warm welcome
immigrant welcome centre opens
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half a song
Nazareth concert cancelled
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July 12, 2013
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Summer looking good at Riverside C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
This week should have been KIOTAC in Kimberley and business people are feeling it. KIOTAC was always one of the busiest weeks in the summer at the Kimberley Riverside Campground and manager Jarret Bell was justifiably nervous about how things would go when its cancellation was announced. However, with the week almost over, Bell is pleased to say that they have had a good week. “When KIOTAC was cancelled we did have major cancellations,” Bell said. “About 15 people with reservations came anyway, and we managed to get to 87 per cent occupancy for the week. It’s fantastic considering KIOTAC was cancelled.” The campground has been having a good season so far despite less than great weather, Bell says. “We had considerable cancellations due to floods, when people just couldn’t get here,” he said. “And the weather wasn’t great either.”
Kaity Brown photo
As we settle into the sunny days of summer, don’t forget the Kimberley Village Market every Sunday in Marysville. Above, shoppers check out the booth of stylist and designer Margaret Laliotis from Invermere. Take a walk through the shady market this Sunday and see what local artisans and merchants have to offer.
See CAMPGROUND , Page 5
Kimberley’s Dan Martell in Hall of Fame
Dan Martell, who grew-up in Kimberley and graduated from McKim High School in ’56, before there was a Selkirk, is being inducted into the Central Okanagan Hall of Fame Kait y Brown
For Danny Martell it was all about sports
in high-school. You name it, he played it. And that’s still the case for the 75-year-old, who is keeping up an active lifestyle golfing, bowling and curling. “I just like doing them, that’s all. I’m not very good at any of them. But I enjoy doing them,” Martell said. McKim was a high school at that time and Martell graduated from it in 1956, the same year Kimberley’s Bob Nesbitt rink — of which Martell was a member — won the BC curling Championships.
But it wasn’t just about being an athlete himself – Martell had the passion and knack for coaching others in all kinds of sports. “I never thought about winning. I always thought that if you practice a lot and do the best you had, and then if you lost, okay, so what? You just do the best you can.” His coaching is what has earned him the recognition for the Central Okanagan Hall of Fame. “I think the Central Okanagan Hall of Fame started six years ago. And they started inducting
people and they have four categories,” said Martell. The categories: one team category, two athlete categories and one builder category. Martell is being inducted for his experience in coaching the 1988 Sutton Junior Women’s Curling Team. “We won the BC championship and then we won the Canadian championship and then they had the first world junior girls championship and we were fortunate to win that – I was the coach,” Martell said. See MARTELL, page 5
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