Opinion

There are places both more frigid and more dark to spend the winter months than Bowen Island, but on the darkest and slushiest days of late, I’ve been struggling to appreciate that.

Dear Editor, I am deeply grateful for all those who were involved in my recent retirement celebrations. BICS is indeed a special school and it has been my honour and privilege to serve as the BICS principal these past five years.

In the months ahead, our collective vehicle to the broader world will be the Bowen Queen. Smaller and somewhat shabbier than the Queen of Cap, commutes and lives will be re-jigged in order to avoid potential delays.

Dear Editor, Our MP penned a couple of hundred words explaining the burning question of why he voted against Bill 603.

Dear Editor, Kudos to the Bowen Island Community Foundation for the three community projects chosen that will receive grants from the Foundation’s Community Impact program.

Oh! There must be a word for it. That instant when the opinion you hold very dearly suddenly turns dubious. For years, I have regarded Snug Cove as an historic site. The epicenter of Bowen life. Randomly evolved. Organic. Enduring.

The binary voting system “support/oppose”, though essential to our Parliament, often obscures the true nature of debate in our democratic institutions.

How often do you ask for what you need? And how often are you invited to offer your gifts? That’s what happened at the Bowen In Transition meeting last week. The focus for the evening was a Gift Circle. But we didn’t come bearing gifts.