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Crawford Bay Hall Board News - October 2026

By Leona Keraiff

Happy Autumn and Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

As the goings on at the Community park wind down due to the onset of Winter there is much happening at the Community hall: TAPS lunches, RDCK voting days, Provincial voting days, numerous meetings, and a worthwhile event on Thursday October 8 titled ENERGY EFFICIENCY WORKSHOP sponsored by Columbia Basin Trust and Community Energy Association. This workshop is FREE. Please sign up if you can, to give an idea of numbers attending. https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/r/crawfordbay or just arrive by 6pm. Refreshments will be available, live demonstrations, practical take home resources and expert guidance to help identify where energy is commonly lost and what you can do to improve your home's energy performance. The workshop is approximately 90 minutes long.

Sunday Markets in the park will stop this month and continue in the Spring. Pickleball and tennis nets will be put away any minute as well as the gorgeous cedar benches made by Darcy Wallin. The park water will be shut off, the second pine tree shall be coming down and the new picnic shelter created by Daiku Woodworks of Creston should arrive by month’s end. I would like to acknowledge Dallas Stobbe and Gordon Milne who voluntarily help us so much with the care and maintenance of this much used space. Their work ethic is inspiring.

Finally, please allow me to remind you all yet again, about our community hall restoration project. Our 88 year old building has over $2.17 million worth of upgrades slated to be completed by 2028 HOWEVER without the final $110,000 we need to secure (in order to meet our responsibility to our main grant funder) we CAN NOT begin. Where to find these final dollars???? We continue to search for grant opportunities. We continue to hope that those of you who value what a community hall represents and provides, will support this project with a tax deductible donation. PLEASE consider an e transfer: donate@cbhall.ca OR mail a cheque to the Reno Fund Box 71 Crawford Bay, BC V0B1E0 We will gratefully add your name to the donor wall in the new entryway.

FUN FACTS to date - 178 total donations:

100 from individuals/families

27 from businesses

51 from Grants/foundations/Fundraisers

Largest individual donation - $25,000

Largest grant received: Clean BC Community Fund - $1,412,504

Biggest Supporter - Columbia Basin Trust

Largest Business donation - $30,000 Nelson & District Credit Union

Total Raised here on the Best shore - $181,800

Thank you all for your ongoing support of this important community project. The memories and histories of 88 years of community life will be preserved and celebrated through this restoration.

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