Kelowna Capital News, May 29, 2012

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KELOWNA rower Scott Frandsen (right) and his rowing partner Dave Calder won a silver at the World Rowing Cup in Switzerland last weekend.

COLUMNIST Robert Smithson says the federal government is wading into politically tricky waters by seeking to change the qualification rules for employment insurance.

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As a mother to three energetic boys, Kelowna resident Julie Evaskevish got to know many of her son’s friends raising her family years ago in Red Deer. One of those neighbourhood friends was a bright young girl named Tina. But Tina’s health took a turn for the worse some 17 years ago. “I remember seeing her go from a normal, happy teen to being very pale and drawn,” said Evaskevish, now the owner of Kelowna’s North End Cafe. Her sons have long since grown up and moved out on their own.

“She seemed so tired all the time and she hardly smiled.” It turned out the young girl’s kidneys had failed and for nearly two decades that girl, now 27-year-old Tina Lumbis, has been on kidney dialysis, her life a regular routine of hospital visits to keep her alive. Meantime, Evaskevich moved away from Red Deer, coming to Kelowna four years ago, purchasing the North End

Cafe and getting engaged to be married. But she never forgot about Tina and the young I JUST THINK IT’S girl who had struggled for AN AMAZING so many years. AND WONDERFUL So, with her sons living their own lives, Evaskevich THING SHE IS decided to do something DOING AND I about it. She contacted the WILL BE FOREVER Living Donor program to GRATEFUL. inquire about the possibility of becoming a kidney Tina Lumbis, donor. kidney transplant Ironically, she had exrecipient perience with the process as her sister received a kidney

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transplant from her brother and is now living a normal life. She went through a barrage of tests and found out she was a perfect match to donate a kidney to Tina. The kidney transplant is now scheduled to take place in Calgary this September. “With my boys gone I didn’t have anything stopping me,” Evaskevich explained, sitting in her funky, north-end diner. “It’s simple for me. I have an extra kidney and she needs one. It’s been a huge struggle for her and to watch someone struggle and to know you can do

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Kelowna’s top cop says his detachment is heading into the summer in better shape than it has in several years. RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon told Kelowna city council Monday that he expects to have all the new officers approved by council in its recent municipal budget in place by July 1. “It’s the best shape we’ve been in for some time,” said McKinnon. He said all 11 new officers, plus the replacements for four officers who are leaving the detachment, will be here for the summer. That will mean additions to the detachment’s target team, which goes after specific crimes such as marijuana growing operations, as well as the property crime unit, the homicide investigation team and an additional officer to help with internal investigations. McKinnon said with the number of complaints against RCMP of-


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