Air Wick thinks we smell good! Kelowna was declared the winner of a countrywide contest to name Canada's Freshest Smelling Location.
Kelowna wins a prize of $25,000 to be used in the NeighborWoods program that sells trees to residents of the city. There are 450 trees available this year, including the blackhawk mountain ash, the blue limber pine, the Japanese tree lilac, the northwood maple and the prince oak.
The NeighborWoods program has existed for three years and has sold 1400 discounted trees in that time. The program's goal was to get drought tolerant trees that can not be found native to the area and sell them to the public at $30 each so that they can plant them in their yards.
Air Wick will present Kelowna Mayor Walter Gray with the cheque on Saturday April 20, commemorating the event by planting a tree in the Arboretum at Missions Recreation Park.
The Facebook contest saw Kelowna finish higher than Tofino, Quebec City, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Algonquin Park.
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