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…

ShelterBox: Supporting Medicine in Nepal Video published on Jun 29, 2015. Shortly after the devastating earthquake on 25th April 2015 in Nepal and with response teams working across the country, two of our emergency responders, Nicola Hinda and Mike Peachey…

On June 18th Ken Simpson spoke to The Rotary Club of Bowen Island about what it would take to bring Gigabit Internet to Bowen Islanders. The event was covered by the Meribeth Deen of the Undercurrent, and her report is…

From the public’s point-of-view, this site now has the navigation (menu structure) implemented, and most of the blank pages have a first draft of content. Since no web site is ever complete, we have taken the wraps off and we…

Until now, all posts in this blog have been listed as Uncategorized. So far, all but one post has been about the development of this site. There was a single newsworthy post about the Shelterbox Demonstration at The Snug Cafe.…

Good progress on the site today. Much of this afternoon was lost trying to figure out how to have the top-level navigation buttons merely show the child pages and not leap to its own page if someone accidentally clicked on…