The 2023 season for Manson’s Friday Market kicked off on January 13, 2023.
“I come here every week that it’s open. I put my face in here, sometimes not for very long, but I always walk around and see what’s happening. It’s a social occasion,” said Andy Vine, a former Director of the Southern Cortes Community Association (SCCA) which looks after Mansons Hall.
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“The Cortes Island Senior Society, as it is now called, was registered in 1987, but previous to that there were seniors groups. I think mainly they called themselves the old age pensioners. They eventually became a seniors group. At some point when they wanted to build, someone told them that they weren’t even called a building society, so they decided to become the Cortes Island Seniors Building Society, which they were for a number of years,” explained Sue Ellingsen, Vice Chair of the Cortes Island Seniors Society.
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Originally published on qathet Living
By Jesse Firempong
In 2023, the Northside Community Recreation Centre could get a new lease on life. Plans are afoot to expand the centre by 6,920 square feet of multi-use space, including a half-court gym/hall, stage, and accessible washrooms.
The centre, which serves most of Area A, would also get a commercial kitchen and serve as an emergency reception area, should disaster strike.
Continue reading A new gathering space for qathet’s Northsiders“The Cortes Island Academy is working on becoming its own nonprofit, but right now it actually functions as a program of the Cortes Island Community Foundation. Part of this was because I have had this interest in trying to figure out if we could create a high school pilot program and I work part-time as the Executive Director of the Cortes Island Community Foundation. So there was an obvious link, but it really goes back to the root of why we need a high school program on Cortes,” explained Manda Aufochs Gillespie.
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By Fabian Dawson, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s immigration department is giving itself a pat on the back today by announcing it has achieved its target of welcoming 431,645 new permanent residents to the country in 2022, about 30,000 more than the previous year.
“Canada has experienced one of the fastest recoveries from the pandemic, thanks in large part to our approach to immigration,” said Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in a media statement to welcome the new year and highlight the historic milestone.
Continue reading Immigration Canada rings in 2023 by making history
