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Lethbridge’s Nikka Yuko honoured with North American recognition

A big feather in cap for Lethbridge’s Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden.

The popular local tourist attraction is the recipient of this year’s Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For Award.

The honour was presented this week at a conference on Vancouver Island.

Michelle Day, Nikka Yuko’s Executive Director, says this is a significant achievement especially to be recognized alongside other major gardens such as the University of Alberta’s Botanic Garden and Butchart Gardens in Victoria.

“Our team is small, but mighty, so it’s a huge honour to be on the same stage as these other larger gardens,” says Day. “Also be recognized as a leader in garden tourism. It goes to show that our hard work is paying off and gives us more opportunities to attract travellers from around the world to Lethbridge.”

As garden tourism continues to grow, Nikka Yuko is also in the process of constructing a new building, which is set to open in the spring of 2021.

Day notes this award comes in perfect timing with the announcement of Nikka Yuko’s fourth annual Winter Light Festival, which will open November 29th.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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