One of Cortes Island’s biggest employers, Hollyhock, is reopening for in-person sessions on June 25th.
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Update from Hollyhock
CEO Peter Wrinch emailed the following update from Hollyhock:
“The new restrictions threw a bit of a wrench in our plans for opening, so we have pushed our opening back to June 25th.”
Continue reading Update from HollyhockBudget 2021: COVID relief subsidies and benefits
In the fourth in a series of programs about Canada’s 2021 Budget, Rachel Blaney, MP for North Island Powell River talks about the temporary COVID Relief subsidies and benefits.
Continue reading Budget 2021: COVID relief subsidies and benefitsReinventing Hollyhock for a virtual world
In a normal year, Cortes Island’s best known learning centre needs to take in $3 million in revenues to keep operating. 2020 has been anything but normal. As a result of COVID, most of this year’s programs were cancelled and Hollyhock could not rehire most of its usual staff. This has also been a year of innovations: with courses being offered online for the first time and a day-long virtual Hollyhock-a-thon called ‘Shine the Light.’ The Cortes Island centre’s response to this year’s challenges almost amounts to reinventing Hollyhock for a virtual world.
Continue reading Reinventing Hollyhock for a virtual worldCortes Island Slowly Reopening
There were four tables when Mansons Friday Market reopened, on May 29th. Last week there were seventeen. They spilled outside the hall and throughout much of the parking lot. There were a lot of new faces: some covered by masks, but mostly not. This was only one of many examples of Cortes Island slowly reopening.
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