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Vernon’s cadet camp booming this summer

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Watch Above: Reporter Megan Turcato catches up with a married couple who got their start at the cadet camp and new cadets ready to start their summer adventure. – Jul 13, 2016

It’s a sure sign that summer has arrived in the north Okanagan. Hundreds of cadets have descended on the Vernon Cadet Training Centre.

This year over 1,700 cadets will come through the camp over the course of the summer.

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That is a big increase from recent years when the number of attendees fluctuated around 1,300.

The Vernon facility is picking up some of the slack after a cadet camp in Alberta shut its doors.

Watch above as Global Okanagan visits the training centre to find out why cadets keep coming back and how former cadets remember their time at camp.

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