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Things To Do in Penticton
The section for everything that does not fit a trade heading: gyms and fitness studios, yoga, hotels and places to stay, childcare and daycare, schools and tutoring, dry cleaners and photographers. Some of it is what you do with a free afternoon and some of it is the standing arrangement that makes the week work, and both belong in a directory people actually use.
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Community centres, public pools, arenas and library branches are civic facilities rather than businesses and are not listed as such, though they are often the right answer and are linked from the articles where they belong.
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Where to shop in Penticton: small, walkable and mostly local
Penticton's shopping is smaller than Kelowna's and more its own thing: a Main Street of independents, specialty food shops that outclass their size, and Cherry Lane covering the mall tier.
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Eating in Penticton: beach strip, main street and the bench above
Penticton eats along two parallel lines, the beach and Main Street, with the Naramata Bench hanging overhead. How to split a food weekend between them without eating the same meal twice.
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The best time to SUP in Penticton: two lakes and one very early alarm
Penticton is the only city in the valley with two proper paddling lakes. How Okanagan Beach and Skaha Beach differ for stand up paddleboarding, when each stays calm, and what the channel has to do with anything.
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