2011 Community Stewardship Award - Recipients

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Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2011 Nominee Profile 
 
Sue Ellen Fast, Bowen Island 
 
Category:              Individual  
 
Project:           Community and conservation work on Bowen Island 
 
Nominator(s):      Bowen Island Conservancy 
 
Letters of Support:  N/A 
 
Project Description:  
 
Sue Ellen Fast’s ongoing community work on Bowen Island over the past 15 years has included a great variety 
of projects ranging from hands-on fieldwork for habitat restoration to chairing major local community initiatives 
such as the steering committee for the update of the Official Community Plan. 
 
Sue Ellen has been involved in many initiatives such as heron protection policies, municipal park 
establishment, tools for watershed education, parks and trail dedications, and land use bylaws.  She has also 
been involved in a variety of education programs such as making presentations to local schools and 
community groups and organizing speaker programs for different Bowen Island groups.  She assisted in 
reestablishing the local market farm and coordinated a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, 
working with landowners.  She co-chaired the Cape Roger Curtis Trust Society for several years and was a 
member of the Sustainability Framework Working Group. 
 
As a result of Sue Ellen’s five years as a Commissioner for Bowen Island Parks and Recreation there is now a 
growing island-wide network of trails, parks and public beaches that can be enjoyed by people from Bowen 
and visitors from the entire region.  Sue Ellen’s persistence had a significant influence on the creation of the 
Greenways Advisory Committee by the Bowen Island Municipality.  Another innovation by Sue Ellen was the 
Cove to Cape Greenway concept, a vision of protecting a full spectrum of connected ecosystems at every 
elevation across the whole island sea-to-sea. 
 
Sue Ellen served as chair of the Bowen Island Conservancy and some examples of the successes achieved by 
the conservancy under her direction are the conservation covenant on the Betty McIntyre property, several 
municipal parks, the wetlands inventory of Bowen and continued emphasis on the essential need “to preserve 
and protect” lands when responding to the many referrals that come from the Bowen Municipality arising from 
various applications from landowners and developers. 
 

Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2011 Nominee Profile 
 
Barry Mathias, North and South Pender Island 
 
Category:              Individual 
 
Project:           Car Stops Program 
 
Nominator(s):      Amanda Griesbach 
 
Letters of Support:  N/A 
 
Project Description:  
 
Barry spearheaded a project working on transportation alternatives called Moving 
Around Pender (MAP).  The purpose of this program is to provide transportation on the 
North and South Pender Islands for those without cars, since there is no bus service.  
He had a vision and wrote grants for fundi

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