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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Volume 65, No. 38
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Surprise for first Granville Island brewer
High-speed Internet needed for new business BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
When Creston’s Tom Taylor visited Granville Island Brewing recently, he didn’t expect to find a new brew called Vintage 1984. Even more surprising was to see his image on the beer case that holds 12 bottles. Taylor was in Vancouver for a “mini-reunion” with two of his brothers, including Mitch Taylor, who was one of the original founding partners of Granville Island Brewing, Canada’s first microbrewery. “Mitch asked if there was anything I wanted to do and I said I’d like to visit the brewery to see Vern Lambourne, the brewmaster,” said Taylor. “When we walked into the brewery I saw that old photo of me from 1984 on the cases — I had no idea!” The photo depicts Taylor loading beer cases onto a vintage truck. Taylor had worked at Columbia Brewery for 13 years when he got a call from his brother in 1983. Mitch and partner Bill Harvey were starting a microbrewery and would he come out to Vancouver to work for them? See GRANVILLE, page 5
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SAFETY FIRST — Kindergarten students at local schools had a lesson in school
bus safety recently, when School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake) transportation coordinator Janet Robinson (right) gave them a tour and bus ride, followed by a visit to Dairy Queen. Above, students from Erickson Elementary School, assisted by teacher BJ Fedorowich and Robinson, practice using the emergency exit.
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Creston’s ability to attract new business is being hampered by the lack of high-speed Internet availability, Creston town council was told at the Sept. 10 regular meeting. KC Dyer, a local computer network specialist, told council that current service for businesses in the downtown core is woefully lacking. While both Telus (ADSL) and Shaw (cable) promise reasonable download speeds — 15 megabits per second (Mbps) and 25 Mbps, respectively — businesses are unable to upload data. Telus’s basic business service package, at $150 a month, enables an upload speed of only one Mbps and an upgrade to a $1,200 monthly package increases it to only three Mbps. Shaw’s maximum available business package allows for a 2.5 Mbps upload speed. “Most Kootenay communities (including Cranbrook, Kimberley, Nelson and Castlegar) have higher speeds and others, like Rossland, are working on it,” Dyer said. “We are losing business opportunities because there is no high-speed service in sight. “Many corporate systems already have, or are developing, online web management frameworks that require image and document uploading for records,” such as real estate and medical data, and government contracts. Dyer said most Internet service providers are designed to offer much higher download speeds than upload speeds, something that will only change if the Town of Creston, like other Kootenay municipalities, takes a leadership role. See TOWN, page 2
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