The Cordovan is now available on line

The Cordovan is the local community newsletter published by the Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs (CBA). As of September 2010, the newsletter will be electronic and will maintain its publication schedule of four issues a year. It will be delivered by e-mail to CBA members, for whom we have e-mail addresses, and will also be posted on the CBA website.

In response to many suggestions, the new Cordovan will include a Letters-to-the-Editor column. This will provide a forum for comments and questions from residents of Cordova Bay on local issues, and hopefully give some answers.

The final print edition will be home-delivered in the first week of March 2010. Our sincerest thanks to all our volunteer deliverers who number more than 80!

At present, extra copies of The Cordovan are available at the Super Duper Store (Dollar Store) in The Cordova Bay Plaza; The Cordova Bay United Church, Claremont Avenue; Matticks Farm (on the bench behind Adrienne's) and the 55 Plus reception in the Cordova Bay elementary school.

Most Recent Newsletters:
Cordovan SPRING 2009
Cordovan SUMMER 2009
Cordovan WINTER 2009
Cordovan SPRING 2010

View newsletter archives from 1947 to the present

Digitizing and archiving the past newsletters

The history of Cordova Bay has been reflected in Spindrift, the monthly newsletter of the Cordova Bay Community Club from 1947 until it ceased publication in 1958, and in The Cordovan, the current newsletter of the Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs (CBA) which has appeared four to six times a year since the CBA was founded in 1976. These publications are now available on the CBA website as a community service, and will also be on the Saanich website. The electronic newsletters are a tribute to our history, past editors and Executive members of the CBA thanks to the generosity of Richard Alexander, his company LGL Limited environmental research associates in Sidney, and assistant Connie Kleckner (also a Cordova Bay resident) who scanned all the pages into searchable electronic PDF format. The digitized records were donated, along with the hard-copy originals, to Saanich Archives in November 2009, and the electronic versions posted on the CBA website in February 2010. The digitized newsletter collection totals 275, of which 117 were the Spindrift editions (1947-1958) and 158 were the Cordovan editions (1976-current).

Editor of The Cordovan is: Maurice Chazottes
e-mail: Chazott@shaw.ca
Phone: 250-658-4030.

Advertising

We welcome advertising in The Cordovan. If you are interested in placing an ad, please contact Peggy Hancyk
e-mail: peggy.hancyk@shaw.ca
Phone: 250-658-4278.

Links to Cordovan advertisers with websites

Luncheon for volunteers
56 Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs (CBA) volunteers - most of them deliverers of our quarterly newsletter, The Cordovan - enjoyed the 2008 CBA "thank you" luncheon in the main hall of Cordova Bay United Church. Everyone was reminded that the CBA and The Cordovan only continue because of volunteers.

Our final "thank you" luncheon for all our volunteer deliverers will be held on 20 March 2010. Invitations will be sent out towards the end of January.