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Reported crime rates in Kamloops dipped to start 2017, but rose as the year progressed. RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller told the city’s community safety committee this week that his department saw the upward trend continue into the final months of 2017. Between October and December of 2017, there was a 12 per cent increase (339 additional files) in criminal-code offences, with crimes against persons and property rising by 27 and 11 per cent (81 additional files and 198 files), respectively. Thefts from motor vehicles remained a problem in the final quarter of 2017, rising by 10 per cent (57 files) from that same time period 2016. Thefts of vehicles were also up 64 per cent (30 new files) and residential break and enters rose by 26 per cent (11 files). RCMP saw more than double the number of weapons possession files in the final quarter of 2017, compared to the final quarter of 2016, and the number of shooting incidents for the year also doubled, to 12 in 2017 from
TOP 10 FILES 1. Theft from vehicles under $5K: 2,195 files 2. Mischief $5K or under: 1,500 files 3. Cause a disturbace: 1,497 files 4. Theft under $5K: 1,057 files 5. Intoxicated in public place: 925 files 6. Shoplifting under $5K: 747 files 7. Trespass: 652 files 8. Common assault: 602 files 9. Panhandling: 431 files. 10. Vagrancy: 422 files six in 2016. Mueller once again attributed the continued increases to gangs looking to control the Kamloops drug trade. “Now if we’re stopping a car and there’s associated drug activity to that vehicle and the occupants, there’s probably a high percentage that there may be a firearm,” Mueller said.
“Certainly when we’re conducting searches of properties of individuals involved in the drug trade, we’re almost always finding firearms.” Mueller said there are several ongoing projects that will see Mounties target mid- and streetlevel drug dealers in 2018. Kamloops’ Top 10 mostreported offences of the year also reflected another source of increased crime in the city, with files related to the Safe Streets Act (which sets limits on where panhandling can occur) and vagrancy replacing marijuana possession and breach of probation in the No. 9 and No. 10 spots. Those two types of files were up 55 per cent in 2017, with 304 more files than in 2016. What police refer to as “social chronic offences” were up about five per cent overall, with Mental Health Act and disturbance calls also on the rise. Mueller said police will look at making summer deployments in the city’s core areas, designed to tackle social issues, yearround and once again called for Interior Health to help it expand the Car 40 mental health program by supplying another nurse to partner with an officer.
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the year 1988 and the date of our first edition, Aug. 28 (the very first issue of KTW can be seen above). In late June, we will publish a special 30th anniversary newspaper, in which we will look back at memorable stories and catch up with some of those who have helped make KTW the go-to source for community news. And, as summer sinks in, we will be hosting a few events at our Dalhousie Drive office — barbecues to say thanks to our readers, advertisers, carriers and everyone else who works to keep Kamloops informed. Please keep an eye out for future 30th anniversary announcements in these pages and online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
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Yet another homemade bomb has been found in Dallas. Kamloops Mounties secured an area near Dallas Drive and Viking Drive at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, after an explosive device was found. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said pedestrians walking along Dallas Drive saw what appeared to be a homemade explosive device at the side
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of the road. Shelkie said the RCMP’s bomb squad was sent to Kamloops from the Lower Mainland and was expected to arrive in the afternoon (after KTW press deadline). “At this time, it is unknown who made the device or why it was left in this location,” Shelkie said on Tuesday afternoon.
This is the third time in the past two months that explosive devices have been found in the Dallas area. On Jan. 16, officers responded to the 400-block of Badger Drive to investigate reports of a home invasion. A search of the house later uncovered weapons and two homemade bombs. On Dec. 13, an explosive
device was set off just after 7 a..m. on the shoulder of Dallas Drive, between Hook Road and Sonora Road, with the blast, resulting smoke and a small fire heard and seen by a nearby resident, who called police. Police seized the explosive device. There have been no charges laid in any of the cases.
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The trial for a Kamloops man accused of beating a teen into a coma in June 2016 will take place in Kelowna later this year. Kristopher Teichrieb is charged with attempted murder.His trial is set to begin on Oct. 15. Six weeks have been set aside. Teichrieb, 41, has been in custody since the earlymorning hours of June 19, 2016, when he is alleged to have assaulted Jessie Simpson, who was then 18.
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Simpson, who is now 20 and remains in hospital, was assaulted at Holt Street and Clifford Avenue in Brocklehurst, not far from Teichrieb’s home. Simpson’s friends and family have said the teen was celebrating high school graduation the night before the attack and may have been searching for a group of friends when he was attacked. After spending months in a coma, Simpson
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Head of Kamloops RCMP moving to Alberta The head of the Kamloops RCMP is leaving the Tournament Capital. Supt. Brad Mueller, who took the reins of the city’s detachment in 2013, has accepted a promotion within the national police force and a position in Edmonton, where he will be deputy criminal operations officer. Mueller will be responsible for oversight for all operational policing matters in relation to general duty policing for the RCMP in Alberta. “This was not an easy decision to make as I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here in Kamloops and working with such a dedicated group of people at this detachment,” Mueller said, adding he feels the Kamloops detachment
is in good shape moving forward. “Our detachment has done tremendous work and made great strides over the last four years and I have full confidence that the officers and management team are very well positioned, on all fronts, going forward,” he said. Mueller took over as Kamloops’ RCMP superintendent after Yves Lacasse retired from policing and took a job as external-affairs manager with KGHM Ajax. Mueller will work with the City of Kamloops and the Southeast District RCMP in the coming months to find his successor. As Mueller prepares to leave, the Kamloops RCMP has welcomed a new operations officer in Insp. Todd Balaban, who arrived from E-Division in the Lower
Mainland. Balaban succeeds Insp. Sunny Parmar, who spent two years in Kamloops before being transferred to Richmond last November. Meanwhile, Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Lorne Wood is heading to Merritt to lead that community’s detachment. “Merritt seems like a great town and I’m pretty outdoorsy,” Wood said, adding that he enjoys hunting, fishing and hiking, for which the Nicola Valley is known. The 46-year-old will begin his job as the new Merritt staff sergeant at the end of March, but will be commuting from Kamloops until June, when his youngest daughter graduates high school. “The plan is to buy a house and move,” said Wood, noting he
hopes to be living in Merritt by the summer. As a first-time staff sergeant, Wood said he will need some time to adjust to the new position as it will be different from his current role in Kamloops. “The biggest thing in that first six months or a year is to get things sorted out, meet everyone and see what needs some attention and what’s working well,” Wood said. The 20-year veteran of the RCMP has been in charge of the major-crime unit in Kamloops for the past five years. Prior to that, worked in that same field in the RCMP’s North District. Wood began his career with the RCMP in 100 Mile House. — with files from Merritt Herald
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City wants drivers to stop donating at intersections The City of Kamloops is trying to discourage drivers from giving change to panhandlers standing on traffic medians in the Sahali area. Community safety and enforcement manager John Ramsay said the city has installed “no panhandling” signs around the Columbia Street and Summit Drive intersection, one of the more common
solicitation spots in the area, as well as at Columbia and Notre Dame Drive. Ramsay said the signs are less about deterring panhandlers, who he said usually know they’re not supposed to be there, and more about educating drivers. Ramsay said the city believes giving change while at the wheel is a safety concern.
“Someone stops to give them change, a person comes from behind and hits them. It’s just not safe,” he said. “And you’ve got a guy stuck on the median that, if an accident does occur, where are the cars going usually? “They’re also at risk if something happens. “It’s better if people just don’t do it.”
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Massive fire was human-caused As suspected, the massive Elephant Hill wildfire that burned almost 200,000 hectares and forced thousands of residents to leave their communities was a human-caused blaze. The RCMP has made the determination and has created a tip line — 1-855-685-8788 — in an effort to find the person or persons responsible for the fire. The blaze was started on July 6, 2017, and was originally called the Ashcroft reserve fire.
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It grew at a ferocious pace, razing homes on the Ashcroft Indian Band reserve, tearing through 45 homes in the Boston Flats trailer park, devouring another 45 homes in Loon Lake and claiming more than 30 residences in Pressy Lake. RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk told KTW trains and rail yards were ruled out last year as being the cause, with further investigation confirming the fire was human-caused.
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Police are looking for a Kamloops woman who hasn’t been seen in more than three weeks. Jessica Roehler, 29, was last seen on Saturday, Jan. 6. She had previously told friends she was going to take a Greyhound bus to the Lower Mainland. “Family and friends are concerned for her safety,” RCMP
Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said. Roehler is described as a white woman standing fivefoot-seven with a slim build and shoulder-length hair, usually brown or black. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 or their local police department.
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Kamloops Mounties have created a new unit to work with the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development on missing persons files, Supt.
Brad Mueller told the city community safety committee this week. Mueller said the unit is looking to develop better systems around reporting youth in care when they are missing. According to RCMP statistics, 42 per cent of missing persons
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Eight days of hearings to determine whether police violated a Kamloops man’s rights to silence and legal counsel after his motel roommate was stabbed to death in 2016 began on Monday with descriptions of the alleged crime scene. Gordon Camille, 67, is charged with manslaughter in connection with the 2016 death of Dennis Adolph, 49. Camille had been charged with seconddegree murder, but that charge was reduced. Adolph’s body was found in a room in the 4 Seasons Motel in Valleyview. Kamloops RCMP Const. Joseph Bayda was the first witness to testify in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Monday. He said he was the first police officer to arrive at the scene of the
death just before 11:45 a.m. on Jan. 26, 2016. Bayda said he entered the room and saw Adolph lying on the floor. “The deceased was laying in between two beds in the room, his feet pointed towards the ends of the beds and his head towards the heads of the beds,” Bayda said. “He did not have a shirt on. There were AED (automatic external defibrillator) pads on his chest from where paramedics and firefighters had applied them. He had pyjama bottoms still on.” Bayda said Adolph appeared to have been stabbed. “There was a oneinch or one-and-a-halfinch wound to his lower left abdomen, which I would describe as a stab wound based on my experience,” Bayda said, noting he then backed out of the room and began talking to Camille, who was standing just outside.
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After taking his name and birthdate, Bayda said he asked Camille about his living situation. “He mentioned that he’d been staying there one or two months,” Bayda said. “He said Mr. Adolph, who he referred to as his nephew, had been staying with him for a short time.” During the hearings, a voir dire expected to conclude on Feb. 7, prosecutors are expected to play 17 hours of video and audio recordings of four interviews of Camille by police — one on the day of Adolph’s death and the others following his arrest on Feb. 5, 2016. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes is expected to make a ruling on the evidence prior to Camille’s trial, which is slated to begin on Feb. 19.
Searching for artifacts The City of Kamloops expects work on the construction of the Heffley Creek Bridge to resume next month, allowing archeologists a few weeks to scour the site for artifacts. The city said an archaeological overview assessment identified the area’s historical potential for First Nations artifacts, which required the city to obtain a
Section 14 provincial permit. Work on the $2-million project should resume in mid-February. The bridge will replace a failed culvert, which washed out a large portion of the road during spring flooding last year. City staff opted for a bridge to replace the culvert because it will be longer lasting and more difficult to block with debris.
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Thursday, February 8, 2018 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Marion Schilling Elementary School Library 2200 Park Drive Interested residents and business owners are encouraged to drop by any time between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm to view the 2018 reconstruction plan for River Road. City staff will be available to answer any questions. The River Road reconstruction plan will also be available to view online starting January 29 at www.kamloops.ca/letstalk.
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The City of Kamloops will decide whether it will replace outgoing director of corporate services and community safety David Duckworth. Duckworth, who served as the city’s director of public works before moving to his current position in 2012, will become general manager of utilities and environmental protection with the City of Calgary. His departure on March 5 will end a 15-year career with the City of Kamloops.
“It’s sad, but it’s an incredible opportunity,” Duckworth said. “I leave behind and incredible organization that I work for and an incredible community in Kamloops.” City CAO David Trawin said Duckworth’s departure means the director position he held is up for reassessment, a process the city now undertakes with all vacant management positions. Trawin said staff and council are discussing whether the community safety and corporate services portfolio could be split between existing directors.
A decision will be made in the next two to three weeks. “I think it’s prudent before any new manager comes here to see if the organization be restructured and what’s the best use of those dollars,” Trawin said. At Tuesday’s council meeting, councillors praised Duckworth for his impact on the city, with Coun. Tina Lange noting his time in public works saw the modernization of the city’s landfill and the introduction of curbside recycling. “People in Kamloops fought that like crazy and we couldn’t imagine not to have it now,” she said.
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To register for September 2018, a student must be five years old by December 31, 2018. Bring your child’s original birth certificate, BC Service Card and proof of address to the school you want your child to attend during the period noted above. REGISTRATION FOR KINDERGARTEN AT NEIGHBOURHOOD SCHOOLS (not schools of choice) will take place February 13 to 16, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Please refer to School District No. 73 Policy 300.1 School Boundaries and Student Transfer Request and Policy 706.2 – Education Choice – Enrolment – Schools of Choice, French Immersion & Academies for clarification regarding school boundaries and enrollment in schools of choice. Information on catchment areas is available on our website at www.sd73.bc.ca.
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onsider this Proportional Representation Week. Not because we have adopted the PR way of voting, but because of two events taking place this week. On Thursday, we will mark exactly one year since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke his biggest promise as he asked for votes during the 2015 federal election campaign. Trudeau promised that, if his Liberals were elected, that election in October 2015 would be the last under the first-past-the-post system. “We are committed to ensuring that the 2015 election will be the last federal election using first-past-the-post,” Trudeau said as he sought votes in August 2015, two months before the election. Alas, just 15 months after his party formed government, Trudeau broke his promise, which means the next federal election, set to be held in October 2019, will again be conducted under the system Trudeau promised to do away with if only enough people voted his party in to power. This coming weekend will reveal the new leader of the B.C. Liberal Party, a rather bitter race that has seen candidates attack each other inside and out of debates. The contest has also seen all six leadership hopefuls rail against the provincial NDP government’s decision to hold a referendum later this year on electoral reform. Put simply, the government
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MUSINGS will ask voters if they wish to trash the first-past-the-post system and adopt a proportional representation style of electing MLAs. The B.C. Liberals are opposed to the referendum, despite the fact they are using a voting method in this weekend’s leadership election that is used in some forms of proportional representation, with party members ranking candidates in preference. And, oddly enough, the party exists today precisely due to a brief deviation from the first-pastthe-post system, as I noted in a March 2016 column. In the 1952 provincial election, the Social Credit Party (which is, today, the B.C. Liberal Party, a coalition of federal Liberals and Conservatives and other so-called free enterprisers) rode to victory thanks to leader W.A.C. Bennett’s backroom effort to convince the Liberal/Conservative coalition to use the single-transferable ballot. The system saw voters rank candidates in order of preference, with their second-place choices coming into play if no candidate garnered 50 per cent support.
Thus the Socreds rode to a narrow victory over the CCF (predecessor to the NDP) largely due to their second-choice status among voters initially loyal to the other three parties. Once he had power, Bennett returned B.C. to first-past-thepost in the next election and his Social Credit dynasty ruled the province for 36 of the next 39 years. One should recall that voters in B.C. voted decisively in 2005 in favour of ditching first-pastthe-post, with 58 per cent marking their ballots for BC-STV, a single-transferable vote system of voting. However, the Gordon Campbell-led B.C. Liberal government of the day created an almost impossible threshold for approval, with 60 per cent approval of all voters required and simple majorities in 60 per cent of all ridings needed. Of the province’s then-79 ridings, 77 sided with BC-STV; overall, voters came within two per cent of meeting the government’s high threshold. With all due respect to B.C. Liberal leadership candidates, including Todd Stone of Kamloops-South Thompson, the Referendum Act clearly states a simply majority of 50 per cent plus one is needed for the results to be binding on government. If MLAs and entire governments can be elected with far less than 50 per cent of the vote, surely 50 per cent plus one on the coming referendum is acceptable. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds
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Editor: I am disturbed by the narrow attitude the six B.C. Liberal leadership candidates have taken on the issue of voting reform. As reported in the Jan. 26 edition of KTW (‘Tempers flare as old, new Liberal candidates square off in final debate’), they all agree any change from the first-past-thepost system would annihilate our democracy. With respect, I suggest just the opposite would occur. Consider that FPTP is an ancient system originally designed to keep barons in power and serfs outside, a system entrenched well before the Black Death of the 14th century ended serfdom in British political history, an adversarial system used to retain power imbalance. So, why are these six B.C. Liberal leadership candidates united in trying to defeat the ref-
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erendum for electoral reform? As Dianne Watts recently bemoaned, they are worried that if they don’t defeat it, their party will never again form a majority government. And she is right, to a degree. They may form a large part of a government, but will never again have 100 per cent of power after gaining only 40 per cent of the popular vote, as they have in the past. Proportional representation will make sure all votes count, not just the ones cast for the most popular candidate in each riding. So, if the Liberals get 40 per cent of the vote, they fill 40 per cent of the seats. If the New Democrats get 30 per cent of the vote, they fill 30 per cent of the seats — and so on. PR directly reflects popular vote, a fair vote. Isn’t that what we would call true democracy?
PR forces parties to co-operate on legislative policies, producing a more thoughtful and respectful legislature. No one party has a monopoly on good ideas. With PR, they give and take in a pragmatic atmosphere producing more permanent legislation. Thus we avoid the lurch to and from opposite extremes, both costly and short-lived. In addition to their winnertake-all interpretation of democracy, the Liberals are intent on spreading disinformation in order to defeat the referendum by saying the alternatives are too complicated. I am not the least bit interested in the mechanics of the system. The voting ballots are the model of simplicity and there are many experts who can design a system that is best for British Columbia, relying on the public input presently being sought by the govern-
ment. The more complicated counting of votes is done by machine and can be verified by hand. Each system is slightly different, but they all produce acceptable proportionality, leaving behind no votes in the wastebasket. I am interested only in the fairness (proportionality) of the system, which replaces partisanship with working together in a more collegial manner for what is best and most long-lasting for all citizens in B.C. All votes should be equal. There should be no more serfdom through wasted votes as a result of our electoral system. In my rather lengthy life, I am sure I’ve had most of my votes end up in the wastebasket. I can’t wait to vote for a PR system that will recognize that vote. Ian MacKenzie Kamloops
WE NEED TO RESPECT CHARTER RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS Editor: Re: Rev. Jonathan Strutt’s letter of Jan 19 (‘Restriction goes against religious rights’), in which he claims restrictions on some federally funded programs are a violation of his religious rights: Perhaps they are, but his religious anti-abortion dogma is in direct opposition to human rights guaranteed to all
Canadians under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Everyone has Charterprotected rights to make their own decisions regarding their own lives. The reverend’s antiabortion agenda would restrict the rights of women. That is why their human rights must override his religious rights. We are, after all, a constitutionally secular nation.
The right to freedom of religion is guaranteed in the Charter. One is welcome to believe what one wishes as long as one does not impinge on the rights of others — which is why we are also guaranteed the right to freedom from religion. This is not an issue of “agreeing with the Liberal position on abortion.” It is a matter of acknowledg-
ing that we respect the Charter rights of every citizen. Strutt should feel free to believe as he wishes. But he should not expect to receive federal tax dollars to support his value set if it stands against the rights of others to our Charter’s protection. Howard Neighbor Kamloops
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“They need to release a rendering of what the building will look like. Currently, the site is empty and dirty, which I think is much more of a detriment to the neighbourhood than a new building will be. “If this building is well managed and integrated into the streetscape, it should be a positive. It all depends on design and oversight and releasing this social housing strategy without a rendering of final product is amateur and pathetic.” — posted by Will
RE: STORY: INTERIOR HEALTH ISSUES OVERDOSE ALERT FOLLOWING SEVEN SUSPECTED OD DEATHS THIS WEEK:
“I am of the position that addicts, regardless of how they became addicts, deserve treatment, safe-injection sites and compassion. “ Just like I want the same high-quality care and compassion extended to non-addicts.” — posted by Kathy Gaynor
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hances are your community has CBC is in a terrible mess, drivers will end up paying for the Crown a bylaw that corporation to get out of the mess — and the governing NDP and restricts the Opposition Liberals can only find time to argue who is more to use of “chemical pesblame for the fiscal folly. ticides” on public and For the record, the B.C. Liberals presided over ICBC for 16 years, private lands, including each year taking money from the Crown corporation and moving it to your lawn and garden. general revenue, with more than $1 billion being transferred as dividends I’ll use the District before the government stopped the practice after the 2016 transfer of of Saanich bylaw as an funds. The B.C. New Democrats have been in power for seven months. 250.374.3022 250.319.8784 example of what enviYou do the math. mmatt@shaw.ca je-matt@hotmail.com ronmentally conscious ACTIVITY PROGRAMS RealEstateKamloops.ca JessicaMattRealEstate.ca The big news this past week concerns the B.C. Liberal government For registration please call (250) 828-3500 and please quote B.C. municipal governdeleting in a 2014 Ernstplease and Young that could program recommendations number provided. For online registration visit report ments impose on their have saved hundreds of millions of dollars per year. They hid the recomwww.kamloops.ca/ezreg citizens. Programs are — cancelled if the minimumfor numbers not met.altering the corporamendations capping payouts minorare injuries, Passed in 2010, this tion’s capital-reserve levels and hitting drivers with frequent infractions 10-page bylaw includes from the public, while Quilting: Beginner with higher premiums — $70 most of the modern Flannel Rag Quilt the red ink rose higher. notions about what is Such shenanigans reprehensible. ACTIVITY Rag quilts are wonderfulPROGRAMS first political time quilting project. aregood and bad in manToday, we have Kamloops-South Thompson For registration please call (250) 828-3500 and please quote Spend the day making a beautiful flannel rag quilt. Your aging plants and their program number provided.MLA For online registration please visit Todd minister in charge of instructor will take you through allStone of the(who steps,was from pests. And much of it is www.kamloops.ca/ezreg ICBC) and fellow B.C. Liberal leadership candidate cutting your fabric to ifinstructions how to wash politically correct rubPrograms are cancelled the minimumon numbers are not your met. Jong theown NDP for not acting on a completed blanket. YouMike will de need to blaming bring your bish. second report with similar recommendations. fabric, sewing machine, and supplies. The district’s web Quilting: $70 Again, theBeginner neophyte New Democrat power for West Highlands Community Centre government has held page lists a sprinkling Flannel Rag Quilt about a half-year, hardly enough9:00 time AM-3:00 to staunchPM the bleeding from a » Feb 15 of permitted pesticides, RagThu quilts are by wonderful first time quilting279535 project. wound created the B.C. Liberal government. including vinegar, corn Spend the day making a beautiful flannel rag quilt. Your Attorney General David Eby said he will be announcing measures gluten meal, insecticidal Cityactions of will Kamloops instructor takemay youinclude throughcapping all of thethe steps, from courts can award in soon, that amount or herbicidal soaps and cutting yourBeginners fabric instructions how to wash your Quilting: Workshop minor-injury cases.toWhen ICBC’son litigation costs$80 exceed its compensation mineral oils. completed blanket. willa small need to done. bring own costs, something drastic needs to be You will learn how toYou make quilt in thisyour one-day It includes advice on fabric, sewing machine, supplies. Green Leader Andrew said moving a no-fault system (B.C. is workshop. This will beand aWeaver step-by-step processtowith making your lawn smallWest Community Centre the onlyHighlands jurisdiction in Canada with a litigation-based useful information along the way about how to pick system of settling er because “no mowing »fabric Febfor 15privatizing 9:00 AM-3:00 PM claims) or auto insurance entirely may be necessary. building quilts. A complete list of fabrics and means no lawnmowers.” Thu suggestions 279535 Those a good start toEach fixing the mess that is ICBC. equipment is availableare upon registration. student In short, it is a hippie’s must a sewing machine in good working order. Citybring of Kamloops dream of a low-technolHeritage House Quilting: Beginners Workshop $80
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Carson’s iconic antisaved from malaria products containing synThis issue resonates DDT book that is creddeath by DDT, misrepthetic chemicals.” with folks who buy ited with sparking the resented rising cancer onsider this Thus the Socreds rode to a The text of the bylaw homeopathic remedies modern environmental deaths that were mainly Proportional narrow victory over the CCF invokes the “precautioncontaining zero active movement. due to smoking and Representation (predecessor to the NDP) largely ary principle,” which ingredient, or believe I’ll come clean. people living longer, and Week. due to their second-choice status means actual evidence they need an occasional No, I haven’t read this overstated the safety and Not because we among voters initially loyal to the of harm isn’t necessary “cleanse” to aid their kid- 55-year-old book, which effectiveness of “natural” have adopted the PR way of votother three parties. for restrictions to be ney and liver function. was quietly but thorpest control using predaing, but because of two events Once he had power, Bennett imposed. The idea that “synoughly debunked after tor insects. taking place this week. returned B.C. to first-past-theIt includes strict thetic chemicals” are by decades of uncritical On Thursday, we will mark post in the next election and his descriptions of signs to definition the problem is public and media belief. Tom Fletcher is B.C. legexactly one year since Prime Social Credit dynasty ruled the be posted for any allowone of the most damagThat religious faith islature reporter and colCHRISTOPHER Minister Justin Trudeau broke province for 36 of the next 39 ing myths. changed with a 2012 umnist for Black Press. his biggest promise as he asked years. » Feb 17 9:30 AM-4:30 PM FOULDS Robert W. Doull Do you recall the critique by 11 scientific tfletcher@blackpress.ca YouSat will learn how to make a small quilt in this279533 one-day for votes during the 2015 federal recall that voters Newsroom authors, called Silent One should President most recent contaminatTwitter: @tomfletcherbc workshop. 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LOCAL NEWS While Interior Health is using this retrofitted RV as a mobile supervised drug-use site in Kamloops (and another one in Kelowna), the issue of overdose deaths continues to be a problem. Nine suspected deaths last week led to an OD alert for the health authority region. Statistics on suspected overdose deaths in 2017 are expected to be released on Wednesday. KTW FILE PHOTO
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Interior Health (IH) has issued an overdose alert in the wake of nine suspected overdose deaths in the health region between Jan. 23 and Jan. 27. The IH region is massive. It serves 59 communities, including Kamloops, and stretches from beyond Williams Lake in the northwest to Fernie in the southeast and from Golden in the northeast to Osoyoos along the B.C./U.S. border in the southwest. IH spokeswoman Amanda Fisher said the exact causes of death will be confirmed by the BC Coroners Service once investigations are completed. The deaths occurred in at least seven different communities, but the identities of those communities are not being released, at the direction of medical health officer Dr. Karin Goodison. “This clustering of nine deaths within a five-day time frame could be due to
chance, but may indicate that particularly toxic drugs are circulating in the Interior,” Goodison said. “That is why we have sent out the alert. “We do not release further information regarding which communities because, in very small communities, there is the risk of unintentionally identifying individuals.” Goodison said the spate of deaths is unlikely to be a localized drug issue, given that deaths have occurred in a number of locations, both in larger urban centres and small communities. Interior Health is urging drug users to heed tips to reduce the risk of an overdose: • Don’t mix different drugs (including pharmaceutical medications, street drugs and alcohol); • Don’t take drugs when you are alone. Leave door unlocked. Tell someone to check on you; • Use less and pace yourself. Do testers to check strength — a small sample of a drug before taking your usual dosage; • Keep an eye out for your friends. Stay
together and look out for each other; • Carry a Naloxone kit and know how to use it. A list of locations to get a kit can be found on the Interior Health website or on the Toward the Heart website. • Recognize the signs of an overdose: slow or no breathing, gurgling or gasping, lips/fingertips turning blue, difficult to rouse (awaken), non-responsive; • If someone thinks they may be having an overdose or is witnessing an overdose, follow the SAVE ME steps and call 9-1-1 immediately. Interior Health has retrofitted RVs used as mobile supervised drug-use sites in Kamloops and Kelowna. More information on these services is available at https://www.interiorhealth.ca/AboutUs/ Leadership/MHO/PHEmergency/Pages/ Mobile-ODPS.aspx. For more resources and links related to overdose and substance use, visit https://www.interiorhealth.ca/AboutUs/ Leadership/MHO/Pages/PHEmergency. aspx.
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SD73 revising its policy on smoking and vaping
Graduates of South Kamloops secondary toss their caps in the air as they celebrate finishing high school in June 2017. KTW FILE PHOTO
GRAD RATES CONTINUE TO RISE The Kamloops-Thompson school district has reached its target overall graduation rate among students of 85 per cent and is now aiming for 90 per cent while trying to reach parity with Aboriginal students. According to data from the Ministry of Education, the local school district’s six-year school completion rate, through the 2016-2017 school year, was 85.3 per cent, above the provincial
rate of 84 per cent. Completion rate for Aboriginal students was 78.5 per cent, well above the provincial rate of 65.9 per cent, while the completion rate for specialneeds students was 72.2 per cent, again above the provincial rate of 69.4 per cent. The graduation-rate gap between all students and Aboriginal students has narrowed significantly in the past
five years, from a 25 per cent chasm in 2013 to about seven per cent as of the last school year. The six-year completion rate is the proportion of students who graduate, with a B.C. certificate of graduation or a B.C. adult graduation diploma, within six years from the first time they enrol in Grade 8, adjusted for migration in and out of British Columbia.
Smoking and vaping are under the microscope as the KamloopsThompson board of education looks at revising its policy that bans both activities on school property. School district secretary-treasurer Kelvin Stretch presented a notice of motion at Monday’s school board meeting to adopt the revised policy. Trustees will vote on adopting the policy at their Feb. 19 meeting. The revised policy will ban the use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes (vaping) on all school properties in the district, regardless of whether classes are in session. The ban will also include vehicles, parking lots, sports fields, driveways, courtyards and private vehicles parked on school property.
In his report to trustees, Stretch notes that section 2.2 of the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act bans the use of tobacco and vapour products in all public kindergarten to Grade 12 schools in B.C. and states a person must not smoke or use tobacco/e-cigarettes, or hold lighted tobacco/activated e-cigarettes in or on school property. The report adds, however, that the policy does not apply to the ceremonial use of tobacco on school property if the ceremonial use of tobacco is approved by the board and it is performed in relation to a traditional Aboriginal cultural activity or by a prescribed group for a prescribed purpose, with the approval of the school’s principal.
There’s free money for post-secondary studies There is free money out there for your kids’ post-secondary education and KamloopsThompson school trustee Kathleen Karpuk wants you to know about it. At a recent board of education meeting, Karpuk brought to the board’s attention the existence of the Free Money for RESPs Information
Guide for Families. As Karpuk noted, families in B.C. can receive up to $3,200 for their child’s education without contributing a cent to their registered education savings plan. Parents need only open an RESP account to become eligible for a B.C. training and education and savings grant (available to kids born in 2006 or later)
and a Canada learning bond (available to children born in 2004 and later in families whose net annual income is less than $45,000). For more information on the rules and regulations surrounding the two programs, go online to http://www. interiorcommunityservices.bc.ca/application/ files/5615/1156/3040/ RESP_Handout.pdf.
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LOCAL NEWS ‘WE’RE UPSET, WE’RE TIRED. WE JUST DON’T WANT TO SEE MORE ISSUES IN OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD’
Concerns raised over affordable-housing plan ANDREA KLASSEN
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North Shore residents in the McDonald Park area are restarting a neighbourhood association to express their concerns about an affordable-housing project on Tranquille Road. The provincial government will fund the creation of 52 units of modular housing at 317 Tranquille Rd., to be managed by the ASK Wellness Society. The project, which should be operational by fall, will offer rental units with round-the-clock support services. Barb Robinson, who lives in the area, said she and other residents are concerned about what she called “high-risk drug users” who will make up about 15 per cent of the tenants in the building. She said they are also concerned tenants will not be prohibited from using drugs while living on the property. Robinson said neighbourhood residents are already dealing with discarded needles, open drug use and criminal activity related to drugs, noting police raided a house on nearby Royal
Avenue this month, seizing guns and drugs. She is concerned residents in the building who use drugs will bring more drug dealers into the area. “We’re upset, we’re tired. We just don’t want to see more issues in our neighbourhood,” Robinson said. ASK Wellness executive director Bob Hughes confirmed about 15 per cent of tenants — approximately eight people in a 52-unit building — will be high-vulnerability, as assessed by B.C. Housing. That can mean people with drug or alcohol addictions, but other factors would include brain injuries, histories of trauma or assault, mental-health issues and physical disabilities. About half of the residents will need little in the way of support services, but require affordable housing, Hughes said, noting the remaining residents will need some supports, such as meal preparation and connections to education and employment services, but will be mostly independent. Hughes said the goal is to have a largely stable group of tenants that encourages those with higher needs toward
The City of Kamloops purchased this property at 317 Tranquille Rd., and the adjacent land at 323 Tranquille Rd., for $1.2 million. Before next winter, the site will be home to 52 modular housing units. KTW FILE PHOTO
wellness. “If you put all these people in that are really sick, with mental-health and brain injuries and other things that have made them difficult to house together, people wouldn’t get well,” he said. “It’s like if everyone you hang out with smokes cigarettes and you say I want to quit smoking, the chances of you actually quitting are pretty low.” Hughes confirmed residents will be permitted to drink or use drugs in their units should they so choose, but added that doesn’t come with the right to become a nuisance to their neighbours within or around the building. He said it’s part of a general trend in recovery programs, which have
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tive way — there’s more loitering, there’s more criminal activity — those are the things that would determine whether a person is suitable to be in the building.” Robinson said residents feel the city did not do enough to publicize an open house on the project, held last Thursday night at the Mount Paul Food Centre. The city mailed notices to properties within 100
metres of the development, as is its standard practice. Robison said she and neighbours went door to door with a homemade flyer to let people know about the meeting. She said she hopes the neighbourhood association will increase the flow of communication and allow residents to make their voices better heard. “We thought if we form an association, get an agenda going, have some positive solutions — because it’s about being positive, not being negative,” she said. “There is a negative impact in our neighbourhood right now. We’re concerned, we’re wary. We’ve dealt with a lot of issues in our neigh-
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After repeatedly denying the existence of such documents, the B.C. government has finally complied with a freedom-ofinformation request revealing a strong hunting culture within the conservation officer service. The person who successfully navigated the bureaucracy where others couldn’t and who refused to take no for an answer is Bryce Casavant, the former conservation officer who gained
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 6:30 PM Tuesday February 6, 2018 Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality Council gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing at Cahilty Lodge located at 3220 Village Way, Sun Peaks, BC, to consider proposed Bylaw Nos. 0104, 2018, and 0105, 2018. What is Temporary Use Permit TUP-2017-003 Bylaw No. 0104, 2018? Bylaw 0104, 2018, if passed, would allow tourist accommodation use (nightly/short-term rental) in the principle dwelling at 2224 Sunburst Drive (legally described as Lot 12, District Lots 6259 and 6337, KDYD, Plan KAP53479) as shown shaded in bold outline on the map below. The specific conditions are as stipulated in the proposed permit, a part of Bylaw 0104, 2018.
What is Temporary Use Permit TUP-2017-004 Bylaw No. 0105, 2018? Bylaw 0105, 2018, if passed, would allow tourist accommodation use (nightly/short-term rental) in the secondary suite at 2432 Fairways Drive (legally described as Lot 4, District Lot 6394, KDYD, KAP72546), as shown shaded in bold outline on the map below. The specific conditions are as stipulated in the proposed permit, a part of Bylaw 0105, 2018.
All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing. Additionally, they may make written submissions on the matter of these Bylaws (via any of the below options) which must be received at our office prior to 4:00 p.m. on the 5th day of February, 2018. The entire content of all submissions will be made public and form a part of the public record for this matter. How do I get more information? A copy of the proposed Bylaws and all supporting information can be inspected from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday (except statutory holidays) at our office from January 26, 2018 until 4:00 p.m. the day of the Hearing; or please contact us via any of the below options. No representations will be received by Council after the Public Hearing has been concluded. Rob Bremner, Chief Administrative Officer Mail: PO Box 1002, Sun Peaks, BC V0E 5N0 Email: admin@sunpeaksmunicipality.ca Phone: 250-578-2020 Fax: 250-578-2023
international attention and support when he refused a superior’s order to kill two young bear cubs on Vancouver Island in 2015. The FOI documents reveal that 75 of 106 mainly uniform and patrol officers — 70 per cent — have hunting records and that 48 specifically purchased hunting licences last year. Four officers unsuccessfully applied for limited-entry grizzly bear hunts, which have since been banned by the NDP government except for First Nations for food, social and ceremonial purposes. Names of the officers aren’t included in the documents. Casavant argues that the high number of hunters in the service are evidence of a bias that fuels a killrather-than-conserve mentality, especially when dealing with black bears that come into contact with people. Conservation officers killed 475 black bears B.C.-wide from April to December in 2017. He believes that department policies along with the large numbers of conservation officers who hunt result in the government not being “truly interested” in solving wildlife conservation issues: “Their recruitment is targeting those that want to hunt and kill for work.” In response, communications officer David Karn released a written statement on behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, saying that “part of the evaluation process for prospective employees includes ensuring values align with the role of a conservation officer. A desire to protect B.C.’s environment, and fish and wildlife resources, is essential.” The ministry statement added that the government works with FOI applicants
KTW FILE PHOTO In 2015, Bryce Casavant was ordered to shoot two eight-week-old bear cubs on the assumption they were conditioned to human garbage and not able to be rehabilitated. After refusing, Casavant was suspended. Public outcry led to him being transferred.
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Their recruitment is targeting those that want to hunt and kill for work.
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to ensure they get the available information they’re looking for in a timely fashion and that responses include all documents available at the time of the request. The ministry declined to discuss specific cases. Casavant lives in Port McNeill, but ran for the NDP in the last provincial election in the riding of Oak BayGordon Head, losing to Green party Leader Andrew Weaver. He said he pursued the FOI request as part of his research in association with Royal Roads University, not as a B.C. civil servant. He expressed dismay at the “government’s behaviour in this matter and I feel for those members of the public who came forward to me. This is not the public service that I know.” Three individuals approached him after they were stymied in their attempts to find out how many conservation officers were hunters, he said, adding they received letters saying no records
— BRYCE CASAVANT, former conservation officer
could be located. Casavant filed his own FOI request, and he, too, was initially rejected, but pursued the issue until he got the results based on his inside knowledge of government databases and the department. “It really ticks me off when bureaucrats just block the public from exercising their information rights,” he said. The response of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. to FOI requests is only as good as the information provided by the ministry, Casavant said. “They don’t know what records the government has. It’s all based on the honour system,” he said. Casavant also said he believes the Conservation Officer Service is too closely tied to pro-hunting organizations such as the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. and B.C. Wildlife Federation, all of which sit on a wildlife
regulation advisory committee that helps to establish hunting regulations. In July 2015 an adult female bear was shot after breaking into a freezer and grabbing garbage from inside a home near Port Hardy. Casavant was ordered to shoot the female’s two, eightweek-old cubs on the assumption they were conditioned to human garbage and not candidates for rehabilitation. Casavant refused, believing there was no evidence to support their death sentence, and took them to the non-profit North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre for rehab. He was suspended from his job and, following a public outcry, transferred from the Ministry of Environment to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to serve as a natural resource officer. The cubs — Athena and Jordan — were released into the wild in June 2016, and were thought to have successfully hibernated on their own. Currently, there are 148 conservation officers employed in 45 offices in eight regions spread across the province.
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Alleged serial killer buried remains in planters Toronto landscaper faces five counts of first-degree murder as investigation continues
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TORONTO — A self-employed landscaper now facing five counts of first-degree murder dismembered some of his male victims and buried their remains at the bottom of large planter boxes, Toronto police alleged Monday, calling him a serial killer. Investigators warned that more victims may yet be identified in what they called an unprecedented case in Canada’s largest city. Speaking at a news conference, Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga said officers found dismembered skeletal remains belonging to at least three people in planter boxes at a home linked to Bruce McArthur, already charged earlier this month with killing two men who disappeared from the city’s gay village. “We do believe there are more [victims]. I have no idea how many more there are going to be,’’ Idsinga said. “We’re investigating some 30 properties. We believe there are more remains at some of these properties that we’re working to recover.’’ Forensic experts have yet to identify the remains, Idsinga said. McArthur, 66, was arrested and charged on Jan. 18 in the presumed deaths of Selim Esen, 44, and 49-year-old Andrew Kinsman. He was further charged on Monday in the deaths of two missing men — Majeed Kayhan, 58, and Soroush Mahmudi, 50 — as well as Dean Lisowick, 47, who had never
We do believe there are more [victims]. I have no idea how many more there are going to be. We are investigating some 30 properties.
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— HANK IDSINGA, detective sergeant with Toronto police
been reported missing. Mahmudi and Lisowick did not fit the profile of some of the other missing men — Middle Eastern men known to frequent Toronto’s gay village area. “We know that many in the community are struggling to understand and process these developments,’’ Idsinga said. “[But the investigation] certainly encompasses more than the gay community. It encompasses the city of Toronto.’’ Police had said McArthur had a longterm sexual relationship with Kinsman, but Idsinga refused to discuss what, if any, relationship McArthur might have had with the other victims. Police had initially shut down persistent rumours that a serial killer was prowling the gay village, stressing that as recently as December, they did not know whether Esen’s and Kinsman’s disappearances were linked or if the men were still alive. “Obviously, the city of Toronto has never seen anything like this. I’d call it an unprecedented type of investigation,’’ Idsinga said. “It’s an alleged serial killer. He’s taken some steps to cover his tracks and we have to uncover these victims and
identify these victims.” Investigators were scouring properties in the city where McArthur worked as a landscaper. They said they were planning to excavate at two locations “where people might be buried,” but said they did not know what, if anything, they might find. “You’ve got everything scattered at your feet that you have to uncover and deal with,” Idsinga said. Police interviewed McArthur, whom they said became a person of interest last September, but refused to comment on what he might have told them. McArthur’s lawyer had no comment on Monday after the accused appeared briefly in court before being remanded in custody. A woman who lives in a lowrise apartment building beside the house where the remains were recovered said McArthur was housesitting for the owner and was often seen gardening or laying out plants in the driveway. “It’s horrible to think of this happening in any neighbourhood,’’ she said. A large army-style tent was set up in the backyard of the house, with a
power generator running. Parker Liddle, who lives nearby, said he had seen McArthur come and go for years — sometimes two or three visits per day. “He has been doing superficial landscaping. He cuts the grass and rakes the leaves in the fall,’’ Liddle said. “He would frequently off-load flats of plants and pots of plants and flowers and take them out of his minivan and put them in the back of the house and bring the same things out from the back of the house and load them into his vehicle.” While Liddle said McArthur sometimes had a younger man helping him with the gardening work, police said they had no evidence anyone else was involved in any of the alleged crimes. They also said they had received numerous tips, including from around the world, and appealed for anyone who might have information to contact them. “We may find more people never reported missing,’’ Idsinga said. Esen was reported missing in April last year. He was known to frequent the city’s Church and Wellesley street area. Kinsman was reported missing in June. Police had investigated Kayhan’s disappearance in 2012 as part of project that turned up the names of three missing men but concluded without any evidence they had met foul play. Mahmudi was reported missing in 2015. A new investigation launched last August led to McArthur’s arrest.
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British Columbians are invited to share their experiences from 2017, and provide feedback on how the Province can better plan for and respond to floods and wildfires in the future. Please join us in Kamloops or Cache Creek for the first of a series of community events that will be held across the province. To sign up for BC Flood and Wildfire Review update emails, please visit our website.
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n old school Burfield chair can usually be found sitting on Rod Honey’s front porch in Sun Peaks. “This is his chair for relaxing in and watching sunsets,” said Kamloops Museum and Archives curator Matt Macintosh of the Alpine Canada ski cross serviceman’s antique. The two-seater dating back to the 1980s was lent to the museum as part of its new exhibit, Powder Keg, Downhill Ski Culture in Kamloops. The exhibit opens this Friday at the museum, which is downtown at Seymour Street and Second Avenue. In the planning stages for about six months, the show looks at local downhill ski culture — the people, activities and resorts. Attendees will get a feel for how Sun Peaks has grown from the early days of Tod Mountain to a worldclass ski resort. That old Burfield chair, for example, is a far cry from the Sunburst bubble — or even the current Burfield chair — on today’s lifts. “I think they were still issuing the cape to riders at that point,” Macintosh said. “Because it was cold, you’d get a cape
from the bottom. The liftee would issue you a cape to wrap around yourself, you and your partner. You would go up the hill kind of better protected from the elements because it’s a cold, slow, windy ride.” The exhibit also provides historical context well predating the Burf. These days, Kamloops residents can choose from the resort-style offerings of Sun Peaks or the family-run hospitality of Harper Mountain for a day on the slopes, but several other ski hills have come and gone in the area over the years. Kamloops Ski Hill was once located in Aberdeen, where Costco now sits. Some photographs from the hill date back to the 1930s. Grandview Ski Acres operated in Knutsford and Lac Le Jeune offered downhill skiing, along with the cross-country tracks it still has today. “The Kamloops Ski Club eventually all migrated to Tod and Kamloops Ski Hill kind of became unnecessary, I guess, at that point,” Macintosh said. The exhibit provides a snapshot of the Kamloops ski culture using photographs, awards and equipment. A pair of old speed skis are hung on one wall, while professionals have lent some of their gear. Elli Terwiel’s downhill suit from the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi will be on display, along with
Sun Peaks’ early beginnings
DAVE EAGLES PHOTO Kamloops Museum and Archives curator Matt Macintosh prepares the exhibit, Powder Keg, Downhill Ski Culture in Kamloops for opening this Friday at the museum at Seymour St. and Second Ave.
Ian McLaren’s handpainted downhill suit with a tartan. He was known as the Flying Scotsman. Attendees can listen to audio interviews with pros, including Sen. Nancy Green Raine. This year marks the 50th anniversary of her winning gold and silver medals at the 1968 Grenoble Olympic Winter Games. Many photographs
have been collected for the exhibit, but lack information. The museum is hoping locals with personal connections to the ski community will add information to blank caption cards, which will be displayed beside photographs throughout the exhibit. “They make history, so we want people to be able to record it,” Macintosh said. “Kind of like the sounding
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board, the primary source.” When talking with people during the research phase of the exhibit, Macintosh said conversation always came back to the quality of the snow. “It all comes down to this being some of the best snow on the face of the Earth,” Macintosh said. “And it’s right here.” A small part of the show addresses skiing
Matt Macintosh calls Sun Peaks the “behemoth” ski hill in Kamloops’ backyard. That behemoth began small, with one lift under the moniker of Tod Mountain. So, how did it grow to what it is today? “It started off with four or five local founders,” Macintosh said. “In ’58, I think, they scouted the area on the White Ranch, which is where Whitecroft is. They started with one lift. It was the longest lift in North America, so right away I think they had a bit of a marketing angle. Over the years, about six or more owners, for whatever reason, couldn’t make it work. But what they couldn’t deny was that they had this incredible piece of land with just great terrain on it. It was just a matter of how do you make that work and how do you bring enough people into the area and have them stay over night?” Nippon Cable, a company operating several ski areas in Japan, helped build the village, sinking money into the resort and willing to take losses until people showed up. “I think that seems to be where it became a growing enterprise,” Macintosh said. through the lens of environmental concerns. Those shuttered ski hills, like Grandview and Lac Le Jeune, had lean years because of snow fluctuations, Macintosh noted. “You can drive up to Sun Peaks sometimes and there’s no snow until you’ve actually seen the Burfield chair and everything changes. It’s incredibly delicate.”
A block game will allow attendees to build their own ski hill and a large board game will allot points for creating windy tracks. Powder Keg, Downhill Ski Culture in Kamloops opens with a reception this Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. It will include snacks and short speeches. The exhibit continues through May 26.
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he first day the ESTR Market opened at Thompson Rivers University this semester, three artisan students asked about selling their creations through it. Leanne Mihalicz, an instructor in the education and skillstraining (ESTR) program, wasn’t surprised. Since the market opened on the second floor of the Old Main Building, many local artisans have become partners either on a consignment or wholesale basis, the majority of them from the Kamloops region, but some from Vancouver. The mantra in choosing items for sale is recycle, upcycle, local, fair trade — and everyone involved loves the fact the No. 1 sellers when the two-day market weekly market opens are items ESTR students create. That includes spiced nuts, jars of soup mixes, pots for plants and the daily food offering from the program’s kitchen adjacent to the marketplace. Soups and chilis are usual fodder, but Saskia Stinson, who teaches in the program
alongside Mihalicz, is hoping to add some rice bowls, pizza and bannock. To the shoppers, the market looks just like a retail outlet, but for the students, is the ultimate in a lab, where the retail and cooking students not only learn how to do things, but actually do them. “It’s real. It’s real life and it’s their business and they’re involved,” Stinson said of the eight retail and nine kitchen assistant students who make the market a reality. Automotive assistant has 15 students. The markets run Wednesdays and Thursdays — and that means a couple of transformations every week. Room 2425 is an ESTR classroom so on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, it’s turned back into one. When class ends on Tuesdays, the desks and chairs are put away, the tables and funky old dressers that hold items for sale come out, the inventory is put on display, the cash register system is set up and the students get to work dealing with customers for the four hours the market is open. Then it’s set up the classroom time again for Friday sessions, when students review the sales (math skills), inventory (merchandising skills), transactions (math and communication/retailing skills) and
how well the day’s food option was received. Last semester, Mihalicz said, they sold 800 bowls of soup. ESTR is one of those programs that makes Thompson Rivers University unique. It is designed for students with cognitive disabilities to help them develop skills and, eventually, find jobs. James Spinks and Terrance Haimila were handling payment duties on the day KTW visited. They said some of the aspects they like best about ESTR are how it helps them meet other people and, as Spinks said to Haimila’s nodding agreement: “It helps us get ready for the world.” Stinson said the work she and her colleagues do in the ESTR program has real-world benefits. She said the program’s effectiveness has been noticed by WorkBC, the provincial government agency that helps people find jobs. “They can tell when they’re working with ESTR grads because they have more skills, more confidence, they’re connected to the community and they want to contribute to it,” she said. The students’ diversity brings unique skills to workplaces, Stinson said, noting their presence can be “transformational.”
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It’s 2 a.m. for the owners of CJ’s Nightclub. The longtime watering hole, located at 130 Fifth Ave. in downtown Kamloops, is for sale. Listed by Re/Max Real Estate for $450,000, the sale includes the business and assets — chairs, tables, dishes and more — but not the building. “Basically, it’s sort of a confluence of circumstances,” said realtor Frank Rossi. The nightclub is owned by retired NHLer Murray Baron. He took over the business from his late father Roy Baron, who founded the bar more than 30 years ago. Murray took the reins when his
father died in 2013, but was largely hands-off until general manager Rob Medves died unexpectedly in 2016. “They [Murray and wife Tammy Baron] sort of ended up running it by default,” Rossi said. The building at Fifth Avenue and Lansdowne Street is co-owned, partly by the Barons. The new club owners would potentially have the opportunity to buy in. “It’s a little complicated,” Rossi said. The nightclub celebrated its 30th anniversary just more than a year ago after beginning its life as Jack Daniel’s in the old multi-storey Elks’ building at Seymour Street and Fourth Avenue, now the Rex Hall. Six or seven years after it opened, it was
forced to change its name after receiving a letter from the famed Tennessee distillery claiming copyright infringement. It became Cactus Jack’s Saloon — CJ’s for short — known for its country music, Texas teas and two-stepping. CJ’s moved down the road to Fifth Avenue in 2008, when Roy apparently got fed up over a landlord dispute. Its current location has a liquor primary license for 625 seats, which comes included in the sale. After Roy Baron died, Medves began to refocus the longtime country bar to modern tastes, diversifying its music and upgrading its sound equipment and stage to host mid-sized acts.
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Tourism Kamloops reveals Bold nominees SECOND ANNUAL HOSPITALITY AWARDS WILL BE HANDED OUT ON FEB. 28 The second annual Tourism Kamloops Bold Hospitality Awards nominees have been announced, with 49 nominations in the six awards categories: • Accommodation of the Year – Front of House; • Accommodation of the Year – Back of House; • Food & Beverage of the Year – Front of House; • Food & Beverage of the Year – Back of House; • Tourism Attractions Leader of the Year; • Tourism Services Leader of the Year . A nominations committee of four hospitality leaders will now review and score the nominations to narrow them to three finalists. “The submissions and comments received from nominators are sincere and heartfelt and reflect the exact essence these awards represent,” said Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis. Tourism Kamloops has once again teamed up with the Kamloops Blazers to host the awards program. Nominees, finalists and winners will be recognized at a casual awards reception at the Valley First Lounge in Sandman Centre following the Wednesday, Feb. 28 Kamloops Blazers/Victoria Royals game. Tickets for the Tourism Kamloops Bold Hospitality Awards are on sale now online at www.tourismkamloops. com/rsvp/ This year’s nominations: • Accommodations of the Year – Front of House: — Alex Hungar – Front Office Manager, Sandman Signature Kamloops Hotel — Mackenzie Eccelstone – Guest Services Manager, Sandman Signature Kamloops Hotel — Lisa Gerrie – Guest Services Agent, DoubleTree by Hilton Kamloops — Debra Patriquin – Front Desk Agent, South Thompson Inn & Conference Centre — Joan Rannie – Front Desk Manager, Ramada Kamloops — Paul Kernot – Marketing & Receptions Manager,
Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis said it was time for a refresh as the agency unveiled its new branding effort, Boldly Unscripted, at a May 2016 soiree at Tranquille Farms. The agency incorporated the new branding into its Tourism Kamloops Bold Hospitality Awards. KTW FILE PHOTO
Grandview Motel • Accommodations of the Year – Back of House — Pamela Stella – Quality Assurance Coordinator, Sandman Signature Kamloops Hotel — Paula Jones – Head Housekeeper, Best Western Plus – Kamloops Hotel — Laxman Rijal – Housekeeper, Grandview Motel • Food & Beverage of the Year – Front of House — Maeghan Summers – Tasting Room Manager, Monte Creek Ranch Winery — Debbie Morgan – Server, Denny’s Restaurant — Tamara Francis – Food & Beverage Supervisor, Cascades Casino — Correen Genshorek – Food & Beverage Sales Coordinator, Cascades Casino
— Elie Toni Hanna – Owner/Operator, Frenchies Poutinerie • Food & Beverage of the Year – Back of House — Mitch Shafer – Executive Chef, blue Dining + Lounge @ Hotel 540 — Kyle Fegusen – Cook 2, Cascades Casino — Lucas Roberts – Junior Sous Chef, Atlas Steak + Fish @ Cascades Casino — Deejay Parkin – Owner/Operator, Bold Pizzeria — Surjit Ghag – Breakfast Line Cook, Ramada Kamloops • Tourism Attractions Leader of the Year: — Marc Brzustowski – Tasting Room Supervisor, Monte Creek Ranch Winery — Duncan Olthius – Manager, Kamloops Sports Council — Rick Wanless – Founder, Kamloops Mounted Patrol — Ron Popove – Organizer, Hot Nite In The City — Jordan Popadynetz – Train Manager, Kamloops Heritage Railway — Sabrina Thomas – Cultural Educator, Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park • Tourism Services Leader of the Year — Russ Grycan – Volunteer, Rocky Mountaineer — Matt Macintosh – Curator, Kamloops Museum & Archives — Maatje Stamp-Vincent – Owner/Operator, Tastefull Excursions — Stacey Ceron – VP Sales & Operations, Canada West Coastlines — Steve Ceron – Director of Sales, Ramada Kamloops — Terri Axani – Owner/Operator, DiVine Tours
New Life searching for new executive director New Life Community Kamloops is searching for a new executive director. Stan Dueck, who joined the non-profit organization as executive director in late 2012, replacing Kelly Row, will step down in April. Dueck informed the New Life board last fall of his retirement plans. “It was a tough decision for me to make,” Dueck said. “This organization has become a big piece of my heart, but there comes a time when you’re looking at what you and your team have accomplished and what’s ahead and you know that the organization would be best served by a new leader who can take New Life Community Kamloops to that next level.” During his five-plus
years at the helm, Dueck has rebranded the organization (it was formerly called New Life Mission), has increased the number of donors and partnerships and has ramped up New Life’s Thrift City story and its dental clinic. “It will be a major change not having Stan at the helm,” said Carol Paulsen, chair of KTW FILE PHOTO New Life’s board Stan Dueck spent more than five years as executive director of New Life Community Kamloops. He is retiring and a new ED is of directors. expected to be in place by April. “We will miss Stan’s competency board knows it.” team,” Thomson said. tion’s awareness of the good financial footing as a leader, his Kelly Thomson, a “He came into a incredible work we do to and are ready for the positive attitude and the director on the board, situation where we were help those in our comnext steps in a fresh new confidence our board echoed Paulsen’s sentistruggling financially, munity who are homevision.” has had with him leadments. found ways to control less, hungry, and hurting. Upon retirement, ing so many projects. “Stan has been such costs and led the work “Because of Stan’s Dueck plans to reorga“These will be big an incredible asset to our to amplify our organizaleadership, we are on nize his garage, spend shoes to fill and our
more time with his wife, kids and grandchildren and work on the next chapter in his life. “I know the organization is in a good position,” he said. “This fact alone helped make my decision to move on easier, although I’ll always be involved as a volunteer and donor as I wholeheartedly believe in the work we are doing to be open, available and lifechanging.” Prior to becoming New Life’s executive director, Dueck spent most of his working life — 29 years — in the propane industry, starting in Winnipeg and making his way west, arriving landing in Kamloops in 2007. The New Life board is conducting a search for a new executive director, who will step into the role in April.
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IF YOU’RE IN THE MARKET FOR A NEW SET OF WHEELS, choosing the make and model may be the easy part. Deciding whether to buy or lease is typically the real challenge. Each has its advantages, but what’s right for you depends entirely on your personal situation, finances and long-term plans.
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When you purchase a car, you either pay for it in full or pay a portion of the price in the form of a down payment. A loan is arranged for the balance, and you make monthly payments until the loan is paid off. If you lease, rather than pay the full purchase price of the vehicle, you pay (or borrow) only the amount that the car will depreciate over the term of the lease. This smaller amount means the monthly payments for a lease are usually lower than for a purchase.
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Lower payments can seem pretty compelling, but that’s not the end of the story. When a lease term finishes, you don’t have equity in the car. At that point, you have the option of buying the car for the residual amount or returning it and moving on to a new car and lease – and another term of monthly payments. In contrast, when you purchase a car, your monthly payments end when the loan is paid. You then own the car, free and clear, and you can drive it for the life of the vehicle or sell it.
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TIME HORIZON A car lease has a fixed term, usually between two to four years, with your monthly costs calculated based on the term. Do you need the car for only a year or two? Can you foresee any reason you might not need the car before the lease term is up? If so, think again. Getting out of a lease early can incur costly penalties, so make sure you can maintain the payments for the entire term.
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Lease terms often include mileage limits. Go over the maximum, and you might have to pay penalties. If you’ll be driving a lot, try to negotiate a higher mileage limit before signing the lease. Failing that, you’ll need to work out the cost of exceeding any limits and factor that into your overall budget.
WEAR AND TEAR A lease sets limits on how much wear and tear is acceptable, and charges extra fees if the car has any damage. If you have kids or animals riding in the car regularly, it might be better to opt for purchasing. The excess wear and tear charges could eat into money you’ve set aside for a down payment on your next car, resulting in higher monthly payments and a higher overall leasing cost.
MAINTENANCE With a lease, you get a new car every few years, which means fewer worries about its reliability. Maintenance is included in your warranty. If you own, you’ll have to pay for ongoing maintenance and repairs as the car ages. While buying a car is almost always cheaper in the long run, a lease might suit your personal situation better. If you do consider a lease, know what you’re getting into. Review all the details in your lease agreement – including options and penalties that apply. Before you make a decision, talk to an advisor. She or he can help you figure out what’s best for you.
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Story on page A24 ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Kamloops Blazers’ trainer Colin (Toledo) Robinson gave head coach Don Hay a bear hug following a 4-2 dispatching of the Portland Winterhawks on Saturday at Sandman Centre. Hay became the winningest head coach in WHL history with victory No. 743. Assistant coaches Mike Needham (left) and Chris Murray are also pictured. For more photos, see the slideshow online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
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aillie loves her grandpa, Don Hay, because chocolate milkshakes at McDonald’s taste better and games at Fun Factor seem a little more enjoyable when he’s around. She also thinks it’s pretty cool that on Saturday he became the winningest head coach in Western Hockey League history. “It’s awesome because I get to share this amazing piece of hockey history with everybody,” said 12-year-old Caillie, who was decked out in Blazers’ gear and relishing a 4-2 victory over the Portland Winterhawks at Sandman Centre. “It’s really fun I get to see him win this on home ice because he’s always there to support us when we are playing soccer or swimming or doing whatever.” Victory No. 743 lifted Hay into sole possession of the record for wins by a head coach in the WHL. He surpassed Ken Hodge, who coached the Winterhawks from 1976 to 1993 and was atop the heap for 25 years after setting the record in the 1992-1993 campaign. “My two girls [Angela and Ashly] were here and they were here in 1995 when we won the Memorial Cup in this building,” said Hay, who coached his 1,341st game on Saturday. “To have the grandchildren here now and my wife [Vicki], who has supported me in a lot of different areas and through different moves, it’s very special to have them in the building. Hay, 63 next month, is a born-and-bred Kamloopsian who worked in the local fire hall before a career switch, a move into the hockey world that led to four Memorial Cup championships — and many family sacrifices. “It’s been so many years in the making and there’s been tonnes of sacrifices,” said Vicki, whose husband’s hockey path took them to Alberta, Arizona, California, Washington state and Utah, although they never sold their Brocklehurst home. “The kids have made sacrifices, when he’s spending time with somebody else’s kids and he doesn’t have that time with his own ... this makes it all worth it. “It’s a milestone you don’t ever think you’re going to see. When it comes this close to where it’s touchable and you finally get it, it’s like a huge weight is lifted off your shoul-
ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW When the Kamloops Blazers bested the Portland Winterhawks 4-2 at Sandman Centre on Saturday, Don Hay passed Ken Hodge to become the winningest head coach in WHL history.
ders and to do it at home is even more amazing. A lot of those season-ticket holders, they become your family, as well.” There were volunteers and season-ticket holders at Sandman Centre on Saturday who were around when Hay became a part-time assistant coach with the Blazers in 19851986 under head coach Ken Hitchcock. They watched him win a Memorial Cup as a fulltime assistant in 1992 under head coach Tom Renney. “It feels like you know everyone in the building,” Hay said. “When you grow up here and you’ve lived here all your life, you see a lot of people and you feel you touch every one of them and they touch you.” Hay took the reins the following season (his first home game as the Blazers’ head coach was against the 1992-1993 Winterhawks, with Hodge at the helm in his last season coaching in the WHL) and won back-toback Canadian championships in 1994 and 1995. “They’ve watched us grow up in this arena as much as we’ve watched each team grow up and move on,” Angela said of her hockey family in Kamloops. “Now the volunteers and season-ticket holders have seen us have kids. It’s incredible. “All the hockey games we’ve watched, the triumph and heartbreak, with everything we’ve watched his teams go through, it’s a pleasure to be here and to be involved in it and to be able to share this
experience is amazing.” Hay’s son, Darrell, lives in Colorado and was unable to attend on Saturday, so Hay’s four-month-old grandson Jaxson was also absent. Last weekend, Kamloops won three games in Alberta, victories that made an anomaly on the WHL schedule seem like destiny for the Blazers’ bench boss. Three regular-season tilts against the same opponent in one weekend just doesn’t happen. That it lined up for Kamloops to play host to Portland with Hay chasing history was uncanny. When the Blazers won 5-2 on Friday, the stage was set for Hay’s coronation and the Winterhawks — missing key cogs Cody Glass and Kieffer Bellows — seemed doomed before puck-drop on Saturday. They put up a fight, jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the home team took over from there. “I knew the expectations in Kamloops were always high, having followed Ken Hitchcock and Tom Renney,” said Hay, who led the Vancouver Giants to the Memorial Cup in 2007. “And I looked up to Ken Hodge. “To pass him is very special. I’ve worked with lots of great organizations and management groups and coaches that have done a great job supporting me and working alongside me. All the players really should get a lot of credit. It’s a team win.” See JOHNSTON, A25
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Hay received an extended ovation from the announced crowd of 3,651 and a bigtime bear hug from trainer Colin (Toledo) Robinson. Snowfall in the Tournament Capital did not help the final attendance number, but those who made the trek made sure Hay heard them. Caillie’s younger sister, six-year-old Addyson, was buzzing around the concourse searching for high-fives. Ashly’s 17-month-old son Leyton got a hug from grandpa. “I saw him this morning at the arena and he was pretty quiet,” Ashly said. “And he was very quiet about it [tying the record] last night. I think tonight is the night he’ll relish it a little bit more. A lot of years of work have gone into 743.” Hay’s reward for setting the record was an overnight bus trip to Portland. Perhaps he and a few staff members were able to relish it with a few cold ones once they crossed the border. The script was written with fairness in mind. Portland doubled Kamloops 4-2 in the Rose City on Sunday to give head coach Mike Johnston, Hay’s friend, a milestone of his own — win No. 300 in the WHL. Sitting eight points
out of playoff position with 22 games remaining on their schedule, the Blazers’ post-season prospects are not promising. Just don’t tell that to Vicki. “He’s not finished yet, so don’t count him out yet,” she said. “He’s got bigger plans. “But this is a thrill you don’t think you’re ever going to see. The Kamloops fans have been so good to not only Don, but our family. Words can’t describe it.”
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The Runners Sole 4X Mixed Relay Indoor Triathlon was held at the Tournament Capital Centre on Sunday. In the club category, team Coldstart won with a time of 1:24:24, finishing just ahead of Tri Hards, which posted a time of 1:25:23. Wayne Little claimed the solo division crown in a time of 1:34:07. Sneaky Weasel and Honey Badger placed first in the duo category in 1:35:12. Making the Rounds claimed the corporate division title with a time of 1:36:40. The Littles placed first in the family division with a time of 2:03:07. KTW photographer Allen Douglas brought his camera to the event, which was held by the City of Kamloops and the Kamloops Triathlon Club. Find his photos online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
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RBC Training Ground is returning to Kamloops on Feb. 18. The event, designed to discover elite athletes between the ages of 14 and 25, is held in conjunction with the Canadian Olympic Committee.
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BRIEFS invited to the sessions on Feb. 3 and Feb. 18 at Dufferin elementary. Mini-tykes (born in 2012 and 2013) and tykes (2010, 2011) will practise from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Novices (2008, 2009) and peewees (20062007) will be in action from 11 a.m. to noon.
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ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Mackenzie Sewell of Valleyview Skating Club performed at a Kamloops Storm game earlier this month. The Storm will play host to the Chase Heat on Wednesday at Memorial Arena. Game time is 7:35 p.m.
After testing, topperforming athletes will advance to the B.C. regional event in Richmond on April 7. Five Kamloopsians were asked to do additional testing last year. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon at the Tournament Capital Centre. For more information, go online to rbctrainingground.ca.
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After a pair of weekend losses, the Kamloops Storm will look to rebound against the Chase Heat at Memorial Arena on Wednesday. The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League clash will get underway at 7:35 p.m. Revelstoke, which leads the Doug Birks Division with 61 points after 39 games, beat visiting Kamloops 5-3 on Friday and downed the Storm 6-1 in the Tournament Capital on Saturday. The Storm (14-21-31) are second-last in the Birks division with 32 points after 39 games.
City readying for B.C. Winter Games Nearly 2,000 athletes, coaches and officials will be in Kamloops for the 2018 B.C. Winter Games, which begin in less than a month. Most of the 1,229 athletes registered to compete will be participating in their first multisport Games, as the average age is 14. Josie Morrison of Kamloops was named to the Canadian speed skating team that will compete at the Olympic Winter Games next month in South Korea. She is among the 14 B.C. Games alumni who will compete in the Olympics. “I’m excited that Kamloops will be the beginning of that story for so many young athletes joining us next month,” Games president Niki Remesz said in a press release. Fans interested in taking in
some of the action will have 19 sports from which to choose. Special Olympians will compete in basketball and figure skating, and disabled athletes will play wheelchair basketball. There are 342 coaches and 197 officials signed on for the event, which was first held in Kamloops in 1979. Kamloops is expected to be represented by about 90 athletes and officials this year. Volunteers in the River City have been preparing for the
Games for more than a year, with in excess of 1,600 volunteers expected to lend a hand. Events will be held across the city and at Sun Peaks Resort. Expect closures at the Tournament Capital Centre, Sandman Centre, Kamloops Curling Club, Canada Games Aquatic Centre and McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre At the 2016 Games in Penticton, the city experienced a 95 per cent occupancy rate at hotels. A similar figure is expected in the Tournament Capital. The City of Kamloops is projecting an economic impact of about $1.6 million. Events schedules will be finalized about two weeks before the Games, which run from Feb. 22 to Feb. 25. Find the schedules online at bcgames.org.
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Kamloops is home to the ninth-ranked U Sports men’s volleyball team. The TRU WolfPack swept the visiting Calgary Dinos in a pair of Canada West tilts at the Tournament Capital Centre on the weekend, winning 3-1 on both Friday and Saturday. “This was huge,” WolfPack men’s volleyball head coach Pat Hennelly said. “We haven’t put together a streak like this in a long time. That is the biggest sweep I can remember in a while.” Calgary (10-8) entered last weekend ranked seventh in Canada, but left the Tournament Capital ranked 10th following its fourth straight defeat. TRU (9-11) is riding a six-match winning streak and moved up to ninth from 10th in the
latest U Sports rankings. “Teams thought we would be an easy game for them,” Hennelly said. “I think we have blown some people away and surprised ourselves as well. We have pushed forward and nobody is going to stop us.” The WolfPack enter a bye week tied for seventh with the Saskatchewan Huskies in Canada West standings. The top eight teams qualify for the post-season, where TRU has not been since 2015. After a trip to Hawaii, where TRU will play three exhibition matches and spend some time on the beach, the WolfPack will wrap the season with two matches
ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Yevgeniya Nyukhalova and the TRU WolfPack women’s volleyball team didn’t have much to cheer about on the weekend, but they enjoyed winning this point against the Calgary Dinos at the Tournament Capital Centre. The WolfPack men had more to celebrate.
apiece against UBC Okanagan (5-13) of Kelowna and the Trinity Western Spartans (171). TRU will next play at the TCC on Feb. 10, when UBC Okanagan comes to town.
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Ranked among the top 10 in the country, the Calgary Dinos were always going to pose a problem for the TRU WolfPack in women’s volleyball action at the
TCC on the weekend. Calgary lived up to its billing by sweeping TRU and giving up only one set in two matches. “We expected pushback from the WolfPack and they gave it to us,” Dinos’ coach Al Taylor said on Saturday, after a 3-1 victory over TRU. “They played better than last night. We landed a little soft in the third set. It is always going to be close.” Head coach Chad Grimm and his TRU
charges are unlikely to make the post-season, sitting 11th in the 13-team Canada West conference. The top eight teams qualify. “In the first set, we let them off the hook with some balls that we should have
had,” Grimm said on Saturday. “Against a quality team like Calgary, you can’t do that.” TRU has four matches left on its regular-season schedule, two against UBC Okanagan (14-4) and
two against Trinity (13-5). The Pack are not scheduled to play this weekend. They will play next at home against UBC OKanagan on Feb. 10. — with files from TRU sports information
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SUN PEAKS INSTRUCTOR HONOURED Sun Peaks Resort ski instructor Luc Neron has earned a trip to Bulgaria. Neron, who moved to Sun Peaks from Quebec three years ago, will attend the Interski Congress in Pamporovo as a member of the Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance team. Only 10 Canadians were named to the team, which will benefit from workshops, dem-
onstrations and discussions focused on the betterment of snow sport instruction. “It doesn’t matter what level skier you are, you always want to improve and, as an instructor, I am always interested in learning new teaching methods and techniques to help others develop their skills,” said Neron, 43. The selection process for the team spanned two years
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PENTICTON — Team Canada’s Michelle Englot and Alberta’s Casey Scheidegger both won Tuesday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts to create a three-way tie for first in Pool B. Englot registered deuces in each of the first two ends en route to an 8-5 victory over Newfoundland and Labrador’s Stacie Curtis. Scheidegger kept pace, scoring four in the fifth to capture an 11-4 win over Nunavut’s Amie Schackleton (0-5). That left Team Canada, Alberta
and Newfoundland and Labrador tied atop the standings with identical 4-1 records through the ninth draw. In other action, B.C.’s Kesa Van Osch (3-2) scored three in the 10th end for a 6-5 win over Ontario’s Hollie Duncan (2-3), while Quebec’s Emilia Gagne (2-3) scored twice in the 10th for an 8-6 victory over Prince Edward Island’s Robyn MacPhee (1-4). The top four teams from each pool advance to the championship round. Two draws were played after KTW’s press deadline on Tuesday.
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Canada’s ambition to contend for No. 1 at the Pyeongchang Olympics is a shift from the two previous Winter Games, where the publicly stated goal by the country’s top sport officials was to finish first in the race for the most medals. “As an athlete, I never really appreciated people who weren’t really part of my team telling me how many medals I was going to win,’’ said Canadian Olympic Committee president Tricia Smith, a silver medallist in rowing in 1984. “Contending for No. 1 is what we do as athletes. It makes sense for us as an organization.’’ Heading into Pyeongchang with a broader target that is easier to hit, Canada’s team certainly has the depth of talent and experience to both battle for the top of the medal table and win more Winter Games medals than ever before. “We head into the games probably with our strongest team ever,’’ Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger said. Germany is on a
mission, however, with its athletes gobbling up world championship and World Cup medals. Canada is tracking to duke it out with the U.S. and Norway for second in the overall count. With 26 medals from the most recent world championships in each winter sport, Canada ranks second behind Germany (34) and is one up on the Americans, according to Own The Podium. After running a distant second behind Germany in medals won for much of this World Cup season, Canada is tied for third with the U.S. at 116 behind Germany (188) and Norway (127) heading into the Games, which run from Feb. 9 to Feb. 25. Canada collected a high of 26 medals in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver to finish third, but the host country won more gold than any other country with 14. Host Russia’s tumble from top spot in 2014 for doping violations combined with Canada due for an upgrade to a bronze in the luge relay would give Canada 10 gold, 10 silver and six bronze in Sochi — tied for second with Norway behind the U.S. (28).
After Sochi, the advent of analytics, an increase in funding for young “NextGen’’ athletes, an improved capacity to prevent and treat injuries and the retention of quality coaches has positioned Canada for a strong 2018, according to Merklinger. It was difficult to draw a straight line between the suspension of some Russian athletes from the 2016 Summer Games in Rio to Canada’s 22 medals there. But if the International Olympic Committee’s ban on 40-odd Russians from Pyeongchang survives appeals, their absence would increase Canada’s medal chances in sliding sports, speedskating, men’s cross-country skiing and women’s skeleton. “We’re strong regardless of whether the Russians are there or not,’’ Merklinger said. Russian athletes deemed clean will be allowed to compete under the clunky moniker Olympic Athletes from Russia or OAR. They’ll wear neutral, not Russian, colours. Gold medallists will hear the Olympic anthem and not that of their country. Russia currently ranks fifth in
World Cup medals this winter at 95. “If they’re not fielding their quote-unquote best team because they’re involved in doping scandals, I don’t feel that bad for them,’’ said four-time Olympic cross-country skier Devon Kershaw from Sudbury, Ont. Canada’s speedskaters, freestyle skiers, snowboarders, figure skaters and resurgent sliding teams are expected to lead the medal charge in Pyeongchang. Moguls skier Mikael Kingsbury, bobsled pilot Kaillie Humphries, the ice dance team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, snowboarder Max Parrot, short-tracker Charles Hamelin, the women’s hockey team and the curling teams skipped by Kevin Koe and Rachel Homan are among the gold-medal favourites. No NHL players in the men’s hockey tournament is a throwback to 1994 when Canada lost the gold in a shootout to Sweden. Athletes receive bonus money for medals from the COC — $20,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. The coaches of medallists are rewarded at half the rate of their athletes.
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WEEKLY CROSSWORDS ACROSS
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9. Moved faster than walking 10. Commercial 11. Covered with mud 12. Marksmen 16. Buenos __ 17. Tailless amphibian 18. Belonging to a thing 22. Mars crater 25. Most fair 27. Citrus fruit 28. Awkward 29. Brews 30. Beloved late broadcaster Craig 32. All alone 34. Copies 35. Poster
36. Symmetrical 37. Grew older 38. Makes tractors 40. Not the front 41. State as fact 42. Long, narrow cut 43. Worked hard for 45. Indicates position in a box score 48. Tax 51. “Lookout Weekend” singer Debbie 52. Unhealthy 53. Imam name __ Khan 54. A woolen cap of Scottish origin (abbr.) 56. The Golden State
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SUDOKU FUN BY THE NUMBERS
Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
You have two buckets. One will hold five litres of water and the other will hold three litres of water. They have no markings. If you fill a bucket from the faucet, you must fill it full. If 3 you pour from one bucket into the other, you can stop only when the first bucket is empty or the second bucket is full. You can also discard all of the water in a bucket.
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How can you end up with four litresof water in the five-litre bucket?
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S (JANUARY 24)
FIVE NICKELS PUZZLE: The answer is not 4/5. It is 2/3.
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Aries, positive thinking can help you overcome obstacles, and so can taking some action. You’re not one for sitting idly by watching things go on around you.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, now is a good time for self-analysis. Address something that has been on your mind. You will have the complete support of family and friends.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 2 Gemini, with so many changes going on in your life, you may want to share every detail with others, But it could be better to keep information to yourself until things are more stable.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, sometimes the best way to help someone is to let him or her learn a lesson the hard way. Offer support, but resist the urge to take over.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Make an effort to reorganize your priorities, Leo. If you focus too much on a relatively insignificant issue, this may find you dealing with more things than you can presently handle.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a third party might help you and your significant other see things from a different perspective. This point of view may be just what you both need.
LIBRA
- Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, don’t hesitate to pursue a career opportunity that your intuition is telling you is the right move. Trust your instincts in regard to your professional life.
SCORPIO
- Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, this week you may need some time to recuperate out of the spotlight. Others may have been asking a lot of you, and some down time will enable you to relax.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Accept help when it is offered, Sagittarius. Express your thanks to the one who has extended the hand. Assistance can reduce any stress that may have been building.
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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20 It may be time for a change of scenery, Capricorn. Consult with others if you think this change is something you need and will benefit from in the long-term.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, your spirits are soaring and you want to share your good fortune with others. Connect with friends or family members and enjoy the good times ahead.
PISCES
- Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, once your mind is set on something, it will take a monumental effort to shift it in another direction. Try to look at things from various angles.
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Obituaries & In Memoriam Brendon Almond
September 4, 1978 - January 18, 2018
It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of a loving son, brother and good friend. Brendon will be remembered by his parents Maggie and Vince and sister Chandra. He will also be missed by many family and friends from Canada, Belgium, England and Scotland. A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, February 2, 2018 at 4:00 pm at St. Andrews On The Square, 159 Seymour Street, Kamloops. Please bring your stories and memories of Brendon. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Brendon’s name to the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society.
In Loving Memory Of
John Downie July 3, 1918 – January 24, 2018
Terry Sayers
On the morning of January 22, 2018, our wee Irish mom passed
March 5, 1958 - January 31, 2017 Terry my Love, as times goes on without you, and the days are now one year, they hold so many memories, and a million silent tears. To me you were so special, what more is there to say except to wish with all my heart that you were here today. It’s said time heals all sorrow, but I know that isn’t so, because it hurts as much today as it did one year ago. You’ll never be forgotten that simply cannot be, As long as I am living I’ll carry you with me. Safely tucked within my heart your light will always shine; A glowing ember never stilled, throughout the end of time, No matter what the future brings, or what may lie ahead, I know that you will walk with me along the path I tread. So rest my Love, be at peace and let your soul fly free, One day I’ll join your glorious flight for all eternity.
Until we meet again, Forever Loved, your wife Kelly
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Downie. Formerly of Bo’ness, Scotland, John passed away peacefully at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. He was predeceased by his wife Annie, son Lawrence and daughter-in-law Isobel. He is survived by his son James, niece Helen, daughter-in-law Pam, granddaughters Lynn (Mark), Janet (Chris) and great-grandchildren James and Elaine. A small family service has been held and John’s ashes will be interred at the family ground in Scotland at a later date. Condolences may be expressed at
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silently to join her husband of 69 years, Frederick. She was predeceased by sons Johnny and Rory, sons-in-law Doug Chalmers and Stewart Ganton. Mom will forever be in the hearts of her remaining family: brother Tom Wright (Del) and her children Kathleen (Al), Maureen, Timothy (Mary), Kevin (Jean), Colleen, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mom was born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland and although the majority of her life was spent in Canada, she never let us forget the importance of always remembering your roots and the affect they have on who you are. Being married to a military man, Mom was able to see much of Canada while raising her family. As Dad was reassigned to a new airbase, us kids were placed strategically into the vehicle and ferried off to our next adventure. Our Mom was the cornerstone of the family, ensuring we were up for school or work, lunches made, clothes clean and tailored, dinners made (lots of meatloaf), boo-boos repaired and arguments settled. Mom was always there to lend an ear in support, always remaining objective and loving. Mom warmly embraced her extended family as her own, always making sure they felt included in her love for family. Bye-de-bye for now, Mom. Kisses.
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Christopher Selwyn Wass Christopher Selwyn passed away on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice in Kamloops, BC. Chris was born on October 31, 1941 in Beckenham, Bromley, Kent, England, which is a borough of London. He was predeceased by his parents Selwyn “Bill” Wass in 2001 and Doris (Matthews) in 2007 and his sweet nephew Brandon Power in 2005. Chris is survived and dearly missed by his wife of 55 years Lois (Johnson) and sons Geoffrey in Montreal and Trevor in Kamloops, his sister Vale Power (Ray) of Burnaby, BC; and their two sons Glen (Joanne) and nephew Liam of Burnaby, BC and Raymond (Amanda Anhorn) and nieces and nephews Carly, Noah, Brooklyn, Emma, Tyneisha, Paige, Jacksen, Samuel and Eli, all of Surrey, BC. Christopher migrated to Canada with his mother in 1944 aboard the Ile de France, landing at Pier 21 in Halifax. From there they travelled by train to live in the village of Mclean, Saskatchewan. Selwyn joined them at the end of his war service and together they ran a general store. Years later, they and Vale moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where Chris attended Balfour Collegiate and later began a 29 year career with the Saskatchewan Government, that started in Regina with the Departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture and ended with 22 years at the Canada-Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation which was moved during that time to Melville, Saskatchewan. Chris, Lois and Trevor moved to Kamloops, BC in 1993. Chris was a fan of hockey, football and curling, so it was natural for him to use his retirement years to volunteer for the past 22 years with the Kamloops Coliseum (now the Sandman Centre), helping and later coordinating the on-floor volunteer services at Blazer hockey games and numerous concerts and special events hosted at the centre. Family and friends will miss Chris’s humour, dedication and caring nature. Chris has requested no funeral and that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made instead to either the Salvation Army or the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice. Condolences may be made to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454
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July 30, 1927 – January 22, 2018
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Theresa Alvina Schaan March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2018
Theresa was born in Colonsay, Saskatchewan to Frank and Katherine (Kay) Schaan nee (Garman) (both deceased) and spent most of her life in Kamloops. Alvina will be deeply missed by her family and the many people she came into contact with. She will be remembered as a cheerful, appreciative and wise soul, who loved to sing and play the piano. Alvina was a beloved sister of Irene Perry, Lillian Ricci (deceased), Vivian (David) Dance, Jean (Ken) Milligan and Sharon Schaan. She was a loving aunt to sixteen neices and nephews, two of which were God-daughters with whom she was very close - (Cathy Perry Greenlaw and Monica (John) Montague and her many great-neices and nephews. The family wishes to express heartfelt appreciation to the staff at Kamloops Seniors Village for the kind attention and care Alvina received there as a resident, from when it first opened in 2004, until she passed away. A Memorial Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Friday, February 2, 2018 at 11:00 am, with interment at Hillside Cemetery followed by tea at the Kamloops Seniors Village at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be made to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454
It is with great sadness that we announce that Kim Aaron Echino passed away peacefully surrounded by her children on January 25, 2018 at the age of 61 years old. Kim is survived by her mother Audrey McCabe, sister Kerry Graham, brother Ken Whiteman, partner of 16 years Del Richardson, son Michael Echino (Patricia Lee), daughter Cara Echino and grandchildren Taylor, Jaden, Max, Linden and Sydney. Kim will be forever remembered for her crazy sense of humor, quick wit and her extremely strong will and determination to live. She will have a place in our hearts forever. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made to the SPCA in honour of Kim’s love for all animals.
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Ron Nelson
August 27, 1928 - January 26, 2018
Son of Olaph and Christina, Ron Nelson was born on August 27, 1928 and passed away peacefully in his sleep at Royal Inland Hospital on January 26, 2018. He is survived by his daughter Ellen and son Kenneth, as well as many grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and great-great grandchildren. He lived his life with distinction and treated others as he wanted to be treated. A strong Christian and loved all things around him. He will be greatly missed by family and friends. Special thanks to High Country Health Care and Royal Inland Hospital for his care and comfort in his final weeks. No formal service by his request. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577
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Obituaries & In Memoriam Terence David Wayne Barrs
J. Robert (Bob) MacDonald
1962 - 2018
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our son, brother and friend Terence David Wayne Barrs, who passed away peacefully January 1, 2018, aged fifty-five, after a bravely fought cancer battle. Terry was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 27, 1962, on the birthday of his grandfather Raymond. He was predeceased by his father, Terence and is survived by his mother Rose, sister Maureen, nieces Danielle and Janna and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins in Canada, the United States, England and South Africa. Terry had many close friends as a young man and was fortunate to maintain many of these friendships throughout his lifetime. His working life was a source of great pride to him; in the early years he supported disabled persons in the woodworking shop of Pleasant Industries and helped mentally challenged individuals as a care provider at group homes. He went on to work in the forestry industry and later became an ironworker and crane operator, the field that brought him the most satisfaction and allowed him to spend a few years on Canada’s east coast, where our mom grew up, for the building of the Confederation Bridge. He also was on the crew that built the Sandman Center in Kamloops and several other projects, such as the Lafarge Bridge. In 2005, Terry had the good fortune to win some money on the Lotto 6/49, which allowed him to travel quite a bit and take up skydiving and scuba diving, accomplishing 13 skydive jumps and 88 scuba dives in places such as Mexico and the Maldive Islands. He also visited family in South Africa and toured some of the nearby countries there. Terry loved motorcycles and at various times owned a vintage Norton and a few Harleys, which he enjoyed cruising on, exploring our beautiful province. He was a member of the Kamloops Harley Owners Group for many years. He loved hiking and camping, getting out into nature and solitude when he needed it. He loved music, especially the work of Frank Zappa, and attended concerts by many well-known bands over the years. A motorcycle accident in 2013 resulted in complications that cut his activities short, but he remained a good-hearted fellow with a helpful nature. Those who knew him have spoken to us of his generosity and pleasantness. We are very grateful for the time we had with Terry at the end of his life, the sadness will give way to fond memories and until we meet again. Special thanks to the staff at Trinity Hospice at Overlander Extended Care, your kindness and caring were very appreciated. Our sincere gratitude to his best friend Darrell Black, who gave his time, energy and love, visiting and taking Terry for outings during his time in hospice. We love you, Terry, and we miss you. Thanks for sending the eagle. A celebration of life for Terry will take place in the springtime, no funeral by request.
Died peacefully the evening of Wednesday, January 24th after a brief stay at Willoughby Hospice where family members shared his last hours at the age of 88. Bob of Apple Hill, Ontario beloved husband of Jean for over 65 years. Loving father of Gary (Anne), Mike (Carol), Teresa (Brian), and Douglas (Sue). Cherished grandfather of Christine (Tyler), Janet, Scott (Sara), Bryce, Brennen, Mitchell, Dylan and great grandfather to Colton, Jordan, Wyatt, and Piper. Predeceased by his sister Ursula and brother Claude, he is survived by his brother Angus. As a young man he heeded the call to duty, serving as an officer (queens commission) during the Korean conflict. He shared his skill training officers and teaching artillery. Bob followed that by working on the St. Lawrence Seaway in the early 50s as he and Jean started their young family. He continued his work in management to help develop Inco Mine in Thompson Manitoba. Bob’s flair for getting things done lead him across Canada to help build the Hugh Keenleyside Dam near Castlegar, BC. In 1969, now with four children, he moved his family to the Kamloops area to help start the Lornex mine, the town of Logan Lake and the church within. A year was taken in 1981 to fulfill a dream and sail from Ontario to the Bahamas and back. Not one to be long idle, he soon helped to start Obed-Marsh Coal Mine near Hinton, spent a trio of years with a small business at Lewis Creek, and followed that up with work on another mine, Mount Polly near Likely, BC. After retiring at 69, family and friends would seek his council and company in the quiet village of Whitecroft until some time later he became more accessible by moving into Kamloops. Bob felt a special connection to Kamloops and three generations have shared in his accomplishment by continuing at Lornex and now Highland Valley Copper. He was a principled individual and a man of integrity. Many valued friendships held a special place in his heart. We are extremely grateful to the care and attention he received from Dr. Sven Kip, Dr Nairn and the wonderful volunteers, care staff and nurses at Kamloops Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice.
Always in our hearts.
A celebration of life will be held in the Spring of 2018. Persons wishing to send flowers or make a donation can do so to Kamloops Hospice in Bob’s name.
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Walter Nikrus
August 10, 1930 - January 27, 2018
Walter left us on a Saturday morning, with the snow falling. A perfect ski day. His wife of 65 years Vappu and his daughters Helen and Lea were by his side. Walter leaves family in Finland: his brother Ilmari (Irja) and Eero (Stina), sister Helmi, along with nieces, nephews and extended family. Friends from near and far will remember Walter fondly. We are grateful for the care of Dr. SA Weimar, and extend our thanks to the teams at RIH and MWS Hospice who helped him through the final days. A Service of Remembrance will be held on Friday, February 2, 2018 at 2:00 pm in the Schoening Funeral Chapel. Should friends desire, donations to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home would be appreciated in his memory. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454
Paul Frederick Cavanagh
December 5, 1945 January 12, 2018
With saddened hearts we announce that after a brief battle with cancer, Paul slipped away peacefully on the morning of January 12, 2018. In keeping with Paul’s wishes there will be no service. His family invite you to join them for a casual Celebration of Life on Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 1:00 pm at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 5101 25 Ave, Vernon, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 25.
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It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Darrin Yusishen of Kamloops, BC, on January 23, 2018 at 40 years of age. Born in Quesnel, BC on April 18, 1977, Darrin is survived by his wife Tammy Yusishen, daughter Isabella Yusishen and son Kellen Yusishen, his mom Judy Yusishen, sisters Crystal (Sean) and Lisa, brother Mark, grandmother Jean Muir and Gary Gascon (Vlasta), mother-in-law Elise Mackisey, sisters-in-law Lori, Shannon (Matt) and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. Darrin was predeceased by Poppa Muir and Dad, Gary Yusishen, as well as father-in-law Peter Mackisey. Darrin was a Knowledge Specialist at British Columbia Lottery Corporation. He was an avid Lego builder, as well as a fisherman and wine connoisseur. Mostly, though, Darrin was a family man; his family was the most important thing to him. A Celebration of Darrin’s Life will be held at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre on February 11, 2018 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Donations may be made directly to Darrin’s Go Fund Me to support his family “aggressive brain tumour” or you can make a donation of your choice to Hospice Homes or Brain Cancer Research. Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com
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Eveline Perdok (nee Spiekerman van Weezenlenburg) With great sadness we announce the passing of Eveline Perdok (nee Spiekerman van Weezenlenburg) on January 21, 2018 in Kamloops, BC. Eveline was born on March 16, 1925 in Purwuredjo, Indonesia and is survived by daughters Corrie (Terry), Janey (Noel) and Elizabeth, son Bill, as well as sister-in-law Vera, nephews and niece in Holland. She was predeceased by her husband Derk in 1998.
The More You Give The more you give, The more you get, The more you laugh, The less you fret.
“Oma” loved her eight grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren and faithful canine companion Baxter.
The more you do unselfishly.
Eveline led an exceptional life, travelling from her birth country to the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, the US and finally back to Canada. A lifelong believer in the value of education and learning, she achieved LPN certification at age 58 and practiced in a group home care facility for a number of years.
The more you live abundantly.
Eveline embraced life by travelling regularly and maintaining contact with friends from around the world. She enjoyed competitive bridge, sewing for her grandchildren and shopping. She also loved gardening, flowers and painting.
The more of everything you share, The more you’ll always have to spare. The more you love, the more you’ll find,
Our family extends thanks to the Home Support Team and HandiDart. We are also grateful for Dr. Kip’s thoughtful care and to staff of Royal Inland Hospital. Finally, we acknowledge the kind care provided by staff at Marjorie Willoughby Hospice.
That life is good and friends are kind.
Arrangements are in the care of Drake Cremation and Funeral Services of Kamloops, BC.
Enriches us from day to day.
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For only what we give away,
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MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employertrusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-7683362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!
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Kami Cabs Requires a Full Time Automotive Mechanic. $27/hr. Job Description: Repair and Maintenance of diesel, propane and gasoline vehicles. Must have a minimum of 2 years experience, and have completed secondary and post secondary training. Apply at satinder.mann@kami cabs.ca or in person at 209 Leigh Rd. Kamloops
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PHARMACY TECHNICIAN TRAINING Online-based 43 wk program incls 8 wk practicum. Regulated Pharmacy Technicians earn $25-$28/hr in hospitals & $20-$27/hr in community pharmacies. Accredited by the Canadian Council for the Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP). www.stenbergcollege.com Toll-Free: 1-866-580-2772
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OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT Are you a detail oriented person with great interpersonal skills?
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Caretakers Semi retired couple for Caretakers at the Elks Children’s Camp in Salmon Arm. Duties would consist of but not limited to: cleaning, small repairs, maintenance and greeting campers. This job requires you to live at the camp with housing provided. Salary and other beneďŹ ts discussed at interview . A criminal record and vulnerable person check will be required. Please send resume and expected remuneration to: BC Elks Association, Unit 3-19299-94th Avenue, Surrey, BC, V4N 4E6. E-mail: bcelks@shawcable.com or fax to (604) 513-0156.
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We are a progressive optometric office seeking full time optometric assistant (or licensed optician). Our office is currently open Monday to Friday, and shifts will include Saturdays in the near future. We are willing to train the right person. If this sounds like you, please bring your resume to our office in person during regular business hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm (closed between 12:00 and 12:45) Thompson Rivers Family Optometry 60-700 Tranquille Road, Kamloops
TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING Funding available for those who qualify!
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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF S.D. NO. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap) P.O. Box 129 ~ 341 Shuswap St. S.W. ~ Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 4N2 Phone: (250) 832-2157 Confidential Fax: (250) 832-3751
8533598 ASK Wellness provides a continuum of services to help individuals on a journey to wellness and supports individuals in our community and provides them with opportunities and the resources to change their current situation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about reaching out to those people who are homeless and battling addictions, helping them find housing and medical care, addressing their addictions, stabilizing mental health issues and ultimately, providing them with the skills to re-enter the work force. ASK Wellness administers an unconditional sense of hope to those who are convinced that they are incapable of ever achieving a stable, meaningful life.
CLBC HOUSING LIAISON (KAMLOOPS) PERMANENT FULL-TIME (37.5hrs/wk)Work with the Coordinator of CLBC Operations to manage the CLBC Program that serves adults with developmental disabilities through the development and delivery of life skills and community integration to promote independent living and inclusion. Ensure service quality and program success. Work alongside CLBC Support Workers to assist program participants in maintaining their housing within the CLBC Cluster Living Program/Ensure program participants are supported throughout their transition period into residency and throughout the term of their program. Qualifications: BSW, Human Service Diploma or equivalent/experience with developmental disabilities, mental health/addictions and homelessness issues; Experience with working with persons with significant intellectual,adapted functioning impairment,limited adaptive functioning, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder/Autism Spectrum Disorder. Criminal record check required,own vehicle and valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license with relevant insurance in order to transport clients.
For full job description please go to www.askwellness.ca/category/careers/ Salary commensurate with experience. Apply by sending your resume to careers@askwellness.ca by February 5th @ noon
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â&#x20AC;˘ Completion of a legal assistant training program or have experience in the areas noted; â&#x20AC;˘ Previous experience in conveyancing; â&#x20AC;˘ Familiarity with any of econvey and LTSA; â&#x20AC;˘ Solid understanding of law office policies and procedures; â&#x20AC;˘ Ability to produce accurate, proofread, legal documents with minimal supervision; â&#x20AC;˘ Capacity to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints; â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent interpersonal skills; and â&#x20AC;˘ Exceptional computer skills (Word, Outlook, Esilaw), retrieval and distribution of files as well as written or scanned documents. The successful candidate will enjoy our small but friendly and supportive work environment. If you are interested in this position, please send your resume and cover letter outlining specific details of your work experience and compensation expectations to Candace Cates, Partner via email at ccates@cfoelaw.com. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those invited for an interview will be contacted regarding this position. No phone calls please.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF S.D. NO. 83 (North Okanagan-Shuswap)
KTW Digital is the digital arm of Kamloops This );;hġ -lŃ´oorvÄ˝v 1ollÂ&#x2020;mb|Â&#x2039; m;Â&#x2030;vr-r;u o= u;1ou7Äş rrŃ´Â&#x2039; Â&#x2030;b|_ u;vÂ&#x2020;l; -m7 1oÂ&#x2C6;;u Ń´;Â&#x201A;;u |oÄš Ray Jolicoeur, Sales Manager ray@kamloopsthisweek
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Custodian Spare Board Applications are invited for the Custodian Spare Board for casual custodial assignments throughout the District. Custodian positions are Union positions and the salary will be $20.50 per hour. Qualifications required include: Minimum grade 10 with a Building Service Worker Certificate, or equivalent from a vocational institute. Must be able to perform all custodian duties including lifting heavy objects and shovelling snow, ability to perform cleaning and minor maintenance of school plants. Duties will include: Cleaning of School District #83 sites, security, snow removal from sidewalks and entrances, other related duties as may be assigned or required. Please submit resume with full supporting documents to apply@sd83.bc.ca by Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:00 Noon. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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SEEKING PROFESSIONAL TRADESMEN TO SHARE EXPERTISE WITH SECONDARY STUDENTS The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District is searching for skilled tradesmen preferably with Red Seal Endorsement in the area of Auto Body, Metalwork and/or Woodworking to help deliver Technology Education to students. Salmon Arm Secondary is looking for a part-time Carpenter or Joiner to teach Woodwork. A.L. Fortune Secondary is seeking a full time Motor Vehicle Body Repairer and/or Metal Fabricator to teach in the area of Auto Body and Metalwork for their shop and Auto Body Program. A.L. Fortune Secondary is currently offering a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youth Train in Tradesâ&#x20AC;? program in Auto Body in partnership with Vancouver Community College. The incumbent would be expected to regularly consult with college staff. Successful candidates would be hired on a Letter of Permission from the Teacher Regulation Branch in order to be able to provide their tradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expertise to students. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume at apply@sd83.bc.ca. If you would like to further explore this opportunity please contact Human Resources at 250.804.7843 or inquire by email at apply@sd83.bc.ca.
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ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: NEWSPAPER AND DIGITAL MARKETING Kamloops This Week is always looking to add superb sales people with a creative flair to our team. Our business requires highly organized individuals with the ability to multi-task in a fun, fast-paced, team environment. We offer our clients traditional marketing ideas and products, in addition to cutting-edge, state-of-the-art online strategies to help them compete in today’s digital environment. Good interpersonal skills are an asset and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are desired for those who wish to join the vibrant KTW team. Excellent communication skills, a valid driver’s licence and a reliable vehicle are what you need to become a part of a growing business entity. If you are a competitive and creative individual and enjoy challenging yourself, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to sales manager Ray Jolicoeur at ray@kamloopsthisweek.com We thank all applicants, but only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.
8ft Antique Couch $900. Round dining room table w/4chairs & 2 bar stools. $700. Couch & matching chairs $149. 250-374-1541.
111111111111111111111111 Numismatist buying coins, collections,paper money, gold, silver +. Todd 250)-864-3521
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Grt loc, 2bdrms, sep entr. patio, nice yard. Ref’s. No Pets. $925/mo. 250-376-0633
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1975 Cat Loader, good condition. $25,000/obo. 250-5733165 or 250-371-7495.
CDA required starting early Feb. to cover a maternity leave for a family based, modern general practice located downtown Kamloops. We have a bright office environment primarily focused on crown/bridge and oral surgical procedures. Applicants can forward resume to Dr. W. John Armstrong via email: drsarmstrongsutherland@shaw.ca
P/T afternoons, 4 days/week, sterilization/office assistant required for well established dental practice. Previous experience an asset, but will train. Send resume to Dr. Hugh Thomson at: tcmdentist@gmail.com
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School District No. 73 Kamloops/Thompson
Heating/Refrigeration Technician School District #73 (Kamloops/Thompson) is presently seeking a Heating/Refrigeration Technician (the position is temporary until the full return of the incumbent). The successful applicant should possess an Interprovincial Heating/Refrigeration Trades Qualification Certificate, a valid class 5 driver’s license, and have 5 years proven previous work experience. Gas Fitters ‘A’ Ticket, Confined space, Fall Protection and Elevated work Platform training would be an asset. The district will consider applicants in a third or fourth year apprenticeship. Please include a driver’s abstract with your application.
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School District #73 is a public school district located in Kamloops, BC. The District has 46 schools and 5 facilities buildings. We offer a competitive salary and trade days off. To apply or for more information, please visit makeafuture.ca/kamloops-thompson to create your profile. Closing date: Friday, February 2, 2018 @ 4:00 p.m.
School District No. 73 Kamloops/Thompson
8528104 Plumber
School District #73 (Kamloops/Thompson) is presently seeking a Plumber (the position is temporary until the full return of the incumbent). The successful applicant must possess a Red Seal Plumber’s Trades Qualification Certificate, a Gas Ticket, a valid Class 5 Driver’s License and have 5 years proven previous work experience. Experience with Fire Protection Sprinkler systems, Backflow device testing certification, Cross Connect certification, Fall protection training, Confined space training, Elevated Work platform, and WHMIS would be an asset. Please include a driver’s abstract with your application. School District #73 is a public school district located in Kamloops, BC. The District has 46 schools and 5 facilities buildings.
Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries. Call 250-374-0462 for more information.
Work Wanted HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774. Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /Office 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 at 250-8281474. genew@telus.net
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Pets Animals sold as “purebred stock” must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.
Closing date: Friday, February 2, 2018 @ 4:00 p.m.
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For Sale By Owner GERMAN Black Forest Grandfather Clock. Beautiful Condition, hand engraved & hand painted pendulum. Three chimes, The Westminster, The Whittington & The St.Michael. $4,500/obo. Call Tammy 250-572-5842. Queen bdrm suite w/frame/ Headboard/ Lge Dresser w/Mirror & Chiffonier & nite table $300obo. (250) 377-7449
Heavy Duty Machinery
1 Computer desk. $50. 1 cloth rocking chair. $150. 1 glass top side table. $50. 250-5795696. A-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifications possible doors, windows, walls etc., as office or living workshop etc.,Custom Modifications Office / Home” Call for price. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE: $0.99/each for a box of 180 ($178.20). Also full range of tree, shrub, and berry seedlings. Free shipping most of Canada. Growth guarantee. 1866-873-3846 or TreeTime.ca.
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Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine. Stock up now. Campfire wood. (250) 377-3457.
Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988
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Townhouses 3bdrms, 2-bath, Lower Sahali. N/S. Pet friendly, fenced yard. $1600/mo. 250-377-6888. 3Bdrms N/Shore. $1200/mo. Avail immed. 554-6877/250-377-1020.
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2bdrm 2bth upper duplex Lafarge $750, ac, n/p, n/s mature couple pref Avail Jan 1st. 250573-2529.
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1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop. 55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794.
**BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2018** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,300 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly. Call for more information. 1-250-371-1333.
1989 Mercedes 560 SEC. 61,000kms. Hagerty Appraisals #2 car $10,000USD. Selling $10,000 CDN 250-574-3794
Auto Accessories/Parts 4-Eagle GTII P275/45R20 M&S $400. 2-275/40ZR17 BF Goodrich M&S $275. 2-Goodyear Eagle 245/50VR16 M&S $200. 2-P215/60R16 M&S Pacemark $200. 2P225/60R16 All Season Motomaster $175. Call 250-3198784.
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Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $5,500.00/obo 250-554-0580
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Beautiful 1bdrm, sep ent on S. T. River. N/S/P/P. $895. large living space 15miles east of Kamloops Mature Person, must have vehicle 250-5735498. Dallas 1bdrm. $1,000/mo util incld. N/S, N/P. Close to bus. Avail immed. 250-573-4745.
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MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, 1-Standard 8ft truck canopy $300. Call 250851-1115 after 6pm or leave msg. Queen bdrm suite w/frame/ Headboard/ Lge Dresser w/Mirror & Chiffonier & nite table $300obo. 2 love seats Twin White fabric in great condition $150 for pair. Kenmore stove like new/nice & clean $95. Built-in Dishwasher like new $70obo Baycrest washer & dryer excellent condition $200 for set. Filter queen vacuum cleaner like new $250 obo. Hubert @ 250-377-7449 SAWMILLS from only $4,397 MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-5670404 Ext:400OT. Snow Blower 8hp Sears brand $500obo (250) 577-3120
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