Our First Five Years

CRESTON – KOOTENAY FOUNDATION (serving Yahk through Creston to Riondel)
GRANT RECIPIENTS 2005 - 2010

Total Grants To Date $116,989

2010 (Total Grants $24,062.32)

• CVHospice Society
• Therapeutic Riding
• Swan Valley Lodge
• PAWs
• CV Trail Soc.
• Boswell Hall
• Kootenai CC Soc
• College Green House
• Sc. Fair
• YAC
• Ministerial Assoc
• Public Health Nurses
• Museum

• Green House Project
• Museum & Archives
• Canyon Community
• Public Health Nurses
• Ministerial Assoc.
• IHA Swan Valley Lodge
• KES - CIDO Radio

• Creston & District Society for Community Living (Therapeutic Riding Program – equipment)
• Creston & District Historical & Museum Society (South Wing exhibit – The Townsite)
• Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area (Junior Naturalist Leader)
• Kootenai Community Centre Society (Creston Valley Rowing Society)
• Trails for Creston Valley Society (Crestbrook Rotary Loop planters)
• Boswell Memorial Hall Society (LCD projector)
• Kootenai Employment Services Society (Creston Community Radio – equipment)
• Starbelly Jam Music Festival (Crawford Bay family music festival)
• Creston & District Community Resource Center Society (T.A.P.S. gas stove hook up)
• Judo BC - Creston Judo Club (Instructional training workshops)
• Creston Valley Gleaners Society (Appliance replacement)
• Creston Pet Adoption and Welfare Society (Grooming equipment)
• Guiding Hands Recreation Society (Bursary for family to attend nature program)
• Kootenai Community Centre Society (C.V. 4-H Horse Club – field trip)
• Town of Creston (Creston Rotary Club - spray park project)
• Creston Valley Hospice Society (Volunteer training)
• School District #8 Kootenay Lak (Creston & District Science Fair)
• The Friends of Kitchener Society (Community Participation program - horseshoe pits)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)