There are number of tandem dump trucks here, with drivers staying at the local Econo Lodge. One of the drivers says they are hauling asphalt to Savona from a plant to the west of Merritt.
The motel is has rooms booked for them through thursday. So visitors may be under pressure for the higher rate motels to the north end of town.
Savona is on the West end of Kamloops lake a small town of less than a thousand people.
Savona Italy was the home of Christopher Columbus according to a driver who grew up in Venice Alberta.
Today in history, August 28,1913
Queen Wilhelmina opens the peace palace in the Haque.
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