Opinion

A number of last week’s comments on International Women’s Day called on women to come together, to work together, to make things better.

Dear Bowen Island, One year ago, on March 3, 2016 our beloved ragamuffin husband, father, grandfather and friend Blu a.k.a. Piers Rothwell Hayes cut the ties with Earth and bid us all farewell as he sailed onto his next adventure.

Dear Editor , One of Bowen’s oldest residents, Dora Trethewey, will be leaving the island for the Kiwanis apartments in West Vancouver early in March. SKY (simply keeping young) will be hosting a potluck meal in her honour at noon on Monday Feb.

Dear Editor, As an older Islander, I love walking across the causeway and back: it’s a change from walking the Bowfest ground and Boardwalk.

The tone of Bowen's online forum can alternate between downright banal and red hot litigious. In a way, it mirrors the basic hot and cold running nature of the island itself.

On January 16, the provincial government launched the BC Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership Program, a measure meant to help first time buyers. These buyers need be able to put at least 2.

If you are not a teacher, a school-aged child or the parent of one, Pink Shirt Day (Wednesday, February 22) probably passed by you with little notice.

To the dismay of many, our municipal council has approved the construction of a parking lot on municipal lands Lot 3, that’s the beautiful forested area that most of us think of as the edge of Crippen Park on the fish ladder side.

The Snug, our tiny, iconic coffee shop is the distillation of everything that is Bowen. This cartoon celebrated its triumphant 2010 expansion into the next door antique shop.

I was just getting used to the idea of spring and keeping my eyes out for snowdrops peaking out of the mud when the Arctic Outflow rushed in and crushed the dream.