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have accompanied Spence’s actions. “I don’t support him in that area at all,� she said of the chief’s decision to also publicly ask Spence to stop her protest. “But, my hands are free and I can speak my mind.�

Camille said when the United Nations issued a report earlier this year condemning Canada for its human-rights record with aboriginal peoples, she thought it might spark more concern at the federal level than it did.

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Bush said police want to avoid the kind of situation that has made headlines in other communities, where videos have been posted of teens being assaulted — actions that add to the victim’s trauma. “It’s the world we live in now,�

Bush said, noting the teen recalls other people were in the area of the attack. “Investigators believe there are individuals who witnessed what

took place and have photographs of the incident,� Bush said. “The community as a whole has an important role to play in assisting our investigation and providing support to the victim rather than victimizing her further.�

Karl deBruijn, an assistant superintendent with the KamloopsThompson school district, said all students receive frequent lessons and reminders about drinking and driving, using drugs and putting themselves into situations that-

could be harmful to them.

Graduating students in particular are the focus of these messages, deBruijn said. “It’s almost socially acceptable at grad time to put all this aside. “I don’t know why we would think they’re immune to danger this one time of the year.�

Beyond that, there is little the school district can do, he said, because parties like these happen outside of school hours.

A similar party last year saw a

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Now that he’s in charge of health rather than the environment, Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake no longer has to remain neutral on the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine.

But, that’s not changing his position on the project. “There are people who have legitimate concerns and I understand those concerns,� Lake said. “I still own a home in Aberdeen and I totally understand

those concerns. I have some very close friends that have those concerns. But, I think to know whether to be concerned, I need to know the information and we’re still not there.�

Lake said more of his constituents in the North Kamloops area tend to contact him about how they approve of the mine, but he has not taken a side. “I still take the position that, until we have all the information, it’s difficult to take the position.�

With KGHM’s application for environmental assessment unlikely to be filed before next year, there is one area where he thinks the province can take action in the interim.

Lake would like to see the Environmental Assessment Offic do another “EA 101� seminar in Kamloops, explaining how th process works and giving the public a chance to ask questions. “It may not be a bad idea to do another one and then these kind of concerns could be addressed,� Lake said, noting he would also like to see the session address other permits the min will need to operate. “It almost becomes a full-time job trying to follow the process, so I understand how people could get a bit exasperated by it,� Lake said. “I think doing that public information session would be helpful for people to understand.�

AVID TRAWIN doesn’t think in highlights.

That might not ormally be an issue but, as amloops’ latest chief adminisative officer begins his second ar on the job, council members d media alike have asked him pick out his favourite moment om year one. “Maybe it’s a flaw of mine or ot, but I don’t think like that,� awin said. “I think of what things I want get done. So, fine, that’s fixed, ng. What else can we get done? never really reflect on that.�

It’s perhaps fitting for somene whose favourite way of scribing himself and his plans r the organization he now heads some variation on “process.�

On the differences between mself and former CAO Randy iehl: “I’m more of a numbers uy. Randy wasn’t. He was more a big-picture guy.�

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On why he wanted the job: “I thought I could help with moving the city forward and with the process side of things.�

Originally from the Interior, an NCAA soccer scholarship took Trawin to Florida Atlantic University in the 1980s for undergrad and a master’s degree in urban planning.

But, a after few years working in Sunshine State, Trawin decided he preferred his home province and headed back north. “Florida’s OK to live,� he said, “for a bit.�

Trawin also opted to leave behind private-sector work in favour of local government. “As a hired gun in the private sector, you do some things which, in my view, aren’t the best in terms of planning,� he said.

A planning-department job, he said, was a chance to

“build communities.�

A job heading up Terrace’s development and engineering department led to the same position in Kamloops.

Then, in May 2012, the spot as the city’s top staff member.

Since becoming CAO, changes at city hall have kept Trawin busy with his focus on process.

When hiring new public works director Tracy Kyle, Trawin said he was looking for someone less “project-oriented� than former director David Duckworth (who made a job switch of his own last year, to director of community and corporate services), who could focus on working with staff to make the operation more efficient.

A department shuffle took city finance director Sally Edwards off the IT beat, giving her more time to focus on the city’s budgeting and buying process.

That particular focus on process paid off.

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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Hugh Allan Drive behind Costco, between Versataille and Copperhead drives, will remain closed until at least tonight after a weekend rockslide closed the newer stretch of pavement. Nobody in the yellow Saturn was injured in the slide. Turn to page A2 for full story and go online to kamloopsthisweek.com for video and more photos. Christopher Foulds/KTW

Kamloops-North Thompson MLA and Environment Minister Terry Lake says Premier Christy Clark is the right person to lead the B.C. Liberal Party into the May 14 election, despite calls for her resignation over a leaked strategy to court ethnic voters.

The memo, released on Feb. 27 by the B.C. NDP, lists a number of steps to “re-engage with ethnic voters,� from recruiting “validators� who can call nonEnglish radio programs to respond to attacks on the party to identifying “historical failures of the NDP government on multicultural issues.�

Another section of the 17-page document advises the government to use apologies for historical wrongs as “quick wins� to connect with ethnic groups.

The memo also suggests the party use government resources for the project.

The plan has sparked anger in the Lower Mainland, particularly in Surrey, where a group of Liberal party members has called for Clark’s resignation.

But, Lake said, that’s not going to happen. “I don’t think it’s something that we would consider and it’s something cabinet certainly

TERRY LAKE: Kamloops-North Thompson B.C. Liberal MLA and environment minister is standing behind Premier Christy Clark.

doesn’t want to see happen,� he said. “If people are looking for perfection, we could have any number of people lead this party, but no one is perfect. And what I’ve told people is no one cares more about this province, or works harder for this province, than Christy Clark. I think people are very hard on her.�

Cabinet ministers are “100 per cent supportive,� after meeting with Clark on Sunday, March 2, Lake said. “I believe we’ll come out of today [Monday] to the budget vote tomorrow [Tuesday] as one,� Lake said. “I really believe they feel the same way I do, that we want to work hard and do the best for British Columbians.�

Lake said the language in the memo isn’t a reflection of the Liberal government. “Obviously, this is not right, when you have

things like the type of language we saw about apologies being ‘quick wins,’� he said. “That’s ridiculous, and we know that apologies like we did to the Japanese interment situation, and the same with the Chinese head tax, should be authentic and meaningful.�

Todd Stone, the B.C. Liberal candidate to replace outgoing MLA Kevin Krueger in Kamloops-South Thompson, is also concerned by the memo.

But, he refused to say whether Clark should resign if an investigation being conducted by deputy minister John Dyble finds taxpayer funds were misused. “I think we need to get the details, get the facts and the premier will take appropriate action at that point,� he said.

Stone said his own campaign team works closely with Kamloops’ ethnic groups and he doesn’t think those relationships will be strained by the memo. “I certainly don’t believe it in any way means the efforts, the very sincere and honest efforts of our campaign team and the many folks from different multicultural communities in Kamloops who are supporting my campaign, I don’t believe it calls into question or colours the motives of anyone locally,� he said.

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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

The blue moon of Tuesday, Aug. 20, dominated the Kamloops night sky, appearing close enough for us to reach out and carve a piece off. A blue moon is an extra full moon in a season or a second full moon in a month. Allen Douglas/KTW

Houston curler Bill Sullivan watches his rock in the fina end of the match on Wednesday, Aug. 21, at McArthur Island Sports and Event Centre. Dave Eagles/KTW

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of 2,300 employes, almost all women. The case dragged on for 28 years, finally being resolved by the Supreme Court of Canada tw years ago.

Mitchell said his union understands the volume of first-class mail has decreased through the years as alternate ways of communicating have arisen online. “But, there were other opportunities to expand as a company,� he said.

One way would be to follow a model used in other countries that provides banking services in post offices for a nominal fee, something Mitchell said would appeal to people who now use cheque-cashing companies that charge large fees. “Now we see what the Conservatives’ real agenda is,� he said, noting the announcement came one day after Parliament ended its current sitting for Christmas. “Only the Canadian government is determined to destroy its post office.�

McLeod said the plan Canada Post has put into place will see the job losses happen through attrition, with an estimated 15,000 workers leaving the company or retiring. “They just won’t be replaced,� McLeod said The first communities that will be required to switch to community mailboxes will be announced late in 2014.

Your reaction: ‘Are you kidding me?’

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KTW reporter Andrea Klassen asked Kamloopsians using the Dalhousie Drive Canada Post office what they thought of the Crown corporation’s anouncement:

RON NEWMAN “Bad idea. It’s a service. That’s what we pay the government money for — to keep it going.�

EFFAT FARIDI “I think it’s awful. They’re cutting services right and left and I don’t know where the money is going.�

SEAN MITCHELL “Prices are going up and they’re cutting staff. It doesn’t make any sense to me . . . it seems like the government is picking the easy targets.�

RACHEL CORNWELL “If they really need the money that badly, it has to come from us, from the people.�

MAUREEN LANDALS “Are you kidding me?�

JUDY COLLINGE “It has to happen. They can’t be running a deficit all the time. We’ve been in a community-box situation for 35 years. It’s fine.�

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Watch your watering habits Yes, it snowed in the upper reaches of Kamloops yesterday (April 29).

And, yes, it has been cold enough to don tuques while venturing outside and battling hurricanelike winds.

Nevertheless, the calendar is the calendar and, believe it or not, tomorrow (May 1) is the start of watering restrictions in the city.

From May 1 to Aug. 31, homes with even-number addresses may water lawns and gardens on even-

THIS WEEK president Henry Pejril said the goal is to raise about $350,000 a year through the program.

The new Tournament Capital Club Partnership Program is similar to the city’s existing deal with Interior Savings Credit Union, which pays for the right to have its name on Interior Savings Centre, formerly known as Sport Mart Place and Riverside Coliseum.

That 10-year agreement brings in $120,000 for the city each year and is good until 2015.

But, unlike the ISC deal, money raised via the Tournament Capital Club Partnership Program won’t go to

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Terry Lake and wife, Lisa, celebrate his re-election during the B.C. Liberal celebration at Hotel 540 on Tuesday night (May 14). Turn to pages A2, A3, A5, A6 and A7 for more post-election coverage. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com to view videos and photos from election night.

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Had history played out differtly, it’s possible Mayor Peter lobar and 15 others would be arding a plane today headed for e District of Lusaka, Zambia, her than to the Land of the sing Sun. In 1989, the same year the City Kamloops began exploring ister-city agreement with the panese city of Uji, the council the day voted to formalize its ent to twin with Lusaka, home the African nation’s capital city d today home to more than 1.7 llion people.

Or, perhaps the plane would day be bound for Mount Ira, mining community in north-

east Australia that sent sisterly Christmas cards to Kamloops in the 1980s.

Uji wasn’t even the only Japanese city in the running to become Kamloops’ international twin. The 1989 council — apparently intent on amassing as many siblings as possible — also looked at a relationship with Himeji, Japan, which lies about two hours to the west of Uji by rail.

But, for the past 23 years, it has been Uji that has captured the attention and airfare of Kamloops’ mayors, councillors, athletes, artists, students and regular everyday citizens.

(A more recent twinning agreement with Changping, China, hasn’t racked up nearly as many frequent flyer miles.)

PAN-PACIFIC STATS 16: Number of people on 2013 trip.

4: Number of people on taxpayer tab.

6,400: Estimated taxpayer-funded travel cost, in dollars, for four city representatives.

23: Age of sister-city relationship.

40,000: Estimated cost, in dollars, of sister-city relationship to Kamloops taxpayers this year.

225,000: Estimated cost, in dollars, of sister-city relationship to Kamloops taxpayers since 2000.

Kamloops representatives are supposed to visit Japan every other year, hosting delegations from Uji in between trips. But, the Kamloops delegation opted to cancel its trip in 2011 after an

earthquake and tsunami devastated large swathes of Japan.

This month’s visit will be the first in four years.

The 2013 delegation has 16 people, including Milobar, councillors Marg Spina and Donovan Cavers, and one city staff person.

The quartet’s travel expenses, which Milobar estimates at about $1,600 each, are covered by the city, though it’s customary for the host city to cover hotel costs.

The remaining 12 members of the delegation are paying their own way.

Adding in costs of hosting the yearly delegation of Uji schoolchildren this summer, along with other sister-city program expenses, City of Kamloops assistant finance director Doug Stewart said taxpay-

ers will fund up to $40,000 as a result of its sibling relationship this year.

All told, the city will have spent more than $225,000 on the program since 2000.

What it gets in return is not quite so easy to quantify.

Over the years, the two cities have exchanged some lump sums of financial aid.

When the Kamloops Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre was damaged by fire in 2008, Uji sent $15,000.

After the 2011 earthquake, Kamloops sent $10,000 in lieu of a delegation.

However, the hopes of some of the program’s early architects have yet to be realized.

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ing when the vote was made, Milobar said the council remuneration task force had originally hoped to bring forward its recommendations earlier, but scheduling conflicts of its own delayed the report.

That pushed the decision to Oct. 22, when Milobar and Coun. Pat Wallace, who is on vacation, were both scheduled to be away.

Coun. Marg Spina also missed the meeting due to a

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Mayor unsure if he will bring issue back Mayor Peter Milobar says the timing of a vote on council remuneration that will give the next mayor and council a major raise is “unfortunate.�

However, Milobar is not sure whether the presence of three councillors who had spoken against the idea in the past would have made much difference in the long run.

Speaking with KTW from Nanaimo, where he was attending a BC Transit board meet-

NANCY BEPPLE “As a council, we need to decide whether we wa to make a change or no. Either we stay where we are or we change the remuneration for futur councils. We can debate about a dollar or two, b I don’t think that serves the public good at all.�

“I think in terms of people running for council and the position itself, taking me out of it as a individual, just looking at the role of a councill of the City of Kamloops, I’m pretty happy with the recommendation.�

death in the family. “There was nothing council had to do with the scheduling of the report coming forward,�

Milobar said. “That’s purely administrative.

We knew there would be a couple of us away. We didn’t think there would be three. “But, it’s not that there were any people on council trying to pull a fast one or anything like that.�

NELLY DEVER “When you look at the numbers, 60 per cent o the respondents [to a community survey] were favour of the recommendation that was put for today. And that’s a strong position.�

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Interior Savings Credit Union pays the City of Kamloops $120,000 a year for the privilege of having its name grace the city’s marquee arena. A new naming-rights program is expected to raise another $350,000 in annual revenue — money that will go to societies hosting sporting events in Kamloops. KTW file photo

city operations.

Instead, it will be held in trust for the Kamloops Sports Council, which will use it to support societies hosting major sporting

events in the city.

For an event such as this summer’s BC Seniors Games, host societies usually have to raise about $150,000 as part of their host-

ing commitment, Pejril said.

The bigger the event, the larger the amount.

When the Western Canada Summer Games came to town in 2011, Pejril helped raise $1.3 million after the city and province chipped in about $3 million combined.

Pejril said having money ready to go will

give the city a leg up on the competition when it comes to attracting events to Kamloops. “It’s a huge advantage at the bidding stage because we’ll already have dedicated funds,� he said. “We’ve already demonstrated community support for the event. “The nice thing about this is we’re not tapping into anything traditional for fundraising, so none of the sports organizations have to worry we’re going after their support.�

Bryce Herman, who is tasked with selling the naming rights, said he has already had preliminary discussions about a few of the fields

and expects the first naming rights will be sold within 30 days.

Each sale must get a final nod of approval from the Kamloops Sports Council and Herman said he’ll be sensitive to names that might make some in the community uncomfortable — from alcohol or tobacco-related companies, for instance. “We’re not going to sell our soul to the devil,� he said.

Herman said the plan is to focus on locally based businesses, but should a national company want to put its name on the waterslide at the Canada Games Pool, it would be considered.

THE ARTIST AT WORK Quilla Decker concentrates as she uses a sharp tool to etch out her drawing during the weekend’s Family Art Saturday at the Kamloops Art Gallery. The event included printmaking activities in gallery studios and a brief tour of exhibitions. Also taking part was Kamloops-based artist Donald Lawrence and his handmade camera obscura. To view many more photos from Family Art Saturday, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the “Community� tab.

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Slow than projected growth, reduced returns from investments and lower property assessments for some of the city’s major ratepayers will leave the city with about $1 million in revenue to make up as it prepares the 2014 budget.

At a public-input session in the McArthur Island Sports Lounge on Monday, Nov. 4, Kamloops’ finance director Sally Edwards said the city is facing a few extra challenges this coming year.

While the budget would typically include about $1.2-million in new taxation from growth, Edwards said it’s looking like it will only account for around $900,000.

The city’s investments are down about $400,000 and transit

revenues were also lower than projected for 2013.

Edwards said the closure of the A line at the Domtar pulp mill will also mean a lower assessment for the pulp mill — and fewer tax dollars flowing into city hall.

It’s not the only property in the city asking to have its assessment lowered this year.

Edwards said $1 million is a challenge to make up, but noted there may be cuts to city expenses that can offset the revenue losses without service cuts. “We’re just making everybody aware that these are the challenges going into ’14,� she said.

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Their water-park plan did not make city council’s to-do list in 2013, but a group of Westsyde

residents think they have found a new way to get the project off the ground.

Robert Kelly of the Westsyde Community Development Society was at the city’s second 2014 budget-consultation meeting to pitch a new plan and price tag for the water park his group wants to build in Westsyde Centennial Park. “It’s the most talked about thing,� Kelly said. “There are a lot of young families in Westsyde.�

When council last looked at the plan while considering items for the 2013 supplemental budget, the water park was expected to cost about $600,000, which the city would spread over two years.

Councillors opted to not fund the project, but did agree to set aside $20,000 per year for the work.

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Since then, Kelly said, the society has managed to get the price of the park down to $347,000.

To sweeten the pot, the society is offering to complete the first phase of the project — a heated washroom and changing area — in the spring of 2014. “We have a contractor lined up, our own contractor who’s willing to work with us, and we think we can get some economies of scale,� Kelly said.

He said the project would cost about $100,000.

The society has $25,000 in the bank and would also ask the city to cover some costs for supplies.

It is also expecting some materials needed for the project to come via donations.

While the project would still cost the city money, Kelly said it will be less than if the city tried to build the water park itself.

“The city has to go through a rigorous tendering process and that involves necessarily unions and rules and regulations and policies,� he said. “If we do it ourselves, we don’t necessarily have to follow all those requirements.�

Once phase one is complete, Kelly said the society might encourage donors to chip in to help finish the water park.

The building will also be open to Westsyders using the park’s ic rink in the winter.

Kamloops city council will consider public comments from the two public-input meetings (the first was held on Oct. 29 at Interior Savings Centre) on Nov. 26.

A third public-input meeting will be held at ISC on Feb. 25, 2014, with city council scheduled to set the 2014 tax rate on April 8, 2014.

MORE REMEMBRANCE DAY INSIDE Turn to Page B1 to find out all about Thomas Bowen Jones who, earlier this year, became the only Kamloops veteran to be awarded the Arctic Star — a British military honour.

Scott Casey was one of 750 Canadian UN peacekeepers in Sarajevo in 1992 More than 20 years later, his story is ďŹ nally being told

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“The place was literally a bloody mess. They were butchering their own citizens by the thousands.�

It was the early stages of the Bosnian War — a battle that would continue for four years and eventually see nearly 100,000 people killed.

Today, Casey lives in Westsyde with his family. In 1992, he was a Canadian soldier stationed in Germany.

When the call for UN peacekeepers came, his November Company shipped out. “We were there within hours, as opposed to trying to get them out of Canada,� he said. “There was no peace there

to keep. Everybody was shooting at everybody and everybody was shooting at us. “We were just targets in big, white vehicles.�

The rule for UN peacekeepers, Casey said, is that they can only fire their weapons if they are being fired upon. “It’s called chapter-six peacekeeping,� he said. “But, because of the severity of the fire we were under, we created chapter six-and-ahalf.�

Casey said the peacekeepers were not disobeying orders or breaking any laws — just adapting to their situation.

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SHOOTING STARS: Friends Jenny Kinenhanao and Jacqueline Schram hang on for dear life as they spin their way into the weekend during a visit to the Shooting Star Amusements carnival, which made its annual visit to Sahali Centre Mall. To view more photos from the fun-filled event, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the “Community� link. Allan Douglas/KTW

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councillor to vote against the higher compensation, had argued councillors should take the $10,000 raise at the beginning of the next term, rather than a stepped option.

That left Christian as a lone voice of dissent — and the subject of Cavers’ ire.

Christian, when played a recording of Cavers’ comments, wouldn’t comment on “personal financial circumstances.�

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Mayor Peter Milobar now makes $74,000 a year.

It was a smaller-than-average city council that approved the pay raise.

Councillors Pat Wallace and Marg Spina and Milobar — three council members who had all expressed reservations about hiking pay — were absent from the meeting.

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Councillors now make about $25,000 a year.

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Soon, 10 fields, ice rinks and other sports facilities around Kamloops may be getting new titles.

In partnership with the Kamloops Sports Council, the city will start selling naming rights to the Hillside Stadium field and ice rinks in Valleyview, Brocklehurst and downtown, to name a few.

Higher-traffic sites, like Hillside, will go for about $75,000 over a three-year term.

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always ensure its virus and malware software is constantly updated.

For those who also use servers, they should also have the latest in security and protection updates and all files should be backed up on a daily basis.

Backing up files is essential not just in case of hacking or malware, but for the other unexpected problems — theft, fire, a power surge that cooks the server and many other situations that could compromise the system and make record retrieval impossible.

For home-computer users, Learned advised they not click on any link they are unsure about or have not encountered before. “For example, you’re browsing and you see a link for a 2,500-square-foot home on the Shuswap with 200 feet of sandy beach all for $250,000 and just click here for the details,� Learned said. “You’ve got to use a little common sense. If you don’t know the site, don’t do it. It’s really user beware.�

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‘Ransomware’ more common Kamloops RCMP doesn’t see many cases like the extortion attempt via computer Todd Reutlinger experienced, said Staff Sgt. Grant Learned.

They happen, but the most common is what he called “ransomware,� when someone clicks on a link, the screen freezes and another one pops up, advising the computer user they have accessed an unsafe site. “They tell you to click on the link below and they can assist you, playing that they are a virusscan company. “Eventually, they’ll ask you for your creditcard number,� Learned said. “All that really has happened is you’ve accessed a pop-up that causes your screen to freeze. You just need to unplug it, reboot and it’s fine. Or, if you’re worried, take it to a computer shop to be sure there was no malware downloaded.�

Learned said anyone using a computer should

number days; homes with oddnumber addresses may water lawns and gardens on odd-number days.

Manual sprinklers are allowed between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. to midnight, while automatic (timed) sprinklers are permitted between 6 p.m. and 11 a.m. the following day.

There are no warnings for those violating the bylaw.

Offenders will be fined $100 for the first offence and $200 for the second and subsequent violations.

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last business day before the saga began. “But, I was paralyzed completely for a week,� Reutlinger said, noting he had to buy a new server.

Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the access likely happened when someone using the business’s computers clicked on a link that downloaded malware — malicious software — that infected the server contents with the encryption software.

The perpetrators would be alerted they had taken control and then use the information to identify the company and make the contact for money to release the files. “This is an extortion against the business,� Learned said, noting payment should never be made.

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Levi Lawlor from Quesnel had a wild ride on a bull named Top Shelf at the North Thompson High School Rodeo, which was held on the weekend at Whispering Pines north of Westsyde. The next regional high school rodeo will take place from May 10 to May 12 at the Nicola Valley Pro Rodeo Grounds in Merritt. The province’s best will meet in Quesnel from June 6 to June 9 for e B.C. High School Rodeo Championships.

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Besides police concerns, city staff also worry children who use the washrooms on their own could get locked inside.

Putnam said it would cost about $40,000 to install the two family washrooms in the park with locking doors.

Other options would likely be more expensive, he said, noting most nearby communities are using portable toilets to deal with the issue.

Spina and Coun. Ken Christian, who also sits on the task force, said the washroom project needs to go ahead and urged staff to keep looking for a design.

They also suggested the family washrooms be locked up at sunset. “You’re looking at just basic human dignity,� Spina said.

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Capital Centre is already giving the city some trouble, he said.

While that bathroom originally had a gap at the top and bottom of its door, Putnam said, “we had people in there with cameras taking pictures� through the gaps.

Coun. Marg Spina said the washrooms will make it easier for the elderly or persons with disabilities who have an opposite-gender caretaker or spouse and need assistance going to the bathroom.

However, RCMP Insp. Jenny Latham said the city’s 285 registered sex offenders will also like the privacy of the new washroom. “They have been an issue in the park,� she said, “and they were an issue at RibFest, and they will be an issue with the bathrooms.�

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Encryption software is used to scramble data to make it impossible to read by anyone but the recipient. In this case, it meant only the hackers could access all of the company’s documents on the server. “Tuesday morning, I was sick to my stomach,� Reutlinger said.

Even a backup drive on his server couldn’t be accessed to try to retrieve any of the documents.

The next morning, however, the service people removed the hard drive and put it into a different computer, managing to get in and back up all files to Feb. 8, the

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Kamloops Mounties are concerned that two family washrooms planned for Riverside Park could become hubs for “pedophile types of activity.�

The city wants to install two of the gender-neutral washrooms in the park — one in the main washroom building and another in a kitchen unit to the west — but is having difficulty figuring out how to design the bathrooms.

At the city’s coordinated enforcement task force meeting on Monday, April 29, facilities manager Jeff Putnam said the washroom’s locked door is the main concern.

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It was a Sunday when Todd Reutlinger realized someone had managed to get into his company’s omputer system.

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The next day, he contacted his omputer-service people, who told im not to worry, that it was probbly nothing more than a virus.

Within hours, Reutlinger knew was more than that.

He just didn’t know how much more. “They somehow managed to isarm the anti-virus and shut own the safe mode,� he said. “And then, a screen popped

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president of the union local that represents letter carriers in Kamloops is angry and sad.

Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod said it was a difficult decision, but argued changes needed to be made.

McLeod cited a Conference Board of Canada report in April that predicted the postal system would see a $1-billion loss by 2020 if the corporation didn’t make changes to address the impact of online commerce, email and other forms of communication. “She always refers to that report,� Mitchell said. “But, if you look at Canada Post’s annual report, you’ll see it has had a profit of $500 million in the past five years.�

The 2012 annual report — commissioned

by Canada Post — notes a before-tax profit of $127 million for that year, compared to a $226 million loss in 2011. Mitchell said that figure is the result of a $150-million settlement the corporation was required to make on a lawsuit filed in the 1970s.

Canada Post’s annual report notes the $127 million profit would have been a $25-million loss had reductions in sick leave and post-retirement health benefits not been agreed to in the latest collection agreement with its union.

The pay-equity suit was filed by the Public Service Alliance of Canada in 1983 on behalf

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Canada Post will discontinue door-to-door delivery of mail in urban areas and raise the cost of stamps to $1 when purchased on an individual basis.

Stamps bought in a pack, however, will increase to 85 cents each.

The announcement from the federal Crown corporation on Wednesday, Dec. 11, comes on the heels of fewer pieces of mail being delivered, according to Canada Post’s 2012 annual report, which can be read online at kamloopsthisweek.com.

Door-to-door delivery in urban areas will be phased out in the next five years, with up to 8,000 positions being eliminated.

Five-million Canadians who get mail delivered to their door will have community mailboxes added to the neighbourhoods, while 750,000 Canadians who live in rural areas will continue to receive door-to-door service.

Bob Mitchell, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Local 758, said the decision will hurt Canadians.

Mitchell told KTW he sees the delivery of mail not as a business product, but as a public service — and it’s just one of the reasons the

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With 25 events showcased in this, the 26th anniversary of the Games, Kamloops residents will have no trouble finding a venue to catch som action.

Every activity, including the closing ceremon at the Tournament Capital Centre on Saturday, A 24, at 1 p.m., is free to attend.

From archery at Charles Anderson Stadium to whist at the North Shore Community Centre, the race is on for the 55-plus set to secure medals.

For a detailed list of sports and acitivites and their schedules, go online to: 2013kamloopsbcseniorsgames.org.

For more on the BC Seniors Games, turn to Sports on page A19 to read a fascinating profile of Kamloops badminton player Kaye Kaminishi the last surving member of the world-famous Vancouver Asahi Japanese-Canadian baseball tea of the pre-Second World War era.

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Attawapiskat, located a two-hour plane ride north of Timmins, Ont., made headlines in October 2011, when a state of emergency was declared due to extreme cold, inadequate housing and the remains of a 2009 sewage spill that had not been cleaned up.

The only elementary school had been closed in 2000.

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Her years as a councillor with Tk’emlups Indian Band taught elyn Camille the rule of politics.

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RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush said olice are hoping anyone who iscovers that kind of video evience calls the detachment rather han uploads it to YouTube and ace criminal charges.

Bush said the crowd gathered vernight on Tuesday, June 18, in n area between Barnhartvale and ampbell Creek known as the Tree lats, celebrating the end of the chool year.

During the party, a 17-year-old irl who became separated from riends was approached by a male een, who sexually assaulted her.

The girl phoned friends to get er and she and her parents conacted police.

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female student suffer a broken pelvis when run down by a vehicle, while another teenage girl was attacked with a liquor bottle, suffering lacerations to her head.

In the past 18 months, a firearm was brandished at a bush party, a wildfire was sparked at another bash and a man died after he was accidentally shot during a stag party and the vehicle racing him to hospital crashed. “You would hope parents would exercise authority,� deBruijn said, acknowledging that, as teens get older, it’s more difficult to convince them to stay home. “But, they’re prey up there.

They’re drinking, they’re vulnerable and they aren’t paying attention.�

He said parents are encouraged to at least talk to their kids.

If parents cannot convince their children to not go to a bush party, deBruijn said, they need to make sure the teens know what they need to do to be safe.

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TEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT BUSH PARTY In the days leading to her fast, former Tk’emlups Indian Band councillor Evelyn Camille said an eagle has perched in the trees above her sweat lodge. Camille began her fast on Wednesday, Jan. 2, in support of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 20 days in hopes of securing a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss First Nations issues. Camille said the eagle — which is sacred to the Tk’emlups people — is a sign she is doing the right thing. Andrea Klassen/KTW

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2013 & 2014 IN KAMLOOPS IN 2013, THERE WAS NO ISSUE THAT DOMINATED DISCUSSION AS DID THE PROPOSED AJAX COPPER AND GOLD MINE, WHICH REMAINS IN THE PLANNING STAGES. WITHOUT A DOUBT, AJAX WAS THE ISSUE OF THIS PAST YEAR AND WILL LIKELY REMAIN AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IN 2014 AND BEYOND. ON THIS PAGE, KTW REPORTER ANDREA KLASSEN SUMMARIZES THE AJAX ISSUE. ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES, WE HAVE ASKED A DIVERSE SELECTION OF KAMLOOPSIANS TO TELL US WHAT THEIR ISSUES OF 2013 WERE AND WHAT THOSE ISSUES MIGHT BE IN 2014— ASIDE FROM THE AJAX ISSUE.

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EVERAL YEARS HAD already passed since an influx of cash from Poland first put the Ajax copper and gold mine on the Kamloops radar but, in 2013, the controversy surrounding the project seemed to come into its own.

The mine, which KGHM Ajax wants to build just south of Aberdeen, was the subject of multiple rallies, open houses, duelling bumper-sticker campaigns and too many letters to the editor to count.

Two new opposition groups — Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment and Kamloops Moms for Clean Air — got their start this year.

And supporters of the mine found their own place at public demonstrations — usually near the back, sometimes atop a Hummer.

The project first made headlines in May

of 2010, when Polish mining firm KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. announced it would invest more than $500 million in a project by Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp to develop a portion of the former Afton mine site, abandoned by Teck in the 1990s.

KGHM would eventually purchase the majority stake in the project from Abacus in 2012, taking over both the permitting processes required to get the mine built and the job of promoting the project locally.

Despite the ownership change, some facts of the Ajax project have stayed mostly the same from the beginning.

According to its proponents, the open-pit operation will process about 60,000 tonnes of rock per day during the mine’s 23 year life span, producing an estimated 109-million pounds of copper and 99,000 ounces of gold

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Controversy has also followed the project from its early days.

Concerns range from potential damage to wildlife and destruc-

tion of grasslands to worries about health effects from dust and pollutants that might be kicked up by the mine operation.

Other concerns include noise, the mine’s effect on slope stability in the Aberdeen area and an ongoing debate about whether Ajax jibes with the city’s Tournament

Capital image.

The process the mine must go through to earn government approval has its share of detractors as well.

The federal government has several different processes it can use to make KGHM prove its mine won’t have detrimental effects on the environment, or on the health of those living nearby.

Some argue the comprehensive review being used for Ajax isn’t good enough.

They want to see a panel review, which would involve public hearings that aren’t required under the current model.

While both KGHM and independent organizations have held plenty of public meetings on the mine, many questions about the project remain unanswered.

Scientists brought in by the company for town-hall meetings in September said they were still assessing current conditions at the

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mine site and hadn’t moved on to studying how an open-pit mine will affect the area.

The company has already pushed back, more than once, the date at which it will file an application for environmental review with the provincial and federal governments.

The most recent delay came in August, when KGHM announced it had discovered more ore bodies at the mine site.

That could lead to a new design for the mine site, including a larger pit, and will delay a review filing until at least 2014.

Once an application for review is submitted, the government will have 30 days to decide whether the application is complete and another 180 to study the document in detail.

After that, ministers for the federal and provincial governments have 45 days to make a final decision.

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Food bank reno tops Legace’s list

Issues 2013 & 2014 Rick Turner is co-chair of the Kamloops Health Coalition and the BC Health Coalition, the latter of which will be involved in a constitutional challenge in court concerning Canada’s health-care system.

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A renovation at the Kamloops Food Bank tops the list of big issues and news stories this year for the managing director at the Kamloops Airport.

“I think they’ve got the facility now where

they can do a really good job,” Fred Legace said.

An act of arson in the summer of 2012 gutted the food bank’s existing storage area and destroyed much of the supply of food the organization was relying on at the time.

Legace, who sits on the food bank’s board, said the rebuilt facility will benefit not just Kamloops, but hungry people throughout the region.

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At the airport, the arrival of WestJet Encore services in Kamloops was the big story of the year, Legace said.

Encore uses smaller planes than traditional WestJet service, allowing the airport to offer more flight times per day without needing to drastically increase the number of passengers.

“It certainly opened up the schedule and allowed more people more choice for their travel plans.”

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Health-care fight at issue Rick Turner is cochair of the Kamloops Health Coalition and the BC Health Coalition.

Turner looks at the biggest health-care issues of 2013 and 2014: “Provincially, we, along with many others, were successful in pressuring government to provide a seniors’ advocate for B.C. “However, while the response in community after community was to have an independent advocate, the government chose to have a seniors’ advocate attached to the Ministry of Health rather than an independent position reporting to the legislature.

“Unfortunately, a year-and-a-half after the release of a fully investigated, thorough and damning report on the state of seniors’ care in B.C., government has taken any kind of action on only about one-third of the 176 recommendations in the Ombudsperson’s Report on Seniors Care and only six per cent have been implemented.

“Two-thirds of the 176 recommendations

have been ignored.

“Also, government has failed to announce any plan or timelines for implementing these recommendations.

“In the coming year, the BC Health Coalition will be at the centre of what is being called the most significant constitutional challenge in Canadian history.

“The attack is driven by Dr. Brian Day, owner of a Vancouver for-profit surgical clinic, Cambie Surgery Centre, charged with unlaw-

fully billing the taxpayer-funded Medical Services Plan and individual patients.

“We believe Day is on a self-serving campaign to replace Canada’s Medicare with a U.S.-style forprofit system — and he’s using the courts to do it.

“The BC Health Coalition and Canadian Doctors for Medicare are interveners in this case.

“This means we are participating directly in the case and we’ll be standing up for Medicare in court.

“The case is expected to go to trial in the fall of 2014.

“This fight will be won not only in a court of law, but also in the court of public opinion.

“We need to make sure Day is defeated by letting government know that taking away the public health-care system is wrong.

“It’s going to be a big challenge, but we know that, along with thousands of others in B.C., we can protect public health care to ensure it’s there for generations to come.”

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Issues 2013 & 2014 NSBIA executive director Steven Puhallo. KTW file photo

Provincial election and Kinder Morgan top Puhallo’s issues list Steven Puhallo, general manager of the North Shore Business Improvement Association, chose the 2013 provincial election as one of the year’s top stories, in part because the B.C. Liberals’ defeat of the B.C. NDP took pollsters, media predictors and a good slice of the public by surprise.

That Kamloops picked up two cabinet ministers in the process when it re-elected Terry Lake and voted in Todd Stone doesn’t hurt.

“Having ministers in health and transportation, that’s over half the provincial budget,” Puhallo said, “and that’s good placement for Kamloops politically.”

Puhallo also singled out a recent news story as one which may turn out to have long-term repercussions

for the city: The filing of a facilities application by Kinder Morgan in order to twin its Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

The company submitted its papers with the National Energy Board on Dec. 16. Though it will be more than a year before a decision is made, Puhallo said the possible benefits of the $5.4-billion project are massive.

“You’re looking at thousands of workers, contract and local,” he said.

“That means retail, that means entertainment, that means accommodation. That means a case of beer or a new pair of socks.”

On the North Shore, Puhallo said infrastructure issues dominated this year, from the Tranquille Road lighting upgrade to a push to see the airport corridor beautified.

For Wallace, infrastructure the issue Pat Wallace, Kamloops’ longestserving city councillor said infrastructure concerns were the issue she was approached about most in 2013.

“One of the questions I was asked frequently was, ‘Are

ture theme, Wallace said they going to be able this year’s lightto widen our ing upgrade on roads on the Tranquille Road North Shore?’

— though plagued and ‘When are by construction we going to get delays over the sidewalks?’”

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Need for equal society has never been more apparent Kamloops lawyer and former judge Bill Sundhu sees the issue facing Kamloops, aside from the proposed Ajax mine, as being how we plan for the future: “The biggest issue is an evolving one: What kind of city and community are we going to be?

“The emergence and visibility of commercial and retail hubs in different areas of the city was distinctly noticeable in 2013 — such as Dallas, especially the North Shore and future plans for mixed development at Thompson Rivers University — through the hard work and vision of business, civic and citizen groups.

“Much effort has gone into shifting Kamloops from a resource-dependent community to one with a more diversified economy over the past 25 years.

“It is a large, spread-out city and still heavily automobile-dependent.

“These hubs and a move toward densification will improve accessibility and attractiveness and increase the diversity of areas within the city.

“However, the holiday season brought home more visibly the plight of many in our midst, across our city, who are struggling to make ends meet.

“Child poverty and hunger is real in our city.

“Food-bank usage has become permanent.

“More working and middle-class families are struggling. Growing inequality — an unravelling — is an emerging issue for our city, as it is across the continent.

“It is the same issue for 2014: How can we find positive solutions and move toward a happier, fairer future?

“Our region, province and country remain overly dependent on resource extraction for wealth, decades after recognizing our vulnerability to a too-many-eggs-in-one-basket economy.

Profound economic shifts and the great recession — with cutbacks and a lack of good-paying jobs — has resulted in a growing inequality. Too many people live in insecurity. This creates negative pressures and it is dividing our communities.

“It will take responsible leadership, respectful dialogue (not ‘us versus them’) and unity of purpose to look into the future and make proper decisions.

“Creating the new jobs of the future economy and leaving a positive future and healthy environment for our children is the challenge of this generation. It will require wise investments and hard choices.

“Inequality is bad for our economy and our environment. Societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them — including the well-off.

“Almost everything — from life expectancy to mental illness, from unsafe communities to children’s educational performance — is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is.

“More equal societies are healthier and more successful.

“The choices we make, how we live, our economic system and governance policies will determine what kind of city, country and people we will be.

“These are issues for 2014, including right here in Kamloops.”

Rev. Bruce Comrie said the biggest issue facing Kamloops, aside from the proposed Ajax mine, is the question of whether Kamloops will continue to be the Tournament Capital of Canada.

“I am proud that our city hosts events like the BC Seniors Games and the Tim Hortons Brier,” said Comrie of Kamloops United Church.

“These amazing events are built on great volunteers, promote a healthy lifestyle and support our community in a sustainable manner.

“Or will we choose a different route that is full of unknowns? It’s a crucial choice. Will we continue to be the Tournament Capital of Canada or not? It’s the biggest issue for 2014 and will be for years to come.”

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ERE ARE A FEW things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t.

• An orderly schedule of legislature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall.

I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our yearend interview and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been optional since old Gordon what’shis-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a decade ago.

Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to discuss legislation.

They need to all right, but what governments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three chambers running simultaneously and opposition members trying to prepare as they run down the hallways.

It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cynicism about the whole business, but it gets things done with minimum exposure of the government to criticism.

Stephen Harper would approve.

• A political debate about real issues, rather than just a competition to score points in an endless election campaign.

I appreciate this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to consider issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happening occasionally.

TOM FLETCHER Our Man In

VICTORIA Certainly the hastily staged mock combat of our legislature today isn’t winning new friends for any political party. The main growth area today is people who have given up on the whole thing.

• An opposition with ideas.

The B.C. NDP will have another leadership contest in 2014 and it had better bring more modern policy to the table than it had in the last one.

Remember the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up.

Health care? Local organic carrots into the hospital food. Forest industry? A job-protection commissar to force the mills to stay open.

Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it.

These guys need a Tony Blairtype makeover. They need to be for something and they need to leave the past behind.

• Media that care about more than conflict.

News organizations are in bad shape these days and the competition for a rapidly fragmenting audience is having some ugly effects.

One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing.

If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide?

The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest walking to the corner is good exercise?

When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal!

How many people know Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion as it continues to pay a dwindling workforce to hand out mostly advertising flyers?

Should it just keep doing that until it runs out of cash? Are taxpayers really expected to maintain another two-tier service that’s only available to selected urban people?

• Facts to go with opinions.

Whether it’s the government’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposition’s arithmetic-challenged child-poverty claims, serious problems can’t be understood, much less solved, without defining them accurately. Submitting government advertising to scrutiny by the auditor-general to make sure it is accurate and non-partisan would be a good place to start.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

After a season of over-indulging, many Canadians will wake up on Jan. 1 and say this is the year they get heart-healthy.

That wake-up call to become more active and eat better can’t come a moment too soon, according to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).

The CMA’s latest report on the nation’s heart health says we’re not doing very well — in fact, we’re almost on life support.

Across the nation, fewer than 10 per cent of Canadian adults meet the criteria for “ideal” cardiovascular health, which means most still don’t get enough exercise (at least 30 minutes of walking per day) and most don’t eat properly (consuming five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day).

People are getting heavier — and we see this everywhere, and in our own waistlines, which seem to expand with each passing year.

But, adults aren’t alone in risky health behaviours. According to the study, only about 20 per cent of kids between 12 and 19 years of age are making lifestyle choices to keep them healthy — including being active for an hour or more a day.

Where is all this heading?

The bad news is unless people’s habits change, there will be more incidences of diabetes, hypertension, cancer, heart attacks and stroke. If you think our hospitals are crowded now, imagine what the wards will be like a few years from now.

The sad part is that many baby boomers are planning for long lives.

Unless they make changes now, however, they will be sick or disabled for 10 of those years, according to a Heart and Stroke Foundation report released this year.

Ironically, most boomers think they are healthy but, in fact, many are stressed, sedentary, eat poorly and drink too much alcohol.

Could this be the year Canadians change those statistics and turn this unhealthy ship around?

Pass the veggies while we think about it.

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Re: Story: Supreme Court decision on prostitution: Brothels to be zoned?: “If the city already gives licences to these escort/prostitution services, why are they permitted to operate in places in close proximity to children?

“In Apple Valley, there is one located with children on either side of her and families throughout.

“It is a dangerous risk to the community.”

— posted by David Perry

Re: Story: Enbridge pipeline gets nod from NEB — with 209 conditions: “As long as the B.C. coastal protections from the Coast Guard and alike are dismantled by the Conservative Harper government, they will never gain the social licence to build this pipeline to the coast.

“The truth about Harper’s destruction of coastal protections can be found online at canadawestcoastreality. blogspot.ca.”

— posted by P. Wosnum

Caution needed on city beautification projects Editor: About a decade ago, during the time when Mel Rothenburger was mayor, Tranquille Road, from the overpass across Fortune Drive to the intersection of Tranquille, Fortune and Eighth Street, received a major beautification upgrade.

What happened to all of that?

Not much, it appears, since that section of Tranquille Road got another major overhaul recently.

Further, during the time Rothenburger was mayor, the south side of

the East Trans-Canada Highway, from somewhere near Tanager Road or Highland Road to Vicars Road, also received a hefty sum for beautification purposes.

One can easily argue that little, if any, beautification was achieved.

Now council is all bubbly about spending more taxpayers’ money in the noble but misguided goal of beautifying Tranquille Road as it nears Kamloops Airport.

I urge council to reconsider spending any money in futile projects.

Here is why.

Much ugliness stems from lack of vision.

This is the case of private-property owners working together with, and under strict supervision from the city, to achieve a cohesive whole that combines aesthetics and functionality.

There are guidelines now, but they are too bland and scattered.

The city must develop a long-term strategy and develop procedures all the way from conceptual work to maintenance.

One set of procedures needs to deal with

property owners who have no desire to comply with beautification guidelines.

Another much-needed set of procedures needs to deal with the construction of a project.

For example, there are plenty of locations in Kamloops where expensive trees were planted on public property under questionable guidelines and nonexistent supervision.

That resulted in many of said trees to have entered senescence without ever going through a

growing phase.

Most importantly, maintenance must be elevated from the sidelines to a role of utmost importance.

I challenge anyone to show me what has been achieved with the money spent on previous Tranquille Road upgrades and on the East Trans-Canada Highway corridor.

Perhaps picking up garbage on a more regular schedule could achieve much beautification without spending a bundle.

Pierre Filisetti Kamloops

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Our youth have many paths from which to choose

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Editor: I want to thank Kamloops This Week for publishing trustee Annette Glover’s column on the Kamloops-Thompson school district’s focus on trades training.

I am the Ace IT (ELTT/CTC) coordinator at Thompson River University’s School of Trades and Technology and can only share the empowering opportunity and growth I see in students from grades 8 to 12 who comes through our doors for tours or program shadows, or who take a foundation program in their grade 12 year.

I am a teacher by trade (and heart) who has a deep passion for inspiring youth to think outside the box when it comes to career, education and life choices.

There is so much more beyond the

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standard, safe, follow-the-herd routine of stereotypical academic education.

College and university schooling has been the norm and a safe route to tell our students to take.

However, offering the route doesn’t make it right just because it has been done for so long or because we took the path.

I believe our youth need to explore, experience and find a path that is unique to them, one that empowers them to be their best.

If it’s in trades, arts, design, computers, education, medicine, working in a coffee shop or law — great.

No matter how “big,” “small,” “high” or “low” society defines a job title, we each have a service and passion to share.

We are all leaders in the role we take

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on and can do great things with the skills we have.

What matters in the end is students find what they love doing and find a way to get there that makes sense to them.

I ask teachers, academic councillors, parents, the educational community and society to think outside the box by being open to the endless possibilities available to our youth.

Help them explore and don’t hinder them because you are not comfortable with change or you feel unsure of what is out there.

Support and inspire our youth for greatness.

We can.

Wendy Blaskovic Kamloops

Welcome to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Kamloops Editor: Welcome to the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Kamloops), where democracy is a thin veil hiding the true socialist agenda demonstrated by city hall.

Never before have so few owed so much to so many, where local government is not building for the good of everyone, but to strengthen its own agenda with singular vision, blazing ahead to its own purpose with little remorse of casualty or cost, trudging, tripping and fumbling with no consequence.

Our city’s motto — “What can you do?” — coined by our

mayor early in his first term, rings so true.

Next year, when it comes time to elect or re-elect, voters need to show us what they can do.

Its time for a break.

Unless resounding proof the status quo can make the majority of the population’s lives better, it’s time for a new, better direction to benefit the majority, rather than the few.

Kim Young Kamloops

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A blooming issue in 2013 Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association general manager Gay Pooler pointed to the city’s Communities in Bloom Award as the issue of 2013.

“We won the International Award for Large Cities.

This is a major accomplishment to be recognized on an international level for being a beautiful, livable and sustainable city,” Pooler said. 2013 & 2014 “I was very happy and proud to be a part of the Communities in Bloom team that helped achieve this and to actually be in attendance with the delegation in Ottawa that accepted the award.

“The CIB Symposium in Ottawa gave us an opportunity to showcase Kamloops on a world stage and to invite them all to attend when we host it in 2015.”

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ETER KEREK, PRESIDENT of the Kamloops and District Labour Council, looked back at the May 16 provincial election as the defining issue of 2013: “With the exception of the Ajax mine proposal, the biggest issue in Kamloops must have been the provincial election.

“With a scandal-ridden Liberal government, would the NDP be able to finally win an election after so many consecutive losses?

“NDP candidates in Kamloops had one obstacle out of the way — there were no Green party candidates running in either Kamloops riding.

“Progressives in the past were quick to blame other progressives for voting Green but, in 2013, the NDP did no better than they did when the Greens were in the fray.

“Not only did they do no better but, a political newcomer named Todd Stone ran for the Liberals and won.

Clearly splitting of votes with the Greens is not the problem — at least not in Kamloops.

“Besides, looking at the philosophical roots of the two parties, the Green approach to a capitalist economy falls more in line with centre-right liberalism (most closely associated with the

federal Liberals) than it does with centrist social democracy (most often associated with the federal NDP).

“So, with the absence of a Green candidate, NDP support likely got split between the centrist NDP and the far-right provincial Liberals (the B.C. Liberals are, ideologically, as far to the right as the federal Conservatives and, in fact, have many of the same election professionals working on their respective campaigns).

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2013 & 2014 Not only did the Liberals win both Kamloops ridings, both successful MLAs became ministers in the reelected government.

“Since it’s pretty rare for a political newcomer to go straight into a minister’s role, there must either be a whole lot of faith in Stone’s abilities or a real absence of qualified, experienced, Liberal MLAs who aren’t also laden with links to old scandals or inappropriate behaviour.

“Having your local MLA in cabinet is generally considered a ‘win’ for your community but, with such

divergent interests in local projects, that isn’t necessarily the case for those opposed to developments closely associated with the Liberal agenda.

“None of the leading candidates were willing to be forthright about their position on the Ajax mine proposal.

“They all chose to let the ‘process’ take its place.

“The NDP candidates were sympathetic to the anti-mine activists, but also needed to appease their party masters, who wanted to appear to be promining and pro-business.

“The Liberal candidates did their best to legitimize the so-called process, while literally embracing the Ajax management team.

“Despite the NDP candidates wishing to appeal to the pro-mine vote, they simply did not appear to be as pro-mining as the provincial Liberals, so they lost ground with that middleground tactic and their failure to take a stand on the issue only diluted the support they might have gathered from anti-mine locals.

“The provincial election and the loss of the sure-to-win provincial NDP team is my pick for the big issue for Kamloops in 2013.”

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Getting a Read on 2013-14 Larry Read is sportsinformation officer at Thompson Rivers University.

Aside from the proposed Ajax mine, Read cited health and education when talking about issues facing Kamloops.

“In 2013, I believe it was health issues surrounding lack of doctors, specialists moving away and the Interior Health Authority’s running of Royal Inland Hospital, as well as construction of the new building out front of the hospital,” Read said.

In 2014, the former CFJC-TV Midday host sees more of the same dominating life in Kamloops.

“More of the Royal Inland Hospital safety, staffing, etc., along with the potential reshifting of schools and how the district will fare with Supt. Terry Sullivan retiring,” Read said.

“He was the main force behind a number of initiatives, including the school of choice.”

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McClelland’s vote?

Provincial election It may not have disrupted the status quo, but the 2013 provincial election is Kamloops Chamber of Commerce executive director Deb McClelland’s pick for the year’s biggest issue.

Kamloops voted B.C. Liberal in both its ridings, returning Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake to Victoria for a second term and sending newcomer Todd Stone to replace Kevin Krueger in Kamloops-South Thompson.

Soon after, both men picked up big portfolios in Premier Christy Clark’s new cabinet — transportation for Stone and health for Lake. “To have two ministers named from Kamloops was huge for the community for sure,� said McClelland. “They’re very big portfolios and their dynamic personalities are just great to have in cabinet. “We’re very lucky to have that kind of representation from Kamloops.�

Kamloops Chamber of Commerce executive director Deb McClelland. KTW file photo

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2013 & 2014

Hospital expansion catches mayor’s eye Mayor Peter Milobar’s pick for the year’s big issue came with a hefty price tag — just under $80 million.

Just before the spring provincial election, the province announced it would fund a new clinicalservices building at Royal Inland Hospital, the first phase of a massive, multi-million expansion of the facility that will eventually include a new surgical tower.

The new building — the project for which is now under construction — will add 350 new parking stalls to the hospital property and provide more programming space for RIH. “In the short term, probably the most visible, tangible thing people will see is the parking improvement,� Milobar said. “But, with the space being added, the jobs that will come with it, the surgical tower and the extra space that will be added there are huge.�

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Impala is Canada’s full-size success story

By Jim Robinson METROLAND MEDIA wheelstalk.com

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ARLIER THIS YEAR, I BRIEFLY drove the 2014 Chevrolet Impala and said at that time I would book one long enough to really test its mettle.

There are several reasons for this, the first being it is built in Oshawa on GM’s “Flex” line which allows for Impalas, the Cadillac XTS and all manner of Camaros to come down the same assembly line.

I wanted to see if the Impala would feel right, in other words soundly built.

I know in this day and age computers rule out error, but when you see all those different cars rolling out (as I did) I just had to find out for myself.

Another reason is quality.

The good members of the CAW are building a car that is a cornerstone of the Chevrolet brand.

Would their efforts be reflected in the final product?

Lastly, in a world of SUVs, CUVs and compact everything, is an unabashedly full-size sedan what people want?

Lets answer the last question first by saying many people desire full seating for five passengers but not a van or SUV. And, if you check the road around you, you’ll see the full-size sedan is still one of the main forms of transportation on the road.

As for the build quality and the people who put it all together, try this simple test.

Take two credit cards and run them along the gap between body panels or doors.

If it flops around or pinches, it’s a bad fit.

If it glides smoothly, it’s a good fit — and Impala passes with ease.

As an example of what Chevrolet builds into the Impala just in terms of noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), you will find acoustic windshield and side glass, triple sealed doors with an acoustic perimeter rain deflector, acoustic baffles between the inner and outer body panels, cavities filled with foam and sound deadener on the cargo floor.

Aiding all this is 12 per cent better aerodynamics through a number of things such as wind tunnel tuned side mirrors and wind blockers in front of the tires.

The four-cylinder models also gets under body panels and a shuttered radiator grille.

There are two engines offered and a six-speed automatic driving the front wheels.

There is no plan for an all-wheel-drive version.

The topline engine is GM’s ubiquitous 3.6-litre V6 with 305 hp and 264 lb/ft of torque.

Also available is a new, 2.5-litre four-cylinder with 196 hp and 186 lb/ft of torque.

Fuel consumption rating for the V6 is 11.1/6.9/9.2L/100 km (25/41/31 mpg) city/highway/combined and 9.9/6.3/8.3L/100 km (29/45/34 mpg) for the 2.5-litre.

Chevrolet will offer the Impala in LS, LT and LTZ trim levels.

The 3.6-litre has a starting price of $32,945 for

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the LT and $39,645 for the LTZ. The 2.5-litre is priced at $28,445 for the LS, $31,445 for the LT and $36,445 for the LTZ. Destination charge on all models is $1,600.

Cargo volume is 532 litres (18.8 cu ft), which is actually larger than the topline Cadillac XTS. With the 3.6-litre and properly equipped, it can tow 454 kg (1,000 lb).

Passenger volume is up over the outgoing model at 2,973 litres (105 cu ft).

The Impala now comes with standard 18-inch wheels but the big story is the brakes.

They use new technology to extend rotor life, in this case to 120,000 km — double the life of rotors on the outgoing model.

Larger 19- and 20-inch wheels are also available.

Safety begins with 10 standard airbags plus optional rear cross traffic alert, front and back collision warning, adaptive cruise control, side blind spot warning, lane departure alert, and OnStar which is still the best navigation/emergency/connectivity system on the market in my estimation.

The reason is live people are there to assist you, it never goes out of date and the turn-by-turn route guidance has never, ever, been wrong when I have used it.

The LTZ tested here comes with MyLink Chevrolet infotainment system.

Centred on an eight-inch screen with natural voice recognition (a first for Chevrolet), icons depict various functions such as phone, audio, weather, satellite radio, map (navigation), settings, OnStar and video.

The latter allows movies to be playing on the screen when the Impala is not moving.

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Basically you can control this by touch, but the idea is to use voice commands wherever possible so both hands on are the wheel and your focus is straight ahead.

I still have problems making it work, such as trying to change channels on the satellite radio.

After poking this and stroking that, I finally did it, but I would not like to be driving and fumbling with a screen out of my line of sight.

There are something like nine different interior trims.

On the LTZ as tested here with the jet black and Mojave beige leather with double stitching, it gives the interior a truly premium look and feel.

GM has some of the best interiors in the business with the LTZ being on par with several Japanese luxury sedans I could mention.

The back seat passenger area is huge and I like the little slot where you can slide in an umbrella.

The test car came with forward-collision alert and Crash Imminent Braking.

It is part of the optional ($1,780) adaptive cruise-control package and uses the cruise radar to gauge if you are closing too fast on a car in front but not braking hard enough or at all.

What it does is apply the brakes and flash a huge, red warning on the centre of the instrument panel.

Because it is radar and not a camera, it works in winter even when the cars in front are throwing back slush.

If you are considering an entry luxury sedan, the 2014 Chevrolet LTZ meets all the criteria and is a very attractively priced alternative.

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Anderson ventures to cite Domtar as the issue of 2013 Jim Anderson is executive director of Venture Kamloops.

His pick for the year’s biggest issue wasn’t a happy moment for many in the city.

In March, Domtar shut down the A line at its Kamloops pulp mill, citing difficulties maintaining competitiveness and costly boilerupgrade requirements.

“From an economic development standpoint, the loss of 125 jobs is always a benchmark event in any year,” Anderson said.

Over the course of the year, Anderson said taxation became a much-discussed issue for his organization.

The city’s heavy-industrial ratepayers, including Domtar, have asked to have their tax rate lowered by about half, a move that would force the city to look elsewhere to make up $3.5 million in lost tax revenue.

Anderson said that request has sparked a lot of chatter about the city’s rates across the various tax classes.

Issues

Domtar’s decision to shut down its A line — putting 125 people out of work — was the issue of 2013, according to Venture Kamloops executive director Jim Anderson.

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Dec. 29 , 1958 - Dec. 25, 2013 On Dec. 25, 2013, Teresa lost her courageous battle with cancer.

She passed away at home, as she wished, under the loving care of her sister Gaudenza and surrounded by her family. She is survived by her loving mother, Costanza, her brothers and sisters: Francis and Anne, Victor and Tena, Gaudenza and Les, Ester and Les and Antonio. She also leaves behind 20 nieces and nephews, who visited their Aunty often, always bringing a smile to her face. Teresa was pre-deceased by her father, Pasquale and her treasured nephew, Kyle.

The most valued thing in Teresa’s life was her family.

She loved them all deeply and unconditionally and that great love was returned ten fold. Everyone appreciated her witty sense of humour, the meals made with her ingredients of love, and the best cup of coffee ever but it was her genuine warmth and acceptance that enveloped and drew us all in.

As in her life, so it was in her death that she leaves us; quietly and simply in her goodbye, with no fanfare ..... just secure in the knowledge that she was loved deeply and unconditionally by us all.

Einstein wrote: “Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.” and Teresa epitomized this quote to the very end.

Our beloved Teresa (Ted) will rest with Kyle at the Hillside Cemetery.

No funeral, by request. In lieu of Áowers, please donate to the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Huge thanks go out to Dr. Susan Vlahos for enabling us to carry out Teresa’s wishes.

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Her Journey’s Just Begun

Lucille was born on February 9, 1922 in Wynyard, SK, and passed away on December 20, 2013 in Kelowna, BC. She is survived by her family, son Ron, daughter Fran Miller both of Kamloops, son Russ (Rita) of Kelowna, seven grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and her sister Iola Zaiser of Kelowna.

Sadly predeceased by her husband Bill in 2001, her sister Verna and son-in-law John.

There will be a family memorial at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Vincent de Paul Society, c/o St. Charles Garnier Parish, 3645 Benvoulin Road, Kelowna, BC, V1W 4M7.

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Don’t think of her as gone away, Her journey’s just begun.

Life holds so many facets, This earth is only one.

Just think of her as resting, From the sorrows and the tears, In a place of warmth and comfort, Where there are no days and years.

Think how she must be wishing, That we could know today, How nothing but our sadness, Can really pass away.

And think of her as living, In the hearts of those she touched, For nothing loved is ever lost; And she was loved so much.

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EFF PUTNAM, THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS’ PARKS AND civic facilities manager, is known for his positive outloook on all things Kamloops, whether he is being interviewed or posting on his Twitter account.

When posed the “Issues” question by Kamloops This Week, Putnam pointed to a variety of companies cited as contributing toward the most significant issue of 2013 (other than the proposed Ajax mine), while citing a plethora of upcoming sporting events as being the city’s biggest opportunity in 2014: “The most significant issue this year, other than Ajax, was the positive financial impact of Kamloops-area major employers such as Domtar, New Gold, Highland Valley, Molycop, Lafarge and Northern Trailer. who provide tens of millions of dollars into the local economy,” Putnam said.

“That, in turn, spins off to fund social programs and taxes, which provide our awesome recreation facilities, parks, transit system, arts and cultural venues and programs.

“Looking ahead to 2014, our biggest issue and opportunity is to host and support one of our busiest Tournament Capital event years in our history,” Putnam said as he rattled off a list of high-calibre competitions on the horizon: • Tim Hortons Brier (March at Interior Savings Centre and Memorial Arena).

• North American Central American and Caribbean Under-23 Athletics Championships (August at Tournament Capital Centre and Hillside Stadium).

• Four Nations Cup Hockey Canada event (November at Interior Savings Centre).

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Jeff Putnam, the City of Kamloops’ parks and civic facilities manager cites business and the business of sport as being the issues that have defined 2013 and will define the next year. Putnam cites the 2014 Brier as one of the upcoming major sporting events that will have a major impact on Kamloops. The Brier Tankard trophy was on display recently at Andre’s Electronics.

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Harm reduction is an issue to tackle Rev. Carolyn Ronald of Plura Hills United Church cited harm reduction as an ongoing issue about which a conversation is needed: “Research data support that the work done through the Portland Hotel on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver by dedicated medical activists like Dr. Gabor Mate significantly reduces the harm and risk for people who are working their way through addictions.

“Supervised injection coupled with progressive social intervention have undoubtedly saved lives.

“As the saying goes, ‘You can’t rehab a dead person.’

“This model of constructive intervention has come to be known as harm reduction. It is a good idea that works when used by people who know what they are doing.

“Then the trouble starts.

“Governments have to look like they are doing something — sometimes anything — to make things better in the short time-frame of the electoral cycle.

“Social problems are not quick fixes and require the kind of long-term engagement that doesn’t fit neatly into soundbites. So, when a phrase like ‘harm reduction’ is coined, it tends to get picked up and over-used until nobody knows what it means anymore.

“Voluminous cash is being poured into this fair city under the banner of ‘harm reduction,’ but it is unclear what outcomes have been achieved.

“One way of thinking about harm reduction is to say that people shouldn’t have to be clean and sober — i.e. ‘dry’ — to earn the right to be housed.

“Therefore, accommodations are made by local social agencies to create ‘damp’ and ‘wet’ beds, which allow a spectrum of intoxication while housing those in need. However, under this model, clients are still dying from their addiction while in the care of these agencies who are receiving copious funding from the public purse.

“At the same time, funding for those agencies with tighter strictures on their residents’ drug and alcohol use have seen their funding dry up.

“In Kamloops, when a person with an addiction courageously gets completely clean and sober at the Phoenix Centre and then seeks the next step in recovery, that person is in a real bind.

“Because of this emphasis on so-called ‘harm reduction,’ all the second-stage housing is ‘damp’ or ‘wet.’

“There is no facility for women since the House of Ruth closed and the only one for men is terribly underfunded. Men who wish to be housed in a drugand alcohol-free setting upon their release from rehab will find there are only a few beds at the New Life Mission.

“The government funds these at $40 per man, per day for all food and living expenses when the actual cost is more than $120 per day.

“This is still just a fraction of the daily cost per inmate at KRCC. Incidentally, those making these policy decisions, our MLAs, get a $61 per diem above their salaries.

“What do Kamloopsians want ‘harm reduction’ to mean? Millions of tax dollars have been and are about to be spent to refurbish old buildings that have resulted and will result in no net gain in the number of beds — wet, damp or dry.

“As a compassionate community, what would be the best way to reduce potential harm to our neighbours at risk? It is a conversation that we need to have.”

Rev. Carolyn Ronald of Plura Hills United Church is adamant harm reduction needs to be addressed in Kamloops. KTW file photo

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T’S ALWAYS dangerous to declare “mission accomplished.”

Former U.S. President George W. Bush did it weeks after he invaded Iraq, and it will be quoted in history books a century hence as proof of his arrogance and his ignorance. British Prime Minister David Cameron did it a couple of weeks ago in Afghanistan and you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

But, when Edward Snowden said it this week — “In terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished” — nobody laughed.

Unless you just want a list of events, a yearend piece should be a first draft of history that tries to identify where the flow of events is really taking us.

By that standard, Snowden comes first.

The former National Security Agency contractor, once an unremarkable man, saw where the combination of new technologies and institutional empirebuilding was taking us, and stepped in front of the juggernaut to stop it.

“You recognize that you’re going in blind,” Snowden told the Washington Post.

“But, when you weigh that against the alternative, which is not to act, you realize that some analysis is better than no analysis.”

So, he fled his country, taking a huge cache of secret documents with him, and started a global debate about the acceptability of mass surveillance techniques the vast majority of people did not even know existed.

The bloated American “security” industry and its political

GWYNNE DYER World WATCH and military allies call him a traitor and claim “everybody already knew that all governments spy,” but that is a shameless distortion of the truth.

Almost nobody outside the industry knew the scale and reach of what was going on, nor did the U.S. government and its faithful sidekick, the British government, want them to know.

As Snowden, now living in exile in Russia, put it in a Christmas broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4: “A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought.”

Unless, that is, the monster of state-run mass surveillance is brought under control.

U.S. district court judge Richard Leon called the NSA’s mass surveillance programme “almost Orwellian” and, in a 68-page ruling, declared the indiscriminate collection of “metadata” by the government probably violates the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution (relating to unreasonable searches and seizures).

Leon also rejected the spies’ usual defence that their techniques are vital to stop the evil terrorists from killing us all: “The government does not cite a single

case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.”

The spooks’ stock response would be that they could have told him, but then they’d have to kill him.

The truth is they snooped on everybody just because they could.

It’s called hubris.

This is not just an American issue, though the protagonists in the debate Snowden has unleashed are inevitably American.

These techniques are available to every government, or soon will be.

The tyrannies will naturally use them to control their citizens, but other countries have a choice.

The future health of liberal democratic societies depends on the restrictions we place on these techniques in this decade.

“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it,” Snowden said in his Channel 4 broadcast.

“Together, we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that, if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.”

He has paid a high price to give us this opportunity — and we should use it.

Now, in no particular order, some other new things this year, most of them unwelcome.

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familiar with the scenes of unarmed crowds taking over the streets and forcing dictators to quit: it didn’t always succeed, but from Manila in 1986 to Cairo in 2011 it had a pretty good success rate, and at least two dozen dictators bit the dust.

But, the crowds were back in Tahrir Square in Cairo last July to overthrow President Mohammed Morsi, who had been elected only one year before in a free election.

Morsi had won with only 51.7 percent of the vote and a lot of people who did vote for him were holding their noses.

The secular liberals who had made the revolution in 2011 divided their votes between several rival presidential candidates, leaving voters in the second round with only a choice between Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and an adversary who was part of the old regime.

Morsi often talked as if he had a mandate to Islamize Egyptian society (though he didn’t actually do all that much), and it alarmed the former revolutionaries.

They could and should have waited for the next election, which Morsi would certainly have lost, mainly because the economy was still a wreck.

But they were too impatient, so they made a deal with the army and went back out on the square.

Their little pantomime of non-violent protest lasted only two days before the army stepped in and removed Morsi from power.

It subsequently murdered about a thousand of Morsi’s supporters in the streets of Cairo

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And now these “useful idiots” are joining Morsi and his supporters in the regime’s jails: the counter-revolution is complete.

But, it gets weirder: In Thailand, for the past two months, non-violent protestors have been explicitly demanding the end of democracy.

They are relatively privileged people, mostly from Bangkok and the south, who bitterly resent the fact that a series of elected governments led by Thaksin Shinawatra or his sister Yingluck has been spending their tax money to improve the lives of the impoverished rural majority in the north of Thailand.

Naturally, most of the poor vote for the

Shinawatras, who win every time there is an election.

In 2006, the rich party (“yellow shirts”) conspired with the army to remove the party of the poor (“red shirts”) in a coup but, as soon as there was an election, the Shinawatras’ party returned to power.

So now, the “nonviolent protests” have begun again, supported by the prosperous middle class of Bangkok, and, this time, they are demanding a non-elected “people’s council” made up (surprise!) of people like them.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra responded on Dec. 9 by calling an election.

But, of course, the “yellow shirts” don’t want an election, because they would lose it.

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and resumed their demonstrations.

Democracy is their enemy, and non-violence is their weapon.

There was a point when it looked like the mass demonstrations in Ukraine that began in late November were heading in the same direction.

The protests were originally against President Viktor Yanukovich’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union, which was legitimate — and they did deter the president (who was under severe pressure from Moscow) from joining a Russian-led customs union instead.

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Dog’s thick skull may have saved animal’s life

By Dale Bass STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

A dog’s thick skull may have saved its life after it was shot by a Kamloops Mountie on Christmas Day. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the pit bull-Labrador cross was shot in the head at almost point-blank range when the ani-

mal, which had been restrained, reacted to police putting handcuffs on its owner.

Three officers had been called to a house in the 1200block of Kimberley Crescent near Halston Avenue in North Kamloops just after midnight on Christmas morning.

Police were responding to a

report of a distraught woman wielding an axe.

Learned said the woman calmed quickly once officers arrived but, as they prepared to cuff her, he said, the dog “continued to growl, bark and bare its teeth” as it tried to get to the officer.

Learned said the

shooting took place when the dog’s head was almost between the officer’s legs.

“He fired a single shot downward at the dog’s head from nearly point-blank range,” Learned said.

“When the dog momentarily stopped, the officer backed down the

narrow hallway and started backing up the basement stairs, keeping the dog at gunpoint.

“Amazingly, the dog then continued toward the officer and started up the stairs before it fell onto its side, got up again and subsequently went into a vacant

basement room.”

The dog was taken by bylaws officers to the Riverside Small Animal Hospital on Lorne Street in downtown Kamloops, where it was treated by Dr. Noreen Carrigan.

Once there, Learned said, Carrigan discovered the bullet had not

penetrated the dog’s skull, but had travelled under the skin around it and left the animal’s body from the neck area, where it fell to the floor.

Learned was told the dog required a few stitches and was kept at the clinic for observation, but is expected to make a full recovery.

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Find out by taking this quiz and be sure to check your answers on the bottom of Page A29.

1. When Premier Christy Clark took the stage after her upset election win May 14, the first thing she said was: A: I’m going to Disneyland!

B: Well, that was easy!

C: Oh no, now I have to pay off the debt!

D: Socialism is dead!

2. How many proposed liquefied natural gas export proposals are there on the B.C. coast, according to the premier’s latest estimate?

A: Four B: Six C: Eight D: Ten 3. After winning $25 million in the lottery, Terrace construction worker Bob Erb gave six-figure donations to: A. Local anti-poverty and other community groups B. Pay for $300,000 in dental work for locals who couldn’t afford it.

C. Provide cars and trucks for people he considered needy.

D. Sensible BC marijuana legalization campaign E. All of the above 4. How has the province said it would raise money to pay for a promised new bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel?

A. Tax increases

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6. Which of the following wasn’t proposed in B.C.’s liquor law review?

A: Licensing alcohol sales at farmers’ markets B: Letting children into pubs with their parents 5. What admission to U.S. C: Serving alcohol for slot players on BC Ferries border guards did some B.C. residents find can be D: Selling hard liquor in deemed a “crime of moral grocery stores turpitude” and result in 7. Burnaby’s Tung Sheng America barring your (David) Wu was convicted entry? and jailed for performing A. Atheism illegal: B. Past use of marijuana A. Proctology C. Past conviction for B. Taxidermy impaired driving D. Past or present member- C. Electronic waste recycling ship in the NDP B. Toll like the Port Mann Bridge.

C. Small tolls on all Metro Vancouver bridges and major roads D. It hasn’t

D. Dentistry 8. Since his triumph in the HST referendum, former premier Bill Vander Zalm has campaigned against: A: An alleged secret global surveillance system using smart meters B: An alleged secret global climate control scheme using “chemtrails” C: An alleged secret European Union plot to control world finance through consumption taxes D: All of the above 9. What’s the transporta-

tion ministry’s solution to prevent the new Port Mann Bridge from dropping more ice bombs onto cars?

A. A system of scrapers and brushes along each cable to remove ice B. Aerial drones that spray the cables with de-icing solution C. A flock of seagulls trained to peck loose ice chunks D. Closing the bridge and waiting for ice to melt

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What put Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre in the headlines in 2013?

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14. In 2013, the B.C. government approved: A: Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Kitimat B: Twinning Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline to Burnaby C: A pipeline to carry fuel from tankers on the Fraser River to Vancouver airport D: A pipeline to transport glacial water from Garibaldi Park to Squamish for export

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A: Oak Bay B: Cranbrook C: Invermere D: Penticton 17. In July, the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre was the target of: A: Protesters upset with the number of sexual offenders being housed in the jail.

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2pm Tuesday for Thursday’s Paper.

Timeshare CANCEL YOUR Timeshare.

No risk program. Stop mortgage and maintenance Payments today. 100% money back guarantee. Free consultation. Call us now. We can help! 1-888-356-5248.

Advertisements should be read on the first publication day. We are not responsible for errors appearing beyond the first insertion.

Travel

ENRICHED DAYCARE Now accepting registration for Aberdeen. Superior Care and education. Programs offered: 0-5 years.

250-377-8190

enricheddaycare.com

Employment Business Opportunities ~ 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.

Kamloops Area Business \ Opportunity 1-866-668-6629 www.tcvend.com TRAIN TO be an Apartment/Condominium Manager online! Graduates get access to all jobs posted with us. 33 years of success! Government certified. www.RMTI.ca or 1800-665-8339, 604-681-5456.

Career Opportunities ATTENTION Work from home Turn spare time into income Free training/flexible hours Computer required. www.FreedomNan.com

HUNTER & FIREARMS Courses.

Next C.O.R.E. January 11th & 12th Saturday & Sunday. P.A.L. Saturday January 4th. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily.

Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

250-376-7970

Help Wanted

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

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

250-374-0462

James Western Star Truck & Trailer Ltd. in Williams Lake has an immediate opening for an experienced parts person.

Full Time, competitive wages, benefits & signing bonus. Fax resume to: 250-398-6367 or email: nwejr@jamesws.com

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.

It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event that errors occur in the publishing of any advertising shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only and there will be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement.

FOODSAFE COURSE

by Certified Instructor Call for January Dates 8:30am-4:00pm $70 Pre-register by phoning 250-554-9762

Career Opportunities

LOGAN LAKE 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.

Career Opportunities

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Sales ADVERTISING Consultants: Our company is always looking for great sales representatives to add to our team. Our business requires a highly organized individual with ability to multi-task in a fun, fastpaced team environment.

Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required.

Excellent communication skills, valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle are necessary.

If you have a passion for the advertising business, are creative and thrive on challenges, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to:khall@aberdeenpublishing.com We thank all applicants; only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Trades, Technical

Career Opportunities

YOUR BUSINESS HERE

Only $120/month Run your 1x1 semi display classified in every issue of Kamloops This Week

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

Call 250-371-4949 classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com

Services

Stucco/Siding

Mind Body Spirit Relax and unwind with a full body massage for appointment couples welcome (250) 682-1802

Financial Services IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple.

Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise!

Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 2 issues a week!

call 250-374-0462 for a route near you!

Legal Services www.dialalaw.org

Telephone Services DISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect home phone service. No one refused! Low monthly rate! Calling features and unlimited long distance available. Call National Teleconnect today! 1866-443-4408. or visit online: www.nationalteleconnect.com

Pets & Livestock

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

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSE

Jan. 10-12 • Jan. 24-26

Air Brakes

Childcare Available

100% Job Placement for Recent Graduates!

16 Hour Course: $100 20 Hour Course: $175

Contact Susan today for a FREE assessment!

kamloopsthisweek.com

Between Friends Daycare Has spaces coming available in our 3-5yr old program $600 per month

and click on the calendar to place

Call 250-828-0038

your event.

Landscaping

Truck Driver Training

Start Date: February 11, 2014

go to

Work Wanted

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

Children

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Services

JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. offers competitive wages, relocation allowance, negotiable depending on experience. Bright, modern shop.

Full-time permanent with benefits. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban centres. More info at: hannachrysler.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; Or send by email to: chrysler@telusplanet.net

We’re at the heart of things™ If you have an

Employment

EXPERIENCED CONSTRUCTION Labourers & carpenters needed for concrete forming in Kamloops. Good wages.

Send resume to: majka99@telus.net or fax to 604-864-2796.

Health Care Assistant (HCA) Diploma

upcoming event for our

$10+tax per issue 3 lines or less

CARPENTER/HANDYMAN. Renovations, additions, roofing, drywall, siding, painting.

250-374-2774.

CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL Best Rates. 1.800.663.1818

Coming Events

Garage Sale

Community Newspapers

Betweenfriendsdaycare.ca

(250) 372-5429 kamloops@310jobs.ca academyoflearning.com

call 250.828.5104 or visit

tru.ca/trades

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

TUESDAY, December 31, 2013 ❖ A31

www.kamloopsthisweek.com

Pets & Livestock

Real Estate

Real Estate

Rentals

Pets

Apt/Condos for Sale

Open Houses

Commercial/ Industrial

HAVANESE puppies, vet checked & shots, delivery avail after Dec 23. 250-804-6848

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm. (250)371-4949 classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com *some restrictions apply.

CHECK US OUT

ONLINE

www.kamloopsthisweek.com Under the Real Estate Tab

Duplex/4 Plex

CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE AT

www.kamloopsthisweek.com/classified

Townhouses

CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

374-0462 Merchandise for Sale $500 & Under Do you have an item for sale under $750?

CLASSIFIEDS CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE AT

www.kamloopsthisweek.com/classified Houses For Sale

CHECK US OUT

ONLINE

www.kamloopsthisweek.com

Firewood/Fuel

Medical Supplies ELECTRIC Wheelchair. 3yrs old. excel cond. New $6400 asking$1500obo250-434-1722

Misc. for Sale 1997 Scandix ski-doo 500 low km, exc cond $1795 (250) 579-8428 MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-573-5922 after 6pm or leave msg.

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $10 / ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive Kamloops BC call for availability

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

ONLINE AT

www.kamloopsthisweek.com/classified

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

one week for FREE?

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

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

1,100 sq.ft. • 2 Bays 2,700 sq.ft. paved, fenced, lighted compound.

320 sq.ft. mezanine store front office, clean building.

1,600/MO + GST

Homes for Rent

your item in our classifieds for

250-371-4949

FOR LEASE

CALL 250-376-8542/ 250-319-6054

Did you know that you can place

Call our Classified Department for details!

COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

Under the Real Estate Tab

CARMEL PLACE 55+ Quality Living in new medical building.

Studio suites with affordable rates, FOB entry, elevator, scooter stations and Telus Optik Package! Call Columbia Property Management to book your appointment: 250-851-9310

NORTH SHORE 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet building.

Rents starting at $625 + utilities.

CALL 250-682-0312

CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE AT

www.kamloopsthisweek.com/classified 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.

If you see a wildfire, report it to

1-800-663-5555 or *5555 on most cellular networks.

Misc. Wanted

Mobile Homes & Parks

COLLECTOR looking to buy a coin collection. Also looking for coins, bars, medals, ingots from RC Mint, Franklin Mint, US Mint & others. Todd 250864-3521 I make house calls!

Lease to own New 16 x 58 2bdrm 2bth mobile home in new mobile park. Trouble with financing? One or Two year term Call Gerry 250-371-1849

Houses For Sale

Houses For Sale

RIVIERA VILLA 1&2/BDRM Suites

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

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

Livestock

3bdrm lrg liv r. sm back yrd, deck North Shore w/d, parking, n/s $1250 shared util 573-1281 credit/wrk ref. Bill/Excell Brock Small 2bdrm home w/d, n/s, n/p, large yard Avail Dec 1st $900+util (250) 320-9205

Rooms for Rent DALLAS furn bdrm in Mobile home. Quiet working person n/s/p $385 828-1681,573-6086 DOWNTOWN Motel Kitchenette units $750-$950 per month util included.

TV and local telephone also included 250-372-7761 Furn bed rm cls to DT util incl emp or student n/s/p/drink vehicle req $450mo 377-3158

Shared Accommodation Available rural location.

Horse? $400 util incl n/s Can be furn. (250) 374-2774 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

1BDRM Aberdeen, fully furn.

Satt & util incl. NP/NS Avail immed.$850/mo 250-314-1011 1BDRM DownTown NP, no smokers! Inclds utils & cable $720/mth,Jan1 250-318-0318 2bdrm Brock n/s, n/p cls to sch shop and bus $800 util incl Avail now (250) 299-4011 2BDRM large N/S N/P Close to schools Working person pref’d $950 incl util 819-3368 Cumfy 1bdrm suite. Close to University, Hospital.

Perfect for student or quiet person.

Excellent Location. np. ns.

Call now (250) 299-6477 Lrg 2bdrm daylight NorthKam n/s n/p prv ent. yard $950 util incl Avail Now. 250-318-4647

Livestock

BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

REIMER’S FARM SERVICES

250-260-0110 Houses For Sale

HOMES FOR SALE - COMMUNITIES IN KAMLOOPS FREE iPAD CONTEST!

Transportation

Suites, Lower

Cars - Domestic

Recreational/Sale

Riverfront 1bdrm daylight internet level entry ample prking util incl $600 579-9609

2005 Cadillac SRX-V. All wheel drive wagon.

V8 Auto, ultra view sunroof, heated leather, full loaded.

New brakes, tires (real dub wheels & factory wheels w/ snow tire ), bearings.

Only 101kms! $58,000 replacement cost, only $14,500 Firm!!! No GST! 250-551-3336 Nelson, BC

Vacant 2bdrm air $900 incl heat no pets, ref (250) 3760633 North Kamloops

Suites, Upper Downtown bach. sep entr. $650 incl. util & shrd lndry.

Refs req’d.priv yard 372-9455.

Run until sold New Price $56.00+tax 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)

RUN UNTIL SOLD

Townhouses

ONLY $35.00(plus Tax)

3brm 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immediately 250-374-5586 /371-0206

(250)371-4949

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

*some restrictions apply call for details

Scrap Car Removal

Downtown 2bdrm 1 1/2 bath N/S N/P $1200 + util quiet mature complex 250-377-0078

TOWNHOUSES Best Value In Town

NORTH SHORE *Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms

Motorcycles

*Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop

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

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

Recreational/Sale

318-4321 NO PETS

Transportation

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

Auto Financing Need A Vehicle! Guaranteed Auto Loan. Apply Now, 1.877.680.1231 www.UapplyUdrive.ca

2004 Lexington motor home well equipped new tires like new only 36000 miles call $35,000 obo 250 573 2332

Trucks & Vans 1984 Chevy Short Box. $3500 obo (250) 573-5922 after 6pm or leave msg. Must See! 1986 GMC 4x4 1/2 ton v8 auto $3000 phone between 5pm & 8:30pm ONLY 250-377-8702 1996 GMC Suburban good shape runs great $3800obo Call (250) 571-2107 NEW LEER Truck Canopy.

White. $800 1(250) 523-2350 (Logan Lake)

Boats 2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250573-5922 (after 6pm)or lv msg

Adult

26’ pull type 1999 Mallard trailer slps 6, lrg awning, a/c , solar panel + extras $8,500 (250) 376-6918

Escorts

1ST CHOICE

KAMLOOPS TEMPTRESS Sexy, fun, accommodating, & discreet.

Suites, Lower

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS

Houses For Sale

Transportation

Rentals

FIND US ON FACEBOOK www.eaglehomes.ca

Ask about our daytime specials & Stag Parties.

Complete Trailer with EZ load, boat, all gear new 4hp merc motor, $10,500 (250) 374-0507

L RUN TIDL SOL

Call 24/7 www.kamloopstemptress.com

250-572-3623

YOUR

TURN

STUFFINTO

CASH$

$

3 items-3 lines for $35 Additional items/lines $10 each Non business ads only Some restrictions apply

Does not include: Car/Truck/RV’s/Power Boats/Street Bike

1365 Dalhousie Drive • 250-371-4949

RUN SOLD TILL

• Cars • Trucks • Trailers • RV’s • Boats • ATV’s • Snowmobiles • Motorcycles • Merchandise • Some restrictions apply • Includes 2 issues per week • Non-Business ads only • Non-Business ads only

35

ly On

00 3 lines PLUS TAX

Add an extra line for only $10

SALES OFFICE - 7510 DALLAS DR. w w w . e a g l e h o m e s . c a

250-573-2278

250-371-4949

A32 ❖ TUESDAY, December 31, 2013

www.kamloopsthisweek.com

PURCHASE OVER $2,000 OF FURNITURE OR MATRESSES & RECEIVE

7 NIGHTS FREE!

TO

AT YOUR CHOICE OF THOUSANDS OF RESORTS AROUND THE WORLD. SEE INSTORE FOR DETAILS.

WE ARE CLOSED

ST TODAY, DECEMBER 31 PREPARE FOR OUR

TO PREPARE ONE-OF-A-KIND

(ACCOMMODATION ONLY)

16070

FOR OUR ONE - OF - A - KIND YEAR ONCEONCE A YEAR •A ONE DAY ONLY

NEW DAY ONEYEAR'S DAY ONLY

ALE DAY NEW S YEAR'S SALE 6 HOUR BLITZ 11 AM TO 5 PM

SAVE

U P TO UP

6 MONTHS NO INTEREST (O.A.C.)

SALE 66007700

% O FF OFF

0440 0330 220 05500

DOOR CRASHER ITEMS • ALSO - NO INTEREST FINANCING AVAILABLE O.A.C.

UP TO FURNITURE

APPLIANCES

20304050

2 PC FABRIC SOFA, LOVESEAT 50% OFF SET ..........$467 BONDED LEATHER SOFA ...$297 FABRIC RECLINING CHAIR .............................$247

SAVE 1200 $

ON NATUZZI 100% LEATHER SOFA/LOVESEAT

SAVE $1500

8PC QUEEN BEDROOM SUITE $ (reg. $2999.99) ................. 1497 5 PC WOOD DINING SET .$287 7 PC DINING SET .............$447 2 PC LEATHER SECTIONAL reg.$1999 .. 1 ONLY $897 ALL DINING SETS, ALL COFFEE TABLE SETS, ALL LAMPS, ALL AREA RUGS, ALL ACCESSORIES

UP TO 80OFF %

MATTRESSES

% OFF

ELECTRONICS

TWIN SIZE MATTRESS KITCHENAID 25 CU.FT. S/S, 4 DR $ ................................. ONLY FRENCH DOOR ICE/WATER $ FRIDGE reg.$2999 ............. 2199 QUEEN SPRING MATTRESS $ SAMSUNG 22 CU.FT. FRENCH

PANASONIC 3D BLU RAY THEATRE

DOOR FRIDGE .............

BLUE TOOTH READY, 280 WATT $

1197 $ 18 CU.FT. FRIDGE ............. 398 $ 30”EASY CLEAN STOVE ... 298 $

TALL TUB BUILT IN $ DISHWASHER ................... 227 STAINLESS STEEL $ TALL TUB DISHWASHER ..... 347

SALE PRICE .....................

77

177

QUEEN PILLOW TOP $ MATTRESS & BOX SET ....... 297 SIMMONS QUEEN SIZE PILLOW TOP MATTRESS & BOX-SPRING WITH 10 YRS WARRANTY (reg. $1299.99) $ SALE PRICE ..................... 577

$ MAYTAG HD WASHER ...... 397 SEALY TOP OF THE LINE POSTURE-PEDIC LATEX FOAM MAYTAG FAN CONVECTION $ $ STOVE reg.$999 ................... 697 (reg. $1999.99) ...............

797

BEAUTYREST DELUX PILLOW TOP SAMSUNG FRONT LOAD POCKET COIL STEAM WASHER $ $ & STEAM DRYER..... 1297/PR MATTRESS SET ..................

897

5.1 CHANNEL, 1000 WATT

reg.$449...............................

347

$

SAMSUNG SOUND BAR reg.$349

..............................

197

50” TOSHIBA LED $ FULL 1080P, 120HZ..... reg.$999 697 55” PANASONIC $ SMART PLASMA ....reg.$1199 947 58” TOSHIBA $ 1080P, 240HZ ..........reg.$1499 997 60” SAMSUNG $ PLASMA TV ...........reg.$1499 947 70” SHARP SMART TV $ ......................... reg.$3000 1997

FIRST COME FIRST SERVED • SOME ITEMS LIMITED QUANTITIES 1350 Hillside Dr.

New Years Day Hours 11 am - 5 pm

372-7999

Across from Aberdeen Mall

SHOP online at

www.cityfurniturecanada.com

CHARGE IT!

"WE DON'T SELL - WE HELP YOU BUY!"

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