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Reed Fraser, attired in all-red, wearing the Scotiabank hockey jersey and facing the camera, celebrated his sixth birthday on the weekend with a kids versus parents street hockey game in the Juniper Park parking lot. While some snow remains throughout Kamloops, the recent sunshine and warm temperatures have slowly but surely begun melting the white stuff. Spring arrived at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday and Environment Canada is calling for mild temperatures to continue, with highs of 11 C on Wednesday and Thursday, rising to 12 C by Saturday.
The mayor of Kamloops says there is a strong interest in the cannabis industry, but those wanting to set up shop legally will need to meet certain criteria to ensure the criminal element is kept out. “We’re anticipating probably 20 retail outlets in Kamloops by the time everything’s done,” Christian told KTW. During his state of the city address last week, Christian said the city is working through those files, which is complicated by the fact not all decisions surrounding legalization and regulation have been finalized. The federal government is preparing to legalize the recreational use of marijuana at the end of summer, while the provincial government has been gradually releasing new information regarding its regulatory framework. “This is not our file, we’re not in charge of it, the timetable we do not own, but we have to react to it,” Christian said. When it comes to enforcement, Christian said the city wants to make sure criminals do not end up owning these retail shops. See CITY, POLICE, A4
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TNRD seeks to ban sales of marijuana Thompson-Nicola Regional District chair John Ranta: “This is the safest way to proceed so we can have some control.” TIFFANY CHRISTIANSON PHOTO
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Katie Watson and Kiera Dunbar relax with puppies from the Kamloops branch of the BC SPCA before a weekend yoga class at Let’s Move Studio. Let’s Move held a second animal yoga class to raise funds for the BC SPCA, with puppies, bunnies and guinea pigs stretching with humans.
The ThompsonNicola Regional District chair said the board is “exercising an abundance of caution” with its intention to ban retail recreational marijuana sales in rural areas in advance of legalization. “This is the safest way to proceed so we can have some control,” TNRD board chair John Ranta told KTW. At its Thursday meeting, the board paved the way for the ban by passing two readings of an amendment to its zoning bylaw. The amendment would exclude cannabis as a retail commercial use and direct ventures to municipalities. Ranta said the ban aims to prevent shops from opening before
rules have been set out by the province, allowing the opportunity for them to be grandfathered in. He likened it to medical marijuana facilities. “We don’t want a similar situation of uncontrolled retail sale of marijuana in the region,” Ranta said. He noted the situation will likely change once rules are clarified in the future. But the first step, he said, is an outright ban. “Would you want unregulated sale of
alcohol in rural areas?” he asked. The zoning bylaw amendment will head to a public hearing before it goes to a final reading. The federal government intends to have marijuana legalized by the end of summer. The provincial government has said recreational marijuana will be sold in government and private stores, with municipalities and regional districts having the option of not allowing such sales.
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“There will be no numbered companies owning [these] businesses in Kamloops, there’ll be no people operating businesses in Kamloops that have criminal records, there’ll be no connection to organized crime or that kind of thing in terms of our retail landscape,” Christian said. He noted the rules will be similar to the requirements needed to obtain liquor primary licences. On the city’s website, it states the municipality is in the process of reviewing its bylaws to determine what changes need to be made to accommodate the new business venture. It has no information to release regarding zoning or business licence requirements. The city and the Kamloops RCMP have discussed how to move forward with regulation enforcement once marijuana is legalized. “Our community safety committee has talked a lot about making sure the criminal element stays out of the retail landscape. We’ve talked about no access to minors and we’ve talked about driving that’s impaired as a result of marijuana consumption,”
Christian said. Organized crime is involved in the supply of marijuana in Kamloops — control those groups won’t wish to relinquish, RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller told KTW. “That’s something that we need to pay attention to,” Mueller said, adding that the RCMP will be working closely with the city on the regulation of retail marijuana. Mueller suggested if certified retailers are not able to keep up with the demand for legalized marijuana, there is the potential for organized crime to try to fill the gap illegally. “Security of the dispensaries is also a big concern,” Mueller said. “Those are some of the issues we’re going to be needing to deal with and continue to monitor going forward.” Last month, council voted to not extend temporary use permits to marijuana dispensaries, which remain prohibited by federal law. Director of developing and engineering services Marvin Kwiatkowski told council the permitting process for dispensaries would be costly and time-consuming, noting staff would prefer to work on rules for stores operating post-legalization under B.C.’s coming provincial framework.
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Westsyde students keep campaigning for lower voting age Grade 11 Westsyde secondary student Jakob Brown casts his ballot last Friday during a mock leadership debate in Teresa O’Brien’s political studies and civic action class. JESSICA WALLACE/KTW
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As Westsyde secondary, students continue their bid to lower the voting age in British Columbia, public officials at the provincial and national levels are considering the idea. “It makes me, at least, feel people are hearing us,” Grade 11 Westsyde secondary student Jade Blair said. “At least they are taking it into consideration.” Jeremy Reid’s social studies students began campaigning last year to lower B.C.’s voting age to 16 from 18. They argue it fits within their adult responsibilities, like driving and working, and believe voter turnout would increase if students could cast a ballot while learning political theories in school. “When you’re 18, you’re thinking about what you’re going to do with your life, where you’re going to live, what kind of money you want to make,” Grade 12 Westsyde secondary student Evan Harms said. “And you’re not really thinking about, ‘Can I vote right now?’ When you’re 16, those worries aren’t around yet. You’re just accepting information and learning it. It’s a good time to start learning about that [voting] and, throughout your young adulthood, you’re going to start voting a lot more.” Last week, B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver introduced for the third time a private member’s bill to lower the voting age to 16. Premier John Horgan said he is willing to consider it. Meanwhile, media reports indicate Canada’s elections chief may also look at lowering the voting age. Westsyde students sent letters to Weaver and Horgan, among other politicians, and recently received a response from the attorney general’s office. “I appreciate your interest and
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enthusiasm on electoral reform and the voting age,” states the letter, signed by B.C. Attorney General David Eby. “Your views are quite clear on your website and social media accounts, as well. My staff will consider your input in any related discussions on this topic.” Reid called the response “encouraging” and said aligning curriculum with current events allows real-world learning. He noted the Never Again movement in the United States, a student-led campaign to end gun violence after a Florida school shooting left 17 students and staff members dead. “That’s all young people, too, who can’t vote,” Reid said. While the students see momentum at the provincial and
federal levels, Kamloops NorthThompson MLA Peter Milobar said he has apprehensions about lowering the voting age. He has visited Westsyde secondary to discuss the matter and said if students are engaged enough to vote at age 16, they should be engaged enough to vote at 18. He also expressed concern about protecting students from influence by people in positions of power. “I do have a concern around the hyper-politicization in classrooms that we already see from time to time,” Milobar said. Some students expressed disappointment they did not see eyeto-eye with their B.C. Liberal MLA. “If they’re wanting to partake in the political process at a younger age, that’s part of it,” Milobar
ARE 16-YEAR-OLDS EDUCATED ENOUGH TO CAST A BALLOT? This semester, some students involved with the Vote 16 campaign are studying genocide with Jeremy Reid. Down the hall on Friday, other students involved with the campaign were holding a mock leadership debate in Teresa O’Brien’s Grade 11 political studies and civic action class. The Trampoline Party and Classic Liberal Party are campaigning to form government in the fictional country of Whundaland. “We have to create our own government, voting systems and then create our own rules and regulations for how our country is going to be run,” Grade 11 student Molly Egli told KTW. The year-long project will move from voting to town hall meetings, supreme court hearings and trade. “It’s definitely more handson and it puts us in the shoes of people actually in government,” Egli said. “And it’s fun,” added Grade 11 student Liam Christy. “Because it’s still a game.”
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said. “People aren’t always going to agree with your position.” Westsyde secondary student Liam Christy delivered a petition signed by about 200 students and staff members to Milobar’s Tranquille Road office last week and Milobar said he will deliver the petition to the legislature. “I felt I owed it to them to give them an honest answer,” he said. “It’s also my job as an MLA to deliver the petition to the legislature. I have absolutely no problem doing that.”
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Kamloops Heritage Commission members say they are frustrated after being denied funding from Kamloops city council and being told to take a back seat. “People just want to get things done,” commission member Jeff Lodge told KTW. City council rejected the commission’s request for more than $4,000 from the supplementary
budget, money the group hoped to use for heritage projects and educational purposes. Community and protective services director Byron McCorkell attended a commission meeting on March 14 to advise the group of its role in bringing ideas to council and holding it accountable from a heritage perspective. “No disrespect to anyone or any idea,” McCorkell said. “This isn’t an action committee.” Instead, the group was encouraged by McCorkell to spark ideas that would then go through the proper channels — city staff to city council back to city staff — allowing projects to be vetted. Commission chair Andrew Yarmie said the funding was approved in the past. Last year, $2,000 was allotted for heritage plaques on a North Shore walking tour. McCorkell called it a “symptom of where council is at.” Lodge said it is frustrating for members like him, who has invested countless volunteer hours to advocate on behalf of honouring veterans in the community. He has spoken with
Heritage Commission chair Andrew Yarmie with one of a number of historic plaques that were installed in downtown Kamloops in 2013. KTW FILE PHOTO
families, dug into the archives and identified streets to add poppies to street signs, an initiative adopted in other communities. “What we do — does it matter?” he asked. The project is in the hands of city staffer Julia Cyr, who brought mock-ups of Vicars and Clapperton roads to the March 14 meeting and is costing out the project. “The ideas are sound,” McCorkell said. “The process how they are implemented seems to be frustrating to some.” Lodge was happy with the design, though there is no guarantee poppies will rise above city streets. Local archeologist and commission member Joanne Hammond also expressed frustration, noting the group col-
lapsed onto the shoulders of one city staffer. McCorkell said the commission meets more often than other advisory groups, such as the parks and recreation committee, but Hammond said people don’t need reminders to go to parks and swimming pools. “Heritage needs a champion,” she said. Lodge asked who would advocate on behalf of heritage, if not the commission. “I think history is somewhat lost in this town because there’s nobody to champion it,” he said. Other heritage groups have a more narrow focus. The Kamloops Heritage Railway got the historic 2141 steam engine back on the tracks, while the Heritage
Society’s mission is preservation of St. Andrew’s on the Square. McCorkell said the volunteers could form a society outside of the Commission to raise money and green light initiatives, while asking city council for help. He added committee structures are under review. Coun. Ray Dhaliwal stressed the projects are not dead in the water. “Council does support heritage,” he said. “Don’t feel that council’s against you because it’s not.” Yarmie said the commission will continue to provide ideas. Later in the meeting, it made a motion to council recommending conversations be initiated with Tk’emlups te Secwepemc to pave way for archeological signs erected along the Rivers Trail.
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The Kamloops Heritage Commission is looking beyond the city’s colonial past. The commission has passed a motion to recommend Kamloops council initiate collaboration with Tk’emlups te Secwepemc that could result in archeological signage added to the Rivers Trail. “The idea is to move from just heritage dealing with the colonial past to heritage dealing with the 8,000 years that the Secwepemc people have been here,” commission chair Andrew Yarmie said, noting the proposal stems from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. “It sort of opened the eyes of a number of people on the [heritage] commission to the
fact that we should be in more communication with Tk’emlups band and also start to get residents aware of the heritage that exists here prior to contact,” Yarmie said. Numerous archeological sites can be found along the Rivers Trail. That, coupled with the popularity of the walking trails among residents and tourists, creates an ideal educational opportunity, he said. It is unclear what the project would cost, but it will require approval from Kamloops council to move forward. A similar concept is also in the works for the new multiuse pathway in Peterson Creek. Construction on the $3.35 million project ($1 million of which comes from Bike BC funding) is resuming this week. The project was delayed last summer due to wildfire dangers.
Extreme Excavating hoped to work through the winter, but workers were hindered by colder temperatures. The project — which will allow commuters and recreational cyclists and hikers to move between downtown and Sahali while providing a safer route option than using busy Columbia Street — is expected to be completed in June. The pathway will stretch 1.7 kilometres and has been designed with a number of switchbacks to avoid the punishing grades a straightforward trip between the downtown and Sahali would require. The first phase of the path will end at Sa-Hali secondary. Future phases are proposed to include connections to Lower Sahali at Bestwick Drive and to Upper Sahali along Summit Drive. The asphalt path will include benches and lighting.
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A Lower Mainland man who in 2016 deliberately walked into the path of a train near his Kamloops motel days after shooting a gangster to death in Maple Ridge has been sentenced to serve more than six years in prison. Deane Sahantovitch, 56, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was ordered to spend six and a half years behind bars. Sahantovich shot and killed Jonathan Patko on Sept. 24, 2016. He and three others then fled the Lower Mainland, travelling first to Alberta before spending three nights in Kamloops. Court heard Sahantovich was attempting to kill himself on Sept. 30, 2016, when he left his suite at the Ranchland Motel in Valleyview and walked across the Trans-Canada Highway and onto CP Rail tracks. CP Rail video played in court showed Sahantovich stepping out of the bushes and into a train’s path. The locomotive was travelling about 13 km/h when it struck Sahantovich. He was taken to hospital with injuries described at the time by police as serious. Once he is given credit for time served before trial, Sahantovich has about four-and-a-half years remaining on his sentence. He was also ordered to submit a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database.
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anxiety issues? It’s an unexpected and mostwelcome souvenir from the three weeks hubby and I spent living in a tiny cabana, about a Blair Walsh punt from the ocean. Yes, this is another how-I-spentmy-vacation column because, every so often, writing about the latest weird decision at city hall or in Victoria or Ottawa gets a bit tiresome. In addition, so many people have wanted to know what we found when we headed to the Central American country because, apparently, it has become the place for adventurous tourists to visit. First, the bad — or ironic — side of the trip. Tired of being surrounded by wildfire smoke every single summer vacation we have taken, we opted to skip summer travel and head to big water. However, in Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the region, when you live in the rural areas, such as where we stayed, people burn their garbage — all their garbage, even stuff that doesn’t burn, like glass bottles and tin cans. We should have paid more attention to the photos accompanying the booking site for the cabana. Had we done so, we would have realized the furnishings consisted of a really tiny table, four plastic patio chairs and four monstrous rocking chairs. None were comfortable. It also would have been nice to know the road to the cabana was dirt and rocks with a lot of ruts and homemade speed bumps that eventually washed away into
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LEVEL the beach area just past where we stayed. I’m pretty sure the many trips up and down it started the healing process to resolve what truly was an annoying anxiety response when riding in a car, a legacy of a bad car accident I was involved in years ago. Between narrating the drive — “watch out for the chickens, transmission-killing speed bump ahead, here comes the car-washing deep puddle” — and simply being enthralled with the countryside, not one shriek of terror was uttered. So far, that’s continued back here in Kamloops, much to hubby’s delight. There are so many reasons to add Nicaragua to a bucket list. The people are wonderful. They’re kind and giving and they really like Canadians. When faced with someone trying to remember her university Spanish from more than four decades ago, they patiently help with the conversation, adding in charades when necessary to do the translating. Fernando and his wife Maria live on the three-acre site we stayed. As soon as we arrived and got
settled, he hopped into the car with us to direct us to what we would call home-based businesses so we could stock up on some basic food supplies before driving into town for a major shopping spree. He warned us to be muy seguro when driving the highways, places where you might see people riding in horse-drawn wagons, riding bicycles, manoeuvering major transportation trucks or driving bicycle taxis. We also encountered a herd of cows wandering down a side road three times. Those cows don’t move for anyone. There were two Sandinista rallies on the property behind us, but instead of raging against the Anastasio Somoza regime of the late 1970s or the Contras who were funded by the CIA to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s, the topic of bull-horn speechifying was the U.S. and, in particular, President Donald Trump. And yes, we made the trek to Monty’s Beach Lodge, co-owned by former Kamloopsian Don “Monty” Montgomery. It was gorgeous. I could go on — the sun shone every day, the neighbourhood dogs learned when it was dinnertime at our cabana, the scenery was magnificent and there were more than enough touristy things that could be done. So, we’re skipping the summer vacation again this year and have already booked next year’s winter escape. I picked the destination this time — and it will make a really cool how-I-spent-my-vacation column for 2019. dale@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @mdalebass
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR GIVE TAX WE CAN TRUST TEENS WITH THE VOTE BREAK Editor: My husband has dementia and is entitled to the disability credit on his tax return but I am not allowed to claim the caregivers tax credit because of my income. That is not right. I worked and paid taxes for more than 30 years. I am 83 years old and take care of my husband full-time. My income should not affect my right to claim the caregivers tax credit. We seniors deserve all the help we can get since we have already paid our share of taxes. Louise Oakes Kamloops
TIME FOR NO CHANGE Editor: The provincial government should abolish the process of changing the time twice a year. We do not need it and we should not follow the United States. Ed Sretka Kamloops
Editor: Re: B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver re-introducing a private member’s bill to lower the voting age in the province to 16: Arguments about teens being too dumb and uninformed to vote are hilarious. I’ve worked on numerous campaigns over the last six years at all levels of politics. I campaigned for a TNRD regional director, for a federal MP candidate, for provincial MLA candidates and for municipal candidates. The bulk of that campaigning included knocking on thousands of doors in Kamloops and the surrounding area. If the argument is teens are too ill-informed, that they are not
interested enough in the process to be included, then we should hold the rest of our voters to the same standard. How about a voting aptitude test for all ages to obtain a voter registration card? Yeah, that is a terrible idea. Every single election on the day before voting day, when I’ve been talking with voters, the majority are surprised that tomorrow is the day to vote. The best was the day before the vote in the lengthy and highly contentious 2015 federal campaign. “Oh, there’s an election on right now?” came a reply. Forget having made up their minds well in advance after exhaustive research — a huge chunk of
voters have their choice narrowed down to a couple of options by the time they are holding their ballots. Many adults still make their final decision while inside the voting booth. Step away from the rhetoric and spend some time with the people some are so quick to judge. We trust 16-year-olds with a driver’s licence. We trust them to work. We tust them to pay taxes. It’s time we heard their voice. Tyler Carpentier Kamloops Editor’s note: Tyler Carpentier was deputy campaign manager for Kamloops-South Thompson Green candidate Donovan Cavers in the 2017 provincial election.
LEAVE POISON AND PROFITS IN GROUND Editor: KTW’s March 7 article (‘Council criticized for its mining buffer motion’) is a classic demonstration of the clash between greedy mining corporations and humanitarian, peopleoriented community leaders; in particular the Kamloops council members who voted for the buffer. The Kamloops Exploration Group is part of the problem in Canada’s mining industry.
Mining groups want the right to carry out mining operations and take all the profits they can without regard for people or the environment. They have no concern about leaving behind the detritus and harmful effects that come out of these operations. We have 10,000 abandoned mines in Canada, each one poisoning the environment and proximate communities with deadly chemicals
and toxins. We face the prospect of paying out tens of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left behind. Mining companies are actually encouraged by the federal government to abandon these operations to the benefit of the corporations, but certainly not the communities. The government’s recent refusal to approve the proposed Ajax mine is a great and courageous step in the right direction.
We don’t need an economy stimulated by harmful operations when there are so many alternatives. What city council can now do is to seek out those real and available methods of creating new jobs and expanding our workforce through positive entrepreneurship. Let the poisons and profits for the greedy stay in the ground. Ken R. Blawatt Kamloops
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“So many bitter people upset that cannabis is being relegalized. I bet the same grumpy people want the much more dangerous and destructive alcohol banned too, right?” — posted by Emily
RE: STORY: MOUNTIES URGE RESIDENTS TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MURDER SUSPECT:
“Of course the guy would come here. Look at all the services we have for criminals.” — posted by Lucu Loo
RE: STORY: MAYOR’S STATE OF CITY MESSAGE: BUSINESS IS BOOMING IN KAMLOOPS:
“All I see here is a hidden declaration to spend more and raise taxes, not trying to minimize property taxes and pay down the debt. “I really like the online comment: ‘Maybe he needs to come to the North Shore and walk down Victoria Street to see the real Kamloops.’” — posted by Fairminded
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Thompson Rivers University geography students Kaitlin Japp (left) and Lesley Campbell document places around Kamloops on Tuesday as part of a cultural mapping project for women called EmpowHER: A Women’s Map to the City. Visiting scholar Marnie Badham and TRU student collaborator Emily Dundas Oke created the cultural mapping project as part of their research. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
FACEBOOK PHOTO Jason Gourlay, 43, is charged with failure to stop at the scene of an accident and attempting to obstruct justice, though it remains to be seen to which charge or charges he will plead guilty.
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City awaits word on new RCMP superintendent MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com
The mayor of Kamloops expects to hear back from Ottawa by the end of the month regarding a decision on a new detachment commander for the Kamloops RCMP. “We’ve made a recommendation to the commissioner in Ottawa,” Christian told KTW. Interviews of candidates were completed last week to fill the superintendent posi-
tion being vacated by Supt. Brad Mueller and the city’s recommendation will need to be approved before the appointment can be made, Christian said. In January, Mueller announced he was leaving the Tournament Capital, having accepted a promotion within the national police force and a position in Edmonton, where he will be deputy criminal operations officer. Mueller, who took over as Kamloops’ RCMP superintendent in 2013, worked
with the City of Kamloops and the Southeast District RCMP to help find his successor. There has been a few staffing changes at the Kamloops RCMP detachment recently. In January, the local detachment welcomed new operations officer Insp. Todd Balaban, who succeeded Insp. Sunny Parmar. Sgt. Lorne Wood is heading to Merritt at the end of the month to lead that community’s detachment.
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Jason Gourlay will plead guilty in connection with the Nov. 4, 2016, hitand-run that killed Kamloops teenager Jennifer Gatey. Gourlay did not appear in Kamloops Law Courts last Friday afternoon — after appearing in the morning — but his lawyer, Jeremy JENNIFER GATEY Jensen, and Crown prosecutor Neil Flanagan told court they have reached an agreement for Gourlay to plead guilty, a date for which will be set on Monday, March 26. Gourlay, 43, is charged with failure to stop at the scene of an accident and attempting to obstruct justice, though it remains to be seen to which charge or charges he will plead guilty. The maximum sentence for failure to stop at the scene of an accident when a death is involved is life in prison. Gourlay remains out of custody. Jennifer Gatey was struck and killed alongside Pacific Way on Nov. 4, 2016, while waiting for a bus. The 16-year-old lived with her family in a home less than a block away from the bus stop. She was killed a day before her 17th birthday. The driver of the vehicle that struck her did not stop and drove away. Police soon released video from a homesurveillance system in the area showing what appeared to be a dark-coloured Jeep-style vehicle in the area at about the time Gatey was killed. During the next two days, Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2016, police received a tip and descended on a home in Dufferin, across Highway 1 from Aberdeen. There, police strung yellow tape around the yard and covered the front half of a black Jeep with a tarp as they examined the vehicle. There was what appeared to minor damage to the driver’s side front end of the vehicle. Police then seized the Jeep and forensic evidence was collected. Gourley was arrested and charged on March 3, 2017.
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Playing with fire caused duplex blaze Kamloops firefighters douse a blaze in a duplex at Westsyde Road and Kyle Drive on March 12. The fire was caused by what police called “youth playing.” Two families were affected and online fundraising efforts have been started. JESSICA WALLACE/KTW
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A fire that gutted a former Habitat for Humanity duplex in Westsyde last week was caused by “youth playing.” Reports online suggest a youngster may have been spraying an aerosol can into a lighter or match to create a makeshift blowtorch, but Kamloops RCMP would reveal few details. “The cause, it sounds like there’s indicators that it might have been related to some youth playing, but given that there’s no criminal intent and all other things taken into account, we’re not looking at it further,” Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Brandon Buliziuk said. Buliziuk said the file has been closed and charges are not being recommended. No further details could be provided as they relate to a youth. A duplex just north of Centennial Park, at the northeast corner of Westsyde Road and Kyle Drive, went up in flames on Monday, March 12. After the fire, GoFundMe campaigns were launched to help the two families who lived in the duplex. The two online fundraising efforts are at https://www.gofundme.com/helpwaterhouse-family and at https://www. gofundme.com/t95cy-family-homedestroyed. Kamloops Fire Rescue said the fire
started in the basement on the north side of the duplex. Four fire halls responded and it took crews about 45 minutes to put out the fire. One person, who appeared to be a male youth, was taken to hospital to be treated for undetermined injuries. The duplex, which remains standing and charred, was a charitable project of Habitat for Humanity Kamloops more than a decade ago, the third and fourth projects the local non-profit builds for families who have difficulty buying a home. Families are selected based on income and having kids under age 11. They are required to put in 500 hours of “sweat equity” — three months of full-time work, which can be divvied up — into the project before they can move
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LOCAL NEWS NOTICE OF EXCLUSION APPLICATION Regarding Land in the Agricultural Land Reserve
Rose Hill Estate Properties Ltd. I, ............................................................................................................................................................................................. (full name, or names, of registered owner)
Suite 100-190 Alexander Street, Vancouver BC, V6A 1B5 of ............................................................................................................................................................................................ (mailing address)
intend on making an application pursuant to Section 30(1) of the Agricultural Land Commission Act to exclude from the Agricultural Land Reserve the following property which is legally described as, LEGAL SUBDIVISION 2 OF SECTION 34 TOWNSHIP 19 RANGE 17 WEST OF THE 6TH MERIDIAN KAMLOOPS DIVISION YALE DISTRICT EXCEPT PLAN 20391
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Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to,
City of Kamloops - 105 Seymour Street, Kamloops BC, V2C 2C6 ............................................................................................................................................................................................... (name and mailing address of the local government)
April 13 2018 by .............................................., ...........
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Operations at Lafarge in east Kamloops may soon resume, but neighbours are looking for answers before the plant starts up again. Lafarge Canada Inc. has filed an application under the Environmental Management Act to discharge emissions from a pumice dryer and gypsum granulator at its location on Shuswap Road. Jennifer Lewis, communications director for Lafarge Canada, told KTW via email that the plant will be producing gypsum for agricultural markets and dry pumice as an ingredient in concrete. A notice posted by the company says the facility will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and that the emissions will be treated with a dust collector baghouse. In October 2016, Lafarge Canada Inc. announced it would cease cement plant operations at its plant. Then-mayor Peter Milobar called the closure a “huge blow.” When it shut down, the plant employed 36 people full-time. Lafarge said it closed the facility because it was feeling the effects of the economic downturn
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in Alberta at the time, calling the shutdown an “extended hiatus.” The plant later served as a cement terminal, employing nine people. Lewis said the number of employees will fluctuate as Lafarge “explores other opportunities” for the site and its equipment. The original notice, which was first posted March 1, stated “any person who may be adversely affected” by the emissions should write to both the Lafarge office in Coquitlam and the ThompsonNicola Regional District. But a call to the TNRD said the notice contained an error and that its office is not involved. Staff there have been redirecting people to write to the Ministry of Environment. Wayne Welsh’s home is one of the closest properties to the plant. He has lived on Shuswap Road, a field away from Lafarge, for 20 years. “We live just about eye-level with those stacks and we’ve complained over the years — not only us, but the neighbours on both sides have — of the corrosive dust coming down on vehicles and eating the paint,” Welsh said. He said he is worried that with operations restored, he will see pollution return to previous levels and won’t have a chance to provide input beforehand.
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“I guess we feel that with all the fuss that was made over Ajax and the people up in Aberdeen… I think very little attention has been paid to Lafarge and their practices,” he said. Welsh said he is talking to his neighbours to gather and send feedback, noting all have said they will be sending letters to the ministry. Welsh said he is also concerned about how the notice process has been conducted. “When you come across the bridge, there’s a set of mailboxes there,” he said. “That’s where everybody posts bulletins. Everyone in the area picks up their mail there. So, if you’re going to post that you’re going to do an amendment to your permit, that would be the place to post it.” The notice Welsh saw was posted at Pinantan Lake, which is approximately 30 kilometres by road from the plant. Lewis said letters to all nearby neighbours are being finalized with an invitation to an upcoming information session, the time and location of which have yet to be announced. If permits are approved, Lewis said grinding and drying equipment will be back in action by May, but the cement plant itself will remain closed.
month to fix a date for trial. RCMP Const. Todd Henderson was charged in December with assault causing bodily harm. The
allegation dates to Aug. 25, but no further details have been made public. Henderson’s trial date is scheduled to be set on April 12.
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Austin named B.C.’s new lieutenant governor ‘Outstanding leader’ will replace outgoing Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon, who will leave post in coming weeks CANADIAN PRESS
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Liberal bill would tighten controls on sales and licensing of firearms CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Gun retailers would be required to keep records of firearms inventory and sales for at least 20 years under government legislation introduced Tuesday. The proposed measure — part of a wide-ranging firearms bill tabled in the House of Commons — is intended to assist police in investigating gun trafficking and other crimes. The legislation would also
require purchasers of rifles and shotguns to present a valid licence. In addition, the bill would expand the scope of background checks on those who want to acquire a gun. Instead of just the five years immediately preceding a licence application, personal history questions would cover a person’s entire lifetime. While crime rates in Canada have generally been declining for more than two decades, offences involving firearms have
become more prevalent, especially since 2013, the government noted. “Gun-related homicides, domestic and gender-based violence involving guns, criminal gang activity and gun thefts are all up significantly,” a statement read. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has already earmarked more than $327 million over five years and $100 million a year thereafter, to address criminal gun and gang activities.
OTTAWA — British Columbia’s next lieutenant-governor has a deep background in working with social and government organizations in the province. Janet Austin, who is the CEO of the Metro Vancouver YWCA, will assume the post in the coming weeks, replacing Judith Guichon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on Tuesday, describing Austin as an advocate whose work has helped others. “Ms. Austin is an outstanding leader who has dedicated her career to improving the lives of others,’’ Trudeau said in a statement. “I know she will work hard to represent the province and its people well.’’ Austin will be the province’s 30th lieutenant-governor. She is an active member of the community, serving on the board of transit operator Translink in Metro Vancouver, as well as the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and the Canadian Paediatric Society.
Austin was previously the executive director of Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland and worked for B.C. Housing. Guichon has been the province’s lieutenant-governor since 2012. “As someone who has dedicated her career to championing women’s equality and social change, she is a wonderful choice to represent Her Majesty the Queen in this great province,’’ Guichon said in a news release. “Ms. Austin will continue to inspire and connect British Columbians in this role.’’ Lieutenant-governors serve as the Queen’s personal representatives in their provinces and fulfil her roles and functions including granting royal assent to provincial laws. They serve terms of at least five years. Austin has been recognized with several awards for her work. She has been named as one of Vancouver’s influential women in business, won the Vancouver Board of Trade Community Leadership Award and the Wendy McDonald Diversity Champion Award.
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TORONTO — Canada’s financial consumer watchdog says there are “insufficient’’ controls in place at the country’s biggest banks to prevent sales of financial products that are misrepresented or unsuitable for consumers, and the banks’ sales-focused culture elevates the risk that employees may flout existing consumer protection rules. The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) released the findings Tuesday after completing a review of business practices across Canada’s Big Six banks following media reports last year alleging questionable sales tactics, such as selling services without the consent of customers. The FCAC added it is investigating alleged breaches of rules of conduct — designed to protect consumers, and which banks are required to follow — that may have been identified during its
review and will take action where appropriate. “Banks are in the business of making money. We know that. But the way they sell financial products and manage employee performance, combined with how they set up their governance frameworks can lead to sales cultures that are not always aligned with consumers’ interests,’’ FCAC commissioner Lucie Tedesco said in a statement. The review examined the Royal Bank of Canada, TorontoDominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada. The FCAC said it did not find widespread mis-selling, defined as selling products that are unsuitable or where the consumer is provided with incomplete or misleading information, at the banks. However, it concluded the retail banking culture is predominantly focused on selling and
rewards employees for doing so and that increases the risk that client interests are not always given the appropriate priority. The agency also said the controls these banks have in place to mitigate the risks of mis-selling are “insufficient’’ and “underdeveloped,’’ particularly compared to the banks’ robust corporate governance policies. The Canadian Bankers Association said Canada’s banks are client-focused with a commitment to high ethical standards and complying with the law when providing products and services to help customers meet their financial goals. “The six largest banks in Canada co-operated fully with FCAC and we are encouraged that the review found no widespread mis-selling and that banks get this right the vast majority of the time,’’ association president Neil Parmenter said in a statement. The Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Investor
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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing pressure to do more to protect the online privacy of Canadians as policymakers around the world work to grapple with the implications of using data collected by Facebook and other socialmedia companies for political purposes. The demands come after Canadian data expert Christopher Wylie alleged that data analytics company
Cambridge Analytica inappropriately obtained private data from Facebook users in order to help advance Donald Trump’s campaign efforts ahead of the U.S. election. New Democrat MP Charlie Angus said if information giants like Facebook have the potential to distort the outcome of elections, they need to be held to account. Angus said the time has come for the creation of a global national framework to deal with social-media companies
that hold vast stores of personal information. The NDP wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to raise the issue when Canada hosts the G7 summit this summer. Angus said he believes Facebook has a legal international responsibility to protect users’ information from bad actors looking to use it for nefarious purposes. “Facebook seems to have a very cavalier attitude towards the protection of private information,’’ Angus said.
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pay for higher up in their search results. It will also let readers buy subscriptions to news publications with a few clicks using their Google account. After subscribing, if users stay logged into their Google account, they won’t run into paywalls or be asked to repeatedly enter a username and password to access news from publishers they pay for.
It will also give journalists access to more secure internet by allowing them to easily set up their own virtual private network on a private server through an offering they’ll call Outline. It will open a DisinfoLab to use computational tools to monitor misinformation during elections and launch a digital literacy curriculum called MediaWise to help readers distinguish fact from fiction online.
Rights and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, said the government should work towards having one, national, statutory ombudservice for financial services complaints that can issue binding decisions. Marian Passmore, director of policy at FAIR Canada, said the rules are inadequate. “There is inadequate protection for Canadians at banks and reform is needed. FAIR Canada calls for a best interest standard so Canadians get the advice they expect and deserve,’’ Passmore said in a statement. The FCAC review was launched last April after CBC reported that some bank employees alleged they felt pressure to upsell, trick and even lie to customers to meet sales targets. The reports also prompted the House of Commons’ Finance committee to hold a series of hearings examining the allegations last June. The federal banking regulator,
the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, also last summer said it was reviewing domestic retail sales practices at Canada’s key banks, focusing on “risk culture’’ and “the governance of sales practices.’’ TD Bank, the focus of the initial CBC story, has conducted its own internal review and concluded it did not have a widespread problem with aggressive sales tactics. Meanwhile, banking-related complaints last year handled by an industry ombudsman last year surged by 28 per cent, with credit cards, mortgages and personal accounts drawing the most customer grievances. The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI), which handles customer disputes for Scotiabank, CIBC and Bank of Montreal, says it opened 370 banking-related investigations in 2017 to handle customer disputes for its clients, compared with 290 a year ago.
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EMPOWERING DONATION: On March 8, RBC Wealth Management, the United Way of the ThompsonNicola-Cariboo and the Women’s Leadership Council presented the International Women’s Day event at Hotel 540. There, RBC Wealth Management donated $5,000 to the new EmpowerHER program at the Elizabeth Fry Society. From left: RBC Wealth Management vice-president and branch manager Mike Edwards, Elizabeth Fry Society secretary Penny Douglas and RBC Wealth Management community manager Dave Maurer.
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JOIN IN FOR A GOOD CAUSE Thursday, March 22 The TRU Human Resources Club is raising money to send students to the annual CPHR Conference and Trade Show in Vancouver. Option 1: Go online to https://tinyurl. com/y97m7j8f to purchase a Chapters gift card. Online gift cards can be used at any Chapters store in Canada. Fifteen per cent of all gift cards sold goes to the club. Option 2: Shop at the Kamloops Chapters store from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, and the club will receive 15 per cent of the proceeds from sales that are made from shoppers who tell the clerk they are there to support the TRU Human Resources Club. Option 3: First, buy the gift card online and 15 per cent of the amount will go to the club. Second, visit Chapters on March 22 and use the card. The club will receive another 15 per cent from purchases.
ELECTRIC TIMES AT NEW LIFE : The BC Interior Community Foundation presented New Life Community Kamloops with a cheque for $3,889 for the purchase of electric hand dryers. The use of electric dryers rather than paper towels will reduce operational costs by nearly $1,500 per year, while providing a more sustainable and hygienic option for New Life’s clients. The funds for the project were sourced through The Stollery Charitable Foundation, which was founded by Robert and Shirley Stollery in 1994 and supports charitable and community building projects in Kamloops and Edmonton. From left: BC Interior Community Foundation executive director Robert Miller, New Life executive director Stan Dueck and foundation chair Hugh Fallis.
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Cree chief to deliver keynote at TRU forum Wilton Littlechild, a commissioner for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, will be the keynote speaker at forum this weekend at Thompson Rivers University. A Cree chief, he was six years old when he was sent to a residential school three miles from the home he shared with his grandparents. He spent 14 years in residential schools. Among his achievements are working for more than three decades with the United Nations as an advocate for Aboriginal people worldwide, a recognition of his experience in international law. Littlechild was the first treaty Indian member of
Parliament, serving a five-year term representing a riding in Alberta. The forum will begin on Friday, with a reception at 5 p.m. and a panel of TRU educators and community leaders. Littlechild will speak on Saturday at 9 a.m., with the rest of the day including breakout circles and a keynote speech by Viola Thomas and Mavis Erickson. The event will be held in the Barber Centre in the Brown Family House of Learning. It is free, but registration is required by email to Leona Thomas at doethomas13@ gmail.com or Paul Michel at pmichel@tru.ca.
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The City of Kamloops is moving a longstanding monument at its airport to a more fitting location — one step in an ongoing process to enhance the facility. The fighter jet statue located alongside the airport apron will be moved to the middle of the roundabout near the entrance later this year. “It’ll be a nice statement about entering YKA,” said Mayor Ken Christian, who is also president of the Kamloops Airport Authority Society. The aging airport artwork is in need of some TLC, making this an ideal time to relocate it, he added. “We’ve got to have a bit of a redesign of the support for the fighter jet,” Christian said. “The fighter jet needs to be repainted, so we have to do maintenance on it anyway.” According to Christian, the monument interferes with
airside operations at its current location and moving it will increase the city’s ability to enhance the apron — the section where planes are parked and boarded, refuelled and loaded and unloaded. The city refurbished the apron last year at a cost of $3.4 million, most of which was covered by the province’s B.C. Air Access Program. The project added a new road and gate directly to the apron for emergency vehicles and two new helipads. The plan now is to extend the renovated apron east toward Tranquille Road and develop four vacant lots, Christian said. This project will likely get underway in either 2019 or 2020. The airport’s budget is separate from the city’s and is funded primarily from airport fees and revenue from leasing property, he said. Christian said the hope is the extension will attract more aviation businesses, such as air freight or aircraft
maintenance in order to increase revenues at the airport. “[Leases] would be able to have aircraft access [from] one side of the building and trucks accessing the other,” he said. Christian told KTW Kamloops airport would make an ideal location for an air freight-sorting facility. “My perspective on it is that because Kamloops is so close to all of the major roadways and transportation networks, that it’s an ideal site for an air sort facility,” he said. In October, airport managing director Heather McCarley said both a cannabis-growing centre and a solar farm were being considered for a 15-acre piece of agricultural land near the river. Christian said the pursuit of a cannabis operation has since fallen off the list of possible uses, but noted the city is still negotiating with a company to develop the solar field. “But that’s in early stages right now,”
Christian said. Despite being able to generate more, the solar panels would generate one megawatt of power as BC Hydro programs now only accommodate farms of that size. If developed, the solar farm would join six other projects of its type at airports in North America. Also high on the priority list for the airport is building a small hotel on land just north of Airport Road. “We would have to have a privatesector developer that wanted to lease land to do that, and that would be something that would tie in with the Kamloops Golf
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These artifacts show the difference between items linked to the Kamloops horizon (above) and to the Shuswap horizon (below). Artifacts, like these projectile points from different times, or horizons, feature distinct traits, which are used by archaeologists to group and date them.
periods, or “phases” and “horizons.” Once archeologists have consistently found a specific style of artifact associated with enough archeological materials that have been dated “absolutely,” we can confidently state that style of artifact belongs to a specific phase, even if we are only able to provide a “relative” context where they were encountered. In our local area, the most recent chapter in the archeological sequence has been broken down into a series of periods, or horizons; according to Richards and Rousseau (1987), these horizons “comprise the Plateau Pithouse tradition, a cultural tradition characterized by semi-sedentary, pithouse dwelling, hunter-gatherer, logistically organized, band-level societies that relied heavily on anadromous fish for subsistence.” These horizons are referred to as Shuswap, Plateau and Kamloops, respectively, and each
have several distinct traits that appear in archeological sites associated with them. Included in these traits are specific styles of projectile points, which is a blanket term that includes stone points used with the spear, atlatl (weapons that preceded the bow and arrow) and bow and arrow technologies First Nations utilized at the time. It is these artifacts we call “diagnostics,” meaning we can use the concept of artifact typology to provide an estimate of age for sites in which we find them. The Shuswap Horizon is estimated to have begun between 3,500 and 4,000 years ago and ended approximately 2,400 years ago. While projectile points from this period show a relatively high degree of variability, they tend to be on the larger side and have a neck width that is indicative of use with spear or atlatl technology. They also tend to have concave
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bases, are triangular- or lanceolate-shaped with shallow notches in the corners or lower sides and have pronounced shoulders. The Plateau Horizon extends from 1,200 to 2,400 years ago and Plateau points are most always bilaterally barbed with either comer or basal notches. They range in size from large to small, appropriate for tipping spear and atlatl darts or arrows. The larger points, used for spears and atlatls, appear in the archeological record in the earlier portion of this horizon. Between 1,500 and 1,700 years ago, the smaller points, more appropriate for bow and arrow technology, began appearing. The Kamloops Horizon extends from between 200 and 2,400 years ago, when technology and behaviour patterns changed again as a result of contact with European colonizers. Kamloops points are small and very triangular in shape, with nar-
row notches along each side and straight to slightly concave bases, best used for bow and arrows. From this example, you can begin to see that with a lucky projectile point find, and a bit of detective work, we can actually start attributing date ranges to an archeological site even if we don’t encounter archeological materials or artifacts that could be dated absolutely. I encourage you to head down to the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park, at 200-330 Chief Alex Thomas Way, to view the wonderful collection of items on display and see if you can recognize how old some of them are from the descriptions and attached photos. Consider it the first lesson in dating, relatively speaking. Kim Christenson is an archeologist. Interested in more? Go online to republicofarchaeology.ca.
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Library’s next chapter continues A contract has been awarded to N & H Contracting Ltd. for the construction of a front entrance at the downtown library. The entryway is part of renovations underway at the library, which shares space in the TNRD Building at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue with the regional district and the Kamloops Art Gallery. The renovations to the library include the addition of a café. The cost of the entryway project is $866,000. It is expected to create a
more visible and accessible entrance facing Victoria Street, resolving safety issues with the previous entrance. The library remains closed for renovations and will reopen in April. In addition to a café and new entryway, the main floor collections will also be reorganized, with a consolidated computer area built around a revamped customer service desk. Increased study and softseating areas will be enhanced by removing the library’s lowhanging wooden window coverings, opening views to Mount
Peter and Mount Paul on the horizon. In the past 20 years, the library has seen only modest improvements, with the current updating the final phase of a modernization project that began between Christmas and New Year’s Day. A number of staff have been re-assigned from the downtown library to the North Kamloops location to support higher volume and help implement digital initiatives and self-checkouts at all TNRD libraries. Other staff are providing project support.
City branches to close earlier Kamloops public libraries will close earlier from Tuesdays to Thursdays as of May 1. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District board has approved the change in hours at the downtown and North Kamloops branches. Both libraries, located at 465 Victoria St. and 693 Tranquille Rd., will close at 8 p.m. (one hour earlier) from Tuesdays to Thursdays. The decision follows a review
that found visits and material drop-off dramatically dropped in the final hour of operation, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. The change will result in increased staffing levels for library times when demand is higher. Meanwhile, the TNRD’s bookmobile will expand to underserved areas when its replacement is deployed in early May. New stops will be added in
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The new president of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce wants to improve the organization’s communication with the public and how it responds to issues that arise. Joshua Knaak of FIT Financial has stepped into the role of president, succeeding Paul Ross, who moves to the position of immediate past-president. Knaak was elected during last week’s chamber annual general meeting, at which Mayor Ken Christian delivered the mayor’s annual State of the City address. Knaak moved with his family to the Tournament Capital from Edmonton in 2009 and became a chamber director in 2011. Knaak told KTW the chamber feels encouraged by the current leadership at city hall. As a part-owner of Arpa Investments, Knaak is involved with multiple real estate projects in town, including two on the North Shore: The Station, a mixed-use, 47-unit building that broke ground earlier this year on Tranquille Road that features micro-suites and an affordable housing development planned for Spirit Square. Arpa is also involved in a recently completed housing project at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Battle Street downtown. “We’re strong believers in the community. I think there’s great things ahead for Kamloops and [I’m] happy to be a part of that and happy to be involved with the business community with an organization like the chamber,” Knaak said. The chamber recently released its strategic plan for 2018, 2019 and 2020, with three main goals that will be Knaak’s focus for the next year: communication, stakeholder engagement and growth. “The chamber does a lot, but I don’t think we have necessarily done as good a job as we can of communicating what it is that we do both to the business community and also to the
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community as a whole,” Knaak said, adding that diversifying how the organization communicates with social media is important. He said the chamber also needs to be “immediately responsive” to current issues. “And we’ve taken some measures,” Knaak said. “We changed some of our committee structures around to ensure that if a hot-button issue comes up, we can address that in a timely fashion — and we’ll be continuing to build upon that.” Knaak also foresees the chamber partnering with other groups in town on common projects for the betterment of the community. Groups such as the chamber, Venture Kamloops, Tourism Kamloops and the local business associations often have their own areas of focus, but their goals are the same, he noted. Rounding out the new chamber executive is first vice-president Vivek Sharma of Sun Peaks Grand Hotel, second vice-president Bryce Herman of Advance Hospitality Consulting Services, treasurer Tyson Andrykew of Sandman Signature Hotel and secretary Gary Silver of PetSmart. Making up this year’s board of directors are five newcomers — Daniel Caroll of Fulton and Company, Dennis Claire of Domtar, Dona Gibson of BDO Canada, Alicia Glaicar of Mair Jensen Blair and Mike Henry of Thompson Rivers University. Gavin Rasmussen of K&C’s Construction and Renovations and Kate Stebbings of Trans Mountain return from last year’s board.
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Thompson Rivers University has some more big plans in place as it moves forward, work it estimates will cost anywhere from $280 million to $350 million. TRU president Alan Shaver and vice-president finance Matt Milovick reviewed the nine projects being considered. They include: • building a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM); • building a management centre; • building an Indigenous education and research centre; • creating a student collegium and centralization of student services; • creating an innovation hub; • revitalizing classrooms in Old Main Building; • amalgamating library facilities; • building more student housing; • revitalizing recreational facilities. Milovick said the work to upgrade classrooms in Old Main could start this summer. One of the key recreational facilities to be eyed is the gym next to the Ken Lepin Science Building,
although another component would be moving forward with a possible winter dome over the Hillside Stadium field and track at the Tournament Capital Centre. Shaver said the projects are the result of a call for proposals last fall. An advisory group has reviewed them and they will now be vetted for inclusion in TRU’s long-term capital plan. As for current construction, work continues on the new Industrial Training and Technology Centre next to the trades building. The $32-million, 58,000-squarefoot project is expected to be finished in June and will house instrumentation labs, labs for power-engineering, refrigeration and heating, ventilation and air conditioning, classrooms, display space and areas for students to gather. A new Nursing and Population Health Building is also under construction just inside the main gates of campus, with an anticipated completion in December 2019. The $38-million, 49,000-squarefoot building will house simulation labs, breakout spaces, student gather and study spaces, classrooms and research laboratories.
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Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy (left) joined Michael Crawford (right), president of the BC Association of Social Workers, in presenting the 2018 Heart of the Grasslands Award for exemplary service to Maureen Doll, co-ordinator of the Kamloops Early Language and Literacy Initiative Program at Interior Community Services. Doll received the award in Kamloops last Friday.
The Dividend Advantage Recently, the Canadian stock market has been a bumpy ride. Even dividend stocks have suffered. Rising interest rates and trade tensions with our neighbours south of the border have put pressure on Canadian stocks. Some common dividend payers are down 10% this year. This raises the question: Are dividend stocks out of favour? As a quick recap, a dividend is the portion of corporate The Dividend Advantage earnings that a company distributes to its shareholdRecently, the Canadian stock market has been a bumpy ride. Even dividend stocks have suffered. Rising interest rates ers. We’d like to highlight of the keystocks. potential and trade tensions with our neighbours south of the bordersome have put pressure on Canadian Some common dividend payers are down 10% this year. This raises the question: Are dividend stocks out of favour? benefits of dividend investing: As a quick recap, a dividend is the portion of corporate earnings that a company distributes to its shareholders. We’d like to highlight some of the key potential benefits of dividend investing:
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Dividend paying stocks can provide a steady income stream which helps reduce the volatility of a portfolio when markets decline. In fact, as stock prices decline, the yield increases, making these shares potentially more attractive to prospective investors. This may provide stability as people buying the stocks provide support to the share price. As noted earlier, some of these stocks are down over 10% so their dividend yield is quite compelling. For example, Enbridge Inc.'s price dropped roughly 15% and now pays a dividend over 6.5%.(Thompson Reuters, March 16, 2018) 2) Dividends can account for almost 40% of total returns Many investors are aware that “BIG-5” Canadian Banks have historically been considered a good investment. TD records show that in 1995, they paid only $0.22 per year in dividends and as of Mar 15, 2018, paid $2.68 a year and has a share price at the time of writing near $76.15, for an annual yield of 3.5%. Through all the good and bad years, this results in dividend growth in excess of 12%. Assuming 8% growth rate over the next 10 years, shareholders could receive a dividend near $5.79 generating a yield of 7.6% based on todays’ share price of $76.15. Thompson Reuters, March 16, 2018 3)
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Dividend paying stocks can provide a steady income stream which helps reduce the volatility of a portfolio when markets decline. In fact, as stock prices decline, the yield increases, making these shares potentially more attractive to prospective investors. This may provide stability as people buying the stocks provide support to the share price. As noted earlier, some of these stocks are down over 10% so their dividend yield is quite compelling. For example, Enbridge Inc.'s price dropped roughly 15% and now pays a dividend over 6.5%. (Thompson Reuters, March 16, 2018) 2) Dividends can account for almost 40% of total returns Many investors are aware that “BIG-5” Canadian Banks have historically been considered a good investment. TD records show that in 1995, they paid only $0.22 per year in dividends and as of Mar 15, 2018, paid $2.68 a year and has a share price at the time of writing near $76.15, for an annual yield of 3.5%. Through all the good and bad years, this results in dividend growth in excess of 12%. Assuming 8% growth rate over the next 10 years, shareholders could receive a dividend near $5.79 generating a yield of 7.6% based on todays’ share price of $76.15. 3) Dividends outpace inflation The “silent killer” or forgotten risk is inflation, which erodes purchasing power. Using the Bank of Canada website inflation calculator, inflation averaged 2.14% over the past 30 years (1988-2018). More importantly, a $100 basket of goods in 1988
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would now cost $188! It is a challenge to find Canadian dividend data; however, using the same time frame for the S&P 500 Index, it grew its dividends from $18.05 to $44.43 or in excess of 3% thereby keeping ahead of inflation. 4) Dividends are tax-efficient Investments can generate interest, dividends, or capital gains which are all taxed differently. Because eligible Canadian public companies have already paid corporate taxes, dividends are taxed favorably for investors to avoid double taxation. Assuming no other income, currently British Columbians can earn $45,916 in dividends and pay $0 tax. Another way of comparing dividends to interest is calculating the “interest equivalent factor. A common guideline is to gross up the dividend by 1.3 times to arrive at an approximate interest equivalent factor. For example: a 4.0% dividend is similar to receiving a 5.2% GIC. While interest rates have come up, we have yet to see these types of GIC rates. We believe dividend investing continues to be compelling and can be a key contributor to one’s portfolio. As always, please consult with a professional to ensure any investment strategies make sense for your personal circumstance. Until next time… Invest Well. Live Well.
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Kamloops is a city on the grow — that was the message from Mayor Ken Christian during his March 15 State of the City address to Kamloops Chamber of Commerce members. In the 40-minute speech, Christian emphasized a positive economic outlook on the city he has called home for the past 40 years, focusing primarily on the business sector, housing, the airport and the downtown. “We believe in business in Kamloops and we show that,” Christian told the crowd gathered at Hotel 540 for his presentation. The city’s recent revamp of development cost charges provides incentive for developers to build higher-density projects that are more in line with the goals of the official community plan because they will save money on such costs, Christian said. “One of the things that we were able to do is look at using square metreage rather than the unit values to calculate what development cost charges might be like in Kamloops,” he told the crowd. The municipality is still
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in the process of revising that official community plan — a process expected to be completed this spring. “We are just about to land it,” Christian said. “I think in another month, we will have that final public hearing on that document, which is the rewrite of a document that is well overdue for a revision — a document that talks about what cities need to look like in this millennium and going forward.” The city is also keen on supporting the tech industry, having updated its revitalization tax-exemption bylaw to include high-tech uses to attract businesses looking to relocate or start up in Kamloops. Christian also lauded the city’s 2017 building permit values of $224.1 million, which was a record. “That’s a lot of cash. That’s a lot of people taking risks and investing in our community,” Christian said. “A hundred-and-fifty-million of that is in new residential construction and that is representative of around 210 new single-family residences in Kamloops.” Those values are up 42.1 per cent over 2016’s value of $157.7 million and 7.4 per cent higher than the previous record of $208.6 million in 2008, according to city
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statistics. Christian also noted increases in active business licences and a decrease in business closures as signs of success. “There are darn near 6,000 business licences in Kamloops,” Christian said. According to the city’s annual report, there were 5,796 active business licences in Kamloops at the end of 2017, up from 5,510 the
previous year. The 2017 number marked a 10-year high, while the number of business closures in Kamloops were just under 400 “Businesses are coming to Kamloops, they’re staying in Kamloops and we are looking at our ability to support business by exploring mobile business licensing,” Christian said. In the area of affordable housing, the City of Kamloops has made multiple announcements in just a few months, Christian told the crowd. Since January, the city has announced two affordable housing projects on the North Shore, one earmarked for Victoria Street West and, just last week, a 52-unit proposal at the corner of St. Paul Street and Fifth Avenue. “This is an issue we really need to address as a community and this is an issue that I believe we have been successful in addressing as a council,” Christian told the crowd. The mayor also noted advancements at Kamloops Airport, such as the renovation to the facility’s apron and a new float plane dock. He said he wants to see direct flights to Edmonton and Victoria. Christian said Kamloops acts as a hub for the provincial government, which would make it ideal
for a direct flight to and from the provincial capital as Kamloops is home to the provincial offices of many ministries. “All of their regional offices — they’re not in Kelowna, they’re not in Penticton, they’re in Kamloops,” Christian told the crowd. Despite past direct flights to Edmonton having been grounded, Christian said he would like to see a more efficient and inexpensive route for trade workers commuting to Northern Alberta for work. “I terms of Edmonton, we need to find an alternate place to fly that aircraft,” Christian told KTW. “Kamloops [to] Edmonton back and forth doesn’t seem to work, so we need to be on a route, so if it was Edmonton, Kamloops, Victoria, that might work — or we need to look at a different airline.” In speaking of the downtown core, Christian told the crowd the city needs to work on driving nighttime business, noting city hall continues to work with Tourism Kamloops in that area. “And we’re looking at beautification and walkability of our downtown,” Christian said, adding the city plans to enhance the sidewalks of Victoria Street block by block over time.
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AH, WE HARDLY KNEW YEW A road behind Spirit Square in North Kamloops will be closed following a March 13 decision by council. The city says the portion of road, which is adjacent to 103 and 107 Yew St., is no longer required. It comes after the city announced in February a deal that gives Arpa Investments a 60-year lease of Spirit Square that will result in an affordable housing development to rise at the intersection of MacKenzie Avenue and Yew Street. The deal included the sale of the roadway to the development company. The affordable housing project will see the construction of two mixed-use buildings centred on Spirit Square. ASK Wellness will own and operate the building on the McKenzie Avenue side of the square, with more than 40 affordable rental units geared at housing seniors. The other building, on the Yew Street side, will feature commercial and restaurant space, as well as about 33 marketrate residential units for purchase. Construction on the housing project is expected to begin in June, depending on the speed of the rezoning process.
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a terrible start. We had some good successes. The Saskatchewan road trip was awesome. There are more positives to come. I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of growth is to come.” Here are a few things to watch for in the off-season and the 20182019 campaign:
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ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Luc Smith and the Kamloops Blazers took their lumps this season.
Kamloops relied heavily on 17-year-old players — there are 10 on the roster — and team brass knew growing pains were inevitable, but the goal was to make the playoffs. Development did not happen quickly enough and there was not enough consistent help from veteran players and goaltending to see the Blazers into the post-season. “You always want more,” said Blazers’ head coach Don Hay, speaking about 19- and 20-yearold players. “We were really happy with [Jermaine] Loewen. [Luc] Smith showed a big improvement. [Joe] Gatenby showed big improvement. [Brady] Reagan came in when we were struggling early and really stabilized the back end. [Nick] Chyzowski got off to a real good start. Not as good in the second half. Same with [Quinn] Benjafield. “The other 19 would be [Dylan] Ferguson. Not a good start. Real good, solid middle part of the season and then not a really good finish. Maybe they were used a lot and they got tired as the season went on. Those
are areas we have to evaluate.” MacGregor made a deal with the future in mind before the Jan. 10 trade deadline, sending NHL-signed 19-year-olds Garrett Pilon, the Blazers’ top scorer at the time, and Ondrej Vala, arguably their best defenceman, to the Everett Silvertips. In return, Kamloops received 17-year-old defenceman Montana Onyebuchi, 17-year-old forward Orrin Centazzo, first- and- fourthround picks in the 2019 WHL Bantam Draft and 2002-born prospects Nathanael Hinds and Kalen Ukrainetz. The haul was impressive — Onyebuchi and Centazzo showed great potential and seem likely to be key pieces for the next few seasons — and some wonder why the Blazers did not do more at the deadline, especially given the team’s bid for the 2020 Memorial Cup. MacGregor was happy with his decision to hang on to Loewen, who had a Jamaican-jerk-chicken hot second half to finish with 36 goals. MacGregor was also content to keep Ferguson.
“I don’t think we needed to do more,” MacGregor said. “We needed to protect the players we had. Dylan had been a starter for one year. We don’t know what his situation will be next year. He continued to grow, had an opportunity to improve his game and move along. I wouldn’t have done anything different.” Blazers’ majority owner Tom Gaglardi said 20-year-old veterans Joe Gatenby and Nick Chyzowski were kept to help mentor younger teammates. The Blazers were in the thick of the playoff race at deadline time, another reason why it did not make sense to sell the farm, Gaglardi said. Players packed their bags and met with coaches, management and media on Sunday at Sandman Centre. Smith, who would like to return for his 20-year-old season, was already selling fans on next season’s edition of the team. “We fell short of the playoffs,” he said. “It sucks. At the same time, there was lots of growth and there is a lot of good guys. We had
Goaltender Ferguson and forwards Loewen, Smith and Benjafield are eligible to return for overage seasons. Ferguson, who is signed with the Vegas Golden Knights and made his NHL debut this season, is aiming to play pro hockey in 20182019, but could be back for his 20-year-old season in Kamloops. “Being pro would be great and that’s Plan A for me, but it’s not too bad of a place being back here, either,” Ferguson said. “There are a lot of young guys coming up. If I’m back, I’m just going to try and show them how to do the right things and be a leader for them.” Loewen is likely to be selected in the NHL Draft in June. If he is, it will be up to his NHL team to decide where he plays next season. As usual, it is impossible to know how the overage situation will shake down. Should Loewen and Ferguson both end up back in the Tournament Capital, Benjafield and Smith will likely be pitted against each other in a fight for the third and final 20-year-old position. Benjafield, selected by Kamloops 19th overall in the 2013 bantam draft, had 19 goals and 47 points in 69 games this season, slight improvements on his totals from 2016-2017. Smith, who came to the Blazers in a trade in December 2016, had 21 goals and 44 points in 62 games this season, a large increase in production from the previous year. “It’s going to be a battle,” Smith said. “We’ll see what happens in the off-season, then it’s back to work in August.” See HAY, A28
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THE 19s Hay did not mince words when addressing the group eligible to return as 19-yearolds next season. “Did you talk to Stu yet? It’s got to be better. It’s a real weakness for us,” he said. “How do we improve these players? Is the group of 18-year-olds going to be strong enough to make up for the 19-year-old players or do we have to go out and find 19-year-old players that can help us?” Nolan Kneen was picked third overall
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Among those eligible to return are goaltender Max Palaga, defencemen Onyebuchi, Luke Zazula, Sean Strange and Devan Harrison and forwards Centazzo, Jackson Shepard, Brodi Stuart, Carson Denomie and Ryley Appelt. “You’ll see a big jump in development next year,” Hay said. “Brodi Stuart was one of the top rookie scorers in the league. The rest of the improvement has got to come from Shepard and Zazula and the other 17-year-old players. It’s a really important summer for those players, to grow, get stronger and come in here and be dependable, solid players for us.” Stuart, from Langley, finished tied for sixth in WHL rookie scoring with 38 points, including 16 goals. “I want to be more of a leader next year,” Stuart said. “All us young guys have been through it now. We can really contribute next season.” The maturation of this group will go a long way in determining how far the Blazers go in 2018-2019. “Sometimes, the development doesn’t come until their 18- to 19-year-old years,” Hay said. “Stuart, Zary, they did really well. It’s the second-year guys that you saw some struggles in for various reasons. Are the expectations too high of those young guys? Do they feel they’re going to do better because it’s their second year in the league? You have to look at why they didn’t show improvement.” THE 17s (AND THE RIZZO SWEEPSTAKES) Connor Zary finished 12th in WHL rookie scoring in his 16-year-old season and is pegged to be a cornerstone of the Blazers’ attack. With 11 goals and 29 points in 68 games, Zary did his part in the wooing process of fellow 16-year-old Massimo Rizzo, the
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blue-chip prospect the Blazers picked in Round 1 of the 2016 bantam draft. Rizzo opted to keep his NCAA options open by playing this season with the Penticton Vees of the junior A B.C. Hockey League. He had 13 goals and 38 points in 50 regular-season games and two goals and six points in six playoff contests as of KTW’s press deadline on Tuesday. “He told me he hasn’t committed anywhere for next year,” said MacGregor, who spoke to Rizzo on multiple occasions last week. “I was in Penticton again last night [Saturday] and saw his dad and we had a good conversation again. Our communications are wide open. I can’t do anything about it right now. We’ve given a big push at different times and we’ll do it again.” The family will not announce a decision until the BCHL season is over, said MacGregor. “He’d be a great onetwo fit with Connor Zary, working together on the the power play,” Hay said. “We really would like to get him to come here and have him play for us.” Defenceman Quinn Schmiemann, who played three games for the Blazers this season, seems a good bet
to crack the roster in 2018-2019. The Notre Dame Hounds’ blueliner was named the Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey League’s top defenceman of 2017-2018. Kyrell Sopotyk, who plays for the Prince Albert Mintos, was injured and saw action in only nine regularseason games, racking up four goals and 11 points. He has been on fire in the playoffs, with nine goals and 11 points in six games. The Hounds and Mintos will square off in the Saskatchewan league final, a best-offive series that begins on Wednesday. Rayce Ramsay, a 2001-born goaltender who played this season with the Saskatoon Contacts, was signed by the Blazers in September. THE 16s Josh Pillar, a 15-yearold forward, also plays for the Mintos and was named the Saskatchewan Midget AAA League’s top rookie of the 2017-2018 campaign. The Blazers selected Pillar 14th overall in the 2017 WHL Bantam Draft and he made his debut with the major junior club this season, joining the team for one game in February. He had 21 goals and 50
points in 44 regularseason games with the Mintos and has one goal and seven points in six playoff games. Pillar will push for a roster spot next season, along with 2002-born goaltender Dylan Garand, who also made his Blazers’ debut this season, posting a .905 save percentage in three games with Kamloops. Garand has played 22 games this season with the midget prep Delta Wild, recording a save percentage of .931 (third-best in the league), a record of 15-5 and four shutouts. Forward Riley Ginnell and defencemen Ethan Brandwood and Trevor Thurston are among the 2002born players also signed by the Blazers.
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DON HAY Gaglardi said coaching staff reviews will not happen until the WHL Bantam Draft on May 2 is complete. “We’re going to look at everything,” said Gaglardi, who brought head coach Don Hay back to Kamloops prior to the 2014-2015 WHL season. “We went through a full, exhaustive study last season and arrived at the decisions we arrived at. We’ll be doing the same thing this year.” Hay, who turned 64 in February, said he wants to return. “I feel really good,” said Hay, who in January became the winningest head coach in WHL history. “I feel disappointed we didn’t have a better season, but as far as energy and passion for the game, I enjoy coming here every day and coaching the young guys. I see improvement in all of them. It might not be as fast as some of them want to see improvement, but I thought the effort was always there. The work ethic was always there.” See KAMLOOPS, A30
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Kiran Keller scored with 16 seconds left in the third period to secure an atom female recreation title for the Houle Electric Kamloops Herricanes. Kamloops edged the Icebreakers 5-4 in the Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association title tilt at Memorial Arena. Recording points in the championship game for the Herricanes were Macie Stankoven (2G, 3A), Keller (2G, 2A), Sydney Clare (1G, 1A) and Alina Baltakis (1A). Raina Chala was between the pipes for the Herricanes. The 2017-2018 Herricanes: Keller, Stankoven, Clare, Baltakis, Zoe Steinke, Victoria Dickinson, Sarah Leggett, Payton Correia, Morgan Luce, Destry Eli, Kalynn Pywell, Raina Chala, Ella Thomasse, Molly Brookes, Cara Michell, Grace Robertson and Mikoh Rose. MANIACS WIN IT ALL The Maniacs edged the Knights 3-2 to claim the bantam recreation title at Night of Champions on McArthur Island. Recording points for the Maniacs were Maxwell Hinkson (2G) and Levi Toye (1G, 1A).
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BRIEFS Championships in Abbotsford on the weekend. She won gold, silver and bronze medals in single distances and claimed gold with teammates in the senior girls’ relay. Antifay finished second overall in her division. Cameron Thomas had three top-10 results. He was 10th overall in his division and won a bronze medal in the junior boys’ relay. Rebecca Thomas earned three top-10 finishes and was 10th overall in her category.
The 2017-2018 Kamloops Herricanes are female atom Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association champions. Kiran Keller played the hero in the final.
Zachary Kramer backstopped the Maniacs. Aiden Dumas (2G), Tye Kitamura (1A), Grady Eagland (1A) and Nate Smith(1A) tallied points for the Knights, who went with Kash Minion in net. CALLED TO THE HALL The 1974 Kam High Red Devils’ boys basketball team will this year enter the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame. Kam High earned
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with the Kamloops Sports Council Awards ceremony. Tickets are $50 and available at the Sandman Centre Box Office. Canadian Paralympian Emily Young will be the guest speaker. ON THE PODIUM Martina Antifay led the way for the Kamloops Long Blades at the CanWest Short Track Speed Skating
WATER WOLVES Matt Gauthier and Nolan Paul of the TRU WolfPack were in action at the Swim BC Senior Open Provincial Swimming Championships, held last weekend in Vancouver. Gauthier placed 10th in the 50-metre breaststroke. Paul was seventh in the 200m fly, sixth in the 400m individual medley and 10th in the 50m back.
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Kamloops’ bid in the coming weeks. The Victoria Royals are also bidding to host the national championship. Kelowna is rumoured to be marshalling to throw its hat in the ring. Bids must be submitted by the end of May.
MEMORIAL CUP Forecasted competitiveness of bidding teams will be taken into account when a decision is made by the WHL board of governors on which city gets to host the Memorial Cup in 2020. A decision is likely to be made in October. “We have to continue to see if we can grow our organization and, hopefully, make our team better,” MacGregor said. “Is it recruiting players? Is it adding players via trade? Is it staying the course? We’ve got to have a plan in place so that we’ll be a good team in 2020. Could we add some pieces that could make us better? Hopefully.” Kamloops announced the formation of an advisory board in January 2017,
THE DRAFT a group of business-minded individuals led by Blazers’ president Don Moores and chairman Norm Daley, the bid wizard whose exploits include leading the charge in bringing to Kamloops the 2014 Brier and 2016 World Women’s Hockey Championship. “The biggest thing is going to be the business plan that is put together by our Memorial Cup committee,” MacGregor said. KTW will have more on
The WHL Bantam Draft is scheduled for May 2 in Red Deer. Kamloops will draft either third, fourth, fifth or sixth in Round 1, depending on the outcome of the draft lottery, which will be held on Wednesday. Local hockey fans will likely be hoping top-prospect forward Logan Stankoven of Kamloops is still on the board when it is the Blazers’ turn to pick. The 15-year-old forward had 57 goals and 90 points
in 30 games for Abbotsford’s Yale Hockey Academy bantam prep team this season. “Logan Stankoven is a tremendous player and would be a very nice player here in Kamloops,” MacGregor said. “We don’t pick first. I don’t know where he will fall.” MacGregor said history will be taken into consideration if Stankoven is still available when the Blazers are on the clock, answering a question about the club’s decision to pass on Kamloops defenceman Joe Hicketts in 2011. “History is always something that you see,” MacGregor said. “We have to make the right decisions and get the best player at our spot.” The Blazers’ GM has two first-round selections in the 2019 bantam draft, nice capital to have in his back pocket.
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Obituaries & In Memoriam In Loving Memory Of Denise E. L. Fortier May 5, 1968 – March 26, 2017
Ruth Caroline Cherry
BROTHERS - SONS
On March 18, 2018, the Angels watched in awe as Mom opened her Beautiful Butterfly Angel Wings in Heaven. Predeceased by her husband Charlie and son Bob, Mom leaves to mourn her children Wayne (Moira), Jim (Pauline), Ken (Joan), Vicki and Gordon. Gramma leaves to mourn nine grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Mom was also loved by many friends and she was known as Mom to them as well. Daughter of Augusta and William Dreger, she was born on February 10, 1926. Ruth was predeceased by sisters Minnie, Norma, Shirley, Joan, Alma, Viola and Mildred. She is survived by sisters Eileen and Donna, and brothers Walter (Diane) and Gordon (Darlene). Pauline, where would our family be without you in it? Your commitment to Mom for the best care undoubtedly allowed Mom to live a happier life. Your weekly visits with groceries or anything Mom needed along with the friendship you and Mom had was so special. Thank you a million times for everything. We love you so much.
There are some who bring a light so great to the world, that even after they have gone, the light remains. Her wonderful smile and personality is sadly missed by her partner, family and friends.
Jesse Morgan Banfield
Shane Kitson Banfield
April 14, 1978 March 22, 2011
September 15, 1980 - March 28, 2011
Nicky, there are no words to express our gratitude for always being there for Gramma. Wednesday night Yahtzee games and running errands, you are Grammas sweet Angel. Special Thank you to Dr. Francois Malan for years of loving care for Mom, to Dr. Steven Rollheiser for your gentle and comforting ways and also to the staff and volunteers of Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home. You all go far beyond in giving the gentlest loving care at such a difficult time. Thank you all!
Gone but not forgotten Remembered for how they lived their lives and touched the lives of those around them. They will live in our hearts and memories forever.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to M.W.S. Hospice Home.
Love
Mom and Dad
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Berte Lily Willoughby (née Moi) December 21, 1934 - February 22, 2018
Berte died peacefully at the age of 83 in the comfort of the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice in Kamloops, BC surrounded by the loving embrace of her children and grandchildren. Berte was born in Outlook, Saskatchewan, the first child of George and Lily Moi. George was originally from Stavanger, Norway, while Lily was a Norwegian-American from Minnesota. Berte’s sisters Marie and Sylvia, soon followed and after several years in Camrose, Alberta, the family settled in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Berte graduated from Delta High School and entered the UBC Faculty of Nursing. It was at university that she met a dashing young medical student named John Willoughby and they married in 1956. She graduated with a nursing degree in 1957 and the newlyweds soon found themselves in London, England where John served his medical internship. Their first children were born in three different cities: first Michael in London, Siri in Vancouver and Toni in Boston, as John pursued his training in paediatrics. The family relocated to Kamloops where John established his practice. Lynn and David completed the five-children family and Berte was kept busy with home life. The family lived an active, outdoorsy life that the Kamloops area offered with downhill and backcountry skiing in the winter and cottage life at nearby Shuswap Lake in the summer. These activities were due in no small part to the organizational skills of Berte, who was herself an avid outdoors woman and a graceful skier. But she also enjoyed the quieter joys of sewing and gardening and her flower gardens at the Shuswap and in Kamloops
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Nelda Frances Straka
were a delight to behold. She was a quiet role model for many in the community. Berte was predeceased by daughter Toni in 1976. She later lost her husband John in 1987 and more recently, her sister Marie (Lawrence). But fortunately, she had a gift for friendship and an easy laugh and the last three decades of her life were full not only with her growing family of grandchildren but also with a number of loyal friends. With family and friends she enjoyed numerous trips to different locations in the world. Berte is survived by her sister Sylvia (Paul), her children Michael (Lorraine), Siri (Brian), Lynn (Sean) and David (Annelle). She will be remembered with deep affection by her grandchildren Lauren, Andrew, Carolyn, John, James, Kathleen, Justin, Nolan, Keenan, Toni and Liv. The family would like to thank faithful friends for their love and support, Dr. Tracey Smillie and Dr. Jill Calder for their kind and thoughtful care and the hospice staff for their end-of-life guidance. A Celebration of Life will be held on May 12, 2018 at Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul Street at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Kamloops Hospice Association or to ALS Society of Canada. Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com
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Nelda was born on May 5, 1926 in Graz, Austria and died on March 16, 2018 in Kamloops, BC, in her 91st year, active to the end. Nelda immigrated to Canada in 1952 with her husband Manfred. Living primarily in Toronto, in their retirement years also in Oliva, Spain. In 2016 they moved to Kamloops, BC. Nelda was well known for her keen zest for life, fierce independence and passionate love of music. She loved to plan trips and traveled extensively through Europe with Manfred, trips they continued well into their 80s. Her strength and resilience in recent years was an inspiration to many. Lovingly remembered by her husband Manfred, daughters Silvia (Mary), Claudia (Bill) and Isabel (Greg) and grandchildren Matthew (Erin), Alison, Samantha, Timothy and Cameron as well as her nieces and nephews in Europe. A Celebration of Life ceremony will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at the First Memorial Funeral Home, 177 Tranquille Road in Kamloops, from 2:00 - 5:00 pm (visitation from 2:00 pm, ceremony at 3:00 pm). Should friends desire, donations may be made to the charity of their choice in Nelda’s name.
Never Quit
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill When funds are low and debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Success is failure turned inside out – The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far,
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So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –
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It’s when things seem worst that You must not quit!
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Obituaries & In Memoriam Douglas Pasacreta
Andrew (Andy) Hasbon
April 18, 1937 – March 5, 2018
October 1931 – March 2018
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Andrew Hasbon, Father and Grandfather.
It is with heavy hearts the family of Douglas Pasacreta announce his passing on March 5, 2018 at the age of 80 in Kamloops, BC. Doug is survived by his two sons Edward (Melanie) Pasacreta, Jade Summer, two daughters Debbie Pasacreta, Angelique (Kory) Poliakiwski, grandchildren Jeena (Jeff), Caitlynn (Chris), Alicia, Nolan, Colton, Cassidy (Brett), Genevieve, Autumn, Marc, Dawson, Salish, great-grandchildren Cruz, Carter and siblings Dave Pasacreta and Pearl Pasacreta. Doug was predeceased by his infant daughter Brenda Pasacreta and parents Charles and Mary Pasacreta.
March 10, 2018.
After a lengthy stay in Lions Gate Hospital and a move to Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver, he finally succumb to cardiac arrest on
Andrew’s career as a telegraph operator with CNR took him to many places, Tete Jaune Cache, Endako, Lytton, Ashcroft, Vancouver Island, Kamloops and retired in Prince George. While in Prince George, he and his sons were involved with the Boy Scouts of Canada and Andrew received the highest order of leader for Canada.
There will be no service as per his wishes.
He was predeceased by his wife Tillie, half siblings John Gray, Paul Gray, Rosemary Hardie, Mary Petruk, Terry O’Donnell and leaves behind sons Craig of North Vancouver, Glenn of Abbotsford and daughter Gail Antifay (Bill) of Kamloops, granddaughters Holly and Martina, brothers George (Lena) of Kamloops and Peter (Myrna) of Kamloops.
Donations may be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice home in Kamloops.
Andrew will be laid to rest at the Hillside Cemetery in Kamloops, next to his wife Tillie and grandson Brian.
Condolences may be sent to family at DrakeCremation.com
Schoening Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Doug worked at his dream job of carpentry and building for many years. He was also a scout leader in the community and enjoyed fishing, hunting, gardening and horses.
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On his request, no memorial service, only a graveside service to be held on Friday, March 23, 2018 at 11:00 am.
Virginia Adeline Currie
EACH LOSS
On March 10, 2018, Virginia Currie (Chickloski) passed away with her daughters at her side in Kamloops, BC after a long battle with COPD. She is survived by daughter Cheryl Helgesen, husband Larry, granddaughters Meghan and Stefanie, daughter Andrea Currie, granddaughter Alicia and two greatgranddaughters Serenity and Patience. Predeceased by husband Fred Currie just 11 months ago. Virginia had a successful career in the Ministry of Highways and paved the way for women to move up the ladder in government positions. She loved her fur babies, grand babies and her gardens with prize winning roses. In lieu of flowers, please donate to The Heart and Stroke or Lung Associations. Family Memorial to take place during the summer. On-line condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
Each loss is very different, The pain is so severe. Will I ever stop missing This one I loved so dear? Good times we had together, The moments that we shared We didn’t have to tell each other How much we really cared. I never dreamed you’d go away, Never thought of sorrow. So sure you’d always be here Took for granted each tomorrow. Now my life is all confused Since you went away. You took a part of me And for help I daily pray. But when God sent you to me He never said that you were mine, That I could keep you always – Only borrowed for a time. Now, He’s called you home, I’m sad and I shed tears. Yet I’m glad He loaned you to me And we had these many years.
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WEEKLY CROSSWORDS CLUES ACROSS 1. Punctuation mark
39. The body’s main artery 41. Altered the original state
6. Married woman
44. Alleges
9. Nocturnal rodent
45. Short-billed rails
13. Suffix
46. Northern Thai province
14. A way to disappoint
48. Albanian monetary unit
15. Saddle horse
49. Who the Wolverines play for
16. West African country
51. Oath
17. Philippine island
61. Hillsides
23. What a beaver makes
62. Fertility god
24. Thou
63. Assuage
25. Make a mistake
64. Signs a contract
28. Receive
65. Ancient Greek war dance
29. Dresses
66. Allows
31. Burn the surface of
67. Lunar crater
33. Where coaches observe
68. Crash a motorcycle (Brit. slang)
36. Ceremonial offices
4. Type of electricity
35. Inflamed swelling on the eyelid
5. Article
37. Instrument in Indian music
6. Mothers
40. Request
7. Monetary unit
42. Make into leather without using tannin
11. Cautious in spending money
60. Spoiled tot
22. Infections
34. Patriotic women
3. Unit of length
10. Region
56. Presides over
21. Groans
2. Western Romanian city
9. Tan-colored horses
54. A single unit
19. A type of twin
30. Name given to plant groups
8. Single Lens Reflex
52. Astronomical period
18. “Girls” creator Dunham
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32. Improves
43. Defies 47. Neither 49. Flower cluster 50. Phonological unit
12. Belittle
52. Leaves in water
14. Sarcastic
53. Cavalry-sword
17. Fathers
55. Famed American cartoonist
20. Clothes
56. Messenger ribonucleic acid
21. Opera’s Callas
57. Scarlett’s home
23. Lentil dish
58. Make
25. Energy-saving module
59. Stony waste matter
26. Make sense of a language
61. What to do at auction
27. Hurries through
65. Incorrect letters
29. Songs to one’s lover
38. Paddle
MATH MIND BENDER
Gene’s Zoo
CROSSWORD ANSWERS FOUND ON A30
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!
Welcome to Gene’s Zoo. There are four types of animals: alligators, budgies, cats and dogs. There is at least one of each type and there are no more than 20 animals in total. There are at least twice as many cats as dogs, but no more than three times as many. The number of budgies is the number of dogs plus an even, positive integer. There are fewer alligators than any other animal. The number of budgies is equal to the number of other animals. How many animals are there of each type?
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S
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There are many possible solutions. THIS PUZZLE IS BY GENE WIRCHENKO Find more puzzles, articles, and full solutions online at genew.ca
WEEKLY HOROSCOPES
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
A few bumps along the way do cannot derail you when you are motivated, Aries. Just keep chugging forward and you can plow through any obstacles that spring up.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Find a way to work a vacation into your schedule, Taurus. You can probably use a respite from the daily grind, and a change of scenery is just what the doctor ordered.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 2 Gemini, if you slow down and listen to others, you may learn something new about yourself. Sometimes you have to view yourself through another’s eyes.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
You may have to trust a friend to handle something you would much prefer to handle yourself, Cancer. Trust that this friend will do a good job and express your gratitude.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Open your eyes to the bigger picture, Leo. Only focusing on the smallest details will prevent you from seeing the grand scheme of things.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, an unexpected situation momentarily takes you off guard. Take a step back and reassess the situation. Some careful reflection will help you find a solution.
MARCH 21 - MARCH 27, 2018 LIBRA
- Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, when someone calls on you for advice, offer it without reading too much into why it is needed. You are there to lend support and a different viewpoint.
SCORPIO
- Oct 24/Nov 22 Take inventory of your weaknesses, Scorpio. By recognizing your shortcomings, you can become a stronger person and both your personal and professional lives will benefit.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 You cannot always remain under the radar, Sagittarius. Sometimes your actions will be out in full view, and you need to accept any praise and criticism as it comes.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20 It’s time to prepare for an adventure of sorts, Capricorn. The excitement may be mounting this week as you get all of the details in order. Start packing for travel.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Lend support to a spouse or romantic interest because he or she will need it this week, Aquarius. You can’t fix all problems, but you can show your support.
PISCES
- Feb 19/Mar 20 There’s little time to waste this week, Pisces. Be sure you have all of your details set and ready to go. Efficiency is key.
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Mario’s Towing Is Expanding! Our Kamloops Office is Growing Fast! Looking for Light Duty and Heavy Tow Truck operators. Must Pass Criminal Records Check. Experience an asset but will train the successful Candidate. Please forward Resumes & Current Drivers Abstract to: kamloops@marios-towing.com No Phone Calls Please!
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TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING
Operations Manager Applicant must have general knowledge of plumbing, electrical, carpentry systems, and general computer knowledge. Must be receptive to site visitors and tour groups, as well as employee base. This is a seasonal position from April to October only, exempt, full time. Responsible for daily grounds maintenance, safety, and operation. Reports to General Manager and works with Program Director on operations, budgets, and employee management. Site is open 9–5 Daily, May through September. Position starts April 1 and ends in mid-October. www.Historichatcreek.ca for site information. Please email resume to Donp@Historichatcreek.com
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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society (1) Full-Time Family Circles Coordinator Objective: The Family Circles Coordinator provides preventative support and maintenance programs to preserve families where possible. The Family Circles Coordinator will bring all relevant parties together to promote cooperative planning and decision making to rebuild family support networks. This position will provide strong leadership in advocating the rights and jurisdiction of family units and will develop positive working relationships with community groups, agencies and societies. Requirements: t %JQMPNB JO 4PDJBM 4FSWJDFT )VNBO 4FSWJDFT 4PDJBM 8PSL or related ďŹ eld t ,OPXMFEHF PG GBNJMZ BOE DIJME QSPUFDUJPO MFHJTMBUJPO t *OUFSWJFXJOH BOE OFFET BTTFTTNFOU TLJMMT t 4USPOH QSPCMFN TPMWJOH BOE QMBOOJOH TLJMMT t .VTU IBWF FYDFMMFOU JOUFSQFSTPOBM BOE DPNNVOJDBUJPOT skills, both written and oral t ,OPXMFEHF PG MPDBM 'JSTU /BUJPOT DVTUPNT BOE DVMUVSF BO BTTFU t .VTU IBWF B WBMJE #$ ESJWFS T MJDFOTF BOE SFMJBCMF USBOTQPSUBUJPO t .VTU CF BCMF UP QBTT B $SJNJOBM 3FDPSE $IFDL t 1SFGFSFODF XJMM CF HJWFO UP CVU OPU MJNJUFE UP 'JSTU /BUJPO Applicants t 5SBWFM SFRVJSFE HFPHSBQIJDBM BSFB JODMVEFT .FSSJUU -ZUUPO and Ashcroft Start Date: ASAP As Needed Pay: $26.31/hr. Posting until position is ďŹ lled For full job description contact SCFSS.
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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society (1) Full-time Family Wellness Navigator Objective: Navigators deliver self-management support to participants via coaching and wellness planning. Participant-centered support is facilitated by an Integrated Wellness Plan. Navigators work with participants to set goals in all domains in their life and relationships, identify wellness team members (including peer supports, therapists, traditional healers/helpers/teachers or family) to help meet the goals, set a realistic time frame, and support individual in achieving or adapting their goals. Requirements: t %JQMPNB JO 4PDJBM 4FSWJDFT )VNBO 4FSWJDFT 4PDJBM 8PSL PS Relevant Experience t .VTU CF GBNJMJBS XJUI UIF EFWFMPQNFOU BOE DPHOJUJWF emotional, social, and cultural needs of the program participants as well as the family system t *OUFSWJFXJOH BOE OFFET BTTFTTNFOU TLJMMT t 4USPOH QSPCMFN TPMWJOH BOE QMBOOJOH TLJMMT t .VTU IBWF FYDFMMFOU JOUFSQFSTPOBM BOE DPNNVOJDBUJPOT skills, both written and oral t ,OPXMFEHF PG MPDBM 'JSTU /BUJPOT DVTUPNT BOE DVMUVSF BO asset t .VTU IBWF B WBMJE #$ ESJWFS T MJDFOTF BOE SFMJBCMF USBOTQPSUBUJPO t .VTU CF BCMF UP QBTT B $SJNJOBM 3FDPSE $IFDL t 1SFGFSFODF XJMM CF HJWFO UP CVU OPU MJNJUFE UP 'JSTU /BUJPO Applicants Start Date: ASAP As Needed Pay: Negotiable Posting until position is ďŹ lled For full job description contact SCFSS.
School District No. 73 Kamloops/Thompson
8610160 WE ARE HIRING! Full Time: Accessories Person Shop Technician Sales Person Apply with resume Manager@rivercitycycle.com 1794C KELLY DOUGLAS RD
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FIND A NEW CAREER Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society (1) Full-Time Social Work Case Aide Scw’exmx Child and Family Services Society is a First Nations service delivery agency providing culturally appropriate and holistic services through various programs to Aboriginal children and families residing on and off reserve in the Nicola Valley. You can learn more about us at www.scwexmx.com. Objective: The Social Work Case Aide is responsible for providing paraprofessional and support services to the social work team and clients accessing services. The Social Work Case Aide plays a key role in supporting the social work team in meeting service delivery standards through the provision of administrative service delivery support. The Social Work Case Aide develops positive working relationships with the extended family, foster families and a meaningful relationship with the children in care. Requirements: t #BDIFMPS T %FHSFF JO TPDJBM XPSL PS TJNJMBS mFME JT preferred t "CMF UP PCUBJO BOE NBJOUBJO $ EFMFHBUJPO t .JOJNVN POF ZFBS TPDJBM XPSL FYQFSJFODF PS t .JOJNVN POF ZFBS FYQFSJFODF XJUI 'JSTU /BUJPOT ZPVUI children and families t "CJMJUZ UP JOUFSQSFU BOE BQQMZ 'FEFSBM BOE 1SPWJODJBM legislation and standards of practice t %FNPOTUSBUFE QSPBDUJWF BQQSPBDIFT UP QSPCMFN TPMWJOH with strong decision-making capability t )JHIMZ SFTPVSDFGVM UFBN QMBZFS XJUI UIF BCJMJUZ UP BMTP CF extremely effective independently t 1SPWFO BCJMJUZ UP IBOEMF DPOmEFOUJBM JOGPSNBUJPO XJUI discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response t %FNPOTUSBUFE BCJMJUZ UP BDIJFWF IJHI QFSGPSNBODF HPBMT and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment t 1SPmDJFOU JO .JDSPTPGU 0GmDF 0VUMPPL 8PSE &YDFM BOE 1PXFS 1PJOU "EPCF "DSPCBU BOE 4PDJBM .FEJB XFC platforms. t 3FDPHOJ[FT BOE SFTQFDUT BMM DVMUVSBM EJWFSTJUZ BOE IBT knowledge of Aboriginal Culture t .VTU IBWF B WBMJE #$ %SJWFS T -JDFOTF BOE SFMJBCMF transportation t .VTU CF BCMF UP QBTT B DSJNJOBM SFDPSET DIFDL Start date: April 9, 2018 Pay: $45,069.91 per annum Deadline: March 23, 2018 Interviews to take place: March 26, 2018 For Full job description contact SCFSS
Apply by submitting your cover letter and resume by Mail, Fax or E-mail Attn: Yvonne Hare, Executive Director 4DX FYNY $IJME 'BNJMZ 4FSWJDF 4PDJFUZ $MBQQFSUPO "WF .FSSJUU #$ 7 , ( 5FM t 'BY reception@scwexmx.com
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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society thanks all those who apply, however, only qualiďŹ ed candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society thanks all those who apply, however, only qualiďŹ ed candidates will be considered for an interview.
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School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson) is presently seeking a Distance Learning Support Programmer to provide custom software design and network administration to support the District’s Distance Education program. The successful applicant must possess a postsecondary diploma in Computer Science. A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science would be an asset. Must possess a minimum Linux Certification LPI Level II or equivalent certification with a minimum of four years’ experience with Unix-based systems (Linux/ FreeBSD) and Wide Area Networks. Applicants can review the complete job posting and job description on the makeafuture.ca web site and apply by completing their profile by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2018 detailing qualifications and experience. For further information, contact: John Cuzzola, Director of Information Technology School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson) 1383 Ninth Avenue Kamloops BC V2C 3X7 E-mail to jcuzzola@sd73.bc.ca
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Kimber Model 1911 22 caliber pistol stainless, new in box. $600. 250-372-8633. Must have restricted PAL.
Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine. Stock up now. Campfire wood. (250) 377-3457.
Furniture 8ft Antique Couch $900. Round dining room table w/4chairs & 2 bar stools. $700. Couch & matching chairs $149. 250-374-1541. Diningroom table w/8-chairs, c/w Buffet and Hutch. Med Colour. $900. 250-374-8933.
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$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. 1-866-873-3846 or TreeTime.ca
Misc. for Sale 2-1955 Original Fringed Suede matching Leather Jackets. M-42, F10-12. $400/both. 250377-6920.
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29,000 grain water softener New in box $350 2-XL kids snowmobile helmets $20 ea (250) 256-0084
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MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, 1-Standard 8ft truck canopy $300. Call 250851-1115 after 6pm or leave msg.
Shoprider Scooter, cherry red. Like new, less than 30miles. $3500/obo. 250-3764813.
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Career Opportunity PaciďŹ c Hospitality Inc. DBA 627170 BC Ltd Hampton Inn & suites, located at 1245 Rogers Way, Kamloops is looking for the following fulltime positions:
Front Desk Supervisor
Duties include: Develop, and implement policies & procedures for department. Prepare budgets, monitor revenue and expenses, supervise sta, oversee training and resolve customer complaints. Wage: $24.00 per hour.
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Duties include: Establish and implement procedures for depertment. Co-ordinate and inspect areas for safety and health regulations. Train and supervise sta, maintain budget and payroll records. Wage: $23.59 per hour. Please apply in person, by fax: 604.580.1043 or by email to charanrai00@hotmail.com
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Musical Instruments 2-3/4 French and German Violins c/w case/bows. $200-$ 300. 3-Full size violins. $200$500. 250-434-6738.
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For Sale By Owner Beautiful Westyde 1997 Park Mobile covered deck, natural gas, built in w/d No dogs $82000 (250) 852-1201
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1985 Dodge Ram Charger. Very good condition. $5,000/OBO 250-579-5551
Cars - Sports & Imports
2006 Equinox. 168,000kms. Auto, 6cyl. Good cond. $5,250/obo. 250-554-2788.
Trucks & Vans 1982 Mercedes 300 SD TD. 2 owners, original and documented. 242,000km no drips. Show car quality. Asking $6000. 250-312-3525 before 8pm
Motorcycles
Recreational/Sale 1998 Chev 2500 club cab HD fully loaded w/8ft camper and jacks $5200 (250) 319-1742 2003 21ft Bigfoot Travel Trailer. Very good cond. Slps 4. $22,500. 250-578-7888. 2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $22,500. 236-421-2251 2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $69,000 250-374-4723
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1996 Chevrolet C/K 2500 HD 3/4 ton Truck. Good condition. $9,900. 250-374-1988 1996 GMC Suburban 4x4 good shape runs great $3100obo Call (250) 571-2107
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Utility Trailers Heavy Duty Trailer 5’8� inside 14’ long. 2x8 stud axles, elec brakes, ramps. $3000/obo. 250-577-3120.
Boats 14ft aluminum boat w/trailer and new 9.9HP Merc O/B w/asst equip $4000. (250) 523-6251
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2017 Coleman Travel Trailer 2 slides, A/C, Rear kitchen, front bedroom. $29,995.00. 250-320-7446
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2003 Harley Davidson 100th Ann. Edition Fat Boy CID 95 Stage 3 exc cond 17,000km $11,000. (250) 318-2030
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1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop. 55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794.
Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988
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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. Grt loc, 2bdrms, sep entr. patio, nice yard. Ref’s. No Pets. $900/mo. 250-376-0633
Suites, Upper Valleyview 2bdrm, 4appl sep ent, cls to bus, util incl. Avail now. $1200. 250-572-0608.
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Rte 317 – 535-649 7th Ave, 702-794 Columbia St even, 702-799 Nicola St. – 45 p. Rte 319 – 454 6th Ave, 604690 Columbia St even, 604692 Nicola St. – 15 p. Rte 323 -755--783 6th Ave, 763884 7th Ave, 744-878 8th Ave, 603-783 Columbia St (odd Side), 605-793 Dominion St. – 48 p. Rte 325 – 764-825 9th Ave, 805-979 Columbia St (odd side), 804-987 Dominion St, 805-986 Pine St. – 65 p.
Rte 331 – 984-987 9th Ave, 1125 10th Ave, 901-981 Douglas St, 902-999 Munro St, 806-990 Pleasant St. – 38 p. Rte 335 – 1175-1460 6th Ave, 1165-1185 7th Ave, Cowan St, 550-792 Munro St. – 59 p. Rte 339 – 916-1095 Fraser St, 1265-1401 9th Ave. – 30 p. Rte 373 – &ODUN 6W : Columbia St. – 20 p. Rte 380 – 610-780 Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. – 61 p. Rte 381 – &HQWUH $YH +HPORFN St, 605-800 Lombard St. – 41p. Rte 382 – 114-150 Fernie Pl, Fernie Rd, 860-895 Lombard St. – 30 p. Rte 384 – 407-775 W. Battle St, 260-284 Centre Ave – 47 p. Rte 385 – 350-390 W. Battle St, *UDQGYLHZ 7HUU 6WUDWKFRQD 7HU ² S Rte 389 – Bluff Pl, 390 Centre Ave, 242-416 W. Columbia St, 'XIIHULQ 7HUU *DUGHQ 7HUU *UDQGYLHZ 7HUU ² S
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VALLEYVIEW/JUNIPER
Rte 605 – 1770-1919 Glenwood Dr, .QROOZRRG 'U 9LFDUV 5G ² S Rte 606 – Orchard Dr, Russet Wynd, 9DOOH\YLHZ 'U ² S Rte 652 – Coldwater Crt, 16162212 Coldwater Dr, 1921-1999 6NHHQD 'U RGG VLGH ² S
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LOGAN LAKE Rte 910 – 308-397 Basalt Dr, 202-217 Basalt Pl, 132-197 Jasper Dr, Jasper Pl. – 68 p.
MT DUFFERIN Rte 584 – 1752-1855 Hillside Dr. – 33 p.
RAYLEIGH Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 58 p. Rte 835 ² 0DWWRFN 0F.HXJXH Rd, Sabiston Crt & Rd. – 30 p. Copperhead Dr. – 58 p
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2018 Sportage includes $1740 delivery and destination and $1500 dealer cash credits, 2018 Forte includes $1560 delivery and destination and $3000 in cash rebates. Both include $100 air excise, $200 paint charge, dealer documentation of $499; exclude applicable sales tax. Payments include finance placement of $567. Payments based on 96 months at 5.24% o.a.c.. 2018 Sportage total paid $31,222.10, 2018 Forte total paid $20,702.24.
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2016 Kia Optima LX+
Richard Minaker Product Advisor
Chantele McPhee Product Advisor
2016 Kia Forte LX+ Certified ed Pre-own
9K727
$
187,035 kms
9,881
9K723
2016 Kia Rio SX
R8113A
25,599 kms
$
15,762
2014 Kia Optima EX
35,1058 kms
$
16,998
9K734
26,274 kms
64,412 kms
52,504 kms
$
20,788
2016 Forte EX
2017 Kia Sportage LX
24,222
$
2011 Kia Soul 4U Retro
Certified ed Pre-own
9K725
9K741
9K739
16,169
$
30,820 kms
9K733
17,097
$
39,539 kms
2015 Ford F150 Xlt Crew Cab 4X4
9K740
2016 Kia Cadenza Premium
34,593 kms
34,093
$
9K721
50,266 kms
15,412
$
2012 Nissan Rogue SV AWD
9K736
2013 Kia Soul 2U
144,868 kms
13,822
$
2015 Chrysler 200 C
Certified ed Pre-own
15,884
$
S8014A
96,209 kms
10,821
$
C6074
1,175 kms
32,405
$
S8100A
47,437 kms
$
13,736
9K7 10
70,894 kms
16,928
$
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