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Language Revitalization Pole commissioned to celebrate UN’s Year of Indigenous Languages

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Carver Tim Paul participates in the pole naming ceremony that took place on January 23rd in the territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. The First Nations Education Foundation (FNEF) will document the carving of this ancient cedar.

Submitted by First Nations Education Foundation The First Nations Education Foundation (FNEF) has released a short online video – the first in a series of videos that will document the carving of a 70-foot Language Revitalization Pole. The pole was commissioned to celebrate the United Nations’ 2019 Year of Indigenous Languages and is to be carved by renowned Nuuchah-nulth carver Tim Paul – part of the

Hesquiaht Tribe of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nations.

The 4-minute online video posted by FNEF documents the recent Pole Naming Ceremony that took place on January 23rd in the territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. The project team, led by carver Tim Paul, selected an 800-year old red cedar tree that fell naturally

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during a windstorm sometime during the past 50 to 70 years.

In the video, carver Tim Paul talks about the significance of the tree that was selected and what the tree represents in the context of Truth and Reconciliation: “It’s holding something of importance; the language, the key to who we are and how we are able to be the ones that survived to bring things

forward. To share and be in amongst our neighbours. To give us goodwill, to give us something like this.”

Carver Tim Paul has named the pole čii?iłumqa – his grandmother’s name – which means “holding something of importance” in the Nuu-chah-nulth language.

The pole carving process is being documented by filmmaker Dale Devost. The footage will later be used as content for language lessons on the FNEF platform which was developed in partnership with Six Factor, western Canada’s Leading Google Cloud Partner.

The FNEF Language Revitalization Pole project has received the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and the film footage will also be distributed to the 11,000 UNESCO Associated Schools

Network (ASPnet) in over 180 countries.

Although the term “totem pole” is typically used in English to describe carved poles such as the Language Revitalization Pole, the correct term in the Nuu-chah-nulth language is č?iin?uł which literally means “cutting along.”

The Pole Naming Ceremony was led

by Edward Johnson, the Health and Wellness Coordinator for the Huu-ay-aht First Nation. Once the Language Revitalization Pole is completed it will be gifted to the University of Victoria where it

will stand, with the blessing and support of the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations, in recognition of the University’s leadership in Language Revitalization and Indigenous Studies.

Tim Paul and Forestry experts from Western Forest Products recently confirmed the physical integrity of the 800year old red cedar tree log and arrangements are currently being made to transport the log from its current forest location to the carving location in Port Alberni.

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General affordability becoming more and more challenging for seniors

In my travels this past January, I met more and more seniors who are facing real challenges with general affordability in their day to day lives.

In particular is concern over the increasing cost of groceries and gas. I met one senior who, at age 69, is still pumping gas in order to make ends meet. For seniors who live on a fixed income or a government pension, affordability is their number one issue.

In Canada’s latest census, Canadian seniors now slightly outnumber children under 14.

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attributes this to the post-war baby boom, low fertility rates and the fact that Canadians are living longer than ever.

Along with this aging population, we will see serious implications to the national economy and government policy.

It will be necessary to find constructive and viable approaches to managing the continuing needs of our seniors.

The introduction of the carbon tax by the Liberal government will mean that making ends meet will be even harder. One of my constituents sent a copy of his Fortis bill to my office pointing out that the carbon tax was more than his actual gas costs.

British Columbians agreed to a carbon tax on a promise of revenue neutrality, however, the

carbon tax has now been turned into just another provincial government tax grab. In B.C., this means an additional 14 percent increase in the carbon tax introduced by the province on gasoline that will take effect April 1. Now with the federal government’s new legislation it is going to mandate regular increases to the carbon tax, with each province dealing with it in a different way.

Another key issue that was brought to my attention during a recent meeting with the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) is the impact that the Mortgage Stress Test is placing on seniors who are downsizing and first time home buyers. According to statistics, one in ten

deals are collapsing due to the current federal government restrictions on mortgage lending.

CHBA is taking aim at two specific mortgage rules and advocating for changes. They are pressing the government to overhaul the current stress test for mortgages and to reintroduce 30-year mortgages for first time home buyers in order to allow many more well-qualified buyers to secure a mortgage. To make matters worse, tariffs on steel and aluminum and an increase in the cost of softwood lumber further add to the issue of housing affordability.

I know that seniors across Kamloops will be looking to 2019 to see how these issues will be addressed.

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Aging in the Wild the subject of upcoming Nature of Things episode Unlocking the science of growing older in the animal kingdom is the subject of a one-hour documentary on CBC’s The Nature of Things, airing on March 10, 2019.

Rotating Planet Productions presents the one-hour documentary that takes an unparalleled look at the reality of aging in the animal kingdom.

Directed by Ari A. Cohen, Aging in the Wild fuses cutting-edge science with touching, intimate footage and stories that revolve around the golden age of diverse creatures.

Delving into diverse habitats staffed by worldrenowned researchers, viewers are introduced to the science of senescence—or, the study

of growing older— that Strait, who, despite her drives this cutting-edge age, continues to lead look at animal evolution. the pack, helping to raise From creatures that her great grand-calves. live over 100 years to Throughout each story, those that live only a the invitation is implicit: few days, we discover given the opportunity the intricacies of aging to understand aging in for different species, the animal kingdom, we exploring physical decay, can take a broader look reproductive health, at our own place in the grief, and beyond. evolution of senescence.

From a heartwarming Each story in this array of stories one-hour documentary that explore these approaches aging intergenerational animal- from different angles, researcher relationships, considering longevity, we meet Ella and Big family dynamics, Tim, an elephant duo in memory loss and death. the Amboseli region of Exploring longevity, we Kenya, for whom aging meet the black-legged is no barrier to social kittiwake, a seabird that status, child rearing, or shows very few signs of a healthy reproductive physical aging, despite its life. So, too, is the case impressive two-to-three for Granny, a killer whale decade lifespan. In alpine centenarian encircling marmots, a long life the San Juan See “Marmot helpers” on p. 27

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Winter, renos, housing and fundraising I took a week off a couple of weeks ago.

I had a laundry list of things to accomplish, however, it was the same week that the mercury plunged and my response was to go into hibernation mode. I wasn’t very impressed with myself and really wished I had hopped on a plane to more southern climes or SOMETHING! I did accomplish a couple of goals and socialized a little. I rested a lot. Strange, but true, I was very happy to get back to work the following week.

Spring IS coming. I noticed today that it wasn’t quite dark yet on my way home from work so the days are definitely getting longer. Compared to many across the continent, we haven’t had that bad of a winter so I’m trying not to complain. Even during the worst of the cold snap I was grateful for the blue skies and sunshine. It’s important to keep our cups half full and count our blessings, always.

As spring approaches, I am bracing myself for more home renovations. In the decade since I moved into my current dwelling, I have endured a number of major transformations and now it is my kitchen’s turn. I will do the demolition myself and leave the rebuild to the experts. It is both exciting and daunting but I will be happy (and relieved) once it is done. I suspect my co-workers will be relieved as well once I stop asking them to weigh in on countertops and flooring, backsplashes and paint swatches. Hopefully the project will all go smoothly and I won’t regret finally getting ‘er done.

Fortunately my mother has a kitchenette in her space and hopefully she won’t mind me hanging out a little more as it’s not totally clear how many weeks my kitchen will be turned upside down.

I am hoping this will be one of the last major renos I have to do to this house. Obviously it could still stand to have new windows, an exterior facelift with a paint job or new stucco, and maybe some solar panels. It always seems like one major renovation begets another and I can no longer count how many of my “vacations” have been poured into my home, but some things are unavoidable.

Speaking of housing, twice a year The Connector publishes a Seniors Living Housing Directory as we have done this month on page 10. It lists all of the local options for assisted and extended care living.

The inventory for seniors independent housing appears to be growing in Kamloops as there are some new units going up in the Tranquille corridor as well as the new units downtown replacing the old Odeon Theatre building. The Hamlets is getting close to cutting the ribbon on their additional rooms as well. Development is great and hopefully some of the options remain affordable for our seniors, so many of whom are on fixed incomes.

In completely other news, I recently joined Kamloops This Week’s Press Time team to help raise money for this year’s Y Strong Kids campaign.

We are raising money to help the Kamloops Community YMCA-YWCA sponsor memberships for 1,000 local children and their families. The YMCA offers assistance to those unable to afford their programs and we want to make sure everyone in our community is able to find health, happiness and a sense of belonging. We will be hosting fundraising events during the campaign and personally raising money towards this effort. Please consider helping the cause by visiting Press Time’s donation page https://bit.ly/2MQ1niW or dropping your donation off at the office. All contributions, large or small, are gratefully received and will make such a positive impact on our community.

By the time this fundraiser is over, spring will be here.

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Give your investment portfolio a spring cleaning With the arrival of spring, it’s time to tidy up your investment portfolio.

Here are three financial spring cleaning tips you might want to consider.

Get rid of what you no longer need – When you clean your home thoroughly, you end up disposing of all kinds of things – some of which you may have even forgotten you own. The same principle might apply to some of your investments. Speak with your financial advisor to see if you still have some holdings that are no longer appropriate for you and are best removed from your portfolio.

Trim back your duplicates – If you went through your house carefully, you might be surprised at how many items serve the same purpose. For example, do you really need two

toasters? There may be similar redundancies with your investment portfolio.

For example, you may have two stocks issued by different companies that sell similar products.

Instead, you might find it’s much better to exchange one of those for a different company in a different sector to boost your diversification. While diversification cannot

guarantee a profit or protect against a loss, it may help reduce the effects of market volatility.

Put things back in order – Many of us tend to have messy closets and storage sheds because over time we’ve haphazardly tossed item after item into them.

There may not be anything that has to be thrown out, but a good clean-up is needed to organize

everything properly.

Similarly, your portfolio may need a good spring shake-out. For instance, you could have too much of one investment and too little of another. This could mean you are taking on too much risk or, conversely, that your holdings have become too conservative to provide the growth you need. As a result, some important re-balancing could be required to get your relative weightings back in tidy order, especially in light of the market changes we have seen in recent months.

By working with your financial advisor for your portfolio’s spring cleaning, you can help make sure your investment holdings are up-to-date, appropriately suited to your needs and wellpositioned to help you make progress toward your long-term financial goals.

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Updating your will

Births. Deaths.

Marriages. Divorces. Any of these four important life events should trigger you to ask “how does this affect my estate plan?”.

Even if none of these events has happened, reviewing your estate planning documents every three to five years will ensure you continue to incorporate changes in your financial status, changes in the law, retirement and sudden windfalls like inheritances (maybe a long lost relative found you) or lotto winnings (hey, we can all dream).

As our family grows, our children enter adulthood and have children of their own, we often acquire interesting and exciting investments such as a family cabin, a classic car, original paintings and art pieces,

recreational vehicles or timeshares in warmer climates. All of these great lifestyle acquisitions come with their own set of rules that govern how we pass those assets on to our beneficiaries and what sort of tax consequences attach to that transmission.

We often have investments or jointly held assets, some of which will have named beneficiaries. If we do not consider those in an estate plan, some assets may pass outside of the Will and can result in unintended consequences such as an uneven distribution to beneficiaries. This

is problematic if you wanted everything to be divided equally or had a specific distribution plan in mind. For example, if you share a house with one child and are jointly on title with them, they will inherit the house when you pass. If your Will divides your estate equally between your 4 children, the child you shared the house with will get ¼ of your estate PLUS the house. If you intended for the children to have an equal amount of inheritance, this will very likely cause a family dispute, hard feelings, hours of paperwork and professional fees and even litigation.

You may have a child who requires greater assistance into the future due to a disability.

Without making specific provisions in your Will their inheritance may adversely affect their entitlement to government benefits and may even trigger a benefit clawback. Provisions need to be made within the Will to protect that beneficiary from those unintended and adverse consequences to their income and benefits.

The whole point of making a Will is to ensure a smooth transition of your assets to the ones you love. A visit to your Lawyer to review your Will in light of your current circumstances and future plans will avoid so much hassle and cost later on. The goal is to stay current and ensure that changes in the estate administration rules, the legislation and the taxes don’t derail your estate plans and leave your loved ones to sort out the confusion.

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Tidying up your trees Tips for pruning fruit trees

By Sandra Frangiadakis, KFPC Food Action Lead Fruit trees are a great addition to the urban landscape. As well as a bounty of delicious fruit, they can provide greenery, shade, beautiful spring blossoms, and a place for kids to climb and hang out. With regular care and attention, they can remain attractive and productive for many years. Left on their own, however, they can sometimes get out of control and turn into gnarly, overgrown bushes.

The many volunteers with the Gleaning Abundance Program can attest to the value of a well-pruned tree.

We sometimes have to battle through thickets of broken, dead, and pokey branches to get to the fruit, and have to resort on occasion, to cutting our way through.

We also get the pleasure of harvesting from some of our city’s oldest and stateliest fruit trees and have a great appreciation for those well-cared-for specimens.

The key to keeping fruit trees producing fruit and looking great is annual pruning. Late winter is the ideal time for pruning fruit trees -- they are dormant and free of foliage, so you can easily see what you’re doing. A lot of folks like to wait until the weather warms up a bit to make the task more enjoyable, which is fine, as long as the sap hasn’t started running and the buds haven’t started to open. Pruning later in the spring should be limited to the 3 D’s (dead, damaged, or diseased wood).

To the novice, pruning a fruit tree may seem a bit daunting, but there are plenty of good books or online resources out there to get you started (don’t get sucked into spending your whole pruning session in front of the computer screen, though!). You can find a good basic how-to from modernfarmer.com.

The first step is to make sure you have the right tools for the job.

You’ll need a sturdy ladder (unless your trees are very small), a good set of pruning clippers (secateurs) for small branches, and a tree saw for anything over about ½ an inch.

It’s important to clean your tools before you start, and keep them disinfected by spraying or wiping the blades with a bleach or alcohol solution if you’re moving from one tree to another (I have firsthand experience with this -- having inadvertently transferred peach leaf curl to my backyard after pruning someone else’s infected tree).

With tree pruning, how you cut is just as important as what you cut. Cut too close to the trunk and the tree won’t be able to heal over the cut. Cut too far out and you leave an unsightly stub which is prone to rot and disease. Aim for the magic spot called the branch-ridge collar. For large branches, use the 3-step method shown in the diagram to prevent the falling branch from

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Pruning is both an art and a science, and different people will have different opinions on what to cut. Besides the 3 D’s mentioned above, you’ll want to get rid of any suckers coming from the base of the trunk and some (but not all) of the water sprouts -- thin, straight, upright branches that rarely produce fruit.

Then it’s a matter of shaping. With fruit trees, you normally want to aim for an open canopy that lets in light and air. Notice branches growing downwards, towards the center, or

crossing others, and decide which ones need to go to achieve that openness. Think about which branches might be a hazard (growing over a sidewalk or interfering with lawn-mowing).

Stand back every now and then to look at the whole tree and evaluate your work. You should have a reason for each cut you make and

definitely don’t want to cut more than necessary.

To learn more about how to prune your fruit trees and get some hands-on practice with an expert, join us March 10, from 1 to 3:30 p.m., for a fruit-tree pruning workshop with Greg Houghton, local certified arborist and pruning fanatic. To register or get more details, see KFPC’s website or Eventbrite.

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SEEDY SATURDAY on March 2nd

The following information was missing from February’s column: The Kamloops Food Policy Council started a Community Seed Library and they’re looking for seed donations, as well as interested people who would like to borrow seed to grow out, help clean and package seed, or help organize their collection as it grows. If you would like to learn more about saving seeds, or have some unusual seed you’d be willing to share, they would love to hear from you! You can check the Kamloops Food Policy Council website, find the Community Seed Library on Facebook, or email sandra@ kamloopsfoodpolicycouncil.com for more information.

To help learn more about the seed-saving revival, KFPC recently screened SEED: The Untold Story as part of the TRU Films For Change series. This movie tells the story of passionate seed keepers from around the globe as they wage a David and Goliath battle against chemical seed companies, defending a 12,000 year food legacy.

Another upcoming event that will help you get stoked about seeds and gardening is Seedy Saturday. This year it is being held on Saturday, March 2, at the OLPH Parish Center, 635 Tranquille Rd.

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Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) explained

Opioid use disorder (OUD) or opioid addiction, also called a chronic brain disorder, has touched the lives of most people in our society. There were 1,489 suspected drug overdose deaths in 2018 in B.C. There were more than 4.5 times as many illicit drug overdose deaths as motor vehicle accident deaths in 2018. Overdoses were highest in males at 80 percent and inside property at 87 percent and polysubstance use was a factor in 81 percent of deaths that occurred.

It is important to note that many of them were living with family, friends or roommates at the time of death, and in some cases they were not aware of drug use by the victim.

OUD is a chronic brain disease as result of repeated use of opioids and causes significant damage to the brain physiology and neural pathways. People with OUD get their dose either through prescription, or use prescriptions from others or from illicit drugs obtained through criminal elements. OUD is a chronic disease that requires a wide range of treatments to

manage this condition.

OUD significantly increases the mortality and morbidity if left untreated. There is a diagnostic tool called DSM-5 that is used by clinicians to diagnose people with OUD. There are eleven criteria to consider and based on how many of those criteria a person meets, they can be diagnosed with mild, moderate and severe OUD. Like other chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, there is no cure for OUD. It is a vicious cycle of use, reduce use or abstinence and relapse and each of these stages associated with different regions of the brain. Individuals with OUD can go from positive reinforcement to use drugs to get high to a negative reinforcement to use drugs to avoid withdrawals.

OUD individuals, when they take an opioid, it will bind to opioid receptors which releases a dopamine neurotransmitter in the reward system of the brain and causes a feeling of pleasure. As a result of repeated use this pathway becomes distorted and receptors are unregulated and less sensitive to opioids.

Therefore individuals with OUD develop tolerance and require higher amounts to achieve the

same amount of pleasure.

Also when opioids bind to the opioids receptor, it suppresses the release of noradrenaline which causes sedation, slow respiration, drowsiness and all other signs of opioid intoxication. In the event of taking strong or high amounts of opioids, the intoxication can change to overdose which is a medical emergency and can be fatal. Overdose can cause constriction of pupils, slow or absent breathing, snoring or choking, gurgling sounds, circulatory collapse such as blue lips and nails and cold and clammy skin with low blood pressure which can lead to cardiac arrest and coma.

In the event of overdose, an ambulance should be called and while waiting CPR should be initiated with breaths.

However, if someone is

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When we need support, it helps if we have an understanding of how to speak up and ask for what we need in the most effective way. In this workshop, participants will learn how to become more successful advocates for themselves and the person they are caring for, with a particular focus on residential care advocacy.

not breathing and is unresponsive and you do not know how long they have been unconscious, they should be given chest compressions in addition to breath. Also Naloxone should be given if available. Naloxone should be repeated if no effect is seen within 3 to 5 minutes or if the initial effects wear off while waiting for the ambulance to come.

Naloxone is an opioid antagonist and has a high affinity for opioid receptors and because of high affinity, it will kick off the illicit drug from the receptor and can reverse the over dose. Naloxone is available in both intranasal and intramuscular dosage forms and can be acquired free of charge in different community settings and pharmacies.

It is recommended family MISSAGH MANSHADI B.Sc. Pharm Pharmacist/Owner Certified Compounder

and friends familiarize themselves with Naloxone and get a take-home Naloxone kit.

Withdrawals happen after intoxication or over dose and the usual signs of opioid withdrawal is the opposite of opioids intoxication. Withdrawal symptoms include pupil dilation, anxiety, irritability, diarrhea, muscle cramps and flu like symptoms. Withdrawals come within 6 to 30 hours depending if they are taking short acting opioids such as immediate release oxycodone or heroin or long acting opioids such as Methadone. Usually acute withdrawal symptoms peaks in 3 days, however psychological craving may persist for weeks or even months.

Pharmacies usually use opioid antagonists such as methadone, suboxone or slow release morphine

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to decrease withdrawals, cravings, and compulsive drug use. Dealing with OUD patients on a daily basis in pharmacies requires heightened awareness of different signs of abnormalities and big dose of compassion for them.

Interior Health Authority has partnered with Ask Wellness Society, Manshadi Pharmacy and Kipp-Mallery to provide drug checking services.

Testing is fast (5-10 min), anonymous (no personal data is collected) and free to the public. This test can identify the main component in the drug sample and possibly up to 2-3 other components such as Fentanyl. Samples taken are small and can be returned to people. You need to remember drug checking can not indicate that a drug is safe to consume.

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Come learn the art of writing traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs!

March 16, 10 a.m. at All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 1044 8th Street.

Space is limited, registration is required. Call Carmen at 250-318-4539 to register.

Adults $20, children $10.

Another Repair Café coming in April Bring a broken household item and learn how to fix it with a skilled volunteer. Bicycles, clothing, electrical appliances, electronics, furniture, household items, small engines, textiles are welcome.

The next Repair Café is on Saturday, April 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Green Living Expo, Sandman Center, Lorne Street.

Skilled volunteers will be available to help make possible repairs and advise on how to fix items free of charge.

Tools and materials will also be on hand.

Everyone is welcome to visit the Repair Café and bring along his or her broken items from home.

Toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, crockery... anything that is broken (except computers) is welcome.

It may surprise you how simple some repairs can be. The Repair Café specialists almost always have the know-how.

By promoting repairs, Transition Kamloops wants to help reduce mountains of waste. This is absolutely necessary, according to Jennifer Ste. Marie. “We throw away piles of stuff in

Canada. It is surprising that some broken items have practically nothing wrong with them, and could easily be used again after a simple repair.

Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they can have things repaired. Repair Café wants to change that.”

Repair Café is also meant to put residents in Kamloops in touch with each other in a new way and discover that a lot of know-how and practical skills can be found close to home. Jennifer Ste. Marie continues, “If you repair a bike, a CD player or a pair of trousers

together with a previously unfamiliar person, you look at that person in a different light the next time you run into them on the street. Jointly making repairs can lead to pleasant contacts in the city.”

Nicolas Adams of Kamloops Makerspace points out that repairs can save money and resources, and can help minimize carbon emissions. “Above all, Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is.”

Facebook Page: @RepairCafeKamloops

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Home security is important for people of all ages, but especially so for seniors and aging individuals living alone. By following certain safety tips and developing a home security plan, seniors can feel safer at home.

• Lock windows and doors. It may seem like common sense, but failure to repeatedly lock windows and doors can, and often does, give burglars easy entry into the home.

• Think about a smart doorbell. Technology now enables doorbells to provide a video feed to a person’s smartphone or tablet over WiFi. This allows residents to see who is at the door and speak to this person without having to open the door. Some products like Ring® will even register motion activity and record short videos from outside of the house.

• Don’t share or leave keys. Avoid leaving keys under a mat or in a flower pot. Others may be watching your actions and gain access to your home while you are away.

• Ask for ID. When service people or other

individuals come to the door, verify their credentials by asking to see some identification.

• Get a home security system. The best protection against burglars is a home security alarm, states HomeSecurityResource.org. Such an alarm often deters burglars from breaking in.

• Install a lockable mailbox. Locked mailboxes restrict access to sensitive information, such as bank account numbers, sent in the mail. Make sure retirement checks or other payments are deposited directly into bank accounts instead of having them sent by check.

• Use home automation. Home automation, or a “smart home,” can be utilized to turn on lights, set the thermostat, lock doors, and much more.

• Adopt a dog. Dogs can be an asset to seniors. Dogs provide companionship and can bark or alert seniors if someone is around or inside of the home.

Home security is serious business for seniors who are vulnerable to criminals.

How to make your vehicle last Submitted by Gary Miller, retired automotive instructor Being the kind of society we are and the environment that we live in, we happen to need independent transportation or otherwise known as our own vehicle.

This article is offered to answer questions and concerns in reference to personal transportation and how that independence can be maintained and at what cost.

The purpose of this exercise is to provide some information to assist those of us who are not trained technicians or do not have an outlet that provides technical and user information for the automotive service world.

All questions will be graciously received, with full effort made to provide some useful answers or directives as per the questions.

Basic vehicle and preventative maintenance will be one of the primary concerns to be addressed in this article combined with some common sense information.

Questions like, do I need to use synthetic oil or is conventional oil sufficient to do the job?

What do all those numbers and letters

really mean when the required oil is a “5w30” or should I use something else?

What is the service advisor saying to me and how do I know they are correct?

Yes, I know about winter tires but when do I really need to replace them and why?

Why did my battery go dead and the vehicle not start? I had boosted yesterday and it ran ok.

What is VDC or ABS or Sonar and how do I or why should I use them?

Please don’t hesitate to send me your concerns and we will provide some direction or information about your vehicle or transportation needs.

I am a retired automotive instructor with over 60 years of vehicle service exposer having taught for BCIT, senior instructor at SIAST (Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology)in Regina, Nissan Canada and General Motors as a factory trainer. In essence what I am saying is that there isn’t to much that can’t be explained or described to assist in vehicle service or repair that I haven’t experienced or heard of. Send questions to: bigsix8280@yahoo.ca

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What lies beneath carpet?

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. Also, 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 or flooring don’t hesitate to give us a call!

After the loss

There are three things that are for sure in life—birth, death and taxes. The first is great, the other two… not so much. Taxes, I am not an expert in so I’m going to leave that one completely alone. Death, however, is something that I can speak about through experience.

Everyone has at one time or another had to assist with the estate of a loved one that has passed away. This is no easy task as it is laborious, emotionally exhausting and stressful.

Here are some tips to get you through the process if you choose to tackle it alone.

When we deal with a bereavement estate there are several support services that are a must.

One is a waste management bin (WSI) and a secure paper shredding bin (Interior Vault). Recycling bags are also handy as well as deciding upon a mobile charity prior to the beginning of the project.

Start by removing any sentimental items that family and friends may wish to keep. Then, comb through the home (including every closet, cupboard and drawer) and remove any broken items, recycling or out of date food items.

This is what we call a purge. Once the purge has been completed hold an estate sale to sell what items can sell. We find that more items sell if like items

are grouped together and fewer price tags en masse. Make sure that the route has been properly labeled and that signs are readable at a distance and advertise the event in your local paper and as many other places you can think of such as Facebook or such places to ensure you are well attended.

Once the estate sale is over complete another purge of any items that are no longer required and give them to charity. Box and bag up the remaining items and set them aside for the charity to pick up as it must be packaged for easy removal.

As the home is now empty you can begin the cleaning process. It sounds simple, but it is a very difficult task to complete successfully.

If you are going through this process and need some help, feel free to give us a call.

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The Connector’s Senior Living Choices directory gives readers a look at seniors’ residences providing extended, assisted and/or supportive living features in the city of Kamloops and surrounding communities.

Each residence was contacted via email and/or phone and asked to fill out a onepage questionnaire. Any facilities missing from our list were either unable to respond to our questionnaire or were not considered to be providers of extended, assisted or supportive living situations to the best of our knowledge.

Aside from our list, there are many housing options for those seeking independent, mature adult communities and are not necessarily requiring care options.

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Musical Mazatlan “Mexico’s Music Mecca”

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eing a freakishly fanatical beach walker and music lover, I jumped at the chance for a winter reprieve that would satisfy both these addictions. So off we flew on an easy-button, allinclusive Mazatlan trip.

We chose the El Cid Resort for its dandy location right on the beach and close to the action. Thanks to my like-minded travel bud’s connection to a resident blues musician, we got the skinny on all the most happening local jams, which proved to be eclectic and plentiful!

Our escapades in Mazatlan kick-started with a city tour, escorted by our own private guide and bluesman Gregorio. Jumping into a pulmonia (open-air

taxi), we cruised through the Golden District into historic Old Town. Our breezy introduction continued with an ocean stroll along the Malecon, which is enhanced with fanciful sea-side statues.

Next, we ascended to the Freeman Hotel’s rooftop bar — which became our haven, on account of its awesome view and killer pina coladas!

A slightly tipsy jaunt through the colourful streets ensued, bringing us to the Art Museum, town square and the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.

Lunch was at a hole-inthe-wall cafe dishing out scrumptious shrimp tacos. Later, we browsed the bustling market before bussing it back to home base to graze the buffet before hitting

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Mazatlan Cathedral ‘Twisted Mamas’ to boogie to Greg’s band ‘The Truth’.

So started a fun-filled week of ‘dancing like no one was watching’ at popular spots such as Gus Gus, La Tortuga, Catrina’s and La Bohemia. All served up exceptional tunes from blues to rock to jazz, plus marvellous munchies, endless margaritas and neon sunsets. Serendipity struck and we even caught the infamous Dick Damron play to his steadfast fans. At eightyfour, Alberta’s own Damron has declared his golden years as “The Last Days of a Crazy Old Man in Mexico” (YouTube that!)

As intoxicating as this scene is, girl cannot live by pina coladas and beebopping alone. So we felt

compelled to see some sights and explore area beaches: Stone Island, accessed by a brief water taxi ride, is an easy day trip. It features a lengthy stretch of sandy beach with dining options galore. A thirty minute bus ride north takes you somewhat off the tourist track to the rocky shores of Playa Cerritos. It’s a wild place where the tide leaves shallow water pools, perfect for soaking in and playing amateur marine biologist. The colourful fish, sea urchins and various creatures dwelling there are fascinating!

Just a short walk away,

View from the lighthouse

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past a hard-to-pass market you’ll discover Playa Brujas, home to a heavenly open-air restaurant. What bliss to watch the surfers ride the waves, whilst devouring the tastiest coconut shrimp and guacamole on the planet. Another must-see is El Faro Lighthouse. The steep, humid trek is well worth it for the panoramic ocean view that waits atop.

Mazatlan has a thriving music scene within a warm and welcoming community. The party crowd is funky and genuine. We came to recognize many local

characters that frequent these lively watering holes during our week — like the happy-golucky biker dudes that looked straight out of a Quentin Tarantino meets Disney movie, or the irrepressible, pint-sized golden-girl, cheekily dressed to the nines and dancing non-stop or the suave young Mexican man determined to teach us Salsa. As for the Mexican people, I must say, in spite of the politics of fear and xenophobia propagandized by our mutual neighbour, the individuals I encountered were caring, level-headed and tolerant. ❁

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Relish symphonic film favourites with KSO at the movies

The Kamloops Symphony is going to the movies! Their next concert features a program filled with symphonic film music favourites. There are two performances of this highly entertaining concert; Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Oasis Church, 1205 Rogers Way. The power of music to enhance the emotions in

a scene goes back well before film into the early days of theatre. With a rich history going back to silent films, music has been used to help create the atmosphere in film and television since the very beginning. The score can help us feel the tension in a suspenseful scene, swell our emotions in a beautiful romantic moment, and fill us with hope and wonder as the hero saves the day.

KSO At The Movies features a wide range of stirring film scores, going back to the first music ever to be featured in a short film with SaintSaëns’ Assassinat du Duc de Guise, Silent Film era music composed by Charlie Chaplin, as well as more recent favourites like Nino Rota’s The Godfather, John Williams’

Fundraiser Event The North Shore Community Centre’s Annual Spring

Antiques & Collectibles Sale March 22 & 23 2019 Friday 4pm - 8pm Saturday 10am - 4pm Admission $3 (kids under 12 free) 730 Cottonwood Ave, Kamloops BC (Behind Library Square) North Shore Community Centre 730 Cottonwood Ave Kamloops BC V2B 8M6

Phone: 250.376.4777 Fax: 250.376.4792 Email: nsccs@shaw.ca

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Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts February 24th – March 17th, 2019 Honours Concert – Sunday, March 17th

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Theme From ET and Schindler’s List, and Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings score. Television music will also be featured, with epic music from Game of Thrones by Ramin Djawadi.

The soloist for this concert is KSO’s concertmaster, Cvetozar Vutev. Cvetozar moved to

Kamloops in 2005 and has been playing and teaching violin in the Kamloops area since. In addition to being an actively performing musician, he conducts both the Kamloops Brandenburg Orchestra and the Vivace Chorale. Originally from Bulgaria, he has received a Master’s degree in

violin performance and a Doctorate in Musicology from Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has played in numerous solo, chamber, symphony and opera performances in 12 European countries, Rep. of Korea, Japan and Canada. In 2017 Cvetozar

received the Artist of the Year, Performing Arts award in the Mayor’s Awards for the Arts.

Tickets are $42, $39 Seniors, $10 Youth (under 19), $15 KSOundcheck Members (age 19-34), and can be purchased from Kamloops Live! Box Office at 250-374-5483 or www. kamloopslive.ca.

Chamber music concert will erase the lines between classical and folk music major in composition The Kamloops Symphony’s next concert and music scholarship, studying viola with in their Chamber Music David Harding. Raised in at the Rex series is Folk Songs & Brahms, southern Alberta, he has a performance that called Vancouver home erases the line between since 2005. Outside his classical and folk music, musical occupations, on Saturday, March 23 at John is an enthusiastic 7:30 in The Rex Hall. bicyclist, reader, and John Kastelic gardener. collaborates with Formed in 2007, the The Black Dog String Black Dog String Quartet Quartet to present a is comprised of some premier performance of Vancouver’s finest of his songs for voice young musicians. The the world’s top acts, and Karen Flamenco and string quartet. group has appeared including Rod Stewart, Dance Company.

These latest songs on the recordings of Kanye West, Sting, Tickets are $25, $10 sparkle with ingenuity, artists such as 54-40, The Trans-Siberian Youth (under 19), $15 thoughtfulness, and a Marianas Trench, Orchestra, and Video KSOundcheck Members breathtaking lyricism.

Bleeding Through, Games Live. Recent (age 19-34), and can As a counterpoint to and many others. performance highlights be purchased from the songs, the group Individual members include appearances Kamloops Live! Box presents Brahms’ have performed live with Tambura Rasa, Office at 250-374-5483 stunning String Quintet on stage with some of Vancouver Peace Choir, or www.kamloopslive.ca.

No. 2, a late work which reveals a particular love of Hungarian folk music.

A phenomenally gifted musician, John Kastelic is highly sought-after as a violist, violinist, Kamloops Fiddlers Dance Boogie the Bridge Sunday, April and teacher. Equally March 2, Brock Activity Centre 28, 8 a.m. McDonald Park, 501 at home in classical 9A-1800 Tranquille Road. Enjoy McDonald Avenue. Registration now and pop music, he has cowboy two-steps, waltzes, polkas, open. boogithebridge.com performed on stage schottisches, foxtrots and more. with internationally 50/50 Draw. Cash bar. Everyone Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides renowned artists welcome! Admission at the door.

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By Marilyn Brown

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

By Margareta Magnusson Scribner, 2018, non-fiction, 117 pages Available in book stores and through the TNRD Library system Do not be afraid to read this book. It has warmth and charm, with keen and even humorous insight into what it is like to be elderly (Magnusson states her age is between 80 and 100), how a lifetime of amassing and then caring for things can drain one’s energy, and how outliving a spouse can be incentive to downsize. She believes that there is a reason the reader has this book in his or her hands: “… your family and friends can’t evaluate or take care of (your belongings). She reminds us that you definitely can not take it with you when you depart this life, and she wants to help you prepare.

Each short chapter contains a mix of a few details from her own interesting life (she has lived in or travelled to a number of different countries, is a successful artist, has five adult children, grandchildren, friends and connections to her community.) Some solid advice, kept brief and palatable, combines

with succinct examples of why the advice is worth considering. Many of the lifetime experiences she uses to illustrate the suggestions poke mild fun at herself. Perhaps the most important suggestion: start now. In fact, she suggests that around age 60 to 65 is a good time to have oneself and one’s partner (or family member, or friend) begin the process of death cleaning, to “remove unnecessary things and make your home nice and orderly…” A person of any age may do this, of course, but it gets more difficult later in life.

One of her suggestions that made me smile: tell others what you are doing. “You will see a steady stream of people you like (or even dislike) will come to take things such as books, clothes, and utensils.” She describes her own experience of losing her husband of 48 years, her best friend and “favorite oracle and problem solver”. She muses that it may

have been easier for her to do the death cleaning by herself rather than with her husband’s help, as men tend to save everything.

(The tool shed or “snickarbod” in Swedish, is a case in point.) “It would have taken years.” Towards the end of the book is a section on “taking care of yourself” so that death cleaning, a process that takes thought and energy, does not leave you depleted. After all, she points out with wit, there may be travel and shopping ahead.

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning helps clarify the tasks ahead of us all. The tone is straight-forward and the advice is wise. Recommended. Readers may be interested in two books with similar themes, You could live a Long Time: Are You Ready by Lyndsay Green (2010) and They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum Johnson (2014).

March doldrums of winter linger in caps of clouds now drummed away by flickers in love robins carolling their blessings, announce spring may come early last year’s mountain ash berries pulped in waxwing’s beaks, dizzy with wine savouring sips Life is beginning again

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Driving Dave Dickinson

by Dick Parkes, Vintage Car Club of Canada, Kamloops Chapter Although not the oldest member of our group, Dave Dickinson has probably been involved with vintage vehicles longer than anyone else in town. Dave was born

in 1939 in Creston, B.C. where his father owned the local General Motors dealership, so he was exposed to all things automotive from day one.

One of his first jobs

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was driving a wrecker after school for his dad’s garage. When Dave was 16, his dad picked out a good car from his sales lot and sold him his first car, a 1948 Chevrolet.

After finishing high school, Dave left Creston in 1959 and went to work on a seismograph crew in the Northwest Territories for two months and then moved on to Lower Post, near Dawson Creek, where he was involved with erecting two microwave towers.

He then heard about a small Esso service station that was up for lease in Fort St. John.

The average daily sales of gasoline from the station were 125 gallons, the water supply was a 45 gallon drum and the restroom was an outhouse in the back yard. Nobody else wanted the challenge but on July 1st, 1960, Dave became the proud operator of his first business. With the help of his brother, they made a success out of the garage and operated it for five years.

A young lady by the name of Noella deWit was teaching elementary school in the nearby village of Charlie Lake and after meeting up with Dave, they were married in 1963. Hearing about an Esso garage up for lease in Cache Creek in 1965, Dave and his family, which now included young son, Darrell, moved to Cache Creek.

And this is where he was bitten by the vintage car bug.

In October, 1966, the Vancouver Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada (VCCC) had a tour to the Cache Creek/Ashcroft area.

Some of the cars were experiencing tire problems and when Dave was repairing a flat for one of the old cars, George Hoffman, a friend who he had met in Fort St. John, came into the shop and pestered Dave for $10. Finally, to keep George quiet, Dave gave him the $10 and George said, “Congratulations, you are now the newest member of the VCCC!” The next spring, Dave went looking for a vintage car and found a 1930 Model A Tudor sedan at Fred Sawada’s Royalite service station at the corner of Columbia Street and 6th Avenue in Kamloops. The Model A was never restored

but was driven around town and one year was entered in the Ashcroft Parade as a clown car with the whole family (now including second son Duane) dressed up as clowns and water spraying out of the radiator.

When Dave picked up the Model A at the Royalite station, he noticed another nice looking coupe in the yard, but it didn’t appear to be for sale. About a year later he received a phone call that the car was now available so Dave hooked up a trailer, brought it home and then tried to figure out what he had just purchased. Turns out that it was a 1928 8-cylinder Hupmobile Coupe and in 1972 Dave drove it in one of our early Easter Parades with his sons in the rumble seat.

Doing some more research into Hupmobiles, he discovered that there was an international club and Dave began attending their meetings in the U.S. and ended up being the President of the club from 1994 to 1999. Despite living in Cache Creek, Dave and family became active participants in

the Kamloops Chapter, and after visiting one of our members who was working on a car, Dave decided to restore the Hupmobile and in 1981 it was completely torn apart. Ron Buck (our first subject in this series) decided to put on an engine course for our members and Dave brought the Hupp engine to the course and it was rebuilt, but that’s about as far as the restoration process proceeded on that car and it remained in pieces until sold recently to a collector in Washington state.

Hupmobile is not a very well-known automobile marque (see sidebar) but once Dave got familiar with them he started to amass a collection. On a visit to a local Ford dealership to pick up some parts in 1970, he had a discussion with one of the salesmen, who asked if he wanted to buy a new car. Dave said, “Only if it’s a Hupp!” and a young fellow in the parts department overheard the conversation and said that he had one. This car was in West Vancouver and Dave checked it out when down that way and ended up buying the

1930 Hupmobile Model S 4-door sedan.

Dave’s next vintage acquisition was a 1938 Bickle-Seagrave pumper fire truck. He had been a volunteer fireman in his younger days and when he saw an ad in a newspaper that the Duncan Fire Dept. had a truck for sale he bought it and drove it home from the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. They had lots of fun entering this truck in parades and showing it off in front of the garage.

Long story, but Dave’s next buy was a 1917 Model T Ford touring car that was located in Estevan, Saskatchewan.

He found that he didn’t have the time to devote to this car so it was passed on to a family member in Calgary.

Hearing about a Hupp that didn’t sell at a Tacoma auction, Dave tracked down the owner and ended buying Hupp #3—a 1933 Model K 4-door sedan. Over the years this car has been treated to a new paint job and some motor work and has been used on dozens of tours, parades, and car shows over the years and is the only Hupp that Dave still owns. Dave then learned

See “Mr. Hupmobile" page 15

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How to promote healthy kidneys Kidney disease is a widespread issue made all the more disconcerting by the fact that many people are unaware they have it. According to the National Kidney Foundation, 26 million American adults have kidney disease, and most don’t know it. And the problem of kidney disease is not exclusive to the United States, as the Canadian Kidney Foundation notes that the number of Canadians being treated for kidney failure has tripled over the last quarter century.

Healthy kidneys are something many people take for granted. But those who want to do everything they can to keep their kidneys healthy can consider the following tips, courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic.

• Stay hydrated, but avoid overhydration. Many people are familiar with the benefits of drinking water each day, and adequate hydration definitely promotes healthy kidneys. But overhydrating has not been proven to enhance kidney function. The Cleveland Clinic recommends adults drink between four and six glasses of water per day.

• Exercise. Regular exercise benefits various parts of the human body, including the kidneys. High blood pressure and diabetes are two of the biggest risk factors for kidney disease, and regular exercise can reduce a person’s risk of both conditions. However,

“Mr. Hupmobile” about an older Hupp at the Stan Reynolds Museum in Wetaskawin, Alberta and when a customer’s car broke down in Cache Creek and needed to be taken back to Alberta, Dave said he would haul it there with his wrecker if the customer covered the cost of the gas. This gave Dave an opportunity to check out Hupp #4 which was hidden in a huge warehouse full of old vehicles. Dave managed to crawl back to it, had a look and said that if they could get it started he would buy it. The 1913 Model 32 Hupmobile touring car was dragged out into the daylight, started up and the deal was done!

On the way home from Vancouver after showing

overexertion can strain the kidneys, so adults who exercise, especially novices who need to improve their conditioning, should avoid going too hard at the gym.

• Speak with a physician before taking vitamin supplements or herbal remedies. Vitamin supplements and herbal remedies have become very popular in the 21st century, but excessive supplementation can harm the kidneys. Discuss any supplements or herbals remedies with a physician before taking them.

• Quit smoking. Just as exercise benefits the body in myriad ways, smoking harms the body in myriad ways.

Smoking decreases the blood flow in the kidneys, decreasing their ability to function at optimal capacity.

Smoking also increases a person’s risk of high blood pressure and cancer of the kidneys.

• Eat healthy. A healthy diet decreases a person’s risk for high blood pressure and diabetes. Adhering to a healthy diet and controlling portion sizes can help control weight and blood pressure and contribute to healthy kidneys as well.

• Get screened. Adults who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure or diabetes should make sure their physicians screen for kidney dysfunction during routine appointments.

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their 1933 Hupp in the Expo 86 car show, that car developed generator problems so they stopped off in Mission where they knew a woman who also had a Hupp and were hoping that she might possibly have an extra generator. The Dickinsons not only found a replacement generator but also ended up buying Hupp #5, a 1928 Series A 4-door sedan, which the woman needed to sell as they were leaving the country.

They now had the largest collection of Hupmobiles in B.C., but that didn’t prevent them from adding more cars to their collection.

In 1993, the Dickinsons had a house built in the Rayleigh area, with a six-car garage to hold

their vintage cars, and they left Cache Creek for Kamloops. Upon moving into town, they became much more active in our Club and Dave was President for 3 terms, had several stints as Treasurer, was on our Finance Committee, is our Club statistician and has been producing our newsletter, The Kamshaft, for over 10 years. Before her untimely passing in 2015, Noella was also deeply involved with everything vintage, always appearing in costume to match the year of their vehicle, and she even produced a vintage costume guide for our members to reference. In 1997, a 1973 Corvette roadster was purchased to allow more comfortable driving

to our distant tour destinations but was sold recently. Dave replaced it with a 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL 2-door hardtop purchased from another local member for the same purpose.

Time has moved on and Dave has sold the Model A Ford, three of the Hupmobiles, the firetruck and the house with the six-car garage and has moved into a downtown condo, but has no intention of abandoning his love of vintage cars.

Dave (Mr. Hupmobile to us) admits that he has never actually completely restored a car, but has certainly benefitted from all of the experiences and friendships that they have given him over the last 62 years. ◆

Kidney Support Group If you or a family member has been diagnosed with kidney disease, perhaps the Kamloops Kidney Support Group can help you. The KKSG meets on the second Wednesday (9 a.m.) and second Saturday (10 a.m.) of every month at Chances (Barside Lounge and Grill), 1250 Halston Ave. There isn’t anything formal about KKSG. We have coffee, maybe some breakfast, and talk about life and kidneys. You won’t get any medical advice, but we will be there to share our experiences, whether you are pre-dialysis or on dialysis, a kidney donor or a recipient, a family member, or anything in between.

For more information, call Edna Humphreys at 250-376-6361 or Dorothy Drinnan at 250573-2988. The 2019 Kamloops Kidney Walk is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22 at McDonald Park.

Some figures for you from B.C. Transplant (all from 2018): 50 lung transplants, 77 liver transplants, 28 heart transplants, a one-year record 339 kidney transplants. As of Dec. 31, the number of British Columbians who have registered their organ donation decision was 1,351,031. There were 86 organ transplants done on recipients who live in the Interior Health region. That is up from 75 in 2017. In all of B.C., there are 4,870 transplant recipients being followed by medical staff; as of Jan. 1, the transplant waitFebruary list includes 18, 669 names.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUPMOBILE Before starting his own company in 1908, Robert C. Hupp worked for the Oldsmobile, Ford and Regal Motor companies. The first car produced by the Hupp Motor Car Company was the 1909 Model 20, a small twoseater runabout with a price tag of $750 and over 1600 were built. This initial success allowed the company to increase production and bring out larger vehicles and eventually move up-market into the mid-price range.

Hupmobile made good cars which sold well until the Great Depression but it was all downhill from there.

Hupp’s last gasp in 1940 was the Skylark, a re-tooled Cord 812, but it wasn’t enough and after building over half a million vehicles, the Hupmobile marque disappeared.

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We would like to thank our caretaker, Ian, for keeping the sidewalks clean and free of ice for the safety of all the residents, clients and guests at our Centre.

The Seniors Community Centre AGM will be held on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. Sign in begins at 1 p.m.

Memberships for 2019 are now due and are $15 for the year.

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We will be celebrating our Birthday Dinner for those members who have birthdays in the months of January, February and March on March

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Our Ladies Auxiliary Gift Shop is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. They always have an abundance of exciting new treasures. Do drop by have a look and perhaps stay and have a cup of coffee.

If you are looking at booking a room(s) for that special occasion or even if you wish to hold a meeting, please feel free to call and enquire as to what there is to offer. Office open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. 250372-5110.

Don’t forget to turn those clocks ahead on March 10, 2019.

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Hello March!

Origins of the leprechaun myth The tricolor flag. A pint of Guinness. Bagpipes.

Each of these things are symbols of St. Patrick’s Day, which celebrates the patron saint of Ireland every year on March 17.

While each of the aforementioned symbols is tangible, one popular image has proven a little more elusive. Leprechaun imagery is ubiquitous during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, but even the most ardent Paddy’s Day revelers may know little about these mythical creatures.

Now widely depicted as tiny, bearded and mischievous men clad in coats and hats, leprechauns have been traced to ancient Ireland.

The precise etymology of the word “leprechaun” is unknown, though many scholars believe the word we use today is derived from the old Irish “Lú Chorpain,” which means “small body.”

Some scholars point to the 8th century word “luchorpán,” meaning

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Spring. The word conjures up images of newly budded flowers and fresh green grass poking up through the earth. Of people emerging from the winter hibernation and getting out and enjoying the longer days and warmer temperatures. After a month like February, spring can not get here soon enough.

Coming up this month is one of our biggest events ever! We only do this once a year and everyone looks forward to it.

The tables have been booked for months and the vendors have the dates circled on their calendars. It’s our annual Antique and Collectibles Sale on Friday March 22nd and Saturday March 23rd. If you are a collector of sorts, you will not want to miss this occasion.

Everything from books and toys to coins and jewelry can be found all under one roof.

Admission to this event is $3.00 with children under 12 entering for free. This event is a fundraiser for the North Shore Community Centre and

all the proceeds go towards keeping the Centre activities open and available to everyone at an affordable cost. So even if you aren’t a collector of the past, come down and wander through and help support the North Shore Community Centre.

On March 7th, the North Shore Community Centre has the opportunity to host a musical duo that has travelled extensively around this fair country. Darrel and Saskia of The Great Plains are a veteran touring act with an easy, crowdfriendly style that instantly endears them to any audience.

This is true Canadian music with real songs that are drenched in our culture and heritage and delivered in comfortable highly skilled sets. A taste of celtic, a dab of bluegrass, a touch of folk

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all wrapped around extremely beautiful melodies. Tickets are $15 at the front desk or in the office. Come on over and enjoy this musical treat with us.

As well as these special events, the Community Centre has activities daily that go on year-round. If you are craving some Yoga or Meditation or wish to sit down and play some Bridge or Cribbage, the Centre has you covered. If coffee and company are more your thing, come on in to the Maple room and enjoy freshly brewed coffee and browse our crafts, all made by members of the community. Please check the calendar on this page for the monthly events that are open to drop-ins. If you have any questions regarding activities, call the office at 250-376-4777 and we will be able to help.

Until next month, I bid you all adieu.

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“sprite” or “pygmy,” as the origins of the word leprechaun. Another word, “lubrican,” which first appeared in the English language in a 1604 play written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, also has been linked to the modern word leprechaun.

Some historians believe the myth of the leprechaun has origins in ancient Ireland, when people believed the tiny creatures were among the various inhabitants of fairy forts and fairy rings throughout the Emerald Isle.

Another take on the source of the leprechaun myth is that these tiny creatures were modern incarnations of the EuroCeltic god Lugh, who was the sun god as well as the patron of arts and crafts.

The images of leprechauns can be seen everywhere on and around St. Patrick’s Day, and those images have evolved considerably over the centuries.

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New games, new opportunities for Zone 8 games participants Submitted by Linda Haas The 55+ BC Games take place Sept.10-14, 2019 in Kelowna with 31 sports/ activities to anticipate. Moreover, if you hope to take part in the Canada Senior Games in Kamloops in 2020, held for the first time in British Columbia, your only chance to qualify will be at the Kelowna Games.

To find out if the event you are interested in requires a playoff, contact the sport event coordinator on the Zone 8 website accessed through 55plusbcgames.org. Try out for more than one, but you can enter only one sport or recreational activity at the Games. If you are not sure what a particular event is all about, contact the sport coordinator, as soon as possible to determine if a playoff is necessary, and for more information. Regulations are also posted on the website for each sport.

Please note there is an addition to the contact list published in February: Pickleball—Ken Purvis, 250-319-3718, purvisken650@gmail.com. Also, please change phone number of Peter Hughes, Lawn bowling, to 778-471-1805, and add email for Robert Johnson, Darts: robertzone8darts@gmail.com. For hockey, the sport coordinators are: Monty Kilborn,778-981-0234, mklefty22@gmail.com for Salmon Arm, and Bob Reid, 778-921-2298, robertreid55@hotmail.com for Kamloops. Maria Russell Martin, Tennis, will also coordinate Squash. Information for Bocce is coming, and we desperately need a coordinator for Slo-pitch and Fastpitch. Please step up to the plate! Trap-shooting has been dropped from Kelowna.

Salmon Arm, an important hub in Zone 8, needs an area rep. Please help! For general enquiries about Zone 8 activities, contact zone8information@shaw.ca for assistance.

Accommodation is already starting to fill up in Kelowna. Book now, but make sure you can cancel if necessary.

To help keep us operationally afloat, we invite folks of all ages to our fundraising lunch on April 18. The $15 tickets will be available at the March 21 meeting, from members, or contact Linda at 250-573-9263 or haaslindatony2@gmail.com to reserve them. Besides a delicious buffet lunch at the Lotus Inn in Kamloops, there will be a shared pot draw, bucket auction, and candy guess. This fun event promotes social interaction while supporting Zone 8 seniors.

The next meeting is March 21, 10 a.m. at the Chief Louis Centre, Tk’emlups Indian Band, on Shuswap Road. Everyone is welcome.

As Regina Brett, aged 90, said: “Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

Enjoy life more by being active and sharing the fun with Zone 8 members.

Clearwater seniors update

Lakeview Community Centre Society MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

FMI please call 250-955-0835 Matinees 1 pm: April 25, April 28, May 1 Evenings 7 pm: April 27, May 3, May 4

3 Drop-in Pool 1 pm

10 Drop-in Pool 1 pm

17 Drop-in Pool 1 pm Drop-in Pool 24 1 pm Drop-in Pool 1 pm

31

4

Fitness classes 8:30am Carpet Bowling 10am Table Tennis 1pm

FRIDAY

1

Fitness classes 9:00am

8

Fitness classes 9:00am Table Tennis 1 - 3 pm

18 19 20 21 Drop-in Crafts Fitness classes Fitness Classes 9am Carpet Bowling 10am 10 am 8:30am A/E Chorus prac 1pm North Shore Carpet Bowling Country Gardeners’ Drop-in Crib 1pm Painters 10am Club 1:30pm Drop-in Jam 10am Craft Classes with Bridge 7 pm Session 7pm Table Tennis 1pm Cathey O 6pm Dance Lessons 7pm

25 26 27 28 Drop-in Crafts Fitness classes Fitness Classes 9am 10am 8:30am Carpet Bowling A/E Chorus practice North Shore Carpet Bowling 10 am 1pm Painters 10am 10am Drop-in Crib 1pm Bridge 7 pm Craft Classes with Table Tennis 1pm Cathey O 6pm Dance Lessons 7pm

MONDAY

TUESDAY

22

Fitness classes 9:00am Table Tennis 1 - 3 pm

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Fitness classes 9:00am Table Tennis 1 - 3 pm

Church

Glee Club 9:30 am

4

AA 8 pm 10

Church

Glee Club 9:30 am

11

AA 8 pm

Church

Church

24 31

Glee Club 9:30 am

18

Pool 1 pm 5 Crib 1:30 pm Wheels to Meals 12pm Rock Club 7pm

6 Carving 9am Cards 1 pm Pool 6 pm

12 Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm

13 Carving 9am Pool 6 pm AGM 1pm

25 Glee Club 9:30 am

AA 8 pm

19 Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm Wheels to Meals 12pm 26

Pool 1 pm Crib 1:30 pm

THURSDAY

TUESDAY

7 Quilting 9am

Pool 6 pm 14

Quilting 9am Pool 6 pm

20

21

Carving 9am Pool 6 pm

Quilting 9am

27 Carving 9am Cards 1 pm Pool 6 pm

28 Quilting 9am

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events MONDAY

23

Lions Meatdraw Draw 2 – 5 pm Chess at the Lake 2pm

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Lions Meatdraw Draw 2 – 5 pm Chess at the Lake 2pm

Phone: 250-675-5358

Chase Seniors Centre SUNDAY

Rise ‘n Shine 9 Breakfast 9 -11am Lions Meatdraw Draw 2 – 5 pm Chess at the Lake 2pm

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

WEDNESDAY

Exec Mtg

AA 8 pm Church

2

Chess at the Lake 2pm

Passchendaele Road, Sorrento, B.C.

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1

3

SATURDAY

Drop-in Crafts12 11 13 14 Fitness classes 15 16 Jack Lewis Fitness classes 10am Fitness Classes 9am 9:00am Birthday Party Carpet Bowling 8:30am North Shore A/E Chorus practice Table Tennis 2pm 10 am Carpet Bowling Painters 10am 1pm - 3 pm LCCS GM 2:30pm Drop-in Crib 1pm Saint 1Patrick’s 10am Chess at the Lake Bridge 7 pm Day Table Tennis 1pm Craft Classes with 2pm Fun Night 5 pm Dance Lessons 7pm Cathey O 6pm

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

Squilax/Anglemont

Table Tennis 1 - 3 pm

6 7 Drop-in Crafts5 Fitness Classes 9am Carpet Bowling 10am 10 am A/E Chorus practice North Shore Drop-in Crib 1pm 1pm Painters 10am Drop-in Jam Bridge 7 pm Craft Classes with Session 7pm Cathey O 6pm Dance Lessons 7pm

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parking spaces increase in number, and painted walkways make our lives safer; the trip-over entry into DLCC was even scooped out – finally.

• Third Sunday Socials (no-host lunches at Wells Gray Inn are well attended, and now there’s a prize in the offing, donated by the restaurant.

• Rotary provided a bus for seniors to view and judge Christmas lights on businesses and B & Bs. That outing was fun, and is expected to become an annual event.

• A costumed team always participates in the “Raise a Reader” Spelling Bee. • We placed 2nd in the 2018 May Day Parade, as Vice-President Laura Pickering proudly shows off with our certificate.

• And every once in a while we circulate Newsletters.

THURSDAY

2019 Pig and Whistle Tickets for “Texas Plains” Now On Sale

Submitted by Kay Knox The following is a slightly amended excerpt from the latest newsletter of the Wells Gray Country Seniors Society (WGCSS). This society is made of up members from Clearwater, Blackpool, Upper Clearwater, Little Fort, Vavenby, Avola, and all points in between.

Celebrating Our Successes – Some Old, Some New, All Good!

• WGCSS had its 10th birthday party in 2018.

• Membership for 2018 – 2019 is around 115!

• Grants help to keep us going...

• The Seniors’ Symposium was wellattended with much of interest to us all.

• Bus trips take members and others to a wide variety of places, plays, and eateries.

• Regular activities are on the go all month long.

• Active activities include Sit & Be Fit Yoga and Move & Groove.

• Second Tuesday of each month sees a large gathering at “Learn and Lunch” programs. Every speaker has been worth listening to, and all goodies worth eating!

• Our fun with high school students in 2018 included a block party with sunshine, hamburgers, and music performed by the young and not so young.

• Our input has meant more places have automatic openers on doors, disabled

MONDAY

Lakeview Centre

WEDNESDAY

Pool 6 pm

Pool 6 pm

Core Tight Exercise 10 am Ladies Snooker 1pm

Scottish Dance 9:30am

8 Core Tight Exercise 10 am Ladies Snooker 1pm

Scottish Dance 9:30am

15 Core Tight Exercise 10 am Ladies Snooker 1pm

Scottish Dance 9:30am

22 Core Tight Exercise 10 am Ladies Snooker 1pm

Scottish Dance 9:30am

29 Core Tight Exercise 10 am Ladies Snooker 1pm

Scottish Dance 9:30am

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Chase Creekside Seniors

542 Shuswap Avenue • 250-679-8522

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

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1

Exercise 9 am Mini Crib 11 am

2

(Register at 10:30 am)

Crib 1 pm

3

Bells & Bows 10 am Bingo 1 pm

10

Guys & Gals11 Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

Wood 14 12 Guys & Gals13 15 Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am Carving 9 am Exercise 9am 10 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Crib 1pm Bingo 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm Club Mtg 1 pm

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17

Guys & Gals18 Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

Wood 21 19 Guys & Gals20 Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am Carving 9 am 10 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Bingo 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm Club Mtg 1 pm

23

Exercise 9 am Crib 1 pm

25 Guys & Gals Exercise 8:30 am 31 Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

26 Guys & Gals27 28 Wood Bells & Bows Exercise 9 am Carving 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

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5

Guys & Gals 6 Wood 7 Exercise 9 am Carving 9 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Drop In Carpet Canasta 1 pm Bowling 10 am Jam Session 7 pm

Guys & Gals 4 Exercise 8:30 am Pool/Snooker 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

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Exercise 9 am Crib 1 pm

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by Rita Joan Dozlaw

Revelstoke Seniors

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

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

1

2

Senior Exercise 10 am Carpet 7 6 8 Bowling 9 am Billiards 9 am Senior Exercise Coffee Drop-in Senior Exercise Crib 1 pm 9:30 am 10 am 10 am Ballroom Dance Whist 7:30 pm Ballroom Dance

9

Carpet 14 11 13 15 Carpet 12 Bowling 9 am Billiards 9 am Bowling 9 am Bingo 1 pm Coffee Drop-in Senior Exercise Senior Exercise Bridge 7 pm Crib 1 pm 9:30 am 10 am 10 am Darts 7 pm Ballroom Dance Whist 7:30 pm Ballroom Dance

16

Carpet 21 18 20 22 Carpet 19 Bowling 9 am Billiards 9 am Bowling 9 am Bingo 1 pm Coffee Drop-in Senior Exercise Senior Exercise Bridge 7 pm Crib 1 pm 9:30 am 10 am 10 am Darts 7 pm Ballroom Dance Whist 7:30 pm Ballroom Dance

23

Carpet 28 25 27 29 Carpet 26 Bowling 9 am Billiards 9 am Bowling 9 am Bingo 1 pm Senior Exercise Coffee Drop-in Senior Exercise Bridge 7 pm Crib 1 pm 9:30 am 10 am 10 am Darts 7 pm Ballroom Dance Whist 7:30 pm Ballroom Dance

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3

Genealogy 1pm

4

Bingo 1 pm Bridge 7 pm Darts 7 pm

10

Genealogy 1pm

Carpet 5 Bowling 9 am Drop-in 7 pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Drop-in 7 pm

17

Genealogy 1pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Genealogy 24 1pm Genealogy 31 1pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Drop-in 7 pm

Brock Activity Centre

9A - 1800 Tranquille Road

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

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY 1

2

7

8

9

14

15

16

21

22

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29

30

Chair Fitness 10 am Kamloops Fiddlers Lunch Dance 11:30 am -1 pm 7:30 - 10 pm Canasta 1 pm

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4

5

Sunday Night Dance Chair Fitness 10 am Rentals only 4 pm 7:30 - 11 pm BINGO 6 pm $10 at the door` Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm Euchre 1:15 pm

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11

12

Chair Fitness 10 am Rentals only 4 pm Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm BINGO 6 pm Euchre 1:15 pm

17 St. Patrick’s Day

18

13 Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm

19

Chair Fitness 10 am Rentals only 4 pm Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm BINGO 6 pm Euchre 1:15 pm

24

6 Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm

25

20 Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm

26

Chair Fitness 10 am Rentals only 4 pm Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm BINGO 6 pm Sunday Night Dance 31 Euchre 1:15 pm 7:30 - 11 pm

27 Lunch 11:30 am - 1 pm Cribbage 1 pm

$10 at the door

Royal Canadian Legion Br. #52 MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Stitchers Club 9 am Chair Fitness 10 am Wood Carving 10 am Potluck Lunch 12 pm Bridge 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

Stitchers Club 9 am Chair Fitness 10 am Prostate Cancer Lunch Wood Carving 10 am Support Group 10 am 11:30 am -1 pm Bridge 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Social Club Dance 7:30 - 11:30 pm Stitchers Club 9 am Wood Carving 10 am Bridge 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

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Stitchers Club 9 am Chair Fitness 10 am Lunch Wood Carving 10 am 11:30 am -1 pm Bridge 1 pm Canasta 1 pm Canasta 1 pm

Office Hours: 2 pm to - 4 pm Monday - Friday

THURSDAY

3

Meat Draw 2:30 pm

10

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

17

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

Lounge 12-7 pm 24 Exec Mtg 4:45 pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm Lounge Open 31 12 pm - 7 pm General Mtg 12pm Meat Draw 2:30 pm

4 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

11 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

18 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

25 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

5 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

12 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

19 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

26 Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm

425 Lansdowne St.

Kamloops, B.C. V2C 1Y2

Office: 250-374-1742

FRIDAY

1

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm Crib 2 pm Everyone welcome to play

OFFICE HOURS: 2 PM - 4 PM • MON-FRI P: 250-374-1742 F: 250-374-1708 Secretary@kamloopslegion.com Lounge Open 12 pm - 7 pm

Closed

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

6

13

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

20

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

27 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm

7

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

14

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

21

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

28 Lounge Open 2 pm - 11 pm

8

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm Crib 2 pm Everyone welcome to play

15

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm Crib 2 pm Everyone welcome to play

22

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm Crib 2 pm Everyone welcome to play

29

Lounge Open 2 pm - 7 pm Crib 2 pm Everyone welcome to play

SATURDAY

2

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

9

Meat Draw 2:30 pm

16

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

23

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

Longing for her keeper, but I biological father, young think he may Katrina Sherwood made have retired in up her mind to find Sneem Ireland.”

Ivan if it took the rest of Kat felt him her life. In the meantime, disengage her teachable spirit and and, soon after high intelligence drove her their meeting, she to complete her education, arranged her flight avoid addictive substances and to Ireland. strike out on her own. She Throughout the quick Visitfirst-hand our website: knew the severe revelstokeseniors.ca trip to Sneem, a thought disturbed her. consequences suffered by Uncle Gary and Ivan are estranged. broken relationships and loss of I wonder why. From the beginning, parental love and pondered the she expected the unexpected. Even issues unrelentingly as she matured. so, she disembarked from the plane As a toddler, the precocious little with a heavy heart pondering whether beauty danced on tip toes into her or not to get involved with estranged second and third birthdays charming kin. However, her determination everyone around her. In the formative to find Ivan took her straight into a years, she danced for her maternal public phone booth where she opened grandmother who was her legal a dog-eared phone book and found guardian. “She’ll always be a dancer,” his name and number. I am meant Granny Smith predicted. “I have no to contact him, her mind confirmed idea where she got that from; nobody in with her heart. Her body shook, and my family can dance.” she didn’t know which emotion—fear As an adolescent, Kat danced over to or excitement—to release. Should she the local park for ‘May Days’. Holding give in to second thoughts about the onto ribbons dangling from a May whole business and take a return flight pole, she swaggered around in circles homeward; or, make a two-minute entertaining herself and others. In phone call which could change the high school, she thrived on performing direction of her life? Being honest her routines in amateur theatre with her longings, she listened to the productions. She danced right out of her prodding of her better judgment and teens and into adulthood when, after dialed the number. college, a former foster family helped Sneem, a charming tiny town located finance a trip to Egypt. Kat promised in S.W. Ireland was often referred to to pay them back. She studied as The Knot because the town’s middle-eastern style River Sneem swirled where dancing there and learned currents met a small bay. A the performing art from quaint bridge separated the best. the north and south A well-paying job town squares and, near with a financial firm the bridge, a tree-lined got her out of debt boulevard led to “the route and left time to make the fairies took” riverside. connections with Child Kat, infatuated by the quaint Services, courts and town, checked in to a B&B in The Children’s Aid Societies.

Stone House in north square.

She found records of her Ivan’s address was south of history as a child/youth of the village. the state and learned that the lastKat’s call rang forever. known address for Ivan Sherwood Finally, someone picked up. was in question. He was thought to be She asked, “Is this Ivan Sherwood?” residing in the United Kingdom. The “Uh, who wants to know?” lead thrilled her, and on the first trip to “I am Katrina Sherwood. I believe you London, she found some Sherwoods. may be my father.”

Gary, her father’s brother sat with her “You damn right I am. How’d you find one afternoon. “You’re a sponge,” he me? Don’t you live all the way across said, referring to her eagerness to hear the pond? Where ya callin’ from?” Kat about the paternal side of her clan. She answered all his questions including, brought up her grandmother’s long“Why would you wanna see me? I’m the unanswered question and, in a stroke creep who abandoned you.”

“A girl needs to know her dad, and I’m of good luck, discovered her Uncle Gary wondering, do you want to know me?” was a dancer. Her excitement grew like Blown away by the call and a four-leaf clover over the revelation comfortable with the stranger’s and she wanted to hear more. answers, he said, “Yes, of course I want Gary’s professional career had taken to know you—right this minute. Are off soon after completing training at you… Can you meet me on the bridge?”

Royal Ballet School. His innate talent The emotionally charged rendezvous took him to the stage as principle on the Sneem River Bridge was dancer with U.K. Royal Ballet in indescribable and symbolic. As they London. Further credentials astounded came together, Ivan spoke first. “It’s his niece: he had the distinction of obvious you didn’t burn your bridges, being an internationally renowned thank the Lord!” classical ballet… but he was modest “I thank him too,” Kat responded as in the telling of it. In love with his they embraced for the first time since ballerina partner, he married her and she was a young child. Staring into they had a daughter. The answer to pools of hazel, their eyes reflected two where else such talent in the family lost souls recognizing each other. Their existed, was finally obvious to Kat. wide smiles were also identical. They She became anxious to talk about both pushed the hair away from their her father, but Gary’s body language shrugged, “I’m not my brother’s See “The luck o’ the Irish” on page 20

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foreheads after they hugged.

“Today, this bridge is not just ‘the knot’. To me, it’s a love knot.” Managing his voice between sobs, he added, “Could you n’ me be tying the knot that’ll hold us together this time?”

“Oh my goodness,” Kat thought, how poetic! She was profoundly moved by her father’s heart-felt notion of a tight relationship. Conversation flowed without flaw as they lunched at The Bistro and later had desserts at D’Oshea’s Pub. To Kat’s surprise, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s portrait was on the wall. Ivan said the famous composer frequented the establishment just for the Irish black pudding. They ate pudding while they laughed and then cried together as Kat learned the Sherwood family estrangement began with the issue that no-one would adopt her!

“I begged mom to take you, Kat, and raise you, but she absolutely refused. I hated her after that. I begged Gary too, because he had a wife, but they had no intentions of being saddled with a kid because of their dance careers… and then they went n’ got pregnant with Abby, your cousin. I hated ‘em. I was penniless and ignorant and hated my own filthy flesh for letting go of you.”

Their stories opened their forgiving hearts and, in the unabashed demonstrative bonding, their shiny faces caught the eye of a street photographer. “You two sitting there opposite each other look so much alike you could be matching book ends bouncing your stories between you.” He snapped a coveted keep-sake photo of the story tellers holding hands across the table.

“How is your mother? Does she know you’re here?” Ivan asked.

“No, finding you was a secret wish I never dared to share with her. Anyway, I don’t see her anymore; I don’t believe she ever loved me. We had a serious falling out when it slipped that I wanted to find you.”

Reflecting on the past, Ivan looked off in the distance. Back to the moment, he asked, “Was it hard to find me?”

“Yes and no. The records were sealed, but when I turned twenty-

one I had access. At the time, I felt I never should have dug up the rotting roots of my family. I’m sure you know what I mean. I’m talking about the alcoholism, abusing each other, the gambling addiction, the lies and fraudulent documents that got you into Canada and then the U.S. When you left, mother was declared unfit by the court so I was sent to my granny’s temporarily. It almost killed her when the case workers pulled me from her and moved me into foster homes with strangers just taking me in for the government-assistance cheques.”

“Oh, I’m sorry you went through all that, really Kat dear, I am. It must’ve been agonizing.”

“I was a throw-away kid… and knew it!”

Ivan, shocked at the statement, shared his side of the story. “Before I went to North America, I worked in a print shop in London. That’s where I forged the immigration documents. Once I got into Canada, I met your American mother and married her to get to the states. Then we got you! That was the best thing that ever happened in my life! We were so dysfunctional, especially when authorities came after me, I panicked… got phone calls warning of criminal charges, prison time and/or deportation for fraud. I had to get back to U.K. That’s why I fled.”

“Thank you for telling me all that,” Kat sobbed. “Three days ago, from LaGuardia, I flew to London and… well, I met Gary. It shocked me that all he knew about you was the name of your little town. I can’t believe I simply opened a directory here and there was your listing.”

“Incredible! Sherwood means ‘strong’.

Did you know that, Kat? You n’ me – we’re a pair o’ good strong Sherwoods!”

In an empty pub very late on her last night before flying home, one last thing was shared between book ends. “We’re wallowing in the luck o’ the Irish!” Kat stood and twirled, then swung around and took the old man in her arms for a father-daughter dance. “I’m going to call on Gary soon,” Ivan whispered to her. His eyes glistened like his long grey hair. Kat always sensed that her dad had a heart of gold…like that pot at the end of a rainbow. ♣

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Ashcroft-Cache Creek Senior Society

Ashcroft, B.C. 250-453-9828

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events SUNDAY

MONDAY

Patricia Kilt, President

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1

Carpet Bowling & Cards 10 - 4 pm

3

4 Bridge Club

10

11 Bridge Club

17

18 Bridge Club

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5

6

Carpet Bowling & Cards 10 - 4 pm

Closed

12 Carpet Bowling & Cards 10 - 4 pm

Closed

Closed

26

14 Closed

20

Closed

28

29 Carpet Bowling & Cards 10 - 4 pm

Closed

3

TUESDAY

4

Adult Support 9:30 am to 1 pm Whist 1:30 pm

10

11

Adult Support 9:30 am to 1 pm Whist 1:30 pm

17

18

Adult Support 9:30 am to 1 pm Whist 1:30 pm

WEDNESDAY

5

Carpet Bowling 9:30 am Pickle Ball 6-8pm

19

Carpet Bowling 9:30 am Pickle Ball 6-8pm

Adult Support20 9:30 am to 1 pm Canasta, Pool & Fun Cards 1:30 pm

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

10

Carpet 4 Bowling 1-3 pm Seniors Move & Groove 10:45-11:30 am

5 Bridge 7-9pm Seniors Centre

Wells Gray Country6 Seniors Society mtg 10am Seniors Room Sit & Be Fit 10:30-11:30am Crib 1pm Legion Cyber Seniors 3:15-4pm Seniors Room

Bingo 12:30 - 4 pm

Mad Hatter Tea9 Party 11am - 2pm Farmer’s Market 2:30 - 5:30 pm

15

16

Whole 21 Health Footcare Carpet Bowling 9:30 am Senior’s/Adult Dinner 4:30-6:30 pm Public Welcome

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Whole Health Footcare

23

Farmer’s Market 10 am to 1 pm

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30

Spring Variety Fair 9am-1pm

Evergreen Acres (unless otherwise noted)

Phone: 250-674-8185

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

7 Carpet Bowling 1-3 pm Writer’s Circle 2 pm Library 14

Hike: Meet @ DQ 9 am Darts, 7 pm @ Legion

1

SATURDAY

2

Dinner 5pm @ Legion

8

12 Carpet 11 Bowling 1-3 pm Learn and Lunch, Seniors Move & 10:30am Elks Hall Groove Bridge 7-9pm 10:45-11:30 am Seniors Centre

Sit & Be Fit 13 10:30-11:30am Crib 1pm Legion Cyber Seniors 3:15-4pm Seniors Room

Carpet Bowling 1-3 pm

15 Hike: Meet @ DQ 9 am Darts 7 pm @ Legion

18 19 Carpet Bunco 1:30-3:00pm Bowling 1-3 pm Seniors Room Seniors Move & Bridge 7-9pm Groove Seniors Centre 10:45-11:30 am 26 Carpet 25 Bowling 1-3 pm Bridge 7-9pm Seniors Centre Seniors Move & 31 .

Groove 10:45-11:30 am

Sit & Be Fit 20 10:30-11:30am Crib 1pm Legion Cyber Seniors 3:15-4pm Seniors Room

21 Carpet Bowling 1-3 pm Writer’s Circle 2 pm Library

22 Hike: Meet @ DQ 9 am Darts 7 pm @ Legion

Sit & Be Fit 27 10:30-11:30am Crib 1pm Legion Cyber Seniors 3:15-4pm Seniors Room

28 Seniors Book Club 2 pm Library

17 Dart Tournament 9:30 am Legion 3rd Sunday Social 12:30 Wells Gray Inn 24

30

SATURDAY

Hike: Meet @ DQ 9 am Darts 7 pm @ Legion

3

Bingo 12:30 - 4 pm

Carpet Bowling 9:30 am

MARCH 2019 Calendar of Events -

WEDNESDAY

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Clearwater Seniors’ Activities TUESDAY

Bingo 12:30 - 4 pm

2

26 27 28 Adult Support25 Bowling Canasta, Pool & Carpet Bowling 9:30 am to 1 pm Carpet 9:30 am Fun Cards 9:30 am 31 Pickle Ball 1:30 pm Whist 1:30 pm 6-8pm

MONDAY

16

1 Bingo Doors Open 5:30 pm Early Bird Games 6:30 pm Regular Bingo 7 pm

24

SUNDAY

Bingo 12:30 - 4 pm

Box 791 Barriere V0E 1E0

7 Adult Support 6 Bowling 9:30 am to 1 pm Carpet 9:30 am Canasta, Pool & Senior’s Fun Cards General Mtg 2 pm 1:30 pm

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Shared spaces would be shared spaces where they could gather indoors or outside to cook, eat or garden as much or as little as they desired.

Members also would divide some expenses for the common areas and make decisions together.

Some of these cohousing communities might take the concept a step further.

Residents would come together because of their shared values such as sustainability or social justice.

The first U.S. co-housing communities date back to 1988, after architects Charles Durrett and Kathryn McCamant, then of Berkeley, Calif., returned to this country from Denmark where they had studied and seen several European versions.

They get credit for coining the term and wrote the first book, Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves,” which subsequently became the “bible” of the movement. The first such community was Muir Commons in Davis, Calif., in 1991, which consisted of 27 houses, plus a common house with shared facilities.

Altogether, there are now more than 165 communities with 148 completed and 17 in the building stage throughout the U.S. another 140 are in the works. McCamant & Durrett Architects, now based in Nevada City, Calif., designed more than 50 of the co-housing communities.

Through the years much has been learned about best practices and what makes the concept work well. “Cohousing

neighborhoods across North America vary greatly in location and density from urban condominiums to large properties in rural locations, but they all share the concept of private homes with shared facilities, and a desire to create a collaborative neighborhood where neighbors really know each other and strive to work together for the benefit of all,” says McCamant, who now operates her own firm, CoHousing Solutions, which offers development consulting services for groups and developers wanting to create collaborative communities.

Karin Hoskin, Executive Director of the Cohousing Association of the United States, whose goal is to educate and advocate for the concept, moved with husband Nick 15 years ago to the Wild Sage Cohousing community in Boulder, Colo., which has 34 townhouse units and a 5,000-square-foot common house on 1 ½ acres, making it among the denser versions. The group organizes Sunday evening dinners with one resident acting as “head” chef and two others assisting.

For Hoskin, it has proved to be a positive living arrangement. “We love that everybody knows their neighbours and reminds me of how I grew up,” she says.

Three years ago, Diana Sullivan, a commercial real estate broker, moved to another co-housing community in Nashville’s downtown neighborhood of Germantown after she had helped research what it would take to get a cohousing community off

Continued from page 3 the ground. Her goal was also a place to live where camaraderie would be a major emphasis. “I was divorced and community minded and was seeking more connection,” she says.

“There’s always someone to call on or talk to, so you never feel isolated, why I think those who live in cohousing have been shown to live healthier, happier and longer,” she says.

Besides being good for the owners, these cohousing communities have been shown to be good for the environment since most emphasize pared energy use and alternative energy such as solar panels.

For individuals and families to find the best fit or learn how to start one, there’s a growing compendium of information. First stop should be the Cohousing Association of the United States website, which keeps a directory of locations, lists resources and hosts an annual conference, www. cohousing.org. For seniors, the Sage Cohousing International, www. sagecohoadvocates.org, site is the right starting point. And besides their first book, Durrett and McCamant have authored Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities and Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living, which help answer many key questions and provide case studies from which to learn.

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Kamloops gifted with creativity

By now, readers know I’m passionate about the arts, from the admiration of fashion and shop window displays, shimmering table settings, colourfully decorated cakes, glorious gardens, to a good play, a symphony like the recent Kamloops Orchestra’s presentation of Vivaldi, joyful choral groups, the beauty of poetry and readings by writers, to my two main passions

writing and visual art.

March is visual art month for me. For many years, the Kamloops Arts Council has sponsored an impressive annual juried art show that has increased to a maximum capacity at the Old Courthouse Cultural Center, and has grown in quality and diversity as well as quantity since its inception.

I am so passionate about visual art and the joy it gives me, both the making and viewing of it, that not so long ago even at my age, I spent three months backpacking through Tuscany, Italy gobbling up every painting, sculpture, and bit of architecture I had seen in text books, and could get to, and came away with a deep and wondrous appreciation

for the never-ending creativity of the human spirit that has been there since time immemorial.

I love the opening reception, the connection with artists and art lovers, the announcement of winners, voting for my favourite work and nibbling on dainty things, and sipping a Friday fruity refreshment of wine. Don’t miss it! On March 8th Kamloops will be aglow with the opening reception at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre. And while you are at it, make it an extravaganza weekend and attend the film festival, and drop into the Write-a-Thon at the United Church Hall. You won’t regret a bit of it. Kamloops is gifted with creativity. It’s everywhere.

I wrote this poem in memory of my husband, Steve, who passed away three years ago. We were just 16 and 20 years old when we married and spent 53 years together. I miss him every day. His pet name for me was Gidget.

~ Cassie Koroll Two kids saw each other, There was a connection.

I taught you to dance.

You taught me to fish.

You gave me your strength, I gave you my kindness.

We made three beautiful sons.

We worked in tandem, supporting each other.

Our home, our life, our fun.

We loved each other deeply.

Still not easy, but so, so, so worthwhile. ~ Gidget

My pet died.

Do you cremate pets? was unclear to many of us. I don’t recall hearing the term ‘pet cremation’ back then, do you? If our pet died at home, we may have buried it in the back yard. For many kids, that was our first close encounter with death.

A lot has changed over the past several decades.

We cared for our pets back then, but not like today. Today our pet has literally become part of the family. In some cases, it may be the most cherished member! When it becomes very sick we still consult the vet,

will vary depending upon the size (weight) of your pet and whether the cremation is private (only your pet is cremated) or general (your pet is cremated with other pets). A private cremation for a pet under 18 pounds, for example, could cost about $150; a general cremation Believe it or not, I might cost about $50. get that question quite There’s another option often. The answer is however; the City of no. Pets are cremated Kamloops performs pet at a pet crematorium; humans are cremated cremations. You can at a crematorium for check their website: humans. That’s the www.kamloops. law. Over the past few ca/safety-bylaws/ months I’ve received bylaws-enforcement/ many phone calls from dog-licences-petdistraught pet ownership. Their owners asking posted rates for me to take communal care of cremation their (no ashes deceased returned) pet. range Alas I from can’t, but $25 for a perhaps small pet the to $115 for an following “XL” pet; private information will cremation rates help you. for a small pet (ashes Remember when we and the decision may returned) are $50 and were kids? Most of us be to euthanize our pet, $160 for an “XL” pet. probably had at least followed by cremation.

The pet cremation one cat or dog. A lot of If the pet dies at home, industry has grown pets were considered many people are less significantly over the ‘working’ animals; dogs clear on what to do or years. Pet cremation, protected us on the off who to call. pet urns, pet memorial chance that someone If your pet dies at services and pet intruded through our home and you take it to obituaries are just some unlocked door; cats took your vet for cremation, of the developments. care of the mice. If it she or he may send it You may have your own got really sick, we took to a pet crematorium. opinion on the subject our pet to the vet who There’s one in Oyama ‘put it down.’ We left our B.C. You’ll pay your vet of pet cremation, but I pet with the vet; what for the cremation. Costs hope this gives you some practical information. happened from there

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A hidden promise

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Confession Times Wed 5:15-5:35 pm Saturday 4-5 pm Sunday 5:30-6 pm or by appointment

Weekday Masses Monday 6:30 pm Tuesday - Friday 9 am & 6:30 pm Saturday 9 am

255 Nicola Street • 250-372-2581 www.sacredheartkamloops.org

UNITED CHURCHES OF CANADA

Kamloops United Church

www.kamloopsunited.ca 421 St. Paul St. • Sundays 10 am Rev. Bruce Comrie

Mt. Paul United Church

www.mtpauluc.ca 140 Laburnum St. • Sundays 10 am Rev. LeAnn Blackert

Plura Hills United Church

www.plurahillsunited.com 2090 Pacific Way • Sundays 10 am

Special Events / Fundraising: ARTHRITIS SOCIETY OF B.C. – Walk for Arthritis Committee Members – The Walk for Arthritis is on Saturday, June 1st, 2019. Walk Committee members are needed monthly to plan and organize the event. The frequency of meetings is planned to increase in the final months leading up to the Walk.

MS SOCIETY OF CANADA - MS Walk 2019 – On May 26th the MS Society is holding their annual walk which is their largest fundraiser of the year. Duties include participant check in, volunteer check in, food tent, kids tent, set up, clean up and more.

Current Volunteer Positions: VOLUNTEER KAMLOOPS - Snow Angel Volunteers needed - We are seeking volunteers for the Snow Angels program in various areas of Kamloops. Must be physically fit and reliable. Please complete our volunteer application online and specify you are interested in Snow Angels or contact our Snow Angels Coordinator at 250-372-8313.

MS SOCIETY OF KAMLOOPS - Friendly Visiting Volunteer - Volunteers visit with residents to reduce social isolation, provide support and companionship, and improve the quality of life of isolated persons with MS living in long time care.

As I write this column, I am looking out my window at the snow which fell yesterday afternoon and overnight.

We are partway through a few weeks of extremely cold weather. Winter has arrived in Kamloops, late though it may be.

I look out on a world that is very white and find myself longing for the arrival of daffodils and tulips, those festive, bright spots of cheer that tell us spring is bringing new life all around us. I am reminded the snow blankets the new life that waits to be, holding it, hiding it while the season of dormancy accomplishes what is needed.

In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be

free!

In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until the season, something God alone can see.

These words from a song written by Natalie Sleeth remind us that spring cannot parade in with its joyous splashes of greens and yellows and reds without the season of white, that new life is always preceded by periods of dormancy and rest. This is the cycle of life.

The Biblical book of Ecclesiastes tells us “for everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” The natural world understands this.

Winter, spring, summer, fall. Winter is the time of silent, hidden growth.

It is a time of resting in darkness, in stillness, saving resources. In our own lives we seldom take time for stillness. Our automated technological world invites us to keep busy, go faster, work longer.

So occasionally the

OUT OF THE COLD – Shift Support Volunteers Volunteers will assist Shift Captains with guests seeking food and shelter on Wednesdays and Sundays. The shifts on Wednesdays and Sundays are: 6:00pm-9:00pm, 9:00pm-12:00am, 12:00am-7:00am.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE – Restore Volunteers – Volunteers will help in their retail outlet.

Positions include Cashiers/merchandisers, sorting room attendants, warehouse assistants, and swampers (unloading trucks).

KAMLOOPS UNITED CHURCH – Thrift Shop Volunteers (19+) – Volunteer will work in the thrift shop. Duties include sorting, pricing, shelving, and cash handling. Seeking volunteers for Saturdays.

KAMLOOPS HOSPICE ASSOCIATION – Flutter Buys Thrift Store - Various Positions as follows- Cashier, sorters, and floor. Volunteers will sort/organize donations, use the cash register, and use customer skills.

SALVATION ARMY THRIFT STORE – Thrift Store Volunteers Sort & process donations, price items, assist customers with purchases and participate in various tasks.

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natural world offers us the gift of snow, lots of snow. Snow which reminds us to pause.

To stop. To sit still for a time. To allow our souls some room for life to be nurtured.

A story is told of a group who were moving to a remote area in an African country.

It was in the days before automobiles, so they hired porters to help them carry their possessions and supplies.

The porters moved at a much slower pace than the group wanted so they pushed them to move faster, and on the third day of travel they covered twice the ground they had the previous two days. On the fourth day

the porters would not be budged from their seats on the ground.

“What’s wrong?” the group asked them.

“We cannot go any further today,” the porters replied.

“Why not? Everyone looks to be okay,” replied the group.

“Yes, but we went so fast yesterday that we must allow time for our souls to catch up with our bodies,” said the porters.

Winter allows us that time for our souls to catch up. We would do well to heed its wisdom.

To everything there is a season: a time to pause, a time to tend our souls and our spirits. May you find pause long enough to acknowledge the hidden life that only God can see – in this world and in yourself.

Rev LeAnn Blackert ministers with the congregation of Mount Paul United Church on the north shore of Kamloops (www. mtpauluc.ca) and is a co-facilitator of the new Wild Church in Kamloops (wildchurchbc.org).

North Hills Mall are needed to talk to people diagnosed with diabetes, give out information and collect data.

CANADIAN RED CROSS – Help Technician (18+) Volunteers will ensure that clients receive equipment that is of the highest standard of safety by inspecting, cleaning, and disinfecting equipment and by adjusting equipment as required.

JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY – Volunteer (19+) – Volunteer help individuals reintegrate from the criminal justice system. There are various positions including peer support, counselling, addictions, nutrition, cooking skills, etc.

LITERACY IN KAMLOOPS – Tutors – Volunteer tutors are needed for a free one-to-one adult literacy program or to assist in an elementary school setting with students that aren’t confident readers.

FOR THESE AND MANY OTHER POSITIONS PLEASE APPLY ONLINE AT: www.volunteerkamloops.org | 250-372-8313 We are a non-profit charity supporting community volunteering. Volunteer Kamloops acknowledges the support of the Province of British Columbia and the Interior Health Authority

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KFF Line Up for 2019 MARCH 7 – THURSDAY 7 PM THIS MOUNTAIN LIFE MARCH 8 – FRIDAY 6 PM ANTHROPOCENE – THE HUMAN EPOCH 9 PM THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT [DARKFEST] MARCH 9 – SATURDAY 12 PM FROZEN – SING-ALONG EDITION 2 PM CAPERNAUM 5 PM EDGE OF THE KNIFE (SGAAWAAY K’UUNA) 7 PM FINDING BIG COUNTRY 9:55 PM SUSPIRIA [DARKFEST] MARCH 10 – SUNDAY 2 PM SIR 5 PM THE DANCING DOGS OF DOMBROVA 8 PM NEVER LOOK AWAY (WERK OHNE AUTOR) MARCH 11 – MONDAY 6 PM AT ETERNITY’S GATE 9 PM THE GRIZZLIES MARCH 12 – TUESDAY 6 PM SINK OR SWIM (LE GRAND BAIN) 9 PM VOX LUX MARCH 13 – WEDNESDAY 6 PM WILDLIFE 9 PM SHOPLIFTERS MARCH 14 – THURSDAY 6 PM THE BROMLEY BOYS

9 PM ROMA MARCH 15 – FRIDAY 6 PM CIRCLE OF STEEL 9 PM COLD WAR MARCH 16 – SATURDAY 3 PM BEN IS BACK 6 PM KAYAK TO KLEMTU All films will be screened at the Paramount Theatre (503 Victoria Street).

Passes (Available exclusively online), Single Film Tickets, and Closing Party Tickets are available online: Single Film Tickets and Closing Party Tickets are available in advance from Moviemart (367 St. Paul Street) or at the Paramount Theatre (503 Victoria Street) during the KFF. * Fees apply when purchasing Passes or Tickets online or at Moviemart.

SINGLE TICKET PRICES $11: Adult Admission $10: Senior (65+) Admission $5: Student/ Child Admission $15 in advance, $20 at the door: The Festival Closing Party $10 in advance, $15 at the door: The Festival Closing Party – Student PASS PRICES (Available exclusively online) $150: Full Fest Pass (includes a party voucher and a t-shirt) $80: 10-Film Pass (includes a party voucher) – FILMS MUST BE CHOSEN WHEN PICKING UP PASS $40: 5-Film Pass – FILMS MUST BE CHOSEN WHEN PICKING UP PASS $20: DarkFest Pass (enjoy all three screenings of DarkFest) See website kamloops filmfest.ca for more info.

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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 kidneyrelated 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, 9 a.m., and second Wednesday, 10 a.m., of each month at Chances (Barside Lounge and Grill), 1250 Halston Ave. You won’t get any medical advice from us, but we are here to share ourexperiences, 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 or Dorothy Drinnan at 250-573-2988.

Mutliple Myeloma Support Group for Kamloops and Region. Meetings will be scheduled at the Kamloops Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre once an agenda is in place for a meeting and/

or a speaker have been arranged. If you are interested, please contact one of the following people and provide us with your email address (or phone number) and we will notify you of future meetings. Bob T.: ridgerunner@telus.net 250-376-3292; Anne E. akevenrude@shaw.ca 250-372-8077; Bob H. rhamaguchi@shaw.ca 250-374-6754.

The Afternoon Auxiliary to RIH Thrift Seller is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located at 146 Victoria St. We welcome you to come shop, donate or volunteer.

Aberdeen Lions Club meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at noon.

Meetings are held at 9-A 1800 Tranquille Rd. New members welcome. 250828-1765.

Alzheimer Caregiver and Early Support Stage groups meets the second Thursday of the month, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and the fourth Thursday of the month, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Alzheimer Society Resource Centre, 405, 235 – 1st Ave. For more information please contact Tara Hildebrand, support and education

coordinator Alzheimer Society of B.C. at 250377-8200.

Brock Central Lions Club meets the first and third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.

Meetings are held at the Centre for Seniors, 9-A 1800 Tranquille Rd. Call 250-371-0115.

Army Navy & Airforce Veterans in Canada Unit 290. ANAVETS by the river is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping veterans and the community. We are located at #9-177 Tranquille Rd. Contact info: 250-554-2455 anavets290.ca. The club is open 7 days a week.

On Wednesdays fun darts starts at 1 p.m. and welcomes everyone.

We have our karaoke on Friday nights at 7 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday meat draws at 3 p.m.

Everyone is welcome.

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 250377-0055. You can also visit kamloopscanadians. ca.

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Tuesday afternoon cribbage takes place at 1:30 p.m. at McArthur Park Lawn Bowling clubhouse, next to Norbrock Stadium. Come for crib, coffee & good company. Free parking.

Call 250-579-0228, 250579-8259 or 250-3760917.

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

Kamloops Elks Lodge #44 meets at 7:30 p.m. every second Thursday of each month at 784B 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 250-372-2737 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 250-376-0917, 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 250554-3233 FMI.

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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.

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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 250314-1021.

The World Famous City of Kamloops Rube Band practices every Monday (except holidays), 7:30 to 9:30 pm at the Yacht Club, 1140 River Street. Anyone interested in ‘uplugging’ and wanting to interact with people instead by having fun with music is invited to join the band. No auditions - all skill levels are welcome, although having a sense of humour will prove to be a great asset. Check out the web site kamloopsrubeband.org and find us on Facebook. FMI please call Terry Phillips 250.374.1606 Kamloops Stroke Recovery Branch meets at Riverbend Seniors Community at 10:30-1 p.m. on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Email: kmshelton@hotmail.com or phone: 250-377-1961.

Kamloops United Church Thrift Shop, 421 St. Paul St. To volunteer, call 250-3723020. New items daily, great prices! Different specials every day, Check us out.

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.

The Kamloops Breast Cancer Support Group meets at Kamloops United Church - Ponderosa Room the 3rd Monday of each month at 7 p.m.

The support group is for all women at any stage of their breast cancer journey whether newly diagnosed or years out of treatment.

The Kamloops Tai Chi Club is a member-driven non profit group. We meet Tuesday evenings, 7-8:30 p.m., St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 1136 6th Ave. Experience the benefits of tai chi & qigong: increased flexibility, balance and agility. To join our class, email: info@kamloops taichiclub.com.

Kamloops Garden Club meets on the

4th Wed of the month, Feb through June & Sept through Nov at 7 pm - Heritage House, 100 Lorne St (Riverside Park). We host a wide variety of garden related activities, everyone welcome to attend. Contact Judy at 250-374-4181 FMI or visit Facebook.com/ kamloopsgardenclub.

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 meet Tuesdays 7 to 9 p.m. and Thursdays 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Desert Garden Community Centre, 540 Seymour Street. We welcome more players.

Drop in fee is $2. Having fun is something we did all the time, why change with age? FMI call 250372-3965.

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. St. Paul’s Cathedral Thrift Shop 360 Nicola St is open Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. to June. Handicapped access from the alley between Nicola and St. Paul.

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: 250-372-0468 Bernice or 250-377-8364 Joyce.

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: 250579-5707 for details.

Open to all and features monthly speakers.

The Kamloops Family History Society meetings take place at Heritage House on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m.

(September to May, except December) FMI contact Connie at 250852-3218.

Kamloops Chapter of the Vintage Car

March 2019 Club of Canada meets at 7:30 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month (except July, August and December) at the Hal Rogers Center, 2025 Summit Drive.

Contact number 250 320-3038. Anyone with an interest in vintage vehicles is welcome to attend.

Senior Curlers - 50+ curlers are welcome at McArthur Island Curling Club. Stop by Tuesday and Thursday mornings to see how seniors curl.

If you were a curler once, you will be surprised to see the various curling modifications that allow people of all ages to curl. It is easy to stay active, make friends and have fun. If you haven’t curled before and would like to, you may want to try the “Learn to Curl” program or talk to any of our experienced curlers about “trying it.”

Spares are needed for the Winter Session starting January 8th. Call Dan or Toni at 250 376-4104, Ken at 778 470-4402 or Brenda at 250 579-5775.

Interior Authors Group Interested in writing? Maybe you’d like to join us. We’re

Page 27 people who love to write in all styles, forms, and genres. We’re aspiring authors, veteran authors, and everything in between. If you want to learn more about the craft of writing, or about publishing and selfpublishing, or anything else related to writing, come check us out.

Meetings are the second Wednesday of every month except July and August, 6:30 pm at North Shore Community Centre (in Cottonwood Manor), #307-730 Cottonwood Avenue, Kamloops, V2B 8M6. Driving directions: North on Tranquille, left on Poplar, right on willow, left on cottonwood. FMI visit interiorauthorsgroup. wordpress.com/about/ or look for Interior Authors Group on Facebook. Or contact Elma 250 374-1750, elmams@shaw.ca McArthur Park Lawn Bowling invite new bowlers to try lawn bowling free.

Lawn Bowling is low impact, easy to learn and very affordable.

There is something for everyone; social dropin bowling, leagues and tournaments with a little

competitiveness and Provincials, 55+ Games and Nationals for the more serious bowler.

The Lawn Bowling facility located at McArthur Island is open from May to September.

For more information call Brenda 250 579-5775 or Ron 250 319-3255 or Doug 250-851-9760.

Municipal Pension Retirees Association meetings will be on March 19, June 18, Sept.

17 and Nov. 19 at 9:30 a.m. at CSI Activity center, Brock Shopping Centre. Join us to talk to other retirees, meet former co-workers and have a voice about your MPP Pension. FMI call Jean 250-374-1191.

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depends on an iron-clad family bond. By investing in the help of adolescent “marmot helpers,” and filling cozy dens with new arrivals, marmot elders are able to conserve their energy through the long, cold winter.

In a much warmer habitat on the Kenyan Savanna, baboons also understand that the secret to a long life lies in strong family values. Scientist Jeanne Altmann has closely followed this primate troupe since the 1970s, and observes that young baboons exposed to trauma live shorter lives than those with peaceful childhoods. But what else do we know about the inner workings of these aging creatures’ minds?

By exposing bees to a memory test, Chelsea Cook discovers that older bees, when presented with tasks from their youth, actually regain the superior memory of adolescence—proving that you can, in fact, teach an old bee new tricks.

With 4k cinematography propelling us from the African Savanna to the French Alps and beyond, each minute of Aging in the Wild is action-packed with rich close-ups of unedited animal behaviour, heartwarming stories of the unique bonds formed

4th Annual Grand Sommelier Express returns June 22 in Summerland

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Back by popular demand, the Grand Sommelier Express returns June 22 to Summerland’s Kettle Valley Railway Station with two unique events. This is a oneof-a-kind event in the Okanagan and in British Columbia.

There are two time slots (1 p.m. and 5 p.m.) to choose from each offering a different experience. Festivities include a picturesque steam train ride with an on board wine tasting, all while taking in the scenic views of Summerland. The afternoon train makes a quick picture stop (and lavatory) at the trestle; while the evening train begins with a sparkling wine reception and makes a trestle stop to enjoy a special cider and beer tasting along with food and live music.

Both trains return to the station with an outdoor grazing reception complete with live music. Brodo Kitchen and their team of chefs provide the food; and Bottleneck Drive’s wine, cider, beer and brand new distillery serve up tastings of their craft beverages. Before heading home, each attendee will receive a souvenir wine glass to commemorate the day along with discounts along Bottleneck Drive. The Grand Sommelier Express attracts visitors from all around traveling to the Okanagan to take part.

between researcher and creature—from birth to death—and the cuttingedge, contemporary perspectives of scientists worldwide. Entering at the forefront of discourses on aging and senescence, Aging in the Wild guides us into another domain of animal behaviour, proving that, when it comes to aging gracefully, these ancient beings redefine resilience.

At once captivating, profound, funny, and eye-opening, this series brings to light the sociobiological forces that govern the lives of aging animals… and, perhaps, our own as well.

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