Bowen Island Undercurrent October 28 2016 by Bowen Island Undercurrent

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Nexwlélexwm

Bowen’s original name: learn to love it and pronounce it

Food vs. Energy

Local food security expert steps up fight against Site C Dam

Foodie profile

Young Bowen chef to compete on Food Network’s Chopped

Project aims to support housing and healthcare MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

The public comments heard at this week’s council meeting all offered support for a new proposal for Snug Cove, the creation of a three and a half-story apartment building with the space on the first floor dedicated to a community medical centre. The Bellringer family, owners of Village Square, have hired James Tuer to design the project, located at 980 Dorman Road, land that currently provides overflow parking for Village Square. David Bellringer told The Undercurrent that the property came as part of a package-deal with the purchase of Village Square back in 2012, and has been underutilized as a parking lot. “We did not acquire the property with the intention to build on it,” says Bellringer. “But as we’ve seen the demand for housing grow, we started considering what might be feasible there.” Bellringer says that when they first purchased Village Square, there was a waiting list of roughly five people for the one and two-bedroom apartments above the shops.

“At the time, there was a lot of turn-over, people would find other options and move out so the list was constantly changing,” says Bellringer. “Now we have a list of 30 people looking for apartments, and nobody is moving out of their current rentals because there are no other options.” He adds that from a development perspective, it is hard to make the cost of building come in line with affordable rental prices. “In Vancouver, the cost of a rental is roughly $2.30 to $2.50 per square foot and rising rapidly, whereas building costs are $200 per square foot or less,” says Bellringer. “Here on Bowen, our rental prices are lower, and building costs are higher. But we know that a number of our local businesses are struggling to find people to work for them, and I personally would like to see more people living in the Cove, just to bring increased life and vitality.” The idea of including a medical centre as part of the project came through conversations with Tim Rhodes and Colleen O’Neill, members of the Bowen Island Health Centre Society. “There were a number of sites recommended to us for a

health care centre, but some of those we did not like because they were not walkable, or particularly inconvenient for older people,” says Rhodes. “We considered municipal lands, but were concerned about the time it would take for them to be subdivided and rezoned for our purposes. The idea of teaming up on this project offered us the opportunity Rhodes says that based on statistics gathered from the Bowen Island Health Needs Assessment survey, conducted in January of 2016, 88 percent of Islanders say they are in good health, yet 41 percent of respondents felt their health was at risk because they lived on Bowen Island. He told council that people going off-island for healthcare purposes also represented a loss of $1.1 million to the local economy each year. If a health care centre were built, he said, an estimate $550,000 of that could be recovered annually. Rhodes says he understands that things move slowly on council, and often for good reason. However, he adds that he would like to see rezoning be completed within 6-9 months so that a healthcare centre on Bowen could be a reality by some time in 2018.

Debris of all-kinds collected through beach clean-up MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

An old television set, a snowboard, an electric saw, rebar, a battery case not to mention lots of styrofoam and debris from wrecked docks, these are just a few of the items collected at a community beach clean-up of Pebbly Beach on Sunday. Municipal worker Bruce Lyne filled the back of a pick-up truck with all the garbage and hauled it away on Monday morning. “I think it is tide-dependent, what gets washed ashore,” he says. “It can be fun to guess where all of this stuff comes from.” Lyne says he patrols Bowen’s main beaches weekly to collect garbage, and collects “big ticket items” from the beaches roughly four times a year. Quentin Beck, who helped organize Sunday’s clean-up, says the clean-up was a great way to spend time with her kids. “We live by the ocean and want to share the experience of taking care of it with them.” Many people responded positively to the invitation, and have suggested that clean-ups should take place regularly on different Bowen beaches.

From left: Ella-Rose, Erin, Andrea, Finn, Beck, Qurban, Ryan, Quentin and Gavin with some of their finds from Pebbly Beach. Meribeth Deen, photo

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Meeting Calendar October 31, 2016 10:00 am Committee of the Whole

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Halloween ﬁreworks! er 31, 2016 Monday, October 7:30 pm On the causeway

Development Variance Permit DVP-06-2016 1141 Lenora Road A Development Variance Permit application has been submitted for 1141 Lenora Rd (shown on map) to reduce a side setback.

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Woodfibre LNG changes to air-cooling system for Squamish plant JENNIFER THUNCHER - NOTES BY MERIBETH DEEN SQUAMISH CHIEF /UNDERCURRENT

Pressure from the Squamish Nation chiefs and council has led Woodfibre LNG to change its planned cooling system for its plant on Howe Sound. Squamish Nation Chief Ian Campbell confirmed to The Squamish Chief that Woodfibre LNG has switched plans for its liquefied natural gas export facility from a seawater-cooling system (sometimes called once-through cooling) to an air-cooling system. “Squamish Nation Council voted on Wednesday to approve air-cooling as the cooling technique for the proposed Woodfibre LNG Project,” Campbell said. Byng Giraud, vice-president of Woodfibre LNG told The Squamish Chief the company’s respect for the Nation is at the heart of the change. “This was a Squamish Nation decision and a Squamish Nation process,” he said. “The reason we do this is because we respect our relationship with the Squamish Nation and it was a contractual obligation we made to them.” The Squamish chiefs and council approved the air-cooling option after earlier rejecting the seawater cooling option as harmful to fish and marine habitat, Campbell said. Liquefaction of natural gas creates heat, which can be removed by either seawater-cooling or air-cooling. Local governments and environmentalists have strongly opposed the seawater system since first proposed for several reasons: that it would heat the ocean water around the underwater system; small fish could get

caught in the pipes; and concern that chlorine used in the process would impact sea life. The Squamish Nation set out 25 conditions in October 2015 on which their approval of the liquefied natural gas export facility was based. Dealing with concerns over seawater-cooling was one such condition. “Through our independent Squamish Nation process, we directed Woodfibre LNG to take a second look. As we have repeatedly said, the project will simply not get built unless valuable land and marine environments are protected,” continued Campbell. Giraud said the air-cooling system, which simply stated works like a radiator, would be a fundamentally closed loop system. In previous presentations Woodfibre LNG has said air-cooling was expensive and less energy efficient. The air-cooling system will cost the company more, Giraud said. “There’s a production loss that results from this decision,” he said. “But we accept that… It is something we think we can overcome.” Anton Van Walraven from Concerned Citizens of Bowen Island says the local groups opposing this project have been working hard to get citizen scientist John Buchanan’s data on herring spawn in the waters surrounding Woodfibre to local ministers and the Squamish Nation. “John’s data was not included in the original environmental assessment application, so we applaud the Squamish Nation for taking it seriously,” Van Walraven says. “The next step for Woodfibre will be to have their current environmental assessment certificate amended for this new cooling system. We will be watching that very closely.”

From left: Branding committee members Chris Corrigan, Sheri Johnson, Ed Wachtman. Meribeth Deen, photo

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Bowen Island is beyond unique, it brings a sense of calm, and “a sense of community so strong you can almost feel the hugs.” This is the highly abbreviated version of the “Bowen Story,” which was carved out of more than 400 sto-

ries of Bowen Island told by residents, visitors and businesses to the Economic Development Council’s branding committee. Last Tuesday, Sheree Johnson told the more than 60 Bowen business owners in attendance of the EDC’s interactive evening that they are a big part of the Bowen story. “You all Bowenize your

If you eat for a living, you’ve got a stake in the Peace Valley Agrologist Wendy Holm launches campaign to stop the Site C Dam Bowen Islander Wendy Holm points to the location of the Site C dam on a map created for her book “Water and Free Trade”. Meribeth Deen, photo

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Professional Agrologist, economist and Bowen Islander of 28 years Wendy Holm says the SITE C dam on BC’s Peace River and must be stopped, and she’s ready to be arrested in order to do it. “This is really an issue of democracy,” says Holm. “It goes way beyond food security and water security.” As an Agrologist and expert in food security, Holm was brought in as an expert witness for the Site C Dam’s environmental assessment process. From a food security perspective, she says that the dam will destroy enough farmland to meet the nutritional needs of more than a million British Columbians per year.

If you were a vegetable you

Bowen makes the businesses and the businesses make Bowen

businesses,” Johnson said. “People work with you because they know they can’t get that feeling anywhere else.” And what would a Bowenized business look like? It’s all laid out in the Bowen Best Business Practices Handbook. To check out the booklet yourself, look for the guide on the municipality’s website.

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would pray your children would grow up in alluvial soils... “The Peace River Valley is made up of alluvial soils,” says Holm. “When I talk to audiences who are not familiar with agriculture, I always tell them that if you were a vegetable you would pray your children would grow up in alluvial soils cause they are ideal for horticulture. We import more than 60 percent of vegetables we could grow. With its alluvial soils and class one climate for agriculture, the Peace River Valley has the cropping capability of the Fraser Valley but with higher yields, because of the longer days throughout the summer. Instead we are dependent on drought-stricken California for produce.” In their environmental assessment for the dam, Holm says, BC Hydro failed to properly measure the amount of farmland that will be lost and accounted for only 13 percent of the impacted land. She adds that the land they did account for was tremendously undervalued. “As an expert witness I told them these things,” says Holm after going in depth into the numbers representing amount of land and land-value. “The chair of the FederalProvincial panel reviewing the project recommended that it be reviewed by the BC Utilities Commission which would’ve killed the project because it will drastically increase the price of electricity, but the government did not allow that to happen.” In 2015, the former chair of the FederalProvincial assessment panel for Site C, Harry Swain, spoke publicly against the government in its rush to start construction on the dam saying that a delay in the project would give time to verify costs, how much energy the province needs, and negotiate with First Nations. However, BC Energy Minister Bill Bennett responded by saying Swain is misin-

formed, and that the project has been “on the books” for 30 years. Wendy Holm looks back more than 30 years for the first plans for Site C Dam. In the 1950s, the US Army Corps of Engineers were charged with the responsibility of making sure America did not run out of water. Engineering firms tabled many proposals, one of which was called the North American Water Power Alliance (NAWAPA). The plan has been described as a massive continental plumbing project made up of 369 dams, canals, pipelines tunnels and pumping stations in order to divert water from Alaska into the Southern US. It was backed by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett, but enraged many Canadians including General Andrew McNaughton, who is credited with crushing the project. Holm says that NAFTA has cleared the barriers that prevented such projects from moving forward, and with “Site A” (the W.A.C. Bennett Dam) and the “Site B” (the Peace Canyon Dam) built, Site C will complete plans drafted back in the 50’s to supply northern water to southern cities when the need arises. Holm says she’s been trying on twitter and social media to raise the global profile of Site C dam, including tweets to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “There are so many voices, globally, coming out against this project I’m hoping I can embarrass him into stopping it,” she says. “I’ve also been tweeting Yoko Ono, asking her to back the cause and let us record “Give THE Peace A Chance” with lyrics written for The Peace.” “I guess I’m just a girl who can’t take no for an answer,” says Holm. This week is the official launch of the Yellow Stakes Campaign. “For a tax deductible donation of a hundred dollars, a yellow stake will be planted on Ken and Arlene Boon’s farm, which BC Hydro wants to expropriate before Christmas. Stakes will be planted, symbolically, between the Boon’s and BC Hydro’s equipment. I am hoping there will be stakes there from all over the world. One hundred percent of the funds raised in the Yellow Stakes Campaign will go to support the legal fight by Profit River and Moberly Lake First Nations to stop Site C.” And of course, Holm is hoping for support from Bowen Island. “As an island,” she says, “we should have a particularly strong understanding of the finite and respect for the commons. The Peace River Valley is our agricultural commons. It has been here for millennia, and it is meant to feed communities into the future. I truly believe that my grandchildren’s, grandchildren have legal rights that should be enforceable today and those rights should say that when it comes to the commons, we have an obligation to them to make it better, not destroy it.” To plant your stake in the Peace, go to: http://www.stakeinthepeace.com

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Road Rage: a response Dear Editor: I am coming at the issue from both a standard transmission driver and a retired judge. Learn to use the emergency brake when on an incline: engage first gear, start to accelerate and when you start to move forward let the brake off, being careful not to do any wheelies! Good for all sorts of predicaments. As for the rage, there is a section in the Criminal Code about “causing a disturbance by shouting, swearing” etc. It is unlikely a police officer would recommend charges, or a prosecutor would approve them (our courts would be inundated!) but still, reporting it would create a record and if there were a history or anything particularly egregious, the adult displaying such poor behaviour might get started down the road of state-imposed rehabilitation, certainly starting with public humiliation and shame. Maya Angelou said you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: lost luggage, rainy days and tangled (strings of) lights. She’s never been to Bowen so we could probably change the rainy days to getting bumped on the ferry. Judi Gedye

Bowen Islanders contribute to the global eradication of polio MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

On Saturday, members of Bowen Island Rotary set up outside the Snug Café to collect donations for World Polio Day and to talk with passersby about the global battle to eradicate polio. “There were a number of people who did not realize that polio is still a disease to be worried about,” Denis Lynn told The Undercurrent. “Globally, we are close to eradicating polio, but we are not there yet. In 1985, there were about 1,000 new cases of polio every year. We are down to about 75 now, but in trouble-spots like Afghanistan and Nigeria, it can be tough to ensure that babies get vaccinated and the disease is extremely contagious,” he says. Lynn says that Bowen Islanders donated a total of $185 to the Rotary International Polio Fund. That amount is being matched by the Canadian government as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, creating a total sum of $920 to be donated to polio vaccination world-wide. “Not bad for a few hours work,” says Lynn.

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Breast cancer experience not so rosy MARY LETSON SUBMISSION

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is upon us and as one having been through the illness – as well as my mother, my maternal aunt and recently my sister – I am feeling ever so aware of this beast. I’m certain you too have felt its cold hand either directly or indirectly with friends or family. And although I am always keen to carve out a positive approach to life (indeed my Bowen Island-based fitness company is aptly named Positively Fit), and acutely aware of expressing gratitude wherever and whenever possible, I’m having trouble with the upbeat marketing and language surrounding breast cancer. The language and symbolism that now defines breast cancer rubs me the wrong way – like a scratchy label on my clothing. I understand we need to create stories, narrative and symbols around issues and challenges to help us make sense of the world. It creates a conversation that unites us. I get it. The problem is the language and symbolism don’t reflect how I see the disease or how I experienced it.

Try picking any product in the shops this month sporting the cheery ribbon and try and track down how much and exactly to whom the funds are going. I’ve tried. It’s impossible. It’s not pink. Breast cancer is the colour of the paint brush water after you have dipped and rinsed your brush a dozen times during a watercolour painting. Murky mud. Sludgy yuck. I have always loved pink,

the bright clear fuchsia hue that embraces the warmth and scents of the tropics. It lifts me. I’m irked that the colour is used to sell blenders, Tic Tacs, watermelons (MelonUp! campaign), and pens and paper. You name it, breast cancer is selling it. All wrapped up in a pretty bow promising funds to cure the disease. Try picking any product in the shops this month sporting the cheery ribbon and try and track down how much and exactly to whom the funds are going. I’ve tried. It’s impossible. It’s not a journey. Journeys to me are epic adventures punctuated with unexpected pleasures. Like my trip to Paris and Cornwall last May- June, two different journeys with two dear friends full to brimming with everything wonderful and seasoned with happy challenges. If I may be so articulate as to say that enduring the fullmeal-deal cancer treatment really, really, really sucks. I’ll take a journey any day, just not that one. We also seem compelled to repackage the lessons in life learned from experiencing a “cancer journey,” including stop and smell the roses, value life in its tiny beautiful moments, do what you love and love what you do. But cancer doesn’t teach us that. We teach ourselves that. It’s a choice we make after facing any life-threatening situation, accident or tragedy. I’m not a survivor. Yes, I am alive and thriving, and I am ever so grateful for that. But if I call myself a breast cancer survivor, then the disease defines me. And I am not that. I am partner, mother, sister, friend, business owner and community member. Survivor also nestles nicely with the war language of cancer: battling, fighting and bravery. I didn’t feel any of that either. Don’t get me wrong, I am ever so grateful for the medical advances that saved my life and more recently my sister’s life. I just don’t fit into the breast cancer language, symbolism and rhetoric that surrounds me this month. I am perhaps a little suspect of the rampant use of pink and ribbons to sell products promising to cure the disease. And lastly, maybe it’s time we graduated from Breast Cancer Awareness Month and spearhead Breast Cancer Prevention Month.

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Nexwlélexm: Learn to love and pronounce Bowen’s original name CHRIS CORRIGAN CONTRIBUTOR

In 2003 I spent a week in New Zeland working with a Maori economic development organization to host an entreprensureship conference. At the beginning of the conference, the welcome to the territory was given by a young woman who spoke and sang beautifully in Maori about her homeland. An Elder sitting next to me burst out laughing during the speech. When I asked her what was funny, she replied “I haven’t a clue what this young one is saying. I love that she speaks her language.” The revival of Maori means now they young people are fluent and their Elders, who can’t understand them, couldn’t be more proud. Khelsílem is a young Squamish man who had a similar epiphany on a trip to New Zeland to study how Maori people were increasing fluency in their language. With only seven current fluent speakers of Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish language), he was curious for ideas to increase that number. Using a novel set of language learning tools, including playing games and working with sign language, he began offering fluency classes in Squamish communities throughout the Squamish territory which runs from North Vancouver, all around Howe Sound and up the Squamish and Cheakamus Rivers. People loved the energy of the game nights and they began acquiring beginner levels of fluency much more quickly than in the more standard classroom-based language courses. Within a couple of years, Khelsílem had created a Squamish language immersion house and an organization to support his work called Kwi Awt Stelmexw (https://www. kwiawtstelmexw.com/), (disclosure: I’m an

advisory board member). One of the more popular projects that Kwi Awt Stelmexw initiated was www.ohtheplacesyoushouldknow. com, a website and a map that collects and places Squamish place names back on the map of Howe Sound.

When we use these names we are re-imagining what this country would have looked like if tremendous harm hadn’t happened. Among those places names are three that refer to Bowen Island. Kwemshenám’ is the name for Hood Point and is the source of the “fast drumming ground” translation that many people have heard about. It actually refers to ‘thumping’ or ‘stomping’ feet and relates to the story of how the blacktailed deer was created there when Xáays, the Transformer brothers, visited the island and changed a hunter into the deer. It’s said that if you put your ear to the rocks as the tide is coming in over the bar between Hood Point and Finnistere Island, you can still hear the man’s footsteps, running from the Transformers. Another name that comes from historical sources is Kwil’ákm or Xwlil’xwm, which has been used for the name of Snug Cove, Deep Bay or indeed the whole island. Over the years that name has also been mis-translated as “fast drumming ground” and also “calm bay” but there is confusion about that meaning. It is almost certainly derived from the name

Nexwlélexm . The name Nexwlélexm is referenced in different forms by both Louis Miranda and August Jack Khatsahlahno, two 20th century elders who shared knowledge of their place names with historians. It’s the one everyone wants to know about because that is the name that refers to the whole island. “Uncle Louis Miranda was the one that remembered the name ‘Nexwlélexm,” Khelsílem told me in a recent interview. “It’s an old name that comes from an older version of our language.” It’s unclear what the name means or refers too, in much the same way that the original meaning of “Canada” has been confused over the years. Nevertheless, Nexwlélexm appears to be the most reliable modern day spelling for the land mass that is now called Bowen Island. But how do you say it? Many Squamish language sounds are not found in English, but they are found in other European languages. The “x” is pronounced like the like the gutteral “ch” Yiddish word “chutzpah” or the Scottish word “loch.” When there is a “w” after the “x” you round your lips. Given that pronunciation, Nexwlélexm is roughly pronounced “Nech-lei-lechum.” You’ll be forgiven if you say it “Neck-lelecoom.” I asked Khelsílem why he thinks we should be using these names. “It’s important because if the horrible effects of colonization hadn’t happened, these are the names we would be using to refer to these places. When we use these names we are re-imagining what this country would have looked like if tremendous harm hadn’t happened. Using the names is an act of healing the damage,” he says. In short, it’s a simple step everyone can take

towards advancing reconciliation. “The invitation is to adopt a new normal and make these names just part of the vernacular that Islanders use to describe their home,” Khelsílem says. “So far the Squamish Nation hasn’t asked for the name of Bowen Island to be changed, but if they did, it would be nice if Islanders were the ones to petition for it to happen because they’d been using the names.” I asked if Khelsilem would make a short video to teach the pronunciation of the most ancient names for Bowen Island. He’s squeezed it in to his schedule - after teaching a Squamish language immersion course at Simon Fraser University 6 hours a day, 5 day a week - it will be linked to the online version of this article. Fifteen students with an average age of 21 have devoted eight months of their lives to becoming fluent in their language. In doing so, Khelsilem says, he’s significantly increasing the base of fluent speakers within the Squamish People. “At the end of the year, we will have doubled the number of mid level novice speakers of this language,” he said. “In three years, we will have 45 young people well on their way to everyday fluency.” He has plans to build a language centre to support Squamish language learning and activities, modelled on a cross between traditional Squamish longhouses and the Maori maraes he saw in New Zealand. It’s a remarkable vision and an inspiring commitment to increasing the use of the language of people in whose land we live. Robert Bringhurst once described our original Squamish place name as “a stony protuberance of meaning cloaked in a forest of evergreen consonants.” Just as we have come to love the forest and the rocks of this place perhaps we can come to love the original names too.

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Wade Davis on the mountaineers shaped by the First World War The Bowen Island Museum & Archives is pleased to announce the upcoming lecture, Into the Silence, by Wade Davis at Cates Hill Chapel. On the eve of Remembrance Day, Wade Davis has volunteered his time to speak about The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest. In this lecture he explores the consequences of the First World War’s carnage on the minds of men who will later join the Everest expeditions, as well as on the collective psyche of the British nation. It was this generation of men, those who had been through the nightmare of the war, that death held no mystery. Drawing on more than a decade of research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis recreates the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s 19th-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. He creates a timeless

Stephen Foster in his home on Bowen Island.

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Engagement evening planned for Howe Sound neighbourhood MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR

Wade Davis will speak Nov. 10 at Cates Chapel. photo supplied portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times. Wade Davis is a professor of anthropology and the B.C. Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 1999 and 2013 he served as explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and is currently a member of the

NGS Explorers Council and honorary vice-president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In 2014, Switzerland’s leading think tank, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Zurich, ranked him

16th in their annual survey of the top 100 most influential Global Thought Leaders. Join us at 7 p.m., Nov. 10 at Cates Chapel to hear Davis speak at a fundraising event for the museum and archives. Tickets are $15, sold in advance at the museum and archives (604-947-2655), and Phoenix Photos. –Submitted by the Bowen Island Museum & Archives

Snug Cove House Q&A CAROL MACKINNON & GRAHAM RITCHIE CONTRIBUTORS

Snug Cove House volunteers were eager to get Bowfest community feedback about our recent plans regarding selling 12 lots on Miller Road, and the progress on planning our seniors’ supportive living residence. Over the coming weeks we will share some of these questions and answers here in The Undercurrent. Feel free to

check out our website (snugcovehouse.com) for more information. On the lots: Question: Have you selected the builders who will build the houses on these lots? Answer: We are in the process of interviewing qualified Bowen-based builders. Building plans will soon be ready to present to these builders so they can determine the estimated cost of each design. We expect to have the builders selected by the end of October 2016.

On the residence: Question: Can I have a car if I live in Snug Cove House? Answer: Yes, you can, though there are not enough parking spaces for all residents to have a car. We anticipate that with the close proximity to the cove, the volunteer drivers that the Caring Circle provides, and the local bus service that goes along Miller Road, most residents will find they no longer need or want the bother and expense of a car.

For nearly five years now, Bowen Islander Stephen Foster has been working hard to understand what’s happening in Howe Sound and to get to know people throughout the region who are working to protect it. At the Great Howe Sound Recovery Event on Nov. 5 at Cates Hill Chapel, Foster is hoping to provide a comprehensive picture of what’s happening in the region, and also to spur a critical conversation on the meaning of “recovery.” “It can be convenient for people bringing new industrial proposals to the table to talk about recovery in Howe Sound as something that has already happened,” says Foster. “From another perspective you could say that recovery has only just started and needs to be nurtured. I think we need to be studying this, we need to create some kind of benchmark for recovery and what it means.” The evening will begin with a “video feast,” with screenings of Foster’s short films (featuring citizen scientist John Buchanan and marine biologist Ramona DeGraaf), as well as Bob and Tim Turner’s film on the Sea to Sky Marine Trail, and Roy Mulder’s film on glass sponge bioherms in Howe Sound. Following the screenings, there will be an interactive session aimed at gathering questions from the public about threats to Howe Sound as well as solutions. From there, a panel will discuss some of those key questions. “The idea is to engage the broader community on Howe Sound. I want people to know about some of the important victories that have happened here. I also want people to start viewing themselves as part of a community of 30,000 people instead of as a part of disparate communities,” says Foster. “The only way we can start to plan for a comprehensive future of Howe Sound is if we know our neighbours. This is only the beginning.”

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On the calendar FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 BI Legion Halloween dance starting at 8 p.m., featuring Black Molly SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 Sixth Annual Halloween with Horses at the Crippen Park Equestrian Ring, 1-3 p.m. Wear a costume. Event cancelled if pouring. Fright Night at the Bowen Island Pub at 9 p.m.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 Seniors Keeping Young at Bowen Court: Exercise at 9 a.m., coffee at 9:45 a.m., Speaker’s Corner with Robbie Bagshaw talking on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exubury at 10:15 a.m., and yoga with Diana Kaile at 11 a.m. Trick-or-treating in Deep Bay starts at 4:30 p.m. for the youngest trick-or-treaters. Fireworks at the lagoon at 7:30 p.m.

Bowen Island Photography Club members show off their shutterbug skills in a new exhibit at Artisan Square. Mamma Woodpecker was captured by Mary LePatournel and Ethiopian Woman was photographed by Judith McBride. photos supplied

New photo exhibit at Artisan Square EMILIE KAPLUN CONTRIBUTOR

Amazing images from 12 Bowen Island Photography Club members are on display now at the Gallery at Artisan Square. The exhibition runs until Nov. 20 and gallery hours are Thursday to Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The Bowen Island Photography Club has been in operation for two years.

Monthly meetings and photo outings are fun and informative and include all ages and skills, from novice to experienced photographers. The exhibition has provided a goal for the photographers to work towards over the year and has promoted community comradeship in both taking of the photos and in organizing their presentation. The exhibition will display each photographer’s image

in themes such as wildlife, landscape, street photography, ocean scenes, travel experiences and portraiture. As well as displaying some of our members’ finest work, we will be attempting to promote interest and new membership into the photography club. The club is a means of getting photographers together for meetings, presentations, competitions and field trips. We also encourage members to have

Wade Davis Into the Silence The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest A presentation by Wade Davis at Cates Chapel Thursday, November 10, 2016 @ 7:00pm

Tickets $15 available at Phoenix & Museum & Archives 604-947-2655

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fun and share experiences. The club’s motto is to “shoot, share, evaluate, learn and have fun.” We want to ensure that the community is aware that the club exists and we are encouraging all those who like to express themselves through a photography medium to come out and join us. Membership forms will be available throughout the show and contact information is available at bowenislandphotography.com.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Dinner at the Legion: Doors at 5 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Great Howe Sound Recovery Event at Cates Hill Chapel, 7-9 p.m. Comedy of Music, a one-man music/dance/theatre show, great for families and kids at Tirnanog Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Kids under five are free. For anyone over the age of five tickets are $10.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Into the Silence, a lecture by Wade Davis at Cates Hill Chapel at 7 p.m. Tickets, $15, at the Museum & Archives. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Cenotaph, 11 a.m., followed by lunch at the Legion. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Knick Knack Nook Auction, 7 p.m. at Cates Hill Chapel. All money will go to the Caring Circle.

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Inaugural Bowen spelling bee generates buzz TINA NIELSEN CONTRIBUTOR

Cates Chapel was buzzing with excitement Saturday, Oct. 22, as 10 teams of eager spellers competed for the coveted Golden Bee Award. The venue was packed with almost 100 audience members and 40 competitors. Pizza donated by Bowen Pub was served along with beer, wine and Perrier, and homebaked goods from Sheilagh Sparks rounded out the refreshment table. Warmed up and refreshed, the teams focused on spelling words in three successively harder rounds, until the team scores were tallied and the winner announced. Congratulations to the Killer Bees, who took first place with a score of 255 points. Team members Suzan Ross, Colleen Ireland, Lynne Roedde and Michael Epp were overjoyed to have won the grand prize. Along with the Golden Bee trophies, the team took home a $150 gift certificate to Rustique Bistro and a bottle of champagne to celebrate their orthographic prowess. Mike Epp credits his uncomfortable but very cute Bee thinking cap for contributing to their success. Runners-up were the

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The Killer Bees stung the competition to take first place in the spelling bee. photo supplied Len Gilday Spellcasters (Maureen Nicholson, Sue Ellen Fast, Emma Chow and Bonny Brokenshire) in second place, and tied for third place were the Arts Avengers (Peter Williamson, Emilie Kaplan, Nerys Poole and Judi Gedye) and the Buzzer Killers (Marc Gawthrop, Irene Wanless, Martin Clarke and Graham Ritchie). Special prizes went to team Spellbound (Joyce Ganong, Jane Kellett, Allie Drake, Nan Massender) for Best Team Theme, while the Bee Witched team (Kristen Watson, Stef Shortt, Hope Dallas, Sophie Idsinga) won the Most Spirited Team award. The Adult Spelling Bee was a co-production of the Bowen Island Public Library (BIPL) and the Bowen Island Arts Council (BIAC) as a fundraiser for the Cove Commons project. Formerly known as the Annex/ Gallery Project, the Cove Commons is a joint project of BIPL and BIAC to construct a new building behind the current library that will provide added program and community space for the library, and will be the new home of the Arts Council and its Gallery. Like all events on Bowen there is a “hive” of volunteers and sponsors who make it all happen. I would like to thank our sponsors Rustique Bistro, Bowen Island Pub, Phoenix on Bowen, Theatre on the Isle, Rotary Club and Carol Cram

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who all donated or lent materials and items that helped with fundraising. A team of four people selected the words for the event, but a special thankyou goes to our word selector extraordinaire Audrey Grescoe who brought a seven-page list for us to choose from. Thank you to judges, scorekeepers and timekeepers Ted Spear, Susan Geist, Sarah Haxby and Leo Pedersen. It was a tough job to keep track of scores amongst the exuberance of the teams, but they did a fantastic job. The evening was not only competitive, but entertaining thanks to the acting and comedy skills of MC and word caller David Cameron. Of course there are many others who helped out along the way: Ted Benson, Filis Fahey, Len Gilday, Melissa Harrison, Stephanie Legg, Marysia McGilvray, Roger McGillivray, Jacqueline Massey, Melanie McLeod, Cynthia Nicolson, Don Nicolson, Leo Pedersen, Susan Sheehan, Greta Smith, Sheilagh Sparks, Susan Swift, Sophie Taylor and Alan Whitehead. Thank you all for your help setting up, decorating, serving, selling and tearing it all down again. Forgive me if I’ve forgotten any names – your help is greatly appreciated. And for those of you who missed the Bee this year, never fear. It was so much fun that we are definitely making this an annual event.

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Teen chef Hudson Stiver cooks with love, passion Meet 13 year-old Hudson Stiver. He is in grade 9 at Island Pacific School and LOVES to cook. Hudson will be appearing on Chopped Canada on Sunday September 6. The Bowen Island Pub will be open to all who want to come watch along with the Stiver family. Question - What’s your favourite kitchen utensil? (of all time, or maybe of the moment) Answer - My Breville Blender. I love it because it has so many uses. It can make smoothies, soups, dips, pesto, and so much more. I’ve had it now for about four years, and it’s really helped me get more creative in the kitchen so I can experiment and make crazy sauces and dips, such as Carrot Cake Dip, and Chive Chimmichurri. Q - What’s your comfort food? A - My dad’s pasta with salmon cream sauce. It’s boiled linguine, smothered in rich and decadent sauce that has cooked salmon, heavy cream, lemon, minced onions, and garlic. Its comfort food at it’s best, because it’s simple,

yet it fills you up, and it tastes amazing. Q - If you could only have one cook book… A - It’d be Whitewater Cooks with Passion by Shelley Adams. I love all of the Whitewater cookbooks, but this one appeals to me more than the rest. I think the reason why, is because this cookbook shares simple recipes that have complex flavours. Examples of these recipes are Lamb Meatballs with Pomegranate Jewels, and Rosemary Sea Salt Brownies. Q - Who’s your biggest culinary inﬂuence, and what did they teach you? A - My biggest culinary influence, would be my dad. Ever since I was little, cooking was one of the ways that I bonded with my dad. Because he worked many nights as a musician, in the day he’d take me to places like the docks and the produce markets, in order to get the freshest ingredients that we could make for dinner that night. He has taught me many lessons: including never give up no matter the circumstances, always go with your gut, and

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perfect the basics. However (although he hasn’t taught me this), he always puts so much love into his food, and from that I realised that the biggest lesson my dad has taught me, is to cook with love and passion. Q - When did you realize you loved to cook? A - I have been cooking ever since I was three. I started out making salad dressings in order to experiment with different types of flavours and spices. Shortly after, I became in charge of the daily salad for my family, getting to experiment with lots of different vegetables. I got so wrapped up in cooking, that I brought recipe cards to preschool, and read them instead of books. However, for a few years, soccer was my focus and cooking took a back seat in my life. But, in the last two years, my love for cooking has really reached a new all time high. Chopped Canada was obviously one exciting thing I did, but I also got the status of “top chef ” in my family and I got a new job as a prep cook at the Bowen Island Pub!! And now this year, I’m going to be creating my first cookbook, that I

hope people will like. So yeah, it’s been exciting Q - Tell me about a culinary challenge, and how you overcame it. (for example, when you had to adapt to a particular diet or allergy, or when you had to learn a totally new cooking style.) A - Pastry has been a real tough thing for me to execute properly in the kitchen. I think the reason is because I like going by taste (not really using recipes), and with pastry it’s always exact measurements. If you’re a quarter cup off, it could affect your whole recipe. To adapt to pastry, I’ve been following lots of dessert recipes, but I’ve been throwing in my own twists. My latest pastry creations have been Mini Doughnuts with a Shirley Temple Glaze. I actually thought they tasted pretty good! Q - How has living on Bowen inﬂuenced your cooking? A - Having neighbours and other community members who are as passionate about food as I am has really boosted my confidence. What I mean by this, is all of these community members are

Stiver, a 10-year veteran of the kitchen at age 13, is hoping to stir things up on Chopped Canada. photo supplied

more than willing to critique my (and other people’s) food, and they usually have some really nice things to say (along with some constructive criticism of course). You can have

a conversation about food with almost everybody on this island, and it’s really nice to have a community where peo-

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Vegetarian Vietnamese spring rolls served with dipping sauce from PAGE 9 ple are so open to talk to you about your passions. Q - What are you cooking/ eating lately? A - Lately, I’ve been trying to make a lot of finger food. My cookbook is going to be about worldly finger food, and how it changes from continent to continent, so I’ve been trying to find out what about international finger food varies. Specific factors I’ve found have played a key part in the differences of finger food,

have been texture, flavour, and shape. Vegetarian Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce (makes 18) Ingredients for Spring Rolls 1 Red Bell Pepper 20 Baby Carrots or 2 small carrots 9 Green Onions 1 English Cucumber 12 mushrooms 1 med pc. Ginger 3 cloves garlic 1/4 cup soy sauce

18 Rice Paper Wrappers 1/2 a package of rice noodles, cooked according to package 1 kettle full of warm water Ingredients for Sauce: 4 tbsp peanut butter 3 tbsp soy sauce 3 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tsp grated ginger 1 tsp minced garlic 1.) Wash, slice mushrooms about 1/4 inch thick. Saute in diced ginger, garlic and soy for 3 minutes. Put aside in a bowl. 2.) Julienne peppers, car-

3.) Chop ends off of green onions. Peel the outer layer of skin, then cut each green onion in half width wise. Add to the same bowl as the other vegetables.

large empty saucepan, that can fit the rice wraps. One at a time, dip a rice wrap into the warm water, for about 20 seconds. Make sure you have a solid grip on either side of the rice wrap, or it will fold and stick together. Once the rice wrap has been dipped in the water, place onto your counter.

4.) Give cooked rice noodles a good rinse, then cut them into bite sized pieces Season with salt and pepper, and add to the bowl. 5.) Pour hot water into a

6.) Assemble the rice wraps with noodles, mushrooms and a small pinch of the rest of the filling in the middle. Do not overfill the wraps, or they won’t hold together. Fold both

rots, and cucumber. Size should be about 1/4 of an inch by 1/2 of an inch. Add to an empty bowl.

of the narrower ends inside the rice wraps, then roll the wide ends over as if your were rolling a burrito, until the rice wrap is fully enclosed. Repeat with all other rice wraps. 7.) For the Peanut Sauce, mix garlic, ginger, and peanut butter in a small bowl. Then add rice vinegar and soy sauce to thin out the peanut butter, until it is your desired consistency. 8. ) Garnish with Fresh Chopped Green Onion and Serve.

“Creating safe communities means protecting the environment and the people.” – Dion Arnouse, Emergency Management Consultant, Kinder Morgan Canada

Trans Mountain’s emergency management team has connected with over 100 Aboriginal communities along the BC-Alberta pipeline route. We assess each community’s capacity to respond to a civil emergency, then provide support to upgrade emergency response skills accordingly. The primary objective is to ensure an organized response to a spill. However, as the chances of a spill are low, local residents who are trained well with a safety mindset are equally prepared to respond to a more likely natural event, such as a fire, flood or ice storm. Putting safety first is our number one priority.

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