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ASK Wellness Centre executive director has been personally impacted by the overdose epidemic as a staffer and a client both died from overdoses last week.

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Bob Hughes is fine with his agency being the location of overdose prevention sites that will open on Friday in Kamloops — but not on a permanent basis. “This is a thinner line than I’d like,” the executive director of the ASK Wellness Centre said of

provincial plans to open the two locations. “I’m not happy.” On Monday, Health Minister Terry Lake issued an order directing regional health boards to provide overdose-prevention services for the purpose of monitoring those at risk of overdose and providing rapid intervention as needed. Hughes said what that means

to him and his staff in practical terms is there will be a nurse at ASK’s location on Tranquille Road on the North Shore and at the Crossroads Inn on Seymour Street downtown. There will also be more resources, such as the kits it receives with 10 naloxone doses in each. See SITES, A6

A federal task force is recommending the Liberal government bring in a plain-package system similar to tobacco sales when it legalizes marijuana. The final report of the federal marijuana task force was released Tuesday. Among its recommendations is marijuana be allowed for retail sale to anyone 18 and older — although provinces would ultimately be responsible for setting the legal age. That goes against a Canadian Medical Association ideal age of 25 and a minimum age of 21. The task force recommends tobacco-like restrictions, forcing retailers to sell product in plain packaging with the listing of the THC and CBD content. It also recommends against marketing, promotion and advertising and does not want it sold in the same location as alcohol. The latter recommendation will run up against lobbies in B.C. and Ontario that marijuana be sold in liquor stores. “The current paradigm of marijuana prohibition has been with us for almost 100 years. We cannot, and should not, expect to turn this around overnight,” the report states.

The report recommends a conservative model that would also hike tax based on the THC content and tax medical and recreational pot at the same rate. The medical component would remain separate from the consumer side under the recommendations. Kamloops entrepreneur Chad Moats, who helped run a marijuana dispensary in Victoria before it ran into problems with a landlord, commended most of the recommendations, particularly selling pot in a different establishment than a liquor store. “In Victoria, we got a lot of people trying to get off liquor and use cannabis as a substitute . . . People would say ‘I don’t want to go to a liquor store — it will trigger me,’” he said. The report received something of a ringing endorsement from the province. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Morris said it takes into consideration B.C.’s concerns with drugged driving and keeping legal weed out of the hands of children. “The illegal market for cannabis that exists today has abetted criminal organizations while also saddling many young Canadians with the stigma and ramifications of a criminal record for possession,” he said. See KAMLOOPS DOCTOR, A11

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Ousted SD73 chair never saw challenge coming “I think they’re just hearing from a slightly different perspective.” Harper, a representative from the Chase area, led the board for the past five years and served as chairwoman for an earlier two-year term. Harper said she was surprised when Wade emailed her a few hours before the board meeting to tell her she would be running against her. Harper said Wade told her before she would never challenge for chair. “It doesn’t really matter whose at the helm,” Harper said. “The chair is just the spokesperson for the board and the board decides what she says.”

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A Kamloops-Thompson school district trustee in her ninth year has ousted veteran chairwoman Denise Harper and will oversee the board of education in 2017. And the incumbent never saw it coming. Meghan Wade was voted in Monday at the inaugural meeting by the school trustees in a secret-ballot vote before regular business. “I was approached by trustees to look and consider it just as a change,” Wade told KTW.

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This section of plastic pipe about 12 feet below the 800-block of Lorne Street suffered a massive spiral fracture on Monday, sending sewage up to street level and into nearby yards and the South Thompson River.

Probe continues into reason for pipe break COLD WEATHER, AGE OF INFRASTRUCTURE NOT LIKELY RELATED TO INCIDENT ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

Neither cold weather nor aging infrastructure are likely to blame for a downtown underground pipe fracture that backed up sewage into three homes and the South Thompson River on Monday night. City workers shut down River Street and Lorne Street for most of Monday night, finishing repairs to the pipe at about 11:30 p.m. Public works director Jen Fretz said her staff does not yet know why a roughly 20-foot section of sewer force main near Lorne Street and 10th Avenue cracked before 10 a.m. on Monday. Fretz said the 20-inch pipe broke in an unusual way — splitting down the middle along the bottom. The damaged pipe is now at the city’s public works yard, where staff hope to determine what caused the split. It’s unlikely recent cold weather

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is the culprit, Fretz said, since the pipe was 12 feet below ground, past the freezing depth. Nor was the pipe one of those earmarked for replacement in the near future. “It’s plastic pipe, so it’s not like it’s that old. We looked and it went in the early ‘90s,” Fretz said. “We have lots of pipe that’s a lot older,

or it’s ductile iron. It wasn’t supposed to break, that’s for sure.” Fretz said damage from the sewage to the properties was minor, as was the impact discharge had on the river. “There was only a very short period of time where the sewage was flowing and we weren’t able to

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get a handle on it,” she said. Cold temperatures, which have frozen over much of the city’s storm infrastructure, also helped stem the flow and workers covered catch basins to keep more sewage from draining into the river. Fretz said the city worked with Interior Health to assess the risk to homeowners, noting no residents were forced to evacuate as a result of the break, though she added one home did see a “minor intrusion” of sewage into the basement. The Ministry of Environment was also notified of the backup into the river. While workers have patched up Lorne Street, it’s too cold to repave the roadway. Fretz said the area will be heavily sanded to prevent slippage and signs have been posted to alert motorists. The sewer main that broke handled about 20 per cent of the city’s sewage from neighbourhoods east of downtown.

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An alleged member of a violent drug-dealing gang who was arrested in May following multiple police raids has been released on bail. Christopher Pace was one of three people taken into custody as part of an investigation by Kamloops Mounties into the socalled Wolf Pack gang. The 22-year-old was detained following a hearing in Kamloops provincial court in June, but was granted bail yesterday following a bail review in B.C. Supreme Court. The evidence presented at the bail review is bound by a court-

ordered publication ban. However, at Pace’s June hearing, court heard he was arrested during a raid of a home in Batchelor Heights, inside of which police claim to have found various drugs, cash and multiple firearms — including two “ghost guns,” which are firearms built to be untraceable. Pace, who has no criminal record, was denied bail in June because a judge found his release would cause people to question the justice system, given recent gun violence throughout B.C. The reasons of the B.C. Supreme Court judge who granted Pace bail yesterday are protected

by a publication ban. The other two people arrested during the Kamloops RCMP’s Wolf Pack investigation — Bruce Davis and Amanda Nicholson — remain behind bars. At Pace’s June bail hearing, Davis was described by the Crown as the leader of the Kamloops faction of the Wolf Pack gang. Nicholson was described as Davis’ girlfriend. Pace will be back in court on Feb. 23. The Wolf Pack is a Lower Mainland-based coalition of members of the Hells Angels, Independent Soldiers and Red Scorpions.

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A Shuswap man facing charges stemming from a deadly shootout near Celista will stand trial in B.C. Supreme Court. Charges against Richard Allen Williams include attempted murder with a firearm, discharging a firearm with the intent to wound, assault with a firearm, aggravated assault, break and enter and wearing a mask while

committing an offence. The 60-year-old has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 11, four days after a shooting incident that sent three men to hospital — two in critical condition. Five days after the incident, Mounties issued a press release saying one of the victims had died. Following the shooting, RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said the inci-

dent was not random and the people involved were known to each other. Williams is not accused of firing a fatal shot. His preliminary inquiry had been scheduled to begin on yesterday in Kamloops provincial court, but defence lawyer Jeremy Jensen committed Williams to trial in B.C. Supreme Court before it began.

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A First Nations organizer behind two protests against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion said he is disappointed with the response from Kamloops Mayor Peter Milobar to what he called “inappropriate” behaviour by city bylaw officers. Mike McKenzie said he and a small number of protesters were setting up a candle vigil against the pipeline expansion an hour before the Dec. 4 Kamloops Blazers home game when bylaw officers tried to kick them out of the public plaza in front of Sandman Centre and threatened them with arrest. “That was the last thing we expected that day,” he said. McKenzie said a First Nations woman was in the middle of a

welcoming song when a bylaw officer “stood right in her face and said over and over you need to leave.” He feels the behaviour was a violation of free expression and aboriginal rights. “When indigenous people are doing a welcome song, it’s absolutely inappropriate for bylaw officers to get in their face and ask them to leave,” he told Kamloops city council during a public comment period on Tuesday, suggesting the city strike a committee or hold a broader dialogue on the issue. “It’s about talking about it as a community and seeing what kind of relationship we have as we live together,” he said. “So, I’m wondering how we move forwards because there’s going to be more protests.” Milobar said he thinks bylaw officers tried to remove protesters because the plaza is con-

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sidered rented space in use by the Blazers during games. The mayor told McKenzie he should try calling ahead to bylaws and the city’s planning department if he is planning future protests. Milobar said if the city has advance notice, there can be an “appropriate response” from bylaw officers and Kamloops RCMP. “I don’t see that being any different than what you’re asking for and that’s how we can make sure you still have the ability to get your voice out there,” Milobar said, adding the city does not want to shut down peaceful protests. “We’re more than willing to have those discussions as you’re organizing, but you have to meet us halfway.” McKenzie said he plans to return to council as a delegation in the new year to continue to address his concerns.

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Kamloops has recorded 31 overdose deaths this year. When the math is done to determine the per capita overdose death rate, the city is at the top of the provincial list. B.C. Nurses’ Union president Gayle Duteil said the numbers are taking a toll on her members, who are among the first responders dealing with what has been declared a provincial medical emergency. “Nurses working in emergency rooms, addiction centres, Insite and elsewhere in B.C .are exhausted,” Duteil said.

“Many are working 16-hour shifts and resuscitating people in waiting rooms. They are doing an amazing job dealing with this unprecedented crisis, but we need to make sure they have the support they need to get through this.” Royal Inland Hospital continues to be understaffed, she said, with nurses working plenty of overtime, which adds to the stress load and exhaustion. “Everybody is burning out there,” Duteil said. Duteil said she is pleased with planned federal legislative changes and increased provincial resources that should reduce the “hoops they

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Drug use is not allowed at either site, so the prevention aspect will include staff doing what they already do, walking the streets and back alleys, looking for people who are using drugs, trying to get them into the health and housing stream and warning them about the dangers of drugs on the street now. So far this year in Kamloops, ASK has distributed more than 500 naloxone kits and has used the drug to revive 40 people overdosing — yet the agency is still dealing with death from overdoses and, in particular, from drugs containing fentanyl. Last week, a longtime client and a part-time ASK staff member died from drug overdoses on the same day, Hughes said, noting his staff “is cooked. Just cooked.” After the deaths, one longtime employee told Hughes: “I feel like it’s a losing battle. I’m getting tired. I’m losing hope.” Hughes said sick time for his staff has risen. He calls them the “walking wounded.” He said the two locations chosen by the Interior Health Authority come from mapping

ASK Wellness Society operates in Kamloops and Merritt, providing outreach services, more than 200 housing units and a wide range of health and employment services to some of the most marginalized people in the communities. ASK offers harmreduction supplies, health education and direct street outreach services. With the use of the lifesaving medication naloxone, which temporarily reverses the effects of an overdose, ASK staff has revived more than 40 people facing death by overdose in Kamloops. done of overdose locations. Many occur in the vicinity of ASK’s main office on the North Shore and near the Crossroads housing complex downtown. While drug use is not allowed in either facility, that means people will use drugs nearby because they know help is close in the event of an overdose.

But, Hughes said, he doesn’t want to see either location become “a mecca for drug use” more than they already are. “ASK understands the negative impact that has been experienced by businesses and the general public with respect to substance abuse on our streets,” Hughes said. “However, ASK also recognizes that it would be failing to meet its mandate by ignoring the need to save the lives that are being lost due to this overdose crisis.” What he wants is a mobile supervised drug-use site, something the health authority has said it wants to see established in Kamloops. That plan is making its way through the bureaucracy at the health authority before heading to the federal government for approval. Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s announced Monday plans to make it easier for supervised drug-use sites to be created. The government tabled new legislation that will replace the current national anti-drug strategy.

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About 200 homeowners will have to change where they put their garbage bins after Kamloops city council voted Tuesday to end laneway collection on a handful of roads on the North Shore and near downtown. Councillors approved the change, which will affect 50 homes in the Sagebrush (South Kamloops) neighbourhood and 150 more on the North Shore, by a 7-2 vote. In Sagebrush, the move will eliminate collection in some dead-end lanes, which streets and environmental services manager Glen Farrow said are too narrow for trucks to turn around and exit. Farrow said backing out of those lanes has led to clipped fences and cars and can present a safety issue. On the North Shore, the city wants to phase out lane

collection on blocks where trucks are picking up garbage in both the back alley and on the street. Public works staff also have permission to make operational changes that could see laneway collection phased out for up to 200 more homes at a future date. Streets under consideration weren’t presented to council, but Farrow said they could include laneways that have been encroached on by properties or are no longer easily navigable due to road conditions or clutter. The changes will save the city about $10,000 annually. While Farrow said public works staff see the end of laneway pickup for the 50 Sagebrush homes as nonnegotiable, Coun. Donovan Cavers said the city should have given residents the option to come to council to express their feelings about the changes, along with any future laneway issues.

“If you can’t back a truck down an alley 50 feet, then I don’t think you should be working for the city, just plain and simple,” he said before voting against the motion along with Coun. Danis Walsh. Coun. Tina Lange sees the changes as necessary costsaving. ““Personally, I would be fine with having people take their cans to one side of the street so the truck only has to go by once,” she said. “This is minimal to what I would do if I was in control.” Public works director Jen Fretz and Farrow said the city plans to work with affected residents one-on-one to find the best place to move their bins, whether in front of their homes or to other cross streets. “This is meant to be a very hands-on, one-on-one type of conversation,” Fretz said. “It’s an individual discussion with each person about where they should take their cart.”

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While a tender awarded Tuesday is under budget, the City of Kamloops could spend up to $800,000 extra to replace a deteriorating sewer main in Brocklehust, along Aviation Way and a stretch of Tranquille Road west of Crestline Street. Capital projects manager Darren Crundwell said the project has proved more complex than other sewer pipe upgrades, due to nearby Kamloops Airport and the various regulatory agencies that oversee it, a Kinder Morgan pipeline right of way in the area, ground conditions and other factors since the work was first budgeted in 2014. “It’s six metres deep in straight sand, dealing with a timeline issue. If we get anywhere near in the summer, that pipe is under groundwater,” Crundwell said. The construction window is imposed by the provincial deputy inspector of dikes, which will only allow work in the area at specific times of year. Though the project should only take four months, the city’s construction timeline for the project ends in December 2017. The city will also have to cover the costs of shuttling people to businesses located at the far end of Aviation Way during construction and redesign a section of the project to co-ordinate

with operations at the airport. Public works director Jen Fretz said the city has applied for grants from the Clean Water and Wastewater Fund, which could cover up to 83 per cent of the upgrade and the $10-million second phase of sewer pipe replacement along Tranquille Road. At its Tuesday meeting, Kamloops council awarded a construction tender for the first phase of the project to Extreme Excavating Ltd. for $3.37 million, but did not increase the $4 million overall budget originally set for the project (which also covers contingency funds and other expenses). Fretz said staff will come back to council with a request for the additional cash if the grant applications don’t come through and once the exact dollar increases required are clearer. The pipe the city plans to replace serves slightly more than half of Kamloops residents. Crundwell said the gravity main was put in place during the 1950s, before the PVC pipe that will replace it was commonly used. Over time, sewer gases have slowly broken down the concrete. “If you didn’t have those gases, you could get hundreds of years out of a concrete pipe,” Crundwell said.

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nlike the federal Liberals’ pre-election promise to end the first-past-the-post voting system (which may not materialize as the Grits waste time sending out irrelevant surveys), the party’s pledge to legalize marijuana is on track to be completed. A federal task force this week delivered a report with an array of recommendations for legalization implementation, which is to be in place by 2019. The report has been embraced by many, from doctors and producers to politicians of various stripes. Marijuana, like tobacco and alcohol, is not for everybody and needs to be strictly regulated. Those who oppose decriminalizing or legalizing the use and sale of marijuana, like the federal Conservative party, don’t seem to be pushing for the criminalization of tobacco and alcohol, a pair of products that kill and wound far more people annually than marijuana could ever hope to do. There are some good recommendations in the task force report: selling pot in plain packaging, banning marketing and advertising of the product and setting age limits for its use. The report also gives a nod to the reality of pot use by recommending users be able to grow up to four plants at home for personal use. Anybody who has travelled will know the suggestions contained in the report seem to represent much of what has taken place in Washington state since it legalized marijuana a few years ago. The transition in the Apple State has been a success, legalizing a drug that is far less harmful overall than many legal drugs — prescription and otherwise — while removing the shroud of criminality that has enveloped users and adding much-needed tax revenue to government coffers. Here’s hoping the transition in Canada is as seamless.

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t our house, mom and technology are known to be incompatible. Even here at work, there are so many times when our techie experts have looked at whatever has happened on my computer, sighed and oh-so-kindly said something to the effect of “I don’t have any idea what you’ve done, never saw it before, so let’s just reboot.” Hubby says I’ve got a strange aura that scientists should really be studying. On those days when he’s on a real roll, he’ll laugh as he declares the government could use me as a secret weapon to shut down equipment in foreign lands. Suffice to say, Dale and technology really are incompatible — and I’m thinking this superpower I possess may have planted a gremlin or two into the online donation portal for the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund. The system worked just fine last year, after we worked out the bugs in 2014, our inaugural fundraising year. There have been complaints during this campaign from people who have been booted off the website as they prepared to donate. The specific complaint was the system told them they had timed out, even though no major amount of time had passed. They hadn’t stopped mid-donation and wandered off to have a nap or make some hot chocolate.

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LEVEL They hit the continue button and were disconnected. The wonderful folks at the United Way office downtown have looked at this glitchiness, assured me it’s not because I touched something plugged into an electrical socket and, in conjunction with the software provider, identified the problem. I didn’t even attempt to follow the advice sent to us here at the office on what to do. I just passed it along to people who understand computertalk and are comfortable diving deep into the commands, components and confusion that somehow come out the other end looking like what they envisioned. They’ve worked their magic on the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund penguin online at kamloopsthisweek.com and, fingers crossed, the time-outs have been timed out themselves. For those who may have become frustrated trying to make a donation and walked away, give it another try.

And, if anyone encounters this annoying glitch again, let me know and we’ll find a way around it. So far, that’s just meant doing it all the old-fashioned way — having people ignore their computer, put on their coats and boots and visit the KTW office, where, with pen and paper, we can process donations. Even I can figure that one out. The campaign to raise money for five Kamloops agencies that provide services we desperately need continues to the end of the year. Funds will be distributed in January to the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Family Tree Family Centre, Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre, New Life Community Kamloops and Sensational Soups. We here at Kamloops This Week thank all of you who have contributed to the Christmas Cheer campaign. The money you’re sharing today will help the army of Kamloopsians who work at these agencies to continue providing the supports, resources, shoulders to cry on, hugs, meals, warm beds, safety and understanding that many others — perhaps our family members, neighbours, colleagues — will turn to next year. In many ways, a Christmas Cheer donation really is the gift that keeps on giving. dale@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @mdalebass

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I AM NOT CUT DOWN ON GARBAGE COLLECTION THAT DOUG Editor: My name is Douglas Anderson and I am a longtime business owner in Kamloops. I am not the Douglas Anderson who was the subject of a front-page story in the Dec. 13 edition of KTW (‘No jail time for Kamloops man after eighth impaired conviction’). That Douglas Anderson is 64. I am 60 and have owned and operated Magnum Machine on Briar Avenue on the North Shore for 26 years. While the other Douglas Anderson continually gets arrested and convicted for drunk driving, I have been busy serving my customers and living a law-abiding life in my Westsyde home To those who may get confused by an identical name, know that this Douglas Anderson has nothing whatsoever to do with that Douglas Anderson. Douglas Anderson owner/operator, Magnum Machine Kamloops

Editor: With respect to the garbagecollection issue, I meant to chime in when it first came up last summer, but somehow got sidetracked. I hope city council and staff will look into changing the collection schedule from every seven days to every 10 days. It would help control the operating budget and cut down on wear and tear on the equipment.

It would also encourage residents to be more waste-efficient. Too much packaging is contributing to over-use of landfills. Like water meters, when you really pay attention to the usage, it becomes so much more important to conserve. I cannot think of a downside to working through the numbers to find the financial benefits of three collections per month.

After all, wages, cost of living, and inflation are going to continue to bombard the taxpayers. Anything we can do to combat these market forces is worth a try. Kamloopsians are a pretty savvy bunch and I think it will be interesting to hear responses to this idea. Brian Husband Kamloops

APPROACH TO OD CRISIS IS ALL WRONG Editor: Government and media have been talking a lot about the emergency that is drug-related deaths in B.C. Yes, it’s a fact — do drugs and you can die. This also applies to alcohol and other brainaltering substances. Yet we are enabling and making it worse by giving addicts supervised druguse sites. All the people and workers involved are essentially telling these people it’s OK to do drugs and possibly die. And, yes, they will die from using if they do not seek help. What a waste of time, money and energy. Governments should be investing in good, wise, intelligent ways.

Meanwhile, the people who want help have no doctors. They’re paying MSP fees and are taxed to death to pay for more enabling of those with drug problems. Why are we legalizing marijuana? To create more addicts? Alcohol sold in stores makes it convenient for alcoholics. Alcohol abuse affects society and innocent people. Who makes these rules? There are many resources out there — Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and detox centres. The media, government and fellow citizens are not responsible for other people’s choices and subsequent consequences. Those who make those choices are responsible for

the consequences of those choices. The government, police and society in general allow them to get away with their addictive and destructive behaviours. The media just goes on and on about it and the premier is wasting our dollars on it, having it go to the federal government. Why? What about legitimate people getting doctors in Kamloops? I speak for many citizens and for the children who are hurt because of this crime. The government needs to check its motives and reasoning. I suggest putting more energy into the action of creating solutions, not into the problem itself. Iris Strickland Kamloops

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“Decriminalize all drugs now. “These are people with problems. Go have a chat with them. They are not bad people. They simply have a problem they need help solving. “Protecting and defending the weak used to be a chivalrous act. Now there is nothing but fear and hate. How sad. “Thank you, Bob Hughes, for being a knight in shining armour.” — posted by Deadbeat

RE: STORY: NO JAIL TIME FOR KAMLOOPS MAN AFTER EIGHTH IMPAIREDDRIVING CONVICTION:

“Seriously? Who’s to blame if he ignores the ban and drives and kills someone? “Him or the judge?” — posted by Ahhhhhhhhhh “Stories like this, coupled with the quick back to the streets turnaround of property crime criminals, makes me confident that if I were ever arrested for almost anything, I wouldn’t serve time. “Just saying.” — posted by Turtle

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With the Cache Creek Landfill set to close today, there remains little clarity on when a proposed extension may open at the site roughly five kilometres south of the town centre. The final hurdle to the development of the village’s multi-million dollar project remains an operational certificate from the provincial government. It needs to be obtained before Belkorp Environmental Services, the company developing the new facility, can complete construction and market the site. “There’s no news, really,” said Cache Creek Mayor and Thompson-Nicola Regional District chair John Ranta, noting Belkorp’s vice-president of corporate develop-

ment, Russ Black, phones the Ministry of Environment on a weekly basis for updates. “The latest word is, we’re almost expecting it any day now,” Ranta said. “We’re just keeping our fingers crossed that they’ll issue it sooner rather than later. It would be a great Christmas gift.” Black did not return a call from KTW for comment. The expansion of the landfill site includes about 60 hectares of property, but at full build out would only utilize half that space. It would extend the landfill’s life by as much as 25 years. When Belkorp attended a meeting of the TNRD board of directors in February, Black said the project was 25th on the Ministry of Environment’s list

of projects awaiting approval. It has since moved up the queue significantly. In July, Ranta received from the ministry a notice of intention to issue an operational certificate. “The fact that they issued the intention letter to issue an operational certificate is significant,” he said. “That means the staff are actively working on the details of the operational certificate and we’re optimistic it will be issued before the end of the year.” In the meantime, Wastech Services, the operator of the landfill and a subsidiary of Belkorp, has elected to close the facility as of today, two weeks ahead of the original closing date of Dec. 31. The site opened in 1989. Once the operational certificate has been obtained, an appeal

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process could further delay the extension’s approval. Along with construction timelines, Ranta said a mid- to late-summer opening would be the best-case scenario. The landfill is big business in Cache Creek and delays in the approval process have created a difficult situation for the landfill’s employees, all of whom will be without work, or any clarity on when they may be able to return to work, heading into Christmas. At one time, the landfill and associated operations employed roughly 120 people, many of whom lived in the 1,000-person village. “Obviously, all the employees, except for a handful, have now been laid off at Wastech,” Ranta said. “Some of them will be looking for other work, others will be waiting in anticipation of the new landfill opening. “It has had a negative impact, not having a seamless transition from the existing landfill to the new landfill.”

In the meantime

In an effort to ensure area residents continue to have a facility for solid-waste disposal regardless of the status of the landfill, the TNRD will be taking over the operation of the nearby

transfer station in the interim. The transfer station was originally set to open under TNRD control on Jan. 1, but that date has been moved to tomorrow to align with the early closure of the landfill. The services and list of accepted materials will be unchanged for the transfer station. Disposal fees will be implemented beginning Jan. 1, with household garbage to be charged at $1 per bag and $10 for a standardsized truck load. Construction and demolition waste will be charged at rates starting at $30 for a truck load and users are asked to contact the transfer station in advance. Disposal fees are only payable via prepaid punch cards called Eco-Cards or by charge account for commercial users. To purchase an EcoCard, visit the following retailers: • Village of Cache Creek, 1389 Quartz Rd.; • Shell Gas Station, 1290 Trans-Canada Hwy., Cache Creek; • Husky Gas Station, 959 Trans-Canada Hwy., Cache Creek; • Village of Ashcroft, 601 Bancroft St., Ashcroft; • Esso Gas Station, 2475 Cornwall Rd., Ashcroft; • Safety Mart Foods, 105 Railway Ave., Ashcroft.

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60 units added to Pineview Valley A 60-unit apartment building is a step closer to construction on Hugh Allan Drive in Pineview Valley. At its Tuesday meeting, Kamloops city council voted to issue a development permit to Granite Developments Inc. for the building at 1880 Hugh Allan Dr., which is at the corner of Copperhead Drive. Director of development and engineering services Marvin Kwiatkowski said the building will include 24 two-bedroom units, 28 one-bedroom units and eight studio suites.

Victoria sends city $1.2 million The City of Kamloops has received its annual payment in lieu of property taxes from the provincial government. Each November, the province sends municipalities grants to cover the cost of services such as sewers, roads and fire protection that benefitted government properties. The calculation includes warehouses, office buildings and other property owned by the province, but not schools or hospitals, nor parks, highways and property managed by Crown corporations. This year, the province paid Kamloops $1.2 million in compensation.

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“This report suggests that an opportunity is at hand to address these historical downsides while advancing public health and safety,” Morris said in a public statement. Dr. Ian Mitchell, a Kamloops physician who is a prescriber and educator on medical uses of cannabis, agrees with much of the report. “There are good people on the panel and they came out with good recommendations,” he said. Mitchell particularly likes the idea of keeping sale of alcohol and marijuana apart, noting some people who may be looking to purchase legal weed are trying to stay away from booze at the same time. He also called the minimum 18 age sensible, departing from the Canadian Medical Association, whose response was based on a poll of doctors. “[They’re] a fairly uneducated population, as much as they are doctors,” he said. Mitchell said he supports keeping the medical and consumer systems separate, as recommended in the report. He did, however, question taxing the products at the same rate. Other aspects of the report including allowing development of social spaces where pot users can smoke. Production would continue to be overseen federally, while wholesaling and retailing responsibility would rest with the provinces. Moats said the only aspect of the report with which he disagrees is taxing marijuana based on its THC content — the active compound that gives users a high. “That’s a little silly. It’s equivalent to beer, wine or hard alcohol,” he said. “Beer doesn’t make hard alcohol worse — it’s a different way of consuming. Some want it more concentrated.” KamloopsThompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod does not favour legalization, but recognizes the Liberals ran on that platform. She is concerned the Canadian Medical Association age restrictions were ignored in the report, noting evidence of particular harm when

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LOCAL NEWS Police want to find the miscreant who stole a few bucks from a donation jar at a coffee shop in the Kamloops Law Courts building downtown. The money was destined to be delivered to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.

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Police are investigating a theft of money bound for Vancouver’s B.C. Children’s Hospital from a donation jar in the Kamloops courthouse. Rychard Redmond, who operates the coffee shop on the second floor of the Kamloops Law Courts building on Columbia Street, said he showed up for work on Monday to news someone had stolen money from his donation jar. “Somebody stopped me in

the parking lot and told me,” he said, estimating the value of the missing bills and coins at as much as $80. “I know there were two 20s and a five. I said between $40 and $80.” The coffee shop is only open when Redmond is in the building. When he is away, a security gate is locked in place. Redmond said he arrived at the courthouse at about 8:30 a.m. on Monday. The building’s doors open to the public at 8 a.m. According to Redmond, the burglar reached through his security gate and pushed it

toward the counter to grab the jar. Redmond called police. An officer visited the courthouse and watched surveillance footage of the area captured by a sheriffs’ security camera. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the footage, given the angle of the camera, didn’t provide much information. “It does show a male walking by,” she said. “It doesn’t clearly show whether he reaches through.” Anyone with information is asked to call police at 250-8283000.

Bail breach lands man in prison TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com

A Kamloops man who admitted to sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl he met at church is going to jail. The 20-year-old, who also pleaded guilty to twice breaching conditions of his bail, has been ordered to spend nearly five months behind bars and register as a sex offender for the next decade. The offender cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim. Court heard the offender, a student at Thompson Rivers University, and his 13-year-old victim met on the Snapchat app last year. Their relationship continued until spring of this year.

The offender was arrested on April 8 and placed on a condition to stay away from young girls and places they might frequent. Court heard the man was arrested twice in the month that followed — once at home with a girl under 18 and again at the Fun and Games amusement centre in Sahali. Kamloops provincial court Judge Stephen Harrison handed the offender a 150-day jail sentence, to be followed by two years of probation with conditions barring him from having any contact with his 13-year-old victim and consuming alcohol or drugs. He will also be required to take sex-offender counselling and surrender a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database.

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to pilot the drones. “I’ve been really impressed with the results we’ve seen,” Kamloops Search and Rescue manager Alan Hobler. “We can use drones to go into areas hazardous to searchers.” Those include steep and rugged terrain. Hobler said they are also potentially useful to locate people who are distraught and who may act erratically if they are approached. “We do a lot of searches for despondent people and that can

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be dangerous,” he said. Drones can be equipped with infrared cameras that can be used to find people via body heat they emit. Hobler said the technology is particularly useful in winter, something he called a “huge advantage. “They really pop out.” Unlike helicopters, the machines can also be flown at night and can be safely operated closer to the ground. Hobler said the provincial approval also extends to utilizing drones to help other search and rescue groups in the region.

2017 Business Licence Renewals The City of Kamloops 2017 Business Licence renewals have been mailed. Payments are due by January 1, 2017, and may be paid online using your MyCity account, by online banking services, mail, or in person at City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1A2. Business Licence accounts outstanding after January 15, 2017, will have a $25 late payment charge added to the balance owing.

Airport numbers on par with 2015 The number of travellers to Kamloops Airport continues to fall as the full impact of the oil-patch recession in Northern Alberta is felt. The number of travellers in November fell by 3.5 per cent from the same month last year. Year-to-date traveller numbers are marginally

higher. Last month, 25,470 people passed through the airport, compared to 26,383 in November 2015. Through 11 months this year, the airport has served 293,083 travellers, less than a half-percentage point more than the 291,821 who used the facility through

November 2015. Airport manager Fred Legace said there are signs of improvement despite the latest numbers. “Air carriers report some initial signs of recovery, though, as energy companies start the process of bringing people back on staff, and this

bodes well for the Kamloops market of migrating workers,” he said. Meanwhile, Legace said a project to rehabilitate the eastern portion of the airport’s main apron is almost done, with the remainder of the project set to start in April and be completed in May.

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A group of Kamloops This Week friends, family and co-workers had five reasons to eat, drink and be merry on Monday night at the Commodore Grand Cafe and Lounge in downtown Kamloops. Those reasons being The Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Sensational Soups, New Life Community Kamloops, Family Tree Family Centre and The Kamloops Sexual Assault and Counselling Centre. The inaugural fundraising dinner sold out, supported local businesses and raised $1,525 for the KTW Cheer Fund, which collects money for local charities through the holiday season. With 65 tickets sold in less than two weeks, organizers deemed the event a success. A 50/50 draw and sales of German gingerbread cookies from Erwin’s Bakery helped bolster funds raised from

the pasta and chicken buffet dinner. A highlight of night was when Corrine Serink, owner of Ardeo Spa and Salon in downtown Kamloops, won the 50/50 draw and promptly donated her $300 in winnings back to Christmas Cheer. Organizers want to thank Serink for this generous donation, along with everyone who attended. Thanks also to The Commodore for hosting and to Erwin’s Bakery for providing a discount on the cookies. To date, KTW’s Christmas Cheer Fund has raised almost $17,000.

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The holiday season can generate an extraordinary amount of garbage for our landfills. The best way to reduce our garbage is to not create it in the first place. Tips for reducing waste: 7 use reusable gift bags or wrap 7 buy items with little to no packaging 7 avoid using disposable products 7 consider giving experiences instead of items 7 recycle your Christmas waste Visit kamloops.ca/lessgarbage for experience-inspired and eco-friendly gift ideas.

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Around the table Favourite newsroom dishes What dish are you most likely to grab seconds of this holiday season? Dale Bass: Seconds? Why aren’t you asking about thirds? Seconds would be everything, I suspect — moderation in the first instalment is essential — and thirds would be probably potatoes, even knowing with each bite they’re nothing but starch. Tasty starch. It’s my Irish heritage. Jessica Klymchuk: I always go back for more cabbage rolls. They are only on the menu a couple times a year and I can’t get enough of them. I have very fond memories of rolling cabbage with my baba and mom, but haven’t attempted it on my own. So, I indulge when I can.

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Andrea Klassen: In an effort to impress colleague Wallace’s family when they hosted me for Christmas last year, I dug up Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for brussels sprouts with caramelized garlic and lemon (see recipe on A17 from The Guardian) and proceeded to scale up massively. Char-frying that many sprouts set off the smoke detector about a dozen times, but the recipe is the best vegetable side I’ve ever eaten. Dave Eagles: Mashed potatoes and gravy, of course. If it is on the table, Waldorf salad has always been a favourite. At the occasional Christmas Eve dinner, my father would love to eat out with the family at the Rickshaw restaurant in Surrey. Egg foo young and fortune cookies were always plentiful on my plate. Adam Williams: I can’t believe no one here has said stuffing yet.

I was quite the picky eater growing up — my parents still tell the story of my brother and I stuffing our dinners down the register next to the kitchen table — so it wasn’t until my 20s that I had my first bite of stuffing. It has been my favourite holiday dish since and I make sure to take advantage every Christmas (and Thankgiving and Easter…) Jessica Wallace: I always have room for more perogies and wine, but I especially look forward to Christmas Eve dinner at the home of our longtime friends — the Andersons — for the annual fondue. I appreciate the luxuriously slow pace of cooking little portions of raw food in a pot. It allows us to socialize and enjoy each others’ company. It’s also very tasty. Christopher Foulds: Cranberry sauce (homemade or canned), every salad on the table, holopchi (Ukrainian cabbage rolls) and pedaheh (which is what my Ukrainian baba called her homemade Ukrainian perogies) — and wine. Tim Petruk: Rye and Diet Coke. Marty Hastings: I drive back stuffing at an alarming rate. My mother made lovely lamb and fantastic potatoes, although her gravy always left something to be desired, God rest her soul. CFJC-TV anchor Bill O’Donovan, husband to the wonderful Audry, makes one hell of a roast, when he doesn’t burn it, and Al and Pam McDonald, my Kamloops parents, always manage to fire up a mean turkey dinner. Sometimes Al gets on my nerves at the table and I’m forced to put him in his place.

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A Up your side-dish game with these brussels sprouts KTW reporter Andrea Klassen added caramelized garlic, lemon and Parmesan to her sprouts, after scouring the city during the local holiday brussels sprouts shortage of 2015 — a tasty Christmas miracle! BRUSSELS SPROUTS WITH CARAMELIZED GARLIC AND LEMON PEEL

Recipe by Yotam Ottolnghi

4 heads of garlic, cloves separated and peeled 150 mL olive oil 50 g fine sugar 90 mL water salt and black pepper 1 medium lemon 600 g brussels sprouts 1 red chilli, finely chopped 50 g Parmesan shavings 20 g basil leaves, shredded Put garlic in pan, cover with water and blanch for three minutes. Drain, dry pan and pour two tablespoons of oil. Return garlic to pan and fry on high heat for two minutes, stirring, until golden. Add vinegar, tablespoon of sugar, water and salt. Bring to a boil and simmer on medium for five minutes until barely any liquid is left, just caramelized cloves in a syrup. With a peeler, shave wide strips of lemon skin, avoiding the pit. Cut strips into one to two millimetre strips and put in a small pan. Squeeze lemon into a measuring cup and add water to bring juice to 100 mL. Pour over peel strips, add remaining sugar and bring to simmer. Cook for 12 to 15 minutes, until syrup is reduced to a third. Set aside and cool. Trim sprouts, cut into halves. Heat four tablespoons of oil in large pan, add half the sprouts, season and cook on high for five minutes, stirring once or twice but not too often so they will char without breaking up. Add extra oil if necessary. They will soften but retain firmness. Transfer to a bowl and repeat with remaining oil and sprouts. Stir the chilli, garlic and its syrup into sprouts and set aside until warmish. Stir in Parmesan, basil and peel (without syrup), season and add oil if necessary.

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long with all the parties, Christmas concerts and cheer, this month can come with a few tense moments as well. Actually, the whole thing can be a bit exhausting and more than a little overwhelming. The good news is — there’s wine. Here are some common catastrophes and the wines they pair well with: • Navigating crowds, traffic and chaos. All. Day. Long. This calls for a little wind-down time when you get home, especially after the blast of winter weather we have had. Church and State makes a great white blend called Lost Inhibitions. It’s a nice dry wine and their labels are perfect for this occasion. I chose the wine called ‘I just can’t even’ — which is exactly how you should reply to any requests your family may make of you after you get home. • You have spent every penny you have but still want to drink wine. I hear you. This is the perfect reason to have a glass of wine. You are now broke. Congratulations and welcome to the Christmas Club. Raise a glass of the

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smoky and flavourful Obikwa 2016 Shiraz. It’s $8. You can probably find that laying around if you try hard. Sometimes my daughter saves her tooth fairy money and I’m not opposed to borrowing it if necessary — just a little tip. • Wrapping. Fun for the first four gifts, but less so from present five through 99. I love wrapping presents, actually. But even if you aren’t a wrapping fan, you can get through it cheerfully by adding the 2015 Fort Berens Riesling to your wrapping supplies. This off-dry white is light and tropical. It is perfect for sipping chilled. And, as a bonus, it would make beautiful cocktails and sangrias. Add a little cranberry and pomegranate and a bit of fizz and you could sip this all afternoon easily. Add nothing and you could do the same, but I can’t guarantee how straight your ribbons are going to be.

• Christmas Eve. Coming up on midnight and you still can’t figure out how the Little Tykes Play Kitchen goes together. I cannot stand assembly required gifts. Thank goodness Santa delivers them all ready-to-play with and perfect on Christmas morning, right? Phew! If Santa needs a little help, I would recommend a fortified Merlot or Foch to sip on while he struggles. These are decadent, heavy and bursting with flavour. Do you like port? You will love a deep fortified red. Many B.C. wineries are producing these and, in my opinion, they are better than dessert wine and ice wine combined. You can find good examples starting around the $22 mark. Santa will thank you very much for switching the milk for this. Have you tried chocolate wine yet? This is a good bet, too. Good luck out there, fellow holiday warriors. We can get through this no matter what the season throws at us. The best of the season to you and yours. Cheers! Bonnie McBride is a wine blogger. For more, go online to sipsinthecity.wordpress.com.

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Take a drive, check out holiday displays The annual Christmas-themed house on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street is once again fully decked for the holidays, with bright lights stretching higher than any other home for miles. This spot is undoubtedly one of the best-decorated homes in the city year after year, but KTW is collecting addresses of other locations in town with impressive displays. If you know of a house with snazzy Christmas lights, email the address to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com and watch for the list in upcoming editions of KTW and online at kamloopsthisweek.com. Here are some compiled so far: • The entire end of Ponderosa

Avenue in Brock, closest to Windbreak Street, is nicely done: four or five houses in a row. • Rue Chez Nous in Westsyde. The neighbours are competing and are out-Griswold-ing the Griswolds. • A string of houses on Dallas Drive, east of the school. • 360 Strawberry Lane in Rayleigh • The corner of Leigh Road and Fairview Avenue. • So many inflatable characters in Valleyview and downtown — it looks like the Macy’s Day Parade. Check out displays on the righthand side of Valleyview Drive, just past Highland Drive, and on McMurdo Drive in Sagebrush (South Kamloops).

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Christmas concerts continue in schools Christmas music will be heard through the halls at River City schools today and tomorrow, with the continuation of Christmas concerts. TODAY: • Arthur Hatton

elementary - Christmas Concert: 1:15 p.m. in school gym. • Barriere elementary - Surfin Santa: 1:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. • Beattie elementary - Twas One Crazy Night Before Christmas *: 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in

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school gym. *Advanced tickets required. • David Thompson elementary - Christmas Concert: 1 p.m. in school gym. • Dufferin elementary - Christmas Concert: 1 p.m. in school gym. Admission by donation to Kamloops Food Bank.

• Haldane elementary - Christmas Concert: 10:45 a.m. • Juniper Ridge elementary - The Lights of Jingle Bell Hill: 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. in school gym. Admission by donation to Kamloops Food Bank. • Kamloops School of the Arts - Choral

Celebration - Every Little Wish: 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Admission by donation. • Logan Lake elementary - The Grinch: 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. in school gym. • Marion Schilling elementary - Best on the Box: 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in school gym.

Admission by donation to Kamloops Food Bank. • Pinantan elementary - Outdoor Christmas Concert and Community Raffle: 5 p.m. • South Kamloops secondary - Band Concert: 7 p.m. in Sagebrush Theatre. • Westmount elementary - Intermediate

Concert - Dear Santa: 1:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in gym. Admission by food donation for Salvation Army TOMORROW: • South Kamloops secondary - Christmas Assembly: Sagebrush Theatre; contact school for times.

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Nominate do-gooders For the fourth year, Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Casual is holding its Deeds Well Done program in Kamloops and 31 other communities across Western Canada. Until Dec. 31, guests can nominate fellow community members’ good deeds. A nominated Good Deed Doer will be selected from each of

the 32 communities and will receive $500 from the restaurant chain to donate to a local registered charity of their choice. In total, Mr. Mikes will donate $16,000 to charities in 32 communities across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “We launched our Deeds Well Done’ pro-

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16 GMC SIERRA 1500 DENALI #G161059A. Certiﬁed, 6.2L V8, 8 Spd Auto, 15,656 kms, Cooled & Htd Front Seats, Bose Sound System, 110V AC Outlet, Wireless Charging, 20” Aluminum Wheels, & more!

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The Centre for Seniors Information is collecting donations for its Secret Santa project

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Secret Santa project for seniors in the city St. downtown, at Schoening Funeral Service, Seymour Street and Fifth Avenue downtown, and at First Memorial Funeral Services, 8-177 Tranquille Rd. on the North Shore. Among suggestions for donations are shampoo, lotion, soap, razors, socks, coffee, gift cards, kitchen items, scarves, slippers, gloves, books, coffee mugs, picture frames, large-piece puzzles, crossword books and bath products.

Bottle drive for move to Toronto

A 29-year-old Kamloops woman with cerebral palsy is raising money to move to Toronto. The woman is seeking bottle donations from the community to help reach her goal of raising $24,000 for the move. The money is needed for all the costs involved, including a moving van, a support worker and expenses related to finding an apartment to rent in Canadaâ€™s largest city. The woman, who asked that her name not be published, has an account established at the South Shore General Grants bottle depot at 1395 Battle St. downtown. Those who wish to help can donate their bottles to the Moving to Toronto Fund.

Christmas isnâ€™t always a merry time for people and, this year, four churches are acknowledging that. Blue Christmas services are planned this month for those mourning a loss, a reality that could come from a death, a health condition, work issues, unemployment, relationship breakdowns or just basic stress. The next service is on Monday, Dec. 19, at Hills of Peace Lutheran Church, 695 Robson Dr. in Sahali. The final service is on Thursday, Dec. 22, at the North Shore Community Centre, 730 Cottonwood Ave. on the North Shore. It is presented by Mt. Paul United and St. Georgeâ€™s Anglican churches and C&C Resources for Life. Each service starts at 7 p.m.

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The collection of blankets was impressive in 2014, the inaugural blanket drive organized by the Kamloops and District Real Estate Association.

Realtors blanketing the community

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As the cold snap continues in Kamloops, city real estate agents are asking the public to help them keep the city’s less fortunate warm. Realtor Cyndi Crossley said offices around the city are collecting coats, hats, blankets and other options for bundling up, which will be distributed to non-profit groups such as New Life Community Kamloops and the

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Family Tree Family Centre. Both new and gently used items can be donated. The association has been running its blanket drive since 2014, when it collected 80 blankets for charity, and has expanded its mandate to include clothing items that can also take the sting out of winter. “As far as the real-estate association is concerned, we’re helping people have a roof over their heads,” Crossley said. “A lot of these other people, those

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Traffic jams like this one could become a thing of the past once all newly produced vehicles are required to have the ability to communicate with one another.

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about 1,000 yards in all directions, even when sight is blocked by buildings or other obstacles. That gives the technology the advantage of being able to detect a potential collision before the driver can see the threat, unlike the sensors and cameras of self-driving cars that sense what’s immediately around the vehicle. Ultimately, selfdriving cars that are also equipped with V2V may be the answer to traffic congestion because they’ll be able to synchronize their movements so that they can merge seamlessly and travel in long, closely packed caravans at higher speeds, according to government and industry officials. That would improve

traffic flow and increase highway capacity. The DOT proposal requires automakers to follow cybersecurity guidelines the department issued in October. To protect privacy, V2V messages are anonymous — they don’t contain any information on the driver, owner of the vehicle, make or model, vehicle identification number or license plate. The messages are also of brief duration and not retained, therefore it’s not possible for a hacker to use the messages to determine where a vehicle has been, said Debra Bezzina, an engineer with the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute who works on the technology.

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The tier 3 Kamloops Junior Blazers will round out the tier 2 bracket of the Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament this year, the first tier 3 club to play in the tournament in its 49-year history.

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The Kamloops Junior Blazers were beside themselves. The rumours had already been flying around the tier 3 (T3) club’s dressing room for some time, the whispers that the organizers of the Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament (KIBIHT) might be looking to add another team from the River City. But it wasn’t until after practice a few weeks back that head coach Doug Lewis confirmed what his players had been hoping for — they were in. “They were beside themselves for sure,” Lewis told KTW. “I think everyone is pretty excited, especially our second-years. The boys really only have two years to get a chance to play in KIBIHT, so for some of the second-years who maybe weren’t able to make one of the higher tiers, it’s a really good opportunity.” KIBIHT 2017 gets underway on Dec. 28, with championship games being played on Jan. 1. When the puck drops in the Blazers’

debut on the 28th, it will mark a couple of firsts for the 49-year-old tournament — the first time a T3 team has played in the event and the first time three Kamloops clubs have been amongst the competition pool. Kamloops will start with a game on McArthur Island against the Alaska Grizzlies, before heading to Brock Arena to take on the Prince George Cougars on Jan. 29. Round-robin play will wrap up later that evening back on McArthur Island against Pursuit of Excellence Varsity. “I think we’re going to be a little bit nervous once we do get there, but we’re really excited to be playing in this tournament,” said Junior Blazers’ captain and second-year forward Alexander Denis. “We know the competition is going to be pretty tough. We might not be one of the most skilled teams there, being a tier 3 team, but we’re definitely going to go out there and try and outwork every team that’s there.” While it seemed like a no-brainer for the T3 Junior Blazers to accept the invitation to KIBIHT, Lewis said it was important to make sure that his club would still

be competitive once action got underway. While they have landed in what might be one of the tougher pools of the tier 2 bracket, Kamloops has had success in tournament action against tier 2 opponents before. “We’ll compete pretty well. That’s all we’re looking for is to just go in there, compete and have fun,” the head coach said. “Again, we’ll just take it one game at a time, one shift, one period at a time, and try to compete and stay in there with those teams.” The T3 Junior Blazers round out what tournament chairman Ted Kowalsky described as a very strong local contingent. He’s expecting the additional Kamloops content to bring a few more fans through the doors during the fiveday event. “Our crowd increases dramatically when there’s a Kamloops team playing, for obvious reasons,” Kowalsky said. “It’s going to be extra exciting having three teams in.” See TRAGEDY, A28

t this point, the Canada West could decide to settle ties with dodgeball, play basketball on Astroturf and award a university program to the South Kamloops Titans and I wouldn’t bat an eye. OK, OK, it’s not quite at that point yet, but boy, it’s getting close. On Tuesday, the Canada West Universities Athletic Association reminded its fans and media of yet another wrinkle it has introduced for the 2016-2017 basketball season — the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI). It’s another in a long line of dubious decisions from university basketball’s governing body and, if history is any indicator, it would be the last. As KTW reported in November, playoff berths in the 20162017 campaign will be awarded to the conference’s top 12 teams, with No. 1 through No. 4 receiving byes to the second round and No. 5 through No. 12 playing in best-of-three firstround series. Simple, right? Well, in order to account for the fact basically every team in the conference will play a different schedule this season — all

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against programs of varying strength — the Canada West will use a mathematical formula to determine RPI, an indicator or strength of schedule. The team with the greatest RPI, representing the most difficult schedule, will be awarded the No. 1 seed — yes, you read that right — and every playoff position through No. 12 will be decided the same way. Now, get your calculators out Thompson Rivers WolfPack fans. RPI will be calculated using the following formula: 25% team winning percentage x 1.2 away win + 0.8 home win, 50% opponents’ average winning percentage and 25% opponents’ opponent’s average winning percentage. See CANADA, A28

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The Junior Blazers are focused on making the Tournament Capital proud. “We’re just grateful for this opportunity from KIBIHT — it’s very exciting,” Lewis said. “It’s also a real testament of the talent of hockey players in Kamloops that we have three strong teams that can compete.”

Meet the team

The T3 Blazers are led by a second-year leadership group that includes captain Alexander Denis and assistant captains RJ Gerow and Owen Pincott. Denis, Pincott, Carson Evoy, Jaden Zunti, Evan Clark, Matthew Mariona, Carter McLellan, Bryce Bertuzzi, Olen Gelineau and Jameson Rende make up the forward group, while Gerow Jason Carroll, Luke Petrie, Ty Haywood-Farmer and Samuel Lewis patrol the blueline. Goaltenders Jared Sucro and

Ryan Dusseault backstop the club.

Tragedy down South

An accident on Interstate Highway 80 in west-central Iowa claimed the life of a Nebraska minor hockey coach on Saturday, whose team was expected to be in Kamloops for the Kamloops International Bantam Ice Hockey Tournament later this month. Rodney “Shayne” Sanborn, 41, was a part of the coaching staff of the Nebraska-based Omaha AAA Hockey Club that was set to compete in KIBIHT’s tier 1 division against the Chilliwack Junior Bruins, Calgary Royals and Grande Prairie Storm. Two players and two parents from the hockey club were also injured in the crash. “The hockey world is a small and special place to be,” read a tweet from the Omaha account on Sunday. “Shayne Sanborn is a huge loss and will be missed. We still

CANADA WEST’S DECISION MAKING CREATED PROBLEMS From A27

Out of curiosity, I set out to try calculating the WolfPack’s RPI to this point in the season. I filled an entire notebook page with the math. It took me 35 minutes and I still got it wrong. I have a science degree and took university-level calculus. Yes, Canada West is planning to post RPI on the standings page of its website, but it adds another layer of complexity to an association that is MUAY THAI • SAN SHOU • MMA PREPARATION

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have two U14 players and two parents recovering in hospitals from very severe injuries suffered in yesterday’s horrific crash. “We ask that your thoughts and prayers are with the Sanborn, Doggett and Rast families for a quick recovery and healing process. Thank you again for everyone’s support. It means a lot.” According to The Des Moines Register, a westbound semitrailer truck crossed the median of the highway and crashed into a minivan headed east. The van and cab went in the ditch, but the trailer remained on the highway, where an SUV slammed into it. Road conditions are believed to have been a factor. Two individuals in the van were killed, while Sanborn was in the SUV and also killed in the crash. Kowalsky said KIBIHT has issued a letter of condolence to the team and is uncertain if Omaha still plans to attend the tournament.

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increasingly difficult to follow on a year-to-year basis. It’s like changing the name of Canadian Interuniversity Sport to U Sports or the Vancouver Canucks’ brass talking about the post-season year after year — deep down, you just know it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The organization’s coaches are equally frustrated. The WolfPack’s Scott Clark and Scott Reeves lamented constant changes to the schedule and playoff structure at the start of this season, pointing out that, in a decade, they had played the same schedule in back-to-back years just a handful of times. Then there’s the post-season. “The one criticism I have would be the playoff structure,” Reeves said at the time. “The playoffs — that’s how you get to the national tournament. So, if there’s an imbalance in the schedule, that really doesn’t sit well with me, in terms of seeding for the playoffs.” The Canada West has backed itself into a corner, though, by building a conference that has 17 basketball teams — seventeen — and placing them all in one division. Even professional basketball, in which players are paid millions and travel budgets are massive, has two conferences of 15 teams each. I’m not going to pretend to have all the answers, but the problems started when the association started awarding every college-turneduniversity admission. Heck, even coaches in the Canada West are uncertain of how to fix things. But let’s pick a structure and stick with it — preferably one that the casual fan can understand and doesn’t require a calculator and a math degree. At the end of the day, I guess there’s no reason to get all that worked up about RPI or the complexity of post-season qualification and seeding. Within a year, I expect it to all be different anyway. Maybe next year we can play Rock, Paper, Scissors to determine the Canada West Final Four. Pick Rock. Nothing beats good ol’ Rock.

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Boston’s Bottom was a dingy, loud nightclub with a low ceiling beneath the downtown Boston Pizza restaurant on Victoria Street. That’s where Doug Lifford met Joanne on a horrendous blind date in 1974, a seemingly doomed rendezvous that led to a 41-year marriage and, in some small way, to the preservation of regional sports history. “He was a sports fanatic and Doug absolutely loved Kamloops,” said Joanne, a retired nurse. “He knew every stat there was out there and he collected a lot of different things when he was a child and just never let go of them.” Doug, who worked at Dearborn Motors for 45 years, was diagnosed with a type of stomach cancer about 17 years ago and, to make a long story short, it eventually led to his death last July. He was 75. Joanne and Doug had two children — Amanda and Dianna — who are both married and have their own homes. Mom decided it was time to downsize when her husband died. She needed to part with the

Doug Lifford with daughters Dianna (left) and Amanda.

memorabilia, but didn’t want it to go to waste, so she called KTW. What Doug stashed away over the years might be of interest to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and other organizations interested in conserving hockey history, including the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame. Programs and newspaper clippings from the Penticton Vees’ historic run to the 1954 Allan Cup, Canada’s senior amateur men’s championship, are filled with fantastic old photos and biographical information. The senior B Kamloops Hub City Leafs were in their inaugural

Main Line Hockey League season in 1947-1948. Doug kept a year-end souvenir and record pamphlet that proves Kamloops teammates Cliff Mills and Al Swaine were first and second, respectively, in league scoring that season. Swaine’s son, Doug, is the Kamloops Minor Hockey Association’s referee-in-chief, and his son, Nick, is a WHL official. Al Swaine was also a member of the 1949-1950 Kamloops Elks, who won the B.C. senior championship, but lost in the Allan Cup western semifinal round to the Calgary Stampeders. The official

program from the semifinal series was part of the delivery of memorabilia to KTW. Also among the relics is an official 1949-1950 Edmonton Flyers hockey program that features a photo of young-and-dashing Andy Clovechok, who helped lead the Flyers to the Allan Cup in 1948. Clovechok, who is in three sports halls of fame, died last week at the age of 93. Well-kept hockey cards of players who skated for the Kamloops Elks in the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with two 8x10 photos of what appear to be Kamloops minor hockey teams from around the same time period, are among the keepsakes. Kamloops media personalities Keith H. Gagne, a broadcaster, Ralph Field, CFJC’s sports announcer, and Ron Powell, sports editor of the Kamloops Sentinel, are pictured in the 19531954 Okanagan Senior Amateur Hockey League annual. Back in 1974, Joanne was on a ski trip in Whistler when a major snowstorm delayed her return to Kamloops by two days. She arrived home about an hour before the blind date was supposed to start. When she arrived, the

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Thompson Valley Boys — “They were probably the worst band that Kamloops ever saw,” Joanne said — were in the middle of their set. The matchmaking couple that arranged the blind date tagged along to make it a double date. “They proceeded to . . . they had too much to drink and ended up in this spat,” Joanne said. “You couldn’t hear anything, so we couldn’t talk. All I wanted to do was go home.” Joanne wasn’t surprised when she didn’t hear from Doug. Then her phone rang two weeks later. Turns out Doug, a former Kam High Red Devil, suffered a black eye playing basketball the day after their date and wanted it to heal before he again saw Joanne. Date 2 was at the Canadian Inn on Valentine’s Day. They were married on June 1, 1974, about five months after the Thompson Valley Boys nearly nipped the relationship in the bud. What Doug valued most was his family, but sports and the memorabilia he collected were also important. Joanne would like to find a home for the souvenirs. “That’s what he would’ve wanted,” she said.

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Deven Sideroff’s deke in overtime was a thing of beauty, a mesmerizing display of skill that froze Lasse Petersen and finished with a backhander that sent the goaltender’s water bottle flying. Sideroff’s 19th goal of the season gave the Kamloops Blazers a 4-3 victory over the hometown Red Deer Rebels on Tuesday. “The trip started off pretty well in Edmonton in front of the big crowd and then we got a good point in Calgary,” said Garrett Pilon, who notched his team-leading 27th assist on Tuesday. “It’s been a pretty strong road trip so far.”

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Saves like this one from Connor Ingram are a big reason why the Kamloops Blazers are near the top of the Western Conference standings, but it’s backup goaltender Dylan Ferguson who has stepped up on the Blazers’ tour through the Central Division. Kamloops will play Medicine Hat tomorrow night.

The Blazers opened their six-game tour of the Central Division with a 3-2 victory over

Edmonton in front of more than 18,000 fans on Teddy Bear Night last Saturday. They

fell 3-2 to Calgary in a shootout on Sunday. On Tuesday, Dylan Ferguson made 29 saves in victory between the pipes for Kamloops, which was back in action in Lethbridge against the Hurricanes last night after KTW’s

press deadline. Find the result online at kamloopsthisweek.com. All eyes have been on Ferguson, with starting netminder Connor Ingram away in Quebec trying to crack Team Canada at a selection camp ahead

of the World Junior Hockey Championship. “I’ve always been pretty good at handling the pressure,” said Ferguson, the reigning WHL goaltender of the week. “I like playing and being the guy. I’m confident in my game right now.” Ferguson had 36 saves against Edmonton and 33 stops against Calgary. Kamloops captain Collin Shirley, who said he was in a lull before the road trip started, had the game-tying marker against the Hitmen and two goals, including the gamewinner, against the Oil Kings. “Lots of guys were having a tough time scoring,” Shirley said. “That happens. Everyone goes through slumps. You’re best when you’re confident, scoring goals and having fun.” “For me, it’s about getting back to having

fun out there.” Blazers’ forward Matt Revel suffered an upper-body injury against the Oil Kings and will not play again on the road trip, which continues tomorrow in Medicine Hat against the Tigers. Defenceman Ondrej Vala is at the Czech Republic’s selection camp, aiming to land a spot on the team for world juniors. He will miss the rest of the Central Division swing. As of yesterday, Kamloops (19-12-11) and the Kelowna Rockets (19-12-2-0) were tied for second in the B.C. Division with 40 points, eight points back of first-place Prince George (23-82-0) Victoria (17-4-30) was three points behind the Blazers and Rockets, while Vancouver (11-18-1-2) is languishing in the Western Conference basement.

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Current, past baseball players ‘Hawks can criticize hazing restrictions clinch tonight RONALD BLUM AND JANIE MCCAULEY

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NEW YORK — Huston Street believes in some of baseball’s oldest, triedand-true traditions — and the reliever knows team building can be a real benefit, so he considers the elimination of rookie dress up in the new labour deal the loss of “a healthy ritual.’’ The Los Angeles Angels’ closer, like many players expressing their views Tuesday, disagrees with Major League Baseball’s ban on the hazing ritual of dressing up rookies in costumes that could be considered offensive, including women’s outfits. “An effort to show our childlike spirit, or humble ourselves in wearing something funny as a team building moment, is now gone,’’ Street wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “But rest assured, some other ritual will rise, will be kept far more secret and, hopefully, it’s as safe and harmless as uncomfortable clothes.’’ Baseball owners and players ratified their five-year labour contract Tuesday, which contains a new antihazing and anti-bullying policy formulated by management, rules the union agreed not to contest. New York Mets’ rookie outfielder Brandon Nimmo was among the last group to participate this past season. In September, he had to wear a wig and dress in the style of the 1992 movie A League of Their Own while fetching coffee and doughnuts in Philadelphia. “I guess I’m sad to see that go. I’m

glad that I got to partake in it last year. Wouldn’t trade that,’’ Nimmo said at the team’s Citi Field holiday party. “I felt like it just kind of brought the team closer together, let’s have a little fun together.’’ Many retired players were outraged, taking to social media to show their disgust. “What a joke!!’’ tweeted Mark Mulder, a big league pitcher from 2000 to 2008. Yet for baseball officials, the decision goes far beyond just goodnatured fun. Billy Bean, a big league infielder and outfielder from 1987 to 1995 who came out as gay in 1999, spoke with MLB’s labour lawyers as the policy was developed as part of his role as vice-president for social responsibility and inclusion. “To me, it’s important to be cognizant of the images that our players project to our fans, and I think where for many where it would seem that it’s common sense that it’s just all in good fun and being silly, there are many sides to the story and I just think that it’s a responsible thing to do,’’ he said during a telephone interview. “Many players didn’t like this tradition but were afraid to speak up.’’ Many took to social media to express disappointment. “The world has gotten 2 damn sensitive! This has been a time honoured tradition,’’ tweeted Aubrey Huff, a major leaguer from 2000 to 2012 who liked to show off his lucky red rally thong. “The world is full of sensitive snowflakes.’’

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Despite that ugly loss at Green Bay last weekend, the Seattle Seahawks are in strong position to secure the NFC West crown tonight. It’s hard to picture the Los Angeles Rams, who just fired coach Jeff Fisher following an equally distasteful loss to Atlanta, getting in Seattle’s way. Game time is 5:25 p.m. If the host Seahawks win or tie and Arizona loses or ties on Sunday, the race is done. The short turnaround is a mixed blessing to Seahawks star cornerback Richard Sherman. He vehemently dislikes Thursday night games, saying they are a danger to player safety. But getting to forget the blowout at the hands of the Packers comes easier with another game on tap so quickly. “It’s no different than any other loss, honestly,’’ Sherman

says. “It doesn’t hurt any less if you lose by 20 or by two. They hurt just as bad, it’s a loss. It felt the same as any other loss.’’ The Rams not only lost 42-14 to the Falcons, which tied Fisher with Dan Reeves for most regular-season coaching losses, but they saw Fisher lose his job the next day. How will they react? “It was tough,’’ running back Todd Gurley says. “It was tough on a lot of guys. Coach Fisher, he did a great job. He brought everybody in. We loved him as a coach. We know a lot of other people didn’t. “But, at the end of the day, we knew what he did for us. He brought us in. He’s the one who drafted me when nobody else believed in me. It definitely hit us hard, for sure.’’

Governing body taking aim at rugby head shots DUBLIN — Any reckless or accidental contact with the head in matches will no longer be tolerated by World Rugby. The governing body has redefined the law on illegal and high tackles, and increased sanctions to try and reduce the risk of injuries. They will apply at all levels from Jan. 3, World Rugby announced yesterday. A tackle or attempted tackle will be deemed reckless if the tackler knew or should have known there was a risk of making contact with the head and

did so anyway. It applies even if the tackle started below the shoulders. It includes neck rolls. The minimum sanction is a yellow card and the maximum a red. A tackle or attempted tackle will be deemed accidental if a tackler made accidental contact with the head, even if the tackle started below the shoulders. It includes where the ballcarrier slips into the tackle. The minimum sanction is a penalty. World Rugby ordered referees in early November, before the bulk of the autumn tests, to be stricter on contact

above the shoulders. But there were instances in tests, notably the IrelandNew Zealand match in Dublin, where the on-field sanctioning appeared lenient. The zero-tolerance approach follows research from 2012-2015 of more than 600 head injury assessments in 1,516 elite-level matches around the world. The research showed 76 per cent of all head injuries occurred in tackles, an injury to the tackler was 2 1/2 times more likely than to the ballcarrier, and tackle height was a contributing factor. — Canadian Press

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ALL OVER FOR THE CANUCKS? Whitecaps find IAIN MACINTYRE

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A lot of people were calling this a lost season for the Canucks even before it began. And the people who didn’t call it then probably knew when Vancouver lost nine straight games after a 4-0 start that that was it. But if we needed a defining game, a moment of finality, to write off this Canucks season it was Tuesday’s atrocious loss in Carolina. No team as desperate as the Canucks, without any margin for error left, can afford to blow a three-goal third-period lead on the road and lose 8-6 to a Hurricanes team that is good at home but otherwise screams mediocrity. It’s over. It’s over in the standings, where a week before Christmas the Canucks are four games under .500 (12-16-2)

and four points out of a wildcard playoff spot — a gap that seems smaller than it actually is because the teams they need to catch have played fewer games. It’s over in the dressing room, where the team will be utterly dispirited having finished a 1-4 road trip by allowing four goals in six minutes at the start of the third period to turn a three-goal lead into a one-goal deficit. It’s just over.

WILLIE OR WON’T HE?

It was a loss so bad, the Canucks’ defending so inept when it counted most, we were wondering post-game if Willie Desjardins would be invited on the team charter home. Since that 0-8-1 dive to the bottom of the NHL, Desjardins has seemed about one awful week away from losing his job. But this eight-day road trip, taken in its

entirety, is as discouraging as any segment this season for the Canucks. Having clawed back some confidence and at least a little momentum by going 7-4-1 in the four weeks after their nine-game faceplant, the Canucks have matched their nadir by returning to four games under .500. Maybe with Mattias Ohlund, a good friend of Canuck president Trevor Linden, being honoured tomorrow when the Tampa Bay Lightning visit Vancouver, management didn’t want the focus to be on a new coach. Maybe having seen how ham-handed and amateurish the Florida Panthers looked two weeks ago when they fired Gerard Gallant after a road game, Linden and general manager Jim Benning want to let the emotions of Tuesday night settle and before mak-

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WHERE ART THOU TANEV, RODIN?

Swedish League MVP Anton Rodin played more than any Canuck in the preseason before he was pulled out of the lineup with a week to go to rest his sore knee. That was more than two months ago and we haven’t seen him since. And vital defenceman Chris Tanev sits out three games in October due to an ankle injury, then gets shoved back into the lineup on Nov. 2 in the first half of back-to-back road games, and hasn’t played since. What rehab program are these guys on? With the Canuck power play and team defence ranked 27th in the NHL, it’s obvious both Tanev and Rodin have been missed. They’d have made a difference.

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After a season with an endlessly unsatisfying answer to the “who will replace Steve Beitashour” question, it looks like the Whitecaps have found their answer: They’ve traded for Sheanon Williams. The 26-year-old, whose first name is pronounced “Shane-en,” if you’re wondering, was with the Houston Dynamo for the last season-and-ahalf, having moved to Texas from the Philadelphia Union midway through 2015. The Whitecaps traded for him on Tuesday following the MLS Expansion Draft. Neither Minnesota United nor Atlanta United made a Whitecap one of the 10 players picked on the day. Williams played for the Union from 2010 to 2015, making him a former teammate of current Caps Jordan Harvey and Andrew Jacobson. And, being a former Dynamo forward, Giles Barnes is another Cap with ties to Williams. He’s started 184 of his 192 appearances during a seven-year MLS career. “Sheanon is an athletic, solid defender with an attacking mind,” head coach Carl Robinson was quoted in an emailed statement by the team. With both Fraser Aird and Jordan Smith out of the picture for 2017, look for Williams to be the first-choice right back. A Boston native, Williams joined the U.S. U-17 national team residency program in Bradenton, Fla., and played at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Korea. Two years later, Williams played at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt.

Free agency window opens

For the second time, MLS veterans have a chance to move as true free agents. And, just like 2015’s inaugural list, there are few names that truly jump off the page. There’s Will Johnson, who has drawn Vancouver’s interest in the past, who might be of interest for a team which needs to fill some midfield holes. Former Sounder and now Rapid Marco Pappa will surely get a number of calls. Maybe soon-to-be-37 playmaker Javier Morales still has some surprises left in his bag of tricks. There are plenty of veteran forwards available: Mike Magee, Alan Gordon and Herculez Gomez being the most familiar. Dominic Oduro and ex-Cap Sebastian Le Toux have plenty of experience on the wing, while Jeff Larentowicz would be useful depth midfielders.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Charles Russell “Rusty” dePfyffer

Andrew “Andy” Clovechok

July 10, 1950 – December 7, 2016

Andrew “Andy” Clovechok passed away on December 09th, 2016 at the age of 93 at the Ponderosa Lodge, embraced by a team full of love.

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Charles Russell dePfyffer on December 7, 2016 at his home. His life was cut short though he fought a courageous battle with cancer.

Andy was born on April 10, 1923 in Klokocor, Czechoslovakia to Michael and Julia Clovechok. The family immigrated to Canada and settled in Rosedale, Alberta in 1928. It was there, on the frozen ponds, wearing winter boots inside skates much too large, that he developed his love for hockey and also started a baseball career.

Russell was a great story teller, an avid outdoorsman and a loyal friend. Russell is survived by Janeene, his wife of 40 years, his daughter Jill (Jon) and sons Randy (Nikki) and Robert (Miranda). He also leaves behind his four grandchildren Emmerson, Ryker, Ben and Wyatt to whom he loved being Papa. He will be dearly missed by his mother Joan, his two sisters Christine (Bill) and Jerryl (Paul) and his brother Richard (Cindy) along with many nieces and nephews.

Andy is survived by his loving family, wife Molly (in their 70th year of marriage), children Don (Eileen), Jane (Jerry), Terry (Jan), Eleanor Clovechok, seven grandchildren Brandon and Dion Nordoft, Deanna Ring, Kelsey Clovechok, Natalia, Emily and Clare Clovechok and his four precious great-grandchildren.

Russell was predeceased by his father Charles and his grandson Charlie. Russell was born and raised in Kelowna, BC where he went to Dr. Knox High School. He joined the BC Dragoons as a teen and traveled with his unit to Germany. In 1970, Russell moved to Kamloops and started work with the Canadian Pacific Railway shortly thereafter. Rusty continued with the CPR for 35 years, until retirement at 55 in 2005. Rusty loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing and trapping. He did many hunting and guiding expeditions all over Northern British Columbia. He enjoyed snowmobiling and ATV-ing with his trusty sidekick chocolate lab Seymour. He liked sharing coffee on the deck at the cabin at East Barriere Lake where he spent his summers with friends and family fishing, boating and water skiing. He often talked about how he climbed the steepest street in New Zealand, summited the tallest mountain in Denmark and even survived a helicopter crash on one of his many hunting expeditions. Special Thanks to Dr. Shane Gorman, Monica Stegar and Dr. Farren for your care and guidance. A Celebration of Life will be held at The Calvary Community Church, 1205 Rogers Way in Kamloops on Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm. Should friends desire, donations to BC Children’s Hospital Foundation www.bcchf.ca or Ronald McDonald House www.rmhbc.ca in memory of Russell would be appreciated.

Andy had a special gift that made him a pleasure to know and be around. His sense of humour, quick wit and engaging personality were with him daily. This is what allowed him to quickly stickhandle himself into the hearts of the staff at Ponderosa Lodge, where he lived his last four difficult months, without a word of complaint as he declined. Our family is overwhelmed by the amazing care and compassion the Angels at the Lodge provided for him ~ thank you so much! Andy’s Memorial has been scheduled for 1:00 pm on Sunday, December 18th, 2016 at the Coast Hotel on Roger’s Way. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Canadian Tire Jumpstart, a charity “giving kids a sporting chance”.

Known to all as Jim, he was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend to many. Jim is survived by his wife Eileen of 63 years, children Jim (Sue) of Shawnigan Lake, Carolyn (Bruce) of Osoyoos, Steve (Linette) of Victoria, grandchildren Sean, Nicole, Kristina, Philip, Stacey, Meghan, Kaitie and greatgrandchildren Aislin, Sienna, Camryn, and Weston. He also leaves behind his beloved sister Alicia. A proud Canadian, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for 20 years. After leaving the military, he enjoyed a successful career as a Driver Examiner with the Motor Vehicle Branch. His career took the family from coast to coast moving 10 times settling in Kamloops in 1973. Dad was a social butterfly, charismatic, gregarious and a natural born storyteller. His wonderful sense of humour and friendly demeanour will be missed by all who were fortunate enough to know him. An active member of the Freemasons, Dad served his Lodge, Kamloops #10 with distinction both as Master and District Deputy Grand Master. A Celebration of Life will be held at 1:00 pm on December 18th, 2016 at the Kamloops Masonic Center, 351 Nicola St. Food and refreshments will follow. For those who wish, a donation can be made to one his favourite projects The Kamloops Masonic Cancer Car Program (transporting patients to their cancer treatments).

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After joining the Air Force and being stationed in Lethbridge, Andy went to Vancouver for a tryout with the Vancouver Canucks and had much success on the ice and off, capturing his “belle” Molly there. A successful career with the Edmonton Flyers followed, before settling in Kamloops in 1951, playing hockey for the Elks and later establishing himself as a self employed businessman. He was a community leader, founding father of Kamloops Minor Hockey and a passionate volunteer of countless hours in sports as a coach and umpire.

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Thomas Crawford Thomas passed away peacefully in Kamloops, BC on Saturday, December 3, 2016 in his 84th year. Thomas will be sadly missed by his daughters Linda (Wayne), Anne (Doug), son Thomas, grandchildren Mathew, Shawn, Travis (Crystal), greatgrandchildren Rayne, Halem, Rylan and Sage, nieces and nephews, as well as many friends and relatives. He is predeceased by his loving wife Margaret. A Private Family Service will be held at a later time. Arrangements entrusted to First Memorial, Kamloops 250-554-2429. Condolences may be left for Thomas’s family at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com.

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Irene May Schneider (Grandma with the gum) June 27, 1927 – December 9, 2016

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our Mom, Grandma and GreatGrandma.

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Mom was born in Ceylon, Saskatchewan to Dalton and Florence Bentley. When mom was 11, her dad built a covered wagon, packed up their belongings and livestock and headed to the Lower Mainland. She met her husband Mike and they eventually moved to Kamloops to raise their family. Mom is survived and will be greatly missed by her son Gary (Maria) and their dog Bamboo, son Jim (Marie), daughter Sharon (Jim), grandchildren Ashley (Frazer), Cole (Rory), Kristina (Matt), Kim (Jordan), great-grandchildren Lachlan, Gabriel, Tayven and Logan, as well as her brothers Bob (Elsie) and Ron, plus many nieces and nephews. Mom was predeceased by her husband Mike and parents Dalton and Florence. Should friends desire, donations to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation (Pediatric Ward) in mom’s memory would be appreciated. Funeral Services will be held Friday, December 16, 2016 at 11:00 am at Schoenings Funeral Home, 513 Seymour Street with The Reverend Ray Parker officiating. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

25 years have past with loving memories of Harper Mountain, Shuswap, Cabin at Paul Lake, Fishing with his girls and just being a Dad Lovingly remembered by Lorraine and Family

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Obituaries & In Memoriam John Eric Hoglund It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Eric Hoglund of Kamloops, BC on December 9, 2016 at the age of 95. Dad’s journey has been remarkable and impressionable. Born on January 24, 1921 in Woodnorth, MB, the eldest of five children. He left home at 15, picking up odd jobs, including working for CNR, before joining the army in November 1941. Dad served in the 22nd Provost Company, with postings in England, arriving Normandy, France in the D-day landings, Belgium and Netherlands during the nation’s liberation. His nick name was “Speedy” for he was always, peddle to the metal on his motorcycle. Upon returning to Canada in 1945, after WWII Dad met the love of his life Grace Amy Hill. They married on November 2, 1945 and soon after moved out to Surrey, BC where they started their family and lived in the Clayton Hill area. As a war vet, Dad became a member of the Cloverdale Legion, Branch #6 and was a member for 61 years. His sense of humour and wit knew no bounds, making many friends. John worked for CNR, Fraser Mills Sawmill in New Westminster and William Clark & Sons Ford in Cloverdale. He had a successful career as a car sales man and was recognized by Ford Canada on several occasions. After 23 years of selling cars and managing at the dealership, Dad retired and in 1982 John and Grace moved to Kamloops. They enjoyed their life together raising their four children and watching them start families of their own. The six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren held a very special place in his heart. Family camping and fishing trips were part of Dad`s life well into his 70`s.

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Dad and Mom enjoyed many years as snowbirds heading to Arizona. Dad loved Arizona and he and Mom met many long time friends, who they would play cards with and traveled extensively.

With deep sadness we announce the sudden passing of Patrick Lindsay on December 11, 2016, at the age of 65. He was born in Nelson, BC on March 19, 1951.

Dad suffered from glaucoma for several years before it took his sight in 1997 and Mom had been his eyes and guide ever since. She was a devoted companion to her husband and best friend. He is predeceased by his parents Eric and Edith Hoglund, brothers Ronnie Hoglund, Bill Larson and granddaughter Lisa Hoglund. John is survived by wife Grace of 71 years, children Dwight (Linda) Hoglund, Eric (Judy) Hoglund, Brenda (nee Hoglund) French, Dairel (Jody) Hoglund, sisters Audrey Harburn, Dorothy (Bill) Griffin, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. We would like to give a heartfelt thank you to Dr. Gabra, Nurse Jen and the staff on 7 North at RIH and the staff at Gemstone, especially the crew in the Copper ward and those that were there in his final hours. Service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Canadian Cancer Society BC & Yukon, #214 - 141 Victoria St, Kamloops, BC V2C 1Z5 in memory of John Hoglund would be appreciated. Condolences may be emailed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

Patrick is survived by Kathy, his wife of 42 years, sons Tyler and Colin (Alisha); grandsons Felix and Dominic, sisters Adele (Euclid) and Enid-Marie, brothers Mike (Brenda) and Bill (Heather) and many family and friends. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother Phil. After retiring in 2012, Patrick golfed, traveled and spent time with family and friends, always engaging them with his great sense of humour. Sports were always an important part of Patrick’s life whether it be coaching his sons’ little league games, stunning spectators as a “Power Forward” for his local men’s hockey team, or cheering on the Vancouver Canucks from his favorite spot on the couch. As a proud member of Valleyview Overlanders Lions Club, Patrick spent his time helping with many worthwhile community endeavors. A Memorial Service will be held at Holy Family Parish, 2797 Sunset Drive, Kamloops on Friday, December 16, 2016 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to your charity of choice. Condolences may be sent to family at DrakeCremation.com

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