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In photos: Gathering Together Festival celebrates diversity in Salmon Arm

Cultural traditions, foods, music, language, dance and more shared downtown

Good music, good dance, good food, good fun were part of the Gathering Together Festival, Building Community and Celebrating Diversity.

Hosted by the Shuswap Immigrant Services Society, the June 27 festival celebrated diversity in Salmon Arm as booths and people of all ages gathered together around the Ross Street Plaza to share and celebrate aspects of their cultures.

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Martha Wickett

About the Author: Martha Wickett

came to Salmon Arm in May of 2004 to work at the Observer. I was looking for a change from the hustle and bustle of the Lower Mainland, where I had spent more than a decade working in community newspapers.
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