Harrison gets it right this time

The following just goes to show you that Jim Harrison isn’t wrong all the time:

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A VISITOR TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU REALLY HAVE….AND TO MAKE YOU APPRECIATE IT JUST A BIT MORE.

   [CLIP]  “everybody who’s been here so far says why don’t we have one of these back home, wouldn’t this be a great facility to have.”

STAN PERKINS IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD MASTERS ASSOCIATION, AND HIS SENTIMENT ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT CAPITAL CENTRE IN KAMLOOPS WAS SHARED BY JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE PARTICIPANTS…SOMETHING PRETTY MUCH ECHOED BY EVERYONE WHO VISITS THE COMMUNITY TO USE IT.
 FEW, IF ANY OTHER COMMUNITIES THIS SIZE CAN BOAST A FACILITY LIKE IT….. AND KAMLOOPS WAS FORTUNATE TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE VISION, AND THEN THE WILL TO CONVERT THE TCC FROM AN IDEA TO REALITY.
 AND ITS THOSE PEOPLE WHO AREN’T MENTIONED NEARLY ENOUGH WHEN THE TCC IS DISCUSSED  ……THOSE LIKE ALEXANDER WATT, DEREK EVELY, AND NEVILLE FLANAGAN …WHO NURTURED AN IDEA….FORMED A SOCIETY TO PROMOTE IT AND THEN CONVINCED BOTH CITY HALL AND THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY OF THE BENEFIT OF THAT KIND OF A FACILITY.
 FORMER MAYOR MEL ROTHENBERGER DESERVES SOME OF THE CREDIT AS WELL…NOT ONLY FOR LEADING A COUNCIL THAT WAS SUPPORTIVE, BUT FOR INSISTING THE TOURNAMENT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INCLUDED MCARTHUR ISLAND….SOMETHING THAT HELPED ENSURE THE REFERENDUM FOR THE 40 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT WOULD PASS.
 THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE VISITING THE TOURNAMENT CAPITAL CENTRE IS EXPECTED TO TOP ONE MILLION THIS YEAR….. A TESTAMENT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE TOURNAMENT CAPITAL IDEA THE CITY EMBRACED MANY YEARS AGO, AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE VISION SINCE, TO GROW THAT IDEA….INTO THE JEWELL ITS BECOME.

Jim Harrison
News Director
NL Broadcasting Ltd.