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Scarecrow Ladies Two Lake Country seniors will dress up again this year and collect for the local foodbank on Haloween. ...............................
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No time to rehearse in real life where it’s all you can do to react and hope you don’t humiliate yourself, says faith columnist Jim Taylor. ...............................
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Award Long-time seniors’ advocate Grace Faurot is recognized with a provincial award. ...........................
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LAKE COUNTRY COUNCIL will have to decide who is going to run the Lake Country Visitor Information Centre in 2013 after the chamber of commerce decided it could not do it next year.
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Future of Lake Country visitor info centre up in the air KEVIN PARNELL The Lake Country Chamber of Commerce has started a lobby effort designed to find out the future of the Lake Country visitors centre. The chamber will
send a letter to Lake Country’s mayor and councillors asking about the district’s plans for the visitor’s centre as it heads into the tourism off-season, and after the chamber decided it couldn’t afford to operate the vis-
itor’s centre in 2013. “We’re going to press the district for what itsplans are for 2013 because we are very concerned about any businesses that are involved in a tourism operation that won’t have
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the chance to be represented by a local visitor information centre (next year),” said chamber president Marvin Farkas. “We want to make sure the district doesn’t neglect our businesses that generate most of the
revenue.” Farkas said large tourism operators like Lake Country wineries and a few other attractions are marketted by Kelowna Tourism but it is the small operators in Lake Country that are most in
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need of the services of a visitor information centre. The Lake Country chamber operated the visitor information cenSEE VISTORS A3