{"id":97347,"date":"2022-05-27T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=97347"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:54:38","slug":"needed-vehicle-hauling-and-tire-repair-service-launched-on-cortes-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/needed-vehicle-hauling-and-tire-repair-service-launched-on-cortes-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Needed vehicle hauling and tire repair service launched on Cortes Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until a few weeks ago, for Cortes Islanders needing to remove dead vehicles, or get ones in need of repair to a mechanic, it meant a trip to neighboring Quadra Island, or to Campbell River on Vancouver Island, or, hiring someone providing those services to come to Cortes. The same went for getting a tire repaired, but not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Bignall has launched Big Tows Towing, a new company providing those services. The name is a play on his surname. He says demand has been steady so far and he's glad to save Cortes Islanders an all day trip off the island.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Bignall has only put the word out on the local community website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortesisland.com\/cgi-bin\/tideline\/show_classad.cgi?TOPIC=0&amp;ID=45109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tideline<\/a>, but hopes to eventually launch his own website. He's doing everything by the book when it comes to safety and being insured.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CKTZ News finds out how things are going so far for Big Tows Towing in the interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until a few weeks ago, for Cortes Islanders needing to remove dead vehicles, or get ones in need of repair to a mechanic, it meant a trip to neighboring Quadra Island, or to Campbell River on Vancouver Island, or, hiring someone providing those services to come to Cortes. The same went for getting a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":97356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,2602],"tags":[14929,314,14928,14930,12675,14927,14931],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97347"}],"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=97347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97567,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97347\/revisions\/97567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97347"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=97347"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=97347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}