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Y Strong Kids campaign chairman Daniel Dallaire talks with Jasmine and Zachary Young, learning of their experiences with the YMCA-YWCA during the seventh annual Y Strong Kids Campaign kick-off breakfast yesterday (Feb. 19) in the NorKam secondary cafeteria.

The Y Challenge has various teams — including KTW’s Press Time — getting fit while raising money for Y programs. To learn more and to help the KTW team in the Y Challenge, go online to kamloopsy. org/strongkids and donate to Press Time.

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With fees for dumping construction waste at city dumps now almost three times higher than 2014 rates, Kamloops’ homebuilders say they’re reaching a breaking point that could make it difficult to build new homes in the city.

Last summer, Kamloops city council agreed to increase the rate for demolition, construction and land-clearing waste to $160 per tonne from $60 per tonne.

That’s a cost Matt McCurrach, president of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association’s Central Interior chapter, worries will hit potential homebuyers hard and make it difficult to build affordably in Kamloops.

“We don’t know much yet because these fees just came in January and, typically, there’s not as much activity in our industry in January,” he said.

“But, once the bills start to come in for the tipping fees, we’ll understand what the costs are to houses.”

McCurrach said the industry is already grappling with other cost issues this year,

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District’s regional solid waste management plan, which requires landfills throughout the region to offer parallel rates.

At the time, public works director Jen Fretz said, construction waste fees were set higher than household waste fees, which increased to $80 per tonne from $60 per tonne, because that waste cannot be easily crushed and buried.

Fees are somewhat lower for construction products that are sorted. A load of wood waste, for instance, would cost $100 per tonne, while a load of concrete, bricks and mortar and other crushable material would be as low as $20 per tonne because it can be diverted from the landfill for road building.

McCurrach said the homebuilders plan to meet in March with both City of Kamloops staff and their TNRD counterparts.

“We just want to sit down and gather some information and understand why the fees are going up and if there’s anything that our industry can do to help, or to help get away from these fees,” he said, suggesting the groups could look at more recycling programs as one way of reducing costs.

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including a low Canadian dollar, which has made importing materials from the U.S .more expensive, and a new B.C. Building Code.

The code, which came into effect in midDecember — and led to a run on building permits from the city as builders sought to avoid the new terms — includes new standards for homes in the region that McCurrach believes will require more materials and labour, but with little visible result for homebuyers.

He pointed to a change in the required thickness of insulation for homes in the region, from R20 to R22, as one such change.

“To get that tiny increase of extra insulation, it’s a fair bit of work to get there through materials and different construction practices have to be used, and with that is additions in labour,” he said.

“Our concern is housing affordability and, right now, it’s becoming harder and harder for people to afford homes, and people have a hard time understanding where these extra costs are coming from because they’re literally hidden in the walls.”

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Council Calendar February 24 1:30 pm - Regular Council <eeting 7 pm - Public Consultation Budget Meeting Interior Savings Center, Parkside Lounge February 26 3 pm - KAMPLAN: 2015 Official Community Plan Advisory Committee Development & Engineering Services Boardroom, 105 Seymour St. March 3 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Hearing March 4 7 am - Parks and Recreation Committee Second Floor Boardroom, City Hall March 9 6 pm - Tranquille Beautification/ Enhancement and Gateway Task Force Corporate Boardroom, City Hall March 10 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting March 11 5:30 pm - Heritage Commission Kamloops Museum, 207 Seymour Street March 16 4:30 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, City Hall Regular City Council meetings are broadcast on Shaw Cable as follows: Thurs and Sat at 11 am and Sun at 7 pm.

Council meetings can also be viewed online at: kamloops.ca/webcast.

Meeting schedule is available at kamloops.ca/council.

Notes Water Meter Billing Metered customers are now billed quarterly.

Flat-rate customers will continue to be billed semi-annually.

Please refer to the chart below for the new billing cycles.

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2015 Budget Meetings

Tuesday, February 24th 7:00 to 10:00 pm Parkside Lounge at Interior Savings Centre We will have five tables to seek your input on the additional budget items suggested by City administration, community groups and the public. We would like your comments on what should or should not be included in the 2015 City budget. These items will impact this year's tax rate and your City tax bill. Please come out and tell us your thoughts. Your feedback will be recorded and considered when Council makes its final decisions. We hope to see you there!

So let’s talk.

On February 24th Let’s Get Together

Distinguished Service Awards Kamloops City Council is inviting nominations for the City's Distinguished Service Award.

The Distinguished Service Award was initiated by Mayor and Council to acknowledge those who, over a period of time, have dedicated their time and service to the well-being of our community and its citizens.

For nomination criteria and forms, please visit the City website at www.kamloops.ca.

Deadline for nominations is Friday, February 27, 2015.

Save the Date February 24th, 7:00 - 10:00 pm Interior Savings Centre, Parkside Lounge

Existing metered customers should expect their bills near the end of February. Phase III customers went live on Jan1, 2015, and should expect their first bill at the end of May.

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For those customers on the monthly payment plan, any remaining balances must be paid in full by Dec 31 each year.

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MURDER TRIAL HEARS FROM PSYCHIATRIST

DOCTOR TESTIFIES ON IMPAIRMENT OF WAKING UP AFTER DRINKING CAM FORTEMS

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A psychiatrist testified in a second-degree murder trial that people awakened from a deep, “slow-wave” sleep show impaired mental functions — impairment made far worse by drunkenness and marijuana use.

Dr. Shaohua Lu, a psychiatrist at Vancouver General Hospital who specializes in treating addictions, testified yesterday (Feb. 19) as an expert witness for the defence in the murder trial of Cory Bird.

Now 27, Bird is charged with killing Siska Indian Band resident Albert Michell in August 2008.

Michell was found dead in his Fraser Canyon apartment, having been stabbed 73 times.

Bird testified in

B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops earlier that he woke up in the early-morning hours after drinking and smoking marijuana with Michell to find the older man with his head in his crotch, sexually assaulting him.

According to evidence in the trial, the pair drank 15 beer and nearly all of a bottle of liqueur.

Another defence witness testified earlier that Michell sexually assaulted him on two occasions years earlier as he slept and only stopped under threat.

The witness first reported it to police in 1998, but no charges resulted.

Based on the evidence of alcohol consumption on the night Michell was killed, Dr. Lu concluded Bird drank the equivalent of six to nine beer, taking into consideration the

alcohol he eliminated over five hours.

Bird stands 5-foot-6 and weighed about 145 pounds at the time of the stabbing death.

Lu said that amount of alcohol seriously impairs what he called “response inhibition” — suppression of instincts on provocation.

“It’s highly variable,” Lu said of reactions of response inhibition.

“A guy in a bar with six drinks may get bumped into and be jovial and say, ‘How’s it going?’

“Another guy might say, ‘What’s going on, buddy?’ and get into a fight.”

Lu said alcohol impairs “ability to recognize consequences of one’s actions.”

While Bird’s recollections about what happened that night seven years ago have shifted in different police interviews and testi-

mony, one constant is his claim that he was drunk when he was awakened by Michell after passing out in his apartment.

The defence is seeking to use that impairment to lessen Bird’s culpability, something a jury could find amounts instead to manslaughter.

Lu testified any parent awakened in the first few hours after falling asleep — in slow wave sleep — understands the confusion in the first few moments.

They are able to function in part because the task of feeding a child is something they’ve done before.

Under cross-examination from prosecutor Bernie Caffaro, Lu acknowledged the examples are hypothetical and he could find no studies.

“There’s not a lot of

research,” he said.

“It’s hard to find people to drink, fall asleep and then wake

them up abruptly.”

The jury is expected to be sequestered on Monday afternoon

THINGS HAVE CHANGED, HAVE YOU DOUBLED UP ON GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN? On March 31, 2014, British Columbia enacted new legislation that governs how a person’s Will is to be drafted and interpreted. One significant change is that gifts made to children during the will-maker’s lifetime are no longer considered to be an advance of that child’s inheritance.

Take the following example of how the new law will be applied.

Frank leaves a will dividing his estate equally between his two children. Frank later helps one child, Lucky, with the down payment on a home but passes away before helping the second child.

The gift to Lucky is not considered and Frank’s estate would be distributed equally between his two children. Lucky has “double-dipped”. This result may be unfair and not what Frank had intended, causing family strife.

To avoid this, Frank should have drafted his will to avoid this outcome. A qualified lawyer who understands the new legislation can help your estate avoid this scenario.

Freeman jailed for contempt of court A freeman and former city mayoral candidate was jailed yesterday morning (Feb. 19) for contempt of court.

Brian Alexander faces charges of driving while prohibited and obstruction of a police officer — offences for which he has been convicted in past.

Alexander appeared in court at about 9:30 a.m., in front of Judge Roy Dickey.

He declined to identify himself or acknowledge his legal name, courtroom tactics

familiar and unsuccessfully used by so-called freemen on the land.

His trial was called and slated to begin at 11 a.m.

As it BRIAN was about ALEXANDER to start, court officials said Alexander turned his back on Dickey when the Crown was about to give an opening statement.

After a warning, Dickey found Alexander

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in contempt of court and he was led away to basement holding cells in the Kamloops courthouse.

Alexander has been jailed overnight in the past for failure to comply with court orders.

He was released from

custody yesterday afternoon.

Freemen is an Internet-based movement of people who claim they never consented to man-made laws, which, they argue, therefore do not apply to them.

City of Kamloops Notice of Disposition

That Part of District Lot 232, Kamloops Division Yale District shown on Plan EPP46727 (the “Property”).

The City is transferring the Property to Michael Burwash and Sarah Stelter for the purchase price of $3,034.00.

Any enquiries may be directed to David Freeman, R.I.(BC), Asst. Director, Dev. & Eng. Services/Real Estate Manager at 250-828-3548.

730 Cottonwood Ave, Kamloops BC (Behind Library Square) Phone: 250.376.4777 Fax: 250.376.4792 Email: nsccs@shaw.ca

Contact the Wills & Estates Team at Fulton & Company LLP today to ensure your interests are protected going forward.

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LOCAL NEWS BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 73 (KAMLOOPS/THOMPSON) 1383 – 9TH AVENUE, KAMLOOPS, B.C. V2C 3X7 TEL: (250) 374-0679 FAX: (250) 372-1183

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE

Alternate delivery model of the Distance Learning Program (@KOOL) for the 2015-2016 School Year.

The Board will hold a public information meeting on Friday, March 6th, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the Henry Grube Education Centre to provide information on its intention to provide an alternate delivery model/re-structuring of distance learning at the end of June, 2015.

The public is invited to hear reasons for the changes and district staff will be available to answer questions. Your input is welcomed and encouraged.

Friday, March 6th, 7:00 – 8:30 PM HENRY GRUBE EDUCATION CENTRE 245 Kitchener Crescent Kamloops, BC

Still here after 44 years The Bamboo Inn located in The Brock Shopping Centre has been a fixture in Brocklehurst and Kamloops for that matter since 1972.

The longest serving restaurant in Kamloops has been dishing some of the tastiest Chinese food to their customers and it's no fluke they've been around so long.

Cosmo Li, owner operator and his brother Wilson started their venture in the restaurant business with the idea that North Kamloops needed a Chinese eatery and it proved correct. Cosmo, a Psych nurse at the Tranquille Institution in 1972 and his brother Wilson, a chef from Hong Kong developed a take out only store front that quickly grew into a full service restaurant.

The current location at 1800 Tranquille road is the original location and as Cosmos says "We never mess with success".

Bamboo Inn is a 100 seat facility that can also host business, staff, or any function and they have a liquor license.

They also cater to large parties with any dietary requirements. Stop in or call and see what you may have been missing.

"After 42 years, our food and customer service is proof enough that we're doing something right" Cosmo says.

See you soon at 1800 Tranquille Road Brock Shopping Centre 250-376-3386 or visit bambooinnrestaurant.ca

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Wednesday, February 24 at 1:00 PM and 6:00 PM

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Society created for survivors DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

Last year, Bernice Hammett went public with the story of her son, Brad.

In doing so, the Kamloops mom joined a legion of other British Columbians lobbying the provincial government for a program to help people like her son, adults who were treated for cancer as children and are living with the after-effects.

B.C. NDP health critic Judy Darcy, who took up their cause, praised Hammett and other members of the Pediatric Cancers Survivorship Society of B.C. for convincing the government to do just that.

Health Minister Terry Lake said the program, a partnership between the B.C. Cancer Agency, B.C. Children’s Hospital and the Provincial Health Services Authority, will be dedicated to clinical and research needs of

adults who had cancer as children.

The plan includes improving services for cancer survivors as they move from the pediatric system to adult care.

A registry will be created to track patients to ensure they receive the appropriate longterm support and to identify past patients who may not be aware their current heath issues might be related to the cancer treatments.

In addition, the program will continue to be evaluated to ensure it meets the needs of the survivors and their families.

Lake said society members made the case that, while the treatments may have saved the children’s lives, they may have been left with after effects, particularly if their cancer was treated decades ago.

“Now we know so much more about how to treat it,” he said.

For Hammett’s son, who was

treated for Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare cancer that required treatment of, and eventually the rebuilding of, his cheek area.

He continues to live with issues from the treatment.

Darcy said Hammett and others who spoke out show “what a determined group can do.

“They were not going to take no for an answer.”

When a private-member’s bill she introduced on the issue last year was being debated, the group packed the legislature and the society was invited to join a provincial-government working group to investigate their concerns.

Darcy said there are an estimated 3,500 adults who were treated successfully for cancer as children, a number that will continue to grow as more such diagnoses are made.

“I’m over the moon for these folks,” Darcy said. “Now, they’re going to have a place to go.”

Coroners Service probes toddler’s death The BC Coroners Service is investigating the death of a Kamloops toddler.

Investigators were alerted to the death on Sunday, Feb. 15.

BC Coroners Service spokeswoman Barb McLintock said the three-year-old Kamloops child died at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver after being transferred from

Royal Inland Hospital.

“Our investigation at this point is very preliminary and we don’t really have any further info we can provide at this time,” she told KTW. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush said police are not involved in the investigation of the death.

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A Feb. 19 KTW story on downtown parking revenues in Kamloops for 2014 (‘Downtown Kamloops parking kiosks brought in $992K in 2014,’) misstated the amount of revenue the city’s off-street parking lots brought in for 2013.

The city’s off-street lot revenue was $88,455 in 2013, which rose to $111,660 in 2014.

• KTW’s tabulation of council votes, which appeared in the Feb. 17 edition, stated Denis Walsh voted against a motion to discuss the possibility of adding the Secwepemc language to Kamloops stop signs at a community-to-community forum with the Tk’emlups Indian Band.

In fact, Walsh was absent for that vote.

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Chamber wants to strengthen panhandle laws ANDREA KLASSEN

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Panhandlers asking for money while people pay for parking is raising alarm

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Under city and provincial law, panhandlers can’t ask for change from someone leaving a vehicle, but hitting up that same person as the pay for parking is fair game — and that has the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce concerned.

“The panhandlers are hanging around the pay stations a lot and making a very uncomfortable environment for the people who are coming,” said Brant Hasanen, the chamber’s policy director. “They have enough trouble with those pay stations as it is, let alone someone asking them for some spare change.”

At the local level, it’s already against the law to hit someone up for change within 10 metres of a Kamloops bank or bank machine, bus stop or the entrance of a church, liquor store or movie theatre.

Provincially the Safe Streets Act is similar, though less

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KTW met 58-year-old John Tom this week in downtown Kamloops.

Tom said he was visiting from Prince George, but noted he has lived in the downtown core most of his life.

Tom said he doesn’t often panhandle, but JOHN TOM will if he needs 50 cents for bus fare.

“I actually think it’s a pretty good idea,” Tom said of proposals to further restrict where panhandling can take place on Kamloops streets. “It [panhandling] can cause some grief.”

He said panhandlers are used to being told to move along.

“They’ll just go somewhere else,” Tom said, noting most people are friendly when he asks for money, with responses varying from “sorry” or an offer to buy him a meal.

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strict — panhandlers can get within five feet of an ATM, for example.

Later this year, the Chamber plans to make a pitch to both the city and the B.C. government to ban begging near the machines and around restaurant patios.

In both cases, Hasanen said, he sees the situations as a “no-brainer” in which

provincial law needs to catch up with behavioural and technological change.

“If you’re having lunch, it makes you uncomfortable to have someone interrupting your lunch to ask for spare change,” he said. “But, there’s nothing in the bylaws that says they can’t do that.”

Mayor Peter Milobar told KTW he agrees there

needs to be more attention paid to pay-parking kiosks as they become standard for on- and off-street parking, and thinks the province will likely have to consider changing its rules.

“That’s pretty much how parking technology is going. It’s not just plug a quarter in and keep walking. Most people are standing there for that 15, 20 seconds to make a transaction,” he said.

But, Milobar added, the city has to take into account issues of civil liberties since panhandling itself isn’t illegal and those asking for change have a right to be on city sidewalks.

Councillors Tina Lange a and Denis Walsh, both llongtime downtown resid dents with small-business eexperience in the core, said tthey see value in extending rrestrictions on panhand dling.

Lange said panhandling a around patios was a partticular frustration for her during her time as the coowner of Hello Toast and the Plaza Hotel.

Walsh said were it legally possible, he would be open to the idea of making Victoria Street a panhandler-free zone, but thinks patios and pay stations are a good minimum step.

Though the city reported a dramatically higher number of panhandlerrelated complaints last year compared to 2013 — 311 files compared to 141 the year previous — Walsh said he feels the downtown panhandlers aren’t aggressive, but “assertive,” willing to ask people bluntly for money, but unlikely to

harass passersby.

“I’m quite comfortable with it and I know half the people but, for someone coming from out of town or another area of town it can really put them off,” he said.

At the chamber, Hasanen said a presentation to city council is ready to go in the near future.

The provincial proposal will first have to be approved by members of the local chamber in March, followed by the provincial chamber in May. The city can be more strict than the province on where panhandling is allowed, but community safety manager Jon Wilson said city council will have to consider B.C. law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects panhandling, as well as its own thoughts on further restrictions.

“We walk a fine balance,” Wilson said.

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THE HOT AND NOT OF THE WEEK Kamloops This Week looks at the stories of the week — the good, the bad and all in-between: HOT: The B.C. Liberal government for bringing in a balanced budget with a surplus. There are many who are picking apart the document and criticizing the budget, but the party did campaign on balancing the budget and governing in a cost-neutral manner.

NOT: The assortment of fee increases enacted by the B.C. Liberal government that helped balance the budget — largely on the backs of beleaguered taxpayers. Does it really matter that British Columbia has lower income-tax rates than other provinces when fees — ICBC, MSP, BC Hydro, etc. — continue to rise every year?

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HOT: The Facebook page called Kamloops Shoplifters & Thieves Exposed. The page is becoming more popular as law-abiding citizens fed up with being victims turn the tables in an attempt to identify the city’s various ne’er-dowells to the general public.

Those who might complain about their mugshot being on the page might want to think about not committing a crime in the first place.

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NOT: The Quebec school system that permits teachers to stripsearch students suspected of possessing and selling marijuana. When educators become policing officials, we have a major problem.

HOT: The Kamloops Storm, as our junior B hockey club begins the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs tonight (Feb. 20) at 7 p.m. on McArthur Island. The Sicamous Eagles are the first-round opponents as Kamloops tries to return to the league final. Game 2 is tomorrow at 7 p.m. Grab a friend and attend a game — the hockey is entertaining.

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Our annual health crisis

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he annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union (BCNU) try to portray it as the worst.

The BCNU is the last big public-sector union still to settle in the latest round of contract talks.

Feeding horror stories to the media is part of its strategy and this time it was a patient at Abbotsford Hospital assigned a bed in a small shower room for a month due to chronic overcrowding.

Hospital officials said his care wasn’t compromised.

We’ve seen it in Abbotsford, Surrey and elsewhere — a new hospital or expansion is built and is immediately overcrowded. We are reminded every winter that influenza season brings a wave of people into emergency, expecting treatment for a viral infection that, in most cases, can only run its course.

Many people still don’t understand what “the flu” is, beyond the notion it sounds serious enough to tell the boss you won’t be in to work.

And, as fewer doctors choose the endless demands of family practice, the expectation that all problems must be dealt with quickly and for free seems to grow as inexorably as the health-care budget.

An emergency physician of my acquaintance provided

TOM FLETCHER

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VICTORIA a typical scenario for night shift at the ER. Where once nights were quiet, now there are patients waiting for hours, around the clock.

Several are drunk and one has urinated on the floor.

Surveys show as many as half of ER visits are alcoholrelated, from overdoses to fights, falls, car crashes and chronic conditions.

Into this chaos comes a mother with her young child, who has nasal and chest congestion. The child’s cough led her to throw up, so off to the ER they went, blithely assuming this is where you bring a kid with a cold.

This week’s B.C. budget brings us a step closer to the moment when half of all provincial revenues go to keep the health-care system running.

In the legislature, NDP health critic Judy Darcy blasted Health Minister Terry Lake for the government’s failure to keep its 2010 promise to find everyone in B.C. a family doctor.

Lake allowed they’re still working on that, then plugged the latest Conference Board of Canada study showing B.C. ranks third in the world in health-care outcomes, second only to Switzerland and Sweden.

Darcy, a former president of the Hospital Employees’ Union, was quick to respond: “This is surely a first in question period, the minister of health going back to the record of the NDP government in the 1990s, because we’ve had the best health outcomes in Canada since 1993. The fact is that we exercise more, we smoke less and we drink less — and that’s to the credit of British Columbians.”

We also have more elderly people, as Premier Christy Clark argued in 2011, when the federal government changed its financing formula.

After years of increasing transfers by six per cent per year, the late federal finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that, starting in 2014, increases would be tied to economic growth, but wouldn’t fall below three per cent.

This, of course, was treated as a cut, rather than continued increases above inflation. But, there it is — and all provinces have to deal with it.

Darcy is quite right that personal responsibility is the key, something to remember as the usual squabbling of special interests continues. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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ELECTRONIC SPEED TRAPS REVENUE-GENERATOR Editor: KTW’s editorial of Feb. 19 (‘Saving young drivers a must’): I read about the “stark” statistics regarding young drivers killed in B.C. between 2004 and 2013, which was 106 within a nine-year period.

I am curious what the numbers were for adult drivers and passengers killed in that same nine-year period.

I have a memory of electronic speed enforcement being introduced and discarded years ago.

Now the proposal is to place them in “high-risk areas” because of teenage deaths?

How is this going to prevent a teenager from making a bad decision before getting into a vehicle or while driving?

I suspect this is once again the introduction of electronic speed enforcement to enable the government to garner increased speeding fines to line the coffers in the easi-

est way possible.

Absolutely no one wants to see anyone die, especially young people, but they do and in different ways — just as adults do, some of whom make similar bad decisions.

Sending speeding tickets to people who happen to drive over the speed limit in a “high-risk area” (I wonder who determines what those are?) will not prevent deaths if people — young or old — do not make wise decisions.

I get frustrated with the manipulation of people by using “stark statistics” to play on emotion and fear.

I get frustrated when our justice system has a chance to protect the public from a person who is a proven hazard on the road, who has proven they will not desist driving, who causes the death of an innocent pedestrian and who is given a light smack on the wrist because they have had a tough past.

This person gets a pass on being account-

able for inexcusable behaviour.

But, can we send out more speeding tickets the easy way and collect more money and call it keeping the public safe?

Sure, we can — if people can be convinced by way of “stark” statistics.

One more point: There has been a decline in revenue collected for parking in the downtown area (as reported in KTW).

Let’s pretend it is not because of the kiosks themselves and people avoiding downtown frustration with them and the high price of parking.

Hey, here is an idea, we can make up that revenue by sending out electronic speeding tickets, considering the electronic kiosks are failing to live up to expectations of revenue collection.

Sigh.

Sharon Huuha Kamloops

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES Editor: While the whole world seems to be horrified at the behaviour of the ISIL Islamist extremists, how many Christians realize that what ISIL is doing is no different than what is advocated in the Bible?

To ISIL, all “infidels” are fair game.

The Bible also advocates killing all unbelievers, such as in 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB: “They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.”

ISIL believes slavery is just fine.

So does the Bible in Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT: “However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.

“You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.

“You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way.”

ISIL murdered countless Yazidis and kept the women as sex slaves.

Nothing new there as it is also in the Bible: (Deuteronomy 20:1014): “As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labour.

“But, if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the Lord your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.

“But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock and other plunder.

“You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.”

Just like the Israelites, ISIL is always looking for women to rape: (Judges 5:30 NAB). “They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, (Judges 5:30 NAB).

I am very happy Christians don’t do those things any more, but they still believe the Bible was inspired by God. Murders and rapes all ordered by their god.

Isn’t the Lord great?

Praise the Lord!

Allahu Akbar!

Well, I think not!

C.B. Villeneuve Kamloops

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“Once you have been the victim of trauma, it changes who you are as a person. Everything is made up of particles and energy and everything we do, see, say, feel and think has an outcome.

“Chances are your mother was not well or was also the victim of abuse and trauma herself.

It’s hard to believe the perpetrator is suffering more emotional turmoil and pain than their victims.

“When we fail to educate and learn from our mistakes, we all pay the price. It’s all part of the evolution of the human experience here on this planet — our ultimate schoolroom.”

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Thanks to a couple of donations, the Cook It Try It Like It (CITILI) program in local elementary schools will be expanding.

Simone Jennings, a nutritionist with the Interior Health Authority, said a $4,000 grant from NutritionLink Services Society, part of the VanCity Community Foundation, will go toward adding five rural schools to the program, which provides one after-school session a week for five weeks as it exposes children to food.

The Real Canadian Superstore in Kamloops also donated almost $1,200 worth of kitchen supplies that will be used to create kits used in the program.

CITILI started in 2011 to teach children in grades 4 to 7 about nutrition, food safety, knife skills, where food comes from, how to grow it and how to cook it. At the end of the program, children tour a grocery store.

While the program has been offered in Kamloops, the VanCity grant will see it expand to Logan Lake, Barriere, Chase, Heffley Creek and Blue River in a pilot project to gauge interest in those towns.

At some schools, it will also be offered to children in kindergarten to Grade 3.

Among the lessons they learn, for example, is the amount of sugar in popular drinks — and then they’re shown how to make a smoothie with ingredients from fruits to spinach.

Next comes the taste test and the discovery not everything needs to be loaded with artificial sugars.

Another lesson sees kids peeling and chopping vegetables, adding some oils and spices and roasting them.

Jennings said research shows if a child is involved in growing and preparing a food, the child is more likely to try it.

“If you can get kids touching and tasting and chopping vegetables, the more likely they’ll eat them — and that can help with childhood obesity,” Jennings said.

The project is a partnership between the IHA community nutrition program, School District 73 and the City of Kamloops, which provides a chef to oversee the cooking.

The Superstore donation earlier this month was used to build the kitchen kits, including everything from blenders to paring knives to tea towels to dishes and cutlery.

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“We know we have constitutionally protected aboriginal rights. If there are proposed changes to policy or legislation that might impact our rights, we’d like to have a discussion with the regulator [Ministry of Environment].”

The ministry said the final policy is in development.

Ministry officials three weeks ago offered “to have her [Minister Mary Polak] staff sit down with them,” the ministry said in an emailed response to questions from KTW. It has also been in contact since.

Matthew is the band’s project manager for the Trans Mountain expansion.

He said those discussions are “fairly far along,” but declined to say more due to a confidentiality agreement.

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A B.C. Liberal government policy change permitting corporations to obtain research permits in parks, including allowing boundary adjustments for development, contravenes aboriginal rights and interests, according to the Simpcw First Nation.

The band has issued a statement, demanding meetings with the province on its draft policy of issuing research permits for provincial parks, saying the policy ignores its legal interests.

Kinder Morgan has proposed removing parkland from North Thompson and Finn Creek provincial parks for the proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline through the region.

Under the proposal, following completion of the project, the land would be reverted to park.

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Band revealed it signed a deal with Kinder Morgan that will see it receive between $5 and $10 million compensation for a new pipeline running though its asserted territory if the project is approved and constructed.

Matthew said the draft policy change and the Park Act amendment that preceded it are not standing in the way of Simpcw talks with Kinder Morgan.

Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, said the draft policy offers some improvements on the B.C. Liberals’ Bill 4, the Park Amendment Act introduced a year ago under protest from conservation groups.

Prior to the new act, park boundaries could be adjusted, but companies had no legal way to do the research required in the park to allow a pipeline, for example.

“The bill itself remains very flawed,” Gage said.

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INSIDE: Blazers move on after blowout | A155

ROUND 1 GAME 1 @ Friday, Feb. 20 7 p.m.

GAME 2 @ Saturday, Feb. 21 7 p.m.

GAME 3 @ Monday, Feb. 23 7:30 p.m.

GAME 4 @ Tuesday, Feb. 24 7:30 p.m.

GAME 5 @ Thursday, Feb. 26 7 p.m. (if necessary)

GAME 6 @ Friday, Feb. 27 9 p.m. (if necessary)

GAME 7 @ Saturday, Feb. 28 7 p.m. (if necessary)

*Kamloops games played at McArthur Island, Sicamous games played at Sicamous Rec Centre

Ryan Keis (26) and the Kamloops Storm start their KIJHL playoff series against Sicamous tonight at 7 p.m.

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he Kamloops Storm aren’t lacking confidence heading into their first-round playoff series against the Sicamous Eagles, but the team knows that in the postseason, a series can change in an instant.

“If we take them lightly, they’ll definitely give us a good game,” forward Ryan Keis said of the Eagles. “But, if we show up to play, we’ll be OK. “Last year, we actually lost the first game of the series [against Sicamous] and then we came back and won four straight.

“They proved it to us

“If we show up to play, we’ll be OK.”

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last year — if we don’t go in there playing like we should, they’ll take it to us.”

That 2013-2014 playoff series, along with eight head-to-head matchups in the regular season, has bred a bit of a rivalry between Kamloops and Sicamous, Keis said.

But, the Storm have had the upper hand in the hostilities, edging the Eagles in the season series by winning sixof-eight and outscoring them 37 to 11.

The Storm had three shutouts, too — 8-0, 5-0 and 7-0 — all before Kamloops brought in starting goaltender Jacob

Mullen via trade.

“They’re one of those teams — they’ve beaten us in the season before, but we’re honestly not too worried about them. We can totally outplay them,” Keis said.

“Every time we have played them, that we lost, it’s because we played a terrible game.”

It’s on the offensive side of the game that Kamloops may be able to exploit the Shuswap club — the Eagles scored the third-fewest regularseason goals of any team now contending for the KIJHL championship.

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Sports Legacy Fund grants doled out The Kamloops Blazers Sports Society members and board of directors announced the allocation of the 2015 grants from the Sports Legacy Fund (SLF) to the Kamloops and region sports community.

For a full list of recipients, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Twenty seven organizations will receive $325,000 in funding as a result of the 2014 application process.

The society’s decision to maintain the Sports Legacy Fund as a long-term investment in the sports community is based on the recognition that grants provide for organizational capacity building and volunteer support.

Since 2009, 84 Kamloops and region sports organizations have been recipients of $2.158 million in grants from the fund.

The $7.5 million fund resulted from the sale of the Kamloops Blazers franchise in 2007 and a contribution

with the dissolution of the Blazers Foundation in 2008.

The society has operated independently from the Blazers since 2007, but has dedicated the fund to the history of the community support for the franchise since its inaugural Blazers season in 1984.

Highlighted this year is continued support for the community coaching grants administered by PacificSport Interior for $65,000 and a grant of $30,000 to the Kamloops KidSport Chapter to assist financially disadvantaged youth participate in organized sport.

The 2015 allotment includes a $25,000 grant to the Kamloops Pickleball Club as a partnership with the city to add four more courts to a site to be determined as well as $12,000 to the Overlander Ski Club to add potable water to the recently completed washrooms at Stake Lake.

The Special Olympics B.C. Kamloops Committee received $19,500 to purchase much-needed equipment for the community-hosted Special Olympics B.C. Winter Games.

Support for TRU athletic scholarships was increased to $25,000 this year, $15,000 of which will be matched by the university.

The annual application period extends from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 of each year and the allocation by the nine member board of directors occurs in January.

Adaptive Sports at Sun Peaks (ASSP) is appreciative of the $10,000 grant it received.

“The generous support of the Kamloops Blazers Sports Society in 2014 allowed 23 ASSP instructors to upgrade their certification levels,” said Pat McKimmon, ASSP President.

The society’s website is kamloopsblazerssportssociety.com.

UNITY KEY FOR KCFS Those in attendance at the Kamloops Community Football Society’s [KCFS] annual general meeting on Jan. 26 agreed strengthening football in the Tournament Capital depends on all levels coming together for a common goal.

The KCFS is committed to working with high schools and the Kamloops Junior Broncos to rejuvenate football in the city.

Society board members include president Darren Watt; vicepresident and chairman Mike Harrison; registrar and treasurer Tracey Bogie; secretary Melisa Dyck and directors

Linda Cavanaugh, Lee Nelson, Jodie Larocque, Richard Viventi, Al Bancroft, James Seitz, Jonathan Michel and Jason Aitken.

Among those present were junior Broncos’ head coach Brad Yamaoka; Broncos’ board member Al Bancroft and Valleyview Vikings’ representatives Jim and Cam McCreight.

For more information on the KCFS and registration, go online to kamloops.bccfa. org and join Kamloops Community Football on Facebook.

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They were throttled 11-4 in Kelowna on Wednesday, their 18th straight loss to the Rockets, but the Kamloops Blazers have moved on.

Fighting to keep pace in the B.C. Division playoff race, the Blazers are playing a pair of WHL games this weekend — tonight (Feb. 20) against the Moose Jaw Warriors at Interior Savings Centre and tomorrow against the Giants in Vancouver.

Game time both nights is 7 p.m.

“You just have to forget about that game,” Blazers’ forward Deven Sideroff said of Wednesday night’s lopsided defeat in the Little Apple.

“We’ve got a couple big games this weekend to get back into the playoff race.”

Kamloops (22-31-3-3) and the Prince George Cougars (2333-2-2) are three points back of the Giants (25-30-1-2), who, with 53 points, hold third place in the B.C. Division.

The top three teams in the division will advance to the post-season. Kelowna is miles ahead in first place, with 94 points, and Victoria is second with 68 points.

“It’s pretty intense, to be this close,” the 17-year-old Sideroff said.

“We just want to win every game and get ourselves in position to get a playoff spot.”

Vancouver is in Portland to play the surging Winterhawks (33-20-1-3) tonight and the Cougars are idle, giving the Blazers a chance to gain ground.

Moose Jaw (23-30-4-1) will be well-rested, having pulled into Kamloops on Wednesday evening, after falling 3-2 in overtime to the Giants in Vancouver earlier in the day.

The Warriors, still mathematically alive in the Eastern Conference playoff hunt, will be in Prince George tomorrow night to square off against the Cougars.

Former Blazers Connor Clouston and Jesse Shynkaruk return to ISC for the first time since being traded to Moose Jaw earlier this season.

Kamloops fans will also get a look at forward Jayden Halbgewachs, 17.

He was drafted by the Blazers in the first round of the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft and traded, along with Tyler Bell, to Moose Jaw in a deal that saw Joel Edmundson come to Kamloops in December of 2012.

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“I want to see some postseason action really bad. It’s an experience I’ve wanted to have for a while.”

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Storm’s offence a big advantage over Sicamous ‘If we’re not ready to play playoff hockey, we won’t be doing well,’ coach says

Hoping for a long playoff run

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Heading into the postseason, Sicamous’ leading scorer, Samuel Subert, had 33 points.

By comparison, the Storm have nine players with 33 points or more.

“I think if they had a little more offence to their game, they would have a higher-seeded team,” said Storm head coach Ed Patterson.

The bench boss expects a good series, despite his team coming in as the favourite.

“If we’re not ready to play playoff hockey, we won’t be doing well,” Patterson said.

“That’s it in a nutshell, no matter who we play.”

It’s a lesson that Patterson and assistant coach Kyle Panasuk have spent recent weeks imparting on their players — especially those who were not with the Storm during the team’s extended post-season run last spring.

Losing in the KIJHL final to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks wasn’t easy, but the coaches are hoping

The Kamloops Storm’s divisional semifinal against the Sicamous Eagles is just the first step in what could be two months of playoff hockey for the junior B club.

Kamloops, along with most of the rest of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL), gets its conference semifinal play underway today.

The first round of postseason action pits the No. 1 seed in each division against No. 4, No. 2 against No. 3. The winners will face off in the divisional final, before playing the lone survivor from the other half of the Okanagan/ Shuswap conference in the conference final.

The conference finalist of the Okanagan/Shuswap conference will face the conference finalist from the Kootenay conference in the KIJHL final.

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Kamloops forward Jon Rivard (11) races 100 Mile House blue-liner Josh Odelin to the puck in the Storm’s last game of the regular season — a 4-2 loss to the Wranglers at McArthur Island on Feb. 15. Rivard and the Storm are hoping for a better outcome in their first-round playoff series against the Sicamous Eagles, which gets underway tonight.

their team is stronger for it this season.

“Being there especially, and losing in Game 6, they knew the team — Beaver Valley — that beat us worked hard, night in and night out,” Panasuk said.

“The guys that are coming back are understanding that it’s going to have to be a grind every single night to win.

“It’s nice — you never want to lose, but they got that experience from last

year and know what it takes this year.”

The puck will drop in Game 1 of the playoff series tonight (Feb. 20) at the McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre.

Game time is 7 p.m.

will head to the Cyclone Taylor Cup — hosted in Mission, B.C. from April 2 to April 5, this year — to play against the champions of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League, the Pacific Junior Hockey League and the host Mission City Outlaws (a PJHL team), for provincial junior B supremacy.

The B.C. provincial champion will head to the Keystone Cup — the Western Canadian junior B championship — to face winners from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northern Ontario and the host, Cold Lake Ice. The Keystone Cup will be played in Cold Lake, Alta., from April 16 to April 19.

In 2014, the KIJHL’s Beaver Valley Nitehawks completed the trifecta, capturing the league title, along with the Cyclone Taylor and Keystone championships.

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The meet, hosted by Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olympian Swim Club with support from Swimming Canada, includes 10 members of the Classics.

Races began yesterday (Feb. 19) and will continue through Sunday, Feb. 22.

For a list of all the athletes competing, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Kamloops won four silver medals and a bronze medal at the 2015 B.C. AA Swimming Championships in Chilliwack on the weekend.

The Classics had nine swimmers in attendance at the meet.

Jack Cameron won silver in the 100-metre butterfly, racing in 11-and-under boys. He achieved AAA time standards in the 50m freestyle (33.10) and 100m butterfly (1:26.87), too.

Eden Saari captured a pair of medals in the 14- to 15-year-old girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; division, grabbing silver in the 200m breaststroke and bronze in the 800m freestyle. She also achieved a AAA time standard in the 200m breaststroke (2:51.81).

The 14-and-under boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relay team also won silver in the 4x50m freestyle relay and the 4x50m medley relay.

The team included Jack Savage, Ben Kloska, Tanner Douglas and Trevor Laupland.

Also achieving AAA time standards were Cate Wharton, Lauren Prokopetz, Douglas and Savage.

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The Van Ryswyk and B.C. Masters indoor track-and-field championships wrapped up at the Tournament Capital Centre on the weekend.

Listed below are Kamloops athletes who finished first in their respective events.

Earning gold on the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side were Melvin Doherty, Evan Hall, Daniel Elke, Kibwe Johnson, Anton Dixon, Spencer Allen, Ty Fuoco, Keno Harms, Logan Hwang, Tyler Floen, Curtis Owens, Matthew Campmans, Austin Biggar, Treysen Goddard, Adam Baker and Robert Cooper.

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Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Harper Creek Mine Project

Public Comment Period and Information Session Harper Creek Mining Corp. proposes the construction and operation of an open-pit mine located 90 kilometres northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia (B.C.). The Harper Creek Mine Project is expected to produce 70,000 tons of copper-gold-silver ore per day (25 million tons per year) over a mine life of 28 years.

The Harper Creek Mine Project is subject to review under both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environmental Assessment Act and is undergoing a coordinated environmental assessment.

Public Comment Period The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) and B.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) are inviting the public to comment on the Application / Environmental Impact Statement (Application / EIS) submitted by the proponent, Harper Creek Mining Corp. The Application / EIS describes the project and its potential to cause environmental, heritage, health, social, and economic effects.

A copy of the complete Application / EIS is available online at www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca and at www.eao.gov.bc.ca, along with a shorter summary of the document and additional information about the environmental assessment process.

The public comment period is from February 19, 2015 to March 21, 2015. The Agency and the EAO accept public comments during this time submitted by any of the following means:

By Online Form: www.eao.gov.bc.ca By mail:

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The Agency accepts comments in English or in French. Any comments only need to be submitted once to either the Agency or the EAO to be considered for both the provincial and federal environmental assessments.

Copies of the summary and the complete Application / EIS are also available for viewing at these locations: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Vancouver, British Columbia Viewing by appointment only Telephone: 604-666-2431

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Information Session The following information session will be held during the comment period: Clearwater, February 24, 2015, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Dutch Lake Community Centre, 209 Dutch Lake Road, Clearwater, British Columbia Information on the Harper Creek Mine Project and the Application / EIS will be available for viewing at the information session, and interested individuals will be able to speak with provincial and federal representatives and Harper Creek Mining Corp.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technical team.

Next Steps The Agency and the EAO will consider the public comments received, along with the information in the Application / EIS, in preparing their environmental assessment reports. The environmental assessment for the project will also include one final federal public comment period on the Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental assessment report, which will be advertised at a later date.

All submissions received by the Agency and the EAO during the comment period in relation to the Harper Creek Mine Project are considered public. Comments will be posted to the EAO website and will become part of the Agency project file.

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MAILBOXES BROKEN INTO A number of rural community mailboxes were broken into overnight on Monday, Jan. 16, in the area of Heffley Lake Road and Louis Creek Road.

The night before, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, community mailboxes in the 1400-block of Rose Hill Road were burglarized.

Some of the mail was found on the ground nearby.

Mailbox recipients have contacted Canada Post, but most people don’t know what was taken.

A rural area is a little harder to watch all the time but, if you use these mailboxes, please remove your mail daily and do not give these thieves the opportunity to take your property.

In rural communities, there is a greater chance you may know the people who use the community mailboxes. If there is suspicious activity or people at or near the mailboxes, contact the police.

If you have any information on thefts, please contact Crime Stoppers — no names, no courts, no statements, just the information.

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tagging throughout the Sun Peaks area.

The words “Glitch” or “Glitter” have been showing up and there is some indication this person was tagging in Vancouver last year.

This senseless vandalism is costing thousands of dollars to clean up. Now is the time to report suspicious activity. If you

see something suspicious, contact the police right away and they will respond and find out who these people are.

If you know who these vandals are, contact Crime Stoppers. You will remain anonymous — no court, no statements — and you will receive a cash reward upon the arrest of the suspects.

THIEVES STEALING GAS Over the last couple of days, thieves have found a somewhat unique way to steal gas from vehicles throughout the city, but have been concentrating on the area of Westsyde Road, Wann Road and Ida Lane.

Thieves have been drilling holes in the gas tank and draining the gas into some type of container,

then leaving the area.

These thefts occur overnight on the streets where vehicles are parked. Not only is gas being stolen, but the cost to repair or replace the gas tanks is expensive. There is also a risk to the suspects and the general public when thieves are dealing with a flammable liquid in such a reckless manner.

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Sara Spence is proving she’s in a class of her own at the 2015 Canada Winter Games in Prince George.

The Kamloops native and member of the River City Racers speedskating club has captured five medals in long-track speedskating events at the Games thus far — one gold, two silver and two bronze.

Spence’s success in Prince George began with a silver medal in the 1,500-metre on Sunday, Feb. 15, in which she crossed the line in 2:20.500, a little more than two seconds behind gold-medallist Geanne Dufour of Quebec.

She would get her gold a short while later, though.

Racing in the 500m on Wednesday, Feb. 18, Spence crossed the line in 1:23.08, less than a quarter of a second ahead of the competition. She would also capture a silver medal in the team pursuit later that day.

Yesterday (Feb. 19), the 19-year-old added

to her haul, winning bronze medals in both the 1,000m and the mass start.

Spence’s medals contributed to B.C.’s fourth overall ranking in the medal standings when KTW went to press yesterday. Canada’s westernmost province had captured 26 medals — eight gold, 10 silver and eight bronze.

Sara’s brother, Eric, who is also competing at the Games, has raced in four events thus far, finishing 23rd in the 3,000m, 27th in the 500m, 26th in the 1,500m and 15th in the mass start.

Also medalling in Prince George this week was target shooter Leia Hoot. Hoot finished with a silver medal in air rifle target shooting on Wednesday.

After ending up just shy of the podium after the team event — Team B.C. was fourth — Hoot scored a 199.8 in the final of the individual event, good for second place behind winner Samantha Marsh (who scored 201.5) of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sullivan Fagan, who competed in the male

categories for both team and individual air rifle, finished fourth in the team event and 15th in the individual competition.

Kamloops’ other athletes won’t be in action until next week.

Brendan Semchuk will hit the ice with Team B.C.’s men’s hockey team on Sunday, Feb. 22, looking to defend the province’s 2011 gold medal title.

Cierra Fisher will also hit the ice, but of the pebbled variety.

Fisher and Team B.C. will begin their quest for curling supremacy on Monday, Feb. 23. Cierra is the sister of Samantha Fisher, who plays second for Corryn Brown’s Kamloops Curling Club rink and won gold at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax, N.S., in 2011.

Both Emily Schmidt, who will compete in trampoline, and Katrina Hohensee, who will be in the pool for synchronized swimming, will begin their Games on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

Megan Hanks of the Aberdeen Judo Academy will represent the Tournament Capital when judo events begin on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

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Vancouver Canuck Dan Hamhuis (pictured) and the rest of the National Hockey League’s players will have a few more statistical categories to watch in coming seasons.

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When the Toronto Maple Leafs hired Darryl Metcalf as part of a new analytics department, the site ExtraSkater.com disappeared. It was the most reliable source of advanced hockey stats and its absence left a void.

Today (Feb. 20), the NHL will announce it’s adding a brand new set of statistics on its website. Things like

shot attempts for and against and quality of competition will be available at fans’ fingertips once again.

“It’ll be much deeper, much richer, much more usable from a fan standpoint,” NHL chief operation officer John Collins said last month at the all-star game.

“We’re not trying to put anybody out of business. We believe in the statistical business.”

One of the goals is

to standardize information across the board. Some sites, like War On Ice and Progressive Hockey, have advanced metrics now, but the numbers can be inconsistent from one site to another.

Through a partnership with SAP, the same analytics company the Maple Leafs are working with, the NHL will make the information more uniform. The common terms like Corsi and Fenwick

reportedly won’t be used, which rankles those in the analytics community, but the principles of those statistics will remain.

Eventually, Collins hinted at the NHL having digital versions of every game sheet of every game played in the league’s history. There’s seemingly no limit to the kind of information fans, players and teams can access.

“You put that into the digital record, you

give fans with people like SAP the ability to kind of surf through it and pick and choose what they want, you marry that to video highlights, and all of a sudden you’re allowing a core fan to go as far down the rabbit hole as they want to go,” Collins said.

“You’re letting casual fans kind of begin to understand how the great players from generation to generation were considered to be great.”

REGINA — Kevin Glenn is back with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The veteran quarterback signed with the Riders as a free agent yesterday (Feb. 19). Glenn, 35, began his CFL career with Saskatchewan in 2001 and spent three seasons with the club.

Glenn started 17 regular-season games last season with the B.C. Lions. He completed 302-of-479 passes (63 per cent) and was the league’s secondleading passer with 3,918 yards, while adding 17 TD strikes.

He is expected to provide a veteran insurance policy behind incumbent Darian Durant, who missed much of last season with an elbow injury.

Glenn has played in 222 career CFL games with Saskatchewan, Winnipeg (2004-08), Hamilton (2009-11), Calgary (2012-13) and B.C. (2014). He’s eighth all-time in passing yards (43,336) and 10th in TDs (238).

The Riders also signed American defensive lineman John Chick to a contract extension and freeagent national offensive lineman

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The six-foot-four, 250-pound Chick is entering his sixth season with Saskatchewan and is now under contract to the CFL club through the 2016 season. Chick had a CFLhigh 15 sacks last year while adding a careerbest 45 tackles.

Chick, 32, has registered 42 sacks in 73 career regularseason games with Saskatchewan. He has helped the Riders win two Grey Cup titles (2007, ‘13) and was the CFL’s top defensive player in ‘09.

The six-foot-four, 307-pound Hinse spent last season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after playing his first five seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos. Hinse, 27, has played 52 career regular seasons games at both centre and guard.

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lex Rodriguez finally said he was sorry, though his handwritten apology on the eve of his return to the New York Yankees seemed to fall flat.

Not really surprising, but give A-Rod some credit for trying.

Doesn’t anyone realize how hard it is to write in cursive these days?

Surely it seemed

like a nice old-fashioned touch when the scorned slugger sat down to put pen to paper. You could almost picture him labouring over every paragraph — all five of them — while wadding up draft after draft and tossing them into an overflowing wastebasket.

Unfortunately, Rodriguez forgot to say exactly what he was apologizing for in his missive. Was it his serial steroid use? His

years of defrauding fans? The fact he once dated Madonna?

Maybe next time he could try email. Easier to do and much more room to get all the sordid details out there.

Or spend some of the $500 million or so he will earn as a baseball player on a public-relations firm that might advise him to finally tell the truth.

Apologies can be a hard thing to do. It took Pete Rose 15 years to finally admit he bet

on baseball, and only then because he had a book coming out that said just that. Saying he was sorry took years longer, though Rose seems to now be making up for lost time.

As he waits for some indication from new commissioner Rob Manfred on his possible reinstatement to the game, Rose is autographing baseballs in Las Vegas.

For $299, you can get a ball with the personal inscription, “I’m

sorry I bet on baseball.”

Rodriguez probably won’t be reduced to selling apologies on baseballs, if only because he doesn’t need the money.

By the time he’s done playing, he will have made nearly $500 million, even while taking a hit for sitting out last season because of his role in the Biogenesis scandal.

As Rose did with his gambling, though, he scarred the game by using PEDs, then

brazenly using them again after begging for fans to judge him on his future actions. He shamed himself and discredited a Yankees organization built over the years with so much pride by great players who came before him.

Five paragraphs that express regret and say he is sorry aren’t enough to make up for that. What Rodriguez should have done — and was invited by the Yankees to do — was hold a news confer-

ence, and this time honestly answer the questions he lied about the first time around.

Then he should declare he won’t accept the $6-million bonus in his contract for hitting the six home runs he needs to catch the great Willie Mays on the career list at 660.

Because just being mentioned in the same conversation with Mays is something for which Rodriguez should really be apologizing.

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ò Obituaries & In Memoriam ô BOB CLOUGH On February 16, 2015 Bob Clough passed away peacefully surrounded by his family.

PAT McEACHEN 1928 - 2010

Bob was born in Summerland, BC in May 1944. He spent countless hours roaming the hills with his brother Herb and best buddy Cliff. The family moved to the farm at Badger Creek when he was 10, providing him with the opportunity to explore new country, something he loved to do until the day he passed.

Bob attended Barriere High where he met and eventually married his high school sweetheart Donna in 1965. Moving to Kamloops, Bob went to work with School District 24 (73), where he stayed for 35 years until his retirement in 2001. Since his retirement he has been fishing, hunting, quading and snowmobiling with his long-time friends. Bob was at home in the wilderness and shared his love of the outdoors with his family.

Bob is survived by his loving wife Donna, sons Shawn (Carrie) and Kevin (Crystal) as well as grandson Mitch and granddaughter Georgia. He was predeceased by his parents, Chris and Florence, as well as his sister Sherrie and brother Herb.

Special thanks to Doug for his updates, Dad always looked forward to them and to Cliff for his love and support. We couldn’t have got through this without the strength of family and friends. Thank you. The family would like to thank Dr. Dong, the nurses at RIH on 4N and the staff at Hospice for your gentle care.

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It is with regret we announce the passing of long time Merritt resident, Peter Anthony Arduini at the age of 66 years on Monday, February 16, 2015. Peter is survived by his loving wife Dee and daughter Erinn (Todd). Also missing their Nonno are granddaughter, Rory, grandson, Nickolas, all of Merritt and stepgranddaughter, Chaylene of Saskatchewan.

Peter was born and raised in Kamloops, BC and was the 4th of 14 children born to Victor and Patricia Arduini. He is survived by his 8 brothers and 5 sisters, Greg (Leslie), Vicki (Jack), Tim (Marti), Paul (Sylvia), James (Emma) Tom (Jan), Mary (Bob), David (Marianne), Christopher (Mo), Teresa (Sam), Vincent (Stephanie) Catherine (Jen), and Monica (Chuck) and their families. An extended family lives throughout BC, Alberta and Ontario. He is pre-deceased by his parents.

Peter was a self-employed businessman - involved for much of his life with the family owned shoe business and later as a trusted realtor in the Merritt area. He was an avid outdoorsman, from riding his horse, Bump, to hunting and fishing in all his favorite local haunts. More recently he took up the game of golf again. Coffee with “the boys” was an important daily routine. With retirement Peter began traveling with Dee - the most memorable time being a trip to Italy. Over the years he became a wonderful cook and truly loved to entertain family and friends. His pride and joy were his grandchildren.

He reveled in their accomplishments. Nonno could always be counted on. He will be sorely missed but never forgotten.

Peter lived life to its fullest and he will continue to live on in our hearts.

A prayer vigil will be held on Friday, February 20th at 7:00 pm at Sacred Heart Church in Merritt. The Celebration of Life Mass will take place on Saturday, February 21st at 11:00 am with Father Andy officiating. Interment will follow at Pine Ridge Cemetery in Merritt, BC. In lieu of flowers, donation can be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association or a charity of choice. Condolences may also be expressed at www. merrittfuneralchapel.com

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We as a family would like to acknowledge and thank the wonderful, caring staff at Ridgeview Lodge - Baltic 2, for their kindness, caring and friendship they showed towards Mom. A Memorial Service for Mom will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, February 20 in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Dr. with Pastor Rod Killough officiating.

Should friends desire, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia , 300 - 828 West 8th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2. Flowers gratefully declined.

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Bill is survived by his loving son Bill (Chris) Dinicol and daughter Diane (Rob) Stenner as well as many relatives and friends. Missing their Papa will be Kimberly, Kevin, Stephen, Mark and Lisa. Bill also shared a special bond with his great-grandchildren Spencer and Sophia.

We wish to thank the staff and caregivers at Berwick on the Park.

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She raised five children during her working career. She enjoyed traveling, curling, golfing, bridge and oil painting. Her family was her central part of her life and she loved to cook and entertain.

Mom was a very compassionate and caring mother, grandmother, nurse and friend to all and this quality was evident throughout her life.

Bill was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on July 6, 1924 to Samuel and Marie, the youngest of six children . In World War II, Bill served as a Seaman in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1942 to 1945. After the war, Bill moved to Kamloops in 1946 to join his brothers where he worked as a locomotive engineer for the CNR for 35 years. In 1951, Bill married Jessie who was the love of his life and to whom he was very devoted throughout their 63 years of marriage. Bill was predeceased by Jessie on January 21, 2015. Bill and his father-in-law built their first home on the Northshore and later moved to Valleyview where he and Jessie raised their family and lived for 50 years. Bill was an avid gardener and continued to grow flowers and tomatoes on his balcony long after moving from his Valleyview home. Bill was also an avid golfer and skier which took him and Jessie on many holidays with their good friends the Peppers, Hicks, Hills and Browns. He also enjoyed hosting friends and family to barbecues and games of croquet and bocce. Bill was very proud of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and one of his biggest delights was spending time with them, attending their games and concerts, and watching them grow up.

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Thelma was born in Brooks, Alberta on “Canada Day” in 1922. She met “Stewy” in grade 5 in Brooks, and married Dad in April 1945, after his return from service in the Air Force. Thelma went into Nurses Training at Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary and graduated in 1944. She and dad settled in Jasper where they started their family.

Her working career included bedside nursing, private duty, as well as the school nurse in Jasper. The family moved to Kamloops in 1966 where she then worked at RIH for a number of years. She then moved into community nursing as a home care nurse and retired in 1987.

Bill passed away with family at his bedside at Berwick on the Park, Sunday February 15, 2015. He will be sadly missed but lovingly remembered by his family and friends.

March 29, 1948 February 16, 2015

As per Bob’s wishes there will be no service. In lieu of flowers donations can be given to the RIH Foundation or Hospice House.

It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing of our dear mother, Thelma, who passed away February 12, 2015 surrounded by her loving family. She was predeceased by her husband Stuart, sons Don and Barry Bruce, brother Gordon and sister Doris.

She leaves to mourn her son Earl (Shirley), daughter Valerie (Danny), daughter Colleen (Vic) and grandchildren Ryan and Laura along with several life-long friends and extended family.

WILLIAM CHARLES DINICOL

Peter Anthony Arduini

Diane Jannette Vander Meer, of Criss Creek, passed away suddenly on February 15, 2015. She was born January 24, 1949 to Donald and Dorothy Norman in Innisfail, Alberta. She was married to Dirk Vander Meer on October 30, 1965 in Golden. They have been living in Criss Creek for the last 17 years enjoying their first love, ranching.

Diane is survived by two sisters and a brother, as well as her children, Darik (Patty) Vander Meer, Kim (Brian) Stuart, Jannette Vander Meer, and Kristine (Hardey) Kennedy. She is also survived by her ten grandchildren, Chad Stuart (Heidi), Justin Stuart (Mikayla), Steven Stuart (Kaylynne), Samantha Schmitke, Alexis Hoffman, Logan Kennedy, Devin Kennedy, Tanner Kennedy, Nathan Robert Vander Meer, and Leah Diane Vander Meer.

Diane lived her life on the ranch doing what she loved while being a great mother as well as a fantastic grandmother with her trusted companion, Mac the dog, always by her side.

The Service will be held at Schoening’s Funeral Home on Wednesday, February 25 at 1:00 pm, with a tea to follow.

On line condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

HAZEL MARIAN CONROY December 1, 1928 – February 11, 2015

The family of Hazel Marian Conroy are comforted to announce that our Mother, Grandmother, and Great-Grandmother is now in the presence of her Savior and reunited with past love ones. Mom passed on just before sunrise on February 11, 2015, surrounded by her family.

Mom was born in Lethbridge, AB on December 1, 1928 to Hazel and Orland Keiver. When mom was 5, together with her older brother, Richard, the family moved to Kimberley and then on to Cranbrook, as her father was employed as a conductor with the CPR. It was in Cranbrook that mom received her schooling and grew up. In 1949 she married the boy next door, Elmer Conroy. Together they welcomed 7 children into the world. Though mom’s days were busy raising a large family she maintained a spotless home, always had fresh baking, and welcomed anyone that came through her door to join the family for a meal.

Throughout the years mom enjoyed watching her family grow and loved being a part of the lives of her many grandchildren. Mom was greatly loved by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, all of them ever jostling to be the one to sit beside her and be the benefactor of her famously popular tickling or simple stroke on their arm. She loved easily and unconditionally. Her strong family values together with her lovingly supportive nature was a base of strength for each of her children and grandchildren through life’s ups and downs.

The majority of mom’s life spent in Cranbrook impacted the lives of those in her family, church and neighborhood with her love, faith, and ever ready willingness to help those in need. Throughout her life, her deeply compassionate nature was displayed in the many loaves, muffins, cookies and cakes she lovingly baked for others. She had a quick and humorous wit, welcoming spirit and people always felt at home around her. She was a woman of faith, and you never left her presence without a prayer or blessing.

Mom moved from Cranbrook to Kamloops in 2011 where she was welcomed by two of her daughters and their families. She initially resided at Berwick on the Park, and then more recently at Ridgeview Lodge.

Mom was predeceased by her husband, Elmer in 1999, and brother Richard in 1993. She is survived by her children: Robert (Penny) Conroy, Richard (Catherine) Conroy, Susan (Ron) Olynyk, Joanne (John) Young, Garry (Jacqui) Conroy, Diane (Gordon) Mamen, Shannon (Greg) Nash: as well as 17 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

Mom’s life will be celebrated on Saturday, February 21 at 2:00 pm at McPherson Funeral Chapel, 2200 2nd St. S. Cranbrook, BC with Pastor Ron Short officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: Wings as Eagles Ministry, 3331 21 St N., Cranbrook, BC V1C 6E5 The family would like to thank Dr. Bantock and the staff at Ridgeview Lodge for the outstanding care and love given to Marian.

Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service in Cranbrook, BC Condolences for the family can be offered at: www.mcphersonfh.com

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NO DEFLATION FROM LOW OIL BUT CANADIAN INFLATION COULD DIP BELOW ZERO AS PRICE SLUMP CONTINUES SAYS BANK OF CANADA ANDY BLATCHFORD

THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA The turbulence of the global oil slump could briefly nudge Canadian inflation into negative territory, but the Bank of Canada sees no reason to worry about outright deflation, one of its senior officials said yesterday, Feb. 19.

Deputy governor Agathe Cote tried to get ahead of any concerns that could surface if the annual rate dips below zero this spring, saying true deflation would only follow a sustained period of widespread price declines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rest assured â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if inflation turns negative for some time that would not constitute deflation,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cote said in prepared remarks of a speech she delivered in Mont-Tremblant, Que., north of Montreal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When inflation expectations are solidly anchored, as is now the case in Canada, there is no reason to fear deflation.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cote cautioned a sub-zero scenario could happen in the second quarter of 2015, as cheap oil continues to push down on inflation.

Last month, the central bank predicted the annual inflation rate would hit 0.3 per cent for the same quarter before climbing back up to 1.9 per cent at the

start of 2016.

The latest Statistics Canada estimate for inflation found the effects of cheaper oil had already helped bump the annual rate down to 1.5 per cent in December.

Coteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks also came as the Bank of Canada prepares for its next scheduled interest-rate announcement on March 4.

The central bank surprised markets in January by cutting its key interest rate to 0.75 per cent from one per cent.

Bank governor Stephen Poloz said the move was needed as insurance for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;unambiguously negativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; impact that falling oil prices will have on the economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That [interest-rate] decision will be based on a careful examination of how the economy, and the risks, are evolving,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cote said.

The bank tries to keep inflation close to an ideal two per cent target and it can adjust its trendsetting interest rate to help the economy hit that bullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye.

Many analysts are expecting Poloz to shave another quarter point off the rate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While Cote cited the potential for negative inflation more as a risk than a certain eventuality, the talk about a dip below zero could further reinforce already entrenched expectations of a

further cut,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; CIBC senior economist Peter Buchanan wrote in a note to clients.

The price of oil has fallen sharply since last summer when it traded for more than US$100 a barrel. The benchmark price has been around US$50 in recent weeks, but dipped below US$45 last month.

Cote listed positive offsets from the current conditions such as a stronger U.S. economy and the weakened Canadian dollar, which is expected to help exporters.

But, she noted many of the negative effects on growth by low oil prices have been swift.

There are fears in Europe of deflation, which can be destructive for an economy and can be a difficult cycle to escape.

As the costs of goods and services start to fall, deflation can encourage consumers to hold off making purchases with the expectation prices will tumble further.

In her speech, Cote also announced the Bank of Canada had created a new quarterly survey to measure economic expectations of households, including their thoughts on inflation.

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OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dozens of gravely ill or financiallystrapped Canadians denied Canada Pension Plan disability benefits were refused accelerated appeals in 2014 by Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s badly backlogged social security tribunal.

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His predecessor, Jason Kenney, announced a plan earlier this month to wipe out the backlog within months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We agree that the backlog is unacceptable,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Poilievre said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are using experts within the department to review all of the cases that are under appeal to see if we can settle as many of them as humanly possible so that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have to go before the tribunal at all.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Richard Beaulne, a spokesman for the tribunal, called it an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unfortunate realityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; that most appellants experience financial hardship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the tribunal would consider expediting such cases where the appellants are able to show exceptional financial hardship sufficient to justify assigning their case ahead of other appellants,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he said in an email.

The written responses also reveal that only three of the 63 people currently assigned to hear CPP disability cases are health-care professionals.

Under the old system, one person on each three-member panel had to be a health-care professional to ensure that appellants with disabilities received a fair hearing from someone who understood medical evidence.

Other responses show that the tribunalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backlog currently stands at 11,230 cases. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 24 per cent increase since February 2014.

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LINDSAY, Ont. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; As a Crown prosecutor sought to have Dean Del Mastro jailed up to a year for his campaign overspending convictions, the former Conservative MPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer vehemently argued the penalty would be far too harsh for a case he claimed did not involve electoral fraud.

The spirited submissions were made yesterday (Feb. 19) at a sentencing hearing for Del Mastro, who was found guilty last fall of violating the Canada Elections Act during the 2008 campaign.

The Crown said it was essential that the former politicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s punishment deliver a clear message. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing less than a period of imprisonment of nine to 12 months would adequately reflect the gravity of the offences and the degree of his responsibility,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said prosecutor Tom Lemon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moreover, anything less than real jail would fall short of properly denouncing his conduct and adequately deterring him and others from committing these or similar offences.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lemon also asked that Del Mastro be required to pay $10,000 to the Peterborough Conservative Party Electoral District Association to reimburse money he â&#x20AC;&#x153;fraudulently obtained from themâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; for a contract with a data consulting firm.

Del Mastro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Prime Minister Stephen Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-time point man on defending the Tories against allegations of electoral fraud â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has maintained his innocence throughout his trial, and even called the judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s verdict her â&#x20AC;&#x153;opinion.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That adamant refusal to accept his convictions has made a sentence involving jail time all the more necessary, Lemon argued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Del Mastro does not seem to get the consequences of his actions and what he was convicted of, and the seriousness of those actions,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lemon said.

Del Mastro was consequently not a candidate for a rehabilitative sentence, Lemon said, and a discharge â&#x20AC;&#x153;is not even close to being on the radar.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Crownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arguments were challenged by Del Mastroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer, who repeatedly said time behind bars was far too heavy a penalty for his client. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no prior judicial decision that says jail is the penalty that ought to be imposed for overspending under the Canada Elections Act,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Del Mastroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer Leo Adler said firmly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes no difference how many different ways the Crown tries to say it, this is not a case of election fraud.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Adler contended that a discharge in the case was a possibility and said Del Mastro was not likely to commit such offences again as he was no longer an MP. Del Mastro was found guilty of exceeding spending limits, failing to report a personal contribution of $21,000 to his own campaign and knowingly submitting a falsified document.

He faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine on each of the three convictions.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Canadian Press

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THEATRE: 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS, collaboration of Western Canada Theatre and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra with duelling pianists, Sagebrush Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets at Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

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Q&A with Sam Roberts â&#x20AC;&#x153;

MARTY HASTINGS

Before we ever got a record deal, we got a rejection letter . . . . I kept the rejection letter.

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Six-time Juno Award-winner Sam Roberts will be at Interior Savings Centre on Thursday, Feb. 26.

The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

KTW reporter Marty Hastings caught up with him before the show.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wildest concert youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever played at?

SR: Definitely SARStock 2003 in Toronto.

There was more people in one place than Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen in my life.

Every great band you could think of was on the stage with you that day, including the Rolling Stones and ACDC and The Guess Who and Rush and it was also about 40 degrees celsius.

They had this tent.

People at concerts think they never have to drink water.

They start pounding the booze first thing.

The tent looked like a scene out of mash.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the greatest compliment youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever received?

SR: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard one because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take them that well.

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I have have a tendency to just blush and mumble, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thank you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing greater than when somebody says a song that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written in your basement alone has somehow found its way into their world and affected them in the same way that music affects my life.

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of a greater compliment.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your biggest pet peeve about the media?

SR: I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the urge, or itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become the culture, to have to define things.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not comfortable writing about something unless they can fit it in a nice tidy box. I find that, especially with music, so counterproductive.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the few limitless things that we have. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our imagination and our creativity, so why this urge to have to categorize and

describe everything to the most minute detail?

I feel like that eventually starts to sink into the songwriter and you stifle something without limits.

it in.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your favourite venue?

SR: The Commodore in Vancouver. It was the Spectrum in Montreal, but that is no more.

KTW: What was the most discouraging moment of career?

SR: Before we ever got a record deal, we got a rejection letter from Murderecords out in Halifax courtesy of a band that I looked up to so much and I still do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sloan.

I kept the rejection letter.

Ultimately, it proved to be a galvanizing moment, but there was disappointment that they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the crappy four-track demos I sent them on a cassette were worth what I thought they were worth.

As a young musician, you have your towel in hand at all times, ready to throw

KTW: Which upand-coming Canadian bands do you like?

SR: There are so many, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to single them out.

I like The Strumbellas, Royal Canoe. Those are two that stick out right now, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m missing a bunch.

KTW: What would your last meal be?

SR: Definitely chicken curry. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go out with heartburn.

KTW: After The Inhuman Condition, with Brother Down and Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Walk Away Eileen, what was the feeling like to know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d made it?

SR: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never

allowed myself the luxury, even for a moment, of feeling as though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made it.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dangerous state of mind when you make music. The lead up to that point had been so long in the making.

When we did sort of break through, we realized that had been the easy part, the 10-year preamble, and the real challenge is to continue to make opportunities and hold onto the reins.

As long as you maintain that feeling, that this thing could blow up in your face at any given moment, I think you make better decisions, when it comes to planning out your career and life in music and, also, the creative fire never seems to go out.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your biggest regret?

SR: No regrets, right?

No, although I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trade in the fact that we came into our own when we were about 27, I would love to have things start a little bit sooner, as far as being out there and touring and being a part of the music business before it became the giant question mark it is now.

The music business

in the last 10 years has been in a constant state of flux.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so unpredictable all the time.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a lot of bands, really talented people, come and go and not able to make this their life.

We need bands that can go the distance.

What makes it compelling is to see that arc, from the beginning to the end, but then you see bands fizzling out because they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep themselves going.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfortunate.

Had we started a few years earlier, in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, it would have been great to be part of that, when there were more bands who were in the thick of it for longer.

always feel every single kilometre.

Having a family at home, yes, I want to get back to them as soon as possible but, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be out there and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be far way and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play a show, make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play the best damn show you can play, otherwise youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing them a disservice.

KTW: What can you tell me about the new album, Lo-Fantasy?

SR: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very rythmic record.

The music was written with rythmn in mind just as much as melody. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly becoming a part of our musical vision as a band.

KTW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your favourite part about being on the road?

SR: Coming home.

I have three kids.

There was a time when we would leave to go on tour when it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really matter when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come home.

Of course Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d miss my brother and my parents. Even then, my wife could come and travel with us.

You didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the sense you were leaving anything.

Now, when you leave a family at home and small kids, you

KTW: Do you have any connection to Kamloops?

SR: Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been up there a couple of times.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a growing relationship. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still getting to know each other.

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rew and Danielle McTaggart have had television moments in the past.

They’ve appeared on CTV’s Canada AM and had spots during televised NHL games.

But the duo, who are known musically as Dear Rouge, are still on a high from their recent gig in Prince George, performing during the opening ceremonies of the 2015 Canada Games — and having their set broadcast across the country.

“We had such a good time,” Danielle said.

“Our show that night was also awesome. We’ve played Prince George before and have lots of fans who came out.”

Add on the fact that, for the first time since they formed in 2009, Danielle and husband Drew have a team doing all the jobs they’ve done in the past while on the road — it all adds up to a good time for the 2012 Peak Performance Project winners of the $102,700 top prize.

“We’re feeling free and excited,” she said.

“We’re free now and can focus on the music.”

They’re opening for the Arkells, who bring the tour to Kamloops on Monday, Feb. 23,

at Cactus Jack’s Night Club.

And, on March 30, the band will see its first full album, Black to Gold — another change from their past experience putting out two extendedplay discs to help build their audience.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish without having an album out there,” Danielle said, noting single-song purchases are a realistic part of the music industry.

“But it’s too bad because you want people to hear your art as a full package.”

She said being married to your musical partner is a bit of a juggling act.

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Drew studied business at university so is comfortable with that side of the partnership but he’s creative, too, Danielle said.

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During the winter months, conventional hot mix is not available and holes must be temporarily filled using a hot recycled asphalt mix or a cold mix material.

Unfortunately the repaired potholes are susceptible to the same freeze thaw cycle and at times require to be filled repeatedly until a more permanent repair can be scheduled in the spring when asphalt plants open up.

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It was the message Canadian country artist Dallas Smith left on Twitter after his recent performance in Kamloops.

The singer-songwriter, best known as former frontman for the rock band Default, played to a packed house at Sagebrush Theatre on Feb. 10, with opening acts Petric and Charlie Worsham.

Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online comment and others came after a run-in with security during the show.

Fans had flocked to the front of the stage during Worshamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance, only to be ordered back to their seats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leave it to Kamloops to not let people dance at concerts,â&#x20AC;? wrote one

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attendee on Twitter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think [Dallas Smith] is going to appreciate security making everyone sit down during his concert,â&#x20AC;? wrote another.

When Smith took the stage, security and theatre staff did not enforce the rules.

The damage, however, was done.

Worsham joined the online grumbles: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good news folks . . there WILL be legalized public dancing for Dallasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set tonight. #betterlatethanneverâ&#x20AC;?

Others moaned a about it the next day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a concert.

P People want to dance,â&#x20AC;? o told me simply. one Rob Warwick of R Rock It Boy entertainm ment, promoter of the s show, told KTW the t theatre has a policy a about people rushing the stage.

Lori Marchand, general manager for Western Canada Theatre, which operates the facility, said front of house staff are responsible for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;safety and comfortâ&#x20AC;? of patrons and that any actions taken by staff would have been for those reasons.

Dancing apparently interrupted that starchy mandate.

It was not unlike another concert experience at the venue.

Canadian rockers The Trews visited Kamloops for an acoustic show at Sagebrush a few years

back and vowed to come back at a venue that serves beer.

The group honoured that pledge this past fall, returning to the city, this time at Cactus Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night Club.

Front-stage concertgoers were within a few feet of a watering hole and lead singer Colin MacDonald at any given time.

I attended that show and, judging by the crowd, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing it added something the band felt was lacking at Sagebrush â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the atmosphere of a rock concert.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written about the quality of shows at Cactus Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the past.

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So, Dallas Smith fans shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have expected to see a young and high-energy performer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one that rocked the much larger Interior Savings Centre just last summer with Florida Georgia Line â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a venue that discourages drinking and dancing.

Is it up to attendees to predict performances based on the venue?

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Film explores persecution TRU THEATRE, AS YOU LIKE IT of Bahai community in Iran BRIEFS DALE BASS

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hen Missagh Manshadi graduated from high school, his goal was to go to post-secondary education.

To do that, however, meant not just leaving home but leaving his homeland.

The reason?

Manshadi is a member of the Bahai faith, a religion that sees its followers persecuted in his native Iran.

“I chose Canada,” Manshadi said, ending up in Saskatchewan in the early 1980s, where he studied pharmacy.

“I escaped Iran as a religious refugee and I haven’t been back.”

It’s been more than 30 years since the Iranian government started its campaign to bar its citizens who follow the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh from attending university or being considered for a government job.

Hundreds have been killed in that time, many more arrested and imprisoned.

Shops owned by Bahai followers have been shut down by the government or have been

vandalized.

To combat the educational restriction, Bahai professors fired from their teaching positions created a hidden distance-learning program for students.

Other universities supported it, accepting graduates from the virtual university into their own post-graduate programs.

The Iranian government keeps hunting it down, trying to destroy it.

Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari learned of the Bahai Institute for Higher Learning when he was also sent to prison in Iran for four months in 2009, arrested while covering protests against the election going on that year in Iran.

He faced 11 espionage charges, was accused of being a spy for the CIA, Mossad and the British secret service but was eventually released on $300,000 bail and left the country.

Bahari wrote a memoir on the experience, which was later used as the basis of the movie Rosewater.

The Jon Stewart-directed movie is part of the Kamloops Film Festival this year, scheduled to be shown on Tuesday,

March 10.

On Friday, Feb. 27, a documentary Bahari created about the way the Bahai community in Iran is persecuted — and, in particular, tells the stories of people involved with the educational institute.

It includes secret film shot in Iran as well as letters from some of those imprisoned due to their involvement with the educational institute.

Kamloops is one of 85 communities in which the documentary will be shown.

The local Bahai community, along with the university faculty association’s human-rights committee and the Kamloops Immigrant Society, will present it in Room 1020 of the International Building on campus.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for refreshments and live music.

The film starts at 5 p.m. and a question-and-answer session follows.

There is no admission and no donations will be accepted.

Although Feb. 27 is the official release date for the documentary, John Sargent, a local Bahai follower, has seen it.

He said it “shows the hope Bahais still have while struggling to educate their children.”

He said the message he took from it was “a sense of hope.”

As You Like It will be presented by the Thompson Rivers University Actors Workshop this month.

The Shakespearean romantic comedy tells the story of Rosalind, who flees to a forest, dresses as a man and deals with a motley band of characters.

The play is at the Black Box Theatre in the Old Main Building from Feb. 26 to Feb. 28 and from March 5 to March 7, all performances beginning at 7:30 p.m.

There are also matinees on Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. and March 6 at 11:30 a.m.

Tickets are $14 and are available at the theatre box office or at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

For more information, call 250-377-6100.

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featured acts at the next Barnhartvale Coffee House evening of music.

The Salmon Arm duo released their first CD, Pathways, in 2013 and are working on new songs and covers for their next release.

The couple performs old-time, traditional, gospel, bluegrass, folk and roots.

They are scheduled to perform on Saturday, March 21.

Doors open at 7 p.m., the music starts at 7:30 p.m. and, as always, there is an open-mic segment for other musicians to take the stage.

Admission is $5 for all but open-mic performers and children 12 and younger, who are admitted for free.

The hall is seven kilometres east of the Dallas PetroCan

gas station.

For more information on the Stephensons, go online to ljstephensonmusic. com.

Have your influence

Local events planner Judy Basso is looking for authors to contribute to her book The Ripple Effect of Your Influence.

The project is a collection of stories on how a person’s influence has a ripple effect.

Those who think they may have a story but aren’t interested in writing about it can contact her. If the story is accepted, it will be written for them.

For more information, email Basso at jbassoevents@gmail. com or call 250-8515247.

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Deadline to submit is March 6, with the winners shown during the film festival on March 8 at 1 p.m. For more information on KISS, go online to kissfest.ca.

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The first class of caste students in Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history undertake the national high school graduation exams as a means to a brighter future for themselves and their families. â&#x20AC;˘ Still Alice, Friday, March 6, 7 p.m., directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, a U.S.France drama, 101 minutes.

A renowned linguistics professor struggles to maintain her mind and self after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, in this adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel. â&#x20AC;˘ Citizen Four, Saturday, March 7, 1 p.m., directed by Laura Poitras, a GermanyU.S. documentary in English, Portuguese and German with subtitles, 114 minutes.

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. â&#x20AC;˘ Shana: The Wolf â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music, Saturday, March

Ticket info: â&#x20AC;˘ Adult tickets are $10, seniors and students tickets are $8. TRU students can buy tickets for $5 with a valid TRU student identification card. â&#x20AC;˘ Festival closing party tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. â&#x20AC;˘ Tickets will be available in the next couple of weeks. â&#x20AC;˘ Purchases of six to nine tickets gets a $1 per ticket discount; for purchases of 10 or more, the discount is $2 per ticket. â&#x20AC;˘ New this year are full festival passes on lanyards for $99. â&#x20AC;˘ Regular tickets, full festival passes and party tickets will be available at Moviemart, 444 St. Paul St., and at the TRU student desk in the Campus Activity Centre. Tickets will also be available at the Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St., one hour before each screening.

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by Nino Jacusso, a Canada-Switzerland drama (with parts filmed in Merritt), 96 minutes.

A coming-of-age story about a Canadian aboriginal girl who is a very gifted musician.

But, to bring her violin to sing, she must follow the wolf. â&#x20AC;˘ Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Saturday, March 7, 7 p.m., directed by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, an Israel-GermanyFrance drama in Hebrew, French and Arabic with English subtitles, 115 minutes.

An Israeli woman seeking to finalize a divorce from her estranged husband finds herself effectively put on trial by her countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious marriage laws, in this powerhouse courtroom drama. â&#x20AC;˘ Leviathan, Sunday, March 8, 3 p.m., directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, a Russian drama in Russian with English subtitles, 140 minutes.

In a Russian coastal town, Nikolai is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits his old army friend to help, but the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family. â&#x20AC;˘ Mommy, Sunday, March 8, 7 p.m., directed by Xavier Dolan, a Canadian drama in English and French with English subtitles, 139 minutes.

Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official submission to the

87th Academy Awards foreign film category, tells the story of a feisty widowed single mom who finds herself burdened with the fulltime custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD son. â&#x20AC;˘ Maps to the Stars, Monday, March 9, 7 p.m., directed by David Cronenberg, a CanadaU.S.-German-France drama, 111 minutes.

A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the ghosts of their pasts. â&#x20AC;˘ Rosewater, Tuesday, March 10, 7 p.m., directed by Jon Stewart, a U.S. biography/drama, 103 minutes.

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy. â&#x20AC;˘ Mountain Men, Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m., directed

by Cameron Labine, a Canadian comedy, 90 minutes.

Mountain Men is a comedy/drama that follows two estranged brothers, Toph and Cooper, as they journey to a remote family cabin in the mountains to evict a squatter. â&#x20AC;˘ Two Days, One Night, Thursday, March 12, 7 p.m., directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, a Belgium-France-Italy drama in French and Arabic with English subtitles, 95 minutes.

Sandra, a Belgian mother, discovers her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for

her dismissal.

She has only one weekend to convince colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. â&#x20AC;˘ Big News From Grand Rock, Friday, March 13, 7 p.m., directed by Daniel Perlmutter, a Canadian comedy, 87 minutes.

The story of a small town newspaper that is facing bankruptcy.

To attract advertisers and readership, the editor invents stories based on old movies, with hilarious results.

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Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obstacles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. â&#x20AC;˘ Winter Sleep, Saturday, March 14, 3 p.m., directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a TurkeyFrance-Germany drama in English and Turkish with English subtitles, 196 minutes.

Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his sister Necla, who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities. â&#x20AC;˘ When the Ocean Met the Sky, Saturday, March 14, 7 p.m., directed by Lukas Huffman, a CanadaU.S. comedy-drama, 96 minutes.

Three estranged brothers must journey to a remote location in order to receive their inheritance due to a stipulation in their parents will.

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WHERE THERE’S A WILL UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF A COMPREHENSIVE ESTATE PLAN Why is it important to have a comprehensive estate plan, including a will? To ensure a simple, tax-efficient and organized transfer of your assets to loved ones when you’re gone.

An estate plan can be essential for organizing your financial affairs and providing for the well-being of your family members.

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When you start developing your estate plan, there’s a lot to think about. You want to live your life to the fullest and, at the same time, ensure your heirs will get the most out of the assets you’re setting aside for them.

As a starting point, here are some of the basics you’ll need to consider.

YOUR WILL A will is a legally enforceable declaration of how a person wishes his or her property to be distributed after death. A will can be quick and easy to produce and will generally cover the following: • Naming the executor – the individual(s) or organization chosen to administer the estate; if you die without a will (referred to as “dying intestate”), the province where you reside will step in to administer your estate and, in this case, you’ve essentially forfeited your say on how things are divided and who is in charge of the process • Naming beneficiaries of the estate (immediate or extended family, institutions, etc.)

• Get advice on setting up a trust to ensure your beneficiaries are well looked after • Give gifts of cash or possessions while you are still alive • Consider charitable donations to create valuable tax benefits • Buy life insurance that is paid out to a named beneficiary on a tax-free basis • Restructure investments with insurance companies so assets can bypass your estate

SPEAK WITH YOUR ADVISOR The reassurance of having a strategy in place to preserve the value of your estate for loved ones is something to value. After all, why pay if you don’t have to? Work with your advisor to determine what exactly is in your estate, and then devise your plan.

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REDUCING TAXES We all know the old cliché that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but how much do we really know about taxes after death?

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ACCIDENT? PROVING YOUR LOST EARNING ABILITY

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ave you been hurt in a car crash or other accident through someone else’s fault? Has this cut into your ability to earn income? You may be entitled to compensation.

As the injured person, you have to prove that your income earning capacity is less. In a recent case, our B.C. Court of Appeal discussed the right approach when assessing this kind of compensation and the evidence the court will consider.

Janet (name changed), 31, was hurt in a car accident in 2009. She had just obtained her law degree and was articling (a kind of apprenticeship for recent law graduates). She suffered shoulder injuries which, at the trial four years later, still caused her pain during many activities.

Her injuries also meant she could only work at about 70% of the level of a full-time private practice lawyer, given all the stresses, demands and deadlines of a full-time practice. But she could still pursue other careers in law – possibly as an academic after getting a Ph.D. The trial judge decided her future lost earning ability was $300,000.

The defendant challenged this.

But the appeal court said the trial judge correctly decided Janet’s compensation. Income earning capacity is a capital asset. Where that asset is impaired, as a starting point it’s appropriate to look at the average income of the class of workers to which the injured person belongs. That should be proved to the court by expert evidence.

In Janet’s case, an economist gave a report on the incomes of a class of roughly equivalent female lawyers in B.C., using the best available statistics. The court said this sort of statistical data was routinely used by economic experts.

Then, said the appeal court, appropriate adjustments should be made, based on the circumstances of the injured person.

For example, Janet had been interested in environmental, immigration and Aboriginal law or perhaps working in a non-profit organization. Do lawyers in these careers earn less money than, say, lawyers who do business law? Would Janet have earned less than the “average” lawyer in her class?

The defendant argued that lawyers working in a government-funded environmental law clinic might make $60,000 a year on average – less than other lawyers in B.C. None of these points were proved, however, by the defendant.

The Court of Appeal said it needed to be cautious about arbitrarily deducting for a “negative contingency,” especially as there was no evidence to support the deduction.

It said: “She was not yet settled in a career. It was not an error, in my view, for the judge to start the assessment on the footing that her career path was likely to resemble that of any other female practicing law in British Columbia and that her pre-injury earning capacity was unlikely to be significantly above or below average.”

The appeal court therefore did not change the $300,000 compensation award made by the trial judge for Janet’s reduced earning capacity.

If you are hurt in an accident, you should see a lawyer.

Written by Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s with contribution by Gillespie & Company LLP. This column provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact Gillespie & Company LLP at 250.374.4463 or info@kamloopslawyers.com for legal advice concerning your particular case.

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• Music: Howard Mitchell, featured act at the Barnhartvale Coffee House.

Opens at 7 p.m., music starts at 7:30 p.m.

Features an openmic session.

Admission is free for performers and children younger than 12 and is $5 for everyone else.

Located seven kilometres east of the intersection of Dallas Drive and Barnhartvale Road.

• Music: Me and Mae, live at the Dirty Jersey, 8 p.m.

• Music: Just So, Kamloops Symphony Chamber musicians and Alan Corbishley live at TRU Alumni Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

More info: kamloopssymphony.com.

• Theatre: One Act Showcase, thirdannual event held by Kamloops Players, 8 p.m., at The Stage House Theatre, 422 Tranquille Rd. Tickets are $10 at the door.

• Theatre: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, collaboration of Western Canada

free computer course at the North Kamloops Library, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

Pre-register by calling 250-554-1124.

• Workshop: Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, free computer course at the Kamloops Library, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Preregister by calling 250372-5145.

Sunday, Feb. 22

• Theatre: One Act Showcase, third annual event held by Kamloops Players, 2 p.m., at The Stage House Theatre, 422 Tranquille Rd. Tickets are $10 at the door.

• Social: Chinese Food Potluck, meet and greet with Fun Laughter Friends, 5 p.m. Email laugh2014@ shaw.ca.

Monday, Feb. 23

Tereza Tomek will be performing at the Art We Are on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m.

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• Music: Arkells, 19-plus show live at Cactus Jacks, 130 Fifth Ave. Tickets are $25 in advance and will be $30 at the door.

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• Art: Open Studio with Michael Markowsky, free, all ages event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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LISTINGS Every Tuesday until March 10, space open to members of the public for variety of activities. No registration required.

• Theatre: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, collaboration of Western Canada Theatre and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra with duelling pianists, Sagebrush Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

House in Riverside Park. All are welcome.

More info: 250-3725679 • Pub Trivia, held at Bailey’s Pub, 1050 Eighth St., 7:30 p.m.

Includes prizes.

• Music: Sam Roberts Band, at Interior Savings Centre.

Tickets start at $35 and are available from Ticketmaster, ISC box

office or by calling 1-855-985-5000.

• Kamloops Travel Club meeting, featuring G-Adventures presentation with a focus on East Africa. Includes

pictures, video and information.

All are welcome.

Free admission.

Bring refreshments to share if possible, 7 p.m. at Days Inn.

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• Theatre: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, collaboration of Western Canada Theatre and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra with duelling pianists, Sagebrush Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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• Art: Kamloops Photo Arts Club, weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Henry Grube Centre, 245 Kitchener Cres., Room 1B. More info: 250-372-1778.

• Theatre: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, collaboration of Western Canada Theatre and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra with duelling pianists, Sagebrush Theatre, 8 p.m.

Tickets from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

• Kamloops Garden Club, free lesson on how to start bedding plants from seed, 7 p.m. in the upper level of the Heritage House in Riverside Park.

• Film: The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People, at the Alumni Theatre at TRU. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., film starts at 7 p.m. It will be followed by a panel discussion and question period.

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• Kamloops Family History Society meeting, takes place on the fourth Thursday of each month (not including June, July, August, and December) from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Heritage

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Starting to compost at home helps reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills.

Xeriscaping our properties reduces water usage.

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Big change starts with small steps.

Protecting our environment and our health is something we all can do.

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The annual Twin Rivers Education Centre Wellness Expo will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the North Shore school.

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EGYPT UNDER ALď&#x161;şSISI TERRORISM HELPS DISTRACT AT HOME

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he Islamic State franchise in Libya, which is emerging as the main winner in that countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chaotic civil war, published a video on Sunday, Feb. 15, showing 21 Egyptian men in orange overalls being forced to the ground and beheaded.

The video made it clear they were killed for being Christian â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church.â&#x20AC;?

Within hours, the Egyptian air force responded with raids on ISIL camps and training sites in Derna, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters in eastern Libya.

Announcing the safe return of all the aircraft, the Egyptian military authorities declared: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them.â&#x20AC;?

But it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really protect them, did it?

OK, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not fair.

Everybody knows you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t protect people once they fall into the hands of the jihadi head-choppers.

An air force is a particularly unsuitable tool for that job, nor can anyone stop unemployed Egyptian labourers from seeking work in war-torn Libya.

Most of the victims came from a dirt-poor Christian village in upper Egypt and they had to feed their families somehow.

So, the Islamic State fanatics murdered them because that is effective propaganda for a certain demographic from where they are seeking recruits.

Then the Egyptian air force flailed out aimlessly and the public-relations boys wrote the usual guff about the air force being a shield for the people.

So far, so tediously normal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but, the whole event also serves the narrative of

GWYNNE DYER

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WATCH the Egyptian military regime.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not supposed to call it a military regime.

The military coup (with substantial popular support) that overthrew the elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in July 2013 was allegedly just a brief detour from democracy.

However, the commander of the armed forces, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, ended up as president and the promised parliamentary elections have still not happened.

Why not?

The main excuse Egyptians are offered is that the government is too busy fighting the huge terrorist threat Egypt faces.

And, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention the terrorism is largely the regimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own fault or that the threat is not so big that normal political life must be suspended.

People who say that have featured prominently among the 40,000 who have been arrested since July 2013, with 16,000 are still in prison.

What happened in Egypt 20 months ago was a betrayal of the democratic revolution of February 2011, when peaceful demonstrators forced former leader Hosni Mubarak out of the presidency after 30 years in power.

Few of the urban, relatively well-educated revolutionaries on Tahrir Square supported the Muslim Brotherhood, but they should not have been surprised when it won the first free election.

Ninety per cent of

Egyptians are Muslims and most of them are deeply conservative, rural people.

They remembered that the Muslim Brotherhood had been Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main opposition party during the decades of dictatorship.

They shared many of its values and many of them had benefited from its social programs for the poor.

They reckoned the Brotherhood deserved the first go in power and gave it their votes.

More secular people were appalled when a Muslim Brotherhooddominated constituent assembly amended the constitution to give it a more religious slant, although the changes were not actually all that extreme.

They forgot that, in a democracy, you can change the government by voting it out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you just have to wait for the next election.

Victory in the first post-revolution election was a poisoned apple for the Brotherhood.

Every day its behaviour in power was alienating more people.

The economy was a wreck (and still is).

But, it was not making irreversible changes in Egypt, so the right strategy was to wait it out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then vote it out.

Instead, the naive and impatient revolutionaries made an alliance with the army to drive the elected government from power.

Did they think the army, despite 60 years of military dictators in Egypt, was a secret ally of democracy?

So, al-Sisi accepted their support, took over the government in 2013 and put President Morsi in jail.

Shortly afterwards, he began putting the revolutionaries in jail too.

But, al-Sisi needs some excuse for destroying Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s democratic revolution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the excuse

What â&#x20AC;&#x153;happened

in Egypt 20 months ago was a betrayal of the democratic revolution of February 2011.

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is terrorism, the bigger the better.

He declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and, when tens of thousands of nonviolent supporters of the Brotherhood established a protest camp in Rabaa Square in Cairo, he cleared it by force, killing at least 627 people by the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own count.

Human Rights Watch has documented at least 817 deaths and suspects there were more than a thousand.

It was, said a Human Rights Watch report last August, a premeditated assault equal to or worse than the massacre of Chinese protesters on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.

The purpose, as in 1989, was to cow the population into submission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it is working in Egypt as well as it did in China.

But, a bit of terrorism also helps to distract attention at home and abroad from what actually happened in Egypt.

Even before the ghastly slaughter of innocent Egyptians in Libya on Sunday, the U.S. Congress had put military aid to Egypt back into this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget proposal.

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The trouble with private religious schools WE SHOULD OBJECT TO BEING FORCED TO FUND TEACHING OF MYTHS

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recently heard an announcement of a new religious school opening in Kamloops.

Apparently, the school curriculum will be based on three things — facts, logic and rhetoric.

So, how does a fundamentalist Christian school get around the fact its religious beliefs are entirely devoid of the first two items on the list?

It’s easy — just forget about the facts and the logic and go with the dogma, written down 2,000 years ago by illiterate peasants.

Let’s not get too concerned about the fact these schools sap some $249 million of your tax money every year.

How about the

BILL LIGERTWOOD

Rational

THOUGHTS minor issue of teaching children to base their lives on myths and fantasies?

How about the issue of filling — or, more to the point, indoctrinating — young minds with absurd ideas about the universe and the world around them?

How about teaching children in a science class that the Earth is

less than 10,000 years old?

Modern science has opened up the entire universe for us to look at.

We know how life evolved on our planet and we know where we came from.

We know we are all — from the tiniest insect to the largest animals to human beings — interconnected.

We are all made from the same stuff.

We are all descended from the stars.

The mythical stories of creation and floods and eating apples are just that — mythical stories that have no place in a publicly funded education system.

I have no problem with people passing such stories on to their

children, but I must object to the fact I am forced to help pay for it.

If making sure your kids are not actually taught facts or logic is important to you, perhaps you should pay the entire bill.

The time has long since passed when the rest of us should be forced to finance these extremist enterprises.

To quote Gallileo: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Bill Ligertwood is director of the Kamloops Centre for Rational Thought. kcfrt.com

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FAITH

The case against tithing at church

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ost Christian churches agree that Old Covenant laws don’t apply today.

However, there is one regulation many insist on retaining — the one that requires people to hand over one-tenth of their incomes.

The practice of relinquishing this “tithe” is referred to as “tithing.”

Paid pastors who teach their congregations that God requires them to tithe are actually in a conflict-of-interest situation since they stand to benefit through salaries and pensions.

One can’t help but wonder whether the need for a steady income might influence a preacher’s doctrinal position.

However, let us set that thorny issue aside and resolve the matter based on sola scriptura (scripture alone). We should briefly review the history of tithing in the Old Testament before determining whether it is supported in the New Testament.

During the enormous period from the creation story to the founding of the Old Covenant, the Bible mentions tithing only twice.

In Genesis 14, we find Abraham recovering property recently stolen from the people of Sodom.

However, before returning it to its rightful owners, he diverts one-tenth to a priest named Melchizedek.

The text reveals nothing about where he got the idea for this decision.

Nowhere in Genesis is tithing commanded.

Two generations later, Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, promised he would give God one-tenth of whatever he received (see Genesis 28:20-22).

Why Jacob suddenly felt compelled to surrender 10 per

MICHAEL FENEMORE

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cent of his increase is also a mystery.

To whom would he give his tithe?

The text is silent.

It would be quite a stretch to claim that the sketchy details of these ancient examples prove Christians must tithe to their church.

When the Old Covenant was established, tithing on farm produce was formally introduced as a national taxation system to support the

Levitical priesthood, finance religious festivals and subsidize the poor and unfortunate (see Leviticus 27:3033; Numbers 18:21-24; Deuteronomy 14:2229).

However, the entire Old Covenant has been superseded by the New Covenant, which does not require tithing.

No command to tithe is ever restated in the New Testament.

Probably the best argument for tithing is found in 1 Corinthians 9:13-14, where the apostle Paul claims Jesus said those proclaiming the gospel should get their living from those receiving it the “same way” the Levites did (NRSV unless otherwise noted).

Does the “same way” mean tithing?

Apparently not.

In Acts 15:19-29, Paul lists his only

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requirements for new converts — and tithing is not mentioned.

In some modern churches, being approved as a member of the board of directors requires an investigation into the candidate’s tithing history.

However, Paul did not include tithing in his list of requirements for overseers (see 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:5-9).

When Paul defended his right to receive support in 1 Corinthians 9:13-14, why did he not mention tithing?

When requesting help for the suffering saints in Jerusalem in 1 Corinthians 16:1-4, why did he not appeal to Deuteronomy’s tithing law for the poor?

There is one simple answer to these questions: Paul didn’t believe in tithing.

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Some will claim “the people in my church tithe, and we’re doing all right.”

But, then, the poor and unfortunate probably don’t attend their church.

Pastors who compel their congregations to follow the obsolete Old Covenant tithing law expose themselves as almost 2,000 years behind the times by promoting a deficient version of the New Covenant that deprives Christians of their freedom to be “led by the Spirit . . . not subject to the law” (Galatians 5:18).

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A tithe is not a gift, it’s a tax.

If you hand over a full 10 per cent of your income to your church because you feel obligated, you’re actually not “giving” anything.

You are simply fulfilling a tax obligation surrendered under “compulsion,” not given out of generosity.

Placing an additional 10 per cent tax burden upon young Christian families who are already forfeiting a huge percentage of their incomes in taxes to three levels of government can be downright oppressive and is unlikely to produce cheerful givers.

Some have even gone into debt to tithe, fearing they would otherwise be condemned to everlasting torture in the fires of hell for “robbing God” (see

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All his teaching on giving was about offerings based on personal conviction: “Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).

The amount each Christian “sows” (v.

6) should be according to whatever “he has purposed in his heart” (v. 7, NASB).

Dr. John F. MacArthur says: “God sets no fixed amount or percentage and expects His people to give based on what they have . . . Giving is voluntary — God’s people are not to give out of compulsion . . .

“Freewill giving is not to be confused with tithing, which related to the national taxation system of Israel” (The MacArthur Study Bible, 2 Corinthians 8:3).

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I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for a better guide than former archaeologist Janet McVickar, a guide with Adventure Partners at Four Seasons Rancho Encantado Resort in Santa Fe. She examines shards that litter the path around us, pointing out hollows in the ground called kivas that were used for Pueblan religious ceremonies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This here must

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(505)946-5700 or go online to To the naked fourseasons.com/santafe. eye, the high desert around juniper berries, all of Santa Fe doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t which formed part of hold much hope for a the ancestral Pueblansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hungry traveler.

But those intimately diet.

A 20-minute drive familiar with this landaway, the visitor censcape know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich not tre and gift shop at just in archaeological ruins, but also in edible the larger Bandelier National Monument plants. site receives thousands The pinion juniper of visitors a year and is woodland contains pinion pines known for well excavated.

But, the same is not their pine nuts, blue true of the Tsankawi grass with nourishRuin, where we find ing, edible seeds and ourselves alone with the whistling wind on the 1.5-mile trail.

We pass caves once inhabited by the Pueblans, their interior walls still bearing signs of plaster and ceilings blackened by fire from food preparations that date back six centuries.

There are mysterious petroglyphs on some of the rock faces and stair-like indentations that indicate how and where the nimble-footed Pueblan ,/ ,3 IJ l ())( *' ancestors climbed this terrain as they moved

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a trail full of ancient history whose artifacts can be touched by visitors, which makes the experience much more immediate than that of touring the glass exhibits in a museum.

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hued mountains tug at many hearts.

One heart that clamored loudly for Santa Fe belonged to Georgia Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe, one of the most lauded artists of the 20th century.

To see why she fell in love with the landscape we head northwest towards Ghost Ranch, her home and inspiration from the 1940s until the 80s.

We hike into an area she called the White Place, one of her painting spots distinguished by its massive sediment hoodoos and columnar mountains that nature has lined up with almost military precision.

At peace in her own company, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe found refuge in this landscape where shadows dance across the mountains and the rock colors range from whites to oranges, reds to browns.

On the 21,000-acre Ghost Ranch there are hiking trails, horseback trails and two small museums devoted to anthropology and paleontology.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home on the ranch is not open to the public and another property she owned in nearby Abiquiu offers tours by appointment only, to limited numbers and with strict rules.

Not much has changed out here over the years, and were Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ghost to return, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d likely be glad that murmurs from both the ancient and the more recent past still hang, almost audibly, in the New Mexico air.

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Huckleberry Mines Ltd., an 18,,000 TPD open pit copper/molybdenum mine located 121 kilometers south of Houston in west central British Columbia, commenced operation in September 1997; a recent expansion has extended the mine life to 2021. We are currently recruiting for the following positions:

MILL MAINTENANCE PLANNER/SCHEDULER

Huckleberry Mines is seeking a Mill Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to join our multi-disciplined team of maintenance personnel. Reporting to the Mill Maintenance &oordinator the indiYidual Ĺľlling this position Zill be a key team member in developing, managing and controlling all aspects of planning and scheduling maintenance activities in an 18,000 tonne per day copper mineral processing plant. 'uties Zill include Ĺ&#x2DC; Promoting and maintaining a safe Zorking environment through compliance Zith Huckleberry Mines Health and Safety programs and the %& Mines $ct Ĺ&#x2DC; (nsuring planned and scheduled maintenance activities are aligned Zith the annual budget and operational needs Ĺ&#x2DC; Maintaining a short range plan months and long range plan annual

Ĺ&#x2DC; :ork Zith the maintenance team to develop job scopes Ĺ&#x2DC; :ork Zith the Purchasing group to reTuest, source and obtain parts, tooling and specialized resources Ĺ&#x2DC; Scheduling Zork orders based on priority and resource availability Ĺ&#x2DC; 7racking and reporting .ey Performance ,ndicators 7he successful candidate Zill possess a minimum of a journeymanĹ&#x2018;s TualiĹľcation or a related technical diploma or engineering degree preferred.

7he candidate Zill have e[cellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to establish and meet deadlines, be a team player and Zork Zell in a fast paced environment. &ompetent computer skills Zith e[perience Zith Microsoft 2fĹľce, &MMS programs and Preventive Maintenance programs are reTuired.

7his position Zorks a Monday to 7hursday, [ schedule days in, days out .

Huckleberry Mines is located appro[imately tZo hours driving time from Houston, %ritish &olumbia. (mployees live in a camp environment on their days of Zork.

7ransportation to and from the mine site is provided from Houston and Smithers by bus and Zhile at the mine site all meals and accommodations are provided free of charge to employees. Houston and Smithers are located in the scenic %ulkley 9alley on 7rans&anada HighZay 1 , an e[cellent area to raise a family and has e[ceptional outdoor recreational activities. More information on the area is available at www.smithers.ca, www.houston.ca and www.rdbn.bc.ca Huckleberry Mines Ltd. offers a competitive salary and a full ranJe of beneĹľts includinJ medical, life, disability income and RRSP savings plan.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Huckleberry Mines Ltd., but only those in consideration will be contacted. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

4ualiĹľed candidates can submit their resumes in conĹľdence to Human Resources Department Huckleberry Mines Ltd. P.O. Box 3000 Houston, B.C. V0J 1Z0 Fax: (604) 517-4701 Email: HR@Huckleberrymines.com

PART-TIME BOOKKEEPING / RECEPTIONIST / TAX PREPARATION POSITION Candidate should be an enthusiastic and outgoing person with strong reception skills and willing to learn and assist in our bookkeeping and personal income tax preparation departments. Position may be expanded to include year-end preparation work.

The successful candidate should have previous experience in the preparation and assembly of personal income tax returns or quick learning skills and should have knowledge of computer programs which include Caseware, Simply Accounting and Tax Software.

If you are looking for a fun team environment and you believe in superior client service, please forward your resume to: HAZELL & CO. CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS #101 - 945 LORNE ST KAMLOOPS BC V2C 1X1 FAX: (250) 374-4888 E-MAIL: DHAZELL@HAZELL.CA

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Attention to detail is a must. The ideal candidate must be a reliable and organized team player. Please send your resume by email.

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Mechanical and tire knowledge is a must. 5+ years previous industry experience is an asset. The ideal candidate must be a reliable and organized team player. Please send your resume by email.

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SALES AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CONSULTANT For this full-time position, the candidate will be responsible for selling motorsports products as well as finance, warranty and insurance programs. Business administrative skills are an asset. We require a highly motivated individual that has a positive attitude and a genuine appreciation of the motorsports industry. The incumbent must be detail oriented, possess strong analytical, interpersonal, customer service and selling skills. Preference given to candidates with a minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role. Compensation based on a salary and commission structure.

When applying, reference: FSC15 Application deadline: February 28, 2015 Apply via email: travis@schultzmotorsports.com or fax to 250-828-7823

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*OPLM (KTPUPZ[YH[P]L 6MĂ&#x201E;JLY Nakusp is a vibrant community of approximately 1600 residents and it services an additional 5000 from surrounding communities. The Village offers amenities of a much larger centre.

The Village of Nakusp has an exciting opportunity for a Chief Administrative Officer. Responsible for the direct overall planning, coordination and control of the activities and business affairs of the Village, the CAO will lead staff in the fulfillment of all duties related to the Villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations. The CAO will provide effective advice and support to the Mayor and Council in developing and implementing policies and strategies that address the economic, social and environmental needs of the Village.

If you are an accomplished local government leader with a combination of education and experience in providing effective customer service in a small municipality and are known for your strong management and interpersonal skills, this position may interest you. If you have any questions about the CAO role in Nakusp or would like more information about the community, please feel free to contact Linda Tynan, CAO at 250-265-3689 or email at Ltynan@nakusp.com.

Applications including a cover letter must be sent by email only to hr@nakusp.com by Friday, February 27, 2015 at 4:30 pm.

Applications will be acknowledged when received. For a full posting for the position, please see the Village website at www.nakusp.com

Dengarry Professional Services Ltd.

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Basement suites and / or accessible housing an asset.

Contact Kristine at (1)250-554-7900 for more detail.

Medical/Dental Medical Office Assistant required to job share two days a week and holiday relief for a Specialistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; office. MOA with EMR training preferred. Ability to multi-task and good communication skills essential.

Please email resume to DROT@telus.net No Phone calls please.

MOA position available. Fulltime at a busy medical clinic.

MOA and accounting experience would be a asset. Please fax resume to 250-314-5260 or e-mail to: nsharp@sage sportinstitute.com

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

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

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

The Village of Nakusp thanks all applicants for their interest, however, only those shortlisted for interviews will be contacted.

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Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

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.

Help Wanted

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

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /OfďŹ ce Worker/Tutor Detail oriented, organized, problem-solver, extremely computer literate.

Strong proofreading, editing, technical writing, public speaking skills.

Can teach practically anything I know. IT work preferred but any job using problem-solving skills could be a good match.

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

Fight Back.

Volunteer your time, energy and skills today.

Help Wanted

6834486

Air Brakes

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TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR Kamloops Chip Trucking

TRAINING TRUCK DRIVERS FOR 27 YEARS!

Looking for a Career?

This might be for you.

Arrow Transportation Systems Inc., is a diversified transportation, logistics, and materials handling company with operations throughout Canada and the U.S.

16 Hour Course 20 Hour Course

call 250.828.5104 or visit

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

Our dynamic company is looking for someone interested in a career in Operations Management to join our team as Transportation Coordinator for our Trucking Division in Kamloops, BC. Primarily looking after the weekend dispatch (Thursday to Sunday) we are looking for someone as follows: â&#x20AC;˘ A team player with excellent communication and people skills. â&#x20AC;˘ Strong in a high paced operations environment. â&#x20AC;˘ Strong organizationally. â&#x20AC;˘ Detailed orientated and self motivated. â&#x20AC;˘ Dedicated to learn and grow within our organization. â&#x20AC;˘ Ability to quickly assess an ever changing environment and make decisions that financially optimize division operations.

If you have a passion for the advertising business, are creative, thrive on challenges, and have excellent time management, we want to hear from you.

Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter to: Attention: Kelly Hall 1365 B Dalhousie Drive Kamloops BC, V2C 5P6 Fax: 250-374-1033 Email: publisher@kamloopsthisweek.com

We thank all applicants; only those being considered for an interview will be contacted

Van Kamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Group of Companies req. Highway linehaul Owner Operators based in our Kamloops terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving experience/ training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent employee beneďŹ ts package.

To join our team of professional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract & details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com Call 604-968-5488 Fax: 604-587-9889 Only those of interest will be contacted.

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Services

Services

Mind Body Spirit

Landscaping

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

Stucco/Siding

Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate

Rentals

Rentals

Furniture

Misc. Wanted

Houses For Sale

Apt/Condo for Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent

PETERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S YARD SERVICE

Oak China Cabinet. $500/obo.

Armoire. $500/obo.

Good cond. 250-672-9408 (McLure).

Heavy Duty Machinery

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 250682-3984 for more information. Asking $189,000.00

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

RIVIERA VILLA

Time to prune your fruit trees.

BUYING unwanted and/or broken jewelry. 250-864-3521 Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m searching for old fifty cent pieces! 250-864-3521

Tree removal Dump runs Licensed & Certiď&#x192;&#x17E;ed

250-572-0753

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Pets & Livestock

Pets Animals sold as â&#x20AC;&#x153;purebred stockâ&#x20AC;? must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL!

Education/Tutoring DANCE Instructor Training!

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

Community Newspapers

Merchandise for Sale

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$200 & Under

Financial Services

2 SETS golf clubs with carts 1 left handed 1 right handed $198 for all (250) 372-8147

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Garage Sales ESTATE SALE: Lawn Tractor, Garage/Shop Equipment, Furniture & many more items.

Call 250-679-8721(Chase)

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

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

Call our Classified Department for details!

Fitness/Exercise

250-371-4949 *some restrictions apply

WE will pay you to exercise!

Deliver Kamloops This Week

Computer Equipment

Only 3 issues a week!

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

WANTED! Newer MacBook Pro or MacBook Air 250-3711333

Garden & Lawn Grassbusters Lawn and Yard Care is now booking for the 2015 season. Call us today to book your free quote! 250319-9340.

RICKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SMALL HAUL For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent.

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

Merchandise for Sale

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRY STORAGE CONTAINERS Used 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;45â&#x20AC;&#x2122;53â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and insulated containers all sizes in stock.

Trades are welcome.

40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Containers under $2500!

DMG 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; containers under $2,000 each. Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift.

Wanted to buy 300 size hydraulic excavator.

Ph Toll free 1-866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Medical Supplies Elec wheelchair Compass mid wheel drive new cond, ext cap batt incl + charger $2000obo (250) 554-7379

Misc. for Sale 1-set of Michelin Winters 235/70R16 on 5-bolt steel rims. $350. 250-554-1830.

1-set of Nokian Winters on rims 235/75/R16. Used one season. Regular price new $1200 selling for $600. Call 250-851-1304.

Bell Satellite Dish HD Receiver 6131 & remote. 6 mon/old. $200/obo. 250-371-7339.

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

Fir Firewood. $200 per cord.

Will deliver. Tree removal.

250-573-2205.

Furniture Bedroom suite c/w headboard, 2 dressers & mirror. $65/all. 250-579-5915.

250-377-3457

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

Misc. Wanted

Misc. Wanted

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

Real Estate Apt/Condos for Sale

Townhouses

55+ CONDOS

1 & 2 bdrm suites for sale.

STARTING AT

169.000

$

Call Doug at 250-376-4477

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MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $5-$10/ ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive

For Sale By Owner Reduced $128,000. Below assessed value. Buy before listed. 55+ Park. 2009 Mobile 3bdrm, 2-bath. 250-819-1051.

Houses For Sale

Kamloops BC call for availability 250-374-7467

Please call

NORM WILCOX

(250) 395-6218 (direct line) â&#x20AC;˘ (250) 706-9728 (cell) (250) 395-6201 (fax)

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.

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.

Apt/Condo for Rent

Juniper Village

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

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

2BDRM a/c, patio, n/p ref required heat and hot water incl (250) 376-1485.

Northland Apartments

2Bdrm top floor, 5 appl. Larch Avenue. N/S, N/P. March 1st. $925/mo. 250-372-1879.

Student/Bachelor Suites Furnished/Utilities Inclâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Starting @ $850 per month

55+, independent, community living, 925 sq ft luxury suite. $1950 mo. Activities, entertainment included. 250-8198419 or 778-470-8315

1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets / No Smoking Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry Starting @ $800 per month

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

Misc. Wanted I want to buy the coins from your safety deposit box or safe! Todd - 250-864-3521

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

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.

The Sands, Lower Sahali.

Centrally located, renovated 1&2 Bdrms, $850-$1100. 250828-1711.

Bed & Breakfast

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Homes for Rent

Downtown 250-314-1135 North Shore 250-376-1427

2bdrm Down town fenced yrd 5 appl. N/P, N/S $1200 Avail Mar 1st (250) 319-4062

NORTH SHORE

Brock 3bdrms. F/S, W/D, DW. Parking. N/S, N/P. $1800/mo.

250-376-0881.

$625 + utilities.

Looking for a Rental in Kamloops or Logan Lake?

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet building.

Rents starting at

250-374-7455

CALL 250-682-2293 250-682-0312

Landmark 1, 2bd, 2bath +den, 1291sq/ft, new furnished show suite, view, $1700, +hydro April 1, N/S/P. 250-319-1946

North Shore. 2brm apt. Newly renovated. Lndry in bldg. N/S, N/P. $900/mo. 250-851-9310, 250-682-2761.

Check out our Listings at

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Call 250-376-0062

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Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477

North Shore 3bdrms, close to shopping/bus. W/D, N/S, N/P. $1450/mo. +util. 371-7712.

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Rentals

Acacia Tower

Private parties only - no businesses Box 67, 100 Mile House B.C. V0K 2E0

Sahali, 2bdrms, 1-bath end unit. Newly renovated. 6-appl., fin. bsment, new H/W, deck, pets okay, rentals. $192,500.

Strata $235/mo. 377-8697.

Aberdeen,3-bdrms. 2400sq/ft.

Great view. $2000/mo. +util.

N/S, N/P. 1-250-315-3490.

Nordic Track Walk Fit Treadmill Self powered with arm exerciser poles like new $325obo (250) 578-7449

$500 & Under

LARGE FUND Borrowers Wanted Start saving hundreds of dollars today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts.

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Rentals

Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Recreation

Suites, Upper

Cars - Domestic

Recreational/Sale

Recreational/Sale

�SHUSWAP LAKE!� VACATION RENTAL

Downtown, bachelor, sep. ent, shared lndry, references. $650 inclds util. 372-9455.

RV Pads

2bdrm +den in Sahali, wd, ac, close to shopping/ bus, $1000 Avail Now. 250-318-4756 Executive 3bdrms, 3-baths 1900/sqft in Tobiano. Hardwood floors, granite counters, gourmet appl. Avail March 1st. inclds all util/strata fees, pool.

Pets neg. $2200/mo. Call or text Danielle 250-319-5896.

Northshore 3-bdrm townhouse, 4 appl, $1000/mth n/p, 250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

Sahali, 2bdrms. $1250/mo. +util. N/S, N/P. Avail March 1st. 250-318-4732.

Rentals

5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek B.C. 1-bdrm 1-bath Park Model.

Tastefully decorated guest cabin. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat.

Provincial Park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor Store and Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot-tubs, Adult and Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground.

Asking $1500/week. 4 day, 1-week, 2-week & monthly rentals available.

BOOK NOW! FMI CALL 1-250-371-1333

RV sites, winterized, in town.

North Shore, fully serviced, incl cable, coin lndy, starting @ $525/mo plus power. 250376-1421

Shared Accommodation Near TRU Room $335-per month util included. No Pets.

250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020 Quiet non smoking male to share North Kamloops home with mature male. $500 mo for details call 778-470-0370 Roommate to share house, country living, pets okay. $800/mo. 250-377-3457.

Suites, Lower 1BDRM level entry in Brock $800/mo incl util Avail immed.

N/P. 250-376-1712 after 5pm 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 daylight suite N/Shore n/s, n/p, priv. ent fenced yard $950 util incl, (250) 376-3379 2bdrm large basement suite 1825 Tranquille. n/s, n/p, insuite laundry. $1000 per month call (250) 371-4801 Large 2bdrm Basement Suite Westsyde. f/s w/d n/p n/s u/t inc. $1100 Call 250-319-7421 Welcoming Cumfy 1bdrm.

Close to University, Hospital.

Student or quiet person. Excellent Location. $495-$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

Suites, Upper 1bdrm +lrg lvg-room, main floor, bright, clean, N/Shore.

W/D. $900/mo. incld util. N/S, N/P. 250-376-1421.

Run until sold

1986 BMW Coupe 325i.

6cyl. 5spd. Looks good, runs good. Extras. $3,600. 250374-5251.

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

318-4321

lilacgardens1@gmail.com NO PETS

Transportation

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

Auto Accessories/Parts

2005 Chrysler 300 V-6 3.5L., auto.

177000kms.

Very clean, well maintained, nonsmoking. All season and winters. $6495/obo. 250376-2463.

97 Camaro Z28 350 6spd 120,000km black loaded $9,000obo (250) 319-7058

Auto Services Cars - Domestic 1992 Buick Roadmaster. 5.7L, 53,000kms. Exc Hwy car, new tires. $4,300. 250-319-4104.

1995 Buick Regal, 4dr, 6cyl, auto, 4-winters/summers. $1,000/obo. 250-374-5692.

1997 Sebring Convertible, loaded, runs great, must sell $1100 250-579-8166 2010 Chev Malibu, 4 dr sedan sunroof remote starter 38000 kms $10,500. 250-819-0227

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

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

IN FIND IT THE CLASSIFIEDS

Transportation

Sport Utility Vehicle

Trucks - Logging

9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom.

Good shape. $3,500/obo. 250-376-1841.

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

Sport Utility Vehicle

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

1996 Dodge half-ton ext cab 4x4. Good shape. $4900/obo.

250-828-1808.

1998 Ford E350 cube van 16’box w/ramp V10 gas with auto tran $6100 250-459-2275 2005 Dodge 1500 Truck. 5.7L Hemi, canopy, new winters, good summers only 115,000 kms. $7,500. 250-828-6746.

1992 GMC Dump Truck 366 V8 on propane, 5spd manual tranny, hyd brakes. Incl inbox hyd sander and 10’ snow blade. Clean title $12,500 obo 250-574-2766 or 250-376-1872

Boats 1996 Seadoo, 5-seater jet boat & trailer. New motor & impellars, many extras. Excellent shape. $7,000. 250-672-9887.

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

Adult

NEW LEER Truck Canopy.

82”x70”. White. $500, Call: 250-314-0072, 250-318-9851

1981 GMC Suburban 4X4.

Re-built motor/trans.

Good shape. $2,900. 250-828-1808.

Legal Notices 6827666

Trucks & Vans 1993 Toyota Truck. New tires/wheels, 4x4. $4500/obo.

778-257-2471.

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

2006 36ft. Forest River Georgetown XL. Loaded, 19,560miles. 3-slides. Gen, winter pkg. Awnings. New Mich tires. $68,000. 3728820/574-0090.

RUN UNTIL SOLD

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

Set of Goodyear Ultra Winters.

P205/55-R16 on 5 stud rim will fit Mazda 3. $500. 851-0504.

PAINT, AUTOBODY & Restoration. (250)835-2070 canadianhotrodsinc.com

New Price $56.00+tax

Scrap Car Removal

Best Value In Town

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

1998 24ft. Citation Class C Motorhome.

163,000kms.

Well maintained with records. Ind. solar panel. $14,000. 250-523-6446.

1999 Red Ford Escort Auto 2yr old motor excel tran, 2 set tires, very gd body As is ICBC W/O $600 obo 250-672-9712 or 250-819-9712

TOWNHOUSES NORTH SHORE

Transportation Jeep YJ 4x4 1987 restored, 6cyl 5sp, lifted, 33”tires on Eagle Rims, 10,000 lb Winch, over $15,000 invested asking $12000 (250) 828-0931

Townhouses

*Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms

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The Heart of Your Community

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Escorts Attractive blond provides massage and much more. Ph. 250-376-5319 9am-9pm Hot Sexy Asian girl 23 years old 5’4” 36C 120lbs, Pretty, friendly and sweet. No rush 778-220-5372

Legal Notices

FRONTAGE TAX ASSESSMENT ROLL NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the Frontage Tax Assessment Roll with respect to “District of Logan Lake TV Society Grant-in-Aid Frontage Tax Bylaw No. 777, 2015” is open for inspection at the Municipal Office, 1 Opal Drive, Logan Lake, BC during regular office hours.

The frontage tax is utilized to provide a Grant-in-Aid to the Logan Lake TV Society for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a Television Rebroadcasting system in Logan Lake.

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.

1995 Jayco Trailer 30ft. No slide-outs.

Good shape. $7500/obo. 250-851-0264.

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6 winter pkg, fully loaded, $18,900/obo.

250-3761655.

26’ Champion motorhome, 440 motor. reno’d ($3000/receipts) $2675/obo.

778-4721547

TAKE NOTICE that, in accordance with Sections 204 of the Community Charter, a sitting of the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel will be held on March 2, 2015 commencing at 9:00 a.m., in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Office, to hear complaints with respect to errors or omissions on the Frontage Tax Assessment Roll.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a complaint shall not be heard by the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel unless written notice of it has been made to the office of the Collector, District of Logan Lake at least 48 hours prior to the time appointed herein for the first sitting of the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel.

Colin Forsyth Director of Finance

250.374.7467

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD

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35. W. African nation Sierra ___ 36. Cocoa plum tree 41. Holiday (informal) 44. Venezuelan capital 46. DWTS hostess 48. Hideouts 50. Actress Lupino 51. The content of cognition 53. Point one point N of due E 55. Plunder a town 59. No. Albanian dialect 60. No (Scottish) 61. Blatted 64. X2 = a Pacific tourist commune 65. AKA option key

66. Angelina’s spouse 67. “Wedding Crashers” Wilson 68. Grassland, meadow 69. Laughing to self (texting) DOWN 1. Licenses TV stations 2. Metal-bearing mineral 3. Meat from a pig (alt. sp.)

4. A bottle with a stopper 5. Short labored breath 6. Hair washing soap 7. Steam bath 8. “R.U.R.” playwright Karel 9. Beside one another in lines

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10. Not straight 12. Former OSS 16. Truck driver’s radio 20. Dried-up 24. Million gallons per day (abbr.)

26. Encircle (archaic) 27. ‘__ death do us part 28. A single unit 29. A siemens 30. Prohibition 31. V. William’s clothing line 32. Scotland’s poet’s initials 37. Auto 38. Single spot card in a deck 39. Crow sound 40. Former CIA 42. Factory where arms are made 43. Radioactive unit 44. Scoundrel 45. Freshwater duck genus 47. 9 decades 48. Makes tractors 49. 55120 51. Southeast Nigeria people 52. Arab sailing vessel 54. Hay bundle 56. Blood type 57. Driver compartment 58. “Das Kapital” author Marx 62. Consume food 63. Dental degree

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