Curling Canada will be in Penticton Thursday at the South Okanagan Event Centre's Valley First Vault Bar & Grill for a major announcement.

Local media have been invited for the annoucement scheduled for Thursday morning.

In the spring, members of the Penticton Curling Club put forward an application to land the Scott Tournament of Hearts in 2018. Kim Kirkham and Charlie Cohoe are leading the host committee. The committee set a goal of collecting 1,000 deposits of $100 each before June 20.

Sydney, NS is one of the other the cities vying to host the 2018 tournament

鈥淵ou basically have to prove that the city would support it before you would be chosen as the city to host an event,鈥� said Kirkham, who is also counting on curling fans from other regions to show its support. 鈥淲hat we have going for us is that the facility is second to none.鈥�

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Since that time the club has received support from big names in the sport including , who won bronze at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, and 琉璃神社's Kelly Scott among others.