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Premier Christy Clark cut the ribbon when the hall was reopened in February 2015.

The City of West Kelowna will officially receive the keys to the Westbank Lions Hall this weekend.

The ceremony, featuring a town crier, piper, municipal, provincial and federal dignitaries, will take place Saturday at 11 a.m.

The city and Lions Club of Westbank reached an agreement earlier this spring to turn hall ownership over.

The city is taking over management of the facility under the condition it will continue to serve the West Kelowna community as it has since first established in 1928.

The contract indicates the land will always be used for the purpose of operating a community hall for the benefit of residents of West Kelowna and that the land may not be transferred, conveyed, encumbered, mortgaged, redeveloped or otherwise disposed of.

The Lions offered the hall to the city because of a rapidly declining membership.

"The people who are left are just not capable of doing the hard work that is needed. Looking after the hall, repairing it and cleaning it," Lions president David Knowles said at the time.