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In the spirit of Halloween District of Lake Country staffers set the mood last week by wearing costumes and makeup for Halloween. The district held a community party at Beasley Park on Oct. 31. ...............................
Correy Holland of the Oyama General Story (left) and Alan Gatzke of Gatzke Orchards. Funds have been raised through events held at the orchard, and defibrillators installed at two locations in Oyama, including the Oyama General Store.
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Awards Both Cadence at the Lakes and Arrowleaf Cellars won awards of recognition for construction in recreation/resort and winery categories respectively. ...............................
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Love of great food leads to defibrillators in Oyama Three things stirred Alan Gatzke of Gatzke Orchards to bring a relatively small, life-saving set of devices to the Oyama isthmus. It was 25 years ago that Gatzke lost a close personal friend—only in his 40s at the time—to a heart attack. More recently Gatzke has witnessed two more people die on the isthmus—the land between Wood and Kalamalka Lakes—from apparent heart attacks. That was more than motivation enough to look into the feasibility of purchasing community defibrillators in the event they are needed to try and save a life. And he used a unique event at
the Gatzke Orchards to raise the $3,500 to purchase the two units. One of the emergency defibrillators has been installed at the Oyama General Store, close to the beaches on Wood and Kalamalka Lakes, while the other at the Oyama Community Club is close to the Royal Canadian Legion branch. “These are areas where locals and visitors alike gather to experience the heart of the Okanagan,” said Gatzke. After realizing the need for the life-saving units in Oyama, the small, isolated community where response times in the event of emergency can be lengthy
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due to the time it takes for crews to arrive in the area, Gatzke set to raising the money to go towards the defibrillators. He turned his orchard’s Go Foodism events, which focus on
bringing the community together to eat local food, into a fundraising evening of celebration. Along with Alan, the Foodism Chefs of 2015, Rod Butters of RAUDZ Regional Table Kelowna,
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MEMBERS of the Oyama Community Club.
and Alan’s cousin Glenn Gatzke who came home this summer to create an ocean-inspired feast, raised the funds over two events in the late summer. Butters’ request to add a community investment element to the incredible Foodism event, drove this from an idea to the purchase and installation of the defibrillation units. Money for the defibrillators was also raised from the I HEART OYAMA campaign, which includes signs and buttons, and was launched in the spring or 2015 to draw visitors to the beauty, beaches, orchards, farms and people of Oyama. “When the Gatzke
Orchard purpose statement was written, inspired by a chalkboard in Maui, it set the tone for our food and beverage service to continually include building community and supporting local non-profits,” he said. “The heart is the key— in community, with food, farmers, customers and chefs.” Several others also participated with Gatzke Orchards in the signage campaign, including Correy Holland of Oyama General Store, Peter and Jenn Madsen of the Oyama Zipline and chef Travis Hackl of Okanagan Finest Food and OKF Grill. newsroom@ lakecountrynews.net
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