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FOOD BANK SERIES CONCLUDES The third and final part looks behind the scenes of the organization

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Eight-month-old Oliver Edgecombe (left) and friend Symone Bourdon, 2, create a work of art with crayons during Baby & Me Art Exploration: Sculpture yesterday at the Kamloops Art Gallery. The weekly art program for babies and toddlers is hosted by the art gallery and sponsored by Domtar.

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Columbia Street work to start MAJOR ROADWIDENING PROJECT WILL STRETCH INTO SEPTEMBER ANDREA KLASSEN

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The first major lane and road closures of the Columbia Street widening project are on the way.

Starting next week, city capital-projects manager Darren Crundwell said drivers can expect to see the southernmost lane of Columbia closed to traffic, as well as Fourth Avenue between Columbia and an alleyway just south of Nicola Street.

While it’s unlikely either of those closures will be in place for the Monday morning commute, Crundwell said drivers should expect both before the week is out.

“Once we close that down, we’ll be really starting to go hard on the BC Hydro utility relocations,”

Crundwell said.

The work will relocate a utility switch box on the southeast corner of Fourth and Columbia about five metres south.

It requires workers to dig a pair of four-metre deep trenches across Fourth Avenue so BC Hydro can install new utility ducting under all of the existing gad mains, water and sewer pipes and storm water mains already running alongside the roadways.

“So we’ll be diving down and under Columbia Street,” Crundwell said.

It’s that work which added nearly $1 million to the price of the road widening — which will add additional left-turn bays and traffic lights to the road.

The total cost of the project is just under $4.8 million.

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The work is expected to last throughout the summer and into September.

Crundwell said residents can also expect to see trees that would encroach on the widened road removed next week.

• As the city gets ready for its second major road project of the year, Crundwell reports the morethan-$10-million reconstruction of the Overlanders Bridge remains on schedule.

The city had given its contractor one month to complete rehabilitation work on the Fortune Drive overpass leading to the Tranquille Market — and Crundwell said it’s likely it will be finished in less time.

“We closed it down on May 8 and we’ll be open before June 8,” he said.

Hundreds of Kamloops commuters will strap on their helmets next week as Bike to Work Week returns to the city.

The annual event, which encourages people to ditch the car for two wheels, runs from Monday to Friday.

Organizer Krystal Kehoe said 799 people are signed up for the event, about the same as last year’s 801 participants. But, registration will remain open through the weekend and into next week.

Of the riders signed up so far, 125 are new participants. Thirteen schools have also signed on for Bike to School week.

For adult commuters, celebration stations offering coffee, snacks and bike help are once again in the works. This year’s morning station will be at Prince Charles Park from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Mini-morning stations and afternoon stations will also be located around the city.

For times and locations go online to biketowork.ca/kamloops.

The week will wrap up with a barbecue on Friday, with free food for participants and a grand prize draw for a new bike.

There are a few Bike to Work Week events running this weekend, including a group ride at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Riders will meet at the Farmers’ Market and ride to Dairy Queens.

On Sunday, a kids’ bike rodeo runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at ISC.

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Council Calendar May 26 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting

Getting to Know:

May 27 5:00 pm - Social Planning Council DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street June 2 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7 pm - Public Hearing June 3 7 am - Parks and Recreation Committee Public Works Centre, Kenna Cartwright Room June 4 11 am - Food & Urban Agriculture Plan Advisory Committee Corporate Boardroom, City Hall June 10 5:30 pm - Heritage Commission Kamloops Museum, 207 Seymour Street June 15 4 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, City Hall June 16 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Regular City Council meetings are broadcast on Shaw Cable as follows: Thurs and Sat at 11 am and Sun at 7 pm.

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

Meeting schedule is available at kamloops.ca/council.

Career Opportunities Please visit www.kamloops.ca/hr for current job postings.

Did you know you can now apply for jobs online? Visit our website and set up a profile to apply for current positions.

Weekly Traffic Update Overlanders Bridge Both west side lanes are closed, and traffic is down to one lane in each direction.

The Tranquille Rd southbound on-ramp is closed except for priority access for transit, school buses and emergency vehicles.

The Fortune Drive Overpass is closed for approx. 4 weeks.

Columbia Street Project will begin May 25.

There will be a closure of 4th Avenue at Columbia Street for up to one month.

On Columbia Street, two lanes will be kept open (one each direction). However, 4th Avenue, between Columbia Street and the alleyway, will be closed to all vehicle traffic.

The alleyway will be open to traffic.

Please obey all traffic control people and use caution when driving in the area.

Kamloops’ Weed-Eating Goats Kamloops’ famous weed-eating goats are back for a fourth season. After successful application of the program over the last three years, the City of Kamloops has brought back Rocky Ridge Vegetation Control to use goats for controlling weeds as part of the City’s invasive plant management program.

The use of goats is not a not a one-time treatment; generally several years are required for significantly reducing infestations. We have found a reduction of weeds in the areas where the goats have been used over the last few years. Goats can also be used on sites where mechanical and chemical methods are not feasible due to topography, size, or sensitive nature.

The goats are ideal to use as noxious weed seeds are not viable once the seed has passed through their digestive system. In addition, what they are consuming is not an issue for wildlife since the goats are targeting species that other animals will not eat and they move on once the weeds are consumed.

Want to come out and see the goats? Rocky Ridge Vegetation Control will be at Kenna Cartwright Park from now until the beginning of June, and then will be headed out to Dallas/Barnhartvale Nature Park for a week. Please note that all park users with dogs must keep them on a leash in target areas during this time.

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Harvesting our Potential Urban hens, community gardens, composting, a 12-month farmers’ market, access to healthy food for those in need, community kitchens, educational programs, gleaning, buy local campaigns, backyard food sharing, and more – the Food and Urban Agriculture Plan provides goals, strategies and action items to support urban agriculture and community food security in Kamloops.

Two open houses have been planned for community members to provide feedback on the draft Food and Urban Agriculture Plan: • Tues, May 26, from 4:30 pm to 7 pm at Northills Mall • Sat, May 30, from 11 am to 2 pm at Interior Savings Centre Parkside Lounge

Seniors Symposium June is Senior’s Month, and there are many events happening around Kamloops to celebrate seniors. Oncore Central Services, in partnership with the City of Kamloops, is celebrating with the 2nd Annual Seniors Symposium, taking place on Friday, June 12th. If you are a senior, or looking after a senior, we warmly invite you to attend.

To register, call 250-828-3500 and quote Program #241182. The cost is $15 for the full day of workshops and also includes coffee and tea, snacks, and a wonderful nutritious lunch. To request financial help with public transportation costs, call Oncore Central Services at 250-828-0600.

Public Works Open House Saturday, May 23, 10 am - 2 pm Looking for something different to do with the kids? Come out to a FREE open house at the Public Works Centre at 955 Concordia Way. There will be a variety of activities and demonstrations to participate in such as: · First 150 children will receive a birdhouse to paint · Various large equipment displays - take a "high" ride in a bucket truck · Free refreshments sponsored by Cupe Local 900 · Tour of the City greenhouse · Hanging basket demonstrations including a draw for a hanging basket · Community Garden initiatives (kids plant seeds in pots to take home) · Wildlife Park animal display · ECOSmart Team on site with games, prizes, and WaterSmart giveaways · Kamloops Fire Rescue inflatable fire safety house · RCMP display

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HOW DID THE SYSTEM FAIL PAIGE? DALE BASS

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he woman charged by the provincial government to look out for children wants to know how the system failed Paige.

Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the province’s Representative for Children and Youth, wrote in her 80-page report that “the childprotection system, health-care system, social-service agencies, the education system and police consistently failed in their responsibility to this child and passively

Paige was 19 when she died of an overdose in 2013.

Her body was found on the floor of a washroom in Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Two frontline social workers in Kamloops have an idea why — the system that stepped into Paige’s life when she was just five months old is broken.

Vicki Michaud manages the family-services part of the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

In 18 years as a social worker, she has seen what the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) calls case files, but which are realities about children. “And most of their stories are horrific,� she said. “It’s foster care after foster care after foster care.�

Jeannie Cardinal, executive director of the White Buffalo Aboriginal Health Society and Resource Centre, agreed. “With the current framework of the systems, we are constantly missing the mark in really making a difference, from quality of life in daily living, to preventing a death,� she said.

Paige, an aboriginal child, was one of those who spent much of her 19 years of life in and out of the foster-care system.

Born in Kamloops in 1993, she died in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside last year at the age of 19.

Calling it one of the most horrific cases she has investigated, Mary

recorded her life’s downward spiral.�

Turpel-Lafond continued to note none of the agencies that intersected in Paige’s life from her birth to her death provided her with “meaningful assistance, leaving her in a dangerous situation that led to her death.�

The advocate calls it indifference to Paige because the many people who dealt with the girl and her family were aware of the challenges she faced.

Michaud, while not aware of the story of Paige, said from her vantage point, she sees a system that has been broken for years, with ministry social workers dealing with so many files and paperwork. “Half of them are carrying more than 60 caseloads,� Michaud said. “It’s sickening. They can’t get to all these files.�

Cardinal points to a lack of funding as another challenge. “Issues are further impacted by systemic dysfunctions, underfunding of initiatives. “Often what is more absent is in funding sources missing the targeted area of funding to truly support the frontline workers themselves in being equipped to target the appropriate and necessary areas of healing and support to really make a difference,� she said.

“Even when this is done well, it is often an underfunded initiative and far too short to really make the longhaul impact for positive change generationally, as well as for the healing to be extended to the broader community.�

From birth to death, Paige was the subject of more than 30 serious child-protection reports, none of which were adequately investigated, Turpel-Lafond said.

Throughout Paige’s life, Turpel-Lafond wrote, she was taken from her mother and returned, placed with other family members who, like the mother, had addiction issues, then returned again to her mother.

Paige’s mother died of a drug overdose about a year after Paige’s death.

Although she sees the overload and stress in MCFD social workers in Kamloops, Michaud said they have a good relationship with other organizations like hers that provide supports to aboriginal families in crisis, services that can range from advocacy in the judicial system to family supports. “Is the home safe? Are there addiction issues?

“Whatever the case may be, we want to know why was a child removed and what needs to be done to get them back in the home.�

Michaud wondered if there were aboriginal agencies involved in Paige’s life or if it was dominated by MCFD and non-aboriginal social workers. “We know how to work with our people,� she said. “We know how to provide that support services. When you get nonaboriginal workers, it’s a struggle because they don’t know our culture. “We’re all sitting there wanting to provide services.�

A spokesman from Turpel-Lafond’s office told KTW: “I spoke to our chief investigator and he informs me that Paige was not living on-reserve and was not closely connected to a First Nation, and therefore was not served by a delegated aboriginal agency.�

For Cardinal, the message is simple: “The system needs to change to save lives and the loss of life should not be the indicator solely, nor should it be Paige’s or anyone else’s legacy . . .

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“Our job is to restore our families and communities through healing, hope and skilled approaches,�

Cardinal said. “Our child and families are not just our future, they are our now.�

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The report on Paige’s life isn’t the first one Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has written about a child who has died in B.C. And, through the years, the Representative for Children and Youth has issued 148 recommendations on how to improve services provided to vulnerable children.

Last year, she issued a report on how the province has dealt with those recommendations, describing it as “just not good enough.�

About one-half of the recommendations have been substantially or fully implemented, but there are key ones she said have been ignored, including suggestions to address cross-ministry involvement and organization and to create a minister of state for youth mental health.

“Government has ignored that recommendation and failed to address this area as a whole in any meaningful way,� she wrote in the report.

Health Minister Terry Lake was not available for comment, but his ministry sent a statement on actions taken and money being spent.

The statement said the recommendation for a ministry of state for youth mental health was reviewed, but rejected.

The statement said it would not be “a good use of limited taxpayer dollars — as much of the work that would fall to that position is being done through those other channels� of a parliamentary secretary for child mental health and antibullying.

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substance-use services for youth.

The statement said the Ministry of Children and Family Development spends $94 million annually on youth mental-health and substance-use challenges, while Lake’s ministry, through health authorities, provides emergency, acute, specialized and tertiary-level mental-health and substance-use services for children and youth.

As of March, the statement said, through partnering with the province’s doctors, the health ministry has spent $4.4 million in the Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Collaborative to support children, youth and families dealing with these issues.

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Paigeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life: â&#x20AC;˘ 1993: Born in Kamloops.

Her mother is 16 years old. Paige is often left with family members when her parents, who struggled with substance abuse and domestic violence issues, were unable to look after her.

The Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) removes her from the home when she is five months old after her parents left her alone in their apartment.

She is returned a month later with a supervision order allowing a social worker to oversee her care but is removed two more times in the next seven months.

She is returned each time. â&#x20AC;˘ 1995: Paige is 19 months old

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and MCFD offers her mother an intermittent-care agreement allowing the mother to leave Paige with a foster parent for a few days each month if she felt stressed by the pressures of parenting. The mother used this for nine months but no supports are put in place to help the mother with her substanceabuse problems. In December, Paige is diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting her lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. â&#x20AC;˘ 2001: MCFD is told the boyfriend of Paigeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandmother molested her. Paige confirms this, but later recants when a key family member reacts with anger and disbelief. â&#x20AC;˘ 2002: The mother again asks the ministry to place Paige with a fos-

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ter parent so the mother can take a drug- and alcohol-treatment program. She removes Paige from that home a week later. MCFD investigates, acknowledges the ongoing drug and alcohol issues, but leaves Paige with her mother. â&#x20AC;˘ 2009: The mother moves them to Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Eastside.

In the following five years, Paige is moved more than 50 more times through shelters, detox centres, foster homes, single-room occupancy hotels and safe houses.

Paige continues to abuse alcohol. She attempts to go back to school and is assessed as having a positive attitude, but only attends about 25 per cent of the time. She leaves school in Grade 10. She has three abortions in three years. Her

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mother continues to go missing.

Ministry officials do not investigate many of the issues and the file is continually opened and closed.

Notations include â&#x20AC;&#x153;The child prefers to stay with her mother,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;youth not willing to leave situation with mom and not open to any ministry servicesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;youth has no fixed address, moving between transition houses with her mother for many months.

Mother battling drug and alcohol issues. It is very unlikely that the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s situation will change.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ 2013: Paige is found dead in a washroom in Oppenheimer Park in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

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A garden will grow on the North Shore DALE BASS

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Glenn Hilke envisions a large community garden with picnic tables, umbrellas, vegetables growing and people enjoying the fruits of their labour.

Hilke has found the spot in a plot of land at the corner of Wilson Street and Clapperton Road on the North Shore. The land is owned by nearby Butler RV, but it doesn’t plan on using it for the foreseeable future, Hilke said.

For the past several weeks, Hilke has been promoting his vision, talking with representatives of the Kamloops Food Bank across the road, the Kamloops Food Policy Council, Gardengate and the City of Kamloops. He has nearby Aspen Electric providing water and electricity for the project, one Hilke hopes will see a 600-square-foot urban garden flourish.

He’s also been working the previously non-arable land, adding mulch and manure, courtesy

of Coun. Dieter Dudy, and digging to get it ready for planting yesterday, today and into the weekend, depending on how many volunteers come to help out.

Hilke doesn’t have the tables or umbrellas, but has put out feelers to local building-supply companies.

While Hilke is not sure how to create something that ensures the people getting the food will be those most in need, he is consulting with the people behind the successful community garden at nearby Mt. Paul United Church.

He has also received support from People in Motion, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Jubilee Urban Movement and Partners, among others.

Hilke is hoping sustainability into the future will come from the collective experience — the sharing of food and the social interaction the garden could also grow.

“I believe it will succeed because there will be a buy-in by the people in the neighbourhood,” Hilke said.

Leon in race for B.C. chief Nelson Leon, former chief of Adams Lake Indian Band, has announced his candidacy for the position of B.C. regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations.

Leon joins Tk’emlups Indian Band Chief Shane Gottfriedson as the two declared candidates for the position.

Voting among residents of 203 B.C. First Nations will culminate in the results being released on June 25.

“The regional chief needs to be the catalyst for advancing the recognition and implementation of aboriginal title and rights inclusive

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of treaty rights on the ground,” Leon said in a news release. “The recent Tsilhqot’in decision declaring aboriginal title, the Mount Polly disaster and the accelerated rate of resource development make it imperative that First Nations take a lead role in decision making of land based activities.

“Not only is our way of life affected but also the quality of our life, and what we have to pass on to our children.”

Leon served 16 years as an elected official in his community, the last nine years as chief.

During his term as chief, Leon was also a board member of the

B.C. Assembly of First Nations and president of the First Nations Energy and Mining Council. He also served on the All Nations Trust as a board member.

For seven years, Leon concurrently owned and operated a silviculture business and was the program manager for the Shuswap Training and Employment Program, providing training and employment for First Nations.

“The passive role that both the federal and provincial government take in addressing the reconciliation of aboriginal issues is unacceptable,” Leon said.

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BREAK AND ENTER INTERRUPTED Early in the morning of Saturday May 16th at approximately 2am, the owner of a residence in the 1600 block of Summit Dr. was watching TV. The owner heard a noise downstairs and went to investigate, as he entered into the basement he noticed 3 males.

The owner yelled and all 3 males fled the house. Nothing was taken or damaged. The description of the suspects is vague; they are all in their mid 20’s, one East Indian, one Caucasian and one was Native male.

The owner could not see what they were wearing and was not sure of the direction of travel once they left the house. The Police Service Dog was unable to locate the suspects.

Now that the weather is warming up, homeowners will start to leave doors and windows open for the cooler night air. Just be aware, that these thieves also know that homes may be insecure at night.

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THEFT FROM CONSTRUCTION SITE On Thursday May 14th, the RCMP received a call from a construction site on Long Lake Road neat Highway 5A, that someone had stolen wire from the site.

The theft occurred sometime overnight, the suspects drove up to the site in a pickup truck, loaded the wire and took off. What the suspect did not know was that

there was a camera on site. The picture is not the best quality but the suspect is described as a Caucasian male, mid twenties, wearing a vest and light coloured ball cap.

Although this is in a remote area, someone may have noticed a vehicle late at night or early in the morning leaving the area.

This is a good reminder to

the contractors to secure all tools and machinery, the camera is a good start but good crime prevention techniques are still needed.

If you know this person or have any information of this theft please contact Crime Stoppers. You will remain anonymous only your information will be used never your name.

THEFT FROM STORAGE LOCKERS There have a been a number of thefts from storage lockers in apartment buildings; the latest occurred on Saturday May 16th from a building in the 300 block of Nicola St. The suspects somehow got into a locked secured underground parking lot, then processed to break into 4 storage lockers. At this point the

RCMP has not complied a complete list of the items that were stolen. The main problem is how did this person get into the secure garage area and what can be done to prevent this from taking place again.

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THE HOT AND NOT OF THE WEEK Kamloops This Week looks at the stories of the week — the good, the bad and all in-between:

HOT: Summer fun in Kamloops with confirmation the Slide the City event will be turning Hillside Drive into a 1,000-feet water slide on July 18.

The event has been held in cities across North America, with thousands of people paying to take a ride down a city street fitted with a giant vinyl slide.

Having viewed many videos of Slide the City events across the continent, KTW feels it is safe to say the incline on Hillside Drive may be the steepest yet.

Kudos to Tim McLeod of Tranquille Farm Fresh for luring the Salt Lake City company north, and a tip of the cap to the City of Kamloops for finding a way to make this work on a busy Saturday — while still having transit buses use the route.

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NOT: The myriad agencies involved — or not involved enough, as it may be — in the case of Paige, a Kamloops-born girl who died of a drug overdose in Vancouver at the age of 19.

As today’s KTW feature story and the report by the Representative of Children and Youth (available to read in its entirety online at kamloopsthisweek.com) note, Paige’s death cries out for answers as to why the system remains broken.

The report is hard to read. Harder still is the knowledge this won’t be the last such report to be issued.

HOT: The legs of those Kamloopsians who will take part in Bike to Work Week, beginning Monday.

The annual event comes at an opportune time as Columbia Street work begins on the same day.

More information online at biketoworkweek.com/kamloops.

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They will likely still come

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n the 1960s, a group of forward-thinking Edmontonians had an idea — a really, really big idea — that would put Alberta’s capital on the map.

Omniplex would be a multiuse indoor stadium and convention centre in the city’s downtown.

The stadium itself would house 32,000 people for football.

For hockey — Edmonton was trying to land a National Hockey League team at the time — the 110-yard field would be suspended in the air, providing the ceiling for 12,000 screaming fans.

(Google it. The renderings are insane.)

Beneath the behemoth would lie 100,000 square feet of convention space, a large theatre and plenty of room for offices and meetings.

At the time, Houston’s Astrodome was shiny and new and the envy of every city trying to establish itself in one way or another. Domed stadiums were all the rage and Edmonton’s potential Omniplex — not The Omniplex, just Omniplex — would one-up them all, based on ingenuity and bold design if nothing else.

It will be Canada’s leading tourist attraction, they said. It will bring $5 million into the city each year, they said. It will employ hundreds of people, they said.

All of this was happening at a time when oil prices were in the toilet and interest rates through the roof. The future City of Champions was sputtering.

The people of Edmonton were as fired up about Omniplex as

TIM PETRUK

Tim

BITS Springfield residents were over their Monorail.

Unlike Mayor Quimby, however, not all of Edmonton’s politicians were sold on the $30-million plan.

The city’s mayor questioned whether Edmonton’s population, then 375,000, necessitated a 32,000-seat stadium. Some aldermen described the plans as outrageous. The NHL put its concerns about the quality of such a dual-purpose hockey rink on the record.

But, the Omniplex question was still put to the people.

In 1970, as projected construction costs ballooned, Edmonton’s voters were asked whether the city should borrow money to start construction on Omniplex.

They said no.

Four years later, the building that is now known as Rexall Place opened its doors and, within a few years, the Oilers were skating around the world’s best ice with the Stanley Cup. In 1978, after Edmonton hosted the Commonwealth Games, the Eskimos set up shop in their beautiful, open-air stadium that is

still the envy of the CFL. While the City of Kamloops’ plans for a downtown performing-arts centre are not Omniplexian or Monorailian, they are grand. And, $90 million is a lot of money — especially when it’s being paid for largely by taxpayers.

Kamloops does need performing-arts facilities that are on par with its recreational assets.

And, as far as I’m concerned, the downtown parkade should already be full of cars across the street from the Sandman Signature Hotel.

As an Alberta transplant who has been here for nearly a decade, I often bemoan the Tournament Capital’s notorious naysayers.

The fact the aforementioned underground parking garage — on the site of a current parking lot! — was shot down by petition still astounds me.

Just like the people of Edmonton did in 1970, we Kamloopsians will get our say about the performing-arts centre — and I hope we vote cautiously.

The Astrodome is a shambles, having been shut down by Houston’s fire marshall in 2008.

Canadians need only look to Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to see our own bilingual white elephant.

If there is one lesson Kamloops can glean from Omniplex — with all those banners hanging at Commonwealth Stadium and Rexall Place and a new arena under construction in Edmonton’s downtown — maybe it’s this: If you don’t build it, they will probably still come. tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

FRIDAY, May 22, 2015

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ELECTED OFFICIALS MUST DEFEND QUALITY OF LIFE . . . Elected officials don’t “have the moral authority to

Editor: I found Coun. Ken Christian’s comments that made the front page of KTW on May 7 (‘City council vents on New Afton air emissions’) rather dismissive of serious concerns expressed by a growing number of taxpayers.

Christian is right when he says wealth is a social determinant of health.

What I take from his argument, though, is that wealth (whatever is meant by that) makes us and our community healthy and that the quest for “wealth” should essentially trump everything else.

Speaking in favour of New Gold’s application to increase air discharge in the Kamloops airshed, Christian denigrates those opposed by saying “this notion that we should lock ourselves away and pretend that we can’t go out of our bubble because of fear of something that’s really quite irrational, makes absolutely no sense and, in fact, does a disservice to the health of the citizens of Kamloops.”

If Christian’s reasoning is pushed just a bit

play Russian roulette with it [environment].

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further, accumulation of wealth in Kamloops should be pursued even at the cost of perhaps irreversibly sacrificing the long-term quality of the air we breathe, the water we find in our lakes and the soil in which we grow our food.

What a heavy cost my children and I are asked to pay in the name of “progress.”

Ironically, these are some of the key characteristics that have made Kamloops such a terrific place to live in the first place.

This is also what the city sells new residents and tourists in its brochures.

But, wealth is only one factor in a long list of health determinants.

So is access to clean air, to clean water, to quality health care and education, to parks, to

walkable residential neighbourhoods.

The city needs to celebrate its mining heritage for the jobs and economic boost it is still providing in the community. It will continue to be a part of who we are for generations to come. But we should not be slave to it.

Contrary to Christian, I say the fear of Kamloops residents is not irrational as New Gold’s application is to allow the mine to “discharge about nine times more air from Jared Young with shade is the underground portion ofportable its mine,” air the with AFL, “contains which is working on Fibre company admits some particulate the mercury.” city for Telus. matter, Optics as wellthroughout as arsenic and The first priority of our municipal and provincial elected officials must be to defend the long term quality of life of Kamloops residents by being fiercely protective of the surrounding natural environment in which they live.

From an ethical perspective, our elected officials don’t have the moral authority to play Russian roulette with it.

Gilles Viaud Kamloops

PIONEER’S BEACH THE PLACE FOR OFF-LEASH PUPS Editor: Re: Arthur Johnstone’s letter of May 19 (‘Hate dogs? Avoid Pioneer’): The lawn portion of Pioneer Park is not a dog park, as erroneously suggested via Johnson’s complaint.

The beach at Pioneer Park is the off-leash area.

This distinction is clear on the signs at the site and in the City of Kamloops’ printed and online literature. Bylaw officers will politely deliver this information to those

who are misusing the area.

Additionally, it is a requirement unleashed dogs be under verbal control. Not all people welcome (nor should they be required to) an unsolicited interaction with an animal, even if they are in a sanctioned off-leash dog area.

While I agree with Johnson’s condemnation of the public drinking and drug use by park users, this does not excuse his disregard for the bylaws.

He is at fault.

V. Park Kamloops

Editor: I, too, recently visited Pioneer Park with my little pup, but my experience was just the opposite of Johnstone’s.

My eight-pound pup and I both thoroughly enjoyed it. I expect Johnstone’s experience may have been a case of misunderstanding the rules.

Pioneer Park is not an offleash area and, even if it were, the rules say dogs must be kept under the owner’s control. Clearly this means it is the owner’s responsibility to keep their dog away from other people

and other dogs unless they have their OK. Pioneer Park beach is designated an off-leash area but, again, the under-control rule applies. It is normal for a young pup, especially one that has had a dip in the river, to be hard to control — and it ought to be kept on leash until it settles down.

Johnstone should not give up on Pioneer Park and its beach.

Johnstone and his dog will be missing out on another one of Kamloops’ great places.

Jim Thompson Kamloops

TALK BACK Q&A: kamloopsthisweek.com We asked:

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online RE: STORY: LAWSUIT CLAIMS ANIMAL’S REPUTATION WAS BULL:

“Really, when will people start taking a little responsibility for their actions?”

— posted by pothead

RE: STORY: CYCLING4DIVERSITY TEACHES STRENGTH IN UNIQUENESS

“That’s so awesome. Glad to know that there are other people out there, in force, to change the world. . . . ” — posted Brian Husband

RE: IT’S OFFICIAL KAMLOOPS WILL BE SLIP SLIDIN’ AWAY ON JULY 18.

“Looking towards having some fun in the sun and I particularly like ‘Organizers are also working with local businesses to provide 250 tickets for lowincome children who could otherwise not ride the slide.’”

— posted by Les Evens “SUH-veet! Will definitely try to be there.”

— posted by 1LoneWolf

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LOCAL NEWS The final skydiver leaves the plane above Kamloops Airport on Victoria Day. Skydivers from Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand took part in the 48th annual May Meet, which recorded two hard landings.

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Bumpy landings at May Meet “We don’t tell them how to operate their business.”

A woman was skydiving at about 1:15 p.m. on Saturday when she apparently made a low turn near the ground and went into a freefall for the final 50 feet.

Paramedics and firefighters tended to her and she was reported to be in stable condition in Royal Inland Hospital.

She was later moved to Vancouver General Hospital.

A day earlier, on Friday, a male skydiver suffered minor injuries when he crashed into a fence and then into a house when attempting a landing.

Brocklehurst resident Darren Crawford tweeted about the mishap: “Who says skydiving is safe?

Skydiver just crashed through my fence and into my house! They were very nice about the whole thing . . . just amazing . . . one in a million accident!”

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The 48th annual May Meet skydiving event at Kamloops Airport was marred by two accidents, one that sent a Victoria woman to hospital with serious injuries.

As a result, airport management will meet with the skydiving club to review the event and the hard landings.

Kamloops Airport manager Fred Legace said he will meet with the skydiving club in the next week to debrief and ensure an adequate plan is put in place to avoid incidents moving forward.

But, Legace said, it will be up to the skydiving club to fix any problems — if they are indeed fixable.

“The parachute club operates just like any other operator at the airport,” Legace said.

Crawford later said the crash will likely cost him thousands of dollars in repairs, as two fence panels were demolished and there was damage to the exterior of his house.

The incident marked the second time a skydiver has landed on his property and Crawford is concerned for the safety of his children, who often play on the trampoline in the back yard.

Dean Schryver, a manager with the host Kamloops Skydivers Sport and Parachute Club, said both accidents were the result of pilot error.

Legace said the airport wouldn’t want to be involved with any activity that is highly dangerous, but doesn’t believe that is the case with skydiving.

The Kamloops Skydivers Sport and Parachute Club has operated at the airport longer than anyone can remember, Legace said, noting serious incidents have been rare.

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City councillors and staff recently celebrated the Kamloops Centre for Water Quality’s 10-year anniversary.

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“Water is no longer a dirty word in Kamloops,” then-mayor Mel Rothenburger declared when the Kamloops Centre for Water Quality opened its doors in February 2005.

The line got a second life yesterday as city councillors and staff past and present celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the city’s water-treatment plant on River Street.

Built for just under $50 million, the plant can supply up to 160million litres of drinking water per day.

Mayor Peter Milobar, a rookie city councillor when construction began on the facility, said a glass of tap water today is a far cry from what would have come through pipes a decade ago during the spring runoff season.

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“If you’re new to Kamloops, you don’t know what an impact this project has had on Kamloops, because the coffee urn in the back would be considered a good water day this time of year 10 or 11 years ago,” he said.

His wasn’t the only fond remembrance of Kamloops’ former water supply, which could become extremely silty and muddy during bad runoff years.

Former city CAO Randy Diehl remembered hotels posting signs warning guests not to drink the water and Rothenburger said one or two residents a year would call up about “strange jellyfish

kind of globule things” coming out of their taps.

Staff who spoke at the anniversary event also remembered the plant as a highly controversial project, which they said might not have proceeded had the Thompson Regional Health Board (a precursor to Interior Health) not ordered the city to improve its water — which contained several disease-causing microorganisms in addition to the dirt.

“People didn’t like the dirty water but, when they found out it was going to cost $50 million, they changed their minds,” said

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retired engineering manager Mike Warren, who recalled various schemes for avoiding the centre, including trucking water from Clearwater Lake.

The water plant uses membrane technology to filter water from the South Thompson River for public use.

While common today, it was rare enough on a large scale in 2005 that Kamloops was briefly home to the world’s largest watertreatment plant of this type.

David Teasdale, manager of treatment plants for the city, said the plant has an unusually low rate of water wastage, about 0.001 per cent compared to six per cent (about two-trillion litres) or more in other operations.

Over its lifespan so far, Teasdale said, the city has processed 208trillion litres of water at the centre.

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Leona McKay is walking in memory of Allen.

Months ago, McKay, a Lillooet resident, lost her son Allen to complications due to multiple sclerosis.

He was 41 years old and two years removed from his initial diagnosis.

Leona and Allen had talked at Christmas about wanting to participate in the Scotiabank MS Walk — and though Allen is no longer with them, Leona and her daughter will be walking all the same.

“We wanted to get involved because of the things he was going through,” Leona said.

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The group she will be walking with, Team Allen, has 43 members and has raised more than $1,800 thus far.

They will walk on Sunday, May 24, raising money for Canadians living with MS and the research needed to find a cure.

“They are doing this because they love my son,” Leona said of

her team. “My family supports me, they carry on when I break down.”

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Munching goats back at park Kenna Cartwright Park is once again hosting a herd of hungry goats.

The 450-strong herd from Rocky Ridge Vegetation Control hit the park this week and will be munching in the area for the remainder of the month before

moving on to the Dallas/Barnhartvale Nature Park for a week.

The City of Kamloops has for several years hired the goats to graze at Kenna Cartwright and other parks in the city, including the Tournament

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SPORTS

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First inning BATTER 1: Strikes out BATTER 2: Reaches base on error BATTER 3: Hits into double-play

Second inning BATTER 4: Thrown out by shortstop

UNTOUCHABLE UNDERHILL

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s he stood on the mound in the fifth inning, Nate Underhill had no idea the feat he was flirting with.

With his RiverDogs ahead 10-0, the 11-year-old was just trying to keep his team’s lead, make it through another inning. It was, after all, his first outing as a starting pitcher in peewee baseball.

The Penticton Thunder sent their first batter to the plate and Underhill settled in for another frame.

Working his threepitch combination of fastball, curveball, change-up, the Rayleigh elementary student pounded the strike zone. A grounder

hit to shortstop was thrown to first.

One out.

Underhill turned to his second opponent and fanned him three times, recording his eighth strikeout of the contest.

Two away.

The third, and what would be final, hitter made contact with Underhill’s pitch, sending it up and into the glove of the Riverdogs’ second baseman.

Inning over. Ball game.

No-hitter.

With that third out, Underhill had done what few witness and even fewer accomplish.

He had retired 15 consecutive batters and thrown a no-hitter.

And, it was news to him.

“I had no idea

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FINAL SCORE: 10-0 INNINGS PITCHED: Five BATTERS FACED: 15 PITCHES THROWN: 53 STRIKEOUTS: Eight WALKS: One ERRORS: One HITS: Zero

until after the game,” Underhill told KTW. “I was really excited.”

“He had no clue,” said the Riverdogs’ coach Rich Denis.

“He was so in the zone, he was so focused, he didn’t realize what was happening.”

Underhill is new to the ranks of peewee baseball, not set to turn 12 until later this season.

As a young pitcher, he arrived at McArthur Island more nervous than usual that day.

He’s smaller, standing just 5-feet, and he doesn’t throw the hardest. All of it weighed on his mind as he prepared to start his first game.

But none of it mattered. He played bigger than his stature. His speed was enough.

“I felt like my curveball was really going,” Underhill said.

“I felt like I was pitching really good.”

Underhill wasn’t the only one oblivious of his accomplishment — around the diamond, his teammates hadn’t registered the relative lack of base runners, the number of batters retired by Underhill’s deadly strikeout curve.

In fact, it seemed just two men on the diamond knew what

was happening that Sunday — Nate’s father, Nick, and his coach.

As the two men watched, they didn’t say much. They certainly didn’t broach the subject with Nate or the team. They just sat, hiding their hope, nerves and anxiety, awed by what the younger Underhill continued to do.

“He just kept mowing them down,” Denis said.

Nate finished the game well short of the peewee pitch limit, throwing just 53 of a possible 75 pitches.

“I always thought he was a good pitcher,” Denis said.

But, this?

“As a first year coming in, would I expect him to do this, not at all.”

BATTER 5: Flies out to shortstop BATTER 6: Strikes out

Third inning BATTER 7: Strikes out BATTER 8: Strikes out BATTER 9: Strikes out

Fourth inning BATTER 10: Strikes out BATTER 11: Walks; picked off by Underhill while leading off BATTER 12: Strikes out

Fifth inning BATTER 13: Grounds out to shortstop BATTER 14: Strikes out BATTER 15: Flies out to second

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SPORTS

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Kathy MacDonald comes back to earth in tandem with Vern Gentry at the 48th annual May Meet at the Kamloops Airport. About 120 skydivers made more than 1,000 jumps. For more photos, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Underhill’s rare feat From A13

The elder Underhill — himself a fastball pitcher who has thrown for Team Canada and who has a few no-hitters of his own — rooted silently for his son from the other side of the backstop. Nate’s mother knew her son’s team was winning, but even she didn’t know there was a no-no on the line. Nick certainly wasn’t going to risk mentioning it to her.

When Nate made it out of the fourth inning, a frame that had always been his father’s Kryptonite, Nick allowed himself to hope. The hope became excitement

when the game ended after five, the Riverdogs finishing early by virtue of the mercy rule.

Kamloops Minor Baseball Association officials were hard pressed to remember another complete game no-hitter in peewee baseball. In fact, the no-no thrown in bantam by RiverDog pitcher Brendan Coulter in 2013 was the only one that could be recalled at any level.

“It’s something that’s a pretty monumental feat for these guys,” Nick said.

The no-hitter won’t make Nate the ace of the Riverdogs’ rotation overnight. He’ll continue to develop as a pitcher and may

be used sparingly, at times. After all, he is just 11.

Still, the rookie peewee opened a few eyes with his abilities on Sunday.

“It’s a phenomenal feat,” said Denis, who describes peewee as an age group that favours hitters over pitchers.

“You obviously have to have luck on your side for things like this to happen, but his location and his command was so good, I think it was an indication of the potential of this kid.”

And, though he accomplished a feat of Herculean proportions on the weekend, Nick said Nate’s the same kid who battled nerves

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NATIONAL SPORTS

Game 4 tonight in Tampa Raonic out The Tampa Bay Lightning can take a stranglehold on the NHL’s Eastern Conference Final with a victory over the New York Rangers tonight in Tampa.

Game time is 5 p.m.

The Lightning were relentless on Wednesday, answering every challenge from the Rangers before taking control of the Eastern Conference final on Nikita Kucherov’s overtime goal.

Kucherov delivered his second winner of the playoffs 3:33 into the extra period, giving his team a 6-5 victory and 2-1 lead in

the best-of-seven series.

The 21-year-old Russian, part of the high-scoring Triplets line that is leading Tampa Bay’s playoff run, also gave the Lightning a win in double overtime at Montreal in the second round.

Linemate Ondrej Palat had two goals and an assist, and Tyler Johnson — the other triplet — had his playoff-leading 12th goal, as well as an assist.

“They’ve impressed me for a long time and now they’re impressing the world,’’ Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “It’s fun to watch.’’

PARIS — Sixth-ranked Milos Raonic will miss the French Open after having surgery on his right foot.

The Canadian announced his withdrawal yesterday, a day before the draw for the clay-court Grand Slam tournament.

Raonic was forced to retire from a match at Monte Carlo in April and skip the tournament in

Rome last week.

The French Open begins Sunday.

Raonic says his rehabilitation work to come back from the injury “will continue this week and I will shortly begin preparations’’ for grasscourt tournaments at Queen’s Club and Wimbledon, which starts June 29. He was a semifinalist at the All England Club last year.

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TORONTO — The best of what Mike Babcock had to say on the day he was introduced as Toronto Maple Leafs coach: “I’ve had a lot of opportunity to coach Canada’s teams and enjoyed that immensely. Whether you believe it or not, I believe this is Canada’s team and we need to put Canada’s team back on the map.’’

On leaving the Detroit Red Wings: “Ken Holland, he’s a great man and good friend of mine. It was very emotional: I had to get the Kleenex box out when I sat in his office there because of what he’s done for me.’’

On the challenge of the Leafs’ rebuild: “I look forward to the process, the battle, the pain, the fun, the journey. It’s going to be a long one, but it’s going to be a lot of fun.’’

On captain Dion Phaneuf: “I’m a fan of Dion. I think he’s a good kid and I think he works hard and he tries hard.’’

On his decision process: “Lots of teams we talked to were set up better.

But they weren’t the Maple Leafs and they weren’t in this city.’’

On not picking the Buffalo Sabres: “They got lots of great things but, in the end, I couldn’t make it go for my family and I wanted to be the coach of the Maple Leafs. That’s it.’’

On his US$50-million, eight-year contract: “To me it’s real simple: The contract is simply a commitment from the Maple Leafs to success.’’

On raising the bar for NHL coaches’ salaries: “If you want to give me credit for something, that’d be great. But, come on. You’d be giving me credit without me actually doing anything.’’

On the exhilaration of a new job: “It’s about being alive, I think. At 52, I’m not ready to die, I want to get on with it here. To me, that’s the message to my children: It’s about the journey. It’s not about the destination.’’

On fans’ impatience: “The fans are not impatient, they’re smart.

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“Know it’s going to be some down days. Dig in here, let’s go.’’

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Cavs, Hawks banged up Ones to watch ATLANTA — While the Atlanta Hawks try to figure out who will guard LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers are just grateful the four-time MVP is still standing.

It’s understandable. The NBA Eastern Conference final could turn into a war of attrition — and they’ve only played one game, a 97-89 win for the Cavs.

James was limping around, Kyrie Irving went to the bench and didn’t return and DeMarre Carroll is listed as day-to-day after being helped off the court in Game 1 on Wednesday.

There was “raging fear’’ swelling in Cleveland coach David Blatt when he saw James in obvious pain after rolling his right ankle for the second time in the playoffs.

But James, who said his first thought was “not again,’’ simply tied his shoe tighter and was back on the court within minutes. He’ll be ready to go tonight in Game 2.

“He’s the closest thing to Superman there is out there,’’ Blatt said. “That’s the only way I can explain it.’’

Irving’s situation is more of a concern.

It’s unclear how effective he

will be the rest of the playoffs.

Irving hobbled into the series and played only about three minutes in the fourth quarter of Game 1 after tweaking his sore left knee.

“He wants to be out there at his best and he’s dealing with a situation that’s not easy for him,’’ Blatt said.

“On the other hand he’s still out there contributing and giving us things we really need and battling through this thing with heart and with courage.’’

Irving, who had 10 points and six assists, continues to receive treatment for tendinitis in the knee.

“We hope that he can play,’’ Blatt said. “The nature of his problem is one that allows him

to do so. It’s just a matter of discomfort and sort of having to deal with the elements and play through it.’’

The Hawks can relate.

Atlanta received good news when a MRI showed a sprain but no structural damage in Carroll’s left knee. He listed as questionable for Game 2.

The forward is Atlanta’s top perimeter defender and drew primary responsibility for guarding James.

If Carroll can’t play, guard Kent Bazemore and power forward Paul Millsap could share that difficult assignment.

“The biggest thing is trying to limit everyone else,’’ Bazemore said.

“He’s going to get what he’s going to get. If you can kind of keep everyone else in the bottle, you have a better chance.’’

In the West

The Golden State Warriors held a 1-0 lead over the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference Final heading into Game 2, which was played yesterday in Oakland after KTW’s press deadline.

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Y Obituaries & In Memoriam Z ALAN DENIS BROOKS January 16, 1927 - May 19, 2015 Alan Denis Brooks, loving father, husband, brother, and friend, passed away peacefully on May 19, 2015 at the Kamloops Hospice.

Alan was born in Hertford, England and came to Canada as young child. He grew up in a big family in New Brunswick. He served in the Korean War and was injured and sent to Japan to recover. While in Japan he met his beautiful wife, Yaeko, whom he cherished for 64 years.

Alan lived a life of service to his family, friends, church and fellowman. He was faithful and true to the end to his Lord and Savior whom he loved. He and Yaeko served two missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chicago inner city and the Philippines, after he retired.

Alan bids farewell to his beloved Yaeko, their five children, Susan, Lance, Sally, Vance and Deborah, their spouses, 26 grandchildren, 14 greatgrandchildren, a brother, three sisters, many nieces, nephews and his many dear friends.

He is welcomed home by his parents, Edith and Archie Brooks, three brothers, two sisters, two grandbabies, five great-grandbabies, his many friends and comrades in arms and his dog, Jake.

A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2165 Parkcrest Ave, at 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home. www.kamloopshospice.com.

Special Thanks: We are grateful to Melanie Doiron of the Moncton hospital and amazing staff who took special care of our father when we needed their services unexpectedly.

The Fox Flight Air Ambulance, Captain Katrina Rankine, and her extraordinary crew, and the DVA for life flighting our father home to Kamloops to our mother so family and friends could have four more precious days with our dad. And to the Kamloops Hospice and Staff for their outstanding compassionate care in his last days.

A mighty tree has fallen. But his spirit lives on.

And we shall meet again.

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Around the corner I have a friend In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year has gone, And I never see my old friend’s face, For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell, And he rang mine. We were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men, Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired with trying to make a name.

“Tomorrow, I will call on Jim, Just to show that I am thinking of him.”

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows, Around the corner, yet miles away “Here’s a telegram, sir,” “Jim died today!”

And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end, Around the corner a vanished friend!

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Y Obituaries & In Memoriam Z MYRNA ARLENE DENHAM November 19, 1940 – May 15, 2015

Myrna passed away on May 15th, 2015 at the age of 74 years. She was born in Grandview, Manitoba on November 19th, 1940. She moved to BC with her family in 1942 and they lived in several communities throughout the province until settling in Kamloops in 1954, where she lived out the remainder of her years.

Myrna is survived by her two sons, Tod and Lee, their families, as well as many other family, extended family and friends.

A Memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 30th, 2015 at 1:00 pm in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel at 285 Fortune Drive.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Kamloops Hospice Home in memory of Myrna.

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BRENDA BENGERT On Sunday, May 17, 2015, Mrs. Brenda Bengert passed away peacefully at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC at the age of 62.

She will be sadly missed by her loving husband, Bob Bengert, daughter Jennifer (Marty) Korba of Calgary, Alberta, grandson Ethan, sisterin-law Lois Konkin and Bill Pepper of Kelowna, BC, many cousins, nieces and nephews as well as many friends. Brenda was predeceased by her infant son Bradley Bengert, and her mother and father Amy and Ralph Gilfillan of Nanaimo, BC. A gathering of family and friends will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm for an afternoon of memories and reminiscing at The Bengert residence, 421 Nueva Wynd, Kamloops, BC V2H 1S1.

A special thank you to the nursing staff at the Royal Inland Hospital 7 North for taking exceptional care of our wife and Mom. Should friends desire, donations to the BC Cancer Foundation in memory of Mrs. Brenda Bengert would be appreciated.

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JARROD RICHARDSON 1966 ~ 2015 Mr. Jarrod B. Richardson passed away peacefully at St. Joseph’s Home Carmel Hospice on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at the age of 48 years. Jarrod was born on August 11, 1966, in Craig, Colorado. Although born in the U.S.A., Jarrod moved with his family in 1981, making Canada his home.

He loved fishing, camping, woodworking and watching NASCAR. Left to cherish Jarrod’s memory are his parents, Linda (Sterling) Harris, children James (Jacqui), Santana, Matthew, Darcelle and Jordan (Kaylee), four grandchildren Carter, Nash, Noah and Nathan, siblings Robert (Tonya) Richardson, Lana (Wayne) Bachmeier and Eric (Marjorie) Richardson as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Jarrod also cherished his friendships with Jerry Lemar, Tim King, his life long friend, Kim Richardson and his four legged companion, Jake. Jarrod appreciated the love and care of Heather Richardson and her children, Chanel and Cory. Jarrod was predeceased by his father, Lowell “Brub” Richardson Jr. A Celebration of Jarrod’s Life will be held at 523 - A North Railway Street S.E., Medicine Hat on Saturday, May 23, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. Another service will be held in Kamloops, B.C., at a later date.

Condolences may be expressed by visiting www.cooksouthland.com Honoured to serve the family is Cook Southland Funeral Chapel, 901 - 13 Street S.W., Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 4V4. Telephone toll free: 1-877-528-6455.

July 4, 1939 – May 14, 2015 Surrounded by his family in a room filled with much love and adoration, Al peacefully passed away. Our beloved father, grandfather, brother, uncle and good friend will be dearly missed and forever remembered.

Born in Kamloops, his parents George and Kay, raised him and his three brothers in their Heffley Creek homestead. Growing up, he attended Heffley Creek Elementary, Kamloops High School and BCIT. For over 48 years, Al was a very valuable member of the team at Balco/Tolko Industries as a saw-filer and then later become the lathe operator. Well respected by his co-workers and management, Al’s strong work ethic is a trait he instilled in all of his children. The team from Balco/Tolko formed strong bonds working together and this showed through in the experiences and stories Al shared with his family.

As most in Heffley Creek know, community is a big part of everyday life and Al took pride in volunteering for the Heffley Creek Water District for over 38 years.

In September of 1961, Al and his bride Sheila were married at the Lady of Lourdes Parish in Heffley Creek. They built their home together in 1965 on Tod Mountain Road, where they raised Dion, Deanna, and Deborah. The property holds a special place in all of their hearts and the children plan to create many more memories with their families and the loving community of Heffley Creek.

Another large passion of Al’s was the outdoors; he loved to spend time camping, fishing and hunting and gave his children the opportunity to love the outdoors as well. There are many fond memories of summers spent at Knouff Lake, Badger Lake and East Barriere Lake.

Al’s love and devotion to his family and friends will forever be cherished. Al is survived by his children Dion Bedard (Michele) Gabriel, Madeline, Samuel; Deanna Loychuk (Jackson) Petro, Maximus; Deborah Bacon (Corey) Brody, Dylan, Sophie, Jack and his three brothers Jim (Loretta), Larry (Lynn) and Joe (Evelyn) along with many wonderful nieces and nephews.

Al was predeceased by his loving wife Sheila in 2013, his parents George and Kay Bedard, his in-laws Omar and Marie Fair and an infant brother Eugene.

Everyone is welcome to join the family at Prayers on Friday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. at St. John Vianney Parish located at 2826 Bank Road, Westsyde. Father Andrew L’Heureux will celebrate the Funeral Mass at St. John Vianney Parish on Saturday, May 23 at 11:00 a.m. with a luncheon reception to follow.

A very special thank you to all the angels at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, their kindness and professionalism were above and beyond in every way. Donations in Al’s name can be made to the Hospice Centre.

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SEAN ACHESON December 28, 1952 - May 18, 2015

It is with deep sorrow and grieving hearts that we announce the passing of Sean Acheson in Kamloops, BC. He fought a great battle with prostate cancer for three years.

He is survived by his loving wife Shirley Acheson of 35 years and devoted daughters Anjuli (Paul Nute) and Katlyn (Scotty McKenzie) and his loving granddaughter Brynleigh Nute and stepgrandchildren Aliyah and Graeden Nute. Parents Fred and Eve Acheson and siblings Randy, Scott, Deidre LaTrace, Clint, Naomi as well as numerous brothers and sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews and many great friends. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he spent his early years in Ocean Falls, BC and then moved to Kamloops, BC where he grew up and raised his family. He worked as a superintendent at Huron Developments Ltd for several years and made many life long friends. He will be remembered for his love of fast cars, golf courses and sports teams. Memorial service will be at 1:00 pm Monday, May 25th, 2015 at Kamloops Funeral Home. Thank you to the many staff and volunteers at RIH and Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice for your support and special care of Sean. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the hospice in his memory.

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF LINDA ANNE MARTE 1948 – 2015 After a year and a half long courageous battle with cancer, Linda passed away in the presence of her loving husband, son and daughter on May 17, 2015 at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House in Kamloops, BC. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on June 8, 1948, Linda is survived by her husband Kelvin; son Troy; daughter Deanna (Brook); grandchildren Deavon (Samantha), Millan and Lelan; her half brother Merle, and by many family and friends. Linda was predeceased by her parents Elmer and Rita Lambert; sister Bonnie; and her first husband Camile Bilodeau.

Linda worked as a florist up until the past year and a half and owned her own flower shop in the 1980’s. Her love of flowers was evident by the time and devotion she spent in her yard. Nothing made Linda happier than spending time with her family, travelling to warm, tropical places and boating on the river. Linda had an amazing love for her two boxer dogs Carlos and Jose as well as her adopted dog Kashton. Linda was an incredible lady with a beautiful smile that lit up any room she walked into. Her love, grace and beauty will never be forgotten.

Linda’s family would like to whole heartedly thank all the outstanding people who work and volunteer at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House. We would also like to sincerely thank the doctors and nurses at the Kamloops Cancer Clinic and Chase Home Care Services. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Hospice House in Linda’s name would be greatly appreciated.

Prayers will be held at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 255 Nicola Street, Kamloops, BC, on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. A Memorial Mass will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Sacred Heart Cathedral.

In life and always, Linda, will be forever loved and cherished.

Arrangements entrusted to North Thompson Funeral Services, Kamloops, BC, telephone 250-377-8225.

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FAITH

Looking to the research of agnostics

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ne reason I like atheists is most of them are honest skeptics.

They reject the idea of God because there is no conclusive proof of his existence.

They want evidence before they will believe something.

If they do have faith, it is in the scientific process by which theories are tested after sound data is collected, analyzed and verified by impartial reviewers with impeccable credentials.

That is both admirable and logical — what’s not to like about someone like Spock, who filters all his conclusions through the prism of pure logic?

That doesn’t leave much room for religious faith and many atheists try to make a case that following

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any kind of religion is bad for you and for the world as a whole.

Is it?

In a previous column, I mentioned the research of William Strawbridge, who found those who consistently practise a religious faith were 36 per cent less likely to die in the 28-year longitudinal study period than those who didn’t practise a religion.

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Thus, researchers p pay a lot of attention to ttheir conclusions.

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Maybe I’ll just let tthe Spockians puzzle over that for a while.

The cover of Maclean’s magazine recently caught my eye. It had a traditional image of Jesus with the headline, “JESUS SAVES! Controversial new research says children raised to believe in God are safer, happier and healthier.”

My curiosity was piqued, so I bought a copy and checked out the article. It discussed the research of Columbia University’s clinical psychology professor Lisa Miller.

She was interested in how shared spiritual/religious beliefs between mothers and daughters mitigated

depression and other negative life behaviours.

Miller discovered that spiritually connected teens were 40 per cent less likely to abuse alcohol or illicit drugs, 80 per cent less likely to engage in unprotected sex and 60 per cent less likely to become depressed compared to non-religious teens.

They also performed better academically.

Other research backs up Miller.

The University of Tennessee looked at the religious practices of 9,300 teens from six countries.

Religious teens had higher self-esteem and lower rates of depression. Related research found religiosity correlated positively with pro-social behaviours such as volunteerism and “school engagement,” and negatively with anti-social con-

duct like carrying weapons, substance abuse and drinking and driving.

And, here’s the kicker — Miller conducted MRIs on brains of those with a strong sense of a higher power (including nonChristian faiths) and found a measurable thickening in their cerebral cortexes.

Regularly following religious or spiritual practices physically changes your brain for the better.

“They essentially had stronger wiring, through a sustained personal spirituality,” Miller said.

Parents who let their children drift spiritually are not doing them any favours.

Another researcher curious about the effect religious/ spiritual practice has on brain function is neurophysiologist Andrew Newberg of the University of

Pennsylvania.

In his 2009 book How God Changes Your Brain, Newburg summarized his groundbreaking research using extensive use of MRI scans of the brain.

Before discussing his data, however, I should point out his own admission — Newberg is not particularly religious himself.

He appears to be agnostic in orientation.

Nevertheless, he is a scientist doing systematic brain scans of people who consistently engage in spiritual/ religious practices and recording the measurable differences.

His results are fascinating. Newberg is convinced by data the human brain is designed to perceive spiritual realities.

He concludes the health benefits associated with meditation and religious ritual cannot be denied.

More specifically,

Newberg has found that meditative practices positively affect the anterior cingulate, a brain structure very important for the ability to have empathy and compassion.

It also mitigates fear and anger by the limbic system (the primitive part of the brain).

The neural circuits involved in the anterior cingulate integrate attention, working memory, motivation, and other important “executive functions.”

Basically, anything we can do to enhance the functioning of the anterior cingulate is not only good for us personally, but for those we interact with and society in general.

I’m glad agnostics like Newberg are curious about all this.

It’s what believers have known for centuries: Worshiping God is good for all of us. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com

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Siracky sit-down DEAR DIARY . . . An edited interview with Bernadette Siracky,

KTW’S JESSICA WALLACE AND HER MONTH AS A FOOD-BANK CLIENT April 27, 2015: 5:03 p.m.: I have busted my budget.

Between groceries and socializing, I am spending my rainy-day fund or succumbing to the beginning of seemingly inevitable credit-card debt.

I’ve failed and wonder what I should have done differently.

I could have sheltered myself and stuck to surviving.

I could have canceled my cable and Internet.

I know I should have quit drinking.

What I ate today: Coffee and coconut milk, banana, basmati rice and stir-fried vegetables, leftover garlic bread and pasta.

April 28, 2015: 10 a.m.: I think of food differently — as fuel.

On Sunday night, I ate until I was stuffed.

I ate because it tasted good and ate much as I could because it was available.

Yesterday, I ate small portions — just enough to get me through the morning, lunch, soccer and night.

I did this morning, too.

It is a different mentality — like the gas tank of a car, fill it up when the light goes on to keep going.

11 a.m.: I forget my ID. I go inside anyway after driving to Wilson Street.

The lady behind the counter says she can question me.

She knows my last name and I wonder if she knows I am a reporter or if she has simply come to know me.

I ask about the food drive and she says it was the best ever, with more than 63,000 pounds of food collected.

I am excited about what’s available.

Down the counter, it seems like an average day.

I look through non-essentials in the bins — I am allowed two — and notice several cans of cranberry sauce.

I wonder what to do with it and, because there is so much of it, I grab a can and will find a recipe online.

I don’t recognize some produce and it becomes a conversation starter when I ask a lady in front of me what it is.

“Rhubarb,” she says.

I don’t know what to do with it, other than make pie — which I won’t be doing — but there is a lot of it.

She recommends eating it with sugar and says you have to be care-

April 29, 2015: 10:46 a.m.: I have $122.52 in my bank account.

I have $124.37 on my Mastercard.

I owe $60 for a fundraiser dinner.

I have $150 in contingency money, which I was saving for my broken car.

Damn. Guess I’m using emergency money.

No new shin pads for soccer and I might have to take my car off the road.

It’s payday tomorrow, which means another $823.79 to pay rent, car insurance, cable and Internet, cellphone and, of course — food.

I’m not sure I could last another month.

April 30, 2015: 7 a.m.: Sure enough, it’s 7 a.m. and a couple of people are waiting outside, with others in vehicles across the street in the parking lot.

Someone is walking up with a pull cart and I’m in my car.

It’s 7:11 a.m. now and five men are pacing in front of the building like it’s their territory.

It might seem intimidating. But, I know it’s OK. There are six now. Some are standing on one side of the road, another is pacing the street.

Seven, now.

Eight.

Nine.

Another truck pulls up and another man.

Now, there are a couple women.

The food bank doesn’t open for another 90 minutes and 17 people are waiting outside.

I make 18 waiting for food.

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KTW: What is the purpose of the Kamloops Food Bank?

Siracky: “The purpose of the food bank is to offer people who are hungry and need emergency food services a respectful and non-judgmental place to get that. And, in the meantime, we need to be looking at why people are in our line up. We’re not solving that issue. We’re treating people with compassion and kindness, respect.

KTW: Why are people in your lineup?

Siracky: “Mental health, huge. Affordable child care.

Minimum wage.”

KTW: Where does your funding come from?

Siracky: “Our biggest funder is BCLC community gaming grant . . .

“Our city also gives us a significant percentage of the social planning grant every year . . .

“The rest of it, we’re just praying.”

KTW: What are your biggest challenges?

Siracky: “Assumptions — of what we do, who we serve, of how we get our funding.”

KTW: Two groups of Kamloops Food Bank clients increased in 2014 — seniors and babies. How does it feel to serve those clients?

Siracky: “This is why we make sure that we do some fundraising and have earmarked funds for formula, diapers, babyhood, cereal . . .

“Diapers are so expensive.

And then you look at this baby and think, how, as a community, how can we not give that child what they need for their brain to develop, for them to have a possibility to pop themselves out of this cycle? Isn’t that our duty?

“While we’re trying to figure out why they’re there in line, have they done anything in their wee little existence, any decisions they have made on their part to be there — no!

“They haven’t done anything to be there.”

It’s not like, ‘Oh, I “lost my job, I’ve got

to go get another one.’

People are complex.

People’s stories are complex.

”

— Bernadette Siracky Kamloops Food Bank executive director

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PART 1 — May 19: An introduction PART 2 — May 21: A day at the food drive PART 3 — May 22: Talking to the boss KTW: The Kamloops Food Bank has been successful. At what point does success enable?

Siracky: “Any time you offer a service like ours, you are going to have a percentage of people that fall into that category. But, I’m going to encourage people to think about the other categories that exist.

“Do you know over 50 per cent of our clients only access us once a month? Over 50 per cent, over half of them just come once for that little bit of a hand up. . . .

“We had, I think, 99 new clients last month. So, 99 people came to us for the very first time in their lives. People don’t come to us every week, all the time.

Some people make the assumption that people are there twice a week, all the time.

“Some are, absolutely. Most aren’t. Most aren’t.

“And some people are dealing

with things . . . that aren’t easily turned around.

“It’s not like, ‘Oh, I lost my job, I’ve got to get another one.’

“People are complex. People’s stories are complex. Poverty is complex.”

KTW: If the Kamloops Food Bank closed tomorrow, where would its clients go?

Siracky: “I don’t know.”

KTW: What comes next for the food bank?

Siracky: “We’re working in an organization that we wish didn’t exist, that we wish there wasn’t a need for.

“We step back and go, do we have a lineup at our door every day? Yes. “Do we need to provide this while we’re looking at longerterm solutions? Yes. “We first of all needed to have food. And then we went, OK, now we need a building.

And, now, we need to sustain our efforts in there. And the next step really sort of is a foodaction initiative.”

KTW: What needs to be done about poverty?

Siracky: “This is a pattern across Canada. This isn’t unique to our community or to B.C. We’re lobbying the government at a federal level to look at things like affordable housing, affordable child care.

“Cheap rent in Kamloops is $900. That is bare minimum.

People are surviving. These kind of bigger issues that we need to look at as a community — why are people even hungry in Canada or the United States?”

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ful because many are allergic to it. It doesn’t appeal to me, so I pass.

I gather my items.

They have a lot of meat today — sandwich meat with 30 per cent off stickers glowing on the front and frozen veal, among others — and some different canned goods.

Other than that, it wasn’t the Christmas morning I expected after the successful food drive.

Thoughts: I don’t know what to cook with rhubarb or cranberry sauce, both of which are plentiful today.

Would education help? What about a cooking class, recipes or specially trained staff? As a user, it’s difficult turning away food. But, rhubarb?

What the heck do I do with that?

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Behind the scenes at the Kamloops Food Bank JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Learning the food bank’s ropes

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little girl leans on the front counter during family day at the Kamloops Food Bank.

“This table’s the right size for me, mom,” she says.

“We made it just for you,” Jovan Rodrigue tells her from behind the counter.

“Would you like your hamper today?” he asks.

Rodrigue hands tickets for the once-monthly nonperishable and twice-weekly bread, dairy and produce hampers to the kids.

The youngsters’ shouts of “thank you!” echo down the hallway on Wilson Street.

Before Rodrigue was paid to work at the food bank, he volunteered there.

He calls it neat, clean and professional.

He is covering Brenda Debrale’s break from front desk, but usually drives the refrigerated truck for the FoodShare program and works in the warehouse.

Rodrigue has time to cover because the truck is late and, it’s a good thing.

Walmart has extras to add to the regular perishable goods collected through the FoodShare program, which runs seven days a week and collects food from local businesses. that would otherwise be tossed into dumpsters.

When the truck arrives out back, several 2.63-litre jugs of Tropicana juice, no pulp, are revealed.

“I bet this [juice] is 972 pounds,” someone says.

“I bet 728, Bob,” says another.

“Come on down.”

“Nah, it’s in the 900range,” says Wes Graham, operations manager.

Graham can spit out all sorts of numbers about the way things run at the food bank — 8,000 to 10,000 bags used monthly, 250 rubber collection bins at businesses

around the city for the FoodShare program, about 1,400 hampers handed out each month, 40 to 50 volunteer hours per week — and knows the impact of what they do.

But, he says, “We try to keep it light.”

When you walk around the warehouse, all of the staff and volunteers count their tenures in years.

A forklift moves the large bin of orange juice onto a scale to be weighed — 683 pounds — and it is moved inside. At this point, they have no idea why so much orange juice came their way, but they know each is valued at about $8 a jug in the store.

It’s these types of extra donations the food bank can handle since expanding.

“We’re lucky — with our infrastructure, we can handle everything,” Graham points out.

The expiry dates labelled on the juice are three days away and a few of them are leaking.

When places like Walmart get less-than-perfect product, like the leaky Tropicana jugs, they’ll often call the company and ask for more, Graham says.

The stores will get rid of faulty product, despite nothing really being wrong with it.

“They’re better to get a corporate credit,” Graham says Next, staff unload bread and produce.

It’s Friday, which means

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Whatever is unusable — about 30 to 35 per cent of what they get donated from stores — goes to farms, which pick up the leftovers for pig food.

When you’re dealing with

perishable items, its a tight turnaround and the food bank relies on volunteers who come in daily to lend a hand with sorting it all.

Today, nine or 10 of them will keep the place running.

“Martha is our bread queen,” Rodrigue says.

Martha Gursky has been volunteering at the food bank for about 10 years. She sorts the bread — checking the dates and deciding what goes to the farm — and says she enjoys the atmosphere.

“The people are so nice,” she says.

Gursky works Mondays to Fridays from about 7 a.m. to noon, when she and the other workers and volunteers shut down the warehouse temporarily and go upstairs for free lunch — one of the perks of working and volunteering there, Graham says.

Back up front, Keith Harris says its been a good day.

“Woke up with a heartbeat,” he says.

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years, Harris deals most directly with clients, manning produce and dairy from the client-side of the counter.

“I get all the crap,” he says.

He’s seen the good and the bad of the food bank.

He’s seen people try to sneak in fake IDs and he has received threats.

“They try and we catch ‘em,” Harris says.

But, that doesn’t account for most visitors — like the mom who tells him she’s going to trick her kids into eating vegetables by grabbing the veggie burgers from the freezer.

Then, there’s the babies.

“We get some real cuties,” he says. “And the majority of them are so good.”

Harris began volunteering when he went on disability and says if it wasn’t for the food bank, he’d be sitting around the house.

How long will he do it?

“Probably ‘til I die,” he replies.

Unrecognizable produce is a conversation starter.

“Rhubarb,” she tells me.

The woman, who is using the Kamloops Food Bank, recommends eating it with sugar and says you have to be careful because a lot of people are allergic.

Outside, she is loading four bags into a car.

She is helping her boyfriend who is sitting in the front passenger seat.

We chat.

He had two strokes and can’t walk the one block from his house to the food bank.

When he walks the steps from the parking lot across the street inside, it’s a struggle, the woman says.

When I mention the recent food drive, he says I’ll notice it in next month’s hamper.

He also offers advice. The Salvation Army, for example, is available any day and has discounted prices for things like ground meat and toilet paper.

Then there are emergency hampers you can get from the food bank every three months.

“It helps,” he says.

He’s been doing it for five years.

“You’ll learn the ropes,” the woman says.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Art: High Tea, Thompson Valley Potters Guild, Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St., now to May 30. â&#x20AC;˘ Music: Singersongwriter James Gray, The Art We Are, 246 Victoria St., 7 p.m., $5 at the door. â&#x20AC;˘ Kirby Sewell Band, Pogue Mahone Irish Alehouse, 843 Desmond St., 8 p.m.

Tickets: $20, Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-3745483, kamloopslive.ca or at the door. â&#x20AC;˘ Theatre: Bird Brain, a Western Canada Theatre/ TRU Young Company production, Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St., Tickets: Kamloops Live box office, 250-3745483, kamloopslive.ca.

Continues to May 30. â&#x20AC;˘ Community: The Boob Tour comedy show, 7 p.m., Kamloops Convention Centre, 1250 Rogers Way. Tickets: $30, available at Lansdowne Village

Cooperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Foods, Pink with Envy and RIH gift shop. Proceeds to local cancer causes.

Sunday, May 24

â&#x20AC;˘ Community: Flea Market, Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park, 355 Yellowhead Highway, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission: 50 cents. Information:, call 250-828-9749. â&#x20AC;˘ Batchelor Heights community yard sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Kamloops SPCA City Challenge book sale, Northills Shopping Mall. â&#x20AC;˘ Springtime Frolics Dance Show 2015 by Pokotillo Ukrainian Dance Group, Kala Afreen Bollywood Dancers and Moku Hula Polynesian Dancers, 3 p.m., Desert Gardens Community Centre, 540 Seymour St. Admission by donation.

Monday, May 25

â&#x20AC;˘ Community: The Ukulele Orchestra of Kamloops, intermediate and experience players get together, Plura Hills

United Church, 2090 Pacific Way, 6:45 p.m.

Information: ukuleleorchestraofkamloops. com. â&#x20AC;˘ Kamloops Library baby/toddler rhyme time, 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Art: High Tea, Thompson Valley Potters Guild, Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St., now to May 30. â&#x20AC;˘ Theatre: Bird Brain, a Western Canada Theatre/ TRU Young Company production, Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St., Tickets: Kamloops Live box office, 250-3745483, kamloopslive.ca.

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Tuesday, May 26

â&#x20AC;˘ Community: The Ukulele Orchestra of Kamloops, intermediate and experience players get together, Plura Hills United Church, 2090 Pacific Way, 6:45 p.m.

Information: ukuleleorchestraofkamloops. com. â&#x20AC;˘ Art: High Tea, Thompson Valley

Potters Guild, Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St., now to May 30.

Theatre: Bird Brain, a Western Canada Theatre/TRU Young Company production, Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St., Tickets: Kamloops Live box office, 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

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Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St., now to May 30. â&#x20AC;˘ Theatre: Bird Brain, a Western Canada Theatre/ TRU Young Company production, Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St., Tickets: Kamloops Live box office, 250-3745483, kamloopslive.ca.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Community: The Kamloops Family History Society, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Heritage House in Riverside Park. Information: 250579-9108. â&#x20AC;˘ Ladies night, Cactus Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night Club, 130 Fifth Ave., with male exotic dancers Body Heat, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $10 in advance at kamtix.ca, $15 at the door. â&#x20AC;˘ Music: Fiddling in the Key of Eh, Scott Woods and band, Calvary Community Church, 1205 Rogers Way, 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 for adults, $10 for ages six to 12 free for ages five and under. Call 1-855-726-8896.

â&#x20AC;˘ Music: Kamloops Power Choir, drop-in session singing pop songs. No experience required. Meets every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Old Courthouse Cultural Centre. Information:, call 250-299-1203 or search Kamloops Power choir on Facebook. â&#x20AC;˘ Community: Kamloops Photo Arts Club, meets, Henry Grube Education Centre, 245 Kitchener Cresc. in room IB. Information: 250-3721778 or kamloopsphotoarts.ca. â&#x20AC;˘ Art: High Tea, Thompson Valley Potters Guild, Old

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Kirby Sewell would love to take his music — and his band — to Europe.

After six years together, the Calgarybased singer gets offers to cross the ocean but, with a five-piece band, that’s an expensive proposition.

To help fund a trip, the Kirby Sewell Band has initiated a crowdsourcing campaign.

In the first three days of the website (www. greatunknown.ca) being live, enough money was pledged to pay for two of the five tickets needed.

Calling it a tough grind, Sewell (pronounced soul) said the band’s fourth CD is now finished and his eye is

on expanding its presence.

“It feels like we’re going into the great unknown . . . It’s like aligning a jigsaw puzzle,” he said of the steps needed to be covered off to build on that already large fan base.

The band is headed to Kamloops tomorrow night for a show at the Pogue Mahone Irish Alehouse in Brocklehurst.

Sewell said he’s aware other bands are downsizing to make it easier — and less expensive — to travel.

“Rock and roll was born big,” he said.

“We’re a testimony to that, so it has to be all of us.

“People pay for quality . . . We create magic together.”

He’s looking forward to performing at the Pan

Am Games later this year in Toronto.

Eschewing some touring bands as “cut and paste pop music that is dreadfully soulless,” Sewell said he and his bandmates have confidence in the music they make, performances that have been given at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues and Kaslo and San Jose jazz festivals, among others.

The band will be back in Kamloops in July for a Music in the Park gig.

The musicians have shared the stage with Colin James, Burton Cummings, Coco Montoya, Edgar Winter, Blue Rodeo and the Downchild Blues Band.

Sewell already had been making music — his mom told him he was humming songs before he could even

speak — when the band came together about six years ago.

A Kamloops friend told him to listen to guitarist Neil Gunhold, who is now also the band’s producer.

Drummer Jim Johnston was a friend of Gunhold and lead guitarist Morgan Turk joined when Sewell heard him play at a jam in Calgary. Bassist Jae Cho joined the band a few years later, again brought in through his past gigs with Johnston.

In the past six years, the band has recorded four CDs, all of them with original works.

A six-song EP sold 2,2000 copies,, success that led to The Blues Found Me in 2010, Bought Myself A Hammer in 2012 and the recent Girl With A New Tattoo.

Sewell remains committed to music.

“I’m pretty passionate about it,” he said.

“When you’ve got something to give, you’ve got to get out there and give it.”

Tickets for the show are $20 in advance at the venue at 843 Desmond St., or at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

Doors open at 8 p.m., with the show starting at 8:30 p.m.

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Pregnancy fair this weekend The inaugural Pregnant & Fabulous (And Beyond!) Family Fair will be held at Hotel 540 on Sunday May 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission is $5, with partial proceeds from the event being donated to the Kamloops Family Resources Society’s drop–in program to help children and youth in Kamloops.

The fair is aimed at expectant parents and young families and will feature locally available

products and services from prenatal to preschool.

During the fair, parents can enter their child in Kamloops’ Cutest Kid contest, while moms can enjoy the pamper lounge.

There will also be prizes, a breastfeeding clinic cafe, kid’s activities, entertainment and vendors highlighting local products.

The fair will also showcase the kids’ entertainment corner, which will include the Kamloops

Princesses, Trixie the Clown, Face It facepainting and a storytime session with the Kamloops Library.

The fair is presented by 4Kids Online Enterprises.

Families can pre-register to purchase tickets, which are available at the door.

If a family pre-registers at pregnantandfabulous.ca before the event, they will be entered to win a Guzzie & Guss stroller (valued at $399).

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For the last five years, Lisa Somogyi had stressed and sweated as she works to bring a special cancer fundraiser back to the Tournament Capital time and time again.

But, she added, each year it all pays off when the quartet of comedians who make up the cast of The Boob Tour hit the stage.

“When I hear the audience laughing, I know it’s all worth it,” Somogyi said.

The laughs will be back tomorrow as the annual comedy for a cause event returns to Kamloops.

The event features four comedians: Steve Mazan, Susan Jones, James Uloth and Travis Nelson.

“These guys they go all over the place and they help raise money for cancer causes,” Somogyi said.

Mazan has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and earned an Emmy for his writing work on the Ellen Degeneres Show. All four comedians promise fast-paced, clean-witted comedy as their speciality.

Money raised at the event will go to the new women’s health centre in the works for Royal Inland Hospital, as well as for the purchase of wigs and hats for cancer patients.

Somoygi said the Boob Tour is a lively night.

“It’s a lot of fun,” she said.

“There’s 50-50 and raffles and the show is great.”

The Boob Tour will take place at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way, at 8 p.m. on Saturday.

Tickets are $30 and are available at the Royal Inland Hospital Gift Shop, Pink With Envy, 803 Seymour St., and the Lansdowne Village Cooper’s Foods location in downtown Kamloops.

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Researchers turn blood into nerve cells SHERYL UBELACKER

THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canadian scientists have discovered how to turn a simple blood sample into a variety of nerve cells, including those

responsible for pain, numbness and other sensations.

The technology will allow researchers to test potential drugs for treating pain using the nerve cells in a lab, all based on an individual patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own genetic

signature, said Mick Bhatia, who led the team of researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now we can take easy to obtain blood samples and make the main cell types of neurological systems â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the

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These stem cells are then manipulated in the lab to give rise to several types of nerve cells, including those that make up the peripheral nervous system throughout the arms, legs and the rest of the body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can actually take a patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood sample, as routinely performed in a doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, and with it we can produce one-million sensory neurons,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bhatia said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can also make central nervous system cells.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The researchers hope to discover new pain drugs that take aim only at the peripheral nerve system, while not affecting the brain and the rest of the central nervous system, as standard opioids and narcotics do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to feel sleepy or unaware, you just want your pain to go away,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bhatia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, up until now, no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had the ability and required technology to actually test different drugs to find something that targets the peripheral nervous system and not the central nervous system

in a patient-specific or personalized manner.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; His lab hopes to further develop the bloodgenerated neural stem cells into motor and other kinds of neurons that could conceivably one day be transplanted into patients to restore healthy brain cells as a treatment for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Lou Gehrigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, for instance.

The technology could also be used to produce retinal nerve cells to treat people who are losing their sight due to age-related macular degeneration, he said.

The research was published yesterday in the journal Cell Reports.

Canadian jets strike ISIL OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Defence Minister Jason Kenney said Canadian jets struck a militant staging area in Syria on Wednesday.

Kenney said he two CF-18 aircraft used precision-guided weapons in the attack and the planes returned safely.

Canadian jets have been hitting targets in Iraq connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since last fall, but have only recently

starting bombing in Syria.

The air element includes six CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, a Polaris aerial refueller and two Aurora surveillance aircraft. About 600 Canadian Forces personnel are deployed as part of the operation.

Since last fall, the Canadian planes have flown more than 900 sorties, including 600 involving CF-18s. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Canadian Press

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OTTAWA — Canada Post’s plan to end home mail delivery would become a dead letter if the NDP were to win the federal election this fall.

The post office is in the second year of a controversial five-year plan to phase out door-to-door delivery for more than five-million households.

Alexandre Boulerice, the NDP’s post office critic, said a New Democrat government would terminate the phase-out plan and restore service to those households that have already lost their home mail delivery.

The announcement follows a decision earlier this week by some Montreal-area mayors to join a court challenge against the phase-out of home delivery.

The mayors argue the move is unconstitutional and are hoping to turn it into a federal election issue.

The court challenge is spearheaded by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, but several groups representing seniors and disabled Canadians have joined it.

Canada Post, meanwhile, is also at legal loggerheads with the City of Hamilton over what the post office argues is its right as a Crown Corporation to install community mailboxes on municipal property.

Assailed by complaints about pri-

vacy, safety, traffic congestion and litter, the city passed a bylaw requiring Canada Post to obtain the city’s permission, and a $200 permit, to install each community mail box. The post office has gone to court in a bid to have the bylaw invalidated.

Hundreds of other municipalities have also complained about the transition to community boxes, which have served suburban areas for decades.

Canada Post argues the move is necessary for the Crown Corporation to remain financially sustainable as the volume of mail declines.

It is also cutting up to 8,000 jobs.

However, the NDP maintains the move is unnecessary and means Canada is en route to becoming the only major industrialized country without any home mail delivery.

The party wants Canada Post to look at how other countries have managed to operate profitable postal services without ending home delivery.

The NDP believes the post office can generate new sources of revenue by, among other things, tapping into the growing market for online shopping.

Canada Post turned a profit of $194 million before tax last year.

In 2013, the year in which it announced the phase-out of home delivery, the post office posted a before-tax loss of $125 million.

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A TREE FULL OF CLOVER

Clover the Kermode bear has many trees in his new home at the B.C. Wildlife Park and, after a few days in his new digs, the white bruin has climbed most of them.

Name campaign mocked BC FERRIES RECEIVE CHEEKY SUGGESTIONS CARA MCKENNA

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — BC Ferries said its contest to name a new fleet of vessels won’t be sunk even as people mock the company’s fare costs, service cuts and executive salaries with suggested monikers like Coastal Cash Grab.

The corporation began its #NameAFerry campaign on Tuesday, asking the public to name three new vessels for a chance to win more than $500 in ferry travel.

“We’re proud to be introducing three new intermediateclass ferries that will become part of our shared culture and history,’’ the company

wrote on Facebook.

“Celebrate the beauty of coastal B.C. by submitting your best names.’’

But, cheeky social media users quickly grasped the opportunity to ridicule the quasi-Crown corporation.

A deluge of proposed names has included entries such as Coastal Community Collapse, Queen of Increasing Fares and Spirit of Unfettered Capitalism.

Another suggestion: Queen of the Oblivious Marketing Department.

Others opted to ridicule the company’s prize, with one Facebook user quipping: “$500? So, one round trip with a fam-

ily then . . .”

BC Ferries spokeswoman Deborah Marshall said the corporation received more than 1,400 entries within 24 hours of launching the campaign and most of them were serious submissions.

She said the company anticipated some negativity on social media, but the contest will continue as planned until June 9.

“People have fun on social media,’’ Marshall said.

“We’ve seen the naming suggestions on social media. We think some of them are quite funny.’’

Details for the contest are posted on the BC Ferries website at bcferries.com.

CONGRATULATIONS ADIL HOSENBOCUS WINNER OF THE BDO CANADA LLP CEO AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Recently Adil received his award from (left to right): Kevin Sewell, Partner, Kamloops; Brian Callander, Partner, Kamloops; Keith Farlinger, CEO; Adil; Ken Ficocelli, Managing Partner, Western Canada Region; Mario Piroddi, Partner, Kamloops; Mike Gilmore, Office Managing Partner, BC Interior

BDO Kamloops is pleased to announce that Adil Hosenbocus, CPA, CA, has been awarded BDO Canada’s 2014 CEO Award of Excellence.

This national award is presented annually to an employee who embodies BDO’s vision to make a difference through valued relationships with our people, clients and communities. We are honoured to present Adil with this award for his exceptional commitment to clients, the BDO Kamloops team, and the local community.

Adil is a Manager at the Kamloops office with over five years of experience providing quality advice and efficient solutions for the challenges faced by his clients. Please join us in congratulating Adil on this accomplishment.

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How could I explore Santiago, located smack in the middle of the 6,000-kilometre-long shoestring that comprises Chile, in only 24 hours?

Under an azure sky, I headed up San Cristobal Hill to the gleaming white statue of the Virgin, a religious and visual focal point of the city.

Surrounded by parkland and accessible by funicular (a cable railway), the site is popular, drawing walkers, bikers, and picnickers. Panoramic views of the city and Andes foothills lay before me with the 64-storey, 300-metre-high Costanera Centre skyscraper — the continent’s tallest edifice — towering over the rest of the city.

An outdoor patio full of colourful umbrellas in the fashionable Lastarria district called for a lunch break: platters of delicious ceviche, fried Conger eel, pulmay, a stew of mussels, pork, potato and lamb and a choice of Sauvignon Gris, Merlots and Carmeneres. An unusual feature: the chairs had clips to prevent purses and backpacks being snatched.

At the Plaza de Armas, the balconies and columns of Spanish architecture reflected the city’s long history, reaching back to its founding in1542.

The mighty Santiago de Compostela Cathedral was open and I gazed at the vast ceiling and ornate design while enjoying its dark coolness.

A short walk led to La Moneda Palace (the president’s place), fronted by an expansive parade ground and guarded by soldiers in crisp light and dark brown uniforms. Pedestrian walkways flanking teeming streets took me to the former National Congress building with its tall white columns and lush gardens.

Next up was the Central Mercado, where I was surrounded by the aromas of exotic spices, meats and cheeses.

In another section, a kaleidoscope

of colourful woolen scarves and handicrafts were on display. No wonder National Geographic rates it as one of the top 10 markets in the world.

The chic Bella Vista area offered a glimpse into its vibrant lifestyle as I passed by art galleries, bars and cafes. As dusk falls, young singles and couples head for this area, seeking fun amidst its lively night life.

On the way back to my hotel, I strolled along the tree-lined avenues of the Park Forestal, one of several green spaces lining the Mapocho River, and lingered to admire the many statues donated by other nations in honour of Chile’s 100th anniversary of independence from Spain.

From my 10th-storey hotel window while preparing for dinner, I could see bustling activity on Providencia Avenue below. The brassy sound of a mariachi band sounded from a square as commuters swarmed like ants to and from the entrance to the subway.

Businessmen were dressed in dark suits; women, with dark, sensuous Spanish features were attractively chic.

I could see and feel Chile’s thriving economy, considered the most dynamic in South America.

One of my best memories is of fine Chilean wine and superb cuisine.

Chileans dine late, so I arrived at W Santiago Hotel’s Noso Restaurant after 9 p.m. My salmon ceviche, pumpkin soup with prawns and ribs dripping with a succulent barbecue sauce was accompanied by an excellent Sauvignon Blanc.

Visitors with more time might also consider visiting Valparaiso, a UNESCO heritage city situated on the coast, a mere 1.5 hour drive away. Famous for its multi-coloured houses, numerous art galleries and coffee houses, it enjoys a bohemian, laid-back pace of life. In 1990, Chile’s Congress was moved to Valparaiso from Santiago.

On departing, my head was spinning: I’d discovered that Santiago is an exciting, dynamic city with too much to rush through in a mere 24 hours.

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Cooks Ferry Indian Band is seeking an energetic and self-motivated Band Manager who will take on a variety of challenges and opportunities and play an integral role in the continued strengthening of the vision for the Cooks Ferry community, located in Spences Bridge, BC. Duties: Working closely with Chief and Council and staff, the successful candidate will: Ĺ&#x2DC; Provide leadership over band programs and services including education, social services, health services, capital projects, housing, recreation, elders care, utilities, public works, and safety Ĺ&#x2DC; Bring Ĺľnancial e[pertise to the budgeting process and encourage sound policies and practices Ĺ&#x2DC; Establish and maintain good relationships with other First Nations, governments, industry, and partners and develop service initiatives for Band members Ĺ&#x2DC; Foster the vision of the organization, coach and mentor staff, and encourage employee training and development; and Ĺ&#x2DC; Support Council goals and priorities 4uDOiĹľFDtiRQs: Preferred TualiĹľcations include the following: Ĺ&#x2DC; You have a degree in commerce, economics, public administration or similar discipline, or eTuivalent education and e[perience Ĺ&#x2DC; $re an energetic person with demonstrated e[perience in strategic planning, inter-government relations, program management, project management, budgeting and human resource management Ĺ&#x2DC; Have progressive leadership abilities and can work effectively in a team environment with Council, community members and staff Ĺ&#x2DC; Have superior interpersonal skills Ĺ&#x2DC; Have competent computer skills Ĺ&#x2DC; Have strong knowledge of social and economic issues facing First Nations Ĺ&#x2DC; The ability to adapt to a rural, small community :e RIIeU DQ DttUDFtiYe sDODU\ DQG FRPPeQsuUDte ZitK e[SeUieQFe DQG TuDOiĹľFDtiRQs 3UeIeUeQFe ZiOO Ee JiYeQ tR FDQGiGDtes ZitK DERUiJiQDO DQFestU\ ([SORUe tKis e[FitiQJ RSSRUtuQit\ E\ suEPittiQJ \RuU UÂŤsuPÂŤ tR: .DtUiQD (OOiRt )RuU &RUQeUs 0DQDJePeQt &RQsuOtiQJ katrina.elliot@4cmc.ca Closing date for applications is June 12.

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Group Publisher Are you a seasoned Community Newspaper Publisher looking to relocate to the Okanagan?

We are looking for a Group Publisher to manage our South Okanagan markets.

As a seasoned Publisher, you will achieve financial growth by developing and implementing strategic marketing and sales plans to generate new business and achieve the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business objectives.

You will have at least five yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience in a sales or business development role, and knowledge or experience in a community newspaper publishing environment. Your success in developing and implementing sales strategies is a result of your entrepreneurial spirit, well developed customer service and communication skills, knowledge of the publishing industry, and extensive business connections.

As the largest independent newspaper group with more than 170 titles in print and online, Black Press has operations in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Hawaii and Ohio.

This is a full-time position with a competitive compensation and benefits package. Qualified applicants should send a resume and covering letter before Friday, May 29th to: Bruce McAuliffe, President Black Press BC South c/o Kelowna Capital News 2495 Enterprise Way, Kelowna, B.C. V1X 7K2 Email: brucem@blackpress.ca

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HIGHWAY OWNER OPERATORS $3500 SIGNING BONUS Van Kamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Group of Companies req. Highway linehaul Owner Operators based in our Kamloops terminal for runs throughout BC and Alberta. Applicants must have winter and mountain, driving experience/ training.

We offer above average rates and an excellent employee beneďŹ ts package.

To join our team of professional drivers, email a detailed resume, current driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract & details of your truck to: careers@vankam.com Call 604-968-5488 Fax: 604-587-9889 Only those of interest will be contacted.

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

US capable Class 1 Drivers required immediately: We are an Okanagan based transport company looking for qualified drivers for US loads we run primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Utah, Arizona and Nevada. We offer a new pay rate empty or loaded. All picks and drops paid. Assigned units company cell phones and fuel cards. Regular home time Direct deposit paid every second Friday with no hold backs. We offer a rider and pet policy. Company paid US travel Insurance. All applicants must have reliable transportation and a positive attitude.

Please fax resume & abstract to 250-546-0600 or by email to parris@ricknickelltrucking.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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

Establish distribution networks, assist in product development. Education: University degree (Public Relations) Experience: Min 2yrs Wage: $41/Hr Housekeeping Manager: Duties: Select & purchase equipment & supplies, maintain inventory. Hire, train & supervise staff. Prepare budget, payroll & schedules. Education: College diploma (Hotel Management).

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$75 To register call 250-819-9920 or email

Courses.

Next C.O.R.E. June 13th & 14th. Saturday and Sunday. P.A.L. May 31st. Sunday. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Box 318, Chase, BC V0E 1M0 Phone (250) 679-3295 Fax (250) 679-5306 Home of the 2014 Secwepemc Gathering www.neskonlith.org

www.makeafuture.ca/kamloops-thompson

Education/Trade Schools FOODSAFE COURSE

by Certified Instructor May 26th 8:30am-4:30pm $75 Pre-register by phoning 250-554-9762

6984644

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QUALIFIED MEAT CUTTERS NEEDED. Full time and part time available for new Independent Grocer franchise. Competitive rates and benefits.

Drop off resume at Extra Foods Northills Mall or for out of town applicants mail to: #49-700 Tranquille Rd, Kamloops B.C. V2B 3H9

About the World he e 2016 IIHF HF Ice Hockey Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wom W Wo Worl rld Championship: The 2016 Championship 6 IIHF IHF Ice Hockey Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Wor W Cham mp pionship is scheduled schedu dule ed d for f March 28 to April 4, 2016 Sport and 2016 6 at the ISC Arena and McArthur Mc McArthu ur Island Is and Event E Eve Centre in Kamloops. The championship will e 17th 1 world w w bring ring together toge t her national n nati natio ationa teams from Canada, the Czech ech ch Republic, Re bli Finland, Fi l d Japan, Japa J an, n, Russia, Sweden, Swe Swed eden den, en, Switzerland Sw S rland the United States for one calendar. e of the biggest events on o the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wom nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hockey h ho Twenty-two games will be played over eight days in Kamloops as the world Kamloop l championship comes to Canadian for the seventh time, and the first time west of Manitoba.

How to Apply: Please send all applications to: infowwc@hockeycanada.ca ATTN: Riley Wiwchar Applications are due by Friday, May 29th, 2015

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Employment

Employment

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Full-Time Positions Location: Kamloops Front Desk Manager: Duties: Develop, implement & evaluate policies for operation of department. Recruit & supervise staff, make schedule & payroll. Resolve customer complaints. Education: University degree/College diploma (Hotel Management) Experience: 3yrs Wage: $20.19/Hr Housekeeping Manager: Duties: Select & purchase equipment & supplies, maintain inventory. Hire, train & supervise staff. Prepare budget, payroll & schedules.

Education: College diploma (Hotel Management) Experience: 3yrs Wage: $15/Hr Maintenance Manager: Duties: Direct, maintain & repair machinery, equipment & electrical & mechanical systems. Co-ordinate cleaning, snow-removal & landscaping operations. Education: University degree (Electrical & mechanical engineering) Experience: 4-7yrs Wage: $25/Hr Hampton Inn by Hilton 1245 Rogers Way Kamloops, BC V1S 1R9 Please forward resume to: charanrai00@hotmail.com 604-760-1572 Live-in mature Caretaker Couple required to manage a 37 unit apartment building on the North Shore. Experience as resident caretakers is essential, ability to communicate with a wide range of applicants, strong work ethic and basic handyman/woman skills would be considered assets.

Must be bondable. Please reply in confidence with cover letter and resume to: suzanj@columbiaproperty.ca

Help Wanted

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

RV Service Writer /Advisor wanted South Thompson RV requires a full-time RV Service Advisor. Minimum of two years of RV service and warranty administration is required, but we will also look at applicants with an automotive service background. Wages are negotiable based on experience.

Applicants must have good customer relation skills and work well with others, as we pride ourselves on having a friendly work environment Call today (250) 374-4949 or drop by with your application. Ask for Len Bourgeault The Kamloops Child Development Society has an immediate opening for a full-time IT or ECE. Four days, 9hr. shifts. A Criminal Record check is required. A Class 4 license will be considered an asset.

Please send resume to: pmutrie@telus.net

Looking for a Job? Check out the Classiď&#x192;&#x17E;eds Section!

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

Help Wanted

Employment

Employment

Medical/Dental

Teachers

CDA required. Permanent full time at busy downtown General Dental Practice. New grads welcome. Please fax resume to 250-374-1192 Experienced full-time receptionist for busy downtown dental office. Must have dental receptionist experience. Reply by mail to Dr. RE Hallett Suite 101, 629 Lansdowne, Kamloops, BC V2C 1Y6 or fax: 250-374-1192.

Run â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;till RENTED

* Some conditions may apply

Sales

Legal Assistant Instructor Our Kamloops campus is currently recruiting an instructor to lead our Legal Assistant Diploma program. The ideal candidate will have a certificate or diploma as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal and have a minimum of 2 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fulltime occupational experience.

Teaching experience is also considered an asset. 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Send applications to: bruce.wilbee@sprottshaw.com

Get in on the Action! classiďŹ eds@kamloopsthisweek.com

Work Wanted

Services

Services

Mind Body Spirit

Carpet Cleaning

Garden & Lawn

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

CARPET CLEANING

Witneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Garden 216 Poplar Rd. McLure, BC 250-672-9982 Cash or Cheques Sorry No Debit or Credit Cards Open Dates: May 23, 24, 30 & 31 June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21 Open 10am - 4pm As usual we have a great selection of Dahlia Tubers. We have 155 kinds of Hostas potted up - of these, 17 kinds are new ones. We also have Peonies, Ferns, Tall German Bearded Iris, Hardy Cactus and other perennials.

Phil has a great selection of Water Lilies on sale for $25/each. Plus a good selection of pond plants.

Financial Services GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com TAX FREE MONEY is available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mortgage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime 1-800-639-2274 or 604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

ADVERTISING Consultants: Our company is always looking for great sales representatives to add to our team. Our business requires a highly organized individual with ability to multi-task in a fun, fastpaced team environment.

Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required.

Excellent communication skills, valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and reliable vehicle are necessary.

If you have a passion for the advertising business, are creative and thrive on challenges, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to:khall@aberdeenpublishing.com We thank all applicants; only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /OfďŹ ce Worker/Tutor Detail oriented, organized, problem-solver, extremely computer literate.

Strong proofreading, editing, technical writing, public speaking skills.

Can teach practically anything I know. IT work preferred but any job using problem-solving skills could be a good match.

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net Senior Looking to mow lawn/yard/lot, garden cleanup, pruning, dump runs, reasonable (250) 851-0800 Mike

JOURNEYMAN Carpenter All Renovations Call for quote. No job too small. (250) 571-6997

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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

TRY A CLASSIFIED AD

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise!

Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 3 issues a week!

call 250-374-0462 for a route near you!

Carpentry/ Woodwork

6988191 Advertising Designer

Aberdeen Publishing South - Oliver, Osoyoos region

Description: We are seeking a team player with professional attitude to work and learn in a fast paced, business environment.

DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING & GIS

(Exempt) The Director, Engineering & GIS Services will manage, support and provide direction and guidance to team leaders. You possess a history of strong leadership, practical engineering knowledge and a proven track record for timely project delivery, project management, cost control and customer satisfaction. You bring a collaborative and innovative approach to problem solving. You are outstanding in a team environment and will interface closely with City departments. Key to your success will be the ability to form partnerships with key stakeholders to define and implement projects.

Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), this position works closely with the CAO and other Division Directors to ensure the safety, welfare and quality of life of the public and the protection of the environment through fiscally responsible management of public infrastructure. This position provides leadership and direction to the Engineering and GIS Division which includes Engineering, Transportation, Infrastructure, Development and GIS. Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is May 27, 2015. Please quote competition # 49-COV-15.

MANAGER, BUILDING & INSPECTIONS

(Exempt) Reporting to the Director, Community Development, the Manager, Building and Inspections, performs skilled regulatory, administrative, supervisory and duties of a complex nature and is responsible for conformance to established bylaw, regulation and general department policy and procedures.

Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is May 27, 2015. Please quote competition # 51-COV-15.

MUNICIPAL TECHNICIAN III FINANCE

(Regular) Under job evaluation review Reporting to the Director, Engineering & GIS, this position provides advanced technical work of a civil engineering nature, together with related financial management work specific to a municipality.

Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application. Closing date is May 27, 2015. Please quote competition # 50-COV-15.

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Services

QUICK DRYING. USE SAME DAY.

SPRING SPECIALS ON NOW!

J.WALSH & SONS 250.372.5115

CLASSIFIEDS

Handypersons * Some conditions may apply

RICKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SMALL HAUL

Garden & Lawn

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

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

Garden preps and rototilling, tractor mounted tiller.

(250) 376-4163.

Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lawn and Garden Maintenance, pruning, hedging, power raking, aerating, rototilling (250) 571-5408

250-377-3457

WEST END CEDARS. Cedar hedge maintenance, trimming, topping & removal and gutter cleaning too. Lorne 574-5816

ClassiďŹ eds Get Results!

Concrete & Placing

Concrete & Placing

Luigiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SMALL

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BRICKS, BLOCKS, PAVERS, SIDEWALKS + PRUNING

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t Misc. for Sale

Misc. for Sale

Qualifications: The ideal candidate must be self motivated and have the skill set to design multiple media products, including on-line advertising and special projects. Strong interpersonal skills are required.

TARPS! TARPS!

If you are the person who can shine in a competitive atmosphere this job is for you !

Please submit your resume, four work samples and cover letter to:

10X8 weave (Medium Duty)

Linda Bolton Managing Director Aberdeen Publishing South lbolton@aberdeenpublishing.com

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BLUE TARPS

STARTING AT $2.19

WHITE TARPS 10X10 weave (Heavy Duty)

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BLACK TARPS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 58 (NICOLA-SIMILKAMEEN)

CARPENTER Applications are invited for the position of Carpenter with School District No. 58, (Nicola-Similkameen) in Merritt.

Salary and benefits will be in accordance with the C.U.P.E. Local 847 Collective Agreement. The successful applicant must have the following: s A thorough knowledge of their trades, materials, methods and tools. s Completion of a recognized apprenticeship and at least six months experience in the trade s Class 5 B.C. Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Licence s Qualified Journeyman (B.C. T.Q. or Inter-Provincial T.Q.) For a complete listing of the job description and qualifications please visit the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at www.sd58.bc.ca click on Jobs/Support Positions and search under â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Current Job Opportunitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and follow the prompts (Job Code 943222).

Applications, including a detailed resume with a minimum of three references, will be accepted until May 25, 2015. Please forward to: Attn: Secretary Treasurer School District #58 (Nicola-Similkameen) P.O. Box 4100, 1550 Chapman St. Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 Fax: (250) 378-6263 Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

14X14 weave (Industrial Duty)

STARTING AT $5.49

FOAM SHOP MATTRESS REPLACEMENTS SINGLE TO KING SIZE 2â&#x20AC;? TO 6â&#x20AC;? THICK - CUSTOM CUT OR CUSTOM ORDER MEMORY FOAM TOPPER PADS - 3LB DENSITY SINGLE TO KING SIZE - 2â&#x20AC;? & 3â&#x20AC;? THICK

CUSHION REPLACEMENTS TORN OR TATTERED? SOFAS, CHAIRS, OTTOMANS, SNOWMOBILES SEATS, TRACTORS

YOU NEED IT - WE WILL CUT IT!

CAMPING FOAM, MEDICAL WEDGES & BOLSTERS, PILLOWS

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Services

Landscaping

FOR ALL YOUR LANDSCAPING NEEDS • Customized Designs • No job too Big or Small

CALL FOR FREE QUOTES

250-299-1072

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Services

Landscaping 6946865 Aerate t Power Rake Yard/Lot/Garden Clean Up Prune t Mow t Weed Whack Weed t Hedge Trim t Plant Gravel/Rock/Mulch t Turf Garden Walls t Paving Stones Irrigation: Start up & Repairs CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE:

250-376-2689

Services

Services

Services

Pets & Livestock

Landscaping

Painting & Decorating

Stucco/Siding

Pets

PETER’S YARD SERVICE

Hedge Trimming, fruit trees.

Tree removal Dump runs Licensed & Certied

250-572-0753

YOUR BUSINESS HERE

Only $150/month

Run your 1x1 semi display classified in every issue of Kamloops This Week

Food Products

Maintenance Services

FURNACE DUCT

SPRING CLEANING SPECIAL ON NOW!

Box 67, 100 Mile House B.C. V0K 2E0

BEFORE YOU SELL: • ASPEN • BIRCH • COTTONWOOD • PINE - SPRUCE - FIR PULP LOGS Please call NORM WILCOX (250) 395-6218 (direct line) • (250) 706-9728 (cell) (250) 395-6201 (fax)

250-318-2303

TRI-CITY SPECIAL!

2 Coats Any Colour

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

3 Rooms For $299 (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls. Cloverdale Premium Quality Paint. NO PAYMENT, until job is completed!

(250)371-4949

classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com

J.WALSH & SONS 250.372.5115 Painting & Decorating

Lily Pad Painting & Handyman Services 30 year plus, licensed. Senior discount. Ask for Gilles (250) 571-5560

Firearms Tikka T3 laminated stainless .243 rifle exc cond $895obo.

778-257-9560 Logan lake

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

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250)377-3457.

Run ‘till SOLD

*some restrictions apply.

Furniture

Merchandise for Sale

Oak China Cabinet. $500/obo.

Armoire. $500/obo.

Good cond. 250-672-9408 (McLure).

$500 & Under

Solid wood bdrm suite $700, Corner display unit curved glss sides $400 250-372-5062

* Some conditions may apply

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Heavy Duty Machinery

Call 250-371-4949

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Food Products

PETS For Sale?

WWW.PAINTSPECIAL.COM

Merchandise for Sale

Did you know that you can place

Roofing & Skylights

your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

METAL ROOFING & SIDING

Call our Classified Department for details!

Buy direct from Manufacturer Full 36” coverage 29 ga

DISCOUNT DIRECT METALS GRAND OPENING

SPECIAL Galvalume - $1.99 lin ft.

Colour - $2.49 All Brand New Material 40 Year Colour Warranty North American made Special Good until May 31th Phone Brian (250) 318-2883

250-371-4949

Pets & Livestock

*some restrictions apply

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

FIND EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Computer Equipment

A-CHEAP, LOWEST PRICES STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers Used 20’40’45’53’ and insulated containers all sizes in stock. 40’ containers as low as $2,200.

Also JD 544 & 644 wheel Loaders & 20,000 lb CAT forklift. Ph Toll free 24 hours 1866-528-7108 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Jewels, Furs

WANTED! Newer MacBook Pro or MacBook Air 250-3711333

Absolutely Stunning engagement ring.

Main diamond is .94 carat with another .5 carat in smaller diamonds. Size 7. Recently appraised at $5500 asking $5000 obo. Call to view 250578-7202 after 5pm

Medical Supplies Respiratory CPAP ResMed S9 Machine used 3months $1500 554-2528/ 572-6430

6987875

DOWNTOWN Sunday, May 24th, 8am-12pm.

950 - Lorne St, Park Place.

Community Fundraiser. Lots of stuff!!

RE/MAX REAL ESTATE PS) (KAMLOOPS)

Khristine Rawlings Unlicensed Assistant

Jaclyn Frilund Unlicensed Assistant

250.374.3331 • 1.877.374.3331

Brock Community Garage Sale

ABERDEEN Sunday, May 24th. 9am-2pm.

1185 Burgess Way. Lots of kid’s stuff and much more.

BATCHELOR HEIGHTS COMMUNITY YARD SALE Sunday May 24th 9:00-2:00pm Watch for Signs posted Upper and Lower Batchelor Heights Come for the deals!

Come for the view!

DUFFERIN May 23. 9-2pm, 1721 Hillside Dr. Electronics, games, books, quality clothing, household, art and collectibles.

DUFFERIN Sun, May 24th 9-2pm 1501 Hillside Dr. China, plates, tools, tires, appliances, and misc

The following addresses will be involved in Loni & Cliff ’s 11th Annual Brock Community Garage Sale this coming Sunday, May 24 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. We ask that shoppers please respect these times. These are just the registered homes, for the full list of homes please stop by Valley First Credit Union (Brocklehurst branch #3- 760 Mayfair St.) on the day of the event to get a free map. Shoppers are also invited for free coffee & donuts donated by Loni & Cliff. Hotdogs, chips and a beverage served by Valley First. Donations to the Kamloops Food Bank. Thank you and enjoy your day in our neighbourhood!

1.) 1168 14th Street 2.) 843 Arlington Crt. 3.) 854 Arlington Crt. 4.) 2375 Briarwood Ave 5.) 1734 Brunner Ave 6.) 1075 Calmar Place 7.) 2562 Fleetwood Ave 8.) 2614 Greeneld Ave 9.) 2621 Greeneld Ave 10.) 1545 Hartford Ave 11.) 2788 Joyce Ave 12.) 1324 Kenora Rd 13.) 1539 Lethbridge 14.) 1056 Lincoln Crt 15.) 899 McGillivray St 16.) 715 Moody Place 17.) 945 Nicolani Drive 18.) 994 Nicolani Drive

19.) 999 Ollek St 20.) 2034 Parkcrest Ave 21.) 2259 Parkcrest Ave 22.) 2657 Perth Place 23.) 2105 Ponderosa 24.) 2482 Rosewood Ave 25.) 970 Singh Street 26.) #1-723 Singh Str 27.) 2636 Stanko Way 28.) 2679 Stanko Way 29.)1972 Tranquille Rd. 30.) #5-2714 Tranquille Rd 31.)1090 Windbreak St 32.) 1147 Windbreak St 33.) 2138 Young Ave 34.) 2573 Young Ave 35.) 795 Crestline St 36.) 1745 Brunner Ave

SAHALI Multi-Family. Sat, May 23rd.

9am-3pm. Sedona Drive. Lots for Everyone!

BROCK Plant Sale. Sat & Sun. May 23rd/24th. 9:00-2:00pm. 2573 Young Ave. Hostas, Shrubs, Grasses, Perennial flowers and more.

SAHALI Multi Family yard sale. Sat, May 23rd.

9am-1pm, 1450 Springhill Dr. No Early Birds!

BROCK Sat & Sun, May 23/24th. 9am1pm. 1745 Brunner Ave.

IT’S GARAGE SALE TIME

BROCK Valhalla Drive Annual Garage Sale. Saturday & Sunday, May 23rd/24th. 9am-2pm.

ONLY $11.50 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line)

DALLAS Sat, May 23rd. 8am-2pm.

Gateway Estates #66-7545 Dallas Dr. Cleaned out storage container. Lots of tools, collectables and everyday things.

DOWN TOWN 705 Fraser St - Multi family garage sale. Sat May 23rd 8am to 3pm DOWNTOWN Multi Family Sale Sat May 23rd 10-3pm 774 Victoria St (Back of Building) furniture, toys, hsehold Lots of good stuff!

NORTH SHORE Sat, May 23rd.

9am-2pm.

881 Selkirk Ave. Lots of stuff , furniture, clothing, knick knacks etc.

SAHALI Multi-family. Sat, May 23rd.

8am-2pm. 640 Robson Dr. Household, kids clothes/toys, furn and much more.

BROCK Mayfair/Riverbend Complex, 755 Mayfair St. Sat, May 23rd.

9am-1pm. Multi-Family.

BROCK Sat, May 23rd. 10am-2pm.

2612 Joyce Avenue. Kid’s toys, camping, air hockey tables and much more.

NORTH SHORE Cornerstone Baptist Church Parking Lot Large Yard Sale 805 Sherbrooke Ave Sat May 23rd 9-2pm household, tools, plus much more and hotdogs and pop too.

PINEVIEW VALLEY Community Garage Sale. Sat May 23rd 9am-2pm 30-40 Participating households.

BROCK Community Yard Sale! (All Units) 800 Southill St. (Southill Gardens) Sat May 23rd 9-2pm Lemonade At unit 53

Sunday, May 24th from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

NORTH KAMLOOPS Sat, May 23rd. 9am-12noon.

Every Saturday in May. 331 Maple Street. Western shirts, costume dresses, 5 gallon crock, records, books and much more.

Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL

250-371-4949

classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com Garage Sale deadline is Wednesday 2pm for Friday Call Tuesday before 2pm for our 2 day special for $15.50 for Thursday and Friday Garage Sale Packages must be picked up Prior to the Garage Sale.

SAHALI Sat, May 23rd. 9am-2pm.

1232 Monashee Court. Kids clothing and much more.

SAHALI Sat, May 23rd 9am-2pm. Sahali Estates. 137 McGill Rd. Multi Complex. Lots for Everyone!

SAHALI Trinkets and Treasures at Gleneagles Court. 12 condos at 931 Gleneagles Drive. Saturday, May 23rd 9-1pm WESTSYDE Sat, May 23rd. 10am-4pm.

2880 Westsyde Rd. Downsizing, furn, hshld, clothing, tools and much more.

WESTSYDE Sat May 23rd 9-2pm 734 Clements Court Household, tools and more!

WESTSYDE Sat, May 23rd. 9am-2pm.

2504 Sandpiper Dr. Hshld items, furn, misc tools etc.

Misc. for Sale 2love seats $50ea 1 single bed $25 Roha cushion for wheel chair $75 Chair lift $750 250-372-3959 Homelite water pump 1 1/2 inch 3hp, briggs and strat motor $300 (250) 851-6449 Kenmore Washing Machine. 4 months old. $400/obo. 250554-4796/778-470-2110.

MISC4Sale: Camperette $300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

Pool table c/w 2-sets of balls, 6 cues. $300. 250-372-7823.

Portable Stereo Panasonic CD /duel tape cassettes and radio $100 (204) 295-0673

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

Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477 Treadmill Free Spirit $300 Lrg Oak table w/6chairs 2 lvs like new $1200 (250) 579-9483 Writing Desk 2 pedestal 6 drawers 48” x18” x29” solid wood $15 (250) 376-6027

Misc. Wanted CASH Paid for 10K-24K jewelry, old coins & $5 coins & higher. Todd - 250-864-3521 Private Collector Looking to Buy Coin Collections, Silver, Antique Native Art, Estates + Chad: 778-281-0030 in town.

PURCHASING scrap gold & old Canadian & American coin collections. 250-548-3670

FRIDAY, May 22, 2015

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Merchandise for Sale

Rentals

Sporting Goods

Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS

Brock, 3bdrms, 2-baths, W/D hook-up. N/S, N/P. $1300 +util. 250-572-5884/376-2540

Sahali 2bdrm daylight basement suite. Full kitchen, bath & laundry. N/S, N/P. Fully furnished. 1-Person $900, 2-People. $1200. Available June 1st.

On bus route. 250-851-1304.

Apt/Condos for Sale

520 Battle Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2 250-372-0510 2bdrm apartment Down Town Covered prk Private ent common laundry, n/p n/s $890 376-8131 /250-371-1623 Brock, 2bdrm apt. $850/mo. +util. N/S, N/P. Fully renovated. 250-318-4756.

55+ CONDOS

1 & 2 bdrm suites for sale.

STARTING AT

169.000

$

Call Doug at 250-376-4477

nkshca.webs.com

Houses For Sale

CARMEL PLACE 55+ Quality Living in new medical building.

Studio suites with affordable rates, FOB entry, elevator, scooter stations and Telus Optik Package! Call Columbia Property Management to book your appointment: 250-851-9310

Juniper Village 2&3 Bedroom Condos Juniper, 1-2 bathrooms Hot Water Heat Included. $1,000- $1,250 + Hydro Sunden Management Ltd (250) 376-0062

www.sundenmanagement.com

Large 1bdrm apt in Logan Lake n/p, $600 hot water/hydro/tv incl Minimum 6 month lease (250) 523-6933 Nicola Place Apartments. 1 bdrm. Avail Immed. Clean, bright & secure building. Onsite parking. A/C Newly upgraded.

On-site manager.

Walking distance to downtown & bus stops. Suitable for retirees or seniors. NS, NP. Ref’s Req’d. 250-372-9944.

Northland Apartments Student/Bachelor Suites Furnished/Utilities Incl’d Starting @ $850 per month

Duplex / 4 Plex

Suites, Lower

Motorcycles

Sport Utility Vehicle

Bright new private legal 2 bdrm, steam w/d, self clean oven, fridge, microwave, $1000mo n/s/p Brock, avail flexible 250-318-8462

N/Shore 2bdrm full daylight bsmnt suite.

Newly reno’d.

N/S, N/P. $950 incl 2 loads of laundry per wk Lvg Msg. 250376-3854.

Sahali 2bdrms top floor. New kitchen. Close to TRU. N/S. N/P $1150 +util. 250-214-8990

Homes for Rent 3bdrm older home down town near RIH $1250 per month 778-220-3982

Looking for a Rental in Kamloops or Logan Lake?

Check out our Listings at

www.sundenmanagement.com

Call 250-376-0062 North Shore 3bdrms. Pets neg. Avail Immed. $1,250/mo.

250-374-5586, 250-371-0206.

Recreation �SHUSWAP LAKE!� VACATION RENTAL

5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek B.C. 1-bdrm 1-bath Park Model.

Tastefully decorated guest cabin. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat.

Provincial Park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor Store and Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot-tubs, Adult and Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground.

Asking $1500/week. 4 day, 1-week, 2-week & monthly rentals available.

BOOK NOW! FMI CALL 1-250-371-1333

Senior Assisted Living

Independent and assisted living, short term stay’s, 24 hour nursing care and respite.

FOR SALE OR TRADE for residential property in Kamloops. This very bright, fully furnished, three bedroom/two bath corner unit townhouse in Big White offers your very own hot tub on the patio, carport, high end furniture/appliance pkge, stacking washer/dryer and rock-faced fireplace. Short stroll to Gondola, skating rink, tube park, Day Lodge. Ideal for family or as a revenue generator throughout the ski season. Strata fees only $155.00 per month. Call Don at 250682-3984 for more information. Asking $189,000.00

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Shared Accommodation

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings.

Reasonable Rental Rates Utilities not included

CALL 250-682-0312

RIVIERA VILLA 1&2/BDRM Suites

1/bdrm starting at $675/mth 2/bdrm starting at $800/mth Incl/heat, hot water. N/P. Senior oriented.

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020

The Sands, Lower Sahali.

Centrally located, renovated 1&2 Bdrms, starting at $850.

On-site Management. 8281711.

1BDRM level entry in Brock $800/mo incl util Avail immed.

N/P. 250-318-3546

Suites, Lower

Bed & Breakfast

1BDRM Sep. Entr. Shared Lndry. N/S N/P $800/mo+DD+ ref’s, util. incl. Brock 554-2228

BC Best Buy Classified’s

2BDRM NShore daylight, ns/np util incl. ref $850 250819-6158 / 778-470-0057

Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC.

Aberdeen 1bdrm daylight util and int incl n/s, n/p $800.

Avail Now (250) 851-9950

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Commercial/ Industrial

1bdrm clean and bright $750 a mnt + util. Avail Immed. n/s, a/c, laundry, free parking, close to bus route & shopping (250) 377-8304

Warehouse space for lease aprox 2700sq ft North Shore location available immediately (250) 376-3733 or (250) 3147654 Mon - Sat

Ph: 250-372-5550

Near TRU Room $325-per month util included. No Pets.

250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

250-554-7888

for more information

3BDRM 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immed.

250-374-5586 / 250-371-0206 3bdrm College Heights, n/s n/party, n/p Avail May 22nd $1400mo 250-851-2025

TOWNHOUSES Best Value In Town

NORTH SHORE *Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms *Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop

1996 Yamaha Royal Star with sidecar, airbrushed. $26,000. Over $80,000 invested. 250-573-7610.

2006 GMC W3500. 5.3L, Isuzu diesel. Med duty tilt cab wit air dam. 16ft. alum box with roll-up back door. Auto, PW, PL, exhaust brake.

375,000kms.

1-owner. $9,000/obo. 250-828-0599.

05 Hybrid Ford Escape, no accidents non smoker, 160,000K winter and summer tires on rims $10775 (250) 319-5760

Contractors Tundra HD Econo Custom. Hwy, hauler $35,000 Concrete work as possible part of the payment.

250-377-8436.

Boats 2007 Honda Gold Wing Trike 94,000km GPS, passenger arm rests, matching chrome wheels $29,900 250-573-7610 Electric Motorino Scooter 122km like new, new batteries, $2500obo 1-250-523-6976

Recreational/Sale

Antiques / Classics 1989 Chrysler New Yorker (Landou).

Exec shape. $2,199/obo. 250-376-5348.

17 ft cedar strip canoe handcrafted $900.00 OBO 1-250378-9086 17ft. Grumman Aluminum Canoe. 3 paddles & accessories. $1200/obo. 250-377-3686.

Trucks & Vans

1994 Coleman Sedona tent trailer exc cond, newly serviced slps 6 $4200 374-2192

1996 Dodge half-ton ext cab 4x4. Good shape. $4900/obo.

250-828-1808.

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg

1995 Jayco Trailer 30ft. No slide-outs.

Good shape. $5000/obo. 250-851-0264.

Recreational/Sale

Recreational/Sale

318-4321

Transportation

2003 Toyota Matrix XR AWD $8,200obo 129000 kms, metallic blue, blk cloth interior.

One owner. Easy on fuel.

Fully loaded 4 Blizzack snow tires on rims, alarm/remote car starter. 250-314-9885

1996 Seadoo, 5-seater jet boat & trailer. New motor & impellars, many extras. Excellent shape. $6,900. 250-672-9887.

lilacgardens1@gmail.com NO PETS

12ft Princess Craft boat 2 1/2 hp Yamaha Motor Calkins trailer & sounder $3000 (250) 851-0264

1989 Chevy S10 4x4. Great running gear. A-1 mechanical. $1000/firm. 250-554-0580.

1991 27ft. 5th-Wheel. Fully loaded, like new. Everything incld. Shower, toilet never used. $5,000 250-579-9029.

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

2015 FOREST RIVER 30DS FR3 CLASS A MOTORHOME • 4,600 kms • V10 automatic • 2 slides with toppers • Onan 4000 generator • 3 TVs • Power awning

2000 28ft. Ford Expedition Motorhome. Exec. condition.

Island bed, 3pc bathroom. $18,500. 250-679-8721.

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6 winter pkg, fully loaded, $16,900. 250-376-1655.

Auto Accessories/Parts

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4 Blizzak Winters 205/70 R15 70% tread $250 (778) 4715630

2004 Chrysler Intrepid 3.5L, full load, new brakes, tires, battery. $3850/obo. 376-4163 2006 Toyota Corolla CE. Auto, Good shape.

140,000kms. $5,700. 250-372-8806.

Stk# 2971B 2005 Rockwood 28ft. 5th Wheel. 11ft. slide-out. Sat radio & TV. Very clean. $12,900. 250-372-8754.

2007 Citation Camper 10ft.

Fully equipped. Slide, awning, A/C. $17,500/obo. 573-5254 2009 550 Arctic Cat ATV. Fuel injected, c/winch, windshield, gunboot, tote boxes, good cond. $5200. 250-573-3226.

2007 Spec-V Nissan Sentra loaded. exc cond summer/winter tires/rims Navi, blue tooth, command start pwr sunroof 120,000k $7900obo (250) 572-3205 2010 Mazda 3 4dr one owner, 35,000km 6spd, fully loaded immaculate condition $12995 250-319-1148

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9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom.

Good shape. $3,300/obo. 250-376-1841.

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Motorcycles

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2008 MONACO DIPLOMAT 40PDQ

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Available 2bdrm lrg master, nice yard w/patio ref $850 monthly, shrd util 376-0633 Large 2bdrm Basement Suite Westsyde. f/s w/d n/p n/s + 1/2 util $1100 Call 250-319-7421 New 2bdrm Brock daylight private ent n/s n/p $850 per month avail now 250-5543882

16” 3 Wheel electric scooter go anywhere (almost) $1150. obo 778-472-0199 cell 250-320-3533

North Shore 1bdrm daylight Near schools. $750/mo. incld internet. 250-320-3437.

2009 Harley Nighttrain 96cuin 6spd 11,300km many extras $15,000obo (250) 318-5861

North Shore 1bdrm. N/S, N/P. $625 includes util. DD, Ref’s.

250-554-6798.

2011 Harley Davidson Super glide. 8000kms. $12,800. 780720-8824.

99,000

94,995

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26’ Champion motorhome, 440 motor. reno’d ($3000/receipts) $2675/obo.

778-4721547

IN private home, pleasant surroundings fully furnished working male pref. near amenities behind sahali mall 10 min walk to TRU 374-0949 or 372-3339

Roommate to share house, country living, pets okay. $800/mo. 250-377-3457.

Call 250-371-4949

Townhouses

1972 AMC Javelin SST. Second owner. Exec mech cond. $6,000/obo. 250-372-2096.

Downtown 250-314-1135 North Shore 250-376-1427

Trucks & Vans

Suites, Upper Brock 2 bdrm, no dogs, avail June 1st, $900/mo 250-3745586, 250-371-0206

Cars - Domestic

1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets / No Smoking Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry Starting @ $825 per month Coming soon FOR SALE in Whitecroft, BC. Full flat acre on the creek side. New 1,500 SF 3 bedroom rancher with 20’ x 30’ shop. $399.000 GST included. Serious inquires only.

604-626-7100.

Welcoming Cumfy 1bedroom.

Close to University, Hospital.

Student or quiet person. Excellent Location. $495or$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

Transportation 1996 GMC Suburban good shape runs great $3200obo Call (250) 571-2107

DL# 8122

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Men’s right hand set of golf clubs w/ bag. $85. 250-3743962.

Transportation

Sport Utility Vehicle 1981 GMC Suburban 4X4.

Re-built motor/trans.

Good shape. $2,900. 250-828-1808.

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Kamloops Golf and Auction @ Sun Rivers Golf Resort May 28th, 2015 (Registration starts 11:30am-Shotgun start 1:15pm)

Tickets $125 per person or $450 for Registered Foursome

Contact Jay Anderson - Co-Chairman (250) 371-3066 jay@jayanderson.ca or Sam Sommer - Co-Chairman (250) 819-1999 sammysommer@hotmail.com for more information about the tournament.

Contact Cassie Sorensen - Registrar (250) 319-2283 cassie_77@hotmail.com to register and purchase tickets.

Please join us at our 9th Annual Kamloops Ducks Unlimited Golf Tournament & Auction on Thursday afternoon, May 28, 2015. Your entry fee includes 18 holes of golf, power cart, a great buffet dinner & lots of fantastic prizes. Our tournament is a Scramble format. Registrations can also be paid at the DUC office at 954A Laval Crescent. Please join us for this fun event, and help Ducks Unlimited conserve Canada’s wetlands!

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