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The manager of the Kelowna Curling Club is in the early stages of compiling a bid to host the Tim Hortons Brier in either 2019 or 2020.
Tyre has held preliminary discussions regarding the bid with Curling Canada, Tourism Kelowna and RG Properties, the owners of Prospera Place.
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But Kelowna is one of the few cities of its size in Canada yet to host the national championship in the modern era of large arena settings.
Kamloops, with a greater area population just over half of the Central Okanagan, has staged the Brier twice, in 1996 and 2014.
Kelowna did get a taste of big-time curling in , featuring the likes of Brad Jacobs, Kevin Koe, John Morris and Brad Gushue, was played at Prospera Place.
In recent years, depending on the size of the facility, Briers have generated between $5 million and $15 million for local economies.
With three draws per day to be televised nationally, and curling fans from across Canada to descend on Kelowna for 10 days in early March, Tyre said the impact for the city, both economically and culturally, would be invaluable.
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In Kelowna, curling has grown steadily in the 2000s and has never been more popular than it is today, with close to 1,100 members at the local club.
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