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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Sea lice infestation almost gone from Discovery Islands
May 31, 2021 15:34 - 6 minutes - 13.9 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Now that most of the fish farms have closed down, sea lice numbers in the Discovery Islands have plummeted 95%. “Most of the salmon farms are empty; All of the one south of Chatham Point are. Sea lice levels have plummeted over 95%. The Pink and Chum Salmon look gorgeous. This is due to the MInister’s decision and the seven First Nations who prohibited her from restocking the salmon farm,“ said independent biologist Alexandra Morton, who returned home to Sointu...
SRD will not support DFO decision to phase out fish farms
May 29, 2021 17:56 - 7 minutes - 17.3 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District Board decided to not support the DFO decision to remove open net pen aquaculture from the Discovery Islands. This was virtually a foregone conclusion, even before Cortes Island Regional Director Noba Anderson put forward a motion of support at the May 26th Board meeting. Five of the SRD’s 14 Directors come from Campbell River, where fish farms are one of the city’s key first dollar industries. Campbell River Mayor Andy Adams a...
SRD against new ambulance initiative that threatens service in rural communities
May 28, 2021 16:36 - 5 minutes - 12.1 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - The Strathcona Regional District Board is speaking against a new ambulance service initiative that could cripple services in rural communities like Cortes Island, Sayward, Tahsis and Zeballos. BC Health Services has sent out a letter stating they intend to create 170 new ambulance service positions across the province. What they did not say is they are cutting the pay for paramedics on standby back to $2 an hour. Mayor Julie Colborne of Zeballos has writt...
Less than 1 daily case per 100,000
May 27, 2021 13:39 - 2 minutes - 6.32 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Two days into BC’s new restart plan, the BC Centre for Disease control has released a new chart which shows that the daily rate of infection rate throughout most of Vancouver Island is less than 1 per 100,000 during the week ending on Monday, May 24th. The only places with a greater than 1 per 100,000 rate of infection are: Greater Nanaimo and the Comox Valley, where the rate is 3, and Langford/Highlands were it is 2. There were 15 active cases in the Comox ...
Cortes Kayaks is feeling Optimistic about the Future
May 26, 2021 15:57 - 10 minutes - 23.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Kai Harvey of Cortes Kayaks is feeling optimistic as BC enters phase one of its new restart plan. “We definitely have a lot of bookings from Campbell River and all up and down Vancouver Island. No one from off island has booked yet. It is nice to know that people want to travel locally, so we will be able to get by and I feel optimistic about that,” she said. “We have two trips for Cortes youth in the works this summer, which will be really fun. Hopefully o...
Enhanced Emergency Ambulance Services? Or Catastrophic Collapse of a Service?
May 25, 2021 12:07 - 3 minutes - 8.85 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - There may be more to the enhanced emergency ambulance services being brought to rural communities like Cortes Island and Zeballos than meets the eye. According to the letter which Darlene MacKinnon, Chief Operating Officer of BC Emergency Health Services, sent the SRD, they are creating 170 regular positions across the province. This includes regular part-time Scheduled On-Call (SOC) unit chief positions at every rural and remote station in BC that does not c...
SRD considering opposition to Cell Phone Towers
May 24, 2021 13:22 - 1 minute - 3.57 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At their upcoming board May 26th Board meeting, the Strathcona Regional District will consider informing Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) that they are opposed to TELUS erecting Cell phone towers on Cortes Island. They have already done this in regard to the proposed TELUS tower on Quadra Island because “the method of public engagement proposed by Telus did not meet what the SRD considers to be an acceptable standard. In the May 19 S...
Observing Earthquakes on the West Coast
May 23, 2021 21:37 - 9 minutes - 21.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The offshore region between Northern Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii is one of the most seismically active regions in Canada. There have been more than 2,000 earthquakes during the last 4 to 5 years, and four of them measured more than 6 on the richer scale. While the 2.9 quake in Campbell River last February was smaller, it is a reminder that earthquakes happen here. In this morning’s broadcast Andrew Schaeffer, an Earthquake Seismologist with the Geological S...
Experience Local
May 21, 2021 15:45 - 6 minutes - 14.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce and Destination Campbell River have launched an EXPERIENCE LOCAL campaign for tourism. They ask that people show their support on social media by using hashtags #DiscoverCampbellRiver and #BCTourismCounts. Mary Ruth Snyder, Executive Director of the Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce, which represents Cortes, Quadra and the rest of the Discovery Islands as well as Campbell River, says, “The biggest...
Telus announces three proposed cell phone towers
May 21, 2021 14:04 - 5 minutes - 12.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Telus unveiled its plan to erect five cell phone towers on Cortes and Quadra Islands at the January 13th, 2021 SRD Board meeting. More recenlty, they have given public announcements for three towers. Two weeks ago they announced plans to erect a 73 foot metre tower is proposed on land owned by the We Wai Nation in Drew Harbour, Quadra Island. Anyone wishing to comment on this project has until June 4th Another two towers have now been announced on Cortes Isla...
COVID Numbers: Decrease in South & Central Vancouver Island
May 20, 2021 21:01 - 2 minutes - 4.59 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Dr Richard Stanwick recently observed, "What we are seeing is a general decrease both in South and Central Island. The numbers are absolutely bang on ... and that means our contact tracers are able to make sure we get a hold of anybody who has been exposed at this point." This aligns with COVID numbers that Island Health just released. There are still 120 active cases on the Island, which is 33 less than when Cortes Currents reported last week. However there ha...
Three threats to Quadra Island's Wild salmon
May 20, 2021 20:03 - 13 minutes - 31.1 MBRoy L Hales /Cortes Currents - On May 12th, Eileen Sowerby from the Quadra Island Salmon Enhancement Society (QISES) gave the Strathcona Regional District Board a presentation about the three threats to Quadra Island’s wild salmon: salmon farms, logging and climate change This was originally intended to be a talk in support of the DFO’s decision to phase out the Discovery Island fish farms. >>> Notice of motion This was the second presentation in favour of the DFO decision in a little ov...
Confessions of an ignorant Racist
May 19, 2021 13:31 - 5 minutes - 13 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Associate professor Rajnish Dhawan, from the University of the Fraser Valley, makes a distinction between hate-based and ignorance-based racism. He is quoted in a series of programs that Fraser Valley Community Radio recently broadcast about Abbotsford’s hushed racist history. That prompted me to think about the community I was raised in, across the river in Maple Ridge. For the most part, the racial prejudices where I grew up in the 1950s and 60s were almos...
Michael Ballard: Bringing everyone to the table
May 18, 2021 00:42 - 10 minutes - 25.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Liberals placed third in North Island- Powell River during the 2015 election. In 2019: they sank to fourth – just behind the Green party. While this is challenging, Michael Ballard, the new Chair of this riding’s Liberal Electoral District Association, has a larger vision. He says the keys to moving forward as a society, is bringing everyone to the table. “ I originally got involved in politics because I could see that I could make change,”explained Ba...
The opposing resolution
May 16, 2021 15:22 - 14 minutes - 34.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Current - On March 29th, the city of Nanaimo passed a resolution calling on the provincial government “to immediately defer logging in all high productivity, rare, oldest, and most intact old-growth forests as recommended by the Old-Growth Strategic Review, until all 14 of the panel’s recommendations have been implemented.” This issue was hotly contested. Four of the nine councillors present, include Mayor Leonard Krog whose signature is at the bottom of the letter that su...
Update from Hollyhock
May 14, 2021 20:48 - 1 minute - 2.68 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - CEO Peter Wrinch emailed the following update from hollyhock: The new restrictions threw a bit of a wrench in our plans for opening, so we have pushed our opening back to June 25th. We are really keen to welcome our staff and guests back to Hollyhock. We deeply support the public health measures of the Public Health Officer and every time there are new restrictions it is hard on our team both working and non-working (just like it is hard on everyone). We ar...
Covid Update: Overall trend across Vancouver island
May 14, 2021 19:48 - 1 minute - 3.36 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - For the first time in over two months, the number of new COVID cases on Vancouver Island dipped down to single digits on Wednesday. They rose to 21 again Thursday and there are more cases in North Vancouver Island than a week ago, but the overall trend across the Island has been downward for more than a month. There were 153 active cases on Vancouver Island yesterday, which is less than a third of the 508 reported on April 9th. There were only three sch...
Asking the SRD to support the Old Growth Logging Review
May 14, 2021 17:21 - 6 minutes - 15.2 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Yesterday Cortes Currents published a story about local governments asking the BC government to defer logging in old-growth forests until the recommendations of the province’s Old Growth Strategic Review have been implemented. At the bottom of that story there are links to reports from the Comox Valley Regional District and the municipal governments of Courtenay, Cumberland, Lantzville, Metchosin, Nanaimo, Powell River, Port Moody, and Victoria. The Capital Regi...
Refuge Cove General Store
May 13, 2021 23:46 - 1 minute - 3.28 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Refuge Cove general store should soon be reopening. This is the Desolation Sound’s only grocery store in a deep-water harbour and is normally open from June until September. According to the website, “During the summer, the store is well stocked with block and cube (best on the coast) ice, groceries, marine hardware, souvenirs, local books, fuel, tackle, and ice cream novelties and cones!” The associated fuel dock serves customers on Mondays, Wednesdays...
Old Growth forest initiative checked by Aboriginal title issue
May 13, 2021 17:30 - 2 minutes - 5.14 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - A local government initiative to protect Vancouver Island’s old growth forests may have been checked by aboriginal title issues. The controversial Fairy Creek logging blockade is within the traditional territory of the Pacheedaht First Nation, which has ”secured commitments from tenure holders and the government of BC to suspend operations.” They are strongly urging outsiders to "show an appropriate level of respect to the sovereignty and wishes of our nation...
QANON 2021 Part 4
May 13, 2021 15:20 - 26 minutes - 37.7 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - part 4 of a series in which three Cortes Island residents discuss QAnon Photo credit: Alexander Andrews via Unsplash
QANON 2021 Part 3
May 12, 2021 11:24 - 26 minutes - 37.9 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - part three of a series in which three Cortes Island residents discuss QAnon and its local manifestation. Photo credit: QAnon in red shirt" by marcn is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
QANON 2021 Part 2
May 10, 2021 22:35 - 26 minutes - 39.3 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - part two of a series QAnon - Q Conspiracy - Deep State Trump by mikemacmarketing is licensed under CC BY SA, 2.0 License
QANON 2021 Part 1
May 10, 2021 21:36 - 25 minutes - 37 MBDe Clarke/ Cortes Currents - For many people, their first awareness of a social media phenomenon called “QAnon” came with news coverage of a failed autogolpe in the US, on January 6th of this year. On that date, an organised mob invaded the US Capitol building in an attempt to derail the election process and prevent the inauguration of newly-elected President Joe Biden. Their mission was to keep the defeated incumbent Donald Trump in power. Among the banners and signage carried by the insurg...
FOLKU Reporters CLIMATE 7 - May - 2021 Podcast
May 09, 2021 22:11 - 55 minutes - 126 MBManda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U Radio - In this edition of the Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable, our journalists talk about environmental issues in some Vancouver Island small communities. Our host, Manda Aufochs Gillespie of Folk U Radio, is joined by: Shalu Mehta, reporter for The Discourse in the Cowichan Valley and on the West Shore. Rochelle Baker, Quadra Island resident and reporter with the National Observer Roy Hales, editor of Cortes Currents . Marc Kitteringham, reporter ...
The Two millionth dose
May 07, 2021 14:09 - 2 minutes - 5.33 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - “We have been reaching another exciting milestone, in our immunization here in BC. At some time today, the two millionth dose will have been given to people in British Columbia,” said provincial health officer Bonnie Henry, yesterday afternoon. That’s nearly half of the provinces 4.3 million eligible residents. While numbers are falling across British Columbia and Vancouver Island, they may temporarily be higher in Greater Campbell River. The difficulty in...
More people are still buying at local stores
May 06, 2021 20:23 - 9 minutes - 21.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Midway through Cortes Island’s second Spring of the pandemic, more people are buying locally, but government restrictions and Quadra Island’s negative messaging have an impact. Bill Dougan reported that, at the Gorge Harbour general store, “Up until the beginning of May, it was up quite substantially over last year. We’re seeing new people and a lot of local islanders who maybe were gone during the winter in normal winters, but are still here. We’re seeing a l...
Postponing all public meetings on Quadra Island
May 05, 2021 17:12 - 16 minutes - 38.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Rick Shellinick has been trying to subdivide his property for more than ten years and it now looks like he will not be able to have a public zoning meeting anytime in the immediate future. At their last meeting, the Strathcona Regional District Board passed a motion postponing all public meetings on Quadra Island until the province removes restrictions on public gatherings. This is a controversial project, which in its current incarnation calls for developing ...
Funding to bring Broadband Internet to Cortes and Quadra
May 04, 2021 18:03 - 2 minutes - 6.57 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Funding is being set up for broadband internet on Cortes and Quadra Islands, as well as other relevant parts of the Strathcona Regional District. “In essence, there are two different categories. There are communities that the Feds consider already served because they have a minimum upload and download speed. Parts of Quadra are like that and parts of Quadra are not. Cortes is not a minimum served community, therefore we can get Last Mile Funding from the Feds. ...
Telus intends to erect a 73 metre tall cell phone tower on Quadra Island
May 04, 2021 15:07 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Telus intends to erect a a 73-meter tall cel phone tower on land owned by the Wei Wai Kai Nation at Drew Harbour, on Quadra Island. They announced this in the Bird’s Eye on April 21 and April 28, stating “any person may comment by close of business on June 4th.” Interested parties are to email Brian Gregg of SitePath Consulting at [email protected] Gregg emailed the Strathcona Regional District that “As you know, the land use authority in this...
Funding for salmon farms
May 03, 2021 13:42 - 2 minutes - 6.36 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - It has been a year since the The Campbell River Business Recovery Task Force described fish farms as one of the city’s three key first dollar industries. Mayor Andy Adams said they are Campbell River’s largest economic driver. This is also a sector being phased out over the course of the next year. In the last of a series about the 2021 Federal Budget, North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney talks about funding for salmon farms She began by acknowledging tha...
Wilderness Tourism Association asks the Board to support DFO decision
May 02, 2021 18:56 - 15 minutes - 34.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - At the April 28th meeting, The Wilderness Tourism Association (WTA) of BC asked the SRD Board to support DFO’s decision to remove fish farms from the Discovery Islands. WTA President Breanne Quesnel, of Spirit of the West Adventures on Quadra Island, reminded the board that they also represent the interests of 15 of its member companies operating within the Strathcona Regional District. “Our ask is that threats to wild salmon, which in turn are a threat to ou...
Passing cyclists: Legalities and safety
April 30, 2021 13:07 - 5 minutes - 8.14 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - Cortes Currents has received several reports of drivers passing cyclists without due care. Currents sought to increase clarity on what is expected of cyclists and drivers who wish to operate their vehicles safely and follow the laws of British Columbia. And so we reached Corporal Chris Voller at the Quadra island detachment of the RCMP for advice on the matter. Corporal Voller was pleased to discuss legal and safety matters around cyclist-driver interaction...
Budget 2021: COVID Relief subsidies and benefits
April 29, 2021 23:42 - 3 minutes - 8.44 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - In the fourth in a series of programs about Canada’s 2021 Budget, Rachel Blaney, MP for North Island Powell River talks about the temporary COVID Relief subsidies and benefits. More than half a million Canadians have lost their jobs since the pandemic began. According to the Canadian government, the vast majority were working poor. Local people would have normally worked in the aquaculture sector, or the marine tourism, or places like Hollyhock were unemploy...
April 29 update: Numbers continuing to fall in North Vancouver Island
April 29, 2021 15:11 - 2 minutes - 5.24 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - This is a COVID 19 update for Thursday April 29, 2021: The numbers of active cases in North Vancouver Island are continuing to fall. >>> Travel Restrictions It has been six days since the province issued restrictions on non-essential travel between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. At that time, Dr Bonnie Henry said, “Community transmission and COVID-19 cases – including variants of concern – have increased in our health authorities, with many cases being l...
Launch of Cortes CPR (Climate Plan Resilience)
April 28, 2021 19:23 - 12 minutes - 27.5 MBRoy L Hales/Currents - Cortes CPR: climate plan for Resilience was officially launched just days ago. An interview with Ashley Zarbatany about they hope to do and what they have already achieved
Is the Federal Budget addressing the housing crisis
April 28, 2021 16:37 - 7 minutes - 17.6 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - What solutions does the 2021 Federal budget have for Canada’s our riding’s housing crisis? Houses were selling for between $452,000 and $2.85 million on Cortes Island, during 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. The Quadra Island Real Estate team website is currently displaying prices ranging from $725,000 to $4.3 million. No wonder a realtor recently told the Campbell River Mirror that first time buyers, with a downpayment, are opting for a cheap condo in t...
Federal Budget: The forgotten seniors (aged 65-74)
April 27, 2021 10:34 - 4 minutes - 10.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - More than 28% of the population of Cortes and Quadra Islands are seniors. The Federal budget for 2021-22 includes a one-time $500 payment and a 10% increase to Old Age Security for people over 75 years old, but nothing for those aged 65-74. Rachel Blaney, the MP for North Island - Powell River, talks about the forgotten seniors? She is 100% behind the government’s decision to support seniors 75 and older. “The problem I have is it seems to say that all senior...
What's going to happen to the rest of Rainbow Ridge?
April 26, 2021 23:10 - 3 minutes - 7.14 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents -A small portion of the property is going to be used for affordable housing. Some Cortes residents have asked what will happen to the rest of Rainbow Ridge? “If there are a few people, there are several people who haven’t come forward to say anything,” said Elizabeth Anderson, President of the Cortes Community Housing Society. So she sent the following letter out to the community: Dear Friends & Neighbours, Residents of Cortes Island, As you may know, Rainbow ...
What works in Canada's 2021-2022 budget
April 26, 2021 17:12 - 7 minutes - 16.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A week ago, on Monday April 19, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented Canada’s budget for the fiscal year 2021-22 to the House of Common. Since the finance minister delivered that speech, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s minority Liberal government has survived two non-confidence motions. These pertained to amendments. This morning, Monday April 26, the House will be asked to approve the Budget as a whole. THis is expected to prompt yet another non-confide...
Tourism sector seeks increased logging restrictions in Outer Discovery Islands
April 25, 2021 23:41 - 8 minutes - 18.7 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - A $50 million a year business seeks increased logging restrictions in the Outer Discovery Islands. Ralph Kellar, ad hoc chair of the Discovery Islands Marine Tourism Group, cites studies showing that marine tourism brings just as much money into the local economy. “The Discovery Islands proper were identified by tourism as an area of concern and exceptionally high value. For example, in Campbell River today there are twelve, perhaps more, motorized tour comp...
Delaying the zoning meeting until Quadra Islanders can meet in person
April 23, 2021 14:20 - 9 minutes - 21.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents: Four Quadra residents are seeking to have the public zoning meeting for the Gowland Harbour Views development, on Quadra Island delayed until it is possible to meet in person. Land owner and applicant, Rick Schellinck, originally approached the Strathcona Regional District in the summer of 2010 The current rendition of his application is to develop 51 residential lots, a campground, marina and two waterfront parks in Gowland Harbour. The podcast includes cli...
Paul Kirmmse remembers 1971 on Cortes Island
April 22, 2021 18:22 - 8 minutes - 20.1 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Born in New York, he chose Canada. Another two years passed before he arrived on a remote island off the West Coast. Paul Kirmmse remembers Cortes Island in 1971. “I originally came here in January of ’71, looking for land. A guy gave me a job for the summer, beginning in April, serving coffee to the fishers and the loggers. There was a little cafe just above Mansons Lagoon, across from used to be the Barton store - which I understand is now the Cortes Island M...
Reports of increased violence, due to COVID
April 22, 2021 15:09 - 4 minutes - 9.33 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - There are isolated reports of increased violence, both physical and verbal, as a result of the increased isolation during the pandemic. In Campbell River, RCMP Cst Maury Tyre reports, “We are seeing a lot of escalation in basic disagreements due to the level of language that people are using causing greater and greater offence to others. Then simply put, people who are on edge just aren’t able to walk away. In some cases we are seeing arguments occur over min...
Update on Cortes and Quadra Island Vaccinations
April 21, 2021 14:41 - 1 minute - 3.12 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - More than 800 adult Cortes Island residents were vaccinated during the Whole island immunization March 25th to 27th, and the previous clinics at the Klahoose village, but some people still missed out. If you are one of them, there is still a chance to get vaccinated. Call Public Health to book an appointment on April 28th with Cortes Island’s health nurse. Limited number of spots available. 250-850-2110 Or call 1-833-838-2323 to book an appointment with Quadra ...
Cortes Island Museum ZOOM AGM
April 21, 2021 13:03 - 3 minutes - 8.33 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Cortes Island Museum ZOOM AGM is this Sunday, April 25th, at 1:30 PM. As managing Director Jane Newman explained, “The only other I would love to tell people is that we have an AGM coming up. We have a really fascinating speaker, Gordon Cyr of Mason Bee Central, who lives over in Back Creek and he is a North American champion of Mason Bees. He is really, really engaged. His family has a business building bee houses and educating people about mason bees and ...
Emergency supplies for an Earthquakes
April 20, 2021 13:38 - 1 minute - 3.74 MBRoy L Hales / Cortes Currents - If everything goes according to plan, every community within the Strathcona Regional District will soon have emergency supplies at hand in case of an earthquake. The topic came up within a larger conversation, in which SRD Protective Services Coordinator Shaun Koopman described the emergency preparation grants the District is applying for. I asked him, “Are you doing anything for earthquakes?” “Not with any of the grans specifically. Unfortunately aside from...
Cyclist nearly hit by pick-up truck
April 19, 2021 14:27 - 5 minutes - 7.39 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - At the end of March, Tamias was riding its bike when it was nearly struck by a pickup truck. It was Tamias’ first time heading to the Freestore since it reopened this year – it was going to get new shoes for its child, Dera. Tamias had the child-trailer in tow behind its bike, but fortunately not Dera. The trailer was just for cargo this time – usually if it has the trailer in tow, it has a child on board. On its way home, Tamias was rounding the horse field,...
Cyclist nearly hit by pick-up truck
April 19, 2021 14:20 - 5 minutes - 7.39 MBMax Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - At the end of March, Tamias was riding its bike when it was nearly struck by a pickup truck. It was Tamias’ first time heading to the Freestore since it reopened this year – it was going to get new shoes for its child, Dera. Tamias had the child-trailer in tow behind its bike, but fortunately not Dera. The trailer was just for cargo this time – usually if it has the trailer in tow, it has a child on board. Cyclist nearly struck by pick-up On its way home, Tam...
COVID update from April 17, 2021
April 17, 2021 17:17 - 1 minute - 2.4 MBRoy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The number of active COVID cases is rising in North Vancouver Island and two Campbell River schools are now listed on Island Health exposure list.. As of yesterday, Friday April 16th, Island Health stated there are 40 active cases in North Vancouver Island. A week ago there were 32. While it is not yet known where these cases are, the only North Vancouver Island schools on Island Health’s school exposure page are in Campbell River A member of Ecole Middle Sc...