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This past week, households on Cortes Island received a flyer in their mailbox encouraging homeowners to organize and sign up for a free Neighbourhood Wildfire Threat Assessment from a certified FireSmart professional this spring.
Continue reading Neighbourhood wildfire threat assessment program a hit on Cortes Island
Are You Prepared? In this part 1 of a 2 part series (2art 2 is a LIVE, In person event on April 22 at 1 p.m.), Shaun Koopman from the Strathcona Regional District will join host Manda Aufochs Gillespie to discuss what it looks like for Cortes Islanders (and others) to be prepared for a number of emergencies including fire, earthquake, multi-month power outages, and more.
Continue reading Folk U: Are You Prepared? Part 1 w/Shaun Koopman @89.5FMCortes 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?CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is hosting a number of virtual information sessions in the first week of March to recruit volunteers for emergency preparedness.
Continue reading Regional district offering volunteer opportunities for disaster preparednessHow our local government works
At their January 12th meeting, the SRD Board had some good reports about the way individuals and corporations helped out during the recent cold snap.
Continue reading SRD: Individuals and corporations helping out during recent cold snap
