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Here in the city of Kamloops we love hockey. We ice time and learn to skate and play hockey,” continlove professional hockey, we love semi-proues Alex. “Our long term goal is to work with fessional hockey, we love junior hockey, similar teams in other cities (Kelowna, Verwe love casual hockey and we love to non, Penticton) and start a league where teach our kids the game of hockey. these kids can play against each other Alex de Chantal, Health and Wellaround the Thompson Okanagan. ness Coordinator for the City of The program started last week Kamloops knows this and is but we still have space for more super excited to see the new kids to join even if they are hockey program he devellate signing up!” oped start last week. That Alex and his team have program is the first ice put much thought into the hockey program for youth different approaches and with special needs in Katactics they would use to mloops, and with support teach this group how to from the community has play hockey. They have become a reality. worked together to de“We worked with some velop visual cues that local organizations in will help to give visual town - People in Motion, prompts to the kids about Kamloops Autism, Chris what the practice plan Rose Center for Autism, looks like for that day. and Insight Support Servic“These ‘posters’ will help es to identify what age groups to list what drills are going would benefit from this proon next, and what drills will gram in Kamloops,” explains be coming up after,” he says. Alex. “We wanted to ensure our “In my research, I found that program was open to a wide age programs in the lower mainland op sB range as well as boys and girls.” had great success using these visual EY fr earlug Jan 12.indd 1 la ze rs The end result is a program aptly prompts when working with this demoHo ck ey named Hockey for Youth with Special graphic. The goal is to give them a visual Clu b. Needs. It is a program for boys and girls from breakdown of the schedule as we have been age five to 16 years who have developmental detold it helps to alleviate any anxiety they may feel lays. The only requirement it has is the participant must about the practice plan.” be able to stand on skates. Maybe even better than the program itAlex has partnered with the Blazers Sports Society, the Kamself is the fact that siblings are encouraged to participate as well (regular loops Blazers, Consignor Sports, and Player’s Bench to offer the best registration fees apply) and that parents are also welcome on the ice. program possible. The sponsors have been very generous and the “The goal is to provide an opportunity for these kids to enjoy some – continued on page 2 oto
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Nominations for the Annual Athletic awards being accepted
The Kamloops Sports Council has announced and invited nominations for the “Annual Athletic Awards”. The Awards will be handed out on April 14 in conjunction with the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame Inductees for 2012. To qualify for the awards the nominee, able-bodied or with a disability must have made a significant contribution to sport in Kamloops in the past calendar year. Categories are: Female Athlete (individual), Male Athlete (individual), Senior Athlete 55 plus (Individual), Team of The Year, Coach of The Year (Individual) and Sports Person of the Year (Individual).
Nominees must have resided in Kamloops for the calendar year of nomination (2011) or be a member in good standing with a recognized club or association in Kamloops. All nominees should be considered amateur by definition of the Provincial or National governing body. Deadline for nominations is February 15th. “This is an exciting event for the Kamloops Sports Council when we recognize an individual or team that has made a significant impact on sport in Kamloops.” said Peter Soberlak, chair of the Kamloops Sports Council. To nominate someone
Library offers free computer classes
The following free computer classes are currently being offered at the downtown Kamloops Library: eBooks on Friday, January 13 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. Introduction to Word Processing on Saturday, January 14 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am. You can sign up for classes by calling 250- 3725145 or by going to the Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria Street. If you are unable to attend a class you are signed up for, call the library so they can make your space available to someone else.
WolfPack going retro vs. UBC
Do you still have that old Cariboo College or University College of the Cariboo sweater or jacket? Now is the time to get it out and wear it proudly. The Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack is taking a step back in time for their Canada West basketball games this weekend. The WolfPack players will be wearing special retro warm up shirts which will pay homage to their predecessors— Cariboo College Chiefs and Gold Rush along with the University College of the Cariboo Sun Demons. As well, those fans who wear memorabilia
from those two former schools will get two dollars off their admission. Keeping up with the retro theme, fans are being encouraged to dress in clothes from the 70’s or 80’s similar to a ‘bright and tight’ party and they will earn discounts from the TRU Apparel Store. The front lobby of the TRU Gym will be decorated with memorabilia from Cariboo College and UCC for fans to take a look at. Game times for the games against UBC are 6:00pm and 8:00pm on Friday, January 13 along with 5:00pm and 7:00pm on Saturday, January 14.
or if you wish to nominate yourself you can call the Sports Council office at 250-828-3822
or go online and download a nomination form at www.kamloopssportscouncil.com. Forms
can also be picked up at the Sport Councils office at 262 Lorne Street in Kamloops.
TCC outdoor track open to public
If you want to get outdoors for your fitness routine, now is the time! Due to warmer than normal temperatures this January, the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department has temporarily reopened the outdoor track and turf at the Tournament Capital Centre for public use and group bookings. Over the next two weeks, the weather conditions will be evaluated daily to determine if the outdoor facility is fit for use. With the approval of City staff, the track will tentatively be open for use from 5:30 am to 11:00 pm Monday through Friday and 6:30 am to 9:30 pm on weekends. Watch for daily updates on the status of the track and field at www.facebook. com/cityofkamloops.
Celebrate New Year’s again! Just when you thought it was safe to hang up your party hat, think again! New Year’s Eve in this country may have come and gone but according to the Julian calendar New Year’s Eve has yet to come and for the Greek Catholics and Eastern Orthodox living in Eastern Europe, primarily in the Ukraine, this means it is party time! A Ukrainian New Year Dinner and Dance is being held on January 14 at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, located at 725 York Street just behind Bowlertime and Liquidation World. They will be serving an array of traditional dishes including their delightful perogies, cabbage rolls, roast beef, sauerkraut, kielbasa and more. There are still tickets available for Dinner and Dance and you will want to get them while they
Bella Bugera holds up two tickets for the Ukrainian New Year Dinner and Dance. Tickets are limited so get yours today!
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Happy New Years to the Ukrainian Orthdox Centre and all its members and families. May your year be prosperous!
Giving kids a chance to play – continued from page 1 results are that there are equipment subsidies available and additional space for more kids to register! They want to ensure that cost is not a barrier for these kids, and so they have come up with a few options for purchasing hockey equipment. “We have a very qualified staff that will be leading the practices and the focus will be on safety and fun!” finishes Alex. “All our instructors have their first
aid and our lead instructors have experience working with youth with special needs and have coached hockey in the past. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to ask!” This one of a kind in Kamloops program runs Saturdays until the end of March. For more information, please contact Alex de Chantal at 250-8283828 or adechantal@kamloops.ca for more information. Tanya Orozco, freelance
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Marc Koegel featured at Arnica
Arnica Artist Run Centre is hosting an exhibit of long exposure work by fine art black and white photographer Marc Koegel with an opening reception held on January 13 at 6:30 pm with the exhibit running until February 18. Marc Koegel is an award-winning fine-art photographer, educator, writer and the director of Vancouver Photo Workshops. Born in Germany, Marc first came to Canada in 1996. He has been seriously involved with photography ever since he was given his father’s camera and darkroom setup at the age of 12. Marc has worked and studied with many internationally acclaimed photographers, including Joe McNally, Mary Ellen Mark, Arthur Meyerson, Jay Maisel, Ralph Gibson, David Hume Kennerly and Jon Cone from Cone Editions Press. In 2007, Marc was commissioned to put together Western Canada’s first one-year full-time, fully accredited, diploma program focusing on the latest digital photography technologies. Since the year 2000, Marc has focused heavily on fine-art long exposure photography. Marc works predominately in black and white, using both film as well as the latest digital processes. To create his award-winning fine-art photography, Marc has traveled extensively throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Also on display will be The Tattoo Project by Marc Koegel at the Arnica Artist Run Centre located in the Old Courthouse Gallery, 7 West Seymour Street.
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HAP receives grants for Life Skills Training
Life Skills Training is crucial to help many people transition from homelessness and poverty to an empowered and independent life. Life Skills include a very broad range of problem solving abilities, including but not limited to: Self Esteem, Emotional Control, Cooking, Time Management, Physical Fitness, Hygiene, Home Maintenance, and Job Skills Preparations. The Homelessness Action Plan (HAP) is proud to announce grants from four separate sources that will be used to improve access to Life Skills Training in Kamloops such as, $6,000 from the Vancouver Foundation and the Tula Community Fund to perform an assessment of Life Skills Training programs
across the community; $74,899 from the federal Homelessness Partnership Strategy to develop recommendations from the assessment process and $50,000 from Teck Resources Ltd, Highland Valley Copper to implement the recommended Life Skills Training Programs that will help people transition to financial independence. HAP would also like to thank United Way for their ongoing support and partnership on this project, together we are ending homelessness! For more information regarding the Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan, please contact Tangie Genshorek, coordinator Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan 250-571-9665.
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In the month of February the Phoenix Centre will launch their new ‘Turn up the Heat’ campaign with the purpose of raising money to replace their heating system. The current system is past it’s life expectancy and repairs are becoming expensive and more frequent. If the system were to fail, the facility would shut down. This would mean the 20 bed medically supported withdrawal management program (detox) for adults would no longer be capable of taking patients, and the outpatient programs for youth and families no longer able to provide service. “This would have a significant impact as this is a regional resource, the only one of its kind that serves more than 1500 people every year, and these people are our family, our friends and our neighbours,” says Sian Lewis, pictured here standing in front of the 30 year old heating system. To donate to the Phoenix Centre or to get more information, contact Sian 250-374-4634 ext 203.
Top 10 tips for a healthy New Year Now that the New Year is here many of us are thinking of ways to improve our lives and the lives of those around us. These 10 tips can help you and your family lead healthier lives in 2012: Reduce the amount of sodium your family eats. Eating too much sodium can cause high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and kidney disease. Experiment with herbs and spices instead of salt to flavour your food. Limit consumption of sugary drinks. Make water your first choice to satisfy thirst and keep you hydrated. Fit in fitness. Try taking the stairs instead of the elevator, getting off the bus a few stops ahead of your destination or make walking the dog a family outing. Quit smoking. For more information, visit www.health.gov.bc.ca/ pharmacare/stop-smoking or www. quitnow.ca. Spend more time with family and friends. Moderate alcohol intake. Last November, Canada released a new national set of low-risk alcohol drinking guidelines to help people who
choose to drink decide when, where, why and how. For more information visit www.ccsa.ca/Eng/Priorities/ Alcohol/Canada-Low-Risk-AlcoholDrinking-Guidelines/Pages/default. aspx. Control your portions and eat healthier. HealthLink BC’s Dietitian Services’ registered dietitians can answer any nutrition or food-related concerns. Reach them by calling 81-1 or online at www.healthlinkbc. ca/dietitian. Find a work/life balance for less stress. Try to schedule time for quick breaks throughout the day and when
you get home, put aside unnecessary chores and take some time for you. Get your flu shot. To find the nearest flu shot clinic, call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1, or visit the B.C. Flu Clinic Locator at www.health.gov.bc.ca/flu. Get enough sleep. Maintaining a regular bedtime routine, avoiding caffeine before bed, and being physically active during the day can all help make getting to sleep easier. For more information and tips on getting healthier, check out: www. healthyfamiliesbc.ca or for general health-related information, visit www.healthlinkbc.ca.
Heap the Honda with children’s books
The Family Literacy Committee is working with Kamloops Honda to challenge the community and local schools to collect gently used and new children’s books. The books will be sorted at Sahali Mall and distributed to local agencies to share with families. The goal is for every child to have good quality books at home to read and enjoy. Books will also be used to stock the Bright Red Bookshelves at key locations in the city. Books will be given to children at Family Games Night at Sahali Mall on January 26, and at ABC Family Literacy Day on January 28. Kamloops Honda and the community have been offering their support in donating over 25,000 books for the past two years. If you would like to volunteer to help sort books, please contact Fiona Clare 250-319-9653.
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ATEC gets you ready for employment Bob McCuaig and Julie Antoine of the Aboriginal Training and Employment Centre here in Kamloops know that it can be the simplest things that stand between you and regular and fulfilling employment. Whether you lack the confidence to get the job you deserve, don’t know what opportunities there are out there or simply can’t fine tune your resume they are here to help. They have been on a mission to educate and through their Work Readiness Program have opened the doors to fulfilling employment for their program participants. “We have ran the program four times last year,� explains Bob. “We see definite shifts in the participants focus depending what season it is. In the fall, for this next session, we will see participants who are looking to get into the resource sector, in the spring we see people who are looking into tourism and construction.� “We have seen really great Julie Antoine and Bob McCuaig are results so far,� continues Julie. ready to help you get the skills needed “We invite you to call to inquire for employment you deserve. about information on participating.� The Employment Readiness make it so setting goals is a routine amount of people retiring from the job market has left big holes that Program is designed to assist pro- they get into.� A division of the Shuswap Nation are waiting to be filled. gram participants in matching their The next Employment Readiness skills and abilities to sustainable Tribal Council, the Aboriginal occupation. With the help of the Training an Employment Centre Program starts January 16 with a program facilitator Julie, you will helps you discover the hidden job few limited seats left. Call ATEC learn the nine essential skills that market, essential skill building, job today to inquire about more inforemployers look for, gain the self- search, work experience, interview mation at 250-554-4556 and get confidence and skills necessary to confidence and offers certification ready to turn your dream job into in first aid, a reality. Employers are also welcompete in the marketplace proceeds go to 100%and proceeds gofood to safe, cashier train-100% safe WHMIS and more.elizabeth come to call centre if they are gain help with everything from ing, Frythe Society elizabeth Fry job Society resume writing to interview skills. People of Aboriginal ancestry who looking for staff to fill a variety of arethem $20know at: the skills ready, positions. Let “We help participantsCalendars look at are are $20willing at: and able to lookCalendars 265 Victoria work qualify for travel assis-Ruby andRoom, qualifications you are looking their skill sets,� explains Julie. Ruby Room,for 265 Victoria Doctor 463 Lansdowne tanceLansdowne and support to move from forLove, and they can help you source “We look at education,Doctor work expeLove, 463 qualified and eager employees that rience, volunteer hours, we look at training to employment. “There are many available open- suit your needs. anything they have that will help Tanya Orozco, freelance them meet their goals. We work on ings in different sectors around our immediate goals, future goals and area,� continues Bob. “The high
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If you are a swimmer with a resolution to swim more in 2012, you now have some added motivation, a challenge to collectively swim 1.6 million lengths between January 1 and March 29. The ‘Kamloops Swimmers in Motion’ challenge aims to provide residents a unique way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion tour. The goal of 1.6 million twenty-five metre pool lengths is equivalent to the distance Rick completed in his 1987 Man in Motion tour, month trekininArmstrong. which he Nexta 26 bout Nov. 19 logged more than 40,000 km through 34 countries on Details at www.facebook.com/ four continents before crossing Canada. tournamentcityderbydolls Swimmers are encouraged to enjoy the health ben-
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A man was driving when he saw the flash of a traffic camera. He figured that his picture had been taken for exceeding the limit even though he knew that he was not speeding. Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. Now he began to think that this was quite funny, so he drove even slower as he passed the area once more, but the traffic camera again flashed. He tried a fourth and fifth time with the same results and was now laughing as the camera flashed while 1/9/12 2:24:00 PMhe rolled past at a snail’s pace. Two weeks later, he got five tickets in the mail for driving without a seat belt. You can’t fix stupid.
Things not to do while driving uRoll down your windows and blast talk radio. Attempt to head bang. uAt stop lights, eye the person in the next car suspiciously. With a look of fear, lock your doors. uTwo words: Chicken suit. uWrite the words “Help me” on your back window in red paint. The more it looks like blood, the better. uOccasionally wave a stuffed animal/troll doll/Barbie out your window or sunroof. Feel free to make it dance.
uHave conversations, looking periodically at the passenger seat, when driving alone. uSing without having the radio on. uWave at people often, if they wave back, offer an angry look and an obscene gesture. uAsk people for Grey Poupon. uLook behind you frequently, with a very paranoid look. uHang numerous car-fresheners in the rear-view mirror. Talk to them, stroking them lovingly.
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Pictured here is Cara Graden straightening one of the artworks in her current exhibition at the Kamloops Arts Council’s Main Gallery located inside the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre.
Entangled Lines at the Old Courthouse
Connie Karst, a retired elementary school teacher, has been playing with all different forms of art medium. Upon retirement Connie was asked to come up with a number of inexpensive art projects; while doing the research she stumbled onto a website regarding Zentangles. This art form was an easy way to get youth involved in creating successful and portable art. For Connie art is all about play and the enjoyment to create and share with others. Connie has taken her ‘tangles’ outside the box and inserted them into other forms of artwork. Cara Graden has also dabbled in variety of art forms. She has L TRAINING found Zentangling to be relaxing ABORIGINA and beneficial for creating mini works of art. Cara was introduced to Zentangles, while working on a project with Connie, and was challenged to do a ‘tangle’ a day. From January 31 until April 15 she created a total of 80 images from repetitive patterns. Each image created leaves the viewer with a different impression. What is a Zentangle? In a word: a doodle, a structured, contained doodle. The term Zentangle was coined by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas when one day Maria described her experience as she created her art, as feeling timeless, free and engendering a sense of deep well-being. Rick recognized that Maria was in a meditative state and so Zentangles were born. Entangled Lines (Zentangle) will be at the main gallery at the Old Courthouse Gallery, 7 West Seymour St. until January 28th.
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Silver Follies update - The Silver Follies regret to announce to their loyal followers that they are unable to put on a show this year due to reorganizing and other unforeseen circumstances. The good news is that they are working on putting on a bigger and better performance in 2013. The Silver Follies are also looking for individuals who like to sing and would be interested in joining their troupe. If you are interested, you can call Doug at 250-828-2120 or Betty at 250-434-6657.
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