Welcome!
Current and Upcoming Events: The schedule is ever changing and growing, please be sure to check back often!
For those of you who have lived here forever or those who are visiting and wishing you could live here forever - Welcome to Downtown Salmon Arm!
This multi-purpose website is an information portal for community members and visitors to our area as well as an information source for the over 250 downtown Salmon Arm businesses that form to create our membership.
Visitors and Community Members: If you are looking for businesses or services in the downtown core, please click here for information.
Membership: For information on upcoming events and activities happening in Downtown Salmon Arm Please click 2010 In View to open PDF calendar.
WorldHost Funding andTraining Available
Fundamentals [PDF]
Ambassador Workshop [PDF]
For more info on the WorldHost Training – direct your questions to Carol McGillivray at Community Futures Shuswap 250.803.0156 or CMcGillivray@futureshuswap.com
Workplace Training for Innovation Program
Workplace Training for Innovation Program Funding of up to $1,500 per employee to a maximum of $5,000 per employer is available for training to:
- Improve productivity
- Help support the introduction of new technology, machinery/equipment or work processes through employee training or retraining
- Enhance international competitiveness
- Introduce innovative training and workplace strategies to increase the long term competiveness of the organization and its workforce
Click here for application and guidelines [PDF]
Graffiti Removal Project
Dear Members,
In recent weeks Salmon Arm has seen an increase in graffiti and "tagging" in the downtown area. In response to this problem The Downtown Improvement Association is embarking on a Graffiti Removal Program and needs your help. This office will be outfitting contractors with paint and marker removal equipment this week and sending them out to remove these markings from affected buildings and businesses. In order to facilitate this project, we ask property owners to agree to grant access to our contractors (please see attached consent form) so that they may quickly and efficiently remove the vandalism when it appears. It will be the goal of this project to remove graffiti within 48 hours of its appearance. Further to this point, we also ask you to contact our office should you notice a new "tag" in the downtown area.
The DIA will be the primary funder of this project, along with the gracious support of Hardie Home Decorating. Our contractors will be outfitted with 2-3 colors of paint in order to remove the graffiti. If you already have paint or would like the color of your building color matched, please contact our office and arrangements can be made to use your paint.
In order to ensure the long term viability of this project, we ask that businesses receiving graffiti removal services make a donation of supplies such as paint or funds to help cover project labour costs.
Please take the time to fill out the consent form (MS Word format) so that we may remove this vandalism as soon as possible. Feel free to contact our offices anytime should you have any questions or concerns regarding this project.
Thank you, Roger
Time to Renew
It's time for the Salmon Arm Downtown Improvement Association to renew its mandate.
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New Board of Directors
President - Rob Marshall, Pharmasave
Vice Pres - Sharda Murray-Kieken, Oak Holdings
Treasurer - Michael Wagner, Salmon Arm Savings and Credit Union
Roger Ayles - C2 Properties
Bill Laird - WH Laird Holdings
Cookie Langenfeld - Culinary Inspirations
David Askew - Askews Foods
Lynda Wilson - Okanagan College
Bryan Kassa - Lakeside Insurance
Patty Monroe - Salmar Community Association Representative
Chad Eliason - City of Salmon Arm Representative
Gale Paule-Davison - Lady In the Tub
Jeff Johnson - BDO Dunwoody
Tim Giandomenico - Prestige Harbourfront Resort
Public Washrooms
The public washrooms are now open in the Ross Street Plaza
from approximately 8am to 6pm.
Do you have comment about the newly opened Ross Street Plaza? How you used the facility, have you driven by? Do you have suggestion or opportunities on how it can be more fully utilized as a community facility? Please forward your comment to events@salmonarmdowntown.com
Music At Work In Your Business & SOCAN
The most immediate way to sense the value of music to your business is to imagine your business without it.
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358 Alexander Street NE
PO Box 1928
Salmon Arm, BC
V1E 4P9
Phone: 250 832-5440
E-mail: events@salmonarmdowntown.com