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 …
Today: Let’s Be Grateful
With all the restrictions and limitations, it’s easy to start feeling sorry for ourselves, dwelling on all the things that we can’t do, or that we’ll be missing out on this year. Time to nip those thoughts in the bud! …
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 …
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 …
An Alternative Remembrance Day
This year marks the first time in ninety-eight years that there has not been a public Remembrance Day ceremony at the local Cenotaph. It will seem strange to many of us, not to pay our respects to those who fought …