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The stars are coming into alignment for the expansion of fire protection services by the Midway Volunteer Fire Department to surrounding rural areas with last week’s announcement that a lottery grant application sponsored by the Kettle River Lions has been approved. Also, on Monday night, Midway council gave approval to the contract that Raine Fossen serves gravy at the 8th annual Kettle River Lions Easter Dinner. Raine is the granddaughter of Ed will be presented to propFossen, the only remaining founding member of the local club. The Kettle River Lions are celebrating their 30th year erty owners outside of the in 2014. PHOTO: PAT KELLY village. Helping out through the evening were Lions members, The Kettle River Lions certainly live up to their club On Thursday, April 17, their spouses and grandkids plus others youngsters who motto—“We Serve”—when each Easter they host an EasMLA Linda Larson came ter feast. Some 217 people came out for the eighth annual pitched in where needed. Pathfinders and Rangers from to the Kettle Valley Golf dinner at the Rock Creek Pavilion on Saturday night. the Boundary Guiding Unit were also there helping with Club to present a cheque Jerry Watson and Margaret Young capably oversaw the service and clean-up as a form of thanks for a donation for $65,000 to members of kitchen. Th ey cooked six turkeys (all donated by Angie given by the Kettle River Lions to the fundraising they the Kettle River Lions, to Rankin and family) and four hams, which were described have been doing over the past year to send three Pathfindbe used for the purchase by the kitchen staff as ‘big-honking hams—the whole ers from Midway and two from Grand Forks on a tenof equipment necessary rump roast’ . Th ey also served 150 pounds of mashed potaday trip to a World Association of Girl Guides and Girls to outfit the Midway Fire toes and six litres of cranberry sauce. Scouts World Centre in Mexico in July. Department so rural fire response for Rock Creek low levels over the past decade. to their properties. The village has trained them and and the Kettle Valley can A solution was proposed where- will provide fire response services Meanwhile a number of residents of become a reality. The number of active duty volun- the community of Rock Creek and by a number of Area E rural resi- on a contract basis. Funding for the necessary trucks, teer firefighters on the Midway de- Kettle Valley had been trying for dents agreed to become volunteer partment had fallen to dangerously years to bring fire response services Midway firefighters. • See FIRE DEPT. page 8
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