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NOVEMBER 30, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 96
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This aerial shot from 1967 shows sewage lagoons and a landfill on McArthur Island, a far cry from the sports mecca is it today, as illustrated in the photo to the right. CITY OF KAMLOOPS ARCHIVES
FROM SEWAGE LAGOONS TO SPORTS MECCA JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
McArthur Island wasn’t always a recreation oasis in the Tournament Capital of Canada. Before it became a bonafide sports destination, the 126-acre barren sand dune in the Thompson River served as a playground for kids who grew up in Brock’s old apple orchards. “We swam in the slough and we’d build rafts and we’d go over to McArthur Island,” 82-year-old Norman Kopec said. KTW dug into the island’s past before
With the fate of the old golf course in limbo, KTW takes a look at the history of McArthur Island council decides the future of a 14-acre parcel in the west end of the park, formerly home to a nine-hole golf course. The city has identified a multi-use nature park with a disc golf course for that portion of the property, though plans have been contested by the Kamloops Naturalist Club, which maintains the two concepts are incompatible.
Council will have the final say. Standing next to a lush green soccer field across from the derelict golf track, Kopec pointed to a memorial park bench inscribed with family members’ names and recounted the transformation of his childhood playground through the decades. Kopec has spent his whole life in the area.
He was raised on farmland in Brocklehurst and later moved to Kelly Road across the street from McArthur Island, where he has lived for more than 40 years with a view of the slough in which he once swam in the summer and on which he played hockey in the winter. Kopec’s earliest memory of McArthur Island dates back to the 1940s, when he was about eight years old. If you want to know what the island looked like back then, he said, look no further than across the river to Rabbit Island.
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ANDREW SNUCINS PHOTOGRAPHY Weekly equine therapy in Pritchard is a crucial component of the Falcon Program, a multi-agency partnership aimed at helping kids who are victims of adversity and trauma learn to manage their feelings and behaviour so they can gradually increase the amount of time they are able to be in the classroom.
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Charities being supported this year include the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Out of the Cold shelter, The Mustard Seed New Life Community, Kamloops Brain Injury Association and Boys and Girls Club’s Falcon Program. To donate, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com/ cheer. To see a list of donors thus far, turn to page A5.
For children who have been victims of adversity and trauma, it can be a challenge to remain in a classroom environment for the entire school day. Some kids struggle to handle more than an hour or two. The Falcon Program was designed specifically to work with these children. This year, that work is being supported by the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund. The goal of the program is to help kids to learn to manage their feelings and behaviour so they can gradually increase the amount of time they are able to be in the classroom. This is the second session of an ongoing pilot project for the Falcon Program that began last spring. The program is a partnership between the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s Child and Youth Mental Health, the Boys and Girls Club of Kamloops, Thompson Rivers University and the Kamloops-Thompson school district. Katherine Gulley, team leader and clinical supervisor with Child and Youth Mental Health, is quick to point out which organization is on the front lines. “It’s really a Boys and Girls Club program,” she said. “It’s unique in that we’re all partnering, but
the Boys and Girls Club has the contract and is housing the program. So we’ve provided contract money for the pilot to the Boys and Girls Club and CYMH and SD73 have also provided time. We’ve both contributed staff to the program.” Kerry Woehle, the Boys and Girls Club’s manager of program operation, said there are a number of different activities that are part of the program. “When they get here, we normally do some regulating activities with them outside to get them calm and settled,” she said. “And then they come inside and participate in trauma-informed programming activities. Much of our focus is on the importance of creating safety and developing healthy relationships.” One of the bigger features of the program is equine therapy, in which the children take turns leading a horse and eventually riding. Weekly equine therapy takes place at Pritchard’s Copper Hills Equestrian Centre, under the guidance of counsellor Robin Collins. “Walking the horses really helps to regulate the kids,” Woehle said. “And, through working with the horses, the children begin to understand how to trust and relate to others. They’re really engaged in the equine therapy.” But quality therapeutic services can be costly, which is why the people behind the Falcon Program are so grateful for money from the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund, as well as the generosity of the public in general.
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Council Calendar December 4, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West
Seniors' Lights Tour
December 5, 2018 5:00 pm - Social Planning Council Meeting DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street December 11, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West December 17, 2018 3:30 pm - Junior Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West December 18, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West
Canada Post Utility Bills Due to the interruptions in Canada Post's service, paper utility bills may be delayed in the mail. You can view your bill online by creating an account in MyCity—the City's online portal for account information. Note: You do not need to sign up for e-billing if you don't want to. To register for MyCity, you will need an email address and your previous (or current) utility statement to reference your utility account number and access code. Visit Kamloops.ca/ MyCity for more information. Business Licence & Commercial Vehicle Renewals 2019 renewal notices have been sent through Canada Post; however, interruptions in postal service may delay delivery of your notices and/or your payment. To ensure payment is received by January 1, 2019, we recommend that you pay in one of the following ways: online using your MyCity account, online through your bank, or in person at City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West.
Pedestrian Safety With the weather changes and decreased daylight hours, follow these simple safety tips to stay safe when walking: Look - make eye contact with drivers before crossing the road Listen - remove your headphones when crossing the road Be Seen - wear reflective clothing or use a flashlight to make yourself more visible
LIGHT UP THE ROUTE! Thursday, December 6 | 6:00–10:00 pm Is your home or business on the bus route for the Seniors' Lights Tour? Visit Kamloops.ca/SeniorsLightsTour to view the route, and if you're on it, show off your best lights and spread some cheer!
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SAFE HANDLING OF SMOKING MATERIALS Smoking materials that are improperly handled are a leading cause of fire deaths. Kamloops Fire Rescue asks you to remember the following tips and advice. •
It is better to smoke outside because furniture, bedding, and papers inside the home can easily catch fire from burning cigarettes.
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• search for park and trail maps • stay connected with City news on Twitter and Facebook • check local traffic on our webcams • search our cemeteries to locate a grave site With the myNeighbourhood feature, you can find basic information on developments in your neighbourhood. Visit Kamloops.ca/myKamloops for details.
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SNOW & ICE CONTROL ON MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES On first-priority public properties that are maintained by City crews, snow and ice control is performed between 7:00 am and 10:00 pm whenever snow accumulation exceeds 2.5 cm (1”) or when ice conditions are observed or reported on walkways, entranceways, stairs, and fire exits. Municipal parking lots are cleared when snow accumulation exceeds 7.6 cm (3”). For more information, visit Kamloops.ca/SnowClearing.
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EFFECT OF A SEPERATION ON SPOUSAL WILLS Have you and your spouse ever separated and then reconciled? If you answered “Yes”, then you may need to revise/update your Wills. In a typical spousal relationship, the husband and wife make Wills, appointing the other as Executor and bequeathing the estate to the surviving spouse. However, the law recently changed to say that separation invalidates/cancels the gift to the spouse as well as the appointment of the spouse as Executor. This is the case even if the spouses later reconcile and wish the gift to their spouse in their Will to still stand (unless there is evidence of a contrary intention in the Will).
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Karneet Sidhu and the rest of the Western Karate Academy students make their way through 1,000 kicks on Wednesday as part of the academy’s kickathon fundraiser for the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund. The karate kids undertake the kickathon annually and have raised more than $90,000 for the cause, including $10,000 last year.
Not surprisingly this law is catching people off guard as they attempt to deal with their deceased spouse’s estate, only to find out that a temporary separation years ago has now excluded them from their spouse’s Will.
To donate, go online to kamloops thisweek. com/cheer.
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Thank you to our KTW Christmas Cheer donors • St. John Vianney Friday Afternoon Bridge Club: $100 • In Memory of Peter Botham: $100 • Valerie Brown: $100 • ND McGowan: $100 • KTW Social Fund: $321 • Kamloops This Week: $2,070 • Anonymous: $100 • Anna Evenrude: $50 • John and Val Kemp: $100 • Spencer and Janet Bryson: $200 • The Posse: $100 • Irene Anderson: $20 • Lynne Totten: $100 • Marg Clements: $100 • Anonymous: $500 • Darren, Sharlene & Kyle McIlwain: $158
Feel free to contact a member of our team to determine how this law applies to your circumstances.
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• Tracey Mourre: $20 • Rick & Judy Collinge: $100 • Anonymous: $25 Tom & Sharon Moore: $100 • Amy Regen: $100 • Wally & Wendy Reddeman: $75 • Jerry & Wendy Patrick: $100 • Rick Bennett: $50 • Teresa & Colman Byrne: $200 • Anonymous: $100 • Evelyn Meyer: $60 • Buzz & Jane Osterloh: $100 • Anonymous: $200 • Anonymous: $320 • Margaret Sandulak: $100 • Shirley Brown: $100 • Wendy and Kim in memory of Peter
Basson & John Healy: $25 • Linda Jackson in memory of George Wilmot: $100 • Anonymous: $500 • Jo-Mary & Bob Hunter: $200 • Sharon L. in memory of Sharon & David Frampton: $100 • In memory of James Maloney: $500 • Shirley Ross: $100 • Sue Turner: $200 • Cyndi Lion: $100 • Lois McAlary: $100 • Donna Sharpe: $50 • Anonymous: $150 • Don & Marlene Pattern: $60 TOTAL TO DATE: $7,964
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LOCAL NEWS A Nov. 20 email from BC Cannabis Stores to Kimberly Webster reads: “We are reaching out to you today in regards to your order which included the Elixir CBD MCT Oral Spray SKU#1001338. This email is to inform that the product was incorrectly labeled as a product containing high levels of CBD, low levels of THC. After further investigation we have determined that the product contains low levels of CBD and high levels of THC. Should you wish to not keep this item, we ask you to contact our 24/7 Customer Care Team via phone 1-844-420-2227 or email customercarecentre@bcldb.com as soon as possible so that we may assist you with the full return and refund of this product. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.”
Are you a former resident of Woodlands? If you were a resident of Woodlands, also known as Woodlands Institution and Woodlands School, in New Westminster, B.C., you may be eligible for a payment from the provincial government. People who resided at Woodlands prior to August 1, 1974 will receive $10,000 in an ex-gratia payment. In addition, people who resided in Woodlands after August 1, 1974 will receive up to a maximum of $10,000. The process to determine eligibility is very simple. To apply, you or your guardian or caregiver can call toll free 1 888 523-7192 or email woodlands.care.facility.residents@gov.bc.ca.
Woman suing after cannabis product was mislabelled TRU STUDENT BOUGHT SPRAY LABELLED HIGH-CBD, LOW THC, BUT PRODUCT WAS HIGH IN THC AND LOW IN CBD TIM PETRUK
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Kamloops City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider the following proposed amendments to City of Kamloops Zoning Bylaw No. 5-1-2001.
Property Location: 1019 Pine Street Purpose: To rezone the subject property from RS-1 (Single Family Residential-1) to RS-1S (Single Family Residential - Suite) to permit a single-family dwelling with a secondary suite.
Property Location: 2214 Valleyview Drive Purpose: To rezone the subject property from RS-1 (Single Family Residential-1) to RS-1S (Single Family Residential - Suite) to permit a single-family dwelling with a secondary suite.
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noting her grades suffered as a result. When she received an email from BC Cannabis Stores on Nov. 20 advising her of the labelling mishap, she said, everything clicked. “I knew there was something off, but I didn’t really know cannabis, so I just went with it,” she said. “But after I got the email, everything started to make a whole lot more sense.” Neither Hexo, nor BC Cannabis Stores nor the Liquor Distribution Branch have replied to Webster’s claim. Based in Quebec, Hexo is a company with ties to the Tournament Capital. Terry Lake, former Kamloops mayor and former MLA and health minister, is the company’s vice-president of corporate social responsibility. Hexo was co-founded by Adam Miron, now the company’s chief brand officer and a former TRU student who worked in 2005 as a volunteer on Lake’s mayoral campaign. Contacted by KTW on Thursday, Lake said he could not comment on the lawsuit. Webster’s claim does not set out a dollar amount. Each defendant has 21 days to reply once they have been served.
Contact the Planning and Development Division at 250-828-3561 or access relevant background material available at www.Kamloops.ca/CouncilAgenda. Copies of background materials are also available at City Hall for review between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday-Friday (excluding statutory holidays).
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A Kamloops woman is suing BC Cannabis Stores, alleging a product she bought the day after legalization was mislabelled — a mix-up she claims left her “unable to perform her duties” as a student at Thompson Rivers University. “It’s unfair,” Kimberly Webster told KTW. “When you buy something from someone like BC Cannabis Stores, you’re expecting one product and not another. It’s like going to buy cider and coming home with Everclear.” The 27-year-old’s notice of civil claim was filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday. In addition to BC Cannabis Stores, it lists the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch — the distributor of cannabis in the province — and Hexo Operations, the producer of the product. According to the document, Webster purchased a product labelled as Hexo CBD Oral Spray — a product high in CBD and low in THC — from the government store in Columbia Square on Oct. 18.
What she unknowingly received, she said, was the opposite — a spray high in THC and low in CBD. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. CBD offers many of the same effects as THC without those that are mind-altering. “The defendants failed to warn the plaintiff of the dangers of this product, and … it was mislabelled at the time of purchase,” the notice of claim reads. “The defendants … were negligent in failing to warn the plaintiff.” Webster, who describes herself as someone largely unfamiliar with the effects of cannabis use, said she and a classmate purchased the spray for academic reasons. She said they were hoping to write an academic article about labelling on recreational cannabis products. “We decided we would taste it and it just kind of went from there,” she said. “We couldn’t stop laughing for anything. Everyone thought we were crazy. I started feeling anxious and, at one point, I was scared of a couch, which is strange.” Webster said the incident took place during midterms,
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Canada Games Pool repair costs will nearly triple from original estimates as the city looks to replace aging systems in the building — and the facility could close for up to a year once work begins. The city was planning a $3.5-million project to replace the roof and walls of the pool building (which is separate from the newer field house at the Tournament Capital Centre), but as the facility crests 25 years, the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, electrical and lighting systems also need replacing. The total maintenance bill is estimated to cost $9 million. “We we all knew this was coming,” city capital projects manager Darren Crundwell said. “It’s not a shock.” Crundwell said roof and wall replacement have been on the books for a number of years. The city has conducted multiple studies on the building, he said,
Water meters continue to reduce water demand in Kamloops and have allowed the city to defer significant capital expenses. “I can’t understate the value of that program and what that’s done for the water utility,” Greg Wightman, the city’s utilities manager, told Kamloops council said during budget talks this week. Wightman noted one capital project deferred included planned upgrading at the Kamloops Centre for Water Quality to meet increased demand. “A lot of that has been put off based on the reduction of water use that we’ve seen,” he said. As a result, Wightman said, the city continues to explore new technologies to enhance the water meter program, including getting better information back to residents. “We’re going to be coming forward at some point with a recommendation of what that might look like,” Wightman said.
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KTW FILE PHOTO The City of Kamloops was planning on spending $3.5 million on roof and walls replacement at the Canada Games Pool. But an ailing HVAC system means the maintenance bill will be much higher than anticipated.
adding that doing all of the required maintenance at once will lessen impact on the facility’s users. Work could close the pool for six months to one year, though the Tournament Capital Centre gym and field house would remain open.
“We want to do it all at once,” Crundwell said. “It’s the right thing to do.” A plan will come to city council in January and repairs would not likely begin until 2020. While those repairs are required maintenance, Crundwell said council will also hear
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other options for the building. Those options remain unclear, but could include plans to make better use of space, Crundwell said, noting the pool was originally designed for 600 daily users. In 2018, the pool sees about 2,000 daily
users as the city and university continue to grow. “We’re not looking at adding any water at that location,” Crundwell said, noting there is insufficient room. “I can address that.” Crundwell understands the sticker shock at a time when residents
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have also heard property taxes could rise by 3.4 per cent next year. He said the building has been well-maintained, but pointed out it is all original and it is time for replacement. “You look at your house after 30 years, what you would need to do it,” he said.
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uring the recent civic election campaign, there was plenty of talk among the 23 candidates for mayor and council about the need to think outside the box in trying to keep liveability high and tax increases low. Kudos, then, to new Coun. Mike O’Reilly for bringing one of the ideas out of the box so council and city staff can at least investigate whether it can be implemented. O’Reilly this week floated the suggestion that the city look at the option of hiring special provincial constables, which he said could enforce provincial laws for minor crimes. The idea is the special provincial constables may be able to bridge the gap between City of Kamloops bylaw officers and Mounties — and save city taxpayers money in the process. The city will add three RCMP officers to the force next year at a total cost (wages, benefits and equipment) of $200,000 per Mountie per year. By contrast, a bylaw officer costs taxpayers $85,000 per year. The cost for the special provincial constables would fall somewhere in-between. But beyond presenting a monetary savings, the officers — essentially an armed version of current bylaw officers, with the required training — could step in and address certain social issues and allow Mounties more time to focus on deterring crime. Plenty of calls to the police are related to mental health and addiction, social issues that are not confined to a law and order lens. Tax hikes in Kamloops have averaged about two per cent per year in the past decade. Cumulatively, they have seriously impacted the dayto-day living budgets of many residents. To them, every dollar is crucial, just as every loonie spent at city hall should be considered carefully. It costs nothing to look into whether special provincial constables can be employed in Kamloops, so let’s find out. More ideas like this is what taxpayers want.
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o we really need to add three Mounties to the Kamloops force at a total cost — wages, benefits, equipment, etc. — of $600,000 per year? Are extended transit hours and more staff plowing snow money well spent? These are questions local taxpayers should be asking city councillors because those above issues are some of the ones over which your elected representatives have control when trying to finalize a budget and keep the property-tax increase as low as possible. Those items represent about 1.2 per cent of the provisional 3.4 per cent property-tax increase being considered, pending further decisions by council. Another 1.2 per cent represents costs out of the city’s control, according to Mayor Ken Christian and finance director Kathy Humphrey. These are costs handed down by senior levels of government, including the carbon tax, the employers’ health tax, BC Hydro rate increases and ICBC fee hikes. The final one per cent is composed of wage increases for Kamloops CUPE staff, Kamloops firefighters and Kamloops Mounties. While out of the city’s control now, costs for city staff and firefighters were indeed within the city’s control when those contracts were signed and will again be within the city’s control when the next contracts are negotiated. (The RCMP contract is
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MUSINGS another beast altogether, out of the city’s control, which is partly why Surrey council has decided to switch to a municipal force, despite the fact doing so will certainly be more expensive.) As the city looks to secure a new contract with its CUPE workers (the current contract expires on March 31, 2019) and with its unionized firefighters (the current contract with the International Association of Fire Fighters expires on Dec. 31, 2019), taxpayers should ask questions. Should Kamloops firefighters be paid the same as their Lower Mainland counterparts (the current agreement stipulates the pay increase be equal to the average of the increases agreed to by the majority of the 15 Lower Mainland municipality agreements)? And how much of an increase should city CUPE workers receive in the next contract? Taxpayers should be asking questions because they are the ones paying those bills. Policing is the single-largest expense in the city’s $166-million
budget this year— eating up $30 million — so that large piece of the fiscal pie naturally receives much attention. Peace and security are always top of mind and it seems Kamloopsians do not mind spending their tax dollars on the men and women in uniform. Kamloops Fire Rescue costs are the second-most expensive, accounting for $19 million of this year’s budget. Again, there seems to be an acceptance of that budget item. Whether those costs should be under the microscope or be expected to always lead the way is up to council — and, to some extent, you. Wednesday’s public budget meeting on McArthur Island — the first such gathering as the budget is cobbled together — attracted a surprisingly large crowd (relative to previous meetings). I counted about 60 residents mingling among all nine council members and plenty of city staffers, all of whom were given a budget rundown by Humphrey and many of whom later corralled various councillors and staff members to talk about swimming pools, outdoor ice rinks, snowremoval policies and city salaries. Whether the public input has any effect on tax levels remains to be seen. Your next chance to weigh in and ask questions is on Feb. 6. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds Ever wonder why we do what we do here at KTW? Check out the blog at chrisfoulds.blogspot.com.
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PLEASE RETURN OUR CHILDREN’S LIBRARIAN Editor: Myself and several of my colleagues are disappointed with the loss of the position of children’s librarian. Our children have benefited from having a consistent go-to person in the children’s section. These wonderful, empathetic and patient women made the library so much more accessible and welcoming to young children. Unlike a computer, an actual human being in the children’s section of the library offers opinions and insight and can often pinpoint a book based on a general
description from a child. Library staff without the “it” factor and genuine desire to work with children will never inspire a child into becoming a reader like the children’s librarians could. The desk in the children’s section was so non-intimidating and friendly. Kids are now faced with a tall, generic front desk where adults are often lined up. They struggle to be heard or even acknowledged and I’ve observed other staff do not have the time, or the inclination, to provide that personal touch. In addition, I work with young people with
autism and they were so much more comfortable with approaching that children’s desk. My colleague witnessed a soft-spoken young boy attempt to ask a question at the big main desk. The child had trouble being heard and was left with some anxiety and a reluctance to return to the library. That children’s desk was a safe-feeling place. I would love to see this feature returned to the library as I feel it inspired a love of reading in our young people. Chad Pearson Kamloops
TIRED OF ALL THE BUMPS IN THE NIGHT — AND IN THE DAY Editor: Sometime this past spring, I wrote what was meant to be a cheeky letter to the editor suggesting that the gaping potholes in our city streets were actually good for the economy due to the resultant increase in tire and suspension repairs. I asked, tongue-in-cheek, that no pothole work proceed. Alas, I seem to have been taken at my word and feel responsible for
the heavy burden that Kamloops motorists have to bear every time they hear the inevitable resounding “wham” of a wheel exploring yet another asphalt abyss. Seriously, though, it has gone way past sardonic humour. If one were to apply the stages of grieving to the situation, we would be long beyond the anger stage and well into depression. God forbid we would ever get to acceptance and regard the status
quo as just that — with no hope of remedy. The city’s response to the deterioration of our streets has been pathetic to say the least. City hall has, unbelievably, asked the public to call to report pothole locations, when its own employees, who are constantly on the road, could, if utilized, be the best source of that information. Is it a union issue? I must admit to calling the pot-
hole number several times, as well as the public works department. Those I spoke to were unengaged, defensive and uninformed. One young lady I spoke to had no idea where the intersection of East Battle and Columbia streets was located. Let’s have a forthright explanation for the current sorry state of our roads and a plan to rectify it. Larry Webster Kamloops
PROVINCIAL NEW DEMOCRATS FAILING ON RIDE HAILING Editor: Re: (‘Ride-hailing services should be on B.C. roads next year,’ Nov. 19): Shame on the NDP for putting its own agenda ahead of the people of B.C. The governing party is afraid to lose
its supporters by holding back and making a mockery of the ride-share program. I sure hope people remember this come election time. Brian Husband Kamloops
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PLEASE — NO PUBLIC MARKET AT PARK Editor: I think putting a public market in Riverside Park would be a huge mistake (‘Public market boosters selling memberships,’ Nov. 23). We need to save our parkland and keep it the way it is. We need the parking lot for all the activities, such as Music in the Park and Ribfest, to name a few. There is limited access due to trains, limited parking and no bus service
in that area of downtown. We do have a lot of seniors and children using the park on a daily basis and parking for the disabled is essential close to the park. I would like to suggest building a public market at the former Kamloops Daily News site, at Seymour Street and Fourth Avenue. I believe proponents could use the same concept drawing on that location. There is plenty of room for a four-level
parkade, with the bottom floor for an indoor market open market garden. The old Daily News location is central to all uptown shopping and has bus service from all areas of the city. There are many seniors living in highrise condos all around that location and more are being built. I am in favour of a public market, but not at Riverside Park. Ron Engen Kamloops
HERE ARE SOME BETTER SITES FOR FACILITY Editor: Re: (‘Public market boosters selling memberships,’ Nov. 23): I feel it would be a shame to turn part of Riverside Park into a public market. Riverside is the crown jewel of our city and to put a market there would take away from the beauty of the park. We don’t need to bring the
market to the people. The people who want to go to a public market will go, no matter where it is. Someone mentioned the former golf course on McArthur Island and that would be a perfect spot and a great addition to that area as it is not used as much and will bring people there. People attending sports events could check out the
market and even buy lunch there. To turn part of Riverside Park into a public market would create an eyesore. Uli Thomschke Kamloops Editor: We are again trying to destroy a well-used and beautiful park by putting a commercial enterprise on the site.
We have a large commercial space in the form of the old Value Village store and parking lot on Seymour Street. I sincerely hope our current mayor and council have the strength to reject this and push for the Value Village site. Tom Ouellette Kamloops
SOME HUNTERS CAN BE EVERYDAY HEROES Editor: I was told by a volunteer rescue worker that a senior was hunting north of Kamloops, between Lac de Bois and Jamieson Creek, when he got his vehicle stuck in the snow. It was late, so he spent a cold night in the vehicle and started walking at daylight. He was lost and had no idea how to get home. After walking for five hours, he spotted
a hunter on an all-terrain vehicle. That hunter went out of his way to bring the senior back to the main road to get home. The next day, a rescue unit took the senior back to the area to find his vehicle, but all the roads looked the same and they couldn’t locate it. Upon returning home, the senior received a phone call. Other hunters found his car stuck in
the snow, unlocked and with the keys in the ignition. They managed to get it out and brought it back to the man’s home. They used his insurance papers to track down his address. All those gentlemen deserve a pat on the back. Most hunters are real gentlemen. Jay Barlow Kamloops
CITY NEEDS TO WORK ON BRIDGING WESTSYDE Editor: Re: KTW’s article of Nov. 28, detailing the history of bridges in the city (‘Bridging the past in Kamloops’): This article was very interesting. I am not from Kamloops, but my daughter lives on Westsyde Road. One cannot help but notice how
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Would it be a legal issue to not put in security measures with a population base the size of Westsyde? It is way past time to build a bridge connecting Westsyde to Highway 5 North. Marie MacLeod Rossland
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A man accused of stabbing his friend to death while visiting his home in a Kamloops RV park could be heard on tape on the night in question claiming to neighbours he acted in self-defence. The jury trial of 52-year-old Stephen George Fraser, charged with second-degree murder in connection with the Feb. 11, 2017, death of Cody Foster, 26, began in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Wednesday, with the Crown laying out its case and calling its first witnesses. Entered into evidence was a video recording of Fraser saying he felt threatened, “thought I was a dead man” and “he was going to kill me.” He can also be heard claiming the victim was an Independent Soldier, that he was defending himself and that he “bonked” Foster with a knife. The Crown alleges that Fraser killed Foster in Foster’s home in the Kamloops RV Park in Dallas, stabbing him in the face and neck with a knife. “The knife that was used to kill him was broken into six pieces, three of which were
embedded in his body,” said prosecutor Camille Cook, noting Foster’s body was discovered by neighbours and that there was a significant amount of blood in the home. She said the act inflicted blunt force trauma to Foster’s face, breaking his jaw and orbital bone. The Crown is calling 14 witnesses to the stand during the course of the trial — a list that includes residents of the RV park who encountered Foster and the accused that day, RCMP officers who collected evidence and forensic experts who will help interpret that evidence. The trial began with the Crown calling four people who were the first to discover Foster’s body. Under questioning from Crown prosecutor Alex Janse, both Jeffrey Nielson Jr. and
then-girlfriend Kaitlyn Marbeiter said they were staying with Nielson’s parents at their lot in the park when they heard a loud thumping noise on the side of the trailer. A man was standing outside and seemed “frantic” and “out of sorts” saying he had been stabbed, needed help and that his friend had been stabbed, Neilson Jr. told the court. Marbeiter said the man’s shirt was covered in blood. Neilson Jr. said he approached the man, whom he identified in court as Fraser, and asked him to take him to his friend. Neilson Jr. and Marbeiter both testified that Fraser led them to a small trailer and indicated his wounded friend was inside. Nielson Jr. said Fraser did not go in with him, which Neilson Jr. said
he found odd as he assumed they were going to render medical assistance. Upon entering the trailer, Nielson Jr. said he saw the victim and realized the man was dead, noting his face was pale. Marbeiter said she checked for a pulse, but found nothing. After making the discovery, Nielson Jr. said he left the trailer and began yelling at Fraser to get on the ground — a command with which Fraser immediately complied with. Nielson Jr. said he then put his knees onto Fraser’s back and neck to restrain him until police arrived. It was at this time, Marbeiter said, they began asking the man what happened and she began recording the video, which she later gave to police. Upon cross-examination by defence law-
yer Jay Michi, Nielson Jr. said the accused was “speaking gibberish” while on the ground, uttering words along the lines of “I had to defend himself” and “I bonked him.” “Those comments, Independent Soldiers, did that mean anything to you?” Michi asked. “Can you tell the jury what your understanding of those words are?” “Independent Soldiers is a criminal organization, as far as I’m aware,” Neilson Jr. replied. On Thursday morning, Const. Kaitlyn Jones — the officer who arrested Fraser — testified that she conducted a thorough search of the accused’s abdomen and found he hadn’t sustained injuries. The Crown is expected to close its case by next Wednesday, at which time the defence may choose to enter evidence. Fraser has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder. In its case, the Crown must prove Fraser meant to kill Foster or inflict bodily harm that would likely cause Foster’s death.
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A former teacher and counsellor at a KamloopsThompson district high school has been found not guilty of allegations that he sexually assaulted a female Grade 8 student last year. The teacher cannot be named under a court-ordered publication ban put in place to protect the identity of the complainant, nor can the school at which the alleged incident took place be identified. Justice Marianne Armstrong acquitted the teacher of charges of sexu-
ally touching a person under 16 and sexual assault in November 2017, finding the Crown had not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. In making her ruling, Armstrong said that while she felt the girl was honest in her testimony, the student’s memory of the alleged incidents was spotty. During his testimony at trial, the man accused of the offences denied having touched the girl. Police were contacted in November 2017 after the complainant and two friends told another teacher about a pair of incidents earlier in the
month, both involving the same student and teacher. In court, the complainant, now 15, testified by way of video link that the first incident took place at some point last November when she forgot her water bottle in the teacher’s classroom. According to the girl, she went to retrieve the bottle and the teacher rubbed her back before groping her backside. The second incident, about a week later, took place in the teacher’s office, court heard. The girl said the teacher called her out of another
class and to his office, where they began a conversation and he closed the door. “I don’t know how, but we were talking,” she said. “We got on the topic of heartbeats. He went to feel where mine was.” The girl put her hand on the left side of her chest as she showed what happened. “Mine is over here, but he put his hand way down here,” she said, referencing her right breast. “I just backed up.” The girl said she left the office, but did not tell anyone about either incident until days later, when she confided in friends.
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LOCAL NEWS Eighty-two-year-old Norman Kopec has watched McArthur Island undergo massive transformation over the decades. As a kid in the 1940s, he swam in the slough and rafted over to the island from his home in North Kamloops. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
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A 1948 aerial photograph of McArthur Island shows a sparsely treed land mass, absent the roads, paths and sports fields of today. “It was a little bit swampy because it used to flood in the runoff,” Kopec said. Water levels continue to be problematic. Flood damage prompted Bill Bilton to give up his lease of the golf course land now in question. City of Kamloops parks manager Jeff Putnam said climate change has resulted in high water levels seeping onto the sports fields in the past three of five summers. Riverbanks protect the island, but the city combats impacts by ensuring fields drain well. “You’re dealing with Mother Nature and it’s such a massive scale,” Putnam said. “The best thing we can do is have a really good turfmanagement program.” LANDFILL’S CLUES REMAIN Kopec said garbage was used to
build up the sand dune and recalled it blowing on the island during his younger years. Putnam said the former golf course area at one point housed a landfill and the city continues to finds car parts, tires and rotten trees when digging on the property. “Every time we dig something up, we’re hauling out tires and old cars,” he said. While recent reports of poaching on McArthur Island sparked investigation by the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, Kopec recalled adolescent adventures hunting pheasants for supper and fishing suckers to sell in Chinatown, formerly across the river in the city’s West End. Fish sold for a quarter or two back then, Kopec said. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP Kamloops Museum and Archives records show McArthur Island was privately owned during Kopec’s boyhood. Businessman Alexander McArthur purchased the island in
Maud and Alexander McArthur. KAMLOOPS MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES PHOTO
1913 as part of a North Kamloops land acquisition with J. M. Harper. The two had previously partnered on a West Victoria Street grocery store eponymously named McArthur and Harper Store. Former museum archivist Elisabeth Duckworth detailed the
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sale in a profile on McArthur: “Included in this purchase was some land McArthur called his ‘island park,’ but which everyone else called ‘McArthur and Harper’s Island’ and then just ‘McArthur’s Island.’ “Nothing was ever done with the property, including the island, but the name ‘McArthur’ stuck.” Private ownership came to an end in 1957, around the time McArthur and wife Maud (daughter of the city’s first mayor, Sibree Clarke) died. Pre-amalgamation, the Village of North Kamloops purchased the island for $25,000. The Bank of Canada estimates that transaction in today’s dollars amounts to $223,500. It was a good investment. BC Assessment valued the golf course property alone to be worth $3.3 million this year. That is not to say significant money has not since been put into McArthur Island and it appears recreation was destined for the space
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ever since the early days of public ownership. SPORTS PLANS IN 1957 The same year North Kamloops bought the island, plans were approved for a provincial centennial sports field to be built, including space for baseball, softball and football. Two years later, the Kamloops Daily Sentinel ran a front-page story describing McArthur Island as a “future recreational playground,” complete with a yacht basin and swimming pool. Putnam said the area was likely desirable for recreation due to its central location and close proximity to irrigation. At the time, the burgeoning recreation mecca was also home to a dog pound, a sewer lift station, a sewage lagoon and a game bird reserve, with another 12-acre sewage lagoon in the works to accommodate additional sewer connections to the village, the Sentinel noted.
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LOCAL NEWS Future plans included sites for the Kamloops Light Horse Club and picnic and playground areas to be developed by the North Kamloops Lions Club. “In general, therefore, the island is destined to become a recreational playground area, a big improvement from the barren, sand-dune area it was before the development of the Centennial playing ground,” the Sentinel stated. “Even at present, the island shows remarkable improvement over its former state, with the 10 acres of the playing area already covered in lawn.” Norbrock Stadium, which this week received international recognition for its turf quality, was another centennial project — this time national — in 1967. It was the same year Kamloops and North Kamloops amalgamated. STOPPING THE SEWAGE One year later, the Kamloops News Advertiser (which became the Kamloops Daily News) detailed plans for the removal of the sewage ponds on McArthur Island, allowing 45 acres to open up for development. Council of the day approved spending $1.8 million to extend water and sewer facilities and remove the lagoons. Quoted at the time, Alderman Gordon Bregoliss said McArthur Island was “too valuable to keep holding for sewer lagoons.” In 1970, more plans were unveiled for what then-reporter Mel Rothenburger called in a story an “ambitious scheme for long-range development of McArthur Island into a major sports and recreation centre for the district.” Detailed in the Kamloops News Advertiser, plans proposed a range of active and organized recreation and sports activities and facilities for “maximum and efficient use of the area.” The report included a golf course, tennis courts, a swimming pool, a jogging track, a marina, a seniors’ recreation area, athletic fields, a loop road and even the possibility of a western-themed “Kiddyland,” with a miniature railroad in a passive picnic area. It was set out as a multi-phase project that could be built as demand and budgets permitted. “According to the report, the park should serve as a major centre for Kamloops as a whole as well as the North Kamloops and Brocklehurst districts in particular,” the story states. NATURALISTS OPPOSE GOLF COURSE The par-three golf course arrived in the early 1990s, promoted as an affordable option over existing golf clubs that could encourage growth of the sport among women and junior players.
Viewing McArthur Island from above, decade by decade
The Kamloops Naturalist Club, which opposes a disc golf course currently pitched for that same area, objected to the golf course, calling for a wildlife reserve in that location — a debate that rings strikingly familiar today. A 1985 Sentinel editorial provides a glimpse into opinion from that time. It advocated for investment in an “active” park on property that remained “in limbo” for years. “The land can’t be held in trust forever,” the editorial stated. “After 12 years, the land, to the eyes of everyone but [naturalist] club members, is just unkempt property that crowns the park like a bad toupée.” ‘RECREATIONAL PLAYGROUND’ BLOSSOMS While some parts of city plans never came to fruition — residents fought in recent years to keep respective neighbourhood pools open rather than build a new facility on the island — present-day McArthur Island has certainly become some version of that “recreational playground” first envisioned six decades ago. It hosts myriad activities for a wide range of residents and visitors: baseball, soccer, curling, hockey, speed-skating, figure-skating, rollerblading, jogging, walking, boating, biking, skateboarding, lawn bowling and more. Putnam said it is the busiest year-round park facility in Kamloops. During peak use, 5,000 people visit the island to play and watch soccer on the August long weekend. In the spring, the arena is used to house trade shows. Putnam said McArthur Island helped launch the Tournament Capital program, which has grown through the years from provincial to national recognition. Last year, the sports tourism program had an $11.7 million local economic impact. “If we didn’t have McArthur Island, I wonder to myself if we would have ever gone in that direction,” Putnam said. Kamloops Disc Golf Club expects to add to that economic impact, should the city add a disc golf course to the western corner of the island. City staff are preparing plans for a mixed-use space, which will go to council in the new year as part of supplemental budget discussions. Looking back, Kopec is pleased with development on McArthur Island since his days of swimming across the slough, but the senior said the former golf course should become a nature park — without disc golf. Kamloops Disc Golf Club hopes to grow the sport and city staff have said they can design the course to prevent conflicts. “No, I don’t want no golf there,” Kopec said. “No golf. Nope. That should be a park in its natural [state].”
This 1948 aerial photo shows privately owned McArthur’s Island (as it was known back then) as a 126-acre, barren pice of land dominated by sand dunes.
This 1974 aerial shot shows McArthur Island’s sports DNA starting to take shape.
This 1994 aerial view shows the golf course, driving range and BMX track on the left and the McArthur Island Youth Centre on the right, behind the arena and below Norbrock Stadium.
This 2017 aerial photo shows McArthur Island with the golf course closed and the driving range now soccer fields. It also shows the BMX track and youth centre gone and replaced with parking spots.
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Operation Red Nose begins Friday night The 22nd annual Operation Red Nose campaign will take to Kamloops road on Friday night. The annual safe-ride service will run on 15 nights: Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31. The program — operated via donations, with proceeds locally going to PacificSport to support amateur athletes and youth programs — is again aided by ICBC and sees volunteers drive people and their vehicles home. Hours of operation will be from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Thursdays and from 8 p.m. to
3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. If you are out and about during those hours and need a driver to get you and your vehicle home, call 250-372-5110. Volunteers are welcome to join. New volunteers must get a criminal record check through the RCMP, but volunteers returning from last year need only complete a Red Nose application form. Application forms can be found at the Tournament Capital Centre, ICBC claims centre, Volunteer Kamloops
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A proposed utility rate increase is the result of increasing costs to manage biosolids in Kamloops due to public opposition of land-based application. City staff outlined a proposed utility rate increase on Tuesday during budget talks. During early stages, sewer rates emerged as the lone utility expected to hit taxpayer wallets in 2019, jumping 15 per cent, or about $54 for the average-assessed household. “We’re just finding that the costs of biosolids management has risen, even over the course of the last year,” city utility services manager Greg Wightman told reporters. “A lot of public opposition to biosolids in Kamloops, companies are well aware of that. They know what they’re getting into when they come to this community, so you have to have a very costly process in place to ensure you have addressed all of the concerns of the public.” The city’s sewer utility budget is expected to increase by about $3 million next year, with operating costs of $2.6 million estimated to make up the bulk of the hike. Wightman said that figure is based on industry standards. The city is negotiating a request for proposals to address biosolids in the short-term, while it undergoes long-term planning.
Last year, Sylvis managed the city’s biosolids, including its stockpile and ongoing daily production. Residents previously voiced opposition over smell and concern about unknown impacts of spreading the city’s sewage sludge on land. Wightman said the challenge is that 94 per cent of biosolids management in B.C. is land-based. He said the city battles misconceptions related to “perceived concerns” and said land-based application is a great resource when used correctly. Composting is a possible short-term option. “Through this negotiated request for proposal, we’re just looking at more communication, more consultation with the public, that sort of stuff, in the short term,” Wightman said. “In the long term, again ,we’re still in the trenches of our long-term planning. So, at this stage, we don’t really know where we’re going with that, other than looking at all of these technologies from around the world and what’s viable.” Wightman said the city is also planning for future capital. He said the city’s eventual biosolids plan is going to result in some kind of capital funding. The proposed property tax increase in 2019 is 3.4 per cent. Add in the utility increase and residents are looking at about a four per cent increase next year. The rates could be impacted by growth and BC Assessment data.
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About 60 people attended a public budget meeting at the McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre on Tuesday night, following word of a provisional property tax increase of 3.4 per cent next year. Residents came to discuss city finances, suggest ideas to pinch pennies or lay foundation for budgetary asks. “Lots of concern about people on particularly fixed-income seniors that aren’t going to be able to be able to afford what is proposed,” Mayor Ken Christian said. “Some suggestion for supplemental items. Although I’ve said to others that supplemental items are going to have an uphill climb, unless they’re items that wouldn’t have to be funded through general taxation.” Nobody who spoke to KTW appeared to be brandishing pitchforks over the early numbers and several empathized with financial pressures outlined by the city’s finance director: provincial rate increases and taxation, increasing snow removal services and adding police officers. In addition to the 3.4 provisional property tax increase, the city anticipates a 15 per cent hike in sewage rates next year.
The total impact would result in about $120 for the average household, valued at $408,000. Married couple and former Ontario city councillors Mary and Wally Wilkes brought ideas. They said residents could place garbage bins on one side of the road to cut by half the amount of passes garbage trucks must do on each street. A similar idea could prevent cars from being buried in the snow during snow-clearing, they added. Residents would park vehicles on the odd side of the street on odd-numbered days, while the city cleared the even side of the street and vice versa on even days. “There can be efficiencies,” Mary Wilkes said. Westsyde resident Jim Gibbons suggested the city employ people in social housing to improve sidewalk snowclearing. “We pay a whole lot of money for housing and services for people and some of these people are quite able bodied,” he said. “Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing?” Others turned up to request service improvements. About a dozen Thompson Rivers University students attended with the students’ union. KTW heard transportation continues to be a hot-button topic. TRUSU is pushing for the Summit Drive overpass,
while students want improved pedestrian access downtown and increased bus frequency. “If they don’t live on major routes, it’s difficult to get to school,” TRU student Shae-lynn Forseille said. “Some of them, they’re living on a major bus route. It takes an hour to get to school. That’s a lot of time for them, especially when you’re busy with school, work and everything else.” Representatives from Kamloops Outdoor Skating Association, Kamloops Disc Golf Club, Kamloops Naturalist Club and Kamloops Public Market Co-operative were also at the meeting. The outdoor skating association wants a refrigerated outdoor ice rink built, the disc golfers and naturalists continue to have conflicting ideas for the former golf course land on McArthur Island and the co-operative is building a business case for a public market to rise in the Lorne Street parking lot at Riverside Park. Asked what he told those individuals, Christian said: “You’ve got to be patient with some of these items. They’re all things that we need. Nobody would argue that they’re superfluous. It’s a question of when we can afford to accommodate them.” Supplemental items will be introduced at the end of January, followed by another public meeting on Feb. 6. The final tax rate will be adopted in April.
Sinclair leaves arts council Kathy Sinclair has made what she called a “tough decision” to leave Kamloops Arts Council, after seven years at the helm as executive director. It follows her successful council re-election bid last month. “I’ve spent the past year doing double duty on city council and Kamloops Arts Council, working pretty much seven days a week,” Sinclair told KTW. Sinclair and the decision came mutually with the non-profit’s board of directors. She was first elected to council during the 2017 by-election. Re-election played into the timing of her departure, she said, but she also had to come to terms with the fact she can’t do everything. An online post stated she had been fitting a fulltime job into part-time hours. “I love it,” she said of KAC. “It’s been a real formative part of my life in Kamloops, but it just isn’t possible to give 150 per cent anymore.” Sinclair said she will stay on with the organization in the coming months to help transition the new executive director. That position has been posted online and the deadline for applicants closes mid-December. Sinclair also wants to stay involved with KAC in some capacity. Sinclair will effectively leave full-time work for municipal politics, including her position as TNRD director. Asked if that is a financially viable option, she said she intends to work part-time in a consulting capacity, helping non-profits with media relations, marketing and fund development. “Long term, I’m not a full-time politician by any means,” she said. She called the KAC executive director position an “amazing opportunity for the right person.” Sinclair credited community relations, networking and partnership skills she gained at KAC for helping her to realize her career in politics.
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RCMP hands out annual awards The Kamloops RCMP this week held its annual awards and recognition ceremony, at which Supt. Syd Lecky honoured police officers, support workers, volunteers and residents who have made significant contributions to keep Kamloops safe. Recognized this year were 12 officers who were the first responders to a man who had barricaded himself inside a Denny’s restaurant in August; officers and support staff who were working in October 2017 when a suspect exchanged gunfire with Mounties; an officer who works in the schools and runs youth programs; an officer who raised funds to support fellow RCMP members in Saskatchewan after the Humbodlt Broncos bus tragedy; and support staff for general duty and the criminal-intelligence unit. In addition, Tanya Johnson was recognized for her work as a registered nurse with Car 40, the program that pairs police and nurses on mental-health calls. Sheryl Lindquist was recognized for helping to establish the Youth Police Academy and Youth Advisory Council in the Kamloops-Thompson school district and Ally Holowatiuk, a student at NorKam secondary, was recognized for reaching out to students and parents with her brother’s story of addiction. Long-service awards were also presented, as were medals for bravery. Insp. Steve McLeod helped open the ceremony. “As a detachment, we are honoured to recognize not only the dedicated work of the officers and staff of the Kamloops detachment, but also those individuals within the community who work alongside us every day to make Kamloops safe,” he said.
Seated: Sgt. Joe Morrissey, Allison Tremblay, Ally Holowatiuk, Louise Hampel, Supt. Syd Lecky, Leyna Salwach, Sheryl Lindquist and Tanya Johnson. Standing, first row: Cpl. Dana Napier, Const. Alex LaQuerre, Const. Michelle Kerpan and Const. Tiffany Ferguson. Standing, second row: Cpl. Steve Prior, Const. Vic Mangat, R/Sgt. Scott Wilson, R/Staff-Sgt. Mike Savage, Const. Sukh Toor, Insp. Steve McLeod, Const. Marty McLean, Cpl. Matt Rattee, Const. Brennen Isles and Sgt. Brandon Buliziuk.
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New technology for city Mounties Kamloops RCMP has a new inventory tracking system and is in the process of installing dash cams in police cruisers, the city’s top officer told city council on Tuesday during budget talks. Kamloops RCMP Supt. Syd Lecky detailed two new technologies employed locally. WatchGuard, an in-car video system, is being installed in police cruisers. In 2014, the company announced a $20-million standing offer to supply the RCMP with in-car video capabilities
across its RCMP fleet. Lecky said he expects the cameras to provide efficiencies over the next year and also improve accuracy recounting events during larger investigations. He said the technology could have been beneficial during a recent investigation by the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. into a policerelated shooting death in Rose Hill. Meanwhile, the detachment also invested in a new WiseTrack system to track about 1,500 items, including firearms.
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Running for kids in Brennan’s memory SECOND ANNUAL BRENNAN’S UGLY SWEATER RUN TAKES PLACE THIS SUNDAY IN ABERDEEN TODD SULLIVAN
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If you want to help support children in Kamloops and look good while doing it, Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run might be the perfect event for you. In this case, though, looking good is probably in the eye of the beholder. Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run, which will take place this Sunday in Aberdeen, is a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club’s Power Start Program. The program helps children who may be experiencing challenges with food sustainability or getting to school on time.
Volunteers pick children up at their homes in the morning and drive them to school. Once there, the kids are fed a nutritious breakfast and receive help preparing for the day. When school starts, the kids are sent off with a healthy snack for recess. Payton Comazzetto founded the run last year in honour of her brother, Brennan, who was 10 years old when he was killed by a drunk driver in 1999. It left Payton, then six years old, traumatized. Through the years, she has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and flashbacks. She wanted to do
something to honour her brother and give back to the community at the same time. Comazzetto said money raised from last year’s inaugural event did a lot of good work, raising $7,570, which fed 30 kids for an entire school year and helped with upgrades to the Boys and Girls Club’s facility. The 5K run (or walk) will be held this Sunday at 10 a.m. at the West Highlands Community Centre in Aberdeen (the former clubhouse of the Aberdeen Golf Links). “It’s a beautiful facility, beautiful trail,” Comazzetto said. “The whole route is actually decorated,
has Christmas music, there’s a DJ playing, so it’s got a pretty good vibe going.” She said she wanted to keep the event as inclusive as possible because inclusivity was always important to her brother. “The kid that never really got picked first for P.E., he picked first, or the kids that didn’t get invited to many birthday parties, they were always at his,” she said. “So he found a way to just include everyone. This event does also do that, to include everyone, make it affordable. “We’ve been giving away free registrations to people that might not be able to afford it. “We’re just really trying to keep that inclusive feel because that was his spirit, so we want to continue that.” Families are welcome and the route is stroller-friendly. Prizes will be given out in categories such as Worst Sweater, Best Costume for a Couple and
Payton Comazzetto founded Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run last year in honour of her brother, Brennan (above), who was 10 years old when he was killed by a drunk driver in 1999. KTW FILE PHOTO
Best Family Costume. “Last year, we had some pretty hideous sweaters and some pretty hilarious ones,” Comazzetto said. Sponsoring the event are Kamloops This Week, Wesco
Distribution, Synergy Counselling Associates, Volkswagen of Kamloops, Fulton and Company, Kamloops Electric Motor and The Printing Place. Those interested can register with a mini-
mum $10 donation for a single entry or a minimum $35 donation for a family. Entrants can pay by cash on the morning of the run or pre-register online at www.gofundme.com/brennan2018.
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A Merritt-based lumber company has failed in its bid to have a human-rights complaint against it dismissed. Ewa Derek filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, alleging Aspen Planers management minimized her workplace injuries and called her a “drama queen” before she was fired. She claims discrimination led to her losing her job last year. Derek had been employed by Aspen Planers as one
of six part-time caregivers tasked with providing aroundthe-clock care to someone described as a client of the company. According to Derek, she was bitten by one of the client’s dogs in 2017 and subsequently told her supervisor the incident heightened her anxiety. Derek alleges the supervisor told her she was “overreacting and called her a “drama queen” when she reported the incident to a bylaw officer. Two months later, Derek injured her finger at work while attempting to fix a chair. She went on sick leave following the incident, which
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Wide variety of holiday meals scheduled in Kamloops A number of free community dinners will be offered to those in need through the holiday season: • On Dec. 2, Pit Stop will be at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 360 Nicola St., at 3:30 p.m.; • An Interior Community Services Youth Outreach Meal will be held on Dec. 5 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Mt. Paul Community Food Centre, 140 Laburnum St. in North Kamloops. It is for youth ages 13 to 24; • On Dec. 8, Kamloops Alliance Church will host a turkey dinner at 200 Leigh Rd. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. and dinner is at 5 p.m. Free tickets are required in advance from the church; • Pit Stop will host its Christmas dinner on Dec. 9 at 3:30 p.m. Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul St. Supper will also include a visit from Santa, along with gift bags and live music; • Children and families are invited to the Christopher Seguin Rotary Family Dinner at NorKam secondary, 730 12th St. in North Kamloops, on Dec. 12. It begins at 5 p.m.; • On Dec. 12, Interior Community Services will again host its youth meal from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Mt. Paul Community Food Centre, It is for youth ages 13 to 24; • On Dec. 16, Pit Stop returns with its regular dinner at Kamloops United Church, at 3:30 p.m.; • On Dec. 18 at 5 p.m., Christmas ham dinner will be served at Kamloops United Church by Infinite Expansion and Pit Stop; • The Salvation Army Christmas dinner will be held at 344 Poplar St. on Dec. 19 at 5 p.m.. Free tickets are required in advance from the Poplar Street location; • On Christmas Eve at 1 p.m., The Mustard Seed New Life Community will host a turkey dinner at 181 West Victoria St.; • Turkey will be served by JUMP and Love Hard Kamloops Society on Christmas Day at a location to be determined; • Frenchie’s Poutinerie will offer meals on Christmas Day down-
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Whale found dead near ferry terminal killed by ship strike CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — A ship strike has been blamed for the death of a female humpback whale that was found near Tsawwassen. The Department of Fisheries and
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VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government has pledged to share some of the pie and more of the power with Indigenous communities across the province. All B.C. First Nations will receive a share of provincial gaming revenues, Premier John Horgan announced Thursday as he opened the annual gathering between B.C.’s cabinet and First Nations leaders. “This is a promise made over 20 years ago that has not yet been fulfilled until now,’’ Horgan told the gathering in Vancouver. Horgan and the First Nations Leadership Council also announced they’ll be working together on new legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with introduction of the law planned for sometime in 2019. The revenue-sharing arrangement will be a key part of the
February 2019 provincial budget, Horgan said, but final details were still being worked out so he could not release exact figures. “It will be big,’’ the premier said. “Somewhere between one and a whole bunch.’’ The premier said the annual funding will be used in First Nations communities for social services, education, housing, infrastructure, health and well being and economic development. Both announcements are important steps forward to advance true and lasting reconciliation, Horgan said. “As we develop reconciliation, as we develop legislation around [the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples] that will mean all laws in British Columbia will have a lens of how will it affect our First peoples, how will it affect those who have been here for millennium.’’ The declaration was adopted by the United Nations in 2007 as an international instrument that
enshrined minimum standards for the survival, dignity and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples around the world. Regional Chief Terry Teegee of the BC Assembly of First Nations said the announcements are “historic and progressive action’’ to address issues related to jurisdiction and gaming revenue. Cheryl Casimer of the First Nations Summit political executive said the announcements were critical pieces toward reconciliation. “B.C. First Nations and the government have finally landed on a renewed vision and plan for reconciling Aboriginal title and rights, with asserted Crown title and jurisdiction,’’ Casimer said. The plan acknowledges inherent rights of self-determination, as well as rights to land, resources and territories, she said, adding both sides must work together based on a new set of principles and values rather than the old colonial standard of denial.
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OTTAWA — The number of hate crimes reported to Canadian police jumped sharply last year after years of small increases, with new statistics showing incidents targeting blacks, Jews and Muslims accounting for most of the upturn. Hate crimes targeting black people accounted for 16 per cent of all hate crimes in Canada in 2017, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. They stayed the most common type of raceor ethnicity-related hate crime. Incidents involving Muslims more than doubled between 2016 and 2017, from 139 incidents to 349, one year after police reported a decrease in hate crimes targeting that population. Overall, hate crimes targeting Muslims accounted for 17 per cent of all incidents — a figure that the National Council of Canadian Muslims said was unsettling but unsurprising. In late January 2017, six Muslim men were murdered as they worshipped inside a Quebec City mosque. The sentencing for the shooter, Alexandre Bissonnette, has been delayed until the new year. “The shooting very much set the tone for the increase in hate crimes against Muslims for the remainder of the year,’’ said the NCCM’s executive director, Ihsaan Gardee. Hate crimes targeting Jews increased for the second consecutive year and accounted for 18 per cent of all hate crimes nationally. Proportionally, Jews were the most targeted group captured in the data. The figures prompted Jewish groups to call on the Liberals to do more to help police fight hate crime.
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Irregular migrants on track to cost Canada almost $400M, watchdog says TERESA WRIGHT
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his is my final article in a six-part series which started in February with “The Amazing Gift for Kamloops Hospice.” The Cooper Family Foundation is living their Vision of Community Supporting Community as we are just over a month out from completion of the new Hospice Community Services Centre. Can you imagine having multiple work crews and heavy equipment show up at your ‘Home’ day after day to put together what started as a diagram and a dream? I must admit from day one, each worker has been incredibly respectful of and interested in the work we do at Hospice. Thank you to these men and women who were strangers to us only weeks ago and who have quickly become ‘Friends of Hospice’ (I’m sure the wonderful baking from our kitchen helped the process along)! A special thank you to the Project Leads, Nelly, Dion and Brandon for keeping things on track and taking time to keep us informed while valuing our vision for the new space. I am grateful to our community who have supported this project from the start: from the building and sale of the Wings Above Kamloops home in Aberdeen to the construction, furnishing & equipping of the new facility to investing in the new programs that will be offered going forward. As you walk through our new Community Services space, you’ll visit the Complementary Therapy Room and Community Program offices. You can stop by the Coffee Bar for a treat before you make your way into the Education Workshop Room which has one of the best views in Kamloops! You may have signed up for a workshop in Advanced Care Planning, Caregiving at Home, or Hospice Palliative Care in our community. Another room in our expansion is our cozy Fireside Room. This will be home to various Group Counselling sessions, our Casual Comfort Day Program and joint Family & Care Team meetings. Our Resource Corner is a comfortable place to find information on all aspects of end-of-life such as caring for a dying loved one, grief & bereavement, supports in the community and navigating the practical details. With the spotlight on construction and new programs it is important to remember that the Heart of Hospice is our amazing staff and volunteers who are passionate about providing the best possible end-of-life care and support, both in a client’s home and at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home. We look forward to hosting you in our Hospice Community Services Centre in the new year. Follow us on facebook and checkout our new website for updates.
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OTTAWA — Asylum seekers who entered Canada irregularly last year will cost federal organizations $340 million — an amount projected to balloon to almost $400 million by the end of 2019, the federal budget watchdog says. A report Thursday from the parliamentary budget officer calculates the average cost of each irregular migrant who arrived in Canada between April 2017 and March 2018 at $14,321. The PBO projects that costs will rise to $16,666 in the fiscal year ending March 2020 because of extensive wait times for migrants waiting to complete the entire asylum claim process, “leading to greater expenses for federal health insurance costs.’’ The actual amounts can vary depending on how long asylum seekers wait for their refugee claims to be finalized, budget officer Yves Giroux wrote in his report. For instance, claimants accepted at their first hearing
will cost the country less, those who exhaust all legal avenues and are eventually removed from Canada will cost more. But Giroux warned that $340 million could become an annual cost if Canada doesn’t see any decrease in the number of irregular asylum seekers. Canada has experienced an influx of irregular migrants along the border with the United States since early 2017, shortly after the Trump administration took steps to end temporary protected status for tens of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. Since then, almost 35,000 asylum seekers have filed refugee claims at the Immigration and Refugee Board — Canada’s arms length agency that deals with refugee claims and appeals. Many claimants have avoided official border checkpoints where they would have been turned back to the U.S. under the Safe Third Country agreement between the two countries. The PBO said this influx has placed “significant pressure’’
Canada on track for Friday signing of USMCA: Freeland CANADIAN PRESS
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Canada is on schedule to put pen to paper on its new trade pact with the United States and Mexico on Friday, but there is still work to do on the fine print before that can happen, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged Thursday on the eve of a meeting of G20 leaders. Freeland, speaking on a sunny patio at a hotel in Buenos Aires, said there are still details to be finalized before the three countries can formally sign the “massive’’ U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. “Our objective has always been to sign this agreement on Nov. 30 and we are on track to hit that objective,’’ Freeland said shortly after the Canadian delegation arrived in Argentina for the two-day summit. Canada has been in touch with the Americans and the Mexicans since arriving in
Buenos Aires, she added. “A vast number of technical details need to be scrubbed and wrapped up,’’ Freeland said. “The fact that this is an agreement in three languages adds to the level of technical complexity and it is on that level that we are just being sure that all the Is are dotted and all the Ts are crossed.’’ Friday is an important deadline: Saturday, a new Mexican president takes over who could scramble the agreement. Signing the deal is largely ceremonial; it still requires ratification by all three countries before it can formally take effect. Lawmakers in the U.S. have already signalled they don’t expect to deal with the USMCA until after the new Congress is sworn in early next year. The deal sets new rules for the auto sector, including more North American content and rules requiring 40 per cent of car parts be made by workers paid at least $16 an hour.
on federal resources, leading to major delays in processing times for refugee claims. Last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) had the capacity to hear 24,000 claims per year, but received more than 52,000 total new asylum claims — half of which were from irregular migrants. The federal government promised $173 million over two years to address rising costs, but Giroux said the growing backlog of claims shows it is not enough money. “It’s a bit like shooting yourself in the foot to under-fund the IRB and other government agencies, because these kinds of savings end up increasing federal costs. So the savings, in terms of claims processing, end up costing more,’’ he told reporters in French. Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel has been calling on the Liberals to close a loophole that exists in the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which is believed to be a major factor in the spike of irregular border crossings.
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he RussianUkrainian naval clash in the Black Sea is not going to end up in a world war. Ukraine would love to be part of NATO, but the existing members won’t let it join. Why? Precisely because that might drag them into a war with Russia. Russia doesn’t have any real military alliances, either. Various countries sympathize with either Ukraine or Russia, but none of them have obligations to send military help and they are not going to volunteer. Secondly, there’s not even going to be a fullscale war between Russia and Ukraine because Ukraine would lose. Russia has more than three times the population and its economy is 10 times bigger. The Russian armed forces are far bigger and vastly better armed. No sane Ukrainian would choose an all-out war with Russia regardless of the provocation. The Russians obviously have more options, but conquering Ukraine is probably the furthest thing from their minds. It has no resources they need and, if they occupied the country, they would certainly face an ugly and prolonged guerilla war of resistance. They have nothing to gain. Russia actually has a lot to lose because a fullscale invasion of Ukraine would trigger a Western reaction that would come close to bankrupting Russia. NATO would conclude this was the first step in President Vladimir Putin’s plan to reconquer all of the former Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and start re-arming in a very big way. The Russians would go broke if they tried to keep up. They did go broke trying to keep up with Western military spending back in the Cold War. In the end, the entire communist system collapsed.
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WATCH Russia is now a largely de-industrialized country with half the population of the old Soviet Union and the collapse would come a lot faster, probably sweeping Putin away with it. He knows that because he lived through the last collapse. So, what we have here is really just a local crisis. The Russians started it in order to make a specific local gain and they know they can win. They will not face major Western retaliation because it’s just not a big enough issue. The actual clash last Sunday saw three Ukrainians injured, 29 others arrested and three Ukrainian navy ships boarded and seized. The ships were trying to pass through a Russiancontrolled strait from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, a relatively shallow body of water (maximum depth of 4 metres) that is about the size of Switzerland. Until the Russians took Crimea from Ukraine four years ago, the strait had Russian territory on one side and Ukrainian territory on the other. A treaty signed in 2003 said both countries had free access to the Sea of Azov and their respective ports along its coasts, no permission needed. In 2014, however, Russia infiltrated troops into Crimea who pretended to be a new local militia. They took control of the entire peninsula and its two-million people, staged a referendum on whether it should become part of Russia and won it. The Ukrainian gov-
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UKRAINE WILL NOT HOST A LARGE WAR ernment protested, but it didn’t have the troops or the nerve to resist the takeover by force. Russia tried to justify its action by pointing out the great majority of the people in Crimea spoke Russian, not Ukrainian, and that it had been part of Russia for centuries until a Soviet leader with strong Ukrainian connections handed it over to Ukraine in 1954. International law does not accept border changes imposed by force as legitimate and Russia has been under severe Western sanctions on trade ever since it annexed Crimea. Its economy is in serious trouble, but the annexation was immensely popular in both Russia and Crimea and Putin will not reverse it. Since there was no land connection between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, Putin decided to build an 18-kilometre bridge joining the two sides of the Strait of Kerch. By a happy coincidence, that would also give him the ability to control or even block shipping trying to get to Ukrainian ports on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainians tried to send their (rather small) warships through to show the treaty of free passage signed in 2003 still applies. The Russians didn’t actually deny that, but said they were closing the strait temporarily for operational reasons. The Ukrainian warships pushed on and the Russians attacked them. The Russians are legally in the wrong, but they are going to win this one because Ukraine has almost no navy left and nobody wants a bigger war. Ukraine has imposed martial law in areas that border on Russia for the next 30 days, but that’s mainly window dressing. There may be further sanctions against Russia, but that’s as far as it goes. Read more Gwynne Dyer columns online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
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CRIMES OF THE WEEK SHOTS Help paint this thief into handcuffs On Monday, Nov. 26, a man walked into a department store, wandered around a bit, then grabbed some arts supplies, concealed them and left the business without paying for them. The shoplifter is white, between 25 and 30 years of age and very thin. He was wearing a black ball hat with a white logo, a grey jacket, a black hoodie and jeans. If you know who he is, create a crime tip work of art and call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
NICHOLSON, David Edward
B: 1989-09-19 | Age 29 Caucasian male 180 cm (5’11”) 64 kg (141 lbs) Brown Hair | Blue Eyes Wanted For: Obstruction of a Peace Officer, Fail to Attend Court, Fail to Comply with Release Conditions, Breach of Recognizance, and Possession of Stolen Property
Help catch this counterfeit crook
On Thursday, Nov. 22, a man entered Northills Centre with some money to spend — but the cash was counterfeit. He used a fake $100 bill to buy items at a store in the mall, then left. He is white and has a thin moustache. He was wearing two sliver chains, a black pea coat, a black shirt with a design underneath, a black hat with Marilyn Monroe on it and sunglasses. Do you know this counterfeit crook? Call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
RENNIE, Robert James
B: 1987-09-24 | Age 31 Caucasian male 188 cm (6’02”) 79 kg (175 lbs) Brown Hair | Brown Eyes
Seeking user of stolen credit cards
Wanted For: Breach of Probation
On the night of Wednesday, Nov. 7, a wallet and a GPS system was stolen from a vehicle in the Kamloops area. The credit cards from the wallet were later used at numerous stores in Kamloops. The suspect who used the credit cards is a white man in the 30s. He had facial hair and was wearing a grey/camouflagecoloured hoodie, a dark hat, a grey and black backpack and dark coloured pants. If you know this man, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
www.kamloopsCrimeStoppers.ca If you know where any of these people are, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). The tip line pays up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of fugitives. Remember, Crime Stoppers just wants your information, not your name. Crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does.
This program is jointly sponsored by Kamloops Crime Stoppers & Kamloops This Week. People featured are wanted on arrest warrants not vacated as of 3 p.m. on November 28, 2018
STALZER, Joseph William
B: 1987-09 -24 | Age 31 Caucasian male 165 cm (5’05”) 59 kg (130 lbs) Blonde Hair | Green Eyes Wanted For: Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Evade Police
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Artist with autism plans trip to Japan Local artist Miles Wayne has trouble socializing — except when he’s talking about his art TODD SULLIVAN STAFF REPORTER todd@kamloopsthisweek.com
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f you met Miles Wayne at the Cottonwood Senior Center craft fair last week, you probably would have found him talking excitedly about his animeinspired artwork, the backstories of the characters he’s created and the stories he’s planning to tell about those characters. What you might not have realized is that conversations like that are not always easy for him. The 23-year-old has autism and has often had difficulty engaging in social situations, but according to his mother, Amber Wayne, his artwork is a subject that he can open up about. “That's part of the reason we do art,” she said. “Because Miles likes to talk about his art and things, and quite often it's hard for Miles to talk to people.” Though he has enjoyed drawing since he was young, it’s often been a challenge to create with a pen and paper because he struggles with his fine motor skills. In recent years, though, he’s started to create his work on the computer to get around that problem.
“Sometimes it’s easier that way,” he said. “When I start coming up with certain ideas, I sometimes do it on paper as a rough draft for the characters, and then eventually I go into my laptop to do the pictures.” Their visit to the Cottonwood Senior Center craft fair was so successful for Miles that they’ll be taking his work to the Christmas Market at Marion Schilling elementary on Saturday. Some of the items that will be for sale include Christmas cards, t-shirts and tote bags. And they want to be a part of more craft fairs in the future. “He met a lot of people that were interested in his art,” Amber said. “So he was just very talkative. So then we signed up for this one just recently.” They hope that on top of helping Miles engage with the community more, his presence at these craft fairs might also inspire others. “I said, but wouldn't it be great that you go and show your artwork,” Amber said, “and talk and maybe inspire other people
DAVE EAGLES/KTW Miles Wayne and his mother Amber pose with some of Miles’ anime-inspired artwork. See more of Miles’ work this weekend at the Marion Schilling elementary Christmas Market on Saturday.
with autism or other challenges by talking about your art, maybe encourage them to do something that they love?” Miles, who is a fan of anime, is hoping to visit Japan in the future. Though some of the
funds that come from his art sales might eventually go toward that trip, for the moment most of the money is going toward the cost of his art. “That's what his goal is,” Amber said. “For sure, his goal is
one day to go to Japan because a lot of anime artists come from there.” The Marion Schilling elementary Christmas Market is on Saturday at 2200 Park Dr. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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If you’re looking to do some holiday shopping and want to keep it local, craft fairs are a good place to look. The Kamloops Christmas Craft Market at Mastermind Studios, 954F Laval Cresc., runs Friday from noon to 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. Christmas at the Courthouse is open Saturday and Sunday with free admission at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St. Countdown to Christmas will be held at St. Andrews on the Square, 159 Seymour St., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and will feature a $20-and-under sale of local crafts. The RareBirds housing co-operative at 772 West Battle St. is also hosting an open house and craft sale from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Finally, the B.E.S.T. Christmas Craft Fair will be held at Bert
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SHTUKA ART PARTY Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Mt. Paul Golf Course, 615 Mt. Paul Way
A night of painting will be the latest fundraiser to support the family of missing man Ryan Shtuka, who was last seen in Sun Peaks on Feb. 17. Tickets are $45 and available online at kamloopsartparty.com.
SENIORS’ LIGHTS TOUR Various locations, Thursday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The annual Seniors’ Lights Tour will take place Thursday. Enjoy a free bus tour to see the best Christmas lights in the city. Hot beverages and goodies served following the tour. The event is free but registration is required. Call 250-828-3500 and quote program number 287934 by Friday.
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Classroom storyteller turns focus to music
Longtime teacher and father finds time for tunes SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com
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on Ste Marie came to music late in life. Though he started dabbling in music in his 20s, he said he never did anything with the songs he wrote and, as he got older, he lived his life as a father of five and high school teacher. Now, with his kids grown and a teaching schedule that allows for more free time, the Rayleigh resident in his 60s has gone headfirst into music and produced his first album, which he will officially release at an event this weekend. Full Moon Rising features 12 original songs, with music — guitar, harmonica, piano, bass — and vocals by Ste Marie. Other musicians adding to the mix are friends or family of Ste Marie, including friend and producer Dennis Hayes, a teaching colleague whose basement served as the album’s recording studio.
“I couldn’t have done this without his help,” Ste Marie said. He also got help from his wife, who painted the album art, and from three of his children. Ste Marie said it was tough to describe his own music, but said his recording partner said it had an East Coast feel and others have compared it to Kris Kristofferson. “It’s certainly not rock ‘n’ roll. There’s mandolin in there, some fiddle in there — but it’s not outright country music,” he said. One track released online by Ste Marie is Path Along the Pines, which he said is about being an empty nester. Other tracks tell stories of past lives, pilgrimages in Spain, geography and failed renovations. Ste Marie said there aren’t many love songs, though — just one. “I like putting words together,” he said. “One of the really intriguing things is where it will lead. You don’t always know where a song
SEAN BRADY/KTW Longtime teacher Ron Ste Marie is hosting an album launch party for Full Moon Rising on Saturday at Pizza Pi.
will go when you start it.” Although he draws inspirations from folk greats like Bob Dylan, Ste Marie said his experience comes into play when it comes to songwriting.
“Being a school teacher all my life, I figure I basically got paid to tell stories. This is kind of just an extension of that — except it’s musical and I’m getting paid less,” he said.
An album release party will held on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Pizza Pi, 314 Victoria St. Admission is by donation and half of the net proceeds, including album sales, will go to the Kamloops Food Bank.
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t’s a daunting thing for any musician to join an established band, but when Hayley Cramer joined Pop Evil in 2016, the band was on the verge of a huge tour and about to begin work on its self-titled, and fifth, studio album. “I’m a great believer that if you get thrown into the deep end and you can swim, great — it’s better to do it that way,” she told KTW. Cramer joined the band just before it went on an American tour with co-headliners Disturbed and Rob Zombie. She also recorded her first album with the band — its self-titled, which was released in February. But maybe her success in joining the band was no surprise. The England-born drummer has been swimming before. Cramer used to play in McQueen, an all-girl rock band from her hometown Brighton,
England, that saw success with its debut album and toured with bands like Velvet Revolver. Her time in McQueen had run its course and when she saw Pop Evil was looking for a drummer, she seized the opportunity. After interviews by video chat she flew to the States to spend a few weeks with the band. “It was such a good transition,” she said. For the weeks Cramer was in the States, she played soundchecks with the band while previous drummer Chachi Riot played the shows. At a certain point, there was a mutual decision and she joined the band permanently. The band, fronted by Leigh Kakaty with Nick Fuelling and Dave Grahs on guitar and Matt DiRito on bass, is all men, other than Cramer. She said that despite being in an all-girl band previously, she’s used to this — although she does see the industry changing, and thinks there are more female
drummers now than when she started. “My general life and career has been more male dominant,” she said. “A musician is a musician to me. I don’t care if you’re female, male, alien, whatever, if it sounds good I’ll drum along with it.” She’s had plenty to drum along to, so far. The band’s self-titled album was the first that wasn’t written while on the road. “Most others have been written whilst being on the road, recording done in gaps between gigs and all that. This album we took the time, came away from the road and focused on making the songs we wanted to make,” she said. The band’s next stop in the tour is here in Kamloops on Friday where Pop Evil will be joined by Royal Tusk for a show at Cactus Jack’s Nightclub, 130 Fifth Ave. at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 and available online at kamtix.ca.
Hayley Cramer, left, plays drums for Pop Evil. The band will play CJs on Friday along with Royal Tusk.
The tour continues with three more Canadian dates in the prairies before heading south of the border for a brief stint before Christmas break. Over the holidays, Cramer said she plans to spend some quality time with family back
home in England, but still plans to play a few shows at home “just to keep fresh.” For Cramer, the drums are hard to step away from. “Every day I get to play my kit is a good day. It’s kind of what I was born to do,” she said.
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ers and current members. Netflix's standard plan will now cost $3 more — or $13.99 a month — to watch content on two screens at a time. The basic plan — which does not offer high-definition video and only allows one stream — rises a dollar to $9.99 a month. Premium plan subscribers pay $3 more
— or $16.99 a month — for up to four simultaneous streams and ultra high definition 4K video. Netflix said the higher prices are effective immediately for new subscribers, while existing users will be notified by email before their bills rise in the coming weeks. The company most recently increased prices for most plans by a
dollar about a year and a half ago. Netflix says the move will help fund upcoming TV series and films as well as overall improvements to the Netflix platform. But the company also faces intense competition next year as the number of streaming platforms in the Canadian marketplace with attractive offerings grows.
Earlier this month, Bell Media introduced a higher tier of its Crave streaming service that includes a selection of recent Hollywood movies and new HBO programs. The package, dubbed Crave+, costs about $20 per month. Next year, Disney jumps into the market with its own streaming platform. Disney+ is expected to be stocked with movies and origi-
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Research Group said the last Netflix price increase in the U.S. didn't lead to an appreciable loss of subscribers but “I would not be surprised to see some churn out of the gate in Canada given the per cent increase on the standard service.” “However, given the still very low cost of the service and the lack of real alternatives, I would expect NFLX to eventually see most of those that churn return,” Wlodarczak said in an email.
Roma named best film by New York film critics JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In what may be the just the first of many such sweeps, Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful, memorydrenched drama Roma dominated the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Thursday, winning best film, best director and best cinematography. The overwhelming show of support for Roma by the critics group wasn’t a surprise. Cuaron’s film has been hailed as a masterpiece since winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It’s widely expected to contend for best picture, among other categories, at the Academy Awards, and Netflix has put its full weight behind an awards campaign. Cuaron made the black-andwhite 1970s-set film based on his own upbringing in Mexico City, serving as his own cinematographer. The critics voted Ethan Hawke best actor for Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, and named Schrader’s script best screenplay. Those wins provided yet another boost to Schrader’s anguished tale of a doubt-riddled pastor (Hawke), which took the same awards at Monday’s Gotham Awards. While the selections of critics groups like the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association often deviate from awards-season favourites, their prestige and early timing can bring less heralded films and performers into the Oscar conversation. That may have happened with the group’s pick for best actress: Regina Hall, star of Andrew Bujalski’s indie comedy Support the Girls, about the waitress staff of a Texas sports bar. Hall bested the likes of Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite). Supporting acting prizes went to more widely acknowledged contenders: Regina King for her performance as the matriarch of Barry Jenkins’ James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk; and Richard E. Grant as Melissa McCarthy’s debauched conspirator in the literary forgery drama Can You Forgive Me? Leaving the bigger categories to Roma, the critics voted Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida follow-up Cold War best foreign language film. Best documentary went to Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s directorial debut about a trio of skateboarding friends in Rockford, Illinois. Bo Burnham’s tender coming-ofage tale Eighth Grade took best first film. And fresh off its glowing reviews, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was chosen as best animated film over Pixar’s Incredibles 2.
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oshchei the Deathless is a trade paperback produced by Dark Horse Comics and written by Mike Mignola. It contains art by Ben Stenbeck and the unmistakable colouring of Dave Stewart. It’s a spin-off of the Hellboy series, and if you are a fan of Mignola’s signature work on the Hellboy universe, then you know that you are in store for a very interesting tale of suspense and lore. The saga begins with a retelling of their first encounter, as Koshchei and Hellboy reminisce in a bar in Hell. (There’s a bad joke to be had somewhere in there.) Koshchei regales Hellboy with how he was once a mere man until he became Koshchei the Deathless. As I was reading it, I couldn’t help but hear Ron Perlman’s voice in my head as Hellboy is speaking, all sarcastic tones and bad humour. Koshchei spins the tale of how he grew up as a commoner with no choice in life — and so he became a soldier. A naturally gifted fighter, he stirred jealousy among his peers, who decided to beat him nearly to death as a result. Walking among the woods that night was a dragon in the guise of a man, who promised to save Koshchei if he would serve him for nine years. Koshchei agreed and the dragon took him back to his castle where Koshchei healed and became a faithful servant. Koshchei was diligent in his
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service and never became too curious of the comings and goings of the dragon and his associates. After nine years passed, the dragon considered him his son and offered to train him in all his knowledge of magic. Koshchei declined, eager to return to the world of man. The dragon gave him a magical shirt that would keep him from harm as long as it was on
him, but an unfortunate series of events left him shirtless and hacked into pieces. Discarded as dead in the nearby woods, he was found once again by his dragon benefactor. The dragon took him home again and with the magical knowledge he possessed he made Koshchei whole. This time, there was no magical shirt to be had, so the dragon gave Koshchei the one thing that could keep him from harm — his soul. Koshchei hid his soul in a faraway place he knew no one would be able to reach, becoming deathless in the process. The only job he could take, as his reputation preceded him, was as a mercenary for hire. One being was very much willing to hire him — the witch Baba Yaga. She had it in mind to kill all the dragons in the land, using Koshchei the Deathless as her herald. Thus begins a downward spiral into Hell for Koshchei as the untold years of murder, servitude and redemption stretched ahead of him. The rest of the story flows like the blood of Koshchei’s enemies and even some of his friends. Koshchei the Deathless is an excellent read that stands on its own, even if you have never read anything from the Hellboy universe. This book is rated for a mature audience. Randy Wagner is assistant manager of High Octane Comics. For more, visit 250 Third Ave. or call 250-377-8444.
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Singing Santa put up for auction Santa Claus himself will soon be up for bids as part of a fundraiser for Western Canada Theatre. The theatre company has recruited Father Christmas and a musical elf to make 30-minute appearances between Dec. 13 and Dec. 22. Three packages featuring the singing Santa Claus are up for bids. The first will see the right jolly old elf attend an office or office party,
the second would see Saint Nick serenade you at home and the third sends Kris Kringle to a school or charity of your choice for a visit. To bid, go online to 32auctions. com/wctsingingsanta between Dec. 1 and Dec. 8. Proceeds from the auction will benefit Western Canada Theatre’s education programs and theatre school.
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NEW YORK — Thanks to public demand, and a certain American president, Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to her million-selling The Handmaid's Tale. The Testaments will be published next September by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the publisher announced Wednesday. The book is set 15 years after the final scene of Offred, narrator of The Handmaid's
Tale. Atwood's novel about a dystopian society in the imagined land of Gilead was a bestseller when first published in 1985 and was back on the charts after Donald Trump's election in 2016. The novel is also the basis for an acclaimed miniseries on Hulu. Atwood, a Canadian author, said in a statement that the sequel was inspired by readers' questions about Gilead and by the “world we've been living in.”
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Experts say a photo thought to be of a young Vincent van Gogh has turned out most likely to be of his brother, Theo. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Thursday that forensic testing by experts at Amsterdam University “confirmed the high likelihood of the boy in the photograph being the 15-year-old Theo van Gogh, and not Vincent.”
The museum said there is now only one known photographic portrait of the camera-shy Dutch artist. The photo was first publicly presented in 1957 by researcher Mark Edo Tralbaut. A Dutch television program called into question whether it was indeed of Vincent in 2014, prompting further research. Museum Director Axel Rueger says the discovery “means that we have rid ourselves of an illusion, while gaining a portrait of Theo.”
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COLLEEN FRIESEN PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Tour guide Cesar Alfredo Vasquez poses for a photograph high atop a mountain with a view of historical Machu Picchu; Peruvian dancers entertain, dressed in colourful costumes; churros and chocolate go together well with a hot cup of local java; local women pack their precious bundles securely before heading out; cruising down the muddy Amazon River in the 124-foot Amatista riverboat takes passengers back in time.
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served to deepen our wonder. Photographs could not begin to contain the scene falling away beneath our feet. As I watched our group, it occurred to me — whatever our nationality, ages or reasons for meeting in this place, we were all as awestruck and wide-eyed as young children. Our next adventure took us inland to Iquitos, a bustling humid city of a half-million citizens. Iquitos can only be reached by plane or via the world’s largest river — the Amazon. We left at dawn, landing two hours later in a city buzzing with automobile rickshaws. A short bus ride through a tropical deluge delivered us to our home for the following two nights — the 124foot Amatista riverboat. Lined with caramel-varnished woods, our cabin felt like we had walked into our very own jewelry box. The window-walls of the dining room sparkled with glasses on linen-topped tables. But better than all the beauty of the boat was the fact, we were on the Amazon River. We watched, mesmerized, as pods porpoised beside our boat. Howler monkeys, egrets, herons and other waterfowl filled our binoculars as naturalist guides zoomed us up rivers in Zodiacs. We went on guided walks and saw dinosaur-sized houseplants and lily pads the same diameter as a child’s wading pool. On our last night, we sat on the upper deck of the Amatista as our pisco sours glowed in the sinking sun’s dying rays . In only 11 days, we had accumulated a lifetime of memories, each story made richer because it was shared with new friends. Our collective dreams had become our shared adventures. Travel Writers’ Tales is an independent newspaper syndicate. For more, go online to travelwriterstales.com.
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Jackson Caller’s winding hockey path has brought him back to where it all started. The 19-year-old Kamloops product, a 6-foot-2, 189-pound defenceman, was traded to his hometown Blazers from the Saskatoon Blades earlier this week. “I see it as a good opportunity for myself,” Caller said. “I’ve got to work for every minute and make the most of every shift and get better every day.” The Blazers received Caller and second- and third-round picks in the 2020 WHL Bantam Draft in exchange for 19-year-old defenceman Nolan Kneen. Caller is a Kamloops Minor Hockey Association product, but was drafted by the Portland Winterhawks in 2014 and spent his 15-year-old season with
JACKSON CALLER Pursuit of Excellence, playing for the Kelowna academy’s midget prep team in 2014-2015. He also played three games for the junior A Merritt Centennials that season. Caller broke his arm early in the pre-season before the 20152016 campaign. When healthy, he enjoyed success during his 16-year-old campaign with the Revelstoke Grizzlies
in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League and made his WHL debut for Portland against Kamloops on Dec. 4, 2015. The left-shot rearguard played eight games for the Winterhawks that season, his last contests for Portland as he was traded to the Blades in time for 2016-2017. He recorded four assists in 67 games for the Blades in his 17-year-old season. Caller made strides in 20172018, when he racked up 26 points, including three goals, in 70 games. “Everything was clicking right from the start,” he said. “My 18-year-old year, I had a tonne of confidence going that season. That was a really good year.” This season has not started as well, with Caller posting two points, both goals, in 20 games, to go along with a plus-1 rating. “It was a slow start for me this year,” he said. “Not the points I
like to put up. I’ve just got to keep moving forward and getting better every day.” Blazers’ general manager Matt Bardsley was Portland’s assistant GM when the Winterhawks selected Caller in the seventh round of the 2014 draft. “This year, he’s certainly had a different start, but maybe with a new opportunity I believe he can get back to where I believe he can get to,” Bardsley said. Part of Caller’s dip in production can be attributed to the Blades’ acquisition of Dawson Davidson, a 20-year-old rearguard and former Kamloops Blazer who has excelled since joining Saskatoon in January. Davidson was eating into Caller’s minutes and power-play time. The Caller cheering section will be willing him to a fast start with his new team on Friday, when the Blazers and Blades square
off at Sandman Centre. Game time is 7 p.m. “It feels good to be back home,” Caller said. TEDDY TOSS, FOOD BANK NIGHTS THIS WEEKEND The Blazers are hosting Valley First Credit Union Food Bank Night on Friday. Bring a non-perishable food item or a cash donation for the Kamloops Food Bank. Saturday’s game against Seattle doubles as Zimmer Auto Group Teddy Bear Toss. Game time is 7 p.m. When the Blazers score their first goal, fans are encouraged to throw stuffed animals, scarves, tuques, gloves or any winter garment onto the ice. If they do not score, the toss will take place after the game. The haul will be donated locally, including to Royal Inland Hospital patients.
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If looking for the feeling opposing coaches might have when attempting to scout TRU’s offence, take one glance at Scott Clark’s moustache. It’s disturbing. Many whiskers come together to form fear-inducing foliage, the lip luggage is becoming harder to handle with every passing day and the face furniture’s dynamism would be dulled if a piece went missing. Muzzy metaphors aside, the WolfPack men’s basketball team’s offence-by-committee approach is working — and figuring out how to stop it is no small task. TRU has played eight games and had five different top scorers. The Wolves have five players averaging at least 10 points per game and nobody averaging more than 14. “Most of the teams we’ve played have one or two guys who are the main contributors,” said Enrico Nuno, a fourth-year forward from Half Moon Bay, Calif. “That’s why it’s kind of hard to stop us. You don’t know who’s going to be hitting the shots and who’s going to be making the plays.” TRU (4-4) swept a pair of games against the UBC Okanagan Heat of Kelowna on the weekend at the Tournament
Capital Centre to set up two pivotal tilts against the Alberta Golden Bears of Edmonton. The Golden Bears (5-3) and WolfPack are separated by two points in Canada West standings and will square off at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at the TCC in their last contests before the holiday break. Derek Rhodes, a fifth-year guard from Antioch, Calif., paced the Pack against the Heat (5-5) with 25 points on Friday and 23 points on Saturday, marking the only weekend this season in which one player has led the team in scoring on back-to-back nights. “They can’t guard us all,” said Rhodes, who leads TRU with 13.9 points per game. “If they scout us and they stop a couple of us, we have three, four, five more guys. Even our bench is a little deeper than it’s been since I’ve been here.” Clark put himself in the opposition’s shoes for a moment. “When the wealth is spread out to a number of players, I
think it does make it a bit harder MARTY HASTINGS to say, hey, thisREPORTER is the focal point STAFF sports@kamloopsthisweek.com of what we need to stop,” said Clark, whose charges were oustfor the last feeling ed in RoundIf1 looking of the playoffs season. opposing coaches might have when to scout TRU “Part of that attempting is we have good offence, take flexible one glance at Sco players and they have moustache. skills. PartClark’s of that, as well, is, It’sit’s disturbing. schematically, a very spread Many whiskers come togeth out situation, in terms of scoring to form fear-inducing foliage, t possibilities.” is becoming harder There lip areluggage areas that need to handle withnotably every passing d to be cleaned up, most andand theguarding face furniture’s rebounding the dynamism would be dulled perimeter on defence, said Clark,if a piec went missing. but TRU appears to be trending Muzzy metaphors aside, the in the right direction. WolfPack men’s basketball team The WolfPack are ranked offence-by-committee second-best in the conference inapproac working — and figuring out defensiveisfield-goal percentage stopfor it fourthis no small task. (39.6 per how cent),totied TRU has played eight game best in points allowed per game and had five different (77.1) and fifth-best in offensivetop scorWolves have five playe turnoversers. perThe game (12.1). averaging at least 10 points per Behind Rhodes rounding game and nobody averaging out the Pack’s top-five scorers more than 14. are Anton Bilous (12.8 points “Most of the teams we’ve per game), Joe Davis (12.8) of played have one or two guys w Kamloops, Roualt (10.5) areMichael the main contributors,” sai and NunoEnrico (10.4).Nuno, a fourth-year forMovember nearly ward is from Halfover. Moon Bay, Cali Clark’s moustache likely dis-of hard “That’siswhy it’stokind appear soon. to stop us. You don’t know who The WolfPack be looking going towill be hitting the shots an to continue on with a balanced who’s going to be making the attack in plays.” its absence. “I think we can(4-4) go far,” TRU swept a pair Rhodes said. “I think the ceilof games against the UBC ing is really high. I think can Okanagan Heatwe of Kelowna on weekend at year.” the Tournamen make it tothe nationals this
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At 0-4 and with an abysmal, league-low field-goal percentage of 29.7 per cent, the TRU WolfPack women’s basketball team seemed destined to miss the Canada West post-season. The WolfPack, a rebuilding team, travelled to Vancouver to play the UBC Thunderbirds, then 3-3, and were likely to return to Kamloops sporting an 0-6 record. TRU proceeded to record a season-high 45.5 per cent fieldgoal percentage in a 73-61 victory over UBC on Nov. 16. So, what happened? “It’s a bit of a catch-22,” WolfPack head coach Scott Reeves said in answering a question about the sudden onset of shooting proficiency. “Success breeds confidence. Well, it’s hard to get success if you’re not confident. So, how do you have success? “Once it happened in that game against UBC, it’s kind of like we gained some momentum, going, yes, we are confident shooters, we did have some success in a tough building.” TRU boosted its record to 3-5 with a two-game weekend sweep of the UBC Okanagan
Heat of Kelowna at the TCC, winning 69-65 in overtime on Friday and 87-61 on Saturday. The WolfPack shot 31.1 per cent on Friday and 39.7 per cent on Saturday. “We’re just gaining confidence,” said Leilani Carney, a fourth-year guard from Burnaby who led TRU with 14 points on Saturday. “We’re still getting into the gym and getting shots up every weekend, but I think confidence and energy helps us put it in.” Narrative has not changed from the standpoint of TRU being a rebuilding team that has little hope of making postseason noise, but reaching the playoffs in a parity-filled league has become a reachable goal. It is impossible to know what post-season basketball is like until experienced. About half of the Pack’s roster is made up of first- and second-year players who would benefit greatly from being thrown into that fire, even if swept from the first round. “It would be tremendously huge for our program,” Reeves said. Tremendously huge may then be an accurate description of two games this weekend against the Alberta Pandas of Edmonton at the TCC. Game time is 5 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday. Alberta is 6-2 and a much better team than 0-10 UBC Okanagan. One win for the Pack, now two points out of a playoff spot, would be no small feat. Two wins would catapult them into the holiday break believing a post-season berth is within their grasp. Two losses might leave them wondering if they are only good enough to beat the Heat and got lucky against the T-Birds. Carney, buoyed by the weekend sweep, is not expecting her team to shoot itself in the foot. “It gives us momentum,” she said. “We’re hitting shots. When you feel like that ... I don’t feel like we’re going in as the underdog this weekend. “We think we can pull it out.” SHOOT FOR THE CURE TRU is hosting U Sports Shoot for the Cure Night on Friday, with proceeds going toward breast cancer research. The local Canadian Cancer Society branch has an online donation page — http://convio. cancer.ca/goto/TRU. Fans are asked to bring new or slightly used gloves on Saturday to gain free access to the game. Gloves will be donated to The Mustard Seed.
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Jeff Faith was ripped from comfort and thrown into a brand new environment. He’s dealt with uprooting before. “I know how to move and make new friends, but it’s different when I’ve been with guys for so long and going to a brand new group of people who I used to play against, who used to be my opponents,” said Faith, a defenceman by trade who has been playing up front this season. The right-shot 20-year-old has played only for the Spokane Chiefs, who drafted him 16th overall in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft. He was traded to the Kamloops Blazers earlier this week in exchange for 20-yearold forward Luc Smith and third- and sixthround selections in the 2020 bantam draft. Faith is still coming to terms with the whirlwind relocation, but life experience and family are helping him with the transition. “I’m ready to play against them [the Chiefs] and show them that I’m all for the Blazers now,” said Faith, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 200 pounds. Faith’s father works for the RCMP. The family had spells in Terrace, Fernie and Iqaluit. “I moved around a lot,” said Faith, who was in the Nunavit capital from Grade 2 to Grade 5. “In Iqaluit, there were two hockey teams and no trees. “I had a lot of friends, a lot of guys I left behind in Spokane. They’re all supportive.” Faith’s elder brother, Tanner, is in a great position to offer advice. Tanner, 23, spent four seasons with the Kootenay Ice and was
Jeff Faith was traded to the Kamloops Blazers on Monday. The Spokane Chiefs selected him in Round 1 of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft.
traded to the Moose Jaw Warriors in time for his 20-year-old campaign. “He just said take it in stride,” Faith said of his older sibling, now a third-year forward with the UBC Thunderbirds. “You’re getting to meet new guys, to meet new coaches and new personnel. You get to make more friendships, so it’s kind of nice.” Faith, who has one goal and 27 penalty minutes in 24 games this season, was asked which position he prefers playing. “I’ve been playing forward for the past year-and-a-half and I have a lot of fun up there, but I started off as a defenceman and that’s where I’ve played most of my career, so I’m really, really confident and comfortable back there. “It’s really where the coaches need me and where the team needs me. I want to be here for all the boys.” Faith is expected to start his Blazers’ career as a forward. The displaced forward’s mother is happy to have him back in Canada and plans to fly out to Kamloops from Saskatchewan this weekend. Kamloops (9-111-1) will play host to Saskatoon (16-9-2-0) on Friday and Seattle (8-12-3-0) on Saturday. Game time is 7 p.m. both nights at Sandman Centre.
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Brown rink earns access to Scotties as No. 1 B.C. team in Canada Corryn Brown and her Kamloops Curling Club rink are the No. 1-ranked B.C. women’s curling team in the country. That standing has earned Team Brown an automatic qualifying berth to the provincial championship, the 2019 B.C. Scotties, which will run from Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 in Quesnel. Brown sits 12th in women’s 20182019 Canadian Team Ranking System points standings, with 103.404 points. The secondhighest ranked B.C. rink is Team Wark of Abbotsford at 23rd overall, with 76.822 points. Rachel Homan of Ontario is atop the standings with 285.767 points. There were three automatic berths available for provincials — one for the B.C. rink with the most CTRS points as of this week and two for the toptwo finishers on the B.C. Women’s Curling Tour. Brown also won the provincial tour championship, so the second- and third-place
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KTW FILE PHOTO Erin Pincott delivers, with Ashley Klymchuk (left) and Dezaray Hawes ready to sweep. Pincott, Klymchuk, Hawes and skip Corryn Brown are having a stellar 2018-2019 season.
finishers — Team Wark and Team Gushulak of Royal City, respectively — have earned automatic berths to the Scotties. Team Van Osch of Nanaimo/Parksville won the provincial championship last year to clinch an automatic berth to the 2019 Scotties. The four remaining
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berths will be decided at two open playdowns. RALLYING FOR RINK The Kamloops Outdoor Skating Association will host all-ages ball hockey games during the Welcome to Winter Block Party, which will be held in the 300block of Victoria Street on Saturday, Dec. 8.
The games are designed to raise awareness for the KOSA’s goal of having a refrigerated outdoor rink built in the city. Games will run from noon to 4 p.m. The City of Kamloops is studying the possibility of having a centrally located refrigerated outdoor skating rink and has
LIDDIARD RETIRES Keith Liddiard is retiring as the Kamloops Youth Soccer Association’s executive director after 10 years in the position. His last day is Friday. Missy Cederhom has been shadowing Liddiard for the past two months and will take over full-time. “I wish to thank former KYSA president Graham Cope for hiring me and for the 10 productive years we worked together,” Liddiard said in a KYSA press release. “The job has been most enjoyable and rewarding because of the great relationship we had.” Liddiard spent 38 years working in the soccer business in B.C.
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Sun Peaks to open more lifts The Sundance and Morrisey chairlifts will open on Friday at Sun Peaks Resort. With six lifts turning, guests will have access to all three of the resort’s peaks. Much of the nordic ski trail network is accessible and more trails are expected to be open soon. The annual High Five Day is scheduled for Monday. Guests can buy a full-day alpine or nordic lift ticket for $5 with the donation of a nonperishable food item. All proceeds go to the Kamloops Food Bank.
ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW The Goats’ goaltender makes a save against the Pistons in bantam recreation Kamloops Minor Hockey Association play on the weekend.
Blazers going streaking Brady Milburn had four points, including three goals, for the bantam tier 1 Thompson Blazers in a 5-2 victory over the Yale Varsity Lions in Abbotsford last weekend. Jordan Keller and Lian Gayfer also scored for Thompson, with Reggie Newman and Garrett Martin recording one assist apiece. Brendan Smith and Gavin McLean split
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BRIEFS The Everett Merchants edged the Seattle Studs 6-5 in the final at Norbrock Stadium. “We want to thank our sponsors for their support and our small army of volunteers for putting this tournament together,” said Norm Daley, KIBT’s community support liaison. SKATERS HIT THE PODIUM The Valleyview Skating Club was well represented at the Okanagan Interclub figure skating competition in West Kelowna last weekend. On Friday, Brenna Wassing placed second in silver interpretive. Haley Barber was first and Brie Gibson was second in gold interpretive. Lexi Pockett and Megan Barber each had third-place finishes, Lacey Tucker and Claire Gagnon received bronze assessments and Brooklyn Leduc earned a silver assessment. Brooklyn Castro and Haley Barber had fourth- and sixth-
KIBT GIVES TO KMBA The 45th Kamloops International Baseball Tournament (KIBT) was played this year on McArthur Island. Due to the tournament’s success, $2,500 is being donated to the Kamloops Minor Baseball Association. “We had a great year,” tournament vice-president Wayne Harper said. “Having Sussex Insurance as our title sponsor, as well as many other community individuals and businesses step up to the plate to commit to supporting the 45th annual tournament, was great.”
atom development A2 action at Sandman Centre on Sunday. Reaching the scoresheet for the home team were Jerasyn Cornwell (3G), Trey Alphonse (1G, 1A), Mattias Holte (1G, 1A), Sam Jakel (1G, 1A), Tristan Keely (1G), Elias Munegatto (3A) and Zach Rozek (1A). Jarrek Hluschyk backstopped Kamloops.
place finishes, respectively. On Saturday, Fiona Poole claimed a pair of silver assessments, while Brooke Buchanan, Libby Tucker and Nina Wells had bronze assessments. Claire Gagnon had a silver assessment and Ashlyn Wassing placed first once. Mataya Pockett earned two second-place finishes and Brie Gibson had one second-place finish. Megan Barber had a thirdplace finish. Haley Barber had a fourthplace finish, Lexi Pockett placed sixth once, Brooklyn Castro claimed one seventh-place finish, Wassing placed 10th once and Valentina Botaya had an 11th-place finish. On Sunday, Nina Wells, Mira Barber and Sydnie Westran claimed gold, silver and merit assessments, respectively.
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s I grow in my own journey as a Catholic priest, I have come to a deeper appreciation of the beautiful gift of a woman. Allow me to share a few things that I have learned about the beauty of women. Notice the sequence in the story of creation in the book of Genesis. After the creation of land, water, vegetation, animals and man, there was the pinnacle of creation — a woman, Eve. She is the high point in the natural creation; the best is saved until last. Many people have blamed Eve for the first sin, but perhaps after another closer look, we might find Adam is the first at fault. His job was to guard and keep the garden. Where was he? He was slacking
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off on the job and not protecting Eve. He, perhaps, should be the first at fault. A woman is also referred to as a garden herself, especially an “enclosed garden” as found in the Song of Songs (Song of Solomon 4:12). Adam is the gardener who enters into the garden (hopefully lovingly) and sows the seed into the garden. She is to receive the seed and bear fruit, namely new life. He is to protect, cherish and guard the
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garden and the fruit within her. Eve, as a woman, is the bearer of all human life. From her one womb, all human life flows; hence her name, Eve, the “Mother of all the living” (Genesis 3:20). The greatest of all women is Mary. She received the greatest seed of all, namely, Jesus Christ, divine life itself. All of creation can join in praising with Elizabeth as she greeted Mary: “Blessed is the fruit of your womb” (Luke 1:42). Mary, the Mother of Jesus, gives this fruit to the whole world so everyone can share in divine life. Looking back, then, after Adam and Eve fell from the garden, death entered into the world and affected all human life in a negative way. Mary, however, becomes the new mother of all the living in the new cre-
ation. The fruit of her womb, Jesus, took on the consequences of sin, suffering and death and destroyed them through his own death on the cross. After Jesus died on the cross, He was sown in the virgin ground (unused tomb) and, three days later, He rose to new life, a resurrection from the dead, where there is no more sin, suffering or death ( John 12:24: “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it bears much fruit”). Those who enter in a covenantal relationship with Jesus rise with him from the dead as well. We humans can also become part of this, bearing much fruit in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Not all women are called to be biological mothers, but they can be mothers in different ways. For example,
The event is free, but registration is required. To register, call 250-828-3500 and quote program number 287934. Registration deadline is Friday, Nov. 30. If you require handyDART, register with both the city and BC Transit by calling 250-376-7525. The city is asking residents along the tour route to help brighten a senior’s night by putting up some lights, Bus pickup locations and the tour route are available online at Kamloops.ca/ SeniorsLightsTour. STUFF THE BUS FOR KAMLOOPS FOOD BANK Kamloops’ first Stuff the Bus event will be held in early December. The event, co-sponsored by the City of Kamloops and BC Transit, will see people stuffing a transit bus with items that will be donated to the Kamloops Food Bank. Stuff the Bus will take place at the Save-OnFoods store in Columbia Square in Sahali, on Saturday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. QUAAOUT/TALKING ROCK EARNS NATIONAL TOURISM AWARD Quaaout Lodge and Talking Rock Golf Resort has won the 2018 ITAC Indigenous Cultural Tourism Award, presented by the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC). Quaaout, near Chase, was created and is owned by the Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band. Along with a popular golf course with stunning views of Shuswap Lake, Quaaout serves as a way for band members to learn trades and crafts and introduce guests to their culture. The lodge offers interpretive tours of a kekuli (traditional underground housing) and berry-picking excursions.
of her own, but mothered many children. Thank you, women, for the gift that you are to the world. And, in a special way, thank you to my mom who allowed me to be the most precious fruit of her womb. Thank you, mom, and all mothers for the sacrificial love that you give to your children. And may men learn to be true gardeners protecting the gardens and their fruits. Father Derrick Cameron is a priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Cathedral in Kamloops.
A depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, tasting the forbiden fruit from the Tree of Life.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, recently
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67. Hitching spot
9. Cleveland Browns’ defense, informally 14. Dress
73. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with “the”
19. What a line doesn’t have
75. Stuck-up person
20. Lévesque of Quebec
76. Aplenty
21. Pelvis-related
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22. ____ card (wallet item)
78. Informal expression of gratitude
23. ____ Reza shrine (Iranian holy site)
79. Namesakes of Muhammad’s daughter
24. Former supporter of seabirds
80. Brilliant debut
26. Where the frontiersman Bowie died
81. Ruffian
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84. What a dog groomer might charge
30. Yawn-inducing 32. Postgame shower? 33. The Big Board, briefly
86. Result of wearing a fedora at the beach
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88. Pulled off
35. Jewelry worn above the elbow
89. Make an effort
37. What’s brewing?
91. Item smashed by the original Luddites
90. T.S.A. agent’s tool
38. Spray the monarch to keep him cool
92. Having a crisp picture, say
40. Prosecutor who’s sympathetic to the defendants in a witch trial
94. Leave gratified 95. Must, informally 96. “Death of a Salesman” salesman
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44. Sound of something rushing by 45. Singer Morissette
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47. Not fixed
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50. Agenda starter 51. Hog’s home
105. Compound imparting a fruity smell
52. Pontius Pilate’s province
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79. Dance mentioned in Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”
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85. Some winds for seafarers
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86. Nonshiny finishes
18. Norwegian money
87. “Sucks to be you”
25. Genetics initials
88. Speedometers, typically
28. Serving during Prohibition
90. Korean money
31. Diplomatic office below an embassy
95. Like a lot of zombie movies
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97. Mom’s mom
36. Gathering around a campfire?
99. Intensifying word add-on
38. One target of a childhood vaccine
102. Request to Triple A
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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM Carol Margaret McConnell (née Funk)
Nettie Makortoff It is with great sadness that the family of Nettie Makortoff announces her passing after a brief hospitalization on Thursday, November 22, 2018 at the age of 76. Nettie will be especially missed by the love of her life Fred, her children Wendy and Harvey (Deanna), her brother Harry (Elsa), sister Marilyn, her five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. After many hard working years of caring for her family, she generously volunteered at the RIH Afternoon Auxiliary for 20+ years. Fred and his family greatly appreciate the hard work and care from the RIH, ICU staff. We thank you very much, you were all wonderful. A celebration of life will be planned for the springtime when family is able to travel. In lieu of flowers, family would appreciate a donation made to The Heart & Stroke Foundation in her memory. You will be forever loved and missed Baba.
1947 - 2018
Carol Margaret McConnell (née Funk) of Kamloops, BC passed away on November 12, 2018 at 71 years of age with her family by her side. She is survived by her children: Robert of Edmonton, Adele (Martin) of Langley, Yvette (Trevor) of Kamloops and Sean (Shelly) of Kamloops, grandson James (Carrie-Ann) of Calgary, brothers Wayne (Sherry) Funk of Wetaskiwin and Nelson Funk of Wanless, sisters Joan (Rev. Harry) Chuckry of Arborg and Brenda (Erwin) Reinfort of The Pas, uncles William (Nellie) Sandberg and Harold (Ruby) Sandberg and aunt Norma Sandberg, numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. Also saddened by her sudden passing is all her friends that she made through her life’s journey and her “fur babies” Persia and Baby.
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Carol was predeceased by her parents Charles and Elsie Funk. Carol was born on May 11, 1947 in The Pas, Manitoba. She spent time growing up in the Manitoba towns of Gillam, Wabowden and The Pas. Later our family moved to Kamloops in the early 1970s. Mom had worked at several jobs including 27 years at Interior Health until her retirement as a care aid. She enjoyed the many clients she met and the many friends made during that time. She could always be counted on for her volunteering efforts over the years from helping with minor hockey, K.I.B.T baseball, slow-pitch ball tournaments and meat draws to name just a few. She was also a proud member of the Women of the Moose Chapter #915 for over 30 years. Mom enjoyed bowling, playing darts and playing slow-pitch with us kids. She also loved to sing and spent lots of time at jam sessions and karaoke. “PETER PUCK!” mother, this place won’t be the same without your infectious laugh and upbeat personality. We will all miss you dearly. A celebration of Carol’s life will be held in early 2019. Special thanks to Dr. Stolze and the staff at RIH 5 North. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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My Darling Ron, You are my first thought in the morning and my last one each night. I hold you safe in my heart and cherish every moment we had together. You were a loving father, my best friend, my husband, my soulmate. I miss you more than words can say.
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Weep not for me though I am gone; into that gentle night. Grieve if you will but not for long, upon my soul’s sweet flight. I am at peace, my soul’s at rest. There is no need for tears. For with your love I was blessed; for all those many years. There is no pain, I suffer not, The fear now all is gone. Put now these things out of your thoughts. In your memory I live on. Remember not my fight for breath; remember not the strife. Please do not dwell upon my death, but celebrate my life. Two years ago we lost you on November 30th. We love and miss you so much.
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Helen June Porter (Patterson) Helen passed away at Berwick Seniors Residence in Kamloops, BC, on November 12, 2018 in her 94th year, peacefully and with family by her side. She is survived by her loving son Grant (Anita) and daughter Janice Porter, her sister Anne (Ray) Bigrigg, numerous nieces, nephews and one grandchild. Predeceased by her loving husband Earl Sydney (2008) and beloved son David (1989), parents Robert Henry and Iva Pearl (Clegg) Patterson, sister Dorothy Goodbrand (1995) and brothers Robert (1995) and Russell (2000). Helen was born in Hamilton, Ontario on June 3, 1924 and often expressed gratitude for having a father who was employed during the Depression. Even so, her frugality was a feature of family life and her budgetary skills were legendary - she could rub two pennies together and make meat loaf. She met Earl in Port Dover, Ontario and married in 1946, devoting herself to family life. In 1960 the family, with two boys, moved to Ancaster and the family was rounded out when Janice was born a few years later. Helen was a great mother and a loyal friend to many. She enjoyed an active social life with her many lifelong friends and enthusiastically planned and hosted many family gatherings and special events.
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She engaged in many volunteer activities along the way, including meals on wheels and with Marshall Memorial Church in Ancaster. She had a wonderful sense of humour and a genuine gleeful laugh that will always be remembered. Helen was an avid bridge player and various card and board games were a big feature of family life. In 2010, she sold the home in Ancaster and moved to BC to be closer to her son Grant and she became a vibrant and involved member of the Berwick retirement community, where she is greatly missed. A celebration of life will be held for Helen in Ancaster, Ontario in the New Year. Special thanks go to the staff and management of Berwick on the Park and in particular the nursing and care staff in the Berwick BRIO unit. Your compassionate, meticulous crews were a godsend. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Red Cross or the Canadian Cancer Society.
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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM Margaret (Peggy) Gurr
Jessie Margaret (Peggy) Keeping
January 19, 1954 – November 26, 2018
It is with immense grief and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Peggy Gurr of Logan Lake. Peggy was a kind person who always made people feel welcome. She will be dearly missed by her family, friends and co-workers. She was predeceased by her parents Harvey and Marg Eggen. Peggy is survived by her sisters Linda (Steve) McBride and Debbie (Brian) Quast and brother Gary (Joy) Eggen, her two sons John (Lynn) Coray and Joe (Laura) Coray, grandchildren Jennifer (Luke), Krysten (Corey), David, Dylan (Bailey), Nakayla (Leon), Arianna and Emma and great-grandchildren Jameson, Payten, Finn, Lauren, Curtis and Taylor as well as nieces and nephews Jeremy (Tammy), Sandie (Stuart), Chrissy (Kyle), Tammy (Steve), Karrie and Austin and great-nieces and nephews Brady, Carter, Corrine, Declan and Quinn. Peggy has been a member of the Logan Lake community since 1972 and worked at Highland Valley Copper for nearly 40 years. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. One of her favourite pastimes was camping – especially on May long weekend at Tunkwa Lake. Whenever possible Peggy would challenge friends and family to a game of cards. For the past 10 years, Peggy enjoyed the annual girls’ shopping trip to Tulalip with her sister Debbie and numerous friends.
Jessie Margaret (Peggy) Keeping of Knutsford, BC passed away peacefully with family by her side on November 22, 2018 at 85 years of age. Peggy was born in Vancouver in 1932, the first child for Thorney and Jessie, who ran the Farmhouse Inn on Galiano Island. When Peggy was 12 years old, she was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and was admitted to the Queen Alexandra Solarium, where she spent the next two years of her life. After high school, Peggy completed the three year nursing program and in 1958 became a registered nurse. That same year she married Gerald Keeping, her lifelong love and partner. In 1969, the family moved to the Deadman Valley where they stayed until 1974 when they bought a farm near Dawson Creek. In 1979, the Keepings once again uprooted and moved back to the Deadman Valley to the ranch that Peggy loves dearly.
Peggy was the anchor of the family, keeping us organized and on track and will be dearly missed. An informal gathering, not to be sad but to remember the times we had, will take place from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2018 at the Knutsford Community Hall.
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David Allen Chamberland Dave was born on November 4, 1957, in Quesnel, BC. Dave moved to Kamloops at an early age where he attended school and grew up on Greenfield Avenue. Dave really enjoyed swimming, fishing, riding motorcycles and just being outdoors. At times Dave seemed to find himself in trouble but of course it was not his fault (according to him.) Dave loved to take things apart (tinker) and if he didn’t get them back together then it was time to go fishing. He was a considerate, polite person who was able to make people around him laugh. Work pursuits took him to several locations, Kamloops, Ontario, Maple Ridge and Kelowna. Survived by his mother Marjorie of Penticton, sister Shirley of Penticton, nephew Mylan and his son Ronin of Penticton, brother Bob and Tracy Chamberland of Kamloops and Josh Smith of Calgary and aunts, uncles and cousins. Predeceased by his father Roland (1987) and sister Karen (2009). A Celebration of Dave’s Life will be held in Kelowna at The House of Restoration on Saturday, December 1, 2018 from 11:00 am to1:00 pm. For more info please contact Bob at bobchamberland23@ gmail.com As per Dave’s request there is no service. Many thanks to Lis, Dave and everyone else who helped Dave Chamberland along the way. Doctor Dave’s office is now closed. Ride on Bro. Online condolences may be expressed at www.bowersfuneralservice.com
Phyll Nelson October 7, 1927 – November 30, 2017
Peggy is survived by her loving husband Gerry, daughters Kathy and Chris, sons Dennis (Debbie) and Kerry, grandchildren Karlie, Ben, Michelle, Ashlee, Kayla and Dale, as well as nine great-grandchildren. Peggy will be lovingly missed by her family, sisters Belinda, Beth (Bob) and brother Len (Trish) and her many nieces, nephews and friends. Peggy was predeceased by her sister Mabs.
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early 70s, the Blundells had moved to Kamloops and started their life with two kids and Gordies forever job at Lafarge Canada. He started as a labourer and through hard work and persistence ended up as their local Purchasing Agent. He was a proud member of the local Lafarge family, he spearheaded many of their work and social affairs and truly loved the company and his fellow workmates. He also loved his community and was involved in the inception of the Booster Club for the Junior Oilers/Blazers. He will fondly be remembered as Mr. Shootout during intermissions at the Blazer games, complete with stripper music and the patented leg kick. He was also proud to coach many kids in softball and hockey as his kids grew up playing those sports that he loved. Please join the family and freinds in a Celebration of Life to say farewell, goodbye or good riddance to Gordie on Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 2:00 pm at Kamloops Alliance Church in their ministry center.
Never Quit
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill When funds are low and debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Success is failure turned inside out – The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations can be made to JDRF, a cause close to Gordies heart.
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LOWER SAHALI
Rte 403 – 405-482 Greenstone Dr, Tod Cres. – 28 p. Rte 404 – Chapperon Dr, 108-395 Greenstone Dr, Pyramid Crt. – 57 p. Rte 405 – Anvil Cres, 98-279 Bestwick Dr, Bestwick Crt E. & W, Morrisey Pl. – 49 p. Rte 406 – 109-492 McGill Rd. – 63 p. Rte 411 – 206-384 Arrowstone Dr, Eagle Pl, Gibraltar Crt & Wynd. – 49 p.
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Rte 504 – 2146-2294 Sifton Ave, Sifton Lane. – 49 p. Rte 506 – Gloaming Dr, Heatherton Crt, Laurel Pl, Stirling Dr. – 84 p. Rte 509 - 459-551 Laurier Dr, 2101-2197 Shaughnessy Hill 46 p. Rte 519 – Regent Cres & Pl. – 50 p. Rte 538 – Talbot Dr, Willowbrae Crt, Dr & Pl. - 53 p.
VALLEYVIEW
Rte 602 – Apple Lane, Knollwood Cres, Parkhill Dr, 1783 Valleyview Dr. – 47 p. Rte 603 – Chickadee Rd, Comazzetto Rd, Strom Rd, 1625-1648 & 1652-1769 Valleyview Dr. – 44 Rte 605 – 1770-1919 Glenwood Dr, Knollwood Dr, Vicars Rd. – 64 p. Rte 606 – Orchard Dr, Russet Wynd, 1815-1899 Valleyview Dr. – 41 p. Rte 608 – Curlew Rd & Pl, 19251980 Glenwood Dr. - 73 p. Rte 613 - 2210-2291 Crescent Dr, 115-155 Highland Rd, 2244-2296 Park Dr,2207-2385 E TCH-64 p Rte 612 – 2079 Falcon Rd, Flamingo Rd, 2040-2177 Glenwood Dr. – 64 p. Rte 620 – MacAdam Rd, McKay Pl, Pyper Way, 2516-2580 Valleyview Dr. – 70 p. Rte 621 – Duck Rd, Skelly Rd, 96 Tanager Dr, 2606-2876 Thompson Dr. – 50 p.
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Rte 655 – 1685 Finlay Ave, 22022385+2416-2458 Skeena Dr. – 36 p. Rte 664 – 2920-3099 Kickinghorse Dr, 1500-1599 Kickinghorse Way. – 30 p. Rte 670 – Galore Cres, Crt & Pl. – 108 p.
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Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 56 p. Rte 833 – Cameron Rd, Davie Rd. – 44 p. Rte 835 – Mattoch-McKeague Rd, Sabiston Crt & Rd – 30 p. Rte 836 – 133-197 Cahilty Cres, 150-187 Hyas Pl, 4551-4648 Spurraway Rd. – 36 p. Rte 837 – 103-190 Helmcken Dr, 4654-4802 Spurraway Rd. – 22 p. Rte 842 – 3945-4691 Yellowhead Hwy. – 35 p.
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Rte 175 – 1800-1899 Norfolk Crt, Norview Pl, 821-991 Norview Rd. – 38 p. Rte 183 – 2003-2074 Saddleback Dr, 2003-2085 Grasslands Blvd. – 74 p. Rte 184 – 2077-2097 Saddleback Dr, 2001-2071 Stagecoach Dr. – 31 p. Rte 187 – 2100-2130 Doubletree Cres, 1050-1100 Latigo Dr, 21002169 Saddleback Dr. – 56 p,
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Rte 701 – Freda Ave, Klahanie Dr, Morris Pl, Shelly Dr, 901-935 Todd Rd. – 91 p. Rte 706 – 1078-1298 Lamar Dr, Molin Pl, - 29 p. Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Rd, Bogetti Pl, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr, 5485-5497 ETC Hwy, Viking Dr, Wade Pl. – 64 p. Rte 752 – 5600-5998 Dallas Dr, Harper Pl & Rd. – 63 p. Rte 754 – Hillview Dr, Mountview Dr. – 39 p. Rte 755 – 6159-6596 Dallas Dr, McAuley, Melrose, Yarrow. – 72 p. Rte 759 – Beverly Pl, 6724-7250 Furrer Rd, McIver Pl, Pat Rd, Stockton Rd. – 40 p.
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