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BACK TO SCHOOL The teachers’ contract expired on June 30 and the support staff’s ended in 2012, but local teachers’ union president JASON KARPUK (left), Kamloops-Thompson school district superintendent TERRY SULLIVAN and local CUPE president JOHN HALL are optimistic labour peace can be achieved Need extra cash?

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By Dale Bass STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

• 76 buses travel a total of 9,200 kilometres a day, covering 59 routes.

• They consume 773,449 litres of fuel during a school year.

• As of June 30, 14,605 children were enrolled for this school year.

• Final projected enrolment is 227 fewer students.

• Elementary enrolment has been increasing in recent years.

• 1,400 staff are on the payroll.

• By the end of the school year, about 2,000 people will have been on the payroll, covering for absences.

• 13 schools have been closed since 2000.

• 48 schools remain open.

It’s September, so slow down!

The rules change for motorists today (Sept. 3) — cruise through a school zone at 50 km/h and you could face a hefty fine.

From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day school is in session, zones designated by yellow traffic signs require drivers to drop down to no more than 30 km/h, said Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush.

If you are stopped by an officer — and they will be out in force for the first several days of school — the fine is $196 for those going over the speed limit,

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but no faster than 50 km/h.

Hit the pedal a bit harder and you are looking at a fine of $253.

Blow through the zone at 70 km/h or more “and that’s excessive speeding,” Bush said, which could mean having your car impounded for up to seven days.

Beyond keeping an eye on the speedometer, Bush said, motorists need to be particularly vigilant around elementary schools.

“The little kids are excited,” she said. “They have their new shoes and their new backpacks and sometimes they jump out of

the car and dart out.”

The RCMP traffic unit has a plan in place for the first days of school, Bush said, and the detachment’s school-liaison officers will be out spreading the message to youngsters to be careful when heading to and from school.

Word will also be spread through the media and, every morning after the RCMP shift briefing, officers will be reminded on their way back from a coffee break to sit in a school zone for 10 minutes.

The Kamloops-Thompson school district and its teachers have had their eye on today (Sept. 3), the first day of classes — but they also have Sept. 9 highlighted on their calendars.

That’s the first of nine days set aside in B.C. Supreme Court to hear a challenge by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) of government legislation affecting class sizes and support for students with special needs, among other education issues.

It’s been a long time coming and, said John Churchley, assistant superintendent for human resources with the school district, it will have a direct impact on bargaining with the BCTF. In April 2011, after a decade-long battle through the court system triggered by the government’s legislation, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled the changes violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ruling the legislation unconstitutional.

The government was given one year to work it out with the teachers and, when that didn’t happen, the BCTF headed back to court.

The final date for the hearing is Oct. 3 and the union is hopeful a ruling comes before winter so it can get back to the bargaining table.

When it does, there are still plenty of hurdles. In late June, the BCTF voted 96 per cent against what it calls government interference in the negotiation process.

After talks began in February, some progress was made but, in mid-June, the provincial government announced it was removing the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association as its bargaining agent and replacing it with one negotiator, freelance mediator Peter Cameron.

He will be joined at the table by representatives of the B.C. School Trustees’ Association.

One hot topic to yet be tackled is the province’s offer to restore teachers’ right to strike — something the Liberals removed when they became government in 2001 — if the BCTF agrees to a

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The offer by Education Minister Peter Fassbender includes indexed compensation and the right to again negotiation class sizes.

Churchley said bargaining talks with the Kamloops Thompson Teachers’ Association (KTTA) on local issues “had some success,” but the provincial level of bargaining is key — and the court ruling will set the tone as bargaining moves forward.

KTTA president Jason Karpuk said his local has a good working relationship with the school district that is respectful and which he feels will reach resolution on local issues.

Teachers and the school district are “doing the best we can with the resources we have,” Karpuk said.

He is hopeful there will be improvements in teaching special-needs students, stating special education is “becoming unmanageable.”

The other side of the labour coin involves the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents the support-staff and educational-assistant side of teaching.

And, although provincially there is talk about possible strike action, John Hall, president of Local 3500, which represents Kamloops workers, said he’s positive about achieving labour peace.

CUPE and the school district return to the table on Sept. 17 and, while other CUPE locals have taken a strike vote, Hall’s hasn’t and likely won’t as long as meetings remain positive with SD73.

For a variety of reasons, Hall said, his local is a bit behind others in talks with the employer.

He’s pleased school district superintendent Terry Sullivan has said he’s optimistic the tone will continue to get them to an agreement.

“Any time you’re talking, it’s better than not talking,” Hall said. “We’ll do what we have to do if we have to do it, but I don’t want to be negative.

“We’re all in this together.”

The BCTF’s contract with the province expired on June 30.

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No Harvestfest bounty this year

By Dale Bass

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Dieter Dudy is not sure what seat he will aim for, but count on his name appearing on the ballot in next year’s municipal election.

One of the issues he will want to discuss, he said, is how “one person can complain and the whole neighbourhood can be affected by that one individual.”

The issue is personal — after 13 years, the annual Harvestfest he has held at his farm on Dairy Road in Westsyde has been shut down by the city.

There are a variety of reasons, Dudy said, but one of the key ones he was told about involves complaints from a neighbour about parking for the one-day event.

The neighbour has been there since he introduced the celebration of farm-fresh foods, the food cycle and buying local, Dudy said.

There had never been an issue with the cars that parked along the road so people could go to Harvestfest until a few years ago, when the neighbour complained fenceposts had been broken.

While Dudy suspected the breakage was more likely from water mains being installed by the city — “since the cars weren’t parked next to the fence” — he bought new posts for the neighbour and offered to ensure for future events cars only parked on his side of the road.

“But, he went to a councillor and the councillor had to deal with it,” Dudy said.

Marvin Kwiatkowski, the city’s director of development and engineering, disagreed with Dudy’s assertion, noting there had been more than one person complain about events at the farm in recent years.

“We’re not looking for trouble but, when there are issues about fire and safety, when something is brought to our attention and we go out and see things, we can’t ignore them,” he said.

Kwiatkowski said Dudy will be bringing a plan to the city and a report will go to council,

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Dieter Dudy will continue to present his harvest at downtown farmers’ markets, but his annual Harvestfest celebration in Westsyde is subject to some issues that need to be addressed with the city. KTW file photo

hopefully within a month.

Thistle Farms has to apply to the city annually for non-farm events and, this year, was approved for four — three weddings and a recent fundraiser for the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra.

Dudy said his wife forgot to mention Harvestfest, but remembered later and spoke to a

city official about it.

Dudy said she was told to email the request.

After an on-site inspection, approval wasn’t granted, although Dudy was told he could apply again next year.

Staff from the engineering department also found some other issues they ordered him to address, all of them minor, Dudy said.

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His parking situation would be improved if he was to rezone and apply to create more parking spaces on the farm.

“But, that just takes land out of production and I’m not sure how the Agricultural Land Commission would feel about it,” Dudy said.

Even the idea of what is called a non-farm event rankles Dudy, who said it

doesn’t fit what actually happens at the gatherings.

“Even a wedding here has an agricultural feel for it. People are exposed to the food system. We feed them fresh foods.

“You just can’t limit this [definition] to just farming,” he said.

“You have to view it as an education, educating people to their food system.”

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Half-million-dollar drug bust at depot A Campbell River man boarding a bus in Kamloops bound for Vancouver was arrested on Saturday, Aug. 24, with police seizing a large amount of drugs from his luggage - three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of cocaine and two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of heroin with a street value of about a half-million dollars.

Cpl. Dan Moskaluk of the RCMP’s Southeast District Traffic Services said the arrest was a result of Mounties acting on a tip.

The 45-year-old Vancouver Island man faces charges. His name has not yet been released.

The largest cocaine bust in Edmonton’s history took place on Aug. 1.

Police in the Alberta capital seized 28 kilograms of cocaine they estimated to have a street value of $2.5 million, which works out to $89,000 a kilogram.

Based on that calculation, the three kilograms of cocaine seized at the Kamloops bus depot on the weekend has a street value of about $267,000.

Recent data from Canadian police forces pegs the street value of heroin at about $100,000 a kilogram, which would mean the heroin seized in Kamloops has a value of about $200,000.

Good Samaritans help cops collar criminal A man is in custody after a team of Good Samaritans tackled a burglar outside a downtown Kamloops business.

Kamloops RCMP Const.

Bernie Ward said Mounties received a number of 911 calls at about midnight on Friday, Aug. 30, about a man smashing the glass storefront of a business in the 400-block of Victoria Street.

“The person was able to get into the shop and searched the shop till and counters,” he said.

Investigators believe the man

then left the shop through the broken window and began running down Victoria Street.

“He was in full flight when members of the public that had witnessed the crime tackled him to the ground,” Ward said.

The burglar was able to get back to his feet and began running again, with the Good Samaritans giving chase.

Ward said the suspect ran into a parking lot, where police were waiting for him with open handcuffs.

“This event went well, but

the RCMP wants to point out when people are cornered and fleeing, they may be desperate to the point that they use violence to escape with innocent people being hurt,” he said.

“The police never want to see it turn bad for the general public.”

Ward said the best course of action is for members of the public to keep a safe distance when witnessing a crime and report what they see to police.

The investigation into the burglary is ongoing.

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Sun Peaks school eyed for 4.4-hectare parcel A new school is still in the works for Sun Peaks, but going from idea to a hole in the ground will take a bit longer.

Plans are to build a school on a 4.4-hectare piece of land alongside a park and recreational development.

First, thought, the resort community must develop an official community plan (OCP) and submit it to the provincial government for approval.

As part of its creation as a recognized municipal entity, Sun Peaks was to have had this done by June 28, 2012, a date that was

later extended to Dec. 31, 2013.

In a letter to the Kamloops-Thompson board of education trustees, Sun Peaks Mayor Al Raine advised creating the OCP requires input from neighbouring communities and it does not appear this will happen in time to meet the year-end deadline.

Raine advised trustees Sun Peaks council will ask for another extension, to June 30, 2014.

School district Supt. Terry Sullivan said he is glad the community is planning for the school and he’s

hopeful it grows to a point where one would be viable.

That number is difficult to predict, Sullivan said.

“It depends on the location. Brenna Creek only has five children, but I said I would never close that school as long as there are children there.”

Raine states in his letter a consultant should be hired by late October, a draft OCP ready by early next year for fine-tuning from all involved communities and the final document sent to the government by the end of June 2014.

Raine told trust-

ees the recreational development is being eyed to hold an outdoor skating rink with hockey boards, a softball diamond, a soccer pitch and other facilities.

A .12-hectare site has also been identified to hold a civic/ health-care facility that may be leased to the municipality and possibly also to the Thompson-Nicola Regional District for a library.

food-service outlets at TRU will be open for this school year.

The Tim Hortons location is under construction and will become a full-service Starbucks, scheduled to open in October.

Food-service outlets at TRU include: Tim Hortons in the House of Learning;

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Courses offered in the coming year include a first-year creative writing course, secondyear fiction and poetry courses and upper-year stage and screen and advanced fiction writing courses.

Two creative writing groups exist on campus: TRU Fiction, which is open to the Kamloops community, and the student-led TRU Writers Club.

Students regularly attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in various U.S. cities, and have begun attending the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference, which will take place next spring in Vancouver.

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A salute to teachers and all they bring — even the welts

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T WAS WHILE TURNED around in my desk, chatting with the guy behind me, that the soft, tri-striped eraser with the rock-hard back side arced through the classroom air, split two rows of desks, zoomed up the aisle and landed with a thud right behind my ear.

That eraser left the hand of one of the best teachers I have ever had, Mr. Gladman, and I can still feel that Grade 6 welt today. It’s a feeling associated with the very best of my school days.

Grade 6 was a year of firsts —first crushes, first overnight field trips, first rollerskating trips and first teacher who made a serious impression on students.

Mr. Gladman wasn’t much older than us (at least he didn’t seem that much older) and was, therefore, seen as an almost contemporary in the teaching fraternity that had, until Grade 6, us looking at teachers as though they were all standing on the very cliff of retirement.

Not Mr. Gladman, or “Bags,” as we called him.

He was cool. He would teach in very different ways. He knew how to help you find your passion among the subjects. He would spend all lunch hour in the classroom, debating sports with the students. He would stay long after the final bell, talking about life or playing floor hockey with us until the janitors kicked us out of the gym.

And, yes, he would deftly utilize chalkboard erasers, or dense textbooks, or taped-up wads of paper as aerial weapons when the boys among us insisted on not listening during a lesson.

Back then, we accepted the brief pain from a Gladman missile as the price to pay for goofing off; today,

CHRISTOPHER FOULDS Newsroom

MUSINGS such acts would likely result in court hearings — reason No. 546 why things were so much better then than now . . .

Today (Sept. 3) marks the start of the 2013-2014 school year.

For kids, summer is done and it’s time to get those brains working again.

For parents, it can be time to remember the Mr. Gladmans of our youth, those special teachers whose remarkable gift in the classroom remains fresh in our minds decades after the fact.

Is there another profession in which the talent and passion of those employed can have such a significant and lasting impact shaping lives?

So, in honour of this, the real start to the year, a salute to the teachers who stay with me yet: • To Ms. Wood, my Grade 1 teacher, my first-ever teacher, who introduced a boy of six to his first rapid heartbeat.

Ms. Wood, you see, had only recently been crowned Miss Abbotsford.

• To Mrs. Martens, my Grade 4 teacher who perfected the schoolmarm look and who shared my love for zany BCTV weatherman Norm Grohman, often interrupting a math lesson to share laughs about the pervious night’s News Hour antics of Crazy Norm.

• To Mr. Anderson, my Grade 7 teacher who may have been almost as hockey crazy as us boys and who had a heart of gold. It was he who palmed the slip of paper bearing the name of the girl with whom I was madly in love, holding the piece of paper to the end as students pulled names for Christmas gifts — and dropping it into the empty hat when I was to pick the final name.

• To Mr. Stewart, the legendary librarian/gym teacher/basketball coach of the Fraser Valley who would constantly bring out newspapers for my Grade 8 mind to read and read and read.

• To Mr. Toews, a high school teacher who could barely smile and rarely laugh, but whose strict teaching style was so good that, today, 27 years later, I still know all the details of Louis Riel and the Red River Rebellion courtesy of an inventive system of organizing the issues involved (language, religion, racism, etc.) into a neat little poem.

• To Mr. Ratzlaff, whose unbridled passion for history was as addictive as crack, whose teaching style was so energetic one was exhausted when the bell rang. On. Jan. 28, 1986, on the morning the space shuttle Challenger exploded, history was my first class and Mr. Ratzlaff suspended the usual lesson and sat at the edge of his desk, just talking with his students about the tragedy.

I think he did that all day.

To these teachers and all others whose marks on this world — via lesson plans and airborne projectiles — live on in the minds and bodies of kids of all ages, welcome to a new school year. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com twitter.com/ChrisJFoulds

The Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development is considering banning anonymous contributions in municipal elections.

The B.C. government is considering reforms to legislation that governs our every-third-year local elections.

Details are expected in a white paper, to be released soon.

With local politics in some B.C. cities starting to emulate Vancouver’s party system and third-party campaigning, the time has come for voters to know who the identities of the would-be kingmakers.

Minister Coralee Oakes indicated new legislation will require third-party advertisers to register and disclose their identity.

Time allowed for consultation will delay campaign spending limits for candidates, organizations and third-party advertisers until the 2017 civic elections, but those changes are expected, too.

Oakes, a former Quesnel city councillor, expects improved transparency and accountability and called the reforms the greatest modernization of local government-election legislation in nearly 20 years.

Changes would affect voting for municipal councils, school boards and regional districts.

Although the response from the NDP local government opposition critic is typically critical, the president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities is pleased by the proposals.

That’s no surprise considering the UBCM has been recommending local election reform.

Vancouver-style civic politics saw the NPA, Vision, COPE and the Green Party collectively spent $5.2 million in the 2011 elections.

Vancouver’s major municipal parties spent more than $15 for each vote they received.

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online

Re: Letter: If Ajax approved, I will move from Kamloops: “Why not run a poll on how many residents will leave Kamloops if this proposed crazy project is approved?”

— posted by Jim Downie

Re: Story: RC flyers grounded by City of Kamloops: “Why is this an issue when everything was being done safely?

“I have flown on McArthur Island for years and never had any problems.

“I even had a member of bylaws stop and watch me fly a few times.

“Come on, Kamloops officials, if we are known for our sports and recreation, why ban something that is a sporting and recreational?

“City staff is insane to think these tiny planes pose any kind of a threat to anyone or anything.

“The geese pose more of a threat to airport traffic than does an R/C model.

“So, if a goose flies into someone’s head, will the city ban Mother Nature, too?

“For those who can’t drive miles from town to fly, where do they go?”

— posted by Mike Walkley

About Ajax’s ‘zero-harm’ stance . . .

Editor: Re: The Aug. 22 letter from Yves Lacasse, external-affairs manager for KGHM Ajax (‘Zero harm a core value of KGHM Ajax’): What will happen when the dust is gone and we are left with a hole in the ground and a pile of rubble that can be seen from space?

Dust and declining property values will be the least of our worries.

Have a look at this Frontline documentary and send it to everyone you know: http://www.pbs.org/ wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold.

This exactly what Kamloops will be looking at 20 years down the road — a 1,000-foot hole filled with battery acid.

Goodbye river, goodbye salmon runs, goodbye anyone taking water downstream.

Kamloops has a problematic groundwater problem and any fluids accumulated in the proposed Ajax mine will eventually end up in the Thompson River.

Go to the 30:48 mark of the documentary to see what Kamloops will look like after Ajax has taken what it wants and leaves the people of Kamloops and B.C. to clean up.

It describes the copper-sulfide Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mon., that closed in 1982.

This is called perpetual remediation, as in we will have to clean this mess forever.

Watch the complete program if you want some insight into how these mining outfits use subterfuge, abstention and obtrusion to further their cause.

Ken Barry Kamloops

Editor: Re: Andrew Bezooyen’s letter of Aug. 27 (‘Zero harm not possible with mine’): I appreciate Bezooyen’s rational approach to the ridiculous claim that a mine can produce zero harm.

The sentiments expressed by letter writers Johanna Walters and Mary Kay Claydon in the Aug. 29 edition of KTW further underscore the fact the only good mine is a mine far enough away to protect health.

Open-pit mining is a dusty, environment-hurting, health-harming activity. Attempting to foist such a mine on the rim of an urban valley population of 87,000 is worse than irresponsible.

KGHM’s promise to “mitigate” means only it will try to make the operation less harmful.

Less harmful than what?

Even the best of new technology can only attempt to reduce negative impacts. It cannot prevent them.

If we are not convinced by the warnings of local doctors, miners with first-hand experience and other professionals, such as the atmospheric physicist living in Kamloops, we have only to check out sites like

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/ mining.aspx.

Websites such as these discuss the problems with noxious particulate matter — arsenic, cadmium, lead and more — in acid-mine drainage, in harm to fish supplies, in toxic dust that would blow across the valley, with increase of respiratory illness.

Many of us may be inclined to give KGHM Ajax a break, assuming that because the world needs copper and gold, it therefore has the right to re-explore old mines that were built when Kamloops was a baby town.

The company risks the high cost of exploration on the assumption environmental-assessment authorities will agree “mitigation” is enough protection.

KGHM Ajax need never have taken this financial gamble if our provincial leaders had not been napping for so many years about the subject of the Mineral Tenure Act, passed with the conditions and population numbers of the 1800s in mind.

We need all of our elected officials at every level, especially provincial, to correct this untenable situation.

Colleen Carbol Kamloops

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City council needs to seriously address tanker route Editor: “The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.”

— Lewis Carroll When I consider Kamloops council and administration lately, the above quote immediately springs to mind.

I don’t know what world they inhabit, but it certainly is not one I can fathom.

The most recent example was the reaction to the tragedy in Lac-Mégantic, Que., with the rail-car explosions. I admit I didn’t follow the local news closely, but the only reaction I heard from council was Pat Wallace worrying about CPR, with no mention of the CNR mainline running adjacent to Brocklehurst residential neighbourhoods.

What really befuddles me, though, is that council and the administration failed to notice the greater potential for this type of

On The Go?

disaster in the form of large tanker trucks (I’m told upwards of 100 per day) running up and down Tranquille Road at 70 km/h per hour in heavy traffic every day.

What really hurts is there is an alternative route the administration has held back from reports on the tanker-truck problem and, in fact, from one of the traffic plans.

So we paid for an technical researcher to look at the problem, but didn’t tell him there is the possibility of a third route (his study was limited to Tranquille Road vs.

Ord Road) and then used his conclusion that while Tranquille is unsatisfactory, Ord would be worse as an excuse to do nothing.

The administration has hung its hat on a report that states the route will be necessary when the population of Kamloops reaches approximately 120,000.

What bunk.

The route was needed years ago and the longer its delayed, the more likely we will be faced with a Lac-Mégantic-type situation.

The cost of the alternate route is probably

small compared to “Randy’s Road” from Summit Drive to McGill Road and would actually benefit a large portion of the populace by making their lives immeasurably safer.

Prior to amalgamation, Brocklehurst had the foresight to set aside land for an alternate route to the airport should we arrive at the situation we find ourselves in today.

Not only did the planners post-amalgamation drop the requirement, but they continue to permit construction on the land that will eventually be needed to complete the right-of-way.

Aside from the safety benefits of a new route, consider the good, first-impression impact upon visitors to Kamloops Airport.

It may be time to start looking for candidates for the next municipal election who care about all of Kamloops and who will acknowledge the North Shore is an integral part of the city worthy of attention.

Peter Oswell Kamloops

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Here are some tips that will hopefully guide you in your search for the right daycare.

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Preschool & Daycare provide opportunities for 3 to 5 year olds to develop social skills, meet peers and explore learning through hands-on activities and experiences.

How do they deal with difficult children?

Will they contact the parents?

The ratio child-worker is very important. The younger the children, the smaller the ratio as each worker should be able to look properly after a limited number of children.

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Registration is available now and throughout the year as space becomes available. Contact dOPLHin Centre for Registration packages and information on the following programs.

Ask those that are in charge what is their educational philosophy and methods.

Make a list of all your requirements. A good daycare facility will offer a clean, airy and secure environment inside and out. All games and toys must also be safe and secure for children and have enough to go around.

Can they deal with emergency situations?

What has been put into place in case of emergency?

How do they deal with behavioural problems and aggressiveness in children?

You will surely have your own questions, your own concerns and your own demands and requirements for those that will look after your child.

The chosen daycare facility will be part of your family life for the next 5 years; it is important to choose it carefully!

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Ask the right questions.

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Ask to see their activity list and schedule. A good daycare should not only “occupy” the children, it should also provide the necessary experiences to learn and grow. Often, there are special events geared towards the small ones. Puppets, music and little plays all stimulate the imagination. Playground activities are ideal for socialization.

Find out what kinds of daycare are available throughout your region. It could be privately owned facilities; municipal authorities run some daycares while others are provincially subsidized. Some companies as well as some offices in educational and public sectors offer their own inhouse daycare services.

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He is still just a little mite but mom and dad already feel stressed: what will they do once the little one needs to go to the local daycare?

Admittedly, there are financial considerations; but beyond these, choosing the right daycare facilities is not easy. The “shopping” must be done early on. You might now have your fourth child while the other three all attend a daycare of your choice and a special place has been reserved for the young one. But other parents, especially new parents have to go through stressful times.

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Watch children for back-to-school anxiety Back-to-school can trigger stress in some children, but there are steps parents and caregivers can take to help.

“The start of the school year can be a really positive time, full of new opportunities for young people, but it can also be overwhelming for some,” said Dr. Connie Coniglio of B.C. Mental Health And Addiction Services.

“If your child isn’t looking forward to school, they may be experiencing stress or anxiety.

“While some children and youth thrive on the back-to-school excitement, others may need a calming, reassuring environment to support them during this transition.”

Anxiety — feeling worried, nervous, fearful — is normal from time to time in adults

and children.

It’s a problem if your child seems to be anxious often when other children of the same age are typically not, it negatively affects their functioning and/or your family life and if it doesn’t get better over time.

Signs and symptoms: • Attempts to remain at home or with caregiver.

• Refusal to attend school on certain days (field trips).

• Refusal to eat in public.

• Refusal to use public bathrooms.

• Extreme shyness, avoiding social situations or events.

• Tantrums, crying, screaming.

• Constant worrying.

• Physical complaints with no medical explanation (stom-

ach aches, headaches, difficulty catching breath).

• Seeking comfort/ reassurance.

Tips for parents and caregivers: • Provide regular routines — morning, school, homework, bedtime.

• Provide clear expectations, limits and consequences.

• Plan for transitions — getting to school, returning to school after breaks.

• Help your child identify his or her feelings — nervous, intimidated, shy.

• Pay attention to your child’s feelings.

• Ask your child if they have ideas or solutions for a particular concern.

• Show yourself identifying your own feelings, problem solving and being brave.

• Remain calm when your child is

anxious.

• Hold realistic expectations that are right for child’s age.

• Praise and reward even their small accomplishments.

Mental-health resources: • MindShift: An interactive app designed to help youth learn how to relax, develop more helpful

ways of thinking and identify active steps that will help them take charge of their anxiety.

It is available free to download from the iTunes app store or Google Play.

• Mindcheck.ca: Information, resources and interactive quizzes designed for youth and young adults to help them identify and understand

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speak to a parent or youth-support person with experience with mental-health challenges.

• AnxietyBC: Information on how anxiety can express itself and effective strategies to begin to address anxiety.

AnxietyBC also has a site specifically for youth and young adults: youth.anxietybc.com/.

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mental distress they may be experiencing, including anxiety and depression, and link them to sources of help.

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Post-secondary students still need parents Going away to college or university marks a milestone in the lives of young adults and their parents.

For the child, it’s an exciting time to develop new relationships, take on additional responsibility, and develop their own identity.

For parents, it can be a time when they begin to ask themselves, “What role do I play?”

Dr. David Wolfe, director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Prevention Science, has developed a tip sheet to help parents better communicate and build healthy relationships with their children as they transition.

• Be a parent, not a friend: While growing up children learned to depend on you for mature advice and guidance. Continue this role and step back a bit from needing to know everything in their life.

• Don’t intrude: Let them make new friends, while knowing you’re still a major part of their life. Try to resist the temptation to contact them too often, through emails, text messages, Facebook and phone calls.

• Don’t pressure: Parents are sometimes too eager to see their kids find their niche, settle their plans and reach their goals.

This can come across to them as pressure or demands.

• Avoid “helicopter parenting”: Some say today’s parents are more hovering and protective than previous generations, which can make the process of transition difficult for some who are used to daily contact with parents.

Be willing to back off and let them grow.

• Encourage new ideas: College and university is a time to explore new options and be exposed to new possibilities, so encourage them to investigate new courses and interests, even if it could mean a change in focus or delay in completing their degree.

• Be supportive: It is important for students to feel supported, but still in charge.

Students who learn to manage the tension and worry associated with academic and social changes end up more successful and well-adjusted.

• Encourage friendships and connection: Students who develop meaningful relationships with peers have fewer emotional and physical symptoms of stress. Encourage them to try new interests, develop new friendships and go to new places.

Encouraging connection is espe-

cially important if your child lives at home.

• Be a touchstone of maturity and good advice: In an effort to make friends and fit in (or to cope with stress and anxiety), some students engage in excessive drinking, drug use, promiscuous sexual activity and other health-compromising activities.

Rather than telling your child what they can or cannot do, let them know what you expect of them, how proud you are of their efforts and that you are available if they need advice.

• Assist with time and money management: Many students are ill-prepared at managing their time or their finances, which contributes to stress.

Resist the temptation to reduce stress by giving money — remind them of their choices and help them plan a budget.

• Recommend academic and student-counselling resources: Academic or mental health counselors can help students find the right courses, learn better study habits, and can also assist with all other aspects of health and well-being, including therapies to improve coping skills and strengthen relationships and connections.

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MOSTLY A-CAPPELLA

DANCE STUDIO

FOR MEN

x Young Men’s Chorus

(ages 15—35) x Men’s Chorus (age 20 and over)

PRESCHOOL R.A.D. BALLET

*Standards *Folk *Classical *Doo-wop *Vocal Jazz *Spirituals *Inspirational

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Classes begin Monday Sept. 9th

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Registration Wed. Sept. 4th, 3:00-6:30pm / Thur. Sept. 5th, 3:00-6:30pm

253 Victoria Street (Upstairs) nuance-dance.com regina.nuancedance@gmail.com 250.374.3628

For information and/or registration Call 250-319-4062 email: wilfepp@gmail.com Sign-up per concert project Next Concert November 15,2013 (10 rehearsals)

Akimbo Dance Studios FALL 2013 REGISTRATION

Voice/Acting/Musical Theatre, Lyrical, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Stretch & Strength, Contemporary, Tap, Breakdance and NEW THIS YEAR: Lyrical Hip Hop Combo Classes For 3-6 Yrs: Ballet/Jazz, Jazz/Tap, Jazz/Hip Hop Tiny Tutus (2 Yrs) Boys Only Classes Competitive & Recreational Classes C.D.T.A. Jazz & Tap Exam Preparation Adult Classes

FALL SEMESTER BEGINS SEPT. 9TH 2 LOCATIONS: 765 LANSDOWNE ST. & 749 VICTORIA ST. REGISTER ON-LINE AT AKIMBODANCESTUDIOS.COM OR BY CALLING 250-374-5404

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STAGE PRESENCE

Where the Music Begins

LIFE EMPOWERMENT CLASSES (LEC) TEENS & TWEENS Learn powerful life skills and effective communication Positive body image • Creating and achieving goals How to cope with gossiping and bullying Managing stress and anxiety Healthy habits, healthy lifestyle choices Self esteem, self respect, self confidence Positive self talk vs negative self talk TINA CREATES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT ALLOWING STUDENTS TO EXPLORE THEIR POTENTIAL AND BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A VARIETY OF EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES.

SPEECH & DRAMA AGES 8-18 • TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON SYLLABUS

SINGING LESSONS AGES 8-ADULT • PRIVATE LESSONS CLASSES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 4th AND ARE LIMITED IN SIZE. DON’T MISS OUT - REGISTER TODAY!

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Convenient lesson times for busy families.

No Registration Fees.

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Dance is MAGIC Pre School - RAD Ballet - Contemporary - Lyrical Jazz - Tap - Hip Hop - Musical Theatre

REGISTRATION AT THE STUDIO

FRIENDS, FITNESS & FUN!

YEAR-ROUND TENNIS

LEARNING IS SIMPLE!

August 28: 4:00pm - 9:00pm September 4: 4:00pm - 9:00pm

Classes begin September 9th, 2013

For more information or to register: 250-828-1360 or info@thedancegallery.org

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CURLING . . .

Beginner and Improvement Clinics ADULT LEARN • September 24th - 29th TO CURL LEAGUE Weekday Evening Sessions Saturday Nights and Weekend Session available

We have 5 heated, well-lit indoor courts.

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AFFORDABLE FEES AND EQUIPMENT RENTAL INCLUDED. THERE IS CURLING FOR ALL AGES... from Juniors right through to Seniors. Join as an Individual, a Couple, or with a Group of Friends

TIMING IS FLEXIBLE During the day, in the evening, or on weekends

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY! Mixed Curling • Junior Curling • Men’s and Ladies Curling Senior Curling • Corporate Fun Nights • Social League School Challenge

Leagues ~ Lessons Socials ~ Tournaments Annual, seasonal, monthly memberships and pay-as-you-go punchcards available.

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OPEN HOUSE SIGN UP & SOCIAL: Monday, September 9th from 6:30pm - 8:30 pm

CALL CLUB MANAGER AT 250-372-5432

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FREE Dance Lessons Sept. 12th & 19th That is four hours of dance lessons for free!

No obligation or commitment

AT DESERT GARDENS 540 SEYMOUR ST., Thursdays 7:30 to 9:30 PM YOU CAN LEARN MODERN WEST COAST SQUARE DANCE IN TEN WEEKS for $50.00

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Register early as classes fill quickly.

Registration by phone throughout September.

LET’S DANCE MUSIC – DANCING – FRIENDSHIP A GREAT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & EVEN BETTER MENTAL ACTIVITY

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BACK TO SCHOOL Come and be a part of one of Canadian’s favourite pastimes –

SKATING & SPEED SKATING!

THE FIRST MONTH IS FREE!

KAMLOOPS MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

A second FREE OPEN SKATE will be offered at MacArthur Island Park Saturday September 21st at 10 am – Noon.

· Ages 5 to Adult

Serving Kamloops for the past 17 years

Discipline ~ Self Control Fitness ~ Self Defense North and South Shore Locations For more information or to register on-line visit us at www.westernkarateacademy.com

or call 250-376-5428

the coaches and some of our more experienced speed skaters; as well as register for the fall sessions.

· Low Single and Family Rates

· Families can train together

We are offering a FREE OPEN SKATE at MacArthur Island Park on Saturday September 7th at 10 am – Noon where you can: try on and try out speed skates on the ice; meet

HOCKEY PROGRAMS FOR BOYS & GIRLS AGED 4 – 17 • Initiation/Novice Program (4-8 years) • Recreational Leagues (Atom – Midget) • Rep Teams (Peewee – Midget) • Female Only Teams Season runs from September to March. All skill levels welcome!

KMHA SKATE SWAP Saturday, Sept. 7th @ Valleyview Arena Registration information & forms can be found on our website at: www.kamloopsminorhockey.com

Email enquiries to: kamhockey@telus.net Phone: 250-376-1788 | Fax: 250-376-1799 PO Box 24018, #70-700 Tranquille Rd, Kamloops, BC V2B 8R3 (Office located inside McArthur Island Sport & Event Centre)

Kids Learn to Skate:

Intro to Speed Skating:

(must be 4 years or older)

(kids and adults welcome!)

Fall: 8 classes from September – December 2013 Winter: 8 classes from January – March 2014 Thursday’s @ McArthur Island Park 5:30 pm – 6 pm $90 with equipment; $70 without equipment

Fall: 8 classes from September – December 2013 Winter: 8 classes from January – March 2014 Thursday’s @ McArthur Island Park 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm $100 with equipment; $80 without equipment

Experienced Speed Skaters:

Several times available: September – March 2014 Ice Box: Tuesdays: 4:14 – 5:15 pm McArthur: Thursday: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Friday: 6:30 am – 7:30 am Sunday: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm OR 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Price TBA • Programs: Note – all times are subject to change see website for details For more information please contact Michelle at 250.318.6210 speedskatingkamloops@shaw.ca visit our website www.kamloopsspeedskating.com

Skating Made Fun And Easy - Be A part Of The Uniqueness!

Men’s Field Hockey For boys aged 12 and up & Adults.

Learn to play the world’s 2nd most popular sport.

45 MINUTE LESSONS!

TCC astroturf - session timings to be announced.

Hockey sticks and equipment provided.

Great cross-training for ice hockey and soccer.

I CAN SWIM! Swim Lessons

• Stroke development • 5 Levels/Small class sizes • Sponsored by Swim BC

• Certified Instructors • Canada Games Pool • For 5-12 year olds

FALL SESSIONS 2013 - ALL LEVELS Monday & Wednesday

September 23 - November 20 | 3:30pm or 4:15pm

Tuesday & Thursday

Comprehensive music programs for students of all ages that include preparation for: > recitals > festival performances > conservatory exams > post-secondary entrance auditions

GROUP CLASSES Sunrise Program for ages 2-3 Music for Young Children Program Chamber Music Classes Youth String Orchestra PRIVATE LESSONS Violin Piano Bassoon Theory Clarinet Voice Flute Bass French Horn Cello Celtic Harp Oboe Saxophone Guitar Trombone Viola Trumpet

September 24 - November 21 | 3:45pm, 4:30pm or 5:15pm

MINI-MEET FUN DAY Friday November 22 - 3:30pm

SPACE IS LIMITED Full registration online at

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$120 - 16 lessons

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Sports: Marty Hastings sports@kamloopsthisweek.com Ph: 250-374-7467 Ext: 235, Twitter: @MarTheReporter @KTWonBlazers

A man’s best friend, a goose’s worst enemy

By Marty Hastings STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

T

HE GOOSE Dog isn’t what she once was, riding in a golf cart alongside her best friend, Jim O’Connor.

These days, there doesn’t seem to be much point in chasing birds.

It’s pretty comfortable riding shotgun.

Birdie, O’Connor’s 14-year-old border collie, is old.

“Birdie’s been a great companion,” said O’Connor, Rivershore Golf Links’ golf superintendent for the past 16 years.

“The first few years, she was running at least 50 per cent of the time.

Now that she’s become a senior girl, she’s pretty much a rider.”

Having four-legged friends on golf courses has become commonplace.

“It’s pretty much the goose poop that’s the problem,” said O’Connor, who, at 69, is planning to retire next year.

“The geese in and of themselves are a pretty neat animal, but they eat quite a bit and they digest it pretty quickly.

It’s kind of messy.”

Originally from Toronto, O’Connor has been around golf courses his whole life, working in Ontario, Alberta and B.C. “It’s in the family,” he said, noting his uncle owned a course in Paris, Ont., and another uncle, a golf architect, helped design Oakdale Golf and Country Club, one

In the distance, a flock of birds begins to realize Birdie and Jim O’Connor are gaining ground. Marty Hastings/KTW

Nestled with Jim O’Connor, her owner, Birdie seems relaxed. The geese at Rivershore Golf Links are safe, if only for a moment. Marty Hastings/KTW

of the nation’s finest private tracks.

There was some resistance to the idea of a canine at Rivershore when O’Connor first arrived. Membership and the local public weren’t sure it was a great idea.

“I think I can say this now. When I first came here, some of the folks

were pretty anti-dog and I was trying to figure out how I could get a dog here,” O’Connor said.

“There are lots of geese around here, so I thought, ‘Aha! We need a goose dog.’

“It didn’t take very long. Most of the folks in the subdivision and the members on the course took owner-

ship of Birdie and they allowed her to ride along with me while I did my thing.”

Border collies are the right breed for the job, programmed to herd sheep, perfectly capable of running animals off a well-groomed fairway.

“They just move the geese on,” O’Connor said.

“The dog never really hurts them. As soon as they see the dog, they take off.”

Birdie was the runt of a litter of eight, purchased 14 years ago at a ranch in Knutsford.

She’s shy, for a border collie. It’s a trait that lends itself to working at a golf course.

“I think the members worry more about her than me,” said O’Connor, easily found

at the break of dawn most mornings inside the course’s maintenance cabin.

“I’m just kind of here. With her getting older, people are pretty concerned that she’s getting along well. They’re always asking, ‘Where’s Birdie?’”

Birdie’s still at Rivershore.

When she leaves, there’s another member of the O’Connor family ready to take over.

“Now I’ve got a dog named Koda,” said O’Connor, the longesttenured employee at Rivershore.

“It’s a rescue dog from the SPCA in Kamloops. She’s got a lot of lab in her, so she’s hardwired to chase birds as well.”

O’Connor hasn’t

thought all that much about retirement. He plans to ski at Sun Peaks Resort and walk the dogs. That’s about it for plans.

He’s not sure how his wife will handle him being around all the time at their Rivershore home.

“You’ll have to come around in a few years’ time and ask me that,” O’Connor said with a smile.

The only thing he knows for sure is life will be a little different — a little lonelier — without Birdie.

“I think anybody knows that’s had an animal that they become part of your life,” O’Connor said.

“It’s like losing someone in the family.”

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What’s Happening

MARDI GRAS THEME AND CONTEST

Kamloops’ Jessica Hewitt will be going to Sochi, Russia, in 2014 as part of Canada’s short-track speed-skating squad that will compete in the Olympic Winter Games.

• 18 fantastic holes of golf with shared power carts • Scramble format / 1pm shotgun start • 8 hole in one prizes • Pre game lunch • The Dunes Gourmet Buffet • Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place finishers • Silent Auction • Range Balls • Specialty food & beverage holes • Prizing for everyone

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Hewitt can taste the Olympics Canada’s top 10 short-track speed skaters have been nominated by Speed Skating Canada to vie for a spot on the Canadian Olympic Team at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in February.

Among the five females is Jessica Hewitt of Kamloops.

She is joined by Valérie Maltais, Marianne St. Gelais, Marie-Eve Drolet and Jessica Gregg The five males are Charles Hamelin, Olivier Jean, Charle Cournoyer, Michael Gilday and François Hamelin.

“Canadians were born to skate and we are delighted that these amazing athletes are the first to be nominated by Speed Skating Canada to contend for the opportunity to wear the Maple Leaf in Sochi,” said Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Hewitt and the other nine skaters nominated will now compete in four remaining International Skating Union World Cup events this season, the last two of which are Olympic qualifiers, in which Canada’s nominated athletes will contend for Olympic placements

Lipon signs with NHL Jets; Blazers add D-man Verveda JC Lipon has signed a two-way entry-level contract with the Winnipeg Jets.

The 20-year-old from Regina has played with the Kamloops Blazers since 2009, racking up 188 points, 61 of them goals, in 248 games.

He was selected by the Jets in the third round of the NHL draft in June. Lipon played five games with Canada at the 2013 world junior hockey championships in Ufa, Russia.

His younger brother Mitch, 17, is a forward with the Blazers.

• Meanwhile, the Blazers have signed 16-yearold defenseman Travis Verveda to a standard Western Hockey League contract.

Verveda was added to the Blazers protected list in February after suiting up for the Red Deer Northstar Chiefs of the Alberta Minor Midget League. The six-foot, 165-pound defenceman scored 14 points in 32 games last season.

“Travis showed his potential with a strong training camp,” said Blazers’ director of player personnel Matt Recchi.

“His game has continued to improve day-byday.

“We look forward to watching his progress.”

in the 500-metre, 1,000-metre and 1,500-metre events in Sochi.

Up to three spots in each distance are up for grabs.

In order for any country to secure all three placements, racers must finish in the top 32 in the 500-metre and 1,000-metre events and top 36 in the 1,500metre race. In the women’s 3,000-metre relay and men’s 5,000-metre relay, only the top eight teams will qualify to race in Sochi.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will take place from Feb. 7 to Feb. 23, 2014.

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FREE GOLF

for the rest of 2013!

Harold Simkins says it’s true.

As Kamloops Golf & Country Club enters its 100th anniversary year, it is offering special rates to thank the people of Kamloops for their support and patronage for the past century.

New memberships are now at a 25% discount. When 4 new members join the club they will only pay for 3.

You can sign up for any membership in any combination of full play or limited play and the discounts apply. If you don't have any friends, "no problem," says General Manager Harold Simkins, "We are asking folks to bring four, but in the event they need a fourth or a third, we are compiling a list of singles to help. KGCC will also allow all new memberships that are 50% paid in advance to golf free for the remainder of 2013 after September 1, 2013.

Buy a full membership and golf the rest of 2013 for free, you also get free

range balls for the 2014 season. That’s a $1,200 value for the 4 members.

Also included in the full-play memberships is one free Jr. Golf membership for each new member signed. That’s an additional $1,200 value for the 4 new members. "So, here's the deal," says Harold. "Your best value is 4 full play new memberships at $1575 each.

"That is unlimited golf with no restrictions". You get 4 Free Jr. Memberships and free range balls for all 4 members.

"If you add it up, it is a $10,800 package for only $6,300. You save $4,500.

"Never in the 100 years that I have been here (not really) have we made such an offer." Says Harold.

"If you're not golfing Kamloops Golf & Country Club next year you're paying too much" If you have any questions or wish to join, call the Pro Shop at 250-376-3231

KAMLOOPS’ FINEST GOLF COURSE

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The motley Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue crew responsible for clearing the biggest wrecks from the Coquihalla (clockwise from back left): Ken, Adam, Jamie, Bruce, Rob, Samy, Kevin and Gord.

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Season 2 of Highway Thru Hell

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OW DOES A TOWtruck driver in small-town B.C. achieve television fame without moving or changing vocations?

Pure luck.

That’s what happened to Jamie Davis, the man behind a Hope-based heavy-rescue company bearing his name and the star of Highway Thru Hell, the second season of which premieres on Discovery Channel tonight (Sept. 3).

Davis’ family has worked in the towing business for generations, but a chance encounter had a few years ago by one of his drivers, Adam Gazzola, changed everything. “Adam, he actually was towing a guy in a five-ton moving van on the Coq,�

Davis told KTW. “They had a conversation and Adam asked him, ‘What do you do?’

The second season of Highway Thru Hell premieres tonight (Sept. 3) on Discovery Channel at 7 p.m., and plays again at 10 p.m.

Last year, when the series debuted, it set the record for the highest-rated premiere in Discovery’s history.

For Season 2, the Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue crew “He says, ‘I work in TV — I worked on the show Deadliest Catch last season.’ “So, Adam says, ‘You should come up here in the winter time. It’s a gongshow — it would make for some really good TV.’�

At the same time, another one of Davis’ employees, Kevin Ritchie, was making a

will have to contend with some new twists, including a competing rescue company forcing Davis to look to take his operation in a new direction.

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Davis said a five-year contract was signed “with us knowing nothing about TV.�

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Highway Thru Hell makes use of the often-brutal winter conditions on the Coquihalla as a backdrop for a reality-TV series about Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue.

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They ended up being hounded by fans at truck stops and in malls.

“Locally, in Hope, a lot of people already knew us, so I don’t think it’s such a big deal at a local level,” Davis said.

“But, the popularity of the show — you get noticed everywhere.

“It’s kind of a neat novelty at first, but simple things like going to a truck stop to get fuel, it’s hard to maintain that normalcy.

“A lot of people love the show, and you do your best to try to be polite to all of them.”

For fans who became familiar with Davis et al in the first season of Highway Thru Hell, the bright-red Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue trucks have become easy to spot on the Coquihalla and, sometimes, even on the streets and highways of the Tournament Capital.

“Our main operation area is from Hope up that corridor to Kamloops, Hope to Princeton and Hope to Lytton,” Davis said.

“But, we do some long-distance stuff as well.

“It’s not uncommon to see one of our trucks in Los Angeles or Toronto, believe it or not.”

And, now, the company has an office in operation in Fort McMurray, serving the notoriously dangerous Highway 63 in Northern Alberta.

Davis said the expansion east was necessitated by a drop in crashes on the Coq — something he attributes, at least partially, to the amazing wreck footage shown on Highway Thru Hell.

“One thing we know that’s a real fact is since the show’s come out, we’ve seen a substantial reduction in accidents,” he said.

“I think because of the focus of the show, we’ve seen a reduction in business.”

Davis said anyone who enjoyed Season 1 of Highway Thru Hell will like what’s in store with Season 2.

“Season 2, I think the production of the show becomes much more polished,” he said.

“And, for lack of a better term, the show takes some pretty wild turns.

“You think you’re in control of the business, and all of the sudden something happens.

“There’s a few things that came along in the way — the reduction in accidents, some new competition.

“We had a really hard year.”

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PUPPETS ON A STICK These Summer Art Camp student-created marionettes were inspired by Elizabeth Warner’s current Strings exhibit in The Cube at the Kamloops Art Gallery, which runs until Sept. 7. Dave Eagles/KTW

The Kamloops Adult Learners Society (KALS) is inviting all retirees and seniors to register for its affordable and varied list of courses for the fall session, beginning this month.

Registration begins on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10 at the Northills Mall Seniors Information Centre, running at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Those interested can also register online at kals.ca. The website also contains a course list and descriptions of all classes offered.

Courses being offered this fall include Canadian art, children’s books, seniors’ driving, social media, East European Roma, Chaucer, laptop computers, pin embroidery, Asian history, philosophy, drawing with coloured pencils, music appreciation, astronomy, news and views and the meat industry, among others.

Regular courses run anywhere between three and 10 sessions each.

There are also a number of one-time course offerings on topics such as tai chi, decluttering, Internet fraud, health and wellness, identity theft and the cost of dying.

All courses are taught on a volunteer basis, which keeps tuition costs down.

Many instructors are Thompson Rivers University professors.

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TAKING THE HIGH ROAD Work to widen Highland Drive — the lone link between Juniper Ridge and the rest of civilization — is well underway, and it’s made for literally bumpy rides for Juni residents in recent weeks. Traffic can also be slow at times, as shown in this photo. The $4.1-million project is slated to be complete this year. Dave Eagles/KTW

Westsyde winery receiving CHBA-CI announces early praise with award Keystone nominees The accolades have started early for Privato Vineyard and Winery with a recent Silver Medal in WineAlign’s National Wine Awards of Canada 2013.

The award-winning 2011 Chardonnay was Privato’s inaugural vintage, hitting select high-end B.C. restaurants last October.

“The award is very humbling for us,” said Debbie Woodward, proprietor of Privato Vineyard and Winery.

“This winery has been a dream of ours for years and to have our first vintage receive such recognition is a wonderful testament to the time we’ve put into it.”

Last June, the competition put Privato’s 2011 Chardonnay up against 91 other Canadian-grown oaked chardonnays.

The wines were judged blind by a panel of the country’s leading wine writers and tasters.

“We’re excited to see

the wine industry grow in Kamloops,” Woodward said.

“And, this award will help bring attention to our area.”

Privato Vineyard and Winery is a familyowned winery situated on the banks of the North Thompson River.

They create small quantities of well-crafted burgundy wines, available online at privato. ca or from their tasting room on Westsyde Road in Kamloops.

WineAlign was developed to help consumers make informed buying decisions about wine, and has grown into a vast resource for wine consumers.

Their Annual National Wine Awards of Canada are open to all wines grown and produced in Canada.

The full list of award recipients will be released in September.

For more information, go online to winealign.com.

Silver nominees who will compete for gold Keystone Awards from the Canadian Home builders Association-Central Interior have been announced.

The finalists for the awards to be presented on Sept. 28 at the Delta Sun Peaks include: Advantage Insulation, Blue Green Architecture, Bridgeport The Floor Store, Brown’s Repair Shop, Copper Island Fine Homes, Dueck Construction, DW Builders, Gatien Realty, GSI Inc., Homes Development, K&C’s Construction and Renovations, Kamloops Home Hardware Building Centre, Kamloops Truss, Lamoureux Developments, Meranti Developments, Motivo Design Group, Noremac Concrete Pumping, Pittman Construction, Powder Ventures, ROI Media Works, SA Electric, Sun Rivers Construction, Tenth Ventures, The Kamloops Lightpost, Thompson Rivers University School of Trades and Technology and Wrabel Brothers Construction.

Finalists were chosen by a panel that included John Friswell of CCI Renovations, David Pfeutzner of Acorn Homes and Robert Capar of Maison d’etre DesignBuild on Aug. 28.

Tickets for the gala dinner and presentation are on sale at the CHBA-CI office, 921C Laval St. For more information, call 250-8281844.

It’s a great sipping wine – a Rosé on the front porch by the lakeside on the Shuswap, on a hot summer day. Ah, perfect!

It is during summer we enjoy Rosé the most - that is the common perception because it is a great sipping wine. Right! And while we drink Rosé more frequently in warm weather, Rosé is also great in fall and winter and spring. It is a wine for all seasons because it is also food oriented. And, so there is more to defining Rosé than just by a season of the year. In fact there has been little appreciation for the wide variety of enjoyment of Rosé. Rosé may be just what you are looking for all year long – youthfulness, joy, light, crisp – the right wine and food combination to lift your emotions.

Elizabeth Gabay, Master of Wine, writes on the internet, “speak to winemakers in Provence and most will say it is the most difficult wine to make – to get the colour right with no tannin, to get enough fruit, and enough acidity, neutral or a bigger wine to go with a meal.” In other words there is as much craftsmanship in making Rosé as red and white wines.

Celista Estate Winery produced its first Rosé in 2011. My wife’s mother’s name was Rosé so it was fitting to name our Rosé wine “Marg’s Rosé.”

It ‘s a lovely and complex wine that won a gold medal in the Northwest Wine Summit drawing competitors from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.

Rosé wines are made from red grapes. Rosé Champagne or sparkling wines are exceptions because they are also made with white grape varietals.

And, there are also winemakers who add a little white wine to their own blend of still Rosé wine.

Rosé wine incorporates some of the colour from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. Rosés are made from a wide variety of grapes and can be found all across the globe. Spain and France (best known for its red wines) lead the world in production of Rosé wines. Interestingly in the last 15 years Rosé production in the Rhone Valley has increased from 7% to 15%. Last summer a lady from France visiting our winery stated that Rosé has become very popular with the French.

Rosé wines may be the oldest type of wine as it is the most straightforward to make with the skin contact method.

The colour can range from a pale onion skin orange to a vivid near purple, depending on the grape variety used and winemaking techniques.

When the first wine labeled as a Rosé was produced is not known but it is likely that many of the earliest red wines made were closer in appearance to today’s Rosés than it would be to modern red wines. This is because many of the winemaking techniques used to make today’s darker, more tanic, red wines ( such as extended maceration and harder pressing) were not widely practiced in ancient winemaking. Both red and white wine grapes were often pressed soon after harvest - with very little maceration time - by hand, feet or even sack cloth creating juice that was only slightly pigmented.

Following World War 2, two Portuguese wine producer families both released sweet, slightly sparkling Rosés to the European and American markets. These wines, Mateus and Lancers, would go on to set record sales in Europe and the US and dominate the Portuguese wine industry for most of the 20th century.

While they still have a presence in the European and US markets, the trend toward traditional, drier Rosés, as well as the American blush wines like White Zinfandel, have cut into their market share.

There are four major ways to produce Rosé wines: Bleeding – juice is obtained by stacking up the wine grapes in a tank and letting the grapes’ weight do the crushing.

Pressing – the grapes are processed through a press until the juice has the desired colour. Limited Maceration – the most common technique used.

The skins are left in contact with the juice. Runoff – the process whereby the winemaker removes the juice from the tank of fermenting red wine.

So this fall, winter and spring explore, and refresh your enthusiasm for Rosé

By Jake Ootes, Celista Estate Winery Jake Ootes is owner of Celista Estate Winery, located on the north Shore of Shuswap Lake at 2319 Beguelin Road, Celista.

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#5632A 3.6L V6, auto, leather, 8,673 kms

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2012 CHRYSLER 200

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#D221111B 3.6L V6, auto, 49,557 kms

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#D225291A. 2.4L Inline4, 5 spd manual, 78,907 kms, leather, sunroof, XM radio

2011 DODGE GRAND

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B10 TUESDAY, September 3,

2013

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LOCAL NEWS

Lii Michif celebrates new program and funding Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family and Community Services (LMO) has announced the development of the Voices of the Michif Elders.

Inspired by beloved Michif Elder Dave Barron, the Voices of the Michif Elders will serve three primary roles: Mentorship to social-work practice, facilitating respectful resolution to conflict and serving as cultural advisors.

“We are blessed as an agency and community to have elders who are so willing and generous to share their precious time, history, knowledge and teachings with us” said LMO executive director Colleen Lucier.

“We can truly do things differently for Métis children, youth and families involved

Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family and Community Services Society members (back row, from left) Lynda Tilley, Mazie Beeds, Deanna (Dee Dee) Hurd, (front row, from left) Fred Paquette and Joyce Munro. Lil Michif is a non-profit aboriginal organization that serves the Métis community in Kamloops. The society offers a variety of programs and service resources for the Métis community, including family support, infant and early-childhood development and community care.

in the child-welfare system.”

Meanwhile, Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family and Community Services has received funding from the federal government for three projects.

The funding will help the society provide seven hours of Michif instruction per day through cultural activities.

The society will also build on its previous Michif Language and Jigging Program and provide 24 three-hour language classes.

The classes will each include a 30-minute traditional jigging segment that will expose participants to the language, as well as traditional music and songs.

From Nov. 9 to Nov. 17, the society

will also present the eighth edition of the Honouring Louis Riel, His Legacy and Our Michif Culture Festival. Activities include musical, artistic and historical performances that will showcase local artists and celebrate Métis culture.

Funding will also support the Healing Through Our Michif Ways project.

The society will work with 43 aboriginal women to offer a series of information sessions on family violence and prevention.

Activities include talking circles, traditional ceremonies, and moccasin-making and beading sessions. The women will also be also offered jigging sessions to strenghthen their cultural identity.

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Street School scoops up literacy award The Street School in Kamloops has won $5,000 as part of the 2013 Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life Literacy Innovation Awards.

The awards recognize five community organizations that have developed and delivered outstanding and innovative adult and family literacy programs with significant impact on their clients and on their communities.

The Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association received $20,000 as the top award winner, Kamloops’ Street School was joined by he Centres for Employment and Learning in Goderich, Ont., Taber and District Community and Adult Learning Association in Taber, Alta., and Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters Canada in Vancouver in winning the $5,000 prizes.

The Street School uses literacy outreach workers who develop supportive relationships with adult learners who have high needs for daily living. They assist students in accessing post-secondary education and employment and connect them to community support for housing, health care, addictions treatment and mental-health services.

Breaking the Silence Breaking the silence is key for the organizers of two events coming to Kamloops in early September.

On Monday, Sept.

9, Riverside Park will host Recovery Day, followed by World Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, Sept. 11.

Both events will fea-

ture a family-friendly mix of free food, live entertainment and activities, but the focus is on getting the community talking about suicide and addiction, said Jolene Lindsey and Heather Cook, who are representing the Interior Health Authority at the events.

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Deadlines 2 pm Friday for Tuesday 2 pm Tuesday for Thursday PAYMENT - All ads must be prepaid. No refunds on classified ads.

Regular Classified Rates

*Run Until Sold (No businesses, 3 lines or less)

Based on 3 lines

Merchandise, vehicles, trailers, RV’s, boats, ATV’s, furniture, etc.

1 Issue ..................$13.00 1 Week ..................$25.00 1 Month ................$80.00

*$35.00 + Tax *Some restrictions apply. *Run Until Rented (No businesses, 3 lines or less)

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Houses, condos, duplexes, suites, etc. (3 months max.)

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Anniversaries

Lost & Found

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Coming Events 1ST Annual Winfield Shop Til You Drop!! Winfield Memorial Hall, Lake Country Admission

By Donation to Food Bank Fundraiser Okanagan Small Dog Rescue Sept 14 & 15 10-4 Vendor Contact: Kimberly (250)309-1350 GROW MARIJUANA commercially. Canadian Commercial Production Licensing Convention October 26th & 27th.

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Tickets 1-855-860-8611 or 250-870-1882.

HOCKEY PLAYERS CAHRA Sanctioned League drafting Players over 30 years for 12 teams. Deadline Oct 20.

Draftees picked on Sept. 17.

35 game schedule. Apply at Consignor Sports, Notre Dame Drive.

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Children Childcare Available ENRICHED DAYCARE Now accepting registration for Aberdeen. Superior Care and education. Programs offered: 0-30 months & 30 months to 5yrs,

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We are an established private college seeking a F/T Curriculum Assistant in Kamloops. The candidate must have at least 2 years experience in the field and must be familiar with curriculum development concepts and have experience in MS Office. Moodle or another LMS is considered an asset. Deadline for applications is Sept 15.

Apply at: hr.privatecollege@gmail.com

FOODSAFE COURSE

by Certified Instructor September 10th & September 21st 8:30am-4:00pm $70 Pre-register by phoning 250-554-9762

HUNTER & FIREARMS Courses.

Next C.O.R.E. September 28th & 29th Saturday & Sunday.

P.A.L. Sunday September 15th.

Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

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Employment Business Opportunities ALL CASH drink/snack vending business route. Complete training. Small invest. req’d. 1888-979-VEND (8363). www.healthydrinkvending.co ~ Caution ~ While we try to ensure all advertisements appearing in Kamloops This Week are placed by reputable businesses with legitimate offers, we do caution our readers to undertake due diligence when answering any advertisement, particularly when the advertiser is asking for monies up front.

GET FREE Vending machines 100% lease financing, all cash income, 100% tax deductible, become financially independent, all Canadian company.

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Career Opportunities SOTA Instruments, a Natural Health Company in Penticton BC, is growing and looking for motivated, hard-working, positive individuals to join our team. Candidates should be driven, lively and most importantly committed to providing unsurpassed service to our customers. Learn more about us, the position and how to apply: www.sota.com/pdf/cs.pdf

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking Required immediately experienced Class 1 US drivers only.

Must have US experience. We supply assigned trucks, company phones, US Medical, all picks and drops paid. Please fax resume with current clean abstract to 250-546-0600. No phone calls please.

Career Opportunities

Garage Sale $10+tax per issue 3 lines or less

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EEmployment ((based on 3 lines)

1 Issue...................................$16.38 1 Week ..................................$31.52 1 Month ............................. $104.00 Tax not included. No refunds on classified ads.

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Career Opportunities

Truck Driver Training

Professional Truck Driver Program - Funding available for those who qualify!

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Class 1, 2 and 3 Driver Training - Job placement available!

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PRO-TEL RECONNECT An Alberta Oilfield Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing required. Call (780)723-5051 Edson, Alta.

F/T IT and ECE positions available email resume to enricheddaycare@shaw.ca or call 250-377-8190

Career Opportunities

Join the Axis team in Kamloops!

We are seeking individuals to work with youth at risk or youth /young adults with Autism who have limited verbal communication skills and aggressive behavior.

CPI and behavior plan training provided.

The following positions are available: Full Time Residence Worker (24 hour live in shifts; 3 on 3 off) Casual Residence Worker (24 hour live in shifts; as required) The successful applicants must be a positive role model, have experience with personal care and managing challenging behaviours.

For further information please refer to our website www.axis.bc.ca under job opportunities, Thompson Region.

Only those shortlisted will be contacted.

Resumes with cover letters can be faxed to 250-851-2977 or emailed to bev.munro@axis.bc.ca.

Human Resource Management Consultants SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Adam Alexander & Associates has been retained by an established, cutting edge accounting and business advising firm, to assist them in their search for a Senior Accountant. This challenging and rewarding career opportunity as a key member of the management team and will appeal to the professional that is knowledgeable and experienced in providing a full range of accounting, tax and advisory services in a public practice environment.

Based in Kamloops office and reporting to the Senior Partner, the primary responsibilities of this position will be to: • • • • • •

Review NTR’s and Review engagements, with the ability to sign off on files; Ability to prepare complex tax files; Provide tax planning services to clients; Participate in strategic business planning; Market business and develop new clients; Mentor, coach, train and advise junior staff;

The challenging mandate of this position will appeal to the professional who possesses a relevant university degree, an accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA, CPA) and a minimum of 3 years experience in public practice, with emphasis on NTR’s Reviews and Tax Planning.

An entrepreneurial spirit and desire to become a Partner is welcome.

Other key requirements include excellent communication skills, strong organizational skills, a high degree of integrity, effective time management skills, an ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external contacts, an ability to work collaboratively as a team in providing strategic advise to senior management, as attention to detail and accuracy, good problem solving skills and an ability to mentor and coach others. The ability to respond quickly to changing priorities and influence others is imperative.

This is an outstanding challenge and opportunity for an accomplished accounting professional.

Our client offers an exceptional compensation package, $75,000 (negotiable) and a full benefit package.

If you possess the necessary qualifications and skills, please forward your cover letter, resume and salary expectations, in strictest confidence, by September 20th, 2013, to: Adam Alexander & Associates C/o Bill W. Gallis, BA, PAdm, CHRP Human Resources Management Consultants Email: bgallis@telus.net

“PEOPLE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”

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Employment Help Wanted FIELD CLERK Needed for out of town work site (21/7 schedule). Mature, flexible and positive communicator, understanding of importance of safety culture. Reporting to onsite foreman & Edmonton HO. Transportation to & from work site provided. Potential to grow with company; jobs@commandequipment.com Fax 780-488-3002.

BUILD YOUR CAREER WITH US

CERTIFIED MILLWRIGHTS Okanagan Region, BC

I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

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BUILD YOUR CAREER WITH US! Do you thrive in a dynamic and challenging environment with opportunities for continuous growth and development?

When you join Tolko Industries, you are signing on with an industry leader in world markets that has built success through three generations with over 3000 employees and growing. We provide a dynamic environment with competitive compensation where people succeed as our most valuable resource. Our structure and culture encourage innovation, growth, and change in an open environment, and we believe in and practice environmental sustainability.

For more information visit www.tolko.com.

QUALIFICATIONS: Journeyman Millwright certification; Ability to read blue prints, plans and schematics.

Strong problem solving skills Commitment to working safely coupled with strong communication & interpersonal skills.

Ability to work independently with little supervision Organizational and planning skills as well as proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook This is an excellent opportunity to engage in interesting work and in excellent working conditions in modern wood manufacturing facilities.

APPLY TODAY! Our tradition of excellence is built on strong company values, a challenging environment, and continuous development. To explore current career opportunities and become a part of our community, apply online today at www.tolko.com. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Apply online today at www.tolko.com

BUILD YOUR CAREER WITH US

Canyon is the fastest growing pressure pumping company in Canada. We deliver quality customized fracturing / pressure pumping and service solutions to the oil and gas industry, improving our industry one job at a time.

If you’re looking for a career with a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then we’re looking for you.

Armstrong, BC

Located in Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Grande Prairie and Estevan, Sask.

Canyon is growing and currently are looking for talented and experienced Class 1 Drivers, for our Fracturing, Nitrogen, Coiled Tubing and Cement and Acid divisions. All interested applicants are encouraged to forward a resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract.

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Why Canyon? f Paid technical and leadership training f Career advancement opportunities f RRSP matching program f Dynamic and rapidly growing company f Premium compensation package f New equipment

Applicant Requirements: f Self-motivated f Willing to work 15/6 or 22/13 schedule

f Safety-focused f Team oriented f Clean drivers abstract

250-374-0462

LOGAN LAKE

Canyon Technical Services

Maintenance Superintendent

RESPONSIBILITIES As part of a highly motivated team, the Maintenance Superintendent is responsible for overseeing the safety, supervision, scheduling, training and development of all tradespeople. This key position works closely with production and other maintenance staff to ensure product quality, quantity, overall equipment efficiency, as well as oversee plant and site maintenance. The successful applicant will need to have a strong mechanical background, good understanding of electrical PLC systems, and have some budgeting experience. This incumbent will also require excellent leadership skills to deliver on World Class Maintenance results.

QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate will be a qualified tradesperson and possess comprehensive knowledge of related trades, OH&S and industrial relations.

Direct production, project management and work order maintenance system experience are required.

Strong communication, organization and time management skills are essential.

Preference will be given to those with demonstrated leadership and analytical abilities and experience in a maintenance supervisory role.

CMMS knowledge and experience will be a huge asset to this position.

Tolko Industries Ltd. is a forest products company with marketing, resource management and manufacturing operations throughout Western Canada. A career with Tolko means working in an environment that encourages personal and professional development. We offer a workplace where everyone plays an essential role in the success of our Company and where individual efforts are acknowledged.

Our tradition of excellence is built on strong company values, a challenging environment, and continuous development.

TO APPLY: We are an equal opportunity employer offering excellent pension and flex benefit programs.

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity and being a part of our community please submit your resume to www.tolko.com by August 31, 2013.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

is looking for substitute distributors for door-to-door deliveries.

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

Kamloops This Week is looking for door-to-door carriers in your area.

2 days per week Tuesday & Thursday.

Please call 250-374-0462 for more info.

Moya Beauty Industries Inc. o/a Vine Vera Cosmetics

Looking for Sales Clerks at Aberdeen Mall, Kamloops, BC. Good English, enthusiastic, ability to sales.

Full time, Permanent, Shifts, Weekends Salary: $12.50 hourly E-mail: moyabeauty@ymail.com

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Apply online today at www.tolko.com

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply:

Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries.

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

email: hr@canyontech.ca fax: (403) 356-1146 website: www.canyontech.ca

Education/Trade Schools

Education/Trade Schools

Education/Trade Schools

Education/Trade Schools

Education/Trade Schools

HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER Permanent/Full Time Ken J. Finnie Inc., has an immediate opening for an experienced bookkeeper to join our growing public accounting firm.

The successful candidate will be energetic, have strong organizational skills and an ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently with minimal supervision. Key competencies required: • Minimum of 3 years full cycle bookkeeping experience for a variety of small to medium-sized companies • Ability to multi-task, prioritize work and meet deadlines • Excellent organizational skills • Minimum of 3 years’ experience using Simply Accounting • Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively • Experience in the preparation of personal income tax returns would be an asset The remuneration is very competitive. We offer a comprehensive benefit package and opportunities for advancement. Please forward your resume to: Ken J. Finnie Inc. Certified Management Accountant 202 – 1315 Summit Drive Kamloops, BC V2C 3J4 Email: ken@kfcma.com Closing date: Friday, September 6, 2013 We thank all applicants; however only those under consideration will be contacted.

Our HCA program is for students with

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Career Opportunities: Community Health Worker O Care Aide Home Support O Acute & Complex Care

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PRACTICAL NURSING PROGRAM PRA Train with one of Canada’s largest Tra

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Services

Services

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Fitness/Exercise

Handypersons

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RICK’S SMALL HAUL

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Medical/Dental

Trades, Technical

Work Wanted

Financial Services

Western Equipment Ltd. We are currently looking for a small motor mechanic in our fast growing Terrace location.

We are a large dealer of Stihl products and handle Toro and Briggs and Stratton as well.

We offer a competitive wage and benefit programs. You must have experience and be very customer service orientated. Some training will be provided through Stihl Canada courses. Not all applicants will be contacted. Send resumes via email or fax. 250 635-4161

PERIODONTAL practice in Kamloops welcomes applications for an experienced certified dental assistant to join our team. The position would include 8 hour days, 3-4 days/week. The ideal candidate is a reliable, team-oriented individual with an excellent disposition and strong communication skills. Please forward your resume and cover letter to

GUARANTEED JOB Placement: General laborers and tradesmen for oil and gas industry.

Call 24hr Free Recorded Message. For Information 1-800-972-0209.

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HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774

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Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

Only 2 issues a week!

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SALES ASSOCIATES Required for busy fabric retailer.

Must be enthusiastic and have a good knowledge of sewing.

Drop resume off in person to Dorothy at 1B-2121 E.T.C. Highway Kamloops B.C. 6142976 ATTENTION:

AUTOMOTIVE PARTS PERSON

Do you have a minimum two years parts counter experience? Are you working for a large automotive parts chain with little chance of promotion or new challenges?

Kamloops Hyundai is looking for a full-time parts person who is self-motivated with good computer, phone and people skills.

With our growing company, you will have the opportunity to run your own parts department in a progressive team atmosphere.

We offer competitive compensation and excellent benefits.

Please drop off your resume in person to Alex Kaluzny or email your resume to akaluzny@kamloopshyundai.com

Painting & Decorating

Art/Music/Dancing

ASSISTANT MANAGER WRANGLER RENTALS LTD. is now recruiting Excavator Operators. Rig experience an asset. Camp jobs, day rates, health benefits & steady work rain or shine. Contact Monika 780-980-1331 or email resume: monika@wranglerrentals.com.

Help Wanted

Experienced Violin Instructor giving violin and fiddle lesson in my home music studio. Call Mary Allan at 250-554-4327

JOHN FAVELL PAINTING

Financial Services M O N E Y P R OV I D E R . C O M . $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

948 Notre Dame Dr.

ATTENTION: 6145131

AUTOMOTIVE APPRENTICE/TIRE INSTALLER

Are you working for an independent repair shop or tire store with little chance of advancement or of an apprenticeship?

Kamloops Hyundai has an immediate opening for a full time Automotive Apprentice / Tire Installer.

Join our growing company and you will have the opportunity to advance and be trained as a licenced Hyundai Technician.

We offer competitive compensation and excellent benefits.

Please drop off your resume in person to Alex Kaluzny or email your resume to akaluzny@kamloopshyundai.com

Kamloops Hyundai 948 Notre Dame Dr. Mon to Sat 8 am to 6 pm

A healthy local economy depends on you

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Stucco/Siding

Floor Refinishing/ Installations

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AREA SUPERVISOR ASHCROFT MINING DIVISION

Looking for a Career?

This might be for you.

Arrow Transportation Systems Inc., is a diversified transportation, logistics, and materials handling company with operations throughout Canada and the U.S. Our dynamic company is looking for someone interested in a career in Operations Management to join our team as Area Supervisor for our Mining Division in Ashcroft, BC.

Kamloops Hyundai Mon to Sat 8 am to 6 pm

CRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certification, adoption property rental opportunities. For peace of mind and a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Interior and Exterior Residential and Commercial 10% of for seniors 3 room special walls only $359 250-571-7696 cell 250-554-9924 office

We will hire and train the right individual in this entry level role to continuously learn, grow and to eventually move into more responsible roles within the Mining group.

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Pets

Model/ Talent Agencies

Animals sold as “purebred stock” must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

ARROW OFFERS: • Growth potential • Training and Development • Competitive compensation & benefits package WE ARE LOOKING FOR: • A team player with excellent communication and people skills.

• Strong in a high paced operations environment.

• Strong organizationally.

• Detailed orientated and self motivated.

• Dedicated to learn and grow within our organization.

• Ability to quickly assess an ever changing environment and make decisions that financially optimize division operations.

Please send resume in confidence to: Lisa Savage, Director of People Systems, 400 -970 McMaster Place, Kamloops, BC. V2C 6K2 Fax: (250) 314-1750, email: lsavage@arrow.ca We are an equal opportunity employer. Aboriginal Canadians are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to those with a post secondary degree or diploma in a related field.

Immediate openings on these great opportunities: Stewarding Attendants Night Cleaners Stewarding Supervisor Housekeeping Room Attendants Fairmont is a place where the extraordinary happens every day! We offer exciting career opportunities, experiences, and rewards for our employees around the world.

Perks Endless Staff Events Subsidized Staff Housing Competitive Benefits Daily Duty Meal

Apply today at www.fairmontcareers.com

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Pets & Livestock

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Pets

$500 & Under

Heavy Duty Machinery

Misc. for Sale

Cheviot Ram for sale 5 yr old Easy to handle quiet ram. Produces low birth weight fast growing lambs that hit he ground running. Great ram for ewe lambs. Asking $250 obo Call (250) 578-7202

PETS For Sale?

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Did you know that you can place your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

Call our Classified Department for details!

TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm. (250)371-4949

250-371-4949 *some restrictions apply

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Merchandise for Sale

$300 & Under

Sleep Number Bed 3yr old, $700 (778) 470-4412 Winter tires on steel rims 215 70 R16 Hankook approx 75% tread left. Balanced and ready to go on your car, came off a 03 Saturn Vue $350 250-5714501aft 4

2 SETS golf clubs with carts 1 left handed 1 right handed $300 for all (250) 372-8147

$400 & Under

Firewood/Fuel

Blue qu sz sofa bed w/multi colored pillows $400 obo exc cond (250) 376-4737

ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

Livestock

Livestock

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

REIMER’S FARM SERVICES

250-260-0110 Garage Sales

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20’40’45’53’ in stock.

SPECIAL 44’X40’ Container Shop w/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!

40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free Also JD 544 & 644 wheel loaders JD 892D LC Excavator Ph 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

FIND EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $10/ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive Kamloops BC call for availability 250-374-7467

Misc. Wanted Genuine Coin Collector Buyer Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030

Misc. for Sale ClssB Motorhome cover $200, Golf Travel Bag $25, York Gym $80 obo (250) 828-2425

PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

Craftsman 4hp mower $125 Lawnboy rear bagger $125 2 weed eater $25/$15 250-2996462

Real Estate

MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Sta ndard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea & Artic Spa hot tub $3000obo Call 250-573-5922 after 6pm or leave msg.

RESTLESS LEG Syndrome and leg cramps? Fast relief in one hour. Sleep at night. Proven for over 32 years. www.allcalm.com Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660.

For Sale By Owner BRAEVIEW PLACE LEVEL ENTRY TOWNHOUSE, RENOVATED, EARLY POSSESSION, HOUSE TRADE COULD BE CONSIDERED. $349,900. (250)371-1942

STEEL BUILDINGS, Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Owner Financing, on 4 bdrm, 2 bath home in Coldstream area of Vernon. Lrg Landscaped Lot .71 acre with kids playhouse, beautiful gardens, front patio with view, rear patio with privacy on quiet Rd. Will accept RV, property or? as down payment.

Asking $429,000.

778-475-2112, 250-309-1506.

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

NEW LISTING

Garage Sales

B U Y

3249 SHUSWAP ROAD

Beautiful home on 2 acres. River and valley views from house and or large deck. Spacious kitchen/nook/family room with gas Àreplace.

Large living room has terriÀc view. Expansive (KEVIN) B.P.E./Ed. rec room/bar area.

Gazebo has gas and electricity. Wonderful ROYAL LEPAGE KAMLOOPS REALTY yard, plenty of parking, room for shop, toys & RV. Cell: 778-220-5432

S MR. CARSWELL L L

$

574,900

Off: 250-374-3022 mrcarswell@royallepage.ca 322 Seymour St. Kamloops, BC V2C 2G2

Real Estate

Rentals

Rentals

For Sale By Owner

Apt/Condo for Rent

Recreation

Valleyview side by side 2bdrm duplex on half acre fenced lot. New reno and furnaces, asking $439,000 (250) 828-2385

RIVIERA VILLA

✰SHUSWAP LAKE!✰

1/bdrm starting at $675/mth 2/bdrm starting at $800/mth Incl/heat, hot water. N/P. Senior oriented.

5 Star Caravans West Resort in Scotch Creek B.C.

Classifieds Get Results!

Houses For Sale FOR SALE OR TRADE for residential property in Kamloops. This very bright, fully furnished, three bedroom/two bath corner unit townhouse in Big White offers your very own hot tub on the patio, carport, high end furniture/appliance pkge, stacking washer/dryer and rock-faced fireplace.

Short stroll to Gondola, skating rink, tube park, Day Lodge.

Ideal for family or as a revenue generator throughout the ski season. Strata fees only $155.00 per month. Call Don at 250-682-3984 for more information.

Asking $199,900.00 plus GST.

1&2/BDRM Suites

250-554-7888

Bed & Breakfast BC Best Buy Classified’s Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC. Call 250-371-4949 for more information

Commercial/ Industrial WAREHOUSING in Salmon Arm/Shuswap can also provide Delivery 250-253-6642

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent Carmel Place- 55+ New studio units in secure medical building. Open house M, W, F 10:30-11:30 Call Columbia Property Management 250-851-9310 Logan Lake 1 & 2 bdrm condo $475 & 500 tenant pays hydro. Call (604)463-3728.

NORTH SHORE 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet building.

Rents starting at $625 + utilities.

Cottages / Cabins All season Lake View furn cabin indoor plumbing near Clinton $225 per/month (250) 459-2387 after 5pm

Duplex / 4 Plex 2bdrm 2bth upper duplex Dallas $900 6appl & ac n/p, n/s mature couple pref 573-2529 BROCK Lrg 3bdrm 2bth fncd yrd, hwtr & heat inc. NS/NP. $1400/mo (250) 376-5897

Homes for Rent

CALL 250-682-0312

2 bd 1 bth Home in CLINTON Bright, Large lot, wood stove, $625/mth. Call 604-910-4655

Commercial/ Industrial

Commercial/ Industrial

Run Till Rented “Read All About It” Kamloops This Week Run Till Rented gives you endless possibilities... $5300 + tax Max 3 Lines Max 12 Weeks Must be pre-paid (no refunds) Scheduled for 4 weeks at a time (Must phone to reschedule)

Private parties only - no businesses - Some Restrictions Apply

JUNIPER RIDGE Down Sizing 2488 Bella Coola Court Sat 9-2pm Antiques, collectable’s, furniture, and more!

Custom-built Home with 1 Bedroom In-law Suite 930 Norview Road • $529,900

IT’S GARAGE SALE TIME

NEW PRICE!

Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL

ONLY $10.00 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line)

250-371-4949 classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com

• Immaculate inside and out! A must to view!

• Main floor bedroom with ensuite, updated kitchen with B/I appliances, eating area, formal dining room with access to a very private back yard.

• High ceilings in living room with gas fireplace, family room with access to sundeck and panoramic view.

• 3 bdrms up, large master bedroom with a private covered sundeck enjoying the view. W/I closet and 4 pc ensuite.

• Includes 9 appliances, C/Air, C/Vac, intercom and security system.

Helen Ralph 250-374-3331

Garage Sale deadline is Tuesday 2pm

Real Estate (Kamloops)

Lakeside lot, end unit. Plenty of extra space. Steps to beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat.

Newer 2006 1bedroom, 1bath, park model trailer, plus a tastefully decorated guest cabin.

Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. $1500/week 250-371-1333

Rooms for Rent DOWNTOWN motel rooms avail, 1 or 2 beds. All util, parking & internet incl. Starting @ $850/mo kitchenette rooms also available 250-372-7761 Furn bed rm cls to DT util incl emp or student n/s/p/drink vehicle req $500mo 377-3158

Shared Accommodation GrFlr Mid-Aberdeen near 2 bus rts, own bth fr & micro. Internet, shr w/d/kit N/S/N/P Avail Sept 1 $400 372-0836 IN private home, pleasant surroundings fully furnished working male pref. near amenities behind sahali mall 10 min walk to TRU 374-0949 or 372-3339 Male seeking roommate Westsyde Furn. Close to bus $550/mo util incl. 250-5798193 Cell 250-572-1048

Suites, Lower 1BDRM furnished level entry Westsyde priv ent/patio/lndry NS/NP util/satellite tv incl $875/mo 250-579-0193 1BDRM(sm) 1-person! ns/np NoParties $600/mo ref’s req’d.

Incl. h/w &heat 250-372-7695 2Bdrm N. Kam shr w/d, n/p, n/s pref working person $750 util incl 250-554-8771 ABERDEEN 2Bdrm daylight f/s w/d ns/np $1000/mo util incl Avail Sept 1st 250-372-2482 Big 1 brm, bright, n/s/p, w/d, fireplace,parking $750 util icl, near Northills 250- 376-9914 NEW 2 bdrm daylight. Dufferin N/S N/P No Noise. Incl. util. $1050/mo+DD 250-314-0060 Riverfront 1bdrm daylight internet level entry ample prking util incl $575 579-9609 Valleyview lge living space 2 bdrm, 5 appliances, $950mo gas incl 250-372-2380

Townhouses 2BDRM, 2Bath, plus Den. Located in Pineview. New town home with garage and a/c. ns/np, $1800/mo.

Refs Required. Call 250-319-1693 3brm 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1400 close to school and shopping Avail Sept 1st (250) 374-5586 /371-0206 LRG 3 bdrm beside Mac Park.

Priv yrd, garage.N/S/P Family oriented. $1000/mo 377-4060

TOWNHOUSES Best Value In Town

Special: Add an extra line to your ad for $10

CALL 250-371-4949

The Heart of Your Community

NORTH SHORE *Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms *Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

318-4321 NO PETS

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Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Adult

Antiques / Classics

Cars - Domestic

Recreational/Sale

Boat Accessories

Escorts

1967 Ford Falcon Futura St.6 Auto 2dr all original runs good, $6000 obo (250) 376-5722

Auto Financing

RUN UNTIL SOLD

Naughty College Girls

ONLY $35.00(plus Tax)

5 To Choose From.

(250)371-4949

We are HOT, SWEET, & Always Discreet!

*some restrictions apply call for details

Downtown in calls or out calls available.

Want to get down and dirty

Call or text 24/7 Complete Trailer with EZ load, boat, all gear new 4hp merc motor, $10,500 (250) 374-0507

Cars - Sports & Imports 95 Honda Accord 275,000km gd running $2500obo (250) 374-8439 Auto Financing - Dream Catcher, Apply Today! Drive Today!

Run until sold New Price $56.00+tax 4dr car

1.800.910.6402

DreamTeam Auto Financing “0” Down, Bankruptcy OK Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals

Motorcycles

www.iDreamAuto.com DL# 7557

1984 Yamaha Virago motorcycle.Excel/cond $3500obo 250573-5922(after6pm orlvmsg)

Cars - Domestic

Recreational/Sale

‘06Cobalt, auto4dr, 113000km great condition $4850.obo 250-578-7991, 250-320-5066

07 Copper Canyon 30ft pull trailer, qu bed, dining/living slide, awning, new tires, exc cond. $17500 (250) 828-1604

1-800-961-7022

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one flat rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* • $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) • $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

Scrap Car Removal

12’ ALUMINUM BOAT &

U-BUILT TRAILER

$775.00 for the set Perfect set-up for camping.

The ubuilt boat trailer can carry a lot of boating equipment, and camping gear.

Easy to haul with a truck, and still light enough for a car with a hitch. The top opens into four separate doors for easy access, and has a latch on each side so that you can lock-up it all up.

Comes with three spare tires. The 12‘ aluminum boat is a great starter boat and comes with two oars. Asking $775 obo.

More photos available upon request.

Call or text 250-574-3512

Boats 1995 Sunbird 18.7 ft bow rider 175 hp, I/O exc cond $9000 firm (250) 579-8501 2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250573-5922 (after 6pm)or lv msg

Adult 2003 Mustang GT convertible V8 P/S, P/B (new brakes) low mileage 70,000km leather nit. 2 sets of wheel not winter driven $10,500 firm (250) 554-2528 86 Oldsmobile Firenza 2dr hatch back 126,000km runs gd $1000obo (250) 374-4539 97 Chrysler Intrepid exc touring car, summer/winter tires on rims, $3000 (250) 374-4713

DARCY ALAN

LEWIS Dec. 21, 1966-Aug. 10, 2013

2006 Terry 28’ 5th wheel. 1 slide slp 6 Documented low mileage, exc cond $21,000 (250) 554-2528 26’ pull type 1999 Mallard trailer slps 6, lrg awning, a/c , solar panel + extras $9,000 (250) 376-6918 28ft ClassA Fleetwood Bounder RV Ford 460 exc cond Steal at $18500 250-573-1736

Trucks & Vans 1984 Chevy Short Box. $3500 obo (250) 573-5922 after 6pm or leave msg. Must See! 1996 GMC Suburban gd shape runs great $4200obo (250) 571-2107 NEW LEER Truck Canopy.

Fits 6ft Ford box. White. $900 1(250) 523-2350 (Logan Lake)

FLORENCE ARCHIBALD November 6, 1921 ~ August 28, 2013 Our beloved Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother passed away peacefully on August 28, 2013.

She is survived by her son Paul (Nancy) Backman, and daughter Linda (Edwin) Schupsky, step-daughter Carol (Jim) Wiggins and step-son Dale (Florence) Archibald.

Florence also leaves eight grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Ymir Backman (1952), and second husband, Eugene Archibald (2001). She is also predeceased by one sister and three brothers.

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Darcy Allan Lewis.

Darcy will be missed by his family, friends, co-workers and all who met him.

Darcy was born in Thompson, Manitoba. He is survived by his cherished loved ones: Eva Szabo, Tanya Szabo (Sean, Brooklyn), his mother Diane DiGeso (Vincent), stepfather Francois Lambert, sister Tracy Czeczei [(Jerry), Jessie, Brayden, Taylar] and brother Terry Lewis (Samantha) and many more, too numerous to mention.

Darcy was a gentle, caring soul, with a heart of gold, who would do anything for friends and always put his family first. He touched many lives and will live on in our hearts and memories in the years to come.

A service will be held in honour of Darcy on September 7, 2013, at 3:00 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 2165 Parkcrest Avenue.

There will be a celebration of life to follow at 1945 Sunnycrest, Kamloops, BC. Please bring your own chair.

Florence was born and raised in Edmonton, AB. She graduated with honors from the Royal Alexander nursing program in Edmonton in 1944. She moved to Kamloops in 1945 to take up a nursing position. She was an exceptional nurse and later gained great respect from students and faculty alike as an instructor at Royal Inland Hospital with the school of nursing.

It was in Kamloops where she met and married her first husband Ymir in 1946. He tragically died in 1952 at the Tranquille TB sanatorium, leaving Florence to raise two small children on her own.

In 1971 she married second husband Gene Archibald. They spent many years together travelling extensively and making many friends in their church work.

Special thanks to the Overlander Evergreen staff for their care and friendship during the three years Mom resided there.

(250) 318-9605

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Hourglass figure. Discreet.

10am-8pm.

250-371-0947 Attractive fun, blond provides full body massages and more.

Phone 250-376-5319 9am11pm

Legal Notices

Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Creditors and others having claims against the estate of DOROTHY ELEANOR NEWTON, deceased, are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Executor at 4818 Straume Avenue, Terrace, B.C., V8G 2C7 on or before September 13, 2013, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have then been received.

RON NEWTON, Executor.

Talstra Law Corporation, Solicitors.

Notice of Application for Short Term Water Use Water Act (Section 8)

I/We Heather Larratt for the District of Logan Lake, #1 Opal Drive, PO Box 190, Logan Lake, British Columbia, V0K 1W0 have applied for an approval to temporarily divert and store water out of Dunois Creek which flows westerly and discharges in Logan Lake and give notice of my application to all persons affected.

The ponds that are being created/rehabilitated will be located at: 600 meters upstream of Logan Lake within the Logan Lake Golf Course.

The quantity of water to be diverted or stored is 4468.5 cubic meters. The purpose for which the water will be used is land rehabilitation.

The land on which the water will be stored is within the Logan Lake Golf Course.

Anyone having concerns or comments with regard to the above proposal, please contact me/us at the above address in order that I/we may discuss the issues and arrive at a mutually acceptable arrangement.

Objections to this application may be filed with the Assistant Regional Water Manager at Cascades District, PO Box 4400 Station Main, Merritt, British Columbia, V1K 1B8, within 14 days of the date of the publication.

Adopt a Shelter Cat! The BC SPCA cares for thousands of orphaned and abandoned cats each year.

If you can give a homeless cat a second chance at happiness, please visit your local shelter today.

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the Àelds of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling Áight.

I am the star-shine of the night.

I am in the Áowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 7th at 1:00 pm, in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Drive, Kamloops, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, 311 Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 2T1, would be greatly appreciated.

TUESDAY, September 3, 2013 ❖ B15

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there – I did not die.

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B16 ❖ TUESDAY, September 03, 2013

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C O R D I A L LY

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ANNUAL GRAND FINALE

Pink Ribbon Charity Ball SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH

CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION: 6PM

INTERIOR SAVINGS CENTRE

CULINARY DINNER: 7PM

300 LORNE ST

Patron Table of 10: $3000

Ladies:

Donor Table of 10: $2500

(Riverside Coliseum)

Formal Gown Gentlemen:

Tuxedo or dark suit

Dance to follow

Tickets: $175 Each

We regret to announce that after 16 amazing years the Pink Ribbon Charity will come to an end. The Pink Ribbon Charity ball has become the premiere Fundraising event in Kamloops, raising over $750,000 for breast cancer research in BC. Last year the event donated over $100,000 to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation from one night of fundraising! Cheers to the generous people of Kamloops!

To say thank you to the community of Kamloops, this year our event will donate all proceeds to RIH foundation to buy a specific piece of MRI equipment to better detect and care for women with breast cancer in Kamloops and the surrounding area.

This event will be the biggest fundraiser Kamloops has ever seen.

Join us on Saturday September 28, 2013 for this Grand Gala Affair.

The proceeds from this Grand Gala Affair will be gifted to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation to benefit breast cancer health care in Kamloops.

For tickets please call Anthony Salituro: 250-319-3190