Cortes Currents

Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - At the May 5, 2020 meeting Loni Taylor, a Directors of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA, and Tamara McPhail, Executive Director of Linnaea Farm, talked about developing Cortes Island's food security.

We’re delighted to be hosting our very own Dawn Chorus and numerous other Cortes bird songs on CKTZ with local twitcher Corry Dow. Join us to hear Cortes birds and listen while Corry describes who to listen out for and how to tell your towhees from your flickers.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Helen Hall, from FOCI, introduced the Nature is Good for You Series and talks about ways to stay engaged with nature on Cortes right now and Jane from the Cortes Island Museum and Archives discusses the May 2nd Bird Count and how to put your new twitcher skills to use! As well, neighbour and Nature Boy, George Sirk called to discuss migratory birds and who is here right now and who to expect in the next couple of months, including our shortest visitor the NightHawk.

We’re delighted to be hosting our very own Dawn Chorus and numerous other Cortes bird songs on CKTZ with local twitcher Corry Dow. Join us to hear Cortes birds and listen while Corry describes who to listen out for and how to tell your towhees from your flickers.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U Fridays - Helen Hall, from FOCI, introduced the Nature is Good for You Series and talks about ways to stay engaged with nature on Cortes right now and Jane from the Cortes Island Museum and Archives discusses the May 2nd Bird Count and how to put your new twitcher skills to use! As well, neighbour and Nature Boy, George Sirk called to discuss migratory birds and who is here right now and who to expect in the next couple of months, including our shortest visitor the NightHawk.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - Mike Moore obviously has an intense passion for the ocean and for the waters around Cortes Island in particular. He has been working on the water or under it for more than 40 years, as a commercial halibut, crab and prawn fisherman, as a diver harvesting sea cucumbers, sea urchins, scallops and the giant pacific octopus, as a Navigation Officer with the Canadian Coast Guard for 11 years and finally, along with Samantha Statton, he was owner/ operator of Misty Isles Adventures, Cortes Island's kayaking and passenger schooner tourism business, which was the vessel by which many tourists and locals got to appreciate Cortes as an island, seen from the water.

Manda Aufochs Gillespie/Folk U - Mike Moore obviously has an intense passion for the ocean and for the waters around Cortes Island in particular. He has been working on the water or under it for more than 40 years, as a commercial halibut, crab and prawn fisherman, as a diver harvesting sea cucumbers, sea urchins, scallops and the giant pacific octopus, as a Navigation Officer with the Canadian Coast Guard for 11 years and finally, along with Samantha Statton, he was owner/ operator of Misty Isles Adventures, Cortes Island's kayaking and passenger schooner tourism business, which was the vessel by which many tourists and locals got to appreciate Cortes as an island, seen from the water.

De Clark/Cortes Currents - On April 15, 2020, I interviewed Tanya Henck, founding member of the first Cortes Island Women’s Centre which opened in January 2019. A combination of diligent sanitization and long microphone cables, plus a newly constructed and never-inhabited space, enabled us to set up for Covid-19-safe recording.

De Clark/Cortes Currents - On April 15, 2020, I interviewed Tanya Henck, founding member of the first Cortes Island Women’s Centre which opened in January 2019. A combination of diligent sanitization and long microphone cables, plus a newly constructed and never-inhabited space, enabled us to set up for Covid-19-safe recording.

Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - More than 100 Cortes residents will most likely listen to, or read about, last night’s virtual meeting. Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - While fewer are logging on to the ZOOM call or reading these accounts in Cortes Currents, the number of people listening to the podcasts has doubled, growing from 21 to 43 since these meetings went public. Similar numbers most likely listened to the radio broadcast or will read Director Anderson’s report in the Tideline. The principal topics for the fifth Cortes Virtual community meeting (April 28) were vacation rentals, systems navigation

Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meeting - More than 100 Cortes residents will most likely listen to, or read about, last night’s virtual meeting. Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - While fewer are logging on to the ZOOM call or reading these accounts in Cortes Currents, the number of people listening to the podcasts has doubled, growing from 21 to 43 since these meetings went public. Similar numbers most likely listened to the radio broadcast or will read Director Anderson’s report in the Tideline. The principal topics for the fifth Cortes Virtual community meeting (April 28) were vacation rentals, systems navigation

Noba Anderson/Cortes Virtual Community Meetings - The main topics at the fourth Cortes Virtual Conference were housing, the food bank and employing people on priority community initiatives. The meeting started fourteen minutes late, but (thanks to Ayton Novak) with a polish that was not present in previous meetings. The proceedings started with a series of community updates.