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Event aims to stamp out cancer by stomping on grapes

Event aims to stamp out cancer by stomping on grapes | iNFOnews.ca
Last year's participants, the Village Vinos, perform their grape barrel air band to 'YMCA.' Okanagan Stomp/Facebook

KELOWNA – Get your grape stomping gear ready, the Okanagan Stomp is ready to stomp grapes to help stamp out cancer.

The Okanagan Stomp is a wine-themed, team participation event to help raise proceeds for the Canadian Cancer society. The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 19, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the House of Rose Winery in Kelowna.

Games include a mystery food box challenge and a blind taste testing. As the name implies, the stomp performance features three-minute team air band while stomping in a barrel of grapes. 

The event includes prizes and live music, and winners will receive a trophy and the title of Okanagan Stomp Champs.

Teams, which can be anywhere from five to eight members, must come up with a cool team name and register by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11.

Proceeds from the Okanagan Stomp benefit the Canadian Cancer Society. This year the event will donate specifically to brain cancer research. Brain Canada will match each dollar one-for-one doubling the donation.

To contact a reporter for this story, email Dana Reynolds at dreynolds@infonews.ca or call 250-819-6089. To contact an editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Dana Reynolds

By Dana Reynolds

Dana Reynolds is originally from Saskatchewan, but previous to Kamloops lived in Toronto for five years. She is well educated, obtaining her Masters of Arts from York University and Certificate of Broadcast Journalism from Seneca College. Dana has a passion for travel, having worked and studied in three foreign countries. She is a political junkie, especially as pertains the Middle East as she wrote her thesis on Muslim immigration into Europe. Dana is very excited to be in Kamloops and embark on a career in journalism with Info News.

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