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A fireworks display will once again cap New Year’s Eve celebrations in downtown Kelowna.
The pyrotechnics are to be fired off at 9 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 31 from the north-west point of City Park. The show will be visible all along the downtown waterfront including Stuart Park, the epicentre of Festival Kelowna’s popular New York New Year’s.
“Our all ages New Year’s Eve celebration is a great way for the community to gather, ring out 2018 in style and welcome 2019,” Festivals Kelowna executive director Renata Mills says in a release.
“We continue to welcome thousands of people to Stuart Park and the Kelowna Community Theatre each year, and with the mild temperatures expected over the Christmas and New Year’s break, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw recordnumbers of people joining us for this special night.”
While daytime highs of a few degrees above zero are forecast for most of the coming week, things turn a bit colder for New Year’s Eve, with a high of only minus 4 C and a low of minus 8 C.
The celebration in Stuart Park is set to Eastern standard time, with the new year ‘welcomed’ at 9 p.m. That’s so families with children can come to the event, party like it’s 2019, then get the kids to bed at a reasonable hour.
Activities include a Kid’s Snow Zone, with the white stuff trucked in if Mother Nature doesn’t co-operate, performers like The Oot n’ Oots, Hillside Outlaws, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne, and Sherman Doucette.
There’s also games, cartoons in the community theatre, air hockey, face painting, belly dancing, and a bouncy castle. Four food trucks will be parked on Water Street, and the Kelowna Hostesses will