You are invited to the Ashram for a time of celebration with our local community at our 22nd annual Strawberry Social – JUNE 24, 1-4pm –

Come and see the progress on the new Temple of Light, scheduled for completion later this summer!

At 1:45 pm meet local designers, contractors and suppliers who helped make it happen.

Join a Temple tour, ongoing throughout the afternoon. See this world-class architecture dedicated to the sacred within each person and tradition.

Enjoy delicious Creston strawberries with Kootenay Lake friends, neighbours and associates.

Shop at our annual used book sale with proceeds donated to the Crawford Bay School hot lunch program.

Bring your family and friends!

Saturday, June 17th at the Hub in Crawford Bay – Come out and watch 21 of your friends and neighbors singing sixties and early seventies standards along with the astounding talent of local musicians Robby Marcheterre, Kenji Fukushima, Todd Lester, and Zyan Fukushima-Rael!

Be there to make sure that you don’t miss any of the three fantastic sets. Show will  start between 8 and 9 p.m.

Cover: $10 at the door.

Don’t miss this wonderful event tomorrow night at the Hub. 8 p.m. No cover but donations are accepted.

UPDATE:
June 15, 2017

The Regional District of Central Kootenay has rescinded the Evacuation Alert for the following four properties at the mouth of Tam O’Shanter Creek near Riondel.
• 2225 Riondel North Road
• 2251 Riondel North Road
• 2277 Riondel North Road
• Crown Land surrounding Tam O’Shanter Creek below Riondel North Road
On June 5th an Evacuation Alert was issued after a small landslide occurred within a tributary of Tam O’Shanter Creek. The potential danger from rising waters or debris flow in the creek has diminished; therefore the Evacuation Alert has been rescinded. No properties in the area around Tam O’Shanter Creek remain on alert.

June 5, 2017 – The Regional District of Central Kootenay has issued an Evacuation Alert for four properties at the mouth of Tam O’Shanter Creek near Riondel.

Residents reported dirty water in Tam O’Shanter Creek and a helicopter flyover with RDCK, MFLNRO, and MOTI staff this afternoon confirmed that a small landslide failure occurred within a tributary of the main creek. The slide was likely caused by the melting snowpack on an unstable slope. There is a low risk of slide debris impacting the residences below the creek.

CLICK HERE FOR AFFECTED AREA MAP [PDF – 290 KB]

Residents are asked to be observant of any changes in the creek such as large, sudden changes in flow, or any turbidity and debris.

To report flooding or landslide, residents can call the 24/7 Provincial Emergency Reporting Number at

1-800-663-3456.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY – DIAL 911

For information on how to prepare for an evacuation, please visit: http://www.rdck.ca/EN/main/services/emergency-management/emergency-preparedness.html

The RDCK will keep the public updated as more information becomes available.

June 1st, 2017

COMMUNITY SEARCH AND RESCUE

FOR ALVIN DUNIC

The public is invited to participate in the ground search for Alvin Dunic this Saturday and Sunday, June 3‐4th 2017.

• When: Saturday, June 3, 2017 – 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
  Sunday, June 4, 2017 ‐ 9:30 a.m. ‐ 5:30 p.m.
• Registration area: Crawford Bay Elementary/Secondary School, Walkley Rd, Crawford Bay, BC V0B 1E0

The following criteria MUST be met by volunteers to participate in the search efforts:

• Minimum age is 18 years old;
• Volunteers must be capable of a minimum of 6 hours of sustained and strenuous physical activity;
• Picture ID is required; and
• Mandatory equipment: rain gear, long pants, long sleeves, hiking boots, bug spray, eye protection, sunscreen, food, water – You will be turned away if you don’t have this equipment.

Check in procedures

• All volunteers must register at the school.
• Only registered volunteers will be able to participate in the search efforts.
• Registration will take place at the school at 9.30 a.m. on each day
• You must register and check out each day
• The school will be closed at 5.30 p.m.

There is no parking available at the school. Please carpool with others. Bus transportation will be provided from the Kootenay Ferry Terminal at 8.45 a.m. A bus will then depart school at 4:45p.m. for volunteers to catch the 5.20 p.m. ferry back to Balfour.

There will be another community informat­ion session held at Crawford Bay School tonight at 5.30pm in the performance spa­ce.  Representatives from Search and Res­cue will be present to provide an update on the search proce­dure at that time.

All parents, community members and youth are welcome to attend.

CBESS TEACHER ALVIN DUNIC – MISSING – RCMP, Search & Rescue Will Continue Search

From SD#8: 11:30pm, May 29, 2017
Crawford Bay, BC

On May 29, 2017 at 2:33 pm Creston RCMP were contacted by an official with Crawf­ord Bay School to re­port one of the scho­ol’s teachers as miss­ing.

Dunic we­nt on a hike near the Kokanee Springs Go­lf Course just before noon and had yet to return.

Creston RCMP activated an aer­ial search, the local Search & Rescue Te­am, and the RCMP dog team section out of Nelson.

The teache­r’s vehicle was loca­ted on scene and unl­ocked. Two area tea­chers assisted in the search prior to po­lice arrival. Golf course staff also as­sisted in the search.

By nightfall the search obtained no results. The search is contin­uing

School is open with supports in place for students and staff. We will be communicating directly with parents/caregivers and students. Any further questions should be directed to SD 8 superintendent Mr. Jeff Jones.

The RCMP is urging people to stay out of the area and not to try to search for the missing teacher. They need the scene free of people as to not contaminate possible tracks for search dogs and evidence th­at might help in fin­ding the teacher.

by Ellie Reynolds
Have you driven past Crawford Bay Community Park lately and done a double take? Maybe you’ve even taken the scenic route to get a better look. On Wednesday May 17th YRB assisted us in our first big day building the playground. Digging our fall zones, delivering our equipment (that they had kindly stored for us in their Creston yard over winter) moving the equipment to our desired location. They did it with incredible skill, timing and good humour. We are beyond grateful for the help we have received from YRB – the in-kind donation of time, man and machine power have saved us thousands of dollars and we would be years away from building our dream park without their support.

Since then, we have, to date, been at the playground every day for a whole week now, working long hours with our three young children in tow, to make this playground happen. What we are doing, along with some help from exceptional volunteers, is transforming that space from something neglected and sad into something beautiful – that feels, sounds and looks good. We designed it for the senses, for colour, texture, shape, for sensuous play with musical instruments, sand, water, grass and wood. We hope it will become somewhere where families will gather (actually that’s happening already). We want it to be a community-building space, truly used and enjoyed. The encouragement and appreciation we have received have helped us to continue to put in 10-14 hour days, for no remuneration, just for the joy of offering the community an exciting and unique play space, and the energising feeling that comes from seeing our idea finally become wood and concrete and gravel and sand musical instruments- and come to life.
It’s an amazing feeling to see change before your eyes in this way. The park looks so different at the end of each day – and lovelier than we could have pictured as we designed it on paper and on the computer CAD program. And the kids are coming! As parent volunteers show up, so do their kids and to watch them get so much from what we have installed thus far is very gratifying. I see lots of use in store for the season ahead. And adults are welcome to come and play too!
If I weren’t so exhausted from a long day labouring at the playground I would write more. Indeed, I could, by now, write a novel about this particular playground and the story of its conception, development, hurdles, and triumphs – but I’ll have to save that for next month’s Mainstreet when the project is (hopefully) finished.

In the meantime, in the name of public acknowledgement of our donors and to satisfy some curiosity about how much this playground has cost, I’m enclosing a recent copy of our budget (above). The balance doesn’t include some unpaid invoices, so really, we are close to having used all our funds. You can help us put finishing touches (benches, centre structure, signage, plants etc) with a donation. We have an online donation page (generosity.com/fundraisers/crawfordbayplayground) or you can donate directly at the Credit Union or leave cash or a cheque made to Community Connections with Sandy at CBESS. There are still volunteer opportunities, please email easey01@gmail.com if you would like to step up for jobs large and small.