PEACHLAND VIEW
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August 5, 2016 | Volume 12 Number 32
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CRAIG GILBERT
SWING AND A MISS: Nolan Calderwood of the Kelowna Sun Devils gets beat by Penticton Thunder pitcher Chris Kilduff as Travis Nelson catches. Travelling U9 teams met in Peachland for a year-end
tournament Saturday. Penticton had a strong weekend, winning that game 12-4. See more photos on page 19.
After 60 years, Todd’s is still where you really wanna be CRAIG GILBERT EDITOR
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Sixty summers of love have left their mark on Peachland, Todd’s RV and Camping and the 30,000 or so people who lay their heads to rest in the historic lakeside
campground each year. On Sunday Graham and Kelly Todd celebrated the diamond anniversary of the family business that started life as Todd’s Tent Town with one customer who “cleared his own lot” in 1963. In the 1970s and ‘80s Jeff and Jean Todd were seeing about 2,000 campsite-nights
per season. Today, Graham and Kelly have 11,000 campsite nights per season, March to October, with an average of three people per. It’s reasonable each spends the equivalent of about $10 per day in town. They told the View when Graham starts the bookings in January, he starts at the top of his seniority list of longtime camp-
ers when he’s assigning time blocks (many stay about three weeks at a time), so the regulars get their favourite spots. Angling to get your family near the top of the list? Those campers have been returning for half a century without fail, and there’s more of them every year. See SUMMER on page 10
A friendly reminder from the girls... If you are buying or selling a vehicle make sure the registration is signed by all registered owners. If not then we cannot process the transaction and that will make you mad, and us very sad!
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