
A sign that optimism is growing that public events could resume later this year.
The North Shore Business Improvement Association is planning to host Overlanders Day and the Tapestry Festival, in some form, again this year.
Executive director Jeremy Heighton says it’s unclear at this point exactly how the event will shape up, saying it also depends on the pace of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
“The biggest one probably for us this year, this is going to be a shift, is that we are picking up our marketing up again by about 50 per cent over last year. And we are moving forward with Overlanders Day and Tapestry Festival multicultural festival planning for the fall of this year, September, with the expectation that we will be moving forward in regards to that.”
Heighton tells NL News about 3,500 people for the outdoor event, who would come and go during the 10-hour event, would be a huge success.
He says specific details for the event are still unclear, other than to say it would be held at Brocklehurst Park.
Overlanders Day was cancelled last summer because of the pandemic. That was the second time in three years that it was impacted; in 2018, it was pushed back by about a month because of wildfire smoke.
Heighton first mentioned the event last week while speaking to Kamloops council, when councillors approved the 2021 levy for the NSBIA of just under $223,000. That levy is paid for by about 300 North Shore businesses.
(Photo: NSBIA)