Bowen Rotary has a program to supply Bowen Islanders with house number signs. Imagine Your child or other patient is gasping for breath and turning slowly blue, lying on the ground having fallen from a step ladder or down the…

Reprinted from Rotary District Newsletter, January 2017 Despite setbacks, 2016 has been a year of progress towards a polio free world; we saw the fewest cases at the end of the year with 35 compared with 74 in 2015, and…

Be at the Legion Parking lot on June 25th for the Bowen Rotary Garage Sale. Great prices on: Furniture Tools Garden Plants Sports Gear Camping Gear Books Household Items Clothes And more… Proceeds are to support Bowen Rotary’s program to…

After three years of hiking Mount Gardner, mapping the trails, and negotiating with the Province, The Rotary Club of Bowen Island — on behalf of the community — will sign an agreement with the Recreation Sites and Trails BC branch…

Bowen Rotary, the community of Bowen Island, the Hayes family, and more, are grieving the loss of our friend, and club founder: Piers Hayes, 1944 – 2016. Piers would use the name “Blu” to address everybody. For the Rotary Club…

At the Bowen Island Municipal Council meeting on Monday, January 11, Rotarians Bawn Campbell, supported by Denis Lynn, Dai & Wendy Roberts, and Robert Ballantyne, proposed that Council support Bowen Rotary’s project to install publicly available automated external defibrillators (AED)…

Post by Robert Ballantyne. Contact me if you have any questions. This blog post is fairly technical, and is here, listed under the category of Site Development, as a reference for future users of this site. This past weekend, the…

By Patricia Boston, Ph.D Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia   In honour of World Polio Day on October 24th, 2015, members, families and friends of The Rotary Club of Bowen Island will be devoting the month of…

As a matter of policy, the site web-masters like to keep the elements of this site up-to-date. That includes the WordPress platform, the plugins, and the current theme. Mercifully, WordPress now updates automatically. Today I (Robert Ballantyne) noticed that the…

Someday polio will be eradicated from the Earth. This was once an almost impossible dream. Now, that day could happen in the next couple of years. In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO), together with Rotary International, UNICEF, and the…