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Workshop will link farmers and landowners BY BRIAN LAWRENCE Advance Editor
With Kootenay Farm School just months away from starting its first class, its organizers are looking to connect new farmers with landowners at a land linking workshop and dinner on Nov. 16. Hosted by the school and Young Agrarians (YA), a
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national program partnered with Farm Folk City Folk, the four-hour afternoon workshop at the Creston and District Community Complex will be followed by a potluck dinner and celebration at the Snoring Sasquatch — creating networking opportunities for landowners and potential farmers. See LAND, page 2
New manager at COTR campus BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Born in England and raised in other areas, including Africa, Kerry Hobbs has lived a largely nomadic life. And happily so. Something in her changed, though, when she and her husband, Guy, moved to Creston. “Three months after we arrived here, I said to Guy, ‘I think I’m finished moving around,’ ” she said. She couldn’t have foreseen that not much more than a year
later she would be sitting at a desk, talking about her role as the new manager of Creston’s College of the Rockies campus. Hobbs has a varied background of education and experience, though, and the hiring committee was obviously impressed with what they saw in her. She has practiced as a registered nurse and midwife, taught doctors how to use medical equipment, sold pharmaceuticals and managed hotels. See COTR, page 5
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performers featured in A Funtastic Variety Show, hosted by the GoGo Grannies on Saturday. Performances by Key of She, Audrey Johnson, Bryan Ferguson, “Elvis Presley”, Marlene Nash and more were also on the program for the event, which raised $2,800 for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which donates to grandmothers of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. For more photos, visit www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/community.
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