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In her legal response to Kamloops Mayor Reid HamerJackson’s defamation lawsuit against her, Coun. Katie Neustaeter lists numerous “boundary violations” and “behavioural issues” with the mayor, who she claims has repeatedly brought councillors’ family members into city conversations.

The mayor’s lawsuit, filed on June 12 by his personal lawyer, David McMillan, claims Neustaeter defamed him on March 17 when she read out a statement on behalf of all council, claiming he violated personal and professional boundaries, which the mayor contested was baseless and caused innuendo on the part of the public, damaging his reputation.

In her response to the lawsuit, Neustaeter claims Hamer-Jackson has disrespected councillors and

city staff by yelling at them, belittling them and engaging in namecalling. She claims he has attended operational city staff meetings at which his presence was not required and repeatedly emailed city staff between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m., despite being asked not to unless the matter was urgent.

Neustaeter also claims HamerJackson communicated confidential information with people who are not city councillors or staff, publicly criticized city councillors in local media and failed to attend public events despite committing to do so.

Her response also claims the mayor has belittled councillors in communications to members of the public and has withheld information from councillors provided by senior levels of government.

In addition, Neustaeter claims the mayor falsely implied one councillor was an alcoholic in a media interview.

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COUNCIL CALENDAR The public, media, delegations, and staff are encouraged to participate in meetings virtually through Zoom or to observe through the City YouTube channel.

COMING TO A CURB NEAR YOU… The Curbside Residential Organic Waste Collection Program is coming soon to all single- and multi-family households in Kamloops that receive curbside cart collection.

If you have a set of garbage and recycling carts that are collected by City trucks, your household is included.

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August 1, 2023 (Cancelled) 2:00 pm - Community Relations and Reconciliation Committee August 15, 2023 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting

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ELECTRIC AVENUE ON 2ND AVENUE & VICTORIA STREET Join us on Electric Avenue to learn more about electric vehicle (EV) technology, charging, and more during Hot Nite in the City on Saturday, August 12, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, in downtown Kamloops.

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WHY SAVE WATER? Community safety and protection of our environment are key priorities at the City, and water conservation is critical as we face severe drought conditions.

This year, we’ve experienced limited snowpack, historically warm temperatures, and below-average rainfall, resulting in elevated drought concerns.

More than ever, water conservation is important to ensure we have a sufficient supply for indoor use, for firefighting, and to lessen our impact on ecosystems.

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• The City’s potable water customers use nearly four times more water in the summer than winter, predominantly due to irrigation. Water meters have helped reduce our historic summer water use by nearly 30%, but more must be done to conserve water in severe drought years.

• The City spends over $2 million in electricity costs to pump water around our city. Water reduction protects water supply and reduces the electricity we use.

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The Ross Moore Lake wildfire burning 10 kilometres south of Kamloops is still estimated to be 2,600 hectares in size, with rain that fell in the area on Monday night (July 24) not believed to have had much of an impact on the blaze.

It takes a significant amount of sustained rain to influence a wildfire, but cooler temperatures and boosted humidity levels have lessened the ferocity of the fire’s behaviour, Kamloops Fire Centre fire information officer Melanie Bibeau told KTW. “But the precipitation itself doesn’t necessarily have an impact just because it was spotty throughout areas in the [fire] centre,” Bibeau said.

Monday night’s brief, but intense storm, saw some areas of Kamloops receive strong winds and heavy downpours while other areas of the city received a sprinkling of precipitation.

The wildfire was discovered about 24 kilometres south of Kamloops on the afternoon of July 21 and was sparked by a lightning strike on the evening of July 20.

NASA FIRM maps show the fire generally

spreading in a northeast direction from its ignition site.

There has been a report of one lost structure from the wildfire, Thompson-Nicola Regional District CAO Scott Hildebrand told KTW. “All we know right now is it’s some kind of secondary recreational structure. We need to do our due diligence and make sure we find out the appropriate ownership before we say any more,” he said.

Hildebrand said he is not aware of any injuries or loss of life from the fire.

Hildebrand said he is still waiting on new data from the RCMP regarding how many of residents in properties ordered to evacuate remain inside the evacuation zone. Of the initial 49 properties ordered out, he said about half of the residents remained.

He noted the latest evacuation order came late Sunday night and some residents may not have opted to leave right away.

“I know it was a surprise to a lot of people,” he said.

Despite the fire growth, the current evacuation order for 344 properties and evacuation alert for another 157 properties in place for Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country, which includes the Lac Le Jeune area) and

Electoral Area “L” (Grasslands, which includes Knutsford) has not expanded.

“Nothing changed with alerts or orders. I think the cooler weather certainly is helping a little but, although the wind is still up there,” Hildebrand said.

As of Tuesday afternoon (July 25), a City of Kamloops evacuation alert remained unchanged for Knutsford, the community on Highway 5A immediately south of Aberdeen.

The city has an emergency reception centre set up at the McArthur Island Sports Centre for those who have been evacuated due to wildfires in the region.

While cooler temperatures and higher humidity levels have helped ease the fire’s ferocity, Environment Canada is calling for warmer weather to return this week, with highs of 31 C forecast for Thursday, July 27, and highs of 32 C by the weekend.

UPDATES ONLINE Go to kamloopsthisweek.com for updates on the fire and for much more information on evacuation alerts and orders. The website also has news on other area wildfires and tips on what to do if you are under an evacuation order or alert.

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Flair to cancel Kamloops to Edmonton flights AIRLINE INITIATED TWICE-WEEKLY SERVICE ON JUNE 18; FINAL FLIGHTS WILL BE ON SEPT. 6 Passengers step off the inaugural Flair Airlines flight from Edmonton to Kamloops on June 18. The planned twice-weekly route will have a short life when the final trips take place in early September.

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Flair Airlines is cancelling its Kamloops to Edmonton route after the Sept. 6 flights between the two cities.

The Edmonton-based discount airline initiated the service on June 18 with twice-weekly flights between Kamloops and Edmonton, but the Boeing 737 Max-8 planes that seat 189 passengers have been about half-full, on average. The flights were the first between the two cities since WestJet’s short-lived trial run in 2021, which lasted less than a year.

KTW contacted Flair Airlines after learning about no flights available to be booked on its website after Sept. 6.

“This is confirmed,” a Flair communications spokesperson told KTW about the pending end to the flights.

“Flair continuously reviews the performance of its routes.

The demand between other cities exceeds that of Kamloops and Edmonton, unfortunately, despite our expectations and effort.”

In February, Flair announced it would offer thrice-weekly service between the cities, beginning in June. At a May 25 press conference, the company announced a revision to that schedule, with twice-weekly flights.

At that press conference, Kamloops Airport managing director Ed Ratuski told KTW the airport sees about 100 passengers travelling each way daily between Kamloops and Edmonton via connecting flights.

At that same press conference, Flair chief financial officer Garth Lund said he believed that as awareness grew,

flights would fill up.

Eric Tanner, Flair Airlines’ vicepresident of revenue management and network planning, said every route needs to earn its way into the Flair network.

“The airplanes can always be taken somewhere else, so you can never make promises on a route,” Tanner said at the time. “That said, the fundamentals are here.

This is a market that we know can work really well for us. Our job is to make sure customers know the flight’s there.”

Tanner said Flair’s low-cost business model depended on filling planes to capacity as the airline makes half of its revenue on

ancillary purchases by customers.

In March, four Flair Airlines planes were seized by Airborne Capital for alleged missed lease payments worth millions of dollars, leading to 12 flights being cancelled. The airline has since sued the company for $50 million over the seizures.

With Flair deciding to pull the plug on its Kamloops to Edmonton route, Kamloops Airport is left with multiple daily WestJet flights to Calgary and multiple daily Air Canada flights to Vancouver.

Beginning on Oct. 17, Pacific Coastal Airlines plans to offer a direct flight to and from Victoria, six days per week (not on Saturdays), using Beechcraft 1900 aircraft, which seat 19 passengers.

The service will be available on a seasonal basis, providing travellers with access between the two cities between October 17, 2023, and April 26, 2024.

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Neustaeter claims boundary violations made by the mayor include him initially refusing to place a councillor (Dale Bass) on the deputy mayor rotation and standing committees, suggesting another councillor was in a conflict of interest due to the councillor’s spouse being a city employee (Mike O’Reilly’s wife, Erin, works for the city as a planner) and disclosing the death of a city staffer’s family member on live radio.

Neustaeter also claims Hamer-Jackson crossed personal boundaries by seeking to interfere with the employment of a councillor’s son who works for the city (Bill Sarai’s son is a community service officer).

Neustaeter’s response, filed July 24 by lawyer Daniel Reid of Harper Grey — the municipality’s legal representation — denies Neustaeter’s statement of March 17 was defamatory, arguing the comments were justified expressions of opinion that represent fair comment on a matter of public interest based upon true or privileged facts.

Hamer-Jackson’s lawsuit claims Neustaeter also defamed the mayor orally on Feb. 11 and via emails on Feb. 13 and March 5 with other councillors and staff by claiming the mayor pursued

For more on this story, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com interactions with Neustaeter’s father — former Kamloops MLA Kevin Krueger — with nefarious intent to gain political influence over her and city business. In her response, Neustaeter denies those comments were defamatory, arguing they were justified on substance and fact, were made in the circumstances of qualified privilege and consist of expressions of opinion and represent fair comment on matters of public interest.

Neustaeter claims that following a strategic planning meeting on Feb. 13, she raised concerns with Hamer-Jackson having ongoing communication with her father regarding city business.

Neustaeter’s response implies that sometime in January, she learned HamerJackson spoke with her father about staffing issues and asked that he obtain Neustaeter’s support in having a city staff member dismissed.

Neustaeter claims HamerJackson walked away from her at a Feb. 11 meeting and refused to talk to her about her concerns, but after initially leaving the meeting, he returned and sought to share

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“private information about Krueger with council in the meeting and made remarks about the defendant’s mother.” Neustaeter’s response states councillors objected to the mayor sharing the details and he refrained, but claims he later forwarded the information to a councillor from a private email address.

Neustaeter claims HamerJackson then forwarded that information about her father to all councillors from his mayoral email address and asked them to review it.

Neustaeter says it was in response to that action by the mayor that she sent the Feb. 13 email Hamer-Jackson claims was defamatory. In that email, included in the response, Neustaeter tells Hamer-Jackson she has asked him four times to stop contacting her father. HamerJackson’s emailed response to that accused Neustaeter of lying about asking him to stop four times, claiming it was only once and that he was “trying to keep this on the down load [low]” and that “I did not want this family issue to expose any one.”

In his email, HamerJackson added: “I was shocked of the behaviour of what I had heard of your mother and yours behaviour of a man that sounded perfectly fine to myself,” in reference to Krueger.

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Kamloops This Week is a politically independent newspaper, published Wednesdays at 1365-B Dalhousie Dr., Kamloops, B.C., V2C 5P6 Phone: 250-374-7467 | Fax: 250-374-1033 email: editor@kamloopsthisweek.com

Searching for city safety solutions

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really like Todd Mason.

When he co-owned the Vic Cafe downtown with former city councillor Denis Walsh, he was always very friendly and down to earth. When I see Todd, I very much enjoy our brief exchanges.

So, it was with great interest that I listened to Mason’s comments at a recent city council meeting regarding the June 21 community safety solutions forum he helped organize with Walsh and Bronwen Scott.

Yes, this is the same forum that attracted quite a bit of concern and controversy. More on that a bit later.

At council, Mason shared that he felt a remarkable sense of community at the forum and that there was a spirit of togetherness despite differences of opinion.

He said attendees conducted themselves with respect for the most part and found a lot of common ground (asking longtime TRU

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instructor Derek Cook to moderate was a good decision).

Additionally, Mason said he felt people showed positivity and hope for the first time in a long time.

He credited the forum’s format — no small groups silos; instead, an opportunity for everyone to hear, share, ask and learn together.

I believe Mason when he said

that was his experience.

I know him to be a good man who cares about community.

However, I’d like to share another perspective on the forum. To be clear, I did not attend the forum. I was out of town, but I would have been reluctant to attend even if I had been able to do so.

I’m now part of a project that has similar goals. Working with the local community action team, an opioid overdose response committee, we are looking to bring together as many people as we can to figure out the best solutions to our social and community safety crises. In this work, I regularly interact with amazing people who are on the front lines of serving our most vulnerable citizens.

Unfortunately, many felt genuinely uncomfortable about the forum at TRU. The issue many people had with the forum is that one of the panel-

ists, Aaron Gunn, has taken strong positions against harm reduction and safe supply. Many social service leaders feel his views could further stigmatize drug users and make it less likely they will seek help.

I deeply respect Gunn’s right to express his views, but after perusing his YouTube channel and website, I can confidently say he is not primarily in the business of bridge building and collaborative community conversations.

We want more people to feel what Mason felt at the forum. We want to greatly enlarge the circle of people who feel comfortable hearing, sharing, asking and learning together.

This conversation shouldn’t be about harm reduction versus recovery. It should be about both together. Frank Quinn, in a recent letter to the KTW editor, expresses this very well: “Don’t allow yourself to get

drawn into this polarized left-wing/ right-wing debate. Both safe supply and accessible treatment are required and will work well in tandem. Let’s all focus on the substance of saving lives in the immediate term, then allowing people to have appropriate treatment so they can return to normal, productive lives.”

I hope Mason, Walsh and Scott will take these comments in the spirit of friendship and constructive feedback and consider a more inclusive approach for future forums. I know how much they all care about addressing these issues.

They stepped up big time organizing the forum in pretty short order.

And I thank Mason, through his remarks at city council, for sharing his experience with the community.

Arjun Singh is a former city councillor who writes an occasional column for KTW. His email address is fullworld@gmail.com.

People of Earth, welcome to the Anthropocene “I was there when the Anthropocene was born. It was so amazing,” said Dr. Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. “It was actually in 2000, at one of these meetings of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Scientific Steering Committee.”

The meeting sounds like a bunch of scientific bureaucrats sitting around somewhere discussing boring details — and, probably for the most part, it was exactly that. But Paul Crutzen was also there and he was not a man to suffer fools gladly.

“The different programs were giving long reports of what they’ve been doing that year and the people that do the paleo stuff were

GWYNNE DYER World Watch going on and on and on,” Richardson said.

“We’re in Cuernavaca, Mexico. It’s hot. And the vice-chair of this is Paul Crutzen and, at some point, Paul just lost it.”

“They were saying, ‘Holocene, we’re in the Holocene, and this has happened in the Holocene.’ And Paul just jumped up and said ‘But we’re not in the Holocene any longer. We’re in the ...’ He was reaching for a word and he said, ‘We’re in the Anthropocene!’ Boing! Just like that! It happened right there.”

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The new name got some support right away, but its implications were big and science moves at its own deliberate speed.

We were still officially in the Holocene, the epoch that began 11,700 years ago, when Earth emerged from the last Ice Age, until this past July 11.

That’s when scientists in the Anthropocene Working Group presented hard evidence that human activity has changed the geology, atmosphere and biology of our planet so much that it has entered a new geologic epoch known as the Anthropocene.

We’re not in the Holocene any more.

That golden interlude of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming,

multiplied their population a thousandfold and eventually created high-energy, hightech civilizations is at an end.

Our numbers and our powers are now so great that they will determine the climate and even sea levels.

The Ice Ages that have come and gone regularly for the past two-and-a-half million years are over, cancelled by our greenhouse gas emissions. Our future is hotter, not colder, and how much hotter is largely in our own hands.

That’s why Anthropocene is the right name — “anthropo” means “human,” so now we live in the Human Epoch.

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PAID ON-CALL FIREFIGHTERS NEEDED Bend Sinister performs at Music in the Park on July 16. For a full schedule of concerts, go online to tinyurl.com/49zsssre.

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Editor: I was surprised by KTW’s July 4 online poll that showed more than 50 per cent of respondents did not plan to attend a Music in the Park concert this summer.

The attendance for the Creedence Clearwater Reprisal and the BCLC Midsummer Night’s Jam was terrific and the food trucks on site were an added bonus.

With Music in the Park, residents and visitors to the city

can enjoy a free daily concert throughout the summer, something not offered in any other B.C. city.

I would strongly encourage the naysayers to try going one evening. They might get hooked.

Congratulations to Henry Small, the City of Kamloops and BCLC for staging Music in the Park again this summer.

Mike Baker Kamloops

Editor: I am appalled that the City of Kamloops has terminated paid on-call firefighters in Westsyde.

I have lived in Westsyde for 55 years, was a paid on-call firefighter at Hall No. 4 for 34 years and chief for 15 years. Being a paid on-call firefighter was a huge part of my life, both as a service to our community and being involved in many activities that added to the quality of life of our community.

Paid on-call firefighters get paid for training and attending incidents. Most view the activity as a service to our community. For the past 50 years, the Westsyde fire hall has been manned by at least two full-time paid staff and up to 25 paid on-call firefighters.

Currently, there are 13 of them.

As of Aug. 1, there will be four paid staff assigned to each shift at the hall.

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When there is a fire call in every part of town, fire trucks and paid staff crews frequently move out of their home area. If there is a fire call elsewhere in Kamloops, the Hall No. 4 truck will head out of Westsyde. If the truck is in the hall, response time for them (no matter how many riders) can’t be any faster than it is now. If the truck is out of Westsyde, response time will be longer.

Paid on-call firefighter receive the same training and certifications as paid staff. The only difference will be in the experiences they encounter. Paid on-call firefighters are only allowed to attend fire incidents. They are not permitted to attend medical or traffic incidents.

They are paid for practices and for calls. The current total cost of the paid on-call firefighters in Westsyde is about

Editor: I originally put my name in the ring to run for city council in the Oct. 15, 2022, election, but due to time required at work and family obligations, I chose to step aside.

If I had known that what we would be left with, I never would have walked away from running.

Myself and many others believe it’s time for a full blown recall of every member of council and the mayor.

They have broken city hall and nothing is getting accomplished.

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The press release from the city claims call volume in Westsyde is up and that “demand exceeds capacity”.”

Both claims are provided with no data. What kind of calls? How many?

What is the paid on-call attendance?

The offer for paid on-call firefighters living is Westsyde to serve in Rayleigh is laughable. It takes a good 20 minutes to get there in a private vehicle. No one knows when the next incident will occur, where it will be located or how big it will be. Part of being prepared is to have good resources, including manpower, available. The real way to provide value for the taxpayers and to improve service is to have more, not fewer, dependable, trained paid on-call firefighters.

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Is geoenginnering the next option?

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“We are simply so big and so dominant that we now need to drive the vehicle,” said Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Studies.

“We are just sitting there and not really recognizing that we are the ones with the levers now. We are starting to understand how they work, but we are not using them, and it’s time to use them.”

Rockström is not actually advocating geoengineering here, but a number of other climate scientists have been driven to that conclusion by the accelerating changes in the climate system. As indeed was Crutzen himself, who first went public in 2006 with a call for scientists to consider geoengineering options.

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It had been a taboo topic until then, but Crutzen’s Nobel Prize gave him the standing to broach the issue publicly.

And it all does go together. If human activities are inadvertently changing the atmosphere and the biosphere in dangerous ways, many of which we didn’t foresee, then maybe we should also be willing to intervene to stop or reverse those changes.

This may seem far removed from the declaration of a new geological epoch, but the name change is all about perspective.

It is a way of making people realize we human beings are now the decisive influence on how the whole Earth system evolves — and that we must pay constant attention to our choices if we want a climate that we can tolerate.

In the meantime, the Anthropocene has a

few more hurdles to cross before it is formally acknowledged as our new geological epoch, but they have found the golden spike that will serve as its defining natural phenomenon.

It is Crawford Lake, a very deep limestone sinkhole not far from Hamilton.

It’s the annual layers of sediment at the bottom of the little lake, undisturbed by currents because it is so small and so deep, that contain the evidence of the huge changes wrought on the environment by human beings since the 1950s, most notably the sudden jump in plutonium (from atomic bomb tests) and fly ash from the steel mills in Hamilton.

There’s also lots of plastic waste in the sediments, of course, but mercifully nobody was tempted to rename our time the Plasticine Epoch.

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Fundraisers to help man who lost stepdaughter Ryan Fisher will remain in hospital for some time after being seriously injured after trying to prevent his 15-year-old stepdaughter from falling into the Akolkolex Falls near Revelstoke on July 16.

She died in the fall.

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An online fundraiser has been created and a second fundraiser was scheduled to be held this past Tuesday (July 25) to help raise money for a Kamloops man who was seriously injured when he tried to prevent his 15-year-old stepdaughter from falling into Akolkolex Falls near Revelstoke on July 16. She died in the fall.

According to the RCMP, the teen was hiking when she lost her footing on slippery rocks and fell into the falls, about 30 kilometres south of Revelstoke.

Her stepfather, Ryan Fisher, tried to save her from falling, but they both fell from the ledge.

Revelstoke Search and Rescue, BC Ambulance paramedics, Revelstoke RCMP and the fire department responded. A search and rescue helicopter crew found Fisher, who was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The next day, July 17, the body of the girl was found by RCMP and search and rescue personnel.

The BC Coroners Service is investigating the incident.

An online fundraiser at gofundme.com has been created

by Gordon Leary and Bonnie Pryce. It can be found by searching “Help a hero.”

“Ryan is a one-of-a-kind friend,” Leary and Pryce

state on the fundraiser.

“He is clever, a bit goofy and always there if you need him — the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back in a snowstorm. Ryan is an amazing, adventurous photographer with an eye for the beauty of the natural world around us. This is where

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Whether 2023 will be your first visit to the Rotary Club of Kamloops Ribfest presented by Functional Electric and Locates Unlimited, or if this is the 12th year you have attended, one thing you’ll notice almost immediately you come into the park, is the brightly coloured T-shirts of the hundreds of volunteers who come out every single year to help make Ribfest a resounding success!

There is no doubt that without the nearly 300 volunteers every year, there would be no Ribfest!

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he finds himself most at home.”

The pair said Fisher raced to stop his stepdaughter from falling.

“Unfortunately, he was too late and they both toppled over the edge. As a result, Ryan ended up on the rocks 70 feet below and his stepdaughter didn’t survive.”

Fisher sustained numerous severe injuries to his head, pelvis, ribs, lungs, spleen and spine.

After upcoming surgeries, Fisher will be in the hospital for some time.

“Even after he returns home, it will take a while for him to return to his work as a craftsman floor layer,” Leary and Pryce said.

“Daily living expenses will be challenging over the next six months without an income,

accompanied with the struggles that come with the grief of losing a child. We would like to ease Ryan’s financial strain as he heals from this tragedy. We are appealing to the community to help us give back to someone who gave more than his shirt trying to save his stepdaughter.”

Another fundraiser was set to be held this past Tuesday.

“A Ride To Support Ryan Fischer” was held in Pineview Valley, with all proceeds going to the online fundraiser.

REMEMBERING PAYTON Meanwhile, a celebration of life for the victim of the fall, Payton Cameron-Brown, will be held on Saturday, July 29, at 2:30 p.m. in the Norkam Mechanical Group Lounge at Sandman Centre in downtown Kamloops.

Payton’s obituary notice can be found in today’s edition of KTW and online at kamloops thisweek.com by clicking on the Obituaries tab and searching “Payton Shae Cameron-Brown.”

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Clockwise from top left: Abraxas Glazov, boyfriend of Verity Bolton, Joshuah Bolton, Verity Bolton captured by security footage leaving the Real Canadian Superstore in Kamloops on July 15, Aurora Bolton and the fifth wheel the group is known to be hauling.

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Police say they have “credible information” that the parental abduction of Aurora and Joshuah Bolton was pre-planned and that the children’s mother, Verity Bolton, her boyfriend, Abraxas Glazov and her father, Robert Bolton, have moved off the grid with the children and are believed to be living in trailers somewhere in a rural area.

Since the investigation began, Surrey RCMP has received more 180 tips, but there has not been a confirmed sighting of Aurora or Joshuah since July 7, when they were at a gas station in Merritt.

On July 15, surveillance video captured Verity leaving the Real Canadian Superstore in Kamloops with a shopping cart filled with goods. She left in a pickup truck that was pulling a horse trailer.

Police say Glazov is a 53-year-old man from Nelson who has connections to the Deadman Valley and Vidette Lake area west

As of KTW deadline on Tuesday, July 25, the search for Joshuah and Aurora Bolton, their mother, Verity, and her boyfriend and father, continues. For updates on this story, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

of Kamloops. Police say Glazov is an outdoorsman who enjoys fishing and he has a history of living off the grid for periods of time.

On April 3, 2016, Glazov, then living in Clinton, was reported missing, sparking a search for him that included scouring an area including Big Bar Ferry, Vidette Lake, Bonaparte and Cache Creek.

Ten days later, police said Glazov had been found, but offered no details on his disappearance.

Police say Robert Bolton is a 74-yearold man from the Chilliwack area who was picked up by Verity at his home on June 30.

Police say Robert has health concerns

and may appear confused and/or disoriented.

Family and friends have posted on social media, claiming Robert has dementia.

On July 18, an Amber Alert was issued in connection with a complaint that two children had not been returned to their father in Surrey by their mother following a vacation in Kelowna.

Aurora, 8, stands 3-foot-11, weighs 55 pounds and has brown, shoulder-length hair and brown eyes. Police say she has a chipped upper front tooth and freckles on her face. Joshuah, 10, stands 4-foot-10, weighs 70 pounds and has brown hair (a buzz cut that is growing out) and blue eyes.

Verity, 45, stands 5-foot-2, weighs 119 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes.

Police said Verity had planned to take her kids camping in the Interior, but noted those camping reservations were never used.

When Verity did not return the children to their father in Surrey on the date she was

supposed to, July 17, an Amber Alert was issued the following day.

Police have created a tip line and dedicated email account to manage all tips related to the Amber Alert.

The tip line is 604-599-7676. The email address is surreyamberalert@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.

In addition to Kamloops RCMP, the Nelson Police Department has also been helping Surrey RCMP in following up on tips and sightings. Also assisting in the search are local search and rescue groups, the BC Conservation Officer Service and RCMP Air Services.

“We need the public to stay vigilant and call our tip line or email tips with any sightings,” Surrey RCMP Sgt. Tammy Lobb said.

“We know they have been using the same truck and they have been towing three different trailers and we need the public to keep this in mind.

“It’s also possible the children could be spotted with either Robert Bolton, Abraxas Glazov or their mother, Verity Bolton.”

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On the heels of Tk’emlúps/Kamloops losing a bid for the 2027 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) to Calgary, Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson said it is a sign the city needs to build.

On July 21 in Halifax — site of the 2023 Games — Calgary was awarded the 2027 Games.

The two communities were bidding to host the Games that are expected to attract over 6,000 athletes and attendees.

The NAIG are held every four years and showcase the skills of Indigenous athletes ages 13 to 19 competing in 16 sports, representing more than 750 nations across North America.

Hamer-Jackson and Tk’emlúps Kúkpi7 (Chief ) Rosanne Casimir were in Halifax for the announcement, which came amid historic rainfall that created tens of millions of dollars in damage the area.

Environment Canada said three months’ worth of rain fell on the region in a matter of hours on July 21, leading to cancellation of the NAIG closing ceremony and resulting in at least four people disappearing in the flood waters.

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“I’m sure it was a very, very tough decision to make, but we were going up against a giant,” HamerJackson said, referencing the fact Calgary is Canada’s fourth most populace city.

The mayor noted the need to add facilities in Kamloops is something the city’s Build Kamloops initiative could address.

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“When was the last time we built an ice rink, for instance? We need a lot more facilities and I think we’ve got to work on that stuff.”

Hamer-Jackson said Kamloops also needs more motels for tourists.

Casimir, while noting the disappointment in not being awarded the Games, offered congratulations to Calgary.

“We, at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, look forward to cheering on our members and other athletes from B.C. as they compete in the wonderful city of Calgary,” Casimir said.

“I would also like to extend a huge Kukwstépkucw (on behalf of all of us, we thank you all) to all those that supported Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc in the development of the bid: City of Kamloops leadership and staff, Premier [David] Eby, [Tourism] Minister [Lana] Popham, staff from the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, I-SPARC and the many, many local organizations that participated in our community and provided letters of support.

“A special thank you to the Kamloops Sports Council, Kamloops Airport, Pacific Sport, TRU, Tourism Kamloops and Niki Remesz. We had an awesome team working with us and we should all be proud of the teamwork and what we accomplished.”

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Dig it: Watch, and learn from, Bones of Crows KIM CHRISTENSON SPECIAL TO KTW

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n mid-June, I watched the movie Bones of Crows with a friend and colleague at our local Cineplex.

It had a single showing earlier in the year at the Paramount, but to my disappointment, I couldn’t catch it at the time. It got a second run for approximately a week at the Cineplex and I made the time to watch.

For those not familiar, Bones of Crows tells a heartbreakingly familiar story about a multi-generational Cree family and the initial effects and subsequent fallout of residential school.

It focuses on matriarch Aline Spears as she moves through life, from being stolen from her family by police to attend residential school, into marriage and motherhood through the Second World War and, eventually, as an elder facing her abusers, representatives of the Catholic church, during a visit in Rome intended to facilitate reconciliation.

It is based on true

events.

The film has strong connections to Kamloops and the wider Secwepemc’ulecw (Shuswap territory).

Much of the film was shot outside the city, with the familiar rolling grasslands representing southern Manitoba.

The conspicuous red brick building associated with the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School also features predominantly, in turn representing the Brandon Indian Residential School, which was open from 1895 to 1972 before being demolished in 2000.

In Bones of Crows, Tk’emlúps community member Tyler Peters plays young Adam and Aline is played by another Secwépemc actor, Grace Dove, from Tsq’escenemc (Canim Lake Band).

From 2003 to 2005, I attended university on the Tk’emlups reserve, at an institution that was a partnership between Simon Fraser University and the Secwépemc Cultural Education Society. Some of my classmates there had attended the Kamloops

TOP PHOTO: Secwépemc actor Grace Dove plays Aline Spears.

Kamloops Indian Residential School, circa 1930. Rubble from the Brandon Residential School, which was demolished in 2000.

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In subsequent years, I have met many more colleagues and friends that attended the same and

other residential schools.

Through conversations with these friends and colleagues, I consider myself relatively knowledgeable

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about the general themes presented in the film and, while I wasn’t surprised by anything presented, I still left the movie theatre utterly heartbroken.

Creative filming leaves much to the viewers’ imagination, but the true events depicted in the film so clearly reveal the initial traumas inflicted by the residential school system and how those traumas shape the entire trajectory of survivors’ lives, long after “graduation day.”

There are scenes that draw comparisons to concentration camps in the Second World War and it reminded me of watching Schindler’s List in high school as part of my Grade 12 20th century European history class.

It was also a deeply upsetting film, but my teacher, wisely, understood that seeing the stories brought to life through film would have a larger impact on our young minds than just reading textbooks.

The same concept applies here and Bones of Crows could be considered required watching for more mature students who can understand the content presented. I am often

dismayed by how many people today still have no idea what the Kamloops Indian Residential School building was used for and what it once represented.

Reports on the discovery of possible graves near the school site have brought much of this to light, but nonIndigenous Canadians still have much learning and, consequently, un-learning, to do.

Bones of Crows is, unfortunately, no longer showing in Kamloops theatres, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is releasing a miniseries as an expansion of the feature film. It is the same story, same actors and same setting and I assume it will be equally as powerful.

Watch it. Bring tissues along with your open heart and open mind. And, if you are as moved as I was, consider donating to the Indian Residential School Survivor Society, online at irsss.ca.

Kim Christenson is a Kamloops-based archeologist. Interested in more? Go online to republicofarchaeology.ca.

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Business Excellence Awards finalists revealed WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE OCT. 26 GALA AT THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce president Tim Shoults presided over the 2023 Business Excellence Awards finalists announcement on July 20.

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The Kamloops & District Chamber of Commerce and MNP have unveiled the finalists for the 2023 Business Excellence Awards.

The finalists announcement, presented by The Prestige Hotel, was held at the Tk’emlúps Powwow Arbour on July 20.

The 2023 awards received 214 nominations from the public, 89 of which are unique businesses.

Thirty selection committee members chose finalists of each award category by scoring each nominee independently. The selection committee is made up of volunteers from the regional business community, representing past award winners, industry experts and award sponsors.

The committees will now interview each finalist to determine the winners, who will be announced at the Oct. 26 awards gala in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University. Tickets are on sale now at kamloopschamber.ca.

THE FINALISTS: • City of Kamloops Community Service Award: — A Groess Underground — Abbott Wealth Management/ Harbourfront Wealth Management — Teck Highland Valley Copper • Andre’s Electronic Experts Retailer of the Year: — Crooked Crown Boutique — High Country Stained Glass — Fresh is Best Salsa Company • Cutting Edge Consulting Service Provider 1-10 Staff Award: — Bolton’s Landscape Maintenance — Friendly Composting — Pepper: Your Badass

Business BFF Inc. — Kamloops and District Society for People in Motion • Kamloops This Week Service Provider 11+ Staff Award: — Abbott Wealth Management - Harbourfront Wealth Management — Neighbourhood Veterinary Hospital — NextGen Electrical • Rocky Mountaineer Environmental Leadership Award: — The Arrow Group — Forest Enhancement Society of BC — Friendly Composting • New Gold Excellence in Trades Award : — A Groess Underground — Maxwell Mechanical

— Tech Highland Valley Copper • Open Door Group Inclusive Leadership Award: — Haus of Misfit — Kamloops Food Bank — Teck Highland Valley Copper • BCLC Innovation Award: — Teck Highland Valley Copper — Fresh is Best Salsa Company — The Arrow Group • Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc Indigenous Business Excellence Award: — Simpcw Resources LLP — Sun Ridge Contracting — Tk’emlúps Petro Canada • Surerus Murphy Joint Venture Not-For-Profit of the Year: — Hopewell Clinic + Pregnancy Centre — Open Door Group

— Western Canada Theatre • Community Futures Thompson Country Emerging Business of the Year: — Boom Business Solutions — Love Naturally Botanicals — Zaaz Eatery & Play • Community Futures of Central Interior First Nations Employer of the Year: — Grant Thornton LLP — Open Door Group — Teck Highland Valley Copper • Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics Young Entrepreneur of the Year: — Cassidy Watt, Cassidy Watt Artistry Collective — Katie Forsyth, Friendly Composting — Maggie Huston, Bookkeeping by Maggie • Venture Kamloops Small Business of the Year: — Abbott Wealth Management - Harbourfront Wealth Management — Cassidy Watt Artistry Collective — Central Interior Pumps Ltd. — Pepper: Your Badass Business BFF Inc. • Abbott Wealth Management/ Harbourfront Wealth Management Business Person of the Year: — Debora DeLyzer, People in Motion — Janet Bolton, Bolton’s Landscape Maintenance — Robby Jaroudi, Natural Smiles Denture Clinic — Sheila Minten, Total Concept

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“We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the esteemed selection committee for their meticulous review of the nominations.

Congratulations to all the finalists on this well-deserved recognition.”

Added MNP partner Jessy Sra: “These awards recognize the ingenuity and excellence of businesses in Kamloops, as well as the entrepreneurs behind the scenes that make Kamloops a great place to work, play and do business. Congratulations, finalists.”

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The Kamloops Regional Farmers’ Market will celebrate its 45th anniversary this weekend.

In 1978, the first farmers’ market was held, with four farmers from within a 120-kilometre radius attending. In the 1980s, crafters were added, as was a second market day, on Wednesdays.

Over time, market organizers have hosted community groups (one that performed a memorable flash mob symphony) and several special events, including Seedy Saturday, a

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The Kamloops Regional Farmers’ Market is also a founding member organization of both the Kamloops Food Policy Council and the BC Farmers’ Market Association.

After 45 years of operating, market organizers have reached an agreement to transfer decades of files to the Kamloops Museum and Archives (KMA) so they can be preserved.

“The KMA is very excited to be getting this extensive set of materials from the Kamloops Farmers’ Market,” museum archivist Jaimie Fedorak said. “With the growing interest in

This summer may be your first or 12th visit to the Kamloops Daybreak Rotary Ribfest, presented by Functional Electric and Locates Unlimited.

Whether you are a first-time attendee or a veteran fan, you will notice almost immediately the brightly coloured T-shirts of the local food security and Kamloops’ hundreds of volunteers who come strong history of agriculture, we are out every single year to help make sure current and future researchers Ribfest a resounding success. will be excited to delve into this colThere is no doubt that without lection.” the nearly 300 volunteers every The commmunity is invited to year, there would be no Ribfest in celebrate the market’s 45th anniversary on Saturday, July 29, downtown Kamloops.

Volunteers work in three-hour in the 200-block of St. Paul Street.

Festivities will begin at 9:45 a.m. with shifts in the area of their choice — including selling raffle tickets or remarks from local dignitaries, a corn, clearing tables, working the selection of bakery treats from vensustainability areas of the park and dors and live music by the Serious helping kids enjoy the Family Fun Dogs.

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The Saturday market runs from There are perks with volunteer8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Free bike valet ing at Ribfest. Each volunteer who parking is available.

works three shifts gets a ticket for a free corn on the cob at the end of their shift. And who can resist that buttery treat?

New to volunteers this year is a coupon from the Ribbers for $5 off for those who have worked two shifts. In addition, volunteers get an opportunity to enter the volunteer swag draw, which features more than $1,000 worth of donated items from Ribfest’s generous sponsors.

Ribfest is taking place at Riverside Park from Aug. 11 to Aug. 13 and there are plenty of opportunities to get involved.

Interested? Contact Kamloops Daybreak Rotary by email at info@ kamloopsribfest.com to register. If you belong to a non-profit group or organization, there are opportunities to raise money for your group just by volunteering. Groups receive $40 per three-hour shift to a maximum of $1,600. Email info@ kamloopsribfest.com for all the details and to register.

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The annual Chrome on the Grass classic car show was held on Saturday, July 22, next to the Tk’emlúps Powwow Arbour.

Included were this old Dodge pickup truck and 1962 Thunderbird.

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A Kamloops documentarian is looking to tackle the stigma around seeking help with mental health and substance use.

Sally Martin has received a $20,000 grant from the Telus Storyhive program to create a documentary film.

The film, Black Light Unveiled, Choose the Power Within You, is expected to be shot and edited over the next eight months.

Martin told KTW the film will feature a number of stories, including her own.

The 33-year-old moved to Kamloops and began working at The Mustard Seed, interacting with many among the city’s popula-

tion with mental-health and substance-use issues.

But Martin herself has a story to tell, arriving in Kamloops early in the pandemic, to what she called a “ghost city” in the midst of health restrictions.

Born and raised in Kenya, Martin moved to Canada in 2017, living and working in Edmonton before coming to Kamloops. Arriving as a newcomer in Kamloops with little support or community, Martin found trauma and mental-health issues building up and was nearly driven to suicide herself.

“It’s been a long journey for me to be here today. It’s definitely a privilege and something I’m grateful for,” she said, noting she wants the film to tell the story of how people can struggle

with seeking support, especially in the midst of addiction.

The film will also feature members of the Kamloops community, including those with expertise in mental health and those with previous struggles with substance use. Racism will be another aspect investigated in the film, which Martin said can impact people on a large scale.

“For me, growing up, I didn’t know about racism. I didn’t even know it could interfere with people’s abilities and perceptions and how much it is ingrained in Canada,” she said.

Once completed and released, the film will be distributed on Telus’ Optik TV service and other online channels.

New partnership for Riversong The store has been one of Peavey’s largest dealers in Canada for the past 30 years, according to MMR. Miltimore’s Riversong Guitars has come to produce award-winning guitars that are sought after by musicians and guitar collectors.

One of its 2022 models, the Glennwood, is named after Glenwood Drive in Valleyview, where Miltimore once lived and worked in his garage.

The shop’s guitars have popped up all over the world, landing in the hands of big names like Jim Cuddy, Trace Adkins, Erich Church and even Paul McCartney.

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BUSKER FESTIVAL IS HERE The annual Kamloops International Buskers Festival returns this week.

It runs in Riverside Park from Thursday, July 27, through Sunday, July 30.

Professional street performers from the Kamloops region and from across Canada, the United States and Australia, will be featured.

This year’s event will feature six circle show performers, artisans, food vendors, face painting, henna, balloon twisting, musicians, a kids zone with acts like Chris the Clown and more.

The festival is family-oriented, free to attend and presented on outdoor stages. Don’t forget that performers welcome gratuities as tips are how they earn their living.

and August and on Thursdays in September.

Donations to the Kamloops Food Bank are accepted.

Saddleback Park is at Grasslands Boulevard and Stagecoach Drive.

YOGA IN THE PARK The Batchelor Heights Community Association is hosting free yoga sessions for all levels in Saddleback Park through September.

Sessions are held at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays in July

THEATRE UNDER THE TREES Project X Theatre Productions is back with Theatre Under the Trees, which runs through Saturday, July 29, in Prince Charles Park, downtown at Columbia Street and 11th Avenue.

This summer’s presentation includes The Hobbit and The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito, two new exciting shows for families in the cozy outdoor set-

CALLING ALL LEGO FANS DOWNTOWN MARKET The Thompson-Nicola The Downtown Kamloops Regional Library is hosting Lego Merchants Market is taking events at the two libraries in place alongside the Kamloops Kamloops this weekend.

International Buskers Festival, Both the downtown library at from Thursday, July 27, through Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue Sunday, July 30. and the North Kamloops library The event will run from 9 at 693 Tranquille Rd. will have a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, with a the Lego Challenge for children night market on Saturday from 4 on Saturday, July 29, from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m. a.m. and noon.

Included in the event will Participants at both locations be trendy fashion boutiques, ting in the popular park. will be able to try out different unique jewelry artisans, specialTickets are available online up Lego building challenges based ty food vendors and local craft until one hour before showtime, on the library’s Summer Reading breweries. after which they can be purchased • Send Community events to in-person at the festival gates on site. Club themes. Go online to tnrl.ca for more information. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.

For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets online, search for FRANCA MURACA Theatre Under the Trees at eventNOTARY PUBLIC brite.ca or go to shorturl.at/wSX78.

SLIP INTO THE EFFIE The Freudian Slips comedy improv group will be staging a show at The Effie Arts Collective on Saturday, July 29, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20, plus fees, online at eventbrite.com.

The Effie is in North Kamloops at 422 Tranquille Rd.

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With the soaring costs of real estate, we often have clients financially helping family members to get into their first home.

The government has recognized the hardships for first time home owners and introduced in the First Home Savings Account (FHSA) to help. This is a new registered account that allows eligible Canadian-resident adults to save up to $8,000 per year, to a lifetime maximum of $40,000, on a tax-free basis toward their first home. Like a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), contributions are tax deductible. But, like a Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), investment income and withdrawals are generally tax-free. Qualified investments include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and GICs. This unique combination of tax benefits makes the FHSA a powerful tool.

contributions and non-tax-deductible transfers from an RRSP both reduce the FHSA Participation Room. Note that transfers from a RRIF are not permitted. Participation Room is also subject to a lifetime maximum of $40,000. Generally, excess FHSA Contributions are subject to a punitive tax of 1% per month until corrected. Unused Participation Room is carried forward to future calendar years, subject to a maximum carryforward of $8,000. Lastly, unlike RRSPs, contributions to FHSAs within the first 60 calendar days of a year cannot be claimed as a deduction on the prior year's tax return.

Qualified Withdrawals Conditions: 1.

Who can open an FHSA? The holder must be a Canadian resident, age of majority and a first-time home buyer. While you cannot open an FHSA for your 2. kids, you can gift them money to contribute to a FHSA. In this scenario, the adult child would get the tax deduction, not the parent.

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Participation Room FHSA Participation Room accumulates at $8,000 per calendar year, beginning the year the account is opened and the full $8,000 can be contributed right away. Tax-deductible

Maximum Participation Period FHSAs should be closed by December 31st of the 15th anniversary of the account opening, or the year the account holder turns age 71.

FHSA & Home Buyer's Plan (HBP)

The FHSA may seem like a duplication; however, participation in one doesn't disqualify someone from participating in the other. On a combined basis, a person who qualifies for both could make $75,000 of tax-deductible savings toward a first home, and a couple could make $150,000 in combined savings.

There are some key similarities and differences to understand:

You must qualify as a first-time home buyer or did not live • FHSA withdrawals can be tax-free and do not have to be in a qualifying home as your principal residence in the last repaid, HBP withdrawals would be taxable if not repaid on 4 years time.

You must have a written agreement to buy or build with • RRSP Deduction Room accumulates based on your earned completion date by October 1 of the year following the income. FHSA Participation Room only begins accumulating date of withdrawal. once the account is open.

You must occupy as your principal residence within one • FHSAs have a maximum participation period of 15 years from year after buying or building it. the time the account is opened. RRSP contributions can grow for more than 15-years, but once withdrawn under the HBP, must be repaid within 15 years.

Before helping a child or grandchild, we feel there could be some planning opportunities with this new account. As always, we encourage reviewing with a trusted investment professional.

Until next time…Invest Well. Live Well.

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UPCOMING The Canadian Cancer Society CIBC Run For the Cure is back again and is ready to let people know of the ways to get involved.

The will have information booths at various throughout the city this summer, leading up to the October 1 run.

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Kamloops Home Hardware Building Centre co-owners Ryan (far right) and Rick Kurzac (second from right) gather with residential carpentry students, staff and faculty from Thompson Rivers University to celebrate the business’s $100,000 donation toward a new Mercedes Sprinter van for the program.

Home Hardware donation worth $100K to TRU carpentry program KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

A donation worth $100,000 has been made by Kamloops Home Hardware to Thompson Rivers University’s carpentry program.

On Friday, July 21, a brand new 2023 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Cab Chassis 4500 — purchased with support from Zimmer Autosport Ltd. — rolled into TRU’s trades and technology compound, clad in TRU and Home Hardware branding and set to be outfitted with Milwaukee tools.

“I went to TRU myself and had an amazing experience here,” Home Hardware co-owner Ryan Kurzac said, adding he sees the donation as an investment in future trades workers — inquiries for which he gets regularly at Home Hardware.

“Not a day goes by where we don’t have a customer or another contractor come in asking for other contractors, framers, carpenters,” Kurzic said.

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during the annual project undertaken by TRU trades students — the Training House, which becomes the annual Y Dream Home, which is constructed in conjunction with the Central Interior chapter of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association. TRU dean of trades Baldve Pooni said graduates from the past 33 years often look back fondly on the house they helped build.

Carpentry instructor Tim Kasten has been involved in the local construction industry for many years and he says he

is encouraged by the amount of support trades programs receive locally.

“The Kurzac family and Home Hardware have been an important part of the home building industry here in Kamloops for many years and this generous donation speaks to their commitment to skilled trades training here in our region,” he said.

“Knowing that we have up-to-date tools and equipment makes it possible to give our students the best training available in B.C.”

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t is not every day you turn seventy years old.

Some of us cringe at the thought of advancing another decade, yet I welcome this milestone with glee.

The sixties have been a toughie — losing a parent, dealing with anxiety, fighting cancer and, of course, going through crazy Covid.

Though the challenges had seemed daunting, each provided opportunities for growth and discovery. I am now feeling grateful to have survived and to be moving into this new age.

“Let’s celebrate with a few friends by going on a Mediterranean cruise,” my husband, Brent, suggests.

“It’s time for some fun.”

We invite out good friends the Fishers and the Goodes to join us, and so we decided to go with Oceania — an upscale cruise line touted for its excellence in food, amenities and service.

The booking process over the six-month period, prior to boarding, has its share of frustrations and we questioned whether we had made the right choice on a number of occasions. But soon after stepping onboard the Riviera, we found that the company lived up to its acclaimed standards.

Stunning artwork flows throughout our classy vessel, and a number of venues provide enrichment and entertainment during our travels. Some are drawn to the culinary centre where they learn to create yummy delights, while others are lured to the adjacent artist loft to dabble in watercolours.

We can dance to the oldies in Horizons, enjoy piano tunes in Martinis, get insider’s knowledge from guest-speaking historians, enjoy sinful desserts at afternoon tea time and head nightly to the Riviera Lounge, where dancers, comedians and other performing artists put on a show.

Daily activities range in everything from Mahjong and Bridge to Bingo and trivia.

The Aquamar Spa is a nurturing haven where, in peace, we get pampered and rejuvenate in the steam rooms, sauna and oversized hot tub. Shimmering pool, ping pong, bocce, putting green —there is never a shortage of action.

“They even have pickleball,” my husband points out, soon after we embark. Being an avid player, I had wondered if he would go into withdrawal during this 11-day cruise.

Not a chance.

Before long, he has scheduled games with our

A group of friends pose for a photograph before heading out on a Medierrranean cruise together.

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friends and is in his happy place.

Cuisine is a big part of cruising and as well as 24-hour stateroom sustenance, we joinour friends to fuel up at the many culinary options. Our morning lattes at Baristas are followed by breakfast

spreads at Terrace Grill.

All-American classics at Waves keep us satiated when enjoying pool time and the signature delights in the Grand dining room cater to every gastronomic desire.

As well as this main eatery, there are four specialty restaurants that

are included in our cruise package.

Jacques, modeled after a Parisian bistro, features classic French cuisine; Toscana dishes up tasty Italian; Polo Grill lures the meat lovers; and our favourite, Red Ginger, offers a tantalizing line-up of Asian-fusion.

We order two appetizer platters for the six of us — skewers, sushi and tempura.

Spicy roast duck and watermelon salad is my next palate pleaser, a unique combo that is perfectly paired.

By the time I finish my red curry chicken, I’m done.

But can I pass up on the chocolate crème brûlée for dessert?

Not a chance.

During our 11-day cruise we pull into eight intriguing ports.

In Kavala, Greece, we hike up cobblestone streets to a Byzantine fortress, the city’s pivotal point that offers an incredible panorama.

Next, is Istanbul where we explore the iconic spice market, Grand bazaar and Blue mosque — a place of prayer that was built from 1609-1666.

From Turkey, we head back to Greece and the pretty postcard setting of Mykonos, where we plod the maze of pedestrian pathways.

On this trip it becomes clar that the weather is out

of our control.

“Unfortunately, a strong storm system is moving through Italy,” the captain announces soon after we depart Greece.

Clearly, the weather gods are tuned in, for ominous clouds move in soon afterwards and the pelting rains begin.

High rollers take on an entirely new meaning, even for the casino-lovers onboard. The previously glassy ocean becomes a coaster of three-metre high swells. We soon discover that every cloud has a silver lining.

The quiet, tourist-free shops of Salerno offer great prices. People are friendly and the vibe is relaxed. In spite of a few raindrops, it doesn’t seem to dampen our spirits.

During our final four cruise days we explore the port of Civitavecchia, Cinque Terra’s quaint townships, the chichi boulevards in Monte Carlo and old town Toulon.

Although our rain slickers were put to good use, it has been a very full and amazing trip — a perfect way to celebrate life, as we cruise into our next decade.

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From story subject to sales department at KTW KTW sales representative Rylan Willoughby revisits the Nov. 22, 1995, KTW story detailing a search for him when, as a four-year-old, he got lost in the woods near Roche Lake.

The headline reads, ‘Boy found in woods after search.’

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It was in November 1995 that Kamloops This Week reported on a missing four-year-old boy who was eventually found safe the woods after his eight-hour “hike” covering 15 kilometres in the bush at Roche Lake, south of the city.

That same boy, Rylan Willoughby, has now found himself working as a sales associate at the very newspaper that covered his story 28 years earlier.

It was reported the youngster wandered away from his rural home, having headed out with his malamute dog, Harley, to go “coyote hunting.“ The disoriented boy found himself walking along a power line route, unaware he was headed the wrong way, toward Kamloops.

As the hours passed, the search swelled to about 100 people, includ-

ing Mounties, Kamloops Search and Rescue, Kamloops Fire Rescue, Kamloops Conservation officers, Merritt Search and Rescue and BC Ambulance Service.

Even area residents who heard radio reports of the boy’s disappear-

ance turned out to help.

To add to the anxiety, a bear was seen roaming in the area, which brought conservation officers out with two cougar hounds to ward off any incidents with the bruin.

Willoughby said he recalls seeing

a search helicopter fly overhead during the eight-hour long search effort.

“I remember I licked one of those salt licks, for cows — I don’t know why I did it. Another time, we came to a lake and he [Harley] wanted to get at the water, but it was frozen, so I leaned in and I broke the ice for him and he drank the water,” he said.

Willoughby said he recalls lying on a log at one point, thinking to himself, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen.”

Looking back on the moment, Willoughby said his time being lost “seemed so much longer, being a kid and being so small.”

Willoughby said his dog was the

real hero of the story.

“He stuck with me the whole time,” he said.

Eight hours later at 9:30 p.m., a cold and hungry Rylan and Harley were found by an RCMP dog handler.

Speaking to reporters at the time, the youngster said he was trying to find his way back home to the Roche Lake Resort, which his family owned at the time.

Willoughby lived at the resort until the lodge was sold, when he was 19.

Now a longtime Kamloops resident, Willoughby said he has many other fond memories of his years growing up at Roche Lake.

They include catching the bus to go to school, playing hockey outside the lodge and fly fishing his favourite spots on the lake.

“You don’t always appreciate it when you’re a kid, but now looking back, I wish I could have stayed there forever,” Willoughby said.

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Kamloops’iconic downtown arena known by many names KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

It has hosted a Memorial Cup tournament, numerous concerts, many local, provincial, national and world sports championships, trade shows and religious conventions.

And, in the summers of 2003 and 2017, it was home for thousands of people who fled wildfires throughout the B.C. Interior.

Today, we call the iconic arena downtown Sandman Centre. Before that, it was known as Interior Savings Centre and Sport Mart Place. But some longtime

Kamloopsians may still refer it by its original monicker — Riverside Coliseum.

The 5,400-seat home of the Kamloops Blazers was a much-talked about dream in the early and mid-1980s.

The idea became a reality in 1988, when voters took part in a referendum that approved the project. That was followed by a dedicated group of residents forming a fundraising committee to help the cause.

In September 1990, the city finally broke ground on the arena. Riverside opened in August 1992, carrying a construction price tag of about $23 million.

It has aged extremely well, thanks to constant care by city staff and due to regular upgrades, some of which are now underway.

These include board, glass and lighting upgrades, along with a Blazer-funded private balcony section, due for completion in time for the start of the 20182019 WHL season.

The venerable building played host for the 2023 Memorial Cup after the Kamloops Blazers captured their fourth consecutive B.C. Division title this year en rout to finishing second overall in the WHL’s Western Conference and third overall in the league.

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students as part of the country’s newest law school. The nursing program is often waitlisted and the province has given a green light to a new engineering program.

The university has become central to the fabric of Kamloops, not only in the students who continue to work within the community, but also the amount of people it employs and development it has attracted.

One only needs to look at McGill Road to see the impacts of the university on the area.

Kenna Cartwright became the River City’s first and only female mayor in November 1990.

Records from the Kamloops Museum and Archives detail her road

to the mayor’s chair. She first served as a school trustee for three years in the late 1970s before she became a city councillor for five years in the early 1980s.

Her first crack at the mayor’s race was in 1988,

when she lost to Phil Gaglardi. She ran again two years later and won, securing her place in the city’s history before dying of cancer in 1991.

The popular Aberdeen/ Dufferin park is named in her honour.

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The Kamloops Venom won 19 consecutive games en route to the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League championship. Kamloops capped the perfect season — its first in franchise history — with a 15-3 win over the Vernon Tigers on Saturday at Memorial Arena. Read more about the Venom on A30.

Barbie Girl, Barbarian carrying Kamloops torch MARTY HASTINGS STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

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Zack Currie — the 6-foot-2, 225-pound grappler from Kamloops — plans to make his ring entrance to the Aqua hit at Mamba Fight League 12 Contenders on Friday, July 28, at the Tournament Capital Centre.

“My coach took a picture,” said Currie, who was asked to explain the song choice. “I didn’t give my game face or a stare down. I was just kind of smirking. The running joke is I’m going to kill them with kindness, so they think I’m a happy, gentle giant, but then you

get in the ring with me and things change.”

Novice and advanced kickboxing, amateur and advanced MMA and jiu-jitsu action will be featured at the fully sanctioned B.C. Athletic Commission fight night.

Derek Apps rounds out the

Kamloops contingent on the card, a 220-pound grappling heavyweight whose entrance music (Ironside by Peyton Parrish) fits well with his ring moniker — the Barbarian.

“It’s real Viking — heavy,” said Apps, noting he can be found on

Instagram (@thy_gatekeeper). “It will be nice to expose Kamloops to a little more of the grappling side of things. I don’t think it gets as much exposure as it should. A lot of people think it’s a lot more violent than it really is. It’s more of a human chess match. Some people think of it as forced yoga or folding laundry with people in it. It’s a lot more technical than people think.”

Fists will fly at the event, for those with interest in striking bouts, but Apps and Currie — both of whom train at Valley JiuJitsu — will be competing under Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt rules, a less violent brand of combat.

The submission-only matches are scheduled for a maximum of 10 minutes.

“At my age and in my stage of my career, with a family, I’m

opting not to do striking, simply because of the potential of getting hit in the head repeatedly,” Currie said. “I work with my brain, being in IT. You’ve got to be in the right place in your life and have the right mindset to be training for MMA and doing striking. The worst-case scenario is you get a bone broken or you get choked out, but you’re not likely to get long-term brain damage or any sort of long-term injury.”

Apps, 33, began his MMA career in 2012 and took part in striking bouts — he fought at United Combat League 20 Ascension at the TCC in 2014, the last time an MMA fight card was held in Kamloops — but made the switch to grappling a few years ago.

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Eight teams will compete for provincial baseball supremacy next week in the Tournament Capital.

The Kamloops RiverDogs will host the 15-and-under AAA B.C. Baseball Championship, which is slated to run from July 27 to July 30 on McArthur Island.

“It’s a big deal,” tournament media representative Cher Sanderson said. “We just want people to come out and cheer them on. There will be lots of great baseball to watch.”

The opening ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on July 27 on the Bantam 2 Field.

Kamloops posted a 26-18 (52 points) record to place sixth in league standings. The RiverDogs did not need the host berth to qualify for provincials, as the top six teams earned berths to the tournament.

“They’ve worked hard,”

The 15-and-under Kamloops RiverDogs include coach Hayden Dolley, Sterling Francois, Ridge Raymer, Jacob Petrie, Caleb Gubbels, Ibrahim Diaou, Sawyer Corsi, Tristian Lindaas, Brady Scott and coach David Browning. In the front row, from left, are Nash Szasz, Kaylen Tozer, Asher Warr, Layton Jackson, Phoenix Portras and Zak Sanderson.

Sanderson said. “They’re meshing as a team and they’ve had a lot of fun.”

Cloverdale (35-9, 70 points), North Shore (33-11, 66 points), Kelowna (31-13, 62 points), Chilliwack (29-15, 58 points),

Ridge Meadows (29-15, 58 points), Cowichan Valley (2324, 46 points) and Tri-City (21-26, 42 points) round out the tournament field.

Kamloops is slated to play three Pool B round-robin games

— versus Cowichan Valley, 12:15 p.m., July 28, Bantam 2; Kelowna, 6:15 p.m., July 28, Bantam 2; and North Shore, 12:15 p.m., July 29, Bantam 1.

The title tilt is slated for 1 p.m. on July 30 on Bantam 2.

With 12 games remaining on their West Coast League baseball regular season schedule, the Kamloops NorthPaws are playing for pride.

Kamloops (9-32) played host to the Bellingham Bells (26-15) this past weekend on Dearborn Ford Field at Norbrock Stadium, falling 3-0 on Friday and 11-9 on Saturday.

“We were right there to win both of those games,” NorthPaws’ head coach Keith Francis said in a club press release.

“We can’t get over the top for some reason. One night, we hit the ball. All of the five hits were with two outs. No one was on base. We couldn’t get a hit. Saturday, we scored well but, unfortunately, our pitching fell apart.”

Game 3 of the weekend series was scheduled for Sunday, but was cancelled due to poor air quality, with smoke from wildfires burning in the Interior rolling in to pre-empt the contest.

The last-place Paws were slated to host the Victoria Harbourcats (29-13) on Tuesday, July 25, after KTW’s press deadline.

Games 2 and 3 of the three-game set will take place on Wednesday and Thursday at Norbrock, with first pitch slated for 6:35 p.m. both nights. The Paws will honour their billet host families on Wednesday.

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Northern Bounce dunked on the competition at the Grassroots 365 Summer Hustle basketball tournament, which took place earlier this month in Anaheim, Calif.

The club team that featured seven Kamloopsians — Cale Hanaghan, Taran Ghag and Ashten Khela of NorKam secondary, Tarun Saroya of Valleyview secondary, Larry Shyakagisa and Josh Onyango of South Kamloops secondary and Jovan Johannson of Westsyde secondary — posted a 5-0 record to claim gold in the under-16 junior varsity division.

“To be honest, no, I would not expect it,”

Northern Bounce head coach Sean Garvey said.

“We don’t go down to the United States and play in a top-level tournament expecting to win.”

Northern Bounce earned a 42-38 victory over Dynamite Basketball Black of Vancouver in the gold medal game.

The Kamloops club posted four victories to reach the title tilt — 58-25 over JSK of South Orange County, Calif., 39-13 over Cal Storm Nike San Diego, 66-32 over Dynamite Basketball Red of Vancouver and 51-40 over the OC Hot Shots of Villa Park, Calif.

“Every once in a while, you just get age groups that are exceptional,” Garvey said. “The one I

compare this to, although I would say not as good, is when Kelly Olynyk came through. Everybody remembers Kelly, but there was like six or seven kids in that age group that were university basketball players. This group reminds me of that.”

The team caught the eye of Kevin Graham, NBA player development coach and CEO of Prime Impact Basketball. He invited Northern Bounce to a private workout session in his gym.

“It was pretty cool for the kids,” Garvey said.

“They worked so frickin’ hard. It was an amazing capper to the club season.

“It’s one of the best age groups I’ve seen in our city in 20 years.”

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Venom run table, win seventh league title Snakes achieved perfection on July 22 at Memorial Arena.

The Kamloops Venom vanquished the Vernon Tigers 15-3 in Game 3 of the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League final to sweep the best-of-five series and advance to the provincial championship.

Tallying points for the Venom were Seamus Bankier (3G, 1A), Dane Kinney (2G, 1A), Landon Lockwood (2G, 1A), Thorden Groeneveld (2G), Austin Krug (1G, 4A), Connor Barrett (1G, 3A), Owen Barrow (1G, 1A), Trey Dergousoff (1G, 1A), Yoshi Matthew (1G), Nate Van Unen (1G), Miller Renaud (2A), Ty Richardson (1A), Nolan Virgo (1A), Ryan Watson (1A), Cailen Hamilton (1A) and RJ Gerow (1A).

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ning 11-5 in Game 1 and 17-6 in Game 2.

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Coquitlam and the Victoria Shamrocks are tied 1-1 in the best-offive Tier 1 league final, with Game 3 scheduled for Saturday, July 29, on the Lower Mainland.

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BC Hockey has announced significant changes to the junior hockey landscape in the province and Yukon.

Three junior B leagues — the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL), Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) and Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) — have been reclassified as junior A tier 2 leagues.

The Kamloops Storm play in the KIJHL. “We already have an outstanding group of 20 member clubs that operate at a high level on and off the ice,” KIJHL commissioner Jeff Dubois said in a league press release. “Operating under the junior A tier 2 designation with the opportunity to pursue Tier 1 membership in the future will help ensure that our league becomes even more of a destination for players who want to pursue their goals as studentathletes.”

The junior A B.C. Hockey League on announced on May 1 it is breaking away from Hockey Canada and on June 1 began operating outside of the sport’s national governing body.

That seismic shift precipitated the changes.

The new junior A leagues will in 20232024 take their place in Hockey Canada’s Canadian development model in partnership with the Western Hockey League and Canadian Junior Hockey League.

Over the next three seasons, an independent advisory board will

evaluate junior A tier 2 teams to determine which teams will be elevated to the junior A tier 1 level.

Storm general manager Matt Kolle told KTW he believes the tier 1 circuit will be formed in time for the 2024-2025 campaign.

“I think we more than meet pretty much any requirement they’re going to put in front of us, whether it be with our health and safety, our education, our facilities or our level of coaching,” Kolle said.

“In the last two seasons, we’ve carried 97 per cent B.C. players. In

my mind, we’re meeting the criteria by a landslide.”

The goal for teams that achieve Tier 1 designation is to seek membership with the CJHL, status that would grant access to the Centennial Cup, the junior A national championship and eligibility for players and bench staff for the World Junior A Challenge, a Hockey Canada and CJHL event, according to a BC Hockey press release.

“Having these teams dedicate themselves to raised standards‚ first to junior A tier 2 and, eventually, junior A tier 1, for some, will provide more of our talented players with a better player experience at the highest level in our province,” Stephanie White, chair of the board of directors for BC Hockey, said in the release.

All reclassified teams will continue to participate in their leagues — the KIJHL, PJHL and VIJHL — during the evaluation period.

“During this process, we looked at the

number of players who have left B.C. over the past number of years to play junior A hockey elsewhere in Canada and the United States,” Dubois said. “Our goal is to provide the type of athlete experience that incentivizes those athletes to grow and develop their game without having to look outside their home province.”

The KIJHL has committed to a threeyear plan designed to increase B.C. and Yukon player representation from 44 per cent in the 2022-2023 season to 52 per cent by 2025-2026.

“It’s a void that needed to be filled and I’m excited we get the opportunity to fill it,” Kolle said.

“We want to embrace it. We want to run with it and make hockey a better place in Kamloops, whether it be for the players or the fans.

We’re now junior A. When we see what these new enhanced standards required for tier 1 are, we then need to start working toward those.”

Mamba on home turf for Apps, Currie From A27

“I didn’t see myself going anywhere with MMA and I have more fun grappling than I do getting punched in the face,” said Apps, who played junior football for the Kamloops Broncos. “It seemed like the logical choice.”

Currie, who turns 34 in August and has never been part of an MMA fight card, will enter the ring with Michael Evans, a 22-year-old, 6-foot-1, 225-pound grappler from Coquitlam.

“He’s probably going to be a force to be reckoned with,” said Currie, noting his younger opponent has high school wrestling experience. “I don’t know that he knows much about me and my old-guy, dad strength, so I’m hoping to take him by surprise.”

Currie is leaving his ring moniker up to Valley Jiu-Jitsu training partner Jason Foui, the 98.3 CIFM radio host who will handle announcing duties at Contenders.

“I’m keeping myself adaptable and ready for surprises,” Currie said with a

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laugh. “It’s in a stadium kind of atmosphere, where you have bleachers, probably lights and ring girls. It’s a totally different type of pressure, the pressure of having people there watching you. You don’t want to disappoint them.”

Is he ready for the big stage, with less

than two years of experience in jiu-jitsu?

“I was born ready, my friend,” Currie said. “I think I’ve excelled quite a bit with the training. I got my blue belt in 10 months. It takes a lot of people a couple of years to get that.”

Apps will square off against Chris Tremayne of Surrey.

“Obviously, it’s home field advantage,” Apps said. “There are going to be a lot of people there that I know. There is always the pressure of performing for that. You never want to lose with a bunch of your friends watching, but anything can happen, right? It’s a bit of a pro and a con at the same time.”

Action is slated to get underway at 7 p.m. on Friday, with 14 tilts on the subject-to-change card, including one female clash featuring Nicolette Ling of Vancouver and Lizzette Miller of Kelowna.

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“It’s quite unique,” Currie said. “It’s not something Kamloops gets all the time, so I hope we get a good turnout.”

Tsunami make splash The Kamloops Tsunami placed fourth overall and third in men’s standings at the Kelowna Invitational Swim Meet, which was held this past weekend in the Little Apple.

Kamloops swimmers raced to 70 top-five finishes, with 16 Tsunami members among the more than 230 athletes in attendance.

Hannah Frier won gold in the girls’ open division, Jack Savage finished atop the podium in the boys’ open Category 8 division and Jared Roberts claimed bronze in boys’ Division 5 action.

Dominik Comparelli and Trevor Hopp each recorded six personal best times, Jared Roberts and Alexander Tiel had five personal best times apiece and Diya Chabra, Kayleigh Roberts and Jasper Swyers each posted three personal best times.

Sylvester Comparelli, Elsa Kornelson, Matthew Kornelson, Alicia Lopez and Jane Walby tallied two personal best times each and Hannah Frier, Myles Prochotsky, Thea Prochotsky and Jack Savage each recorded one personal best time.

Next up for the Tsunami are the Okanagan Summer Swimming Championships, which will take place on Aug. 5 and Aug. 6 in Kamloops.

Kroeker on podium Danny Kroeker toiled for the under-17 Kamloops Blaze team that claimed gold at the Boys B Provincial Cup soccer tournament earlier this month in Langley.

Kroeker’s name was accidentally omitted from an email sent last week to KTW and was not included in the roster list published on these pages on July 19.

The Blaze edged Bays United FC of Victoria 2-1 in the B.C. title tilt. Mutsa Kanyangu and James Upshaw scored for Kamloops.

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Faith: Trying to master the ‘social’ part of media STEVE FILYK SPECIAL TO KTW

H

ow do you use social media?

Some maintain streaks with friends on Snapchat.

Some coordinate sports teams with WhatsApp. Some learn dance moves from TikTok. Some publish their photography on Instagram, make comments on Twitter or celebrate milestones on LinkedIn. I’m enough of a dinosaur to have been in university when Facebook was first making its rounds across campuses. Facebook was initially a way for me to reconnect with my past — childhood friends and people I had met at college or on overseas adventures.

Fast forward many years later and Facebook has become, for me, about buying and selling used goods on Marketplace or being entertained by random feeds (I love watching rusted tools being refinished and wood bowls being turned).

A lot has been written about the

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negative effects of social media. There are correlations with its use/misuse/ overuse and depression and anxiety.

How you are using it or being used by it seems to be key. Many people use social media for self-promotion.

While there are some who limit themselves to sharing newsworthy stories, humorous observations or photos of cute kittens, many use it to broadcast successes and accomplishments.

Having these triumphs noticed or ‘“liked” briefly boosts our personal sense of self-worth. My daughter’s soccer team recently performed very well at a tournament. I was proud of her accomplishment and posted some photos. The people who would have most delighted in her achievements are a small circle of family members I could simply email or text. Yet I felt compelled to post the story online, sharing it with friends, acquaintances and strangers alike. I knew the post would reap many comments and “likes.” That is exactly what happened. But even as I checked my own post, I noticed similar posts from others whose children competed in the same tournament.

Their posts were also getting many

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“likes,” some more than mine.

In the end, sharing my daughter’s success made me feel smaller. I would have been better to have posted nothing at all.

Anecdotally, my story only proves what people have been saying about the use social media, that there are correlations with its use and declining mental health. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. As the Danish philosopher/theologian Kierkegaard noted long ago, comparison is the root of anxiety: “The more he compares himself, the more indolent and miserable the life of a person becomes

“It’s helping them believe. Making them feel strong and that they can get through the first day.”

Tori Barr

Support Worker Day One Society Kamloops Society for Alcohol and Drug Services has changed its name to Day One Society.

“People don’t want to break the trust and they don’t want to hurt their families, co-workers, or anyone,” said Tori. “But, addiction becomes that actual physical need inside a person’s body, and they just can’t turn it off without help.”

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… whoever compares himself must admit to himself that he is behind many others.”

To preserve my sanity, I have begun unfollowing people whose feed is overflowing with wellburnished images. Some people go further and periodically pause their use of social media. I have read many signoffs from people who are taking a break. Others, maybe the wisest among us, have been steadfast in refusing to join in at all.

I sometimes wonder if going offline would be the better path. In the end, I have always decided against it. Because of my work in the community, I feel I need to keep various lines of communication open. To keep these lines open and stay healthy, I will need to better discern and master my own use of social media.

More recently, however, I’ve been thinking not just about avoiding the personal pitfalls of using social media, but how it might be a tool for promoting the well-being of everyone.

Could social media become an instrument for something more than bringing attention to ourselves?

Of course.

Instead of posting yet another vacation photo that shows everyone I’m enjoying the good life, I could post a picture of a sports team bagging groceries, a crew picking up garbage or a server handing me a latte with the little heart etched in foam (all with permission, of course).

I could post a photo of soccer game at the park or my neighbor installing his own irrigation system or flowers springing up in my yard.

I’m not talking about virtue signaling, but about promoting everyday goodness that can be seen in the world.

What did Jesus say so long ago?

“You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world.”

(Matthew 5:14 MSG).

My guess is that such posts will boost the esteem of those who have been captured. My guess is that such posts will encourage those who witness them online. My hope is this turn outward will uplift my own mood as well.

Steve Filyk is minister at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, which is located in Sagebrush, at 1136 Sixth Ave.

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Leo, are you ready to take your project to the next level? Brainstorm with a coworker about the best way to get ahead and make a mark with this endeavour.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

Connect with a friend or even your partner for an intimate dinner this week. You’ve been moving in different circles and it’s time to get on the same page.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

It could be time for a move and you just aren’t ready to admit it, Virgo.

You may have gotten comfortable in one place, but a move could prove the right decision.

Invite people to stop by and cheer you up, Sagittarius. You’ve been going through a rough patch and there’s nothing like happy faces and new perspectives to bring about a smile.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20 Capricorn, be sure to check your bank account pretty regularly; otherwise, you may lose track of spending and get yourself into a financial mess that could be tough to get out of.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, you may be your own worst enemy this week, especially as it pertains to thinking that someone may be trying to cause trouble with you at work. Get the facts before acting.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, there is a process to everything.

Remain patient and stay the course no matter how excited you are.

Rest assured that things will work out if you can hang in there.

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Coming Events CIVIC HOLIDAY Kamloops This Week will be closed on Monday, August 7, 2023 for the Civic Statutory Holiday.

Classified Deadline is Tuesday, Aug. 8th at 9:00am for the Wednesday paper,

Antiques BUYING & SELLING: Vintage & mid-century metal, teak, wood furniture; original signed paintings, prints; antique paper items, local history ephemera; BC pottery, ceramics.

4th Meridian Art & Vintage, 104 1475 Fairview, Penticton.

Leanne@4thmeridian.ca Wrought iron beds $300./each. High Chair $30. Cedar Hope chest $400 Rocking chair $150.

Oak dresser w/mirror $475 250-372-8177

Art & Collectibles POWER OF ONE Magnificent creation by John Banovich.

43"hx50"W Brown wooden frame $500. firm 250-578-7776

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Exercise Equipment

For Sale - Misc

Ladies bike, dual suspension, offroad, 6spd. $50. 250-374-1011.

Invacare Medical Bed. Like new. $1200/obo. 250374-7382.

Moving Sale - Everything Must Go - Hshld items, misc furniture, 6pc Bedroom set like new. $500. Small radial alarm saw $50. 250-3748285.

Trek Madone 5, Project Series 1, fully carbon, 56cm. custom frame, like new. Numerous accessories. $2000/firm.

For additional information call 250-372-2080. anitamattdenys@ gmail.com

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For Sale - Misc 28 Vintage sugar shakers - $400/obo. Tel pioneer collector plates. $150/obo.

250-523-9495.

90 pcs of Royal Memorabilia. Plates, cups etc. $850/obo. 250-5795437.

About 80 Elvis Record Albums - Good variety. $850/all. 250-318-0170 BBQ w/side burner. $75.

Patio Table 4/chairs $75.

Sofa-bed $100. Make offer. 250-554-1599.

Bobby Orr's (4444) Collectors Lithograph.

(40"x32") $350. 1-250545-2755 (Vernon).

Distress sale of 2400 different books on hockey. Both juvenile and adult categories, some fiction, most non-fiction. Published between 1919 - 2012.

Comes with bibliographies. $7,500.

250-374-2211.

EZ Tent sleeps 6 $85.

New 10gal compressor $279. New 12volt cooler $65. 9x9 Gazebo $95. 2 milk cans $50/each. 250374-8285 Greeting cards made in England each cellophane wrapped 30,000 for $2,000/obo 250-376-6607.

Greeting cards made in England each cellophane wrapped 90,000 for $6,000/obo 250-376-6607.

Satellite phone Model Iridium 9505A handset w/attachments. $1300. 250374-0650.

Step2 Playhouse. $200.

Child's slide. $40. 2-Veg Trug self watering kits. $120/each. 250-578-0215 Welders - Wire Feed Lincoln SP100 - 110 volt. $425. 250 AM A/C/D/C Stick Welder 220 volt. $225. 250-376-1339.

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No Businesses, Based Based on on 3 3 lines lines Merchandise, vehicles, Merchandise, vehicles, trailers, trailers, RV’s, RV’s, boats, boats, ATV’s, furniture,etc. etc.

ATV’s,furniture, $ 00 $35 00 35 Tax not included included Tax not Some restrictions apply Some restrictions apply

Garage Sales

Garage Sales

NORTH SHORE Odd Fellows and Rebekahs - Flea Market and Pancake breakfast $5. Sunday, July 30th.

8am-noon. 423 Tranquille St.

WESTSYDE MOVING SALE: Saturday, July 29, 9:00am- 2:00pm.

737 McArthur Drive.

Tools, garden equipment, clothing, books, toys, housewares, electronics, furniture and much, much more!

VALLEYVIEW Giant Estate Sale: 2657 Thompson Drive Sat & Sun July 29th/30th 8am3pm Everything must be sold. Lots of bargains

Call our Classified Department for details!

250-371-4949

Furniture

Free

Antique china cabinet $600. 250-376-4161.

Free: Handmade Andirons from the Yukon Sternwheeler Klondike.

Approx 90 years old. 250828-1151.

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?

Antique Duncan Phyfe table, extra leaf, buffet, hutch and 4 chairs. Exec cond. $600.

778-2577155.

Diningroom table w/8chairs, c/w Buffet and Hutch. Med Colour. $800.

250-374-8933.

Exec desk dark finish $200. Teak corner cabinet $100, Custom oak cabinet $200. 250-851-7687.

Farm Equipment

Scheduled forone onemonth monthatata a time.

Scheduled for time.

Customer mustcall calltotoreschedule. reschedule.

Customer must Tax not included. Some restrictions apply Tax not included. Some restrictions apply

GarageSale DIRECTORY NORTH SHORE Ottawa Place Yards of Sales. July 29/30th. 9am5pm. 12 ft Alum boat, pressure washer, 130 old bricks, garden tools, plants, trees, Blu Rays, CD's, DVD's, records, stereo equipment, cookbooks, pyrex baking dishes, pots/pans, sunglasses, 100's of vintage greeting cards from England, lamps, large wine jugs, T-shirts, Burts Bees products, stovetop elements, finished trunks.

Large tan 4 drawer metal filing cabinet. $35. 250376-8726.

No Businesses, Based on 3 lines Houses, condos,duplexes, duplexes, suites, Houses, condos, etc.

(3 months max) max) suites, etc. (3 months $$ 00 53 extra line line 5300 Add Add an an extra to for $$10 your ad ad for 10 to your

Basement Suites 1bdrm bsmt suite in quiet cul de sac - upper Sahali.

Everything included, all utilities. No pets. Wanting longer lease. $1400.00.

July 01/23. 250-851-1193

IT'S GARAGE SALE TIME Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL ONLY $13.50 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line) 250-371-4949 classifieds@ kamloopsthisweek.com Garage Sale deadline is Tuesday 9:00 am for Wednesday Paper

Renos & Home Improvement Peter Smiths Renovations Free Estimates: Kitchens, Basements, Renos, Sidewalks, Garages, Fencing, So Much More Not Limited (250) 2626337.

Lawn & Garden

Houses For Rent

Gardener 30 years experience.

Garden clean-ups and pruning.

250-312-3986.

Furnished 5 bdrm $4500.

Quiet No S/P. West End RIH 250-214-0909.

PETER'S YARD SERVICE

Tractor for Sale - Ford 9N, front end loader, backblade and weight attachment.Wheel chains. $3500.00 Call 250-672-9712, 778-220-4443, 250-819-9712.

Open to Offers

Shared Accommodation

It's time to trim your hedges

Looking for 2 roommates to share 3bdrm house in country on 5-acres. $2000. 250-682-1802

Pets

Miscellaneous for Rent

Tree pruning or removal

Animals sold as "purebred stock" must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

New double wide mobile home pad available in Oakdale Mobile Home Park, located at 2400 Oakdale Way, Kamloops, BC. Call 250-305-5251.

Lawn & Garden

GARAGE SALE GARAGE SALE

EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT

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Lawn & Garden

• Hedge Trimming • Tree Cutting • Weed Removal Landscaping • Yard Clean Up • Dump Runs

Trucks & Vans 1998 Dodge 2500 Truck 4x4.

C/W summer/ winters.

172,354kms. $9,000. 250-523-9774.

2010 Toyota Tundra. SR5.

White, 4-dr AWD. Nice condition.

190,000kms. $27,000. 236-313-3703.

2012 GMC Van. 10 passenger. V-8, auto. $10,500. 250-376-4163

Call 778-921-0023 For A Quote Misc Home Service

Domestic Cars

JA ENTERPRISES 778-257-4943 Furniture Moving, Rubbish Removal Cedar tree removal. Nail Removed from boards and 2x4's, Hand Digging.

Upholstery Cleaning.

778-220-9644 2nd Kings 5:15, Jeremiah 10:11, Micah 5:2

2 - 2001 Chev Impalas.

Driveable. $1100/both as is. 780-983-0727.

Motorcycles 2006 Yamaha Star. Exec cond. $5500/obo. 250851-1115.

Sports Utilities & 4x4’s 2008 Chevy Trailblazer 4wd. Exec cond. $7,000.

250-374-3827.

2007 Bayliner. 185 3litre Merc engine Alpha 2 leg. Great on fuel.

Excellent condition.

Great family boat. Swim platform.

Covertable Top. Rod holders. jackets, skis and safety gear.$18,500/OBO. 250-682-7933.

1990 Chrysler LeBaron GT Convertible. Mint condition. $6,000. 250573-3955.

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Boats

Tires

Collectibles & Classic Cars

WE will pay you to exercise!

2018 GMC Z71 SLT Crewcab 4X4 fully equipped. Excellent condition. Black with black leather.

140,000 kms $37,300 250-319-8784

2 - P215 / 60 R 16 M&S $125.00 2 -P225 / 60 R 16 M&S $125.00 2 - 245 / 50 VR 16 Good Year Eagle M&S $250.00 Phone 250-319-8784

4-Michelin Defender LTX M/S on rims. Total performance. 285/45R22. $1700. 250-215-3488.

4 tires from Smart Car. backs mounted. $400.

250-573-5676.

Build Results

Odd Jobs

Boat rack, auto boat loader. 12ft Naden alum boat. $2,500.00 Will sell separate.

778-470-2007.

Boats Starcraft 17ft skiboat with evinrude 110hp V-4 motor. $6800. 250-374-9677

12ft Alum Boat. $400/obo.

250-376-6607.

RVs / Campers / Trailers 1998/99 VW Rialta. 22ft dash-cabin air. 140,000mi. $29,500. 778-220-7383.

2004 Triple E 28ft 5th Wheel. Serviced and winterized. $12,000. 250579-8864.

Licensed & Certified

250-572-0753

2007 Max Lite travel trailer with bunks and fully equipped. $17,000.

Call 250 573 7687

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RVs / Campers / Trailers 2010 Crossroads Cruiser 26RKX 5th Wheel. 27ft. $25,000. 604-856-8530 RUN UNTIL SOLD ONLY $35.00 (plus Tax) for 3 lines each additional line $10.00 (250) 371-4949 *some restrictions apply call for details

2018 Jayco Allante 31P

Education

Class A Motor Home | 12,500 KM

$

124,900

142 Tranquille Road, Kamloops BC

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HUNTER & FIREARMS Courses.

A Great Gift. Next C.O.R.E July 29th & 30th. Saturday & Sunday.

P.A.L August 6th Sunday. Professional outdoorsman and Master Instructor: Bill 250-376-7970.

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Legal / Public Notices NOTICE TO CREDITOR AND OTHERS Re: Estate of Karin Hradec, deceased formerly of 101-1370 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, BC. Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Karin Hradec deceased, are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the Executor at 1011370 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, BC V2B 3K6, on or before August 25, 2023, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.

Signed: Cameron Rose Executor of the Estate of Karin Hradec

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LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FULL TIME/PERMANENT Requirements & Qualifications: • Experience in a law office or equivalent experience, knowledge in Family Law considered an asset; • Legal Administrative Assistant certification from an accredited institution, or equivalent education; • Strong computer skills, including proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office and accounting/ document management software; • Excellent writing and drafting skills; • Ability to prioritize work and manage time effectively; • Ability to work both independently and a part of a collegial team; • Strong interpersonal skills, professional, courteous and mature character; • Ability to exercise discretion with sensitive/ confidential matters; and • Highly dependable and adaptable with great work ethic.

Benefits: Competitive compensation Health Benefits: extended health, dental, life Paid Time Off: vacation and sick days Schedule: Monday to Friday (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

Work Location: In person

Please forward your resume to lmartin@martinlawyers.ca

SEEKING A JUNIOR ASSOCIATE/ ARTICLING STUDENT TO JOIN OUR FIRM WITH A FOCUS ON CHILD PROTECTION MATTERS Education Requirements: • Law Degree (LL.B/J.D.) from an accredited law school • In good standing with the Law Society of British Columbia

Find detailed information about this position on our website: www.martinlawyers.ca Benefits: Competitive compensation commensurate with experience • Ongoing professional development • Dental • Employee Assistance Program • Extended health Care • Life Insurance • On-Site parking

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Award-winning media company Kamloops This Week has an opening for an Advertising Sales Consultant for our suite of print and digital products. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, highly organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment. The candidate will lead KTW to great success in this dynamic position and have a strong drive for networking.

The candidate will also work creatively with a diverse team to provide the appropriate marketing opportunities and solutions for our clients. Marketing and/or advertising background is an asset, but not required.

YOU HAVE: • Strong understanding of goal-oriented sales • Passion to help your customers build successful print and digital campaigns.

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DOWNTOWN

Rte 306 – 261 6th Ave, 614-911 Seymour St, 600-696 St Paul St, 753-761 Victoria St. -26 p.

Rte 308 – 355 9th Ave, 703977 St Paul St. –35 p.

Rte 310 – 651-695 2nd Ave, 660-690 3rd Ave, 110-292 Columbia St(Even Side), 106-321 Nicola St. -43 p.

Rte 311 – 423-676 1st Ave, 400-533 2nd Ave, 107-237 Battle St, 135-173 St. Paul St. -27 p.

Rte 313 – 430-566 4th Ave, 520-577 5th Ave, 435-559 Battle St, 506 Columbia St, 406-576 Nicola St, 418-478 St Paul St. -34 p.

Rte 317 – 535-649 7th Ave, 702-794 Columbia St(Even Side),702-799 Nicola St. -40 p.

Rte 318 – 463 6th Ave, 446490 7th Ave,409-585 8th Ave, 604-794 Battle St. -17 p.

Rte 319 – 545 6th Ave, 604690 Columbia St(Even Side), 604-692 Nicola St. -12 p.

Rte 322 – 694 11th Ave, 575-694 13th Ave, 1003-1091 Battle St, 1004-1286 Columbia St(Even Side), 1004-1314 Nicola St. -56 p.

Rte 323 – 755-783 6th Ave, 763-884 7th Ave, 744-764 8th Ave, 603-783 Columbia St(Odd Side), 605-793 Dominion St. -52 p.

Rte 324 – 606-795 Pine St. -33 p.

Rte 325 – 764-825 9th Ave, 805-979 Columbia St(Odd Side), 804-987 Dominion St, 805-986 Pine St. -64 p.

Rte 326 – 850 11th Ave, 10031083 Columbia St(Odd Side), 1003-1195 Dominion St. -33 p.

Rte 327 – 1103-1459 Columbia St(Odd Side), 1203-1296 Dominion St. -38 p.

Rte 328 – 935 13th Ave, Cloverleaf Cres, Dominion Cres, Park Cres, Pine Cres. -62 p.

Rte 329 – 880-1101 6th Ave, 925-1045 7th Ave, 878-1020 8th Ave, 605-795 Pleasant St. -39 p.

Rte 331 – 984-987 9th Ave, 1125 10th Ave, 901-981 Douglas St, 902-999 Munro St. -33 p.

Rte 335 – 1175-1460 6th Ave, 1165-1185 7th Ave, Cowan St, 550-792 Munro St. -56 p.

Rte 339 – 1265-1401 9th Ave, 916-1095 Fraser St. -26 p.

Rte 340 – McMurdo Dr. -23 p.

Rte 370 – Nicola Wagon Rd, 35-377 W. Seymour St. -36 p.

Rte 371 – Connaught Rd, 451-475 Lee Rd, W. St Paul St. -73 p.

Rte 380 – Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. -69 p.

Rte 381 – 20-128 Centre Ave, Hemlock St, 605-800 Lombard St. -42 p.

Rte 382 – 114-150 Fernie Pl, Fernie Rd, 860-895 Lombard St. -23 p.

Rte 387 – McBeth Pl. –20 p.

Rte 388 – 445, 460-580 Dalgleish Dr.(Even Side) –53 p.

Rte 389 – Bluff Pl, 390 Centre Ave, 242416 W. Columbia St.(Even Side), Dufferin Terr, Garden Terr, Grandview Terr. -48 p.

Rte 467 – 1605+1625 Summit Dr. –28 p.

Rte 470 – Farnham Wynd, 102298 Waddington Dr. -65 p.

Rte 471 – 100-293 Monmouth Dr. -37 p.

Rte 474 – Coppertree Crt, Trophy Crt. -21 p.

Rte 475 – Castle Towers Dr, Sedgewick Crt & Dr. -47 p.

Rte 476 – Tantalus Crt, Tinniswood Crt, 2018-2095 Tremerton Dr. -50 p.

Rte 478 - 191-299 Chancellor Dr, Sentry Pl, Sovereign Crt, The Pinnacles –43 p.

Rte 480 – 3-183 Chancellor Dr, Sapphire Crt, Sheffield Way, Steeple Crt. -43 p.

Rte 485 – 690 Robson Dr, 2020+2084 Robson Pl. -45 p.

Rte 487 – 201-475+485-495 Hollyburn Dr, Panorama Crt. -75 p.

Rte 606 – Orchard Dr, Russet Wynd, 1815-1899 Valleyview Dr. -39 p.

Rte 607 – Cardinal Dr, 19092003 Valleyview Dr. -33 p.

Rte 614 – 2504-2667 Sunset Dr, 2459-2669 E. Trans. Canada Hwy. -49 p.

Rte 615 – River Rd, Sunset Crt, 2415-2487 Sunset Dr. –43 p.

Rte 617 – 2401-2515 Valleyview Dr. Valleyview Pl. -51 p.

Rte 618 – Big Nickel Pl, Chapman Pl, Marsh Rd, Paul Rd, Peter Rd, 2440-2605 Thompson Dr. -58 p.

Rte 620 – MacAdam Rd, McKay Pl, Pyper Way, 2516-2580 Valleyview Dr. -63 p.

Rte 621 – Duck Rd, Skelly Rd, 96 Tanager Dr, 2606-2876 Thompson Dr. -46 p.

MT. DUFFERIN/ PINEVIEW VALLEY

Rte 650 – 1520-1620 Abitibi Ave, Omineca Dr. –62 p.

Rte 651 – 1470 Abitibi Ave, 1400-1470 Finlay Ave, 2210-2495 Nechako Dr. -55 p.

Rte 655 – 1685 Finlay Ave, 2202-2385 Skeena Dr, 2416-2458 Skeena Dr.(Even Side). -34 p.

Rte 664 – Kicking Horse Dr. & Way. -30 p.

Rte 669 – Emerald Dr. -55 p.

Rte 670 – Galore Cres, Crt & Pl. – 94 p.

Rte 671 – 1830-1997 Qu’Appelle Blvd, Myra Pl. -68 p.

Rte 580 – 1300-1466 Pacific Way, Prairie Rose Dr, Rockcress Dr. -83 p.

Rte 582 – 1540-1670 Hillside Dr, 1500-1625 Mt. Dufferin Ave, Windward Pl. -38 p.

Rte 584 – 1752-1855 Hillside Dr. -26 p.

Rte 586 – Mt. Dufferin Cres, Park Way, Plateau Pl. -26 p.

Rte 587 – Sunshine Crt & Pl. -51 p.

Rte 588 – Davies Pl, 1680-1751 Hillside Dr, Hillside Pl, Monterey Pl, Scott Pl. -46 p.

Rte 589 – 1200-1385 Copperhead Dr. -48 p.

Rte 590 – 1397 Copperhead Dr, Saskatoon Pl. -36 p.

ABERDEEN

Rte 501 – 655-899 Fleming Dr, Fleming Pl. -49 p.

Rte 503 – Fleming Circ, Hampshire Dr, & Pl, Hector Dr. -51 p.

Rte 508 – 700-810 Hugh Allan Dr. -49 p.

Rte 509 – 459-551 Laurier Dr. Shaughessy Hill. -45 p.

Rte 510 – 372-586 Aberdeen Dr, 402-455 Laurier Dr. -36 p.

Rte 511 – Drummond Crt. -50 p.

Rte 513 – Braemar Way, 556-696 Laurier Dr, 2214-2296 Van Horne Dr. -36 p.

Rte 516 – Garymede Crt, 2204-2263 Garymede Dr, Gilmour Pl. -38 p.

Rte 517 – 2267-2299 Garymede Dr, Greenock Crt & Pl. 32 p.

Rte 518 – 2100-2198 Garymede Dr, Glasgow Pl, Greystone Cres. -58 p.

Rte 519 – Regent Cres & Pl. -52 p.

Rte 520 – 805-841 Dunrobin Dr, 2301-2384 Whitburn Cres. -61 p.

Rte 522 – 604-747 Dunrobin Dr, Dunrobin Pl. -65 p.

Rte 523 – 2300-2398 Abbeyglen Way, 750-794 Dunrobin Dr. -78 p.

Rte 525 – Farrington Crt, Greybriar Crt, 2132-2196 Van Horne Dr. -66 p.

Rte 526 – 2015-2069 Van Horne Dr. -69 p.

Rte 527 – Hunter Pl, Huntleigh Cres. -25 p.

Rte 528 – 1115-1180 Howe Rd, LOWER SAHALI/SAHALI 1115-1185 Hugh Allen Dr. -47 p.

Rte 400 – 383 W. Columbia St. -21 p.

Rte 529 – 1555 Howe Rd. -89 p.

Rte 401 – 250-395,405-425 Rte 530 – Bentall Dr, Edinburgh Pemberton Terr. –81 p.

Blvd & Crt, Talbot Pl, 2688-2689 Willowbrae Dr. -61 p.

Rte 403 – 405-482 Greenstone Dr, Tod Cres. -28 p.

Rte 532 – Harrison Pl & Way, 1181-1290 Howe Rd. -38 p.

Rte 404 – Chapperon Dr, 108-395 Greenstone Dr, Pyramid Crt. -54 p.

Rte 534 – Nairn Pl, Turnberry Pl. –44 p.

Rte 405 – Anvil Cres, 98-279 Rte 537 – 1221 Hugh Allan Dr. -26 Bestwick Dr, Bestwick Crt E., Bestwick Rte 538 – Talbot Dr, Willowbrae Crt & Crt W., Morrisey Pl. -51 p.

Pl, 2592-2672 Willowbrae Dr. -51 p.

Rte 449 – Azure Pl. –43 p.

Rte 538 – Talbot Dr, Willowbrae Crt & Rte 451 – Odin Crt, Whiteshield Pl, 2592-2672 Willowbrae Dr. -51 p.

Cres, Whiteshield Pl. -39 p.

Rte 540 – Galbraith Dr, Raeburn Dr, Rte 452 – 1430-1469 Springhill Dr. -64 p. 2600-2698 Telford Dr, Telford Pl. -59 p.

Rte 453 – 1575-1580 Springhill Rte 542 – Coal Hill Pl, Crosshill Dr. -73 p.Rte 454 – Crosby Rd. Dr, Dunbar Dr. -57 p.

Humphrey Rd, Springfield Pl, Rte 544 – 2070-2130 Van Horne 1600-1799 Springhill Dr. -34 p.

Dr, Holyrood Circ & Pl. -23 p.

Rte 454 – Crosby Rd. Humphrey VALLEYVIEW Rd, Springfield Pl, 1600-1799 Springhill Dr. -34 p.

Rte 602 – Apple Lane, Knollwood Cres, Parkhill Dr. 1783 Valleyview Dr. -54 p.

Rte 459 – Monarch Crt & Pl. –38 p.

Rte 603 – Comazzetto Rd, Strom Rd, Rte 463 –1787-1898 McKinley 1625-1764 Valleyview Dr. -42 p.

Crt, 545-659 Monarch Dr. -44 p.

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Rte 701 – Freda Ave, Klahanie Dr, Morris Pl, Shelly Dr, 901-935 Todd Rd. -87 p.

Rte 706 – 1078-1298 Lamar Dr, Mo-Lin Pl. -29 p.

Rte 716 – Foxwood Lane –38 p.

Rte 718 – Belair Dr. -22 p.

Rte 721 – 5530-5697 Clearview Dr, Coolridge Pl, Wildwood Dr. -38 p.

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Rte 750 – 5101-5299 Dallas Dr(Odd Side), Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. -31 p.

Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Rd, Bogetti Pl, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr, 5485-5497 ETC Hwy, Viking Dr, Wade Pl. -64 p.

Rte 752 – Coster Pl, 5600-5998 Dallas Dr, Harper Pl & Rd. -69 p.

Rte 755 – 6159-6596 Dallas Dr, McAuley Pl, Melrose Pl, Yarrow Pl. -71 p.

Rte 757 – 7155 Dallas Dr. -72 p.

Rte 759 – Beverly Pl, 6724-7250 Furrer Rd, McIver Pl, Pat Rd. –42 p.

Rte 760 – Beaver Cres, Chukar Dr. -62 p.

Rte 761 – 6022-6686 Furrer Rd, Houston Pl, Parlow Rd, Pearse Pl, Urban Rd. -56 p.

NORTH SHORE/BATCHELOR

Rte 102 – 1071 10th St, 1084-1086 12th St, 813-1166 Lethbridge Ave. –42 p.

Rte 103 – 1167-1201 8th St, 1179-1229 10th St, 1182-1185 11th St, 1188-1294 12th St, 823-1166 Sudbury Ave. –69 p.

Rte 107 – 1177 8th St, 1109-1139 10th St, 1110-1140 11th St, 1138 12th St, 809-1175 Pembroke Ave. -84 p.

Rte 108 – 1010 11th St, 831-1017 12th St, 821-1161 Selkirk Ave. -68 p.

Rte 137 – 106-229,231-330 Clapperton Rd, 203-266,268-285 Leigh Rd, 172-180 Wilson St. -23 p.

Rte 140 – 217 Beach Ave, Fairview Ave, Larch Ave, 237-247 Schubert Dr. -43 p.

Rte 170 – Alview Cres, 1680-1770 Westsyde Rd. -50 p.Rte 173 – 1655 Batchelor Dr, Leighton Pl, 1708-1729 North River Dr, Pennask Terr. -36 p.

Rte 173 – 1655 Batchelor Dr, Leighton Pl, 1708-1729 North River Dr, Pennask Terr. -36 p.

Rte 175 – Norfolk Crt, Norview Pl, 821-991 Norview Rd. -36 p.

Rte 180 – 807-1104 Quail Dr, Quails Roost Crt & Dr. -81 p.

Rte 183 – 2003-2085 Grasslands Blvd, 2003-2074 Saddleback Dr. -73 p.

Rte 185 – Bearcroft Crt, 10031099 Norview Rd. – 44 p.

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Rte 201 – Montrose Cres, Wedgewood Cres, Westlynn Dr, Westmount Dr. -70 p.

Rte 204 – Baywood Cres, 314-502 Collingwood Dr, Driftwood Pl, Lynwood Ave, Sheridan Dr. -79 p.

Rte 206 – Dickenson Rd, Walkem Rd, 1835-1995 Westsyde Rd(Odd Side), Yates Rd. -51 p.

Rte 207 – 820-895 Anderson Terr, 19201990 Westsyde Rd.(Even Side) -24 p.

Rte 216 – Franklin Rd, Huntington Dr, 2675-2715 Westsyde Rd.(Odd Side) –40 p.

Rte 222 – Bank Pl, 3141-3196 Bank Rd, Mara Rd, 711-796 McArthur Dr, Porterfield Rd, 601-797 Stansfield Rd, 2141-3195 Westsyde Rd.(Odd Side) -88 p.

Rte 225 – 3375-3495 Bank Rd, Bray Pl, 3324-3498 Overlander Dr, Steinke Pl. -64 p.

Rte 234 – Orcrest Dr, Sage Dr. -35 p.

Rte 239 – 807-996 Pine Springs Rd, 1006 Sicamore Dr. -53 p..

Rte 247 – Elder Rd, Grant Rd, 30203082 Westsyde Rd.(Even Side) -52 p.

Rte 251 – Agassiz Rd, 818-878 Kyle Dr, 2698-2750 Westsyde Rd.(Even Side) -29 p.

Rte 252 – 813-897 Mayne Rd, Morven Pl, 2770-2870 Westsyde Rd. (Even Side) -50 p.

Rte 253 – Irving Pl, 2401-2477 Parkview Dr, Rhonmore Cres, 2380+2416 Westsyde Rd. -45 p.

Rte 254 – Elston Dr, 2410 Oak Hills Blvd. -23 p.

Rte 255 – 2478-2681 Parkview Dr. -26 p.

Rte 257 – Alpine Terr, Community Pl, 2192-2207 Grasslands Blvd, Grasslands Pl, 881-936 McQueen Dr, Woodhaven Dr. –45 p.

Rte 259 – 715-790 Kyle Dr, Morven Dr, 2721-2871 Westsyde Rd. (Odd Side) Rte 261 – 2214-2297 Grasslands Blvd. Woodrush Crt & Dr. -53 p.

BROCKLEHURST

Rte 1 – Argyle Ave, Ayr Pl, 10631199 Crestline St, 1008-1080 Moray St, Perth Pl. -93 p.

Rte 2 – 2605-2795 Joyce Ave. -52 p.

Rte 4 – 727-795 Crestline St, 2412-2680 Tranquille Rd. -40 p.

Rte 6 – 2450-2599 Briarwood Ave, 2592 Crestline St, 2431-2585 Edgemount Ave, Paulsen Pl, 2406-2598 Rosewood Ave, 1101-1199 Schreiner St. –79 p.

Rte 19 – Downie Pl, & St, Moody Ave, & Pl, 2307-2391 Tranquille Rd. -50 p.

Rte 20 – Barbara Ave, Pala Mesa Pl, Strauss St, Townsend Pl, 21052288 Tranquille Rd. -49 p.

Rte 23 – Acadia Pl, Chateau St, De Monte St, Meadow Lane, 2007-2130 Parkcrest Ave, 1107-1186 Windbreak St. -74 p.

Rte 26 – Erona Pl, 1955-1998 Parkcrest Ave, Ponlen St. –51 p.

Rte 29 – Caroline St, Evergreen Pl, Lolo St, 1946-2099 Tranquille Rd. -68 p.

Rte 33 – 2115-2280 Fleetwood Ave, Ponderosa Ave, 10021090 Windbreak St. -72 p.

Rte 41 – Alexis Ave, 520-796 Singh St, Slater Ave. -59 p.

Rte 42 – 1718-1755 Brunner Ave, Delnor Cres, 608-790 Holt St. -46 p.

Rte 59 – 801-1098 Ollek St, 1454 Tranquille Rd. -60 p.

Rte 61 – Popp St, Stratford Pl, 1371-1413 Tranquille Rd, Waterloo Pl, Woodstock Pl. -38 p.

Rte 63 – 896-1061 13th St, 1315-1337 Moncton Ave, 1306-1337 Selkirk Ave, 1316-1380 Sherbrooke Ave, 1300-1346 Tranquille Rd. -58 p.

Rte 69 2612-2699 Briarwood Ave, 1100-1199 Moray St. -42 p.

RAYLEIGH

Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. -55 p.

Rte 833 – Cameron Rd, Davie Rd. -44 p.

Rte 835 – Mattoch-McKeague Rd, Sabiston Crt & Rd. –28 p.

Rte 840 – Brigade Rd, 4404-4493 Cammeray Dr, Montego Rd, 309474 Puett Ranch Rd. -49 p.

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In Loving Memory of Mathew Justin Priestley

July 13, 1978 – July 31, 1993

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It is with deep sadness that the family of Richard Hook announce his peaceful passing at the age of 79 on the afternoon of July 11, 2023. Rick was an avid horseman and prominent member of the BC Cutting Horse Association, inducted into the BCCHA Hall of Fame in 2001.

If his passion was horses, his greatest joy was his family. In his retirement he loved to play cards, golf and pickleball; even more he enjoyed being in the background with a Louis L'Amour book in his hands, chuckling, and shaking his head at the antics of his family.

Always loved, forever missed Mom, Dad, Jesse & family

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Emily Adams (née Strocen)

Richard Hook

His greatest passion was training cutting horses and their riders. Rick was always willing to offer advice, help out and mentor those around him. He will be remembered by many.

If we could have a lifetime wish and one dream that could come true We would pray to God with all our hearts just to see and speak to you A thousand words won’t bring you back we know because we’ve tried And neither will a million tears we know because we’ve cried You’ve left behind our broken hearts and precious memories too But we’ve never wanted memories We only wanted you

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Emily passed away peacefully with her loved ones at her side on July 14, 2023, at the age of 35, only days after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.

She was born and raised in Kamloops and moved to Victoria in her early 20s where she met her (ex) husband and forever friend Jeremiah Adams. Emily had great sense of humour and enjoyed sharing a laugh with her loved ones. She was protective and loyal to those she held dear and had a deep love for her family which included her beloved cat Spiderman.

She is survived by her father Darrell Strocen, her mother Karen Rees (John), her sisters, Sarah Manongdo (Josh), and Faith Strocen, her brothers, Allan, and Ryan Mohns, as well as her grandmother Florence Riley.

Upon Emily’s request there will be no service.

Rick is survived by his loving wife and best friend Betty Manuel, who was his champion right up to the end, his children Darcie, Darla, Dana, Jinni, Jason, and brother Harley along with eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Rick was surrounded by love, giggles and silliness right up to his quiet passing in his own home. He will be greatly missed and loved always.

A celebration of life will be held at the Oasis Church, 1205 Rogers Way, Kamloops, BC at 12 noon, September 8, 2023.

"We bow to him and hold up our lamps to light his way" In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer's Society of BC. Condolences can be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

May the Sunshine of Comfort Dispel the Clouds of Despair

The Little Unicorn

by Peggy Kociscin, Albuquerque, New Mexico

There lived a little unicorn (From when the earth was new), His coat so white it glistened, His eyes a sparkling blue.

In innocence and beauty, He danced through woods and streams.

The animals danced with him, His heart aglow with dreams.

He laughed and played with rainbows, So happy all day through, He loved to kiss the flowers As their petals shone with dew.

He wandered through the meadows In the moon’s soft, silver light.

He loved to gaze at all the stars That lightened up the night.

He listened to the music Of the birds that graced the trees.

He frolicked with the butterflies And raced the gentle breeze.

But, as he grew and learned of life, The sparkle in his eye Grew misty as he realized Just what it means to cry.

He learned that there are shadows In spite of shining sun.

The more he grew, he found that life Was never always fun.

For now he’d learn of feelings That come from deep within; No longer in the “dream world” Where (for so long) he’d been.

His gentle heart desired But to know the pleasure of To give and to receive The very precious gift of love.

To love meant to be happy, And yet it also brought him pain; For those he loved could hurt him Again.. and yet again.

His mother held him lovingly And tried to ease his fears About the sadness life could bring...

The lonely, bitter tears.

She said, “Life is like a mountain, (And surely this is true) That we must climb as best we can.

There’s no ‘around or ‘through.’”

The unicorn tried tirelessly, And gave the climb his best; But he felt it was not good enough, He felt he’d failed the test.

He could not understand it When he felt himself rejected – When all his gentle being asked Was but to be accepted.

All this was just too much for him, He knew not what to do.

That he was special as himself, Somehow, he never knew.

His spirit crushed, he felt defeated, And lonely tears would start.

Not understanding how to love, It simply broke his heart.

But now he’s in a loving place Where all his pain has ceased, Where all accepted him and his love, Where all he knows is peace.

A loving Being tells him, “You’re delightful as you are.”

His spirit free, his brilliance now Outshines the brightest star!

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John Trulsen

April 25, 1946 - July 13, 2023 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Trulsen, loving husband, Dad, Papa, Pops, Brother, Uncle and friend. John passed away after a 3½ year journey with cancer.

John is lovingly survived by his high school sweetheart, Alison, with whom he shared 55 years of marriage. He is loved deeply by his daughter Jackie (Chris) and his son Michael. He is cherished by his grandchildren Amanda (Justin), Taylor (Lucas), Elliott and Harrison (Brianna). He is adored by his great-grandchildren, Leah, Wyatt and Emily. John is survived by his his siblings, Bill (Kathy), Wilma, Elke (Fabien), Linda (Garry) and Rick (Lorraine).

He was incredibly close to his in-laws, Glendora, Cory (Liz) and Priscilla and fondly remembered by his numerous nieces and nephews. John was predeceased by his beloved brother Harry, brother-in-law, Les and nephew, Noah.

John found great comfort and support during his cancer journey, sharing his illness alongside his brother-in-law, Les and his niece Lehanna, who understood his struggle. While the passing of John has left a void in the lives of those who knew him, he is also leaving behind a legacy of love and cherished memories. Family was everything to John and he always put others ahead of himself.

John spent 35 years working as a Correctional Officer for the BC Government. He was heavily involved with the BCGEU and he made several life-long friends. He was especially close to Gary and Vaino, as well as his best friend, David.

An avid fisherman, John loved his time on the lakes, be it with his brother's and nephew's annual weekend, with Chris, or in his final years, with Mike Coss.

A celebration of John's life will be held at 2:00 pm at the Day Use Area in Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park on Sunday, August 20th, 2023. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the charity of one's choice.

Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com

Eva Anna Byres

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Payton Shae Cameron-Brown April 20, 2008 - July 16, 2023

The shooting star that was Payton burst into our lives on a cold spring morning, daughter to Nicole Cameron, sister to Kylie Cameron-Fisher, daughter to Luke Brown. Her life of 15 years ended in a flash, a misstep on slippery rocks, a waterfall that took her life. In her brief lifespan she warmed our hearts so thoroughly that we mourn now in deep sorrow. It is her joy for life that will bring us through this, as we remember her.

Surviving her are her mother, Nicole Cameron, her dad, Luke Brown (Monika), Payton’s sister, Kylie Cameron-Fisher (Jeff) and Kylie’s dad, Ryan Fisher. Paternal grandparents Dave and Marilyn Brown. Aunt Megan (Brad) Gerow and cousins Katelyn and Ben. Aunt Christine (Paul) and cousins Luc and Mary Coulombe. Maternal grandparents Greg Cameron (Linda), Grandpa Fred Filek. Aunty Ashley (Jessi) Adams, cousins Beau, Cache, Willow, and Jax. Aunty Tara (Jason) LeBeau, cousins Gage, Emma, and Jase. Uncle Ryan Cameron. Ryan Fisher’s family: grandparents Edie Fisher, Stewart (Paula) Fisher.

Aunty Katelyn (Jacob) Fisher, cousins Avery, Riley and Maddison and Uncle Rory Fisher. Predeceased by maternal grandmother Debbie Cameron.

Payton was born at Royal Inland Hospital, and early years were spent in Kamloops.

Dufferin Elementary and McGowan Park Elementary were followed by a short time at Sa-Hali Secondary, and then Smithers Secondary. Her friends from school and community absorbed a lot of her focus. She was a whiz with social media, probably had the fastest texting thumb in the west, and her creativity knew few bounds: insight into a creative mind can be glimpsed by watching her TikTok posts and Snap Streaks. All of those dance and gymnastic lessons did make a difference! Some of her flair may have been due to the influence of the performer Harry Styles. Although few knew, she could sing and play the guitar, and liked an eclectic mix of music: country, rock and pop. Rhianna, Morgan Wallen, and Taylor Swift had a budding competitor. Payton loved animals and could snuggle with the best of us – just ask the family dogs – who on occasion shared their bed with a sleepy girl.

Physical activity is almost synonymous with Payton. She played school and league volleyball, with a wicked “bump” of the ball to teammates, loved swimming and would get major airtime while tubing, we’re talking vertical airtime! At Babine Lake she would quad into bear country in the morning and back up a truck with a boat trailer attached in the afternoon.

She had a shining future: she looked forward to getting her driver’s license, a job, travel, and university.

On June 27, 2023, Eva Anna Byres (née Zanier) died at Overlander Residential Home, Kamloops, BC shortly after her 85th birthday. Eva was born in Trail, BC on April 21,1938 to parents Luigi Zanier and Esther (Cristanti) Zanier.

Payton pulsed with energy, a sizzling sense of humour, sometimes cheeky, and a warmth towards others. Where Payton went, fun and an infectious giggle followed.

Eva was predeceased by her husband of 59 years Douglas Byres, and her brother Leno Zanier. Eva is survived by her children Nicole Byres (Kieran Metcalfe) in Vancouver, Brianna Senger (Dale) in Kamloops, and Ron Byres in Victoria. She is also survived by her grandchildren Nicholas LeRose (Vanessa) in Vancouver, Alex LeRose (Luke Raymond) in London, UK, Max Byres in Coquitlam, Cohen Senger in Victoria, and Sophia Byres (Erick Cala) in Coquitlam, great-granddaughter Mirabelle LeRose, brother Vinio Zanier (Betty) in Aspen, Colorado, and sister-in-law Grace Zanier in Kamloops.

Thank you to the Revelstoke Search and Rescue, the RCMP, the many individuals who helped during and after the accident, and our friends, family, neighbours, and strangers who willingly rendered great service in a time of shock and grief.

Eva was a good student, getting straight A’s in high school despite often skipping school with her best friend Sylvia (Samartino) Gallagher. Eva met her future husband Doug Byres when they were both serving as council members at J.L. Crowe High School. Following graduation Eva attended hairdressing college in Vancouver before marrying Doug in 1957. Doug’s teaching career took the family to Prince George, Dawson Creek and Kamloops and Eva’s initial focus was on her raising their three children and doing volunteer work. She later obtained her real estate license and worked as a realtor for over 20 years in Dawson Creek and Kamloops.

Eva was known to be an excellent cook and baker and enjoyed having family and friends over for dinner. Eva’s adventures included travels to China, Thailand, and Europe, several driving holidays in the USA and Mexico, and cruises. After retirement, Eva and Doug liked to escape the Kamloops winters by vacationing in warmer climes, including Hawaii, Mexico, and the Caribbean. After the passing of Doug in 2016, Eva was able to live in her home until shortly before her death thanks to the help and support from her care aide Lee Bissat, as well as from daughter Brianna and son-in-law Dale.

Eva’s ashes will be interred next to Doug’s at Hillside Cemetery in Kamloops. In memory of Eva, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of BC.

We will love her forever.

Celebration of Life for Payton Shae Cameron-Brown Born April 20, 2008, RIH, Kamloops -

Passed away July 16, 2023 at 15 years of age Payton resided in Kamloops and Smithers, BC

Please join family and friends as we celebrate Payton’s life.

Place: Sandman Centre, Norkam Mechanical Group Lounge Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023 Time: 2:30 - 4:30 pm Light refreshments will follow the celebration of life.

Informal attire is encouraged.

Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps them near.

WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2023

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In Loving Memory of Irwin “Bud” Fuglem

July 26, 1925 - January 24, 2022

Our dad, Bud Fuglem, would have celebrated his 98th birthday today. A year and half after his passing, it’s still hard to believe he’s gone.

Bud was born in Loos, BC, the fourth of twelve kids. The family lived in Alberta when he was little, but eventually moved back to BC. In fact, Bud stayed this side of the Rockies all his life, later moving to Prince George, and then Kamloops. At 14, he learned guitar, and no matter what job he was working — from logging truck driver to dairy taster, from self-employed building contractor to real estate salesman — always, after work, there was music.

He was good with people, making us feel at ease with his jokes and ready laugh. And it seemed he could do anything — fix things, take great photos, tell stories, fly a plane. His natural curiosity kept him trying new things all his life. After retirement, he added singer-entertainer to the list, even writing songs and recording a CD of country music. He joined the Kamloops branch of the BC Oldtime Fiddlers, where he made dear friends, and was still asked to sing “Five Foot Two” a few months before he passed away.

The last few years were hard but many great people stepped in with kindness, love and humour to help him live “his way” as long as possible. We feel immeasurable gratitude to those dear ones who were really there for him.

When we think of him, we think of you.

He was Dad to us, Granddad to his three grandkids, and Bud, or Uncle Bud to his big family, and the many friends he considered family. He remembered everyone he’d ever known, it seemed, right til the end. And we remember him. And miss him so much.

Lori and Karilee Fuglem, daughters (Bud’s full obituary is on dignitymemorial.com, under “Irwin Fuglem”)

As you share the stories and the memories of how they lived their lives and how very much they meant, may you find comfort...

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Bambina “Anna” Russo It is with profound sadness and a folded into his pasta. In her last days of life, his tight hugs were heavy heart that we announce the her best medicine. passing of Bambina “Anna” Russo.

In Anna’s final weeks of life, she was introduced to Ella, Cash, Mama Russo was born in Kaia, and Jude who delivered endless Starbuck drinks, and Bocchigliero, Cosenza, Italy on delicious Mittz Kitchen meals. In a short period of time of December 25, 1933. She was the knowing them, their connection was as if they had known each daughter of Saverio and Rosa other for years.

Lattanzio. Anna married her husband Giacomo in Paola, Italy. Anna later In addition, Anna had the opportunity to meet both Spencer and moved to Trail, BC in 1963. And her Grace and had the opportunity to window wave and blow a sweet kiss to baby Noah. These precious moments brought her husband joined her in 1971. so much joy and contentment in her final days.

Anna is survived by her daughter Pina and her grand-puppy Anna showed endless love, care, and compassion for all her Gia. daughter’s friends that instantly became family. Her gentle Anna is preceded in death by her husband Giacomo and in motherly hugs were infused with warmth and comfort. Anna 2021 by her first bundle of cherished joy and happiness was the best landlord one could have, as unpaid rent did not Assunta Frances “Susie” Russo. matter if the renters had a roof over their heads and were safe.

Throughout Susie’s illness, Anna showed what strength, courage, and love was about. Any life obstacle or challenge that was encountered, Anna always made people feel calm and at ease. Anna’s famous words would always be “Don’t Worry” or “It’s Ok” or the combination of them “Don’t Worry, It’s Ok”.

Special notable thank-yous to the care aids, health nurses, and the IH case manager Isla who adored and cared for Anna. A warm and sincere thank you also to Aaron (Glovers Pharmacy) who patiently supported and promptly responded to Anna’s needs. Your care, compassion, and love for Anna was notable and will be forever remembered and appreciated. In addition, a Anna enjoyed and flourished being Susie’s sidekick. They big thank you to Shayla, Becky, and Nick who tenderly and always could be found on their comfortable couch watching softly cared for Anna when assistance and additional support endless hours of Netflix, shopping, or driving around town was needed. Neighbours and friends that shared food, took the finding sales and looking for deals. time to check in, made deliveries or came for visits - a warm heartfelt thank you as well.

Anna’s daughters often dragged her on travel adventures until she finally put her foot down. She always ensured her As Anna’s wish was to pass at home, the last day and hours of sunglasses were packed for when she hit the beaches. She her life were tenderly supported by Rosa, Kasha, Terri, and Isla. patiently followed the itineraries of travel without complaint.

Wishes are to have donations made in the memory of Anna to Anna loved her restaurant adventures especially the all-you- one of the three listed charities: can-eat buffets. She enjoyed sushi, burgers, east Indian dishes, ice cream and most recently tuna stacks, and tuna poke bowls.

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy https://defeatduchenne.ca/join-the-fight/give-a-gift/ Anna’s pastimes revolved around selfless acts and how family and friends would benefit from them. Her gentle and tender Canucks Autism https://www.canucksautism.ca/give-today/ hands would make the best meals, knead the most delicious BC Children’s Hospital http://www.bcchildrens.ca/donate bread, and grow the tastiest garden vegetables. Anna infused baking with endless love and perfection. As soon as she tied her bandana as a head scarf, it meant she was getting down to business. Her children will always remember the time she spent Prayers will be recited on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 6:00 sewing their clothes and making their birthday cakes. Anna p.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 255 Nicola Street. Funeral loved making sausage. She could be found mincing and Mass will be held on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at grinding the meat by hand rather then using the machines. This Sacred Heart Cathedral, 255 Nicola Street. is symbolic of her precision and patience in everything she did.

Condolences may be expressed at: www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Anna had an extremely infectious smile and it showed. It was prominent when she was surrounded by the special little people in her life. One of her absolute blessings, her pride and joy in life was Govind. She often could be found elbowing her daughters out of the kitchen to oversee that his pasta was cooked “al dente” and the right amount of salted butter was

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In Loving Memory of Joyce De Hamel October 1, 1944 - July 15, 2023

With great sadness, Diane Lynn Haralabous, wife to her late husband Louis Haralabous and mother to her children Peter and Olga, passed away on July 19, 2023. Her final moments were spent with her children at Royal Inland Hospital.

Born October 1st, 1944, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Joyce was predeceased by her parents Agnes and Prokop Kyba, both were born in Poland. Her father was a hard worker, he worked all his life on the railroad and was away from home most of the time. Joyce's mom became very ill around the time of Joyce's birth and spent most of her time in hospitals and care homes at this point Mrs. Ragish took over and raised Joyce while her dad was away working.

Known for her drive to succeed in her endeavours, strong determination, independence, and passion for gardening, Diane will be dearly missed by all who knew her. She had a kind heart and enjoyed hosting, serving, and entertaining friends and family.

Diane’s family asks that she be remembered for the joy she brought to others in life rather than focusing on the sadness of her passing. Diane endured as long as she could during and after her late husband’s battle with cancer. Now, we hope she is with him in peace, fulfilling her dreams of being by the sea, enjoying nice dinners, and idling in beautiful gardens. She is survived by her children, Peter and Olga.

Diane chose to be cremated, and her ashes will be spread in the ocean. A shared engraved monument of Diane and Louis will be created at her husband Louis's burial site at Hillside Cemetery to commemorate their lives together.

May Diane and Louis Haralabous both rest in peace in each other’s arms.

Arrangements entrusted to Cypress Funeral & Cremation Services

Joyce had two sisters Mary and Ann. Joyce is survived by her loving husband James (Jim) Raymond De Hamel, three children Tammie Lynne, Rodney James, and Dean Troy. She has five loving grandchildren Felicia Cora Tome, Nicholas Christian Fritz Hossmann, Deni Francessco Lovero, Hudson James, and Henley Dean De Hamel.

Joyce was an extremely hard working, patient, and the kindest woman you could ever have the pleasure of meeting. She was loved by all who crossed paths with her during her lifetime. Joyce was an avid member of the Catholic Church in Logan Lake, British Columbia where she attended for 50 Years, helping with anything that needed doing. She loved her church time and her friends of the church. Joyce loved her children and would light right up with joy when it came to her grandchildren.

She also liked to paint and go for walks. Joyce always put others before herself.

Condolences may be expressed to the family at cypressfuneral.ca

She will be lovingly remembered and deeply missed.

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Gregory Richard Bartell September 20, 1969 - July 7, 2023

Kenneth Alvin Robinson

It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of Greg at the age of 53. Greg is survived by his parents, Richard (Dick) and Marilyn Bartell, sister Tracy (Bob) Berrevoets, niece Elise Berrevoets, nephew Zachary Berrevoets, and many Aunts, Uncles and cousins. Greg also leaves behind two daughters, Adrienne and Brooklyn, whom he loved very much.

Greg was born in Kamloops. He enjoyed playing slow pitch in his younger years, and rugby in high school. He graduated from Kam High in 1987. After graduation, he held many different jobs but worked as a drywaller for the majority of his life. He had just changed careers and was working for Xtreme Underground Gear at New Gold at the time of his passing.

Greg loved spending time with his daughter Brooklyn, his family and his friends.

Greg loved to fish and camp in his spare time.

Ken passed away peacefully on July 20, 2023 at Overlander Extended Care Centre in Kamloops, BC. Ken is survived by his wife, Hope; his two sons, Darryl and Dan; his granddaughters, Cynthia and Sara; and his grandson, Emilio.

Ken was born on March 24, 1928 in New Westminster, BC, and grew up in Surrey, BC. Hiring on with the CNR, Ken started his career in Smithers, BC. It was there that he met his wife, Hope – together they moved to Kamloops, where they eventually retired.

A service for Ken will be held at 10:30 am on Friday, July 28 in the chapel of Schoening Funeral Service - 513 Seymour Street, Kamloops BC, with a short reception in the Schoening Tea Room and a burial service at Hillside Cemetery to follow.

He will be forever missed by his family and friends.

A celebration of Greg’s life will be held on Saturday, September 9, 2023 at Cottonwood Manor, 730 Cottonwood Avenue, Kamloops from 12:00 to 3:00 pm.

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