Local Sports

On February 1, 1981, a young man named Terry Fox realized his dream of raising $1 towards cancer research for every member of the Canadian population.

Representing the Bowen Island Yacht Club, twelve excited sailors, three enthusiastic coaches and one terrific volunteer coach set off for the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club end of summer Commodore’s Cup Regatta last weekend.

Chai Graham and his family are celebrating the hard-won recognition for the past six and a half years of work and dedication he’s put into learning taekwondo – on Saturday, he was awarded his black belt.

As per our tag line for this year’s Bowen Island Golf Club Annual Fundraiser, we invite members of the community to “Get Back To Your Scottish Gailf (Golf) Roots”.

Bowfest day dawned bright and sunny, and there was a robust turn-out for this year’s Run for Rwanda. A record number of kids (fifty) signed up for the 1.5 km run that started at 8:30 a.m.

As the school bell is (hopefully) about to ring, I am pleased to provide this update on the Bowen Island Golf Club Junior Scholarship Program (JSP) which continues to achieve first class marks.

When they put their boats in the water Andy Hoppenrath, Bruce McTaggart, and James Krohn do so hoping for a wind warning.

The dust is still settling over the Alex Ross Memorial Field in Snug Cove after last weekend’s annual three-day pennant race.

Students in Billi Behm’s swim classes for Red Cross levels 6 – 9 proved they could swim 350 metres by swimming from Tunstall Bay to Onion Island.

When Goran Milosevic rallied with this year’s Wimbledon runner-up, Eugenie Bouchard, she was 19 years old and ranked 170th on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings. “She had potential, you could definitely see that,” says Milosevic.