OYP wins marketing award
Okanagan Edge Staff - Sep 18, 2018 - Biz Releases

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Drew Vincent, Mayor Colin Basran and Dustyn Baulkham

The Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission has been honoured as one of Canada’s best.

The COEDC received the 2018 Marketing Canada Award from the Economic Development Association of Canada. It won because of the Sugarplum Ball, an annual event created by the COEDC’s Okanagan Young Professional’s Collective in partnership with Kelowna Pride Society.

The OYP and Kelowna Pride started the Sugarplum Ball after a Kelowna resident, who was opposed to the city’s newly painted rainbow sidewalks, called Mayor Colin Basran “Mayor Sugarplum.”

“Everything the OYP Collective does is about generating closer connections within our community to support a climate that attracts and retains young professionals in the Central Okanagan,” OYP Collective officer for the COEDC said in a press release. “The Sugarplum Ball is about fostering those relationships and celebrating what brings us together.”

The COEDC received the marketing award last week during EDAC’s 50th annual conference in Fredericton.


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