Cortes Currents

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U-Cortes Currents collaboration - Are you thinking and wondering about the Free Store? If you live on Cortes island, the answer is probably yes. Are you drowning in stuff, or down to two bowls in a household of four people? Every week, there are new theories as to what happened to the Free Store: where it went, what will take to get it back, and also exciting possibilities to use the Free Store model to grow Cortes Island: for keeping resources local, making better use of what the island has and reducing the amount of stuff shipped off Island.

Noba Anderson, our SRD (Strathcona Regional District) elected representative joins us to discuss the history of the Free Store, its organizational (or non organizational structure), and what it would take if Cortes residents wanted to grow the Free Store or expand its operations in the future. Lori Ann then joins to discuss what the Free Store reopening plan looks like in practice.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U-Cortes Currents collaboration - Are you thinking and wondering about the Free Store? If you live on Cortes island, the answer is probably yes. Are you drowning in stuff, or down to two bowls in a household of four people? Every week, there are new theories as to what happened to the Free Store: where it went, what will take to get it back, and also exciting possibilities to use the Free Store model to grow Cortes Island: for keeping resources local, making better use of what the island has and reducing the amount of stuff shipped off Island.

Noba Anderson, our SRD (Strathcona Regional District) elected representative joins us to discuss the history of the Free Store, its organizational (or non organizational structure), and what it would take if Cortes residents wanted to grow the Free Store or expand its operations in the future. Lori Ann then joins to discuss what the Free Store reopening plan looks like in practice.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/ Folk U-Cortes Currents collaboration - Are you thinking and wondering about the Free Store? If you live on Cortes island, the answer is probably yes. Are you drowning in stuff, or down to two bowls in a household of four people? Every week, there are new theories as to what happened to the Free Store: where it went, what will take to get it back, and also exciting possibilities to use the Free Store model to grow Cortes Island: for keeping resources local, making better use of what the island has and reducing the amount of stuff shipped off Island.

Noba Anderson, our SRD (Strathcona Regional District) elected representative joins us to discuss the history of the Free Store, its organizational (or non organizational structure), and what it would take if Cortes residents wanted to grow the Free Store or expand its operations in the future. Lori Ann then joins to discuss what the Free Store reopening plan looks like in practice.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The most recent map of the Geographic distribution of COVID cases, shows data in the North Vancouver Island Area up to Saturday, January 30th. At that point there were 4 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area, which includes the Discovery Islands, 17 one in the Comox Valley and one in Vancouver Island West.

This shows a significant drop in the number of active cases in the Comox, where there were 9 cases the week before. At that point there were 3 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area and 2 in Vancouver Island North.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The most recent map of the Geographic distribution of COVID cases, shows data in the North Vancouver Island Area up to Saturday, January 30th. At that point there were 4 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area, which includes the Discovery Islands, 17 one in the Comox Valley and one in Vancouver Island West.

This shows a significant drop in the number of active cases in the Comox, where there were 9 cases the week before. At that point there were 3 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area and 2 in Vancouver Island North.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The most recent map of the Geographic distribution of COVID cases, shows data in the North Vancouver Island Area up to Saturday, January 30th. At that point there were 4 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area, which includes the Discovery Islands, 17 one in the Comox Valley and one in Vancouver Island West.

This shows a significant drop in the number of active cases in the Comox, where there were 9 cases the week before. At that point there were 3 cases in the Greater Campbell River Area and 2 in Vancouver Island North.

Max Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - You may have seen a couple of tiny homes just outside the linnaea farm parking lot and wondered, as I did, what's the story with those?

Well, that would be the right question to ask – the tiny homes are a multi-faceted project of Robert Carrington, aka Bobbie Noobie.

Robert told us about his project:

Max Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - You may have seen a couple of tiny homes just outside the linnaea farm parking lot and wondered, as I did, what's the story with those?

Well, that would be the right question to ask – the tiny homes are a multi-faceted project of Robert Carrington, aka Bobbie Noobie.

Robert told us about his project:

Max Thaysen/ Cortes Currents - You may have seen a couple of tiny homes just outside the linnaea farm parking lot and wondered, as I did, what's the story with those?

Well, that would be the right question to ask – the tiny homes are a multi-faceted project of Robert Carrington, aka Bobbie Noobie.

Robert told us about his project:

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to the SRD, Cortes island Director Noba Anderson was violating an agreement that one of her land partners would communicate with staff regarding the subdivision of her property on Cortes Island. Anderson’s lawyer, Matthew Voell, disagreed as to the nature of the ‘agreement.’ He produced a long stream of emails demonstrating that staff repeatedly initiated the direct contacts with Anderson. He maintained that

Anderson ‘communicated with Regional District staff in her personal capacity and not in her role as a director,’ used her personal email address, and ‘almost always copied her land partner Ms. Lovena Harvey.” At the close of their January 27, 2020 meeting, the SRD Board referred the matter to their legal council before deciding whether to proceed with the motion to seek legal action to have Anderson disqualified from holding office.