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Thirty-two-year-old Lance Ritchie died last month of a fentanyl overdose. A friend created this photo memorial of Ritchie.

TOO MANY, TOO YOUNG Fentanyl has been identified in toxicology reports of dozens of overdose deaths in B.C. since Dec. 19.

In Alberta, it was linked to more than 200 deaths in 2015.

In January this year, there were at least three reported overdose deaths in Kamloops.

LANCE RITCHIE WAS ONE OF THEM.

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FINANCIAL MATTERS Saving And Managing Money

DREAM BIG— THEN PLAN FOR IT Planning today can help put you on the right path towards the retirement lifestyle you want.

You’ve seen the ads: happy couples clinking tropical drinks under a beach umbrella, someone sending a ball soaring across an idyllic golf course, grandparents welcoming a large extended family to their cottage on a lake.

But your retirement isn’t about other people’s dreams – it’s about yours. And whatever you envision, the best way to make sure it happens is to create a retirement plan. Most of us realize that important and complex projects require a plan, plus a commitment to execute that plan. Retirement is no different. The planning we do today can significantly broaden the options we have after we stop working – so it’s well worth the effort.

Your retirement plan will help you answer one of the most important questions: When can I afford to retire? After all, you may have a retirement dream and you may have an ideal retirement age – but are they realistic? Can you afford to retire in the way you want, when you want? And do you have a backup plan in case things don’t work out exactly the way you hope?

Uncertainty in any or all of those areas keeps many people up at night as they approach the end of their working lives. To help move towards greater certainty, you need to have a reasonable idea of how much your retirement will cost and how much income you can count on.

Let’s tackle these questions head-on.

HOW MUCH WILL YOUR RETIREMENT COST? In theory, the cost of retirement calculation is simple: cost = annual expenses × number of years in retirement1 In reality, it’s not so simple because there are many variables at play.

Expenses in retirement will depend on your chosen lifestyle, health, debt, inflation, taxation and many more factors. The number of years in retirement will depend on when you retire and, of course, how long you live.

As a starting point, complete a retirement budget worksheet and take it to the next meeting with your advisor. You can work together to make sure your estimates are as precise and realistic as possible. It’s often a good idea to run two sets of numbers in parallel: the cost of a relatively modest retirement and then one offering greater financial flexibility. If you and your advisor plan for the second, you’ll have a fallback position in case factors outside your control – such as inflation and taxation – take a bigger bite out of your savings than anticipated.

HOW MUCH INCOME CAN YOU COUNT ON? Once you have a good sense of the cost of your retirement, discuss all potential sources of retirement income with your advisor.

Again, there’s a deceptively simple formula: retirement income = income guaranteed for life + income from savings and investments 2 The trouble here is that while it may be relatively straightforward to project income from the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan, Old Age Security, defined benefit workplace pensions and guaranteed investments, it’s much more difficult to project other income, such as defined contribution workplace pensions and savings and investments that are exposed to financial markets.

Your personal situation will also have many variables at play. If you own a home, you may be looking at downsizing, or relocating to a community where housing and living expenses are lower. If you’re thinking along these lines, you’ll need to consider real estate values now and at the time you plan to move – all numbers that are subject to market forces.

Another variable is whether you intend to work part-time in retirement. Maybe you would like to start your own business, consulting in the field you used to work in or embarking on an entirely new enterprise. This extra income can give you significantly more financial flexibility.

Based on your unique circumstances, your advisor can help you work out the likelihood that you will be able to generate enough income to pay all of your expenses in retirement. The goal is to have a high degree of certainty that you’re on track, that you’ve considered as many variables as possible and that you’ve done some contingency planning to help protect yourself from the unexpected. All of this should give you greater confidence about your future and the retirement you want to enjoy.

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NOT AS READY AS YOU’D LIKE TO BE? Despite your best efforts, you may find out you’re not quite as financially prepared for retirement as you’d like to be. Here are five strategies that may work for you:

1. Set aside more money now to build a larger pool of money that you can access during retirement.

2. Commit to a rigorous debt repayment plan with the aim of eliminating debt before retirement.

3. Consider delaying your retirement date to give yourself more time to save and your investments more time to grow.

4. Adjust your investment mix to allow greater growth potential, within your tolerance for risk.

5. Re-evaluate your priorities and make choices that fit within your projected budget.

In addition, ask your advisor about solutions to help you catch up.

Some products offered by insurance companies provide the opportunity to accumulate bonuses3 on top of any market returns to help boost retirement income.

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An RCMP homicide detective told a jury yesterday that he lied about his rank and position in 2011 in order to take a statement from a former New Zealand politician accused of killing his wife on a B.C. vacation the previous year.

Peter Beckett, 59, is standing trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on one count of first-degree murder. Laura Letts-Beckett, his wife, drowned in Upper Arrow Lake on Aug. 18, 2010.

Her death was initially believed to have been an accident, but a subsequent police investigation resulted in Beckett’s arrest one year later.

The Crown has alleged Beckett killed his wife out of greed, hoping to cash in on lifeinsurance and accidental-death benefits, as well as her teacher’s pension.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Paul Dadwal held the rank of corporal at the time of his May 26, 2011, meeting with Beckett in Westlock, Alta.

Dadwal testified he exaggerated his rank to that of inspector and lied to Beckett about being the head of the RCMP “investigative standards” unit.

“I wanted Mr. Beckett to know that even

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though I look young, I’m a senior member of the RCMP,” he said.

Beckett had previously sent a letter to Revelstoke RCMP, complaining about the way he was treated by investigators immediately following his wife’s drowning, court heard.

Dadwal used that letter as an in to speak with Beckett. Their conversation was recorded and played in court.

“The unit that I’m in charge of is investigative standards,” he told Beckett.

“I’m not involved in this investigation. I don’t have any details of this investigation.”

Prior to the recording being played, Dadwal said he had been briefed on the investigation immediately prior to his meeting with Beckett.

In the recording, Dadwal told Beckett he was treated “unfairly” by a “rookie” Revelstoke officer.

“In my opinion, she didn’t do a good job,” he told Beckett.

“No one in the RCMP thinks you’re a bad guy. No one thinks you are a monster. No one is out to get you.”

Later in the meeting, Dadwal told Beckett he had researched him.

“I always want to know about the people I’m going to talk to,” he said.

“I’ve assessed you. There’s no secrets here

— there’s no tricks.

“I know about how connected you are to politicians and what you’ve done.”

Dadwal’s act appeared to gain Beckett’s trust.

“I can tell you’re an honest man,” Beckett told the officer.

“I am an honest man,” Dadwal replied.

“I live and die by that.”

After a meandering conversation that included Beckett’s latest business venture — importing drones from China — and Dadwal’s Indian heritage, Beckett was told RCMP protocol dictated he was still a suspect.

Dadwal then worked Beckett’s Charter warning into their conversation and asked him about the drowning.

Beckett told Dadwal a story similar to the one he told investigators immediately following the drowning, but with three glaring inconsistencies.

In his first statement, Beckett said his wife was screaming and panicking in the water after going overboard. He told Dadwal, however, that all he heard was a splash.

Beckett’s initial story was that the umbrella his wife was holding went off the boat and into the water. When speaking with Dadwal, he said the umbrella landed on the boat.

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Council Calendar February 15 4:30 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, City Hall February 16 11 am - Audit Committee Corporate Boardroom, City Hall 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting February 22 4 pm - Sister City Committee Corporate Boardroom, City Hall February 23 1:30 - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Consultation Budget Meeting Parkside Lounge, Sandman Centre February 24 5 pm - Social Planning Council DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street February 25 3 pm - KAMPLAN Advisory Committee DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street 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.

Meeting schedule is available at kamloops.ca/council.

Notes Pot Hole Notice Potholes are formed when water seeps into small cracks in the asphalt and freezes. The expansion of the ice in the crack causes the asphalt to crumble, and through repeated freeze thaw cycles a pot hole eventually forms. While Kamloops can generally boast about having a fairly mild winter climate, the constant variation of temperature above and below freezing results in the creation of potholes every winter and most predominantly in early spring.

During the winter months, conventional hot mix is not available and holes must be temporarily filled using a hot recycled asphalt mix or a cold mix material.

Unfortunately the repaired potholes are susceptible to the same freeze thaw cycle and at times require to be filled repeatedly until a more permanent repair can be scheduled in the spring when asphalt plants open up.

During these freeze thaw cycles events up to two City crews operate 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday, patrolling and filling potholes they find. It is not uncommon, in wet road conditions, for crews to refill a hole several times in one day until road conditions dry.

The City is always looking for better ways to alleviate the problem of pot holes that appear every spring. However, until a better system is found, motorists must be vigilant for the ever present pothole menace.

Call For Exhibitors Are you an organization, group or business that promotes sustainability? Do you provide a service, product, or support a cause that directly relates to sustainability at home, at work, or in the community?

If so, the City of Kamloops would like to hear from you.

On April 30th, 2016, the City will be hosting its inaugural Green Living Expo at the Sandman Centre.

This free public event will be focused on the promotion of Environmental, Social, and Economic sustainability in our community.

Suggested exhibitors include hybrid or electric car dealers, alternative energy products and services, bike products, local food and beverages, up-cycled products, health and wellness services, water conservation and composting products, smart gardening and much more.

We have the venue, now we need the quality exhibitors! If your organization fits this profile, visit www.kamloops.ca/expo for event and exhibitor application details.

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City Budget Meeting Tues, Feb 23, 7- 10 pm Sandman Centre, Parkside Lounge

Call for Artists Design for Interpretive Signage The City of Kamloops Arts Commission is leading the call for the design of a sign frame for all interpretive signage in our parks and along our trails.

The selected designer/artist will be awarded a $3000 cash award, and the selected submission will become the sole property of the City of Kamloops.

Details can be viewed at: www.kamloops.ca/news/2016/02-10-CallforArtists.shtml.

Submissions must be received at City Hall, 7 West Victoria Street, no later than 4:00 pm on Friday, April 1, 2016.

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Grasslands Boulevard Road Improvement Project

Public Open House

Thursday, February 18th, 2016 6 pm – 8 pm (drop in) Arthur Stevenson Elementary School Library (2890 Bank Road) In 2016, the City will construct Grasslands Boulevard between Woodrush Drive and Cantle Drive, resulting in the completion of Grasslands Boulevard from Batchelor Drive to Westsyde Road. The Grasslands Boulevard Road Improvement project will improve neighbourhood connectivity, provide a secondary road access for residents and emergency services, and allow for future improved transit service.

Interested residents are invited to drop by any time between 6 pm and 8 pm to view the project plan and details. City staff will be in attendance to answer any questions.

We encourage citizens to report potholes by phoning the Public Works Centre at 250-828-3461 or by using the MyKamloops mobile app, available for download at www.kamloops.ca/mobileapp.

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Residents call for more Todd Road upgrades Barnhartvale resident Tammy McCulloch (left) and friend Naomi McLachlan led local residents on a walk along Todd Road in the fall of 2013, with the group calling for the city to improve the stretch of road for pedestrians and drivers.

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Too little, too late.

That’s the feedback the City of Kamloops got from many Barnhartvale residents Wednesday night as it unveiled plans to widen Todd Road between Ronde Lane and Klahanie Drive in 2019.

Improvements would include wider lanes for traffic and a pedestrian walkway on the north side of the road.

Shannon and Bill King told KTW during an open house at R.L. Clemitson elementary that they are disappointed the city isn’t fixing all of the road — voted one of B.C.’s most unsafe by locals in the annual BCAA worstroad survey.

Because Todd Road is narrow, with no sidewalk, Shannon said she often finds herself having to pull into the opposite lane to get around pedestrians who are walking to the gas station or church down the hill, past where the improvements would stop.

“Anything is better than nothing, but it’s a very small piece of Todd Road,” Bill said.

“It’s not the beginning or the end, it’s just a small piece in the middle.”

Public works director Jen Fretz said the city is starting the project where an existing sidewalk ends, but has no plans now to go farther down Todd Road because the condition of the roadway and water and sewer

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pipes in that direction remains good and upgrades can’t be justified in the next five years.

“We’re already pushing these projects earlier than we would have.

There are other projects falling off the plate and having to be done later than we want to do them because we wanted to put this earlier in the plan,” Fretz said.

While the city plans to tie the pedestrian improvements to water and sewer pipe replacements, Fretz said both would not happen before at least 2021 under the city’s regular maintenance schedule.

It’s frustrating news to residents who have been pushing for safety upgrades for several years, arguing it’s unsafe for children to walk to school along Todd Road.

Tricia Silverton said school kids have to climb into the ditch to avoid cars. She has watched the road to

Juniper Ridge widened and paved twice and doesn’t understand why the city can’t prioritize the safety of pedestrians in her neighbourhood.

“Where are our tax dollars going? To Juniper, to Batchelor Heights, to Westsyde?” she asked.

Christine Watson, who organized a walk in 2013 to bring attention to safety issues on the road, agrees.

“There is the budget to consider and I respect that they have a budget to consider,” she said. “But Barnhartvale’s population has increased by 50 per cent over the last 30 years. The road hasn’t been fixed in over 30 years. They say it’s a cost issue? Well, we’ve been growing and putting our tax dollars into the city. We deserve some support.”

Watson said she is happy to see a pedestrian walkway is now part of the improvement

plan, noting the city had before offered only to widen the shoulder of the road.

Fretz said the city has other infrastructure repairs to make that can’t be put off to fit Todd Road in earlier.

“I know there are lots of emotions around this project, but we also have to look at it from an infrastructure perspective and it doesn’t make sense for us to spend money on this any earlier than 2019,” she said.

The city plans to begin detailed design work in 2017 and will return to the neighbourhood for more consultations at that time. Fretz said because the land on either side of the road is so steep, widening the lanes will increase the incline of nearby driveways.

The city doesn’t have room to add streetlights to Todd Road without expropriating land, Fretz said, which it is avoiding for this project.

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Finally, in his first statement, Beckett said he grabbed his wife by the hand to pull her to shore. He told Dadwal he wrapped his legs around her.

The conversation between Beckett and Dadwal lasted nearly two hours and ended with a number of suggestions from Beckett as to how the RCMP could improve its image.

Before leaving, Dadwal reiterated to Beckett his belief in his story.

“Peter, I believe you,” he said.

“I have no further questions. I believe you from the bottom of my heart.”

Beckett and Letts-Beckett met in 1995 in New

Zealand. Five years later, he moved to Westlock, Alta., to be closer to her. The couple married in 2003.

Previous witnesses have described their relationship as a rocky one. The Becketts split briefly in late 2007 but reconciled months later.

Letts-Beckett also went to police alleging physical abuse on the part of her husband, but no charges were laid.

Through her questioning, defence lawyer Donna Turko has suggested Letts-Beckett was depressed prior to her drowning.

Beckett was formerly a city councillor in Napier, New Zealand.

His trial, which began in mid-January, is expected to last three months.

There has been a spotlight recently on the phenomenon of elder abuse where people take advantage of the elderly, often for financial gain. This includes some transactions where the elder gives a valuable asset, yet receives nothing in exchange.

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FENTANYL DEATHS ON THE RISE Fentanyl has been identified in toxicology reports of dozens of overdose deaths in B.C. since Dec. 19.

In Alberta, it was linked to more than 200 deaths in 2015.

A synthetic opiate, fentanyl is more potent than morphine. As with all opiates — heroin, morphine, codeine and thebaine — it binds to the body’s opiate receptors, causing elevated dopamine in the brain’s reward areas and creating a state of euphoria and relaxation.

The B.C. Corners Service reports fentanyl presence is growing annually. In 2012, it was found in fewer than five per cent of fatal overdoses.

By 2014, the rate had increased to 25 per cent and, in the first eight months of 2015, it was found in 35 per cent of illicit-drug overdose deaths in the province.

In a report on all illicit-drug overdose deaths in B.C. from 2006 to 2015, most years the

number was in the single digits for Kamloops, from a low of two in 2011 to a high of 11 in 2007. Last year, there were seven deaths in the city linked to illicit drugs.

Another coroners report on opiate-related overdose deaths from 2005 to 2010 looked at the province by regions.

In the Interior region, the rate went from a low of 14 per cent in 2005 to a high of 22 per cent in 2009 and 2010, the highest in the province during that time frame, with an average of 2.8 deaths per 100,000 due to opiate overdoses.

Provincially, 60 per cent of the deaths were attributed accidental overdoses and about one-third were suicides. The decedents were almost split genderwise, with 51. per cent of them male and 49 per cent female.

In January this year, there were at least three reported overdose deaths in Kamloops.

Lance Ritchie was one of them.

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he day he died likely started out as one of the best days in Lance Ritchie’s life.

He was well into the two-year residential program at New Life Community Kamloops, finally confronting his addictions.

He was undergoing tests to get on a drug regimen he believed would finally end the craving for alcohol he battled.

He had met a woman online and spent some time with her that day, something his sister Shannon Ritchie says had buoyed his confidence that he was moving in the right direction.

The date didn’t go as planned, however; after telling the woman he didn’t drink alcohol anymore, something happened and the pair went to a pub.

Shannon wonders if it was her brother’s lack of confidence, if he felt ill at ease trying to socialize or if he just needed to reach for a crutch — but it changed that good day into a tragic night.

Lance returned to New Life drunk.

A friend told him he needed to sleep it off before he was discovered inebriated by staff.

Sometimes Lance used Oxycontin to help him calm and relax, Shannon said.

Apparently, this was one of those days.

Text messages on his phone that night show he contacted a local drug dealer.

At some point, he went out and came back with a small green tablet marked with “OC” on one side and “80” on the other — governmentrequired indicators for Oxycontin.

Lance went to sleep — and died sometime on the night of Jan. 17.

He was 32 years old.

The coroners report would reveal that little green pill he thought was Oxycontin was pure fentanyl. *** Born in Clearwater, Lance considered himself a Kamloops boy, having lived here most of his life.

When he was 11, he chose to live with his dad Gene when his parents split. The two moved around a bit, but Kamloops called Lance back and he graduated from John Peterson secondary.

“Oh my god, he was so gorgeous,” Shannon says of her brother, who was one year younger than her.

“The ladies loved him.”

A natural athlete, Lance loved fishing and skateboarding, snowmobiling and softball.

“He enjoyed the outdoors and was at peace on the water,”

Lance Ritchie reading to his nephew Jax. “He desperately wanted a family of his own,” his sister Shannon said.

Shannon says.

After graduation, Lance had a variety of jobs, always something that kept him physically busy.

An office job wasn’t for her brother, Shannon says.

He worked at Taco Time and CN Rail.

He painted, felled trees and, most recently, ran an excavator in the oil fields.

Shannon says he loved that job.

“He was a super-

hard worker. We’ve talked about how much his identity was wrapped up in his work,” Shannon says.

“He wasn’t always really self-confident and he liked to get that pat on the back. And he was always working hard.”

While the job and money were good, Shannon says she and her family wondered if the long stays in the oil fields, away from his family and supports,

would bring Lance’s battle with alcohol back into his life.

“It wasn’t in our faces when he was working on the rigs, you know?” she says. *** In January 2014, while he was on some down time and back in Kamloops with his family, Lance learned his job was gone.

The call came the day before he was set to return to the rigs.

Shannon says Lance

was sure it would be a temporary setback, that the industry would pick up and the job would return.

It didn’t.

“He waited and waited and waited and it became more apparent the addiction was back,” Shannon says.

Eventually, Lance moved to property his mother Vicki owns on Little Shuswap Lake.

He spent his days fishing, chopping wood, going for hikes — simply trying to stay busy.

Lance looked forward to the times the family would come out to the lake and visit.

It gave him a renewed energy, Shannon says, as he would take his young nephew Jax out on the water or introduce his British brother-in-law Jimmy Benefield to fishing.

“He desperately wanted a family of his own,” Shannon says.

Last Christmas, knowing Lance had little cash, she told her brother to come for the celebration and not worry about bringing gifts, but he still arrived with something for everyone.

For Jax, Lance bought a Slinky — and it became her son’s favourite gift that day, Shannon says, because uncle Lance spent much of the day playing alongside Jax, show-

ing him how to make it walk down stairs, stretch and bounce back on itself again.

Lance’s last Christmas was a good one, brother-in-law Jess Rothenburger said in the eulogy he delivered to about 200 of Lance’s family and friends.

“He had been working hard at tackling his demons and things were looking up for him,” Jess wrote.

“He was chatty, engaged, helpful and fun.

“After Christmas, he hugged his mom and told her, ‘I love you, mom’.” *** Lance didn’t handle downtime and isolation well, Shannon says.

He would often turn to alcohol.

“If you asked him about his addiction, Lance would have described alcohol as his demon,” she says.

“And other things came from that.

“If he was sober, he would never had touched cocaine or those other opiates.”

There were times in the past year when he would threaten suicide, lashing out at everyone.

Lance fought attempts to help him and also reached out to embrace them, first going to the Sage Health Centre in the spring of 2015.

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In his own words

Interior Health planning pilot project Some time this year, a hospital in either Kelowna or Kamloops will be chosen for a pilot project aimed at improving the information available on drugs on the streets and overdoses.

It’s designed to “get ahead of the curve,” said Interior Health Authority chief medical health officer Dr. Trevor Corneil — to provide one more tool in the health-care system’s harm-reduction work.

It’s something social agencies who work with addictions want because the existing system doesn’t give quick feedback they need.

Toxicology results from overdoses can take months to be completed. There’s nothing in place requiring police to share information on overdose calls to which they might respond.

While the ER may seem an obvious source of information, the reality is it doesn’t have the capacity now for managing such data, Corneil said.

calls and whether they are seeing more naloxone kits — used to stop an opioid overdose — being returned after use. In addition, the program would track ambulance calls and ER visits.

The provincial ambulance service already keeps statistics on potential over[web-extra] doses to which paramedics are called, More on this story, with views from Corneil said, and there are some doctors and nurses in ERs who will pass along anecthe coroner, health minister and dotal information on overdoses they see.

RCMP superintendent Corneil is hopeful the new federal govkamloopsthisweek.com ernment will repeal Bill C-2, the Respect for Communities Act passed last year by the Conservative government.

Doctors say it was designed to stop street and to determine if the risk of overexpansion of safe-injection sites, Corneil doses is higher than other times. said, and repealing it would help the healthThat program requires bringing together care system to bring more such sites to indicators including actual deaths from other communities, providing what he calls overdoses and information from police on “safer space for people to use drugs that drugs circulating and if they are considered could lead to an overdose.” to be high risk.

Such sites save lives, Corneil said, and The program would also gather informaimprove access to health care. tion from community agencies about close “Our ability to use data in real time in such a complex system is hard,” he said.

What is needed, Corneil said, is a surveillance program, something that can gather information quickly to identify drugs on the

Fentanyl cases latest spike in deadly drug use Through his medical career, Corneil has experienced three spikes in drug use and overdoses in B.C. The first came in 1992, when cheap heroin was being brought into B.C. “and significant amount of work was done to try and understand what that was about and why,” Corneil said. Out of that came the street-nurse and needle-exchange programs in Vancouver, but there was little evaluation done then to identify data that could be used to stop overdose deaths.

Lance was on a path to wellness. Last month, he and his sister Shannon were texting: Lance: Hey sorry. I was being negative about life. I feel OK one day then the next is like a burning train wreck.

Shannon: Well keep pulling through. I appreciate your honesty.

Lance: Thank you for understanding.

Addiction is my worst enemy. It’s like a monster lurking in the background just waiting to jump on me and squander everything in one day. It’s scary Shannon.

Shannon: Tame the beast.. addiction is one part of you, but the Lance I know is bigger and stronger than that…He’s a fighter, a hard worker, a caring uncle, a loving son and brother…

Lance: Thank you. That just made my eyes well up Xoxo Shannon: Love you too! Keep it together… fight the demon!

Lance: Ya, I think just doing the right things for the right reasons helps. So how’s Jax n Ivy? I miss them.

Shannon: Exactly! You’re in the best possible place you can be. You need to get better before you can move on to the next chapter.

Lance: I know hey. I want to start doing something that helps someone. Everyday for the rest of my life. I enjoy that rather that hurting people’s emotions everyday.

Shannon: That’s pretty awesome. It’s the small things that matter. Someone once told me … when we die people won’t remember what we did, or who we are, they will remember how that person made us feel… it’s a gift to make people feel good… there is so much good in every person… we just need to look for it sometimes.

Lance: Ya, like even holding the door for people or smiling and asking how their day is.

Simple as that.

Shannon: Ya, and just acknowledging the good that they are.

Lance: I’m starting now.

The next spike arrived in 1998, when crack cocaine came into play in a big way. HIV diagnoses grew rapidly in the injected-drug user community and more supports were put into place.

The province’s first safe-injection site was created in Vancouver and treatment programs expanded.

The third spike has come now with the arrival of fentanyl, a cheap drug that is having a major impact on drug users and the health-care system, Corneil said.

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Shannon says she told him at the time he had to understand his family “loves you, but we’re not going to enable you.”

He succeeded and he relapsed.

He went to the Phoenix Centre and was successful enough that he was ready to move to the next step, the residential program Kamloops New Life Community offers.

Lance applied for admission to the 17-bed residential program, but during the wait to be accepted, his demon came back — and police were called.

They took him to Royal Inland Hospital, where Shannon contacted a social worker, asking for help.

Lance entered the residential program the next day.

“He had been looking forward to it and he had been dreading it,” Shannon says.

“But he called me and said, ‘The people are so nice. My room is nice. It’s so big.’

“Everywhere he went, Lance made great friends, good relationships.”

At his funeral, many of those friends joined the crowd at St. Andrews on the Square — the hairdresser who cut his hair, the nurse who works in the program Lance hoped would finally help him.

His death hit them hard because he had been doing well in the program. He was working hard to regain control of his life.

Lance was one they all expected would succeed. *** Shannon and her mother learned of Lance’s death through social media. They were in Arizona at the time and returned to Kamloops filled with questions.

The coroner told her he died with a foam coating around

his mouth, an indicator of an opioid.

Toxicology tests showed he had taken a massive dose of fentanyl.

“Lance wouldn’t do fentanyl,” Shannon says.

“He was scared of it. It is highly unlikely my brother would be looking for fentanyl. He knew what it could do.”

Instead, she believes he was looking for Oxycontin to help him sleep.

Throughout the evening of Jan. 16, he sent texts about what a great day he had, about the potential new drug he was hoping to take, one that would stop his craving for alcohol.

In his eulogy, Jess also wrote: “The night before we lost Lance, before he would go to bed, his friends reminded him: “We love you, bro. We’re gonna work through this and move forward.

“Lance fell asleep and never woke up.”

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HOT: Citizen involvement in municipal affairs.

City council has proposed a radical shift in recreation, which has prompted a very engaged electorate to begin advocating for what it feels is the best future for pools and arenas on the North Shore and in Westsyde.

While the city will talk to residents about the proposal to close three pools and create an aquatic centre on McArthur Island, residents are already speaking out in the form of two petitions with more than 1,000 signatures each.

The petitions call for the city to keep the pools in Brocklehurst and Westsyde open.

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It was a happy ending to a story about foolish actions that endangered the lives of not only the family members, but of those seeking to find them.

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Let’s all just slow down

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he biggest surprise to come out of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries was the remarkable speech by a background Republican candidate.

John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. He is one of many running for the Republican nomination. Until Tuesday, he was better known as “that guy” on the stage with Donald Trump — not to be confused with “that other guy” and “that lady.”

On Tuesday, however, Kasich’s speech to supporters and the nation via CNN should have made him a household name among political watchers.

He finished second to Trump, but bested the oranger-by-theday billionaire in the post-vote speech contest.

In fact, Kasich blew aside everyone, Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton alike, with a profound, genuine message to all who watched.

Slow down.

That is what he said.

Slow down, everyone, just slow down.

We are all moving at warp speed, rushing to work, rushing to meet deadlines, rushing to get lunch, rushing to pick up the kids, rushing to get home, rushing to make dinner.

Kasich, in a speech so earnest, so thoughtful, so different, told of meeting people during his campaign.

These were regular people carrying the weight of tragedy: a cancer sufferer, a parent who lost a child.

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MUSINGS It has, he said, shifted the way he approaches life.

“If we would just slow down and heal the divisions within our own families,” Kasich said.

“Be willing to listen to the person that lives next door when you’re in such a hurry to get out of the driveway or such a hurry to get out of the shopping center.

Just slow down, look ‘em in the eye. Give ‘em a hug.”

Yes, to a jaded ear, it sounds syrupy and, to be sure, there were pundits pouncing moments after Kasich finished speaking, pointing out he is a very conservative Republican, a staunch anti-abortionist, a foe of the Affordable Care Act and not a fan of mandatory paid leave, among other political sins of the liberal mindset.

Still, his speech resonated with many for its heartfelt message.

Part of the reason Kasich has existed as a faded image in the background is because, unlike Trump and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and the rest, Kasich has insisted on running a

positive campaign.

Seems he might have looked north a few months ago to see how successful such a simple ploy can be.

Kasich urged us to slow down, to talk to each other while not on the move, without our eyes glued to a smartphone screen.

You need not be a political junkie to embrace his message.

Take a look at all the people around you the next time you are out and about in Kamloops.

Stop completely and just watch them all as they walk this way and that way and try to imagine the joys and sorrows coursing through each and every body.

A few years ago, during a bitter cold snap, I asked photographer Dave Eagles to get me a photo that illustrated the Arctic chill. Eagles came across an older woman bundled up at a bus stop. He took her photo and began chatting with her. He then offered to drive her to her appointment.

Along the way, the woman turned to Eagles and asked, “Will you be my friend?”

She had been in Kamloops for a few years and had yet to make a friend.

Nobody would have known because we are all too busy being busy.

Eagles learned this sad fact because he did as Kasich urged America this week — he slowed down.

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ACT OF KINDNESS SECURED LOVE OF NEW CITY Editor: I recently moved to Kamloops from Halifax to start a new position. The accumulated chaos and stress of the cross-Canada move came to a head one evening last month.

Still jet-lagged, I found myself wandering the aisles of the Kamloops Walmart, doing one-stop shopping for my new place — the usual: small appliances, kitchen gadgets, bathroom thingies.

An hour-and-a-half later, I finally reached the checkout.

The staff was extremely pleasant.

One clerk phoned a taxi for me as the cashier punched in my mountain of purchases with smiles and good cheer all around.

Minutes later, when my debit card made ominous “declined” noises, I was only slightly rattled.

Strange — I knew I had deposited several

cheques a few days earlier, when I suddenly realized they may not have yet cleared.

The Walmart staff remained lovely and patient, as did the cab driver who arrived in the midst of the checkout drama.

Humiliation crept over me like a cloak of shame. I wanted to proclaim my case: I have money, a job and am not in need of rescue.

(Well, the last point is debatable.)

I claim jet lag and the fever of moving as excuses for being rendered negligent of personal-banking responsibilities.

I squeezed out sufficient cash from the ATM to cover taxi fare back to my studio apartment in Aberdeen and I wanted to crawl into a deep hole.

We agreed I could return the following day for my purchases once I straightened out my cash flow at the bank.

And that’s when something remarkable happened that has since kept me reflecting

on the innate goodness of humanity and why Kamloops is a soulful town.

The cashier came over and announced: “This is kind of unusual. A lady came to the cash and paid your bill. She did not want to leave her name.”

I could not comprehend what had happened.

I barely know anyone in Kamloops.

Why would a stranger cover a near $200 bill?

This act of extraordinary kindness has sealed my lovefest with the people of Kamloops.

If that generous stranger is reading this, please accept at least my humble thanks, if not an offer to repay you for your generous act.

Rev. Helen McFadyen, minister, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kamloops

TRANSFORM WESTSYDE POOL INTO MULTI-USE FACILITY Editor: Re: KJ KLontz’s letter of Jan. 27 (‘City of Kamloops needs to prepare for pickleball’s rise’): Yes, the city did tear down the McArthur Island Youth Centre, home to pickleball, to make way for a parking lot.

Why couldn’t the city leave the playing surface and just put a fence around it for the pickleball players to play their favourite sport?

The only time this parking lot is used is during the gun show.

We need more court space and the city seems to favour tennis courts over pickleball courts.

This parking lot will remain until the city decides what kind of building will be put there.

I think it would be a great idea to transform Westsyde Pool into a multi-use facility.

Further to Coun. Tina Lange’s comments in the Jan. 23 edition of KTW, in which she was quoted as labelling “silly” the proposed expenditure for outdoor pickleball courts,

I think she should do her homework before opening the door and allowing her silly comments out.

It gives a new perspective of who to vote for in the next election.

Tennis players don’t pay a fee to play on city courts, but we pickleball players do for playing on our outdoor courts.

Ron Telford Kamloops

Seniors need the pool Kudos to all who have voiced the valid-

ity of repairing Westsyde Community Pool.

Many support this.

Come on city council, I live in Juniper and have travelled to this pool three times a week and would do so more often if offered.

The pool has a tapered depth, ensuring a comfortable area for everyone.

The water was kept at a livable temperature for the 30 to 40 seniors who did aquafit — some have had hip/knee replacements and, on doctors’ advice, do aquafit to regain/ strengthen mobility with-

out impacting joints.

It keeps us mobile and out of doctors’ offices.

It is unconscionable council wants to turn this lovely pool into a pickleball court when there is a gym down the street at the old school.

You’re robbing seniors of a much-needed facility.

For a city that promotes health and sports, closing down parks and shutting pools/facilities is not good for the image of Kamloops.

Shame on you.

Beverley Hillrich Kamloops

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“This would be exciting and relevant if petition signatures could be used to pay for the costs.”

— posted by JP Winston

RE: STORY: MONTE CREEK WINERY’S PLAN PUTS FOCUS ON LAND IN ALR:

“I think we need all the infrastructure we can get. We can’t or won’t publicly fund a PAC, so we need corporate partners to pick up the slack.”

— posted by T’KemlupsTerritory

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“I have no idea what a ‘research chair’ does. I re-read the article a few times and have no idea other than add an extra salary to the inflated faculty at TRU.” — posted by User_Name

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Kamloops Cooper’s stores converting to Save-On Foods STAFF REPORTER

Overwaitea Food Group rebranding downtown, Valleyview, Brock, Westsyde grocery locations

Next week, a longtime fixture in the Kamloops grocery market will be no more.

Four grocery stores — downtown, Valleyview, Brocklehurst and Westsyde — will close as Cooper’s Foods outlets on Thursday and open as Save-On

Foods on Friday.

Cooper’s and SaveOn have been owned by the same company — Overwaitea Food Group — since 1999, but operated as distinct brands.

“In Kamloops, we have a Save-On Foods and our Cooper’s stores,” Tony Piwek, Overwaitea’s general

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manager of B.C. operations, told KTW. “Our customers see what we offer at our Sahali [Save-On Foods] store and they want that in the other stores.

“If you look at the Save-On Foods flyer, those deals aren’t offered at Cooper’s.

Our customers have been telling us more

and more that they want those things in a Save-On Foods store at a Cooper’s store.”

The changes in Kamloops are part of a larger trend within Overwaitea that will soon make Cooper’s — founded in Revelstoke in the 1950s — a name of the past.

Piwek, who grew

up in Kamloops and started his career at the Cooper’s store in Brocklehurst, said three Lower Mainland stores have already been converted, as well as a number of locations in the Interior.

Princeton’s Cooper’s became a Save-On in late January and Vernon’s store will switch early next month.

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“The teams stay the same,” he said.

“Nothing’s changing in that respect.”

Piwek said plans are in place to honour the Cooper’s brand and what it meant to Overwaitea and the Kamloops region.

“What we’re working on is creating a dedication to the Cooper family and what they brought to the Kamloops market,” he said.

“We’re going to create a little bit of a storyboard in each store.

“We infused a lot of new life into the Cooper’s Foods banner. Now that we’ve done that, it’s really about giving our customers what they’re asking for.”

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“We look by market.

We try to do what our customers are asking us for.”

If everything goes according to plan, Piwek said, the only thing customers will notice about the switch — other than new signage and different pricing — is an early 6 p.m. closing time on Feb. 18 to allow crews to get to work.

“We’re going to close the stores the night before and, when we open those stores, we’re going to be a Save-On Foods,” he said.

“We have a whole crew for each store to do that. Anything that pertains to Cooper’s Foods will be changed.”

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New Liberal executive The federal Liberals have elected a new executive in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding.

Lorraine Mallon, campaign chairwoman for Liberal candidate Steve Powrie’s campaign in November, is president.

Supporting Mallon are Mike Gritten, a veteran Kamloops business owner, and Shelley Tegart, a former KPMG consultant from 100 Mile House, as vice-president and rural vice-president, respectively.

A number of other members from the 2015 Powrie campaign team have also joined the

association’s executive.

They include: • Andrea Seabach, treasurer • Aaron Porath, secretary • Bradley Serl, fundraising chair • Diane McLeod, organization chair • Ben Gayfor, policy chair • Rose Roy, membership chair • Natalie Serl, communications chair Powrie is public relations director-at-large, while Jordan Hanson, a first-year TRU student who worked on the campaign, will continue as the Young Liberals director-at-large.

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Highland Valley Copper is not the gold mine it once was for parent company Teck Resources Ltd. but it continues to make a profit despite depressed copper prices.

Teck released its four-quarter earnings report showing it maintaining a profit in its copper operations as a whole, the largest of which is Highland Valley Copper. Its gross profit before depreciation and amortization for copper was $71 million less than the $274 million in the same quarter of 2014.

“It’s still making money,” said Kyle Wolff, president of Local 4619 of United Steelworkers of America.

The profit is a shadow of the $1 billion that was made at Highland Valley Copper alone a decade ago amid record prices and lower costs.

Some of that recent profit comes from a $128-million cost reduction — 10 per cent of operations — at the open-pit copper mine near Logan Lake.

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Teck announced layoffs of non-union staff late last year, while union positions were reduced by attrition.

Wolff said Teck has not told the union whether that job loss by attrition is complete.

The financial report notes copper production at Highland Valley is forecast to drop over the next three years due to mining of a lower grade of ore.

The mine is expected to operate for another decade.

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“There’s no reason for the company to reduce,” Wolff said.

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More than 1,000 sign petition to keep Brock pool open That more than 1,000 people would sign a petition she created in its first two days was, however, a surprise.

“I’m glad to see Brocklehurst coming together,” said the mom of two, who set up the Change.org petition calling on Kamloops city council to save the pool.

The petition can be found online at https://

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When she heard the City of Kamloops was considering a plan to close the Brocklehurst outdoor pool in favour of a new ice sheet, Tarra Garrioch thought many of her neighbours would agree with her assessment that it was a bad idea.

www.change.org/p/ city-of-kamloops-savebrocklehurst-park-pool.

As of yesterday afternoon, 1,215 people had added their names online and Garrioch said more residents have signed physical copies distributed to neighbourhood stores.

“I feel like Brocklehurst sometimes gets forgotten about.

We’re the biggest neigh-

bourhood in Kamloops and yet we don’t get much spent in the way of Brocklehurst,” she told KTW. “At the pool, you can’t even pay with debit if you go there, but we never complained, we’re happy with what we have.

“But if you try to take it away, it will really affect the quality of life.”

The city is proposing

to close the Brocklehurst pool, as well as pools at McDonald Park and in Westsyde, in favour of a new leisure pool on McArthur Island.

The Brock pool would become a second ice sheet for the arena, McDonald Park’s pool would become a spray park and the pool in Westsyde would be converted to a gymnasium.

Community con-

sultation on the plan is expected to begin in the next month.

Garrioch has a mixed view of the McArthur portion of the plan, which she isn’t convinced will save the city money in the long term, as parks and recreation staff have suggested.

But she thinks replacing her neighbourhood pool with ice would hurt the community feeling of

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“Not that arenas aren’t wonderful and we don’t need more, and I really think we do,” she said.

“But if you do that, then at the summer, there’s nothing at Brocklehurst park.

There’s nothing for the youth in Brocklehurst to go to.”

She also wonders what would happen to the city’s swim clubs if many of the pools they use as home bases are closed — and how McArthur Island could accommodate extra cars bringing swimmers.

“I don’t know. I’m just not a fan of centralization when Mac Island already has parking issues when there are events going on there,” she said.

“People are already complaining about that.”

Garrioch said she will present the petition before council makes a decision on the proposed pool plan in April, but she doesn’t yet have a target number of signatures she’s hoping to reach.

Airport seeks grant Management at Kamloops Airport will make another attempt at securing a provincial grant to provide a new area for movement of larger aircraft.

The province will provide $8 million for infrastructure at airports as part of the 10-year transportation plan.

Airport manager Fred Legace said Fulton Field will apply for a $2.5-million project to rehabilitate an old parking area of the apron as part of a project to accommodate larger wingspans. Both WestJet and Air Canada operate the larger Q-400 aircraft, what Legace called the “big brother” to the popular Bombardier Dash 8.

“The current schedule is working out,” he said.

“We’re able to accommodate. [But] if we overlap, we’re in trouble.”

The province, which provides 50 per cent funding, did not approve the application in 2015.

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STORM FACE REVELSTOKE, CHASE IN PREVIEWS OF LIKELY PLAYOFF MATCHUP ADAM WILLIAMS

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In all likelihood, the Kamloops Storm will take on their first-round playoff opponent this weekend.

Whether that opponent comes tonight in the Revelstoke Grizzlies or Saturday in the Chase Heat is still a matter of contention.

The Storm remain atop the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s Doug Birks Division, but at 67 points, just one point ahead of the 100 Mile House Wranglers, and with four regular-season games remaining, in what position they will enter the 2016 playoffs is yet to be determined.

“Revelstoke is a smaller team than Chase, but I think we play well against both teams,” Storm forward Zack Andrusiak said.

“Both are going to

be tough matchups.

Depending on whoever we play, we’ve got to come out and play our best against both teams.”

Kamloops plays host to Revelstoke at 7 p.m. today and is on the road to play Chase tomorrow.

While all 16 berths have been clinched for the 2016 playoffs, matchups are still very much in the air.

In the Doug Birks Division, only the Grizzlies know their firstround fate, falling into the fourth and final playoff berth and awaiting a date with the eventual division winner.

Kamloops and 100 Mile House are in what is likely a two-horse race for the Doug Birks title.

Should Kamloops finish atop the division, they’ll take on the Grizzlies. Should they fall to second, they’ll take on the Heat.

The Storm are 4-2-0-1 against both clubs this season.

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“I think with Chase, they’re a little bit more skilled than Revelstoke and a little bit more experienced.”

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The club is 8-2-0-0 in its last 10 games and has outscored its opposition 38-22. Last weekend, facing a Wranglers team they’ve struggled against throughout the campaign — they’re 2-3-0-2 against 100 Mile House — the Storm picked up a 4-3 victory on the road.

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divisional leaders, all of which have vastly outscored Kamloops this season.

“Honestly, I think we have one of the best, if not the best, offensive teams in the league with the forwards we have,” Andrusiak said.

“We just, the structure we play, we think defence first and when it comes down to it we can score with the best of them.

I definitely don’t think that’s going to be a problem.”

Dewar echoed his forward. While they haven’t scored in earnest, the Storm have surrendered 114 goals, the fourthfewest in the league.

“Part of [our] philosophy with this team from the very beginning, because there’s so many rookies, has been stressing the defensive side of the game,” Dewar said.

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There is some anxiety that comes with playing the top team in the nation with a playoff berth on the line, the 22-year-old Kimberley native said. But more anxiety comes from the idea of playing her final match as a varsity athlete this weekend if TRU misses the playoffs.

At times, Rauch has caught herself playing out scenarios in her head.

“We’re trying not to so much — we’re just trying to go at it openminded,” she said.

“But I do look at the standings every once in a while and wonder.”

Despite having already clinched a playoff spot, Grimm expects the Spartans to dress their full starting roster tonight and tomorrow. In a dead heat with the UBC-Okanagan Heat for the top spot in the Canada West, as well as the nation, neither club can afford to drop a single set that could later affect homecourt advantage or berths at the Canadian national championship.

Grimm isn’t letting the Spartan name intimidate his roster.

“That’s the great thing about sport — when the whistle blows, the other team still has to beat you,” Grimm said.

“The on-paper team doesn’t always get the win.”

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Win and they’re in. Lose and, well, things get complicated.

The Thompson Rivers WolfPack are on the verge of their biggest weekend of the women’s volleyball campaign, playing host to the nation’s No. 1 team, the Trinity Western Spartans, tonight and tomorrow at the TRU Gym. Game time is 6 p.m. today and 5 p.m. tomorrow.

The WolfPack and their 11-11 record are looking to return to the Canada West post-season for the first time since 2011-2012, when the club went 9-11 and snuck into the seventh and final playoff berth by virtue of a tiebreaker.

Already boasting the best record in franchise history, the women’s volleyball team enters its final weekend of regular-season play in sole possession of sixth place in the Canada West.

But having played two more matches than almost the entirety of the conference, a lot can, and will, change before the final ball is served this regular season.

“I still think if we split this weekend, we would get in,” WolfPack head coach Chad Grimm said.

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Much like the right side of this photo, the playoff picture is blurry for the TRU WolfPack women’s volleyball team.

Krista Hogewoning (left) and her teammates will need to be sharp and focused this weekend to earn victory over the Trinity Western Spartans — the nation’s No. 1-ranked squad — and shore up their post-season position.

A split could move TRU as high as fifth place entering the final weekend of play, during which it will have a bye.

“If things play out as one would guess, then I think a split would put us in pretty much for sure. If we don’t get a split, then it could potentially come down to set score — sets for and

against,” Grimm said.

Four teams — Trinity Western, the UBC-Okanagan Heat, the Alberta Pandas and the UBC Thunderbirds — have booked spots in the post-season, while as many as seven others are fighting for the final three spots.

Should TRU finish in the top seven, it would be the club’s second

playoff berth in school history.

“We’re definitely looking forward to playing one of the top teams in the league and playing in this gym, because the atmosphere gets pretty crazy,”said senior Brianne Rauch, one of two players to have been on the WolfPack the last time it played a post-season match.

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SPORTS

Woe Canada: Hockey playoffs all-American?

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hockingly, the Stanley Cup playoffs are probably going to open in April without a single Canadian team among the 16 qualifiers.

They may as well take the red Maple Leaf off the Canadian flag and replace it with a picture of the NBC Sports logo. TV ratings in Canada may rival this winter’s descent of the Canadian dollar.

The 2015-2016 National Hockey League League season started with huge promise north of the border.

Last year, five of the seven Canadian clubs made the playoffs — only Toronto and Edmonton missed — and some of the preseason chatter had Canadian teams possibly threatening to be top Cup contenders.

When Montreal Canadiens

BRUCE PENTON got off to a terrific 9-0-0 start and goalie Carey Price was backing up his MVP season with another campaign for the ages, Cup fever was rampant among Habs’ fans.

Sadly, Price got hurt, the Canadiens stumbled and the biggest surprise in Montreal will be if coach Michel Therrien lasts the

whole year without being fired.

The Habs simply can’t score enough goals (fewer than two per game since Dec. 1) and Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette says, “Even with Carey Price in goal, you’re not going to win many games when you can’t average even two goals per game.”

Optimism reigned in Toronto when the Leafs signed ex-Wings’ coach Mike Babcock to a multiyear, multi-million-dollar contract.

Alas, Babcock’s coaching results are usually only top notch when he has top-notch talent to work with. Unfortunately, he’s coaching the Leafs.

In Western Canada, Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets both rose to playoff heights last season and expectations were of even greater success this year. Both,

however, have regressed.

Edmonton is better, with No. 1 draft pick Connor McDavid making the Oilers eminently watchable, but their time is still a year or two down the road.

Coach Willie Desjardins in Vancouver is having to deal with the fact his two best players — the Sedin twins — are one year older and on the downside of their careers.

The other Canadian team, Ottawa Senators, seem to be always on the playoff bubble and this year is no exception — but they’re on the wrong side of it again.

As the NHL season heads into the last couple of months, a few things are clear: Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals appear to be the class of

the league and when Stanley Cup playoff games start in April, there may be need for the singing of only one national anthem.

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Van Ryswyk event Trampolinists jump into season returns to TCC The Van Ryswyk Indoor Track and Field Invitational begins today and wraps up on Sunday at the Tournament Capital Centre.

Hosted by the Kamloops Track and Field Club (KTFC), the indoor provincial meet will feature hundreds of athletes age nine and up.

On Saturday, there will be a fun run for younger children.

Events get underway today at 5 p.m. on Friday and continue through Sunday afternoon, with athletes from B.C. and Alberta in action.

Christa Bortignon, the first Canadian woman to be named

World Masters Athlete of the Year, will be again be trying to break Canadian and world records.

In 2011, the Kamloops Indoor Invitational Track Meet was renamed the Van Ryswyk Indoor Track and Field Invitational in honour of Alwilda Van Ryswyk, who has been involved in athletics since 1930.

She is a co-founder of the KTFC.

The Kamloops Gymnastics and Trampoline Centre sent athletes to the Aaron Johnson Memorial Cup, the second Provincial Trampoline Cup of the season, in Burnaby on the weekend.

Mario Bruno was first in double-mini trampoline and second in trampoline in senior men’s action.

Emily Schmidt won gold in double-mini in the junior women’s division, silver in Level 6 trampoline in the 18-plus category and silver in women’s Level 6 tumbling.

Gavin Dodd placed first in both under-17 men’s trampoline and Level 5 men’s tumbling, and won silver in Level 6 men’s double-mini.

Kristina Dodd was first in under-16 women’s Level 5 doublemini, second in Level 6 women’s trampoline and third in Level 5 women’s tumbling.

Kristyne MakortoffJones won silver in Level 4 under-16 women’s trampoline.

Jaxson Coull won gold in Level 5 men’s double-mini.

Gavin Dodd and Coull nabbed gold in Level 5 synchro men’s trampoline.

The Aaron Johnson Memorial Cup marked the start of the competitive season for the KGTC’s trampoline crew, which is coached

by Gail Salmon.

National nod

Sun Peaks Resort received multiple accolades earlier this week from Ski Canada Magazine.

The magazine released its annual Best of Skiing in Canada Awards issue and Sun Peaks was recognized in multiple categories,

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A roller-racing derby challenged participants to compete for the fastest time.

The winners were Tami Newman, who won the women’s 500metre sprint in 26.33 seconds, and Gordon McKay, the fastest man with a time of 24.10 seconds.

Founded in 2005, but with its origin in 1972, the IGCC is one of the larger community-based cycling clubs in the province.

The IGCC offers a

friendly environment for recreational road racing and group riding, and promotes youth development through races, clinics, and mentorship.

Hit the links

Rivershore Estates and Golf Links is opening today, with the first available tee time slated for 10 a.m.

Power carts will be permitted.

The driving range will be open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Contact the golf shop at 250-573-4622 to book a time.

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The Thompson Rivers WolfPack are going to need help if they’re to see the men’s volleyball post-season in 2016.

But first, they’ll need to sweep their longtime rivals from Langley.

“For sure we need to win both this weekend — that’s an absolute must. Then it’s in other peoples’ hands,” head coach Pat Hennelly said, looking to his team’s weekend against the visiting Trinity Western Spartans.

The WolfPack play host to the Spartans tonight at 7:45 p.m. and tomorrow at 6:45 p.m. Both matches will be played in the TRU gym.

Even wins in both matches — which would give Thompson Rivers eight victories in its last nine contests — won’t be enough to earn a playoff berth alone. The Pack will need help in the season’s final weekend of play, during which they have a bye.

“From right now, it doesn’t look favourable for us in a tiebreak situation — that’s sets won overall through the whole year,” Hennelly continued.

“We did a good job of losing quickly in the first half, so we lost a lot of games 3-0 and didn’t win a lot 3-0.”

For the WolfPack to even be in the playoff conversation is a surprise.

The men’s volleyball team, long the most successful of the university’s varsity clubs, lost seven of its first eight matches and entered the holiday break at 4-8. Its record dipped as low as 4-11

before the late-season turnaround began.

Now, still clinging to the post-season dream, the Pack will finish the regular season in a venue — the TRU Gym — that has been the site of memorable victories before.

Thompson Rivers won a bestof-three series in the gym against the Saskatchewan Huskies in 2014, advancing to the Canada West Final Four.

“We’ve got some experience in here — I think this style suits our game, we’re kind of an offensively-minded team, hit the ball really hard, so harder to control in a small environment,” Hennelly said.

The WolfPack aren’t looking too far ahead yet.

Hennelly pegged his club’s chances of making the playoffs at below 50 per cent, largely because of how many scenarios need to go the WolfPack’s way for them to finish in the top seven.

The coach and his players are frustrated they again waited until late in the season to perform this year, though they haven’t given up just yet.

“Not a ton is in our control, besides the two matches we’re playing, so we’re just going to focus on those games and hopefully play well,” said fifth-year setter Graham Stoliker, one of three graduating WolfPack players.

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you don’t have a loss to give, right? Everyone is leaving everything they have out on the court and giving everything they’ve got.”

Hennelly echoed his setter and said he has been pleasantly surprised with the way his team has finished the year.

“It’s good for these young guys — this type of run is good for the young guys and I think

it has been a good character builder for our guys,” he said.

“It would have been easy to just pack it in and go away.”

Graham Stoliker (right) and the TRU WolfPack men’s volleyball team barely have a playoff pulse. TRU will try to keep the dream alive this weekend in its home gym.

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Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Ajax Mine Project

Public Comment Period and Information Sessions KGHM Ajax Mining Inc. (the proponent) is proposing to construct and operate the Ajax Mine Project, a copper-gold mine near the city of Kamloops, British Columbia (B.C.). The Ajax Mine Project is subject to review under both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act, and is undergoing a cooperative environmental assessment.

Public Comment Period The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) and B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) are inviting the public to submit comments on the ongoing environmental assessment of the Ajax Mine Project. The proponent has recently submitted its Environmental Impact Statement / Application (EIS / Application) which describes the project and its potential to cause environmental, heritage, health, social, and economic effects.

A copy of the complete EIS / Application and more information is available online at www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca and www.eao.gov.bc.ca. A summary of the document in English or French is also available on the Agency’s website at www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca.

Submit comments from January 26, 2016 to April 11, 2016:

By Online Form: www.eao.gov.bc.ca By mail:

By Fax: 250-387-0230

By Email: Ajax@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Kevin Inouye, Project Manager Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 410-701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, British Columbia V7Y 1C6

OR

Tracy James, Project Assessment Manager Environmental Assessment Office PO Box 9426 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9V1

The Agency accepts comments in either English or French. Comments only need to be submitted once to either the Agency or the EAO to be considered in both the provincial and federal environmental assessments.

Copies of the summary and the complete EIS / Application are also available for viewing at these locations: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Vancouver, B.C. Viewing by appointment only Telephone: 604-666-2431

Kamloops Library 100 - 465 Victoria Street Kamloops, British Columbia

North Kamloops Library 693 Tranquille Road Kamloops, British Columbia

City of Kamloops Offices 7 Victoria Street West Kamloops, British Columbia

Technical Presentations & Information Sessions Information on the Ajax Mine Project and the EIS / Application will be available during events held in Kamloops, B.C. Interested individuals will be able to speak with, and ask questions to, provincial and federal representatives and KGHM Ajax Mining Inc.’s technical team at all events.

Technical presentations by the proponent on key topics of interest to the public: February 16, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre 1250 Rogers Way

February 17, 2016 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre 1250 Rogers Way

Information sessions consisting of booths and posters with information on the project and the cooperative environmental assessment: March 15, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre 1250 Rogers Way

March 16, 2016 from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre 1250 Rogers Way

All submissions about the Ajax Mine Project received by EAO or the Agency during the comment period are considered public. They will be posted to EAO’s website and will become part of the Agency’s project file.

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www.kamloopscrimestoppers.ca CRIMES OF THE WEEK

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GAS STATION ROBBERY The police need help solving this robbery. On Tuesday February 8th at approximately 9:20pm, a lone male entered the Petro Canada Gas Station on 10th Ave and Victoria St. and demanded cash and cigarettes from the clerk.

The suspect then told the clerk he had a gun, the employee quickly gave a small amount of cash and some cigarettes to the suspects. The suspect ran from the store and his direction of travel was unknown. The male is described as first nations, approximately 6 feet tall, thin build, wearing dark clothing and white shoes at the time. The suspect was wearing a jacket and had a “Can am West” logo on the front of it.

If you have any information on this suspect, please contact Crime Stoppers, you will remain anonymous and only your information will be used.

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CHARLIE, Benjamin Cyril B: 1977-10-25 Age 38 First Nations male 163 cm (5’04”) 64 kg (141 lbs) Black Hair Brown Eyes

WANTED FOR: Fail to Attend Assault and Breach of Undertaking

FRANKE, Christopher Ryan B: 1990-03-22 Age 25 Caucasian male 183cm (6’00”) 75 kg (166 lbs) Brown Hair Blue Eyes WANTED FOR: Assault

RUDACHYK, Terrace Trevor Gordon B: 1978-08-14 Age 37 Caucasian male 175 cm (5’09”) 77 kg (170 lbs) Brown Hair Blue Eyes

WANTED FOR: Theft Under $5000 Fail to Appear in Court X2

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 Feb 10, 2016

were a couple of TVs, nothing else appears missing. The homeowners are upset that their home was entered and everything had been thrown around and searched through. It has been said often that you should be aware who is in your neighbourhood, whether a suspicious vehicle, people knocking on doors pretending looking for someone.

Do not become a victim of crime report all suspicious people or vehicles in the your neighbourhood to the police, help not only yourself but your community as well.

If you have any information on this break in, please contact Crime Stoppers, you will receive a cash reward upon the arrest of the suspects.

COMPLEX BROKEN INTO In the early morning of Saturday January 30th, a complex on the 2600 block of Westsyde rd. number of garages were broken into.

The thieves took their time as number of garages were forced open. The suspects took a numerous hand tools, including skill saws, cordless drills as well as a as a small 20 pound garden

Lulay OK with second fiddle JOSHUA CLIPPERTON

RESIDENTIAL BREAK IN A residence was broken into on the 2800 block of Skeena drive and was discovered on Sunday February 7th. The homeowners had been away for a couple of days, when they returned they found a rear patio door had been forced open.

The suspects had ransacked the entire house looking for items to steal. The only things taken

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tiller. There is no doubt that the suspects would have taken the items to a nearby vehicle because of the volume of items stolen.

Kamloops City RCMP Forensic unit attended and found some interesting evidence that was left behind at the scene that will help convict these suspects.

Although this is not a busy

area in the complex, it is very possible that someone may have noticed some suspicious people in or around the complex. This is your opportunity to the police directly or if you wish to remain anonymous, please contact Crime stoppers, you will never have to go to court or give a statement.

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SURREY — Travis Lulay needed some time.

After five years as the B.C. Lions’ undisputed No. 1 quarterback, there was no doubt the torch had been passed to Jonathon Jennings.

The rookie took the reins in the second half of the 2015 season when Lulay and backup John Beck both went down with injuries, guiding the team to the playoffs, where it would eventually lose out in the West Division semifinal.

Lulay could have tested free agency for the first time in his career, but the CFL’s most outstanding player in 2011 instead decided to ink a new two-year deal this week that will keep him with the Lions as both a mentor and an insurance policy.

“The grass isn’t always greener,’’ Lulay said on Tuesday. “In my case, because I’ve been here long enough, I’ve been emotionally invested in this club. I want to be part of the process of getting us back to where we want to be, and that’s playing for a Grey Cup.’’ “With the Lions since 2009, the 32-year-old led the franchise to a championship in 2011, earning game MVP honours. He’s 39-26 in 65 career starts, but has been cut down by injuries the last three seasons — first to his throwing shoulder before a knee problem helped open the door for Jennings.

Lulay will be the backup heading into training camp — and that’s OK. “If that’s my role, then so be it,’’ Lulay said. “I’m up to that point in my career where I’m fortunate that I can really put the team in front of myself. Sometimes early in your career, it’s just survival of the fittest

He’ll fight for the starting job, but Travis Lulay plans on being a team player if Jonathon Jennings is named the B.C. Lions’ starting quarterback.

and you’re worried about you.

“I really want what’s best for this club. That’s part of the pull of me coming back.’’

Lulay appeared in 10 games last season, completing 167-of-266 passes (62.6 per cent) for 1,953 yards with 12 touchdowns against 10 interceptions. He didn’t have the same zip on the ball he did before his shoulder issues, but the Montana State product showed he could still play.

“I think we came to a consensus where we’re both happy,’’ Lions’ head coach and general manager Wally Buono said. “There’s always a little bit of pain in negotiations.’’

Lulay’s contract has performance incentives for game action and part of his job will be to help develop Jennings — who threw for 2,004 yards with 15 TDs and 10 interceptions last season — as well as No. 3 quarterback Greg McGhee.

But that doesn’t mean he’s happy holding a clipboard.

“I’m going to come in and compete like crazy to make our position the best it can be, however that plays out,’’ said Lulay.

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A L i g h t i n t h e n i g h t. . .

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Vancouver moms might have to become regulars on the Canucks’ road show.

Ryan Miller stopped 33 shots to end a fivegame losing streak and the Canucks won their second straight road game with their mothers in the stands, holding off the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 on Wednesday night.

“We said that if we won tonight, there probably would be another moms’ trip next year,’’ said Vancouver defenceman Alex Biega, who made a late goal-sav-

ing play. “I bet you’re going to see a bunch of moms falling into that promise. I guess they were our good luck charms.’’

Vancouver (22-2012) is back in action tomorrow against the Maple Leafs in Toronto.

Game time is 4 p.m.

Whether or not playing in front of their mothers has anything to do with it, the Canucks have started playing well at just the right time.

Vancouver knocked

off Colorado on Tuesday night and, despite losing two more players to injuries, played a crisp game on the second night of a back-toback.

The game was a big one for two teams scrapping to stay in the Western Conference race.

As of KTW’s press deadline yesterday, Vancouver was two points behind the Colorado Avalanche, who hold the second and final wild-card berth in the West.

The Canucks are three points abaft the Anaheim Ducks, who are third in the Pacific Division.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam EDWARD “TEX” TESSMER 1930 - 2016

Donna Jackson is sad to announce the passing of ‘Tex’ Edward Tessmer at Ponderosa Lodge on February 8, 2016, following a lengthy illness. Born near LeRoy, Saskatchewan on June 24, 1930, he is survived by his son Christopher, granddaughter Ashley and her mother Dawn. Predeceased by his son Mark, Ashley’s father. Surviving siblings are Lydia Bagstad, Albert Tessmer (Laverne) and Elizabeth Hewlett (Bert) and their families. He will be missed by Donna’s family.

Tex was a well-known diamond driller, and owner of Tex Drilling Ltd. He retired 20 years ago and enjoyed a life of travel, tending to his shrubs, vegetables and flowers, puttering in his shed on various projects, cooking, visiting with neighbours and meeting his ‘buddies’ for coffee every morning.

Thank you to Dr. James Howie, and those in the medical community who have attentively seen to his well-being over the past two difficult years. The family is particularly grateful for the compassionate care he received during the final hours of his life from nursing staff and care aides at Ponderosa. He was never left on his own and was treated with gentle kindness throughout a grueling 48 hours.

Private arrangements care of First Memorial Funeral Services, #8-177 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, B.C., V2B 3E8 (www.firstmemorialkamloops.com).

The Kamloops Food Bank is suggested for those wishing to donate in Tex’s memory.

LLOYD SIVER

On February 2, 2016 in Kamloops, B.C., Lloyd Franklin Siver passed away at the age of 84. Lloyd was predeceased by his wife May in 2012. He is survived by three children Sheryl (Ed) Lindquist, Carmen (Brad) Hiebert and Brooke; five grandchildren Jon, Laura, Kyle, Garrett and Jordan, his brother Clifford Siver, niece Raye-Wynn Lindsay, brother-in-law Don Nazarkiw and many cousins and other relatives.

Lloyd was born on April 14th, 1931 in Kennedy, Saskatchewan. At a young age he moved with his family to Geraldton, Ontario where he lived with his parents Ken and Caroline Siver. In his early twenties, Lloyd joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a flight instructor, training numerous pilots from air forces around the world while stationed in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Lloyd then trained on helicopters, which he flew in the Arctic on the DEW line. Later, after a short stint with Quebec Air, Lloyd and his family moved to Kamloops in 1964 to work for Okanagan Helicopters.

Although based in Kamloops, Lloyd flew all over B.C., working with forestry, mining, hydro, search and rescue and numerous other companies and individuals. Lloyd loved flying and had an extensive career, retiring as the base manager for Canadian Helicopters. Once retired, Lloyd honed his horology skills repairing antique clocks. He enjoyed visits from his children and grandchildren, especially drinking cold ice-tea on the veranda. He cared about maintaining family connections and always had a wonderful smile.

Special thanks to Hank Bepple for his numerous visits with Lloyd and to the staff at Overlander (Evergreen) care home. Should friends so desire, donations in memory of Lloyd may be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, 72 Whiteshield Crescent South, Kamloops, B.C., V2E 2S9. No service by request.

Arrangements entrusted to First Memorial Funeral Services Kamloops (250) 554-2429 Condolences may be left for the family at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com

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In Loving Memory Of My Husband PAUL BURNOCK November 23, 1921 February 15, 2014

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

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We’ll celebrate your life today With things you liked to do We’ll share a lot of laughter And I’m sure a tear or two They say its just another first One more we must go through But to us its just another heartache And one more day without you So Happy Birthday Sweetheart No one will ever know How much I wish you were home Or how much I miss you so

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CLINTON DELBERT HILES

March 19, 1927 – January 31, 2016 It is with sadness we announce the passing of Clinton Delbert Hiles. Dad left us in the early hours of January 31, 2016 after a downturn in his health. Born in Dummer, SK on March 19, 1927, one of four children born to Delbert and Mary Hiles.

Having to start work at age 15, he had a variety of jobs and was working for Saskatchewan Telephone when he met a school teacher, Alvera MacNamee, in Truax, SK. In 1951 they moved to Armstrong, BC, and were married that year. Later he would adopt Alvera’s son Clark. In the ensuing years he worked in sawmills, on road construction before settling in Nanaimo and becoming a commercial fisherman. Fishing became his vocation for 30 years before he retired. In 2001 he and Alvera moved to Kamloops and settled in their home on Singh Street. Alvera passed away in November 2003. Clinton continued to live there on his own till 2013 when be became a resident of Chartwell Residence until his passing, January 31, 2016.

He was predeceased by his wife Alvera, his parents and a sister. Left to cherish his memory are his son Clark (Linda), brother Melvin, sister Laura (Ken) Wall, three grandchildren, Deanie (Roger), Milea (Dan) Lindstrom, Clint (Kat) and three great-granddaughters, Andrea, Kelsi and Taylor. Also there are several nephews and nieces as well as an extensive network of friends.

The family would like to acknowledge the exceptional staff at Chartwell Residence for their kindness while he was living there. Also the staff at Ponderosa Lodge for his care in his final days.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Desert Gardens, 540 Seymour Street, Kamloops, on March 26, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations could be given to The Alzheimer’s Society or the SPCA.

JOSEPH MORSE LISTER “POPS” December 11, 1943 January 16, 2016

I’m Glad I Touched Shoulders With You From Bob White’s Scrapbook

There’s a comforting thought at the close of the day When I’m weary and lonely and sad That sort of grips hold of this crusty old heart And bids it be merry and glad.

It gets in my soul, and it drives out the blues, And finally thrills through and through.

It’s just a sweet memory that chants the refrain, “I’m glad I touched shoulders with you.”

Sadly, Joe’s struggle with Alzheimer’s is over.

Joe passed away peacefully on January 16, 2016 He will be lovingly remembered by his friends and family.

A Celebration of his Life will be held on Saturday, February 27 at 1:00PM at the Kamloops Masonic Hall, 351 Nicola St. All friends and family are welcome to come and celebrate “Pops” wonderful life.

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Did you know you were brave, Did you know you were strong, Did you know there was one leaning hard, Did you know that I listened and waited and prayed And was cheered by your simplest word?

Did you know that I longed for that smile on your face, For the sound of your voice ringing true, Did you know I grew stronger and better because I had merely touched shoulders with you?

I am glad that I live; that I battle and strive For a place that I know I must fill; I’m thankful for sorrows I’ll meet with a grin What fortune may send good or ill; I may not have wealth, I may not be great but I know I shall always be true, For I have in my life that courage you gave, When once I touched shoulders with you.

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New standards coming for pet breeders in B.C. The B.C. government was working on new standards for commercial animal breeders before 66 neglected dogs were seized from a puppy mill in Langley.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said ministry staff began consultations with the B.C. SPCA, veterinarians and commercial breeders in January, noting those will continue this month.

North VancouverSeymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite has proposed legislation that would set a maximum of three litters in three years for each mother animal, a lifetime maximum of six litters and a requirement to wean puppies or kittens onto solid food by seven weeks of age before they can be sold.

Letnick said he was shocked, as were many others, at the

conditions of the Langley kennel, where 32 adult dogs and 34 puppies were seized on Feb. 4.

Some had broken bones, missing ears or eyes, infections, dental disease, severe matting, burns from urine exposure and overgrown nails.

“There is no place in British Columbia for treatment like that to our animals and that’s why in 2011 we adopted the toughest penalties in the country, [up to] two years in jail and a $75,000 fine if you’re found guilty of mistreating any animal under any conditions,” Letnick said.

Assisted living rules to be eased B.C. is preparing to make it easier for seniors to stay in assisted living longer before moving to residential care.

One of the neglected dogs seized from a Langley dog breeder Feb. 4.

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in meal preparation, bathing and housekeeping can also lead to seniors moving from their homes to care facilities.

B.C. pitches power sales to Alberta

Health Minister Terry Lake said amendments will be presented in the current legislature session in response to recommendations

by Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.

“One of the things she has found is that sometimes people are

inappropriately placed in residential care when they could be in assisted living longer.”

Lake said.

“We have somewhat rigid regulations around who can stay in assisted living before they have to move on to residential care.”

Mackenzie’s January report also found that home-care worker hours declined in 2014-2015 in three of five health regions — Northern Health, Vancouver Island and Vancouver Coastal — despite increasing senior populations.

She said reductions

With industrial power demand down and a third dam under construction on the Peace River, the B.C. government is hoping to sell hydroelectric power to Alberta to help that province shift from coal to renewables.

B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett pitched the idea to federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr this week, seeking federal infra-

structure funds to help build a second electricity grid connection between the two provinces.

That would cost $1 billion, but would provide backup power for solar and wind projects that Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has indicated she would like to build there.

Notley’s government has indicated it wants to phase out coal-fired power by 2030, substituting natural gas and renewable sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It also plans a carbon tax on fuels that would reach the same level as B.C.’s carbon tax by 2018.

Bennett said the federal government is “interested” in the power line idea as it prepares to fast-track infrastructure spending across the country, particularly in Alberta.

Obituaries & In Memoriam

LOVE ALWAYS REMEMBERS

RAMSEY BLOWER 1964 - 2016

Ramsey Blower of Kamloops passed away suddenly on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 51 years of age. He will be greatly missed by his loving wife Sherry, step-daughter Teah, brothers Dieter (Rosie) of Germany, and Roy (Jill) , sister Leona, and brother-in-law Cory of Mission, BC, nieces Megan and Brooke of Kamloops and Corinna of Germany, nephews Morgan, Nythaniel of Mission, BC, Rudiger and Thorsten of Germany and great-nephews Maximillion, Benjamin and Jonathan also in Germany.

Predeceased by his father Leslie and mother Katharina.

Ramsey was a Kamloops boy, born and raised from old Tranquille to Westsyde.

He built life long friends in his early years working at McDonalds. From there Ramsey made a career change to Don’s Auto Towing where he was employed for 15 years. It was there that he again made life long friends and met Sherry. In 2010, Ramsey took a big step forward, getting his Red Seal at West Can Bulk as a commercial transport mechanic.

Ramsey’s passion in life was working on cars with his brother Roy and “the boys.” They always had a project on the go and they could always be found in the garage. Ramsey looked after his “baby sister” and he adored the time spent with his nieces Megan and Brooke.

Ramsey had a passion for cars, whether taking them apart or putting them together, and started with his first car Peaches and Cream. Later he built his garage to accommodate other builds, from “Pinks” in Seattle to Mission and Ashcroft Raceways “0-60 Sideways.”

On September 24, 2011 Ramsey and Sherry were married. She was his soul mate and the true love of his life. Sherry’s world was shattered upon his sudden passing.

Ramsey will forever remain her true love and soulmate.

Sherry and the Blower Family would like to express their sincere thanks to the Emergency Services and all their family and friends who have given their unwavering support through this difficult time.

Donations in Ramsey’s memory to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be greatly appreciated.

Flowers gratefully declined.

The Funeral Service will be held at 12:00 pm on Monday, February 15, 2016 in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Dr., with Pastor Joe Koziol officiating.

Viewing will take place prior to the service from 11:00 am to 11:45 in the Rosewood Room at Kamloops Funeral Home.

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GHOMESHI VERDICT SET FOR MARCH 24

P R E S E N TAT I O N C E N T R E OPENING MARCH 4TH

Closing arguments wrapped up in sexual assault trial for former CBC host THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The judge at Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial said he will deliver his verdict on March 24.

Justice William Horkins announced the date after the Crown and the defence wrapped up their closing arguments.

Ghomeshi’s defence lawyer said the Crown has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the former broadcaster committed the crimes of sexual assault and choking.

In their closing arguments, lawyers Marie Henein and Danielle Robitaille said in the course of the trial, Ghomeshi’s three accusers were proved to be unreliable witnesses who withheld information from police and even lied to the court.

The lawyers used tough language when summarizing the testimony of one of the complainants — Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy DeCoutere — who has accused Ghomeshi of choking and repeatedly slapping her while they were kissing in his bedroom.

Henein said DeCoutere’s testimony related to one of the charges — overcome resistance by choking — doesn’t meet the elements of the offence, since she testified she was not resisting when Ghomeshi was allegedly choking her.

Crown prosecutor Michael Callaghan said earlier today the credibility of Ghomeshi’s three accusers has nothing to do with the way they behaved after the alleged incidents, since the law is clear everyone responds differently to sexual assault.

Henein agreed the women’s behaviour and their continued involvement with Ghomeshi after the alleged sexual assaults were not relevant to the case.

Trial highlights need for reform THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A Toronto lawyer who has called for substantial reforms to how the legal system handles sexual assault cases says the Jian Ghomeshi trial shows the adversarial model in place is “structurally ill-suited’’ to deal with such allegations.

The current system is “basically trial by war,’’ said David Butt, who has represented many complainants in sexual assault cases.

“That is probably the worst thing to do to complainants who are coming forward, to talk about very intimate and distressing violations of their sexual integrity,’’ he said.

The high-profile Ghomeshi case has seen witnesses alter their statements under relentless cross-examination that often focused on details of memories dating back more than a decade — a tactic deemed common among defence lawyers.

The Crown and the defence made their closing submissions yesterday.

“Right now the stats on people coming forward are abysmal so we really need to build trust,’’ Butt said. “Moving away from an adversarial model, I think, is going to be necessary because look at the Ghomeshi trial — who would voluntarily put themselves through that?’’

Canada’s legal system has made strides in the last few decades in trying to recognize the unique nature of sexual assault cases, including the implementation of rape shield laws that bar using a woman’s sexual history to discredit her.

Sexual violence is nonetheless often kept secret: a Statistics Canada survey found that only five per cent of sexual assaults were reported to police in 2014, a proportion consistent with previous studies.

However, she said the fact they lied to the court was.

“There is not an expert who will testify that perjury is indicative of trauma,’’ Henein said.

“What a witness cannot do is lie about their conduct and then say ‘Oh geez, that’s just how victims of trauma behave.’”

Callaghan said in his closing arguments that each of the complainants reacted to the alleged sexual assaults in their own unique ways based on their individual personalities and life experiences.

He said the first complainant didn’t go to police immediately after the alleged assaults because she didn’t think her allegations were serious enough.

Callaghan added another complainant, DeCoutere, didn’t go to police immediately because she was unsure of the reporting process.

The third woman only came forward in 2014, Callaghan said, because media reports of other allegations against Ghomeshi caused her to see a pattern.

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Some fraud is organized and orchestrated by a group of individuals, namely, staged accidents and stolen vehicle rings.

Fraudulent claims take a toll on B.C. drivers

While most B.C. drivers are honest when it comes to making insurance claims, there are a few that are hurting things for the rest of us in the province.

Industry studies estimate that about 10 to 20 per cent of all insurance claims contain an element of fraud or exaggeration. Applying those estimates here means fraud is costing us up to $600 million per year, or more than $100 annually on every auto insurance policy.

Fraud cheats everyone and comes in all shapes and sizes.

To learn more about auto insurance fraud, go to icbc.com/fraud

Other types of fraud are less obvious.

Fraud like this includes exaggerating the extent of an injury, misrepresenting a previous medical condition or slanting the situation when reporting a claim. It’s not unheard of for people to embellish their claim by including vehicle damage unrelated to the crash, or to claim they can’t work when they’re actually back on the job. These tactics may not make the news, but the costs add up and come out of all of our pockets – we all end up paying for those who cheat the system.

ICBC combats fraud with their Special Investigation Unit, which last year looked at more than 5,000 claims les. This includes a cyber unit that employs information publicly available on the internet and social media to investigate suspected fraudulent claims.

They’re in the process of increasing their focus on investigations, including training and analytics technology that ags patterns and predictors of fraud.

By stepping up efforts to reduce fraudulent and exaggerated claims, along with managing injury claims costs, ICBC is working to take pressure off rising insurance rates.

Fraud. It cheats us all.

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OTTAWA — Promises, promises.

Justin Trudeau made 214 of them during last fall’s marathon election campaign, according to TrudeauMetre.ca, a non-partisan, citizendriven website that tracks if and when the prime minister delivers on his commitments.

As his Liberal government prepares to mark its 100th day in power today, the website reckons Trudeau has so far delivered on 13 promises, started 29 more and broken at least two.

While some of the website’s conclusions are debatable, they underscore that despite a running start, the government has made barely a dent in a sweeping platform that promised transformative change on multiple fronts: stimulating the stagnant economy, transforming government and even overhauling how governments are chosen.

A number of big promises, such as a new child-care benefit and massive infrastructure investments, are expected in the Trudeau government’s maiden budget late next month.

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• A more open, accessible style of governance, working with provincial and municipal leaders and striking a less adversarial tone.

• A cabinet with as many women as men.

• A 20.5 per cent income tax rate for Canadians earning between $45,282 and $90,563, down from 22 per cent.

• A new 33 per cent tax bracket on income of more than $200,000.

• Restore the mandatory long-form census.

• Unmuzzle scientists.

• An arm’s-length advisory body to recommend merit-based nominees for the Senate.

• Withdraw

Canadian fighter jets from Syria and Iraq.

This week, Trudeau said the jets will be coming home by Feb. 22, while the government beefs up humanitarian aid and military support to train Iraqi ground forces.

• Improve access to and reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

The federal government has joined the provinces in a cheaper bulk-buying scheme.

IN PROGRESS

• Launch a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.

The government has so far set up a consultation process to determine how best to conduct the inquiry.

• Establish a panCanadian framework for combating climate change. Trudeau has met with the premiers and led a delegation to the UN climate summit in Paris to signal Canada would no longer be a “laggard’’ on global warming.

But the government has not yet committed to a more ambitious target for cutting GHG emissions — or a plan for achieving it.

• Re-establish public trust in environmental assessments of resource-based projects.

While it develops new rules, the government has introduced an interim process — including new environmental hurdles and consultations with aboriginal peoples — for projects already under regulatory review, such as the proposed Energy East pipeline.

• Reform the operation of Parliament, including empowering backbenchers with more free votes, a weekly prime minister’s question period, more open board of internal economy meetings and an end to omnibus bills.

• Repeal anti-union legislation passed by the Conservative government. Bill introduced in Parliament.

• Scrap legislation unilaterally changing

JUSTIN TRUDEAU More than 200 promises made during election.

the sick-leave program for public servants, while contract negotiations were ongoing. Bill introduced.

• Create a parliamentary oversight committee on national security operations.

A chairman has been appointed — Liberal MP David McGuinty — but no committee as yet.

• Reopen nine Veterans Affairs offices closed by the previous Conservative government.

• Clarify rules governing political activities by charitable groups to end alleged harassment by the Canada Revenue Agency.

The government is winding down the political-activity audits of charities that were launched in 2012.

EXPECTED IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET

• A new, tax-free monthly child-care benefit the Liberals say will be more generous for most parents but reduced or phased out entirely for highincome earners.

• The first phase of an additional $60 billion over 10 years in infrastructure spending. The platform promised an extra $5 billion this year.

• A number of first instalments of promised multi-year funding: $750 million for post-secondary student grants; $300 million for jobs and skills training; $300 million for business innovation; $250 million for First Nations education; $325 million for pensions for injured veterans and other programs and services for vets.

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THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT • Scrap income splitting for couples with children.

• Roll back to $5,500 the $10,000 annual limit on tax-free savings account contributions.

• Run deficits of less than $10 billion in each of the first three years of its mandate, still reducing the debtto-GDP ratio each year and balancing the books in the final year.

Trudeau has acknowledged the deficit will exceed $10 billion this year and that it will be difficult to balance in the fourth year.

• The tax break for middle-income earners was to be revenue-neutral, paid for by hiking taxes for the wealthiest one per cent.

In fact, it will cost the federal treasury $1.2 billion a year.

• Trudeau’s verbal promise to “restore’’ door-to-door home mail delivery. The Liberals have reverted to the platform’s more cautious wording: stop the Conservative plan to end door-to-door delivery and launch a review of Canada Post.

PROMISES BROKEN (or likely to be)

• Bring in 25,000 government-assisted Syrian refugees by the end of last year, at a cost of $250 million.

Logistical hurdles and security concerns forced the government to extend the schedule and inflate the price tag.

It is now aiming to bring in 25,000 by the end of February, only about 15,000 of them government-assisted refugees, the rest privately sponsored. It intends to bring in another 10,000 government-assisted refugees by the end of the year.

Estimated cost: $678 million over six years.

• Immediately implement firearmmarking regulations to help police trace guns used in crime, postponed by the Conservatives last August.

A briefing book prepared for Trudeau indicated the government had planned to meet the promise in its first 100 days.

STILL TO COME

• Replace Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system by the next election.

An all-party committee is to examine options and recommend a replacement by mid-2017.

• Reform election laws: repeal controversial elements of the Fair

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Elections Act, restore the independence of elections watchdogs, create an independent commission to organize leaders’ debates during campaigns, limit party spending between elections.

• Ban partisan government advertising; appoint an advertising commissioner to help ensure government ads are non-partisan.

• Legalize marijuana. Little has happened beyond rookie Liberal MP and former Toronto police chief Bill Blair being tapped to lead the effort.

• Overhaul the Access to Information Act to make government open “by default.’’

• Reduce the small business tax rate to nine per cent from 11 per cent.

• Employmentinsurance reforms, including halving the waiting period for collecting EI, reducing premiums, flexible and accessible compassionate care benefits, more flexible parental leave.

• Restore the age of eligibility for old age security and guaran-

teed income supplement to 65.

• Work with the provinces to enhance Canada Pension Plan benefits.

• Establish a new nation-to-nation relationship with First Nations, including implementing all 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

• Negotiate with the provinces a new health accord, with a longterm agreement on funding that includes an extra $3 billion over four years for improved home-care services.

• Amend controversial anti-terrorism legislation to, among other things, ensure legal protests or advocacy can’t be construed as terrorist activities and institute a sunset clause requiring review of new measures after three years.

• Scrap the planned $44-billion purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets, launch an open and competitive bidding process, reallocating the savings to the navy.

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TODAY ▼ FRI., FEB. 12 COMMUNITY: • Front and Centre: Western Canada Theatre at 40 exhibition of costumes, props, videos and other elements, Kamloops Museum and Archives, 207 Seymour St. Display continues to March 26.

• Let’s Dance, 8 p.m., Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St., featuring Insanity Sound. Tickets $10 and available by calling 250-372-0091, 778220-8010 or 250-2997221. Sponsored by the Thompson Valley Activity and Social Club.

• Social networking class, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St., 250372-5145.

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ART: • Out of Sight, Midnight Sun Camera Obscura, Live Stream: Optical Rendering and Isn’t that Punny!, Kamloops Art Gallery, 465 Victoria St. Gallery open Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Admission free to gallery members, children under six, $5 for adults, $10 for families, $3 for students seven and older with student ID, for seniors age 62 and older and groups of 20 or more.

• Utopia by Tangie Genshorek and Cameron MacQuarrie, main gallery, Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St. Teresa Cline writes about the many adventures to be had in the Kamloops area, such as this trip she took to visit Helmcken Falls.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT STORY TIME Five-year-old Erik and three-year-old Lexie Tengum added butterflies and superheroes to their creations during a recent storybookmaking session at the Kamloops Museum and Archives.

Tomorrow, the museum is hosting a workshop called Preserve Your Family History. The museum archivist will teach how to preserve documents, photographs, textiles and multimedia. It runs from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and costs $5.

A guided tour of Front and Centre, Western Canada Theatre at 40 will follow on Feb. 27 beginning at 2 p.m.

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Community: Front and Centre: Western Canada Theatre at 40 exhibition of costumes, props, videos and other elements, Kamloops Museum and Archives, 207 Seymour St. Display continues to March 26.

Art: Out of Sight, Midnight Sun Camera Obscura, Live Stream: Optical Rendering and Isn’t that Punny!, Kamloops Art Gallery, 465 Victoria St. Gallery open Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Community: Front and Centre: Western Canada Theatre at 40 exhibition of costumes, props, videos and other elements, Kamloops Museum and Archives, 207 Seymour St. Display continues to March 26.

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She left her job teaching trades at Thompson Rivers University, sold her house, packed her bags and took off to backpack around Europe and Egypt for

three months.

She continued this pattern for a while — at one time spending 10 months in Afghanistan working as an electrician for the U.S. military and

then exploring Berlin and Bethlehem.

It was her cure for depression.

Cline speaks openly about her struggle with bipolar disorder as it was the driving

force behind her travels and writing.

“I think it’s just a means of expressing myself,” she said.

“It does ease that depression to let the inner voice speak.

“Part of my whole journey has been embracing bipolar, so rather than trying to solve it or fix it, just embrace it and use it because a lot of people who are creative and do the sort of thing I do, do suffer mental illness.”

A recent push for

book sales is to fund her upcoming trip to Nicaragua with Jess Rothenburger and Warren FitzGerald, filmmakers behind the documentary Gringos and The Garbage about the village of El Limonal that survives by “scavenging from the garbage dump they live beside.”

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Cline visited the dump two years ago with Operation Nicaragua when she was introduced to the effort. The group is headed back to do further humanitarian work in the dump this spring.

It’s not the first time she has used book sales to fundraise.

In 2009, sales helped fund the construction of an orphanage in Egypt.

Cline self-published an eight-book series based on her international travel journals — On a Tall Budget and Short Attention Span, Love and Rocket Attacks, Single White Female Backpacker, Soul Searching in South America and more.

She describes some of those early books as a “journal on speed.”

Four years ago, settled back in Kamloops, Cline started writing local guidebooks, though she said she’s never been much of a hiker.

“I guess I’ve always enjoyed skiing and different stuff, but I can’t say that hiking was my passion until just the last couple years — and then I just hiked bipolar-like. I just went manic and hiked everything.”

She started exploring the Interior with a friend who was visiting from the Czech Republic. Cline acted on suggestions from friends and family on where to take him and the adventure took off from there.

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Teresa Cline (above) found a detour while visiting the North Shuswap for the annual salmon run. Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park boasts 26 kilometres of trails used for hiking and mountain biking, including Devil’s Gorge, a four-kilometre trip that brings you to a rocky lookout over the river.

Cline’s latest adventures Teresa Cline’s latest books on day trips (and longer) in the Kamloops region and other areas of the Interior — Chasing Waterfalls, Take a Hike and Love at First Hike, under her Teresa the Traveler nom de plume — are available at Runners Sole in the Aberdeen Village mall at Pacific Way and Hillside Drive.

Cline can also be found online at teresathetraver.ca. ous stories and pictures and decided to write a book — Where to Go and How to Get There. Since then, she’s published five books based on local destinations.

Her newest works include a paddling guide and a yet unpublished book on historical sightseeing in B.C.

There’s no secret to her madness — most of the places Cline writes about are suggested by followers of her blog, her Facebook page or her YouTube channel and many are word-of-mouth recommendations.

A walking encyclopedia on local trails, Cline keeps the gems to herself.

They are included in her books, of course, but she has decided not to highlight her top choices.

Last year Johnson Lake was overrun by tourists after is was dubbed “the Caribbean of the north” and made headlines on several blogs — Cline’s being one of them.

Her biweekly column in KTW also added to the sudden popularity of the lake near Barriere.

“Before you know it, everyone is there all at the same time, kayaking on top of each other and desecrating the lake,” Cline said.

Instead, she is focusing on encouraging people to “head out and spread out,” listing up to 50 destinations in each of her guidebooks and teaching people to respect nature.

Through her social-media channels and blog, she has introduced the #plusonechallange, asking people to return from a hike with all the garbage they took in, as well as one piece

they found along the way.

Documenting their find and posting the photos to social media using the hashtag enters hikers into a contest to win copies of Teresa the Traveller’s guidebooks.

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n my humbly outspoken opinion, it is small-minded and ignorant to make statements that infer the inclusion of “all Christians” just as it would be equally ignorant to paint all Muslims with the same brush.

The article And Such Were Some of You by Kamloops This Week columnist Chris Kempling is one such badly written attempt.

The article belittles a minority of people among us who we are invited to care about just as we are invited to care about all our neighbours.

Instead of recognizing this fundamental point within Christianity, Kempling’s attempt to speak for “all Christians” falls short.

The diversity among Christians on this planet is as vast as the globe itself.

Kempling’s failed attempt to undermine

Kempling’s attempt to “speak for “all Christians” falls short.”

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the queer community with hate-mongering speech that falsely advertises the notion of “ex-gays” is out-dated — and I’m not only referring to the conveniently proof-texted biblical “quotes” he provided.

Driven to offer another window, I write to you from a Lutheran Christian perspective: Nobody can earn their way to salvation.

We all fall short of perfection — and thanks be to God for that because what a lot of effort it would be to try to maintain

“perfection” all the time.

Instead, we are all sinners who can only be justified by Christ (there’s a lot of theology out there that explains this in great depth; see various writings from St. Paul, Martin Luther, Paul Tillich, Walter Brueggemann and others).

When a person accepts these basic premises: we cannot save ourselves and we are all sinners, then it gets a lot more difficult to point over at our neighbour and say, “Hey, you over there, you’re being a bad person for x, y and z.”

Instead, we have an opportunity to live our lives in community, recognizing our common need for forgiveness.

Suddenly, no person can be “better/ holier” or “worse/ more sinful” than another.

Lives of faith become a recognition of the journey we’re travelling together — a journey full of struggle, joy, doubt, excitement, pain, understanding, loss, hope, forgiveness and love.

Rev. Jane Gingrich is pastor of Hills of Peace Lutheran Church, 695 Robson Dr. Email pastor@hillsof peace.com.

KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Articles should be about 600 words in length and include an author photo and short bio.

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Editor: Chris Kempling’s opinion piece titled And Such Were Some of You was not appropriate for a publicly distributed newspaper.

His outdated opinion that homosexuality can be cured was at best contentious and at worst hateful and damaging for

the LGBT community.

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on Feb. 28.

Tickets are $35 and include entertainment and dinner. Doors open at 4 p.m. and dinner will be served at 5 p.m.

Tickets are available at River City Realty, 726 Seymour St. The Kamloops Independent Short Films Festival is also back for another year on March 6.

A celebration of the short film format and local filmmakers, the afternoon festival features communitysubmitted five-minute films, with cash prizes for first, second and third place selected by a jury and an award for the audience favourite.

Also in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the film festival, staff are collecting memorabilia dating back to 1997. They are asking residents to submit photos or articles from past film festivals they are wiling to have displayed with other archival material.

Anyone wishing to contribute can email kamloopsfilmfestival@gmail.com

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Cupid is visiting Victoria Street Celebrate Valentine’s Day downtown. The following businesses and restaurants are hosting special events on Sunday:

Terra Restaurant

Terra is opening its doors for a romantic three-course table d’hôte Valentine’s Day dinner on Sunday.

Cost is $53 per person, plus $22 for optional wine pairing. Reservations are required. Call 250-374-2913 to book.

A table d’hôte menu will also be available to guests today and tomorrow. Reservations are recommended.

Blue Dining + Lounge

Blue Dining + Lounge is serving a four-course menu created by executive Chef Mitch Schafer featuring locally sourced charcuterie, lamb shank, handmade gnocchi and other dishes for the special evening. $89 per person. Reservations after 5 p.m. Call 778-471-8035 to book.

Sakred Skin & Studio

Sakred Skin is hosting its fourth annual Valentine’s event, in which proceeds from love or friendshipthemed tattoos are donated to the SPCA. Walk-ins only. Designs must be no bigger than a palm.

Kamloops Symphony presents The Genius of Ravel Sagebrush Theatre 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: kamloopslive.ca French conversation Downtown Kamloops Library All levels of fluency welcome.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Make & take: essential oils Eagle Eye Gifts Cost: $25 per person 10 a.m.

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Brownstone Restaurant

Brownstone is offering a three, four, our five-course menu with optional wine parings on Sunday.

Cost ranges from $49 per person to $69. Call 250-851-9939 to book.

Hear an award-winning pianist in a programme featuring the work of a brilliant teacher, composer and orchestrator.

Barnacle Records

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 7:30 Pm

Barnacle is hosting an all-ages matinee Valentine’s Day show on Sunday featuring DJs Animal Teeth, Daydreams and No Spectrum. An afternoon of music good for “handholding and/or rocking out.” Cost is $5 at the door. Starts at 4 p.m.

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Fireside is serving a specialty dinner prepared by executive chef Mike Swann and his team. The threecourse meal features choices of duck breast or veal filet with appetizers and a white chocolate and brandy trifle to finish. Cost is $55 per person, plus $20 for optional wine pairing.

Two seatings available: 5:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Reservations required.

Call 250-377-8075 to book.

The Art We Are

The artisan coffee shop will host Saskatchewan-based guitarist Jay Seiko from the band The Northern Pikes. Starts at 7 p.m.

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Graphic novel club Kamloops Art Gallery Ages 12 to 24, free 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

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N BEHALF OF THE Local Organizing Committee, we would like to express our gratitude to the sponsors who helped us make the 2016 Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada one of the best ever.

Without your generous support, we could not have managed to celebrate this 4 day event the way we did.

Thanks To Our Sponsors:

To the City of Kamloops, Sun Peaks Resort, Kamloops Blazers and the Western Hockey League, if it weren't for your efforts and contributions, Scotiabank Hockey Day in Kamloops would not have been possible. And also Kent Taylor for his tremendous support.

Also, a big heap of praise goes out to all of the volunteers who gave up their valuable time to help us with all aspects of putting on the event. These events cannot happen without you.

Lastly, to our Local Organizing Committee, thanks for your dedication over the past 6 months in pulling this all together and making this community event such a huge success.

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he morning air is cool and the mist curling around the mountains reminds me of

Vancouver.

But, I am half a world away amidst the Himalayan slopes of Darjeeling, India.

Anticipation surges through me as, collar turned up against the chill, I scramble downhill along a labyrinthine pathway and emerge at Darjeeling’s railway station.

And there it is.

The Darjeeling Hill Railway’s exquisite little ‘toy train’ — one of the last surviving coal-fired steam locomotives on authentic working duty in India — if not in the world.

It is a vintage Glaswegian locomotive, built somewhere between 1895 and 1925 and would normally be relegated to a museum — except for the loving care lavished on it by technicians in the railway workshops at Tindharia.

The Lilliputian engine and its carriages are painted bright blue and over the next four hours, it will carry me to Kurseong — located between the two terminal stations of Darjeeling and Siliguri.

A hoarse, wheezy hoot from the engine, a furious hiss of steam and the train jolts into life.

Vehicular traffic halts abruptly as we take to the road — literally.

The two-foot-wide track runs down the centre of the street and takes precedence over all else.

I lean out of the window, listening to the chuff-chuff-

The Darjeeling Hill Railway was built in 1881 and climbs 7,200 feet from the originating station of Siliguri on the plains to the highest point at Ghum and then descends to Darjeeling at 6,800 feet. For more photos, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

IF YOU GO GETTING THERE: Bagdogra airport is 12 kilometres from Siliguri and is serviced by flights from Calcutta, Mumbai and Delhi. By rail, New Jalpaiguri is about 5 kilometres from Siliguri and is the mainline railhead which connects to all major Indian cities. There is no lack of taxis plying up to Darjeeling from either Bagdogra airport or New Jalpaiguri station. Buses to Darjeeling are an inexpensive means of transport, but be prepared to deal with erratic time tables.

TOY TRAIN: The toy train leaves Siliguri daily but service depends on weather and is suspended during monsoon months (July to September). Travellers should check the exact timing at the railway station as this may vary.

WHERE TO STAY: Darjeeling offers a wealth of hotels, ranging from budget to luxury.

choo-choo rhythm that takes me back to childhood and a more leisurely paced world.

And, unhurried it certainly is: a passenger left behind at Darjeeling station casually lopes alongside the

train, leaps onto the footboard and disappears into a compartment.

The Darjeeling Hill Railway, when it was constructed in 1881, was a feat of engineering unmatched, even today, by any other

mountain railway in India.

It climbs 7,200 feet from the originating station of Siliguri on the plains to the highest point at Ghum and then descends to Darjeeling at 6,800 feet.

Because it doesn’t operate on a rack and pinion system, the track zig-zags, curves, loops and switchbacks its way uphill over a distance of roughly 88 kilometres.

Not surprisingly, the entire trip takes nine hours.

The first lap of our journey is a stiff challenge for the little train: Ghum, a mere eight kilometres away, is 400 feet higher than Darjeeling.

The engine huffs, exhaling clouds of steam and showering coal dust cinders through the windows.

The wheel piston rods

churn like masticating jaws as the train labours its way up the steady, continuous ascent.

At Ghum, the train pauses to refill the boiler and passengers dismount to stretch their legs.

This is the oft-photographed Batasia Loop, where the track makes a complete circle in order to cope with a steep incline in the terrain.

A war memorial monument stands at the centre of the Loop, surrounded by lawns and flowerbeds.

I sip a cup of chai and listen to the sound of temple bells wafting across the valley from the nearby Ghum monastery.

Heading on down to Kurseong, tea plantations, their bushes like rows of green pom-poms, shawl

the hillsides and wooden houses with tin roofs, perched on timber pilings, cling to the side of the road.

Streamers of prayer flags flutter gaily in the breeze and pansies, phlox and wild roses planted in rusty cans, bloom on windowsills.

About 15 miles before Kurseong, we clatter through the main street of Sonada, a bustling little market town.

Sitting at the train window is like having front row seats at the theatre . . . except all the action is part of real life.

Tibetan women wearing brightly striped aprons and hand-knitted cardigans haggle at fruit stalls heaped with pyramids of oranges, pineapples and papayas.

Giggling schoolgirls in green pinafores pose shyly for my video camera.

A Nepalese villager lifts his baby son up to wave at us. A little farther on, an old man carrying a load of wood on his back, steps unhurriedly off the track as the engine rounds a curve and shrieks hysterically at him.

The train passes so close to some buildings I can see the rings on the fingers of a housewife as she stands by her kitchen window, stirring a pot of curried lentils.

It smells wonderful.

I am rueful when the trip comes to an end at Kurseong.

I’ve had a magical four hours and they have gone by all too quickly.

I ride a taxi back to Darjeeling — a mere hour’s drive away.

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Senior Electrical Estimator – Industrial/Construction We are currently searching for a senior estimator to join our team of highly trained electricians and project managers in Kamloops, BC. We value our employee contributions and maintain a respectful work environment where work life balance is very important.

Qualifications:

What we offer to you:

Extensive industrial electrical estimating experience.

Competent using Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Outlook (We are willing to train the right person.)

Bidding software competency is an asset. (We are happy to discuss your program preference.)

Exceptional attention to detail and paper flow management.

Friendly attitude and good communication skills.

Competitive salary based on your range of skills and experience.

Health benefits package.

Bonus program.

Professional development opportunities.

Open minded and positive work environment.

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SAHALI Rte 478 – 191-299 Chancellor Dr, Sentry, Soverign, The Pinnacles – 43 papers Rte 449 – Assiniboine Rd, Azure Pl, Chino Pl, Sedona Dr. – 83 papers

DOWNTOWN/LOWER SAHALI Rte 311 – 423-676 1st Ave, 440-533 2nd Ave, 107-237 Battle St, 167-173 St Paul St. -27 papers Rte 373 – Clarke St, 24-60 West Columbia St. – 20 papers

WESTSYDE/WESTMOUNT Rte 236 – Ida Lane. – 28 papers Rte 243 – Dohm Rd, Serle Crt, Pl & Rd. 31023190(even) Westsyde Rd. – 71 papers Rte 253 – 2401-2477 Parkview Dr, Rhonmore Cres, 2380 + 2416 Westsyde Rd. – 58 papers

Rte 833 – 4102-4194 Cameron Rd, Davie Rd. – 47 papers Rte 842 – 3945-4691 Yellowhead Hwy. – 45 papers

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 716 – Foxwood Lane. – 37 papers Rte 720 – 1102-1392 Cleaview Dr. – 36 papers Rte 750 – 5101-5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. – 31p Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Dr, Bogetti Pl, Viking Dr, Wade Pl, 5485-5497 E.Trans.Can. Hwy, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr. – 62p.

Rte 752 – 5600-5998 Dallas Dr, Harper Pl, Harper Rd. – 65 papers Rte 781 – Duncan Rd, Durango Dr, Sonora Rd, Wittner Rd. – 60 papers Rte 785 – Badger Dr & Pl, Coyote Dr, Fox Pl. -89 papers

SUNRIVERS Rte 874 – Canyon Ridge Crt, Dr, Lane, & Pl, 1400-1448 Sun Rivers Dr. -25 papers Rte 875 – Golfridge Dr, & Way. – 26 papers Rte 876 – Irongate Pl, Ironwood Cres, Crt, Dr, Lane, Pl, St, Terr. – 56 papers Rte 877 – The Pointe. – 13 papers Rte 878 – Stoneridge Cres, Dr & Lane – 32 papers Rte 880 – Belmonte Ave, Crt, Dr, Lane, St, Terr & Way, Sillaro Dr, 2000-2028 Sun Rivers Dr, Visao Crt & Terr. – 30 papers

INTERESTED IN A ROUTE? FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 250-374-0462

HIS Wildfire FS Inc. is currently looking for Wildland Firefighters for the Spring/Summer of 2016. Previous experience is a must and should have a current Wildland Firefighter certifications including a valid First Aid Certificate. Preference will be given to the candidates with the following: Driver’s license, Bucker’s or a Faller Chainsaw Certified. The successful candidates will receive additional training and must also complete a fitness test. Please submit your resume to: hr.wildfire.fs@gmail.com by February 17, 2016.

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

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Misc. Wanted

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Medical/Dental Full Time CDA required.

Please submit resume via email. info@periospecialty group.com Pure Dental is expanding and looking for a full time experienced dental receptionist for our dental clinic. Candidate must have excellent customer service skills, organized and be proficient with dental insurance, knowledge of dental programs as well as working in a fast paced environment. If you feel you fit this role please forward your resume to us.

Only those candidates that meet the criteria will be contacted for an interview. We thank you for your interest in our posting. Email: margaret.puredental@telus.net or fax to 250-374-3256.

Misc. Wanted

Mind Body Spirit

Handypersons

Relax and unwind with a full body massage for appointment couples welcome (250) 682-1802

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL

Financial Services

Services

For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent.

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

250-377-3457

$750 loans and more No credit checks Open 7 days from 8am to 8pm (EST)

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Work Wanted HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774.

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /Office 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 & Livestock

BEFORE YOU SELL: • ASPEN • BIRCH • COTTONWOOD • PINE • SPRUCE • FIR PULP LOGS Please call KATHERINE LEPPALA

Pets

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Animals sold as “purebred stock” must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act. BICHON Hanvanese puppies, vet checked, 1st set of shots, delivery available. 1-250-8046848. Ready to go.

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Stucco/Siding

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Furniture

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Landscaping

CLASSIFIEDS

Packages start at $35 Non-business ads only • Some restrictions apply

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

Tree Pruning or Removal

250-572-0753

*some restrictions apply.

Merchandise for Sale

Appliances Inglis Washer and Admiral Dryer.

Excellent condition. $400. 250-554-1219.

$500 & Under Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Did you know that you can place your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

Call our Classified Department for details!

250-371-4949

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Computer Equipment WANTED! Newer MacBook Pro or MacBook Air 250-3711333

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

Furniture Oak China Cabinet.

250-376-0125.

$250.

Redwood dining room set, 8chairs, buffet & hutch. $4000/obo. 250-828-1983.

Teak dining room table w/6 chairs.$340. Golf clubs & cart $30. 250-579-8584

A-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifications possible doors, windows, walls etc., as office or living workshop etc., Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Check Classifieds White Gold engagement ring.

Main diamond is .94 carat with another .5 carat in smaller diamonds. Size 7. Recently appraised at $5500 asking $4000 Call to view 250-578-7202 after 5pm

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4 Goodyear winter tires.

235/55/R17, used 1 season $400. 250-377-3002.

Carpet - Hardwood Laminate - Vinyl Tile - Stone

call 250-374-0462

for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm.

Jewels, Furs

GREAT PRODUCT. SMART SERVICE.

Yard clean-up, Hedge trimming, Dump Runs

TRI-CITY SPECIAL!

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Home Improvements

PETER’S YARD SERVICE

PETS For Sale?

Heavy Duty Machinery

Landscaping

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Businesses &

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.

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8” ION electric ice auger. Never used still in the box. $450.

250-554-9747.

9’ Pool table, excellent condition $1500 obo 250-573-5142 Double Hospital bed, brand new w/pressure relieving mattress. $2,000. 250-376-2504.

For Sale! Wrapped Oat/Barley haylage & 2nd cut Alfalfa haylage. Call 1 (250)249-5466 MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477

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Real Estate

Rentals

Rentals

Transportation

Misc. for Sale

Houses For Sale

Apt/Condo for Rent

Shared Accommodation

Auto Accessories/Parts

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $5-$10/ ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive Kamloops BC call for availability 250-374-7467

Weber Kingston Upright Piano w/humidifier & bench. Exec. cond. $500. 250-851-6951.

3500

RUN TILL $

SOLD

PLUS TAX

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Misc. Wanted Buying Collector Coins, Accumulations, coin collections & Old money. US Canada & world coins.

Plus anything made of gold or silver. Todd’s Coins. 250-864-3521 I can make House calls!

Local Coin Collector Buying Collections. Gold Silver Coins Estates 1-778-281-0030 Chad

Musical Instruments Yamaha Clavinova (Organ).

Like new.

Original $7700.

Asking $1500. 250-372-0041.

Tools Holzer saw $1500, Safety Harness $500, Myte Extractor $2500. 250-377-8436.

Real Estate Apt/Condos for Sale

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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

Mobile Homes & Parks Lease to own New 16 x 58 2bdrm 2bth mobile home in new mobile park. Trouble with financing? One or Two year term Call Gerry 250-371-1849

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS 1 Bedroom Apartments $880 - $910

• Seniors Orientated • Close to the Hospital • Quiet Living Space • Underground Parking • Newly Renovated Suites • No Smoking

520 Battle Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2 250-372-0510 Available spacious 1bdrm apts. Starting at $850/mo. The Sands Apartment.

Centrally located. On-site Management.

250-828-1711.

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RENTED

$5300

1 Bedroom Suite Adult Oriented No Pets / No Smoking Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry $825 per month North Shore 250-376-1427

NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings.

Reasonable Rental Rates Utilities not included

CALL 250-682-0312

Now Renting CHANEL PLACE Brand new 1 and 2 Bdrm Apartments Downtown Kamloops 555 8th Avenue For more information visit: 3BBBGroup.ca Sahali Gordonhorn Gardens. $825/mo. +util. 1bdrm. N/S, N/P. Ref. 250-318-2269.

Email: anneshuk@yahoo.ca

1bdrm +den fenced yard, pet friendly, w/d $800 + 1/2 util 250-377-6888 2BDRM daylight Brock. Private entr/parking. n/s/p. Ref’s. $1000/mo. 250-319-1911.

2Bdrm NShore, w/d n/p/s, util incld $950/mth. Avail now 250- 579-9225 3BDRM/1 bath parking laundry near shopping/bus Feb 1st $1150 inclds util 778-220-8118 Aberdeen 1bdrm daylight util and int incl n/s, n/p $825.

Avail Now (250) 851-9950 Avail. 2bdrm sep ent. c/a, ref req. n/s, n/p $900 incl util for working person(250) 376-0633

BC Best Buy Classified’s

Riverfront 1bdrm daylight level entry, util incl $650. Avail March 1st 250-579-9609.

Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC. Call 250-371-4949 for more information

Duplex / 4 Plex 3bdrms, full bsmnt. F/S, Close to all amenities. Carport. N/S, N/P. W/D. $1,250. 376-0113.

Semi furn 1bdrm. in Batchelor area private ent and driveway. n/s/n/p, ref req’d. $750 Util/int incld. 250-554-3863.

Welcoming Cumfy 1bedroom.

Close to University, Hospital.

Student or quiet person. Excellent Location. $495or$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

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Townhouses

Senior Assisted Living

Independent and assisted living, short term stay’s, 24 hour nursing care and respite.

3BDRM 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immed.

250-374-5586 / 250-371-0206

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Transportation

Cars - Domestic

Sport Utility Vehicle

2013 Nissan Leaf SL, electric, black/tan. 12,000kms under warranty $27,500 250-3778436 Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $6900.00 obo 250-554-0580

RUN UNTIL SOLD ONLY $35.00(plus Tax) (250)371-4949 *some restrictions apply call for details

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Available

Commercial Vehicles

Good Credit Bad Credit No Credit No Problem Get Approved Today!

Contractors Tundra HD Econo Custom. Hwy, hauler $35,000 Concrete work as possible part of the payment.

250-377-8436.

1.877.793.0620 BC CREDIT FAST

2014 Motorino XPH Electric Scooter bike. 850kms. No scrapes. $1400 250-574-9846

Delivery Thru BC DL#24358

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Motorcycles

Off Road Vehicles Honda Big Red 3 Wheeler top shape $1650 250-554-0201

1976 Ford Pinto Runabout.

2dr hatchback. Auto, disk brakes, no rust, very restorable. $750/obo. 250-3768570.

1995 Olds 88 4 dr sedan, mint cond. orig. owner, 115,000kms $3000. 250-372-2453

*Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

318-4321

2002 Nissan Altima. 4 door, auto. Fully loaded. Good condition. $5,500. Call to view. 250-376-4077.

2006 VW Jetta TDI Highline, fully loaded, auto, sunroof.

Very well maintained.

180,000kms, No accidents, very clean. $8,500.

250-318-6257.

1984 Volvo (Collector), auto, air. 181,000kms. No winter driving. $3,400. 250-587-6151

Factory built 10ft metal dump box complete w/electric hoist $2500obo 1-250-938-1101

1996 GMC Suburban 4x4 good shape runs great $2900obo Call (250) 571-2107

2008 Denali Crew Cab AWD. Sunroof, DVD, NAV. Fully loaded. 22” chrome wheels, leather.

141,000kms. $23,300. 250319-8784.

1990 Ford Flair 27’ Motorhome.

104,000kms.

Good condition. $12,049.

250-851-2579.

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $14,900. (778) 468-5050.

2005 Sprinter 25’ w/slide 1995 F250 Ford diesel w/low mileage both in exc cond. asking $20,000 obo for both (250) 314-6661

2008 Ford Diesel 350 King Ranch Lariat Super Duty.

96,398kms. $30,000/obo.

250-828-1081.

Boats

9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom.

Good shape. $1,300/obo. 250-376-1841.

1979 Peterburough 14ft 4 seater c/w ladder, cover, paddle, anchor, and trailer.

No Dents Or Scratches “MINT”. $3900.00 Doug 250 579-5944

2005 Toyota Corolla 5 speed extra set of mounted tires /rims $4500.00 250-318-8870

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts

Trucks & Vans 1994 Toyota Truck. Ext-cab, 5spd, 4-cyl, 119,000kms. Ex Cond. $3,200. 250-376-4761.

2008 Fleetwood Mallard. 23ft. like new, fully loaded. $15,000.

250-554-1035.

NO PETS

68’ Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (350 V8 type S).

Convertible.

Black interior+exterior w/chrome.

Restored.

Excellent condition. $16,500/obo. 250572-0714

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

Recreational/Sale

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Antiques / Classics

2008 Ford Escape XLT. Urgent Sale. $7,500. 250376-3741.

1989 Fleetwood AClass 120,000km slps 6, well kept, $8000obo (250) 579-9691

1972 AMC Javelin SST. Second owner. Exec mech cond. $3,000/obo. 250-372-2096.

NORTH SHORE *Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms

2000 Subaru Forester S AWD, 4 DRSW, green, well maintained, 247,000 km, dependable winter vehicle, new battery, good Nokian snow tires on separate rims, roof racks and crossbars, trailer hitch & rear window deflector.

Asking $4000 250319-1960 to view.

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Shared Accommodation

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Auto Financing

TOWNHOUSES

1967 Ford Falcon Futura St.6 Auto 2dr all original runs good, $5,500 obo (250) 376-5722

250.377-7275 www.berwickretirement.com

2-215/60R16 Snow tires. $200. 2-245/50VR16 Eagle Snow. $200. 4-275/45R20 Eagle M&S. $400. 2-225/60R16 M&S. $200. 2-275/40ZR17 M&S. $300. 250-319-8784.

Transportation

Suites, Upper

Recreation 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.

Rents for $1500/week. FMI CALL 1-250-371-1333

1-set of Nokian Winters on rims 235/75/R16. Used one season. Regular price new $1200 selling for $400. Call 250-851-1304.

2bdrms, N/Shore. N/S, N/P. $900 inclds heat/hotwater.

Ref’s required. 250-372-7695.

Brock 2 bdrm, no dogs, avail Immed, $900/mo 250-3745586, 250-371-0206

Male seeking roommate Westsyde Furn. Close to bus $550/mo util incl. Avail Immed.

Call 250-579-2480.

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Suites, Lower

Brand new 1bdrm, Westsyde.

Sep entr, W/D/F/S. $1050 util incld. Ref’s. 250-579-0404

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

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

Retired male seeking roommate, N/Shore. Close to bus/shopping. $500. 376-0953

Bed & Breakfast

3 LINES - 12 WEEKS Must be pre-paid Scheduled for 4 weeks at a time Private parties only - no businesses Some Restrictions Apply

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020

2bdrm daylight suite N/Shore n/s, n/p, priv. ent fenced yard $950 util incl, (250) 318-4647

PLUS TAX

Add an extra line to your ad for $10

Near TRU Room $325-per month util included. No Pets.

250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

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Open Road 2007 349, R.L. 36ft One owner, 3 slides, elec/stabilizers, awning. 1 ton 2005 Ford Diesel, 200,000km club cab $49,500 package (250) 372-5401 snoopy05@telus.net

New Price $56.00+tax

2011 Nissan Juke SL, AWD. Sunroof, winters, heated seats. $13,800. 250319-8240.

Erickson aluminum custom boat,new, 12’ one piece construction $3000. 778-257-6079

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2008 Cadillac CTS Premium.

130,000kms.

AWD, Great in the winter, BLK w/leather interior, CD, power windows, seats, mirrors, locks, heating/cooling seats. $14,300. 250-320-6900.

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg

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

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Scrap Car Removal

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Tenders The BC Liquor Distribution Branch is seeking janitorial companies with commercial cleaning experience to bid on one or more of the 8 Stores in the Kamloops area. If you qualify go to: http://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca

and search under Liquor Distribution Branch for Janitorial Services in the Kamloops area.

Bid Number: ITQ2016-02-17B Closing date & time: February 17, 2016 before 2pm PST.

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