Dear students, parents and residents,

We want to be as sure as we possibly can that Lions Bay students are aware of an opportunity to apply for a Scholarship award. Awards are applicable to Lions Bay students graduating from Grade 12 and intending to go on to post secondary education or training, or already attending a Post Secondary institution.

Applications may be made by the student, or by a Nominator on behalf of the student. The Scholarships are provided by the Curly Stewart Memorial Trust, the Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation, and the Norman Kirby Scholarship Fund.

Details of Rules and Regulations and the Application Form are available at the Secondary Schools in School District 45 (West Vancouver), at the Village Office and downloadable here at Lions Bay Community News.

The deadline for Applications is 7 May 2012.

Louis K. Peterson, Co-chair
Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation (LBCSF).

Phone: 604-921-7260. email: lpeterso@sfu.ca

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The Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation

Rules and Regulations Concerning Awards, 2012.  Please see the end of this article to download the 2012 Application Form.

Note: The following Rules and Regulations apply to Scholarship eligibility and the Adjudication process.  The Board appreciates that individual students have particular talents and skills, and will consider recognition of all Lions Bay graduating students to the extent that resources permit.

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It's that time of year again when we put our minds to Spring gardening! The Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation would like to thank you for last year's overwhelming support with the sale of our bags of Super Sea Soil! 

The Scholarship Foundation are offering Lions Bay residents the same opportunity this Spring. Please click here for more details on how to order your garden enhancing Super Sea Soil. This fundraiser is in support of our young scholars.

Please join Nature Vancouver and the Vancouver Natural History Society on March 8th 7:30pm for Diving Howe Sound Reefs and Islands hosted by Glen and Kelsey Dennison.

Join the father and daughter team of Glen and Kelsey for a talk on underwater discoveries in Howe Sound. Starting with an introduction on Glen's new book, Diving Howe Sound Reefs and Islands, the pair takes you through 30 years of diving in Howe sound and what previously undiscovered reefs hold in store for the adventurous.

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The licensing fee pays for the doggy bags, dispensers and maintenance of dog friendly areas.

This is a reminder to please make use of the doggy bags and clean up after your animal.

We wish to keep Lions Bay a place for all to enjoy, including dogs.

The Village has received an increase in complaints from residents relating to dog feces on trails.

Thank you for respecting our environment, please encourage others to do the same.

If you see a dog at large, please report this to the Village Office.

Dogs at large are subject to a fine of $85.00

Dear Villagers: Christmas Eve seems like a long time ago. Everyone’s contribution was appreciated and recognized. This small investment of time by the volunteers allowed our Village to shine with its generosity. Thank you.

There is a story out there that the new council benchmarks performance. It’s true. I will be asking everyone next year to volunteer again and hope you will agree to participate. Please continue to practice your musical instrument, singing, and solicitation skills with the purpose of surpassing this year’s collection.

Here is a letter of appreciation from The Salvation Army to Lions Bay.  Click here to read!

Photo by Nancy Wombat via flickr

Translink is in the stakeholder consultation phase of the North Shore Area Transit Plan Phase 3.    Two particular changes relate to Lions Bay - one being a proposed change to the C12 route. The proposed change would have the C12 wind along Marine Drive up to Caulfield after the Horseshoe Bay stop.  The change may lengthen the journey to and from Caulfield and could impact connections.

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The Village of Lions Bay is seeking a full time Office Coordinator to perform administrative duties and assist and support the administrative team in providing assistance and support to Council, Staff, Community Projects and the Municipality.

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Citizens for Safe Technology Society (CST) has launched a Human Rights action against BC Hydro requesting accommodation of individuals refusing a wireless smart meter for health reasons. These are persons with a variety of health concerns ranging from cancer to heart problems, from seizures to electrosensitivity, and who have medical letters from their doctors requesting BC Hydro accommodate their health conditions by allowing an analogue meter to remain.

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This is great recognition for our small community.  Congratulations to all those who participated. 

The Lions Bay Historical Society is always available to answer your Historical Society questions.

Dear Lions Bay Residents,

Today is the last day for input on this project!  Please respond with your concerns regarding the McNab Creek Mining application. The Future of Howe Sound Society has provided this information and links regarding the proposal for a mining and crushing operation in the Howe Sound.

Thank you,
Lions Bay Community News

Alberta Company planning on Strip Mining Howe Sound
Future of Howe Sound Society

In our last newsletter we shared with you the possibility of Burnco Gravel Products creating an ill-advised strip mine for gravel on top of a salmon bearing stream on McNab Creek at the north end of Howe Sound. The Future of Howe Sound Society have just been informed that Burnco has submitted their final project description and the public have until February 3rd to submit their views on this project to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

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To the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

RE:    BURNCO Aggregate Mine Project Proposal

Re:The Village of Lions Bay Council Opposition to the BURNCO Aggregate Mine Project Proposal
McNab Creek, Howe Sound, British Columbia
Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry
Reference Number: 11-03-54754

The Village of Lions Bay Council has voted its opposition to the proposed BURNCO Aggregate Mine Project, McNab Creek, Howe Sound, British Columbia.

Please review and receive the attached Letter of Opposition, along with noting the attached Howe Sound Community Forum Priniciples For Cooperation and the 15 Signatories to the September 20th, 2002, document, including:

Three Regional Districts, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Squamish Lillooet Regional District, Sunshine Coast Regional District, as well as the Squamish First Nation, the District of West Vancouver, Bowen Island Municipality, the Town of Gibsons, the Gambier Island Local Trust Committee, the Village of Lions Bay, the District of Squamish, the Resort Municipality of Whistler and Village of Pemberton.

As this is a serious matter, please acknowledge that the attached letter has been received and added to the file for noted opposition to this project. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Brenda Broughton
Mayor
Village of Lions Bay

604.921.9229
604.306.6661 (cell)

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The broken water main on Bayview Road has now been fixed. The water supply to the area has been turned back on. You may experience cloudy water and it is highly recommended that you run the outside taps for 10 minutes to clear the pipes.

Also, please use caution when driving up on Bayview due to an excavator being partially parked on the roadway.

Thank you for your patience and consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,

Chuck Partridge
Manager, Public Works

The Village of Lions Bay wishes to pay our respects to a former Council member, Bert Eldridge, who passed away on January 10th, 2012, at the age of 98.

I am on the Board of The Salvation Army and Chairman of “The Hope in the City Breakfast” held  at the Vancouver Convention Center  in early December. The Salvation Army has a very positive profile and many constituents have advised me either  they, a family member, or friend has benefited from their services. At the Hope in the City Breakfast Mary and I were having some photos taken when it struck me that perhaps one of the kettles could make a road trip to Lions Bay. Through the generosity of volunteers and donors this turned out to be a success. Located at the store, on Friday night and Christmas Eve the sound of sleigh bells, music, and singing heralded the season and attracted residents and visitors to the kettle. Our Village’s generosity was never more apparent. The kettle was filled to overflowing, to the extent that the pedestal could not support the kettle.

I would like to acknowledge Cheryl Wozny and the Lions Bay Community News for advertising the event, and thank the below noted enthusiastic Villagers who contributed their time and talents to assist this worthwhile charitable organization.

Mary McLaughlin and Mary Brown
Mayor Brenda Broughton
Former Councillor Lisa Turpin and her husband Greg
Chief Andrew Oliver and the Lions Bay Fire Department
Councillor Scott Ando and his daughter Elyse and son Ty
Tina and Jan Schneider
Former Mayor Doug Pollock and his wife Sally
Thomas McLaughlin and Daniel Fiss
Former Councillor Ruth Simons and her daughter Danielle
Carol Langley, her daughter Carlee Trembley, and her fiancé Carey Aronetz

Happy New Year to everyone!

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I would like to thank Lions Bay for its inimitable community spirit at the Dip and Dash on New Year's Day.  I'm a former Lions Bay resident who came to cheer my friends, but fell on a log and was taken to hospital.

My warmest thank you to Fire Captain Andrew Oliver, to David Dickinson, to paramedics Ryan Prentice and Kin Leung who did a great job, to the many firefighters and residents who quickly surrounded me after my fall, and offered me first aid, blankets, water, hot chocolate and comfort. Thank you to Mayor Brenda Broughton for rubbing my back to keep me warm, and for kind words.  And to the young boy in a yellow and green shirt who came quickly to see what had happened to me.  To my friends Tina and Jan, who drove my car back home and picked me up at the hospital.

Happy New Year, Lions Bay, and bless you all !

Would any Lions Bay resident or Anvil Island land owner please have a look at the ship scrapping operation at the North West end of Anvil Island and take pictures and send them into www.lionsbay.net?

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The creation of the "Christmas Sing Along in the Forest" has proven once again, how little it takes to create the magic when your heart and soul is in tune in what you do. It is in that passion that creativity lives.

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Last week I sent out a press release warning that a tragedy was in the making for some herring stocks in Georgia Strait as an intense new fishery was being unleashed upon them. I based this warning on Fisheries documents from previous herring tragedies.

In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s 200,000 tons of herring were caught each year on the B.C. coast and reduced to meal and oil. By 1967 herring stocks had collapsed and the fishery was shut done. In 1972 the Herring Task Force was formed to investigate how to avoid such calamities if herring fisheries were expanded in the future.

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My name is Jonn Matsen and I am the coordinator of the Howe Sound Herring Recovery project which has had great success in bringing back the herring run at the head of Howe Sound as evidenced by the hundreds of dolphins and increased bird life seen there recently. By wrapping hundreds of creosote pilings under the Squamish Terminals docks we have provided a safe and effective artificial spawning ground for these herring. Over the past 5 years billions of herring eggs have hatched out successfully and we guesstimate that the run is about 600 tons. This is a good start but still not near the 2000 tons of the 1960’s before commercial overfishing and industrial damage of their spawning grounds destroyed that run.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6i_jQJbVk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA34VpRDPcs

Please check out these links and view the great Lions Bay underwater world!

Iʼm not old enough to have fought in World War II but as a child from 8 years to 14 I was brought up to its sounds and pictures – especially the moving variety.

I was a precocious lad who was caught up in the affairs of the day. In Grade VII I won the general knowledge prize the school held. My pal David Rolfe also won it – the next year I think.

Itʼs hard for people to understand just how wrapped up we kids were in the great events taking place every day. I had a large world map on the wall in my bedroom where, with pins with flags on them, I plotted the course of the war, especially in the Soviet Union. Rolfe was often with me and we worked on how we could help General Montgomeryʼs plans in North Africa.

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In whispered cloisters of eternal sleep, Through memoried haze of pulses silenced,
Once springing lean and taut like Fine-honed dreams
We sleep as one, across time that Dulls and fades
With patinas worn and rubbed To the raw;
Like knuckles built as dams Against the surge of endless tears.
Oh, still we wait and listen With muted tongues,
Diverse, That bridge
The flickering dawn of Timeless seas.
We whisper prayers we snared With ropes of wire, barbed as frenzied Hopes
Impaled with crowns of thorns On splintered crosses.
Now forever blessed In the lambent glow of sleep
Where dreams reign supreme We whisper soft as baby's breath,
Remember me.
For in the sleeping there Is the awakening,
And in the end We smile at eternal beginnings.

A Thank You Letter

Each year that passes I feel that I truly belong to the generation between the Veterans and our Children, and am reminded of such at the Lions Bay Remembrance Ceremony.

Proudly the Veterans sit in the reserved section of the hall.

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At Lions Bay Preschool we attempt to make as many community connections as possible for these young learners, to be intrigued to ask questions about where they live and to explore the answers to those questions.

On occasion, the 3ʼs class have visitors who come in to connect these concepts with them, and our 4ʼs class hit the trails to discover. Every month the 4 year old learners take a walkabout from the classroom to explore and connect with this great community via the great trail network, which is a lesson in itself. The month of November found us working on a unit for Careers week and tying it into the inquiry learning of problem solving and strategies.

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“The times they are a-changing…” They always have been, and always will be, but it seems the speed of that change has kicked up a notch or two. Technology has touched absolutely every aspect of our lives, whether we have embraced it or not, and just as soon as we get comfortable with the latest form … it has morphed yet again! Built in obsolescence aside, technology really does seem to be changing that fast.

As business and industry restructure and re-prioritize to keep up with the changing times, so do our schools need to keep up with these changes. What are we doing, here at Lions Bay School, to ensure that our students are ready to contribute and participate fully in this changing world? Well, so many things I donʼt know where to start …

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