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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The Power of Youth, Hope & Creativity/Peggy Taylor on FolkU
August 09, 2022 18:18 - 1 hour - 264 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -
Jason Johnson: QXMC's new General Manager
August 09, 2022 16:58 - 6 minutes - 14.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Currents learned that Jason Johnson was going to be Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation’s (QXMC) new General Manager back in June, but at that time he was busy finishing up as Sayward’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Around the time Johnson took over the helm of the Klahoose First Nation’s economic development corporation, I was on vacation for three weeks. We finally sat down on Monday to talk about Johnson’s first five weeks at the helm of QXMC. ...
Mawhinney running for Regional Director in Area C
August 08, 2022 17:21 - 6 minutes - 14 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Quadra Island designer, print maker and graphic artist Robyn Mawhinney will be running for Regional Director in Electoral Area C (Discovery Islands and Mainland Islets) on October 15, 2022. The incumbent Jim Abram, who has been a director since 1988, recently announced he will not seek another term. Mawhinney explained, “I have been speaking with a lot of neighbours and community members, and I have heard that it is time for generational change. I am deeply c...
Mark Vonesch 6 - Housing, the #1 issue on Cortes Island
August 07, 2022 15:01 - 5 minutes - 13 MBMark Vonesch/ Cortes Currents - The Electoral Areas Housing Needs Report identified an immediate demand for 75 rental and 40 retail units on Cortes Island. In a previous interview, Mark Vonesch from the Cortes Community Housing Society, said, “I hear stories of people having to quit their jobs because they can’t find housing for the summer. I know people that are living under a tarp. I know seniors that are living in a tent.” However a quick scan of the real estate pages turns up three ...
Learning about old growth on the Rainforest Trail
August 06, 2022 16:44 - 3 minutes - 8.84 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Rainforest Trail, near Tofino, is much more than a simple path through the woods. Massive western red cedars and western hemlocks tower over visitors as they follow the twisting boardwalks through an enchanted landscape full of the ferns, lichen and fungi typical of an old growth ecosystem. The oldest inhabitant of this stand is a red cedar that was reputedly a sapling when Marco Polo set off for the Orient in 1271. This means it is about 950 years old today...
The only significant old growth Douglas Fir stand north of Cathedral Grove
August 03, 2022 17:08 - 5 minutes - 13.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to BC Parks, Campbell River is home to “the only significant stand of old-growth Douglas Fir north of Macmillan Provincial Park [Cathedral Grove].” Yet the city seems to be virtually oblivious to the “towering old growth Douglas Fir and Cedar trees” in the 3.5 kilometre Riverside and Old Growth Loop trails. While only minutes from downtown, the Riverside and Old Growth Loop Trails are not listed in the ‘Top 10 things to do within one hour of Campbell...
The Future of Farming w/Young Agrarians
August 02, 2022 00:39 - 1 hour - 260 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Is the end nigh? Sara Dent from the Young Agrarians joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss the future of farming in Canada, the role of the Young Agrarians, and innovative solutions happening across the country. Tune in Friday July 29th on cortesradio.ca or 89.5FM (repeats Monday at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 6 a.m.) and call with your questions about agriculture in Canada at 250-935-0200 or email in advance to [email protected]. The Young Agrarians is a ne...
Pink Salmon Run looks Good for 2022
July 31, 2022 13:47 - 2 minutes - 5.93 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Large numbers of pink salmon are returning to our area this summer. “I am seeing these pink salmon return – their numbers appear huge, they are leaping everywhere, finning along the surface for hundreds of kilometers,” emailed independant biologist Alexandra Morton. Lara Sloan, a communications advisor with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), wrote they are expecting a strong return to the Campbell River, based on the strong outmigration from the 2020 brood, c...
Where are Germany's Bears, Wolves and Eagles?
July 27, 2022 18:55 - 7 minutes - 18 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The most popular story on Cortes Currents is ‘Where are Germany’s Bears, Wolves and Eagles?’ There were more than 14,000 views. As the written version of this interview was published six years ago, I did a quick Google Search to see if the information is still relevant. The results: There are no bears in Germany, they were driven out more than 150 years ago ago. After being virtually wiped out in the 19th century, wolves have returned and there are believed to...
Mark Vonesch: The issues that divide us
July 26, 2022 14:16 - 6 minutes - 16 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Mark Vonesch hopes to bring a new kind of politics to Cortes Island if he is elected Regional Director on October 15, 2022. “One of the biggest things I want to do with this campaign is bring people together who think differently than each other,” he explained. “What I can do is initiate conversations and get people talking about them.” He then went on to outline the same issues that our current Director has been wrestling with: housing, climate change, ecosy...
Mark Vonesch - working with Cortes Island's volunteer community
July 25, 2022 13:11 - 2 minutes - 5.27 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It is almost two months until the October 15, 2022, election. So far, Mark Vonesch is the only one to put their name up as a candidate for Cortes Island’s Regional Director. In the fourth of a series arising from an interview with Vonesch, he was asked what he would bring to the office from his years of experience working in Cortes Island’s volunteer community. It has been 17 years since Vonesch founded Reel Youth, a non-profit that uses filmmaking to teach y...
State of the forest on Cortes Island w Suzanne Simard
July 20, 2022 15:54 - 47 minutes - 108 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Dr. Suzanne Simard, author of Finding the Mother Tree, forest ecologist, and professor shares her reflections from her time on Cortes Island and her work on understanding forest ecosystems. Dr. Robin Hood of the Mother Tree Network interviewed Dr Simard. This is a special Folk U recording by Bill Weaver, with an intro by host Manda Aufochs Gillespie. The program was originally broadcast Friday July 15th on cortesradio.ca or 89.5FM and repeats Monday Jul 18...
Mark Vonesch - Gregor Robertson's example
July 18, 2022 15:10 - 3 minutes - 7.78 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Islanders will be going to the polls on October 15th and Mark Vonesch hopes they will elect him as their next Regional Director. In the third of a series of interviews, he talks about how the example of former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson inspired him to enter politics. Vonesch’s connection dates back to the years Robertson was living on Cortes. For a number of years prior to entering politics. His kids went to the schools and he was part of the loc...
Mark Vonesch - on local farming
July 16, 2022 19:47 - 4 minutes - 9.48 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In the second of a series of programs about his running for Regional Director of Cortes Island, Mark Vonesch talks about growing up in the farm and what his rural background could mean when it comes to representing Cortes on the Strathcona Regional District Board. His family operated a dairy farm, with 50 cows, outside Olds, Alberta. Mark is the oldest of six children, which he jokes may have been a strategic move on my parents to have lots of help on the far...
Cortes DeathCaring Collective Part 5 Finale
July 14, 2022 16:04 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Part 5 - Breaking new ground: dealing with a care facility. Sharing information, web site. - How can people help if they want to? Volunteering, donations? - Training and mentoring available. - Mailing list. - Benefits of facing death realistically instead of with denial and avoidance.
Cortes Deathcare Collective Part 5 Finale
July 14, 2022 16:04 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Part 5 - Breaking new ground: dealing with a care facility. Sharing information, web site. - How can people help if they want to? Volunteering, donations? - Training and mentoring available. - Mailing list. - Benefits of facing death realistically instead of with denial and avoidance.
Mark Vonesch - Moving Forward Together
July 14, 2022 14:34 - 5 minutes - 12.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been a week since Mark Vonesch announced that he would be running for the position of Cortes Island’s Regional Director in the October 15th SRD election. In the first of a series of stories, he told Cortes Currents about his desire to bring a new kind of politics to Cortes Island. “We are so fortunate on Cortez to have a real community where we still drive down the road and wave at each other. There is a sense that we're all in this together, despite ou...
Perceived loss of biodiversity in Mansons Lagoon
July 14, 2022 01:57 - 6 minutes - 15.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Around 30 people trekked through the spit into Mansons Lagoon, during the July 12 ‘Gumbooting the Lagoon.’ While Jane Newman explained the site’s human history, marine biologist Deb Cowper and FOCI’s Autumn Barret Morgan introduced everyone to intertidal life forms. One of the many topics that arose was the loss of marine life. After the tour, Cortes Currents asked Cowper further explanations. “I haven't come and done any firsthand studies or seen any data ...
Choices in Dying: Choices in Dying, Limits to Those Choices
July 14, 2022 00:32 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents Part 4 Choices in dying: the idea of a “good death.” MAID, alternatives. Importance of planning. Limits to choices: legal restrictions on burials. Rehearsing one’s own funeral. “Perpetuity” of grave sites, green burial meets conservation?
In Remembrance of Dr. Emily Ellingsen, a bursary
July 13, 2022 16:58 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - This is the 13th annual cycle for Dr. Emily Ellingsen Memorial Bursaries. She passed away on February 19, 2010 at the age of 31. Applications for two $2,000 Bursaries will be accepted until midnight on August 15, 2022. Her husband, Aaron Ellingsen, explained, “I think it was actually her dad, John Woolley's idea, but the two of us felt the bursary just represented her attitude and her enthusiasm for life and for just grabbing the world and doing things. It se...
Cortes DeathCaring Collective Part 3
July 13, 2022 13:12 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents -Part 3 What inspires a person to take on this emotionally demanding work? Natural Burial: what is it, how does it work? How is it different?
Cortes Deathcare Collective Part 3
July 13, 2022 13:12 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents -Part 3 What inspires a person to take on this emotionally demanding work? Natural Burial: what is it, how does it work? How is it different?
DeathCaring Collective Part 2
July 11, 2022 22:44 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Part 2 Finance, relationship with other Cortes organisations; not a BC nonprofit society. Transport of bodies; bodies often released from medical care in distressing condition. Industrial vs humane practises. Challenges of “alternative” practise. Hope for wider acceptance, becoming the norm not the alternative.
The Secret to Better Leadership on Folk U 89.5 FM
July 11, 2022 16:52 - 1 hour - 230 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Author, leadership coach, and therapist Deena Chochinov joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss her new book HomeWork: How to be a Leader in the Boardroom and the Living Room on Folk U Radio. Friday at 1 p.m. on 89.5 FM and CortesRadio.ca (repeats on Mondays at 6:30 p.m./Wednesday at 6 a.m.). Are leaders born or made? Can leaders transfer their skills from family to work and vice versa? Deena brings years of experience working with leaders well known a...
Deathcare Collective Part 2
July 09, 2022 20:05 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Part wo contains: Part 2 Finance, relationship with other Cortes organisations; not a BC nonprofit society. Transport of bodies; bodies often released from medical care in distressing condition. Industrial vs humane practises. Challenges of “alternative” practise. Hope for wider acceptance, becoming the norm not the alternative. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Deathcare Collective Part 2
July 09, 2022 20:05 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Part wo contains: Part 2 Finance, relationship with other Cortes organisations; not a BC nonprofit society. Transport of bodies; bodies often released from medical care in distressing condition. Industrial vs humane practises. Challenges of “alternative” practise. Hope for wider acceptance, becoming the norm not the alternative. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
The Survivor Fir
July 09, 2022 13:53 - 2 minutes - 5.27 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There are many stories of tree hangups, but one of the most colourful comes from Cortes Island. According to local tradition, the Survivor Fir would not be standing if it were not for a steam donkey’s explosion in 1923. The tree is hundreds of years older, but there are evidences that support this identification. Olsen & Mundigal logged this area back in the era when loggers chopped a notch into the trees they chose to cut. A wooden springboard was inserted int...
DeathCaring Collective Part 1
July 08, 2022 15:57 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - For the last several years, a small but dedicated group of Cortes Islanders have been taking practical steps towards an ambitious goal for themselves and their community: a healthier relationship with death and dying. Their projects include regular meetings for discussion and support, humane and family-led funeral arrangements, and green (natural) burials in our local cemeteries. In Part One: Part 1 What is the death care collective; what’s a regular meeting l...
Deathcare Collective Part 1
July 08, 2022 15:57 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - For the last several years, a small but dedicated group of Cortes Islanders have been taking practical steps towards an ambitious goal for themselves and their community: a healthier relationship with death and dying. Their projects include regular meetings for discussion and support, humane and family-led funeral arrangements, and green (natural) burials in our local cemeteries. In Part One: Part 1 What is the death care collective; what’s a regular meeting l...
Violent Crime in Campbell River
July 08, 2022 10:29 - 10 minutes - 24.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There appears to have been a recent in increase in the number of violent crimes reported in Campbell River. According to Cst Maurey Tyre, “For the last three or four years, we have seen a general spike in calls for service in Campbell River. One of those years actually saw roughly a 12% increase. A lot of those increases based on things like calls for service, checking wellbeing and things like that. But effectively, when there is an increase in calls for se...
Things to do on Cortes Island: Summer offerings from FOCI
July 07, 2022 14:11 - 3 minutes - 7.76 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Friends of Cortes (FOCI) have just released their summer program of daily offerings for 2022. “It's about educating people about the natural environment, but also really having people getting out there, having fun and enjoying themselves. So whether it's locals or visitors, we’re really pleased to welcome anyone who's who wants to come along,” explained Helen Hall, Executive Director of FOCI. Their program starts on at 1:30 PM on Friday, July 8, with a fo...
Cortes Cinema: a festival of George Sirk's early films
July 06, 2022 12:23 - 21 minutes - 48.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island will be holding its very own film festival in Mansons Hall on Sunday July 17, 2022. George Sirk produced Cortes Cinema’s films, all but one of which was originally shown either at Mansons or Gorge Halls during the 1970s and early 80’s. The exception is a video made of Ann Mortifee’s performance at Manson's Hall on October 23, 1981, which has never been shown in public. Doug McCaffry came up with the idea of a film festival, when he was digit...
Busy times for Cortes Kayaks
July 05, 2022 15:41 - 5 minutes - 13.5 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Cortes Kayaks has a lot of bookings this season. In May, they took out groups from 'Adventures in Leadership' and 'Teen szene.’ Then there were three 5-day-long lodge based trips running from Hollyhock in June. "Two of those were kayak and yoga retreats, which I really enjoy facilitating with my co-guide and co-facilitator Jolen,” explained Kai Harvey. “Next week we are doing our first multi-day kayak expedition of the season. That's a kayaking expedition w...
Telling the story of the Children's forest: A film to push fundraising forward
July 04, 2022 22:27 - 4 minutes - 11.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A group of Cortes Island residents want to make a documentary about the Cortes Children’s Forest Trust. “It's going to be around five to seven minutes long. We want to capture the social and ecological spheres of the children's forest and present that in a film for people to know more about it and connect with the forest if they haven't been there. Then maybe more people will want to go and experience the beautiful trees and the beautiful ecosystems,” explai...
Laura Balducci: an Artist supporting Artists
July 03, 2022 16:27 - 8 minutes - 19 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Laura Balducci calls herself an artist supporting artists “I still make my own art. I'm doing a solo show in February 2023, but I also have a little bit of extra energy and I'm not shy. I'm on a mission. The mission is to get as many artists out there, either in person or on the walls to share with the world. I really enjoy working with the artists and trying to get their work out there so that they can maybe spend more time in their studios and make more art ...
A North Island porblem: possible solutions for Campbell River's bear problem
July 02, 2022 23:22 - 10 minutes - 25.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Campbell River’s bear problem is escalating. Reports of their raiding garbage cans doubled in number this year. Sergeant Mike Newton, a Conservation Officer with the Ministry of Environment, went to the June 27 city councill meeting with a couple of suggestions. They hinge upon changing human behaviour. He explained that North Vancouver Island is prime bear habitat. Many communities are bulit along the salmon baring streams where they naturally geo funnel. “O...
The Gathering Place: a Cortes Island winner in NexStream 3.0
July 01, 2022 11:59 - 5 minutes - 13.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - One of the winners in NexStream 3.0 comes from Cortes Island. The Gathering Place was awarded $10,000 “For running an exceptionally community-minded business, that never compromises ethics for gain. Their ethically imported spices and regionally grown herbs are of exceptional quality. They are the epitome of what a local business can be.” This is the third year that Campbell River has held a NexStream Competition. According to Mayor Andy Adams, “NexStream 3.0...
Before the SRD Board: key to addressing electoral housing needs
June 30, 2022 20:37 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Sandy MacKay, of M’akola Development Services, presented the Electoral Areas Housing needs Report to the SRD Board on Wednesday. “Collectively working with federal provincial entities and advocating for more non-market housing, will be key to reducing the gap between what people can afford and what is available in your markets. Non-market housing tends to be dedicated, affordable, and appropriate. It usually takes on the form of something called secured affo...
Getting Rainbow Ridge Shovel Ready for the Next Round
June 30, 2022 12:35 - 10 minutes - 24.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Many of you have probably seen the real estate adds in the Tideline. Two significant parcels of land are being sold as part of a much lager vision. Cortes Community Housing intends to have the Rainbow Ridge project ‘shovel ready’ for funding by 2023. They have previously applied for funding from BC Housing three times. “Twice for Rainbow Ridge and once for the Senior Society expansion. What we're doing now is getting ready for our third attempt to win funding...
Southern pod killer whales aren't getting enough to eat, study finds
June 28, 2022 20:36 - 2 minutes - 6.54 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A new study UBC study found that the endangered southern resident killer whale population isn’t getting enough to eat. As lead author Fanny Couture explained, “The study goes from 1979 to 2020. We were trying to understand whether the Southern Resident Killer Whale population had enough food to eat to sustain their energy needs. So a human needs 2000 calories a day, a killer whale will need about 170,000 calories a day. What we found is that they were in energe...
One year after the marine die off
June 28, 2022 14:23 - 7 minutes - 16.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been twelve months since billions of marine animals along the West Coast of British Columbia perished during a record breaking heat wave. Temperatures of between 35°C and 40°C were recorded at the Cortes Island School during the last five days of June.
Bringing 'Ordinary Magic' to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery
June 27, 2022 14:27 - 6 minutes - 15.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Jane Newman calls the exhibition, that she is bringing to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery, ‘Ordinary Magic.‘ “What I find that I'm trying to do, since I've been living on Cortes for the last five years, is express the energy of the land, or the energy of nature. I'm very much connected to the leaves and the birds and the ocean and even the underworld of the ocean. I'm trying to see it, feel it, hear it, sense it — in every way. I really try to re-express that. ...
The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery's 2022 Season
June 26, 2022 16:19 - 11 minutes - 26.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery’s 2022 Season kicks off at 6 PM on Friday, July 1, with Jane Newman’s solo exhibit ‘Ordinary Magic.’ This is also the first season in which the gallery has a manager. Bianca Lee explained, “The gallery manager gets to see behind the scenes of the artists presenting their work and that's kind of special. You go to the gallery and see everything in its finished state, but I get to actually see what happens as they're setting ever...
No more logging in Hyacinthe Creek! - says grannies
June 24, 2022 13:52 - 5 minutes - 13.7 MBRoy L hales/ Cortes Currents - Another logging confrontation may be coming on Quadra Island. On Novermber 15, 2021 a little group of Quadra Island grannies, calling themselves the friends of Hydcinthe Creek, shut down Mosaic’s logging operations in Tan Creek. “We said they could take out the logs that they've already cut. My goodness, they got so many first day and a half before I found them and we stopped them. This was cutting the headwaters above the headwaters of Tan Creek that goes i...
Single motor vehicle accident on Cortes Island
June 23, 2022 19:14 - 1 minute - 3.27 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Current - At approximately 11:30 PM on Tuesday, June 21, Quadra RCMP received a report of a single vehicle motor vehicle accident on Cortes Island. Their subsequent press release states, “The driver was pronounced dead on scene and the passenger was transported to the hospital with serious injuries. The passenger is currently in stable condition. Speed is believed to be a factor in the collision. The investigation is ongoing.” Cortes Currents received a tip that the pas...
Housing Needs Report: Rural Directors first Responses
June 23, 2022 14:15 - 8 minutes - 19.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District’s rural Directors responded to the Housing Needs Report at the Electoral Areas Services Committee meeting on Wednesday, June 15. Sandy Mackay, of M'akola Development Services, gave the Directors a presentation. “We began earlier this year and continued throughout winter and spring of 2022. The study was extensive. It included a selection of key informant interviews, which I believe almost all of you participated in, as well as...
Two year renewal of fish farm licenses
June 23, 2022 11:03 - 7 minutes - 16.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced a two-year renewal of licences for marine finfish aquaculture facilities outside of the Discovery Islands. “I have mixed opinions about the announcement. I think there's some good things and there are some not so good things,” said Stan Probosczc, senior scientist with the Watershed Watch Salmon Society. “They received a license for two years based on these conditions and those conditions are rules that the salmon farms ne...
Gowland Harbour Views proposal 'dead' - for now anyway
June 22, 2022 12:26 - 4 minutes - 11.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The fate of a proposal to develop 51 residential lots, a campground, marina and two waterfront parks on Quadra Island may finally have been decided. The public meeting for Rick Schellinck ’s proposed Gowland Harbour Views development was originally scheduled for July 28, 2011 and, after eleven years of delays, finally occured on April 20, 2022. The controversial project may have finally been voted down at the SRD Board’s June 15 meeting. As Gowland Harbour...
What to discuss with Horgan and Minister of Municipal Affairs
June 22, 2022 10:16 - 8 minutes - 19.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) will be holding its 2022 convention in Whister on September 12 -16. Local governments tradionally seek interviews with high level provincial officials. The interviews can be up to 15 minutes long and cover up to 3 topics. The SRD chose their topics at the Wednesday June 15 Board meeting. Regional Director Jim Abram suggested that they talk about putting more funding into affordable housing. Cortes Island Regional Director ...
Looking forward to High Season at Gorge Harbour Marina
June 20, 2022 22:11 - 10 minutes - 24.6 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Heather Reimer took over as General Manager of Gorge Harbour Marina in February. Her day usually starts at 6:30 AM with coffee as she looks through the emails that came in throughout the night. Two hours, and several cups of coffee later, Reimer will usually be in the office. She and her partner Ron Quire are currently overseeing the activities of more than 50 employees: 10 in the Gorge Harbour General Store. 4 in the office 10 in the maintenance depar...