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(L-R) Alison Yamelst, member; Shaelene Gilkinson, educational program manager and Kari Rubel, member, have been getting ready for spring by making stepping-stones and birdhouses.
as a community service for low-income and mobility limited individuals. Tax returns will be e-filed free of charge by Revenue Canada trained volunteers. The clinic will run every Monday and Wednesday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. There are also monthly sessions regarding the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) that is offered by the federal government. Summer time is packed with great activi-
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New Clinical Services Building toured by MLAs and Health Minister Health Minister Terry Lake toured the new Clinical Services Building (CSB) at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) on Friday, March 4. Minister Lake was joined by Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone and Fraser-Nicola MLA Jackie Tegart, as well as Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar, chair of the Thompson Regional Hospital District, Interior Health CEO Chris Mazurkewich and representatives of Bird Construction to view progress on the new state-ofthe-art health-care facility. Construction continues on the Clinical Services Building. Exterior finishes are nearly complete and work has turned to the interior, with walls going up and paint and other finishes underway. At the same time, managers and employees have begun the work of getting ready to welcome patients when the CSB opens this summer. The CSB will enhance access to RIH for those who use the hospital’s outpatient services such as IV therapy, neurodiagnostics, the vascular improvement program, and laboratory. The CSB will also include an additional 350 parking stalls, as well as a simulation lab and expanded clinical education space for the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s medical programs.
(L-R) Mayor Peter Milobar, Thompson Regional Hospital District chair; Chris Mazurkewich, Interior Health president and CEO; Jackie Tegart, MLA Fraser-Nicola; Susan Brown, Interior Health vice president and COO, Hospitals and Communities; Todd Stone, MLA Kamloops-South Thompson; Health Minister Terry Lake; Frank Quinn, Interior Health Board director; and Carol Laberge, RIH Health Services administrator.
City releases Request for Information The City of Kamloops has released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking parties interested in partnering with the City or presenting other options on the development of the former Daily News property. The RFI will be posted on BCBid (www.bcbid.org), and will be circulated within the real estate industry and major media markets in BC and Alberta. Further information is available at www.kamloops.ca. The closing date for the RFI is April 15,
after which the responses will be reported back to Council. In January, City Council unanimously voted to explore an
Expression of Interest process the broad nature of the request, it for the property after the referen- was determined that a Request for dum for the proposed performing Information was more appropriate arts centre was defeated. Due to than an Expression of Interest.
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ting and retail skills. These items are also sold – continued from front entrepreneurial practices. Participants meet every through the PIM office and on their Facebook page. other Tuesday to create cards, ornaments, jewelry, Contact Heather Brandon, executive director, or knitted and crocheted items, etc., which are then check out the website for information on all sersold at craft fairs, Farmer’s Markets, and other vices: www.peopleinmotion.org. People in Motion public markets and events. As part of receiving is located at 182 B Tranquille Road. Give them a their earnings from product sales, diverse design- call at 250-376-7878 for all the details. ers are taught budgeting, profit sharing, goal set- Alicia Ashcroft, freelance
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United Spirit defeated Reccos by a score of 1-0 in the final of the Kamloops Women’s Indoor Soccer league Recreation Division, which was held in the Kamloops Soccer Dome on Sunday, March 6. The goal scorer for United Spirit was Leslie Buratti. Spirit’s goalkeeper Annette Hanna had the shutout. The match brings to a close the Kamloops Women’s Indoor Soccer League for the 2015/2016 season. The Kamloops Youth Soccer Association (KYSA) has acted as league administrator for adult soccer in the Soccer Dome since the organization took on a lease to manage the facility in 2014. Pictured here: United Spirit, 2016 champions in the Kamloops Women’s Indoor Soccer League Recreation Division.
City offers discount rain barrel promotion The City of Kamloops is making it a little easier for its residents to be green through the promotion of a limitedtime, rain barrel pre-sale. Through a cooperative partnership between Enviro World and the City of Kamloops, rain barrels can be purchased at a competitive price of $55 a unit. The catch? Rain barrels must be ordered online by April 15, visit www. kamloops.ca/rainbarrel for details. The pre-ordered rain barrels will be bulk-shipped to Kamloops for pick up at the Green Living Expo at the Sandman Centre on Saturday, April 30, between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. A rain barrel is used to capture and store rainwater runoff from the roof of a home. The collected water is then used to irrigate lawns and gardens, or to wash cars, etc. There are many benefits of using a rain
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Walking to End Racism on the North Shore This month a t tion on March 21, 1960, that the community of lets. They hope to reach Kamloops Immigrant against apartheid “pass Kamloops adopts an diverse populations in Services (KIS), Diversity laws”. South African active mindset when it Kamloops and extend Outreach and a team of police who opened fire at comes to ending dis- an invitation to join the students from Thompson the demonstration killed criminatory attitudes and event to all. For more Rivers University’s sixty-nine protesters at ending systemic racism”, information, please conSchool of Social Work the Sharpeville Massacre. says practicum student tact Paul Lagace, execuand Human Services The UN’s commitment Hailey Van Daele. “As tive director at Kamloops are working hard to to fight racism battles social work and human Immigrant Services at plan the organization’s racist and discriminatory service students, we 778-470-6101 or execuannual Walk to Embrace problems that occur in hope to make a valuable tivedirector@kcris.ca. Cultural Diversity. every society. Kamloops difference in our commuThe event will take Immigrant Services nity. We think this event We want you place on Friday, March honours these inclusive, is a good way to spread to write to us! 18 from 11:00 am until peaceful values and awareness”. Tell us what you think about 2:00 pm beginning at hopes to actively play a At present, KIS the issues on the Downtown. the Wilson House, 115 part in creating a more Diversity is busy coor- Let us echo your thoughts and ideas with your neighbours. Tranquille Road and welcoming and safe dinating the performWe are your newspaper in ending at Kamloops community. ers, guest speakers, food your neighbourhood. Immigrant Services, “It’s very important donors, and media out448 Tranquille Road, where an open house with ethnic food, guest speakers and cultural perThe North Kamloops Library will be Yarn and Yap is on Fridays from 12:30 formances will take place. hosting a series of senior drop-in pro- to 2:00 pm. This is a drop in program The event marks the grams. All programs are free and do not where knitters, crocheters, cross-stitchUnited Nation’s (UN) require registration. ers, needle pointers and other types of International Day for the Games and Gab is on Wednesdays like-minded people can get together to Elimination of Racial from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. A drop-in pro- share ideas and patterns and chat. This Discrimination on March gram for people who love to play cards program runs until June 24. 21. It is in remembrance or board games and meet new friends Although both of these programs are of the tragic outcome of who love games, too. This program runs directed at seniors, younger adults are a peaceful demonstra- until June 22. welcome as well.
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Waiting rooms and the Concrete Corkscrew I don’t flatter myself, but I make for around and around, until somebody pukes excellent company in a hospital waitfrom all the repetitive movement. Step up ing room. It doesn’t even have to be one and all for the Concrete Corkscrew! the emergency room; give me a walkMake friendly bets about whether spots in clinic, a police station, an immigraare empty or if it’s just a teeny tiny Smart tion office, a courthouse and I’m going car taunting drivers at every turn. Guess to quietly crack jokes the entire time. how early you need to show up at the People watching and listening into other hospital to get a spot; slowly stalk people people’s conversations is like living, as they walk to their car, only to realize PERFECTLY breathing reality TV. It’s a great topic that they are just grabbing their coat. It’s FABULOUS for conversation. Whatever inspiration stressful before you even get to the meat Alicia Ashcroft helps you pass the time; regardless, I and potatoes of medical anxiety. You’re will be a chirpy little chatterbox, disnot even inside the hospital yet and it’s tracting you from the thing you are waiting for. already blood pressure spiking. Waiting is just about the worst thing ever. Without A dear friend has been recently diagnosed with an abundance of distractions, I pace around like a cancer and it is my personal mission to squire her tiger in a cage. There are rarely good magazines, very back and forth to the hospital to have her avoid the little in the way of decorative focal points. Usually parkade pitfalls. Already we have a little system, at the heart of the matter is stress, suspense and/or it’s one less thing to worry about. Although, I once sadness. Waiting on a diagnosis, a verdict. Everyone had to go and collect her and found myself going else in the room is facing the same potentially life around and around and around, in shambles to think changing information that looms behind closed doors. that she was alone with old magazines, wondering When I think of the hospital, my initial concern is where they heck I was. When you finally do find a not the worrying or the waiting, but the parking. If spot it’s a surreal thrill, like winning an Oscar or the wounded that would be the first thought: “OH NO! lottery—it’s just too good to be true. The car in park, no longer in motion, you now have to face the next I’ll have to find parking at the hospital!” Your kids want to go to the carnival but you can’t level of waiting, worrying, wondering. Suddenly afford the rides? Just take them to the hospital you are slightly grateful for the Concrete Corkscrew parkade around lunchtime and go up and down and and the distraction from what is still to come. Mar 2
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Chili was a bad idea A woman was very nervous about her first date with a man she’d been attracted to for a long time. When he came to her door, she started to feel gassy and realized the chili she had for lunch had been a bad idea. Being a gentlemen, he carefully put her in the car and shut the door for her, as he walked around to his side, she farted loudly and quickly opened the window and began fanning. She was horrified when he got in and pointed to the back seat saying “Have you met Ruth and Jim?”
It’s all in the wording My wife, a real estate agent, wrote an ad for a house she was listing. The house had a secondfloor suite that could be accessed using a lift chair that slid along the staircase. Quickly describing this feature, she inadvertently made it sound even more attractive: “Motherin-law suite comes with an electric chair.”
Just before I die Showing his friend around his home, Jennings pointed out all of the collectibles he and his wife had acquired over their long years of marriage. “The day before I die, I’d like to sell every piece we’ve got just to see how much it’s all worth.” “Well,” his friend replies, “since you couldn’t possibly know the day before you were going to die, you’ll never be able to sell!” “And that’s where you’re wrong,” the man smiled. “If I sell it, my wife would kill me!”
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That snail can move! There was once a snail who was sick and tired of his reputation for being so slow. He decided to get some fast wheels to make up the difference. After shopping around a while, he decided that the Datsun 240-Z was the car to get. So the snail goes to the nearest Datsun dealer and says he wants to buy the 240-Z, but he wants it repainted “240-S”.
He laughed, he cried… I went to the cinema the other day and in the front row was an old man and with him was his dog. It was a sad, funny kind of film, you know the type. In the sad part, the dog cried his eyes out and in the funny part, the dog laughed its head off. This happened all the way through the film. After the film had ended, I decided to go and speak to the man. “That’s the most amazing thing I’ve seen,” I said. “That dog really seemed to enjoy the film.” The man turned to me and said, “Yeah, it is. He hated the book.”
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The dealer asks, “Why ‘S’?” The snail replies, “’S’ stands for snail. I want everybody who sees me roaring past to know who’s driving.” Well, the dealer doesn’t want to lose the unique opportunity to sell a car to a snail, so he agrees to have the car repainted for a small fee. The snail gets his new car and spent the rest of his days roaring happily down the highway at top speed. And whenever anyone would see him zooming by, they’d say “Wow! Look at that S-car go!”
Buried upside down An old man and woman were married for years even though they hated each other. When they had a confrontation, screams and yelling could be heard deep into the night. A constant statement was heard by the neighbors who feared the man the most. “When I die I will dig my way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!” They believed he practiced black magic and was responsible for missing cats and dogs, and strange sounds at all hours. He was feared and enjoyed the respect it garnished. He died abruptly under
strange circumstances and the funeral had a closed casket. After the burial, the wife went straight to the local bar and began to party as if there was no tomorrow. The gaiety of her actions were becoming extreme while her neighbors approached in a group to ask these questions: Are you not afraid? Concerned? Worried? That this man who practiced black magic and stated when he died he would dig his way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life? The wife put down her drink and said, “Let the jerk dig. I had him buried upside down.”
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