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Big changes coming for staff, students and visitors who need to find parking at Thompson Rivers University

ONE HALL OF A GREAT COACH Lindsey Karpluk will be inducted into the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame in April

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STORY, PAGES A5/A6 PROMISING TO STAY IN KAMLOOPS BCLC’s HQ will remain in city as agency searches for site for new building

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WINNIE THE POOH & FRIENDS A play based on the beloved bear and company is ready to take to the stage

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ONE HURT IN PELLET GUNPLAY Shooting took place blocks from Brock Middle School. Minor injuries reported

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Upwards of 1,500 students and more than 50 employers attended the annual job fair yesterday in the Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University. It was a valuable opportunity for students to meet employers from the public and private sectors and for those representing community organizations and not-for-profit groups.

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The Tk’emlups and Skeetchestn First Nations will release their final say on the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine tomorrow.

Working together as the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation (SSN), the two bands initiated a review of the mine proposed for south of Aberdeen last spring.

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Time is not of the essence.

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You can hang that dollar in front of us and we’re not going to jump for it.

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— FRED SEYMOUR, Tk’emlups chief

hearings featured scientific consultants, representatives from Ajax parent company KGHM Ajax, government officials, band elders, cultural experts and others.

Reporters were

not allowed to attend the hearings.

The 46-member panel included band leadership, elders, youth and representatives from key families.

It was originally

expected to make a decision on the mine last year. But, when the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office agreed to pause Ajax’s provincial assessment soon after to allow KGHM more time to respond to questions and public comments, Tk’emlups Chief Fred Seymour indicated the band would also wait for responses to concerns raised during the panel review.

“Time is not of the essence. We’re a really patient people. You can

hang that dollar in front of us and we’re not going to jump for it,” he told KTW at the time.

In January, KGHM told media it had completed its responses, but the EAO needed to look over the responses and verify their completeness before the review would resume.

So far, there has been no word from the province when that might happen. The SSN decision release will take place tomorrow at Moccasin Square Gardens on the Tk’emlups reserve.

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March 7, 2017 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing March 8, 2017 8:00 am - Parks and Recreation Committee TCC Meeting Room A 5:30 pm - Heritage Commission DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street March 14, 2017 9:00 am - Council Budget Meeting 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting

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Notes Road Safety Tips for Pedestrians and Drivers

Be aware. Take care.

As road users, we all share in the responsibility of ensuring our own safety and the safety of others.

Pedestrians • Be visible - wear bright clothing and reflective gear, particularly at night.

• Activate pedestrian crossing lights and use the crosswalk.

• Be aware of your surroundings - make eye contact with drivers before crossing the street.

• Wait for vehicles to come to a complete stop before stepping into the street.

• Avoid distractions - cell phones, electronic devices, etc.

Drivers • Drive for road and weather conditions.

• Yield to pedestrians.

• Leave a safe travelling distance between your vehicle and the vehicle in front.

• Be prepared for the unexpected.

• Don't exceed posted speed limits.

• Avoid distractions - cell phones, electronic devices, etc.

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Take advantage of early bird rates, starting at $200, until March 15.

If you have a product or a service that encourages healthy, sustainable living, contact us at greenliving@kamloops.ca or visit www.kamloops.ca/expo.

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April 29, 2017 | Sandman Centre | 10:00 am-4:00 pm Notice to Residents Rivers Trails Access Closure As of this month, vehicle and pedestrian access to the Rivers Trail from Aviation Way will not be permitted until the summer.

You’re encouraged to explore the many other beautiful trails and parks the city has to offer. The City of Kamloops thanks you for your cooperation.

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Volunteer Opportunities RCMP volunteer recruitment information sessions will be held at various locations on the following dates: •

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For more information, contact Kevin Beeton, at 250-828-3264 or visit www.kamloops.ca/communitysafety

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Concerns raised over new parking plans at TRU DALE BASS

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A longtime member of the parking committee at Thompson Rivers University quit after a new parking plan and payment scheme were announced.

Tom Friedman, president of the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA), would not identify the person, but KTW confirmed from two other faculty members that the committee member sent an email advising of the resignation.

The member quit, believing concerns brought forward about the changes — which include three new payment levels and doing away with staff- and student-only lots — had been ignored.

Parking changes involve adding two new payment levels — premium and gated premium — and opening staff lots to meet a concern raised two years ago by the TRU Students Union (TRUSU).

The students union cited frustration among students who struggled to find parking spots, only to drive by staff lots with empty stalls, said Warren Asuchak, director of facilities on campus.

Lois Rugg, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4879, which represents TRU staff, also expressed concerns about the new plan, which comes into effect in August.

“Our members who need to drive to work for a variety of logistical reasons will now be facing a further financial

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Lots A1, A4 and part of A3, as well as the area marked The Reach, will be removed from the parking lot inventory at TRU in the next five years as the institution moves forward with creation of a university village.

hit that most of us cannot afford,” Rugg said.

“The second major concern will be the ability for those employees who cannot afford to pay the premium price having a difficult challenge day in, day out, to find a parking space.

“We will be listening to our members and stories they tell us as the parking issues unfold and we hope that TRU will take the hardships that may be presented into consideration.”

Friedman said TRUFA had no formal representation on the committee that looked at the new proposal. He said after the changes were announced this week, faculty raised concerns about the increased cost.

“That’s not just selfinterest. A lot feel this is an imposition to others, as well,” he said.

Friedman would have preferred to see a focus on working with the city to develop better bike paths to campus and discussions about transit, noting there are areas of the city that are not as well-served as the downtown core.

Asuchak said there are ongoing talks with BC Transit and the city about those concerns.

Asuchak said about half the available parking stalls will be affected.

He said the large Lot N at the southwest corner of University Drive and University Drive North won’t be affected.

Matt Milovick, TRU vice-president of administration and finance, said he would like to see the transit loopexchange on University Drive near the trades building gone because buses stop and idle.

He would also like to see one bus dedicated to just driving the loop around campus to help people move from place to place.

Milovick said in anticipation of planned changes to parking, his predecessor, Cliff Neufeld, expanded Lot N. More recently, TRU bought student residences on McGill Road, adding another 120 parking spots to its inventory.

The university also has a ride-sharing program and recently joined the Zip Car program, adding two electric vehicles that people can rent for an hour or up to a week.

The ultimate goal is to improve sustainability and “transform from a campus where singleoccupancy vehicles dominate to a campus that is pedestrianoriented and supports a community that learns, works, plays and lives here,” according to a campus-wide email sent

by Milovick.

That would include promoting transit use, something both administrators said is under-used by students, despite the unlimited transit pass every student receives upon enrolment.

Asuchak said TRU is “doing great everywhere else” in its sustainability focus, but “we have too many people driving to campus.”

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Within the next five years, Milovic said, park-

ing stalls on the north side of the Old Main Building will be gone as construction begins on an anticipated 90,000 square feet of residential

and market condominium housing.

That project will include underground parking for those who buy units.

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Beginning in August, staff lots will become premium and gated premium lots that anyone can purchase permits to park in while keeping the existing ratio of 70 per cent student and 30 per cent staff stalls.

The payment structure will also change, going from three rates — reserved staff, general and economy — to five due to the addition of the premium and gated-premium charges.

In terms of actual dollars-andcents change, reserved staff, which is paid monthly, goes from $87.50 to $108.33, or annually from $1,050 to $1,300.

General remains the same —

$250 for one semester, $500 for two semesters, $62.50 monthly or $750 annually.

Economy (the large lot on University Drive in the northwest corner of campus) remains at $200 per semester, $50 monthly or $600 annually.

Daily fees remain $5 in the general lots, $4 for a full day and $3 for a half-day in Lot N. The new rates include: Reserved staff: $108.33 monthly or $1,300 per year; Gated premium: $317 per semester, $79 monthly or $950 annually; Premium: $283 per semester, $71 monthly or $850 annually.

For those who drive an electric vehicle, there is a 25 per cent discount if they apply for a reserved

stall with a charging station.

Those with a handicapped parking permit will continue to pay the general rates.

Warren Asuchak, TRU director of facilities, said arrangements have also been made for those who only come to campus a couple of days a week and find it inconvenient to buy a daily permit to buy an e-permit.

“For example, if a student or staff person only comes to TRU two days per week, I will sell them an e-permit based on two days per week times $5 per day times 16 weeks: $160,” he said. Sixteen weeks is the length of each semester.

“This way they don’t need to go to a ticket dispenser. This is instead of purchasing a semester permit at $250.”

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Thompson Rivers University looked downtown and out of town as it calculated new parking prices for the campus.

Matt Milovick, vice-president of administration and finance, said discussions were guided by the cost to park in the city’s core, where parkade costs are $4 per day and metered parking maxes out at $5 for a three-hour period.

It also looked at the cost to park at the

University of British Columbia-Okanagan campus, where rates range are $163.80 to $264.60 per semester, depending on the lot and other conditions.

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BB-gun shooting injures one PROXIMITY TO BROCK SCHOOL LEADS TO LOCKDOWN TIM PETRUK

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Brocklehurst Middle School was placed into lockdown yesterday afternoon following a report of a youth with a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun.

Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Robert Daly said police were called to an incident off school grounds.

“Due to this, the middle school was placed in lockdown until the police were able to resolve the incident peacefully,” Daly said in a release.

“Three youth have been arrested in the incident.”

Daly said a youth victim shot

by the BB gun was taken to Royal Inland Hospital with minor injuries.

The teens do not attend the school.

The incident was first brought to light on Twitter when the ScanBC account — which follows emergency service scanners across the province — posted that crews were responding to the school in response to a report of a shooting with one person injured.

Subsequent posts on social media led to many concerned parents showing up at Brocklehurst middle school.

“On Facebook, they’re saying everything’s on lockdown and telling parents not to come to the school — but of course I came,”

said Danielle Morgan, the mother of a Brock student.

“Oh my God, I almost died when I saw it. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I almost threw up.”

School principal Vessy Mochikas acknowledged news of the incident spread quickly online.

“Rumours are flying,” she said.

“But it’s an RCMP investigation.”

Morgan said she’s still concerned about violence in Brocklehurst, regardless of whether the incident took place on school property.

“It’s terrifying,” she said. “I’m terrified. It scares the crap out of me. To know this is going on in my neighbourhood, I don’t like it.”

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About three months after the contractor replacing the roof of the Westsyde Pool building discovered it had mistakenly installed the wrong kind of roof decking, the material needed to fix the problem will arrive next week.

City capital projects supervisor Matt Kachel said the steel decking will be treated on site with the anticorrosion coating required in the city’s contract with D&T Developments, but which wasn’t applied to the last batch of material delivered.

“They’ll seal it off and chemically etch and coat the decking on both sides in the natatorium [pool building],” he said.

“Then it’s going to take a bit of time to cure and, once that’s done, it’s going to take about 10 days to install the new sections of deck.”

Proper decking should be in place by mid-April.

The pool, which closed in June of 2015 because moisture was leaking into the building’s roof from the pool room, was originally supposed to open last month. Kachel said a mid-summer opening is now looking likely.

The project has been somewhat stalled since the decking mistake was discovered in early December. While work on the walls has continued — Kachel said crews are nearly ready to spray stucco on the structure — construction that would interfere with the decking replacement has been on hold.

Kachel said work that was completed after the decking was installed, including insulation installation, won’t be affected by the changeout, which can be done piece by piece.

“It’s actually a better way to do it,” Kachel said.

“The advantage here is the decking doesn’t get loaded onto a truck and then scratched in moving. They paint it on the floor, both sides, let it cure, then raise it up into the roof and put it in.”

Once the installation is complete, workers must then complete work on the facility’s electrical and mechanical systems, along with drywalling, painting and other final touches.

The roof-replacement project will cost the city about $3 million. Staff and city councillors have remained adamant the contractor will bear any extra costs stemming from the decking mixup.

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

HOT: The reminder from the B.C. Lottery Corporation that it remains committed to keeping its headquarters in Kamloops.

That promise, issued this week at the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association’s annual general meeting, was encouraging, given it came the very day Wilkinson Steel closed its plant in the Mount Paul Industrial Park.

BCLC needs a new headquarters building and that may or may not rise on its current site downtown, next to city hall. But the fact the Crown corporation’s head office will be staying in Kamloops is important as more than 400 people are employed there.

OUR

NOT: The forecast for higher food prices again this year.

Yesterday’s edition of KTW detailed Dalhousie University’s annual report, which said Canadian families are expected to pay as much as $420 more on food, an amount that has risen in recent years and is above what the report calls “acceptable” food inflation.

The news is not good, especially for those who recall being greeted by $10 heads of cauliflower in grocery stores last year.

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HOT: High school hoops in the Tournament Capital.

The South Kamloops Titans senior girls are competing at the provincial AA championship in Langley this week, while the Titans senior boys will be seeking the B.C. AAA crown next week, alongside the Westsyde Whundas senior boys, who will in the Fraser Valley chasing the provincial AA title.

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Determined to be downtown

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moved here on March 24, 2005.

On the day I arrived in Kamloops, I found myself downtown and was enthralled with what I saw as a quintessential, grid-planned downtown of a small city.

It reminded me then, and does to this day, of a well-planned downtown of many mid-sized American cities through which I have passed — quaint, walkable and eclectic.

Sure, there were various problems I noticed on my first foray down Victoria Street and they exist today, to varying degrees.

Panhandling was far worse 11 years ago and has been non-existent in my recent visits downtown.

While parking blocks from my destination is not an issue for me (it can be for those with medical issues), the problem of a dearth spots during peak times — Friday and Saturday nights and during Kamloops Blazers games — seems to be as acute now as it was a decade ago.

Empty storefronts seemed to be more prevalent back in 2005, though I seem to recall that sadsack metal building on the northeast corner of Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue was as empty back then as it is today.

The most visible problem to my eyes, then and now, is not beggars asking for change, nor the homeless getting some sun on a bench, nor the odd marking of graffiti.

The most crucial quandary, one that is troubling because there seems to be no obvious cure, is the failure of so many businesses.

True, the retail market everywhere has been slaughtered by online sales and by large big box chains that tend to set up shop outside the downtown core in

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MUSINGS cities across North America, offering cheaply made goods at cheap prices and succeeding in siphoning customers from traditional shopping areas of yesteryear.

Downtowns are not the only victims as we can see the damage inflicted in malls in Kamloops and beyond.

But the commercial carnage wrought by ever-changing times and the bottom-line obsession of mega-companies affects downtowns like Kamloops’ far more deeply than it does enclosed malls and their strip mall cousins. Malls are, generally, destinations with a specific shop in mind, places to spend a bit of time with the sole intent of buying something.

Downtowns are far more than that. Yes, commerce is king downtown and elsewhere, but there is obviously so much more to what are, at the risk of sounding dramatic, the souls of communities.

I landed in Kamloops from Abbotsford, a far larger city with a downtown that was a disaster when I left. It has since improved, but remains a shadow of what we have in the Tournament Capital.

Do Surrey or Burnaby or Coquitlam even have downtowns?

It’s hard to determine amid

the neverending sprawl.

We can point to the blight that is the former Kamloops Daily News property, the unrealized potential of the former Stuart Wood elementary campus and the soon-to-be vacant Value Village real estate as signs of a deteriorating downtown. To deny they are adding to the perceived or real decline of the area is foolish. They are. Hopefully, the powers-thatbe will soon reveal to us what the plans are for those locations.

But we can also point to roaring success stories and think about using them as a template for firming up what is the most important area in Kamloops: The Noble Pig, Red Collar, 4 Cats Studio, Zack’s, The Art We Are, the library/Kamloops Art Gallery building (critics be damned, that is one beauty of an edifice), the collection of higher-end clothing stores in the 200-block of Victoria, the Ploughman’s Lunch, the plethora of genuine barber shops, the Old Courthouse Art Gallery.

And, yes, even the venerable Kami Inn (leave your pretension at the door and step inside for a cold beer, a game of pool and some good music on the jukebox).

Greater minds than mine are working on constantly improving the downtown core. As with the challenges facing media outlets like ours, it is a matter of adjusting to a rapidly changing world and determining if the customer base exists at a sustainable level.

I’ll keep going downtown until that storefront at Victoria and Sixth opens its doors or until the next big box retailer finally succeeds in shuttering the area.

There are many gems amid the gloom if you look hard enough. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com

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SKATEBOARD, BICYCLE PARKS DON’T DO LIVES MEAN BELONG IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS NOTHING?

Editor: Regarding the skateboard and bicycle pump parks being considered for Rayleigh, these types of parks do not belong in a residential area.

They are nothing but a constant noise of bang-clunk, clunkbang and become hangouts at night for older teens. Forty years of living in Rayleigh is witness to that. That is why parks like these in Kamloops are not built in residential areas.

If these kinds of parks are so

needed, then build them out at the Tournament Capital Ranch — five minutes up the highway from Rayleigh.

Carve a dirt path from Rayleigh to the ranch so kids can walk or ride their bikes out there. It would also serve any of the kids in the Heffley Creek area.

Or get parents who want their kids in these dangerous activities to drive them out there.

Either way, this is the price one pays for having teens living

in the outer areas of Kamloops.

Not everything can be built in your backyard for your convenience.

If the city is going to throw $250,000 out Rayleigh’s way, then a community meeting should be held to get some other ideas from parents, so as to serve all the kids in Rayleigh, not just a few who are too lazy to spend a half-hour to go to town for their recreational needs.

M. Sutherland Kamloops

CAVERS SHOULD GIVE HEAD A SHAKE Editor: With the announcement of the new tower for Royal Inland Hospital, you would think everyone would be quite happy.

Not Kamloops Coun.

Donovan Cavers, who is also the B.C. Green candidate in KamloopsSouth Thompson in the

May 9 election.

Cavers said he found the timing of the hospital announcement suspect.

He needs to give his head a shake. Of course it was planned.

Any party would do the same for such a large and important project.

Then again, Cavers’

party will never have the opportunity to make such an announcement, unless it’s about a bike lane.

Then we had B.C. NDP health critic Judy Darcy in the city to rally the troops by speaking to an overflow crowd of 15.

She claimed

Kamloops has a doctor shortage. Thanks Judy, we didn’t know that.

Maybe she should focus on the clinics that are controlled by doctors or why you have to stand in line for longer than two hours just to get a prescription filled.

Robert Alexander Kamloops

A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online

Editor: Re: The latBut this est news on is what Jack Hobal, who killed a gets me — pedestrian he is given while driving his motorcycle a slap on dangerously in the wrist 2009 (‘Deadly for killing driver sentenced to prosomeone. bation for mischief,’ Feb. 9); This has gone way past laughable.

With all the charges against him for his horrendous driving habits, Hobal gets some jail time.

But this is what gets me — he is given a slap on the wrist for killing someone. It’s pretty terrible that somebody’s life means nothing, zero, nada.

Granted, this was not, as they say in court, a premeditated killing, but it is nevertheless a killing. The lives of people mean nothing any more.

Chad O’Cain Kamloops

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HOW MANY SUSPENDED OFFICERS GETTING PAID? Editor: I am wondering who came up with the idea that, if a police officer is suspended, he or she should get paid.

There is a reason he or she has been suspended.

So, they are then on the dole for God knows how long since the court system in Canada is so backed up cases are being thrown out due to time limitations.

How many officers are suspended right now?

We are told by the city we need more officers, that we need more money for Mounties.

If officers weren’t suspended, maybe we wouldn’t need more.

Frank McCann Kamloops

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RE: STORY: BCLC HQ WILL REMAIN IN KAMLOOPS — BUT WHERE REMAINS TO BE SEEN:

“The BCLC building is too small for them and a new building is required. The city should be in talks with them to do a swap for the Kamloops Daily News land, where they could build a new facility and the city could move all of their facilities in town to one all inclusive facility with amble parking. A winwin for everyone.”

— posted by Cwowo

RE: STORY: VALUE VILLAGE’S DEPARTURE COULD BE A BOON FOR DOWNTOWN, SAYS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION:

“A boon? Like the old cinema — still vacant after how many years? One-way busy streets like Seymour Street are arguably not prime real estate and certainly not pedestrian friendly. If anything goes up in the old Value Village location, it is going to be mid to low quality.

“What Ms Pooler does not understand is the whole downtown needs a coherent, longterm vision and parking is not the problem.

“The lack of vision is.”

— posted by Pierre Filisetti

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CRIMES OF THE WEEK ATTEMPTED ROBBERY The Police have issued a news release on the attempted Robbery at the 7-11 store on Summit Dr. This is your chance to report this person anonymously without going to court or giving a statement.

The attempted Robbery took place on Sunday, February 26th at approximately 11:00 pm, the male demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused to turn over any cash and the suspect fled immediately from the store. The suspect is described as a First Nations male, missing two front teeth and had a bandana covering most of his face, he was wearing a black hoodie and had a black ball cap on.

Although this area is more residential and is normally quiet, someone may have been walking passed the store or even driving by and may have noticed something suspicious in the area.

Contact Crime Stoppers with your anonymous information.

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People featured are wanted on arrest warrants not vacated as of 3 p.m. on March 1, 2017

DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON The Police would like to know who this person is. Sometime overnight on Saturday, January 7th, this suspect ended up with a stolen credit card that was taken from a vehicle in the Sahali area. This suspect was caught on the security camera at one of the stores where the credit card was used. It was later discovered this male had charged over $7000 worth in purchases. The male is described as Caucasian, late 20’s, short hair,

and was wearing a black hoodie with white writing on the front, he had on brown jacket with a hood on it over top of the hoodie, he was also wearing and black ball with a white logo on the front.

This is your opportunity to do the right thing, if you know this person, please call Crime Stoppers only your information will be used never your name. You may receive a cash reward upon the arrest of this suspect.

While the B.C. Lottery Corporation continues to determine precisely where in Kamloops its new headquarters will be, the agency’s director of corporate services and facilities said staying in the Tournament Capital is a guarantee.

“We’re non-negotiable in leaving Kamloops,” Ted Ockenden told about 40 people gathered at Hotel 540 Tuesday for the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association’s annual general meeting.

“We’re here to stay.”

But whether the lottery corporation remains in the downtown area remains to be seen.

Ockenden, a longtime Kamloops resident, has been with BCLC for six months. He was previously a regional manager with ICBC. Last year, Ockenden said, a realestate advisor was hired to map out the future of the corporation’s headquarters, which are now in the former Woodward’s building adjacent to Kamloops City Hall, on land between West Victoria and Seymour streets.

The 51-year-old building, which houses 410 government employees, has been renovated and upgraded and it remains to be seen whether it will feature in the BCLC’s new headquarters.

Ockenden told the AGM crowd a

decision on the location of the new headquarters is still in the works noting the BCLC bought properties adjacent to its current site in the event the present address is developed for the future head office.

• Meanwhile, eight new directors were acclaimed to the KCBIA’s board at the AGM. They will each serve two-year terms. The full KCBIA board now has an even 8/8 split between property owners and tenants.

Scott Campbell of Campbell & Company Accountants, Ockenden of the BCLC, John Dumbrell of Urban Systems, Gloria Payne of Genesis Fashion & Beauty Complex, Graydon Flanagan of Subway Restaurants, Andy Philpot of St. John Ambulance, Jocelyn Bennett of the National Hospitality Group (which operates Hotel 540 and the Thompson Hotel) and Mike Blackwell of Fulton & Company LLP law firm were acclaimed as directors.

• The Downtown Leadership Award was handed out twice on Tuesday night.

The award is not given to somebody every year, with 2014 being the last year it had a name inscribed.

This year, the Downtown Leadership Award went to Michael and Jennifer O’Brien of 4 Cats Studio and to developer Casey van Dongen.

BREAK AND ENTER IN MERRITT Merritt RCMP need our help in solving this Break and Enter that took place on Sunday, February 5th at a hotel that was under construction.

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There are two photos of the suspects,

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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Two Alberta women who were last seen by family more than 30 years ago have been found alive and living in the United States.

Police in Lethbridge said the cold case was solved earlier this year when Anna and

Kym Hakze were located.

Staff Sgt. Scott Woods said the sisters were reported missing in 2003 by their mother who hadn’t heard from her daughters in more than a decade.

He said the women had last been seen by family in Edmonton in the mid-1980s.

Anna Hakze, who is now 67, was estranged from her

family at the time, but was close to her young sister Kym, who is 53 now.

The two walked away from their lives, but were found recently when a detective did online searches on a book written in 1984 by an author who turned out to be one of the women.

They did not know that they were considered missing

and that their family had been looking for them, Scott said.

“After so many years, it’s very unusual for a case like this to end with good news,’’ Woods said in a police release.

“Usually we find ourselves telling a family their loved one has met with some sort of tragedy.”

The women’s mother died some years ago.

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HALIFAX — A Halifax taxi driver has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman who was found drunk and unconscious in his cab almost two years ago.

Judge Gregory Lenehan ruled in Halifax provincial court Wednesday that the Crown failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the woman did not consent to sexual activity with the driver, Bassam Al-Rawi.

The 40-year-old cab driver was charged after police found the woman, in her 20s, passed out and naked from the waist down in his car in the early hours of May 23, 2015.

The woman testified she had no memory of what happened in the cab and the judge concluded his decision by saying, “a lack of memory does not equate to a lack of consent.’’

The ruling comes days after a judge in St. John’s, N.L., acquit-

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ted police Const. Doug Snelgrove of sexually assaulting an inebriated woman in a case that hinged on consent and sparked protests over what consent means under the law.

The Newfoundland ruling has led to protests and calls for rethinking the legal notion of consent.

But one St. John’s lawyer, Allison Conway, has noted that the law as it stands allows that someone who was drunk or can’t remember may still have consented.

— The Canadian Press

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n February 26, 2017, we reached a milestone for our company as we celebrated our 10 Year Anniversary.

We would firstly and most importantly like to thank every one of you: our customers, our families, our friends, and our employees. We have always had a long term vision for The Commodore, and over the past decade your loyalty has made that vision come true. We have had hundreds of employees along the way who have come and gone, and we truly feel that every one of them has made a positive impact.

Our team at The Commodore is more like a family of 35 than just employees, and it has always been that way. We have had a tremendous amount of employees who have worked here for over 5 years, including our head chef Brian Smit ( 9 years ), and our house DJ Scott Leslie ( 10 years ). Brian has been a valued asset to The Commodore and anyone who has tried his menu knows this. He is a magnificently talented chef with wonderful leadership attributes which he shares with his colleagues daily.

Scott Leslie is the longest serving employee of The Commodore. He shows up every shift with a glorious attitude, a thick moustache, and a plan to please the crowd. Without permission, he started his own Super Gangster Rap Hip Hop Thursdays back in 2007 and has never looked back. B-Man and DJ SL are a huge part of our company and an even bigger part of our lives, as they are also a couple of our best friends.

There are literally too many friends and regulars to mention, but you know who you are, and you need to know how much we appreciate you giving us the opportunity to do what we love.

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We would like to give a special acknowledgement and thank you to Martin & Bernadette Creutz. They were initially part owners when we first opened The Commodore on February 26, 2007. After deciding to follow other avenues, on August 1, 2008, they gave us an opportunity to fully take over the business and continue the dream. We appreciate everything you have done and taught us along the way. You are true friends. Martin and Bernadette now own and operate Campbell Hills Guest Ranch, and it is absolutely amazing!

To Sara Monteleone, thank you for putting up with the late nights and regular sleep-ins. Much love for supporting us in what we love to do.

As for our partnership, we don’t think any two people belong together better. We are both crazy in our own ways but we complement each other in every positive way. In the end, we want the same thing and we are always on the same page, however, we may take different routes or approaches to get there. When our objectives are intertwined, we fuse into the perfect team made up of a desire to improve daily and grow yearly. Together, we dig deeper and go farther than would be possible without each other. Lets keep it going and growing for the next ten years.

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Lindsey Karpluk will join the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame on April 8. The longtime Kamloops teacher plans to retire next year and has already coached his last game at the high-school level.

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ith the final seconds ticking away in the fourth quarter of his illustrious high school coaching career, his NorKam Saints destined to bow out of the Okanagan senior girls’ basketball championship, the only thing on Lindsey Karpluk’s mind was his students.

The moment was about them, the defeated girls who might never again play competitive sports, the tight-knit family of teammates communing on the hardcourt one last time.

That other-people-first attitude, rooted in seemingly perpetual positivity, will surely be talked about in speeches at the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame banquet on April 8, when Karpluk takes his place among the class of 2017.

“It’s one of the truly welldeserved inductions,” said 2013 KSHF inductee Brian Peters, a longtime athletics proponent in the city who has known Karpluk since the late 1970s.

“I’d have a hard time naming a person who has done more for high school and youth sports in Kamloops than Lindsey. There’s no problem with him being called the godfather of coaching in this city.

He probably has the largest coaching tree and you won’t find many players who played for his teams that didn’t love him.”

Karpluk was congratulated by students playing badminton after school hours in the NorKam gym and a fellow teacher pulled him aside to shake his hand. Word of his Hall of Fame nod had spread that morning.

As he walked upstairs and

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through the empty halls, Karpluk said the news was announced over the loudspeaker and mumbled something about being a little embarrassed.

“It’s really humbling,” said Karpluk as he sat at a student’s desk in his classroom.

“Right now, it’s pretty overwhelming. It’s something I never expected at all.

As I said before, I’m not the championship, gotta-win kind of guy.

Sometimes I wonder, ‘What were they thinking?’ But I’m starting to come around. I’ve had enough people tell me, ‘No, you are leaving a legacy.’ My brain is starting to come around to it.”

After 35 years of coaching at the high school level, Karpluk is done.

There were nine years at St. Ann’s Academy, three years at the University College of the Cariboo, another trio of years at Logan Lake secondary and 13 years at Brocklehurst secondary before he moved to NorKam seven years ago.

Mr. Karpluk will teach one more year before retiring in 2018.

He wants to spend more time with his aging mother. He wants to ski while he still has his health.

There is also talk of an extended trip with his wife, Janice, to

some place where he can coach basketball on a volunteer basis, somewhere with a beach, where the only marking he will do is tracking cervezas in the sand.

Janice is looking forward to seeing more of her husband — “By the end of the basketball season, I get a little testy,” she said with a laugh — but time away from her meant time for fledgling students, including the couple’s three children, and it was time well-spent.

“It’s not the best athlete that he feels like he makes a difference with,” Janice said, noting she is over-the-moon proud of her husband. “It’s the ones who really work hard who are struggling with something in life.

“It’s the special cases where people come back and go, ‘You know, I’m this because you got me

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The number of teams Karpluk led to provincial titles as a head coach: Zero.

“But the thing about Lindsey’s teams, they always, always got better as the year went on,” Peters said. “He’s probably the best clinician I’ve ever seen. His goal wasn’t to win as much as it was to develop skills. He was involved in many ways with his kids on an emotional and personal level.”

Karpluk deflected compliments, redirecting praise in the direction of his mentors growing up in Kamloops, teachers and coaches who impacted his career.

Bob Hearn told him teams should feel like family. Terry

Bangen showed him the value of systems. Rick Nykorak and Jack Buckham impressed on him the importance of commitment and going the extra mile.

“They’re the ones that set the bar for how hard you should work,” said Karpluk, a multi-sport athlete in his day. “I’m where I am now because of them. As a Grade 11, your eyes stick out of your head like, ‘Wow. Somebody cares.’

I had really good support at home.

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When Ryan Gropp’s parents were ushered out of Sandman Centre by security, it was finally time to reflect on what had to feel like a Twilight Zone-type night for the Seattle Thunderbirds’ forward.

“That was a weird one, for sure,” said Gropp, whose T-Birds fell 5-4 in overtime to the Kamloops Blazers on Wednesday.

Gropp opened the scoring by accepting a cross-ice feed from Garrett Pilon and sliding a neat backhand home.

The problem is Gropp, while he is from Kamloops, does not play for the Blazers and he scored on Seattle netminder Rylan Toth.

“I don’t even know what happened,” said Gropp, a good sport in addressing the unfortunate ricochet. “It just kind of hit my stick.

I knew I was the only guy there and I probably had some time, but it came pretty hot and caught me in a weird spot. I’ve never had one of those before.”

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Ryan Gropp (right) played well in his hometown on Wednesday, but his Seattle Thunderbirds fell 5-4 in overtime to the Kamloops Blazers at Sandman Centre.

Gropp scored on his own net and dealt with a minor post-game security issue.

Gropp went on to register two goals and an assist — for his own team — playing alongside Matthew Barzal and Keegan Kolesar, arguably the best line

in the league, a unit that came as advertised on Wednesday.

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“It was pretty backand-forth, a pretty crazy game,” Gropp said.

Members of Gropp’s family were waiting near the dressing room to see him after the game, but were told to leave by security, which was acting on instructions to keep the general public away from players due to the WHL’s welldocumented mumps outbreak.

A mother just wanted to see her son. That eventually happened in the face of the evergrowing swarm of security guards.

Words were exchanged, but both parties went their separate ways without much incident.

Gropp just smiled, shrugged and looked forward to a new, more-normal tomorrow.

“We battled all game,” he said. “For us to sneak that point out at the end was huge.”

on the right wing in three-on-three overtime, whisked in on net and went upstairs to beat Toth.

The goal was Sideroff’s fifth overtime winner of the season. He is now tied with Eric Fehr for the most in WHL history in that category. Fehr had five OT winners for the Brandon Wheat Kings in 2004-2005.

“I knew I was coming up on it,” Sideroff said. “To tie it tonight, it’s a pretty good feeling. I got a lot of hugs in the room.”

Barzal was masterful at times and influential in setting up Kolesar’s second goal of the contest, a gametying marker with 13 seconds remaining in the third period, with Toth on the bench and an extra attacker on the ice.

“That was definitely a playoff atmosphere,” Blazers’ head coach Don Hay said. “It was two top teams going at it.

“That line they have should be playing in the American Hockey League. I thought our guys did a real good job defending.”

Gropp took an untimely unsportsmanlike conduct penalty with his team down 2-1 in the second period. Good things don’t usually come from bad penalties, but it was an unusual night for the New York Rangers’ draft pick.

He watched his team kill it off, hopped out of the box and beat Blazers’ netminder Connor Ingram 18 seconds later to tie the game.

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“He was one of my first mentors when I was coming out of college as a player and into high school coaching,” said Ryan Porter, head coach of the Westsyde Whundas’ senior boys’ basketball team, which won the Okanagan title last week.

“He’s just been a great role model to people. A lot of people look up to him. He’s all about the kids. And he’s been volunteering for years and years. He loves the game and he loves giving back to the kids.”

Karpluk worked for free at the Fulton Cup city championships basketball tournament, the provincial AA high school basketball championships, held in Kamloops for 13 years, the 1992 Canadian junior basketball championships and the 1993 Canada Summer Games basketball tournaments, among many other events.

He’s most proud of the time he spent coaching his three children — twins Cara and

Steen, 27, and Nicolas, who turns 30 tomorrow — in a number of different sports, including basketball and soccer.

Each of them joined the coaching community, becoming branches of the tree. Two of them are teachers.

“It’s a highlight over eight or nine years, to have that opportunity to coach your own children and to know you’ve left those situations with a stronger relationship,” Karpluk said, noting Janice has been a sounding board for him for the past 35 years, a rock to help steady him when things go wrong at school.

“I probably grew up a lot during that time,” he said.

Of the thousands of students who played for Coach K, he can think only of a handful who quit his teams.

“You want to make a small family of it, even if it’s just for four months,” Karpluk said. “I think I was pretty successful in that, for the most part. Those

relationships are probably the big thing I’m maybe going to miss, but also what I’ll take away the most.

“I can think of probably 15 people who tell me they went into coaching or they went into teaching because of what I did in the classroom or gymnasium for them. That’s the biggest payback in the long run.”

Janice has noticed a little grin on her husband’s face over the past few days. Try as he might, it’s impossible to hide.

“When you’re doing it, you do it because that’s what Jack Buckham did, what Bob Hearn did, what Rick Nykorak did,” Karpluk said. “You just want to give back when you have the chance.

“I come from a long line of Karpluks that have trouble saying no, so I’m sure somewhere along the way I’ll do some more stuff in the community.

“But it’s time for me to move on and get ready for the next part or our lives together.”

Titans advance to provincial semifinal round The South Kamloops Titans hammered Immaculata of Kelowna 89-57 in the quarter-final round at the AA girls provincial volleyball championship yesterday in Langley.

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Olynyk’s Celtics chasing first place in Eastern Conference Kelly Olynyk of Kamloops scored 10 points on 4-for-5 shooting with two rebounds, two assists and a steal to help lift his Boston Celtics to a 103-99 win over Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.

Boston sits second in the NBA Eastern

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The Freeze Athletics and TRU WolfPack cheerleaders had a successful weekend

at the Mardi Party Extravaganza in Richmond.

In senior Level 1 and 3 action, Freeze won gold, while the WolfPack earned first place in the Level 4 bracket. The Freeze Level 3 team was named grand champion.

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petitive squad, which features one male and 18 females, is preparing to go to Edmonton for a competition against the Alberta Pandas next weekend.

The Freeze program will head to Vancouver for the Sea-to-Sky event, an international competition on April 8 and

April 9 that is also a qualifier for the Summit Championships in May.

Spring Run Off

The Kamloops Ridge Runners will play host to the 34th annual Spring Run Off on March 12.

The race starts and finishes at Arthur Stevenson elementary in

Westsyde. Start time is 10 a.m.

In addition to the 10-kilometre race, there will be a timed five-kilometre event, which will begin at 10:15 a.m.

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Speed skiing takes over Sun Peaks BAG The Velocity Challenge, FIS World Cup of Speed Skiing and So You Think You’re Fast, Eh? events will return to Sun Peaks Resort this weekend.

Ivan Origone holds the men’s record for maximum velocity, 254.958 kilometres per hour, and Valentina Greggio is the world’s fastest female speed skier, having clocked in at 247.083 km/h. Both Italians set those marks in Vars, France, last March.

Both are expected to attend this weekend.

Two stops in Austria have been cancelled for sponsorship reasons, meaning more World Cup races will be squeezed into the three scheduled pit stops in 2017 — Sun Peaks, along with Idre, Sweden, and Grandvalira/Grau Roig, Andorra.

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This year, there will be three.

The second annual So You Think You’re Fast Eh event on Saturday will double as an unofficial training day for World Cup and Velocity Challenge entrants.

There were about 27 skiers who took to the hill last year at the inaugural So You Think You’re Fast, Eh, a day designed for non-FIS registered skiers to try their hand at the sport, using only half of Headwalls to limit speeds.

Kenny Dale holds the Sun Peaks course record, 178.22 km/h.

Skiers at So You Think You’re Fast, Eh often register close

to 125 km/h.

World Cup and Velocity Challenge races start at about 10 a.m. each day, weather-permitting, and draw racers and spectators from across the globe.

Playoffs arrive

The TRU WolfPack and UBC Thunderbirds will begin their women’s volleyball Canada West quarter-final series today in Vancouver.

TRU and UBC split a two-match set at the Tournament Capital Centre earlier this season, with the WolfPack winning 3-0 on Feb. 18 and T-Birds earning a 3-0 victory on Feb. 19.

UBC finished the season third in conference standings with a record of 20-4, while TRU was sixth with a record of 13-11.

Karate nationals

Jocelyn and Cheyanne Fennell of the Kamloops

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Jocelyn, toiling in the under-21 division, split four matches and won one bronze medal in the under-61 kilogram category.

She did enough to qualify for the national junior team roster and will attend a training camp in Toronto in June.

Jocelyn will also attend the 10th annual World Karate Federation (WKF) Youth Training Camp and Karate 1 WKF Youth Cup in Umag, Croatia in June.

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13 00 1 Week . . . . . . 30 $ 00 1 Month . . . . . 96 $ 00 ADD COLOUR. . 25

Merchandise, vehicles, trailers, RV’s, boats, ATV’s, furniture, etc. $ 00 No Businesses, Based on 3 lines

Houses, condos, duplexes, suites, etc. $ 00 Add an extra line to your ad for $10 (3 months max) No Businesses, Based on 3 lines

INDEX

LISTINGS

1 Issue .

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$ $

Based on 3 lines

All ads must be prepaid.

No refunds on classified ads.

Tax not included

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35

Tax not included Some restrictions apply

53

Scheduled for one month at a time.

Customer must call to reschedule.

Tax not included. Some restrictions apply

1638 $ 60 1 Week . . . 39 $ 60 1 Month . . 129 1 Issue .

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$

Based on 3 lines Tax not included

Announcements

Announcements

Announcements

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Anniversaries

Coming Events

Personals

Business Opportunities

Drivers/Courier/ Trucking

Education/Trade Schools

Help Wanted

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

CLASS 1 US DRIVERS We require experienced Class 1 US drivers immediately. Must have a minimum of 3 years US experience. We supply assigned trucks (no slip seating), phone allowance, US travel medical, all picks and drops paid and regular home time.

Applicants must be physically fit with their own transportation. Please fax resume with current clean abstract to 250546-0600 or by e-mail to: parris@ricknickelltrucking.com Only those that are considered will be contacted.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

HUNTER & FIREARMS

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

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof.

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

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Looking For Love?

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11:00am Wednesday for Thursday’s Paper.

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11:00am Thursday for Friday’s Paper.

Advertisements should be read on the first publication day. We are not responsible for errors appearing beyond the first insertion.

It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event that errors occur in the publishing of any advertising shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect item only and there will be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement.

Classifieds Work!

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PERFECT Part-Time Opportunity

3 Days Per Week call 250-374-0462

Personals

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MAKE A Connection. Real People, Flirty Chat Call FREE! 250-220-1300 or 1-800-2101010. www.livelinks.com 18+0

Coming Events

Coming Events

Lost: Samsung 4 in grey otter case contains sentimental pictures. 250-554-3185.

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Career Career Opportunities Opportunities 7974464 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING Funding available for those who qualify!

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSE March 4-5 • March 18-19

Funding provided by the Government of Canada through the Canada-British Columbia Job Fund.

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

English/Mandarin/Spanish • Interpreter/Translator Sunmore Healthtech Ltd., a leading North American Ginseng manufacturer and retailer in Kamloops BC, Canada, is seeking an English/Mandarin/Spanish interpreter/translator for expanding local and overseas markets, to work in Kamloops, B.C. on a full-time permanent basis, 40 hours per week, at the wage of $28/hour, with overtime payment of 1.5 times of the wage per working period exceeding 40 hours/week to join our friendly and professional team.

Requirements:

• 5 years of full-time experience working as a translator/interpreter in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

• Mastery in English, Mandarin and Spanish in both oral and written forms.

• Fluency in other languages such as Taiwanese and Cantonese would be an asset.

• Knowledge of business administration and international trade.

• Criminal record check and driver’s license extract.

In this role, you will communicate and liaise with our local and international clients in China, Taiwan, H.K, North America and Latin America.

You will provide help with any documentation that needs to be translated or prepared for clients using Spanish as well as Mandarin.

** Disabled persons are welcome to apply for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Translate, revise and update the existing written material into Mandarin, and Spanish from English and vice versa.

• Review, proofread and update company documents and manuals in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

• Provide prompt and timely response to clients’ inquiries by phone or by e-mail.

• Research, translate and update current and upcoming research articles into English, Mandarin and Spanish.

• Transcribe and translate video and audio archives from English to Mandarin and Spanish and vice versa.

• Translate and maintain Sunmore’s website with the updated information in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

• Able to travel with sales representatives to overseas countries for interpretation in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

Please send your resume and cover letter to Donna Chang at sunmore925@gmail.com, sunmore@sunmoreginseng.com Cell: 250-371-7462, Sunmore Healthtech Ltd, 925 McGill Place, Kamloops, B.C. V2C6N9, Canada. Tel: 250-374-3017 Fax: 250-374-3011, official website www.sunmoreginseng.com.

Funding provided: The Employment Services and Supports (ESS) program is funded through the Canada-British Columbia Jobs Fund for unemployed individuals who do not qualify for Employment Insurance, or under-employed and low-skilled, to gain the skills needed to find employment in trucking industry.

The Class 1 Truck Driver Training program includes: • Airbrakes • Class 1 Driver Training – 5 weeks (104 hours) in-vehicle training • Road Test at ICBC Upon completion of the program, participants will be prepared for entry level employment as a truck driver with “behind the wheel” experience.

For more information, contact: Ray Trenholm - Driver Training

Email: rtrenholm@tru.ca Call 250.828.5104 or visit tru.ca/trades

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Courses. A Great Gift. Next C.O.R.E. March 11th & 12th, Saturday and Sunday.

P.A.L. March 19th, Sunday.

Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

250-376-7970

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

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462 I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

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Career Opportunities

CARETAKER / MAINTENANCE POSITION AVAILABLE

We are currently accepting resumes for the position of a maintenance caretaker. The property is a 60 unit townhouse complex located in the City of Kamloops.

The daily workload consists of monitoring and managing all the maintenance of the property including: • Handyman repairs, both mechanical and carpentry jobs for buildings and units, overseeing tenders for contract work as required.

• Maintaining complete daily work reports and record keeping, with communication to the Board of Directors.

• Operation of underground irrigation system • Ground maintenance of a 3.5 acre property in common areas • Snow shovelling for assigned units including sanding and de-icing • Unit inspections on a yearly basis and with unit turnover Preference will be given to a candidate who has the following: • Minimum 3 years maintenance related experience • Class 5 BC drivers licence (Abstract required) • Pick-up truck and/or trailer is required to haul yard waste and construction materials • Basic computer skills with the ability to use e-mail and Microsoft Office effectively • Criminal record check (vulnerable sector) will be required • Must be bondable This position requires you to enjoy physical work, the ability organize and prioritize daily tasks, have strong communication skills and work with a minimum supervision.

Please submit cover letter and resume with wage expectations by e-mail to: committeehiring@gmail.com APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL MARCH 15, 2017

Help Wanted

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Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Help Wanted

$500 & Under

Furniture

Misc. for Sale

Misc. for Sale

Antiques / Vintage

Antiques / Vintage

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Bookcase 72� h, 5 shelves, maple finish. Exec Cond. $50.

250-573-2599.

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

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

Campbell Hausfield 2H.P. Electric Mobile Air Compressor. $300. 778-921-2378.

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

Did you know that you can place

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

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

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Gibbard Queen size 4 poster bed paid $2000 asking $400 2sm antique armchairs $600, wool area rug 9x7 $400 (778) 471-8627

Icon BMX Bike 16� frame. $250/obo. 778-586-1996.

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

CLASSIFIEDS

Medical/Dental Dr. Chris Wilson is seeking an experienced full-time Certified Dental Assistant to join the Grasslands Dental Care team.

Applicants with Prosthodontic module are preferred. Our practice is located at 1222 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, BC. Interested applicants please contact us at 250-3765433 or email: smile.dentalcareers@gmail.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

Pets & Livestock

Feed & Hay Hay for Sale. First and Second Crop. $7-up. 250-319-3353.

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

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm. (250)371-4949

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Firearms 1939 Winchester Mod 94 30:30. $1,000. 1958 BRNO .22 target quality. $500. Both exec cond. 250-372-5489.

Firewood/Fuel

A-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifications possible doors, windows, walls etc., as office or living workshop etc.,Custom Modifications Office / Home� Call for price.

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Lemond RevMaster Spin Bike. Model 15300-7. $500.

Like New. 250-372-8406.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988

OFFICE PART-TIME POSITION POSITION

Join our small friendly team, 10-20 hours per week. Ä&#x192;$' '?6'8-'2$' 8'7<-8'&W Apply in person with resume. Ňş Â&#x2020;Â&#x2C6;Â&#x2021; Â&#x2C6;Â&#x17D;¤Â?

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As New Teak Table 43x75 Ex 48â&#x20AC;?, 8-chairs, sideboard/ $4,000/all.

Casting Table 10x24. $100. 3-drawer Tool Stand. $60. 8x12 Wool Rug. $200. 3-drawer Wood Cab 18x22. $25. 250-851-7687.

Help Wanted

20% OFF

STEEL BUILDING SALE ....â&#x20AC;&#x153;PRICED TO SELLâ&#x20AC;?

20X21 $5,997. Front & Back Walls Included. 30X33 $7,339. No Ends Included. 35X37 $11,782. One End Wall Included. Check out www.Pioneersteel.ca for more prices. Pioneer Steel 1-855-212-7036

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Businesses&SERVICES Financial Services

Handypersons

Gillespie & Company LLP has an opening for an experienced litigation assistant to join our personal injury department.

We offer a range of benefits including RRSP contribution and a maternity EI top-up for staff members.

If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Lorraine Gruber at atlgruber@gillespieco.ca

BROCK Rte 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2305-2399 Biriarwood Ave, McInnes Pl, Richards Pl, Wallace Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 38 p.

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 750 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5101-5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30 papers Rte 751 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5310 Barnhartvale Rd, Bogetti Rd, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr, 5485-5497 ETC Hwy, Viking Dr, Wade Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 63 papers Rte 761 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6022-6686 Furrer Rd, Houston Pl, Parlow Rd, Pearse Pl, Urban Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 61 papers Rte 781 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Duncan Rd, Durango Dr, Sonora Rd, Wittner Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 42 papers Rte 785 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Badger Dr & Pl, Coyote Dr, Fox Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 86 papers

Stucco/Siding

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Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

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Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Home Improvements

Fitness/Exercise WE will pay you to exercise!

Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 3 issues a week!

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

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Looking for Door to Door Carriers.

Kids and Adults needed!

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Vita-pure water softener new. $350. 2011 GM 8ft boxliner. $50. 250-256-0084.

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SOME SHOES NEED FILLING

Rte 530 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bentall Dr, 2688-2689 Willowbrae Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 44 p.

We have Sideboards, Buffet & Hutches, Tables & Chairs,

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Contractors

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ABERDEEN Rte 508 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 700â&#x20AC;&#x201C;810 Hugh Allan Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 40 p.

WE BUY & SELL ANTIQUES!

STORE-WIDE, BOTH LOCATIONS Settee, Forging Tools, Native FOR ALL OF MARCH! Collections & much more!

Open 7 days/wk. 8am - 8pm

DOWNTOWN/LOWER SAHALI Rte 310 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 651-695 2nd Ave, 660-690 3rd Ave, 110-292 Columbia St (even side), 106-321 Nicola St. - 59 p.

Rte 311 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 423-676 1st Ave, 440553 2nd Ave, 107-237 Battle St, 135-173 St. Paul St. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 31 p.

Rte 313 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 430-664 4th Ave, 520-577 5th Ave, 435-551 Battle St, 506 Columbia St, 406-577 Nicola St. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 44 p.

Rte 327 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1103-1459 Columbia St (odd), 12031296 Dominion St. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 39 p.

Rte 334 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 975 13th Ave, 1104-1276 Pine St, 12011274 Pleasant St. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 44 p.

Rte 380 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 60 papers Rte 381 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 20-128 Centre Ave, Hemlock St, 605-800 Lombard St. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 45 papers Rte 404 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chapperon Dr, 108-439 Greenstone Dr, Pyramid Crt. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 71 papers Rte 405 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Anvil Cres, Bestwick Dr & Crts, Mahood Pl, Morrisey Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 86 papers

RAYLEIGH Rte 830 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 59 p.

Rte 834 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Armour Pl, MattockMcKeague Rd, Sabiston Crt & Pl, 4205-4435 Spurraway Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 64 p SUNRIVERS Rte 870 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mariposa Crt, Sagewood Crt, Dr, Lane, St, 100 Sun Rivers Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 49 papers Rte 874 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Canyon Ridge (area), 1400-1448 Sunrivers Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 28 papers

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THE PRINTED PAPER remains the most popular method of reading

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Rte 875 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Golf Ridge (area), 20002028 Sunrivers Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 26 papers Rte 877 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Pointe Pl â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15 papers Rte 878 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stone Ridge Cres, Dr, Lane. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 35 papers Rte 880 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Belmonte (area), Sillaro Dr, Visao Crt & Terr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 71 p.

VALLEYVIEW/JUNIPER Rte 617 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2401-2515 Valleyview Dr, Valleyview Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 50 p.

Rte 621 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Duck Rd, Skelly Rd, 96 Tanager Dr, 2606-2876 Thompson Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 54 p.

Rte 406 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 108-492 McGill Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 62 papers

RENTED

INTERESTED IN A ROUTE?

* RESTRICTIONS APPLY

2ND ANNIVERSARY SALE

$750 Loans & More NO CREDIT CHECKS

Fir Firewood split or rounds delivered. Measured cords.

250-277-4477.

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

Orton Crossbow c/w scope, holder for arrows. $425. 250554-3094.

Lincoln wire feed welder Pac 10 c/w argon gas regulator tank +more. $750. 778-9212378.

ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250) 377-3457.

Furniture

antique & collectables

Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477

Heavy Duty Machinery *some restrictions apply

HARMONIE

For more information call the Circulation department 250 - 374 - 0462

TIME TO DECLUTTER? ask us about our

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Misc. for Sale

Misc. Wanted Buying bullion, bars, coins, coin collection, paper money collections, world, Canada & U.S., Todd1- 250- 864-3521

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $5-$10/ ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive

BUYING Coin Collections, Olympic Coins, Gold & Silver etc. Call Chad: 250-863-3082

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Kamloops BC call for availability 250-374-7467

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We provide training & tutoring.

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Misc. for Sale

TARPS! TARPS! “BEST PRICES IN TOWN!”

BLUE TARPS

10X8 weave (Medium Duty)

STARTING AT $$2.69 2.19

WHITE TARPS 10X10 weave (Heavy Duty)

STARTING AT $$3.99 4.49

BLACK TARPS 14X14 weave (Industrial Duty)

STARTING AT $$5.49 6.79

FOAM SHOP MATTRESS REPLACEMENTS SINGLE TO KING SIZE 2” TO 6” THICK - CUSTOM CUT OR CUSTOM ORDER MEMORY FOAM TOPPER PADS - 3LB DENSITY SINGLE TO KING SIZE - 2” & 3” THICK

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YOU NEED IT - WE WILL CUT IT!

CAMPING FOAM, MEDICAL WEDGES & BOLSTERS, PILLOWS

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Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC.

TOWNHOUSES

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Homes for Rent

Under the Real Estate Tab

**BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2017** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,300 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly.

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Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS 2-Bedroom Apartments $1050 Bachelor Apartments $710-$720 • Seniors Orientated • Close to the Hospital • Quiet Living Space • Underground Parking • Newly Renovated Suites • No Smoking

520 Battle Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2 Contact Jean: 250-372-0510 1BDRM. quiet, clean, S. Shore apts $735/mo. incl. heat, free ldry, covered parking. NS, NP. 250-573-2625. #216 Alder Apartments. Logan Lake. 1bdrm $600/mo neg Avail now 250-320-4870 or 250-572-7185.

Recreation

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

ROOMMATE: Working or student to share N/Shore home $500 /mo 250-376-0953 Senior looking to share home on river, 15/miles east of Kamloops Over 40. N/S, N/D, $775/mo. 250-573-5498.

Suites, Lower

Dallas Towne Centre New & modern units, 3 bdrm, 2 baths, f/s/d/w/d, a/c, NS, pet neg. with deposit. Please call 250-851-9310.

1bdrm Bach North Shore $600/mo. incl util, n/s, n/p 250376-0716 / 250-320-8146.

Northland Apartments

1bdrm Hospital, TRU area Student or quiet person $495/ $725 n/s, n/p (250) 299-6477

Bachelor Suite $845 per month 1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry $845-$1,050 per month North Shore 250-376-1427 South Shore 250-314-1135

NORTH SHORE

1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings.

Reasonable Rental Rates

CALL 250-299-3885

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Riverfront 1bdrm daylight level entry, util incl $600/mo.

Avail now. 250-579-9609.

Vacant reno’d 2bdrm, sep entr, C/A, patio, ref’s req., suitable for couple. $950/mo.

250-376-0633.

1982 Mercedes 300 SD TD. 2 owners, original and documented.

242,000km no drips. Show car quality.

Asking $6000. 250-312-3525 before 8pm

*Big storage rooms *Laundry Facilities *Close to park, shopping & bus stop

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Transportation

Antiques / Classics

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

1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam R. K (Keith) Manning

Jean Frilund

1939 - 2017

It is with great sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Robert Keith Manning, beloved Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Brother, Uncle and friend to so many. He left us on Saturday, February 25th, after a courageous fight.

On February 25, 2017, Jean Frilund passed away after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease and cancer. Jean was surrounded by her family who adored her.

Predeceased by her husband Ralph, parents Leonard and Maud Hutchinson, sister and brother-in law Patricia and Roy Linville and great-grandson Brylie Sagert.

Jean is survived by her children Randy Frilund (Lori Chern), Bonnie Sagert (Cliff), Glenda Rodgers (Allan Trufanenko), grandchildren Tanner, Jaclyn and Jahonny Frilund, Tyler (Natalie), Ryan (Elysia) and Craig (Courtney) Sagert, Allysia (Tom), Becky and Stacey (Chris) Rodgers, greatgrandchildren Cooper, Harper, Hayden, Amya, Cameron and Jordyn, also her nephews Harvey (Marlene) Linville and Ken (Chris) Linville.

Born September 26, 1939, Jean grew up in Pritchard, BC and attended high school in Kamloops. Soon after graduating, Jean met Ralph and they married in 1957.

Together they enjoyed bowling, bridge, golf and family time at Knouff Lake. Mom was the #1 fan for all her kids and grandkids. She was never one to miss any event involving her family.

In recent years, Friday afternoons were well spent with her good buddies playing bridge. We are so thankful to the ladies who made this happen.

Those who knew Jean couldn’t help but love her. She was a modest lady with an enormous heart. Selfless, devoted, strong, stoic and perhaps a little “stubborn” at times.

Special thanks to Dr. Jeevyn Chahal for going above and beyond for our mother.

Also to the incredible staff at Pinegrove who took remarkably tender care of mom in her final days.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Parkinson Foundation or Royal Inland Hospital Foundation are greatly appreciated.

No Service by request. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm at the North Shore Community Centre “Oak Room”, 730 Cottonwood Ave., Kamloops, BC.

Keith was born on October 24, 1939 in Manitou, Manitoba but grew up in Pilot Mound and Crystal City. He moved to Kamloops, BC in the 1960’s where he worked 33 years at Weyerhaeuser. Keith was an active gardener, landscaper, member of the Kinsmen Club, devoted friend, family member and a very avid lotto player. Keith’s legacy was his devotion to Family. He raised 2 sets of kids and then doted on his grandkids. He remained committed to ensuring the well-being of all family members over the years, especially his wife Kathy.

Whether you knew Keith for a moment or a lifetime he would’ve made you smile and laugh no matter the situation. He will forever be in our hearts and dearly missed.

Keith was predeceased by his sister Fay and son Cole. He leaves behind his beloved wife of 36 years Kathy, his children – Dean, Kevin (Kathy), Lorena (Andy), Corey, his sisters Bernice (Fred), Gail (Bill), Ellen and brother-in-law Keith, the grandchildren Kaila (James), Krista (Craig), Robyn (Tony), Keenan, Keanna and a great-granddaughter Aubree Anne, and had a greatgrandson on his way, which made him very happy , and numerous sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews.

There will be a Celebration of Life held at a later date; details will follow when the plans are in place.

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Helen Marie Gopsill July 6, 1924 - February 26, 2017

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Helen Marie Gopsill.

Mom was born in Edson, Alberta on July 6th, 1924 to Noel and Grace Armstrong and spent many happy years with her family there before moving to Kamloops, BC in 1963. Mom was the last survivor of her large, immediate family and was predeceased by her husband Edwin Thomas Gopsill, parents Noel and Grace, brothers Welcome, Paul, Avery, Lee, Harold and Fred and sisters Edna and Mable.

She is survived by children Noel George (Bonita) Gopsill and Cheryl Lynn (Bob) Dale, of Kamloops, grandchildren Michelle (Chris) Grout-Smith, Teresa (Jason) LaBonte, George (Sara) Gopsill, Christopher (Shevaun) Dale and Kevin Dale, as well as great-grandchildren Austin LaBonte, Taylor LaBonte, Amber Grout-Smith, Thomas Grout-Smith, Sadie Gopsill and Gabriel Dale.

Mom had a good life and had many friends in Kamloops and Edson that she loved to visit and had some great times with. She enjoyed traveling with her husband Edwin after he retired from the CNR and went on many trips in Eddie’s Caboose (nickname for the motorhome) to points south and in BC/Alberta.

I found these wise words in the back of Mom’s family diary that I’m sure she would have liked to share with everyone.

“Enjoy today each day one day at a time for who knows when the whistle will blow and the game of life will be over.”

Mom requested that there be no funeral, and will be interred with the love of her life Edwin when the weather improves in Kamloops.

Thank You to the staff at Ponderosa Lodge, and Ridgeview Lodge for the wonderful care they provided for mom over the last few years.

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Wayne Clark Edmondson With heavy hearts we announce the sudden passing of Wayne Clark Edmondson of Savona, BC. Wayne passed away on February 28th, 2017 at the age of 79.

He is survived by Jennifer Coburn (partner), Mildred Edmondson (former wife) and two sons Matt (Kim) and Clark (Nicole) of Savona, BC. Also his sister Marlene St.Jean and nephew Dion St.Jean of Heffley Creek, along with his Auntie Blanche Clark of Savona, BC. He will also be greatly missed by his eight grandchildren Ashley, Blake, Cierra (Chris), Montana, Danielle (Steven), Alec, Sarah Mae and Danielle. Wayne is predeceased by his father Thomas (Jeanine) and mother Miriam.

A Community Tea will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 2:00 pm at the Savona Community Hall with friends and family.

Everyone who knew Wayne is welcome.

Should friends desire, donations may be made to the Wayne Edmondson Memorial Fund (TD Bank) in lieu of flowers.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Margaret Piva Bomben

Roberta “Bobbie” Ethel Klapstock ( nee Ronnebeck)

Michelle Yvette Lussier June 28, 1953 - February 23, 2017

March 28, 1938 – February 24, 2017

Margaret Piva Bomben, 86, passed away on February 19, 2017, in Spokane, Washington.

She was born in Pinantan Lake, BC on May 5, 1930.

A Funeral Service will be held on March 25, 2017 at 11:00 am at St. John Vianney Church, 503 North Walnut Road, Spokane, Washington.

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Bobbie. She passed away peacefully at Berwick on the Park in Kamloops, BC. Bobbi was predeceased by her husband of 41 years Kenneth Klapstock and her parents. She is survived by her older sister Dawnie, three children Karen (Scott), Jason and Melanie (Dean) and two grandchildren Kennedy and James.

Bobbie was born in Kenora, Ontario. After high school, she studied nursing at Salvation Army Grace Hospital in Winnipeg. Upon graduation, she liked to say she pulled out a map of Canada in a quest to find an ideal spot to work and ski. Covering her eyes she left it up to fate and her finger landed on the town of Kamloops.

Not long after her arrival in Kamloops, Bobbie was introduced to Ken on a blind date set up by their lifelong friend Jim Hegan. Bobbie was always a whirlwind of activity. In addition to raising a family and working in the public school system as a teacher’s aide, she was also very involved with a number of service organizations including Kinsmen, K-40 and Rotary.

Bobbie was also involved with fitness. In her younger years, she taught yoga and jazzercise classes. She loved skiing, hiking, bird watching, shopping, travelling, collecting art and so much more.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to one of her favorite charities (see Karen or Jason for suggestions).

A Celebration of Life will be held at Desert Gardens located at 540 Seymour Street, Kamloops, BC on Monday, March 13, 2017 at 1:00 pm.

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April 8, 1938 – January 22, 2017

Please join us for an informal Celebration of Life for Patricia Morris on Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm at the Cottonwood Community Centre, 730 Cottonwood Ave., Kamloops, BC.

Michelle will be truly missed by all that knew her. Michelle leaves behind her sons Craig (Jennifer), David (Pam), Brady (Sandi-Rae), Jackson, her mother Marjorie, her sisters Darcy and Paula (Jeff), her brothers Tim and David (Susan), her six grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father Lorne Lussier and brother-in-law Rob Googel.

Her family would like to express their gratitude for the compassionate care she received from the Royal Inland Hospital ICU. They were a tremendous source of comfort and support during a difficult time.

Michelle loved going for walks, visiting with family and friends and the sunshine. Michelle is gone but her infectious laugh and warm smile will forever be in our hearts. A tree will be planted in MacDonald Park in her honour. Always loved, missed and remembered.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

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Michelle was born on June 28, 1953 and was raised in Kamloops, part of the large Brocklehurst Lussier family. Her greatest joy in life was her four sons. Michelle spent countless hours as a fixture in the local rinks and on the ball fields supporting and cheering on her boys. She was endlessly proud of their accomplishments throughout their lives. She worked as a medical office assistant and for the Government of BC. Michelle loved her sons unconditionally and cherished being a grandmother to her grandchildren. She will be remembered for her hospitality, her famous dishes, her compassion and thoughtfulness.

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Bruno Virginio (Bob) Comazzetto April 2, 1925 – February 28, 2017

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bob Comazzetto at the age of 91 years. He was predeceased by his wife Josephine in 2003.

Bob was born and raised in Kamloops, calling Valleyview his home. It was in Valleyview where he and Josephine built and operated Bob’s Motel for more than 20 years. He was the first manager for Noca Dairies when they opened a branch in Kamloops.

Bob is probably most remembered for his passion for gardening (he was already planning this year’s garden).

In the summer months, it was where you were most likely to find him. In the winter months, until recently, you would find him at the Blazer games. He was an ardent fan. Bob was happiest when surrounded by friends and family. His home was a gathering spot for his many friends where they would often stop by for a visit, cup of coffee and muffins or cookies that he loved to bake.

Bob was very active in the community.

He was an honorary and long-time active member of the Cristoforo Colombo Lodge where he enjoyed working with the bar committee, as well as socializing with the public and his friends.

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Bob was the fifth born in a family of ten children. He is survived by his sisters Enes Christianson and Emma Durigon, his brother Reno (Stella) Comazzetto and sisters-in-law Helen Comazzetto and Jenny Comazzetto.

He is also lovingly remembered by his many nieces, nephews and extended family.

The family would like to thank Dr. Chiu and the nursing staff on 4 North at Royal Inland Hospital for their care and respect for Bob and providing exemplary care to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Prayers will be recited at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Monday, March 6, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. Father Fred Weisbeck will celebrate the Mass of Christian Burial on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 11.00 a.m. Private Entombment to follow at Evergreen Mausoleum.

Donations in Bob’s memory may be made to Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, 311 Columbia Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 2T1.

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n a time of Paw Patrol, iPads and Bubble Guppies, bothers are still given nearly a century later about Winnie The Pooh.

“They have a really simple magic in them,” said Heather Cant of the classical tales “that children and their imagination are so strong.”

The poignant stories chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends come to life along with the Hundred Acre Wood for Western Canada Theatre’s newest production.

Based on the tales of A.A. Milne, matinees performance of The House at Pooh Corner will be presented tomorrow and March 11 at Pavilion Theatre, geared for kids three to eight years of age.

Before Disney’s recognizable cartoon characters, Milne in the 1920s wrote about his son Christopher Robin Milne and his toys, including a teddy bear he named after a bear he saw at a Canadian zoo.

Cant said Milne’s stories acknowledge a simpler time.

“I spent most of my time [as a kid] reading and playing outside and inventing things,” she said. “There were no video games for me to play and I lived in a more rural neighbourhood. Kids’ lives right

now are really programmed . . . there’s a lot more media coming at them.”

The play is based on the books — some Disney nods include Tigger’s laugh — and features songs created from the books poetry.

One such tale sees Pooh and Piglet set out to build a house for Eeyore. Unbeknownst to them, the forlorn, slow-talking grey donkey had already built one himself.

“They find a pile of sticks and they take it all apart and they move it to the other side of the forest and Eeyore comes and is like, ‘Where did my house go?’” Cant said. “They realize what they’ve done.”

Another tale involves Owl’s house falling down in a blustery windstorm, which will be realized on stage with help from set pieces designed to fall apart.

“They can blow it in the wind,” Cant said. “It can rock and creak.”

Eleven-year-old Kamloops actor Diedrich Orton plays Christopher Robin and Andrew G. Cooper, Randi Edmundson and Stefano Giulianetti juggle the task of portraying adults in the boy’s world, while simultaneously operating seven puppets to bring Pooh and the rest of the animal gang to life.

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People in Winnipeg, has its own mechanics to replicate each character’s unique personality.

Owl, for example, can turn its head and fly.

“He moves in a very different way than Eeyore does and Piglet does and Pooh does,” Cant said.

Beyond the messages, Cant, cast and crew have been awestruck through rehearsals.

“It’s so cute, it’s so cute,” Cant said. “To watch Deidrich sit on a stump and have a conversation with Pooh and Piglet, it’s just adorable.”

The stories wrap up with Christopher Robbin preparing for school. He begins to understand the real world is calling and he’s growing up.

He and Pooh have a conversation about how they’ll always remember each other and they’ll always be there for each other — but they’re not going to see each other all the time.

“These animals have so much to teach us,” Cant said.

The House on Pooh Corner shows at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are available from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca. Pavilion Theatre is also located at 1025 Lorne St.

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“The raincoat was $9.95 and it came with pants. So we made a matching hat.”

Clockwise from bottom left: actor Deidrich Orton, as Christopher Robin, puppeteers Randi Edmundson, Stefano Giulianetti and Andrew G. Cooper prepare to delight children and adults alike with a re-creation of The House at Pooh Corner.

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Kamloops Arts Council presents its annual Art Exposed Regional Exhibition. The display of works by about 140 artists opens today and continues through March 11. Tonight’s opening reception, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., will see some of the works recognized in various categories and their creators receiving cash prizes. Jurors this year are Wendy Weseen, Christine Beaton and Trish Armstrong-Gibson. The People’s Choice and Artists’ Choice awards will be presented at the end of the exhibition. To read about some of the artists, turn to B3.

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Raine Hamilton rides into Kamloops for a Home Routes concert tonight. The Winnipeg-based singer describes herself as a “shorter, more musical Tina Fey and a shorter, funnier Joni Mitchell.” Admission is $20; all proceeds go to the Home Routes performers. To attend, email jenn.chrumka@gmail.com.

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Artist and educator Anyssa Gill will review the basics of acrylic painting over five classes, starting with an introduction to colour theory and ending with creation of landscape, portrait and abstract paintings. The sessions continue March 11, March 18 and March 25 and are $25 each for members, $30 for nonmembers. The classes are appropriate for those 16 years of age and older. It’s not required to attend all five classes.

TOM COCHRANE WITH RED RYDER Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m., at Sandman Centre

Legendary Canadian musician Tom Cochrane will perform at Sandman Centre. The Juno Award-winning artist is best known for the song Life is a Highway. As of press time, tickets were still available from Ticketmaster, online at ticketmaster.ca.

OLD TIME FIDDLERS Saturday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. at Heritage House, 100 Lorne St. in Riverside Park

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Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers hold their monthly dance.

Admission is $6 for members a d $10 for non-members. The fiddlers will also be hosting Gordon Stobbe and J.J. Guy on Tuesday, March 21, at 2 p.m. at Hal Rogers Centre in Albert McGowan Park for a workshop. Tickets are $15, free for children 12 and under. For more information or to reserve a ticket, all 250-376-2330.

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Thompson Valley Orchestra presents Classics Meet Broadway with guest artist saxophonist Carmen Ranta. Tickets are available at the door. They are $15 for adults, $5 for students and $35 for a family. For more information, go online to thompsonvalleyorchestra.ca.

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MARCH 3 — MARCH 9 INDOOR FARMERS’ MARKET Saturday, March 4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Kamloops Full Gospel Tabernacle, 1550 Tranquille Rd.

Visions Farmers’ Market is at Sahali Mall the first and third Saturdays to April 15. Vendors will have baking, meats, vegetables, heirloom seeds, free-range eggs, crafts and more.

KAMLOOPS BURLESQUE Thursday, March 9, 8 p.m. at the Blue Grotto, 319 Victoria St.

Kamloops Burlesque presents Throwback Thursday. The theme will take the audience back to the first Throwback Thursday the burlesque held in 2011 and will feature again professional sword swallower Neil E. Dee, who has also been know to smash a concrete block with his chest and do some scary things with bare skin and razor-sharp machetes. Entry at the door is $5; advance tickets that come with preferred seating and other benefits are $15 and are available at Instinct Adornment next to the Grotto on online at kamtix.ca.

THE LIAR Runs through Saturday, March 11, Black Box Theatre at Thompson Rivers University

Actors Workshop Theatre presents its latest production, The Liar, a 373-year-old farce. For more on the play, turn to B3.

Tickets are $14 and are available on show nights at the theatre box office. They can also be reserved in advanced by calling the box office at 250-377-6100.

THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER Runs through Saturday, March 11, at Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St.

Western Canada Theatre presents The House at Pooh Corner, a puppet show geared at kids ages three to eight.

For more on the show, turn to B1. Tickets are available from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

KAMLOOPS FILM FESTIVAL Runs through March 11, at Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St.

The annual film festival is back downtown, with nightly and matinee flicks. The festival includes many events beyond the movies, such as discussions at PDK Cafe and a closing party on March 11. Tonight’s movies are The Space Between and The Eyes of My Mother. Tomorrow’s films include: OddBall, Elle, The Sun at Midnight and The Girl with All the Gifts. For a complete schedule of events and to purchase tickets, go online to kamloopsfilmfest.ca.

RING OF FIRE Runs through Saturday, March 4, at Sagebrush Theatre, 1300 9th Ave.

Western Canada Theatre’s musical production wraps up this weekend. The show is inspired by Johnny Cash and features more than 30 of his songs. While sold out, a pay-what-you-can matinee tomorrow will have tickets available at the door on a first-come first-serve basis. That show begins at 1 p.m., but it is advised those who with to attend arrive well in advance.

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DAVE EAGLES/KTW Nine-year-old Addysen Outerbridge (front) showcases her painting The Businessman, which she created of her father Ross (behind, right) for the Art Exposed Regional Exhibition. The Outerbridge family, including siblings Kieran and Moira (back left, centre), submitted five pieces to the exhibition, which begins today.

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smiley portrait dubbed The Businessman is a painting of the man who inspired nine-yearold Addysen Outerbridge to enter her first art exhibit.

“My dad,” she told KTW, while submitting the piece last week for Art Exposed Regional Exhibition at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre.

Kamloops Arts Council annually showcases works of diverse mediums. This year features more than 200 works by about 140 artists, four of whom live under the same roof.

Local doctor and photographer Ross Outerbridge has entered for three years, but this is the first time his three kids have joined him.

“I asked them, ‘Do you guys want to put some images in?’ They said, ‘Yeah, sure,’” he said.

Along with Addysen’s piece, the family dropped off four others together to be on display at the centre beginning today through March 11.

Ross, an orthopaedic surgeon at Royal Inland Hospital, has been practising photography for 50 years. He submitted two works to Art Exposed this year. One of them was a long-exposure — nine minutes, to be exact — photograph snapped of a tree in Hawaii. The piece is dubbed Time and Tide.

His second piece is a panoramic view of Kamloops, with the iconic Mount Paul in the background and a bright, nearly-full moon overhead.

That piece, Winter Moon Rising, was shot on Jan. 11, three images stitched together to create the expansive view.

“It got very cold,” Ross said with a laugh.

The elder siblings have followed in dad’s shoes behind the camera.

Son Kieran, 17, submitted Illuminated Wonders, an image printed on aluminum of a young boy

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holding a glowing lightbulb, shot separately and combined to create the effect.

“I think the concept is kind of about curiosity,” Kieran said.

Daughter Moira, 18, submitted Pathway to Nowhere. The piece was also printed on aluminum, with the two siblings choosing it over dad’s preferred canvas for producing vibrant colours.

The piece is an edited rendition of a photo Moira shot while on vacation with family near Tofino on Vancouver Island. She put her own artistic take on the photo using a Photoshop filter.

“It mimics a painting,” Moira said. “That’s why it looks more like a painting than a photograph.”

Moira and Kieran are working when the exhibit opens today, but Ross and Addysen will be looking for their pieces, including that smiling Businessman.

An opening reception for Art Exposed will be held tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The centre is located at 7 W Seymour St. Viewing hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day during the exhibit, but on Thursday, March 9, hours will be extended until 8 p.m. Admission is by donation.

Encouraging youth participation

Youth could enter Art Exposed in the past, but this is the first year the event has included a separate category for youngsters. Kamloops Arts Council executive director Kathy Sinclair said jurors had a difficult time comparing adult work to kids’ pieces.

“It’s really apples to oranges,” Sinclair said. “You want to recognize youth just for entering.”

Enter the youth category, for kids ages eight to 14. Other categories include emerging and established, which differentiate between those who have professionally training, exhibited and more experience.

onfusion is key with The Liar.

It’s found in the plot — mistaken identities abound and, at times, the frenetic pace requires sustained audience attention.

It may be found for some in the audience in the words themselves with this David Ives adaptation of the 373-year-old farce by Pierre Corneille, himself a playwright best known for dramas than this one-off full-on comedy that itself is based on La Verdad Sospechosa (The Suspicious Truth)

by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon.

But, said director Robin Nichol, the confusion is what drives the story, taking the audience on a wild and funfilled ride. Consider why the Thompson Rivers University theatre teacher chose the play — “It’s hilarious.”

The storyline can’t be told in a sentence or two. It’s about Dorante, an inveterate liar, and Cliton, his valet, who only tells the truth.

Throw into the mix the beautiful and rich Clarice and her shy best friend Lucrece.

Stir it all up with the fact that, while the two friends are polar opposites in temperament, Dorante somehow manages to get mixed up on who is who.

Add in a layer that includes Clarice’s secret engagement to the insanely jealous Alcippe and Dorante’s father Geronte, who wants his son to get married, and you have a recipe for laughter.

And then, just to make it completely

Danielle Foisy and Paige Caswell rehearse a scene from The Liar, which premiered last night in the Black Box Theatre at Thomson Rivers University.

ridiculous, the script was written in rhyming iambic pentameter, a style found in many of William Shakespeare’s sonnets.

“It’s all very complicated,” Nichol said. “It’s a smart script. It’s an engaging play and it’s a blast.”

Krystine Lucas plays Clarice and describes her as a bold character confident in her femininity. She’s also self-centred and vain but somehow manages to keep the friendship of Lucrece, played by Paige Caswell, who describes her character as Clarice’s conscience, “the girl next door who no one ever notices.

“It’s complicated,” Caswell said of the relationship between the friends.

“I’m always getting her out of messes.”

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a key character in the plot.

The play is visually engaging, Nichol said, with a working fountain and debutante balllike costumes for the women, musketeer-like garb for the men.

The play opened at the Black Box Theatre on campus in the Old Main Building last night.

It continues tonight and tomorrow night and from March 9 to March 11 with an 11:30 a.m. matinee on March 10, as well. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $14 and are available on show nights at the theatre box office, which opens at 6:30 p.m. They can be reserved by calling that box office at 250-3776100.

They are also available at the Kamloops Live Box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

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Art beneficial to health — in more ways than one

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good?

Here’s what your new prescription could sound like: “Two Aspirin, chicken soup and an afternoon at an art gallery.”

While word is out about how good participating in arts activities is for us — playing a musical instrument, knitting, dancing and colouring

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increases brain activity and improves psychological resilience — it turns out you don’t actually need to make or do art to feel good.

Just looking at paintings, sculptures and other types of visual art can give you a boost.

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Gazing at art reduces stress, lowers blood pressure and lessens anxiety and depression.

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study by the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom reported feeling less stressed after spending part of their lunch break at a gallery.

Those who had arrived with high amounts of cortisol (stress hormone) experienced lower levels after being around art.

Art can also provide bursts of joy and refresh the mind.

A study done by professor Semir Zeki, a neurobiologist at the University of London, showed viewing art we find beautiful brings up feelings similar to falling in love — that shot of dopamine that signals love and pleasure.

It seems art is the new eye candy.

In the words of artist Pablo Picasso, “Art washes away from the

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soul the dust of everyday life.”

Need some perspective, but can’t leave the city?

Visiting an art museum or exhibition can relieve mental fatigue and restore the ability to focus in the same way that the outdoors can, says research from the University of Queensland.

In fact, having artwork around can actually reduce physical pain — and hospitals are catching on.

It may be that art is simply a distraction — something other than illness on which to focus.

But, “if an art installation gets a patient out of his room or paintings take a person’s mind off their pain and lower their stress levels, the art isn’t just decorative anymore. It’s part of the entire model of care,” Dr. Lisa Harris said in an interview with NBC News.

Harris manages a $1.5-million art program at an Indiana healthcare facility.

The Wall Street Journal reported that, after hospitals installed artwork, patients were more motivated to get out of bed to view it.

Those with posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety reported the most significant health improvements.

Hospital visitors, too, reported art in hospitals as being a calming, grounding and centering force in the midst of chaos.

(Sidenote: Naturethemed artwork seems to have the best success in health care centres. And art in mental

healthcare settings must be selected carefully.)

Artwork in hospitals even helps doctors perform better. Research from the University of British Columbia shows art in healthcare facilities has positive effects on physicians, making them more empathetic, better communicators and enhancing their diagnostic skills.

“It allowed them to bear witness to the suffering of others . . . and helped them advocate for change,” said Carol Ann Courneya, associate professor at UBC’s medical school, in a Globe and Mail report.

So, whether you prefer landscape or abstract, still life or contemporary — if art can do all that at a hospital, imagine the impact on your everyday life.

Spend an afternoon at one of Kamloops’ galleries or discover a treasure for your bedroom, living room or office at the Art Exposed Regional Exhibition (March 3 through March 11) at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre and find out.

Also, substitute “visit a gallery” with “see a great film” or “watch a live piano performance” and I’m betting you’ll gain similar feelings of well-being.

The Kamloops Film Festival and the Kamloops Festival of Performing Arts, both on now, would be great places to start.

Kathy Sinclair is the executive director of the Kamloops Arts Council.

For more, go online to kamloopsarts.ca.

Registration open for KISSM Registration is open for the annual Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music, which runs from July 10 to July 28.

Programs range from Music Makers for those who have completed kindergarten to Grade 4 up to seniors programming for those who have completed secondary school.

Tuition is $535 for three weeks and $470 for two weeks. There is a family discount of $25 and a $40 early-bird discount for those who register before March 31.

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Vernon native Andrew Allen has toured with Bruno Mars, One Republic, Train and the Barenaked Ladies.

His song Time is also featured in a Folger’s commercial.

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ed to be closer to family. They’ve bought some land and will be building a house this year.

That won’t impact his career, he said, because he can head out on the road with his music, something he does for a large part of the year. It’s bringing him to Kamloops on March 5 for a show with Devon Coyote at the Blue Grotto, 319 Victoria St. Allen said one thing he discovered about himself while living and working in Los Angeles is “how much I love performing.”

He enjoys songwriting, he said, but the real thrill is getting in front of an audience and sharing his songs, a discography that is bigger than one might suspect because, with one full-length and four extended-play albums released, he still has “hundreds and hundreds of songs recorded that I’ve never released.”

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It’s an all-ages show.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert starts an hour later.

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The tour is marking the 40th anniversary of the original band’s 1977 album Animals; it will be performed in its entirety at the Sagebrush concert.

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The singer-songwriter said moving south of the border was good for his career — which saw him touring with Bruno Mars, One Republic, Train and The Barenaked Ladies, among others.

It saw some of his songs covered by Kaskade on the Grammy Award-nominated Atmosphere.

And it’s where he saw his song Time become the backdrop for a coffee commercial, courtesy of his Sony record label.

“I was thinking really? Folger’s coffee?” Allen said.

“But when I saw it, it is so

adorable and the song works with it.”

It’s perfect, he said, because it shows a dad getting ready to go into work on a Saturday.

His daughter smiles at him as she colours. He pours coffee into a to-go container and then sees a coffee mug with a child’s printing of the word Dad on it, pours his coffee into it, takes off his coat and sits down with his child.

In the background is Allen singing “I need time, I need time, time, time, just to keep you on my mind.”

The commercial may have also resonated with Allen because he’s a new dad — and that fact played a big role in the decision to come home.

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hen it comes to exploring Quito, Ecuador’s capital, you have to venture into the cobbled side streets of the city’s Old Town to learn what makes the area distinct and different.

In the shadows of buildings centuries old, sample street food and breathe the air of ancient churches.

Then head north on the Pan American Highway to glimpse real life in Ecuador: country roads, small town squares and roasted pork sold one slice at a time by the side of the road.

Here are our top choices if you find yourself with three days in and around Ecuador’s capital.

Old Town Quito is a jumbled mass of narrow cobbled streets, ancient churches with ornate, colonial architecture and noisy street vendors selling roasted corn, candy and frittadas cooked over metal buckets filled with burning hot coals.

The best way to explore the Centro Historico is slowly and by foot, joining a tour with the Quito Visitors’ Bureau or exploring the various walking routes with a self-guided map in hand.

Start at the Plaza Grande and peek inside the Palacio de

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Gobierno (Government Palace).

There are numerous churches in the vicinity, each one older and more architecturally elaborate than the next.

The juxtaposition between the skyscrapers of New Town and the living, breathing history encrusted in the buildings of Old Town is nothing short of stunning.

At night, join locals and head to Calle de la Ronda, a cobblestone street that comes to life after dark.

Here you’ll find live music, bustling restaurants and unforgettable ice creams at Dulce Placer Heladeria.

Quito is a 45-minute drive from the equator and the staff at the Museo Solar Inti Nan. demonstrate the centrifugal forces on either side of the equator.

Exhibits on wildlife in the Amazon teach visitors about the candiru, small parasitic fish attracted to urine and able to penetrate the human urethra.

The shrunken head exhibit is another intriguing display, explaining how ancient Ecuadorians shrunk the heads of their enemies to withdraw their

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The city of Quito spreads 60 kilometres long in a narrow valley surrounded by volcanic mountains.

To get a sense of its dimensions from a great vantage point, head to the Teleferico, a cable car that begins at the base of the Pichincha Volcano and ascends 14,000 feet to Cruz Loma.

The air is thin at this altitude, so there’s a good chance you’ll be gasping for breath and feeling the oxygen shortage as you walk around.

There’s a long hike from Cruz Loma for the energetic or a coffee and souvenir shop for those who prefer to take a quick look around before returning to a lower, less breathtaking altitude.

Leave the heavily trafficked roads of Quito on the Pan American Highway to experience the personality and distinctive crafts of the smaller towns up north.

We devoured biscoches at Cayambe, a town known for its rich, croissant-like pastries cooked in wood-fired ovens and served with

sweet, dark coffee.

Further north lies Otavalo, a town whose market square, the Poncho Plaza, is one of South America’s oldest.

Busiest on Saturdays, when animals are sold in addition to crafts, the market is a focal point of activity every day and a great place to seek out interesting crafts and hone your bargaining skills with local villagers.

We left with thick, soft blankets, ponchos and shawls, convinced they were made from lama wool.

Later, we learned our purchases were 100 per cent acrylic.

Fifteen kilometres north, Cotacachi is the centre for leatherwork in Ecuador, its stores carrying a great selection of finely made leather jackets, briefcases, purses and boots.

The northern highlands, surrounded by the Andes Mountains, are hacienda country, home to expansive estates that often include a tourism component.

We chose Hacienda Zuleta, a property built in the 1600s and owned by the family of the late Ecuadorian President

LAUREN KRAMER PHOTO The Virgin of Quito, which overlooks the city of Quito from El Panecillo, is a replica of an 18th century sculpture by Bernardo de Legarda.

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Cows bellow gently outside the bedroom windows, fireplaces illuminate the 17th century paintings on ancient stone walls and guests are treated to traditional Ecuadorian dishes at meal times.

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Giving up for Lent and living the Jesus way of life

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love Lent.

That may seem a little odd, given Lent is generally the time to give up something we enjoy.

However, this Christian tradition practice has become meaningful.

Though I was aware of Lent for most of my adult life, the intentional practice of Lent as a spiritual discipline began about 20 years ago.

Lent was generally outside the purview of my church experience.

When Lent came around each year, we teasingly asked each other, “So, what are you giving up for Lent?’”

When I entered masters study at seminary, I noted many of my fellow students did not give up something for Lent lightly.

They took this matter seriously. It had a spiritual intent.

At the same time, our pastor, also investigating Lent, led weekly prayer services during Lent, which included Lenten readings and prayers, along with the Lord’s Supper.

That led me to dig a little deeper into a spiritual practice that held such a depth of meaning for many Christians around the world.

The Christian church established Lent around the fourth century as a 40-day fast to prepare for Resurrection Sunday (Easter Sunday).

They developed forms of fasting and prayer for the purpose of focusing upon the life of Jesus, thus learning to live daily the Jesus way of life.

The term “Lent” began during the Middle Ages and was derived from the Germanic word for “spring.”

Some suggest the Anglo Saxon “lenct,” meaning “long,” was the origin, since this

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referred to lengthening of days.

Ash Wednesday ushers in the 40-day fast (this year on March 1). On Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Tuesday), Christians traditionally prepare for the time of fasting.

This too, is a throwback to the Middle Ages. Housewives emptied their pantries of butter, bacon, eggs, sausages, fancy meats and all the good stuff that would not be on the menu during Lent.

So as not to waste a good thing, the medieval women created Pancake Tuesday (well, maybe they didn’t call it such), which remains in the church calendar.

It became the last chance to indulge from the larder before Lent.

The story is told that on one such Pancake Tuesday, one of the medieval ladies was running late in preparing her special meal.

Not wanting to miss out on Shrove Tuesday service, she ran out of her house with her apron and pancakes in hand.

Thus began the tradition of pancake races, which continue in sectors of England.

The 40-day season of Lent ends on Maundy Thursday, April 13. For those of us from the Western Christian tradition, the 40-day fast excludes Sundays.

(Nice to know whatever I give up is “legal” on Sundays!)

However, Lent embraces the oppor-

tunity, through fasting (giving up of something), prayer and reflection, to be attentive to God’s Spirit speaking to us within.

It is a time to nurture the journey of letting go of habits or thought patterns in our lives. It is a journey of dying to old ways of being and thinking, to be transformed into new hope and trust.

Henri Nouwen, noted that “Lent offers a beautiful opportunity to discover the mystery of Christ within us. It is a gentle, but also demanding time.”

He suggests, “When we live Lent attentively and gently, then Easter can truly be a celebration of the Risen Christ in the deepest place of our being.”

(From Nouwen’s Lenten booklet Called to Life, Called to Love.)

Lent has developed into a meaningful yearly practice for me.

Since I am in a different “space” each year, it has offered a cherished time to reflect upon issues, circumstances or blessings in my life.

As Nouwen suggests, each Lent provides opportunity for awareness to the gift of love, which is reflected in Jesus himself.

Over the years, I have engaged in various forms of fasting, such as selected electronic fasts, giving up coffee or sweets and not purchasing new personal items.

At times, I have taken on practices, such as not worrying or complaining (that was a stretch), paying for the customer behind me at the Tim Hortons drive-thru and caring for people in need.

So, what’s in store for Lent 2017?

Well, my husband and I moved to Kamloops last fall.

I am thinking I will give up comparing my new hometown to the

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place from where we moved.

I may add to that the exercise of writing daily in my Lenten journal, something for which I am grateful in my new home city.

I think that would be good for my soul.

Rev. Joyce Peasgood is a spiritual director and prayer retreat leader. She has an MA from Regent College and a DTh from the University of South Africa, majoring in Christian spirituality.

She is also ordained with the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, has a background in teaching theology and has held short-term interim pastoral positions.

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