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On March 27th the first live, call-in Folk U Friday radio show featured naturopathic doctor Maureen Williams with call-in contributions from clinical counsellor Hayley Newell. We also learned how to make our own Alder Bark tincture with Yulia Kochubievsky and got gardening advice thanks to Whitney Vanderleest.
Continue reading Folk U: Interviews Maureen Williams, ND, & Hayley Newell, Clinical CounsellorNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As a small island newspaper was dealt a deathblow by COVID-19 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced financial aid for Canadian media, which the newspaper industry promptly decried as inadequate.
Continue reading Media Aid An Unlikely Cure For Quadra NewspaperRegional Director Noba Anderson invited many of Cortes Island’s key businesses and community groups to a Zoom conference call to explore responses to COVID-19. Thirty-nine people connected by phone or computer and a second person appeared on several computer screens. Many embraced the idea that we should act as if the virus is already here. In-so-far as is practical, most attendees appeared to want to see Cortes self isolate.
Continue reading A Remote Island Prepares: Can Cortes Self Isolate?By Roy L Hales
While many Cortes Islanders associate them with emergency communications, there is a great deal more to Barry & Amanda Glickman’s story.
Continue reading Barry & Amanda GlickmanBy Roy L Hales
Cortes Radio possesses a technology that will enable it to continue broadcasting even if a major disaster takes out the grid and internet. On July 19, Shaun Koopman Protective Services Coordinator for the Strathcona Regional District, brought a team of volunteers from Campbell River and Gold River. For about twenty minutes, CKTZ stopped broadcasting through-out 99% of its area while we performed the first successful test of Radio-in-a-box in front of the station at Mansons Landing, Cortes Island.
Continue reading Radio-In-A-Box Test Successful
