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Volume 67, No. 25 | Thursday, June 18, 2015
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FOR THE KIDS — Everything from panning for “gold” (above) to tug of war to penny candy sales were part of the Creston Museum’s annual Kids Day,
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BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor
Nearly 50 cyclists joined the Kootenay Young Agrarians Tour de Farm last September, and the organizers are hoping to build on that success. The second Tour de Farm on July 1 will be similar to the first: a 34-kilome-
tre round trip visiting four farms and a winery. “It felt like a thing that kind of made sense for the valley,” said Laura Hannant, who co-ordinates YA with Nigel Francis. “It’s a pretty neat way to show the 100-mile diet in less than 100 miles.”
BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Members of Creston town council got an eye opener on June 9 from a presentation about emergency preparedness. Alanna Garrett, emergency program co-ordinator for Creston, Salmo and Regional District of Central Kootenay
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What Moves You?
Michael Carpenter Sheldon Browell Broker/Owner
Tyler Hancock, ABR, PREC
Ingrid Voigt
Daryl Porter
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Brad Burnett
Areas A, B, C and G, gave the relatively new council an overview of the various states of emergency communities can face. At the top of the list, not surprisingly, was wildfires. Fires are a probability if weather is hot and dry this summer, she said, with snowpacks in Southeast British Columbia ranging
from 30 per cent of average in some Kootenay areas to zero per cent in the Okanagan. Water storage levels in the Columbia Basin could also be influenced by droughts in the United States, which will increase demand and put pressure on Canadian supplies.
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