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OCTOBER 13, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 123
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Ka Cen is only 18 months old, but the toddler has perfected the art of cool helmet style during a weekend visit to the open house at Kamloops Fire Rescue Station No. 1. The Saturday event was part of Fire Safety Week. To see more photos from the open house — and to learn about fore safety — go online to kamloopsthisweek.com. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
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The final debate of the 78-day federal election campaign will take centre stage tomorrow night. Kamloops This Week, CFJC-TV and CBC Radio Kamloops have teamed up to host the 7 p.m. political forum in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University. The debate will take place five days before voters go the polls in the Oct. 19 federal election. All four candidates running in the Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo riding have conWHAT: their attendance. Final election debate of firmed They are Conservative the campaign. Cathy McLeod, Green WHEN: Matt Greenwood, Liberal Steve Powrie and New Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7 Democrat Bill Sundhu. p.m. The debate will start WHERE: with candidates’ openThompson Rivers ing statements, followed University, Grand Hall by a question from each Go online to kamloopsthis of the three media sponweek.com for more federal sors, followed by questions from the public. election coverage Each candidate will also have a closing statement. Questions from the public must be directed to a specific candidate, who will have one minute to answer. The remaining candidates can then use 30 seconds for a rebuttal. For those not able to attend, Kamloops This Week reporter Andrea Klassen will be live-tweeting the debate. Her Twitter ID is @AndreaThisWeek.
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Remembering a giant of the arts DALE BASS
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Jann Bailey, executive director of the Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG), died Friday night. Bailey, who began working with the gallery in 1987, oversaw the institution’s move from the basement of the former Kamloops museum location at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Victoria Street to the expansive facility now adjacent to the downtown library. She also helped the KAG build a national
reputation, one that saw her awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012, one of 37 Canadians recommended for it by the Canadian Museums Association. Bailey was cited then for her enthusiasm and “lifelong conviction that art and culture add to the quality of life, and her leadership during the presidencies of the Canadian Museums Association and the Canadian Art Museums Director’s Organization.” In 2011, Bailey was the first person to receive the Barbara A. Tyler Award in
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Jann Bailey helped the Kamloops Art Gallery build a national reputation. The executive director died on Friday night. KTW FILE PHOTO
Museum Leadership by the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) at its national conference in May. The award looked for people who demonstrated leadership, dedi-
cation and vision, along with positive operating outcomes, community involvement, high ethical standards and overseeing capital projects that transfer the institution. In 2007, Bailey
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became ill and went to see a doctor. That led to a 15-month absence as she was diagnosed with, and treated for, leukemia. During that time, she endured chemotherapy and stem-cell transplants from her sister, Beth, as doctors worked to restore her bone marrow to rid her body of the disease.
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