Close to 200 people gathered in the Village Commons, in Mansons Landing, to celebrate the opening of the new Rainbow Ridge Trail System. There were 177 ticket stubs for the door prize and some people wandered in after that. As it was a hot summer’s day, most of them clung to shade beneath trees, awnings and the main tent.
Rose and Brenda Hanson, from the Klahoose First Nation, opened the ceremony.
Continue reading Opening of the Rainbow Ridge Trail SystemThe Grand Opening of the Outdoor Friday Market was on a warm summer day and hundreds of people may have passed through before it ended. There were 14 stalls clustered beneath the cedar trees and around the edges of the parking lot. I did not go inside the hall, which is always packed with tables. This was also the first of this summer’s live music performances at the adjoining Village Commons.
Continue reading Grand Opening of the Outdoor Friday MarketAccording to local musician Jemma Hicken, when the Gorge Harbour Marina partially shut down for renovations this summer, they also closed one of the most popular music venues on Cortes Island.
“Me and a lot of my musician friends have been playing at the Gorge and have been paid to play at the Gorge – which is amazing on Cortes. You don’t often find paying gigs here. Then the Gorge shut down most of its operations this year, and I think a lot of the community felt like there was a big hole left by the lack of live music. There’s been a couple of attempts at organizing live music around the island. I know that there’s live music happening at the Co-op on Saturday nights, which is awesome. We’re going to have live music for the Friday Markets as well.”
Continue reading Friday Afternoon Concerts in the Village Commons: Sean and Catriona
Cortes Island will not have an RV sani-dump this summer.
The matter was brought to Cortes Currents attention by former Cortes Museum President Lynne Jordan, who has been living in Duncan for the past four years.
“The closest RV sani-dump is at the Shell station on the upper highway above Campbell River, two ferries away! There is no public one on Quadra Island either. I had planned to visit Cortes this summer for about three weeks to continue doing some more research for the history of Whaletown I am in the process of writing. With my camper van which has small holding tanks, I will only be staying three or four days at the most,” she wrote.
Continue reading No Sani-dump on Cortes this summer
Mansons Friday Market’s ‘Outdoor Season’ officially started on May 19.
“I think it’s great. It’s a beautiful sunny day and long weekend and, but still mostly locals, which is really nice to have their support,” said Sara Stewart, of Reef Point Farms.
CC: Can I ask, where do you do most of your business?
“I have a lot of different venues. There’s the farmer’s market. I also have the farm stand. I sell to the co-op and to Hollyhock and the Gorge Store when it’s in the middle of the summer,” she replied.
Continue reading The Outdoor Season begins at Mansons Friday Market
