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Cavers Two groups on board says he’s with PAC proposal not going anywhere PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

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Two arts groups have come out in favour of the city’s proposed performing arts centre.

Western Canada Theatre’s board announced Wednesday it is endorsing the construction of the $90-million arts centre and underground parkade, which would be built at the former Kamloops Daily News site on Seymour Street and Fourth Avenue.

The public will be asked to vote on borrowing up to $49-million for the project at a referendum on Nov. 7. Other money for the project would come from property taxes, downtown parking revenue and gaming and gas tax funds.

“We are excited to have joined the discussion on this wonderful opportunity for Kamloops,” said board president Tim Rodgers in a release.

“Following on the recent public input sessions, we are engaging with our fellow arts and culture organizations to fine tune the proposed functions and operations of the

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Western Canada Theatre and the Kamloops Arts Council have pledged their support for the proposed performing arts centre at the former Kamloops Daily News site.

[performing arts centre].”

WCT’s artistic director Daryl Cloran told KTW in an earlier interview staff is excited about the centre, which features a 1,200-seat main stage and 350-seat black box theatre, but not sure how the theatre company’s productions will fit into the facility, as the larger stage is considered beyond its needs.

Also coming out in favour of the arts centre is the city’s arts commission, a citizen group which advises council and awards grant money for artistic endeavours.

“We think the city will benefit from it, especially

the downtown area. It has the potential to revitalize the whole downtown area,” said commission chair Ray Chatelin.

Chatelin said the group voted on the issue at its most recent meeting, but beyond that show of support isn’t planning to campaign for a yes vote. Instead, it will be up to individual members to decide how they participate in the campaign leading up to the referendum.

“We have to be pretty careful about getting involved,” Chatelin said. “We don’t want to get into any conflicts of interest.”

Gottfriedson ready to run CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com

With less than a week to go before a regional election, TIB chief Shane Gottfriedson has visited more than 150 First Nations communities in B.C. “It’s all corners of the province,” he said Thursday. “I’m in Fort St. John right now.”

Gottfriedson announced this spring he would run for the position of regional chief for B.C. with the Assembly of First Nations. Other candi-

dates are former Adams Lake Indian Band chief Nelson Leon, Bob Chamberlin, vicepresident of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and former Snuneymux chief Doug White, from the Nanaimo area.

“My platform really is about creating a better way of life for aboriginal people,” he said.

Gottfriedson said he is hearing from First Nations people, whether in developed areas or remote, treaty or nontreaty, who want independence and control of their own

resources.

“What we’ve had for too many years, poverty, is unacceptable.”

Each of the province’s 205 First Nations will send a representative with a proxy vote to Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre on June 25. The winner will succeed current regional AFN chief Judy WilsonRaybould.

Gottfriedson said he will not seek re-election at the Tk’emlups Indian Band this fall.

A Kamloops city councillor said he isn’t sure why a robo-poll which went out to some homes Wednesday night listed him as a potential candidate in the upcoming federal election.

The poll asked who recipients planned to vote for in the election: incumbent Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo MP Cathy McLeod, the NDP’s Bill Sundhu, Liberal Steve Powrie, or Coun. Donovan Cavers for the Green Party.

A reader who phoned KTW about the poll said it went out to houses on both the North and South shores, and was being made by a Saskatchewan polling firm — though he couldn’t remember its exact name.

Cavers, who ran for the Greens federally in 2008 before securing a seat at City Hall in 2011, denied any latent federal aspirations.

“I’m not running in the next federal election so that’s a bit strange,” he said.

It’s not the first time Cavers’ name has been linked to an election to a higher level of government. During the last provincial election in 2013, he was urged by local Greens to put his name on the ballot. Cavers also mulled taking a leave of absence to run as an independent to ensure the Ajax copper and gold mine was made an issue.

Ultimately, he chose to sit out the campaign.

“I wanted to focus on city council,” said Cavers.

Grant Fraser, financial officer for the Kamloops Greens, was also perplexed by the poll.

“I have no idea where that would’ve come from,” he said.

The party is vetting a non-Cavers candidate for Kamloops, Fraser said, with an announcement likely to come next week.

Cavers said he is planning to help out the party in the upcoming race, but in ways that won’t lead to him packing his backs for Ottawa.

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Council Calendar June 23 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Hearing

Save the Date:

Seniors’ Picnic ~ July 17

June 24 5 pm - Social Planning Council DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street July 14 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Hearing July 27 10 am - Coordinated Enforcement Task Force Corporate Boardroom, City Hall July 27 11:15 am- Police Committee Corporate Boardroom, City Hall July 28 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Hearing

This free event is a great opportunity to get out, enjoy the sun, and make new friends this summer!

Be sure to dress for the weather, and bring a reusable water bottle, hat and sunscreen.

Activities include bocce, croquet, Zumba, OsteoFit, arts and crafts, and a photobooth.

Free lunch will be provided by the Lions Paddlewheelers group and music by the Kamloops Rube Band.

To volunteer call Kirsten Herman at 250-828-0600.

Friday, July 17 10 am - 1 pm Riverside Park

July 30 3 pm - KAMPLAN Advisory Council DES Boardroom Regular City Council meetings are broadcast on Shaw Cable as follows: Thurs and Sat at 11 am and Sun at 7 pm.

Council meetings can also be viewed online at: kamloops.ca/webcast.

Register by calling: 250-825-3500 Program #: 239439

Meeting schedule is available at kamloops.ca/council.

Weekly Traffic Update Overlanders Bridge The Fortune Drive overpass and Tranquille Rd exit ramp is now re-opened to traffic.

A reminder that the Tranquille Rd entry ramp on to the bridge remains closed to all traffic, with the exception of emergency vehicles, and transit and school buses.

Motorists are also reminded of the 30 km/h posted speed through the construction zone. Please slow down, and obey all traffic control signs and personnel.

The web cam on Fortune Dr at Leigh Rd is now operational.

Additional zipper merge signage has now been installed on Fortune Dr north of Leigh Rd, and on Leigh Rd at Fortune Dr. Columbia Street Pedestrians are reminded that the south sidewalk on Columbia St between 3rd and 6th Ave is currently closed to all pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians are advised to use the north sidewalk and to use the crosswalk at 4th Ave to access the south side businesses, or the crosswalk at 3rd Ave to access the hospital.

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Come out and watch over 300 of the best riders in BC compete, or participate in the race yourself! Riders are required to hold a BMX Canada license (may be purchased race day). Race fee is $15 and is open to all ages.

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We’ve partnered with the TNRD Libraries to offer online training how to claim your homeowner grant and pay your taxes online.

North Kamloops Library: June 24 and 26 from 10:30 - 11:30 am, or June 25 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm Phone 250-554-1124 to register.

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If so, please join us for an exciting opportunity to discuss land and business planning for new farmers: June 24 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Interior Savings Centre For details on the workshop and to register, please visit www.kamloops.ca/letstalk or call Community Futures Thompson Country at 250-828-8772.

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as fitting, given the CNR gave David Blyth Hanna, was the birth to CN. third vice-president of the CNR The Last Spike Centenary and later, the first president of www.kamloopsthisweek.com event starts at the old Lorne the CN Railways; Harry Home’s Street station — itself steeped father, John Cameron Home, in history having been built in was a CNR locomotive engineer 1927— at 1 p.m. today, where and former Kamloops resident; there will be an opening preGrant Bailey’s grandfather, W.E. sentation before a group of pas- Bailey, was also a locomotive sengers board a train and head engineer and Karen Smith’s north to a stop near Kamloops great-grandfather, William Junction.

Lauder Sr., was a water-tank That site, said Les Kozma, pump man for the CNR in vice-president of the Canadian Alberta.

Northern Society, is located The last spike was in place on the original CNR main line, on Jan. 23, 1915 at Basque, near which is still being used by the Ashcroft. Kozma said Kamloops railway’s successor, Canadian was chosen for the event National. because it is the largest comIt will then head on to the munity near the original site — Okananan substation, where and because of the link to the

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After that, there will be one trip on Fridays, two on Saturdays and one on Mondays through the summer, following the same route of past years up to the Halston bridge.

The train’s office at 510 Lorne St. will again be staffed with the hiring of a new manager and Wideman said it will be open through the week.

Scheduling is still being worked out.

“We’re calling in all the volunteers who used to be there,” he said of the gear-up and chugging out plan.

“I expect it will be a bit chaotic the first couple of weeks but I can’t wait to get it back on the track.”

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Volunteers have been hard at work getting the Spirit of Kamloops 2141 steam engine locomotive back on the tracks, but it won’t be ready in time for today’s Last Spike Centenary.

Instead, it’s hoped the train will be riding the rails by July 1.

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2141 not on track for Last Spike celebration DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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espite hours and hours of volunteer labour, plans to bring the old 2141 out this week have fallen through.

Instead, the centennial of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNR) will be marked in Kamloops by diesel power, with some help from the Canadian National Railway, which is sending its own 2141 engine.

In many ways, that’s almost as fitting, given the CNR gave birth to CN. The Last Spike Centenary event starts at the old Lorne Street station — itself steeped in history having been built in 1927— at 1 p.m. today, where there will be an opening presentation before a group of passengers board a train and head north to a stop near Kamloops Junction.

That site, said Les Kozma, vice-president of the Canadian Northern Society, is located on the original CNR main line, which is still being used by the railway’s successor, Canadian National.

It will then head on to the Okananan substation, where

the passengers will disembark for a last-spike re-enactment, opportunities for photos and an introduction of the dignitaries and guests.

The plan is to return to Kamloops Station by 3:50 p.m. There are still tickets for the ride available at Kelly’s Kaboose, 634 Victoria St. The group will include some people with long links to Canadian Northern. Wendy Nelson will be representing her great-great uncle, Sir William Mackenzie, a co-founder and president of the CNR; William Griffith’s great-grandfather, David Blyth Hanna, was the third vice-president of the CNR and later, the first president of the CN Railways; Harry Home’s father, John Cameron Home, was a CNR locomotive engineer and former Kamloops resident; Grant Bailey’s grandfather, W.E. Bailey, was also a locomotive engineer and Karen Smith’s great-grandfather, William Lauder Sr., was a water-tank pump man for the CNR in Alberta.

The last spike was in place on Jan. 23, 1915 at Basque, near Ashcroft. Kozma said Kamloops was chosen for the event because it is the largest community near the original site — and because of the link to the

past the 2141 provides.

Glenn Wideman, past-president of the Kamloops Heritage Railway Society, said volunteers are still in the nearby shop finishing some last-minute work before applying to the federal government for certification needed to ride the rails again.

The train has been parked and under repair since 2013, missing out on a couple of summers of revenue-generating trips. With the work almost complete, the plan is to bring the train back for the public to ride on July 1 with the 2141’s traditional fireworks trip.

After that, there will be one trip on Fridays, two on Saturdays and one on Mondays through the summer, following the same route of past years up to the Halston bridge.

The train’s office at 510 Lorne St. will again be staffed with the hiring of a new manager and Wideman said it will be open through the week.

Scheduling is still being worked out.

“We’re calling in all the volunteers who used to be there,” he said of the gear-up and chugging out plan.

“I expect it will be a bit chaotic the first couple of weeks but I can’t wait to get it back on the track.”

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FERGUSON, Nikita Rejean (B: 1986-06-14) Age 29 Non-White female 5’05” tall 119 lbs Brown Hair Hazel Eyes

WANTED FOR: FTC x 2, Break and Enter

NOBLE, Eric Andy Conrad (B: 1980-12-05) Age 34 Caucasian male 5’03” tall 130 lbs Brown Hair Brown Eyes WANTED FOR: FTC

WILSON, Morris Nicholas (B: 1990-09-01) Age 24 Non-White male 6’00” tall 190 lbs Black Hair Brown Eyes WANTED FOR: FTC x 3

If you know where any of these people are, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). The tip line pays up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of fugitives. Remember, Crime Stoppers just wants your information, not your name. Crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does.

This program is jointly sponsored by Kamloops Crime Stoppers & Kamloops This Week.

People featured are wanted on arrest warrants not vacated as of 3 p.m. on June 17, 2015.

DO YOU KNOW THESE SUSPECTS In the evening of Wednesday June 3rd, a male and female entered the Real Canadian Super Store on Columbia St. The couple went to the mobile phone store and was talking with one of the employees, they wanted to purchase a new phone. The transaction was about to be completed when one of the employee realized the identification was stolen. The alert employee contacted the police while trying to delay the

couple from leaving the store.

The suspects new something was taking too long and left the store without the identification. The police attended but the suspects had fled, the identification had been stolen and has now been returned to the rightful owner.

Both male and female are Caucasian in their early 20’s, the male was wearing a dark coloured hoodie with a ball cap on backwards , the female was

wearing a black and white checker sweater.

If you know these two people, please contact Crime Stoppers, only your information will be used never your name.

THEFT FROM VEHICLES CONTINUE Thieves will take almost anything to make money, there has been a number of thefts from vehicles in the downtown area.

Thefts occurred on Columbia St, Douglas St. and Dominion St., the first two thefts the suspects only took loose change and a pair of sunglasses, the last vehicle was entered but nothing was taken.

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BUSINESS BROKEN INTO On Wednesday June 10th at approximately 3:30 am a break and enter took place at the RTR Performance store on the East Trans Canada Highway in Valleyview. The suspects were very quick and seemed to well organized as they were not on the premises very long. 5 KTM orange and white racing motorcycles were stolen, all the vehicle identifications numbers have been recorded by the police and will remain on the police computer system until the bikes are recovered.

There is some forensic evidence left at the scene but there was a photo of the two suspect vehicle that were involved. The first vehicle was a newer black SUV and the other was a white panel van with two windows on the back of the van, both were parked on the side of the compound. Although early in the morning, there is always traffic on the highway and someone may have notice these vehicles or suspects moving the motorcycles If you have any information on the whereabouts of these stolen motor cycles or may recognize these vehicles, please contact Crime Stoppers, you will receive a cash reward upon the arrest of the suspects.

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It is unknown if the suspects that committed these thefts are the same ones that on Fernie Place, broke into a car and took the garage door opener. Once they had the garage door opener, they opened the garage door and entered the residence, the suspect took only a wallet. This is a good reminder never leave the remote

control garage door opener in the vehicle, thieves will see this, take it and use the open garage to gain entry into your home.

If you have any information on who is breaking into these vehicles throughout the City, please contact Crime Stoppers, you will never have to go to court or give a statement.

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TRU student’s lawyer claims drugrunning work was a summer job JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

While the Crown wants to put a Kamloops man behind bars for being an “employee” in a dial-a-dope operation, his lawyer says jail would be a set back.

Sentencing submissions got underway today in Kamloops Provincial Court after Christopher Anderson pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine.

Anderson is one of eight who were charged in connection to a drug ring busted in 2012 as part of an RCMP undercover investigation.

The investigation included 20 different purchases of powdered cocaine from April 18 to Oct. 9, 2012.

Charges were laid in July 2013.

Crown prosecutor John Walker told provincial court judge Len Marchand Anderson was an “employee” in the operation.

Known by the name “Billy,” he answered calls and met buyers at various locations throughout the city — including behind Paramount Theatre and in front of Carlos O’Bryans pub — collecting money in exchange for cocaine.

Anderson, who was a university student at the time, admitted to selling the drug to undercover police officers on six occasions in Kamloops between April 24 and June 19, 2012.

In his final interaction with police on June 19, 2012, Anderson sold an undercover officer half an ounce of cocaine for $1,000 outside Milestones restaurant.

Over the course of the investigation, Anderson sold 22.5 grams of cocaine to undercover police officers, amounting to $1,661, Walker said.

“All of these transactions were under surveillance by other officers,” Walker told the court, which included Anderson’s family.

In his submissions, Walker asked Marchand to consider the social implications of making a “serious” drug easily accessible and Anderson’s conscious choice of making illegal activity a “way of life.”

“It can be seen as an easy way out, tax-free profits,” Walker said, noting Anderson met police in a BMW on at least one occasion — a vehicle he owned.

Anderson was 21 at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty and has no previous criminal record.

Walker recommended Marchand impose a 12- to 15-month jail sentence.

But defence lawyer Jordan Watt said the most significant thing to consider was that by the time the investigation was completed, Anderson was already out of the ring.

Watt said Anderson purchased the BMW before getting involved in drug trafficking and, having removed himself from criminal activity, is at “zero risk” of reoffending and is not a danger to the public.

“We cannot lose sight of that,” he said. “The focus of this is to keep Mr. Anderson on this path.”

But Walker suggested Anderson may have been tipped off about the investigation.

“This was a summer job?” Walker said. “I don’t know.”

Watt recommended a 15-month conditional sentence order.

Tyrell MacDougall, also charged in connection to the investigation, was recently handed a conditional sentence order for his part at the employee level.

Richard Crawford and Steven Lloyd Currie are expected to have been at the top of the operation and await trial.

Police said at the time the cocaine network had ties to the United Nations gang, though that allegation has not since been argued in court.

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‘It’s absolutely overwhelming’

The annual Kamloops Walk for ALS is taking place tomorrow at Riverside Park. For more information or to make a donation, go online to walkforals.ca.

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The first time Pat Tomlinson walked in the Kamloops Walk for ALS it was in support of a family friend. A year later, about 18 months after her friend’s diagnosis, she was back in Riverside Park again — this time to walk in his memory.

“You all start at the start line and there’s all these emotions,” she said. “It’s mixed with sadness and pride and hope. It’s an honour to be there.”

This year, Tomlinson is back as a co-ordinator of the annual walk, which takes place tomorrow.

The ALS Society of B.C. estimates 3,000 Canadians are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and two will die of it every day.

The disease causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to degenerate and die, leading to a loss of muscle control. Those with the disease lose the ability to move, smile, speak and eventually breathe and swallow.

Most people with ALS will die within two to five years of being diagnosed, though about 10 per cent may live for a decade or longer.

While exact statistics on the number of people affected by ALS in Kamloops aren’t available, Tomlinson said since her friend’s diagnosis she’s discovered more and more people with connections to it living in the area.

“It’s that awareness,” she said. “Once you’re aware of ALS, you hear of more and more people who are either living with ALS or have lost the battle.”

The walk, now in its sixth year in Kamloops, helped illustrate those connections as well.

“It’s absolutely overwhelming how many people are there,” Tomlinson said. “It’s an absolutely emotional experience to see all these people gathering.”

Money raised at the walk is split between services for those with the disease, from rides to treatment and special equipment, accounting for 60 per cent of what is raised in B.C., and research.

While there is no cure for ALS, research into treatments and potential cures from the disease has grown in the past decade.

At this year’s walk organizers are also planning a nod to the Ice Bucket Challenge — an online ALS fundraiser that spread across the globe and raised more than $2 million for research in Canada alone.

Rather than ice buckets, Tomlinson said she’s lined up Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo MP Cathy McLeod and city councillor Ken Christian to sit in a dunk tank.

Tickets will be raffled off, with the winners getting a chance to soak the two local politicians.

The walk begins at 10 a.m. at Riverside Park. Registration is at 9 a.m. For more information or to make a donation visit walkforals.ca.

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HOT: The new roundabout at the corner of Twelfth Avenue and Nicola Street. Cyclists are happy with the city initiative and. Given the amount of complaints about the proposed performing-arts centre (PAC), when City Hall does something people like, it should be noted.

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NOT: No hot dog bylaw until 2016. OK, maybe there’s a logical reason to delay. Maybe there’s some wisdom in waiting for the province to change legislation to let bylaws officers break into cars and rescue animals in distress. Maybe it makes sense to the politicians but it’s one more year of the SPCA being inundated with calls because some pet owners still don’t get it.

HOT: The Chalmers family. In the spirit of Evelyn Pochay and so many others, this non-Kamloops family is taking part in the city’s Ride Don’t Hide mental-health awareness ride on Sunday to honour Uncle Jim. They’ve raised a lot of money for the fundraiser as have all the others taking part in the ride through Westsyde.

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The perils of public perception Close a major downtown bridge for a yoga-fest?

After nearly 40 years in the journalism business, one would think I’ve “seen ‘em all,” at least when it comes to political public relations disasters.

Apparently not. That aborted stunt by Premier Christy Clark was definitely a new one in my books – deeply infused with the “Um” factor, rather than “Om.” You could also imagine that, given decades of media attention to this kind of gaffe, politicians would be developing a more finely tuned sense of public optics.

Clearly, however, that evolutionary cycle does not generally apply in elected public service – federal, provincial or municipal.

So, the next thought that might occur, is that astute politicians would hire optic-savvy communications advisors who don’t do well at keister-kissing.

And the really smart politicians then actually listen to them.

I’m not sure what it was in this case, but the negative optics of this urban exercise could have been spotted by a gradeschooler.

Let’s shut down a key artery over a waterway in a major city for seven hours, to recognize International Yoga Day. Invite people out to do the downward donkey on the bridge.

Sponsoring the event are two private corporations that are significant contributors to the provincial Liberal party which currently holds power in Victoria. One of those compa-

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SHOT nies is Lululemon, internationally known maker of yoga gear.

One of its stores is at the end of the Burrard Bridge.

Despite the multi-billiondollar corporate heavies, the cost to taxpayers for this event is estimated at $150,000.

The date of the stretch-fest also happens to be National Aboriginal Day. Any one of the above factors, starting with the closure of the bridge, should have sent even the most amateur of politicians and comms flaks into a wildeyed, flapping fit.

Yet, it took a week before Christy and company finally caved in the face of public outrage and panicking sponsors, and cancelled the gong show.

That was a good one, although I’ve seen some real doozies in my time – many of them in Surrey, which during the 1990s, spawned a bumper crop of stunningly unperceptive representatives across the political spectrum.

Like the councillor accused of a conflict of interest, who

trots out a distinguished citizen to speak in his defence – a former provincial minister who was bounced out of cabinet for . . . a conflict of interest!

Nothing wrong here, folks.

Around that time we also had a mayor who vowed that if the RCMP brought photo radar to the city, he’d have tow trucks haul away the Mounties’ van.

Mmm hmm...

The fellow who preceded him employed similar gunboat diplomacy. When a feisty councillor wouldn’t stop heckling him during a public meeting, the mayor walked out of chambers, and called the police to make her shut up.

Hard to find that kind of leadership...

We also had a female MLA and friends who, for a joke, placed on the desk of a male colleague a prancing toy penis — wait for it — during a sitting of the Legislature.

Ha ... ha?

Along those lines, I’ll never forget the time one of my female reporters came back from lunch with an elderly school trustee, who confided over their salads that he was still virile.

Once more, for the record, sir.

Really, folks, I don’t make this stuff up.

So don’t feel bad, Christy.

Many others in your line of work have face-planted on the perilous path of public perception.

Andrew Holota is the editor of Abbotsford News. newsroom@abbynews.com

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON’T ACCEPT THE COMMERCIAL AGENDA Editor: Thank you Kamloops This Week for featuring the dichotomy of thought about dandelions/pesticide use (‘How about some dandelion soup?,’ June 16).

I celebrate Wendy Weseen for her ode to the dandelion. These radiant suns that grow around our homes are welcomed, their fortitude and resilience is admired at our home. They are flowers, after all. There are no weeds in the world — just life.

The views of Bill and Bev English (‘Can we move on already?’ June 16) are hopefully altered due to Wendy’s virtuous view about a single plant but, if not, Bill and Bev, please don’t accept the agenda commercial profi-

teers have taught you: Something is wrong with you and your standards if dandelions grow in your lawn.

“Oh those nasty weeds, what will the neighbours think of us?”

Commercial profiteers, I call them “CPs,” have produced a solution to solve the very problem they made up, a product that annihilates dandelions and jeering looks all in one easy-to-hold spray bottle.

The consumer is taken in by the desire to be liked and accepted by passersby and neighbours. You have been manipulated to purchase and use the product to gain the desired result: “Now our neighbours will think we’re terrific because we have no dan-

delions.”

The CPs make millions and you are the envy of all — it’s a win-win situation.

So seductive is their manipulation that thinking about life other than yours hasn’t even crossed your mind. And, if it did, it was overpowered by the desire to be liked or “better than” the neighbours.

To hell with the honey bees and all pollinators, who play a key role in the reproduction of all plant life, which feeds all sources of agricultural and oceanic food on the planet. And to hell with the birds that eat millions of insects that are all part of the universe of cause an effect in your yard. And to hell with the unseen creatures in the ground that are affected.

CPs directed you to kill the enemy and you saluted. The CPs made money off your desire to be liked and uphold your image.

If the light has come on, don’t stall and cast around full of guilt, feel badly about your actions, just do things differently.

CPs do not think about what is left for your grandchildren to eat. But you can — it is your right.

Bill and Bev, you’ve been duped by commercialism.

But maybe I’m wrong.

Maybe you are commercial profiteers who make, sell or market pesticides.

Then, I implore you to gain consciousness. Fold that area of your business and replace it with that which is worthwhile.

Whatever has led you

to be part of herd mentality, I have no doubt that at your very core you are both loving, intelligent people. It is my sincerest hope you understand this is a genuine opportunity to think and do differently.

Even if you are a producer, seller or marketer somewhere along the way, you were manipulated to think pesticides are OK and at some level of your being, you know otherwise, so act on it.

I genuinely care and hope you gain perspective about the relationship between you, commercialism, pesticides and dandelions because it’s all connected to the food that grows for us now and for those who come after us.

Mairi Budreau Kamloops

CANADA NEEDS TO INVEST IN NURTURING ITS CITIZENS Editor: As I read about the funeral of Const. Daniel Woodall, I can’t help but take a long, hard look at Canada’s big social picture.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that while we are supposedly balancing the budget, the health of our national community is suffering.

More suspected criminals are being killed by police.

More police are being killed by suspected criminals.

More and more of our citizens are

being incarcerated.

And the rate of suicide in youth and children has climbed.

When the children and youth of a society are killing themselves, that entire society needs help.

This country has to once again start investing in the nurturing of its citizens.

Employment is hugely important but, along with getting everyone to work, we have to make sure young families and children at risk are made safe.

Too many young families are struggling.

Sometimes both parents need to work and cannot afford exorbitant daycare rates Well-staffed, affordable daycares available to all could be a bulwark of family health in this country.

When people have nothing to lose, crime is an easy option.

Let’s fill excellent daycares and empty the jails.

Janet Michael Kamloops

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“Lets here it for the B.C. IHA. Thumbs up!

“Seniors deserve all the help we can give them in order to have a better quality of life. If all it takes is some additional home-care services, as they have indeed contributed a lifetime of taxes, then they’ve certainly earned it.”

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RE: STORY: BANDS DECLARE TITLE ON AJAX PROPERTY:

“Well, well, well. I was hoping our local bands would step in to stop the total devastation of our beautiful valley. Hopefully they are strong enough not to fall prey to the money pig that Ajax will no doubt hang out for them.

“I and many other Stop Ajax Mine supporters are confident in the integrity of our extremely successful leaders from the area bands. Show them whose boss Shane!”

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Chiefs to declare aboriginal title of Ajax mine site CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com

One of two band chiefs who will declare aboriginal title at Jacko Lake in a ceremony Sunday said it would be “irresponsible” to approve another mining project on land with great cultural and environmental significance to Shuswap people.

Tk’emlups and Skeetchestn Indian bands released a statement this week saying Ajax mine development cannot proceed without their approval. They and other Shuswap leaders and community members will hold a declaration of title ceremony at Jacko Lake — Pipsell in the Secwepemc language — Sunday at 9 a.m.

In the strongest statement yet, Tk’emlups Indian Band chief Shane Gottfriedson said the land around the lake is connected to an oral history of the area called the Trout Children and band members continue a fishery tradition at the lake.

There are deep reservations about sustainability and risks, including the amount of water it will use, the threat to Jacko Lake and permanent damage from a tailings pond — a facility that could harm the Adams Lake salmon run in a disaster like that at Mount Polley mine last year.

“It would be irresponsible for us to approve another mine on our territory when we

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Tk’emlups and Skeetchestn Indian bands do not believe the proposed Ajax mine development can take place without their approval.

already have New Gold [New Afton mine],” Gottfriedson said.

“How much can be extracted without having an impact on our ecosystem?”

Ajax spokesman Yves Lacasse could not be reached for comment.

The bands, through Stk’emlupsemc of the Secwepemc Nation (SSN), said last month the province issued a revised strength of claim reassessment for the land providing strong claims for aboriginal rights and title to land around the historic mine owned by KGHM Ajax.

It comes in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court of Canada decision that recognized aboriginal title to 1,700 square kilometres in the Chilcotin. The ruling gave the First Nation exclusive use and

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Since that ruling, for example, those wanting to fish or hike those Chilcotin lands must seek permission from the Tsilhqot’in National Government.

The proposed Ajax mine, however, is exclusively on private lands purchased by the corporation from ranchers and Teck Resources.

Micah Rankin, a law professor at TRU with expertise in constitutional law, called claims on fee simple land “an unsettled area.”

Rulings regarding aboriginal interests and private land at superior courts pre-date the Supreme Court of Canada’s Tsilhqot’in decision.

“We can expect a lot of litigation around it.”

Rankin said implications

of the Tsilhqot’in decision on major resource projects are playing out around the province, most notably in Prince Rupert where the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation has turned down a billiondollar compensation offer from Malaysian corporation Petronas for an LNG plant and pipeline.

Skeetchestn chief Ron Ignace called Jacko Lake “sacred” — comparing it for Secwepemc people to Catholics’ veneration of Lourdes in Spain.

“Jacko Lake is not just a lake, it’s a storied lake,” he said. “There’s an epic story that talks about that lake.”

The bands are in consultations with the province on the mine. But Ignace said SSN is shifting the ground to assert its rights, giving it authority.

The Supreme Court did leave room for the province to act in the greater public interest on traditional lands if it is “pressing and substantial.”

But, Rankin said, it remains to be seen whether economic development fits that test.

That right might be restricted to highways or other public infrastructure, he said.

“It depends on who it’s pressing and substantial for.”

Gottfriedson said Shuswap leaders will now go back to their members to discuss their stance. It will also conduct an independent review of the proposal.

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Accused cop shooter enters not-guilty plea A 36-year-old man accused of shooting a Kamloops Mountie pleaded not guilty yesterday and elected to have his case heard before a judge and jury in B.C. Supreme Court.

Kenneth Knutson is charged with offences that include attempted murder stemming from the Dec. 3 shooting of RCMP Cpl. JeanRene Michaud. He was arraigned Thursday in provincial court.

A date will be set later for a preliminary hearing.

Michaud was shot while conducting a traffic stop on a vehicle in Batchelor Heights.

Knutson was arrested following an exhaustive

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Twenty-nine-yearold Matthew Foerster was convicted of firstdegree murder in April last year and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Taylor Van Diest was found near death along some train tracks in Armstrong, about 25 kilometres north of Vernon, on Halloween night in 2011.

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The Growing Up in B.C. report by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and Dr. Perry Kendall said life for vulnerable children, including those in government care and aboriginal children and youth, remains challenging.

Turpel-Lafond said serious gaps in children’s well-being remain, including that almost 60 per cent of youth in care don’t graduate from high school.

Although she also said the report identifies some positive trends, such as declines in teen pregnancy rates and more aboriginal children graduating from high school.

Both Kendall and Turpel-Lafond said they have concerns about the lack of information around children’s welfare because neither the province nor the federal government keep a reliable data bank of information.

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LNG glut dims outlook for new plants BLACK PRESS

A new report suggests the odds are getting longer for the B.C. government’s dream of opening several liquefied natural gas export plants.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned a flood of new LNG supply is coming onto the market and new plants will struggle to get off the ground.

“Several projects have already been scrapped or postponed and the number of casualties will rise if prices do not recover,” said the IEA’s medium-term gas market report.

The IEA cut its LNG growth forecast from 2.3 to 2.0 per cent a year.

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“Today, LNG prices simply do not cover the capital costs of new plants.”

Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman said he’s aware of the short-term challenges outlined in the report.

The province last month signed a long-term agreement with LNG proponent Pacific Northwest LNG assuring the $36-billion Petronas-led project of royalty and tax stability in B.C. “Clearly some of the largest companies in the world see the value in building a LNG industry in B.C.,” Coleman said in a statement emailed by his office.

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Laura Robinson testified under crossexamination she presented a paper at a 2013 sports conference in Denmark that included allegations

Robinson told the trial she knew of the man’s compensation claim, but added it wasn’t unusual for First Nations students to be ferried between schools even during the same year.

The Ontario-based journalist is suing Furlong for defamation over public comments he made after her story was published in the Georgia Straight newspaper that alleged he physically and mentally abused students at the northern B.C. school.

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Champness a multi-sport phenom MARTY HASTINGS

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athan Champness is up with the larks again, his bright-orange jacket on, ready for another morning of training.

There are days when it’s tough to drag himself out of bed at 5:30 a.m., but it has to be done.

Two or three hours every day. It’s the only way.

The 31-year-old Kamloops triathlete is heading toward his goal — one stroke, one revolution, one stride at a time.

“I really want to see what happens when I fully commit to something and take myself to the limits of what I’m capable of, which I don’t believe I’m anywhere near,” said Champness, who broke the nine-hour mark at the 2014 Challenge Penticton, finishing the 3.8-kilometre swim, 180-km bike and 42.2km run in 8:59:31, good enough for a sixthplace finish.

“When you commit to finding out what you’re ultimately capable of, the day-to-day journey becomes so much more enriching,” he said.

“Waking up and doing the training is so much more manageable when you know it’s contributing to this awesome goal you’ve set for yourself.”

Champness turned professional in 2015 and is giving himself three years to see if he has what it takes to become a full-time triathlete, earning money through sponsorship and prize purses at events across North America.

“It’s a very selfish endeavour and you do take away from other aspects of your life by doing it,” said Champness, who in September moved to Kamloops from Vernon, with his girlfriend having nabbed a teacher-on-call position with School District 73.

“I would never quit my jobs before I knew I could find a toe-hold in triathlon.”

He works at both GNC Live Well in Aberdeen Mall and Runners Sole in Aberdeen Village.

In 2014, Champness took B.C. by storm, winning amateur titles at the provincial duathlon championship and provincial short-

Multi-sport athlete Nathan Champness is setting big goals for the future.

course and long-course triathlon events, to go along with victory at the national longcourse championship.

Results like those are what give Champness reason to believe he can come “dangerously near” finishing an Ironman race in under eight hours.

German triathlete Andreas Raelert set the unofficial IronMan record in 2011 with a time of 7:41:33 at an unsanctioned event in Roth, Germany.

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7:45:58, set in 2011 by Marino Vanhoenacker in his home country of Austria.

Champness claimed victory on June 7 at the Oliver Half-Iron, marking his third multisport event win of the year, having finished first at both the Bare Bones Duathlon in Penticton in May and the UBC Triathlon in March.

He completed the Oliver race — 2-km swim, 93-km bike and 21.1-km run — in 4:28:50, the Penticton event — five-km run, 34-km bike and five-km run — in 1:27:09 and

the UBC Triathlon — 1,500-m swim, 40-km bike and 10-km run — in 1:56:54.

Champness’ introduction to multi-sport events came at a military parachuting course.

“There was a guy who talked me into doing a marathon and I kind of got in with the endurance-athlete crowd in Vernon,” he said.

“Once you do your first marathon, you sign up for your first spring triathlon, then you get talked up to Ironman. It’s a vicious cycle.”

He ran his first marathon in 2002. He took an hour off his time in 2003. He completed his first Ironman in 2004.

“I did it as a tourist that year,” taking a jab at his plus-13-hour time in 2004 — a mark which many would kill to meet.

Champness this year earned his elite card through Triathlon B.C., status that earns him entry into the professional divisions at many marquee triathlon events across Canada.

He is already training about 30 hours per week and working two jobs.

If Champness plans to make a living in triathlon, he will likely have to stop working at GNC Livewell and Runners Sole, both of which have signed on as sponsors, along with KGHM Ajax and Spoke Bike and Ski. “To compete with the top Canadian and U.S. guys, it would be very, very hard to match them working more than, say, 20 hours a week at a job other than triathlon, even less when you have family commitments,” he said.

Vernon businesses sponsoring Champness include the Starting Block, Sun Country Cycle, Move Massage Therapy, Endurance Health and Fitness, RB Piping Inc, Re-Cycled Accessories and Vernon Save-OnFoods In a perfect world, Champness will prove over the next three years he can compete with the best in North America and claim triathlon as a full-time profession, racing regularly in money divisions across the continent and making the occasional trip to Europe.

“If I can get through the next three years, you’ve got guys winning high-profile races at age 40,” Champness said.

“If someone asks you, ‘What is your daily occupation that pays your way?’ and you can say professional triathlete, that is pretty neat.”

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Coach’s son introduces signalling system to Leos MARTY HASTINGS

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Quinn Tedford (right) designed the B.C. Lions’ new offensive signalling system, which underwent testing in training camp in Kamloops.

It’s no secret the B.C. Lions want to play fast on offence this season, and it appears personnel caught up to a new signalling system before training camp wrapped up in Kamloops on Wednesday.

Just don’t ask Quinn Tedford, who designed the Leos’ new method of relaying plays to the offence from the sidelines, to expand on how the system works.

“The majority of signals are going to receivers but, other than that, everyone has to know them, just to know what the tempo is and what we’re running,” said Tedford, the son of Lions’ head coach Jeff Tedford. “I think they’ve adjusted very well.

“As far as the process, I don’t know if I can tell you that much and, as for who we signal the play to, I can’t really get into that.”

The 27-year-old Tedford, a reserve wide receiver under his dad at the University of California from 2008 to 2011, is B.C.’s qualitycontrol coach.

Teams that want to play a hurry-

up offence often deviate from the method of having the head coach or offensive co-ordinator pipe in plays to the quarterback through a speaker in his helmet.

“There’s not one thing in this up-tempo offence that we can’t signal in,” said Tedford, who caught one pass for five yards during his four-year tenure with the Golden Bears. “We can always go fast, with any personnel.

Tedford, who graduated from Cal and took an offensive qualitycontrol position with the UC-Davis Aggies in 2013, has been working closely with B.C. receivers coach Khari Jones.

“I know everything about the signalling system, but I can’t tell you,” Jones said with a laugh. “It takes a lot of work, but that’s deep knowledge and we can’t talk about that.

“Other teams pay a lot of money to get signals. I think that’s happening in baseball now.”

Jones, who in January lost his offensive-co-ordinator position to George Cortez, was referring to the St. Louis Cardinals’ alleged hacking of the Houston Astros’ computer systems.

Tedford refused to comment on how signals are protected and he did not reveal the specifics on how the Leos relay their play-calls to offensive personnel.

“I would say it’s very secretive,” said Tedford, who graduated from Cal with a degree in sociology.

“Personnel is probably the easiest to pick up on because you see who comes in and who goes out with the signal being signalled in.

“Every team wants to try and get what they can get. They can try and pick ours up, but it’s like a maze. It’s pretty difficult.”

The head coach’s son could be seen waving his hands and signalling wildly during the Lions’ final training-camp session at Hillside Stadium on Wednesday, wearing a yellow bib to stand out on the sideline.

Tedford is confident the players are right there with him, ready to execute the dizzying offence promised to fans by his father.

“When things are going, it’s a really quick tempo, so it’s [the signalling system] a good thing to have for the offence and, if you execute it, it’s a lethal offence,” Tedford said.

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Is Trevor Gretzky The Next One? In fact, Trevor described his father as a “huge baseball nut’’ who nudged his son toward his adopted country’s national pastime from an early age.

Gretzky was born in Los Angeles just weeks before a season that ended with his father’s last trip to the Stanley Cup finals with the Kings.

Trevor gave hockey a go in elementary school. But driving back and forth in the early morning for ice time proved tedious, so he followed his friends into football and baseball.

With his father carting him back and forth to the batting cages on a near-daily basis, Trevor blossomed into a star at Oaks Christian in Westlake Village, California and was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the seventh round of the 2011 amateur draft with the 219th pick.

“My dad let me do what I wanted to do. He never forced me to do anything,’’ Gretzky said.

But, while his father took the NHL by storm as a wunderkind, winning the first of nine MVPs at just 19, Trevor has yet to emerge as an elite prospect.

Trevor signed a minor league contract for a $375,000 bonus, hit .274 in rookie ball in

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Liam Moss (left) of Kamloops has moved to the top of the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation rankings.

Moss on top of heap Liam Moss of Kamloops has become the No. 1-ranked jiujitsu blue-belt light featherweight by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation.

Within a one-month period, Moss won the two most prestigious tournaments in the world — IBJJF World Championships in California in May and the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu Jitsu Championships in April.

Moss, in Grade 10 at South Kamloops secondary, will conduct a children’s competition seminar in Richmond at Apex Martial Arts for the Solid Ground Foundation, a benevolent organization that will direct fundraising proceeds to benefit victims of the earthquakes in Nepal.

Stealth Rattlers

Jackson Steed and Jax Anderson, secondyear members of the peewee A1 Kamloops Rattlers, will be playing lacrosse for the Junior Stealth team this summer.

The Junior Stealth are the northwest’s premier invitational box lacrosse travel teams, selected by the Stealth Lacrosse Academy.

The season begins in late June at the biggest box lacrosse tournament in the world, the Calgary Canada Day tournament.

After the Cowtown tournament, Steed and Anderson will head to California beaches for the USBOXLA Nationals.

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This is the first year the program has been offered to Canadian Players.

The peewee A1 Rattlers, led by head coach Sean Campbell, travel to Maple Ridge for provincials in July.

Vikes honoured

The Valleyview Vikings recently announced the winners of their 2014-2015 athletic awards.

Tanner Farber and Keenan Degen earned Murray Baron Awards for being named male and female athletes of the year, respectively.

Laura Shouldice earned the Brad Yamaoka Award for being the top junior athlete and Nikki Manwaring was given the Dairy Queen Athletic Citizenship Award.

Ben Niles won the Outstanding Service Award and Glenda Maclean won the Parent-Volunteer Award.

Earning Aaron Buckham Awards, for being the academic athletes of the year, were Colton Mochizuki and Hannah Bergman.

Farber, Degen, Tyler Wightman, Bryce Turner and Keeley Steacy were given Valhalla Vikes Excellence Awards.

Provincial awards

Kamloops curlers won big at the annual Curl B.C. awards earlier this month in Burnaby.

Team Brown of Kamloops and Team Tardi of Surrey, Fort St John, Coquitlam and Victoria split the Team of the Year Award.

Brown, which has curled together for nine years, won the B.C. Junior Women Championship title for the second time in 2015.

Under the guidance of their coach, Allison MacInnes, the team of Corryn Brown, Erin Pincott, Samantha Fisher and Sydney Fraser then went on to win bronze at the Canadian Junior Championships and three of them also claimed silver at the CIS Championships.

Team Tardi won bronze at this year’s Canada Winter Games medal in Prince George.

Brenda Nordin of Kamloops won the Elsie MacKenzie Youth/ Junior Curling Award.

Nordin has been coaching juvenile and junior teams for more than a decade.

This season, she provided support and guidance to both of the Canada Winter Games teams from B.C., along with coaching Team Brown to silver at the Canadian University Championships.

CLINTON, Iowa _— Trevor Gretzky is known more for his iconic last name than his baseball career.

But Trevor isn’t looking to escape his famous father’s shadow.

He hopes “The Great One’’ can help him become “The Next One.’’ The 22-year-old son of retired NHL star Wayne Gretzky toils in relative anonymity as a left fielder for the Class A Burlington Bees in the Los Angeles Angels farm system.

Beyond those famous seven letters atop the back of his jersey, Gretzky is just another kid hoping to beat the odds and reach the majors.

To do so, Trevor leans heavily on the advice of Wayne, whose passion for baseball has helped fuel his son’s career.

“You’d be surprised.

He knows a lot about baseball. Pretty much everything I know about the game is because of him,’’ Trevor Gretzky said of his father, whose 894 goals are just one of a slew of NHL records he holds.

That Trevor chose baseball over hockey isn’t a shock to the Gretzky family.

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Canada chasing elusive victory HAWKS NEIL DAVIDSON

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Canada has clawed its way into the knockout rounds at the Women’s World Cup. Now to advance, it must do what it has failed to do in five previous tournaments — beat a team from Europe.

Going into Sunday’s round-of-16 match with No. 19 Switzerland at B.C. Place Stadium, Canada’s World Cup record against European opposition is 0-9-1.

Should it get past the debutante Swiss, a matchup with either No. 6 England or No. 11 Norway looms in the quarter-finals Coach John Herdman’s record at the Canadian helm against European teams in all competitions is 18-95, including wins over Britain and France in the quarter-final and bronze-medal match at

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the 2012 Olympics.

“The bottom line is we know the Europeans are very well-organized,’’ Herdman told a media conference call yesterday.

“They have a very disciplined approach to their style and they’re outstanding on the counter-attack.

That’s what they play every weekend in the European leagues.

“So, we have to find a way, Canada, because we don’t have another chance. We don’t get another chance at this game. And our style and our approach will have to be better to overcome what the Swiss are going

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to throw at us.’’

Sophie Schmidt is expected to play Sunday, albeit in pain. The influential midfielder from Abbotsford came off in the 81st minute of Canada’s 1-1 tie with the Netherlands on Monday after falling awkwardly challenging for a ball.

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“She’ll not miss the opportunity of playing at B.C. Place in her home town in this crucial match for Canada, no matter how much pain she’s in,’’ Herdman said.

Pain aside, Herdman is expecting big things from Schmidt, who can be both goal-scorer and provider.

“The tournament is really just starting to begin now,’’ he said.

“These are the big games where big players step up and that’s what we’re hoping for for Sophie Schmidt. This is where you get a chance to sort of write your name in football history when you play in these big matches.’’

Captain Christine Sinclair is no stranger to stepping up, saving the day for Canada in the

tournament opener with a late penalty against China.

Canada will be looking to her to add to her total of 154 goals, to help spark a Canadian offence that misfired more often than not in the first round.

Eighth-ranked Canada had targeted a round-of-16 return for veteran midfielder Diana Matheson, who is coming off knee surgery and a broken foot.

Herdman said Matheson suffered a minor setback prior to the Dutch game with a mild quad strain but could be available for selection if she trains well.

Herdman calls the Swiss a well-organized team whose players ply their trade at the highest level of women’s football, in Germany and Sweden.

But the big threats are forwards Ramona Bachmann and Lara Dickenmann.

“It really is Bachmann and Dickenmann that set that team alight and they’re in very good form from what we can see in this tournament,’’ said Herdman.

Bachmann and midfielder Fabienne Humm both had hat tricks in a 10-1 win over Ecuador.

Switzerland, third in Group C, lost 1-0 to Japan and 2-1 to Cameroon.

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CHICAGO — Thousands of fans turned out Thursday to cheer the Chicago Blackhawks as they celebrated their third Stanley Cup championship in the past six years with a downtown parade and a rally at Soldier Field.

Goalie Corey Crawford told the fans ``you guys made this unbelievable.’’ Duncan Keith, the defenceman who won the Conn Smythe trophy as the playoffs MVP, hinted at another win saying, “four sounds better than three.’’ Earlier, the crowd cheered for Blackhawks legends Bobby Hull, Denis Savard and Tony Esposito.

Former Blackhawks star Stan Mikita, who suffers from a progressive brain disorder, wasn’t left out.

“Stan . . . we’re thinking of you,’’ the announcer said.

The Blackhawks captured their third championship with their victory over Tampa Bay in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup at the United Center on Monday night, and they haven’t stopped celebrating since.

The Cup has been spotted all over town, at restaurants and nightclubs. It made an appearance at Wrigley Field on Tuesday, with Cubs manager Joe Maddon hoisting it above his head and Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama called coach Joel Quenneville, Toews and chairman Rocky Wirtz to congratulate the Blackhawks and added that he looks forward to hosting the team again at the White House.

And on Thursday, the team and the city let loose once again.

Players, coaches and team executives rode to the rally in double-decker buses, passing screaming fans of all ages decked out in red and black, as they wound their way from the United Center downtown to Michigan Avenue and the rally at Soldier Field.

It was a familiar scene for this Original Six franchise, and another reminder just how far it has come in recent seasons, with Toews and Patrick Kane leading the way.

The Blackhawks won it all in 2010, ending a 49-year championship drought, and captured the Cup again in 2013. But this year’s run was different. The Blackhawks endured, the suicide of their longtime equipment manager, the death of former teammate Steve Montador and a Kane’s broken collarbone.

Yet there they were on Thursday, celebrating the franchise’s sixth championship. Chicago is the first NHL team to win three titles in a six-year span since Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

It’s hard to believe that this organization was little more than an afterthought in Chicago or that the “Madhouse on Madison’’ felt more like a library, with sparse crowds at the United Center.

The late Bill Wirtz refused to televise home games and drove away franchise icons such as Hull and Mikita.

Those two now have statues outside the arena, and the Blackhawks have a vice-like grip on the city.

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Starr part of clinical trial that HAMILTON AIMS FOR treats strokes with stem cells GRAND PRIX TRIUMPH GENARO ARMAS

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Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr is participating in a clinical trial using stem cells as a possible treatment for strokes.

Starr suffered two strokes and a mild heart attack last September.

His family said Wednesday in a statement released by the Packers that Starr is participating in the trial.

“Following Bart’s strokes, our family began to investigate numerous therapy options,’’ the family said. “Several months ago we applied for and were accepted into a clinical trial using stem cells.

“Friday we safely returned home from the first of the two treatments,’’ the family added.

Starr, 81, is beloved

by Packers fans after leading the team to five NFL championships as well as the first two Super Bowls. He played in Green Bay from 1956 to 1971, and went on to coach the Packers from 1975 to 1983.

Starr made regular appearances at Lambeau Field after his retirement.

Details of Starr’s participation in the study would be shared “at an appropriate time in the future,’’ the family said.

They wanted to give Starr a chance to fully participate in the clinical trials and ``let the results, if any, to speak for themselves.’’

Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that can divide rapidly and help repair tissue. The belief is that they can serve as reinforcements to an injured muscle or joint,

but there’s no definitive proof and treatments are considered experimental. The Food and Drug Administration limits such efforts domestically, but clinics elsewhere are much more aggressive.

NHL Hall of Famer Gordie Howe, 87, underwent an experimental treatment in Mexico after a stroke left the former winger unable to walk and barely able to speak.

Howe’s family had been offered an opportunity from San Diegobased Stemedica Cell Technologies to take part in a clinical trial in Tijuana.

While still cautious, Howe’s family said he has had a “life-changing’’ turnaround. Howe planned to have another round of treatments in June.

The news of Howe’s treatment caught the attention of Jerry

Kramer, the Packers guard best known for throwing a block that allowed Starr to score a touchdown on a quarterback sneak with 13 seconds left to win the NFL Championship in 1967. The 21-17 victory over Dallas became known as the Ice Bowl for being played in frigid conditions at Lambeau.

Starr’s family ended up reaching out to Howe’s family earlier in the year, said Howe’s daughter, Cathy Purnell.

Neither Purnell nor Kramer knew where Starr was receiving his treatment. Kramer wasn’t sure if Starr’s family had heard about stem cell research from others as well.

A self-described “stem cell fan,’’ Kramer said he has received therapies that have helped with his hip.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPIELBERG, Austria — Lewis Hamilton would love to win the Austrian Grand Prix for real this time.

The race was always one of his favourites when he grew up playing video games, but when he drove on the Red Bull Ring circuit for the first time last year he had some trouble.

The British driver qualified in ninth place before roaring back through the field to finish a commendable second behind Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg.

Hamilton, who leads Rosberg by 17 points after seven races, intends to go one better this weekend and seal a fifth win of the season.

“It’s a big challenge for me and something I’m excited about. I grew up playing computer games with this track and I never got to really drive it — it was one of my favourite ones on the computer game,’’ Hamilton said on Thursday.

“I watched it in the days of Michael (Schumacher) and Rubens Barrichello here, even ones further back than that.’’

The eye-catching track in

Spielberg is located in Austria’s Styria region and returned to the F1 calendar last year after an 11-year gap. Surrounded by high hills and dense forests, it is a nature lover’s paradise, far removed from the bustle of the Canadian GP, where Hamilton won two weeks ago to extend his lead over a resurgent Rosberg.

“What I didn’t know is how beautiful this place was. I didn’t know how stunning it is with the mountains and everything near. Last year I had a really good time here,’’ Hamilton said. “I had my two dogs with me and where I stayed there was a nice park area where I would just go and walk them. It was just beautiful to be in the countryside away from the city. No noise. Last race, it was just too noisy outside, so many fans, it was just busy loud, so much traffic and cars.’’

Beating Rosberg in Montreal was particularly important for Hamilton, who has won 37 career races.

 Obituaries & In Memoriam  BETTY ILENE CLARK December 5th, 1930 – June 15th, 2015

Betty passed away in Kamloops at the age of 84. She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years Douglas Clark, her daughter Deborah (Dave) Sallenback and sons Dale (Deby) Clark, Evan (Eleanore) Clark, Doug (Cheryl) Clark and David (Barb) Clark. She will be sadly missed by her thirteen grandchildren and fifteen greatgrandchildren, her brother Fred Jones and sister Freda Tyerman. Betty is pre-deceased by her parents Edward and Ethel Jones, sisters Vera Mitchell and Mildred Hardcastle, brother Robert Jones and nephew Ralph Tyerman.

Betty will be interred at the Hillside Cemetery, Kamloops, BC at a later date.

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If Tomorrow Never Comes If I knew it would be the last time That I’d see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.

If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.

If I knew it would be the last time I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.

If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and say “I love you,” instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.

If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, Well I’m sure you’ll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.

For surely there’s always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything just right.

There will always be another day to say “I love you,” And certainly there’s another chance to say our “Anything I can do?”

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I’d like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget.

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.

So if you’re waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?

For if tomorrow never comes, you’ll surely regret the day, That you didn’t take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you’ll always hold them dear Take time to say “I’m sorry,” “Please forgive me,” “Thank you,” or “It’s okay.”

And if tomorrow never comes, you’ll have no regrets about today. © Norma Cornett Marek ~ 1989

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 Obituaries & In Memoriam  KATARINA KAYE PILLOTT Katarina Kaye Pillott passed away January 13, 2015 in Kamloops, B.C The family wish to let her friends know that the inurnment will take place on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm in the Hillside Cemetery.

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FAYE LORRAINE HALL October 8th, 1920 - June 16, 2015 Named after Dear Aunt Faye, but always known

by Lorraine, passed away peacefully after six weeks in Royal Inland Hospital.

Lorraine was the daughter of the late Joseph McCoid and late Ruth McCoid.

Predeceased by her siblings Helen Romans, Betty Locking, William McCoid and Robert McCoid. She married Donald Hall (deceased).

She is survived by her son Mark Hall and her daughter-inlaw Joan Hall, of Kamloops, her daughter Wanda Eyton and son-in-law Allan Eyton of New Westminster and sisterin-law Lizze McCoid of Kamloops. She leaves behind six grandchildren Marcus Hall (Lisa), Leah Moss (Sheridan), Taryn Eyton (Greg Smolyn), Anna Hall, Laurel Eyton and Heather Eyton. She was also blessed with six great-grandchildren Enyaw Hall, Emmilea Hall, Corbin Moss, Sparrow Hall, Elyssa Hall and Wednesday Moss.

Lorraine worked for Canada Manpower as a clerk/stenographer and for the RCMP. She belonged to Eastern Star Adah Chapter #16 OES, Excelsior Rebekah Lodge #23, Daughters of the Nile Zarah Temple no. 72, and was a lifetime member of The United Church. She enjoyed sending letters and cards to send good wishes to many friends. The family thanks the kind staff of Royal Inland Hospital for her care. Funeral services will be held at Kamloops United Church at 421 St. Paul Street, on August 8th, 2015 at 2:00 pm, with tea to follow.

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LORRAINE KERSLAKE

January 4, 1932 Hanley, SK June 8, 2015 Kamloops, B.C.

Lorraine Kerslake of Kamloops, BC, passed away peacefully at Vancouver General Hospital on June 14th, 2015, age 54 years, after her fight against Leukemia.

She is lovingly remembered by her daughter Megan Kerslake, son Benjamin Kerslake, and brother Cecil Grubb. She is predeceased by her mother Maggie Grubb and father Cecil James Grubb. Born in Livingstone, Zambia on July 18th 1961, Lorraine served as a caring midwife in England and later a registered labour and delivery nurse in Canada. She was a vibrant, happy and compassionate member of the Kamloops community for 20 years.

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our Mom, Grandma and Great-Grandma.

Mom was the youngest child of Scottish settlers, Neil and Janet Graham and grew up on a farm near Dundurn, Saskatchewan.

She was predeceased by her husband Carl in 2001 and her five siblings, Douglas, Edward and William Graham and her two sisters Ellen Boyko and Gertrude O’Leary.

In 1970 Mom and Dad purchased a small laundromat in Merritt and eventually expanded the business to include dry cleaning. They ran Merritt Coin Laundry and Dry cleaning for over twenty-one years. The business was sold in 1991 and in their retirement years mom and dad spent time at their lot at Nicola Lake as well as winters spent in Arizona. Mom loved playing cards, board games and doing crafts and was always up for a good debate.

She is survived by her three children Dianne Walker (Tom), Carla Johanson (Wayne Simms) and Debbie Edmond (Bill) as well as her grandchildren Chandra Bonthoux, Brandie Guzyk, Stephen Guzyk (Lisa), Nicole and Kyle Edmond and her great-grandchildren Lane, Gaven and Branson Weisse, Matthius Guzyk and Lacee Freeman. She also leaves behind more extended family in both Canada and Sweden.

A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm at the Trinity United Church in Merritt, B.C. with Reverend Pastor Nick Judson officiating. In lieu of flowers, those who so desire may make memorial donations in memory of Mom to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or Canadian Cancer Society.

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First Memorial Funeral Service 250-554-2429 JANNETJE (JANET) VANDEGOEDE (NEE) VANDEBERKT Jannetje (Janet) Vandegoede (née Vandeberkt) passed suddenly and has returned to her heavenly home on the morning of Monday, June 15th, 2015.

Janet was born on August 16th, 1933 in Blauwkapel, Netherlands, to her parents Cornelius and Geurtje Vandeberkt. She fell in love and married Karl Joseph Vandegoede on July 23, 1953. Together they emigrated to Canada in 1958, where they prospered and spent many happy years together.

Janet is survived by her husband Karl; her daughters Corrie Vandegoede and Elly Pitre (nee Vandegoede), her sons Karl and Herman Vandegoede; twelve grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren.

She devoted most of her time with crafts and needlework of all sorts, with a loving heart as gifts for Christmas for each member of her large extended family. Janet was loving, kind and gentle, with a very deep devotion to Karl her husband and her entire family.

Janet’s funeral service will be held on Saturday, June 20th, 2015 at the Summit Baptist Church, 1975 Summit Drive, at 2:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers please donate to the New Life Mission, 181 West Victoria St. Kamloops, BC, V2C 1A5

A Celebration of Life will be held on Wednesday, June 24th 2015, at 2:30 pm at Southwest Community Church with RIH Spiritual Health Lead Viktor Gundel officiating. Social gathering to follow at Harper’s Trail Winery. Should friends desire, donations may be made to the BC Cancer Agency, Canadian Blood Services or BC Transplant Agency. The family wishes to impress upon the community the importance of blood, bone marrow, and cord blood donation.

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LEONEL SANTOS MEDEIROS BORGES October 27, 1932 – June 13, 2015

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Leonel Borges on June 13, 2015. Leonel passed away peacefully at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, surrounded by his loving family.

He is survived by his loving wife of 55 years Evelyn; his son Lionel (Joni), and daughter Linda (Nick); his five beloved grandchildren Damian, Daniel, Julianna, Jonathan and Lucas; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Leonel was predeceased by his three older brothers and two older sisters.

Leonel was born in St. Antonio, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. He immigrated to Canada in 1956 and moved to Louis Creek to work in the local sawmill. He and Evelyn moved to Kamloops in 1964 to work in the sawmill and then at the Tranquille School, where he made many fond memories.

Dad loved spending time with his family and friends; to him, family was the most important thing and was always a priority in his life. He dearly loved his grandchildren. He always wanted to know what they were doing and attended any of their various activities that he could. If anyone in his family needed help, he was always there to lend a hand in any way.

He was also an avid gardener and enjoyed spending his free time growing copious amounts of potatoes, onions, tomatoes which he used in meals that he enjoyed making himself.

The family wishes to extend their deepest thanks to Dr. Brenda Laupland and the staff at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home for their compassionate care, as well as family and friends for their support.

Prayer services will be held Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 8:00 pm at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 255 Nicola St., Kamloops. A Funeral Mass will be held at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Monday, June 22, 2015 at 11:00 am officiated by the Reverend Father Swann Kim. In lieu of flowers, the family would gratefully accept donations in memory of Leonel to Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, Kamloops Hospice Association.

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DARRELL CHASE

The More You Give The more you give, The more you get, The more you laugh, The less you fret.

Darrell Chase passed away peacefully at the Seniors Village on June 14, 2015.

Darrell was 57 years old.

Darrell is predeceased by his father Homer in 2006 and lovingly remembered by his mother Eleanor, his sister Valerie of Winnipeg, brothers Gar (Jacquie) of Calgary and Michael (Kellie) of Prince George.

As well as his many friends and relatives, especially his Uncle Les and Aunt Setsuko and good friend Bruce Stratton.

A Memorial Service will be held at Kamloops Seniors Village, 1220 Hugh Allan Drive on Monday, June 22, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.

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The more you do unselfishly.

The more you live abundantly.

The more of everything you share, The more you’ll always have to spare.

The more you love, the more you’ll find, That life is good and friends are kind.

For only what we give away, Enriches us from day to day.

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Dylann Storm Roof, 21, spent nearly an hour inside the church Wednesday night before killing six women and three men, including the pastor, Chief Greg Mullen said.

Someone spotted his car in Shelby, N.C., nearly four hours away.

The chief wouldn’t discuss a motive. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. called it “pure, pure concentrated evil.’’

Stunned community leaders and politicians condemned the attack on The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Justice Department has begun a hate crime investigation.

President Barack Obama, who knew the slain pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, said these shootings have to stop.

“At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,’’ Obama said.

Pinckney, 41, was a married father of two who spent 19 years in the South Carolina legislature. He became the youngest member of the House when he was first elected as a Democrat at 23.

“He had a core not many

of us have,’’ said Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who sat beside Pinckney in the Senate.

“I think of the irony that the most gentle of the 46 of us — the best of the 46 of us in this chamber — is the one who lost his life.’’

The other victims were identified as Cynthia Hurd, 54; Tywanza Sanders, 26; Sharonda Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; and DePayne Doctor.

Sanders had recently graduated from Allen University.

Hurd worked for Charleston County’s library system for 31 years. Doctor was an enrolment counsellor at Southern Wesleyan University’s

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Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten said autopsies would be conducted over the next several days and did not have information on how many times the victims were shot or the locations of their injuries.

Roof’s childhood friend, Joey Meek, alerted the FBI after recognizing him in a surveillance camera image, said Meek’s mother, Kimberly Konzny. Roof had worn the same sweatshirt while playing Xbox videogames in their home recently.

“I don’t know what was going through his head,’’ Konzny said. “He was a really sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends.’’

Roof had been to jail: State court records show a pending felony drug case and a past misdemeanour trespassing charge.

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LAW CAR CRASH? COMPENSATION FOR DEPRESSION f you’ve been hurt in a car accident and it’s at least partly someone else’s fault, you’re probably Ientitled to compensation from the other driver

(through their ICBC liability insurance). This compensation is to put you in the same, but no better, position you would have been in if the accident hadn’t occurred.

But what if your injuries are mostly psychological? For long-lasting depression and chronic pain, the compensation could be substantial.

Linda (names changed), 58, was hurt in a car crash when Manny turned left in front of her at an intersection in Surrey, and the vehicles collided.

Both vehicles were seriously damaged by the impact and had to be written off.

Linda and Manny disagreed who was at fault.

But relying on an independent witness and other objective sources, the court decided both Manny and Linda were equally to blame. Unfortunately, Linda’s injuries were long lasting and she still suffered at the trial four years later in 2014.

Before the accident, Linda was active and outgoing. She used to go camping, hiking, fishing and, in later years closer to the accident, “ghost hunting” with friends.

Back in 1992, she had a workplace back injury that needed two back surgeries. Afterwards, she could no longer lift heavy things and it slowed her down. Around that time, she also suffered from depression due in part to her brother’s drowning death and her son’s schizophrenia diagnosis.

But she carried on, continued working at a hospital until 2000, undertook a major renovation project after moving to the Lower Mainland in 2000, and took in homestay students. And she still did things like going on a motor bike trip to the States in 1999. She raised her two children mostly on her own and enjoyed looking after her grandkids.

After the car accident, she was a changed person. She had chronic headaches and neck, shoulder and back pain from the accident. She had serious memory loss episodes. One time she forgot her grandkids after taking them to a park on an outing. Another time she forgot a boiling pot on a friend’s stove. Her daughter couldn’t trust her looking after the grandkids anymore. She was also short-tempered and irritable with them now, though never before.

The court looked at the psychiatric evidence and concluded that Linda’s depression more than 20 years earlier was in remission and wasn’t a factor before the car accident. By the time of trial, however, she was diagnosed as having a major depressive disorder and a somatic symptom disorder, resulting in her experiencing chronic pain. The court attributed both of these conditions to the car crash with Manny.

The court awarded Linda damages of $160,000 for her depression and chronic pain, plus over $155,000 for other things like loss of future earning ability and lost past wages. Because the car accident was half her fault, though, that amount was reduced by half.

See your lawyer if injured in an accident.

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erri Runnalls remembers the first time she was asked to go to a classroom and talk about theatre.

After having discovered theatre at Westsyde secondary, courtesy of then teacher Darryl Chow, she was approached by Western Canada Theatre artistic director David Ross and asked if she would go to Aberdeen elementary through the ArtStarts in Schools program.

Runnalls had it in her mind that she would teach theatre, although her sights had been set on the university level. She was keen to go and, after that first experience, was hooked, she said, on sharing her passion with the younger set.

But, for many years, it was just one of the lines in her job description, along with running Western Canada Theatre’s facilities, acting with Saucy Fops and basically filling her days with the work she had grown to love.

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Even if they don’t do it again, you can’t take away that power that they’ve learned.

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Eventually, Stage One was created, summer theatre camps for youth — and that program grew in popularity.

Then, along came Daryl Cloran as WCT’s artistic director, a man with little children who wanted to see the youth-education side grow.

“I said ‘There’s an education co-ordinator position here’,” Runnals said.

“Daryl and Lori Marchand agreed and supported it. His [season] programming reflects his own family situation and shows how he wants theatre for families and for children.”

Stage One started offering after-school programs, with students sharing their talents in a spring show.

The summer camp’s production program always ends its two-week run with performances

— TERRI RUNNALLS

of a play the kids start learning on the second day.

The summer session, for example, which starts mid July and continues through August, includes Acting Adventures for four- to seven-year-olds, Acting Essentials for those eight- to 12-years-old Intro to Musical Theatre for the 10- to 16-yearolds, and performance and musical-theatre performance camps for 10- to 18-year-olds.

Runnalls is always torn when those 18-year-olds turn 19 and move on — but it is a sadness tempered with excitement when she sees them continue in the theatre.

Last year, for example, three Stage One graduates helped backstage with the program.

Several have gone on to study theatre at Thompson Rivers University.

“To see these kids grow, it’s so rewarding,” she said.

Even those who don’t remain in that business benefit from the education, Runnalls said.

“It’s self-confidence. It’s creative construction. It’s working in a group. It’s having your voice heard.

“It’s a confidence that goes everywhere. And they learn every position in the theatre is a valuable education.

“Even if they don’t do it again, you can’t take away that power that they’ve learned.”

In recent years, the program has enrolled students with special needs and Runnalls is hoping to expand those opportunities, as well.

Stage One also benefits from two cash funds — the Boogie Cultural Fund helps those who are in financial need up to $250 a child and the theatre’s own Henry Vandenberghe Memorial Bursary, named after a long-time employee, helps students with financial need.

Runnalls has learned a lot through her classroom visits. At first, she said, she would go in

with her own plan and agenda but realized quickly she needed to bring her improvisation skills to the fore and react to the dynamic in the classroom.

Fifteen years after those first teaching experiences, Runnalls said she’s got it down — it’s her structure that reacts to the students.

“We’re not forcing them to learn. They want to learn and I have to adapt to what they want,” she said.

She said she laughs now at the thought of teaching at the post-secondary level because of the enjoyment she gets from presenting workshops, bringing in other actors or back-stage staff to a classroom of curious and eager youngsters, some of whom may have never attended a live play.

“Theatre in the classroom is awesome and it’s challenging,” Runnalls said. “And it’s so great being with teachers who care about their classrooms.”

For more information on the program, go online to wctlive.ca/ stageone.htm.

Registration forms for the courses are also available there.

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Community: • Let’s Dance, sponsored by Thompson Valley Activity and Social Club, featuring Lost Dog Band, Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St., 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets: $10; call 250-372-0091, 250-372-3782 or 250-374-2774.

• Static electricity show, 11 a.m and 1:30 p.m., Big Little Science Centre, 655 Holt St. • Relay for Life, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Hillside Stadium.

Art: Office of Surrealist Investigations, Arnica ArtistRun Centre, 7 West Seymour St. It continues to July 11.

Centre hours: Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Music: Celtic harp and cello duo, 7 p.m., Romeo’s Kitchen and Spirits, 1250 Rogers Way.

Sunday, June 21

Community: • Flea market, Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park, 355 Yellowhead Highway,8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission: 50 cents.

Information: 250-828-9749.

• Father’s Day at Heffley Creek Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Includes breakfast, lunch, car show, craft fair, raffles and 50/50.

Art: Office of Surrealist Investigations, Arnica ArtistRun Centre, 7 West Seymour St. It continues to July 11.

Centre hours: Tuesdays to

Monday, June 22

Music: • Ukulele Orchestra of Kamloops meets, 6:40 p.m. to 9 p.m., Plura Hills United Church, 2090 Pacific Way. Info: ukuleleorchestraofkamloops.com or call Lynne Lukow at 250-372-7485.

• Kamloops Rube Band practices, 7:30 p.m., Kamloops Yacht Club, 1140 River St. New members welcome. Info: Dick Parkes, 250573-5740 or rparkes@telus. net.

Community: • National Aboriginal Day/Day of Wellness with Culture, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 517 Tranquille Rd., free.

• Kamloops Dragon Boat fundraising dinner, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fox’n Hounds Pub, Sahali Mall. Tickets $15, call 250-578-7334 or 250-8194565.

Tuesday, June 23

Music: Ukulele Orchestra of Kamloops meets beginner/intermediate group meets, 1:30 p.m, North Shore Community Centre, 730 Cottonwood Ave. $2 per person. Lessons available. Info: ukuleleorchestraofkamloops. com or call Lynne Lukow at 250-372-7485.

Art: Office of Surrealist Investigations, Arnica ArtistRun Centre, 7 West Seymour St. It continues to July 11.

Centre hours: Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Community: • iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch course, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., North Kamloops Library, 693 Tranquille Rd. • Computer course on online payment for utility and taxes, myCity, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St. Register: 250-3725145.

Wednesday, June 24

Community: • Flea market, Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park, 355 Yellowhead Highway, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission: 50 cents.

Information: 250-828-9749.

• Crowdfunding 101, noon to 1 p.m., Kamloops Innovation, 348 Tranquille Rd., free session by Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator. Registration required online at kamloopsinnovation.ca/event/crowdfunding.

• Kamloops Garden Club monthly meeting, 7 p.m., Heritage House, 100 Lorne St. • Android tablets and smartphones computer course, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St., Register: 250-3725145.

Art: Office of Surrealist Investigations, Arnica ArtistRun Centre, 7 West Seymour St. It continues to July 11.

Centre hours: Tuesdays to

Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Music: Teacher Battle of the Bands, 8 p.m., Cactus Jack’s Night Club, 130 Fifth Ave.

Thursday, June 25

Community • Family drop-in storytime, Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St. 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Register: 250372-5145.

• Construction days at the Big Little Science Centre, 655 Holt St. Day-long opportunities with LEGO, Megablox, MagNext and more.

• Ebooks computer course, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St. Register: 250-3725145.

• Fun With Shakespeare and Robin Hood. 1:30 p.m., Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St., lively readings from Shakespeare Can Be Fun with Project X Theatre.

Art: Office of Surrealist Investigations, Arnica ArtistRun Centre, 7 West Seymour St. It continues to July 11.

Centre hours: Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Email events to listings@kamloopsthisweek. com. Space permitting, they will appear in Friday’s B section and online at kamloopsthisweek.com under the listings tab.

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COMMUNITY JOIN SUMMER READING CLUB Reading club will include games this summer.

Thompson-Nicola Regional District is inviting adult readers to play bingo as part of this year’s adult summer reading club.

The club will award five grand-prize winners with $50 Chapters gift cards.

Additional prizes will be given to those who complete a full “blackout” of their bingo card by the end of the summer.

Those who are interested in joining the club can register online or in person at local branches, beginning on June 15.

It is open to those ages 18 and older.

Participants get one bingo card per person.

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Q: There is an island on the Thompson River, between the south shore and Mac Isle. Who owns it?

A. Popular with boaters and picnickers in the summertime, Rabbit Island is a legacy of Weyerhaeuser Co.’s involvement in Kamloops dating back to the early 1960s.

The company closed its sawmill in 2008 and its pulp assets were later merged under Domtar Corp. The island, however, remains property of Weyerhaeuser.

The company also retains its mill and former head office property on Mission Flats Road, which has been on the market for years. In 2014, Rabbit Island was assessed at $121,000. It measures nearly 32 acres, but a B.C. Assessment Authority official said the figure is approximate due to uncertainty over the high-water mark.

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Send us your query on all things Kamloops to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.

Stop by, discuss camps at stores June 27 is Easter Seals Awareness Day in Safeway stores, a time when volunteers will be available to talk about the camps the organization runs for young people with special needs.

Volunteers are still required to take part in the Feeding Ability event from noon to 4 p.m.

Anyone interested in taking part for an hour to a full shift

can email Jasmine Allen at jallen@lionsbc.ca.

at 250-554-5015 or email gradsof75kss@gmail.com.

KSS class of ‘75 reunion

JW conference this month

Forget graduations — it’s reunion time for Kamloops Senior Secondary and all those students who crossed the stage back in 1975.

The 40th-anniversary reunion will be held on Aug. 28 and Aug. 29. For those interested, call Rita Storry-Stanchfield

The annual Jehova’s Witnesses conference returns to Interior Savings Centre.

The group invites everyone to attend festivities, which begin on June 26 at 9:20 a.m.

For more information, go online to jw.org/en/jehovahswitnesses/conventions.

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IT’S TIME TO CHOOSE THE BEST OF THIS YEAR. Here is your opportunity to once again tell us who’s the “best of the best” in Kamloops. Indicate your top picks for the Kamloops This Week Readers’ Choice Awards on this entry sheet, or using our online ballot form at www.kamloopsthisweek.com/readers-choice-awards.

Physical ballots can be dropped off at the Kamloops This Week office, 1365 B Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops BC V2C 5P6.

One entry per household per day.

Only original newspaper ballots and online entries will be accepted. No mechanical reproductions allowed. Employees of Kamloops This Week and their immediate families are not eligible. All ballots must be received or entered online by no later than August 7, 2015 at noon PST. Some restrictions and conditions apply.

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It’s graduation time.

Commencement, diplomas, proms, with those oh-so-expensive tuxedos and fancy dresses, dry grad parties, not-so-dry grad parties, college applications — it’s heady stuff.

As a former high school counsellor and career counsellor for adults for almost 30 years, I helped thousands figure out what they should do with their lives.

Freshly graduated young people are on the cusp off a major transition in their lives and there is considerable pressure on them to choose a career to prepare for.

But there is a difference between a career and a calling.

Let’s take the Apostle Paul (formerly named Saul) for example. His career, or trade, was that of a tent-maker.

Whenever he went into a town to preach, he would hook up with the local tent-makers’ guild, get a temporary job and earn his keep while preaching on the side.

In fact, some Christian denominations don’t have paid pastors and expect them to earn their own livings doing something else. They’re often called “tent-maker ministries.”

Paul’s calling — at least what he initially thought it was — was to defend Judaism from the upstart, heretical sect, Christianity.

He was very good at sleuthing out new Christians and was instrumental in having quite a few arrested.

He even held the robes of the men who stripped down to stone Stephen, the first martyr of the faith, to death.

Paul was on his way to Damascus to arrange for the arrest of even more when he got his real calling: “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

“He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you per-

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secute me?’ ‘Who are you, Lord,’ Saul asked.

‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied. ‘Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.’”

Jesus then inspired a believer by the name of Ananias to tell Paul, “This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.

“I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

And suffer he did — beatings, whippings, stonings, shipwrecks, imprisonment and, finally, execution.

Sometimes your calling will cost you — big time.

But what a calling and what an amazing job he did at it.

Second only to Jesus himself, the Apostle Paul is arguably the greatest influence of the Christian faith in the history of the church.

A calling, then, is a mission and, in the Christian context, it is a mission from God. We have our own local example: Father LeJeune.

His career was that of a Catholic priest but his calling, his mission, was to serve as a missionary priest in the early days of British Columbia, with his base in Kamloops.

We still have the church he built, St. Joseph’s, as a reminder of his 43 years of faithfulness to his calling.

Sometimes people resist the call of Christianity because they think they may be called as a missionary to Africa or some other strange and

difficult place.

A wise Christian writer once wrote, “God will not call you to Africa unless he first places a love for Africa in your heart.”

Sometimes people think they have a calling to particular Christian ministry but it may well be misguided enthusiasm.

One young Western woman who was inspired by the life and work of Mother Theresa in Calcutta wrote to her, asking to be accepted in her hospice work.

Recognizing that she would not be a good fit, Mother Theresa responded, “Find your own Calcutta.”

There is a price to resisting the call of God, though.

God called Jonah to preach to the Assyrians at Ninevah.

The Assyrians were well-known to be viciously cruel to those they disliked and Jonah was pretty sure they wouldn’t like his preaching.

So, he booked passage on a ship in the other direction.

As most know, there was a terrible storm and Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

When he emerged after three days, he obediently went to Ninevah and preached God’s message.

To his great surprise, the entire city repented.

We still have believers in that part of the world to this day because of Jonah’s reluctant obedience.

Theologian Frederick Buechner once wrote: A person’s calling is where their greatest joy and the world’s greatest need meet.

There are needs everywhere — they’re not hard to find.

Finding your greatest joy, though, takes work. I’m quite certain, however, your greatest joy is closely related to your spiritual gift — whatever that may be.

So, Christian young people, be like young Samuel and say “Speak Lord, your servant is listening” and God will give you your calling.

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MEN’S HEALTH WEEK WRAPS UP ON FATHER’S DAY The White Buffalo Aboriginal and Métis Health Society have been busy for men’s health week, which began earlier this week and runs until Sunday in Kamloops.

The City of Kamloops issued a men’s health week proclamation and the White Buffalo society has launched a two-year Man

of the Month campaign.

The society hopes the Man of the Month campaign will work to raise awareness of the positive work of men in the community, as well as to build what it calls a community of champions to support positive change.

The Man of the Month award will be handed out

to men who benefit themselves, their families and their communities. Winners will display the values of humility, honesty, respect, courage, wisdom, generosity and fortitude The first Man of the Month award will be handed out on Father’s Day. For more information, go online to whitebuf-

fallosociety.ca or contact Charles Campbell at 250554-1176.

Campaign underway

The New Life Mission is reminding Kamloopsians the marginalized still need help even when the mercury is rising.

Regan Wilson, man-

ager at the mission’s outeach centre at 181 West Victoria St., said the agency has started its summer fundraising campaign, Care for Kamloops, to help continue providing food, support and health-care services.

The centre has been running seven days a week for some time now, open

from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then again from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Last year, it served up more than 45,000 meals and saw 1,600 appointments at its full-service dental clinic.

The hair salon provided 530 shampoos and cuts.

For more information, go online to newlifemission.ca.

“By accessing world markets for Canadian oil, we’ll enjoy increased tax dollars and years of employment.”

- Deborah Cahill, President, Electrical Contractors Association of B.C.

Coastal access for Canadian oil means an increase of at least $5 per barrel. By getting full value for our oil, everyone will benefit. Workers will gain from the $5.4 billion project. Oil producers will earn more revenue for their product. And Government will collect more tax revenue from oil producers to spend on programs such as health care, education and other services that benefit all British Columbians.

Plus, we can invest in new training programs and create new jobs for our youth.

For more information, go to TransMountain.com/benefit Email: info@transmountain.com · Phone: 1-866-514-6700

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or Turks, the burning question after the recent election is whether they will now get the fully democratic, pluralist country so many of them want.

The defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party does open that prospect, although translating it into reality will be very difficult.

But, for everybody else, the question is whether Turkey will stop backing the Islamist insurgents who are on the brink of winning in Syria.

Compared to the head-choppers of ISIS and the only slightly less extreme Al Nusra Front that now dominate the military campaign against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Erdogan — the “Sultan”, as his devoted supporters often call him — is a very moderate Islamist.

But his support for those two organisations is the main reason they have been winning so many battles recently.

Turkey shares a 800-kilometre border with Syria and for four years Erdogan’s government has left it open for arms, supplies and foreign recruits to flow to the Syrian Islamists.

When Al Nusra seized most of the strategically important Idlib province last March after three years of trying, Damascus claimed a reason for its loss was Turkey had jammed the Syrian army’s telecommunications. In March, according to reports by the pro-rebel Al Jazeera network, Erdogan even made a pact with Saudi Arabia to coordinate assistance to the Syrian

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But, all that could change quite quickly if Erdogan’s party cannot form a government that supports this policy — and the signs are that it cannot.

The Turkish election was not about Erdogan’s policy in Syria. It was, above all, about his ambition to become a mini-Putin who would dominate Turkey into the foreseeable future.

In order to achieve that goal, he gave up the prime ministership and got himself elected to the powerless and ceremonial office of president in 2014.

But, his intention was to transform the presidency into the centre of political power in Turkey.

Changing Turkey from a parliamentary system to a country ruled by an executive president would require a constitutional change, which can only be done by a supermajority of three-fifths of the votes in the 550seat parliament.

Since 2002, Erdogan’s party had won three successive elections with everincreasing majorities, so he was confident he could pull it off.

He was wrong.

Turkish voters didn’t even give him a majority of the seats in

parliament. Too many people turned against this always angry and abusive man who condemns his political opponents as “terrorists, marginals, gays and atheists,” and who now wanted to consolidate his position as the unchallengeable “Sultan” of Turkey.

More than one-fifth of AK Party’s voters abandoned the party in this election.

They weren’t abandoning their religion; they were still committed to the party’s original aim of a democratic Turkey that respected everybody’s rights (including their own). Most of them migrated to the new People’s Democratic Party, which also welcomes Kurds, gays and non-Muslim religious minorities and promotes gender equality.

Erdogan will find it hard to form a coalition with any of the three big opposition parties in parliament — none of which support his policy of backing Islamist extremists in the Syrian civil war.

He will have 45 days to form a government and, if that fails, Turkey will probably face another election before the end of the summer.

It is unlikely the AK Party can improve its position in a second election: Once the illusion of invincibility has been shattered, it is hard to rebuild.

What follows may be a coalition government made up of opposition parties that find it hard to agree on most things — but none of them share Erdogan’s fondness for ISIS and its friends. If Assad can hang on in Syria until the end of the summer, he may yet survive. gwynnedyer.com

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Minister of Health Rona Ambrose said mandating consistent serving sizes will make it easier to compare nutrient contents of similar foods and make more informed choices when selecting foods for themselves and their families. The ingredient list on the proposed new label would also be easier to read.

The labelling changes respond to comments made by parents, consumers and health organizations and the food industry in earlier consultations held throughout 2014.

Proposed changes would give Canadians better information about sugars contained in the foods they eat, Ambrose said. The proposed addition of a percentage daily value for sugar and changes to the way sugars are identified in the list of ingredients will make it easier to understand how much sugar is in a product, whether there is a little or a lot of sugar, and the source of sugar.

Canadians will be consulted on the proposed regulatory changes to the nutrition information on food labels for a 75-day comment period, ending on Aug. 26.

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The proposals include: • Requiring that manufacturers list all food colouring agents by their common name within the ingredient list on the label, allowing allow consumers who have sensitivities to specific food colours to avoid those ingredients.

• A new health claim would also be allowed on pre-packaged fruits and vegetables that would make it easier to let Canadians know about the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables.

“The Heart and Stroke Foundation is pleased to see these proposed revisions to nutrition labelling, in particular mandatory standardized serving sizes for similar products and more complete information about sugars in the ingredients list,” said spokeswoman Mary Lewis.

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Renowned hypnotist to help smokers quit A hypnotist who claims to help people quit smoking will be in Kamloops on Wednesday at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre.

Vance Romane credits himself with helping people kick the habit for more than 50 years, having become interested in the cause in the 1960s, when his father had part of his lip

removed because of disease attributed to smoking.

Romane has a batchelor of arts honours degree and worked at the Psychiatric Institute in Winnipeg, where he helped patients with anxiety and stress.

From there, he specialized in hypnosis.

Those who attend the seminar receive a guarantee, which includes free

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AT&T fined US$100M for sketchy ‘unlimited’ plans Service provider slowed down Internet speeds for frequent data users ANNE FLAHERTY

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — AT&T Mobility LLC has been slapped with a US$100million fine for offering consumers “unlimited’’ data, but then slowing their Internet speeds after they reached a certain amount.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday the company misled consumers into buying plans they believed would give them unlimited ability to send and receive data, including web browsing, GPS navigation and streaming videos.

But the FCC said

that once the consumer receached a certain level, data would be slowed down significantly, at speeds lower than advertised.

AT&T said it would “vigorously dispute’’ the fine, which is the largest proposed in FCC history.

“The FCC has specifically identified this practice as a legitimate and reasonable way to manage network resources for the benefit of all customers, and has known for years that all of the major carriers use it,’’ the company said in a statement released to reporters.

“We have been fully transparent with our cus-

tomers, providing notice in multiple ways and going well beyond the FCC’s disclosure requirements.’’

If AT&T can provide evidence the FCC allegations are wrong, the fine could be reduced.

FCC officials said they were sure that AT&T was profiting off the deceptive advertising.

“Unlimited means unlimited,’’ said Travis LeBlanc, the FCC enforcement bureau chief.

“As today’s action demonstrates, the commission is committed to holding accountable those broadband providers who fail to be fully transparent about data limits.’’

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The hefty fine by the FCC comes on the heels of a federal lawsuit filed against the company last fall.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces rules against deceptive advertising, said it wants to refund customers who were offered the unlimited data packages, only to be given slower data speeds than advertised.

That lawsuit is still working its way through a federal court in California.

Earlier this year, the FTC accused TracFone Wireless of similar tactics. TracFone agreed to settle the case for $40 million.

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Oil prospect off Newfoundland faces ‘harsh realities’ SUE BAILEY

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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Jez Averty does not sound like an oil executive who expects a term sheet any time soon for developing what has been touted as Newfoundland’s next big offshore site.

In a speech punctuated with bleak detail on how the price crash has kneecapped the industry, the vice-president of North American exploration for Statoil ASA offered only the most cautious optimism.

Development of the remote Bay du Nord site faces “harsh realities’’ in a climate that is not business as usual, he told the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas

Industries Association conference.

Only the most competitive projects will attract evaporating investment dollars, he stressed.

“It is not a walk in the park.’’

Bay du Nord can be a winner, he said, but it will take co-operation among all industry players and “collaborative relations’’ with regulators. The Norwegian-based company is committed to continuing those talks but Averty offered no hint a deal is imminent.

Premier Paul Davis said he’s optimistic a term sheet to develop Bay du Nord can be reached “in coming weeks.’’

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kilometres east of St. John’s lies in more than 1,100 metres of water. It was billed as the largest global find in 2013 with an estimated 600 million barrels of recoverable light crude.

Statoil spokesman Knut Rostad said in a December interview that Newfoundland is a major exploration focus but that any decision on development of Bay du Nord was likely months or years off.

An estimated US$200 billion of investment capital has been cancelled or postponed since oil prices plunged by almost half over the last year to hover around US$64 a barrel, Averty said.

He would only say the company looks forward to reaching the best deal possible when asked in an interview if a term sheet is realistic in the weeks ahead.

Averty did not answer directly when asked if the

premier’s talk of a coming announcement surprised him.

He confirmed Statoil’s exploration drilling program in the region is not expected to finish until next May. Robert Cadigan, president and CEO of the oil and gas industries association, said estimating an oil price that might make Bay du Nord economically viable is a complex process.

He did not have a figure to offer reporters, but said costs to operate what would be the most remote offshore site in the world would run high.

“We can’t really comment on whether a term sheet is possible. But certainly they’ve got a lot of work to do before they get

to a point where they know they’ve got a commercial development,’’ he said of Statoil.

Davis said he won’t rush any talks to score political points ahead of a provincial election Nov. 30.

But, with his Progressive Conservatives fighting to reverse dismal poll results, Opposition Liberal Leader Dwight Ball said the premier is grasping at any potential good news.

Ball said in the legislature that Davis has “deal fever’’ and asked if he’ll fast-track a Bay du Nord term sheet in time for the fall campaign.

Davis said there will be no agreement unless it’s in the province’s best interests, including a possible equity stake.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is shuffling his top management team, announcing the departure of former Nokia boss Stephen Elop and three other top executives.

Elop had left Microsoft once before to run Nokia, then returned when Microsoft bought the Finnish company’s smartphone business for $7.5 billion last year.

Analysts said his departure now is a sign that Microsoft is rethinking its approach to the phone business, where it has struggled to make a profit despite recent layoffs and other spending cuts.

Also leaving the company is Mark Penn, a former Democratic political strategist who oversaw some of Microsoft’s marketing efforts including the hardhitting “Scroogled’’ advertising campaign that criticized products made by tech rival Google.

While the campaign drew attention, industry experts said it did not appear to help Microsoft’s business.

FORMER NOKIA CEO STEPHEN ELOP AMONG THOSE TO LEAVE MICROSOFT, ANALYSTS PREDICT DEPARTURE SIGN COMPANY IS RETHINKING APPROACH TO PHONES In a recent email to employees, Nadella praised the departing executives and said the reorganization will help Microsoft focus on building “services and platforms for the mobile-first, cloud-first world.’’

Microsoft said the “devices group’’ run

by Elop will be folded into a new division run by Terry Myerson, an executive vicepresident who will also continue to oversee the company’s flagship Windows operating system.

Nadella has pushed Microsoft to produce more software for mobile devices, while scaling back the smartphone hardware business since the Nokia acquisition, which was negotiated by his predecessor as CEO, Steve Ballmer.

Elop was once considered a possible successor to Ballmer,

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Elop’s departure now is further evidence that Nadella felt the strategy behind the Nokia acquisition “was clearly not heading down the right path,’’ said investment analyst Daniel Ives of FBR Capital Markets, in an email.

Other executives will take over operations led by departing managers Kirill Tatarinov and Eric Rudder.

Nadella said Penn’s departure as “chief insights officer’’ was unrelated to the company’s reorganization. He said Penn is leaving in September to form a private equity fund.

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CNRL EXPECTS ‘REASONABLE’ NDP CHANGES

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CALGARY — The president of one of Canada’s biggest oil and gas producers says he doesn’t believe Alberta’s NDP government is out to hurt the industry and is assuming

new burdens will be reasonable.

But Steve Laut with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. said when it comes to royalty and regulatory changes, there’s risk of getting it wrong, especially when many issues are being dealt with at once.

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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have slapped restrictions on the mortgage businesses of six banks, saying they haven’t fully complied with requirements imposed on them to resolve allegations that they abused the foreclosure process after the collapse of the housing market.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, part of the Treasury Department, announced the action on Wednesday against the banks: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, HSBC, Santander and EverBank.

The agency said the banks haven’t met all the requirements of the 2011 enforcement orders issued by the government, which found that some lenders rushed the foreclosure process without carefully reviewing documents.

The restrictions include limits on buying rights from other banks to service mortgages.

They vary according to the specific situation of each of the six banks.

At the same time, the agency lifted its enforcement orders against Bank of America, Citigroup and PNC, finding them to be in compliance with the orders.

The so-called “robo-signing’’ scandal prompted a government investigation and eventually an $8.5-billion settlement between the OCC and 15 banks.

In addition, the federal government and 49 states reached a $25-billion settlement over foreclosure practices in February 2012 with five major banks: Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Ally Financial.

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TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government has selected Scotiabank and RBC Capital Markets as active bookrun-

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The sale will begin with an IPO of 15 per cent. The fees for Scotiabank and RBC Capital Markets will be one per cent for institutional investors and three per cent for retail.

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TORONTO — The United Steelworkers union is demanding more information about potential bidders for U.S. Steel’s plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont., which entered creditor protection last year for the second time in less than a decade.

The union said it’s prepared to ask an Ontario Superior Court judge to require U.S. Steel to provide complete copies of letters of interest for the business formerly known as Stelco.

The union also wants to be allowed to have discussions with potential buyers at an early stage and see complete copies of bids.

That information is covered by non-disclosure agreements under a process supervised

by Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel, with assistance from courtappointed monitor Ernst & Young.

Gary Howe, president of USW Local 1005 in Hamilton, said in an interview the union played an active role in discussions in Stelco’s restructuring, which lasted two years and concluded in 2006.

“Things were significantly different then for us,’’ Howe said earlier this week from Hamilton.

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“In that process, we met with different bidders. We knew who they were. We met with them individually, with the [court] monitor and had discussions.

“That’s what we did last time.’’

Howe said the union isn’t supposed to know who is interested in buying the operation but “it’s not hard to figure out, eh?

They’ve got them touring in the plant.’’

Potential bidders had to express their interest by May 20 and have until July 10 to make binding offers.

U.S. Steel Canada’s director of public affairs said in an emailed statement that confidentiality restrictions prevent him from commenting on specifics in letters of intent, but added there has been “substantial interest’’ in the business and its assets.

“As we progress through the second phase of the SARP [sales process], additional information will be made available at the appropriate time,’’ Trevor Harris said.

U.S. Steel Canada

has been under protection from the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act since last September.

The act is designed to give debt-ridden companies a chance to get a fresh start by reorganizing, a process that can involve the sale of some or all assets, contract renegotiations and refinancing.

As with the previous CCAA restructuring, the company’s pensions and postretirement benefits are among its biggest liabilities.

When it bought Stelco in October 2007, U.S. Steel assumed responsibility for making $70 million a year of payments toward shortfalls in four defined benefit pension plans until December 2015.

The United Steelworkers union represents about 1,400 active employees at U.S. Steel Canada, 500 at Hamilton Works and 900 at Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke. In addition, there are 9,000 retired members in Hamilton and 670 in Nanticoke.

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Colder-than-normal temperatures shortened the Northeast’s maple sugaring season this year, but overall syrup production in the U.S. still managed to stay strong, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

Maple syrup production was up 6.3 per cent this season from a year ago, the agency said in a report released last week and an increase in the number of taps collecting sap from the trees likely contributed to the boost.

The number of taps was up four per cent, while yields per tap rose two per cent nationally.

The country produced 3.4-million gallons of maple syrup in 2015, with Vermont — the country’s largest maple producer — yielding about 40 per cent of the total, or 1.3-million gallons.

New York produced 601,000 gallons, followed by Maine at 553,000 gallons.

The only state that saw a drop was Ohio, which produced 115,000 gallons this year, down from 130,000 gallons in 2014.

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reported a decrease in taps from 450,000 to 440,000 this year.

Colder temperatures in the northeast in February and March — which is when sap is typically collected — shortened the average season by three to four days.

The earliest sap flow was reported Jan. 1 in Vermont and the latest sap flow to start the season was March 18 in New Hampshire, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.

“It was an average year overall,’’ said Pam Green, chairwoman of the Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Association and co-

owner of Green’s Sugarhouse in Poultney.

“Because of the late start of the season, people at higher elevations had more of a problem getting started and then it warmed up quickly after that.’’

Despite the late start for some, the quality of the syrup was excellent and some producers even had a bumper crop, she said.

“It may have been shorter but when it ran, it ran,’’ said Gary Keogh, state statistician for the New England field office of the USDA’s NASS based in Concord.

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Grenada’s sandy shores (left) a make for a beautiful rest stop. Jerry-built stilted homes (below) can be found throughout the Eastern Caribbean area.

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is pearly white smile contrasts with his ebony-rich skin.

He saunters barefoot, showing no urgency about getting anywhere (or at any time) and the slogan on his T-shirt depicts him to a tee.

Although the catchphrase, “there’s a little Carib in all of us” is advertising the island’s local beer, by the end of our Grenada visit, it signifies a much deeper meaning.

Grenada is one of the three Windward Islands located in the Eastern Caribbean and, at only 440 square kilometres, is one of the smallest indepen-

dent nations in the Western Hemisphere.

Lush rainforests drape the volcanic core of this tropical oasis and skinny roads weave over its terrain.

While island touring, we jostle over crater-sized potholes and swerve around brown-eyed cows and tethered goats that languidly graze along the roadside.

Jerry-built stilted homes cling to one another and teeter like tipsy sailors.

Their occupants lounge about on sunbaked verandahs, just waiting for people and time to pass.

“There’s no rush, Mon,” our driver says with a toothy grin. “It’s always island time on Grenada.”

While cruising the verdant landscape, fragrant spice plants and tropical blossoms border our path.

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Towering mahogany and giant gommiers hug fruit trees that bear mangoes, nutmeg, sea grapes and breadfruit.

Prickly pineapples cavort with 16 breeds of bananas, stands of bamboo shoot above broad-leafed callaloos and clumps of coconuts are shaded by billowy palms.

It comes as no surprise this Caribbean dreamscape has been dubbed the Isle of Spice as we discover it’s second to Indonesia for the global export of nutmeg.

History unites with the bountiful harvest at Dougaldston Spice Boucan, where we get a glimpse of the traditional preparation of cocoa. After fermenting for six days in a sweathouse, the beans are splayed on sunbaked trays and, with the help of shuffling

feet, are rotated every hour until they are dried to perfection.

“The process may seem primitive,” our guide explains as we witness a young Grenadian woman go to work, “but it’s been done this way for centuries and it still works today.”

The soles of her feet are leather-tough as she tromps through the crazy maze of beans.

After the shells are peeled, the cocoa is moulded into balls and, when mixed with boiling water and sugar, transform into a yummy hot drink.

Others may prefer to spike the concoction with a shot of overproof rum which, on Grenada, is never too far away.

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River Antoine Rum Distillery, where they’ve been brewing the conventional way since 1785.

A massive waterwheel powers the mill that crushes sugar cane and extracts the precious juice.

It’s then channelled through to the boiling house to the distillery, and bottled at a potent 75 per cent proof.

“Mix this with a pinch of Grenada’s cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla and you’ll have the ingredients for one very wicked Christmas cake,” our guide says.

The spiked spirit is only sold for island consumption and plenty of bottles find their way into the independently operated rum shacks that line the main streets throughout Grenada.

Our road laces the mountainous interiors where waterfalls plum-

met, pinnacles ascend and parks beautify; then it descends to a scalloped coastline that shares powder beaches, living reefs and friendly townships.

The fishing village of Gouyave and seaside city of Grenville are just a couple of populated landmarks we pass through before heading to the island capital of St. Georges.

Although it’s difficult to imagine any strife in this peaceloving nation, it was not always a pretty picture.

Like most West Indian islands, there had been an ongoing battle between the native Arawaks and Caribs, then by Caribs and French and, finally, in 1795 by French and British.

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once again, when the U.S. troops invaded in 1983 to successfully overthrow a Marxist government.

Today, Grenada is an independent democratic nation, a member of the British Commonwealth and is as peaceful as it is picturesque.

The evening sun ricochets off the redroofed storefronts that rim St. Georges’ harbour. It casts a golden sheen over pastel homes that cling to the hillside.

Seductive spices permeate the air.

And, while soaking in Grenada’s sites and sounds at the end of our stay, we also affirm, ‘There’s a little Carib in all of us.’

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SLEEP COUNTRY CANADA Hiring a SALES ASSOCIATE Kamloops, BC Apply now at www.sleepcountry.ca Or email your resume to: maud.fremont @sleepcountry.ca

Truck Driver Training

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSE

June 19-21 • July 3-5

Air Brakes

TRAINING TRUCK DRIVERS FOR 27 YEARS!

The Kamloops Sunrays Synchronized Swim Club is seeking a Head Coach.

Required Skills and Abilities: certified Level 3 coach (or working towards), excellent leadership, support & promote KSSSC ‘s vision, mission & values, mentor & promote coach/athlete development, work with the Board of Directors and oversee all programming.

For more information or to submit your resume in confidence, email Mandy Curtis, President kamloopssunrays.president@gmail.com

7028218

KAMLOOPS TM

AUTOMOTIVE SALES Kamloops Hyundai has a sales position available for an experienced high-energy, motivated, career oriented individual. Any previous sales experience is an asset, but more importantly we are seeking someone who has strong communication skills, is reliable, professional and neat in appearance.

We offer an excellent pay plan with benefits plus an award winning line-up of automobiles.

Please drop off resume in person to: Jason Bert, Sales Manager or email to jbert@kamloopshyundai.com

16 Hour Course 20 Hour Course

948 Notre Dame Drive Beside Smith Chev Cadillac

call 250.828.5104 or visit

Perfect opportunity to be your own boss!

1 Issue...................................$16.38 1 Week ..................................$39.60 1 Month ............................. $129.60

Employment

Professional Truck Driver Program - Funding available for those who qualify!

Coming Events

Employment (based on 3 lines)

(No businesses, 3 lines or less)

Travel

~ Caution ~ While we try to ensure all advertisements appearing in Kamloops This Week are placed by reputable businesses with legitimate offers, we do caution our readers to undertake due diligence when answering any advertisement, particularly when the advertiser is asking for monies up front.

Information

The deadline for the Friday July 3rd paper will be: Tuesday June 30th at 2pm.

1 Issue ..................$13.00 1 Week ..................$30.00 1 Month ................$96.00

go to

your event.

The deadline for the Thursday July 2nd paper will be: Monday June 29th at 2pm.

*Run Until Rented

(No businesses, 3 lines or less)

Business Opportunities

and click on the calendar to place

Please note the following Classified Deadline Change:

*Run Until Sold

Regular Classified Rates

Based on 3 lines

COMMUNITY CALENDAR kamloopsthisweek.com

phone: 250-371-4949 fax: 250-374-1033 email: classiÀeds@kamloopsthisweek.com

tru.ca/trades

Class 1, 2, 3 and B-Train Driver Training

Mental Wellness & Substance Use Clinician (Masters) Bring your passion of supporting and working in a community outreach setting where you can become a valuable partner with the North Secwepemc communities.

Three Corners Health Services Society, in partnership with Canim Lake, Canoe Creek, Dog Creek, Soda Creek, Williams Lake, and Alkali Lake is looking for a Mental Wellness Clinician who understands holistic health including all aspects of the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual quadrants.

Qualifications: The successful applicant must have knowledge of First Nations peoples within the Interior Health region as well as a good understanding of colonization and the unique history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This understanding includes the impacts of colonization both past and present. The individual will practice from a Trauma-Informed and culturally safe paradigm. Flexibility with work hours is required, as occasionally weekends or evenings may be needed.

We are seeking a candidate with: t Past and/or current counselling experience within a First Nations context t Group facilitation experience in both traditional First Nations approaches and mainstream approaches t General competency in concurrent disorders t Excellent communication skills and cross cultural communication experience t Two years’ recent related experience in a mental health and substance use environment or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience t Current valid B.C. driver’s license and reliable vehicle t Masters degree from an accredited university in an Allied Health, Behavioural, or Social Science field relevant to the position t Ability to complete successful advanced criminal record check Preferences will be given to qualified applicants of Aboriginal ancestry per Canada’s Human Rights Act and Legislation surrounding employment equity.

To apply please email your resume to: Shawna Nevdoff, Mental Wellness Advisor (Interior) Phone (1) 250-319-9241 Email: shawna.nevdoff@fnha.ca For detailed information please visit www.threecornershealth.org Closing Date: July 6, 2015

www.kamloopshyundai.com 250-851-9380 • 1-888-900-9380

7031720

School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson)

Human Resources System Specialist - Dispatch

School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson) is currently accepting applications for:

Human Resources System Specialist - Dispatch The successful applicant must possess a Grade 12 Diploma, supplemented by a one year program in Office Administration with coursework in database management. The successful applicant will also possess at least four years’ experience in a customer service support position, such as a helpdesk or call centre.

This position is responsible for the Automated Dispatch System (ADS) for teachers/TTOC replacements, and recording support staff absences, dispatching replacements as required in keeping with the Collective Agreement(s), Employee Contracts, and established replacement practices. Work is varied and requires independent judgment and initiative where time is a major consideration, particularly during the early hours while working alone.

Qualified individuals are encouraged to submit written applications by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, June 26, 2015 through www.makeafuture.ca/kamloops-thompson.

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Employment Drivers/Courier/ Trucking

HIGHWAY OWNER OPERATORS $3500 SIGNING BONUS Van Kam’s Group of Companies req. Highway linehaul Owner Operators based in our Kamloops terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving experience/ training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent employee benefits package.

To join our team of professional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driver’s abstract & details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com Call 604-968-5488 Fax: 604-587-9889 Only those of interest will be contacted.

Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

Education/Trade Schools HUNTER & FIREARMS

Courses.

Next C.O.R.E. Aug. 8th & 9th Saturday and Sunday.

P.A.L. June 27th Saturday. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

250-376-7970

Help Wanted

Employment

Employment

Employment

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Legal

Full-Time Positions Location: Kamloops Front Desk Manager: Duties: Develop, implement & evaluate policies for operation of department. Resolve customer complaints. Education: University degree (Hotel Management) Experience: 2yrs Wage: $20.19/Hr Sales & Marketing Manager: Duties: Plan, direct & evaluate activities of sales department.

Establish distribution networks, assist in product development. Education: University degree (Public Relations) Experience: Min 2yrs Wage: $41/Hr Fairfield Inn & Suites

by Marriott 1475 Hugh Allen Dr. Kamloops, BC V1S 1J3 Please forward resume to: charanrai00@hotmail.com 604-760-1527 Industrial Electrician and Industrial Mechanic/Millwright trades people required for Okanagan Manufacturing Company. Experience with PLC’s is a must for the Electrical position. Please mail resume to C/O The Morning Star, Box.5, 4407-25 Ave, Vernon, B.C. V1T 1P5 I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

Part Time to Full Time barber required drop off resumes to Mount Paul Barber Shop, 704 Mount Paul Way, Kamloops.

Bilkey Law Corp.

is looking for substitute distributors for door-to-door deliveries.

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

250-374-0462

Education/Trade Schools

Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries.

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

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24/7 • anonymous • confidential • in your language

YOUTH AGAINST VIOLENCE LINE

Located in Kamloops, we are a boutique insurance litigation law firm led by David Bilkey, Q.C. We are seeking an intermediate level lawyer with a 5+ year call. Trial experience in the S.C.B.C & knowledge of insurance law is beneficial.

Candidate must be efficient, independent, but also willing to work in a team environment.

Competitive salary packages.

Interested parties are asked to send their CV to the attention of Jen Ford at: jford@bilkeylaw.ca

info@youthagainstviolence.com

Help Wanted

Job Opportunities

Gas Station Attendant Must be mechanically inclined.

Graveyard Janitor Must be reliable and maintain cleanliness.

Apply in person with Resume. No phone calls.

Ask for Ev. Halston Esso 1271 Salish Road.

Education/Trade Schools

(Regular) Reporting to the Manager, Building Services, this position provides assistance in the performance of regular maintenance and repairs on buildings, building systems and grounds maintenance.

Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is June 25, 2015. Please quote competition # 63-COV-15.

WANTED:

TRIP COORDINATOR DEVELOPING WORLD CONNECTIONS is offering an exciting opportunity for a TRIP COORDINATOR, to oversee all of the logistics required to mobilize and send volunteer teams to the developing world.

The successful applicant will be an excellent time manager with superior organizational and coordination skills. He/she will be outgoing, friendly, have experience in developing world travel and have a degree or diploma in Business Administration, International Development, or other relevant education.

For more information, go to DWC’s website http://www.developingworldconnections.org

EARN EXTRA $$$

KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city.

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

Interested applicants, please send your cover letter and resume to info@developingworldconnections.org, citing Trip Coordinator in the subject line, by Thursday July 9th.

Full-Time Positions Location: Kamloops Front Desk Manager: Duties: Develop, implement & evaluate policies for operation of department. Recruit & supervise staff, make schedule & payroll. Resolve customer complaints. Education: University degree/College diploma (Hotel Management) Experience: 3yrs Wage: $20.19/Hr Hampton Inn by Hilton 1245 Rogers Way Kamloops, BC V1S 1R9 Please forward resume to: charanrai00@hotmail.com 604-760-1572

Career Opportunities

TRADES ASSISTANT

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Education/Trade Schools

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Insurance Litigation Lawyer

1-800-680-4264 Help Wanted

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Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Rocky Mountaineer is hiring in Kamloops.

Best. Job. Ever.

Rarely will you have an opportunity to join a world-class company with world-class people, all on a mission to create life changing experiences. If you passionately believe you belong on our team, we want to hire exceptional people like you.

PROVISIONING SUPERVISOR The Provisioning Supervisor is responsible for: • Leading Rocky Mountaineer’s provisioning and stocking program • Successfully motivating and managing a large group of employees • Enforcing a culture of safety and outstanding customer service to internal and external stakeholders • Supporting the onboard delivery of Rocky Mountaineer’s award-winning experience

2014 TOURISM EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR

This is a full-time, year-round position based in Kamloops.

For more information & to apply, visit rockymountaineer.com/careers 2013 TOURISM EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR

Has the following door to door delivery routes coming available:

ABERDEEN Rte 583 – Butte Pl, Chinook Pl, 1423 1670 MT Dufferin Ave. – 42 p.

Rte 584 – 1752 - 1855 Hillside Dr. – 33 p.

Rte 588 – Davies Pl, 1680 - 1751 Hillside Dr, Hillside Pl, Monterey Pl, Scott Pl. – 44 p.

Rte 590 – 1397 Copperhead Dr, Saskatoon Pl. – 35 p.

Rte 591 – 1940 Hillside Pl. – 20 p.

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 708 – 1191 - 1306 Crestwood Dr, Sunrise Dr, Vaughn Pl. – 29 p.

Rte 750 – 5101 - 5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. – 29 p.

Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Rd, 5300 - 5599 Dallas Dr, 5485 - 5497 ETC Hwy, Viking Dr, Wade Pl. 60 p.

DOWNTOWN/LOWER SAHALI Rte 326 – 850 11th Ave, 1003 - 1083 Columbia St (odd side) 1003 1195 Dominion St. 39 p.

Rte 331 – 1125 10th Ave, 984-987 9th Ave, 901 - 981 Douglas St, 902 - 999 Munro St, 800 - 990 Pleasant St. 46 p.

Rte 370 – McIntosh St, Nicola Wagon St, 116 Seymour St, 35 - 377 W. Seymour St. 40 p.

RAYLEIGH Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 62 p.

WESTSYDE/WESTMOUNT Rte 225 – 3375 - 3495 Bank Rd, Bray Pl, 3324 - 3498 Overlander Dr, Steinke Pl. - 69 p.

Rte 243 – Dohm Rd, Serle Crt, Pl, & Rd, 3102 - 3190 Westsyde Rd. - 68 p.

* Also looking for Summer relief carriers in all areas *

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 250-374-0462

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Sales

Computer Equipment

Pets

ADVERTISING Consultants: Our company is always looking for great sales representatives to add to our team. Our business requires a highly organized individual with ability to multi-task in a fun, fastpaced team environment.

Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required.

Excellent communication skills, valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle are necessary.

If you have a passion for the advertising business, are creative and thrive on challenges, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to:khall@aberdeenpublishing.com We thank all applicants; only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Trades, Technical Kodiak Drywall Ltd. is seeking to hire experienced steel stud framers, drywallers and tapers. Call 250-765-3033.

Work Wanted HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774.

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /OfďŹ ce Worker/Tutor Detail oriented, organized, problem-solver, extremely computer literate.

Strong proofreading, editing, technical writing, public speaking skills.

Can teach practically anything I know. IT work preferred but any job using problem-solving skills could be a good match.

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm. 250)371-4949 classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com *some restrictions apply.

WANTED! Newer MacBook Pro or MacBook Air 250-3711333

Free Items

TRY A CLASSIFIED AD

Free Queen size wood headboard w/shelves and mirror You pick up! (250) 320-3531

Furniture

Fruit & Vegetables FRESH STRAWBERRIES THE BERRY PATCH 3930 - 10 Avenue NE TCH Salmon Arm (250)832-4662

Purebred Boxer Puppies For Sale. 6 week old boxers.

Dew claws and tails docked, 1st shots and deworming done. Ready to go in two weeks. $950 Call John at 250-819-1122

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

Trees plum Stella Call 3480.

peach, apple, cherry, $10 - $25/ea. Lapin & Cherries $1.50-$2.00/lb. all summer. 250-376-

Food Products

1930’s Walnut dining rm suite w/6 chairs and buffet $600 (250) 573-5445 Corner display unit curved glass sides $400 250-3725062

Antique’s Fawcett Woodstove, Beatty Bros $1500, Washing Machine Wooden Tub $1000, Spinning Wheel $400 1-(250) 674-1141 Dining Room Set Early 1900’s 6chr 1captain, buffet and side tbl 3 leaves $2500 554-2270

Pets & Livestock

Oak China Cabinet. $500/obo.

Armoire. $500/obo.

Good cond. 250-672-9408 (McLure).

Food Products

Box 67, 100 Mile House B.C. V0K 2E0

BEFORE YOU SELL: • ASPEN • BIRCH • COTTONWOOD • PINE - SPRUCE - FIR PULP LOGS Please call NORM WILCOX (250) 395-6218 (direct line) • (250) 706-9728 (cell) (250) 395-6201 (fax)

$500 & Under

Misc. for Sale 6995728

Landscaping

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL

PETER’S YARD SERVICE

For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent.

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

Hedge Trimming, fruit trees.

Financial Services $500 loans and more No credit checks

1-877-776-1660 GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com TAX FREE MONEY is available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

Did you know that you can place

WE will pay you to exercise!

your item in our classifieds for

Deliver Kamloops This Week

one week for FREE?

Call our Classified Department for details!

for a route near you!

*some restrictions apply

CARPET CLEANING

Misc. for Sale

SPRING SPECIALS ON NOW!

BLUE TARPS

STARTING AT $2.19

WHITE TARPS 10X10 weave (Heavy Duty)

STARTING AT $3.99

BLACK TARPS 14X14 weave (Industrial Duty)

STARTING AT $5.49

FOAM SHOP MATTRESS REPLACEMENTS SINGLE TO KING SIZE 2� TO 6� THICK - CUSTOM CUT OR CUSTOM ORDER MEMORY FOAM TOPPER PADS - 3LB DENSITY SINGLE TO KING SIZE - 2� & 3� THICK

CUSHION REPLACEMENTS TORN OR TATTERED? SOFAS, CHAIRS, OTTOMANS, SNOWMOBILES SEATS, TRACTORS

YOU NEED IT - WE WILL CUT IT!

CAMPING FOAM, MEDICAL WEDGES & BOLSTERS, PILLOWS

“ A CUT ABOVE THE REST� www.surplusherbys.com

248 TRANQUILLE RD, NORTH SHORE - KAMLOOPS 250376-2714 • OUT OF TOWN CALL 1-800-665-4533

QUICK DRYING. USE SAME DAY.

TRY A CLASSIFIED AD

J.WALSH & SONS 250.372.5115 Garden & Lawn

IT’S GARAGE SALE TIME Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL

ONLY $11.50 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line)

250-371-4949

classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com Garage Sale deadline is

AND RUNNING CARS WANTED. I PAY TOP DOLLAR $$$$$$$$$$$$$

250-682-7112

Home Improvements 7026500

GREAT PRODUCT. SMART SERVICE. Carpet - Hardwood Laminate - Vinyl Tile - Stone

Landscaping

250-371-4949

10X8 weave (Medium Duty)

YOUR BUSINESS HERE

FULL SERVICE plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1800-573-2928

Carpet Cleaning

“BEST PRICES IN TOWN!�

Hauling & Salvage

info@nufloors.ca | 250.372.8141

call 250-374-0462

ABERDEEN Estate Sale: June 20th & 21st 9-3PM #93-1950 Braeview Place. Tools, bedroom furniture, pool table, scooter, lamps, pictures etc.

Priced to go!

ABERDEEN Sierra Vista Estates 2080 Pacific Way Sat June 20th 8-1pm UNIT 32 TOOLS & TOOLS UNIT 14 COLLECTABLES & MISC BARNHARTVALE Moving Sale! Saturday and Sunday, June 20 & 21, 9am4pm. 5367 Ronde Lane.

BATCHELOR HEIGHTS Moving sale: Sat Jun 20 8-1pm. Everything must go, no reasonable offer will be refused, 1070 Norview Road BROCK 1173 Ponlen St. Pioneer Pl Community Sale. Sat June 20 8-3 pm Foot trafďŹ c only inside complex. Park on Ponlen BROCK Fundraiser for New Life Mission. Saturday, June 20th.

9am-2pm.

Free Methodist Centennial Chapel, 975 Windbreak St. All sales by donation for this worthy cause.

BROCK Moving Sale Fri & Sat. June 19/20th. 9-1pm 856 Invermere Court. Many household items.

BROCK Sat Jun 20 9-3pm 1790 Parkcrest Ave. Downsizing Sale Something for everyone!

BROCK Saturday June 20th 8-12pm #39- 1836 Greenfield Avenue BROCK Saturday, June 20th. 8am2pm. 2048 Tranquille Rd. Multi-Family. Lots for Everyone.

NORTH SHORE Big Multi-Family clear out sale.

Saturday, June 20th.

8am-12noon. 219 Evans Ave. NORTH SHORE Sat June 20th. 9-2pm 1115 7th Street. Household items, furniture, jewelry, books, clothing, games, toys. All proceeds to the SPCA.

250-572-0753

WWW.NUFLOORS.CA

Only 3 issues a week!

Tony’s Lawn and Garden Maintenance, pruning, hedging, power raking, aerating, rototilling (250) 571-5408 Underground Sprinklers You Dig, I install. WEST END CEDARS 250-574-5816 Whitney’s Open Garden 216 Poplar Rd. McLure, BC 250-672-9982 Cash or Cheques Sorry No Debit or Credit Cards Open Dates: June 20 & 21 Open 10am - 4pm As usual we have a great selection of Dahlia Tubers. We have 155 kinds of Hostas potted up - of these, 17 kinds are new ones. We also have Peonies, Ferns, Tall German Bearded Iris, Hardy Cactus and other perennials.

Phil has a great selection of Water Lilies on sale for $25/each. Plus a good selection of pond plants.

Concrete & Placing

Tree removal Dump runs Licensed & Certiďƒžed

250-377-3457

$ $ SCRAP $ $

Apply at moneyprovider.com

Fitness/Exercise

TARPS! TARPS!

FIND US ON FACEBOOK

Handypersons

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Pets Animals sold as “purebred stock� must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

Mind Body Spirit

Relax and unwind with a full body massage for appointment couples welcome (250) 682-1802

Gibbard 4poster qu bed $850obo Drk Grn dbl hideabed $250 (778) 471-8627

Merchandise for Sale

Antiques / Vintage

Businesses & Services

ALL PRO LANDSCAPE

Only $150/month

Run your 1x1 semi display classiďŹ ed in every issue of Kamloops This Week

Call 250-371-4949

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Maintenance Services

FURNACE DUCT

SPRING CLEANING SPECIAL ON NOW!

J.WALSH & SONS 250.372.5115 Painting & Decorating WWW.PAINTSPECIAL.COM

250-318-2303

3 Rooms For $299 2 Coats Any Colour

(Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls. Cloverdale Premium Quality Paint. NO PAYMENT, until job is completed!

RooďŹ ng & Skylights METAL ROOFING & SIDING

CURBING

Buy direct from Manufacturer Full 36� coverage 29 ga

FREE ESTIMATES

DISCOUNT DIRECT METALS

CALL

778-538-CURB (2872)

Aerate t Power Rake Yard/Lot/Garden Clean Up Prune t Mow t Weed Whack Weed t Hedge Trim t Plant Gravel/Rock/Mulch t Turf Garden Walls t Paving Stones Irrigation: Start up & Repairs

Galvalume - $1.99 lin ft.

Colour - $2.49 All Brand New Material 40 Year Colour Warranty North American made Phone Brian (250) 318-2883

1-800-222-TIPS

Stucco/Siding

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE:

250-376-2689

Concrete & Placing

Wednesday 2pm for Friday Call Tuesday before 2pm for our 2 day special for $15.50 for Thursday and Friday Garage Sale Packages must be picked up Prior to the Garage Sale.

NORTH SHORE Sat&Sun June 20/21st. 9am2pm. 1279 10th Street. Bike parts, collectables, tools, water pump, high output electronics.

SAHALI Saturday, June 20th. 8am3pm. 189 Whiteshield Cresc.

Hshld items and much more.

UPPER SAHALI Sat, June 20th 9-2pm. 1825 Whistler Court. Multi Family Cul-de-sac Sale /Moving Sale VALLEYVIEW Sat. 10-3pm 2643 Valleyview Drive. Mega Garage Sale book cases, shelving, printers, children’s clothes, toys, books, cd’s and much more!

Luigi’s SMALL

CONCRETE JOBS

BRICKS, BLOCKS, PAVERS, SIDEWALKS + PRUNING

F R E E E S T I M AT E S !

t YOUTH AGAINST VIOLENCE LINE

1-800-680-4264

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Heavy Duty Machinery

Apt/Condos for Sale

Northland Apartments

A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200.

Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Jewels, Furs

Student/Bachelor Suites Furnished/Utilities Incl’d Starting @ $850 per month 1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets / No Smoking Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry Starting @ $825 per month Downtown 250-314-1135 North Shore 250-376-1427 Nicola Towers 2bdrms facing north west beautiful downtown, mountains, river & valley, concrete building completely renovated all appl incld $229,500. Call Rob 371-0188

For Sale By Owner Westsyde Mobile home 2bdrm needs some tlc $45,000obo 250-319-8674

Houses For Sale Absolutely Stunning White Gold engagement ring. Main diamond is .94 carat with another .5 carat in smaller diamonds. Size 7. Recently appraised at $5500 asking $4800 obo. Call to view 250578-7202 after 5pm

Misc. Wanted PURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670

Musical Instruments Yamaha Clavinova CLP-240 Digital Piano. Exec cond. C/W bench, lamp and manual. $800. 250-434-4134.

Yamaha Organ Electone HS-7. Good shape, works well. $750. 250-879-1777.

Sporting Goods 3-sets of golf clubs, carts & bags included. 2-righthand, 1lefthand w/extras. $100/up.

250-374-0339.

I am a licensed to pick up unwanted firearms and provide transfer receipt 778-220-8864

Real Estate Apt/Condos for Sale

FOR SALE OR TRADE for residential property in Kamloops. This very bright, fully furnished, three bedroom/two bath corner unit townhouse in Big White offers your very own hot tub on the patio, carport, high end furniture/appliance pkge, stacking washer/dryer and rock-faced fireplace. Short stroll to Gondola, skating rink, tube park, Day Lodge. Ideal for family or as a revenue generator throughout the ski season. Strata fees only $155.00 per month. Call Don at 250682-3984 for more information. Asking $189,000.00

Rentals

1 & 2 bdrm suites for sale.

STARTING AT

169.000

$

Call Doug at 250-376-4477

nkshca.webs.com

1/bdrm starting at $850/mth 2/bdrm starting at $1000/mth Incl/heat, hot water. N/S, N/P. Senior oriented.

250-554-7888

SUN RIVERS CONDO Top floor bdrm & flex room. All appl., $1,250/mo. util incld.

July 1st. 250-376-3816.

250.377-7275 www.berwickretirement.com

Apt/Condo for Rent The Sands, Lower Sahali.

Centrally located, renovated 1&2 Bdrms, starting at $850.

On-site Management. 8281711.

Bed & Breakfast

Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS

Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC.

1 Bedroom Apartments $785 - 910 t 4FOJPST 0SJFOUBUFE t $MPTF UP UIF )PTQJUBM t 2VJFU -JWJOH 4QBDF t 6OEFSHSPVOE 1BSLJOH t /FXMZ 3FOPWBUFE 4VJUFT 520 Battle Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2 250-372-0510 1bdrm $775 a mnt n/s, a/c, free parking. New Laminate. In Valleyview close to down town (250) 376-7616 1bdrm Gordonhorn Gardens Sahali. N/P, N/S $750/mo Avail July 15. 250-828-1204.

2bdrm apartment Down Town Covered prk Private ent common laundry, n/p n/s $890 376-8131 /250-371-1623 CARMEL PLACE 55+ Quality Living in new medical building.

Studio suites with affordable rates, FOB entry, elevator, scooter stations and Telus Optik Package! Call Columbia Property Management to book your appointment: 250-851-9310

2&3 Bedroom Condos Juniper, 1-2 bathrooms Hot Water Heat Included. $1,000- $1,250 + Hydro Sunden Management Ltd (250) 376-0062

www.sundenmanagement.com

Large 1bdrm apt in Logan Lake n/p, $600 hot water/hydro/tv incl Minimum 6 month lease (250) 523-6933

NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings.

Reasonable Rental Rates Utilities not included

CALL 250-682-0312

Homes for Rent Looking for a Rental in Kamloops or Logan Lake?

Call 250-371-4949 for more information

Commercial/ Industrial Warehouse space for lease aprox 2700sq ft North Shore location available immediately (250) 376-3733 or (250) 3147654 Mon - Sat

Recreation ✰SHUSWAP LAKE!✰ VACATION RENTAL

5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek B.C. 1-bdrm 1-bath Park Model.

Tastefully decorated guest cabin. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat.

Provincial Park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor Store and Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot-tubs, Adult and Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground.

Asking $1500/week. 4 day, 1-week, 2-week & monthly rentals available.

BOOK NOW! FMI CALL 1-250-371-1333

Duplex / 4 Plex New 3bdrm 2bth North Shore 1 car garage n/s, n/p near school and bus stop $1500 Avail Jul 1st (250) 376-8465

Homes for Rent 2bdrm Down town fenced yrd 5 appl. N/P, N/S $1250 Suitable for 2 250-319-4062 3bdrm older home near Hospital. $1,100 per month 778220-3982.

Older 3bdrm home Willow Ranch 20 mins south of Kamloops $1000mo 250-372-1794

Townhouses NORTH SHORE

Call 250-376-0062

*Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

Room & Board

318-4321

1992 Toyota 4X4. Excellent condition, runs great. $5,000. 250-374-1988.

NO PETS

Antiques / Classics

Shared Accommodation

1967 Ford Falcon Futura St.6 Auto 2dr all original runs good, $6000 obo (250) 376-5722

IN private home, pleasant surroundings fully furnished working male pref. near amenities behind sahali mall 10 min walk to TRU 374-0949 or 372-3339 Looking for roommate to share mobile in Westsyde.

N/S. $550/mo. (250) 319-8674 Near TRU Room $325-per month util included. No Pets.

250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020 Roommate to share house, country living, pets okay. $800/mo. 250-377-3457.

Auto Accessories/Parts

Transportation

Set of Goodyear Ultra Winters.

P205/55-R16 on 5 stud rim will fit Mazda 3. $500. 851-0504.

Cars - Domestic 1998 Pontiac Bonneville.

220,000kms. Good cond. Well maintained. $1000. 372-8541 2003 Buick Century. 4dr, auto.

247,000kms.

Very good shape. $1800/obo. 376-2337.

2004 Chrysler Intrepid 3.5L, full load, new brakes, tires, battery. $3850/obo. 376-4163 2006 Ford Taurus. 4dr, auto.

Green. 177,000kms. Good shape. $7,000. 250-851-0264.

2006 Toyota Corolla CE. Auto, Good shape.

140,000kms. $5195 obo. 250-372-8806.

2008 Cadillac CTS Premium.

130,000kms.

AWD, Great in the winter, BLK w/leather interior, CD, power windows, seats, mirrors, locks, heating/cooling seats. $16,800. 250-320-6900.

Cars - Sports & Imports

2001 BMW 540i “M” Sport 234,000 km, 2 owners, 4.4L, 6spd, 4dr. sedan,Gray/white, c/w full set spare rims, roof racks, other extras, service records avail. Exc cond $6300. Ph.250 374-0070

Commercial Vehicles

Electric Motorino Scooter 122km like new, new batteries, $2500obo 1-250-5236976

Recreational/Sale 1989 Fleetwood AClass 120,000km slps 6, well kept, $8500obo (250) 579-9691 1991 27ft. 5th-Wheel. Fully loaded, like new. Everything incld. Shower, toilet never used. $5,000 250-579-9029.

1994 Coleman Sedona tent trailer exc cond, newly serviced slps 6 $4000 374-2192 1997 Vanguard 24 ft. Fifth Wheel trailer, new tires, brakes and wheel bearings. $3950.00 OBO 250-376-2570 2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6 winter pkg, fully loaded, $16,900. 250-376-1655.

2008 29’ Springdale travel trailer with 12’ slide sleeps 6 in great shape $14,500 obo txt or call 250-851-1091 2012 Puma 23FBQ by Forest River. Sleeps-6, loaded, all acc. Driver restriction (medical forces sale).

Used 3X. 3000kms. As New. $16,500.

250-371-1087.

Montana 5th wheel 4 slides hardwood flrs incl Ford F350 diesel new tires must be seen $35,000obo 1-(575) 740-1511

2001 Pontiac Montana Minivan.

8-passenger, AWD, clean, good running cond. $1800. 250-573-5659.

2006 Ford F250 Lariat Crewcab loaded. 5th wheel hitch.

Self loading boatrack. Airflow tailgate. New 20” tires & windshield 125,000miles. 6liter diesel. Tow/haul transmission.

Asking $18,900 (250) 3723682 or (250) 819-4768 2006 GMC W3500. 5.3L, Isuzu diesel. Med duty tilt cab wit air dam. 16ft. alum box with roll-up back door. Auto, PW, PL, exhaust brake.

375,000kms.

1-owner. $9,000/obo. 250-828-0599.

2008 Denali Crew Cab AWD. Sunroof, DVD, NAV. Fully loaded. 22” chrome wheels, leather.

141,000kms. $29,800. 250319-8784.

Utility Trailers

2006 Dumping Trailer.

5000lbs/ 2272 kg capacity.

Holds 2.4 cubic yards. $8,800. 250-374-1988.

Run until sold

New Price $56.00+tax

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one flat rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* • $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) • $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

1987 GMC Cube Van. Setup for tradesman. Runs good. $5,500.

250-3741988.

Contractors Tundra HD Econo Custom. Hwy, hauler $35,000 Concrete work as possible part of the payment.

250-377-8436.

1993 GMC 1/2 ton extended cab 160,000km, standard, runs great, needs exhaust system and tires. $3000 obo 250-571-4501 leave message

9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom.

Good shape. $3,200/obo. 250-376-1841.

Scrap Car Removal

Flatdeck Hauler for Heavy Equipment. $4,500. 250374-1988.

Trailer for snowmobile/ATV 10ft long aluminum, tilt deck, $1800 (250) 320-9068

Boats 17ft. Grumman Aluminum Canoe. 3 paddles & accessories. $1000/obo. 250-377-3686.

1996 Seadoo, 5-seater jet boat & trailer. New motor & impellars, many extras. Excellent shape. $6,900. 250-672-9887.

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg

Sport Utility Vehicle

Motorcycles 1984 Goldwing Interstate 1200.

Exec shape.

76,000kms. $2500. 374-2733

05 Hybrid Ford Escape, no accidents non smoker, 160,000K winter and summer tires on rims $10500 (250) 319-5760

Suites, Upper Convenient Sahali location, bright 2/bdrm newly reno’d n/s $1045 util incl call or text 1604-616-6200.

2007 Honda Gold Wing Trike 94,000km GPS, passenger arm rests, matching chrome wheels $25,900 250-573-7610

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Nutritious food, nursing experience, in my home 24/7. Call 250-376-3801.

Room and Board in Brock wifi, laundry, $700 per month 250572-3770

1BDRM Downtown NP, no smokers! Inclds utils & int. $800/mth,Aug 1 250-318-0318 1bdrm Juniper prvt ent, prk, w/d util incl n/s, n/p $900 250299-4005 / 250-459-2258 1BDRM level entry in Brock $800/mo incl util Avail immed.

N/P. 250-318-3546 1Bdrm private garden apt furnished w/all util W/D $1000/mo N/S N/P Mature long term tenant 372-5922 1BDRM Sep. Entr. Shared Lndry. N/S N/P $800/mo+DD+ ref’s, util. incl. Brock 554-2228 1brm self contained suite. Fully furnished, bedding, flat TV, Wifi, kitchen plates etc. Sahali.

N/S, N/P. $1,000/mo. 250851-1193.

2bdrm 4 quiet working person or couple, c/a, nice yard, no pets, shr util, ref $850 vacant (250) 376-0633 2BDRM in Brock new reno’d w/d Private entr/parking. n/s/p, $1000/mo. 250-319-1911.

2 Bdrm main flr near school, bus/shopping, n/p, n/s, Northshore $900/mo 250-376-8465 2Bdrm NShore, w/d n/p/s, util incld $1000/mth, 250- 5799225 Brock, Bright Lrg-2bdrms furnished.

W/D. July 1st. $1000/mo. incld util. 376-2684.

Ground level 2bdrm Batchelor H, N/S, N/D, N/P, Avail July 1 $1200 util incl (250) 376-2379 Large 2bdrm Basement Suite Westsyde. f/s w/d n/p n/s + 1/2 util $1100 Call 250-319-7421 New 1bdrm Batchelor Hghts, utils, TV, internet a/c, w/d, prk n/p July 1 $950 250-376-6609 North Shore 1bdrm. N/S, N/P. $625 includes util. DD, Ref’s.

250-554-6798.

N/Shore 2bdrm full daylight bsmnt suite.

Newly reno’d.

N/S, N/P. $950 incl 2 loads of laundry per wk Lvg Msg. 250376-3854.

Sahali 2bdrm daylight basement suite. Full kitchen, bath & laundry. N/S, N/P. Fully furnished. 1-Person $900, 2-People. $1200. Available Aug. 1st.

On bus route. 250-851-1304.

Welcoming Cumfy 1bedroom.

Close to University, Hospital.

Student or quiet person. Excellent Location. $495or$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

Trucks & Vans 1989 Chevy S10 4x4. Great running gear. A-1 mechanical. $1000/firm. 250-554-0580.

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Independent and assisted living, short term stay’s, 24 hour nursing care and respite.

Medical Supplies

21” gas mulch mower. Just like new. $75. 250-376-3440.

Brinkston BBQ $100, Ladies Super Cycle Bike 15spd $125 patio set w/4chairs and cushions $100 (250) 319-5105 Meat Slicer 10in Stainless $200. Elec cheese grinder $200 (250) 374-7979 MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

Shoprider Scooter.

Windshield/canopy/basket/charger. $1500. 778-470-8304.

Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477 Treadmill Free Spirit $300 Lrg Oak table w/6chairs 2 lvs like new $1200 (250) 579-9483

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Respiratory CPAP ResMed S9 Machine used 3months $1200 554-2528/ 572-6430

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Townhouses

1996 Yamaha Royal Star with sidecar, airbrushed. $21,900. Over $80,000 invested. 250-573-7610.

3BDRM 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immed.

250-374-5586 / 250-371-0206

Trike 2006 Suzuki Blvd 850, black, 20K, air ride, reverse, 68” back end.

1-250-3072963 or 1(778)475-1063

1981 GMC Suburban 4X4.

Re-built motor/trans.

Good shape. $2,900. 250-828-1808.

Jeep YJ 4x4 1987 restored, 6cyl 5sp, lifted, 33”tires on Eagle Rims, 10,000 lb Winch, over $15,000 invested asking $12000 (250) 828-0931

“CLASSIC” GREW 1974 Grew 204, Mercruiser V8 I/O, Trim tabs, blue w/white deck, Sts 6, 2 props, bumpers, moor Lines, radio, ski ropes, on EZ-Loader Trailer. $3300. 250-374-0070

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FATHERS DAY %$#& MY DAD SAYS CONGRATULATIONS TO TREVOR WARD, WHO HAS WON OUR FATHERS DAY CONTEST

TREVOR’S WINNING ENTRY: NO ONE EVER WENT TO THEIR DEATHBED SAYING “I SHOULD HAVE SPENT MORE TIME AT THE OFFICE”

TREVOR HAS WON A WEEKEND FOR TWO IN VANCOUVER TO ENJOY A BC LIONS HOME GAME! THANKS YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS YEARS CONTEST. WE HAD A GREAT LAUGH READING YOUR ENTRIES. ANGELA’S DAD SAYS: STOP STIRRING THE %$#& OR I’LL TAKE THE STICK AND BEAT YOU WITH THE %$#& STICK

LAURA BALOGH’S DAD SAYS: THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK!

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BEV KENNEDY’S DAD SAYS: YOU GOTTA’ HAVE A PLAN MICHAEL McQUEEN’S DAD SAYS: STOP MUCKING AROUND AND GET IT DONE

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Stuff the Berwick Bus with non perishable food items

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ST’KEMLUPSEMC TE SECWEPEMC NATION COMMUNITY INFORMATION ARTICLE

Photo: Little Fawn Nursery students, parents and supervisors watch Ed and Nacoma cleaning Trout

Spring Trout Fishery Article by Sunny LeBourdais, SSN KGHM Project Specialist, May 2015 The big yellow school bus lumbers down the trail as the sun sparkles through the trees over Tkekyilstem (Heffley Creek). The doors crack open and bright green and red shirts pour out as students, parents and supervisors make their way out of the bus. Councillor Ed Jensen (T’kemlups te Secwepemc) is there waiting with his snare in hand and knowledge in heart.

Everyone looks on in excitement as they see the trout darting in the creek. The trout have come up the creek to spawn and leave their legacy in the creek beds. Everyone gathers around while Ed explains how this area is an important trout fishery and that the trout fisheries are unique opportunities which only exists in select environmental conditions which are tailored to suit specific runs of fish.

He relays the importance of the trout fisheries as the first source of protein for Secwepemc after winter and how this protein would sustain us until the salmon begin to run.

In his hand is a long, limber birch pole which he has carefully selected. He explains that the pole must be long enough to allow the fisher to remain unseen and carefully fastens a copper snare wire to the end. Once constructed the snare is used to “lasso” the trout out of the creek. This method allows for the least amount of damage or impact to the creek and the spawning beds. The long poles allow the fisher to stay farther back from the creek banks, while the snare wire does not disturb the creek bed in the same way a net might.

“Before we take we must give”, he bestows on his audience. Prayers and tobacco offerings are given before anything is taken from the creek. Then the fun starts! The snare is dipped into the water and slowly worked downstream around the trout and then out the trout comes with a swift yank! The children shriek, clap and whoop as the trout flops about in protest. Ed and Nacoma George (Tk’emlups) each take a small group down sharing their knowledge and passing on a tradition that has lived for centuries. The children pack sticks filled with fish and Ed explains that now the real work will begin. These fish are all destined for smoking.

They also have a special guest for this trip, Ugo Lapointe from Mining Watch. They hope that these ‘on the land’ experiences he witnesses over the day will give him an appreciation for the Secwepemc values associated with the trout fishery areas.

In the afternoon the group is joined by Chief Ron Ignace (Skeetchestn) and Councillor Marshall Gonzales (Skeetchestn) for a special trip. The group travels to a historic trout fishery site at the creeks which enter (Jacko Creek) and exit (Peterson Creek) Jacko Lake (Pipsell). This site has been monitored for weeks in anticipation of the trout run. The group walks the creek and see that the run is beginning, the trout are just beginning to enter the creek through the spillway coming out of Jacko.

Snares are poised and technique is critical because with the run just starting the trout are wary. In preparation the trout splash and swim up and down the spillway into the creek where they wait to spawn. We all bear witness to the trout being snared out of the creek, providing essential proteins at a critical time.

The group conveys to Ugo the importance of Pipsell and all its connections to the land, water and air. This area is included in the proposed Ajax Mine Project which is the reason Ugo is visiting Kamloops. The Ajax project proposes to alter and divert Peterson Creek and forever remove it as a trout fishery.

This project’s proposal comes at a time when revitalization not eradication of our trout fisheries is needed. Preservation of the trout fishing sites and passing this knowledge to the generations to come will always be a top priority for Stk’emlupsemc in our responsibility as yecminme7.

“We do not have a mandate, we have a responsibility. We are yecminme7.”

FRIDAY, June 19, 2015

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National Aboriginal Day Celebrate on June 21

J

une 21 is National Aboriginal Day, a day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Although these groups share many similarities, they each have their own distinct heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.

In co-operation with Aboriginal organizations, the Canadian government chose June 21, the summer solstice, for National Aboriginal Day. For generations, many Aboriginal peoples and communities have celebrated their cul-

Celebrations will include: • Live performances by Aboriginal talent.

• Comedian Curtis Friesen.

• Singer Jordan Frost.

• Waylon Moar with a tribute to Hank Williams.

• Music by Ritchie and the Fendermen.

• MC host K.A.S.P. • Moccasin Mile. To register, contact Anne — Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Keith at 250-828-9801.

• Father’s Day activities with prizes.

Development Canada, aadnc-aandc.gc.ca Vendors, bouncy castles, face painting, door prizes, concession by the Painted Pony Cafe In Kamloops and fireworks.

Celebrate Aboriginal culture on June 21 in Post your tweets with #KamNAD15 to win Kamloops at the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc prizes. arbour from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. ture and heritage on or near this day due to the significance of the summer solstice as the longest day of the year.

National Aboriginal Day was announced in 1996 by then Governor General, Roméo LeBlanc, after consultations and statements of support for such a day were made by various Aboriginal groups.

The people of the confluence A history of the Secwepemc people The word Kamloops is the English translation of the Shuswap word Tk’emlúps, meaning ‘where the rivers meet,’ and for centuries has been the home of the Tk’emlupsemc, “people of the confluence.”

At one time the Secwepemc people occupied one large traditional territory covering approximately 145,000 square kilometers.

In 1811, after European contact, the colonial government divided the Secwepemc people into 17 distinct groups with specific parcels of land designated to each.

The Kamloops reserve land base was established in 1862 under the direction of Governor James Douglas.

It is located east of the

North Thompson River and north of the South Thompson River, adjacent to the City of Kamloops.

Tk’emlúps has always occupied a place of great economic importance in the region.

Traversed by two major waterways, traditional Tk’emlupsemc territory was the center of major traffic and trade routes.

Due to the community’s great economic and military strength, as well as its ancestor’s pivotal role in the creation of peace accords, the Tk’emlupsemc were designated the Secwepemc7uwi, “the real Shuswap”.

The Tk‘emlúpsemc, now known as the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc are members of the Interior-Salish

Secwepemc (Shuswap) speaking peoples of B.C. The Secwepemc people occupy a vast territory of the interior of the province, stretching from the Columbia River valley along the Rocky Mountains, west to the Fraser River, and south to the Arrow Lakes.

The traditional Secwepemc lived as a selfgoverning nation grouped into bands.

Although the bands were separate and independent, a common language and a similar culture and belief system united them.

Before the smallpox epidemic of 1862 there were 32 Secwepemc bands with four Secwepemc dialects.

Today, there are 17 remaining bands that make up the Secwepemc Nation

and three Secwepemc dialects.

Traditionally, the Secwepemc depended on the natural resources of the land.

Each band usually spent the winter in its own village of pit houses.

During the rest of the year, most Secwepemc people lived a nomadic lifestyle.

They moved from place to place, as foods became available in different areas.

They developed a unique, self-sufficient culture.

Two European fur trading posts were established in Kamloops in 1812, utilizing Aboriginal skills to harvest animal populations, such as beaver.

By 1826 the effects of trapping on these popula-

tions were already noticeable.

Population increased in the Kamloops area from the late 1850s with gold miners, followed by ranchers in the 1860s and railway workers in the 1880s.

Chief Louis, born in 1828, was the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc chief from 1855 until his death in 1915.

Petit Louis or Hli Kleh Kan, was a dominant figure in the development of the Kamloops region and the construction of St. Joseph’s Church.

On several occasions he went to Ottawa in an attempt to negotiate for more land for his people and travelled to England to plead the case for the Band to Queen Victoria.

His leadership did

much to improve conditions for the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc during white settlement.

The seasonal round shows that the pre-contact Kamloops economy had three sectors: fishing, gathering (roots and berries) and hunting.

The relative importance of these has been much discussed in the archaeological and anthropological literature.

A reasonable guess for the ratio of the sectors in the diet of the people at the time of first contact with Europeans is in the region of one third fish (principally salmon), one third roots and berries and one third hunted meat.

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A progressive First Nation, economic force

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pon crossing the Highway 5 bridge over the South Thompson River and onto the land of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, a billboard proudly proclaims “open for business.”

Not only is the band open for business, it is strongly encouraging it.

The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc is a progressive First Nation of approximately 1,200 members.

The band has developed numerous opportunities in tourism, ranching, real estate and retail and was the 2008 recipient of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers Community Economic Developer of the Year Award.

The Tk’emlúps Petro Canada was named Aboriginal Business of the Year at the 2014 Kamloops Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence

Awards.

“We pride ourselves on being visionary.

“We pride ourselves on having leasing and development processes in place and we pride ourselves on being good business partners,” said Chief Shane Gottfriedson.

The Tk’emlúps Indian Band (TIB) is focused on developing partnerships that emulate those that have seen Mt. Paul Centre, Spiyu7ullucw Ranch Corporation, the Kamloops Indian Band Development Corporation, Kamloops Indian Band Utility Corporation and Sun Rivers thrive.

“When you think about our story, the strength in our community, we’re a huge economic force.

“That comes with the idea of building these partnerships,” Gottfriedson said.

The band has set its sights on redeveloping the Chief Louis Centre lands, south of Shuswap Road where the local school, administrative offices and

Chief Shane Gottfriedson said the Tk’emlúps Indian Band will see future opportunities in the natural resource sector in addition to developing the Chief Louis Centre lands.

All Nations Trust Company already sit.

More than three hectares of serviced land is on the verge of development, with 99-year lease opportunities.

With thousands of cars passing daily, the land has the potential to attract a diverse set of businesses and services, Gottfriedson said.

The development will consist of administration and professional business offices, as well as retail, a grocery store, restaurants and professional services such as a pharmacy and walk-in clinic.

There is also opportunity for a hotel and convention centre. With the right investors, the TIB’s riverfront property would

be ideal for high-rise condominiums, Gottfriedson said.

“We are rich in riverfront property. We’re looking at maximizing those opportunities,” he said.

The band is looking at implementing a roundabout for the area, with road access into Sun Rivers.

The architectural

design concepts for the Chief Louis Centre have already been set out with the Sk’elep School and All Nations Trust Company.

Gottfriedson said they will partly focus on bringing in businesses from outside Kamloops. This year will also see the TIB focus on the naturalresource sector, working with government and industry to manage resources and enhance the regional economy.

“I think our biggest opportunity is looking at the natural resource area as well,” Gottfriedson said.

“Our number one priority is if we look after the land, the land will look after us, and creating those partnerships that look at long-term sustainability is key.”

The 350-tenant Mt. Paul industrial park, where Horizon North has expanded its operation, is also being redeveloped.

A number of industrial and commercial properties are open for immediate lease in the area.

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The Pavilion Plant is proud of its strong and lasting relationship with Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation.

Graymont looks forward to helping to improve our environment, contributing to communities as a good neighbor, and adding value as a responsible business partner.

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Shane Gottfriedson has been the Tk’emlups Indian Band chief for four terms, but will not seek re-election.

He is running for the office of Assembly of First Nations regional chief of B.C. The vote takes place June 25.

New chapter for chief

Gottfriedson looking to make impact at provincial level

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hane Gottfriedson had two announcements to make in early May at the Tk’emlups Indian Band’s Moccasin Square Gardens.

Gottfriedson is running for the office of Assembly of First Nations regional chief of B.C. and Yukon and, regardless of the outcome of that vote on June 25, he will not seek re-election in November as chief of the TIB. Gottfriedson was the first candidate for regional chief as the 203 First Nations communities in B.C. prepared to decide which candidate will succeed Jody WilsonRaybould.

Gottfriedson was first elected TIB chief in 2003 and has served four successive three-year terms.

He told KTW he has decided to forgo a shot at a fifth term this November because it was time to focus on the next step in his career.

“I think 12 years of community service is a good run,” Gottfriedson said.

“I think it’s time for me to look at a new career path. I think I’ll always be a leader

in the community.

“I think’s it’s time I let someone else lead our community.”

Gottfriedson did muse about running for national chief last year after the sudden resignation of Shawn Atleo, but decided against a campaign.

“I think I can make a greater impact at the provincial level,” Gottfriedson said. “My work in the community speaks for itself. I’ve got a proven track record.”

Gottfriedson ran for regional chief in 2009 and came within nine votes of sitting in that office.

“This time, I’m taking a different perspective into this campaign,” he said.

In the past several weeks he has been visiting as many of the 203 First Nations communities in B.C. as possible.

In his speech to TIB community members in May, Gottfriedson said there has been a lack of leadership in B.C. in the past six years.

“Land claims scare the hell out of investors,” he said. “If you treat me and my people fairly, there is nothing to be afraid of.

“We will not back down, but the door is always open

to a fair deal.”

Arguing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has continued a policy of “extinguishing native peoples’ land rights,” Gottfriedson said it is time for a unified approach to aboriginal title rights and treaty.

“Canada and B.C. have learned we can be their greatest ally or their darkest nightmare,” he said. “The choice is obvious.”

As for issues like the controversial proposal Ajax mine in Kamloops, Gottfriedson pointed to the twice-denied Prosperity mine project in the Chilcotin as proof industry needs to start working with the communities.

“I think we’ve worked hard at the idea of building relationships,” he said. “We have a proven record with New Gold.”

If Gottfriedson does succeed in his quest for the regional chief’s position, it will come with a significant pay raise.

Outgoing regional chief Wilson-Raybould, while opposing the First Nations Financial Transparency Act last summer, sent out a tweet, announcing her salary as being $107,645.92.

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Joining together to mark the significant financial donation of $3,852.38 from White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society to Interior Community Services are representatives from throughout the community. From left: White Buffalo Aboriginal and Metis Health Society executive director Jeanie Cardinal, Thompson Rivers University Human Services program practicum student Kelsey Arnouse, White Buffalo alcohol and drug counsellor Charles Campbell, A Way Home founder Katherine McParland, Phoenix Centre A Way Home committee chairperson Leanne Kopytko, Interior Community Services COO Shelly Bonnah and City of Kamloops housing and homeless project manager Claire Macleod.

Learning and moving forward together A new-found freedom, pursuit of harmony Weyt-kp xwexwéytep. Colleen Mosterd-McLean ren skwekwst. Te T’Kemlúps re stek-wen.

This Aboriginal Day, I invite the reader to become educated in the history of the Tk’emlúp te Secwépemc people.

This is a glimpse of my personal family history: My mother, Marlene Jensen, was born in the summer of 1947.

She spent the first, and only, five years of her childhood being raised on the reserve by her parents Eddie and Matilda Jensen. Mom had five brothers and four sisters. She never had the opportunity to be in the family home with all of her siblings.

She had the opportunity to know her parents as caregivers until age five. She was influenced and exposed to Secwepemc culture and

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language until age five.

She knew what family was only briefly.

In September of 1952 everything she knew changed. Mom’s parents and older siblings knew first-hand what lay ahead for her at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, but were powerless to prevent it. I cannot imagine mom had any idea what lay ahead. What five-year-old could?

How could she know that the next 11 years of her life would involve hunger, fear, isolation, punishment and oppression? How could she know that this would all happen just five kilometres from her family home?

How could she, at five years old, understand this was happening to her because she was First Nations? Did she know that children living across the river were allowed to live at home and grow up knowing their parents and siblings?

How could she understand that a man, many provinces away, who prided himself in creating “Canada” thought this was what she needed in her life in order to be “civilized”?

The Kamloops Indian Residential School founders and administrators pre-

vented thousands of children like mom from having the three necessities of life — biological needs, safety and love. As a result she, like many other residential school survivors, didn’t have the pleasure of longevity. Mom didn’t live to see her grandchildren graduate or marry. Mom never lived to hold a great grandbaby in her arms.

Responsible Canadians need to educate themselves on what happened to the First Peoples of this country so we can move forward together.

Please check out the Summary of the Final Report for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada at trc.ca.

Colleen MosterdMcLean is a Tk’emlúps Indian Band councillor.

Her portfolio is in social development.

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National Aboriginal Day On behalf of my colleagues on City Council, we join you in celebrating National Aborginal Day. We are proud of our long-standing relationships with both the local First Nations bands and the Kamloops and area Metis.

We look forward to a day of celebration and recognition on June 21st.

Sincerely, Mayor Peter Milobar Councillor Donovan Cavers Councillor Ken Christian Councillor Dieter Dudy Councillor Tina Lange

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Since the Chilcotin decision, the TteS (Kamloops Indian Band) has been very busy entertaining prospective business in our reserve and surroundings traditional territory.

There is a mixture of leasing and joint ventures.

The new found freedom that we are experiencing is uplifting and instills the feeling of independence, a feeling that I want to get used to.

When our chiefs in 1910 wrote the Sir Wilfred Laurier Memorial, they offered to share everything equal on a 50/50 basis with the province.

Today our chiefs say the same thing.

We are not against development, but there

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is a better way to do development and protect our environment.

By working together, court costs and time can be saved as well as endangered species, fish habitat, forests, waters, etc.

As was stated in the Memorial to the settlers, “Keep your land, you bought it in good faith, our fights is with

costs and time can be saved as well as endangered species, fish habitat, forests, waters, etc.

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the government, who claims all lands.”

I look forward to working together in the pursuit of harmony and good will, in our traditional lands.

Richard Jules is a Tk’emlúps Indian Band councillor. His portfolio is in lands, leasing and taxation.

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Powwow in its 36th year

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amloopa Powwow has grown into one of the largest celebrations of First Nations culture in Western Canada.

The powwow represents many years of stories and events of Aboriginal culture, celebrated over three days at the Secwepemc Powwow grounds alongside the South Thompson River, running this year from July 31 to Aug. 2.

The Shuswap Brothers and Sisters Society held the first Kamloopa Powwow in 1979.

In 1993, in conjuction with the Canada Summer Games, the Tk’emlups Arbour was built.

Upon the retirement of the Shuswap Brothers and Sisters Society in 2000, the Kamloopa Powwow Society was created.

The first powwow orga-

nized by the new non-profit organization was held in 2001 and Delyla Daniels became president of the Society in 2002.

The society is organizing its 15th powwow this year but the 36th Kamloopa Powwow since the event’s inception.

Daniels, who is still president of the Society, began her involvement with Kamloopa Powwow at the age of 11 in the early 1990s.

Beginning with concession work, she later learned about the legwork behind the powwow at age 14.

“The powwow is literally organized by a handful of people and it’s all done by volunteers,” Daniels said.

At the first powwow in 1979, there was one drum and maybe 20 dancers.

Today, the powwow plays host to around 20 drums, hundreds of dancers, awards over $77,000 in prize payout and attracts upwards

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The 36th annual Kamloopa Powwow is set for July 31 to Aug. 2, 2015.

of 20,000 attendees from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington and Idaho.

“Our people historically have always travelled and shared song and dance,” Daniels said.

“In our eyes, we are welcoming the visitors to our territory.”

This will be the sixth year for the drumming contest, which pays out $30,000 in prize money to five drumming groups. This year’s host drum hails from North

Dakota.

Categories include traditional, chicken, jingle, grass, fancy feather and fancy shawl for adult, teen and junior.

In addition to the regular dances, there is a selection of specials, which are hosted by families.

This year Shane Gottfriedson will host a men’s fancy special to honour his three terms as chief.

Chief and council host specials each year, which

signifies council recognizing visitors, and Miss Kamloopa presents a special.

This year, Julian Brave NoiseCat from Canim Lake will host a men’s traditional special honouring his recently awarded degree.

A grand entry takes place everyday, at 7 p.m. on the opening night and then at 12 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The Powwow also welcomes non-First Nations people to partake, learn and

enjoy.

Kamloopa Powwow is known for its special competition which invites nonAboriginal people to try the traditional dances.

Daniels called it one of the highlights of the powwow.

“We are open to having all people come and attend and witness this celebration,” Daniels said.

“We do encourage nonAboriginal people to attend and ask questions.”

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Honouring the last hereditary chief 100th anniversary of beloved Chief Louis’ death

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his year Tk’emlups te Secwepemc honors the 100th anniversary of the passing of Chief Louis Xle xleh xken, the last hereditary chief of Kamloops.

The role of hereditary chief is an inherited position through kinship.

However, if the elders saw the delegate as unfit for the role, they could pass over the delegate and appoint another.

Chief Louis was born in 1828, and became chief in the 1850s.

He held his position as chief for over 60 years, a testament to the faith the community had in his leadership.

During Chief Louis’ life he saw many changes to his land and his people.

At the beginning of his career as chief he witnessed the gold rush and, with that, the

He was generally recognized as one of the “ ablest chiefs in the Interior. He was a man of keen intelligence, very diplomatic in all business connected with the interests of his people and he will be missed by them.

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small pox epidemic that brought devastation to the Secwepemc population.

He witnessed the introduction of churches and schools, the building of the railroad and highway and the influx of colonial settlement.

Chief Louis worked tirelessly to guide his people through these changes.

In 1862, the Kamloops Reserve was established

by Governor James Douglas. This original reserve was later reduced significantly by Douglas’ successor Joseph Trutch.

Chief Louis, and other chiefs, objected to this

reduction and he spent the rest of his life working towards an agreement with the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Crown, to return the original reserve allotments.

He is best remembered for this work, as well as the Laurier Memorial, presented to Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier by the chiefs in Kamloops in 1910.

Chief Louis also had a great love for horses and, according to Hudson’s Bay Company records, owned several.

He also had a fondness for horse racing

and attended races in Kamloops and the surrounding area, sometimes with his daughter Victoria as rider.

The late Tk’emlups te Secwepemc elder Tessie Dillabough described Chief Louis as well loved by the people, especially children.

“He was a wonderful man.

“All the children loved him and we all called him grandpa,” she says.

Chief Louis passed away April 12, 1915.

His funeral was attended by more than 1,000 aboriginal and nonaboriginal mourners.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SECWEPEMC MUSEUM ARCHIVES Chief Louis is known for negotiating for more land for his people, even travelling to England to plead his case, and presenting the Laurier Memorial to Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

The Kamloops Sentinel reported on April 16, 1915, “He was generally recognized as one of the ablest chiefs in the Interior.

“He was a man of keen intelligence, very diplo-

matic in all business connected with the interests of his people and he will be missed by them.”

— Submitted by Carryl Armstrong, Secwepemc Museum and Archives

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Exhibits up to 10,000 years old share Secwepemc history

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he Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park is a place to experience the cultural history of the First Nations people of this area.

“If you don’t know your history and your culture, you don’t know where you’re from,” said museum manager Dan Saul.

The museum exhibits incorporate the oral history and legends of the Secwepemc people, along with historical photographs, illustrations and artifacts.

Also on display are birch canoes, a summer mat lodge and exhibits on hunting, fishing, clothing, games, food gathering and cooking.

Saul said artifacts in the museum are up to almost 10,000 years old.

The museum is also used as a repository and has hundreds of artifacts discovered through archeological digs.

Saul said they are plan-

ning to rearrange areas to include more contemporary ways of life, to contrast the past to the present.

“It’s just to introduce people and to educate people on the culture of the First Nations people in this area,” Saul said, adding many history books include historical information on nations in other areas, such as in the east or in the south, but the Secwepemc Museum tells the story of the local First Nations community.

He said it’s important for the history to be portrayed by the Secwepemc people.

“It’s representing how we see it and that way people learn things they didn’t realize before,” he said.

The heritage park is located on the banks of the South Thompson River on a 12-acre property and is a complement to the museum.

A one-kilometre stretch of trail leads visitors through the remains of a 2,000-year-old Shuswap winter village site, four reconstructed winter pit

houses and a summer village.

The village features a tule mat lodge, hunting lean-to, fish-drying rack, fish trap, smoke house and traditional plant foods.

The heritage park also features the Secwepemc Ethnobotanical Gardens.

The gardens are divided into five zones, each representing a different ecosystem found within the Secwepemc territory.

Interpretive signs located at each garden describe the ecosystem in which the plants grow naturally.

The Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park welcomes visitors from across the globe, including Europe, Australia and the U.S. The museum has a contract with the KamloopsThompson School district, with each school visiting the museum for tours and cultural presentations.

Secwepemc Museum educator Jackie Jules does cultural presentations in the museum and at schools on traditional foods, plants,

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Remembrance with each ring

Church bells toll for missing and murdered aboriginal women

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ith each pull of the bell rope at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Mary Garmin remembered her sister, Rosemarie Roper.

“I think she’s probably smiling up there somewhere, my sister,” Garmin said through tears.

Roper was killed in 1967, found dead in a dump after leaving home to attend a school dance.

It was for women like Roper that the bells atop St. Paul’s Cathedral rang 1,181 times on June 10.

They joined the bells of Anglican churches across the country, as witness to the need for a royal commission to investigate the deaths and disappearances of as many aboriginal women across Canada since 1980.

The event was a part of the Anglican Church’s

DAVE EAGLES/KTW Mary Garmin is a residential school survivor. She was the first to ring the church bell on June 10 at St. Paul’s Anglican church.

22 days of prayer and renewal, an initiative marking the end of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which

addressed the troubled legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada.

It was also another step in an attempt to reconcile

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I acknowledge that the Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo electoral riding is within the traditional territory of the Secwepemc peoples and thank you for allowing us to celebrate this day with you, on your ancestral lands.

on behalf of the church, which worked with the federal government for almost a century in residential schools.

According to bishop Barbara Andrews, the event had two goals.

“One, that we let the public know an important story and our role to be a part of finding out about the history of our First Nations people and the need for us to stand with them,” she said.

The event had special significance for Andrews, whose father attended residential school in Hobema, Alta., for six years.

Her three older brothers also spent time in the schools.

“But, for us as a church, it’s very important to us — especially for us who were a part of the damage

that was done to survivors through St. George’s Lytton — it’s very important for us to never forget our past and our role in it and to constantly be reminded that we need to do better.”

Garmin, who is also a survivor of the residential school system, having attended St. Joseph’s Mission school for eight years, was the first bell ringer at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

For more than an hour the bells rang, giving voice to women who no longer had theirs.

The 550th ring may have been for Tamara Lynn Chipman, last seen in Prince Rupert in 2005, hitchhiking along Highway 16, the infamous Highway of Tears.

The 890th could have been for Maureen Mosie of Kamloops, last seen alive in Salmon Arm in May of 1981 and found dead in a runaway-truck lane a day later.

The 1,181st sounding, the last, might well have been for the Tk’emlups Indian Band’s Samantha Paul, whose skull was found south of Barnhartvale in June of 2014, after she was missing for nearly a year.

While Garmin focused on her sister during her rings, she also thought of all the others.

“All the ones that died,” she said.

“There’s some we don’t know where they’re at and there are still some that are wandering around.”

On a paper heart at the front of the church, the words “For those who never came home again”

summed up the thoughts of the more than 50 people filtering in and out of the church throughout the day.

Parishioners joined with others impacted

by Canadian residential schools in the event.

“I’m just so happy to see everybody come out to acknowledge it and take ownership of it, that these things have happened and that they’re willing to change,” said Shirley Henderson.

Henderson, of Dawson City, Yukon, had aunts and uncles enrolled in the residential school system.

And, while he didn’t have any direct connection to the school system, parishioner Duncan MacRae had rung the St. Paul’s bell about 40 times when he spoke to KTW. “I recall, as a youth on the prairies, the role of the aboriginal schools was still very much a part of our every day life there,” said MacRae, who grew up in Regina.

“Nobody thought too much about it, but then, we didn’t understand what the schools were about at the time.”

Every April 6 — the day Rosemarie was killed — Mary remembers her sister.

Sometimes, she goes to the Thompson River and says a prayer for her. She includes a prayer for all the other missing and murdered women out there.

“I don’t think I’d change anything because I think, the way the world’s going, I think my sister’s in a better place,” Garmin said.

“It’s like April 6 all over again.

“It’s an emotional day.”

Wishing everyone a wonderful day, STEVE POWRIE

National Aboriginal Day

The District of Logan Lake is proud of their successful partnership with the Lower Nicola Indian Band in the Ironstone Ridge Residential Development in Logan Lake.

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We join you in celebrating National Aboriginal Day on Sunday, June 21.

Mayor Robin Smith Councillor Claire Newman Councillor Jim Noble Councillor Al Smith

Councillor June Waddell Councillor Charlie Weir Councillor Garry Youd

FRIDAY, June 19, 2015

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2015 Aboriginal Day “New Gold and Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc, as represented by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and the Skeetchestn Indian Bands “Working together for a Stronger Future”

New Gold ell Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc, ell Tk’emlúpsemc ell Skeetchestnemc te Secwépemc, “Me7 élkstwecw-kt es p’7ecws yegwyégwt-kt” New Afton recognizes National Aboriginal Day on Saturday June 21, a date chosen for the symbolic nature of the Summer solstice, and an opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal peoples. We hope the day’s events are filled with sunshine and celebration.

New Gold continues to be proud of its relationship with the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN). With 23% Aboriginal employment, New Afton celebrates our joint success in sustainability initiatives and will continue to work towards a stronger relationship.

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FRIDAY, June 19, 2015

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