Opinion

Dear Editor, On July 4, Bowen Island Gives (BIG!) hosted its 4th annual BIG! hike and party, raising more than $5,000 to help at-risk and homeless youth at Covenant House Vancouver.

Dear Editor, The ‘Round Bowen Challenge kayak and paddle board race on Saturday June 27 was, by all reports, a great success.

Dear Editor, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in making this year’s Steamship Days the best yet. First I’d like to thank nature for the rain.

Is our Official Community Plan (OCP) the saving grace of Bowen Island or is it the document that stops everything from happening and leaves islanders with screaming all the way to the courthouse? This is a question to which I have no answer, and the

Summer ev’ning in the meadow, light and warm the breeze, tall the grasses, smell of hay.

Dear Editor, In response to Bud Long’s letter, I join Dave Witty in stating that my comments bore no relation to implementing the Official Community Plan “in an extreme form.

Dear Editor, I appreciate our little Bowen Island RCMP Detachment. It’s kept us warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Many great officers have made it what it is today. However, I don’t think much thought went into it when it came to aesthetics.

Dear Editor, I MUST respond to Bud Long’s letter to the editor of June 19th. My letter of June 12th was written from a professional planner’s perspective.