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By Jill Sperling

Farmers' Market

Kamloops Regional Farmers’ Market starts up this weekend

Apr 17, 2020 | 2:53 PM

KAMLOOPS — The first Kamloops Farmers’ Market of the season takes place Saturday (April 18) on St. Paul Street.

In order to follow provincial health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, the farmers’ market will be limited to food vendors only.

The Stuart Wood School lot will not be used.

The market is temporarily banning dogs and only 50 people will be permitted into the farmers’ market at one time this Saturday.

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“It’s just going to be on the street,” said Market Manager Greg Unger. “We’re only going to have one entrance, so the Second Avenue entrance is also going to be closed, so people will be queing up along Third Avenue, and then as soon as the market reaches a safe maximum capacity then we’re just going to start letting people in one at a time and we’re going with the unofficial slogan this year, ‘shop, don’t stop.'”

Vendors will be spread out at least six feet from one another.

If people want to purchase produce without coming into the market, they can shop online and pick up their items curb-side.

The opening date of the Wednesday market is still up in the air.

“We are still in discussions about when to open it, just because it is such a small market, both size-wise and amount of vendors. We’re still considering when it would be safest to open that market.”

The Saturday market will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. until the end of October.