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The Omega

Volume 23, Issue 27 May 2014

Thompson Rivers University’s Independent Student Newspaper

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May is MS Awareness Month

The honour in honorary degrees

Food trucks roll into downtown

Kara Twomey returns to the ‘Pack

Upcoming fundraiser, TRU alum and current sessional instructor Cathy Obertowich’s story

Gordon Campbell among new TRU honorary degree recipients

Hungry? The City of Kamloops has approved food trucks for downtown city streets

WolfPack women’s volleyball needs the help after going 0-22 last season

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“It’s your journey, so ride it” TRU alum and sessional instructor living with MS has a new perspective on life after years of denial Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief You probably know someone who has been affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS). You might not even know you do, but with approximately 100,000 Canadians currently living with the disease, and the toll it takes on their family and friends, you almost certainly know someone who has seen what it does to people, even if you’ve never seen the disease itself. It’s the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada, according to the MS Society of Canada, and three new cases are diagnosed in Canada every day, on average, with women three times as likely to develop the disorder as men. MS causes fatigue, vision impairment, impaired speech, loss of balance, spasms, tremors and even paralysis. And no one knows what causes it. It’s not contagious, and it’s not inherited, but other than that, science hasn’t been able to find a reason for its sudden appearance in people. Some people, for some reason, just suddenly find the protective covering of their brain and spinal cord attacked by their own autoimmune system and becoming inflamed, causing the nerves in these all-important areas of the body have their impulses distorted or interrupted. Some will fall asleep one night, with no idea they have anything abnormal going on inside them, and when they wake up, they won’t be able to use one of their hands, because it’s gone numb. Or maybe it’s their legs. Or they suddenly have blurry vision. Some will just suddenly start slurring their words. That’s what happened to Cathy Obertowich, 2009 graduate of TRU nursing, and now sessional instructor in the same program. “Just over three years ago, one morning I suddenly woke up and was a little more uncoordinated, and then I was on the phone with a friend and all of a sudden I started slurring my words,” she said. That day continued, and she noticed a loss of balance and dizziness, and the word slurring continued. “I just kind of wrote it off and pretended like it wasn’t

happening,” she said. At that time she had just recently graduated from nursing school, was starting a new job, was embarrassed and a little bit scared. Together with her close friend, who was also in healthcare, they started going through all the possibilities of what might be causing her symptoms. Her friend took her to the hospital. “I thought I was having little strokes or something,” she said, “and they said, ‘no, you’re having seizures.’” The MRI that came back showed lesions, and the neurologist said that the patterning of the lesions themselves meant MS. “And I told her ‘no it’s not,’” she said, “because that was my greatest fear. Even in nursing school I absolutely would not look at degenerative neurological disorders.” She just wanted to live her life. She didn’t want to be officially diagnosed with the disease she’d already been told she had, because as a nurse she knew what that disease meant. “So I went with ‘It’s seizures,’ because seizures are treatable.” There are cures available for seizures. There isn’t for MS. MS is forever. Obertowich just couldn’t let herself believe that she had it. She was in denial and went away to live her life, waiting for the next attack of the disease. And she went three years without a symptom. But she was on vacation in Las Vegas with her daughter in September of 2013, and she woke up one morning with blurry vision. It was optic neuritis. Optic neuritis, according to Obertowich, is, “the golden key standard for MS,” and because it was her second attack, she was officially and formally diagnosed. She was given the medication options to carefully consider her choices, and together with her family, she settled on Copaxone. Copaxone is an injection which contains a similar molecular structure to the protein that is being attacked by the immune system with MS, so it draws the “attention” of the system itself and makes it attack a harmless injection rather than attacking the nervous system, which hopefully prolongs the time between attacks or symptoms. It’s also one of the least expensive treatments (at about $1700 per

The start of the 2013 MS Walk in Kamloops. 100,000 Canadians are currently living with MS, and three more are diagnosed per day, on average. Cathy Obertowich is one such person, and after three years of denial, she’s found acceptance and now takes full advantage of the time between attacks. (Mike Davies/The Omega)

month, according to Obertowich) and has few side effects. “The beauty of where MS is today with research is that we actually have disease modifying medication,” Obertowich said, “They didn’t have that 10 or 15 years ago. People used to be diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting but it would progress quite quickly,” because the medications weren’t around to slow it down. It’s those people, the ones that developed it before there was medication to treat it, that Obertowich deals with as a nurse, and it’s why she was so scared when they first suggested it to her as a reason for her symptoms. And as a TRU sessional instructor in the nursing program she now confronts her disease on a much more in-your-face level than most. She works in areas with her students where they are working with individuals who are living with very advanced-stage MS. Having now been diagnosed with the disease herself, and seeing where

the disease can go, she realizes it’s just a matter of time before she gets there, as well. “Eventually it’s going to progress,” she said, but added that, “I could be 90 years old before it really progresses to the point where it affects my activities of daily living,” and it could do so with few attacks, spread far apart, with long stretches of symptom-free time. Or, as she said, it could progress to the next stage of the disease to Secondary Progressive MS, where you don’t get better after it gets worse, as you do with Relapsing Remitting MS. But working with her students alongside these advanced-stage MS patients, having the disease herself, also gives her another sense of purpose in her role as an instructor. “I have an opportunity to work with these students to hopefully watch them grow into being the type of nurse or care aid that I would want if I were in that bed.” Now that she’s come to terms and accepted the reality of her own

life with MS, Obertowich says she has a new perspective on life, and in a strange way, it’s made it more fulfilling. “When I feel good I feel good, and I seize those moments, as opposed to some chronic conditions or Secondary Progressive [MS], where you’re constantly symptomatic. I get breaks and I’m thankful for that. “It puts things in perspective and makes me be more realistic,” she said. “I’m not going to let it hold me back; if anything it’s going to push me forward,” she said, by allowing her to seize the moments that she’s pain and symptom free and celebrate her life a little more than some of us do. What she wants people to understand, she said, is that “people can still live with a chronic health condition, they can still be their all. It’s your journey, so ride it,” she said. “This is my journey.” “At first it scared the hell out of me. Now I’m okay.”

Annual fundraiser builds awareness 500 expected to participate in this year’s MS Society Walk, to help “recreate connections” Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief According to Trina Radford, Regional Manager of the Kamloops branch of the Canadian MS Society, Multiple Sclerosis, the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada. 100,000 Canadians live with the disease every day of their lives. There’s no cure for it, and no one’s figured out what causes it. But there are ways we can help them deal with it. Approximately 400 people showed up to lend support during the 2013 MS Walk in

Kamloops, and Radford is expecting close to 500 for this year’s event. The funds raised at the MS Walk go to help the MS Society in their goal to “recreate the connections” that are lost to those with MS. “MS breaks barriers, literally,” she said, “and our goal is to do whatever we can, whatever people need, to help repair those.” While they can’t repair the physical connections that MS breaks within a person’s system, they can help with the barriers that those broken connections cause in one’s life. The local centre, for example, works as a community conduit for

those who need support. They offer education sessions, counseling, and connect people to different support services or agencies, including helping to fill out sometimes complicated paperwork, getting funding for things like physical equipment, “anything that helps remove barriers,” Radford said. The Society also raises funds to help educate the next generation of scientists who will be battling the disease. “One of the things that the MS Society has done is invest in young researchers,” Radford said, referencing one university student

that worked with the society all the way through her undergraduate degree and into to her Ph.D. in developing diagnosis methods and researching MS diagnoses. “We want to do more of that. We want to shine a light on this, and that’s who’s going to do it. It’s these young scientists that we want to support in their research.” To find out how you can get involved, either as a volunteer or participant in one of the Society’s fundraisers or awareness-building campaigns, go to mssociety.ca and look up the Kamloops Branch, or simply email info.kamloops@ mssociety.ca.

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TRU has announced its honorary doctorate recipients. Craig Kielburger, Samantha Nutt, Evan Adams, Kim Collier, Ron Fawcett, Lance Finch and Gordon Campbell will receive their degrees at spring convocation. The university calls honorary degrees the “highest form of recognition” the university can award for “excellence in the fields of public affairs, the sciences, arts, humanities, business and philanthropy.” Reading through the list of recipients is inspiring. As the university calls them, they are indeed all “difference makers.” But one name among them may not be so unanimously wellreceived: Gordon Campbell. Maybe there’s peril in awarding an honorary degree to any politician – few have escaped their tenures without creating a long list of enemies. And because Campbell served as B.C.’s premier for nearly 10 years, he is no exception. Most recent in people’s memories is likely Campbell’s opposition garnered during the rocky and abrupt introduction of the later-repealed harmonized sales tax (HST). But perhaps his most controversial actions were in education. In August 2001, Campbell’s government declared education an essential service and it would

henceforth be illegal for teachers to strike. Despite that fact, teachers organized under the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) illegally walked off the job in 2005, calling it an act of civil disobedience. When Campbell resigned as premier in November 2010, UBC called upon its education faculty to comment on what sort of legacy Campbell might leave. “While the provincial government retains its authority over public education, it no longer undertakes the responsibility of assuring the educational wellbeing of the public. Instead, this responsibility is devolved to individual school boards that are underfunded and told to focus on ‘cost containment’ rather meeting their educational responsibilities,” said Wayne Ross, member of the UBC faculty of education. In a 2005 BCTF news magazine article, Ken Novakowski wrote that “Ever since the election of the Campbell government in 2001, bargaining rights have been under attack. Collective agreements have been ripped up ... Public-sector mandates set by government have become sacrosanct. Collective bargaining in B.C., at least in the public sector, has become a sham.” Campbell is noted by TRU for creating B.C.’s “largest expansion of post-secondary education since 1965” and mentions his part in the creation of TRU’s law school. Among his other achievements making the list on TRU’s brief acknowledgement is what the former premier did to secure the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Not all of Campbell’s changes to post-secondary education were positive, however. In an April 2009 Georgia Straight commentary by Kwantlen Student Association chair and director of academic affairs Ashley Fehr, the premier was called out for quietly making $16 million in lastminute cuts to StudentAid BC. Among the cuts were grants and bursaries to health care-based education like nursing and home support.

“The need for nurses, residential-care workers, and home-support workers is on the rise. These positions aren’t particularly well paid, and many students are unable to afford the education required without taking out student loans,” Fehr wrote. The worries of B.C. post-secondary education underfunding are real, but they existed long before Campbell took the premiership. In 1979, government funding made up nearly 90 per cent of university operating revenue and it has since decreased by approximately 10 percentage points each year, comprising just under 60 per cent in 2009, according to a January 2012 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. When considering Campbell’s worthiness of honours from TRU, what’s probably most important is Campbell’s direct relationship with the university. Campbell was premier when in 2004, it was announced that the University College

of the Cariboo would become Thompson Rivers University. The change to university status meant more money: more than $20 million from the government would follow the announcement. In 2006, Campbell officially opened the Residence and Conference Centre, and in 2008 he broke ground for the House of Learning, to which his government gave $18 million – more than half of the $32-million construction cost. In 2008, the provincial government boasted that since 2001 (the same year Campbell began serving as premier) it had opened six new universities, added 32,000 seats for students and bumped operating funding to post-secondary institutions by 40 per cent. Despite the ongoing decrease in government grants, it’s difficult to attribute the problems with B.C. post-secondary education to Campbell, especially when some the results of his tenure are standing on our own campus. editor@truomega.ca

Gordon Campbell set off a small explosion for show at the 2008 groundbreaking for the House of Learning. (Image courtesy TRU)

News in brief – April/May Post-secondary spending shifts towards the trades The provincial government says it’s expecting one million job openings created by retirement and economic growth by 2022. In anticipation of this projected growth, the way B.C. invests in education is changing, with a stronger focus on filling jobs in the trades. Among the jobs expected are those from the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants to be constructed between 2015 and 2024. The B.C. Skills for Jobs Blueprint will see $3 billion redirected for “high-demand occupations” over 10 years.

Trades dean serves on provincial board TRU’s dean of trades and

technology Lindsay Langill was appointed to the B.C. Industry Training Authority’s board of directors on May 5. The board will be responsible for partnering industry and labour and facilitate apprenticeships and training as a part of the provincial government’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint.

Awarded grant goes to research funding TRU is the recipient of the 2014 Aid to Small University grant, totalling $87,556 to be distributed over three years. According to TRU, the funds will be used for two key research areas: Traditional Knowledge, Language and Cultural Resource Management in Small City and Rural Settings and Homelessness in Small Cities. These two projects include community

members, 12 TRU faculty, and 21 TRU students.

TRU employees honoured for service The 2014 Merit and Service Awards saw 168 TRU employees honoured for their service. Among the top honourees were Bruce Baugh, who received the Master Scholar award, Ehsan Latif who received the award for Excellence in Scholarship, Robin Reid, who received the Teaching Excellence award, Emma Bourassa, who received the Excellence in Internationalization award and Peter Tsigaris, who received the Environmental Achievement award. Sherri King, Barb Pillar, Wendy Krauza and Julie Bowser received Distinguished Service awards and Jeanette Murray

celebrated 40 years of service.

An award for Old Main TRU has received an award for its Old Main upgrade from the Society of College and University Planning/American Institute for Architects (SCUP/ AIA). The award was one of 19 Honour awards given out in April. The SCUP/AIA recognize projects across the United States and Canada.

Law school sees first graduates Spring convocation will take place over four days beginning June 11 at the Tournament Capital Centre. The first graduating class from the faculty of law will be receiving their diplomas at the ceremonies.

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2014 Bike to Work Week gears up Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief And they’re off! Last year’s Bike to Work Week (BTWW) Kamloops event saw 918 participants form 125 teams who committed to riding their bikes instead of driving for a oneweek period. According to their calculations, this saved 5,585 kg of greenhouse gasses, and took 24,072 km of automobile traffic off our community’s streets. Alex de Chantal, City of Kamloops community and wellness events coordinator, kicked off the 2014 event with the traditional “Commuter Challenge” competition on May 12, which pitted local politicians and volunteers against each other to see who could get around town in rush hour traffic in the least amount of time, obeying all rules of the road. Mayor Peter Milobar was in his own truck, and city counsellor Donovan Cavers, one of Kamloops’ best known public transit/bicycling advocates, was, of course on his bike. There was also a Porsche, an electric car,

and a couple of Harley Davidson motorcycles. “The goal is to get people out of their vehicles, and either using public transportation like the bus, taking their own bike for many reasons,” said de Chantal. “Whether it be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lessen the traffic on the road, or just people out there exercising.” Officially, the seventh annual Kamloops BTWW runs from May 26 to June 1 this year, and includes a free bike maintenance workshop courtesy The Bicycle Café in Valleyview, and many other fun events that people can get involved in to celebrate sustainable transportation. For more information, check out www.biketowork.ca/kamloops or email event coordinators Krystal Kehoe at krystalkehoe@ gmail.com or Marcia Dyck at marcia.a.dyck@gmail.com. For the record, Cavers would like everyone to know that he won the Commuter Challenge this year, after finishing third in 2013. Pedal bikes have come in first place in back-to-back events, as well as finishing second this year and third in 2013.

Above: The participants of the 2014 Kamloops Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge, including Mayor Peter Milobar and city counsellor Donovan Cavers, await their instructions in Lot H at TRU. (Mike Davies/The Omega) Right: City of Kamloops community and wellness events coordinator Alex de Chantal gives the next location to the contestants at one of the stops in the challenge. (Mike Davies/The Omega)

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Food trucks to roll onto downtown city streets City council approves definition changes and new zoning options Sean Brady Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief The City of Kamloops has approved a pilot project that will allow food trucks to expand into the downtown area starting in mid-June. Kamloops is currently home to five food trucks, and at least three local vendors were in attendance at the May 13 public hearing where city council unanimously approved the project. The changes have been wellreceived by vendors, who will now be allowed to operate on the streets of downtown Kamloops from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on private property from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on any day of the week. Council also approved zoning changes and a new definition for food trucks. “It was a unanimous decision, so you can’t really ask for more than that,” said Mikey WheelerJohnson, who co-operates the food truck Eats Amoré along with 2006 TRU graduate Natalie Basile. “Before this definition and bylaw change, we were zoned the same as the guy up on Columbia that sells f lags and blankets out of his vehicle. It was ‘sales from a mobile vehicle,’ not even mobile food concession,” WheelerJohnson said. The new definition is only a part of the emergence of food trucks in Kamloops. During the public hearing, Kamloops Innovation Centre cofounder Jaethan Reichel compared food trucks to startups, saying how they’re just like small scale businesses, testing out ideas on a small scale before expanding. “I’d like us to encourage these businesses in the same way that the city has encouraged the technology businesses that are here in town, that is, to take away

the barriers that make it difficult for them to grow and prosper,” Reichel told city council. Cat & Joe’s Pig Rig is one truck planning to make such an expansion. Cathy Obertowich (see story pg. 2) and Joe Thompson operate the truck and plan on starting a brick and mortar version also featuring their southern barbecue cuisine. “I’d just like to get the food truck culture out there. It’s not your hot dog carts of 10 years ago. This is good, gourmet food,” Thompson said. “We’d just like to change peoples’ concepts of what a food truck is.” Both vendors were consulted in a November meeting with the city, and following the city’s decision, both are looking forward to what the pilot project means. “It’s going to develop a sense of community between us all. The city wanted us to race to these spots, but we told them we’d rather approach it on a rotating basis so we all get equal exposure,” Wheeler-Johnson said. “Food trucks are their own kind of sub culture in the food world. We can create destinations now. We can create mobile food courts and

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Natalie Basile and Mikey Wheeler-Johnson operate the Italian style food truck Eats Amoré.

trucks will be paying $15 per day to set up shop on downtown streets. “This $15 per day is going to be just this year. I’ll guarantee you it’ll go up next year, which is fine as long as the numbers are there,” Thompson said. “In my ideal world, I’d like to see the 6 p.m. time extended for a dinner rush, but I do understand the point of keeping the rush for restaurants —Joe Thompson, downtown. It just means we’ll have to get creative Cat & Joe’s Pig Rig food truck and do other things.” One of those other things is the Pig Rig’s expansion into Riverside Park, where it first appeared on May 17. take dead zones of downtown and Both the City of Kamloops inject some vitality in them.” and vendors have approached To inject that vitality, food prospective locations with

It’s not your hot dog carts of 10 years ago. This is good, gourmet food,”

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caution, consulting the brick and mortar restaurant industry along the way, trying to place food trucks in visible yet underserved areas. “They generate foot traffic, which is good for retail shops, which is good for everyone around… except other restaurants. That’s why we want to approach it with some ethics. We want to be a certain distance away, we’re not trying to steal everyone’s revenue,” Wheeler-Johnson said. In Kelowna, food trucks are emerging somewhat more organically, but the city has been equally cautious with its implementation. “We don’t want to create a new competitor for them. So we’ve kind of created very defined areas of where the food truck vendors or concessions are allowed to operate,” said City of Kelowna property officer John Saufferer. Instead of charging vendors

by the day, the City of Kelowna opens the allowed locations up for bids, and according to Saufferer, fees vary from $500 to $1000 per month. “We don’t say that we expect X dollars for this location. It’s whatever the market bears. It varies significantly by location,” he said. Saufferer also said that food trucks will be chosen based on merit, like food variety and healthfulness, rather than simply accepting the highest bid, noting that food trucks weren’t much of a revenue generator for the city. “From our perspective it’s an attempt to animate the downtown, to create additional options for visitors to the city, to create a bit of an atmosphere on the sidewalks and in deader zones where there are fewer food options for people. We’re trying to create a lively downtown,” he said.

Campus cleanup draws a crowd The 17th annual Trash Bash saw more than 100 volunteers show up to clean up campus Sean Brady Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief The TRU Trash Bash held its 17th annual cleanup event where TRU community volunteers ventured out into the sagebrush and the edges of campus to take what they could that didn’t belong. This year was environmental programs and research coordinator James Gordon’s first year organizing the Trash Bash. Gordon called the event a success, with 102 volunteers showing up to clean up campus, an improvement over last year’s 45 volunteers. “It’s a great way to work alongside your coworkers in a different context. It helps in community building. It’s just a nice way to spend the morning,” Gordon said.

The 102 volunteers split into 18 teams and collected a total of 78 bags of garbage and 32 bags of recycling. Because TRU facilities maintains the main thoroughfares of campus, the Trash Bash focused more on the “hinterland” of campus; the areas that are less often used but still see a buildup of garbage. “It’s a pretty big campus, and unless you’re out hiking in the back trails you don’t come across this stuff for many years,” Gordon said. The Garbage Go-Fers, a team formed by the Open Learning staff, took home the prize for the most unusual item found, a “very well preserved” set of Team Canada hockey snowmen candle holders.

The 17th annual Trash Bash cleanup crew stands proudly behind what they’ve cleaned up from around campus.

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WolfPack May 2014 Bites Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief Wolf Pack Athletics is pleased to be announcing the official formation of its first Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) swim team. Brad Dalke, three-time champion swimmer from the University of Calgary, has been hired to be the team’s first head coach. Dalke said he hopes to have at least six swimmers competing season long with hopes of qualifying for the Canada West (their division in the CIS) playoffs. “Having a team allows us to keep our swimmers at home rather than have them move to the coast, Calgary or the United States to compete,” Dalke said in a press release from TRU Athletics. “It is an opportunity for swimmers in our age group

(grades 10-12), many swimming at the varsity level already, will get the chance to solidify their training experience.” The swim team will officially take to the pool this coming

fall semester at the Tournament Capital Centre.

Going into their first year in the CIS, the women’s soccer team has retained the services of the head coach who took them to three straight PACWEST championships, and a bronze medal at last year’s national CCAA Championships, Tom McManus. “I am very honored to be the first head coach of the Wolf Pack as we enter CIS,” McManus said via press release. “It is going to be a huge task but we will all work hard to achieve our goal of continuing to be a solid quality soccer program. We have a number of quality players returning for another season.”

Intorducing the first ever coach of a TRU WolfPack swim team, Brad Dalke. (TRU Athletics)

Tony Tabor played a key role in getting the ‘Pack to the finals, but they fell jusrt short in the championship match. (TRU Athletics)

The Wolf Pack baseball squad came one victory from

a gold medal at the Candadian College Baseball Conference Championships held in Lethbridge, Alta. May 8-11. After beating the University of Calgary Dinos to open the tournament, the ‘Pack lost to the Okanagan College Coyotes in the second match, but rebounded for victories against both the Vancouver Island Baseball Institute Mariners and the Prairie Baseball Academy (PBA) Dawgs to advance to the final, where they would again meet PBA. The ‘Pack couldn’t pull out a win in the rematch, however, falling 5-1 to the now four-time defending champion Dawgs. Check out www.tru.ca/ athletics for more updates on you favourite Wolf Pack teams.

Recruiting May 2014 Updates Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief

Women’s Volleyball Kara Twomey is back! After two years off, the WolfPack is happy to welcome back the Winnipeg, M.B. setter, who played for the squad from 2010 to 2012. Her experience and talent will be a welcome addition to the team as they try to put their dismal 0-22 season a year ago behind them. “I found myself watching the webcast of the team quite often and that kind of showed me that I hadn’t quite moved past that stage in my life yet,” Twomey told TRU Athletics communications about missing the game. “I definitely needed to take the time off when I did but now that I have had a break I am eager to get back into it. And I think I am more mentally prepared that I was before.” Twomey is rejoining the squad alongside fellow Manitoba product Tyneille Neufeld, a 5’9” outside hitter from Portage La Praire. “I chose TRU because it’s been my dream to come to B.C. to go to school,” Neufeld told Larry Read of TRU Athletics. “Kamloops is a beautiful and amazing location.” She can play some volleyball, too. She won the U-18 Manitoba Beach Volleyball Championship in 2013 with her partner Talia Paetsch and went on to finish ninth at the national championships.

Men’s Volleyball Sa-Hali Secondary school, right here in Kamloops, has produced the first local product to wear a TRU men’s volleyball uniform in almost five years. Matt Lofgren, a 6’2” left side,

comes to the ‘Pack after spending the past three years with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technolgy Trojans and the Lethbridge College Kodiacs of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, but is looking forward to coming back to Kamloops to play and attend school in his hometown. “I have grown up idolizing the players that have come through the program and now I have the opportunity to be a part of it. I felt this was something I couldn’t pass up,” he told Athletics. He also has some experience with both players and coaches already in place with the ‘Pack. During the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games, held here in Kamloops, Lofgren played alongside current WolfPack players Brad Gunter, Nick Balazas and Graham Stoliker, and was coached by TRU head coach Pat Hennelly at various points in his youth, in both volleyball clinics and with club teams here in Kamloops during high school. Check out the list of recruits the WolfPack men’s basketball team have signed this offseason at tru.ca/ athletics, because there are a ton of them.

Women’s Soccer South Sa-Hali Secondary graduate Sarah Seebach is coming home to Kamloops after two years of CIS experience as a member of the Carleton University Ravens in Ottawa. With the departure of PACWEST all-star Laura Smilie, who elected not

to return to the team for her fifth year of eligibility, and the transfer of Megan Baird to the University of the Fraser Valley, it’s likely Seebach will slide straight into the lineup and take on a leadership role almost immediately. Seebach will be joining the first CIS WolfPack squad along with outside defender Christine Fergin from Waterloo, Ont. Coming out of the Ontario Youth

Soccer league, which contains the top 12 teams in the province, and is also expected to immediately contribute, especially on defence. Keep up to date with all the WolfPack teams’ recruiting efforts by checking back at tru.ca/athletics frequently. We’ll update you here in The Omega, as well.

Hockey WolfPack hockey have signed their third ex-WHL player of the last five years in forward Ryan Hanes, who spent time with both the Kamloops Blazers and Prince George Cougars of the WHL. “It’s not every day that one signs a player with a resume like Ryan’s,” head coach Don Schulz said to Larry Read. “He is a proven player at the Major Junior level and was better than a point per game in his short stint as a Jr. A player.” The ‘Pack is hoping he can regain that scoring spark and help them finish better than their fourth place finish of last year.

Kara Twomey makes her return to WolfPack volleyball after two years off, bringing much needed experience to the team, as they try to improve on a dismal 0-22 season. (Photo courtesy TRU Athletics)

Life & Community

May 2014

Drink and Draw Another successful engaging artistic endeavour by the KAG Mike Davies Ω Co-Editor-in-Chief

Above: Jessie Kobylanki starts in on one corner of a fresh sheet at the Drink and Draw night on June 2. Left: Despite the name of the event, it’s not just about drinks or drawing. The Noble Pig is known for having one of the best food menus in the city, so Drink and Draw participants take advantage of that, as well. Right: Carl Willms works away on a section of one of the two tables all papered up on June 2. The collaborative efforts produced on these nights will be on display at the Kamloops Art Galler y later this summer. Right Below: India Ink, pencil crayons and markers are all supplied at the event, so participants just need to bring their talents and a desire to socialize with like-minded artsy types. (All photos by Mike Davies/ The Omega)

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She was covering some of the tables of the Noble Pig—the brewpub downtown on Victoria Street—with big pieces of paper and securing them with tape. 2013 TRU fine arts grad and current education and public programs coordinator for the Kamloops Art Gallery, Emily Hope, was getting things ready for the Monday night “Drink and Draw” event, running through April and May. It’s more for the social aspect than the art aspect, she said, but those who attend will, in fact, be

producing art for public showing. Their collaborative efforts will be on display in the BMO Gallery at the KAG from June 28 to Aug. 16, according to Hope, though no one attends to get their work before an audience. It’s all about having some fun, she said, and being around others who are looking for some artistic interaction, having some good food and drink, and letting the creative juices f low. Check out www.kag.bc.ca for more upcoming events if you’re feeling artsy, as Hope and the rest of the team have a ton of events going on all summer long, or you can contact her directly at emily.hope@kag.bc.ca.