Opinion

Spring is here. The daffodils are out in full bloom and, our island’s ice-block of civility has officially melted. That’s right, it’s been a quiet winter here on our Happy Isle.

25 years ago in the Undercurrent In the “As it Was” section Jan Le Roy was quoted from a piece she had written in Undercurrent Volume V, Number 8, April 13, 1979.

I believe I’ve written compelling and highly informative stories on important subjects of late on Digital Journal, the online news site I sometimes write for.

Dear Editor, The March 27, 2014 article entitled “A constellation of a keystone species” referenced a decline in abundance of the purple sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) in recent decades and mentioned that the purple sea star had not suffered as much a

Dear Editor, The Rotary Club of Bowen Island congratulated John Hazell on 10 April 2014 for outstanding service above self to the Club, to Bowen Island, and to the international community and awarded him a Paul Harris Fellow Sapphire Award.

Dear Editor- It has been an eventful week since the heron article on the Undercurrent’s front page. Last Friday a food delivery truck dropped a ramp with a loud clang.

Dear Editor: As a Bowen property owner since 1975 who was involved - along with many others - with the extensive grass-roots efforts which created our original Official Community Plan, I express my heartfelt appreciation to you for giving Dr.

April 11, 2014

20 years ago in the Undercurrent Bowen Historians held their second annual pie contest. Judges included Bob Gillingham, Bert Davies, Lynn Piper and Iris Mather.

Dear Editor. The revitalization of the lower Cove has long been advocated, and in 2011 James Tuer was commissioned to draw up planning schemata.