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MATTHEWS SUCCEEDS OPPAL Thompson Rivers University has welcomed a new chancellor

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SIGNING OVER CONTROL Metis community will oversee wellbeing of children under agreement

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DAVE EAGLES/KTW Minister of Children and Family Development Katrine Conroy (left) and Métis Nation B.C. president Clara Morin Dal Col sign the agreement at Lii Michif’s North Kamloops office on Thursday morning.

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The Ministry of Child and Family Development has committed to transfer control over Métis children and family welfare to the Métis community in B.C. by 2021. “It’s a promise that recognizes the right for you to share the responsibility of the well-being of your children. I think a promise that is long overdue,” said minister Katrine Conroy before signing a joint commitment agreement with Métis Nation B.C. (MNBC) president Clara Morin Dal Col. The signing took place in Kamloops on Thursday at Lii Michif Otipemiwisak (LMO). Organizations like LMO receive funding from

the Ministry of Child and Family Development, follow government policies and are accountable to the ministry. Under the new jurisdiction, the organization will be accountable to MNBC, said LMO executive director Colleen Lucier. “And the laws and the policies and the procedures will be developed by our nation,” she said. The next three years will involve all five Métis service delivery agencies in B.C. along with the Métis commission and Métis Nation B.C. gathering information and listening to elders and community members to design what services should look like moving forward, Lucier said. This new arrangement will ensure fewer children in government care, sup-

port keeping families together and work to keep children connected to their culture, Conroy said. There are currently about 520 Métis children and youth in government care who receive services through the ministry, through delegated Métis-serving agencies in Kamloops or Surrey and through other delegated Aboriginal agencies in B.C. “I truly suspect that once we are in control of the services and the way services are delivered to our people, we will see a dramatic decrease in the number of Métis children in care,” Lucier said. LMO works with about 250 families in Kamloops and anticipates those numbers will increase. Authority over Métis child welfare will be

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handed to MNBC on Jan. 20, 2021. “What’s so interesting is we never gave it up, it was taken from us, so we’re just undoing historical wrongs and making things right again,” Lucier told KTW. The ministry will take on a supporting role after that date with MNBC having full jurisdiction over their own child welfare. Conroy said the details of how the ministry will transition to this new model and stay involved in Métis child welfare are to be determined. “It’s good to be looking forward and thinking how are we going to make this work,” Conroy said, adding any details that may get overlooked will be addressed. “We are going to make sure that everybody

works together.” How government funding arrangements will work under the new jurisdiction also need to be determined, Conroy said. She said the government’s focus has to be on prevention and preservation as opposed to intervention. “We have to look at ways that we can support families prior to a child being taken into care,” Conroy said. Dal Col said MNBC will need to take its time to make sure what they put in place is for the betterment of their children. “We’re only going to be the second governing member in our nation to take over jurisdiction of our children,” she said. “Manitoba’s the first, so I want to make sure we do it right.”

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Council Calendar June 11, 2018 3:30 pm - Junior Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Property Tax Notices have been mailed out

June 12, 2018 9:00 am - Council Workshop 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing CANCELLED Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West June 13, 2018 4:45 pm - Heritage Commission DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street June 14, 2018 8:00 am - Parks and Recreation Committee TCC Meeting Room A, 910 McGill Road June 18, 2018 4:45 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, 7 Victoria Street West June 19, 2018 10:30 am - Sustainability Advisory Committee Corporate Boardroom, 7 Victoria Street West June 19, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West June 26, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West June 27, 2018 5:00 pm - Social Planning Council DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street

If you have not received your notice, please contact the Revenue Division at 250-828-3437.

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Community Policing Office: 915 7th Street (8:00 am–4:00 pm, Monday–Friday only)

IN PERSON - at City Hall: 7 Victoria Street West (8:00 am–4:00 pm, Monday–Friday) Claim your Home Owner Grant online at: www.kamloops.ca/ehog SKIP THE LINES: Homeowners are reminded that they do not need to come in to City Hall to pay their property taxes or claim their Home Owner Grants.

*Correction to the May 25 City Page: MyCity is an online access point for users to register to review their City accounts, including property taxes; however, payments may NOT be made directly in MyCity.

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Notice to Motorists McGill Road Rehabilitation Project Construction began the week of May 22 and is scheduled to take place Monday-Saturday, 7:00 am-5:00 pm, with additional night/weekend work as required. On-street parking will be affected, so please watch for parking restrictions during construction. Please use caution when driving in the area, and expect delays.

2018 Election Staff Applications Apply to work as an Election Official for the 2018 General Local Election on October 20, 2018. An Election Official's job duties include legibly registering voters, recording and confirming voters' identification, and issuing ballots. Details and the application form are at kamloops.ca/vote..

The City is assessing the opportunity to develop a long-term home energy retrofit program that will aim to encourage energy efficiency retrofits on as many Kamloops homes as possible. To help us better understand homeowners' renovation priorities, you are invited to complete a survey to help us develop this initiative. Complete the survey at kamloops.ca/renovationsurvey to be eligible to win one of three $50 Downtown Kamloops gift certificates.

To register, email letstalkdowntown@kamloops.ca.

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The City continues to gather ideas about the Downtown. Provide your feedback at one of the following public events or visit the plan's webpage at www.kamloops.ca/downtownplan to complete the community survey. Public Lecture on Planning and Urban Design Wednesday, June 13, 7:00-9:00 pm Community Open House Saturday, June 16, 2:00-5:00 pm

MEET THE 2018 ECOSMART TEAM

The ECOSmart team will be in various neighbourhoods to conduct recycling inspections, and they will also attend community events throughout the summer. If you see them, please be sure to say hello and learn how you can make sustainable choices. Here are some tips from the team:

• Reduce your waste - plan ahead—Bring Your Own (B.Y.O.) coffee cups, water bottles, and reusable bags to help reduce the amount of waste created • Conserve water - fix leaks in and around your home - wash full loads of laundry and dishes For more tips to help you live sustainably, follow the ECOSmart team on Facebook and Instagram @sustainablekamloops.

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Athlete of Influence - Finalist (June 2 0 1 8) The Personal Injury Team is thrilled to announce our June Finalist, Cody Turner. Cody, in grade 12 at Chase Secondary, plays hockey, baseball, basketball, and golf. Last year, his golf team won the Sr Golf A District and placed 4th at Okanagans. Cody was also the assistant captain of the Chase Broncos Midget Tier 4 hockey team - they qualified and won their provincials last year and Cody was 7th in scoring for the tournament. He was named Most Dedicated Player last year by Chase Minor Hockey Association and played 3 games with the Junior B Chase Heat. Cody has volunteered with the Junior Rec program in Chase as well as volunteered as a Big Brother. After high school, he hopes to play University hockey. Cody receives a $50.00 Sport Chek gift certificate and is entered as our tenth of ten finalists for the 20172018 $1000.00 Scholarship.

MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW Nathan Matthew speaks at a Thompson Rivers University convocation ceremony on Wednesday at the Tourmnament Capital Centre after being installed as the school’s third chancellor. He succeeds Wally Oppal, who in turn succeeded Nancy Greene Raine.

Matthew installed as new chancellor at TRU MICHAEL POTESTIO

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It was a humbling experience for Nathan Matthew on Wednesday when he shed his traditional academic robes and donned the robes of office, marking his official appointment as new chancellor for Thompson Rivers University. “You can’t help but feel part of something that’s really significant,” Matthew told KTW. “As a chancellor, it strengthens me in terms of resolve to represent the institution well.” The former chief of the Simpc First Nation near Barriere is the third chancellor in the post-secondary institution’s history, dating back to 2004, and the first of Indigenous descent. “I’m really committed to upholding the

high standards that have been set by my distinguished predecessors — Nancy Greene Raine and Wally Oppal,” Matthew said during his speech at TRU’s convocation ceremony in the Tournament Capital Centre,” he said. “I see their footprints and fingerprints all over the place and it gives me good guidance.” Being named TRU’s first Indigenous chancellor demonstrates the recognition the university gives to First Nations students, Matthew told KTW. “There are significant numbers of Indigenous students on campus and the university has been working very hard for a number of years to present the kind of learning that’s relevant to the lives of Indigenous people,” he said. Addressing the graduates of the faculty

of science following his installation, Matthew said he was reminded of his late father’s words: “Go get an education.” “I’ve witnessed the growth of Thompson Rivers University from its beginnings as Cariboo College operating out of a few buildings on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc lands across the river to this fully functional, multidisciplined university that now enrols students from across this province, this country and many places in the world,” Matthew said. To the grads, Matthew advised they be willing to judge themselves “by the aspects of your character that are related to honesty, compassion, respect for others, hard work and a sense of humour.” He said their true job will be to reveal to themselves their

potential in creating a full life that contributes to themselves, their families and their communities. “Congratulations and good luck in whatever you plan for your future,” Matthew said. As chancellor, Matthew presides at convocation and confers all degrees. In addition, he represents the university at major events, including anniversary celebrations, building openings and awards ceremonies. The university looks for a community leader with strong connections locally, provincially and nationally when looking to fill this ceremonial, volunteer role. Matthew is an educator and advocate for aboriginal education. He was the first executive director of aboriginal education at TRU and received an honorary doctorate in 2006.

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Convocation continues on Friday with graduates of arts crossing the stage in the Tournament Capital Centre at 10 a.m., followed by law grads at 2 p.m. Outgoing TRU chancellor Wally Oppal will be awarded Chancellor Emeritus at 2 p.m. In addition, the final two of the six

honorary degrees will be handed out. Former Western Canada Theatre executive director Lori Marchand will receive hers at 10 a.m., followed by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman at 2 p.m. The spring convocation can be watched online at original.livestream. com/livetru.

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As the river goes up, the people move out. The city’s homeless who pitch tents on riverbanks in Kamloops need dry ground when the rivers rise. As a result, an influx of people have been camping in recent weeks in North Kamloops. North Shore Business Improvement Association executive director Jeremy Heighton said between six and eight people are pitching tents in Spirit Square each night, as well as

behind businesses and residences along Royal Avenue and other areas. In addition, he said, people are congregating where they usually wouldn’t gather. “This year, water is pretty high,” Heighton said. “It’s unfortunately led to a bit of a displacement.” Heighton receives complaints daily from members about campsites. One North Shore building owner contacted the NSBIA last week, giving the CAP team permission to enter private property to move people along.

Heighton, however, noted the ambassadors are limited in their abilities and aren’t enforcement. The city’s bylaws department attends Spirit Square four times daily. Campers have not been taking down their tents in the morning until asked, assistant bylaw enforcement officer Mario Sirianni told KTW. A city bylaw allows temporary overnight shelters, but they are expected to be taken down by 7 a.m. Recent updates to the bylaw were to include a map of areas where tem-

porary shelters are permitted, but that map has yet to be made available. During a visit by KTW to Spirit Square on Thursday morning, one person in a sleeping bag could be spotted. No temporary shelters were up at 8:45 a.m. Three other people were sitting in the square. Nearby, garbage and graffiti littered the area, including an abandoned bicycle missing parts, a box labeled Road 13 (winery in Oliver) and the words “Luke steals lighters and lies” and “Junky goof” scrawled on a plaque and concrete. “It’s basically become

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A man (above) sleeps in Spirit Square on Thursday morning, while graffiti can be found on plaques detailing the history of North Kamloops. DAVE EAGLES PHOTOS/KTW

housing but, in the meantime, the city’s homeless still need somewhere to go when the river is high. That’s not likely to change with a shortage of shelter spaces, Hughes said. “The reality is we have totally inadequate shelter numbers in the community,” he said. “Consistently overcapacity. The riverbanks, where a lot of these folks would end up staying in the months of July through to September, October, they can’t go there because we’ve been basically on floodwater.” Two affordable housing projects through BC Housing,

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Waving machete leads to arrest of quartet MICHAEL POTESTIO

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A machete-wielding man and three men he was with were arrested on Wednesday morning outside Cascades Casino in Aberdeen. Kamloops RCMP responded at about 7 a.m. to a complaint of a man waving the weapon around in the parking lot while

Suspect at Mac’s on May 28.

standing next to his vehicle with three men. “There was nobody around, so there was no threat to the public,” Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said. “We’re not sure why he was waving it around.” Shelkie said the parking lot was “pretty much barren except for their vehicle” at the time. Cascades Casino doesn’t open until 9 a.m. The four men, who are

from the Lower Mainland, were taken into custody without incident, she told KTW. A search of their vehicle revealed a second machete, brass knuckles, a sawedoff shotgun and some illegal drugs, which were sent for testing to confirm their composition. The machete-wielding man was arrested for waving the weapon in public, while his three friends

were arrested as they were associated with the vehicle, Shelkie said. While all four suspects are already known to police, Shelkie said part of their investigation will be to determine if there is any gang affiliation. All investigational information will be forwarded to prosecutors to determine charges. While Mounties in the past had stated what charg-

Suspect at TD on May 15.

Do you know their names? More than $550 has been racked up in fraudulent purchases of gift cards and merchandise after a wallet was stolen in the early hours of Monday morning. Police are looking for a suspect who used stolen tap-to-pay debit and credit cards between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. at various businesses on the North Shore. The suspect was spotted on video surveillance using one of the stolen cards at Mac’s convenience store, 205 Tranquille Rd., at 6 a.m. • Police are also looking for a suspect who on May 15 used a credit card from a stolen wallet at a TD Bank. The wallet was stolen from a vehicle in Kamloops overnight on May 14. The suspect was also caught on camera and is described as a white male with reddish hair and beard, wearing a blue ball cap, black tank top, sunglasses, a gold chain necklace and a backpack. Anyone with information regarding these thefts is asked to call 1-877-220-8477.

Arrest follows alley chase Kamloops RCMP arrested a 26-year-old city man after a foot chase downtown on Tuesday afternoon. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the incident began at 3:30 p.m. when a police officer encountered a man in breach of his probation in the 500-block of Columbia Street. “When the officer informed the man that he was under arrest, he fled the area,” Shelkie said. “A few minutes later, another officer saw the suspect running in an alley between St. Paul Street and Seymour Street. “A foot chase ensued, with the officer catching the male near St. Paul Street and Fourth Avenue. “He was then arrested without incident.”

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es they were recommending when forwarding a file to the Crown, a new policy this year has seen police stop making public that information. The four men will need to appear before a judge within 24 hours or be released. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodie Shelkie said police are looking into whether those arrested have gang ties.

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f you are a supporter of the B.C. NDP or B.C. Greens, you may agree with Green Leader Andrew Weaver in his assessment that the first year of the minority NDP government has gone well. Of course, that minority government exists only because the three Green MLAs — Weaver, Adam Olsen and Sonia Furstenau — have agreed to support it on confidence motions. If you happen to be a supporter of the B.C. Liberals or otherwise hold views contrary to those espoused by Weaver and Premier John Horgan, you may disagree with the Green leader’s all-is-well assertion when he sat down last weekend to speak with KTW. On June 29, it will be one year since then-Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon asked Horgan to form government (with the crucial support of the Greens) after the fall of the Christy Clark government. That in itself is an achievement, considering there were many politicians and pundits predicting the demise of the alliance before the snow fell. The election results of May 9, 2017, revealed a polarized electorate — and that polarization is why responses to the actions of the government in the past year have covered the extremes. From continuing with Site C to raising the minimum wage to pursuing the B.C. Liberal LNG dream (which prompted a warning from Weaver that the NDP will fall if it continues on that path) to opposing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, to banning union and corporate donations from civic and provincial elections to planning a fall referendum on how we vote, the NDP/ Green team has been engaged in a political frenzy in the past year. All of the above and more has been met with applause and jeers from across the province, with political stripes shaping opinions. It does not appear as though the minority government will fall any time soon and, with the referendum on proportional representation possibly altering greatly how we elect our MLAs, consider the past year as simply a test run of what might come. In B.C., it is never politics as usual.

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Food for thought

s I type these words, a 175-gram container sits next to me, a spoon resting inside its halfeaten contents. I will finish that container of yogurt before I complete this column and, to the shock of my daughter and many other Canadians, I will not die nor get sick. This container of yogurt — Foremost brand, with raspberries hidden at the bottom, below the avalanche of white, creating a Kilauea-like scene when the spoon breaks through the bottom — has stamped on its rim a best-before date of May 31. That would be six days before I sat eating the yogurt and writing this lament to food waste in Canada. In my house, best-before dates are treated as they were created to be — dates on which we should start eating what remains of the food in the next few days. In too many Canadian homes, and in the minds of too many people — my dear daughter included, who has OCD (obsessive consumption disorder) — best-before dates are treated as expiry dates. In my fridge, I have commercial salad dressing (Kraft Golden Italian) with a best before date of May 13 (still good), a bottle of Miracle Whip with a best before date of March 28 (I really should check that) and a bottle of lemon juice with a best-before date that is smudged, but appears to denote a month in 2017 starting with the letter J (it smells and tastes fine). Last week, the milk in the fridge was still doing its job in coffee cups and cereal bowls three days past its

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MUSINGS best-before date. Granted, sometimes the stuff inside the containers decides to go off the grid early, which is why the milk can smell putrid days before the best-before date or the jar of jam sports a ring of mould a month before the date stamped on its glass. I have drilled into the heads of my eye-rolling kids the difference between best-before (which means “tastes best by”) dates and expiry (which means “don’t eat after this”) dates. This has long been an interest of mine, so I was intrigued by last week’s Canadian Press story in KTW about the National Zero Waste Council’s campaign to better educate consumers and to have improved labelling introduced. The council says more than one-third of all food produced in Canada never gets eaten, with about half of that being trashed in homes. A recent study found every Canadian lost or wasted almost 400 kilograms of food a year. The bid to improve labelling is something for which I have long advocated.

Does “Best Before MA 15” mean March 15 or May 15? Does “Expires 2018/6/9” mean June 9 or Sept. 6? There are many products — lunch meat, cheeses, dips — that should have best-before dates for the unopened and opened product. That future best-before date on the container of feta cheese is rendered pointless once you open the lid. As we await logical improvements in the food industry, there is a go-to website we should all use when your daughter feigns illness when discovering the fresh-tasting and fresh-smelling milk in her bowl of cereal came from a carton with a best-before date of yesterday. The website — stilltasty.com — is fantastic. You search for a food item and it tells you how long it will remain edible unopened, opened, on the shelf, in the fridge and in the freezer. You can then open that container of pickled herring rollmops (a very underrated treat), check the website, grab a Sharpie and write on the lid the definitive date by which the last piece of fish should be swallowed. The National Zero Waste Council wants standards in Canada to follow the lead of regulations in the U.S. and Europe, where containers have easy-to-understand labelling, such as “use by,” “eat by” and “freeze by” dates. It is more than food for thought when Canada, one of the richest countries in the world, sees each person waste 400 kilograms of foods while too many of us do not have enough to eat each day. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds

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KINDERGARTEN ACTIVITY MUST BE STOPPED Editor: Due to Premier John Horgan’s heavy taxation, our daughter’s employer has been forced to reduce her work schedule to four hours per week. The company is unable to pay full-time wages. There is little employment

available in our once-prosperous, resource-based province. The provincial government, tree-huggers, some First Nations people and Greenpeace lovers put a stop to the proposed Ajax mine, resulting in the loss of about 500 full-time jobs and 2,500 support jobs.

Now the date of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion remains uncertain. Many more jobs might be lost. This kindergarten activity is a joke and the rest of Canada has pity for British Columbia. Many resource-based com-

panies — owned by a majority of Canadian shareholders — have moved to the U.S. With all the resource base activity going south, U.S. President Donald Trump must be laughing. John Poika Kamloops

STOP TALK OF BAN ON PLASTIC STRAWS IN KAMLOOPS Editor: According to a paper published last month in Environmental Science and Technology, rivers deposit up to four-million metric tonnes of plastic into the sea — and about 95 per cent of that comes from

just 10 waterways. Eight of those 10 rivers are in Asia: Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai Ganges, Pearl, Amur and Mekong. Two of those 10 rivers are in Africa: Nile and Niger. Another study stated the worst plastic polluters are in Thailand.

No. 4 is Vietnam. The Thompson and Fraser rivers are not on any list. As far as I’m concerned, any talk of banning plastic straws in Kamloops would be outright ridiculous and would not fix any problems. I carefully recycle

everything I can. But people like me are outnumbered by morons who don’t give a damn. It is a matter of education and should be started in kindergarten. C.B. Villeneuve Kamloops

CREEK CASE HIGHLIGHTS WASTE OF TAXPAYER CASH Editor: Re: (‘A creek doesn’t run through it, court rules,’ June 1): Here are some facts about the issue: 1. Robin Creek was diverted in 1966-1967. 2. Michael Lindelauf purchased the property in 1995, at which time the creek had been running for the past 30 years without

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bothering anyone. 3. In 1994, a second diversion was made approximately one kilometre west of tyhe Lindelauf property, causing the creek to run to the right and cutting off storage water to a ranch down in the valley. 4. The cost of inquiries, lawyers and court cases came to $1 million,

Editor: You can make a difference. Imagine if every household in Kamloops used the blue box for recycling, rather than the big garbage bins. Just think of all the plastic that wouldn’t end up in the ground. And consider those throw-away coffee cups.

paid for by taxpayers. 5. There will be a further cost to re-route the first diversion back to its original channel. 6. This is a waste of taxpayer money. The fix is to redirect the second diversion. Claud Hoopter Kamloops

If every coffee drinker drank from a mug when at their favourite coffee house or restaurant, or used their personal tumbler for a take-out, what a difference that would make. As the saying goes, “Mother Earth doesn’t need us, but we need Mother Earth.” Autumn Peltier, Kamloops

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“I live on Ord Road and about 15 years ago, one of our cats was acting a bit off for a day or so. “A couple of days later, while mowing the lawn, I came across a dead rattler that was about 18 inches long. “Apparently, it had bit the cat and the cat returned the favour 100-fold. “That poor snake was ventilated with more puncture holes than I could count. “The cat was fine and just acted a bit off stride for a day; the snake not so much.” — posted by Frozen North Observer

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OPINION End of another school year

t always amazes me how fast school years fly by. It seems like yesterday we were welcoming students back to classrooms after the long, hot (and smoky) summer break — and here we are now, close to sending students off for another summer. It’s been a great year, not without challenges, but overall a tremendous success that deserves to be celebrated. To start, we are in the midst of grad season. Nearly 1,000 graduates from 15 schools and programs will cross stages in the next week or two to receive recognition for years of effort. They will be cheered by friends, family and staff. Convocation is a bittersweet time for many of our teachers who must say goodbye to students they watched grow from children into young adults. It’s a natural progression, however, and in the end, we feel only satisfaction and pride as they move

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on to new phases of their lives. Our district has seen steady improvements in graduation rates over the years. Overall, more than 90 per cent of students in the KamloopsThompson school district graduate high school, which is a noteworthy achievement. More than just graduating, they are leaving with skills needed to succeed in the 21st century. I am confident our graduates are wellequipped to face their futures. Another key point to note is the dramatically rising completion rates for Aboriginal students.

School District 73 is closing in on parity for Aboriginal graduation. We are provincial leaders in this regard and our district will continue to work hard to see Aboriginal students achieve the same rates of success as all of our students. Another area in which SD73 excelled this year was in the way we managed the implementation of the class size and composition adjustments mandated by a court ruling that restored the collective agreement with teachers to language that was in place in 2002. It was a challenge, to say the least. District staff got ahead of the curve last summer and worked tirelessly to recruit teachers to fill vacancies. As a result, unlike many other school districts in B.C., we were able to assign teachers to all of our classrooms. There were still pressures, mostly in relation to having enough teachers teaching on call (TTOCs) to fill in for other teachers who

were sick or otherwise needed to be absent. The work of building our TTOC roster will continue and it is our hope the next school year will see increased stability on this front. The demand for new classrooms to accommodate the restored contract language also highlighted the need for capital investment in our district. It’s been many years since this district has seen a new school or renovation, despite the fact our enrolment numbers are once again on the rise. Trustees took the message to government and, in April, we were given the go-ahead to plan for a $22-million renovation at Valleyview secondary. It was exciting news and we look forward to seeing this increasingly busy school get the space it so desperately needs. Another key initiative that deserves mention is the decision to install water-filtration units in all schools to ensure students have

access to drinking water free of lead. Last year, high levels of lead were found in some of our schools and the board recommended filtration units be installed in all schools, along with flushing protocols. Those drinking stations are being installed and all the work is expected to be complete by September. These accomplishments only touch the surface. There were more achievements through the year, many of them seen in individual classrooms and schools, but so it is in our district — much of the greatest work happens every day. Meghan Wade is chair of SD73’s board of education. She can be reached by email at mwade@sd73.bc.ca. Trustee columns appear monthly through the school year in KTW and online at kamloops thisweek.com. Trustee columns will return in September.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

PATHWAY TO EVER-SHRINKING BEVERAGE CART Editor: I was recently a resident of the Ponderosa Pathways to Home Program, which was very good, However, some food services have been cut. The first week I was there, Ponderosa punch, orange juice, cranberry juice, apple juice and milk were available with meals

from the hydration trolley, along with water, tea and coffee. During my second week there, only water, tea and coffee were offered. Sometimes juice and milk were available until supplies ran out. Snacks have also been reduced. I think good nutrition and choice of beverages is important to the well-being of

patients and I would like to see the service improved. Many residents there are unable to voice their concerns and have no choice in what is provided. I hope by bringing this matter to the public, the previous service will be restored. Kathleen Bucher Kamloops

COVERED BRIDGE COULD ATTRACT TOURISTS Editor: Re: Sid Barrie’s letter of May 25 regarding the old bridge pilings in the Thompson River (‘Build covered bridge across river’): I think this an awesome idea, something that can be enjoyed by locals and those from out of town.

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Changing of guard with JDRF chair dreds or thousands of dollars “over and above” any medical plan and are often a serious problem for families simply trying to keep a child alive. “This is life or death,” she said. Otremba said her time with the organization has led her to have a deep respect for anyone afflicted with Type 1 diabetes. Some families even have issues keeping their children in school and equipment and supplies coverage has been inconsistent — leading to advocacy and lobbying efforts toward government, insurers and equipment manufacturers. But the organization’s main focus is its fundraising efforts. In Kamloops, the JDRF is behind events like Meet a Machine and a golf tournament in September, but its biggest event is this Sunday’s Sun Life Walk to Cure Diabetes for JDRF. So far, the Kamloops chapter has raised approximately $50,000 of its $86,000 goal. As of Thursday, it had 43 participants and 52 teams committed to taking part. Fundraising co-ordinator Kathy Grant said the organiza-

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When the Kamloops chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was formed 12 years ago, Janice Otremba was there as a volunteer emcee and grunt worker. After serving for more than six years as corporate chair, she’s leaving her post and letting others continue with education, advocacy and fundraising efforts for those with Type 1 diabetes. Otremba said there are more than 200 families in the area living with a child or adult with type 1 diabetes — an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks and destroys cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Those living with the condition must take insulin via syringe or pump to control their glucose levels and costs, which Otremba said can often go hunJanice Otremba is helping Peter Piroska transition to his new role of corporate chair of the local chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. DAVE EAGLES/KTW

tion is in “really good shape” ahead of the event. Grant has been with JDRF for about a year and it was Otremba who helped her transition into her role — something for which she is grateful. “There’s no one that I have met that has the positive experience, influence and personality like Janice,” Grant told KTW. “She’s amazing at bridging the gaps.” Otremba will have one last gap to bridge at the end of this month when she steps down from her position as corporate chair. To fill her role, Peter Piroska, the father of a child with Type 1 diabetes and an employee of Telus, the event’s former sponsor, will take her place. “He’s a great community person — loves to speak,” Otremba said of her successor. “His heart is really there.” The JDRF walk will take place at the B.C. Wildlife Park, 9077 Dallas Dr., on Sunday. Check-in time is 8 a.m. and the walk starts at 10 a.m. For more information, contact Kathy Grant at 250-819-2290 or email kamloops@jdrf.ca.

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Lynda Tilley believes in the power of a simple hug. It doesn’t have to be a big bear hug. It can be a simple short embrace, but the Métis elder has seen a hug turn even the surliest young person into a calmer individual who will at least listen to what she has to say. “A hug means a lot,” Tilley said of her interactions with youth at Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family and Community Services (LMO), where she is one of a group of elders who assist staff. “It means we care. It means we’re here for you.” That’s why she said it is essential to have elders living in the housing project the agency will break ground on this summer on Singh Street. The 31-unit apartment complex in Brocklehurst will provide housing for youth ages 16 to 26, a demographic that includes the vulnerable 19-year-olds who age out of government care. “That’s one of the biggest conversations at the provincial

and national level,” said Natika Bock, LMO’s Indigenous youth housing manager and the person overseeing the creation of the housing unit. A youth homeless count last fall in Kamloops found 129 people between the ages of 13 and 24 who had experienced homelessness. Fifty-six of them were without a home at the time of the survey. Half of them were Indigenous. Many had aged out of care only to find no home waiting for them, Bock said, with no supports in sight and at a loss as to what to do first. For many, Bock said, “they just want to go home.” The Singh Street project is designed to provide more than four walls and a roof. The decor will reflect their Indigenous heritages. While each unit will have a kitchen, there will also be a communal kitchen for people to gather and share time and food together. In addition to a full-time housing manager, there will be a support worker to provide supports.

The elders will play a key role, Bock said, because no matter how angry a youth is, how frustrated they might be, when they come to LMO’s office on Tranquille Road and talk with an elder, they become calm and listen. “Sometimes you have to show them they’re not the first to experience challenges and difficulties,” Tilley said. She will share her own story, one that includes challenges many have never experienced, to show the youth she has emerged healthy and happy — and they can, too. “They’re just kids,” she said. Bock said for many young people, the LMO office is more than an agency providing services. “We’re still a child and family welfare agency, but they don’t see it that way,” she said. “They just come to eat or to say hi. The elders bake and the youth make the elders coffee.” The message remains focused on the resiliency of Indigenous people, she said, who have endured much through past years “but have the capacity to survive.”

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as they become more brazen around people, leaving the COS no other option but to destroy it. The bear was reported wandering around residential neighbourhoods near green spaces, Van Damme said, adding there were no reported injuries. Last month, a garbage-eating black bear was spotted roaming Telford, Dunrobin and Galbraith drives in Aberdeen before moving on to the Arrowstone Drive area of Sahali, eluded conservation officers. Residents are reminded to manage their attractants by keeping their fruit trees clear and keeping garbage inside until pickup. Van Damme said it’s not unusual to see bear

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LEFT: Joe Doyle (left) and Angus Glasgow see great things emerging on the Tranquille Market. Said Glasgow: “We’re hoping the North Shore can become like Commercial Drive in Vancouver. Commercial Drive was a very rundown street. It was the lower end. Now, if you go to Vancouver, Commercial Drive is one of the premier areas for food and entertainment. People in Vancouver, that’s where they go.” ABOVE: Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian referenced the under-construction Station on Tranquille development (top) and the soon-to-be renovated Kamloops Innovation Centre (above) when discussing where growth on the North Shore might be centred. DAVE EAGLES PHOTOS/KTW

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the potential for growth on the North Shore. “I’d like to see it as a tech hub for Kamloops. I’d like to think that would be centred around a revitalized Kamloops Innovation Centre,” Christian said of the to-be-renovated building at Tranquille Road and Wood Street, comparing the potential to the Accelerate Okanagan campus in Kelowna. “Then you’ve got The Station development down the street and you’re starting to see a lot of smaller service-oriented businesses meeting the needs of those clientele — Red Beard, Leon John’s,” Christian said. “That leads to the support of young families in those neighbourhoods because of the relative cost of housing in those areas. I just see a tonne of good things and I’m excited about it.” So are Doyle and Glasgow. “Ten years from now, I see it as a much-developed area — a place where you can have a lot more available than today,” Glasgow said. “The previous 10 years saw the first major development on the North Shore [in the Manshadi building]. Then you have Library Square, which is a really big development. Now you have two more: Spirit Square and The Station. Ten years from now, I think people will be living on Tranquille and it will be a good thing.” Glasgow said he hopes Heavy Metal Gym will illustrate the kind of transformation that is possible for the North Shore. “We’re hoping with the gym we can show that you can turn it around,” he said. “It’s not a lost cause. It can be changed. We want to change that perspective for people.”

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used explosive charges to open lockers and seized computers and membership information. Shirzad was never charged in connection with the raid, but multiple men are facing drug charges stemming from related busts. When Doyle and Glasgow took the keys to the gym on Dec. 1, the first thing they did was make police aware that the business was under new ownership. Then they started knocking on doors. “We went walking around to every business owner,” Doyle said. “We said we had nothing to do with the old regime. That took about four days.” According to Doyle, the response was good. Membership numbers are soaring, he said, and the business is healthy. Glasgow described the success of the gym as a microcosm for the area as a whole, with multiple developments underway and potential new ones in the works. “We’re hoping the North Shore can become like Commercial Drive in Vancouver,” he said. “Commercial Drive was a very rundown street. It was the lower end. Now, if you go to Vancouver, Commercial Drive is one of the premier areas for food and entertainment. People in Vancouver, that’s where they go.” Glasgow said the North Shore is ripe for change — and he does not feel alone in his vision. “The North Shore Business Improvement Association has it,” he said. “And, for the first time I’ve seen, so does the mayor.” Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian said he is excited about

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Courtney Urena (above) of Let’s Move warmed up participants at the recent MS Walk in Riverside Park, which attracted people of all ages, including seven-monthold Blair Basford. The annual walk to raise money for research into multiple sclerosis was blessed with perfect weather. The Sun Life Walk to Cure Diabetes for JDRF will take place this Sunday at the B.C. Wildlife Park and participants should bring an umbrella. The forecast calls for rain and a chilly high of 16 C. But there is warmth in numbers — to register, call 250-819-2290 or email kamloops@ jdrf.ca, ALLEN DOUGLAS PHOTOS/KTW

Recycling 101 in the TNRD A new recycling program in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District means educating residents about the new rules. The TNRD recently signed on with Recycle BC, which will save the region about $500,000 per year in hauling and processing costs and provide about $100,000 in incentives — about a $600,000 net swing annually. The contract includes curbside recycling in areas J (Copper Desert Country) and B (Thompson Headwaters), along with collection

from 11 official Recycle BC depots and 17 satellite depots. The TNRD was on a waitlist to join Recycle BC for four years. The City of Kamloops signed on in January 2017 and its contamination rate has been rated above the provincial average. Kamloops Coun. Denis Walsh stressed when the TNRD joined the program the importance of an education component, to ensure people know what they can and cannot recycle. Educational sessions at

the Clearwater eco-depot and Vanenby transfer station are underway. The TNRD is advising residents of six separate categories at eco-depots and transfer stations, including paper and cardboard, plastic, metal and paper containers, plastic bags and overwrap, white foam packaging, coloured foam packaging and glass bottles and jars. An online recycling guide can be found at tnrd.ca/content/ recycling-guide.

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Work continues on a new entrance to the TNRD Building downtown at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue. A new entrance off of Victoria is being constructed to replace the former entryway off of Fifth. The project follows major renovations to the library inside and will be followed by the addition of a cafe opening on to the plaza. The building also houses the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District headquarters.

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Some North Kamloops tennis courts will be turned into beach volleyball courts this summer. Kamloops Tennis Centre director of tennis Kelly Hubbard said three tennis courts at Overlander Park behind the Henry Grube Education Centre have been closed for a bout a year and would have required hundreds of thousands of dollars to get them back into playing shape. “They were as bad as they could get,” Hubbard said. He gave the City of Kamloops a letter of support to construct in their place four beach volleyball courts, noting seven city tennis courts at Exhibition and Riverside parks downtown don’t require players to wait. “There’s a lot of courts that are empty to play on,” Hubbard said. The quartet of volleyball courts will cost about $100,000 to install, with most of the money

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coming from the city’s multi-use court budget. The Kamloops Volleyball Association will contribute $5,000. City of Kamloops parks manager Jeff Putnam called the move a “win-win.” Beach volleyball has been growing quickly, he said, noting the volleyball association’s beach league is looking to expand to host bigger tournaments and events. Putnam said the additional courts will allow for bidding on regional and national tournaments. Construction will begin mid-month and is expected to wrap up by the end of July. Meanwhile, construction is underway for two more slo-pitch fields at the Tournament Capital Ranch. It will bring the total fields at the ranch to 10. Putnam said additional fields were part of the original plan, which was originally completed in 2010. Infrastructure is already in place, but it will cost $250,000, with money coming from the

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B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver believes the province needs to allow existing fossil-fuel infrastructure burn itself out and invest in renewable energy. Last year, the Greens agreed to support the NDP’s minority government on a number of conditions, which included the New Democrats doing everything they can to halt the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which Weaver said would triple oilsands emissions in Alberta and is inconsistent with Canada’s commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Weaver’s own research, however, has shown a different fossil fuel poses a much bigger threat. As a University of Victoria professor in 2012, Weaver and colleague Neil Stewart found that if all the hydrocarbons in the oilsands were mined and consumed, the carbon dioxide released would raise global temperatures by about .36 C — approximately half the total amount of warming over the last century. In contrast, their research concluded that burning all the globe’s vast coal deposits would create a 15-degree increase in global temperatures. Vancouver is home to the largest single coal-export facility in North America, with 36.8-million tonnes of coal exported from various coal facilities in 2017, according to the Vancouver Port Authority. Speaking to KTW at last weekend’s Green convention in Kamloops, Weaver said that with Canada as a signatory to the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the Greens know that means there can be no new investment in fossil-fuel infrastructure that will last for decades to come. “People can pretend that it doesn’t, but it does,” Weaver said. Central to the Paris accord is a commitment to keep global temperatures below two degrees of warming above pre-

industrial levels. Weaver said the world is already on track to warm by about 1.9 C even if emission levels remain fixed. He said that while he has “a problem with the coal exports,” he is less concerned with metallurgical coal, which is used for steelmaking, than he is with thermal coal, which is used to generate electricity. In 2017, 11.3-million tonnes of Vancouver’s 36.8-million tonnes of coal exports could be called non-metallurgical, but that was an increase from 4.4-million tonnes in 2008, according to an article in the National Post. “The market for thermal coal is drying up and you’ll find pretty soon, probably in a couple of decades, there’ll be no need for metallurgical coal either,” Weaver said, noting it is needed now due to the current technology in the steelmaking process. However, he added, that technology is improving. In Canada, 10 per cent of electricity is generated with coal, according to the Government of Canada. The country has also pledged to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030, though coal will continue to be used for metallurgical processes. Weaver said Canada needs to be committed to investing in renewable energy. “It’s about where we are today and where we want to get to tomorrow,” he said. “We have an existing coal facility, we have an existing naturalgas sector, we have an existing pipeline — no one’s saying shut them down.” “We should be using the wealth of today to transform and transition our energy systems from those that pollute to those that don’t,” Weaver told delegates at the convention. Weaver told KTW he couldn’t believe the federal Liberal government “would be so reckless with taxpayer money” when it decided to purchase Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion. “What they have bought is a 60-year-old

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A PAUSE IN THE SEARCH FOR RYAN Parents of missing man are back home in Alberta, but will return to Sun Peaks MICHAEL POTESTIO

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eather Shtuka hasn’t been able to venture downstairs to the bedroom of her missing son since returning home to Beaumont, Alta., from Sun Peaks. “It’s tough because we’re at home and things should be normal, and it feels normal if I close my eyes real tight. I can pretend,” she told KTW. Heather sees reminders of her son around their home, such as his shoes in the garage. “I can only close my eyes, I guess, for so long,” she said. The parents of missing Alberta man Ryan Shtuka, 20, are back home this week for the first time since he went missing on Feb. 17. Ryan was last seen leaving a house party on Burfield Drive at about 2 a.m. to walk the short distance back to his home. Heather and husband Scott spent more than three months in Sun Peaks searching for him, organizing volunteer efforts out of a command trailer every day after the initial operation by

Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) ended after the first two days. “When we set out on February 17th, we never thought we would be in Sun Peaks for so long, but as Ryan’s advocates, we also couldn’t imagine leaving without doing everything we can to search and to find him,” Heather said. With two daughters who have been waiting for their return, Heather and Scott only plan to be away from Sun Peaks temporarily before returning to their search efforts, which will be scaled back in the coming months. Heather said her eldest daughter turned 18 this past Wednesday. “So it’s important for us to come home and celebrate that milestone with her, and then our youngest is travelling on a school trip to Quebec, so I want to make sure that I’ve got her sorted and packed,” Heather said. She said it has been difficult being away from her daughters for so long. “When you’ve been gone for three-and-a-half months, there’s so much to get caught up on, so we’ve been busy,” Heather said. The Shtukas have been

Ryan Shtuka vanished from Sun Peaks in the early-morning hours of Feb. 17.

relentless in their search efforts and did not want to leave Sun Peaks and wait for the snow to melt before looking for their son. The snow hindered searching, but the parents received support from countless volunteers who went to Sun Peaks throughout the winter to help. When the snow finally did melt, KSAR returned to renew its search efforts. The receding snow revealed no new clues, however, and to date, there is no sign of Ryan. KSAR conducted multiple searches last month, involving search dogs and members of the RCMP, but those have once again been suspended, search manager Alan Hobler told KTW. “It’s the RCMP that makes those determinations. From the RCMP’s perspective, I think, the file remains open and any new information will be investigated and, if needed, we would probably get called out,” Hobler said. Scott is planning to return to

Construction project along Valleyview Drive Kamloops

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Sun Peaks on Friday, followed by Heather this Monday. The couple will head back to Alberta at the end of June to attend their eldest daughter’s high school graduation. They will then return to Sun Peaks at the end of July and plan to return periodically in August, September and October to search for their son. “We’ll come back until the snow falls and then once the snow melts, we’ll come back again each month until we find him or we’ve been given a new direction as to where we can find him,” Heather said. She said the family is encouraging those who have volunteered to search for Ryan to continue doing so in their absence. She said the outpouring of support from the community has been indescribable. Searches for Ryan following the snow melt focused on the Burfield area and extended to trials and even up ski lifts. Articles of clothing, credit cards, cellphones and keys have been found, but none of the items have been connected to Ryan. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie has told KTW police have no evidence to suggest Shtuka met with foul play when he went missing. Heather believes her son likely succumbed to the elements and his body is somewhere in Sun Peaks. She said she understood after the first few days without any sign of Ryan the chances of finding him alive were slim. “There’s no leads and that has always been the frustrating part — that there’s no evidence to suggest he left Sun Peaks at all. There’s no tips, no gossip, nothing that would lead us into a dif-

ferent direction,” Heather said. Ryan arrived in Sun Peaks on Dec. 1 to spend the season snowboarding before returning this spring to his job as an apprentice construction working for his dad. From what she has heard, and from information via private investigators, Heather said Ryan was leaving a party with a couple of his roommates and ready to walk the short distance to his home when he disappeared. “They walked out the door with another friend to walk home and thought Ryan was right behind them,” Heather said, adding the friends thought perhaps he had stopped to tie his shoes. She said by the time they turned around and noticed Ryan wasn’t behind them, they assumed he was lagging behind or decided to stay at the party. “At minus 26, I don’t expect anybody to wait for a 20-yearold,” she said. When they woke up in the morning and learned Ryan still wasn’t home, they figured he was out snowboarding — something Ryan liked to do before work. He did not show up at work that day and KSAR was called in for the initial two-day search. Heather said the last known confirmed sighting of her son was of him walking toward the door inside the Burfield Drive home. “He virtually vanished into thin air,” she said. Ryan is white, stands six feet tall, weighs 82 kilograms (180 pounds) and has blond hair and brown eyes. Anybody with information on his whereabouts of Shtuka is asked to call police at 250-8283000.

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Business Excellence Awards nominees revealed Nominations for the 2018 Business Excellence Awards have been announced by the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce and TD. A total of 505 nominations were received for the 32nd annual awards, nominating 167 Kamloops businesses in 17 award categories. In late June, KPMG will tabulate the scores and inform the selection committee of the top three finalists in each award category. Finalists will be revealed on June 28 at a chamber function hosted by Kamloops Ford Lincoln. That same day, tickets to the Oct. 28 awards gala at the Coast Kamloops Conference Centre. “Nominees of the Business Excellence Awards have told us that their nominations have significantly increased their visibility and recognition in the community,” said chamber president Joshua Knaak. “We congratulate all this year’s nominees

Help shape downtown The City of Kamloops wants ideas for the downtown core. A pair of public events next week — on June 13 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Paramount Theatre, Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue and on July 16 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Hotel 540, 540 Victoria St. — are centred around planning and urban design. RSVP by emailing letstalkdowntown@ kamloops.ca.

Clarification In a May 28 story (‘Asbestos concerns halt work on former theatre property in downtown Kamloops’), the company Kaktus Flats Development said was involved in the project, referenced in a WorkSafe report, has since stated it has no ties to the development and its name has been removed from the online version of the article.

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raduation season for secondary and post-secondary students is here once again, with hundreds of proud grads (and their families) celebrating a milestone in their lives. Wisdom dispensed and absorbed by the grads during their three or four years in an institutional setting will pay rich dividends in charting their future career goals or inspire them to return to campuses seeking more information. I suppose when we think of different kinds of understanding, we think of knowledge — scientific, ethical or self. But there’s another side to encounter in the process of making our garnished wisdom whole King Solomon, who was considered the wisest person of his era, wrote almost 3,500 years ago: “Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding” (Proverbs 9:10). The rise of modern science and technology has often been attributed to the result of the biblical understanding of the universe and God. Even modern philosophers who do not have a Christian reference admit this completely. A.W. Whitehead, the famous philosopher, and the great scientist J.R. Oppenheimer tell us the

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find modern science begins to lose its faith that the universe can be rationally understood. This movement holds that the way to find out the essence of life is not through rational procedures, but through insanity, what philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called the “Dionysian spirit.” There are many good people who do not believe in God, not only in the scientific realm, but also in the ethical realm, We see noble and honest things done by people who have rejected the theistic understanding of the universe. This also leads to cutflower morality, which soon fades because it leads to questions like: “Why ought one to be good?” or “What is good?” Hence is the tremendous moral confusion of our time. Unless we have a universe that is moral at heart, unless we have a God who commands, we create moral chaos. It has reached all levels of society, even into the church. And the interesting thing is that even in the arguments about whether such practices are right or wrong, nobody asks: “What does God say about this?” No wonder churches are getting emptier. Solomon, the wise man, was right. Only by knowing God can there be every kind of ethical understanding. Surely, it is true that knowing God results in

every kind of self-understanding. The big crisis of our time, we often hear, is the sense of alienation and the loss of identity. This is the cry of the secular psychologist, anthropologist, and sociologist. Why? Because if we look at the external world without God, what identity we have? We have no meaning, no identity, no selfworth. But when we believe that man was created by God in His image, we know man is of infinite value, so loved by the author of the universe that He sent His only son to die. Then we are something. Not only is the knowledge of God the foundation of every other kind of understanding, but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Most of us are convinceda religion of fear is bad religion, that we should not scare people into being good. A religion based on fear ultimately becomes a destructive and frightening thing in terms of the consequences it produces. But let’s look more deeply at this dilemma. The greatest peril in coming to any kind of knowledge is to confuse wishing with knowing. Wishing there was peace does not open the road to peace. That is the road for knowledge and wisdom to pursue. The trouble with most people

is that their religion is not based on knowledge, it is based on wishing. They believe not in the God who is there, but in the God whom they would like to be there. The wise men, the learned graduates, should tell each other: “Let God be God; let Him define His own essence. Then let us decide whether we will worship Him or hate Him.” For to change God is to make an idol. This is really the essence of idolatry. It’s our unwillingness to accept Him as He is that engenders fear. The question is: “How can I know God?” The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge. This is the heart of the matter. We will know Him through real wisdom. This wisdom and knowledge is offered to anyone who would take seriously the reality of God. In meeting Him, we experience His love, His grace and His forgiveness. Narayan Mitra is Pastor of Merritt Baptist Church. merrittbaptist@gmail.com KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Columns should be between 600 and 800 words in length and can be emailed to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com. Please include a very short bio and a photo.

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SD73 STRINGS CONCERTS The school district’s strings program has two events coming up for the public. On Friday, they will present Strings Serenade at 6:30 p.m., a program of music featuring the intermediate and senior strings-players. Doors to Sagebrush Theatre open at 6:15 p.m. This Tuesday, the program wraps up for the school year with hands-on workshops for the beginining students and then a presentation of their talent in Strings At Six, also at Sagebrush at 6 p.m. BIG BARRIERE BLOCK PARTY 3 The Big Barriere Block Party 3 promises to be a wild, family-friendly party, on Saturday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Fadear Park. Enjoy the outdoor marketplace featuring artisans, crafters, woodworkers,and many booths while kids can play in the bouncy castle or splash pad . On the bandshell, the lineup features Joanne Marie Fauteux and the Smokey Ridge Band, Stolen,The Rolling Trainwreck, local musician Robert Harris and The Heels. The event is by donation. SUN LIFE WALK TO CURE DIABETES FOR JDRF The Sun Life Walk to Cure Diabetes for JDRF will take place this Sunday at the B.C. Wildlife Park. More than 40,000 people are expected to take part. This year is the 25th anniversary of the walk, which has Arizona Coyotes’ forward Max Domi as

the new national spokesperson. Domi was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 12. Check-in for Sunday’s event at 9077 Dallas Dr. is at 8 a.m., with the walk starting at 10 a.m. To register and for more information, call 250819-2290 or email kamloops@jdrf.ca. WALK/RUN FOR PROSTATE CANCER The annual Raymond James Father’s Day Walk/ Run for Prostate Cancer will take place on Sunday, June 17, at the B.C. Wildlife Park. Registration will be held between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., with the walk/run following at 9:30 a.m. The Brock Central Lions Club will serve up a pancake breakfast at 10:30 a.m., with prizes awarded at 11 a.m. Registration includes free admission to the B.C. Wildlife Park for the day. To register and for more information, go online to thefathersdayrun.ca. GREAT LITTLE COUPON BOOK Great Little Coupon Book still on sale. The Kamloops Pro-Life Society is still selling the Great Little Coupon Book. For $10, the book offers myriad two-for-one coupons for use at Kamloops restaurants and entertainment establishments. Offers can be used until Aug. 31. To buy a book, call 250-851-8605 or stop by St. Joseph’s Bookstore downtown at 256 Nicola St.

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inside her cheek, Pavan said. She tried wiping Kenzie’s mouth, but the black tracks remained. Pavan rushed Kenzie to hospital and one of the nurses told a story about how her daughter had touched a caterpillar and similarly had black around her mouth. “I started thinking to myself, ‘Well, I do have caterpillars quite often around my deck. I wonder if that’s what she got a hold of?’ Sure enough, when I mentioned the caterpillar to the doctor, he’s like, ‘That’s exactly what it is.’ You can see all the little tentacles are fused to the side of her cheek,” Pavan said. “All the tiny hairs are spines that they have were stuck to her tongue,” she said, noting other medical staff at the hospital had never seen anything like it before. Kenzie was taken by ambulance to the pediatric ward at a hospital in Victoria for surgery. Pavan said it required doctors scraping the caterpillar parts

off and some of her skin being detached as well. Kenzie is in good spirits, though, and will make a full recovery, according to Pavan. Pavan suspects the caterpillar was a silver spotted tiger moth common to the area. Dr. Paul Hasselback, Island Health medical health officer, couldn’t comment specifically, but said occurrences of someone ingesting such a caterpillar are uncommon. noting incidents usually involve skin exposure. Generally, Hasselback said, if someone were to put such a caterpillar in their mouth, there would be swelling as the area is sensitive. “It’s mostly the swelling that would be notable, along with a stinging sensation,” Hasselback said. Pavan said she will now ensure there are no caterpillars on her deck. “I’m definitely being pretty diligent about looking out for them now,” she said.

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It sounds like spinning straw into gold: suck carbon dioxide from the air where it’s contributing to climate change and turn it into fuel for cars, trucks and jets. A British Columbia company says in newly published research that it’s doing just that — and for less than one-third the cost of other companies working on the same technology. “This isn’t a PowerPoint presentation,’’ said Steve Oldham of Carbon Engineering. “It’s real.’’ As policy makers work on ways to try to keep global warming within the two-degree limit of the Paris agreement, fears have been raised that carbon-dioxide emissions won’t be cut fast enough. Some say carbon will have to be actively removed from

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the atmosphere. In an article published on Thursday in the peerreviewed journal Joule, Carbon Engineering outlines what it calls direct air capture in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere through a chemical process, then combined with hydrogen and oxygen to create fuel. “If these aren’t renewable fuels, what are?’’ said David Keith, professor of applied physics at Harvard University, lead author of the paper and principal in Carbon Engineering. At least seven companies worldwide are working on the idea. Swiss-based Climeworks has already built a commercial-scale plant. It costs Climeworks about US$600 a tonne to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Carbon Engineering says it can do the job for between US$94 and US$232 a tonne because

it uses technology and components that are well understood and commercially available. “We’re tapping into existing industrial equipment and then defining a new process and applying some unique chemistry to it,’’ Oldham said. Carbon Engineering’s plant in Squamish pulls about one tonne of carbon a day from the air and produces about two barrels of fuel. Since its components are off the rack, it should be easy to scale up, Oldham said. Carbon Engineering’s fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil. Oldham said work is being done to reduce that cost. Because the plant uses some natural gas, by the time the fuel it produces has been burned, it has released a halftonne of carbon dioxide for every tonne removed from the air.

That gives it a carbon footprint 70 per cent lower than a fossil fuel, Oldham said. That footprint would shrink further if the plant were all-electric. If it ran on wind- or solar-generated electricity, the fuel would be almost carbonneutral. Oldham said putting a price on carbon has been crucial to the company’s development. “We would not be in business if carbon pricing did not exist,” he said. Carbon Engineering’s next step is to build a full-scale plant, which is expected to take 2.5 years. One of the great benefits of making fuel from air is energy independence, said Oldham. “Any country, any region, can have its own fuel. “They’d be no longer dependent on the geopolitical situation if Country X has oil and Country Y does not.’’

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Cruising down the Hawksbury River in New South Wales, the view of scent of earth and jungle vegetation drifts by, as we view the homes dotted along the hillsides — dark green tropical foliage and purple jacaranda tress fill in the sight with colour.

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t doesn’t look promising. As we pull up to Brooklyn Public wharf, an hour’s drive north of Sydney on the Hawksbury river in New South Wales, the sky is a surly grey and on the horizon banks of clouds are piling up. My Australian cousin Noelene and her husband Lionel are undeterred. “You never know about the weather.” Noelene says. “It can change in minutes. Let’s go for it!” My curiosity is whetted and I don’t need much persuading. Moored at the dock is the “Zarapito” operated by Hawksbury Cruises. We are about to board the River Postman — a unique service that delivers mail to small settlements accessible only by boat. The Zarapito’s lounge is com-

fortably spacious with glass paneled windows and a young hostess ushers us to a table. She pours us coffee and tea and serves up a plate of home-made Anzac biscuits; they’re thin, crisp, nutty and delicious. According to the pamphlet on our table, the first Riverboat Postman started the run in 1910. The daily route covers about eight or nine settlements with names like Kangaroo Point, Milson’s Passage, Marlow Creek and Fisherman’s Point. We take off promptly at 10 a.m., sailing under a highway bridge as we leave Brooklyn town behind us. The bar is open so, with glasses of wine to hand, we sit back and enjoy the scenery unfurling beyond our window. Our skipper is a ruggedly young Aussie who has lived in the area all his life. He offers us an informative and wryly funny commentary as we cruise along leisurely. Wooden wharfs front each set-

tlement and mail sacks are hauled off the boat in exchange for outward-bound parcels or letters. Folks banter with the skipper, the weather is discussed in detail, and resident doggies wag their tails appreciatively as they are treated to pats and an Anzac biscuit or two. At Bar Point, a Mum and her toddler son wave an energetic goodbye as we depart. We climb to the upper deck where, to our delight, the weather has cleared. Fluffy pillows of white clouds drift against a deep blue sky, a light balmy breeze riffs the water and carries the scent of earth and jungle vegetation. Purple jacaranda trees and blossoming tropical bushes are splashes of colour against the dark green tropical foliage. Some homes hug the hillsides and have vertical backyards. Our vessel skirts mangrove forests, their roots sticking out of the water like white worms, and we weave between thickly forested

low hills. At one point we sail by a cluster of striated rocks which look as though they’d been hand painted with streaks and spirals of orange, yellow and pink. Halfway through our cruise, we are served a hearty Australian Ploughman’s lunch: Crusty buns/ butter, shaved ham and slices of aged cheese are accompanied by a salad of lettuce, tomato, zucchini and carrots, all served up with an Italian dressing, pickled onions and a zesty fruit chutney. A healthy and delicious meal. Several houses we sail past are lavish and sprawling. They would have cost an enormous amount not only to build, but also to maintain, given that all the materials have to be flown in by helicopter or transported by motor launch. Our skipper points out cottages and luxury inns in some of the larger settlements. “What do they cost?” I say. “Anything between $500 to $800 for a weekend

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SUBMITTED PHOTO Reid Vankoughnett unloads while playing for Manitoba at the Football Canada Cup in Wolfville, N.S., last summer. The 18-year-old quarterback signed with the Kamloops Broncos on June 1 and will likely begin the season as the B.C. Football Conference club’s starting quarterback.

eid Vankoughnett will be handed the keys to the Kamloops Broncos’ offence this season, an 18-year-old quarterback who brings much-needed promise to the struggling B.C. Football Conference franchise. Colby Henkel, who started under centre for the Broncos in 2016 and 2017, has committed to play for Windsor in the U Sports ranks, leaving a gaping hole at the most important position on the field. Reid’s arrival could not be more timely, especially with the exodus of Max Joseph, the standout receiver and return specialist who has decided to play this year for the Langley Rams. The offence needs a spark and the highly touted pivot from Winnipeg might provide it. Reid helped rejuvenate the Dakota Lancers, bringing them from a 1-6 record in 2016 to the Winnipeg High School Football League AAA championship game in 2017. The undefeated St. Paul’s Crusaders blanked the Lancers 35-0 in the title tilt in November. Reid started for Manitoba at the 2017 Football Canada Cup last summer in Wolfville, N.S., exposure that earned him attention from U Sports schools across the nation. Local ties add to his allure. Vankoughnett’s father, Dave, is from Kamloops and had a notable CFL career, spending 11 years on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ offensive line. Broncos’ head coach Brad Yamaoka, also from Kamloops, spent two seasons playing with Dave for the Blue Bombers, the 1999 and 2000 campaigns, the latter being Vankoughnett’s final CFL season. Those ties helped the Broncos land Reid’s older brother, Braden, in 2015. The linebacker had an outstanding year, was named to the BCFC defensive all-star team and went on to play two seasons with the Acadia Axemen in the U Sports ranks. “I felt that I could come out there and compete for a starting position,” said Reid,

who will graduate from Dakota Collegiate this spring. “I’d heard a lot of great things from my brother and my grandparents actually live out in Kamloops. It’s such a nice place and when I came out for spring camp, I just fell in love. The coaches are awesome.” The 6-foot-2, 205-pound quarterback is not afraid to scramble, but is content to stay in the pocket and throw downfield. “The speed is going to be a lot faster in junior, as well as the reads are a lot harder to make, but I think that I’m ready,” Reid said. “Hopefully, I can make an impact.” Yamaoka said the plan was to have Reid learn under Henkel this year. “Colby moved on, which is great for him, but that will force Reid into the starting spot,” Yamaoka said. “He realizes he needs a little bit of work. Being a young kid right out of high school, there will be some growing pains. We’re confident he can take the reins and deliver.” Reid will live with his grandparents during football season, which begins for the Broncos on Aug. 5, when the Okanagan Sun of Kelowna come to town. Kamloops finished 2-8 in 2017, its only victories coming against the 0-10 Valley Huskers of Chilliwack. Neither club made the playoffs. Perhaps the freshman QB can provide a spark. “I’ll be young, but I bring good leadership qualities,” Reid said. “I think I can lead a team very well.” The B.C. Football Conference is a sixteam circuit that includes Kamloops, Okanagan Sun (Kelowna), Valley Huskers (Chilliwack), Langley Rams, Vancouver Island Raiders (Nanaimo) and Westshore Rebels (Victoria-area). Last season, the Raiders defeated the Rebels 21-7 in allIsland final. SIGNING DAY The Broncos signed 35 players on June 1, which was Canadian Junior Football League signing day. Six of those players are from Kamloops — receiver Evan Guizzo, quarterback Devon Konst, linebacker Jonathan Larocque, receiver Connor McCoy, defensive lineman Mathew Morrison and receiver Travis Wrabel.

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On Friday, April 20, a woman went to three different Kamloops banks and fraudulently obtained money. She appeared to be alone at all three locations. She is white, approximately 30 years old, tall with a medium build and has long, blond hair. If you know the identity of the woman, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or go online to kamloopscrimestoppers.ca. Remember, we just want your information, not your name.

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of points. Brayden Point and Johnny Gaudreau, they’re both skilled and they’re not the biggest guys, but they sure know how to move their feet and put the puck in the net. FAVOURITE SHOOTOUT MOVE? Probably come down on the lefthand side, fake the shot and either take it to the backhand or keep on going to my forehand. Whatever is open. HOBBIES OUTSIDE OF HOCKEY? I like playing ping pong and I’ve got a pool I like to swim in all the time. Badminton and tennis in the summer. I play a little bit of Fortnite and NHL here and there, but I like to keep active. ARE YOU INTO SOCIAL MEDIA? Not really. I don’t have Instagram, but I’ve got Twitter and Snapchat. Sometimes it can get distracting. There are pros and cons to it. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY IF YOU WON LOTTERY? — I’d probably give it to my parents and my sister.

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Wally Buono was packing up his duffel bag at Hillside Stadium, preparing to leave Kamloops for the final time as bench boss of the B.C. Lions. The winningest coach in CFL history will retire after the 2018 season, leaving the game after a career that has spanned nearly 50 years. Buono, 68, is a big reason why the Leos have held training camp in Kamloops for the past nine years and are under contract to hold it here through 2020. “As I’ve said over and over again, the city has been great, the sponsors have always been supportive and the university [Thompson Rivers University] has always taken care of us,” Buono said. “It’s always been fun to talk to the fans here and see how much they love football.” Buono, who has won five Grey Cups as a head coach with Calgary and B.C., has not thought much about plans for retirement. “I did talk to my son-in-law about

going camping next year,” Buono said. “My wife, I know, already has two trips planned. That’s all a part of it. I’ll leave that up to the good Lord to see what doors he opens for me.” The doors will always be open to Wally at Buono Osteria, the restaurant in Gibsons opened earlier this year by son Mike. There will be more time for trips to the Sunshine Coast next year. Buono’s No. 1 focus in 2018 is helping the Lions recover from a dismal 2017. The club started 5-2 last season, a mark that meant nothing when it finished 7-11 and out of the playoffs for the first time since 1996. Buono wants to leave the game on a much better note. Sentimental thoughts about family dinners and camping trips can wait. “You’re focused on trying to build a football team, especially after last year, which was disappointing,” Buono said. “I want to stay focused. “Ed [new general manager Ed Hervey] has brought a competitive roster and the camp has been very good. I do believe we’ll have a competitive team.”

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Gary Moen called the Spring Sprint Triathlon the main event, the Kamloops Triathlon Club’s longest-running test of mettle and a magnet for potential new members. The 10th annual Spring Sprint, set for Sunday in Westsyde, has a running partner this year, the inaugural Kamloops Duathlon on Saturday, with both events comprising the KTC Multisport Weekend. Start time is 8 a.m. both days. “This is where we introduce the most amount of new people into the sport and into the club,” said Moen, the race director. “Partly because it gives people a chance to start out in the sprint. It’s convenient for a lot of people and the lengths are a bit more conducive.” There are three categories for the Spring Sprint — the super sprint triathlon (300metre swim/10km bike/2.5km run), sprint triathlon (600m swim/20km bike/5km run) and team relay sprint triathlon (600m swim/20km bike/5km run).

“With the super sprint, the shorter race, if they’re not maybe as strong in one of the elements, it’s not going to be long for them to suffer,” Moen said. Swimming is often a stumbling block for fledgling triathletes. The KTC is introducing the duathlon, a running and biking event, in part for that reason. “Most people can swim, but it’s swim to survive, not swim to do lengths,” Moen said. The Spring Sprint was held in

Brocklehurst in 2016 and 2017 while the Westysyde Pool and Fitness Centre was under renovation. Returning home this year, Moen is warning Westsyde residents of lane closures and minor detours on Westsyde Road. The longest route will take cyclists to Black Pines before they turn around. “We want to keep it safe for the cyclists from Bebek out to the Dunes,” Moen said.

BLAZE EARN WIN IN VERNON The under-16 Kamloops Blaze girls earned a 3-1 victory over hometown under17 Vernon United on the weekend. Daisy Dalke, Fiona Brisco and Natalie Knight had goals for the Blaze in support of goalkeeper Kila Pigeon. Kamloops sits first in league standings with a record of six wins, two losses and one tie, with one game remaining. The Blaze will play host to under-17 Shuswap on Field 7 on McArthur Island on Sunday. Kickoff is slated for 11 a.m.

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BRIEFS NOTHING DECIDED Anika-lea Fraser had two goals for the under-14 Kamloops Blaze White girls, who tied 2-2 with Vernon United on McArthur Island on Sunday. Leah Turner backstopped the Blaze (6-21), who will play host to Kelowna United on McArthur Island on Sunday.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. GRACE UNDER FIRE Grace McDonald kept a clean sheet for the under-13 Kamloops Blaze Blue girls against Kamloops Blaze Orange on Sunday on McArthur Island. The game finished in a nil-nil draw. Blaze Blue is 4-4-2 on the campaign. SHUTOUT VICTORY Amar Brown kept a clean sheet for the Kamloops Blaze Orange boys in a 3-0

victory over Kelowna on the weekend in the Tournament Capital. Eric Swaine, Ben Jacoby and Matthew Murphy had goals for Kamloops (5-3-1). FIREPOWER Tano Torchia lit up Kelowna on Sunday in the River City. He scored four goals for the under13 Kamloops Blaze Orange boys in a 5-1 victory over the visitors from the Little Apple. Tiago Pinto-Coehlo also scored in support of Kamloops goalkeeper Jaxson Haywood.

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Doug Clark and the rest of the Kamloops Venom coaching staff took one look at Thomas Dolson and knew it was going to be tough to find a spot for him on the roster. The 21-year-old showed up to a tryout in March having never played lacrosse before, invited by high school buddies Tylor Seabrooke and Colton Boomer, both Venom veterans, to give the sport a whirl. “We talked to him about it,” Venom general manager Brandon Pittman said. “We didn’t have room for him on the team. He still wanted to come out to practise.” The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse league is not

TOMMY DOLSON the highest level in the province, but it’s no joke and a stretch to think someone who had never picked up a stick could fit right in. And he doesn’t, but Dolson has been among the hardestworking players twice a week at practice, giving his all with no expectations to play a

meaningul minute this season. “He’s been working his ass off all year, but we couldn’t find a place for him in our lineup realistically,” Clark said. “But he’s just been working so hard. He’s a super good kid.” Team brass got together and formulated a plan for lunch-bucket Tommy Dolson. Second-place Kamloops (6-1-1-0) will play host to the last-place Armstrong Shamrocks (1-7-1-0) on Sunday at Memorial Arena. The game, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will take place on Tommy Dolson Night. “After watching him, we decided to reward him,” Clark said. “We told him he’ll be playing at practice and we got the biggest smile you’ve ever seen in your life.”

Dolson was caught off guard by the news. “It was pretty overwhelming,” he said. “Everyone has been really supportive. “I’m not a star athlete or anything. It’s pretty incredible and they made me feel really accepted.” It will cost $50 to card Dolson for the game. “It’s worth its weight in gold because of what it means to our team by rewarding a guy like that,” Clark said. The Venom are trying to catch the Vernon Tigers (6-02-0) atop league standings. Dolson may not fit into team plans the rest of the way. Expect No. 46 to leave it all on the floor on Sunday. “And, hey, who knows?” Clark said. “Maybe he scores six goals.”

Westsyde athletes compete at provincials Westsyde secondary was well-represented at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Langley on the weekend. In the senior division, Matthew Campmans placed fourth in the 100-metre dash. Kelsy Bentz was sixth in the 400m and 11th in the 200m. Brennan Ettinger placed fifth in shot put. Logan Hwang was sixth in the 1,500m and 11th in the 3,000m. Brandon Gremaud was 17th in javelin and 27th in the 800m. In the junior division, Aidan Barringer placed fifth in high jump and Tyrelle Chadwick was seventh in shot put and eighth in discus. Dexter Deneef placed 16th overall in the 100m in the Grade 8 division. SILVER LININGS Two Kamloops Rattlers lacrosse teams earned silver medals at tournaments last weekend. The Novice 1 Rattlers posted a 3-2 record and placed second at the John Witt Memorial Bellie Bowl Tournament in New Westminster. In Penticton, the Bantam A Rattlers fell one goal shy of gold, falling 4-3 in overtime to Port Moody at the Barn Burner Tournament. The midget Rattlers will be in Coquitlam this weekend for the Trevor Wingrove Memorial Lacrosse Tournament. SNAKE PIT LACROSSE The Kamloops Rattlers will

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play their final home game of the Thompson Okanagan Senior Lacrosse League season on Friday at Memorial Arena. Game time is 8 p.m., with the Armstrong Shamrocks coming to town for Game 4 of the six-game season series. Armstrong leads the series 3-0. CLASSICS’ RESULTS The Kamloops Classic Swimming club played host to the TRU WolfPack Invitational meet at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre on the weekend. Jack Cameron had an impressive haul in the 13and 14-year-old boys’ division. He won gold medals in the 50-metre, 100m and 200m freestyle events and the 200m individual medley. Cameron’s time of 25.31 seconds in the 50m freestyle is a club record. Sarah Koopmans, swimming in the 15-and-over girls’ division, won the 50m and 100m fly events. Keana Smart won the 100m and 200m backstroke in the same division. Ethan Jensen, competing in the 15-and-over boys’ category, won gold medals in

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three fly events — the 50m, 100m and 200m. Ben Kloska, Matt Gauthier, Jensen and Michael Dagasso set a club record in the 15-and-over boys’ medley relay with a time of 1:53.44. There were 502 swimmers at the meet, representing B.C., Alberta, Northwest Territories and Yukon. The Classics won the meet, earning 63 medals — 21 gold, 17 silver and 25 bronze. KYSA DINNER The Kamloops Youth Soccer Association will hold its second annual Volunteer Appreciation and Awards Dinner at St. Ann’s Academy on June 23.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Evelyn Byers

Donna May Biro (née Busenius)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Evelyn Byers (née Messier) of Kamloops, BC. Evelyn passed away peacefully on May 31, 2018, surrounded by her family after a long, hard fought battle with cancer.

December 12, 1940 - May 19, 2018

Evelyn (Ev) was born on December 28, 1942, in New Westminster, BC, and spent the majority of her childhood and adult life in the Maillardville/Coquitlam area, before retiring to Kamloops in 1998 with her husband Fred. Ev was an avid gardener who enjoyed spending time working in her yard, or puttering around the house. She also enjoyed camping and fishing with Fred and Keelah, and would not hesitate to out-fish him at every opportunity. Ev especially loved spending time with her family and friends and was an inspiration to all who knew her. She will be profoundly missed. Ev was predeceased by her mother Dorothy in 2002 and her father George in 2004. Ev is survived by her husband of 55 years Fred, her daughters Sandy (Branwen) of Nelson, Debbie (Kim) of Kamloops, her son Craig of Kamloops and her grandsons Mitchell and Joshua both of Kamloops. Ev is also survived by her brother Raymond (Rachel) of Pitt Meadows and her brother George (Sheryl) of Coquitlam, as well as many nieces and nephews. Ev has requested that there be no service, however a gathering of family and close friends will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, Ev has requested that a donation be made to the BCSPCA, and/or the Kamloops Hospice Association. The family would like to thank the Marjorie Willoughby Hospice Home for their exceptional care during Ev’s final days, and for allowing her to leave on her own terms with grace and dignity. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

Until we meet again Mom “Two thirds love, one third gratitude”. She leaves behind her loving family: mother Bess Busenius, husband Imre (Jim) Biro, sister Paula Haydamack, aunt Doris MacDougall, her children Tina (Pierre), Peter (Wendy), Haida (Kim), Dick (Ange), grandchildren Genevieve, Remy, James, Chelsea, Jakob, Lucas, Will, Landon, as well as five great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind her beloved friends: Jim Cryderman and daughter Candice. Donna was pre-deceased by her father Gustav Busenius and brother Phillip.

Please join us on Saturday, June 16, 2018 for a Celebration of Life for Kathy Manning from 1:00 – 4:00 pm at Hal Rogers Centre, 2025 Summit Dr., Kamloops, BC.

Intelligent, adventurous and open-minded. She had a big heart. Mom loved nature and was close to Mother Earth. She believed in a connection between all things. Her passion for learning about the human body brought her into massage therapy and many other healing modalities. Her spiritual journey brought her close to the native ways, particularly those of the North and the healing of Body, Mind and Spirit. Mom was not afraid to stand alone and voice her beliefs. She was a strong advocate for women’s rights and a pioneer in the local peace movement. She was also a strong supporter and organizer of the labour union movement. She always said to us “Even if you are the only voice, it needs to be heard.”

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Henry Gerbrandt died peacefully on Saturday, June 2, 2018 in Kamloops, BC. He was born on July 4, 1931 in Plum Coulee, Manitoba to Jacob and Katharina Gerbrandt. Henry spent most of his working life in the garage business in Keoma, Alberta. He was active in community and church affairs. Many were blessed by his singing! After retirement he made many trips to Mexico in a building ministry. Since moving to Kamloops in 2015, he has volunteered at the New Life Thrift Store. He is survived by his wife Mildred, children Millicent, Ron, Ken, Joyce and Barbara, nine grandchildren, six great-grandchildren three brothers and two sisters. There will be a private family service at a later date. Henry’s basic compelling force in life was his faith in Christ. In his memory, find a quiet spot to reflect on our marvelous Creator and gracious Saviour. Amen. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577

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Kathy Manning

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our mom. She was at peace as she spent her last days on this Earth, at home, in the arms of the beautiful Fadear Creek Valley. Her next journey has begun and we will forever keep her in our thoughts and in our hearts.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Robert Peter Stewart

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Laura Dick

Nov 20, 1937 – May 29, 2018

John Dawson French August 10, 1947 – May 17, 2018

There will be a Celebration of John’s Life on June 23rd, 2018 at 2:00 pm at the South Thompson Inn, 3438 Shuswap Rd East. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloops funeralhome.com

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On May 29th Robert passed away quietly at the Coquihalla Gillis Multi Care Unit B. Robert lived a great life full of fun, friends and laughter. He is known for his big beautiful smile, rubber arm and ears that didn’t work. He was loved by all and will be missed by many. He will Be lovingly remembered by his wife Gina Stewart and 6 children; Alvin(Cathy), Floraine (Dave), Midge, Wanda (Steve) Janice (Greg), Aaron(Sheree), Sister in law; Verna (Robert) Grandchildren: Shamus (Katherine), Travis (Melissa), Gina, Tyrell, Kyle, Miles, Myron, Michael (Marsha), Davis (Jackie), Rob Jr. (Brenda), Melissa (Bobby) Brother: Martin Stewart(Nancy) Robert has numerous Stewart Tom cousins, nieces and nephews too many to mention here. The family would like to thank Dr. Ross, staff at Multi Care B, Upper Nicola Community members for all donations, Upper Nicola Health Director, Duane Tom for funeral arrangements, Cooks; Samantha Tom, Yvonne Abbott and Sandra Lee and Merritt funeral home for all the arrangements. A traditional and contemporary out door celebration of Life was held at Robert’s home at Spaxomin Reserve by Father Ken, Community Elders and Hand Drummers on June 2nd, 2018.

Predeceased by her parents Olive and Wilfred Rhindress, husband Larry Dick, daughter Jane Povoas and sisters Lilly-Bell Wilms and Marion Garay. Jean was born in Mapes, BC on February 1,1929. She later moved to Ladysmith where she met and married Larry. They then moved to Kamloops in 1951 where they lived forever after. Jean’s passion in life was camping, fishing, hunting and spending time with family and friends. She also enjoyed knitting and crocheting. The family would like to thank Dr. Bantock, Home Care staff, Community Care staff and Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home for taking such great care of Jean. There will be no service by request but there will be a celebration of life at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate memorial donations to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home, 72 Whiteshield Cres. South, Kamloops, BC V2E 2S9.

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The family would like to offer a special thanks to the nurses and doctors in the ICU at Royal Inland Hospital for their kindness and compassion. If friends so desire, memorial donations in Bernie’s name may be made to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. The Celebration of Life for Bernie will take place at 11:00 am on Sunday, June 17, 2018 in the Kamloops Funeral Home Celebration Hall with Babette Degregorio officiating. A Private Burial was held on Friday, June 8, 2018 at Hillside Cemetery, Kamloops, BC. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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He touched many lives and will be missed by both friends and family.

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large as she was when she left my side & just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not her.

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Bernie was a man who believed and followed the rules of kindness, honesty, integrity and generosity. Although he considered himself a loner, Bernie attracted people with his loyalty and words of wisdom.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is on object of beauty & strength & I stand & watch her, until at length, she is only a speck of white cloud just wheret he seas & sky meet and mingle with each other. Then someone at my side exclaims, “There, she’s gone!”

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Bernard “Bernie” George Gagne On Monday, June 4, 2018 our beloved Dad Bernie passed away peacefully, surrounded with love.

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Laura “Jean” Dick of Kamloops, BC passed away on May 30, 2018 at 89 years of age. She is survived by her loving children Betty-Lou (Stan) Dick, Gayle Ford, Judy Dick, Jim (Terry) Dick and Darlene (Warren) Kostick. Also left with treasured memories are her son-in-law Butch Povoas, her fourteen grandchildren, fifteen greatgrandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She also leaves her brother Jim Rhindress, sisters Viola Tucker, Evelyn (Dennis) Seevers, Charlene (Rod) Bosnick, Elsie Dillman, sister-in-law Chrissy Moffat and numerous other relatives.

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It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Colleen on Saturday, June 2, 2018 after a 2 year battle with cancer. Colleen slipped silently into the night at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. She was 59 years young. Beloved wife of Randy Erfle, devoted mother to her two sons Donald and Devon Erfle, loving daughter of Don (Karen McLeod) Thomas. Colleen is predeceased by her dear mother Yvonne Thomas. Adored sister to Linda Thomas and Tracy Thomas, aunt to Rachel Thomas, sister-in-law to Jason Dandenault. Colleen is also survived by her aunt Maxine Rankin in Kelowna and uncles Bob, Ken, Bill and Brian Thomas all from Alberta and numerous cousins throughout Alberta and BC. She is predeceased by her grandparents Theda and Ed Duncan and Dave and Myfanwy Thomas. Colleen was born in Ponoka, Alberta. From there the family moved to Calgary and then to Kamloops, BC. She graduated from Westsyde Secondary in 1977. After meeting her future husband Randy they settled in

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Kamloops and raised two beautiful boys. Colleen was content to be a full time wife and mother. She had many hobbies like painting and crocheting. She loved to go fishing, preferably for salmon. She also loved animals and had a variety of pets constantly coming and going through her household. In her later years, she became an accountant and worked as a bookkeeper for her dad’s and husband’s business Abco Duradek. There will be a private family service held.

Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day, unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed and very dear. Condolences may be left at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com Arrangements entrusted to First Memorial, Kamloops (250) 554 2429

Stanley Alexander Ricalton April 27, 1928 May 29, 2018

It is with great sadness that the family of Stanley Ricalton announces his passing on May 29, 2018 at the age of 90 years. Stan passed away peacefully in his sleep and will be lovingly remembered by his wife Marlene and his children Valerie (Grant), Debra (Chris), Wayne (Cecilia) and by his five grandchildren Brent, Christopher, Stephen, Ashley and Kevin. Stan was a very private man and per his wishes, there will be no services. Condolences may be left for the family at

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Caitlyn Kroll

Margaret Emma Norris (Powell)

In Loving Memory of

December 11, 1995 - April 3, 2018

1932 - 2018

Mom and John

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dearly beloved Mother, Grandmother, GreatGrandmother, Sister, Aunt and Friend.

Sadly, we announce the passing of our beloved Caitlyn at 22 years old.

Margaret is survived by her sons Brian (Diane) and Tim (Gail), grandchildren Brian (Carly), Gerald, Brent (Lisa), Grant, Jason, Chris, Andrea (Patrick Robinson), Garth, Alyssa, nine great-grandchildren, brothers Don (Helen), Graham (Brenda) and Gene (Rita) Powell, sister Muriel McGuire, sister-in-law Evelyn and many nieces, nephews and friends.

You may have known her as Jamie, Kate, Myla or Caitlyn. A child who faced many challenges in her life and who never gave up on at least trying to meet all her dreams and aspirations. We are proud of how many things she accomplished, teaching herself how to design and sew her own styles and biking across the border to explore Seattle among them.

She was predeceased by her dear husband Ross, her brother Gordon Powell and sister Marion Covey. Margaret was born in Goderich, Ontario, on January 24, 1932 and moved out west where she met her husband Ross, with whom she enjoyed a very full and wonderful life. Together, they enjoyed camping, fishing, curling, travelling, golfing and dancing and especially liked to share in their pastimes with their family and friends. Margaret was an artist, crafter, baker and very much the heart of our family, organizing celebrations and hosting family gatherings. She was a past honoured lady with the Canadian Royal Purple Society (North Kamloops Lodge) and an active parishioner of the St. George’s Anglican Church, North Kamloops. She passed away on May 20, 2018 in Kamloops, BC and leaves behind a very strong legacy of compassion and kindness for which she will always be fondly remembered. We wish to thank all of the nurses, doctors and staff at the Royal Inland Hospital for their support. A Memorial Service celebrating her life will be held at St. George’s Anglican Church, 308 Royal Avenue, Kamloops, on Monday, June 11, 2018 at 11:00 am.

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Angelo Carlo Gerebizza February 2, 1929 – May 31, 2018

Happy Birthday Brother John June 10th with Mom in Heaven.

Her Mom was her greatest love and supporter, along with sister Meg, brother Joe, nana, papa, aunts, uncles, cousins and her dad’s family.

Love and Miss you.

We love you Caitlyn and will always remember you.

Brenda, Roger, Marlene and Jake

May you and your favourite puppy Ricco have a blast running around ‘up there’. We would like to send our thanks to Rain City Housing for all of their kindness and support that was shown to Kate. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 12:30 pm at the West Highlands Community Centre, Kamloops, BC.

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He was born in San Remo, Liguria, Italy. In 1940 his family fled back to Istria Capodistria. He enrolled in University, became a Chartered Accountant and began his career. In 1954, Angelo married the love of his life Rosina. In 1955, Angelo, Rosina and Claudio (1 yr. old), fled from Capodistria to Trieste. In 1957, his family of three, emigrated to Canada and arrived in Kamloops at the C.N.R. station off Lorne St. Three days later, he began working for that same railway. Thirty years later, he retired from that same office as Roadmaster. He was widely and highly recognized for his achievements in that position.

Prayers will be recited at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in Kamloops on Friday, June 8, 2018 at 7:00 pm. The Funeral Mass will take place in the church on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 10:00 am. Interment will immediately follow the Mass at Hillside Cemetery. Following the Interment, friends are invited to a reception at the OLPH Centre. Should friends desire, donations in memory of Angelo can be made to the RIH Foundation. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com.

Barbara was very active in the early years of the Kamloops Art Gallery and was a long time member of the Kamloops Arts and Crafts Club. There was not a craft that she did not want to try. Barbara is probably best remembered for her pine needle baskets. There were also many a child who slept under her whimsical baby quilts. She and Stane also spent many a winter day working on miniature houses, including a couple that became end tables in her living room. She was predeceased by her husband Stane and is survived by her children Patricia, Margaret (Arthur Huffman) of Calgary, son David (Beth) of Kamloops, grandchildren Sarah, Spencer and Michael and great-grandson Jaxon. At Barbara’s request there will not be a memorial service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, Kamloops, BC. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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Alexander Simons

The family of Alexander Simons wish to let family, friends and the community know that a Celebration in his Memory will be held on Friday, June 15, 2018 at Holy Family Parish, 2797 Sunset Drive in Valleyview at 10:30 am. A reception will follow.

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Misc. Wanted

Musical Instruments

#1 Numismatist buying coins, coin collections, old paper money,all gold & silver +, Todd The Coin Guy 250-864-3521

2-3/4 French and German Violins c/w case/bows. $200-$ 300. 3-Full size violins. $200$500. 250-434-6738.

Career Opportunities

Scwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;exmx Child & Family Services Society Job Posting Full-time Social Worker Salary $48,830.60 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 70,124.60 per annum Comprehensive beneďŹ t package Our vision is to work collaboratively to facilitate opportunities for our children, families and communities to achieve their full potential and realize a healthy quality of life through the expression of our ancestral beliefs, values and instructions. Scwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;exmx Child and Family Services Society (SCFSS) has been providing child protection and support services to the Nicola Valley (Merritt, B.C.) since 1994. Please learn more about us www.scwexmx.com and Merritt, B.C. www.merritt.ca

The Opportunity:

Scwâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;exmx Child and Family Services Society (SCFSS) is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic individual to join our team as a Social Worker. As an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team, the Social Worker will provide culturally appropriate services and information which enhance the relationships and wellness of children and families who are experiencing signiďŹ cant challenges, in the Merritt area.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

t Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability t Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective independently t Ability to handle crisis and crisis intervention t Ability to handle unpleasant and emotionally charged situations t Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment t Strong understanding of social, economic, political and historical concerns in Aboriginal communities t Ability to communicate in an appropriate manner orally and in writing t Ability to effectively use standard computer applications t Excellent interpersonal and communication skills t Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in social work or similar ďŹ eld is preferred t Must have, or be eligible for, C6 delegation t Minimum one-year social work experience preferred however encourage new graduates to apply or t Minimum one-year experience with First Nations families, youth, children and families t Ability to interpret and apply Federal and Provincial legislation and standards of practice t Experience working with Aboriginal communities t A valid BC class 5 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and criminal record check are mandatory Pursuant to Section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code, preference may be given to qualiďŹ ed applicants of Aboriginal ancestry.

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Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate

Transportation

Plants /Nursery

Acreage for Sale

For Sale By Owner

Houses For Sale

Antiques / Classics

Quesnel, Res & Com Land Sale -- 9-70 acres. www.kleingroup.com -- $6,000/lot 1-855684-8844 x 701

1973 Moduline Trailer. 3bdrms. 5 appliances. Fenced yard, garden. $47,000. 250852-1201 or 250-852-1772.

Mobile Homes & Parks

Career Opportunities

Fruit trees any kind. Prune plums trees $10-$40. Tomato Plants. Canning jars. 250-3763480 lv message.

Career Opportunities

BY OWNER $55.00 Special! Call or email for more info:

KAMLOOPS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

HOME & LOTS AVAILABLE New mortgage rules stressing you out? Call Eagle Homes today!

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Rentals

Bachelor Suite starting at $845 per month 1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry $850-$1,200 per month North Shore 250-376-1427 South Shore 250-314-1135

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We buy and sell antiques & collectables LARGEST ANTIQUE STORE IN KAMLOOPS (250) 554-3534 â&#x20AC;˘ 232 Briar Ave Kamloops BC

Misc. Wanted

Call 250-371-4949 for more information

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Cars - Domestic

1991 Cadillac Eldorado 72,000kms. Never winter driven. Asking $7,000. 250-372-0765

2003 Ford Mustang Convertible Grey in colour, 156,000k, 3.8L, 5spd manual Excellent Shape $11,000 obo (250) 554-2917

2005 Ford Taurus SE 3L V6 Low kms, Very gd cond, no rust. Brand new summer tires on aluminum factory rims. Set of winter tires on steel rims $4,000/obo 250819-2680 Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $5,500.00/obo 250-554-0580

Recreation

RUN UNTIL SOLD

**BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2018** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,300 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly. Call for more information. 1-250-371-1333.

ONLY $35.00(plus Tax)

Rooms for Rent Furn room close to Downtown all amenities, for working person w/own transportation avail now $600 mo +DD. 250-3773158

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Set of four Goodyear tires P225/60R16 on rims. $350, without $220. 250-554-4946.

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Antiques / Vintage

1989 Mercedes 560 SEC. 61,000kms. Hagerty Appraisals #2 car $10,000USD. Selling $10,000 CDN 250-574-3794

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School District No. 83is currently accepting resumes for a Painter. Successful applicants will possess demonstrated experience in all aspects of the painting trade. This is a full-time Regular position.

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1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop. 55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794.

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Cars - Sports & Imports

1982 Mercedes 300 SD TD. 2 owners, original and documented. 242,000km no drips. Show car quality. Asking $5000. Call or text 778-220-0118 before 8pm

Suites, Lower Bright 1 Bdrm Brock avail June 1st $850 util, wifi and cable incl shrd w/d, sep ent, prk. n/s/n/p 250-819-7537 Cozy 2bdrm. Avail Immed. Lower Sahali n/s util incl $850 (778) 257-2468

BUY AND SELL WITH A CLASSIFIED AD

2006 Honda Civic Si, in family since new, 127,000 kms, fun to drive, good on gas, 6 speed manual, 2L, 196 hp. Car proof. $6800/ obo Darrel 778-472-5547

Commercial Vehicles 1978 Ford T. Bird hardtop. 160,000kms. One owner, like new. $3100. 250-374-8285.

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Transportation

Motorcycles

Businesses&SERVICES Services

Services

Financial Services

Handypersons

Landscaping

RICKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SMALL HAUL

PETERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S YARD SERVICE

For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent. Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

Time to Trim Your Hedges Tree Pruning or Removal

Home Improvements

Licensed & Certiï&#x192;&#x17E;ed

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise! Deliver Kamloops This Week

250-377-3457

Yard clean-up, Hedge trimming

250-572-0753

1981 Silverwing 500. Bags & faring. 45,000kms. Collector Plates. $1,700/obo. 579-3205.

Garage Sales

2008 Scooter Vespa 150. Like new, red. Fully loaded. Senior owned. $2500. 250-314-4402. Wanted: HARLEY GEAR. Chaps, Jacket, Vest and Gloves. Ladies Medium and Mens Xlg. Send pics to: rajol@telus.net

Recreational/Sale

call 250-374-0462 for a route near you!

Spring Cleaning Sale Call Spring at 250-574-5482

250-376-2689

Garden & Lawn * Lawn Mowing * Rototilling * Handymen

* Hedge Trimming Reasonable Rates Free Estimates

250-319-2555

Misc Services

1993 32ft Cobra Cordova Class A Motor Home. 95,000k Ford 460 gas engine runs well. $8000 (250) 554-2917

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE:

Springâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Cleaning Services

Livestock

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

DOWNTOWN Sat, June 9th. 8am-3pm. 905 Pine St. Multi-Family. Lots for Everyone. Rain or Shine. DOWNTOWN Sat. June 9th. 9am-2pm. 432 St. Paul St. Inside at the back in the bsmt. Selection of indoor plants, menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothing $1/each. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoes $2/each. Lots of household items $1 to .50 cents each. CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and records .25/each. Furniture and carpentry tools. DUFFERIN Sat, June 9th. 9am-2pm. 1740 Sunshine Court. Cleaning out the garage/workshop - lots of stuff going!

Aerate â&#x20AC;¢ Power Rake Yard/Lot/Garden Clean Up Prune Mow â&#x20AC;¢ Weed Whack â&#x20AC;¢ Weed Hedge Trim â&#x20AC;¢ Plant Gravel/Rock/Mulch â&#x20AC;¢ Turf Garden Walls â&#x20AC;¢ Paving Stones Irrigation: Start up & Repairs

LNG Building Maintenance Commercial & Residential. Call 778-257-0146.

1994 Fleetwood Cobra 37.5 ft. 5th Wheel. $6000 or trade for motorcycle. 250-299-9342. 2005 35ft. Outback 5th Wheel. 16ft side-out, clean, many extras. $17,750. 250-573-4632. 2005, 38â&#x20AC;&#x2122; RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $18,900. 236-421-2251 2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $65,000 250-374-4723

REIMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FARM SERVICES

250-260-0110 Masonry & Brickwork

shocking experience if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where the wires are.

1â&#x20AC;¢800â&#x20AC;¢474â&#x20AC;¢6886 CALL AT LEAST TWO FULL WORKING DAYS BEFORE YOU PLAN TO DIG.

Masonry & Brickwork

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30ft. 2015 Keystone Hideout Two big slides, loaded winter package. 5 1/2 years left on warranty, only used one season. Must see. $24,900. 250-319-3763

Run until sold

CONCRETE JOBS

New Price $56.00+tax

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one ï¬&#x201A;at rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* â&#x20AC;¢ $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) â&#x20AC;¢ $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

BRICKS, BLOCKS, PAVERS, SIDEWALKS + PRUNING

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Home Improvements

Garage Sales NORTH SHORE Huge moving sale includes furniture appliances, electronics, sewing machines, tents, hunting gear, lawn mower, chainsaw and other amazing household items. Sat and Sun June 9th and 10th 8am-4pm 1544 Lethbridge Ave.

Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL

NORTH SHORE Kimberley Cres. Multi-Family, Saturday, June 9th. 8am-2pm. Halloween decor, 32ft extension ladder, air tools, appl, flea market tables and much more

250-371-4949

NORTH SHORE Sat, June 9th. 9am-1pm. 1024 Kemano St. Kitchen, bedding, tools, camping + much more.

ONLY $12.50 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line) classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com Garage Sale deadline is Thursday 10am for Friday Call Tuesday before 10am for our 2 day special for $17.50 for Wednesday and Friday Garage Sale Packages must be picked up Prior to the Garage Sale.

PINANTAN Saturday, June 9th. 10am2pm at the Community Park. Community Garage Sale for the Pinantan Lake Fire Dept. VALLEYVIEW Huge interesting Pre-moving Sale. 2487 Sunset Dr. June 9th & 10th 8:30am - 3:00pm. WESTSYDE Fund Raiser Garage Sale. 3404 Overlander Dr. Saturday, June 9th. 9am-1pm

NORTH KAMLOOPS Gigantic Multi Family Sale New things on Sunday Tons of Glassware and furniture. Sat and Sun June 9th and 10th 8am-2pm 1277 Creston Place.

NORTH SHORE Large Garage Sale. Sat & Sun, June 9th & 10th. 9am2pm. 1265 Barrie Drive.

WESTSYDE Sat June 9th. 9:00am-2:00pm. 748 Porterfield Rd. Multi Family. Lots for Everyone!

Transportation

Trucks & Vans

Boats

11Ft Saturn HD inflatable boat new cond. incl elec motor, launching wheels adjustable 12 volt pump c/w boat cover $1750/obo 250-315-3626. 12 foot aluminum boat w/electric motor $600 evenings (250) 377-6672 12ft alum boat w/trailer. Elec motor, oars & seats. Good shape. $1250. 250-554-2750. 14ft aluminum boat w/trailer and new 9.9HP Merc O/B w/asst equip $3500. (250) 523-6251

New 12ft. Lund w/elec motor. 2 life jackets/oars, used trailer. $2500/obo. 236-425-3933.

1996 Chevrolet C/K 2500 HD 3/4 ton Truck. Good condition. $9,900. 250-374-1988

2007 Honda Ridgeline EXL. 4dr, AWD, V-6 auto. Good condition. $10,995. 250-371-4941.

RUN TILL

RENTED CLASSIFIEDS 250-374-7467

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply. Private party only (no businesses).

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GARAGE SALE TIME

LOWER SAHALI Sat, June 9th. 9am-3pm. 282 Greenstone Drive & 279 Bestwick and neighbours.

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

JA ENTERPRISES Furniture Moving and Rubbish Removal jaenterpriseskam@gmail.com 778-257-4943

Garage Sales

1985 HONDA GOLD WING Aspencaed GL 1200 engine In very nice shape $4000obo (250) 554-2917

Only 2 issues a week!

Cleaning Services

GarageSale DIRECTORY

Scrap Car Removal

Home Improvements 2009 Chev Cube Van 187000km In Excellent mechanical condition $13,600 (778) 257-4943 jaenterpriseskam@gmail.com .

Sport Utility Vehicle

1985 Dodge Ram Charger. Very good condition. $4,000/OBO 250-579-5551 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. Red. Exec cond. Fully loaded. $12,000. 250-572-6520.

Trucks & Vans 1993 Chev 1500 4x4 reg cab standard 5sp 4.3 motor V6 $2500 obo (250) 828-1392 2006 Dodge 2500 4x4 HD. w/1994 10.5ft. camper. $17,500/both. 778-220-7372. 2009 Chrysler T&C 7-pass van. Fully loaded. Low kms. $11,000 obo. 250-679-1137

2011 F450 Lariat King Ranch, Bullydog system, four inch exhaust, B&N intake filter, no DEF required. New tires, brakes replaced two years ago. $37,000. 250-378-8758

Utility Trailers 2012 5ft x 6ft x 5ft box trailer $1300, and 2018 Royal 5ft x 10ft x 5ft trailer almost new $3100 only used twice (778) 257-4943 jaenterprises kam@gmail.com Heavy Duty Trailer 6ft inside 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; long. 2x8 stud axles, elec brakes, ramps. $2800/obo. 250-577-3120.

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14 chev cruze ltz FWd

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lement Yeh wanted to honour people in the community through art. The Kamloops artist and Thompson Rivers University art professor put the idea out on social media and received 64 submissions from people wishing for him to immortalize Kamloops residents via a charcoal portrait. Yeh has since drawn about 40 people for an exhibition entitled Drawing on Memory, currently on display at Arnica Artist Run Centre. “It was mostly people who are deceased and mostly family members,” Yeh said. “That sort of makes sense to me

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‘Drawing on Memory’ exhibit featured at Arnica Klimasch, a local photographer who became ill and died suddenly last year. Chris Kempling asked Yeh to draw his father. An infant baby, lost after childbirth, is also included among the many faces on display. “There’s not anything I can do with people who have lost, but maybe through this project it helps people reflect,” Yeh said. While visitors to the exhibit may not recognize the faces, he said each person comes with a unique story, which is detailed in a few sentences on their por-

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trait. Yeh said many artists will create their own story and inspiration for artwork but he hoped to provide a platform for others. Yeh has spent about 140 hours drawing the artwork from photos and said every face offers a new challenge. He enjoys creating portraits because, he said, the face reveals genetics and character. “They are how we shape our identity,” he said. The exhibit is on display from Tuesdays to Saturdays. The centre, located at 7 West Seymour St., is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. but closes one hour earlier on Saturdays.

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illi the frog carries a message. It’s one Lilli’s creator, Val Hilliker, tries to impart to those who come to her puppet shows. Lilli, you see, wears a duck suit. Lilli looks like a duck and tries to sound like a duck but, inside, Lilli is a frog. “And it’s what’s inside that counts,” said Hilliker, who will join several other entertainment acts when this year’s Walk for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment expands to a day-long event of fun, music, food and promoting peace. “Lilli hides in her suit but when she comes out and shows she is a frog, it’s enlightening.” The Enderby resident is one of few women who make their

living in that field. She said as an 18-year-old living in Williams Lake, she was pondering what to do with her life when she read a book on it “and I thought sure, I’ll do that. So I taught myself how to do it.” Since then, she has spent thousands of hours at schools, in hospitals and at many other events sharing her talent and her stable of puppets, each of which she has created and each with its own message. Much of what she teaches through them is based on principles of The Virtues Project, a Canadian-created, global grassroots project inspiring virtues in people’s everyday lives — love, kindness, justice and service. There’s another puppet that travels with her with its own unique message. It’s created to honour her grandmother, a woman who, due to the times and

personal struggles, gave up her 11th child to her brother to raise — a youngster who grew up to be Hilliker’s dad. She didn’t connect with her grandmother until later in life and learned many things from her, virtues she summed up by quoting an aunt “who told me my grandmother had more love in her little finger than most people have in their bodies.” For her Kamloops set on June 23, she’ll focus on “peaceful ideas to get along in a positive way.” Others on the lineup for what is being called Rock the Walk are: • Roxanne Hall, formerly of Kamloops, who sings passionate pro-earth songs; • Elsewhere, a band made up of Anthony Splane on bass, guitar and vocals, Jared Wilman on drums and vocals and Jared Doherty on guitar, bass and vocals; • The Freudian Slips improv

team of Chimera Theatre; • Jon Treichel and the Tricky Hicks, a band with some familiar faces — Jon Treichel, Neil Brun and Richard Graham; • Dr. Fabulous, which draws its influences from Black Sabbath, Nirvana and Queens of the Stone Age. It’s made up of Steve Manhattan on guitar and lead vocals, Kris Ruston on guitar and vocals, Stu McCallum on bass and Chris Palzoni on drums; • Echo Beach, a surf-rock band that includes Mac Lefebvre on vocals, Emilio Pagnotta on guitar, Russ Walton on bass and Jared Wilman on drums; • Doc and the Disorderlies, which calls its sets “music for what ails ya” and is made up of Chris Doherty on banjo, Gary Nielsen on rhythm guitar, Bruce Campbell on lead guitar and ukulele by Fain Wess;

• Exis Perellis, a live electronica band made up of Shevani Nall on lead vocals and piano and Graham How on trumpet; • Strio-V, a country/bluegrass band of the Vutev family — brothers Christo on guitar and vocals, Ivan on mandolin and vocals and dad Cvetozar on fiddle, with mom Toni occasionally joining with her ukulele bass; • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a blending of Charlie Smith on vocals, Jon Treichel on guitar, Neil Brun on bass and Richard Graham on drums. Food trucks and an artisan’s alley will be on site and the entertainment starts when the walk ends at 12:30 p.m. at the Rotary Bandshell and continues to 8 p.m. People are encouraged to bring their own chairs and cups to keep waste to a minimum.

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d Brisson grew up reading Spider-Man and calls it “surreal” to write for Marvel Comics decades later. “For me, it’s like listening to the Beatles when you’re growing up and then getting a chance to join the band,” he told KTW in a phone interview. Following in the footsteps of Canadian artist Todd McFarlane — who drew The Amazing SpiderMan — the Kelowna writer set out to become a comic book artist by studying art at Okanagan University College and beginning to self-publish his own comics in 1994. Pre-internet era, Brisson wrote about superheroes and crime to pair stories with his art. It took him 16 years to realize, however, he had more of a knack for writing than drawing. He likened that aha moment to the sunk cost fallacy.

“You’ve put so much of your life into it, it’s hard to actually see that maybe it’s not working out and you still hope that it will, despite all evidence of the contrary,” he said. “I think that was just the case with me. I had put so much time into it that to stop doing it would be like admitting I’d just wasted 16 years of my life.” It wasn’t a waste. Brisson’s childhood dream had simply mutated, much like a comic book character. In 2010, he stopped drawing and focused on writing. That’s when his career took off. His indie comic book series Murder Book became a hit and landed him gigs with Image Comics (publisher behind The Walking Dead), DC and Marvel. Last summer, he signed on exclusively with Marvel Comics. “It’s been going great,” he said. “Marvel’s been really good

to me. It’s really surreal to me.” Brisson has written Bullseye, Cable, Iron Fist and Old Man Logan for the comic book publisher. A few times each year he flies to the head office in New York or attends writers summits alongside creators he looks up to in the industry. Four Marvel writers are Canadian. “Canada gets represented pretty well these days but it’s majority American for sure,” Brisson said. One of Brisson’s proudest works links back to Canada, as well. He did a book with Ontario native Adam Gorham called The Violent — a five-issue crime series set in B.C. The story centres around two ex-addicts grappling with the high costs of living. “The book touches a lot on the housing crisis in Vancouver,” Brisson said. “Which you would never think would be an inter-

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esting backdrop for a crime story but, when you come from there, you see how the housing crisis impacts the rental market, which then impacts those in lower income brackets. It becomes harder and harder and harder for them to get by on a month-to-month basis. You add a kid to that and it’s just, it becomes nearly impossible.” Brisson himself lived in Vancouver for two decades before moving to Kelowna to escape the high costs of liv-

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2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LS 4x4

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2017 Hyundai Elantra GLS

Gordon Nuttall Sales Manager

2015 Acura TLX Tech

Judge Gyger Finance Manager

Justin Sommerfeldt Product Advisor

Richard Minaker Product Advisor

2015 Hyundai Accent GL

Kali Faust Product Advisor

2018 Kia Rio EX Certified d Pre-owne

was $23,322

was $14,920

9K754

206, 7 79 kms

NOW $13,279

2012 Chevrolet Sonic LT

NOW $20,757

9K763 42,829 kms

9K764 50,17 7 kms

NOW $24,994

2014 Nissan Versa SL

2011 Chevrolet Impala LTZ 4X4

was $23,537

was $14,119

was $28,083

S8129B 55,808 kms

NOW $12,566

2018 Kia Sorento LX AWD

9K747 70 kms

NOW $19,402

2015 Kia Sorento SX AWD Certified d Pre-owne

was $11,610

was $12,284

N8131A

80,883 kms

NOW $10,933

2016 Kia Optima EX

R8113C

NOW $10,333

117,883 kms

2018 Kia Sorento LX AWD

9K7 11B

80,579 kms

NOW $8,908

31,678 kms

NOW $26,318

2013 Kia Soul 2U

was $30,795

H8033A

NOW $27,408

33, 738 kms

2010 Subaru Impreza WI AWD

Certified d Pre-owne

was $25,687

16,490 kms

9K761

2014 Ram 1500 ST Crewcab

Certified d Pre-owne

9K757A

was $29,570

was $11,579

NOW $22,862

was $28,845

was $29,301

NOW $25,742

9K760 35,045 kms

9K756

81,880 kms

NOW $25,672

was $22,469

was $14,707

S8017A 62,826 kms

NOW $13,909

9K7 70

160,537 kms

NOW $19,998

*Sale prices include dealer administration, exclude applicable taxes and lender fees.

Kia Certified Pre-Owned rates as low as

0.9% *OAC

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FRIDAY, June 8, 2018

arts&entertainment SUMMER MUSIC LINEUP

Organizer Henry Small has put together two months of music of all genres. The schedule below is always subject to change. Find Small’s description for each show in brackets.

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MUSIC IN THE PARK Monday

Frapp City (classic rock)

Tuesday

Tri-Continental (three blues greats)

Wednesday

Me and Mae (country rock) McDonald Park: Alset (classic female rock)

Thursday

The Sturgeons (root rock)

Friday

Ben Klick (country)

Saturday

CIFM Presents: Pure Petty (Tom Petty tribute)

Sunday

Forum, 7 p.m., Scattered Atoms featuring Kira Haug, 8:15 p.m., Aviator Shades, 9:15 p.m.

Monday

Speed Control (happy rock)

Tuesday

Beyond Brass (big band classics)

Wednesday

Live Rush (Neil Young tribute) McDonald Park: Doc and the Disorderlies (roots/swing)

Thursday

Pat Temple (rockabilly)

Friday

Jackson Hollow

Sunday

Marshall Potts (singer/songwriter)

Saturday

Paisley Groove (the big groove)

Monday

Three Kings, featuring Small (and he calls it A Royal Trio)

Sunday

Margit Sky Project (rock, roots and Celtic)

Tuesday

Cecile Doo-Kingue (blues)

Monday

FKB (rock)

Tuesday

Scott Cook (high-tech hobo)

Wednesday

Carlie Jacobson (young guitar phenom) McDonald Park: Kira and Evan (soulful)

Thursday

Rollin Trainwreck (dynamic roots and country)

Friday

Saturday Sunday

Mid-Summer Night’s Jam/BCLC Presents Gord Bamford

Wednesday 25 McDonald Park: The Yale County Jug Band (jug-band fun) Thursday

Echo Nebraska (roots)

Friday

David James and Big River (Johnny Cash tribute)

Saturday

Shattered Blue (classic rock)

Suzi Rawn (rockin’ blues)

Sunday

Tyler Allen and the Hot Red Hayseeds (old-style country)

Swamp Music (Lynryd Skynryd tribute)

Monday

Sue Foley (country blues)

Tim Williams (porch blues)

Tuesday

Sean Ashby (a guitarist with Sarah McLachlan).

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2018 PERFORMER LINEUP August

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MCDONALD PARK (ONCE A WEEK)

The Faceplants (new rock)

Friday

The Dimplers (Swedish brother band)

Saturday

Punch Drunk Cabaret (rockabilly)

Wednesday

Major Funk and the Employment (funky funky, of course) McDonald Park: Dodie Goldney + Nicole Clay (songs of Joni Mitchell)

Thursday

Devon Coyote (roots rock and blues)

Friday

Trama (former Trooper members, rock)

Sunday

Blue Voodoo (blues)

Saturday

Sugar Brown (blues)

Monday

The Angie Heinze Band (killer rock)

Sunday

Sam Spades (contemporary roots rock)

Tuesday

Swing Cat Bounce (blues swing)

Monday

Rube Band (ambassadors of fun)

Tuesday

Lauren Mayell (young country)

Wednesday

Cruise Control (‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s rock) McDonald Park: Suzie and Jon (soulful duo)

Thursday

Hillside Outlaws (country rock)

Friday

Saturday

Johnny McCuaig (bagpipe rock)

Mike MacKenzie (blues rock)

Friday

Brisas del Palmar (South American ensemble)

Saturday

The Bigger Picture (classic rock)

Ribfest Presents: The Hip Show (tribute to Tragically Hip)

Sunday

Lester McLean (roots and blues)

Ribfest Presents: Eagle Eyes (tribute to The Eagles)

Monday

Caleb Hart (reggae)

Sunday

Ribfest Presents: The Beatles Experience (tribute)

Tuesday

Anita Eccleson (Girl With A Horn)

Monday

Nova Scotiables (East Coast music)

Tuesday

Metal Stiletto (a multi-female tribute)

Wednesday

Blackdaze (Black Sabbath tribute) McDonald Park: Mama Soul (soul, of course)

Bourbon Street Backbeat (New Orleans music)

Wednesday 29 McDonald Park: Dave Coalmine Band (folk, pop, rock)

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Wednesday 22 McDonald Park: 100 Mile House (award-winning duo) Thursday