[BCMA] One Month until the 16th Annual Cherry Fair Returns to home!

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Media Release

For Immediate Release

June 23, 2011


One Month until the 16th Annual Cherry Fair!
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm



It's been two long years since the Cherry Fair has been in its home of the Laurel Packinghouse.  With renovations now complete, one of the Okanagan's best celebrations of agriculture is back!



The BC Orchard Industry Museum is pleased to present the annual Cherry Fair for the sixteenth year in a row, and this year there are a few changes in store. Most noticeably, the location has changed back to the beautifully newly restored Laurel Packinghouse.  The Laurel Packinghouse was closed for renovations for nearly two years, displacing many Museum, community events, and weddings.  The Laurel reopened its doors on November 5th in a grand gala, showing off its beautiful new open layout.



"We're excited to take the Cherry Fair back this year and take advantage our beautiful new building," comments Jacqueline Salvino, Marketing & Special Events Coordinator for the Kelowna Museums. "In honour of our new home, the Cherry Fair will be bigger and better than ever before."



Admission to the Cherry Fair is just $2.00 per person, or $5.00 per family. "We want this event to be accessible to everyone," notes Jasmine Marshall, Project Lead on the event. "We're celebrating the season of the cherry and we're inviting the whole community to come down and take part."



Taking centre stage are the cherries.   Taste varieties grown and supplied by orchards up and down the Valley. Cherry suppliers include Westbank Harvest, located in West Kelowna, PICO (Okanagan Plant Improvement Corporation) at the research station in Summerland, and more - but only time and the weather will tell for sure.   The Okanagan Tree Fruit Cooperative, which operates packinghouses across the Okanagan, will also have cherries of many varieties for guests to take home.



Other activities will include professional facepainting by CupCasions and Face to Face Facepainting, hands-on educational activities for children, a live beehive demonstration with Vic MacDonald of Bees Inc., and the Ogopogo Bouncy House (free of charge).



Support the BC Orchard Industry Museum and celebrate the harvest of the cherry!



For more information call Jasmine Marshall at 778-478-0347 or Orchard at KelownaMuseums.ca.





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Contact:



Jacqueline Salvino

Marketing & Special Events Coordinator

Kelowna Museums

250-763-2417 ext 22

Events at KelownaMuseums.ca<mailto:Events at KelownaMuseums.ca>

www.KelownaMuseums.ca

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