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Community, Food

The annual Gorge Hall community Christmas dinner on Cortes Island returns

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Cortes Island’s annual community Christmas dinner at the Gorge community hall has been underway for 21 years. But due to pandemic restrictions over the past two years, it had to be take out only. Organizer Izabelle Perry is looking forward to this year welcoming the public back to a sit-down traditional Christmas dinner in a festive atmosphere.

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Arts

Cortes Island Museum hosts card making workshop with artist Jane Newman

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Local artist Jane Newman is hosting a card making workshop this Sunday in collaboration with the Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society.

In the current digital age, Newman believes there’s something special about making and receiving an item that’s handmade during the holidays.

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Arts

Cortes Island’s first rock opera debuts this month with winter solstice theme

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Dragon Songs, the first rock opera to be performed on Cortes Island, is getting ready for its opening night this month.

Written and produced by Thomas Basil, who also performs in the show, the rock opera features a mythical dragon as the central character who goes through trials and tribulations and, in the end, overcomes challenges.

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Rivers & Oceans

Low seasonal return of chum salmon to spawning grounds ‘a mystery,’ say local monitors

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

So far, monitoring of creeks and streams on Cortes Island indicates a very poor return of chum salmon to their spawning grounds this year, according to Christine and Cec Robinson. They’re longtime members of the local stream keepers project, overseen by the conservation and stewardship organization Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI). Monitoring of the chum return occurs from mid-September to early December each year.

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Transportation

BC Ferries calls on shipyards to bid on construction of four new vessels

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

BC Ferries is building four more “Island Class” ferries, due to increased demand and current vessels aging, and a call for proposals has gone out to shipyards in British Columbia, as well as nationally and internationally.

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