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Joe FriesWestern News

Sleeping in on Saturdays is out of the ques-tion for Jordan Marr.

The 32-year-old Peachland man is usually up by 5:30 a.m., which gives him time for a few chores before setting out for the Penticton Farmers’ Market, where he officially became a permanent vendor when the season opened in May.

Marr sold some of the 30 crops from his two-acre Homestead Organic Farm last year as a casual vendor, but his stall location often moved. Not anymore, and that’s important for building a customer base.

“It means if we continue to sell really high-quality stuff, people will know where to find us if they want to get it again,” he said.

Marr acknowledged that although Home-stead has diversified into retail, veggie boxes and chef sales, the Saturday market is still “crucial” to success.

“I can come and get connected with the chefs who are also around here, so I turn it into a market day and a chef delivery day,” he said. “But more importantly, this is a really well-supported market. We can come here with a lot of stuff and know it’s going to sell. That’s really something we can count on each week.”

Although he grew up in a non-farming family in Kamloops, Marr has since dedicated his life to earning a living from the ground.

“I got fired up about… some of the nega-tive consequences of the modern agricultural system,” he explained. “It brought really cheap food and a lot of other benefits, but it also came with negative consequences, and I really wanted to be part of a reform to farming and bringing back the small-scale farm.”

He’s hoping his success will encourage other people his age to get into agriculture.

“We get to call ourselves young farmers until we’re 40,” Marr noted with a laugh, “be-cause the average age of farmers is a lot older

than other professions.”Erin Trainer, who manages the Penticton

Farmers’ Market, said her organization is do-ing what it can to help the cause.

“That’s what the farmers’ market is all

about is supporting small-scale farmers,” she explained.

This year’s edition features up to 70 ven-dors at the height of the summer growing sea-son. There is a wide selection of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, honey, eggs, homemade baking, preserves and tasteful crafts all produced in the South Okanagan-Similkameen region.

Elizabeth Quinn, executive director at the B.C. Association of Farmers’ markets said over the last several years they have seen a 62 per cent increase in the number of markets in B.C.

“There’s no doubt people are becoming increasingly passionate about buying local, in-season food and locally produced goods,” she said.

Across B.C., there are over 125 farmers’ markets. In addition to lcoally grown food and locally made products, the markets offer a surprising variety of community activities such as live music, children’s activities, cook-ing classes, artisan workshops and more.

Next door to the farmers, the Downtown Community Market also unfolds its tables.

Co-ordinator Laurel Burnham opens the season by ringing bells while walking up and down two blocks of Main Street .

“Some markets use whistles … but I choose to use bells, and it’s an old feng shui technique for bringing in the energy, actually, and it works, because we’ve been phenom-enally successful,” she said.

The community market runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday’s until Oct. 11. The farmer’s market runs until Oct. 25, also every Saturday. Combined, the markets span from the 100 block of Main Street to the 400 block and includes Front Street.

Sleeping in is out for vendors at the markets

Peachland farmer Jordan marr with a tray of microgreens he had for sale Saturday at the Penticton farmers’ market. Both the community and farmer’s market is open every Saturday until October.

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Two stops in Penticton are included on the schedule of a new shuttle service between Os-oyoos and the Kelowna airport.

The service, which offers four round-trips daily, launched mid-August after months of planning by the South Okanagan Chamber of Commerce.

Although the chamber doesn’t operate the service, it did work with local governments in the region to come up with a promotional budget and invite private companies to bid to obtain access to the funds.

Let’s Go Transportation, which already ran airport shuttles in the Kelowna area, was then selected to put rubber to the road.

“Basically, once it’s set up now, it’s in pri-vate hands,” said chamber president Myers Bennett.

The company is running the service with a pair of 15-seat passenger vans.

“We’re doing great. We’re getting a lot of requests,” said Fabio Santana, who co-owns Let’s Go Transportation with his wife, Birgit.

“We’re starting to get inter-community (travel) as well, like a lot of people drop off in Oliver, in Penticton. We’ve got a little bit of everything,” said Santana, who didn’t have initial ridership data available Thursday.

The first trip of the day leaves Petro-Can-ada in Penticton at 4:10 a.m. and arrives at Kelowna airport at 5:50 a.m., following stops in Summerland, Peachland, West Kelowna and Kelowna. Other northbound trips from Penticton leave the airport here at 8:45 a.m., 1 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., stop 20 minutes later at the Petro-Canada, and take two hours to reach the Kelowna airport.

Southbound trips from the Kelowna airport to Penticton leave at 8:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 3 p.m. and 8:40 p.m.

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A second-place finish by the Okanagan Valley among the world’s top wine areas is cause for discussion and cel-ebration among many in the local industry.

The Okanagan Valley was one of the top-10 choices of a USA Today Readers’ Choice for Best Wine Region.

“It’s really exciting,” said Roland Kruger, president of the Okanagan Falls Win-ery Association and general manager of Wild Goose Vine-

yards. “Second is absolutely amazing, especially when you look at the regions we were competing against.”

Finishing in first place was Alentejo, Portugal, while rounding out slots three through 10 were Maipo, Chile; Marlborough, New

Zealand; Croatia; Napa Val-ley, Calif; Tuscany, Italy; Or-egon; Hunter Valley, Austra-lia and Virginia.

“I think every winery was well-versed in what was hap-pening,” said Kruger, who thought initially that it was just nice being recognized. “Things have started to pick up a bit and there’s a lot of talk about it amongst the win-eries and the people that have supported B.C. wines.”

Kruger’s father purchased the property 30 years ago and the family’s winery is cel-ebrating its 25th anniversary next year.

“It really shows the trac-tion that our industry has gained over the years in de-veloping the industry and tourism in this area,” he said. “It is phenomenal for us to sit back and see what’s hap-pening in this valley and our industry throughout British Columbia. Five or 10 years ago, we never ever would’ve thought that we’d be where we are at today.”

President of the Naramata Bench Winery Association (NBWA), Kathy Malone, winemaker at Hillside Es-tate Winery, said the calibre of wine regions on the list is amazing and to come in sec-ond is incredible.

“For the rest of the world to give us that thumbs up is huge,” said Malone, who noted one of the reasons for positive results could be re-lated to having a strong social media presence as voting was conducted online via social networking.

“That could be part of it but it was pretty exciting to see, especially because it re-ally was a wine tourism sur-vey,” she said. “It’s the whole

experience, the welcoming nature of the local industry.”

She believes this type of news will also translate into more support of the wine and tourism industry from those living in the area.

“We all know how fabu-lous it is,” said Malone. “A lot of other places are fabu-lous and have been well-known and very well pro-moted for many decades so for us to have come this far in a short period of our industry is pretty thrilling.”

Tim Martiniuk, who is president of the Oliver-Os-oyoos Winery Association and whose family started Stoneboat Vineyards, said he wasn’t surprised with results.

“I don’t want to sound ar-rogant,” he said. “It wasn’t a big surprise to me because more and more people are discovering us and we’re a region that’s really coming of age in terms of the tourism component. That said, it’s ab-solutely delightful news. It’s really great to see the Okana-gan getting some recognition for being the first-class wine

destination that it is.”Martiniuk feels it’s impor-

tant for wineries to share the news with their clientele and promoting it to those think-ing about visiting the region and build on the continued growth and development of the industry.

“We all know that the Okanagan is making fantas-tic wines and we know that the scenery is unparalleled as wine regions go,” he said. “It’s really validating.”

Tina Baird, marketing di-rector for the NBWA, said its mandate is to focus on the wines from the region, where those wines are originating, the quality of its wines and being friendly and hospitable.

All of the associations are working together and meet-ing as a group and that has led to some positive action, said Baird. In addition, she also credited efforts from tourism organizations, the B.C. Wine Institute and the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Associa-tion.

“There’s very much an at-titude of everybody working cooperatively, because every-body realizes that ultimately, you are marketing the Okana-gan Valley,” she said.

In a news release, Ellen Walker-Matthews, marketing chair for the Okanagan Wine Festivals, said to not only have the Okanagan Valley recognized among the finest wine regions globally but to finish in second spot by read-ers of a major international newspaper is a tremendous honour.

“This will continue to build the incredible momen-tum we have seen in our wine region over the past several years,” she said.


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President Kathy Malone (left) and vice president Jacquie Carlson of the naramata Bench Winery association toast the second-place finish by the okanagan Valley wine areas in the Usa today reader’s Choice for Best Wine region. the winning area was alentejo, Portugal.

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You never know what you might find in Penticton.

Last March, Kosta Bakalos, owner of Bluenose Coins and Precious Metals found himself in the enviable position of being asked to sell some of the rarest coins and bills in Canada.

The prize of the collection was a 1925 Dominion of Canada $500 bill, expected to self for $450,000, according to the val-ues set by Bakalos. Of an original run of 40,000, only eight examples of the bill re-main.

“This one is the best one of all eight on record, it’s even nicer than what the Bank of Canada has in their museum,” said Bakalos. “It’s probably one of the prettiest notes out there, in my opinion. If it sells for what we think it’s going to realize, it’s going to be a record.”

Bakalos described the $500 bill as a true rarity and a significant piece of Cana-dian numismatic history.

“It’s like finding a Picasso some-where in Penticton that has been hidden for years,” he said. “It’s got the potential to hold the record for the most expensive note ever sold in Canada.”

Though the bill has moved on now, it wasn’t the only time that Bakalos dealt with it. In 2010, it was Bakalos that con-vinced the current owner to purchase it at auction, when it sold for $190,000. Before that, the last time it changed hands was in 1961, when Bakalos said it sold for $1000.

“I convinced my client it would be a great buy. I was actually going to bid up to the neighbourhood of $275,000,” said Bakalos. It’s not often, he continued, that a dealer gets a chance to represent a col-lection of this magnitude, and his previous work with his anonymous client was part of the reason he was selected to handle the sales.

“It’s somebody that I have sold to in the past and all of the major dealers have dealt with this person, but I guess he re-ally liked how I handle things with him,” said Bakalos, who describes his client as a high-end collector who gathers only the finest known or the biggest rarities he can get his hands on.

“He’s decided that he wants to sell the highlights of his collection, and of all the options that he had, he entrusted Bluenose to represent him.”

The collection includes several other significant items, including what Bakalos calls the “King of Canadian Coins,” a 1921 50-cent piece.

“For anyone that knows anything about Canadian coins, it is the coin to have. There are only 75 in existence and that coin is one of the two finest known,” said Bakalos. “It’s everybody’s dream that col-lects coins to even hold a coin like that in their hands.”

Bakalos admits he is one of them, hav-ing been a collector and a customer of Bluenose before he purchased the shop 15 years ago.

“I am a collector at heart. I wish I could afford to own that,” he said, adding that he would have trouble ever letting go again. “If I had the means to own them, I would keep them.”

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Katerina Bakalos holds two pieces of Canadian currency valued in excess of $800,000. Owner Kosta Bakalos of Penticton’s Blue Nose Coins and Precious Metals helped sell the rare collec-tion.

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Samples are now being poured at Naramata’s first commercial distillery.

Legend Distilling opened its tast-ing room earlier this month, offering visitors small-batch vodka and gin pro-duced on site at what used to be a doc-tor’s office.

Dawn and Doug Lennie acquired the Naramata Road property in September 2013 and set to work renovating it and obtaining a range of regulatory approv-als, from a local government rezoning to a liquor manufacturing licence.

For now, they’re the only place sell-ing spirits on the wine-soaked Narama-ta Bench, although they’re unsure how long they’ll be a solo act.

“We’ll have the opportunity to get established and get our brand estab-lished before other ones come along. That, I think, is the big advantage. I also think we have a great location, and that can’t be duplicated, really,” Dawn said.

“But I think the disadvantage is it’s going to get easier as more people go through the (regulatory) process,” she continued.

“Like the architects: They’d never done a distillery before. It was the first one, so all those people you’re dealing with don’t have any experience.”

The Lennies, who previously owned a construction company and The Bench Market, hope to capitalize on the emer-gence of craft distilling and the loosen-ing of B.C. liquor laws.

Legend’s first batches are limited to about 300 bottles of vodka and 200

bottles of gin, but more product is ex-pected approximately every two weeks. All the ingredients, such as wheat from the Peace region, are sourced in B.C.

Like craft beer, small-batch spir-its are also more flavourful than their mass-produced counterparts.

“We chose to do the vodka unfiltered to start with,” Dawn explained. “It’s got really great flavour from the wheat — a little caramel, a little vanilla — it’s nice and smooth.”

Doug hopes to eventually produce other types of spirits, like whisky, plus flavour-infused varieties using fruit grown on site.

“I think a lot of it’s going to happen next year once we’ve got some inven-tory and we can do stuff like that. Right now, we’re just trying to get product out,” he said.

The pair chose the name Legend in order to capitalize on local lore. For ex-ample, the vodka is dubbed Shadow in the Lake, paying homage to Ogopogo, while the gin is called Doctor’s Orders, a nod to Prohibition, when medical pro-fessionals prescribed alcohol for some patients.

“We were trying to get something that could get stories rolling,” Doug said. “We wanted to definitely get a fun mix.”

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A new downtown restaurant is now open for business.The Cellar Wine Bar and Kitchen, located at 412 Main St., is serving up a variety of B.C.

wines and a menu that aims to complement the drinks and please the palate. Co-owner Nick Vassilakakis said he’s always wanted to do something with the licensed

building but was aiming for something unique. “We live in the heart of wine country so opening a wine bar was a good fit and seemed like

a good idea,” he said. They currently offer 16 types of Okanagan wines and customers can order a tasting or enjoy

it by the glass, or bottle. As for the food, they’re offering items that will pair well with the wines and people can choose from a global menu that will change from time to time.

Vassilakakis said he tried to design the restaurant similar to how his father, Florio’s wine cellar in Greece was designed.

“It’s a memory from my childhood of my dad’s cellar in Greece, from the stucco and the arches to the stone,” he said.

In 2012 when the idea was first floated to city council, the Downtown Penticton Associa-tion said they had been advocating for some time for an upscale wine room/wine bar in the downtown area that would highlight the local wine industry. Co-owner, and Vassilakakis’ sister, Athena Vassilaki-Demosten agreed with the statement.

“I wish we could hear a little bit of noise down at the 400 and 500 block, because it is so dead,” Vassilaki-Demosten previously told the Penticton Western News. “If you look down Main Street after 7 p.m., you don’t see many cars, you don’t see people walking down Main.”

The restaurant is open Monday to Sunday starting at 11 a.m. until the late evening hours for both lunch and dinner.

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Server rené rodriguez (at top left) brings some menu items to customers at The Cellar Wine Bar and Kitchen this week. The new business opened last week and is located at 412 Main St. Owners of The Cellar Wine Bar and Kitchen Nick Vassilakakis (above right) and Athena (Vassilakaki) Demosten (above left), known in Penticton as the Vassilaki family, cel-ebrate the opening of their new Main Street business Monday. In addition to the wide variety of wines there is an eclectic menu of gourmet offerings from the chef.

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Main Street does matter, at least in Pent-icton.

Penticton was selected as one of the top 20 communities in Benjamin Moore’s Main Street Matters competition, putting the city on the list for enough paint to refresh a three-block area of downtown.

City hall, the Downtown Penticton As-sociation, the chamber of commerce and a variety of other community organizations all spent the month of June exhorting everyone in the community to get out and vote in the online contest and on as many devices as possible.

While voting in the competition was easy enough, Penticton started out at a disadvan-tage, entering the contest two weeks after it started and competing with 130 communi-ties also vying to be in the top 20.

With nearly half a million votes and an incredible outpouring of stories, viral videos and passionate pleas on paintwhatmatters.ca, the city had a big job to get into the top 20.

Tracy Kelly, who, along with her husband John, purchased the Penticton Benjamin Moore outlet on May 1, said that as soon as she learned about the contest, she knew the city had a shot.

“You know when you read something and you think this would be possible?” said Kel-ly, who said it was the community effort that pushed Penticton over the top. “There wasn’t just one organization involved. There was so many organizations and everyone was do-ing their own promotion on it. In store, we

did so much advertising about the promotion and everyone we talked to on our Facebook page, our Twitter. And the DPA did the same, and the chamber of commerce and the City of Penticton.”

Leon Bustin, Benjamin Moore B.C. In-terior representative, helped determine what part of Main Street would receive the paint makeover

“Main streets all across North America have been neglected,” said Bustin. “We thought what better way to give back than to help revitalize the area where most of our customers do business with their customers.”

Bustin said it was a near thing for Pentic-ton to win the contest, which required people to vote for their favourite city.

“We selected the top 20 towns across North America with the most votes,” he said. “By the way, Kamloops was very close to you. Good job.”

Kerri Milton, executive director of the DPA, said even the vendors on the street at the community market got in the act, voting on their phones while working the Saturday morning market.

“There was a lot of very stiff competition out there. There are a number of communi-ties that got behind this as well, like Gibson’s Landing, they were using the fact they are a historical landmark and tried to play on that,” said Mark Hodge, director of market development with Benjamin Moore.

“It was exciting for us, but Penticton was the best.”

Benjamin Moore provided all necessary paint, stain and supplies for façades, porch-es, railings, shutters and other exterior build-ing trims.

Tracy and John Kelly (above left and right) of the Penticton Benjamin Moore store were excited to help give downtown a fresh look. Gigi huscroft (top right) of the cup-cake lady cafe with the storefront portion of her cake creation celebrating the start of Main Street Matters.

Western news file photos

Paint brightens up downtown shops

POPPIN’SQUILT PARLOURPenticton’s Complete Quilting Shop

www.quiltparlour.com

SPECIAL CHALLENGE HOURS • SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 • OPEN 10AM-2PM

350 MAIN STREET • 250-493-1815 • HOURS: 9AM-5PM, MON-SAT

SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...SWIM...BIKE...

RUN...Race on in for our

ANNUAL TRIATHLON SALEAugust 22nd to 25th

Swimsuit, Bike Helmet, Running Shoes, GET 10% OFF FOR EACH ITEM WORN! UP TO 30% OFF!

FULL DETAILS ONLINE OR INSTORE

667 West Eckhardt 250-493-9187

A&KGrimm Sausage Ltd.

Locally Owned & Operated for 30 Years!Proud to offer the

Best in Customer Service & Selection of Quality Meats, Homemade Sausages

& SO MUCH MORE!

Come in and see A&K Grimm’s today!

Your BBQ Headquarters

Something PrettyFashion & Accessories Boutique

PHONE: 250-276-4308#10 FRONT STREET, PENTICTON

Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:30am - 5:00pmwww.facebook.com/SomethingPrettyBoutique

Something Pretty Boutique has something for all of your fashion needs! All our clothing comes directly from

the fashion district of Los Angeles. With an emphasis on ethically sourced North American Quality!! We are

committed to bringing the latest styles in weekly and we offer sizing from small to Plus Size. We also carry a

beautiful selection of jewelry and accessories madeby local artisans. Come down and check out

Something Pretty voted the ‘Best New Business’!

www.pentictontoyota.com2405 SKAHA LAKE ROAD • 250-493-1107 • TOLL FREE: 1-888-493-1107 • DL. #6994

SPECIAL OF THE WEEK!2013 SCION FRS

What a Beauty! Only 11,400 Kms, 6 Speed, Alloys,Pioneer Touch Screen Stereo, Bluetooth. T27762

$23,986

$17600

ON THE SPOT FINANCING! $0 DOWN PAYMENT!

PENTICTONPENTICTON

SHOP LOCAL & SAVE BIG!

All Payments Include Taxes and Fees. 4.97% APR O.A.C. Rates Subject to Change. $0 Down Payment. ***84 month, **72 month, *60 month term.

2009 Toyota Tacoma TRD Double Cab 4x4

4.0L, Air, Leather Heated Seats, Alloys,Bluetooth, Backup Camera. X3620

$30,700

$25800

SHOP LOCAL & SAVE BIG!SHOP LOCAL & SAVE BIG!ONEOWNER

Bi-Wkly**

2010 Subaru ForesterXT AWD

Full Load, Navigation, Leather Heated Seats, Power Roof, Fog Lights. T27801

$24,500

$20600Bi-Wkly**

2013 Toyota Tundra SR5 Double Cab 4x4

4.6L, Only 20,650 Kms, Air, Power Package,Box Liner, Soft Tonneau Cover. X33291

$32,400

$23900Bi-Wkly***

2012 Toyota Prius C“Technology”

Only 9,100 Kms, Navigation, Bluetooth,Smart Key, Alloys. T24561

$23,600

$17500Bi-Wkly***

SHOP LOCAL & SAVE BIG!ONEOWNER

ONEOWNER

2011 Toyota FJ Cruiser 4x4 “Arctic Trail Edition”

A Must See! 3” Revtek Lift Kit, TRD Alloys, Rocker Panels, Bluetooth. X35901

$32,500

$24000Bi-Wkly***

ONEOWNER

2013 Toyota TacomaDouble Cab Limited V6 4x4Won’t Last Long! Bluetooth, Leather Heated

Seats, JBL Stereo, Fog Lights. X3611

$34,500

$25400Bi-Wkly***

2008 Toyota Tacoma TRD Double Cab 4x4

Air, Bush Bar, Brake Control, PowerPackage, Fog Lights, CD. T25551

$23,899

$23600Bi-Wkly*

ONEOWNER

2010 Subaru Impreza2.5i “Sport”

Only 46,000 Kms, Air, Power Roof, HeatedSeats, 6 Disc CD, Fog Lights. T26961

$17,400

$14700Bi-Wkly**

ONEOWNER

2010 Honda CRVEXL 4WD

Only 67,200 Kms, Air, Leather Heated Seats, Power Roof, Full Power Package. X3616

$25,465

$21400Bi-Wkly**

2010 Toyota CorollaXRS

Hard to Find! 2.4L, Air, Leather HeatedSeats, Power Roof, Spoiler. T27321

$16,900

$14300Bi-Wkly**

ONEOWNER

ONEOWNER

2012 Toyota SiennaLE AWD

Dual Air, Bluetooth, XM Radio, PowerSliding Doors, Backup Camera. X3576

$25,795

$19000Bi-Wkly***

2010 Toyota CorollaCE

Only 67,850 Kms, Great Fuel Economy!5 Speed, CD, ABS, Auxiliary Input Jack. T21291

$8,890

$7700Bi-Wkly**

ONEOWNER

2012 Ford MustangConvertible

Only 14,350 Kms, Air, Sirius Radio, 20” Alloys, Heated Seats, Fog Lights. T25201

$21,800

$16000Bi-Wkly***

2010 Toyota Rav 4Limited V6 AWD

Only 26,000 Kms, Heated Leather Seats,Power Roof, Bluetooth, JBL Audio. X3618

$28,700

$24100Bi-Wkly**

2008 Toyota Solara SLEConvertible

Air, 6 Disc CD, Leather Heated Seats,Full Power Package. X3617

$18,900

$18700Bi-Wkly*

2010 Toyota Tundra SR5 Double Cab 4x4

4.6L, 6 Passenger, Dual Air, Power Package, Cruise, Tow Package, ABS. T25511

$23,915

$20100Bi-Wkly**

Bi-Wkly***


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