Ahhhh… The Sound of Music
Have you noticed the rather awesome calibre of musical talent that we have here on the East Shore? How about the stellar skills of those travelling minstrels who grace our pubs and restaurants with their lyrical stylings? Recently, a handful of us attended a night of music at Newkey’s Pub where Picture The Ocean http://picturetheocean.com/ (a […]
Hey, What’s Going On?
So much happens on our East Shore, sometimes my head spins with appointments, community events, meetings, live entertainment, extra-curricular sports/theatre/fun nights… the list goes on and on. Every time I hear someone say, “There’s nothing to do around here,” I nearly fall over backward. In some cases, that sentence is heard coming from the mouths […]
Kootenay Lake Ferry-Our Chance to Change the Service?
In the May Mainstreet, Nicole Plouffe has submitted a letter with an update on the issue of changing the ferry schedule to an hourly (or every two hours in the slow season) schedule. There are posters around town, an on-line petition and a letter-writing campaign is on-going. The deadline for the negotiation of a new […]
The Survival of Our Lunch Program
The hot lunch at the Crawford Bay School has been a wonderful and successful program for many years now. It has fed our community’s children a hot, nutritious and colourful meal to lead them strongly into an afternoon of learning. It is in jeopardy. For the entire time that this program has been around, it […]