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MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE TOURNAMENT CAPITAL

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45 Years of Dodge Quality Forty-five — it's not really middle age but there's a lot of history, a lot of experiences, a lot of living behind those four-and-a-half decades.

For Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram, that time span has meant some deep roots established in the River City — and in families that, from grandpa to mom and dad to son or daughter, have been united in their loyalty to the dealership and the cars it sells.

As Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram celebrates its 45th year in the city, those two digits will be prominent in pricetags, said general manager Dave Jacobs, as he and his staff, many of them long-time employees, celebrate the anniversary.

There will be plenty of time spent looking back at the beginning of those deep roots, when the original dealership started out in the area where McCracken's Pub can now be found. From there, it moved east into the 2300-block of the East Trans-Canada Highway on a lot it rapidly outgrew. As more and more people came — and more and more cars were sold — it became necessary to find a larger location, which led the dealership to move to its current site right in the middle of the Auto Mall strip at 2525 East Trans-Canada Highway, where Moore's Motel used to sit.

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And, as the dealership grew, so did the cars it sold, as Chrysler introduced new models, dropped others, merged lines together and continued to bring to Kamloopsians cars and trucks ideally suited for the area terrain and driving requirements.

There are many reasons why Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram has not just remained a fixture in the community but is a business that has grown, Jacobs said.

Perhaps the biggest in his mind is the dedication of everyone at the dealership to customer service.

The simple reality is technology has moved cars and trucks forward and "all cars are good now. All trucks are good now," Jacobs said, so there has to be more that brings people back to the dealership.There has to be that dedication, the personal touch, the ever-expanding knowledge required to service vehicles.

Derek Johnston agrees. Now retired, the man who used to be in the office every day said one of the strongest assets Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram has is its staff, many of whom have been there for decades.

They know the vehicles, they know the customers and they know how to make sure every

interaction lives up to what Kamloopsians want.

Technology has changed the industry and, especially what happens in the service bays. Those long-time employees "are technicians now. They're no longer mechanics," Johnston said.

Talk to any of the service staff there and you'll find they agree. Everything under the hood — and pretty much everywhere else in a vehicle — has dramatically changed from the old days when any car buff would spend a Saturday morning changing the spark plugs or draining and replacing the oil.

Environmental awareness is one reason.

The average person simply isn't equipped to properly dispose of any old oil, for example.

Technology is another reason. The heart of the engine isn't the carburetor anymore — it's the computer that, in many models, not just tells you when you need an oil change but will let you know through a dashboard indicator or even a warning voice if you've used the wrong weight.

So, there's plenty to celebrate this year as Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram marks its 45th year selling cars and trucks to Kamloopsians and Jacobs and his staff are inviting everyone to take part in the party with sales promotions and specials almost every week of the year.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Kamloops’ population, according to Statistics Canada’s 2011 census, is 85,678

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HE KAMLOOPS CHAMBER OF Commerce has been handing out little buttons that have a big message.

“What Are You For?” the round buttons ask, the implication being it is easy to be against something, but it takes some creativity and effort to be for something — to advocate for an issue that will better the community.

The buttons display the truth.

It is easy to oppose and, sometimes, it is an admirable and necessary action.

However, promoting and getting behind a positive idea can literally change the world.

Think of the Canadian brothers, Craig and Mark Kielburger, social activists who, while still pre-teens, laid the foundation for what are now the movements known as Free the Children and Me to We. The endeavour began as a way to bring attention to the horrors of child labour in Third World nations.

Today, youth in Kamloops and across the world embrace the movement and its message, which, distilled to its core, urges one and all to help make the world in which we live a better place — to make a difference.

Making a difference is the theme of this year’s Kamloops This Week Progress magazine.

We set out to profile the Kamloopsians who, dayto-day, do things that help others — not for money, not for glory, but for the good of the community.

In these pages, you will meet a cross-section of altruism, from artists and musicians, to current and former Mounties, to university students and seniors, all of whom have decided to make a difference in Kamloops.

The lessons in giving are plenty, from Emma Compton spending her time teaching fellow students art to the South Kamloops Titans senior girls’ basketball team exemplifying perseverance and

dedication to a cause.

Being a newspaper and a community leader in online information, the staff at Kamloops This Week is, on a daily basis, immersed in the “hard news” that happens in the Tournament Capital.

It is refreshing, therefore, to offer up a slice of the city that may not make the headlines and dominate water-cooler conversation.

It is also an honour to introduce these everyday heroes to our readers.

In these pages, you will learn about your fellow Kamloopsians, all of whom state what they are for through their actions.

We hope you enjoy their stories and we encourage you to join them as they continue to make Kamloops that much better.

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DID YOU KNOW?

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Young leader, bright future

By Marty Hastings KTW STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

K

IRSTI CREASER MIGHT NOT BE from Kamloops, but she has made a difference in this community through her work with Enactus Thompson Rivers.

The student-run, non-profit organization at Thompson Rivers University operates programs designed to increase the standard of living and quality of life in Kamloops.

Creaser, a 20-year-old arts student from Campbell River, was recently recognized for her volunteer work with young mothers through Enactus, winning a Scotiabank Bright Future Young Leaders Award, one of only six Canadians and 12 worldwide to receive the honour.

“Just the feeling of seeing their smiles every day and actually knowing that I’m helping teach

them and somehow improving their lives in one way or another feels amazing,” Creaser said.

Winning the award came as a welcome surprise.

“I applied online a year ago and I completely forgot about it,” said Creaser, who helps mothers between the ages of 14 and 24 achieve their education goals.

“A year later, my reference got a call about making sure my volunteer hours were correct and then I got a call saying I got it.

“It was an amazing day.”

She received a tablet-computer device from Scotiabank for personal use and $2,500 to donate in her name to a charity of her choice.

Creaser decided to give the money to Enactus, for which she also runs financial-literacy workshops.

“It’s a pretty amazing feeling,” she said.

“Surreal, actually.”

Creaser started volunteering time at Carihi

secondary in Campbell River and carried the benevolence on to university in the Tournament Capital.

She plans on pursuing a bachelor of social work degree at TRU. “I would really love working with young mothers or First Nations bands,” said Creaser, who has volunteered about 200 hours of her time with Enactus in a two-year period.

This year marked the first time Scotiabank handed out the Young Leaders awards.

“These young people represent the next generation of community leaders and remind us of the essential role of volunteers to the long-term operation of charitable organizations,” said Sylvia Chrominska, Scotiabank’s group head of global human resources and communications.

“It is exciting to have youth from communities join us in building this tradition of creating bright futures one community at a time.”

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“Teaching’s been good for me,” says Kris Ruston. “It keeps me up to date with what’s going on.”

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Meet a musical mentor

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

Who knows what triggered Kris Ruston to become a musician?

Perhaps it was listening to the tales of his dad, a country musician who co-wrote songs with Charlie Pride and performed with the likes of Ferlin Husky and Whispering Bill Anderson.

Maybe it was listening to the family’s records.

It could have been sharing the North Shore nightclub his parents ran with the many bands that came in for sound checks before they would perform — at which time a young Kris would be home in bed.

Maybe it was something as simple as being that little kid in a walker, motoring across the dance floor of Joe’s Cabaret and spinning under the disco light, perhaps dreaming of sharing a spotlight himself one day.

Whatever it was, fast forward to now and Ruston, 8 KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK Tuesday, March 26, 2013

33, teaches budding musicians, works his magic in production and engineering, plays guitar, bass, keyboards and, in a pinch, percussion, writes, sings in a bucketful of bands in the area — and just generally makes music.

Steeped in dad’s country roots and taught at an early age to play organ, Ruston studied jazz guitar at Capilano College and found work outside the classroom as a session musician.

Ruston would take advantage of those opportunities to “pick the brains of the producers” and set up a small studio at home when he returned to Kamloops.

He picked up some clientele, went back to the music teaching he had started right out of high school and hopped into his Volkswagen with some portable recording equipment to head out and offer to make demos for local bands.

While he loves to make music — and will likely move more into that area when his wife returns to work after a maternity leave and he becomes a stay-at-home

dad — Ruston said it is teaching that keeps him completely connected to that world.

“Teaching’s been good for me. It keeps me up to date with what’s going on,” he says.

He learns about the genres kids are listening to today from the tracks they suggest to him, from YouTube videos they email him to check out and from the general studio banter that is always about the music.

With the music industry in constant flux and actual albums in any format becoming more and more obsolete, Ruston says it’s important to ensure young musicians “understand what their roots are,” something he sees as important a role for a music teacher as is ensuring every chord is played properly.

It’s why his role as a teacher remains integral to his music.

“It’s the most important part of what I do, getting kids involved and stoked,” Ruston says. “I don’t care what they’re playing. I’m excited that they’re excited.”

DID YOU KNOW?

The CIty of Kamloops issued 5,347 business licences in 2012

Altruistic army heart of city What would Kamloops be without volunteers?

The Tournament Capital would be a shadow of itself if not for the thousands of people to give selflessly to ensure events of all manner succeed.

Look no further than this summer, when 3,500 athletes will arrive in Kamloops to take part in the 2013 BC Seniors Games.

Without volunteers, such events wouldn’t get off the ground.

If you are looking to volunteer or looking for volunteers, look no further than Volunteer Kamloops, which works for community agencies that need volunteers.

Volunteer Kamloops is the middle man, so to speak, but the group works hard to ensure the connection between volunteers and agencies goes as smoothly as possible.

That often means doing nothing at all — just letting the two sides meet via the magic of the Internet.

People can visit Volunteer Kamloops’ website at volunteerkamloops.org and get all the information

they need, with the site allowing agencies looking for volunteers to post wanted ads stating exactly what they need.

Prospective volunteers scour the posts, take down the information and connect with the group on their own.

“I enjoy volunteering because I like it and not because I have to,” said Kamloops resident Rodney Jackson in his testimonial.

“I enjoy helping the community, getting out of the house and off the couch. It helps my mind.”

The Volunteer Kamloops website receives up to 500 unique visitors each month.

In addition to the Internet service, Volunteer Kamloops also does things the old-fashioned way — in its Seymour Street office, where it will refer about 60 people per month.

Volunteer Kamloops employs three staff members and charges organizations a modest membership rate of $50 per year.

The service is free for volunteers.

For more information about Volunteer Kamloops, visit the website or call 250-372-8313.

The office, located at 705 Seymour St., is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

An Erma Bombeck quote on the Volunteer Kamloops website sums up the importance of those who give of their time: “Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.”

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DID YOU KNOW? United Way supports Métis youth United Way’s investment in the Circle of Care program at Lii Michif Otipemisiwak (LMO) has made a difference in the lives of many Métis youth in our community. From assisting a vulnerable female youth, who otherwise would have hitch hiked to an unknown destination in the lower mainland, by buying her a bus ticket to buying another young man a pair of ice skates so he could go skating with his cousin in the wake of his mother’s sudden and tragic death.

According to Colleen Lucier, Executive Director at LMO, the connection they have with United Way has opened doors they wouldn’t have considered.

“We had no funding for a celebration on Louis Riel Day but through United Way we were connected to the United Steelworkers Local 7619 and they agreed to host a pancake breakfast,” she says. “Not only did this event bring the community together it also made a direct impact in the lives of four youth who were there that day.”

One of those youth is Philip, an 18-year-old Métis youth from Blue River. Since relocating to Kamloops in September 2012 LMO has helped establish him in the community and is now helping him navigate applying to Thompson Rivers University.

“They’ve helped me set a direction for where I’m going in life,” he says. “I appreciate everything they’ve done for me.”

LMO provides a variety of culturally based preventative and support services to Métis children, youth and families residing within Kamloops.

Wendy Chernivchan is the Michif Circle of Care Facilitator who works with Philip and other youth at LMO. She offers one-on-one support that includes everything from accessing services to daily living skills like grocery shopping, cooking lessons and filling out job or rental applications.

“The funding from United Way is a cornerstone of the program. It allows me to provide youth financial stability when they have no other means,” Wendy says.

The impact of USW 7619 on Philip did not stop at the Louis Riel celebration. He joined them a few months later and volunteered at the Canadian Mental Health Association’ turkey dinner and plans to get out with them again soon.

“My mantra is that no one ever walks alone,” says Jim McCarthy a member of USW 7619

and a long-time volunteer in the community and supporter of United Way. As a community impact organization, fundraising is only a part of what United Way does.

Collaboration and bringing together donors and Community Partners is also an important part of their work.

“At LMO we are well-connected to the Aboriginal community but not very connected to the non-aboriginal community. United Way has been that bridge for us,” Colleen says.

“The funding from United Way is a cornerstone of the program.

It allows me to provide youth financial stability when they have no other means.”

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Salvation Army volunteer Kevin Kane has been helping with the Sally Ann’s mobile kitchen since he moved to Kamloops nine years ago. Dave Eagles/KTW

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When the Kamloops Salvation Army needs a last-minute volunteer, they often turn to Kevin Kane.

About twice a month, Kane can be found manning the mobile kitchen behind the Kamloops Daily News building on Seymour Street, where the Salvation Army serves up a free hot meal two times a week.

He’ll pick up the evening’s food from the Army headquarters, the kitchen from its space at the city yard, and set up tables and garbage cans while he waits for other volunteers to show up and dinner service to start at about 6 p.m.

Depending on the night, he’ll help serve between 60 and 100 people over the next hour.

“Sometimes it depends on the weather, the amount of transients that are going through,” he says.

There are economic factors at play, too.

“It’s sad. There’s some seniors that by the time they pay their rent they don’t have much money for food.”

Between his regular kitchen shifts, Kane also acts as a fillin when other volunteers fall through.

“Lots of times people stand them up, or they can’t show up for some reason,” he says. “I’m kind of like an emergency contact for them as well.”

Kane, a facilities-gaming

specialist for the B.C. Lottery Corporation, originally attended a Salvation Army church while living in Ontario.

When he moved to Kamloops nearly a decade ago, he became friends with the minister of the local organization and has volunteered ever since.

“I just wanted to help,” he says.

When not lending a hand in the kitchen, he also pitches in at the Kamloops SPCA. “For myself, it makes me feel good,” Kane says of his volunteer service.

“I always strive to be a better person.

“I like to think that if I try every day to be a better person, then eventually I’ll get there one day.”

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Like many success stories, it began with a dream.

Wine entered Ed and Vicki’s lives gradually. Throughout their careers, they visited wine regions in other parts of the world, particularly Australia and Chile, and were struck by the similarity in climate to the Thompson River Valley. The possibility of starting a vineyard crept into the couple’s minds and a weekend getaway overlooking the vines in the Okanagan cemented their desire to create their own vineyard.

With a firm vision, but no vineyard or winemaking experience, the couple sought consultation and advice from several industry veterans to help set them on the right path. Along the way, Vicki Collett the Colletts came to recognize that the land they had chosen for their vineyard had so BC-born Vicki Collett, co-owner of much more under the surface than just ideal limestone-veined grape-growing soil.

“The first estate Harper’s Trail, has experience in both the hospitality industry and administraToday, the 23-acre vineyard shows the promise for wine growing in the Thompson winery in Kamloops, tion - two very important areas when Harper’s Trail is located Valley. With careful attention to the land, the Colletts are committed to showcasdeciding to open and run a winery. It was just outside the city on the Vicki’s love of food and wine, along with a ing Kamloops to the world as a place in BC where one can craft fresh, fruitweekend wine-tasting trip to the Naramata banks of the South Thompson driven, quality wines.

Bench in the Okanagan, which led her and River. The wines are made at husband Ed Collett to start having conversaThere is nowhere in British Columbia like the riverside setting of Harper’s the Okanagan Crush Pad in tions about owning a winery. “I simply like Trail. The South Thompson River is on the vineyard’s doorstep, with myriad food and wine, and in no particular order,” says Summerland by veteran Michael Vicki. birds, ma jestic eagles, bulrushes and beautiful wintering swans.

Bartier, who has done a fine job with this white. Off-dry but with reComposing the backdrop to the vines are rolling hills of sage and anteEd Collett freshing acidity for balance, it offers lope brush and ma jestic, mysterious hoodoos carved into clay banks.

Kamloops-bred Ed Collett, co-owner of Harper’s up stone fruit, apple, lime and minBighorn sheep, mule deer, and bears graze and roam.

Trail, has always used hard work and his wits to eral flavours on a pleasantly chalky achieve whatever goal he decided was important.

In the vineyard is a fully productive natural spring that offers texture. Try it with light seafood.”

Whenever Ed has faced adverse situations, he has further biodiversity to this special place. The Colletts are proud to managed to work them to his advantage. Add to all this -The Globe and Mail a love of wine, deep respect for the land, and ability to be the pioneers who are forging this emerging wine region, and ask for help and bring in experts, and you have a winery they are inspired to share the history, beauty, and flavours of that is making history in BC’s newest winemaking hot spot. their unique site with the people of Kamloops and beyond.

Harper’s Trail would love to hear from you.

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John Dranchuk Harper’s Trail vineyard manager John Dranchuk has been making his way on his own since he was 17 years old. He began working with Richard Cleave of R & R Vineyard Management in the 1992, and stayed there for 10 years. Next stop was Mission Hill’s Estate Winery for five years, and now Harper’s Trail. He took formal viticultural courses at Okanagan College in Oliver, BC, in the midst of his hands-on learning and finds many rewards working with his current team.

Michael Bartier Michael Bartier is consulting winemaker to Harper’s Trail. He crafts the wine at the Okanagan Crush Pad facility in Summerland, BC, where he is head winemaker and responsible for a number of labels.

Michael, who brings his sharp wit and knowing nose to work every day, firmly believes that the biggest myth in winemaking is winemaking because, “Wine isn’t made; it’s grown.”

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He doesn’t take a mulligan when it comes to community service. Be it playing piano for seniors or singing in his school’s choir, Kevin Mulligan’s community service has a sweet sound.

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When Kevin Mulligan’s grandmother moved into The Hamlets at Westsyde five years ago, he did what any good grandson would do and headed over to visit his nana.

Then, he saw the grand piano in the facility and sat down to play.

Soon, some of the residents were listening, smiling, enjoying the music — and Kevin had found yet another way to help others while pursuing his love of music.

Now, Kevin and his brother, Eric, head over to the home, where they visit with their nana and play for the residents at least once a week.

The 17-year-old Grade 12 student at St. Ann’s Academy has been playing piano since he was five, adding the trombone to his resume when students were asked to pick a musical instrument to learn when he was in Grade 7.

Now, the teenager writes music, sings in his school’s jazz and regular choirs, plays in the school band, heads down to The Art We Are on summer days to perform and volunteers with B.C. Living Arts.

Truth be told, his gigs at the Victoria Street art-food-culture venue is as much for “the really great food there� as it is to entertain, Kevin says.

All this while maintaining what he shyly admits is a pretty good academic standing — more than 90 per cent in the 2011-2012 school year, according to a newsletter put out by the local Catholic diocese.

His many extracurricular activities led to the Kamloops Daybreak Rotary Club to recognize his community service recently.

Kevin was given $100 as part of the honour.

With graduation looming, Kevin is going to take a year off to focus on his music, but has his eye on heading to the Coast and studying his passion at the University of Victoria — “if they’ll take me.�

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A sandwich artist like no other

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I’ll be here as long ass they let me. If that’s up until 99, then 99.

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UDY CRUIC CRUICKSHANK’S SANDWICHES GO QUICKLY. By 8:30 aa.m., the tray of ham and cheese, egg other varieties she brings to the Wal-Mart salad and ot break b k room eachh workday is half empty.

By 9 a.m., most every sandwich is claimed, along with a turnover, cookies or another of the day’s dessert options.

In return for the lunch, Cruickshank’s co-workers pay $2, which she donates to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Over almost two decades, tthey’ve helped the 61-yearold greeter donate $138,000 to sick kids. because I love kids,” says “It’s rewarding to me, beca Cruickshank, a term she uses to refer to the younger WalMart employees and the childr children benefitting from their lunch money.

“And the more I can do the merrier. This way I get

everyone involved because they can say, ‘I don’t have to go to McDonald’s, I don’t have to pack a lunch, I can stay out late and all sorts of things. And, when Judy comes in, she’s got lunch ready.’”

While she prepares the fillings for her lunches on weekends and after work, sandwich assembly begins at 3 a.m. each workday.

The early start hasn’t dimmed her energy.

At her post just inside the store’s front doors, Cruickshank greets customers with a cheery “Good morning,” when she’s not enthusing about her job — the chats she has with seniors who know her by name, the smiles she exchanges with the kids who come in to shop, the kids she works with who made sure she was the first to know about a recent engagement.

She refers to her time greeting and lunch-making as “19 years of complete passion.”

Watching her, it’s hard to argue.

“I’ll be here as long as they let me. If that’s up until 99, then 99,” she says. “I can’t see me ever stopping.”

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“Our Specialty is Satisfied Customers” Terry Lowe and his team at Kamloops Volkswagen have long been involved in community projects, since the days when the dealership flew the Saturn flag.

This playground in Riverside Park and the annual VW Turtle Race are just two of the many projects undertaken by Lowe’s crew. Dave Eagles/KTW

A different kind of contributor

By Andrea Klassen KTW STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

It was supposed to be a different kind of car company.

But, while Saturn ceased to exist as of 2009, the community spirit the company helped to foster in Kamloops lives on.

“Car dealers in general have kind of a bad rap about how we treat customers,” admits Terry Lowe, owner of the Kamloops Volkswagen dealership in Valleyview — which operated as Kamloops Saturn between 1991 and 2009.

“So, Saturn was developed to try to change those things.”

Giving back to the community formed a major part of the brand’s mandate.

While car dealerships typically make donations to hospitals and children’s sports groups, Lowe said he and the team at Kamloops Saturn wanted to do more and focus their efforts on kids.

In 1997, the team worked with the city to build a playground in Riverside Park.

More playground equipment followed the next year.

In 1999, the dealership pitched in to help St. Ann’s Academy build a basketball court.

After that, it helped build another play-

ground in McDonald Park.

However, because of the high cost of equipment, the dealership’s $5,000 contributions weren’t making huge dents.

Lowe decided to get the community to chip in as well and, in 2002, the Saturn Turtle River Race was born.

The event, now called the VW Turtle River Race, is simple to describe — dump 4,000 plastic turtles in the river and give prizes to the first few to cross the finish line at Pioneer Park — but more difficult to execute.

“We’ve got boats out in the water, hoping there’s always a clear winner,” Lowe says.

Volunteers from the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak club follow the turtles, rescuing beached racers.

Getting 4,000 plastic turtles back out of the river also takes some doing.

“We thought about dropping it a couple of times because it’s a heck of a lot of work,” Lowe says. “But, we’ve been fairly successful in raising some funds.”

Each year, the race raises between $15,000 and $23,000, with proceeds going to youth projects from Western Canada Theatre, the B.C. Wildlife Park, the Kamloops Boys and Girls Club and Royal Inland Hospital.

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Dustin McIntyre is 23.

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T 23, DUSTIN MCINTYRE IS ABOUT TO TAKE A HIATUS FROM POLITICS. It’s a thought the Thompson Rivers University Students’ Union (TRUSU) president is still getting used to.

“I’m having a weird reflection time, where I’m timing out and I don’t know where I’ll be after this,” says McIntyre, a fourth-year anthropology student at TRU. “TRUSU has taken up my entire life since I’ve been here.”

In some ways, the local student union was in his blood long before that.

McIntyre’s mother worked the front desk of the Cariboo College student

association and used to bring him along.

Before returning to Kamloops for university, McIntyre also worked for the BCIT student government.

He first came into contact with TRUSU when he got a job in the student-run coffee shop on campus.

From there, he moved up to directorat-large, internal vice-president and, finally, president.

McIntyre says he feels driven to help his fellow students.

“TRU has perhaps not always lived up to its potential, but great things can happen and are happening here,” he says.

“So, I wanted to get involved in that.”

As president, a major portion of his job is making sure the campus — and Kamloops as a whole — knows what

the union is up to.

That means making sure students know to take advantage of services ranging from free tax services and dental coverage to discounted tickets for Kamloops Blazers games.

TRUSU also speaks on behalf of students on and off campus.

At school, McIntyre’s worked to get exam schedules to students sooner and more security phones installed on the grounds.

Off campus, TRUSU has been credited with convincing city council to pursue a 5,500-hour transit expansion last year.

McIntyre says getting two more student-advocacy representatives on the board this year was also a career highlight.

A grad student and an LGBTQ rep join those advocating for women, inter-

national students and First Nations at the university.

“These are people on campus who need representation at a different level, who perhaps are marginalized or not looked at as equals,” he says.

“To bring those positions onto our board will give them a voice on campus, on our board and also the resources they would not have had.”

While his time at TRUSU is winding down — he’ll be back for one semester next school year, but plans to step back from the union — McIntyre said he hopes to keep the activism going once he’s graduated.

“Hopefully, there’s something,” he said.

“I really enjoy what I’m doing now and I hope to expand my knowledge and my role in the Kamloops community.”

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Sultan of science He created the Big Little Science Centre in 2000 and, last year, Gordon Gore, was honoured for his ability to make science come alive.

Gore received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Award for the promotion of science.

The award is given annually to people who have made outstanding contributions in generating interest in the subject, which Gore has spent his entire career doing.

He has been teaching for six decades, he has written books on physics and he started what is arguably his biggest contribution — the Big Little Science Centre.

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While animals are indeed part of 4-H, as shown by Ainsley Dempsey in this 2009 photo (she remains in 4-H today), there are also numerous programs that do not require kids to team up with animals. These include adopt-a-grandparent, photography, small engines and public speaking. KTW file photo

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Kamloops has 82 parks that cover an area of 1,350 hectares

Helping kids learn by doing

By Tim Petruk KTW STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

For the better part of two decades, Debbie Goertzen has been a leader for local children.

It started 16 years ago when her daughter, who was nine at the time, enrolled in 4-H. “She was in it for nine years,” Goertzen said.

“She’s out of it now and I’ve never left.”

As one of two local “key leaders,” Goertzen oversees the district’s 4-H leaders and helps them with problems.

“We keep them updated on all the scholarships and programs the kids are eligible for,” she said.

“We know the program.”

Goertzen said 4-H is often thought of as being solely about kids and animals.

That is not the case.

“We use animals to get them interested,” she quipped.

“You do not have to have an animal to be in 4-H.” Goertzen pointed to programs like adopt-a-grandparent, photography, small engines and public speaking to show the diversity of the program.

“The kids that come out of 4-H are sought after if they put it on their resume,” she said.

“They’re so good with people because they’ve learned these different skills along the way.”

Because she’s been active in the program for so long, Goertzen is now seeing second-generation

4-H members.

“I’ve got kids now that their parents were in with my daughter,” she said.

“Most of the 4-H kids put their kids into 4-H because they got so much out of it.”

Goertzen said she’ll keep working with 4-H kids for the foreseeable future.

“I’ve thought about leaving, but there are a lot of things going on with us trying to get our own facility,” she said.

“The motto is ‘Learn to do by doing,’ and, when I started with 4-H, I learned that they really do that.

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Golden girls do us proud

Mark O’Neill photo

What better way to spread the word about Kamloops than to the nation and the world — via ice, rocks and a broom?

In February, the rink of Corryn Brown, Sam Fisher, Erin Pincott and Sydney Fraser went to Fort McMurray, Alta., and captured the M&M Meat Shops Junior Curling Championship.

The team was the youngest at the event and the crown was B.C.’s first national junior title since Julie Sutton’s win in 1987.

The title vaulted the River City rink onto an airplane and to Sochi, Russia, where the girls faced the world’s best junior squads.

The experience was invaluable, with the Brown rink winning three of nine games.

Highland Valley Copper Partners in the Community At Highland Valley Cooper, we consider people, the environment and our communities of interest with every decision we make.

For the past 27 years Highland Valley Copper has played a major role in the local economy and the mine employs over 1,300 people, with over half of them residing in Kamloops.

Wages and benefits for the last year totaled $169 million. The spin-off benefit of that money goes towards local services, stores and businesses.

Highland Valley Copper’s contributions to government services are also significant. The mine pays over $64 million annually in taxes to various levels of government, including fuel, provincial, federal, BC hyrdro and property taxes.

We are committed to community investment; in 2012 we provided funding through donations and sponsorship in excess of $450,000 to local charitable organizations and education. Through our Community Partnership Initiative an additional $279,000 was contributed to nonprofit organizations and other initiatives that strengthen our communities.

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Music in the Park no Small feat

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

Local musician Henry Small has made Music in the Park a staple event for Kamloops summers. KTW File photo

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Don’t ask Henry Small how many years he’s been at the helm of Music in the Park.

He can’t remember.

“You know, I’ve been trying to do that for years,” he said of looking for an answer to the the question he’s often asked. “I think this is the 20th year.”

Whatever anniversary it is, there’s no doubt Small has provided countless hours of free music to people who head to Riverside Park any night between Canada Day and Labour Day. It all started with an idea that didn’t even come from Small.

“Fred Oakley was the tourism guy at the city at the time,” Small says, “and I was on the tourism board with him and he had this idea to do music in the park. And he pushed to get this done with a minimal budget.

“Heck, we couldn’t even afford the PA system we were using and we could barely pay the musicians. The artists did it for honorariums because that’s the way it was then.”

It all began in a tiny bandshell in the park Small says wasn’t nearly as busy as it is today. He’d book bands, they’d perform — “and, for whatever reason, people came,” Small says.

City administrators took notice and, soon, the tiny bandshell was replaced with what park visitors see today and the budget grew enough that bands could be paid a bit more.

“But nothing like what most of them could get elsewhere,” Small says.

Work went into beautifying the rest of the park, creating an outdoor venue Small says never fails to amaze the musicians who set foot on the bandshell stage.

“Who knows why things work or don’t work?” Small says. “But, for 20 years, people have been entertained in the park and it cost them nothing.”

Small says he likes to walk in the park during a concert and see the many ages represented — the little children dancing along with the music, grandparents smiling, fami-

lies spending time together.

Backstage, however, it’s a different story some nights because there have been times when what was expected and what was delivered were two different things.

Of course, there are the nights when the bands arrive late — or don’t show at all — but there are also times like the night a Rod Stewart tribute performer arrived for his gig.

He looked like the singer he was there to imitate, Small says.

Then, he started to sing.

“Well, let’s just say he sure didn’t sound like Rod Stewart,” Small says.

“And then, the guy runs out of songs halfway through the set and I’m backstage dying as he sits down on the edge of the stage and asks people if they have any questions for him.

Small insists on sharing credit for the success with two partners — the City of Kamloops, which, he says, had the vision to realize almost immediately Music in the Park was creating traffic in the park, and Lee’s Music for providing the sound system.

“Mike Miltimore, he does such an awesome job, giving back to the community and he does it for far less than what they’re actually giving,” Small says.

In the beginning, most of the musicians were local or perhaps regional but the reputation of Music in the Park has grown to the point performers from across Canada and many other countries in the world contact Small, asking to perform.

He credits it to the venue.

“And the fact they’re treated well. I always have tried to treat the musicians with respect and pay as much as I could within the budget,” Small says.

While he stresses during the lead-up months trying to book bands and juggle the calendar, Small says it’s always been worth the work.

“I love entertaining people, directly or indirectly,” Small says.

“And, this is something I will be able to look back on and certainly have a sense of pride.”

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According to Environment Canada data on cities with populations of 15,000 and more, Kamloops ranks No. 1 in Canada in hottest summers

Things are looking up at RIH

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

Anyone who has ever waited to be taken into an operating room at Royal Inland Hospital knows how boring the wait can be.

There’s not much to do beyond wonder when the nurses will come for you — and stare at the ceiling.

Thanks to some creativity by students at Beattie School of the Arts secondary, that wait — and that ceiling — is a lot less dull.

The students were given free reign to create whatever mural they felt inspired to paint.

Gail Kopp, clinical educator at RIH, said most patients wait up to 20 minutes to be taken in for surgery — and the art project was created to just add a bit of diversion for them.

The idea came from a leadership session in which Kopp and other surgical staff heard about a similar project at an Ottawa hospital.

From then, it was a matter of getting it done, Kopp said.

Six tiles were removed and replaced.

The six went to the school on Ninth Avenue, where art students took on the design and painting task.

For Guy Bilodeau, seeing even the uninstalled work was uplifting.

While waiting with his wife, Joyce, Guy said the students’ works were awesome, something patients like him will appreciate.

The art resonated with him for another reason, since his children attended Beattie in the 1970s.

Lesley McLeod, operating-room manager at RIH, said the works will help brighten the day for people dealing with illnesses — and also for the staff working on the floor.

Maintenance staff at the hospital, who also helped with accessing and installing the tiles, created a plaque to install in the waiting area, recognizing the work the students did on the project.

And, for Kopp, it may not be the end of the work — there’s also the day-surgery area and plenty of other boring white tiles in the hospital.

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New Management breathes fresh air at Changes.

Change is the consistent at Changes Salon.

And, it can be as personal as a change in hair colour or style to as big as helping to change the world through the Hillside Drive salon’s participation in WaterCan, a Canadian charity.

The full Aveda-concept salon at 401-1150 Hillside Dr. has been in operation for 16 years and, during that time, owner Alana has created a family of master stylists with decades of experience in the industry.

The team includes nine professional stylists, two estheticians and customer-service representative, all trained in Aveda Advanced Education, a program run by the company that helps build technical skills and discover new artistic inspiration.

At Changes, that means providing the ultimate comfort and service to guests — including a beverage while they’re being pampered in the warm, friendly studio.

It means providing high performance with botanically based products that are better for the professionals and their customers.

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That care doesn’t stop at the studio doors, though.

Changes staff take part in Earth Month every April, raising money for the WaterCan program, which builds wells in disadvantaged countries so people there can have clean, safe drinking water.

This year, the Kamloops salon raised the most of the more than 600 Aveda salons in the country, with stylists selling raffle tickets for a haircut and colouring.

They also sold candles, held a dinner and silent auction and held a workshop for customers on how to style their hair properly to raise money for WaterCan. When they were done, they had raised more than $9,000, with Jennifer Akins collecting $1,500 of that total.

That was enough for her to be the top fundraiser at the Kamloops salon.

Akins was chosen to travel to Tilwari, India, in November with Aveda to see the well project WaterCan is involved in there.

Changes’ staff works as a family, thinks as a family and gives back as a family.

Come in and become part of the Changes family and enjoy the experience.

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Thanking you for all your support & friendship throughout 2012.

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Tayven! Tayven! Let down your hair! And, the day before her sixth birthday, she did just that — getting a haircut for the first time in her life, with the long locks being donated to the Canadian Cancer Society’s Locks of Love program. KTW file photo

Kamloops is home to one of B.C.’s finest dairies.

Blackwell Dairy has been maintaining a tradition of excellence for over one hundred years.

Back in 1913, Milton Blackwell purchased a farm east of Barnhartvale and started a dairy farm. By the spring of 1914, he was selling his cream and butter at the Farmer’s Market in Kamloops and distributing milk through a home delivery service. In 1983, the Blackwell’s built their own processing plant on their farm. From that point onwards they began to produce a full line of fluid milk products.

In addition to the milk produced by their own cows, Blackwell Dairy also receives milk from dairy farmers in the North Thompson and Shuswap Okanagan for processing and in turn distributes milk back to those regions.

Tayven Parent decided on a Rapunzel theme for her sixth birthday party last year.

After all, the young girl has been known for her long, flowing locks — just like Rapunzel — for as long as she can remember.

But, by the time the party began, that wasn’t the case because the day before, the actual day of Tayven’s sixth birthday, she got the first haircut of her life — all for a worthy cause.

“It’s gonna be short,” Tayven told KTW while waiting for the scissors to do their job.

“They’re gonna make a wig out of it and they’re gonna donate it to a girl who doesn’t have hair.”

Prior to the haircut, Tayven was more than happy to stand up and show off her long hair.

Blackwell Dairy prides itself on providing first-rate product and service. The Blackwell product is traditional, of high quality and eagerly sought throughout the interior of BC. It can be found in stores as far south as Keremeos, east to Revelstoke, west to Boston Bar, north to 108 Mile and all places in between.

Four generations of the Blackwell’s family have operated the dairy with the same high standards as the original founder, Milton Blackwell. His grandson Ted Blackwell owns the farm, while great grandson, Rob Blackwell manages the dairy processing plant with a staff of nineteen dedicated employees.

When she took out her pony tail, it fell well past her waist.

Alyssa Parent, Tayven’s mother, said her daughter’s hair had never, ever been cut prior to the big day— not even a trim of the bangs.

“Never at all,” Alyssa said.

“It grew in a way we didn’t have to cut it.”

Alyssa said Tayven was surprisingly OK with the haircut, even though she’s routinely stopped on the street by strangers and told what beautiful hair she has.

The haircut went off without a hitch.

Tayven smiled throughout and about 18 inches of hair was recovered and taken to the Canadian Cancer Society for its Locks of Love program.

Tayven now has shoulder-length hair — and another young girl battling cancer will have a beautiful wig.

The Blackwells are very involved in their community, sponsoring a 15K run through Barnhartvale. Organized by the Kamloops Ridge Runners, the Dairy provides the milk, chocolate milk and whipped cream for the pancake breakfast. Previously, Blackwell Dairy Farm Inc. has teamed up with Tim Hortons in support of the TRU Wolf Pack Kids club.

Believing strongly that milk is an essential part of childrens’ diets, we supply both 2% and chocolate milk to many childrens’ activities such as soccer, hockey, swimming and 4H. The local dietician recommends our chocolate milk as a sports recovery drink.

Blackwell Dairy Farm Inc. sponsors many dry grads, the KIB Pow Wow, the Shriners, The Harper Mountain downhill bicycle race, the Sun Peaks Holy Cow Loppett, as well as many silent auctions.

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Thompson Rivers University was founded in 1970 as Cariboo College. It became a university in 2004 and, with the designation came the name change

British Columbia Wildlife Park The British Columbia Wildlife Park continues its tradition of offering its guests a variety of “special” wildlife oriented experiences during 2013. Daily guests will learn about BC’s varied and untamed wildlife through regularly scheduled animal encounters. Be entertained by some very famous and new to the Park entertainers including Bobs and Lolo, Safari Jeff, Vancouver Aquarium’s AquaVan and Uncle Chris the Clown during this year’s extensive special events schedule. The whole family is sure to discover that with regards to wildlife “It’s all happening at the BC Wildlife Park!”.

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Carving out appreciation

Dr. Holly Schweiger receives a carving of thanks from patient Trevor Brough.

Schweiger has long volunteered as a dentist at the New Life Mission. “If it wasn’t for him and just doing it for as cheap as he does it, there’s a lot of people in town who wouldn’t be able to have teeth,” Brough said. KTW file photo

Dr. Holly Schweiger has seen a lot of mouths in his time as a dentist, but probably not like the one now hanging from the wall of his office.

It’s a piece of driftwood transformed to depict a large molar tooth on one side, leading to a big mouth filled with pearly whites.

It is surely a carving fit for a man who spends most of his time around teeth.

It’s from a grateful client who is also pretty good with his hands.

Trevor Brough has been carving driftwood for 14 years — and his latest creation is an ode to the dentist who volunteers at the New Life Mission.

“I’ve been wanting to do one for Holly Schweiger for all his hard work that he dedicates,” Brough said, noting the dentist helped him with his top dentures.

“If it wasn’t for him and just doing it for as cheap as he does it, there’s a lot of people in town who wouldn’t be able to have teeth.”

So, Brough set out to show his appreciation the only way he knew how — by carving.

There are some added features to the work that won’t be found in a regular mouth.

Schweiger’s name is inscribed across the teeth, while the back is filled with a collection of signatures from his patients over the years.

Brough said he spent about two days on the project.

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Teen a literal lifesaver

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER

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Kristen Morgan and friend Ezara Severn made a lifesaving difference in the summer when their quick actions helped save 74-year-old Lorne Barber, an avid fisherman who had fallen into Sheriden Lake and was in trouble. In February, Kristen received a silver medal from the Lifesaving Society. Dave Eagles/KTW

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T DIDN’T MATTER THAT SHE HAD NEVER TAKEN swimming lessons. Sure, Kristen Morgan can swim, but it’s not her sport — she’s been playing volleyball and soccer for years — and it’s certainly not the Kamloops teen’s strength.

But, the now-15-year-old said, instinct must have simply taken over as she and a friend spied an elderly man in a boat on Sheridan Lake near 100 Mile House last summer.

It was obvious the man was in distress and, as they watched, he fell overboard.

Kristen’s friend, Ezara Severn, ran for help and Kristen simply waded out into the lake to save the man she later learned was 74-year-old Lorne Barber, an avid fisherman.

For her successful efforts — she somehow managed to keep the man, who had many pounds and several inches on her, above water as she towed him to the dock — Kristen has received a silver medal for bravery from the Lifesaving Society.

Kristen’s mom, Debbie, knew her daughter had been nominated for the award by the volunteer fire department in Interlakes, a tiny community just up the highway from the Sheridan Lake resort at which the Morgan family was staying for the first time last year.

Fortuitously, the volunteers were at the station at the time of the manoverboard emergency, working on training exercises, so they were able to get there quickly.

Debbie didn’t tell her daughter, though, just in case the teen wasn’t accepted for the honour.

The phone call then came and the family was preparing for a trip to Vancouver, where Kristen was one of 24 British Columbians to receive recognition from the society.

Each person’s story of heroism was told as they received their certificates and medals, Debbie said.

“It pulled on your heartstrings, for sure,” she said.

Those heartstrings were pulled in a different direction on the day her daughter saved Barber.

Debbie was in the cabin, doing dishes.

Her husband, Ron, was out on the deck and younger daughter, Amy, and her friend were outside enjoying the day.

Kristen and Ezara had decided to take a rubber boat out for a float.

“I was doing the dishes and looking out the window and then I saw all these people looking and running and I thought they had flipped the boat and were in trouble,” Debbie recalled.

The family ran down to the dock and discovered Kristen was fine.

“So, I asked her why she was all wet and Ezara wasn’t and that’s when I found out she’d saved the man,” Debbie said.

Barber called Kristen a few days after the ceremony to congratulate her on her recognition, an honour the teen now describes with a shrug and selfeffacing explanation.

“I just did it,” Kristen said.

“I don’t know why.

“I just did it.”

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You see them often, off on the sidelines of sporting events, near their station at Interior Savings Centre, watching and waiting.

And, usually, that’s where you want them to remain, on the sidelines, not necessarily up close and personal.

Andy Philpot understands this reality just as he appreciated the value his brigade of St. John Ambulance first-aiders provide to the city, last year helping at 305 events and logging 15,908 hours.

Those are all volunteer hours, an average of 180 per member last year, a figure well above the required 60 hours they are supposed to put in annually.

That’s one of the realities many people don’t know, says Andy, head of the 87-member brigade — they give their time and talents for free.

They go through the requisite training to the level of a medical first responder and then may find themselves at a rodeo, a concert, a soccer game, an off-road race — waiting for the call to provide help.

The group Andy and his wife, Shirley, work with has the distinction of being the largest in the province — and there’s pressure for it to grow even more with the need to eventually create a cadet brigade with many younger than the required entrance age of 18 Andy Philpot is a fixture in the community — including at Kamloops Blazer home games, where he can be spotted pushing to get involved, too. in his St. John Ambulance gear ready to help if someone needs it. Allen Douglas/KTW “I know a cadet program in the city, it would grow quite rapidly if we could a brigade member for more than two volunteering as the events co-ordinator. Andy says. find the leadership to get it started,” The skillset learned through voldecades.

That’s not surprising, Shirley says.

Andy said. unteering serves people well, Andy Members can be nominated for and “Once you have volunteering in your Having fun is one of the primary says, noting of the 15 members who invested into the Order of St. John — blood, it’s always there,” the retired goals, says Shirley, because, “if it’s fun, something that has happened to Andy. have left in the past 18 months, five are nurse says. people will want to do it.” studying medicine at the University of Acceptance requires demonstrating “And what we do is hope they get There’s a reward at the end beyond British Columbia, one each at Queen’s a person has “gone above and beyond the bug too.” simply helping others, though. what is expected of a member and, and McMaster universities, two are in Andy feels it happens, noting uniBursaries are offered, as well as apparently, that’s me,” he says, notnursing programs in Edmonton, one is versity students who move away for divisional awards recognizing aspects ing he didn’t get to see the nomination studying dentistry in the U.S., one has jobs or to start families, “they rememof the job like skills, participation and form submitted recommending him. started chiropractic studies and three ber it and step back into volunteering. longevity.

Shirley says she got involved after have gone on to higher studies at the “And, when they come home to The Kamloops brigade has eight listening to her husband talk about his University of Victoria or Simon Fraser visit, they always stop by to see us. members who have bern recognized participation for two years and some of University.

“And, usually, they tell us they’re in for long service, including Gail Kipp, the issues the brigade was facing, now a brigade where they live.”

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A boy’s drive helps feed needy

By Andrea Klassen KTW STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

Christian Beatty, 9, shows off some of the donations from his food drive, which netted 1,127 pounds of food and $1,100 cash for the Kamloops Food Bank.

Christian wants the food drive to become an annual event. KTW file photo

As the final donations from his food drive were weighed and added up, Christian Beatty was beaming.

Over two summer days, the nine-year-old Juniper Ridge resident collected 1,127 pounds of food, plus another $1,100 in cash.

His reaction? “Ho-lee crap.”

After hearing about a fire at the Kamloops Food Bank that destroyed most of the organization’s food supplies, Christian initially set out to collect enough food to fill his parents’ truck at least once.

His first day of collection at the Juniper Market netted nearly 500 pounds of non-perishable goods.

The rest came during a second collection day at the Real Canadian Superstore.

“Lots and lots of people came,” said Christian, noting his final tally is well beyond what he had hoped.

“This is amazing,” said Bernadette Siracky, food bank executive director.

“This community supports us, always.”

Though he had never organized a food drive before this past weekend, Christian is planning an event for August of 2013 and hopes to have one every summer that follows.

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Salter of the earth

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K

EN SALTER crouched down under a bridge downtown, talking to a young man.

The youth was living there and Salter was talking to him about ways to get him off the street and access the help he might need.

The kid listened and occasionally talked but, for the most part, just took drags on his crack pipe.

Such is the day-to-day job of Salter, an outreach worker with the ASK Wellness Centre and the main point person the agency relies on to help others like the young man.

“Those are the hard ones for me,” Salter says of the young people he meets in tents on the beach, sitting on the sidewalk downtown or living under a bridge.

“They’re hard for me because I know where that will lead them.”

Worst-case scenario is they will die.

Each year on average, as many as eight people Salter will make contact with in some way — be it rebuffed, listened to or accepted for a while — will die, he says.

Best-case, they’ll hear the message he’s giving them, take advantage of services available and perhaps become like a woman who saw Salter downtown one day.

“She had two kids she was buckling into a car on Seymour Street and I walked by and she said, ‘Ken. You saved my life.’ And I smiled and said thanks and kept walking, but she ran after me.

“She grabbed me by the shoulders and spun me around and said, ‘No. You don’t’ understand. You saved my Ken Salter’s job is helping people find their footing in life. And, as one woman life. Thank you.’ reminded him, he has literally saved lives. Dave Eagles/KTW “I have to always remember that, An injury that left him unable to trouble finding jobs. when I’m working with somebody climb trees prompted a return to what It was a substitute teacher in a and it doesn’t work out, I have to was then University College of the class that led him to consider social hang on to the idea that, six months Cariboo. work when, during an exercise that from now, it may make a difference He planned to study in the revolved around listening to people for them.” forestry-technician program but, at talk about something and then Salter came to social work after the time, that industry was strugreplying with what the other pera long career as an arborist in the gling and people were having son thought was really being said, Shuswap area.

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“nobody else in the class could figure it out,” he says, “but I got it right away.”

ASK, then known as the AIDS Society of Kamloops, hired him, the fourth employee of the agency that now has about 63 staff members.

Salter started as a prison-outreach worker, visiting the then-four prisons in the area.

From there he moved into a streetoutreach position, connecting with the marginalized.

Since then, it’s morphed into more of a role helping people living on the streets to find housing.

In that role, Salter also works to point his clients in the direction of not only the team of support workers available at his own agency, but the others in the Interior Health Authority and mental-health and social agencies in Kamloops who can all work to help restore a life.

Reaching a burnout point a few years ago, Salter says he’s learned to leave work at work.

“If I wake up in the middle of the night and I think about a client, I know it’s time for a break,” he says.

Art helps.

Salter says he’ll start with a blank canvas, paint for what he feels like is just a couple of hours and then realize he’s been at it for seven or eight hours.

“And I haven’t thought about work at all.”

Golf is another release because he’s learned that, “if you’re thinking about work, your ball is going to go into the swamp.”

A highlight in recent years was accompanying colleagues on a trip to Swaziland, a country with an unbelievably high rate of HIV and AIDS. “They were the neatest, nicest, happiest people I’ve ever met,” Salter says. “There was no culture shock at all. They treat you like they’ve known you all your life.

“Where I had culture shock was on the way back when I spent five days in London, England. That was culture shock. People won’t even talk to you there.”

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Must love dogs

By Andrea Klassen KTW STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

Local SPCA volunteer Christina Lovsund — pictured here with Bear, the five-year-old German shepherd — loves animals. Dave Eagles/KTW

When Bear first arrived at the Kamloops SPCA, the five year-old German shepherd mix spent most of her time hiding in her bed.

“She wouldn’t come out. She was terrified,” recalls volunteer dog walker Christina Lovsund.

But, several weeks later, Bear is a different dog, happily accepting pats from strangers and perking her ears up for photographs.

Lovsund’s friends know her as a self-described “animal freak” but, when she started volunteering at the SPCA, many were surprised at the role she fell into.

“Everybody knows me as a cat freak,” she says.

“Some of my friends say, ‘Why is the cat freak working with dogs? Like, are you okay?’”

But, Lovsund, who is also a member of the SPCA’s fundraising and events committee, says she loves the work because she gets to be part of stories like Bear’s.

Since she began volunteering in the fall of 2011, Lovsund has formed a special bond with the shelter’s more fearful dogs.

“I call them my dogs,” she says.

But, walking a dog with a history of abuse or neglect requires some prep work.

Lovsund will look at the dog’s background to get a better idea of how to handle them and what factors might stress them out.

In spring and summer, when road construction projects and street sweepers abound, she’ll often walk or drive her dog-walking route before the start of her shift to check for possible stressors.

Once her charge is on the leash, she’ll try to work on training commands and watch the dog’s body language to see if it needs a change of route or wants to go home.

“Their time with me has got to be the most enjoyable, awesome time out,” Lovsund says.

The extra effort is paying off. Lovsund now works with dogs who need behaviour modification and normally aren’t handled by anyone but shelter staff. She’s also planning to train the SPCA’s new batch of dog walkers And Bear?

Lovesund reports she’s due to be adopted the next day.

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Kamloops RCMP Const. Rupert Meinke is the local detachment’s youth officer, which means he works with school-age kids who might be headed down a dangerous path. He also works with youth on the mat at NorKam secondary, where he is one of the school’s wrestling coaches. Dave Eagles/KTW

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UPERT MEINKE PACKS HEAT. He also packs a clipboard, water bottles and, presumably, some unitards.

Meinke is a constable with the Kamloops RCMP — primarily with youth in and out of the city’s schools — and a wrestling coach at NorKam secondary.

“I’ve been coaching wrestling since ‘95,” Meinke said, reflecting on a span of volunteering that’s travelled with him from Kamloops to the Lower Mainland and back to the Tournament Capital again.

“I wrestled in high school and, after a little bit, I see it as a sport that’s given me a lot in terms of my succ-

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“I think wrestling, and any individual sport, is really applicable to life. But, wrestling even more so.

“If you win, it’s your fault. If you lose, it’s your fault.”

Meinke is from the Coast, having won “a couple” of provincial wrestling titles in high school at Sir Charles Tupper secondary in Vancouver.

After graduating, he continued to grapple with the Burnaby Mountain Wrestling Club.

Not long after hanging up the spandex, he got into coaching.

And it’s a family affair.

This past wrestling season, Meinke coached his sons, Connor and Ben. It was Connor’s final year of high school, but 16-year-old Ben still has his junior and senior seasons ahead of him.

Meinke said the boys were around the mat long before they started competing on it.

“My wrestlers actually babysat for me when I was coaching when they were little,” he said.

“So, they’ve always been around it.”

Meinke said he’ll keep coaching even after Ben graduates, despite the significant time investment required.

Beginning in November and running through the end of February, Meinke attends three two-hour practices at NorKam each week, as well as tournaments — usually out of town — about every other weekend.

But, it’s in his blood.

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Flying the flag for everyone When Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Bill and Georgena Green showed their support for the people affected by flying the Rising Sun flag on the 20-foot flagpole at the edge of their backyard in Dallas.

When Feb. 15 rolls around, you can be sure the red and white Maple Leaf will be flying high to celebrate Flag Day in Canada.

Every few days for the past three years, the Greens have been raising a different flag for any number of occasions, their way of showing support.

Bill got the idea from a neighbour who started the tradition.

When the neighbour passed away, the Greens inherited the flagpole, along with several flags.

Today, the quiet couple has amassed more than 60 flags, including banners from all 10 provinces and three territories. “I think it’s a neat hobby,� Bill said, noting people have stopped to take pictures of the flag du jour.

Georgena recalled being in Grade 9 when she and her classmates were called to the gymnasium for the unveiling of Canada’s new flag. “I like it,� she said of the design now 47 years young.

Bill and Georgena Green are Kamloops’ unofficial flag couple, having amassed 60 flags they fly to mark myriad occasions. KTW file photo

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Retired judge Terry Shupe will continue to make toys for kids in countries around the globe. KTW file photo

Carving a connection

By Tim Petruk KTW STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

In March 2012, Terry Shupe retired once and for all as judge.

His 36-year career on the bench was helped by his well-known sense of humour.

“It’s essential. It’s absolutely vital,” he said. “Bringing a little levity in a place that’s full of tension — I view it as essential. That’s my personality. I’m pretty deadly serious about the work, but trying to break tension is not a bad idea when you can.”

While deciding cases is now in the past, Shupe will remain busy with a hobby for which he is know worldwide — the hand-crafted wooden toys he builds in his home shop.

He’d been doing it for years, at first donating the pieces to Christmas Amalgamated and other local charities.

Then came the devastating Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, which caused widespread death and devastation in South Asia.

Shupe went on a trip to Sri Lanka — one of the areas hardest hit by the tsunami — in February 2005. Since then, he’s been sending his high-quality, home-made wooden toys to the island nation.

In the years since, he has also begun shipping the toys to other Third-World countries, including Afghanistan and Nicaragua.

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Price is right in stopping crime

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER

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N ANONYMOUS TIP ALWAYS leads to local Crime Stoppers capturing the Grinch and showing the community they’ve got their grumpy one at the annual Santa Claus Parade.

And, while Mark Price tells that anecdote with a grin, it points to the serious work he and the other volunteers in the program undertake to help make Kamloops a great place to live.

Price, a retired RCMP officer, says he always supported Crime Stoppers because, as an officer, he could see its value.

But, he never thought about it as something to do in retirement — until some friends invited him out for lunch one day and made the pitch.

“It was a conspiracy. I know it,” Price says with that same grin.

“My wife saw I was enjoying myself too much at home, making lunch, doing stuff.”

Getting involved was an eye-opener.

“You know about stuff, but you don’t really know how good it is until you’re knee-deep in it,” he says. “And that’s what happened here.”

“Here” is an office in the RCMP Battle Street detachment where Price and one other employee spend their days dealing with information that comes to them through the Crime Stoppers program.

The system is simple: People with information about a crime — or even what they suspect may be one — can call a toll-free number based in a call centre in Ontario or go online and provide the information anonymously.

Both systems are set up so there is no way for any identifying information to be obtained — there is no star-69 option and cellphone and IP information are automatically scrubbed.

People providing the information are given a number to refer to if they want to track their report and see if they qualify for a reward at the end.

Conviction isn’t required for a reward to be issued, Price says.

“Is the information good? That’s all that matters. We don’t get involved in what the court system does.

“We’re just a supplier of information and if it leads to an arrest.”

Rewards are based on a sliding scale, depending on the crime involved, and can go as high as $2,000.

They are paid in cash in a manner Price admits sounds like it comes from a spy movie.

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Mark Price of Kamloops Crime Stoppers notes many people who give information never ask for the reward. Most people, he says, simply want to clear up a problem and do their bit to make the community safe. Dave Eagles/KTW The tipster is given a code name, a bank and the name of an employee there to ask for.

It can be in their own community or, if they’re really concerned about anonymity, anywhere at all.

They go to the bank, ask for the employee, give them the code name and an envelope of cash is handed over.

Ironically, Price says, many people who give information never ask for the reward.

Most just want to clear up a problem and do their bit to make the community safe, he says.

Some who call are themselves involved in some manner with the crime. Perhaps they recognize a wanted person or know someone who they suspect has broken a law, want to do the right thing, but don’t want anyone to know, Price says.

That’s the beauty of anonymity.

No one ever knows who they are.

It’s important for people taking the calls or handling the online information to ensure they get as much information as they can, however.

For example, Price says, consider a suspected marijuana grow-op.

“We want to know things like is there a dog on the premises,” he says.

“It might be a pitbull there to keep people out.

That’s the kind of thing our members need to know about.

“But, if we can’t get a lot [of information], we just go in with extreme caution.”

Crime Stoppers is funded through grants from the City of Kamloops and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, and through ongoing fundraising.

Each year, a car is auctioned off and Price, knowing what model has been provided for 2013, says people will really be interested in it, noting it’s “suitable for Kamloops weather.”

Through its volunteers, Crime Stoppers also gets involved in plenty of community activities, the part of the job Price says is most fun.

It’s represented at the Downtown Community Days, at the Thompson Rivers University welcomeback barbecue and at the annual Remembrance Day event.

The group also helps with Operation Red Nose, rings bells for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign, fields teams for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Kamloops Strikes for Tykes fundraiser and cleans up two kilometres north from the Heffley Store twice a year through the adopt-a-road program.

In the end, however, Price says he gets the greatest satisfaction from seeing Crimes Stoppers in action.

“It’s just a cool program,” he says.

“More and more people are doing things to keep their community safer.”

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The art of dedication

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

Elena Compton’s talents have prompted her teachers to ask her to provide art instruction to her classmates. Dave Eagles/KTW

Elena Compton had that once-in-a-lifetime thrill this year that every artist remembers forever — she sold her first work.

In fact, at one point, there were two people vying for the coloured-pencil drawing of the face of a snowy owl she had on display at the recent Kamloops Arts Council Juried Art Show and Sale.

It was a thrill for the 12-year-old Arthur Stevenson elementary student — and one she wants to replicate as she pursues her passion for art, with a firm eye on a career in animation.

There’s no doubt Elena has talent as her teachers have asked her to provide art instruction to her classmates at the school for the past two years.

She has also shared what she has learned through classes offered through Thompson Rivers University and from area artist Joey Nash.

Elena’s sketchpad is always nearby, a portfolio is stuffed with works — some complete, others in progress — she creates when the muse moves her. A gift certificate given to her after she presented an exhibition of work at Northills Shopping Centre went toward a Wacom Bamboo, a computerized drawing tablet she uses almost as often as she reaches for her sketching pencils.

With a pen-like tool that doubles as a mouse, Elena said, she can manipulate her works through software to create the images she sees in her head.

Most often, those images centre around Kaza Wolfe, an illustrated book she’s working on about a young girl who is part-wolf, her friends — some of whom share that genetic mutation and others who don’t — and how it impacts her life.

An accidental spill of a drink set the work back a bit but, with typical pre-teen exuberance, Elena said it’s no problem redoing.

Besides, she added, the replacement work is better.

She has no idea where the storyline came from, but she’s travelling the pathway of a writer, encountering the hurdles like being unable to name a character “until I got to know him.”

Elena doesn’t know where the story will lead her, although she’s already realized that, at some point, Kaza’s younger sister will become evil.

Elena is not only focused on art, however. After trying volleyball and gymnastics, she settled on basketball and was a member of the school’s team that, with an unbeaten season, made it to the finals.

She’s hoping to join the band when she starts at Westsyde secondary in the fall, although her instrument is the guitar — something else to which she has recently started applying her dedication — and the school band doesn’t include it at the Grade 8 level.

Elena remains undaunted, though, and, much like the story of Kaza, she’s not sure what steps she’ll encounter on her journey, but she’s got her eye on the destination.

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The McDonald Park public-produce garden on the North Shore is the second such venture in the Tournament Capital. KTW file photo

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By Andrea Klassen KTW STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

For two seasons the line of box planters that ran alongside a vacant Victoria Street lot tempted downtown visitors and residents with vegetables and herbs.

“There was always someone in the garden,” says Laura Kalina, co-chair of the Kamloops Food Policy Council.

“It could be a mom with her small child who was at the library or walking along, or a street person with a shopping cart just sitting there and grabbing a few tomatoes.”

Downtown restaurateurs visited for herbs for salads, shoppers dropped by for snacks and volunteers kept the veggies weed-free and watered until harvest time.

The Kamloops Public Produce Project was set up by the Food Policy Council to introduce the city to edible landscaping, promote urban agriculture and encourage more Kamloopsians to eat local.

“There is land that’s not being used

and why not grow our own food?” says Kalina.

For the project’s first two years, the land belonged to local developer Casey van Dongen, who donated the space on a temporary basis.

But, a building will soon rise next to the project and Kalina said the garden will be on the move in 2013, to a site with more light.

“What we’re going to do is have a work party and remove all the boxes and move it somewhere else,” she says.

“Maybe there’ll be some group in town, or a day care — we’re not sure who’s going to carry it on, but we’ll transfer all the boxes.”

The success of the Victoria Street garden also led to another public-produce garden, run in partnership with the city, in McDonald Park on the North Shore.

Kalina said her group plans to focus its energies on the McDonald garden this year and is also working on a training manual that will help other community groups start their own produce projects.

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The classroom coach

By Marty Hastings KTW STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Kamloops Blazers know slacking off in school might just mean a visit from Vic Bifano, the team’s education consultant.

Luckily for them, Bifano is pro-active in his mission of making the Blue and Orange successful in the classroom.

“We’ve been lucky,” said Bifano, a longtime teacher, administrator and principal in the Tournament Capital.

“The team has done a really good job of bringing in players that not only have the athletic skill, but have academic skill.

“I don’t mean everybody is an A or B, but people that apply themselves.

“Every once in a while you have to say, ‘Hey, there’s some work that has to be done and it has to happen soon,’ but it hasn’t been that much of an issue.”

There are eight Blazers attending Valleyview secondary, along with four at Thompson Rivers

University, three studying online thizes with the difficulties faced through Athabasca University and by the Blazer players. two players — Europeans Tim “Six games and eight days Bozon and Marek Hrbas — being and then you’re back at school . . . seriously?” he said. tutored individually.

“Some of them are taking “Our players miss somewhere pretty challenging courses, like between 43 and 55 per cent of as hard as it gets in high school, their school,” Bifano said.

“They have to do it on the road and they’re exhausted.

“They’re so busy on the road, or through tutoring. We require the co-operation of the school, so that and then there’s practices and charity work things that are missed are picked VIC BIFANO . . . the list goes on. It’s tough on up.” them.”

Bifano is often knocking on the The work Bifano does makes it easier for playdoors of principals, teachers and counsellors, making sure players are getting all they need to be successful, ers to cope at school, leaving them to concentrate on hockey when the puck drops. and in turn applying themselves in the classroom.

When it comes to grades, Bifano said the Blazers “The teachers give a little, the players give all they can and, certainly, the Blazers club, too,” Cordonier combine for an average of about 80 per cent, with said. some players bringing the average down and some “I had no idea a couple years ago to what length — like Colin Smith, the WHL’s 2010-2011 scholar of they would go to try and support the high-school the year — bringing it up.

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Diane Stuart in PIT Stop’s new kitchen.

Some PIT Stop facts: • Served 6,284 meals in 2012, 6,700 in 2011 and 6,305 in 2010.

• Averages 100 to 115 people per meal, although some Sundays have seen as many as 170 people.

• About $100 a week is spent on food, ideally with just five pounds of meat for every 25 people expected.

• Main source of funding has been a social-planning grant from the city, money that has been reduced in each of the last three years. In 2010, the grant was $9,600; in 2011, $7,000; in 2012, $4,500; and, this year, $3,500. The rest of the money needed to run the program is raised through donations from the church or fundraising.

• Thirteen teams work in the PIT Stop program, but more teams — or just individuals interested in helping — are welcome by calling the church at 250-372-3020.

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Cooking up a needed reno

By Dale Bass KTW STAFF REPORTER

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OOKING A MEAL FOR HER HUSBAND AND FOUR CHILDREN was one thing — feeding more than 100 every Sunday in an antiquated kitchen with an unpredictable stove was quite the other for Diane Stuart.

The work is now easier, streamlined and in a much brighter and more organized area after the People in Transition (PIT) program at Kamloops United Church relocated earlier this month as part of a major renovation program at the St. Paul Street building.

Stuart, who oversees the program, says it’s a perfect fit for her.

Foresters by trade, the Stuarts relocated to Kamloops about seven years ago after the Williams Lake forestry office was closed and her husband transferred.

A mom of four, Stuart said she was kept busy at home, but wanted to continue with an outreach program.

The fit at the church couldn not have been better as she came from running the Meals on Wheels program in Williams Lake to making sure all the various steps required to put on the Sunday meal in Kamloops always happen.

That includes everything from recruiting teams to buying food to training tvolunteers to making sure the kitchen equipment is working.

That wasn’t always easy in an old kitchen with even older appliances — but, an $80,000 grant from the Aviva Community Fund, received in 2011, came at a perfect time.

The church had spent several years planning a major rebuild that would move various areas around, replace old parts and provide housing.

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saved up about $20,000 that was earmarked for the project.

“But, we would never have been able to do what we did with it without Aviva,” Stuart said.

Now, instead of having to go downstairs and rummage through an old chest freezer, then figure out how to balance carrying the cold food with other cans and jars they need to cook the meal, everything is within a few steps.

There’s a real professional dishwasher now, replacing the sterilizer that was used after every pot, pan, knife, fork, spoon, plate and bowl was hand-washed.

Sure, there may not be enough cupboard space — is there ever? — but Stuart and the volunteers are experts in making due with less than they need.

Stuart keeps her finger on what other groups are doing to help the marginalized, the needy or the lonely through involvement with Changing the Face of Poverty and the Kamloops Integrated Community Collaboration, groups that come together to share issues and resources.

Stuart wants people to understand the folks fed every Sunday at the church aren’t just homeless.

Some are trying to survive at the end of a paycheque that is never quite enough.

Others might be people who, other than the weekly meal, never share food with anyone during their solitary days the rest of the week.

And she delights in seeing how new volunteers react at the end of their shift.

“I’ve never had anyone come to me complaining about anything. It’s more likely to be ,‘Do you do this every week? Can I come again?’

“One of the beauties is it’s a team-building opportunity. The people are going to come.

“We just need those volunteers to come and be a part of it.”

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Howard and Freda Brown have virtually adopted the Kamloops Blazers. “We adopted the Blazers and, for some reason, they adopted us,” said Howard. The Browns’ value to the club is immeasurable. Noted Dave Chyzowski, the Blazers’ director of sales and marketing: “Without them, I don’t know if we’d be as successful off the ice.”

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Browns bleed Blue and Orange

By Marty Hastings KTW STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

Howard and Freda Brown have been married for almost 38 years and never had children of their own — but they adopted the Kamloops Blazers.

“It’s a beautiful relationship,” said Howard, who, along with Freda, first started volunteering for the Western Hockey League club in 1992.

“We adopted the Blazers and, for some reason, they adopted us.”

None of the work they do — locking down the building, setting up tables, organizing ushers and doormen, baking goodies for scouts and media, helping the Blazer Booster Club get set up and doing whatever is asked of them by the Blazer office staff — is glorified, but those behind the scenes know how much they contribute.

“They virtually dedicate their lives to helping the hockey club,” said Dave Chyzowski, the Blazers’ director of sales and marketing.

“They’re not only volunteers, they’re really genuine people.”

“I think it’s really important that we make sure they continue to be a huge part of our game nights because, without them, I don’t know if we’d be as 70 KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK Tuesday, March 26, 2013

successful off the ice.”

Howard and Freda — both of whom are now employed by the city and work most concerts and shows that come to Interior Savings Centre — go above and beyond the call of duty, as is the case with many who volunteer or work for the Blue and Orange.

No more is that evident than in the press box, where home-baked goodies mysteriously appear — and magically disappear from their container before game’s end.

“The Blazers are our family up here in Kamloops and we just love working for them,” said Freda, who was perched high above the ice in the press box during an interview with KTW, the Zamboni droning on below.

Freda talked about how Crohn’s disease forced her into a three-year hiatus from working at ISC. Howard, who also manages Lyons Landscaping and Garden Centre, joined his wife in temporary retirement from their work with the Blazers.

“We do absolutely everything together,” Howard said. “It’s just the way we are. We’ve always worked together. We do this together. We volunteer together.

We’re buddies.”

They survived just fine away from the Blazers, but felt a void in their lives.

The club asked Freda to come back when she felt up to it and provided her with a less-taxing role, which sees

her mostly help the media in the press box.

Among her duties is tending to the popcorn machine — no small task, considering its fame around the WHL. Just ask CKNW’s Dan Russell, who wrote about the tasty intermission treat on Twitter: “Not a popcorn lover, but Giants and Blazers have the 2 best “press box popcorn servings” that I’ve ever had in WHL. #fresh.”

Freda used to cook pre-game and post-game meals for the Blazers’ on-ice stars, but that’s one duty she is no longer able to handle.

The Browns’ roles have changed over the years.

Howard started on a volunteer basis as a doorman and has moved to the top of the game-day staff ranks.

Freda’s disease forced her to scale back a little bit.

One thing, however, has always remained the same — the couple’s love for the Blazers, their staff and their volunteers.

“This isn’t work,” Howard said. “I love this. This is my second home.

“I don’t even know where we would go from here if we couldn’t do this.”

Luckily for them, there are no plans in the works to remove the Browns from their posts.

“We will be here as long as the Blazers will let us stay here,” Freda said.

“I think they’ll have to kick us out the door.”

DID YOU KNOW?

On Oct. 14, 1862, Catherine O’Hare Schubert gave birth in Kamloops to Rose, the first baby girl of European descent to be born in British Columbia

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