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After four years of running the Cortes Island Museum and Archives as managing director, Jane Newman is currently training her successor, Melanie Boyle.
Continue reading Managing director transition at Cortes Museum
Up until now, CityWest has been offering to install high speed internet to Cortes Island homes for free. They did not take some of the island’s long driveways into account. This is changing, CityWest says some people will need to pay extra.
Continue reading CityWest may be charging people with long driveways extraIt has been more than a week since the Southern Cortes Community Association, or SCCA, put out a survey to find out what kinds of spaces, opportunities and events the community wants to see in Mansons Hall.
In today’s interview Cora Moret, secretary of the SCCA, describes what sounds like the society’s rebirth after a two-year-long COVID hibernation.
Continue reading Help the restart of Mansons Hall by filling out a surveyCortes Radio is conducting an emergency communications survey, which you will find on their website.
“We’re trying to find out what the community wants in terms of emergency communication, and what CKTZ can provide. I think that it’s a really important project, so I hope that people will take the 30 seconds that it takes to fill out a survey and consider honestly what it is that they feel our community radio can offer them in a emergency event,” said CLIO FM, who’s in charge of this project.
Continue reading How can CKTZ best support its listeners during an emergency?By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Cortes Market has been in business for more than 30 years, all under one owner, Bertha Jeffery. She says the key to small business survival is catering to the needs of customers.
Continue reading Staying alive: Small business survival 101 with Cortes Market
