The Watershed: Lions Bay's Community News Source

10/13/2025

Breaking: House Fire in Lions Bay, crews on scene: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/breaking-house-fire-on-bayview-road

Road blocked by trucks and hosesBayview Road is blocked above the school as Lions Bay Fire Rescue (LBFR) and West Vancouver Fire Department (WVFD) are currently on scene at a house fire.The house is fully engulfed, and firefighters are concentrating on containing the blaze, which has spread rapidly....

10/13/2025

Autumn in bloom, today in The Watershed:

Fall gardens still gloriousLast week's beautiful autumn rose prompted an outpouring of glorious autumn garden blossoms from Watershed readers around BC. Enjoy the colour!The Watershed values your opinion. Share your thoughts below, or email us at [email protected] Like what you're reading?...

10/11/2025

Local lad's lemonade labours pay off for LBSAR, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/another-fruitful-summer

Hikers (and lemons) squeezed for a good causeAfter another hot summer in Lions Bay, one entrepreneurial young local has turned the profits of his lemonade labours into tangy support for Lions Bay Search and Rescue (LBSAR). In the summer of 2024, local brothers Harry and Archie ran a lemonade stand a...

10/10/2025

The budget battle begins, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/october-cow-number-one

Budget battle season beginsChief Financial Officer Joe Chirkoff has a big dream. He wants to steer Council members through the 2025 budget process, with the ultimate goal of having the new document receive first, second and third reading by November 18. This, he told Council members at last night's....

10/09/2025

Gargantuan agenda sets tone for scattered, chaotic council meeting, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/october-7-council-in-focus

Gargantuan agenda sets tone for scattered, chaotic meetingFor the second time in two months, Council members this week were faced with a gargantuan agenda — this one 461 pages long, edited down from the original 464 page version that was posted on Friday. The original agenda contained a report fro...

10/08/2025

Putting your autumn garden to bed, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/october-gardening

Putting your autumn garden to bedAutumn is here, and that means it's time for a final fall garden clean-up for the year. When it comes to priorities, Butterflyway rangers (and garden-lovers) Hana Boye and Val Morton have a few tips to share, and the first is a piece of good news.Leave the leaves"We....

10/08/2025

Shedding light on a new sign, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/the-sign-of-the-snake

Shedding light on the protection of local reptilesRecently a new sign has popped up along Tidewater Way that's got some local residents scratching their heads. Turns out the 'Snake Crossing' sign was a local community initiative prompted by what Public Works Director of Operations Karl Buhr calls a....

10/07/2025

RAVEN Book club event: It Stops Here by Reuben George this Thursday. Details in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/raven-book-club-event-it-stops-here

Resource Extraction and Indigenous RightsThe Sacred Trust is an initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN), with a focus on protecting the unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters from the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. As a Sundance Chief and a member of the TWN, author Reuben George...

10/06/2025

Wide-ranging COW touches on audit, zoning bylaws, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/wide-ranging-cow-covers-ground

2024 Audit review, release of SOFI report, upcoming bylaw changesThursday evening's Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting covered a lot of ground, beginning with a review of the 2024 audit figures, as well as a look at the costs of running the Village in 2024 and some potential changes in wording to....

10/06/2025

The September digest edition of The Watershed swooshed into email boxes today. Interested? Subscribe here: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/plans-pricing

10/03/2025

Juneau brings the joy, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/joyous-juneau

Coastal canine protects the princessJuneau is a silver standard poodle who turned four this past June. He gets his name from the Juneau Icefields, a region which traverses the BC-Alaska border that is very special, just like him.This poodle's family says he takes the job of watching over his two you...

10/02/2025

A gorgeous look at Howe Sound in book form, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/picture-this

New book captures beauty of the place we live — and moreVancouver creative Connor McCracken has worked in video production, photography, and marketing for years, but it was the drive home from a day of skiing in Whistler that changed his perspective forever. "Looking out over Howe Sound, it hit me...