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Arborcoat, Aura, Benjamin Moore, Century, Paint like no other, Regal, and the triangle “M” symbol are registered trademarks and Colour Lock is a trademark of Benjamin Moore & Co., Limited. October 25th Come help us Celebrate 35 YEARS IN BUSINESS! Celebration BBQ honouring all our past and present clients FREE SNACKS, DRINKS & DOOR PRIZES! Proud supporters of the Creston Judo Club! Continuing 35 Years Of Service! We have expanded into Upholstery and Smart Service. Great Products. Boat Tops! 1518 N.W. Blvd, Creston • 250-428-2426 www.nufloorscreston.ca Feature Inside The little Shop he leaves are changing colours, the work created because of it 05 that can and the breezes carry the smell impressive. T Creating a business that is both a of fall instead of the summer heat. In Creston sports, we are destination and an experience. Fall is such a beautiful time in the introduced to the new Assistant Creston Valley, still warm enough to Coach for the Creston Valley spend some time outside, but cool Thunder Cats. Their regular season enough to pull our sweaters and kicked off on September 13th, scarves out of storage. If you’re the and hopefully this addition to the kind of person who likes to get a coaching team will help bring the head start on their holiday shopping, team to the playoffs! you’ll be interested in the October I Love Creston feature story, The Creston Valley Youth Soccer which focuses on the Yahk Soap Association was chosen to be and Candle Co., a little shop in the a recipient of a $1000 donation middle of nowhere, but on the way as part of the “Good Cookies to everywhere. Doing Good Things” program. These funds will go towards Mayor Ron Toyota gives us some programming and activities history on his “Coffee Talks”, which benefitting children in our started almost six years ago, and are community. still going strong! In this issue Jesse Moreton gives us some Chief Louie shares a personal information about the impact of From the Mayor message about depression and the 10 moving too much, and provides struggle people living with it often some valuable information on how 11 Lower Kootenay face. to avoid joint instability. In line with the season, the Creston 12 History We at I Love Creston wish you Museum focuses on some of the an amazing and beautiful fall, and challenges of Bringing in the 14 Halloween would like to leave you with this Harvest, with some interesting quote, which seems perfect for our Home & Garden history on the weather and the 17 little Valley: people who have helped or hindered 18 Health harvest in the Valley over the “The heat of autumn is different decades. from the heat of summer, one Arts ripens apples, the other turns them 20 Fly in the Fibre sheds held a fun to cider.” – Jane Hirschfield Art Challenge this summer, and 22 Sports Advertising | Carli Calhoun Design | Editorial | Wendy Franz 250.977.5321 | [email protected] 250.402.8711 | [email protected] The Magazine I Love Creston Magazine is produced monthly and distributed free of charge by I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Any advertisements or graphics designed in-house are property of I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. and may not be used in any other medium without permission. I Love Creston Marketing Ltd. | Box 143, Creston, BC V0B 1G0 Views expressed in the magazine does not necessarily reflect those of the company. 04 www.ilovecreston.com October 2019 Feature Story A Little Shop in the Middle of Nowhere, but on the Way to Everywhere! BY AMANDA MURRAY happy about where she’s ended intended to be.” Originally from PHOTOS BY DENNIS CHARLES up, so it’s fitting that there’s a sign Saskatchewan, Tammy worked on the river path behind the gift what most would consider a ammy Bessant didn’t set out shop that reads “I may not have regular job, and started making Tto run a soap shop, or an ice gone where I intended to go, but skincare products under the her cream shop, or a café… but she’s I think I have ended up where I label EarthWear in her spare time. October 2019 www.ilovecreston.com 05 Feature Story “I may not have gone where I for years, and Tammy buildings, you’ll hopefully notice a has worked hard to sign directing you to the river path, intended to go, but I think I have maintain the roots and if you’re not in a rush, maybe ended up where I intended to be.” of the place while you’ll follow that path. A quiet updating for the times, calm exists just beyond the fence, In her own words, she began to and making changes and after only a few steps, the “work less and less in the real to suit her own passions. While the river can be heard instead of the world and more and more with scents have changed, some of the highway traffic. Seats and benches EarthWear”. Eventually, she was products in the shop are still made are strategically placed, and one able to follow that passion full following the same basic recipes as has a guest book attached to it by time, and while no longer her were sold at the original soap shop. a string. It’s the perfect place to main focus, the EarthWear line is Tammy has also continued the take a break from your summer still sold in the shop, the muted tradition of housing goats on the travels and enjoy an ice cream packaging and earthy scents a property, and Walter, Toot cone before continuing on your contrast to the rainbow of soaps and Buttin are family pets as way. in scents like “Cocoa-nee” or well as a favourite attraction for While soap is definitely the top “Kootenay Creamsicle” lining the visitors. seller in the shop, the Yahk Soap shelves. The property itself is long and, and Candle Co. also carries Tammy and her husband purchased from the highway, appears narrow. amazing handmade gift items, the property, which consists of Just the distance from the corner of almost all from the Kootenays. Two Scoop Steve Ice Cream Shop, the goat enclosure to the corner of This little shop people mostly just a café, and the gift shop in May the Café and Two Scoop Steve Ice drive by is packed to the brim of 2017. They were looking for a Cream Shop would cover almost a with beautiful items, including business they could run together, block on a city street. Once you’ve handmade perfumes, prints by and happened upon the perfect parked though, and probably after local artists, and jewelry. The place. The building that houses your visit into one and on your products sold in the shop are a the gift shop has been a soap shop way to the other of the two main draw for visitors, but it wouldn’t 06 www.ilovecreston.com October 2019 Feature Story be surprising if people also came just to talk to “the soapmaker”. Tammy’s love for her business, her customers, her products and her staff is clear from the moment you meet her. When asked about her favourite scents, she named five (Secret Garden, Goat’s on the Roof, Huckleberry, Rice Flower and Nag Champa) before exclaiming over one of her favourite products, the Pit-Stop natural deodorant stick, and then beaming with pride about her Whipped Body Butter. Since opening day, Tammy has worked towards her vision for the business, expanding the gift shop and Two Scoop Steve, and adding part and full-time staff, to assist with the everything from scooping ice cream to making soup in the café to assisting customers in the gift shop. This summer, Tammy has been able to share some of her soap making knowledge with staff member Sarah, who has taken October 2019 www.ilovecreston.com 07 Feature Story on the task eagerly, lightening take advantage of having staff to do new and exciting products on her Tammy’s workload by making some of the work by taking a break, list. Every summer season has batches of best-selling soaps it is almost certain that Tammy been busier than the last, and that during the busy summer season. will find a way to fill her newfound trend is expected to continue as While there are some who would “spare time” creating some of the more and more people find their way into the little shop in the middle of nowhere. Tammy’s passion and enthusiasm are clear from the moment you meet her, as is her drive to create a business that is both a destination and an experience.