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But, but, but Kelowna vineyards in Kelowna were not, you know, as far as I know, affected to the same degree.

And it certainly wasn't here in Okanagan Falls.

And it certainly wasn't in, In other parts, we did have smoke before that fire started up.

We sort of forget.

Yeah.

It was really, really tough.

So driving on the highway, going between Penticton and Okanagan Falls, it was like, you couldn't see the lake.

That's wild.

They can help build shelf space and build demand.

A small little winery in Okanagan Falls doesn't have enough volume to be in 200 government stores, right? So it's a different business model.

So what I find fascinating is there's not size or regions that divide us so much, as it is they just have different approaches to business, and all of that is relevant.

And our goal is to make sure that whatever business you want to run, provided it's a profitable business, right, that we're creating the conditions to make that successful, and that we're promoting the diversity of those businesses in those regions.

The people who work in that room are all volunteers.

They take their vacations every year so they can schedule around that, come back just to help build this.

And then we took the judges around, took them to the Similkameen, Okanagan Falls, had all these wonderful evenings.

But I was out at a restaurant in Penticton one night asking the staff, hey, do you know about the Wine Awards? They had no idea.

And I continue to be amazed every time I come across a new project.

I was cruising through between Okanagan Falls and all over the other day.

And there was a bird banding station sign.

And I was like, what are they doing? And I just pulled in and started asking questions.

They've done this before, if I just forgot, but they had kind of the panel live streams with reporters at various election parties across the province going to Justin McElroy regularly for the nerdy, wonky analysis.

He mentioned that he's going to have to update his municipality song with the incorporation of Okanagan Falls and its first election ever.

This cycle, they had a panel with former mayor of Coquitlam, Richard Stewart, Haselem, and a former Surrey city councilor whose name escapes me at the moment.

But it was a chaotic night, right? McElroy pointed out that their analysis suggests as many as 80% of incumbents tend to get re-elected but that did not happen last night it might have happened at council levels we'll have to eventually crunch all the numbers i did a quick ask and it's somewhere in the 40s of mayors across the 160 municipalities across the province that were defeated last night and quite a few in metro van only five were re-elected and so many were defeated so we're starting here in vancouver pete fry the first Green party mayor in Canada, second person of color, second non-Scottish mayor.

It looks like we'll see a fair amount of cloud cover on Sun- Sunday, but it will be dry throughout the day and, uh, we are expecting a pretty nice forecast even as we head into the early parts of next week.

Tonight's weather window is coming to you from Okanagan Falls.

Ian capturing this beautiful shot of the vines starting to change, the, the leaves on the vines starting to change color.

Stunning.