Creston Valley Advance

E-Tips: Hello from the Creston Climate Action Society

Welcome to the first official E-Tips column

  • May 14, 2021

Our View: Nurses never faltered during pandemic

The people at the forefront of the pandemic deserve thanks

  • May 12, 2021

Think on These Things: Truth is Given to be Shared

"Everyone is invited. Poor or wealthy. All need to recognize the authority of true goodness."

  • Apr 5, 2021

The survey results that have shaken the bald community

Now folks, everyone knows that the balder a man is, the better looking he is. The more a hairline recedes, the more handsome he gets, until finally he is so bald he becomes almost impossibly handsome.

  • Apr 1, 2021

Council Comments: Moving Forward

"This last year has been challenging for my family health-wise, and we have made the difficult decision to leave the Creston Valley to be closer to our children and grandchildren."

  • Mar 25, 2021

Ask Your Funeral Director: Let me introduce myself

"How many of us have questions about death, the funeral, the process, but never quite feel comfortable asking? This is what this column is going to do: it will allow you the space to pose these questions."

  • Mar 23, 2021

Letter to the Editor: My response to Councilor DeBoon

"I am afraid that if our mayor and town councillors insist on their 'free-spending flush pocket' ways that our town will eventually go bankrupt."

  • Mar 23, 2021

2-vehicle collision closes Highway 3 near Yahk

According to DriveBC, the incident occurred between Yahk-Meadow Creek Road and Ryan Bridge, about 7.5 km east of Yahk.

  • Mar 22, 2021

Creston Fire Rescue Report: eight calls for service between March 15 and 19

On March 19 at 9:56 a.m., CFR was dispatched to the area of Canyon Street and 11 Avenue North for a motor vehicle incident (MVI) involving a pedestrian.

  • Mar 22, 2021

Creston RCMP Report: 50 calls for assistance from March 15 to 22

On March 21, police were called to a suspicious person asleep in a vehicle on a residential street in Creston with the vehicle motor running.

  • Mar 22, 2021

Editor’s Note: My final issue at the Advance

"Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way."

  • Mar 22, 2021

9th annual Creston Valley Bird Festival scheduled for May 7 to 9

Spring migration and the return of the birds to the Creston Valley will still be something to celebrate, but in combination with live and virtual festival events.

  • Mar 19, 2021

Manipulated, stitched and dyed: Explore the versatility of fibre art at Creston exhibit

The "View Point: A Fibre-Based Exploration of the Natural World" exhibit features the fibre works of 20 artists — all of whom are women — from throughout the Columbia Basin Trust region

  • Mar 18, 2021

Creston’s Crawford Hill Reservoir Restoration Project to begin this month

The former Erickson reservoir will be addressed first, which will begin by removing dirt berms and filling the reservoir.

  • Mar 17, 2021

From India to Creston, the path to priesthood

Kanickaisamy Lawrence was barely nine-years-old when he developed an interest in becoming a priest.

  • Mar 16, 2021

Think on These Things: Judgment and Christ’s Second Coming

"The Bible declares that in the last days, men will be absorbed in worldly pursuits, in pleasure and money-getting. They will be blind to eternal realities."

  • Mar 16, 2021

Valley Views: WAITING FOR OUR SHOTS

"I'll happily roll up my sleeve. Medical history and events in my own lifetime show a well-tested vaccine can prevent the transmission of a dangerous virus."

  • Mar 16, 2021

Creston Fire Rescue Report: 11 calls for service between March 8 and 14

On March 14, CFR responded to a MVI involving two vehicles — each hauling a trailer — in the area of Highway 3

  • Mar 15, 2021

Creston RCMP Report: 51 calls for assistance from March 8 to 15

On March 13, a report of an illegal border crossing near Rykerts turned out to be a cross-border date in which the two partners sat across from each other on lawn chairs – one in Idaho and one in BC

  • Mar 15, 2021

Rec Perspectives: Walking, the Underrated Exercise

"Whether you walk outdoors or inside on a treadmill, the benefits are the same"

  • Mar 15, 2021