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Lassies to rock Penticton?

Chalk up another one for the South Okanagan Events Centre.

It would appear as if an attempt to bring the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts to the city has been successful.

Curling Canada will host what it calls "an important announcement about the sport of curling and the City of Penticton Thursday at the SOEC.

Penticton, Langley and Sydney, N.S., had all submitted bids to host the 2018 event.

A story published in the Cape Breton Post Oct. 6 stated that city had lost out on the bid, leaving just the two B.C. cities remaining.

That story stated weak pre-sales hurt their bid. It also indicated Penticton also didn't do very well in terms of pre-sales.

According to the bid package provided by Curling Canada, arena availability will be required from Jan. 28 through to Feb. 12, 2018, for set-up, ice making, competition and take down.

This would be the second major curling event at the SOEC in recent years.

The building hosted the Continental Cup back in 2013.



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