CRESTON – KOOTENAY FOUNDATION (Serving Yahk to Riondel)
GRANT RECIPIENTS 2005 - 2007

2005
•   Creston & District Museum & Archives (humidity sensors)
•   Creston & Area Arts Council (Arts & Culture Survey Yahk – Riondel)
•   Community Literacy – PALS (Crawford Bay)
•   Creston & District Resource Center Soc. (texts & materials for programs)
•   Creston Pet & Welfare PAWS (electrical hookup)
•   Gray Creek Historical Society (publish Colin Haddon’s 1915 Haywood’s diary)
•   Kootenay Air Cadets Squadron 904 (musical instruments)
•   Kootenai Community Center Society (conference tables older women’s programs)
•   Public Health Nurses (OPT program)
•   IHA (gifts & flowers Pioneer Villa, Hillcrest, Swan Valley)

2006
•   Creston & District Soc. For Community Living (Therapeutic Riding Program)
•   Creston & Community Resource Center Soc. (TAPs shopping program)
•   Kootenai Community Center Soc.(building upgrade)
•   Public Health Nurses (breast pump)
•   Ktunaxa – Kinbasket Health & Wellness Center (beds & mattresses)
•   Creston & District Museum & Archives (Lost Industries of the Creston Valley)
•   Kootenay Employment Services Society (Moneywi$e & Adapt program)
•   Kootenay Employment Services (Musicians group)
•   Creston Rotary Club (Community Spray Park)
•   Creston Refugee Committee (family sponsorship)
•   Guiding Hands Recreation Society (“A Sense of Place” workshop)
•   Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area (a multi-media projector)
•   Youth Advisory Council (murals & scholarship)
•   Interior Health Authority (gifts & flowers to Swan Valley, Pioneer Villa, Hillcrest)

2007
•   RDCK Area B Tourism, Economic Development & Communication Soc.(Internet     workshops)
•   Creston & District Historical & Museum Soc. (South Wing display redevelopment)
•   Seventh Siding Trackers Model Railway Club – (early Creston display)
•   Interior Health Authority (gifts & flowers Swan Valley, Pioneer Villa)
•   Kootenai Community Center Soc. (expanding advocacy program)
•   Creston Valley Music Fest (family music festival)
•   Creston Valley Wildlife Center (Osprey nesting video cam)
•   Friends of the Creston Public Library (Online resources)
•   Community Arts Council (Cultural Plan Development)
•   Boswell Centennial Committee (2007 Centennial project)
•   Creston Valley 4 H Club (Training S. Alberta)
•   Creston Community Radio Soc. (Equipment upgrade for live performance)
•   Starbelly Jam Music Festival (Music Festival Crawford Bay)
•   Cresteramics Society for the Handicapped (Cooking program with TAPS - seniors)
•   Creston & District Community Resource Center Soc. (Taps coordinator)
•   Kidapalooza Children’s Festival (children’s festival)
•   Creston and District Soc. For Community Living (summer student & child’s saddle)
•   Creston Refugee Committee (sponsoring a newly arrived family)
•   Creston Flippers Gymnastics (equipment replacement)
•   Osprey Rowing Club (competition oar blades)
•   Kootenai Air Cadets 904 (GPS & avalanche transceivers)
•   Creston Valley Hospice Soc. (training of volunteers)
•   Guiding Hands Recreation Soc. (family attending nature program)