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Art Benzer for organizing the Antenna Trail Hike; Nancy Hill and the Beaver Valley Cross Country Ski Club for cashier work; Colleen Yee and Steve Atkinson of Beaver Valley Minor Baseball for hosting their tournament; Heather Hamer of Beaver Valley Cubs/Scouts for the Beaver Races; Beaver Valley Girl Guides and Sandi Oorthuis for the Teck Imagination Station and the watermelon-eating contest; Beaver Valley Nursery School and Sheila Issel for the Lions’ pancake breakfasts; Beaver Valley Recreation Commission and Kelly Walker for Liberty Foods hot dogs event; Beaver Valley Rotary members for their beef barbecue; Beaver Valley Skating Club for Beaver Tails; Beaver Valley Lions Club and Bob Bastian for Bingo, operating the kiddie cars and being cashiers at the carnival; Camp Koolaree, the Rossland Sports Academy and Kandy Schroder for glow sticks and trinkets and treasures and help with the parade; Jesse Bartsoff for facebook maintenance and the photo booth at the carnival; Juris and Madeleine Harlamovs for advertising; Patricia and Mark Cecchini for the Extra Foods 5-km walk, streetfest and kids’ races; Champion Lakes Ladies' Golf and Merle Wagner for concession staffing; Linda Tamblyn of Thor Systems Inc. for help with the web page; Katimavik group for their assistance in the Columbia Basin Trust /FortisBC / Teck children’s activities; Willie Wagner for help with construction projects; Al Plamondon with Shorty and Jane Phillips for Texas hold’em poker; Stacey Chartres and Darrell Dickson for organizing slo-pitch; Dyan Miller and her dedicated volunteers for train rides and the market; Michelle and Kirby Epp and helpers at the beer garden; Len Toupin and Bill Thompson and the Fruitvale Volunteer Firefighters for the Columbia Power Corporation / RDKB fireworks and burgers; Fruitvale Christian Fellowship for the parade luncheon; Larry Gray and helpers for the parade; Aleen Gray and performers for the talent show; Bert Kniss and musicians for Streetfest; Arlo Bergstrom and friends for music at Streetfest and at the park;  Nicole Goudreau for emceeing at the park and the talent show; Julia Mason, her family and friends for the carnival; Marilyn Pearson for photographing May Days; Kevin Chartres for organizing the Black Russian Skateboard Team demonstration at the Montrose skateboard park; Denise Robson of Navy League for the post-fireworks cleanup; Harry Jung for providing us plenty of parking; Roy Plummer for maintaining and helping operate the kiddie cars; South Columbia Search & Rescue and Ron Medland for security; Friends of the Library and Shirley Mendoza for the seniors’ dessert party at the manor; Scott and Rebecca Weatherford of Atco Forest Products for making the train available this year; Vicki Buskey for being treasurer; the valley-wide committee for organizing citizen of the year; Village of Fruitvale works department for beautification of Fruitvale and our parks; the Village of Montrose for preparing their ball park and skateboard park for those events. There are so many others that need to be thanked. For every name mentioned above there were countless more unnamed helpers. Thank you everybody. We had a greatly successful May Days despite the weather.

Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Area A; Columbia Power Corporation; Columbia Basin Trust;
BV Communications; BV Tool Rentals; Dr. Gregory Barrett Inc.; Beaver Valley Lions Club; Extra Foods; Falkins Insurance; FortisBC; Fruitvale Co-op; Fruitvale Pharmacy; Investors’ Group and Ron Nielsen; Liberty Foods; Regional District of Kootenay Boundary; Rossland Eagles; Teck Trail Operations; Valhalla Physiotherapy; Valley Petro-Can; Village of Fruitvale staff and council; Village of Montrose staff and council