Ground breaking ceremony held for new Crestview Lodge

MD of Pincher Creek Reeve Brian Hammond, Foothills MP John Barlow, Livingstone-Macleod MLA Pat Stier, Calgary-McKay-Nose Hill MLA Karen McPherson, Crestview Lodge Manager Millie Loeffler, Pincher Creek Foundation Chair Sahra Nodge, Town of Pincher Creek Mayor Don Anderberg

Christian Davis - A ground breaking ceremony was held for the new Crestview Lodge construction project in Pincher Creek on Wednesday July 27. Dignitaries in attendance included Pincher Creek Foundation (PCF) Board Members, Foothills MP John Barlow, Livingstone-Macleod MLA Pat Stier, Calgary-McKay-Nose Hill MLA Karen McPherson representing Alberta Minister of Seniors Lori Sigurdson, Town of Pincher Creek Mayor Don Anderberg, Municipal District of Pincher Creek Reeve Brian Hammond, Town and MD councillors. architect George Berry, former foundation Chair Neil Stewart, and representatives from Golden Triangle Construction Management Inc.

Crestview Highlights for June 2016

Crestview Lodge residents showing their Canadian pride on July 1

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Greetings from Crestview Lodge - June finally came and the weather held out for all of our trips. Our first trip this month was with Farley Wuth guiding us, he directed us to the Castle Mountain Ski area, as well as Beaver Mines Lake. It was a wonderful trip, many of us haven’t been in those parts in what seems like forever. Beautiful area and quite a bit of history in those hills! The next trip Farley took us on was to the Fishburn and St Henry’s Church areas. Wow there is a lot of history in all the areas of Pincher Creek, with many great families keeping the history alive for us to enjoy for years to come.

Crestview May 2016 highlights

Greetings from Crestview Lodge

May was the end of cabin fever as we begin our summer bus trips out and about our wonderful area.

We kicked off our outings with a bus tour with Farley Wuth. We absolutely love going on trips with Farley. Some of us didn’t really know any history of the area and greatly admire how much history he has stored in his head. Farley’s Tours remind us of days gone by and more recently who has what farms now and if their kids had taken the farms over. This tour was around town. Wow Pincher Creek has a lot of history literally in our own back yards. Can't wait to see what will be our next tour!

Golden Triangle Construction awarded Crestview Lodge construction contract

Toni Lucas

Council for the Town of Pincher Creek held their regular meeting on Monday evening, May 9. Councillor Doug Thornton reported that the Pincher Creek Foundation Board (which he is a member of) met on Thursday May 5, and at that meeting the board awarded the contract for the construction of the new Crestview Lodge. "I am pleased to announce that we passed a motion accepting the recommendation of our architect to award the contract in the amount of $11,297,000 to Golden Triangle Construction based out of Calgary."

Crestview Lodge fire lane delineation moves forward

Josh Davis

An update on the Crestview Lodge fire lane easement was presented at the May 4, 2016 meeting of Pincher Creek’s Committee of the Whole. Town Administration had previously requested to meet with the Pincher Creek Foundation administration to discuss an agreement regarding the fire lane access, which is located on Town property and the Golf Course parking lot. An easement providing for the fire lane access was registered with Land Titles back in 1960. This fire lane was never delineated, and users and visitors to the curling club and golf course facilities have historically parked along this area, on the east side of the golf facility's parking lot. Because the fire lane easement has been in place for over fifty years, Town Administration recommended, following the meeting with the Pincher Creek Foundation, that it was appropriate to finally delineate the laneway as appointed.

Crestview Highlights for March 2016

Greetings from the Residents at Crestview Lodge - March is the beginning of our fantastic outings for the year. We will be trying to take advantage of all the good weather we can during our adventures out and about. To start off, we visited the Frank Slide Interpretive Center, it was a small group but we had a great time. We were lucky to have a guide from the center show us about. The staff were so helpful answering all our questions and helping us in and out of our seats when we watched the movies. We were quite happy that we went before peak season for our trip, otherwise we may not have had the opportunity to have such great one on one assistance with the wonderful staff at the center. Big thanks to all the staff at Frank Slide Interpretive Center!

Crestview Salvage Tour

On Wednesday March 30, and Thursday March 31. Crestview Lodge conducted salvage tours. As the Pincher Creek Foundation prepares to build its new building, they are looking for expressions of interest in items that may be salvaged in the future deconstruction of the Lodge. Sinks, toilets, bath tubs, doors, windows, and chairs... virtually everything must go. The facility needs to remain operational in the interim, and you could be waiting up to two years to collect.

March 2016 Greetings from Crestview Lodge

Greetings from Crestview Lodge

February was an easy going month, it was comforting to have a gentle pace of activities to gear us up to busier times ahead. Hockey Jersey Day was fun and we hope our votes counted. We sure had a vibrant assortment of team jerseys that were being worn in hopeful anticipation of Pincher Creek winning Kraft Hockeyville Canada for our community. Lots of great pictures were taken and Crestview was a buzz with giggles and smiles.