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First organized Family Day event finds success Tara Bowie Review Staff
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Members of Keremeos Search and Rescue guided young climbers up the rock wall on Family Day.
For many families in the area it was a Family Day filled with fun as volunteers from the Keremeos Search and Rescue and the Keremeos Elks held the first event to mark the holiday. Family Day in BC started in 2013. “There wasn’t anything going for the families so we decided we would make something happen,” Darrell Taylor, president of the Keremeos Search and Rescue group said. And make it happen they did. With help from the Keremeos Elks, who cooked a lunch of hotdogs and rodeo burgers for a donation, well over 200 people attended the day-long event at the Similkameen Recreation Centre. Dave Barker, an Elks member helped cook and when his job was done he went out on the lanes to enjoy the rest of the day with his daughter and granddaughters who were visiting from Vernon. “It’s been a great day. As the Elks we tried to find out how much food to bring but we really didn’t know what the turnout would be. We sold out and that’s good. Everyone’s had a really good time,” he said.
Children and their families spent the day bowling at the recreation centre’s fourlane alley, climbing the rock wall, and using some of the exercise equipment. They also had a chance to check out the search and rescue truck, which was parked outside, and ask members about the organization.
“Some asked but what we heard a lot was that people didn’t realize we had a bowling alley or a rock wall. So it’s been a big win-win for us and the recreation centre,” Taylor said. The Search and Rescue crew hope to hold a similar event next year and are already working on plans to make it bigger.
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Akaya Harker, 6, had her facepainted by Cassie Leake during the Family Day event at the Similkameen rec centre. The event was organized by Keremeos Search and Rescue.
Families get hooked on Yellow Lake ice fishing Tara Bowie Review Staff
They might not have a caught a fish but they’re now hooked on the sport of ice fishing. “We didn’t catch one yet but we’re having a lot fun,” dad, Delano Ducheck said Saturday nearing the end of the day of the family friendly fishing event at Yellow Lake. Ducheck along with his wife and threeyear-old son Ary came from Summerland so they could learn about the sport of ice fishing. “Our friend is a conservation officer so that’s where we heard about it. We thought it was just a great thing to do on a Saturday. There’s been food, hot chocolate and it’s been informative. We’ll definitely come back,” he said. The Ducheck’s and their friends were among 200 other people who went out to
the lake to partake in the annual fishing derby. By 10 a.m. all 80 rods that the Fresh Water Fisheries Society brought to the event were in use. A group of volunteers from the Keremeos-Cawston Sportsmen Association cooked up lunch for the families and kept a steady flow of hot chocolate on tap. “It’s a great event. We’ve been involved since it started. It gives grandpa a chance to take the grandkids fishing. They don’t need the equipment or to pick up bait. We have all that. They just need to come and try their hand at it,” Kathaleen Gibbs of the sportsmen association said of why the club remains involved in the event. By Gibbs estimation more fish were being pulled out of the water than last Tara Bowie year. Three-year-old Ary Ducheck looks seriously down the ice fishing hole in hopes he’ll spot a fish Continued on page 8 while dad Delanao Ducheck sets the line at the family derby at Yellow Lake on Saturday.
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