Betty Selin, honourary chair of VCRS fundraising campaign (submitted photo)

By Pete McIntyre

Seeking $200,000

Selin heads radio fundraising campaign

Mar 4, 2021 | 4:26 PM

A well-known and respected broadcaster will lead the effort to generate funds for a new community radio station in Vernon.

Betty Selin will serve as honourary chair of the Vernon Community Radio Society’s (VCRS) fundraising committee.

“We are so proud to have Betty come on board to help us with this fundraising campaign,” Gord Leighton, President of the VCRS, said. “We couldn’t ask for a better representative to help us introduce the benefits of this radio station to the Greater Vernon community.”

Selin is well known for her broadcasting career and community service, which began in Vernon in the late 70’s and continued until she left Bell Media in November of last year, when CICF FM 105.7 switched formats.

Selin is an award winning journalist, with multiple awards from the Radio-television News Directors Association of Canada, and received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Electronic Journalists, only the third woman to receive the honour.

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She began her career in 1979 and has won several awards including “Best News Cast in a Small Market” in 2008, and was also named Woman of the Year by Vernon Women in business in 2005.

The Vernon Community Radio Society is embarking on a fundraising campaign, with a target of $200,000 to launch a new community based FM radio station to serve Greater Vernon.

The society was granted a seven-year license for a new community station from the CRTC last September.

“I was thrilled to be asked to help bring community radio to the North Okanagan,” Selin said. I’m fortunate to have had an incredible career doing what I loved. Radio allows a connection with community like no other medium. Valley FM will give residents a voice and I encourage you to contribute to this exciting opportunity for our region.”

You can get more information at vernoncommunityradio@gmail.com