Donald Venturi Joins Apella’s Board of Directors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DONALD VENTURI JOINS APELLA’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Vancouver, BC – February 22, 2011

Apella Resources Inc. (TSX.V: “APA”), (U.S.A. OTCQX: “APAFF”), and (Frankfurt Symbol: “NWN”) is very pleased to announce the appointment of Donald Venturi to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Venturi is an aviation and logistics consultant whose expertise and more than 14,000 hours of flying hours as a accomplished helicopter pilot allows him to specialize in servicing the needs of the Canadian mineral exploration and mining sector.

Venturi Enterprises Inc., based out of Kelowna, B.C, provides aviation consulting services to Matrix Helicopters the highly respected leader in Canadian helicopter logistics to the mineral exploration industry. Don deals directly with the various technical aspects of client requirements such as helicopter and pilot screening procedures, onsite field safety audits of ongoing projects and direct liaison with mineral project management and personnel.

Prior to extending his services to Matrix Helicopters Don served as;

• General and Operations Manager as well as V.P. of Marketing for Northern Air Support of Kelowna, B.C. where he managed the corporation administration requirements overseeing administrative support staff, helicopter pilots and flight engineers.
• Domestic Marketing manager of Northern Mountain Helicopters based out of Prince George, B.C. where while serving as a helicopter pilot he logged over 1,800 flight hours on contracts servicing locations throughout British Columbia, Alberta and the Arctic.
• Helicopter Pilot for Viking Helicopters Ltd, of Ottawa, Ontario from 1969-1976 where he was a line pilot on contracts throughout Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, the Canadian Arctic and Africa. During this period he logged 6,000 hours as pilot in command. Don followed this as the East Coast Operations Manager, from 1976 to 1984 with Viking Helicopters, Pasadena, NL where in addition to managing aircrews Don managed to develop a new comprehensive flight ticket system providing his employer considerable savings in operation costs as well as increasing increased revenue streams on billable hours which increased from 600 hours to 6,200 hours per annum. During that period Don managed to log an additional 6,000 hours as pilot in command.

The Company has accepted the resignation of Mr. Christopher B. Chu, LLB as a director of Apella Resources Inc. Mr. Chu will continue to serve as Apella’s Corporate Secretary. The Company would like to thank Mr. Chu for his contribution of time and expertise while serving on our Company’s Board.

Additional information will be contained on the Company’s website at www.apellaresources.com or the company can be contacted at 604-683-8990.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF APELLA RESOURCES INC.

“Patrick D. O’Brien”

Patrick D. O’Brien, ICD.D – Director

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