Peach City Radio concluding a progressive year

PENTICTON – Peach City Radio is completing an exceptional year and making plans for next year as the society gets ready to host its annual general meeting next month.

The non-profit society has been working to build a unique, community based radio broadcasting initiative in Penticton and 2015 has been a busy one for Peach City Radio, with the society being approved for its low power FM broadcast application.

Radio personality Chris Walker, current host of Daybreak South on CBC radio, will speak at the meeting, which takes place Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the Penticton Museum-Library auditorium. Walker will be speaking about the impact community radio can have on Penticton.

For persons interested in renewing or becoming a member, registration opens at 5:30 p.m. Walker will speak at 6 p.m., followed by the annual meeting at 7 p.m.

Anyone interested in getting involved in the radio project is encouraged to attend the meeting. Peach City Radio has volunteer opportunities for those interested in becoming a radio show host, programming. promotion and fundraising.

More information about the society can be found at the Peach City Radio web page.

To contact a reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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