Fair promotes healthy lifestyles

PENTICTON – The Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Fair Society plays host to an expansive healthy living forum, just in time for spring.

On Saturday, March 4, the Okanagan-Similkameen Healthy Living Fair returns to the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre.

The fair showcases organizations offering health related resources, products and services that support and promote a healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Art Hister takes to the main stage as keynote speaker at 9:15 a.m. and the trade and convention centre will be alive with activity demos, healthy eating sessions, healthy living assessment stations and over 55 information booths, all at no cost.

The Healthy Living Fair is also looking for volunteers, offering two shift options: from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m, and from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Volunteers can help out by acting in one of three different host roles for volunteers, helping out at the entrance, at a healthy living assessment station or by providing directional support on the trade show floor.

The Penticton Community Centre has volunteer forms available at the front desk, or a form can be completed online.

A volunteer coordinator will contact you once you have submitted your volunteer request.

An orientation session is scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. at the Penticton Community Centre in room seven.  Volunteers are asked to register their interest before the orientation.

To contact the 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.

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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