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Exercise your muscles during Family Literacy Week Use it or lose it. Reading ability is like a muscle - if you don’t exercise it often you may not be able to maintain the same level of reading ability as you age. In honour of Family Literacy Day’s 15th year, Kamloops families can enjoy a whole week of fun, local activities from January 20 to 27. ABC Life Literacy Canada wants to realize a vision of a Canada where everyone has the skills they need to live a fully engaged life. This non-profit organization mobilizes business, government and communities to support lifelong learning through leadership in programs, communications and partnerships. Every year across Canada events are coordinated by literacy providers, schools, libraries and community organizations. These activities range from fundraisers, book drives and children’s reading circles, to literacy-themed contests and family games nights. This is a means of reaching not only children, but also the adults in their lives. The 7th Kamloops ABC Family Literacy Day is January 26. Interior Savings Unplug and Play Family Literacy Week is a partnership with the City of Kamloops, School District 73, Literacy in Kamloops (LinK) and many local organizations. This fun-filled week will see great ways for families to build literacy by reconnecting and playing together. To kick off the week at TCC is hosting a Mother Goose swim on January 20 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. Other activities include free skating, dancing, story times, games night, movies and literacy Lego. Now in its 4th year, the Heap the Honda Children’s Book Drive has resulted in the
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Family Literacy Day is an annual initiative developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada that inspires families to increase their literacy skills and encourages parents and children to have “15 Minutes of Fun” learning together. Practicing literacy together for just 15 minutes a day has tremendous benefits. Participate in many free, family activities from January 20 to 27 for Interior Savings Unplug and Play Family Literacy Week.
donation and distribution of more than 40,000 books to families. This year 11 local elementary schools are participating and books will be sorted by volunteers and given to the Bright Red Bookshelf (12 locations throughout the city), ABC Family Literacy Day and Social - Jan. Service Agencies. New orNSE gently used 16, chil-23 dren’s books can be dropped off for donation
to Kamloops Honda, YM/YWCA locations, the TNRD libraries, Starbucks locations and Interior Saving branches. On Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00pm, guest speaker Vince Gowmon is presenting a keynote “Remembering to Play - Inspiring Joy, Freedom and Self-Care” at TRU Alumni – continued on page 2
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New ePassport available this summer Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo would like to remind all constituents that the new ePassport will be available on July 1. “For those who are looking to renew their passport this year or apply for the first time, starting on July 1, 2013, the new Canadian electronic passport will be available for adult applicants with an
option for a five or ten year ePassport, while children’s ePassports will be issued for a maximum of five years,” said McLeod. The Canadian ePassport will have an electronic chip embedded in the back cover of the book. The chip adds an extra layer of security to the passport and makes it more tamper-proof. The chip will store the same personal information that is detailed on page two
Social services get a boost
In Kamloops, two local organizations are receiving Community Gaming Grants from the B.C. government worth a total of $101,000. The organizations receiving grants are the Centre for Seniors Information BC Interior Society receiving $60,000 and the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counseling Centre Society receiving $41,000. Across British Columbia, 133 recipients will share $6,590,160 in the latest round of grants. Grant recipients include programs for Human and Social Services and Public Safety. Community Gaming Grants help local groups provide important services for British Columbia families. “Our government recognizes that these organizations provide valuable services for specific groups of people within our community. This significant amount of funding will help these societies maintain their outstanding level of service for Kamloops. ” said Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake.
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Animal Care attendant at the Kamloops SPCA, Jenn Breckenridge paints the wall in the incoming room. Room by room they are in the process of cleaning and renovating the front of their offices.
of the passport, the photo and a country-specific digital security feature that proves the passport was issued by the Government of Canada. When information is first stored on the chip in the Canadian epassport, the chip is electronically locked. This means that even if someone were to attempt to tamper with the data on the chip, the chip would indicate that the lock had been broken and the fraud would be detected. “ePassports are currently in use in some 95 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France, and all have reported no chip failures,” said McLeod. “In Canada, we
have conducted a pilot project since January 2009 by issuing more than 50,000 diplomatic and special epassports, and no problems have been reported. In the unlikely event that the chip cannot be read, the passport will still be valid.” “Once the Canadian ePassport has been fully implemented in July, everyone will be allowed to submit a new application if you wish to replace your nonelectronic passport with an ePassport. The only prerequisite is you will be required to pay the full fee and the unused validity period on your old passport will not be transferred to your new passport,” concluded McLeod.
Encourage a lifetime of reading – continued from page 1 Avenue, off of Fortune Drive near Clock Tower. Admission is by the Overlander Bridge. This free donation to Loonies for Literacy. event will feature storytelling, Vince will also facilitate a com- songs, story time yoga, drummunity engagement workshop ming, face painting, crafts and on Thursday, January 24 from much more. All family mem9:00am to noon. This promises to bers are welcome, each child be a fun, interactive session that receives a free book courtesy of will encourage organizations to the Heap the Honda Book Drive shift from making decisions for and Starbucks will be serving free others to making decisions with coffee. Of course, learning can happen them creatively and collaboratively. Register for this program at any time. Taking time every by calling 250-828-3500. Quote day to enjoy a learning activity as a family can improve a child’s course #205032. Thursday, January 24 at 7:00pm, skills dramatically. It prepares the Paramount Theatre is hosting children for challenges ahead by building learning a special screenskills necing of Play Again. Fun literacy a ctivities e s s a r y Donate to Loonies and great wa for good for Literacy and ys commupractice learn to explore the coning: • Create your nication sequences of own comic st rip ab ou later in t your family. a childhood • Invent two ne life and removed from w endings to yo ur favourite book. can ultinature with this • Make up a ne mately award-winning w and post it onlin recipe together contribute film. If you e. • Tell knock-kn to a child’s ock miss the Play while doing the jokes together chances for dishes. Again film, you • Sing five song s really, really lo success. At can catch it at ud! • Invent a new game while play the same the Boys and ing at the park. time, these Girls Club on activities Friday, January also sharpen 25 from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Reserve your seat by calling 250- adult literacy skills. Encouraging a lifetime of reading enjoyment 554-5437. The final celebration of this fab- benefits people of all ages! For more information, please ulous week is for the wee ones and their families on Saturday, visit abclifeliteracy.ca, literacyJanuary 26 from 9:00am to inkamloops.com and facebook. 12:00pm at Henry Grube com/unplugandplayweek. Jody Tippett Education Centre, 245 Kitchener
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Library hosts healthy seminar The TNRD Library System’s North Kamloops Library wants to help you and your family turn over a healthy leaf in 2013 with a free seminar hosted by dietitian Laura Kalina and personal trainer Cheryl Christian on January 24 at 6:30 p.m. Building on the success of their international bestseller Low GI (Glycemic Index) Meals in Minutes Cookbook, Kalina and Christian are now launching a Family Health Revolution. Their goal is to help you feel healthy, energized and to eat well. In this seminar you will learn how
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Fine art of promotion The Kamloops Arts Council (KAC) is pleased to announce that Kelsey Gilker has been promoted to Marketing and Membership coordinator. Kelsey has been working with the KAC for two years, first as a summer student and later as a part-time assistant. You may also have seen her in Project X’s production of James and the Giant Peach last summer. Kelsey will be working on expanding the KAC’s marketing and membership reach over the coming months. Congratulations, Kelsey!
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Tourism Kamloops is reporting a seven per cent increase in 2012 accommodation tax revenues for the months of January through September over forecasts originally set for the same period. Tourism Kamloops in part attributes this increase to strengthened fall family leisure travel as a result of ongoing marketing efforts targeting metro Vancouver and regional British Columbia. Additionally, a strengthening in corporate travel is beginning to be realized as Tourism Kamloops builds on its regional BC efforts. “This increase is great news for Kamloops,” says Lee Morris, CEO. “With a robust targeted family leisure marketing campaign into the BC market and dedicated efforts to attract regional corporate and association business, revenue forecasts to the end of 2012 are on track.”
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Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers performed a free concert at the North Shore Community Centre’s Community Dinner on the weekend. Their next buffet dinner featuring live entertainment is January 29 at 5:00pm. This event is open to all adults and tickets can be purchased in advance at 730 Cottonwood Ave or by calling 250-376-4777.
Legacy Performance Games builds on successes The City of Kamloops is pleased to announce that the inaugural Legacy Performance Games will be coming to Kamloops in 2013. The Legacy Performance Games were created to provide Provincial Sport Organizations the opportunity to enhance and expand their opportunities in providing high level competition to BC athletes. During the week of June a 27 to 30, athletes will compete in the following seven sports: Cycling – Kamloops Bike Ranch; Canoe and Kayak – Shumway Lake; Synchronized Swimming – Canada Games Aquatic Centre; Wrestling TCC Fieldhouse; Beach Volleyball - Overlander Park; Wheelchair Tennis – Kamloops Tennis Centre
and Wheelchair Rugby – TCC Fieldhouse. Additional sports will be confirmed. The Legacy Games are a result of the success of the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games. Not only were the Summer Games a success with those who were involved, but a significant cash legacy was remnant, along with a mandate to invest it into developing sport opportunities for British Columbia athletes. This high-performance multisport event will be hosted every two years in Kamloops, drawing competitors from the prairies, western provinces and north-western United States. The inaugural 2013 event is anticipated to bring an
estimated 600 athletes, but in the future there is an expectation to see it grow to include up to 15 sports and 2,000 athletes. On alternating years, plans are to include hosting a Legacy Masters Games, with the first Masters to be held in 2015. “This event meets the goals in Council’s Strategic Plan to develop a home-grown event for the City, further enhancing the Tournament Capital program, highlighting legacy venues that have been built for previous Games, using the cash legacy from the 2011 WCSG to start up the event, and to also generate additional economic revenue through hosting sport,” commented Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar.
New Dialysis Unit to offer improved access Interior Health has issued an invitation to tender for the renovation and light construction work required for the new Community Dialysis Unit (CDU) in Kamloops. “This next step towards project completion is great news for the growing number of Kamloops residents affected by kidney disease,” says Kamloops North Thompson MLA Terry Lake. The new CDU, planned for a centrally located leased space on the North Shore, was announced this summer. Funded by the BC Renal Agency and operated by Interior Health, it will allow stable kidney patients access to renal services outside of Royal Inland Hospital. The unit will incorporate an “Involved Care” patient self management model, which empowers patients to gradually increase their level of independence within
a supportive environment, leading to improved quality of life and physical and mental well being. This model offers an opportunity for patients to set individual goals, learn new skills and gain control over their health. “By offering patient centered care in the community setting we are addressing the increasing need for dialysis services and ensuring those services are accessible,” says Interior Health Board chair Norman Embree. “Research clearly demonstrates that the more involved a person is in his or her own care, the better the results,” says Dr. Adeera Levin, executive director of the BC Renal Agency. “The involved care model, which has proven successful in Penticton, allows patients to increase participation in their dialysis care at their own pace and level of ability.”
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What better way to unwind after a hard day at the office than to spend a few hours tripping through time. Drummer, Cam MacQuarrie of Kamloops Burlesque’s pit band, Emergency Happiness felt the blood rushing to his cheeks when tattooed fireball Melody Mangler took to the stage for the time travel themed showcase at the Blue Grotto.
Cottonwood Manor/ North Shore Community Centre focuses on relieving the isolation and loneliness of those in our community as well as addressing fitness and mobility issues of the aged. Their new Event Services Coordinator, Wendy Makepeace is making plans for an exciting new year of seniors programming. Many events coming up for the month of January are open to all of the community. On both January 20 and January 27, from 8am until 1pm, an indoor Flea Market will be held at the North Shore Community Centre, 730 Cottonwood Ave. Up to 40 vendors will be selling gently used home items, farm fresh eggs, homemade children’s clothing, Watkins,
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Diabetes effects on aging This is the fifty third article in a betes is its cardiovascular effects. series of articles discussing type 2 As I mentioned, having excess diabetes. With the insugar in your blood cidence of diabetes bedamages your small ing on the rise in our blood vessels but it population, at Mancan also have other more serious conseshadi Pharmacy we quences. When your have taken a great inblood sugar is high, terest in diabetes care it puts pressure on and would be happy to your heart as it tries answer any questions to pump thicker “syrthat you may have regarding the diagnosis, HealtH matters upy” blood, leading to high blood prestreatment, and manLaura Burgess sure and increasagement of diabetes and its related complications. ing your risk of a heart attack or Recently while I was on holidays in stroke. As a matter of fact, having Australia, we were flipping through diabetes doubles the risk of having the channels and saw a scientific a heart attack or stroke and up to special on aging. Being a diabetic 80 percent of diabetics will die as educator, what caught my attention a result of this. is when they mentioned that high The good news is that you can blood sugars can affect the physi- choose to do something about this. cal appearance of diabetics making By choosing to work with your them look older. As this was a com- team of healthcare professionals plication of diabetes I was unaware and controlling your blood sugar of, I wanted to share this research levels and other cardiovascular risk with you as well as review the other factors, you can greatly decrease physical consequences of diabetes. your risk of developing complicaJust as the extra sugar molecules tions. Specific targets have been set circulating in your blood can dam- in place to help you lower your risk age the small blood vessels in your of developing cardiovascular comeyes and kidneys, they can also at- plications including having an A1C tach themselves to the tissues that of less than seven percent (your make up your skin, mainly collagen three month blood sugar average), and elastin, making them brittle. blood pressure of less than 130/80 This leads to increased skin dam- mmHg, and your bad cholesterol age, which can make someone with or LDL less than two mmol/L with high blood sugar levels appear old- a total cholesterol to HDL (good er. In fact, on average for every one cholesterol) ratio of less than 4. The mmol/L higher your blood sugar is, Canadian Diabetes Association you appear five months older than website has a great cardiovascular someone with normal blood sugar risk assessment tool that you can levels. This may not sound signifi- access in order to identify and target cant, but if your blood sugar levels your main risk factors. are uncontrolled and you are aver- I hope this review on the complicaaging 13 mmol/L, then you would tions associated with diabetes has appear ~40 months or over three helped to motivate you to keep your years older than your controlled cardiovascular risk factors controlled. If you ever need any help blood sugar counterpart. In the scheme of your overall reviewing your targets, feel free to health, the effects of high blood contact me and I would be happy to sugars on your physical age are discuss them with you. minor in comparison to the more Laura Burgess, B.Sc. Pharm., serious complications that it can Certified Diabetes Educator and cause. The main concern with dia- Pharmacist, Manshadi Pharmacy
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Last year at the KAC Juried Art Show, top prize went to Joe Ratushniak for his untitled wood carved bull skull. If past work by Kamloops artists is any indication, this show will be a must see!
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Competition brings notoriety to local artists The amazing work of artists within our community will be showcased once again at the Kamloops Arts Council’s (KAC) 3rd Annual Juried Art Show and Sale at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre on February 16 to 24. It will include a variety of both two dimensional and three dimensional works that will celebrate and display the hard work, effort, talent and inspiration that goes into the art created in the Kamloops area. The KAC Juried Art Show provides emerging and amateur local artists of all ages with constructive criticism and visibility, as well as a chance to build their resume and compete with peers. In addition to encouraging and promoting the arts in Kamloops, a variety of prizes and awards are handed out at the exhibition. $700 in cash will be awarded. The whole idea of assessing one piece of art against another in order to determine a winner might be a little vague to many as ultimately art is always going to be open to so many different interpretations. If you see something that you personally love, cast a ballot for your personal favourite in the People’s Choice selection. All of the submitted artwork is also for sale so, if you are looking to add a unique piece to your collection, support a local artist and take your favourite piece home. If you are an artist who is passionate about the work you are
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floor. FMI contact 250-376-4777. ■■ Pride Parade Planning Event presented by Kamloops GALA/Pride on Jan. 23 at 7pm at the Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St. (downstairs) FMI contact Patricia at 250-319-9448. ■■ The Importance of Being Earnest Jan. 24 to Feb. 2 at the Sagebrush Theatre. For tickets call Kamloops Live! Box Office at 250-374-5483 or online at www. kamloopslive.ca. ■■ Let’s Dance on Jan. 26 from 8 to 12pm at Ukrainian Hall in Kamloops - 725 York St. Music by Union Jack. FMI or tickets contact Zonia at 250-372-0091, Ed at 250-374-2774 or Francoise at 250-372-3782. ■■ Artist entries for Kamloops Arts Council’s 2013 Juried Art
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