Cortes Currents
1,486 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Cortes Currents is a news platform that asks what's current in Cortes and the Discovery Islands. Web articles & radio podcasts: Cortes Island, Quadra Island, Discovery Islands, Campbell River: news, lifestyle, local politics, affordable housing, economy, food security, health, ferries, tourism, history, culture, environmental issues, sustainable forestry, oyster farming, the arts, First Nations, energy, climate change, overshoot
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Cortes Island Fire Department needs more money
February 23, 2023 16:14 - 10 minutes - 23.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island residents will most likely be paying a great deal more for their fire department this year. The Cortes Island Fire Department (CIFFA) is asking the SRD for about $127,000 more in 2023. CIFFA hopes to obtain $381,000 from property taxes. Their request was received as correspondence at the Wednesday, Feb 22, meeting of the SRD Board. Cortes Island Regional Director Mark Vonesch prefaced this submission by stating, “CIFFA has submitted a budget th...
kaitlyn fierce and fluid interview LB
February 22, 2023 15:21 - 10 minutes - 12.7 MBLouis Belcourt/ CKTZ News - A local karate and kinesiology specialist has been hosting a weekly self-defense class on Cortes Island and donating the proceeds back to the community. Kaitlin Garratt runs "Fierce and Fluid," which she describes as an "empowered self defense class," blending cardio kickboxing, karate, and "foundational energy principles to help you embody your core power and learn to deliver it with grace to the world." Garratt is a black belt in karate and was a Canadian natio...
Robyn Mawhinney: A Wharf Service for Area C
February 22, 2023 14:37 - 5 minutes - 12.7 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - More than eight years have passed since Transport Canada (TC) transferred administration of three wharves to the Strathcona Regional District (SRD). Owen Bay on Sonora Island, Surge Narrows on Read Island, and Port Neville on the northern shore of the Johnstone Strait are all within Area C. The SRD was provided with $2.9 million for maintenance and upgrades that were to be completed sometime during the next decade. These upgrades have not yet occurred. Nor has a ...
local podcasters BG and JT
February 22, 2023 00:22 - 11 minutes - 25.6 MBLoni Taylor/CKTZ News -A Cortes Island couple has been running a comedy podcast over the past six months and, 30 episodes in, momentum is building. “We Can’t Pick a Title” was created by local entertainers Bobbie-Gene Hanson and Jason Thompson and the podcast just reached the milestone of over 1,000 downloads. Thompson described the process of getting started. “I looked around the room and I had the right equipment to be able to do something and plugged some cables in and tried it out. A...
Opening Campbell River up for food trucks
February 21, 2023 13:12 - 2 minutes - 6.06 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Campbell River has been talking about opening up its streets to food trucks for years. Only 28 of the 600 respondents to a 2018 survey were opposed to the idea, and there have been food trucks at some venues. At their February 9 meeting, city council took steps to make this more of a regular occurrence. The only discussion was regarding the proposed $35 per day fee. Councillor Tanille Johnston asked, “I was just wondering, in regard to the fee we're charging,...
Darn Tough Socks Feb 2023
February 20, 2023 14:14 - 5 minutes - 12.2 MBAnastasia Avvakumova/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island is a noteworthy location for the number of annual warranties claimed through the Darn Tough brand of socks, which are guaranteed for life. Although the 2022 claims total was only 21 pairs for the island, per capita this is 24.75 times higher than the Cities of Vancouver, North Vancouver and West Vancouver combined. Cortes and Quadra Islands together added up to 43 pairs claimed under warranty in 2022, which is the same number as all of Ca...
Discovery Island Fish Farms remain closed
February 18, 2023 17:18 - 6 minutes - 13.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Discovery Island Fish Farms remain closed. According to the Fisheries and Oceans press release of February 18, 2022, “There are multiple stressors on wild salmon, including: climate change; habitat degradation and destruction; regulated fishing as well as illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Given the state of Wild Pacific Salmon, the Government of Canada is taking a highly precautionary approach to manage Atlantic salmon aquaculture in the Discovery Is...
This Monday from 1-3 PM: A taste of the upcoming Season at Wild Cortes
February 17, 2023 12:43 - 6 minutes - 14.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Wild Cortes will be giving a peak of the theme for the upcoming season this Monday, Feb 20, between 1:00 and 3:00. Curator Donna Collins explained, “It’s a bit of a preview that's going to be a family day activity. We will be taking the families out into the forest, measuring trees to find a mother tree. Then we'll also be digging to pull up some of the mitochondrial networks and looking at them here underneath the stereoscopes. After that, participants will ...
New night market offers evening adventures at Mansons Hall
February 17, 2023 12:06 - 6 minutes - 16 MBLoni Taylor/ CKTZ News - The Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA) is creating a new night market scene at Mansons Hall. “Hidden Treasures” will begin this weekend, with local vendors selling musical instruments, tools, art, records and vintage clothing. Rick Bockner is a local woodworker, musician, and healer. He will be selling many handmade items and materials related to woodworking, as well as a collection of copper. He spoke about how the new market event inspired him. “Rather t...
FMvendor Twigroot Botanicals
February 16, 2023 23:49 - 10 minutes - 22.9 MBAnastasia Avvakumova/ Cortes Currents - Twigroot Botanicals is a young business, steadily building a reputation for high-quality body care products that began with a garden. ”I wanted to do something different because there is so much skincare out there,” said Cortes Island-based owner and formulator Tamlyn Collingwood. “My preference is to only use herbs that can grow in our climate and in particular, in my garden here.” Some of the plants have been with her for over 25 years, moving from ...
Good News about the drainage at Rainbow Ridge
February 16, 2023 14:32 - 9 minutes - 20.9 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - “ If we achieve this, which I believe we're going to do, this is a model for other communities. We look at places like Salt Spring and even Quadra Island and places in northern BC where they have lost their lakes. The Process is called eutrophication. When the lakes just become too rich in nitrogen and they become swamps. It's not just our issue, it's everybody's issue and if we show a way to improve the nutrient flow into the lake while adding these extra homes...
Forests Fires and our Future Ruth Waldick
February 15, 2023 15:48 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Since late 2021, a small group of Cortes residents has met regularly to discuss climate change and its impacts on our region. On February 4th, 2023, the “WTF Friday” event featured environmental scientist Ruth Waldick; Dr Waldick gave a presentation on climate change, fire risk, and forestry practise. We may have no control over the weather, but we do have some control over soil moisture, fuel loads and ignition risk. — Ruth Waldick, Transition Salt Spring Her ...
Fuel mitigation around the Cortes Recycling Centre
February 15, 2023 14:46 - 6 minutes - 14.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “When you talk about fuel, most people think about fuel for a vehicle or fuel for something like that, but fuel for a forest fire is wood on the ground or standing wood? the idea is to reduce the fuel load to reduce the severity of a fire. As it approaches that location, the fire will slow down and most likely drop to the ground because we've opened up canopy. The danger trees have been removed and the debris on the ground's been removed. So it would be a lot...
Ruth Waldick Complete Presentation Feb 4 2023
February 15, 2023 13:04 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Since late 2021, a small group of Cortes residents has met regularly to discuss climate change and its impacts on our region. On February 4th, 2023, the "WTF Friday" event featured environmental scientist Ruth Waldick; Dr Waldick gave a presentation on climate change, fire risk, and forestry practise.
Debate over Propsed Bus Service: Campbell River to West Vancouver Island
February 13, 2023 13:00 - 14 minutes - 32.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At their February 8 meeting, The SRD Board voted to continue examining the feasibility of a transit service from Campbell River to the West Coast of Vancouver Island. It has been a year since staff was first instructed to pursue the matter. Senior Manager Thomas Yates explained, “We've got two alternatives recommended for the board's consideration. Option A is to look at one or more of the service levels that we've identified in the report, and they range fro...
Anti-vax graffiti comes to Cortes Island
February 11, 2023 21:46 - 3 minutes - 7.99 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Someone has been defacing pro-COVID vaccine adds inside copies of the Campbell River Mirror distributed on Cortes Island. When Tom Bohart picked up a copy of the Wednesday, February 1 edition at Mansons Landing, he discovered someone had been writing on page A 26. There was a picture of Dr Titus Wong saying, said ‘There are people who are vulnerable. Help protect them from serious illness by getting a booster.’ The anonymous critic wrote, in bold felt penned l...
SRD applying for $150,000 grant for poverty reduction planning
February 10, 2023 12:37 - 3 minutes - 7.01 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Close to a third of the households on Cortes Island and a quarter of those on Quadra pay more than they can afford for rent or mortgages. The most visible segment of Campbell River’s house challenged population are the 130 people who do not own or rent a home, but according to the 2021 census data another 3,450 are ‘spending 30% or more of income on shelter costs.’ The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is applying for a $150,000 Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM...
Gorge Harbour Marina Undergoing Renovations
February 09, 2023 00:36 - 6 minutes - 14.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Gorge Harbour Marina is undergoing extensive renovations this year. The general store, marina and gas pump is open, but much of resort is expected to remain closed until 2024. General Manager Jason Johnson explained: “We had a fairly successful last season and then became even more aware of some major infrastructure issues needing to be addressed. It wasn't just a matter of ‘it's a septic issue,’ or ‘it's a water issue,’ or ‘it's an electric issue” - it's al...
Free Store hosts grand reopening
February 08, 2023 12:46 - 6 minutes - 15.6 MBLoni Taylor/CKTZ News - The Cortes Island Waste Management Center is hosting a grand reopening of the Free Store next week to celebrate its return to the pre-pandemic schedule, Thursday-Sunday. The unique store was briefly closed during the pandemic and softly re-opened with special protocols. The Free Store, housed at the waste management centre, is a resource available to Cortes Island residents where recycled "clothing, books, toys, household items, and more" are available for free. A ri...
Cortes Island Academy wraps up first semester with film festival
February 07, 2023 14:03 - 5 minutes - 13.4 MBLoni Taylor/CKTZ News - Cortes Island Academy (CIA) is finishing its first ever semester with a fourth block in filmmaking. The new high school program is a one semester-pilot project this year, so a film festival on Tuesday night concluded the program’s 2022-2023 school year. CKTZ has covered the journey of the CIA pilot project, hearing from creators of the program. The CIA is largely powered by fundraising efforts, and the filmfest brought in admissions revenue from 120 guests. Snacks wer...
Wits End: Design and Fabrication on Cortes Island
February 06, 2023 19:05 - 11 minutes - 25.3 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Wits End: Design and Fabrication is setting up shop on Cortes Island. Arne Olafson was looking for a space to use his equipment, when he walked into the Squirrel Cove General Store last December. “Curt's a really friendly guy and he's super helpful. I was asking who had room for such a big machine, and Curt said that I could move into the shop here. I moved in. There was just some sweeping up, and then I had to build a table for my machine because I couldn't...
Cortes Island-bound ferry traffic loses priority loading status
February 05, 2023 22:16 - 4 minutes - 10.9 MBAnastasia Avvakumova/ CKTZ News - BC Ferries' two-ferry service that began on the Quadra Island-Campbell River route on Jan. 18 was deployed for convenience and speed, but some Cortes Island passengers are concerned with their recent experiences. The loss of a priority loading lane for Cortes-bound traffic was mentioned in a news release by the company Jan.16. Traditionally, vehicles en route to Cortes were directed into lane 7 at the ferry terminal in Campbell River, and they board and dise...
Coming Changes to the BC ferries for Quadra and Cortes Islands
February 05, 2023 20:32 - 8 minutes - 20.6 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The two much anticipated Island Class hybrid e-ferries are now in operation on the Campbell River to Quadra Island route. “This was a long time coming for all of us, but we're pleased to have the vessels going and seeing the throughput at the both ends of the terminals. There has been some bumps along the road for sure. We've had to make some minor adjustments with the way we stage traffic at the terminals. We're exploring different options, trying to keep the ...
Running on Empty
February 05, 2023 15:26 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBDe Clark/Cortes Currents - In 1949, Newfoundland joined Canada as a new Province. Its fisheries then fell under the authority of the central government in Ottawa — the infamous DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, or as some call it, the Dead Fish Organisation). DFO’s mismanagement of the Newfoundland fishery — the immensely productive shoal banks of the northern Atlantic seaboard — is now a classic cautionary tale. DFO’s bureaucrats ignored repeated warnings — from marine biologists, en...
Questions from the Children's Forest Alumni
February 03, 2023 15:36 - 9 minutes - 22.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - One of the world’s leading forest ecologists was the feature speaker at the Cortes Children’s Forest virtual AGM on Saturday, January 298th. This is the last in a series of programs from that meeting, in which Dr Suzanne Simard’s answers questions from the Children’s Forest Alumni. Forrest Berman-Hatch emceed the session and this abridged broadcast of the audio opens with him asking, “ How do you see the value of the Children's Forest taking into account all t...
Quadra Homicide
February 03, 2023 11:05 - 1 minute - 1.96 MBLouis Belcourt/ CKTZ News - An investigation has begun on Quadra Island after a 39-year-old woman was found dead inside her home. RCMP were conducting a wellness check on Jan. 16 when they found her inside her home, according to press release Feb. 1. Police have confirmed that the death is criminal based on evidence forensic investigators have collected and believe it was a targeted killing. No details about the woman's identity or manner of death have been released by the investigation un...
Highly generative community forest meeting launches next phase of opportunity roadmap
February 02, 2023 21:52 - 14 minutes - 32.5 MBAnastasia Avvakumova/ Cortes Currents - On Sat. Jan. 28, Cortes Community Forest Cooperative (CCFC) public meeting succeeded in providing a "local knowledge download" for the external consulting team, who are now working on a plan for CCFC to keep more of its cut wood on island, simultaneously creating jobs through tapping the value-added wood products sector. The meeting was held at the Klahoose First Nation's Multi-Purpose Building. The Nation is a strategic partner with the non-indigenous...
Pickleball dominates the courts of Cortes
February 02, 2023 20:58 - 6 minutes - 14 MBLoni Taylor/ CKTZ News - As the popularity of pickleball grows nationally, the sport has become a regular pastime on Cortes Island with the resurgence of team sports this winter. The school gym is booked four nights a week for adult sports, with pickleball offered twice weekly. If the weather is nice, pickleball moves to the outdoor courts at the Cortes Island School as well. Alex Hornby is a regular pickleballer at the courts and shared his early impressions of the game with CKTZ. “My fir...
CKTZ - News - SRD - Jan - 25 - Meeting
February 02, 2023 20:12 - 3 minutes - 7.12 MBLoni Taylor/ CKTZ News - Editor's Note: CKTZ FM is the Cortes Community Radio Society. The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) approved $18,000 in funding for a number of non-profits on Cortes Island last week. The Grant-in-aid (GIA) program awards funding to local, non-profit organizations, for the benefit of the community, through the SRD. This is an year-by-year program, where applicants are recommended by the regional director. At a board meeting on Jan. 25, five Cortes Island Grants-I...
Expert panel discussion: Suzanne Simard, Tzeporah Berman, Paul Stamets
February 02, 2023 18:49 - 25 minutes - 58.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - An expert panel discussion featuring Suzanne Simard, Tzepoarh Berman and Paul Stamets was one of the highlights of the Children’s Forest AGM on January 28. The topics ranged from finding an effective way to communicate with industry to a proposed research collaboration on Cortes Island.The podcast below is an abridged version of that segment, starting with the introduction Forest Berman-Hatch gave for his mother.
CKTZ.Ana .city - Of - PR - Name - Change - Jan2023 - V2
February 01, 2023 19:30 - 14 minutes - 33.1 MBAnastasia Avvakumova/ CKTZ News - Content warning: This story discusses colonial history and its negative impacts on Indigenous people of Canada. In upcoming Powell River City Council strategic planning meetings, Coun. Cindy Elliott looks forward to making decisions on recommendations from the Joint Working Group she participated in last year. The group was set up following an official name change request to the municipality in May 2021 by the Tla'amin Nation Executive Council. Powell River...
winter dance temple m.lloyd
February 01, 2023 19:06 - 6 minutes - 15.1 MBLoni Taylor/ CKTZ News - Put on your dancing shoes, Islanders: there's a new dance collective in town. Last summer, Connie Quayle and Val Lange began seeking opportunities on Cortes Island to start a dance temple collective. They hosted a dance temple in August and have managed to double their efforts with Mary Lloyd and Dancing Wolf joining in. This weekend, Lloyd and Wolf are hosting the first Dance Temple Cortes event of 2023. Dance temple is a form of ecstatic dance, also known as "move...
CKTZ.Greg .Womens - Centre - Looks - Head - With - Stable - Funding.Jan .2023
February 01, 2023 18:55 - 11 minutes - 27.1 MBGreg Osoba/CKTZ News - Since its inception in 2019, the Cortes Island Women's Resource Centre has struggled to find funds to ensure delivery of its basic services, but Director Tanya Henck says 2023 will see stable funding thanks to a number of grants from regional and national organizations. The organization received $42,000 through the Victoria Foundation ($5,000), Cortes Island Community Foundation ($17,000), and the Canadian Women's Foundation ($20,000). The non-profit helps with finding...
Quadra ICAN: The Nut Tree Project
February 01, 2023 17:56 - 13 minutes - 31 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents: On Saturday, 14 volunteers turned out to plant the first batch of hazel-nut trees for the Quadra ICAN Nut Tree Project. The organizer, Jennifer Banks-Doll, explained, “For a few years now on Quadra, we've been working towards increasing food security. There's been lots of different ideas about how to do that. From perhaps the more obvious, perhaps not more obvious ideas about gardening workshops and learning how to preserve food — different types of gardening...
Rick Bockner: Returning onstage with the CKTZ Lip Sync
January 31, 2023 22:15 - 7 minutes - 17.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On February 25th, Rick Bockner will be returning to the stage at Masons Hall, as MC of the CKTZ Lip Sync. Rick Bockner: “We are having a Lip Sync after taking two years off because of COVID. We're all very excited about it because it's been a while, but it's been a great tradition for the radio station and a great fundraiser and a community event that we all need these days.”
Hollyhock: the year ahead for 2023
January 31, 2023 15:24 - 9 minutes - 21 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “ What Hollyhock is bringing to the world in 2023 is personal growth for social transformation. I'm really excited to see the world opening up, but with a recognition that things need to change. Cortes offers a really unique perspective on that because it's an island. It's a small community of people who know each other and there is the opportunity to live a more sustainable lifestyle here. When I think of Hollyhock at its best, it's a leadership or a learning l...
Suzzanne Simard: the Mother Tree Network & Cortes Island
January 30, 2023 19:43 - 19 minutes - 44.5 MBGuest speaker/Cortes Currents - Dr Suzanne Simard was the feature speaker at the Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society AGM on Saturday. During the course of her brief talk, Dr Simard discussed some of the innovations she values on Cortes Island and also the Mother Tree Network’s plans here. This is an edited transcriptof her talk, starting with the introduction by Forrest Berman Hatch Forrest Berman-Hatch: It’s my honor to introduce Dr. Suzanne Simard, who I'm sure many of ...
Cortes value-added wood products: A workshop of champions
January 30, 2023 00:26 - 12 minutes - 28.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Narrator: “Mills have closed across rural British Columbia, devastating the economies of many small forestry dependent communities. Tiny Harrop-Proctor Community Forest has bucked this trend. The Harrop-Proctor experience shows that even a small, locally controlled mill can make a significant difference in creating local jobs while adding value to forestry operations generally.” “ About a quarter of the wood from the community forest is staying in the communit...
SRD to look at all helpful information about fish farms
January 27, 2023 18:40 - 10 minutes - 23 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Editor’s note: While there are no fish farms on Cortes Island, there was one on Raza Island directly north of us. The Discovery Island fish farms were in Electoral Area C. The Strathcona Regional District passed a motion for staff to prepare a report that ‘consolidates the information on open net pen transition provided to the SRD Board prior to October 2022, and updates.’ “I think if we're going to look at information, we need to look at it all,” said Reg...
SRD Territorial Acknowledgements: Should Tla'amin be included?
January 26, 2023 15:42 - 7 minutes - 16.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) officially recognizes 10 First Nations within their boundaries, but the Tla’amin are not among them. While Mansons Landing and Marina Island are both within their traditional area, the Tla’amin First Nation ceded their claim to most of this area when they signed a treaty in 2014. They retain a small parcel on Cortes Island, and thus still possess land within the SRD. This question was part of a larger discussion at the i...
UBC Sea Sponge Covid Story
January 24, 2023 18:31 - 10 minutes - 9.22 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - UBC researchers have identified three biological compounds sourced in Canada that prevent COVID-19 infection in human cells. All are derived from marine organisms, including a sea sponge from Howe Sound. The discovery paves the way for the development of new medicines for COVID-19 variants based on natural sources. BC’s ocean and forest ecosystems may contain a wealth of new antivirals waiting to be discovered. In a recent study, an international team of researc...
Cortesians will get to choose their internet providers next Spring
January 23, 2023 21:52 - 8 minutes - 18.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Sometime this spring, possibly as early as March, Cortes Island residents will get to choose their internet provider. After building Twincomm up to the company islanders recognize today, on June 28, 2021, former General Manager Dino Tsakonas left to join CityWest. In an interview at that time, he told Cortes Currents that this came about as a result of the Connected Coast project, which will bring reliable high speed internet to Cortes Island. CityWest partne...
Feb 25: The Lip Sync is back
January 23, 2023 14:00 - 9 minutes - 21.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Lip Sync returns to the stage of Mansons Hall at 8 PM on Saturday, February 25. “Over the last three years I've heard from people who want it back. So when are you doing a lip sync? We haven't been able to do it until now,” explained Howie Roman. “It is without a doubt, one of the highlights that I would point to in my time on Cortes. I just love it when that many people get involved in something. It's about 30 nowadays, performers and crew.” Cortes Curre...
The Bird's Eye's new owners: Quadra ICAN
January 23, 2023 13:13 - 8 minutes - 19 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Bird’s Eye, Quadra Island’s only weekly newspaper has a new owner. “It was an 11th hour saving of the local paper that was about to close the doors. Had been trying to find a new publisher for several months with no luck and Amanda Smith, who has been the publisher editor for several years was posting the final edition when ICAN approached her to ask was it possible to save the paper and could a deal be worked out?” said Ramona Boyle, Coordinator of Quad...
Local organizations demand BC fulfil
January 20, 2023 16:43 - 6 minutes - 15.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On the eve of the 2020 provincial election, Premier John Horgan declared, “I’m committed to keep moving forward to protect old growth, create good jobs, and maintain family-supporting livelihoods in communities across the Province. A re-elected BC NDP will implement the full slate of proposals from the Old Growth Strategic Review Panel. We will act on all fourteen recommendations and work with Indigenous leaders and organizations, industry, labour and environmen...
Jan 18 Press Release for Campbell River Mudslide
January 19, 2023 14:31 - 6 minutes - 15.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There was a mud slide in Campbell River during the evening of January 17. Two of the apartment buildings along the foreshore, on South Island Highway, had to be evacuated and the residents are still not able to return to their homes. The following day, Wednesday Jan 18, the Srathcona Regional District and city of Campbell River held two press conferences. Cortes Currents attended the virtual conference for reporters who could not go to Campbell River. It was t...
CNFC Interview Jan 2023 Part 3
January 18, 2023 12:40 - 19 minutes - 18 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Episode 3: Co-op and Community "We make quite an effort to get as much local produce in as we can. And there are, I think three bigger farms that supply us: Big Fir Farm, Linnaea Farm, and Wildflower — Sarah’s farm. And Hazel, our produce buyer, works hard together with the farmers to figure out who’s who’s growing what, and make it equitable, what she will buy from them. Because often, of course, everyone’s lettuce is ready at the same time and so on." "There’s...
CNFC Interview Jan 2023 Part 2
January 18, 2023 12:35 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Episode 2: Challenges I’ve done the math for myself. When I arrived in 2004, I thought it was a great idea to go off [island] and shop for food and come back. And very quickly I realized I was spending my entire day in ferry lineups, and rushing from shop to shop, and that I would have to make a heck of a lot of savings to pay for that time, if I was even to think about paying my own time at all… or valuing my own time, because there are other things I could be d...
CNFC interview Jan 2023 Part One
January 18, 2023 12:31 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Episode 1: How It All Works "I first moved to Cortes in 1998, and there were a group of us that worked with Jude Marentette to bring quality organic food onto the island. And in 2003, the co-op was looking for a location and ended up in the building where they are now — with some assistance from many community members. And I had a shift, one day a week in 2004 — on Thursdays — and I would get paid $8 an hour in retail food." — Amy Robertson So we have a lot of ...
Mudslide behind Campbell River condos
January 18, 2023 12:09 - 1 minute - 4.15 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There was a mudslide behind Hillside Place, at 738 South Island Highway in Campbell River at approximately 7:45 last night. A City of Campbell River press release stated the residents of Hillside Place and the adjoining condominum apartment building, Beechwood Manor, have been evacuated. “No injuries have been reported at this time and the surrounding area is secure. The City fire department and Campbell River RCMP responded to the incident. The City will c...