The Penticton and Wine Country Visitor Centre is busily preparing for one of its most exciting seasons yet. A great feature for this season is our unique and comprehensive Outdoor Recreation map. This map offers topographical representation of the South Okanagan with hiking/biking trails, sites for bird-watching, scuba diving, and much more.
This year, the Meadowlark Festival will be co-ordinating many of its annual events from the parking lot of the Wine Country Visitor Centre. Be sure to visit the Vancouver Aquarium’s AquaVan on Saturday in the parking lot.
Community Futures is hosting a luncheon June 7 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Penticton Lakeside Resort with guest speaker Kari Yuers, president and CEO of Kryton International Inc.
Kryton develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of products that waterproof, repair and protect concrete structures. Kari will speak about the steps she took to grow her small family business into an international multi-million dollar company and the valuable expertise of other entrepreneurs that contributed to her knowledge along the way. Cost is $25 including lunch. Contact the CF offices at 250-493-2566 to register.
Penticton and Wine Country Tourism is sporting a refreshed logo and has just launched its new website, www.tourismpenticton.com, featuring a more emotive and interactive experience for visitors, including “share” and “like” features for activities and accommodations, enhanced links to social media channels and more comprehensive online booking experiences for those operators with online booking capabilities and TripAdvisor.
Along with the new website, a fully-integrated campaign promoting 2011 travel to Penticton was also just kicked off in Penticton’s gateway markets of the Lower Mainland, Calgary and Edmonton. Check out the new site today and tell all your out-of-town friends.
Holiday Beach Resort Motel has renovated. Ideally situated in the heart of world-class wineries and endless recreation, the Okanagan Falls motel has the look and décor of retro South Beach. For more information or to book your stay contact Bonnie Malcolm by phone: 1-888-272-2210 or email info@holidaybeachmotel.ca. You can view their website at www.holidaybeachmotel.ca.
Woofin’ Good Times is a mobile pet service company tending to cats and dogs of all sizes in Penticton, Kaleden, Twin Lakes, Okanagan Falls and Oliver. Regular pet services include dog walking, home visits, pet taxi and pet waste removal. Woofin’ Good Times also offers commercial service for strata, multi-family condos, parks, apartment complexes, rescue foundations, doggy daycares and kennels. And now, a new service just added is goose waste removal for both commercial and residential applications. Waste removal is time consuming and a not so pleasant experience so let the professionals at Woofin’ Good Times do this for you. They offer weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and one time clean up. Contact Louanne Sylvestre at 250.488.7443 or e-mail woofingoodtimes@shaw.ca.
Erin Hanson is the general manager of the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce.
