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Inspired by her love of
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A passion for her community is what has fueled the long-time involvement in West Kelowna’s annual summer celebration. Leah Thordarson
starting volunteering for Westside Daze back in 2002 in her role then as executive director of the Westbank Chamber of Commerce. “For me it’s always been
about our community, and there’s nothing nicer than being able to do something for your community,” Thordarson said. Today, along with being involved in her own business,
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event didn’t take place, but through the society we’ve been able to build the event up and attract some really good people in our community to help organize it,” she said. She describes the process of planning Westside Daze every year as putting on a party for 35,000 people and leaving a smile on everyone’s face. “It’s meant to be an easy going event, free and offer-
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The annual Canada Day cake cutting has become a staple of Westside Daze, along with the parade, the nightly entertainment and the Show ‘n Shine car exhibition. It’s all fun and all free. about 20 per cent of the cost to stage the five-day festival. “We get a lot of in-kind support from our local business community which is a tremendous supporter of Westside Daze. Plus, close to 100 volunteers help to make it all possible by carrying out the tasks behind the scenes, from organizing parking to helping with the parade and the Canada Day festivities,” she said. She said events like the Canada Day cake cutting, the parade, the Show’n Shine car exhibition and the nightly entertainment have all become hallmarks of Westside Daze in recent years. “The cardboard car contest was very popular last year, put on by Fender’s, and there will be some new
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events such as the Okanagan Science Centre for kids exhibit, the firefighters doing a Jaws of Life display and the West Kelowna Arts Council will have an art display set up and artists working on site,” she said. Thordarson said the Westbank Museum and Westbank First Nation museum displays will also be returning, and hopes in the future that other multicultural exhibits will be added to continue to reflect the evolving ethnic demographic of the community. “The multicultural component is something we didn’t get together for this year but would like to see included more in the future,” she added.
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Cars and Motorcycles ready to go on display The Show and Shine car show has a lot of momentum to build off following a record setting year in 2014. By Sawyer Klassen Director Chris Haffenden said they had 135 cars and a number of motorcycles at last year’s Westside Daze, the most they’ve ever seen. While they don’t really have room for more than that, he would like to see them reach that number again, plus see more motorcycles. The car show always sees a large variety of cars from classics that have been restored, original cars that
have been in the family for generations, unique and modified cars, and ‘rat rods’, a type of car that is increasing in popularity. Rat rods are cars that have been heavily upgraded and modified underneath the hood but the body itself receives no work, resulting in a car that may not look like much but is often very fast. While Haffenden has come to appreciate rat rods, he noted
his favourite cars are always the unique and strange ones. A mechanic for 35 years, Haffenden has helped many friends restore cars. He is also the owner of a 1985 Honda Goldwing, and knows no restored vehicle took the same amount of work as another. No matter how long it took to restore a car or motorcycle, he says it is always very encouraging to
receive compliments for it. “It’s just the joy of building something, being able to show it off and take it on the road and do things, it’s just a lot of fun to do.” The Show and Shine car show runs from 10am to 3pm July 1st at Memorial Park. Free registration begins at 8:30am and while it isn’t necessary to pre-register, it would be appreciated.
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An opportunity to soak up local culture Okanagan Day will not only be providing family friendly entertainment at Westside Daze, it will also be educating attendees about traditional Okanagan culture. Okanagan culture, as there are thousands of years of cultural history they can teach about. “(I like) the opportunity to meet the public and share the local culture,” she described. “There’s not a lot of opportunity, most people don’t know a lot about the local culture and history, and really first nations history in general is not well known. In school curriculum we’re really mentioned to tell someone else’s story, but the real true history and story of these lands doesn’t begin with European contact. It leaves out thousands and thousands of years of history.” Okanagan Day will be on June 28th from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Teepees will be set up thenight before, and Barnes welcomes anyone who is interested to come watch or try it out themselves.
Pamela Barnes is the Coordinator of Sukanaqin sxelxalt (Okanagan Day), an event that will feature many traditional first nations performances and activities such as drumming, dancing, storytelling, rope making and fishing. While some of those activities will reflect the cultural blending and evolution of Okanagan culture, others will date back well before Christopher Columbus or even the vikings landed in North America. “Flint knapping, the making of points for spears and arrowheads, rope making, those are techniques that go back thousands of years,” she said. “The stories themselves go back to the time of the plant and the animal people, before there were people, so as far back as can be remembered.” Barnes would like to see the traditional performances instil a curiosity about
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5 FABULOUS DAYS DON’T MISS THE BEST COMMUNITY
ALL WEEKEND LONG 7:30 - 10:30 am - Westbank Rotary Club & Lions Breakfast Outside at Lions Community Hall on Main St.
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EVENT IN THE CENTRAL OKANAGAN
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7:00 pm - Concessions, Crafters, Sncewips Heritage Museum, Westbank Museum, Suk’temsqilx West Kelowna Arts Council
8:00 pm - Ron Boudreau - Tribute to the Crooners Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Michael Bublé
8:00 am - Pancake Breakfast - Westside Daze Fundraiser
1:00 - 4:00 pm - Youth Talent Competition - on the Main Stage
9:45 - 11:00 am - Community Gospel Celebration With Don Richmond and Barb Samuel
3:00 - 4:00 pm - Kiki the Eco Elf 2:00 - 3:30 pm - Central Okanagan Dog Agility Demonstration 4:00 pm - Fenders CARdboard Car Judging & Awards
EVENING CONCERT SERIES 7:00 pm - Aaron Halliday as Alan Jackson - Tribute 8:00 pm - Cod Gone Wild - Live Concert 8:45 & 9:30 pm - Formula 1 Tunnel Boat Demonstration - Gellatly Bay 10:15 pm - Fireworks - On-the-Lake (beside the Yacht Club)
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 4:00 pm - West Coast Amusements Opens
EVENING CONCERT SERIES
12:00 - 3:00 pm - Fenders CARdboard Car Building Competition
2:00 pm - West Coast Amusements Opens
Kinshira Fire Troupe
4:00 pm - West Coast Amusements Opens (Late opening on Monday & Tuesday Only)
7:00 pm - Lief David - Magician
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10:30 am - Westside Daze Parade & Judging 12:00 - 4:00 pm - BBQ by Rotary Club of West Kelowna Daybreak - Okanagan Science Fair - Kids’ Fair at Memorial Park
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7:00 pm - Concessions, Crafters, Sncewips Heritage Museum, Westbank Museum, Suk’temsqilx West Kelowna Arts Council
EVENING CONCERT SERIES
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
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7:00 pm - Le Mo Nay - with Julie Masi and Steve Soucy 8:00 pm - Cassandra Friskie - Tribute to the Divas Cher, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Munroe, and Liza Minelli 10:00 pm - Kinshira Fire Troupe
12:00 pm - West Coast Amussements Opens
8:00 am - Pancake Breakfast Westside Daze Fundraiser
3:00 pm - Singing of O Canada
12:00 - 4:00 pm - Sukanaqin Sxelxalt (Okanagan Day) - Multicultural Showcase - First Nation Entertainers
9:00 am - 12 Noon - The Linus Band Country, Rock, Blues, Classioc
3:20 pm - Car and Motorcycle Trophies and Awards
10:00 am - 3:00 pm - Westside Napa Car and Motorcycle Show & Shine
6:00 pm - West Coast Amusements Closes
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EVENING CONCERT SERIES 7:00 pm - James Elser - Live Concert 8:00 pm - U4 Tribute to U2 - Live Concert
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3:30 pm - Closing Ceremonies
11:00 am - 2:00 pm - BBQ by Westbank Rotary Club 12:00 pm - West Coast Amusements Opens 12:15 pm - The Regals - Main Stage
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Providing dessert for Canada Day “no piece of cake” The Canada Day cake is a tradition that has gone back for many years at Westside Daze. By Sawyer Klassen Anya Dumas began to help bake the cake in 2008, and in 2012 took over the lead role. Baking a cake that measures four-feet-by-six-feet isn’t something that can be quickly accomplished; in fact, it takes Dumas and her two friends, who assist her, roughly two full days to prepare it. While the 24-square-foot cake originally had a buttercream filling, Dumas decided to change it to a banana pudding filling with white chocolate pudding icing the second year she was in charge. “I thought I would change it because of the heat,” she explained. “Buttercream is very soft, and of course it’s always very hot in July. So I thought I’d try something new, and banana pudding is a good mix with the strawberries.” While there are many different enjoyable aspects of making the cake, Dumas’ highlight in preparing it comes right at the end of the two-day process “I think it’s the finishing, when you
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The joy of being in charge of baking and decorating the Canada Day cake is apparent on the smiling face of Anya Dumas, centre. know everything comes together,” she described. “When the cake is done and finished, just how it looks. It still amazes me how big the cake is.” Once the cake is ready to go, it’s transported by ambulance (due to its size and the ambulance having air conditioning) to the Canada Day celebration, which is where the best part of the entire festival takes place for Dumas. “When they open the door and you see all the people waiting for the cake and waving their hands, that’s really awesome, it makes my day for sure,” she described.
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“When everybody enjoys the cake, and you put all the time and work into it, and people say it’s an awesome cake, it’s awesome.” With a festival as expansive as Westside Daze, there were many areas Dumas could have chosen to volunteer in. But with her love for baking and cooking, she said there really wasn’t much debate over where she would try to help. Although she has now been involved with baking the cake for eight years, she noted she has far too much fun baking it over two days with her fiends to consider passing the apron on anytime soon.
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To build a CARdboard car…
By Sawyer Klassen
…you don’t need to bring anything but your imagination. That is the message from Jayme Schall, who along with Kirk Chavarie is coordinating the CARdboard Car Building at Westside Daze. The activity was held for the first time last year, and it provides supplies for kids
to make cars out of cardboard and decorate them with other materials. Schall said there are no restrictions, as once the participants get going they can create whatever they want. “We make a standard car shape, just a little box and then add a windshield by taping it on,” Schall explained. “There are little license plate cutouts they can glue on, and it’s pretty much go from there.”
The activity went over very well last year, and Chavarie noted it wasn’t just the kids who enjoyed it. “A lot of the parents that came saw it as a good opportunity,” he described. “Finally their kids were putting down their phones, getting away from the TV and getting creative again. A lot of the parents even hopped in and got involved with it. They were all having fun.” Even with all of the highlights from last year, Schall didn’t hesitate to say what her favourite part was. “The best thing was just seeing the look on the kids’ faces when they saw what they got to do,” she said. “You just gave them this box with glitter, stickers and steering wheels,
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An impressive lineup of performers promises to delight at Westside Daze SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Aaron Halliday
Aaron Halliday is a Canadian Singer/songwriter. Born in Nova Scotia and currently living in Penticton, Halliday has been performing live for the past 25 years. He has spent his entire life surrounded by music with early influences like Merle Haggard, George Jones and Waylon Jennings. Later he developed a more modern taste with favorites like Blue Rodeo, Dire Straits, Steve Earl. Halliday now finds himself leaning more to the traditional roots of country music, which has led him to one of the traditional country music icons of his generation, Alan Jackson. Halliday’s look, his performance and his gentlemanly qualities come across on stage as directly comparable to Jackson.
dian bass player? None other than Cod Gone Wild. This Celtic inspired band is focused on giving traditional music a modern edge. Blending the varied talents of four Aaron Halliday as Alan Jackson
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SUNDAY, JUNE 28 James Elser
James Elser was born in Calgary, where he started playing piano at the age of 13. At the onset of lessons, James disliked conventional classical training and his piano teacher, celebrated and honored that, and allowed Elser to learn songs that he wanted to play. The hit TV show from the 1980s Hill Street Blues theme song was the first real song Elser learned in his first few months of lessons. From that point forward he took on television themes, folk tunes, ragtime and classical piano. His taste of the road left him wanting more and when he received his acceptance letter for the Composition Program at UBC’s Musical Program, he crumpled up the letter and chose to go on the road instead. In the 30 years since, his musical style has continued to encompass elements of folk, rock, ragtime, jazz, blues, classical and his own original music.
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MONDAY, JUNE 29 Leif David
Magician Leif David specializes in delivering high-energy, unique magical entertainment. David has been performing his magic show for over 17 years across British Columbia Canada including Kelowna, Penticton, Vancouver, Peachland, Kamloops, West Kelowna and Vernon. A fun-filled magic show is ideal for family audiences of any size. He may surprise audience members by inviting them on stage to help make magic happen in the palm of their hands while ad-libbing to audience comments and reactions.
Ron Boudreau
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Abandon Paris, Steve Crane, guitarist and vocalist of Sonic Overdrive, bassist Nick Haggar and drummer Clayton Hill of Trooper. From the legendary Joshua Tree album period to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, all U2’s musical eras are covered with equal attention to detail, starting with the band’s distinctive vocal and musical sound.
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Music has been an integral part of Boudreau’s life for over four decades. He began performing at the age of three, mostly before an audience of family and friends. Boudreau’s introduction to the stage took place in his teenage years, at a time when his greatest influences were Elvis and the 1950s rock era. During this time, he continued to develop and flourish as a musician and entertainer. Boudreau fine-tuned his craft over the years performing in several bands, and eventually taking to the stage as a solo performer. His tribute show to crooners touches on the music of such icons as Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble. Ron enthusiastically embraced crooning,, appreciating that this was a natural progression stemming from his former influences. He had always loved the standards, recognizing that this and other genres were all connected.
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TUESday, June 30 Julie Masi/Steve Soucy Group
The Julie Masi/Steve Soucy Group is a “sweet, soulful treat” for your senses, led by masterful keyboardist Steve Soucy (BC Country Music Keyboardist of the Year for five consecutive years) with his singing partner, Julie Masi. As lead singer and percussionist, Masi was an integral member of the Canadian band The Parachute Club. Now based in Kelowna Masi and Soucy have performed at festivals, major hotels, wineries, restaurants and ski resorts in and around Kelowna.
Cassandra Friskie
When you ask Cassandra Friskie when she realized that singing is what she was born to do, she would respond:”Since I was born.” Friskie comes from a long line of musicians and started singing professionally at the very young age of eight. Watching her father, Randy “Elvis” Friskie perform for all those years, inspired her to follow in his footsteps, and start impersonating herself. Her big voice and charisma has landed her huge opportunities, such as opening for Lonestar and The Rascal Flatts, headlining at the Northwest Washington State Fair, singing at the British Columbia Country Music Awards and performing
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with the Beach Boys. Although musical tribute impersonating is a huge passion for her, Friskie is also pursuing a solo career and loves writing and creating her own music. She is currently working on her debut solo album.
Kinshira
Kinshira is an Okanagan-based performance troupe specializing in fire, glow and theatrical character acts such as stilt walking. Kinshira, which means ‘poetic-movement,’ is a perfect fit for this diverse and unique flowing art form. The troupe is composed of 11 individuals all bringing their own unique talents to the collective. Kinshira is great for adding that whimsical, passionate icing on the cake to any event they take part in. The majority of the performances are choreographed to a unique music selection which can be catered to any audience. A typical stage show for Kinshira will include: Fire Performance, dusk or darkness required for best effect; Roving Performers, stilt-walkers or street performers roaming the grounds, interacting with guests and allowing for some great photo opportunities; and Glow Performance, indoor LED glow act that simulates fire toy movements and patterns but adds colour fades, black lighting and more.
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