Events occur at Haines/Lewis/McInnes Parks unless otherwise indicated!

Thank You!

Beaver Valley May Days Society would like to thank the following groups and organizations for their fantastic support, participation and contributions.

Jesse Bartsoff for website maintenance; BV Communications for supplying the radios; Beaver Valley Cross Country Ski Club for cashier work; Beaver Valley Historical Society; Beaver Valley Minor Baseball for hosting their tournament; Beaver Valley Cubs/Scouts for the Beaver Races; Beaver Valley Girl Guides and Sandi Oorthuis for Imagination Station; Beaver Valley Minor Soccer for the kids' races; Beaver Valley Nursery School and Sheila Issel for pancake breakfasts; Beaver Valley Recreation Commission and Erin Ewankiw for Liberty Foods hot dogs event; Beaver Valley Rotary for the beef barbecue; Beaver Valley Skating Club for Beaver Tails; BV Tool Rentals for assistance with tents and the inflatable; Beaver Valley Lions Club and Bob Bastian for being cashiers everywhere; Camp Koolaree and Kandy Schroder for glow sticks and trinkets and treasures; Jen Cant and Yuris Harlamovs for advertising; Patricia and Mark Cecchini for 5-km walk, streetfest and kids’ races; Champion Lakes Ladies' Golf for concession staffing; Community Futures of Greater Trail and Ron Perepolkin for help with the web page; Crowe Secondary School Leadership group for their assistance in the children’s activities; Ken Stephenson, Willie Wagner and Bob Stanton for rebuilding our float and stage and other construction projects; Doug Swanson for guidance and use of his freezer; Darrell Dickson for Texas hold’em poker and slo-pitch; Wally Dresdoff for driving the citizens of the year in the parade; Dyan Miller and her dedicated volunteers for train rides and the market; Extra Foods and Gerick's Cycle for 5-km run/walk refreshments and door prize; Michelle and Kirby Epp and helpers at the beer garden; Fruitvale Volunteer Firefighters for the fireworks and burgers; Fruitvale Christian Fellowship for the parade luncheon; Fruitvale Elementary School for all the neat signs; Larry Gray and helpers for the parade; Aleen Gray for the talent show; Investors’ Group and Ron Nielsen for use of their tent; Wayne Kelly for emceeing the talent show; Bert Kniss for the float/stage and streetfest; Liquidation World for kids' carnival prizes; Julia Mason’s group for kiddies’ carnival; Jeff Mason for building the carnival games; Navy League for the post-fireworks cleanup; Al Plamondon for the bocce tournament; Larry Plummer and Al Grieve for the horseshoe tournament; Roy Plummer for maintaining the kiddie cars; Linda Randall for cribbage/whist; South Columbia Search & Rescue and Ron Medland for security; Friends of the Library and Shirley Mendoza for the seniors’ dessert party at the manor; Trail Tire for use of the cube van; Sera Wilcox and village office staff for citizen of the year; Village works department for beautification of the village and parks; and so many more . . .

The financial and in-kind support provided by these corporate sponsors is critical to May Days. Thank you for caring about your community.

Dr. Gregory Barrett Inc.; Beaver Valley Dental Clinic; Beaver Valley Lions Club; Falkins Insurance; Fortis BC; Fruitvale Pharmacy; Liberty Foods; Regional District of Kootenay Boundary; Teck; Valhalla Physiotherapy; Valley Petro-Can and Village of Fruitvale staff and council.