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A cherry tree blooms, daffodils show their heads and potted plants stand at the guard rail on Miller Road at Terminal Creek.

Last Friday, 7:43 a.m. A splinter of sunshine by some miracle of refraction squeezed through my Vancouver basement bedroom window, blazed across my cheek and cut a direct line to the baseball bat in my closet.

The sun was shining and the golf course was in fantastic shape on Saturday, April 7 , for the 2012 Island Masters held at the Bowen Island Golf Club.

In the middle of January, a group of 43 participants (walkers/runners) and eight Sun Run leaders started a 13-week-journey for the Intraining Sun Run clinic. The goal was the 10 km Sun Run event which occurred Sunday, April 15.

The BC Ride to Conquer Cancer is a two day, 260 kilometre bicycle ride starting from Vancouver and ending in Seattle.

The Bowen Island Golf Club didn't exist in 1982 when I last went golfing; I went with musicians I played with in a blues band.

It was "March madness" for the provincial level Bowen Island Gymnastics team.

The Bowen Island FC U12 Bears completed their season last Sunday, March 11, with a pair of scoreless draws in a tournament in North Vancouver.

The BICS grade 7 girl's volleyball team finished their 2011-12 season on very much a high note last week, not only finishing third at the Girls' District Volleyball Jamboree at Rockridge Secondary, but doing their school proud by being tenacious play

The growing number of ice-hockey players on Bowen Island has produced something coveted in minor hockey a tournament win.