The Connector November 2017

VOLUME 26, NUMBER 7, NOVEMBER 2017

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‘Sir’ Keith Moore remembers

By Moneca Jantzen

Trooper Keith S. Moore of the 28th Canadian Armoured Regiment (British Columbian Regiment) Canadian Armoured Corps. celebrated his 96th birthday on October 28. A few days earlier, he shared an account of his military service during WWII. Moore volunteered for the Canadian Army over seven decades ago.

Following a significant stint working at the Tranquille TB Sanatorium in Kamloops and more briefly at the Gang Ranch, the young Moore volunteered with a buddy, and signed up for the army in August 1942. They received a couple of month’s basic training in Vernon before being shipped off to Camp Borden, Ontario for another year of training. Moore was trained “on map reading Trooper Keith S. Moore, just turned 96, has been the and using Bren Gun one to receive the salute during Remembrance Day Carriers, small track vehicles with no tops, and ceremonies in Barriere, B.C. in recent years.

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machine guns mounted on a swivel frame.” A gunner operator, he was also required to operate the radio.He stayed for several more months to help train others in radio communications including officers just out of officer training college. He eventually volunteered to help fill vacancies in the ranks of the 16/22 Saskatchewan Horse Regiment. He was shipped off to England where he spent another year training in war maneuvers in England and Scotland.

Over the course of his career, he recalls spending time in England, France, Germany and Italy. His role as a gunner operator involved loading the guns and communicating on the radio between the tank and regiment.

Upon reflection, Moore says “there were good times and bad.” As someone that went to the front and survived and was able to return home, Moore considers himself

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Trooper Moore’s Troop In 2013, Moore was Commander, had his nominated and awarded tank knocked out. a medal for the National McDairmid switched Order of the Legion of crews leaving Trooper Honour of France which Moore’s tank crew out in effect makes him a of battle (LOB) during ‘knight.”

Operation Totalize.

What follows is the Trooper Moore was narrative that garnered assigned to another tank the award from France: for Operation Tractible, Trooper Moore, an the advance to Falaise, “A” Squadron member 14 August 1944. Trooper of an M4A2 Sherman Moore, reassigned as tank crew, landed at a member of a new Gold Beach, Mulberry tank, was engaged B. (Port Winston) in action during the Arromanche, Normandy attack across the Liason on 27 July 1944. The River onward through Regiment moved to Ryes, Olendon, Epancy, Trun the location where the and closing the Falaise 4th Armoured Division Gap. On 23 August 1944 mustered. The Regiment near Les Essarts, during then moved to Mondeville the rout of the remnants south east of Caen prior to participation in Operation Totalize.

08/09 August 1944. The move through Ifs/Verrier area took the regiment to its laager, just north of Cintheaux on Route N158. In the early morning hours of 09 Aug 1944, enroute to Hill 195 objective, Lieutenant Harvey McDairmid, See "Founding member" page 13

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Opposition concerned by shifting financial policies Last month the Liberal Government announced that it will be abandoning some of the proposed tax changes that had generated a considerable amount of concern and opposition throughout our region.

Although the extent of the changes that will be tabled in legislation is unclear at this time, my greater concern is with the pattern that has emerged. Over the past year the Liberals have raised proposals to tax employer provided health and dental benefits, to close the stock option

tax loophole, to increase small business taxes, and even to tax employee discounts. Last month, however, the Liberals have indicated that they plan to abandon these proposals. I am personally concerned about the next tax to be proposed and the continued inconsistencies in the Trudeau Liberals’ position.

The Liberals continue to run deficits much larger than they promised and currently have no path to return to a balanced budget until possibly sometime close to the year 2050. There is a need for a plan to reconcile this situation.

Given that the Liberals continue to increase spending, for example spending over $216,000 just to produce the cover of the most recent Budget document, it seems clear that they will continue to look for ways to increase taxes.

While the Liberals continue to shift back and forth on their financial policy decisions, the Finance Minister remains firmly under fire in Ottawa. At issue is the recent disclosure that the Finance Minister has a corporately registered private Villa in France, as well as significant personal assets that were not placed into a blind

trust even though all Ministers were instructed by the Prime Minister to do so.

Ultimately, the question is what impact does the Finance Minister’s potential policy decisions have on his own personal finances? In accordance with principles of ethical transparency, all public office holders who are Cabinet Ministers, provincially and federally, are required to make a full disclose of personal assets. Some believe this disclosure is an invasion of personal privacy and that it is an unfair expectation that elected officials utilize mechanisms such as a

Kamloops Brain Injury Association Update:

Reader makes a big difference in a stranger’s life Submitted by Danica Wilkinson In September, The Connector shared a story of a brain injury survivor, Jan, and how a mobility aid scooter changed his life. After reading this article, a generous reader was inspired to donate her family’s extra scooter to the Kamloops Brain Injury Association (KBIA). Thanks to this anonymous reader’s kindness, yet another KBIA member, Zoe, has benefitted by having access to a scooter.

Zoe was in pain and walking was becoming difficult. Due to a brain tumor, she suffered with an endocrine disorder. The brain controls everything in our bodies, so injuries in the brain can affect any part of what we do and who we are. Zoe’s injury had a dramatic effect on her bones, making them

grow rapidly, increasing her pain levels and ability to move.

Zoe’s pain was getting worse, and everyday tasks had become more and more challenging. When she needed groceries, she had to plan who was going to help get her to the grocery store, gather her items throughout the store, and then get them back up to her fifth floor apartment. This was one of several tasks that had become more complicated as her condition worsened. With a limited income and being hesitant to inconvenience anyone, Zoe was overwhelmed by how much she was going to have to depend on others to get her basic needs met.

Zoe (right) receives a donated Thanks to the generous donation scooter from David Johnson (left), from a Connector reader – KBIA executive director of the Kamloops was able to gift Zoe a mobility Brain Injury Association (KBIA).

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blind trust that currently is not mandatory. Others believe it is a necessary practice to ensure that Cabinet Ministers do not unduly benefit from policy decisions they may

be involved with.

My question to you: Should it be a mandatory requirement that the personal financial assets of Cabinet Ministers be placed into a blind trust?

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I have been a wannabe writer most of my life, but I have always struggled to find my voice which may explain why I’ve worked primarily as a graphic designer. I often have no idea what I want to say even though when I do say something I’ve been told that I say it well.

Since becoming editor of The Connector last spring, I have only opted to write a couple of these editorial columns. I always hope that I have something worth saying when I take up valuable editorial space. Being a conduit for sharing other people’s stories and curating the rest of the paper each month seems to suffice and mostly keeps me out of trouble.

Ironically, just before putting pen to paper today, I encountered a column by one of our more esteemed local journalists that was suggesting that we have too much free speech and we should all just be quiet for a change, especially if we have nothing nice to say.

Certainly he has a point. It is now easier than ever to share one’s point of view no matter what it happens to be. I agree that more care should be taken generally-speaking. By the same token, I would hate to see a chill set in where people didn’t feel free to speak.

In all the chatter of Twitter, Facebook and other media, plus the often horrifying comment sections that follow, it is hard to think straight in all of the noise. Discerning whether or not something is fake news, an unfortunate opinion, hate speech or something worth paying attention to can be overwhelming.

I know more than one person in my immediate circle that has opted to take a Facebook hiatus or stop paying attention to mass media altogether. Internet trolls paired with the terrible things that have been going on in the world lately are enough to make one want to stay in bed with the covers pulled over one’s head. It isn’t necessarily a solution to anything, but it is a reasonable response or coping mechanism.

One of the things I enjoy most about The Connector is the fact that it is a product of all of its contributors. Most of our columnists offer a service and provide us with information that helps us improve our daily lives. Some of our other contributors are thought-provoking and/or entertaining. Many of them write for the sheer joy of writing and sharing.

We don’t get many letters to the editor as a monthly publication doesn’t lend itself to the desired instant gratification that most commenters are seeking. Happily we do receive the odd note saying how much a reader enjoys our “newsy paper” or a phone call from a grateful reader. I, for one, am grateful for the folks that continue to contribute and share with The Connector and I hope they always have something more that they want to say. Being a monthly print publication also seems to keep the trolls at bay for which I am also thankful. It is gratifying to be part of something that is positive, helpful, personal, informative, entertaining and appreciated by its audience. Story ideas and contributions will always be given serious consideration as it is, after all, YOUR paper.

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Haircut for Harry Haha Shirley McCaffrey receives a $500 donation from Bob Morgan of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles Aerie #3453 towards her Haircut for Hairy HaHa. McCaffrey will be cutting her hair on November 26 at the SPCA Craft Fair at TRU and will donate the hair towards cancer wigs. In memory of her beloved rescue dog, Harry HaHa, McCaffrey is fundraising for the new BCSPCA Kamloops & District Community Animal Centre. Donations can be made at BCSPCA Champions for Animals https://tinyurl.com/haircutforharry

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Submitted by Dawn Mackenzie The world is changing quickly, as is medical research. We need this change, because more people, worldwide, are surviving from stroke now than ever before. While we do have some very effective practices for stroke recovery now, researchers and visionaries continue to dream of what life after stroke can look like in the future.

CURRENT PRACTICES Currently, stroke recovery focuses mostly on physical recovery of full body function, upper limb function, speech, and vision, and occurs both in hospital and at home. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) and mirror therapy work on limb function.

Medications help relieve the pain of muscle spasms, and exercises for stretching, strengthening and balance can help with movement. Social and emotional changes are effectively addressed through counselling. When memory and other cognitive functions are affected, Occupational Therapists with specialized training can develop and monitor structured cognitive rehabilitation programs to help the survivor “retrain the brain.”

BRAIN RETRAINING “When we speak about [stroke] recovery we’re really talking about how the nervous system adapts to the brain missing a part of functioning tissue,” explains Johns Hopkins Medicine expert, Steven Zeiler, M.D., Ph.D..

Neuroplasticity is the medical term for this adaptation, and refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize itself; to create new neural pathways when the original pathways have been closed off or damaged. Where we once thought relearning after stroke or brain injury, based on neuroplasticity, was only possible for the first few years, we now know the brain’s ability to reorganize

itself is lifelong. We also know that the sooner people receive rehabilitation following stroke or brain injury, the sooner new pathways are created and function returns.

EMERGING PRACTICES: WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON? Emerging practices for stroke recovery are based on this concept of lifelong neuroplasticity. Innovative treatments are being developed that help the damaged brain develop new pathways in order to complete activities that were once easy. For example, upper limb function is now being assisted by FES combined with robotics. Robotics can also help with walking, and research is underway in this regard. Virtual reality, using Wii and Nintendo gaming systems, for example, is now being used to increase user motivation for repetitive practice of basic skills, such as lifting a pen or throwing a ball. When combined with physical training, non-invasive brain stimulation can help survivors of stroke learn how to speak, swallow, and increase their walking speed.

Medications are also being trialed to find ones that will lower levels of a specific protein in the brain, required to allow uninjured parts of the brain take over from injured areas, while research into augmented communication continues to make headway using innovative digital technologies.* This is an exciting time in medical research, and a hopeful time for those who have survived a stroke. What other practices will emerge in the next 5 years? What will the research tell us about the efficacy, safety and ethical concerns of these practices, and how will we move forward? *These are only a few of the newest ideas in stroke recovery. If you are interested in learning more, talk to your doctor or use “stroke recovery” to search the internet.

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Now is the time to prepare your estate plan

It could be the discomfort of having to face one’s mortality, the lack of any immediate tangible benefits, or simply not knowing where to start.

Whatever the reasons, one fact is clear when it comes to estate planning: People tend to procrastinate, putting the task on the backburner year after year. But tragedy can strike anytime, and if you die without a will, your assets may not be distributed as you want them to be. So put an end to the delays

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Now is the time to think about protecting your assets for the sake of your children and grandchildren. Now is the time to communicate your wishes to your family. Now is the time to ensure your wishes will be realized after you pass away.

Estate planning affects everyone, regardless of wealth. In simple terms, an estate is everything you own – including real estate, investments and other property, as well as the debts you owe.

An effective estate plan will not only make it clear who gets what, but ensure that your assets are distributed efficiently and as tax-effectively as possible.

A financial advisor can help you create an estate plan. Some specific

expertise will also be required from a lawyer and a tax professional.

Your financial advisor can coordinate gathering their input and incorporating it into your plan.

Your plan will likely consist of a few key pillars. This includes a will to specify the distribution of your assets after death; power of attorney to authorize someone to act on your behalf if you become incapacitated; and life insurance to help ensure your family has enough cash to live comfortably after you pass away.

Some estate plans can incorporate the use of trusts. Trusts can be used to provide for a spouse or disabled child, place limits on a gift, or potentially reduce income taxes.

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The trustee manages the assets on behalf of the beneficiary by following the instructions you have written in the trust document.

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Flu shot season has arrived Every year in Canada, about 12,200 people are hospitalized and 3,500 people die from influenza or its complications.

You can help yourself and those around you stay healthy, prevent illness and potentially save lives in one easy step – by getting your annual flu shot. Interior Health advises that the flu shot is a safe and effective way to help protect the public, especially children, pregnant women, seniors, people with chronic illnesses, and others who are most at risk from influenza and its complications.

“Influenza, which people often call the flu, is sometimes confused with the common cold, the

stomach flu (norovirus) or other illnesses caused by a virus,” said Dr. Rakel Kling, Medical Health Officer.

“However, influenza is different – it is a serious infection of the airways that can be quite severe. It is highly contagious, and is among the top 10 leading causes of death in Canada.”

Influenza spreads when a person comes into contact with droplets from an infected person who coughs or sneezes.

Symptoms can include fever, headache, runny nose, sore throat, or cough.

“The best ways to help protect yourself and those around you from influenza are to get immunized, wash your hands frequently, and to cough or sneeze into your

elbow or a tissue. If you are sick, stay home, and keep sick children away from daycares and schools,” said Dr. Kling.

The flu shot provides protection from the influenza virus strains expected to be circulating this season based on worldwide trends identified by the World Health Organization. This year’s flu shot offers protection against two influenza A viruses (an H1N1 and an H3N2 virus) and one influenza B virus. For those under 18, the preferred vaccine also protects against an additional B influenza virus.

The flu shot is free for those at risk of

complications from influenza and those in contact with people at risk.

The flu shot is also available at many doctor’s offices, pharmacies and walk-in clinics - those who are not eligible for the free vaccine will be required to pay a fee.

Interior Health also reminds the public that during the influenza season visitors who have not had a flu shot are required to wear a mask when visiting Interior Health hospitals, health centres and residential care facilities, including contracted facilities. By following this policy, you will help to protect the people you are visiting from getting a potentially serious illness.

and other trusted family members is essential.

This will help you avoid potential confusion, hard feelings and family conflict when it’s time to settle your affairs. In fact, it’s probably best to have your loved ones involved early on in the process.

If you don’t have an estate plan, speak with your financial advisor today to get started on your estate plan now.

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Thank you, readers Continued from page 3 scooter. She is now able to maintain her independence, get her own groceries, and attend appointments without help.

Thank you Connector readers for helping to build such a great community. According to the BC Brain Injury Association, acquired brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability for Canadians under the age of 40. In fact, 30 percent of all brain injuries in Canada are suffered by children and youth, with acquired brain injury the leading cause of death and disability among children.

Kamloops Brain Injury Association works to support people in Kamloops and surrounding areas to optimize independence and live to their full potential.

KBIA advocates for, and provides specialized programs for survivors of acquired brain injuries, and facilitates education and awareness within our community. If you would like further information about what we do, or if you have an item that you think we can use, please call us at 250.372.1799 or email at kbia@kbia.ca.

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recommended and are installed on most homes.

Their purposes are to collect water from the roof and to deflect water away from entrances and walkways. They should be solidly attached to the house and shouldn’t leak or overflow. Eavestrough Rainy, stormy, cold leaks are most common November. Good thing at corners, splices your roof, gutters and and end-caps, and are downspouts are going to usually easily repaired by keep you dry… right? If removing the old caulk, you’re unsure that this cleaning the surfaces and is absolutely true for re-caulking. Use a caulk your house, now is the that is specifically labelled time to take care of little problems before they are for sealing gutters: exterior silicone caulking big trouble. will not work reliably for Asphalt or composite shingles are probably the this.

Overflows are usually an most common roofing indicator of a eavestrough on residences. If your shingles are curling up or that needs cleaning. Do not ignore overflowing down at the ends, have bald spots where the rock eavestroughs. Consider how much the water in an granules are missing, overflowing eavestrough or if you can see water weighs and how flimsy dripping from between eavestroughs are! Every the eavestrough and the few years it is advisable fascia you probably need a new roof. Call an expert to check to see that the screws or nails that attach and have it checked. A new roof is expensive, but the eavestrough to the not as much as a new roof house are well anchored.

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On a rainy day this fall it is worth picking up an umbrella and taking a walk around your house and checking that the roof, eavestroughs and downspouts are doing their job properly.

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or onto the ground through an extension that moves the water several feet from the house. Downspouts tend to be fragile, and bumping them with the lawnmower all summer or tripping over downspout extensions will often

Carpet underlayment is an aspect of flooring that is not always given the attention it deserves.

Whether you use the term underlayment, underlay, underpad, under cushion or carpet cushion you will want to pay attention to this product the next time you purchase carpet. Selecting the proper underlayment can make or break your carpet purchase.

A good underlay is important because it aids in the performance of your carpet. Underlay dampens walking and furniture impact which protects the carpet from breaking down. Not to mention, underlay makes the carpet feel even better underfoot and acts as an insulator for temperature and noise.

The most common form of underlay is made from chip-foam and rated on a density pound scale.

Density is a much better measure of performance than thickness because an underlay that is thick and not dense will still flex too much underfoot and breakdown quickly. Your

lifestyle and the location of the carpet will be the determining factors in which underlay is best for you. If you have kids/ grandkids, pets or are very active then these should factor into the buying decision.

An active household will often want to go with a more dense underlay in order to ensure the carpet performance holds up. The last thing anyone wants is to invest in great looking and feeling carpet only to see it start to wear early because of choosing a low quality underlay.

Other “bells and whistles” of underlay can include: underlay that is made to have antimicrobial

properties and underlay made with a moisture barrier to stop damaging water/stains from getting into the foam and causing odour.

If you have any questions about carpet underlayment don’t hesitate to give us a call.

Lastly, we would like to thank the community of Kamloops for the tremendous support in raising money and canned food for both the Kamloops Food Bank and SPCA at our 4th Open House last month. We are extremely thankful for this community, this country and those who fought to ensure our freedom.Lest we forget.

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Insurance and single vehicle accidents

7 Claim.” Legislation sets out what benefits you are entitled to under this claim, and it is very Winter driving is upon modest coverage. There us. While we all try our are some wage loss best to slow down, drive benefits while you are to road conditions and totally disabled from use winter tires, Mother working to a maximum Nature still manages to of $300 per week; partial throw some surprises payment for rehabilitation our way. Motor Vehicle treatments; some medical Accidents due to ice, cost coverage; and some slush or snow can happen funeral expense coverage. to the best driver, leaving Every ICBC insured you with injuries, missed gets Part 7 benefits, work and medical bills. unless you were also Lawyers often get a call working at the time of in a situation like this, your accident and eligible with the question “Do I for WCB coverage or have an ICBC claim?”. were in breach of your The answer is yes, and no, insurance policy (drinking and maybe. and driving, racing, etc.).

Each situation in a The most likely reason single vehicle accident is anyone would be totally unique, and complicated disabled from working by any number of factors. for a temporary period You should always get would be due to a car legal advice to find accident injury. If you do out what insurance is not have private disability available to you. insurance and earn over As an ICBC insured in 21,000 a year, ICBC offers a single vehicle accident, extra total temporary you are entitled to very disability income basic accident benefits. replacement insurance ICBC terms this a “Part

for up to 75 percent of your gross weekly income at a very reasonable price. This coverage is not widely advertised by ICBC and many insurance brokers are unaware that it exists. You have to ask for it specifically (APV197) from your insurance agent and it can be added at any time.

There are situations where other claims are available to you, even if you are the only vehicle involved in the accident.

A passenger in a single vehicle accident, a driver injured in an accident where a roadwork crew left a hazard on the road way or a driver who spun out on ice because the snowplow had not done its job – all of these may be instances when an additional claim may be appropriate.

Every circumstance will need to be considered to determine the availability of insurance to help you as you recover from your injuries.

Downsize the right way

As professional downsizers we hear of many different ways people downsize but many don’t know how to do it properly. When most people downsize or clean out a home, they load everything into a bin and take it to the landfill seeing no value or just don’t know what to do with all of the items.

During a POC “Professional Organizers of Canada” meeting I recently attended, we had a guest speaker from the “Diabetes

Canada” Organization to learn about their textile collection program.

During the talk we were told about the tons of clothing that are put into the landfills each year because either people didn’t know what to do with these items, figured they were of no worth to anyone or were not accepted at a charity. As many of you may have seen “Diabetes Canada” bins they put out to collect all textiles i.e. clothing, bedding, shoes and many other items considered textiles, as long as they are not soiled or overly worn. This saves many textiles from reaching the landfill and allows these items to be recycled or resold to assist with their cause.

I was shocked at the huge amount of textiles

that end up in a landfill but textiles are not the only items that end up in landfill that could otherwise be donated to great causes that help our communities. As Everything Organized is very eco friendly it is our practice to donate textiles to places like the SPCA, sewing clubs and charities. This month it is my goal to get the word out to donate your old textiles and if you know of a charity that you prefer to support, just know that they would appreciate your donations as would your community.

If you would like to see a textile donation box in your area, you can contact Diabetes Canada and if you need assistance downsizing feel free to contact Everything Organized to assist you.

Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign A cop pulls a car over for going 20 mph on the highway. The driver is a little old lady, and there are two old ladies in the back seat. The cop asks, “Why were you driving just 20 miles per hour?” The old lady responds, “I was just going the posted speed limit!” and points to a sign up ahead. The cop smiles and says, “That’s not the speed limit sign, that’s the sign for this highway — Route 20!” One of the old ladies in the back gasps out, “We tried to tell you, Eugenia!” The cop takes another look at the old women in the back and sees that they are wide-eyed and disheveled. One of them is tightly gripping the door handle. “What’s the matter?” the cop asks. She responds, “We just came off of Interstate 190.

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It has been said that life without memory is no life at all. We are fascinated by memory.

Our memories define our personal autobiography.

Shared memories are the glue that holds society, groups and families together and form the basis of culture. Drawn from our past, they help us create our future.

We all have memories.

It’s just that sometimes we can’t find where we put them.

Anytime we experience real or perceived memory loss it is troubling. We tend to imagine the worst and are tempted to try the latest fad brain supplement.

Shooting from the hip when it comes to brain

biochemistry can lead to random and potentially damaging results. Each new chemical discovery provokes the marketing of a new enticing cognitive enhancement supplement with names like phosphatidylserine, gingko, bacopa, huperzine, and dimethylaminoethanol (DMAE). It boggles the mind. Where to start and what to choose? Here are some tips you could keep in mind, or in your reminder notebook, to help you navigate the path to better cognition.

Brain research has shown that stress interferes with the synthesis, storage and transport of memories at the molecular level. You can minimize memory loss, by reducing your physical, chemical and emotional stress. Get plenty of rest, fun and exercise. Eliminate the toxins in your environment and food supply as best you can. Give your brain a

Enrolment in online ‘MyHealthPortal’ grows With more than 24,000 patients enrolled since the service was introduced a year ago, and a new automated registration system now launched, use of Interior Health’s MyHealthPortal tool continues to grow.

To self-enrol, patients must still show their identification at the registration desk and ask to have their email address added to their patient record. They can then submit an enrolment form directly at interiorhealth.ca/ MyHealthPortal.

MyHealthPortal offers secure 24-hour access to personal health information via a patient’s smart phone, tablet or computer. Features include the ability to view their Interior Health lab results, diagnostic imaging reports (such as X-rays, scans and ultrasound),

certain upcoming appointments, recent hospital visit history, and the opportunity to update address and phone number information.

The enrolment team wrapped up in July this year after travelling to 26 communities across the health authority to promote the program and enrol patients.

For more information visit interiorhealth.ca/ MyHealthPortalor call 1-844-870-4756.

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rest from the strain of constant interruptions from cell phones. Pay attention to the quality of your relationships and release whatever emotional conflicts you are holding onto.

Meditation, regular exercise, yoga, time spent in nature, focused attention and intention, maintaining a positive outlook with a sense of humour, and finding ways to create peace within yourself are scientifically validated behaviors that optimize brain performance.

What about your diet? Eat plenty of avocados, blueberries, beets, bone broths, broccoli, celery, coconut oil, dark chocolate, eggs, leafy greens like chard, kale and spinach, nutritional yeast, organ meats, rosemary herb, salmon, sea vegetables and walnuts. These gifts of nature provide anti-oxidant, antiinflammatory and nutrient-rich factors that

support brain physiology and function.

If you subscribe to the idea that memory loss is an inevitable course of aging it is time to unsubscribe.

As you think, so shall you function. Remain youthful in your speech and in the company you keep. Activate your mind by learning new things, visiting new places, and adopting new habits. I am reminded of the question “Do you play because you are young or are you young because you play?”

If you are doing all these things and still feel the need to take a brain supplement you should seek a professional to identify your exact needs. In summary, to maximize your memory health, reduce your stress, maintain a youthful lifestyle and attitude and lifestyle, adjust your diet, and only take supplements that are appropriate for you and your specific brain need.

Guru Nanak: Know Your Neighbour Day We invite all members of Kamloops and adjoining communities to join us and take part in the upcoming “Know Your Neighbour” Day Walk 2017 on November 4, at 11 a.m., at McArthur Park. The Walk will start at the Press Box. Complimentary refreshments and coffee will be provided.

The “Know Your Neighbour Walk” was started in 2012, by members of the local Sikh community honouring the birthdate of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion, and his universal message of our common humanity.

The Walk was initiated as a way of bringing peoples together in a spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood, toward building bridges to mutual understanding and friendship. Our commitment to inclusion and diversity is strengthened in the face of rising intolerance and prejudice. We invite peoples of all backgrounds, creeds, and ethnicities to walk together in solidarity and friendly relations.

Mayor Ken Christian and Council have proclaimed November 4, 2017, as “Know Your Neighbour Day.” We are proud to promote the friendly and welcoming spirit of the City of Kamloops and invite members of the public to come and join us – Get to Know Your Neighbours – and make the annual walk a success.

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“Nae man can tether time or tide” ~ Robert Burns

As my backpack moved through the baggage scanner at Kamloops airport, the technician did a double-take and hit reverse. “What’s the sand-like substance at the bottom of your pack ma’am?”

“Er…it’s my Dad,” I replied. So started my epic journey to Fair Isle.

My father passed away in 2008. Having listened since childhood to captivating tales of shipwrecks and cruel land barons, I instinctively knew his remains were destined for his ancestral

home. I have traced the genealogy of my island roots back to our oldest known ancestor; James Stout, born 1700. Ironically, James was a schoolteacher, as was my father.

The Fair Isle lies like a jewel in the North Sea, smack dab between the Orkneys and the Shetlands, off Scotland’s northern tip. The isle, one and a half miles wide by 3 miles long, is now a bird sanctuary owned by the National Trust. Roughly 60 crofters, many of them Stouts, presently dwell there. Visitors consist of vacationing bird watchers, environmentalists and descendants. This sustainable island runs on solar and wind power. The desolate land is incredibly picturesque, with craggy cliffs and moorish rolling fields dotted with flocks of sheep. Fair Isle is well known for it’s intricate knitting designs.

Just getting to this

remote destination is challenging! From Aberdeen Scotland, my son and I sailed on the ferry to Lerwick, Shetland. Following a bus trip, we embarked on the Good Shepherd III for a perilous, turnyou-green crossing.

Captain Neil got wind there was a Stout on board ‘taking her Dad home.’ He invited us into the cabin and graciously let me steer the ship into harbour. “Aye, it’s in your blood lass. Many a Stout’s been a captain,” he said.

We pre-booked our stay at The South Lighthouse B&B, rooming in the old keeper’s quarters.

I was delighted, as it has always been my fantasy to holiday at a lighthouse! It was wondrous ascending the spiral staircase and taking in the glorious sea view.

My first mission was to explore the weathered stones of my ancestors in the boneyard and scatter

my father’s ashes. It was a profoundly emotional experience, having dreamt of this place for so long and to know what this journey would have meant to the old man.

He traveled to Fair Isle in his mid 60’s — a fond memory that he carried with him all his remaining years.

Next was a visit to the museum and the island archivist. How intriguing to view historical photos, artifacts, and census records. That evening we celebrated Jimmy Stout’s Birthday at the Auld Hall. Grand music, folk and food, and the whole island came!

The following day I took a boxed lunch and hiked the island.

I stopped at the kirks and braved a trek along the sea cliffs, where the

insanely territorial bonxies (hawklike sea birds) took great exception to my presence and divebombed me — I had been forewarned, but it did not prepare me for this Hitchcockian encounter!

After lunching at the harbour, I continued to the North Lighthouse, where I was thrilled to discover adorable puffins perched on the precipice.

Heading back I was greeted by an enthusiastic border collie and shouts of “Git doon Brrrruce! Git doon!” The owner was

another Stout cousin who invited me in for tea. She runs a B&B and it turns out my dad had stayed there — small world, small island.

Every step on Fair Isle sent shivers down my spine. I was walking in the very footsteps of my ancestors. Now my father walks there too.

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Founding member of Legion Branch 242 Continued from page 1

“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.” ~ Isabel Allende

Honour and remember our veterans

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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~José Narosky

NEVER FORGET

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Top left, Private Keith Moore as a young man. Top right, Moore participates in Remembrance Day ceremonies in Barriere where he receives the salute. Bottom photo, Moore (centre) collects his Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal from Senator Nancy Greene-Raine (left) and MP Cathy McLeod (right) in October 2012. of the German Army to the River Seine, Trooper Moore’s tank was hit with an 88 mm projectile immobilizing the track. A second hit caused on board ammunition to explode setting Moore’s pants on fire. Unwounded, he bailed out of the tank and was able to extinguish the fire on his clothing. Since no additional tanks were available at this time, he was assigned to the Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Major, through France to Belgium where he was reassigned to tank troop.

Trooper Moore, a 21 year old Canadian, volunteered to join the army to help defeat Nazi tyranny; returning peace and freedom to the peoples of Europe.

Signed Lt Col (Ret’d) Archie M. Steacy, CD Moore offers more detailed accounts of his military service in his auto-biography penned in 2013. Not only was he moved around quite a bit, his wartime experience was varied and never dull. Upon his eventual return home (discharged March 8, 1946), he found work and started a family living at Blucher Hall near Agate/ Squam Bay.

He was a founding member of the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Barriere which he helped establish in 1953. Moore has served in various capacities on the executive over the years, twice as president.

He also participated in the executive of both the Revelstoke and Sicamous branches when living in those two communities.

Eventually he and his late wife, Eleanore, retired to Barriere where he resides today.

Still an active member of the Legion, Moore attends the weekly meat draw which raises funds for the community. He’s happy to see the legion evolve into an organization that is open to all community members interested in supporting veterans and their causes. He participates every year in the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Barriere and for the last five has been on the receiving end of the salute.

Moore’s stature in the community is significant above and beyond his background and reputation as a veteran. He helped establish the first ambulance service with the help of the Lions Club and served as Fire Chief at one point due to his training at Tranquille.

Despite being a humble man, Moore was named Barriere’s Citizen of the Year in 2012 and also received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, his contributions and accomplishments not going unnoticed.

This father of four plus four step-children, and now numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, has had a long and colourful life.He has worked as a logger, a farmer, a millwright amongst other things. His military service was a relatively brief part of his life but his connection to that profound experience weaves through his entire life. Several years ago Moore returned to France with 30 or 40 members of his old regiment. Each honour and every Remembrance Day ceremony reinforces Moore’s good fortune. When asked if he had a hard time returning home from the war, Moore said “No, I just felt very lucky. I found work, got married and started my family.”

The rest is, as they say, history— or as Sir Keith Moore remembers it, “another chapter in the life of Keith Moore.” Very lucky indeed.

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“All who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the World & Wealth: the same man cannot love both gold & Books.” ~Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham, 1346

Cenotaphs offered a place to start the process of public healing and private reflection.

Rarely seen up close, the KMA presents, the Kamloops Cenotaph clock and its accompanying bell, to mark a moment in time when we might stop to reflect.

veterans are treated for mental health issues. He is particularly scathing in his views on the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, the main message here is one of hope, that federal politicians will invest in mental health initiatives and that government officials will implement such changes with alacrity. Conrad gives an intimate look at life in the military, respectful of the veterans from past wars, focused on meaningful support for present and future veterans. Highly recommended.

John Conrad, a Colonel in the Army Reserves, served 34 years in the military before retiring in 2017. He is the author of a number of books, including What the Thunder Said, about Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan. He lives in Alberta.

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KAMLOOPS CENOTAPH The almost unimaginable impact of the World Wars reverberated around the globe.

Many Canadian communities memorialized their fallen with monuments.

even when he quits the regular Army and joins the Reserve Army. At a time when he needs his battalion, which is posted in western Canada, he struggles in the role of instructor at The Canadian Army Command and Staff College in Kingston, Ontario. A host of nightmares, rage, memory loss, paranoia, self-blame, and self-harm finally result in a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and compassionate professional care at the Operational Stress Injury Clinic. In the meantime, his own family and his “army family” support Conrad. He in turn supports the soldiers with PTSD and their families, the suicides of some of the young soldiers particularly heart-wrenching. Conrad is clear that there is much that needs to improve in the way Canadian

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Isn’t that a noble sentiment; prizing books and learning more than wealth?

To a book addict, however, it has the hollow ring of a bishop trying to justify to his synod spending all his stipend on illuminated manuscripts, while his cassock is ragged, his miter dusty and his servants resentful from being forbidden to move piles of parchment because, “If you do, I’ll never find anything again!”

Books do that to you. He was right about wealth though. If we book lovers have to choose between RRSPs and books, we go for the folios every time.

Not content with buying the books we enjoy, we want our nearest and dearest to share our pleasure.

At a book reading in a city store, I discovered the latest volume of B.C. humourist Eric Nicol. Naturally I had to have one. I bought one for my sister for Christmas and one for a friend’s birthday.

Only my companion’s quick action in hastily holding her hand over my mouth prevented me blurting out, “A round for

the house! Books for everyone!”

We addicts buy all the books we can discover about any subject that intrigues us: horses, gardens, astronomy, so we’ll have all the information handy. This can have unexpected consequences, as I realized when the librarian from our local college called to ask if I’d lend my books to students in a particular ecology course. She assured me that I had more books on that topic than the college. It’s a sobering thought.

Lending books is a delicate matter; the college had to get along without mine.

Borrowers generally fall into two groups; the casual type who forget they’ve taken your first edition of Riders of the Purple Sage until they find it in the cat’s bed; or, those who love the book so much they stoutly insist it’s theirs, in spite of the author’s autographed dedication to you in it. I save my friendships by buying copies of books just to lend. I bet Richard of Durham never lent so much as a bit of vellum without a copy.

There were no magazines in Durham in 1346, but, if there had been, Bishop Richard would have subscribed. He’ll never know the stress he avoided.

As a teenager, I dreamed of being an

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Page 15 “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~ Francis of Assisi

Sandhurst The College Adjutant rode the white stallion up the stairs into Sandhurst and down the hallway for my father, who had the highest marks on the tests of a Canadian, part of the Commonwealth, not bad for a boy in the Officer Training Unit who went with the rest from the interior of BC to Halifax where they shipped-out and puked their fear into the chopping grey Atlantic waves and bonded with cigarettes that branded them as men They removed most of his teeth to prevent trench mouth, and would never smile the same way again

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Turning up treasure Continued from page 15 archaeologist. Often, when digging through piles of books and magazines in search of a specific article, I realized part of that dream has been fulfilled.

I get to shift mountains of debris, occasionally turning up a treasure.

Sometimes there are exciting finds. The issue of Canadian Cowboy, which I’d accused the magazine of never mailing, was discovered, still in its wrapper, in an armload of other reading material.

Red-faced, I skulked upstairs and put it beside the replacement copy the editors had kindly sent.

“So, that’s where the Doris Daley poems went!”

I exclaimed in glee, as I continued excavating. It’s not that a person doesn’t WANT to read Practical Horseman or the Northern Horse Review; it’s just that they’re buried beneath last month’s Western Living and November’s Canadian Thoroughbred.

But, we know that they contain darn good, useful

information and we plan to read them. Eventually we do, a bit later than most other people.

We try, we really try, to stem the rising tide of paper. A friend who’d bought a new washer and dryer put the old ones, temporarily on the porch, intending to sell them. Two weeks later they’d vanished. “Did they sell?” I asked. “No.” she replied defensively.

“I just got rid of them.

They were starting to attract magazines!”

The magnetism by which any flat surface automatically draws paper to it deserves detailed scientific study. Ask any book lover. A footstool, chair, counter, washing machine, unused stove top, (the ones in use are far too dangerous), or floor, will be buried two feet deep in paper in less than a week unless the book devotee is tirelessly vigilant.

We’re pleasantly surprised – at Christmas, say - when we make a

determined effort to consolidate the mounds, to find how large the dining table is and how many chairs are available for company.

This passion for books begins in childhood. My son and I took books long on our picnics. If the car broke down or ants devoured the lunch, well, we could still read Old Yeller. People who never read a book horrify us. And, those who sell, actually sell, books they like? Heretics! Like selling your children.

Our shelves testify to former interests. The years we learned French, quilted, took up horseshoeing, or built bird houses, all wait patiently in the books we left behind.

Fortunately book fanatics understand each other.

If a friend apologizes for not yet having read the book on dog psychology I gave her for Christmas, I don’t criticize. I know she’s bravely working her way through the history

of Scotland from the year before. When my lunch date excused himself early to rush home and clean house before his new cleaning lady arrived, I wasn’t offended. “If I’m not there, “ he explained in a hunted tone, “she’ll throw those piles of paper out, and I’ll need them – sometime!”

In these days of global warming the only glaciers growing are the paper ones over-flowing our bookshelves. We book lovers accept that there’s no cure for our malady.

We’re doomed to be forever guilty, surrounded by books yet to be read, people for whom every week is Canada Book Week. We have only one request; give us our own patron saint to will comfort and guide us.

Other lovers have St. Valentine. For those of us who love books, not wisely but far too well, Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham will do nicely, thank you.

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Christmas,” 7 p.m., Sat. Dec. 2 and 3 pm, Sun. Dec. 3, Annual Santa Claus Parade Kamloops Fiddlers Dance You are invited to join the biggest 2017 at Kamloops Full Gospel Nov. 4, Brock Activity Centre, 9A outdoor celebration of the winter Tabernacle, 1550 Tranquille Rd. - 1800 Tranquille Rd., 7:30 - 10 TVO’s new Guest Conductor, Don season downtown on Sat., Nov. p.m. Enjoy cowboy two-steps, Bennett, has planned a program 25 at 11 a.m. with a Canada150 waltzes, polkas, schottisches, filled with lots of your Christmas parade theme presented by foxtrots and more. Admission season favourites played by the title sponsor Thompson Rivers at the door. Members $6, Nonfull orchestra and by a guest University (TRU). members $10. Everyone welcome. brass ensemble. Tickets at the Annual Fall Tea, Mt Paul door: Adults - $15, Students - $5, Bazaar and Tea Room at St. United Church Women, Children under 6 - free.

John Vianney, 2826 Bank Rd., Sensational Soups & Community Sat., Nov. 18, noon -2 p.m. Also The Illusionists – Live from Kitchens will be hosting at children’s game room, toonie Broadway at the Sandman Centre.

Mt Paul United Church, 140 table, Christmas baking, jams, One night only. Apr. 16, 2018, 8 Laburnum St. Sat., Nov. 25 from canning and traditional British 2 to 3:30 p.m. Bring your friends p.m. Tickets on-sale Fri., Oct. 13 mincemeat. and enjoy some refreshments for @10 a.m. via ticketmaster.ca Christmas Craft & Bake Sale $6. You can also purchase items There are openings for several Sat., Nov. 18, 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. from the baking, crafts and white courses at Kamloops Adult Lord of the Lutheran Church, elephant tables. This is a scent Learners Society- many are 2481 Sunset Dr., Valleyview. free event. single session two hour courses Lunch and refreshments. covering such diverse subjects Bazaar, Christmas Crafts & Let’s Dance. Sponsored by the Baking at the Japanese Cultural as Canadian history, particularly appropriate for our big 150th Kamloops Social Club (formerly Centre, 140 Vernon Ave., Sat., anniversary, to discussing “fake” called Thompson Valley Activity Nov. 25, 12 noon to 3 p.m. news as opposed to reality. and Social Club) Brock Activity Christmas at the Courthouse, Low impact Chair Yoga with a Centre, 9B - 1800 Tranquille Rd. at the Old Courthouse Cultural qualified instructor will make Nov. 18, 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Music Centre, 7 West Seymour St., will keeping fit fun. FMI call the KALS by: Bob King Tickets: $10 each. be held Dec. 2 and 3, 10 a.m. to office @ 236 526 4414 or visit us Contact for tickets: Francoise 4 p.m. This historic old building, @ 262 Lorne Street, Kamloops 778-220-8010 or Norma 250beautifully decorated, filled with 299-7221 or Zonia 250-372-009. fine art and craft is perfect for the Enjoy meeting new friends and exchanging ideas.

Dementia and Alzheimers Workshops for November HEADS UP: An Introduction to Brain Health: Tues., Nov. 7, 1-3 p.m. Healthy aging is important for everyone, and it is essential not to forget the health of your brain as well. This workshop encourages participants to actively engage in protecting and maintaining their brain. Anyone interested in brain health is welcome to attend.

Family Caregiver Workshop: Sat., Nov. 18, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. An all day session for family members who are caring for a person with dementia. Learn about dementia, practical coping strategies, and early planning. This workshop covers the following topics:

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• Understanding Dementia • Understanding Communication • Understanding Behaviour • Planning for the Future • Self-care for the Caregivers Understanding Dementia: Wed., Nov. 22, 1 - 3 p.m. Participants will receive basic information about dementia and the impact this disease has on the individual, caregivers and family. Through an exploration of how dementia affects the brain and behaviour across the progression of the disease, caregivers will learn what to expect throughout the journey with dementia.

Dementia Dialogues: Tues., Nov. 28, 6 - 8 p.m. Dementia Dialogues are interactive learning opportunities for family caregivers to connect with one another and increase their knowledge about dementia and caregiving skills. Each session is an opportunity to learn about a different caregiving topic. Celebrating the Holidays: How has dementia changed the holidays for you. Learn ways to adapt the celebrations so that family gatherings are enjoyed by everyone.

Find out about how to look for the “gifts of now.” Hear strategies and experiences from other caregivers.

The Transition to and Life in Residential Care: Wed., Nov. 29, 1 - 5 p.m. Family caregivers will gain information on: decision-making and strategies for easing the transition of a family member to a residential care facility, the role of the health authority and case managers, assessing long-term care facilities for placement, working effectively with a care team and enhancing your visits.

All workshops take place at Suite # 405 - 235 1st Avenue. Cost: By Donation. Pre-registration is required. Programs with insufficient registrants will be cancelled. Call to register 250-377-8200 or info. kamloops@alzheimerbc.org

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Porch Pickers featured at Barnhartvale Coffee House Submitted by Sue Cane

Sensuous sounds and a new voice in classical composition Submitted by Ryan Noakes, KSO The Kamloops Symphony’s Chamber Music series continues with Reeds in the Wind, featuring the KSO’s principal Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon players, Marea Chernoff, Sally Arai, and Olivia Martin.

This concert will take you on an exploration of the sensuous sounds of early 1900s France before being whisked away to hear a fresh voice in classical composition – contemporary American composer Jenni Brandon.

Reeds in the Wind is taking place on Saturday, November 4, 2017, at 7:30 pm in the Thompson Rivers University Alumni Theatre. Tickets are $25, $10 for Students (under 19), $15 for TD Soundcheck Members (age 19-34), and can be purchased from Kamloops Live! Box Office at 1-866-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

The Porch Pickers are an Okanagan-based trio consisting of Keven Huffman, Ellie Young and Rory Ian White. These three friends have been playing music together for about 10 years.

Keven started playing guitar at a young age and has been writing and performing in the North Okanagan for the last 15 years. His music ranges widely from acoustic folk to blues to electric rock.

In addition to performing at markets, coffee houses and private functions, he has also promoted local live music through various open mics and jams.

Ellie had piano lessons for many years as a child.

When she moved to the Okanagan, she took voice instruction. That led her to singing in “Lost Driveway,” “Homemade Jam,” “Sorella,” “Runaway Lane” and now The Porch Pickers.

She started playing bass about 13 years ago. Her favourite part of singing in The Porch Pickers

is adding some of the harmonies. Community involvement has included doing open mics in the area for 5 years.

Rory has always had a built-in interest and talent for music from childhood. He has played singles and duos as well as with The Porch Pickers and has emceed and organized several open mics in the area.

The Porch Pickers perform many of Keven and Rory’s original songs as well as covers.

They perform in several different genres and are mostly an acoustic-style

trio with two guitars and stand-up bass. “Open mic” for local musicians and small groups - sign up at the side door.

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Music starts at 7:00 pm. Admission $5. Free for open mic performers and children under 12. FMI: Chrisy @ 250-573-0025 or barnhartvalecoffeehouse. com. From town, take the Trans Canada Highway east to the Dallas Petrocan. Follow Dallas Drive to Barnhartvale Road and keep going for 7 km. Barnhartvale Hall is on the left.

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On Nov. 11, we have the opportunity once again to partner with the Royal Canadian Legion and serve hotdogs and hot chocolate to the youth attending the Remembrance Day Parade and Service. Let us not forget all those who have served or are serving our country and are making or have made it a wonderful place to live.

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Our partner ICS is once again holding Mother Goose game and story time at our centre and if you feel like being a grandparent to little ones we would love to have you attend for some fun.

If you are a member of our

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centre and celebrating a birthday in November or December, mark Nov. 28 on your calendar for our Roast Beef Birthday Dinner. Cost is $13.00 and everyone is welcome birthday or not. Please call 250372-5110 in advance to register your name.

If you are interested in holding your Christmas Party at the Seniors’ Community Centre @ Desert Gardens please give Seiko a call to book. Dates are filling up quickly.

Nov. 4 at 10:00 a.m. the TVPG Pottery Sale will be held at the centre. Do drop by and check it out.

This presents a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping.

The centre will be closed on Mon., Nov. 13 in support of the Remembrance Day holiday.

Until next month, bundle up and drop in for a cup of coffee and a visit. We would love to see you.

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North Shore Community Centre news for November There’s something for everyone!

Foreverfeet Footcare offers footcare services Our annual Christmas Craft Fair and Bake Sale is on Wednesdays starting coming up on Sat., Nov. 4. at 8:30 a.m. You can book by calling Suzanne We will have a variety of at 250-554-4500. Your craft items, hand crafted feet deserve the best jewelry, lightly used and Suzanne’s fees for Christmas decorations, and delicious home baked this service are very reasonable. Also, if goods for sale. The craft you are fair will run from 10 a.m.

- 3 p.m. and the bake sale will run from 10 a.m. for as long as supplies last.

There will be a concession available in the Maple Room. This will be a great opportunity to buy your Christmas baking and unique gifts.

This year, we will also be offering Ladies Night on Tues., Nov 14. Come on out for a night of coffee and dessert and check out a variety of local home-based businesses based in Kamloops.

Some of the vendors looking include Mary Kay, Avon, Voxxlife Socks, LipSense, for a new hair style, try Hair by Loreen.

Pruvit Nutritional She will offer hairstyling Drink, Magnolia and services on Fridays Vine Jewelry and more.

starting at 9 a.m. You can call Loreen at 250320-2266 to book your appointment.

If you would like to try a new musical instrument, then come in and join the Ukulele Group on Tuesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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and Yoga which offer a low impact exercise for those who want something easier on the joints. Also offered is Fun Fitness for Seniors, and several dance options. We have the pattern dance lessons on every Tuesday at 10 a.m. to noon. There is also the weekly social dance (Dance With Me Kamloops) on Thursdays, with dance lessons at 6:30 p.m. and dancing to follow at 7 p.m. For all cribbage players, please come out every Thursday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in our Games Room and join us for an afternoon of fun.

Please check out the Kamloops Adult Learners Society courses at kals. ca. They offer a variety of courses here at the Community Centre.

Many thanks to the volunteers who helped out with our Antique Sale and to all who attended.

The money raised will help fund programs for the Community Centre.

We couldn’t have done it without you!

SATURDAY 4 Weightwatchers 8 am Christmas Craft Sale 10 am

11 Remembrance Day

210 Lansdowne st., kamLoops

250.377.8225 drakeCremation.com

Proud to sponsor the Desert Gardens Calendar

interested in! We hope to see you soon at the North Shore Community Centre.

Remembrance Day falls on Saturday this year, this will not impact regular operating hours here at the centre.

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Hair Clips salon

Professional Hair Care & Styling

LISA

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Introducing Lisa to Hair Clips!

Lisa extends an invitation to her clients to rejoin her.

430 - 500 Notre Dame Drive, Columbia Square Plaza (Beside Bed, Bath & Beyond)

Open Monday to Saturday 9 am - 5 pm

250.828.0708

annual store-wide sale

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Saturday

Nov 4

1201 Summit Drive

250-372-3500 www.tumbleweedtoys.ca

FUN FAMILY ACTIVITIES • Face painting • Colouring • Game Demos Special gifts with your purchase!

Weightwatchers 8 am

25 Weightwatchers 8 am

SUNDAY, DEC. 3 | 8 AM - 2 PM Moccasin Square Gardens (Old KIRS Gym) 200-330 Chief Alex Thomas Way LOONIE AUCTION 50/50 DRAW INDIAN TACO LUNCH REGULAR FLEA MARKETS NOV 12 AND 26

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Sarah paused, rigid with tired limbs and sore feet, at the top of the escalator. She was too exhausted to take up the challenge of balancing her parcels, tote and cane— much less her girth—to step onto the creepy metal escalator rattling to the lower level of the department store. The flight downhill on snaking backbones would nauseate the elderly shopper. Her history of vertigo left her cautious and fearful that her head would swim as the creature grabbed her feet. The shiny rail which kept moving away from her gave her a false sense of security at best. For, even if she could catch it, it moved too quickly against her will. The whole nightmarish idea of maintaining balance on the escalator left a pit of fear in her stomach.

To avoid an anxiety attack, Sarah turned away from the sight of the ugly creature creeping out from the hidden dungeon under the floor. Stone still, she waited. Her husband, Warren, who was only a few steps ahead of her, leapt onto the wretched beast’s grooved spinal column with no fear whatsoever – and no particular regard for his elderly wife’s hesitancy. He rode the black vibrating vertebrae down into the abyss of reflective mirrors to the floor below.

Roaming the lower-level isles, he sensed Sarah had not followed him. He missed her cane clicking on the tiled floors and, with a gulp thought, Uh oh, she’s afraid and stuck at the top. Concerned, he headed back to check on her. The up-escalator couldn’t travel fast enough to suit him. A few times, he hiked two steps at a time till exhaustion halted his fancy footwork. Near the landing, Sarah stood motionless with bundles in her arms and her trusty cane choking at the neck from her tight grip. Warren felt guilty.

“I’m so sorry, Sarah,” he apologized as he approached her. “I didn’t realize you weren’t with me. Why didn’t you take the elevator?”

“Never mind that. While you were downstairs, a gentleman came by with a proposition for me.”

“Oh, Sarah you didn’t say yes to anything I hope…”As he stammered, Sarah doubled over her bulk and laughed.

Her puzzled husband implored, “What kind of proposition?”

“To be a model!” She covered her mouth with embarrassment and giggled behind her hand.

“What? Are you kidding?”

“No, all I have to do is pose for a few minutes in the ladies wear department! I told the man I’m too well-endowed to be a show-piece but he disagreed and said I’m exactly what they need!

“Come on, Sarah, you’ll look

ridiculous.”

“Maybe not. They’ll dress me up, you know, fix my hair. I might get a make-over!”

The couple agreed on one thing – you’re never too old to try something new. For the shear fun of it, Sarah showed up for the audition. The department manager introduced her. “We’ve got our girl, Sarah here is our volunteer model.” With excitement the team crowded Sarah and congratulated her. “We’ve looked a long time for someone like you,” a clerk admitted. Your type is hard to pin down for our over-the-top ideas. Welcome!”

In a change-room, the clerks helped Sarah out of her support stockings and into a pair of tight leather pants. The boots she pulled on came up to her calves. Pulling a studded leather jacket off a hanger, one of the clerks announced, “You’re not a biker’s mamma without one of these.” The comment went right over Sarah’s head. The final accessory was a full-face helmet. Sarah’s tightly curled grey hair was tucked under it, her bifocals were removed and the see-through visor was pulled down over her bewildered face. Shaking in her boots, she reached for her cane. “You won’t need that. We’ll help you up,” the clerk advised. Sarah could hardly see a thing and wondered, Help me up where?

The team began the count-down. “One, two, three, lift-off.” With the cue, they plopped Sarah up on the seat of a sleek hot-pink Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Posing the model’s shaky boots on the handlebars, they suggested she relax and enjoy! Sarah froze.

Dark draped window coverings were lifted and sunbeams streamed into the picture window. Coloured stage-lights flooded the scene. Unbeknownst to Sarah, she was on display for a crowd of on-lookers outside on the street in front of the store windows. They cheered and whistled their approval of the store’s very first live-mannequin window display.

Poor Sarah could have suffered a heart attack, but instead panic turned her to stone. Photographers from the media got terrific shots of the live mannequin while, for exactly six minutes, she froze on that Harley… just as she needed to in order to pull off the show stopper.

Watching from the wings, Warren screeched, “You look wonderful! Way t’go, gall!” Impressed, he and the team hailed her as a good sport. For her unusual role in the momentous event, she was gifted with a season’s pass to live performances by the town’s local theatre company.

That’s not all. They gave her the gears… if you know what I mean.

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Revelstoke Seniors NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

1 Billiards 9 am Senior Exercise 10 am

Genealogy Workshop 1 - 4 pm

5

Bingo 1 pm Bridge 7 pm Darts 7 pm

6

iMEDICINE Need a doctor?

CANADA

Phone: 250-837-9456 www.revelstokeseniors.ca

7 8 Carpet Bowling Billiards 9 am Senior Exercise 9 am 10 am

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

3 Carpet Bowling2 9 am Senior Exercise Coffee Drop In 10 am 9:30 am Crib 1 pm Carpet Bowling9 9 am Coffee Drop In 9:30 am Crib 1 pm

4

TELEMEDICINE CLINIC

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Senior Exercise 10 am

Remembrance Day

12 Genealogy Workshop 1 - 4 pm

13 14 15 Bingo 1 pm Billiards 9 am Carpet Bowling Bridge 7 pm Senior Exercise 9 am Darts 7 pm 10 am

16 17 Carpet Bowling 9 am Coffee Drop In Senior Exercise 10 am 9:30 am Crib 1 pm

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19 Genealogy Workshop 1 - 4 pm

20 21 22 Bingo 1 pm Billiards 9 am Carpet Bowling Bridge 7 pm Senior Exercise 9 am Darts 7 pm 10 am

23 24 Carpet Bowling 9 am Senior Exercise Coffee Drop In 10 am 9:30 am Crib 1 pm

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26 Genealogy Workshop 1 - 4 pm

27 28 29 Bingo 1 pm Carpet Bowling Billiards 9 am Bridge 7 pm Senior Exercise 9 am Darts 7 pm 10 am

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NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events -

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

OFFICE HOURS: 1 PM - 4 PM • MON-FRI PHONE: 250-374-1742 • FAX: 250-374-1708 Secretary@kamloopslegion.com 5

Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm

6 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Meat Draw 2:30 pm

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Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm

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Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm

General Meeting26 & Elections at noon Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm

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22 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Dart League

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

15 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Dart League

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

8 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Dart League

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Meat Draw 2:30 pm

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Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Dart League

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29 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Dart League

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

Brock Activity Centre MONDAY

Lunch 11:30 am-1pm Cribbage 1 pm Chair Fitness 1:30 pm

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12 Dance Cancelled

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7 Wood Carving 10 am BINGO 6 pm

14 Wood Carving 10 am BINGO 6 pm

CLOSED

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Sunday Night Dance Chair Fitness 10am Euchre 1:30 pm 7:30 - 11 pm $10 at the door Pound Fitness 7 pm

Sunday Night Dance Chair Fitness 10am 7:30 - 11 pm Euchre 1:30 pm $10 at the door Pound Fitness 7 pm

NOW OPEN

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Carpet Bowling 9 am Coffee Drop In 9:30 am Crib 1 pm

Office Hours: 1 pm to - 4 pm Monday - Friday

THURSDAY Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Crib 7 pm Darts 7:30 pm Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Crib 7 pm Darts 7:30 pm

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425 Lansdowne St.

Kamloops, B.C. V2C 1Y2

Lounge Open23 2 pm - 11 pm Crib 7 pm Darts 7:30 pm

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Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Crib 7 pm Darts 7:30 pm

250-372-2531 EXT. 7

Office: 250-374-1742

FRIDAY

3

Lounge Open 12 pm - 11:30 pm Dance Siera $10pp

SATURDAY

4

Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm Salute to Veterans at Blazers Game

Kipp-Mallery Pharmacy

273 Victoria St. Kamloops

www.kippmallery.ca

10 REMEMBRANCE 11

Lounge Open 12 pm - 11:30 pm Dance Home Brew $10pp

16

Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm Crib 7 pm Darts 7:30 pm Executive Meeting

ACCEPTING PATIENTS! Call today to book an appointment. Our on-site nurse will be happy to assist!

17 Lounge Open 12 pm - 11:30 pm No Dance Lounge Open24 12 pm - 11:30 pm Dance Strange Brew $10pp

DAY Open 11 am - TBA Meat Draw Dance: Home Brew 2 pm til close

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Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm

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Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm

SEE CENTRE SPREAD OF THE CONNECTOR FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Kamloops, B.C. V2B 3L9 info@csikamloops.ca • 778-470-6000

WEDNESDAY

Please call 778-470-6000 Chair Fitness 10am Sunday Night Dance Euchre 1:30 pm Ostomy Support 7:30 - 11 pm 1:30 pm $10 at the door Pound Fitness 7 pm

CANADA

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

TUESDAY

Interested in volunteering?

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iMEDICINE

9A - 1800 Tranquille Road

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

Walk in or book an appointment

Lunch 11:30 am-1pm Cribbage 1 pm Chair Fitness 1:30 pm

THURSDAY 1

FRIDAY

Stitchers Club 9 am Bridge 1 pm Whist 1 pm

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9 Stitchers Club 9 am Bridge 1 pm Whist 1 pm

23 Lunch 22 Stitchers Club 9 am 11:30 am-1pm Bridge 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm Whist 1 pm Chair Fitness 1:30 pm

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30 Lunch 29 Stitchers Club 9 am 11:30 am-1pm Bridge 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm Whist 1 pm Chair Fitness 1:30 pm

Wood Carving 10 am BINGO 6 pm

3 Lunch 11:30 am-1pm Canasta 1 pm

10

Line Dancing 9:30 - 11 am Potluck Lunch 12 pm Canasta 1 pm

4 Old Time Fiddlers Dance 6:30 - 10:30 pm

24

Lunch 11:30 am-1pm Canasta 1 pm

REGULAR PRICED ITEMS*

11 Remembrance Day

16 17 18 Lunch 15 Line Dancing Prostate Cancer 11:30 am-1pm 9:30 - 11 am Stitchers Club 9 am Support Group Cribbage 1 pm Bridge 1 pm 10 am Lunch 11:30 am-1pm Chair Fitness Whist 1 pm Social Club Dance Canasta 1 pm 1:30 pm 7:30 ALS Support 1 pm

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Wood Carving 10 am BINGO 6 pm

SATURDAY

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905 Notre Dame Dr. Kamloops (250) 828-0810

Last Thursday of every month *Must be 60 years or older and be a ClubPet member.

HOURS Mon–Fri: 9am–8pm Sat: 9am–6pm Sun: 11am–6pm Follow us on facebook: facebook.com/petlandkamloops

©Petland Canada Inc. 2016

November 2017

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Chase Seniors Centre

Chase Creekside Seniors

542 Shuswap Avenue • 250-679-8522

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Open 8:30 to 11:30 am, 1:00 to 4:30 pm

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

2 Guys & Gals 1 Wood Carving Exercise 9 am 9 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm

NEW FRIENDSHIPS,NEW OPPORTUNITY

5 6 Guys & Gals DAYLIGHT Exercise 8:30 am SAVINGS ENDS Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

A NEW BEGINNING

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Bells & Bows 10 am Bingo 1 pm

7

13 Guys & Gals Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

14 Guys & Gals15 16 Wood Carving Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am 9 am 10 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Bingo 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm

Exercise 9 am Crib 1 pm

20 Guys & Gals Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

21 Guys & Gals22 Wood Carving 23 Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am 9 am 10 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Bingo 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm

Exercise 9 am Crib 1 pm

27 Guys & Gals Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

28 Guys & Gals29 30 Wood Carving Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am 9 am 10 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Bingo 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm

MONDAY

TUESDAY

5

Jumpstart your new beginning with even more savings when you refer a friend our loved one and receive $5,000 cash.

These offers may not be combined.

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Church Group 9 am

WORDS FROM OUR COMMUNITY

Parkside Testimonials

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“My Father has been in Parkside for just a little over one month. The staff is friendly with an upbeat attitude and the seniors are well taken care of. He’s eating well and now his blood sugars are better. He’s walking distance from his doctor, clinic and the downtown area of Chase, BC. I think this was a great choice for my dad. He’s very happy and being around others his own age is a great plus. Socializing with others has made a very lonely life. manI recommend spring back this to place with very high marks.”

- Laura Boose

Church Group 9 am

Glee Club 9:30 am AA 8 pm

Glee Club 9:30 am AA 8 pm

Glee Club 9:30 am AA 8 pm

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YOUR NEW BEGINNING STARTS HERE 19

743 Okanagan Ave. Chase, BC 778-696-2040 | live@parksidecommunity.ca

PARKSIDECOMMUNITY.CA

4 Tight Core Exercise Scottish Dance 10 am 9:30 am Ladies Pool 1 pm

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10 11 Tight Core Exercise Remembrance 10 am Day Ladies Pool 1 pm

14 Wheels to Meals noon Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm

15 Carving 9:30 am Cards 1 pm Pool 1 pm

16 Quilting 9:30 am Pool 1 pm

17 18 Tight Core Exercise Scottish Dance 10 am 9:30 am Ladies Pool 1 pm

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22 Carving 9:30 am Cards 1 pm Pool 1 pm

23 Quilting 9:30 am Pool 1 pm

24 25 Tight Core Scottish Dance Exercise 9:30 am 10 am Ladies Pool 1 pm

29 Carving 9:30 am Cards 1 pm Pool 1 pm

30 Quilting 9:30 am Pool 1 pm

Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm

27 28 Wheels to Meals Glee Club noon 9:30 am Pool 1 pm AA 8 pm Crib 1:30 pm

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY A/E Chorus Practice 1 -2:30 pm Bridge 7 pm

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS

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3

13

Carving 9:30 am Cards 1 pm Pool 1 pm

8

Quilting 9:30 am Pool 1 pm

FRIDAY

2

7 Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm Rock Club 7 pm

MONDAY

12

CONTACT OUR LIFESTYLE CONSULTANT, DELAINE AT 778-696-2040

THURSDAY

1

Quilting 9:30 am Pool 1 pm

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events -

- Germain Solange

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“Where a door closes - somewhere a window opens: Thank you for your tender care for our mother - alias “cookie monster”. She felt like she was at home with you, a great compliment to you all! We were very grateful she had a lovely place to be for a few years.”

Read more at: Parksidecommunity.ca/parkside-testimonials

24

Lakeview Community Centre Society SUNDAY

18 Christmas Dinner @Community Hall

Phone: 250-675-5358

Carving 9:30 am Cards 1 pm Pool 1 pm

Church Group 9 am

17

President: Ralph Lutes 250-675-5485 Hall Bookings: H. Skulmoski 250-675-2126

WEDNESDAY

OFFERING $800 OFF THE MONTHLY RENT FOR YOUR ENTIRE FIRST YEAR

4 Fall Craft Sale @Community Hall

Passchendaele Road, Sorrento, B.C.

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events -

Experience the Parkside difference without financial barriers. We are offering $800 off rent for your entire first year at Parkside, which adds up to over $9,000 in savings!

Exercise 9 am Crib 1 pm

Guys & Gals 8 9 10 11 Exercise 9 am Exercise 9 am Wood Carving 9 am Mini Crib REMEMBRANCE Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Register 10:30 am DAY Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Start 11 am Jam Session 7 pm

Sorrento Drop-In Society SUNDAY

SATURDAY

3

6

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Table Tennis 1-3 pm

7 Arts Group 10 am Bring lunch!

am 13 Arts Group 10 14

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Table Tennis 1-3 pm

20

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Table Tennis 1-3 pm

27

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Table Tennis 1-3 pm

Bring lunch!

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon General Meeting 2:30 pm

A/E Chorus Practice 1 -2:30 pm Bridge 7 pm

1

THURSDAY

2

Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Bingo 6 pm

8

A/E Chorus15 Practice 1 -2:30 pm Bridge 7 pm Gardeners Club 7 pm

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Arts Group 10 am Bring lunch!

A/E Chorus Practice 1 - 3 pm Bridge 7 pm

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Arts Group 10 am Bring lunch!

A/E Chorus Practice Crafts Group 1 - 3 pm 10 am Bridge 7 pm Bring lunch!

9 Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon

16 Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon Bingo 6 pm

23 Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon

30 Carpet Bowling 10 am - noon

Lakeview Centre Squilax/Anglemont

FRIDAY

3

SATURDAY

4

Table Tennis 10 am

10 Table Tennis 10 am

17

11 REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE 10:45 AM

18

Table Tennis 10 am

24 Table Tennis 10 am

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Shuswap Lake Senior Citizens Society

31 Hudson Ave. NE, Box 1552 Salmon Arm, V1E 4P6 250-832-3015

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Spiritualist Church ............................ Gloria Makey 250-832-8058 Mount Ida Painters ..........................Olena Bramble 250-803-9688 Tuesday Painting ...............................Ross Chester 250-832-3579 Bingo Manager ................................... Wendy Bond 250-253-3506 Hall Rentals ........................................ David Didow 250-833-0902 Daylight Savings5 Ends Spiritualist Church 10:30 am - 1 pm

Mt. Ida Painters 9 am - 2 pm

12 Spiritualist Church 10:30 am - 1 pm

13 Mt. Ida Painters 9 am - 2 pm

19 Spiritualist Church 10:30 am - 1 pm

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20 Mt. Ida Painters 9 am - 2 pm

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27 Mt. Ida Painters 9 am - 2 pm

Spiritualist Church 10:30 am - 1 pm

Painting Group 8:30 am - 2 pm 7 Cyber Seniors Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Spiritualist Church 7 - 9 pm Painting Group 8:30 am - 2 pm14 Cyber Seniors Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Spiritualist Church 7 - 9 pm Painting Group21 8:30 am - 2 pm Cyber Seniors Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Spiritualist Church 7 - 9 pm Painting Group28 8:30 am - 2 pm Cyber Seniors Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Spiritualist Church 7 - 9 pm

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

1

8

15 Director’s Meeting 10:30 - 11 am

22

29 Potluck Dinner 5 pm

FRIDAY

Cyber Seniors’2 Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Game Day 10 am - 4 pm

3

Cyber Seniors’9 Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Game Day 10 am - 4 pm

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16 Cyber Seniors’ Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Game Day 10 am - 4 pm

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23 Cyber Seniors’ Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Game Day 10 am - 4 pm

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30 Cyber Seniors’ Computer Class 9:30 am - 1 pm Game Day 10 am - 4 pm

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Foot Care (by appt. only) 5

7 Monday 6 Foot Care Morning Market Daylights Savings (by appt. only) Caregiver Ends Support Group Lunch w/Friends 10 am 13

OFFICE CLOSED 19

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Foot Care (by appt. only)

Lunch w/Friends 20

Monday Morning Market AGM 1 PM

21

Foot Care (by appt. only)

Lunch w/Friends

28 Monday 27 Morning Market Foot Care (by appt. only) Caregiver Support Group Lunch w/Friends 10 am

MONDAY

Day Away 8

Foot Care (by appt. only)

TUESDAY

Duplicate Bridge 1 pm

12

PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8 AM - 12 PM Duplicate Bridge 1 pm Jammers Dance 7 pm

19 Duplicate Bridge 1 pm

26 Duplicate Bridge 1 pm

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15

Foot Care (by appt. only)

Foot Care (by appt. only)

Bingo

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Monday through Friday 10 am - 2 pm

Foot Care (by appt. only)

WEDNESDAY

1

7

15

20 21 Table Tennis 8:30 am 22 Table Tennis 8:30 am Weightwatchers 8:30 am Keep Fit 10:45 am Scrabble 9:30 am Canasta 9:30 am Crib 1:30 pm Darts 1 pm Ukulele 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Floor Curling 1:30 pm Camera Club 7 pm Weightwatchers 5:30 pm Square Dancers 6:30 pm Ukulele 6:30 pm 28

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Weightwatchers 8:30 am Table Tennis 8:30 am Scrabble 9:30 am Canasta 9:30 am Darts 1 pm Ukulele 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Floor Curling 1:30 pm Weightwatchers 5:30 pm Square Dancers 6:30 pm

Jack Buchanan (administrator), and Dave Moonen (junior past governor) present Delores Ownen and Ann Eggleton from Sensational Soups with two turkeys and a box of apples from Moose Lodge 1552.

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Remembrance Day

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Call to book an appointment or drop-in

Kipp-Mallery Pharmacy | kippmallery.ca

273 Victoria St. Kamloops • 250-372-2531

HOURS:

MONDAY TO FRIDAY: 9:00 AM TO 5:30 PM SATURDAY: 9:00 AM TO 4:00 PM SUNDAY: 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM

Day Away

Day Away 30

Day Away

THURSDAY

2

Keep Fit 10:45 am Social Bridge 1 pm Table Tennis 2pm Crib 7 pm

8

Table Tennis 8:30 am Canasta 9:30 am Ukulele 1:30 pm Floor Curling 1:30 pm Square Dancers 7 pm

4

Day Away Flu Clinic 9 am - 4 pm Gathering Place

Day Away Flu Clinic 9 am - 4 pm Gathering Place

Moose offers healthy handout to Sensational Soups

NOW AVAILABLE!

SATURDAY 3

10

Submitted

Flu Shots

DROP-IN POOL

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Table Tennis 8:30 am 13 14 Board Meeting 9:30 am Weightwatchers 8:30 am Scrabble 9:30 am Keep Fit 10:45 am Crib 1:30 pm Darts 1 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Camera Club 7 pm Weightwatchers 5:30 pm

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Good Food Box Pick Up Board Mtg 1 pm Day Away

Table Tennis 8:30 am Canasta 9:30 am Ukulele 1:30 pm Floor Curling 1:30 pm Square Dance 6:30 pm

Table Tennis 8:30 am Keep Fit 10:45 am Crib 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Camera Club 7 pm

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Doors open 4 pm Walk Ins: 6 pm

Day Away 16

22

Weightwatchers 8:30 am Scrabble 9:30 am Darts 1 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Weightwatchers 5:30 pm

Table Tennis 8:30 am Keep Fit 10:45 am Crib 1:30 pm Line Dancing 1:30 pm Ukulele 6:30 pm

9

Day Away

Table Tennis 8:30 am Canasta 9:30 am Ukulele 1:30 pm Floor Curling 1:30 pm Square Dancers 7 pm

5

Bingo

Doors open 4 pm Walk Ins: 6 pm

FRIDAY 2

OFFICE HOURS MON-FRI 10 AM-2 PM RAINBOW CAFE WEEKDAYS 11:30 AM - 1 PM

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

Bingo

Doors open 4 pm Walk Ins: 6 pm

Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 1H1

1

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Remembrance Day 11

Phone 250-832-7000 Fax 250-833-0550 Office Hours: 9 am - 3 pm

NOVEMBER 2017 Calendar of Events MONDAY

4

Bingo

Doors open 4 pm Walk Ins: 6 pm

320A Second Ave. NE

Seniors’ Resource Centre - Salmon Arm SUNDAY

SATURDAY

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Recipes of the Month Reprinted with permission and in loving memory from Eleanore Moore’s cookbook “Family Favourites, Past & Present”

Autumn a great time for “loafing” around

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3 medium eggs 1-3/4 c sugar 1 c vegetable oil 2 tsp vanilla 1-3/4 c grated unpeeled zucchini 1 (10 oz) can crushed pineapple well drained 3 c sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp baking powder 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon 3/4 tsp nutmeg 1 c chopped nuts Beat eggs until light and fluffy. Add sugar and continue beating until well blended. Stir in vegetable oil, vanilla, zucchini and pineapple. Sift dry ingredients; stir into egg mixture along with the nuts. Turn into two 5” x 9” loaf pans, greased. Bake in moderate oven 350°F for 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Two of my daughter-in-law Barb’s favourite recipes

Cherry Loaf 2 c flour 1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt 3/4 c sugar 1/2 c margarine 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 c buttermilk or sour milk 1 c chopped walnuts 1 10 oz. jar maraschino cherries, drained and chopped Cream sugar, margarine, eggs, vanilla, cherries, and milk. Add flour, baking soda, salt and walnuts. Mix well. Grease and flour bread pan. Bake 350°F for 1 hour.

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The ritual of remembering

Remember.

It’s what we do in November. Remember on Remembrance Day. We rare reminded that the men and women who served this country in our armed forces, whether living or dead, did not give their lives in vain. They fought for the common good of humanity. It is good and right to pause, to remember, to say thank you, and to remember them.

Remembrance Day is a community based ritual, and ritual is important because our past shapes both our present and our future.

On Remembrance Day we name our hope that peace among nations will be realized. We

remember the cost of war is extremely high.

We remember those who paid that cost.

Remember.

In our Christian story, we are called to remember, too. On the night before he died, Jesus shared a meal with his friends, his followers.

He broke bread and poured wine, and asked these men and women to remember him every time they did the same.

These actions have become a ritual in our faith communities. We call it communion, and we break bread and pour a cup of juice or wine to remember Jesus’ life and death. We remember his own desire for peace among the nations.

When you eat this bread, when you drink this cup, remember me.

Remember me.

Remember the time I invited the little children to come to me – no matter their gender, their parentage, their social standing – and children had no status in those days.

Remember the day I fed over 5000 people with five loaves and two

Volunteer Special Events / Fundraising: Kamloops Food Policy Council – Wild Salmon Caravan- Oct. 11. Set up, parade marshalling, take down. Contact Bonnie Klohn 250-819-1571.

BC Wildlife Park – Boo at the Zoo – Oct. 27, 28, & 29. Candy Station Volunteers: Hand out candy to children at designated stations. Contact Katelyn Bissat 250-5733242 ext 226.

Habitat for Humanity – Special Events & Projects-Ongoing – to assist in planning and execution of special events and projects. Please contact Sabrina Leduc – 250-828-7867.

fish – no matter their economic status, their reason for attending the event, their religious beliefs.

Remember the time I visited the home of the hated tax collector, angered the religious leaders of my day, healed the man with mental health issues and the woman with serious health concerns.

Remember that I constantly named those I met as brothers or sisters, because to give a person a place in a family was to give them a place in familial based society. It was to raise their status to that of a human being.

Remember all of this – and remember that I summed up all the law with a reminder to love God, to love yourselves, and to love your neighbour.

Jesus invites his followers to continue his ministry of love, of lifting others up, so it seems natural that the ritual he chose to remember him was the dinner table – the very place we still choose to gather to build relationship, to be

Current Volunteer Positions: Operation Red Nose – Weekends – Nov 24 through Dec 31. Designated Drivers, Escort Drivers, Navigators, Phone Operators, Dispatch, Refreshments and Greeters. Contact Katie Klassen 250-320-0650.

Kamloops Blazers Hockey Club – Event staff volunteers. Registration, room attendants. For all events, not just hockey.

Volunteers must attend 30 percent of events. Please contact Howard or Freda Brown 250-374-1957.

MS Society of Canada – Bottle Pickup Delivery person. Pick up bagged bottles at Louis Creek Recycling and deliver to General Grant’s Recycling. Must have access to truck. Contact Luella Cousins 250-314-0773.

nourished and nurtured.

At the table, when we sit, we are all equals, all in need of food and drink, all sitting at the same level. Table fellowship is a ritual of equality, a ritual of peace.

When we break bread, when we drink the cup, we remember a man who walked in peace, who taught peace, who lived for peace among the nations and among the people.

When we gather on November 11th, we remember those who lived and died for peace among nations and among the people of this earth.

Rituals help us to remember.

Remembering helps us to keep working for that peace.

We often close our prayers by saying “amen.” It simply means “may it be so.”

We remember. Amen.

Rev LeAnn Blackert ministers with the congregation of Mount Paul United Church on the north shore of Kamloops (www. mtpauluc.ca)

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BC Wildlife Park – Animal diet prep, chopping veggies, fruit and handling grain.

Cleaning duties also included. Animal Care Aide – Cleaning enclosures and building enrichment items. Able to work outdoors, no fear birds of prey or reptiles. Must be able to lift 20 lbs. Please contact Katelyn Bissat 250-573-3242 ext 226.

Salvation Army – Community Services Helper Thurs/Fri 9:30 a.m. -1 p.m. Assist clients in choosing allotted amount of food at Emergency Food Bank. Assist in breakdown of products, stocking shelves as required. For a detailed job description, contact Tracey at Volunteer Kamloops 250-372-8313. Contact Christine Kirby, Volunteer Coordinator 250-554-1611.

Habitat for Humanity – Build Volunteers: Skilled and unskilled labourers for build site at Westsyde. Must be physically fit and will be on-call most of

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Weekday Masses Monday 7 pm Tuesday 7 am Wednesday 9 am Thursday 7 am Friday 9 am Saturday 8 am

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Kamloops United Church

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Mt. Paul United Church

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Plura Hills United Church

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the time. Must be able to get to build site at 3153 Westsyde Road. Please contact Sabrina Leduc 250-828-7867.

Habitat for Humanity – Environmental Committee Member Able to commit to once a week meeting to evaluate and examine how Habitat for Humanity can be more environmentally friendly. Please contact Shaelyn or Sabrina 250-828-7867.

Big Brothers Big Sisters – Snow Shoveller – During snow months responsible for shoveling sidewalk, walking paths, parking area, and stairs. 821 Seymour Street – Please contact Jesanne Stanko – 250-374-6134 ext. 223.

For these and many other volunteer opportunities please call 250-372-8313 or check out our website: volunteerkamloops. org We are a non-profit charity supporting community volunteering.

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Give us art and more art Forgive my hopes elevated by the recent municipal by-election and the collaborative tone of the campaign that led to thinking again about the performance art centre defeated in the referendum. Most of the candidates and the public in forums raised the issue; the concurrent witnessing of the Daily News building being struck down caused a bitter chord for people.

I’m an artsy person and there’s no shortage of others sitting in the theatres and symphony seats, and attending art openings, and film festivals; the Art in the Park Canada Day event is attended by more and more people every year.

Many see art as vital to the quality of their lives–art of all genres– visual, theatre, popular, choral, and symphony music, literary arts (reading, writing, poetry, song writing), film, and dance. I hardly need to defend this.

As an artist I’ve taught art and have volunteered in art organizations all my life. New participants in

art classes I have taught express amazement at the joy they experience; wonder why it had taken so long to connect with their creativity. Many judge their creativity on “if they could draw a stick man or not” (how many times I have heard that).

At some point in our growing up we decide we aren’t creative based on this narrow standard. But art is everywhere and not just on the wall above the couch – exciting festivals, beautiful gardens, photography, poetry, at open mics, stunningly decorated cakes, food prepared and presented colourfully, family scrapbooks, illustrated

journals, splendid home designs, fashionable clothing, ingenious crafts (look at Pinterest), face painting, storytelling, dancing one’s heart out in front of the Music in the Park stage, and on and on.

For many of us, art is so vital to the quality of our lives and at the very heart and soul of being human yet is strangely devalued as a frill, not of equal value as say profit, or sport.

I’m grateful for the vibrant active art community in Kamloops.

Incredibly dedicated and talented people further its presence and enjoyment.

None-the-less, I stand by my bigger-picture view that the arts in

Canada are undervalued compared to other countries in the world.

Anyone who has travelled to other parts of the world knows when civilizations end, art is what is left standing to inform and delight. Art organizers know art devalued leaves them under funded and scrambling for financial security. This compels them to spend massive amounts of time fund raising, taking away from their primary job of program development and presentation. With tongue in cheek, they are the Cinderella in our communities We talk a lot about jobs in Kamloops and

may not make the connection between the quality of life and attracting new ventures that provide new jobs and economic sustainability by stimulating a climate valuing the arts and embracing the human dimension of creativity so often neglected and unacknowledged; research shows over and over the mental health benefits. I was heartened to hear the issue of a performance arts theatre has not died and there was a recognition also that it would be a financial investment.

How nice!

Overlander Womens’ Institute Update Overlander WI has had a busy fall already and we just got started. In September we had Karen Folk come talk to us about her trip to Scotland with the Wells Gray Tour. It was a trip to remember full of adventure and activities of old castles and the Whisky Brewing House that is many years old; she shared the trip with lots of pictures, pamphlets and brochures. In October we had our AGM and election of executive.

Cathy Inskip will serve as their President again. Overlander hosted a workshop on

updating computer technology, crafting fall leaves on Oct. 20. We hosted our ACWW Women’s Rural Tea at Heffley Creek ten days later on Oct. 30.

Next meeting will be Nov. 8 as a business meeting and Nov. 24 as a bake sale prep meeting. We are planning for our Christmas Bake & Craft Sale at Cain’s Independent Grocers from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sat. Nov. 25. Hope you are all able to come visit us and see how much fun our group has to offer. More information, please call Cathy at 250-376-9810.

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The Centre for Seniors Information (CSI Kamloops) is ramping up their annual Secret Santa project for low income, isolated seniors.

They identify seniors that are: low income, have little to no family that live close, and are fairly isolated. For most of the seniors in this program this is the only gift they receive all year!

They are looking for community donations like; shampoo, lotion, soap, razors, socks, coffee, gift cards, kitchen items, scarfs, slippers, gloves, books, coffee mugs, picture frames, manicure sets, large piece puzzles, crossword books, bath products, etc.

Local schools participate, making beautiful handmade cards and handwritten letters for the seniors.

To contribute to this program, please contact Brandi Allen at the Centre for Seniors Information and discover one of the many ways you can get involved!

Phone: 778-470-6000 Email: brandi@ csikamloops.ca.

Brandi (left) and Amber (right) are busy organizing this year’s Operation: Secret Santa in an effort to treat low income and isolated seniors to a Christmas treat.

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What’s the largest funeral you’ve ever attended? moment to pay tribute to the Remembrance Day service, what makes it veterans (including my different from the smaller grandfather, who died in services held every day France in 1917, as part in a church or hall, on a of the English armed My guess is November mountain, or by the river forces), the message 11 each year. Every seems to assume a greater side?

November 11 we pay our Certainly, one big impact on my life with respects to the fallen difference is obvious: each passing year. veterans. It’s usually a when we attend most I’m an undertaker as cold, dreary, wet, snowy you know, but I guess I’m funerals, we typically or rainy day. For many have had some personal a bit of a slow learner. It years I had the honour relationship with the didn’t dawn on me until of helping the Legion in deceased person – we I started to think about Clearwater with their all at least knew Murray. writing this month’s Remembrance Day column, but is it possible Well, that may not be Service. My role was completely correct. Have that Remembrance Day quite small; I made sure you noticed that some is, in effect, essentially the sound system was people seem to attend plugged in and working. I a huge annual funeral every funeral held in now live in Kamloops, but or memorial service? their community, even Like all funerals, don’t continue to attend and we, after all, gather if they’ve never even participate in the annual primarily to eulogize met Murray? Perhaps event as a member of it’s the lure of the egg Branch 259 in Clearwater. the dead? In this case, of course, the dead are salad sandwich! Perhaps The Remembrance Day I digress, but, for most ceremony is an important many thousands of men people at least, Murray and women who died time to connect with was someone they knew serving their country in other Legion members, times of conflict and war. and loved, and that’s why with hundreds of people they attend his funeral.

That got me to thinking: in the North Thompson The Remembrance as an undertaker, I’ve valley, and with millions Day service is different. organized and attended of Canadians and others hundreds of services over Millions of people around from around the world. the years. Aside from the the world stand in the As I lay a wreath at the freezing cold (or blistering scope and magnitude of cenotaph, and take a See "Paying respect" page 29

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More outstanding Zone 8 results in recent 55+ BC Games Congratulations to all those who took part in the Vernon and Area Games but did not place; their efforts are commendable. We only have room for: Gold=1; Silver=2; Bronze=3.

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4x400m Powerwalk

2

Jerry Reitman, T. Haas, M.Doherty, A.Vyse

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3

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Results continued on page 31

Our next General meeting will take place Feb. 16. Stay tuned in the meantime for monthly updates in The Connector, a great source of information for all seniors and seniors-in-training, and a friend of the 55+BC Games. Be active; stay healthy!

North Shore Community Centre 730 Cottonwood Ave Kamloops BC V2B 8M6 Phone: 250.376.4777 Fax: 250.376.4792

Christmas Craft Fair & Bake Sale Saturday, Nov 4 2017

Craft Fair: 10:00am-3:00pm Admission by Donation

Bake Sale: 10:00am To book a craft table call 250.376.4777 or stop by the office. Tables are $25 each.

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Paying respect heat in Australia) to remember people they probably never even met. As such, I would suggest that attending the Remembrance Day service represents perhaps the epitome of human behaviour: people standing in silence, usually shivering away, to pay their respects, to show honour, and to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice that others made for us. It would be a whole lot easier to stay home, wrapped up in a warm blanket, sipping hot chocolate.

But people attend by the thousands.Many attendees abhor war and all for which it stands, but they come anyway. Many struggle to even stand up during the service, as their aging bodies urge them to sit down. But they come anyway. On November 11 each year, it makes me proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with people of various cultures, religions, ages, political views, spiritual beliefs and lifestyles, as we share a moment of silence at 11 a.m. I treasure the opportunity to take part in this important event, and I hope to see you there.

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Groups Kamloops Parkinson Awareness Group: We meet at 1 p.m. on the 3rd Wednesday from September through June at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour Street. Contact Rendy at 250-374-0798 FMI. Excelsior Rebekah Lodge No.23: General meeting second Tuesday of every month 7:30 p.m. Regular meeting fourth Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m.

423 Tranquille Rd. If you have kidney-related issues and questions, and would like to chat with someone who has been there, the Kamloops Kidney Support Group is here for you. We meet on the second Saturday of each month — next up Oct. 14, 10 a.m. — at Romeo’s Kitchen in the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way. You won’t get any medical advice from us, but we are here to share our experiences, whether you may be pre-dialysis or on dialysis, a kidney donor or a recipient, a family member, or anything in between. FMI call Edna Humphreys at 250-3766361, Dorothy Drinnan at 250-573-2988, or

Margaret Thompson at 250-819-3135.

Kamloops Antiques, Collectibles and Heritage Club meets on the second Thursday of every month. September – June at Heritage House on Lorne Street, Riverside Park 7 p.m.

Guests and new members welcome. FMI call: 250372-0468 Bernice or 250-377-8364 Joyce.

Diabetes Support Group The Hamlets, 3255 Overlander Dr., Monday, October 2, 1:30-3 p.m.

Guest Presenter: Patricia Flanagan, Certified Orthotist. Everyone welcome!

The Kamloops Family History Society invites you to join us at the Heritage House in Riverside Park on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7 - 9 p.m.

(September to May, except December) Next meeting Oct. 26.

FMI contact Connie at 250-852-3218.

Myeloma Support Group for people with Myeloma and their caregivers or family in Kamloops and area. Meet second Tuesday of March, May, July, October and

December. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Japenese Cultural Centre, 160 Vernon St. FMI Cathy 250-372-6754.

Municipal Pension Retirees Assoc. meets Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m. in the CSI activity center, Brock shopping center.

Join us to talk to other retirees, meet former coworkers and have a voice about your MPP Pension. FMI call Jean 250-374-1191.

$15 per person Open to everyone 60+ years of age

nights at 7:30 p.m. and on the weekends we have our meat draws on Saturdays The Afternoon Auxiliary and Sundays at 3 p.m. to RIH Thrift Seller is Brock Central Lions open Monday to Friday, 10 Club meets the first a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays, and third Thursday of 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located the month at 6 p.m. at 146 Victoria St. We Meetings are held at welcome you to come shop, the Centre for Seniors, donate or volunteer.

9-A 1800 Tranquille Rd. Call 250-371-0115.

Alzheimer Caregiver

and Early Support Stage groups meets the second Thursday of the St. Paul’s Cathedral month, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Thrift Shop 360 Nicola and the fourth Thursday of Street is open Fridays 9:30 the month, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. to at the Alzheimer Society June. Handicapped access Resource Centre, 405, from the alley between 235 – 1st Ave. For more Nicola and St. Paul. information please contact Tara Hildebrand, support Ukulele fun every and education coordinator Monday from 6:30 to 9 Alzheimer Society of B.C. p.m. at the Plura Hills at 250-377-8200.

United Church, 2090 Pacific Way or every Army Navy & Airforce Tuesday from 1:30 to 3:30 Veterans in Canada p.m. at the Cottonwood - Unit 290. We are a Centre, 730 Cottonwood non-profit organization Ave. All levels of dedicated to helping experience are welcome at veterans and the both venues. FMI visit our community. We are located website at ukuleleorchestra at #9-177 Tranquille Rd. ofkamloops.com or phone Contact information: 250250-376-5502.

554-2455. We still have our Tuesday night free Aberdeen Lions Club bingo starting at 4:30 p.m. meets on the second and our Wednesday darts and fourth Tuesday starting at 1:30 p.m. We of the month at noon. have our karaoke on Friday Meetings are held at 9-A

is pleased to present the

• Full course festive dinner served by off-duty RCMP officers • Entertainment • Santa in attendance • Door prizes

1800 Tranquille Rd. New members welcome. Call 250-828-1765.

Canadian Cancer Society, Cancer Connection a source for cancer info can be accessed at 1-888-939-3333.

Council of Canadians meets at 5.30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of every month at the Smorgasbord Deli, 225 - 7th Ave. Please join us.

Call Anita or Dalton at 250-377-0055 or 250-3770055. You can also visit kamloopscanadians.ca.

Chronic Pain Association of Kamloops meets the last Wednesday of each month at noon at People In Motion, 182B Tranquille Rd., for resources, support and fellowship.

There is parking in the back.Call Ashley at 778-257-1986 or email ash.westen@gmail.com.

Tuesday afternoon cribbage takes place at 1:30 p.m. at McArthur Park Lawn Bowling clubhouse, next to Norbrock Stadium.

Come for crib, coffee and good-company. Free parking. Call 250-5790228, 250-579-8259 or 250-376-0917.

Diabetes Support: There are two support groups in Kamloops. RiverBend (760 Mayfair St), last Tuesday/ mo., ph: 778-470-8316 for details; and, Hamlets (3255 Overlander Dr.), first Monday/mo. (except July & Aug.), ph: 250-579-5707 for details. Open to all and features monthly speakers.

Fraternal Order of Eagles welcomes you, 755 Tranquille Rd. Saturday and Sunday: Meat draws from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday: Pull Tab draws from 4:305:30 p.m. Wednesday: Horse races from 4-6 p.m.

Do you enjoy singing in harmony and a great variety of songs?

Kamloops Happy Choristers invites new members who are 55 and over for a social atmosphere and a chance to sing for senior residences and public concerts. We meet every Wednesday from 9:30

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Groups a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Heritage House. For more information call Sharon at 250-579-9505.

Kamloops Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Heritage House every Monday at 7 p.m. Beginner and open games. Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. for intermediate games. Friday 12:30 p.m. open game.

Thursday at 7 p.m., at Cottonwood, intermediate and open games. Upcoming Lessons: Beginner lesson starting Sept. 3 ­Aileen Specht aileenspecht@ shaw.ca. Play of the hand: Brenda Mathews classes start Jan. 2018. FMI sit website kamloopsduplicate bridgeclub.ca Kamloops Elks Lodge #44 meets at 7:30 p.m. every second Thursday of each month at 784-B Victoria St. We have served the community since 1920.

You are invited to come and meet the members.

New members are welcome. The hall is also available for gatherings, meetings, etc. For any inquiries please call 250372-2737 or 250-573-4632.

Kamloops Floor Curlers meet Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

at the Heritage House, top floor, Riverside Park. New members always welcome.

Free parking for members.

No special equipment needed. New teams are drawn each day. There are two games and coffee each day. The group runs all year. Call Kay at 250-3760917, Kay at 250-828-0819 or Liz at 250-372-5493.

Kamloops Heritage Model Railroad Club meets on the first Friday of each month at 7 p.m. Come and investigate a great hobby. Call 250-554-3233 FMI. Kamloops Prostate Cancer Support Group meet at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday of the month at The Seniors Activity Centre, 9A-1800 Tranquille Rd. Phone 250-376-4011 or email larubekam1947@gmail.com Kamloops Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at Mt. Paul United Church, 140 Laburnum.

Contact 250-314-1021.

The world famous Kamloops Rube Band practices on Monday evenings (except holidays), 7:30 p.m. at the Kamloops Yacht Club, 1140 River St. New members with playing

experience are invited to drop by and join the band, having fun with music.

For more information, please call Terry Phillips at 250-374-1606.

The Kamloops Breast Cancer Support Group meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:15 p.m.

Div B24.4-40.4 Low Net 3

Judith Urquhart

W70-74

Div A 0-24.3 Low Gross 1

Vivian Heistad

Div A 0-24.3 Low Net

Sheila Vandenborre

3

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2

Inky Whalley

Badminton M80-84

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3

John Old

Bridge 55+

Duplicate 0-300 master points Social

2 3

Dale Morehouse, Walter Scheiss Alwilda VanRyswyk, Shirley Yeomans

Cribbage 55+

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Snuffy Clarke, Fred Einarson

Flight H

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Al and Pearl Kline

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3

Carylon Elliott, Pat Kilt

3

Janet Burkhart, Lucy Merry

3

Dan and Jean Arnason

Cycling: M 60-64 Road Race Time Trial Recreational M65-69 Road Race Time Trial

1 1 1 2

Tim Helle

Kamloops United Church Thrift Store has come home to 421 St. Paul Street. Contact number: 250-372-3020.

We are located in a brand new addition to the church.

Ping-Pong - Table Tennis Ping-Pong is billed as a “brain sport”.It is also said it could be the elixir of youth and it brings a lot more to the table. We are a nice group of players and we meet Tuesdays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursdays 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the beautiful renovated Desert Garden Community Centre, 540 Seymour St.We welcome more players.Drop in fee is $2.

Having fun is something we did all the time, why change with age? FMI call 250-372-3965 Royal Inland Hospital Retirees Christmas Luncheon Tuesday, December 5, 12 noon til 2 p.m.Frick ‘n Frack Tap House, 577 Victoria St. RSVP by November 28, 2017 to Marnie Strong at 250-828-2724 or marnie. strong@shaw.ca

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Mike Stewart-Smith

North Kamloops Elks Lodge #469, #102-1121 12th St., 250-376-2924 (leave message). Meet the third Tuesday of the month at 7.30 p.m.

New members welcome.

Crib tournaments every Wednesday, 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.

M75-79 Road Race Time Trial Hill Climb W60-64 Time Trial Time Trial Road Race Hill Climb W70-74 Time Trial Road Race W80-84 Time Trial Hill Climb Road Race Time Trial Hill Climb Road Race

Kamloops Stroke Recovery Group, a support group for people who’ve suffered a stroke and their caregivers, meet the second, third and fourth Thursdays of the month from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The group also offers a speech software program to help those with speech recovery. To confirm dates of meetings, location and other information, call Shona at 250-320-1348.

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Janice Helle Pat Danforth Jean Jenks Mary Ellen Pakka Jean Nelson

More results will be published next month as space permits

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