Dear Editor,
To begin with, what happened to the sign, just up from the dock, welcoming people to our beautiful Island, an Island within the Islands Trust? There was no advance warning before it simply disappeared. Should we look in the mayor's back yard? He has voiced reservations about our being within the Trust. Who else may have reason to remove it?
The totem in front of the Old Store is certainly out of place, and hasn't even attractiveness to recommend it. (I know, totems are not carved to win beauty contests. I usually find them attractive, probably because they convey a message.)What purpose does this one have? There is no aboriginal village here, and there never has been, Bowen was a stopping-off place on trips up and down the Sound and between Vancouver and Sechelt. Maybe the carvers know why this pole was blessed.
I guess some attractive shrubbery around it might make it less out of place, but the Old Store is a Bowen heritage building and shouldn't be obscured.
Yours truly,
Jean Jamieson
