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Kamloops Fire Rescue and BC Ambulance Service paramedics respond last week to a report of a male overdosing outside the Kamloops Curling Centre downtown The man was taken to Royal Inland Hospital. On Friday, the provincial government announced $5 million that will be used to boost paramedic resources to tackle the overdose epidemic.

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Drugs consumed at the supervised Insite drug-use clinic in Vancouver can be tested for fentanyl, but that’s not likely going to be the case when a similar clinic opens in Kamloops. Health Minister Terry Lake said the testing at the Downtown Eastside clinic is part of a research study. The pilot project is looking at several aspects, including the reliability of the testing itself. Nurses at Insite can provide patients with a test strip that can indicate the presence of fentanyl. Since the project began in July, 86 per cent of drugs being used contained the opioid that is causing overdose deaths at a rate much greater than ever before. The government continues to address what provincial medical officer of health Dr. Perry Kendall declared earlier this year to be a medical emergency. On Friday, Lake announced $5 million that

will be used to boost paramedic resources to address the health issue. Lake noted last week B.C. had the highest number of overdose-related 911 calls ever, particularly in the Lower Mainland, where paramedics responded to 494 suspected overdoses — 271 in the Downtown Eastside and 81 in Surrey. Lake said paramedics are feeling the pressure and the money is to be used to create medical-support units in Vancouver and Surrey. They will be placed in areas where overdose rates are high and used as resupply stations for paramedics and to provide information and triage to those using drugs. The units could be created in other communities if the need is shown, Lake said. The funding will also be used to provide more flexible transportation methods in the two areas in the Lower Mainland, outfitting paramedic stations with bicycles and ATVs to get into areas ambulances cannot access. Lake added that more supervisor support

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Unsolved murder 10 years later ‘frustrating’ TIM PETRUK

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Ten years ago today, Henry Vandenberghe died, one day after being savagely beaten on a North Kamloops residential street — and police are still on the hunt for his killer. The 61-year-old’s murder remains unsolved, but police have not given up hope. Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Lorne Wood, the head of the detachment’s major-crime unit, said the case has been a source of frustration for investigators. “It’s frustrating in the sense that this seems to be so random,” he told KTW. “Henry is truly, in the truest sense of the word, an innocent victim in this. He was just walking to work, and he was loved by every-

body he knew.” When asked if police have a suspect or person of interest, Wood said police have looked at a number of people. “Nothing really came to light out of that,” he said. “That is one of the frustrating things. There’s never been a really welldefined this-is-theperson-we’re-going-tolook-hard-at.” Vandenberghe, a longtime Western Canada Theatre employee and a prominent figure in Kamloops’ arts scene, was walking to catch a bus to work on Nov. 28, 2006, when he was attacked. “At probably a little after 6:30 in the a.m., Henry left his house on Thrupp Street, walked up to MacKenzie [Avenue] and turned north,” Wood said. “Right out front of 455 MacKenzie, at

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Henry Vandenberghe lived in this Thrupp Street home on Nov. 28, 2006, when he left in the morning to catch a bus to work. He was attacked shortly after leaving home, 300 meters from his doorstep, and died the next day.

about five to 7 a.m., he was struck and knocked down. A couple minutes later, a passerby saw him laying there and called BC Ambulance.” Wood said the

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been assaulted,” Wood said. “I’m sure there was a weapon. What it was? That we don’t know.” Vandenberghe succumbed to his injuries in hospital the day after he was attacked. Wood said he thinks it’s likely someone saw the incident take place and did not come forward. “The biggest thing, that area, it’s a busy spot, even at 7 a.m.,” he said. “I find it hard to believe that there isn’t somebody who saw something or heard something and didn’t come forward.” According to Wood, investigators revisit the Vandenberghe murder on a regular basis to determine if there’s anything new to glean from the evidence they do have. For example, forensic technology has made many advances

in the last 10 years. “That’s one of the things we look at,” Wood said. “What are some of the things we can revisit for DNA? That is obviously one of the areas we’ve looked at.” Wood asked anyone with any information about Vandenberghe’s death to contact police at 250-828-3000. “Henry’s isn’t the only case that’s gone unsolved in Kamloops,” he said. “Every community in B.C. has cold cases and Kamloops is no different. “Any time we get a new tip or new information, we follow up on it. We’ve investigated homicides for a lot of years between us and we always like to solve a case. “If we could get a successful conclusion for it? That is definitely something that is a priority.”

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Terri Runnalls likes to think Henry Vandenberghe is looking down, watching children and youth learn about the theatre. “We always say how proud he would be at the growth of Stage One,” the education co-ordinator with Western Canada Theatre (WTC) said. “It was a passion for him. He would be really proud.” It’s been a decade since the front reception employee at the theatre was attacked and killed. For Runnalls and her colleagues, however, his memory is always fresh. One legacy that came from

Vandenberghe’s death was the creation of a bursary in his name and used to give financial support to youngsters wanting to enrol in one of the courses offered at WCT. All donations received when any of the program’s production companies present a play have gone into the bursary fund. They have been used to support about 60 children and youth in the past decade. Theatre was a big part of Vandenberghe’s life. He worked with Theatre B.C. to organize its Mainstage and New Play festivals. He co-ordinated the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1993 Canada Summer Games in Kamloops and was involved with the Workshop West Playwrights Theatre in Edmonton.

He was with WCT for 17 years, the face that would greet visitors when they headed up the stairs to the offices in Pavilion Theatre and the liaison between families registering their children for Stage One courses and the theatre personnel that instructed them. Vandenberghe had been in his job for a few years when Lori Marchand was hired as WCT’s general manager. Marchand said she was “always grateful to have that experience at my front desk. He had such a wealth of experience. “He was involved in the early stages of the company,” she said. “He was here at the inception and the middle age. He helped lay the foundation for Western Canada Theatre.”

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A Kamloops man who has been behind bars since allegedly beating a teen into a coma in June had his B.C. Supreme Court bail hearing delayed on Friday to give his lawyer more time to deal with a new charge — one that alleges he counselled another inmate at a Surrey jail to commit assault causing bodily harm. The new charge against Kristopher Teichrieb was laid on

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Correction A story that appeared in the Nov. 17 edition of KTW (‘Smuggler still fighting extradition order’) incorrectly named the person behind a lawsuit accusing Canada’s attorney general of abuse of process. Colin Hugh Martin was never the owner of a Malakwa home at the centre of a proceeds of crime file. The home was formerly owned by his wife and he is a former tenant. In March 2015, a B.C. Supreme Court judge tossed the Crown’s application for forfeiture of the home based on a lack of evidence connecting it to a nearby marijuana grow-op.

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A man with a violent criminal record was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Friday to five years in prison. Kyle Walsh was caught by RCMP in February last year with with a loaded sawed-off shotgun stashed behind the rear seat of his car. It was accessible by reaching underneath. He was also in possession of about $300 worth of heroin. RCMP had responded to the Fountain Motel in downtown Kamloops for a report of a man with a firearm. Walsh was arrested outside, where his car was parked at the rear of the motel. He tried to swallow packages of heroin before he was subdued. He was convicted of possession of a loaded prohibited weapon, possession of heroin for the purpose of trafficking and possessing a firearm while under a lifetime ban. Defence lawyer Jay Michi made a submission for a four-and-a-half year sentence, arguing Walsh was a heroin user in the throes of an addic-

tion and was suffering from paranoid episodes. While he has 30 criminal convictions, including five counts of assault causing bodily harm (one of them in jail), Walsh finished high school, is a red seal ironworker and was a provincial kickboxing champion. He has been described in the past as a drug enforcer. He is a stepfather to two young girls. That record of kickboxing competition may have led to mental problems due to concussions, his lawyer suggested. The Crown asked for a prison sentence of almost seven years. Saying he has a chance at rehabilitation, Justice Linda Loo sentenced Walsh to a five-year prison term. He received credit for the equivalent of about six months in custody awaiting trial and sentencing. At a Nov. 4 hearing, Walsh told Loo he was ready to go to federal prison, where he can receive program help and counselling. “I’m happy I’ll get a federal sentence because I can take advantage of programming and get the help I need,” he said.

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ittle more than a year ago, as he was courting votes from sea to sea to sea, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised the October 2015 federal election would be the last conducted under the first-past-the-post system. The system has come under attack as it awards seats to MPs based on which candidate gets the most votes and does not necessarily reflect the total popular vote. Electoral reform was a major plank in the Liberals’ platform and a significant reason Canada’s natural governing party swept to a majority. It could be argued the electoral-reform vow also helped KamloopsThompson-Cariboo Grit candidate Steve Powrie revitalize the party locally, as he garnered the most votes ever by a federal Liberal candidate in the riding. We are now 13 months removed from election night 2015 and Trudeau’s promise is beginning to smell a bit like the pledge made by a predecessor, then-Liberal leader Jean Chretien, who was also seeking votes on the heels of a Conservative administration. We all remember Chretien’s blatant promise during the 1993 election campaign to kill the hated GST. And we all remember Chretien’s refusal to do so once elected. Is Trudeau displaying similar duplicity? Based on some of his recent comments, and those of Democratic Reform Minister Maryam Monsef, it appears so. Last month, the prime minister told a Quebec audience the need for electoral reform was less urgent than it was a year ago (perhaps because his party is now in power?). On the weekend, Monsef was on Global’s The West Block and said she could not promise a new manner of voting would be in place in time for the 2019 federal election. She questioned how public support for such an initiative can be gauged. Here’s how: Her leader, while asking for votes, promised he would change the system if elected. He was elected. Now change the system.

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hen the provincial government sent out the latest in a long string of press releases pertaining to the ongoing crisis involving fentanyl-related overdoses, a glaring omission stood out — testing of drugs. The government last week gave an update on its goal of establishing supervised drug-use sites in Kelowna and Kamloops, with stationary and mobile sites planned for the Lake City and a mobile operation suggested for the Tournament Capital. The mobile approach addresses the NIMBY reaction some have had when faced with the prospect of a government-condoned druguse site in their neighbourhood. In Kamloops, the rationale went, hard-core addicts — the ones we see on the streets and the ones that usually come to mind when thinking of addiction — generally congregate on the North Shore and in the downtown core and may not have the mobility needed to get to a stationary location. Hence the decision to establish a mobile operation if and when the federal government gives the go-ahead. (On that note, many of the fentanyl victims about whom we and other media have written were not on downtown or North Shore streets. They were in comfortable homes or in hotel rooms. Supervised drug-use sites will have no impact whatsoever on casual drug users because they will never pay a visit.) Perhaps, though, a mobile sit like Insite on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside will help a

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MUSINGS specific demographic of drug users. Insite exists to monitor addicts as they take their drugs. When they smoke, snort or inject, there are people there watching in the event of an overdose. Insite is also an avenue through which addicts have eventually found their way into rehab — and that is perhaps the strongest argument for retaining these services. But missing from the latest update on the mobile site was any word on testing. When KTW asked what kind of testing of drugs would be done, we were told none — there will likely be no testing for fentanyl in the heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and other illicit drugs being used under supervision. It may be well and good to have supervisors watching addicts use drugs, overdose-antidote at the ready should the user drop to the ground. But shouldn’t the focus also be on preventing users from ingesting this killer drug and, ideally, using the test results to hammer home even more bluntly the danger posed? Drugs at Insite are being tested, using cheap strips. It’s easy to do.

A four-week pilot project this past summer checked drugs for ingredients 173 times, with 86 per cent of those drugs containing fentanyl, a small amount of which can kill. Also announced last week was a plan to spend an additional $5 million to create medical-support units for paramedics in Surrey and Vancouver, and to buy bicycles and ATVs for paramedics to use to get to out-of-the-way places where overdoses occur. While the response by the province to the overdose epidemic has included many facets, it still seems to be so reactive, rather than proactive. It seems the overall plan is to follow drug users, wait for the overdose, then administer the antidote. In September, the CBC called every drug-treatment facility with beds it could find in the province. While there is help available, the CBC found the system to be “muddled and patchwork.” “There is no centralized resource saying how many beds there are in the province for people seeking drug-addiction treatment, where they are, who the beds are available for and what services they provide,” the CBC found. In addition, wait lists and cost can be barriers. One recovery house charges only $200 for a 10-year program; other facilities charge $10,000 a month for a youth bed. How about an easy-to-navigate centralized rehab resource? How about a streamlined cost structure for beds? How about secure-care legislation so at-risk youth can be forced into rehab, thereby having a chance to save a life that may otherwise later end up in the obits? editor@kamloopsthisweek.com

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STONE’S ICBC PLAN A ‘FLASHY DISTRACTION’ Editor: to keep rates from increasing further? Residents of B.C. shouldn’t be sucked I do agree that if you can afford an in by Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s expensive car, you should pay more in recent announcement that ICBC will no insurance for it. longer insure luxury vehicles. What’s the difference between taxed If anything, this is a to death or being nickel and dimed to flashy distraction to mask the projected 42 per cent death by increasing rates year after rate hike in premiums by year? 2020. There are 3.1-million vehicles on B.C. roads, 3,000 of which are A smarter move would have been for valued at $150,000 and more. ICBC to have tiered the base rates dependHow does Stone expect that not insuring ing on the value of a vehicle. less than one-tenth of one per cent of vehiIf your vehicle costs up to $25,000, you cles in the province will save ICBC enough pay the base rate. Between $25,001 and

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$50,000, you pay a higher rate — and so on. You buy a pricier vehicle, you pay a larger premium. It’s that simple. Another really smart idea would be to actually stop milking dividends (in the order of $1 billion) from ICBC to balance the province’s books. If ICBC has a profit, leave it so it can reinvest it to keep rates lower, seeing as that is the mandate of the Crown corporation. Stone will champion that he wants to keep taxes low for all, but what’s the difference between being taxed to death or being nickel and dimmed to death by increasing rates year after year? Alex Summers Kamloops

B.C. LABOUR-RELATIONS LAWS NEED OVERHAUL Editor: Re: KTW’s story of Nov. 25 (‘More than 19,000 paid to fired city worker’): This is added insult to injury for Kamloops taxpayers. Justice has not been served to have to pay city worker Joe Cupello $19,136 in back

wages and a further $5,149 and $3,707 in extra compensation. B.C. labor-relations laws need a serious overhaul if the City of Kamloops can’t fire an employee who was caught red-handed for falsely claiming he did work he did not do.

Cupello ticked off a number of city parks he had not cleaned, but was paid to do. There is something terribly wrong with B.C. labor-relations policies, as this judgment demonstrates. Les Evens Kamloops

WITNESS TO HIT AND RUN SEEKS DRIVER OF PICKUP Editor: On Saturday, Nov. 19, at about 12:40 p.m., I witnessed a hit and run in the parking lot of Fiesta Mexicana/Notre Dame Tires on Notre Dame Drive. The suspect vehicle was turning right off Notre Dame and into the parking lot when it struck a

pickup truck. The truck is a grey GMC/Chevy crew cab. It should have white paint from being struck on the front right corner. I have a strong feeling the passengers of that vehicle were having lunch at Fiesta Mexicana. When I returned to the scene

about five minutes later, after following the suspect vehicle to get the licence-plate number, the pickup truck was gone. The suspect (male) was driving a white, two- or four-door Volkswagen Jetta that will have damage to its right rear. Hopefully, this will either

encourage the suspect to come forward or find the victim so I can give them the plate number of the car that hit their pickup truck. I can be reached by email at drewhumphries@hotmail.com.

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“This doesn’t include the amount city management would have spent on lawyers for this. “I would hate to know how much was spent on that.” — posted by Sneaky Pete “The city’s human-resources department really blew it. “I hope no one there was fired or the city would be on the hook for even more back pay — and then rehire the incompetent people. “Is this a case of the Peter Principle at its finest?” — posted by Poleman “From the article: “Exhibit A: ‘The arbitrator also said some management testimony that had factored into previous disciplinary actions toward Price wasn’t believable.’ “Exhibit B” ‘The city waited eight months to inform the public about the spill.’ “And where is the accountability ? Yikes.” — posted by Watchman

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Operation Red Nose began its 2016 campaign on the weekend. On Friday and Saturday nights, the service that raises money for PacificSport gave 119 rides (44 on Friday and 75 on Saturday). It collected $2,900 in donations. The program continues every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night from Dec. 3 to Dec. 17. It is also operating on Dec. 26, Dec. 30 and Dec. 31. For a ride, call the Operation Red Nose service line at 250-3725110.

The cost of a newly built home in Kamloops will rise by about $1,700 as the city rolls out new rates for development cost charges (DCCs). City council has agreed to update its rates for DCCs — charges levied against developers to help fund the cost of roads, sewers, parks and other infrastructure as the city grows. The bylaw will go into effect one year after it is adopted, though developers who have rezoning processes or other preliminary work underway with the city will be grandfathered under current fees. According to a report to council, the changes will increase the DCCs charged to a new singlefamily home by about 0.4 per cent, or $1,720 on a new home worth $473,000. On such a home, builders now paying $9,525 in DCCs will pay $11,245.

The fee is lower than what builders are paying on similar-valued homes in Vernon ($18,800), Nanaimo ($16,100), Kelowna ($26,500) and Chilliwack ($24,400), said director of development and engineering services Marvin Kwiatkowski. Developers of commercial properties will pay about 12.5 per cent more for their buildings. DCC changes are negotiated with the Central Interior chapter of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association. The update will see the city change how it calculates DCCs for residential properties, moving from a per-unit charge to charging by floor area, up to a cap of 4,300 square feet. There are smaller caps for multi-unit buildings. Kwiatkowski said the cap on chargeable area was at the request of homebuilders, who said allowing for a larger size variation without penalties would keep the city from becoming filled with “cookie cutter” homes.

The city hopes the change to floor area will encourage multi-family developers to create higher-density projects and lead to more affordable units. Developers in the city’s core — Lower Sahali, the downtown and the North Shore — will get an additional break for multi-family projects by way of a 24 per cent reduction in transportation charges, because residents in those areas are 25 per cent more likely to use public transit, walk or cycle than use vehicles. “This situation translates to lower vehicle trips generated during peak travel hours by residents of the core area, which is a key factor in calculating DCCs for transportation,” the report states. A developer building an apartment complex with 34 to 75 units would pay, on average, just under $7,000 per unit to build in core areas, about $720 less than that paid by a developer building in another part of Kamloops.

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RCMP has confirmed to the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association that it will fill a

long-vacant post in Kamloops for a livestock member. Formerly filled by Ralph Overby, the position has been vacant for about two years. Kevin Boon, general manager of B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, said the force recently committed to staffing the post in Kamloops once again after meeting with his association. While the livestock officer will deal with the odd case of rustling, Boon said in reality he or she will become a provincewide resource to other Mounties for deal-

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ing with complaints between rural neighbours and help when a cattle truck gets into an accident, for example. “It’s very important,” Boon said. “We’ve pushed hard to get it recruited . . . There’s a real aspect of what I call PR

or mediation.” In addition to pushing for the replacement of the livestock member position, the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association has also created what Boon called a “flip book” for RCMP. It will, for example, reference law around

fencing (there are three provincial acts) and other relevant law and advise on what steps to take when a farm vehicle with animals on board gets into a crash. “If you get someone in a rural detachment who’s stretched thin, we give them the proper information,” Boon said.

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The estimated 250 “littles” will remain paired with their “bigs”, but the mentoring program won’t be expanding as Big Brothers Big Sisters Kamloops (BBBS) takes a step back to address its sustainability. Joanne Mason, executive director at the Seymour Street agency, said a full review of programs and services is being undertaken in the face of inadequate funding to keep the operation going. It means those on the wait list for a Big Brother or Big Sister will stay there for now as no new volunteers will be accepted. The in-school mentoring program that sees youngsters paired with teenagers or adults for interaction in a school setting will continue. Mason said the simple reality is that the agency has no sustainable funding. She said she was surprised, when she took the job earlier this year, to learn it

receives no government funding, given its long history of more than 50 years of meeting its mission to enrich the lives of young people by delivering and advocating for the highest-quality volunteerbased mentoring programs. “When you look at other entities with a known brand name and program stability for more than 50 years and compare us to any other entity like us, we are the only such type of organization that hasn’t had a ministry step up and say ‘You’re doing a valuable job. We’re going to help you. We’re going to provide some core operational support,’” Mason said. “And it doesn’t have to be that much but some support would be appreciated.” At least 40 per cent of BBBS’s operating budget of about $400,000 comes from its Renew Crew program that collects donations and shares in the proceeds they generate when sold at Value Village. Challenging that program, which has operated in Kamloops for 20 years, is the presence of other non-profit organizations also canvassing for donations to sell

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With record-setting warm weather this month, many people came out to get in the festive spirit in downtown Kamloops during the annual Santa Claus Parade. On Saturday, clowns handed out goodies (left), while Akimbo Dance Studio and the Thompson Rivers University cheer squad (bottom) took to the streets to hand out candy to youngsters. Brenna Cressey and Hayden Kadoski (right page, top right corner) bundled up, while Kamloops This Week carriers collected letters to Santa in classic Christmas red, which also happens to be the newspaperâ€™s signature hue. Christmas cheer was in the air, with Santa and Mrs. Claus cuddled up on the sleigh and Kamloops Princess Parties blowing kisses to the crowd. ALLEN DOUGLAS PHOTOS/KTW

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Big changes are coming to New Life Community Kamloops this holiday season. Up to 25 people in need of a warm place to sleep can now bed down at New Life’s outreach centre for the night. The cold-weather beds will be available every day of the week until the end of March — a change from years past, when the city’s homeless population would have to wait until the mercury would drop below -7 C, the trigger point for provincially funded emergency shelters to open their doors. Though New Life offers everything from dental care and meals to assisted housing for up to 17 men in addictions recovery, this type of shelter program is something new for the charity. Stan Dueck, New Life’s executive director, is expecting it to be extremely popular right from the start. “People on the street would

have to think, ‘Well, OK, is the temperature going to drop to -7 C or not?’” he said. “Most of the time, they wouldn’t know until late in the day whether there was even going to be emergency shelters or not and, by that time, some of them would have been hidden away somewhere or wrapped up in a blanket somewhere. “Now that they know there’s going to be beds available, they’ll be there for that.” New Life will partner with nearby Emerald House, which will check in overnight guests and find spaces at other locations if more than 25 people need a place to sleep. Dueck said there are other services at New Life he’d like expand around the new programming. For one, the emergency shelter closes at 7 a.m. and New Life’s outreach centre doesn’t open its doors until 8 a.m. “Now there’s a one-hour gap and we’re saying now that we’re feeding the 25 people that are sleeping there, how do we also

find ways to let the people that are sitting outside our door come in and have a hot breakfast?” he said. There are also day-to-day needs. New Life already distributes warm clothing, socks, underwear and personal items such as deodorant and razors. With people staying overnight, “that’s probably going to double now,” Dueck said. It’s all part of New Life’s longterm goal to stay open longer and address more of the needs of its users. “For us, it’s really about opening the door, letting them in, having someone there who can sit down with them and see what they need today and tomorrow, and then continue the process further down the road to get them back into a place where they’re functioning,” Dueck said. New Life Community Kamloops is one of five charities supported by this year’s KTW Christmas Cheer Fund, which raises money to support essential services in the community.

HELP SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER The annual KTW Christmas Cheer Fund has begun. The fund helps five charities: Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Family Tree Family Centre, Sensational Soups, Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre and New Life Community Kamloops. Donations can be made at the KTW office, 1365B Dalhousie Dr., on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. They can also be made online at kamloopsthisweek.com — look for the Cheer penguin and then click on it. Donations can also be made at the United Way ThompsonNicola-Cariboo office, 177 Victoria St., during its office hours.

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LOCAL NEWS Jack Schultz (centre) Liam McRae, Carter Ludwig and Liam Klotz took part in last year’s kick-a-thon with their Western Karate Academy classmates. The kick-a-thon returns this week, with students raising money for the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund by getting pledged for the 1,000 kicks they will complete. KTW FILE PHOTO

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Jim Doan’s KTW Christmas Cheer fundraiser has kicked off for the 14th time. Every year since 2002, the owner of Western Karate Academy has raised money for the Cheer Fund. After a few years of penny drives, the last decade has seen annual kick-a-thons. “We started in 2002 and we’ve raised over $75,000,” he told KTW. “We never set a goal. We don’t really do it that way.” Instead, Doan said, he gives each of his students — ranging from five years old to 60 — a pledge form in early November and it’s up to them to raise as much as they can.

“They go out into the community and they pledge to throw 1,000 kicks,” he said. “They know it’s going to KTW for the Christmas Cheer Fund, so that makes it easy.” The top fundraisers get prizes, Doan said, all of which are donated by people in the community. “This year, somebody donated a brand new Xbox One,” he said. “They get pretty excited. We’ve got some students who are just natural-born salespeople.” In addition, local First Nations artist Clarence Mills has donated nine prints, some of which will be given as prizes and some of which will be auctioned off as a fundraiser. Doan said he became involved in the Cheer Fund to

help give back to the community. “We have to go back to the Daily News,” he said. “We only raised $300 that first year. I just really liked the enthusiasm Gregg [Drinnan, former Kamloops Daily News sports editor and founder of the Cheer Fund] was creating. “Obviously it’s good exposure for my school, but it’s also good to get the students thinking outside themselves.” This year’s kick-a-thon will take place tomorrow and Thursday at the academy’s dojos on the South Shore and North Shore. Anyone interested in donating items to be used as prizes can contact Doan by email at sensei@westernkarateacademy. com.

KTW CHRISTMAS CHEER DONORS Anna Evenrude, $50 Anonymous, $25 Sandra Blakely, $100 Margaret Sandulak, $75 Kay Prichard, $25 Rick Bennett, $50 H and L Francis, $50 Anonymous, $25 The Hanes family in memory of Brett and Bob, $100 Spencer and Janet Bryson, $200 Larry J. Lewis, $50

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Gyoba was sent for an assessment by a forensic psychiatrist. While found to be suffering from mentalhealth problems, he was deemed able to distinguish that his actions would lead to his uncle’s death and he was capable of distinguishing it was morally wrong. Gyoba fled and tried to cover up evidence after the killing. His mother, Julie Gyoba, testified during the trial that, as a child, Shane was a high performer in athletics and academics until about Grade 7, when his father was diagnosed with leukaemia. His father died when Gyoba was in Grade 9, after which he started using marijuana. His actions led to arrests for petty crimes and he became increasingly hostile around the home. Gyoba eventu-

ally moved to Ashcroft with his uncle Ed due to the friction in the Saskatoon home where he lived with his brother and mother. He graduated from Thompson Rivers University in 2012. Soon after, Julie said, her son’s behaviour became more bizarre, including cutting off his finger as a sacrifice to turn his life around, which he claimed his grandfather had also done. The next month, Gyoba returned to Kamloops. He took a trip to Edmonton, she said, after receiving instructions from a television set. A number of other people who knew Gyoba also testified his behaviour declined and his outbursts became strange, threatening and nonsensical in the weeks leading up to his uncle’s murder.

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Production at Highland Valley Copper is down to about 60 per cent following a buckling of one of its three ore covers on the weekend. Peter Martell, the mine’s superintendent of environment and community affairs, said the problem was discovered at about 10 p.m. Saturday night. There were no injuries as a result. The covers, constructed about a decade ago, are intended to shield ore piles from wind, which creates fugitive dust. “The investigation is underway,” Martell said. “It’s too early to say what caused the incident.” Martell said staff will first determine what caused the problem before repairs begin. The mine is expected to return to full production in about a week.

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Craig Daniell had planned to announce Friday night that the Kamloops SPCA was only $420,000 from its dream of a new animal shelter in the Tournament Capital. But, by the time donors arrived to the Kamloops Art Gallery for a first look at the new shelter’s design, that total had dropped again, thanks to another $50,000 donation made just that day. “We’re so close to our target,” the B.C. SPCA CEO said.

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COLD LAKE, ALTA. — The pilot of a CF-18 fighter jet that crashed near the AlbertaSaskatchewan boundary has died. The Air Force said the single-seat fighter was based out of Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake and that the crash happened yesterday morning. The plane went down inside the Cold

Lake Air Weapons Range that covers almost 30,000 square kilometres in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. The pilot was not identified pending notification of next of kin. Speaking in Ottawa, Air Force commander Lt.-Gen. Michael Hood said the plane came down on the Saskatchewan side of the boundary during a routine training mission by 401 Squadron.

“It’s a very, very sad day for the RCAF and our hearts go out to the family of our fallen member,” Hood said. “More details will be forthcoming. It’s just a reminder of the dangerous work that we ask the men and women of our air force and our armed forces to do every day.” Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said he couldn’t speculate on what caused the crash. “It’s too preliminary

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OTTAWA — A disappointed and angry chief of the defence staff put the military on notice yesterday after a Statistics Canada survey found a troubling number of sexual assaults and other misconduct among active service personnel. The study’s findings include an estimated 960 men and women who say they were victims of sexual assaults in the last year — some of which occurred after the last time Gen. Jonathan Vance read the riot act to members of the Forces. “I gave an order to every member of the Canadian Armed Forces that this behaviour had to stop,’’ Vance told a news conference at National Defence Headquarters. “My orders were clear. My expectations were clear. And those who choose or chose not to follow my orders will be dealt with.” The comments marked a shift since Vance launched efforts to eliminate sexual misconduct in the ranks, which he dubbed Operation Honour, upon taking over as chief in July 2015. Much of the military’s focus has been on setting up an independent centre for victims and letting them report assaults directly to military police or civilian authorities. But Vance said commanders will now put more emphasis on “targeting’’ perpetrators with the “intelligence’’ contained in the Statistics Canada survey. “Perpetrators are now more apparent to us, both where and who they are, and they will become the focus of our efforts,’’ he said. Officials reported middling

success over the last year in holding those responsible for sexual assaults and other misconduct to account. The Statistics Canada report found about 1.7 per cent of the roughly 90,000 people in uniform — about 960 people — were sexually assaulted in the last 12 months, a rate higher than the 0.9 per cent reported in the general population. But Rear-Admiral Jennifer Bennett, head of the military’s sexual misconduct response team, said only five cases of sexual assault have gone to court martial since January. Four of those resulted in findings of guilt, with two of the perpetrators being imprisoned. Another 30 military personnel have been stripped of their commands or removed from supervisory positions for inappropriate behaviour this year, while nine were reprimanded, fined or given other punishments after summary trials. One was dismissed from the military. Bennett defended those figures, saying the military is “seeing a trend where people are being held to account and are receiving serious punishments on a disciplinary side and also administrative action that will impact their careers.” Senior commanders are working with the Canadian Forces judge advocate general, Maj.-Gen. Blaise Cathcart, as he conducts the first comprehensive review of the military justice system in generations. Military police are also looking at ways to track sexual assault cases that end up in the civilian court system, Bennett said. The Canadian Press first reported in September military

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.S. president-elect Donald Trump said he will cancel the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) on Jan. 20, his first day in office. That will kill the TPP for all 12 countries that agreed on it just over a year ago. As Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, the TPP would be meaningless without the involvement of the United States. Then again, it was pretty meaningless even with American involvement. Japan and the U.S. were the only two really big economic players in the TPP deal. All 10 other partners — Canada, Mexico, Peru and Chile on the

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thereby preserving what was left of the traditional U.S. and Japanese domination of the region’s trade. For just that reason, the other big trading economies of the region — Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea — stayed out of it. They preferred to play the giants off against one another. Chinese influence and trade in Southeast Asia may grow modestly as a result of the TPP’s cancellation, but no profound transfer of power or wealth will ensue. There were no big tariff cuts coming as a result of the TPP anyway, because actual taxes on international trade were already low. The real focus was on removing so-called

non-tariff barriers. The classic example of a non-tariff barrier was Japan’s attempt in the 1980s to ban imports of foreignmade skis on the grounds Japanese snow was “unique.” A great deal of detailed haggling in the TPP talks went into breaking down thousands of similar (and sometimes equally ridiculous) barriers to trade, but any country that wants to keep those gains can simply incorporate the same deals into bilateral trade treaties with other ex-TPP members. Not many jobs would have been gained or lost, in the U.S. or elsewhere, if the TPP had gone into effect. The same is true

for the U.S.-European Union equivalent of the TPP — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — which was dead in the water even before Trump was elected. Donald Quixote is attacking windmills, not dragons, because the great free-trading spree of 1990 to 2008 has already come to an end. It was not workingclass American voters who killed TTIP. It was mainly European consumers who didn’t want hormone-laden American beef, U.S.grown genetically modified foods and chlorine-washed American chickens on their supermarket shelves. To be fair, European

left-wingers also played a role in mobilizing opposition to the deal by raising the (probably correct) suspicion the investor-state dispute settlement process in the proposed treaty was designed to cripple the ability of European governments to impose high safety standards in health and environmental issues. Most of the jobs that moved from developed to developing countries in the heyday of globalzation (or often, in the U.S. case, from Rust Belt states to Sun Belt states, where wages were lower and unions were weak or non-existent) left long ago. In recent years, eight American jobs have been lost to automation for every one that went abroad. Most economic strategies, including both protectionism and free trade, conform to the law of diminishing returns. The same goes for political strategies, but they tend to lag even further behind the realities. That’s why the old white working class in the U.S. (and, therefore, Trump) still feel compelled to fight free trade. It is also why even Hillary Clinton, once an enthusiastic advocate of the TPP, was ultimately obliged to turn against it. When she finally made that U-turn, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee,

mocked her as “a case study in political expediency.” Now he has been appointed as Trump’s chief of staff and he will change his tune accordingly. But the cross-party consensus on this does not make it the right tune. The truth is these now-aborted free-trade deals were merely the finishing touches on an edifice whose basic structure was completed more than a decade ago. Those who had devoted their lives to building that edifice simply kept on doing what they were good at doing, necessary or not. And, all the while, technological change was conspiring to make them as irrelevant as the people who so vehemently opposed them. Cultural lag being what it is, the last battles in this long war — probably between the U.S. and its NAFTA partners, Canada and Mexico, and between the U.S. and China — are yet to be fought. We may be entering the next decade before the political process anywhere seriously engages with the reality of automation as the main destroyer of jobs. But reality always wins in the end. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. gwynnedyer.com

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he Thompson Rivers WolfPack always felt like Joe Davis’ team. Even as he was tearing up the high school basketball ranks as a senior at Westsyde secondary, the Tournament Capital Centre felt like the next stop, the next stage in his career. “I referred to the WolfPack as ‘Us,’ when I was in Grade 11 and 12,” Davis said Friday, shortly before his team tipped off against the visiting UBC-Okanagan Heat. The WolfPack won both weekend contests, 78-75 and 68-53. “Without even knowing it, I think I was quite tight with the WolfPack. I always wanted to come here.” Davis is enjoying a breakout campaign in his sophomore season, averaging 11.6 points per game and 3.9 rebounds per game through his first eight contests. It’s a stat line made all the more impressive by the fact Davis didn’t dress for a single game last season. The 20-year-old spent the 20152016 Canada West season in Powell River, using a year away from the hardcourt to spend some time with his father on the Sunshine Coast and get some of his academics in order. He returned to the WolfPack and Kamloops in February of this year and began his return to basketball. Davis practised and trained with the team as it made its run to the gold-medal game at the Canada West Final Four and, eventually, a berth at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship. He sat on the bench in the season’s second half, supporting his teammates as they became the most successful group in program history. Now back to being a full-time player with Thompson Rivers, Davis is hardly the same forward he was when he left. “I think he has grown — dramati-

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cally so,” said WolfPack head coach Scott Clark. He said it wasn’t just the second half of the year Davis spent practising with the Pack, but his career development as a whole that has allowed him to become an important piece for the Wolves this season. “When you’re around other good players, you get to see their approach — how they approach practice, how they approach games, how they approach their preparation, how they approach the offseason,” Clark said. “I just think it’s a day-in and dayout process that he has benefitted from.” Even during the days Davis spent in Powell River, basketball wasn’t far from his mind. He’d watch the WolfPack play online. He’d think about making a return. He tried to keep his skills fresh and worked on areas he thought he needed to improve — you can improve a lot in a year, he said. Not once did he think his university basketball career was over. See DAVIS, A24

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Storm slay Knights to finish month The Kamloops Storm closed out November with a victory on Saturday night, defeating the North Okanagan Knights 5-2 at Memorial Arena. The junior B club had goals from Jacob

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“There’s a bit of basketball in Powell River — not much, but there is a little bit,” Davis said. “So, I was on all the basketball players. We’d play as much as possible.” Davis was a dominant player when he wore the Westsyde Whundas’ blue and, as he grows in the Canada West, he is becoming more and more valuable to the Wolves. Clark said it’s hard to say if the 6-foot-5 Kamloops native will ever be a dominant scorer in university as he was in high school, but the forward means so much more to his team. “He’s what some people would call an elixir,” Clark said. “He’s a guy that binds everybody together. He

can score when it’s needed, he can rebound, he can defend, he doesn’t mind being physical, he’s a great teammate. “Those types of things make everybody around you better and I think that’s what Joe has seen from other guys and that’s what he gives now.” For his part, Davis isn’t over thinking his return to basketball. He’s just glad to be back. “It was really difficult. I can’t describe how much I missed it,” Davis said. “It means a lot. I’m really happy to be here. I just want to contribute and prove myself and show that I belong here and that I can do well on the court and in the class. “I just want to be one of the guys.”

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Both head coaches asked for more from their teams and that’s what they received on Friday at Sandman Centre. Bench boss John Paddock and the Regina Pats, rebounding from a poor performance in a loss to the hometown Prince George Cougars last Tuesday, earned a 3-0 win over the Kamloops Blazers, who were coming off a dismal effort in a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the visiting Spokane Chiefs last Wednesday. “If we would have had this effort on Wednesday, we would have had a win,” Blazers’ head coach Don Hay said. “When you play good teams, they make you compete. Our power play wasn’t very good.” Kamloops finished 0-for-8 on the power play, which seemed to get progressively worse with each attempt, and Tyler Brown was fantastic in the Pats’ net, making 37 saves in a firststar performance. “I knew coming in he [Blazers’ netminder Connor Ingram] is obviously one of the goaltenders selected for Team Canada,” Brown told

KTW after the game. “If we wanted to win, I knew I was going to have to step up and match his game, if not play better.” Ingram has not yet been selected to play for Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championship in Toronto and Montreal later this winter. But he is a good bet to make the team, especially after another formidable showing in front of Hockey Canada goaltending consultant Fred Brathwaite, who was at Friday’s game. The shot-stopper from Imperial, Sask., dropped the jaws of the 3,653 in attendance with a highlight-of-theyear candidate save on Austin Wagner in the third period. Wagner, who had Regina’s first goal at 17:05 of the second period, was looking at a yawning cage and seemed dumbfounded when Ingram’s trapper appeared magically to snare a shot labelled for the net. Two of Regina’s goals were empty-net markers late in the third period. “Don was talking to us about competing harder because last game we didn’t play well as a team,” Blazers’ for-

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Jennifer Eastwood and Kathy Rollheiser took to the courts at No Limits Fitness in a women’s squash tournament on the weekend. The Kamloops Squash Association is holding its annual general meeting on Dec. 8 at House 10 on the Thompson Rivers University campus. Anyone interested in the future of squash in the city is welcome to attend. To learn more about the association, email dclutton@telus.net. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

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Dillon Alexandre of the Kamloops Raiders gets a boost. The hometown Surrey Beavers downed the Raiders 19-6 to win the B.C. Rugby Union Division 2 men’s fall half championship on Saturday.

Silver lining

Incessant pouring rain made for a lowscoring, wet, muddy contest in the B.C. Rugby Union Division 2 men’s fall final on Saturday. The Surrey Beavers slogged out a 19-6 victory over the visiting Kamloops Raiders, whose only points came off the boot of prop Greg Thomson. Kamloops’ women were meant to play Simon Fraser University in first-division play in Burnaby on the weekend, but the match was rained out. For more information on the Kamloops Rugby Club, go online to kamloopsrugby.com.

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The Spence siblings were in action at the CanAm Long Track Speedskating Competition at the Calgary Olympic Oval on the weekend. Victoria Spence, 24, won the women’s 1,500-metre race in a personal-best time of 1:59:19, beating younger sisters Josie, 22, and Sara, 20, who placed ninth and 15th, respectively. Josie won silver in the 3,000-m race with a time of 4:08:95 and Victoria placed fifth.

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BRIEFS Sara placed second in the women’s mass start event and was the top Spence sister in the 500-m event with a time of 39.96 seconds, good enough for sixth place. In the first 1,000-m race of the weekend, Sara placed seventh. In the second 1,000m race, Josie placed fourth in a time of 1:17:80 and Victoria was seventh in 1:18:52, both personal-best times. Eric Spence, 18, set personal-best times in each of his events — 5,000m (6:52:58), 500-m (38:20), 1,000-m (1:15:38) and 1,500-m (1:57:36). There were more than 100 male and 90 female racers at the CanAm event, representing Canada, the U.S., Japan, India, Korea, Norway, Netherlands, Poland and Colombia The Spence siblings, members of the Kamloops River City Racers, will compete in the Canada Cup event in Calgary in January.

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DID STAMPEDERS’ HEAD COACH MAKE RIGHT CALL NEAR GOAL LINE?

DAN RALPH

THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Calgary Stampeders’ rookie head coach Dave Dickenson pressed all the right buttons during his team’s remarkable CFL season. He led Calgary to a CFL-best 15-2-1 mark, the 15 victories a single-season league record for a first-year head coach. He was the overwhelming choice as coach of the year in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada and his coaching peers. But with the Grey Cup on the line Sunday, Dickenson left himself wide open to be second-guessed. After trailing Ottawa 27-7 in the third quarter, Calgary had whittled the deficit to 33-30 late in regulation. And the CFL’s most potent offence, anchored by league MVP Bo Levi Mitchell at quarterback and rushing leader Jerome Messam, was second-and-goal at the Redblacks’ two-yard line. Dickenson decided to go with his shortyardage team, replacing Mitchell with Canadian rookie Andrew Buckley and moving the six-footthree, 254-pound Messam — the CFL’s top Canadian this sea-

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son — up front to provide blocking support. The move wasn’t without logic as the six-foot, 203-pound Buckley had eight rushing TDs on the year and scored on a one-yard run earlier in the game. This time, though, Abdul Kanneh tackled Buckley for a one-yard loss and Calgary had to settle for a field goal to force overtime. Game MVP Henry Burris opened the extra session with an 18-yard TD strike to Ernest Jackson before the Redblacks’ defence clinched the improbable 39-33 win by forcing Calgary’s offence to go three-and-out. The burning question was why, with the game on the line, didn’t Dickenson call on Messam, who’d scored 11 rushing TDs during the regular season?

Also, it was Messam’s six-yard run that put Calgary at the Ottawa two-yard line. “Either or,’’ Dickenson said. “I’m sure you guys thought that and it might be the right case. We didn’t necessarily have a great running game anyway. I gave him the look there on first down and he did a nice job, so we easily could’ve done something like that. But second thoughts, I called the game I thought would be the best for our team.’’ Dickenson’s decision was similar to the one head coach Pete Carroll made in Seattle’s 28-24 Super Bowl loss to New England on Feb. 1, 2015. Trailing 28-24, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson tried passing for the

go-ahead touchdown rather than hand off to Marshawn Lynch, who had run for 102 yards in the game. The move backfired as Malcolm Butler’s interception preserved New England’s victory. But unlike Dickenson, Carroll didn’t take the league MVP out of the game and replace him with a first-year quarterback. “I was going to either throw the ball or work a play that we had dialed up,’’ Dickenson said. “I regret that call. “I felt very confident that even if we went to overtime, I thought we had the momentum so I felt OK with kicking the field goal.’’ Calgary played most of the contest without leading receiver Marquay McDaniel, who left in the first half with a shoulder injury

following a 51-yard reception. Yesterday, he couldn’t hide his disappointment with the final outcome. “Now I know how the Seahawks feel,’’ McDaniel tweeted. Mitchell finished 28-of-41 passing for 391 yards and two TDs but also threw three interceptions after having just eight in the regular season. Still, Mitchell felt he and Messam should have been given the opportunity to deliver the victory. “Ball’s got to be in my hands and [Messam’s],’’ he said. “That’s how I feel. But it’s not wrong, for what he called it’s a good call, it’s something we’ve seen in film with evidence we thought would work. And they’ve got a solid D-line so it’s not to say even if we would’ve handed off that he (Messam) would’ve got in but at that moment I thought the game was over.’’ Yesterday, Messam tweeted: “Thank you for all the support but the game was bigger than one play. What’s done is done and today is a new day #wellbeback.’’

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Halbgewachs player of week

The Western Hockey League announced yesterday that Moose Jaw Warriors’ forward Jayden Halbgewachs has been named the WHL Player of the Week for the period ending Nov. 27. Halbgewachs registered six goals and nine points in three games to help the Moose Jaw Warriors go 2-1-0-0 last week. Halbgewachs is tied for fourth in WHL goal scoring with 19 goals and sits in a tie for ninth in WHL scoring with 32 points through 24 games. The 5-foot-8, 160-pound centre was a first round pick (19th) of the Kamloops Blazers at the 2012 WHL Bantam Draft but was dealt to the Warriors in December 2012. Kamloops sent Halbgewachs, defencman Tyler Bell and a first-round bantam draft pick in 2015 to Moose Jaw in exchange for Joel Edmundson and a fourth-round pick in 2015. In 157 career WHL regular sea-

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Everett Silvertips’ goaltender Carter Hart has been named the WHL Goaltender of the Week and the league nominee for Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week for the period ending Nov. 27. This marks the second consecutive WHL Goaltender of the Week honour for the 18-year-old Hart, who is the first WHL goaltender or player to win weekly

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Courses. A Great Christmas Gift. Next C.O.R.E. January 7th & 8th, Saturday and Sunday. P.A.L. December 11th, Sunday. 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 PHARMACY TECHNICIAN TRAINING Online-based 43 wk program incls 8 wk practicum. Regulated Pharmacy Technicians earn $25-$28/hr in hospitals & $20-$27/hr in community pharmacies. Accredited by the Canadian Council for the Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP). www.stenbergcollege.com Toll-Free: 1-866-580-2772

Help Wanted

EARN EXTRA $$$

KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city. Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

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

STUDENTS AGE 12 & UP Earn up to $100/week Call: 250-371-2888 www.Studentswithgoals.ca

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is looking for substitute distributors for door-to-door deliveries. Vehicle is required. For more information please call the Circulation Department at

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Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries. Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Medical/Dental DENTAL RECEPTIONIST Needed for a full-time position, Monday to Thursday in North Kamloops. You are friendly, grounded, and have over 2 years experience. Please forward your resume to drbfoo@shawcable.com or give us a call at 250-554-2032. We look forward to hearing from you!

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.

Employment

Merchandise for Sale

Work Wanted Experienced cleaning lady references avail. N/Shore. Discounts. Lana 250-554-4710.

Medical/Dental

WELL ESTABLISHED DENTAL OFFICE REQUIRES HYGIENIST

Registered Dental Hygienist required for a busy Dental Office. 1-2 days a week. A team player with strong people skills. email: drdex@shaw.ca or fax: 250-376-5367 No phone calls please.

Real Estate Houses For Sale

Furniture

Misc. for Sale

For Sale By Owner

5 drawer desk. $50. Office chair. $15. Dresser w/mirror. $50. 250- 554-9981.

Standard black wheelchair. Like new. $1,000/obo. 250554-0400.

For Sale By Owner $55.00 Special!

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

8ft Antique Couch $1200. Antique Settee or Loveseat one of a kind $900. Round dining room table w/4-chairs & 2 bar stools. $800. Couch & matching chairs $250. 250-3741541.

Pets & Livestock

Pets 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. (250)371-4949

classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com *some restrictions apply.

Merchandise for Sale

Diningroom table w/8-chairs, c/w Buffet and Hutch. Med Colour. $900. 250-374-8933.

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

STEEL BUILDING SALE... ”REALLY BIG SALE IS BACKEXTRA WINTER DISCOUNT ON NOW!!” 20X19 $5,145 25X27 $5,997 28X27 $6,773 30X31 $8,110 35X33 $11,376 40X43 $13,978. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-855-212-7036 www.pioneersteel.ca

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

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Real Estate Apt/Condos for Sale

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Livestock

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Small Ads, BIG Deals! 250.374.7467 Livestock

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

Misc. for Sale

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

2 Person Portable infrared sauna made of hemlock. $750. 250-554-2514.

REIMER’S FARM SERVICES

Art framing equipment, glass cutter, mat cutter, boxes of mats, glass etc. $650. 250679-7714.

$500 & Under

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Under the Real Estate Tab

Did you know that you can place

2bdrms, 1.5 baths condo in 55+ complex. Great North Shore location. Close to all amenities. 5appl incld. 250376-9378 or 250-376-6637.

your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

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Business for Sale

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HARDY TREE, SHRUB, and berry seedlings delivered. Order online at www.treetime.ca or call 1-866-8733846. New growth guaranteed.

Firearms

Do you want to become a leader and earn the income you deserve in a company you enjoy working with? We are looking for sales professionals in your area who can quickly learn, retain and communicate product knowledge. We offer weekly pay of base salary plus commissions, opportunity for advancement & travel! Visit our careers page for full details and to apply: www.upstatmarketing. com/careers-1 Or apply with resume to: hr@upstatmarketing.com

Real Estate

Work Wanted

*some restrictions apply

Authorized Sales Representatives

Merchandise for Sale

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

Bedroom suite w/headboard, dressers, mattress, comforter set etc. $250. 250-554-1264

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Financial Services

Savage 308 SS Vortex 4-12x40 Timney trigger. $800. 250-819-4442

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine. Stock up now. Campfire wood. (250) 377-3457. Fir Firewood split or rounds delivered. Measured cords. 250-277-4477.

Businesses&SERVICES Landscaping

Stucco/Siding

PETER’S YARD SERVICE Kubota AV2500 Generator. Kubota AV2500 Oil Watch. $595. 250-374-1988 Lemond RevMaster Spin Bike. Model 15300-7. $750. Like New. 250-372-8406.

Jerry’s wood she’s nice, dry fir. Full measured cord. $200. Richard 250-375-2227.

MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, 1-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

Legal

COMMERCIAL FINANCE LEGAL ASSISTANT/PARALEGAL

$750 Loans & More NO CREDIT CHECKS

Tree Pruning or Removal

Open 7 days/wk. 8am - 8pm

Yard clean-up, Hedge trimming, Leaf Raking

Apply at:www.credit700.ca

Licensed & Certied

1-855-527-4368

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

Fitness/Exercise

250-572-0753

Rubbish Removal JA ENTERPRISES Rubbish Removal 778-257-4943

Snowclearing

WE will pay you to exercise! Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 3 issues a week!

We are seeking a Legal Assistant or Paralegal with conveyancing or commercial finance experience. The successful candidate will have the ability to work independently and will manage files for financial institutions. Some of the typical tasks of this position include preparation of security documents for commercial purchases, asset purchases, share purchases, heavy duty machinery and aircraft purchases. This position is also responsible for performing a variety of searches including Personal Property Registry, LTSA and taxes. If you are detail orientated, performance driven and can offer exemplary client service, we want to hear from you. Please forward your cover letter, resume and references to Wendy Freeman, Human Resources Manager, wfreeman@fultonco.com. 300-350 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC Phone: 250-372-5542 w w w. f u l t o n c o . c o m

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

CLASSIFIEDS

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Rentals

Transportation

Apt/Condo for Rent

Shared Accommodation

Cars - Domestic

Cars - Sports & Imports

Recreational/Sale

Sport Utility Vehicle

Trucks & Vans

2006 Pontiac Torrent V-6, Auto. Black, One owner, lady driven. Sport package, sunroof, no smoking. Vehicle looks and runs like new. $6200/obo. 250-318-2938

1998 Toyota Tacoma Truck. 150,000km on new motor. Runs great, exec cond, no rust. Boat loader not included. $6,900 250-374-1988.

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS 1-Bedroom Apartments $880- $910 Bachelor Apartments $680

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

520 Battle Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2 Contact Jean: 250-372-0510 Lorne St. - lrge penthse with att’d studio apt. 2 bdrms, 2 baths, f/s/d/w/d, a/c, fireplace, resp. for utilities. NP, NS. $1750/mnth. Call 250-8519310.

Northland Apartments Bachelor Suite $845 per month 1 Bedroom Suite Adult Oriented No Pets Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry $850-$865 per month North Shore 250-376-1427 South Shore 250-314-1135

NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments. Clean quiet buildings. Reasonable Rental Rates Utilities not included

CALL 250-682-0312

Bed & Breakfast BC Best Buy Classified’s Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC. Call 250-371-4949 for more information

North Shore $400 per/mo includes utilities. np/ns. 250554-6877 / 250-377-1020.

Storage Outside storage in the country. Suitable for trailers, machinery etc. $50/mo. 250-5733165.

Suites, Lower 14th St. - 1 bdrm bsmnt suite, 1 bath, f/s/d/w/d. Tenant responsible for 30% hydro/gas, NP, NS. $800/mnth. Call 250851-9310.

14th St. - top floor of ½ duplex, 2bdrms, 2baths, f/s/d/w/d, a/c, carport. NP, NS, resp. for 70% hydro/gas. $1495/mnth. Call 250-8519310. Brock 3bdrms 1/2 duplex. N/S, N/P. $1500/mo. +util or rent to own . 250-320-8442 North Shore lrg 3bdrms. W/D, garage. N/S, N/P. $1600/mo. +util. 250-819-3837.

Mobile Homes & Pads North Shore 2bdrms. Seniors only 55+. N/S, N/P. $800/mo. +util. Dec. 1st. Call 9am-5pm. 250-376-8356.

Homes for Rent Avens Way - 4bdrms, 3 baths, f/s/d/w/d, fireplace, fin. bsmnt, garage, deck, fenced yard. 1 small pet, NS, resp. for utilities. $2300/mnth. Call 250851-9310.

Recreation **Booking for 2016** CALL NOW FOR BEST DATES Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. Newer 1bdrm 1-bath park model. Tastefully decorated guest cabin. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial Park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. $1500 week. 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly rentals available. BOOK NOW! Call for more information. 1-250-371-1333.

New Price $56.00+tax

2009 Pontiac Vibe GT AWD. 110,000kms. - 90% Hwy Kms. New windshield. Remote start, 4 studded winters on rims. Like new interior. $9,500. 250-981-1272. 2011 Honda CR-V 4WD. Auto, 2.4L, 4-cyl. Fully loaded. $15,500. 778-257-0406.

ABERDEEN 2Bdrm daylight f/s w/d ns/np $1000/mo util incl Avail Jan 1st. 250-372-2482 Lrg 2bdrm +den, sep entr, W/D, A/C, N/S. Westmount. $1040 inclds util. 250-3767811.

1982 Mercedes 300 SD TD. 2 owners, original and documented. 242,000km no drips. Show car quality. Asking $6000. 250-312-3525 before 8pm

Commercial Vehicles Contractors Tundra HD Econo Custom. Hwy, hauler $29,500 Concrete work as possible part of the payment. 250-377-8436.

2bdrm 4 working person or couple a/c, nice yard, new flooring ref, n/p $950 +1/2 hydro (250) 376-0633 North Kam 2011 Honda Fit. Automatic, A/C. Winter & Summer Tires. Low Mileage. Excellent Condition. $9,500 250-828-7936

TOWNHOUSES Best Value In Town

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

2012 Hyundai Accent. Factory warranty until Dec. 2016. 75,000kms New winters, clean. $7900. 250-319-8292.

Motorcycles

1980 CB 900 Honda Custom. Hi/Lo range, Corbin seat, adjustable backrest and more. $1800/obo 778-472-5547

RUN UNTIL SOLD ONLY $35.00(plus Tax) (250)371-4949 *some restrictions apply call for details

4 Firestone P235/70R16 and wheels off a 2012 Escape. 80%. $300. 250-371-2129. 4-Nokian All Weather P235/75/R15 on rims. Used 2 winters. $600. 250-573-5640.

Cars - Domestic 1988 Chrysler Fifth Avenue. 150,000kms. No dents or rust. $1500. 778-470-0121.

250-371-4949

RUN TILL $

SOLD

00 PLUS TAX

Legal Notices

1999 Ford F-150 4.2L 4X4 std., longbox w/canopy. 299,000kms. One owner, runs good. $4,500 250-573-4347 2000 Dodge Dakota. Full load. V-6. 185kms. 1-owner, canopy. Good Cond. $5,500. 3763480

1980 Sierra Classic 25 GMC. 163,000kms. C/W hitch, canopy. $2200/obo. 250-371-1748 between 1-5pm.

1996 Chevrolet C/K 2500 HD 3/4 ton Truck. Good condition. $9,900. 250-374-1988 1996 GMC Suburban good shape runs $4,200/obo. Call (250) 2107 2004 Ford Lariat 112,000kms. 5L $14,500. 250-672-9294.

4x4 great 571150. auto.

Legal Notices

2002 Dakota Quadcab 4x4, V-8 Auto, tow pkg, full load, handsfree stereo, box liner, 6-seater, newer rubber, exhaust, shocks and brakes. 195,000kms. Exec. cond. $7,990. 250-319-7821 2012 Ram 2500 Crewcab 4x4, Short Box. V-8 Hemi, Gas. Like new. 1900kms. $28,000/firm. 250-554-1917.

Boats 14ft. Runabout boat. 40hp Johnson motor on trailer. $1500/obo. 778-469-5434.

Legal Notices

Adams Lake Indian Band Recreational/Sale

Notice of By‐Election

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $16,900. (778) 468-5050.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to the Adams Lake Secwepemc Election Rules (the “Election Rules”) a by‐election for one (1) Chief and three (3) Councilor’s will be held on the 15th day of December, 2016.

2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $69,000 250-374-4723

CLASSIFIEDS

1969 GTO, original. Purchased new in Kamloops. 72,000/miles, 2-owners. $25,000/Firm. 250-832-8696.

4 Bridgestone Dueler Winters 30x9.50R15 LT 6ply. $225. 250-554-1023.

Sport Utility Vehicle

* RESTRICTIONS APPLY

Antiques / Classics

Auto Accessories/Parts

Trucks & Vans

250-371-4949

Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $6900.00 obo 250-554-0580

318-4321

Transportation

2008 Toyota Rav4 Mounted winters, remote start. Fully loaded. Clean inside-out. 131,000kms. $13,900. 250-376-5322

1981 GMC Suburban 4X4. Re-built motor/trans. Good shape. $2,500. 778-469-5434

2013 Nissan Leaf SL, electric, black/tan. 12,000kms under warranty $27,500 250-3778436

lilacgardens1@gmail.com NO PETS

Scrap Car Removal

2002 Ford Explorer XLT. 184,000kms. Good Cond. $4500/obo. 250-377-3611.

3bdrms top floor suite 1300 Tranquille. n/s, n/p, laundry on-site. $1100 inclds hotwater, heat. (250) 371-4801.

3bdrm townhouse in Valleyview, close to sch/shp, avail immd or Dec.1, $1300/mo 250-374-5586, 250-371-0206

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply. Private party only (no businesses).

classiﬁeds@kamloopsthisweek.com

Suites, Upper

Townhouses

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one ﬂat rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* • $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) • $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

Time to buy a new car?

Valleyview adult only 1bdrm + den W/D, N/S, N/P, No parties $950 util incl (250) 374-6406

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

Duplex / 4 Plex

Run until sold

ROOM 4 rent in cedar rancher on acreage. Larch Hills, Salmon Arm. $550.00. No dogs. 1 horse ok. Call 250 833 5660 or text 250 308 8458

Open Road 2007 349, R.L. 36ft One owner, 3 slides, elec/stabilizers, awning. 1 ton 2005 Ford Diesel, 200,000km club cab $38,500 package (250) 372-5401 snoopy05@telus.net

A NOMINATION MEETING will be held on November 24th, 2016 at the Adams Lake Indian Band Gymnasium – 6349 Chief Jules Way, commencing 6:30pm and lasting for at least two hours. Each Candidate must meet the “eligibility” provisions set out in Section 7.1 of the Election Rules and each candidate must provide all required documents pursuant to Section 13.9 of the Election Rules to the Electoral Officer prior to the close of the nomination meeting. Any candidate who fails to file the required nomination documents with the Electoral Officer prior to the end of the nomination meeting, will have their name removed as a nominee. A copy of the voters list and election rules are available at the Adams Lake Indian Band office. Dated this 8th Day of November 2016.

RUN TILL

RENTED

$5300

Raymond D. Phillips, QC Electoral Officer 216 – 345 Chief Alex Thomas Way, Kamloops, BC V2H 1H1 Toll free: (855) 355‐2471; Fax: (778) 471‐7090; Email: chuckpalsht@gmail.com

Plus Tax

3 Lines - 12 Weeks

Add an extra line to your ad for $10 1999 Olds 88 Anniversary Edition, final year produced. 2nd owner, maintained. Full load leather, alloys, 3.8 V-6. May qualify for Collectors Status. 96,000kms. $3,300. 250-318-2449 after 6pm.

Must be pre-paid Scheduled for 4 weeks at a time Private parties only - no businesses Some Restrictions Apply

ask us about our

RUN TILL SOLD SPECIAL

Packages start at $35

2000 Neon. Exec cond. New brakes, c/w extra tires/wheels. 151,444kms. $2500. 250-3721074.

Non-business ads only • Some restrictions apply

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

2007 Chev Optra SW. , 4spd. 2-owners, 211,000kms. $4,250. 250-672-9294. 2009 Pontiac GT5. 106,000kms. Good cond. N/S. $6,800/obo. 236-425-3301. 2009 Subaru Impreza. 4dr., 5spd, one owner. 69,000kms. $15,500. 250-318-6851.

TIME TO DECLUTTER?

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Jennifer (Jenn) Leighann Gatey

Tessie Watson (Graffunder)

Makiko Yamamoto

1933 - 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Makiko Yamamoto, 89, at Kamloops Hospice on November 19, 2016. She fought a courageous battle with stomach cancer and passed away peacefully surrounded by her loved ones.

Makiko was preceded in death by her husband Hisakazu and her parents Enosuke and Natsu Teranishi, her older sister Nobue and younger brother Sazao.

Tessie Watson rejoined her family on November 21, 2016. She passed away peacefully at Ponderosa Lodge at the age of 83. She is predeceased by her loving husband Wally and their three children Donald (Charlene), Patricia, and Joyce (Larry) Puittinen. She also joins her brothers and sisters Alfred (Solveig) Graffunder, Hans Graffunder, Carl “Sonny” (Molly) Graffunder, Hilda (Bob) Metcalfe, Ernest Graffunder, Ruth (John) Heck and Elsie (Norman) Hunsbedt.

Makiko was born in Japan on February 20, 1927. She married Hisakazu in 1949 and joined him and started a new life in Greenwood, BC. in 1954, where she raised her family and made many lifelong friends. Makiko was a homemaker and a cutter/seamstress by trade and made beautiful outfits for clients and her family. In 1990, Hisakazu and Makiko moved to Kamloops to be closer to daughter Julie and family.

She will be lovingly remembered by her sisters, Margaret (Ake) Lestander, and Ann Wallace, her grandchildren Christine (Jim) Akeson, Craig (Sumiko) Clover, Melissa (Andrew) Walker and Kaylie Watson. She has many greatgrandchildren and extended family members that will remember her fondly.

In lieu of flowers, those who would like to make a contribution to the lasting memory of Jennifer are invited to consider making a donation to the Urban Systems Foundation, which will be used to create a scholarship in Jennifer’s name. To make a donation on-line, Google Urban Systems Foundation, select the Donate Now button, and select the In Memory of Jennifer Gatey fund or simply contact Urban Systems at 250-374-8311.

In retirement, Makiko enjoyed gardening, cards, reading, cooking, travelling, daily walks and watching sumo, Blue Jays games, curling and spending time with her family.

Born in Vavenby, BC, Tessie married Wally Watson and they moved to Kamloops. Tessie’s home was always full of music and laughter, fresh fruit off the trees, and sweet treats, where friends and family were always welcome.

A Private Family Service will be held at a later date.

A formal garden service will be planned for spring.

Family, friends, classmates and everyone in Kamloops whose lives were touched by Jennifer are invited to join her family on Saturday, December 3 at 2:00 PM for a Celebration of Jennifer’s Life at Summit Baptist Church, 1975 Summit Drive in Kamloops, BC.

In lieu of koden or flowers, please donate to the Kamloops Buddhist Church, 361 Poplar St., Kamloops, BC V2B 4B9 or Kamloops Hospice Association, 72 Whiteshield Cres. S, Kamloops, BC V2E 2S9.

For the spring service, please forward contact information and any memories that you would like to share, to Tessie’s Granddaughter, Christine Akeson (christine@akesons.com )

Condolences may be made to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

Thank you to everyone for your love and support.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Jennifer (Jenn) Leighann Gatey on November 4, 2016. She was born almost 17 years to the day earlier on November 5, 1999 in Calgary, Alberta. Jennifer moved to Kamloops with her family in 2005, and attended Pacific Way Elementary and South Kamloops Secondary, where she attended grade XI. Jennifer was a wonderful daughter, sister and friend and often put the happiness of others ahead of her own. She was passionate about life and had many pursuits, including piano, fitness, soccer, drawing and art, carpentry, golf, longboarding and more. She was loved deeply by her family and friends and will be sadly missed. Jennifer is survived by her parents, brother, future sisterin-law, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

She will be profoundly missed and remembered fondly as a loving, thoughtful and kind mother and grandmother by her daughters Hisami, Julie (Bill) Turley and June (Glen Hack), grandchildren Tim (Shannon) Harper, Frank, Bob and John Turley.

The family would like to thank Dr. Du Preez, the doctors and nurses at Royal Inland Hospital and the Staff at Kamloops Hospice for taking care of Makiko. Our thanks to her neighbours and friends for their kindness.

Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

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Nettie Judge (nee Nadia Kucharuk) May 1, 1931 – November 22, 2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Nettie Judge. She is deeply missed and survived by nine children and their spouses, nineteen grandchildren, sixteen greatgrandchildren and Andre DeVuyst. Nettie was a loving wife, mother and Baba and is predeceased by Ernest Judge and Jason Judge. She is survived by her sisters Ann and Sophie. She was born in Rycroft, AB and survived The Great Depression. While raising a family, she went onto help build a contracting business and worked as a department store manager. Nettie will be lovingly remembered for her passion for gardening, cooking and dancing; she was a lovely dancer. She leaves behind a legacy of unwavering devotion to family. A Private Service was held on Saturday, November 26th, 2016. A Celebration of Life will be held in the spring. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Arrangements entrusted to Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Services 250-554-2324 Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

An informal gathering will be held on December 4th, 2016 at 2:00 pm at Tessie’s home.

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Did you know that Schoening’s and First Memorial have both had an interior face lift? Both facilities are set up for your reception needs including full catering and varied reception menu for you to choose from. No set up, no clean up, and no shopping to do. Leave that to us.

David Murray “Dave” KERR 1939 - 2016

Dave Kerr died on November 26, 2016, surrounded by his family at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. He was 77 years of age. Born in Kelowna, BC on September 19, 1939 he is survived by his wife of 55 years and the love of his life Joyce; his children Sherry and Darcy, grandchildren Kial, Shelby, Megan, Alicia and Nicole, niece and nephews Matt, Danielle and Chris Rands and by many other extended family members and friends. Predeceased by his sisters Margaret and Martha. Dave was a loving, kind person to everyone who knew him. Friends are welcome to drop in from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Saturday, December 3, 2016 at 1002 Fleetwood Court, Kamloops for an informal gathering to celebrate Dave’s life. “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”

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OH GREAT SPIRIT Oh Great Spirit Whose voice I hear in the wind Whose breath gives life to the world Hear me I come to you as one of your many children I am small and weak I need your strength and your wisdom May I walk in beauty Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset Make my hands respect the things that you have made And my ears sharp to hear your voice Make me wise, So that I may know the things you have taught your children The lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock Make me strong, Not to be superior to my brothers But to be able to fight my greatest enemy — myself Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes So that when life fades, as the fading sunset My spirit will come to you without shame.

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Yvonne Irene Wawryk

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Mom was born on June 11, 1939 in Edmonton, Alberta and passed away peacefully in Kamloops, BC on November 23, 2016. She spent her early years in the Lower Mainland and after a short move to Sacramento, California her and her family settled in Heffley Creek, BC in 1969.

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Around the corner I have a friend In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year has gone, And I never see my old friend’s face, For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell, And he rang mine. We were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men, Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired with trying to make a name. “Tomorrow, I will call on Jim, Just to show that I am thinking of him.” But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows, Around the corner, yet miles away “Here’s a telegram, sir,” “Jim died today!” And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end, Around the corner a vanished friend!

Mom was a lifetime member of the Anavets, Unit 290, North Kamloops where she volunteered and worked for a number of years in the kitchen and made many close friends. She loved hunting, fishing, reading, playing BINGO and showing off pictures of her grandchildren, especially her first greatgrandchildson Quinn and twins – Mya and Sonia. She leaves behind her partner of the past 30 years Tom Johnson, her sons Richard (Holly) and Roy (Wendy), grandchildren Stephanie (Jerrad), Sheri, Hayleigh (Keith), AJ (Sierra) and great-grandson Quinn, as well as stepchildren Daniel and Angelina (Terrance), step-grandchildren Patricia, Savannah, Melissa, Mya, Sonia and Piper, and step-great-grandson Dominic. Mom is also survived by her niece Sharon Watts, George and Bev Johnson, Torie Flintoff and Myles. She was pre-deceased by her second husband Adam Wawryk, her parents Alf and Elva Thorne, sister Phyllis Watts, brother-in-law Walter Watts and niece Carol Friesen. Many thanks to the staff on 3West, RIH for keeping mom comfortable and providing her the best care for the last few months. No service by request. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in mom’s name to Kamloops Hospice House. “Mom finally made it to the end of the cul-de-sac”

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The entrepreneur behind the hop farm and brokerage on the Tk’emlups Indian Band reserve is producing a new craft beer line and is planning a major malting facility in Kamloops. B.C. Brew Co. and Distilling will have its new brews in pubs within two weeks and canned beer on shelves in January. But the plans by company founder Joey Bedard extend far

beyond establishing yet another craft brewery in this province. “We are working very hard to compete with the big beer guys while keeping everything in B.C.,” Bedard said. “We are trying to promote local agriculture and a proper, scalable farm-to-table movement.” It will do that through contracting to produce barley in northern B.C., malting the grain at a production facility to be built in Kamloops and use its own hops to produce a B.C. beer that is

locally grown and produced in every aspect. An associated brewery would also be located at the facility. “We’re still raising funds, but if all goes as planned over the next five years, we should be the largest independently owned farm-totable brew business in North America and, perhaps, the world.” Malting grain involves soaking it so it sprouts, creating enzymes, sugars and other properties essential in beer. It is then kiln-dried for storage and roasted, depending on

brewer preference. Bedard recently toured Lafarge Canada’s cement plant in east Kamloops with an eye to using it to create a malting facility. He said access to rail and its elevators make it ideal, but no deal is immanent. “It all can be converted to grain,” he said. The plan entails a 300,000 square-foot facility. Lafarge recently announced plans to close the plant. Commercial malting facilities in B.C. are rare: a speciality malt-

ing facility is located in Armstrong, another production centre in Delta and Phillips Brewing on Vancouver Island recently constructed a small malting works. Malting is also used in production of spirits. Otherwise, they are located on the Prairies. Bedard is banking that B.C. beer drinkers who today tip back a Budweiser, Canadian or Alexander Keith’s will instead opt for a B.C.-made beer, from the farm up. He has contracted with First Nations in the Fort St. James

area for 800 acres of barley, doubling in 2018. It will be malted at Gambrinus in Armstrong next year. A malting facility will not be ready locally for production until 2019. Bedard is in partnership with Tk’emlups Indian Band on the Hops Canada brokerage and 240-acre farm on the reserve. B.C. Brewing Co. and Distilling is independent of the band, with other investors. Hops Canada finished harvesting beside the North Thompson

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What the Business Development Bank of Canada does is pretty straightforward, if you ask Steve North. “We provide services and solutions to help Canadian entrepreneurs,” said the business centre manager of the bank’s Kamloops branch. “We help the entrepreneur out. We help them identify their needs, whether it’s through our financing arm, capital, real estate.”

BDC bills itself as Canada’s business development bank — the only financial institution in the country dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs. Its mission is to help small- and mediumsized businesses with financing, capital and advisory services. “We typically look at small- or mediumsized entrepreneurs,” North said. “But, when we say medium, medium is a broad definition — it might not be what a lot of people think of as medium.” While BDC offers

financing and indirect financing, it has two other units, North said — BDC Capital and

BDC Advisory Services. BDC Capital offers venture capital and growth capital, while

BDC Advisory Services offers consulting, growth advice and international expansion counselling. BDC is taking part in the Link Up: Kamloops Business Development Summit on Dec. 1. North will be giving a talk about the bank at a glance, answering three questions he said it commonly hears. “Who we are, why we exist and what we do,” he said. For North, the answer is simple. “It’s to help businesses in Canada,” he said.

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Export Development Corp. is planning to expand overseas markets for Canadian companies in Kamloops, similar to a recent successful push in Kelowna. “There’s not enough Canadian companies exporting — only 3.6 per cent export,” said Raul Duque, account manager for EDC based in Vancouver. “Our challenge is to increase the number of companies in Canada interested in exporting.” The federal agency is selffunded through insurance it

sells to ensure exporters are paid for their product. Duque said statistics show in the past 14 years Canada’s export sector has the slowest growth of any in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). EDC has a mandate to boost Canadian exports and the agency is looking beyond its traditional core in Vancouver to the rest of the province. It partners with local financial institutions to plan for export business. British Columbia’s exports, particularly those from outside Greater Vancouver, consisted largely in the tradi-

tional sectors of lumber and mining. But EDC is seeing more activity in the information technology sector, which it would like to see grow beyond the country’s borders. “It’s [information technology] an area where Canadian companies have found a niche.” The agency recently made a push into Kelowna. Prior to that effort, the Okanagan city had about 25 companies partnering with EDC. “In Kelowna we [now] have about 50 clients exporting, from big corporations to smaller clients in agri-food, information technology and lumber.” Duque will be one of

the speakers at the Link Up: Kamloops Business Development Summit. His goal is to bring awareness of the agency and build partnerships with local financial institutions and businesses to develop foreign markets. In addition to its core service of insurance for exports, EDC helps with financial solutions and can facilitate contacts with potential customers through the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. In its most recently reported year, Export Development Corp. assisted 7,400 Canadian companies to do business in 187 countries. Most of those were small businesses.

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Staff at Open Door are dealing with more and more clients looking for work — and, as part of the work involved in doing just that, they spend a lot of time talking with local business owners. Blair Gray, program manager for the job-search firm in Kamloops, said they find more success when they’re working with locally owned businesses. There’s lots of potential in larger corporations, he said, but they can be a bit more challenging because the decision-makers aren’t

necessarily in Kamloops. He said getting into the community and taking part in events like Link Up: Kamloops Business Development Summit are seen as ways to make some inroads into the hiring opportunities with larger employers. The increase in client numbers is the result of many factors, including the downturn of the oil industry in Kamloops — plenty of Albertans, both natural-born and B.C. transplants — have headed west again, looking for jobs. Open Door works with those ages 16 and older who are unemployed or underemployed. The firm also works with the

growing number of refugees now calling Kamloops home, helping them find jobs. Gray said they have the best success placing people in sales and service jobs or in trades, transportation and equipment operation. Other sectors where they are doing well in placing clients include business and financial administration, as well as health. When they head out to talk, the goal is not just to connect with potential employers, but to share the message that informs the work they do at Open Door — it can fill jobs in a wide range of work requirements, “basically, this is what we can do for employers,” Gray said.

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mandatory long-form census and the 2011 voluntary national household survey — for insights into the work choices new mothers make. The statistics office may be able to go even deeper into the data once the results of the 2016 census are in to see how career choices change for mothers as their young children age and what decisions fathers make in the race for more work-life balance. “It’s a very complex issue. We only scratched the surface of it,’’ said Yuri Ostrovsky, a senior research analyst at Statistics Canada who co-authored the study. The study comes as the federal government is looking at measures aimed at new parents, including extending parental leave to 18 months, although without an increase in benefits. The Liberals have also promised to bring in legislation to give about 883,000 federally regulated workers the ability to request a

Trailer Park Boys promoting pot producer MONCTON, N.B. — Some of Canada’s most notorious dope-smoking louts will be brand ambassadors for a New Brunswick marijuana producer. OrganiGram Holdings Inc. said TV’s Trailer Park Boys have chosen the Moncton company as their exclusive Canadian cannabis producer, business partner and brand developer. OrganiGram, a licensed producer of medical marijuana, said it will work with the Trailer Park Boys’ production company to develop branding and packaging targeted toward recreational users. “This relationship solidifies one of our strategic building blocks as we plan for the legalization of recreational use in Canada,’’ Ray Gracewood, chief commercial officer at OrganiGram, said in a release. The company did not reveal the financial value of the five-year deal. Louis Thomas, president of Sonic Entertainment Group, said they felt OrganiGram was a good partner from their first meeting. Sonic represented TPB Productions Limited — the Nova Scotia company controlled by the three actors who play the Trailer Park Boys and own the copyright — in the transaction. The federal government has promised to introduce marijuana legislation next spring, and a committee report on the process is expected at the end this month. — The Canadian Press

change to where they work or their schedule, or to seek time off to deal with a personal situation. The proposal wouldn’t force their employers to agree to each request. A discussion paper the government posted online over the summer as part of consultations on the proposal pointed to millennials — the largest genera-

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A SALUTE TO OUR

contractors

Thank you to the amazing local professionals who turned The Residence at Orchards Walk from a dream into a reality.

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n upscale building like The Residence at Orchards Walk called for the best in the business, with all of the contractors carefully handpicked by Site Superintedent Darcy Bradford and Master Builder Jere Lorenz. “It takes highly skilled tradesmen and management to handle a project of this size and complexity,” commented Bradford. “With the help of my Construction Manager Jere Lorenz, the best people were awarded contracts.” Hiring local when we could was a priority. “We have had over 100 different contractors that have spent 358,625 man hours since September 2015 and over 75% of those hours have been provided by trades and contractors from Kamloops,” said Bradford. The Residence is the latest phase to be built in the highly sought-after Valleyview neighbourhood in Orchards Walk. Tailored for mature-lifestyles retirement living, The Residence is a new model in all inclusive living offering residents the opportunity to Downsize Up their living space. Among the many services and amenities, members will enjoy weekly housekeeping, dining credits at the in-house restaurant Orchards Grill as well as spacious condominium-style suites available in studio, one or two bedroom floor plans. “Each unit will have a full-size kitchen, a variety of layouts, top of the line finishing, high ceilings, private decks and great views in all directions. All windows on the Highway end of the building have sound deadening laminated glass, keeping road and railroad

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noise to a minimum” added Bradford. Modern building amenities are also a key pillar in The Residence project and the décor is stunning! Casual elegance, soft furnishings, inspirational colours…..a balance of contemporary and traditional styles. “There are many features that are very exciting in The Residence, such as the main floor entrance lobby that has coffee bar and lounge areas. As you enter into a 2 storey high dining room, large stone fireplaces separate the lobby area from the dining room” commented Lorenz. “There is also a beauty salon, social and activity lounge, fitness room, fourth floor view lounge, even a wine bar and a separate kitchen for large group functions.” The Residence is set to open in January 2017. For more information visit www.theresidencekamloops.com

ENGINEERING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, SITE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

THE RESIDENCE AT ORCHARDS WALK WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING CONTRACTORS FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT: Accurate Door & Hardware Co. Allnorth Land Surveyors APEX Elevator Consulting + Engineering Aqua-Coast Engineering Ltd. ASSA ABLOY Casadio And Son Ready Mix Casadio & Sons-Batch Plant Community Roofing Co Ltd. CON-EX Civil Contractors Ltd Conroy Exteriors Copper Cove Dalke’s Custom Joinery D & A Dampproofing Designed Food Facilities Inc. EXP Falcon Railing & Superdeck Falcon Super Solutions Gabe’s Painting & Decorating Ltd. Giusti Group LP.(President) Giusti Wall Tech (Vice President) Gord’s Appliance + Mattress Centre Howell Electric HPF Engineering Ltd ICI Electrical Engineering Interior Plumbing & Heating Ltd Kamloops Home Hardware Building Centre Kamloops Truss Ltd Landygo Drywall Ltd L A West Associates Inc M3 Steel Structures Ltd. ML Bros Construction Ltd Noremac Concrete Pumping Philip MacDonald Architect Inc Plytech Stair Systems Pro-Crete Ltd. Pronto Enterprises Ltd Rite-Way Fencing Inc. Robinson Lighting Kelowna Robinson Masonry Telford Geotechnical The Fireplace Centre TRUEConsulting United Floors West Edge Engineering Ltd.

West Edge Engineering provided the structural engineering for The Residence Orchards Walk. We were proud to be a part of this wonderful project that will certainly enhance our community.

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 358,625 work force hours went into the construction of Buildings A & C plus the 3 parkades

of those hours were performed by local

companies from here in Kamloops

FAST FACTS

Gabe’s Painting painted and stained 4,625 GALLONS OF PAINT AND inside and outside of the building In Phase 1 and 25,000 yards of wall paper. Howell Electric installed 376,400 linear feet or 71

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STAIN

MILES OF ELECTRICAL

WIRING, data and ﬁre alarm cabling in Building

A and C

Interior Plumbing and Heating installed just over 67,200 linear feet or

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12.6 MILES OF WATERLINES, SPRINKLER LINES , GAS LINES

and sanitary lines in the building A and C in Phase 1

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Landygo Drywall Inc. drywalled, ﬁre-boarded and taped 635,000

FEET OF DRYWALL in the building in Phase 1

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Giusti Group poured 4,255

CU METERS OF

CONCRETE in the 3 parkades, suspended slabs and misc. concrete for Phase 1 & 2 .

18.8 miles

Robinson Masonry installed 55,000 BRICKS and on the exterior of the building, and 17,000 concrete block in the ﬁrewalls and in the parkade.

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of wood trims

or 94,455 linear ft supplied by Home Hardware and installed by Scott Dalke Carpentry. Including wood trims, mouldings, casings, baseboards and handrails in the suites, common areas, corridors and stairwells.

Conroy Exteriors installed 47,250

LINEAR FEET OF EXTERIOR WOOD AND METAL TRIMS or 9 miles of trim and 58,800

sq. ft. of siding on Building A and C , phase 1 .

United Carpets installed

159,890 SQ. FT. OF FLOORING

consisting of carpet , ceramic tile , vinyl plank flooring, carpet tile, broadloom, and safety floors, in building A and C in the suites and common areas. The weight of all the flooring is just over

100 tonnes

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Community Roofing Ltd.

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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY Buy 6 Bottles of Wine - Save 5%! Buy 12 Bottles - Save 10%! Buy 6 Bottles Microbrew, Save 5%! RED TAG SALES THROUGHOUT THE STORE!

Open 7 days a week!

Mon - Sat: 9am - 11pm HOLIDAY Sundays: 9am - 10pm

HOLIDAY HUNT

The Kamloops Arts and Crafts Club held its Christmas sale at Heritage House over the weekend. Clockwise from top: Diane Moyer looks through handmade ornaments and pottery. Heather Gounce admires a print that caught her eye. Andrea-PearsonMiller gets up close. Michelle Lloyd and baby Anderson browse a table of colourfully knitted goods. Tis the season of Christmas fairs and shopping. Have an event coming up? Email editor@kamloopsthisweek.com with the details. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

HUNT Located in Lansdowne Village The Kamloops Arts

(Between and London Drugs and Tim Horton’s) Crafts Club held

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its Christmas sale at Heritage House over the weekend. Clockwise from top: Diane Moyer You could win a weekend for 2 through at Sun Peaks looks or $1,000 in groceries or $500 in gasornaments handmade Plus each location is drawing for a limited edition GUND bear! and pottery. Heather Gounce admires a print that caught her eye. Andrea-PearsonMiller gets up close. Michelle Lloyd and baby Anderson browse a table of colourfully knitted goods. Tis the season of Christmas fairs and shopping. Have an event coming up? Email editor@kamloopsthisweek.com with the details. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

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• BC Wildlife Park • Heathers Fabric Shelf • Classic FX • Market Fresh Foods • Kamloops Gymnastics • The Lampost • Bone & Biscuit • Sona MD • Stewart Dental • Señor Froggy

Plus each location is drawing for a limited edition GUND Bear. Gund Bear draw will take place on December 15th

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COMMUNITY

TRU service club raising funds to sponsor student refugee The World University Service of Canada Club at Thompson Rivers University is holding a fundraising dinner on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Cascades Casino, 1555 Versatile Dr. in Aberdeen.

Money raised will be used to sponsor a student refugee. Tickets are $15 and are available by sending an email to wustru@gmail.com. Tickets will also be available at the door. The menu is burger-based,

but gluten-free and vegetarian options are available at an additional cost. Donations will also be accepted. They can be made online at tru.ca/forms/foundation/donate.

Chapters sales go to food bank Buy a book tonight, help out the Kamloops Food Bank Chapters Bookstore is opening the pages in its Aberdeen store to help add items to the Kamloops Food

Bank’s shelves. Tonight, between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., 15 per cent of sales will be donated to

the food bank to help those in need. Peter Pagnotta of Chapters is encouraging Kamloops resi-

dents to help the food bank by doing some Christmas shopping during those hours on Tuesday.

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Kamloops United Church is getting ready to bake up a storm in time for its annual Cookie Walk, which raises funds for its outreach programs.

Order baked goods, help out the church Too busy to bake? Kamloops United Church (KUC) wants to lend a hand with this year’s Christmas goodies. The measuring and stirring has started and orders are being processed. Until 5 p.m. on Dec. 2, place an order at Kamloops United Church, at 421 St. Paul St., or online at kamloopsunited.ca. This year, pre-order six variet-

ies of handmade baked goodies for $5 per dozen. Orders will be available for pick up on Dec. 9, between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Additional varieties of cookies will also be available for purchase that day. The annual KUC Cookie Walk helps support outreach projects and programs provided by Kamloops United Church throughout the community.

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Stay safe on roads this holiday season Armstrong fair LOCAL INNOVATION

Time to slap on the winter tires and check the antifreeze — winter’s coming Snow has arrived and Kamloops Mounties are reminding drivers to be roadready and weatherwise.

STAY ALERT

Weather conditions can change quickly, placing extra demands on your vehicle and your driving skills. Stay focused on the road and on other vehicles. Eliminate all distractions and make sure you are well rested. Watch for black ice and slow down when approaching icy areas such as shaded areas, bridges and overpasses as these sections of road freeze sooner

than others in cold weather.

SLOW DOWN

Drop your speed to match road conditions. Keep a safe distance between you and the vehicle in front of you to avoid having to brake suddenly on a slippery surface. The posted speed is the maximum speed under ideal conditions. In winter, it is safer to drive below the posted speed. No matter the experienced driver, the way cars move on snow or ice always has an element of unpredictability.

STAY IN CONTROL

Make sure you know

how to handle your vehicle in all weather conditions. Accelerate and brake slowly. When starting from a stop on slick roads, go slowly and accelerate gradually to maintain traction and avoid spinning the wheels. When stopping, plan well in advance, apply the brakes gently and slowly add pressure rather than braking suddenly.

SEE AND BE SEEN

the headlights on. When approaching winter-maintenance vehicles from behind, slow down, stay back and be patient.

perature range. Keep an extra jug in the trunk. Clear snow and ice from the roof, hood, trunk and all windows, lights and mirrors. After starting the vehicle, wait for fog to clear from the interior of the windows so you will have visibility all around. Keep your fuel tank sufficiently full. At least half a tank is recommended. Finally, keep a winter survival kit in your vehicle.

PREPARE VEHICLES

It’s time to put on the winter tires. Remember to check tire air pressure frequently throughout the winter as it decreases in cold weather. Make sure you have sufficient windshield washer fluid in the reservoir rated a minimum of -40 C tem-

receives award for waste reduction

The Armstrong Interior Provincial Exhibition fair has been handed the Innovation award for its waste reduction through organic waste diversion at the recent Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions (CAFE) convention in Fredericton. CAFE is a non-profit organization established in 1924 and funded primarily by its members. The organization represents a broad spectrum of fairs, from small community rural events to large urban exhibitions. The Armstrong fair partnered with Spa Hills Compost to divert as much food waste and other organics from local landfills as possible, with 52 students from Silver Star elementary helping the cause. The fair kept almost 3,175 kilograms (7,000 pounds) out of the landfill, which was five times the amount (563 kilograms/1,240 pounds) that was composted in 2015.

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Green refineries are a better alternative than tankers, says the owner of the Kitimat Clean. BRIAN AIKENS PHOTO

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espite the recent federal promise of extra funding for marine spill response, I completely agree with the 30 environmental organizations that last month claimed that carrying diluted bitumen in tankers along B.C.’s coast should not be allowed. No one in the world has ever recovered even 15 per cent of a conventional crude oil spill, let alone a bitumen spill. For example, Exxon worked for four years, using up to 11,000 people and 1,400 boats, to try to clean up the Valdez, Alaska, conventional crude spill and recovered only seven per cent of it. Conventional crude oil floats and, theoretically at least, can be vacuumed or scooped up. Diluted bitumen, on the other hand, does not float in water that is loaded with plankton and sediment, as is our coastal water. The federal government’s own research shows that half of any diluted bitumen spill will sink to the bottom in the first hour. We have no technology to get it back. Much of the rest will end up like asphalt on the mudflats, sandbars and shoreline. Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are good, wellrun companies that build and try hard to operate safe pipelines. However, governments would be irresponsible to risk our ocean, our shoreline

DAVID BLACK

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SHOT and our fishery by allowing them to put diluted bitumen in tankers. Kinder Morgan’s existing old pipeline, which was converted to carrying diluted bitumen for tanker export four years ago, should also not be used anymore for that purpose.

Get to market a better way

Saying no to the Northern Gateway and Trans Mountain projects does not prevent Canada from getting its oil resources to markets in the Pacific and Indian oceans in a clean ecological way. All we have to do is build safe bitumen pipelines or transport solid bitumen safely by rail, and operate green B.C. export refineries. (Export refineries cannot be built in Alberta because they must be near the ocean to be economic.) In the process, we will achieve enormous value-add benefits. Tens of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars of new taxes will be generated.

Protect the ocean

More importantly, we will protect our

ocean because the products produced by green refineries — gasoline and diesel fuel — float and evaporate if spilled. Gasoline disappears within two days and diesel within two weeks. As cases in point, the diesel released during the Queen of the North grounding and sinking in 2006 at Gil Island south of Prince Rupert, and the 15-kilometre long diesel slick created when a barge sank in 2007 near Robson Bight, evaporated in less than two weeks. The diesel from a recent grounding of a tug in Bella Bella also evaporated just weeks after reaching the surface. Unfortunately, seepage from the tug while it remained underwater was ongoing and lubricant oils that don’t evaporate were also released. While it is impossible to clean up a spill at sea of crude oil or diluted bitumen, a spill of refined fuels is far easier to deal with and often requires little or no remediation.

Reduce CO2 emissions

Equally importantly, if we build new green refineries, we can avoid much of the carbon dioxide emitted by all existing refineries. Engineers estimate an economically viable green B.C. refinery will save at least 23-million tonnes of annual CO2 emissions. That is the equivalent of taking five-million Canadian cars off the road.

Why ship our raw resources offshore and make it easy for foreign companies to degrade the planet using older technology? By keeping refineries in our backyard and ensuring they are green, we will become ecological stewards for the Earth. In fact, if the producers in Alberta — who are currently working hard to find ways to reduce CO2 emissions — are able to clean up the extraction process, we will have the cleanest petroleum industry in the world.

Green BC refineries solve all problems

Most of us agree we must find a way to solve ecological issues and enable production at the same time, or our quality of life and our ability to protect the environment will spiral down. In this case, green B.C. export refineries are the answer; tankers carrying diluted bitumen are not.

David Black is president and owner of Kitimat Clean, which proposes to build an oil refinery near Kitimat. He spearheaded the project to solve the land, marine and CO2 environmental problems associated with moving Canada’s gas and bitumen west, while at the same time wringing value-add benefits from Canada’s natural resources. He is also chairman and majority owner of the Black Press newspaper group.

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Poets 6. Insecticide 9. Insect feeler 13. Intestinal 14. “Drum Boogie” singer 15. Region 16. Chinese automotive co. 17. Served before entree 18. Dwells 19. Boosted 21. Tells players what to do 22. Infections 23. Hoover is one 24. Expresses surprise 25. Basketball position (abbr.) 27. Fresh Prince of __ Air 28. Hindu queens 30. Easter marshmallow treat 32. Where coaches stand 35. Women 37. Thai province 38. Drenches 40. Matters that settle 43. Not wide 44. Elaborate garments 45. Swiss river 47. South Dakota 48. Instinctive part of the mind 50. Some put this in their hair 51. French young women 53. Two legged support 55. Stimulates the heart 59. Waste matter 60. Nocturnal rodents 61. The Who anthem “__ O’Riley” 62. Old age personified 63. Remnant 64. Disband 65. Nanosecond 66. Referee declares 67. A citizen of Iran

DOWN 1. “ER” actress Leslie 2. Wings 3. Power to direct and control 4. Small freshwater fishes of Eurasia 5. Scandium 6. Earnhardt and Hunter are two 7. Two-parted 8. Foul-mouthed bear from the movies 9. Tan horses 10. Song 11. Draw blood 12. High-ranking Turkish officer

14. Determine time 17. Begets 20. Watch chain 21. Constellation representing a dog 23. Indian dish 25. Legumes 26. Romanian river 28. An auto you don’t keep 29. Signs, __, delivers 30. Police Department 31. Relating to teaching 33. Sportscaster Patrick 34. A way to glide 36. Fathered 39. Statute mile (abbr.) 41. One-thousandth of an

inch 42. Discounts 46. Rockers from Georgia 48. Norwegian playwright 49. Herbs 51. S. China seaport 52. Stout sword 54. Pasty 55. Fill a suitcase 56. Japanese weapon 57. Dark brown or black 58. Grain crop 60. Time used in far western states 64. Drill instructor

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NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 5, 2016

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22

Aries, peace of mind may come your way after you square away all of your finances and begin developing a budget for the year to come. Enlist some professional help if necessary.

Introspection leads you on a quest to find a creative outlet, Taurus. Play to your strengths and ideas will surface, or check in with friends for inspiration.

Libra, if you take a roundabout route, you will still end up at the finish line. And the new perspective this route provides may benefit you in the long run.

Scorpio, you may have to work a little harder to get what you want, but the results can’t be denied. Focus your attention on making a name for yourself in your career.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 2

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20

Gemini, stick with a course of action even if you have hit a rocky road.Your efforts thus far have been extensive, and you will soon see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Cancer, if family is not around, surround yourself with friends. This support system will prove invaluable. Express your gratitude to friends for their unwavering support.

There is no stopping you when you have a goal in mind, Sagittarius. Call it stubbornness or just dedication, but your ambition may open doors that remain closed to others.

Capricorn, someone close to you is interested in learning more about what makes you tick. New friendships may develop this week, so approach situations with an open mind.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20

Leo, a different way of thinking may be just the thing you need to solve a problem that’s been more puzzling than you expected. Ask others for their point of view.

Virgo, before you can be honest with others, you have to be honest with yourself. Take a look at things you might want to change and then forge ahead in that direction.

Aquarius, resist the temptation to bite off more than you can chew. While you might want to prove your ability to multitask, don’t do so at a detriment to your health.

MATH MIND

BENDER

MARBLES

You have some marbles, each one of the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. The number of red marbles is twice the number of green marbles. The number of yellow marbles is one-half the number of blue marbles. The number of green marbles is two more than the number of yellow marbles. The number of blue marbles is three less than the number of violet marbles. The number of violet marbles is four more than the number of orange marbles. If the number of orange marbles is the same as the number of green marbles, how many marbles do you have? ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S SNAKES PUZZLE:

The answer to this week’s puzzle will be published in the December 6th edition of Kamloops This Week.

Full solutions online at genew.ca

Pisces, even if you have rest and relaxation on the brain, celestial forces are pushing you in a different direction.

This puzzle is by Gene Wirchenko. His blog, genew.ca, has other puzzles & articles.

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