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Parkcrest elementary student Sidnee Crawford witnessed first-hand the goings-on in a provincial courtroom during the Canadian Bar Association of British Columbia’s Law Week at Kamloops Law Courts on Tuesday. Sidnee was at the “Ask a Judge Forum” with Kamloops provincial court Judge Stephen Harrison.

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Sen. Nancy Greene Raine battling cancer Canadian skiing legend and sitting Sen. Nancy Greene Raine is undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, according to Sun Peaks Resort general manager Darcy Alexander.

Greene Raine, 73, was scheduled to have her thyroid removed yesterday in Kelowna and will spend time resting and recovering.

Additional treatment will begin within four to five weeks to manage the suspected spread of cancer cells.

“Nancy and her husband, Al Raine, remain very positive about the outcome of these treatments,” Alexander said in a press release.

“Thyroid cancer is known to be one of the most treatable types of cancer.”

Greene Raine was appointed to the Senate in January 2009 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to represent British Columbia, primarily the Thompson-Okanagan-Kootenay region.

She is also Sun Peaks Resort’s director of skiing.

Greene Raine is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia and a member of the Canadian and B.C. sports halls of fame. She was named Canada’s female athlete of the 20th century by the Canadian Press and Broadcast News.

Greene Raine won gold in giant slalom and silver in slalom at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble, France and overall World Cup titles in 1967 and 1968.

Her total of 14 World Cup victories (including the Olympics) remains a Canadian record.

During her nine-year career, she won a total of 17 Canadian championship titles.

Sen. Nancy Greene Raine will spend time recovering after having her thyroid removed yesterday as part of treatment for cancer.

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The 2nd Annual Green Living Expo takes place on April 29 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, and we can’t wait to see you there!

April 25 2017 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing

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

Rinse recyclables.

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

April 26 2017 5:00 pm - Social Planning Council DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street

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

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

Notes Spring Line Painting

The City of Kamloops has started 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.

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.

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Free family event. Learn about permaculture, test drive an electric car, understand what upcycling is all about, engage with community arts and culture, and explore over 40 booths!

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

Violators are subject to a $100 fine.

We are still accepting applications for booths!

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

Booths start at $225. Not-for-profit rates are available.

7th Annual Volunteer Appreciation BBQ

April 26, 2017 11:30 am-1:30 pm Sandman Centre

Please join City Council in celebrating the volunteers who build, maintain, and grow healthy communities.

Free Landfill Day APRIL 23, 2017 8:30 am-4:30 pm

MISSION FLATS and BARNHARTVALE LANDFILLS EXPECT DELAYS Please arrive on time and remain patient in lineups. This is an extremely busy day at the landfills.

SECURE YOUR LOAD Materials must be tied down or covered securely. Unsecured loads are subject to fines under the Motor Vehicle Act and City bylaws.

Overlanders Bridge

Crews will be washing the Overlanders Bridge on April 8, 9, 22, and 23. One lane of traffic will be closed during cleaning. Please obey all traffic control personnel and signage, and use caution when driving in proximity to the workers. Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.

SEPARATE RECYCLABLES Recycling is free throughout the year. Please separate all cardboard, metal, off-rim tires, small appliances, batteries, and paint.

SOLVENTS, PESTICIDES, AND GASOLINE These materials are only accepted at Mission Flats.

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Residents are reminded that the Curbside Collection schedule will advance two days after the Easter long weekend. For example, if your collection day had been on a Tuesday, it will skip to Thursday.

Plastic bags and glass no longer belong in residential recycling.

Career Opportunities Join our team of 650 employees who work in a variety of fulfilling and challenging careers.

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ITEMS CONTAINING FREON There is a $15 charge per item for refigerators, air conditioners, freezers, water coolers, and other items that contain freon.

TIRES ON RIMS There is a $2 charge to dispose of tires on rims.

BULKY ITEMS There is a $10 charge to dispose of couches, loveseats, and mattresses.

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Serial fraudster sentenced to 30 months in prison TIM PETRUK

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A Kamloops fraudster who lived “a parasitic existence” for nearly two years has been handed a 30-month prison sentence.

However, because of time served behind bars since her arrest, Brandie Bloor will spend less than two years in jail.

The 40-year-old, who made headlines in 2015 after she was handed a nine-month jail sentence for bilking a senior out of $15,000 to pay for breast implants and liposuction, pleaded guilty in Kamloops provincial court on Wednesday to 13 charges. Bloor stole a half-dozen identities while defrauding people and businesses out of thousands of dollars.

Court heard Bloor was arrested after a traffic stop on Jan. 9, 2014, turned up a stash of suspicious cheques. That led to a search warrant being executed six weeks later at Bloor’s Brocklehurst home.

During the search, investigators seized 167 items, including two boxes containing more than 700 documents.

Among them were forged cheques, identity documents and

ties, like two luxury vehicles.” bills containing a variety of names.

Bloor has a criminal history Court heard Bloor kept meticulous notes about her impersonated dating back to 2000, including more than 15 convictions for fraudidentities and used them to buy related charges. vehicles, obtain credit, open bank Defence lawyer Don Campbell accounts and pay bills. said Bloor was motivated by an Crown prosecutor Katie addiction to crystal meth.

Bouchard called the deceptions “She brought to bear a pretty “quite brazen” and described Bloor keen intelligence and a system of as a skilled con artist who had an organization,” he said. “That same answer for everything and told a intelligence will, hopefully, compelling story. be her salvation when she “The investigation has managed to extricate into these frauds and herself from both her addicidentity thefts took police tion and lifestyle.” over a year to complete,” Bloor apologized in Bouchard said. “It took court. numerous officers many BRANDIE “I realized it was because months to do all the interBLOOR of the drugs,” she said. “It’s views and sift through the not the person I am and it’s information. not the person I want to be.”

“Ms. Bloor was very organized.

Kamloops provincial court She kept information about Judge Stephen Harrison agreed to people’s identities in notebooks. a joint submission from lawyers for She had a pretty complex scheme a sentence of 30 months minus six going.”

In all, Bouchard said, Bloor stole months for time served.

“It’s quite a tale, this parasitic six identities. existence you were engaged in,” “Ms. Bloor is very convincing the judge remarked. and seemed believable to many In addition to the time behind of the people she dealt with,” she bars, Bloor will also spend three said. “Ms. Bloor was able to live off years on probation and submit a her fraudulent activity for a period sample of her DNA to a national of about 21 months. criminal databank.

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Two city men die while ice fishing CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com

The bodies of two missing fisherman were recovered from Red Lake, 40 kilometres northwest of Kamloops, on Wednesday afternoon.

The two Kamloops men, ages 66 and 61, were reported overdue on Tuesday night from an ice fishing trip to the lake.

Cpl. Dan Moskaluk of the RCMP’s South East District confirmed Mounties had recovered the bodies of both men. He said the search included assistance from the Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) team and was hampered by dangerous ice conditions.

Moskaluk said families of the men have been notified of their deaths and being helped by Kamloops RCMP Victims Services.

The Kamloops RCMP and the BC Coroners Service continue to investigate the circumstances behind the deaths.

KSAR manager Alan Hobler said his team was deployed to the lake at about 9 p.m. on Tuesday and arrived to find a body of water

not suitable for ice fishing.

“The conditions of the ice are very poor,” he told KTW. “These people really shouldn’t have been out on the lake. We couldn’t even put our searchers out on the ice.”

Hobler said searchers used an infrared-equipped drone to locate a few areas of interest and sent a specialized flat-ice rescue team onto the lake.

Kamloops RCMP Sgt. Joe Morrisey said police found a truck and a snowmobile when they arrived at the lake, but no sign of the men.

It was snowing steadily at the lake on Wednesday, with snow covering the lake.

Kamloops angler Len Piggin, who works at a city fishing supply shop, said it’s highly unusual to hear of ice fishing at this time of year even if it’s been colder than the last two winters.

“This is more of a typical year [for temperature],” he said. “But to be ice fishing now isn’t typical.

March is usually as late as you go.”

Piggin also noted several local lakes are now icefree, including Six Mile and Monte, giving opportunities for anglers in the early season.

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The city’s director of development and engineering predicted a strong year for construction in 2017, a welcome message for several hundred people gathered Wednesday night at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre.

Marvin Kwiatkowski spoke to builders, financiers, designers and others in the industry at a monthly dinner meeting of the Central Interior branch of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association.

“In my view, it’s going to be a pretty strong year,” he said.

“I’m getting that vibe.

Everyone is busy.”

Overall construction activity rung up at $158 million last year, down from $180 million in 2015.

Kwiatkowski said the city is forecasting $180 million this year, close to the 10-year average.

“I think we’re being fairly conservative,” he said.

Most of that construction activity is in the residential sector, with upwards of 500 units a year the average. Growth areas include the South Shore and east Kamloops.

Kwiatkowski said recent history has shown the Kamloops construction sector is steady through economic expansions and declines and does not require major industry or economic expansion to continue its pace.

A major driver for the next several years is centred around Thompson Rivers University.

A 375-unit rental project is planned for the area, along with several other

development projects.

The university campus itself is expected to see about $85 million worth of building with a new nursing building, industrial trades and technology centre and the beginning of a market condominium development called The Reach.

One warning, however, came from potential cost overruns and labour shortages caused by construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Kwiatkowski said the project threatens to suck up labour, causing shortages of available workers. He said the city is trying to avoid tendering projects during its two-year window.

“We’re looking at our projects to see what we can put off in the next two years. There will be a limited supply of labour and equipment,” he said.

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By the time the 2018 school year begins for the KamloopsThompson district, it’s anticipated the student-teacher ratio will be one teacher for every 17.3 students.

The projection is one of several included in a presentation the board of trustees presented this week. The presentation went through all the calculations and influences on the district’s operating budget for the 2017 school year, one that comes in balanced at $141.66 million.

The provincial government mandates school boards present balanced budgets.

Board secretary-treasurer Kelvin Stretch said the budget includes adding 70.6 teaching positions to the district next year, the majority the result of the recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling requiring the provincial government to return

to the 2002 contract language it stripped from teachers that year.

The Kamloops-Thompson district also now has 22 more non-enrolling teachers than it had in 2002, but Stretch said the district is not required to reduce those positions.

Non-enrolling teachers are those not attached to a classroom.

Stretch told those at the meeting and attending via videoconferencing that School

District 73 also has the lowest operating cost per student of seven similar-sized districts at $953.

The highest of the seven districts is $1,091 per student.

The budget includes $99.87 million for wages, another $23.45 million for benefits and $18.3 million for other expenses.

The province is expected to provide about $7 million as part of the steps it must take to help districts to return to 2002 levels.

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Having one address — 900 McGill Rd. — for an entire campus was fraught with problems.

As a result, Thompson Rivers University is creating names for the various roads that bisect its campus.

Stacy Jyrkkanen, associate director of the university’s office of safety and emergency management, said among those issues was the fact any 911 call from a campus building would show the 900 McGill Rd. address and no other more specific information.

That will soon change as the university renames its streets — or, in some cases, finally gives them names — and makes other changes designed to help people find their way around the growing campus.

Jyrkkanen said all streets will have distinct names on campus, signage will be improved to help people find their way around the area and changes will be made so a 911 phone call will not only

identify the unique address of the caller, but also the office number.

Jyrkkanen said the project began last year and moved forward in consultation with the city, among other bodies.

She said among those who find the campus a difficult place to navigate are RCMP officers new to the city and emergency dispatch offices staffed by people unfamiliar with Kamloops.

The main 911 site, for example, is in Kelowna.

“If you call and tell them you’re facing Old Main, they won’t know what you’re talking about,” Jyrkkanen said.

Another aspect to the change involves the planned university village The Reach.

Residential, commercial and retail units in it will need to have their own unique addresses for hydro, gas and other service billings, Jyrkkanen said.

“We can’t have it all go to 900 McGill, which is just one account,” she said.

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in coming weeks, Jyrkkanen said, and all will follow recent branding changes for TRU in terms of colours and fonts. The signage will be large to help visitors find locations. For example, by the time someone finds the sign indicating the Clock Tower Building, they have driven past the parking lot for that venue.

Choosing names proved to be a challenge, Jyrkkanen said. After a competition, several names were chosen, only to be rejected because they echoed names of city streets.

For example, a road near the Brown House of Learning was to be called Coyote Drive, but there’s already a road with that name in the city.

The solution was to ask First Nations people how to say “coyote” in their language — and Sk’lep Drive was created.

Asked if she’s concerned it will be confused with the Sk’lep School of Excellence on the Tk’emlups Indian Band land, Jyrkkanen said that issue was discussed, but not considered to be a potential problem.

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VIEWPOINT 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 provincial election campaign, which already differs from its 2013 counterpart in that the B.C. Liberals and B.C. NDP are attacking each other early and often.

The flurry of press releases from each party continues to exhaust email systems in various newsrooms as spin doctors from both sides try to capture the headlines.

Expect this aggressive campaign to get even nastier as candidates work toward shoring up support for the May 9 election.

NOT: The reputation of United Airlines after a PR disaster unfolded for all the world to see.

Video of the incident has flooded the Internet, showing a doctor being thrown to the ground and dragged off a plane in Chicago because he refused to relinquish his seat so airline employees could fly to the next stop.

As of yesterday, the doctor was still in hospital and his lawyers are anticipating a big lawsuit. United further damaged its brand via hamfisted responses to what is obviously a poor policy and horrible execution, aided by police officers who would be right at home serving under the thugs of Mayor Richard Daley in the 1960s.

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HOT: The federal Liberals’ decision to follow through on the promise to legalize marijuana.

The bill includes provisions to crack down in impaired drivers and those who sell pot to minors, while allowing adults to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis and to grow as many as four plants.

There will be much debate as this bill is dissected. What cannot be debated, however, is that the status quo — the so-called war on drugs approach — was an abysmal failure.

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Tone and context are crucial in case

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espite what you may have read this week, a B.C. Supreme Court judge was out of line last month when he said he prefers his own Vancouver bed to a Kamloops hotel room at the outset of what was supposed to have been a two-week rape trial.

Justice Peter Leask made the comment during a conversation in open court with lawyers about how the case would proceed. He also suggested the prosecutor not call two of her witnesses and rolled his eyes while she attempted to plead her case.

I was in the courtroom when it happened.

It was strange, to say the least — not just the words, but the atmosphere. Leask appeared to be talking down to the prosecutor and the court clerk. When it was time for the court to read the charges to the accused, a 90-year-old man alleged to have sexually assaulted his daughter in Adams Lake decades ago, Leask flicked his wrist down at the clerk and said, simply, “Go.” It felt ugly.

The charges against the elderly man were stayed by the Crown on the second day of the trial for reasons unrelated to Leask’s conduct.

After reading my coverage of the bizarre conversation, UBC law professor Benjamin Perrin took it upon himself to file a complaint about Leask’s conduct to the Canadian Judicial Council.

Perrin called me and asked if the remarks Leask made were on the record. I told him yes. He asked about the tone of the conversation and the atmosphere in the courtroom. I told him the tone was borderline aggressive and the atmosphere was strange.

This week, after reviewing a transcript

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MUSINGS of the proceeding, Vancouver Province columnist Gordon Clark penned an opinion piece in defence of Leask — a sometimes-controversial judge who has been censured in the past for his conduct on the bench.

Clark accused me of taking Leask’s remarks out of context and torquing up the judge’s expressed preference to sleep in his own Lower Mainland house to make it seem as though he wanted the trial to wrap up quickly so he could go home.

He did want to go home. Leask said as much. He indicated the B.C. Supreme Court judiciary was “shorthanded” and suggested he could get more work done in Vancouver than in Kamloops. He also felt it necessary to mention his bed preference, which still seems odd, especially given the nature of the trial.

After a judge makes comments like that, it is impossible to consider any trial-management decision they make without that context.

Leask’s tone seemed to be almost one of belittlement to the prosecutor and the court clerk.

He was talking down to them — the only two women in the courtroom. Tone, though, does not come across in transcribed pages.

Clark thought he could figure it out by reading the transcript.

He did find some things I had missed. For instance, Leask at one point said he’d be happy to return to Kamloops for the trial’s second week. It is laid out in the

transcript, but I did not hear those words. I was probably scrambling to scribble something in my notebook at the time.

Perrin withdrew his complaint against Leask within hours of Clark’s column being posted.

The alleged victim in the sexual-assault trial told me she will carry on with her complaint against Leask.

I spoke to Clark at length last week, while he was bouncing the idea of the column around inside his head.

I defended my position. He told me it was an opinion piece and we agreed to disagree.

He took issue with my description of Leask suggesting the Crown shorten its case. Clark claimed I took a nonissue and applied it to two potentially relevant Crown witnesses. Clark felt it necessary to mention a separate witness who was never expected by either side to have any bearing on the trial — or even show up.

Clark was confused, which is understandable of someone lacking context attempting to draw inferences from pages and pages of a court transcript.

During my conversation with Clark, he told me he had been “tipped off” about the transcript by someone suggesting he review it. He expressed concern about “beating up” a reporter who was simply reporting what happened in a courtroom, but maintained I had erred. What he failed to mention was that his wife is employed as a judge, drawing a sixfigure salary comparable to that of Leask.

Who tipped Clark off and suggested he look at the transcript? I doubt it was Crown prosecutor Katie Bouchard or defence lawyer Matt Ford.

The court clerk at whom Leask pretentiously commanded and flicked his wrist?

Highly unlikely, in my opinion. Other than me, a deputy sheriff and the accused, that accounts for everyone in the courtroom but Leask.

I am not a conspiratorial person. Though I have listened to many a Coast to Coast AM broadcast in my 33 years, I like to trust the process and give benefits of doubt whenever possible. But there is something fishy about the journalist husband of a judge who writes a column defending a judge on a tip without mentioning his immediate connection to the judiciary.

To borrow a page from Leask’s playbook, allow me to announce my intention to disclose something fully: I used to be married to a lawyer.

When we were together, it would have been inappropriate for me to have written an opinion piece about the alleged conduct of another lawyer.

If, for some reason, I had, I like to think I would have let the reader know my close relationship to someone in the profession.

I asked Clark who tipped him off.

Understandably, he would not say. I did not expect he would. He did say it was a lawyer who thought he should look into it. He also said he debated with his editors whether to disclose his intimate connection to the judiciary in the column about Leask’s conduct on the bench.

He said they decided not to mention it.

The bottom line remains this: Clark wasn’t there last month when Leask made an inappropriate comment and suggested Bouchard speed things up.

I was. I felt the strange atmosphere of the courtroom and heard the belittling tone in Leask’s voice.

He was out of line. tim@kamloopsthis week.com

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RIH ER STAFF EXCELLENT AT TRIAGING PATIENTS Editor: With all the comments regarding the death of retired doctor Rajindar Joneja in the ER waiting room at Royal Inland Hospital, I feel the need to share my experience there.

Raising three children, I have spent more than my fair share of time at our ER. The usual stitches for contusions, casts for fractured bones, antibiotics and X-rays.

In the spring of 2005, we made three to four visits per week to the ER with our then-

infant son for respiratory issues.

Even when our son was ill enough to be tucked into the empty trauma room for breathing treatments, because there were no beds open, we were never taken directly into the bed area.

He was assessed and we were sent to the waiting room, where we would wait for anywhere from a minute or two to 20 or 30 minutes, depending on how ill he was.

My point is, we do not know if the doctor

was sent to wait for just a few minutes so they could get a bed ready for him.

It is incredibly sad that Joneja’s wife had to hold him while he died in a wheelchair in the waiting room.

But I know the staff at Royal Inland Hospital are excellent at triaging patients and, any time we have had a near life-threatening situation, we have been prioritized.

C. Wheeler Kamloops

LOGGING, NOT WOLVES, TAKING TOLL ON CARIBOU Editor: The B.C. government is granting logging permits in the Wells Gray area, which has been designated a crucial area for caribou.

Canfor has obtained permits to log areas on either side of the Clearwater River.

For several years, the government has blamed the decline

of the mountain caribou on the wolf population and initiated a five-year wolf-culling program consisting of shooting the animals from helicopters, setting strangling snares on the ground and employing the “Judas Wolf” strategy.

Still, there is no increase in the caribou population and it appears as if habitat loss from

industry and changes to logging regulation have taken a toll on caribou numbers.

Clearcut logging, which results in low-growing vegetation, boosts the deer and moose populations, which in turn attracts and sustains predators, including wolves and cougars.

Any caribou nearby become vulnerable to the predators.

Interestingly, Canfor and its subsidiaries have donated $884,366.08 to the B.C. Liberals since 2005.

One rightly wonders if the wolves are being used as scapegoats so logging companies can continue unabatedly their onslaught on B.C. forests.

Art Johnson Kamloops

CARTOONIST NAILS TRUDEAU ON BROKEN PROMISE Editor: Re: the political cartoon in the April 6 edition of KTW, which focused on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform.

Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When his (or her) lips are moving.

Over the past years, I have used the above Q&A quip as a joke.

Now, I take the above Q&A quip as political truth.

Cartoonist Ingrid Rice is more politically

astute than pretty much any of the journalists, scribes, whatever term you want to use, in the media trade.

What Rice is saying is politicians and media are giving us selected information in order to keep voters compliant and complacent.

Politicians have no idea of the level of contempt most voters have for politicians.

“Justin’s plan” and his broken promise on ending the first-past-the-post voting system have destroyed my hope for progressive reform.

Here is a suggestion to give voice to voter contempt of politicians: In the coming election campaign, any political representatives coming to your domicile will not be allowed in the yard or inside the house.

They will be told they will not get your vote.

If they object to provincial politics being condemned by federal politics, then they can tell that to the prime minister.

Ray Jones Kamloops

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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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online RE: STORY: B.C. ELECTION 2017: THE AJAX QUESTION:

“I will only vote for the party that is for the Ajax mine.

“Who’s with me?”

— posted by Tammy “Thank you, KTW, for asking this question and for prominently displaying the answers of the candidates.

“Ajax is a vote-decider for me.

Equivocation about reliance on ‘the process’ is simply political bafflegab and B.S. “‘Trusting the process’ got us the failed Mount Polley mine tailings-dam spill and the ruination of Quesnel Lake. Donovan Cavers has the temerity to speak plainly on this issue.

“He gets my vote.”

— posted by Jack Jones “I will vote for the candidate who has an open mind and considers there are other levels of government that will decide the fate of Ajax.

I will vote for the candidate who is thoughtful enough to know those who work in the environmental-assessment office have the background and education to better review all potential industrial proposals.”

— posted by On The Road

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LOCAL NEWS

Bike to Work Week nears Registration is now open for the 10th annual Kamloops Bike to Work Week.

The week-long celebration of the manual commute returns from May 29 to June 3. Interested participants can go online to biketowork.ca/kamloops to re-activate old accounts or sign up as a new rider.

Faith Bateman, event co-ordinator, said Bike to Work Week isn’t only about commuting to work and school. Riders can also log trips to the store they make on their bikes, rather than by car. Previous years have seen about 1,400 riders take part.

In addition to getting out of the car, Bike to Work Week will feature prize draws and daily celebration stations around the city, where participants can stop for snacks and partake in activities.

More details about the event will be posted online and on Facebook closer to the event date.

Off to rezoning Kamloops city council has agreed to hold a public hearing to rezone the downtown Travelodge property at 360 Columbia St. to allow a larger, taller hotel to be built on the property.

Council has also issued a development permit for a six-storey, 37-room hotel at 1529 Hugh Allan Dr. in Aberdeen.

Director of development and engineering services Marvin Kwiatkowski noted the Hugh Allan project has been approved by council before, but developer Kulwant Sangha asked to add more storeys to the building, with a narrower base, after having engineering work done on the property, which is sloped on one side.

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50,000 REASONS TO HELP BRING CATHETER LAB TO RIH

Royal Inland Hospital Foundation CEO Heidi Coleman (left) receives a cheque for $50,000 from Al Patel and family, creators of the Iccha Wish Fund, which annually raises money to buy medical equipment for the hospital. The big donation is a kickoff to a fundraising goal of $500,000 toward creation of a cardiac-care unit at RIH, complete with a catheter lab. The aim is to establish at RIH what exists now at Kelowna General Hospital, in the process eliminating the need to transport cardiac patients in the Kamloops area to Kelowna for treatment. In the photo with Coleman are, from left, Atish Patel, Amrita Patel-Ebata, Al Patel, Bina Patel, Chanchalben Patel, Shankarama Gowd and G.B. Gowd. For more information on the effort, read past stories online at kamloopsthisweek.com.

I VOTE.

GENERAL ELECTION The provincial election is on May 9, 2017 You can vote if you are: • 18 or older on May 9, 2017 • a Canadian citizen, and • a resident of British Columbia for the past six months

Voter registration You must be registered to vote. If you are not already registered, you can register when you vote.

Remember to bring your ID with you when you vote.

Make voting easy Look for your Where to Vote card in the mail and bring it with you when you vote. It will make voting faster and easier.

You can vote at any voting place in the province.

Voting places are listed on your Where to Vote card and at elections.bc.ca/wtv. You can also call 1-800-661-8683 to find voting places near you.

General Voting Day General Voting Day is May 9. Voting is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Pacific time).

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Vote at your district electoral office from now until 4 p.m. (Pacific time) on May 9, or ask for a vote by mail package from Elections BC.

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Elder Garry Gottfriedson (left) read poems from his book to students at Sa-Hali secondary school during the April 7 aboriginal appreciation day event.

Bigs look to revenue sources impacts the revenue stream.

Devitt said the program has other benefits. It helps the community by recycling items that might otherwise go to the landfill and the money raised stays in Kamloops and benefits the city’s youth.

Last year, Stanko said, an estimated 1.5-million pounds was diverted from the city’s landfill.

It’s not the only revenue source.

The annual Bowl for Kids helps fill the coffers, as does the Moonlight Movies event Interior Savings Credit Union offers in the summer at Riverside Park to benefit the mentoring programs.

Volunteer Jake Vandermeer of Centra Windows is also hosting a fundraiser on Thursday, April 20, at Match Eatery in Cascades Casino. It includes dinner, one beverage, a silent auction and entertainment.

Tickets are $25 and available at the agency, 821 Seymour St., or by calling Vandermeer at 250-299-6717.

Denise Underwood, chair of the agency board of directors, called recent months challenging.

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As Big Brothers Big Sisters Kamloops makes moves to shore up its sustainability, its Renew Crew is feeling the pinch from Kamloopsians turning to social media to sell items they no longer want.

That, combined with the fact there are more people in the donation pool, has seen participation in the recycling program the agency runs diminish.

The agency has an agreement with Value Village to sell its used clothing, housewares and other goods it collects on a per-pound basis.

Mentoring co-ordinator Jesanne Stanko, Renew Crew associate John Devitt and office manager Angie Cavanaugh are now running the agency.

Joanne Mason has left her position as executive director.

The Renew Crew program accounts for about 40 per cent of the agency’s estimated $400,000 budget and, Stanko said, “if there’s no product, we can’t meet our quota,” which

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The agency had to stop accepting children into its mentoring program, although it continues with those who are already matched up with Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

The board is rebuilding and looking for people with expertise in human relations, fund development, marketing and aboriginal youth.

Government grants and other funding opportunities are a challenge, with many organizations after the money available — and few willing to provide operational grants, the kind needed to sustain any organization in order to provide programming.

While the mentoring program is strong, the Big Bunch program of group mentoring has a wait list and is one the agency wants to grow. It sees young people and adults meet twice a month for about two hours of mentorship that is recreation-based.

Underwood said that program is one she would like to see other organizations in the city partner with to offer various fun opportunities for the participants.

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Patti Pernitsky knows all too well the plight of the earlychildhood educator.

“I have to be honest and say I’ve been in the field since 1974 and this has been something that we’ve been talking about since 1974, is having affordable child care,” Pernitsky told KTW. “We have families that come into our centre that, literally, are single moms trying to rub two nickels together to turn them into a quarter. They need to have some kind of security so that they can go out and be a breadwinner and show their children that there’s a different way of living, instead of welfare.”

Pernitsky, the administrator, manager and senior educator of the non-profit Kamloops United Church Preschool and Out of School Care program, is part of a group of earlychildhood educators seeking to hear what candidates have to say about providing constituents with affordable and qualified child care.

The Early Childhood Educators of B.C. (ECEBC) professional association has long been pushing its $10 per day child care plan, which it believes would alleviate stress for families, while benefitting centres and educators across the province.

Natalie Statham is spearheading an effort to have the candidates sit down with educators, students and parents on Thursday, April 20, to talk about the plan and the myriad

problems the childcare industry is facing heading into the May 9 election.

“It goes on and on.

This government plan, we’ve been speaking about it for years and years and the government isn’t really pumping funds into early learning, early education, early care,” said Statham, early childhood education instructor and practicum co-ordinator at Sprott Shaw College.

“It’s really frustrating for us who are in the trenches, who try to make a difference in a field we love, but we’re tired,” she said.

“We’re burning people out. There’s a lot that’s broken and we just want to say, ‘Hey, what about us?’”

According to UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership data, B.C. continues to have among the highest levels of child poverty in the country.

Meanwhile, childcare costs keep rising and families are forced to chose unregulated or illegal child-care programs that lack qualified educators.

Citing UBC’s data, ECEBC’s $10/day child care plan says 33 per cent of B.C. children enter kindergarten vulnerable in one or more developmental areas, up from 29 per cent over the last five years.

All the while, earlychildhood educators are forced to leave the field, with the financial viability of child-care centres flagging and wages sometimes well behind the cost of living.

At the end of the day, it’s the children who suffer most, say proponents of the plan.

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Jennifer Hiebert, earlychildhood educator and owner of A World of Wonder Preschool and School-Aged Program in Kamloops.

“The first five years is now known to be

and start to talk about B.C.’s provincial childcare crisis.

In Statham’s words, “How are you going to represent the little ones in your constituencies?

“I really feel strongly that we need to fight for parents’ rights and we need to fight for educators’ rights because, ultimately, when we fight for those two things,

we’re fighting for the children’s rights,” Pernitsky said.

“Canada’s children should not be where they are in the accounting.

“When you look at the big scheme of things, Canada does not come out good in what it does for its children. We need to somehow change that because they are our future.”

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New Democrats unveiled an election platform yesterday that is heavy on spending, but promises to bring in a balanced budget.

“We looked at the latest numbers from the Ministry of Finance in February on revenue expectations and we made different

choices than the B.C. Liberals,” said party leader John Horgan from aboard a bus in the Lower Mainland.

In an interview with KTW, Horgan said the party would reinstate a two per cent tax on the highest income earners and increase the corporate tax to be consistent with other provinces.

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“We’ve been as conservative as we could on the operating side. We’re going to invest in building B.C,”

Horgan said.

“For far too long the B.C. Liberals focused on wealthy families and not on the people of B.C.” A New Democrat government would

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everyone’s taxes to pay for it,” he said.

“That doesn’t reconcile with what I’m hearing on the doorstep, where everyone wants to keep more of their paycheque.”

The NDP is not campaigning on raising income taxes, other than the two per cent on high earners.

The party is also pledging to eliminate interest on student debt, outdoing the Liberals, who would cut it in half from today’s five per cent mark. New Democrats would also offer a completion grant of $1,000 to those who graduate from postsecondary.

“It encourages people to finish,” Horgan said. “I hear from young people who can’t afford more debt and so many can’t afford to finish their program.”

Horgan reiterated commitments to improvements at Royal Inland Hospital and pledged to accelerate four-laning of the Trans-Canada highway.

Kamloops-North Thompson NDP candidate Barb Nederpel said she’s excited the platform speaks to issues she is hearing from voters, particularly on health care and service.

“I’m excited about the $75 million over three years to reverse the 30,000 forestry jobs lost under the B.C. Liberals,” Nederpel said.

The platform promises to require B.C. wood in major projects, including engineered structural products developed in this province.

“Hopefully, that could be part of the plan when we build the hospital here,” she said.

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“We’re not seeing the services we expect,” Horgan said of Liberal Leader Christy Clark’s government.

“That’s evident in Kamloops, where last week the walk-in medical clinic shut down.”

Kamloops-South Thompson NDP candidate Nancy Bepple said she again met people yesterday standing in line at a walk-in clinic.

“There were 40 people in line, including a baby, at 7 a.m waiting to see a doctor.

That’s not health care — that’s abysmal,” she said.

The NDP has pledged to bring in urgent family-care centres to respond to the city’s health-care needs.

Bepple said she was also pleased to see commitment in her party’s platform for jobs in the hightech sector, including pledges to hire B.C. software developers.

“The first few contracts you get are crucial,” said Bepple, who started her career in high-tech, including at B.C.’s own MacDonaldDettwiler (now MDA).

“If government can support small tech companies and help them get started and get the first contract, then you can grow just like MacDonaldDettwiler did,” she said.

Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal candidate Peter Milobar said the NDP platform is based on higher taxes.

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Liberal Peter Milobar lives in Valleyview, which was in the riding until the boundaries changed before the 2009 election.

Green candidate Dan Hines grew up on the North Shore and has family roots through his grandfather in the North Thompson Valley.

New Democrat Barb Nederpel is a former NDP president in Kamloops-North Thompson and was active in the Kamloops and District Labour Council, which is based there. She also plans to buy a house in Sun Rivers, which is in the riding, if she is elected on May 9.

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Milobar is touting his understanding of the North Shore through his 12 years on council, including as mayor, and his connection to the North Thompson through leadership of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and regional hospital district.

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Despite those demographics and a history that includes the NDP, Pillar nonetheless believes it will take a provincewide swing for New Democrat Barb Nederpel to beat the retiring Lake’s successor, Peter Milobar. A major factor is the lack of a Conservative candidate who can take votes away from the Liberals.

“The left and the left vote will get split up,” Pillar predicted. “The NDP and the Greens will share the vote.”

The Green party did not run a candidate in 2013, but this time has a well-funded campaign with a credible candidate in Dan Hines, a part-time pastor whose family history runs deep in the North Valley and North Kamloops.

New Democrat Barb Nederpel is vying to be the first NDP MLA in the riding in more than two decades. She said she’s not running against Milobar as a candidate or against Lake as the former MLA. “I’m on doorsteps every day and there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse for people who voted for Christy Clark and a ‘GP for me,’” she said of the B.C. Liberals’ failed promise to have a family physician for every resident by 2015.

“Thousands of people don’t have a family doctor . . . I’m focused on running against Christy Clark’s record,” Nederpel said. “That’s my focus. We’ve had 16 years of the Liberals and a lot of mismanagement and dishonesty.”

Liberal Peter Milobar said he doesn’t concern himself with whether Kamloops-North Thompson is a target for the opposition as a winnable riding.

“I don’t really look at it that way,” he said. “At this point ,we’re moving forward highlighting differences between myself and

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udging by the results of the last provincial election, Kamloops-North Thompson would appear to be firmly in the clutches of the governing B.C. Liberals.

Four years ago, incumbent Liberal Terry Lake picked up 52 per cent of the popular vote — the largest margin of victory going back nearly two decades in the riding. Trailing was New Democrat Kathy Kendall, with about 40 per cent.

But that short-term view ignores the history of the riding and key changes before the 2009 election. Prior to that, the electoral boundaries commission moved the lines by making the Thompson and South Thompson rivers the border of the two ridings. Previously, Kamloops-North Thompson included much of east Kamloops, including Juniper Ridge and Valleyview.

An analysis of those changes made by a political consultant before the 2009 election predicted it would make a number of riding more winnable for the NDP, including Kamloops-North Thompson.

In fact, Lake squeaked in with a two per cent margin in 2009 over NDP candidate Doug Brown.

Brown, who is not involved in this campaign, blames the shift on the NDP’s so-called Kinder surprise in Kamloops in 2013, when then-leader Adrian Dix came out against the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Liberal advertising then effectively portrayed the party as a weather vane, shifting with whatever political opinion of the day felt right.

“It definitely was a swing riding — and still is,” Brown said.

The riding was last held by the NDP in 1991, when longtime labour organizer Fred Jackson became MLA as part of the the Mike Harcourt government. In 1996, Kevin Krueger won as a B.C. Liberal, sitting in opposition for the first and last time.

“With the demographics, they [NDP] should win with 51 per cent, not the Liberals,” said retired city political scientist Ray Pillar.

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The Green party’s Dan Hines said he and Kamloops-South Thompson counterpart Donavan Cavers have raised $33,000 and counting to make Kamloops a Green beachhead.

Hines said he is hearing opposition to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline up and down the valley. The company has provided benefit agreements to municipalities and First Nations and is a corporate donor to the B.C. Liberals.

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“We’re up against big money — big money and political success have a direct correlation in our society,” Hines said, noting he is also courting people who have not voted recently.

“I don’t know how many people I met who never voted before. My standard line is ‘I’ve never ran for politics before.’”

Communist candidate Peter Kerek said the valley has never recovered from the loss of mills, including in Vavenby and Louis Creek.

“Those value-added jobs contribute so much to the economic environment compared to simply exporting raw logs,” he said.

Kerek said a Communist party would create incentives for corporations to build mills close to communities. The party calls for government taking control of natural resource industries.

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Dan Hines is the kind of guy who goes where his inspirations take him, whether it’s for God, his unique household or the Green party.

It’s the first time in politics for the 51-year-old, whose varying life experiences range from construction, landscaping and management at B.C. Wildlife Park to ministering in the Anglican Church.

The Green candidate in Kamloops-North Thompson is a honorary associate at St Paul’s Cathedral downtown. That volunteer position makes him a bit of an oddity and a throwback — as far back as the apostle Paul himself, who was a preacher and tentmaker in the first Christian church.

“If you go back far enough it was the pattern,” Hines said.

“You’d have a trade and you’d be clergy.”

Hines’ background in the material world helped him oversee construction of his home,

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“I think Dave Barrett and the Dave Barrett government was unique. You look at all that legislation for a one-term government. We still have a legacy of that in many ways.”

Any hobbies or talents?

“I play the guitar and sing.”

Who would you vote for if not for yourself?

“There’s no chance.”

where he lives with a number of other singles and couples in the RareBirds Co-operative perched above Guerin Creek in the Powers Addition neighbourhood.

The home is a showcase for sustainability and use of solar power.

The six or so couples or singles have separate, small living quarters,

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but share living and cooking space.

Hines was drawn to the party by federal leader Elizabeth May, who will appear in the KamloopsNorth Thompson riding for the day on April 26. The two are friends.

“She made sense to me in a way other politicians don’t,” he said.

The praise for the “clarity of her [May’s] principles” is no faint

praise for a man who makes his living these days as an inspirational speaker, touring mostly in the United States, where he leads workshops.

He has deep roots in the North Thompson riding, where his grandfather on his father’s side worked as a sheep rancher in the North Thomson valley. He grew up the son of a millworker in North Kamloops, attending

Brocklehurst junior secondary and Norkam secondary school.

Hines shares his RareBirds home with his wife, Robyn. The couple has two daughters, aged 22 and 25.

Aside for his respect for Green federal leader May, Hines said his belief in the Green party also stems from his connection to the land in the North Thompson, as well as his love for the outdoors (“I’m happiest when I’m outside”), which includes hiking and sailing.

Between them Hines and Kamloops-South Thompson Green Donavan Cavers are running a serious campaign, including a professional campaign manager.

Hines estimates he’s knocked on 5,000 doors already and can tap into a weariness and cynicism among voters.

“I don’t know how many people I’ve met with who said ‘I’ve never voted before.’ My standard line is ‘I’ve never ran for politics before.’ . . . We have a huge advantage: We’re outsiders in a two-party, decades-long cold war.”

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Voters likely won’t see Peter Kerek’s blue bus on the road this campaign season.

“Other than for camping,” Kerek told KTW, noting the vehicle is “fully camperized,” complete with a furnace, running water, kitchen and bunk beds.

The vehicle, which donned advertising for the 43-year-old SD73 bus driver’s unsuccessful run for Kamloops city council in 2014, will stay parked due to time and financial constraints, but Kerek’s ambitions continue driving full speed ahead.

Running in Kamloops-North Thompson, he makes up half the equation of just two Communist Party of British Columbia candidates. Beat Klossner is running in Kamloops-South Thompson.

Kerek has lofty goals: overhauling capitalism, ending poverty and providing free post-secondary education, among others. He divides parties into capitalist and anti-capitalist and said he pro-

vides an alternative to the status quo.

“There’s not enough progressive candidates,” Kerek said. “In my case, you could argue, there’s not any progressive candidates because the NDP, Green and Liberals are all willing to work within the realm of capitalism to achieve some goals.”

B.C. looks different under a communist government: higher taxation and more Crown corporations would fund a planned economy, Kerek said, adding it would ensure control over things like health care and jobs.

He doesn’t model himself after any other politician but said Michael Crawford and Bill Sundhu “probably would have been the best MPs Kamloops has ever seen compared to who they were running against at that time.”

Kerek has arts and journalism degrees and is former president of the Kamloops and District Labour Council. He and his wife, Melissa, have three children.

At one point in the interview, while detailing a B.C. Federation

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with Peter Kerek Who was B.C.’s best premier?

“I can’t come up with one. I think the imposition of our parliamentary and European way of doing things is offensive to the indigenous people and their history.”

Any hobbies or talents?

“I play a handful of instruments.”

Who would you vote for if not for yourself?

Peter Kerek is running for the Communist Party in the KamloopsNorth Thompson.

“I would vote for the most progressive candidate, who I thought could stand up to their mainstream party and be willing to be kicked out of that party.”

of Labour convention he attended in 2006, Kerek cited Tommy Douglas while criticizing the NDP’s “failure to follow through on their progressive commitments.”

“You can’t hold the hand of the lord and the devil at the same time,” he said, quoting Douglas.

Admitting his chances were slim in landing a seat on city

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council in 2014, he said elections can be utilized to hold people to account. He was happy to sway discussion from Tranquille Road beautification to social and affordable housing.

“It depends on how you measure your success,” Kerek said.

“One of the most right wing city councillors at that time was Nelly Dever, who had frequently taken positions against public transit and certain progressive things that people like me support. So she’s no longer on council, so progressives in the progressive community see that as a success.”

He has a similar mentality this time around, knowing it will take more than two candidates to form government.

He compared his party to the Greens in hoping to gain momentum over time and said a strong showing at the ballot box would force other parties to pay attention.

“In the big picture, we’re pushing for progressive things to happen, whether or not we actually get into office,” he said.

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Peter Milobar gave some long, serious thought about running for a seat in the provincial legislature.

He didn’t doubt he’d be up to the task; his years on council and as mayor have given him a master’s degree in the art of governing.

What caused him pause, he said, was the reality things can be different when you’re part of a political party, one that could return as the government.

“I gave that a lot of thought,” he said of the need to conform to party rules.

“But, on council, five people decide if we’re doing something and I have to go out and deal with it, even if I voted against it — like chickens and pesticides.”

Backyard chickens and pesticide use were contentious council issues where Milobar was on the losing side of the vote.

“But, with caucus, Christy Clark is very much a team person and I know I can bring my thoughts to the table and they’ll be listened

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“That’s hard to answer. Both Bennetts, Campbell, Clark.

You have to consider the times.”

Any hobbies or talents?

“I’m a fairly open book.

There’s not much people don’t know about me.”

Who would you vote for if not for yourself?

“Next question.”

to — but I might not win the day,” he said.

“It’s very much like council.”

He also contemplated another reality as he pondered seeking the seat being vacated by his council predecessor, Terry Lake.

“I love the job of mayor,” Milobar said. “But things sometimes happen in life when you

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Peter Milobar is running for the Liberal Party in the Kamloops-North Thompson riding.

need to decide, like when I decided to run for mayor instead of council. Can I do for the community in a different capacity? It sounds cliche but it’s the reason why.”

As for his party of choice, Milobar believes the provincial Liberals “have done a good job” leading the province through the years and have shown an ability to try to find workable solutions

to build a strong economy while continuing to provide necessary services.

“They’re always finding ways to balance priorities,” he said, while not hindering the business or resource sector.

“They have a clear vision and a way forward.”

He said he’s often asked if he’s a provincial or a federal Liberal, a difference some see between a party that has in its foundation a fair number of Social Credit bricks, something the national party does not share.

“I’m no so bogged down on ideology,” Milobar said.

“And people have trouble pegging me with any ideology. I think it’s really a case of being pragmatic. Does stuff make sense or not?

“If we can contract out a service and do a better job and save some money for the community, OK, but I’m not locked into that belief. You have to look at each topic, ideologies aside, and ask what is the true, best way forward?

“You need to make sure something is done right and efficiently.”

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Barb Nederpel had always wanted to be a nurse. Becoming a politician? Not so much on the radar, the NDP’s KamloopsNorth Thompson candidate freely admits.

There were family connections to the nursing profession — a grandmother and an uncle — but there was also a lot of firsthand experience with the job, thanks to a sickly childhood.

“I was practically raised by nurses,” said Nederpel, the BC NDP’s candidate in KamloopsNorth Thompson.

“It was one of those things I always wanted to do.”

The path to becoming a licensed practical nurse wasn’t completely straight. By the time she started her training, Nederpel was raising a daughter on her own.

A self-described “hydro brat” who moved to B.C. at five, Nederpel said she was raised with the kind of social justice values

with Barb Nederpel Who was B.C.’s best premier?

“David Barrett, who was B.C.’s NDP premier between 1972 and 1975.”

Any hobbies or talents?

“My way of relaxing is baking cakes and decorating cakes I did a fundraiser last year where I decorated 11 cakes in a very short amount of time.”

Who would you vote for if not for yourself?

“Green candidate Dan Hines.”

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Barb Nederpel is running for the NDP in the Kamloops-North Thompson.

that led her to join the NDP. “My mom was a stay-at-home mom and we had one of those houses where the door was always open,” she said.

“We raised half the kids in the neighbourhood,” she said.

“I grew up like this. It’s no sur-

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prise I am where I am.”

In getting back to one childhood dream, she also discovered a passion that has absorbed her life in the decade since.

“Once I started working in nursing, I started seeing the deficiencies in the system,” she said.

“I started seeing the struggles people were facing.”

Early on, Nederpel decided LPNs like herself needed an expanded scope of practice.

“I went to our union and said, ‘Hey, fix this,’ and they said, ‘That’s not how this works. If you want change you need to step up.’”

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Since then, she’s served as president of the Kamloops and District Labour Council and lobbied on Parliament Hill and in Victoria.

She also serves as vice president of the Hospital Employee’s Union. She now works in the hospital’s respiratory therapy clinic.

“Because I started late in life, I feel like I had a lot of ground to cover really quickly,” she said.

“And I’ve always been the kind of person where if I see something that’s wrong, I roll up my sleeves and get to work.”

But, when it came time for the New Democrats to start choosing candidates, Nederpel said she didn’t see herself in that role.

Organizing and volunteering were more her speed. It took friends and party members to convince her otherwise.

“I think that’s what sets me apart from the other candidates,” she said. “I’m not doing this because I saw an opportunity, I didn’t grow up wanting to become an MLA. I’m doing this because B.C. needs change and I want to be part of that change.”

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There’s more to the hairdressing program at NorKam Senior secondary than learning to keep those scissors sharp and staying up-to-date on the latest fashion.

That may be the image the program first creates, but the course teaches the skills required to run a hairdressing business from salon management to the science involved in dealing with the chemicals that can be key to a new coif.

The program has struggled in recent years and there is hope enough stu-

dents will register for it to continue in the 2017 school year.

Principal Jonathan Brady said the program can accept at least 16 and up to 20 students.

It’s a perfect fit with the emphasis the new high-school curriculum has on experiential learning, Brady said, “and it’s not just hair cutting.

It’s thinking. It’s problem solving. It’s many skills.”

The 10-month program has been in existence for a decade, taught by Red Seal stylist Adrian Parker.

In the past, students who have entered the annual Skills Canada compe-

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It fulfills 32 credits toward graduation requirements.

Students are registered with and take the necessary exam from the Industry Training Authority that leads them to Red Seal certification.

Graduates can also apply for up to $2,000 in grants.

Not all go on to work in salons or start their own businesses, although graduates have done that in Kamloops, Australia and New Zealand.

Some have also found work on movie sets that also require their esthetic skills.

The program is

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While it is best to register soon to help the school district with planning, Brady acknowledged some students don’t have the best long-range planning skills and might not make a decision until September.

That’s fine, he said — and long-range planning is one of the skills the program will teach.

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New penalties would range from a simple police citation to 14 years behind bars.

“If your objective is to protect public health and safety and keep cannabis out of the hands of minors and stop the flow of profits to organized crime, then the law as it stands today has been an abject failure,’’ Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told a news conference.

“Police forces spend between $2 billion and $3 billion every year trying to deal with cannabis and yet Canadian teenagers are among the heaviest users in the Western world . . . we simply have to do better.”

The new law would allow adults 18 and older to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis or its equivalent in public, share up to 30 grams of dried marijuana with other adults and buy cannabis or cannabis oil from a provincially

regulated retailer.

They would also be permitted to grow up to four plants per residence for personal use, as well as make legal cannabis-containing products at home.

The government says it intends to bring other products, including pot-infused edibles, into the legalized sphere once federal regulations for production and sale are developed and brought into force.

Under the proposed Cannabis Act, it would remain illegal to import cannabis and cannabis products and to export them without a valid permit. Permits may be issued for certain purposes, such as medical cannabis and industrial hemp.

It would also be against the law to sell cannabis in a package

or with a label that could be construed as appealing to young people, to include testimonials or endorsements or to depict a person, character or animal.

The government also aims to establish significant penalties for those who engage young Canadians in cannabis-related offences and a zerotolerance approach to drug-impaired driving, along with a robust public awareness campaign.

The RCMP and the Canadian Border Services Agency plan to work together, along with local police, to uphold laws governing illegal cross-border movement of cannabis.

Goodale made a point of noting the existing laws remain

in effect until the new legislation is formally proclaimed the law of the land.

“As the bill moves through the legislative process, existing laws prohibiting possession and use of cannabis remain in place, and they need to be respected,” he said.

“This must be an orderly transition; it is not a free-for-all.”

Provinces, territories and municipalities would be able to tailor rules for their own jurisdictions, enforcing them through mechanisms such as ticketing.

They will also be permitted to set their own licensing, distribution and retail sales rules, establish provincial zoning rules for cannabis businesses and change provincial traffic safety laws as they deem necessary.

Health Minister Jane Philpott said criminalizing cannabis has not deterred use among young people, noting products like alcohol and tobacco are legally available with restrictions.

Once passed, the Liberal bills introduced yesterday would make Canada the first member of the G7 to legalize marijuana for recreational use across the country.

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Family doctors key to screening addiction VANCOUVER — A tag hanging from a dead man’s left toe says the cause of death was an overdose of fentanyl, “unknowingly taken with other drugs.’’

The cadaver draped in a sheet is displayed in ads funded by the Vancouver Police Foundation and represents 922 people who died in B.C. from overdoses last year.

A spiralling number of deaths, often involving fentanyl, prompted the province to declare a public health emergency and to launch its own awareness campaign on TV, radio, Facebook, transit and at bars and restaurants.

The province rolled out its latest campaign this week, featuring Facebook ads about a mother whose son died of an overdose, users

who say they struggled with the shame of addiction until they got treatment and the importance of carrying naloxone, a medication used to temporarily reverse overdoses.

The state of emergency remains in effect after a year, but fatalities continue, with a monthly high of 142 deaths in December. It said deaths in February were down slightly from 117 in January but 219 people died in the first two months of 2017, up from 143 during the same period last year.

Many of the dead had no idea fentanyl was cut into their drugs, including heroin, cocaine, crack, ecstasy and meth, and that a speck of the powerful opioid can kill.

Provincial health officer Perry Kendall said after a decline in over-

doses between March and September last year, a more potent drug, carfentanil, was responsible for an increase in deaths in November.

He said the don’tuse-alone message is not getting to people who use illicit drugs despite measures taken, such as more distribution of naloxone, lifting restrictions on doctors prescribing the treatment drug suboxone and the opening of overdose prevention sites where people can ingest drugs under supervision.

Kendall said the next step will be to provide treatment with opioid substances, such as the painkiller hydromorphone and injectable heroin.

Patients take the drugs under supervision at the Crosstown clinic in Vancouver,

U.S. to release decision on softwood lumber April 25 MONTREAL — The U.S. Commerce Department says it will announce on April 25 whether it will impose duties on Canadian softwood.

A spokesman for the department said any preliminary duties would be applied on imports about a week later. The U.S. Lumber Coalition, which last November formally petitioned the American government to impose duties, has argued the Canadian lumber producers are unfairly subsidized.

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the only such facility in North America, but lead physician Dr. Scott MacDonald said people who haven’t responded to other treatment could benefit if the program were expanded.

The BC Centre on Substance Use is developing guidelines regard-

ing that move on behalf of the health ministry, said Cheyenne Johnson, a nurse and clinical director at the centre.

She said training family doctors to screen and diagnose opioid addiction will be key to addressing the number of overdose deaths in

B.C., and that the centre has taken on that task.

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The thieves are still very active throughout the City, a number of victims have reported items being stolen from their vehicles. More vehicles were reported broken into the past couple of weeks. Let’s catch these suspects; they are not acting alone and are selling the stolen property somewhere. Plain and simple, remove your valuables, make sure the doors are locked and the vehicle’s alarm system is on.

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People featured are wanted on arrest warrants not vacated as of 3 p.m. on April 12, 2017

VANDALISM TO STORE The Police would like to know who this young person is? For whatever reason this young male became very upset and started to yell at the staff member in the 7-11 store on the 1800 block of Tranquille Rd on Saturday, April 8th. The store employee told the male to leave, the male then continued to yell at the staff member and as the male left the store he kicked the front glass door. The window broke and now has to be replaced, this male should be held

responsible for the damage.

The male is described as Caucasian, late teens, short hair, at the time he was wearing black ball cap with the words “Los Santos” ( a reference to the Grand Theft Auto video game ) he also had on black jacket with grey and white stripes with the pattern running into the hood.

If you know who this person is please contact Crime Stoppers, you may receive a cash reward upon the arrest of this suspect.

KNOW THIS THIEF Mid afternoon on Sunday, March 12th a lone male entered the Dollar Tree Discount Store at the Northills Malls. This male had a plan but it seemed to change part way through his tour of the store. The staff became aware of this male and watched him walk up and down the isles for a brief period of time. The male had nothing in his hands then came to the from counter, grabbed a box of disposable lighters and calmly walked out of the store. The male

is described as Caucasian, mid 30’s, short dark hair and was wearing a long sleeve white T shirt with a black T shirt over top with a red pocket on it, he also had on silver chain.

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HALIFAX — Canada’s oldest independent newspaper — whose newsroom has been on strike for more than a year — has bought all of Transcontinental Media’s newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

The Halifax Chronicle Herald said yesterday a new company, SaltWire Network, will comprise 27 Transcontinental newspapers and the novanewsnow. com website and the Herald’s own publications.

Mark Lever, president and CEO of SaltWire Network, wouldn’t divulge the financial terms of the transaction, but said being in 30 communities would give the entity a “renewed relevance.’’

Katherine Chartrand, director of communications for Transcontinental, confirmed SaltWire had approached the company several months ago about purchasing the newspapers.

She said the papers are profitable and represent $66 million in annual revenues.

Among the newspapers involved in the transaction are the Charlottetown

Guardian, St. John’s Telegram and the Cape Breton Post.

Transcontinental remains the owner of two plants operated within its printing division in the region.

It said about 650 of its media employees in Atlantic Canada are part of the transaction and will receive an offer from SaltWire Network Inc. Lever said the immediate plan is to keep the papers whole, including their workforces.

“The goal of this is to give autonomy and some authority in those local brands so that they can have the resources to cover the communities that they serve better going forward,’’ said Lever. “This is not reducing staff complements.”

He said content would be shared between individual papers as required.

The acquisition comes amidst a contentious strike involving editorial staff at the Herald.

The union for the 54 striking reporters, photographers, editors and support staff at the Halifax Herald was scathing in its assessment of the purchase.

It said the announcement stood in “stark contrast’’ to the

concessions the Herald has insisted upon over the past 16 months.

“We were taken aback by it,’’ said Ingrid Bulmer, president of the Halifax Typographical Union, a local of CWA Canada.

“We thought maybe at some point somebody else would buy the Herald. We never in our wildest dreams would have thought that a company crying poor would come out with an announcement that they’ve gobbled up a good portion of the Atlantic provinces newspapers and weeklies — it boggles the mind.”

The acquisition brings two of Atlantic Canada’s most prominent media properties under single ownership.

O’Hanlon said that means SaltWire Network Inc. and the Irving-owned Brunswick News Inc. control most of the newspapers in Atlantic Canada.

The deal also includes the acquisition of four printing plants operated within TC Media, commercial printing operations in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and combines the largest distribution networks in Atlantic Canada.

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Who stood to benefit from the chemical attack?

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.S. President Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the courts, so he must be familiar with the legal concept of “cui bono (who benefits?)”

When a crime is committed, the likeliest culprit is the person who benefited from the deed.

But Trump certainly did not apply that principle when deciding to attack a Syrian government airbase with 59 cruise missiles.

The attack against Shayrat airbase, the first U.S. military action against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in six years of civil war, was allegedly a retaliation for a poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun three days before that Trump blamed on the Syrian regime.

But who stood to benefit from the chemical attack in the first place?

There was absolutely no direct military advantage to be derived from killing 80 civilians with poison gas in Khan Sheikhoun. The town, located in al-Qaedacontrolled territory in Idlib province, is not near any front line and is of no military significance.

The one useful thing the gas attack might produce, with an impulsive new president in the White House, was an American attack on the Syrian regime.

Who would benefit from that? Well, the rebels obviously would.

They have been on the ropes since the Assad

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WATCH regime reconquered Aleppo in December and, if the warming relationship between Washington and Moscow resulted in an imposed peace settlement in Syria, they would lose everything.

(Only a few days ago, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said removing Assad from power was no longer Washington’s priority.)

Al-Qaeda — and probably several other rebel groups — have access to chemical weapons. The country was awash with them before the war because the ability to make a mass chemical-weapons attack on Israel was Syria’s only deterrent against an Israeli nuclear attack.

(Assad and his father before him understood clearly that Syria would never be allowed to have nuclear weapons of its own.)

Chemical weapons were stored in military facilities all over Syria and, at one point, half the country was under rebel control.

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on occasion in their own internecine wars.

Would al-Qaeda have hesitated to use them on innocent civilians in order to trigger an American attack on the Syrian regime?

Of course not.

The results have already been spectacular.

The developing Russian-American alliance in Syria is broken, the prospect of an imposed peace that sidelines the rebels — indeed, of any peace at all — has retreated below the horizon and Tillerson has just declared “steps are underway” to form an international coalition to force al-Assad from power.

Not a bad return on a small investment.

But we should also consider the possibility al-Assad actually did order the attack. Why would it do that? For exactly the same reason: to trigger an American attack on the Syrian regime. From a policy perspective, that could make perfectly good sense.

The American attack didn’t really hurt much, after all, and it has already smashed a developing Russian-American relationship in Syria that could have ended up imposing unwelcome conditions on Assad.

Indeed, Moscow and Washington might ultimately have decided that ejecting Assad (though not the entire regime) from power was an essential part of the peace settlement.

Assad doesn’t want foreigners deciding his

fate and he doesn’t want a premature peace settlement, either.

He wants the war to go on long enough for him to reconquer and reunite the whole country (with Russian help, of course). So, use a little poison gas and Trump will obligingly overreact.

That should end the threat of U.S.-Russian collaboration in Syria.

Either of these possibilities — a false-flag attack by al-Qaeda or a deliberate provocation by the regime itself — is plausible. What is not remotely believable is the notion the stupid and evil Syrian regime just decided a random poison gas attack on an unimportant town would be a bit of fun.

Villains in DC Comics do bad things simply because they are evil.

The players in the Syrian civil war do bad things because they are part of serious (though often evil) strategies.

Whoever committed the atrocity at Khan Sheikhoun wanted the United States to attack the Syrian regime — and Trump fell for it.

But if Trump was taken in by the Syrians, he certainly exploited his attack to send a very serious message to China and North Korea. He is a player, too, after all, and it can hardly be an accident that he timed the attack for the day of his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping.

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any people flock to churches at Easter because they know they are perhaps going to hear inspirational good news.

But Easter is also terrifying news.

According to Apostle Mark, early on the first Easter Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and two other women made their way to a tomb to anoint the dead body of Jesus.

Mark tells us these women had earlier watched the crucifixion of Jesus “from a distance.”

When it was all over, they saw a disciple pull the dead body off the cross, wrap it in a linen cloth, lay it in a tomb and roll a stone over the door of the tomb.

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From a distance, the women began to watch what would happen.

That is our favourite perspective on death.

We do all we can to keep death away.

We try to stay healthy, work out and watch what we eat. It’s all a way of keeping death at bay.

But occasionally, it catches up to someone we love. Then we know we have to see death up close.

Recent incidents in Stockholm, London, Berlin and Paris, in which people were mowed down deliberately by vehicles used as weapons, prove the point.

In the aftermath of terrorist attacks all over the world, social commentators keep repeating “everything, including death, has changed.”

It remains to be seen how much we have changed — beyond tolerating long lines at airports or border crossings.

The women who made their way to the tomb on the first Easter morning had been with Jesus for some time.

They had seen him constantly restoring the lives of others.

Before Mary met him, her soul had been torn apart by seven demons.

All the women knew they were something less before meeting Jesus.

This man was their saviour, but now he was dead.

Maybe, as they walked down the road toward the tomb, one of them mentioned the world has always been hard on saviours.

Or, like most people in deep grief, maybe they said nothing at all as they closed the distance between themselves and death.

Their only dilemma was how they would get the heavy stone rolled back.

Many of us also know well about pushing against the stones of life. We may have been pushing some of them for a long time.

Perhaps, Easter 2017 is finding us pushing against a supervisor at work who is hard to please

or (for some seniors) of having to move into assisted living.

Or maybe some of us are pushing against a marriage that seems destined for the ditch.

Or against disease, aging, loneliness or some obstacles between us and our dreams.

We might be thinking if we could just get this burdensome thing rolled back, we will be fine.

But, as the story goes, even if we get rid of our huge stones, all that is waiting on the other side is death.

When the women arrived at the tomb, they were startled to discover the stone was already rolled back.

They walked inside only to see the body of Jesus missing and they fled in fear.

Not too long afterward, however, they discovered their

death-defying hope.

It is such a profound opportunity this Easter (and every Easter) to join the three women in staring at our own tombs of loss and death without fear.

When the church first began on Earth, it struggled through persecution for centuries.

Every week, when believers gathered, they took time to embrace each other because they did not know who might be martyred for the faith before their next assembly.

They died with Christ, only to be raised to a new life with him and in him.

Only in Christ’s death and resurrection it is possible for us also to die to our old agendas and rise to a changed life, no longer crippled by fear.

The greatest

catastrophe of history happened not in the First and Second World Wars, nor in Hiroshima or Nagasaki or on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York.

It took place 2,000 years ago, when we crucified the son of God. That was the ultimate experience beyond humanity’s limit.

But it was then history was given the possibility of being resurrected also.

When Jesus defeated death, he did so we may experience something beyond our limits — to rise with him into a new life.

But it is up to us to walk out of our own graves as new creatures in Christ.

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IMPORTS REIGN AT WOLFPACK AWARDS Ukrainians swept top honours at the Thompson Rivers WolfPack athletics awards banquet last night.

Volleyball player Iuliia Pakhomenko and basketball player Volodymyr Iegorov won the female and male Sports Task Force Athlete of the Year Awards, respectively.

Pakhomenko is among the greatest athletes in school history and she finished her career with an outstanding season.

The outside hitter from Donetsk, Ukraine, led USport in points, points per set, kills and kills per set.

“She has meant a lot in helping turn around this program in her three years here,” WolfPack women’s volleyball head coach Chad Grimm said of the USport and Canada West firstteam all star.

“She wanted to change her life and continued to do that moving to Canada. She didn’t know anyone here.

It is an amazing story and tells you what kind of character she has.”

Iegorov, also from Donetsk, was a Canada West first-team all star in his second season with Thompson Rivers. He was second in the league in free-throw percentage, third in total rebounds, fourth in rebounds per game and sixth in points and points per game.

“I am happy for Vlad,“ WolfPack men’s basketball head coach Scott Clark said. “He has been a hard-working guy ever since he got here.”

Ryan Glanville, a soccer player from Williams Lake, earned the Doctor Roger H. Barnsley Male Student-Athlete of the Year Award.

Cross-country runner Rachel Lobay of Kelowna won the female studentathlete award.

Glanville was a first-team Canada West all star and a USport Academic All-Canadian.

“Rachel excels at whatever she applies herself to,” TRU cross-country coach Carmin Mazzotta said. “She is a consummate perfectionist, with a sky-high grade-point average in ridiculously challenging courses. On the cross-country team, Rachel has been our top runner the past two seasons.”

WolfPack baseball pitcher Tyler Hodder of Fort McMurray was named newcomer of the year.

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The winners of the Cliff Neufeld Leadership Awards, which combine contributions on the court, pool, pitch or diamond and community involvement and performance in the classroom, went to Katie Harding, a soccer player from Salmon Arm, and Conlan Sprickerhoff, a cross-country runner from Williams Lake.

“Katie represents everything we are looking for in a student-athlete,” WolfPack women’s soccer head coach Kelly Shantz said. “A focused and tenacious competitor when she steps into her office on the field, Katie knew how to switch gears off the field and be a kind, confident and open leader with our extremely young team this year.”

Mazzotta had high praise for Sprickerhoff: “At every practice, every community event we participated in and every race, there was Conlan, always positive, always encouraging others, always motivated to do more.”

The WolfPack paid tribute to their 12 graduating players: Pakhomenko, Morgan Kolasa, Alina Sophizuk and Julia Niemczewska of women’s volleyball; Christa and Alesha Miller of cross-country running; Daniel Eikeland Rod of men’s volleyball; Mikayla Levy and Kelsey Hayes of cheerleadering, along with Harding, Iegorov and swimmer Jagdeesh Uppal.

The WolfPack Appreciation Award was presented to Ron Tapley, an ardent supporter of the TRU women’s basketball program.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. — Dustin Johnson’s injured back must be feeling better.

The world’s No. 1 player said he’ll return to the PGA Tour at the Wells Fargo Championships at Eagle Point Golf Club from May 4 to May 7.

The Wells Fargo Championship announced Johnson’s status yesterday.

Johnson was among the favourites to win the Masters last week after winning three straight tournaments. But a fall at his rental home hurt his back the day before the year’s first major was to start.

Johnson warmed up last Thursday on the Augusta National practice range and came out to the putting green near the first tee. But he headed off the course and withdrew with a bad back.

Johnson said then he had planned to take three weeks off following

Bantam Dogs in Abby The bantam AAA Kamloops Junior RiverDogs will head to Abbotsford for a baseball doubleheader this weekend after a strong start to the season at the Best of the West Baseball Tournament.

Kamloops posted a 3-2 record and placed second at the tourney, held last weekend on McArthur Island.

Luke Petrie had seven strikeouts for the Dogs in a 4-2 loss to the Okotoks Dawgs; Xander Denis and Nick Bradley each had three strikeouts in a 7-3 victory over the Langley Blaze; Alexander Willis had six strikeouts in a 5-1 win over the Kelowna Sun Devils; Nolan Austin struck out seven in a 3-1 triumph over the White Rock Tritons; and Bradley and Austin Coyle had a pair of strikeouts apiece in a 13-4 loss to the North Shore Twins.

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Marc-Andre Fleury will remain in net for the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 2 of their playoff series against Columbus while Matt Murray deals with a lower-body injury.

Murray was scheduled to start Game 1, but left after suffering a lowerbody injury in warm-ups.

Fleury came on and made 31 saves as the Penguins cruised to a 3-1 victory to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Penguins coach Mike Sullivan offered no public update of Murray’s status yesterday, saying only there is no timetable for Murray’s return.

Fleury’s appearance tonight will be his 102nd in the playoffs, a franchise record for a goaltender.

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Paul Hetherington is the girls’ head coach and Earl Woods is an assistant.

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We looked that’s sitting He back or coached the Arizona also playoffs.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS scared to lose instead of being tooCoyotes casual it’s last decade and made an “For a second year in the hungry to win.’’ just we didn’t do a good impression on Matthews, who is league, you see a lot of young It’s 2005-2006 all over again The Senators will enough job forScottsdale, 60 min- Arizona. from guys making the playoffs and for Wayne Gretzky when it comes look to even the series utes. They continued to McDavid is considered an teams that weren’t so good that to youngsters Connor McDavid tomorrow afternoon at push and found a way, MVP finalist after leading the are now making it into the playand Auston Matthews making Canadian Tire Centre. and we’ve got to get league with 100 points and helpoffs,’’ Matthews said.

“I think their NHL playoff debuts.

Game time is noon. back on track andOilers we end a 10-year play- it’s awesome for the guys in this ing the The Great One couldn’t help The breakdown in off drought. room, especially all the rookbut share his enthusiasm inwill.’’ a the third was especially Matthews led NHL rookies ies. It’s something that we’ve yet Players know they text to The Associated Press, comdisappointing after with 40 goals and 69 points in to experience it at this level, so let an opportunity slip paring McDavid and Matthews’ Ottawaon had outshot we’re looking forward to it.’’ away, buthelping Phaneufthe youth-laden Maple arrival the post-season stage the Bruins 12-0buzz in the Leafs the jump from dead Even though he’s making his emphasized themake imporwith the same generated second and held the last a year ago to 14th and clinch playoff debut, Matthews isn’t tance of not getting during Sidney Crosby and Alex momentum with a 1-0 the franchise’s second playoff shying away from Toronto coach frustrated or distracted Ovechkin’s rookie seasons. lead. berth in 12 seasons.

Mike Babcock’s assertion that the by it.

“It’s just one of the best things of putting McDavid best players are judged by chamvery had an assist in a thatInstead has happened to the NHL“I think it’s the game away, the series-opening loss pionships. since Crosby and Ovechkin,’’ important3-2 to overtime come back Senators struggled in to San Jose on Wednesday and Gretzky has four.

Gretzky wrote. “Should be fun to the rink every day their own end in the said the Oilers lacked finish.

“You’re kind of measured on for all.’’ with a fresh attitude and third and the Bruinsisn’t far aoff “I don’tfor know whether they that,’’ Matthews said. “I was forThe comparison new opportunity were tohow capitalize. raised their game or our game tunate to be coached by Claude so farable given McDavid, the the next game,” Phaneuf “I think really just said. “Obviously fell off,’’we’re McDavid said. “I thought Lemieux. He was always just an Edmonton Oilers’we second-year didn’t play well enough the not happymaybe we got a little comfortabove-average player, I guess, captain, and Matthews, Ottawa Senators’ defenceman Dion Phaneuf: “They of dropping to our strengths,’’ saidrookie of able, which can’t happen.’’ in the regular season and then Toronto Maple Leafs’ got Game 1, but that’s in the continued to push and found a way, and we’ve defenceman Dion have taken Game 2 of the Oilers-Sharks come the year candidate, to get back on track and playoff we will.’’time he won a past.”

Phaneuf. received series will be played tonight, with Conn Smythe, he won a couple the league“We by storm. theMcDavid game more than and puck-drop slated for 7:30 p.m. in Cups. He just elevated his level.” in 2015 we’d like to.last Whether Edmonton.

And that represents the chalMatthews year were selected Matthews was making his lenge for a Maple Leafs’ team with the No. 1 pick in consecuplayoff debut yesterday at that had seven rookies play at tive drafts, as were Ovechkin Washington after KTW’s press least 55 games this season.

(2004) and Crosby (2005). deadline.

“Everybody wants to be Gretzky also has ties to both Before the game, Matthews known as a guy that comes McDavid and Matthews. shared Gretzky’s excitement through in pressure situations,” Aside from playing for the about McDavid and other young Matthews said.

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The race is on to see which comes first in the Premier League this season: Chelsea clinching the title or Sunderland getting relegated.

It should be close, with seven games left.

Chelsea has a seven-point lead heading into its trip to Manchester United on Sunday, while lastplace Sunderland is 10 points from safety going into a home match against West Ham tomorrow.

Chelsea needs five more wins to guarantee the title and the match at United is the toughest of the leaders’ remaining games.

Apart from a match at Everton on April 30, there seems to be few obstacles in Chelsea’s way.

Helping Chelsea this weekend is the fact United is playing in between games in the Europa League quarterfinals, meaning manager Jose Mourinho could rest key players.

Second-place Tottenham hosts Bournemouth tomorrow.

Sunderland is synonymous with producing lateseason charges to safety, but it looks unlikely this year. The club has gone more than 11 hours without scoring in the league, not a great record for a team that likely needs to win six of its remaining matches to escape.

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OTTAWA — It was a hard lesson to learn, but head coach Guy Boucher hopes it will be a lasting one for the Ottawa Senators.

The Senators lost the opening game of their Eastern Conference quarter-final series to the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Wednesday as a result of two bad third-period shifts after dominating much of the game.

“Going into the third they just stuck to what they were doing and we did not,’’ Boucher said yesterday. “We didn’t change our game plan whatsoever, we didn’t want something different at all, but I think we didn’t manage it well

mentally. We looked scared to lose instead of hungry to win.’’

The Senators will look to even the series tomorrow afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre.

Game time is noon.

The breakdown in the third was especially disappointing after Ottawa had outshot the Bruins 12-0 in the second and held the momentum with a 1-0 lead.

Instead of putting the game away, the Senators struggled in their own end in the third and the Bruins were able to capitalize.

“I think really we just didn’t play well enough to our strengths,’’ said defenceman Dion Phaneuf. “We received the game more than we’d like to. Whether

that’s sitting back or being too casual it’s just we didn’t do a good enough job for 60 minutes. They continued to push and found a way, and we’ve got to get back on track and we will.’’

Players know they let an opportunity slip away, but Phaneuf emphasized the importance of not getting frustrated or distracted by it.

“I think it’s very important to come back to the rink every day with a fresh attitude and a new opportunity for the next game,” Phaneuf said. “Obviously we’re not happy of dropping Game 1, but that’s in the past.”

Ottawa Senators’ defenceman Dion Phaneuf: “They continued to push and found a way, and we’ve got to get back on track and we will.’’

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new gardening season is ahead of us — a fresh chapter in the book of lifewith-nature.

I recommend we make the best of it and plant some trees. It is important to plant the right tree in the right place. Here are some considerations when planting trees, along with my top recommendations: 1. Small trees that flower and fruit. Small lots and densely populated urban areas are no longer suitable places for large-growing shade trees. Here are my favourite trees that will grow no higher than metres and will flower and/or fruit: • Dwarf apple. There are dozens of varieties of dwarf apple trees available. My favourite apple for vigour and strength is Cortland.

The tree grows relatively quickly and produces lots of great mid-season eating apples. Otherwise, just look for an apple that you like to eat.

• Pear. The lowest-maintenance fruit tree out there.

No need to look for dwarf pears as a standard pear generally grows to about six or seven metres, given enough time.

• Crabapple. An unfortunate name for a versatile and winter hardy tree.

Dolgo produces red fruit in the fall that is suitable for canning. Otherwise, plant crabapples for their spring colour and small to medium stature.

2. Shade. What kind?

For filtered shade that will provide the cooling effect of a deciduous tree (one that drops its leaves each fall) without cutting out all of the sunshine, look for these winners: • Locust. Shademaster is

hardy to zone 4. This variety features horizontal branching, while Skyline honey locust produces a more upright, vase-shaped structure. Both are disease- and insect-resistant and grow to a medium height of about 12 to 15 metres.

• Birch. A longtime favourite, not just for the filtered shade they produce, but the lovely white bark that stands out in the winter garden. Look for native birch, like paper birch (Betula papyrifera), as they are resistant to the dreaded bronze birch borer, which has wreaked havoc with the European birch species in recent years.

• Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus).

A native, open-growing tree with characteristic short, stubby twigs for branches. Foliage turns yellow in fall.

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3. Early shade/dense shade. Not all deciduous trees leaf out at the same time. Birch, willow and maples are among the earliest (early May) and Catalpa and Rose of Sharon are among the latest (midJune). For early leaf cover that lasts late into the season, consider: • Maple (acer). Native sugar maples leaf out in early May and drop leaves in mid to late October.

Norway maple, while deemed an invasive species, does leaf out marginally earlier and drops in early November. Both produce bright yellow colour come fall.

• Chestnut (aesculus).

A member of the orchid family. Have a close look at the flowers come early June and note that the upright panicle or candelabra fea-

tures dozens of gorgeous orchid-like flowerets.

I love Chestnut trees, but they are susceptible to blight, which may not kill them, but creates brownhued leaves that are not very attractive come late summer.

4. My favourite all-round trees. There are some trees that do not fit neatly into a single classification, but are amazing for their own reasons.

Here are my favourites: • Linden (Tilia cordata). related to native basswood.

Provide lovely, cool, dense shade. Produce fragrant (green) flowers that attract pollinators (and make great tea).

Lindens are winter hardy and disease-resistant. They feature a formal ace-shaped structure that fits neatly into relatively tight spaces.

• Japanese tree Lilac Ivory Silk (Syringa reticulata ‘Ivory Silk’). Ivory Silk is an oval-shaped, compact tree, great for smaller lots and spaces, which blooms reli-

ably each Father’s Day in mid-June. Winter-hardy on the prairies. Disease- and insect-resistant. Nothing not to like.

• Oak. Any oak is a great oak, but I like native red oak (Quercus rubra) and pin oak (Quercus palustris) best.

Red oak (so named as the wood is red) grows into a large 18-metre giant. Pin oak is narrower and more suitable for the tight spaces of urban life.

In Celtic language, the word “oak” means “tree above all others.” I like that as it suits my image of this fine tree on any lot.

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The Grow A Row concept was introduced in 2015 to Colin Lyons, owner of Lyons Landscaping, by Radio NL vice-president Garth Buchko, who had had previously worked on a Grow A Row initiative in Eastern Canada and suggested the concept to Lyons when he was looking for a way to give back to the community.

This year’s garden and project scope has expanded tremendously, thanks to the involvement of Rick Kurzac, owner of Kamloops Home Hardware Building Centre.

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for a new community project to get involved in after his success with the Neighbours Helping Neighbours program.

The 2017 garden features 35 raised planter beds sponsored by 33 businesses.

The project expanded this year with the involvement of Kurzac, who offered space in front of the Home Hardware Building Centre parking lot for a dedicated garden.

The goal is for the garden space to be used throughout the warmer seasons as a place for seminars and workshops focusing on growing your own produce.

On Thursday, May 18, a planting day and

barbecue will be held at Home Hardware Building Centre, 1325 Josep Way, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., with sponsors and community partners attending.

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She shakes, scurries and whimpers. There’s no need for conversation. Her pleading brown eyes clearly relay her thoughts: “Do I get to come along or are you leaving me behind?”

As we transfer our travelling possessions from the house to RV, she has the answer. And she’s the first one in the driver’s seat.

Over the next few days, nestled into the grove of pines at Lake Okanagan Provincial Park, our girl will enjoy sniffing out scents, pawing paths and cuddling by the campfire. But, before hitting the open road, there are a few things to consider and pack for our fur baby.

Rules and regs: Prior to booking any campsite, we do an etiquette pet check. Is there a size or breed restriction or limit to how many four-legged companions can tag along per party? Does the campground have a dog park where she can freely tromp and romp?

Nix the ticks: Parasitic arthropods hide out in the Okanagan’s wooded areas and would love to pounce on our precious pup.

They’d stay latched into her skin folds, around her ears or inside her legs until they’ve finished their blood meal. Prevention is the best protection. Before preparing for departure, pick up an anti-tick remedy.

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Identification check: Although she probably won’t roam from the RV, her permanent tattoo and dog licence will assure her safe return.

If not, the new personalized ID tag she wears on her collar should do the trick.

Pet essentials: Dog dishes and food (except when we’re crossing the border to the U.S., as many pet food products are prohibited), leash and harness, treats and toys, poop bags and immunization papers.

And, while en route, a good water supply and her favourite lambskin blanket to keep her cozy. All necessities are packed and we’re ready to go.

Lake Okanagan Campground, located between Peachland and Summerland, is rimmed by a swim-safe beach and canopied by lush deciduous trees.

It’s divided into two parts.

The sites in the south section snuggle together on a lake-shore jetty and those in the north terrace on a tree-riddled hillside.

Soon after setting up camp, Kalli feels at home. Although leashing is a must at all times, her extended rope line gives her room to roam. Generous grassy plots and shade trees assures privacy and coolness. And from our perched platform, we have an awesome lake view.

My husband and I could easily chill out and relax for the entire stay but our pup would rather plod and play. And there are lots of trails to appease her canine spirit.

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Coming Events

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Lost & Found

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Kamloops This Week will be closed on Friday, April 14, 2017 for the Good Friday Statutory Holiday.

Please note the following Classified Deadline Change: The deadline for Tuesday, April 18th paper will be Thursday, April 13th at 11am.

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Business Opportunities

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Employment

If you have an

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

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

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Heartland Toyota requires a

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SWM 63 looking for lady age 40+ must like fishing, long drives and friendship must be non smoking/drinking call (250) 315-8573

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Excellent communication skills Computer skills Desire to satisfy customers Ability to support a team environment Drivers License Internet experience Social media experience Full training program Excellent pay, commission and bonus plans Motivating and prestigious work environment

HELP WANTED

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Lamplighter Motel Kamloops is seeking a chamberperson / desk clerk Send resume to lamplighter31@hotmail.com or call 250.372.3386

No experience necessary, will train the right candidate.

LAMPLIGHTER MOTEL 1901 East Trans-Canada Highway, Kamloops Phone: 250.372.3386 • Fax: 250.372.8740

MJB LAWYERS IS HIRING! MJB Lawyers is a busy, progressive law firm with a great work environment. For more information about the firm, visit mjblaw.com.

We are looking for the following staff to join our team: • Commercial Assistant or an experienced Conveyancer willing to be trained in commercial transactions; • Litigation Assistant; and • Family Law Assistant.

Apply in confidence to 700 - 275 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC V2C 6H6, by fax to 250-374-6992, or email sheila@mjblaw.com.

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TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING Funding available for those who qualify!

More than a job. Think career. Think ownership.

The Kamloops Veterinary Clinic is currently accepting resumes for

Part-time Locomotive Engineer/Conductor Kamloops, BC

FULL TIME, PART-TIME AND/OR A LOCUM REGISTERED VETERINARY TECHNOLOGIST

Primary responsibilities: • Perform yard switching at a railcar storage facility in a safe and efficient manner • Switch and inspect railcars and perform routine minor track maintenance

Qualifications: • Have the ability to hold and maintain CROR certifications • Meet all site security and safety requirements including safety critical medical and drug and alcohol clearances • Experience working in an industrial switching environment is an asset Hours and days worked will vary with customer demand for cars in storage.

Cando Rail Services is a dynamic, employee-owned company that provides railway support services to industry.

For more details on this and other postings, visit candoltd.com/careers

To submit a resume: E: employment@candoltd.com F: 204-725-4100 Please quote position title and location on your resume

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSE April 22-23 • May 13-14

The Class 1 Truck Driver Training program includes: • Airbrakes • Class 1 Driver Training – 2 week to 5 week courses • Road Test at ICBC

For more information, contact: Ray Trenholm - Driver Training

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

positions at our hospital.

We are a busy, 6 doctor practice that is looking for organized, energetic people who work well as part of a team. The ideal candidates will be proficient in anesthetic induction/maintenance, radiology and dentistry, and be a graduate of an RAHT program and registered with the AHT Association of BC. Our technicians work throughout the clinic and may be required to answer phones, schedule appointments, admit/discharge, and work reception shifts if needed.

Communication skills are an asset.

This position will involve some weekend shifts.

We offer a very generous benefits package as well as a signing bonus to the successful full time candidate. Wage is negotiable dependent on experience and expectation.

Please email your resume, cover letter and references to info@kamloopsveterinaryclinic.com (Attention Janie)

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Education/Trade Schools

Help Wanted

Bill

250-376-7970

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

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof.

Call 1-866-399-3853 or go to: iheschool.com INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SCHOOL. Hands-On Tasks. Start Weekly. GPS Training!

Funding & Housing Avail!

Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof.

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

Help Wanted Bookkeeper required. Must have good working knowledge of Quick books and Simply Accounting. Responsible for all aspects of A/R, A/P, Month end statements, bank deposits etc. 5-7 hours/wk ability to work in Company office. For more info email dwight.oatway@gmail.com

EARN EXTRA $$$

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

TRAFFIC CONTROL TRAINING. Kamloops: April 18th & 19th, May 15th & 16th. For info call 1-866-737-2389 or check web: roadsafetytcs.com

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

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

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

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

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Employment

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Employment

Pets

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

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

HUNTER & FIREARMS

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

P.A.L. April 25th & 26th, evenings. Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Employment

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

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

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

Gene Wirchenko 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

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

PETS For Sale?

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

*some restrictions apply.

Get in on the Action! classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

CDA

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

MEATCUTTER

Kam Lake View Meats Ltd., located at 6453 Buckhorn Road, Kamloops, BC V1S 2A1, requires 1 experienced Meatcutter for f/t perm. position. Mon-Fri, no wknds or nights. Wages $20. to $23 per hr, 40hr/week. Benefits: Healthcare and Dental plan.

Duties: Slaughter, process meat and sausages; Work in refrigerated area. Specific skills required: Knife skills, deboning and trimming; Experience in slaughtering and sausage processing.

Apply with resume to: Ron & Brooke Keely E-mail or fax: kamlakebutcherboys @gmail.com 250-828-1011 Or apply in person to: 6453 Buckhorn Road, Kamloops, BC., V1S 2A1

CLASSIFIEDS

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LODGE MAINTENANCE

CMH Heli-Skiing and Summer Adventures is looking for an experienced, reliable and handy individual to join us in LODGE MAINTENANCE. This position is based out of a remote lodge north of Revelstoke, BC.

required for Dr. Josephson in Merritt

The Lodge Maintenance position is responsible for performing the day-to-day maintenance of the property including preventative and active maintenance, as well as planning for future maintenance needs. This position requires the ability to work independently, problem solve and troubleshoot a wide variety of tasks in a remote location. Flexibility and creativity are essential.

~ Tuesday to Friday ~ Friendly work environment with great staff ~ Travel allowance provided ~

The successful candidate will have a solid base knowledge in all aspects of maintenance including plumbing, carpentry, electrical, water and waste water systems, fuel systems, painting and machinery. This position also requires the use of office computers and various communication devices.

resumés to drj.merritt@gmail.com

If you are looking for a unique, dynamic and challenging position in the maintenance field, please visit www.cmhski.com/jobs for a full job description and to apply.

CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT

250-378-6677

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

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

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462 Experienced cleaner needed for busy janitorial business This is a contract position to provide weekend and holiday relief. Flexible hours approx 14+. Must have vehicle to go to various locations in Kamloops Pay is commensurate with experience Must pass criminal records check and government security clearance. Please reply to Box #1461 c/o Kamloops This Week 1365-B Dalhousie Dr. Kamloops, BC V2C 5P6

TAKE FLIGHT

(250)371-4949

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Please visit www.cmhski.com/jobs for a full job description and to apply.

Only the most qualified applicants will be contacted

SOME SHOES NEED FILLING

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Looking for Door to Door Carriers.

Kids and Adults needed!

Business Loans Manager – Full-time position All Nations Trust Company (ANTCO) is a unique aboriginal owned non-deposit taking financial institution. The Company’s major focus is development lending for aboriginal business.

POSITION SUMMARY Under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer, the Business Loans Manager is responsible for the overall operation and profitability of ANTCO’s business loan department.

Department operations include: marketing ANTCO’s financial services and programs, performing due diligence on loan applications, structuring financing packages and making lending recommendations to the CEO, Investment & Lending Committee or Board of Directors. The Business Loans Manager also manages a portfolio of commercial finance and mortgages.

This includes arrears and risk management activities.

Education and Experience: • Must have secondary school diploma and at least two years formal post-secondary education • Degree or diploma in business administration or finance is preferred • Minimum of five years’ experience in commercial lending, preferably in a developmental lending environment • Minimum two years’ experience managing staff • Other combinations of education and experience may be considered Knowledge and Skills: • Knowledge of commercial lending practices and procedures • Strong financial analysis skills • Collections knowledge and experience • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team • Superior communication skills, both oral and written • Strong inter-personal skills • Working proficiency with computer technology and MS Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other software Special Requirements: Experience in the field of aboriginal economic development, and/or working with aboriginal communities.

If you are interested in this position, please forward your resume and cover letter clearly indicating how you meet the position requirements to: All Nations Trust Company 520 Chief Eli LaRue Way Kamloops, BC V2H 1H1 Phone: (778) 471-4110 Facsimile: (250) 372-2585 E-mail: tracya@antco.bc.ca Deadline for applications: April 28, 2017 by 4:00pm

ABERDEEN Rte 563 – 1711 & 1951 Lodgepole Dr. – 48 p.

Rte 583 – Butte Pl, Chinook Pl, Mt. Dufferin Dr. – 43 p.

Rte 589 – 1200-1385 Copperhead Dr. – 58 p.

Rte 590 – 1387 Copperhead Dr, Saskatoon Pl. – 36 p.

Rte 591 – 1941 Hillside Dr. – 19 p.

BROCK Rte 13 – Bonnie Pl, 2245-2255 Edgemount Ave, McLean St, 2305-2396 Rosewood Ave, Shannon Pl. – 52 p.

Rte 59 – Ollek St, 1454 Tranquille Rd. – 65 p.

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 750 – 5101-5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl. – 30 papers Rte 781 – Duncan Rd, Durango Dr, Sonora Rd, Wittner Rd. – 42 papers DOWNTOWN/LOWER SAHALI Rte 310 – 651-695 2nd Ave, 660-690 3rd Ave, 110-292 Columbia St (even side), 106-321 Nicola St. - 59 p.

Rte 313 – 430-664 4th Ave, 520-577 5th Ave, 435-551 Battle St, 506 Columbia St, 406-577 Nicola St. – 44 p.

Rte 333 – 1005-1090 Pine St, 1003-1176 Pleasant St. – 42 p.

Rte 380 – Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. – 60 papers Rte 381 – 20-128 Centre Ave, Hemlock St, 605-800 Lombard St. – 45 papers Rte 404 – Chapperon Dr, 108-439 Greenstone Dr, Pyramid Crt. – 71 papers Rte 405 – Anvil Cres, Bestwick Dr & Crts, Mahood Pl, Morrisey Pl. – 86 papers Rte 406 – 108-492 McGill Rd. – 62 papers Rte 411 – 206-384 Arrowstone Dr, Eagle Pl, Gibralter Crt & Wynd. – 48 p.

NORTH SHORE Rte 131 – 321-601 & 631 Fortune Dr (odd side) – 36 p.

Rte 834 – Armour Pl, MattockMcKeague Rd, Sabiston Crt & Pl, 4205-4435 Spurraway Rd. – 64 p Rte 838 – Strawberry Lane, 45564797 Cammeray Dr. – 66 p.

SUNRIVERS Rte 870 – Mariposa Crt, Sagewood Crt, Dr, Lane, St, 100 Sun Rivers Dr. – 49 papers Rte 874 – Canyon Ridge (area), 1400-1448 Sunrivers Dr. – 28 papers Rte 875 – Golf Ridge (area), 20002028 Sunrivers Dr. – 26 papers Rte 880 – Belmonte (area), Sillaro Dr, Visao Crt & Terr. – 71 p.

VALLEYVIEW/JUNIPER Rte 617 – 2401-2515 Valleyview Dr, Valleyview Pl. – 50 p.

Rte 621 – Duck Rd, Skelly Rd, 96 Tanager Dr, 2606-2876 Thompson Dr. – 54 p.

WESTMOUNT Rte 201 – Montrose Cres, Wedgewood Cres, Westlynn Dr, Westmount Dr. – 75 p.

RAYLEIGH Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 59 p.

INTERESTED IN A ROUTE?

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Mobile Homes & Parks

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Sunset Ridge Merchandise for Sale Do you have an item for sale under $750?

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Misc. for Sale Person Rentals Portable infrared

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

Apt/Condo for Rent

Black & Decker workmate folding table $80. Craftsman Router 25000RPM 1/4” shaft $75. Makita Two Tool Cordless Kit 1/2” 18V $120. Makita $ 1 1/4” Circular saw 15amp.

2-Bedroom Apartments 1050 $90.1-Bedroom Porter/Cable 3hp 4 gal/oil $ Apartments 910 free air compressor $200.

Bachelor Apartments $720 250-851-6195.

• Seniors Orientated • Close to the Hospital Quiet Living Spaceinfrared 2 •Person Portable • Underground sauna made ofParking hemlock. $750/obo.

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Renovated Suites • No Smoking Black & Decker workmate folding 520 tableBattle $80. Street, Craftsman Router 25000RPM Kamloops, BC, 1/4” V2C shaft 2M2 $75.

Makita Two Tool CordContact Jean: 250-372-0510 less Kit 1/2” 18V $120. Makita Kubota AV2500 saw Generator.

1Available 1/4” Circular 15amp. spacious 1&2bdrm $585. 250-374-1988 $90.

3hpStarting 4 gal/oil at aptsPorter/Cable with views. free air compressor $850/mo. The Sands $200.

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Lawnmower with honda en-Onment. Centrally located. gine. yrs/old. $75. 250-554site 4 Management.

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Logan Lake 2bdrm condo Lemond RevMaster $550 tenant pays Spin hydro Bike.

15300-7. $500.

(604) Model 463-3728 Like New. 250-372-8406.

Luxury 1bdrm +lrg den condo Library Square.

MISC4Sale: Oak N/S,TableN/P. $1100/mo. + util.

571-4617.8ft Chairs-$400, 1-Standard truck canopies $300/eaend Callunit N/Shore 1bdrm 250-320-5194 or 55+bldg. Cls after to all 6pm amenities.

Kubota Generator. leave msg.AV2500 $975/mo +util. 778-471-2211. $585. 250-374-1988

Antiques / Vintage Misc. with Wanted Lawnmower honda en-

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gine. 4 yrs/old. $75. 250-554Actual 4467. Coin Collector Buying Coins, Collections, Gold & Silver,Bills+ 250-863-3082 Lemond Chad: RevMaster Spin Bike. Model 15300-7. $500. coin & Paper money LikeAll New. 250-372-8406. collections wanted. BIG & small.U.S. Foreign MISC4Sale: Oak& Canada Table Todd 1- 250864-3521 8ft Chairs-$400, 1-Standard truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

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1939 working Winchester Mod. 25094 579-5797.

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Free: GE Electric stove 24” in good working condition. 250579-5797.

8ft Antique Couch $900. Antique Settee or Loveseat one of a kind $900. Round dining room table w/4-chairs & 2 bar stools. $800. Couch & matchALL SEASON FIREWOOD. ing chairs birch, $200. fir 250-374For delivery & pine.

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Tool 250-277-4477. mate (250) 376-6093 Stand. $60. 8x12 Wool Rug. $200. 3-drawer Wood Cab 18x22. $25. 250-851-7687.

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250-374-8933. room table HAUL w/4-chairs & 2 bar stools. $800. Couch & matchingFor chairs $200. & 250-374all Deliveries Dump 1541.

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As New Teak Table Ex Dump Truck43x75 A-Steel Shipping Storage 48”, sideboard/ Long 8-chairs, and Used Short20’40’45’53’ Hauls!!

Containers. $4,000/all.

Casting All Table insulated containers. sizes 250-377-3457 10x24.

Tool in stock. $100.

Prices 3-drawer starting under Stand. $60.

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All sizes $2,000. Modifications possible in stock.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Alfred Leslie Simson

January 15, 1925 – March 26, 2017 We are sad to announce the passing of our Father and Grandfather Alfred Leslie Simson. Alfred was born in Rock Bay, BC and grew up on Read Island, a small island between Vancouver Island and Mainland, BC. He had fond memories of his childhood; adventuring with his siblings across the island and going fishing, exploring, or just being free-spirited youths.

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Dad left Read Island at an early age to seek out work on Vancouver Island. He found a job in a Comox Bakery and through the local church he met the Forest Family, originally from England. The two Forest Sisters became close friends with Alfred, treating him as a younger brother. When the Sisters moved to Vancouver from the island, Dad followed and here he met the love of his life Lillian.

In 1942, Dad enlisted with the Navy. He served his country as a cook and gun loader during combat. Alfred told vivid stories from this time, recollections of ports of call such as London, Alexandria, Rome and Athens. He was proud of his service and his ship’s involvement in D-Day. To this day, a picture of that ship, the HMCS Prince Henry, hangs on the wall of his home.

After the war Alfred took the skills he had learned in the Navy and applied them to two successful restaurant businesses in Kamloops, The Overlander and Clancy’s.

These were family enterprises and everyone played their part, running meals, washing dishes and making sure everything was clean and tidy. Keeping family close was important to Dad, hard work was expected, but with that came respect.

Alfred was an avid member of the Sons of Norway Cultural Club. As a member, he took part in the clubs many dinners, dances, picnics and golf days. The most memorable of these events were the parades, where the Sons of Norway ran their Viking ship float. Club members would dress in cultural attire; as Vikings and Laplanders. Being part of these events and showing his heritage always made Dad so proud. The Sons of Norway was a special group that both Mom and Dad enjoyed and it gave our entire family fond memories.

Dad leaves his family Garry (Vivian), John (Corrine), numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Predeceased by wife Lillian and sons Albert and Bill.

Our family would like to thank the staff of both the 4th floor North of Royal Inland Hospital and Marjorie Willoughby Hospice House as well as Dr. Brenda Laupland.

Memorial will be held at a later date.

Celebration of Life

1942 ~ 2013

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Sean Patrick Dunn

1979 ~ 2010 REMEMBERED, LOVED, MISSED Kevin, Family and Friends

There will be a Gathering to honor the life of Sean Patrick Dunn on Saturday, April 15, 2017 at the Unifor Union Hall, 427 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC from 1:30 – 4:30 pm.

A Memorial Bench will be installed at Riverside Park in honor of Alfred and Lillian

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Myrtle Irene Marcellus

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The Monte Lake Hitchhiker caught his last ride to heaven on April 8, 2017.

At age 8, he started beekeeping that became a lifelong hobby. His honey was appreciated and enjoyed by many. In his later years, he was assisted by Ian and Vicky Farber.

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Myrtle Marcellus on April 9, 2017 in Kamloops, BC.

The family would like to invite you to join them for the Celebration of her Memorial Mass on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 11:00am at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Kamloops.

Edward (Ted) George Gush Ted was born August 16, 1939 at RIH and spent his whole life living in Monte Lake, B.C.

July 14, 1925 January 27, 2017

Mary Romano passed away peacefully after a brief illness with family by her side. Words cannot express how much she will be missed… and hearts are broken yet thankful this amazing woman lived such a rewarding 91 years.

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Myrtle was born on January 15, 1937 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

She leaves behind her loving devoted husband of 58 years Mervin Marcellus, her four children Lee, Brian, Susan, Kevin and their spouses, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, her sister Helen, three brothers Arnie, Roger, Lawrence and their spouses.

She was predeceased by her father Clarence, mother Elsie and brother Victor.

There will be no service by request.

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Celebration of Life George Gorrill

He will be well remembered for hitch hiking with his guitar and amplifier and always having his emergency band radio tuned into the police, fire department and the water bombers.

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Who walked through Heaven’s Gate on April 14, 2011.

Ted was a faithful member of Gateway City Church for almost 40 years and rarely missed a service or function. He loved to share jelly beans and candy with all the children.

Ted is survived by his nephew Rick (Gloria) Gush and predeceased by his nephew Danny Gush.

He will be remembered and greatly missed by his faithful friends Leonard and Terry Demarchi, Brad and Beth Schapansky as well as his long-time friends from church, Brian and Annette Bordeleau, Dan and Sandra Cheung, John and Grace Makortoff and Eleanor Korobanik.

Special thanks go out to all the people that helped Ted on his journey and made his life better: The staff at Aberdeen Mall, Audrey Baier and her staff at McBride House, the Greyhound Bus drivers, the city bus drivers, Colum McDonnell and Sherry Hallett from Community Living, the friends and neighbors from Monte Lake and Westwold that gave Ted and Danny rides into town, and Ted`s adopted nephew Jesse Royce.

Thanks also to Dr. O`Connell and Dr. Shumacher and the staff and volunteers at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home for their compassionate care of Ted during his last days. He especially enjoyed the extended baths!

Please join us for a Celebration of Ted`s Life at Gateway City Church, 163 Oriole Road in Valleyview on Thursday, April 20th at 2:00 pm. Pastor Len Denbraber officiating.

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Iolanda my wife, 6 years have passed.

Iolanda you are dearly loved and missed by your family.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Celebration of Life

Celebration of Life

Gary Marino Candido July 1, 1937 – April 1, 2017

Roy Gibb John and Janet Yanchuk Forever in our hearts

Please join us for a Celebration of Life for Roy Gibb on Saturday, April 22, 2017 from 1:00-3:00 p.m at his “office” Chances Casino, 1250 Halston Ave., Kamloops.

Light Refreshments.

Please call to RSVP 250-376-4902

The children of John and Janet Yanchuk cordially invites all family, friends, teammates and customers to join us in celebrating the lives of our Mom and Dad. A Memorial will be held beginning at 1:00 PM on Saturday, April 22, 2017 in the Coquihalla Ball Room of the Double Tree by Hilton located at 339 St. Paul Street, Kamloops, BC. We request that you bring your thoughts, prayers, and fondest memories.

Luncheon to follow.

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

Gary passed away peacefully surrounded by the love of his family on a beautiful sunny day in Palm Springs, California, from complications of a stroke. Gary will be loved and forever missed by his wife Edna, son Delano, daughter-inlaw Dawn and granddaughter Paige. His memory will also be cherished by his brothers Carman (Linda) and Ken, sisterin-law Hazel MacDonald and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. Gary was predeceased by his son Cory, brother Vern MacDonald, sister-in-law Ruby Candido and his parents Len and Fran.

Gary was born in Merritt and raised in Kamloops. Sports were an integral part of his life. As a young man Gary played hockey in Grimshaw, Alberta and Williams Lake where he won his most treasured trophy, his wife Edna. Together they shared 58 years and were truly partners in life.

Gary was an avid curler enjoying many happy times and triumphs at the Kamloops Curling Club. Summers were spent on the golf course. Gary started golfing at the Kamloops Golf Course and was a life-long member of Rivershore Golf Club. Gary and Edna spent the last 20 years wintering in Palm Springs enjoying year round golfing. Gary’s sporting accomplishments also included softball spending many hours on the baseball diamonds of Riverside Park.

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Gary spent many years in the automotive industry. He was a partner at Dearborn Motors before realizing his dream as the owner of Kamloops Ford Lincoln.

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Above all Gary was a man of honesty and integrity. He was a devoted husband and father and a most beloved Papa to Paige. Gary was a true friend with many life-long friends.

Throughout the years Gary would treat his friends to steelhead fishing excursions on the Dean River.

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Q. What are “grave goods”?

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These days, people often give me some of Murray’s favourite things. It might be a comb, a deck of cards, or a good bye note. We place them with Murray for cremation.

Prayers will be held in the Schoening Funeral Chapel on Monday, April 17th at 6:00 pm. Following Gary’s wishes a private entombment will take place in the Evergreen Mausoleum on Tuesday, April 18th.

In lieu of flowers donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the BC Cancer Agency would be greatly appreciated.

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Donald F. Henstock On April 1st, 2017 Don passed away at the age of 82 .

Don is survived by his loving wife Erna, his daughters Cindy (Buster) Rutsatz, Corinne (Rick) Poznikoff and Diane MacDonald, his six grandchildren, brother Johnny Henstock (Dianna), sisters Carla (Bob) Schidel and Joan McKay.

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Celebration Of Life Richard (Rick) Douglas Embury

Don passed at Overlander with family and wonderful caring staff. They took great care of Don for the past 6 months.

A special “thank you” to his caregivers”.

A Celebration of Life will be held for Rox-ann on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Mountview Terrace, located by the swimming pool on the 2nd floor of the Hotel 540, Kamloops, BC.

Don was in the Canadian Army for six years and during that time drove Prince Philip in Northern Sask. He also worked in Libya in the oil fields. Before retirement he worked at James Western Star for ten years. He was an avid painter, and sold numerous pictures that are now all over the world.

He will be greatly missed.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, June 11, 2017 at their home, 316 Aspen Drive, Chase, B.C. between 1:00 - 4:00 pm.

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Comedy that keeps up with the world ANDREA KLASSEN

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he world is a different place than it was the last time Ron James toured B.C. Back then, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives were the butt of jokes and, while American politics captured headlines in Canada, Donald Trump hadn’t yet taken the White House by storm.

“The world is changing so fast now,” said the comedian, who’ll return to the Sagebrush Theatre, 821 Munro St., with his Pedal to the Metal tour on April 23.

“Donald Trump goes to sleep for two hours, he wakes up and something new has happened in the world.”

It’s a good time to be a comedian, James said. But, with plenty of material coming from south of the border each day, there’s a new challenge of making sure the material stays fresh.

“I’m constantly writing new material, and with this world that’s changing so nanosecond fast, the shelf life is much shorter, unless you find those golden nuggets of universality where people relate to — family, generational change, health, sex,” he said.

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up comedy veteran and former star of TV shows Blackfly and Made in Canada, the challenge is well-timed.

While he’s been performing comedy for years, writing nine comedy specials in that time, it’s only now he says he feels fully comfortable on stage.

“You just feel that oh, yeah, this is working,” he said.

“I’m allowing myself to really enjoy the moment.”

While Trump jokes will most likely feature when Pedal to the Metal comes to Kamloops, James said he’s also planning to explore the difficulties of middle age, climate change, the so-called good old days and Canada’s own political scene.

“Last time I was out there the Conservatives were still in power,” James said.

“Now Justin’s in power, and it’s time to get them equally. Just because the country’s gone to hell in a hand cart south of the border doesn’t mean we’re not entitled to stand on guard for thee and hold politicians to task in Canada.”

Though politics and real-world issues are a theme in his comedy, James said he’s not trying to preach to audiences so much as help alleviate the issues they may be thinking about outside of the theatre.

“I like the audience to leave feeling lighter than when they walked in,” he said. “I think that’s the comedian’s job, to carry the knapsack on life’s journey for a while.”

Tickets for Pedal to the Metal are available from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

Ron James (right) will perform standup comedy at Sagebrush Theatre on April 23, as part of his Pedal to the Metal tour.

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Bassist Tim Parent (left, guitarist and singer Joel Parent and drummer Adam Parent are Ninjaspy — and they’re bringing their reggae metal tour to Kamloops for a show on Saturday, April 29, at The Dirty Jersey, 2000 Eighth St. The Vancouver-based bad just released Spüken.

The Kamloops Exploration Group is pleased to present their

2017 Lecture Series ALL KAMLOOPS TALKS ARE AT THE TRU ACTIVITY CENTRE IN THE MOUNTAIN ROOM STARTING AT 7 PM. FREE TO ATTEND.

April 20 - ROB YOUNG LATE DEGLACIATION OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR, AND PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS Lecture Series Appreciation Social Please join us in the Mountain Room at 5 PM on April 20th for a pre-lecture social.

We will have light snacks and a no host bar.

Mingle with other guests, meet our speaker Rob Young and our KEG Directors.

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BOOK SIGNING Saturday, April 15, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Chapters bookstore, 4-1395 Hillside Dr.

Mairi Budreau will be at Chapters bookstore on Saturday, April 15, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. to discuss and sign her book Victorio’s Wisdom, Awakening to the Spiritual Evolution.

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COMPUTER CLASSES Various dates and times at North Kamloops library, 693 Tranquille Rd.

Upcoming computer classes at the North Kamloops Library include: Wednesday, April 19: Ebooks, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; Thursday, April 20: Excel, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Friday, April 21: Basic computing skills, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

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FILM DAY 150 Wednesday, April 19, 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St.

For National Canada Film Day 150, free film screenings will be offered at Paramount Theatre. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a medley of local short films shown with filmmakers in attendance. At 8 p.m., the theatre will show An American Dream: The Education of William Bowman. Directed and written by Ken Finkleman, it’s the story of moving into adulthood, meeting along the way gun-crazed zealots, paranoid government agents, fundamentalist preachers and reality-TV hucksters.

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Easter egg hunts, animal feeds, colouring contests, bouncy inflatables and more will be on hand during the BC Wildlife Park’s Easter Eggs-Citement event happening all weekend at the park east of the city. The event also features a pancake breakfast.

Admission rates apply. For information on times and pricing, go online to bcwildlife.org/eventslist.htm. Meanwhile, head up to Sun Peaks Resort, where the Easter Bunny may also be spotted, hiding eggs in the trees. An Easter egg hunt will take place on the 5 Mile from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Meet at the top of the Sunburst Chairlift. No registration is required.

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lex Cuba calls Smithers home — but, for his next album, he went back deep into his own roots.

Back to his homeland to mine its music, to delve deeply into the filin movement that fuelled Cuba’s music scene as far back as the 1940s, music influenced by jazz, inspired by the trovadores, itinerant musicians who roamed the country playing music to get by, and by the cancio, a type of Latin American music that brings together intricate melodies and elaborate lyrics.

For Grammy Award winner Cuba, it was simply going “back to my roots where I found quite a beautiful feeling” as he wrote and recorded Lo Unico Constante, which was released earlier this month.

Some of its songs will be on the set list when Cuba performs with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra on April 21 and April 22 at the Sagebrush Theatre.

Cuba said with this new recording, he feels he has “arrived at a place where I don’t really need to prove anything. I am very balanced and content.”

He said while Cuban music can be complex, he loves its “timeless classic sound,” particularly in the new album, one that is more acoustic than Cuba’s earlier recordings have been.

The KSO concerts will be “a collage of a lot of my repertoire,”

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GEORGE FOK PHOTO Alex Cuba, a Grammy Award winning musician who hails from Smithers, is performing at Sagebrush Theatre on April 21 and April 22.

he said, a list that includes Morumba Cubano, recorded with his twin brother Adonis with the pair known as the Puentes Brothers (Cuba’s surname is Puentes).

A few years later, he recorded his first solo album, Humo De Tobaco, which won a June Award for World Music Album of the Year in 2006.

A year later, he repeated that win with

Agua Del Pozo.

His self-titled next release in 2009 included his first English track, If You Give Me Love.

The album netted him the award for Best New Artists at the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards.

It was also nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Album.

In 2011, it was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at the Annual

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His 2012 album Ruido En El Sistema won him a second Latin Grammy Award for his songwriting, as swell as one for Best Tropical Song.

There was another Latin Grammy in 2014 for Eres Tu. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483, kamloopslive.ca.

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erhaps some books just should not be adapted for the stage.

Perhaps The Cure for Death by Lightning is one of those books.

To be fair, the cast faced with presenting the play based on the book

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz gave their all at Sagebrush theatre on opening night, one of two plays being presented by Western Canada Theatre in its (Re)Imagine series. It was adapted by former WCT artistic director Daryl Cloran.

The set, in constant motion throughout the almost two-hour play, brought to life the feel of ranch life in Turtle Valley during the Second World War. The sound was impeccable, the lighting was perfect — but that sense of menace, of dread, of something otherworldly that propelled the award-winning book just wasn’t there.

Anderson-Dargatz created a world around her 15-year-old protagonist that was alive with teenaged angst, search for self, mental illness and children being murdered, all surrounded by the First Nations legend of Coyote the trickster. The creature is full of stealth, and for some believers is used to point out human foibles. For this story, though, the creature is a dangerous shape-shifter.

But we never really see that in this adaptation of the book, the first novel by Anderson-Dargatz and one that brought almost immediate adulation as it was nominated for a Giller Prize, one of the biggest awards any author can receive.

Perhaps if the character of Crazy Jack had instead kept his name from the book, Coyote Jack, it might have made it clear to those in the audience who may not have read the book why Jack, portrayed well by Braden Griffiths, is crazy.

It might have explained why Jack seems to be stalking protagonist Beth, played by Lucy Hill.

Making her WCT debut — as was all the cast except Anita Wittenberg, who plays Beth’s mother — Hill is impressive. Over the course of a year in which the play is set, she grows from a young girl cowed by an unhinged father, confused by a

depressed mother and not sure who she is or what she wants into a strong young woman who can handle what life throws at her.

Complementing her growth is that of her First Nations friend Nora, played by Joelle Peters. Some of the best scenes occurred between the two of them, as did those when Nora’s cousin Dennis, played by Taran Kootenayhoo, was involved.

They presented a trio of young people trying to find their places in the world. Sure, they didn’t really look the ages of their characters, but sometimes you’ve got to will suspension of disbelief.

In her book, Anderson-Dargatz creates in Filthy Billy a character with Tourette syndrome, with ticks that defy the norm for that condition. It works in the book because one can read through his words and ticks, but on stage, it turned this character, played by Aaron Wells, into something akin to comic relief. I cringed when people laughed at what is, in reality, a terrible condition with which to live.

The character who remained with me after the play was that of the father, played by Andrew Wheeler.

He began as a strong man protecting his family from a bear, a moment that left him broken and angry. I wish that scene had been shown onstage because he ran off chasing a bear and came back different — but we didn’t get to see what caused it.

Frankly, chasing a bear away might be stressful, but I’m not sure it validated the distinct difference the audience was asked to accept as he came back to the campsite.

His journey from that moment through to the end — returning home from a mental institute a broken man, but still a father Beth needed to be wary of — was full of danger, of never knowing who he was or what he would do.

Perhaps in the end we were to believe the father had become the coyote. If so, it was a long trip to get to that point and I’m not sure, having spoken with several in the audience later, it was accomplished.

The play wraps up tomorrow.

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HAVE TO OFFER Shelby LaCoste is not sure what she wants to do with her life after school is done, but she knows one thing: she’s going to give everything a shot.

The Grade 11 student at Westsyde secondary was one of 26 students taking part in Heavy Metal Rocks program from April 5 to April 8, getting a taste of what life is like in the trades.

“I’ve been taking all the programs I can, which includes the NorKam trades sampler for machinery,” LaCoste said.

“Basically, it’s to get hands-on experience and see what it’s like.”

After taking the sampler course, LaCoste enrolled in Heavy Metal Rocks to further her experience.

She has also applied for the heavy-duty mechanics course at Thompson Rivers University.

She said Heavy Metal Rocks is a good option for students who are curious about what it’s like in trades work.

“Definitely, it gives some insight about what I can be doing,” LaCoste said.

“I want to go through a lot and experience a lot. I think the more

experience, the better you are. It’s preparing me for my future.

“I just say, ‘Hey, this is an opportunity. Why don’t you take it?’”

Nathan McDonald is in the same boat.

The South Kamloops secondary 11th-grader signed up for Heavy Metal Rocks to see what was out there.

“I just wanted to explore my career options,” he said, noting he hopes to work in the trades.

“It gives you lots of experience using big equipment. I think, just over all the other kids, I will have more experience.”

McDonald, whose favourite part of Heavy Metal Rocks was the excavator, said he’s been telling his friends about the program.

“I’ve already told them, ‘You should do it,’” he said.

“I love it.”

LaCoste said she’s been bragging as well — to her twin brother, who hoped to take part in Heavy Metal Rocks, but was unable to.

“I definitely talk to my brother a lot about it,” she said.

“He’s going into engineering and he wanted to come.”

Shelby LaCoste likes the hands-on experience Heavy Metal Rocks offers students.

This year’s edition of Heavy Metal Rocks saw 10 students leave with bursaries.

Westsyde secondary Grade 11 student Shelby LaCoste learns to operate a piece of earth-moving equipment using a computer-assisted model during the the 2017 Heavy Metal Rocks program that took place from April 5 to April 8 in the gravel pit of the Tk’emlups Indian Band.

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Turning a gravel pit into a hands-on classroom

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he gravel pit on the T’Kemlups Indian Band land became a classroom for 26 students from April 5 to

April 8.

Their learning was intense as they spent four days at the site, not with their noses in books, but with hardhats on their heads, steel-toed boots protecting their feet and at least $1 million worth of equipment on which they learned.

It was the ninth annual Heavy Metal Rocks program and, when they were finished, those chosen from the more than 60 who applied were certified in construction-site safety, WHIMS and level one first-aid.

Students listened to representatives from WorkSafe BC talk about being safe on the job. They had the chance to use excavators, skidders, backhoes, graders, a drill, a crane, log processors and plenty of other equipment at 13 stations set up in the pit.

The program was developed in School District 73 by Greg Howard when he was the school district’s principal of trades and transitions, but it has always relied on an extensive partnership with indus-

try, businesses and government.

The list of those supporting it this year is a virtual who’s who of construction/building/engineering/mining/forestry businesses in the area.

With a 12-member steering committee, they oversee 70-plus donors contributing money or equipment, providing senior operators for the stations, presenting the safety orientation, providing security and feeding the crowd.

Ron Collins, School District 73’s vice-principal of trades and transitions and chair of the Heavy Metal Rocks steering committee, said while organizing the event is a lot of work, it’s also the highlight of his job each year.

The program is designed to provide a sampling of potential trades occupations for the students. They receive hands-on training on a vast variety of equipment used in industry and come out with several certifications and an understanding of the kind of work they might consider.

The steering committee has a mandate to include First Nations and female students.

The program is almost completely sponsored by industry,

Heavy Metal Rocks 2017 Award Recipients Award and Sponsorship (Monetary) Best Overall Student Operator ($500) Sponsored by Douglas Lake Equipment.

Most Improved Rookie Operator ($500) Sponsored by Corix Water Products Steering Committee Choice Award ($500) Sponsored by Kinder Morgan Pit Boss Award ($500) Sponsored by Westlund, a Division of Emco Perseverance Award ($500) Sponsored by the Kamloops and District Labour Council Perseverance Award ($500) Sponsored by the Kamloops Thomposon Teachers’ Association Student’s Choice Team Spirit Award ($500 Sponsored by Kamloops Thompson Principals/ Vice-Principals Association Exemplary Safety Award ($500) Sponsored by KMS Tools Thompson Rivers University (x2) ($500) Entrance Scholarship (Trades)

Recipients Sheldon Van Sickle (Barriere Secondary) Wyatt Euverman (South Kamloops Secondary) Garrett Miller (Westsyde Secondary) Isaiah Ducharme (Barriere Secondary) Anneka Wilson (Valleyview Secondary) Travis Paille (NorKam Senior Secondary) Jack Thomson (South Kamloops Secondary) Chant Copley (Barriere Secondary) Wyatt Euverman (South Kamloops Secondary) William Dana (Barriere Secondary)

Additional Awards (Non-monetary) Stobbe Rodeo (Mini-Excavator) Competition Best Time (Male) Sponsored by Stobbe Excavating Ltd.

Recipients Wyatt Marshman (@KOOL School)

Stobbe Rodeo (Mini-Excavator) Competition Best Time (Female) Sponsored by Stobbe Excavating Ltd.

Anneka Wilson (Valleyview Secondary)

Sterling Crane Award Steadiest Hands

Alec Guertin (Norkam Senior Secondary)

Collins said, and he has no idea what the actual cost to run it might be. Factoring in the value of the equipment on site, he’s confident it’s at least $1 million and likely much more.

There were two new stations this year. After a concerted effort to engage the forestry industry, students had the chance to process donated loads of logs into firewood, split them, stack them and shrinkwrap them. The final product was donated to elders, Collins said.

Last year, the event added a powerline technician station, which was back this year.

Also added to this year’s event was a hydro-vac truck. Stations included a rock wall building, rock drilling and several excavator sites — one designed to teach screening techniques, another for concrete recycling and one loading a large rock truck.

Ten bursaries were awarded for various pre-determined criteria, ranging from Top Overall Rookie Operator to Most Employable.

For Collins, though, his reward at the end of the event is to “see the smiles on their faces. That’s what makes it worthwhile.”

A volunteer instructor teaches a student to operate a sky lift during training at Heavy Metal Rocks, which was held from April 5 to April 8 at the Tk’emlups Indian Band gravel pit. The ninth annual event gives students a sampling of potential trades occupations. They receive hands-on training on a vast variety of equipment used in industry and come out with several certifications and an understanding of the kind of work they might consider.

School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson), Secondary Transitions, would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors, community partners, and all the operators and volunteers who gave freely of their time to mentor 26 students in our ninth annual Heavy Metal Rocks program.

Heavy Metal Rocks provides students with a hands-on opportunity to learn the operation of heavy equipment.

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The goal of the market is to create, expand and enhance the economic strength and viability of artists in the Thompson-Okanagan, while contributing to education and creative health of our community.

It is a creative business incubator, a weekly gathering place for inspirational thoughts and ideas. It is also kid friendly with children’s and family art classes.

The market is free to attend with ample free parking.

It will have live music, creative workshops and handmade items. A selection of food vendors will also be on hand, so attendees can arrive hungry.

The market runs at McDonald Park on Sundays from May 14 to Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family art classes run from noon to 1 p.m., while adult painting classes run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The Mothers Day grand opening will feature special events and coupons for all moms who attend.

Call for submissions

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The spring Kamloops Film Society series continues with three more films to be shown at Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St. On Thursday, April 20, A Man Called Ove will be shown.

Sweden’s entry for best foreign film at this year’s Oscar Awards is based on the novel of the same name.

It tells the story of a 59-year-old widower, a grumpy man who feels he must maintain control of his neighbourhood.

New residents accidentally knock over his mailbox and the result is a drama/comedy about unexpected friendship.

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