Injured boater rescued by Bowen ferry crew

The Queen of Capilano was called into help the Coast Guard rescue an injured boater early today. "We assisted the Coast Guard; there was a sailboat in distress in Deep Bay," B.C. Ferries spokesperson Deborah Marshall said over the phone from Victoria this morning. Marshall said that the 6... more

TransLink's Prendergast offers parting advice

Keep the pressure on to get the kind of transit system the region needs. That's the advice from outgoing TransLink CEO Tom Prendergast, who spoke to civic and business leaders Thursday at the Metro Cities Conference in Vancouver. "If you want to... more

• Road pricing risky but worth it: Red Ken
• Time for everyone to get H1N1 shot
• HST rebate increased for new homes

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Pennington’s last minute heroics end inaugural soccer season

The Bowen Island Co-ed Play for Fun and Sport Semi-Competitive Soccer League (BICPFASSCSL) saved the most exciting game of the season for the end, as bitter rivals Team Red and Team White hooked up in a championship match that went... more

• Fundraiser to help Bowen gymnasts leap into National Gymnaestrada

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Chinese builders take to B.C. wood

ICTORIA – The familiar whine of the Skilsaw isn't heard on residential construction sites in China. In the coastal city of Yangpu, workers are hauling high-grade B.C. lumber up to the roof of a six-storey concrete apartment building, then cutting... more > more

The Seven Carters' show

The new exhibition at The Gallery at Artisan Square highlights diverse pieces of art that include landscapes and abstracts, oil paintings, watercolours, acrylics, scratchboard images, photographs and giclee prints. The common threads that tie them together are the artists’ connection... more

• This is Compassion!

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Coffee With: Juggling Stewart

It is arguable that Bowen Island is a hotbed of juggling – we’ll back that up further on – and it all started outside the North Vancouver bus depot on Third Street in the late spring and the summer of... more

• Community Notes and Bowen Bits: Nov. 13
• Island Neighbours: Nov. 6
• A life-changing journey

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Wireless reaches far corners of B.C.

VICTORIA – High-speed Internet has come to Old Massett and Peggo. The village on the north end of Haida Gwaii and the hamlet in the northeastern natural gas patch near the Northwest Territories border are the farthest-flung locations in B.C. covered... more

• 30 U 30: Emily Jubenvill, 23  
• Flu season
• every WOMAN health and fitness conference takes place Saturday

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An old sailor goes to Afghanistan

VICTORIA – Remembrance Day reveries about the sacrifice of our ancestors weren’t much on my family’s mind this year. My eldest brother landed at Kandahar Air Field some time in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 11 and spent the day moving... more

• Letters: Nov. 13
• Editorial: We owe them our gratitude
• Sockeye go on the witness stand

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