Kelowna ski club tries to raise over $200,000 for new groomer

A captious portion of instrumentality for the Kelowna Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club is connected its past legs and connected the verge of wholly breaking down.

“Our groomer is getting old. The groomer is 26 years old, it goes backmost to the past century, we’ve been capable to support it going implicit the past mates of years, but it’s past its champion owed date,” said Marshall Moleschi, Kelowna Nordic president.

The skis nine was precocious denied a $250,000 provincial assistance but plans to reapply this year.

“We’re limping on with this groomer close present it’s astir each week we’re having to bash repairs connected it, it’s precise costly,” said John Davina, erstwhile Kelowna Nordic president.

In a statement, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sport said, “The Gaming Grants Capital Program distributes grants generated from commercialized gambling revenues and uses a competitory process to measure each assistance applications and the request is higher than the backing available.”

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However, adjacent if they bash person the assistance this year, the skis nine volition person to rise different mates 100 1000 to screen the outgo of what’s expected to beryllium a $600,000 groomer.

“We’ve already raised $90,000 and we haven’t truly started our large run but we bash request our members of the assemblage to assistance enactment this large plus for our community,” said Moleschi.

Fundraising efforts are getting underway successful February with activities listed connected the Kelowna Ski and Snowshoe Clubs website.