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Logan Bezaire (with the sword) and Dakota Wilisky (in the tiara) pose with Frosty the Snowman inside Santa’s Den, located indoors at the old Consign-It store, as part of the Light Up celebrations that took over downtown Invermere on Saturday, November 21st. PHOTO BY BREANNE MASSEY
Market gives over $9,000 back to community STEVE HUBRECHT steve@invermerevalleyecho.com Invermere council members heard that the downtown Invermere Farmers and Artisan Market was a smash success this past summer, during a report on the market by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Legion, which ran the market this past summer for the first time (having taken over the market from a different operator who ran it for nearly a decade beforehand), gave the presentation during a recent council meeting, on Tuesday, November 10th. “There’s no dispute it was quite successful for us downtown,” said Legion representative Ray Brydon, adding that over the course of the summer the downtown market had an average of 65 to 70 vendors at any given market, which included 54 full-time vendors and a rotating cast of 75 part-time vendors (only
several of which would be at the market Brydon then present two cheques to any given weekend). the district, one for about $6,200 (the The busiest weekend had almost all the district’s 40 per cent of net revenue) full-time vendors and more than 30 of the and another to reimburse the district’s 75 part-time vendors present, for a total $350 in expenses. of 84 vendors. The Legion has already allocated the Brydon presented financial state- nearly $9,300 (60 per cent of net revements for the market, which is run as a nue) it earned from the market to various non-profit organizacharitable causes, Plaudits to the tion, outlining gross which Brydon also income of just unLegion... I was down outlined to council, der $17,500; gross there many times and including $250 for the expenses of roughly Kinsmen Canada Day $2,000 ($350 of which heard nothing but positive celebrations; $2,500 was borne by the feedback. for the Columbia ValGREG ANDERSON ley Rockies commuDistrict of Invermere, DISTRICT OF INVERMERE COUNCILLOR the rest borne by the nity bus; $1,500 for Legion); and consequently, net revenue the Legion’s monthly seniors’ luncheon; of almost $15,500. $1,000 for the Summit Youth Centre; and Prior to the market, the Legion had more than $4,000 for other Legion projagreed to split the revenue from the ects. Brydon finished by asking council market with the district, with the Legion to consider spending $1,500 (of the diskeeping 60 per cent and the district get- trict’s 40 per cent share of net market ting 40 per cent. revenue) on the monthly seniors’ lun-
cheon, matching the Legion’s contribution from market funds to the luncheons. “Plaudits to the Legion. We took a chance on you (when council opted to let the Legion run the market this past spring), but you took a chance on us. I was down there many times and heard nothing but positive feedback,” said Coun. Greg Anderson. “Getting this report and these financial statements, we’ve never had that from the farmers’ market before. And to have it so quickly (less than two months after the final market day of the season) and have it so clearly laid out, this is exactly what council had envisioned for the farmers’ market.” Coun. Paul Denchuk was the lone council member to vote against letting the Legion run the market during the spring vote on the matter, but at the November 10th council meeting he congratulated the Legion on how it had run the market. See A2
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