Opinion

Dear Editor, We had an utterly super Easter weekend last week, thanks to business’s on Bowen. Baking supplies from the General Store (Cloud Nine gluten free flour, European Cultured unsalted butter...

In earlier columns, we looked at the remarkable recovery of our fjord inlet and how this is now being threatened by provincial ambitions for re-industrialization.

In Kami Kanetsuka’s letter from San Miguel, Mexico, published in The Undercurrent last week, she wrote that the place is so wonderful in so many ways that it is easy to think that it is paradise.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday April 1st, a crowd of more than 250 people packed the Gleneagles Golf Course Club House in West Vancouver to hear the presentations of opponents to the proposed Woodfibre LNG plant in Howe Sound.

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First, the world is not going to come to an end as suggested by a member of the Squamish Nation. I trust we can agree on that. Next point, BC Ferries pass Bowen Island 80 TIMES A DAY and to my knowledge there have been no collisions.

We’re on a bus – the trusty Peter King at the wheel – going to Squamish to stand with the Skwomesh Action group to protect our home.

25 years ago in the Undercurrent At a GVRD Board Meeting, Bowen resident Judi Gedye, reported that the board discussed the plans for recycling and specifically a de-inking plant, with concerns about pollution.