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Crawford Bay Hall Board News - April 2026

By Leona Keraiff

I am happy to share with you that the Creston Valley Community Foundation is honouring our efforts to restore our 87 year old community hall. We recently received notification of their generous gift of $20,000. A local family also supported us recently with a beautiful gift. Since we were granted charitable status six months ago we have raised $44,763. We still need $205,000 before shovels can go in the ground. The total raised to date is now $1.97 million! If you feel as we do about the value of community halls as a gathering place being essential to community life, please consider a donation…donate@cbhall.ca or send a cheque to Hall Reno Fund, Box 71, Crawford Bay, BC V0B1E0 Thank you. If you so choose your name will be displayed on our donor wall in the new entryway.

The Riondel Arts Club recently donated their white board to our hall. As ours has a broken leg it was a timely and much appreciated gift. King Creek Enterprises of Creston, Phil Long Consulting in Kelowna and Gordon Milne helped us tremendously with a recent grant application allowing us another opportunity to raise the funds necessary to start our restoration project. Thanks to the Kootenay Lake Chamber of Commerce for choosing to meet monthly in our community hall. TAPS Seniors lunches are enjoyed every other Thursday here also. The Youth Group hosted another seed swap while Kristine McGuinty’s art classes brightened up this historic space.

Our Association has finally purchased a steel, bear proof, garbage/recycling bin for the Crawford Bay Community Park. Manufactured in Lethbridge, it will be installed by the time this issue is printed. Thanks to Tyler Keraiff for transporting and delivering it for us.

Speaking of the park, the water will be turned on soon and new metal flag poles installed. Thanks to Steve Sayer and his family for purchasing a new pickleball net. We appreciate their willingness to share it with our other park users.

Crawford Bay Sunday Markets commence May 3, 2026 in the Crawford Bay Community Park. (not the Regional Park which was formerly an airstrip) Sunday soccer usually starts in May also. Our enchanted playground is a huge attraction and is presently undergoing improvements. We look forward to your visit.

We received more donations after the thermometer image was created hence the difference in totals. Happy Spring everyone!

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