{"id":138669,"date":"2023-02-01T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=138669"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:24:08","slug":"srd-gives-18k-to-cortes-island-non-profits-looks-into-derelict-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/srd-gives-18k-to-cortes-island-non-profits-looks-into-derelict-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"SRD gives $18k to Cortes Island non-profits, looks into derelict boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor's Note: CKTZ FM is <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Cortes Community Radio Society.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) approved $18,000 in funding for a number of non-profits on Cortes Island last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Grant-in-aid (GIA) program awards funding to local, non-profit organizations, for the benefit of the community, through the SRD. This is an year-by-year program, where applicants are recommended by the regional director. At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1KQERXoUu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">board meeting on Jan. 25<\/a>,\u00a0 five Cortes Island Grants-In-Aid recommendations were requested and approved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$3,000 to the Cortes Community Radio Society to assist with capacity building in their Emergency Communications Team;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$3,000 to the Cortes Island Seniors Society to assist with the Better at Home program;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$3,000 to the Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society to assist with website redesign;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$3,000 to the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery Society to assist with Art Education programming; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$6,000 to the Cortes Community Health Association to assist with the Teen Szene and Family Support programs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The meeting also included a discussion about liveaboards and derelict boats in the region. Ultimately, there was a request for a staff report on best practices involving derelict boats on Cortes Island. Mark Vonesch, Electoral Area B representative for Cortes Island, asked for an amendment to the request to include, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"how other communities have best handled the social and environmental challenges associated with growing numbers of live-a-board and derelict boats.\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CKTZ News has previously covered the ongoing attempts to mitigate <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/bc-parks-schedules-mass-boat-removal-at-mansons-lagoon-provincial-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">derelict boats on Cortes Island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To hear more about the SRD board meeting, listen to the CKTZ News update below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: CKTZ FM is the Cortes Community Radio Society.\u00a0 The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) approved $18,000 in funding for a number of non-profits on Cortes Island last week. The Grant-in-aid (GIA) program awards funding to local, non-profit organizations, for the benefit of the community, through the SRD. This is an year-by-year program, where applicants&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":138685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[22999,9873,23000,23001,14619,22193,7126,1508],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138928,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138669\/revisions\/138928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138669"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=138669"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=138669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}