Creston families will have an opportunity for a day of fun this upcoming weekend with Community Family Day at Centennial Park.
The free, fun-filled afternoon this Sunday will have many events and organizations for children and families, including:
-Creston Fire Rescue with their water truck for water activities
– Level Up Mobile Arcade
– Dunk tank
– TAPS will be performing live music
– Creston Valley Museum doing ice cream making and hosting a photo booth
– LKB Youth Network will be bringing their circus equipment and selling cotton candy
– Crib tournament and Chess
– Kids Craft provided by CVYN, as well as many outdoor games to enjoy with your family.
Cassie Norman, Coordinator with the Creston Valley Youth Network, says their goal is to provide low-cost, high-entertainment opportunities for families.
“We recognize that youth like to do lots of community events. It’s something that they’re interested in. So we’ve just decided to throw different community events a couple of times a year. The main goal is to do things that are very low in cost so that people can just come and enjoy and feel like they don’t have to pay money for everything that they’re doing.”
Norman says the Creston Valley Youth Network is a Columbia Basin funded organization. They have a drop-in centre and they are open three days a week.
“We do drop-in style activities, but we also work towards other bigger activities as well. And most everything that we do is free. Sometimes we’ll offer programming like First Aid or Food Safe. And there’s a small fee for those sorts of programs. But everything else that we do typically is free.”
She says they take suggestions from the community for upcoming events.
“So if the kids come to us, they bring an idea. We’ll try to make that idea happen. And when we don’t have those ideas in between, we come up with other fun stuff for them to do.”
Events and activities like Community Family Day are extremely important in children’s development, something Norman says they are passionate about.
“It gets kids thinking about what their interests are and what they like to do. And their future. It gets them interacting as well. And sometimes they meet people that they haven’t met before for long-term friendships, too.”
Norman says their age group is from 12 to 18, but they welcome everyone from the surrounding communities as well.
“We get kids who go to school, in public schools. But we also get kids that come in and that are homeschooled. And the parents may not know each other. So when we do these things and get them together, sometimes the parents meet. And they meet people that they might not necessarily meet at the school or when they’re homeschooling or things like that, too.”
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