8:00 a.m. Saturday morning, at the Beanery Café on Main Street and the clack-clack sound on the pavement heralds the start of the annual Giant’s Head freeride event.
Each year, since 2008, longboarders head up to Summerland for the August long weekend where according to Wikiskate, the Ride the Giant Freeride “promises to be the most intense weekend of riding with participants having the privilege of riding this very special mountain.”
On July 18, Outstanding in the Field, a traveling farm-dinner series, will be setting up their long table for a culinary adventure at Covert Farms in Oliver. The dinner will be the third Canadian stop in the 2012 North American tour for the California based troupe.
When you think of Summerland you’re more likely to think of vineyards and orchards than custom made guitars and passionately played flamenco. Unless you’ve met John Park.
This past weekend, fourteen local wineries participated in the festivities by lighting up the vines and opening their doors to wine lovers from all over.
Saving the Summerland Packing House from the same fate that befell the Naramata fruit packing facility was a thought that has been foremost in the minds of several Summerland residents; it was this common goal that brought together a group of five women to determine the feasibility of turning the Packing House into a venue for local artisan food, wine, arts and culture.
In 2009 the Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery in Stony Plain, Alberta offered Penticton artist Loraine Stephanson a solo exhibition of her work. The show, which opens later this month, will feature twenty recent paintings as well as one of her small watercolor sketchbooks, which contains the genesis of some of the exhibition’s images.