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NOVEMBER 17, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 138
WEATHER Rainy High 10 C Low 2 C
CHARGE IT UP
THE SOUND OF POPPINS
The newest stations for electric cars
We listen to the music behind WTC’s latest production
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SUN PEAKS SNOW REPORT Opening day: Nov. 21 Mid-mountain: 45 cm Snow phone: 250-578-7232
THE PARIS ATTACKS
City residents reflect on ‘shocking’ events DALE BASS
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ANDREA KLASSEN/KTW (Left to right) PacificSport Interior BC general manager Carolynn Boomer, Kamloops RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller, gymnast Scott Nabata, Rudy the Reindeer, Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar and Operation Red Nose program co-ordinator Katie Klassen are ready for another year of Kamloops’ safe-holiday ride program, which kicks off Nov. 27.
OPERATION RED NOSE SET TO RIDE ANDREA KLASSEN
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Making a donation to Operation Red Nose this holiday season will be a little easier for Kamloopsians For its 19th year, the safe-ride program is giving some of its volunteer drivers the ability to take
donations via credit card. Program co-ordinator Katie Klassen said an alternative way to donate to Operation Red Nose after a ride home has been a common request over the years from the campaign’s passengers. “A lot of people don’t have cash on them,” she said. Thanks to a donation, six of
the up to 22 Red Nose volunteer teams on the roads each weekend through the Christmas season will have iPhones equipped with credit card-friendly software. Klassen said the program is a test this year that could be expanded for future Red Nose Campaigns.
FLOOR COVERING
See OPERATION, A7
Mike Miltimore thinks the four guitars he took to Paris might have protected him last week. Miltimore, travelling in Europe promoting his Riversong guitar line, said when he arrived in Paris on Friday afternoon, the clerk at the hotel he had booked told him the room he was assigned was not large enough to handle the four guitars and their cases. Instead, Miltimore said, she gave him five keys and sent him off to find a room that could accommodate his gear, which led to a delay in his dinner meeting, one that was to be followed by drinks at one of the restaurants targeted in the attacks. “It must have been some divine intervention,” Miltimore told KTW during a stop in Calgary yesterday as he returned to Kamloops. “It slowed down
LINDSAY LANGILL
MIKE MILTIMORE
dinner, otherwise we might have been in the other place. “It’s surreal.” Friday night was spent largely awake, Miltimore said, “because it sounded like there were a million sirens going all night long.” Lindsay Langill, dean of trades and technology at Thompson Rivers University, was supposed to be in Paris on Friday, but opted to spend another day in Belgium. He described the attacks as “shocking,” particularly since he had spent part of last week visiting Vimy Ridge, taking part in Remembrance Day
ceremonies there, finding his relative’s name on the memorial wall, visiting the beaches of Dunkirk and spending time in Flanders Fields Museum. Langill said he thought borders were closed and he might have difficulty catching his flight home at the Paris airport. But, he learned from the people running the bed-and-breakfast where he was staying that borders were controlled, not closed. “The army and police had checkpoints up, but only for those leaving the country. I sailed right through.” Langill said. See SENSING, A6
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