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Kamloops was extremely hazy on Aug. 19, 2010, when smoke from forest fires in the Cariboo settled over the city. According to a new study, November is the worst month for air quality in Kamloops, followed by August. KTW FILE PHOTO

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For the second time in as many years, the City of Kamloops is facing major repairs to the walls of the Tournament Capital Centre. At a Tuesday, Jan. 20, budget meeting, parks, recreation and cultural services director Byron McCorkell told council the city needs to spend nearly $3 million to repair the roof and walls of the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. The city allocated $350,000 in last year’s budget to repair what was initially thought to be a leaky roof, but McCorkell said a closer examination of the building has shown the combination of spray-Styrofoam insulation and stucco used in the pool’s walls isn’t keeping moisture out. “The water right now is coming down off the roof inside the wall, which it’s not supposed to be doing,” McCorkell said. “We’re basically going to be rebuilding the outside of the building to seal it up.” If the project sounds familiar, it’s because the city just spent more than $800,000 on similar repairs to the other, newer half of the TCC, which had developed several persistent leaks due to the improper design and construction of its vapour barrier. Though the city hopes it can get contractors D&T Developments and Stantec Architecture to cover the costs of that repair (the issue is still with the city’s lawyers), McCorkell

The repair cost for the Canada Games Aquatic Centre is the largest singleticket item on this year’s list of supplemental budget requests.

said there is no going back to the builders of the pool, who did the work in the early 1990s. “There’s no way to go back to anybody and say, you shouldn’t have done that, because there were other pools that were designed like that,” McCorkell said. “It must have been an industry discussion at the time that, hey, this would be great, but it didn’t work.” McCorkell said buildings housing other pools of similar design in B.C. have already been repaired, most recently in Delta, because of moisture issues. The repair cost is the largest single-ticket item on this year’s list of supplemental budget requests from staff and the community. Acting director of finance Doug Stewart told council money for the project could come from gas and gambling funds, or from a sewer levy paid by the Tk’emlups Indian Band in exchange for service, the proceeds of which are earmarked for recreation projects.

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The death of an RCMP constable shot over the weekend while performing a routine investigation in an Edmonton suburb has sent reverberations across the national police force — including Kamloops. “It certainly is a sombre day for the RCMP family and police forces across this country,” said RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller, Kamloops’ chief of police. Police say Const. David Wynn died in hospital yesterday morning (Jan. 21). Wynn never regained consciousness after he and an auxiliary officer, Const. Derek Bond, were wounded at a casino in St. Albert early Saturday morning (Jan. 17) while they investigated a stolen truck. Bond was struck in the right arm and torso, but was released from hospital several hours after the shooting. The shooter, Shawn Rehn, was found dead in a home not far from the casino in an apparent suicide. “David made the ultimate sacrifice and now his family is paying for that sacrifice,” Mueller said. “We support one another and try to make sense out of what happened.” The Alberta shooting came less than two months after a Kamloops Mountie, Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud, was shot while performing a traffic stop in Batchelor Heights. “This event hits close to home for us here in Kamloops in light of the shooting in our community on Dec. 3,” Mueller said. “Certainly, these incidents are a reminder of the inherent risks our officers face each day. This is the reality that the frontline members face every day.” Rehn had a long criminal record and the RCMP commissioner has raised questions about why he was not behind bars, suggesting a review of the justice system might be required. The man charged with attempted murder for the shooting that landed Michaud in hospital — where he remains — is a convicted killer with a lengthy and violent criminal history. “Policing has changed,” Mueller said. “We do see indications of that right across the country, that actions toward the police tend to be more violent. We do see that in terms of our dealings with people.”

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The former owner of Chapters Viewpoint restaurant is refunding money for unused gift certificates that were purchased at the Columbia Street eatery before it closed at the end of December. Rob Nordin, who shut down the well-known restaurant and took on the role of general manager at the Kamloops Curling Club, said he has refunded about $2,800 in gift certificates.

“I’ve been redeeming whatever has been coming,” he said. “We didn’t have a lot out there.” Nordin closed the restaurant at the end of his lease, citing the need for a change and a building that needed upgrades. Those with outstanding gift certificates can visit him downtown at the Kamloops Curling Club, at 700 Victoria St.

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Seniors snared in pot grow MAN, 76, AND WOMAN, 66, WERE ARRESTED IN LITTLE FORT CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com

One of two North Thompson Valley seniors busted at a marijuana grow-op last year is facing the prospect of jail, while the other has been given a sixmonth conditional sentence for her role in the rural operation. Myrna Dundas pleaded guilty this week to possession of less than three kilograms of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Crown prosecutor Anthony Varesi said Clearwater RCMP raided the grow-op in August 2013. When Mounties entered an outbuilding, Varesi said, they found the 66-year old Dundas with scissors in her hand, trimming buds from freshly cut marijuana plants. There were 150 pot plants in the building, part of what Varesi called a relatively small operation. Donald Clarkson, 76, was the tenant of the property on Highway 5A in Little Fort, which is about 90 kilometres north of Kamloops. Clarkson has pleaded guilty to unlawful production of marijuana and possession for the

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The Kamloops RCMP is looking to add two members to its ranks, but at least one councillor has concerns about adding another pair of full-time officers. Supt. Brad Mueller told council the detachment wants the city to fund a second member for its Car 40 mentalhealth program, which is run jointly with the Interior Health Authority, and a new member to work on nuisance-property cases. Each new member costs about $160,000 annually (salary and

benefits included), though only a halfyear’s salary would need to be funded in 2015. The requests are among $5 million in supplemental items council will have to consider as it looks to set its budget for 2015. Council turned down a request for more Car 40 funding last year, but Mueller said the program, which pairs a dedicated officer with an IHA nurse specializing in mental health, is paying off. He said the average amount of time officers spend at Royal Inland Hospital’s emergency room as a result of mental-health calls has

gone from an average of 100 minutes to less than 60 minutes, noting the department has seen a 73 per cent reduction in calls concerning residents who are chronically reported to police. Coun. Tina Lange said she still has concerns the Car 40 program is provincial downloading of health care — one reason many councillors voted against adding a second officer to the program last term. “If we’re going to ante up all this money and the taxpayers are going to pay their $160,000 to put another officer out there, the province needs to pay

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While most of the city’s supplemental budget items for 2015 come with a cost, in one case staff are urging Kamloops city council not to spend money this year. Director of development services Marvin Kwiatkowski told council staff believes it should not move ahead with planned pedestrian upgrades to

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raised sidewalk alongside the road and realign the street to improve traffic safety, along with other upgrades. Kwiatkowksi put the value of work lost if council goes ahead with the Todd Road project this year, then approves the reconstruction in 2019, at between $600,000 and $750,000. Not every councillor is enthusiastic about another four years of waiting, however. Coun. Arjun Singh said he’s aware the city will be doing some construction on the road, only to tear it up a few years later, but said the city may have to “suck that up” because of safety concerns raised by the public. Council will decide this spring whether work on Todd Road goes ahead or hits the brakes, following another public-budget consultation set for the end of February.

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A study by a Kamloops physicians’ group has found the city’s air quality worsened in 2014, adding to what the group claims is a trend of increasing particulate matter in the valley. Air quality reached bottom in November, when levels of tiny particulate in the air, known as PM 2.5, reached 37 micrograms per cubic metre — more than four times the target threshold in B.C. and the highest level reached in that month since new monitors became available five years ago. In general, November is the worst month for air quality in Kamloops. followed by August. The annual average for 2014, according to the study, is at least 9 micrograms per cubic metre, above the provincial threshold of 8 and up from the 2013 average of 8.9. Sources include forest fires, home heating, industry, transportation and, in the fall months,

slash burning. Forest fires in particular can strongly influence numbers. Last year saw the third-most forest fires provincewide since records started being kept. The study was published by Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment Society and was prepared by two PhD scientists — retired Environment Canada scientist Robert Schemenauer and Peter Tsigaris, an economics professor at TRU. Jill Calder, a physician and spokeswoman for the society, said the group believes more airquality monitoring stations are required in the valley and more Ministry of Environment staff are required to monitor and interpret them. She is critical of the current public-information system based on its 24-hour lag in issuing air-quality alerts. “They can tell you, yesterday you shouldn’t have run,” Calder said. The physicians’ group was formed in opposition to the proposed Ajax mine. Calder said the report’s findings point

both to a need to reduce overall particulate matter and that Kamloops cannot be home to another major industrial emitter. The group is also concerned with any new tenant looking to develop the former Weyerhaeuser sawmill site in Mission Flats. “We can’t continue with our current attitude that our air is really good and that we’re not as bad as Los Angeles, Toronto or Beijing,” Calder said. “Sometimes we are.” The Ministry of Environment declined an interview request. It released a statement saying it had not completed quality-assurance reviews of November and December and, therefore, could not comment. A ministry official reported last year the trend is within the margin of statistical error and that forest fires are a major, uncontrollable factor. PM 2.5 is linked to lung and heart disease. The province has set a level of 8 micrograms per cubic metre as an upper threshold. The federal govern-

ment and World Health Organization have set a level of 10. Kamloops ranked No. 3 on the most recent B.C. Lung Association State of the Air report for highest levels of particulate, although two cities that traditionally ranked higher were not included due to a recent change in instrumentation. The Kamloops physicians’ group study points to slash burning as a major culprit in November’s poor numbers each year. It argues that wood smoke, a traditional scapegoat, is not at play because wood stoves produce more smoke in the colder months of December — yet December’s PM2.5 numbers in 2014 were lower than November’s. Calder said one way to improve Kamloops’ air quality would be to limit forestry and agricultural burning in the traditional month of November. Permits are already issued based on the venting index. While the group’s first study showing a threeyear worsening trend received some criti-

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Provincial forestry managers are looking at ways to cut slash burning each fall, an effort expected to create jobs and reduce pollution blamed on the industry in a report released this week. Three pilot projects in the area are expected to soon get underway to transport woodwaste out of the forest for eventual use as pellets, power or pulp. Kamloops Forest District manager Rick Sommer is heading a committee of district managers across the province looking at ways to make it more economically feasible to move woodwaste to market for bioenergy rather than burning it as is now being done. The goal is to accomplish it without increasing costs for lumber companies, he said. “We’re trying to use the tool-

box we have,” Sommer said. Consulting forester Chris Ortner said too much fibre is stacked in the forest and burned. “The reason we burn in November is you let the material dry and need the forest floor to be wet,” he said. “You wait until the first snowfall and go crazy . . . I was in the high country then [most recent November] and there was a lot of burning.” Ortner said there are a number of customers in Prince George, ranging from pulp producers to pellet plants, competing for woodwaste that has economic value in that market. Lack of the secondary market in Kamloops or willingness by timber companies to target woodwaste may come to an end with success from three pilot projects, at Surrey Lake, at McQueen Lake and at another site near Barriere. Sommer said there is

demand from bioenergy companies for what is classified as waste by primary forest companies interested only in lumbergrade sawlogs. “They [bioenergy companies] use that fuel,” Sommer said. “We’re working on different pilots to make it a more attractive option for them.” Woodwaste from the three pilot programs is expected to go to customers that include River City Fibre in Kamloops and another bioenergy company in the South Okanagan. Ortner forecasts as much as 50 per cent of the fibre now burned at regional logging operations could be used for pulp, power or pellets. But, Sommer added, the economics of transporting woodwaste depends on proximity to markets and other factors. He believes it is too early to set a target.

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o, the air in Kamloops is nowhere near the deplorable levels found in Beijing and other mega-metropolises in the world. The air in the Chinese city is so polluted that companies are offering bonuses to employees who are brave enough to expose their lungs to the dangerous soup that swirls through the air. However, Kamloops’ air is indeed compromised at least for some parts of the year and any attempt to improve air quality is welcome. Dr. Jill Calder is spokeswoman for Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment Society, a group formed to oppose the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine. The group is adamant Kamloops’ air quality will only degrade further if the mine is approved. To bolster its argument, the society commissioned a study that it says shows air-quality numbers are getting worse. According to Ministry of Environment data KTW looked at, the provincial threshold for particulatematter (PM2.5) pollution was exceeded in six of 12 months last year. “We can’t continue with our current attitude that our air is really good and that we’re not as bad as Los Angeles, Toronto or Beijing ,” Calder told KTW. “Sometimes we are.” While the numbers from last year do show some readings that exceeded those found in Los Angeles, those were hourly readings when air quality spiked. Monthly averages for PM2.5 in Kamloops are nowhere near the murky levels experienced in Los Angeles and Beijing on a regular basis. However, sometimes hyperbole is used to make a point — and Calder’s point is well taken. Air quality is an issue across the country and across the world. Whether Kamloops is showing numbers slightly higher than the provincial threshold or far above the number, the report released this week should compel us all to think about what can be done, individually and collectively, to allow everyone in Kamloops to breathe a little easier.

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Walking into absurdity

hen I was in Grade 1, I walked to school and back home again. It was about a half-mile each way, but my parents ensured that I knew the way, that I knew road-safety rules — there were no sidewalks in our neighbourhood — and that I always had Debbie Winegarden, my nextdoor neighbour and best friend back then, at my side. A couple of years later, my family moved into what would generously be described today as a challenged neighbourhood. Again, I walked about the same distance to school and home, this time with best-friend Joy Egelton beside me. After dinner, we would hit the streets again on our bikes or with skipping ropes or just our imagination to guide us through play we knew had to end when the streetlights came on. We had five minutes to get home and both of us knew that was not a curfew to ignore. The idea of investigating our parents for child neglect for giving us the freedom of being outside would never have crossed one single social worker’s mind back then. It’s what parents did and what kids thrived on — learning to be street-smart and independent with rules drilled into us that gave us the template to succeed. If only Danielle and Alexander Meitiv had been parents back then. Instead, it is 2015, a time when letting kids do exactly what we did back then led to police

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LEVEL being called by some do-gooder who saw the Meitiv children — ages six and 10 — walking home from a nearby park. The distance, the Maryland parents estimated, is about three-quarters of a mile and they had taught their kids how to do it safely with shorter walks to a nearby 7-Eleven and the library. From the police involvement, picking the kids up and driving them home, came the next step in this stupidity — a visit from child-protective services just a few hours later. That meeting didn’t go well as the Meitivs tried to explain they believe kids should grow up street-smart and gradually developing independence. From that meeting came an investigation at the children’s school, where the children were interviewed without the parent’s knowledge — and the saga continues. While the entire episode seems ludicrous, I wonder how many of us would have a similar concern if we were to see a couple of kids walking down the street without adults.

Now, before some of you rush to your computer to post a comment about how the world isn’t a safe place and about how there are pedophiles lurking — all those rationalizations we use to comfort ourselves when we overprotect our children — let’s face some facts. The world was a dangerous place in the 1950s and 1960s, when I was a youngster. There were pedophiles and drug dealers and all kinds of criminal elements in our society back then, but our parents still saw the value in teaching us the skills we would need as teenagers and adults. They did it in many ways. I always wore loafers with a strap across the shoe, one that had that silly little hole in it that was probably supposed to be decorative. For my mom, it was a place to put a nickel in each shoe so I would have the requisite amount of money to use a pay phone if I needed to call her. It sounds silly and, yes, I hated those shoes, but I didn’t have to worry about not having enough money for the phone. Maybe this is an aging thing, this wonderment at why the world is so weird that kids can’t walk home alone without someone reporting this “child neglect.” But, those lessons my mom and Debbie’s mom and Joy’s mom taught us way back then stayed with us. We didn’t grow up afraid of the world. We grew up with an understanding of it. dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

YOUR CHOICES CAN OPPOSE MORE PIPELINES Editor: The debates rage on about pipelines for transporting petroleum products. Will Kinder-Morgan twin its Trans Mountain pipeline through Kamloops or will a new line be routed through the Lac du Bois grasslands? Will the Keystone XL pipeline be approved or will U.S. President Barack Obama veto it? Will we continue to see an increase in the number of oil-laden railway tank cars going through Kamloops? Will OPEC continue to control the world’s oil supply by ensuring low oil prices for long enough to cripple the development of oil production in Canada? Will North America still be dependent upon OPEC for the next generation because of the timing of development versus low crude-oil prices?

Is the equation that simple? I don’t know. But, dependence upon petroleum products is not going to change any time soon. What faces us in 2015 is a situation similar to what faced the world a generation ago. We either change our ways or we will be kept as hostages down the road.

In simple terms, it comes down to both a choice with society and a choice as individuals. Some people have to drive as much as they do and that can’t change. But, some of us have a choice — drive less and either walk more or take public transit. I respect Coun. Donovan Cavers for taking public transit. I have met him on city buses a few times. I have seen him walking along Lansdowne Street and we’ve waved at each other as we go our different ways. (Did I vote for him? That’s why we have secret ballots.) Every time you choose to leave your car or truck at home, you have taken a small stand against more pipelines and against more rail car shipments of oil. John Noakes Kamloops

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WHERE IS BUSINESS CASE FOR BC HYDRO SMART METERS? Editor: The Jan. 15 letter from BC Hydro (‘BC Hydro takes issue with info in KTW story’) is a case of a letter “correcting” alleged misleading information with misleading information of its own. In the letter, Greg Alexis of BC Hydro claims a modernized electricity grid with smart meters “will help BC Hydro improve its management of the electricity system, lower costs, reduce theft, encourage conservation and help detect outages.” The fact is, the smart-meter expenditure was never scrutinized by the BC Utilities Commission to determine if the benefits of

smart meters outweigh the costs. What are the benefits versus the costs? No one knows. If the cost of smart meters is a billion dollars, but the benefits are only $500 million, there is no business case for the meters. The fact is, the smart-meter expenditure was approved by the B.C. Liberal government cabinet and the program was explicitly excluded from BC Utilities Commission review. While the Liberal government has hidden the costs and benefits of smart meters from the public, there is evidence some people connected to the B.C. Liberal Party profited handsomely from the contracts to install smart meters. Simply Google search “BC Liberals +

Corix” for details on these connections. Perhaps I am wrong that the supposedly business-smart B.C. Liberal government or BC Hydro have not done studies that financially justify installation of smart meters. If such studies have been done, I challenge the government to release them. Until they do, and until studies prove a business case for smart meters (more benefits than costs), I will continue to believe the smart-meter program is another pork-barrel scheme to fatten the wallets of B.C. Liberal insiders. Don Barz Kamloops

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“Literally everyone who has commented online has missed the point. “Summerland is like New Westminster. BC Hydro doesn’t have jurisdiction of its power grid and smart meters are not/ have not been installed in Summerland. “So how could they connect a fire in Summerland with a) BC Hydro (which doesn’t service the town) and b) A smart meter (which are not used in Summerland)? “Now I await the coalition’s reply. There should be a few rhetorical responses, I gather.” — posted by Chris

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TAKE HEED OF FIRST SIGN OF ABUSE — AND GET HELP Editor: I found Dale Bass’s articles on domestic violence in the Jan. 16 edition of KTW interesting. It is difficult for me to revisit the subject of domestic abuse again after so many years, but I do so in the hope my story will empower others to seek the resources available to them today, but denied women in the mid-1950s. Abused women were not only isolated by their own husbands, but by society as a whole. It was deemed the victim’s fault for her partner’s violence. I stayed in the situation for many years, not because I liked it, as has been suggested by various people, but because I had children who needed me to stay sane and care for them. I certainly did not love my husband, but I did fear him. I did not suffer a mental illness and neither he nor I used drugs or alcohol. My husband was 16 years my

senior, was handsome, had a good job and insisted he loved me and the children. He did not abuse the kids. As a child, he had been the victim of abuse. The violence in his childhood home was so bad that when he stepped on a rusty nail while fishing, and the resulting blood poisoning caused him to fall into a coma for a week, he was sent to the hospital in Vernon and abandoned by his mother and stepfather. He was eight years old at the time, afraid, sick and obviously suffering brain damage. I am not rationalizing his treatment of me as being reasonable behaviour, because it isn’t. I have forgiven him because he is dead, but I have not forgotten the incidents of violence, nor do I think any type of physical or mental abuse is acceptable — because they are not. They changed my life. They robbed me of the joy of being mar-

ried, of having a home and friends and they took away from me the vibrance of being a young mother. The morning I discovered he had locked me and the children in the house when he went to work was terrifying. He tore the phone out of the wall and took my coat and shoes. When he came home that night, I told him I wanted to leave. He threatened me with more violence and, when I stood up to him, he pushed me down a flight of stairs into the basement. I had two black eyes, a sprained ankle and a bleeding nose. He said he was going to put me in a hospital that had locked rooms because I was insane and that I would never see the children again. He then raped me and tried to choke me. I left because I realized the next step was probably murder. I had already lost many battles with authorities who said there was

no use helping me because I would just go back to him. No one would listen to me when I wanted to charge him with assault and rape. I was told the main reason men abuse their wives is because they had a sexual relationship before marriage. It was still assumed I had given him liberties even after I said it didn’t apply in my case. The following day, he locked me in again, but a travelling salesman came to the door. When I told him I couldn’t open it because I was locked in, he hesitated only a minute before asking me if I wanted him to break down the door and get us out. I said yes. He drove us to his own home, where his wife gave me shoes and clothes for the kids. He then asked where I wanted to go. I trusted a complete stranger who luckily was a good person. He took a day off work to drive us from Penticton to Kamloops, where I got

help from my parents and assistance from a social worker. What a wonderful woman! She allowed me to make my own decision. It made me feel worthwhile and did a lot to restore my self-esteem. I no longer believed my husband’s opinion that I was too stupid to get a job and too sinful for even God to bother with me. He had threatened me with loss of my children and went so far as to say I would be sent to an insane asylum because it was obvious I was crazy. My message to girls out there is to take heed of the very first sign of abuse and promises that it will never happen again — because it will. Beth Kamloops Full name withheld at request of writer

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them as soon as possible. Saving those precious resources for future generations is just plain silly. • Decisions about how to use the land are best made by mining companies, not the people who actually live on — or near — the project. That’s why it is so important to not update the Mineral Tenure Act because updating the act could take some of that power away from mining companies. • If the KGHM Ajax

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The last week has helped restore Gord Hannah’s faith in people. Gord and his wife, Tammy, were the targets of a burglary in Brocklehurst, in which thieves left with everything but the couch and bed as the couple visited their daughter in Alberta. But, since returning to their empty home on Wednesday, Jan. 14, the Hannahs have been overwhelmed by the generosity of those around them. “We’ve had a lot of support from different people, so it has been really, really good that way,” Gord said. He thanked residents of Kamloops, Cache Creek, Barriere and surrounding communities who have reached out in an effort to help the couple get back on their feet. “There has been a lot of people wanting to donate, anything from money to clothes to TVs to kitchen tables, you name it,” he said. “It definitely helps restore the faith in people in general.” It has been a trying week for the couple, who moved to Kamloops in October, in search of warmer weather and a place to eventually retire. Gord described the burglary that has left him with nothing as “strange.” He suspects the thieves were watching the home and knew he and his wife would be out of town. The sheer volume of the items stolen would have necessitated the use of a moving van or multiple truckloads. The thieves were indiscriminate in what they took from the North Shore bungalow, leaving only the couple’s bed and livingroom couch. Everything else — their son’s comic-book collection, Gord’s mother’s jewelry, their children’s keepsake boxes, clothing,

dishes, electronics, furniture, even the sheets from the bed — is gone. “From what I see, they spent a lot of time in the house, which is very disconcerting also,” Gord said. “They didn’t pick and choose some of the stuff they took. They went as far as to take the garbage can out of the bathroom and the bath mats. We had candy in the cupboard and they took some, but not all of it. So, did they choose what they liked? “You look at some of those things and you just wonder how much time they actually spent in your house — and it’s quite alarming.” Among the stolen items is the wedding dress Gord gave Tammy in 2013 for their 25th wedding anniversary. He surprised her with a small wedding on their silver anniversary, buying her the dress she didn’t have when they married as a young couple. It’s items like the dress, the bride and groom wine glasses and keepsakes from when their kids were young, that have the Hannahs the most upset. Gord said the couple would offer a reward just to have the sentimental items returned. “You’re devastated, you really don’t know what to think at that point in time,” Gord told KTW, recalling the moment he entered the home last week. “It takes a little time just for it to sink in and for you to really absorb that’s actually happened. It’s just kind of an indescribable feeling. “Every time we turn around, you just think of something else that you had.” Among the ways in which the community has come forward to help is an online fundraiser. Readers can go online to youcaring. com/project-fundraiser/help-gord-and-tammy-hannah-get-backon-their-feet/294180 to give to the Hannahs. KTW also has the

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Mueller also pointed out Michaud and the St. Albert officers were dealing with seemingly routine calls at the time of both shootings. “We do traffic stops daily,” Mueller said. “I can go back in my experience and probably I have made that same traffic stop 100 times.” Mueller said emotions can run high among Mounties any time

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sons, Matthew, Nathan and Alexander. Deputy RCMP Commissioner Marianne Ryan issued a statement saying the force has lost a dedicated member in the line of duty. “His wife lost a husband and his sons lost a father,” she said. “Words cannot express the deep sadness we feel today.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his condolences on behalf of all

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RCMP brass have ordered an administrative review of the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a Kamloops corporal, with an eye to preventing such incidents. Supt. Brad Mueller said the review process is ongoing, paralCPL. JEAN-RENE MICHAUD: lel to the continuing Still recovering from criminal investigaDec. 3 shooting. tion into the Dec. 3 shooting of Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud. “Basically, it’s just a review that has been ordered to look at all aspects of the incident and to make recommendations,” Mueller said. “It was ordered out of our headquarters in Vancouver.” Similar reviews took place after RCMP officers were shot in Moncton last year and in Mayerthorpe, Alta., in 2005. Michaud, 41, was shot while performing a traffic stop in Batchelor Heights. The shooting sparked an intense manhunt lasting more than 12 hours, eventually resulting in the arrest of Ken Knutson. Michaud underwent emergency surgery immediately following the shooting. He was airlifted to a Vancouver-area hospital — where he remains — on Dec. 23 after complications arose following a subsequent surgery. “He continues his recovery in Vancouver and it’s unknown awhen he will return to Kamloops,” Mueller said. “He’s heading in the right direction. Certainly, his prognosis looks favourable.” Knutson, a 36-year-old convicted killer with a lengthy criminal history, is facing a raft of charges, including attempted murder. He has been in custody at Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre since his arrest and is due back in court on Jan. 29 for a potential bail hearing.

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A proposal by a Kamloops councillor to add the Secwepemc language to some of the city’s traffic signs has been stopped in its tracks by provincial legislation. Coun. Donovan Cavers came up with the idea of adding ‘estil,’ the Secwepemc word for ‘stop,’ on the city’s stop signs to acknowledge Kamloops’ aboriginal population and history. The practice of bilingual signs is already in place on the Thompson Rivers University campus and on the Tk’emlups Indian Reserve bordering the city. However, in a

report to council this week, traffic engineer Elnaz Ansari said the city is not permitted to add other languages or symbols to the signs due to provincial Motor Vehicle Act regulations. Ansari also expressed concern regarding the safety of making stop signs bilingual. “From a risk-management perspective, an additional language should not be added to stop signs, even if it would not be contrary to the regulations, given that changing them could add confusion to motorists and potentially cause more risk,” she wrote. Cavers feels that second concern is “taking risk management too far,” at one point during Tuesday’s

Stop signs on the campus of Thompson Rivers University and on Tk’emlups Indian band land are bilinigual, featuring English and Secwepemc.

(Jan. 20) council meeting holding up an iPad displaying a bilingual stop sign and asking fellow councillors if they would know how to respond while driving. Cavers also read aloud several online comments posted in

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mendation to nix the bilingual signs. Cavers argued giving up on the stop signs will paint the city in a negative light. “There’ll be a lot of people saying, ‘Well, that speaks volumes about the City of

Kamloops,” he said. Cavers’ pitch to take the issue to a community-to-community forum the city holds regularly with the Tk’emlups council was ultimately unsuccessful, with several councillors preferring to focus on ways of promoting aboriginal heritage that don’t contravene provincial rules. Coun. Ken Christian would like to see the city discuss projects similar to those at Kamloops Airport, which has displays explaining historical First Nations practices, or promoting local art. “I think the notion of just simply dotting the city with that par-

ticular phrase is not doing service to what is a deeper and more meaningful conversation we need to have,” he said. Coun. Arjun Singh agreed, arguing the stop-sign issue was bogging down debate. “Right now we’re starting to get mired,” he said. “And, whatever CBC Vancouver said on Facebook, I don’t care. “I really care about us doing something for our community to honour our Tk’emlups neighbours.” Only Cavers and Coun. Tina Lange voted to discuss the signs when the two councils meet this spring.

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Kamloops Immigrant Services and one of its directors are together seeking costs and damages totalling more than $360,000 from a former employee in a lawsuit stemming from events six years ago. Lawyers for Wanda Herman and Deborah Harrison were in court this week, defending the lawsuit

initiated by Kamloops-Cariboo Regional Immigrants Society (KIS) and board member Bernard Igwe. They allege breach of duties, breach of confidentiality, defamation and abuse of process. John Drayton, acting for Herman, brought an application this week in a bid to strike a claim that his client cost the society more than $100,000 after it failed to receive a grant from the province’s gaming policy and enforcement branch because paperwork was not filed. Drayton said Herman left the agency in April 2009 and noted the

branch warned the society several times afterward by letter it was in danger of losing the grant if paperwork was not filed. “There’s not the slightest bit of evidence to support that assertion [she was responsible],” Drayton said, challenging the society to produce evidence in its pleadings. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Watchuk is expected to make a decision later this week after hearing further arguments. She called it a “bit of a puzzle” why there are no specifics in the society’s legal filings to detail the claim of a $100,000 loss.

Drayton argued the society is seeking more than $360,000 from Herman without adequate evidence to back a number of demands, noting in particular a claim for what he says is $45,000 — a tally of volunteer hours the board claimed it needed to put it due to Herman’s actions. Unless lawyers can narrow the issues, the lawsuit hearing is scheduled to take three weeks when it begins in early March. In 2012, a KIS board member acknowledged the society spent $100,000 in ongoing legal costs that have only mounted since.

The arguments this week are the latest developments in what a former director once called “a toxic workplace” that existed at the agency, which assists immigrants who settle in the Kamloops area. The board eventually fired its entire staff. In 2012, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal dismissed claims from three former employees who said they were fired because they backed former ESL program manager Harrison’s sexual-harassment claim. The society earlier settled with Harrison on her claim of sexual harassment.

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he Snakes were in danger of slithering into oblivion, but members of the sports community are stepping forward to make sure there is junior B lacrosse in Kamloops this season. “I’m unfortunately thinking there’s a legitimate chance we’re going to fold,” Carol Pittman, who owns the Kamloops Venom, told KTW on Tuesday, Jan. 22. “Without a coach and without a governor, we really can’t go forward [in the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League]. “It really would be sad. I really, really don’t want it to die.” In a press release sent to media yesterday, the Venom made several encouraging announcements. Colin Knox, a longtime fixture on the local lacrosse scene, is the Venom’s new governor, succeeding Pittman, who is stepping down from the position. Doug Clark, the outgoing president of the Kamloops Minor Lacrosse Association, will be the assistant governor. The Venom are still without a head coach, with Gord Hardman having vacated the post, but Pittman is meeting with a candidate this week. She said the potential new hire asked his name remain private because he is not yet certain he will take the job. Hardman took over the reins two years ago and informed team brass he would coach until his son, Blair, aged out of junior lacrosse at the end of the 2014 season. “We’re just stalled in the water with no oars,” Pittman said on Tuesday. “I was team manager, gover-

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Blaine Boomer scores for the Kamloops Venom in 2014 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League play. The chances of the team folding this season have diminished, thanks to the help of members of the local lacrosse community.

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I really, really “don’t want it to die. ” - Carol Pittman

nor and treasurer for a few years. You’ve got the energy to do that for a while but, eventually, it gets to be too much, between work and all that stuff.” The Venom’s new bench boss has to be in place before the

Gord Hardman was the Kamloops Venom’s head coach for the past two seasons, but he will not return for the 2015 campaign.

league’s scheduling meeting in the middle of February. Regularseason games begin in April. Dan Peterson, an assistant coach last season, and his wife, Jane, a key member of the executive committee, will not be returning for the 2015 campaign. Pittman is still the Venom’s acting governor and plans to inform the TOJLL of her team’s current dilemma — the squad needs a qualified head coach — at a league

gathering on Sunday, Jan. 25, unless the problem is solved before then. Years of handling a plethora of duties with the Venom have taken their toll and Pittman is ready to step away. “I just don’t really feel I can carry on because I think I’ll never ever get out if I do,” Pittman said. “The political part — scheduling, meetings, league problems — was never something I intended to do when I started the team. “I just don’t feel I’ve got it in me anymore.” The Kelowna Raiders, Armstrong Shamrocks, South Okanagan Flames and Vernon Tigers compete in the junior B league, along with the Snakes. Until an urgent meeting on Monday night at the Thompson Inn, the Venom were without a general manager, coaches, trainers and an executive committee. Jan Antons, formerly the GM of the now-defunct junior B Kamloops Rattlers, offered his services at the meeting. “I can GM for a couple years to keep the team going,” Antons said. “But, we need a head coach and we can’t just put anybody in the coaching position. We need someone the players can look up to. “You need people who actually know lacrosse.” Antons is the current GM of the Kamloops Broncos, who belong to the B.C. Football Conference, and an assistant trainer with the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers. Along with knowledge of the game, the Venom’s new head coach is required to have Level 2 B.C. Lacrosse Association coaching certification. Anyone interested in coaching is asked to email Pittman at cpittman@shaw.ca or call her at 250319-4102.

The Venom are also looking for game-day, fundraising and equipment managers. Blazers trainer Colin (Toledo) Robinson has volunteered to be the Venom’s part-time trainer, along with Pete Friedel. Brandon Pittman, Carol’s son, will help as an assistant coach and GM and two more people have offered to coach part-time. Pittman formed the Venom in 2008. Kamloops has won two league titles and remains the only TOJLL squad to have won a B.C. championship, which it has done twice. Should the team fold, 16-year-olds graduating from the Kamloops Minor Lacrosse Association’s (KMLA) midget ranks will have no place to play in the Tournament Capital. “If we take a one-year leave of absence from the league, I don’t think we’ll ever start up again,” Antons said. “We want to keep this alive.” It does appear Memorial Arena will host junior lacrosse games this season. “I’m pretty confident that we’ll be going ahead,” Pittman said. “Those two [Knox and Clark] have been in the lacrosse community forever and I’m sure they’ll be able to find us a coach and players. “I’m feeling really comfortable that we can pull this off now.”

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Pittman said it has been tough to find enough players to floor a successful team in recent years. KTW is working on a story that will delve into the reasons for the lack of numbers, which include issues in the KMLA ranks and a TOJLL rule that prohibits the Venom from bringing in homegrown intermediate players.

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KTW’s Williams tries ice racing at Stake Lake

should have dressed warmer. That was my first thought as I whipped around the frozen surface of Stake Lake, the track for the BC Ice Racing Series. The air cut sharply through the thin sweater and vest I’d chosen to wear that day as I floated around the corners, drifting and sliding like an out-ofcontrol stunter on a city street. Surprisingly, I was anything but out of control. It was the first of many lessons I would learn on Sunday, Jan. 18. It was a mild day, a few degrees above zero with little wind — perfect ice-racing conditions from what I had been told. But, strapped into a sideby-side and shooting forward at more than 70 km/h, winter air whipping by me, the weather was of little consequence. I was cold and underdressed — lesson No. 2. My chauffeur for the outing, Jason Labby, was doing his best to give me a window

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into the world of ice racing, the sport that has lured hundreds of racers and fans — young and old — to Stake Lake during the chilly winter months since 1972. I was strapped into his side-by-side — a sporty version of your father’s off-road utility vehicle — and hanging on for dear life. It had been against my better judgment that I agreed to the ride-along, especially after volunteer Don Tryon had given me a pep talk about the track’s surface: “It does crack and it does give you the chills once in a while,

but it’s no big deal.” No big deal, huh? A mere 16 inches of ice between me and hypothermia and I’m racing around in a 1,200pound vehicle. Lesson No. 3 might have been I’m easily talked into things. Labby was doing his best to give me a memorable experience. While we whipped around the corners of the oval track — my chest and shoulders pressing hard into the four-point harness with each turn — the ice slid beneath his tires at harrowing speeds. Labby is one of the few people on the ice racing circuit using studless tires, preferring instead to drift and slide his way around the track on his way to victory — and we were definitely sliding. I would learn later that despite being on ice, there is little sliding that goes on at the ice races as racers get terrific traction from their studded tires. The word “stud” seems insufficient in describing the metal daggers populating

the tires around Stake Lake. About a half-inch in length, the hardened-steel fingers resemble hexagonal bolts that have been sawed in half. There’s a real science to the studs, though, which are manufactured by a company in Canada’s East and have evolved as has ice racing. “They’re a specially made tire, not a homemade tire,” Tryon says. “It’s a real art with these tires.” The first generation of the tires utilized sheetmetal screws, which were embedded into the rubber of a standard motocross tire (most competitors at the ice races ride modified motocross bikes, rather than side-by-sides like Labby). Modern-day studs are manufactured, hexagonal on one side and with a razor-sharp edge on the other. While snow and ice would sit in the screw head of the old studs, the new generation is self-cleaning — snow and ice slides smoothly out of the halved top and down the sharpened edge. The studs are bolted to

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the tire from the inside, no longer just screwed in from the outside as they once were. They provide such traction that the ice is prone to pulling them right out of the rubber. For that very reason, the series’ best racers will go through two sets of the $750 tires per season. The bikes take the corners at speeds topping 60 km/h, engines rumbling as drivers accelerate out of turns that nearly put their helmets at ice level — all possible because of the studs. This was just the first weekend of the B.C. Ice Racing Series’ 2015 Circuit. Riders will come from all over B.C. and Alberta for the rest of January and into the middle of February, competing for the tour title.

The series is one of the only of its kind in Canada and Stake Lake will be home to the Western Canadian Championships this weekend — Sunday, Jan. 25 — following the series race on Saturday, Jan. 24. Lesson No. 4 may have been that I lack the nerve to become an ice racer any time soon. However, Lesson No. 5 was that Kamloops has built an unrivalled frozen gem in the B.C. Ice Racing Series. The Weather Channel is forecasting a high of 4 C on Saturday and Sunday. If the weather is warm, contact Rivercity Cycle (250-377-4320) or RTR Performance (250-374-3141) before you go to ensure the races are still on.

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

SPORTS Spence wins silver at B.C. Long Track Speed Skating Championships Eric Spence was sporting a little silver

in Prince George. The Kamloops River

City Racers skater picked up a silver

medal at the B.C. Long Track Speed Skating

Championships on the weekend.

He competed in the open men’s Olympicstyle division, which featured the top male racers of the weekend. This event was a test event for the Canada Winter Games and the first event to ever be hosted at the location. Eric, along with his sister Sara, will be returning to the venue in February as they represent B.C. at the Canada Winter Games. The siblings will also be competing in Quebec this weekend, at the Junior National Championships.

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The WHL announced Kamloops Blazers netminder Connor Ingram is its nominee for the Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week Award for the period ending Sunday, Jan. 18. Ingram, a 17-yearold from Imperial, Sask., registered a .968 save percentage, including one shutout, in two starts last week. On Wednesday, Jan. 14, Ingram stopped 24 shots and was named the game’s first star

in a 6-2 victory over the visiting Portland Winterhawks. Ingram turned aside all 36 shots he faced and earned first-star honours when the Blazers blanked the visiting Vancouver Giants 1-0 on Saturday, Jan. 17.

Loppet brings in more than $5,000

More than $5,000 was raised for the Heart and Stroke Foundation at the 31st annual Reino Keski-Salmi Loppet on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Larch Hills ski area near Salmon Arm. There were 411 participants at the crosscountry skiing event, with racers from B.C, Alberta, Washington, New Zealand and Australia in attendance. Pat Pearce won the women’s title in the 34-kilometre race with a time of 2:07:09 and Thomas Hardy won the men’s race with a time of 1:45:56. Winning the 17-kilometre junior female event with a time of 1:05:10 was Glynnis Sim. James Hardy was the junior male champion, finishing in 55:41. There has been about $390,000 raised in support of heart health in the loppet’s 31 years.

Phillips nets pair of medals

Ethan Phillips picked up a pair of medals swimming in a Swim B.C. Senior Circuit swim meet on the weekend. The Kamloops Classic Swimming Club swimmer competed in the meet as a part of his participation in the B.C. Tier One Provincial Training Camp. He won gold in the 100-metre backstroke and silver in the 50m backstroke. He also finished fifth in the 400m freestyle and 20th in the 50m freestyle. Colin Gilbert, who was also representing the Classics at the meet, finished sixth in the 200m freestyle and the 100m butterfly, and 10th in the 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly.

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Classics going Down Under ADAM WILLIAMS

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Brad Dalke is leading the Kamloops charge Down Under. The Kamloops Classic Swimming club will be represented by Dalke and swimmer Colin Gilbert at the 2015 Australian Age Group Championships in Sydney, Australia, later this year. Dalke and Gilbert will be a part of the Canadian Junior National Development Team heading to the event from

April 13 to April 20. Six female athletes, four male athletes, two coaches and a manager will make the trip overseas for Canada. “It’s pretty exciting,” Dalke said of Gilbert’s selection. “Colin’s doing really, really well and it’s absolutely phenomenal.” Dalke said Gilbert is considered one of the best butterfly swimmers in the country for his age, which bolstered his selection to the Canadian team. While in Australia

he is expected to swim in the 100-metre and 200m butterfly, and the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle. For Dalke, it will be his first opportunity to coach at the junior national level. “It’s a great honour, first of all,” Dalke said. He said he was surprised when he got the call, but noted he does have experience working with three of the four male swimmers who will be with Canada. Dalke also has experience as an athlete at

Super League results The Sun Life Financial Super League’s weekly draws were played at Kamloops Curling Club on Monday, Jan. 19. In its last league game before heading to the national junior curling championships in Newfoundland, Team Brown (Rivershore Ram) tied Team DeCap (Hub Barton International Insurance) 7-7 on Sheet 1. On Sheet 2, Team Nelson (KGHM Ajax Mining Inc.) continued its dominance, moving its record to 12-1 with a 5-4 win over Team Russett (Wrabel Brothers Contracting), which will compete this week for a women’s provincial curling championship in Maple Ridge. Team Thompson (BA Dawson Blacktop) scored three in the sixth end and doubled Team Ihlen (Alpine Building Maintenance) 6-3 on Sheet 3. On Sheet 4, Team Olsen (Subway) edged Team Klymchuk (Thompson Valley Restoration) 10-7.

Nelson sits atop league standings with 24 points, seven points ahead of both DeCap and Olsen. Brown is in fourth place with 12 points, Russett is fifth with 10 points, Thompson is sixth with nine points, Klymchuk is seventh with eight points and Ihlen is eighth with seven points.

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Colin Gilbert of the Kamloops Classic Swimming club is heading to Australia with coach Brad Dalke. They are part of the junior national development team.

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Desert dominance — Lions win in Phoenix The midget tier 1 North Kamloops Lions went to Phoenix and won the Arizona Cactus Cup on the weekend. North Kamloops thumped the Arizona Hockey Union Knights 9-1 in the championship final on Monday, Jan. 19. Reaching the scoresheet on the weekend for the Lions were

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Dante Caillier (1G, 3A), Darion Nordick (2A), Felix Nachtigal (2A), Kolby Pauwels (1A) and Tony Dennis (1A). Kolby Pauwels and Spencer Eschychyn split time between the pipes, with Pauwels handling goaltending duties in the final. The Lions are hosting Kelowna on Sunday, Jan. 25. Game time is 3

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Goaltender Alana Parker and the Kamloops Vibe posted three shutout victories on the weekend and remain atop the South Coast Female Amateur Hockey League standings. Kamloops went to the Coast and downed Simon Fraser University 4-0, South Coast TNT 2-0 and the B.C. Thunder 8-0. Finding the scoresheet on the weekend for the Vibe were Rochelle Smith (4G, 1A), Desiree Blair (2G, 2A), Melinda Smith (2G, 1A), Cat Young (2G), Lisa Campeau (2G), Elaine Topolniski (1G, 4A), Jenna Ormondy (1G, 1A) and Melissa Brunn (2A).

Having a blast

The Kamloops Bulldogs barked the loudest at the Atom Blast Tournament on McArthur Island on the weekend. Kamloops claimed gold with a 6-4 win over the Kelowna Sharks in the title tilt on Sunday, Jan. 18. Tallying points on the weekend for the Bulldogs were Alesandro Comita (15G, 4A), Kiran Ramsay (11G, 3A), Jeremy McInnis (4G, 2A), Gabe Wingerak (3G), Owen Sutherland (2G, 2A), Adam Whitehead (2G), Kyle Woitas (1G, 1A), Mitchell Van Somer Landry (2A), Colton Doyle (2A) and Bennett Reaney (1A). Kash Minion backstopped the Bulldogs to victory.

Raiders downed

West Kelowna topped the Kamloops Players Bench Raiders 4-1 in bantam tier 2 play on Sunday, Jan. 18, at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre. Tyler Bruins-Slot was the Raiders’ lone goal scorer. Kaleb Virgo backstopped Kamloops.

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Olen Gelineau notched six goals and an assist as the Timberwolves picked up a win and a tie

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Alesandro Comita of the Kamloops Atom Bulldogs carries the puck up ice during Atom Blast Tournament action on the weekend in the Tournament Capital.

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BRIEFS in weekend peewee action. The Wolves tied the A-Team 5-5 and defeated the Raiders 6-1. Soren Farenholtz (2G, 3A), Maxwell Card (1G, 1A), Lochlan Scholefield (1G, 1A), Will Davis-Arnold (1G), Bhavin Serown (1G), Josh Thom (2A), Marisa Baldwin (1A), Nick Bradley (1A) and Evan Humphrey (1A) also picked up points for the Timberwolves. Tyson Aspeslet stood between the pipes in both games. Domenica Comita (2G), Benjamin Smith (1G, 1A), Maxwell Hinkson (1G,1A), Jacob Patton (1G), Zach Teale (1A) and Nolan deFouw (1A) picked up points for the A-Team, in support of goaltender Ethan Hardy. Kiel Schriml (1G) and Kyle Sandher (1A) had the points for the Raiders. Ryerson Palmer was given the nod in goal.

Hitmen on target

The Hitmen doubled the Spartans in weekend bantam recreation action, winning 4-2. Skye Conners’ two goals led the way for the Hitmen, who had Victor Church in goal. Hudson Irvine (1G, 1A), Nick Jittler (1G), AJ McInnis (2A), Braeden Crowe (1A) and Keithan

Mitchell (1A) rounded out the scoring for the victors. Jake Tabor picked up a goal and an assist for the Spartans. Mattias Nelson also had a goal, while Justin Mitchell was between the pipes.

Blazers fourth

The Kamloops Junior Blazers played to a win, two losses and a tie in tournament action in Prince George on the weekend, finishing fourth. Seiji Brown (3G, 1A), Jackson Marshall (2G, 3A), Josh Van Unen (2G, 2A), Eric Marasco (2G), Tyson Gayfer (1G, 2A), Justin MacInnes (1G, 2A), Alex Johnson (1G, 1A), Alek Erichuk (1G), Sam Fuoco (1G), Brendan Gairdner (3A), Lukas Duckworth (2A), Luke Recchi (1A) and Brendan Roche (1A) tallied points throughout tournament play. Max Palaga and Ethan Langenegger split goaltending duties for the Blazers.

Playoff implications

Kamloops’s bantam tier 4 team pulled within a single point of Revelstoke on the weekend, tying Chilliwack 5-5 on the road before defeating Revelstoke 3-1 at home. Jayden Russell (1G, 1A), Cody Turner (1G, 1A), Sage Pavlovich (1G), John Black (1G), Gavin Mattey (1G), Tyson Smith (1G), Dakota Hoffman (1G), Joshua Bishop (1G), Zach Bachand (3A) and Tyson Smith (1A) pushed

Kamloops to victory. Xavier Cannon and Ryan Reid shared goaltending duties. Kamloops will look to defeat Kelowna in its final league game to take over top spot in the standings.

Lumberjacks felled

The Mean Machine rolled past the Lumberjacks in weekend bantam recreation play, winning 3-1. Kai Farenholtz (1G, 1A), Ryan Anderson (1G, 1A), Deegan Ludwig-Konrad (1G) hit the scoresheet for the Mean Machine, who split goaltending duties between Michael Love and Birch Mireau. Andrew Warner scored the lone goal for the Lumberjacks.

Weekend split

The North Kamloops Lions split a pair of weekend games against provincial rivals on the weekend, losing 3-0 to the South Okanagan Junior Coyotes before defeating Penticton 9-3. Carter McLelland (2G, 1A), Jackson Fitzgerald (2G), Evan Clark (1G, 1A), Elias Newport (1G), Tyler Fernie (1G), Justin Vinterlik (1G), Brendan Hunchak (1G), Ethan Kaban (2A), Ty Haywood-Farmer (1A), Cohen Freeze (1A) and Conlin Erichuk (1A) chipped in with points for the peewee development team throughout the road trip. Riley McLean and Evan Pascoe split the time in goal.

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Valleyview Vikings skip Steven Schafthuizen delivers, with Pat Giles and Jarred Cooper ready to sweep at the B.C. High School Okanagan playdown at Kamloops Curling Club on Saturday, Jan. 17. Kelowna downed Valleyview 6-4 in the final to advance to the provincial high school curling championship in Creston. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

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WINNIPEG — John Hufnagel is about to take a well-deserved vacation. The Calgary Stampeders head coach/GM followed up his team’s 2014 Grey Cup championship by being named the CFL’s coach of the year yesterday (Jan. 21). “I have to go to work today, but the day after I’m heading on a plane to go across the ocean for a week so I’ll be sipping a mai tai,’’ he said of his Hawaiian holiday. Hufnagel, 63, earned his second Annis Stukus Trophy after leading Calgary to a CFL-best 15-3 regularseason record. The franchise then claimed its seventh championship with a 20-16 Grey Cup victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at B.C. Place Stadium. Tom Higgins of the Montreal Alouettes and Chris Jones of the Edmonton Eskimos were the finalists. Hufnagel received 43 first-place votes on the 65 ballots cast by members of the Football Reporters of Canada. Hufnagel’s first coach-of-the-year award came in 2008 when he led Calgary to a Grey Cup title in his first season back with the club. The Stampeders lost the 100th Grey Cup game to the Toronto Argonauts in 2012. Hufnagel has one more season to try and claim a third Annis Stukus Trophy. He’ll return to the sidelines in 2015 then hand the coaching reins over to offensive co-ordinator Dave Dickenson and focus on his GM duties. Hufnagel said there was no temptation for him to go out on

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

SPORTS ISLAND-BOUND Joel Hamilton and the Kamloops Blazers squared off against the Tri-City Americans last night (Jan. 21) after KTW’s press deadline at Interior Savings Centre. For the game story, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com. Kamloops is heading to Vancouver Island for games against the Victoria Royals tomorrow and on Saturday.

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ò Obituaries & In Memoriam ô VIOLET MARGARET BOSA

ELIZABETH (Betty) DORIS LARKMAN

March 29, 1921 - January 14, 2015

August 28, 1934 - January 16, 2015

May 20, 1919 - January 16, 2015

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Elizabeth (Betty) Doris Larkman (VE7 LKM). Born August 28th, 1934 in Mission, BC to Annie and Warner Thies, Betty left us peacefully on January 16, 2015 surrounded by family. Betty was pre-deceased by her loving husband Bob in 1998, after 42 wonderful years of marriage. Betty will be greatly missed by her sister Beverley Campbell; her three children, Stephen (Bonnie), Beverley (Gord), and Karen, grandchildren, Stephanie (Kris), Heather (Tyler), Derek (Kelsey), Matthew and Amanda. She is also survived by five great-granddaughters, Mikalah, Lilah, Tasha, Emma and Kennedy, with her first great-grandson (Cooper) on the way. Betty was in the Royal Canadian Navy when she met Bob and they married in 1955. They lived in numerous places across Canada, finally settling in BC in the late 1970’s. After spending 18 years in Prince George they moved to Kamloops to enjoy a warmer climate. After the loss of her husband, Betty moved to Vernon where she took up quilting with a vengeance, forming many lasting friendships and distributing many wonderful quilts to all. Betty enjoyed spending many winter months down south and also traveled to Europe and Australia on several occasions. One of her favorite past times was exploring back roads throughout the province. Just over a year ago Betty returned to Kamloops to be closer to her grandchildren. Betty enjoyed good health all of her life until diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in August of 2014. After a brief and valiant fight she passed away peacefully.

Stan was born in Hannah, Alberta and moved to a homestead on Rose Hill at a very young age with his mother, brothers and sisters. Stan lived in the Kamloops area all of his life and was a wellrespected member of the ranching community and spent many years involved with youth through 4-H. Dad loved riding and caring for his livestock and in later life after his cattle were gone he loved to hay in the summer and feed cattle in the feedlot in the winter at Ted’s. Stan is survived by his wife of 70 years, Marguerite, sons Ron (Alice), Doug (Connie) and Ted (Sue), grandchildren Michelle (Barry), Keith (Jill), Darryl (Tracy), Alex (Chelsea), great-grandchildren Landon and Grayson all of Kamloops and sister Ellen Verigin of Salmon Arm and numerous nieces and nephews in BC and Alberta. Stan was predeceased by his mother Margaret, sisters Alice, Mabel and Hannah, and brothers Joe, Ernie and Archie. No service by request, but a celebration of Stan’s life will be held at Ted’s when the grass is green in the spring. Dad, you will be greatly missed by your family, friends and business associates. Happy Trails.

Violet Margaret Bosa peacefully passed away surrounded by her loving family on January 14, 2015. Violet was born on March 29, 1921 and was raised in Fernie, BC; one of 12 children born to Nicholas and Rose Miscisco. While in Fernie, she met and fell in love with her husband Virginio “John” Bosa. They lived in Osoyoos, and then moved to Kamloops in 1954 where they raised their three children, Russel (Judy) Bosa, Larry Bosa and Lorna (Kim) Clow. Violet and “my John” built the Beach Motel which they operated until they retired. The CWL and CanItal Ladies were two of the societies that Violet was a part of throughout her life. Violet was a loving and caring grandmother to her five grandchildren, Nathan (Miranda) Bosa, Michael (Jesse) Bosa, Ashleah (Lee) Salter, Riley (Christina) Clow and Layne (Joey Bot) Clow. Her eight great-grandchildren were always a source of entertainment for her; Kierra, Hannah, Mica, Matteo, Carmine, Isobelle, Oliver and Alexander. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated by Father Martin Peyton on Thursday, January 22nd at 1:00 pm at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. Burial to follow at Hillside Cemetery. Our family would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the staff of the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice in Kamloops. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the hospice. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

A Celebration of her life will take place on Saturday, January 24th at 2pm in the Northshore Community Center, #452-730 Cottonwood Ave, Kamloops. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Kamloops or Vernon Cancer Center.

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We are saddened to announce the recent passing of our dear Calvin on December 21, 2014. Calvin was a devoted son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin and friend. He is survived by his mother, Dorothy Castle, sisters Diane (Mel) Hale, and Brenda Castle, brother Justin Traill, his uncle and aunt, Doug and Jean McMillan of Surrey, his cousins, Nancy Booth of Surrey and Sandra Hopkins of England. He was adored by his nieces Luvena Brandt, Billi Castle and Nicole Hale, his grand niece, Haley Brandt, his grand nephews Caden Brandt and Lukin Krecsy-Hale. The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses and staff at Hillside for their loving care of Calvin, and also the doctors and nurses on 4th Floor post-op for your kindness and gentleness towards Calvin. THANK YOU. A Celebration of Calvin’s life will be held in the early summer. We will always love you buddy, Miss you Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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It is with much sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved dad, uncle, brother, grandfather. Ray is survived by his four children Richard of Scotch Creek, Rodney of Vernon, BC, Brenda of Prince George, BC, and Brett of Australia, and his brothers Walter, Stan, Ian and sister Doreen Popp. Dad loved playing guitar and singing and working in his beautiful garden. There will be a celebration of Life in Scotch Creek in May 2015.

JOHN GARAY It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected death of Mr. John Garay of Kamloops on January 17, 2015 at the age of 87 years. He is lovingly remembered by his three daughters, Jan (Ernie) Seedhouse of Pritchard, Judith Garay (Anthony Morgan) of Vancouver and Joan (Ian) Hargrove of Ottawa; his grandchildren Dan Seedhouse of Kamloops, Alison (Shane) Morrow of Squamish, Davina Hargrove (Matlock Guse) of Ottawa and James Hargrove of Ottawa; his great-grandchildren Caelyx, Samantha and Hanna Morrow. John was predeceased by his wife Sylvia (September 5, 2014), his two sons John and James Garay, three brothers and two sisters. John was an avid gardener, enjoyed cooking and also fly fishing. John was in the Navy from November 1950 to December 1974, after which he worked as a civilian for the Department of National Defense until his retirement in 1991. He will be sadly missed and forever loved by all who knew him. A Celebration of life will be held on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 2:00 pm in the Schoening Funeral Chapel, 513 Seymour Street, Kamloops, BC Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

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James Carter of Vernon, B.C. passed away on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 84 years of age. He will be remembered by his wife Jackie, son Jamie (Kim) Carter of Kamloops and grandchildren Amber and Katie. James requested no formal service. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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Scatter me not to restless winds, Nor toss my ashes to the sea. Remember now those years gone by When loving gifts I gave to thee. Remember now the happy times The family ties we shared. Don’t leave my resting place unmarked As though you never cared. Deny me not one final gift For all who come to see A single lasting proof that says I loved... and you loved me. DJ Kramer

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

ò Obituaries & In Memoriam ô EMILY PAGET (TERRY)

CAROLE LINDA HOLMAN

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our mother at the age of 89. Emily was born in Brandon, Manitoba later moving to Vancouver and eventually to Kamloops. From her first marriage to Victor Paget, who is deceased, she had a daughter Gail, and a son Dennis. Emily is survived by her husband of 43 years Ross Morrow, son Dennis and wife Penny Gabriel, daughter Gail Smith and husband Mike, twin sister Madeline Granger and husband A. Ted Granger, grandchildren Stacey Hurd (Paget) and husband Mike, Joseph Paget and wife Jaime, and Kerry and Willie Smith. During Christmas dinner 2014 Emily was able, through Skype, to see and talk to her only great-grandchild Emma born December 17th.

Carole was born to parents Carmen Warren Byler and Hilda Marjorie Byler (a war bride) in Ealing, Middlesex England. At 8 months, Carole sailed to Canada on the passenger ship, Mauritania. She was raised in Calgary, Alberta together with her three siblings. Carole married Jim Holman in 1964. She shared her mother’s love of cooking, sewing, and knitting which led to a career in these arts. She graduated with Distinction from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Education in Home Economics. Carole moved to Kamloops in 1972 where she raised three children, taught for over 20 years and was greatly involved in the community. Her life was marked by a strong love of cross-country skiing, golf, sewing, knitting, travel and theatre. But above all else, Carole enjoyed spending time with friends and family.

Emily will be remembered for her abundant and kind soul. She loved unconditionally and cared dearly about all life. It saddened her to see so much anger, hatred and abuse towards people and animals. As a mother, (great) grandmother, sister, wife and friend, we give thanks for her love and caring and are grateful for her in our lives. We thank all the nurses at RIH and Hospice who extended their gentle, soothing care to her in the final transition of her life.

Carole will be lovingly remembered and greatly missed by her father Carmen, siblings, Heather (Al) Hachey, David (Carol) Byler and Robert (Susan) Byler her children Lisa (Joel) Marcoe, Andrea (Enrique) Cramer, Mike (Andrée) Holman her grandchildren Sarah, Claire and Jack Marcoe , Emilio and Matías Cramer and James Holman. The family extends their heartfelt thanks to Carole’s many supportive friends, Dr. Mavis Hollman, her caregivers and nurses and the staff and volunteers of the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home. A Celebration of Life will be held on February 1st, 2015 from 2 to 4pm at the Sandman Signature Kamloops Hotel, 225 Lorne Street, Kamloops, BC. In honor of Carole Holman donations can be made to the Kamloops Hospice House.

TERRENCE GORDON MCDONNELL

HELEN BODNAR

December 14, 1933 – January 19, 2015

February 7, 1925 – January 19, 2015

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our father, Terry. Dad passed away peacefully with his son, Jamie, by his side. Mourning his passing are his children, Trish (Robert) Thellend, Carole (Brian Popp), Jamie (Colleen) McDonnell and son-in-law, Mark Walters. Also mourning his passing are his grandchildren, Amanda and Trevor Balmer, Megan, Ayla and Sammy McDonnell, great-granddaughters Sadie and Emily and numerous relatives. Dad was recently predeceased by his daughter, Sandra Walters on December 21, 2014, his son, Greg in November 2005 and his wife, Elaine in October 2004. Dad will fondly be remembered by many for his love of gardening and his pleasure in sharing his harvest with his family and friends. Dad was a devout Roman Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus. Prayers will be recited on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 6 pm. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Father Martin Peyton on Friday, January 23, 2015 at 11:00am. Both the Prayer Service and the Funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. The family would like to express many thanks to Dr. Mavis Hollman and the compassionate, caring staff at Kamloops Hospice House. Donations to Kamloops Hospice House will be gratefully accepted. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

Helen Bodnar of Kamloops, BC passed away on Monday, January 19, 2015 at 89 years of age. She is survived by her brothers Steve, Walter and Nestor all of Kamloops, sister Olga Pastachak of Quesnel, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her loving husband Mike, her sister Victoria and brother John.

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Oh Great Spirit ... Oh Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the wind Whose breath gives life to the world Hear me I come to you as one of your many children I am small and weak I need your strength and your wisdom May I walk in beauty Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset Make my hands respect the things that you have made And my ears sharp to hear your voice Make me wise, So that I may know the things you have taught your children The lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock Make me strong, Not to be superior to my brothers But to be able to ﬁght my greatest enemy — myself Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes So that when life fades, as the fading sunset My spirit will come to you without shame.

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s you enter Kamloops from the east on the TransCanada Highway, it is hard not to notice a small country church nestled amongst the trees near the river. I have driven by it many times and was curious to know and never bothered to stop until recently, when I was compelled to take a closer look. I parked at the gate and walked up the driveway, past the little community hall and up to the entrance of the church, where a plaque beside the door shared a little history of this tiny church and the man who built it, which had me curious to dig a little deeper. St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Monte Creek was built in 1926 by Hewitt Bostock, a local pioneer, rancher and senator, in memory of his son, Alexander Hewitt Bostock, who was killed at 23 in action in France in the First World War. He is buried in the New Military Cemetery of Poperingle in Belgium. The first service in the church was held on Christmas Day 1926 and it was consecrated, in the name of St. Peter, by Bishop Doull on July 31, 1927. The area of Monte Creek was originally known as Ducks, named for Jacob Duck, an Englishman who came to Canada in the 1860s. Jacob Duck was postmaster of the Duck and

IF YOU GO To get to the cemetery from Kamloops, drive east on the Trans-Canada Highway and take the Hook Road exit, proceeding south until it intersects with Dallas Road. Turn east onto Dallas Road and drive approximately 1.6 km until the intersection with Monte Creek Road. Turn right onto Monte Creek Road and drive approximately 300 metres and you will see a private driveway that reads 1651. The gate to the cemetery is located at the top of this driveway. To get to the church, head back down to Dallas Drive and turn right, then take a left on Old Ferry Road. Follow this road to the dead end and then turn right into the driveway to the church.

Pringle Post Office that opened in the early 1870s. He remained in this position until May 1888. On Oct. 1, 1896, the name of the post office was changed to Monte Creek. Hewitt Bostock was born in Surrey, England, on May 31, 1864. He first came to Canada in 1886 with his sister, Marian, and some friends. During this trip, Bostock toured the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and saw Conservative Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, who he described as “a fine-looking man.” An Anglican, Bostock also made connections with Canon William Henry Cooper, who the next year took over the Church of England mission in Kamloops. This meeting led to Bostock visiting the Thompson Valley in 1888,

St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Monte Creek was built in 1926 by Hewitt Bostock, a local pioneer, rancher and senator in memory of his son, Alexander Hewitt Bostock, who was killed in the First World War.

part-way through a tour of North America, the Antipodes, China and Japan. During the visit, he purchased Jacob Duck’s ranch for $45,000 as a vacation property. Bostock was still living in England with his wife, Lizzie. In 1893, the Bostocks moved from England to Victoria and established a provincial newspaper that was critical of MacDonald’s national policy. During this time, Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier visited British Columbia and persuaded Bostock to run for Parliament in the Yale-Cariboo constituency, which he won in the 1896 federal election. Bostock only served one term and was then

appointed to the Senate in 1904. A decade later, he became leader of the Liberals in the upper house. The decision to enter politics led him to spend more time at Monte Creek, where he built a ranch house for his growing family and purchased the Kamloops newspaper Inland Sentinel. In late December 1921, Bostock entered William Lyon Mackenzie King’s first cabinet as minister of public works, a position he relinquished a little over a month later when he became speaker of the Senate. By that time, Bostock had achieved some notoriety as an opponent of railway nationalization.

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In 1925, Bostock was one of Canada’s delegates at the sixth assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva. Hewitt Bostock died of uraemia in 1930 and was buried on his Monte Creek property near the church in the St. Peter’s Church Cemetery. By the time of his death, he had accomplished much. His associations included the Canadian branch of the British Empire League, the Canadian Forestry Association, the Interior Stock Raisers’ Association of British Columbia, the Rideau Club in Ottawa, the first golf and badminton clubs in Victoria, the Masonic Lodge, the Alpine Club of Canada,

and the St John Ambulance Association, of which he was national president at the time of his death. In addition, he was a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute and Royal Agricultural Society of England. He was also the patriarch of a family that included three sons and four daughters. Church services are held every second and fourth Sunday of each month by Archdeacon D. Wootten. The church hall is available for rental by calling 250-372-2743. For information about the cemetery, call 250-372-2743 or 250374-2628. To discover other interesting places in B.C., go online to teresathetraveler.ca.

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benefit from lower crude prices. The rate decrease aims to soften the blow of cheaper crude by providing â&#x20AC;&#x153;insuranceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; against risks it poses to Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inflation and its financial stability. The bank is counting on the rate cut to buffer the healing part of the economy from low oil long enough for businesses to invest in their operations using the cheap credit and, eventually, create jobs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that the positive trend is underneath the surface, that things are getting stronger,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Poloz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more a matter of re-positioning

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VANCOUVER — Royal Bank of Canada is accusing two former employees who worked at a Vancouver branch of orchestrating a pair of robberies worth more than $200,000. The bank has filed a civil suit in B.C. Supreme Court, alleging Jeffrey Ho Nam and Maradona Hoang Vu helped an accomplice steal more than $180,000 CDN and $20,000 USD from a vault. A statement of claim says the first theft occurred on Dec. 30, 2013, and the second happened on Jan. 31, 2014. The bank alleges the pair copied a vault key and shared lock combinations and then led their associate, Hau Ngoc Nguyen, into the vault under the pretence of accessing a safety-deposit box. The statement of claim says police arrested Lau and Vu in March 2014 and found $11,000 in a safety-deposit box that Nguyen maintained at a different bank, though charges have not been laid. Lau and Nguyen have filed documents denying the allegations, which haven’t been tested in court, while Vu has yet to file a response. — The Canadian Press

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Doucette bringing blues to Kamloops The man they call Tank rolls into town Saturday DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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t’s fair to say Sherman Doucette was genetically wired to wind up a musician. Growing up in the Saskatchewan town of North Battleford, he was surrounded by music. Grandpa played the fiddle and harmonica, Doucette said, while his big brother played guitar. Dad also played guitar, along with banjo, while mom, his six sisters and his aunts and uncles all sang in the church choir. And, when the family decided to listen to music rather than play it, the turntable was spinning the likes of Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, the rock and roll of the 1950s and all that early soul music. Doucette learned from listening, not from reading notes and, in 1969, at the age of 15, he put a harmonica in his bag, $20 in his pocket and hit the road, bound for Vancouver and a music career of his own. Home became a hostel in Kitsilano and his stage became Water Street in Gastown, where he would busk for spare change. Within a couple of years, Doucette had moved up to skid-row pubs, he said, and after-hours “blues cans, paying my dues sitting in with old friends Powder Blues, Jim Byrnes and, later, Long John Baldry.” Doucette credits those years as the time he discovered the Chicago style

WHO: Sherman Doucette with Tankful of Blues band WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 24, doors open at 7 p.m. WHERE: Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St. TICKETS: $22 for Interior Blues Society members, $27 for nonmembers, available online, at the venue and at the Sahali Centre Mall ticket centre

of the blues after listening to record featuring Muddy Water, Junior Wells and James Cotton. It started to influence his own music; he also credits Paul Butterfield for having a role in the style of playing he began to use. Doucette said although he loved music, it wasn’t until he was sitting in the audience in the Commodore Ballroom with John Lee Hooker up on stage, that it became his reason for being. “He was like a witch doctor,” Doucette said. “Ripped us out of our seats and made us dance all night. That was it. I had to get me some. “I ended up later being friends and an invited special guest on five separate [musical] occasions.” Others Doucette has performed with include Albert Collins, Sunnyland Slim and Pinetop Perkins. Doucette is known as Tank, a nickname that goes back to 1977, when he survived an explosion in a lumber mill that left him in a hospital for six months recovering from burns over

Sherman Doucette and the Tankful of Blues band are set to play the Kamloops Curling Club on Saturday, Jan. 24.

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half his body. That experience inspired him to focus all his time and energy on his music. Twenty-two years later, Doucette moved to Kelowna and has kept busy writing songs and

teaching harmonica. He spends a lot of time on the road still, performing in blues festivals. Doucette will be in Kamloops on Saturday, Jan. 24, for a B.C. interior Blues Society show at the

members and available at the club, at the ticket centre at Sahali Centre Mall and online at interiorblues.ca. “We intend to mix it up — Chicago blues, soul, big-band swing, some low-down dirty blues,” Doucette said of the Kamloops show. “Our mission is to keep everybody happy and dancing.”

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‘You know what? Haggis actually tastes very nice’ Kamloops’ Robbie Burns celebration taking place this weekend It’s unlikely you’ll find a better-loved pudding in Kamloops than the haggis at the centre of the Kamloops Highland Games Society’s Robbie Burns celebrations. “They pipe it in on a platter with sword bearers, and a piper leading the way, and the haggis is held high on a platter as they bring it in,” said Peter Sharp, one of the organizers of the annual banquet that celebrates the life and works of the Scottish poet. “There’s sword bearers fore and aft to make sure it gets there safely.” Once presented to the approximately 200 diners expected to take in the festivities on Saturday, Jan. 24, the haggis — a savoury pudding made from sheep offal, oats and onions — is addressed with one of Burns’ famous works, Ode to A Haggis. While diners can stick to roast beef if they’re not up to tasting the “great chieftain o’ the pudding race,” to quote Burns himself, Sharp said it’s worth giving the traditional Scottish dish a try. “You know what? Haggis actually tastes very nice,” he said. Burns was an 18th-century Scottish poet and one of the most prominent writers of poetry in both the Scots language and in Scottish dialect.

Who was Robbie Burns? KTW FILE PHOTO Robbie Burns celebrations are set to take place in Kamloops and all over the world this weekend.

Though he died in 1796, Burns is still considered Scotland’s national poet and celebrations of his work, known as Burns nights, are held every year across the globe, usually on the Saturday closest to his Jan. 25 birthday. Sharp said the evening will appeal to both those with Scottish heritage and those

interested in experiencing a new culture. In addition to readings of Burns’ poetry, the dinner also features music from the Kamloops Pipe Band, highland and Scottish dancing and live entertainment from musician Stan Bailey. The Burns dinner takes place at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre,

1250 Rogers Way. Doors open at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m. and dancing to follow the meal. Tickets are $50 for adults, $30 for youth and $15 for children and are available at Kamloops Florist, Overland Press and No Limits Fitness. Proceeds from the event support the city’s annual Highland Games.

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Robert Burns is one of Scotland’s most important literary figures and is best known for his famous, and often humorous, songs and poetry. Burns was an inspiring and passionate pioneer of his generation and is regarded as Scotland’s National Bard. More commonly known as Rabbie, Burns was born to a poor family in Alloway, Ayr, on Jan. 25, 1759, and began his working life on the family farm. Burns’ father recognized the importance of education and hired a local teacher for Burns, who went on to demonstrate signs of an exceptional writing talent from a very young age. As Burns grew older, his great passion for Scotland and his dynamic, contemporary vision played an important role in inspiring the founders of socialism and liberalism. His literary fame began when his first work Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, later known as the Kilmarnock Edition, was published in 1786, after which his writing career flourished. Although Burns only lived to the age of 37, he enjoyed an eventful life and produced an astonishing amount of great literary work during his career. Burns is famous for his political views, revolutionary behaviour and his love for the lassies, all of which can be seen in his extensive catalogue of work. Burns was also inspired by the beauty of Scotland, particularly the breathtaking scenery of Ayrshire, his birthplace, and the romantic setting of his later home region of Dumfries & Galloway. Although more than 200 years have passed since his death, Burns remains one of the most celebrated figures in Scottish history and culture, demonstrated by the annual Burns Night celebrations held across the country on Jan. 25 each year. — from visitscotland.com FUTURE SHOP – Correction Notice

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THURSDAY, January 22, 2015

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Beatles show in Kamloops Colin James plans Twist and Shout — an international Broadway show based on music by The Beatles is coming to Kamloops in March. The show — dubbed Let It Be after the famed Beatles song — begins travelling across the country this month, with shows that include just two stops in B.C., in Vancouver and Kamloops. More than 40 Beatles songs chart the band’s rise from their beginning in Liverpool through Beatlemania and their later studio pieces.

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Some of the songs included in the show are Hard Day’s Night, Day Tripper, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, Twist and Shout, Get Back, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Strawberry Fields. It opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 2010 before it transferred to the Savoy Theatre for a year until February 2014. It has since been performed for some 800,000 people in Germany,

Colin James is bringing an acoustic show to Kamloops on April 26. The Canadian blues artist is known for songs like Man’s Gotta Be A Stone, I’m Losing You, Into the Mystic and Voodoo Thing. He has won six Juno awards and 17 Maple Blues Awards for his music — which spans blues, rock, R

Japan, Russia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The show lands at Interior Savings Centre in Kamloops on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. It will be the second last stop on it’s cross-Canada tour before heading to Vancouver for two shows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets are on sale and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.ca. They start at $69.

n’ B, blues, swing and bluesrock — and his albums have reached gold and platinum status. James will perform an intimate show at Sagebrush Theatre beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca, and will go on sale tomorrow (Jan. 23).

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THEATRE CALGARY PHOTO Liberation Days tells the story of Canadian forces liberating the Dutch people from their Nazi captors during the Second World War. Its run at Sagebrush Theatre gets underway with a preview show tonight (Jan. 22).

ON STAGE WHAT: Liberation Days, a co-production of Western Canada Theatre and Theatre Calgary WHEN: Jan. 24 to Jan. 31, show times vary WHERE: Sagebrush Theatre, 821 Munro St. TICKETS: Available at Kamloops Live Box Office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca

royal family during the Second World War and liberating the country. But, Gilker said, one of the messages of Van Belleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play is that liberation doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always mean freedom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have this view of everything being free and liberating,â&#x20AC;? Gilker said of the the arrival of Canadian troops into the towns and villages, bringing with them food, fuel and other aid. But what happened was one occupier left and another one came in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it was not all sunshine and roses.â&#x20AC;? The brutality and oppression of the German occupation was gone, but there were still new people from another country everywhere during those days â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that is the reality that generated the love story at the heart of Liberation Days. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a traditional love story, how-

ever; Lindsey sees her Canadian soldier beau Alex King (Byron Allen) not so much as a love interest as a way of escaping the oppression of her life. Add into the story Lindseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing fiance, a Dutch soldier presumed dead, and the tension builds. Gilkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character has her own love story within the play, one she was reluctant to discuss because her tale contains â&#x20AC;&#x153;some big revealsâ&#x20AC;? about the cruelty that also came from the war. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has a unique view,â&#x20AC;? Gilker said of Marijke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit of an outcast and she has some reflections on what is going on.â&#x20AC;? The play is a co-production with Theatre Calgary and Gilker said getting the chance to premiere it with that troupe, one of the best in the country, was thrilling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a challenging

part, and what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve discovered is most of the shows Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in were very stylized,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is hard-core realism.â&#x20AC;? Gilker praised her instructors at TRU for being â&#x20AC;&#x153;immensely supportive,â&#x20AC;? adding how fortunate Kamloops is to have a major theatre-arts program at the university Corey Sincennes has created the set, one that reflects the destruction left by the retreating German armies but also one that serves as a backdrop for digital projections by Jamie Nesbitt that serve to add to the ambience and reality of the dying days of the war. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you how much I love this set,â&#x20AC;? Gilker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And, with the facade of the buildings and the rubble and all that texture, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a great set.â&#x20AC;? She was also filled with praise for Wstern Canada Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic director, Daryl Cloran, who directed the play in Calgary and fills that role again in Kamloops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is a brilliant director, and such a great communicator,â&#x20AC;? he said. For Gilker,

Liberation Days is a cherished step in her acting career, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why not?,â&#x20AC;? she said when asked why she chose acting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the community aspect of theatre and I love the energy that comes from the audience and giving that energy back to the audience.â&#x20AC;? Rounding out the case are Duval Lang as the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minister â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and father of the missing soldier Jan Van Egmond (Jonathan Seinen) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Valerie Planche as Emmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, a woman who lives with the dreams of her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding to Jan, and Trevor Rueger as Miles Cavendish, Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commanding officer. Liberation Daysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opening night is Saturday, Jan. 24 and the play runs from tonight to Saturday, Jan. 31. Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, 8 p.m. from Wednesday to Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on the closing day. There are no Sunday performances. Tickets are at the Kamloops Live Box Office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until February 2, 2015. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. ¥Don’t Pay for 90 Days on Toyota Financial Service Finance Contracts (OAC) on all new 2014 and 2015 Toyota models. Offer valid from January 3 - February 2, 2015. Interest deferment on all finance contracts at no cost for at least 60 days. Interest will commence on the 61st day after the contract date. The first payment will be due 90 days from the contract date. Available with monthly or bi weekly payment frequency. Not available on lease. ¥¥“The Freedom 40 Lease delivers a lower monthly payment by extending standard terms by four months”. As an example, standard term of 36 months can be stretched to 40 months. Freedom 40 Lease offer is valid until February 2, 2015. 2015 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,540 and includes $1,545 freight and pre-delivery inspection and tire levy. *Lease example: 2015 Corolla CE 6M with a vehicle price of $17,540, includes $1,545 freight/PDI leased at 0.99% over 40 months with $1,599 down payment equals 80 semi-monthly payments of $88 with a total lease obligation of $8,677. Lease 40 mos. based on 60,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. **Finance example: 0.99% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval, available on 2015 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2015 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-A MSRP is $25,595 and includes $1,745 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy and air conditioning charge. †Lease example: 2015 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-A MSRP is $25,595, includes $1,745 freight/PDI leased at 1.99% over 40 months with $2,695 down payment equals 80 semi-monthly payments of $128 with a total lease obligation of $12,974. Lease 40 mos. based on 60,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. ††Finance example: 1.99% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval, available on 2015 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2015 Tundra 4X4 Dbl Cab SR 4.6L UM5F1T-6A MSRP is $37,420 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning charge. ‡Lease example: 2015 Tundra 4X4 Dbl Cab SR 4.6L UM5F1T-6A with a vehicle price of $37,420 includes $1,815 freight/PDI leased at 0.99% over 40 months with $4,325 down payment equals 80 semi-monthly payments of $188 with a total lease obligation of $19,402. Lease 40 mos. based on 60,000 km, excess km charge is $.15. ‡‡Finance example: 0.99% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval, available on 2015 Tundra 4X4 Dbl Cab SR 4.6L UM5F1T-6A. Applicable taxes are extra. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be February 2, 2015. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. ‡‡‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 24, 28, 36, 40, 48, 52, 60 and 64 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 40-month lease, equals 80 payments, with the final 80th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

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ClassiÀeds

INDEX

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Anniversaries

Coming Events

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Advertisements should be read on the first publication day. We are not responsible for errors appearing beyond the first insertion. It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event that errors occur in the publishing of any advertising shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only and there will be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement.

Career Opportunities

*Run Until Rented

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Household items, vehicles, trailers, RV’s, boats, ATV’s, furniture, etc.

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Julie Fisher, Lawyer, Long-Term Disability and CPP Annamarie Kersop, Lawyer, Injury & No-Fault Beneﬁts Date: Mon. Feb.9, 2015 at 7 pm Where: Hyatt Regency Vancouver RSVP: 604-554-0078 or ofﬁce@lawyerswest.ca www.LawyersWest.ca

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)

FOR LOG HAULING SERVICES Tolko Industries Ltd. is a private, Canadian-owned forest products company based in Vernon, BC which manufactures and markets forest products to world Since its beginnings in 1956, Tolko has grown from a small sawmill to become a company diversiﬁed by geography and products, with over 3,000 employees in operations across Western Canada. Tolko’s manufacturing operations produce lumber, unbleached speciality kraft papers, panel products, co-products, biomass power and a number of specialty wood products. For more information, please visit our website at www.tolko.com. Tolko is interested in seeking individual proposals for a non-replaceable Log Hauling Contract with an annual volume of up to 300,000 tonnes. The work will be based out of Vernon, BC with the majority of the work taking place within the Southern Interior of BC. Prior to obtaining a Request for Proposal (RFP) package, contractors must provide a prospectus with the following information: 1. Company name and contact information, including a phone number and an email address. 2. Brief description of your company and services offered. 3. Previous work history with dates that would pertain to this RFP. Once we have received your prospectus, a package will be sent to you with instructions on how to submit a complete proposal. Tolko reserves the right to reject in whole or in part, any or all proposals for any reason. Completed proposals must be submitted by 5:00pm (PST) on Friday, January 30th. Until a formal purchase order or other contractual document is ﬁnalized, signed and accepted by Tolko, Tolko does not intend to create any contractual relationship (either express or implied) with any entity submitting a proposal or other response to the Tolko request for quotation. As a result, those who submit a proposal are free to modify or withdraw their proposal as they deem appropriate. The successful recipient will be considered an independent contractor.

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Career Opportunities

Commercial or Conveyancing Legal Assistant

JOIN THE AXIS TEAM IN KAMLOOPS! We are seeking individuals to work in our 24 hour residential programs as Casual Residence Workers to work with either: • Youth at risk (ability to manage behaviours) or • Youth/Young adults with developmental disabilities (ability to support personal hygiene and manage behaviours) The successful applicants must be a positive role model, teach life skills, participate in recreational activities, maintain the home and maintain documentation. CPI and behavior plan training provided. For further information, please refer to our website www.axis.bc.ca under job. Only those shortlisted will be contacted.

Mair Jensen Blair LLP is a busy, progressive office with a respectful work environment. For more information about the firm, visit mjblaw.com. We are looking for an experienced commercial legal assistant, or an experienced conveyancer willing to be trained as a commercial assistant. Apply in confidence to 700 - 275 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 6H6, or email info@mjblaw.com

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

DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES Interior Community Services (ICS) is currently seeking a highly experienced Director of Youth Services to oversee all areas of youth programming within our organization. The Director of Youth Services is responsible for providing organizational leadership and strategic direction to all areas of ICS youth programs and will report directly to the Chief Operating Ofﬁcer. Qualifications • University degree in social service related discipline. Master’s degree preferred with minimum 5 years clinical experience with youth and families • Minimum 3 years of leadership experience in the social services ﬁeld (unionized environment preferred) • Demonstrated knowledge of youth homelessness issues, LGBTQ, and youth in care issues • Excellent problem solving, decision organizational and time management skills • Excellent interpersonal, communication skills

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The Fitzhugh is an award-winning community news organization in beautiful Jasper, Alberta – the heart of the Canadian Rockies. We are seeking a passionate, driven, and highly creative individual to ﬁll the role of Production Manager with our team. Ours is a young, enthusiastic office in a not-so-average mountain town. As soon as the rooftop pool is installed we plan to have regular Friday afternoon diving competitions. The Google compound’s got nothing on us. Working here, you’ll want to keep your trail mix close to your camera, tucked safely beside those tickets to the next local gig. The Production Manager plans, schedules, strategizes, and oversees all production activities, while playing a fundamental role in the creative direction and graphic design of the newspaper and the advertising within it. You will perform essential functions in layout and design to ensure that the newspaper meets strict print deadlines. The ideal candidate will have: Ť Ť Ť Ť

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• Ability to work independently. Must be available days, evenings and weekends (for on-call support as part of the on-call rotation)

Strong knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills Ability to execute creative designs, concepts, and layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts Minimum of 3 years experience designing for print, ideally with publishing experience Knowledge of 4 colour print production process Strong attention to detail Ability to meet strict weekly deadlines Ability to multi-task and utilize resources to execute tasks within a deadline oriented environment Conﬁdence to work independently and in support of business objectives Illustration, photography and advertising experience a bonus

This is an amazing opportunity to ﬁll out your portfolio and to join a fun and positive work environment. Please forward your resume to Matt at publisher@ﬁtzhugh.ca.

Company Prospectus and Contractor Proposal(s) can be faxed or emailed to: Attn: Travis Kiel Fax: 250 547 1274 Email: travis.kiel@tolko.com All proposals will be kept conﬁdential.

Employment (based on 3 lines)

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Submit your resume with cover letter by Monday January 26th at 4:30 pm to careers@ interiorcommunityservices.bc.ca For further information please visit our website: www.interiorcommunityservices.bc.ca

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Lost & Found Found: Set of dentures on the North Shore. 250-318-8800. Lost: Pair of glasses DKNY grey/mauve in Kenna Cartwright Park on Wed. Jan 7th. 250-374-2946. Lost set of keys Canada Tire gas bar has leather tag w/J Himmelman (778) 257-1748

Employment Business Opportunities

Education/Trade Schools PAL & CORE Courses week days and/or weekends. www.pal-core-ed.com or Call George 852-0595 / 778-4703030 Visa or debit accepted SYLVAN Learning Centre (Kamloops tel: 250-851-3829) seeking Experienced Tutors in Math and Reading. Saturdays and late afternoon. Email: mikemcrae@telus.net fax 250851-3819.

Help Wanted

Busy professional office requires full time Office Manager. Successful candidate will be well-organized, detail-minded and be able to multi-task. Microsoft Word, Excel and Sage 50 (Simply Accounting) experience is essential. Salary commensurate with experience. Please E-Mail resume with cover letter to: info.frilan@frilan.ca. Will be interviewing immediately.

Career Opportunities Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;akola Development Services CONTROLLER position: full cycle accounting, financial technical support and assistance. Visit: makola.bc.ca DEADLINE: Feb 9 Weekend/Relief Cook - The Shores Retirement Residence is hiring experienced cooks. Email resume to sharen. marteny@shoresretirement.ca

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking We require qualified US capable Class 1 drivers immediately: We are an Okanagan based transport company looking for qualified drivers for US loads we run primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Utah, Arizona and Nevada. We offer a new pay rate empty or loaded. All picks and drops paid. Assigned units company cell phones and fuel cards. Regular home time Direct deposit paid every second Friday with no hold backs. We offer a rider and pet policy. Company paid US travel Insurance. All applicants must have reliable transportation and a positive attitude. Please fax resume & abstract to 250-546-0600 or by email to parris@ricknickelltrucking.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Education/Trade Schools FOODSAFE COURSE by Certified Instructor January 27th February 21st &24th 8:30am-4:30pm $70 Pre-register by phoning Market Safe Workshop $90 on February 25th 250-554-9762

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KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city. Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

Help Wanted

EI CLAIM denied? Need help? 22yrs exp as EI officer. Will prepare, present, reconsiderations & appeals. Call me before requesting reconsideration. Bernie Hughes 1-877581-1122. I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

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~ Caution ~ While we try to ensure all advertisements appearing in Kamloops This Week are placed by reputable businesses with legitimate offers, we do caution our readers to undertake due diligence when answering any advertisement, particularly when the advertiser is asking for monies up front.

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LEGAL ASSISTANT The law firm of Watson & Haines is seeking an experienced conveyancing/commercial assistant for a one year maternity leave commencing late March, 2015. Please forward your resume to ci@watsonhaines.ca Steakhouse at Sun Peaks Lodge is hiring experienced line cooks. Email resume to: info@sunpeakslodge.com

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NEED EXTRA CASH? LOOKING FOR A WAY TO FUNDRAISE FOR YOUR CLUB OR TEAM? JOIN THE YELLOW PAGES TEAM TODAY! We are looking for individuals or organizations with a car or small truck, to deliver the Yellow Pages Phone Book, in the Kamloops area. How can you apply? Contact Melissa melissa.thomas@yp.ca Phone: 1-800-268-3550 *January Start*

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

The Kamloops Child Development Society has an opening for a full-time ECE. Four days/wk, 9hr. shifts. Criminal Records check required. An IT and a Class 4 license will be considered assets. This position starts February 2, 2015. Send resume to: pmutrie@telus.net

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CASUAL BUS DRIVERS School District No. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) requires Casual Bus Drivers to work on a casual basis in All Areas. Applicants will have a demonstrated safe driving history as presented by a Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abstract from the Motor Vehicle Branch. Practical working knowledge of school bus maintenance and repair requirements, along with the ability to deal in a friendly, courteous and effective manner with a variety of passenger situations is required. Drivers must also possess a good knowledge of the North Okanagan-Shuswap Area. The rate of pay is $24.54 per hour. For further information on this opportunity and how to apply can be obtained by visiting Make a Future website at www.makeafuture.ca Deadline for applications is Friday, January 23, 2015. We appreciate the interest of all applicants, but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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Operations & Training Assistant The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District No. 83 invites qualified individuals to apply for the Operations and Training Assistants position. This is a full time CUPE union position and the rate of pay is $25.57 per hour. Qualifications: â&#x20AC;˘ Successful completion of grade 12 plus equivalent of one year post-secondary training to include Business Math and Auto CAD. â&#x20AC;˘ Two years recent experience to include one year as a school bus driver with current Class 2 BC Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License and one year in administrative/clerical position including CIMS Level 1 and CIMS Transportation module, or the equivalent use of student information system database. For further details on duties, responsibilities and other qualifications, please visit the Make a Future website at www.makeafuture.ca. Please submit a cover letter, resume and supporting documentation to apply@sd83.bc.ca by Friday, January 30, 2015 by Noon. We thank all applications for their interest, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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Furniture Dining room table & hutch/6chairs. $300obo 250319-5258.

Elec wheelchair Compass mid wheel drive new cond, ext cap batt incl + charger $3000obo (250) 554-7379

Oak China Cabinet. $500/obo. Armoire. $500/obo. Good cond. 250-672-9408 (McLure).

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Misc. for Sale 1-set of Nokian Winters on rims 235/75/R16. Used one season. Regular price new $1200 selling for $600. Call 250-851-1304. MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg. Nordic Track Walk Fit Treadmill Self powered with arm exerciser poles like new $325obo (250) 578-7449 Queen sz bed c/w headboard 2 night tables+lamps +comforter $385 (778) 471-2259 Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477

Misc. for Sale Private Collector Looking to Buy Coin Collections, Silver, Antiques, Native Art, Estates + Chad: 778-281-0030 Local

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Real Estate

Rentals

Transportation

Apt/Condos for Sale

Apt/Condo for Rent

Shared Accommodation

Auto Accessories/Parts

Recreational/Sale

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020

4 Bridgestone Winters on BMW Rims 185/70R14 used one season. $400. 374-5251.

Suites, Lower

Set of Goodyear Ultra Winters. P205/55-R16 on 5 stud rim will fit Mazda 3. $500. 851-0504.

GOLDEN VISTA SUITES 55+ Adult Living in a new safe building. Close to transit, clinic and shopping. Small pet friendly, elevator, balconies, a/c, common room, parking and caretaker. $775, call 250-819-0101.

Juniper Village

For Sale By Owner

2 or 3 Bedroom Condos Juniper, 1-2 bathrooms Hot Water Heat Included. $1,000-$1,150 + Hydro Sunden Management Ltd (250) 376-0062

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Houses For Sale

NORTH SHORE

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

CALL 250-682-2293 250-682-0312

RIVIERA VILLA 1&2/BDRM Suites

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

250-554-7888

Sahali 2 bdrm apartment completely renovated, $1100/mo. 250-579-8428

SILVERCREST SUITES

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

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

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent 1/2bdrm clean quiet Apts $750/$850 a mnt + util. Senior discount available. Avail Now n/p, a/c, laundry, free parking, close to downtown (250) 3778304 1bdrm dwtn apt. Quiet, spacious, lndry, AC, $1100/mo. utilities incld. 604-852-0403 55+, independent, community living, 925 sq ft luxury suite. $1950 mo. Activities, entertainment included. 250-8198419 or 778-470-8315

Acacia Tower

343 Nicola Street 1bdrm and bachelor suites starting @$645 per month includes utilities laundry facilities adult building no pets no smoking 1 year lease reference and credit check required

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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 GARDEN VIEW APARTMENTS - BROCK Modern 2bdrm apts., 5 appliances, a/c, video monitoring, secure bldg., $870/mos. + utilities, min. 6 mos. lease. No Smoking & No Pets. 250-3762254.

One Month Free Rent and Free Telus Cable and Internet for one year! New 55+ living. Next to North Hills Mall with in suite laundry, balconies, A/C, rooftop terrace, amenities room, parking and storage. Pet friendly. Starting at $850 per month. Call 250-819-0101. Southill Manor 2bdrm apt. ac, ns, np, next to shopping and bus. $775. 250-376-9059 The Sands, Lower Sahali. Centrally located, renovated 1&2 Bdrms, $850-$1100. 250828-1711.

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1bdrm Brock. $750/month plus dd. Incl util. W/D. Private ent. N/S, no parties. Ref req. 250-571-3553 1BDRM South Shore remodeled priv prking W/D N/S N/P $900 Avail Feb.1st. 579-2066 2bdrm 4 working person or couple, central air, $850 ref vacant shared util 376-0633 2bdrm Brock $900 +dd util incl. sep ent no party, prefer mature ref req 250-376-0370 or 250-819-7994 3BDRM/1 bath parking n/p near shopping/bus Mar1st $1100 inclds util 778-220-8118 Brock close to schools 2Bdrms n/s/p. $950mo. Feb 1st, 250-682-3199. Welcome, Cumfy 1bdrm. Close to University, Hospital. Student or quiet person. Excellent Location. $495-$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

3bdrm duplex NShore w/d cls to all amenities n/s $1300 ref req Avail Feb1 319-9648 North Kamloops 3bdrms, 1.5baths. N/S. $1200/mo. 250819-3338.

Modular Homes 2bdrm mobile quiet area 5 min from shopping yard& shed N/P landlord ref $800 +util Avail now 250-579-8913aft 6pm

Homes for Rent 3bdrm house Downtown cls to RIH. F/S, N/P, N/S. $1200/mo+util+ref’s. 250-6754030/ 250-833-6095 Brock 3bdrms. F/S, W/D, DW. Parking. N/S, N/P. $1800/mo. 250-376-0881.

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Rooms for Rent Furn room for female, on TRU express +util incl, np/ns $500/mo. 250-376-3801 Furn room for female on TRU Express util incl kitchen use $450 avail now 250-554-2296

1986 BMW Coupe 325i. 6cyl. 5spd. Looks good, runs good. Extras. $3,600. 250374-5251. 1992 Buick Roadmaster. 5.7L, 53,000kms. Exc Hwy car, new tires. $4,300. 250-319-4104. 1998 Ford Contour. 4dr sedan. 4 cyl, auto. $1250/obo. 250372-9112. 97 Camaro Z28 350 6spd 120,000km black loaded $9,000obo (250) 319-7058

Suites, Upper Furn bach suite. N/Shore. Prefer female. $500/mo. N/P. Util incld. Bus route. 554-2296

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Townhouses

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1800sq/ft. newly updated unit in Aberdeen. 2bdrms, 2.5 baths, laundry. 2 parking spots. $1600. 250-320-7143. 3BDRM 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immed. 250-374-5586 / 250-371-0206 Northshore 3-bdrm townhouse, 4 appl, $1000/mth n/p, 250-554-6877, 250-377-1020. Sahali 2-bdrms +den,1-bath. $1300/mo. inclds hydro, heat, A/C. 250-376-6609.

Motorcycles

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2009 Vulcan LT Kawasaki. Blue, 43,050kms. 1-owner. Excellent Condition. $5,000. 250372-7116.

1991 27ft. 5th-Wheel. Fully loaded, like new. Everything incld. Shower, toilet never used. $8,000/obo. 250-5799029.

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

1998 24ft. Citation Class C Motorhome. 163,000kms. Well maintained with records. Ind. solar panel. $14,000. 250-523-6446.

2004 Lexington motor home well equipped new tires like new only 36000 miles call $32,000 obo 250 573-2332

Transportation

Snowmobiles

Trucks - Logging

Polaris 550 Trail 2000 rear gear, like new, 2228km garage prkd 1 senior owner $3000 obo (250) 579-9029

Sport Utility Vehicle 1981 GMC Suburban 4X4. Re-built motor/trans. Good shape. $2,900. 250-828-1808.

1992 GMC Dump Truck 366 V8 on propane, 5spd manual tranny, hyd brakes. Incl inbox hyd sander and 10’ snow blade. Clean title $13000 obo 250-574-2766 or 250-376-1872

1996 Seadoo, 5-seater jet boat & trailer. New motor & impellars, many extras. Excellent shape. $7,000. 250-672-9887. 2003 Chev Tracker. 4cyl, auto. 130,000kms. Good condition. $6,500. 250-3747979.

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Trucks & Vans 2006 36ft. Forest River Georgetown XL. Loaded, 19,560miles. 3-slides. Gen, winter pkg. Awnings. New Mich tires. $68,000. 3728820/574-0090. 26’ Champion motorhome, 440 motor. reno’d ($3000/receipts) $2675/obo. 778-4721547 9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom. Good shape. $3,500/obo. 250-376-1841.

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1994 Mazda pickup 6 cyl 2wd manual, canopy winters 244,000km $2200. 374-7708 1996 Dodge half-ton ext cab 4x4. Good shape. $4900/obo. 250-828-1808. 1996 GMC Suburban good shape runs great $3200obo Call (250) 571-2107 1998 Ford E350 cube van 16’box w/ramp V10 gas with auto tran $6100 250-459-2275 1999 Chev Dually diesel low km, great cond incl new canopy needs tires. $7500 (250) 319-1522 after 6pm 2006 GMC W3500. 5.3L, Isuzu diesel. Med duty tilt cab wit air dam. 16ft. alum box with roll-up back door. Auto, PW, PL, exhaust brake. 375,000kms. 1-owner. $9,000/obo. 250-828-0599.

91 Toyota fully rebuilt, 6 cyl, std 4x4 - lift, winch, 33” tires, hitch, newer seats/carpet – awesome ride. Extra parts. $5600/obo 250-319-1946

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6 winter pkg, fully loaded, $19,900. 250-376-1655

Fishing Truck 89 Ford Lariat F150 2-wd 173,000km V8-302 auto with canopy & boat loader asking $3000 250-376-4761

2005 8ft. Okanagan Camper with solar panel. $10,500. 250554-8031.

NEW LEER Truck Canopy. 82”x70”. White. $500, Call: 1(250) 314-0072.

Commercial/ Industrial Property

6803380 Request for Site Acquisition or Built-to-Suit Opportunities to Accommodate Office Requirement in Kamloops, BC Avison Young is requesting information or proposals in the Kamloops marketplace from: • Vendors who have development sites capable of accommodating a minimum 2 storey, 20,000 sf LEED accredited office building; • Developers who can develop a minimum 2 storey, 20,000 sf LEED accredited office building in which our clients will lease a portion; or • Landlords who have 10,000 – 20,000 sf of A class office space available for occupancy in Q4 2017. As per our clients request, we are looking in geographic areas in downtown Kamloops and/ or lower Sahali municipal area. Properties in downtown Kamloops must be bounded by the following streets, with high visibility of great importance:

Legal Notices NOTICE OF SALE Be advised that 626870 BC LTD dba Autopro Alignment & Maintenance will be seizing and selling your 2002 Ford Focus 4 DR.SW, VIN #1FAFP36P02W236004 to cover the cost of repairs to the above vehicle. The amount owing for the cost of repair is $3976.96 and has not been paid. Last know registered owner is Dayne Hoknes. The sale of the 2002 Ford Focus will take place on or after February 5, 2015. Autopro Alignment, 2063 ETC Hwy, Kamloops, B.C. V2C 4A5. 250-374-8787.

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1993 31ft. Bounder. Exc. cond. Must See. 87,000miles. Generator. Exec tires. Awning/screens. Repainted, satellite, sleeps/6. 454 eng. Hitch/tow pkg. New MW/fridge. $16,900. 250-376-8471.

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg

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