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Sleeping in is out for vendors at the markets Joe Fries
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Sleeping in on Saturdays is out of the question for Jordan Marr. The 32-year-old Peachland man is usually up by 5:30 a.m., which gives him time for a few chores before setting out for the Penticton Farmers’ Market, where he officially became a permanent vendor when the season opened in May. Marr sold some of the 30 crops from his two-acre Homestead Organic Farm last year as a casual vendor, but his stall location often moved. Not anymore, and that’s important for building a customer base. “It means if we continue to sell really highquality stuff, people will know where to find us if they want to get it again,” he said. Marr acknowledged that although Homestead has diversified into retail, veggie boxes and chef sales, the Saturday market is still “crucial” to success. “I can come and get connected with the chefs who are also around here, so I turn it into a market day and a chef delivery day,” he said. “But more importantly, this is a really wellsupported market. We can come here with a lot of stuff and know it’s going to sell. That’s really something we can count on each week.” Although he grew up in a non-farming family in Kamloops, Marr has since dedicated his life to earning a living from the ground. “I got fired up about… some of the negative consequences of the modern agricultural system,” he explained. “It brought really cheap food and a lot of other benefits, but it also came with negative consequences, and I really wanted to be part of a reform to farming and bringing back the small-scale farm.”
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He’s hoping his success will encourage other people his age to get into agriculture. “We get to call ourselves young farmers until we’re 40,” Marr noted with a laugh, “because the average age of farmers is a lot older
than other professions.” Erin Trainer, who manages the Penticton Farmers’ Market, said her organization is doing what it can to help the cause. “That’s what the farmers’ market is all
about is supporting small-scale farmers,” she explained. This year’s edition features up to 70 vendors at the height of the summer growing season. There is a wide selection of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, honey, eggs, homemade baking, preserves and tasteful crafts all produced in the South OkanaganSimilkameen region. Elizabeth Quinn, executive director at the B.C. Association of Farmers’ markets said over the last several years they have seen a 62 per cent increase in the number of markets in B.C. “There’s no doubt people are becoming increasingly passionate about buying local, in-season food and locally produced goods,” she said. Across B.C., there are over 125 farmers’ markets. In addition to lcoally grown food and locally made products, the markets offer a surprising variety of community activities such as live music, children’s activities, cooking classes, artisan workshops and more. Next door to the farmers, the Downtown Community Market also unfolds its tables. Co-ordinator Laurel Burnham opens the season by ringing bells while walking up and down two blocks of Main Street . “Some markets use whistles … but I choose to use bells, and it’s an old feng shui technique for bringing in the energy, actually, and it works, because we’ve been phenomenally successful,” she said. The community market runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday’s until Oct. 11. The farmer’s market runs until Oct. 25, also every Saturday. Combined, the markets span from the 100 block of Main Street to the 400 block and includes Front Street.
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Two stops in Penticton are included on the schedule of a new shuttle service between Osoyoos and the Kelowna airport. The service, which offers four round-trips daily, launched mid-August after months of planning by the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce. Although the chamber doesn’t operate the service, it did work with local governments in the region to come up with a promotional budget and invite private companies to bid to obtain access to the funds. Let’s Go Transportation, which already ran airport shuttles in the Kelowna area, was then selected to put rubber to the road. “Basically, once it’s set up now, it’s in private hands,” said chamber president Myers Bennett. The company is running the service with a pair of 15-seat passenger vans. “We’re doing great. We’re getting a lot of requests,” said Fabio Santana, who co-owns Let’s Go Transportation with his wife, Birgit.
“We’re starting to get inter-community (travel) as well, like a lot of people drop off in Oliver, in Penticton. We’ve got a little bit of everything,” said Santana, who didn’t have initial ridership data available Thursday. The first trip of the day leaves Petro-Canada in Penticton at 4:10 a.m. and arrives at Kelowna airport at 5:50 a.m., following stops in Summerland, Peachland, West Kelowna and Kelowna. Other northbound trips from Penticton leave the airport here at 8:45 a.m., 1 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., stop 20 minutes later at the Petro-Canada, and take two hours to reach the Kelowna airport. Southbound trips from the Kelowna airport to Penticton leave at 8:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 3 p.m. and 8:40 p.m. A one-way trip between Penticton and Kelowna costs $30. Travelling the full route from Osoyoos costs $45 and takes three hours and 15 minutes, with up to nine stops along the way. Reservations are required and can be made online at www.letsgotransportation.ca or by calling 1-844-877-0101. Full maps, schedules and fares are also available online.
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President Kathy Malone (left) and vice president Jacquie Carlson of the naramata Bench Winery association toast the second-place finish by the okanagan Valley wine areas in the Usa today reader’s Choice for Best Wine region. the winning area was alentejo, Portugal.
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Okanagan Valley chosen for top wine regions Scott Trudeau Western News Staff
A second-place finish by the Okanagan Valley among the world’s top wine areas is cause for discussion and celebration among many in the local industry.
The Okanagan Valley was one of the top-10 choices of a USA Today Readers’ Choice for Best Wine Region. “It’s really exciting,” said Roland Kruger, president of the Okanagan Falls Winery Association and general manager of Wild Goose Vine-
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experience, the welcoming nature of the local industry.” She believes this type of news will also translate into more support of the wine and tourism industry from those living in the area. “We all know how fabulous it is,” said Malone. “A lot of other places are fabulous and have been wellknown and very well promoted for many decades so for us to have come this far in a short period of our industry is pretty thrilling.” Tim Martiniuk, who is president of the Oliver-Osoyoos Winery Association and whose family started Stoneboat Vineyards, said he wasn’t surprised with results. “I don’t want to sound arrogant,” he said. “It wasn’t a big surprise to me because more and more people are discovering us and we’re a region that’s really coming of age in terms of the tourism component. That said, it’s absolutely delightful news. It’s really great to see the Okanagan getting some recognition for being the first-class wine
destination that it is.” Martiniuk feels it’s important for wineries to share the news with their clientele and promoting it to those thinking about visiting the region and build on the continued growth and development of the industry. “We all know that the Okanagan is making fantastic wines and we know that the scenery is unparalleled as wine regions go,” he said. “It’s really validating.” Tina Baird, marketing director for the NBWA, said its mandate is to focus on the wines from the region, where those wines are originating, the quality of its wines and being friendly and hospitable. All of the associations are working together and meeting as a group and that has led to some positive action, said Baird. In addition, she also credited efforts from tourism organizations, the B.C. Wine Institute and the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association. “There’s very much an attitude of everybody working cooperatively, because everybody realizes that ultimately, you are marketing the Okanagan Valley,” she said. In a news release, Ellen Walker-Matthews, marketing chair for the Okanagan Wine Festivals, said to not only have the Okanagan Valley recognized among the finest wine regions globally but to finish in second spot by readers of a major international newspaper is a tremendous honour. “This will continue to build the incredible momentum we have seen in our wine region over the past several years,” she said.
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Hidden and rare treasures to be found locally Unique finds in Penticton stores Steve Kidd
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You never know what you might find in Penticton. Last March, Kosta Bakalos, owner of Bluenose Coins and Precious Metals found himself in the enviable position of being asked to sell some of the rarest coins and bills in Canada. The prize of the collection was a 1925 Dominion of Canada $500 bill, expected to self for $450,000, according to the values set by Bakalos. Of an original run of 40,000, only eight examples of the bill remain. “This one is the best one of all eight on record, it’s even nicer than what the Bank of Canada has in their museum,” said Bakalos. “It’s probably one of the prettiest notes out there, in my opinion. If it sells for what we think it’s going to realize, it’s going to be a record.” Bakalos described the $500 bill as a true rarity and a significant piece of Canadian numismatic history. “It’s like finding a Picasso somewhere in Penticton that has been hidden for years,” he said. “It’s got the potential to hold the record for the most expensive note ever sold in Canada.” Though the bill has moved on now, it wasn’t the only time that Bakalos dealt with it. In 2010, it was Bakalos that convinced the current owner to purchase it at auction, when it sold for $190,000. Before that, the last time it changed hands was in 1961, when Bakalos said it sold for $1000.
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Spirits rising for Naramata business owners Joe Fries
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Samples are now being poured at Naramata’s first commercial distillery. Legend Distilling opened its tasting room earlier this month, offering visitors small-batch vodka and gin produced on site at what used to be a doctor’s office. Dawn and Doug Lennie acquired the Naramata Road property in September 2013 and set to work renovating it and obtaining a range of regulatory approvals, from a local government rezoning to a liquor manufacturing licence. For now, they’re the only place selling spirits on the wine-soaked Naramata Bench, although they’re unsure how long they’ll be a solo act. “We’ll have the opportunity to get established and get our brand established before other ones come along. That, I think, is the big advantage. I also think we have a great location, and that can’t be duplicated, really,” Dawn said. “But I think the disadvantage is it’s going to get easier as more people go through the (regulatory) process,” she continued. “Like the architects: They’d never done a distillery before. It was the first one, so all those people you’re dealing with don’t have any experience.” The Lennies, who previously owned a construction company and The Bench Market, hope to capitalize on the emergence of craft distilling and the loosening of B.C. liquor laws. Legend’s first batches are limited to about 300 bottles of vodka and 200
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A new downtown restaurant is now open for business. The Cellar Wine Bar and Kitchen, located at 412 Main St., is serving up a variety of B.C. wines and a menu that aims to complement the drinks and please the palate. Co-owner Nick Vassilakakis said he’s always wanted to do something with the licensed building but was aiming for something unique. “We live in the heart of wine country so opening a wine bar was a good fit and seemed like a good idea,” he said. They currently offer 16 types of Okanagan wines and customers can order a tasting or enjoy it by the glass, or bottle. As for the food, they’re offering items that will pair well with the wines and people can choose from a global menu that will change from time to time. Vassilakakis said he tried to design the restaurant similar to how his father, Florio’s wine cellar in Greece was designed. “It’s a memory from my childhood of my dad’s cellar in Greece, from the stucco and the arches to the stone,” he said. In 2012 when the idea was first floated to city council, the Downtown Penticton Association said they had been advocating for some time for an upscale wine room/wine bar in the downtown area that would highlight the local wine industry. Co-owner, and Vassilakakis’ sister, Athena Vassilaki-Demosten agreed with the statement. “I wish we could hear a little bit of noise down at the 400 and 500 block, because it is so dead,” Vassilaki-Demosten previously told the Penticton Western News. “If you look down Main Street after 7 p.m., you don’t see many cars, you don’t see people walking down Main.” The restaurant is open Monday to Sunday starting at 11 a.m. until the late evening hours for both lunch and dinner. Reservations are recommended. Call 778-476-1771.
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Main Street does matter, at least in Penticton. Penticton was selected as one of the top 20 communities in Benjamin Moore’s Main Street Matters competition, putting the city on the list for enough paint to refresh a threeblock area of downtown. City hall, the Downtown Penticton Association, the chamber of commerce and a variety of other community organizations all spent the month of June exhorting everyone in the community to get out and vote in the online contest and on as many devices as possible. While voting in the competition was easy enough, Penticton started out at a disadvantage, entering the contest two weeks after it started and competing with 130 communities also vying to be in the top 20. With nearly half a million votes and an incredible outpouring of stories, viral videos and passionate pleas on paintwhatmatters. ca, the city had a big job to get into the top 20. Tracy Kelly, who, along with her husband John, purchased the Penticton Benjamin Moore outlet on May 1, said that as soon as she learned about the contest, she knew the city had a shot. “You know when you read something and you think this would be possible?” said Kelly, who said it was the community effort that pushed Penticton over the top. “There wasn’t just one organization involved. There was so many organizations and everyone was doing their own promotion on it. In store, we
did so much advertising about the promotion and everyone we talked to on our Facebook page, our Twitter. And the DPA did the same, and the chamber of commerce and the City of Penticton.” Leon Bustin, Benjamin Moore B.C. Interior representative, helped determine what part of Main Street would receive the paint makeover “Main streets all across North America have been neglected,” said Bustin. “We thought what better way to give back than to help revitalize the area where most of our customers do business with their customers.” Bustin said it was a near thing for Penticton to win the contest, which required people to vote for their favourite city. “We selected the top 20 towns across North America with the most votes,” he said. “By the way, Kamloops was very close to you. Good job.” Kerri Milton, executive director of the DPA, said even the vendors on the street at the community market got in the act, voting on their phones while working the Saturday morning market. “There was a lot of very stiff competition out there. There are a number of communities that got behind this as well, like Gibson’s Landing, they were using the fact they are a historical landmark and tried to play on that,” said Mark Hodge, director of market development with Benjamin Moore. “It was exciting for us, but Penticton was the best.” Benjamin Moore provided all necessary paint, stain and supplies for façades, porches, railings, shutters and other exterior building trims.
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PHONE: 250-276-4308 #10 FRONT STREET, PENTICTON Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:30am - 5:00pm www.facebook.com/SomethingPrettyBoutique
Owned & Operated for 30 Year y l l a c s! Lo Proud to offer the Best in Customer Service & Selection of Quality Meats, Homemade Sausages & SO MUCH MORE! Come in and see A&K Grimm’s today!
A&K
Your BBQ Headquarters
Grimm Sausage Ltd. 667 West Eckhardt
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