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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bowen Rotary members provided a demonstration Shelterbox kit at The Snug Cafe for the weekend of May 2 and 3, 2015. This was a working example of the Shelterbox units being sent to support the aid program in Nepal in the aftermath […]