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An exciting final for the Bowen Island Football Club's coed soccer league saw teams Red and Orange battled it out on Sunday afternoon in the winds and rain.

Shawn Anderson, head coach of the Highlanders, has nothing but praise for the Bowen football players who came out to the game last Saturday.

This past weekend the Bowen Island Golf Club held the inaugural Paterson Cup matches. Much like the PGA Tour's Ryder Cup matches, this match play event pitted two teams against each other: team Grundy vs. team Liddicoat.

Just to provide a small qualification to the impressive headline, there were only three boats in the cruising division of this year's Vic-Maui Race and the cruisers did start a few days ahead of the main fleet of 11 boats.

The Bowen Island Yacht Club sent a record number of members to compete in the Commodore's Cup Regatta at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club last week as 16 sailors and three coaches took part in the August 28 to 30 races.

A real community effort and a big thanks to all the amazing volunteers that came out this past Saturday to help roll out sod for the grass field expansion project .

Saturday was a perfect day for a run or a walk and the Rotary Run for Rwanda was very well patronized by Bowen Islanders and visitors. More than 180 enthusiastic participants walked and ran the trails of Crippen Park.

After giving his 28th performance of riding a bicycle along his 9,000 plus kilometre journey across Canada to raise awareness of human rights issues in West Papua, Jeremy Bally will be leaving Sydney, Nova Soctia, and heading into Newfoundland.

On Monday, August 20, a team of junior golfers from the Bowen Island Golf Club led by head professional Steve Liddicoat travelled to Meadow Gardens in Pitt Meadows to compete in the annual PGA of BC Pro-Junior Event.

With the Canadian women winning bronze in 2012 London Olympics, women's soccer has never been more visible .This past weekend, the Bowen Island Football Club hosted its first ladies' two-day tournament on Bowen Island.