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Volume 14 Number 51 | 50¢
December 23, 2015
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A year of community and caring At the end of each year we like to reflect on the year past and look ahead to the year to come. Although its only dates on a calendar, there is something refreshing about being able to say goodbye to the months gone by and hello to a whole new prospect of months ahead. The most wonderful thing about being a community newspaper is you guessed it – community! We are fortunate to have a great base of people to work with everyday. It stretches far beyond the confines of our office walls, right down into the streets below us and the wonderful shops, homes and lives of you in our neighbourhood. The common theme that runs through most all of our stories are giving. We here in Kamloops are some of the kindest, most giving folks around. This trait shows itself in our stories, which we take right from the streets of Kamloops. Looking back into the first few months of the year – this theme is apparent. Here in the downtown core, a great Samaritan threw a benefit dinner for Cpl. Michaud to help cover some of his medical expenses after being wounded on a routine traffic stop, Dalton from Country Garden Greenhouse explained to us the importance of shopping local, and a few local musicians got together to throw a musical benefit concert on Valentines Day for the Y Women’s Shelter. walk, Downtown restaurants donated to the and just being good ambassadors for the city. Speaking of ambassadors, one exciting There is always something happening here Downtown Kamloops Community Food Bank in town and more often than not, the people Fund with their Taste of Downtown event, the thing that happened this year was Downtown Rotarians also put on RibFest (mmm yum!) and Kamloops finally was able to implement a behind it use it as a platform for giving. Even the RLC Kids in conjunction with Expo- Hot Nite in the City also donates many dollars year round Customer Care and Patrol Team. This was much in part to the hard work of sure Kamloops got into the giving spirit and put back into the community. These events alone only get us through half their past leader Timothy Crowe and fundtogether a gallery show with proceeds going to help diabetes research and fund equipment for of the year. There are so many more people ing by the Federal Government. This team their school gym. ASK Wellness threw a Mz. who spend the year doing good for our com- in red is much more than customer care, they Judged Pageant, the 100 Women Who Care munity. Aside from all the flash and glitz of are ambassadors in every sense. The amount group set out to raise money and give it away, benefits and fundraisers, there are also an of things they work towards on a daily basis the Rotarians held a benefit for Nepal, RIH held abundance of hometown heroes who put a would astound you. They do an amazing their legendary Royal Affair, Purina had a dog major effort into volunteering, fundraising - continued on page 3
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