Local View Printing & Design

03/03/2026

March Hours - thank you everyone for supporting our local business - sure appreciate it! - Steve & Audrey

03/03/2026

Excellent read as usual. Sure keeps tabs on whats up down the valley!

Great work Columbia Valley Social

01/16/2026

Another excellent issue! Keeping the valley and visitors informed!!

12/24/2025

Thank you for all the support throughout the year - we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Many thanks to those who helped out with the Charity auction for the Wilmer Fireworks - we raised over $2000!

And a big Thank You for donations from businesses / Canyon View Laser Design, Hopkins Harvest, Diane Peterson, Roi’s Resale.

All the bidders, sharers and likers we appreciate the support!

What a wonderful community we live in - enjoy the wilmer fireworks christmas eve at 8:00 pm - arrive early to avoid traffic congestion.

Donations accepted via etransfer [email protected]

Happy holidays y’all!

From Steve & Audrey and staff at Local View Printing & Design

12/03/2025

Way to go Kinsmen Club of Windermere Valley always helping out the community

Wilmer Fireworks on Christmas Eve!

We're into our final week to raise funds for this year's Christmas Eve Fireworks in Wilmer!

All funds donated go to Wilmer Fireworks.

We have donation boxes up at Local View Printing & Design, Zen Technologies Home Hardware, Coffee Works, Rona, Kootenay Insurance, Walkers Repair, Napa/Kool Country Towing & Autowrecking, OK Tire.

Thank you to all our local businesses and community members who are supporting this event.

All donations gratefully accepted.

You can also donate by email transfer to [email protected]!

12/02/2025

11/30/2025

Amazing little paper highlighting everything about our area!! Great work Heather McLeod!!

11/11/2025

We will be closed Nov. 11
Thank you is never enough.

11/10/2025

More auctions coming this week with all proceeds going to the Wilmer Fireworks

11/05/2025

We just want to remind everyone of the events Tuesday, November 11.

11/01/2025

Always an excellent read - keep up the good work!!

😍Thank you to the businesses & organizations who make the CV Social possible for our community:
Dara's Dolphins Transportation Services Ltd.
Shannon's Blinds & Designs c/o Shannon Gertner
La Galeria II
Valley Sports Hub
Invermere Pharmasave
Local View Printing & Design
Divine Curiosities
Rona North Star Hardware & Building Supplies.Ltd
ʔakisqnuk First Nation

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💚This was an exciting issue to deliver: it's been 1 FULL YEAR of the CV Social! That's 25 issues, 25 deliveries to all my drop-spots in the Valley.💚

To celebrate our 1 year anniversary, this issue includes a special puzzle. Read the write-up on page 1 to start ... I'll draw two winning names from the correct entries at 11am on Monday, Nov. 17, and those lucky winners will get $100 to spend at ANY of the businesses that advertised in this issue. (Oooooooooooooo! 🤩)

💚Volume 2, issue 1 of the CV Social is now out & available in Brisco, Edgewater, Radium Hot Springs, Invermere, Windermere, Fairmont Hot Springs & Canal Flats. This issue is full of need-to-know info on community happenings & events November 1-15, 2025. 💚

Here's a printable online version for handy reading.💚 (It is also available online at: https://columbiavalleysocial.ca/latest-issue/ )
Read issue 1 for:
- a comprehensive calendar of fun events!
- sweet discounts at local businesses!
- TWO sudoku puzzles, a Mt Swansea (beginner's) & a Mt Nelson (hard), with thanks to Rhiannon Tutty - Advisor, Sun Life & Brigade Ltd. for sponsoring
- a Valley Life challenge, thanks to Travel Columbia Valley
- trivia, sponsored by The Station Pub
- horoscopes, sponsored by Divine Curiosities
- an adoptable kitty feature, thanks to ICAN - Invermere Companion Animal Network & MaxWell Rockies Realty
- wisdom from veterans + folks around the Valley
- a new maze
- a word search
- jokes to tickle your funny bone (or make you groan)

💚As always, thank you SO MUCH to the businesses who advertise in these pages: you make this publication possible for our community. I'm featuring my longest-running advertisers on the front pages of these fall issues. My original 10 advertisers are STILL advertising with the CV Social!! 🥰