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HURRY HARD TO THE BRIER Alberta skip Kevin Koe is the picture of concentration during 2014 Tim Hortons Brier action at Interior Savings Centre on the weekend. The national men’s curling championship is in full swing in Kamloops, with fans flocking to ISC to watch the world’s best curlers — then joining the Brier Patch party at Memorial Arena. Speaking of which, pick up Thursday’s edition of KTW to experience a night at the Patch through the eyes and ears of reporter Jessica Wallace. The Brier continues through the weekend, with the title tilt set for Sunday, March 9, at 4:30 p.m. Brier organizers have an added bonus for Kamloops residents as the Olympic gold-medal winning Brad Jacobs rink will bring its medals from Sochi to the Tournament Capital this weekend. The team will meet with fans in the Brier Patch at Memorial Arena at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, and will sign autographs at ISC on Saturday, March 8, at noon and on Sunday, March 9, at 3:30 p.m. For much more on the Brier, including Team B.C.’s run for the title, turn to sports on A17. For updates on the action, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com. Allen Douglas/KTW

Hillside Centre recorded 31 incidents in 2013 By Dale Bass

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Thirty-one “incidences” were reported at Hillside Centre last year, ranging from minor brushes with patients to serious interactions blamed on a lack of staff. In December, the B.C. Nurses’ Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses called for the Interior Health Authority, which operates the centre adjacent to Royal Inland Hospital, to ensure each area is adequately staffed. The demand followed the assault on a nurse who was alone in one of the wards when a patient punched her, knocked her down

and pinned her to the floor. It took eight staff members to rescue the nurse from the man, who was later identified as having Huntington’s disease. He and another man involved in a second incident — who also has Huntington’s — were subsequently charged with assault. KTW submitted a freedom-ofinformation request to the health authority for the reports, which were censored to remove identification of individual nurses or patients. The bulk of the incidences happened in the centre’s dining room (eight) and patient rooms (11). Two occurred at a nursing sta-

tion and one each in the kitchen, laundry, TV room and entrance to the seclusion area. Among the incident reports: • March 17: The document notes: “We were short staff and doing care with a patient that is a three-four-care assist. I just walked into the bathroom and grabbed the resident with my left hand and shut the door with my right hand. As I turned my head to close the door, the resident kicked me in knee.” • March 23: “An aggressive patient was escalating throughout the morning and targeting other patients . . . I tried several more times to intervene. I pushed my Duress [alarm] button to get assis-

tance. I touched the aggressive patient’s left arm [name censored] pushed me hard enough to offset my balance. I waited for someone to come. No one came.” • Dec. 14: “There was just me working on this unit; we normally have three people but only had two scheduled that shift. The other staff member was [on] break.” • A second Dec. 14 incident report noted a patient was restrained “for what seemed like a long time awaiting RCMP arrival” and that the patient, when being moved to a seclusion room, had to be restrained again. The incident notes the employee saying a remedy would be “having the pod

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Victim of predator coach speaks out By Cam Fortems STAFF REPORTER

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There were early winter mornings after the season three years ago when Chanelle Petrie wondered whether she could tape up her socks, snap on her helmet strap and take the first stride on the ice. Petrie — who is so fanatical about the sport that she includes the word “hockey” in her email address — was 15 years old when she and a friend first saw Heidi Ferber on skates. The big, skilled Ferber competed in North America and Europe, eventually giving up the game after too many concussions. While her playing days were over, the 39-year-old dazzled as a coach. Petrie, a five-foot, sixinch winger, wanted to skate as far as her talent would take her and saw Ferber as the coach who could take her there. By the time the midget Kamloops Hellcats took to the ice in September 2010, Ferber signed on as assistant, beside head coach Alex Petrie, Chanelle’s father. The player and assistant coach struck up a friendship, Ferber becoming a mentor both on and off the ice. Within two months,

Heidi Ferber (left) pleaded guilty to sexual interference of a person under 16 and sexual exploitation in connection with her relationship with teenager Chanelle Petrie (above).

MINOR HOCKEY’S PROTOCOL • PAGE A4 Ferber began sexually preying on the 15-yearold during hockey road trips and secret encounters carefully hidden from Petrie’s parents. On April 2, Ferber will learn how long she will spend in prison when she is sentenced. She has pleaded guilty to sexual interference of a person under 16 and sexual exploitation. In B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Friday, Feb. 28, Justice Hope Hyslop removed a publication ban on information that would lead to identification of Petrie. The ban precluded publishing Ferber’s name. Kamloops This Week successfully applied to lift the ban based on Petrie’s desire to have her

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name made public. Following the application, the Crown recanted its earlier opposition to Petrie being identified. Petrie told KTW she decided early this year she no longer wanted the shield of the mandatory publication ban that protects identify of any youth or victim of sexual assault. “It was the fact I wanted to see if there were others out there,” Petrie said. “I wanted to be a positive role model.” Petrie just completed her season playing for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Trojans in Calgary. However, she said there were many times she wondered whether

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petitive hockey for 25 years. Mann said Petrie looked up to her and was excited the veteran player believed in her. The two discussed school, hockey and, eventually, sexuality. They began to socialize, but Ferber warned Petrie not to tell her parents about their budding relationship. The pair kissed about a month-and-a-half after meeting. By November 2010, Ferber was making sexual advances on Petrie. During the season and into mid-2011, the two had what Mann characterized as “countless sexual encounters.” Those included trysts on hockey road trips, when Petrie and her teammates would ask their parents to room with Ferber. Mann said Petrie’s

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she would continue playing the sport she fell in love with in Grade 3 “It was an everyday battle. It came with a lot of anger on the ice. It changes you as a player. I was always positive and liked to motivate people. I started to get angry on the ice. I had to look at the root of the problem — it was this,” Petrie said. Last month in court, Crown prosecutor Don Mann outlined circumstances of what started as friendship and swiftly changed due to Ferber’s aggressive sexual demands. The Crown wants Ferber jailed for between nine and 12 months, arguing Ferber breached a trust and victimized a

confused teenager. The defence has asked for a sentence of between 90 days and six months in jail, served on weekends. Defence lawyer Michelle Stanford characterized Ferber as an emotionally unstable and previously closeted gay woman who suffered from concussions and epilepsy that clouded her judgement. A pre-sentence report found Ferber has little remorse and blames Petrie. During the preliminary hearing, Ferber wrote the word “liar” on a cup and displayed it to Petrie, who was testifying in court. Mann said Petrie was confused about her sexuality at the time, something exploited by Ferber. Ferber played com-

parents treated Ferber as “part of the family.” The two stopped the relationship in July 2011, but remained acquainted and had one more sexual encounter in November 2011. Petrie wrote a poem that contained suicidal references that year. Early in 2012, she reported the incidents to her mother and the two went to Kamloops RCMP. The Crown has applied to add Ferber’s name to federal sexualoffender registry for 20 years. Now 18 years old, Petrie said she talked extensively with her family before coming to a decision to ask Crown to lift the publication ban on her name. “They were really supportive . . . They said to make it part of your healing process.” Petrie is finishing her semester at SAIT, where she is completing academic upgrading en route to social-work courses at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She suffered a recent concussion and is unsure whether she will play hockey next season for Mount Royal. “Sometimes it helps to play,” she said of her emotional healing. “It helps to take it out on the puck. “Other days it’s harder.”

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‘Two-deep rule’ used in dressing rooms By Cam Fortems STAFF REPORTER

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The Kamloops Minor Hockey Association will not disclose steps it took, if any, in the wake of the criminal investigation into hockey coach Heidi Ferber. However, the league’s president said it will review the situation internally and maintains it takes adequate steps to protect its young players. “From an association’s standpoint, we have safeguards in place to

protect children that play with us,” KMHA president Jon Pankuch said. He said the association will not discuss victimization of Chanelle Petrie by coach Heidi Ferber in 2010 and 2011, but declined to give reasons why the association will not discuss the incident. Ferber is scheduled to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to sexual interference of a person under 16 and sexual exploitation. A B.C. Supreme Court justice heard that Ferber, an assistant coach with a girls’ bantam team, struck up

a friendship with Petrie when the player was 15 years old. That friendship turned into a sexual relationship within three months. Ferber invited players to stay in her room on tournament roadtrips and had sexual encounters with the young player in hotel rooms. Petrie told her mother about the relationship once it was over, in early 2012. Petrie and her mother went to RCMP, who initiated an investigation. “In the past four years, we’ve had

nothing come to light that’s sparked any concern,” Pankuch said, adding the league will review its rules in light of the case. One of the policies the association uses to protect players is the “two-deep rule” — which requires at last two team officials in the dressing room with any number of players. Petrie — who just completed a season with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Trojans — said she believes a rule should have been in place to keep coaches out of

the dressing room while players are getting dressed. “She [Ferber] was allowed in the dressing room,” Petrie said. “I’ve had other female coaches and they don’t come it — it was inappropriate.” Petrie said one of the reasons she wanted her name made public was to alert minor hockey and parents that sexual abuse can still occur, despite publicity and some safeguards. “I think she was really well trusted,” Petrie said of Ferber.

No jail time for teen who attacked man with longboard, landing him in a coma By Tim Petruk

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The Kamloops teen who attacked a 46-year-old man with a skateboard outside a Brocklehurst convenience store last year won’t be going to jail. The boy, who is now 16 and cannot be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty to an aggravatedassault charge stemming from the March 24, 2013, incident. The Crown had been seeking a two-month jail term, but Kamloops provincial court Judge

Stephen Harrison said such a sentence would derail the youth’s rehabilitation. “Custody is not necessary and would indeed interfere with the best available prospects of rehabilitation for [the boy],” he said on Friday, Feb. 28, placing the teen on a two-year probation term. Court heard the teen has lived since May 2013 in a provincially funded pilot-project care home near Sooke on Vancouver Island. The longboard attack landed Michael Forry in a three-week coma and left him with a lasting brain injury, court heard. Forry had been drinking with a friend prior to the incident, which began when the boy

raised his middle finger at the vehicle in which Forry was a passenger while jaywalking with two other youths. Forry eventually got out of the vehicle, knocked over a young girl who was with the teen and began shouting threats toward the teen as they met in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven store at Tranquille Road and Desmond Street. Forry was then struck with the skateboard. The teen has no prior criminal record, but has shown behavioural issues since an early age, including beating up classmates and, as a nine-year-old, menacing his mother with a knife, saying “I won’t kill you this time.” Court heard he has acted aggressively

toward adults, peers and animals, but has “turned a corner” in his current living situation on Vancouver Island. Terms of the probation include orders the teen have no contact with Forry, abstain from drugs and alcohol, possess no weapons and surrender a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database. He is also barred from being in possession of a skateboard for the duration of the probation term. VIDEO ONLINE: Go to kamloopsthisweek. com to watch video of the incident outside the convenience store. Click on the “News” tab and search for this story. NO CLUE | MARCH 13

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Local organizations will gather at Northills Mall on Thursday, March 13, to mark World Kidney Day. The agencies will take part in a health fair, working with nursing students from Thompson Rivers

THEIR HOUSE IS YOUR HOME The Canadian Home Builders’ Association of the Central Interior attracted many to its weekend House and Home Show at the Coast Kamoops Hotel and Conference Centre. Among the visitors were Barb Schuster and 15-month-old son Wyatt (right) and Carol Giles and Trudy Amy, who were scoping out light fixtures. To see more photos from the popular event, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the “Community” tab. Allen Douglas photos/KTW

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Add Coun. Nancy Bepple’s name to the list of councillors ready to run again this November. Bepple told KTW she has secured a necessary leave from her job at Thompson Rivers University that will allow her to seek another term on council. Should she succeed in her re-election bid on Nov. 15, Bepple would be serving a third term. “I think it’s important for me to ask questions to people who I’ve been advocating for in the past — seniors and

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Accused gave tips on dead-body disposal By Tim Petruk

Lytton’s Sandy Charlie (right) vanished in 1999 and his body was found in 2011. Charlie’s son, Sandy Cleghorn (left), died looking for his father.

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The man accused in a cold-case killing in Lytton more than a decade ago offered an undercover Mountie tips for dealing with a dead body and talked openly about his short fuse, a jury has been told. Rob Smith is standing trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on one count each of manslaughter and interfering with a dead body in relation to the slaying of Sandy Charlie, who was last seen alive on Christmas Eve of 1999. Smith, 46, became the target of an RCMP Mr. Big sting in the spring of 2012 — months after Charlie’s body was unearthed accidentally by an excavator on Crown land near Lytton. Mr. Big operations are elaborate and expensive undercover investigations in which Mounties pose as members of a fictitious powerful criminal organization and attempt to lure a homicide suspect into their gang. Court has heard Smith was targeted by undercover RCMP officers in May 2012 and immediately he began helping the supposed gangsters with loansharking, vehicle repos-

session and dealing in fraudulent ATMs. In late June of 2012, Smith was asked to travel with his new associates to a rural Yukon town to help destroy evidence of a make-believe murder, according to testimony on Monday, March 3, from an undercover constable who can only be identified publicly as M.J. “He [Smith] was told that I had an issue that needed dealing with,” M.J. said. “[The fictitious crime boss] wanted Mr. Smith and I to go clean up my mess.” Court heard Smith was told M.J. had committed a murder in a Haines Junction, Yukon, motel room. Smith and two undercover officers flew from the Lower Mainland to Whitehorse, then travelled by car to Haines Junction, picking up cleaning supplies along the way. M.J. said he and Smith broke into the room — which, the jury was told, had

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already been rented out by another undercover Mountie — changed into painters’ suits, donned masks and used industrial-strength cleaning supplies to “get rid of DNA.” Smith was then told by M.J. the fictitious crime boss would get another gangster to “deal with the body,” court heard. “At that point, Mr. Smith made the comment that if the body was never found, then it was just a missing person,” M.J. said. M.J. said Smith had previously told him he was questioned in relation to a missing-person case years earlier. Smith was, in fact, a suspect in Charlie’s disappearance as early as 2007, after a search warrant was executed at the Lytton home of Smith’s ex-girlfriend. That house was located adjacent to the Crown land on which Charlie’s body was found more than four years later. The discovery of Charlie’s body was kept

secret by police as holdback evidence, the jury has previously been told. M.J. said Smith also told him about his propensity for violence. Following a staged road-rage incident in Langley in May 2012 — in which M.J. took

a baseball bat to the car window of another undercover Mountie who had cut him off in traffic — Smith said he enjoyed the violent outburst. “He thought it was awesome,” M.J. said. “He told me he thought we were a lot alike because he had friends who felt uneasy around him and they knew he could lose it.”

and the undercover operators,” the judge said, telling the jury to refrain from jumping to conclusions. “Counsel agree it is necessary for you to hear this to completely illuminate the relationship.” The trial is expected to continue into next week.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Meiklem cautioned jurors this week about “forbidden propensity reasoning” — assuming Smith is of “bad character” because of his actions with the undercover Mounties. “You are hearing detailed testimony on the interactions of Mr. Smith

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Who will pay $855K bill to patch up the TCC? By Andrea Klassen STAFF REPORTER

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A fix for the Tournament Capital Centre’s perennial leaks will arrive this spring, but it won’t be clear who is picking up the bill until work on the facility is complete. Jeff Putnam, Kamloops’ parks and civic-facilities manager, said the city is in the process of completing detailed

design work on the repairs to the centre on McGill Road. The TCC has had a leaking problem since it opened in 2007. Early on, the leaks were small and appeared mainly in the upper concourse, in an area near the gym. The city eventually determined the building is missing vapour barriers in some of its walls. Without the barriers, con-

densation is forming inside the walls and dripping into the building. The city has estimated it will cost about $855,000 to fix the problem. Putnam said the city considered beginning work over the winter, but found it would be cost-prohibitive. “It’s been way too cold to start this winter,” he said. “It would have cost us an

extra $80,000 if we started over the winter months.” Repairs will instead begin in either late March or early April, with a completion date in late May. Once work is complete and the final cost of repairs is known, the city will forward the final tally to Stantec Architecture and D & T Developments, the TCC’s original architect and contrac-

tor, “seeking their financial participation,” said Jeff Locke, a lawyer with Fulton and Co. representing the city. Both Putnam and Locke indicated discussions with the two companies about picking up the repair bill have gone well so far. “Neither party has said no,” Locke said. “Both parties have been cooperative.”

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HE NEW PROSPERITY mineral deposit near Williams Lake is described by the industry as one of the largest in the world, containing 5.3 billion pounds of copper and 13.3 million ounces of gold. The Harper government’s decision to reject open-pit mine development for a second time is seen by elected officials in the Cariboo region as a disaster. One of Quesnel’s sawmills is preparing to close for good and I’ve been told there is more to come as the post-pine beetle era unfolds. In Victoria, the decision is mainly viewed as a huge mistake. Taseko Mines is going to court to show the federal panel used the wrong design when reviewing the company’s expensively revised plan. The province has permitted two successful mines that operate in the same area, one of which is run by Taseko. In Ottawa, this is a Supreme Court of Canada test case over who owns the land and the mineral wealth underneath. In traditional Canadian law, the province owns it. This was highlighted in the recent discussion between B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford over royalties from oil. Six aboriginal communities make up the Tsilhqot’in Nation, which has a long and bitter history of resistance against the Crown. The nation almost won a declaration of title to 40,000 hectares known as the Nemiah Valley — forests, wild horses, min-

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VICTORIA erals and all in a 339-day trial that ended in 2007. Its case suffered a setback at the B.C. Court of Appeal and is now before the highest court. Aboriginal rights have been established, but this would be the first clear title. Tsilhqot’in tribal chairman Joe Alphonse was pleasantly surprised to see Taseko turned down again. He said the Tsilhqot’in national government is releasing its own mining policies soon. “We welcome opportunities to look at projects that are environmentally sound and we need economic opportunities,” Alphonse told the Williams Lake Tribune. Somehow efforts to move mine waste rock from Teztan Biny (Fish Lake) to a sealed storage site two kilometres away are not enough to protect groundwater, although they are sufficient at the nearby Gibraltar and Mount Polley mines. And Alphonse makes it clear this mysterious environmental problem will be solved once he and his fellow chiefs have control of the resource. A Supreme Court of Canada rul-

ing on aboriginal title is required to settle this. If some limited form of title is at last defined for the treatyless majority of B.C., or at least the Tsilhqot’in territory, the fate of the mine may become clear. Conventional wisdom on this is that the mining company didn’t try hard enough to establish a working relationship with the Tsilhqot’in. For his part, Taseko CEO Russell Hallbauer says the chiefs refused to meet with him, which isn’t surprising from a group that doesn’t recognize the B.C. forests ministry, either. Here’s a sample of the volume of evidence that may determine the future of B.C. Archeological studies presented at trial describe “18 roasting and/or pit depressions” at Teztan Biny. It’s not clear if these were for seasonal food preparation or for pit houses, which would indicate a more permanent settlement at the lake. Nor is it clear whether these “cultural depressions” have been identified as being of Tsilhqot’in origin. Oral histories are also uncertain. Tsilhqot’in witnesses testified that Teztan Biny has been used in the 20th century as a hunting and fishing camp. The mine was rejected due to illdefined culture and environmental concerns. B.C. residents could finally see some answers this year. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

If it ain’t broke, why bother fixing it? Last week’s announced increase to term lengths for municipal politicians and school trustees smacks of politicians helping their own. We see few benefits to moving civic elections to every four years from three, other than better alignment with provincial and federal elections. The majority of work done at a local level is undertaken by municipal staff as it is — not elected officials. That said, the province’s main justification for the change — “It provides opportunities for local government officials to understand their projects and to carry them through” — doesn’t jibe with the reality of local government. When a decision of this magnitude is made with no public consultation, we’re left wondering who this change truly benefits. And if it’s not the average B.C. resident, the province made the wrong decision. This move chips away at our democratic rights. Currently, the only power we have to formally pass judgment on our elected officials is an election. By having elections less frequently, we’re losing opportunities to hold our local politicians accountable for the decisions they make. While the extra-curricular behaviour of Mayor Rob Ford may be an extreme example, it has left many Torontonians wondering what powers the public has to remove him from office. The silver lining with B.C.’s latest announcement is a promise to study legislative amendments that would make booting problem politicians more feasible. It’s no secret public engagement in municipal politics is low and voter turnout abysmal. Many communities also struggle to find quality municipal candidates. We fear this change will exacerbate both problems. A lot can change in four long years. We don’t want to see good wouldbe politicians deterred by the time commitment of working a low-paying, largely thankless job. The only people we’ve seen advocating for extending the term are politicians themselves, not the public. That’s a sign most British Columbians have been, at the very least, content with the status quo. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? — Victoria News

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Re: Story: No jail time for teen who attacked man with longboard

“I know him quite well, he’s a good kid. “He’s not the same as he was a year ago...” — Anon “Take his skateboard away! Boy, that will teach him.” — D. Fleming

Re: Story: Victim of predator coach explains why she wanted her name made public

“I admire your strength and courage to put your name in public to create awareness and safety for others. “You are amazing! Your efforts will continue to make a difference in the area of sexual assault far beyond today or tomorrow. “I applaud you and your family for taking a stand.” — D. Fleming

Re: Story: Kamloops man who groped kids, adult, sentenced to time served

“Thank you, Tim Petruk for using the appropriate language. “It honours the experience of the victims and places responsibility where it should lie – on the offender.” — Alp

Politics don’t matter in Morse code Editor: Some 30 years ago, I became a ham radio operator. Since then, mostly using Morse code, I have had the pleasure of making friends all over the world. One of the wonders of Morse code is that it allows us to sound pretty much the same as each other. Invisible to us, but quite perceivable to the right electronic equipment, electromagnetic/ electrostatic lines of force connect us together. It is a small world. I can be sitting in front of my radio in Kamloops and share thoughts with another man on the other side of the world. Maybe it has been a cold day in Moscow

— it has also been cold here in Kamloops. A few minutes later, I may have moved off frequency and find myself sharing similar thoughts with a fellow who lives in the Ukraine. I may find out he is the same age and has built his own gear, too. Sometimes I wish

we were only a few miles apart and could meet for coffee. He could come and sit in front of my radio and send Morse code to someone he has never met. Ham radio has made some incredible memories for me. It has also bridged the gap separating total

strangers. Two people might be friends without ever having seen each other. By the stroke of a pen and ideals too old to know their roots, my friends in Moscow and Ukraine have suddenly become sworn enemies. Our politicians in Ottawa decide I am to like my friend in the

Ukraine, but I may not be allowed to communicate with my ham friend in Moscow. Tomorrow, all three of us will awake, talk to our family members, eat and drink, tire and then sleep. The same type of blood cells run through our bodies and supply our cells with oxygen and nutrients. Some of us are atheist, some are Christians and some are Muslim. Some may be social activists, some may care for the poor, some may be wealthy. We seldom, if ever, speak of those types of things. What we share in common is what really matters. John Noakes Kamloops

Stuart Wood closure will be tough on downtown families Editor: The mothers and families living in Elizabeth Court (subsidized low-income housing at First Avenue and St. Paul Street, operated by the Kamloops Elizabeth Fry Society) support the Feb. 27 letter from Amanda Chow (‘Stuart Wood families are being left without a choice’). One of the factors in the location of Elizabeth Court was its proximity to elementary schools. When Elizabeth Court

opened in 2000, Stuart Wood and Lloyd George elementary schools were options for tenants. Mothers appreciate being able walk children to and from school, many do not have cars and it is a safety issue for some. A significant number of students ride bicycles to school and this would be very difficult when attending the Beattie elementary campus up the hill at Columbia Street and McGill Road.

Under the KamloopsThompson school district’s transportation policy for catchment areas, the walk limit for primary students (kindergarten to Grade 3) is four kilometres. The walk limit for students in Grades 4 to 12 is 4.8 kilometres. Even if the catchment area was expanded, many of the present Stuart Wood population would be expected to walk or bicycle up, and cross, Columbia Street, one of the city’s busy arterial roads.

This would make it very difficult for parents from Elizabeth Court and other downtown residents to safely get their children to school. We join Chow in asking that the school district seriously hear our concerns about transportation of our children and the lack of a neighbourhood school in the downtown core. Louise Richards executive director Kamloops Elizabeth Fry Society

Brrrr! Let students wait indoors when it’s cold outside Editor: My children attend kindergarten and Grade 3 in Brocklehurst, It has been a rule for kids to wait outside until the 8:20 a.m. bell rings. However, with recent cold weather, children are freezing in the cold.

This morning, I took them inside to wait until the bell rang and was told to go back outside to the -14 C weather. I refused and was treated rudely by the vice principal. Why doesn’t she come outside with us instead of sitting in her nice warm office?

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COVER PAGE STORY Hillside Centre is a psychiatric facility next to Royal Inland Hospital. According to the provincial government, it “provides services to adult and elderly individuals with acute psychiatric illness who cannot be cared for in the psychiatric system within their own community.” KTW file photo

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• “Facilitate increase of meds for very psychotic violent patients;” • “Due to the unpredictable nature of the patient, staff are unable to eliminate total risk of aggression. Care plan indicates risk and strategies to manage;” • “Be aware of patient combination and appropriate fit of Pod 1 (adult, ambulatory) patients on neuro wing and how this may increase agitation in both the Pod 1 and neuro patients. Staff area not always able to attend immediately to another patient’s needs if they are already engaged in

another patient’s care, this is a reality of all units at Hillside.” Hillside is set up with pods the provincial government has identified as requiring at least three staff members each under its essentialservices language — a requirement that only comes into play during labour action. Code-white alarms are issued when nurses feel a patient “is behaving in a potentially dangerous manner towards himself or others,” according to a document created by the Health Association of B.C., WorkSafe BC and the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare.

WITNESS We are looking for anyone who witnessed a motor vehicle accident that took place in Kamloops on Columbia Street near the intersection at Sahali Terrace, on December 6, 2013. The accident occurred when a mid-sized black car rear-ended a 2008 Ford F-350 pick-up truck. If you have any information regarding this accident, please contact Rick Garner at Gillespie and Company at 250-374-4463. We are looking for anyone who witnessed a white pick-up truck collide with a pedestrian in Merritt at the intersection of Voght Street and Quilchena Avenue, on September 13, 2013. The driver of the white truck is believed to be an older gentlemen with grey hair. If you have any information regarding this accident, please contact Rick Garner at Gillespie and Company at 250-374-4463.

Last year, 66 Code Whites were called at Hillside. After the December incidents, Sandy daSilva, the IHA’s director of tertiary mentalhealthy services, said Code Whites are tools for staff to use to help deal with behaviours — existing or imminent — in the pods. However, Dan Murphy, president of the Union of Psychiatric Nurses and a veteran psychiatric nurse, said he has

never seen a facility with as many Code White alarms as at Hillside. “You’re asking nurses of any age — maybe 20 and 110 pounds, up to 60 [years of age] — to go up and take control of someone with organic brain damage and no control of his impulses. “People are being hurt all the time. The patient usually gets hurt, too,” he said. Murphy said he had been responsible

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‘Nurses have less protection than a policeman’ By Dale Bass

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Nurses at Hillside Centre refused to work in January, citing insufficient staffing levels. WorkSafe BC was called and another nurse was called in, said Tracey Quewzance, the Thompson-North Okanagan representative for the B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU). It’s just one of the ongoing issues between the Interior Health Authority (IHA), which runs the psychiatric facility, the BCNU and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses (UPN). The dispute goes back years and, at its heart, involves debate over the proper staffing level for a facility populated by adults with a variety of serious mental-health issues that, for a majority of them, can lead to acting out and aggression. Both unions have asked for meetings with the IHA, but the last one was in the fall, said

Maureen MacKinlay, the IHA’s director of tertiary acute and rehabilitation mental-health services. One was held in September, with a follow-up in October or November. “I can only say we have provided them with information and have heard their concerns,” MacKinlay said. Adding to the disagreement is a personal-alarm system staff use to call for help that is unreliable, Quewzance said, and has been for about two years, when the supplier shut down. She said system issues include not showing the location of the staffer who triggered it or not causing an alarm to be sent to other staff. This requires rebooting and has left staff lacking confidence in the system, she said. The backup system is using walkie-talkies, MacKinlay confirmed: “Currently, we have no problems with the system.” WorkSafe BC became aware of

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the faulty system about 18 months ago and told the IHA to replace it, Quewzance said, noting more than a year ago the IHA advised the union it had allocated funding and would replace it. “WorkSafe asked again in September and was told it was still out for quotes,” she said. MacKinlay said the IHA money allocated last year wasn’t enough and the process had to be done again to allocate more. “An RFP [request for proposal from potential suppliers] takes time,” she said, adding it issued it recently, although she is unaware of the specific date or the deadline date for submissions. UPN president Dan Murphy said the original amount was $70,000. “And now IHA is saying we don’t have the money? I thought safety trumps all.” Murphy, himself a veteran psychiatric nurse, said there are many facilities in B.C. and Canada with similar systems that work well. He

said that reality should have made the search for a supplier easier for the IHA. Murphy said that, along with the patient who attacked a nurse in December, every other patient in the pod — the term Hillside uses for its different areas — had also been designated aggressive. “And that patient shouldn’t have been on the ward.” MacKinlay declined to respond to Murphy’s concerns, citing patient privacy. Murphy said the nurse involved in the incident returned to Hillside recently and comments directed to her by management upset her. He said another nurse spoke up to defend her and was suspended. MacKinlay also declined to discuss the allegations, again citing personnel privacy. She reiterated assertions made by the IHA in recent months, that staffing is adequate at Hillside. “It has the highest level of staffing for a facility like this in the province,” MacKinlay said.

She said staffing is based on acuity and census — how many patients are in each pod and how ill they are. “And if we can’t manage due to a high level of aggressiveness, we involve the RCMP,” MacKinlay said. She said Hillside deals with “a highly complex patient group.” She said the centre’s Code White system — used to determine when a nurse needs help when dealing with an aggressive patient — is a good tool that helps the staff. MacKinlay said staff have been able to use verbal-strategy training to talk down many agitated and aggressive patients. Murphy said the situation at Hillside is bad. “These nurses have less protection than a policeman has,” he said. “They’ve seen so much up there and they don’t feel supported — and they don’t want to work there anymore.”

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Farnworth first in for B.C. NDP leadership By Tom Fletcher

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After finishing a close second to Adrian Dix in 2011, Mike Farnworth said he is running for NDP leader to correct the party’s mistakes of 2013. Offering “a progressive alternative

that can win an election,” the longtime Port Coquitlam MLA referred to the NDP campaign choice to run mostly upbeat advertising to promote a platform with few specifics. “Under my watch, the B.C. NDP will never fight an election with one hand

tied behind its back,” Farnworth said in an opening statement released by his campaign on Sunday, March 2. “We’ll be tough on the issues and hold the B.C. Liberals to account for their disastrous record, while being clear about what we

would do differently.” Farnworth also gave a hint of a more prodevelopment stance for the party, which has opposed oil pipelines, and offered lukewarm support to liquefied natural-gas development. “Under my leadership, the B.C. NDP will stand firmly for a

strong and diversified economy that provides family-supporting jobs and builds shared prosperity,” Farnworth said. Dix won the leadership by a narrow margin in 2011, after several rounds of voting left Farnworth with 48 per cent of participating party members.

B.C. Court of Appeal upholds roadside suspensions By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS

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B.C. police will continue to impose 90-day driving suspensions and seize vehicles of drivers who fail a breath alcohol test after a constitutional challenge was turned away on Monday, March 3, by the B.C. Court of Appeal. “It’s a matter of public safety on our roads and so we’re carrying on with the immediate roadside-

prohibition program,” Attorney General Suzanne Anton said. The law was challenged by six drivers who had either blown a “fail” reading on a roadside blood-alcohol screening device or refused to blow. The court found the roadside suspensions do not supplant the Criminal Code, under which police still have the option of laying impaired driving charges. “The legislation

does not create a criminal or quasi-criminal proceeding, nor does it lead to true penal consequences” when it allows licence suspensions, penalties and impound fees, three appeal court justices agreed. The immediate roadside-prohibition program took effect in 2010, replacing most impaired-driving charges with administrative penalties, including a three-day driving ban and a $200

administrative fee for those who register between 0.05 and 0.08, if the police officer has reason to believe the driver is impaired. For those who blow in the “impaired” range of 0.08 or higher, police have the option of imposing a 90-day driving ban, a $500 penalty and impounding the vehicle for 30 days instead of laying a charge. Towing and impounding a vehicle can result in a $700

bill and a $1,400 mandatory responsibledriver program may also be required before the driver’s licence is returned. After an initial court challenge, the law was amended to require police to offer a second roadside test to anyone who fails and to advise drivers they can appeal their suspension to the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles.

After a string of newly elected MLAs bowed out, Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan has been reconsidering his decision not

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LOCAL NEWS CHARGE IN STABBING A Kamloops man charged following a stabbing at a downtown house party on Feb. 26 is due to appear in court later this week. Zane Matthew Kahpeaysewat, 28, is facing one count of aggravated assault. He’s been in custody since his arrest shortly after a 30-year-old man was stabbed at 727 Douglas St. in South Kamloops. Police said the stabbing occurred just after 7 p.m. on Feb. 26. The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition and underwent emergency surgery. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush told KTW this week she was unable to provide a further update on the victim’s condition. Kahpeaysewat has a bail hearing in Kamloops provincial court slated for Thursday, March 6. Mounties were at the scene (left) the day after the incident to gather evidence. Dave Eagles/KTW

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City cooking up changes in Riverside By Andrea Klassen STAFF REPORTER

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A new company will be doling out fries and pop at the Riverside Park concession stand this summer. Wendy Snelling, the city’s business operations supervisor, told KTW Compass Group Canada Ltd., which provides food at Interior Savings Centre, McArthur Island and the Tournament Capital Ranch, as well as in the park, opted to pull out of its three-year contract for Riverside at the end of 2013. Under the terms of the contact, Compass would provide food at the park concession for three years, with the option for two one-year extensions, and pay the city 10 per cent of all profits from the operation.

Snelling said Compass didn’t feel the deal was working for them in the park as well as it is in other venues. “I think they were feeling that they were perhaps a little more stretched than they wanted to be,” she said. “There are other things that go on within the park. We have grandfather clauses that don’t allow them that exclusivity — Canada Day, for example.” The city has put out a request for proposals (RFP) for a new food vendor in Riverside Park and hopes to make a decision by the end of March and get new operators in place in time for warmer weather, Snelling said. While that could mean setting up an agreement along the lines of what Compass had, Snelling said

the city is looking at the change in providers as an opportunity to increase the number of food options in the park. Instead of running only the concession, companies also have the option to manage the city’s increasing number of mobile food businesses when they come into city parks. “We’ve had some inquiries in terms of wanting a more diverse menu than just the concession can supply,” Snelling said. “And sometimes, with some of the larger events, the concession is inadequate. “So, what we’re looking at is trying to keep our options open as much as possible, just to see what’s out there.” The city’s RFP closes on March 17.

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TRU lecture on air quality and Ajax’s possible impact Is there an economic cost to air pollution? Peter Tsigaris, a professor at Thompson Rivers University, will address that question on Sunday, March 9, in the TRU Clocktower Alumni Theatre. Using data from Kamloops, from Canada and from around the world, Tsigaris will analyze the cost of deteriorating air quality in Kamloops, including a

“valuation” of potential health impacts resulting from the proposed Ajax mine. The lecture, What are the possible economic costs of increased air pollution in Kamloops?, will start at 2 p.m. and admission is free. Daylight saving time will have begun, to attendees are reminded to set their clocks the night before.

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Police briefs: Mountie talks distraught man off bridge A Kamloops Mountie used midnight conversation to talk a man down from Overlanders Bridge on Friday night (Feb. 28). Cpl. Cheryl Bush said police received a report of a man threatening to jump from the bridge, which spans the South Thompson River at Riverside Park, connecting downtown and the North Shore. When police arrived, Bush said, the distraught man was standing on the outer edge of the railing, in the middle of the bridge, threatening to jump. Bush said the officer spoke to the man about his problems and was able to convince him to climb back over the railing. Police then drove the man to Royal Inland Hospital for a medical assessment.

scary crash on Friday night (Feb. 28) uninjured — but with a 24-hour driving prohibition.

Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush said the elderly man was driving on Summit Drive at about

8 p.m. when he lost control on a corner. He then drove his vehicle through a guard

rail and over a retaining wall, coming to rest next to a townhouse complex. Bush said the driver

walked away from the crash unscathed. Mounties found him at his home, which is

near the scene of the crash. There was only minor damage to the guard rail and vehicle.

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A Kamloops Mountie tying to get a breath sample from a woman driving a vehicle ended up fighting off her angry husband behind a North Kamloops pub on Saturday night. Staff Sgt. Fran Bethell said the officer was doing a regular patrol along the back alley behind the Rock ‘n Firkin Pub on Sydney Avenue when he saw a woman driving a vehicle. The officer stopped and spoke to her and felt she had been drinking. While trying to get a sample of her breath in a roadside screening device, Bethell said, her husband, who had been drinking in the pub, came outside. Bethell said he was verbally abusive and attacked the officer, hitting and punching him. For several minutes, the officer fought the suspect while bystanders watched and recorded the melee with their smartphones. Other officers arrived and helped arrest the man. The suspect and two Mounties suffered injuries. The Kamloops man is facing charges of assaulting a police officer and causing a disturbance.

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Cuban ambassador to speak in Kamloops

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The 11th annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Contest was held on the weekend in the Trades and Technology Building at Thompson Rivers University. Winners included Blaine Plowe and Brad Young (above) of Sa-Hali secondary, secondary winners with a weight load of 131.4 kilograms, and Chaz and Levi Purves (left), who finished first and second, respectively, in the elementary category, with weight loads of 85.6 and 82 kilograms. Open-category winners were Ryan Watson and Kieren O’Neil (165.8 kilograms, while Andrew Watson won the corporate title (181.2 kilograms).

Cuban ambassador Julio Garmendia Pena will speak at Thompson Rivers University on Friday, March 7. Also speaking will be Miraly Gonzalez Gonzalez, first secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Canada. Pena will be speaking on Cuba today, 55 years after Fidel Castro led a revolution that led to an American blockade of the Caribbean island. Gonzalez will speak about the Cuban 5, investigators who went to the U.S. years ago to look into attacks being planned against Cuba. When they reported their information to the American government, hoping for help to avoid the attacks, the five were arrested for espionage. Three remain in prison; two were recently released. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Irving K. Barber Centre on campus and is free to attend. The visit is being co-sponsored by the TRU Socialists’ Club, the Kamloops and District Labour Council and the Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver.

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Cotter’s heroics lift B.C. to victory By Marty Hastings STAFF REPORTER

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IM COTTER came through in the clutch for B.C. at the Tim Hortons Brier on Sunday, March 2, at Interior Savings Centre. With the last rock in the 10th end, the Kamloops product played a superb shot, scoring three to lift the host province to an 8-6 win over Nova Scotia. “It was a raise or an angle. That’s a shot where it’s a coin flip and you go with what your skip’s feeling and he was feeling the outturn angle,’ said John Morris, the B.C. skip who throws third stones for the host team. “It was great to hear the local fans come to life at the end there and it was great for Jimmy

to feel that roar.” B.C. was sitting alone in second place at 3-1 heading into Draw 7, set to square off with P.E.I. after KTW’s press deadline on Monday, March 3. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com for the result. Morris, Cotter, the third who throws fourth stones for B.C., second Tyrel Griffith and lead Rick Sawatsky had Monday morning off. ISC was not quite half full on Sunday night and the fans in attendance were silenced in the second end when Nova Scotia scored four. Earlier Sunday,

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Quebec tallied four in the first end against B.C. and went on to win 7-4. “If it wasn’t for a couple four-enders, we would have had a halfdecent day,” Morris told reporters with a smile. “I think that’s the first time in a month we’ve given up one four-ender, let alone two in a day. “It was a characterbuilder because we hung tough and really had to grind it out. It’s a W and you take it.” Nova Scotia was winless at 0-3 heading into Monday’s action.

Manitoba was the only remaining unbeaten team at 4-0. There were complaints made about the condition of the ice at ISC on opening day (Saturday, March 1), but Cotter said the sheets had improved on Sunday. “The first day I don’t think I’ve ever been to a major event where the ice has been fabulous out of the gates,” the NorKam secondary graduate said. “There’s always tweaking. It was pretty good today.”

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It held up just fine when the draw was on the line. “We knew the shot,” Cotter said. “We knew that outturn real good. Just come out, throw it clean, give it to the boys and they swept it great. “We made it.” RIGHT: The Tim Hortons Brier round-robin standings heading into Draw 6, which finished after KTW’s press deadline on Monday, March 3. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com for the latest. BELOW: The Brier draw for today (March 4).

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Blazers’ long road trip ends with lopsided defeat

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Aiden Silzer-Hooker leads the Kamloops Storm up ice against the Sicamous Eagles in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoff action at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre on Thursday, Feb. 27. After dropping Game 1 of the best-of-seven Doug Birks Division semifinal, the Storm rattled off three straight victories, including two on the weekend in Sicamous — 5-2 on Friday, Feb. 28, and 5-2 on Saturday, March 1. Kamloops, up 3-1, had a chance to win the series at McArthur on Monday, March 3, in a game played after KTW’s press deadline. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com for the result. Should Game 6 be necessary, it will be played tonight (March 4) in Sicamous. In the other Doug Birks Division semifinal, the 100 Mile House Wranglers led the Chase Heat 3-1, with Game 5 slated for Monday at Art Holding Memorial in Chase. Allen Douglas/KTW

Titans’ junior girls win silver at provincials The South Kamloops Titans won silver at the BC Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association junior championships at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday, March 1. Riverside of Port Coquitlam topped South Kamloops 46-32 in the gold-medal tilt. Rachel Peters of

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the Titans was named the tournament’s most outstanding defensive player.

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senior girls’ basketball team will begin their quest for a provincial championship on Wednesday, March 5, facing the Mark Isfeld Ice of Courtenay to open the AA tournament in Langley. The Sabres are ranked No. 10 in the championship, while the Ice are ranked No. 7.

The Kamloops Blazers returned home from a gruelling road trip on Sunday morning (March 2). Kamloops left the River City on Feb. 20 and made stops in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Red Deer, Calgary and Medicine Hat, with its only win coming against the Thunderbirds on Feb. 22. On Saturday, March 1, Medicine Hat had no mercy on the road-weary visitors, disposing of Kamloops 7-1. The Blue and Orange will enjoy some much-needed rest before finishing a stretch of 10 straight road games, playing the Giants in Vancouver on Wednesday, March 5, then heading to Vancouver Island for a pair of tilts against the Victoria Royals — on Friday, March 7, and

Saturday, March 8. Kamloops’ next home game is slated for March 12, when the Kelowna Rockets are in town. Interior Savings Centre is occupied by the Tim Hortons Brier until March 9. The Blazers are

last in the Western Conference with a record of 13-48-23 and sit two points up on the league’s last-place team, the Lethbridge Hurricanes (12-50-2-3).

Roster moves

Defenceman Cam

Reagan and forward Deven Sideroff, both 16, have joined the Blazers and will remain with the club until season’s end. There are 26 players on the Blazers’ roster, including three goaltenders, eight defencemen and 15 forwards.

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In his talk, Dr. Peter Tsigaris will explore an economic valuation of the potential health impact of a deteriorating air quality in Kamloops, including the possible impact of the Ajax mine. Our own lifestyle & technology, existing industries, & new projects such as the Ajax mine produce benefits to producers and consumers around the world, but economic activity often comes with external/social costs. Here, Dr. Tsigaris will attempt to provide some insights & make recommendations into this important issue for the community.

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TRU sent packing from Canada West basketball playoffs The hometown Alberta Pandas clawed through the TRU WolfPack with ease in the Canada West quarter-final round, sweeping the best-ofthree series 2-0. “I really feel bad for the girls,” WolfPack head coach Scott Reeves said. “They fought so hard, but we couldn’t get our offence going. Alberta deserves full credit for the wins this weekend. They are a great team, well coached and have veteran leaders who can get the job done.” The Pandas ran away with Game 2 in Edmonton on Saturday, March 1, hammering the WolfPack 97-44. Kassie Colonna led TRU in scoring

with 11 points, while six Alberta players reached double digits. The Pandas cruised to a 79-48 victory in Game 1 in Edmonton on Friday, Feb. 28, Alberta, which is hosting the Final Four next weekend, has won 21 straight games. The WolfPack will return all but one of their players next season, with Rae-Maryse Laljee being the only TRU player graduating this year. TRU made the playoffs for the third consecutive season, finishing fourth in the Pacific Division with a record of 13-9.

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doubles duo of Lacey Banman and Anica Arduini posted a 1-5 record at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association national badminton championships in Edmonton on the weekend. They did not

advance to the championship round. TRU ended on a high note, beating Sunwen Metler and Kristen Visser of Mount Allison University. The WolfPack finished fifth at the

tournament, held at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). Powin Lau and Jessica Yu of the hometown NAIT Ooks won the women’s doubles title on Saturday, March 1.

Whundas wonderful at West Zones, advance to provincials The Westsyde Whundas are West Zone champions in both boys’ and girls’ Grade 8 basketball. Both teams won their championship games last week. The boys defeated the South

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Kamloops Titans 60-58 in overtime, with Nathan Strank leading the way with 34 points. In the girls’ game, the Whundas defeated the Brock Broncs 50-23. Ryallie Jorgensen led the Whundas

with 14 points. Both Westsyde teams, along with the girls’ squad from Brock, qualified for the Grade 8 Invitational Provincial Championships, which get underway on Thursday, March 6, in Pitt Meadows.

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Trip down memory lane for Stoughton By Adam Williams STAFF REPORTER

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Jeff Stoughton has been here before. He has been in the hack at Interior Savings Centre — though at the time it was called Riverside Coliseum — worn the Manitoba yellow, made winning calls in tight games and hoisted the Tim Hortons Brier Tankard. Eighteen years ago, when the Brier first came to Kamloops — and a 21-year-old Jim Cotter sat in the stands as a spectator — Stoughton won his first Brier championship, defeating curling icon Kevin Martin 8-7 in an 11-end final. Nearly 20 years later, and now one of Canada’s winningest curlers, Stoughton returns to Kamloops an icon himself, with his name engraved on the Tankard three times — 1999 in Edmonton and 2011 in London, along with 1996 in Kamloops. As he left the ice after his first draw on Saturday, March 1, boasting a 7-5 victory over Prince Edward Island, Stoughton reflected on being back in the Tournament Capital. “It’s good,” Stoughton said. “Lots

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of great memories. The place was rocking for the final and hopefully we can get there again and get the same outcome.” The 2014 Brier is Stoughton’s 11th, having also appeared in the Canadian national championship in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. He had 88 Brier victories to his credit before throwing a single stone this year. Despite how much time has passed since that ’96 Brier, Kamloops will always

be the city where Stoughton first tasted victory and, though the memories are a little spotty nearly 20 years later, some things still stick out. “I know the closing weekend, the last three draws that we played, were packed,” he said. “I think it was the only time when an opposition guy made a great shot and I thought the roof was going to come off. “It was kind of too bad, because it was against us,” he continued, “I thought the roof was coming off

and I actually got chills from that experience, because it was so loud. So, hopefully, it will be like that again for this weekend and next weekend.” It wasn’t just Stoughton that got chills that weekend. Cotter, from Kamloops, still remembers being in the stands, watching the final between Martin and the Manitoba skip. “What really stands out is Stoughton’s team,” Cotter said. “They just played phenomenal all week. “I think watching

them celebrate at the end really stands out for me. It was like, ‘I would love to be in those shoes one day.’” Ironically, B.C.’s road to the Brier championship goes through Stoughton and Team Manitoba. The teams square off in round-robin play on Thursday, March 6. Draw time is 8:30 a.m. B.C. was second in the Brier standings at 3-1 at KTW’s press deadline on Monday, March 3, behind Stoughton’s rink, the only unbeaten quartet, at 4-0.

Speed-skiing event returns to Sun Peaks Skiers eclipsing the 175-kilometres-per-hour mark will fly down the Headwalls run this week at the Sun Peaks FIS Speed Skiing World Cup. “Headwalls is simply too short to reach the world-record speed,” race organizer Adam Earle said. “That being said, racers will still be reaching speeds over 175 km/h in around

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Canadian cinematic gold for film society The Olympics may be done, but the Celebrate Canada theme will continue with the 18th annual Kamloops Film Festival, which opens at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, March 6. Among the Canadian works the festival society has opted for this year are: • Oil Sands Karaoke, filmed in Fort McMurray, focuses on some of the people who work in the Athabasca tar sands as they prepare for a karaoke contest at Bailey’s Pub, a popular gathering place in the Stonebridge Hotel. The 83-minute film looks at five oil-patch workers, why they work there, what they think of the controversy — and why they want to win the karaoke contest. • Sex After Kids, starring Paul Amos and Shannon Beckner as newlyweds trying to adjust to a new baby, with various other parents weighing in with their own advice. • Cas & Dylan, directed by Jason Priestley, is a comedy/drama about a dying doctor (Richard Dreyfuss) who somehow ends up on the run with a 22-year-old (Tatiana Maslany). The movie won the Audience Award at the Whistler Film Festival. • If I Had Wings was shot in Langley and stars Richard Harmon as a teen who dreams of joining his school’s cross-country track team and of flying. Neither seem likely because he has been blind since he was two years old. With the help of a First Nations youth, the teen faces his challenges. • Whitewash stars Thomas Haden Church as a snowplow operator who accidentally kills a man during a drunken joyride. He hides the body and goes on the run from authorities — and his own conscience. • The Husband is about Henry (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), who must look after his infant son after his wife (Sarah Allen) is sent to prison for cheating on him with a 14-year-old. Henry accidentally meets the youth and it sends him spiralling into disaster. • No Clue stars Brent Butt as a detective trying to help a femme fatale (Amy Smart) find her missing brother. • Siddharth is the story of a man who sends his young son out for work, but learns the boy has been kidnapped by child traffickers. He sets out across India to rescue his child.

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Le Weekend (below) is playing on Monday, March 10. Siddharth (bottom right) and Finding Vivian Maier (bottom left) are both being shown on Friday, March 14.

• That Burning Feeling is a comedy about a real-estate hotshot coming to terms with a social disease he somehow acquired during one of his one-night stands. The movie shared the Best Canadian Feature award at the Vancouver International Film Festival with Rhymes for Young Ghouls. Other films on the schedule include: • The Broken Circle Breakdown, a Belgium/Netherlands production about a couple who love each other despite their many differences. Their daughter becomes seriously ill and their love is challenged. X See FESTIVAL A23

tt3063462/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt • Whitewash Saturday, March 8, 7 p.m. Website: imdb.com/title/ tt2297063/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Trailer: youtube.com/ watch?v=xXRo5YPx_DA • The Broken Circle Breakdown Sunday, March 9, 3 p.m.

Website: thebrokencirclebreakdown.be/ en Trailer: imdb.com/video/screenplay/ vi525314329?ref_=tt_pv_vi_1 • The Husband Sunday, March 9, 7 p.m. Website: tiff.net/filmsandschedules/ festival/2013/thehusband Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/

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• Le Week-End, a British comedy/drama, stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a couple trying to put the spark back in their marriage by a trip to Paris on their 30th wedding anniversary — where they run into an old friend (Jeff Goldblum). • The Past, a France/Italy production of an Iranian man who leaves his French wife and their children to return to his homeland. He returns when his wife, who has begun dating an Arab, files for divorce. The film was nominated for one of the top prizes at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for best foreign-language film in this year’s Golden Globe Awards. • Gloria, a Spain/Chile production, is about a free-spirited, but lonely, woman who meets a man at a dance club. It has been nominated in the foreign-language category in this year’s Academy Awards. • Finding Vivian Maier, directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, is the story of a street photographer whose work, more than 100,000 photographs, was not discovered until her death in 2009. Tickets are at Bookland (685 Tranquille Rd.), Moviemart (520 Seymour St.) and the student-union desk in the Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University. The Paramount Theatre, 503 Clockwise from top: Whitewash, sharing the schedule with Victoria St., will screen all films. two others on Satuarday, March 8, If I Had Wings, one For more information, go online to of three films being shown on Saturaday, March 8. The kamloopsfilmfest.ca. Husband, showing on Sunday, March 9.

Off-screen info Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors and $5 for TRU students. Discounts are available when several are bought at the same time — $1 per ticket for six to nine purchased and $2 per ticket for 10 or more. Discounts are not available for TRU tickets. Purchase tickets at Bookland, 685 Tranquille Rd., Moviemart, 520 Seymour St., and at the TRU Student Union desk in the Campus Activity Centre, the only location selling the TRU rate. A $2 Kamloops Festival Society membership is required; they can be bought at either ticket location or at the Paramount Theatre before each film.

vi1685170457?ref_=tt_pv_vi_1 • Le Week-End Monday, March 10, 7 p.m. Website: curzonfilmworld.com/cinemas/ leweekend/ Trailer: imdb.com/video/imdb/ vi3766069529?ref_=tt_pv_vi_1 • The Past Tuesday, March 11, 7 p.m.

Website: sonyclassics.com/thepast/ Trailer: vimeo.com/64293289 • Gloria Wednesday, March 12, 7 p.m. Website: gloriamovie.com/ Trailer: sonyclassics.com/thepast/ • No Clue Thursday, March 13, 7 p.m. Website: brentbutt.com/home/

The show must go on Q and A sessions will be held after some of the films, including: • Oil Sands Karaoke: Director Charles Wilkinson and Rudy Buttignol, commissioning producer of the film, will host; • Sex After Kids: Star Paul Amos will lead a discussion on the movie’s topic — the love lives of parents; • If I Had Wings: Allan, Cynde, Richard and Jessica Harmon and Genevieve Buechner and Lorne Cardinal will talk about the Canadian film industry; • Gloria: Oops Cafe, 274 Third Ave., will host a casual discussion period after the film; • That Burning Question: Producer-director Jason James will talk about making a first feature film; • After James’ session, a wrap-up party will be held. All but the Gloria discussion are at Hotel 540, 540 Victoria St. Trailer: youtube.com/ watch?v=CH2wFY7yCqw • Siddharth Friday, March 14, 7 p.m. Website: siddharththefilm.com/#news Trailer: youtube.com/ watch?v=C34mVe0efL4 • Finding Vivian Maier Saturday, March 15, 3 p.m.

Website: findingvivianmaier.com/ Finding_Vivian_Maier/Movie.html Trailer: youtube.com/ watch?v=2o2nBhQ67Zc • That Burning Feeling Saturday, March 15, 7 p.m. Website: thatburningfeelingmovie.com/ Trailer: vimeo.com/70895061

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Cooper, Purcha names you’ll hear again KTW’s Dale Bass attended and reviewed the Beaux Stratagem, playing now at TRU By Dale Bass

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The renowned Straford Festival is presenting The Beaux Stratagem this summer at its Stratford, Ont., theatre — such is the respect this Restorationperiod comedy engenders. First performed in the early 1700s, the George Farquhar work embodies its era, with its explicit sexual references, mockery of nobility and broad, farcical comedy. The production, now on at Thompson Rivers University, does credit to the play. Director Heidi Verwey has moved the setting from the countryside, putting everyone onto a riverboat run by a man (Nich Gulycz) we soon realize has questionable ethics. The set dominates the Black Box Theatre, is lit perfectly and even the scene changes are a sight to behold. Verwey cast Andrew Cooper and Wyatt Purcha as the two friends who take on different identities to woo wealthy women. The pairing is perfect, with the steady pace Purcha brings to Tom Aimwell and the physicality Cooper gives to Jack Archer. Remember those names; you’ll surely hear them again. They pursue the anticipated treasure to be found in the room

of the Lady Bountiful (Allandra Barton in a comedic performance to remember), but realize they are falling in love with Bountiful’s daughter (Meagan Petrie) and daughter-in-law (Jessica Buchanan). Brooke Ballam was impressive in TRU’s earlier production, Gossip, and here, he shows there is an abundance of talent developing. While not as overtly physical as Cooper, Ballam is equally as funny as the Bountiful’s son. Add in some highwaymen who are behind the upand-coming thievery (Josh Sunderman, Joel Feenstra and Erik Stephany), the boat owner’s daughter (Kat Misko), who wants out of the business, and an Ever-Ready bunny-liked servant (Krysty Craig, who seemed constantly plugged into some heavy-duty wiring), and you have a couple of hours of comedy. Rounding out the cast are others who have their own interactions to move the story

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Performing arts festival to offer musical sessions The Kamloops Festival of Performing Arts begins this weekend and runs throughout the week. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions ranging from dance to guitar will be provided to the public from Sunday, March 9, to Friday, March 14. Dance sessions will be held at Sagebrush Theatre on Sunday, March 9, through to Tuesday, March 11, at 9:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. They will also be provided on March 12 and 13 at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. and at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on March 14. A contemporary dance workshop will be held at Sagebrush Theatre from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on March 11, and a stage workshop will be held at 3:30 p.m. at Sagebrush Theatre on March 14. Strings sessions will all be held at St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian. On March 9, they will begin at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. They will also be provided at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on March 10 and 11 and at 9 a.m. on March 12. A guitar session will be held at St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Presbyterian at 3 p.m. on March 11 along with instrumental sessions at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on March 12 at Southwest Community Church. The honours concert will be held at Sagebrush Theatre at 2 p.m. on March 16. Entry to individual sessions are $2 each, with a $10 ticket allowing patrons admission to all events. Tickets for the honours concert are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the door, at Long and McQuade, Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music or at Accent Inns. Children under the age of six are free.

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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Gordon Patrick Chow of Kamloops, BC. It is with great sadness that the family of Wendy Ann Wiebe announces her passing at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2014 at G & M Trailer Park. There are people that we meet in life that make everything magical. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cherish Themâ&#x20AC;? Email inquiries to: celebratewendywiebe@ gmail.com

There will be a Funeral Service for Mr. Chow on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 11:00 am in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel with Interment to follow at Hillside Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to R.A. (Allan) Schrader Alternative Funeral and Cremation Services 250-554-2324

MILDRED ADELAIDE CASEY (nee Worsfold) June 27, 1922 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; February 15, 2014 We are saddened to announce that our much loved mother passed away peacefully at Pine Grove Care Centre, Kamloops, BC. Mildred will be sadly missed by her children, Dorothy Morrison, Carol (Ernst) Blum, Gail (Ed) Kowalski, Larry (Lynn Roste) Casey, Jeanie Casey and Robert (Frieda) Casey all of Kamloops. She leaves behind 15 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren (1 expected at any moment). She is also survived by her sister Lorah Read, her sisters-in-law, Olive, Arlene and Dorothy Worsfold and Peggy Dyer, and an extended family of nieces and nephews and many friends and acquaintances. Mildred was predeceased by her husband Fred Raymond (Ray) Casey (1993), her daughter Alice (Aldo) Pulice (2001), two grandchildren, her parents, Jesse and Adelaide Worsfold, Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, Fred and Hecla Casey and her 5 brothers (Bill, Ted, Howard, Don and Ken Worsfold), two sisters (Beatrice Worsfold and Bernice Gotobed), sisters-in-law, Eva Worsfold and Anna Worsfold and brothers-in-law Stanley Casey, Earnie Gotobed, Jim Green and Aylmer Read. Mildred was the second child of Jesse H. and Adelaide E. Worsfold. She was born in Stettler, Alberta and lived in the small town of Big Valley for 5 years before moving to Kamloops in the spring of 1927. Mildred married the love of her life, Fred Raymond (Ray) Casey in September 1943 after which they moved to Knouff Lake Fishing Resort. They lived there eight years before moving to Kamloops in 1951. They moved to Kelowna in 1952 and back to Kamloops in 1955. Before her marriage, Mildred worked as a bookkeeper at N.S. Dalgleish and Sons on the corner of 2nd and Victoria Street where the Royal Bank now stands. She joined Eastern Star Adah Chapter 16 in 1974 and held many offices including Worthy Matron (1982-83). In 1993 and 1994 she was Grand Representative to the Grand Chapter of Nevada in BC. In 1994, Mildred travelled to Las Vegas and to General Grand Chapter in Memphis, Tenn. Mildred was a member of St. Georges Church where, before her marriage, she taught Sunday school. Later, she sang in the Church choir. At one point, she was a member of the Bel Canto Choir. Her hobbies included sewing, knitting, crocheting, plastic canvas, cross stitching, quilt making, drape making, reading, Scrabble and card games. She especially enjoyed working on the Worsfold family history. Mildred was a hardworking, strong willed woman and accepting of whatever life brought her way. For those who knew her, they were always met with a dazzling smile and a warm greeting. The family wishes to express their gratitude to Dr. Montalbetti and the caring staff at Pine Grove for their kindness and compassion throughout Mildredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence there. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Variety Club, The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Charity, 4300 Still Creek Dr., Burnaby BC, V5C 6C6 in Mildredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory. Cremation arrangements have been entrusted to Schoening Funeral Service. A celebration of Mildredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life will be held on Saturday March 8 at 2 p.m. at Schoening Funeral Service, 513 Seymour Street, Kamloops. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com.

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ARMANDO ALTERIO Feb. 1, 1942 - February 22, 2014

Condolences and tributes may be directed to the family by visiting www.nunes-pottinger.com. Arrangements entrusted to NunesPottinger Funeral Service & Crematorium, Oliver & Osoyoos.

Mary Agnes Lee passed away peacefully at Berwick on the Park at the wonderful age of 100. She was predeceased by her first husband Lloyd Cosgrove, her second husband Jim Lee and her grandson Perry Cosgrove.

It was Mom’s request that no service be held at this time. A special family gathering will be held in the spring in Surrey at graveside. A tremendous thank you goes to all of the staff at Berwick on the Park. Their incredible care and loving attention was very much appreciated by Mom and her family throughout the eleven years that Mom resided in Berwick.

He will be lovingly remembered by his loving wife June, Daughters Rose (John) of Kamloops, BC, Annie (Clayton) of Stony Plain AB, Elizabeth (Barry) of Quesnel, BC, and Son John (April) of Sardis, BC. Grandchildren Angila (Roger) of Courtney, BC, Alicia (Jeff) of Aldergrove, BC, Alexander (Shannon) of Surrey, BC, Clayton (Nicole) of Edmonton, AB, Stacey of Kelowna, BC, Shawn of Fort McMurray, AB, Scott of Prince George, BC. Great Grandchildren Andrew, Matthew, George, Sara, Nathaniel, Emily, and Great Great Grandson Christopher. He was predeceased in 2008 by his Grandson Rodney Medley. A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday March 9th 2014 at 11 AM at Schoenings Funeral Chapel, 513 Seymour Street, Kamloops, BC. A Celebration of Life reception will follow at 12:00 in the Schoening chapel tea room. Should friends desire, in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation in His memory. The family would like to extend their sincere thanks and gratitude to Doctor Stinson, and all of the Nurse’s and medical staff on Ward 4 North at Royal Inland Hospital for their outstanding care, compassion, and understanding during his final days. “and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelations 21:4 NAS Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

Ralph will be lovingly remembered by his wife Margaret Jordens and her children Mike (Courteney Neufeld) Jordens and their children Xander and Gemma and Chrissy (Randy) Lougheed and their daughter Arya; his children Faye (Loni) Hoium and their children Kelton, Ketter and Kenzie, Trent (Lisa) Jordens and their children Emersyn, Sophia and Maya, Marty (Danielle) Jordens and their children Asher and Hayla and Crystal (Peter) Mantei and their children Parker, Quinn and Cohen, brother Jerry (Janie) Jordens and sister Gloria (Hugh) Sutcliffe along with numerous nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Ralph’s life was held on Sunday, March 2, 2014 in Kamloops.

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Amici e vini sono meglio vecchie. “Old friends and old wine are best.”

Mr John Nagy passed away peacefully at Kamloops, BC on February 28, 2014 at the age of 87 years. He was born in Budapest Hungary on August 12, 1926. He arrived in Halifax Nova Scotia in 1951 after travelling to Canada aboard the SS Nelly Refugee Immigration Ship. He immediately travelled west to Ashcroft, BC eventually settling in Kamloops.

Ralph is predeceased by his father and mother, Gerald and Margaret Jordens; brother Michael Jordens and sister Jacqueline Fredlund.

Mary is lovingly remembered by her daughter Edie (Larry) and her son Neil (Geri) and Jim’s daughters Mary (Howard), Jacquie, and his sons David (Maureen) and Herb, as well as grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

From your family, you fought so hard, no more suffering, be at peace now... you did your best!

August 12, 1926 – February 28, 2014

Mr. Ralph Joseph Jordens of Kamloops, British Columbia passed away on February 25, 2014 at the age of 66 years. He was born on January 7, 1948 in Whitewood, Saskatchewan.

January 21, 1914 – February 6, 2014

With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Armando Alterio on February 22, 2014 after a long courageous battle with cancer. Armando is now at peace. Predeceased by his mother Generosa Baldassarre; father Sebastiano Alterio of Italy and brother Domenico Alterio of Venezuela. Armando is survived by his wife of 47 years, Rosa Alterio (nee Cuglietta); two daughters Genny (Jared) of Kamloops, BC and Nadia (Cory) of Kelowna, BC; grandson Matteo; sister Massima (Claudio); brother Francesco; nieces Elisabetta, Paola and their daughters plus many cousins in Italy and his two nieces in Caracas, Venezuela. He was born in the town of Navelli, Province of L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. As a young man, Armando followed his brother and joined the Vigili del Fuoco in the 36 Corso (Department of fires) as a firefighter. He immigrated to Canada in July 1965 to Kitimat, BC to work as a carpenter/finisher. Married in 1967, moved to Kamloops, BC in June 1972 to start and raise a family. Living in Kamloops for thirty years, he worked for the BC Ministry of Forests. He then started with the British Columbia Buildings Corporation on September 1, 1977 until his retirement on May 31, 2002. Working in the Thompson Okanagan Kootenay Region, including Corrections KRCC District Kamloops. In 2003, he and Rosa wanted to retire in wine country and picked Osoyoos, BC. They spent their winter’s snowbirding to Mesa, Arizona. Armando devoted many hours as a member of the Italian Columbo Lodge in Kamloops. After moving to Osoyoos in 2003, he became an active member of the Osoyoos Golf & Country Club where he regularly joined his friends for men’s night. Armando was very passionate about working in the garden so his family would have an abundance of nutritious fruits and vegetables. His love for restoring furniture and carpentry combined with his strong work ethic and incredible eye for detail made him an extraordinary man of his trade. He could build or fix just about anything Armando also enjoyed watching boxing, hockey and golf. He was an avid golfer with an impressive ability to hit a ball with incredible precision and skill. He will be missed dearly by his family and friends near and far especially his little dog companion Teaka. The Alterio family would like to express many thanks to the following: the Kelowna Cancer Clinic, Penticton Oncology Dept., Osoyoos Health Unit, South Okanagan General Hospital Palliative Care. We want to thank all the nurses and hospital staff, Dr. Garnett Tarr, Dr. Matthys De Vries and Dr. Khoo for their attention and professionalism towards dad’s care. At his request, there will be no funeral service but a celebration of his life will be held at a later date. Donations are gratefully accepted for the BC Cancer Society.

JANOS “JOHN” NAGY

JORDENS

MARY AGNES LEE

JEAN (DOROTHY) COWDEN (nee Petch) Feb 1, 1927 – Feb 21 2014.

It is with heavy hearts that the family of Jean announces her passing on February 21st, 2014, aged 87 years. Jean is survived by her son Drew Mathews, granddaughter Nadine Mathews (Scott) (Brenda Mathews),her closest, treasured friend Dorothy Case (Murray, Tyler), nieces, nephews, and friends and extended relatives. Jean was born to Alice and Reubin in Moosejaw, SK. Jean started her family with Jim Mathews in SK and became a proud mom of two sons and worked as a stylist in her own beauty salon. She also had a unique ability to appreciate magic and mystery in the world. Jean moved on from hair styling and contributed her efforts to health management through opening the first Kamloops Weight Watchers and eventually retired from employment with BC Forestry in the 90s. Jean was passionate about her family, friends, gardening, her animals, reading, crafting, and playing cards. Jean was predeceased by her youngest son Dana, first husband Jim, older sister Ruby, younger brother Stan and the love of her life for 32 years Howard Cowden. Together living in several communities before settling in Kamloops, Jean and Howard held tight to a vision for their life. They eventually secured acreage in Barnhartvale where they cared for the land, their home, their pets and shared time with family and friends. The staff at the Hamlets, where Jean spent her final years, will likely remember and miss her feisty presence and charm. Thank you to all the staff for their compassionate care of Jean. No formal service by request. Condolences may be expressed a www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

BENJAMIN LEWIS FENTON ROBERTSON November 13, 1934 – February 27, 2014 It is with the deepest of sadness we announce the passing of Benjamin Lewis Fenton Robertson. Dad passed as he spent his days, quietly and gracefully, with his loving family around him. Born in Dundee, Scotland, the 10th of 11 children, he married his beloved Jessie Cumming Thompson while serving in the RAF. Together they had 4 children, Jacqui, Ian, Kevin and Duncan. Ben had always yearned to spread his wings, and he brought his family to Kamloops in 1975, to join his older brother Bill, his wife Norma and son Grant, where he continued the family trade as a painter and decorator, setting up his business Mayfair Painting. Ben added the touches that completed many of the premier properties that were built in and around Kamloops from the mid-1970’s until passing. Ben and Jessie became involved in the Kamloops sport scene, refereeing and coaching soccer. The wild then beckoned and they moved to Eagle Island Resort for 3 years, to fulfil a dream of living closer to nature. Ben took to the Canadian lifestyle with relish, enjoying hunting, fishing on occasion when not gathering firewood and being the handyman extraordinaire. The family returned to Kamloops in 1987, when Ben sadly lost Jessie to cancer. He continued working hard from that time, and spending much of his spare time landscaping and developing his garden, and those of his family, creating beautiful and appreciated park-like environments for the neighbours to also enjoy. Ben loved music and spent evenings with friends, singing at karaoke, regaling the crowd with his renditions of Sinatra and the crooners. He had a great appreciation of the arts, and supported local and national artists. Ben would enjoy picking up artists’ brushes himself, even after holding a painting brush for 10 hours in the day. Ben returned to Scotland on several occasions to spend precious time with his family. He would enjoy many a round of golf on those ancient courses, such as Carnoustie of which he was previously a member, always enjoying all she had to offer. Tragically, in 2003, Ben lost his son Kevin. He helped to support his surviving grandchildren during that difficult time. He will be remembered for his selflessness, caring and support for the family in all times. Ultimately, Ben was a much loved father, grand-father, great-grandfather, brother, uncle, brother in-law, friend and colleague to so many people. He wasn’t a large man, but his departing leaves a big hole in the hearts of all those he knew. A Funeral Service for Ben will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 11:00 am in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Drive. The family would like to thank the staff at Ponderosa for their care during Dad’s short illness. In lieu of flowers, donations in Ben’s name would be appreciated to the Canadian Cancer Foundation.

Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

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

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S FORD’S flagship brand, Lincoln has not received the attention it deserves. I blame this on the Premier Auto Group (P.A.G.) and its ill-fated 1999 decision to lump all the Ford premium brands, such as Jaguar, Range Rover, Volvo, Aston Martin and Lincoln, under one roof. It didn’t work because the import brands were different entities with individual DNAs and customer bases. As a result, Lincoln got lost in the shuffle. By 2004 and billions spent building P.A.G., the writing was on the

wall and the group was dismantled. Lincoln (and the U.S.-model Mercury) were returned to Ford control by 2002. Then, the recession hit and Ford sold its imports. Today, the offerings on a Lincoln showroom floor are a far cry from the town car, continental and premium pickup. Today, you have the Mark cars such as the stylish MKX crossover, the Navigator premium SUV, the family-friendly MKT, the full-size MKS and the mid-size MKZ and, more specifically, the MKZ Hybrid, which Lincoln claims is the most fuel-efficient domestic sedan in the market. The Lincoln hybrid is powered by a two-litre inline

four-cylinder engine. Like other hybrids, it operates on the Atkinson Cycle, different from the standard Otto Cycle because the intake valve is held open longer, resulting in better fuel economy with reduced power. When an Atkinson Cycle is mated to a generator/electric motor, as done in the MKZ Hybrid, it results in better torque and mileage. The engine produces 141 horsepower and 129 pounds per feet of torque while the electric motor is good for 46 horsepower for a combined 188 horsepower. It means a fuel consumption rating of 4.2 litres per 100 kilometres in the city and 4.3 litres per 100 kilometres on the highway. I didn’t try

that hard, but still got an average of 7.3 litres per 100 kilometres. The Lincoln SmartGauge with Ecoguide helps track the numbers and is as entertaining as it is helpful. The normal, main instrument cluster is replaced by a central speedometer and a 4.2inch LCD screens on either side. To the right, shortterm efficiency is indicated when leaves appear. The lighter the driver is on the accelerator, leaves and vines start to appear and they come and go depending on energy consumption. If the driver maintains moderate road habits long-term, flowers appear. Unlike leaves, flow-

ers are hard to earn and it encourages the driver to keep adding flowers as a kind of reward. Because the screens are just below straightahead eye level, as opposed to a LCD right in the centre of the dashboard, the Lincoln system is easy to see at a glance so as not to be as distracting from the main job of driving. It’s been a while since I’ve driven a Lincoln and my first impression focused on the interior. The 10-way adjustable front seats are not only gorgeous to look at, but comfortable and supportive, which is hard to achieve on a mass-produced car. The MKZ also has the only fully retractable panoramic sunroof in the segment, which is

optional at $1,600. Push the retract button and the entire, allglass roof rolls back on special tracks. But, the biggest thing has to be the gearshift and ignition switch — or, more properly, the lack thereof. Running perpendicular on the left side of the centre stack is a row of buttons. At the top is the engine start-stop followed in order down-

ward by the gears. Park assist, cruise control and lane departure are part of the $2,450 technology package. Starting price for the Hybrid is $44,450, but including all the options, it runs at $49,675 plus a $1,650 shipping fee. When you add in the economy of the Hybrid, you get a package that deserves a test drive.

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Drivers/Courier/ Trucking KAMLOOPS based specialty lumber and panelized home company requires driver with hiab certification and experience, must have US border crossing experience as well, professional attitude, class 1 driver licence, clean abstract and physically fit. Send resume to dbaxter@troutcreekenterprises.com or fax to 250-314-1105 Monarch Transport (1975) Ltd now hiring O/O for their Canadian and US Divisions. Competitive pay package and friendly professional staff! US Recruiting 1-800-665-1232 CND 1-855-877-0619. We require long and short haul US capable drivers. We are an Okanagan based company with dedicated suppliers and customers and require drivers to fill their orders. Our short haul drivers primarily service the US northwestern with dedicated runs available and are home regularly, our long hauls drivers service the southwestern US and are home on a weekly basis for resets. We offer: Dedicated Tractors, US Medical Coverage, Company Cell phones, Direct deposit pay with no holdbacks. Dedicated lanes. Rider Policy. All we need from you is US capabilities, border crossing experience and a professional attitude, Class 1 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and a clean abstract and are physically fit. Please fax or email your resume and abstract with US drivers in subject line to 250-546-0600 or email to parris@ricknickelltrucking.com No phones calls or walk inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s please.

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TEAM LEAD, TECHNICAL SUPPORT Kal Tire is a Canadian company that was founded in 1953 and has grown to become Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest independent tire dealer. Based in 9ernon BC Kal Tire has Ă&#x20AC;ourished by focusing on customer serYice and teamwork. Kal Tireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key differentiator is its 5000+ Kal Tire team members who are committed to exceeding the customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations with the best technical skills Tuality products competitiYe prices and exceptional serYice aYailable anywhere. :e are seeking a motiYated and experienced Team Lead, Technical Support to Moin our 6erYice 'eliYery team based in our ofÂżce in 9ernon BC. This is a new role, necessitated by growth. The Team Lead, Technical Support is a technical leadership role in the Kal Tire Information Systems 'epartment and is responsible for proYiding leadership, coaching and day to day superYision to the Technical Support team. The Technical Support team owns the team memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience of the desktop, laptop, mobile and other communication deYices and serYices that the team members use eYery day. The Team Lead is also responsible for leading the design, implementation, maintenance and support of appropriate end user technology solutions to support our team memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s productiYity across Canada in our stores, ofÂżces, warehouses and retread plants. $ detailed Mob description and list of TualiÂżcations along with further information regarding Kal Tire may be Yiewed on our website at kaltire. com/careers. Kal Tire offers a competitiYe compensation and beneÂżts package, along with a company wide proÂżt sharing plan that recogni]es indiYidual and team contributions. Kal Tire welcomes your interest in the Team Lead, Technical Support opportunity. Interested applicants are requested to submit their resume to careers@kaltire.com indicating Team Lead, Technical Support and Job ID# 1017 in the subject line. We thank all applicants for their interest; only those under consideration will be contacted. For current career opportunities please visit us today! kaltire.com/careers

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Live in mature couple required to manage a 150 unit apartment building on the North Shore. Experience as a residential caretaker would be a definite asset along with general knowledge in bookkeeping and building maintenance/repairs. Please reply in confidence with resume and cover letter to Columbia Property Management, #101 - 388 First Avenue, Kamloops, BC V2C 6W3 or email: info@columbiaproperty.ca

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Employment Help Wanted

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Employment Medical/Dental Hiring RNs

LOGAN LAKE

Kamloops This Week is looking for door-to-door carriers in your area. 3 days per week Tuesday, Thursday& Friday. Please call 250-374-0462 for more info.

Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries. Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Mature person to cook and clean wages to be discussed and dependent on experience could lead to possible live in arrangement call (250) 8280218 Clyde at Pacific Chemicals or p.c.i@shaw.ca

Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services

Now HiringExperienced Servers & Housekeepers for F/T & P/T positions. Apply with resume to 551 - 11th Ave. Kamloops or E: scotts inn@shaw.ca or 250-3729444.

Livestock

SAMARITAN’S Purse is looking for a Working Chef to coordinate the Restaurant Kitchen, maintain a professional rapport within the community and train junior cooks, in Dease, Lake, BC samaritanspurse.ca

Medical/Dental Dental Hygienist required for 2 days a week. E-mail resume, drdex@shaw.ca Fax 250-3765367

Livestock

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

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

REIMER’S FARM SERVICES

250-260-0110

to work 1;1 with medically fragile infants in the Kamloops area. Pediatric experience preferred. Union wages and benefits, paid training and full support provided. Please fax your resume to Debra Leverrier at 1-250-762-9898 or email dleverrier@western.ca

Wanted full time dental receptionist for very busy dental practice. Experience with Exan Power Practice an asset. Reply to Box 1443, c/o KTW, 1365B Dalhousie Dr. Kamloops BC V2C 5P6

Employment

Financial Services

Legal Services

Services

Trades, Technical

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

Plumbing

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Handypersons

Sheet metal person required for new house construction. Benefit Package and vehicle provided call (250) 378-5104 or copervalley@uniserve.com

Work Wanted CARPENTER/HANDYMAN. Renovations, additions, roofing, drywall, siding, painting. 250-374-2774. HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774

Services

Alternative Health

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.

Career Opportunities

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise!

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent. Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

250-377-3457

Deliver Kamloops This Week

Pets & Livestock

Livestock 2 Black Angus Bulls and 1 York/Landrace X Boar for sale. (250)546-9766

Pets 1-800-222-TIPS

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

Landscaping

PETS For Sale?

for a route near you!

Business/Ofﬁce Service

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

250-318-9061

Only 3 issues a week!

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Mind Body Spirit

PICKERING PLUMBING & HEATING INC New Home Construction & Custom Home Installations * Hot Water Tanks* * In oor Heating* *Plumbing Renovations* Water Treatment & Much More

Pruning, Aerating, Yard Clean-up, Power Raking, Mowing, Hauling, Irrigation Start Up and repairs.

250-376-2689

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

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Merchandise for Sale

Financial Services

YOUR BUSINESS HERE

$200 & Under

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.

Run your 1x1 semi display classiﬁed in every issue of Kamloops This Week

Heavy Duty Channel base for trailer 40’W +ext x72”, with 52” tongue $150 (250) 554-4175

Career Opportunities

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Stucco/Siding

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$500 & Under Do you have an item for sale under $750? Did you know that you can place your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

Call our Classified Department for details!

250-371-4949 *some restrictions apply

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine. Stock up now. Campfire wood. (250)377-3457.

Medical Supplies ELECTRIC Wheelchair. 3yrs old. excel cond. New $6400 asking$700obo250-434-1722

Auctions 6376370

Unreserved public real estate auction Shuswap Lake Estates 2439 Forest Drive, Blind Bay, BC

Fully-serviced, �.��± acres, freehold title (no strata fees) residential home site in Shuswap Lake Estates, on the south side of Shuswap Lake, will be sold at Ritchie Bros.’ unreserved public auction:

March ��, �� (Wed) | Chilliwack, BC ▸ No minimum bids or reserve prices! ▸ Bid in person or online ▸ Everyone welcome rbauction.com/realestate

Ritchie Bros. Real Estate Services Ltd.

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Misc. for Sale 2 Premium Tim Hortons Brier Tickets, row-9, seats 3+4 $1000250-376-7297 377-8649 4-pc Appliance set (White GE/4yr old fridge/stove/dishwasher/range hood $550 obo (250) 579-5302 jjrain ville47@gmail.com AB Circle Pro $50.00 and AB Doer Twist exercise machine $125.00 250-376-2827 Adjustable bed 37’ x 76’ with 2 adjustable & 2 massage motors $425 250 -579-9521 MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

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

Solid oak table $125, China Cabinet $185 Kitchen cabinet set $600 (250) 299-6477 STEEL BUILDINGS/Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 Visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca WASHING machine Hot Point,com $375, 4 place dinner setting Blossom Time $900, 250-374-1252

Misc. Wanted Coin Collector Looking to Buy Collections, Estates, Gold & Silver Coins + 778-281-0030 COLLECTOR looking to buy a coin collection. Also looking for coins, bars, medals, ingots from Royal Canadian Mint, Franklin Mint, US Mint & others. Todd 250-864-3521 I make house calls! PURCHASING old Canadian & American coin collections & accumulations. 250-548-3670

Real Estate Acreage for Sale 17.4 Acres pristine elevated property priced to sell. Minutes from down town, 4 acres cleared, multiple artesian wells, utilities to property line. Perfect time to buy before prime acreages are unaffordable in the Terrace area. Must Sell. $150,000. 250-641-1848

Apt/Condos for Sale

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Desirable North Shore 55+ Senior build across to mall and all amenities. Secure 1 bed step in shower storage rm new paint in suite laundry and a/c $169,500 (250) 376-3324 Priced to sell 3rd floor spacious 2bdrm walk-in closet 1bth utility rm 5 appl A/C storage rm desirable 55+ senior building across to mall,close to transit & medical $229,000 250-376-3324

For Sale By Owner

Apartment Furnished Sahali deluxe furnished studio room TV, microwave fridge w/d, wifi, patio, bus, prefer male, $575 (250) 372-8820 Dufferin Park Very well maintained 9yr old townhome 3bdrm 2bth + family rm C/A, F/P paving stone deck $334,900 (250) 319-6408 SALE OR TRADE For residential property in Kamloops. 2-bed/2 full bath, 945sqft condo in Sun Peaks, g/f, granite, ss appliances, w/d, deck, Skiin-ski out. heated parking/ Storage. rentable. $299,000 no gst. 250 377 1868

Houses For Sale

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

Commercial/ Industrial

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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 $189,000.00

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1BDRM. quiet, clean, S. Shore apt. $675/mo. incl. heat, free laundry covered prking .NS, NP.573-2625 /778-220-4142

Acacia Tower

343 Nicola Street 1bdrm and bachelor suites starting @$645 per month includes utilities adult building no pets no smoking 1 year lease

250-374-7455

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 FOR RENT, one of the best 2 bedroom condos at Riverbend Seniors Community. Condo has 2 balconies, all appliances overlooking the Thompson River. Facility amenities include fitness room, dining room, library, theatre room, community garden. Optional services - housekeeping, laundry & meals.Pet Friendly. Furnished or Unfurnished. $1900 (250) 376-2688

Nicola Place Apartments. 2 bdrm. Avail Feb 1st. Clean, bright & secure building. Onsite parking. A/C Newly upgraded. On-site manager. Walking distance to downtown & bus stops. Suitable for retirees or seniors. NS, NP. Refs Req’d. 250-372-9944.

NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments. Clean quiet building. Rents starting at $625 + utilities.

CALL 250-682-0312

RIVIERA VILLA 1&2/BDRM Suites

#9-1285 14th Street 2bd, 2bth, level entry, full bsmt. Move-in ready, hardwood floors, laundry up, updated kitchen/eating area, 4pce enst. Lg pantry, shelving & workshop in full bsmt. C/A, hi-effic furnace, new HW. RV prk avail. $274,500 Owner, 250-461-7134 Kijiji Ad ID 560686997

Rentals

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

250-554-7888

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New 2bdrm, N Shore, W/D, n/s, n/p, prkg, quiet area. Prof cple. Ref req. $1250/mo Avail now 250-376-1421

FOR LEASE £]£ääÊÃµ°vÌ°ÊUÊÓÊ >ÞÃ Ó]ÇääÊÃµ°vÌ°ÊÊ«>Ûi`]Êvi Vi`]Ê } Ìi`ÊV « Õ `° ÎÓäÊÃµ°vÌ°Ê iâ> iÊ ÃÌ ÀiÊvÀ ÌÊ vwVi]ÊV i> Ê LÕ ` }° 1,600/MO + GST

CALL 250-376-8542/ 250-319-6054 4 year old Building for lease 2400 sq feet warehouse and store front located in busy Mt. Paul Industrial Park, starting March 1st 2014. 60x30 warehouse in back with bathroom, and large bay doors 20x30 showroom in front with extra parking or storage out back. Paved parking in front of show room, 250-828-2870 or 250851-1220 or email rc_rock@ telus.net

Duplex / 4 Plex

Shared Accommodation 12kms from Savona - Shared MobileHome.Smokers ok $450 /mo. inclds utils 250-373-0047 Male seeking roommate Westsyde Furn. Close to bus $550/mo util incl. 250-5798193 Cell 250-572-1048 North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020

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

‘07 Dodge Calibre, 4 door 72000km, a/c, silver, exc cond $8000obo 778-472-1981 2004 Pacifica Chrysler very good cond. $4500 ph Gene 371-2855 family car seats 6

1BDRM Aberdeen, fully furn. Satt & util incl. NP/NS Avail immed.$850/mo 250-314-1011 1 Bdrm n/p n/s util incl single person, $750mo dd req’d avail April 1 374-0209 2BDRM large N/S N/P Close to schools Working person pref’d $900 incl util 819-3368 Brock close to schools 2Bdrm n/s/p $1000mo avail Mar 1, 250-682-3199, 250-376-7869 Cumfy 1bdrm. Close to University, Hospital. Perfect for student or quiet person. Excellent Location. ns/np Call now (250) 299-6477 Daylight 2 bdrm Dallas area n/p, n/s, 5appl, util incl $1400 prefer senior (250) 574-3449 Lg 1 bdrm Westsyde, aprox 950sq ft, private ent, $850mo incl util, ldry, cable, pvr, wi-fi, n/s/p, avail immed, ref’s req’d call John 250-319-9641 N.SHORE ab/grnd 1bdrm incl f/s/w/d, util, ns/np. For mature quiet person! $850 376-0856

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

Homes for Rent

Best Value In Town

TOWNHOUSES

2008 Ford Taurus SEL Lded Exc Cond. V-6 ,Leather heater pwr seats, auto sunroof, dual temp controls, 4 summer and 4 winter tires all on rims. Asking $6000 OBO. 376-4466

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)

Call: 250-371-4949

Escorts

Scrap Car Removal

KAMLOOPS TEMPTRESS

2012 Kia Optima LX 41,000 km, senior owned, like new. No accidents or door dings. $16,800 firm. 778 257 9000

RUN UNTIL SOLD ONLY $35.00(plus Tax) (250)371-4949 *some restrictions apply call for details

Cars - Sports & Imports 05 SI Civic 152,000km 5spd manual new winters loaded $6500 (250) 571-0316

2bdrm Down town fenced yrd 5 appl. N/P, N/S $1250 Avail aft Mar 15 (250) 319-4062 2 Bdrm n/p/s RV parking, newly reno’d $1000mo+ dd unfin basement 250-828-0740 3bdrm cls to everything North Shore f/s, n/s/p $1100+util +ref 250-376-0113 4 Bdrm a/c Lower Sahali, close to Tru/shop $1550mo ref’s req’d 250-372-7695 Down Town renovated 2bdrm lrg liv rm, f/s, n/p, n/s, ref, $1200 (250) 828-0740 Lakefront Heffley Lake 3bdrm f/s, w/d no pets, n/s $1200+util Avail now (250) 578-7529 Lower Sahali 6 bdrm $2000 or 5bdrm $2300 near TRU & hospital, w/d + util 250-372-3338, 819-3338.

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

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

Misc. for Sale

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

Recreational/Sale

Ask about our daytime specials & Stag Parties.

Jeep YJ 4x4 1987 restored, 6cyl 5sp, lifted, 33”tires on Eagle Rims, 10,000 lb Winch, over $12,000 invested asking $9500 (250) 828-0931

Legal Notices 6385236

Legal Notices

Notice is Hereby Given that Creditors and others, having claims against the Estate of KRISTINE LEIGH ZAWADUK, deceased formerly of 301A 490 Lorne Street, Kamloops, British Columbia, V2C 1W3, deceased, are hereby required to send the particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor, c/o Mair Jensen Blair LLP, 700 - 275 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 6H6, on or before March 31, 2014, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received. DENNIS WILLIAM HAYES, Executor Mair Jensen Blair LLP Lawyers

318-4321

lilacgardens@gmail.com

250-572-3623 Attractive fun, blond provides full body massages and more. Ph 250-376-5319 9am-11pm First Class Escorts Agency , wide variety of ladies, hiring 250.851.1777 no texting

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

‘05, 38’ RV 2 slides, sleeps 6 winter pkg, fully loaded, $26,900. 250-376-1655

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

1ST CHOICE Sexy, fun, accommodating, & discreet.

Sport Utility Vehicle

1984 Yamaha Virago motorcycle.Excel/cond $3500obo 250320-5194(after6pm orlvmsg)

*Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms

Adult

Call 24/7

Motorcycles

NORTH SHORE

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg 8ft Rebel boat seat anchor and oars perfect 1 person fly fishing boat $800 579-9097

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NO PETS

MINES ACT NOTICE OF PROPOSED QUARRY

Transportation

Antiques / Classics

YOUR

Take notice that David S. Cunliffe of 0946085 BC Ltd. has filed with the Chief Inspector of Mines pursuant to Section 10(1) of the Mines Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 293, a proposed mine plan together with a program for the protection and reclamation of the land and watercourses related to the proposed sand and gravel

CASH$

quarry (Ellie Pit) located at Lot A, DL 47, KDYD Plan KAP8497 8km North of McLure, BC.

TURN

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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

Apartment Furnished QualityFrnApproved!forCorporate/Crew 5bdr 2ba bright view home np/ns, 250-377-0377pgr

Boats

Cars - Domestic

*Some conditions & restrictions apply. Private party only (no businesses).

2bdrm close to all amen. w/d, n/s, n/p all util incl $900 250314-6602 or 250-682-4648 3bdrm North Kam, basement $1350 per/mnt + util n/p w/d hk/up (250) 371-7774

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Trucks & Vans 1984 Chevy Short Box. $3500 obo (250) 320-5194 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 2004 Dodge Caravan. 140k 3.3L, trans r’blt @ 75k. 1-owner, $4800 obo 250-376-7255 Chev 2500HD 4x4 2004 ext cab long box, spray liner, 6,0L auto, tow pkg New 10ply tires 123,000km $10,500 828-0931 NEW LEER Truck Canopy. White. $750 1(250) 523-2350 (Logan Lake)

Rooms for Rent DALLAS furn bdrm in Mobile home. Quiet working person n/s/p $390 828-1681,573-6086 DOWNTOWN Motel Kitchenette units $750-$950 per month util included. TV and local telephone also included 250-372-7761

Suites, Lower COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

Recreational/Sale 26’ pull type 1999 Mallard trailer slps 6, lrg awning, a/c , solar panel + extras $8,200 (250) 376-6918

Any person affected by or interested in this program has 30 days to make written representation to the Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, South Central Region, 2nd Floor 441 Columbia Street, Kamloops BC V2C 2T3. Yours Truly,

1365 Dalhousie Drive • 250-371-4949

David S. Cunliffe

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