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Stanley Cup rings worn by local couple We may not be Vancouver, but there is definitely no lack of hockey spirit, history or lore here in the city. From the Storms, a championship junior B team, to the legendary Blazers we love our hockey. Our closest NHL team, the Canucks are on their way to the Stanley Cup and judging by the number of people flying those little flags from their cars you would think we were in downtown Vancouver. You don’t have to look far to find someone here in town who has an interesting relationship with Canada’s favourite game. The man who invented the flexible pins that every team in the NHL uses to keep their nets attached lives here as does Lawrence “Larry” Popein, one of the first original Vancouver Canucks. Kamloops resident Larry, who hails from Yorkton, Saskatchewan and his wife Joyce are proud owners of Stanley Cup rings from 1984 when the Calgary Flames took it all the way. It was one of the only years D - EL Mar31.indd 1 that players, management, and their wives all got rings and to this day they proudly sit up in their TV and memorabilia room. Talk about memorabilia, Larry has had a long and illustrious career in the NHL and it all started at 17 years of age in the 1940’s. Back then there was no NHL and like now it took drive and commitment to play hockey in the junior leagues let alone the higher leagues. “I played junior hockey for three years,” explained Larry. “I then got a summer job at the British American Oil Refinery. It Joyce and Larry Popein have a long association with the was a good job and my dad had always game of hockey, and cherish their Stanley Cup rings. said that if you ever get a good job, you
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keep it.” With hockey off his mind, Larry worked at the refinery. In 1948 he got a call to play for the Vancouver Canucks who were at that time part of the Western Hockey League. With a little push from Joyce, his lovely wife of 61 years, Larry took a gamble and headed out to the coast to play for the team. “Joyce told me to go and try it for a year,” he remembers. “It wasn’t like now, you only ever got a one-year contract, and you never truly knew where you would be the next year. I spent the next two summers back working for the refinery. The third year, 1953-54, we all packed up and moved to Vancouver. The very next year the New York Rangers bought my contract.” And from there it’s history. Larry spent many years playing for some of the greatest hockey clubs in North America. In 1961 when the NHL was officially started Larry went to Oakland and then from there he started coaching. He spent many years traveling North America working for a variety of clubs in a variety of positions but spent most of his time with the Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers and Calgary Flames. From 1985 until 1999 he was prescout management for the Calgary Flames. More exciting than it sounds, Larry was responsible for watching and attending many, many hockey games all over North America, documenting and reporting back to the Flames what he had learnt about their opponents, players and strategies. – continued on page 2
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IHA receives energy and environmental award Interior Health Authority (IHA) was recently named the Energy & Environmental Stewardship Award recipient for 2011 from the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL). The CCHL award recognizes a progressive health care organization that has implemented programs that demonstrate environmental responsibility through the reduction of energy usage, the preservation of natural resources and effective waste diversion solutions. Interior Health started on its environmental sustainability journey in 2002, before it was popular to do so. Considered risky at the time, today Interior Health is a pioneer among provincial health-care organizations and leads many of the provincial green initiatives. For example, Interior Health started purchasing hybrid fleet vehicles in 2002. In 2009 the B.C. government mandated that all public sector organizations purchase only hybrids for their fleet. Today Interior Health has 60 hybrids within its fleet.
“Interior Health’s environmental actions have positive impacts on our communities, our environment and make good financial sense. When we save dollars in energy costs, it allows for reallocation of funds towards patient care,” says Dr. Robert Halpenny, CEO of Interior Health. Other successful environmental initiatives include: tele-medicine, which has resulted in a reduction in surgeon and patient trips that add up to over 2,500,000 kilometres of driving over two years, saving over 702 tonnes of CO2; an electronic performance management system that saves approximately 55,000 sheets of paper each year – equal to a pile of paper that reaches the height of a commercial jet traveling at about 40,000 feet; installing solar thermal panels to heat Domestic Hot Water (DHW), an initiative that will reduce GHG emissions by over 57 tonnes. The CCHL award includes a $2,000 cash prize. The Interior Health Green Team has chosen to donate the cash prize to the
Accepting the Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award are (L-R) John King, Chair CCHL Board of Directors; Luis Rodrigues, VP Energy Solutions Canada, Honeywell; Ted Spearin, Energy Manager Interior Health; Aman Hundal, Manager Environmental Sustainability Interior Health; and, Ray Racette, President and CEO CCHL.
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Train rolls through Kamloops with UN Declaration On June 15 at 6:00 a.m., a train on a special journey will stop in Kamloops. Members of the ecumenical social justice NGO KAIROS are traveling across Canada to gather banners in support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The train will be met by Secwepemc Peoples and drums, local KAIROS members and members of the Global and Community Action Committee of Kamloops United Church, which is organizing the event. Banners collaborated on by the above groups will be taken aboard and joined together with banners from across the country. These will be rolled out in events in Ottawa beginning on June 20. The purpose is to show that people across Canada support the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and want the Canadian Government to implement the UN agreement, signed by Canada in November 2010. Let’s show our support! Please join local organizers and supporters on June 15 at 6:00 a.m. at the Kamloops North VIA Rail
Station. For further information, please see the KAIROS website
Thrift City celebrates tenth anniversary The New Life Mission (NLM) is inviting the public to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Thrift City this Saturday, June 11. Thrift City is a fund raising arm of the NLM. They accept donations of furniture, appliances, small household appliances, clothing, jewelry, books, artwork, sports equipment and more. All proceeds from Thrift
City go to support the many programs at the NLM. Last year the Mission served 140,000 cups of coffee and 40,000 meals. NLM uses some of the donations to Thrift City for emergency accommodation situations. The store is also a place where community members and people in NLM’s Long Term Residential Recovery Programs
can get valuable volunteer work experience. On Saturday, June 11 all merchandise storewide will be 30 per cent off. There will be information on NLM services and volunteer applications available. The festivities happen at 342 Seymour St. from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with free hot dogs from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
An illustrious hockey career for local man – continued from page 1 It was while doing this that he and his wife earned the Stanley Cup rings that still to this day sit up top the television. Those are just a small part of the mementos he has collected over the years. He still has people write to him requesting signatures on his hockey cards. When he left the Vancouver Canucks franchise for
the last time, he was awarded with a beautiful gold ring featuring a diamond skate blade in the shape of their famous insignia. To imagine just what an illustrious and exciting career he had as one of the pioneers of hockey you have to hear him tell the tales himself. Through his account, memorabilia and pictures you can almost imagine yourself right there beside him
on the journey. You definitely do not have to look far to find hockey greatness here in River City and Larry is one great example. Larry may say that he doesn’t really follow hockey anymore but if you ask him who he is rooting for in this year’s Stanley Cup finals he replies with a, “I’m not even going to answer a silly question like that!” Tanya Orozco, freelance
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MEMORY ALBUMS The Kamloops Women’s Resource Group Society has been busy presenting workshops in various areas of the city entitled “Preserving the Past: Creating Personal Archives and Memory Collections. The aim of these workshops is to assist people in getting their materials out of the attics and into albums or storage boxes. A workshop was held at Desert Garden with the following attending: (LR sitting) Sue Cornborough (workshop facilitator) and Ann Gerrits. (L-R standing) Kathy Lustig, Ann Ramage, Pauline Eagert, and Diana Stachoski.
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TWO WHEEL MORNING Enjoying the sunshine on her super-spiffy bike at last Friday morning’s Bike to Work Celebration Station in Riverside Park was Kitty Chavarie. Kitty lives car-free, works at Pure Cuisine Raw Food Café, and is a YMCA-YWCA fitness instructor. Last year she rode from Vancouver to Banff in the 1200 km. GearUp4CF, a fundraising bike ride for cystic fibrosis research. Kitty’s personal fundraising contribution was $7,200.
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It’s another week for the CAP Team and so far everything has been going well. During this summer the CAP Team plans to focus on improving the back alleys, assisting with events, directing tourists and assist with providing a strong presence of safety and security. So far the CAP Team has helped with the Downtown Spring Arts Festival, which turned out very well. Currently, the CAP Team is organizing our fifth annual KCBIA Golf Tournament, which will be held at Sun
Rivers Golf Course on June 16. The golf tournament is a fundraiser for the CAP Team, helping to keep the program running year after year; it’s also a perfect opportunity to show your support. The golf tournament will be a great way for the CAP Team to introduce themselves to many of the business owners and others. This year one lucky person will walk away with a trip for two to Las Vegas.
There are also a variety of other prizes to be won and silent auction items to bid on. We are still looking for people who are willing to participate in this fun-filled event and also donate door prizes, offer to be hole sponsors, etc. Any support is appreciated. For more information on the golf tournament please contact the KCBIA office at 250-572-3242 or visit our website at www. kcbia.com.
We, the CAP Team, strongly encourage anyone who needs assistance to wave us down as we go by. We also have our kiosk set up on the 300 block of Victoria St. If you have brochures to display drop them off for us or just stop by for a friendly “hello.” CAP Team cell numbers are: 250-572-3008 and 572-3009. Kiosk is 250572-3017. Give us a call and we will help you to the best of our ability.
Arjun Singh starts conversation I’d like to announce today that I hope to once again earn the privilege of serving the citizens of Kamloops on our city council. I am going to spend the summer implementing an initiative I am calling 100 Kamloops Conversations. I will be contacting Kamloops citizens from all walks of live and from all sectors of the community, and I will be asking them if they would share some of their stories, opinions,
and experiences with me. I hope my campaign and my service on council, if elected, will reflect a comprehensive and holistic understanding of Kamloops and of Kamloopsians. I would like to play a part in bringing our community closer together. If anyone would like to contact me to have such a conversation, I would very much welcome that as well. Arjun Singh, arjun@yourkamloops.com
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Expert service in handling men’s haircuts Four years ago when Deanna DeCicco opened up her Manhandler Barbershop she had the idea to create a casual, modern and upbeat barbershop where men regardless of age and style could come and get the exact cut and service they wanted and at a price that rivaled other barbershops in the city. It is the delivery of this very idea that has helped Deanna grow Manhandler three fold. Customers like her service so much and with news of her arrival and great service spreading like wildfire through word of mouth, two new stylists joined the shop to be able to keep up with all the foot traffic that comes through the store. Never one to turn anyone away, Deanna has made sure that no matter what time of day you step into Manhandler for your favourite cut you can get in and out in a short amount of time. “Here at Manhandler Barbershop we care about what our cus-
tomer wants,” explains Deanna. “We do all the traditional cuts and services like hot shaves but also keep up to date on all the current trends like hair tattooing and unique styles. We want to keep it old school without limiting our services. We want you to be able to come in and get the cut and style that you want.” With customer service a top priority for Deanna as well as stylists Katie and Lynette, you know that you are in good hands at Manhandler. The barbershop specializes in giving you just the right cut to not only match your personality but your face shape and style. In addition to superb cuts, Manhandler also does semi-permanent grey coverage and streaks for men. They also have a full selection of men’s products from Bedhead and Crew. “We went to hairdressing school first and then went into barbering after,” continues Deanna “This tends to make us have a little softer touch than
A happy customer gets the ideal modern cut from (L-R) Lynette Wray, Deanna DiCicco, and Katie McMahon at Manhandler Barbershop.
your traditional barbershop.” No appointment is necessary, so the next time you need a new trim, cut, style, or shave stop by Manhandler Barbershop at 246 4th Avenue. They are open Mon-
day through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. They can also be reached by phone at 250377-6877. Tanya Orozco, freelance
City will be keeping a close eye on river levels The City of Kamloops watches the levels of the North and South Thompson Rivers very closely every year at this time. The City prepares for the rise in river levels by monitoring the snow pillows and the melt in the region as well as current temperatures and precipitation levels. The City analyses the river levels by measurements taken throughout the Thompson watershed and posts the river levels taken from the Overlander Bridge on its website at www.kamloops. ca/riverlevels. The City has a three-stage response to flooding which include
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a number of activities: Green stage (river level up to 342.7m): City staff inspect river banks, dykes and emergency berms, lower elevation storm sewer outfalls are sealed and required resources (i.e.: sand and bags) are made available. The walkway from Riverside Park to Pioneer Park under the CN Bridge is blocked as a safety precaution; Yellow stage (river level 342.7m to 343.8m): More frequent inspections, emergency road berms are installed (as required) and additional storm sewer outfalls are sealed;
Red stage (river level 343.8m and over): Inspections are increased as required (including weekends), and public boat launches are closed.
The City has sand and bag stockpiles for residents to use free of charge and can be picked up at the Public Works Centre or any Fire Hall Station.
Local arts group BC Living Arts is participating in the Think Recycle program coordinated by an Ontario company called Greentec, which gathers unwanted electronic waste products from the community and exchanges them for money. Drop off your donations of old
cell phones, ink cartridges, digital cameras, and MP3 players during regular Kamloops Live! Box Office business hours in the lobby of the Pavilion Theatre at 1025 Lorne Street. They will not accept any other form of e-waste (i.e. computers, tv’s etc). Call 250374-5483 for more information.
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thursday, june 16 3pm at sun rivers The KCBIA would like you to come out and participate in the 5th Annual CAP Team GOLF Tournament. This annual event is a significant source of funding for the Customer Care & Patrol (CAP) Team each year and is a great way to show your support for all of the hard work they do Onl each season spOt y 35 in the s Downtown regi left! st core. You tOda er can register y! as singles, doubles or groups of 4. Registration includes 9 holes of golf, a motorized golf cart, bottle of water, registration swag bag, and dinner after your round. Dinner is a full BBQ buffet. It is a shotgun start so everyone will return to the clubhouse at the same time.
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Blazers alumnae is new ticket man The Kamloops Blazers are pleased to announce that they have hired former stand-out defenseman Todd Carnelley as the new Director of Ticketing effective immediately. Carnelley, originally from Edmonton, has been a long-time member of the Kamloops community working for Andre’s Audiotronic and most recently for Andre’s Telus division for a number of years. Carnelley played for the Kamloops Jr. Oilers and Blazers from 1983-86 helping guide the team to two WHL titles in 1984
and 1986 in his three seasons with the hockey club. He is also a former second round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft.
Season tickets for the 2011-12 season are on sale now. Contact the Kamloops Blazers office at 250-828-1144 to purchase your seats for all 36 home games.
Blazers give support to JDRF Jordan DePape is one our Kamloops Blazers hockey players. He has type 1 diabetes and because of that the Kamloops Blazers have had the opportunity to be involved with this cause for the past two years. The Blazers organization is supporting Jordan in his fundraising for the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in finding a cure for this disease. The Blazers organization is asking you to support their efforts to help Jordan and the other kids of Kamloops by making a donation at http://jdrfca. donordrive.com under the team name “Kamloops Blazers”.
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The Kamloops Community Players Fawlty Towers cast celebrate their victory in the Okanagan Zone Drama Festival held May 23-27, winning 3 awards: Best Ensemble – Entire Fawlty Towers Cast, Best Newcomer – Ruth Roe (as Sybil), and the Adjudicator’s Special Merit Award in Acting – Greg Dueck (Manuel) for being “The Best Manuel since Manuel!” Congratulations go out to all cast and crew! Pictured in the full cast photo are (L-R) Greg Dueck, Ruth Roe, Daryl Snell, Anders Beitel, Don Levasseur, Vance Schneider, Clive Lawrence, Jeff Benz and Patrick Buchanan.
Walk to support diabetes fundraising Sunday, June 12 is the day when Kamloops turns out for the Telus Walk to Cure Diabetes, and the organizers at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) are ready to welcome you to join in this fun and important community awareness and fundraising event. The Walk starts and ends at Mcdonald Park on the North Shore (off Tranquille Rd. at Mcdonald and Park St.) Registration and pledge drop off is from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., with the Walk starting at 11:00 a.m. The JDRF staff and volunteers are going to look after all participants well with food, entertainment and tons of kids’ activi5/30/11 3:26:06 PM
ties! For pledge forms, to volunteer or for more information, send an email to: Kamloops@
jdrf.ca. For online registration and fundraising, you can visit www.jdrf.ca/walk.
Are you Kamloops’ next idol? On July 1, BC Living Arts will once again host a community wide singing competition and crown its own Kamloops Idol. Last year’s winners were Oren Barter (Judges’ Choice) and Shaina Forbes-Maitland (Peoples’ Choice). If you would like to register, please email BC Living Arts at info@bcliv-
ingarts.ca or call 250- 571-5151 and provide us with your age, name, address, and full contact information and we will reply with an audition time. The first round of auditions will happen on June 25 and 27. For further details visit BC Living Arts’ website at www. bclivingarts.ca
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Craigslist has become the latest ‘how much for the women’? back alley of the Internet. This is Sure seems easy for people to where a lot of the shady, question- post crazy ads, then to shrug it off able, and downright illegal activ- as a joke meant to harm no one. ity takes place. Need a hit man? The reality is I am sure that most Post an ad on Craigslist. Need of these people actually believed a truck full of stolen loot sold? they were a) doing no wrong and Post it on Craigor b) they wouldn’t slist. Need to raise get caught. The numsome fast cash? ber of people online Sell something or today is truly staggersomeone on Craiging, and the number is slist... increasing rapidly. The stories have Maybe this is why been ongoing, Kijiji is much bigbut lately have ger in Canada than increased in freCraigslist is. They do quency and severnot allow any HTML Technology ity. Prostitution, or coding within their Greg Pentney drug dealing, and ads, and they seem to all other types of manage to keep their illegal activities are taking place content much cleaner, and out of in full view of the entire world the news as well. Maybe no one (ok, the online world). The bra- checks Kijiji for babies, drugs or zen nature of a criminal actually hit men, I don’t know. But I do posting on Craigslist is fascinat- know for the most part, any real ing to me...or is it plain old stupid- ad on Craigslist is usually dupliity that gets them? The baby for cated onto Kijiji to reach a wider RES 1.8 June sale in Vancouver garnered plenty audience, and8,I2011.indd myself 1prefer the of attention, and brought about a more family-oriented Kijiji for quick ‘it was a lark’ from the per- my online used item browsing. son who posted the ad. I wonder Until next time, this is Greg logif the reaction would have been ging off... different if a person had contacted ‘If you would like more informahim and said they had a bag full tion regarding anything in this arof cash for his baby. Reminds me ticle or for any other technology of that scene in the Blues Brothers related question or need, please movie where Jake says to a man at email Greg at greg@atws.ca or another table in a fancy restaurant, call 250.828.1198’
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Gaetan Myre hails from Surrey, and was up in Kamloops for the BC Gizeh Shriners Kamloops Kapers Kidz Kount Spring Ceremonial 2011. He’s catching a cup of java before joining in on the big Shriners Parade that made its way down Victoria St.
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Thought you knew everything? ➤ A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ➤ Almonds are a member of the peach family. ➤ No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. ➤ ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’. ➤ Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. ➤ The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet. ➤ Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. ➤ There are more chickens than people in the world. ➤Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Scoot on down to rodeo roundup The second annual Kamloops Scooter Rodeo Roundup is happening Friday, June 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Interior Savings Centre Lower parking lot, with a free BBQ lunch until 1:00 pm. The event organizers at Bedford Manor encourage you to saddle up your motorized wheelchair or scooter and attend this event. The RCMP will be on hand to assist with your driving skills. Rope and ride your way through a fun skills course. Have your family and friends spur you on for lots of great prizes! To register for this free event, call 250-828-3500 and quote registration number 167982 to reserve your spot. You can call handyDART to arrange for transportation
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Pictured is John Louvros at last year’s Scooter Rodeo relaxing in the sunshine. While John didn’t test-drive a scooter he came down to the event to cheer on some of his friends.
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n Call for Entry - Old Courthouse Gallery, on Fridays at Game On Interactive Fitness, a fine art and craft co-operative at 7 West 444 St. Paul St. If you can say “5 Buck Fun Fit Seymour St. invites applications from artists Friday� just five times fast (and clearly) you working in stone, wood or metal, photography will win a prize! and basketry. At this time they are not acceptn Kamloops United Church Thrift Store has ing applications for glass, paintings, pottery moved! Their new location is at 387 4th St. and textile. Visit www.kamloopscourthousen Kamloops Heritage Model Railroad club gallery.ca for more information and applicameets the first Friday of each month at 7 pm. tion forms. Phone 250-554-3233 for info. n Kamloops Museum’s late night Thursday n Chronic Pain Association of Kamloops hours have resumed for the summer and they brings you resources, support and fellowship. are now open 9:30 am to 7:30 pm, with the They meet the last Wednesday of each month at Children’s Museum area closing at 7p.m. 12:30 pm at People in Motion, 182-B Tranquille Regular hours for the rest of the week are Rd. For more info call Jackie 250-372-1912, Tuesday to Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Steven 250 554-1706, or Kris 250-376-2608. n Stand and Deliver – presentation and n Canadian Cancer Society Cancer public speaking workshop with Bill Chalmers, Connection program matches those with cancer Janice Otremba, and Esther Sarlo on June 10 with a survivor who has gone through the same & 11 at Calvary Temple, 1205 Rogers Way. type of cancer and treatments. Call 1-888-939For more info and to register go to www.jani3333 to register. HAIR CARE - Stylist Meghan Watson gives an n Speaking Club - Work on your public speakceotremba.com n Thrift City’s 10th anniversary June 11, appreciative customer an opportunity to try out the ing skills! Kamloops Society for Community 9:30am-5pm at 342 Seymour St. 10 per cent new Blow Dry Bar at Beauty Code’s Grand Opening Living is doing a survey to see what night of at their relocated store at 222 Victoria Street. off everything. BBQ from 11am-3pm. the week and time works best for people who n Mass garage sale fundraiser for the Colombo Lodge, 814 Lorne St. For more info want to attend. Please contact Darlene at 250Children’s Therapy Family Resource Center and to register contact: New Perspectives on 374-3245. organized by Hub International Barton Community Living #4-237 6th Ave, 250-371- n Mighty Oak Midwifery Care Information Insurance. June 12 from 9am-3pm. At 299-3rd 2731 or email: DSloney@shawbiz.ca. Nights - Learn more about midwifery in a 8F OFFE B QFSNBOFOU IPNF Avenue in Hub International Barton Insurance n Meaningful Day June 16 &17 at Kamloops relaxed setting every third Friday of the month parking lot. at 202-322 Victoria St. For more information, Convention Centre, 1250 Rogers Way. This UP QMBZ BOE QSBDUJDF JO ZFBS n Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary workshop is helpful in supporting adults and visit www.mightyoakmidwifery.ca. Branch 52 General Meeting is June 13 at 1pm children with severe/multiple disabilitiesSPVOE *G ZPV UIJOL ZPV DBO to n Children’s programs at the Kamloops at the Legion Hall 425 Lansdowne St. More have a full and meaningful life duringIFMQ VT PVU UIFO DPOUBDU VT the Library at 465 Victoria St. Rhyme Time info at 250-579-9220. day. Presented by: Kamloops and District Mondays 10:15 to 10:45am & Wednesday ce is a must. Training Group. For more XXX UDEE DB nderb Social Role Valorization workshop onrienCo-operative coaching expe but ed info 10:15 to 10:45am. Family Drop-In Storytime need nd grou back y No June 13-15 presented by Kamloops and District and to register contact New Perspectives on - Sundays 1:00 to 1:30. Co-operative Training Group. Social Role Community Living #4-237 6th Ave., call 250- n Women’s Housing Support - Elizabeth Valorization (SRV) is one of the best ways 371-2731, or email: DSloney@shawbiz.ca. Fry Society presents group sessions the last of understanding and addressing the issues n Werewolf Wednesdays - Join the crew at Tuesday of the month from 10am to noon at of marginalization, oppression and exclusion All A-Board Games on Wednesday evenings Hilltop Apartments at 455 Hilltop Ave. To of people who are devalued in our com- at 334 Seymour St. for the “mafia� party game RSVP contact Jody at the Elizabeth Fry Society munities and specifically identifying social Werewolf. 250-377-0745. at 250-374-2119 ext. 205. There will be a differdevaluation as a critical human experience. At n Game On twists tongues – from 6 to 8pm ent topic each month.
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