Now as the last motorhome drifts off into a night that darkens earlier each day, try not to fret! We can still have a good time without the tourists, even with November on its way. This unwelcome month, sometimes referred to as No-fun-ber or The Non-Season, exhibits fear in the eyes of locals; ‘We’ll lose our tans!’ -- ‘How will I keep in shape now that the music fests are all over and I can’t dance my fool head off?’.
If you take a gander through this issue though, you might see that your days don’t have to be filled with hibernation rituals like frequenting Video Express and potluck dinners. Not that that isn’t good, clean fun or anything. I love going to dinner parties where everything on the table has somehow incorporated the use of zucchini. As someone once told me; “If you don’t have zucchini left on your doorstep in the fall, you don’t have any friends.” Harsh, but true.
So what is happening, you might ask? Well, we’ve got theatre plays, drop-in sports, workshops, OUC courses, and gallery showings. If none of these appeal to you, you may have to start Christmas shopping early this year…
And now it’s time for Special Thanks! to the Revelstoke Arts Council and The Columbia Basin Trust for awarding REVED! with a grant administered by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA).
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After an informative workshop put on by the CKCA this winter, I applied for and was given the “Program One: Funding Support to Communities through Communtiy Arts Councils”. The grant will allow REVED! to continue in its current published form for up to one year. A big thank you also to Carol Pallidino at Community Futures for her tireless answers to my unyielding questions. Without this help from the community and Columbia Basin Trust, this publication would have a hard time staying above water and I would probably have to move back into my parent’s basement...
Keep your eyes peeled for the CKCA Grants Schedule coming out in the December 1st issue of REVED!
And lastly, thanks also to you the reader and picker-upper of REVED! The best part about putting them out was watching them disappear. Now whether they’ve been used as protective wrap for fragile goods or one of my friend’s has them stock piled somewhere, I don’t know.
In any case, thank you for supporting this project to help promote Revelstoke!
Heather Lea - publisher
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