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A Kamloops lawyer has been arrested and charged in connection with a suspicious death in Dufferin last week. Rogelio Butch Bagabuyo, 54, is facing one count of interference with a dead body related to a person found deceased in a vehicle outside a Monterey Place home on March 17. It is alleged he placed a body or human remains in a plastic bin. Bagabuyo, who has a law practice downtown on Victoria Street, is in custody pending a bail hearing on Wednesday. At about 10 p.m. on March 17, police were called to the 1600block of the cul-de-sac Monterey Place for a “suspicious occurrence report,” where they discovered a person deceased inside a vehicle. According to online court documents, the offence for which Bagabuyo is charged occurred the day before, on March 16, in Kamloops. Mounties had a presence around a Monterey Place home on March 18, where police tape could
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be seen strewn across the entire front of the property. Behind the tape was a white 2020 GMC model Budget rental van with B.C. licence plate PJ 9131. The van’s Budget logo was accompanied with decals saying “we buy boxes.” That van is now part of the police investigation, with Mounties on the weekend asking for the public’s help in providing information on the vehicle’s travels
in and around Kamloops. Police have not, however, said if the van is, in fact, the vehicle in which the deceased person was found. “We are asking the public for assistance in helping us establish the vehicle’s movements during this past week,” Staff Sgt. Todd Wiebe said in a release. “Please have a look at the van and its licence plate. If you think you saw it or if you have dash-cam
or surveillance footage capturing it, please contact police as soon as possible.” Police are looking for information on the van’s travels in Kamloops and surrounding rural areas and communities, including Barriere, Clearwater, Valemount, Savona, Cache Creek and other spots along those corridors. According to neighbours, the van did not belong to the people who live in the house where it
was parked and said it had been parked there for just a few days. An elderly couple believed to be in their 80s and their grandson, in his late 20s are said to live at the residence, according to neighbours. Residents — some of whom said they had lived in the area for decades — said there wasn’t a lot of activity at the house in question, and noted the grandson would often go for walks with his grandparents.
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HAVE SOME FUN WITH US THIS SPRING BREAK! During the final week of Spring Break—until April 1—the Canada Games Aquatic Centre is offering a special all-ages dropin rate of $4.35 per person. Pre-registration is required for all swim times during this time period.
March 29, 2022 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting March 31, 2022 10:00 am - Community to Community Forum
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April 4, 2022 10:00 am - Finance Committee Meeting 2:00 pm - Council and School District No. 73 Joint Meeting
New! AquaTrack We are excited to introduce the AquaTrack at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre—a water obstacle course where running, climbing, jumping, and sliding will provide fun for everyone!
The complete 2022 Council Calendar is available online at: Kamloops.ca/CouncilCalendar
The AquaTrack is available until April 1 during afternoon and evening public swim times. Pre-registration is required. Must be 7+ years of age and a minimum 43" tall.
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Mitchell Forgie’s popular Red Beard Cafe in North Kamloops was broken into twice within two weeks recently. No sooner had he replaced the window facing Tranquille Road than a second window was smashed out, again giving burglars access.
A conversation on property crime TRANQUILLE ROAD BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE 400-BLOCK TO DISCUSS OPTIONS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE, WHICH IS PLAGUING THE AREA MICHAEL POTESTIO
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A Kamloops restaurant owner whose shop was broken into six times in the past three months is fed up with property crime and he and other business owners in the 400-block of Tranquille Road in North Kamloops are meeting to discuss the issue. Mitchell Forgie, co-owner of Red Beard Cafe, found one of his restaurant’s windows smashed on March 16. The window next to it had already been boarded up after being shattered two weeks earlier.
Both incidents occurred overnight and involved alcohol being pillaged from within. Forgie estimated losses in the $10,000 range from damage and stolen property in the past six months, noting alcohol, empty propane tanks and kegs have been stolen, while windows, an irrigation system and a chain link fence have been damaged. In the wake of property crime being committed on the block, the North Shore Business Improvement Association (NSBIA) has initiated a meeting, to be held this Thursday, to discuss businesses sharing costs of security patrols and installation of security cameras in the
400-block, Forgie told KTW. NSBIA executive director Jeremy Heighton confirmed the organization is holding a meeting with 23 businesses and property owners regarding the issues. Forgie said Red Beard has experienced a rise in property crime in the past few months. He said crime seems to increase when the neighbouring The Loop drop-in centre is operating and decrease when it is not. Forgie said when The Loop was ordered to close last summer by the city, Red Beard didn’t experience property crime for months. See HILKE, A6
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“Until we meet with everybody, that’s Mitch’s perspective, I don’t know that everybody else shares that perspective or not,” the NSBIA’s Heighton said. “Until I talk to everybody in this group, it’s going to be difficult to make that connection.” Anecdotally speaking, there doesn’t seem to be an increase in crime in the block during the past few months compared to last fall, Kamloops RCMP Const. Crystal Evelyn told KTW. “There was a similar operation in place there before. We encourage people to contact police regarding crime or CSOs [community services officers] for bylaw complaints,” Evelyn said via email. Social advocate Glenn Hilke, who operates The Loop, told KTW socio-economic issues are to blame for crime in the city and shouldn’t be laid at the feet of social agencies that are trying to help.
“The vandalism, the petty theft and crime, is all connected to the socio-economic situation that we’re living here in Kamloops,” Hilke said, noting The Loop is the only space on the North Shore for those experiencing homelessness and mental-health issues to congregate and receive assistance, such as meals.
“Just because they come to us for service, it doesn’t mean they’re breaking windows,” Hilke said. “Unless there’s some evidence, we’re not the scapegoat for what’s wrong in our city.” Hilke also clarified that The Loop has never ceased operations and has continued offering services to visitors since last summer, when it complied with
the municipality’s request that it halt its meal service gatherings. In May 2021, the address out of which The Loop operates — 405A Tranquille Rd., at the corner of Tranquille Road and MacKenzie Avenue — was deemed a nuisance property by the City of Kamloops due to numerous incidents involving response from police, paramedics and city workers. Hilke said The Loop’s policy is to ban anyone who commits a crime from accessing its services if there is evidence, such as video, identifying the suspect. Forgie doesn’t have security footage, but said he took video of someone at The Loop in possession of some of his stolen alcohol — a specialty item not available anywhere
else in Kamloops. Forgie gave police the video, but was told little could be done as it’s not clear if that person was also responsible for the break-in “It’s one thing to know these things are happening, but then it’s another thing to see them happening so openly and blatantly and not be able to do anything about it,” Forgie said. He said he feels the main challenge in addressing property crime is how police and the court system handle prolific offenders, arguing those organizations need to be held to a higher standard. “I don’t think that having a mayor that’s going to be fire and brimstone is going to change anything because they don’t get to set RCMP priorities, they don’t get to effect processing times in court,” Forgie said. Calls to representatives of the City of Kamloops’s community service office were not returned by KTW press deadline on Tuesday.
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A former Kamloops youth worker who said police went too far when wrongfully arresting him outside the Twin Rivers Education Centre (TREC) more than a decade ago has been awarded $1.3 million in damages. Michael McLellan won his lawsuit against former Kamloops Mounties Carla Peters and Evan Elgee, the RCMP and the provincial and federal governments. The lawsuit claimed the officers were negligent in using excessive force by jumping on the plaintiff’s back and dropping him while he was being detained on Feb. 11, 2010. In his decision, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Joel Groves said Elgee and Peters arrested McLellan unlawfully and with excessive force. McLellan was working as a youth worker on the day in question when he was arrested while in the parking lot of the Holt Street school with his student client, who had been asked to leave for allegedly having a knife. Court heard Peters and Elgee were the first on scene, having been dispatched to the Brocklehurst school for a report of a teen in possession of a four-inch knife alongside his care worker. The officers drew their guns and ordered McLellan to get on the ground and crawl toward them on his stomach, despite his claim he presented an ID badge. “What I find happened that day is that constables Peters and Elgee, in an overly aggressive manner, in a manner inconsistent with the police use of force training in the IM/IM (incident management/ intervention model) document, unlawfully arrested
and detained Mr. McLellan,” Groves wrote in his decision. Groves said Peters aggressively dropped onto McLellan’s back with her knee when placing him in handcuffs and kneed him the back a second time while searching him. Groves said Elgee was then overly aggressive in getting McClellan to his feet by pulling him off the ground by the handcuffs, then dropping him back to the ground. McLellan sustained wrist, soft tissue and shoulder injuries during the arrest, from which he has recovered, but was left with a permanent back injury for which he continues to need treatment and because of which he is unable to work, court heard. Groves found the actions by police consistent with the injuries inflicted. McLellan said he also suffered psychological injuries due to the way he was treated by police. “Even if Mr. McLellan was lawfully detained, that physical act of damage, intentional or otherwise, was negligent, in my view,” Groves wrote. Peters and Elgee maintained they were acting within their authority and had reasonable grounds to make the arrest, due to safety and investigative purposes. Groves found, however, that despite their belief, there was no objective basis to believe there was a risk to officer or public safety as they outnumbered the youth worker and his client with their fellow officers upon approach, had more firepower with their guns drawn and were a considerable distance from the two individuals, who were also between 50 and 100 feet away from the school. “In my view, these police officers did not have a reasonable suspicion that their safety, or the safety of the public, was at stake when
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they detained the plaintiff because they easily could have determined that he was not [the student] by simply listening or asking,” Groves wrote. He added that the officers had a co-operative person before them and simply asking who he was “should have been the end of the matter.” “It is simply not the law that police officers can choose to detain or arrest everyone at every scene and ‘sort it out later’ as is suggested in the evidence constable Elgee verbalized to the plaintiff,” Groves wrote. The judge awarded McLellan a total of $1,303,448.96 — $650,000 for loss of future earnings, more than $332,105 for past lost wages, nearly $170,000 for non-pecuniary damages, $95,223.96 in special damages, and $56,120 for the cost of future care. Elgee and Peters, as well as the Crown were dismissed as defendants, and the remaining defendant — the provincial Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, as it was the employer of the two officers — was ordered to pay the plaintiff. McLellan’s lawsuit, which sought about $2 million in damages, wrapped up in May 2021, with a written decision from Groves issued last week. Elgee, and Const. Stephen Zaharia, who was also present during the arrest and testified at the trial, were both charged in 2010 in connection with an incident in which multiple officers at the Kamloops RCMP’s Battle Street detachment watched two female prisoners engaged in sex acts in a jail cell. The charges against them were eventually stayed. Elgee is now an RCMP officer in New Brunswick, while Peters retired from the RCMP in 2017.
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NOTICE OF DISPOSITION Pursuant to Sections 26(3) and 94 of the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, Ch. 26, the City of Kamloops (the “City”) is disposing of 2,097.80 m2 of surplus road bordered by the 400 block of Nicola Street and Battle Street, legally described as: Road to be closed shown on Bylaw Plan EPP118189, dedicated on Plans 120 and 194, all in DL 232, KDYD (the “Property”). The City is transferring fee simple title of the Property to Kelson Investments Ltd. and City Gardens Management Ltd., to be consolidated with their properties within the 400 block of Nicola Street and Battle Street, for consideration in the amount of $1,580,000.00. For more information, please contact David W. Freeman, RI(BC), Assistant Development, Engineering, and Sustainability Director/Real Estate Manager, at 250-828-3548.
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ver studied for a test after taking it? Of course not — it’s way too late. Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening when it comes to freedom of information in B.C. Last fall, the provincial government passed Bill 22, amending the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and allowing the government to start charging a fee for FOI requests. This month, the B.C. Legislative Assembly of the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act was holding hearings, as they are required to do by law every five years. With the amendment just passed, this committee was basically asked to study whether the barn door should be opened months after the horse had already busted right through it. The group that represents this newspaper and more than 90 other ones like it across the province — the BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association — was asked to present to that committee. Here’s a version of what we told them: Our members have a combined print circulation of 1.5-million copies and adult readership of almost two-million British Columbians every single week. Online, they draw more than 11-million unique visitors and more than 33-million page views to their websites every month. These media outlets deliver more than the news. The information we deliver, in print and online,
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provides readers with a sense of connection, of identity and of belonging to their community. Between us, our members probably deal with more of the 2,900 organizations covered by the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act than any other organization, from provincial ministries and Crown corporations to municipal governments, regional districts, health authorities, universities and school districts. In the vast majority of cases, our members are the only media covering those institutions in the communities they serve. Freedom of Information requests are a critical tool for our members, who collectively file hundreds of requests per year for coverage that provides accountability for local institutions to our readers. It isn’t easy work for community newsmedia reporters, who don’t have single beats to cover or the luxury of spending weeks or even days on investigative work. Instead, stories like those come
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together in hundreds of stolen moments, pieces of downtime between attending council meetings, racing to take pictures or video at the local high school, covering minor hockey, laying out pages, editing copy and posting stories to websites and social media channels. It becomes even more difficult when the FOI requests required to do that work become more challenging to file, more expensive and less productive. With regard to fees, it goes almost without saying that in an era where traditional news media outlets, funded primarily by local advertising revenue, are competing not against other local media outlets, but against global giants like Facebook and Google, for advertising, any increase to costs is a damper on our ability to maintain the FOI requests we do make, let alone to make more. But since the legislation is changed and those fees are in place, we’d like to focus on some other aspects of FOI. Our members’ experience has been that information — even rel-
atively innocuous information like statistics from which it would not be possible to extrapolate anyone’s personal details — has been tightly controlled and guarded, particularly when it comes to attempting to gather information about the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years. Our members find the complete government control of information and the narrative around the pandemic to be concerning. Without raw facts, we have no way of knowing what we’re being told is the truth on issues of huge public importance. Once in a while, a medical health officer will let slip a piece of information during an interview that is actually useful. But most requests funneled through media contacts simply fall into the abyss. It seems as if many people at such high levels are required to vet even the most basic request, and very little gets given out as a result, usually based on a directive from the provincial health officer not to provide anyone’s “personal information.” Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy naturally
go hand in hand; like freedom of expression or public health restrictions, they must seek a perpetual balance. But what we are seeing is that protection of privacy is increasingly used as an excuse to curtail freedom of information, even when that balance is not at risk, and that cannot stand. We think that public information should be deemed to be public by default unless there is a compelling and truly privacy-based reason for it to be withheld. I think Murray Rankin, a true champion of FOI in Canada and one of the fathers of B.C.’s Freedom of Information Act, said it best when he was a federal member of Parliament in 2017, speaking about changes to the federal Access to Information Act: “Information delayed is information denied.” We’d love to hear what he thinks about what has become of FOI in B.C. today, but he has been a little tough to get a hold of on the subject. He is, of course, busy these days as a cabinet minister in the provincial government that just imposed that new FOI charge. If he weren’t bound by cabinet confidentiality, perhaps he might be leading the crusade to make sure freedom of information stays truly free. We need to retake that test. Tim Shoults is vice-president of the BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association and operations manager of Aberdeen Publishing. He is based in Kamloops.
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B.C. SHOULD RESCIND FIRINGS intelligent and vitally important workers have they destroyed with this closed-minded and arrogant insistence on holding the line on mandatory vaccinations when it was long ago established that this over-weighted dependence on vaccinations is no longer considered solid science? And how much damage has been done to our hospitals, many of which are at crisis levels on staffing? In a recent article in the Globe and Mail, it was reported that top Vancouver Coastal Health officials in February advised UBC that vaccine mandates “could do more harm than good” and that “there is now no material difference in likelihood that a UBC student or staff member who is vaccinated or unvaccinated may be infected and potentially infectious to others.” In a Feb. 16 letter from Vancouver Coastal Health chief medical health officer Patricia Daly to UBC president Santa Ono, Daly urged the university to drop its plan to deregister students who have refused to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status.
A TRIP HOME THANKS TO KTW ARTICLE Editor: I want to say thank you for sharing Ray Chatelin’s Travel Writers Tales article in the Feb. 16 edition of KTW (‘Getting educated in the heart of Germany’). Franconia is the region I am from originally. I grew up close to Würzburg and have been
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This was before the firings, so how could government proceed with the harmful firing of health workers in light of this clearly known information? It is unconscionable, almost criminal in my view. If anyone is to be fired, it would rightfully be Henry. The legacies of Horgan and Henry as good leaders are at risk and I suggest that if these unnecessary and harmful firings are not immediately reversed, this will come to be seen as a very dark and tragic chapter in British Columbia history. This is the kind of thing the convoy protestors are up in arms about. The premier has it within his grasp to do the right thing for health-care workers and the health-care system, while at the same time removing a sore point for many thousands of decent people harbouring quite justifiable anger over the unnecessary and harmful vaccine mandate protocols that have been so ruthlessly imposed. John McNamer Kamloops
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Editor: I used to have a lot of respect for Premier John Horgan and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, but it has rapidly disintegrated with Horgan’s handling of certain COVID-19 vaccination mandates and recently with his juvenile scorn for convoy protestors who were planning on arriving in Victoria. Horgan seemed to have learned nothing from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s misguided and counterproductive taunting of convoy protestors, which only served to produce more anger and determination on their part and a drop in Trudeau’s support from voters across Canada. I have faithfully adhered to all of Henry’s public health protocols, there many times. including receiving three vaccinaI haven’t been able to go tions, but the shamefully stupid back in a few years, so this firing of at least 2,452 employees article and the photo of the (895 in Interior Health) due to Marienburg (above) made me non-compliance with the provinvery happy. cial health officer’s order on manThank you. datory vaccinations has turned me against Henry’s work and against Charlotte Lieuwen this NDP government. Kamloops How many lives of good and
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Picket lines come down Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters union have agreed to go to binding arbitration on a new contract. As a result, the picket lines at two locations in downtown Kamloops and across the country came down at noon on Tuesday. About 3,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, train and yard workers across the country were locked out by the company on Sunday after CP and the union failed to reach an agreement. Among the issues at hand are wages and benefits. When the lockout was enacted on Sunday, there was concern from various sectors about more problems with the supply chain, already impacted by the pandemic, natural disasters and the war in Ukraine. In a statement, federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan said the agreement by both sides to go to binding arbitration “is further evidence that when employers and unions work together, we get the best results for Canadians and our economy.”
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Downtown residents are questioning the train whistlecessation process and want the city to look at alternative funding sources. During upcoming budget talks, council will consider a $1.2-million-plus taxation request to eliminate a highpitched train whistle that has increased in frequency downtown due to coal train traffic. Klare Radloff is one resident negatively impacted by the noise downtown. She said a previous whistle-cessation process was included in the Tournament Capital Ranch sports facility in Rayleigh. Unlike the downtown proposal, no supplemental budget process was required. Instead, Radloff said, a half-million dollars in rail upgrades were included in the TCR budget. “They approved a process
for a sports complex,” Radloff said. She and partner Fred Baxter described the difference as unfair. Baxter also questioned why taxes need to increase for whistle cessation downtown. The city is already looking at a five per cent property tax increase this year. If approved as proposed, the whistle cessation request would add on another one per cent. Baxter suggested the city instead use funding from the sale of an alleyway to Kelson Group for the City Gardens project. The city sold a portion of the 400-block of Nicola Street and an adjacent alleyway for $1.2 million. Baxter said the train whistle can be heard from Royal Inland Hospital and will impact City Gardens residents. Other ideas included gambling, reserve or grant funds. Baxter said the cost appears to be the sticking point and he wants the city to get creative. He said the issue is not
simply a nuisance, but a health concern as it impacts the sleep of residents. In addition, Baxter noted the city has plans, through KamPlan, for more residents in the downtown waterfront area. The city’s transportation engineer, Purvez Irani, said rail crossing upgrades at the Tournament Capital Ranch were not a direct result of a whistle- cessation request. Irani said the upgrades were a requirement for the city to develop the Tournament Capital Ranch. The upgrades did, however, lead to whistle cessation, which was approved by council at an Oct. 23, 2018, meeting. Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian said he has met with Radloff and Baxter and, as a result of that meeting, requested a meeting with a representative of CN Rail. That meeting has not yet occurred. KTW has reached out to CN Rail for comment. Christian said he wants to
walk with CN through the area to better understand some aspects of whistle cessation and existing rail crossings. He said he is concerned the real issue is with coal trains, as he has also heard of complaints about vibrations and traffic increasingly snarled by trains. Christian questioned why the city is having to look at funding the upgrade. He said the city did not do anything to change the shipping requirements on the crossing. “That crossing was just a seldom-used crossing that was only for shunting between the two rail lines until the coal deal changed,” he said. “And, so, we are the party to the coal deal changing, so then why then are we looking at $1.2 million for an upgrade. Why is that not the responsibility of the railroad? And their answer thus far has been, unless they’re actually making physical changes to the track, you’re going to have to deal with it yourself.”
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An update on An update on helping refugees helping refugees For those looking for more information on helping Ukrainian refugees come to Canada, Kamloops Immigration Services (KIS) advises that the tourist visa is the fastest one to apply for to come to Canada as it is listed under emergency travel. People can also contact KIS at 778-470-6101. As announced on March 3, Ukrainians who want to come to Canada temporarily can access a Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel, with no limit on the number of people who can apply, with extension for a two-year stay. Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada has a dedicated phone number for Ukraine enquiries, at 613-321-4243, with collect calls accepted.
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These are the people you might pass on the street Kamloops has a large population of people experiencing homelessness. Many people in the community have compassion for those in need, but Karina Laitres said there is still a lack of knowledge or understanding amongst most Canadians of what it really means to be homeless. She said research shows there is a disproportionate amount of stigma and discrimination of those who are homeless, which is proven to negatively effect these individuals greatly. Laitres is a psychiatric nurse in Kamloops extending
her knowledge and skills in her field through MacEwan University in Edmonton. She chose to focus on the stigma of homelessness as her project topic and scholarly report for her final course. Laitres said she chose this topic specifically due to the imminent need of education she is seeing in the community. She said the conversations she was having and hearing surrounding the homeless population in Kamloops contained clear evidence of damaging stigma and unawareness. Kamloops This Week partnered with Laitres and
MacEwan University to create a series of stories and information on homelessness and people who are homeless, to share with readers. “Individuals have generously shared their stories and experiences in hopes of giving them all a voice, of bringing awareness and humanizing this population,” Laitres said. A total of 10 profiles will run in successive editions of KTW in March and can also be found online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
MEET MICHAEL AGE: 67 INTERESTING FACT: Last year, a GoFundMe campaign was created by Kamloops resident Melissa Constantine, raising enough money to temporarily house Michael after he tested positive for COVID-19. Michael, who is well known on the streets, has lived in Kamloops for about 14 years. He is known to spend most of his time downtown and a quick Google search will reveal multiple news articles published over the years detailing his positive attitude. Michael, with his infectious smile, says he really likes living in Kamloops, noting it’s the people who make a place likeable. Michael offers kind advice and a helping hand wherever he can. “Kindness is free” he says. “Love is here. We just choose whether or not to see it or to be a part of it.” WORDS OF WISDOM FROM MICHAEL: “It is important to live and speak with consciousness. Realize that each interaction could be the last, so make sure that you leave encouraging and positive remarks. “We are all human.” WHAT CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY? “We can be the start of anything. Just like a river, it starts with a single drop. The solution is not difficult. Change doesn’t need to be hard. Just live with kindness and love.” FACTS: • More than 235,000 people in Canada experience homelessness in any given year. — Stephenson et al., 2021. • Those experiencing homelessness disproportionately suffer from stigma and discrimination which contributes to adverse health, economic, and social effects. — Mejia-Lancheros et al., 2021
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MEET JASON AGE: 26 INTERESTING FACT: Jason aspires to go to university in the future, with hopes of establishing a career in psychology. Jason is a well-spoken, charismatic young man. He has lived in Kamloops all his life and, at just 26 years of age, he already has many life lessons to share with others. From as early as he can remember, Jason says he has struggled with severe anxiety. He says he didn’t feel as if he fit in anywhere growing up and his anxiety made socializing extremely difficult. As a youth, he discovered a type of relaxation, a feeling of normality when trying substances such as marijuana and alcohol. In what he now calls “self-medicating,” Jason began using ecstasy, cocaine and Xanax, in addition to alcohol and marijuana by the age of 14. Furthermore, Jason discovered he no longer needed to try to make friends or fit in if he was selling the substances. People would come to him on their own and want to be his friend. Since he was 13, Jason has been selling drugs. He says his addictions intensified and his choices began to take a major toll, straining his family relationships and diminishing his mental and physical health. When he became addicted to crack cocaine, he says the decline became more rapid as the addiction completely took over his life. Jason says he attempted suicide twice, overdosed and went through intense psychosis. His family eventually convinced him to enter a seven-day detox program. “A vacation from the addiction” is what he called it.
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Jason says the detox program succeeded in stopping the drug use for those seven days, but “doesn’t solve the root problem.” His continued addiction to crack eventually cost him more money than what he was able to make. Having pushed his family away and strained many other relationships, Jason says he found himself broke, unhappy and living in his car. He says he managed to survive that way for eight months. This past Christmas Day, Jason’s car also had enough. It broke down and left him in the cold December weather without a place to be. Cue the kind-hearted people of Kamloops and available
resources in times of need. Jason says he was assisted in finding a shelter space and, due to his overwhelming anxiety while in the process of recovery, has also been supported with finding quiet spaces at times, away from others. While Jason is staying in shelters and working on the often long and difficult process of recovery and sobriety, he says he decided he would lend a hand to those who have helped him recently. That is why you can now find Jason volunteering at The Loop, the drop-in centre in North Kamloops run by social advocate Glenn Hilke and others. The irony is not lost on him. “I used to be the drug dealer
who was making money off people, driving around taking their money and supplying them with drugs, getting rich off it,” he says. “Now I am homeless like everyone else. I’m homeless now like everyone else and instead of handing out drugs, I’m handing out food, sometimes to drug users, and I’m not even getting paid.” WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW? Jason plans to soon get a job so he can rent a small, one-bedroom apartment. He says that if he had that, a type of sanctuary for himself, he feels his whole life would again be changed. “That’s the case with almost everybody,” Jason says. “How
the hell are you supposed to get off a drug, how are you supposed to get clean, if you don’t even have somewhere to go to the bathroom or shower? I don’t blame anyone for not being able to get out of this position.” FACTS • Sixty-four per cent of respondents in Kamloops’ 2021 Point in Time Count of the city’s homeless population identified as having a mental-health challenge. • In 2020, 609 people in B.C. died by suicide. In the first two months of 2021, there were already another 98 such deaths. — BC Coroners Service suicide data knowledge update to Feb. 28, 2021.
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Year-round wildfire service after 2022 season MICHAEL POTESTIO
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The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is having its budget topped up to become a year-long department, but that change won’t be in full effect until after the 2022 wildfire season. Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon reminded the public about the increased funding — originally announced in the February provincial budget — to support yearround wildfire services during a press conference on March 18 at the Kamloops Fire Centre at the Kamloops Airport. Under the 2022 provincial budget, the BCWS will receive $145 million over three years, to be used in part to move the wildfire service from its current model of reacting to fires to one that involves more planning and prevention. Another $98 million over three years will help fund the maintenance of forest service roads and prevention work, while more than
$26 million is flagged for upgrading the agency’s facilities. Kahlon said the BCWS is now taking time to plan and determine staffing levels in building out its full-time department. The new funding will help ensure the BCWS has the people to not only deal with wildfires, but also to prepare communities to mitigate fire risk with fuel management, Kahlon said. “I know from the conversations I’ve had with people who were in Kamloops, that the experience from the fires last year is still front and centre people’s minds and a lot of them are thinking what’s next,” Kahlon said. But the process of establishing a full-time, year-round service with the new funds is expected to take until well after fire season, which begins on April 1 in B.C., and usually sees its busiest months in July and August. “In terms of the $145 million and the full-time service, we’re looking to have that ready to roll out come September, which is
historically when some of auxiliary workforce would be departing,” BCWS director of provincial operations Cliff Chapman told KTW. “We would be looking at that permanency to allow that not to happen at the end of 2022,” Chapman said there will still be a “slight increase” in 2022 of between 50 and 100 personnel in the number of firefighters compared to last year’s full complement. The BCWS already has a permanent staff upwards of 400 people and adds approximately 1,000 auxiliary and support staff during the eight-month fire season. Asked how many more staff will be added to the new full-time department, Chapman said he couldn’t yet provide a number as there is still work to be done, but he noted the BCWS is looking to make a “fairly sizeable increase to our full-time complement.” “We’re in the planning phase,” Chapman said. “We want to make sure we get this right. We look at it from the entire province perspec-
tive — where are the resources needed, where can we house the resources with our facilities and our assets?” Asked what proportion of new staffing will be operational boots on the ground employees versus administrative, Kahlon said it’s his understanding “a lot of the new staff will be boots on the ground.” “Everyone’s job is critically important,” he said. “And I know that now that the resources are here, the leadership here is going to do that work in identifying where those resources need to be.” Chapman said the increase in resources for the BCWS needs to go beyond preparedness and response, noting new hires will be used to assist in risk-reduction work critical to reducing the impacts of flooding and wildfires seen in three of the last five years. Capacity in the BCWS fire prevention program is also being increased to focus on Crown land, while partnering with others, such as the forestry industry and the BC Cattlemen’s Association.
“We need to start in people’s backyards, then it goes to the neighbourhood, then it’s the wildland/urban interface, which is Crown land adjacent to communities, and then all the way out into the forest lands,” Chapman said. Chapman said the agency is considering who does and doesn’t want to work full-time for the service as a factor in building the permanent department over the next few months. B.C. was razed by wildfires last summer, with Kamloops at the epicentre as the largest blazes erupted in rural areas near the city. The wildfire season followed particularly devastating fire seasons in 2017 and 2018, which led to provincial reports and promises of action. The province’s budget for wildfire suppression was $136 million last year and by July 2021, fighting fires had already gone $60 million over that budget. The 10-year annual average for spending is $265.3 million, according to provincial statistics.
What is Emotional Investing? According to the World Economics Forum in 2019, every day on average there are: • 306 billion emails • 500 million tweets • 3.5 billion Google searches We would venture to say those numbers have increased during the COVID-19 crisis and current world events. The news can be overwhelming and some days flat out disheartening. Trying to make sense of so much information can impact our ability to make rational decisions under emotional duress. TD Wealth has a 'behavioural finance discovery tool' that assists investors to identify, learn and help avoid their unique blind spots. The goal is to make better financial decisions. Here are some common financial blind spots: 1) Confirmation Bias Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's
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Caputo calls Liberal-NDP deal a power grab MICHAEL POTESTIO
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be able to govern until 2025 without the fear his minority government will fall after making an expensive deal with the NDP that includes new dental-care and pharmacare programs. The deal does not make the NDP part of the government with cabinet positions, but guarantees the party’s support on budgets and other confidence measures through 2025. Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP (Conservative) Frank Caputo
said he was caught off guard by the pact. Caputo said he feels the deal is a power grab by Trudeau, who formed a minority government in the September 2021 federal election. “He did the next best thing by forming a coalition with the NDP and now he’s trying to pretend it isn’t a coalition,” Caputo said. “The NDP is essentially agreeing to prop up the government, no matter what, for the next number of years.” Caputo said he wants to see the full details of the agreement between the two political parties. “I feel that Canadians have a
right to see the content of that agreement because the vulnerability of a minority government disappears,” he said. The agreement between the parties is not a formal coalition government, as such an arrangement would see members of the NDP included on cabinet. The Liberal-NDP deal is identical to the supply-and-confidence union agreed to in B.C. by the NDP and Greens following the 2017 election. Caputo said he is not sure if the Liberal-NDP agreement can last, noting similar deals in he past have gone by the wayside. He said the pact is a sign the government will be able to spend
more than it already has without the danger of a looming election, which he said is ordinarily the check and balance of a minority government. Caputo said the deal will not change how he does his job as an opposition MP. “I’m going to be attempting to hold the government to account in the exact same way, asking the same questions and my work as a shadow minister [for Veterans Affairs] won’t change one bit,” he said. In exchange for the NDP’s support, the Liberals have agreed to a new dental-care program for families who make less than $90,000
per year, starting with children later this year. The Liberals will also make steps on pharmacare and take steps to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. The government will also change election legislation to provide for three days of voting in the next campaign. Both parties posted the details of the arrangement online and it includes specific timelines for several priorities. Trudeau promised neither program in his 2021 platform, but insisted this doesn’t mean his party, which has yet to deliver a balanced budget, will spend with abandon. — with a file from the Vancouver Sun
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 12, 2022, Kamloops City Council will consider adopting Bylaw No. 18-406, a bylaw to authorize the closure of road and removal of dedication as a highway shown as being a part of road dedicated by Plan 11199, Sec 17, Tp 21, Rge 17, W6M, Kamloops Division Yale District, as shown outlined in black bold on the following plan:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on March 29, 2022, Kamloops City Council will consider adopting Bylaw No. 18-403, a bylaw to authorize the closure of road and removal of dedication as a highway shown as being a part of road dedicated by Plans 9329 and 9570, all in Sec 36, Tp 20, Rge 18, W6M, KDYD, as shown outlined in black bold on the following plan:
Inquiries may also be directed to realestate@kamloops.ca or by calling 250-828-3548. All persons who wish to register an opinion on the proposed closure may do so by: • appearing before City Council on April 12, 2022, at 1:30 pm, in-person at City Hall (7 Victoria Street West); or • written submission: - emailed to legislate@kamloops.ca - mailed or hand-delivered to Legislative Services, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1A2
The bylaw is available for viewing on the City’s website at this link: Kamloops.CivicWeb.net/ document/144645 Inquiries may also be directed to realestate@kamloops.ca or by calling 250-828-3548. All persons who wish to register an opinion on the proposed closure may do so by: • appearing before City Council on March 29, 2022, at 1:30 pm, in-person at City Hall (7 Victoria Street West); or • written submission: - emailed to legislate@kamloops.ca - mailed or hand-delivered to Legislative Services, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1A2
Please note that written submissions must be received by the Legislative Services Division no later than April 8, 2022, at 12:00 pm. Written submissions, including your name and address, are included in the Council Agenda, and will be posted on the City’s website as part of the permanent public record. Please note that the City considers the author’s address relevant to Council’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information in accordance with Sections 26 and 33.1 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (BC).
Please note that written submissions must be received by the Legislative Services Division no later than March 25, 2022, at 12:00 pm. Written submissions, including your name and address, are included in the Council Agenda, and will be posted on the City’s website as part of the permanent public record. Please note that the City considers the author’s address relevant to Council’s consideration of this matter and will disclose this personal information in accordance with Sections 26 and 33.1 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (BC).
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Experimental City tackles climate change issues Sidewalks in Kamloops buckled during a record-breaking heat wave last summer. Kamloops set a temperature record on June 29, 2021, when the mercury hit 47. 3 C. DAVE EAGLES/KTW FILE
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A research partnership between the City of Kamloops and Thompson Rivers University has expanded into the classroom. This semester, researcherin-residence Cheryl Gladu launched a new masters of business administration course being taught out of the Exchange Lab in North Kamloops called The Experimental City. It began in January and runs through April. Twenty-three students are working to tackle initiatives related to the city’s Community Climate Action Plan. Gladu told KTW the new class was an unexpected opportunity. “I was asked to create a designthinking class for the MBAs and I asked if we could do it with the city in mind as the client,” Gladu said. Gladu said the students are immersed in the community for the class and are organized
into groups, which are working on problems or questions that came out of the city’s Community Climate Action Plan. “They’re particularly interested in trying to address some of the unknowns that the city is facing in the implementation of this plan,” Gladu said. “In the ‘big moves’ that they’ve [city] outlined, there’s some options in there, so the students are doing some research and thinking about the climate change implementation as kind of a problem and how to address that in
the community in Kamloops.” Gladu said the work done by students will hopefully inform policy at city hall. “We’ll see what they end up delivering, but that’s the idea,” she said. The researcher-in-residence program is relatively new, having launched about a year ago. Per year, the city funds $100,000 of the $495,000 pilot program. Mitacs, a non-profit that fosters innovation, is also contributing funding. On March 15, council received an update about the program.
The city’s external relations manager, Tammy Robertson, told council seven researcher-inresidence projects were started or completed last year, in the program’s first year. Five faculty members and 10 students took part. Robertson told KTW that while the researcher-in-residence program might suggest one researcher, it has really been a team, one that has grown to include a class. Some topics of research as part of the partnership have included social, supportive and rental housing mapping, missing middle housing solutions, parks infrastructure, climate action and more. “While you may not have seen the work of Dr. Gladu at the podium, her work was very much in presentations to you
through other city colleagues,” Robertson told council. Furthermore, Robertson said the researcher-in-residence program has garnered national attention, with requests to speak at conferences and with cities considering similar initiatives. She said it has also received an award, which will be revealed later this year. Gladu said she doesn’t yet know whether the class will continue beyond April of this year. “We’re going to look at it,” Gladu said. “We’re going to see how it was at the end of the day and see what we can learn from doing this as an experiment. “That’s partly why I called it The Experimental City because we’re just trying to learn as we’re going. I’ve taught similar classes in the past, so I’m basically building off of my past experience teaching designed thinking, but sort of orienting it towards a particular interest with the climate change action plan and the city.”
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Kelson Group owner Ron Fawcett at the City Gardens site in downtown Kamloops. MICHAEL POTESTIO/LJI/KTW
CITY GARDENS OFFICIALLY BREAKS GROUND
The largest housing development in the history of the city is a $200-million project in downtown Kamloops, encompassing two high-rises and four six-storey buildings MICHAEL POTESTIO
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The largest housing project in the history of Kamloops is officially underway downtown. On Wednesday (March 16), Kelson Group broke ground on its $200-million, multi-phased City Gardens development in the 400block of Nicola Street, with local dignitaries, staff and members of the public in attendance for the event, which included a land blessing from an Indigenous elder. Speaking at the worksite — which covers an entire city block bordered by Nicola and Battle streets and Fourth and Fifth avenues — Mayor Ken Christian noted the project will add to the needed housing supply in Kamloops. Kamloops North-Thompson MLA Peter Milobar said the project will provide the housing density Kamloopsians have been waiting decade for and should spur other developers to follow suit. “It really will transform in terms of spurring on those other developments that we all know people have been thinking about doing, but haven’t had the courage, and it takes a project like this to demonstrate that courage and confidence in the Kamloops economy to move things forward,” Milobar said.
Demolition crews have been on site for weeks, hollowing out the block by knocking down older houses that called the area home, though at least two were able to be salvaged and relocated. There are still a few homes set for demolition on Battle Street and one that will potentially be relocated to Barnhartvale. City Gardens will consist of two high-rise buildings (at 24 and 20 storeys in height) and four sixstorey buildings, along with two underground parking structures with more than 800 spaces. Kelson Group is starting with a 600-stall parkade that will be three storeys deep on the north side of Nicola Street and take up the entire 2022 construction season to complete. “That’s the first part of construction, is to build most of the parkade and, within a year, we’ll start on the first tower,” company president Jason Fawcett told KTW. By this time next year, Fawcett anticipates having the parkade complete and have the first few floors of the tower above constructed. Pre-sales of homes won’t begin until May and Fawcett said there has been plenty of interest from potential buyers. The show suite on Fourth Avenue is expected to open for viewings in mid-April. There will be a mix of units, from studios to one- and two bed-
rooms, and larger — 1,500 squarefoot units, with prices beginning in the $300,000 range for the smaller units. The largest unites are expected to set record prices for condominiums in Kamloops, Fawcett said. He said the mix of people interested ranges from investors looking to rent out an apartment to first-time home buyers and seniors looking to downsize to a major walkable area. “It’s going to be a varied group, we believe,” Fawcett said. The 24-storey tower will take “a few years” to build, he said, adding that, depending on demand, once that building is partially finished, Kelson Group may start work on one of the other five structures. “There’s going to be people living in the buildings as we finish them” Fawcett said. “It’s going to be a pretty busy construction site.” He said Kelson Group still want to proceed with the project despite supply chain issues throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and surging gas prices amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Yes, there may be a few delays or a few challenges, but we’re still optimistic about the future in Kamloops,” Fawcett said. In all, the project will add 525 housing units (about 200 of which
will be rentals) to Kamloops over a projected buildout of eight years, through 2030, according to Fawcett. The site’s outdoor space will contain playground equip-
ment and a dog park among green space and pedestrian walkways, while the parkade will include space for bicycle parking, scooter parking and electric charging stations.
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Man charged with stabbing woman KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK
A man accused of stabbing a woman at a notorious Kamloops motel has been charged. Lewis Gabriel August, 39, of Kamloops, is charged with
aggravated assault in connection with the March 15 attack. A woman was sent to Royal Inland Hospital following the afternoon stabbing at Canada’s Best Value Inn & Suites (formerly known as the Acadian Inn) at
Woman stabbing suspect arrested
1390 Columbia St. east of downtown. Police said the call was about a man armed with a large knife. As officers responded, they were told a person had been stabbed. officers arrived to find
a woman with serious stab wounds and they began administering first-aid. A man was arrested soon after. August remains in custody, with his next court date sched-
pub last weekend that led to three people being stabbed. On March 12, at at 12:20 a.m., police were called to the Rockin’ Firkin Pub on
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A woman has been arrested in connection with a fight outside a North Kamloops
uled for March 21. Canada’s Best Value Inn & Suites has been deemed a nuisance property by the city and has been the subject of numerous police calls, with more than 200 logged in 2021.
Sydney Avenue in North Kamloops after a fight inside the pub moved outside. Outside, police say there were told a woman stabbed another woman, her male companion and a bystander who tried to break up the melee. Police say all three were treated for their injuries at Royal Inland Hospital. The attacker left with a man in a white pickup truck. On March 14, Kamloops Mounties issued an appeal for information, an appeal that included photos of the suspect and the truck in which she left the scene. Since then, both the stabbing suspect and the man she was with have been identified and Const. Crystal Evelyn said the woman was arrested and released with conditions, pending charges being approved.
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City’s total property value at $24 billion ACCORDING TO BC ASSESSMENT, THERE ARE NOW 38,039 PROPERTIES IN KAMLOOPS JESSICA WALLACE
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BC Assessment has recorded a 1.3 per cent increase in the number of properties in Kamloops, for a total of 38,039 properties. BC Assessment Thompson-Okanagan acting assessor Tracy Shymko said the city’s properties are valued at a total of almost $24 billion, a 25 per cent increase over the previous year’s assessment roll. The value of singlefamily homes went up, on average, 26.4 per cent and residential strata values increased, on average, by 18.4 per cent, for a residential class overall total of 24.2 per cent. Light industry value went up, on average, 15.3 per cent and commercial property value rose, on average, 12.8 per cent. Shymko said sales of commercial properties were more than expected. “Through 2021, we actually saw more sales activity
on the commercial market than we would have typically expected, given the climate,” she said, noting stability. Shymko said BC Assessment is watching vacancies, particularly second-floor office space. The city has a fairly low assessment appeal rate, at 0.79 per cent in 2021. Shymko said BC Assessment is looking at a 0.1 per cent appeal rate in 2022, with 876 property owners appealing their assessments. “Not a huge appeal level,” Shymko told council during her presentation last week. In 2021, the appeal rate was 1.06 for the province. In January, BC Assessment reported an average 27 per cent spike in assessed value for singlefamily homes — about quadruple that of last year (six per cent in 2021) and the year before that (seven per cent in 2020). Assessments reflect
market value as of July 1 the year prior, meaning 2022 values were determined based on last summer’s real estate market. Generally speaking, the amount of a homeowner’s tax hike is based on where their property’s assessed value increase sits relative to the average increase in assessment, plus whatever property tax hike is coming from the City of Kamloops. Based on preliminary budget discussions, the proposed tax hike in 2022 is just shy of five per cent. In general, if assessments increase overall, the mill (tax) rate will decrease. For example if a property assessment increase is the same or less than the city’s average assessment increase, that property owner’s taxes should not significantly increase. However, if that property assessment increase is above the average increase in Kamloops, a more substantial property tax hike could be in store.
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he 2022 Kamloops 55+ Games are encouraging local competitors to participate in the Games by qualifying to be a part of the Kamloops Host Team. The 2022 Canada 55+ Games, coming to Kamloops August 23rd – 26th, will welcome Kamloops residents to join the Games as official competitors. Up to 270 local participants will be eligible to join the designated host team in sanctioned events, while demonstration events, Dragon Boating, Mountain Biking, and Soccer, will run without a registration cap. Duncan Olthuis the Games Manager stated that, “This will be the first Canada 55+ Games where a city is allowed to enter their own host team and we are thrilled that Kamloops will be the place to launch this new initiative! The hope is that this will promote
more locals to get involved and participate. In addition to our demonstration events, we encourage everyone to reach out and try to join in the festivities.” Participants of the Kamloops host team are required to be residents of the greater Kamloops region, including Kamloops, Chase, Tobiano, and Logan Lake, and will need to qualify through the zone 8 official playdowns. For team games, individuals are encouraged to reach out to the local organizations to join and participants interested in individual games are encouraged to contact the Zone 8 BC Games office at zone8info@55plusbcgames.org. “If you aren’t looking to participate as a competitor, we will also be looking for volunteers and other forms of game support. There are tons of ways that the community can get involved!” Olthuis added.
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SCHEDULED TURF MAINTENANCE SEASON Cemetery Bylaw No. 6-27 states all artificial flowers and other tokens of remembrance composed of artificial foliage shall only remain on gravesites from October 1st through to the second Monday in April. We ask family members to remove all items before Monday, April 11, 2022. Items in City-issued flower stands are exempt from this rule. Any items not collected before this date will be placed at the Hillside Cemetery flower storage area and available for pickup no later than April 25 and are not to be placed back on the grave site until after October 1. Commencing Thursday, April 14, 2022, and every Thursday after through to October 1, 2022, flowers placed on gravesites will be removed and placed at the flower storage area for our scheduled turf maintenance. This does not include flowers in City-issued flower stands. It is recommended limiting grave embellishments to fresh cut flowers only during the turf maintenance season and that anyone who wishes to place flowers on graves do so after 3:00 pm Friday of each week. If you have any questions please contact the Hillside Cemetery Office at 250-828-3462. Thank you for your co-operation.
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Two years ago this month, Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian told a group of about 130 people gathered at the Sandman Signature Hotel for Kamloops Chamber of Commerce’s State of the City address: “This may be the last gathering of this size we have in Kamloops for some time.” The mayor — who has a background in public health — was right as the pandemic bore down on the world. After countless waves, variants and public health orders, about 250 people reunited for that same Chamber event on March 17 at Thompson Rivers University. Zoom calls in sweats were normal during the pandemic, but the business community and politicians were back in person on Thursday dressed to the nines, sharing bottles of wine and giving standing ovations. “I believe that we are close, if not over, the worst of it,” said Christian, who is not running again in the fall municipal election. “But it’s not gone. We may have forgotten about COVID. It’s not forgotten about us.” Christian noted a slow recovery from the pandemic, including rebuilding local airport and transit passenger numbers. He credited the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project for bringing workers to Kamloops to stay in hotels and eat in restaurants. Accelerated technology and employment flexibility were positives from the pandemic, he said, but local businesses
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could use a boost. “What we have to do now is we have to sell an afternoon at Monte Creek wines, followed by dinner at Cordo, followed by a Western Canada Theatre production, followed by an overnight stay at the Plaza Hotel, followed by breakfast at Hello Toast,” Christian said. “We need to do that to people in 100 Mile House, Salmon Arm, Merritt, Kelowna … There’s so much to see here. We need to rebuild that hospitality and tourism sector because they’ve really taken a hit.” This year’s State of the City address also featured Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc Kúkpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, who is preparing to travel to Italy later this month to meet with Pope Francis following the discovery in May 2021 of what may be unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. An expert in ground-penetrating radar said soil shifting indicates about 200 probably graves, but only excavation of the site — which has not yet been done — can confirm if there are human remains there. Casimir said the trip to Rome is the first step in addressing No. 58 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action (“We call upon the Pope to issue an apology to survivors, their families, and communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools.”) Casimir said she will be seeking three commitments from the pope: a trip to Canada to meet residential
school survivors and visit unmarked graves, a meaningful apology to residential school survivors and a mandate for the local Catholic diocese to work with First Nations. Christian called Casimir a “rock star,” noting he received calls from as far away as Italy following the May 2020 announcement by Tk’emlúps, which he said shocked the education, faith and Aboriginal communities. Casimir noted support from the city during that time. Both she and Christian included in their individual addresses photos together at a COVID-19 update and in front of a fire truck. Casimir said they are “in sync” and invited Christian to visit Tyee Ball Park for a game when he is no longer mayor. The little league ball field along Highway 5 on Tk’emlúps land was refurbished in a joint city-band project in 2018. The two governments also have a joint services agreement for fire protection and partner on transit and sewage treatment services. In his address, Christian stressed the importance of continuing on with business of the city in the future: asset management, housing affordability, climate action, sustainable growth, social issues and health. The $417-million patient-care tower at Royal Inland Hospital is scheduled to open on July 18, Valleyview secondary’s $34-million expansion is underway and a permit was recently issued for a new Parkcrest school, which will include investment by the city to create a community neighbourhood facility. That school burned to the ground in September 2019.
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Open mic nights at The Effie have become a weekly occurrence, with local comedians crafting their jokes and newcomers taking to the stage. Organizers are hoping to see the Kamloops comedy scene blossom and, eventually, rival other communities. “A lot of this has been in Kelowna for years and for us to drive two hours to get any stage time is difficult,” said Ernie Ware, open mic organizer and comedian. “Having this right in our back yard is absolutely amazing.” Ware said the late Drew McLean got him involved in the open mic event and, together with Aaron Shufletoski, Kayly Erno and Sam Elliott, creation of the night at The Effie Arts Collective has led to a few more acts who regularly take the stage, among others who perform on occasion. Comedians hit the stage at SPONSORED CONTENT
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8 p.m. every Wednesday at the Effie, at 422 Tranquille Rd. in North Kamloops. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Although some performers are more seasoned than others, Ware said people shouldn’t expect polished jokes — but that’s also part of the appeal. “Once people have been up on stage, we usually see them again. It’s very interesting because it’s very raw, the comedy that exists,” he said. Experienced or not, comedians
of all levels have benefited from the additional stage time — and Ware said the stakes aren’t too high. “We’re so accepting and we’re willing to give tips — we’re all here to develop as comedians, so even if it’s terrible, you’ll feel like you’re in a safe spot,” he said with a laugh. Anyone can go on stage at the Effie, and Ware encouraged those interested to send him an email, at ernie_ware@hotmail.com, or to contact him or Shufletoski through the Effie’s Facebook page.
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“I know it’s scary to jump up on stage for the first time, but, man, it’s a lot of fun and you’ve got to do it,” Ware said. “You have to overcome it to try it out. It’s such a rush.” One repeat performer at the Effie is Todd Sullivan, who has embraced the Effie’s open mic three times. Sullivan said he was led to the stage at the encouragement of Shufletoski and, later, a mishap with a particularly potent edible. “I thought I was having a heart attack. I spent, like, five hours waiting in the hospital. At the end of it, obviously I was fine, but I walked away from that thinking this is a reminder that life is short and we need to challenge ourselves to do these scary things more often,” he said. Like any good comedian, Sullivan immediately harvested the story for his act, opening with it on stage the following day. That’s the sort of thing both Sullivan and Ware suggested people bring up on stage for the first time — something to tell in three to five minutes.
for example, has run marathons in under three hours, whereas I was a four-hour, 45-minute finisher. My husband ran with me when I did my first marathon. He said he was far more sore from running so slow. (He sure knows how to make a woman feel good.) It can also be hard for a slower runner like myself to run faster than I like. The same can be said for new relationships. Open, honest, transparent communication is vital. If each person explains where they are at and that they see a future with someone, maybe it’s possible for the faster runner to slow down a little bit and for the slower runner to sometimes be open to doing a fartlek once in a while. (Google fartlek for an explanation.) A big rule in running is to never, ever start too fast. The longer the distance, the slower you should begin. The reason, of course, is to save energy needed for the end of the race. It may be a cliché, but slow and steady wins the race. If you are happy and single and ready to go at your own pace, contact me by email at holmes@ wheretheheartis.ca. I would love to see you at the finish line of Boogie the Bridge on April 24 — and at the finish line of your relationship when you fall in love, no matter how long they both take.
“A couple stories and that’s really a good set,” Ware said. Ware said sometimes the sets will be great and sometimes they might bomb, but either way, it’s all part of the learning process, noting there are always laughs to be had, either way. HIP HOP AND OPEN MIC The mic isn’t open for just comedy at The Effie. Young hip-hop artists are welcome on stage at Well Versed, an event scheduled for this Friday (March 25). The event, organized by Michael Irish, will provide a welcoming atmosphere for anyone, from firsttimers to those more experienced. The open mic portion of the event will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with headline performances from veterans from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. This week, headliners include Profound, Slum Glutton and Young Flux. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets can be found online through Eventbrite by searching for Well Versed Kamloops.
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A Kamloops man got his ticket to Hollywood as season 20 of American Idol enters its contestant stage. Cameron Whitcomb appeared on Monday’s episode of American Idol, auditioning before judges Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. The audition actually took place in Austin, Tex., in October. Whitcomb’s mom, Christie, said a casting company from Hollywood saw one of her son’s singing videos, which led to him auditioning. The 18-year-old Whitcomb attended high school in Nanaimo, but now lives in Kamloops, where he works on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project as a labourer and at Barnes Harley-Davidson. During his audition on the ABC show, Whitcomb made an impression by doing a backflip before offering a brief rendition of Waylon Jenning’s Rock, Salt and Nails. “You should definitely do that TikTok challenge where they say, ‘Do I sing like I talk?’” Perry said after Whitcomb finished singing. “Because it’s really different. I mean, it’s awesome.” Whitcomb told the trio of judges he has never had vocal lessons, nor has he sang in front of anybody but family. Richie was impressed, opining that Whitcomb “could be really something amazing,” but that he needs
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more time to hone his craft. In the end, Richie voted against sending Whitcomb to Hollywood for the competition, but two “yes” votes from Perry and Bryan meant the Kamloops kid was on his way to L.A. There is always an air of secrecy around what happened to each contestant as the American Idol shows the public sees on TV were taped months ago. The results are a state secret in the television industry and contestants are forbidden from revealing how they fared. Whitcomb and the dozens of others from various audition cities who advanced to the Hollywood Week episodes have finished the competition, but those shows, which were taped in November, will begin airing on ABC on March 28. From that group, 12 finalists will be chosen to take part in the live episodes in April, with the season 20 American Idol winner emerging from that dozen. Beginning next week, Kamloopsians can find out whether Whitcomb made it past Hollywood Week.
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But they’re being left behind. As the cost of living skyrockets, these workers are seeing their pay cheques shrink. This year, almost 400,000 workers across the public sector who provide the services we all depend on will be at the bargaining table. Some of them are already there. They deserve a fair deal. A deal that protects their wages against inflation and supports the strong public services we need to build a stronger B.C. together.
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uniper The Jaguar is a portly cat. “He’s very friendly and a little bit on the wider side,” said 12-yearold Jenna Kansky, the Grade 7 student who designed and created the Juniper Ridge Jaguars’ mascot. “He definitely isn’t exercising as much. He’s just kind of goofy and just likes getting people pumped up. Clap, jump up and down, thumbs up — whatever stuff you can do without the head falling off.” Jenna and the Jaguars, who were starved for sports during the pandemic, returned to the basketball court this year and — with the support of Juniper the Jaguar — won the girls’ tier 1 city elementary school hoops title, besting Lloyd George 26-17 last week in the final. Juniper the Jaguar pumped up the crowd, which in turn fired up the players. “When the other team’s mascot walked in, they were doing a little fake fist-fight thing, eyeing each other up,” Jenna said with a laugh. “That was pretty fun.” Anne Grimm helped coach the Jaguars and was Jenna’s teacher in Grade 6. “She is just incredible,” Grimm said. “It is amazing what she can do.” Jenna, who took up building puppets in 2020 amid the pandemic, overcame fear of teasing and began introducing some of her basement creations in Grimm’s class.
Juniper The Jaguar and the mascot’s creator, Jenna Kansky, met with KTW on Monday outside of Juniper Ridge elementary. Emily Lee of the Jaguars was also at the photo shoot.
“Sometimes, I’m still nervous about what people think,” said Jenna, noting a Camp Puppet course she took online, with teacher Adam Kreutinger, sparked her love for the hobby. “Not a lot of people make puppets. At the beginning, I was a bit more nervous. Now, I’m kind of getting more used to it.
I realize a lot of people think it’s really cool.” Jenna gave KTW a tour of her workshop (Puppet Corner, formerly the basement workout area) on Monday (March 21, World Puppetry Day) and brought to life several of her creations, including Benny The Surfer, Spike, EB the Easter
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Bunny, Mr. and Mrs. Grump and Janet the Baby Dragon. Each of them — Jenna has built more than 50 puppets — has their own personality and voice, including Benny, whose California surfer speak is an endearing characteristic. “I could not do that at all,” said Jenna’s mom, Heather, noting she is thrilled her daughter was not glued to a screen throughout the pandemic. “She spends her own money. I just drive her to the store.” The colourful puppets have fluffy coats, claws of foam, chicken-wire body frames, blinking mechanisms, glowing, googly eyes and hand rods, among myriad other features. “The puppets kind of became part of the class,” said Grimm, who was on the receiving end of a pencil-puppet gift from Jenna. “She would bring them in and all the kids were so incredibly supportive. Like, ‘Wow, you can make these?’”
Several of the puppets hanging on Puppet Corner wall are replicas of family friends — one of whom asked that the puppet deliver the eulogy at his funeral. “It floors me, really,” said Jenna’s dad, Kevin. “She is an amazing talent.” Sports day was approaching last spring at Juniper Ridge elementary and it was pointed out the Jaguars were without a school mascot. “I like just being creative and I like doing crafts,” Jenna said. “I thought this would be a really fun challenge to take on. I know some other schools have mascots and we didn’t have one. I thought it would be cool if we could get one.” Juniper The Jaguar arrived about two weeks later, pieced together with a bit more hotglue-gun work than a typical project. See JAGS, A27
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Kolomaya to take another shot at Brier MARTY HASTINGS STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com
Jared Kolomaya of Kamloops in action earlier this month at the Tim Hortons Brier in Lethbridge.
Jared Kolomaya took a few moments to drink it in, glancing around the Enmax Centre earlier this month in Lethbridge to soak up the atmosphere at the Tim Hortons Brier. The tournament marked the Kamloops resident’s first taste of action at the men’s national curling championship. “It was an amazing experience,” said Kolomaya, who played second for Brent Pierceskipped Team B.C. “The Brier is The Show for a reason. You try not to let those thoughts creep in, but there are a few moments where you look around and you’re in a full stadium, people are cheering and it’s a good feeling.” B.C. fell one victory shy of reaching a tiebreaker, losing 8-7 to the eventual champions, skip Brad Gushue and Wild Card 1, on the last day
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of round-robin action. “We met our expectations,” said Kolomaya, whose team posted a 4-4 record at the tournament. “We had pretty realistic goals going into the Brier. “It was nice to hang with them and have a chance, but he’s [Gushue] the best
for a reason, right?” The team, which at the Brier included Pierce, third Jeff Richard, second Kolomaya, lead Nicholas Meister and alternate Corey Chester, plans to stay together for the 2022-2023 season. “B.C. is kind of wide open
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right now, with [Tyler] Tardi leaving and we’re not sure what Jim’s [Cotter] schedule is going to look like, but I think we have a solid chance of defending our championship,” Kolomaya said. “It’s the goal to get back there [to the Brier].” The rink earned its spot at the 2022 Brier with an 11-end victory over Paul Cseke of Victoria in the B.C. championship final on Jan. 9 at Kamloops Curling Club. Kolomaya and Team Brown lead Samantha Fisher were married last summer. They live a few houses away from Matt Dunstone, the master of ceremonies at their wedding. Dunstone recently presided over another union. The Winnipeg product will compete for his home province of Manitoba next season, along with his new team, which includes B.J. Neufeld of Winnipeg, Colton Lott of Winnipeg Beach and Ryan Harnden of northern Ontario,
according to Sporstnet broadcaster Kevin Martin. Dunstone and his Reginabased rink that includes third Braeden Moskowy, second Kirk Muyres and lead Dustin Kidby opened the Brier earlier this month with six straight victories, but lost three consecutive games, including two to Saskatchewan rival Colton Flasch, and did not qualify for the playoffs. That Dunstone team won bronze at the 2021 Brier and its previous incarnation, which included Catlin Schneider and not Muyres, won bronze at the 2020 Brier and gold at the Masters Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event in October of 2019 in North Bay, Ont. “We are tremendously grateful for our time together and will remain great friends,” Team Dunstone posted on Twitter on Saturday. The team will wrap its tenure together at a Grand Slam event in April in Toronto.
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“I would have sewn if I had more time,” said Jenna, who has a leg up on most of her friends come Halloween season [see her Jack in the Box costume]. “It can get very hot in there, with the thick fur and the sweater. I wore it last summer. We had to put fans inside.” Added Grimm: “We kept it and used it for the basketball games. We went undefeated.” Jenna, friend Emily Lee and the mascot met with KTW outside
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shootout, and have jumped out to a 14-point lead atop the division. Kamloops cocaptain Logan Stankoven opened the scoring at 2:41 of the first period on Saturday, a pretty individual effort on the power play. Connor Levis tallied less than seven minutes later and Minten scored a shorthanded marker to give the home
team a 3-0 lead heading into the first intermission. Minten and Rockets’ standout forward Colton Dach dropped the gloves in the third stanza and Stankoven notched his second goal at 18:57 of the third period. Tempers boiled over and verbal jousting between opposing coaches took place late in the game. Dylan Garand
posted the shutout between the pipes, making 33 saves to earn his 29th victory of the season. Rockets’ goaltender Talyn Boyko stopped 36 shots in a losing effort and foiled Stankoven on a penalty-shot attempt. The teams will toil twice this weekend to wrap their season series — on Friday in Kamloops, a 7 p.m. start at Sandman Centre, and on Saturday in Kelowna. Kamloops is second in Western Conference standings, two points behind the Everett Silvertips (41-103-5).
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Raiders earn split The Kamloops Raiders split a pair of Division 1 B.C. Rugby Union matches with Abbotsford Rugby Club on Saturday at Exhibition Park. Sydnee Chang scored three tries for Kamloops (3-2) in a 69-14 victory over Abbotsford (2-3) in women’s play. Rhese Johnson (2), Aliyah Rodominski (2), Erin Jensen (2), Sara Fast (her first try for the club) and Elizabeth Gotuaco also had tries for the Raiders, who used strong forward play to create room for their backs. Chang booted four conversion kicks and Jess Oldenburger slotted two conversions. Kamloops will play host to Meraloma Rugby Club on Saturday, an 11:15 a.m. kickoff at Exhibition Park. Abbotsford (5-1) bested Kamloops 52-25 in men’s action on Saturday, pulling away late with three longdistance tries. Mitch Day, Wes Black and Greg Thomson scored tries for the Raiders (0-4), who trailed by three points with 12 minutes remaining in the second half. Thomson added two penalty kicks and two conversions. Kamloops will play host to Langley on Saturday, a 12:45 p.m. start at Exhibition Park.
SOBC QUALIFIERS Special Olympics BC [SOBC] Kamloops is playing host to qualifying events for the 2023 SOBC Winter Games, which will be held next February in the Tournament Capital. The 5-pin bowling qualifier will be held on April 3, a 9:30 a.m. start at Falcon Lanes, and the floor hockey qualifier will take place on April 9, a 9 a.m. start at Kamloops Christian School. Spectators are welcome at the events. SOBC Kamloops curling teams coached by Corryn Brown and her father, Ken, placed first and third in the Region 2 bonspiel on Saturday at McArthur Island Curling Club. ON THE BENCH Todd Warnick is the new head coach of the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women’s basketball team. Warnick joins TRU following a 12-season stint as head coach of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) Ooks women’s basketball program.
During his run with NAIT, Warnick guided the team to an Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) championship, a silver medal and two bronze medals at the conference level. NAIT placed third in the 2016 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) women’s basketball championship. Warnick succeeds Ken Olynyk, who was hired prior to last season on an interim basis following the surprise departure of head coach Goran Nogic. Neither the university nor Nogic has provided reasons for his exodus. TENNIS TOURNEY The Kamloops Tennis Centre will play host to an International Tennis Federation junior event, with main draw action to run from June 4 to June 11. KTC tennis director Kelly Hubbard said players from India, Norway and the U.S. have already registered, an indication the tournament will be international in more than just name. Local players are expected to compete. The club most recently hosted an ITF tournament in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out plans for 2020 and 2021.
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DANIEL MILLS Executive director of Kamloops Symphony I ran with the 21.1K training group on a beautiful evening complete with a picturesque sunset. In addition to having some great conversation with my fellow columnist Paul, I had the chance to chat with other members — as we ran our repeats up Hillside and Versatile drives, of course. Although still exhausted from recent work commitments, I found the evening run surprisingly rejuvenating. One conversation I had with another runner reminded me of something important — very rarely does anyone regret going out for a run, once it is done, that is. That night was certainly proof of that. Being traditionally a solo runner, I am used to hitting the pavement alone. I find it gives me time to reflect on the various challenges or obstacles I am facing and is rather therapeutic. Last week’s solo runs were no exception as I worked through various conundrums and circumstances I am experiencing in both my personal and professional life. But the evening run also reminded me that sometimes activities can — and should be — shared with others. Just like music or any art form, running can be easily and profoundly enjoyed as an individual, but there is also something magical about coming together and experiencing something communal. I’m sure race day will be no exception.
JOSHUA GOTTFRIEDSON Councillor with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Wéyt-kp (Hello to more than one). You know the saying, “One day at a time”? It’s easy to think in that aspect, but much harder to enact it. It is one day at a time, one foot at a time and one breath at a time when you are running. Everything in your body is remembering what it feels like to be moving and muscle memory helps to avoid early fatigue. Breathing is less wheezy and more in sync with fuller, deeper breaths, allowing your brain to get enough oxygen to think clearly. Human beings have a quest in life to balance the four pieces of ourselves (mental, physical, spiritual and emotional). You can overdo one piece while borrowing from the others, but that is not balance. It’s easy to work out all the time while ignoring your emotional state or worshiping a spirituality of your choosing while seldom exercising your body. Balance is the key, so give your 25 per cent daily to each piece of yourself. Remember to be easy on yourself on this journey as we are humans and imperfect. The beauty of each day lies in those imperfections, as we can grow and learn until it is our time to leave this world. RunClub has afforded me the opportunity and environment for growth in every aspect of myself. I get to move my body, mind, heart and soul three days a week and have a great time doing it with some tremendous individuals. Kukwstsetselp (Thank you to more than one).
PAUL DE LUCA Sales representative Kamloops This Week Sore. As I got ready to lace up my shoes for RunClub, I couldn’t help but feel I had stepped in wet cement that must have dried to my feet without me noticing. The feeling of lifting my legs had become a chore. Two days before, I completed my long run of the week. I was clearly still recovering and was now due to meet for our Tuesday training run. This was going to be tough. As I plodded over to our meet-up spot in front of Runners Sole, my cement legs now felt like they were walking through hummus instead of the usual pavement to which I had grown accustomed. How was I possibly going to complete Tuesday’s run when walking 50 metres seemed near impossible? I stretched, hoping that through some divine intervention, these last moments of trying to limber up would shed all my ailments. As our coaches — Terry, Tanja and Howie — led the charge, I felt my feet just follow, thinking surely this burst of adrenaline would soon falter, when I met up with my run companions. Listening to their unwavering positivity about Kamloops and RunClub was infectious and I became enamoured with their stories. All of a sudden, Terry pats me on the back and tells me we’ve reached the halfway point. We were turning around. As we rounded the final turn home, I reflected on just how amazing this club is. The support, care and compassion I am met with each week is unlike anything I’ve been apart of before.
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or training this past week, we were at Runners Sole. We love our time with Wayne and his team. Not only are they experts in what they do , they are fabulous initiators of fun and the real deal when it comes to community. Runners Sole is a fabulous Boogie sponsor and the company also sponsors and supports all the running and walking events in our community. You will always see Wayne at the events and fundraisers, doing his magic and helping support events in Kamloops. Community health extends to our businesses and organizations as a whole. When we work together, we are of better service to the whole. A healthy environment thrives within an abundance model versus a scarcity model. Abundance means there is enough for everyone and, by working together, we bring more abundance for all. Coming together is an appreciation of life in its fullness — joy and strength of mind, body and soul. Ego can, and often does, get in the way of creating a healthy community. Competing vs. collaboration. Us vs. We. Separate vs. United. The need to be right vs. the need to be kind. At RunClub, one of our strongest mantras is “it takes courage to be kind,” encouraging us all to find the courage to make kindness a lifestyle. The Boogie philosophy is solid in creating a kind, inclusive and healthy community. Our Boogie Team loves and invites everyone. Seeing all the running community together as one is something we strive for, along with all the yoga studios, all the bike stores, all the gyms, fitness centres and more. It’s an incredible feeling of joy, peace and abundance. All paces are equal at Boogie. We are as equally inspired by our power walkers as we are our elite runners. We are all meant to move at different paces, speeds and styles. There is no judgment and no competition at Boogie. The Boogie energy thrives on collaboration, connection and support. Life really is extraordinary and so is the Boogie energy. Come out and feel the vibe. The vibe is the real deal and we cannot wait to be with you.
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is name permeates contemporary Kamloops — Paul Peak, Paul Lake, Paul Creek, Mt. Lolo and several road names. He was Jean-Baptiste Lolo St. Paul, recognized by the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board in 2012 as a National Historic Person. Although he was well-known during the fur trade era, there is much about his life that remains unresearched. While Lolo’s birthplace is yet to be confirmed, he was Iroquois and, in his own words, “un Canadien,” that is, FrenchCanadian. That would suggest he hailed from Quebec. His baptismal or place of registration name of “St. Paul” may refer to the parish from where he came, possibly Baie St. Paul along the St. Lawrence River. His birth year is derived from Hudson’s Bay Company records. Lolo, like many other Iroquois, may have arrived in New Caledonia, the name for northcentral B.C. at the time, as an interpreter and labourer with the North West Company before he was employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. His name first appears in the HBC Fort Babine Journal in 1822: “Arrangements for summer. Alexandria. Mr. McBean, Loola & 2 men.” “Leolo” was listed as the interpreter at Fort St. James from 1822 to 1823, then Fort Alexandria, and at Thompson River Post from 1827 to 1833. Able to communicate in several languages, he acted as a liaison and interpreter for the HBC, as well as a guide for the horse brigades that transported furs from Interior forts. Samuel Black, the chief trader at Thompson River Post in the 1830s, said the company would have been “lame without him.” After leaving the employ of the company for a few years, Lolo returned from 1841 to 1845. In 1841, the company gave him the honorary title of chief following an incident in which trader William Thew of Fraser
ABOVE: Jean-Baptiste Lolo St. Paul, wife Marie and two of his daughters (unidentified) in 1865, standing by the cabin likely built for him by the HBC. It may be the same building that became the first Kamloops Museum. CARLO (CHARLES) GENTILE, COURTESY BC ARCHIVES, IMAGE A-00950 LEFT: Sophia Lolo, daughter of Jean Baptiste Lolo, formed a union with Chief Trader John Tod in 1843. In 1863, they had a Christian marriage after he retired to Victoria and following the subsequent death of his English wife in the old country. Sophia died in 1883 and is buried with Rod in Ross Bay Cemetery with Tod. COURTESY BC ARCHIVES, IMAGE A-01483
Lake severely beat him for some offence. But Lolo was never considered a chief of the Secwépemc, although he took on the role of an influential broker in their lives. In 1841, Black was killed at Fort Kamloops, with Lolo guarding the post and assets until chief trader John Tod arrived to replace him.
After 1845, Lolo left the company, but remained in Tk’emlúps in a house built for him by the HBC on the old fort site near St. Joseph’s Church. He then traded independently and began farming, breeding horses and supplying livestock, vegetables and hay to the company. In 1861, gold excitement
erupted locally at Tranquille Creek and Lolo employed local Secwépemc using rockers to extract gold while his daughters operated a store at Tranquille, supplying the influx of miners. Lolo is variously referred to as Baptiste Leolo, Jean-Baptiste, Lolo or Leolo, and some of his family as Lulu. However, Father A. G. Morice of Fort St. James notes that Lolo “was dubbed St. Paul by the engagés [contracted employees] of Fraser Lake.” However, the moniker “St. Paul” does not appear in HBC records until 1850. John Tod recorded that Lolo received the name because he was a “mission Indian” who preached about the biblical St. Paul. When Lt. Richard Mayne, on
an exploratory trip to B.C. for the Royal Navy in 1859, persuaded Lolo to ride up the mountain, Mayne christened it “Mt. St. Paul.” In 1863, “tourists” Viscount Milton and Walter Cheadle met Lolo, were fed and stayed with him overnight. Cheadle wrote, “An old Indian ... introduced himself, in a mixed jargon of French, English and Chinook, as Captain St. Paul.” They found him to be “selfimportant.” Indeed, Lolo revealed himself to be a skilled negotiator between First Nations and fur traders over his long career. The photograph of Lolo with his wife and two of his four daughters was taken by early photographer Carlo (Charles) Gentile in 1865. The group is standing in front of the cabin built for Lolo by the HBC when the company moved to the west side of the North Thompson River. The building, reputed to be his house, became the first Kamloops Museum in 1937 after being moved to Riverside Park. A year after the photo was taken, Jean-Baptiste Lolo St. Paul and his Secwépemc wife Marie were married and baptised in 1866 by Oblate priest Pierre Richard. After several years of illness, Lolo died at his home on May 15, 1868. Lolo left at least seven sons and four daughters. His daughter Sophia became Mrs. John Tod. Daughter Julienne married Chief Trader Donald McLean. Héléne Drymouth Lolo married a settler named Joseph Dussault. Francois Chapperon, who first settled north of Tk’emlúps, married one of the daughters in the 1860s. Another, Ann, married George Bohun Martin, who was an HBC clerk for a few years. The sons were Baptiste, Duncan, Francois, Pierre, Petit Jean (or Jack), Edward and Thomah. Lolo’s house and the former HBC land became part of the Kamloops Indian Reserve through his covenant with Secwépemc to return his wife’s land to her people. Ken Favrholdt is a historical geographer and writer about Kamloops and area history.
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What is Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 0182, 2022? Bylaw No. 0182 is to change Zoning Bylaw No. 1400 to designate the entire Resort Municipality, as shown on the Sun Peaks Resort Municipality Zoning Bylaw Map as amended from time to time, as an area where temporary uses may be allowed. Council may issue a Temporary Use Permit for a period up to three years, renewable only once subject to a hearing. All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing. Additionally, they may make written submissions on the matter of this Bylaw (via any of the below options) which must be received at our office prior to 4:00 p.m. on the 1st day of April, 2022. The entire content of all submissions will be made public and form a part of the public record on this matter. How do I get more information? A copy of the proposed Bylaw and all supporting information can be inspected from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday - Friday at our office from March 15, 2022, 2022 until 4:00 p.m. April 4, 2022; or please contact us via any of the below options. No representations will be received by Council after the Public Hearing has been concluded.
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Ryoji Ryoji(Yosh) (Yosh)Nabata Nabata 1932 1932- -2022 2022
ItIt isis with with profound profound sadness sadness that that the the family family ofof Ryoji Ryoji (Yosh) (Yosh) Nabata Nabata announce announce his his passing passing on on Friday, Friday, March March 11, 11, 2022 2022 atat the the age ageofof89. 89. AtAt Yosh’s Yosh’s request, request, no no service servicewill willbe beheld. held. Those Those whom whom soso desire desire may may make make donations donations inin memory memory ofof Ryoji Ryoji Nabata Nabata toto the the Marjorie Marjorie Willoughby Willoughby Snowden Snowden Memorial Memorial Hospice Hospice Home Home atat 72 72 Whiteshield Whiteshield Crescent Crescent South, South, Kamloops, Kamloops, B.C. B.C.V2E V2E2S9. 2S9.
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Margaret MargaretAnn AnnKennedy Kennedy 1942 1942- -2022 2022
ItIt isis with with heavy heavy hearts hearts that that we we say say goodbye goodbye toto our our beloved beloved Margaret Margaret Ann Ann Kennedy, Kennedy, who who passed passed away away peacefully peacefully on on March March 8,8, 2022 2022 atat the the age ageofof79, 79,ininKamloops, Kamloops,BC. BC. Margaret Margaret leaves leaves behind behind her her children: children: Deborah Deborah (Denis) (Denis) Trudeau Trudeau (Dryden, (Dryden, ON), ON), Brenda Brenda Dodman Dodman (Kamloops, (Kamloops, BC), BC), grandson: grandson: Brent Brent (Leanne) (Leanne) Pickrell Pickrell (St. (St. Paul, Paul, Alberta), Alberta), granddaughter: granddaughter: Tonia Tonia (Peter) (Peter) Detta, Detta, great-granddaughter: great-granddaughter: Taryn Taryn Detta, Detta, (West (West Kelowna, Kelowna, BC), BC), granddaughter: granddaughter: Kimberly Kimberly Dodman, Dodman, greatgreatgrandchildren: grandchildren:Maggie Maggieand andBrendan. Brendan.
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In InLoving LovingMemory Memoryof of Lilian LilianEva EvaGough Gough 1924 1924- -2022 2022
With With sadness sadness we we announce announce the the passing passing ofof Lilian Lilian Gough Gough ofof Kamloops, Kamloops, BC, BC, on on March March 16, 16, 2022, 2022, atat 97 97 years years ofof age. age. Lilian Lilian isis survived survived by by her her sons, sons, Ray Ray Gough Gough and and Roy Roy Gough. Gough. Lilian Lilian was was predeceased predeceased by by her her husband husband Arthur Arthur Gough Gough inin 1984 1984 and and three three sisters sisters and and two two brothers brothers allallwho whoresided residedininEngland. England. Lilian Lilian was was born born inin the the Village Village ofof Clun, Clun, Shropshire, Shropshire, England England on on November November 12, 12, 1924. 1924. She She emigrated emigrated toto Canada Canada toto join join her her husband husband Arthur Arthur inin Montreal, Montreal, Quebec. Quebec. She She landed landed inin Halifax Halifax atat Pier Pier 21 21 inin September September 1946 1946 and and travelled travelled by by train train with with her her young young son son Ray Ray toto join join Arthur Arthur inin Montreal. Montreal. Roy Roy Gough Gough was was born born inin January January 1948 1948 inin Montreal. Montreal. Arthur, Arthur, Lilian Lilian moved movedtotoKamloops Kamloopsinin1980 1980totobe benear nearfamily. family. Lilian Lilian will will be be greatly greatly missed missed by by her her grandchildren grandchildren Tristan Tristan (Loredana) (Loredana) their their children children Braydon Braydon and and Kieran, Kieran, Jay Jay (Stephanie) (Stephanie) their their children children Ethan Ethan and and Henry, Henry, Tasha Tasha (Dan) (Dan) and and their their children children Dominic, Dominic, Hana, Hana, and and Aubrey. Aubrey. Lilian Lilian will will be be missed missed and and loved loved by by allall the the remaining remaining family family inin England England and and Canada Canada asas well well asas friends. friends. The The family family would would like like toto express express our our appreciation appreciation for for the the Home Home Support Support (IHA) (IHA) and and the the staff staff ofof the the Royal Royal Inland Inland Hospital Hospital for forthe thecare careand andsupport. support.
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Satwant Kaur Mahal It is with great sadness and heavy hearts we announce the passing of our beautiful, loving and nurturing mother. Satwant Kaur Mahal passed away on March 19, 2022 at the age of 86, surrounded by her ever-loving family. Mom is predeceased by her husband Nasib Singh Mahal, her brother Mohinder Singh Kang, two sisters Harbaksh Kaur and Jaswant Kaur. She is survived by two brothers Jaswant Singh Kang and Shamsher Singh Kang; her four children Surinder (Kuldip) Mahal, Sarbjit (Gary) Dhillon, Suge (Rupe) Mahal; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mom was born June 6, 1935 in Chak 5 in West Punjab, Pakistan and later arrived in Canada on March 26, 1967 settling in Squamish, before relocating to Cherry Creek in 1974. Mom devoted her life to her family and it brought her joy to be surrounded by the chaos and laughter of her growing family. She was an extremely caring woman who would not let you leave the house without a full stomach. In the summers you would see her paying careful attention to her garden and tending her many rose bushes. Her smile and personality would leave a lasting impression on anyone and if you ever had the opportunity to meet her for even a second, you wouldn’t forget that contagious smile and laugh.
She was brighter than the sun. Funeral Services will be held at Kamloops Funeral Home on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 11:00 am, followed by a service at Kamloops Sikh Cultural Society, 700 Cambridge Crescent.
Gilda Messner (née Corea) July 5, 1947 - March 9, 2022
With profound sadness and heavy hearts, Rose Corea and Cathy Annicchiarico announce the passing of their sister, Gilda Messner, on March 9, 2022 in Gibsons, British Columbia. Gilda will be lovingly remembered by her son Karl, daughter-in-law Darla, grandsons Nofa and Sean, and by her son Keith. Also mourning her passing are Gilda’s two older sisters, Rose and Cathy, brother-in-law Franco, nephews and nieces John, Lisa, Dino, and Alida, her cousin Maria Townend, who grew up with Gilda, as well as numerous cousins in Canada and Italy. In addition, Gilda’s many friends along the Sunshine Coast grieve her loss. Gilda was predeceased by her father Giuseppe and mother Annunziata, and by Merv Messner, the father of Karl and Keith. Born in Albi, Calabria, Italy, Gilda immigrated to Canada with her family, arriving in Kamloops on January 2, 1953. In childhood, Gilda was known to delight the hearts of her family with her joy and charisma, which carried on throughout her life. She graduated from St. Ann’s Academy, then moved to Gibsons and started her family. Gilda will be remembered as a dynamic, passionate woman with a grand zest for life. She had a tremendous compassion for animals, taking in stray cats and showering them with kindness. Gilda was in tune with nature, embracing the peaceful ocean, the placid lakes, and the serene forests of her beloved Sunshine Coast. Whenever anyone needed help, Gilda would joyfully lend a hand. She had a very playful sense of humour, which garnered her many friendships over the years. Gilda was happiest when she, as Nonna, would cook pasta dinners and bake biscotti for her dear family.
We will forever cherish Gilda’s memory. Mass for the intention of the repose of the soul of Gilda will be celebrated by Father Dale Normandeau at Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 1:00 pm.
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Gladys Ione Mockford It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Ione Mockford of Kamloops on March 16, 2022 at the age of 94. Ione was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan on February 6, 1928, moving to the Kamloops area of BC with her parents Ray and Jessie Webb in the late 1930s. Ione is survived by her children, daughter Marilee (Tom) Fletcher, sons Doug Mockford and Gary Mockford, grandsons Ryan (Sacha) Little and Quentin (Lucy) Little and great-grandson Flynn Little, sister-in-law Vi Saniger, cousin Edna (Lorne) Russell, and numerous nieces and nephews. Ione was predeceased by the love of her life, husband Bert Mockford in 2019 after 69 years of marriage, her brother Allen (Dot) Webb, sisters-in-law Lou Bond, Pat Crawshaw, and Marnie Hardwick. Ione epitomized what unconditional love is, family and friends alike, always seeing the “goodness” in everyone. In her earlier years she worked as a stenographer for the City and Province, and later for her husband’s business. No matter what the task, Ione always did her best and only asked the same of others. She was an immaculate homemaker, enjoyed cooking and baking, and was the best Mom and Grandma, always putting everyone else’s needs before her own. While family was always first, Ione very much enjoyed gardening, especially flowers, trips to see family “at the coast” and RV camping. Being a good neighbour herself, Ione was blessed to have neighbours that became lifetime friends, special thanks to her Brigadoon neighbours in recent years. Ione’s unassuming nature and all encompassing love for people will truly be missed.
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Celebration of Life for Lissa Goodman It’s time to get-together and celebrate the life of an amazing person. Lissa Goodman left us a year ago on March 23, 2021, I think about and miss her every day. A gathering will be held at Valleyview Centennial Park on Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 11:00am - 4:00pm. Please join us and bring a picture, story, or a memory and we can shed some tears, and maybe a laugh or two. Valleyview Centennial Park, 2288 Park Drive, Kamloops.
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February 17, 1956 - February 22, 2022 Georg passed away peacefully at his home in Burnaby, BC. He was so loved and will be missed very much by his family: sister, brother, daughter, stepson, grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. We will miss his easy smile and jovial ways. Despite his handicap he had such a positive attitude. You’ll be forever in our hearts. Love you.
The family wishes to express our gratitude to Dr. Laila Ayoub and all the healthcare workers that have supported Ione, for your kindness and professionalism, making it possible for Mom to stay in her own home until her last few days in hospital. An informal celebration of life will be held at a later date. Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com
Earl Wallace Cahill Earl Cahill of Clinton, BC passed away peacefully at Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops on March 11, 2022 surrounded by loving family. Born in Lillooet, BC on November 24, 1926 to Susan (Tudie) and Leo Cahill, he was predeceased by his brothers Glen and Tom, sisters Marian, Lillooet, Leona and Mickey, nephew Brad Speed and Jerry Allum, sisters-in-law Noreen Cumming and Joan Clapham. Survived by his beloved family Jocelyn, his wife of 69 years, daughter Susan, her husband Jeff Allen and their son Geordie, his son Tim, his wife Angie and their children, Josh Cahill (Natalie), Kirstin Lougheed (Shane) and Keely Town (Chris), great-grandchildren Lyla, Weston, Elijah, TJ, and Jackson, sisters-in-law Pat McAbee and Judy Karr and many nieces and nephews. Earl drove many miles and made many friends. In retirement he shared his memories in a newspaper column he titled “An Old Timer Remembers”. He also became an accomplished photographer, generously donating his beautiful pictures to many worthy organizations. There will be no memorial service at this time but we plan to get-together this summer. Condolences may be expressed at: www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
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If I should die, and leave you here awhile Be not like others sore undone, who keep Long vigils by the silent dust and weep. For my sake, turn again to life, and smile, Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do Something to comfort weaker hearts than thine. Complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine, And I, perchance, may therein comfort you!
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It is with heavy hearts that the family of Janice Ellen Weeks, of Kamloops, announce her passing from a courageous year-long battle with cancer on February 13, 2022.
It is with deep sadness but with thankfulness for her life, that we, her family, share the death of Doreen Tevely on February 26, 2022. She was born Olive Doreen McRann along with her twin, Anna Marlene on November 17, 1945 in Pouce Coupe, BC.
Janice is survived by her loving husband Doug, father Henry (Hank), sisters Heather (Joe), Nancy, Judy and Alison, children Donald (Kealy), Jennifer (Sang), Elizabeth (Kurt), Tyler (Bailey), Arlin and Alexi, grandchildren Levi (Kitara), Austin (Kyley), Montana (Dale), Jayden (Mitchell), Drew, Marissa, Emily, Warrick, Nathaniel and Greyson, as well as her great-granddaughter Kalie. As well, she boasted an incredibly large family of nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles who will miss her dearly.
Doreen led a full life of love and giving to everyone she came to know. She was very adventurous and as a young single mom became a barber and opened her own shop. Then she and her young son, Dean moved north to Cassiar, BC where she met and married Les Tevely. They had many adventures living on their sailboat, fish farming plus an interrupted attempt to sail further across the ocean. Doreen opened her loving arms and Les’ family became hers and she loved people and made friends everywhere she went. Many will remember her volunteering at Thrift Seller and from her home at Sunnyside Mobile Home Park in Kamloops.
Janice is predeceased by her mother Irene (2019), grandmother Ruth (2007) and grandfather Harry (1957), as well as several others. Born on August 25, 1960 in Duncan, BC, Janice nearly shared her birthday with her father and youngest sister. She was raised in nearby Crofton until 1973 when the family relocated to Kamloops, BC. Janice started her family early, moving them to the Lower Mainland for a few years before relocating back to Kamloops, where she spent the bulk of her life. Janice’s passions in life were not material things. It was her large and loving family, a tall glass of wine or a warm cup of coffee and memories that sustained her. Reading and travel were passions she often got to indulge. Though it had to be taking care of those she loved that brought her the greatest joy. She never turned down a visit from a loved one, especially her beloved grandchildren. We could discuss the places she worked or things she did now, however, what better defined her was her passion for her family and friends, and her welcoming personality. Those that met and knew this incredible woman remember her, and still feel the effects she had on them deep in their hearts. She was everyone’s big sister, everyone’s mother, many people’s mentor and a true friend to those who held her close. If you meet someone that knew Janice, you will see a rare sparkle in their eyes as they let you know she had indeed left an impression on their lives. It was likely due to her nurturing, caring nature that Janice returned to school in her 40s to earn her nursing degree. She worked nearly full time while attending school and taking care of her family and home. She absolutely balanced all of these things with deft skill and great resolve, earning her degree as an RN in 2007. It would be a few years before she found her calling as a nurse at Kamloops Hospice Association. For over a decade there, she performed her job without equal, assisting the terminally ill and caring for their loved ones. Seeing her maintain a positive and professional demeanor in her field of work was perhaps her greatest strength, one that those around her took to in times of difficulty and leaned upon for support themselves. We are so very grateful that her last day was spent in the very care of those beautiful, loving ladies at Hospice that cared for her family nearly as much as they cared for her, one of their own, in her remaining hours. Some of those brave women stayed on shift and supported even when they were off duty. Truly showcasing the character of those around her, and how much she meant to them. She was one of them, family to them and we were truly blessed to have them with us as we said goodbye. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations can be made to the Kamloops Hospice Association, so that others may benefit from the services and care they offer. www.kamloopshospice.com/contribute/donate/
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She was predeceased by the two great loves of her life, her husband Les Tevely and her son Dean Rosenau. Also by her parents, Alf and Bernice McRann, brother Bud McRann and step-son Leif Tevely. We, her two sisters Vera Cook (Ross) and Marlene Graham (Rick), three brothers Wayne McRann (Gurdeep), Dale McRann, Barry McRann (Judy), Lynn (Bud’s wife) and many nieces, nephews and cousins and Uncle Kenny will miss her love. We give thanks to the doctors and nurses at Royal Inland Hospital who care and give so much. Also hugs and ‘thank you’ to Kamloops Hospice for their compassionate care and support for our family. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
Patricia Ann Lavigne 1940 - 2021
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patricia Ann Lavigne of Kamloops, BC, on October 3rd, 2021, at 81 years of age. Patricia is survived by her loving husband Melvin Joseph Lavigne, her children Richard Lavigne of Edmonton, AB, Hunter (Hope) Lavigne of Colorado, and Virginia Lavigne of Kamloops, BC. Also left to cherish her memory are her grandchildren Stephanie Lavigne, Casey Lavigne, Poul Burnell, Oliver Burnell and Brendan Lavigne, as well as her sisters Judy (Roger) Lavigne and Paula (Victor) Guignard. Patricia was predeceased by her parents Edna and Gerald Carroll, brothers Bernie (Jason, Amanda, Kim) Carroll and Donald (Olga, Ryan and Natasha) Carroll, and her nephew Kevin Guignard. Dancing, bowling, cards, a good game of darts at the ‘Wing’ or at any kitchen party (usually her own). Atlantic seafood, sun tanning, travelling here and there around the world. Camping. Driving thousands of miles just on a whim to see where roads would take her and Mel. Day trips to any lake, river, or ocean where there was a fire pit. Trees, water, mountains, and sand. From 8-tracks to CDs, old country music standards playing loudly and an iced glass of rum and coke (Ron Carioca). A ridiculous talent for gift wrapping. Most importantly, an enduring love for her husband Melvin, her children and held all of her grandkids, near and far, dear to her heart. These are the things we will remember of Patricia. So terribly missed by all. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca
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Mrs. Maria (Mary) Weisbeck Mrs. Maria (Mary) Weisbeck died in Kamloops, BC on March 17, 2022 at the age of 96. She is missed by her children Carol (Mike) Ostrikoff, Rodney (Lynette) Weisbeck and Rev. Fr. Fred Weisbeck, her five grandchildren: Derrick (Joelle), Karen and Daniel Weisbeck, Chris (Michelle) and Ryan (Rebecca) Ostrikoff; eleven greatgrandchildren and many nephews and nieces. She is predeceased by her parents Pasquale and Annie Bianchin, husband Oswald (John) Weisbeck, son Donald (Linda) Weisbeck, sister Virginia, brothers John, Guildo and Antonio. Mary was born in Kamloops on October 3, 1925, as the youngest child. She met and later married her husband John at Sacred Heart Cathedral on June 1, 1948. In early years, Mary worked in various jobs but she chose her greatest work to be the responsibilities of home and family. A big garden and a well-stocked pantry of preserves were a presumed necessity. Mary was the strength and stability for her husband and family. She was the backbone of every business venture of her husband. From managing the ownership of apartment blocks, Mary also served as the Credit and Garden Manager of the family retail business (Irly Bird) in Chase, BC. She was strong and determined while being very kind and compassionate. Hospitality in her home was very important. She reached out in many ways to those she cared for. Mary treasured her many vacation and travel experiences. Mary was strongly rooted in her Catholic faith and was a member of the Catholic Women’s League. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated by Most Rev. Bishop Joseph Nguyen and concelebrated by Fr. Fred Weisbeck and brother priests on Saturday, March 26, 2022, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Kamloops @ 10:30am. Condolences and arrangements entrusted to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
Evelyn May Norris
December 15, 1920 - March 7, 2022 Evelyn is survived by her brother John Hettema; children Marlene Olineck and Jean Hungar (Ralph); grandchildren Stephen, Naomi, Lindsay (Craig), Shannon (Neil), and Karen (Dale); great-grandchildren Benjamyn, Makenzie, Lynden, Ashley, Lukas, and Taylah; her daughter-in-law Margaret Norris; and many loved nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by her husband Wilbur; her son Gerald; her sister Irene Buchanan; and her brother Harry Hettema. Evelyn was born in Swan River, Manitoba and was brought home on a very cold winter day in a horse drawn sleigh. She grew up on a prairie farm during the depression years in a loving family. Evelyn trained at Brandon General Hospital and graduated in 1945. She worked in several hospitals and clinics. During her professional career, she was highly regarded by all who knew her. She married Will in 1946 in Regina, Saskatchewan and settled in Kamloops in 1948. Evelyn felt they had come to the land of milk and honey...they never looked back. Evelyn was a long-time member and supporter of the Kamloops United Church. During their retirement years, Will and Evy enjoyed many adventures RVing and life at Little Shuswap. Evelyn always caught the biggest fish! Her legacy was her deep devotion to and love for family. Our deepest gratitude goes to the staff at the Overlander Residential Care Facility for their tender, loving care of our mother. In lieu of flowers, a donation to Overlander Residential Care or Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home would be appreciated. A Memorial Service will be held at the Kamloops United Church, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 2:00 pm with Rev. Michael Caveney officiating. The service will be live streamed and recorded on the Kamloops United Church YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/KamloopsUnitedChurch or by searching “Kamloops United Church” on YouTube. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca
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Walter Bernard Jaeb On March 15, 2022, at the age of 93. Walter passed peacefully surrounded by all of his family. Walter was born on July 10, 1928 in Humboldt, SK., son of Alois and Frances Jaeb, one of 13 children. Lovingly survived by his wife, Norma and children; Kathy and Glenn Jaeb, Ingrid (predeceased 2017) and Dave Rath, Les and Rhona Jaeb, Norine and Duane Birnie, Dale and Debbie Jaeb, ten grandchildren, fifteen greatgrandchildren, one brother Melvin and one sister Merle and many extended family.
He will be greatly missed by so many. A private service with family and very close friends will be held on Saturday, March 26, 2022.
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Tor Ring
December 8, 1929 - March 8, 2022 Tor Ring beloved husband of the late Elsa Ring (née Huseby), passed away on March 8, 2022, in Kamloops, BC. at the age of 92 years. He is survived by his children Karen Ring (Surrey), Brent Ring (Kamloops), Nora Ring (Calgary) and his granddaughter Kirsten Blakney, and fiancé Jeff Cathrea (Kelowna) and many nieces and nephews in Norway. He was predeceased by his parents, our grandfather Anders and grandmother Karen Ring and his nine brothers and sisters. Dad was born in Oslo, Norway and was the youngest of ten children. He grew up in central Oslo and experienced the occupation of Norway during WWII when he was 10-15 years old. Dad trained as an electrician in Norway when a friend suggested that they should go to Canada. In 1951, dad travelled on the Cunard ship Franconia from Oslo to Quebec City and then by train to the West Coast. It would be 23 years before he returned to see his family once again in Norway. Dad met our mom in Vancouver through mutual friends in Vancouver in 1952 and the next year, they married. Mom and dad settled in Nanaimo, BC where we were all born and in 1971, our family moved to Westsyde in Kamloops, BC. Dad worked in the physically challenging logging industry on Vancouver Island in the 1950s and 1960s, he attended BCIT where he studied business and once our family moved to Kamloops, he worked as a Chemical Operator at Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill (now Domtar) from 1971 until his retirement in 1994. At home, dad maintained our house and yard. He enjoyed the arts, music, theatre and reading. He was often surrounded by books and newspapers with music playing quietly in the background. Dad enjoyed the pleasure of mom’s cooking, and he was an observer of the beauty found in nature, the changing weather, and the changing light in the sky as the day passed. Dad was active in the Sons of Norway community in British Columbia alongside our mom for decades. He held the position of President at the lodges in Nanaimo and Kamloops many times throughout his membership. Dad maintained a high level of fitness through his active lifestyle. In the summer, he was on the hiking trails and in the winter, he was on the ski trails. Dad’s enthusiasm and skill of cross-country skiing had no boundaries. He was involved in the organization of cross-country skiing in the Kamloops area through the Sons of Norway ski club, a long-time supporter of Ski for Light and the Overlander Ski Club. It was an exciting and proud time when dad volunteered on the trails in Canmore during the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary. With love and a final goodbye, we will celebrate dad’s life on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 11:00 am with family and friends at Hills of Peace Lutheran Church, 695 Robson Drive, Kamloops, BC. Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca
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Dennis Lawrence Robertson May 12, 1939 - March 14, 2022
On May 12, 1939, Dennis made his arrival in Vancouver General Hospital as a light amidst the darkness of a world about to enter into another war. His mother, Evelyn, eventually became a single parent and worked outside the home. In an era of large families and stay at home moms, Denny and his mom were an oddity having only each other in their hometown of Burnaby. Dennis grew up quickly and with tenacity. He took pride in his paper route and enjoyed the Vancouver Sun summer camps where he was first introduced to the outdoors, a passion that he would later share with his family and as a scout leader. James (Jim) Robertson married Evelyn in 1954 giving them all his surname. Years later the trio realized that the process had simply been a name change so at age 56, Dennis was proudly adopted by Jim making him the oldest adoptee the lawyer had ever witnessed. Dennis spent summers working in Alaska with Jim mining the rugged terrain. Hunting, fishing, trapping and camping in baker’s tents with no-see-ums so thick that he could hardly breathe taught him the harsher realities of nature. Dennis met his soulmate through a sneaky friend who offered him and Winifred Bain a ride home after work. Dinner followed and soon after, they married in Kelowna. As an only child with no extended family, Dennis met Win’s mom, siblings, nieces and nephews with anticipation. The usual chaos and warmth of large families scared and excited him. He would have never guessed that he and Win would eventually become the grandparents to a family of twenty-two in addition to the Bain relatives that embraced their Uncle Denny. Along the way Win and Denny met and welcomed their kids’ extended families and friends into the fold considering all to be family. Early married life began on the coast and in 1962 the couple gave birth to their daughter Sheila, followed by two sons Cory and Tyler. Dennis was relocated to Prince George by his employer, Wajax, a heavy equipment company to pioneer a new branch. The family made PG their home for 10 years until Denny was again offered the opportunity to start another branch office in Kamloops. He loved his work and the people he met through it. His honesty and strong work ethic earned respect from co-workers and customers.
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The Little Unicorn by Peggy Kociscin, Albuquerque, New Mexico
There lived a little unicorn (From when the earth was new), His coat so white it glistened, His eyes a sparkling blue.
He learned that there are shadows In spite of shining sun. The more he grew, he found that life Was never always fun.
The unicorn tried tirelessly, And gave the climb his best; But he felt it was not good enough, He felt he’d failed the test.
In innocence and beauty, He danced through woods and streams. The animals danced with him, His heart aglow with dreams.
For now he’d learn of feelings That come from deep within; No longer in the “dream world” Where (for so long) he’d been.
He could not understand it When he felt himself rejected – When all his gentle being asked Was but to be accepted.
He laughed and played with rainbows, So happy all day through, He loved to kiss the flowers As their petals shone with dew.
His gentle heart desired But to know the pleasure of To give and to receive The very precious gift of love.
All this was just too much for him, He knew not what to do. That he was special as himself, Somehow, he never knew.
He wandered through the meadows In the moon’s soft, silver light. He loved to gaze at all the stars That lightened up the night.
To love meant to be happy, And yet it also brought him pain; For those he loved could hurt him Again.. and yet again.
His spirit crushed, he felt defeated, And lonely tears would start. Not understanding how to love, It simply broke his heart.
He listened to the music Of the birds that graced the trees. He frolicked with the butterflies And raced the gentle breeze.
His mother held him lovingly But now he’s in a loving place And tried to ease his fears Where all his pain has ceased, About the sadness life could bring... Where all accepted him and his love, Where all he knows is peace. The lonely, bitter tears.
But, as he grew and learned of life, The sparkle in his eye Grew misty as he realized Just what it means to cry.
She said, “Life is like a mountain, (And surely this is true) That we must climb as best we can. There’s no ‘around or ‘through.’”
A loving Being tells him, “You’re delightful as you are.” His spirit free, his brilliance now Outshines the brightest star!
Kamloops remained home for the remainder of his life. The couple purchased a parcel of land outside of Pinantan for recreation and it became the “5R property”. Family gathered there on weekends and holidays. Dennis and Win enjoyed deep friendships with neighbours there. Every year, they gathered the grandkids to spend a week at the property to share the great outdoors at “Grandad Camp”. In his fifties, Dennis was diagnosed with an uncommon but terminal cancer, followed by several other cancers and kidney failure. Surgery and treatment gave his life an extension but his stubborn nature, fortitude, and sense of humour made the years count and enriched our lives. He kept immaculate medical records always thinking of how his journey could help the next patients. He made himself available to those newly diagnosed, spending hours encouraging them. As an adult, Dennis became hard of hearing. Being an avid dog person, it was natural for him to embrace a Hearing Assist dog. Crackers entered his life and the two became inseparable. Crackers was the first HA dog in Kamloops and much of BC. The pair began a journey of education through visits to schools, countless businesses and service clubs. Eventually, their adventures culminated into Denny’s book “Crackers... Come Hear” and a children’s version. Writing soon became another passion for him. Dennis advocated for people with hearing loss and deafness in addition to service dog access for all. With writing now in his veins, he created ditties. 14 lines containing humour, history and best wishes were carefully penned every holiday and event. To celebrate each of these occasions he personally dropped off or mailed them to over 100 people in an effort to cheer their day. Family looked forward to his clever ditties for birthdays, anniversaries and milestones. Dennis achieved his dream of becoming a pilot and loved to fly. When his hearing loss required he give up his license he was deeply disappointed but faced the loss the way he faced everything, by looking for a new adventure to enjoy. In more recent years, Dennis’s daily routine included hoisting a flag from his vast collection of national, provincial, state and civic flags. His passion for people and the places they were from or visited ignited the practice. Later, it became a geography lesson for neighbours who attempted to identify the changing flags. On May 12, 2016, the Governor General of Canada presented Dennis with the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers. An honour that he treasured. The common thread of Dennis’s multifaceted life is a dedication to making the world he lived in a better place through humour and kindness but above all through love. Dennis will always be remembered by his wife Win, of 61 years and his children: Sheila (Dan), Cory (Marci), Tyler (Pam) and grandchildren: Erin (Cody), Joshua (Morganna), Katie (Tony), Alex (Cayle), Jake, Ben, Luke (Janelle), Nolan and great grandchildren: Cadence, Rhett and Reign. A Celebration of Dennis’s life will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2:00 pm at Summit Drive Church. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to any of the following charities. Dennis was grateful for their kindness and care. BC Cancer Agency, Royal Inland Hospital, Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice House. Condolences may be expressed at: www.schoeningfuneralservice.com
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OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE Others who have gone before Hold up my trembling hand. They comfort me in the blind despair I cannot understand. They suffer with me when I hurt, Weep with me in my pain, Remind me that we are not lost ... Though I must now remain. Those who’ve gone before me, Hear me when I cry. Sing softly with me soothing chords Of unsung lullabies. Mourn anniversaries never marked, A future I cannot keep. They gently kiss the pain away, And love my heart to sleep. The ones who’ve gone before me Hold me in my dreams. They gently stroke my furrowed brow, And calm my silent screams. They love me in my heartache, Wait quietly nearby., Hold patiently, one to another Till I join them by and by. By Joanetta Hendel, Indianapolis, Indiana
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The 2141 is chugging down a new track Kamloops Heritage Railway Society president Norman Glass stands inside a train car converted into a schoolroom. Lack of track availability caused by an increased number of CN coal trains has forced the group operating the heritage steam train to shift gears, with support from the city. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
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ew plans are in the works for the 2141 Spirit of Kamloops steam engine. “We’re going from a rolling, operating train to a static display focusing on delivering rail history to the residents and visitors of Kamloops and area,” Kamloops Heritage Railway Society president Norman Glass told KTW. Lack of track availability caused by an increased number of CN coal trains has forced the group operating the heritage steam train to shift gears, with support from the city. Some say it is a shame to leave the functioning steam train, which is worth a pretty penny, sitting idle. Others think it would be a shame for it to leave town. The 2141 has a 60-year history in Kamloops. Originally made in Kingston, Ont., it hauled freight in the Prairies until 1948. It was also used on Vancouver Island until it was decommissioned and sat in a yard in Victoria before thenKamloops mayor Jack Fitzwater convinced the city to buy it in 1961. It then sat idle in Riverside Park — the heart of a rail town — for decades. Longtime residents may recall
playing on when they were kids. In 1990, a group from Alberta approached the city and asked to purchase the locomotive before a group in Kamloops intervened and restored it locally instead. Between 1992 and 2002, between 80,000 and 100,000 hours were spent by machinists, welders and other volunteers refurbishing the locomotive to get it running again. Volunteers continue the labour
of love. Seventy-eight-year-old Peter Routley has spent about two decades and keeps brass aboard looking shiny and new. He had just finished up a full day’s work when KTW visited. The 2141 ran tours from the old CN station in downtown Kamloops between 2002 and 2019. The seasonal theatrical and historical rides along the rails drew families and tourists as the sound of the steam whistle
trains, empty or full, run through the city daily and take two hours each to clear through Kamloops. Glass said if the track were to be blocked by the 2141, it would jam up freight. He said CN was supportive of an alternative run, but there are no other side tracks available. A trip to Armstrong previously reported on by KTW was mulled, but did not pan out for multiple reasons, including new regulations in the wake of the Lytton disaster requiring a fire suppression crew and desire by the city to keep the community asset — taxpayers own the 2141 — in Kamloops. The society had a service agreement with the city to do 40 runs to the Halston Connector area. That agreement was recently renegotiated. Glass said the city approved a new service agreement. “It’s a big piece of our heritage and we want to preserve that,” Coun. Mike O’Reilly told KTW.
instantly transported one back in time. The 2141 last hit the tracks for Christmas 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and hasn’t run since. “We did submit a request [through CN] for track time for 2021, but it was rejected,” Glass said. He said CN could not guarantee the society track time needed to schedule tours because 10 coal
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Asked about the 2141, Mayor Ken Christian replied: “That whistle. That sounding of the whistle was kind of iconic and, ultimately, you would like to hear that again.” The coal trains have also drawn the ire of downtown residents dealing with increased noise in their residential neighbourhoods. Christian said the railways are a blessing and curse, providing jobs and supporting the economy, but also interrupting city life amidst changes, such as the coal contract. He said he is in touch with the railway companies. “But they are very clear about the fact that they were here first and the Railway Act essentially gives them licence to operate the railway across this country in almost an unrefuted manner,” Christian said. “When the going gets tough, that’s what they revert to.”
The 2141 Spirit of Kamloops steam train in all its glory, when it was able to take passengers for a trip across the river and back in time. KTW FILE PHOTO
KTW recently met with Glass for a tour of a new heritage village being created next to Pioneer Park. Glass said the village was initially intended to become a secondary income for the society, but it is now going to be the primary focus. Glass said there was no guar-
antee how long the 2141 would have continued running, so the society is choosing to look forward. Between eight and 10 volunteers have been working to develop the new heritage village concept. A tour will take the general public through train cars
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As BA Brewmaster approaches its 30-year anniversary next year, staff put their heads together and came up with their own in-house-created hard seltzer recipe — a first for Kamloops. The new product has introduced people to a new option for a ferment-on-premise drink. With batch brewing of beer, cider and wine, BA Brewmaster has responded to a growing trend seen in consumers’ choices for a clear, refreshing taste. Tonic and soda-based drinks with hard liquor and added flavours have been around for years, but until now have not been available to ferment-onpremise for Kamloopsians. “We came up with a recipe that was going to ferment out really cleanly so there’s no aftertaste,” said BA Brewmaster’s
Shannon Rex, a second-generation brewer. “It’s really beautiful, clear in colour and sparkling when it’s carbonated.” With three flavours to begin with — pink grapefruit, blackberry and lime — the carbonated hard settlers are ready within two weeks of pitching the yeast. The seltzer batches produce 23 litres, equivalent to 65 cans, with a three-month shelf life. Compared to other products currently on the market, Rex said, it is actually a fermented sugar that ferments out to less than one per cent residual sugar, made possible by using a high quality yeast. “For somebody who is watching their calories, their sugar intake, the flavourings we add have no additional sugar in them, as well, so you can enjoy them without being concerned that you’re messing around with your macros,” Rex said.
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Karla Pearce watched through tears as her personal artwork went up in flames on March 18. Three of the Kamloops artist’s paintings were burned in a bonfire along a beach of the Thompson River near the airport — a selfinflicted act. Pearce destroyed her paintings as a message to the provincial government that more income assistance is needed for those living along the poverty line. The acrylic paintings burned quickly, the most poignant and symbolic of Pearce’s message being a self-portrait, as flames crawled up the canvass and engulfed the Mona Lisa-like smiling woman, leaving just ash and a hollowed, charred frame behind. Pearce hopes that sacrificing her artwork will bring about a discussion concerning poverty in B.C. She knows first-hand what it’s
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vary from $500, $750 and $900 a month and monthly disability payments range from $983.50 to $1,728.58. As for what Pearce would like to see income assistance raised to, she said she felt the federal government got it right during COVID-19 when it doled out $2,000 cheques to help those impacted by the pandemic. “I am so sickened and hurt by what is happening that I am compelled into action,” she said. “This burning is partly out of desperation, not only for myself, but also for friends, families and neighbours who are living in extreme poverty.”
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300-block Tranquille: You told us what should open here In this new feature, we ask our readers for your input on doing some retail planning with us by offering suggestions on businesses that could occupy empty commercial space in the city. Last week, we featured this former restaurant in the 300-block of Tranquille Road that has been vacant for a number of years. It sits between McLeaner’s and Spero House. Here is a sampling of your wishlist for the above location — be it the current building or redevelopment on the property — based on ideas sent by email and posted on KTW’s Facebook page: • Indigenous eatery • Pita Pit • Old school arcade • Indoor skate park • Healing centre • Hot dog stand
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The North Shore Business Improvement Association has a new president. Sarah Lawson, general manager of Dignity Memorial Funeral Homes (which consists of First Memorial Funeral Services on Tranquille Road in North Kamloops and Schoening Funeral Service on Seymour Street downtown), became president in February, succeeding Bryce Herman. Herman will remain as pastpresident during his last year on the board. Lawson has been on the board for two years. “Priorities are to continue what we’re doing on the North Shore and make sure our members voices are heard,” Lawson told KTW. We’re hearing their struggles and looking after what’s troubling them and what’s going great. Big time getting our people together and having our members engaged and putting on community events, face-toface again, celebrating the North Shore in our community.”
Lawson said members are anxious to reopen and are happy to have people back in their businesses as restrictions have eased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kamloops council last week unanimously approved the NSBIA’s budget, as well as half of the NSBIA’s 2022 levy, which equates to a total of $231,785 (the second half will be approved and released later this year). This year, the levy, which is funded by North Kamloops commercial property owners, is increasing by four per cent. The levy was last renewed for five years in 2019. NSBIA executive director Jeremy Heighton told KTW the additional money this year will help with community outreach, events communication and more. “Making sure that we really have resources available to appropriately staff and deliver on our mandate,” he said. Heighton told city council that as tough as the last two years have been on businesses, supply chain issues, staff shortages and
a minimum wage hike on June 1 will only increase pressure. “This year is going to be a really challenging year for businesses, so we’re really wanting to step up,” Heighton said. Last year, the NSBIA ended the year with a $30,000 surplus. The surplus funds are expected to be used for murals and advertising this year. Heighton said beautification will be a focus for the next couple of years. “This has been in the hopper a long, long time,” Heighton said, noting initiatives such as parking space delineation, sidewalk improvements, planters, lighting and pedestrian safety improvements have the greatest impact. As for the return of the Customer Care and Patrol (CAP) Team to North Kamloops, Heighton said the area does not need a significant tourism team, but could use junior community services (formerly bylaws) officers or outreach workers. He envisions the program as a recruitment for CSOs and said he expects more to come on that initiative in the fall.
The New name of the Grand Forks Arena was renamed in March 2022 with three generations of the Goddard family attending. Great Grandson of Jack Goddard Sr, Kaiden, played in the U18 tournament hosted that weekend and could not have been more proud to play in his great grandfather's honour Pictured right to left is Jack Goddard Jr, Jarrod Goddard and Kaiden Goddard (goalie from Kamloops).
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Kamloops Fire Rescue had to use the Jaws of Life last week in a rescue operation that was for the dogs. A fire crew was called to a house in Aberdeen just after 7 p.m. on March 16 after a four-month-old puppy had somehow gotten its head caught in a metal table frame, platoon Capt. Darrell Cooper told KTW. Using the Jaws of Life, the metal bars were stretched so the dog could pull its head loose and get free from the frame without injury. KAMLOOPS FIRE RESCUE PHOTOS
Do you know of a pictureperfect pine or marvellous maple? The City of Kamloops is looking to identify notable trees in the community and share them through a new web-based tool. The city’s civic operations director, Jen Fretz, said residents will be able to find, through their phone, different locations in the city. She called it a “boutique tourist draw.” “We have lots of people who are super interested in this kind of thing, so why not?” Fretz told KTW. “It’s something that’s relatively straightforward for us to do. It celebrates the great work of our parks team and it celebrates the trees that most people just drive by or walk by
and don’t ever really pay attention to, but to highlight some of these things. It’s like, ‘Hey, I never knew that fantastic tree was in my neighbourhood.’” Age and species are some qualities that make a tree notable. One significant tree already identified is a Rocky Mountain juniper on Tatlow Road, adjacent Heffley Creek elementary school. Fretz said the tree is more than 100 years old. Asked if the initiative will help to preserve notable trees in town, Fretz said it is more for education purposes and the trees identified thus far are not in any danger of being removed. To report a notable tree (it should be truly notable and not one that you simply have an affinity to), contact the city’s civic operations call centre at 250-828-3461.
You are invited to Celebrate Our Makers. The Kamloops Chamber of Commerce is turning the spotlight on businesses throughout the Thompson Valley that make our community distinct. We are taking a closer look at the people behind the scenes, behind the creation, and behind the experience - asking what is it that you create? Let’s find out.
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eet Vicci Weller, Film Commissioner for the ThompsonNicola Film Commission. Vicci connects the film industry to our bal region by marketing the Thompson-Nicola as a location of choice. On a daily basis, Vicci works with location scouts, professional photographers, guides, business owners, persons with special expertise and production companies to have motion picture and digital media productions filmed in the region. Not only is it cool to see our region on the big screen (check out the Past Productions page on the Film Commission’s website), the film industry is a fantastic economic booster, and a great way to
put our region on the map. Local service providers, hotels, restaurants, and rental agencies are just a few of the industries that are positively impacted by filming. Vicci’s favourite part of the job is connecting different sectors and people to the project. She loves when she’s able to give someone an opportunity for another
revenue stream by renting out their field or quaint coffee shop to use as a film set. ‘The film industry used to be seen as an industry for the elite; now we all get to experience it. Maybe you’re part of a scene with your favourite actor, or part of the crew and experiencing the action from the inside, or you’re a local business hired
by the film company during a trying time. I love seeing what the industry can do for our region. The movies filmed here are done with amazing stunts and special effects that bring magic to the set, the movie, the region, and the big screen. I love being able to create that magic.’
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Asterea Robertson’s image of mountains was created while in Grade 6 at A.E. Perry elementary in the 2020-2021 school year. The creation was part of the Kamloops-Thompson school district’s Young Artists Conference.
Dylan Fredrickson created this artwork while in Grade 7 at Arthur Stevenson elementary in the 2020-2021 school year. The creation was part of the Kamloops-Thompson school district’s Young Artists Conference.
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God waits for us at rock bottom
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he term “rock bottom” is used to describe the lowest point(s) we hit in our life experience. It’s where we crash land, come face to face with reality and need to decide how to move forward. For many Christians, hitting rock bottom is an integral part of their life story. It’s often the first step on a journey that leads them to put real, life-altering faith in Jesus Christ, try his gospel, walk with him and find a true path forward. This path often allows them to grow and mature until they can testify to the world of Jesus’ grace and love. The Book of Mormon contains a rock bottom story like this — for an entire nation. On the surface, it may be a story about stumbling and failing to accept God’s warning messages, but it’s about even more than that. To the Nephite nation, which called itself God’s people, it’s the story of the time the Nephites killed God’s prophet, a man named Abinadi. The story begins around 160 BC, somewhere in the Americas, under the reign of King Noah, the unrighteous son of King Zeniff. When King Noah’s reign began, he immediately replaced his father’s wise priests with prideful ones who wanted impressive buildings and parties instead of impressive people. As “spiritual leaders,” these priests believed that as long as they professed to teach the Law of Moses, they would be
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share through their chained prisoner. Despite King Noah’s desperate and repeated attempts to stop Abinadi’s message by ordering that he be taken away and slain, no one in his court could withstand the power of Abinadi’s words. They believed him when he said God would slay any man who touched him before he finished God’s message to the king and his pretend priests. Unprepared for, and paralyzed by, the power of Abinadi’s words, the king’s court heard prophecies about Jesus Christ and learned of his power to save them from the dangerous situation they had created — if they would put trust in Christ and begin to keep the commandments they pretended to teach. Some choice final words convinced King Noah to let Abinadi go, but the cunning priests appealed to their king’s pride and convinced him to ignore his conscience. So, the Nephites, the people who considered themselves God’s people, slayed God’s prophet. They then mourned as all of Abinadi’s prophecies came to pass, leaving them leaderless and enslaved by their enemies, the Lamanites. This is the Nephite peoples’ rock bottom moment in the Book of Mormon. They looked for someone to blame while grieving their situation and losses, but eventually realized they could only blame themselves. They finally began to try Abinadi’s teachings. They start-
ed praying, waiting and hoping for a sign that this “Jesus Christ” who had sent Abinadi would listen to them. And he did listen — with the perfect grace and forgiveness he gives to all people. These Nephites felt hope as they built a relationship with Jesus Christ. He helped them find peace in their slavery. The miracle, which they wouldn’t experience for a few more years, was that God had prepared a rescue party before they had even met Abinadi. But that’s a story for another day. The Nephites’ episode with Abinadi is intense, dramatic and powerful. Through his prophet, Abinadi, God sent an indisputable warning message to a group of people he loved. Additionally, his message ensured that these imperfect children knew they could still turn to him for help even if they ignored his messenger and lost everything. May we remember, as these Nephites did, that Jesus Christ is still always there to love, help and heal us, even when we hit any personal rock bottom. I invite you to read the story of Abinadi in The Book of Mormon, starting in Mosiah chapter 11. Andrew Lamb is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kamloops. KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Columns should be between 600 and 800 words in length and can be emailed to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com. Please include a very short bio and a photo.
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Introduce your little one to the museum through hands on exploration and artifact handling, stories, songs, and a caregiverassisted craft. Each session offers flexibility for young children to engage in the museum world through a variety of sensory and play experiences.. Kamloops Museum and Archives Wed Apr 6 - Jun 22 10:00–10:45 am 12/$105
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ARCTIC CIRCLE by Alex Hallatt
PARDON MY PLANET by Vic Lee
BABY BLUES
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WEEKLY HOROSCOPES
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22
Spending time alone could be good for you this week, Aries. While working toward your goals, you also are enjoying some muchneeded peace and quiet.
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GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21
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Leo, a fantastic investment opportunity comes your way but there is a lot of red tape that could get in the way if you let it. Work through all angles to make things happen.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22
A collaboration with someone close to you yields surprising results, Gemini. You may have been looking for inspiration for some time and finally found it.
- Sept 23/Oct 23
Libra, a rigid schedule may work for some, but not everyone. Incorporate a little flexibility into your life and others may be flocking to your laid-back style.
Cancer, a longing for adventure points you in all sorts of different directions over the next few days. You have to try on a few different hats to find the right fit.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23
Your friends may be pushing you to move forward since you seem to be stuck in the past, Taurus. Don’t stay stagnant for too long or you may lose motivation for change.
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- Oct 24/Nov 22
Talk to someone about a creative idea that you have had, Scorpio. This person may offer valuable feedback that can guide you as you try to flesh out your idea into something tangible.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21
Virgo, idolizing someone can have its plusses and minuses. You may have a picture of a person that is impossible to live up to. Temper your expectations.
Sagittarius, you may be interested in having a lot of fun, but someone keeps throwing a wet blanket on your ideas. Don’t let it derail your plans.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20 It’s easy to give opinions and pick sides, but don’t get pinned down to a particular position until you’ve tried several different options, Capricorn. Then you’ll have a good idea.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Others may not understand the way you manage money, Aquarius. But you have a clear understanding of your particular brand of logic.
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Pisces, friends are a strong presence in your life right now and you are very grateful for all that they provide you. Let them know.
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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. ‘‘Bon ____!’’ 8. ‘‘See ya later!’’ 13. It covers more than 30 percent of the earth’s surface 20. Donna ____, member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet 21. Klein who wrote the best seller ‘‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’’ 22. Desert whose soil has been compared with that of Mars 23. Biting writings 24. Breakfast treat 25. Persuades a customer to pay more 26. ‘‘Or so’’ 27. Much of a delivery person’s income 29. Makes a choice 31. Hoppin’ 32. Prearranged 33. Suffix with official 34. Nickel found in a pocket, say 35. Actor Barinholtz of ‘‘The Mindy Project’’ 36. Classic Camaro 38. ____ K. Smith, poet who won a Pulitzer for ‘‘Life on Mars’’ 40. Cosmetic that can be applied with a brush 42. Neighbors of exclamation marks 43. ‘‘La Dolce ____’’ 45. Stuffed one’s face 47. Bump on a frog 49. Question regarding a mic 51. Hubbub 52. One of the Blues Brothers 55. Above criticism 56. Question from the befuddled 57. Syrian city with a historic citadel 58. What ‘‘10’’ can mean
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DOWN 1. Home of St. Clare 2. Starfleet weapon 3. Election night calculation .?.?. or what’s traced by the circled letters 4. Name that’s 6-Down backward 5. Save it for a rainy day! 6. La Corse, par exemple 7. Brewery employee 8. Comb through 9. Bubs 10. Worker’s ‘‘on vacation’’ inits. 11. ‘‘Actually, I disagree’’ 12. Rococo painter of ‘‘Allegory of the Planets and Continents’’ 13. They might be pregnant 14. Organic energy compound, for short 15. ‘‘Mi ____ es su ____’’ 16. Part of a cold compress 17. Become clear .?.?. or make like the object represented by the circled letters 18. ‘‘So then my response was .?.?. ’’ 19. Hereditary divisions 28. Physicist Newton 30. Loyalty that’s pledged 37. Lemonlike fruit 38. Big rigs 39. ‘‘Well, fine then’’ 40. Age beautifully, informally 41. Cuss out 42. Big Brother’s creator 44. Pink pad on a paw, in slang 46. The Lord, in the Hebrew Bible 48. Start of a simple request 49. Roly-poly, scientifically 50. ____ torte (Austrian cake)
53. Warm-up act 54. Move shakily 59. Ross Perot founded it in 1995 60. Lack of engagement 61. More wacky 62. ‘‘You’re just assuming’’ 68. It’s blown in the winds 70. Showed off one’s pipes 77. Airport with a Harvey Milk terminal: Abbr. 78. Harry Styles tune about a woman who ‘‘lives in daydreams’’ 79. Lines of notes 80. Sight line? 81. Cooked with hot seasoning 82. Prefix with -lithic 83. Not against the rules 84. It’s under @ on a keyboard 85. ____ lodge 86. Rowing machine, informally 87. Event for moving vehicles 88. Super 89. Actress Tatum 91. Folk medicine practitioner 94. Foolish sort 96. Sports fan’s cheer 97. Universal Human Rights Mo. 100. Ability to sustain long-term interest 101. Kiss, in Kent 104. Sports fan’s cheer 105. Gift wrapper’s final touch 106. Nail-polish brand 107. Buffet table item 108. Zoo animal whose name rhymes with ‘‘zoo’’
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to Spring.
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SUDOKU FUN BY THE NUMBERS
Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
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The Under 40 Awards are a program designed to recognize those in our community who go above and beyond in a variety of fields and endeavours.
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We'll select 10 amazing individuals to receive our inaugural awards at a special reception in April and profile them in our special Under 40 Awards publication on April 27, 2022.
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email Tim Shoults (tshoults@kamloopsthisweek.com) with “UNDER 40” in the subject header with the name of the person you’d like to nominate and a brief description of what makes them worthy of recognition. DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: FRIDAY, APRIL 8 at 5 pm
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