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The will of the late executive director of the Kamloops Art Gallery could be the subject of a landmark decision in B.C. A Kamloops lawyer is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to determine whether an unsigned draft will of Jann Bailey should replace an earlier document that details division of her estate.

Bailey, who began working at the gallery in 1987 and oversaw it for decades, died on Oct. 9, 2015, after a long battle with leukemia.

Lawyer Candace Cates has petitioned the B.C. Supreme Court to determine how to divide Bailey’s estate: through her 2008 will or via a subsequent, but similar, document that was drafted and worked on in 2013 and 2014, but never signed.

“Since WESA (Wills, Estates and Succession Act) came into force, the B.C. Courts have yet to consider an unsigned draft will. However, similar cases have been considered by Manitoba and Australian courts under their respective curative provisions,” Cates wrote in the petition filed earlier this month.

In her 2008 will, Bailey left her JANN BAILEY estate divided in five equal parts among her brother, two sisters, spouse and an endowment fund named for her and administered by the B.C. Interior Community Foundation. The petition filed in court states Bailey contacted Cates in 2013 with some suggested changes.

Cates drafted a new will and the document went back and forth between the two. Cates finalized the will in December 2014.

“The Petitioner [Cates] and the Deceased exchanged several emails reminding the Deceased to review the 2014 Will and set an appointment for execution. However, the Deceased ultimately did not advise the Petitioner that she had reviewed the 2014 Will and did not attend the Petitioner’s office to execute the 2014 Will,” Cates wrote.

Changes to the 2008 will included Bailey giving all her interest in property in Northern Ireland to her spouse, Alan Quinn, as well as small changes to a number of gifts.

The court has not yet scheduled a hearing date.

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Marie-Philip Poulin (29) and Laura Fortino celebrate Fortino’s goal against the U.S. in Canada’s opening game of the Women’s World Hockey Championship.

Canada lost 3-1, but rebounded with an emphatic 8-1 victory over Russia.

The Maple Leaf squad rounds out preliminary round play tonight against Finland. Faceoff is 7:30 p.m. at Sandman Centre. A win and Canada is into Sunday’s semifinals.

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Ajax air-quality claims questioned CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com

KHGM Ajax’s claim that the proposed Ajax mine will not affect air quality in Kamloops — which underpins much of its health-impact studies — is not scientifically valid and should be withdrawn, according to a federal technical report made available yesterday.

And a related report from the Interior Health Authority calls the mine’s proposed dust-suppression assumptions an “extremely optimistic

level not likely to be obtained.”

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency wrote to KGHM International CEO Marcin Mostowy with a report that concludes its technical review. Supporting federal departments to the review include the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Natural Resources Canada.

Some of the greatest skepticism of studies from the mining company and its consultants comes from Health Canada, with the federal agency concluding KGHM Ajax cannot state

the mine will not harm air quality in Kamloops.

Health Canada officials conclude the mine has failed to look at pollutants other than PM 2.5, ozone and nitrogen dioxide.

“It is not appropriate to state that the project will have little effect on overall air quality in Kamloops based only on the AQHI [air quality health index], as there are other pollutants and factors to consider,” the report states.

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Crews work yesterday to remove trees from the corner of the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre property at Seymour Street and First Avenue in downtown Kamloops.

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A Kamloops resident hoping to put off the destruction of six Douglas firs at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre on Seymour Street won’t get a chance to make her case to city council before all the trees are felled.

After learning late last week the trees would be cut down, Katherine Sutherland, who lives next door to the cultural centre, contacted KTW to raise alarm.

While Sutherland was notified of the city’s plans, an out-of-town trip meant she learned the trees were going to be axed only days ahead of the work beginning.

She said she was surprised to find the city had provided less than two weeks notice and notified only 17 households and businesses of the move.

“They are heritage trees. I would have thought they would have been given a little more consideration than that,” Sutherland said.

She believes the Downtown

Neighbourhood Association and the city’s heritage commission should have been notified well in advance of the work.

Sutherland said most of the trees appear to be healthy.

“There are not a lot of trees in this town that are that old and that stately,” she said.

Sutherland said she had written to city council to express her alarm, but council is not due to meet until Tuesday, April 5. By Easter Monday, prep work was already underway to bring down the trees, with cutting beginning this past Tuesday.

Parks and civic facilities manager Jeff Putnam told KTW the city has been looking for a way to save the trees, which have damaged a retaining wall between the cultural centre and a privately owned lot next door.

Repairing the wall will reduce the tree’s root base, making them unstable and a safety risk, Putnam said.

“At this time, we’re not willing to assume the potential risk and liability of having those large, unstable trees at that location, so we have to

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The city did try to buy land from the owner of the lot next door so it could move the wall away from the trees, Putnam said, but it didn’t pan out.

“Taking down trees is always a last option,” he said, noting the city plans to replace the old trees with 12 new ones of a different species.

Putnam added the southernmost fir tree on the property will remain standing.

The wood from the firs will be used to make furniture for Kenna Cartwright Park and donated to School District 73 and a local artisans’ guild.

Though the firs are old, Putnam said they aren’t considered heritage trees, which are protected by city bylaws.

Those protected trees include a ginkgo next to city hall and several in Riverside Park.

Putnam said notifications were delivered to homes within 60 metres of the trees, which he described as the city’s standard process when a tree is removed.

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After the death of her ex-husband, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, and that of their son Michel two years before, the woman who once shocked the country by partying with rock stars in New York City entered a hospital and confronted bipolar disorder.

Since then, she has written about her life with the mental-health condition.

Trudeau will be in Kamloops on Wednesday, April 13, as the feature MARGARET speaker at a fundraiser to TRUDEAU benefit the mental-health unit at Royal Inland Hospital.

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Report critical of Ajax mine application CAM FORTEMS

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Measures used by KGHM Ajax to show dustfall from its proposed Ajax mine came under scrutiny again yesterday when a scientific report called into question its assumptions and modelling.

A summary of the report from GatePost Risk Analysis and Habitat Health Impact Consulting found “many aspects of the assessment that are deficient, potentially misleading or incorrect and that undermine the overall assertion that the health of local populations will not be meaningfully impacted.”

The report was commissioned

by Coalition of Concerned Citizens and Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment Society through a crowdfunding campaign.

Author Ken Froese, who holds a PhD in environmental chemistry, agreed some of his conclusions are the same as those found in a much larger study by independent reviewer SLR Consulting, which was hired by the city using $300,000 provided by Ajax mine proponent KGHM Ajax.

That report questioned the

The Ajax mine site south of Aberdeen.

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mine’s air modelling, particularly its assumptions that KGHM Ajax can reduce dust from roads and tailings by 94 per cent.

“The crux of a lot of questions are about air-quality modelling and assumptions,” Froese told KTW. “Until . . . the modelling is redone there’s a lot of things you can’t evaluate.”

Much of the impact assessment submitted to provincial and federal agencies is based on the quantity of dust and where it will travel, particularly due to prevailing winds from the south.

Jill Calder, a director with

Kamloops Physicians, said their members came away unsatisfied with air-quality answers given by consultant Stantec in a technical briefing earlier this month. Stantec found the only concrete impact from dust will be in a small area of Aberdeen — an impact it predicts will not affect human health.

Calder also echoed the report’s call for statistics showing risk of disease and death expressed as a percentage of the population.

“That’s a future impact,” she said.

More controversial is a finding that perception of risk from a mine

— even if it is only a perception — can negatively affect human health.

Calder said scientific literature is beginning to recognize this aspect of mental health with major projects.

One way this can affect health is if residents decide not to recreate outside or do otherwise healthy activities, for example, due to concern about exposure.

Froese highlighted experience in Malarctic, Que., a city beside a mine where several Kamloops councillors are scheduled to travel.

“Its credibility has been lost,”

Froese said of the Quebec mine.

“Neither the government nor the company can back up what they claimed initially.”

That experience, he said, creates anxiety about the spectre of a mine on Kamloops’ doorstep — and there is no way to know whether the mine will risk profits and productivity if predictions about dust and other impacts turn out to have been flawed.

While crediting much of the scientific data, the report also calls for a more “holistic” approach in studies. Froese said KGHM Ajax was not asked to incorporate that aspect by federal and provincial agencies.

“Kamloops promotes itself as the city of tournaments,” he said. “That perception creates an atmosphere: friendly competition, healthy living and lifestyles.

You have that image you want to promote. How does putting a mine beside the city change that?”

The report has been submitted to the provincial and federal environmental-assessment agencies.

Froese said from his experience on both sides of environmentalimpact studies, reports like this one are taken seriously by government authorities.

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Federal staff visits Kamloops, talk Ajax ANDREA KLASSEN

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A staffer in town to gather information for federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has heard more calls for a panel review for the Ajax mine.

Jesse McCormick, director of indigenous relations and regulatory affairs for the ministry, met last week with KGHM Ajax, the city, Kamloops Area Preservation Association (KAPA) and the Stk’emlupsemc Te Secwepemc Nation (SSN).

Mayor Peter Milobar said the city repeated its request for a review, which would include oral hearings conducted by independent experts, during its meeting.

“But, obviously, we didn’t spend a lot of time on that given the answer the minister had already said,” Milobar said.

In a recent letter to council, McKenna said she has faith in the current comprehensive review process for the copper and gold mine.

Milobar said the city also raised its concerns about the project, the most recent of which were submitted last week to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and B.C. Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO).

“Really, it was just getting a sense of the project, I think, on their side and wanting to see what we all had to say,” Milobar said.

KAPA member Don Barz said his group also pushed for a panel review and highlighted concerns about the assessment of the mine’s health effects, including the lack of a Kamloops-based health representative on the government’s technical working group, which reviews the mine’s environmental application.

Barz said KAPA members also asked why a screening of Ajax’s application by the BCEAO didn’t uncover some of the missing information a consultant hired by the City of Kamloops has said it will need to verify the mine’s claims about air quality, health risks and other environmental effects if the project goes ahead.

“They said they’re going to be reviewing the environmental assessment process and issues like this will be taken into account in the review,” Barz said.

He is still optimistic McKenna could call for a panel review, but said he would have liked for her to have visited.

“She could have seen firsthand how close the proposed mine is to the city,” Barz said.

“So that was a disappointment. Perhaps the city and the First Nations can convince her she should come.”

At press time, neither Tk’emlups Chief Fred Seymour nor Skeetchestn Chief Ron Ignace had commented to KTW about their bands’ meetings with McCormick.

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More importantly, Health Canada takes issue with KGHM Ajax’s claim air quality will not be impacted.

It has requested the company change the statement.

“Remove or revise the statement that ‘an analysis of the predicted change in the federal Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) demonstrates that the Project has little effect on the overall air quality in Kamloops,’”the report states.

“This assertion is not valid, as the effects of the project are apparent in

showing a deterioration of air quality in sites 1 to 3 [Aberdeen].”

The comments by federal and provincial health officials are the latest by a number of experts to question KGHM Ajax’s claims on air quality.

That includes city reviewer SLR Consulting, as well as a crowdfunded scientific report also released yesterday (see related story on page A4).

Much of the company’s air-quality models depend on the mine reducing by at least 90 per cent the amount of dust emanating

from roads and the tailings beach.

Federal officials call that number “unreasonably high” and “unrealistic.”

In another report issued through the B.C. Environmental Assessment Agency’s website, Interior Health Authority specialist environmental health officer Greg Baytalan also takes issue with dust suppression.

Baytalan’s draft report states the mining company cannot provide an example of an operation with 90 per cent dust suppression.

“The proponent is unable to supply an example of a

mine functioning to this level, and is noncommittal on the specific operational procedure involved to achieve such,” Baytalan’s draft report states.

Environment Canada uses a maximum level of 70 per cent dust suppression.

It has asked the company to conduct new modelling using lower dust-suppression models, including a worst-case scenario of zero per cent.

Under the federal process, KGHM Ajax is given an opportunity to respond to criticism and submit revised information.

Butt-out bylaw begins tomorrow ANDREA KLASSEN

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You can’t light up a cigarette in a city park as of tomorrow, but smokers who violate the city’s new ban won’t be ticketed by bylaw officers.

As of April 1, smoking will be illegal in all parks in the City of Kamloops, as well as on city property.

The ban also covers electronic cigarettes.

Bylaw supervisor John Ramsay said officers will focus on making the

public aware of the new rules rather than issuing tickets.

“For us, I think it’s not about enforcing the change so much as it is about educating,” Ramsay said.

“The whole intent was to adopt a healthier approach to public spaces and be part of that conversation.”

Ramsay said catching people who violate the ban would be tricky for officers.

While the city’s main parks are patrolled daily to check for transient encampments, dog violations and, now,

illegal smoking, officers aren’t in the park all the time.

“People will be calling us in, saying, ‘I’m in the park and someone’s smoking,’” Ramsay said.

“By the time we get there, they may be gone.

“So, basically, our goal is public education and the public keeping each other informed and becoming more compliant over time.”

City parks workers will also be providing education on the new bylaw, he said.

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SPCA plans new shelter in Brocklehurst

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Dogs and cats in need of a home could eventually see an upgrade in their living situation if Kamloops city council agrees to rezone a property near Fulton Field for use as an animal shelter.

On Tuesday, April 5, council will hold a public hearing to decide whether to rezone 2815 Tranquille Rd. in Brocklehurst to permit a shelter housing dogs, cats and other small animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs.

The property is zoned for light-industrial uses.

Bob Busch, facility development manager for the B.C. SPCA, said if the rezoning is successful, the SPCA will purchase the property and begin design work on a new shelter to replace its current Kamloops headquarters on Eighth Street.

“The existing shelter is antiquated and far too small for the number of animals we take in now,” Busch said.

The shelter has dealt with multiple ringworm outbreaks in the past several years, which staff say are harder to prevent due to the limited space in the building.

“It doesn’t have the space, it’s not adequate in terms of shelter construction,” Busch said.

“It never was built for that purpose, so we’re looking forward to building a better home for the animals.”

Busch said the SPCA doesn’t yet have a timeline for when the new shelter would be built.

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A former New Zealand politician accused of drowning his Canadian wife while on a B.C. vacation more than five years ago angrily stood his ground on Tuesday as a Crown prosecutor accused him of forcefully holding his wife underwater.

Peter Beckett is standing trial in front of a B.C. Supreme Court jury in Kamloops, charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of his wife, Laura Letts-Beckett, who drowned on a Revelstoke-area lake on Aug. 18, 2010.

Court has heard the Becketts were vacationing at Upper Arrow Lake when LettsBeckett went into the water on a boating trip and died. The Crown has alleged Beckett killed Letts-Beckett out of greed, hoping to cash in on more than $600,000 in life-insurance and accidental-death payouts, as well as her teachers’ pension and family inheritance.

In his testimony, Beckett said his wife

likely committed suicide after years of depression brought about by a rape at the hands of a family friend when she was seven.

But Beckett painted a very rosy picture of Letts-Beckett’s final hours. He said he went with her into Revelstoke to go grocery shopping and get a haircut before returning to Shelter Bay Provincial Park campground and going out for an evening boat ride.

Crown prosecutor Joel Gold pressed Beckett on his depiction of that day and said it did not sound like the actions of a suicidal woman.

“You can’t have it both ways, sir,” he said to Beckett. “You’re saying she was happy with you, but that she was depressed and suicidal. You cannot explain it both ways. It does not make sense.”

Gold then asked Beckett about the shirt his wife was wearing when she was pulled from the lake — a shirt the Crown said was on backwards.

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in a way that did not make sense,” Gold said.

“You disgust me, Mr. Gold,” Beckett replied, before asking God to have mercy on Gold’s soul.

Defence lawyer Donna Turko said she has a few more witnesses to call. She is expected to close her case on Thursday, with closing arguments taking place the following day. The jury would likely then begin deliberations on Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Beckett and Letts-Beckett met in 1995 in New Zealand. Five years later, he moved to Westlock, Alta., to be closer to her. The couple married in 2003.

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

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

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

His trial began in mid-January.

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The warning is in effect through tomorrow, at which time the forecasters will reassess.

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In fact, it was the path of a CP Rail train into which the car drove.

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DATA ON AJAX IS PERPLEXING

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wo reports released yesterday show KGHM Ajax has much work to do in order to convince skeptics details in its mine application can be accepted.

When the company finally submitted its 18,000-page application to provincial and federal environmental-assessment agencies in January, it stood behind the data and proclaimed transparency.

To its credit, KGHM Ajax donated $300,000 to the City of Kamloops to pay for an independent study of its application. The study, completed by SLR Consulting, said the data in the application does not have enough information to verify claims the project will have minimal effects on Kamloops’ air quality, property values and the health of residents.

Yesterday, a report commissioned through crowdfunding by groups opposed to Ajax — Coalition of Concerned Citizens and Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment Society — also raised questions and offered criticism.

GatePost Risk Analysis and Habitat Health Impact Consulting found “many aspects of the assessment that are deficient, potentially misleading or incorrect and that undermine the overall assertion that the health of local populations will not be meaningfully impacted.”

On top of that is a report from Health Canada that calls into question claims in the Ajax application concerning dust control.

Based on its modelling, KGHM Ajax said it will be able to achieve 94 per cent mitigation of dust from the mine site, but Health Canada’s projections are much lower — and that will definitely be cause for concern, especially among residents of Aberdeen who live closest to the mine site.

At this point, there are so many contradictory numbers being presented that the average Kamloopsian cannot possibly begin to understand what the real impact of Ajax will be.

Waiting until the mine begins operation is too late, which is why it is incumbent upon the environmental-assessment agencies to comb through the data slowly and thoroughly.

If that means an extension of the review period, so be it.

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t’s World Autism Day tomorrow, a day set aside ostensibly to educate people about the neurodevelopmental disorder.

For people like Mark Lyons, however, every day is autism day.

Lyons lives in North Bay, Ont., and he likely would never have received much public attention had he not taken his son Jack skating. It was a big moment for the two of them because hours and hours had been put in to reach the point when Jack could skate on his own.

From nearby, Mark heard, “Who brings a retard to the rink?”

Jack has autism.

Regular readers know one of my sons also has autism.

We’re fortunate to have not experienced the kind of heartbreak Mark did this month. We have, however, shared the joy he has also experienced from the accomplishments of his child.

We’ve seen our young son, the one we were told would likely never speak or go to school, act in plays and graduate not only from high school, but from Thompson Rivers University, courtesy of its impressive education and skillstraining program.

When he was young, we spent a year alongside his amazing lifeskills coach, Anne Hibbard, getting Sean from simply walking through the door of the dentist’s office to finally sitting through a full oral checkup.

He now goes on his own.

There have been phone calls from others in the city, however, moms and dads who are still reeling from hearing the same diagnosis we received 16 years ago.

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LEVEL It is a scary moment, even if you know what you are going to hear, as my hubby and I did. We were fortunate at that moment to have Debra Pugh, another mom of a child with autism and an active advocate in the field, accompany us to the final meeting with all the experts who would explain what they had learned during two days of tests in Vancouver.

She asked all the questions we simply couldn’t, wrote down the answers and then, after we had processed it, explained to us all the options we had.

We knew the facts: one in 68 children in North America is diagnosed on the spectrum and most will be boys — the rate is one in 42 for boys and one in 189 for girls.

We didn’t care what caused it.

That was history. It was time to move forward.

There were plenty of challenges. There was the educator who thought it was helpful to pull Sean out of his class to collect attendance slips every day.

There’s no point in sharing his rationale; suffice to say he learned

quickly Sean was sent to school to learn what he could, not do clerical functions in the school office.

There was the other educator who tried in such tender, gentle words to tell me we were wrong to think our son would actually graduate from high school. After all, this educator said, kids with autism, well, you know . . .

That person was in the audience when our son walked across the stage to receive his Dogwood certificate. Sean also performed his monologue during the ceremony, one he learned for his theatre-arts class.

He experienced bullying at least two times, however. Once was at our home after school, when neighbourhood children started pushing him and calling him names. His brother interceded, as he did during a moment in high school when a couple of students ridiculed him.

When I read Mark’s story, those moments came back to me, a reminder there are people who still make judgments that are horribly cruel and wrong.

Part of World Autism Day is shining a blue light. Mark has hired a lighting company to spread blue light throughout his hometown. He’s also hired a band to perform in front of the city hall in North Bay tomorrow night. He’s doing it, he says, “to bring some blue light and hope for parents who have children with autism.”

Tomorrow may be a day to shine a blue light for autism, but for people like Mark and the many who live here in Kamloops, every day is Autism Day. dale@kamlooopsthisweek.com Twitter: @mdalebass

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RIH STAFF IN PRAISE OF IS TRULY STAKE LAKE AMAZING Editor: We recently experienced a huge scare when our 16-year-old son was hit by a tree at Inks Lake.

He had a broken femur and a fractured neck and was in bad shape when he was brought to Royal Inland Hospital by ambulance.

The doctor and nurses in emergency were awesome. They were thorough and very caring with our son and with us.

Dr. Ross Outerbridge did surgery on his leg and visited our son right after recovery to update us on his condition.

The pediatric nurses were amazing, showing patience and keeping close track of our son’s condition.

Special thank you to Melanie, Nicole and Tony. You are all amazing and our gratitude for your care is immeasurable. A huge thank you to the staff we were privileged to deal with at RIH. Keep up the great work.

The Klassen Family Kamloops

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TIME IS NOW TO POSE Q’S ON AJAX the application released for public review on Jan. 18 included air-quality modelling for the 14-hectare beach of the former conventional unthickened tailings storage facility instead.

A hectare is about the size of a baseball field.

When will KGHM submit new modelling results for review?

I would also like to know why the heavy metal cadmium was excluded from analysis in the human health and ecological risk assessment.

Cadmium is described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “major public health concern.” Inhaled cadmium containing dust can pose a risk for occupationally exposed workers, also as per the WHO website.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified inhaled cadmium as carcinogenic to humans.

As per the WHO, “Cadmium contained in soil and water can be taken

up by certain crops and aquatic organisms and accumulate in the food chain.” This heavy metal can impact the kidneys, skeleton and brain, in addition to the lungs.

New Afton mine on the same batholith federally reports its annual cadmium emissions to air.

Starting at the 30th minute of his Feb. 16 presentation, available for viewing on the Ajax Project YouTube channel, Stantec lead air-quality consultant Peter Reid answers the session questions posed.

He also gives a recommendation to submit information requests.

Do potential Ajax mine employees and residents of Kamloops have questions about this project?

Now is the time to ask in writing on the BC EAO/CEAA websites, given the public comment period closes at midnight on April 11.

Dr. Jennifer Takahashi Kamloops

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Editor: I have been going to Stake Lake before the Coquihalla Highway was created.

Since others have posted online their reviews of the cross-country snow conditions, I have gone more often. It takes the guesswork out of my decision about whether to go.

Each time I go, whatever the season, I am so happy to live a 20-minute drive from such a lovely spot.

Christina Mader Kamloops

Editor: I would like to compliment the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO), the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), KGHM Ajax, the City of Kamloops and the hired consultants of both KGHM and the city for their degree of effort to inform the people of Kamloops about the Ajax mine application as it passes through the review stage.

The Feb. 16 and Feb. 17 presentations and question-and-answer sessions, now posted by KGHM on its Ajax Project YouTube channel, were educational. Information discussed helped me to formulate public comments (information requests) to the BCEAO and the CEAA. For example, I would like to learn what degree of dust exposure downwind Ajax mine employees and Kamloops residents can expect from the larger beach of the new mine plan’s thickened tailings storage facility, given

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GREEN LEADER LEARNED MUCH IN VISIT TO KAMLOOPS Editor: I am grateful for the generous welcome by Kamloops residents during my visit to the

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city on March 18 and 19.

As the leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-

Gordon Head, I arrived to what I knew would be two full days of public dialogue on issues that matter to the resi-

dents of Kamloops.

My schedule included site visits to Telus’ Kamloops Data Centre and the Kamloops

Tuesday, April 5,5, 2016, 7:00 pm Tuesday, April 2016, 7:00 pm Council Chambers, City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West Council Chambers, City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West

Kamloops City Council will hold a Public Hearing to to consider the following proposed Kamloops City Council will hold a Public Hearing consider the following proposed amendments toto City of of Kamloops Zoning Bylaw No. 5-1-2001 and KAMPLAN: amendments City Kamloops Zoning Bylaw No. 5-1-2001 and KAMPLAN:The The Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 5-1-2146.

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I came away from my visit with a greater appreciation for emerging issues in Kamloops and the enormous potential that is evident in the city I also had the opportunity to learn about the proposed Ajax mine project.

As I knew the project was a controversial subject within the city, I came with an open mind and a desire to better understand both the positive and negative implications of the project.

I took time to meet with representatives of KGHM and toured the proposed site with them.

I also had the opportunity to tour the area with citizens who are

concerned about the potential detrimental impacts of an open-pit mine so close to the city.

As a scientist, I found the information presented to the public

by SLR Consulting very interesting and was impressed by its report.

It’s obvious to me KGHM will need to do a fair bit of additional work to address these concerns.

It was also heartening to see the level of community attendance at the public session and the high level of engagement coming from city council.

I was also fortunate enough to attend a local dinner and it was a pleasure to meet with local Green party members and supporters.

I was floored by the crowd that attended the dinner and by those who had excellent questions for me and brought up issues I’d never considered.

It was a well-organized event led by a local group and hosted

by Dan Hines and Donovan Cavers.

Together we discussed a shared vision for the future of our wonderful province and looked ahead to the exciting potential our party represents heading into the 2017 election next spring.

I’m greatly looking forward to a return visit to the Tournament Capital city.

Andrew Weaver leader B.C. Green Party

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Editor: I hope the powers-that-be will allow people in Kamloops to have chickens.

I used to have chickens and it was fantastic in so many ways. I lived on half an acre, which is more than enough room for at least six chickens.

They had a large pen and a coop in which they could lay their eggs in nests filled with straw.

We have become so urbanized that most people have many misconceptions about owning chickens.

I wonder how many people on council have ever owned any. Here are some facts and fallacies about chickens and owning the birds: Not all chickens are noisy. The roosters are noisy, but not the female chickens. The hens cluck and make their own sounds, I found it minimal and I rather enjoyed the sound.

You do not need a rooster for the hen to lay eggs. You only need a rooster if you want to make baby chicks.

Your yard will not smell bad if you only have a few chickens. Even if there is an odour, at least we are getting eggs out of it — and the pleasure of watching them do their thing.

Hens will start laying small eggs at about six months of age, so don’t worry about buying an older chicken as they lay more and bigger eggs. Egg production is reduced in the colder seasons, but a light in the coop will prolong the laying of eggs.

Chickens should have a penned yard of their own, one that segregates them from the rest of the yard.

While the thought of free-range chickens seems more humanitarian, such birds are vulnerable to attacks from dogs and coyotes. They also may wander away and become road kill.

A secured pen also keeps them from laying eggs all over the yard

where you cannot find them.

It also forces them to go inside the coop at night, where they will be safe and warm.

These wonderful creatures give back in surprising ways. They are excellent gardeners and bug eaters.

They will dig up weeds and clear an area in no time flat.

This is very helpful in the spring when you want to clear your garden.

But beware, they will dig up everything and anything, so only set them free in an area where no new baby plants will be growing. They are great for fall clean-up, too.

Chickens are wonderful recyclers and will eat a wide variety of food scraps. But be kind and do not offer spices or junk food. Spices will influence the taste of the eggs.

Please don’t be scared of eggs that are bright orange as it simply means they are eating something that contains chlorophyll, which often means greens.

Some people find the taste of fresh chicken eggs different than storebought eggs and that is only because they are fresh and we are not used to them.

All eggs we buy in the store are either old or very old.

Chickens are reasonably cheap to feed and maintain and they are a source of enjoyment for children and adults alike.

At a time when it is getting more and more expensive to eat, we need to be more self-sustaining with our own gardens and chickens for eggs or meat.

I hope Kamloops residents can have chickens and I hope common sense prevails.

We don’t need this bylaw passed sometime in the future. We need it passed now.

Eileen Beaton Kamloops

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MONTREAL — Former federal cabinet minister Jean Lapierre, who went on to become a highly visible and respected political pundit on national issues, was remembered this week as a great communicator who “really understood the country.’’

Lapierre, 59, his wife, two brothers and one of his sisters were among seven people who died when their plane crashed as it headed to the Iles-dela-Madeleine, where his father had passed away just a few days earlier.

The Quebec coroner’s office identified the deceased on Tuesday night as Lapierre, his spouse Nicole Beaulieu, his brothers Marc and Louis, his sister Martine Lapierre and crew members Pascal Gosselin and Fabrice Labourel.

Former prime minister Paul Martin, who brought Lapierre back from political exile after taking over the Liberal leadership in 2003, said he would remember his ex-colleague as a “great friend who had deep insights.’’

“We’re talking about somebody who really understood the country, who understood what the political process is all about,’’ said Martin, who made Lapierre his Quebec lieutenant.

“A lot of people

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comment on the political process. Jean Lapierre lived it and knew it. But also, he was a wonderful person. And I think I’ll remember him as a wonderful person.’’

The fluently bilingual Lapierre was much sought-after as a political commentator in English and French.

While he worked primarily for the TVA television network, he could be seen and heard on various other news outlets throughout the province.

“We have lost today not just a colleague, but also a passionate man who influenced all of Quebec with his rigour and his analytical skills,’’ said Pierre Dion, president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., which owns TVA. Lapierre was elected to the Commons as a Liberal in 1979, representing the Quebec riding of Shefford.

He briefly served as youth and amateur sports minister in John Turner’s short-lived government in 1984.

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He co-chaired Martin’s campaign for the Liberal leadership in 1990, during which Lapierre became increasingly heated in his denunciations of the front-runner, Jean Chretien, and his opposition to the Meech Lake constitutional accord.

The moment Chretien was announced the winner at Calgary’s Saddledome, Lapierre and fellow Quebec Liberal MP Gilles Rocheleau stomped out of the convention centre and quit the Liberal party.

They later became founding members of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, although Lapierre later said he was never really a sovereigntist.

Former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe said he spoke to Lapierre as recently as Monday and recalled his excolleague as “combative, passionate and generous.’’

“He certainly had the best network of contacts you can imagine in Quebec,’’ Duceppe said.

“In all sectors, business, labour. He knew everybody.’’

Lapierre quit federal politics in 1992, but returned after Martin became Liberal leader in late 2003.

He served as transport minister between 2004 and 2006.

Lapierre left politics in 2007 and soon became a popular onair personality, drawing from his long list of sources in both federal and provincial politics to offer commentary on important news events for a host of different media organizations in Quebec.

“He’s one of the finest political analysts I ever met,’’ Martin added. “He worked so hard at it.’’

Many well-known Canadian journalists posted messages on social media during the day, begging Lapierre to say something to deny rumours he was on board the plane.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who

worked with Lapierre under the Liberal banner in Ottawa, said the popular pundit was able to explain politics to Quebecers in a simple, succinct way.

“He was above all a communicator,’’ Coderre told a news conference at city hall.

“He could say a lot in a few words. He used his colourful commentary to make us understand [politics] in few words and left no one indifferent.’’

Politicians of all stripes also weighed in on his death.

“It just has me reeling,’’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an interview with Global television.

“He was such a strong fixture in Quebec, in Canadian political life and the media landscape. It actually hasn’t sunk in that he’s not with us anymore.’’

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair also tweeted his condolences.

“An utter shock to learn of the death of Jean Lapierre and many family members,’’ Mulcair said.

“Deepest condolences to those grieving this tragic loss.’’

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OTTAWA — The Liberals are committing to finding new ways to get Syrian refugees to Canada and into other countries as the United Nations seeks nearly half a million spaces for Syrians by the end of 2018.

But Canada did not pledge any more spaces directly at a high-level conference in Geneva yesterday devoted to finding new solutions for the refugee crisis.

That will come later this year, when the Liberal government intends to unveil a new approach to immigration, moving away from setting levels for a single year in favour of a plan that will cover 2017 to 2019.

“We will continue

to pursue solutions to ensure the humanitarian treatment and resettlement of Syrian refugees,’’ Immigration Minister John McCallum told the conference, which included the United Nations secretary general, the high commissioner for refugees and representatives of over 90 countries.

Italy and Sweden were among the only countries to make new settlement pledges yesterday, but the UN isn’t just looking for direct resettlement.

“I ask that countries act with solidarity, in the name of our shared humanity, by pledging new and additional pathways for the admission of Syrian refugees,’’ said UN Secretary General

Ban Ki-Moon.

“These pathways can include resettlement or humanitarian admission, family reunions, as well as labour or study opportunities.’’

Canada pledged to explore one of those routes — expanding an existing program that brings refugees into Canada as postsecondary students, so they can continue their education and perhaps settle here.

McCallum said Canada also wants the private sector more engaged in helping Syrians integrate into the economy.

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Syrians still inside the country cannot be registered as refugees.

The only way they can legally get out is through family reunification or economic immigration programs.

Reaching them would require working with the International Organization for Migration, in places where it is active inside Syria, as well as the cooperation of the Syrian government.

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Assad government is in control,’’ McCallum acknowledged, but said there is precedent for such a program in the Vietnamese refugee resettlement efforts of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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After Geneva, McCallum heads for Germany, currently the only country which has opened up more spaces for formal resettlement of Syrians than Canada.

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“We’re being told nine, including three kids — that’s what I was told this morning,’’ Robert Nault said in an interview yesterday from Ottawa.

All are believed to be members of the same family, Nault said.

Ontario Provincial Police Const. Diana Cole said the fire broke out shortly before midnight in the remote community near the Manitoba-Ontario border that’s been plagued by suicides.

The cause of the fire is under investigation and police remain on the scene of the blaze, Cole said.

Discussions were ongoing about sending in a team to help the community deal with “the whole issue of mourning,’’ Nault said, noting that everybody is very closely related.

“It affects everyone in the community whenever there’s a tragedy like this or a suicide,’’ he said.

“This is a community that’s had a history of suicides . . . and tragic situations, so this community has been in a constant crisis for a number of years.’’

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who was attending the funeral for former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, took to Twitter to offer her condolences to the community.

“My thoughts are with the First Nations community of #Pikangikum and those who lost loved ones in last night’s devastating house fire,’’ Wynne tweeted.

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In a packed downtown cathedral, family, dignitaries and members of the public paid respects to the leader of “Ford Nation,’’ who captured as much attention in death as he did in life.

“He’s the mayor of heaven now,’’ Ford’s daughter Stephanie, 10, told the service as her younger brother Dougie stood by her side.

“He helped a lot of people. He was also an amazing dad.’’

Ford, a loved-orloathed larger-than-life politician, became a certified celebrity in light of his admitted crack cocaine use, alcohol abuse, lewd comments and at times outrageous behaviour that transformed his mayoral office into an unprecedented spectacle.

It was left to Rev. Andrew Asbil, rector of St. James cathedral, to note the improbable heights of both adulation and infamy Ford scaled as mayor.

“You and I, no matter how hard we try, will never have the same notoriety nor popularity nor household fame as Rob Ford,’’ Asbil said in his homily.

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“And — this is important — very few of us will know what it’s like to experience the love and admiration of so many for the work that we do in the same way as Rob did.’’

Ford, whose clarion call was “time to stop the gravy train,’’ died last week at age 46, 18 months after a cancer diagnosis scuttled his

bid for a second term as mayor, although he easily won election as a councillor in his west-

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ing behind the scenes to grow the industry, which the government said boasted sales of $15.4 million last year.

On Tuesday, Nova Scotia and Ottawa announced $487,960 over two years for a new wine research lab in the heart of the valley at Acadia University in Wolfville.

The lab is meant to be a hub for food scientists, dietitians, biochemists, plant physiologists and producers of food and beverages as the province looks to make a bigger impact.

Making wine in Nova Scotia is a “high-risk, highreward dynamic,’’ said Deslauriers, a Quebec native who has also worked in Chile.

“We end up being somewhat of a specialized wine region much like some of the regions in Europe that are either really high in the

Alps or in the northern parts of France and Germany.’’

Toronto wine critic Tony Aspler said the province’s wineries excel in sparkling wines and aromatic whites.

Reds, however, “are more problematic in that climate.’’

That hasn’t stopped Nova Scotia wineries from dabbling in reds and learning what does and doesn’t work.

Gillian Mainguy of the Winery Association of Nova Scotia said early generation winemakers tried to compensate for the grapes they could grow during warm summers and long falls by producing wines that “were just way too sweet.’’

“It’s not unlike what both Ontario and British Columbia went through,’’ said Mainguy, citing Ontario’s oft-ridiculed Baby Duck as an example.

The sweet, sparkling, low-alcohol wine was popular in the 1970s but snubbed by connoisseurs.

She said a noticeable shift came in the early 2000s with the hiring of experienced winemakers who understood the terroir — a combination of climate, soil and terrain.

“We are making world-class sparkling wines and aromatic whites that outside of a few other places in the world — Champagne, France and in the United Kingdom — can’t be rivalled anywhere else,’’ she said.

Roger Dial is widely considered the founding father of Nova Scotia’s wine industry, having established what would become the Domaine de Grand Pre winery between

the late 1970s and early 1980s.

There were “lots of doubters’’ in those early days, said Dial, who previously owned a winery in California.

“We have some wonderful, huge assets now that we didn’t have back in the ‘80s and the ‘90s and that’s in the form of young, professional winemakers who are absolutely dedicated, not just to the profession and the craft, but to the place,’’ he said.

“They want to be here, making history.’’

Many in the business agree a turning point came in 2012 with the creation of Nova Scotia’s very first appellation — a kind of geographic recipe.

Known as Tidal Bay, it is a crisp white wine meant to accentuate the region’s cuisine, particularly seafood.

Using specific grape varieties, including 100 per cent Nova Scotiagrown grapes, a dozen wineries are producing a 2015 vintage of Tidal Bay under a strict set of standards that must be approved by a blind, independent tasting panel.

Balancing the high acidity of the soil with residual sugars, Tidal Bay leaves “a nice pucker,’’ said Mainguy.

Aspler said Nova Scotia’s wineries have shown a level of cooperation unseen anywhere else in Canada.

“To create something that could be marketed as a Nova Scotia wine, that would embrace all the wineries who want to participate, it’s a really interesting concept,’’ he said.

Carl Sparkes, president of Jost Wineries of Malagash — the largest

and longest-operating winery in Atlantic Canada — said it’s not surprising the industry in Nova Scotia is tight knit.

“I think we are mostly farmers at heart and therefore behave through similar values,’’ he said. “Farmers will always be there to help out a neighbour, but are not without their bickering. All in all, though, I think everyone wants to see the industry grow and prosper. Common purpose trumps differences of opinion.’’

Still, growth in Nova Scotia has been slow.

Dial said many more hectares also need to be planted if Nova Scotia wants to keep up with the likes of Ontario and B.C., which boast hundreds of wineries by comparison even though their industries aren’t much older.

“While I treasure the small, artisan little wineries that we have, an industry needs big players,’’ he said.

There’s also the problem of getting products to new customers.

Deslaurier said plans are underway for Benjamin Bridge to expand into the United States, the U.K. and Japan.

But Mainguy said “outdated’’ interprovincial barriers continue to make it difficult for wine lovers to order from outside their home province and tipple what Nova Scotia has to offer nowadays.

And that, she said, is a shame.

“This isn’t your aunt’s Nova Scotia wine,’’ she said.

“If you haven’t tried it lately, try it again.

You’ll be surprised.’’

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Damian Lewis, who starred in Homeland and Life, portrays Bobby Axelrod, the billionaire dodging financial crimes.

Created in part by a New York Times journalist, the two main characters have been compared to real people. The claim has been disregarded by the show’s creators, but it lends credibility to their portrayal of Wall Street.

The show is ripe with drama — no, not the reality-television kind — and is based on themes of power and greed.

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t would have been easy for Trailer Park Boys writers to bungle the big-star cameo roles that highlight recentlyreleased Season 10, but they managed to fit Snoop Dogg, Tom Arnold and Jimmy Kimmel in nicely.

Ricky, Julian, Bubbles and the rest of the crew get up to their usual antics, fighting to keep the park from landing in enemy hands, and they get help from Snoop and Tom, who get wind of an all-you-can-smoke “resort” in Sunnyvale.

For longtime TPB fans, it’s amazing to see how far this Canadian original has come, from a small-time Nova Scotiabased show that premiered on Showcase, to the silver screen

and now to Netflix.

It has garnered international acclaim and the mockumentary has moved into the mainstream.

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Jim Lahey, played beautifully

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The trailer park supervisor extraordinaire Lahey and dopesmoking dummy Ricky might be mortal enemies, but a secret pertaining to their collective past revealed this season might change all that.

I’m looking forward to Season 11.

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If you liked House of Cards, I fully recommend giving this a whirl.

Skip it with the kids though — it shows the odd S and M scene.

— Jessica Wallace

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f you are an adult who hasn’t discovered the pure joy of animated family flicks since aging out of the target audience, you’re missing out.

Finding Nemo is my number one but, more recently, Inside Out and Minions kicked serious box-office butt and topped my list of favourites — animated or not.

After this weekend, I’m adding Zootopia to the list.

The concept is smart. Animals have evolved into a human-like species with complex cities, sophisticated technology and infrastructure, policing and

a world where “predators and prey live in perfect harmony.”

The conflict arrises when some citizens start reverting to savage, animalistic behaviour.

As Disney does, the flick is packed with moral lessons, revealed through it’s focus on stereotyping species and oppressing minorities.

It’s also hilarious.

Sloths working the DMV and a tiny rodent crime boss are good for a few laughs.

As for the next must-sees, I’m anticipating Finding Dory and The Angry Birds Movie.

— Jessica Klymchuk

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It was largely on the premise O.J. was a victim of a discriminatory system that he was eventually acquitted for murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson

and Ronald Goldman, despite dissenting testimony and physical evidence.

Today, The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story on FX explores not only the theme of racial prejudice but of sexism in a male-dominated courtroom and how the personal

and professional insecurities of prosecutors, defence, jury, judge and police alike shaped the events.

The show features a star-studded cast including a barely recognizable John Travolta, David Scwhimmer, Sarah Paulson and Cuba Gooding Jr.

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Harry Potter theme of next Freudian Slips improv night DALE BASS

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It will be Harry Potter like you’ve never seen him before when the Freudian Slips host their next night of improvisation.

It will be the first time the fledgling comedy troupe provides an evening of long-form improvisation, all from audience prompts but themed to the young wizard and his friends created

by British author J.K. Rowling.

Jessica Buchanan, one of the troupe’s creators, said “99.9 per cent” of each show presented is created on the spot.

There’s always a bit that’s planned — for example, the theme

is already decided for the April 16 show at The Stage House, 422 Tranquille Rd. The troupe knows each other, having either attended theatre-arts classes together at Thompson Rivers University or performed in productions in the city.

It came together through Buchanan and Brittany McCarthy, who took their idea to Andrew Cooper, artistic producer of Chimera Theatre, where many of the comedians also ply their thespian trade.

For example, McCarthy and Brooke Ballam are artistic associates with Chimera and Cooper is part of the Slips troupe.

It also includes Jeff Daniels, Kelsey

Launier, Dan Ondang, Melissa Thomas and Montana Van Velzen.

They rehearse every weekend and have been learning each other’s strengths since their first improv in January.

The plan is to do one a month — including through the summer — at the North Shore theatre, “a lovely venue, very intimate,” Buchanan said.

She recommends people arrive early to get the best seats.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12 or $15 with a drink ticket, and can be bought for cash only at the door.

For more information, go online to chimeratheatre.com.

EMILY MAY PHOTOGRAPHY (Left to right) Dan Ondang, Brittany McCarthy, Brooke Ballam, Montana Chanel VanVelzen and Jessica Buchanan of the Freudian Slips are preparing for a trip to Hogwarts during their next show on April 16.

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COMMUNITY STUDENTS ABROAD

Sa-Hali secondary teens write home

A group of Sa-Hali secondary students are in Guatemala helping a poverty-stricken village.

They’re also having the trip of a lifetime, exploring a new culture.

KTW caught up with the Grade 11 and 12 students before they departed during spring break on March 24.

Joanne Simpson, one of the group’s organizers, said she knows the youngsters could have simply raised money and sent it overseas to help those in need, but said the students wouldn’t have had the valuable experience that comes with travelling and helping first-hand.

In the six years the school has partnered with Developing World Connections, Simpson has seen students come home with a greater appreciation for home and things like clean, running water.

The current batch of students is blogging about the trip. Here are some highlights, which have been edited due to spacial constraints.

March 25, 2016

After arriving in Guatemala City at around 10 p.m. completely exhausted from waking up at 3 a.m. that morning, we took an hour-long shuttle to Antigua, settling into our rooms and absorbing the foreign surroundings.

The streets were surprisingly busy due to upcoming festivities of Good Friday, which is a huge cultural ceremony held in the cobblestone streets of Antigua.

different from what we’ve seen in Antigua, but we’re definitely looking forward to helping the community and experiencing the culture.

— Alex, Rya and Grace

March 28, 2016

A group of Sa-Hali secondary Grade 11 and 12 students are in Guatemala learning about the culture and helping expand an education centre in a rural community.

We woke up to the sound of beating drums and we ran outside to see men in purple and white robes carrying floats with statues of religions figures, with a marching band following behind.

We explored the city, first going to a large market bustling with people and cars and eventually making our way to a beautiful white cathedral.

Along the streets were intricately designed carpets made of brightly coloured sawdust and flowers.

We went down the street to make a carpet of our own.

We brought out cacao shells, pine needles and a bucket of beautiful white and purple flowers.

All of us worked together and pitched in our ideas for the design and ended up creating a pretty impressive carpet for a bunch of outsiders.

We were told the heavy wooden floats were carried

We headed down the windy roads in a shuttle to the Pacaya volcano.

The first part of the hike had us breathing pretty heavily, but we all trekked with our hiking sticks.

The terrain was completely different from the rich vegetation we had just emerged from which, a land of black rocks that had flown from the volcano and eventually hardened.

Our guide led us to an area where the rocks were still very hot and we roasted marshmallows.

Tomorrow, we’ll have another exciting day, it feels like it’s been forever since we’ve been home.

— Grace and Halea

We spent a leisurely morning getting ready for zip-lining. At 10:30 a.m., we headed out on a truck up a steep cobblestone road, looking out over the mountainside.

We arrived and got geared up for zip-lining. The guides were really kind and funny, making the experience all around fun and enjoyable.

We had some free time so some of the boys ended up getting cornrows in their hair, the girls with threaded hair wraps.

We all met at Choco Museo, an amazing chocolate shop with a small museum showing the history of how modern chocolate came to be. We all learned a lot.

We’re now ready to start work at San Miguel Duenas at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. It’ll be completely

For more on their trip, go online to sahaliguatemala. weebly.com/.

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The weight they carried was a symbol for the struggle of the deceased.

— Grace, Naomi and Erika

Today was the first day in San Miguel Duenas. We hopped tiredly on the bus around 8:30 a.m.

We arrived at the Open Windows Centre.

Because today was still part of the Guatemalan Easter tradition, we didn’t get started working on the building so we instead toured the village and saw the children in a coffee compound.

The kids were so grateful for the candy we gave them and the games we showed them.

It was amazing to see their smiling faces peep out from behind the corner and get to know them.

Everyone split up to sit with different groups of kids in the library and read books with them or show them how to finger knit.

San Miguel Duenas is much different from Antigua.

Walking through the village, everybody wanted to stop and pet the stray puppies.

Tomorrow is a new day and we are all excited to see the children again and start building homes.

— Hanna, Javante and Brayden

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NIGHT VOLUNTEER OUT AT MS Society seeking new board members DUNES APRIL 9 The Parent Advisory Council at David Thompson Elementary is hosting a fundraiser dinner and entertainment on April 9.

The event, dubbed Parents’ Night Out, runs 5:30 p.m. until midnight at The Dunes at Kamloops Golf Club, 652 Dunes Dr., and is geared at anyone age 19 and older.

Dinner will be buffet style and entertainment will include a live performer and DJ, complete with dancing. Rounding out the night will be a silent auction, raffle, 50-50 draw and door prizes.

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The Kamloops and area chapter of the MS Society of Canada is looking for board members.

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Kidney peer group

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uch has been made of the growth of women’s hockey on the international stage at the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Kamloops.

But what might more important to the future of the women’s game is the emergence of professional hockey for female players in North America.

Both Canada and the United States now boast leagues for their elite talent — the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) north of the border and the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) to the south — and female players in North America are reaping the benefits of playing year-round hockey against other elite talents.

“I think for me, graduating last year and having this year in the CWHL, it has been growing,” said Canadian captain MariePhilip Poulin, who plays her club hockey for the Les Canadiennes de Montréal of the CWHL.

Canada will be in action against Finland tonight, the final game of preliminary round action for both squads.

Puck drop is 7:30 p.m. at Sandman Centre.

Both Finland and Canada are 1-1- at the women’s world championship, with victories against Russia and losses to the United States.

For a recap of tonight’s action, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

Team Canada blue liner Meaghan Mikkelson was unable to convert on this penalty shot against Russian netminder Maria Sorokina in preliminary-round action at Sandman Centre on Tuesday night — a game Canada won 8-1. When she’s not representing her country, Mikkelson plays for the defending-champion Calgary Inferno of the CWHL.

Poulin finished the 20152016 season as the league’s leading scorer with 46 points, including 23 goals, in 22 games.

She won the Jayna Hefford Memorial Trophy as the player who reflected the best of the CWHL and was voted most valuable player.

“We don’t get paid and we love the game and we’re

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We’re doing it because we love it. “ We’re doing it for the next generation, to push.”

— MARIE-PHILIP POULIN Team Canada captain on the growth of women’s professional hockey

doing it because we love it,” Poulin said. “We’re doing it for the next generation, to push.”

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They went head to head in an outdoor game as part of the NHL’s Winter Classic festivities in December, with the Canadiennes and the Pride playing to a 1-1 draw.

Media attention has started to come.

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Blazers can’t find spark at Memorial Arena MARTY HASTINGS

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powder keg, Memorial Arena was ready to explode, but the home team had no spark.

The Kelowna Rockets blanked the Kamloops Blazers 1-0 in what turned out to be an anticlimactic affair on Tuesday at the venerable Victoria Street barn, used for the WHL playoff game because the IIHF Women’s World Hockey Championship was occupying Sandman Centre.

“It’s really disappointing,” Blazers’ head coach Don Hay said.

“They wanted to have something to cheer about.

We couldn’t give them anything to cheer about.

“They came out to see what it would be like in Memorial. We just didn’t give them any excitement.”

The fourth game in the best-of-seven series between Kelowna and Kamloops was played last night, after KTW’s press deadline, at Sandman Centre.

For results, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Game 5 will be played tomorrow in Kelowna.

Memorial had last been home to WHL action on May 5, 1992. There was a big-game feel inside the venue on Tuesday and the atmosphere was electric, but the raucous party many dreamed of never materialized.

Justin Kirkland’s goal early in the second period held up as the winning marker, with his post-andin shot beating Connor Ingram, who stopped 36 shots in a losing effort.

The Rockets led the

ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

Kamloops forward Gage Quinney (7) was called for goaltender interference on this play in the third period of Game 3. The Blazers couldn’t beat Kelowna netminder Michael Herringer, dropping a 1-0 decision on Tuesday to fall behind 2-1 in the first-round series.

Blazers 2-1 in the Western Conference quarter-final series heading into Game 4, which was played at Sandman Centre last night after KTW’s press deadline.

For stories on games 3 and 4, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Thousands stood on Victoria Street waiting for Memorial’s doors to open.

At precisely 5:41 p.m., a lineup of season-ticket holders that stretched back to Ninth Avenue, across from Dairy Queen, began to shuffle forward.

While they entered the building, a group of Blazers was kicking a soccer ball around in the parking lot, watching the fans who would soon be watching them on Memorial’s smaller-than-regulation sheet of ice.

“The nostalgia alone points in our favour and just the reaction from the city, with everybody coming out to support one last time in the old barn,” said Adam McCaw, a longtime Blazer backer donning blue and orange while he waited in line.

“I was coming here to watch when they were the Junior Oilers. The legend started here. It almost seems fortuitous for us to be back here.”

One women gleefully muttered to her husband, “This is wild,’ as they scrambled to find the best seats available. It was first-comefirst-serve festival seating in the unmarked bleachers.

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Not everyone was pleased to hear the game would not be played at Sandman, but most of the naysayers stayed home and those in attendance could feel the tension building.

Fans began to clap in unison and when the Blazers burst out of the tunnel, Memorial turned into a madhouse.

Even Hay got in on the act, banging on the glass to rile up the crowd as he walked along the ice on his way to the Kamloops bench.

Each hit from a Blazer and every shot on goal was met with great fervour from fans. Odd bounces off the imperfect ice and unpredictable stanchions completed the throwback feel.

But if the first period favoured either team, it was likely Kelowna, as the 3,400 fans in attendance, while far from quiet, were unable to find full voice.

The 2,800 seated and 600 standing were desperate for a goal, a marker that would have changed the complexion of the game, but it never came.

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first frame — Garrett Pilon laid out Rourke Chartier and Calvin Thurkauf decked Jiri Smejkal — that did give spectators reason to cheer, but the feistiness didn’t morph into momentum for Kamloops.

The Blazers’ third power play of the game carried into the second period and was just as fruitless as the first two. Seconds after it ended, Kirkland scored the eventual winner.

Fans in the north end of Memorial — some of whom had clearly managed to find liquor, even though it wasn’t being served in the building — lashed out sporadically with jeers and colourful words of encouragement.

“Let’s go Blazers!,” and “Herringer! Herringer!” chants could be heard. The Mexican wave made its way through the bleachers. They wanted so badly

to ignite their Blazers.

With his team killing a penalty and time winding down in the third period, Hay pulled Ingram and the Blazers earned a face-off in the offensive zone. Was there a Memorial miracle in store?

It wasn’t to be.

Kelowna cleared and the puck trickled innocuously down the ice as time ran out on the Blazers and their fans, whose hopes of a throwback thriller had been dashed.

“It was a special evening to play at Memorial and it brings me back to being a kid and watching the Blazers play in, for me, the Ken Hitchcock era, is what I remember best,” said Blazers’ majority owner Tom Gaglardi, who was in town to watch the game.

“It was a special night but, unfortunately, we couldn’t get a goal to get the old barn going.”

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Olympian autographs in Kamloops A pair of Canadian Olympians will host an autograph signing at Aberdeen Canadian Tire to start April.

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Jayna Hefford will be joined by three-time gold medallist Gillian Apps at the South Shore store tomorrow.

The signing will run from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Soccer showing in Surrey

Playing in the Surrey Mayors Cup, players from the Kamloops Soccer Quest Academy impressed in U9,

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The U9 girls, competing in their first soccer event, played to two draws, a win and a loss, led by tournament MVP Alyia Denault. The U9 boys, meanwhile, domination the opposition, conceding only two goals and scoring a total of 24. Tarun Saroya was named MVP. The U10 boys won all

three of their matchups, winning 5-3, 5-0 and 7-0, and were led by tournament MVP Marcus Mollet. The U11 boys finished 2-2 and were led

by Tournament MVP Dylan Dueck.

Soccer Quest’s under-11 squad was in tough over four games, winning two and losing two. Dylan Dueck was named MVP.

Speedskaters in action

The Kamloops Long Blades had two skaters reach personal-best times earlier

this month, skating in Canada Cup No. 4 in Calgary at the Olympic Oval.

Skater Thom Keijzer finished the event with personal bests in the 500m, 1,000m, 1,500m and 5,000m.

Meanwhile, Sylvie Lloyd had a personal best in the 1,500m.

Meanwhile, Martina Antifay grabbed three medals competing in the Canada West Short Track Championships, also in Alberta. Antifay was bronze in the 400m and silver in both the 200m and 3,000m.

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The weekend was TRU’s first at home and the season opener.

Outfielder Ethan Mohan had a dominant weekend at the dish for the Wolves, going 9-17 (.529) over four games. He was 4-4 in the club’s second contest against the Coyotes.

Mohan drove in seven runs, had three doubles and a triple, scored four runs and had one stolen base.

Thompson Rivers will be on the road on the weekend, in Nanaimo for four contests against the Vancouver Island Baseball Institute Mariners. The Pack will also play an exhibition game tomorrow in Chilliwack against the Fraser Valley Collegiate Baseball Group.

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Female NHL coach ‘a question of when, not if,’ Burke says DONNA SPENCER

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The NBA has two female assistant coaches and the NFL recently hired one. Is the NHL next?

Longtime hockey executive Brian Burke says “it’s a question of when, not if.’’

“What I think has to happen is the leagues lower than the NHL — college hockey, junior hockey, American League — would have to train and bring qualified, capable women along.

It can’t be a rookie assignment,’’ the Calgary Flames hockey operations president said.

Women aren’t coaching men in those leagues yet, so by Burke’s rationale, a woman in the NHL’s coaching ranks isn’t imminent.

As any job-seeker has learned, it’s who you know.

Contact has yet to happen between a men’s team with a vacant position and a woman with the ambition and the right credentials.

“The relationship I’m sure is a big factor in the hiring,’’ said Melody Davidson, Hockey Canada’s director of female hockey. “It doesn’t matter what job you’re trying to get, but even more so in coaching and sport, the relationships are huge.

Those relationships have to be built first in the women’s game before those opportunities are there.’’

I’d love to “ see someone in management.

How close the NHL is? I’m not sure.

”

— CASSIE CAMPBELL-PASCALL Former captain of Canada’s women’s team on the prospect of a female NHL executive

Davidson coached the Canadian women to back-toback Olympic gold medals in 2006 and 2010. She has the deepest resume of any woman in hockey, including scouting, coaching, managing and international mentorship of other coaches.

The 52-year-old from Oyen, Alta., was also an assistant coach in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for four years.

No men’s league higher than that has sought her services, but Davidson acknowledges she bears some responsibility.

“Never been asked,’’ she said.

“Again, it’s about relationships. Who is to say if I hadn’t started to pursue something or go after something, or if someone else does it, it might not come about right?

“I can’t lay it in the hands of someone else to come and ask me.’’

Canadian star Hayley Wickenheiser, who has played

men’s pro hockey, and former captain Cassie Campbell-Pascall think a woman could be an NHL coach or in hockey operations within the next five years.

Campbell-Pascall rubs shoulders with NHL coaches and general managers in her job as a television reporter on national hockey broadcasts. Her husband Brad is an assistant general manager with the Flames.

She expects a woman to be an NHL scout or assistant general manager before there is a female coach.

“I’d love to see someone in management,’’ CampbellPascall said. “How close the NHL is? I’m not sure.’’

Wickenheiser believes the first woman in could be an assistant coach, but that person needs a lot of “hockey cred’’ and a healthy ego.

“You have to have garnered the respect of the male colleagues you were working with,’’ Wickenheiser said. “Otherwise you would be thrown to the wolves a bit.

“It comes down to having the skills and confidence to go into that environment. Not everyone can or wants to. It’s not an easy environment to operate in. It’s cut-throat and it’s about performance and you have to have the right temperament.’’

Wickenheiser is a candidate when she stops playing. The 37-year-old plans to compete in a sixth Winter Olympics in 2018.

Competing North American leagues looking at merger?

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Eighteen of Canada’s players are in the CWHL and, south of the border, 10 members of the U.S.’s world championship roster play in the NWHL. “We’ve always dabbled in that senior league on our side of the border,” Melody Davidson, Canada’s general manager of national women’s team programs, told KTW. “Now, with viable leagues on both sides, the next step is how do we make one North American league that’s compatible for everybody?”

Davidson likened the emergence of the NWHL and CWHL as similar to that of the WHA and NHL, professional hockey leagues that went head to head in the men’s game in the 1970s.

Eventually, the WHA merged with the NHL, creating the

foundation for what would become the world’s premier hockey league.

It’s an evolution Davidson feels is also inevitable in the women’s game.

“It has to be, in my opinion, it has to be,” she said. “We don’t have enough depth to run two really good products on both sides, with eight or 10 or 12 teams.

“We need to build that together. It will come.

“The same as it happened with the WHA and the NHL and how the men’s side all grew and evolved. That’s just where we’re at.”

The biggest difference between the two leagues is pay — NWHL players are paid, while CWHLers aren’t.

Income is expected to be on the horizon in Canada, but it’s anyone’s guess as to when.

Still, the players play.

Canada’s women view the CWHL as a platform from which to promote the game and improve the situation for the next generation.

Sure, they want to be paid, but that’s secondary to the larger goal of growing women’s hockey.

“You watch the world championships and there’s a hype around worlds and Olympics, but we’re all playing in these leagues in the non-Olympic years,” said Canadian defenceman Tara Watchorn, who plays her CWHL hockey for the Calgary Inferno, the defending league champions.

“If people start to realize that more, you’re going to get more hype around the CWHL and NWHL games, knowing that all those players, that’s where we are.”

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Houses, condos, duplexes, suites, etc.

(3 months max.)

Special: Add an extra line to your ad for $10

for one month at a time. Customer must call to reschedule No refunds on classified ads.

Tax not included.

No refunds on classified ads.

*Ads scheduled for one month at a time. Customer must call to reschedule. No refunds on classified ads.

Regular Classified Rates

Deadlines 2 pm Friday for Tuesday 2 pm Tuesday for Thursday 2 pm Wednesday for Friday PAYMENT - All ads must be prepaid. No refunds on classified ads.

Based on 3 lines

Employment (based on 3 lines)

(No businesses, 3 lines or less)

(No businesses, 3 lines or less) *$35.00 + Tax *Some restrictions apply.

*$53.00 + Tax *Some restrictions apply. *Ads scheduled

Special: Add an extra line to your ad for $10

1 Issue...................................$16.38 1 Week ..................................$39.60 1 Month ............................. $129.60 Tax not included. No refunds on classified ads.

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$11.5+tax per issue 3 lines or less

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~ Caution ~ While we try to ensure all advertisements appearing in Kamloops This Week are placed by reputable businesses with legitimate offers, we do caution our readers to undertake due diligence when answering any advertisement, particularly when the advertiser is asking for monies up front.

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking 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.

Career Opportunities

HUNTER & FIREARMS

Courses.

Next C.O.R.E. May 7th & 8th, Saturday and Sunday. P.A.L. April 10th, Sunday. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

250-376-7970

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SCHOOL. Hands-On Tasks. Start Weekly. GPS Training!

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof.

Call 1-866-399-3853 or go to: iheschool.com

PAL (Firearms) & CORE (Hunter Ed.) Courses every week, plus Challenges.

We have Gift Certicates.

Phone George or Dianne 778-470-3030 www.PAL-CORE-ED.com

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Professional Truck Driver Program - Funding available for those who qualify!

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSE

Air Brakes

TRAINING TRUCK DRIVERS FOR 28 YEARS!

call 250.828.5104 or visit

Mobile Equipment Maintenance Superintendent JDS Silver is a private company and is preparing to start up its Silvertip Project, an underground Silver/Lead/Zinc mine located 90 kms southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon.

16 Hour Course 20 Hour Course

tru.ca/trades

Class 1, 2, 3 and B-Train Driver Training

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CAREER, NOT A JOB? Busy automotive dealer seeks a enthusiastic individual for:

FULL TIME RECEPTIONIST We offer:

Great work Environment, Air conditioned shop, Brand new facility, Competitive salaries and benefits, Locally owned Family run business.

Please forward resume to dlaporte@ramtrucks.ca Only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.

CHRYSLER • JEEP • DODGE • RAM

Freeman Casting Co. is Casting Extras for a feature film, SHIRT. It will be Shooting from April 12th- 19th . We are looking for people of ages 18-45. These are paid positions $10.25- $23.39.

We will be holding an open casting session on April 2nd at The Thompson Hotel 650, Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 2B4 from 10am to 6pm.

Truck Driver Training

April 1-3 • April 15-17

AUTOMOTIVE CAREERS

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE: • Applicable university degree in administration, personnel management, or related fields of study • Minimum ten (10) years’ experience managing maintenance of mobile mining equipment • Experience in the field of electrical processes and infrastructures in the u/g environment • Trades experience preferred • Proficient with maintenance planning software • Valid driver's license • Physically fit to perform the duties of the position Closing date: April 5, 2016 Hours: 40 per week on a 2 week in 2 week out rotation Salary: to be discussed, excellent renumeration package Duration: Permanent Company: JDS Silver, Silvertip Mine Contact: Human Resources Email: hr@jdssilver.com Website: www.jdssilver.com

If you are not able to attend the casting session but youre still interested, please send your photos (1headshot, 1 full body shot) to: kamloopsbg@freemancasting.com Thank you in advance for your interest.

Freeman Casting Co.

The eyes have it Fetch a Friend from the SPCA today! spca.bc.ca

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Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Farm Workers

Medical/Dental

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

BAKER

Horsting’s Farm Market in Cache Creek, BC requires a Baker for part-time to fulltime work.

Position is available now.

Wage is dependent on experience.

Submit application by mail to: 2540 Cariboo Hwy #97, PO Box 716, Cache Creek, BC, V0K 1H0 or email: horstingsfarm@shaw.ca or by fax 1.604.792.7766

Certified Dental Assistant Position Full-time and/or Parttime CDA required for busy orthodontic office. Previous orthodontic experience and treatment coordinator experience is an asset but not essential, we are willing to sponsor the successful candidate to complete the orthodontic module. We value good communication skills, ambition, involvement, energy and organizational talents.

Please fax your resume to 250-374 3722 or email info@kamloopsorthodontics.ca Dr. Daniel Dagasso Certified Specialist in Orthodontics #500-275 Lansdowne Street Kamloops BC V2C 1X8

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

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

Excellent communication skills, valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle are necessary.

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

JOB SEARCHING?

LOOK IN THE CLASSIFIEDS SECTION

250-371-4949

Help Wanted Caretakers needed for remote ski lodge, North/East of Sicamous, best suits a retired couple,2 weeks in, 2 weeks out. April-Oct. Send resume to nick@mustangpowder.com

Work Wanted

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

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

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

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

THE PRINTED PAPER remains the most popular method of reading Printed Newspaper

KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city.

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462 EI CLAIM denied? Need help?

22yrs exp as EI officer. Will prepare, present, reconsiderations & appeals. Call me before requesting reconsideration. Bernie Hughes 1-877581-1122.

I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

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

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

250-374-0462

Seasonal Irrigation/ Farm Crew:

Assets would include irrigation equipment experience, valid driver’s license, and farm machinery experience.

Single accommodations and meals available with benefits package. Wage $12- $14/ hr.

Please apply via fax: (250) 350 3336 or email: info@douglaslake.com Location: 2620 Home Ranch Lane, Douglas Lake, BC V0E 1S0

AUTOMOTIVE CAREERS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CAREER, NOT A JOB? Busy automotive dealer seeks a enthusiastic individual for:

FULL TIME SERVICE ADVISOR We offer:

Great work Environment, Air conditioned shop, Brand new facility, Competitive salaries and benefits, Locally owned Family run business.

Please forward resume to dlaporte@ramtrucks.ca Only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.

WESTSYDE/WESTMOUNT Rte 238 – Seneca Pl, 902-1002 Sicamore Dr. – 33 papers

SAHALI

Rte 472 – 1750-1795 Summit Dr. – 41 papers

SUNRIVERS

Rte 874 – Canyon Ridge Crt, Dr, Lane, Pl, 1400-1448 Sun Rivers Dr. – 26 papers Rte 875 – Golf Ridge Dr & Way. – 42 papers

Rte 481 – Robson Lane, Whistler Crt, Rte 876 – Irongate Pl, Ironwood Cres, Crt, Dr, Lane, Pl, St, Terr.

Dr, Pl. – 70 papers

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE

– 56 papers

Rte 750 – 5101-5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Rte 877 – The Pointe – 13 papers Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. – 31 papers

Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Dr,

Bogetti Pl, Viking Dr, Wade Pl, 54855497 E.Trans.Can. Hwy, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr. – 62 papers

Rte 880 – Belmonte Ave, Crt, Dr, Lane, St, Terr & Way, Sillaro Dr, 2000-2028 Sun Rivers Dr, Visao Crt & Terr. – 30 papers

RAYLEIGH

Rte 834 – Armour Pl, Mattoch-

Rte 752 – 5600-5998 Dallas Dr, Harper McKeague, Sabiston Crt & Rd, 4205Pl, Harper Rd. – 65 papers

Rte 756 – 7410-7510 Dallas Dr, Kelso

4435 Spurraway Rd. – 61 papers

Cres, O’Connor Rd, Rambler Pl. – 82 papers

17%

CHRYSLER • JEEP • DODGE • RAM

DOUGLAS LAKE CATTLE COMPANY We are a large outfit between Merritt and Kamloops, BC looking for full- time Livestock Workers (cowboys). Ability to rope and sort cattle on horseback, as well as shoe and provide your own tack are essential to this position. We require cowboys to treat cattle illness and maintain cattle welfare, and move cattle between pastures.

A background with livestock is required.

We provide single- housing accommodation here on the ranch, as well as work trucks for use on the ranch. *Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Hourly wages begin at $13.20, and we require our cowboys to work an average of 10 hours a day (Approx. 40 hours a week) with regular days off.

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We also offer extended health benefits after 90 days of full- time employment.

4% TABLET

3% SMARTPHONE

BIGGER circulation, BETTER value

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

Livestock Worker:

Please apply via fax: (250) 350 3336 or email: info@douglaslake.com Location: 2620 Home Ranch Lane, Douglas Lake, BC V0E 1S0

Legal

Businesses & Services Financial Services

Garden & Lawn

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

Grassbusters Lawn and Yard Care. Now booking for the 2016 season. 250-319-9340.

LARGE FUND Borrowers Wanted Start saving hundreds of dollars 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 don’t rely on credit, age or income.

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

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

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

NEED A LOW INTEREST LOAN?

We offer business, personal, consolidation or bad credit loan.

RATES FROM 2.1% APR Bankruptcies are Welcome Call Now 1-604-401-4523

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise!

Lawyers • Mediators • Notaries • Arbitrators

Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 3 issues a week!

We have an employment opportunity for a

call 250-374-0462

Experience in family law an asset but not mandatory.

Positive working environment and excellent benefit package.

Fencing

Legal Assistant

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

HAS THE FOLLOWING DOOR TO DOOR DELIVERY ROUTES COMING AVAILABLE

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

91% EARN EXTRA $$$

DOUGLAS LAKE CATTLE COMPANY

Submit your resume in confidence by email to: arlene@kamloopslaw.com

for a route near you!

FARM & RESIDENTIAL FENCING. 30 yrs exp. Serving the Thompson/Okanagan.

Fawndale Farms. 250-6792813 fawndale@telus.net

Handypersons RICKS’S SMALL HAUL

Painting & Decorating

Residential, Commercial, Interior/Exterior 25% Seniors Discount Fully insured Call Dennis 250-936-8842

Stucco/Siding

250-377-3457

Home Improvements Renovations and Repairs.

For all your home improvement needs. Joe 250-3198694.

Landscaping Aerate • Power Rake Yard/Lot/Garden Clean Up Prune • Mow • Weed Whack Weed • Hedge Trim • Plant Gravel/Rock/Mulch • Turf Garden Walls • Paving Stones Irrigation: Start up & Repairs

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE:

250-376-2689 WEST END CEDARS. Cedar hedge maintenance, trimming, topping & removal and gutter cleaning too. Lorne 574-5816

YOUR BUSINESS HERE

Only $150/month

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

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Swimming Pools/ Hot Tubs K. Wind Pool Services Pool installations, liner replacements, chemicals and equipment. For a free quote call 250-574-1491

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Pets & Livestock

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Real Estate

Real Estate

Real Estate

Rentals

Pets

Heavy Duty Machinery

Misc. for Sale

Apt/Condos for Sale

Houses For Sale

Recreational

Apt/Condo for Rent

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

PETS For Sale?

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

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

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Jewels, Furs

*some restrictions apply.

White Gold engagement ring.

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

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Merchandise for Sale

Antiques / Vintage Collection of Pin Wheel Crystal. $500. Must be Seen. 250376-9572.

Appliances Maytag Gas Wall Oven.

16000 BTU. 7 yrs old.

24”Wx25”Dx44”H. Can be converted for use with propane. Good shape. $200. 250318-0339.

White Westinghouse 4 burner gas cook top. 30”Wx21.5D. Comes with propane conversion kit. Good shape. $125.

250-318-0339.

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

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

Call our Classified Department for details!

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

Fertilizers Aged Cow Manure $25.00 pick up load Call to set loading time Westsyde (250) 579-8913

Furniture Redwood dining room set, 8chairs, buffet & hutch. $3000/obo. 250-828-1983.

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Misc. for Sale 2008 Freespirit treadmill, incline, heart monitor. Like new $450obo (250) 554-0333 Don 2 brand new tires on rims 480 12inch 5 stud rims $60 (250) 376-5373 53” Sony Rear Projection TV with PIP $500, Bushnell Telescope $150,1982 original Ms Pacman table game $1000, 1950 Baycrest Radio Phono $500, Gas Weed Eater $75 Call Paul 250-373-2720 All Season Tires 70/266 R17 Michelin $1500 on 8bolt rims Elec Stove $125 554-4154 Collectable metal Louisville slugger official softball bat. $35. Call at 12:00 778-4702145.

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

Copper Island Park.

Lot $102,000 / with trailer $127,000. 250-319-9312 or 250-851-1979.

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

Misc. Wanted Buying Coin Collections of any size.We collect CAN & US Coins, bills, Silver, Gold. Local couple also deal with Estates, Jewellery, Sterling, Antiques+ Chad & Crissy 778-281-0030.

We can make House Calls!

Musical Instruments

FULLY FURNISHED TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE This very bright, fully furnished, three bedroom/two bath corner unit townhouse in Big White ski resort offers your very own hot tub, 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. $199,900 (May consider a trade for an apartment in Kamloops. Call Don at 250682-3984 for more information.

Beautiful 2-Storey home in Valleyview 3bdrm, 3 1/2 bth Open-Concept Kitchen, Dining and Living Room; Large Office. SS Appl; Granite & Hardwood throughout.

2Car Garage. Fully landscaped Gas BBQ. Bareland Strata-includes Clubhouse & Secure RV parking. $459,900 (250) 3721706

Stainless steel toolbox for pick up $375., 250-374-0339 Yard King Lawn Tractor exc cond $550 phone Mike (250) 372-0510

Sporting Goods

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Vision Fitness Treadmill. $250. Good shape. 250-5710716.

Tools Brand new top of line Klein backpack tool bag.

Orange/black. $180. 250-3769572.

Under the Real Estate Tab

Mind your business!

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Mobile Homes & Parks

BY OWNER

Yamaha Clavinova (Organ).

Like new.

Original $7700.

Asking $1500. 250-372-0041.

$55.00 Special!

Kokanee Court

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Holzer saw $1500, Safety Harness $500, Myte Extractor $2500. 250-377-8436.

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(250) 573-2278

Livestock

Livestock

Antiques / Vintage

Antiques / Vintage

REIMER’S FARM SERVICES

250-260-0110

Utilities not included

CALL 250-682-0312

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Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS 1 Bedroom Apartments $880 - $910

• Seniors Orientated • Close to the Hospital • Quiet Living Space • Underground Parking • Newly Renovated Suites • No Smoking

Now Renting CHANEL PLACE Brand new 1 and 2 Bdrm Apartments Downtown Kamloops 555 8th Avenue For more information visit: 3BBBGroup.ca or call 778-220-6214 The Pines 1Bdrm $880 & $940, 2 Bdrm $1200. Bright suites with hardwood floors, one with carpet. Building is clean and quiet. On site managers. Downtown, hospital area. Laundry facilities. Rent includes: h/w, heat, and cable.

Six-month lease. References required. NO PETS. 250-3727185

THE PRINTED PAPER remains the most popular method of reading 91% Printed Newspaper

1bdrm renovated, N/P. Avail now, close to mall and bus.

N/Shore. (250) 554-4996.

17% ONLINE

Available spacious 1bdrm apts. Starting at $850/mo. The Sands Apartment.

Centrally located. On-site Management.

250-828-1711.

FURN.2bed/bath,+den,1291sq ft., Ex-Landmark show suite, steps to TRU, view. 1 u/g park spot.$1700+util.Min 1yr leaseMay 1. NS/P. 250-319-1946 Riverbend Senior Community Living 1bdrm Mayfair Suite Avail Apr 1 $1155 554-2016

Houses For Sale

250-371-4949

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SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS

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For Sale By Owner

Under the Real Estate Tab

Yamaha Arius YDPC71 Digital Upright Piano w/bench.

88 keys $850. 250-374-6700.

BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

250-371-4949

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Fruit trees any kind. $35/each.

6 ft. tall. Russet & yellow potatoes. .75/lb.Call 250-376-3480.

CA$H

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Plants /Nursery

stuff into

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Solid Oak table w/6chairs 68x42 w/2 12inch leaves $800 (250) 579-9483

SOLD Turn your

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NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings.

Reasonable Rental Rates

4% TABLET

3% SMARTPHONE

BIGGER circulation, BETTER value

Houses For Sale

eaglehomes.ca

HARMONIE

antique & collectables

HUGE SALE

We have sideboards, China cabinets, buffet and hutch, dressers, man cave stuff jukeboxes, neon lights, cprail stuff, forging tools, esso oil and gas can, antique wall phones, Patel cars, retro phones, lps, 45s grammarphones, and much more!

We buy and sell antiques!

2 3 2 B r i a r Av e (250) 312-0831

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1 2 5 1-1 2 t h S t (250) 554-3534

Kamloops, BC

TIME TO DECLUTTER? ask us about our

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2355 Bramble Lane

$484,900

MLS 133585

Location, Location, Location! Beautiful south-facing, basemententry home located in a great family neighborhood in Aberdeen.

This 5 bed/3 bath home offers lots of room for a growing family.

Upstairs has 3beds & 2bths. Kitchen has stainless steel appliances and opens to a lovely family room complete with a corner f/p. The large formal room offers beautiful windows, vaulted ceilings & tons of light. The large master bdrm has a w/i closet and en-suite. Beautiful a/g basement has office/bedroom, laundry room, rec room, 2nd master suite with w/i closet + en-suite, and separate entrance to outside and entry to the 2 car garage.

The backyard is fully fenced, large, & flat. Extra large driveway has lots of additional parking (and room for an RV). Home features many updates, new flooring, fresh paint, new water tank, new appliances, central air, & has been very well maintained.

Pride of ownership shows! This home has a lovely open feel & has been painted in warm neutral colours. Ready for you to move right in! Listed for $484,900. For more info, or to view, please contact listing agent.

Jerri Van, Royal LePage Westwin Realty

Packages start at $35

250-374-1461 / jvan@kadrea

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1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

250-371-4949

BROCK Multi Family Sat and Sun 8-3pm 705 Holt Street Clothing, decorations, treasures for everyone!

Buying or Selling?

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Looking For A New Place To Call Home?

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Rentals

Rentals

Rentals

Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Apt/Condo for Rent

Homes for Rent

Suites, Lower

Cars - Domestic

Motorcycles

Scrap Car Removal

Boats

URGENT

Renter needed for 1 bedroom apartment downtown.

Acacia Towers 7th floor All amenities included.

Call 778-220-6566

Large comfortable home in Westsyde, close to bus, shopping centre, schools. 4bdrms, 3-baths, large living area, gas fireplace, separate dining area, spacious kitchen lots of storage. $1850/mo. 3 references plus credit report. 250852-0595 for interview.

2BDRM large N/S N/P Close to schools Working person pref’d $950 250-819-3368.

Bed & Breakfast

CLASSIFIEDS

BC Best Buy Classified’s

for more information

Office space 774 Victoria.

Private secure entrance. Geoff 250-319-7188.

THE PRINTED PAPER remains the most popular method of reading

Recreation

Large furn room, private bath/ent. util, cable, wifi, appl incl $460 Brock 250-879-0424

Shared Accommodation

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

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

TABLET

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

3% SMARTPHONE

BIGGER circulation, BETTER value

Retired male seeking roommate, N/Shore. Close to bus/shopping. $500. 376-0953

Suites, Lower 1Bdrm North Shore. Close to all amenities.

F/S. N/P. $740/mo. 250-376-5933.

Commercial/ Industrial

Commercial/ Industrial

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Add an extra line to your ad for $10 Must be pre-paid Scheduled for 4 weeks at a time Private parties only - no businesses Some Restrictions Apply

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

250-371-4949

2005 Toyota Corolla 5 speed extra set of mounted tires /rims $4500.00 250-318-8870

Townhouses

1bdrm shr kit, priv bath, cls to TRU n/p, n/s suitable for student $775 util incl 372-8258

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Bradley James Gardner November 6, 1957 - March 10, 2016 We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our beloved Bradley James Gardner on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at the age of 58. He passed away quietly, surrounded by family at Vancouver General Hospital after a four year long battle with lymphoma.

Please join us in celebrating the life of

ANTONIA “TOOSJE” DEVOS

He is survived by his wife of 25 years Paula, his sons Jackson and Noah, as well as his brother Bob and his sister Beth (Maurice). He also leaves behind cousins, his aunt, nieces and nephews and his in-laws. He was predeceased by his father Norman in 2006 and his mother Isabel in 2008.

Brad was a loving husband and father, as well as a loyal friend and an all-around kind and gentle soul. He will be deeply missed for his humour and resourcefulness, as well as his calm and friendly nature.

Truly a thinking man, Brad was always happy to use his knowledge and many skills to help anyone with any problem they may have had.

Although he only lived a short 58 years, from frequent heli-skiing, to scuba and sky diving in his younger years, or embarking on trips such as travelling through the Mongolian desert in his later years, Brad truly lived life to the fullest.

That said, his favourite place to be was at home with his family and cats Ozzie and Flash.

Always a dedicated Denver Broncos fan, Brad was overjoyed to see his team win the 2016 Super Bowl from his hospital bed in Vancouver.

The family would like to thank the hospital staff at VGH, as well as the staff at the Jean C. Barber Cancer Lodge, and the nurses on the 8th floor of Royal Inland Hospital for their care and support.

As requested, there will be no formal service, but the family will be holding a Celebration of Life later this spring.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in memory of Brad to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Sunday, April 10th 11:00 am Burial Ceremony at Hillside Cemetery 750 Notre Dame Drive, Kamloops 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Celebration of Life Open House at the South Thompson Inn 3438 Shuswap Road East Everyone welcome at either event.

If you will be attending the open house at the South Thompson Inn, please RSVP to Adriana as food will be provided.

Call or text (250) 852-1404 or email mailloux_a@hotmail.com

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Earl Herbison

January 27, 1918 - March 25, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Earl at the age of 98 years.

He is survived by his sons Don (Asenath), Del and Dwight (Helene), daughter Wanda (Dan) and daughter-in-law Teresa. He also leaves twelve grandchildren, sixteen greatgrandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his loving wife Mae, sons Dennis and Gordon, foster daughter Marianne, daughter-in-law Janis, grandson Wayne, great-grandson Sergio, two sisters and one brother.

A Celebration of Life will be held in his memory in the near future. (Date and place to be announced.)

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Born June 24, 1930 to John and Mary (Ryback) in Glaslyn, Saskatchewan and died on March 1, 2016 in Kamloops, BC.

The More You Give

Survived by former wife Cathie, daughter Linda, granddaughter Carrie (Jerry) and great-grandsons Lucas and Logan, grandson Brian (Cristen) and son John Glenn and grandsons Jared and Jaden.

The more you laugh,

Mourned by sisters Ann, Sophie, Margaret (Jim), Luba, brother Tony and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren.

Predeceased by sister Natalia, brother Ted and nephew Danny.

John worked many years building BC roads, he enjoyed hunting and ice fishing and planted very large gardens at home on the North Thompson River in Kamloops, BC.

The more you give, The more you get, The less you fret.

The more you do unselfishly.

The more you live abundantly.

The more of everything you share, The more you’ll always have to spare.

The more you love, the more you’ll find, That life is good and friends are kind.

A Memorial to take place at a later date.

For only what we give away, Enriches us from day to day.

Teresa PierceyGates

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MALCOLM “MICK” CHARLES MCPHEE August 18, 1944 – February 16, 2016 On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, Malcolm “Mick” Charles McPhee passed away peacefully after a brief battle with cancer.

Mick is survived by his children Mike (Cathie) and Michelle (Randy), his grandchildren Alexandra (Mark), Samantha, Duncan and Aidan, and his siblings Don (Sandra), Judy and Rex, numerous cousins, nieces and nephews, and many good friends.

Mick is predeceased by Gloria, his beloved wife of 47 years.

Mick was born on August 18, 1944 in Chilliwack, BC. He moved to Kamloops with his family when he was two years old. After attending Norkam Secondary, he trained as a mechanic in Nanaimo, BC. He returned to Kamloops to begin his career, where he spent thirty-five years at Dearborn Ford.

Mick’s hobby as a gunsmith grew to become a second career and he distinguished himself as an internationally known barrel maker and a competitive target shooter.

Mick met his wife Gloria in 1962 and they were married in 1965. Together, they raised their two children and immensely enjoyed being grandparents. Mick especially enjoyed family barbeques, car shows and teaching his grandchildren to shoot. Mick volunteered as a softball coach for several years and spent countless hours passing on his joy of fishing and the outdoors.

A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 2:00 pm in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Drive.

Special thanks for the exceptional care and dedication of Dr. Cribb, Dr. Chevalier, Dr. Proctor and the staff of 6 North and Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House.

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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ROBERT (BOB) H. NAGEL September 23, 1939 – March 20, 2016 An avid mountain biker, skier and outdoorsman, Bob passed away peacefully on March 20, 2016 at Kamloops Hospice House after a hard fought battle with cancer.

Born in Konstanz, Germany he later lived in Australia for four years before arriving in Canada in April 1965.

Bob leaves behind his loving spouse and constant companion of many years Kathy Hoch, as well as children Rod Nagel (Jennifer) of South Surrey, Bryan Hoch of Kamloops and Carrie Hoch of Kamloops.

Also left to cherish his memory are his precious grandchildren Taylor, Raina, Mahalia and Kai. “We love you forever Grandpa”. Surviving him also is nephew Rudi Nagel (Andrea) of Konstanz, Germany as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his parents Albert and Rosa Nagel as well as by brothers Anton, Arnold and Fritz all of Germany.

Bob worked in Kitimat and Gold River before moving to Kamloops in 1973 to work as a pipefitter for Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill. He retired in 2001 to pursue his love of skiing and mountain biking.

Many hundreds of days were spent pounding the moguls of Todd Mountain now Sun Peaks, always on the hunt for powder. After retirement he mastered cross country skiing as well.

Bob also raced his mountain bike recreationally, mostly Stake Lake Stomps and the Blue River Mountain Bike Festivals, winning gold once but always motivating the younger bikers to try harder.

Numerous vacations by only Bob and Kathy were spent canoeing or backpacking into the wilderness. Notably twice canoeing the Bowron Lake circuit of 116 km and several times paddling the expanse of Murtle Lake in Wells Grey, accessed only by portage. Always exploring, very long day hikes were done all over our beautiful province. Several multiday backpacking trips into the alpine jewel of Spruce Lake Wilderness Park are treasured immensely. Bob’s children and grandchildren have taken up his love of skiing, riding and hiking, just as it should be.

Be One with Nature Forevermore. The Mountains and Trails are calling.

“Love Always Remembers” Bob requested no formal service. The family will scatter his ashes in a private ceremony.

Thank you to the compassionate knowledgeable caregivers at Marjorie Willoughby-Snowden Memorial Hospice House for making his last month one of comfort and dignity. Also, thank you to Dr. Barnard and to everyone at the Kamloops Cancer Clinic.

Should anyone so desire, donations in his memory would be appreciated to the Kamloops Hospice Association or to the B.C. Cancer Foundation.

Arrangements entrusted to Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Services 250-554-2324 Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

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MEND program gets healthy boost Jackie Enders (left) talks about her family’s experience with the MEND program at John Tod Community Centre on Tuesday as daughter Brook and husband Dwayne (right) and Kamloops MLAs Todd Stone and Terry Lake look on.

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A program to teach kids and their families about healthy habits is getting a boost from the province.

The MEND program focuses on nutrition, goal-setting and physical activity for children between the ages of seven and 13 and their parents.

Health Minister and Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake announced another $2 million in funding for the program at the John Tod Community Centre on Tuesday, which he said will help expand MEND to more communities across the province.

“This program is about enhancing a healthy body and selfimage,” he said, adding encouraging overweight children to get active can also help prevent chronic diseases.

Children who take

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part in the program tend to increase their physical activity by about four hours a week and report eating an additional serving of fruit or vegetables per day, Lake said.

Dr. Tom Warshawski, chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation, which helped the province develop its health programming, said about 20 per cent of children in

B.C. are overweight and seven per cent are obese.

“Most children do not outgrow their weight problems and, in most cases, it just gets worse,” he said.

In Kamloops, where MEND is already running, the program is operated in partnership with the Kamloops YMCA-YWCA. Program co-ordinator Kathryn Sharples said

families come to John Tod twice a week for one- to two-hour classes.

Each session features both lessons and active play time in the centre’s gymnasium.

Up to 15 kids can be involved in the program at a time.

Jackie Enders, who took part in MEND with her husband Dwayne and daughter Brooke, said the program taught

her about better nutrition and helped her family find time to be active together.

“We learned even as busy as we were we could still take an hour or half an hour,” she said. “It’s not about going out and doing exercise.

It’s about playing together as a family.”

To learn more, go online to bchealthykids. ca.

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Notice of Annual General Meeting When: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 @7:00 PM Where: 298 McGill Road The Festival can only continue with community support and volunteers. Come out and be part of the Performing Arts in Kamloops.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam RAYMOND MEEKS 1934 - 2016 Surrounded by his family, Raymond Meeks passed away in Kamloops, BC on March 26, 2016, aged 82. He is survived by Janet his wife of 58 years, his children Don, Michael (Rebecca) and Shelley (Rick), his grandchildren Taylor, Owen, Connor, Nicole, Cory, Raelyn and Brittany. He is also survived by his sister Audrey and her family, and his brother Rodney’s family.

Ray was born in 1934 in Arbor Field, Saskatchewan and grew up in Cranbrook, British Columbia. He worked for the Ministry of Highways for 38 years where he took great pride in building and maintaining safe highway systems throughout British Columbia. He moved with his family from Kamloops to Chase, BC in 1963 and became a foreman for the Ministry of Highways. In his early days of living in Chase, Ray was a volunteer member of the Chase Fire Department and he was one of the first volunteer special police constables. He was also a member of the Chase Parks Board and Chairman of the Chase Centennial Committee, which amongst other projects, helped create the Chase boat launch, installed picnic tables in the park and assisted in creating the Chase outdoor skating rink and wading pool.

After retirement Ray loved doing yard work, sitting beside the creek and enjoying the quiet views. He enjoyed working on antique automobiles, cruising, camping, fishing and hunting.

Ray was known for always having the coffee pot on in his shop at exactly 10am and 3pm daily, and sharing embellished stories with his many neighbours and great friends. Later in life Ray never missed an episode of Gold Rush while wearing his hat.

At Ray’s request, there will be no service. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kamloops Hospice Association at 72 Whiteshield Crescent S., Kamloops, BC V2E 2S9.

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

ROBERT EPP Mr. Robert (Bob) Epp passed away at Royal Inland Hospital March 27, 2016, after a courageous fight with cancer.

He is survived by his loving wife Joan, daughter Tracey, sons Darrell and Bradley, and granddaughter Lillian, brothers Jack (and Elizabeth), Delmar (and Betty) and many other nieces and nephews.

He is predeceased by sister Joyce, father John and mother Martha.

Bob was born in Loon Lake, Saskatchewan and left for Victoria, BC to join the navy when he was eighteen. After the navy, Bob trained to be an appliance repairman, worked in Victoria for a few years, then was convinced by his best friend to move to Kamloops. He arrived in Kamloops in 1964 and soon thereafter met his wife-to-be at a square dance. They married in 1966 and spent fifty happy years in Kamloops – playing slo-pitch, camping, golfing, curling, playing cards, hiking and getting together with family.

His Celebration of Life will be held in the lounge of the Kamloops Curling Club, 700 Victoria St. at 1:00 PM on Saturday, April 2nd. Pastor Zacharie Jean will be officiating.

Should friends desire, donations to the charity of one’s choice would be appreciated in Bob’s memory.

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

DELORES SMITH It is with a gentle sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our mother Delores Smith this Easter Saturday, March 26, 2016.

She will be greatly missed by her family and all those she touched in that special way.

Pennies From

Heaven

by Charles L. Mashburn I found a penny today, Just laying on the ground But it’s not just a penny,

She is survived by her daughter Susan Milton, husband Dennis, her son Shane Smith and his partner Cindy. She also leaves behind in her legacy two beautiful grandchildren Lyndsay Milton and her partner Vlad, Denton Milton and his wife Melissa and especially her great-grandson Spencer Milton. She is also survived by her brother James Bassett and nieces Carla (Jim) and Alana Bassett.

This little coin I’ve found.

Born in May 1929 in New Westminster to James and Mary Bassett, she lived there until moving to Kamloops (Westsyde) with her husband Robert and two small children in 1957. Her life was earmarked early on by her love of painting which carried with her through life. She was also impassioned by those less fortunate than herself as she could identify with struggle. She left us with the same strength and tenacity in which she demonstrated and lived life. However she might be remembered by her bright and colourful appearance both inwards and outward.

Oh, how I loved that story.

We are very grateful to her caregivers at the Royal Inland Hospital, from where she lived her last days your kindness and generosity has not gone unnoticed.

A special thank you to Dr. P for her unwavering commitment and dedication to the process of health.

We blessed you in life and continue to do so your light will forever shine.

In Lak’ech Ala K’in. .........Joe Crow.

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“Found” pennies come from heaven, That’s what my Grandpa told me He said angels toss them down; He said when an angel misses you, They toss a penny down Sometimes just to cheer you up, Make a smile out of your frown So don’t pass by that penny, When you’re feeling blue It may be a penny from heaven That an angel tossed to you.

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Valleyview secondary salutes its students Valleyview secondary honour roll Semester 1, Term 2 Honours with Distinction GRADE 8 Olivia Card Leah Demsey Dana Eggert Cheyanne Fennell Nicole Fielding Camryn Filimek Aliya Franzen Linnea Ganstal Ella Gaudon Mackenzie Govett Katherine Gregson Vanessa Hicks Zachary Kuan Beau Kulak Amanda Martin Carsen Moffett Lauren Prokopetz Alex Rome Avery Stainton Cassidy Stasiuk Amanda Thomas Nicole Thomas Ashley Thomson Lizzy Warnock Kya Warren Megan Wright Taryn Zimmer GRADE 9 Jenna Bevan Devon Bishop Sarah Bonner Ethan Crossley Brodie Daburger Kristina Dodd Cailie Drummond Tanner Dyck Samson Hawley Mikayla Holt Casey Hopper

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“The average person eats around 100 meals in a month, so that is 100 opportunities to make positive changes to your eating habits over the next month and beyond,” said public health dietitian Nadine Baerg.

“By focusing on one meal at a time, you can make small lasting changes that you can stick with.”

Here are tips and strategies focusing on five weekly themes: • Week 1: Get ready — Make a small meaningful nutrition goal to work on over the next month. Share your goal with others.

• Week 2: Quality counts — Make food decisions that support your goals, such as cooking more meals at home, choosing fruits and vegetables and substituting ingredients.

• Week 3: Prioritize portion size — When it comes to healthy eating, how much you eat can be just as important as what you eat. Try using smaller plates and bowls at home and, if you are still hungry, eat second portions of vegetables. When eating out, consider splitting an entrée.

• Week 4: Try something new — Taste is the No. 1 reason for food choice. Try a new recipe or experiment with spices, flavoured vinegar or oils to create nourishing meals and delicious snacks.

• Week 5: Make it stick — Learn doable strategies to make your changes stick. Learning how to manage healthy eating roadblocks, such as travelling or a busy work schedule, will help you succeed in your healthy eating journey. Be prepared with nourishing grab ‘n’ go foods, like yogurt, nuts and fruit.

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The new Toyota 86 will go on sale at all dealerships this fall and features interior and exterior changes, as well as suspension and powertrain upgrades.

“When we announced the transition of the Scion models to Toyota, we hadn’t

planned on changing the names of our cars, but by popular demand, for our sports

car, we decided to adopt the global name of 86,” said Toyota Division Group Vice

President, Bill Fay. “Enthusiasts have a strong association with the front-engine, reardrive heritage of the ‘hachi-roku’ and the dynamic performance it offers.”

In addition to the name change, two other Scion vehicles will have new designations for 2017.

The Toyota Corolla iM and Toyota Yaris iA will join Toyota’s small car lineup.

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The front of the car has a new design with re-configured LED front headlamps and turn signals and revised bumper.

The rear now sports LED tail lamps and a new bumper design.

The alloy wheels feature a twisted spoke design and 86 logos

have been incorporated into a badge on the front fender, as well as inside the front headlamps.

The interior also features the 86 logo on the new “Grandlux” material used on the instrument panel surround.

The same material adds a new, soft feel to the door trim.

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steering wheel with integrated audio controls and an 86 logo on the center hub.

On the manual version, additional performance comes from a gear ratio change and a torque increase to 156 lb.-ft, as well as a fivehorsepower increase to 205 hp. Hill start assist control (HAC) helps prevent the car from rolling back on steep hills.

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Joining the Toyota 86 on the show floor is the Toyota C-HR Concept.

The production version of the C-HR will be shown later this year and the vehicle will go on sale in spring 2017 as a 2018 model.

“We’re very excited to be showing the C-HR Concept as a Toyota and adding it to our lineup next year,” Fay said.

“The style and substance of the production C-HR will make it a winner in the hottest segment in the industry.”

The C-HR Concept is named for its Compact size and High Ride height.

With four doors and a hatch for supreme functionality, Toyota says the C-HR Concept is the perfect vehicle for “yuccies,” the young urban creatives who inspired the design.

The C-HR has a platform featuring Toyota’s New Global Architecture (TNGA).

TNGA is an integrated approach to developing new platforms and powertrains for Toyota.

It creates a lower center of gravity, increased body rigidity, more responsive handling and improved ride comfort.

“Even though the C-HR has a high ride height, our focus was on creating a fantastic urban driving car,” said C-HR Chief Engineer Hiro Koba.

“My favourite place to be on a weekend is at a race track and I wanted to build a car that I would have just as much fun driving in the city during the week with refined driving comfort and responsive, precise steering.”

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