Opinion

Dear Editor, This year’s Dog Days of Summer was a fantastic event, well attended by both pooches and their masters. The Fierce Flyball Club came all the way from the valley and entertained us with their trained dogs running various agility courses.

Dear Editor and Community, It is with the greatest regret that I have learned of the passing of Deputy Fire Chief Bob Clark early Monday morning. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

Dear Editor, I will take my life today around noon. It is time. Ever so gradually at first, much faster now, I am turning into a vegetable. There comes a time in the progress of dementia, when one is no longer competent to guide one’s own affairs.

Dear Editor, While I may have taken the lead on this issue, it would not have been successful without the goodwill and co-operation of a number of Islanders.

Dear Editor, The "Spirit of the Flame" sculpture was moved up the hill last Tuesday. Thank you to Jim Clark and Frank Seaberly for volunteering their equipment and expertise and to Conrad Lindner for helping out.

I want to take exception to Mr. John Weston’s extraordinary scolding of the District of West Vancouver Council over their unanimous motion to ban LNG tankers from Howe Sound. His intervention is all the more strange for a variety of reasons.

20 years ago in the Undercurrent In her Island Neighbors column, Lois Myers-Carter reported that August 20 was the date of the Ten-Year Party organized by travel agent and heritage aficionado David Smith, on behalf of the Bowen Island Park and Store

Dear Editor, This poem was written aboard the ferry from Bowen to Horseshoe Bay at dusk, July 15, 2014: The mountains range in front to guard a vast surprise But they also huddle round a hallowed treasure, Not captured by a name and too large for man

Dear Editor, With Bowfest happening right around the corner, my friends and I couldn’t help but share a story from last year when we came to Bowen for the first time to celebrate this great event.