island diver Amber Spitkovski spent the afternoon diving and dragging up junk from the ocean floor.

There are family gatherings to attend, a garden to plant and travels to be taken. But as Bob Turner looks forward to the things that retirement from politics will give him time to do, he's also very proud of what's been achieved.

Islanders looking for something different to do on September 17 might consider being part of a clean-up of Deep Bay waters taking place between 1 and 4 at Sandy Beach.

There were five options for the national park vote on the table: the dual or single vote and holding the vote before, on, or after the election.

November's municipal election race has (unofficially) begun. Nerys Poole, who first won election in 2008 as a councillor, is making a bid for mayor.

The public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 6, was the last chance for the public to weigh in on a proposed bylaw that will allow the area at Adams/Cromie Road to be designated for civic institutional use.

There's been a changing of the guard at Bowen Youth Services. Coordinator Matt Neufeld has left to pursue studies at Langara and John Stiver is stepping into the role.

Council has officially rescinded two controversial land use bylaws steep slopes and environmentally sensitive areas which will be reviewed and brought forward by the new council after the November elections.