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The controversial Ajax mine proposal has created another division, this time between two local Steelworkers’ presidents.

Marty Gibbons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1-417, told KTW his local executive recently voted unanimously in favour of the Ajax project and isn’t suspending judgment until an environmental assessment is complete.

The comments come as a stark contrast to those of Richard Boyce, president of the United Steelworkers Local 7619 that represents Highland Valley Copper.

Boyce spoke on Sunday, April 13, at an anti-Ajax meeting at Interior Savings Centre, saying, “Although I’m in favour of mining — not this mine.”

Gibbons disagrees.

“We believe everyone needs to work together to bring these muchneeded jobs, safely, to the community,” A TALE OF TWO Gibbons said.

STEELWORKERS: Local 1-417 repreLocal 1-417 president sents Interior sawmill Marty Gibbons (top) workers and a small supports the proposed Ajax mine. Local 7619 number of other local president Richard Boyce employers. (below) is opposed.

The union district that represents both Steelworkers locals has said it favours the mine as long as it passes all environmental and health standards.

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Lieut. Matt Stokes of the Royal Canadian Air Force talks to dad Brenton Paauwe and kids Connor, 5, Jacob, 3, and Gabriel, 2, during the 75th anniversary celebration at Kamloops Airport on the weekend. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com to view more photos.

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KAMLOOPS AIRPORT STILL SOARING

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Seventy-five years ago today, on April 17, 1939, student-pilot Cyril Jackson became the first person to land an aircraft at Kamloops Municipal Airport.

He took off the next day.

The brief stopover at what would become known five years later as Fulton Field marked the end of a process that, according to local aviation researcher Neil Burton, lasted almost a decade.

In 1930, Kamloops was a growing community in need of an airport.

“In March of that year, the city was attempting to acquire space on the Kamloops Indian Reserve,” Burton said.

“They wanted to purchase 100 acres

from the Indian agent.”

The city made a formal offer of $25 per acre, but changed its mind when a new site — the present-day airport location — was recommended in December 1930.

Burton said the City of Kamloops attempted in 1931 to lease 80 acres of land from B.C. Fruitlands, the British company that used to own Brocklehurst, North Kamloops and Westsyde.

The plans called for a 2,600-foot by 1,300-foot landing field and a runway seeded with the latest and greatest runway seed — alfalfa.

The city would pay Fruitlands $8 per acre per year for an 80-acre site.

That deal fell through but, in 1938, work began on the airport site.

It was complete in eight months and

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It didn’t take long for Kamloops to attract airline service, though, with Yukon Southern Air Transport adding a stop on its mail route in November 1939.

In 1940, Burton said, the city applied for $50,000 to pave the airport’s 4,000foot runway and install circuitry and boundary lights.

Five years after the first flight landed, in 1944, Kamloops Municipal Airport was dedicated “The Fulton Field,” Burton said, in honour of RAF Wing Commander John “Moose” Fulton, a Kamloops native and legendary pilot who was killed in action above Germany in 1942.

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MAX THE MEDICINE MAN Grade 3 student Max Ludbrook makes a medicine pouch during an Aboriginal Awareness Days activity at Kay Bingham elementary on Monday, April 14. Students spent three days this week learning about First Nations food, crafts and cultural traditions.

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Bumpy rides will remain the norm for the next few weeks in Kamloops.

The city is waiting for warmer weather before it takes on a temporary repair on Overlanders Bridge meant to tide drivers over until the span is fully resurfaced in 2015.

Public-works crews are also running behind schedule on pothole maintenance, due to an extended streetsweeping program that is pulling them off their usual repair shifts.

Acting streets manager Dennis Luison said Kamloops received a heavier-than-usual sanding this winter, which is taking longer to clean up. “Due to a lot of the freeze, thaw and freezing rain — we had big freezing rain and little freezing rain — and the cool temperatures, too, for a while there, that’s all we did was sand,� he said.

Cleaning that up means fewer bodies available for pothole filling. Luison said it will be one to two weeks before road

maintenance is back to full strength.

He said the city has a few more large potholes to deal with than usual this year.

On the bridge, it will likely be another month before work begins.

Luison said the city is waiting for the weather to warm up to 20 to 22 C daily before it puts down an asphalt skin around the expansion joints on the span. “We have to wait for the deck to stay warm and the concrete,� he said. “The concern is that if the asphalt temperature isn’t proper, then it won’t last. Because we want to get the whole year out of it.�

In the meantime, engineers are assessing the bridge’s west sidewalk on Thursday nights and Saturdays for the next several weeks. A report to council earlier this year identified the sidewalk as a future safety concern and led the city to postpone its major resurfacing of Overlanders for a year.

Luison said engineers are inspecting the corbels that hold up the sidewalk’s panels to determine how degraded they are and what repairs are needed. “What they need to do right now is get to the corbels, remove some of the concrete around it, have a look at the structural steel,� he said.

The city plans to inspect at least three of the supports, but may strip concrete off as many as five if results are inconsistent.

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BUDDING BUILDER Four-year-old Leilani Vanderydt wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a builder.

Like her dad, the youngster says she, too, “wants to build a house to keep kids safe.” Her family was among the large group that gathered recently to kick off the start of construction of Kamloops’ latest Habitat For Humanity home in Westsyde. The organization is looking for volunteers to help.

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Lake agrees to meet on Logan Lake doc dilemma

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Terry Lake agrees it seems strange two international doctors would be welcomed by other provinces to set up a practice — but not by B.C. The province’s health minister and MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson said he has asked his deputy minister to meet with the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons “to talk about some of these barriers we seem to be running into all the time about bringing international doctors here.”

Lake said he’s willing to meet

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with Logan Lake’s council to talk about the situation the community has faced in recent weeks after its doctor, Uzair Sheik, left the community.

Sheik is now working on the Coast, filling locum positions while he works on the requirements he must meet to return to his native South Africa.

Tania Castillo and Jose Blanos, two doctors now working in Guatemala, want to move to the B.C. Interior to be near Castillo’s stepfather, who lives in Kamloops.

Both passed the Medical Council of Canada evaluating examinations and both have had

positive feedback from almost every province in the country.

A letter from Health Match B.C. suggested the couple apply to open a practice in a province that would recognize their experience, which includes most other provinces in the country.

Logan Lake HEALTH Acting Mayor MINISTER TERRY LAKE Robin Smith told KTW she has been waiting “some time” for Lake to respond to her request to meet with her and councillors.

Lake said he referred the

request to his staff, asking them to discuss programs available for Logan Lake to attract doctors.

Among the issues Smith wants to talk about is why her community is not part of a provincial program offering a $100,000 incentive to doctors who will relocate to specific rural communities and stay for at least three years.

Lake said he has asked the committee overseeing the program to consider adding the town.

He said the group is meeting “in the near future.”

Lake said the college sets its own regulations with which the government does not interfere.

However, he expects a conver-

sation with the college “may spur some action.”

Sheik said he knows some Logan Lake residents are upset to know he is working on the Coast, but added he is doing it there because the process to secure a job in South Africa is detailed and he needs to have flexibility in his schedule and be near an international airport to fly to his homeland for interviews.

“This [locum work] is just a means to an end to get me home,” he said.

Logan Lake has set up a website, loganlakedoctor.com, promoting the community to as a place for a doctor to consider.

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Faculty at Thompson Rivers University are concerned education at the Kamloops school is becoming a commodity to be provided, rather than subject matter to be taught.

Jason Brown, president of the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA), pointed to the university’s open-learning programs, which have what Brown called units of learning “that can be bought and sold,” provided without ongoing instruction.

Rather, faculty members are available to assist students by phone or email.

The university’s academic plan talks about developing “blended learning models across all programs and faculties.”

The concern, Brown said, is face-to-face programs taught in classrooms on campus will be done away with and replaced by open-learning courses students work on alone fundamentally alone.

An article posted on TRU’s Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation website describes blended learning as the “transformation of learning environments in higher education settings for an increasingly electronic world.”

That site also directs people to Curtin University, which uses something it calls a blackboard learning-management system to deliver “interactive content.”

TRU uses the same system in its open-learning programming.

Curtin’s site notes in 2013, the university had more than six-

million logins, with an average of 516.521 per month.

Last November, for example, there were 45,000 users (staff and students) who accessed more than 3,500 “units from across all faculties.”

TRUFA sees any move in this direction as affecting its members.

“The more we can take the [learning] process and turn it into a commodity, the more power goes to administration and the result is fewer faculty,” Brown said.

Staffing is an issue for TRUFA, Brown said, with concerns raised about faculty positions not being filled and sessionals — instructors hired for short terms — brought in.

TRUFA has filed a grievance on the percentage of courses being taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty.

That dispute centres on an interpretation of the collective agreement.

TRU provost Uli Scheck has told the media 75 per cent of courses at the university are taught by faculty, while TRUFA asserts it is 66 per cent.

The collective agreement requires a 70:30 ratio of courses

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Brown also took issue with statements by Pat Neufeld, interim dean of the faculty of human, social and educational development, who said the institution is having difficulty filling some of its vacant positions in that area.

TRUFA has used the socialwork department to point to what it says is an ongoing issue of faculty leaving and not being replaced, pointing to seven tenured-staff vacancies that have not been filled.

Neufeld told KTW it has been difficulty finding people to take the jobs, but later partially agreed with TRUFA’s statement that hiring recommendations by the committee charged with helping to fill the spots had been rejected by administration.

“Yes, there was a recommendation from the appointments committee to hire an individual,“ she wrote in an email to KTW. “The granting or denying of an appointment rests with the president and the dean/provost did not recommend the individual to the president, and as per the collective agreement provided written reasons to the committee. The appointments process is intended to be confidential. This is to protect internal candidates as well as the process.”

Brown said two candidates were recommended, but not hired.

One candidate was internal, he said, while another was interested, but was in a job with a higher salary and the university was reluctant to offer more to hire the person.

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Every Friday, the little ones get ready to leave their day cares and head to a post-secondary classroom.

When they get there, they get to play — and students in the early-childhood education program at Sprott Shaw College get a real hands-on educational experience.

Instructor Natalie Statham said the college has partnered with Children’s Circle Daycare, Sixth Avenue Montessori Childcare and Little Foot Preschool.

She said the aspect of the program is unique and builds on the 10-week practicums the dozen students in each class do during their 10 months of study.

“Our students plan and implement art, music/movement, science, social studies,

language and math activities with the children in a fun, hands-on approach,” Statham said.

“Recently, our students participated in a fairytale event at the [Children’s Circle] day care and they accompany the educators on field trips in our community.”

The interaction gives the students a chance to practice the theory they are learning and work on projects to engage the youngsters.

When they graduate, Statham said, they invariably have a job waiting for them and a box full of activities already prepared during their studies.

In fact, said college education director Bruce Wilbee, many of the students find jobs before they finish the course.

The program also does fundraising for the Family Tree Family Centre on West Victoria Street, which runs a drop-in program for families looking for

peer-based social support, connections to services, healthy food and activities for children.

Students help out at the centre on professional-development days for the school district, she said.

Because the centre is the beneficiary of this year’s Boogie the Bridge event, Statham and the students formed a team to take part in it, as well as its Jeans Friday fundraisers.

In addition to the courses, which have regular intakes year-round, the college provides free refresher opportunities for graduates who want to sit in on a few classes and just bring their knowledge up to current standards.

“We need more ECEs in the field starting their own day cares or going to group centres or Strong Start [ministry of education-funded centres in some schools] or interactive play centres,” Statham said.

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NDP’s Horgan on Ajax: ‘Science should decide’

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The NDP’s leaderin-waiting has pledged a renewed focus on electoral areas that include Kamloops as the party works over the next three years to convince voters it deserves a shot at forming government.

New Democrats are expected to crown John Horgan leader.

While the nomination period is open until the end of the month, rival Mike Farnworth recently dropped out — leaving Horgan as the only member to file papers to succeed outgoing leader Adrian Dix. Horgan, MLA for Malahat-Juan de Fuca on Vancouver Island, is continuing a tour of the province — despite the fact it’s unlikely there will be a leadership contest

to replace Dix — and said he plans to become a “familiar face” in Kamloops, recognizing its bellwether status as the city where governments are made.

He spoke with party members at Desert Gardens Community Centre on Tuesday, April 15.

“Kamloops and Prince George together,” Horgan said.

“If you look at the electoral map, you see the NDP won the Coast and Kootenays.

There’s a huge chasm in between.”

It was nearly a year ago that Dix made the now-infamous “Kinder surprise” in Kamloops, when he unilaterally decided the party would oppose the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline based on its impact on

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Many in the party, including former Fraser-Nicola MLA Harry Lali, attributed the flip-flop to defeats in the Interior.

Horgan, on the other hand, has never

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been anti-development and has made a commitment to focus on creating jobs in resource-based communities.

“As leader, I’d want to increase investment in B.C. so we can create jobs and grow the

economy,” he said.

But, Horgan added, the Kinder Morgan controversy and Kamloops’-own Ajax issue speaks to deep public distrust in environmental assessment, something the NDP pledged before the

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In the past year, the public has not shown any more confidence in the pipeline project, he said, noting both mayors of Burnaby and Vancouver have publicly opposed it.

“The public needs confidence government will manage these in the public interest, not exclusively in the interest of the applicant or the community,” Horgan said, noting that includes a local voice and strengthening environmental assessments so the public has confidence in the process.

“Ultimately science should decide.

Communities and First Nations need a role.

“That don’t have one at the present time. That’s why you see so much agitation over Ajax in Kamloops.”

Horgan, first elected MLA in 2005, said he is meeting with members in the Tournament Capital and across B.C. as he works to rebuild the party and its public standing.

He said the B.C. Liberal government is making the job easier with recent mismanagement that includes massive BC Hydro and BC Ferries rate hikes and the disclosure this week that ICBC overcharged thousands of motorists.

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B.C. Liberals accused of weakening enviro laws

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Critics say the B.C. Liberal government is further weakening the province’s environmental laws by removing ski resorts and some natural-gas plants from review.

The province has passed two ordersin-council removing the need for mountain resorts and smaller sweet natural-gas processing plants to go through the Environmental Assessment Office.

“Residents of Kamloops already have concerns about the environmental-assessment process,” said New Democrat environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert, noting criticism of the Ajax project’s review.

“Here the Liberals have decided to weaken

it further.”

West Coast Environmental Law said the moves were done despite concerns about the impact of the two industries.

It said the changes mean future major resort developments will not trigger review under the Environmental Assessment Office.

“Environmental assessments are supposed to allow the public and regulators to better understand and avoid potential risks,” said Jessica Clogg executive director of the non-governmental organization.

“Removing the requirement for an environmental review is not in the public interest.”

The Environmental Assessment Office said the changes are being made because

the projects are already reviewed by other government agencies.

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has a masterplan review process for resorts.

But, Chandra Herbert said, both gas plants and ski resorts may have devastating consequences for wildlife, including endangered mountain caribou.

The controversial Jumbo ski resort in the Kootenay region would have escaped review, the New Democrat critic noted.

“A provincial wildlife biologist in that process said there were huge risks to grizzly bears.

“They could make it locally extinct and [the resort] has to do things to address it . . .

“With this, anything could go.”

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Parents of autistic kids don’t need junk-science lectures

K

TW PUBLISHED A story this week on a researcher at Simon Fraser University looking into environmental links to autism.

The doctor readily admits the work he is doing with several other scientists on the specific topic — looking at pregnant mothers’ exposure to chlordane and a flame-retardant chemical — won’t lead to finding a direct cause of the intellectual disability, but will add to the body of knowledge being created.

And, within hours of the story being posted online, someone sent me an email denouncing the research and accusing those doing the studies of being paid by chemical companies.

It’s always amazing how people can read things in stories that aren’t there; nowhere does it mention the funding of the study but, should the email writer be reading this now, the research is being done through grants from the national Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, with support from the Centers for Disease Control.

The writer continued his criticism in the way some crackpots do these days when commenting on autism — he condemned vaccinations, decried having poison injected into children and, for reasons that escape me, then referred to Africa, which, he said, never had autism until vaccinations were introduced there.

Normally, I reply to email writers with, “Thank you for your feedback.

Would you like this to run as a letter to the editor?”

It avoids getting into a debate and

DALE BASS Street LEVEL gives the person the opportunity to share their viewpoint with the rest of KTW readers.

This time, though, the writer got a blunt reply that went along these lines: The story didn’t say that and I wouldn’t write a story on the link between vaccinations and autism because there is absolutely nothing that shows one.

One of the people who continues to spout this nonsense is Jenny McCarthy, who has on her resume model, comedic actress, TV host, author and mom. Her son is almost 14 now and was diagnosed with autism just before his third birthday.

Among the things McCarthy has done to deal with this is the standard intensive applied-behavioural analysis therapy, gluten- and casein-free diets, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, chelation therapy, aromatherapy, using electromagnetics, rubbing spoons on his body (at least according to a website about her) and giving him multivitamins, B-12 shots and myriad prescribed drugs.

Although she has spent many of

her son’s years speaking about the link between vaccines and autism — something virtually every legitimate researcher has debunked — apparently McCarthy now says she’s not anti-vaccine, but is against children getting several shots at one time.

My five children all got their vaccinations on schedule throughout their young years. One of them still came down with the mumps. Another one had red measles — and the wise old doctor who finally diagnosed it after several others failed insisted on having the young doctors in his clinic look at it.

One of them developed autism.

It’s Autism Awareness Month and it’s a good time to pay attention to the real, legitimate work that is going on into what causes it and what might work to ameliorate the condition.

We chose to not try to cure our son, but to work with him on what we figured would be key in his world — learning to speak, to learn at his pace, to develop interests and to have the right to go in whatever path he chose.

It wasn’t easy for any of us; there’s at least one former principal who might turn the other way even today if he saw me coming toward him.

There are also some incredible moms and dads out there who are also trying to find that path for their child and will go through enough challenges, face too many judgmental people and confront a system that really just doesn’t get autism.

Their lives are challenging enough.

They don’t need to have junk science thrown at them, too. dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

O, Canada!

Go, Canada!

The Cup is calling It’s playoff time in the NHL and hockey fans in two of Canada’s three largest cities are on the outside looking in.

Both the Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs could not squeeze into the 16-team post-season.

For the Leafs, a colossal collapse in March spelled their demise. For the Canucks, a good first couple of months disintegrated into a season of odd incidents and poor play.

Both have quickly turned to big names in the game to help turn around their fortunes.

The Canucks have brought iconic former captain Trevor Linden back into the fold after he spent six years in the hockey wilderness. The Leafs have secured Brendan Shanahan from the league office, a hall-of-famer who has won both a Stanley Cup and Olympic gold.

The big question now is whether these two greats on the ice, now with grey hair sprinkling their former mullets, can turn around the fortunes of these franchises.

Linden’s task looks larger than that of Shanahan’s. The game has passed the Canucks. It’s all about speed and size now, and the Canucks’ core players, specifically the Sedin brothers, have never been known for their fleetness of foot.

They are smart, skilled and tougher than they are given credit for — they are not, however, fast.

One could argue neither of these big announcements from the Canucks or Leafs amounts to a hill of beans.

Even someone with a smidgeon of hockey sense could tell you the Leafs need reliable defencemen. Is Shanny going to play D? Does Linden have a time machine to get the speedy Pavel Bure back on the ice?

These announcements are window dressing at best. Bring in a big name, parade him in front of the cameras, mollify the disappointed season ticket holders. With huge, no-trade player contracts stifling both teams, we wish Linden and Shanahan luck.

So, for whom do we cheer in the quest for the greatest trophy in pro sports begins on Wednesday?

The last remaining Canadian-based team, Les Habitants?

O Canada! Go, Canada!

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online

Re: Photos: Ballet Kelowna on pointe in Kamloops:

“Awesome photos.

“Makes we wish I was there — and I will for sure next time they’re back.”

— posted by DJ White

Re: Letter: We should be welcoming doctors with open arms:

“Good points written by the Rosties.

“If it is a matter of upgrading to B.C. standards, why does B.C. not have the appropriate upgrading programs?

“The two doctors in question, the ones not qualified to serve at Logan Lake, were qualified to work in Boston.

“Logan Lake, deserves better.”

— posted by Lawrence Beaton

Re: Editorial: If Ajax will be good for city, let others know:

“We would love to hear a mine supporter rent a room and explain why the mine is so good for Kamloops.

“We would even help promote it on our Facebook page!”

“The problem they run into is that it only takes 30 seconds to say, ‘I want a job.’

“Then there would just be crickets.”

— posted by Stop Ajax Mine

PICKING A PERFECT DAY FOR PICKLING Leslie Graham celebrates winning a point in a couples match of pickleball at the McDonald Park pickleball court. Graham is new to the popular sport, having picked up the racquet last November. She is now among more than 100 Kamloops players.

The local picklers recently did some spring cleaning on the outdoor courts and has moved games outdoors. Dave Eagles/KTW

Editor: Re: KTW’s front-page story of April 8 (‘Report dismisses KDN site as arts-centre home’) based on freedom-of-information documents: As no one has commented on the issues raised in the article, here are some questions that need to be asked about the secrecy our city engages in and why so much information was redacted, limiting our freedom of information?

• Why is the mayor so set on the Seymour Street property as the location of a performing-arts centre?

• Who decided the downtown is the right place to build a performing arts centre? Is this one more example of downtown business interests (core property owners) influencing decisions on site developments in the core?

• Is the supposed need for another downtown parkade being used as a Trojan horse to get the arts centre downtown? Perhaps the need for parking is already changing due to the problems with the new parking kiosks?

• Has the city bought a white elephant when expert opinion says the property is unsuited for a performing-arts centre, that the Kamloops Daily News building would be expensive to demolish and cannot easily be adapted to a parking structure or to another use?

• Why hire a competent professional engineer and project manager and pay for a report and then disregard the report?

• Why has the city’s property manager been busy recommending and buying a site intended for a performing-arts centre before a thorough, comprehensive public consultation process has taken place?

I do hope the city does not consider the noisy, public meeting in a too small space as adequate consultation. Many left early as this highly facilitated and directed meeting provided little opportunity to participate.

Jan Kowek Kamloops

This “champ” is grateful for your support of CHAMP Editor: I was born with a partial left hand and was enrolled in The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program when I was six-months-old.

I have been a “Champ” ever since.

On a recent weekend, I had the opportunity to attend The War Amps 2014 BC CHAMP Seminar in Victoria as a junior counsellor.

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I was able to help out with the seminar during the many sessions and talk to the parents of new child amputees.

As a younger “champ,” I always looked up to the junior counsellors and I knew I wanted to be one as soon as I was old enough.

They helped teach me everything from tying my shoes and putting up my hair to being proud of my amputation. This year was my second year as a junior counsellor and I had so much fun.

Being a junior counsellor is a great way for me to give back to CHAMP for the

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Manslaughter trial moved to Kamloops The man charged in the 1993 killing of Jennifer Cusworth in Kelowna has succeeded in his bid to have his trial moved out of the Okanagan city.

Neil George Snelson will now be tried for manslaughter in a Kamloops courtroom.

Snelson’s lawyer, Wade Jenson, told court this week that Crown prosecutor Iain

Currie has consented to the location transfer. A date for the upcoming trial will be set on April 28.

It’s a move that didn’t come as a surprise to friends and family of Cusworth.

Jennifer’s mother, Jean Cusworth, recently pointed out Snelson and his legal team “know how Kelowna” feels about them.

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Kelowna, Jean said, is filled with people “who want justice for Jennifer,” she said outside the courtroom when Snelson made a court appearance in January.

And, she said, the move will be more convenient for her and her husband as they’ve recently relocated to Pritchard, just east of Kamloops.

The Cusworths,

regardless of location, will be at court every day for the second round of the trial.

In 2011, a Kelowna jury convicted Snelson of manslaughter.

That verdict was overturned late last year when the Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge erred by showing the jury a portion of video in which Snelson can be

heard telling a police officer he hadn’t yet decided how he was going to plead to charges he was facing.

Jenson appealed the judge’s decision to show that portion of video evidence, noting it was prejudicial.

Jennifer Cusworth, 19, was found in October 1993, beaten and strangled in a ditch off

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The case went cold for 15 years, until police arrested Snelson, now 47, in 2009.

DNA evidence revealed he had sex with the teen the night she died.

He was sentenced to 15 years for manslaughter.

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If professors Ron Smith and Jon Van Hamme have their way, it won’t be long before students at Thompson Rivers University are drinking beer that’s so local it’s never been off the TRU campus.

The biochemistry and microbiology professors are the driving force behind a new diploma program due to arrive next year, which will teach students about the science of brewing beer.

“I’ve been teaching my fourth-year students how to make beer since I got here, just in bottles and buckets and pails,” said Van Hamme.

“It’s really low-tech.”

The science department’s new one-year diploma program would upgrade those microbiology lessons significantly.

As part of the program, Smith and Van Hamme will set up a nano-brewery on campus, where the program’s 24 students can brew 200-litre test batches of beer.

“One of our dreams is the students will have a competition,” Smith

Thompson Rivers University professors Ron Smith (left) and Jon Van Hamme will be brewing beer with their students in a new diploma program in 2015. Andrea Klassen/ KTW

said, envisioning weekly brewpub sessions at the university where students would promote and serve their campus craftbrews, attempting to sell out their beer first.

The brewing diploma will be the fourth such program in Canada, but Smith said TRU is aiming for a more advanced course than what students would get at Olds, Niagara or Kwantlen college.

“They teach the kids how to brew and that’s it,” he said.

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Students could look at improving brewing equipment, tweaking the fermentation process or finding ways to use more local barley and hops in the brewing process, which could save regional brewers money importing ingredients.

Besides learning the science of brewing, students in the program would have options to specialize in the business of brewing — owning their own brewpub, for instance — or in maintaining the machinery used in breweries across the globe.

TRU will also offer an advanced program for those wishing to become brewmasters

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It would be the first of its kind in Canada.

Through the new program, TRU could also become a qualitycontrol hub for smaller breweries in B.C., some of which are sending samples of their beers as far away as Chicago for quality assurance purposes Smith said.

When David Beardsell — formerly of the Noble Pig, now starting a brewery of his own in the former Rivers nightclub building — launched his first brewery in the 1990s, the university analyzed his brews as a research project.

The student involved in the work now brews for Labatt.

While the program is offered as a diploma, Smith said TRU plans to structure its offerings so students can minor in brewing while taking other degrees, or use their brewing credits as part of a interdisciplinary studies degree.

“If you go to the major breweries, they like students that have degrees,” he said.

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Justin (left) and Nolan Smailes.

Smailes boys honoured by ALS Society of B.C.

Nolan and Justin Smailes of Kamloops have received the Leaders of Tomorrow Award from the ALS Society of B.C. The Leader of Tomorrow Award recognizes youth and young adults under the age of 25 who individually, or as part of a group, make a difference in the lives of those living with ALS through their volunteer efforts.

The award recognizes initiatives or efforts undertaken in the previous calendar year in support of ALS, including fundraising, advocacy, public awareness or going above and beyond to care

for an individual living with ALS by providing assistance, companionship and support.

Since both boys were toddlers, they have been involved with promoting awareness and fundraising for ALS. They help their mom each year at the Kamloops Walk for ALS as well as with the Kamloops Golf Tournament of Hope.

Last August, on a particularly hot Kamloops afternoon, Justin and Nolan manned the Ice Cream Hospitality Hole at the ALS Golf Tournament of Hope for more than six straight hours.

Even with temptation so near at hand, the two had to be coaxed by the ALS BC executive director to enjoy an ice cream bar as they were concerned they might run out and not have enough for the golfers.

The boys volunteer with the events leading up to the Annual Walk for ALS in Kamloops, which was inspired by their father, Clayton Smailes, who passed away from ALS five years ago.

“This award means a lot to both of us and we couldn’t have done it without the support of our family,” Justin Smailes said.

The ThompsonNicola Regional District, in conjunction with mosquito control program contractor BWP Consulting Inc., is providing free, passenger tire dropoff opportunities in Kamloops, Chase and Barriere this spring.

Because unwanted tires are prime mosquito-breeding habitats, TNRD residents are encouraged to take any old passenger vehicle tires or transport tractor-trailer tires (no agricultural tires), with or without rims, and drop them off for recycling on the following dates and locations between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.:

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COVER PAGE STORY This search and rescue plane was among many aircraft on display at Kamloops Airport on Sunday, April 13, as the airport’s 75th anniversary celebration was held. To see more photos from the event, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com. Allen Douglas/KTW

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Canadian Pacific’s 737 followed three months later, with regular service by the end of the year.

Today, Kamloops Airport is served by three passenger airlines, FedEx and three flight schools, as well as a handful of regular charter operations.

Managing director Fred Legace said the airport has done a good job of adapting to meet demands throughout its history — and he thinks it will continue to in the future.

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Cyril Jackson’s aircraft might have been the first documented landing at Kamloops Municipal Airport, but it wasn’t the first time a plane made a stop in what would become the Tournament Capital.

Burton said the first documented visit of an airplane to the Kamloops area was in 1910, when an aircraft was set up near what is now McDonald Park.

That plane was built by William Wallace Gibson, a Victoria man who is credited with engineering Canada’s first aircraft engine.

Gibson lived briefly in Kamloops later in his life before moving to Calgary.

Airplanes operated in and around Kamloops before the airport was built, but not commercially. Under federal regulations, it was OK for aircraft to use fields for takeoffs and landings as long as it wasn’t for commercial purposes.

In the 1930s, as the City of Kamloops worked to iron out its airport plans, a pair of local men, Humphrey Madden and Joe Bertolino, opened an aviation school, using the fields below Mount Paul as a home-base airfield — the only structure on the site being the canvas tent used by the school.

The school was deemed commercial and the federal government shut it down.

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Gibbons, however, said his local isn’t waiting for results — he wants jobs.

He cited loss of unionized workers at Weyerhaeuser’s sawmill, at Domtar, at Pollard Banknote and at the Kamloops Daily News.

“The anti-Ajax side, Mr. Boyce included, aren’t ready to concede a safe Ajax is possible. They’re not prepared to consider the possibility. We believe it’s possible,” Gibbons said.

In response, Boyce said he isn’t interested in getting into a spat with his fellow Steelworkers’ local, stressing his views are his own, not the union’s.

“It’s not nothing to do with Steelworkers and the Labour Council and Richard Boyce versus Marty Gibbons,” he said. “It’s got to do with the fact I’ve got 40 years’ experience dealing with mining companies and the industry. I live in Kamloops and I want Kamloops to stay healthy.”

The proposed open-pit copper mine within the city’s boundaries south of Aberdeen has caused rifts in the local labour movement.

Originally, Boyce castigated the Kamloops and District Labour Council for its anti-Ajax stance, then later changed his position.

As a result, neither Steelworkers’ union locals are part of the labour council.

Peter Kerek, president of Kamloops & District Labour Council, said there have been no recent efforts to bring the two locals back.

“You have opposing viewpoints. We have councils and conventions and debate things. Hopefully locals don’t walk away when they disagree with something,” Kerek said.

Boyce said despite the fact he has stressed his views are his own, a number of Highland Valley Copper worker thanked him after his weekend speech.

“There’s a whole lot of people who understand mining all too well,” Boyce said. “They have homes that will border the mine. They don’t want a mine there.”

Kerek said his organization, which represents several-thousand union members in Kamloops, remains resolutely against the proposed mine.

It polled its members in 2011, who were strongly against the mine locating so close to the city.

“The feeling in the labour council is overwhelming against Ajax . . . The medical and scientific evidence against this is what’s won over a lot of people in the anti-Ajax camp,” Kerek said.

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A pending decision by the Supreme Court of Canada could impact how the second murder trial of a Kamloops man plays out, a judge has been told.

Robert Balbar was found guilty in 2009 of murder in the death of his common-law wife, Heather Hamill, more than six years earlier — a crime he confessed to after RCMP made him the target of their controversial Mr. Big investigation technique.

Balbar was supposed to have a void dire begin in June, with a trial to follow in the fall.

But, in court on Tuesday, April 15, lawyers decided to push things back so they could see if the admissibility of Mr. Big evidence is altered by the country’s highest court in the case of Nelson Hart, a Newfoundland father who admitted to Mr. Big officers he killed his two daughters.

“We were expecting we might not go ahead in June depending on whether Hart had been decided in the Supreme Court of Canada,” Crown prosecutor Joel Gold said.

“In terms of its facts, this is not a complicated case, in the Crown’s view — it’s a Mr. Big, and that is the bulk of the evidence.”

Mr. Big stings are elaborate operations in which undercover RCMP officers pose as gangsters in a fictitious criminal organization and attempt to recruit murder suspects. The investigations are made to culminate in a meeting with the organization’s boss — Mr. Big — at which the suspect is asked to come clean about any criminal wrongdoings.

Hart’s conviction was overturned on appeal, but the Crown took it to the Supreme Court of Canada, which will be looking at whether Mr. Big confessions are reliable given the circumstances of the investigations.

Hamill’s body was found on Aug. 1, 2003,

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Park.

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known to have worked in the sex trade, was killed five days earlier.

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Education Minister Peter Fassbender may find himself busier after the Easter long weekend if the B.C. Teachers’ Union begins job action.

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Applications are being accepted for the annual Out of the Ashes bursary program run by the Phoenix Centre.

The awards are given to Kamloops residents who have changed their lifestyles, going from addictions to sobriety, and who are pursuing post-secondary education.

Applicants must be between the ages of 17 and 35 years old for the two categories of awards, must have a Kamloops home address or have recently moved here to attend an educational program, must have one year of sobriety, not be facing any outstanding charges or incarceration and who must have three letters of support, with contact information, that attest to the applicant’s sobriety.

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After rejecting an offer from the school district bargaining agency for a long-term contract, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) went to the Labour Relations Board (LRB) this week to establish essential-service levels for strike action.

BCTF members voted 89 per cent in March to endorse a three-stage strike plan that can begin with 72 hours’ notice.

Phase one includes restricting communication with school managers, arriving no more than an hour before and leaving an hour after school hours and refusing supervision of students outside class time.

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Cameron said if stage one strike action begins after the Easter break, the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) will seek an order that the union pay for its extended benefits during any withdrawal of service.

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I discover the cord has been ESIDES STEEL-CUT removed from the power socket. oats to make second It may not seem like much of and third batches of a eureka moment, but I assure overnight apple cinyou it is. namon oatmeal, the only other And, with no less than a little item on my grocery list today squeak of glee, I slide the prongs is freshly ground honey-roasted into the wall, come back around peanut butter the front, press start and watch as So, when we pull into a honeyed nut butter begins slowly parking space in front of the bulk food store at 5:55 p.m. on Sunday, I know exactly what I want and where I need to go.

Once inside, I make a beeline to the back right corner where three nut grinders are set up: Peanut, almond and honeyroasted.

I place a clear plastic container under the desired spigot, press start and, instead of the pleasing sound of peanuts being DARCIE HOSSACK ground to crunchy paste, there’s Bon nothing — just the sound of fluorescent light bulbs buzzing APPÉTIT overhead.

With something close to streaming from the mouth of the desperation — this is a peanut machine. butter that restored my liking This is also when a girl wearfor the spread after Kraft made ing an unnaturally yellow vest me swear off of forever — I suddenly appears. look down each of the nearest She must be there to help, I two aisles for someone, anyone, think at first, though I’m ready dressed in store colours.

When no one appears, I press to tell her that she’s too late the start button again, then begin and I’ve sorted out the trouble myself. to look over the machine itself.

Not to mention, if they mean If I have to, I’ll get out the aquamarine coloured multi-tool I to sell more peanut butter, they shouldn’t make it so difficult for keep in my purse and have a go customers to get at the peanuts. at the motor myself!

Now, however, is when it First, however, I remind the becomes relevant that we parked machine and any peanut gremthe car at 5:55 p.m. on a Sunday. lins lurking inside that this is a “You have to ask before plugbad time to meddle with me. ging those back in,” the girl says, It’s been a rough bundle of her voice screechy with reprimonths, and today I’d be just as pleased to grind up anything that mand.

“There was no one to ask,” gets between me and my comI reply, pushing the button for fort food and spread that on my more peanut butter. morning toast.

After all, my plastic container The threat is unnecessary, is not yet full. however, because when I lean “But, I already cleaned those around the back of the machine,

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machines,” she exclaims.

“Mm,” I say without caring.

It may be that I came into the store at 5:55 p.m., and it’s true that had I stopped to read the stickers on the front door before entering, I’d have realized that the store closes at 6 p.m. on Sundays.

When I turn to pluck a lid off the pile and begin closing it over the now-full container, the girl huffs back down the aisle.

No doubt it was to fetch her peanut-butter brush and other grinder-cleaning supplies, after posting a picture of me at the

front counter.

It makes no difference, however.

Given the same time any other Sunday, I’d be the same peanut-butter rebel I am today.

In fact, as my purchases add up and I am shown the way to the door, I come to think that it’ll just make my Honey-Roasted Peanut-Butter Cookies taste all the more sweet.

Honey-roasted peanut butter cookies 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 large egg 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 1 cup freshly-ground huoney-roasted peanut butter 1/2 cup honey-roasted or salted peanuts, coarsely chopped Preheat oven to 350 F. In a small bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy — about three minutes.

Add the egg and vanilla and mix until well-combined.

Mix in the peanut butter.

Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture, mixing until just combined. Fold in the peanuts.

Drop batter by heaping tablespoonfuls onto parchment paperlined baking sheets, 1 1/2 inches apart.

Flatten with the floured bottom of a drinking glass.

Bake until edges are lightly golden — about 25 minutes — and transfer the cookies with parchment to a cooling rack.

Darcie Friesen Hossack is a food columnist and author of Mennonites Don’t Dance. onepotatotwopotato@shaw.ca

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The RCMP say Stephen Arthuro SolisReyes was arrested at home on Tuesday, April 15, and is charged with unauthorized use of a computer and mischief in relation to data.

The agency was forced to shut down its publicly accessible website last week as the world learned about the Heartbleed computer bug, a previously undiscovered global Internet security vulnerability.

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The victims had been at a house party celebrating the last day of university classes when a suspect walked in, grabbed a knife and started stabbing people.

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Marois bids adieu with no regrets PQ leader insists Quebec better off as sovereign nation CANADIAN PRESS

QUEBEC CITY — Pauline Marois bid a tearful goodbye to politics on Wednesday, saying she has no regrets and that Quebecers will always fight to get a country.

In a political career that spanned more than 30 years, Marois held various cabinet positions before becoming premier in 2012 with a minority Parti Quebecois government.

Her stewardship of the province as Quebec’s first female premier would last just

18 months.

On Wednesday, April 16, she met with incoming premier Philippe Couillard, whose Liberals romped to victory in last week’s election with 70 of the province’s 125 seats.

The PQ was relegated to just 30 seats, prompting Marois to announce her political curtain call that night.

Officially, she will remain PQ leader until a party meeting in early June when Stephane Bedard takes over.

The outgoing premier said she was very proud of her govern-

PAULINE MAROIS: Quebec’s first female premier out after 18 months.

ment’s accomplishments.

She said she was able to control government expenses, improve Quebec’s economy and defend the province’s interests over the last

18 months.

An emotional Marois had to wipe away tears and ask someone for a tissue as she read a statement and answered questions after her private meeting with Couillard.

“It’ll soon be seven years that I left my garden, after a short retirement, because I still wanted to serve Quebec,’’ she said.

“Since then, a lot has happened and, I think you know as well as I do, that it wasn’t all smooth sailing.

“But, I don’t regret anything.’’

Asked about the state of the sovereigntist movement, Marois said there will always be Quebecers fighting for a country.

“I think this project [sovereignty] is always an important necessary project for our nation and I am sure many leaders, many citizens will continue to fight to be a country one today. I don’t know when. I don’t know how.

“But one thing I know is that we [would] be in the best situation if we were independent. I am sure of that. We are different. We are a nation.’’

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BARRY GORDON RICHARDS Sept 23, 1938, - April 15, 2014

Barry spent his life in the fuel business and hauled his final load on April 15, 2014 at the age of 75. Survived and missed by his loving wife of 54 years Mary; their children: Vernon (Kamloops); Cami (Neil Salanski) of Cranbrook; Charlene (Kamloops), granddaughters Marlo and Kaylin Salanski of Cranbrook, niece: Robin (Sheldon Scott) of Penticton, siblings: Shirley Wallin (Virgil) of Armstrong; Charlie (Marilyn) of Penticton; Allan (Betty) of Kelowna, sister in-law Val Wurtz (Phil) of Medicine Hat, many nieces, nephews, extended family and lifelong friends.

Barry was born and raised in Penticton, BC where he developed his lifelong love of sports as a participant and a spectator. Barry was a sincere person who had a strong sense of values, which included family, friends, animals and his work.

Barry was a member of Orion Lodge #51, Charter Member of Skaha Rotary Club; volunteer fire fighter in Penticton for many years, and served as a volunteer driver for the Cancer Car in Kamloops for 10 years.

To the nurses on the 4th floor recovery, your care and compassion to Barry and family was above and beyond. Thank you!

No formal service by request. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, The Heart & Stroke Foundation or a charity of your choice.

Condolences may be left at www.mem.com Arrangements entrusted to Schoening Cremation Centre, 250-554-2429.

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MURIEL LOUISE BILICK May 15, 1937 – April 14, 2014

Muriel passed away peacefully in her 76th year on April 14, 2014 in Kamloops, British Columbia.

She will be sadly missed by her loving husband, Wally, and by her daughter Cyndra, of Orleans, Ontario.

Muriel will be lovingly remembered by her four grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her son, Mike.

A private family Celebration of Muriel’s life will be held at a later time in Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Condolences may be left at www.mem.com Arrangements entrusted to Schoening Cremation Centre 250-554-2429.

OLAFSON Victoria Olafson (nee Sus) passed away peacefully at her home in Revelstoke on April 12, 2014.

Vicki was born June 10, 1931, in Fort Frances, Ontario, to Anna and John Sus. She grew up in Fort Frances and moved to Atikokan in 1952, where she met Elmer.

Vicki and Elmer were married on September 18, 1954. Daughter Susan was born the following year, and daughter Joanne was born three years later. The family moved to Merritt, BC, in 1968. Vicki and Elmer moved to Williams Lake in 1982, and made a final move to Revelstoke, where they have lived since 1983.

Vicki loved curling, golf, swimming, and her daily walks.

She was an amazing cook, passing her talent and love of cooking on to her daughters and granddaughters. She was actively involved in her community, volunteering in the lab at Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke for 25 years. Her volunteer work also included canvassing for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, helping with the BC Mammography Screening Service clinics, and making cancer patient dressings with the Order of the Eastern Star. She was an active member of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Revelstoke.

Vicki is survived by her husband Elmer, daughter Susan of Vancouver, daughter Joanne (Chris) Bonderud, and granddaughters Kirsten and Erica Bonderud, all of Kamloops, BC. She is lovingly remembered by her sistersin-law Vi Cook of Edmonton and Jane Sus of Fort Frances, as well as her many nieces and nephews.

Vicki was predeceased by her parents, her sisters Vera Fedorchuk, Betty Boyd, and Nettie Livicker, and her brother Fred Sus. Condolences may be expressed at www.brandonbowersfuneralhome.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 565 West 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 4J4.

JOHN CLYDE DYER 1958 ~ 2014

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of John Clyde Dyer of Kamloops, BC, on April 11, 2014, at 55 years of age. He is survived by his wife, Rhonda, of 29 years, as well as children Ken (Becca) Dyer of Port Hardy, Alicia (Joel) Holm of St. Albert, and Stephen Dyer of Kamloops. Also left to cherish John’s memory are grandchildren Aliyah, Ava, Ella, Baby Ty (who has yet to arrive), Zaia, John, and Hailey, as well as mother-in-law Sherry Forman, brother Reg (Lorrie), and sisters Marlene (Barry), Maddy (Dale) and Joanne (Erick), as well as numerous other nieces and nephews.

John is predeceased by his father, Ken, mother, Louisa, father-in-law Ken Forman, and special friend Jock Copeland.

The world lost an amazing man on April 11, 2014 after a long, painful, but courageous battle with cancer. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother and uncle. He loved his two little dogs, Maggie and Minnie (his “babies”, he called them).

They miss him terribly.

He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, soul mate and best friend of 29 years, Rhonda. John leaves behind three children, and six grandchildren, one due in May, all of whom he loved so very much. He cherished his time with them all.

John loved the outdoors, where he enjoyed hunting, fishing and gold panning. He had a very special relationship with his brother, Reg, and wife, Lorrie. A lot of good memories were made together by the four of us. We are now down to three; he will be forever in our hearts.

John also enjoyed time with his in-laws: Ken, his father-in-law, with whom he loved fishing; Jock, with whom he loved hunting and fishing; his mother-in-law, Sherry, who he loved for her sharp tongue and tell-it-like-it-is attitude; and Louie, his brother-inlaw, who was always there for a laugh and fresh seafood.

John will be remembered for his sense of humour, love of the outdorrs and devotion to his family. The people closest to him, he loved deeply and passionately. He will be greatly missed. “forever in our hearts” A Celebration of John’s Life will be held in Campbell River on August 9, 2014.

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

HALL Wayne Nelson Hall passed away at his home of a heart attack on or about April 5, 2014. Wayne was born in Vancouver, B.C. and was not married. He was predeceased by his father, Roger Hall; and is survived by his mother Ann Hall, his eldest brother Roger & wife Gail, daughter Crystal; his sister Donna Cousley & partner Dan Ruptash; his other brother Jim Hall & wife Debbie, daughter Jennifer; as well as many cousins, aunts, uncles and countless friends & associates. Wayne attended Culinary school and received training as a Chef. Some of his varied positions and businesses were Administrator - KFC, Chilliwack, Halston Diner Kamloops and Kamloops Catering.

Wayne was a long time community volunteer serving on the boards of events such as the BC Special Olympics and the 2006 BC Summer Games. Over the years Wayne impacted many facets of Kamloops including the Food and Service industry, the Accommodations sector and the Arts and Sports communities.

His extensive event experience made him an integral part of the senior management team of the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games. Immediately upon completion of the WCSG Wayne took on his current position of General Manager of the Kamloops Sports Council.

For friends and relatives of Wayne in the Lower Mainland a Celebration of life is being arranged to be tentatively held on April 26 at the family church, St. Thomas Anglican, 2444 41st Ave E, Vancouver.

Wayne had many cherished friends and associates in Kamloops, who can celebrate Wayne at a local tribute and dedication ceremony in early May which is being arranged by the Kamloops Sports Council. Announcement and invitations to the event will be published by KSC in the near future.

Please, no flowers, but donations can be made on his behalf to Kamloops Sport Council, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, or your favorite charity. Wayne will be sorely missed.

For information or to pass on condolences to the family through Sports Council phone 250-828-2822 or email kamloopssportscouncil@gmail.com

DARLYNE MACINNIS October 24, 1939 - April 13, 2014 It is with great sadness that the family share the passing of Darlyne MacInnis after a courageous battle with cancer.

She spent her last days in the wonderful care of the Kamloops Hospice (Marjorie Willoughby Snowden), with her family by her side.

Darlyne was born and raised in Vancouver. It was there that she met the love of her life, Raymond MacInnis. The couple married in 1961 and shortly after moved to Kamloops, where they started their family. Darlene was a legal secretary for 19 years, worked for the TNRD for eight years while Ray worked for CP Rail. After 31 years in Kamloops, they retired to Christina Lake where they enjoyed the lake and golf course for 12 years. In 2006, they moved to Blind Bay where Darlyne enjoyed golf, close friends and neighbours.

Darlyne is survived by her husband of 52 years, Raymond , two sons, Ken (Leona) and Keith (Kim), and grandson Evan.

No service will be held at this time.

The family would like to thank the Kamloops Hospice, the nurses, the care givers and the doctors for their part in her quality of life.

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Should friends desire, donations to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home, c/o Kamloops Hospice, 72 Whiteshield Crescent S., Kamloops, B.C., V2E 2S9, would be appreciated in her memory.

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KENNETH MARTIN ANGELI

Today, April 14 2014, we mourn the loss of our dear papa, husband, and dad, Clarence Neis.

December 27, 1945 – April 12, 2014

Clarence Neis was born February 24th 1933 in Cudworth Saskatchewan.

Clarence is predeceased by his parents and all five siblings. He passed away warm in his bed, with his wife of 58 years by his side, and his loving children and grandchildren surrounding him.

Leaving behind him is his beautiful wife, Joyce Neis, and 7 children.

His seven children who loved their dad greatly: Shirley (Bob), Leo, Edward, Bertha (Roger), Agnes (Tom), Angeline (Phil), and April. Clarence had 15 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren who he cherished dearly.

Clarence had many hobbies that made him the wonderful man he was. He enjoyed tending to his garden, curling during the winter months, lawn bowling during the summer months, and playing hockey during his younger years. During the winter he would turn his garden into a skating rink to feel and see the happiness of spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Clarence was a faithful man whom was part of the OLPH parish and strong willed for the faith he believed in. He was passionate about the job he had, for 38 years, of driving trains for the CN railway. Even after retirement, he continued his love for the railway by driving the train for the Wildlife Park. Dedicating his time to making the children smile, by blowing the horn of the train, was always a favourite way to spend his time.

Clarence was an ear when you needed to talk, a hug when you needed comforting, and a wise soul when you needed advice.

If you would like to celebrate the life of Clarence Neis; the Prayers are Tuesday April 22 at 7:00 pm, and the funeral is Wednesday April 23 at 11:00 am at OLPH, 635 Tranquille Rd, Father Peter officiating.

The spirit and life of this beautiful man will forever live on.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Kenneth Martin Angeli. Born December 27, 1945, in Humboldt, Saskatchewan.

He is predeceased by his father Joseph, mother Agnes and sister Brenda. He will be greatly missed by his wife Teckla of 48 years, his children Jackie (Mark) Gutknecht, Rick (Shari) Angeli, Kim (Chris) Burnham, Scott Angeli and his grandchildren Megan, Kyle, Amy, Courtney, Ashley, Cole, Makalya, and Dylan. He is survived by his brothers and sisters Sylvia, Marion, Larry and Karen.

When Ken moved to Kamloops, one of his rst jobs was driving for Trimac which eventually led to his own trucking business as an owner operator. KAT Trucking was operational from 1976 to 2007 which was then purchased by Trimac...talk about a full circle. His passion for trucking was his biggest challenge and his greatest reward which he lived and breathed.

Ken’s greatest loves in life was his family, his snowbird months, golng, and motorized vehicles; the faster the better and there wasn’t a vehicle he didn’t own and then sell.

Please join Ken’s family and friends in a celebration of life to be held at the Coast Canadian Hotel, 1250 Rogers Way, East Entrance, on Thursday, April 17, 2014, at 2 to 5 pm.

Thank you to the outstanding care and love by the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice during Ken`s last days. In lieu of owers, please consider donations to the Hospice.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great excercise and lots of fun, say members of the Kamloops Dragon Boat Club, which is on the prowl for new members. KTW file photo

Breathing fire into dragon boating

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RAGON boating has experienced growth across Canada in recent years, but the sport has been stagnating in the Tournament Capital.

The Kamloops Dragon Boat Club (KDBC) brass is trying to spread the good word, looking for new members to hop on board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people think dragon boating is just for people who are older and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see that at all,â&#x20AC;? club president Will Parei said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a seniors component to it, but we want all ages.â&#x20AC;?

Dragon boaters have

been racing up and down the Thompson rivers since 1994.

Pioneer Park is the KDBC headquarters.

Rae Fawcett, who began paddling about seven years ago, said there might be another stereotype keeping people away.

The Spirit Warriors, a dragon-boat team for breast-cancer survivors, has received attention for their inspiring efforts in the water, but the KDBC is not strictly for those who have battled the disease.

There were more than 40 members at a recent Wednesday evening practice, enough to send out two full boats, so the club is by no means struggling, but Parei is confident its best days are to come.

The River City clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ace in the hole might just be its most recent hiring, Stan Marek, who was last week named the Kamloops Sports Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coach of the year for his work with the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak Club. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were talking about what to do with the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals and we found that we could co-operate and reach together those goals,â&#x20AC;? said Marek, who last year came to Canada from the Czech Republic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First, we want to make people happy.

This is the most important thing and this is what dragon boating is about â&#x20AC;&#x201D; enjoy the sport and nature and then we will have some good

The club practises three times a week, sending out two or three boats â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each of them 48-feet long, weighing about 900 pounds and capable of holding 22 people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; depending on how many members show up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ideally, we would like to grow this club to the point where, every night of the week, there are boats going up and down the river,â&#x20AC;? Parei said.

Attracting more members would enable the club to split up into teams, allowing paddlers to be separated based on levels of competitiveness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at Langley,â&#x20AC;?

Parei said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That city has 22 teams. They stay together and practise on a specific night.â&#x20AC;?

results, which will make people happy and more excited.â&#x20AC;?

The KDBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season runs from April 1 to Sept. 30. There are plans to attend four festivals, dragon boatingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s term for competitions, with the club looking to send competitive and novice teams to the weekend events.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not mandatory for members to compete at festivals.

When KTW attended practice, the boats were in the water for about an hour and a half.

Marek marshalled the training session, shouting out instructions in his thick Czech accent, leading the crews up and down the river.

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Geoff Blunden of Kamloops plans on bursting off the starting line at the Boston Marathon with a clear mind, untroubled by the threat of a terrorist attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What can you do to prepare for the kind of thing that took place last year except to rely on organizers?â&#x20AC;? said Blunden, who at 63 is participating for the first time in the iconic run on Monday, April 21. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They promise the security will be great and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m prepared to rely on that.â&#x20AC;?

Thousands gathered on Tuesday, April 15, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured at least 264 others.

There will be 36,000 runners at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marathon, up from 27,000 last year, among them three Kamloopsians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Blunden, Anders Ganstal and Rick Jenkner.

Blunden qualified after running his eighth marathon, the Arizona Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll Marathon, in January 2013. He crossed the finish line in 3:50. The cutoff time for qualification for the Boston race in his division was 3:55. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eighth time was the charm,â&#x20AC;? the Urban

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Systems employee said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never started a marathon saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is going to be the one that I hit my qualifying time.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It just happened.

Everything kind of came together.â&#x20AC;?

Blunden will not let what happened last year cast a shadow over what promises to be a joyous occasion for him and so many others pounding the pavement on Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragic that it happened,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people that get there are there to celebrate a past accomplishment because you have to qualify. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a shame that it was picked as a target. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having said that, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried.

Security is going to be very much heightened.â&#x20AC;?

There will be double the number officers on patrol this year, with 3,500 uniformed and plain-clothes officers expected to be on duty.

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Record number of spectators expected at iconic marathon; many will be searched X From A25

Boston officers will be aided by 100 additional security cameras, along with bomb-sniffing dogs.

“In this world, you never eliminate risk; you never bring it down to zero,” Massachusetts State Police Col. Timothy Alben told CNN. “But, we are working very hard at reducing that risk level and managing it to the best of our collective abilities.”

The 26.2-mile course runs through eight cities and towns and

it is expected to be surrounded by a record number of spectators, according to the Boston Athletic Association.

Marathon-related events will bring in an estimated $175.8 million, the highest-ever economic impact number, according to the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau.

At the anniversary gathering on Tuesday, police confiscated two suspicious bags, but both were eventually deemed safe.

A man carrying one of the bags

has been charged with possessing a hoax device, according to CNN. Marathon organizers have

assured participants everything in their power is being done to increase safety measures.

“The website and all the messaging that we’ve had from Boston has told us they have set out really strict requirements in terms of what you can and cannot bring anywhere near the finish area. For instance, no backpacks and no bulky clothing,” Blunden said.

“At certain points as you cross from general public areas into start and finish areas, you may be subject to search. They make it clear

— be prepared for this.”

Blunden likened his trip to Boston to what the Kamloops contingent of Olympians endured when they went to the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, earlier this year.

“You want to participate in these things, so you go with the confidence that things will be fine,” he said.

“These are once-in-a-lifetime events. There’s no guarantee there will be another opportunity.”

Kamloops Dragon Boat Club members enjoy camaraderie, excercise, competition X From A25

Paddlers followed his cadence. He would push on the gas pedal, then let up. The last leg home, with dusk creeping over the Tournament Capital, was highlighted by a few friendly races.

Fawcett was asked how she got hooked on the sport.

“For me, it’s the camaraderie and the people and it’s an incredibly good way

to have physical exercise,” Fawcett said.

“If you like team sports, it’s perfect, because you have to get in sync with the people in front of you and beside you.

“You work as a team and yet you press yourself.

And no, it’s not just for old people.”

Pondering paddling?

For more information on the club, go online to

kamloopsdragonboatclub.ca or email contact@kamloopsdragonboatclub.ca.

The Spirit Warriors also have a website, spiritwarriors.ca.

On the radio

The club was recently featured on CBC Radio Kamloops.

The link to the audio from the broadcast will be posted online at kamloopsthisweek.com.

Sound goalkeeping and potent offence lead Blaze to victory Matthew Mackenzie posted a clean sheet in a 3-0 win for the under16 Kamloops Blaze boys over hometown Kelowna United in league play on Sunday.

Jeff Tulliani, Cody Campbell and Tukker Tomlin found the old onion bag for the visitors.

Lighting it up

Seven goal scorers led the under-15 Kamloops Blaze to a 7-0 victory over an under-16 Shuswap team on Saturday on McArthur Island.

Georgia Aldus, Nevada Woods, Laura Shouldice, Shae Fuoco, Katie Merritt, Linnea Pasternak and

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Emily Mann tallied for Kamloops, which went with Alison Taylor between the pipes.

The same Blaze team played to a scoreless draw with under16 Kelowna United at McArthur on Sunday.

Kayla Pehl posted the clean sheet.

Mixed bag

The under-12 Kamloops Blaze White boys split a pair of league games on Sunday in Penticton.

Kelowna rallied

back from a onegoal deficit to beat Kamloops 4-1 before the Blaze bounced back with a 6-4 win over Penticton.

Kamloops clash

Stephanie Mosley scored twice for the under-13 Kamloops Blaze A girls in a 2-1 victory over the under14 Kamloops Blaze B girls on the weekend.

Maddie Susheski and Rhean Holling split time between the pipes for the under-13 team.

In tough

The under-12 Kamloops Blaze Blue girls posted a draw and a loss in league play in Penticon on Sunday.

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Kamloops opened with a 4-4 tie against Shuswap FC and finished the day with a 3-2 loss to Kelowna White.

Finding the twine on Sunday for the Blaze were Amy Strank (2), Emily Hinds, Sophia Seibel, Jordyn Lodermeier and Kendra McDonald.

Amanda Thomas backstopped the Blaze.

Blaze on fire

Commanding victories was the theme on Sunday for the under18 Kamloops Blaze boys, who thumped Revelstoke 7-1 and dumped Vernon 7-1.

Scoring goals for Kamloops were Cole Hooper, Zac Hanghofer

(2), Logan Zimmerman, Caimon Weiser (2), Keenan Wallace (2), Austin Pietramala (2), and Haris Djelmo (4).

Ben Sama was between the pipes for the Blaze.

River-city matchup

An all-Kamloops battle finished with a win for the younger team in weekend KYSA action.

The under-16 Kamloops Blaze tier 1 girls blanked the under17/18 Blaze girls 4-0.

Scoring for the winners in support of goalkeeper Emerson Hansen were Sasha Sirianni, Hayley Guizo, Delaney Collins and Amy Wiebe.

Win one, lose one

The under-12 Kamloops Blaze White girls split a pair of games in Penticton on Sunday.

Kelowna United B blanked Kamloops 1-0 before the Blaze

bounced back with a 4-1 win over the Pinnacles 2.

Vanessa Hicks, Tatianna Mueller, Jadyn McHallam and Taryn Meixner scored for Kamloops in support of goalkeeper Sadie Moyer.

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Kamloops bidding on world women’s hockey championship

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Looking to again bring its Tournament Capital moniker to the international stage, Kamloops will submit a bid next week in hopes of playing host to the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship when it visits Canada in 2016.

Kamloops has already been named the host of the 2014 Four Nations Cup later this year and was asked by Hockey Canada to submit a bid for the 2016 championship.

The location should be selected in May, with the event running toward the end of March or beginning of April in 2016.

“It’s the Four Nations Cup on a grander scale,” Tournament Capital

co-ordinator Sean Smith said.

“It just solidifies our reputation for event hosting as the Tournament Capital, to host the world’s and the women’s best hockey

teams.”

Smith knows which cities are

involved in the bidding process, but couldn’t reveal the competition, as that information is confidential.

He remains confident, though, and feels Kamloops has a good shot at winning the bid.

Kamloops is the only B.C. location in the running.

“What Kamloops minor hockey has started with an all-female hockey tournament in November . . . has identified that female hockey is on the rise, interest-wise,” Smith said.

Should the bid be successful, it

would provide a boost to the city as a whole — 100,000 tickets were sold for last year’s event in Ottawa.

Both McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre and Interior Savings Centre would play host to games as a part of the bid.

Smith said the event will be promoted in B.C., Alberta and the Pacific Northwest.

“There’s definitely some promotional plans in place to bring thousands of people to Kamloops to watch over the course of the week.”

McManus heads east for latest WolfPack soccer recruit Ciara Ambrose of Aurora, Ont., is the third recruit to sign on for the TRU WolfPack’s inaugural Canadian Interuniversity Sports soccer season.

The 5-foot-5 midfielder currently plays for her high school team, the Country Day School Cyclones, and Markham under-18 and under-21 teams.

WolfPack women’s soccer coach Tom McManus said Ambrose will play as either an attacking midfielder or a striker.

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“I’m very excited about coming to TRU and being a part of the WolfPack,” Ambrose said.

“In many ways it seems like a homecoming — I have been visiting Kamloops and Sun Peaks each year since 2000. I decided several years ago that I wanted to attend TRU.”

Ambrose was an MVP with her highschool team and led them as a captain.

She was a part of the Cyclones team that won league and national championships in her Grade 11 year.

“She is a fit player and has done very well playing for her teams in Ontario,” McManus said.

Earlier this year, TRU received commitments from defenders Christine Fergin of Waterloo and Sara

Seebach of Kamloops.

Blazers’ prospects at Telus Cup

Kamloops Blazers’ fans can rest assured there’s young talent waiting in the wings, as three prospects will play in the 2014 Telus Cup for the midget AAA national championship later this month.

Forward Jake Kryski will suit up for the Okanagan Rockets, while defenceman Dawson Davidson will play for the Moose Jaw

Generals.

Goaltender Connor Ingram will play for the Prince Albert Mintos.

Kryski was acquired by the Blazers in 2013 in the trade that saw 20-year-old goaltender Cole Cheveldave leave town.

The 16-year-old had 48 points, including 16 goals, in 37 games with the Rockets this season.

He also chipped in with 11 points in the playoffs and scored the gamewinner in the B.C. Major Midget League

championship final.

Davidson was selected by Kamloops in the third round of the 2013 WHL bantam draft.

The Saskatchewan product had 39 points, including five goals,

in 42 games with the Generals this season.

His team will play host to the Telus Cup. Ingram was the top goaltender in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League, where Davidson also plays, posting a 16-43-0 record for Prince Albert.

He recorded a goalsagainst average of 1.98 and a save percentage of .928.

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Masters finish lacked drama

T

HE GOLF god who penned the back nine of the Masters needs to give his head a shake — he shanked one into the pine straw.

What a letdown.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a hate on for Bubba Watson, but there were so many more captivating storylines that went begging on Sunday.

The CBS broadcast opened with Fred Couples birdieing the first two holes, leaving the golf world to wonder if the 54-yearold could don a second Green Jacket. He would have displaced Jack Nicklaus and become the oldest player to win at Augusta, but Boom Boom fizzled down the stretch, disappointing his army of fans, myself included.

At the other end of the age spectrum, 20-year-old Jordan

MARTY HASTINGS The Tattle of Hastings Spieth, who was tied for the third-round lead with Watson, had a shot at becoming the youngest player to win the tourney.

With bogeys in consecutive holes heading into the turn on Sunday, Spieth, who looked destined to win after canning an incredible bunker shot on Hole 4, relinquished the lead and never made a charge to recover it.

The world’s most interesting man, Miguel Angel Jimenez, the Mechanic, had an excellent tournament and entered the final round

just two shots back of the leaders.

What I would have given to see him smoking a cigar and drinking champagne in the coveted coat. But, no, it was not to be.

Jimenez, 50, was also in line to claim the title of eldest player to win the Masters.

Jonas Blixt was not to become Sweden’s first Masters winner, perennial runner-up Lee Westwood couldn’t get it going and fellow major-less hopefuls Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar and Thomas Bjorn watched their chances slip away.

A few of the aforementioned golfers were still long shots heading into Amen Corner, but none of them mustered a heroic comeback and Watson cruised to his second Masters victory.

I will admit the scene of his adorable two-year-old son waddling onto the 18th

green was pretty cute, but, call me jaded, I would have traded that in for drama on the finishing holes.

(In fact, the fathertoddler embrace would have been even more memorable if Bubba had just lost in a playoff to Fred . . . Oh, look-atthe-wee-boy-consolehis-dad type thing.)

There was no backand-forth shootout, no Greg Norman-like collapses, no Van de Veldian calamities, no glorious approach shots on 18 and no putts where the tension was palpable.

Here’s hoping the golf gods get it right next year. Seve is up there. He could give them some advice.

The Tattle of Hastings appears in KTW on Thursdays.

Email Marty Hastings at sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

Sunrays shine at regionals The Kamloops Sunrays had a strong showing at the B.C. Regional Championships in Surrey on the weekend.

In Level 1 figures, Ariel Trouton placed second, Bethany Robertson placed fourth, Kate Lieb placed fifth and Kennedy Coates was sixth.

Competing in the Level 2 division, Kessa Kwiatkowski took gold in solo and figures, Megan Allen placed second in figures and the two girls won gold with their duet performance.

In Level 3, Charlotte Ribalkin placed second in figures and first in solo, Taylor Baxter was third in figures and second in solo and Ribalkin and Baxter claimed gold in duet.

Girls in Kamloops are invited to try the sport for free at a Sunrays anniversary celebration in the Canada Games Aquatic Centre on Tuesday, April 22.

The session will run from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Judokas wrap season with hardware

The last Judo BC-sanctioned tournament of the 2013-2014 competition season was held in Vernon earlier this month.

Aberdeen Judo Academy brought nine judokas to the event.

Winning gold were Tiago, Aaron Okano, Graeme Hanks, Nicholas Plumtree, Kiara Endean and Drew Ramsay.

Matthew Virdee, Morgan Endean and Jarek Masson earned silver medals.

Masson and Morgan Endean picked up bronze medals.

Johnston nets four in Rattlers’ win

Tyson Johnston notched four goals in the bantam A Kamloops Rattlers’ 5-3 win over North Okanagan in lacrosse action in Armstrong on Sunday.

Jake Coles also scored for Kamloops in support

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Snakes slither to split

The peewee A1 Kamloops Rattlers travelled to Maple Ridge for exhibition games against two A1 Ridge Meadows teams on Saturday, April 12.

The Rattlers were defeated 9-4 in Game 1, but bounced back with a 6-4 win in Game 2.

In league play on Sunday, April 13, Kamloops thumped North Okanagan 16-1.

Tremendous trifecta

Samantha Ryan, Jasmine Bains and Billie Sankey each buried two goals for the NorKam Saints in a 7-1 win over Clearwater in junior girls’ high-school soccer action on Monday, April 14.

Shae Stearns added a single in support of goalkeeper Kaitlyn Guise, who was beaten on an own goal. NorKam is 2-0 on the campaign.

The Saints are hosting South Kamloops secondary today (April 17). Game time is 4 p.m.

Fitzgerald makes the grade

Kendall Fitzgerald is the lone Kamloops female playing in the under-18 B.C. Cup when it lands in Salmon Arm from April 23 to April 27.

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Eight-year-old Parker Cameron swam a 200-metre individual medley with a time of 3:58.99, earning first place in the eight-andunder boys’ division.

Jeff McCauley swam his 200-m IM with a time of 3:58.77 and placed first in 11-andunder boys.

Both swimmers are eligible for competitions at the regional level, after swimming under the four-minute regional time standard in the 200-m IM. Other notable performances came from Jack Cameron, 10, who earned four first-place finishes — 100-m backstroke (1:46.71), 50-m freestyle (37.98), 50-m butterfly (49.14) and 200-m freestyle (3:25.60) — and a silver in the 100-m breaststroke (2:07.67).

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Dylan Sheppard was a heat winner in the 200-m freestyle (3:53.74).

At the B.C. Cup

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