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iour, I would recommend they call the police,” he said. Putnam said each plaque will cost between $300 and $1,200 to replace, but it’s likely the city will use a different material which is less attractive to thieves.

Clad in a Douglas Lake Ranch-branded belt, white dress shirt and white cowboy hat, the manager of Canada’s largest privately held ranch stooped over to unlock a gate. “There’s a series of three locks,” Joe Gardner explained to the 10 people waiting to pass the gate that otherwise bars access to Minnie and Stoney lakes. Among those waiting was B.C. Supreme Court Justice Joel Groves. Rather than the usual robes used inside the courtroom, Groves was wearing jeans, a loosely buttoned dress shirt, hiking boots and aviator shades. The B.C. Supreme Court judge was joined by lawyers, members of the fish and game club and ranch employees for the day-long event. There are dozens or even hundreds of gates at Canada’s largest private ranch. But this gate — stopping the public from accessing two lakes sporting trophy sized rainbow trout — is at the heart of a lawsuit pitting Douglas Lake Cattle Co. against Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club. The case was argued for several weeks in B.C. Supreme Court earlier this year.

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A former Thompson Rivers University student and member of the school’s varsity WolfPack golf team was found guilty on Tuesday of sexual assault, stemming from an incident following a New Year’s Eve party two years ago. Mathew Rittinger stood accused of raping an 18-year-old woman and aggressively fondling her 19-year-old friend after leaving a party on Jan. 1, 2015. The 25-year-old was found guilty of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old but acquitted on the charge relating to the 18-year-old. In court on Tuesday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Hope Hyslop said there was “an air of reality” to Rittinger’s testimony that the sex with the 18-year-old

woman was consensual, but the same could not be said for his fondling of her 19-year-old friend. “The accused knew he did not have consent for any further touching,” Hyslop said. “There were no actions that could lead the accused to believe she had consented.” The two women came to Rittinger’s home following a New Year’s party two years ago. Unable to secure a ride home via Operation Red Nose or a taxi, Rittinger said the two could sleep at his house until they were able to get home. The sexual assault occurred in the early-morning hours of Jan. 1, 2015. While the 18-year-old slept in an empty bedroom in Rittinger’s residence, he and the 19-year-old went to his room. After talking and making out, the woman eventually told

Rittinger she wanted to go to sleep. Rittinger rolled her over on top of him a number of times — five or more, she testified — and aggressively grabbed at her genitals. Despite her saying no — 20 or more times, she said — and struggling against him, Rittinger continued to grab her above and below her pants, and unhooked her bra. After the 19-year-old managed to free herself from his bedroom, Rittinger went down to the room the 18-year-old was sleeping in and allegedly twice engaged in sexual intercourse with the woman. Hyslop found there was not enough evidence for a conviction relating to that allegation. The 18-year-old had testified that she was sleeping at the time and woke up to Rittinger on top

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of her and engaging in intercourse with her. Hyslop said the inconsistencies in the woman’s testimony, along with her ability to remember some parts of the incident but not others, were concerning. While Hyslop did not believe all of Rittinger’s testimony in regards to the incident, the Crown did not prove its case that the sex was not consensual. “The testimony of the accused has an air of reality to it,” she said. Following the verdict, one of Rittinger’s supporters in the gallery cried and buried her head in her hands. He stared blankly ahead as he left the courtroom, trailed by his lawyer. The matter has been held over until June 12 at 2 p.m., when a date for sentencing will be fixed.

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Ferried to the gate just off Pennask Lake Road by a sheriff, Groves began by reminding everyone of the rules. “The thing is we’re moving the courtroom to another location for a look around,” the judge said. While the courtroom portion of the trial is complete, Groves scheduled the viewing to get a better understanding of its complex geography and subsequent engineering by the ranch in its quest to create exclusive use for its guests, including to its Stoney Lake Lodge. Lawyers will have a chance for written argument following the Tuesday viewing. Rules laid out for the viewing were no photos, no legal argument and no new evidence. “This is the first time I’ve done this in my 17 years,” Groves noted of the out-of-court courtroom experience. Gardner, allowed to point out features to the court, explained the three locks — one for ranch employees, one for members of Upper Nicola Indian band and one for paying customers of the ranch and its high-end Stoney Lake Lodge. “They have that [combination] written down when they

make their reservation,” he said. The fish and game club has argued the gate was illegally closed and locked in the mid1980s when it was owned by the Woodward family. The road, club lawyer Chris Harvey said in court, remains a public street — albeit part of it drowned out by lake engineering — leading to what should be public Minnie and Stoney Lakes. The ranch, on the other hand, argues the original Crown grant, a pond at the heart of this plateau country, has been drowned by engineering over the decades by the ranch to create a much larger and soughtafter angling experience amid its thousands of hectares of pristine bluebunch wheatgrass and rough fescue. “When I was first here and there wasn’t a dam, this was generally a swampy area,” Gardner explained of a low-lying stretch that formed part of the viewing. Tuesday’s viewing took a convoy of five trucks over roads where the ranch argues no member of the public who has not paid a fee has the right to go. While lawyers glanced at maps and pointed out features, only 20 metres away a paying customer in a pontoon boat lazi-

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ly casted a fly with the breeze. While the trial focused on these two lakes located about 70 kilometres south of Kamloops, the decision potentially affects public access to any lake surrounded by private property, including whether the trout in them are privately owned or are the property of the province of B.C. Lawyers working for the three parties have disputed many of these questions. Among the issues they agree upon is all water is owned by the Crown and original lake beds are Crown property to the high water mark. The viewing included stops to see engineering done by the ranch over the decades, including irrigation ditches, dams and control of flow — control that’s been used to make the lakes larger than what was originally mapped by a surveyor in the late 1800s. Defence lawyer Chris Harvey noted natural channels and the original Pennask Lake Road drowned out by flooding of Minnie Lake. The club has argued that roadbed remains public — even if it has not been defended by the provincial government. Justice Groves’ decision is expected later this summer.

Correction B.C. Cattlemen’s Association is holding its annual general meeting in Kamloops beginning on Thursday. An incorrect weekend date was published in a story on page A7 of Tuesday’s edition of Kamloops This Week. The AGM starts Thursday with a reception and guest speakers at Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre. It winds up Saturday with a banquet and dance.

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There’s also the issue of recreating all the material written on the various signs, which Putnam expects will be a major administrative undertaking. If thieves are looking to sell the plaques, a local scrap metal buyer said it’s most likely they’re headed out of town to unload the goods, particularly in cases like the cenotaph plaques. “We wouldn’t even touch that stuff,” said North West Metal Recycling owner Kent O’Regan. “We’ve had guys that bring that stuff in and we’ve booted them out, said get out of here. “That’s stuff you don’t mess

with, not only legally but even morally. You don’t do that.” O’Regan said there are rules in place to detect metal theft, some of which work better than others. When people come to North West to sell brass, copper and similar metals, staff ask for identification and take down their information, which is forwarded to the RCMP at the end of each day, to be compared to reports of thefts. Scrap buyers are also only allowed to give out $50 in cash at a time, but O’Regan said the government has allowed buyers to install machines that will accept receipts for higher values,

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udging from poll results and the amount of business marijuana dispensaries are doing, there is a large portion of the population supporting — even looking forward to — the coming legalization of pot. Marijuana and its variants have been in use for up to 12,000 years, according to some claims. It’s certainly been found in burial mounds dating back 5,000 years. Being in use that long, it’s about time we give up wasting police and court resources fighting it and instead focus on controlling it. However, the upcoming legislation may not accomplish some of the goals expected, like making it more difficult for young people to obtain and use the drug. Underage alcohol consumption is illegal and that hasn’t presented too much of a barrier to teens getting drunk. Smoking among teens may be decreasing, but that is more likely a reflection of trends in society than regulations making tobacco impossible for the under-18 crowd to obtain. How much easier will it be to get high when you can grow and dry pot yourself? Likewise, preventing people from driving while marijuana-impaired isn’t as simple as writing a regulation. A key component of the legislation needs to be education. Not just to point out hazard; that needs to be included, but the point is to establish a baseline of acceptable use, not scare people away from smoking pot, which has never worked anyway. It took decades to take drinking and driving from socially acceptable to unacceptable. It’s still not at zero, and probably never will be, but how much better if we started legal pot out on the right foot and made it clear it’s not OK to be stoned behind the wheel of a car, in the office or the classroom? Sure, everyone knows that, but we all knew that about drinking and driving, too. Like drinking and driving, it’s a message that needs to be repeated over and over until being stoned at the wrong place or time isn’t just considered a joking matter. — Penticton Western News

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Trump drank the Kool-Aid The media mostly missed it (or chose to ignore it as a piece of meaningless rhetoric), but Donald Trump proclaimed a new doctrine in his speech to the assembled leaders of the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. It goes by the name of Principled Realism, although it didn’t offer much by way of either principles or realism. In practice, it mostly boiled down to a declaration of (proxy) war against Iran. After rambling on for 20 minutes about the wonders of Islam and evils of “extremism” and “terrorism”, Trump finally got to the point: “No discussion of stamping out this [terrorist] threat would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists . . . safe harbour, financial backing and the social standing needed for recruitment . . . I am speaking, of course, of Iran.” No mention of the fact every single terrorist attack in the West from 9/11 down to the bomb in Manchester Arena on Monday night was carried out by Sunni fanatics, most of them of Arab origin, whereas Iran’s population is overwhelmingly Shia and not Arab at all. Iran, to hear Trump tell it, is the source of all the region’s problems. “From Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region. . . . It is a government that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing the destruction of Israel, death to America and ruin for many nations and leaders in this room . . . ” “Until the Iranian regime is willing to be a partner for peace, all nations of conscience must work together to isolate Iran, deny it funding for terrorism and

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WATCH pray for the day when the Iranian people have the just and righteous government they deserve.” Trump delivered this remarkable farrago of lies and half-truths two days after Iran, the only Middle Eastern state apart from Israel and Turkey to hold relatively free elections, re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, who has worked hard to reduce the influence of his hard-line opponents. He also signed the deal freezing Iranian work on nuclear weapons for 10 years and he has popular support for his policies. The “militias” Iran trains and supports include those in Iraq fighting to free the city of Mosul from the clutches of Islamic State (they also have tacit American support) and the Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon, which has been part of the Lebanese government since 2005. There is no evidence Iran has supplied weapons to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, despite frequent allegations to that effect by Arab and American sources. The Iranian government does not “speak openly about mass murder” and the one Iranian leader who spoke about the eventual destruction of Israel (although he did not promise to

do it personally) was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was defeated by Rouhani in the 2013 election, and was banned from running again in the one just past. “Death to America!” was a nationalist slogan popular in the 1980s. Iran, like most large countries, has many conflicting political trends, and with careful selection and enough ill-will you can find enough extreme and ignorant comments to demonize the country. (You could certainly do it with Trump’s America.) But the Islamic Republic of Iran has never invaded anybody and it does not support terrorist attacks against either the West or the Arab world. Trump has drunk the KoolAid. He has bought into a partisan Arab narrative whose theme is an inevitable (and ultimately military) conflict between Iran and the Arab world and has all but promised that the United States would fight on the Arab side in that putative war. This is probably the stupidest foreign policy commitment any American administration has made since the decision 60 years ago to take France’s place in fighting the “Communist menace” in Vietnam. Iran has almost as many people as Vietnam, it’s five times as big, and it’s mostly mountains and deserts — plus some large cities. Maybe it is inevitable Sunni Arab leaders will see Shia Iran through the lens of their own fears and stereotypes and start making self-fulfilling prophecies of apocalyptic conflict. Trump has no such excuse — except perhaps to point out Barack Obama also went along with the Yemen nonsense and that Hillary Clinton would probably have bought the whole foolish package. gwynnedyer.com

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WHAT BILLS TIERED NEXT? higher premium that’s set at higher pricing. This is tiered billing. Our government thinktanks for their part have successfully deployed and created higher billing and they are making millions of extra dollars from taxpayers for their government coffers. Yes, that’s the higher taxes they receive from higher billing. It makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn’t it? What is next for our government thinktanks, the air we breathe? No doubt they are wondering

how to justify and implement this possibility. Maybe one day we’ll be charged “by the breath” for the air we breathe? For example, if you go over your allotted breathing, you enter into tiered breathing in which you pay a higher premium for any extra air. Just like Hydro and water through smart meter and monitoring. What is the worst case scenario? They cut you off. Les Evans Kamloops

CITY DESERVES BETTER SLOGAN Editor: Seriously? Boldly Unscripted? What? Were Unapologetically Disorganized, Proudly Chaotic, Happily Haphazard or Singlemindedly Muddled already taken? Kamloops deserves a much better slogan. Marion Bacon Kamloops

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THANKS TO ROAD ANGELS FOR HELPING HANDS Editor: I am embarrassed it took so long for me to write this but would like to say a really big thank you to several “road angels.” Last month, my car died in the westbound exit lane on Fortune Drive going to Fortune Plaza by the Bank of Montreal. I was sitting in my car stomping my brakes every time another car took the exit so I wouldn’t get rear-ended. It is a very busy piece of road and it was a Saturday afternoon, too. A nice young woman checked on me, realized I was unable to move the car and proceeded to search the plaza for someone to help her push me off the street. When she couldn’t find anyone free in the stores, she somehow found a man and they pushed me out of harm’s way. I was so stressed I forgot to get their names, so I hope this letter

I was so stressed I forgot to get “their names, so I hope this letter reaches them.” reaches them. To top it off, a really nice BCAA responder got my car started and escorted me to the repair shop in case my car died again on the way, so I wouldn’t be stranded again. I couldn’t have asked for kinder people and I am very grateful. If it’s ever needed, I sure hope they all get it back doubled. Thank you. Susan Beauchamp Kamloops

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GOVERNMENT CASHING IN ON HYDRO, WATER BILLING Editor: So far I have lived through the late 1950s, the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and now 17 years into 2000 and beyond. Anyone else notice changes our government thinktanks have introduced as our standard way of life these days? I am referring to next-generation smart meters. Most have seen both Hydro and water go from what was within the old way of billing to being charged for both services through smart meters. Any extra over what is allowed at one price, you then pay a

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“Way too busy, not enough manpower and not enough money are common excuses for inaction. Many of us value the RCMP’s services and muchneeded presence in our society. Chaos would result otherwise. We need assistance on an ongoing basis to reduce the horrendous traffic problems on our roads. Morale is an internal problem that can be corrected internally. Sending money is not the only solution. It is how you choose to use the existing funding and a willingness to act that will make the difference.” — posted by Bob Wren

RE: STORY: CITY INSPECTING RECYCLING CARTS, PREPARING FOR AUDIT:

“So the plastic bag I use to hold my kitchen garbage is a soft plastic as are the poop bags for my dogs. I now have to dump them into my garbage bin so I can recycle the bags? Now I will have an extremely smelly garbage can sitting around waiting for pickup. Might need some fly spray — is that still legal to use?” — posted by Saloon1

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VANCOUVER — The Central Okanagan Regional District reports localized flooding in the wake of a powerful windstorm that swept across southern British Columbia on Tuesday. The district said in a news release that residences in lowlying areas near lakes throughout the region were affected as winds caused a storm surge and whipped up waves, pushing already high water levels past flood stage. The district says Okanagan Lake rose 4.5 centimetres during the storm, reaching 342.95 metres — five centimetres below its highest recorded level of 343 metres, set in 1948. The Okanagan

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VERNON — The BC Wildfire Service is responding to two separate blazes that broke out on Tuesday, including one that has prompted an evacuation alert near Vernon. A fire in the north Okanagan, northwest of Lumby, was fanned by high winds and officials say it has now charred as much as eight hectares of trees and bush in the Cooper’s Mountain area. An evacuation alert issued late Tuesday night by the Regional District of North Okanagan covers

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BRUSSELS — In his first big tour on the world stage, President Donald Trump is choosing caution over his usual brand of chaos. The early morning Twitter rants that so often rattle Washington have disappeared as Trump travels through the Middle East and Europe. The president has traded his freewheeling speaking style for tightly scripted remarks. And with most of the travelling press

corps being kept at a distance, the opportunities for him to be pressed on the controversies engulfing his administration back home are dramatically lessened. Trump did briefly respond to one shouted question about his meeting with Pope Francis on Wednesday, offering this indisputable assessment of the pontiff: “He is something.’’ The president appears likely to go his entire nine-day trip without holding a full news conference — a break from presi-

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“Last time I spoke to him, he sounded normal. There was nothing worrying at all until . . . I heard the news that they are suspecting he was the bomber,’’ the elder Abedi said. He confirmed that another son, Ismail, 23, was arrested Tuesday in Manchester. A third son, 18-year-old Hisham, was arrested in Tripoli late Tuesday night, according to a Libyan government spokesman, Ahmed bin Salem. The elder Abedi was arrested shortly after speaking to the AP, Salem said. The anti-terror force that took Hisham Abedi into custody said that the teenager had confessed that both he and his brother were members of the Islamic State group and that Hisham Abedi had been aware of the details of the Manchester attack. Ramadan Abedi fled Tripoli in 1993.

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1990s, according to a former Libyan security official, AbdelBasit Haroun. The elder Abedi denied that he was part of the militant group and told The Associated Press that his son was not involved in the concert bombing and had no connection to militants. “We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us,’’ the 51-year-old Abedi said in a telephone interview from Tripoli. He said he spoke to his son five days ago and that he was getting ready for a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. He said that his son visited Libya a month and a half ago and was planning to return to Libya to spend the holy month of Ramadan with the family. He also denied his son had spent time in Syria or fought with the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the concert bombing.

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esse Ziercke describes himself as a Shuswap boy. “I grew up here,” the manager of Quaaout Lodge said. Even after the hotel business of bigger cities like Calgary beckoned him away, his heart remained in his home community. It’s what encouraged him to take the job at the resort that will mark its 25th anniversary this year, with Talking Rock Golf Course next door hitting double digits since its creation in 2007. It’s cause for celebration, said resort food and beverage manager Colin Spiekermann, with events planned throughout the year. Helping guide many of the events is Frank Antoine, cultural liaison at Quaaout. His path to the lodge on Little Shuswap Lake had its own unique beginning, one removed from his position now. “I was a golf pro,” Antoine said, adding he was always over at Talking Rock. “But you can feel the spirit here. I can feel the spirit but what was missing was the legend,” he said of the First Nations history that lives in the area. Antoine said his concern began to firm into ideas three years ago when he was at the nearby Adams River sockeye run, providing canoe rides for people to see the fish swarm and then serving them a salmon dinner. “That’s it, I thought,” Antoine said. “It started to resonate with me.” He said the lodge needed to embrace the indigenous-ness surrounding it and create activities at the lodge people would not only enjoy but which would share that history of the area. The kekuli winter house, for example, is used for storytelling and lessons on cooking bannock over an open flame.

Cultural liaison Frank Antoine discusses events planned throughout the year at Quaaout Lodge. The Lodge is located about 45 minutes northeast of Kamloops.

There are hikes that will take people into the surrounding bush to learn about — and pick — berries that grow in the area. Those jaunts can also point out other foods growing — bitterroot and wild asparagus, for example. Courtesy of a suggestion from an Australian guest, another excursion is available. Inspired by the Australian tradition of walkabouts — when indigenous males would live in the wilderness for several months to make a spiritual connection — the man suggested the lodge offer a ride-about using some of the many golf carts at Talking Rock for guests to head out into the area and explore. Antoine said the idea has led to memorable moments as people

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heading out into the neighbouring terrain “go from seniors back to being a child.” Antoine hopes to also add winter activities. He’s eyeing Skmana Lake for ice fishing and wandering area trails. The excursion would ideally include a local trapper to help participants catch dinner for the night, while pointing out animal prints. Antoine is also looking at other ways to bring together neighbouring First Nations — Adams Lake, Neskonlith and Little Shuswap — for other cultural activities, noting the work he and others at the lodge have done has “kind of lit a fire with culture again.”

Frank Marchand is pretty sure his hands are never going to forgive him. The member of the Okanagan Indian Band, along with Tanner Francois of the Little Shuswap Indian Band, spends hours every weekday at Quaaout Lodge creating two cottonwood canoes. One is taking shape courtesy of modern, electrical tools while the other gets its much more rough look from the use of traditional stone tools. The project is part of the lodge’s planned anniversary celebrations. The hotel is marking a quarter-century while the adjacent Talking Rock Golf Course hits a decade. Plans are to dip those canoes into Little Shuswap Lake on June 25 — Aboriginal Day in Canada — to kick off a summer of events. Local elders helped pick the tree that has now become canoes 25 and 14 feet in length (the longest is the one benefitting from electrical power). “I was kind of hoping they’d pick a bigger tree,” Marchand said. “This one has lots of knots in it.” It makes it a more of a challenge for the traditional canoe. The contemporary canoe will be sealed with a fibreglass resin while the traditional will be treated with cooked linseed oil. See LOCAL, A14

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We recently saw the Kamloops CAP team provide a valuable service. My husband and I were driving on the alley between Battle and St. Paul streets to Fifth Avenue, when we saw a disabled man collapsed on the sidewalk with his wheelchair tipped over beside him. The streets were empty, but kneeling over him, comforting him, were two CAP members in their bright red outfits. We offered to help but they they assured us, “Thanks but we’re fine and we’ve already called for an ambulance.” Kudos CAPs, so welcome in downtown Kamloops. — Wendy Patrick Kamloops

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Marchand learned the craft from his father. Gordon Marchand created many hand-carved canoes and paddles that can be found throughout the B.C. Interior. He taught his son there is a right way Frank Marchand is building to carve a two canoes for excursions at canoe and Quaaout Lodge. there is a wrong way. “When my dad made them, he would fill them with water and then put hot stones in and cover it with a canvas. This was to stretch it a half-centimetre at a time,” Marchand said. In his younger years and not inclined to follow that painstaking process to widen a canoe, Marchand put in more rocks than he should have and cracked the canoe in half. “I don’t think my dad talked to me for a year,” he said. Cottonwood was chosen for many reasons. It grows tall and is plentiful in the Interior. “And there’s no splinters. If you get a splinter from it, you’re doing something really wrong,” Marchand said. — Dale Bass, KTW

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Kickbox class for a cause on Saturday Shoshanna Litvack and Kix 4 Chix are pairing up to try and kick respiratory illness. Litvack is asking Kamloops residents to take part in a kickboxing class by donation at Kix 4 Chix. The class is on Saturday at 10 a.m. All are welcome — beginners, members and non-members. All proceeds will go to the B.C. Lung Association. The studio is at 953 Laval Cres.

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Kamloops, and will also feature bouncy castles, family games, face painting and a bike rodeo. The Bees and the Bare Bones will be among live performances, along with former Canadian Idol runner up JayDee Bixby.

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onica Oram was on the verge of giving up, weary from fighting multiple sclerosis, resigned to accepting the disease’s effects on

her life. The horse-loving Logan Lake resident had experienced relapses before, terrifying and painful ordeals that have plagued her since diagnosis in 2004, but nothing like the one that crippled her will last September. Seizures and blackouts were becoming frequent and 59-year-old Monica — who in 2008 won a pair of provincial barrel-racing championships, a high-water-mark year in her impressive rodeo career — was no lon-

ger able to bathe or feed herself, tasks taken on by her husband, Rob. “It was horrible, just watching your parent — and my mom is so active and involved in everything — in bed for days and she’s having blackouts and seizures and you’re now becoming the parent, basically,” said an emotional Dealia Faulkner, one of Monica’s daughters. “It was really hard to watch her deteriorate so much.” Rob and Monica owned Tunkwa Lake Resort for 15 years, but were forced to sell it about 13 years ago after learning of Monica’s diagnosis, knowing they would need money for treatment and the disease would affect their ability to run the business properly. Since then, Rob has been unable to work regularly, focused instead on taking care of his wife.

In 2015, the family was able to send ailing Monica to New York for stem-cell treatment it says produced life-altering results. “About 30 days after treatment, she phoned me and was like, “I just want to make sure I’m still alive,’” Dealia said. “She woke up with zero pain for the first time in so long. I went over to check on her and she was push-mowing the yard. I was like, ‘What are you doing?’” There was no money left for another trip to New York for treatment last fall, when the brutal relapse left her all but paralyzed for about two weeks. “The disease had progressed,” Monica said. “I was saying, you know, I’ve had an amazing go of it. I really have. These treatments are not cheap at all. I’ve got a lot of pride. I’m a giver, not a receiver. “I had sort of accepted it, but they didn’t accept it.”

Dealia, her sister, Lacey, and a few friends wanted to take action, but it was a process to convince Monica it was OK to reach out for financial help. “What if there are people who love you and want to help you and the only way they can help you is financially?” the sisters asked. Monica eventually caved in. “When I started seeing all the different people that were giving and my daughters are showing me all the messages, it was so overwhelming and the healing started,” Monica said, noting the importance of her faith in the fight against MS. “I could just feel all the love behind me.” For the past 21 years, Monica has run a soup program in Logan Lake, feeding elementary school students once a week during the winter months. See YEARS, A18

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She became a director at the Highland Valley Baptist Church food bank about five years ago, when Dirk and Bonnie Werring needed a break. “Even through her MS, she put her hand up,” Bonnie said. “Her and Rob go into Kamloops to pick up deliveries. She knows the clients on a one-on-one basis. She knows them all by name.” Monica is wellknown on the B.C. barrel-racing scene for both her work on the horse and off it in volunteering capacities. She shouldn’t be surprised with what people have given back to her, but can’t wrap her mind around the generosity that has been shown. Monica Oram’s Leg Up Fund has reached $15,605, with 99 people having donated in two months, and a bank account in Logan Lake, for those not interested in online transactions, is at about $13,000. “It’s blown up,” Dealia said. “It’s incredible. I just got a cheque yesterday for $968 from the B.C Barrel Racing Association. They’re

On May 4, less than a month after stem-cell treatment in New York, Monica Oram was able to mount her horse, albeit strapped in with velcro and duct tape.

putting on benefit races for her.” The Monica Oram Benefit Auction and fundraising rodeo events in Williams Lake and Monte Creek have raised thousands. Tammy Keith doesn’t know Monica personally, but appreciated seeing her sportsmanship at barrel-racing events and felt she had to do something when the family called for help, so she organized the Monica Oram Benefit Race in Williams Lake. “I had MS affect someone in my life,

personally, and very negatively,” Tammy said. “It felt great to be part of helping her be happy again.” The event raised $2,610. Clothing has been designed and sold in her honour, with proceeds donated to the fund, and meals keep on showing up on the Orams’ doorstep. On April 11, Monica was pictured in a wheelchair in Vancouver International Airport. On April 13, she had stem-cell treatment in New York, a four-

hour process that costs somewhere around $18,000. In a May 4 post on the Facebook page Fundraising and Support for Monica Oram, there is a picture (liked by 267 people and shared 24 times) of a gleaming woman velcrostrapped and ducttaped to her beloved horse, Mocha. It’s Monica — back in the saddle again. “The blessings people are feeling by being able to give and actually change a human’s life — it has changed her, from being in a wheelchair to walking in here today — and the joy they’re feeling has been immense,” Rob said. Monica, who hopes to have two more stem-cell treatments, was looking forward to leaving KTW. After a checkup at Royal Inland Hospital, she could return home to Mocha or go play with her grandchildren. But she wanted to relay her message first. “Being that it’s MS month, I really want to get that out, to never give up,” said Monica, smiling and sporting a sizeable, shiny belt buckle. “Don’t ever take your diagnosis and let it conquer your life. You need to conquer it and keep searching for stuff to make you better.”

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Earlier this year, Monica found out she would be receiving the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers. She was invited to Ottawa to receive the award in April from David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, but was not well enough to make the trip. District of Logan Lake staff handed over the medal on Wednesday during Civic Pride Day celebrations at the new fire hall. The medals are handed out annually. This year, 46 Canadians were recipients.

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Tak Cox of the under-18 Kamloops Blaze controls the ball under duress from Prince George opponents at the Slurpee Cup on McArthur Island on the weekend. For more photos, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.

Blaze mine silver at Slurpee Cup Two under-14 Kamloops Blaze boysâ€™ teams claimed silver medals at the Slurpee Cup in the Tournament Capital on the weekend. In the Gold Division, the Upper Island Storm downed the Blaze 5-1 in the final. Kobe Anderson, Hayden Koppes, Alessandro Lizzi and Del Neveau earned Game MVPs for Kamloops. In the Orange Division final, McKenzie blanked the Blaze 3-0. Christopher Crowe, Avery Flemming, Matthew Murphy and Evan Humphrey were named Game MVPs.

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The under-15 Kamloops Blaze girls posted two wins and two ties at the Slurpee Cup on the weekend. Kamloops won games against Edmonton Victoria Soccer Club and Kelowna United Kaos, 2-1 and 1-0, respectively.

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BRIEFS The Blaze played to scoreless draws against Calgary Blizzard Club and European Football School. Jordyn Lodermeier, Natalie Knight and Fiona Brisco had goals for Kamloops. Kila Pigeon was between the pipes against Edmonton, Calgary and the European squad, with Amanda Thomas in net against Kelowna. Pigeon, Knight, Maiya Zimmerman and Olivia Cork earned Game MVP awards.

Cope honoured

The BC Soccer Association announced Graham Cope, the immediate past-president of the Kamloops Youth Soccer Association (KYSA), a current

director, will be presented with its Award of Merit at the organizationâ€™s annual general meeting on June 10 in Burnaby. â€œI wish every paid employee had the privilege of having someone as capable, as fair, and with as much integrity as Graham Cope,â€? KYSA executive director Keith Liddiard said. â€œThis is a most deserving honour and I am so pleased to see him receive this accolade from the provincial body.â€? The Award of Merit is presented in recognition of contributions to soccer during a period of 10 or more years as a player, manager, coach, official or administrator at the club/ league or district level. Cope has been an elected volunteer member of the KYSA board of directors for the last 11 years, 10 of which he served as president. This year, Cope will complete his last term of office at the KYSA annual general meeting in November.

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BRIEFS handful of skaters medal in the Victoria Day Super Series in Surrey on the weekend, an event that became a showcase for a number of the club’s new programs. In the Star 2 category, Fiona Poole skated to bronze, while Lexi Pockett and Mataya Pockett skated to silver. It was the first-ever competition for Poole and Lexi. Brenna Wassing finished fifth in Star 5 13-plus action and seventh with a new program in the bronze interpretive category. Jana deJong was eighth in the junior ladies short program and sixth in the long program. Up next for the club is the summer skating program, which begins on July 17.

On the track

Matthew Campmans will have a little company at the 2017 B.C. High School Provincial Track and Field Championships next week. The event runs from June 1 to June 3 in Langley. The Westsyde Whunda, who was the lone representative from his school at the 2013 provincials, will be joined by five others in 2017, including senior Kelsy Bentz, junior Logan Hwang and Grade 8s Ria Campmans, Ethan Gremaud and Millan Webster. At the 2017 Okanagan Valley B.C. High School Track and Field Championships, Kamloops had nine athletes from Westsyde in attendance. Campmans led the way with a new personal-best time in the 110metre hurdles, crossing the line in a winning time of 15.46 seconds.

Seattle’s woes Kamloops product Ryan Gropp and the Seattle Thunderbirds posted an 0-3 record at the Memorial Cup. The Western Hockey League representative’s season has come to an end.

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WAWA, ONTARIO — The Ribbon of Steel that binds Canada from coast to coast has reverberated through our collective psyche since the Last Spike, celebrated in song, folklore and history books. But what of the Ribbon of Asphalt, the now vital 8,000-kilometre Trans-Canada Highway that has in so many ways replaced its railway counterpart in tying one end of the country to the other? Once called “one of the major Canadian transportation accomplishments of the last century,” the highway has proven an irresistible challenge to drivers, cyclists and runners — Terry Fox among them — who have over the years plied its gravel and pavement. Approved by Parliament in 1949, former prime minister John Diefenbaker formally opened the highway — only about half of which was then paved — on Sept. 3, 1962. The ceremony was held with the snowcapped Rockies in the background at Rogers Pass, not far from where Sir Donald Smith had driven in the last spike for the CPR transcontinental railway in 1885. The highway’s builders had faced monumental engineering and construction challenges along the way. One of the most daunting occurred at roughly the half-way point, a rugged 265-kilometre north-south stretch in Ontario along eastern Lake Superior between Wawa and Sault Ste Marie. For years, the ultra-hard rock, multiple river gorges and deep muskegs proved insurmountable obstacles some feared could never be overcome. It would take some fancy footwork in what came to be known as Operation Michipoten to help fill in The Gap and complete the final critical part of the routing. During the Depression, hundreds of men earned 15 cents a day to build about 110 kilometres of road north of Sault Ste. Marie, tough work that conscientious objectors later took on during the Second World War. But construction hit a granite wall, much to the chagrin of Wawa residents. Getting out of the town meant getting on a steamboat or train. “After the Second World War, Canada was booming. Everywhere was booming. And Wawa felt like it was stuck in a remote little corner of northern Ontario,’’ historian Johanna Rowe

said. “For years, politicians promised that we’ll build the highway. It just seemed to take forever.” As the story goes, frustrated Wawa residents finally had enough of empty political promises to complete the stretch of the Trans-Canada that traverses the Agawa River Valley between their town and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. In 1951, Al Turcott, a local businessman and entrepreneur, devised a plan to focus attention on the need to close the 20-year-old gap.” Turcott recruited four men to walk the 72 kilometres to Montreal River, then the end point of the highway, with a plan to hype almost every step of their journey. Sensing fun, a teenage Ed Nyman quit his mining job to join the group that would go down in history as the Wawa Four. “Soon as I heard about it, I knew I wanted to do it,’’ Nyman, 86, said in an interview in his Wawa living room. “I was young. I didn’t care about work or anything like that.” Turcott, who had political and media connections, wanted to milk the hike for all it was worth. His instructions to the men were clear: “We were told to walk slow, so Mr. Turcott could get it in the newspapers, get a bunch of baloney about it,’’ Nyman said with a chuckle. “There was no road. Just bush. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.” Nyman, the youngest of the group; Derek Baker, a newspaper reporter who had just finished a four-year stint with the British Navy; Paul Villeneuve, a veteran prospector and trapper; and George Kimball, whose forebears had helped build the North, were all experienced in the bush. They carried sleeping bags and supplies — including a bulky radio that sometimes worked — and set out on their legendary trek. The men followed an old survey line as they ambled on. At times, a float plane dropped supplies on nearby lakes. They pressed through the bush, fished or snoozed. They pretended to get lost. They waded across Old Woman River. What might otherwise have been a two- or three-day hike had stretched to 17 days by the time the intrepid four reached the wooden bridge at

Montreal River to be greeted as something of heroes by politicians and reporters. From there, they were driven to a gala dinner in Sault Ste. Marie, where the politicos in attendance repeated promises to get the road built. Nyman was flown back home. “For me, it didn’t amount to much,’’ he said nonchalantly while thumbing through old black-and-white photographs, as if still perplexed by it all. Promises and publicity notwithstanding, it would take several more years — until 1959 — for the final 80 kilometres of The Gap to be blasted out. The road was still so rough it would take about eight hours to drive the 230 kilometres between Wawa and Sault Ste. Marie, including crossing a homemade log bridge over Old Woman River. Even then, Rowe said, impatient Wawa locals who wanted to jump in their cars and drive to the Soo found themselves at loggerheads with construction workers and authorities. At one point, the province put up barricades manned by police just outside the town and barred anyone from driving beyond. Townspeople would tear down the fences, Rowe said. Authorities then handed out passes allowing for a once-a-year drives. As the story goes, famed artist A.Y. Jackson had to be smuggled in because he didn’t have one. Ultimately, “The Gap’’ was closed. Some of the most unforgiving terrain had been conquered and in September 1960, travel restrictions were finally lifted. Ontario’s then-premier, Leslie Frost, joined several regional and national officials in pouring rain in Wawa for a ribboncutting and dedication ceremonies that included unveiling another of Turcott’s creations — the now famous Wawa Goose, since replaced and scheduled to be replaced again this summer. Today, heritage doors at the museum-cumtourist information centre in Wawa and various plaques in the area, some sporting photographs of the indomitable Wawa Four, remind passing motorists of Operation Michipicoten and its role in tying up the Ribbon of Asphalt. Newfoundland was the last province to complete its part of highway, in 1967, but it would take several more years before the original

Trans-Canada to be finished and become one of the longest roads in the world. It stretched 7,821 kilometres across the country, joining St. John’s, N.L., in the east to Victoria in the west. With the help of a couple of car ferries on either coast, the road passes through all 10 provinces and links most major cities, Toronto being one notable exception. “The opening of the Trans-Canada Highway provided a shorter first-class route drawing together widely separated regions of Ontario,” a historic marker at Chippewa Falls, roughly the mid-point of the highway, proudly proclaims. The federal government sets standards and is responsible for the road where it runs through national parks. Otherwise, responsibility for the highway falls to the provinces. Nowadays, the Ribbon of Asphalt comprises more than one road. For example, two routes run from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, one via Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island. Two roads run west of Montreal, while others run through various parts of Ontario. The main Trans-Canada Highway then passes through Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Banff, Alta., before winding through the Rockies into B.C. and, via ferry, onto Vancouver Island. Attempts to cross the country by automobile predate construction of the Trans-Canada Highway. In 1912, Thomas Wilby attempted to collect on a gold medal offered by the newly minted Canadian Highway Association, a collection of car enthusiasts in B.C., by being the first person to cross the country by car. He and his driver travelled from Halifax to Victoria in two months, but had to strap the vehicle onto a train or steamer for large sections of their journey. Dr. Perry Doolittle, dubbed the Father of the Trans-Canada Highway came much closer to the prize. On Sept. 8, 1925, he and Ford photographer Ed Flickenger left Halifax in a new Model T to drive the 7,715 kilometres to Vancouver without leaving Canada. They arrived Oct. 17, 1925, after crossing makeshift bridges over rivers, and having rights-of-way specially cleared for them on 14 occasions. Although it was the first car to cross the country entirely under its own power, they failed to take the gold medal because they had to use flanged wheels to ride on rail tracks for about 1,340 kilometres. It was only in 1946 that a retired brigadier from Winnipeg, Alex Macfarlane, managed the cross-Canada driving feat.

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Recreation **BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2017** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,300 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly. Call for more information. 1-250-371-1333.

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2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $69,000 250-374-4723 2014 28Ft. Sportsman Trailer. Like new. Slide, queenbed, slps6. $23,500. 250-572-1113. 2015 Lance Travel Trailer 15ft slide out, awning, slps 6, $25000obo (250) 372-9957

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF DISPOSAL SALE Notice is hereby given to Cornelsen James Robert that your 1981 Dodge, 2WHDR, PU, Red, VIN # 1B7JD24P8BS158783. Time and place of sale June 16, 2017. LOT A Shuswap Rd. Pritchard, B.C. Amount of debt $2250 plus $1200 outstanding in storage fees. Contact: A. Dymond, 699 261 Street, Langley B.C.

1997 Ford 1/2Ton 4X4. 233,000kms. Good shape. $2500/Firm. 250-682-3943. 2000 Dodge Dakota. Full load. V-6. 195kms. 1-owner, canopy. Good Cond. $5,500. 3763480 2002 Dodge 3500 Laramie SLT. Diesel 4x4, 8ft. Flat Deck, 200 gal tank/elec pump. $10,000. 250-573-3872. 2003 Ford Winstar Van. w/2 sets of tires on rims summer & winter $2500/obo. 250-8194231.

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Tolko Southern Interior Woodlands has prepared a Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) that encompasses the Kamloops, Merritt and Okanagan Timber Supply Areas (TSA), Tree Farm Licence #49 and a portion of the Arrow TSA. Each of these areas will be a Forest Development Unit where timber harvesting and road construction activities may occur during the period of the plan. The FSP is the operational plan governing forestry activities in BC that requires government approval under the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA). The FSP specifies results, strategies or measures that describe how Tolko will achieve consistency with the objectives set by government though regulation. These objectives include: soils, timber, wildlife, fish, riparian and watershed, water, biodiversity, cultural heritage, resource features, recreation, visual quality objectives, forage and associated plant communities and for relevant objectives established under the Land Act for the Okanagan-Shuswap LRMP, Kamloops Higher Level Plan Order and the Kootenay Boundary Higher Level Plan Order. The term of the FSP is five years, with a possible extension to ten years. FSPs do not identify the location of planned cutblocks and roads. Potentially affected tenured stakeholders will continue to receive referrals for planned cutblock and road development as part of our referral process. The public, stakeholders, First Nations and other interested parties may provide comments specific to Tolko’s results, strategies and measures in the FSP. The FSP will be available for review and comment from May 29, 2017 to July 28, 2017 at Tolko’s offices listed below. Hours of viewing will be between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday excluding holidays.

Interested persons can schedule an appointment by calling Jamie Skinner, RPF at 250-578-2177 or email jamie.skinner@tolko.com. All written comments must be received before 4:00 pm PDT July 28, 2017 to be considered in the FSP. The FSP and associated maps are available for viewing online through Tolko’s website at tolko.com. Follow the link to the Southern Interior Woodlands Forest Stewardship Plan.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Eva Mayrhofer (Befurt)

Celebration Of Life for Barbara Farquhar

Family and friends are invited to join us at 2:00 pm on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at Sahali Fellowship, 1565 Summit Dr., Kamloops, BC for a Celebration of Barbara’s Life. Tea reception to follow.

Eva Mayrhofer (Befurt) passed away on May 18, 2017. Eva was born on May 26, 1922 in the German settlement of Königsfeld, Yugoslavia. Her family immigrated to Canada in 1931 and thereafter called Kamloops their home. Eva was a hard worker and her first job was at the tomato cannery beside her mother at the age of fourteen. She later worked at the Tranquille TB Sanatorium and had many stories of that time. In 1943, she married the love of her life Joe Mayrhofer and soon after they bought property on Tranquille Rd and opened North Kamloops Electric. While Joe was busy with electrical contracting, Eva looked after the shop, as well as the house, the kids and the garden in the back. They worked hard to build the business and later on, enjoyed their success. They travelled throughout Europe, the US and Mexico. They loved Hawaii and spent many happy times there with good friends from Kamloops and others they met on their trips there. After she lost Joe in 1990, Eva continued to spend time in Hawaii each year until she was no longer able to travel. Eva was an avid gardener and especially loved flowers. She enjoyed starting her own plants from cuttings, leaves, or seeds she collected everywhere she went. She was also an exceptional cook and will be

remembered for her strudel and schnitzel and knödel of all kinds. In addition to her husband Joe, Eva was predeceased by her sister Christine Erlandson. She is survived by her brother Jake Befurt and his wife Vera, her sister-in-law Linda Mayrhofer, her five children Eric Mayrhofer (Linda), Elaine Mayrhofer, Teresa Lomax, Sandra Frangiadakis (Mike) and Joe Mayrhofer (Heather), as well as sixteen grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Eva also leaves behind many nieces, nephews and cherished friends. A Funeral Service Celebrating Eva’s Life will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at Kamloops Funeral Home, 285 Fortune Drive. A special thank-you to the staff and volunteers at the Kamloops Hospice for their kind care and attention to Eva and her family over the last few weeks. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Kamloops Hospice Association. Together Again

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First Memorial Funeral Service Roberta Elsie Gilmore (nee LeRiche)

June 13, 1927 - May 10, 2017 On May 10, 2017, Roberta passed away peacefully at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, British Columbia. Roberta was just shy of her 90th birthday. She and her husband Bill had relocated to Kamloops from Tsawwassen in August 2016 where they had lived for 36 years. Roberta was born in Montreal on June 13, 1927 to Stanley and Bertha (nee Hoult) LeRiche. She attended Montreal High School and went on to graduate from the Royal Victoria Hospital as a registered nurse in 1949. After graduating, Roberta practiced and taught nursing at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC. Roberta met Bill, a McGill mining engineering graduate, on New Years Eve 1948 and they were married in January 1952. They moved to Atikokan, Ontario where she continued her nursing career in the local hospital. The family moved to Baie Verte, Newfoundland in 1962 where Roberta became the public health nurse for the region at the request of the provincial government in St. John’s. After moving to Vancouver in 1964, Roberta continued her career with the YMCA International College until her retirement at the age of 65. After retirement, she maintained an active role in the Hospice movement in Ladner, BC and worked as a volunteer with the Delta Hospital Auxiliary until the summer of 2016. Roberta is survived by her loving husband Bill and their two children David (Anita) and Lesly (Bruce). Her memory will be cherished by her grandchildren Erin (Nelson), David (Laura), Megan (Mike), Laura, Logan,

Jack Margaret Onufreychuk Crozier (Gustafson)

Margaret’s family warmly invites friends, neighbours, caregivers and family to join in a Celebration of Margaret’s Life on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 2:00 pm, 986 Pine Street, Kamloops.

Celebration of Life for Jack Onufreychuk will be held on Saturday, May 27, 2017 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the Elk’s Lodge, 1121 12th Street, Kamloops, BC.

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Allison and Jennifer and by her great-grandchildren Isaiah, Nita, Luca, Jade, Zac and Clay, as well as by her sister Jeanne and brother-in-law Sam (Janet) along with many friends and relatives. Roberta was a strong and vibrant individual. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She enjoyed cross stitching quilting and knitting, had real sense of adventure and loved to travel. Mom had a real affection for animals. She was generous with her time in the aid of others and continued to support causes close to her heart until the end. Our family is deeply grateful to the staff of Berwick on the Park Retirement Residence in Kamloops, the medical staff of Royal Inland Hospital, Dr. Peter Loland and staff for their kindness and care and to Dr. Larry Adam in Tsawwassen. A Memorial Service to Celebrate Roberta’s Life will be held at All Saints Ladner Anglican Church, 4755 Arthur Drive, Delta, BC at 1:00 pm on June 24th, 2017. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Delta Hospital Foundation in Roberta’s name or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements entrusted to Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Services 250-554-2324 Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

Marguerite Louise Harrop (nee MacDonald)

Celebration of Life

May 2, 1924 – April 26, 2017 With immense sadness we announce the passing of Margie Harrop in the early hours of April 26, 2017.

Richard “Dick” Sharpe 1926 – 2017

Predeceased by Isabella and Neil brothers Gordon, Hugh, sisters Ivy, Florence.

her parents MacDonald, Chris and Jessie and

Survived by her loving husband of 69 years Stanley, along with their children Wendy Abbott (Ray), Patricia Silverton (Ted), Elaine Hollingsworth (Shaun), Scott (Marie) and Joan, seven grandchildren Todd, Shanna, Pamela, Jaimie, Kaleigh, Bryant and Sunni, eight great-grandchildren Mclean, Tyson, Bo, Summer, Kalum, Piper, Ashley and Bradley. Margie is also survived by her youngest brother George MacDonald (100 Mile House), many, many much loved nieces, nephews throughout BC, Canada and the US and her life-long dearest friend Mae (Smith) McInnes.

Join us for a Celebration of Dick’s Life on Saturday, May 27th, 2017, from 1:00 pm 4:00 pm in the Sandman Signature Hotel, 225 Lorne St., Kamloops, BC.

Margie grew up in North Vancouver, attended Queen Mary School and North Vancouver High. She was a devoted wife and mother with her life centered around her family. When Stan retired, they moved to the Cariboo (Horse Lake) and spent many wonderful years there before moving to Kamloops, BC 8 years ago. We will always cherish the family times, Sunday roast beef dinners, family reunions and special celebrations. We miss you Mom. No service by request. Margie’s ashes will be interred with her Mother Isabella at North Vancouver Cemetery. If desired, donations can be made to the Children’s Hospital.

As Mom would say “Thank You Kindly”

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Morris Burton LeDuc April 26, 1920 – May 1, 2017

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Morris Burton “Burt” LeDuc on May 1, 2017, just five days after his 97th birthday. Burt was born in 1920 to Catherine (Dunne) and Thomas James LeDuc, who was a Major in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. Burt’s parents were both from pioneering families in the Armstrong area where Burt, his older brother Thomas (Tom) and younger sister Lorraine were born. Burt’s paternal great grand-parents were Augustus and Catherine (O’Hare) Schubert who were Overlanders in 1862. Their daughter and Burt’s grandmother Rose was the first non-Indigenous child born in the B.C. Interior. His mother’s family, the Dunnes, settled in the Larkin area where Burt’s mother Catherine was born in 1888. Prior to marrying Thomas, Catherine was a milliner. Burt and his siblings grew up on the family homestead on Otter Lake Road. As a teenager, he logged with his father and brother Tom on Swanson Mountain and on their woodlot in the Irish Creek area. Burt liked to tell the story about how he accidentally shot his mother’s rooster and blamed its demise on a fox. (We doubt that Granny was fooled!) During World War II, Burt enlisted in the Air Force and was stationed in interesting places like Nanton, Alberta and Holberg, Vancouver Island. He was an engineer who worked primarily on Mosquito and Catalina airplanes. Flying with gifted pilots and working on planes led to Burt’s lifelong loves of being aloft in an aircraft and tinkering with engines. After the war, Burt went to Forest Ranger School in Vancouver and worked for the B.C. Forest Service for over 30 years, mainly in the Kamloops region. His forestry experience made Burt an excellent judge of Christmas trees. He also made many longtime friends. Most importantly, the Forest Service is where Burt met his future wife, Barbara Jackson, who he married in 1958.

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out with a cat named Tootsie, and a collie-cross named Mr. Pup who Burt trained to flip cookies off his nose and catch in his mouth. Later, Burt was blessed with three granddaughters: Alicia (Dave), Jacqueline (Matt) and Robyn (Drew), as well as a great grandson Greysen, born in 2016 (Jackie and Matt’s baby). Burt loved his wife and was proud of his children and grandchildren. After retirement, Burt took up farming on the ancestral property until he was 83. Burt was also meticulous about his yard and mowed his own lawn (and his neighbours’) up to age 95. He will be remembered for his many stories; his loyalty to family, friends and neighbours; his sense of humour; and his affinity for animals, which he passed on to his children. Burt’s family is grateful for the care and kindness that he received in his later years from health care workers at home and at Ponderosa Lodge, nurses and doctors at the Royal Inland Hospital and the staff at Berwick on the Park. Burt died of old age, peacefully in his sleep and with family at his bedside, in Kamloops. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Burt’s memory to the Variety Club (http://www.variety.bc.ca). Friends and family are invited to an afternoon of remembrance for Burt on June 10, 2017 from 2 pm to 4 pm at the St. Peter’s Church hall in Monte Creek. Arrangements entrusted to First Memorial Services, Kamloops, BC (250) 554-2429 Condolences may be left at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com

Burt and Barb had four children: Catherine (Pat), Karen (Keith), Bud and Heather (Mario). The family was rounded

Thomas Gordon Taylor 1923 - 2017

With heavy hearts we say goodbye to Thomas Gordon Taylor. Born in Winnipeg on November 25, 1923, Gordon enjoyed playing tennis and basketball. As a young man, he met the love of his life Kay Rogers. After finishing university with a degree in chemistry, Gordon worked as a chemist in Trail, BC. In the early 1950s, he returned to Winnipeg to marry Kay and bring her out west where he was living. From Trail, he and Kay moved to Port Mellon, BC where Gordon worked at the pulp mill for 14 years. The couple started their family in Port Mellon, having their son Doug in 1957 and daughter Donna in 1961. In 1968, the family moved to Kamloops, BC where Gordon worked as Technical Director of Weyerhaeuser Pulp Mill. From Kamloops, he and Kay moved to Vancouver Island. Donna remained in Kamloops, marrying Frank Cordonier and Doug went on to school at UBC in Vancouver. On Vancouver Island, the couple lived in Gold River where Gordon finished the last years of his professional career for Tahsis Pulp Mill, moving to Qualicum Beach after he retired. Donna and Frank began their family in Kamloops, prompting Gordon and Kay to return, so they could live close to their grandchildren. Several years later, Kay developed Alzheimer’s and passed away in December of 2006. Gordon missed Kay greatly, finding joy seeing his family in Kamloops and having Doug visit from the coast. He lived 11 years after Kay’s death, with full mental

capacity and good spirit. Unfortunately balance issues brought a series of injuries. Still he showed great resilience coming through these setbacks. Even in the days before his death on May 23, 2017, his support workers and family members found him cheerful and quick witted. The family would like to thank the staff at Kamloops Seniors Village for their care these last few years. We all miss him very much. Gord was predeceased by sister Bernice Sproule, brother-in-law Ted Sproule, brother George Taylor, sister-in-law Lenore Taylor and brother Edwin Taylor. He is survived by his children Douglas Taylor and Donna Cordonier, son-in-law Frank Cordonier, grandchildren Kirsten and Taylor Cordonier and his sister-in-law Lillian Taylor (married to Edwin). Also he will be missed by his many nephews and nieces. He was a patient, quiet and intelligent man, making life easy and enjoyable for those around him. He will be missed and we trust he is in a better place. A Celebration of Life to be held on Friday, May 26, 2017 from 1:30- 4:00 pm at 660 Klahanie Dr., Kamloops, BC. Contact Donna at 250-371-7108 for more information. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com 250-554-2577

Cathy Irene Hewitt, 55, of Knutsford, BC died at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops on Friday, May 19, 2017. Cathy is a much loved wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend to many. She has left us early after battling cancer with grace and dignity over the past 10 years. She will be deeply missed and her beautiful spirit will remain in our hearts and lives. Cathy was born on November 5, 1961 in Vancouver and grew up surrounded by her family in Richmond, BC. Her family moved to South Surrey in 1971 and Cathy graduated from Earl Marriot Secondary School in 1979. Cathy married Terry Hewitt in 1982 and they moved to the Kamloops area. In 1988, with their first child Luke a one-year old, they purchased an acreage on Long Lake Road in Knutsford where they enjoyed the next 29 years raising their family, more recently welcoming their grandchildren to the property. Cathy precedes her husband of 35 years Terry Hewitt, her children Luke and wife Marella of Vancouver, BC, Jill and husband Bryn of Airdrie, Alberta, Cara and husband Jayden and their children Ashton and Hazel of Weyburn, Saskatchewan and Austin of Knutsford. Cathy leaves behind her parents Harold and Eileen Good, four siblings Marilyn VanBatavia, Gary Good, Ron Good and Carol Brotherston and a large extended family and many friends. All are welcome to join the family in a Memorial of Cathy’s Life at 3:00 pm, on Friday, May 26, 2017 at Calvary Community Church, 1205 Rogers Way, Kamloops. A tea will follow. Memorial gifts can be made in Cathy’s name to the Royal Inland Hospital, Cancer Care at rihfoundation.ca.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night DYLAN THOMAS Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightening they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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• COPD • Emphysema • Adult Asthma • Chronic Bronchistis • Bronchiectasis • Pulmonary Fibrosis Proven to be an effective treatment for many respiratory conditions, Stem Cell Centers is currently performing studies which are showing that our Stem Cell Therapies may significantly aid recovery of many respiratory conditions. The scientific community has discovered that Stem Cell Therapy has the potential to significantly regenerate and grow new blood vessels and lung tissue, both of which are key to helping solve these respiratory conditions. Preliminary findings suggest that using a new Stem Cell Product that just became available to certain Stem Cell clinics is showing a lot of promise treating COPD and other respiratory conditions. We have now found a type of Stem Cell, called a Hematopoietic Stem Cell that is amazing our researchers with the results our patients are achieving. This new stem cell, combined with our therapy protocols, has shown significant patient improvement with many patients getting completely off of oxygen and medication!

“My friend’s bad hip was fixed with stem cells at Stem Cell Centers in Spokane. I drove from Oregon to see if stem cells could help my COPD that I’ve had for several years. Since my treatments, my blood oxygen levels have risen from 60% to 90% and I’m no longer oxygen dependent.” - R. Spurgeon, Roseburg, OR

Meet youR provider: DAVID N. VANOS, MD

Scientists have discovered amazing things Stem Cells can do: • Turn into and create cells that grow cartilage, tendons, discs, and virtually any other tissue in your body. • Prevent your body’s own cells from dying prematurely • Communicate with the abnormal cells of your body and “Switch” them into behaving normally • Prevent and break down Fibrotic/Scar tissue • Regulate your immune system, with the potential to turn off Auto-Immune Diseases

Stem Cell Centers is a national network of surgeons and doctors who collaborate on important IRB monitored research studies on numerous conditions. The results help us determine the best protocols to use to treat patients throughout our network. Our doctors are all trained in use of your own Adipose or Bone Marrow-derived stem cells, as well as ethical Cord and Amnion-derived stem cells.

Find out more or register for a seminar online.

KAMLOOPS

Tuesday, May 30 9 am, 1 pm and 6 pm Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites 675 Tranquille Road Kamloops, BC

27 Years Board Certified Pain Management & Regenerative Medicine

(778) 764-0457 Operators standing by 24/7

The Stem Cell Centers Difference.

LEARN MORE AT ONE OF OUR

Vanos Pain Management Solutions

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FREE EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS VERNON

Wednesday, May 31 9 am, 1 pm and 6 pm Best Western Pacific Inn 4790 34th St. Vernon, BC

KELOWNA

Thursday, June 1 9 am, 1 pm and 6 pm Grand Okanagan Resort 1310 Water St. Kelowna, BC

PENTICTON, BC

Friday, June 2 9 am, 1 pm and 6 pm Sandman Hotel Penticton 939 Burnaby Ave. Penticton, BC

Limited Seating. Reserve your spot today!

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THURSDAY, May 25, 2017

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THIS SATURDAY, THIS SUNDAY!

OUTDOOR / INDOOR

PARKING LOT - GARAGE SALE at 1289 dalhousie drive, kamloops

brinG your truck, van or trailer: delivery is not available on parkinG lot sale items. *Instant financing available. All clearance items sold “as-is”. NO HOLDS OR EXCHANGES. Any premiums, promos or special offers are not applicable on parking lot sale items. All merchandise must be picked up by 4PM on DAY OF SALE.

many, many items below cost! up to

75% oFF!

ALL CLEARANCE, AS-IS, ONE-OF-A-KIND ITEMS SCRATCHES & DENTS, DISCONTINUED, OVERSTOCKED AND FLOOR MODELS MUST GO! oFF the

parkinG lot - outdoor

500 area ruGs

2000

299 dininG chairs

3000

300 wall art pictures $

500 coFFee & end tables

showroom savinGs - indoor

50% OFF

rocker/recliners

39900

ALL LAMPS & ACCESSORIES

800 dininG sets

29900

90 accent pillows

3000 eurotop kinG mattress

MATTRESS

1000

699

1000 contemporary soFa

3000 bedroom sets

49900

CLOSEOUT!

2500 Queen siZe eurotop mattress

69900

99900

1000 recliners (2 only!)

500 Full siZe mattresses

144

199

one-oF-a-kind items

49900

1500 Queen eurotop mattress w/Free boX

$ scratch and dents

discontinued items

MATTRESSES

9700

overstocked product

Rain oR shine, the sale must go on! all items in paRking lot & showRooms aRe paRking lot pRiced to move! 1289 Dalhousie Drive *With purchase of select sofa sets. **See in-store for details. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Some pictures may not be identical to current models. Some items may not be exactly as shown. Some items sold in sets.

DULUX PAINTS

DALHOUSIE

NOTRE DAME BIG O TIRES

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