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The Quadra Island Emergency Program (QIEP) is having a disaster preparedness expo on May 14, and residents from the surrounding islands are invited.
Continue reading Quadra Island’s Disaster Preparedness Expo set for Saturday, May 14
Reuben Buerge has been surfing sea kayaks in our area for the past 10 to 12 years.
This relatively recent sport only reached North America during the 1980s and Buerge is not aware of reaching the waters off Quadra Island more than two decades ago.
“Surfing sea kayaks is a pretty kind of niche-y thing. You really only see it in a few areas in the world and we’re lucky enough to have that amazing feature in our backyard that’s perfect for us,” he explained.
Continue reading Kayak Surfing off Quadra IslandHow our local government works
At their last meeting, the SRD Board approved a motion to keep the wood chips created by it’s residential wood debris pickup in rural areas, but have yet to decide how they will be distributed.
Continue reading SRD deciding how to allocate wood chipsEver wonder how many and what kinds of incidents the the Quadra RCMP, which also serves Cortes and Read Islands, deals with in a week?
Cst. Rebekah Draht emailed an incident report for the week ending on Sunday April 10th.
Continue reading RCMP incident report for the week ending on Sunday April 10thWild Waterways Adventures officially launched last year but for Jenefer Smalley it is part of a lifelong pursuit.
“My whole entire life, I’ve had an affinity and a connection with wildlife. I thought I would go to college to become a wildlife biologist or a fisheries biologist. Then when I finally went to college, I realized I wasn’t really into running statistics and mathematical models, I wanted to be out in the field with wildlife. So when I graduated, just on a whim, I got a job in the field of ecotourism out of Campbell River,” explained Smalley.
Continue reading The passion behind Wild Waterways Adventures
