File contains task lists, merchant lists, advertising materials, donor lists, crew lists, correspondence, and financial statements pertaining to Whaletown Community Club plant sales and Gorge Hall work bees.
File contains task lists, merchant lists, advertising materials, donor lists, crew lists, correspondence, and financial statements pertaining to Whaletown Community Club plant sales and Gorge Hall work bees.
Fonds contains administrative records, minutes, and correspondence (including print-outs of emails) of the SHS steering committee, and monthly newsletters of the Cortes Island Seniors Society. Original order has been maintained.
Seniors Helping Seniors was an initiative of the Cortes Island Seniors Society, started and administered in 2003 by a dedicated subcommittee with a hired coordinator. Volunteers of the project, seniors themselves, provided company, transportation, and practical assistance to Cortes Island seniors. The coordinator managed volunteers and arranged social events, which included weekly lunches, trips off-island to Quadra craft studios and to the pool in Campbell River, rides to appointments, memoir writing, and eventually the Literary Afternoons.
With rising costs and the focus of the Seniors' Society board turning more to the ongoing operation of the Seniors' Village cottages, the SHS program was replaced by a new grant-funded initiative in March 2023. Volunteers have largely been replaced by paid employees who are overseen by a new board renamed "Support Our Seniors."
Custodial History
Donated to CIMAS by Elinore Harwood on behalf of the Cortes Island Seniors Society in 2023.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains administrative records, minutes, and correspondence (including print-outs of emails) of the SHS steering committee, and monthly newsletters of the Cortes Island Seniors Society. Original order has been maintained.
Cortes Island Seniors Building Society handout about Seniors Helping Seniors; newsletter about the Seniors website project; article from the Howling Wolf.
File consists of two ink sketches of a man fishing by Jay Nixon; a recipe for "Married Woman's Cake"; two pages about the Cortes Island Day Barbeque (1972) with lists of expenses, income from concessions, items purchased and notes for next year; and a 13 verse poem by Mabel Christensen, "Picnic", about the Cortes Island Day picnic listing many of the island attendees (1960).
Donated by Dennis Newsham and Frances Guthrie after Peggy Newsham's death.
Scope and Content
File consists of two ink sketches of a man fishing by Jay Nixon; a recipe for "Married Woman's Cake"; two pages about the Cortes Island Day Barbeque (1972) with lists of expenses, income from concessions, items purchased and notes for next year; and a 13 verse poem by Mabel Christensen, "Picnic", about the Cortes Island Day picnic listing many of the island attendees (1960).
File contains correspondence and other material relating to the acquisition of the Whaletown Creek property (E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of Section 34) from MacMillan Bloedel for a park.
File contains correspondence and other material relating to the acquisition of the Whaletown Creek property (E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of Section 34) from MacMillan Bloedel for a park.
