July 28, 2021 - 7:00 PM The founders of an Abbotsford tulip festival will be testing residents’ desire for flower festivals in the North Okanagan next month with sunflowers. Alexis Szarek started the Abbotsford Bloom Tulip Festival in the Lower Mainland in 2016 before her family decided to move to the North Okanagan. Now, their first flower festival will feature sunflowers in August, located at 5050 Knob Road in Armstrong. Tickets went up for sale yesterday, and Szarek is encouraging customers to purchase them through the website for a discount. General admission online is $16 for adults and $10 for children ages five to 12. There are four acres of land containing 80,000 sunflowers that will be showcased in the festival set to run from Aug. 18 to 31.
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Abbotsford’s loss will be Armstrong’s gain.
The founder of The Abbotsford Tulip Festival, known as
Bloom, says the land where the event has been held since 2016 has been sold, and her family has moved to Armstrong.
Alexis Szarek said they hope to “rebloom” in the North Okanagan, and she has been in discussions with officials in Armstrong for some time.
The focus will be on holding the event in Armstrong in the spring of 2022.
“Our chamber staff has been working with Alexis and her family for over a year now and keeping this exciting news under our hats has been hard,” Patti Noonan, executive director of the Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce said. “We are happy they found our community to be a good fit for their family and their business. This is a great addition to what we already have to offer residents and visitors and we look forward to them being a valuable part of our chamber and business community.”
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Tulip festival moving to Okanagan from Abbotsford after founder relocates
The colourful tourist attraction is moving after the land it was held on was sold. The Armstrong Chamber of Commerce says it welcomes the festival s relocation to the Okanagan.
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The Bloom Abbotsford Tulip Festival is saying goodbye to the Fraser Valley and hello to the North Okanagan.
Founder Alexis Szarek said in a news release on Monday that the land where the festival had been held for four consecutive years was sold to new owners while she and her family had moved to Armstrong.