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3 NEW EXHIBIT AT HOPE ARTS GALLERY Backroom show focuses on pottery and paintings
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Summer soccer TIKWALUS TRAIL RICH IN HISTORY First Nations people developed the route millennia ago
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Ionela Garrett, 16, follows through with a kick during a penalty shot drill last Wednesday at the British Soccer Camp in Hope. Presented by the Hope & District Recreation Centre and Challenger Sports, the week-long summer camp included individual foot skills training, technical and tactical exercises, small-sided games, coached scrimmages, and a daily World Cup tournament.
O’Mahony given NDP critic role Party leader Adrian Dix makes some assignment changes Robert Freeman Black Press
Chilliwack-Hope MLA Gwen O’Mahony has been named the NDP’s skills training critic, an issue that she campaigned on during the April byelection. NDP Leader Adrian Dix announced O’Mahony’s appointment Wednesday along with MLA Joe Trasolini who won the byelection for the NDP in Port MoodyCoquitlam. Most NDP MLAs will see no
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change in their roles, Dix said, but he wanted to make changes that will give O’Mahony and Trasolini “roles in making the case for change” in the next provincial election. He said O’Mahony “campaigned on skills training in the Chilliwack-Hope byelection, and this issue will be a key element in our approach to the economy.” He said Trasolini, given his business background, will have “a key role ... in our dialogue with the
business community on growing investment in the province.” The other announced changes are: Shane Simpson becomes labour critic; Raj Chouhan takes on multiculturalism, immigration and human rights; Doug Donaldson becomes mining critic; Maurine Karagianis takes on the Liquor Distribution Branch; Spencer Chandra Herbert adds the BC Lottery Corporation to his duties as tourism critic; Mable Elmore
takes on the ICBC and deputy critic for finance; Doug Routley adds deputy health critic to his duties as critic for citizens’ services; and Sue Hammell becomes critic for women’s issues, child care and early leaning. Dix said the party is taking a “positive” approach to politics aimed at “re-engaging” the 1.7 million eligible voters who did not vote in the last election. B.C. voters go to the polls next on May 14, 2013.
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