June 2, 2011 Volume 10 • Number 22 50¢ Newsstand Price
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5th Annual CAP Team
Golf Tournament
Local golfers play Canadian Tour – page 2
June 16, 2011
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Blowfish Hair Studio – page 5
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Children get healthy at the downtown Y
Summer is almost combat challenge and a here and that means it pool party which are all is time to start planning open to the entire famwhat your kids are going ily. An inflatable bounce to do with their time castle and the Cliffside off of school this year. climbing wall will also Although as a parent you be onsite. Everyone who may get a little depressed attends can enter to win looking around at all the an annual family memhappy kids running carebership.” free through the parks Come down, get active while you are stuck in and learn about some the office, there will of the great programs still be lots of time for the YMCA-YWCA summer vacations and has for kids and famiday trips throughout the lies this summer and all season. In the meantime yearlong. The YMCAyou have activities, sumYWCA has three locamer camps, day camps, tions throughout town day care, wilderness outand various programs ings and more to plan for and facilities. Their wide your little ones to keep range of communitythem occupied on these specific programs and long summer days. services are designed If you are wondering to meet local needs and about some fun things promote growth of spirit, to occupy time throughmind and body of all out the summer, head to Little Aaliyah Boyetchko with her face painted enjoying the events at last year’s Kamloops people. Shelter services the Downtown YMCA- Community YMCA-YWCA Healthy Kids Day. for women and children YWCA at 400 Battle in crisis, parenting and Street this Sunday, June 5 to celebrate Healthy Kids Day. The YMCA- caregiver classes, special events, resident and day camps, and leaderYWCA has lots of energetic and fun activities planned to show you and ship training programs reach far beyond the walls of their facility to your children ways to keep active throughout the summer. empower and enhance the lives of community members regardless of “Come down to the downtown Y to celebrate Healthy Kids day on social, racial or economic backgrounds. June 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,” says Monica van der Meulen, Throughout the summer the YMCW-YWCA has full day camps as co-director of family services for the Kamloops YMCA-YWCA. “This well as weeklong camps at Camp Deka. They believe in helping chilis a free event for kids of all ages. There will be activities such as street dren and youth develop their character and through the Y resident camp hockey with the Kamloops Storm, SNAG golf, a fire and rescue junior – continued on page 2
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