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Your permanent ticket to ride (the bus)! Everyone knows that finding alternative modes of transportation is an important part of our future. As our city becomes more crowded, gas becomes more expensive and parking becomes sparser, how easy is it going to be to leave your car at home and take the bus? Well, the answer definitely relies on where you live and where you need to go but feel rest assured that the City of Kamloops is hard at work trying to make your bus riding life just a little bit easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City of Kamloops and BC Transit have a hassle free way for you to take the bus,â&#x20AC;? explains Colleen Lepik, transportation coordinator for the City of Kamloops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Purchased through your employer via regular payroll deduction, for only $44 per month the ProPASS offers unlimited travel on transit service throughout Kamloops.â&#x20AC;? A fairly simple way of acquiring transportation and promoting urban transportation, the ProPass could be a perk that business owners offer their employees. Compared to monthly bus pass holders, ProPASS users save $108 a year, and like monthly bus passes, ProPASS is tax deductible. In addition to saving you money, ProPASS is a permanent bus pass so you no longer have to remem-

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ber to buy a bus pass every month Colleen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now up to two addior have change or bus tickets on tional adult family members livhand. ing in the same household as the The program which has been principal ProPASS holder can running for a while here in the now also sign up for ProPASS and City has recently gone through take advantage of the discounted 30( &R %ARLUG -AR INDD some changes to make it easier rate! As the principal ProPASS including reducing the required holderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employer, you must number of transit riders per busi- agree to this and would be responness which will make it easier for sible for deducting payment for small businesses in our downtown each additional individual from core to participate. the principal ProPASS holderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have made some improve- earnings. Employers will find ments to ProPass,â&#x20AC;? furthers ProPASS as easy to administer as

a payroll deduction to the United Way. And, with more employees taking the bus instead of driving to work, employers may even find that more valuable parking spaces are freed up for their customers.â&#x20AC;? Another change to the program is the time you must commit to riding the bus. Employees now only have to commit to a minimum of four months with ProPASS. This helps to accommodate employees who also use other ways to get to work depending on the season like ride their bike or walk to work during the spring and summer. So donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t delay, sign up your business up for ProPASS. It is a great perk for employees and id you sign up before April 22, 2012 (Earth Day), all new ProPASS users will be entered into a draw to win an e-book reader! If you already have a ProPASS, tell the City your transit story and why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a ProPASS user and you could win an e-book reader too! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Employers who register for ProPASS before July 1st, 2012 will receive six months free onboard bus advertising,â&#x20AC;? finishes Colleen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For more details, contact Colleen Lepik at clepik@ kamloops.ca. For more information about ProPASS, visit www. bctransit.com/regions/kam (click on Fares, then ProPASS).â&#x20AC;? Tanya Orozco, freelance

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The Kamloops Blazers will host Game 1 of a best-of-seven series WHL playoff series this Friday night with the Victoria Royals as the opponents. MEG Energy is the game night sponsor and with the help of Safeway, will be giving away boxes of Kraft Dinner for fans to use as noisemakers. Following the game, fans are encouraged to drop off their boxes of Kraft Dinner as they exit the building. All the donations will go to the Kamloops Food Bank. The first 3000 fans at the game Friday night will receive a white Blazers play-off t-shirt. Fans are being encouraged to wear white throughout all the playoff games. MEG Energy will donate $25 to the Kamloops Food Bank for every shot on goal until the third period timeout during Friday night’s home game. MEG Energy will also be giving away pucks and a Blazers prize pack, which includes an autographed replica jersey. For tickets to playoff games please call the Kamloops Blazers Box Office at 250-8283339 or purchase online.

interior health and canuck place team up On March 8 and 9, Interior Health and Canuck Place hosted the first pediatric palliative care workshop in Kamloops bringing together medical professionals, school staff, counselors and others from throughout the province. Keynote speakers were from world-renowned Canuck Place Children’s Hospice in Vancouver, the provincial centre for children with a progressive life threatening illness, and B.C.’s only hospice for children. Pictured here is Susan Poitras from the Canuck Place counseling team discussing how best to support families.

New exhibits open at Kamloops Art Gallery this weekend

The Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG) is presenting Connecting the Dots: Doug Buis and Astrid Menze, from March 24 to June 9 in The Cube and BMO Open Gallery. The Members’ Preview and Opening Reception will take place on Saturday, March 24 at 6:30pm. Artist Doug Buis will be in attendance. Doug Buis is a Kamloops-based artist and professor in the visual arts department at Thompson Rivers University. Buis’ work investigates perceptions of the landscape and our surrounding environment through a variety of media and conceptual strate-

gies. Astrid Menze completed her MFA in new media program at the Transart Institute and lives and works as an interdisciplinary artist in Berlin. Her practice focuses on time-based media. In addition to Connecting the Dots, The Kamloops Art Gallery is also presenting an exhibition of work by Esther Shalev-Gerz, entitled WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening, from March 24 to June 16. ShalevGerz will give an artist’s talk on Saturday March 24 at 5:30pm, followed by the Members’ Preview and Opening Reception at 6:30 pm. The artist and the Con-

sul General of France, Mrs. Evelyne Decorps, will be in attendance. Born in Lithuania, raised in Israel and a resident of Paris since 1984, Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her investigations into the nature of democracy, citizenship, cultural memory and spatial politics. This exhibition brings together two key works by Shalev-Gerz in the first solo exhibition of her work to be organized in Canada. The video installation and photo and text work WHITE-OUT: Between Telling and Listening (2002) tells

the story of Åsa Simma, who is both Sami (indigenous peoples of Northern Europe) and Swedish. Like previous works by Shalev-Gerz, it discloses and dwells on the space between telling and listening and investigates the construction of memory. The video projection, Perpetuum Mobile (1998-2000) depicts a 10 Franc coin spinning in perpetual motion, seemingly able to overcome both physical and economic laws. These works offer manifold readings on the formation of personal and national identity.

Celebrate Thrift Seller with bag sale The Thrift Seller, owned and operated by Afternoon Auxiliary to Royal Inland Hospital, is located on the one hundred block of downtown Kamloops and has been selling consignment clothing for over 48 years in support of RIH. The retail outlet began in 1964 at a small taxi stand and has since then, moved to four different locations throughout the downtown area. The shop will be celebrating their grand reopening on March 31 with many changes to bring in new clientele and brighten up the store for spring. “Our goal is to revitalize the store, give it a fresh look”, said Business Enterprise

manager, Sophie Therrien. “We hope this will make it easier and more enjoyable for our customers to find their treasures.” In light of the re-opening, from March 5 to 24, the Thrift Seller will be offering a five dollar bag sale to clear out the store to make room for the new merchandise and collections. Here, customers will have the opportunity to fill a bag of quality clothing for five dollars. The volunteers would like to encourage the community to come by and take a look. As well, to remind them that all donations and proceeds go toward special patient care equipment for Royal Inland Hospital.

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Think you can take on the Dragons? CBC Television’s Dragon’s Den will be holding open auditions in Kamloops on Thursday, March 22 looking for the next hot new invention or million-dollar idea. The auditions will be held at the TRU Residence and Conference Centre, 900

McGill Road, between 11am and 6pm. An audition consent and release form is required to be completed with the audition which can be found at: http:// www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/dragonsden_ release_english.pdf.

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Two very special guests made a trip to Kamloops for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the North Shore Elks. Elks of Canada National President Jerry Wernicke from Chilliwack and Royal Purple of Canada National President Sharen McLean from Calgary stopped by to visit the mayor on March 16 to chat about what both organizations do for the communities they’re involved with. Pictured here (L-R) is Mayor Peter Milobar, Sharen McLean and Jerry Wernicke. In addition to the Kamloops Elks anniversary, the Elks of Canada are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year!

New Graffiti board has grand plans

A new board of directors were appointed at the Kamloops Graffiti Task Force (KGTF) Society’s annual general meeting. Bob Dieno, president; Alex Rugolo, treasurer; Courtney AuBuchon, secretary; Brendan Shaw, Hope Mikal, Jeremy Heighton and Robert Kelly replace an outgoing board of five who had served for much of the organization’s ten year history. The organization has already begun discussions on ways to involve the community and volunteers in such activities as Graffiti Clean-up Days in May and June. Bouvier said the task force is also looking at starting a pilot project in which neigh-

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Are you a breast cancer survivor looking for fun, fitness and friendship? The Spirit Warriors dragon boat team is a great group of women who meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. at the Pioneer Park boat launch starting in May. Last season the Spirit Warriors participated in Festivals in Salmon Arm and Pentiction. At each Festival there is a special tribute to breast cancer survivor teams. The team members stepped up to the challenge of competition and won Bronze medals in Pentiction! This is a sisterhood coming together to raise awareness that they have courage, they have fight, they have fun and most of all, they have the support of each other. The Spirit Warriors dragon boat team is always looking for new members. No experience required! Call Laima at 250377-1947 or Midge at 250-374-2566 for information. You can also learn more at www.spiritwarriors.ca.

Group against smart meters discuss issues The group No BC Smart Meters is looking for newcomers to find out what they are all about. They meet every Saturday at 1:00pm at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour Street and discuss all matters pertaining to smart meters both in Kamloops and BC as a whole. Issues will include how the meters sending frequencies through your body will affect you and your loved ones, massive increases in bills after installation, who stands to win and lose with the program, privacy, security and democratic problems also. Another topic is how blasting frequencies through your wiring that is not compatible with the frequencies has fire and insurance implications as well as for protecting your house from such problems. If you have had health problems since the meters have been put in, or prior problems have got worse, you can talk with others who have had this also. The group will discuss why you are experiencing those problems or if not yet how you will be at risk, the common misconceptions as to why these are ‘safe,’ who determined this,

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Just labour, law and land to be in-camera

Dear Editor, I follow with interest the discussions around city council’s many in-camera meetings. I was told “the number has gone down over the years”. A meaningless if interesting comment. The Kenna Cartwright Park switch, the water treatment plant, and other huge projects of the past do not have a current counterpart that would require a stack of secret meetings. There are fewer council meetings in general, so of course the number of in-camera meetings would decline as well. Labour, law and land. Nothing else can be in-camera. Three small but well guarded secrets that the public should know are these: 1. If you write a letter to council

and you’d like them to do something, write “For Action” in the subject line. It’s the code word. 2. If you write a letter and want it to go to every councilor, email it to citycouncil@kamloops.ca 3. If you write a letter and want it to show up in the minutes, send it to legislate@kamloops.ca Secret handshakes? Think of those as council’s business deals that turn out to be bad judgment ones in hindsight. Eg. the smartmeters that are being foisted on mostly unsuspecting Kamloopsians without their knowledge. It’s acceptable to use one, two or all three of these “secret codes”. Council of course, can still ignore your issue, but they will have done so with a tiny bit of publicity. Christina Mader, PhD

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KFS Spring Film Series

Now that its successful Kamloops Film Festival is winding down, the Kamloops Film Society (KFS) is pleased to announce its lineup of films for the 2012 Spring Series. On Thursday, March 22, the KFS will screen Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s The Kid With A scene from the Belgian film ‘The Kid With a Bike.’ a Bike, a heartwarming drama the KFS is pleased to present the of Cyril, a 12 year-old boy who National Film Board documensearches for the father who has tary of Margaret Atwood’s besttemporarily left him in a children’s selling book Payback on May 3. home. Samantha, a woman who The film offers a fascinating look runs a hairdressing salon, agrees at debt and its impact on personto take him in and Cyril discovers al relationships, societies and the the power of love that he needs to fate of the planet. calm his rage. The Kamloops Film Society The crime drama, Once Upon a invites the community to enjoy Time in Anatolia from Turkish di- these compelling films with a rector Nuri Bilge Ceylan, will be community of film lovers in the shown on April 5. Set in the Ana- comfortable environment of the tolia region of Greece, this film old-style Paramount Theatre at a focuses on the search for a murder convenient downtown location in victim, as details about the mur- Kamloops at 503 Victoria Street. der itself and the investigators’ se- Advance tickets are available at crets come to light. both Moviemart locations, 5th and On April 19, the emotional Seymour and Northhills Mall. thriller We Need to Talk About A two dollar annual KFS memKevin, directed by Lynne Ram- bership is required for admission say and based on the prize-win- and is available at Moviemart or ning novel by Lionel Shriver, will at the door the evenings of the be screened. Starring Academy screenings. Award-winner Tilda Swinton, this The Kamloops Film Society film portrays a woman dealing would like to thank its loyal auwith feelings of grief and respon- diences and its many volunteers sibility in the wake of her 15-year- who make the KFS film series old son’s irrational and unforgiv- possible. To volunteer for the ing act. KFS, please e-mail kfsvolunTo close out its Spring Series, teer@gmail.com. IFC Films

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The organization Invisible Children has managed to inspire 60 million people to watch video on Ugandan conflict in just four days. Emma Whanstall, a student from Thompson Rivers University, watched the film when it was released on Tuesday, March 6, and after reading more about the atrocities online, Emma created an event on the social media site, Facebook, which now has over 1,400 members of the community on board. In the film, the Invisible Children organization calls for people in cities all around the world to cover their towns with posters, flags, and other visual representations of KONY 2012. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because putting up unauthorized posters around town is against our bylaws, I would like to organize this event by dividing the city into specific areas, each with a team leader. These leaders would then be responsible for not only covering the city, but also preventing vandalism, and directing the clean up crews later in the week,â&#x20AC;? says Emma, who is appearing before city council on March 27 in hopes of having the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backing for the event. Without this, members of our community that are seen participating in the Cover the Night event risk being fined up to $100 for putting up the posters without approval. There are also volunteers currently working on an event to be held at 8pm on April 20 in the TRU Grand Hall, featuring speakers who will keep this inspiring feeling of empowerment and activism fuelled, and local speakers to highlight ways to get involved with in our community. Mike McKenzi, a Kamloops Youth Representative, is currently asking anyone who would like to volunteer for any other these events to contact the organizers at kony2012.kamloops@gmail.com.

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n Downtown Artwalk from Apr. 23 to May 31. Deadline for artist entry is Mar. 31. FMI on artist application, email: info@kamloopsarts.ca or go to www.kamloopsarts.ca n Annual March Kids Camp at the BC Wildlife Park from March 19-23. Camp will be focusing on BC’s Ecosystems. FMI and registration contact 250-573-3242 ext.226 or 259. www.bczoo.org n Kamloops Business and Professional Women’s Club meeting at Blenz Coffee on Victoria from 5 to 7pm on March 22. n Kelli Trottier, Coast to Coast with Greg Simm presented by Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers on Mar. 24 at 7:30pm at Heritage House in Kamloops, 100 Lorne St. FMI or tickets contact 250-376-2330. n Legion Ladies Auxiliary Executive Meeting on Mar. 26, at 1pm at Legion Branch 52, 425 Lansdowne. FMI contact Joan 250-579-9220. n Conversation Café hosted by RareBirds Housing Co-op on Mar. 27 from 7 to 9pm at the Smorgasboard Deli, 255 7th Ave. FMI contact 250-374-5015 or www.rarebirdshousing. blogspot.com.

n Filmtastic Film showing of Shame, March 29 at the Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St. FMI 250-372-7434. n Spring’ into Shopping Party for home based businesses on Mar. 31 from 10am to 3pm at St. Andrews on the Square, 159 Seymour St. FMI go to www.facebook.com/ events/162056140575207/ n Feature artist Grant Leier, with his collection of wild and funky art at the Hampton Gallery, 167 Fourth Ave. until Mar. 31. FMI 250-374-2400. n Ladies Auxiliary General Meeting on April 2 at 1pm at the Legion Hall, 425 Lansdowne St. FMI contact Joan at 250-579-9220. n Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament from April 4 to 8 needs volunteers for scorekeepers, timekeepers, 50/50 table attendants and rink managers at the venues, Sports Center, Interior Savings Center and Brock Arena. FMI 250-318-3238. n TRU Actors Workshop presents “Directors Festival”, repertory shorts, student directed, April 5-7 and 12-14. FMI call 250-828-5020. n No BC Smart Meters information meetings held every Saturday from 1 to 3pm at Desert Gardens, 554 Seymour St. FMI email nobcsmartmeters@gmail.com. n Distinguished Alumni Awards with Ian Hanomansing on April 13 at 6pm at TRU Grand Hall. FMI or to register call 250-8285264.

n Kamloops Garden Club meets at 7pm on the fourth Wed. of every month at Heritage House, 100 Lorne St. FMI call Jeanne at 250573-3160. n Kamloops Family History Society meetings take place on the fourth Thursday of each month (Sept to May) from 7-9pm at Heritage House, 100 Lorne St. FMI 250-579-2078. n Zumba Big Bash every Sat. at Cactus Jacks, 130-5th Ave. from 7-8pm. Jan. special: bring a friend and get in free! FMI or tickets contact Shay at 250-852-0564 or shalen@ shiftenterprises.ca n Toastmasters - Practice your listening and speaking skills. Three times to choose from: Tuesdays 7-9pm at Maurya’s, 165 Victoria St.; Thursdays 7-8:15am and 7-9pm at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour St. Everyone welcome! n Soul to Soul sharing and meditation Tuesdays at 7pm from Apr. 3 to May 15 at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour St. FMI contact 250-314-2028 or www.cslkamloops.org. n Interior Authors Group - Are you serious about writing? Network with people who are supportive, informative and interested in publishing. Kamloops’ Interior Authors Group meets the second Thursday of month at 6:30pm at Kamloops Art Gallery. FMI call Elma at 250374-1750. n 886 Overlander Wing of the Air Force Assoc. of Canada meets monthly on Wednesdays. FMI call Mike at 250-318-5777.

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