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Wonderful time at Winterfest (From left on skis) Danica Powell, Eysha O’Donnell and Jasmine Konken work together during the six-legged ski race in the Kids Snow-Athlon Saturday at the community hall as part of the Winterfest celebration. It was another successful year for the event which started last Thursday and wrapped up Sunday. Hundreds came out to the Lake and enjoyed everything from softball in the snow to kids activities to a dinner dance and polar bear dip. See more photos from Winterfest on page A12. Craig Lindsay photo
Lake hosts town hall meeting CRAIG LINDSAY
Grand Forks Gazette
Christina Lake has long been a great place to visit and a wonderful place to live but townsfolk have a keen eye on the future. That was one of the messages to come out of Monday’s town hall meeting at the community hall. The meeting was put on by Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) electoral area C/Christina Lake and was chaired by director and board chair Grace McGregor. “It went very well,” said McGregor. “It was very interactive. The presentation from the regional district went very well.” After the presentation from RDKB CAO John MacLean, Cavan Gates gave a presentation on the state of the Christina Lake Gateway project. Gates is the manager of special projects from the Christina Gateway Community Development Association and is taking over from Sandy Mark as community coordinator for the Lake. Gates also talked about venture capitalism in the area. “It was a really, really good town hall meeting, I think,” said McGregor. “People of Christina Lake are amazing people—it’s that simple. They know it takes money to do
anything. They know that the community is doing more than most communities are doing for the size.” McGregor said the success on the weekend of the Winterfest is proof of how engaging the community is. “Families came out for Winterfest; people are coming out for Homecoming,” she said. “We’re doing amazing things at the Lake. People know it and they’re supportive of it.” McGregor said the presentations gave an overview of all the recent programs being run at Christina Lake and all their successes. She said they also discussed venture capitalism that is coming down the road. “We’ll be having more, smaller meetings on venture capitalism and whether you want to invest in your community and how you can do that once we pick a project,” she said. “We also talked about seniors’ housing and how important that whole picture is going to be for our future and doing it right—the way the community wants it to be done.” McGregor said the success of the Gateway project and how well it’s been received was also discussed. “Overall we’ve got so much going on and it’s a lively, lively place,” she said. “It’s all volunteers.”
There was plenty of excitement at Christina Lake this past weekend and it wasn’t all during Winterfest. Christina Lake firefighters responded to a call from a pregnant woman and ended up helping her give birth in the back seat of her car at the Tempo Gas Station at the Lake. Ken Gresley-Jones, Christina Lake Fire Rescue chief, told the Gazette they got a call from 9-1-1 at 5:57 a.m. on Feb. 2 and attended shortly after. “What happened was the people were on their way to Nelson to have the baby and they made it to the long, straight stretch on the highway before Paulsen Bridge,” he recalled. “She said, ‘I’m not gonna make it. Let’s head back.’ They got as far as the Tempo and they called 9-1-1. We showed up and, well, she had the baby!” Gresley-Jones said it was definitely a first for Christina Lake Fire Rescue. He’s just glad everything went well and the baby is a healthy boy. “It’s our first delivery,” he said. “It went fine. You always worry about what if. But if everything is right it’s one of the most natural things there is. This one was and thank God. You don’t want complications with something like that. It’s just too precious a time to have problems and we didn’t. It was great.” Gresley-Jones said the department had an emergency childbirth kit which they used. B.C. Ambulance paramedics showed up on scene shortly after the baby was born. “The delivery took place by the mom and one of our first responders,” he said. “It’s a first. It went well. They were fairly calm.” For the mother, it was not her first—something that Gresley-Jones was very thankful for. He said the couple, who are from Grand Forks, was very calm, especially considering the circumstances. When they first arrived on the scene, Gresley-Jones asked the mother how far along she was. “She said, ‘I’m delivering,’” he recalled. Gresley-Jones said they talked about opening the Tempo station to give them more room. “There was no time for that,” he said. “The baby was coming. “There’s not much else to say—it all went well like it’s supposed to,” said Gresley-Jones. “It was cool being a part of it and I’m really glad it all went well. That kind of thing doesn’t happen everyday. It was a heck of a way to start the day.” Mom and baby were taken by ambulance to Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks just as a precaution.
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