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Sponsorship with SOEC good experience

As two realtors with Remax in Summerland, we purchased sponsorship for the Vees game Friday, Jan. 13, at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

Dear Editor:

As two realtors with Remax in Summerland, we purchased sponsorship for the Vees game Friday, Jan. 13, at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

We worked hard to promote the evening and even hosted a main concourse display table featuring promotional information from select businesses as well as a display from the Summerland Chamber of Economic Development and Tourism.

The completely unique marketing effort relied heavily on social media to help bring Summerland business together to work to improve the local economy.

As many know, the town of Summerland has been hard hit with job loss and population decline over the last number of years.

Main Street Summerland, still beautiful, unfortunately has a number of vacant buildings and there are a number of businesses for sale.

We wanted to especially thank the Summerland Waterfront Resort and Edgy Petals in Summerland for their contributions.

Many attending the Vees game were able to enjoy prize giveaways also from Summergate Wines and the Beanery Coffee Company.

All in all it was a great evening and we trust we were able to help bring a positive light to Summerland business.

However, we must admit to being genuinely surprised by the warm, welcome and professional dealings we had with the staff at the events centre.

Every one of our concerns and questions was dealt with professionally and promptly by the people we worked with.

Our evening was a huge success, and we wanted to share our extremely positive experience with SOEC in this letter.

In particular, we can say with real enthusiasm that we would highly recommend other businesses try out sponsoring a night with the Vees. Coach Harbinson too has been gracious and helpful.

We can say unequivocally that we have received full value in our association with SOEC and the Vees this year and in closing, can only say Go  Vees Go.

Patrick Murphy and Kirk Chamberlain

Summerland