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‘ A TALENTED ARTIST AND A REAL FAMILY MAN’

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RIH Foundation CEO Heidi Coleman and ICCHA/Wish Fund founder Al Patel following the charity’s purchase of a $40,000 colonoscopy machine.

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While Al Patel’s long-range plan this year is to raise $500,000, the more immediate plan is to collect enough donations to buy a portable ultrasound machine for the hospital, equipment that would cost about $64,000.

By the end of the night on Friday, April 7, he expects to be able to write that cheque as his ICCHA/Wish Fund hosts its ninth annual gala dinner.

Through the more than 50 partnerships and sponsorships, Patel can ensure every dollar raised at the dinner, including the $75 ticket cost, will go toward that financial goal. He covers any shortfall.

The dinner at Colombo Lodge will include Indian, Mexican and Italian dishes, entertainment, an auction and dancers.

Guest speakers will include Interior Health board chairman John O’Fee and Saskatoon cardiologist Dr. Shravan Nosib.

Tickets are $75 and some are still available.

Call the RIH Foundation office at 250-374-5111, to reserve one.

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It has taken Al Patel nine years to start a journey — but he’s confident about where the trip will take him.

The Kamloops businessman and philanthropist has committed to raising $500,000 this year to lay the foundation of funding for an acute cardiaccare unit at Royal Inland Hospital.

It’s a personal cause for Patel, owner of Scott’s Inn and Restaurant, as his parents and an older brother died from heart disease.

“My family is ridden with heart problems,” Patel said, listing off other family members who have also had the condition. “It’s in my genes.”

After spending years building his business, supporting his family and ensuring all his loved ones were looked after, Patel decided “I needed to do that for the community.”

The ICCHA/Wish Fund was created and, in 2007, it raised money to create an education room at the hospital’s new cancer-care centre.

Patel said he had wanted to fundraise for something heart-related, but in a meeting with Paul Battjes, then-executive director of the RIH Foundation, Patel learned the fundraising focus was on cancer.

The next year, Patel and the fund bought two heart monitors for the

post-anesthetic recovery room. In 2009, the purchase was bed warmers for the neonatal intensive-care unit.

In subsequent years, his fund has paid for a family room, a portable X-ray machine, colonoscopy equipment and a machine to make for easier kidneystone removal.

Last year, the fund bought equipment used to help detect myriad diseases, including muscular dystrophy, polio, Guillain-Barre syndrome, ALS and other muscle and nerve conditions.

But heart remained in Patel’s own heart. While he welcomes news the Interior Health Authority is creating a rapid-access cardiac examination clinic for outpatients, he wants to see a catheter lab established at the hospital.

“From birth to death, you never wish to be in the hospital,” Patel said.

“And what do we do? We visit and we wish them well. We bring flowers.

We’ve got to do more. We’ve got to give the doctors the equipment, the tools to make them better.”

Patel has met with Health Minister Terry Lake and IHA board chair John O’Fee to talk about his plans and found them receptive.

Lake told KTW he recognizes Patel’s “passion for cardiac care” and said he is interested in working with him and O’Fee to take the idea to the health authority.

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together’,” Lake said. “Let’s work with the IHA to see what it could look like.”

Patel said he realizes Lake, as the outgoing health minister and local MLA, can’t make commitments.

But he said having Lake agreeing with him is what he needs to move forward.

“This is a giant step,” Patel said. “A journey has begun.”

He knows the project will resonate with many people who were touched by the death of his longtime friend, retired doctor Rajindar Joneja, who died of a heart attack in the waiting room of RIH’s emergency department earlier this month. The story spread through other media across the country, leading off a CBC National newscasts.

Patel has been refuelled by his friend’s death of cardiac disease, even more determined to ensure he can hand over that $500,000 to the hospital this year.

“I’m not expecting a full-blast clinic,” he said. “But at least I want them to be able to put a stent in here instead of taking someone from here to Kelowna in an ambulance to have a stent put it.

“I know they need these dedicated beds. They need a catheter lab.”

“I know we will do this. All we need is everybody in Kamloops who has a heart to give for a heart and together we can make it.”

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It's time to be bear smart!

April 4, 2017 10:30 am - Audit Committee Corporate Boardroom, City Hall

How to Avoid Problems with Bears: Freeze pungent waste and store garbage inside until pickup.

April 4, 2017 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Meeting

Rinse recyclables.

Pick fruit daily as it ripens (or before it ripens if you don't intend to use it).

April 10, 2017 4:45 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, City Hall

Don't put meat, oil, dairy, or un-rinsed eggshells or cooked foods into your compost bin.

April 11, 2017 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting

Turn your compost regularly and cover it with leaves or soil to help decrease odour.

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Notes Spring Line Painting The City of Kamloops will be commencing the annual Spring Line Painting Program, which will run from April to June.

Motorists are reminded that driving over newly painted lines is an infraction under the Motor Vehicle Act and is subject to a $190 fine.

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Please drive with caution when approaching areas that are being painted.

For more information, contact the Public Works and Utilities Department at 250-828-3461.

April 1-November 30: Residents are reminded to not place their solid waste containers out before 4:00 am on collection day and not to accumulate or improperly store bear attractants.

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Fire Hydrant Flow Testing Do you have a fire hydrant on your property?

Please leave at least 1 m of clear space around its circumference.

From March 15 to May 15, Kamloops Fire Rescue will inspect the City's fire hydrants and conduct tests to ensure adequate flow and operations. The program will run seven days a week from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Flow testing may result in poor water pressure and/or high turbidity levels. This situation is temporary and may last for up to four hours. If you detect turbidity, run a cold water tap and avoid doing laundry until the turbidity clears up.

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Visit www.kamloops.ca/jobs for a list of current opportunities.

Please assist us by keeping shrubs and trees pruned back from fire hydrants. All private hydrant owners must also have their hydrants tested at this time.

Plastic bags and glass no longer belong in residential recycling.

Find the nearest designated depot at kamloops.ca/recycling.

Fire Prevention Bylaw No. 10-37 requires a minimum of 1 m clearance around a hydrant in all directions. This clear space is required for the safety of emergency and maintenance personnel. Please ensure any trees, shrubs, or landscaping are kept out of this working area.

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LOCAL NEWS Harvey Volaine and Melissa Penner were planning on selling their Venables Valley home and moving to Costa Rica, according to Volaine’s sister, Marie Brick. The couple and their two boys died on March 24 of suspected carbon-monoxide poisoning in their home.

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MOVING WITH CHILDREN Following separation, parents frequently want to move or relocate to a new community with a child or children in their care. Proposed relocation or mobility issues can be among the most emotional issues for families to deal with.

Under BC’s Family Law Act, where a parent wants to relocate with a child or children, and the move would affect the current child custody and access arrangement, written notice must be given to the other parent.

The other parent then has a period of time to oppose the relocation by filing an application.

Family of four mourned TIM PETRUK

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A man who died last week alongside three of his family members due to what investigators believe was carbonmonoxide poisoning is being remembered by loved ones as a devoted father and a talented artist.

Harvey Volaine and his wife, Melissa Penner, as well as their two children, 10-year-old Kaylex and seven-yearold Ay, were found dead

by Ashcroft Mounties in their Venables Valley home on March 24.

Marie Brick, Volaine’s sister, said the 60-yearold grew up in Toronto the middle child of five, but later moved to Kamloops and became involved in the city’s arts community.

Volaine moved to Venables Valley in the late 1990s, Brick said, where he was part of a Krishna community called Saranagati Village.

Venables Valley is 30 kilometres south of Ashcroft.

“He was a talented artist and a real family man,” Brick told KTW, noting Volaine’s work was exhibited at galleries in B.C. and Ontario.

“He built his home himself. He was very handy and smart — just so smart.”

Brick said Volaine and his young family

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Ten-year-old Kaylex and six-year-old Ay died alongside parents Harvey Volaine and Melissa Penner on March 24 in the family’s Venables Valley home.

returned on March 22 from a two-month stay in Costa Rica. The plan was to sell the Venables Valley home and move to the Central American country.

“It happened really soon after they got home,” Brick said.

“They turned on the water heater to heat up the pipes and, for whatever reason, there was a leak in the water heater.

It happened in 40 minutes.”

According to Brick, a neighbour who had been watching Volaine’s dog saw they were home on March 23 and knocked on the door.

There was no answer.

Police were contacted the next day.

“He went to Costa Rica very happy,” Brick said.

“His daughter is moving out there.

Apparently, he was the happiest he’s ever been in his life. He had his wife and his two young kids. He was coming back to sell the house and move down there.

He loved it. He was having a lot of fun down there.”

Brick said Volaine’s family members from B.C. and Ontario have gathered in Kamloops to grieve the deaths.

“We’re just sharing a lot of memories and kind of numb,” she said.

“We’re all kind of numb. We’re sitting around, sharing memo-

ries and not knowing what to do next.”

Volaine is survived by his father, Edward, sisters Marie Brick and Angie Kroonenberg, brothers Perry and Christopher, children Christopher, Julie, Adrienne and Ezra, his first wife, Mary, and five grandchildren.

The investigation into the deaths is ongoing.

Two online fundraising pages are taking donations to cover funeral expenses.

They can be found by searching Volaine on gofundme.com.

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This suspect was caught on the TD bank ATM security camera cashing a cheque. This male did not try to hide his face in any way at all. The cheque had been reported stolen, it is unknown how the suspect came into possession of a cheque and deposit it. The male did not have permission to have the cheque, let alone deposit into a bank account. This male is described as Caucasian, late 40’s, short dark hair and may be balding, and a goatee and was wearing a black ball cap on backwards. This is the time to do the right thing and help identify this thief and fraudster to stop him from committing the same type of offence.

If you know this person please contact Crime Stoppers, you will never have to go to court or give a statement.

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SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT CAUGHT ON CAMERA The Police would like to know who this person is? The suspect entered the Shoppers Drug Mart on Columbia St and proceeded to take a significant amount of perfume. This male had a plan and wasted no time as he was in the store for only a brief period. The male went directly to the perfume section and when no one was around he loaded up his pockets with the stolen items. A security camera got a photo of the suspect the quality is not the best but the male has a number of distinguishing features. The male is

Caucasian, early 50’s, a receding hair line, a number of scars on his face and a black left eye and was wearing a longer blue coat. There is no doubt that this is not the first time this suspect has stolen items from various store. Let’s identify this suspect to prevent him from stealing from other stores.

If you know this person or have any information where the stolen items are, please contact Crime Stoppers, you may receive a cash reward upon the arrest of this suspect.

STOLEN CREDIT CARD USED On Saturday January 28th, a vehicle had been parked at Kenna Cartwright park and the owners were out for a hike. When the owners returned, their vehicle had been broken into and their wallet was stolen. A suspect had used the stolen credit card and bank card at a number of locations. At some point this suspect went to the Scotia Bank on Columbia St. and was trying to use the bank card. A photo was obtained from the bank security system. The

suspect knew there was a security camera in place as he had his parka hood pulled up, the front zipper covered most of his face and had sunglasses on. Although this suspect had was covered up, someone may recognize the coat or the way he was standing, something may look familiar.

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WorkSafeBC has fined a Vancouver development and construction firm following the death of a worker on the job in Kamloops in December 2015.

Sean Alexander Donetz died after falling three metres from a lift to the concrete floor below at the construction site for City View Plaza in Aberdeen.

He succumbed to injuries on Dec. 1, 2015, six days after the accident.

WorkSafeBC said its investigation resulted in a $49,000 fine against Onni Contracting Ltd.,

a subsidiary of Onni Group of Companies.

The firm developed City View, a strip mall at Highway 5A and Rogers Way that is also visible from the Trans-Canada Highway.

WorkSafeBC said Onni was the prime contractor.

The accident occurred when Donetz, working for Green Spray Foam, borrowed a scissor lift from another contractor, with the site supervisor’s permission, in order to clean up fire retardant overspray.

“The end guardrail on this borrowed scissor lift was not in place and the mid-rail safety chain was not in use,”

WorkSafe said in a report.

“Further, the worker who borrowed the scissor lift was not using a personal fall protection system.”

While cleaning, Donetz lost his balance, falling backwards out of the lift. He plunged three metres to the concrete floor below.

“As the prime contractor of a multiemployer workplace, the firm failed to ensure the co-ordination of the occupational health activities of employers, workers and other individuals at the workplace,” WorkSafeBC said.

“This was a high-risk and repeated violation.”

Another drug bust Police arrested a 42-year-old man this week on drug charges following a raid on a North Kamloops home.

Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the RCMP’s street level drug unit were watching a home in the 400-block of Alexander Avenue for the past several weeks.

On Tuesday, police arrested Michael Lees of Kamloops following execution of a search warrant.

Seized were heroin, more than $1,000 in cash, drug packaging materials and cellphones.

Lees has been charged with trafficking a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Shelkie said a second person is expected to be arrested in the coming weeks as the investigation continues.

The arrest follows a similar drug-enforcement arrest on nearby Tranquille Road earlier this month, when police seized cocaine and cash after arresting a Falkland man.

The RCMP’s street level drug unit conducted enforcement in the 300block of Tranquille Road on March 15 and March 16.

Trafficking charges against the 39-year-old were recommended to the Crown. Seized were more than 20 grams of cocaine, $3,000 in cash and cellphones.

BARLOW TO TALK WATER AT TRU Maude Barlow, social activist and chair of the Council of Canadians, will be at Thompson Rivers University on Tuesday, April 11, to talk about water.

Barlow is opposed to the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine, which would be built MAUDE south of Kamloops.

BARLOW She is also opposed to Kinder Morgan’s recently approved Trans Mountain

pipeline expansion project.

Barlow recently released Boiling Point, a book in which she looks at the country’s water reserves, laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, boil-water advisories and other ecological issues.

The event in the Barber Centre of the House of Learning is free, but registration is required.

To register, go online to eventbrite.ca and search “Maude Barlow.” It begins at 7 p.m.

Correction A story published last week on the transition of laundry services at Royal Inland Hospital to a private contractor incorrectly described one type of equipment purchased by the new firm (‘Laundry transition underway,’ March 24).

Ecotex has bought two tunnel

washers — not two “towel” washers.

For those wondering what those are, the best description is to think of them like a car wash for hospital linen.

They involve a long cylinder through which batches of linens move, going through stages from wetting them to chemical application, to rinse.

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New regulations effective April 3 mean no more glass can be tossed in the recycling bins residents wheel to the curb each week.

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New recycling rules Monday ANDREA KLASSEN

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City workers will spend more time lifting the lid on residential recycling bins next week.

Beginning Monday, a deal between the city and Recycle BC will ban glass and plastic films, including shopping bags and plastic wrap, from the blue bins residents wheel to the curb once a week.

The materials will still be recyclable, but only at private bottle depots.

Public works director Jen Fretz said truck operators and other staffers will be on the ground, randomly inspecting recycling bins.

“They’ll lift the lid and have a look through,” Fretz said.

“If we find something that’s not supposed to be in there, we’ll leave an information tag on the cart letting them know we’ve picked it up, but it had material in it that was not supposed to be there.”

The inspections will run through the month and may continue depending

pet-food bags, as well as pizza boxes, will all be accepted come Monday.

According to Recycle BC, glass breaks easily during collection, which makes sorting and recycling other materials in the mix more difficult.

“Separating glass at curbside or delivering glass to depots helps ensure that more of it— and more of the other material— is recycled,” the organization’s website states.

Plastic films, which can become tangled in the mix, raise a similar concern.

Fretz said residents who have questions about the changes can call public works at 250- 8283461.

As for the future of glass collection, she said that’s a decision of city council, which will use a workshop session this summer to debate what to do with savings realized from the Recycle BC contract.

Options could include curbside glass pickup, food and lawn waste pickup or using the money to lower recycling fees for residents.

on public response.

During the month of April, Fretz said, bins will still be collected if they contain glass and plastic film.

“After that, we’ll have to start not collecting if people continue to leave things in their recycling cart they shouldn’t leave in there,” she said.

In exchange for a change in what it accepts at pickup, the city will get more than $1 million a year from Recycle BC, formerly known as Multi-Material BC, which will also cover the costs of sorting the recyclables, which is worth about another $800,000.

Recycle BC was formed on behalf of paper and packaging manufacturers who were told by the province they must ensure their products are being recycled, rather than sent to landfills.

As part of its contract with Recycle BC, Fretz said the city will be subject to audits of the recycling it collects and can face substantial fines if the haul repeatedly includes glass.

Residents will have some new recycling options.

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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 spotlight on the murky world of political donations.

A special prosecutor has been brought in to advise the RCMP during an investigation of indirect donations to political parties in British Columbia. According to the province’s Criminal Justice Branch, the appointment was made at the request of the police.

The province’s Elections Act prohibits indirect donations to political parties and Vancouver lawyer David Butcher’s appointment includes the mandate to lead the prosecution if any violations are identified, the news release said.

B.C. Liberal Party officials said last week the party would return almost $93,000 after it found 43 indirect political donations, while the New Democratic Party said it had found two errors amounting to less than $9,000.

It is past time real election donor rules were enacted and B.C. followed the lead of Ottawa and virtually every other province in the country by banning corporate and union donations and placing concrete limits on individual cash gifts. Buying your way to a seat next to a politician is a greasy journey.

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NOT: Critics online and elsewhere who had the temerity to criticize lifeguards at the Tournament Capital Centre who played a crucial part in saving a young boy’s life.

The little guy got into trouble in the Canada Games Aquatic Centre’s wading pool and was rescued by lifeguards. He was given first-aid and taken to hospital, where he was treated and released.

Those who chose to place blame on lifeguards need to realize the pool is a busy place and the responsibility for ensuring kids under seven years of age are not left alone lies with parents and guardians.

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Campaign countdown

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f the current Kamloops This Week online poll is an accurate mirror of the concerns of the electorate, we know two issues dominate all others in the minds of voters.

The woeful lack of doctors in Kamloops and beyond and jobs and the economy are far and away the two most pressing issues for those who have thus far voted in the poll, which will remain active through April 14.

As I write these words, 837 votes from unique IP addresses had been cast on our website (kamloopsthisweek.com) through almost four days of balloting.

For those who might scoff at 837 being a large enough representation of the great unwashed, remember that provincial and national polling companies routinely touch base with fewer people when declaring Party A is ahead of Party B based on voter preference.

The online poll is the foundation of KTW’s provincial election coverage, which has begun sporadically with simple photos of campaign office openings and stories on this week’s visit to Kamloops by two party leaders: the NDP’s John Horgan and the Greens’ Andrew Weaver.

In the poll, we have listed eight main issues we believe will be most debated during the election campaign, a 28-day race that officially begins on April 11 and ends on May 9, election day.

We have decided to keep the poll online for two weeks to get as much feedback as possible.

The idea is to check the results at the end of the day on April 14 and take those top issues to the candidates seeking your votes in

CHRISTOPHER FOULDS

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MUSINGS the Kamloops-North Thompson and Kamloops-South Thompson ridings.

With the writ being dropped on April 11, the campaign will get underway in earnest.

Mayor Peter Milobar (running for the Liberals in KamloopsNorth Thompson) and Coun.

Donovan Cavers (representing the Greens in Kamloops-South Thompson) will step aside from their civic politician roles and focus on the provincial campaign.

By then, all campaign offices will be open, save for perhaps B.C. Communist flag-bearers Beat Klossner and Peter Kerek, who likely won’t have storefront digs (but could gas up the old Partridge Family school bus Kerek used in a previous push for political office).

Along with the online poll gauging readers’ views, Kamloops This Week has marked in the calendar dates on which we will publish riding and candidate profiles (April 14 and April 21).

As with all elections at every level, KTW has partnered with CBC Radio, CFJC-TV and The Armchair Mayor to present an all-candidates forum that always draws the largest audience.

This year’s forum will take place on Tuesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University.

All eight candidates from both ridings should be there, with details on the forum’s format to come in future editions of KTW and online at kamloopsthisweek. com.

Speaking of our website, political junkies can now click on a tab to get all the news from the provincial election in one place.

At the top of our website is a black bar with various tabs (News, Sports, Opinion, etc.).

Added to that black bar is a tab called BC Election 2017 and clicking on it will take you to every story and photo KTW has published in this election campaign.

As the campaign progresses, you will also find regional and provincial stories relating to the May 9 election.

Of course, there will be myriad other election forums around the city, some from non-partisan organizers and others from decidedly partial groups.

We will cover as many as we can — even if some candidates decide to skip certain forums — beginning with an April 5 event at South Kamloops secondary.

Finally, election night will see reporters filing constantly to kamloopsthisweek.com, KTW’s Facebook page and the newspaper’s Twitter feed with results and stories behind the numbers.

As always, let us know your views on the election campaign via a letter to the editor (emailed to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com) or comments on our website. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds

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NEED ANSWERS FOR CANCELLED SURGERIES Editor: I am a 64-year-old registered nurse who had my second hip replacement cancelled last minute due to a complete breakdown of the suction and ventilation systems at Royal Inland Hospital.

Had it happened when I was halfway through my surgery, it would have been a life-threatening situation. My airway couldn’t have been cleared nor blood cleared if I was bleeding.

Thanks to my surgeon, who

waited to learn if the systems could be repaired in time, and the director of patient care, who provided me with a way home to 150 Mile House when it couldn’t, this critical event did not happen. My sincere thanks to them both for these decisions.

Now, here is my rant.

1.) Where were the backup systems?

2.) What is the reason? My surgeon told me 14 of his other patients had their surgeries

cancelled before me due to overbooking and lack of beds.

3.) As a retired senior, who has both worked for and paid into the health-care system for 30 years, what is happening to it?

I want solutions, not excuses, to get action on this.

I’m a grandmother who can’t visit her grandchildren in New Zealand until I get a new hip.

My six-year-old granddaughter and three-year-old grandson are growing up without me and time

ORD ROAD NEEDS BIKE PATHS, TOO Editor: Re: (‘Provincial funding for path project, erosion control as pre-election spending continues,’ March 23): I am writing this in response to the new multi-purpose path on which the city is spending more than $2 million to connect Sahali to the downtown. This is all very nice and I am sure people will use it to get to work, but will they ride back up after working all day?

My point is that the city is missing out on an important

aspect of where cyclists and the exercising public spend their time.

Ord Road from Schubert Drive all the way to Tranquille Road by the airport is used by thousands of cyclists and other commuters daily. There is room for dedicated cycling paths on both sides of Ord. Tranquille Road from the airport turnoff to the Cinnamon Ridge composting site is another very busy cycling area and also has room on both sides for cycling paths.

This Tranquille Road area has turned into a high-speed dragrace course for people with trailers full of debris, with branches flying out and hitting unsuspecting cyclists and walkers.

Neither of these cycling paths would cost the city much at all to make it safe for everybody. Perhaps our city fathers should spend the time and take a look before we have a major accident on these two stretches of road.

John Tilley Kamloops

is running out as it is for the 14 other patients who had their surgeries cancelled at RIH. As a constituent in the Interior Health region, I want this taken to the highest levels of government to make them accountable to remedy what is going on in this province to the people who contributed the most to the system we were led to believe would be there for us when we needed it.

Connie Jones 150 Mile House

PITY FIRST NATIONS DON’T APPROVE Editor: I am pleased to see the Tk’emlups and the Skeetchestn First Nations gave careful consideration to their decision to oppose the proposed Ajax mine.

Every resource-based employee would create six more non-resource-based jobs.

This would have been a great benefit to the First Nations bands, the unemployed, homeless and rest of the people in Kamloops and the surrounding area.

I’m sorry to see that it didn’t go through at the First Nations level. Many thanks.

John Asuchak Kamloops

WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS PAY DOUBLE FOR LAUNDRY? Editor: Re: (‘Laundry transition underway,’ March 24): I cannot believe what I have read. There are numbers in the article that can

be calculated: if laundry services stayed in the hospital, it would cost about $135 million over 20 years.

For the contract with a private company, which has

already been signed and will come into effect on July 20, government will pay about $235 million during the same time period.

It is quite clear we will

be paying almost double for the service.

Who would accept such a deal? Who is responsible?

Who will pay for it?

Taxpayers? I cannot see

how a responsible person would sign such a contract.

Does Health Minister Terry Lake know about it?

Vera Durst Logan Lake

TALK BACK Q&A: kamloopsthisweek.com BC ELECTION 2017 CAMPAIGN ISSUES POLL As part of KTW’s election campaign coverage, we are posting an online question, asking readers to choose what they feel is the most important issue in the campaign. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and choose one issue from the list. On April 14, we will take the top issues and ask the candidates to address them.

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Mount Logan first captured Mark Brophy’s interest in elementary school.

“I remember there was a trivia game on Canada Day, it was just like ‘question 6, what is Canada’s tallest mountain?’ And it was Mount Logan,” said Brophy, 30.

“I love mountains and glaciers so I looked it up. It’s just always been in my head.”

When Brophy’s adventure tourism class at Thompson Rivers University was tasked with planning dream expeditions as part of their coursework, the

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And when the twoyear program began to wind down this winter, he began to put that plan into motion, with the goal of climbing Mount Logan in May and June with four fellow classmates.

“It was always more of a dream than anything I could actually do, but after this program and meeting these guys and having friends to do it with, it was possible,” Brophy said.

Rising to an elevation of 5,959 metres tall, Logan is dwarfed by peaks like Everest (8,843 metres), but is of a similar elevation to Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres).

Logan, however, is

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“It’s definitely the longest, most remote and highest altitude most of us have been at for sure,” said classmate Oscar Haley.

Asked what it will take to reach the peak — a trip that takes about 10 days in good weather, followed by about two days of downhill skiing — Haley summed it up simply: “A lot of willingness to suffer and be cold.”

There are also weather and supply concerns, brought on

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“It’s famous for massive storms that just come off the Pacific and then slam into that range there,” Brophy said. “So it’s not unheard of for people to get trapped for 10 days at a time just in base camp. Can’t fly out, can’t fly in.”

To prepare for that possibility, the group will carry 30 days worth of food and fuel, which must be packed up the mountain in stages.

Acclimating to the altitude changes also adds time to the climb.

Beyond the five TRU students, the mountain may be fairly quiet.

“We might not see anyone, we might

see one other party,” Brophy said. “It’s not like Everest where you wait in a line to climb the mountain.”

Using satellite technology, the group will be able to stay in communication with the outside world.

The climbers have a Facebook page (search Locked and Logan), which they’ll update with texts from the mountainside, and a map which tracks their progress. They’ve also launched a campaign to help with costs at gofundme.com/lockedandlogan.

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About 500 miners, prospectors and financiers are expected in the city next week for the annual Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) meeting.

The 30th-annual event takes place on Tuesday, April 4, and Wednesday, April 5, at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre at 1250 Rogers

Way in Aberdeen. It is open to the public.

The trade show is being held following a year in which $34.5 million was spent on 18 exploration projects in the region. That is up substantially over 2015 and a sign a decline in exploration activity may be over.

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industry. That differs from major conferences in Toronto and Vancouver, where attendance follows fortunes of the industry.

The event features technical talks on projects around B.C. McCaw said networking remains a major reason why delegates attend.

The junior exploration industry thrives on ability to get financing, which McCaw acknowledged remains a challenge, but appears to be improving. Copper prices remain 50 per cent lower than they were four years ago.

“For juniors, it’s still a struggle,” McCaw said. “[But] there definitely seems to be more money out there — and not just for juniors.”

This year’s event is stacked with B.C. Liberal politicians, including Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett and the city’s two Liberal MLAs; Kamloops-South

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Ashcroft elementary students learn to goldpan at the Kamloops Exploration Group trade show in Kamloops.

Thompson’s Todd Stone and Kamloops NorthThompson’s Terry Lake.

The NDP critic for mining, Doug Donaldson, was not invited despite a pro-

for the industry.

“I’d look at it as not the forum for that,” she said of opposition parties being invited to provide their election platforms to delegates.

“If the NDP is in power after next election, they’ll be invited.”

The NDP did not respond to a request for an interview with Donaldson.

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A Spences Bridge man who was found not criminally responsible for his actions after going on a rampage in 2013 in which he shot another man in the face has been given an absolute discharge.

The B.C. Review Board came down with its decision following Eric Nelson’s two-day hearing.

Nelson, 55, had been charged with a dozen counts, including attempted murder with a firearm, after the series of incidents in Spences Bridge nearly four years ago.

The bizarre crime spree began on May 15, 2013, when Nelson went to a home armed with a shotgun and began shoot-

ing out the windows of a BMW parked in the driveway.

He then opened fire on the house, including one shot through a bedroom window that struck a man in the face, and another blast through the home’s front door.

The next day, Nelson boasted to his son about having shot a pedophile in the face.

On May 17, 2013, Nelson threw a boulder at a vehicle and demanded from its driver his shotgun, potatoes and money.

He then told a friend he was in a manic state.

He was arrested the following day and gave police a rambling statement about conspiracies involving the NDP. Nelson was released after meeting with a doctor, but found himself back in custody a week later after

stealing a truck and driving it into the bush.

In court in 2014, defence lawyer Micah Rankin described Nelson as a “back-to-the-earthtype hippie” who wasn’t diagnosed as being bipolar until after the incidents.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Joel Groves found Nelson not criminally responsible by way of a mental disorder in December 2014, handing his file to the B.C. Review Board.

Rankin told KTW the board has not released its reasons for granting Nelson’s discharge.

“We haven’t been given any reasons at the moment,” he said.

“They must have accepted his position that he didn’t pose any type of risk to the public any longer. He’s certainly pleased with this outcome.”

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Trans Mountain has a long history of community connections and we are proud of the relationships we’ve built throughout our more than 60 years of operation.

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We value our relationships and want to invest in all the communities along our pipeline corridor to ensure the benefits from the Expansion Project can reach as many people as possible.

There are many ways we plan to bring direct benefits to the Kamloops area.

Beyond compensation for landowners along the pipeline route, we will pay approximately $2.9 million in annual property taxes to the City of Kamloops for the expanded line. There will be local economic activity generated by construction of the pipeline – business for hotels, restaurants, local suppliers and contractors, and additional spending by workers in the area. The construction workforce is forecast to spend in communities along the route approximately $480 million on accommodations, meals and other expenditures.

The Expansion Project also means new short- and-longterm job and training opportunities for job seekers, and we are committed to providing job opportunities to Aboriginal, local and regional people.

The estimated peak workforce in the fall of 2018 for Kamloops will be 550 workers.

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We have signed a $700,000 Community Benefit Agreement with the City of Kamloops and the TNRD will see an additional $845,000 investment for the communities impacted by construction or operation. To date, Trans Mountain has 18 agreements worth $8.5 million with local governments along 95 per cent of the pipeline route.

These investments include improvements to local emergency management to enhancements to trails, parks or infrastructure, or support for local education programs.

In addition, a contribution of $500,000 to Thompson Rivers University will help fund awards for students in Trades, Social Work and Applied Research programs, and the Environmental Science graduate program. The annual gift helps meet the growing need for education in BC’s Interior.

On a larger scale, the Project means more taxes paid to all levels of government throughout the lifetime of the pipeline.

Approximately $46.7 billion will find its way into the Canadian economy in the form of taxes and royalties.

Following completion of the Project, our property tax payments will exceed $1 billion dollars for local governments along the entire pipeline route over 20 years.

We are proud of working closely with the communities along the pipeline to maximize local and direct benefits of the Project, and we remain committed to continuing to do so throughout construction and operation.

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Money to battle invasive plants in the TNRD The B.C. government is giving $20,000 to the ThompsonNicola Regional District to help manage invasive plants in the region.

Thirty-one grants totalling $1.8 million are being distributed throughout the province in 2017 to local governments, regional invasive-species committees, environmental organizations and the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia.

The money will be used to help raise public awareness of invasive plant concerns, survey invasive plant populations and treat high-priority sites to control the spread of the destructive plants.

Invasive plants are species that have been introduced into British Columbia from other areas.

They displace native vegetation and can cause considerable economic and environmental damage. Some pose a health risk to people (e.g. skin irritation) and others are toxic to animals.

Invasive plants can disrupt natural ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, increase soil erosion, alter soil chemistry and adversely affect commercial crops.

“It’s very important to take early action against the spread of invasive plant species,” said Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake.

“They can have a devastating effect on both natural ecosystems and our agricultural industries, if left unchecked.”

WEEDING THROUGH THE FACTS:

• The provincial Invasive Plant Program identifies sites where new invasive plant species have been found and responds rapidly to contain and eradicate them before they become established and start spreading.

• Some of the targeted invasive plant species in B.C. are flowering rush, Spartina, knotweeds, marsh plume thistle, common tansy, European common reed, garlic mustard, spotted knapweed, Anchusa, orange and yellow (non-native) hawkweeds, giant hogweed, blueweed, tansy ragwort, hoary alyssum, field scabious, leafy spurge, purple loosestrife, yellow flag iris, sulphur cinquefoil and Scotch broom.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, as General Partner of Trans Mountain Pipeline L.P. Trans Mountain Expansion Project Notice of Proposed Detailed Route Pursuant to Paragraph 34(1)(b) of the National Energy Board Act IN THE MATTER OF the National Energy Board Act and the Regulations made thereunder.

AND IN THE MATTER OF the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity [OC-064] approving the general route of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

AND IN THE MATTER OF an application by Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, on behalf of Trans Mountain Pipeline L.P., (“Trans Mountain”), respecting the determination and approval of the detailed route for the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, approximately 1179.9 kilometres in length, commencing at Trans Mountain’s Terminal located in Sherwood Park, Alberta to Westridge Marine Terminal located in Burnaby, British Columbia as shown on the adjacent Route Map.

Proposed Route: Segment 5

If you anticipate that your lands may be adversely affected by the proposed detailed route of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, you may oppose the proposed detailed route by filing a written statement of opposition with the National Energy Board (Board) within thirty (30) days of the publication of this notice. The written statement of opposition must set out the nature of your interest in the proposed detailed route and the grounds for your opposition to that route. A copy of any written statement of opposition to this detailed route must be sent to the following addresses: National Energy Board Suite 210, 517 Tenth Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2R 0A8 Attention: Sheri Young, Secretary of the Board Phone: 403-292-4800 Toll Free Fax: 1-877-288-8803 Email: TMX.ProcessHelp@neb-one.gc.ca Website: neb-one.gc.ca And to: Trans Mountain 12831 – 163 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5V 1M5 Attention: Elliott Friedrich, Project Land Manager Phone: 1-866-454-4717 Fax: 780-454-6172 Email: tmep@progressland.com Where a written statement of opposition is filed with the Board within thirty (30) days following the publication of this notice, the Board shall forthwith order, subject to certain exceptions as noted below, that a public hearing be conducted with respect to any grounds of opposition set out in the statement, in relation to any section or part of the pipeline affected by the concerns disclosed in the written statement. The Board is not required to give any notice, hold any hearing or take any other action with respect to any written statement of opposition filed with the Board and may at any time disregard any such written statement if the person who filed the statement files a notice of withdrawal, or if it appears to the Board that the statement is frivolous, vexatious or is not made in good faith. If the Board determines it appropriate to hold a public hearing, the Board will fix a suitable time and place for the hearing and will publish a notice of the hearing in at least one issue of a publication in general circulation within the area in which the lands acquired or proposed to be acquired are situated. The Board will also send a notice of the public hearing to each person who has filed a written statement of opposition with the Board. The public hearing will be held near to where the lands to which the statement relates are situated. The Board, or a person authorized by the Board, may make such inspection of the lands acquired or proposed to be acquired, or affected by, construction of Trans Mountain Expansion Project, as deemed necessary by the Board.

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PUBLIC NOTICE If the Board determines a public hearing is required, the Board will permit each person who filed a written statement of opposition that met the requirements of the National Energy Board Act (NEB Act) to make representations and may allow any other interested person to make representations before it as the Board deems proper. The Board will take into account all written statements of opposition that have met the requirements of the NEB Act and all representations made at the public hearing in determining the best possible route of the pipeline, and the most appropriate methods and timing of construction for the Trans Mountain Expansion. The Board may impose in any approval, such terms and conditions as it considers proper. Where the Board has held a public hearing in respect of any section or part of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, and has approved or refused to approve the plan, profile and book of reference respecting that section or part, it will forward a copy of its decision and reasonsto the Minister and each person who made representations to the Board at the public hearing.

The Board may fix such amount as it deems reasonable in respect of the actual costs reasonably incurred by any person who makes representations to the Board at such a public hearing, and the amount so fixed will be paid forthwith to the person by Trans Mountain. Copies of the plan, profile and book of reference for the detailed route of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is available for inspection by you online at www.transmountain.com, and at the following locations:

National Energy Board Library 2nd Floor 517 Tenth Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2R 0A8 Toll Free Telephone: 1-800-899-1265 District of Barriere P.O. Box 219 Barriere, BC V0E 1E0 250-672-9751 District of Hope 325 Wallace Street Hope, BC V0X 1L0 604-869-5671

City of Kamloops 955 Concordia Way Kamloops, BC V2C 6VE 250-828 3461 City of Merritt 2185 Voght St. Merritt, BC V1K 1B8 250-378-4224 Thompson Nicola Regional District 300-465 Victoria Street Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9 250-377-8673

Copies are available for viewing by Aboriginal Groups at the following Band or Administration Offices: • Adams Lake Indian Band (Chase, British Columbia) • Ashcroft Indian Band (Ashcroft, British Columbia) • Coldwater Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Kanaka Bar Indian Band (Lytton, British Columbia)

• Shackan Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Shuswap Indian Band (Invermere, British Columbia) • Siska Indian Band (Lytton, British Columbia) • Skeetchestn First Nation (Savona, British Columbia) • Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops, British Columbia) • Upper Nicola Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Upper Similkameen Band (Keremeos, British Columbia) • Xat’sull First Nation (Soda Creek Indian Band) (Williams Lake, British Columbia) You may also call 1-866-454-4717 or email tmep@progress land.com to request a copy.

Should you have any questions concerning this notice, the proposed detailed route, or the Board’s detailed route procedures, please contact Trans Mountain at 1-866-454-4717 and a Trans Mountain representative will return your call.

You may also contact a National Energy Board Process Advisor at 1-800-899-1265 or TMX.ProcessHelp@neb-one.gc.ca to ask questions or to find our more about the Board’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution process. Information and templates, including a Statement of Opposition form, are also available at www.neb-one.gc.ca/TransMountainExpansion.

• Ktunaxa Nation (Cranbrook, British Columbia) • Llenlleney’ten First Nation (High Bar) (Clinton, British Columbia) • Lower Nicola Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council (Lytton, British Columbia) • Nooaitch Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia)

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Special prosecutor appointed over B.C. political donations THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A special prosecutor has been appointed to provide legal advice to the RCMP over possible violations of British Columbia’s Elections Act. A statement from the B.C. Criminal Justice Branch says David Butcher will help the Mounties with legal advice in an investigation into contributions made to B.C.’s political parties.

The appointment announced yesterday comes just days before the call of a provincial election.

Butcher will assist police in the investigation into so-called indirect donations, where payments are made by an individual on behalf of an organization, which is a violation of B.C.’s Election Act. The B.C. Liberal Party said last week that it found 43 indirect political donations worth almost $93,000 and that it planned to reimburse the money.

For National and World news, turn to pages 25 and 26 The party’s Emile Scheffel said personal credit cards were used on behalf of an organization and that money was then paid back by the group they represented.

Earlier this month, an NDP spokesman said the party found two errors amounting to less than $9,000 when in reviewed donations over four years, while four other errors were being repaid or reviewed.

The Criminal Justice Branch said in a statement that the RCMP approached assistant deputy attorney general Peter Juk on Monday asking that he consider the appointment of a special prosecutor.

The statement said Juk concluded the appointment was in the public interest.

FIRST NATIONS

Report: Underfunding of aboriginal agencies removes kids from homes THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s representative for children and youth says indigenous kids are being removed from their homes and placed in care because agencies supporting their families are underfunded.

Bernard Richard blamed both the provincial and federal governments, saying current

funding models mean aboriginal agencies are unlikely to provide the same level of help compared with their non-aboriginal counterparts.

Richard said in a report that the province’s confusing funding arrangements with agencies delegated to help aboriginal families mean inequitable services depending on where indigenous children live.

He said the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s finding last year of discriminatory funding for aboriginal child welfare has also not led to action by the federal government.

Richard’s report said aboriginal agencies are struggling to cover operational costs and can’t pay equal wages compared with those offered by the province to employees in the Children’s Ministry.

English Bay oil spill leads to charges THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Charges have been laid against the owners of the MV Marathassa nearly two years after a leak of bunker fuel onto the beaches of English Bay in Vancouver.

Documents filed in provincial court show the Marathassa and Greece-based Alassia NewShips Management Inc., face a total of 10 charges including an allegation

it was responsible for the discharge of a pollutant.

In all, six charges have been laid under Canadian shipping legislation, two relate to alleged Fisheries Act violations and single charges linked to alleged violations of federal environmental laws and the Migratory Bird Act. None of the allegations has been tested in court.

At least 2,700 litres of bunker

fuel spilled from the bulk carrier on April 8, 2015, as the Cypriotregistered vessel was moored in English Bay. An independent review revealed a series of miscommunications delayed the cleanup for hours and that response was further hampered because the captain of the Marathassa refused to acknowledge his vessel was leaking.

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Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, à titre de partenaire général de Trans Mountain Pipeline L.P. Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain Avis relatif au tracé détaillé proposé en vertu de l’alinéa 34(1)(b) de la Loi sur l’Office national de l’énergie EN CE QUI CONCERNE la Loi sur l’Office national de l’énergie et les règlements afférents.

ET EN CE QUI CONCERNE le Certificat de commodité et de nécessité publiques [OC-064] autorisant le tracé général du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain.

ET EN CE QUI CONCERNE une demande faite par Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, au nom de Trans Mountain Pipeline L.P., (« Trans Mountain »), à l’égard de la détermination et de l’approbation du tracé détaillé prévu pour la construction du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain, dont la longueur est d’environ 1 179,9 km, et ce à partir du terminal de Trans Mountain situé à Sherwood Park, en Alberta, jusqu’au terminal maritime Westbridge situé à Burnaby, en Colombie-Britannique, comme le montre la carte du tracé ci-jointe.

Tracé proposé : segment 5

Si vous estimez que le tracé détaillé du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain peut nuire à vos terrains, vous pouvez vous y opposer en déposant une déclaration d’opposition écrite auprès de l’Office national de l’énergie (l’Office) dans les trente (30) jours suivant la publication du présent avis. Dans la déclaration d’opposition écrite, vous devez préciser la nature de votre intérêt dans le tracé détaillé proposé et les motifs de votre opposition au tracé en question. Une copie de toute déclaration écrite s’opposant à ce tracé détaillé doit être envoyée aux adresses suivantes : Office national de l’énergie 517, Dixième Avenue S.-O., bureau 210 Calgary (Alberta) T2R 0A8 À l’attention de : Sheri Young, secrétaire de l’Office Téléphone : 403-292-4800 Télécopieur sans frais : 1-877-288-8803 Courriel : TMX.Aide@neb-one.gc.ca Site Web : www.neb-one.gc.ca et : Trans Mountain Progress Land Services Ltd 12831, rue 163 N.-O. Edmonton (Alberta) T5V 1M5 À l’attention de : Elliott Friedrich Téléphone : 1-866-454-4717 Télécopieur : 780-454-6172 Courriel : TMEP@progressland.com

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Aménagements d’oléoducs Bornes de kilomètres proposées pour TMEP

Corridor approuvé par l’ONÉ Frontières municipales

En cas de dépôt d’une déclaration d’opposition écrite auprès de l’Office dans les trente (30) jours suivant la publication du présent avis, l’Office ordonnera sans délai, sous réserve de certaines exceptions indiquées ci-dessous, la tenue d’une audience publique concernant les motifs d’opposition énoncés dans la déclaration, et ce relativement à une section ou partie d’oléoduc visée par les préoccupations divulguées dans ladite déclaration écrite. L’Office n’est pas tenu de donner d’avis, ni de tenir d’audience, ni d’entreprendre de démarches à l’égard de toute déclaration d’opposition écrite déposée auprès de l’Office et se réserve le droit, à tout moment, de rejeter ladite déclaration écrite si la personne ayant déposé la déclaration dépose un avis de retrait ou si l’Office juge la déclaration frivole, vexatoire ou faite de mauvaise foi. Si l’Office estime qu’il convient de tenir une audience publique, il fixera une date et un lieu convenables pour l’audience et publiera par la suite un avis d’audience dans au moins un numéro d’une publication à grand tirage dans la région où se trouvent les terrains acquis ou que l’on se propose d’acquérir. L’Office fera également parvenir un avis d’audience publique à chacune des personnes qui aura déposé une déclaration d’opposition écrite auprès de l’Office. L’audience publique se tiendra dans un lieu situé

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AVIS PUBLIC près des terrains auxquels se rapporte la déclaration. L’Office, ou une personne autorisée par l’Office, se réserve le droit d’effectuer une inspection, comme l’Office le juge nécessaire, des terrains acquis ou que l’on se propose d’acquérir ou encore touchés par la construction du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain.

Si l’Office juge qu’une audience publique est requise, l’Office permettra à chacune des personnes qui auront déposé une déclaration d’opposition écrite conforme aux exigences de la Loi sur l’Office national de l’énergie (Loi sur l’ONE) de présenter des observations; l’Office se réserve par ailleurs le droit de permettre à toute autre personne intéressée de présenter des observations devant lui, comme l’Office le juge indiqué. L’Office tiendra compte de l’ensemble des déclarations d’opposition écrites conformes aux exigences de la Loi sur l’ONE et des observations présentées au cours de l’audience publique afin de déterminer, d’une part, le meilleur tracé possible pour l’oléoduc et, d’autre part, les méthodes et le calendrier les plus propices à la construction du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain. L’Office peut assortir toute approbation des conditions qu’il juge indiquées.

L’Office transmettra, motifs à l’appui, une copie de toute décision d’approbation ou de refus d’approbation des plan, profil et livre de renvoi relatifs à une section ou partie du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain rendue après l’audience publique au ministre et à chacune des personnes qui lui y aura présenté des observations.

L’Office peut fixer à la somme qu’il juge raisonnable les frais entraînés par la présentation d’observations au cours d’une pareille audience publique; ce montant sera versé sans délai à la personne par Trans Mountain. Il vous est possible de consulter des copies des plan, profil et livre de renvoi relatifs au tracé détaillé du Projet

d’expansion de Trans Mountain en ligne au www.transmountain.com et en vous rendant aux endroits suivants :

• Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council (Lytton, British Columbia)

Bibliothèque de l’Office national de l’énergie 517, Dixième Avenue S.-O., 2e étage Calgary (Alberta) T2R 0A8 Téléphone sans frais : 1-800-899-1265

• Shackan Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia)

District of Barriere Boîte postale 219, Barriere (C.-B.) V0E 1E0 250-672-9751 City of Kamloops 955, Concordia Way Kamloops (C.-B.) V2C 6VE 250-828 3461

Thompson-Nicola Regional District 465, rue Victoria, bureau 300 Kamloops (C.-B.) V2C 2A9 250-377-8673 City of Merritt 2185, rue Voght Merritt (C.-B.) V1K 1B8 250-378-4224 District of Hope 325, rue Wallace Hope (C.-B.) V0X 1L0 604-869-5671

Des copies du PPLR sont disponibles pour consultation par les Groupes Autochtones aux bureaux d’administration ou de bande suivants : • Adams Lake Indian Band (Chase, British Columbia) • Ashcroft Indian Band (Ashcroft, British Columbia) • Coldwater Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Kanaka Bar Indian Band (Lytton, British Columbia) • Ktunaxa Nation (Cranbrook, British Columbia) • Llenlleney’ten First Nation (High Bar) (Clinton, British Columbia) • Lower Nicola Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia)

• Nooaitch Indian Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Shuswap Indian Band (Invermere, British Columbia) • Siska Indian Band (Lytton, British Columbia) • Skeetchestn First Nation (Savona, British Columbia) • Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops, British Columbia) • Upper Nicola Band (Merritt, British Columbia) • Upper Similkameen Band (Keremeos, British Columbia) • Xat’sull First Nation (Soda Creek Indian Band) (Williams Lake, British Columbia) Vous pouvez aussi composer le 1-866-454-4717 ou envoyer un courriel à l’adresse : TMEP@progressland.com pour en demander une copie.

Si vous avez des questions à propos du présent avis, du tracé détaillé ou des démarches mises en place par l’Office quant au tracé détaillé, prière de communiquer avec Trans Mountain en composant sans frais le 1-866-454-4717; un représentant de Trans Mountain vous rappellera par la suite. Vous pouvez aussi communiquer avec un conseiller ou une conseillère sur les processus de l’Office national de l’énergie en composant sans frais le 1-800-899-1265 ou en écrivant à TMX.Aide@neb-one. gc.ca afin de poser des questions ou pour en apprendre plus au sujet du mécanisme approprié de règlement des différends de l’Office. De l’information et des modèles, dont un formulaire de déclaration d’opposition, sont également disponibles au www.neb-one.gc.ca/TransMountainExpansion.

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Carte du tracé du Projet d’expansion de Trans Mountain Bornes de kilomètres proposées pour TMEP Villes et villages Ligne centrale proposée pour TMEP Oléoduc Trans Mountain existant Segments de réactivation

In spite of Trump’s proclamations, coal is dead “My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,” U.S. President Donald Trump declared this week, surrounded by the usual gaggle of officials and (in this case) coal miners as he put his supersize signature on the Energy Independence Executive Order.

But coal is dying as a major energy source in the United States for reasons far beyond the reach of executive orders.

“The miners are coming back,” Trump boasted at a rally in Kentucky last week, but no less an authority than Robert Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy, the biggest U.S. coal company, promptly rained on his parade.

“I suggested that [Trump] temper his expectations,” he said.

“He can’t bring them back.”

Trump’s latest executive order is not just about coal, of course.

It’s a frontal assault

GWYNNE DYER

World

WATCH on all the Obama-era regulations aimed at curbing climate change.

But while it will slow the decline in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, it will not have a major impact on global emissions.

That is partly because the U.S. accounts for only 16 per cent of global emissions. Compared to China’s 29 per cent, it doesn’t matter all that much — and China remains committed to big cuts.

In January, China scrapped plans for 104 new coal-fired power plants and it intends

to invest $361 billion (equal to half the U.S. defence budget) in renewable energy between now and 2020.

The Chinese government is spending that kind of money because it is rightly terrified about what global warming will do to its economy and, above all, to its food supply.

Like the Indians, the Europeans and pretty much everybody else, the Chinese remain committed to the climate goals agreed at Paris in December 2015, even though the United States has defected.

Their own futures depend on meeting those goals — and they know the American defection does not destroy all hope of success. Globally speaking, it’s not that big a deal.

It would seem like a much bigger deal, however, if they were not confident American greenhouse-gas emissions will continue to decline under Trump, though not as fast as they would under a

less ignorant and less compromised administration.

Coal provides an excellent example of why.

In 2009, when Barack Obama entered the White House, coal provided 52 per cent of US electricity. In only eight years, it has fallen to 33 per cent and the decline has little to do with Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

Cheap gas from fracking undercut the coal price, then even solar power got cheaper than coal, so 411 coalfired plants closed and more than 50 coal-mining companies went bankrupt.

Half of the 765 remaining big coal-fired plants in the U.S. were built before 1972.

Since the average age when American coal-fired plants are scrapped is 58 years, half of them will soon be gone no matter what Trump does, and even he cannot make it economically attractive to build new ones.

(Only nine per cent of American coal-fired plants were built in the past quarter-century.)

Coal is by far the most polluting of the fossil fuels, producing twice as much carbon dioxide as gas does for the same amount of energy, but that alone wasn’t enough to turn the energy industry against it. It’s the cost per kilowatt hour of electricity that matters and coal has simply been overtaken by cheaper forms of energy.

Even in India, the most heavily coaldependent of the big economies and a country with vast amounts of the stuff, solar energy prices are now on a par with coal.

Sheer inertia means India will go on expanding coal-fired generation for a few more years, but its National Electricity Plan projects no further increase in coal-based capacity after 2022.

King Coal truly is dead.

You don’t need good intentions to do the right thing for climate safety any more — just common sense.

From fuel efficiency in automobiles to replacing coal-fired plants with natural gas or solar arrays, saving money goes hand-inhand with cutting emissions. The economy is not your enemy, it’s your ally. So Trump won’t do nearly as much harm as people feared.

Obama promised last year to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by about 26 per cent from the 2005 level by 2025. About half of that 26 per cent cut would have come in Trump’s first and maybe only term (2017-2020), so say 13 per cent. The U.S. accounts for 16 pe rcent of global emissions, so do the math: 13 perc ent of 16 per cent equals about two per cent of global emissions.

That’s what would be at stake over the next four years if Trump’s

presidency stopped all the anticipated reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions on which Obama based his promise — but it won’t.

A lot of those emission cuts are going to happen anyway because they just make economic sense. At a guess, around half of them.

So, how much damage can Trump do to the global fight against climate change over the next four years?

He can keep global emissions about one per cent higher than they would have been if the United States had kept its promise to the Paris conference.

And that’s all. gwynnedyer.com

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O’Leary says he will take part in final Tory debate

$17B Cenovus deal could be last oilsands blockbuster

THE CANADIAN PRESS

DAN HEALING

OTTAWA — Kevin O’Leary says he will National attend the Conservative party’s final formal leadership debate in Toronto next month.

But the celebrity businessman-turned-leadership-front-runner told The Canadian Press that it will remain largely a waste of time if the format isn’t changed.

O’Leary skipped the most recent debate in Edmonton, saying that it would be impossible to have a substantive discussion with all 14 candidates on stage at once.

He said he hopes the party considers rebooting next month’s event in Toronto, which he noted was scheduled without consulting those candidates who aren’t sitting MPs. O’Leary said he has been fined for failing to attend the last debate, and yet no one has been sanctioned for a breach of membership sales rules his campaign exposed earlier this month.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy’s blockbuster $17.7-billion deal to buy most of the Canadian assets of Houston-based ConocoPhillips will likely stand as the biggest acquisition in the oilsands sector for years to come, say some industry watchers.

While other deals are expected to materialize, analysts note there are fewer significant assets available after more than a year of consolidation transactions in Alberta’s oilpatch worth billions.

“If you think about who’s left in terms of remaining players, there aren’t that many,’’ said Peter Argiris, principal analyst for consultancy Wood Mackenzie in Calgary.

“The days of $15-, $12- and $17-billion deals, I don’t think we’ll see that. I think the big ones are probably eaten up now.’’

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Psychic hit with ‘witchcraft’ charge

TORONTO — Police in Toronto say they’ve charged a 37-year-old man with practising witchcraft.

Investigators said the accused advertised his services as an astrologer and psychic in February and March.

They allege a 44-year-old man who consulted the accused for psychic services earlier this month was told a sick family member had been the victim of an evil spirit.

Police said the man was allegedly charged $101,000 to remove the evil spirit.

They said Murali Muthyalu, a visitor from India, is charged with practising witchcraft, fraud over $5,000, and extortion.

$150 Via Rail youth passes sell out

TORONTO — Via Rail said early yesterday that all available $150 youth passes for unlimited travel across Canada in July had been sold out after the sales were derailed on Wednesday due to high demand on its website.

The Canada 150 Youth Pass — intended to coincide with celebrations marking the country’s sesquicentennial — went on sale Tuesday. The company said, however, that sales were temporarily suspended “due to high demand’’ and technical difficulties with its online booking engine.

But Via Rail pushed out a tweet early yesterday morning saying all 1,867 available passes had been sold.

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The days of $15-, $12- and $17-billion “deals, I don’t think we’ll see that.

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I think the big ones are probably eaten up now.

The deal is the largest this year involving Canadian oil and gas assets, according to data provided by Thomson Reuters.

Alberta’s oilsands, the third-largest proven oil reserves in the world, are also among the most costly and carbon-intensive to produce from.

These factors, combined with the pullback in crude prices, have spurred several foreign players to exit the sector so they can reinvest their capital elsewhere.

Big Canadian players like Cenovus have stepped in to buy, looking to better control costs by operating at a larger size.

Further consolidation

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— PETER ARGIRIS industry analyst

can be expected, but probably on a smaller scale, said Nick Lupick, an analyst with AltaCorp Capital.

“Eventually, obviously, you will run out of opportunities given that you are likely to have three to five major E&Ps [explorers and producers] controlling most of the production,’’ Lupick said.

The cash-and-share deal was announced Wednesday after the close of Canadian and U.S. stock markets.

Cenovus shares closed down almost 14 per cent yesterday at $15.05. The company had said it planned to raise C$3 billion in an equity offering to help pay for the C$14.1 billion cash portion of the acquisition.

Prison for former mayor of Montreal MONTREAL — Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum has been sentenced to one year in prison following his conviction on corruption-related charges.

He has also received two years’ probation.

The sentence came down in a Montreal courtroom yesterday afternoon.

The charges stemmed from two separate deals between 2007 and 2010, when Applebaum was mayor of the city’s largest borough.

He was found guilty of pocketing about $37,000 in kickbacks from developers and engineering firms through his former aide.

The prosecution had sought a two-year prison sentence followed by two years’ probation after his conviction in January on eight charges.

Alberta Mountie facing sex assault charges One charge against constable alleges sexual assault in Red Deer RCMP detachment THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — An Alberta RCMP officer is facing sexual assault charges following an investigation by the province’s police watchdog.

Susan Hughson, with Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, said they began an investigation in July.

She said the initial investigation found one of the alleged sexual assaults occurred inside the Red Deer RCMP W O W S

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The investigation uncovered other allegations, including another sexual assault which allegedly took place in 2012.

Hughson would not say if the complainants worked for the RCMP or if they were people being held in custody.

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He is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on April 12.

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give any information about the complainants, but praised them for coming forward.

“In particular, the first young lady to

come forward in the first place, it took great courage for her to step forward and tell investigators what happened,” she said.

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LONDON — Britain’s chief negotiator in the country’s divorce from the European Union yesterday rejected suggestions the U.K. has threatened to end security co-operation unless it gets the trade deal it wants.

David Davis said Prime Minister Theresa May’s letter triggering talks on Britain’s departure made clear Britain wants to continue to work with the EU on a range of issues, including security, for both sides.

“We want a deal, and she was making the point that it’s bad for both of us if we don’t have a deal,’’ Davis told the BBC. “Now that, I think, is a perfectly reasonable point to make and not in any sense a threat.’’

May’s six-page letter triggering two years of divorce negotiations makes 11 references to security and said that, without a good deal, “our co-operation in the fight against crime and terrorism would be weakened.’’

The tabloid Sun was in no doubt about what May meant: “Your money or your lives,’’ was its front-page headline yesterday, along with the words “PM’s Brexit threat to EU.’’ Britain is a European security powerhouse — one of only two nuclear powers in the bloc and with some of the world’s most capable intelligence services.

May said Wednesday that Britain will probably have to leave the EU police agency, Europol, after Brexit but wants to “maintain the degree of co-operation on these matters that we have currently.’’

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WASHINGTON — The White House refused to say yesterday whether it gave the top Republican on the House intelligence committee access to highly classified materials.

But it invited a bipartisan group from the panel to view information it says relates to surveillance of President Donald Trump’s associates.

The New York Times reported that two White House officials — including an intelligence aide whose job was recently saved

by Trump — helped Rep. Devin Nunes view intelligence. Nunes is chair of the House intelligence panel, which is investigating Russian ties to the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign connections to Russia.

The committee’s work has been deeply, and perhaps irreparably, undermined by Nunes’ apparent co-ordination with the White House.

Nunes told reporters last week that he had seen troubling information about the improper distribution of Trump associates’

intercepted communications, and he briefed the president on the material, all before informing his Democratic counterpart on the House committee.

Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said yesterday the material the White House wants the House and Senate intelligence leaders to view was discovered by the National Security Council. He would not say whether it was the same material Nunes had already seen.

The Times reported that Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the NSC, and Michael Ellis, a White House lawyer who previously worked on the House intelligence committee, played a role in helping Nunes view the materials.

Cohen-Watnick is among about a dozen White House officials who would have access to the types of classified information Nunes claims to have viewed, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Rudd, whose responsibilities include intelligence and security, also denied there was a threat, but told Sky News: “If we left Europol, then we would take our information . . . with us. The fact is, the European partners want to keep our information.’’

Senior European leaders responded positively to the warm overall tone of May’s letter — but they could not miss the steely undertone.

“I find the letter of Mrs. May very constructive generally, but there is also one threat in it,’’ said European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhoftstadt, saying May seemed to be demanding a good trade deal in exchange for continued security co-operation.

“It doesn’t work like that,’’ he told Sky News. “You cannot abuse the security of citizens to have then a good deal on something else.’’

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SEOUL — A South Korean court today approved the arrest of former President Park Geun-hye over high-profile corruption allegations that already ended her tumultuous four-year rule and prompted an election to find her successor.

The Seoul Central District Court’s ruling means Park will be taken to a detention centre soon.

Prosecutors can detain her for up to 20 days before formally charging her, meaning she will likely be in jail while her case is heard. A district court normally issues a ruling within six months of an indictment.

The court’s decision marks yet another humiliating fall for Park, South Korea’s first female president who was elected in 2012 amid a wave of conservative nostalgia for her late dictator father whose 18-year rule is marked by both rapid economic rise and enormous human rights abuses.

Prosecutors accuse Park of crimes including colluding with a confidante to extort from businesses and accepting a bribe.

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reland, on this my first visit, is a mélange of impressions.

For starters, looking out of my plane window as we circle the countryside on our approach to Dublin, I can’t help but think how appropriate the description “the Emerald Isle” is, even though it borders on cliché.

Below me are fields flung like green counterpanes over the land, bottle-green hedgerows that frame thread-like lanes, olivegreen groves of trees which border clusters of townhouses, and lustrous green-leafed deciduous trees shading the lawns of stately county estates.

I am on a two week trip through both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and each day is alive with song and music. Many of these are more Irish-American than Gaelic, but most are familiar and well loved melodies not just in Ireland, but all over the world.

In Dublin’s fair city “where the girls are so pretty,” there’s a bronze statue to “sweet Molly Malone” and Danny Boy is almost Ireland’s national anthem: I hear it sung by a soulful tenor on the stage of Taylor’s Three Rock Pub in Dublin, played on the accordion by a street musician in Derry and on an Irish harp at a banquet in Cabra Castle.

And then there’s Galway Bay, the wistful lyrics and music come alive as we drive along the Galway waterfront, the waves lit by the setting sun.

In Kilarney, I’m reminded of the ballad of the American who wanted to buy it, and was told, “If you can buy all the stars in the sky, if you can buy two blue Irish eyes . . . then you can buy Kilarney.”

Ireland’s landscapes, are as varied as her moods. Pale mists drift across the waters around the remote Blaskit Islands lending

MARGARET DEEFHOLTS PHOTO Rising 120 metres from the Atlantic Ocean, The Cliffs of Moher can be found in the southern part of the Burren region. They are named after a historical fort called Mothar, or Moher, which once stood on the cliffs’ point. The fort was demolished in 1808.

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The brooding Cliffs of Moher loom shadow-like in a morning fog, but as the sun comes out, they stand in rugged silhouette against the sky, reducing people walking along their crests to coloured dots.

And then there are Irish legends like the one they tell at the Giant’s Causeway. The huge piles of hexagonal basalt rocks strewn across the land and water were placed by an Irish giant, Fionn

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over by swarms of visitors, and cameras click as people pose on rock formations, one of them aptly called the Giant’s Boot.

Rural Ireland with its rolling meadows is dotted with country houses and fences. We stop one morning at a farm for a country tea with scones, homemade jam and thick whipped cream; on another day we are teatime guests at Sheans Horse farm, where our chatty hosts and hostess ply us with hearty helpings of homemade biscuits and tarts.

Afterwards, we trek up a windswept hill overlooking a sweeping vista of County Antrim, and visit the large riding stables to fuss and stroke the handsome animals that whinny in appreciation.

Sheep graze on steep hillsides near the rugged coast of Kerry and at Kissane Sheep Farm we watch a demonstration by a team of collies who, trembling with eagerness, bound into action at the sound of a whistle, and herd their flocks adroitly into pens. In a nearby shed, a shearer makes swift work at fleecing a large bemused-looking sheep.

At another corner of the shed, a ‘nursery’ pen with ewes and their babies draws young visitors who delightedly stroke tiny lambs.

Ireland’s small towns are charming, and the pretty little village of Cong, where the movie The Quiet Man was filmed, is no exception.

Statues of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara captivate visitors, and our group eagerly follows our guide through the streets of this real life movie set. Strains of the hauntingly beautiful Isle of Innisfree from the film wafts across the street from the Quiet Man museum.

My flight takes off from Dublin airport, and I carry with me memories of homespun hospitality, lively Irish wit and a countryside as green as the shamrock on a leprechaun’s hat.

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Dillon Dube of the Kelowna Rockets sneaks by Kamloops Blazers’ defenceman Ondrej Vala on Wednesday at Sandman Centre. Kelowna put Kamloops on life support with a 1-0 win.

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onnor Ingram is going to the NBA for motivation.

“Golden State had a 3-1 lead, too,” said the Kamloops Blazers’ netminder, referencing the Cleveland Cavaliers’ comeback victory in the NBA final in June.

Ingram put in a Lebron Jameslike performance on Wednesday, but his team was outplayed for most of 60 minutes by the Kelowna Rockets in a 1-0 loss at Sandman Centre.

The Rockets outshot the Blazers 49-24 in Game 4, scoring a pivotal victory to take a 3-1 stranglehold on the best-of-seven Round 1 WHL series heading into

Game 5, an elimination contest that will be played tonight in Kelowna.

Heading into this series, much was said about the importance of special teams, in particular the Blazers’ 18th-ranked power play and how it would have to be better in the playoffs.

It was an abomination on Wednesday, going 0-for-7 to bring the series total to a cringeworthy 1-for-20.

“We did a lot of video and put a lot of compassion into our PK,” Rockets’ captain Rodney Southam said. “A lot of video, a lot of time on what they’re going to do.”

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back after a rough outing.

After giving up four goals in a 4-1 loss to Kamloops on Tuesday, Herringer shut the door and made important saves at key times, including big stops on Rudolfs Balcers and Collin Shirley late in the third period.

Exactly one year prior to Wednesday, on March 29, 2016, the 21-year-old goaltender from Comox posted a 1-0 shutout against the Blazers at Memorial Arena in Game 3 of that firstround series, rebounding from a shaky performance in a Game 2 loss.

“Now we have a chance to win at home and fulfill our goal,” Southam said. “It’s what we wanted.”

There was an announced crowd of 4,297 on Wednesday.

The Blazers often looked like

a team playing on an empty tank after a ferocious effort the previous night, especially in the second period when they were outshot 21-6, but they were not taking the easy way out after the game.

“There are just no excuses,” Kamloops D-man Joe Gatenby said. “You have to be better in playoffs. I have no excuses.”

Captain Shirley: “I don’t think being tired is ever an excuse.

They’ve done the exact same thing as us and they travelled before these two games. Tired is never an excuse. We’ve got to be better.”

If they aren’t better tonight, the Blazers will fall short of their goal, which all season long has been to reach at least Round 2 of the playoffs.

“Everyone still believes,” Shirley said. “We’re a great team

when we want to be. It’s just about being better.”

Dillon Dube, one of Ingram’s teammates at the 2017 World Junior Hockey Championship, scored Kelowna’s goal on Wednesday, converting on a point-blank opportunity after a Blazers’ turnover at 2:37 of the second period.

The netminder from Imperial, Sask., one of the best in Blazers’ history, knows tonight’s game will likely be his last in blue in orange, should his squad fall short in the Little Apple.

“It seems like just yesterday I was a 17-year-old in here trying to make a name for myself,” he said. “Junior hockey is a hell of a journey.

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hit well for power — he led the league in RBIs last season, with 31, and hit .255 with six doubles, three triples and two home runs — and Blayne Halland has been solid defensively at shortstop.

Connor McKenzie, who takes over catching duties from graduate and perennial all-star Evan Douglas, has settled in nicely behind the plate.

“I think we’ll hit. We’ll definitely hit,” said manager Ray Chadwick. “That’s what we do and it has always been one of our strengths and how we’ve come to be as good as we’ve been — we’ve hit and scored runs.

“But I think our pitching through the spring — if our pitching holds up like it has through the spring — and our defence has been as good as it has been in the last four or five years. If we can continue that, to go along with the way we swing the bats and score runs, we’ll be really good.”

Opening the season strong against PBA is no small task — the Dawgs have won the last six CCBC championships.

But the Wolves aren’t shying away from the challenge — they’re on the hunt for a CCBC title, their first since 2009.

“I wait for playing them all year round,” Mohan said of PBA. “There’s nothing I like more than hitting against that team.

“It doesn’t matter who we’re playing in the league, we’re going to come in and we’re going to roll over four wins every weekend.”

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Improved RiverDogs hoping for better in 2017 ADAM WILLIAMS STAFF REPORTER adam@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Kamloops Kal Tire RiverDogs will be a better team in 2017.

What that means in the way of results, however, is anyone’s guess right now.

“I definitely know we will be a stronger team than we were last year, but it’s all relative,” said RiverDogs’ manager Sean Wandler.

“If Cloverdale and Ridge [Meadows] and Chilliwack were able to recruit that much more and become that much stronger as well and increase their level of play, then all we’re doing is maintaining. We’re just keeping up with the horses.”

Kamloops’ second season in B.C. Baseball’s College Prep League — essentially the tier 1 division of midget AAA in the province — is an unknown quantity. When the two-tier league format was established in 2016 — the tier 2 division is referred to simply as midget AAA — B.C. Baseball also did away with catchment areas. In essence, teams inherited the ability to recruit players from anywhere in the province.

The goal was to make the College Prep League more attractive to the province’s highest calibre players, those who might normally elect to play in the province’s top

Jared Pringle puts a ball in play for the Kamloops RiverDogs last season.

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development system, the Premier Baseball League.

In practice, though, Wandler said it has decreased stability for many teams across the league.

“What we’re seeing, because we have no boundary rules . . . it’s an open free-for-all,” he said.

“Before, you could always anticipate each region having certain clubs, when there was 14 of us.

Now, the way the dynamic of the league has changed, it’s kind of hard to tell where you might end up each year. It depends, almost, on who can recruit who down on the

Lower Mainland.”

The 2017 B.C. Baseball College Prep League season gets underway on April 22 and April 23 for the RiverDogs, who will be at home to face the Vancouver Mounties and Tri City Indians that weekend.

Up first, is the Best of the West

tournament, which will run from April 6 to April 9 on McArthur Island.

While the Kamloops club has questions about how it will stack up against the rest of the College Prep League, the RiverDogs have little doubt they will be a better team in 2017.

“I think we’ll do much better,” said pitcher/infielder Jared Pringle.

“I feel we have, overall, a better team. The first-years are pretty skilled, so that gives us an advantage.

“We had seven first-years last year and, now, all the first-years from last year are experienced.”

Wandler expects last season’s struggles will have left their mark on his players. They know better what to expect from the season and should benefit from more depth across the diamond.

Now Kamloops just has to hope all that will translate into wins.

“Each day, each month, each season is a learning experience and I think a lot of these younger guys now have a year under their belts so they have that experience, that knowledge. It’s up to them now to implement it this year and work at it,” Wandler said.

“I definitely do see improvement from all of them.”

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After a long winter, during which travelling to the Coast for matches and practising inside takes its toll, home-games season is a welcomed arrival for the Kamloops Rugby Club Raiders.

“Rugby is a grassroots community sport,” said Derek Pue, head coach of the Raiders’ men.

“When we do finally get these games and the weather is nice and that warm wind is blowing through, it’s a great day to come out and watch some high-impact sports.”

Squads from Kamloops finish their winter-half campaigns and start their spring-half seasons with road games on the Lower Mainland, gruelling stretches between November and March that test will and commitment for amateur athletes.

The script flips when the Raiders play in Kamloops.

Opposition brings bus legs to the Tournament Capital, where they often find dry, fast pitches and home teams champing at the bit to run wild in front of friends and family.

The field likely won’t be dry tomorrow, but two B.C. Rugby Union matches will be staged at Exhibition Park, both of which have playoff implications.

Up first are the Raiders’ women, who will square off against the Vancouver Thunderbirds at 11:30 a.m

in Division 1 action.

Kamloops (5-6) has struggled through the spring portion of the campaign, posting a 1-3 mark after a strong winter season that saw them jump out to a 4-0 record.

“We just didn’t really get off to a good start this half, practising inside, and we didn’t quite have the same numbers and same level of commitment and drive,” said Kaitlyn Cumming, a second-year Raider.

“Now we’re kind of on the back foot.”

The good news is the Raiders are still smack-dab in the middle of the playoff picture, their five wins leaving them tied for fourth place with Bayside of South Surrey and Simon Fraser University.

The top four teams qualify for the post-season.

“Vancouver is a newly formed team and they will be a surprise to us,” said Cumming, whose Raiders were trounced 74-14 by Abbotsford at Exhibition last Saturday. “There are a lot of question marks.”

UBC Okanagan folded after the winter half and was replaced by the Thunderbirds, who have posted a 4-0 record since joining the league, outscoring opponents 107-49.

On the men’s side, the Raiders are coming off their most impressive performance of the season, a 55-15 shellacking of Richmond last Saturday

at Exhibition, where they gave those in the beer garden plenty about which to cheer — and cheers.

“We had a tough stint, the usual Kamloops story of having five road games before Christmas and four road games after Christmas, but we played exciting, confident ball last weekend and Richmond didn’t really have an answer,” Pue said.

Kamloops is 2-2 in the spring half, which leaves it sixth in the 10-team Division 2 standings.

The top six teams qualify for the playoffs.

The Raiders have had three games postponed due to inclement weather and will not end up playing their full slate of nine matches.

There may be some alteration to the six-team playoff format, but Pue said his charges are more concerned with the task at hand — skewering the Bayside Sharks.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. tomorrow.

“Bayside is an unknown commodity,” Pue said. “They’re known for playing running rugby, but they have come down from the first division and you never know what kind of seconds squad is coming through.

“We just want to run the table, three wins from three games, then it’s out of our hands.”

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The ThompsonOkanagan Youth Soccer League (TOYSL) begins play this weekend throughout the region.

The KYSA will field 13 teams in the girls’ and boys’ under-13 to under18 competitive divisions, along with 10 teams in the under-11 and under12 development divisions.

Select teams enter the interdistrict league, which features Kelowna, Vernon, Salmon Arm, Penticton, Revelstoke (on a limited basis) and Kamloops.

For most TOYSL teams, the league is a means of qualification for Provincial A and B Cup tournaments in July.

Kamloops will be the site of the TOYSL playoffs — used to determine

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The KYSA select program falls under the direction of technical director Ciaran McMahon and is administered by select program co-ordinator Clive Lovett.

Spring hockey

The Kamloops Junior Blazers Hockey Development Program will shoot its spring sea-

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The program, a partnership between the Kamloops Blazers and Kamloops Minor Hockey Association, will play host to the inaugural Twin Rivers Cup, which is expected to bring 42 visiting teams to the city this spring.

The program’s goal is to provide an elite hockey development opportunity that encourages players to excel both on and off the ice through strong coaching and mentorship.

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Davies a young phenom JOSHUA CLIPPERTON

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Garrett Pilon of the Kamloops Blazers inked a deal yesterday with the Washington Capitals. He will report to Hershey when his WHL season ends.

Pilon signs pro deal The Washington Capitals have signed forward Garrett Pilon to a three-year, entry-level contract beginning with the 2017-2018 season, senior vice-president and general manager Brian MacLellan announced yesterday.

Pilon will report to the NHL club’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Hershey Bears, in Hershey, Penn., at the conclusion of his Western Hockey League season.

Pilon, 18, registered 65 points,

including 20 goals, in 67 games with the Kamloops Blazers this season, led the team in assists, ranked third in points and fourth in goals.

The 5-foot-11, 188-pound forward set WHL career highs in goals, assists and points in 2016-2017 and recorded 18 multi-point games.

The Kindersley, Sask., product, has earned 112 points in 138 career WHL games with Kamloops.

Pilon was drafted by the Capitals in the third round, 87th overall, in the 2016 NHL Draft.

VANCOUVER — Veteran defender Pa-Modou Kah was on the practice field with the Vancouver Whitecaps one morning last season when a lanky 15-year-old joined training.

Alphonso Davies had been promoted to the club’s first team and found himself matched up against Kendall Waston, a hulking sixfoot-five centre back.

With Waston bearing down on Davies, the teenager took one touch of the ball and cooly scooted away.

“I’m like: ‘Wow,’’’ recalled the now-retired Kah. “When Kendall is coming, a lot of people get afraid of him, but he was just composed and calm.

“His talent was evident. Everybody could see it.’’

Kah’s was just one of the many jaw-dropping reactions during Davies’ meteoric rise over the last 12 months.

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Vancouver will play host to the LA Galaxy (1-2-0) tomorrow at BC Place Stadium, with kickoff slated for 7 p.m.

Davies kicked off 2017 by scoring in the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals against the New York Red Bulls, a goal that helped propel the Whitecaps into the last four of the competition.

“He sees things and does things that you’re unable to [teach],’’ said Vancouver head coach Carl Robinson. “You’ve either got it or you haven’t. He’s got that natural ability.’’

Davies joined the Whitecaps’ residency program in 2015 before starring in the secondtier USL early last season.

He made his debut for Vancouver in the Canadian Championship in June, became the youngest player to start a game for the club a week later and signed an MLS contract July 15.

The next day he came on as a substitute against Orlando City SC as the third-youngest player in league history, and became the second-youngest to start a match in September.

But with all the hype, no one around the Whitecaps has seen even a trace of ego from the phenom.

“I’ve got great support staff,’’ said the softspoken Davies.

“They’re always on me to keep my feet on the ground. It can be taken away easily if you get off track.’’

Davies sometimes returns to the residency facility on off days, folding towels and chatting with fellow youngsters who dream of being in his shoes.

“He’s a great talent, but only talent is not enough,’’ said Kah, who is now an assistant coach with Vancouver.

“What sets him apart is his human qualities.

He’s a down-to-earth, humble kid who works hard.’’

The Whitecaps have tried to keep Davies away from the spotlight as much as possible.

They limit his media availability and downplay his performances, even when he’s the best player on the field.

“You do have to remember he’s just 16,’’ said Robinson. “He’s still got homework to do . . . he’s still got to be a boy.

“He’s got to go play Playstation and hang

around malls.’’

With his family in Edmonton, Davies lives with billets and goes to high school when he isn’t with the team.

Otherwise, he does his Grade 11 courses on the computer.

“Playing and then going home to do homework is very difficult,’’ Davies said with a grin. “All you want to do is lay in bed and sleep.’’

Davies has played for Canada at youth levels, but is a permanent resident after his family fled civil war in Liberia when he was four. He will need to become a citizen before getting called up to the full national team.

“To be able to represent Canada, it is one of my dreams,’’ said Davies, a comment that should allow soccer fans in this country to breathe a little easier.

It’s no secret that some of the biggest clubs in the world have already been sniffing around Vancouver’s prized prodigy, who can’t sign a professional contract outside Canada until he turns 18.

A fan of Lionel Messi and Barcelona, Davies has big aspirations, but also knows he has to be patient.

“My dream is to play at the top level, to be one of the best in the world,’’ he said, adding: “I just try to stay focused, do what I have to do now and worry about the future later.’’

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Oregon won the first NCAA title 78 years ago ANNE M. PETERSON

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The historical significance of Oregon’s return to the Final Four was not lost on coach Dana Altman.

The Ducks face North Carolina in the national semifinals in Glendale, Ariz., tomorrow. Oregon hasn’t been this close to the title game since the team won the inaugural NCAA Tournament in 1939.

Altman called it “a long drought.’’ Perhaps it will end this season after 78 years.

The Oregon Webfoots won the NCAA title with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State at Northwestern University. The team would become known by the nickname the Tall Firs — a nod to both the Oregon landscape and the fact the players loomed taller than most of their opponents.

The Webfoots’ front line included 6-foot-4 John Dick, 6-foot-4 leading scorer Laddie Gale and 6-foot-8 Urgel (Slim) Wintermute.

Guards Bobby Anet, a 5-foot-8 playmaker, and 5-foot-10 Wally Johansen rounded out the starting five. Anet and Johansen grew up

on the same street in Astoria, Ore., and had played together since junior high.

Coach Howard Hobson told The Associated Press in 1988 that Anet, who passed away in 1981, was the heart of the Tall Firs.

“He was the greatest floor general I ever had,’’ said Hobson. “He sparked the team. He was its leader.’’

Dick went on to serve 32 years in the U.S. Navy, enlisting the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and rising to the rank of rear admiral. He was at the final game played at Oregon’s famed McArthur Court in 2011, and pumped his fist for the crowd when he was announced at halftime.

He died later that year.

Reserve guard Ford (Moon) Mullen went on to play baseball in the majors for the Philadelphia Blue Jays (Phillies) in 1944.

Wintermute worked at Boeing.

On the way to the first Big Dance, the Tall Firs won the Northern Division of the Pacific Coast Conference, then beat Southern Division champion California in a three-game series.

The victory sent Oregon to the regional tour-

nament on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, where the team beat Texas 56-41 and Oklahoma 55-37 before heading to Illinois for the title game via train.

The eight-team NCAA Tournament was founded by the National Association of Basketball Coaches to compete with the National Invitation Tournament in New York.

Denver-based writer Terry Frei, who grew up in Eugene and is the son of former Oregon football coach Jerry Frei, wrote a book about the Tall Firs called March 1939: Before the Madness.

“They were so wellcoached and they were big along the front line — almost revolutionarily big — and they had racehorse guards, especially the captain guard Bobby Anet, who kept everything in control,’’ Frei said.

“So I think it was a real complementary chemistry-type team far ahead of its time that way.’’

Dick led all scorers with 13 points in the championship game against the Big Ten champions before maybe 5,000 fans, many of whom were given free tickets.

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TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays kick off their 2017 season at division rival Baltimore on Monday. Here are five things to watch: • BEAT BALTIMORE: If there’s one team Jose Bautista will be motivated to face this year, it’s Baltimore. This off-season, Orioles’ GM Dan Duquette said he chose not to pursue Bautista in free agency because Baltimore fans didn’t like the slugger. Bautista, who has previously feuded with Baltimore reliever Darren O’Day, has 28 career home runs against the Orioles.

• NEW LOOK: Popular slugger Edwin

Encarnacion was one of several Blue Jays to depart over the winter. Toronto also lost left-hander Brett Cecil, right-hander R.A. Dickey, right-hander Scott Feldman, righthander Joaquin Benoit and outfielder Michael Saunders. Toronto’s biggest addition was switch-hitter Kendrys Morales.

• TRAVIS HEALTHY?: Second baseman and leadoff batter Devon Travis has missed time in each of the past two seasons with left shoulder and right knee injuries, respectively. He’s had a slow start this spring and may start on the disabled list.

• GUIDE GIBBY: President Mark Shapiro

and general manager Ross Atkins inherited Gibbons when they took over following the 2015 season, leading to speculation any stumble would cost him his job.

Instead, Gibbons has developed a strong bond with his new bosses and is set to get a new contract through 2019, plus a club option.

• ROOKIE WATCH: With first baseman Justin Smoak considered one of the weaker links in Toronto’s lineup, fans will be following Rowdy Tellez in triple-A Buffalo.

Tellez, 22, hit .297 with 23 home runs, 29 doubles, and 81 RBIs in double-A New Hampshire last season.

Fans in Eugene listened to the game on the radio — it was the same year John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath was published and Gone with the Wind came out in theatres — then later descended by the thousands at the local train station to welcome back the team.

“They were, for the most part, small-town boys,’’ Frei said. “So there was a smalltown feel to the team,

small-town heroes who stepped up big.’’

Frei noted with a laugh that the players got $2 from a kitty to celebrate following the victory. Several of them took a train from the Northwestern campus into Chicago.

“I think some of us had a couple of Heinekens or something,’’ Frei quoted Anet as saying later.

“It was quite late and none of us were big on

bars or things like that, mainly because nobody ever had any money.’’

Third-seeded Oregon, which last year advanced to the Elite Eight before falling to Oklahoma, defeated No. 1 seed Kansas 74-60 on Saturday to advance to the Final Four. North Carolina beat Kentucky 75-73.

In the other semifinal, Gonzaga faces South Carolina.

Altman believes this

Oregon team is building its own historic legacy.

“The seven years we’ve been at Oregon we’ve had great guys to work with. I feel great for those guys that our staff had a relationship with, but I also feel good for all the other players that have built Oregon basketball; 1939 is a long drought, but there are a lot of guys that played and built some tradition at Oregon,’’ Altman said.

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Despite tensions, evangelism booms in Cuba ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA — Fidel Castro’s government sent the Rev. Juan Francisco Naranjo to two years of work camp in the 1960s for preaching the Gospel in a Cuba where atheism was law and the faithful were viewed as suspect.

For years, Naranjo’s church was almost abandoned, with just a handful of people daring to attend services.

Naranjo died in 2000 but on a recent Sunday, his William Carey Baptist Church was packed and noisy.

Government doctors treated disabled children at a clinic inside.

A Bible study group discussed Scripture in one corner of the building before a service attended by 200 of the faithful.

“In the 1960s, the

few brothers and sisters who came here had to hide their Bibles in brown-paper covers,’’ said Esther Zulueta, a 57-year-old doctor.

“It’s night and day.’’

Officials from the Trump administration have repeatedly said religious freedom is one of the key demands they will make of Cuba when they finish reviewing former President Barack Obama’s opening with the island.

The administration has never been more specific, but outside groups have accused Cuba of systematically repressing the island’s growing ranks of evangelicals and other Protestants with acts including the seizure of hundreds of churches across the island, followed by the demolition of many.

An Associated Press examination has found a more complicated

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worship, with tens of thousands of Cubans worshipping unmolested across the island each week.

While the government now recognizes freedom of religion, it doesn’t grant the right to build churches or other religious structures.

It has demolished a handful of churches in recent years, but allowed their members to continue meeting in makeshift home sanctuaries.

And like the Roman Catholic Church, the island’s dominant denomination, evangelical churches have begun providing social services once monopolized by the Communist government.

“There’s a revival of these churches, of the most diverse denominations in the country, and all of them are growing, not just in the number of members, but in their capacity to lead and act in society,’’ said Presbyterian pastor Joel Ortega Dopica, president of Council of Churches of Cuba, an officially recognized association of 32 Protestant denominations. “There is religious freedom in Cuba.’’

Clergy and

academics say Cuba’s 11 million people include some 40,000 Methodists, 100,000 Baptists and 120,000 members of the Assemblies of God, which had roughly 10,000 members in the early 1990s, when Cuba began easing restrictions on public expressions of religious faith. The church council estimates there are about 25,000 evangelical and other Protestant houses of worship across the country.

About 60 per cent of the population is baptized Catholic, with many also following Afro-Cuban syncretic traditions such as Santeria.

Naranjo was part of that opening. After the work camp, he returned to a church whose worshippers were barred from many state jobs. A thaw began in 1984 when visiting American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson stunned Cuba by taking Fidel Castro to a Protestant church service.

In 1990, Naranjo was among a group of pastors who met with Castro to push for a greater freedom, and his own church worked on building ties between religious groups and the

Communist Party.

The opening culminated in the 1998 visit of Pope John Paul II, which led to new liberties for both Catholic and Protestant worshippers.

The Cuban constitution now recognizes freedom of religion, but the law is silent on the issue of church construction.

In a system where the government has long monopolized public life, virtually all activities are presumed illegal unless the law says otherwise.

Authorities in some areas have prohibited new churches, even as they allow worship in religious buildings erected before Cuba’s 1959 revolution.

The London-based advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide issued a report alleging the Cuban government committed 2,380 violations of religious liberty in 2016, most linked to the declaration of 2,000 Assemblies of God churches as illegal, with 1,400 in process of confiscation.

The group says it based that information on a source inside Cuba whom it would not name.

Juan Whitaker, the Assemblies of God’s

treasurer in Cuba, told The Associated Press this month that none of its churches had been declared illegal or were at risk of confiscation.

David Ellis, regional director for Latin America and Caribbean for world missions of the Missouri-based General Council of the Assemblies of God, told the AP, “We are in ongoing contact with the Cuba Assemblies of God leadership and they have not reported any churches being confiscated. Neither have they reported that churches have been threatened with confiscation.’’

Kiri Kankhwende, a spokeswoman for Christian Solidarity Worldwide, said its assessment hadn’t changed and any statement to the contrary could be explained by official pressure on churches in Cuba.

Christian Solidarity has also cited the case of Juan Carlos Nunez, a minister in the Apostolic Movement in the eastern city of Las Tunas, while other religious freedom advocates have cited the case of Bernardo de Quesada, in the eastern city of Camaguey, as examples of religious persecution.

Both men told the AP that churches they built in the yards of their homes were demolished by the government because they were constructed without permits. Both continue leading services inside their homes, where hundreds of worshippers gather each week.

“They tolerate me, but they don’t accept me,’’ said de Quesada.

“I’m not shutting up or leaving. We have passion and no one will stop us.’’

Nunez said he was sentenced to a year of house arrest after neighbours complained about speakers he set up to boost the sound of services in his home.

He blamed the situation on the vague status of new churches in Cuban law.

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Education/Trade Schools HUNTER & FIREARMS

Courses. A Great Gift. Next C.O.R.E. April 29th & 30th, Saturday and Sunday.

P.A.L. April 9th, Sunday.

Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

250-376-7970

EARN EXTRA $$$

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

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

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

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

250-374-0462

Kamloops United Church is looking for a: HANDYPERSON/CUSTODIAN. To apply, email resume and cover letter to: admin@kamloopsunited.ca Full job posting can be viewed at www.kamloopsunited.ca

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

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certiďŹ cation proof.

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

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

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 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

Fill that empty room 250.374.7467 Pets & Livestock

Pets Animals sold as â&#x20AC;&#x153;purebred stockâ&#x20AC;? must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

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

Call our Classified Department for details!

250-371-4949

Firewood/Fuel ALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fir & pine.

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250) 377-3457.

Furniture 2sm antique armchairs $600, wool area rug 9x7 $400 (778) 471-8627

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.

3500

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SOLD

PLUS TAX

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

* RESTRICTIONS APPLY

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL!

*some restrictions apply

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

Firearms

(250)371-4949

1939 Winchester Mod. 94 30:30. $900. Exec cond. 250372-5489.

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

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

*some restrictions apply.

Browning BAR semi-auto 300 win. Mag. Exec cond. Made in Belgium. $800. 372-7890.

#200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1510 2nd St. N., Cranbrook, BC V1C 3L2

For our highway construction project at the Rogers Pass between Revelstoke and Golden we are seeking an experienced on-site PROJECT SUPERINTENDENT Reporting to the Project Manager, the Project Superintendent is directing the project and providing leadership of day-to day on-site activities ensuring all work is completed in accordance with contract requirements and specifications.

Qualifications: Minimum of 5 years in a supervisory highway construction position.

Send Resumes to: careers@mackaycontracting.com

English/Mandarin/Spanish â&#x20AC;˘ Interpreter/Translator

Labourers

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:

â&#x20AC;˘ 5 years of full-time experience working as a translator/interpreter in English, Mandarin and Spanish. â&#x20AC;˘ Mastery in English, Mandarin and Spanish in both oral and written forms. â&#x20AC;˘ Fluency in other languages such as Taiwanese and Cantonese would be an asset. â&#x20AC;˘ Knowledge of business administration and international trade. â&#x20AC;˘ Criminal record check and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

WE ARE HIRING!

Responsibilities:

â&#x20AC;˘ Translate, revise and update the existing written material into Mandarin, and Spanish from English and vice versa. â&#x20AC;˘ Review, proofread and update company documents and manuals in English, Mandarin and Spanish. â&#x20AC;˘ Provide prompt and timely response to clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inquiries by phone or by e-mail. â&#x20AC;˘ Research, translate and update current and upcoming research articles into English, Mandarin and Spanish. â&#x20AC;˘ Transcribe and translate video and audio archives from English to Mandarin and Spanish and vice versa. â&#x20AC;˘ Translate and maintain Sunmoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website with the updated information in English, Mandarin and Spanish. â&#x20AC;˘ Able to travel with sales representatives to overseas countries for interpretation in English, Mandarin and Spanish.

The City of Vernon is hiring for the following position:

Licensed Daycare Facility with 38 child care spaces opening in Kamloops in May requires a =Â&#x2020;Ń´Ń´ ŕŚ&#x17E;l; l-m-];uÄş "Â&#x2020;11;vv=Â&#x2020;Ń´ -rrŃ´b1-m| Â&#x2030;bŃ´Ń´ 0; bm complete management control of daycare and b7;-Ń´Ń´Â&#x2039; Â&#x2030;bŃ´Ń´ _-Â&#x2C6;; |_; =oŃ´Ń´oÂ&#x2030;bm] tÂ&#x2020;-Ń´bC1-ŕŚ&#x17E;omvÄš Ĺ&#x17D; $ ;uŕŚ&#x17E;C1-|; â&#x20AC;˘ At least 2 years daycare management ;Â&#x160;r;ub;m1; ou u;Ń´-|;7 tÂ&#x2020;-Ń´bC1-ŕŚ&#x17E;omv bm childcare â&#x20AC;˘ Full knowledge of BC Child Care licensing u;]Â&#x2020;Ń´-ŕŚ&#x17E;omv Ĺ&#x17D; m 1_-u]; o= v1_;7Â&#x2020;Ń´bm]ġ _bubm]ġ -m7 0Â&#x2020;7];ŕŚ&#x17E;m] =ou =-1bŃ´b|Â&#x2039; v|-@ o= Ńś â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent computer and payroll skills "-Ń´-uÂ&#x2039; -m7 0;m;C|v 1oll;mvÂ&#x2020;u-|; Â&#x2030;b|_ ;Â&#x160;r;ub;m1;Äş Ĺ&#x201D; | |_bv ࢟l; Â&#x2030;; -u; -Ѳvo -11;r࢟m] u;vÂ&#x2020;l;v =ou rovb࢟omv -v Äś $Äś -m7 u;vromvb0Ѳ; -7Â&#x2020;Ѳ| v|-|Â&#x2020;vĸ Parents: ); -u; moÂ&#x2030; -11;rŕŚ&#x17E;m] ru;Ĺ&#x160;u;]bv|u-ŕŚ&#x17E;om =ou 1_bŃ´7u;m o= -Ń´Ń´ -];vġ Ć?Ĺ&#x160;Ć?Ć&#x2018; Â&#x2039;uvÄş

Please submit your resume to: Kamloops Daycare #70-700 Tranquille Rd PO BOX 24068 Kamloops, BC V2B 8R3 ou ;l-bŃ´Äš daycarekamloops@gmail.com

Summer Intern, Maintenance Position

â&#x20AC;˘ Vernon Safety Ambassadors - Temporary

Lansdowne Village, Kamloops, BC

Please see our website at www.vernon.ca for a complete job description and method of application.

â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping duties including lawn mowing, weeding, planting, pruning, and others; â&#x20AC;˘ Assist in completing scheduled maintenance work orders and general maintenance duties including painting, repairs, window washing; â&#x20AC;˘ Assist with the replacement of ceiling tiles, lamp check and replacement, RTU filter changes; â&#x20AC;˘ Miscellaneous tasks as assigned by supervisor.

SOME SHOES NEED FILLING

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.

Daycare Manager

Labourers

Looking for Door to Door Carriers.

Kids and Adults needed!

ABERDEEN Rte 523 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2300-2399 Abbeyglen Way, 750-794 Dunrobin Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 82 p.

Rte 562 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Englemann Crt, 18021890 Lodgepole Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 62 p.

Rte 583 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Butte Pl, Chinook Pl, Mt. Dufferin Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 43 p.

Rte 584 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1752-1855 Hillside Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 34 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

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 Rte 875 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Golf Ridge (area), 20002028 Sunrivers Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 26 papers

Rte 405 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Anvil Cres, Bestwick Dr & Crts, Mahood Pl, Morrisey Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 86 papers

Rte 877 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Pointe Pl â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 15 papers

Rte 589 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1200-1385 Copperhead Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 58 p.

Rte 590 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1387 Copperhead Dr, Saskatoon Pl. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 36 p.

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

Rte 880 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Belmonte (area), Sillaro Dr, Visao Crt & Terr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 71 p.

Rte 591 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1941 Hillside Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 19 p.

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

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

Rte 834 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Armour Pl, MattockMcKeague Rd, Sabiston Crt & Pl, 4205-4435 Spurraway Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 64 p

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

Rte 838 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Strawberry Lane, 45564797 Cammeray Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 66 p.

Rte 668 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1939 Coldwater Dr. 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 781 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Duncan Rd, Durango Dr, Sonora Rd, Wittner Rd. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 42 papers 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 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.

Please e-mail Attention; Ken Neufeld, Operations Supervisor: kneufeld@dream.ca

Rte 878 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Stone Ridge Cres, Dr, Lane. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 35 papers

RUN TILL

RENTED

$5300 Plus Tax

3 Lines - 12 Weeks

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

SAHALI Rte â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 478 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 191-299 Chancellor Dr, Sentry Pl, Sovereign Crt, The Pinnacles. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 43 p.

Rte â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 480 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3-183 Chancellor 'U 6DSSKLUH &UW 6KHIĂ&#x20AC;HOG Way, Steeple Crt. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 54 p.

INTERESTED IN A ROUTE?

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

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**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.

Call for more information.

1-250-371-1333.

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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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Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for Sale 10X20 Vinyl Car Shed. $120.

250-374-6092.

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

9” Dewalt Radial Arm Saw. $150. 250-314-6805/250-3194788.

Elec Boat Motor Minn Kota, 36lbs thrust 5 fwd, 3 rev., 12 volt. $125. 250-579-5696.

HARDY TREE, SHRUB, and berry seedlings delivered.

Order online at www.treetime.ca or call 1-866-8733846. New growth guaranteed.

Invacare Wheelchair. Excellent condition. $350/obo. 250376-9680.

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Real Estate 1 HOME PARCEL - Prince George, BC. Ritchie Bros.

Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, May 2 in Prince George.

344.742 +/- title acres. 165 +/cultivated acres. 980 +/- sq. ft. mobile home plus additions.

Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652.

Realtor: Tom Moran (PREC) Re/Max Dawson Creek Realty; rbauction.com/realestate.

1 PARCEL OF Recreational/Grassland - Francois Lake, BC. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, May 2 in Prince George. 229.8 +/- title acres on two titles. Jerry GULF ISLAND FARM. 4 BR/3 BA 2 Sunrooms 2 Car Garage 5 Ac. Ocean view fully serviced GABRIOLA Island, BC. Orchard, Horse Stables, Paddocks, Riding Ring. $850,000 www.explorethemaples.ca Hodge: 780-706-6652. Realtor: Tom Moran (PREC) Re/Max Dawson Creek Realty; rbauction.com/realestate.

Hodge: 780-706-6652. Realtor: Tom Moran (PREC) Re/Max Dawson Creek Realty; rbauction.com/realestate.

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS 2-Bedroom Apartments $1050 Bachelor Apartments $710-$720 Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988 Lemond RevMaster Spin Bike. Model 15300-7. $500.

Like New. 250-372-8406.

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

SAWMILLS from only $4,397 MAKE MONEY & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT. STEEL BUILDING SALE ....“PRICED TO SELL” 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

Yardworks Snowblower 30”.

Brand new. $725. 250-5735646.

Misc. Wanted ALL Kinds of Coins Wanted!

Can, US, World, Collections, Sets, Paper Currency, Silver & Gold +. Chad: 250-863-3082 BUYING all Coins, Collections, Gold & Silver, Olympic Coins Sets, Paper Currency + Local.

Call Chad: 250-863-3082 Wanted: 4x4 pick-up Must be reliable 8-10 yrs old. No Diesel or Dodges. 250-376-2253.

Wanted jewellery of all kinds: Gold, Silver, Costume jewelry Also buying Coin Collections.

Christine 1-778-281-0030

Tools

• 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 Available spacious 1&2bdrm apts with views. Starting at $850/mo. The Sands Apartment. Centrally located. Onsite Management. 250-8281711.

Logan Lake 2bdrm condo $550 tenant pays hydro (604) 463-3728

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 Sahali 2bdrms, close to TRU and all amenities. $1200/mo +util. 778-257-2804/376-0716

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

For Sale By Owner CHASE HOME 1078 sq. ft. Rancher 237 Pine St. 8 room house incl. 1.5 bath w/ fenced-in yard & large shed + gas heat. $173,000 (250)679-3530

Duplex / 4 Plex Half duplex on Fernie Road.

3bdrms. Close to TRU. N/S, N/P. $1800 +util. 374-1988.

Homes for Rent All Furnished5Bd+,nrTRU/RIH denViewDeckCozy nsp $2700.

250-314-0909pg604-802-5649

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

318-4321

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Suites, Lower 1bdrm suite for 1 person only 55+ n/s n/p fridge stove and util incl $600 (250) 376-0113 2bdrm daylight suite, Sahali. $950/mo. incld util. N/S, N/P. Near bus stop. 250-318-4756.

Bright 1bdrm Batchelor Htgs, view, deck, prking. N/S, N/P. $950 inclds util. 250-376-4844.

Sahali, 1bdrm spacious suite for female. N/S/NP. Sep. entr. $1100 inclds utils. 828-2112.

Businesses&SERVICES Business/Office Service

Cars - Domestic 2001 Ford Focus. Auto, 4dr.

2L. Good condition. $1500.

250-573-3165/ 250-371-7495 2002 Mustang GT Convertible.

8cyl, yellow, blk leather int.

150,000kms. $7190. 554-3331

antique & collectables

ANNIVERSARY SALE

20% OFF

WE BUY & SELL ANTIQUES!

We have Sideboards, Buffet & Hutches, Tables & Chairs, STORE-WIDE, BOTH LOCATIONS Settee, Forging Tools, Native FOR ALL OF MARCH! Collections & much more!

-or-

250.318.6776

Handypersons

WE will pay you to exercise!

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent.

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

250-377-3457

for a route near you!

HARMONIE

SERVING KAMLOOPS 10 YEARS

Stucco/Siding

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call 250-374-0462

Antiques / Vintage

Bushwacker Contracting

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed?

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

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Tree Pruning & Removal Hedge Trimming Spring Clean-up Firewood

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2004 Chev Optra, 4dr htchbk.

4cyl., white, auto.

121,500kms. $2850. 554-1917

YARD MAINTENANCE

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1989 Mercedes 560 SEC. 61,000kms. Hagerty Appraisals #2 car $10,000USD. Selling $10,000 CDN 250-574-3794

Landscaping

DENIED Canada Pension Plan disability benefits? Under 65 and want to apply for CPP disability benefits? Disability Claims Advocacy Clinic can help. Call 1-877-793-3222

$750 Loans & More NO CREDIT CHECKS

Westsyde new 1bdrm ground level suite, sep ent. Suitable for single person ns, np, wd. $950 util incl (250) 320-9567

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

242,000km no drips. Show car quality.

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

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2002 Nissan Altima. 4 door, auto. Fully loaded. Good condition. $5,500. Call to view. 250-376-4077.

(250) 312-0831

Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $5,500.00/obo 250-554-0580

Financial Services

Valleyview 2bdrm, 5appl sep ent, cls to bus, util incl. Avail now. $1025. 250-572-0608

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1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794.

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

250-376-0633.

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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.

(250)371-4949 2010 Nissan Maxima 4DSC, V-6, 156,000kms, loaded.

Looked after extremely well. $12,000. 250-851-1193.

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

Antiques / Classics

Shared Accommodation

ONLY $35.00(plus Tax)

NORTH SHORE

SERENITY Acres Seniors Home in Chase, on hobby farm is offering respite beds available & permanent lodging. Offers all amenities.

Please call for home viewing: (250)679-3530

Northland Apartments

Craftsman cordless drill and work light c/w 2-19.2 volt batteries, charger. $60. 374-4547.

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SALE Directory ABERDEEN Super Family Garage Sale.

Saturday, April 1st. 10:00am2:30pm. 2271 Garymede Dr. No Early Birds.

NORTH KAMLOOPS Cottonwood Manor Community Garage Sale, 730 Cottonwood Ave. Tuesday to Friday, April 4th-7th. Sale runs each day from 9am-4pm. All items purchased by donation.

NORTH SHORE ESTATE SALE: Sat & Sun, April 1st & 2nd. 9am-2pm.

1035 Pembroke Ave (Backyard). No Early Birds. Cancelled if raining.

WESTSYDE Downsizing! Saturday, April 1st. 9-3pm 900 Dever Dr. Rain or Shine. Lots of free stuff.

TIME TO DECLUTTER? ask us about our

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1978 24ft. Centurion Motorhome C. Exec cond. 41,500 kms. $5500. 778-362-9669.

2000 Dodge Dakota. Full load.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Dr. Rajindar Pal Joneja

23 March 1934 – 12 March 2017

Dr. Joneja was born and grew up in the Punjab region of India. As a teenager he experienced and survived the trauma of the partition of India and Pakistan as the country fought for, and obtained independence from Great Britain.

After graduation from Amritsar Medical School in the first (highest) division in 1958, Dr. Joneja moved to the USA for post-graduate studies. He specialised in Neurology, and later added Psychiatry as a separate specialty. He studied in hospitals and universities in San Francisco, California; Albany, New York; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Ottawa, Ontario.

In 1965 Dr. Joneja moved to British Columbia when he was appointed Head of Neurology at Riverview Hospital in New Westminster. Deciding to expand his practice into the community, he opened a private medical service at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Shortly thereafter Dr. Joneja recognised that the Interior of British Columbia was very poorly served in advanced medical fields, especially in his own specialties of Neurology and Psychiatry. Initially he provided Neurology consultations in Kamloops two days per week at weekends, flying to the Interior each Friday evening after a week of full days of practice in Vancouver, returning on Sunday nights to resume his regular medical duties.

While in Vancouver, Raj met his future wife, Dr. Janice Vickerstaff, who had recently arrived from England to take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of British Columbia.

Eventually, Dr. Joneja realised that two days a week were insufficient to serve a community such as Kamloops and surrounding area and in 1969 he moved to Kamloops to provide a full-time service as the only neurologist in the Interior of British Columbia as well as one of only two psychiatrists.

Consequently, he was on-call and available to his patients and colleagues 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dr. Joneja never refused his help and expertise when called upon, day or night, for many long years. To manage his vast practice he eventually required two full-time secretary/receptionists in his offices on Victoria Street, and later, Nicola Street.

Whenever he could find a free moment, Raj loved to play tennis. His many trophies bear witness to his skill in the sport – at least in local competitions.

He was notorious for his love of parties and was never happier than when hosting a happy gathering of friends and colleagues in his home. He was particularly fond of costume parties and the annual Joneja Hallowe’en masquerade was immensely popular. Many will recall Raj’s mischievous side and times when he would take advantage of moments of opportunity to get a laugh.

Predeceased by her father Clarence Fortier, brother Charles Eugene Fortier, sister Theresa Lynne Fortier; grandmothers Mathilda Sisiouloux, Frances Casimir; grandfathers Edgar Fortier, Hubert LaRue; numerous aunts, uncles and relatives.

Raj had a constant desire to learn. His interests led him to try activities as varied as music, cooking and motorcycling, though he struggled with anything aquatic – including boats and garden hoses.

Denise was soft-hearted, considerate, supportive, gentle, caring and loving to her partner, family and friends, she always put everyone first. She loved to tease and joke around just to make people smile. She knew how to say things to make a person feel special and never forgot someone’s birthday, accomplishments or just because. Denise would search for the perfect gift, straight from her loving heart, and was generous with her time. She loved to vacation in Nelson as it was peaceful and she loved the beautiful scenery. She was a truly wonderful soul, who will be sorely missed. She was a member of the Kamloops Art Gallery and Western Canada Theatre. She was employed as an Administration Clerk at the Tk’emlups Rural Policing Detachment office, secretary at Tk’emlups Lands Department and Kamloops Friendship Centre, volunteered as Auxiliary Constable and loved music and gardening.

For many years he was a member of the Rotary Club of Kamloops and was made a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of his support of their project for Polio prevention.

In retirement, Raj was intensely interested in many aspects of science, especially astronomy and physics. He was a member of the Kamloops Astronomy Society and owned a number of complicated telescopes and star-tracking equipment, which he happily assembled and operated at his home and at the family cottage on Shuswap Lake. He also loved photographing wildlife, scenery and people, and never travelled far without his numerous cameras and related equipment.

Celebration of Life Services will be held at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at Schoening Funeral Chapel, 513 Seymour Street, Kamloops, BC. No viewing by request - Cremains burial at a later date.

Despite his love of parties, in private Raj was a very modest man. In accordance with his explicit verbal and written instructions, a private cremation took place on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 and there will not be a Memorial Service.

Service arrangements entrusted to Schoening Funeral Services - 250-374-1454 Should friends desire, donations may be made to the SPCA or the BC Wildlife Park for the benefit of the owls and eagles.

Dr. Joneja is survived by his wife Janice; children Sunil (Monica) and Nalini; grandchildren Katelyn and Michael.

He also leaves a loving family including an uncle, brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces in India and the USA.

Condolences may be made to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

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Denise Ellen Lucille Fortier

Denise was born May 5, 1968 in Kamloops, BC and passed away peacefully on March 26, 2017. Survived by mother Caroline Fortier nee Larue/Casimir, spouse Michael Black; sisters Edith Fortier, Yvonne Fortier (Kevin), Josie Fortier; brothers Hubert E. Fortier (Alona), Leslie Fortier, Ivan Fortier; nephews Christopher Terry Jr, Hubert Jr, & Brendan; nieces Dawn, Tawny and great nieces Kyra & Justice; great nephews Cyrus & Declann; great, great nephew Silas and numerous relatives.

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“GOODBYE TOPPER” Toporowski, Paul David, 55 of Kamloops, British Columbia passed away from pancreatic cancer on March 23rd, 2017 at Kamloops Hospice surrounded by family. He is survived by his wife Melanie and their four sons: Tyler (Laura), Shane, Christopher and Riley. He was predeceased by his father Carl Alexander and father-in-law Gilbert Fraser. He will be greatly missed by his mother Stephanie, his brothers: John (Nicole), Steve (Yvonne), Michael and Tom and sisters: Carla (Ron), Leanna (Garydeceased) and Annalise. He is also survived by his mother-in-law Agnes and eight in-laws: Gail, Carver, Terry, Tim, George, Nathalie, Darren and Elston. His 79 nieces and nephews, and many dear friends and past clients shall fondly remember him.

Paul was affectionately known as “TOPPER” to everyone he met. Paul was born in Fort St. John on January 16th, 1962 and soon moved to Vernon and then Richmond in 1967.

He attended James Gilmore Elementary School followed by Vancouver College High School where he excelled at academics, athletics and leadership. Paul was honored to be chosen as Captain of the Fighting Irish Basketball and Track and Field teams and graduated as Class President in 1980. He was truly a gifted athlete setting many track and field records that stood the test of time for many years.

Paul had various jobs during his formative years: Woodwards Sporting Goods Dept, Hydraulic Shop (heavy duty equipment operator), HY Louie (Longshoreman- driving front-end loaders), and working for his father in the mining business running compactors and bulldozers in Montana and Arizona.

After Langara College (playing basketball), Paul attended SFU with good friends Damian Botteselle and Stewart Bailey. He graduated in 1986 with a Major in Criminology and a Minor in Business. He then completed a practicum at a local law firm and became a stockbroker at Yorkton Securities (and personal assistant to the Chairman of the firm, Mr.

Lal Gondi).

Paul met his wife Melanie Fraser in Vancouver, 1988. They were married in 1989 and welcomed their first son Tyler, in August of 1991. Moving to Kamloops in 1992 they soon welcomed their second son Shane, in November. In 1993, they opened Toppers Fun Town Amusement Park (previously located in the current Summit Shopping Centre). In September 1994 they had their third son Christopher.

Paul was a proud member of the Southwest Business Association for a number of years and in 1999, he made a career change and became a successful realtor with RE/MAX. While at RE/MAX, Paul was well- known for his “Talk to Topper” ads and for his presence at Home Shows and Santa Claus parades with his Hummer, Smart Car and $100 dollar bill business cards. He was recognized for his marketing and advertising creativity and was proud to be one of Canada’s top producing realtors. In September of 2000, Paul and Melanie welcomed their fourth son Riley.

For 13 years, Paul was actively involved with St. Ann’s Academy where he fundraised for the new wing and playground. Paul coached numerous basketball teams at St. Ann’s, Steve Nash Youth Basketball and Sa-Hali Secondary.

Topper will be remembered by family, friends, business colleagues and everyone he met, as a man of incredible generosity. He was a man of faith, loyalty, honesty and integrity and was so proud to pass these gifts onto his four sons who will continue to emulate his good nature.

His lifelong commitment to his wife and sons will be his true legacy.

Paul will be missed by all who knew him.

Please join us for a Mass and Celebration of Paul’s life on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 12:00 noon at the Calvary Community Church (1205 Rogers Way, Kamloops, BC).

Condolences may be emailed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

In lieu of Flowers, please make donations to the BC Cancer Agency at www.pancreascentrebc.ca indicating “dedicated to Pancreas Centre BC” and/or the Kamloops Hospice Association at www.kamloopshospice.com

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Mary Theresa Catherine Oatway

Alexandrew Keith Bryden Hanna

March 30, 1955 – March 24, 2017

Mary Theresa “Terry” Catherine Oatway (Lavigne) passed away peacefully on March 24th with her family by her side. Terry leaves to mourn her loving husband Mark, and their sons Sean and Shane. She will be forever missed by her mother Lois Lavigne, mother-in-law Audrey Oatway, sisters Lisa Russell (Mike) and Lori Miles (Barry), sister-in-law Shannon Oatway (Harold Borges) and nieces and nephew, Maddi, Tess and Brandon. She is predeceased by her father Rolly Lavigne and father-in-law Bill Oatway.

November 4, 1938 – February 6, 2017

Terry always inspired others with her strength, compassion, beautiful smile and contagious laugh. Anyone who knew her can recall at least one occasion when she gave something without asking for anything in return; whether it was advice, a helping hand, a laugh to brighten your day, or simply a smile and part of her strength when you needed it.

Terry was blessed to share 42 years with Mark, the love of her life and best friend. Terry took pride in working alongside Mark to build their family business, Oatway Contracting.

Starting from humble beginnings, they worked together to build a company that was known for quality work, strong business relationships, and where employees were family. Anyone who worked with Terry had great respect for her integrity, work ethic, and professionalism.

Most importantly, Terry loved her family. Whether it was taking her boys to what must have felt like every single hockey arena in western Canada, trips to a sandy beach for some sun and a salty beer, or just relaxing at the cabin, nothing made Terry happier than spending time with family. As a wife, daughter, sister, mother and aunt, Terry’s presence will be deeply missed by all who loved her.

Those whose lives she touched will always remember her sense of humor, generous spirit and kind heart.

And while she lies in peaceful sleep, Her memory we shall always keep.

A Prayer Service will be held at 7:00 pm on Monday, April 3, at Holy Family Parish, 2797 Sunset Drive, Kamloops. A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, April 4, at Holy Family Parish.

Should friends desire, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or Terry’s charity of choice, The Heart and Stroke Foundation.

To send condolences, please visit www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

Keith Hanna passed away peacefully at the age of 78 in the Royal Inland Hospital on February 6, 2017, surrounded by the love of his family and friends. Keith is predeceased by his beloved wife Frances, parents Sadie and Bill, brothers Trevor, in infancy, Glen (Rose) and sister-in-law Judy (Horst) Holwein. He leaves behind his son Bruce, daughter-in-law Lisa Dyer and many close friends.

Keith was born in Kamloops in 1938 and grew up at the Lone Pine Farm in Westsyde. In 1965, he married the love of his life, Frances Russill, who swept him off his feet with her quick wit and beautiful smile. Keith was an accomplished builder and developer, a visionary who loved to create. In 1975, the family moved to Blackpool where he and Frances set up an operated the Thompson Crossing (Keekwille Village) manufactured home park. Over the years, Keith and Frances were very active in the community, including participation in the Lion’s Club. During this period, Keith oversaw the construction of many community facilities in the Clearwater area, including the Blackpool Fire Hall and the Clearwater Medical Centre. Quality craftsmanship was of the utmost importance to Keith, always ensuring that his projects were built to the highest of standards, Keith and Frances

created the partnership ITEC Enterprises, a combination of two letters from each of their names, under which they continued to undertake various initiatives in Clearwater and Barriere.

Keith loved people and giving back to the community. He will be remembered for his friendly smile, honesty, integrity and generosity.

Lisa and Bruce would to thank the medical teams at the Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital in Clearwater and Royal Inland Hospital Intensive Care Unit in Kamloops for their superb care and compassion for Keith during his illness over the past few months.

A Celebration of Life for Keith will be held Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 11:00 am in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel (285 Fortune Dr.), with Bishop Barbara Andrews officiating.

Donations in the memory of Keith can be made to the Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, 640 Park Drive, Clearwater, BC V0E 1N1.

Condolences may be emailed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

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Orval James Gorley 1929 – 2017

Orval was born on February 10, 1929 in Hughenden, Alberta, but lived most of his life in BC. He was the oldest of eight children born to Harold McDougal Gorley and Thelma Mae Miller. His family moved to the Bulkley Valley when Orval was a boy, and he developed a deep connection to that part of the province.

He joined the BC Forest Service and spent his career in several BC communities, working and living a life that brought him much happiness and fulfillment. He met the love of his life, Lorna Grace Hudson (1926-2008) in Southbank, BC, and married her in Telkwa, BC in 1952. A son Alan was born in 1955 and a daughter Lauren, completed the family in 1958.

Orval was an accomplished, self-taught musician, playing a variety of instruments. He could easily be coaxed to play a tune on the piano or get the party going with his ‘squeeze box’ accordion.

Orval passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. Orval and Lorna left a legacy of love, laughter and family values. They also provided a place to call ‘home away from home’ at Uncha Lake, where in 1965 they build a recreational cabin that has become a family gathering place and cornerstone of Gorley family get-togethers. Later this year Orval will join Lorna in a little plot on the Uncha Lake property.

We wipe a tear, smile and say to Orval, Dad, Grandpa, Papa and Great-Grandpa, “We’ll see you when we see you”

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A Vanished Friend

by Anders Lim

Around the corner I have a friend In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by, and weeks rush on, And before I know it a year has gone, And I never see my old friend’s face, For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well As in the days when I rang his bell, And he rang mine. We were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men, Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired with trying to make a name.

“Tomorrow, I will call on Jim, Just to show that I am thinking of him.”

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows, Around the corner, yet miles away “Here’s a telegram, sir,” “Jim died today!”

And that’s what we get, and deserve in the end, Around the corner a vanished friend!

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Hazel Jean Hoffman

September 9, 1926 – March 26, 2017 On March 26, 2017, heaven gained a beautiful soul when Hazel Jean Hoffman peacefully passed away. As Hazel’s health deteriorated, she would often say that she was not afraid but excited about her move “upstairs” where she would finally be able to get the answers to her many life-long questions. Hazel’s courage, faith and positive attitude was enlightening and has helped to lessen the pain of her loss although she will always be deeply missed.

Hazel was 90 years young (although her numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren will only know her as being 39) and those 90 years were filled with both wonderful and challenging times; but notwithstanding the challenges, Hazel always lived her life believing that every day was a gift with a purpose.

Hazel leaves behind her loving husband of almost 70 years, Bill, whose heart will never be the same.

She also leaves behind three children Janice (Dennis), Angie, Kent, Jody and families, Laurie’s boys Alan and Chris and families, Grant (Diane), Kari Lynn, Bryan and families and Arlene (David), Natalie, Braedon and Spencer. Hazel also leaves behind her sister Joan Palmer. Along with her family, there were so many others who will miss Hazel’s quiet presence, her tremendous ability to listen, and her wickedly dry sense of humour.

Hazel was predeceased by her daughter Laurie Hoffman and her son Scott Hoffman. Despite the tragedy of their loss, and in true Hazel fashion,

Rick Cattermole “Barney” September 15, 1945 – March 22, 2017

The family is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Rick Cattermole on March 22, 2017 after a brief illness.

Rick was predeceased by his parents Dick and Phyllis Cattermole and his sister Val Kemm. He will be missed by his son Chuck (Diana), daughter Char (Kyle), daughter Leanne (Jim) and son Wade, grandchildren Seth, Aaron, Jesse, Frankie, Jaxon, Kyle, Tydan, Jase, Kade, Carter, Jaden, Alina, Shea and Ariya and nephews Billy and Jesse. Rick will also be dearly missed by Wendy Ryan and many other family and friends.

Rick grew up in Richmond, BC and began floor laying at the age of 17. He moved to the Kamloops area in his twenties, finally settling in Westsyde in 1987. Rick was often found hunting or fishing around the Gorman Lake area. He was happiest cruising around the bush and sitting around a campfire while singing “Blue Suede Shoes”. His infectious laugh was known by all. He was very loyal and extremely compassionate to anyone that needed a helping hand. He was a wonderful son, brother, dad, grandfather, uncle and friend.

The family will be holding an open house on April 22, 2017 from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm at 945 Nicolani Drive, Kamloops for anyone that would like to pay their respects. Many thanks to the nurses and staff at Ponderosa Lodge for their care these past weeks.

Arrangements entrusted to First Memorial Funeral Services, Kamloops BC. 250-554-2429 Condolences may be left at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com

she spent much of her time supporting those of us who did not know how to deal with our grief often reminding us there was a lesson in everything that happens in life. Hazel was also predeceased by her sister Vera Foster.

Hazel and Bill moved around often in their life together and spent most weekends, regardless of where they lived, camping. After settling in Kamloops in 1971, they discovered that they could combine their love of camping with their love of dancing by joining the Kamloops Square Dancers Club. Square dancing and round dancing became a new favourite hobby and took them on many camping/dancing trips throughout the province and beyond. Hazel excelled at dancing and she eventually progressed to calling which often put her in high demand.

Although spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren was truly her greatest passion, Hazel also pursued numerous other interests throughout her life. Long before it was “a thing” you could find Hazel meditating, practicing yoga, testing her new vegetarian recipes on her family and studying numerology. She also took up sign language in her 50’s and running in her 60’s. Having a glass of red wine (her favourite was David’s) brought Hazel much joy and many deep conversations often took place while sipping on wine and enjoying a beautiful dinner.

Volunteering and caring for others was another of Hazel’s passions. Hospice was a cause very dear to Hazel and she became a founding volunteer of Hospice in 1981 and remained an active volunteer until 2006. Hazel sat at the bedside

Alexander Slavichak (Alex Slavichuk)

Alex passed away peacefully on March 8, 2017 at the Gemstone Care Center in Kamloops, BC. He was born February 19, 1938 in the small city named Medicine Hat, Alberta.

He came to Barriere as a small boy.

He started working at Newberry’s Sawmill, and later in the Fadear Creek Mill and Birch Mill doing different shifts. He took care of horses for the Sabyan family on the old farm up the North Barriere Lake Road.

He always had an ice breaker to open up a conversation with a stranger. In his younger days, Alex could often be found tinkering with one of his vehicles or riding bareback on a horse. Later in life, he’d head to the hills for an impromptu drive, or make the 7-mile trek from home to town on his trusty-rusty old bike.

He is survived by his son Darral Andrews (Calgary), and one sister Ruth (Milton) Smith (Terrace). He also leaves behind a niece Juanita Gill (Cranbrook) and her son Jordan McLellan (Calgary) and three nephews, Kurt Smith and Roger Smith (Terrace) and Bobby Hartley (Calgary). He was pre-deceased by his father Alexander Slavichak (1974), his mother Emma Slavichak (Pichtigen) (1980), his sister Rose Gill (2000), his infant sister Lillian Violet (1955) and Darral’s mother Margaret Rose Andrews (1969).

Those who knew Alex were continually amazed by his determination and perseverance in the face of his many health set-backs.

Many thanks from the family to his care-givers from Barriere Home Support, Forest View Place in Clearwater, and Ponderosa Lodge and Gemstone Care Centre in Kamloops.

There will be a Celebration of Life in his honor at the Barriere Community Hall, Borthwich Avenue, on June 20, 2017, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Contact: darral_andrews@hotmail.com or RuthSmith06@gmail.com Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com Schoenings Funeral Service 250-374-1454

and held the hands of many dying individuals during those 25 years.

Hazel also volunteered at Pine Grove and did this well into her mid-eighties.

Hazel volunteered at many other organizations, including St. Ann’s Academy where she worked as a reading assistant working with her grandchildren and many other young students. Hazel was private and appreciated doing these activities without any fanfare or acknowledgement. Knowing Hazel, she is probably shaking her finger at us right now for sharing this in her obituary.

The family wishes to express its deepest gratitude to Dr. Steven Rollheiser and the many nurses on 4 North. Their outstanding compassion and caring of mom made her last few days special. The family also extends a warm thank you to Dr. Ben Anders, who has not only been Hazel’s doctor for many years, but a friend as well.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Hazel’s memory can be made to the Kamloops Hospice Association, 72 Whiteshield Crescent South, Kamloops, BC V2E 2S9, www.kamloopshospice.com.

A Celebration of Hazel’s Life will be announced at a later date.

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Others who have gone before Hold up my trembling hand.

They comfort me in the blind despair I cannot understand.

They suffer with me when I hurt, Weep with me in my pain, Remind me that we are not lost ...

Though I must now remain.

Those who’ve gone before me, Hear me when I cry.

Sing softly with me soothing chords Of unsung lullabies.

Mourn anniversaries never marked, A future I cannot keep.

They gently kiss the pain away, And love my heart to sleep.

The ones who’ve gone before me Hold me in my dreams.

They gently stroke my furrowed brow, And calm my silent screams.

They love me in my heartache, Wait quietly nearby., Hold patiently, one to another Till I join them by and by.

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hen The Cure for Death by Lightning opens, there will be a unique character — the stage itself.

Through the work of set and props designer Marshall McMahen, that plywood floor at Sagebrush Theatre and all the space above it right into the flys behind the proscenium arch come alive, said Braden Griffiths.

Some of that action is courtesy of Griffiths, who not only has the role of Crazy Jack in the play but who designed and built the puppets used to create the supernatural layer atop the story created by author Gail Anderson-Dargatz.

Her debut novel netted her a nomination for one of the top literary awards in the world, The Giller Prize, and inspired Daryl Cloran, former artistic director with Western Canada Theatre, to turn it into a play.

It opens to previews on Thursday, April 6, and continues to April 15.

While there’s plenty happening on the set — things dropping from above, running in from the sides, appearing and disappearing — at the heart of it all is Beth Weeks, a 15-year-old living on a farm in Turtle Valley in the B.C. Interior during

the Second World War. That life is chaotic; Beth is attacked by a grizzly bear and saved by her father.

He changes after the attack, becoming violent and dangerous to everyone around him,

especially his daughter.

Children at the nearby reserve are vanishing and Beth is convinced something is following her each time she enters the bushland near her home.

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dealing with.”

The intensity of the role means there are times when Beth might head home with Hill “if I don’t keep things clearly separated.”

Joelle Peters plays Beth’s First Nations

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“You need to find something to pull you out,” she said, especially as the two key

actors look back into their own teen years and start to get “back into those old feelings from then, finding those new old things, those first feelings.”

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MARCH 31 — APRIL 6

MUSIC RELEASE Friday, March 31, 8 p.m. at Padlock Studios, 175 Second Ave.

Elsewhere will be releasing its new EP and will be joined

by Echo Beach and Chatterbox at Padlock Studios on Friday, March 31. Red Collar beer and local wines will be served during the show, which starts at 8 p.m. For more information, call 250-320-5452.

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KAMLOOPS FIDDLERS Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. at Heritage House, 100 Lorne St.

The Kamloops Fiddlers host their monthly dance on April 1.

Admission is $6 for members, $10 for non-members.

MO JAZZ Saturday, April 1, at Masa’s Bar and Grill at Sun Peaks

Mo Jazz performs on Saturday, April 1, at Masa’s Bar and Grill at Sun Peaks. The semi-formal evening includes a special menu and swing, Latin, blues, funk and pop by the local band.

There is no cover charge.

GEEK WEEK Various times, places through April 1

CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW APRIL 4 & 5 30 Years Of Discoveries COAST KAMLOOPS HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTRE The Kamloops Exploration Group is celebrating 30 years of hosting the province’s most innovative — and inexpensive — conferences. Since 1987, KEG has annually hosted gatherings that celebrate mining and prospecting for minerals, metals and petroleum. In addition to the two-day technical conference highlighting exploration successes and issues, KEG also presents a short-course trade show, free to the public, and organizes field trips so popular that waiting lists are created.

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The TNRD Library System is hosting its first ever Geek Week.

Events are geared at those ages 18 and older and include a cosplay contest (through the library’s Facebook page), popculture trivia night (8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, March 31, at Frick and Frack Taphouse, 577 Victoria St.) and a scavenger hunt (10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 1, at the Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St.) The events are free, but space is limited. To reserve a spot, call the library at 250-372-5145 or go online to tnrdlib.ca.

KEG CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW Tuesday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 5, at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way

Kamloops Exploration Group is celebrating 30 years of discovery at its annual conference and trade show starting next week. The event includes field trips, door prizes, educational opportunities and more. For more, go online to keg.bc.ca.

COMPUTER CLASSES Various dates and times at the North Kamloops Library, 293 Tranquille Rd.

Upcoming computer classes at the North Kamloops Library include: April 4: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; April 5: Android tablets and smartphones, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; April 6: Windows 10, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

EXHIBIT OPENING Thursday, April 6, 7 p.m. at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St.

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The Kamloops Life Drawing Studio presents Life Drawing Exhibition 2017, which opens on Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. and continues to April 9. The group of amateur and professional artists meet weekly to draw live models and the human form.

The exhibition includes both show and sale works in several media. The centre is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the threeday show.

COMING UP: CASATI | APRIL 22 Quintin Bart, Grace Hrabi and Jesse Popeski are Casati, a band that combines three-part harmonies with ukuleles, guitars, a double bass and a hurdy-gurdy to sing songs about love, time slipping away and riding a bike. The band will be at The Bassment for an 8 p.m. show on Saturday, April 22. Admission is by donation with all proceeds going to the band.

Seats must be reserved online at thebassmentkamloops.com.

THE CURE FOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING Thursday, April 6 to Saturday, April 15, Sagebrush Theatre, 1300 Ninth Ave.

Western Canada Theatre presents its latest production, set in the Turtle Valley in the shadow of the Second World War. It was chosen in recognition of Canada’s 150th anniversary. The play runs two hours and includes mature themes and language.

Advised for those ages 14 and older. Tickets are available from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

SNOWBOMBING Thursday, April 6, to Monday, April 10, at Sun Peaks Resort

Sun Peaks will play host to the likes of Ludacris, Kaskade and Bob Moses, who will perform during the international music festival in the mountains. Watch for more coverage leading up to the event in next week’s edition of KTW and go online to snowbombingcanada.com.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE Thursday, April 6, and Friday, April 7, at Kamloops School of the Arts

Kamloops School of the Arts senior drama class, consisting of students in grades 10 to 12, will present Up the Down Staircase over two days starting next week. It will feature nightly 7 p.m. showings and a 9:45 a.m. morning show on opening day. Tickets can be purchased from the office on Monday, April 3.

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Local potter Amanda Eccleston (left) is helping to expand the artistic offerings at Kamloops Makerspace, with this week’s opening of Clayspace on the third floor of the studio house at 207 West Victoria St. DAVE EAGLES/KTW

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hen artist Vaughn Warren set to work expanding Kamloops Makerspace’s artistic offerings last year, calls for a pottery studio came early and often.

This week, that request became a reality with the opening of the Clayspace on the third floor of Makerspace’s studio house at 207 West Victoria St. Led by potter Amanda Eccleston of Clay Chimera and other local ceramic artists, the new studio will serve as a teaching space, as well as a place for emerging and established artists to experiment with clay.

While she has a home studio, Eccleston said Makerspace will fill the need for larger spaces to accommodate workshops, something she has struggled to find in Kamloops.

“Potters do have the option of doing classes through the city, but then they would have to bring all of their own materials and supplies to the workspace the city provides and then they have to take all of people’s work home and fire it for them,” she said.

“There’s an issue with transporting. It’s in a really fragile state before it’s fired and even after it’s fired.”

The clay room hosted its first workshop on Tuesday night, with six students learning to build tall pots made of hand-rolled coils of clay.

Warren, who helped put the room together and also oversees the design lab down the hall, said he hopes to see Clayspace host two to three workshops a month from different artists.

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new people who are learning will be able to use the space to develop their art,” he said.

Eccleston said the studio will also host equipment that even established artists would not have access to at home for reasons of space or expense, “so they’ll want to come and use the space, too.”

Warren said he’s also looking for ways the studio can take advantage of other hightech tools in various labs.

Woodworkers already built the studio a custom worktable and drying racks, and a high-tech laser cutter on the first floor could provide new tools for adding texture to pieces.

“All these things support each other,” Warren said. “I could imagine I could make a Makerspace logo rolling pin and that could be a lot of fun.”

Clayspace workshops

are available for free to Makerspace members or to non-members for the cost of a month of membership.

The organization also offers a weekly open house on Wednesday evenings, when non-members can watch demos, take tours of the various studios or work on projects.

Kamloops Makerspace is a nonprofit society dedicated to creating space for the region’s creative community to come together to share tools, skills and knowledge.

In addition to the clay studio, members have access to a fabrication shop, fibre-arts studio and equipment for airbrushing, woodworking and electronics design and repair, to name a few.

For more information on programming and costs, visit kamloopsmakerspace.com.

Griffiths sees Beth as the hub in the wheel of emotions, chaos and story that swirls about the stage. He plays Crazy Jack — in the book, the character is Coyote Jack — a man who lives in the woods and who is part of the supernatural overtones.

His creations help build that netherworld and provide him with another way of expressing his creativity.

Acting, Griffiths said, is “sort of walking on the edge, in control but with chaos happening, something you could do and then do it again almost immediately.”

Puppet building is a slow process he likened to erosion — one small thing happens, followed by another small thing and you end up with something created in the end.

Taran Kootenkayoo plays Dennis, a hired hand on the Weeks’ farm. Like Hill, he said the play takes him to “a dark place” and he has to concentrate on “getting back to Taran,” although some of the cowboy’s mannerisms linger.

“I wink at people a lot,” Kootenkayoo said with a laugh.

He found Anderson-Dargatz’s book difficult to read, struggling to get through it the first time he tried. Hill was already familiar with it, having been involved when WCT workshopped the play two years ago. Peters is reading it now.

The play is part of WCT’s (Re)Imagine series, two productions of new works that speak to chapters in the story of Canada. The other is Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor, which will be at the Pavilion Theatre in May. Lightning is not recommended for those younger than age 14 due to the subject matter and strong language.

Tickets are at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

Author at TRU Tuesday

Gail Anderson-Dargatz will read from her novel The Cure for Death by Lightning and her mostrecent release, The Spawning Grounds, on Tuesday, April 4 at Thompson Rivers University.

The award-winning author will be on the third floor of the House of Learning from 11 a.m. to noon.

Lightning was Anderson-Dargatz’s first novel and won many awards, making it an international bestseller. She has since written three more novels that have their roots in the Thompson-Shuswap area, as does Lightning, which is set in Turtle Valley.

A former TRU student, her public reading is sponsored by the university’s library and English and modern languages departments. It is free and open to the public.

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here’s a question every piece of intellectual property needs to ask itself before a new version is made: How seriously should we treat the source material?

There is no right answer and there have been successful versions of both.

Irreverent and meta takes on dated or impossible material have worked (usually thanks to Phil Lord and Chris Miller) as have deathly serious interpretations.

In the case of Power Rangers, that cheesy

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REVIEW Saturday morning show that cobbled together shameless merchandising goals, dubbed Japanese action footage and sanitized high school shenanigans, they went mostly serious.

And it might not have been the best call for a story that still involves a villain named Rita Repulsa who wanders around town eating gold — but we’ll get to her later.

Even with such campy morsels to play with, the vibe direc-

tor Dean Israelite seems to be going for is Friday Night Lights meets Fantastic Four, which actually isn’t totally awful at the beginning as we meet the five high school students destined to wield their newly found superpowers to save the world.

There’s the star football player, Jason (Dacre Montgomery), who’s rebelling against his good-boy image; once-popular girl Kimberly (Naomi Scott, who looks like a

KTW FILE PHOTO Power Rangers was filmed in Kamloops last spring, with hundreds of Kamloopsians cast as extras.

combination of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Emma Roberts); onthe-spectrum Billy (RJ Cyler); mysterious new girl Trini (Becky G.); and adventurous Zack

(Ludi Lin).

They’re angsty teens with secrets and zero perspective, so imagine how weird things get when they all happen to be hanging out one night in a restricted mining area, stumble upon some jewels, get into a would-be fatal car crash and wake up with the ability to crush iPhones and scale mountains.

It’s hard to muck up the excitement of testing out your newfound superpowers, but then the ridiculous plot has to kick in (and all the requisite origin story

cliches) and you can see the film struggling to maintain its straight face while Bryan Cranston’s pin art face bellows at the Rangers and Elizabeth Banks’ Repulsa devours every piece of gold she can find.

Banks is actually fairly fun in the part — she snivels and sneers with glee under pounds of zombie makeup as she fiendishly terrorizes some engagement ring shoppers at a jewelry store like she’s the only one who understands what movie she’s in.

But good lord does this film overstay its very conditional welcome.

Israelite, who also made the occasionally riveting found-footage, time-travel pic Project Almanac, gives the images some grit and visual interest but the story just spends too much time on the maudlin coming-ofage and teambuilding.

A little less therapy and a little more action would have gone a long way in the mushy

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middle section.

By the time the Power Rangers figure out how to morph, you’re already looking for a way to morph out of the theatre, which is a shame because for whatever it’s worth, the cheesiest, most Power Rangers-y moments are saved for the final battle.

Much like the teens at the centre, Power Rangers goes through some awkward growing pains in real time trying to figure out what movie it wants to be or even should be.

The Lionsgate release is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, language, and for some crude humour.”

Running time is 124 minutes. One-and-ahalf stars out of four.

Power Rangers is playing at the Cineplex Odeon Theatre at Aberdeen Mall. For showtimes and tickets, go online to cineplex. com.

Listen to Your Intuition Life has a way of bringing us challenges, that is to be expected but how we deal with challenges makes all the difference to their outcomes. Staying relaxed and positive is vital because then we can listen to our intuition and become more receptive to our natural inner wisdom. A self-development educator will be offering tools and techniques to help anyone who would like to trust their intuition.

Philip Ponchet will present talks in Kamloops on TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH AT THE ACCENT INN, 1325 Columbia Street West. The 90 minute talks are at 1pm and 7pm and are open to the public.

Tickets are available at the door, $21 (incl. gst) The Inner Peace Movement is a non-profit, educational organization that helps people apply their potential by using tools and techniques for effective living. During his talks Philip will expand on how there are four main ways we experience intuition; visual, auditory, feelings and hunches.

There will be a demonstration of how easy it is to trust your intuition and how to ‘sense energy’. He will share about how to be receptive to the angels or spiritual guides we each have to assist us, and how we evolve through 7 year cycles of life and more.

For more information visit www.innerpeacemovement.ca

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arts&entertainment Theatre therapy — picking up on social cues through drama

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You’re so quiiiiiet.”

It was true.

I was a shy kid, silent with all but one or two close friends.

I watched in terrified awe as classmates bantered at the smoking pit at recess and horsed around in the hallway like characters from Degrassi High.

How did everyone always seem to know what to say and so easily?

Peering out at the world from behind a pair of large eyeglasses and an endless supply of paperbacks, I harboured secret dreams of being a performer, belting out tunes to adoring crowds.

But theatre wasn’t my place. Nerds didn’t do theatre.

The self-assured, fast-talking extroverts of drama class frightened me.

Words flowed much easier for me on the page than on stage.

And so I wrote instead of spoke.

It would take another 10 years for me to conquer fears of public speaking and small talk, in a self-guided personal development boot camp that included leading a youth group, volunteering for work presentations, and — wait for it — hosting karaoke at a Yukon bar.

(The crowds were not exactly adoring, but they were tolerant.)

As it turns out, a theatre class may have been just the thing to end my childhood social un-ease — in

It’s not about them “playing Macbeth, but

them adopting the theatre/improv mindset of just rolling with the punches and playing.

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OF THE CITY the right environment, that is.

Lori Seeley is a social worker with TherapyWorks BC which, in partnership with local companies Chimera Theatre and Western Canada Theatre’s Stage One, has offered classes for children and youth with non-verbal learning disorders, autism, ADHD and other social communication challenges.

Seeley has worked with kids and adults with different abilities for more than 30 years, using art therapy in her practise — techniques that work well for children who have difficulty expressing themselves verbally.

“Really, the arts are an alternate form of expression and communication,” she said.

Seeley has a son who is on the autism spectrum.

After enrolling him in a theatre class in Salmon Arm, she was amazed at the positive changes in his social skills. And so, she began a program in Kamloops.

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specifically at kids with autism, while ImprovAble is for a wider range.

Both classes help youth learn to notice — and imitate — social cues through facial expressions, develop awareness of verbal and non-verbal communication and vocal intonation and communicate with more spontaneity.

The results have been remarkable.

Participants have greater self-confidence and less anxiety speaking in front of people — something that’s a huge barrier for most kids when they come in.

But most of all, it’s fun. When picking up their children after class, parents are sometimes shocked to see their kids laughing — not a usual occurrence.

“Theatre is perfect for kids on the spectrum,” ImprovAble instructor Jessica Buchanan said.

“I think the biggest thing is seeing kids become comfortable working with people.

“There was one boy in particular who didn’t like speaking or joining in and by the end he was by far the strongest character actor and was always

willing to say ‘yes’ in certain games, which he had never done before.

“It’s not about them playing Macbeth, but them adopting the theatre/improv mindset of just rolling with the punches and playing.

“Above all, playing.”

In fact, it can be the very qualities that cause kids on the spectrum to be made fun of that help them fit in with the theatre community.

They’re all a few steps ahead of me.

Doing improv is one fear I may never conquer.

The next session of ImprovAble begins in April at Northills Shopping Centre.

A girls’ group for those ages seven to 12 meets Mondays at 5 p.m. and mixed group, for those ages 10 and older, meets Mondays at 6:30 p.m.

Families do not need a diagnosis or referral to participate.

For more information, contact Seeley by calling 250-819-1031 or emailing lori@therapyworksbc.com.

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Local groups get gambling grants Local arts, artists, community groups and charities are receiving a total of $417,951 in B.C. Arts Council and community gambling-revenue grants.

Organizations receiving community gaming grants include: • Kamloops Hospice Association, $80,000; • Kamloops Family Resources Society, $45,000; • Kamloops Brain Injury Association, $34,400; • Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling

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Organizations receiving BC Arts Council grants include: • Kamloops Art Gallery, $100,000; • The British Columbia Drama Association/ Theatre BC, $73,640; • Kamloops Museum and Archives, $32,000; • Kamloops Arts Council, $19,911; • Tracey Power, $9,000.

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KMA expands Canada 150 exhibit HISTORICAL TIDBITS, PHOTOGRAPHS AT CITY HALL, ENGINEERING BUILDING, MUSEUM

ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Kamloops Museum and Archives is bringing its talking walls project to two more city buildings in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday.

Started in the lobby of city hall, another mix of historical tidbits and archival photographs is now

up at the development and engineering services building at 105 Seymour St. A third installation has begun at the museum, 207 Seymour St., and will eventually spread to cover the stairwell between the second and third floors.

“We went through the archives and were trying to look at bits of Kamloops history that tend to

fit within the broader history of Canada — the love and evolving nature of sports, this idea of commemoration,” said curator Matt Macintosh.

“The idea is to have the walls talk and have a survey of Kamloops’ history.”

Macintosh said staff were also on the lookout for photos that offered perspectives on those

ideas that haven’t previously been highlighted in local history.

A family photo of a young Chinese woman skiing, for instance, offers a more relaxed look at life for the city’s historic Chinese community than what’s often captured in the official record. In another photo, children at a fair study a sign advertising a “great Hindu Buddah Mystery” for

a cost of 50 cents per person “The stories that get told through these pictures about how attitudes have shifted over time to me is the most exciting thing to contend with,” Macintosh said.

Other highlights include the city’s shifting landscape, early ski jumping setups and celebrations for the city’s 100th anniversary in 1912.

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arts&entertainment Choosing wine in less than three minutes kamloopsthisweek.com @kamthisweek

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f you are like me, you can get lost in the wine section of the liquor store.

There are so many to choose from. They are all so different and each seem to have their own advantages.

For some people, choosing a wine is fun.

They may know what they are looking for and have a good idea of what to expect from a bottle just by looking at it.

Or they have found someone they are confident can recommend a good wine each time.

Or maybe they are just not picky, so it’s not a big deal to them.

For some people, choosing a wine is like having a tooth pulled.

It’s nerve-wracking.

You can’t figure it out for anything.

There are at least 1,000 bottles, some of which don’t even have English on them, and it’s impossible to tell

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what is good wine and what is not.

This is especially true if you are not a huge wine drinker.

There is a lot of information on a bottle — although there isn’t an ingredient list, which baffles me now that I know how much junk can be added to cheap wine — and none of it really points you in the direction of what it really tastes like once you pop the cork.

There is a way to buy wine in no time,

even if you have not one iota of a clue about what the gibberish on the label means.

Turn the bottle around.

Really, the juicy bits, written for the average wine drinker, are on the back label.

If you turn it around and read in the first three sentences something like, “juicy, with notes of pear and peach, slightly sweet with a medium finish,” you can discern this is a good wedding shower wine.

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Dark and dry, with a strong tobacco finish and hints of road tar and ash on the nose?

Excellent.

I am confident that’s a really strong tasting wine.

Sometimes, it’s not so obvious.

The winery might make food pairing suggestions instead.

Serve with salad or fish? Light wine.

Serve with barbecue ribs or ripe cheeses?

Not light wine.

Sometimes, they tell you nothing.

The label might include the history of the vineyard or why it was named after a song by Train.

Put that bottle back.

That’s not helping you.

Really, you should be able to scan 10 bottles this way in under three minutes.

Reading these descriptions will give a novice wine buyer more information than reading what grape,

region or winery the wine came from.

Don’t worry about the country, alcohol content or name of the grape (varietal) since these traits, the heart of the wine, can be finished and changed so many ways by the winemaker.

Wineries want you to enjoy their wine so you buy it again.

And great wineries will make their wine approachable by giving you the tools to buy the right wine each time.

Happy shopping.

Bonnie McBride is a local wine blogger.

For more, go online to sipsinthecity.wordpress. com.

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Barry and Mingqi are planning to make their home in Nanaimo, BC.

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