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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CorilAir serves Campbell River and the Discovery Islands
March 17, 2022 13:57 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -Cortes Island Air was based in Gorge Harbour in the 1990s. That was before Richard Godfrey sold the company to Mike Farrel in 2000. Farrel relocated to Campbell River, but preserved the company’s origins in its new name. CorilAIr is short for Cortes Island Airlines. While the airline now flys out of Campbell River, it still serves Cortes. Operations Manager Shannon Quinn explained, “Cortes Bay is our primary location for pickup and drop offs, maybe three time...
Coming to Cortes - The Discovery Island's First Homestay program
March 16, 2022 10:54 - 11 minutes - 27.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Discovery Islands first homestay program will start on up Cortes Island this September. Rhonda Teramura, the Homestay Coordinator for International Student Programs within School District 72 explained, “I think it's amazing that we're finally able to broaden out wider than the Campbell River core of the city. It'll be a wonderful experience for our district, our local Campbell River students and for internationals alike to expand and explore and connect w...
Just Transition rally in Campbell River
March 15, 2022 12:45 - 12 minutes - 9.13 MBMax Thaysen/ Campbell River - Cortes Currents was in attendance at the March 12 “Just Transition Day of Action” event in Campbell River. Approximately 25 people attended the event, promoted and inspired by the international climate organization 350.org and hosted locally by the Campbell River Chapter of Council of Canadians, a national justice, democracy and human survival organization. The event was facilitated by MC Rich Hagensen from the Council of Canadians. Hagensen began his present...
A brief history of Cortes, Forestry and Mosaic
March 15, 2022 12:34 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBDe Clarke & Mike Moore/ Cortes Currents - Mike Moore reads out a presentation he gave to 30-35 Cortes Island residents on Saturday March 26, 2022.
Mosaic is proposing a sixfold increase over Cortes Islands normal cut rate, says Ellingsen
March 14, 2022 14:51 - 13 minutes - 31.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - One of the founding directors of the Cortes Community Forestry Co-operative says Mosaic is proposing to harvest its lands on Cortes at a rate that is roughly six times greater than what the island residents are used to. This contradicts the Mosaic brochure released at the end of January which stated quote, ‘Our planned activities will look similar to the other forest managers activities on the island.’’ During the ZOOM conference it held with islanders earl...
Fairwell to Trude's cafe
March 13, 2022 21:04 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBDe Clarke/ Çortes urrents - On February 9th 2022, Whaletown neighbours near the Robertson/Whaletown intersection were alarmed by an unusual sight: the old “Trude’s Café” building was on fire. Trude’s Cafe Fire was Intentional Currents contacted Cortes Fire Department Board Chair Chris Walker, who confirmed via email that the fire was intentional, not accidental. However, the Fire Department was not notified in advance and received a call from a concerned neighbour. A fire truck was sent to t...
Solar panels on Quadra Elementary School
March 11, 2022 14:45 - 4 minutes - 11.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been a month since the Quadra ICAN Energy Efficiency Team achieved its goal of having 14 solar panels installed on the roof of Quadra Elementary School. According to Mike Gall, one of the participants in this project, they will only supply about 5% of the school’s needs - but that is not their purpose. This solar array is meant to be an educational tool. Students and the general public, will soon be able to go online and monitor the performance of the...
Vancouver Island Library Strike: No job Action today
March 10, 2022 12:26 - 3 minutes - 7.15 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There will be no job action today in the Vancouver Island Regional Library strike, which began Tuesday. A BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) spokesperson emailed Cortes Currents, “We do not want to be in job action so, in order to minimize impact on communities, we are making plans day-to-day based on what we hear from the mediator and will update the community as far in advance as we can.” A picket line went up at the Duncan Library branch at 8 AM on Tues...
Broom bash in Mansons Landing Provincial Park
March 10, 2022 11:22 - 4 minutes - 9.34 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) is holding its annual broom bash, in Mansons Landing Provincial Park, from 10 AM to 1 PM this Saturday. “We've been doing this project on the spit now for five years,” explained Helen Hall, Executive Director of FOCI. This project started out as an attempt to protect the sensitive coastal sand ecosystem on the west side of the spit, facing the dock. Hall said some of the native plants are quite rare in BC. “When we were fir...
Collecting the garbage from Cortes Island public docks
March 09, 2022 17:15 - 9 minutes - 20.9 MBMax Thaysen/Cortes Currents - Billie Fleming runs a local waste allocation facility – processing garbage and recycling. She has been collecting garbage at the Docks around Cortes for over four years. Cortes Currents learned that there are some changes coming to the dock garbage collection service around Billie gives us a bit of background: Real Dufresne was collecting the garbage for years for a very small fee. Billie started working with Real and they realized that the pay was too low an...
The 2022 season for Cortes Island's new non-profit: the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery
March 09, 2022 10:52 - 7 minutes - 18.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents
Falling Boundaries: A new photographic art series by David Ellingsen
March 08, 2022 00:16 - 13 minutes - 31.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - David Ellingsen will be giving the residents of Cortes Island two presentations of his latest fine art photography series this year. “I'm going to be speaking at the Cortes Island Museum and Archives AGM on the 27th. It's a fairly short talk, probably about 45 minutes, and then some time for Q and A. So it's not a huge amount of time. I'm going to be speaking a little bit about the ‘Falling Boundaries’ series. I also am planning on exhibiting this series, the...
Folk U Radio: High School Programming on Cortes
March 07, 2022 16:49 - 1 hour - 269 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - Could it be true? What does it mean? How can my kids or I participate/help/get involved? Jeff Lontayao, District Coordinator of Student Options and Opportunities, Rhonda Teramura, Homestay Coordinator, join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss the Cortes Island Academy and what this innovative high school program means for the Cortes Island community. The school district is creating a unique pilot project in partnership with the Cortes Island Community Fo...
March 12th: Time for a 'Just Transition Day of Action'
March 07, 2022 10:57 - 3 minutes - 8.74 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - 350.org, the Council of Canadians, students from Carihi Secondary school and other members of the community will be holding a ‘Just Transition Day of Action’ in from of MP Rachel Blaney’s office in Campbell River, on March 12th. Similar demonstrations are taking place in cities, towns and villages across Canada, from Victoria to Halifax. “We're gonna have a little demonstration around what we feel should be in the act. Rachel Blaney herself will be there to sp...
2020-3-7 Library strike could start Wednesday
March 06, 2022 13:23 - 4 minutes - 10.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The libraries in our area are preparing for a strike. Shortly after BC General Employees’ Union, which represents the librarians, issued a 72-hour strike notice, last Wednesday, the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) made a new offer to its librarians. This was rejected and the union responded with a counteroffer. BCGEU President Stephanie Smith said, “Unless the employer comes back with a serious offer, pickets will be up at VIRL branches starting Wednes...
Hope for the future of the Tiskʷat mill site
March 04, 2022 12:05 - 8 minutes - 18.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The tiskʷat Mill has been a cornerstone of Powell River’s prosperity for more than a century. While it no longer has a future producing newsprint, up until two weeks ago it seemed like the site was on the verge of being reborn as a hydrogen company. Then Paper Excellence refused Renewable Hydrogen Canada’s offer and listed their property with an International Real Estate firm. Powell River mayor Dave Formosa said, “I was all over the news talking about Renewab...
CityWest may charge people with long driveways extra
March 03, 2022 15:15 - 4 minutes - 10.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Up until now, CityWest has been offering to install high speed internet to Cortes Island homes for free. They did not take some of the island’s long driveways into account. This has changed, CityWest says some people will need to pay extra. As Regional Manager Dino Tsakonas explained, “We're talking thousands and thousands of dollars to get to one person sometimes. It's just not feasible, but if the customer can kick in a little bit and then amortize over two y...
Vancouver Island Regional Library served strike notice
March 02, 2022 15:10 - 6 minutes - 15.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Picket lines could go up in front of Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) branches as early as 8 AM Thursday. The BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) served the Vancouver Island Regional Library board with 72-hour strike notice on Monday. This does not mean they are going on strike. The union has 90 days in which to exercise its right to go strike, which goes into effect on Thursday. If there is a strike, it could involve the closure of some or all VI...
Cortes Island’s newest citizen science project, monitoring Dungeness crabs
March 01, 2022 19:06 - 7 minutes - 17.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Island’s newest citizen science project, monitoring Dungeness crabs, was announced last Friday. Local Project leader Mike Moore, Helen Hall from the Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) and Kelly Fretwell from the Hakai Institute joined Manda Aufochs Gillespie on CKTZ’s Folk U Friday. Moore explained that when he was diving around Hernando Island in the early 2000s, he saw hundreds mating in the sand flats at Stag Bay. “I recently started diving down on H...
Ferry traffic back to pre-COVID levels
March 01, 2022 00:49 - 2 minutes - 6.47 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - This is Roy Hales with Cortes Currents BC Ferry traffic on both the Cortes and Campbell River ferries were almost back to pre-COVID levels in 2021. 2,700 more vehicles sailed from Campbell River than the previous year and there were almost 4,600 more from Cortes Island. According to a recent BC ferries press release, there has been a 26% increase in vehicle traffic throughout the province. It looked like 2019 was going to be a good year, until COVID 19 a...
Folk U: High School Programming on Cortes?!*$ It's true....
February 28, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 270 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U -
Erroneous internet speed reporting may have cost SRD $12.5 million
February 27, 2022 20:02 - 7 minutes - 16.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A recent study suggests that incorrect reporting may be responsible for Southern Quadra Island, Tahsis, Gold River and Sayward not qualifying for funding under the Connected Coast High Speed internet program. As a result of this failure, the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) had to arrange for loans of up to $12.5 million. BC’s Ministry of Citizens' Services, the Union of BC Municipalities and the Northern Development Initiative Trust hired TANEx Engineering to...
Walking, cycling and mass transit in Campbell River
February 25, 2022 20:34 - 6 minutes - 15.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to Campbell River’s Sustainable Official Community Plan, 12% all trips to work within the city were to consist of walking, cycling or transit by 2020. They hope to increase this number to a third by 2060. In today’s interview the city’s transportation specialist, Melissa Heidema, talks about Campbell River’s shift to alternate forms of transportation. Her most recent data comes from the 2006 census, at which point 10% of the population used alterna...
Possible termination of BC's open-net Salmon Farm sector in sight
February 25, 2022 14:55 - 5 minutes - 12.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The licenses for all 19 salmon farms in the Discovery expire in June. There will be only 7 farms left in the Broughton Archipelago by 2023, at which point their tenure ends unless they can obtain First Nation approval and Department of Fisheries licences. That leaves an estimated 79 salmon farms throughout the province and all of their licenses come up for renewal on June 30, 2022. A new ‘independent’ report, prepared for the BC Salmon Farmers Association by t...
How can CKTZ best support its listeners during an emergency?
February 24, 2022 17:46 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - How can CKTZ best support its listeners during an emergency? Cortes Radio is conducting an emergency communications survey, which you will find on their website. “We're trying to find out what the community wants in terms of emergency communication, and what CKTZ can provide. I think that it's a really important project, so I hope that people will take the 30 seconds that it takes to fill out a survey and consider honestly what it is that they feel our communi...
The Great Land Grab
February 24, 2022 15:09 - 10 minutes - 9.92 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” — Honoré de Balzac On the 21st of January 2022, a notice appeared in Cortes Tideline, from Mosaic (a “forest management corporation” which handles logistics for TimberWest and Island Timberlands). The gist of it was captured in one sentence: “As we have now been able to spend some time becoming familiar with our private managed forest lands on Cortes Island, we would like to share details of our draft three-year pla...
Whiskey Point application to add meeting room sent back to SRD Board
February 23, 2022 14:19 - 15 minutes - 35.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Whiskey Point Resort overlooks the ferry terminal at Quathiaski Cove, on Quadra Island. It’s driveway comes off a road that is often choked with Quadra and Cortes Island residents, as well as tourists, waiting to board the ferry. Never-the-less plans to add a 90 seat meeting room appeared to be moving forward, before it was brought before the Electoral Areas Services Committee (EASC) last June. That SRD report staff states, “the planned development is bein...
The Cortes Island '2021' Christmas Bird count
February 22, 2022 00:03 - 28 minutes - 66.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The final numbers for Cortes Island’s Christmas Bird Count, which took place on January 5th, 2022, are in. One of the key organizers, George Sirk, described his personal high point as watching the birds at Christian Gronau and Aileen Douglas’ bird feeder. “I didn't count those birds because Christian handed those in. He has a variety of birds, several that weren't seen anywhere else on the island. Like House Finch's for instance. He's got them cornered ther...
The Secret of Soil Symbiotics on Folk U @89.5FMNew or Updated
February 21, 2022 17:05 - 1 hour - 269 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U - What's the dirt on dirt? Caleb Summers joins host Manda Aufochs Gillespie this Friday at 1 p.m. on CKTZ 89.5FM or livestream on cortesradio.ca. to talk about the hidden and magnificent world that lives just below the surface. And calling all gardeners! What are you doing right now in your garden? How do you make soil in your garden? Call in and share your tips with me (and your neighbours) or ask questions and let's get them answered at 250-935-0200. Folk U...
New TELUS tower on Quadra Island operational
February 20, 2022 16:43 - 2 minutes - 5.39 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Telus’ new 73-meter cell phone tower in Drew Harbour, Quadra Island, is now operational. Heriot Bay residents reported intermittent service when the system was being tested, close to two weeks ago. “The new site brings dramatically increased cellular service throughout the Heriot Bay area, the ferry route between Quadra and Cortes Islands, and surrounding waterways to Read Island,” a spokesperson for Telus told the Bird’s Eye. “Residents and visitors are abl...
2022-2-8 Help the restart of Mansons Hall by filling out a survey
February 19, 2022 21:59 - 7 minutes - 17 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been more than a week since the Southern Cortes Community Association, or SCCA, put out a survey to find out what kinds of spaces, opportunities and events the community wants to see in Mansons Hall. In today’s interview Cora Moret, secretary of the SCCA, describes what sounds like the society’s rebirth after a two-year-long COVID hibernation. “The survey results are pouring in. Some people are like - ‘is the hall even open? I miss the good old days wh...
SRD Board votes against funding local community action planning
February 18, 2022 00:21 - 4 minutes - 9.65 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At their February 9th meeting, the SRD Board voted against setting aside $50,000 to support community climate action planning initiatives. The motion was brought forward by Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson, who suggested the project fit into their strategic objectives for 2022. “When I compare the budget commentary and service goals here to our strategic priorities, this was the one that really stood out to me as a strategic priority that could...
Parts of Area C will not receive High Speed Internet
February 16, 2022 18:10 - 8 minutes - 19.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - As the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) prepares to amend its indebtedness agreement with CityWest, to pay for the installation of high speed internet, Regional Director Jim Abram is concerned that parts of area C are being left out. Later in the meeting he also mentioned which is o West Thurlow Island. The maps that SRD staff sent to the directors on April 19th last year do not show the Cape Mudge light house, Cape Mudge or Tsa Kwa Luten Lodge, on the south...
Motion to remove ‘unceded’ from SRD territorial acknowledgements defeated
February 16, 2022 12:12 - 6 minutes - 15.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A Strathcona Regional District motion to remove the term ‘unceded’ from acknowledgements of First Nations territory was defeated, in a 8 to 6 vote, at the Wednesday, Feb 9 Board meeting. The motion arose during a discussion of the SRD’s First Nations territorial policy. Regional Director Gerald Whalley, who made the motion, explained, “Our provincial negotiators don't use the word ‘ceded’ for a very specific reason. We shouldn't use it either. “ The secon...
Where did Area C's tax dollars go in 2021?
February 14, 2022 23:59 - 4 minutes - 10.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Electoral Area C is the largest electoral area within the Strathcona Regional District. It spreads out over 10,650 square kilometres: from Quadra to Read, East and West Redonda Islands, East and West Thurlow Islands, Hardwick Island and some of the Mainland Inlets. In the second of five articles arising from the SRD Board meeting of Feb 9th, 2022, Cortes Currents is looking at how the tax dollars from this area were spent in 2021. There has been an explosion o...
Where Cortes Island's tax dollars are going?
February 14, 2022 13:05 - 9 minutes - 22.8 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The budget for 2022 was one of the principle topics at the Strathcona Regional Districts Board Meeting, on Wednesday, February 9th. Part of this process involved looking into the finances for 2021. So in the first of a five part series arising from that meeting, Cortes Currents is looking into how the SRD is spending our money. Many Cortes Island residents have probably noticed that they are paying about the same amount for taxes in 2021 as they did the year b...
FOCI's forage fish project
February 11, 2022 12:20 - 5 minutes - 4.24 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - At the January 20th Annual general meeting of the Friends of Cortes Island society, or FOCI, Arlene Tompkins gave a presentation on the Forage Fish Monitoring project. Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food. Predators include other larger fish, seabirds and marine mammals. Typical ocean forage fish feed near the base of the food chain on plankton, often by filter feeding. They in...
The post glacial settlement of our area
February 10, 2022 18:11 - 11 minutes - 27.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - New evidence suggests that First Nations people may have arrived in north Vancouver Island as early as 18,500 years ago. Chris Hebda, from the Hakai Institute, is the lead author of a study that found that Topknot Lake, near Cape Scott, has been ice free that long. In today’s interview he also gives a tentative outline of our area’s history from post ice age settlement down to the First Nations that we recognize today. “We looked at two different sites on V...
Boat catches fire near Refuge Cove on West Redonda Island
February 10, 2022 14:53 - 1 minute - 3.67 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At 9:08 AM on the morning of February 9th, 2022, a Squirrel Cove resident phoned the Coast Guard about a fire just north of Refuge Cove, on West Redonda Island. What she thought might be a house engulfed by fire turned out to be a 34 foot wood and fibre glass boat close to the shore. The Klahoose water taxi and boats from Refuge Cove responded to the emergency. The boat owner is an oyster farmer, who is well known in Squirrel Cove. He escaped from the fire in ...
Union of BC Indian Chiefs join First Nations leaders opposing 'Freedom Convoy'
February 09, 2022 18:48 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Union of BC Indian Chiefs is the latest First Nations group to speak against the so called truckers ‘Freedom Convey’ which pulled into Ottawa on January 29th. According to the BBC, what began as a protest against truckers needing to prove they have been vaccinated before entering Canada, appears to have become a cry for all pandemic measures to be repealed. The organizers have allegedly pledged to keep going "for as long as it takes... until Canada is a f...
Gorge Harbour Log Dump Activity
February 08, 2022 23:12 - 5 minutes - 5.16 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Back in December 2021 a significant upgrade was taking place at the Gorge Harbour log dump (East end of the harbour). Heavy equipment had been brought in; grading and filling were in progress and some trees had been cut to widen the access road. A new all-metal ramp or slide had been installed (for rolling logs down into the water). And a network of boomsticks had been installed to enclose a floating log dump. By early February the dump was active. On February ...
Ocean Science & the Hakai Institute on Folk U @89.5FM
February 07, 2022 18:50 - 1 hour - 222 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U -On Friday, February 4th, Eric Peterson from the Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute joined host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to go deeper into ocean sciences and the unique opportunities that the Hakai Institute is able to provide in long term ocean observations. Key questions: What is today's research telling us about early peoples in this area? What are we learning about the links between our marine environment and our ocean neighbours? What is the state of ...
Revegetating the Dillon Creek wetlands
February 07, 2022 14:03 - 8 minutes - 18.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In the conclusion of a 3 part series about the Dillon Creek wetlands restoration, Project Manager Maranda Cross talks about BC’s disappearing wetlands and the revegetation currently underway at Linnaea farm on Cortes Island. “Forestry, agriculture and residential developments are our main threats to ecosystems on Cortes Island,” said Cross. “Many residential homes are built in wet places so they drain the landscape. It's such a common practice that I don't eve...
Growing sedimentation in the new Dillon Creek wetland and an update
February 06, 2022 16:37 - 9 minutes - 22.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - As the second year comes to an end, Project Manager Miranda Cross described the growth of a sediment island within the new Dillon Creek wetland on Cortes Island and gave an overview of the restoration project. This project arose as a response to the algae blooms in Hague and Gunflint Lakes. Nutrients are entering the lakes from septic tanks, gardens, ditches, roads, creeks and livestock around the shore of the lakes. After several years of monitoring the situa...
The Natural History of Dillon Creek
February 04, 2022 17:00 - 10 minutes - 23.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - As the second year of the Dillon Creek wetland restoration project on Cortes Island is coming to an end, project manager Miranda Cross gave an overview of the creek’s natural history and ways to restore it. She explained how European settlement brought changes to the landscape. “It’s very, very hard to find an unaltered stream in British Columbia or around the world,” said Cross. When the pioneers dug ditches to drain the water from where they wanted to farm ...
The design concept for Mansons Landing Village Commons
February 03, 2022 17:59 - 12 minutes - 28.5 MBRoy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA) released their site design concept for the ‘Village Commons,’ in Mansons Landing, last week. This is the fruition of a public consultation process which actually began in 2004, more than a decade before CCEDA purchased the property. In today’s interview, project leader Kate Madigan talks about the six months of community meetings and input that led to the current design. The first step was finding a c...
Quadra ICAN obtains charitable status
February 02, 2022 19:52 - 14 minutes - 33.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Island Action Network (Quadra ICAN) was given charitable status on January 20th, 2022. “We became a non-profit in May 25th, 2020. After that happened, the steering committee had always wanted to be a charitable society because a lot of the grants required some type of financial umbrella. As a nonprofit, you would have to rely on another charitable society to manage the money and give tax receipts and things like that,” explained Jude McCormick. L...
Hollyhock's 40th year: attempting to heal the disconnect
February 01, 2022 22:42 - 12 minutes - 29.3 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Hollyhock celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The current CEO, Peter Wrinch, was just seven years old when Rex Weyler and some of his friends founded the leadership center in 1982. In a recent press release Wrinch states the institute’s program for this year, “focuses on our deep desire to heal disconnection with ourselves, each other, and the natural world in this moment.” Wrinch said Hollyhock has done some amazing work over the past 40 years, “like ...
World Premiere performance of the Corona Chorus on Quadra Island
February 01, 2022 12:41 - 7 minutes - 16.5 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Singers released a video of the world premiere performance of Dr. John Hooper’s composition Corona Chorus, which they sang at the Quadra Community Centre on December 10th and 11th, 2021. Hooper is a former Professor and Director of the School of Music at Concordia University of Edmonton, an examiner for the London School of Music and the Music Director of Island Voices. At the time of the Quadra performance, he was also the interim conductor for the ...
The Quadra Foundation's first $10,000 investment
January 31, 2022 20:17 - 6 minutes - 14.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Quadra Island Foundation made its first investment last month, as a foundation for a permanent endowment fund. $10,000 was invested through the Vancouver Foundation. “That was raised from individuals within our community. We now have closer to $15,000 and so we've kept $5,000 in our bank account and we've just initiated the endowment fund. We feel very, very fortunate that we're in this position and we can speak to people like you and to the community at la...