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n Linda McLean admires the two masks she discovered at the annual Shuswap Lake Health Care Auxiliary Garage, Bake and Book Sale held over the weekend at the Mall at Piccadilly.
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South Shuswap Chamber in limbo
Lack of interest: Tourism information to be taken over by community group. By Barb Brouwer
market news staff
Tourists will be able to get answers to their questions, thanks to the Sorrento and Area Community Association (SACA). SACA has stepped up to the plate following the announcement early in March that the South Shuswap Chamber of Commerce would no longer operate the Visitor Information Centre for Electoral Area C
South Shuswap. Chamber past-president Judy Smith had advised Paul Demenok, Area C South Shuswap director of the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, that only six people had attended the chamber’s Jan. 8 AGM, where directors indicated they did not wish to serve another term. “They had been on the board for several years and were discouraged at the lack of participation by the members at large,” wrote Smith.
“The meeting was adjourned with no board being voted in.” Smith also told Tourism BC of the decision, and was advised that the only way to keep the visitor centre in the Blind Bay community was to have another community association take it over. “The chamber was disbanded and when this happened, they approached SACA, asking them if they’re interested,” CSRD economic development officer Robyn Cyr
told directors at the March 21 board meeting in Salmon Arm. “They had been delivering visitor information services in the South Shuswap for the past four years with volunteers.” But Demenok advised the board that the chamber, with the knowledge and approval of the BC Chamber of Commerce, is merely in limbo in order to give the business community an opportunity to See One-year on page 2
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