Salmon Arm Observer/Shuswap Market News
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Year in Review
Friday, December 29, 2017 Page A25
~ A look back at 2017 Continued from A24
Michellle Ollen works on her painting in the art battle held at Westgate Public Market on Saturday, June 3.
to first place in the fourth season of Launch-a-Preneur. Winebox Sweets was the recipient of more than $15,000 worth of prizes and services. They also won the People’s Choice Award. Shuswap Event took second, On Point Concrete - third, and Elderberry Grove came in fourth. • This year the migration of Adams River Sockeye took a detour, a magical stop in Vancouver thanks to internationally acclaimed documentary film maker Nettie Wild. Wild and her Canada Wild Productions documented the
salmon run and used high-tech projection of the footage onto the legs and underbelly of Vancouver’s Cambie Street bridge. Her hope for the cinematic spectacle is to imbue the kind of wonder that the sockeye run itself does. • Salmon Arm council was on board with the quest for a new brand for the city. Council committed $14,000 to an estimated $95,000 community brand development project spearheaded by the Salmon Arm Economic Development Society (SAEDS). Lana Fitt, SAEDS economic development manager, outlined the goals for the project: to
find one message that could be used and supported by all residents, businesses, community organizations, and local government. “It’s all about managing Salmon Arm’s reputation, more specifically, it tends to build name awareness for our community. It would be developing a distinctive, believable, memorable, co-creative, but most importantly, an authentic image of Salmon Arm.” • The Salmon Arm Secondary (SAS) Jr Boys rugby team capped off their season with a victory in the Okanagan Championships. The SAS Junior Girls soccer
team finished second place in the Okanagan after a series of hardfought games from their rivals from Kamloops. • Joyce Henderson gave the week long Theatre BC Okanagan Zone Drama Festival rave reviews - the plays and the people involved. Shuswap Theatre hosted the successful festival with the theme Canada 150.
June • The Salmon Arm RCMP continued to search for missing person Roy Sharp who was presumed dead after being caught in the Robinson Creek Continued on A26
SICAMOUS Business Directory Bill Walker
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