Kamloops This Week December 28, 2022

PEN TO PAPER TO PRESERVE RYAN’S MEMORY

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

Heather Shtuka would love it if someone in a library 100 years from now dusts off the cover of the book she has written about her missing son to learn about the person he was.

It is a medium she feels will help keep his memory around for future generations.

Nearly five years ago, Heather’s son, Ryan Shtuka, vanished in Sun Peaks during a house party on Burfield Drive. The 20-yearold Beaumont, Alta., man disappeared in the early-morning hours of Feb. 17, 2018. Mounties have not ruled out foul play, but have not reported finding anything suspicious and Ryan’s disappearance remains a mystery.

Parents Heather and Scott Shtuka have made continual trips to Sun Peaks over the years to conduct searches in the resort municipality, trying to find signs of their son — all to no avail.

Heather has now written Missing From Me, a book that chronicles the first year of Ryan’s disappearance. After just a few weeks, the book has already become a top seller on Amazon book lists for memoirs, grief and motherhood.

“I didn’t expect within 24 hours the book would go to a bestseller on Amazon.ca,” Heather said, adding she was taken aback to see her son’s story sitting fourth on a list that included memoirs by

Michelle Obama, Tyler Perry and the Prince Harry.

“I think it’s something that resonates with people,” she said.

Part of the reason Heather decided to write the book was to ensure Ryan’s legacy is left behind, not only for his family, but for many others whose lives he touched, she told KTW

Heather began writing the book in March 2020, when COVID-19 lockdowns forced people inside their homes.

“I sat down, my husband encouraged me to put pen to paper and I started writing,” Heather said. “I thought it was going to be hard and, when you’re in it, the memories start flooding back.”

The writing process took about a year and Missing From Me has been available since Nov. 27.

Heather initially ordered 250 hard copies, wary of the cost of ordering too many, and was surprised by the demand. Within a day of receiving the box of books

in mid-December, 172 copies had already been reserved.

“I think I underestimated how many people would like to have a copy,” Heather said, noting she has ordered another 250 copies due to demand.

The book is broken into three parts: Part one discusses the family dynamic. Part two covers the four-month period in 2018 between the day the family learned Ryan was missing to the day they left Sun Peaks. Part three covers how the family transitioned back to their everyday lives while trying to maintain search efforts.

Missing From Me utilizes daily posts Heather made on social media during the first four months of Ryan’s disappearance. Those, she said, were important to include, as they represent realtime accounts of what she was feeling and what was happening at the time — not just her recollections.

Heather said she feels writing the book was cathartic for her and helped the entire family grieve by giving them an outlet to remember Ryan beyond the fact he went missing.

She said she chose to write a book as it are a medium she has loved her whole life, feeling they create a kind of magic in the way they immerse someone in a story.

“They last beyond time,” Heather said. “You can always pick them up no matter where you’ve gone.”

Missing from Me is available online from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Chapters.

Ryan Shtuka vanished without a trace from Sun Peaks on Feb. 17, 2018.

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The KTW Christmas Cheer Fund is back, with readers of Kamloops This Week helping us help the community.

Money raised in the Cheer Fund will be distributed equally to the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association, Kamloops Brain Injury Association, Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism and the BC SPCA.

One of the philanthropic clubs that has been donating significantly to the Cheer Fund is the Free Radicals Hockey Club. It’s become a Christmas tradition to give to the community for guys who play pick-up hockey games on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the alumni group hitting the ice on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Longtime Free Radical Kelly Shantz dropped by the KTW office with a cheque for $8,657 to the Cheer fund. Since 2011, the Radicals have raised more than $94,000 for the cause.

“We’re are a bunch of like-minded, like-

THANK YOU, DONORS!

• BC Old-Time Fiddlers Kamloops branch: $100

• IG Wealth Management: $1,402

• Donald & Kathleen Gienow: $50

• Nel Sarrasin, in memory of Gordon Sarrasin: $100

• Susan & Ron Durant: $100

• John & Val Kemp: $100

• Greg Harris: $50

• Simone Werstiuk, in memory of brother Carmen Werstiuk: $50

• Kim & Andrew Cooper: $150

• IG Wealth Management/Chris Nagle: $500

spirited, community guys,” Shantz said, noting some of the new hockey players and those on the spare list rallied to donate to the Cheer Fund this year.

“The percentage of guys who contribute and contribute generously is always really, really high — even the new guys,” Shantz said.

“There’s just that kind of spirit that seems to emanate from recruiting the right people.”

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FREE RADICALS SHOOT, SCORE AGAIN

The Free Radicals once again came through for the Cheer Fund, donating $8,657. To donate, go online to www.bcicf.ca/ kamloops-this-weekchristmas-cheer-fund.

Donations can also be dropped off at the KTW office, at 1365B Dalhousie Dr. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

Please make cheques out to BC Interior Community Foundation-Cheer.

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Since the pandemic restrictions ended, the Radicals are back to their regular ice times.

The Free Radicals also support a number of other causes, including Kamloops Minor Hockey Association’s Night of Champions, United Way, First Nations Capacity Fund, Kamloops Youth Soccer Association, Alzheimer Society of B.C., Kamloops Hospice Association and Special Olympics BC.

• Cal & Pat Moulton: $100

• Richard & Terry Taylor: $100

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• Free Radicals Hockey Club: $8,657

TOTAL: $44,435

Fundraiser launched for family of victim

OLIVER RESIDENT IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF FOUR PEOPLE WHO DIED IN DEC. 24 EBUS CRASH

As police continue their investigation into an Ebus crash that killed four passengers and injured several others on Christmas Eve, family members here and in India are mourning the death of a man who just arrived in Canada on a work permit three months ago.

Kelowna RCMP confirmed four people died in the singlevehicle crash on Highway 97C near the Loon Lake exit, east of Merritt on Saturday.

The full bus was westbound when it rolled in icy conditions onto its passenger side, ending up in the eastbound lanes of the highway that connects Kelowna to the Coquihalla Highway at about 6 p.m.

Kalwinder Singh, a longhaul trucker from Surrey, said his cousin, Karanjot Singh Sodhi, 41, died in the crash, leaving his wife, a six-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, in Punjab.

Singh, who is the same age as Sodhi and grew up with him in their hometown of Butala, said his family and the whole village are mourning his death.

“He has a big family,” said Singh. “The whole village is very upset.”

Sodhi arrived in Canada on a work visa in mid-September. Singh had driven him to the winery and restaurant in Oliver where Sodhi was permitted to work under his visa and was employed as a chef.

“He liked the town very much,” said Singh.

Sodhi was travelling to Surrey to stay with Singh over the holidays so he could take his test to become a permanent resident, scheduled for Jan. 2. His plan was to get his residency and move his family to Canada.

“He was going to celebrate the New Year with us,” Singh said, noting he spoke with his

cousin on the phone while he was on the bus.

Sodhi was due in Surrey at 9:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve and Singh’s wife was concerned when he wasn’t answering his phone that evening. They saw news of the crash on the 11 p.m. news.

Singh, who has driven a truck on highways both in Canada and the U.S., said that the part of the Okanagan Connector where the crash was suffers from bad conditions every winter.

“You as the media have to let the government know how bad it is,” Singh told Postmedia News. “They did not clear the road. This is very terrible for the truckers. It’s too slippery.”

Singh said it took him 12 hours to drive from Golden to Surrey before Christmas, a trip that usually takes almost six hours, because of poor road conditions.

During the last two weeks, Singh said, he saw multiple accidents on the roads every day, the worst stretches between Hope and Kamloops, Kamloops and Revelstoke and Revelstoke and Golden.

The names of the deceased would be released by the coroner’s office after next of kin were notified, Kelowna RCMP spokesman Const. James Ward said on Monday.

At the crash site on Saturday, survivors were comforted by locals from nearby Aspen Grove and Loon Lake while awaiting ambulances and they were later transported to hospital, Ward said.

Seven remained in hospital on Monday with nonthreatening injuries, Health Minister Adrian Dix said on Twitter.

Police are working to confirm the number of passengers on the bus involved in the fatal crash as they try to reconcile the passenger list, which may not have included the names of passengers who bought tickets just before boarding, with the lists provided by the ambulance service and the hospitals.

The bus has been impounded in a secure location for a mechanical inspection.

Highways Minister Rob Fleming held a press conference on Tuesday and said motorists were given plenty of warning to slow down due to wintry conditions.

Fleming said Highway 97C road conditions were not unusual for December or for high mountain passes at this time of year, noting contractors had worked on clearing snow and applying traction material all day with seven pieces of equipment.

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Karanjot Singh Sodhi, a restaurant worker in Oliver who was in Canada on a worker visa, was one of four people who died in a passenger bus crash on Highway 97C on Dec. 24.

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B.C. mining laws need to be changed OPINION

Kamloops Moms for Clean Air, a group that was founded in 2011 in opposition to the proposed Ajax mine in Kamloops, is part of BC Mining Law Reform, a network of community and environmental groups working to improve provincial mining legislation and regulations to better protect the environment, private property and Indigenous rights.

Kamloops Moms for Clean Air is applying to intervene in the Gitxaała Nation’s groundbreaking legal challenge of mineral claims on its territory and the Mineral Tenure Act. The hearing started on Dec.15.

Residents of Kamloops and the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc people know all too well what it means when a mine is proposed near one’s community.

In 2011, Polish company KGHM proposed the Ajax open-pit copper and gold mine within the Kamloops city limits, approximately two kilometres from a school and homes.

The project was initially approved for exploration by the federal government without a thorough consideration of the health, environmental, economic or social impacts it would cause.

The proposed mine would produce harmful fine particulate dust, compounding the existing air pollution trapped in the valley due to frequent inversions (especially throughout the winter). It would also affect water supplies, including nearby Jacko Lake, Petersen Creek, which feeds into the Thompson River, and the wells in the nearby community of Knutsford. The sur-

rounding unique and endangered grassland ecosystems would also be severely damaged.

The giant pit would destroy the thriving tourism sector and Kamloops’ identity as Canada’s Tournament Capital, without providing enough sustainable jobs to counteract these losses.

And all of this was to take place on the traditional territories of the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc people.

As a result, the grassroots organization Kamloops Moms for Clean Air (KMCA) and a number of others were created. Also among the groups concerned about the project was the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN), which conducted its own mining assessment process, the first ever of its kind.

Seven anxiety-inducing years of researching, organizing, mobilizing, advocating, collaborating, volunteering, raising funds and applying for grants to hire experts for independent assessments ensued.

All of this was done to determine

the best outcomes for the health of all citizens (mentally, physically, financially and socially), which depended on the proper care of soil, water and air for a sustainable future.

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In the case of KMCA specifically, we were following our mandate of “... ensuring that our children, whose lives are entrusted to us, have a healthy environment in which to grow and flourish.”

The SSN was particularly concerned about the proposed disturbance to the region it calls Pipsell.

It is culturally, spiritually and historically significant as the origin place of the nation as the Trout Children, according to the oral knowledge-keeping story passed from generation to generation.

It is also ecologically significant as it allows traditional hunting and fishing practices to continue as they have since time immemorial.

Had the mine been built as proposed, Pipsell, with Jacko Lake at its

centre, would have been lost.

In the case of the City of Kamloops, the struggle over the possibility of a mine divided our community, pitting those who supported the mine for jobs and economic reasons against those of us who prioritized the environment and health of our communities.

KMCA doesn’t want any community to go through what Kamloops did.

That’s why KMCA stands with Gitxaała Nation, which is opposing mineral claims on its traditional territory by taking the provincial government to court.

At the root of these problems lies the Mineral Tenure Act, B.C.’s 160-year-old legislation that still governs all mining in the province. Science and society have progressed immensely since then. It’s well beyond time the Act was updated.

Specifically, there must be an end to the “free miner certificate” that allows anyone to stake a claim

Proponents of the proposed Ajax mine southwest of Kamloops had their application rejected by the provincial and federal governments in December 2017 and the spring of 2018, respectively.

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and start exploring without even speaking to nearby communities or First Nations on whose territories the claim lies.

Rather than keeping the majority of the province open to mining, B.C. must establish areas of the province that are off limits, particularly where there are multiple land uses, including those of municipalities and Indigenous peoples.

Consultation and consent are already enshrined in our Constitution and B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. Nations such as Gitxaała shouldn’t have to fight this in court, yet the government’s inaction has left them with few options.

KMCA has applied to be an intervenor in Gitxaała’s legal case alongside other members of the BC Mining Law Reform network to support the Gitxaała’s legal case and provide an important perspective on the issues to the court. Communities and Nations shouldn’t have to go through what we did.

Gina Morris, spokesperson for Kamloops Moms for Clean Air, is a member of the BC Mining Law Reform network. She lives in Kamloops, within the unceded territory of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc people. For more information on Kamloops Moms for Clean Air, go to its Facebook page.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OPINION

ORGANICS PROGRAM NEEDS TWEAKING

Editor:

The City of Kamloops has an organics waste pilot program running in a number of neighbourhoods.

As reported in KTW, all of Kamloops will be on the program sometime in 2023. I would like to point out a number of current challenges preventing this from being successful.

A SALUTE TO OUR SAHALI SNOW ANGELS

Editor:

Every winter, a wonderful thing happens on Monashee Place in Sahali, where our very own snow angels appear.

Whenever it snows, they are out first thing in the morning, clearing driveways.

When the city plow truck comes along and creates horrible windrows at the end of the cul de sac, they are out again, removing the piles of frozen ice and snow.

These amazing folks know who they are and I think everyone on the street knows who they are.

My partner and I are seniors and it is because of these good neighbour snow angels that we are able to remain in our own homes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Sally Cornies Kamloops

We’ve all missed the waste collection day, but did you know there is nowhere you can take your organic waste if you missed that collection day?

I called the city to ask about this and was told, “We aren’t set up for that. Just hang on to it and

put it out next week.”

I don’t know about others, but I don’t want a garbage can overflowing with organic waste. We aren’t allowed to take it to the dump and we aren’t allowed to take it to the yard waste composting site.

What do we do?

The city also needs to approve liners that work well. I am paying for brown paper liners that still get wet from food waste, causing the liner to stick to the can in winter.

For three consecutive weeks, my organics hadn’t been emptied because the liner sticks or something stays in the can, etc. There are plastic-like organic compostable liners available for purchase in many

stores, but the city doesn’t allow their use.

I’m not against using liners, and I’m not even against paying for them, but they have to work. The currently approved options don’t work in the winter.

Unfortunately, the three incident reports I have brought up with the city have gone unanswered.

These are significant issues that all citizens of Kamloops will be faced with when the program rolls out citywide. The city can turn a blind eye to me, but what will they do when everyone in Kamloops is having the same problem?

Steven Steeves Kamloops

A PLAYGROUND BREAK FOR SENIORS?

Editor:

As a senior, I try to keep up with ever-changing social norms.

I have now almost perfected profanity, never open doors for females and always wear my baseball

cap backwards, except in the shower. The cap prevents the increasing number of red necks.

However, I must doff my cap to those who designed, approved and constructed the new water play area

in Riverside Park. It looks exciting and inviting.

Now, if only I could get the new mayor and city council to approve one day a month, starting in June, reserved for seniors only to cavort in that area.

Can you imagine hundreds of seniors in their Speedos? We were, many years ago, said to rule. Now, it seems, we are just meant to drool.

Bill White Kamloops

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Council wants to review food services contract

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MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

Kamloops council wants a review of municipal food services, only months after the signing of a contract extension with its current supplier, Compass Group Canada.

Coun. Bill Sarai moved a notice of motion on Dec. 13 to have staff provide a report reviewing food services at indoor and outdoor city facilities, including service levels and operations. The notice of motion was approved by council.

NOTICE OF MOTION CAME AFTER HE HEARD CONCERNS FROM RESIDENTS

for city council as a whole to consider based on discussion of the report.

“Whereas the City of Kamloops works with food vendors at civic facilities, and the public and user groups locally and from out of town may have an interest in service levels and operations, be it resolved that council authorize administration to prepare a report to the community services committee (CSC) providing a review of food services at indoor and outdoor City facilities, including service levels and operations,” the official motion reads.

in its review, how the city tracks the practice of vendors’ Serving It Right legal responsibilities when serving liquor.

Sarai’s motion was amended to include that caveat.

Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson asked to include a review of the city’s service contract with Compass Group Canada, but he abandoned that request when Maria Mazzotta, the city’s corporate officer, advised him some of that information may be confidential and require a closed council meeting.

tournaments without eating options on site.

“There are licensed restaurants in our town, like Red Beard on the North Shore, [that] would be more than willing to bring food to a venue. Food trucks are saying, ‘Just give us a chance, we’ll pay for a stall at any park,’” Sarai said.

The report will go to council’s community and protective services committee, which will make a recommendation

Coun. Stephen Karpuk noted he has witnessed copious consumption of alcohol by fans at Kamloops Blazers games and asked the committee include,

Sarai told KTW he introduced the notice of motion after hearing concerns from residents that Compass, the city’s lone food supplier, is not providing food to small city venues, leaving attendees at

According to Sarai, people bringing their own food from other vendors for consumption at events at municipal venues could result in the city being penalized, which he said isn’t fair if Compass isn’t fulfilling its obligations.

He said it’s not a good look for the city if people attend a soccer or baseball tournament to find there isn’t food service available.

New signal light at busy four-way stop in Valleyview

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A new traffic signal has been activated as part of ongoing roadwork at Highland Drive and Valleyview Drive in Valleyview.

The new light replaces the four-way stop at the intersection that sees vehicles travel to and from Juniper Ridge.

According to the city, the need for the upgrade was identified in the 2019 Valleyview Drive Corridor Safety Study and is supported by national guidelines

set out by the Transportation Association of Canada, as the new signal is expected to significantly increase mobility and safety at the intersection.

The new light has been in place since Dec. 14 and is part of a $5.8-million road improvement project in the Valleyview area.

Construction began in July to upgrade infrastructure along Flamingo Road and Highland Road between Highway 1 and Valleyview Drive.

Work continued in the fall with a

second phase up toward Valleyview Arena.

In June, following a fatal collision between a water truck and a cyclist farther up Highland Road, transportation manager Purvez Irani said the city intended to collect data along Highland Road, studying traffic volumes and speeds, including those of cyclists and pedestrians along the multi-use path, to determine if any improvements and/or pilot projects should be implemented to enhance safety along the corridor.

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SOCIAL SANTAS

FOR SENIORS

For the third straight year, social Santas Kathy Roberts (left) and Rosemary Rinehart | delivered gifts to seniors, with this year’s destination being Ridgeview Lodge in Brocklehurst. There were 130 gifts delivered, with the main donors being Linda Turner from Remax, Sheila Doherty’s Family Daycare and Fresh Street Market. Roberts’ partner, John Atkinson, and friend, Barb Hawkes, also help with organizing the gifts. In March, the team will again start collecting donations and purchasing gifts for Christmas 2023.

Kamloops history buffs wanted

BREANNE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER breanne@kamloopsthisweek.com

In response to the non-profit sector slowing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kamloops Heritage Society is looking for new members.

The purpose of the Kamloops Heritage Society is to preserve the rich history of Greater Kamloops for future generations with cultural mapping, events and activities.

“Anyone who is interested in joining us, we would love to hear from them at any time,” Kamloops Heritage Society president Annette Schonewille told KTW.

An annual individual membership is $20, while an annual family membership is set at $30.

“We’re very low on numbers,” Schonewille said. “The pandemic really, really hurt a lot of the society’s in town and it really hurt our society.”

While the COVID-19 pandemic remains with us, the restrictions and other lockdown measures have been eased.

With many individuals and families turning to non-profits for support during the economic downturn occurring as a result of the pandemic, the Kamloops Heritage Society has begun to think about its future and how best to adapt to the digital revolution.

“Our motto was always preserving our past for the future,” Schonewille said. “We’re rethinking that now and how we can do it in a world that’s becoming increasingly more virtual.”

With a strong desire to build a strong sense of community and preserve the history of Greater Kamloops, Schonewille and her peers believe that recruiting students from Thompson Rivers University could help the existing membership and its affiliates gain

momentum to serve the community for the long term.

“We’ve reached out to TRU for students that are taking history and tourism to try to get young people involved as well,” Schonewille said. “We’re a very unique city and that’s all part of being Kamloops. We want to keep that history and that knowledge alive — and how we can encourage people in the university to be interested in it.”

Those who have current memberships with the Kamloops Heritage Society are eligible to run for a seat on its board of directors in the coming months. Today, there are four directors, including Schonewille’s role as the president, but there can be as many as 11 volunteers if numbers permit.

The board hopes to set a date for elections before the end of February.

For more information on memberships, email kamloopsheritagesociety@gmail.com.

Room for more homes?

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Kamloops council has approved rezoning a portion of right-of-way Canadian Pacific Railway owns in Brocklehurst to make way for an expansion of homes at an adjacent trailer park.

The railway intends to sell

the piece of land to the Apple Valley Mobile Home Park, located along Ord Road, which could make way for the six additional trailers in the park.

If the sale goes through, the addition of the trailers will require a multi-family development permit to come before city council in the future.

Pineview school site will grow

City council has unanimously adopted a rezoning in Pineview Valley, paving the way for School District 73 to purchase land that will expand a school site it owns in the neighbourhood in southwest Kamloops.

Following a public hearing on Dec. 13, during which no members of the public made any comments, council voted unanimously to rezone a portion of the three subject properties from future development and single-family residential to schools zoning.

School District 73, which owns a triangular piece of property at 1900 Copperhead Dr., wants to increase the size of its 2.28-hectare lot by 0.88 hectares to accommodate the school building, road access to the school from Copperhead Drive, parking, a playground and a basketball court.

Due to the topographic restrictions of the site and its irregular shape, SD73 intends to purchase portions of three parcels of land from adjacent property owners — 1525 Westerdale Dr. and the two unaddressed lots to the east, south and southeast.

The current site is located on an undeveloped parcel with no existing road access, but the expanded property will be served by Copperhead Drive, which will extend eastward and eventually connect with Aberdeen Drive.

Paving of new access roads to the future school site is expected to begin in 2024, according to a city staff report.

LAST CHANCE FOR WILDLIGHTS

The 25th edition of Wildlights continues this week and into this weekend, with Monday, Jan. 2, the final day to enjoy the colourful extravaganza featuring dozens of displays and about one-million lights at the BC Wildlife Park in east Kamloops. For Wildlights ticket information, go online to bcwildlife.org. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door. The park is at 9077 Dallas Dr. Money raised via Wildlights is used to support the BC Wildlife Park through the winter.

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New council assistant sought

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

The search is on for a new executive assistant to mayor and council at Kamloops City Hall.

Crystal Gelineau, who has served in the role for the past four years — with former mayor Ken Christian for the 2018 to 2022 term and with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson since his Oct. 15 election — has been transferred elsewhere within the municipality just a couple of months into the new council term.

City of Kamloops chief administrative officer David Trawin told KTW Gelineau has moved into the role of external relations co-ordinator for the city.

“It is a step up. It’s a pay grade higher,” Trawin

said, noting Gelineau will have more autonomy and work with agencies such as the Kamloops and District Chamber of Commerce and the North Shore and Downtown Kamloops business improvement associations.

Trawin said Gelineau approached him before the Oct. 15 election to inquire about any new opportunities. Trawin noted the external relations co-ordinator position.

The city posted Gelineau’s executive assistant to mayor and council position online earlier this month. The job posting closed as of Dec. 20 and, Trawin said, 30 applications were received.

According to the job posting, the role involves being responsible for the day-to-day operations of the office of both

the mayor and city council and for communicating with all levels of staff and the general public.

The full-time job has a starting salary of $74,743.50 and comes with a performance-based progression through a step system and benefits package.

Hamer-Jackson told KTW he didn’t know why Gelineau was leaving, but understands she is “moving on to a position that she’s really looking forward to.”

Trawin said staff will review the qualifications of the 30 applicants, then present them to an internal human resources council group that includes Hamer-Jackson and councillors Kelly Hall and Margot Middleton.

After that, a hiring recommendation will be taken to council as a whole.

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Driver who fled fatal crash scene granted parole

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

A former local Rocky Mountain Ranger sentenced to three years in connection with a hit-and-run collision that killed three university students in 2019 has been granted parole after spending a year behind bars.

Reid McKnight, 33, was granted both day and full parole — when eligible following the

completion of two-thirds of his sentence — by the Parole Board of Canada this past November.

McKnight was handed a three-year prison sentence in December 2021, to be followed by a three-year driving ban once released, after pleading guilty to the hit-and-run deaths of three Thompson Rivers University international students from Nigeria.

On Nov. 3, 2019, at about 1:30 a.m., court heard, McKnight drove his Ford Ranger pickup

truck at a speed of more than 100 km/h through a stop sign on Battle Street and crashed into the students’ southbound Dodge Charger that was travelling up First Avenue.

Killed in the early-morning crash were Daniel Okocha, 22, Feyisola Adebowale, 28, and Oluwatosin Adeojo, 31. A fourth passenger survived the collision, but was seriously injured.

McKnight fled the scene of the crash and was arrested the next day at his house, but wasn’t charged for a year. Police found his identification in the abandoned truck the night of the crash.

According to the written decision from the parole board, McKnight possesses a low risk to reoffend and high probability for rehabilitation, having maintained his sobriety, and avoided driving while on bail, which were his courtordered conditions.

“The board finds these factors all point to your ability to follow and comply with conditions in the community and therefore you present as highly manageable,” the parole board’s report reads.

At his parole board hearing, McKnight said he ran from the scene because he was “too cowardly” to deal with the consequences of his actions. He also told the board he believes he “should have received a harsher sentence.”

McKnight noted he had no memory of the collision, wasn’t the type of person to drink and drive and speed and was “horrified” by his actions. He said he was at a “high point” in his career and wasn’t suffering from depression at the time of the crash.

The Winnipeg native said he had been drinking that night while celebrating completing a program to advance his military career, but didn’t feel intoxicated while driving.

The board found McKnight was genuine in his remorse, but was concerned with the gravity of his offence, noting the harm

he caused was “immeasurable.”

“The Board finds your insight into the thinking and underlying beliefs that allowed you to act in such a reckless manner is limited but has improved slightly during your sentence,” the parole board decision reads.

McKnight spent nearly a year fighting in Afghanistan in light infantry and joined the Kamloops reserve unit in 2017 after 10 years of service.

In prison, McKnight has been “a model inmate” having caused no concerns, spending his spare time in the gym or reading or helping out in the community garden, according to the parole board report.

While incarcerated, McKnight maintained employment as a plumber’s assistant and applied for the apprenticeship program.

Correctional Services Canada (CSC) agreed with granting McKnight day parole, but did not support full parole, finding he would benefit more from a supervised release. The parole board opted for full parole, given McKnight’s history of adhering to court-ordered conditions.

CSC assessed McKnight’s accountability as a medium level, but his motivation and reintegration potential assessed as high.

On day parole, McKnight will reside at a community residential facility in an undisclosed location. When on full parole, he plans to live with family.

While on parole, McKnight will be under conditions not to consume alcohol, not to enter establishments where alcohol is primarily sold and not to operate a motor vehicle. He will also be required to follow a treatment plan arranged by his parole officer and have no contact with the surviving victim of the crash or family members of the deceased.

The decision means McKnight is on day parole until December 2023, when he will begin full parole.

Daniel Okocha, 22, Feyisola Adebowale, 28, and Oluwatosin Adeojo, 31, all TRU international students from Nigeria, died in downtown Kamloops on Nov. 3, 2019, when their car was hit by a speeding pickup truck driven by Reid McKnight, who fled the scene of the crash.

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Mounties seek help in finding women reported missing

Kamloops Mounties are asking for the public’s help in finding two women whose missing persons files are unrelated.

Alyssa Sleypen, 36, was last seen leaving her Kamloops residence on Saturday, Dec. 3.

Sleypen is white, has blond hair, is between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-8 in height and weighs between 120 and 130 pounds.

Sleypen has ties to the Lower Mainland and may have travelled there.

Meanwhile, police continue to seek help in finding Kelsey Lazic.

The 28-year-old woman’s last contact was on Nov. 20 in Valleyview. She

was reported missing on Dec. 5.

Police said Lazic is also known to frequent the Kelowna area, noting she is wanted on a warrant and may be avoiding arrest.

“Kelsey’s family has not had contact with her for some time and they, along with police, are concerned for her well-being,” Col.

Crystal Evelyn said in a release.

Lazic is white, stands 5-foot-8, weighs 170 pounds and has dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Anybody with information on the whereabouts of Sleypen or Lazic is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000.

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ALYSSA SLEYPEN KELSEY LAZIC

Rooftop burglar sentenced to 14 months

JUSTIN JAMES BROWN-HENDERSON HAS A PENCHANT FOR BREAK-AND-ENTERS FROM ABOVE

BREANNE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER breanne@kamloopsthisweek.com

A 28-year-old man who has committed a string of burglaries by entering businesses via roofs will spend the next 14 months in prison.

Justin James Brown-Henderson last week entered a guilty plea to charges including theft under $5,000, mischief, disguising his face with the intention of committing a crime, break and enter to commit an indictable offense and two counts of breaching probation.

The guilty pleas came via Brown-Henderson’s Dec. 22 appearance in Kamloops provincial court via video.

While Brown-Henderson will be credited for time served in custody, he was sentenced to 14 months behind bars, followed by an 18-month probation term for all convictions.

Court heard that Brown-

Henderson had no criminal record and held meaningful employment until the age of 24, when he became unemployed and homeless in May of 2018.

Charges for property offences, break-and-enters and numerous breaches of probation began to plague his life as a recreational drug habit turned into full-fledged addiction issues.

Prior to his guilty pleas last week, Brown-Henderson had 17 criminal convictions since 2019 — five of those from this year alone pertaining to break-and-enters and four for failing to comply with probation conditions.

Among those previous convictions is one for a Feb. 23, 2021, rooftop burglary of a downtown business.

During his most recent crime spree, Brown-Henderson ran into The Source store in Northills Centre in North Kamloops on March 30 and stole a display laptop valued at $789.

On Aug. 28, Brown-Henderson used a drill to break into Red Tomato Pies via the roof. Once inside the North Kamloops pizza place, he stole about $600 from two cash registers, which he damaged.

On Aug. 31 at 6:22 a.m., mere minutes after his curfew allowed him to be out of his home, BrownHenderson broke into the BC Government Liquor Store in Columbia Place in Sahali via the roof — using a ladder he found outside the building.

Crown prosecutor Evan Goulet said that given the crimes occurred while Brown-Henderson was on probation, a harsher sentence was requested.

“It’s certainly not a sophisticated offense, though I can appreciate the damage done,” defence lawyer John Gustafson told court.

Gustafson said BrownHenderson has successfully completed a short treatment program while in custody and is hopeful

about registering in the Phoenix rehabilitation program upon his release from jail.

He is employed full-time in prison as a cleaner in the healthcare unit.

During the time he has served, Brown-Henderson has been working with a release team to mitigate the risks of recidivism, Gustafson said.

Court heard Brown-Henderson has agreed to return to his mother’s home in Chase upon his release, with the intention of focusing on his recovery and mental-health conditions. He currently takes medication for anxiety and uses suboxone to cope with his addiction.

Brown-Henderson will be required to report to a parole officer within two business days of being released, providing his address and phone number while adhering to a curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., with exceptions for attending employment

begs the old adage that "Resolutions were meant to be broken?"

So how does one overcome the odds? As Benjamin Franklin said, "Failing to plan was planning to fail " Given our background in financial planning, below are a few tips to help hit those financial resolutions:

1 Set a goal: Many may have heard of setting SMART goals They should aim to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely Sharing your goals with friends, family or coworkers can help keep you accountable One main reason resolutions tend to fail is the goal set is either too strict or not realistic

2 Do your homework: Regardless if your goal is to save more or pay down debt, they both require the same thing - more cash A monthly budget is critical to highlight the ins and outs of cash flow Are you paying top dollar for cable TV but in reality only watching Netflix? You might also be surprised how quickly frequently dining out adds up

or health-care appointments with prior written permission from his parole officer.

Brown-Henderson will be required to keep the peace and appear in court upon request. He is prohibited from visiting Red Tomato Pies, The Source or any BC Government Liquor Store in Kamloops.

Brown-Henderson will be required to complete any treatment programs identified by his parole officer and is prohibited from accessing any weapons. He is also banned from owning pliers, slim jims, night vision goggles and facial disguises.

Fifty-five surcharges were waived in court due to financial strain. When people are sentenced, they are at times required by court to pay a victim surcharge, with the money going to help victims of crime.

Brown-Henderson will also be required to submit DNA while he is in custody.

here When money is allocated to a key priority, there is less for discretionary expenses or what is called slippage

5. There's an app for that: Several budgeting and finance apps are available to help with spending, tracking, and goal setting For example, when TD launched their MySpend app in 2016 they reported that users saw an average drop of 4-8% in their spending after using the app to track their budgets

6 Start now: Too many people fall to the mindset of "Once this is paid off, then I will " The reality is there often is another conflicting priority that will emerge Commit to your goal now, even if only a small amount, and review in 3-6 months

A 2021 Forbes Report found a staggering 80% of resolutions fail by mid - February Research conducted by fitness company Strava in 2019 found most people had given up on their goals by January 19th I guess that

A few common places you may be able to free up some cash: Dining out, bringing lunch to work, review monthly subscriptions, check cell phone plans (particularly data overages) Also review recreational expenses as well as smoking, alcohol, and shopping

3 Break it into smaller pieces: If you are saving for a trip in a year that costs $5,000, then you know you will need to come up with roughly $100 per week in savings for 12 months Cutting back in small places such as one less meal out a week, or two less coffee runs can quickly add up

4. Automate where possible: One can easily set up automated savings plans that coincide with paydays The old adage of "pay yourself first" works

7. Seek help: If debt reduction is your primary goal, tackle the highest interest first which typically are credit cards It may be worth seeing if a debt consolidation loan could help roll multiple payments into one If your goal is saving, it can be tough choosing which avenue is best between RSPs, TFSAs and RESPs We suggest consulting a trusted advisor for help

For those of you who already max out your TFSA each year, 2023 brings a new limit of $6,500 We encourage you to make the most of it All the best to investing well and living well in 2023!

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Stolen car suspect caught on camera

Kamloops man facing child sex offences

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A Kamloops man is facing several charges related to child sex crimes after the local RCMP was contacted by police in the United States.

Kamloops Mounties said the investigation led to the identification of a victim at risk in the city.

Cpl. Crystal Evelyn said earlier this month, members of the Kamloops RCMP sex crimes unit and other officers executed a search warrant at a Kamloops home and

arrested a man following information provided to the BC Integrated Child Exploitation Unit by an United States law enforcement agency.

“The investigation, led locally by the Kamloops RCMP Sex Crimes Unit, was treated as a priority to address the allegation that a child was at immediate risk of harm,” said Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Brian Merriman of the sex crimes unit.

“With the support of community agencies and partners, the local detach -

ment was able to make a swift arrest and take the accused into custody.”

The accused, who cannot be named under a court-ordered publication ban, is charged with numerous offences, including the making, distribution and possession of child pornography.

He was remanded in custody for the offences and for other charges related to allegedly breaching a conditional sentence order.

His next court appearance is scheduled in the new year.

officers.

On Friday, Dec. 16, at about 1:10 a.m., officers came across a possibly impaired driver in a North Shore restaurant drive-thru lane.

Cpl. Crystal Evelyn said officers followed the vehicle — a dark, 2017 Dodge Ram with a headache rack — onto Tranquille Road near Fortune Avenue in North Kamloops and attempted a traffic stop, but the driver ran a red light and fled.

Police later found the vehicle near Grasslands Boulevard in Batchelor Heights, at which point the driver apparently ran a stop sign and accelerated toward a police vehicle, causing the officer to take evasive action to avoid a collision, Evelyn said.

Later that morning, police received a report that the same vehicle had been stolen from the 200-block of Pemberton Terrace in Lower Sahali sometime after 6 p.m. on Dec. 15. On Dec. 21, the vehicle was found abandoned.

“As part of the ongoing investigation, officers obtained surveillance footage from the drive-thru picturing a suspect police are looking to identify,” Evelyn said.

The suspect driver is white, between 20 and 30 years of age, and was wearing a red jacket and striped toque.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000.

Binder charged with murder

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

A 52-year-old man has been charged in connection with the 2021 death of a man who was shot to death in Scotch Creek about a year-and-a-half ago in the Shuswap community about 85 kilometres east of Kamloops.

Paul Vincent Binder has been charged with the second-degree murder of 32-year-old John Vance. Binder remains in custody pending future court hearings.

“I’m appreciative for the assistance from our partners and the ongoing efforts by the investigative team in bringing this matter to its current state” RCMP Southeast District Insp. Brent

Thirty-two-year-old

Novakoski said in a release.

On June 25, 2021, Chase RCMP responded at 5:46 a.m. to a reported shooting in the 4100-block of SquilaxAnglemont Road in Scotch Creek, where they found Vance, who had been shot and subsequently died of his wounds.

A second man at the

scene, who was taken into police custody, has since been released unconditionally.

Vance was a resident of the Scotch Creek area.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the RCMP Southeast District major crime unit information line at 1-877-987-8477.

Kamloops Mounties are seeking the publics’ help in identifying a suspect connected to an incident in which the driver of a stolen vehicle sped away from

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John Vance was shot to death in Scotch Creek, east of Kamloops, on June 25, 2021. Paul Binder, 52, has been charged in connection with Vance’s death.

Shoplifter who used bear spray now free

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

A Kamloops man who attacked a North Kamloops store owner with bear spray when confronted for shoplifting has been released from prison after spending a couple of months behind bars.

Jeffrey Trump, 36, pleaded guilty in Kamloops provincial court on Dec. 14 to theft under $5,000 and assault with a weapon in connection with the Oct. 19 crime he committed at Interior Crafts and Hobbies at 333 Tranquille Rd. in North Kamloops.

Trump’s sentence on each count is to be served concurrently. A second charge of assault with a weapon was stayed by the Crown.

After being given credit for time served in pre-trial custody, calculated at 1.5 days for every day served behind bars, Trump was handed seven more days in jail. He was also given a year probation for the offence.

Trump was arrested on Oct. 19 after he attacked employees from

pursue the thief and ask for the item back when Trump walked out of the building.

Trump, however, turned and fired a shot of bear spray at Hicks when he caught up to him along the sidewalk of Tranquille Road. The incident was caught on the store’s security camera.

“It hurt like hell,” Hicks said, noting the burning sensation on his face and feeling of shock in the moment.

Hicks’ brother then came out of the store and ran up to Trump, who turned around and sprayed him, as well.

Hicks said he was on the phone with police as he continued to chase the shoplifter, adding Mounties responded within about 30 minutes and tracked Trump to a property on nearby Yew Street.

Hicks told KTW following the incident he wasn’t expecting much out of the court system, but was satisfied that Trump was behind bars for the time being.

According to online court records, Trump has another date in court, on Jan. 12, 2023, for possession of stolen property charges. They were sworn on Dec. 14 and relate to a Sept. 6 incident.

than 40,000 people need a family doctor in Kamloops.

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There are more than 40,000 people in kamloops without a family physician.

CHAMPIONS FOR FAMILY MEDICINE is a program created by the Thompson Region Division of Family Practice to help us recruit more family physicians to our region, and also to support the ones already working here for us.

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• Important information on why family medicine matters, and why we need to support it as a community;

We’re the Thompson Region Division of Family Practice, a non-profit organization that supports family doctors in Kamloops and area. We work to keep the doctors we have and attract more to the region. We’re looking for community partners to make that happen.

• Profiles of the dedicated family physicians and nurse practitioners serving our community today;

Champions for Family Medicine is a program that will help pull our community together and give us the tools to attract more doctors to Kamloops. We’ll be giving some very public recognition to our family doctors and to the local businesses who support them through this program.

Champions for Family Medicine is a program that will help pull our community together and give us the tools to attract more doctors to Kamloops. We’ll be giving some very public recognition to our family doctors and to the local businesses who support them through this program.

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Interior Crafts and Hobbies with bear spray when they chased after him for shoplifting.

The store owner, Dean Hicks, said he saw Trump steal an Airsoft pistol magazine and decided to

Security camera footage shows Interior Crafts and Hobbies owner Dean Hicks being attacked with pepper spray after pursuing a man who had stole items from Hicks’ North Kamloops store on Oct. 20. The suspect in this case was arrested and is facing charges.

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Alleged shotgun robber awaits bail hearing

MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

A Kamloops man caught on camera allegedly attempting to rob the Canco gas station on Tranquille Road in North Kamloops with a shotgun this past summer may soon be released on bail with an ankle bracelet.

James Robert Levi Black, 27, is charged with seven offences, including robbery with a firearm, having a firearm for dangerous purpose, pointing a firearm and obstructing a peace officer in the execution of their duties.

Black has been in custody since his arrest on Aug. 18, according to online court records. His next court date is on Thursday, Dec. 29, for a technical suitability report, which will determine whether he is eligible for release under electronic monitoring.

Black was arrested after a wouldbe robber was thwarted on the night of Aug. 18 when two customers entered the fray.

Surveillance video shows how the incident unfolded.

In the video, the robber, who is clad in black and wearing a blue face mask, walks up to the store counter, shotgun in hands, and appears to cock it as he points it over the counter. As he does this, a customer approaches him from behind and waits a few seconds before grabbing the robber’s neck and the barrel of the gun.

A struggle ensues and another customer joins in to help subdue the robber. The two men eventually disarm the suspect, holding him in place and eventually taking him to the ground before police arrive.

Kamloops Mounties said they were called to the Canco gas station at about 8:30 p.m. that day for a report of a masked man with a shotgun entering a store.

Police said as officers were en route, two customers intervened, disarming and detaining the suspect until police arrived and took him into custody.

In another video posted to social media at the time, one of the cus-

tomers who helped nab the suspect can be seen talking to the suspect as he is led away by Mounties.

As he is being led away in handcuffs, the suspect turns toward the customer who apprehended him.

“I didn’t have any shells,” the man under arrest says.

To which the customer replies: “It doesn’t matter. What kind of f— ing idiot robs a store with a shotgun without any shells, you moron?”

In the video, the customer also apologizes to store employees “for taking that chance,” but said he was paying attention to where the gun was pointed before acting.

Electronic supervision is most suitable for high-risk individuals who need intensive supervision due to a substantial concern they will commit a serious, violent or sexually motivated offence, according to a fact sheet from the provincial government.

Anyone who witnessed or has information related to the robbery investigation is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and reference file 2022-29007.

See footage at kamloopsthisweek.com

The suspect in an Aug. 18 attempted robbery of the Canco gas station in North Kamloops is led away in handcuffs. [video online]

Sentencing in 2023 for October 2018 homicide

JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

A Kamloops man who helped beat a local drug dealer, leaving him for dead in the Lac Du Bois Grasslands in October 2018, won’t be sentenced until late July 2023.

Jayden Eustache, 28, has a sentencing hearing scheduled for five days, beginning on the week of July 24, 2023 during which time he will be sentenced and his potential long-term offender status determined.

In January of this year, Eustache pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court to a charge of manslaughter. He is one of five men charged in connection with the death of 35-year-old Troy Gold and remains the lone person yet to be sentenced.

Eustache was the last of four of the men to plead guilty, while one

accused was acquitted at trial.

In May, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley granted an application from the Crown to have Eustache assessed for dangerous offender status, but he is now being considered for long-term offender status.

The assessor’s report on Eustache wrapped up in October and the Crown, having received consent from B.C.’s Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Peter

Juk, is now seeking long-term offender status for Eustache.

When an offender is convicted of a serious personal injury crime and poses a continuing danger to the public, Crown counsel can apply in sentencing court to have the person designated a dangerous offender or a long-term offender.

According to an information sheet from the BC Prosecution Service, the long-term offender

designation was created as a residual sentencing regime to help deal with offenders who may pose a risk to the public, but are not captured by the dangerous offender provisions.

Court-ordered expert assessments consider if the offender could be found to be a dangerous or long-term offender, focusing on the person’s risk to reoffend and prospects for treatment or control when released into a community.

Eustache was one of the main players who carried out a beating on Gold, who caught the ire of fellow drug dealer Nathan Townsend, to whom Gold owed money. Townsend also suspected Gold burned two of his vehicles and sought retribution.

On Oct. 1, 2018, Eustache and three others — Darian Rohel, Sean Scurt and John Daviss — picked up Gold, who believed

they were to carry out an attack on someone else.

That evening, they drove out to the Lac DuBois grasslands north of the city, where Eustache initiated a surprise attack, striking Gold in the head with an aluminium baseball bat multiple times. He also directed the group to sever a finger on a hand of Gold’s — on Townsend’s orders — and his shoes.

Gold was left behind in the grasslands. shoeless and without pants, but was moaning and still alive when his attackers left. He was later reported missing and police found his partial skeletal remains on Oct. 30, approximately 800 metres from where he was beaten.

Townsend and Rohel each received seven-year prison sentences. Scurt received four years, while Daviss was acquitted.

JAYDEN EUSTACHE

JAYDEN EUSTACHE WAS ONE OF FIVE MEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BEATING DEATH OF TROY GOLD IN THE LAC DU BOIS GRASSLANDS

TROY GOLD

CHRISTMAS FEAST BEFORE WINTER BREAK

TRU and Sun Peaks partner up

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Thompson Rivers University and Sun Peaks have signed a five-year partnership agreement linking university students with careers in tourism, hospitality, trades and early childhood education (ECE).

The resort community is donating $75,000 to TRU’s Tourism Innovation Lab Fund, which helps students develop

tourism business ideas through research and industry mentorship.

Funds will also be allocated to the TRU Trails to Reconciliation Fund, a 12-day field course in which students travel to Indigenous communities in the Interior to build mountain biking trails.

Students also take in tours of Sun Peaks to get a sense of the inner workings of a mountain resort.

In addition, the funding supports awards for TRU undergraduate students in tourism, events and conventions management, culinary arts, trades and technology and early childhood ECE programs.

As part of the awards, students will receive mentorship and potential workplacement opportunities at various Sun Peaks-operated businesses.

Funding for training in Tk’emlúps

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc has been given nearly $300,000 to pay for the training of eight eligible Indigenous people to receive skills training to prepare them for jobs as professional truck drivers in the Kamloops area.

“B.C. wants more professional truck drivers and Indigenous people in the

Interior want training supports to get good work,” said B.C. Social Development Minister Sheila Malcolmson said in a release. “We’re funding new training so people get work experience and support to land the jobs they want.”

Participants will receive 15 weeks of employability and soft-skills training, including communication and mandatory entry-level

training, seven weeks of on-the-job work experience with local employers and two weeks of follow-up support to help participants in their job search.

The full-time, groupbased learning for the project began on Dec. 12.

Those interested in finding out more about this or other such projects can contact their local WorkBC centre.

School District 73 assistant superintendent of secondary schools Bill Hamblet (above left) pours gravy onto the plates of Grade 12 International Baccalaureate students Isis Santamaria (second from right) and Emma Fecteau. About 870 NorKam secondary students took part in their annual student Christmas dinner on Dec. 14, when students and staff gathered together in the school’s gymnasium to enjoy a traditional dinner including turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables and drinks.

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JUNIOR HAS EYES ON JUMPING TO OTTAWA

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Akwasi (Junior)

Agyekum is still spinning.

The 20-year-old TRU WolfPack midfielder from Calgary earned tournament MVP honours last month after leading his team to the title at the U Sports Men’s Soccer Championship in Kamloops .

On Dec. 15, he was selected by Atlético Ottawa eighth overall in the Canadian Premier League U Sports Draft.

The Canadian Premier League (CPL) is a nine-team professional soccer league in its fifth season of play.

“Overall, it’s just a surreal experience,” Agyekum said. “This whole year — everything that’s happened, winning nationals and the awards that not only I got, but seeing a lot of my teammates do amazing— it’s all been surreal. I don’t think I’ve fully taken it in.”

Agyekum was sending tape to coaches in 2020, looking for a place to ply his craft while the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out athletics of all sorts across the world.

“I saw something special and pretty much jumped on it right away,” WolfPack head coach John Antulov said.

“Defensively, he’s a wall, he’s able to break up plays, has a nonstop engine, plays through injuries and has all the tools of size, quickness and technical ability to go and attack. I was like, ‘This kid is going to be really good.’”

Agyekum said a perfect storm brought him to Kamloops, with other opportunities falling through amid the pandemic before he eventually began his tenure with the

“John’s an incredible coach and he made it clear to me a lot of the attributes I showed, I already had,” Agyekum said.

“There was also stuff I had to learn, that he needed to teach me. Through the coaching staff and John being an incredible coach, they were able to help me learn a lot of new things, which helped me to impress, be more offensive and show some of those qualities.”

Nobody doubted the defensive guru’s ability to smother, but CPL scouts showed up to Hillside Stadium in November with questions about Agyekum’s offensive prowess and box-to-box capability.

“The leash was more taken off,” Antulov said.

“That was the part of his game

that really drew attention. Once that started to show, it started to open a lot of peoples’ eyes.”

Agyekum, a 6-foot-1, secondyear business administration student, was named a Nike Top Performer in two of three TRU matches at nationals, including the final, after which he was named championship MVP and a member of the tournament all-star team.

He was weighed down by hardware during an interview with KTW after the incredible gold-medal match, a 2-1 shootout triumph over the UBC Thunderbirds, the WolfPack’s third consecutive win via penalty kicks in the tournament, securing the school’s first national U Sports title.

Agyekum will head east near the end of January for a month-long

training camp with Atlético Ottawa, which will assess its top 10 draft pick before deciding whether to offer him a developmental contract for the 2023 season.

The developmental contract allows players to maintain U Sports eligibility while toiling in the CPL and Agyekum would likely return to TRU in August in time for the 2023 Canada West campaign.

Graduated WolfPack defender Jan Pirretas Glasmacher was the first TRU player to be selected in the CPL U Sports Draft, nabbed third overall in 2019 by Pacific FC of Victoria.

Agyekum was the second TRU player drafted and is aiming to be the first WolfPack product to sign a CPL contract.

“I think he [Agyekum] has a massive upside,” Antulov said. “I don’t

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think he’s close to his ceiling. I hope they [Ottawa] do keep him and he can work and continue to train and play in that environment because we get an even better player back in return.”

Agyekum can return to Kamloops in the spring for a second season playing under Antulov for Rivers FC in the semi-professional League1 BC ranks if Atlético Ottawa does not offer him a developmental deal.

Alternatively, Agyekum could dazzle in the nation’s capital, sign a professional contract and begin his full-time career in the CPL.

“I’m just taking it one step at a time,” Agyekum said. “Talk about full contracts usually appears later. Right now, I’m just focused on doing well and making that first step.”

Joel Waterman, formerly a defender for the Trinity Western Spartans of Langley, was selected 14th overall by Cavalry FC of Calgary in the 2018 CPL U Sports draft and, in 2020, became the first CPL player to be sold to a Major League Soccer club. The Aldergrove product plays for CF Montreal and was among 26 players named to Canada’s roster for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

“This is the pathway we didn’t have before,” Antulov said.

Is it one Agyekum can follow?

“I want to take it as far as possible,” Agyekum said.

“Anything is possible through hard work, perseverance and belief, so yeah, I want to take it as far as I can go. But right now, I’m just taking it one step at a time.”

WolfPack in 2021.

Thompson Rivers University WolfPack midfielder Akwasi (Junior) Agyekum was drafted eighth overall by Atlético Ottawa eighth overall in the Dec. 15 Canadian Premier League U Sports Draft.

Woodland to represent Canada at Winter Worlds

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U Sports has revealed the names of student-athletes who will represent Canada in women’s hockey at the 2023 FISU (International University Sports Federation)

Winter World University Games, which will run from Jan. 11 to Jan. 22 in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Goaltender Kendra Woodland of Kamloops has cracked the ros-

ter, which features athletes from Canada West, Ontario University Athletics, Quebec and Atlantic University Sport.

Woodland plays for the New Brunswick Reds in Atlantic Canada.

“As Canadians, we all understand that any time you get to don the Maple Leaf and represent this country on the international stage, it is a thrill, a privilege and an honour,” head coach Greg Bowles

said in a release. “That said, this group can’t wait to get started and add their part to the legacy that is Canadian hockey.”

Team Canada will square off against Slovakia on Wednesday, Jan. 11, with puck drop slated for 5 p.m. Kamloops time.

In the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, the Canadians earned the silver medal, falling 2-0 to host Russia in

the gold medal game.

The FISU Winter World University Games is the largest winter multi-sport collegiate athletic event in the world and will showcase 11 days of high-level sport and cultural events.

Team Canada opens world juniors with loss

Team Canada opened the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship in Halifax on Monday, Dec. 26, with a surprising 5-2 loss to Czechia (also known as the Czech Republic).

Team Canada has two Kamloops Blazers on the squad: forwards Logan Stankoven and Caedan Bankier, neither of whom found the scoresheet in the game.

Canada’s second game at the tourna-

ment is against Germany on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Kamloops time. The Canadians will then face Austria on Thursday, at 3:30 p.m. and Finland on Saturday at 3:30 p.m., before the playoff round begins on Monday, Jan. 2.

The World Junior Hockey Championship features 10 teams split into two groups: • Group A features Canada, Sweden, Czechia, Germany and Austria.

• Group B includes the U.S., Finland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Latvia.

The 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship was originally scheduled to be held in Russia, but was moved to Canada and Russia banned from playing due to that country’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Canada enters the tournament as defending champion and is seeking its 20th world junior title.

Kendra Woodland in action in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2019 with the national women’s development team.

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LOGAN STANKOVEN

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Confidence in crease as Blazers return to ice

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Four victories on the trot, toiling without two of their top players in the lineup and eight wins in their last 10 games had the Kamloops Blazers cruising atop the B.C. Division and feeling merry at the Western Hockey League Christmas break.

Blazers’ bench boss Shaun Clouston was vacationing in Palm Springs when he spoke to KTW last week and conversation quickly turned to goaltender Dylan Ernst, whose emergence — he was won his last 11 starts — has changed the way Kamloops thinks about the Jan. 10 trade deadline.

“It’s changed it drastically,” Clouston said of 18-year-old Ernst, who boasts a .925 save percentage. “Right now, he’s one of the top goalies in the league.”

The 2023 Memorial Cup-host Blazers seem likely to add veteran depth in the crease, but do not appear to have No. 1 netminder on their deadline wishlist.

“Erny’s been incredible,” said 20-year-old forward Daylan Kuefler, the New York Islanders’ prospect and Blazers’ alternate captain.

“I’m so proud of that guy. He’s come a long way from when he was first coming into the league. I told him from Day 1 that when

he puts in the work, he can do something special and I have all the belief in the world in him. I’m sure proud of him. We gain a lot of confidence having him back there, with the way he’s playing.”

Ernst told Blazers’ play-byplay man Jon Keen (on his podcast, The Blaze) that motivation this season came, in part, from being overlooked in the NHL Draft and from his desire to prove social media doubters wrong.

“We live in a real interesting world, where everybody gets to

comment and everybody gets to see the comment,” Clouston said.

“He says he heard and saw. It’s what you make of those things. As a player, as a person, are you affected negatively by that? To me, it’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is what we do as a team on a day-to-day basis and do we believe in that process?”

The Blazers were third in Western Conference standings, seven points back of the Seattle Thunderbirds and eight points in arrears of the Portland

Winterhawks, ahead of a Tuesday night (Dec. 27) game against the Kelowna Rockets that took place after KTW’s press deadline

“Now, either through trade or continuous improvement or a combination of both, can we find the next level?” Clouston said.

“We’re going to look at everything [at the deadline]. We would welcome the opportunity to do something at various positions. The big trade so far has taken bodies and, in some cases, numbers of bodies, and that’s going to be a major, major challenge. The price is as high as I’ve ever seen.”

The holiday roster freeze ended on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Clouston expounded on the deadline dilemma.

“You got the comment from Regina,” Clouston said, referencing a media exchange with Pats’ GM John Paddock, who said 17-year-old phenom Connor Bedard has not indicated plans to waive his no-trade clause.

“That factors into every trade around the league. You can’t trade 16-year-olds, you can’t trade 15-year-olds that are signed. Now, you have to fast forward to ‘05s and ‘04s. You look at rosters and there is only a really small, with most teams, grouping of players that are even potential [transaction targets] and the vast majority of players have no-trade clauses.”

The Blazers made a splash on Nov. 14 when they acquired 19-yearold Slovakian forward Jakub Demek from the Edmonton Oil Kings, trading for the injured top-six forward who is likely to make his Kamloops debut in January.

Clouston shipped 18-year-old Mats Lindgren to the Red Deer Rebels in August in exchange for

Kamloops Blazers’ goaltender

Dylan Ernst won his past 10 starts entering Tuesday night’s game in Kelowna, a contest that took place after KTW’s press deadline. The result of that game can be found online at kamloopsthisweek.com.

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19-year-old Kyle Masters in a rearguard swap and added depth forwards Ashton Ferster and Shea Van Olm via trades in September and November, respectively.

“We’re real pleased,” Clouston said. “We’re definitely happy with what we’ve been able to do so far. The challenge will be — what else are we able to do?”

Ferster, Van Olm, Emmitt Finnie and Dylan Sydor are among depth forwards who have stepped up of late, said Clouston, with Caedan Bankier and Logan Stankoven away on national duty at the World Junior Hockey Championship.

“We’ve learned how important the structure is and work ethic and we’ve most recently been missing our two forwards and we’ve had some guys dig in and step up,” Clouston said.

Kuefler, Toronto Maple Leafs’ prospect Fraser Minten and Dallas Stars’ draft pick Matthew Seminoff are living up to expectations up front, most recently registering two points apiece in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Cougars in Prince George. Logan Bairos tallied the winner that night and is among bright spots on the back end.

“It’s been good so far,” Blazers’ 20-year-old D-man Ethan Brandwood said.

“Our record shows it and we had a stretch toward the end of the first half where we had let in three or less goals for eight games and I think the D was a great part of that. We saw lots of growth in the younger guys, like [Kaden] Hammell and [Harrison] Brunicke, so that was positive.”

Both Brandwood and Kuefler said consistency is an area for improvement for the Blazers, who will play host to the Rockets on Wednesday, Dec. 28, a 7 p.m. start at Sandman Centre.

“Overall, it’s been successful,” Clouston said when asked to assess the first half of the season.

“We’ve been competitive all the way through. We’ve had some ups and downs, but there has been some team elements we’ve improved on.”

Kamloops Long Blades skate well at BC Cup in Richmond

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Ten Kamloops Long Blades were in speed-skating action at the BC Cup, held recently at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

In the Canada Winter Games Selection Trials, Leah Turner finished 10th overall in the female division. Caleb Van der Merwe and Patrick

Gu finished in eighth and 10th, respectively, in the male division.

In the youth female division, Meena Litt won gold, Kayleigh Roberts placed eighth and Laylah Sadegur finished 12th.

Keidis Corrigan was fourth, Jared Roberts was 10th and Jacob Beesley was 13th in the

youth male division.

Ashton Loland competed in his first provincial event and finished 14th in the preyouth division.

Up next for the Long Blades is the Alberta Long Track Championships in January.

For more information on the club, go online to kammloopslongblades.ca.

Leah Turner of the Kamloops Long Blades in action recently in Richmond.

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The heritage around us

Dig It: Archaeology of the intangible

Archaeology is a discipline focused on the material remains left behind by people in the past.

Except on rare occasions, such as waterlogged or permafrost conditions, the majority of organic items used in the past do not preserve.

Typically, all that is left after thousands of years in the ground are stone, bone or shell artifacts. As a result, these items have become the source of much archaeological research and attention.

Apart from portable items manufactured by people, archaeology also focuses on unmovable features created or modified intentionally by humans, such as the remains of semisubterranean pithouses, fire pits, hunting blinds, fish weirs, rock paintings or bark-stripped trees.

All of these various site types are relatively easy to comprehend and understand — these are physical items that can be easily documented, measured, photographed and described.

As archaeologists, we are trained to analyze the material remains left behind by past people, but just focusing on the few physical items that happen to preserve in the earth after millennia is missing a large part of the picture.

Not all significant places on the

landscape have a tangible component that can be quantified and classified. The material remains we find scattered across the province and registered as archaeology sites with the BC Archaeology Branch need to be considered and understood within the whole landscape.

Non-Indigenous British Columbians have a very short history in this province — five or six generations at the very most.

Nevertheless, we can all collectively understand the importance of place in this beautiful province. Many can relate to special mountaintops, hiking trails or lake views that are significant to you and your family due to shared experiences and memories at these locations.

These places contribute to a sense of place and self. We often react strongly when these places are destroyed through developments because those locations were significant and meaningful to us personally.

This is a challenging aspect of the past for archaeologists to capture — the important places on the landscape to Indigenous communities that don’t necessarily contain material evidence that they were visited or used in the past.

There might not be obvious traces left behind from past visitors, yet these locations are an integral part of the past and

present cultural landscape and were (and remain) important to Indigenous communities today.

These places may be associated with origin stories, significant past events, ceremonial activities or spiritual locales. With the focus on physical remains in archaeology, capturing these intangible places and understanding their significance is not an easy feat.

Nevertheless, excluding these locations and sites from research projects limits the understanding

and interpretation of the past.

The Heritage Conservation Act is the legislation that protects archaeology sites in B.C.

Although the emphasis is weighted on the tangible (i.e., physical remains left behind by people in the past) significant places can be afforded protection. The system isn’t perfect and getting protection for a place is much more challenging than the automatic protection provided to artifacts.

The most promising avenue is for Indigenous-led research and archaeology projects to document these locations on the landscape and advocate for not only their significance, but their right to be preserved and protected. There is a shift toward this movement globally and within Canada.

For instance, earlier this year, the Muteshekau Shipu (Magpie River) in Quebec was granted legal personhood.

This new legal status, the first of its kind in Canada to be provided to a natural entity, was granted by the local Indigenous communities and will ensure the river is protected for future generations.

Protecting significant and, at times intangible, places on the landscape enriches the interpretation of the past, while preserving these irreplaceable locations for the future.

Editor’s note: This Dig It column was first published on Oct. 26, 2021, and is part of the series of Dig It columns that have appeared in KTW since 2016, with new arrivals expected in 2023.

Phoebe Murphy is a Kamloopsbased archeologist. Interested in more? Go online to republicofarchaeology.ca. Dig It is KTW’s regularly published column on the history beneath our feet in the Kamloops region.

This prominent cliff platform remains as evidence for interpreting the past. PHOEBE MURPHY PHOTO

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In Loving Memory of Brent Nowicki

Some people live their dreams Some people close their eyes Some people’s destiny Passes by

There are no guarantees There are no alibis That’s how love must be Don’t ask why

It takes some time God knows how long I know that I can’t forget you

As soon as my heart stops breakin’ As soon as forever is through I’ll be over you

miss you, Bro

In Loving Memory of A Faithful Friend And Companion

Sam (Samantha) Goheen

March 3, 2011 – December 28, 2021

It broke my heart to lose you But you did not go alone

A part of me went with you

The day you were called home

You showed me joy of giving

And the simple art of living

You showed me unconditional love

And how to be strong and tough

You may have left my side

And made me sad and cry

But I know this is not a real goodbye ‘Cos I can still find you inside

Our bond will always remain strongly tied

And the sweet memories you gave me have not died

And when my time on earth is done

And at heaven’s gate I’m near I don’t want any harps or horns Just happy barks to hear So see you later my best friend I know you are in heaven and now You wait right there for me

Love Martha

Nevada Marie Carstairs

October 19, 1993 - November 25, 2022

It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of our precious daughter She will always be remembered by her parents Mike and Sandra Carstairs, her brother Matthew Carstairs, and her precious daughter Kimberly Carstairs.

Nevada was the nicest, kindest person her family has ever known, we were truly blessed to have known the kindest soul. Nevada had a wicked sense of humour and she made us laugh on a regular basis. Nevada loved her daughter more than anything in this world and would do anything for her “Kimi”. They had so much fun together They joked around and giggled throughout the day and enjoyed playing video games, doing artwork and making slime, oh my gosh, so much slime! Nevada loved animals especially her dog Goofus.

We would like to Thank everyone who cared for Nevada of which there were so many, Thank You.

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In LovingMemory of

Donna Jack

1945 - 2010 BHappy irthday

As long as I love you will live

As long as I live you will be remembered

As long as I love you will be loved

Love Rob

In Loving Memory

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Lloyd Douglas (Doug) Speer

Doug was born in Calgary on December 16, 1948 and was taken from us unexpectedly on December 20, 2022. Doug was survived by daughter Joanna (Jeremy), grandchildren Brandon, Cole and Abby Nephew Aaron, niece Ashely, brother Greg and numerous cousins. He was predeceased by parents Lloyd and Peggy as well as sister Debbie.

Growing up in the Edmonton and Mayerthorpe area is where he developed his love for the outdoors. At one point in time, he was an avid hunter and fisherman which then transitioned into his love for golf. He relocated to Kamloops in 1972 with his family for his job as a pipefitter for Weyerhaeuser It was here that he spent much of his time involved in the hockey and baseball communities. He played both sports but loved reffing hockey and dedicated much of his time to coaching many baseball teams over the years.

He loved his family and friends more than anything and would give the shirt off his back to help someone in need. He will be greatly missed.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date and in lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Doug's name.

Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

Kenneth Dale Wilkinson

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Kenneth Dale Wilkinson on December 16, 2022. Ken was born and raised in Kamloops and a lifelong member of the IUOE Local #115.

He is survived by his loving life partner Betty Jo McCune, his sisters Linda (Roy), Patty (Ed), Dena (Dennis), nieces Stacey and Tanis along with his nephews David, Jesse, and Ryan.

A Celebration of life will take place in the New Year

In lieu of flowers please consider donations to the local COPD foundation.

Arrangements entrusted to Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Services 250-554-2324

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

I miss you so very much Sam

My world came crashing down the day I lost you

Lloyd Douglas (Doug) Speer

Diane Joan Moyer

February 3, 1930 - December 13, 2022

On Tuesday, December 13, 2022 Diane Moyer of Kamloops, BC passed away peacefully in Ponderosa Lodge after suffering with dementia. The family would like to thank the staff at Ponderosa for the care and compassion they gave her during her stay there.

Diane was predeceased by her father Gordon Gilliland, her mother Doreen Gilliland, her sister Marge (Clem) DeGobbi, her son-in-law John Moss, her nephew Joe DeGobbi and her granddaughter Tammy She is survived by her husband of 72 years, Donald, her daughter Margie Moss, her son Gordon (Kath) Moyer, her grandchildren Michael, Mathew (Karen), Kathleen (Vicki) and great-grandchildren, Adriana, Caden, Oliver and Emerson.

She was born in New Westminster, BC and spent her early years on Vancouver Island in Estevan Point, Port Hardy and Bull Harbor before moving back to New Westminster Diane and Don met in Blue River and eventually married in New Westminster They spent their early life together in several locations in BC and Alberta where Don worked for Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline. Their last move was to Kamloops where Diane worked 20 years with Woodward's and where they retired. She was actively involved and a life member of the Masonic Order of the Eastern Star and the Rebekah Lodge. She was also a member of the Vintage Car Club.

Diane's passions were gardening, crafting and animals. She was always busy in her gardens or in making decorations for all of her clubs. She supported the Humane Society and the SPCA.

She loved her children and grandchildren so much and was so very proud of all of them.

She will be greatly missed by her family and all the many friends she made.

A private family gathering will be held at a later time. Memorial donations, in Diane’s name, to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.

Condolences can be expressed at DrakeCremation.com

Dennis Norman Koivula

November 21, 1943 - December 6, 2022

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Dennis Koivula of Chilliwack, BC on December 6th, 2022 at the Langley Lodge.

Dennis is survived by his loving wife Faye of 49 years and his two sons Travis (Alea) Koivula and Grant Koivula and his two grandchildren Denver and Journey He is also survived by his brother Larry Koivula, and his sister Diana MacLeod and predeceased by his sister Linda Kallenberger and his mother Anne Chambers.

Dennis was born in Vancouver, BC and was one of four raised by his single mother He learned to work hard at young age chopping wood and milking cows through tough times living in Langley without running or even clean water He got his first job at the age of 12 working at a taxi office. When he graduated high school he joined the navy and served from 1962-65. He worked many jobs eventually settling on the air powered industry He met Faye in 1970 and they married in 1973. In 1974 they moved to Kamloops to start Dennis's business KamAir Equipment. He sold in 1980 and continued working for the new owners, then later for Nutech, and from his garage. He thoroughly enjoyed all the people and friendships he made throughout the industry and was a staple in Kamloops for over 40 years.

Dennis highly valued family and was an involved uncle to all his nieces and nephews and was known as "The popsicle man" because of his affinity to show up with popsicles and other treats. He loved music especially Elvis. He was a dedicated and loving father to his boys and was very active in their sports always driving them and their teammates all over the province while educating the lads on Buddy Holly and Inka Dinka Doo. In his later Kamloops years he enjoyed spending time "fiddling around" in his unique garage. In 2015 he moved to Chilliwack and walked the Vedder dike daily

A celebration of life will be held in the New Year in Chilliwack.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Parkinson's Canada.

Faye June (née Pavoll) Weiss

June 2, 1949 - December 13, 2022

Predeceased by her parents, Helen and Pete; brothers Wayne and Lance; sister-in-law Susan Pavoll, all of Revelstoke, BC. She is survived by her loving husband John, daughters Nicole and Chelsea and brother Lorne (Lynn) of Burnaby, BC as well as nephews Ben, Tyler, Shaun and niece Sheila.

Faye was raised in Revelstoke and always thought of it as the loveliest place in BC. She settled in Kamloops in 1971, and in 1976 married her husband John. Together, they started a family with Nicole’s arrival in 1981 and Chelsea’s in 1983. Faye juggled her job as a bookkeeper at Artistic Signs, the Horse Barn and Rivers Workwear along with the challenges of being a wife and mother

Faye was also a member of Beta Sigma Phi where she made many lasting friendships with her sisters in Sorority Faye’s escape from her very full daily schedule was her enjoyment of gardening which was a true passion. Travel was a bonus where she enjoyed parts of Europe and many, many tourist destinations.

In January 2017, Faye was diagnosed with cancer which ended her work career; but, she still maintained an active social life. On her good days she still went lunching with friends, camping with her RV group, playing crib, and socializing with her Probus club members; all the while still enjoying her gardens.

Our heartfelt thank you to the nurses, doctors, and staff at the RIH Cancer Clinic and the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home for the exceptional care she received throughout this long and arduous journey and the many good family friends whose support was truly treasured.

Faye’s Celebration of Life will be held at the Kamloops Funeral Home, 285 Fortune Dr., Kamloops, BC – Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 1:00 pm with reception to follow

Kari Salle

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Kari was born on July 5, 1982 in Kamloops, BC. She was a small but mighty little girl. She loved gymnastics and was an amazing soccer goalie. She loved to get dirty playing with the boys as much as she loved wearing cute little dresses. She had the biggest heart and loved her family very much.

Kari was an amazing cook and worked in the food service industry for many years. She became an operating engineer and started with running a packer and then began the career she loved operating an elevating scraper with the family business.

Kari is survived by her parents, Mike Salle and Trena Salle, brother Scott (Michelle) Salle, nephew Ryan and niece Megan, numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

She is predeceased by her Grandparents, her Aunt Jean Hambrook and Uncle Richard Salle.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

-The Lord must have needed a scraper operator so he took one of the best-

with profound sadness that the Family of Kari Salle announce her peaceful passing on December 16, 2022.

Brian Mitchell

August 2, 1945 - December 7, 2022

In Loving Memory of Brian Mitchell

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Brian Mitchell on December 7, 2022 at the age of 77.

Brian is survived by his brother-in-law Leo MacDonald of Saskatchewan and his many nieces and nephews.

Brian was predeceased by his parents George and Thelma Mitchell and 2 sisters Bev Kidner and Faaye MacDonald.

Brian was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on August 2, 1945. When Brian was young, he came out west with his parents finally settling in Kamloops where Brian lived the remainder of his life.

Brian worked a few jobs throughout his life and spent the last 19 years of his retirement keeping himself busy working at Supersave Gas where he enjoyed socializing with the customers, some of whom became his friends.

Brian enjoyed many hobbies including camping, fishing, hunting, quadding and golfing to name a few He will always be remembered for his kindness, his sense of humour and his quick wit.

Brian will be loved and never forgotten by the people whose lives he touched.

Memorial donations can be made in Brian’s name to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. No funeral at Brian’s request.

Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

Williamina (Mina) Philip Blackall (née Crouch)

Mina Blackall passed away peacefully on December 18, 2022 at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice House at the age of 91. She was predeceased by her husband Arthur Walter Blackall on November 22, 2021. Mina is survived by her children: Sheila (Raymond) Brooks of Kamloops, Bruce (Kathy) Blackall of Sheridan Lake, Tara (Terry Weich) Hartwig of Kamloops and Earl (Terri) Blackall of Kamloops. Also left to cherish Mina’s memory are grandchildren: Lana (Joseph) Brooks, Erin (Scott) Englebert, Sydnee Blackall & Tia Blackall as well as great-grandchildren Shaunnessy Brooks, Brooke Englebert & Carter Englebert. She is also survived by her siblings Lenore Parr and John Crouch as well as sisters-in-law Joan Crouch and Jean Crouch and countless nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews.

Mina was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on July 3, 1931, to Lizzie & Charles Crouch. She was one of fifteen children. She spent her childhood in Winnipeg and summers at the lake in Ingolf, Ont. She moved to Silverdale, BC in her late teens. Mina met and married Arthur in 1952 and moved to 100 Mile House in 1955, and then to Kamloops in 1969. Mina was a very kind, loving caring lady and will be greatly missed.

There will be no formal ceremony, by request. The family wishes to extend a special thanks to Dr Malan, Lesley and the home care nurses at Interior Health and the doctors, nurses, and caregivers at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice House.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Mina’s memory may be made to the Kamloops Hospice Association.

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

Albert “Bud” Henry Rankel

May 24, 1926 - December 4, 2022

Bud of Kamloops/Pinantan Lake, BC passed away peacefully, in his sleep, on Sunday, December 4, 2022. Dad was born in Herbert, Saskatchewan to his parents Helena and Henry and was one of two children. He is now reunited with his wife Madeline Evelyn Rankel, who left us August 17, 2015. Dad was very determined to live his life out in the home that he and mom built. Dad had a wonderful life and it quietly ended in his happy place.

Dad was always so proud of his service to our country during the second World War He still was in contact with many of his war buddy’s and was planning a trip to North Battleford, SK to visit the only remaining member of this exclusive club.

In his younger years dad worked at many different occupations: farming, trapper, truck driver One winter mom and dad worked together at a winter logging camp in Fort St. John. Dad driving truck and mom as a cook. Around 1955 they moved to Grand Center, Alberta where dad went to work for Greschner Motors. That was the start of his career with General Motors. Moving to Kamloops in 1965 he carried on the GM path working in their parts department, right up to department manager He officially retired in 1987.

Dad liked to be busy every minute of the day For his whole life he had a passion for his garden. Hardly a day passed that he wasn’t out there puttering away keeping everything just the way he wanted it. He also claimed that he had the best garden! Dad and mom consumed absolutely everything they grew! Mom trained him well to create the best preserves of which he did right up to this fall. His specialties were jams and jellies made from everything imaginable.

He was an avid reader Dad always stayed up to date on the latest current events. As he still had his driver ’s license at 96 he would drive into town just because he could. He hunted (last deer was 2021 at 95 years old). Other than his family fishing was his first love.

The thing he enjoyed the most was spending time with family and friends. As the family circle grew he quickly became the families BEST storyteller The reason he was so good at it was due to the fact that he spoke of all his life long experiences and everyone listened and always wanted to hear more.

Dad leaves behind his children, Tracy (Sandy) Rankel, Renwick (Penny), Rankel and Rob (Heather) Rankel; his grandchildren, Nicole (Steven) Dolson, Nick Rankel (Stacey Todd) , Kelly (Ben) Mezzatesta, Jason Wolfe, Kevin Wolfe (Lynette Berry) James Player Kody (Shania) Evans, Dayna (Don) Evans; great-grandchildren, Charlie (Dolson), Sadie (Wolfe), Caitlin (RJ) Bebek, Keirstin Groom, predeased Ryan Groom, Kiarra (Kolten), Kylie (Esscoffry) Player, Emma Player, Aurora Evans, Aiden Evans; great great-grandchildren, Tyson Bebek, Miley Bebek, Zenro Pryce; and he also leaves behind his younger sister Patricia (Lindsay) Milne of Calgary

A Celebration of Life is being planned for the spring of 2023 at the Kamloops Funeral Home.

Bud and Madeline will be laid to rest side by side in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan at a future date.

Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

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DOCUMENTING THE HISTORY OF TRANQUILLE

BREANNE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER breanne@kamloopsthisweek.com

Apair of undergraduate students from Thompson Rivers University have completed a short documentary about the history and future of Tranquille on the Lake, the property just west of Kamloops Airport that was once a tuberculosis sanatorium and a psychiatric facility.

Twenty-year-olds Carter Jahnke and Kei Massalski pitched, researched and produced the documentary, City of Solace, as part of an assignment in the filmmaking and documentary course they completed through the communications department.

“When they told me that they were going to do that, I was so happy,” TRU sessional lecturer Richard Amante told KTW. “I had other students telling me about this place before, but they didn’t do anything. They were just telling me.”

Amante is from Brazil and has lived in Kelowna for five-and-ahalf years. He travels to Kamloops to teach at TRU annually as a sessional lecturer in the communication department. Amante said the Tranquille site had been identified as a point of interest by several students, but had not yet seen anyone successfully share the story about the sanatorium until City of Solace was produced by his students.

“It’s a great story, especially because they could interview people and find old documents about the place,” Amante said. “I was really happy and I believe they did a great job gathering information and telling a great story. For a

What’s next at Tranquille?

Today, Tranquille is owned by a company called British Columbia Wilderness Tours, with project manager Tim McLeod living on the property.

In late 2020, McLeod revealed plans for development — a proposed $1 billion buildout over 15 years, with a Lower Mainland developer, Ignition Group, conducting due diligence over the past three years. Ignition has a contract to purchase the 500-acre (202-hectare) waterfront property.

To envision what is intended to be developed on the former sanatorium grounds, McLeod suggested picturing a village like Sun Rivers on Kamloops

students’ project, it was really well done. It was one of the best this semester.”

In the documentary, Dr. Tina Block, a TRU associate professor in politics and philosophy, addresses the rich, complicated history of the Tranquille Sanitorium and emphasizes the importance of remembering local history.

Lake and inside city boundaries, complete with residential and commercial buildings, a developer-subsidized daycare, a community centre, a country lakefront inn, a city park, a boat launch, trails, a farm, a market and a winery. McLeod described plans for Tranquille as a family-friendly community, with 1,500 mixed housing units (from apartments to cottages) and interesting enough to draw people. The village will include waterfront pathways, lookouts, viewpoints and enhanced access to Kamloops Lake and Tranquille River via Kamloops’ only lakefront municipal park.

The Tranquille Sanatorium opened in 1907 and closed in 1958. A year later, in 1959, the property reopened as a psychiatric facility to treat people with mental-health issues. That facility closed in 1983.

In 1991, an Italian developer from Vancouver, Giovanni Camporese, bought the property with plans on developing a resort.

Tranquille is a 500-acre (202-hectare) waterfront property on Lake Kamloops.

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He renamed Tranquille “Padova City” after his city of birthplace in Italy. Camporese’s plans never came to fruition.

“We went to the Kamloops Museum and Archives to get some of these raw pictures,” Massalski said, noting the archival research remains his favourite aspect of their project.

Massalski is in his third year of full-time studies as he works on completing a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in communications and new media. Jahnke is in the process of earning a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in English.

“We initially wanted to lean into more of the spooky aspects of the place, but after doing further research, we both thought it was best to go over the richer history and be more educational than just going over spooky stories that everyone already knows,” Jahnke said, noting the assignment gave him a newfound respect for the historical landmark.

“We found out a lot,” Jahnke said. “Initially, I didn’t even know about the revitalization plans. I learned them while doing this project.”

Retired Mountie Lane Juma, interviewed in the film, describes being stationed on the North Shore and frequently patrolling Tranquille when reports about trespassing and nuisance were made.

The now privately owned property contains asbestos and is well known for a lack of structural integrity in the buildings, which makes public access unsafe.

However, many teens make the

endeavor to visit the site on dares or simply out of curiosity based on spooky stories shared locally.

That is an aspect of Tranquille that resonated with the documentary-makers and their instructor.

“I think it’s important for them to tell stories that people are going to be interested in,” Amante said.

“It’s better to start with something that is local because it’s easier for them to get in touch with the story and the history of the place. It’s the first step in the production of making a documentary.”

In order to access the site safely, the duo used a drone from Simply Computing to collect footage.

“We were fortunate enough to use it and collect some really great footage for our documentary,” Jahnke said. “I really think it helped and made it look a lot nicer. I’m very proud of it.”

As part of the Tranquille On The Lake’s 2020 master plan, the sanatorium and the surrounding land parcel are slated for demolition as part of a revitalization project

“Who knows how many more videos will be made of this property?” Massalski asked. “It’s why we tried so hard to get a drone to give us an inside look of the property with the limited resources and the limited time that we had.”

With news about the revitalization of the area in mind, Massalski described feeling “melancholy” about the proposed changes now that he has met and interviewed families with ties to the site.

To screen the documentary on YouTube, which has a running time of nine minutes and 30 seconds, go online to https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=4MPtu35eJ8.

A book produced by graduate students at Thompson Rivers University has pegged the value of all 82 city parks at more than $24 billion. Kamloops’ largest park, and the largest in B.C., is Kenna Cartwright (right), which the students have valued at about $3 billion.

Kamloops’ billion-dollar jewels

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Graduate students at Thompson Rivers University have produced a book based on a project that examined the value of parks in Kamloops.

TRU economics professor Peter Tsigaris led his class to produce A Study of the Value of Kamloops Parks over the course of a semester.

The book, presented online at kamloopsparks.pressbooks.tru.ca, contains 11 chapters, with each student assigned to study one of the city’s 82 parks.

Tsigaris said the project looks at how to apply theoretical work and its results and how to present economics without the technical jargon.

“It is very important that we start putting value not only on physical assets, but also recognizing the capital present within nature and show its importance to society,” Tsigaris said.

Tsigaris said he drew inspiration from Paul Sutton, a University of Denver professor who did similar work on New York City’s Central Park, examining the recreational, regulatory and supporting

ecosystem services it provides.

Sutton also authored the TRU book’s foreword.

The project concluded that the value of Kamloops’ parks “can easily exceed” $24 billion — the value of the city’s constructed capital, according to BC Assessment.

Tsigaris said parks provide opportunities for tourism, recreation and culture, as well as habitat for plants and animals, pointing to Kenna Cartwright Nature Park, the largest urban park in the province at 800 hectares.

The group estimated the park’s value at $3 billion.

Panto on stage at Sagebrush

The Laughing Stock Theatre Society is headed down the rabbit hole with its latest production.

From Dec. 24 to Dec. 30, the community theatre company will stage Alice in Wonderland: A Fabulously Frabjous Panto.

This version of the story, which Laughing Stock calls a zany adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story, Alice is an orphan facing a cruel adoption before being led to Wonderland.

The play will be done in the traditional British Panto style, which includes pantomime and song, dance and comedy.

The play will run at 1 p.m. on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 and at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Dec. 28.

Alice in Wonderland: A Fabulously Frabjous Panto will be performed at Sagebrush Theatre, at Munro Street and Ninth Avenue in Sagebrush (South Kamloops).

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and students and $15 for children ages 12 and younger. They can be purchased online at kamloopslive.ca.

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Ukuleles added to library’s lending program

SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Thompson-Nicola Regional Library has launched a new ukulele-lending program, adding to the guitar-lending program it launched earlier this year.

Ukuleles are now available at all branches of the TNRL throughout the region. In Kamloops, there are two libraries: downtown at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue and in North Kamloops at 693 Tranquille Rd.

“It just made sense that we would extend the program to include ukuleles,” chief librarian Judy Moore said, noting the guitarlending program has been “highly successful,” with holds placed on all 20 guitars since the program launched in April.

The ukuleles are local in origin, provided by Riversong Guitars, the award-winning Kamloops company that also built and supplied instruments for

the guitar-lending program.

“Music, I think more than ever, is something that brings us all together,” Moore said. “For children, especially, to be introduced to music at their own pace, in their own communities, is a huge boon.”

Mike Miltimore, who owns and

operates Riversong Guitars, said it felt like a dream to make such a difference in his hometown.

Miltimore said he was initially worried the program would hurt sales, but has found the opposite has materialized.

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District board chair Barbara Roden said the program shows libraries are not what some might remember from the past.

“Libraries are so much more and programs like the musician in residence, the guitar-lending program and now the ukulele program, show that libraries, I think more than almost any other thing I can think of, have been able to adapt and change over the years. They’re very nimble,” Roden said.

In September, the TNRL announced its musician-in-residence program, inviting three local musicians for month-long terms at the library.

The latest and final musicianin-residence is Tina Hebner, who has been performing and teaching the ukulele and guitar for more

than 20 years.

“Being able to share my love of music with people, just hanging out playing and teaching, has been absolutely fabulous,” Hebner said.

Hebner lauded the program and the quality of instruments supplied by Miltimore, who recently won the Best Acoustic Guitar Award from Musical Merchandise Review magazine.

The quality of the instrument is important, Hebner said.

“People get the opportunity to not only borrow these instruments and play them, but to play highquality instruments,” she said.

“That can make a big difference in how you feel about yourself and your playing.”

Ukuleles are available at the two TNRL libraries in Kamloops and at libraries in Ashcroft, Barriere, Cache Creek, Clearwater, Clinton, Logan Lake, Merritt, Savona and on the mobile Bookmobile.

To request a ukulele, visit a library or go online to tnrl.ca/ ukulele-lending.

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Mike Miltimore of Riversong Guitars holds one of his ukuleles, which have been supplied to the TNRL as part of its new ukulele-lending program.

SAM THACKER

JODY GYGER

SUN KIM BRENDAN AUDET MORGAN

The God-shaped hole within us all

See if you can identify with the following scene.

It’s Christmas morning and everyone is gathered around the tree. Presents are handed out and the sound of tearing wrappers fills the air. At first, the children squeal with excitement as they discover the gifts. It’s a Kodak moment, the picture-perfect Christmas.

Then, slowly, the atmosphere shifts. With their presents unwrapped and laid out before them, the children start to squabble amongst themselves.

If you have very little ones, they seem to become overwhelmed by the sheer mass of stuff they now possess. They become more selfish, demanding and peevish, or else withdraw to play with the wrappers and the boxes, rather than the presents themselves. They are easily provoked to tears.

Adults, a little more nuanced in their behaviour, stack their collection of gifts carefully in a corner and try to ignore the faint, but distinct hollowness within.

That’s it. Christmas is over. We purchased our stuff in a frenzy of feverish activity, then wrapped and placed them beneath the tree. But now, with wrappings strewn around like the victims of tornado, the stuff is, well, just more stuff to be added to the rest of the stuff we already possess.

Somehow it never quite ends as it was supposed to, as we hope it will, Christmas after Christmas. Our children, so excited by the potential of unwrapping their gifts, seem unhappier after the fact than before it.

More possessions, rather than satisfying, seem to have made us less content than we were before.

This is the paradoxical tragedy of materialism. The more we own, the happier we’re supposed to be. The reality is, though, the more we have, the more ungrateful, dissatisfied, peevish, demanding or simply indifferent we become.

We want to fill some hole within ourselves and we are duped year after year into thinking the appropriate filler is a new Xbox or the latest version of the iPhone.

But these and other material things, rather than filling the hole inside us, seem to instead expand.

In Jesus’ parable of the banquet from the Gospel of Saint Luke, we hear of a man “who gave a great banquet and invited many. At the time for the banquet, he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for all is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field and I must go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have

bought five yoke of oxen and I go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come.’” (Luke 14:16-20)

Why do the invited guests refuse the invitation? Simply because they have a bunch of stuff on which they are completely focused, to the exclusion of all else.

They are possessed by the desire to fulfill all the basic human needs: the need to belong and have a place (symbolized by the field), the need for physical survival by consuming food and drink (symbolized by the yoke of oxen) and the need for relationship and community (symbolized by the marriage).

However, the fulfilment of these material needs has made the potential guests both ungrateful and totally unresponsive to the generosity of the householder.

The joy of the feast, which in other gospels is actually a marriage feast that a king holds for his son, is lost on them because they believe they have already filled the hole of their needs.

That’s why the lord of the household sends his servants to bring the poor, the maimed, the blind and the lame to share in the banquet. (Luke 14:21) They have nothing. They are hungry and needy and so their response to the invitation will be wholehearted and joyful.

You may have heard it said that every human being has a “God-shaped hole” within them—an emptiness, a yearning for something more, something bigger than they are.

Every year, we turn Christmas into a season when we frantically try to fill that hole

with something — presents, good cheer, family and even a little religion — in the hope that perhaps this time, the hole will be diminished just a little, if not filled in completely.

The climactic moment on Christmas morning — when the season explodes like a cracker with the cheap toys and paper crowns inside, and all we are left with is a pile of stuff and an emptiness even greater than before — that moment is a reminder that the God-shaped hole cannot be filled in the way we have been led to believe.

The field, the five yoke of oxen and the wife — all the stuff we have in our life — just won’t cut it because they are the wrong shape and, ultimately, too small for the size of the hole we want to fill.

In the end, only the infinite God can fill the God-shaped hole. Our natural hunger for the divine, which savvy marketers cunningly manipulate to drive us into the malls, can be filled by none other than Him. Perhaps this Christmas season, we will take that truth to heart and accept the invitation to the one feast that will truly satisfy us — the feast of the one who is the bread of life, the fattened calf, the wine that gladdens our hearts forever.

V. Rev. Richard René is the priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas Orthodox Mission (orthodoxkamloops.ca), an English-language Eastern Orthodox Church for the Kamloops community. KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Columns should be a maximum of 700 words in length and can be emailed to editor@kamloopsthisweek. com. Please include a very short bio and a photo.

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HOROSCOPES

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Cleaning and organizing can wait for another week, Aries This week you should focus on having fun with your family and friends Enjoy the respite from work

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

Taurus, work is on your brain, but it could be because you’re wired to focus on getting things done Work is impor tant, but remember to make time for other things as well

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

You have been feeling less motivated of late, Cancer That is likely due to the breakneck speed that you have been going for some time Slow down and enjoy the break

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

Leo, practicality is your middle name The next few days you may be focused on whimsy and imagination It could be all the feelings the holidays are bringing up

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

Your bank account may not be as healthy as it could be, Gemini Tuck those credit cards away and cut back on purchases for the time being to set things straight

Planetar y energies could be affecting those around you and their reception to your ideas, Virgo Remain patient that things will tip in your favour after some time has passed

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

Your thoughts this week are about setting goals for the future, Libra Not that you haven’t already been doing your share of planning, but now you’re firming up those plans

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Scorpio, issues with your professional life may be on your mind It could be time to make a major change in the days to come Are you ready to move in a new direction?

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20

Have you been plotting a move, Capricorn? Make sure your real estate research is up-to-date and you’re ready to take the plunge This move may be a big one

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Aquarius, perhaps you have made a few big purchases lately and feel like your budget has taken a hit? Add up receipts and you may find it ’s not as bad as you had thought

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

New responsibilities have left little time to spend with your significant other, Sagittarius Carve out moments to snuggle if you cannot get out to a romantic meal or movie

This is a good time for a change of perspective, Pisces Maybe you have been looking at things all the wrong way Switch things up

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