Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The Bird’s Eye, Quadra Island’s only weekly newspaper has a new owner. “It was an 11th hour saving of the local paper that was about to close the doors. Had been trying to find a new publisher for several months with no luck and Amanda Smith, who has been the publisher editor for several years was posting the final edition when ICAN approached her to ask was it possible to save the paper and could a deal be worked out?” said Ramona Boyle, Coordinator of Quadra ICAN. “So literally 24 hours before the final edition went to press, a deal was worked out and she was able to publish in her final edition that a new publisher had been found. The last of Amanda's issues was the 24th of December. It's been accustomed to take a little bit of a break over the holiday. We had our first edition published on the 11th of January. One came out on Wednesday the 18th, and our next one is Wednesday the 25th.” Cortes Currents: Who is going to be the editor?Ramona Boyle: “I was hired as the coordinator for ICAN in November and it's now part of my job to edit the ICAN’s new paper. So I'm it.”