Today’s the day for the Virtual Visits with Santa! (There might still be space available, so if you haven’t signed up yet, call 250-428-9262 – we can take last-minute sign-ups until 1:00 PM or all spaces are filled, whichever comes …
FaceTime StoryTime
If you attend the community Winterfest next week (Saturday, December 19), you’ll have a chance to explore an oversize version of Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser. It’s a delightful story about a squirrel who has never seen snow and …
Do a Good Deed
There’s really nothing better than doing a good deed for someone else to lift your winter blahs away. And, lucky for us, there are a lot of ways we can do that and benefit people right here in town: Sue’s …
Plan a Visit with Santa
As it happens, Santa loves museums. It’s a little known fact, but they’re his favourite places to visit when he takes one of his rare vacations from the North Pole. So when Santa realised he couldn’t come to Creston in …
Look Forward to Something
Today, we think of Advent – or, more specifically, Advent calendars – as a way of counting down the days until Christmas. But this little newspaper snippet from November 1927 hints at a rather different Christian tradition, one that goes …
Holidays in Quarantine
Well, December is here, and if you’re like me the new month is making the whole holiday thing a very real, and very pressing, issue. Maybe we aren’t all in quarantine, but with limitations on travelling and gathering, it’s safe …
Archives Shelving Project
These are a few photos of the Archives storage vault – the space where we house all the photographs, documents, newspapers, and maps that contain so much valuable information about the community and its people. We use these collections all …
A Monumental Mystery
A couple of days ago, we shared the story of Creston’s cenotaph with you. One question you may be wondering is: What happened to the original one, the wooden one that stood near the corner of 10th Avenue and Cook …
A Monumental Saga
11 November 1922: The Creston Valley’s memorial to the Great War was unveiled during a moving and impressive ceremony. It was a moment several years – and considerable drama – in the making. The first local memorial to the Great …