To the Editor:

I just finished reading Lorne Eckersley's June 24 This is the Life column entitled “The small-town difference” (www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/article/20100624/CRESTON0304/306249994/this-is-the-life-the-small-town-difference) and I couldn't agree with him more.

My family and I lived in Creston back in the late '90s (when I was a cub reporter for the Advance) and we fell in love with the town. We still consider the valley our home and call it such. The town, the people, our friends, the atmosphere, it truly is amazing.

Since moving away, we visit regularly and each time our hearts literally ache to be back there. Seeing the mountains, visiting and laughing with family and old friends, spending a summer's day at Twin Bays, devouring a homemade sandwich and a coffee at the Creston Valley Bakery, strolling along the orchards — there's no words to even describe how much we want to be “home”.

We intend to move back once again in a few years once our son graduates from high school for all the reasons Lorne mentioned in his piece. We want Creston as our “forever home”. We want to raise our children there and become a part of the community again.

So until we return in 2014, we will simply have to get our Creston fix via the Advance, online and our annual summer visits. But Lorne nailed it: it really is the “small-town difference” that makes Creston so great.

Naomi Larsen (née McCannan)

Chetwynd