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Thursday, September 27, 2012 Capital News
NEWS ▼ HOPSCOTCH FESTIVAL
Celebration of spirits gears up for fourth year The annual Hopscotch Festival has widened its horizons for its fourth year. After ticket sellouts for the past two years of 3,200 attendees, the 2012 Foodconnect.com Hopscotch Festival this weekend will be extended over two evenings. Taking after its parent festival in Vancouver, which is headed into its 16th year and is the largest whisky, beer and spirit festival in Canada, Hopscotch Kelowna will be stationed at the Kelowna Curling Club on Friday and Saturday evenings, 6 to 10 p.m. The event will feature more than 50 exhibits and more than 175 liquor products ranging from craft and premium beers to a variety of spirits, ranging from
scotch, vodka, gin, rum and tequila. The Hopscotch Festival has built itself around the love and passion of whisky, beer and spirits, focused on the education and the opportunity to taste some of the more exclusive products on the market. Along with the exhibitors will be festival guests, most notable this year being Willie Tait from Scotland, a master distiller for Jura Whisky. Along with food, there will be music provided by Vancouver’s Goby Catt. For ticket availability and additional information regarding vendors and products for this year’s festival, visit the festival website a www.hopscotchfestival. com.
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READY TO kick off this year’s Hopscotch Festival in Kelowna this weekend are from left Pam Steeper, with the festival organizing team; Shareen Abbas and Rodney Goodchild with Okanagan Spirits, a festival exhibitor; Adam Bloch, founder of the Hopscotch Festival; and Trish Garret, also with the festival organizing team.
▼ GEORGIA STRAIGHT
Reader poll reflects well on Kelowna Readers of Vancouver’s popular Georgia Straight newspaper have cast their votes on their top picks from dining to destinations. And the good news for tourism operators in the Okanagan Valley—Kelowna was chosen Best Interior Destination while the Okanagan was picked
as Best Summer Destination. “Coming out tops in a readers choice award is fantastic news,” said Nancy Cameron, president and CEO of Tourism Kelowna. “Vancouver remains one of Kelowna’s primary markets, so to have our most loyal travelers pick-
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ing Kelowna as their top Interior destination is a real affirmation. “There is plenty of competition out there as far as travel destinations, so we see this result as proof that the Kelowna experience still leads the fray as a vacation hotspot for Vancouver. “It is wonderful to see the valley selected as Vancouver’s top pick for the summer, and a true feather in Kelowna’s cap to be selected as the top Interior destination not tied to any particular season.” The Georgia Strait received over 350,000 responses online in 260 categories for its Best of Vancouver ballot this year, said Carolyn Ali,
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