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Vernon’s Canada Day organizer explains why drone show did not go ahead
Several thousand people filled Polson Park Monday night (July 1) for the drone show that was supposed to end Canada Day celebrations in Vernon, but unfortunately, the show was not able to go ahead.
Mayla Janzen, the head of the organizing committee from Vernon Okanagan Inspired Community Events (VOICE), said Illumin, the company that puts on the drone events, was getting ready for the 10 p.m. show when an equipment problem took place caused by some spectators.
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“We had a great audience. I was really excited about that, but the park was getting a little bit crazy because there was a lot of people everywhere,” Janzen explained. “We had about 13 security folks down on the drone area guarding everything, but unfortunately, just a few minutes before the show was about to start, some folks on electric scooters ran over one of the key antennas. It’s apparently a pretty sensitive piece of equipment. We gave them [Illumin] a bit of time to trouble shoot and see if things were going to work and if we could go ahead, and we were told about 10 after 10 o’ clock, we couldn’t get the show up in the air.”