By Sheila Tutty

One of the good things about spring — other than the departure of all that snow and cold — is that it is time to celebrate your good friends at the Best Friends’ Bash on Sunday, May 28 at the Black Forest Steak & Schnitzel Haus.

This is an event you don’t want to miss.

A fabulous three-course dinner, awesome items to bid on at our live and silent auction, and of course, an evening out with your besties awaits you.

Every year, the collection of auction items is amazing, and this year is no different.

Some of the great items we have are four-hour canoe rental for two people from Columbia River Paddle; golf passes at Copper Point, Fairmont, Radium, Spur Valley and Windermere; accommodation package from Fairmont Mountainside Villas and High Country Properties; half day paddling for six people from Nipika; framer nail gun from Rona; gift basket from Fusion Spa; necklace and bracelet from Bliss Beads; gift basket of distilled liquor from Taynton Bay Spirits; Tim Horton’s Brier jacket from Travel World; a 24×18 sandblasted sign from Sign Artists; Stolen Church print from Bob & Lisa Ede; plus tons more including gift certificates from around the valley.

One of the items that creates excitement every year is the five-course dinner that Rod & Christine Turnbull provide with wine accompaniment from Frank and Nan Jones. These four have been offering up this fabulous evening for a number of years, but I hear 2017 is their swan song. But you have to attend the evening in order to bid on it . . . so get your ticket soon.

If you wish to donate an item or service to our auction, we would gratefully accept it.

The Best Friends’ Bash is a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).

I have been asked many times over the years, if the money we raise stays in the valley.

Let me tell you that the Canadian Cancer Society provided $700,000 in financial aid to cancer patients in the Columbia Valley from 2010-2015. That is a lot of assistance to those in need.

And with our fundraising, we can choose what area we want the money to go to, and we direct the funds we raise to provide financial aid for those going through cancer. And let’s face it, we all know of someone who has had cancer or is now going through it.

So we need to raise funds to help those we love…. family and best friends.

Tickets are $45/person or $80/couple and are available at Avenue in downtown Invermere.

Come on out and join us for a great time. See you there!

Above photo: Avenue co-owners France Andestad and her sister Lisa Schulz along with a group of their friends were the lucky recipients of the five-course dinner up for auction again this year. You have to be there to bid items, so get your ticket soon, available at Avenue, downtown Invermere. Photo submitted

– Sheila Tutty is President, Columbia Valley Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society

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