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Tickets selling fast for Search for the Perfect Pint event in Port Moody

Event held at Port Moody City Hall on May 5

By Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

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April 4, 2023

Image courtesy of Port Moody Rotary Club.

Only about 200 tickets are left for the Search for the Perfect Pint event at Port Moody City Hall on May 5.

The fundraising event began in 2004 and is organized by the Port Moody Rotary Club, and caters to beer enthusiasts.

All proceeds are put back into the community, supporting other local events and organizations, said organizer Alan Kabatoff.

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“It’s been a super successful event for the past 15 years. It helped evolve Brewers Row,” Kabatoff said. “Right now, we are about a month away and we’re close to 400 tickets sold.”

Tickets cost $50, and everything is included in the ticket prices – no tokens needed.

Approximately 20 breweries are set to attend the event, along with several food vendors from local restaurants.

Beer experts will walk attendees through the tasting process, and share expertise on the different flavour, styles and brew processes.

Ticket sales are capped at 600, and the event in 2022 was sold out two weeks before the event, Kabatoff said.

The 2023 event is slated to run from 6 to 9 p.m. with live music throughout.

Local initiatives supported by the event include youth, seniors, education, food security, and environmental programs.

The fundraising also supports the rotary club’s international projects for clean water, literacy, and women’s health projects.

More information can be found by contacting Kabatoff at Alan.K@telus.net or 604-802-8114.

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Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Having spent the first 20 years of his life in Port Moody, Patrick Penner has finally returned as a hometown reporter.

His youth was spent wiping out on snowboards, getting hit in the face with hockey pucks, and frolicking on boats in the Port Moody Arm.

After graduating Heritage Woods Secondary School, Penner wandered around aimlessly for a year before being given an ultimatum by loving, but concerned, parents: “rent or college.”

With that, he was off to the University of Victoria to wander slightly less aimlessly from book, to classroom, to beer, and back.

Penner achieved his undergraduate degree in 2017, majoring in political science and minoring in history.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, translating this newfound education into career opportunities proved somewhat challenging.

After working for a short time as a lowly grunt in various labour jobs, Penner’s fruitless drifting came to an end.

He decided it was time to hit the books again. This time, with focus.

Nine months later, Penner had received a certificate of journalism from Langara College and was awarded the Jeani Read-Michael Mercer Fellowship upon graduation.

When that scholarship led to a front page story in the Vancouver Sun, he knew he had found his calling.

Penner moved to Abbotsford to spend the next three years learning from grizzled reporters and editors at Black Press Media.

Assigned to the Mission Record as the city’s sole reporter, he developed a taste for investigative and civic reporting, eventually being nominated for the 2023 John Collison Investigative Journalism Award.

Unfortunately, dwindling resources and cutbacks in the community media sphere convinced Penner to seek out alternative ways to deliver the news.

When a position opened up at the Tri-Cities Dispatch, he knew it was time to jump ship and sail back home to beautiful Port Moody.