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Renaissance Man Blair Jones Local paraplegic athlete Blair Jones epitomizes the positivity of mountain sport. His story might even inspire you to get out there and go riding yourself. In June 2002 Blair broke his back while riding in Kamloops for a local mountain-bike video. The seasoned racing veteran hasn’t let an unfortunate injury keep him from ripping it up on the mountains, and chances are fairly good you won’t be able to catch up to him. Blair rides hard and has natural skill. He jokes that summer or winter you can find him outdoors, sitting around doing what he loves – if not, he’s grumpy. “I never lost the want to ride,” admits Blair. “I’m on wheels all the time. On my bike is my happy place.”

Blair really gets out there and lives large.

Speaking with him, you’ll find the same can be said not just in sport but in his winning attitude. He is constantly raising the bar. “You give me a challenge, I’ll go out and do it.

I’m almost dumber in a wheelchair than on two feet,” he quips.

Following his accident, Blair trained on a hand cycle, began racing competitively and advanced up in riding

levels. He has since successfully represented the sport he loves and competed at the BC Summer Games in 2004 and enters Crankworx every year.

The Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion ambassador has his eye set on the Olympic dream and is looking for the gear to get him there. As the season changes, Blair has plans to shift his focus from munching up the trails on his downhill-racing cycle to shredding the powder on a new sitski. Blair says he borrowed a

sit-ski, and was hooked from the day he brought it home. He skied every day, completed his instructor CDSA training and has raced all over the circuit as part of the BC Adaptive Sports Team.

An inspiration since day one of his recovery, the athlete is working to improve the quality of life

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The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) now has nomination packages available for the offices of Electoral Area Directors for each of the TNRD’s ten electoral areas. General voting day for local government elections is Saturday, November 15. Nomination Packages are available for download from the TNRD website at tnrd.ca or can be obtained at the Thompson- Nicola Regional District office, 4th floor, 465 Victoria Street during regular office hours.

The Chief Election Officer will receive nomination documents from 9:00am Tuesday, September 30 until 4:00pm on Friday, October 10 at the TNRD offices.

Memorial Plaque unveiling ceremony This year marks the 100th anniversary of Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920 and the War Measures Act. Thousands of men, women and children were branded as “enemy aliens” and interned in 24 camps established across Canada. Ukrainians, among other European nationalities, were those who were interned.

On Friday, August 22, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) un-

veiled 100 plaques in commemoration of these events.

All 100 plaques were unveiled at 11:00 am in Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian, German, and Hungarian churches and cultural centres, as well as in local and regional museums and other public venues, creating a “wave” of unveilings, moving from east to west, from coast to coast. MP Cathy McLeod joined the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in unveiling the plaque in Kamloops.

Attention Kamloops shutterbugs!

Olivia Stella showed her support for BC Teachers and joined a picket line downtown. The pressure to speed up bargaining is on as anxiety over whether school will begin as scheduled on September 2 ramps up.

The City of Kamloops is looking for photo submissions for the 2015 Annual Calendar, which will be printed and distributed to Kamloops residents in early December.

The City wants to see your image that you think best embodies Kamloops. The deadline for submissions is 4:30 pm, September 30.

Residents of all skill-level and ages are encouraged to enter their photographs. For entry requirements, visit city.kamloops.bc.ca/ annualcalendar/.

New this year, the City is running a “Share Your Selfie” Con-

test. Kamloopsians are encouraged to take their best “selfie” that showcases Kamloops, and then post it on social media using the hashtag #myKamloops, including a short description on why they love Kamloops. The selfies may be featured in the calendar this year. As an added bonus, all selfie submissions will be entered to win a pair of Cirque du Soleil - Dralion tickets!

To submit a photo, please email info@kamloops.ca, or drop off a CD at City Hall, attention Business and Client Services.

Fundraising benefit to support local parathlete - continued from front limited use of the lower extremities. It is a molded seat mounted on a metal frame, with a shock absorber beneath to maximize ski-to-snow contact and ease riding on uneven snow terrain. Using the latest alpine technology, the sit-ski retails commercially for more than $8,000 and will be adapted so it fits and suits Blair’s needs for mobility.

The ability to modify equipment and make affordable custom parts are pretty handy skills to have for a downhill racer. He runs a bike tech and sales shop out of his Aberdeen

home and has recently added a Level 1 Metal Fabrication to his list of skills. He knows his gear.

Getting the new equipment will allow him to compete in the Super G, Downhill and Slalom events.

“As soon as the hill is open, I’ll be hitting the gates,” Blair promises.

On the slopes, Blair will be assisted by para-alpine skiing coach Danny Letain, whom he met at Sun Peaks last year. Blair remembers that within 45 minutes of meeting Danny he found he could relate really well and was encouraged to move forward with his racing goals. He will also be joined in his training by another

adventuring go-getter, his paraathlete ski buddy Troy Morrison.

“Last year was Troy’s first season and I was blown away by his skill,” says Blair. He anticipates they will feed off of each other competitively, to push each other to new limits and evolve.

The fundraising benefit to help Blair happens at the Blue Grotto on September 12. The evening will feature a silent auction featuring technical gear and mountain swag. Any surplus will help others to experience adaptive skiing and to promote spinal cord injury awareness. Local band Chapter 9 will rock the house

and donate the evening’s CD sale proceeds to the cause.

There is little doubt this courageous soul and inspiring man will make his Paralympic dream a reality. Blair is a prime example of life having no limitations and everywhere he goes he brings his message of encouragement and motivation to have fun with life and discover what you are truly capable of. Always wearing his signature smile, the world-class para-athlete says, “I’ve always said within every disability there’s an ability. Don’t let an injury take the best of you. Take the best of it.”

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Meghan and Kristen, daughters of the Downtown Dairy Queen owner Dave Kuzyk, were busy preparing Blizzards for their customers on Miracle Treat Day. This is a well-received fundraiser, with every purchase of a Blizzard going to the Children’s Miracle Network.

Local student awarded curling scholarship The Canadian Curling Association’s For Love of Curling scholarships were announced on August 22 with nearly 100 applications received from across the country. Corryn Brown was the lucky recipient from Kamloops to receive one of the scholarships awarded.

The $1000 scholarships, which were funded by Canadian curling donors and supporters who purchased Tshirts during the ‘Got Gold?’ campaign, will help university students cover a portion of their education.

The scholarships were decided by a panel, whom looked at both academic and curling achievements, while

showing a commitment the sport of curling through coaching/instructing and/ or volunteering. Applicants needed to be enrolled fulltime for at least two semes-

ters at a Canadian university, in addition to being registered to compete for Canadian Team Ranking System points during the 2014/15 curling season.

Free NCCP coaching courses PacificSport Interior BC has announced that with the assistance of ViaSport BC funding, and sponsorship from Regional City Offices for facility rentals, select National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) multi-sport coaching certification modules will be offered throughout the region for free to coaches in celebration of BC Coaches Week in September.

BC Coaches Week runs September 21 to 28; however, select courses will be offered the last two weeks of September to celebrate coaches and their contributions to our communities.

For a complete listing of all NCCP courses being offered in the Interior BC Region this fall, or to register for any of the courses, go to pacificsportinteriorbc.com/index.php?p=9_2.

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Many other ways of improving health care Dear Editor, On September 8 a dangerous legal attack on Canada’s public health care system will begin in the BC Supreme Court and most people in Canada have heard nothing about it. For-profit clinic owner Brian Day is trying to use the court to strike down the rules that prevent a USstyle system in Canada. Day claims that the defining principle at the heart of Canadian Medicare that health services be provided according to patients needs, not their ability to pay is unconstitutional. If Day wins, the public system that Canadians rely on and overwhelmingly support will be dismantled across the country.

Despite the serious risk this case poses to our health, communities, and economy, it’s had very little coverage in the media.

Evidence shows that what Day is seeking would lead to longer wait times for care and poorer health for Canadi-

ans. Also, there is no evidence that private, for-profit care results in better care not anywhere in the world. A provincial audit of Day’s Cambie Surgery Centre and the associated Specialist Referral Clinic found that patients were unlawfully extra-billed $491,654 in just one 30 day period. In one case, a Cambie patient was billed $7,215.00 for services that would have cost only $1,288.04 in the BC health care system. Auditors also found over $66,000 in overlapping claims evidence that suggests double dipping for the same services.

Our public health care system needs improvement but reverting to a US style of care where wealth determines your place in the lineup for service, not need, is the wrong way to go; it will only increase wait times for most of us and worsen outcomes. One example of the many cost effective improvements that could be made to speed up wait times

and improve health outcomes is more home and community care that gets seniors out of hospital beds and back in their homes or in residential care, and frees up more hospital beds for those who need acute care. There are many other ways of improving the system, but Day’s remedy is not one of them; it will only make matters worse.

Rick Turner Kamloops Health Coalition

next Philosopher’s Cafe discussion The Council of Canadians’ monthly Philosophers’ Café will be addressing the topic of health care delivery at their September 16 Café (held at the Smorgasbord Deli, 2257th Avenue) All are welcome to come and weigh in with their ideas.

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The Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest is a free event, the only cost relates to your time, energy and compassion. This ‘co-opetition’ spans the 11-day period from September 11 and culminates on the UN’s International Day of Peace, September 21. Compassionate Kamloops encourages all Kamloopsians to sign up online to involve themselves, their places of work, play, worship and service. They want your compassionate acts to put Kamloops on the Compassion Map. Challenge and inspire your neighbours to participate in the CompasKeep feeling the need for being first. But I want sion Games! The Games are deyou to be first in love. I want you to be first in moral signed to make our communities excellence. I want you to be first in generosity. safer, kinder, more just, and better – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. places to live. The games can be played by anyone, anytime of the of the other and lies at the heart of all religious and year, anywhere and Game events are taking place ethical systems. in various communities around the globe. No matKamloops is the Best Blooming City in Canada, the ter where you are you can perform a Random Act Tournament Capital of Canada and Compassionate of Kindness.

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TRU welcomes students with events Thompson Rivers University is getting ready for the new year with events to welcome students back. On September 2 is TRU Discover for new students. This is an opportunity for students to meet faculty members, meet others in their area of study, to learn about the services and resources available to them. For more information visit: http://www.tru.ca/newstudents/orientation.html.

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Many things to love about the end of summer ■■ Music in the Park 7 to 8:30pm nightly at Riverside Park. Aug 28 Bluesfoot- Blues, Aug 29 The Blue Mules- Blues, Aug 30 Sally and The Melo Hearts- Great Cover Band, Aug 31 Earthbound- Funky World Music.

■■ Live in the Lounge at Lake City Casino, 540 Victoria St. Aug. 30 Jon Treichel. FMI 250-3723336.

■■ RIH Thrift Seller Garbage Bag Sale on Aug. 28 to 30 on all items, except 50 percent off collectables and no sale on jewelry.

All proceeds go to provide special patient care equipment for RIH. ■■ Kamloops Turf Club AGM and Pig Roast. Aug. 31 at Sagebrush Downs, 479 Chilcotin Rd. AGM starts at 1pm. Pig roast starts at 4pm. Free for members. Nonmembers call Malcolm for tickets at 250-851-0070.

■■ Conversations In Health on Sept. 2 at 7pm at Caffe Motivo, 229 Victoria St. We will start a conversation, get you thinking, talking and have you leave with specific action steps that can make a difference right away. RSVP today for this free event, seating is limited to 30 participants. FMI call Janice at 250-574-3734.

■■ TVASC “Let’s Dance” on Sept. 13 from 8pm to 12am at Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St. Music by Jaccard Music Services. For tickets cll Zonia at 250-372-0091, Francoise at 250372-3782 or Ed at 250-374-2774.

■■ Hunter’s Hope Fundraiser on Sept. 7 from 9am to 5pm at A Cut Above Family Hair Care, #5- 177 Tranquille Rd. Haircuts by donation. Help baby Hunter, born with craniosynostosis, with his surgery

Last chance - Music in the Park comes to a close on August 31 with the funky world jazz sounds of Kamloops own Earthbound. Don’t miss out on your last chance to enjoy a great free show!

and recovery at Children’s Hospital. FMI call 778-470-2799.

■■ Dinner and Singing with Christian singer/songwriter, Linnea Good on Sept. 13 at 5pm at Kamloops United Church. Linnea is a well-known performer, specializing in developing the singer in children and adults alike. Free event. Children must be accompanied by an adult. To register call 250-372-3020.

■■ 34th Annual Terry Fox Run on Sept. 14 at the bandshell in Riverside Park. Visit terryfox.org for pledge sheets. FMI or to volunteer call April at 250-851-0207.

■■ Can-Ital Ladies 50th Anniversary Dinner and Dance on Sept 20. Doors at 6pm and dinner at 7pm. Traditional Italian dinner with music by AM Entertainment.

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at 250-376-7794 or Linda at 250320-5582 (cash or cheque only) ■■ Chronic Pain Self-Management on Tuesdays, Aug. 26 to Sept. 30 from 1 to3:30pm at Seniors’ Activity Drop-In Centre, #9 – 1800 Tranquille Rd. To register: Toll Free 1-866-902-3767 or www.selfmanagementbc.ca.

■■ Arthritis and Fibromyalgia on Fridays, Sept. 5 to Oct. 10 from 1 to 3:30pm at Riverbend Manor, 760 Mayfair St. All participants receive a free Arthritis Handbook. To register: Toll Free 1-866-902-3767 or www.selfmanagementbc.ca.

■■ Diabetes (Type 2) SelfManagement on Tuesdays, Sept. 16 to Oct. 21 from 2 to 4:30pm at Kamloops YMCAYWCA Downtown, 400 Battle St. To register: Toll Free 1-866902-3767 or www.selfmanagementbc.ca.

■■ Climbing Out of the Valley Grief Workshop from Sept. 24 to Oct. 29 from 3:30 to 5:30pm at Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul St. Register by calling 250372-3020 or kuchurch@shaw.ca

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■■ The Science of Happiness and Choices on Oct. 4 from 2 to 3pm at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour St. To register or FMI contact the MS Society at 250314-0773 or Kamloops Brain Injury Association at 250-372-1799.

RSVP by Sept. 19.

■■ Breastfeeding Challenge on Oct. 4 from 10:30am to 12:30pm at St Paul’s Cathedral, 360 Nicola St. A fun event to celebrate breastfeeding. This is a worldwide event for the most mother’s breastfeeding at one time. Sponsored by Breastfeeding Matters in Kamloops. Everyone welcome.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Experiences may seem surreal on some level.

You may be doing something you never thought you would do. Hold onto the awareness that you may be misinterpreting what happens. It’s also possible that you are unconsciously donning a mask to suit the circumstances. If you feel disconnected, you must go back to your heart center.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) You can now see the result of financial decisions made last year. Hopefully you have chosen well and can now enjoy the ripe fruits of your choices. In the world of relationships, it appears that you need to have a genuine discussion over shared resources and their management.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 –Nov. 22) This summer marks a time in which you’re likely to let a bad relationship go, rather than carrying all the energy around by yourself. You are much stronger than you may believe right now, after a long bout with Saturn.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Between now and October life will work more smoothly if you let yourself be led by the “signs,” circumstances, and people around you. It’s not a time to attack in anger or initiate new ideas, but to respond to what comes your way. If someone takes a swing at you, defend yourself as necessary..

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22.- Jan. 20) Circumstances involving love life and money may feel a bit tight. You may experience an emotional droop. This is a temporary mood so don’t take it seriously. Focus instead on the present and don’t project way down the track.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) For any number of reasons, circumstances may leave you out of the social loop. Astrologically this is a time for selfreflection and not self-condemnation. Having a quiet week is appropriate at this time. Don’t turn this into a negative belief about yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) There are vampires loose in the world and the Piscean Fish tends to attract them. If you have matured a bit, you probably have begun to smell them when they cross your radar. Take care of yourself first when someone approaches you7 with sad story.

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TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) The conjunction of 2013 occurred in your first solar house and it concerns yourself and your relationships. Who do you want to become? You are beginning the last leg of an arduous journey. Anyone who takes energy from you without return may be toxic. Think carefully.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Your recent focus matters of home, hearth and family is drawing to a close and something in these areas is being completed now. Then you will be shifting attention to children, recreation, personal creativity and romance. Take your pick. They are all fun.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) People from your past may resurface this week.

If not specific people, then the week’s experiences are somehow familiar and reminiscent of the past. The probability of whether you want to attend to these developments is 50/50.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Take a look at reality. The facts are being exposed related to a financial or sexual matter. Maybe you’re just becoming aware of the truth concerning your partner’s resources. Or possibly the culprit is yourself as you’ve avoided clear knowledge of your financial picture.

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