Big Meeting About Ferry Landing Moving
Coming up – there is an important meeting/information session regarding possible changes to the Balfour ferry landing involving moving it to Queen’s Bay. Advocates of this change have been pushing for it for a long time, but there are also strong voices against the move. The Queen’s Bay Association forwarded the following letter to Mainstreet and […]
Category 3 Open Fires Now Prohibited!
Category 3 Open Fires Now Prohibited within the Southeast Fire Centre Effective at noon PDT on Friday, June 3, 2016, Category 3 open fires are prohibited in the Southeast Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety. Anyone conducting a Category 3 open fire anywhere in the Southeast Fire Centre must have extinguished any such […]
How About a $100,000 Playground?
After receiving nominations from across the province, judges from bcaaplayhere.com have selected five play spaces to move forward into the final round. Amazingly, Crawford Bay Park made it to the final five finalists who are nominated to potentially win a revitalization worth up to $100,000! The plan, according to EASEY (East Shore Alliance for Supporting […]
Riondel Races to the Rescue: Volunteer Fire Fighters Extinguish Flames
Fast-acting fire fighters with the Riondel Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a wildfire in Gray Creek before it razed out of control the evening of May 16th. Although the fire was out of the fire department’s jurisdiction, seven volunteers raced to put out the one-acre blaze which was growing quickly by the time the crew arrived. […]
Burning Information – Think Before You Burn
REGIONAL DISTRICT OF CENTRAL KOOTENAY MEDIA RELEASE Although fire bans have not yet been imposed in the region, residents are urged to use extreme caution if they decide to have open fires given the unseasonably warm and dry weather. “Fires can have devastating impacts upon communities; the mass evacuations and destruction in Fort MacMurray are a […]
Highway Clean Up Going On Now!
Today is our annual Highway Clean Up Day! That means there will be community members, business owners and school children on the roads this morning, cleaning up the highways. Please use extra caution when out and about!
Youth Society AGM – Please join us!
Eastshore Youth Society Annual General Meeting Tuesday April 19th at 3pm at Crawford Bay School This is the society that holds the assets and helps organize how the Community Directed Youth Funds (CDYF) Grant from the CBT is spent. This grant is for increasing local activities, opportunities & services for youth 12 to 18. We are nearing […]
Paris Marshall Smith – New Fields Forward Coordinator
Creston & District Community Directed Funds Committee announces hiring, welcomes Fields Forward Coordinator Paris Marshall Smith March 31 2016, Creston, BC – Since the launch of the Fields Forward partnership, dozens of volunteers, community development professionals, local government representatives, farmers, and food producers have dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours to local agriculture and food security […]
Class of 2016 Fundraiser Today!
No Closures at CBESS!
At the open special meeting on March 29 at the SD8 district office, the Board of Trustees and Board of Education presented the facilities review draft plan. At this meeting it was determined that the board chose to throw out the scenario in which Crawford Bay senior students (Grades 10-12) would travel to LVR in […]