Jim Cavin of the Summerland Yacht Club, second from left, presents $18,444 in proceeds from the Great Ogopogo Bathtub Race to Janice Perrino of the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation. Present are yacht club members Gil and Edi Inglis, Shelley Reimer and Ray Davis. photo contributed

Racing bathtubs raise more than $18K for Penticton hospital

PENTICTON – A fledgling fundraiser featuring bathtubs did better than expected for the South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation last month.

The Aug. 22 running of the inaugural Great Ogopogo Bathtub Race raised more than $18,000 for the foundation, money that will go towards providing medical equipment for the proposed Patient Care Tower at Penticton Regional Hospital.

Sixteen bathtub racers competed in the round trip race to Penticton, which was won by Mike Stohler.

“The race was very well received,“ Summerland Yacht Club spokesman Jim Cavin says. “We raised more than we had targeted. Everyone I’ve talked to seemed happy with the way it went."

Plans are already in the works for next year’s race, tentatively slated for Aug. 20, 2016. The race is hosted by the Summerland Yacht Club

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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