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Sea to Sky between Ansell Place and H.Bay |
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Written by Charlie Bradbury
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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If you, like me are really concerned about the current state of the sea to sky highway in-between Horseshoe Bay and Ansell Place, please call Robert Hola (sp?) at Kiewit's on 604 775 1096 and share your thoughts.
I think it's utterly atrocious and can't see how this section with its sharp direction changes, no highway lighting and head-on truck headlights meets even the most basic of road safely standards, especially in the wet when the road markings pretty much disappear.
I called last week and nothing has been done, can I get few more voices out there please...?
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 October 2008 )
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Written by Lawrence Ruskin
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
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I couldn’t help but note the last bear pamphlet sent around by the
Village tells you to take your bird feeders down in the summertime.
Lions Bay was too cheap and lazy to print their own pamphlet so they
used a generic government one. We have had our own for years that say
you must deny access to attractants; it’s easy enough to do.I wouldn’t
do without my birds in the summertime they fill the air with birdsong
as well as being a variety of different beautiful colours. They are
quite different birds than the ones that come to my feeders in the
winter. As well Hummingbirds fill my heart with joy and bears won’t
bother hummer feeders unless you put them right in front of the animals
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 September 2008 )
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Written by Sue Hall
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
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Please feel free to copy, forward, distribute this flyer at your school/workplace. You never know, this may just be exactly what someone out there needs to know !
Thank you so much!
Sue
For anyone interested in learning new ways to look at the way we learn, you might be interested in attending this upcoming seminar. Please click here to view the pdf. the_gift_of_dyslexia
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 September 2008 )
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Around the Village on September 15, 2008 |
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Written by Carole Conlin
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
The Village publishes minutes of their Council meetings (www.village.lions-bay.bc.ca) and there is a link from the Lions Bay Community News (www.lionsbay.net) to the Village website to view the minutes. In addition, the Village Administrator, Don Reid, writes "Council Notes" for publication in the Community Newsletter. This Around the Village report gives a villager’s notes of the Council Meeting of Sept 15, 2008 to provide timely information until the formal Council Notes or the Village Council Meeting Minutes are provided. I encourage village residents to report on village events as they occur and become an around reporter too!
Agenda items are in bold, my report in regular print. Mayor Max Wyman Chaired the meeting and three of the Councillors were present as well as the Administrator for resource information and Sheila Blake was recording secretary. The meeting was called to order at 7 p.m. and went in camera at 9:16 p.m.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 )
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A Sense of Place - My Lions Bay |
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Written by Louis Peterson
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Folks have been coming to Lions Bay since the early 1950s (to Brunswick since the early 1900s), when these locations were quiet retreats, mostly by the seashore, far from the bustle of the noisy city. The community continued to develop amongst the trees on the forested mountainside overlooking the spectacular Howe Sound vistas. Animals of the wild, and birds of forest and seashore, are to be found in our "backyard". We can get to know the native plants of field and forest floor if we so wish.A closeness to Nature seems to have played an important part in people's decision to locate to the "boonies". These features, and the opportunity to buy and build a single family home on my own piece of real estate, are among the factors that give Lions Bay its special "sense of place" for me.
Fast forward to 2008, and we find that our tiny community of 552 homes is one of 47 Village Municipalities in British Columbia. We (about 1500 people) make up about 0.03% of BC's population, 0.004% of Canada's, and an almost infinitesimally small fraction of the world's human complement. We are a diverse mix of people, from many different parts of the world. 21% of us - a fifth - are the youth of the community. About 67% of us - two thirds - are in the 20-64 age bracket, and 12.4% of us are over 65 (2006 census). We live close to the busy "big city", where many urban benefits are to be found. We contribute to most of the functions of the greater society - in areas of commerce, education, the arts, health, law, politics, construction …... Thus, it comes about that, although our place is but a small one in the biosphere that is the house for all ephemeral living things, we as a Village play important roles within society as a whole.
"To see a World in a grain of sand, and eternity in an hour."
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 September 2008 )
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