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Important Crawford Bay Hall and Parks AGM – Nov 26 at 7pm

By Susan Hulland The Crawford Bay and District Hall and Park Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on November 26, 2019 at 7pm at the hall, and we invite you to attend. At present the board consists of six directors, several of whom have served for many years, and in the case of our […]

East Shore Food Hamper Fundraisers

Better To Give Than Receive at Newkey’s, Sat Nov 16 & Christmas Greetings in the December Mainstreet! Don’t miss Newkey’s Better to Give Than Receive event on Saturday, November 16. Help raise money for the East Shore Food Hampers! Meat Draw, Silent Auction, Music, Baked Goods, Entertainment! All money goes directly to the Hampers. Also, […]

Immunity for Your Community: get the flu shot today!

This year, Interior Health is calling on you to take action and increase immunity for your community by getting the annual flu shot. Anyone can get the flu—a sometimes serious and even deadly infection of the upper airway caused by an influenza virus that spreads easily from person to person. Getting your flu shot can […]

Local State of Emergency Declared

RDCK EOC MOVES TO LEVEL 3, RESPONSES UNDERWAY FOR SEVERAL AREAS OF CONCERN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NELSON – The Regional District of Central Kootenay’s (RDCK) Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has moved to Level 3 status in response to several problem areas identified throughout the region. Level 3 indicates positions within the Emergency Operations Centre will […]

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 […]

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 […]

Welcome to the NEW Mainstreet Online

In November 2010, we launched www.eshore.ca and it’s been a weird and wonderful (not to mention steep) learning curve deciphering the gaps and needs of this community. As numerous websites emerge in our area trying to bridge that information storm that envelopes us, we here at Mainstreet have been trying to figure out what is […]

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