25 years ago in the Undercurrent
A new fire truck was scheduled to arrive on Saturday, May 20. The truck was to be escorted by a pipe band and it was hoped that many cheering people would welcome the truck off the ferry in the Cove.
20 years ago in the Undercurrent
Loose dogs were causing havoc on Bowen. A seven-year-old child was bitten and another dog killed a gosling in the lagoon area. RCMP were investigating both incidents.
15 years ago in the Undercurrent
A member of the restructuring committee resigned over what he considered misleading information on a technical report. Dale Read felt frustrated by the “flimsy, fallacious” responses to his concerns about the cost of becoming a municipality. Read was alarmed by the “low balling” of numbers representing service costs and resulting property taxes.
10 years ago in the Undercurrent
The community was barraging The Undercurrent office with phone calls demanding a return of the ‘Unclassifieds’ section of the paper. This section had been removed two weeks prior and was not a hit to the residents. It was hoped that the publisher would listen to the citizens of Bowen and reinstall the Bowen based ‘Unclassifieds’.
5 years ago in the Undercurrent
A report entitled ‘Meeting with the Owners of the Cape Roger Curtis Land’ was presented to council Monday, May 11, by municipal planning consultant Michael Rosen and community planner Jason Smith. They had been directed by council to engage with CRC owners after a April 20 council resolution rescinded the Official Community Plan – amending bylaw to allow the comprehensive CRC Neighbourhood Plan. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss with the CRC owners whether there was room to negotiate a rezoning application retaining some of the CRCNP that would be compliant with the OCP of the time. In a well written letter, CRC owner and spokesperson Don Ho let it be known that the CRC owners would be reactivating the processing of the original subdivision application and withdrawing their rezoning application.
