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A refugee family from Myanmar (formerly Burma) was brought to Creston in the summer by the Creston Refugee Committee.

Refugee family getting settled BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

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The producers of locally made Tabletree juices, Gary and Susan Snow, are about to take the world stage, with their black cherry juice being nominated for a World Juice Award. When Susan Snow picked up the phone at 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 14, she first thought it might be a prank call. “When the organizer called us, I was still asleep obviously and I proceeded to tell him why we couldn’t come to Spain for the award because we couldn’t afford it,” she said on Monday. “And Gary is in the background saying, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute.’” Sponsored by Foodnews, a trade publication, the World Juice Awards are a prestigious competition — only three finalists are selected from around the planet in each of six categories. See TABLETREE, page 3

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C.V. Farmers’ Voting selects Shannon Nickish Market moving as Queen’s medal recipient to fall location at Morris greenhouse Advance Staff

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After a successful summer season, the Creston Valley Farmers' Market is on the move to its fall location starting on Saturday. The October relocation from Millennium Park to Morris Flowers Garden Centre helps to make it one of the longest market seasons in B.C., and allows for a wider variety of vendors to sell their wares before Christmas. “The regulars start to go on vacation,” said comanager Martha Boland. “Then you have an influx of new people. You find people who wouldn't typically be at it because they sell things that are better for this time of year.” Throughout the summer, the market averaged about 35 vendors and was offered twice a week, on Saturdays at the park and Thursdays behind the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce. Boland and co-manager Tamara Movold enjoyed their summer taking over for manager (and new mom) Jen Comer — whom Movold refers to as a “one-woman army” — and found themselves capable of keeping the large weekly event under control. “It was exciting and draining,” said Boland. “It's very intense all the time,” added Movold. “It seemed like we got a lot of good feedback from the vendors and customers.” A few weeks ago, they organized a vendor appreciation weekend, in which customers got to name their favourite vendors (the winner hasn't been announced yet). “A lot of people said, 'That was a great idea. You should do it more often,' ” said Movold. “It was a great way to make a connection.” To further connect with anyone interested, the Creston Valley Food Action Coalition, which runs the farmers' market, resumed its monthly meetings this week, and they will continue on the first Monday of each month at the College of the Rockies greenhouse. The Nov. 4 meeting will be a visioning session for the coalition, and will likely also include a guest speaker. Interest is already high for the relocated market, which will run at the Morris greenhouse on Saturdays at its usual time from 8 a.m.-noon from Oct. 6-Dec. 22. “Lots of people are not only signing up but trying to secure a spot for the entire season,” said Movold. “It's compact and you have the natural light and warmth of the greenhouse,” said Boland. “To have such a great location is amazing.”

Following an online and phone-in vote — which itself followed a monthlong nomination process — Sirdar's Shannon Nickish is one of four Nelson-Creston residents who will receive a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from MLA Michelle Mungall. “I am very excited and pleased with the whole selection process,” said Mungall. “There were so many people involved in deciding the recipients of this prestigious award, and the choices are clearly well respected pillars of their communities.”

Nickish, who owns Sirdar General Store, earned her nomination through involvement in a variety of community groups, as well as her dedication to being the small community’s unofficial historian. Tasked with distributing four medals, the selection process started with an open call for nominations in August, from which four community members — representing the Creston Valley, Nelson and area, Ymir-Salmo and Kaslo-North Kootenay Lake — created a shortlist of 13. Everyone in the NelsonCreston riding was then asked to vote online or by phone, selecting

one person from each of the areas. After the nearly 700 votes were tallied, Kaslo's Bruce Walker, Nelson's Joan Reichardt and Salmo's Dorothy Hearn joined Nickish — who was nominated alongside Creston's Phil Thomas and Anne Hepher — as recipients. They will be honoured at a ceremony hosted by Mungall in 2013. “I want to congratulate and thank everyone that was nominated, submitted a nomination, and voted,” said Mungall. “We are very lucky to live in such engaged communities, and it is wonderful to recognize those working to make our country great.”

Tabletree up against one nominee From page 1 Tabletree has been selected in the best juice award category, along with just one other nominee. Participants in the annual event, being held this year in Barcelona, include industry giants like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. “We have known about the World Juice Awards for several years,” she said. “We were introduced to Gary Morton, a value-added expert from Nova Scotia who gave a workshop a few years back. Gary became a good friend of ours and a mentor to us in our business. Gary worked with a blueberry juice company in Nova Scotia that won this award seven or eight years ago and he spoke to us about the award and how it increased their sales significantly.” Tabletree juice has been nominated in previous years, but this is the first year it has made the final cut. “They also told us that they and the judges had been researching us over the Internet,” Snow said. “We try to keep up with the whole social media thing, with our website, Twitter, Facebook and the like and in this instance we think it worked to our advantage.” Coincidentally, the Snows had already been planning to travel to France later this year to meet with French researchers. “They have been testing for use in cardiovascular research. We were invited to a meeting in Vancouver by IRAP (Industrial Research Assistance Program) where a delegation of researchers came from France and one scientist was very interested in our

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products because of the anti-inflammatory properties of cherries,” she said. “The initial studies were good and we are awaiting the final results. This is very exciting as we have a lot of testimonials of people being helped with aches and pains, gout, inflammation and lung conditions that have been using our juice and culinary sauce and it would be wonderful if cardiovascular health could improve by using it, as well.” Whether or not Tabletree comes away with the award, simply being a

finalist could reap large benefits. “A lot of the big companies will be represented at the conference and it will put us on the world map,” Snow said. “We are able to track visitors that go to our website and already our website has doubled in hits and an amazing number of out of country visitors have come to our site already. “As a matter of fact, I told Gary later that after this gets around, I didn’t think we had made enough juice this year. It’s a very exciting time for Tabletree, that’s for sure.”

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Alex Nilsson has been nominated as a Scotiabank Game Changer. If he wins, three things will happen: 1. It will show our appreciation of one of our area’s most deserving citizens. 2. It will help put the Creston Valley “on the map” and show the world we care. 3. It will help to make the Valley better to live in because, typically, Alex has generously undertaken to donate his winnings to the Creston-Kootenay Foundation. The Creston-Kootenay Foundation is a community foundation. Its mission is to accept donations of cash, bequests, property or other valuable assets, invest them in perpetuity and distribute part of the annual returns in the form of grants to worthwhile non-proﬁt agencies and groups engaged in improving life for residents of the Yahk-to-Riondel area. The Foundation is registered with the Canada Revenue Agency. This means that it can issue tax-deductible receipts for the donations it receives and also that it must distribute a prescribed portion of its annual investment returns via such grants. If Alex Nilsson wins as a Game Changer, the Creston-Kootenay Foundation will grow by $100,000 and it will be able to enlarge its annual granting capacity accordingly. But he can’t win if we don’t vote for him. Go to: www.ScotiabankGameChangers • www.gocreston.ca www.scotiabankgamechangers.com/nomination/?nominated=455 VOTE! Once every day until 8:59am October 14, 2012

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•Police attended to keep the peace at a Scott Street residence while a female removed her Creston RCMP responded to belongings. 76 calls for service from Sept. •A Yahk trailer owner 24-30, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said reported that its tires were on Tuesday. deflated and the power was September 24 turned off on Friday night. •No charges were laid •The owner of a vehicle that when police were called to failed to stop for a school bus at what turned out be a consen- Adam Robertson Elementary sual fight between two School has been warned. females at a 16th Avenue •An intoxicated male South residence. offered two boys a ride home •A 58-year-old male was near Wynndel on Highway 3A. found deceased in a tent near Investigation led police to conKootenay Lake. Foul play is not clude there was no sexual suspected. intent to the offer. •When a male discovered that his Town of Creston D e w a l t Fall Yard and Garden 18-volt drill and Dewalt Clean-Up construction stereo had The fall yard and garden clean-up is conducted been stolen by Town crews. Its purpose is to dispose of tree earlier in the BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff

prunings, garden waste, and other compostable articles from yards that are not picked up during regular collection. No non-compostable items will be picked up. • Trees or brush should be cut into three (3) foot lengths and wrapped in bundles. • Grass clippings, leaves, etc, MUST be placed in rigid, weather proof, containers; e.g. garbage cans. NO PLASTIC GARBAGE BAGS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Fall collections will be on November 6, 7 & 8, 2012. On your pick-up day, please keep all compostable materials separate from household garbage and place at the curb for pick-up. Questions may be directed to the Public Works Department at 250-428-2214, ext. 233, or visit our website at www.creston.ca. For information on the Regional District Landﬁll site, call the Regional District of Central Kootenay at 1-800-268-7325 or visit their website at www.rdck.bc.ca/environmental/environmental_ services.html.

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month, he reported the theft and learned that the stereo had already been recovered. It was stolen in a string of thefts for which the culprits have already pleaded guilty in court. •A 48-year-old male is back in custody after being caught driving while impaired for the second time since being released from jail in July for, you guessed it, impaired driving. He now faces charges of impaired driving, breach of probation and driving while under suspension. •Conservation officers were notified after a West Creston resident reported a bear was attempting to enter her residence. The bear is believed to be very hairy, have a black nose and stand about three feet tall. •Alcohol was a factor when a vehicle lost control and went into a ditch on Highway 3A near Wynndel.

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September 25 •A motorcyclist refused medical treatment after ditching his bike on Highway 21 near Kootenay River Road. The next day, he attended the police station sporting a broken nose to report he had swerved to avoid a deer. •Gas was stolen from vehicles parked on a lot near the intersection of Highways 3 and 3A. •Police attended a Helen Street residence to keep the peace while a female retrieved her property. •A report of uttering threats came from an Ibbitson Road residence. •The theft of cash was reported at a Crawford Creek Road business. •A well-being check on a female in a Helen Street residence revealed she was okay. •Police mediated a dispute between parents and out of control children on 16th Avenue South. •An erratic driver reported on 10th Avenue North was warned. •“The hooter couldn’t be located,” Gollan said, after police responded to a complaint of a male hooting in the Northwest Boulevard area. •A female youth reported missing from a Highway 21 residence was later found and was okay. September 26 •No injuries resulted from a collision in a Cook Street parking lot. •An inappropriate message was written on a whiteboard on

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Vancouver Street. •A report of barking dogs on Canyon-Lister Road was referred to the Regional District of Central Kootenay. •A well-being check on a woman staying in an Erickson motel revealed that she is okay. •A well-being check on a male on Northwest Boulevard indicated his is fine. September 27 •Damage to vehicles in an impound lot on Highway 3 was reported. •A warning letter has been sent to the owner of a vehicle reported to be passing on double solid lines on Mallory Road. •A warning letter has been sent to the owner of a vehicle that turned left without yielding at the Intersection of Highways 3 and 3A. •A unlicensed driver was reported on Payne Road. •RCMP members participated in a scooter awareness and safety program at Creston and District Community Complex. •Creston RCMP assisted New Denver police in attaining a statement from an Eighth Avenue South resident. •Alcohol was seized from a couple arguing in the Millennium Park parking lot. •When police investigated a report of two males hiding items in some bushes near Highway 3 they found two backpacks containing drug paraphernalia. Gollan said the males can attempt to claim CRESTON VALLEY their possessions by REGIONAL AIRPORT attending the police station. SOCIETY •A complaint of harassing phone calls was made from Silvercrest Road. September 28 •A doorframe was damaged but no entry was made to a 16th Avenue residence. •A child custody dispute on Devon Street was referred to a local agency. •An Ibbitson Street Wednesday October 17, 2012 resident reported a 7pm missing iPod after reading about a recent rash of thefts. An iPod Emergency Services Building found in the thieves’ 1993 - Airport Rd possession was identified and returned.

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Committee spends $2,000 a month on family From page 1 Saw April (28) and Naw Mwee Gay Paw (27) are father and mother of Sah Eh Pwai Doh Soe (8), Saw Eh Lar Soe (6) and Paw La Ku Wa (18 months). Also in the home are Naw Mwee Gay Paw’s mother, Naw Ko Wah (56) and brother, Saw Kler Nay Moo (17). CRC volunteer Linda Price said the family arrived two weeks later than scheduled when Thai officials refused to let them leave the refugee camp. It took intervention by United Nations representatives in the area to ensure they were allowed to leave for their new home. “These families coming to B.C. is the result of efforts by the East Kootenay Friends of Burma,” Price said. “I saw a presentation by the group and we decided to help out.” The CRC did so by making a bit of a

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leap of faith — its one-year sponsorship of a Palestinian family was not yet complete at the time. (The five members have since been relocated to the Lower Mainland.) A $2,000 monthly financial commitment is required to pay the expenses of a refugee family, but equally important is the volunteer aspect. Arrangements must be made for English language lessons, school, vocational training and social needs, and it works because of the generosity of CRC volunteers and their friends. “Creston is an incredibly supportive, welcoming community,” Price said. April and Kler (the Saw, Naw and Paw at the start of each name are honorifics) took advantage of the timing of their arrival in Creston to work picking cherries. Both are now hoping to find

•Gunshots reported in Riondel were reported to conservation officers. •Police were called when a 13-year-old female from Highway 21 ran off to a party with a 17-yearold male. September 30 •It was reported that some items were placed on railroad tracks near Fourth Avenue. •An elderly male flipped his scooter on a soft spot on Northwest Boulevard. •A vehicle was damaged in a mischief incident on Highway 3A. •Low flying aircraft over Arrow Creek Road were determined to be holding forest fire spotting crews. •An elderly female reported to be waving her arms on the side of Wynndel Road was gone when police arrived.

From page 4 •A boat owner reported his sailboat was missing from Gabriola Island. Local RCMP contacted their counterparts in that area, who determined that the boat had washed ashore after a storm and had been salvaged. •People reported to be smoking marijuana in the Elm Street area could not be located. •A bear that collided with a vehicle on Highway 3/95 had to be put down by conservation officers. •Police are investigating a fight between two females on Hilton Road. September 29 •A break and entry to a season cabin on Riondel Road netted thieves a chainCreston and saw and fuel, binoculars, a computer printer, fishing rods, a cordless drill and a toaster oven. •Damage to the gazebo behind Millennium Park, as Tuesday Oct 9, well as a light standard in the park, is being 2012• 7pm investigated. •Police mediated a 219 Devon St family dispute on 250-428-9262 Wright Road.

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In order to continue to raise funds for this and future refugee families (this is the 22nd in about 25 years), the CRC is sponsoring a series of travel nights. The first, Marvelous Morocco, will be held in the Trinity United Church on Oct. 19 and the presenter will be former Creston resident Fliss Klassen. CRC accepts commitments of monthly donations of $10 and up, and donations are accepted at the United Church. Tax receipts are issued. Price said the support of local individuals is bolstered by that of the Creston Ministerial Association, as well as Rotary and Lions clubs. “We work hard with all refugee adults to get them trained for employment,” Price said. “They are proud people and they know they aren’t coming here to sit and be cared for.”

other work while they pursue their studies. The transition to an entirely new and unfamiliar community isn’t an easy one, of course. On Eh Lar Sol’s first full day of kindergarten he didn’t get off at his school bus stop in the afternoon and Price spent a tense hour tracking his whereabouts and arranging for him to be brought home. April, Mwee Gay Paw and Ko Wah waited patiently at home, apparently bewildered by what was happening. The family are Karens, a conglomeration of ethnicities, languages and cultures that live in Myanmar, which is considered to be one of the most closed countries on the planet. “They are subsistence farmers to begin with,” Price said, so the family’s supporters hope they can find a future in this agricultural valley.

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Terrorism: “The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.” Terrorist: “A person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism; a person who terrorizes or frightens others.” I went to one of my favourite reference tools, Dictionary.com, to check the above definitions after once again hearing numerous references to the terms last week in the reporting of Omar Khadr’s return to Canada. By those definitions, Khadr, at the age of 15, Canadian born and of Egyptian decent, the son of a father who was involved in Islamic groups’ efforts to undermine American activities in Asia and the Middle East, was a terrorist. But, as I listened to Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews state the “facts”, and thought about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s coolness on the subject (he has been busy lately, accepting a humanitarian award from some hitherto unheard of organization, being announced the winner of a first ever Nixon award by another, and snubbing the United Nations by not speaking to the General Assembly) I thought about how the legacy of the Karl Rover/Donald Rumsfeld era has influenced Canadian political thought. Consider that a 15-year-old, facing overwhelming odds in a gunfight with American forces in Afghanistan, and himself eventually severely wounded, somehow ended up in Guantanamo Bay, which will go down in history as one of the great travesties against

justice. In an attempt to resolve his situation, Khadr pleaded guilty, “pursuant to a pre-trial agreement in a military commission, to murder in violation of the law of war,

ing the notion that those who fight on the opposing side are necessarily terrorists, while we and our allies are, well, fighting the good fight. There is ample evidence in every conflict that those fighting the good fight often do very, very bad things. We accept that bad behavior, acts that certainly wouldn’t be justified under any rational “law of war”, because it is undertaken by people on our side of a war or a conflict or a police action or whatever Lorne Eckersley term governments of the day deem to be most palatable to their citizens. attempted murder in violation of The simple fact is that, as the law of war, conspiracy, providCanadians weigh in on both sides of ing material support for terrorism, the argument about how Khadr and spying.” should be treated and what sort of This after spending years in what danger he might be, what we really any reasonable person would conknow about his role in that fateful clude to be illegal captivity. I espeincident comes predominantly from cially liked the phrase “murder in one side. We can all probably agree the violation of the law of war.” that this kid, and others like him, In response to a 9-11 attack on its had no right getting involved when, own soil, largely orchestrated by as Regional District of Central Saudi Arabians, the George W. Bush Kootenay chair John Kettle likes to government invaded Iraq and say, they “didn’t have a dog in the Afghanistan because, uh, well, they fight.” But it’s pretty hard to argue didn’t happen to be buddies of and that Americans had a dog in it oil suppliers to the Western world. So a Canadian kid who had no busi- either, just as they didn’t in Iraq. It’s all enough to long for the ness being where he was took part political success of perennial presiin a battle against American soldiers dential candidate Ron Paul, who who had no business where they argues that the U.S. has to stop playwere. From what I have read, it is ing policeman to the world. Surely highly debatable that any court in the free world would have convicted by now we have enough evidence that the approach hasn’t led us Khadr of murder based on the evidown a path to peace. dence, which is inconsistent, to be And Canadians shouldn’t fall into generous. the trap of making out Omar Khadr But “murder in violation of the as a bogeyman who should keep us law of war”? Who’s kidding all sleepless with fear. whom? Where, exactly, do we find Lorne Eckersley is the publisher of this “law of war”? Somehow, we have been brainwashed into accept- the Creston Valley Advance.

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Quads are dangerous To the Editor: For the last 10 years, I have been observing ever-increasing traffic on Simmons Road, and I assume on all roads in our community. For now, I will concentrate on the junction of Smith Road (which is less frequented) and Simmons Road. I was a witness to very serious accident about three years ago, involving children of the same family. There were no RCMP or ambulance and everything was hushed up within three hours. Lately, one family and other neighbors are increasingly using their quads. I am not objecting to anybody’s pursuit of happiness, leisure and their toys. However, to my knowledge, there is no ministerial permit that allows use of a quad or unlicensed motorcycle on a public road, especially not while a member of the family sits behind or two innocent children are in front, literally on the handlebars, barreling down the road at 80 clicks at 10 p.m. with no helmet and no lights. Still with me? I am observing more and more near misses at this intersection (where, of all things, the mailboxes are located). Sooner or later, a horrific accident is going to happen and I am very concerned to say the least. My wife is terrified to leave home, and if she drives, we are literally crawling getting onto Simmons. And I must mention that nearby is an individual with two sets of water drilling machinery — that is, two huge trucks and a smaller pickup. Now, who will pay for the lifetime support of the quadriplegic who will try so desperately to explain that he meant no harm, and was just warming up his machine? You see, on occasion there are two or three trips of a quad within an hour. I have informed the local RCMP of this situation in the past on a couple of occasions, but regret to inform that I have never seen a patrol car once near this extremely dangerous intersection

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nabbing the speeders or law breakers at the right time in the early morning or evening hours, past working time. Once the tragedy happens, it will be too late to raise my hand and testify to the lunacy and abuse of privilege to live in this peaceful and quiet setting. So far, I was asked to identify the individuals and testify in court. But to be hated by the entire community as a whistleblower, while everybody else knowing about this is hiding and quiet? Even a prominent lawyer living in our community has not raised his hand and pointed a finger. So I do at least warn everybody to watch out and crawl. Beware of quads! Frank Belavy West Creston

ment paralleling the beach for a mile or more, destroying land mines, barbed wire and enemy resistance on the cliffs. Immediately, the second phase was to have the big guns of the battleships that came in under the cover of darkness with the Canadian and British infantry to shell the beach and sand cliffs just prior to our soldiers starting their assault by wiping out any manmade obstruction or enemy resistance. Within the hour prior before the first phase began, a decision was made to cancel the air support and the heavy shelling by the battleships. Thousands of soldiers were deployed into landing craft for the assault on the beach. As soon as the landing craft ramps dropped down, our soldiers were fired upon by enemy snipers and machinegun fire from the clifftops, and those infantrymen that made it up onto the beach were stopped in their tracks by rows of anchored barbed wire. Being out in the open, it was a slaughter by the enemy’s heavy calibre machineguns literally shooting arms and legs off, and in some cases cutting a man in half. A thousand were wounded, as many taken prisoner and over 3,000 were killed. Amazingly, some men still managed to get to the cliffs to climb and attack some machine-gun bunkers. Churchill and Mountbatten had preempted a news report prior to the raid at Dieppe that the assault was a success and still broadcast it over the air right after the assault. Ironically, after the war, syphilis killed Churchill before the booze did and Mountbatten was blown to pieces while asleep on his yacht by an IRA bomber in 1979. All these soldiers who have died for our freedom today is mind-boggling — all these sacrifices to keep us free and yet freedom is taken for granted by so many today. We have a federal leader and provincial party leaders that choose to dictate rather than lead. Our freedom of rights and ownership of our natural resources are being eroded through legislation by those very two politicians and others who are placing the wreaths at the cenotaphs. The decades old eulogy of “lest we forget” has been long forgotten by these politicians and some of us. Michael Bunn Creston

Our freedom is taken for granted To the Editor: Once again, the 11th month, 11th day and 11th hour will soon arrive, and once again our prime minister at a ceremony on Parliament Hill and our premier in Victoria will participate in the Remembrance Day ceremonies with a sombre look on their faces while laying a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph. In my era, the red poppies always brings to mind one of the worst atrocities in the Second World War with the heaviest loss of life of Canadian, British and American soldiers in one attack that could have been prevented. This was the assault on the long, wide beaches of Dieppe against the enemy occupancy in France. Commanded and planned by two unsavoury politicians, British prime minister Winston Churchill, who got his strength from a bottle of scotch, and Lord Mountbatten, a wife swapper. Nevertheless, the plan of attack was a good one. The first phase was to be by the Royal Air Force bombers, bombarding the beaches and cliff escarp-

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‘Shoulder season’ a great one for valley tourism

It has been a good season for tourism in the valley. The Creston Valley has had some excellent media exposure thanks to stories about our wineries (one magazine dubbed the Creston Valley as an “emerging wine market”), Kootenay Lake (Sympatico travel’s top 10 lakes in Canada), the International Selkirk Loop (top 10 circle routes and top 10 motorcycle routes), and agritourism (a feature in the Toronto Sun talked about local cheese and wine), just to name a few. Of course, there have been good news stories regarding the Columbia Brewery, the Creston

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some of our attractions more press coverage and it is starting to take root and grow. In fact, our visitor numbers are up 20 per cent overall compared to this time last year! There are still opportunities to attract some of that increased traffic to your business, even this year. The glorious weather we are having is helping extend the season later into the fall. The Visitor Centre is still quite busy. Fall is a valuable “shoulder season” for tourism, especially in rural agriculture-based communities. There are great opportunities to attract tourists to your business. As pointed out by the folks at RuralTourismMarketing.com, “Fall agritourism activities can extend a … town’s visitor season. What are people looking for in the fall?

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