Cortes Island’s own Jemma Hicken just released her first major album, ‘Get it Together.’ Cortes Currents interviewed her shortly before that.
“I love performing and I love playing music by myself too, but it does feel special to come back to Cortes and be able to perform on Cortes because it’s really where it started for me,” she said.
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Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada is joining the tide of nations calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining in the high seas as an international summit gets underway Monday to decide on the issue.
“The protection, conservation, restoration and sustainable use of ocean ecosystems is essential to all life on Earth,” said Mélanie Joly, minister of foreign affairs; Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of natural resources; and Joyce Murray, minister of fisheries and oceans, in a statement released Monday.
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Nick Kiss was involved in Metro Vancouver’s waste industry for 14 years prior to starting Bokashi Living in 2013.
“I was part of the change and the effort that Metro Vancouver was implementing in trying to create diversion strategies for the waste stream,” he explained.
He and his wife have been visiting Cortes Island every summer for years and now hope to find a home here. In this morning’s interview NIck explains why he believes in the Bokashi method of composting.
Continue reading The Bokashi Method: A more efficient way to compostThe Grand Opening of the Outdoor Friday Market was on a warm summer day and hundreds of people may have passed through before it ended. There were 14 stalls clustered beneath the cedar trees and around the edges of the parking lot. I did not go inside the hall, which is always packed with tables. This was also the first of this summer’s live music performances at the adjoining Village Commons.
Continue reading Grand Opening of the Outdoor Friday MarketOriginally published in the Cortes Island Seniors Society Newsletter
By Andy Vine
I was born April 1944 in Swansea, Wales. I grew up in Hoylake, a coastal town in Cheshire after my Dad was pensioned off from the Ministry of Food where he had worked during the war.
I had a happy childhood with one elder sister Sue and a younger brother Pete. We lived in a small hotel (big house) which my parents ran as a business.
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