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While the front office staff and, in particular, the indefatigable Marilyn Emery, have been kept busy with individual KTW Christmas Cheer Fund donations, the city’s business community has also stepped up in many unique ways.

• For the past two years, Finlay’s Vacuum and Sewing Machine World has set aside one day every week for people to come in and make some hats, scarves, mittens, socks and even dog blankets, all of which will be given to people in need.

This year, the people who run the business doubled down, opening the classroom at 251 Tranquille Rd. on Fridays and Saturdays until Dec. 30 for people who want to help out.

They need to bring a sewing machine or serger with thread to the session, which runs from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each of the two days per week, along with a metre of fleece or a fleecelike fabric that can stretch.

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Each class is by donation, with money raised going to the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund.

• Spice Indian Cuisine in the Northills Shopping Centre is also back with support — and food.

The restaurant will donate all the proceeds from its Wednesday, Dec. 20, buffet to the Cheer fund.

Co-owner Sukhwinder Sawa said she and her family do it to because the money stays in Kamloops, supporting needy and essential charities.

“When people come together, I always think good things happen in your community,” she said.

For those curious, the menu for the buffet, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., includes three vegetable dishes, two meat dishes — one is always butter chicken, the most popular dish at Spice — and one egg dish, along with rice and naan.

Last year, the lunch crowd helped raise about $1,000.

• Dearborn Ford surprised us all this week. Without any fanfare or bluster, staff went into the United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo office downtown (we partner with it to use its

online donation application and have it hold all the money in trust for us) and dropped off a cheque for $1,000.

Way to be all warm and fuzzy, Mike Bacon and colleagues. But you don’t get to run under the radar. The city now knows how giving you are at the dealership.

• While we’re at it, other businesses and organizations that have added to the coffers include the women who sweep those stones in the Kamloops Afternoon Ladies Curling Club, the Friday bridge players at St. John Vianney Church, all members of BNI Platinum, those legal eagles at MJB Lawyers and both Kamloops Dentistry and Dr. Dan Wotton at Summit Dental Clinic. I’m sure I’ve missed some in the list because a lot of business people make their donations just using their own names.

• And let’s not forget a couple of Cheer friends who sometimes make us in the office shake our heads, two prolific online commenters known only as Snuffy the Seal and Ben Dover. Good people who not only will share their opinions, they’ll share their charitable side, as well.

Charities being supported again this year include the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Family Tree Family Resource Centre, Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre, Sensational Soups and New Life Community Kamloops.

To donate, go online to kamloopsthisweek. com and look for the Christmas Cheer logo or drop into the KTW office, 1365B Dalhousie Dr. in Southgate.

Office hours are Mondays to Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

All donations collected will be held by the United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo for distribution in January.

Online receipts will be issued immediately by the United Way; cash donations will generate receipts in January.

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GIVE LESS GARBAGE The holiday season generates an extraordinary amount of garbage for our landfills.

This year, the City of Kamloops encourages you to give less waste.

Give gifts with less packaging, reuse gift bags where possible, and properly sort your Christmas packaging and paper. For seasonal recycling tips visit www. kamloops.ca/recycling.

SEEKING SNOW ANGELS Volunteers Wanted Are you looking to give back this winter? Volunteer to help clear snow and help seniors or residents with limited mobility continue to live independently in their own homes.

To join this city-wide effort, call 250-372-8313 or visit volunteerkamloops.org.

Notice to Motorists Expect delays, and please use caution and obey all traffic control devices and traffic control people in work zones. For traffic details, follow #kammute on Facebook and Twitter.

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COLLECTION ZONE CHANGES As residential growth has occurred more extensively in certain areas of Kamloops over recent years (particularly in Zones 4 and 5), the City is adjusting the boundaries of the five designated collection zones effective January 1, 2018. The new collection zones will be outlined in the City’s 2018 Annual Calendar and are available online at kamloops.ca/garbage.

These zone adjustments may change the time of day the collection trucks will be in your area. To ensure garbage and recycling is collected, residents are reminded that under the City’s Solid Waste and Recyclables Bylaw No.40-59, garbage and recycling carts are to be placed at the curb by 7:00 am on designated collection days.

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Provincial officials reject Ajax mine application Judicial review option remains on table for mining company, but project manager says such a move is likely ‘unrealistic’

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to develop the community ment the 94 calls to action from economically,” he said. “When the Truth and Reconciliation STAFF REPORTERS you get this kind of setback it’s Commission,” said Tk’emlups a little hard to put into words Chief Fred Seymour.

Have you and your spouse ever exactly what that means.”

Others opposed to the projThe proposed Ajax copper separated and then reconciled?

Wild said the ministers’ ratio- ect say they are ready to put the and gold mine has been denied If you answered “Yes”, then nale “rings a bit hollow,” arguing past seven years of controversy an environmental certificate conditions placed on the mine behind them. you may need to revise/update by the B.C. government, bringby the province and KGHM’s “We can move forward now,” ing to an end years of debate in your Wills. In a typical spousal proposed mitigation plans could Mayor Ken Christian told KTW Kamloops. relationship, the husband and have dealt with concerns. immediately after the decision Environment Minister wife make Wills, appointing the It’s not clear yet what KGHM was released.

George Heyman and Mines other as Executor and will do next. Wild said the Christian said he was worried Minister Michelle Mungall said bequeathing the estate to the company can resubmit to the ministers would send the comthe open-pit mine would have assessment process, but noted pany’s application back to the significant, adverse effects that surviving spouse. changes would first have to be B.C. Environmental Assessment were not outweighed by its Office for further study rather potential benefits. These includ- made to the project plan.

However, the law recently KGHM could also ask for a than making a decision, foled effects to Indigenous heritage changed to say that separation and traditional land uses, as well judicial review if it felt aspects of lowing an assessment process invalidates/cancels the gift to the project weren’t considered, that was filled with pauses as to human health, air quality the spouse as well as the though Wild said that path is and extensions that put it well and grasslands eco-systems. appointment of the spouse as likely unrealistic. beyond average timelines.

The project’s proximity to “It was such a thorough “I think the community can Kamloops, about two kilomeExecutor. This is the case even process that perhaps a judicial now get on with moving forward tres from Aberdeen, also raised if the spouses later reconcile on our official community plan concerns its effects could not be review is not in the cards, but and wish the gift to their spouse and a lot of divisiveness this has mitigated to an acceptable level. that’s something that’s there for in their Will to still stand us to consider,” he said. created I think hopefully will be Heyman called the environ(unless there is evidence of a One of the project’s main behind us,” he said, noting the mental review process “substanopponents, the Stk’emlupsemc city has planned for 43 per cent tial, thorough and fair,” noting contrary intention in the Will). te Secwepemc (SSN), said it is of its residential growth to take the length and level of engage“exuberant” about the governplace in the area near the proment.

Not surprisingly this law is ment’s decision. posed mine.

KGHM can petition the decicatching people off guard as SSN, which represents the Because the mine is outside sion at the B.C. Supreme Court they attempt to deal with their Tk’emlups and Skeetchestn First city limits, Kamloops would not level. A judicial review requests deceased spouse’s estate, only Nations, has opposed the mine have received property tax revthat the court sets aside a decito find out that a temporary due to its impacts on Jacko Lake, enue from Ajax. sion made by a government which it considers an important The city and KGHM had body. separation years ago has now cultural heritage site. begun negotiations on a com“It is entirely the choice of excluded them from their “We will remain steadfast in munity benefit agreement worth the company,” Heyman said. spouse’s Will. our goal of keeping this cultural about $3.8 million annually.

Ajax project manager Chris treasure protected and accesThough it received prelimiWild said the decision is not Feel free to contact a member sible to all who wish to experinary approval from council, a entirely surprising, but added of our Estate Planning and final agreement had not yet the company had been optimis- ence it,” said Skeetchestn Chief Ron Ignace, after urging KGHM been signed. tic its application for environAdministration Team to LEAH CARD to abandon Ajax for good.

According to city staff, the mental certification would be determine how this law applies “The British Columbian govcompany opted to back off on approved.

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Designation sought for evacuee arsonist TIM PETRUK

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Prosecutors are seeking a long-term offender designation for a wildfire evacuee who admitted in court on Thursday to setting a fire in his Kamloops hotel room this summer.

Shane Dalton Dennis, 30, pleaded guilty to an arson charge stemming from a July 28 incident at the Sandman Inn at Columbia Street and Sixth Avenue downtown.

At the time, police

said Dennis was an evacuee from Williams Lake staying at the hotel. He was arrested after throwing items in his room, overturning a fridge and setting items on fire. The hotel’s sprinklers doused the blaze.

Dennis has been in custody since his arrest.

In Kamloops provincial court on Thursday, Crown prosecutor Frank Caputo said he is pursuing a long-term offender designation for Dennis, a tag applied to dangerous criminals who are likely to reoffend.

Long-term offenders are supervised in the

community for up to 10 years after their release from prison.

Caputo said the

designation could take some time.

“In order to go ahead on that process, I

need approval from my supervisors,” he said.

Provincial court Judge Stella Frame

ordered Dennis to undergo psychiatric testing while in custody. A report would then

be prepared to be used at sentencing.

Dennis is due back in court on Feb. 26.

Rash of break-ins at Sun Peaks Police are warning Sun Peaks residents and visitors to be careful with valuables following a rash of vehicle break-ins.

Between Nov. 17 and Nov. 29, six thefts were reported to police.

“In three cases, windows were broken to gain entry,” RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Aird said. “Thefts of this sort are not common in Sun Peaks and police believe the thief was staying up there for the week or may be a new permanent resident.”

Stolen items included backcountry gear, skis, bindings, an iPad, loose change and a can of pop, Aird said. The investigation is ongoing.

Self-defence claim denied by judge A Kamloops judge did not buy a Barriere woman’s claims of self-defence stemming from an incident in which she stabbed her former boyfriend in the chest.

Bernadine Miranda Cameron has been found guilty of assault causing bodily harm and will be under close supervision for the next two years.

The 43-year-old told court she was fearful for her life when she stabbed her partner with a knife in a Barriere home on Feb. 16, 2016. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

On Wednesday, Kamloops provincial court Judge Marianne Armstrong found Cameron guilty and placed her on a six-month conditional sentence order to be followed by an 18-month probation term.

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The City of Kamloops and Kamloops RCMP are reminding shoppers to keep their purchases safe this holiday season.

The organizations are adding stickers to shopping bags around the city, encouraging people to store valuables out of sight and keep their car doors locked to prevent theft.

Sandro Piroddi, the city’s crime-prevention co-ordinator, said vehicles in parking lots and curbside stalls are prime targets for theft.

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HOT: What else but Thursday’s decision by the provincial government to reject KGHM’s Ajax mine application?

Though the company has the option to ask for a review in B.C. Supreme Court, it appears as though the proposed mine is dead as it needed approval from both Victoria and Ottawa.

And it should be noted that no mining proposal in the history of British Columbia was scrutinized as closely as the Ajax application.

That fact has been noted by company spokespeople and government officials. So, on what basis the company would ask for a review remains a mystery.

That the new provincial NDP government declined to approve KGHM’s application is not a surprise.

Mayor Ken Christian, when running for office in this year’s byelection, and many others predicted as much months ago, when the New Democrats and Greens formed an alliance to govern B.C. When the municipality next door to the proposed open-pit mine, along with area First Nations bands, stand vehemently opposed to the venture, was a nod of approval from either level of senior governments expected?

Since 2011, the mining application has divided much of the community, as can be seen in the Stop Ajax and I Support Ajax bumper stickers on various vehicles.

What has to happen now is a reconciliation of sorts, with the greater goal being to find a way to bring high-paying jobs — as proposed for Ajax — to Kamloops via sectors that will not create the environmental and health concerns that Ajax brought to the area.

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B.C. Liberal battle gets bitter

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.C. Liberal leadership hopefuls Mike de Jong, Sam Sullivan and Michael Lee seemed to be enjoying the show at their recent debate in Kelowna, as apparent frontrunners Andrew Wilkinson, Todd Stone and Dianne Watts went toe to toe for party member support.

As their arguments became more heated in front of a packed room, de Jong and Lee were doubled over in their chairs to muffle laughter. Sullivan suggested the next debate should be a cage match.

A quick summary of the Floggin’ in the Okanagan: Wilkinson waved a glossy copy of his platform, insisting only his is costed to balance budgets. He had a former deputy finance minister look at Stone’s, pronouncing it a deficit-prone spending spree.

Stone fired back that his plan is balanced but bold, describing Wilkinson’s as old and tired, like its author.

Both of them turned on Watts, who remains embarrassingly unprepared for B.C. politics since resigning her Conservative MP seat. Plan? She doesn’t even have the proverbial cocktail napkin with scribbled notes on it.

As in the Prince George and Nanaimo debates, Watts was grilled on complex issues like forest policy and she didn’t have a clue. Watts has money, name recognition and almost nothing else. If any party members still think she’s Christy Clark 2.0, they haven’t been paying attention.

Watts has a vision, but can’t articulate it. She promises to listen, then blames the B.C. Liberals for losing 11 seats because they

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VICTORIA didn’t listen. Her opponents remind her that she only joined the party in May. I usually don’t give polls the attention that even dogs do, but this is not a general public decision. Interim B.C. Liberal Leader Rich Coleman tells me party membership is at about 40,000 as sign-ups continue until Dec. 31 in preparation for an online vote to be revealed on Feb. 4.

Those members have all been phoned and door-knocked by the leadership teams and the candidates must have a good idea where they stand.

If there’s a frontrunner, it’s Wilkinson, formerly a cabinet minister, party president, city lawyer and country doctor. He reminds everyone that his MLA support is more than all other candidates combined.

Cabinet veterans Mary Polak (Langley), John Rustad (Nechako Lakes), Michelle Stilwell (Parksville-Qualicum), Norm Letnick (Kelowna-Lake Country) and Mike Morris (Prince GeorgeMackenzie) are in Wilkinson’s camp, along with experienced backbenchers Donna Barnett

(Cariboo-Chilcotin) and Laurie Throness (Chilliwack-Hope).

Newcomers Ellis Ross (Skeena), Tracy Redies (SurreyWhite Rock), Doug Clovechok (Columbia River-Revelstoke), Tom Shypitka (Kootenay East) and Joan Isaacs (Coquitlam-Burke Mountain) have come on board, showing Wilkinson has party support all over the province.

Stone is backed by MLAs Peter Milobar (KamloopsNorth Thompson), Greg Kyllo (Shuswap), Jane Thornthwaite (North Vancouver-Seymour) Coralee Oakes (Cariboo North), Ian Paton (Delta South) and Steve Thomson (Kelowna-Mission).

Stone, a smooth-talking former technology entrepreneur from Kamloops-South Thompson, likes to describe himself as young and “relatable,” playing to the perception of Wilkinson as an elitist from wealthy Vancouver-Quilchena.

De Jong trailed Clark and Kevin Falcon in the 2012 leadership campaign and, judging by the latest debate, he seems resigned to third or fourth again. He’s endorsed by Surrey South MLA and former cabinet minister Stephanie Cadieux, fellow Abbotsford MLA Simon Gibson, Chilliwack’s John Martin, Richmond’s Teresa Wat and Peace River South MLA Mike Bernier, who dropped out of the leadership contest early on.

De Jong’s record as finance minister is both his greatest strength and weakness, as he tries to emphasize five balanced budgets and move past the pennypinching reputation that members blame for the election loss. tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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YOUR OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER DURING THE HOLIDAYS Editor: Re: Rev. Helen McFadyen’s letter of Dec. 14 (‘Happy holidays, Kamloops’), in which she states our city transit service should not be posting images of Christmas on buses unless it includes images celebrating other religious celebrations.

In making this argument, McFadyen segregates us all at a time of year that should bring us together. So what does she prove?

McFadyen said she considered making a formal complaint, but

felt she might then be labelled with the “humbug” tag.

Too late.

I suggest the good reverend re-read a letter written by an editor more than a century ago to an eight-year-old girl named Virginia. This letter may give McFadyen an eclectic insight to the true meaning of Christmas: “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy,” the editor

tells Virginia, who asked if Santa exists.

Although Virginia’s letter refers to Santa Claus, fairies and the unseeable, my point is we can “push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.”

It is about acceptance.

Celebrate this time of year however you wish. Let’s appreciate the gift of giving and what Christmas means to everyone.

It would be nice to see all city transit buses dressed up.

I believe in Santa and magic and God. I believe in Christmas.

And I recognize the diversity of all faiths.

Interestingly, the editor of the New York Sun who responded in 1897 to Virginia’s question with a letter that has become part of our culture was a veteran newsman named Francis Pharcellus Church.

Merry Christmas one and all.

Sharlene Klein Kamloops

MULTI-PURPOSE PATH A ‘NICE TO HAVE,’ NOT ‘MUST HAVE’ Editor: While I don’t usually write letters to the editor, I feel I need to voice my opinion.

While our elected officials believe a multipurpose bike and hiking trail is needed between downtown and Sahali, with future phases being

considered, I do not.

What percentage of public will this serve?

It may be a “nice to have,” but it is not a “must have.”

Even with grants from government sources, it is still costing Kamloops taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Elected officials have stated it is a safety improvement and lifestyle enhancer.

Perhaps, but when I see the infrastructure around the city crumbling, it is hard for me to support the bike path.

Fixing deteriorating roads, sidewalks and

city infrastructure would be an important safety improvement and lifestyle enhancer.

No one from the city has told us what the longterm costs will be for lighting and maintaining the path.

Before council and city staff consider any further

expenditures like this, let’s first look after what we already have in Kamloops that needs repair and/or maintenance funding before considering new projects that serve a small portion of the population.

Earl Sinclair Kamloops

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION MAKES EVERY VOTE COUNT Editor: Re: Darrell Latimer’s letter of Nov. 28 (‘Do not mess with our first-past-the-post system’): Latimer perpetuates some common misconceptions regarding proportional representation.

We have differing opinions, but the facts need to be stated.

First, of the 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

Development (OECD) countries, Canada is one of only three using the first-past-the-post voting system. The OECD is a forum of countries describing themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy. It is, essentially, a club of developed countries in the world.

Second, it is a mistake to assume rural voters will

be disenfranchised.

There are a number of proportional representation systems that allow for small-population ridings to elect MLAs who represent that riding, while at the same time ensuring there is still representation for all voters within a region.

Third, nine out of the top 10 OECD economic performers, as of 2016, use democratic pro-

portional representation to elect their governments. Far from falling apart, these countries have strong, resilient economies that are less subject to ideological policy swings.

Proportional representation makes every vote count and builds strong, sustainable economies.

Leslie Lax Kamloops

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online RE: STORY: PROVINCE REJECTS AJAX MINE APPLICATION:

“A heartening and uncommon amount of common sense from government. Merry Christmas to us.”

— posted by JP Winston “Well, there Kamloops has it, Cavers and council will be thrilled.”

— posted by Floop “Thank you SSN, NDP and the City of Kamloops, and to all of you who spoke.”

— posted by Cindy Ross Friedman “Maybe now when someone puts forth a non-resource extraction based employment idea in this city, the people will listen to it, instead of doing all they can to run that idea out of town because “all we need is the mine!”

— posted by Xander

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Keenan LaCoste believes youth need to have a voice in their education, one that goes beyond answering questions in class and lets students suggest what could make their school experience better.

Lacoste, a Grade 12 Westyde secondary student, pointed to an event that helps give students a greater voice — the annual gathering of the RCMP youth advisory committee, where about 30 students from grades 10 to 12 meet with police and school district officials, among others, to discuss youthrelated issues.

This year, the big topic was mental health and, if you listened to the students at Wednesday’s gathering, you would come away with the feeling more work can be done to address it.

There are many aspects to the issue and many of them were displayed on the large screen at Pineridge school in Sahali, home to School District 73’s online learning program.

Words like bullying, stalking, trolls, pressure, expectation, isolation and rejection were tossed around during a series of questions posed through an application the students accessed through their cellphones or Chromebooks.

During the discussion that followed, students talked about how they sometimes don’t know what resources are available for them to confront the issue of mental health.

They spoke of the fear they would be “outed” should their friends learn they need help.

As one student described it: “It’s hard to be vulnerable.”

They talked about the need for a place where young people can drop in and talk about their concerns with people who would not be judgmental, who would respect their privacy — and that included not telling mom and dad if requested — and who would help them work through their issues.

One student said he and his peers simply need to know that “it’s OK to be different.”

Sue Peterson with the province’s child and youth mental-health services said she can see the need for such a place and talked about potential partners who could create a comfortable environment for youth.

Meghan Wade, chair of the KamloopsThompson school district board of trustees, agreed, but put it back on the students to provide input. What would be a good location? Who would be good partners? Should it be in a school or somewhere else in the community?

“The board would be open to this,” Wade said.

Guidance counsellors were subject to some criticism, with students saying they don’t seem equipped to deal with a student who is feeling down or has questions about depression.

Trish Smillie, the school district’s director of student support services, said it may be

that too much is expected from counsellors in schools, who are expected to deal with everything from courses to career planning to many other areas of school life that can impact a young person.

Smillie said School District 73 should look at how it provides information about community services students can access, noting the district may not be promoting them effectively.

To make her point, she asked how many in the room were aware of the Kids Help Phone line students can call, which has counselling available around the clock online or by phone.

A few hands were raised.

(Children and teens can call 1-800-6686868 for confidential help.)

Another participant asked how many students felt they had received directed and impactful information in a class about mental health. Again, just a few hands went up.

“We have some more work to do,” Peterson said.

Smillie agreed, telling the group the “district can do a better job on education on mental health.”

During the day, students took part in workshops on bullying, learned about the RCMP’s Car 40 mental-health program and took part in an experiment on the effects of getting drunk or high by donning special goggles.

School liaison officers also spoke with students about their roles in helping teens navigate the high school years.

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LOCAL NEWS Robyn Waskowich and her dog Diesel. Her pet was put down recently and she had planned to spread the ashes in the Thompson River, but the box containing them was stolen.

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Robyn Waskowich thinks thieves might have mistaken the box they took from her truck Saturday night for a Christmas present.

It was heavy and the bag holding it did look like giftwrapping.

But the white cardboard box contained the ashes of her fouryear-old-dog Diesel, who had been put down due to neurological problems.

The Desmond Street resident picked the ashes up from the veterinarian Friday and planned to scatter them by the Thompson River.

Also stolen from the truck in

Brocklehurst, which Waskowich said she must have left unlocked by mistake, were her purse and wallet, some lottery tickets and a lighter.

But it’s the missing ashes that hit hardest.

“I just bawled my eyes out,” she said.

“I called the cops right away, hoping maybe someone would return them.

“I didn’t care about my purse at all. I just felt sick to my stomach.”

A few days later, a Good Samaritan let her know he had found her wallet near a church on Tranquille Road, about five blocks away.

“I was hoping when I went to the church I’d find a box, or even a pile of ashes, but I didn’t

see anything,” she said.

But a neighbouring resident told her someone tried to break into his property as well and he caught the attempt on a surveillance camera.

Waskowich said she has alerted police and is hoping the thieves will be caught or the ashes returned.

She has also posted about the theft on Facebook in an attempt to have the story spread far enough that the thief realizes how important the ashes are to her.

“It’s a long shot, but maybe someone’s like, ‘Oh yeah, we stole all this stuff’ and maybe they have a heart and want to bring it back,” she said.

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Sometime in December 2009, an employee database for Interior Health appears to have been accessed, but the breach was not discovered until earlier this year when two people were arrested by RCMP on the Lower Mainland in possession of hard copies of the records.

A subsequent investigation by the health authority identified the likely time of the breach, but could find nothing to indicate how it happened.

Nor could the two-month investigation determine if it was done by people associated to

the health authority in any way.

The information involved included personal data of employees, including social insurance numbers, dates of birth, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and any prior surnames.

Mal Griffin, IH vice-president for human resources, said in an email there is no indication their information has been breached or used in an unlawful way, but he wanted the affected employees to be aware it was that year’s database accessed.

“And they should be diligent, as we all should be, with personal information,” Griffin said.

In recent years, employees

have reported identity-theft incidences, but the link to the database was not identified until this year, when the two people were arrested with paper copies of information and the subsequent review identified the time of the breach.

To assist, the authority has established a toll-free phone line, 1-877-469-7059, available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays to Fridays, to provide information to affected employees.

Griffin said the information system IH now has is more stringent than it was in 2009.

The authority upgrades its system every year and conducts a two-year risk assessment with outside contractors.

SD73 may move some Grade 7s into high school

Kamloops housing starts dip

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A dip in the number of apartments under construction in Kamloops has contributed to a drop in overall housing starts last month, according to data released by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The numbers show 83 housing starts in November, compared to 161 in the same month in 2016. November saw 23 apartment starts, compared to 114 a year earlier, and 27 singlefamily home starts, compared to 39 the previous year.

Year-to-date numbers show 472 housing starts to the end of November, compared to 668 over the same period last year.

According to the CMHC, there are 803 homes under construction in Kamloops — 339 apartments, 283 single-family, 112 semi-detached and 69 row homes.

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Should students in Grade 7 go to high school?

Grade 7 students in Chase, Clearwater, and Barriere may be moving to the secondary schools in their communities next year.

The Kamloops-Thompson board of education has agreed to consider the suggestion contained in a facilities report it received.

Board policy requires consultation before making such a change.

Trustees agreed with the report’s authors that the change would present better educational opportunities for students in the rural communities.

They would have earlier access to home economics, trades courses, art, drama and music courses. They would also

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Trustees are hoping to schedule public meetings in each location in mid-January.

The facilities report was created by district assistant superintendents Rob Schoen and Bill Hamblett and district director of facilities and transportation Art McDonald.

It is an update from a report prepared a year ago looking at increasing enrolment, overcrowded schools and the need for capital improvements in the Kamloops-Thompson school district.

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OTTAWA — The Mounties say they are going to take a new look at 284 sexual assault cases that they originally classified as unfounded.

The decision comes after the RCMP reviewed 2,225 sexual assault files from 2016 in which police concluded that no violation of the law had taken place or was attempted.

The force says 1,260 of the unfounded cases were misclassified and the 284 need further investigation.

The RCMP says a team in Ottawa reviewed reports from divisions across the country to assess all aspects of sexual assault investigations, consult with external stakeholders, partners and experts and provide direction on how to improve investigations.

In all, the Mounties say they responded to 10,038 reported sexual assaults in 2016.

Before the review, 22 per cent of the cases were ruled unfounded, but that label now covers 9.6 per cent.

The force said it is committed to supporting victims of sexual assault and treating them with compassion, care and respect.

It promises to conduct investigations consistently and to the highest professional standards.

Among other things, it says it wants to “increase public awareness and trust of RCMP

sexual assault investigations and encourage greater levels of reporting.’’

The Mounties announced the review last February, after a series of Globe and Mail reports that the newspaper said exposed deep flaws in the way investigators treat sexual assault allegations.

The Globe analyzed data obtained through freedom-ofinformation laws from scores of police services, and concluded that police across Canada close about one in five sex-assault cases as unfounded.

As a result of consultations with 30 NGOs and 44 government partners, including victim advocates, Crown prosecutors and health care workers across the country, the RCMP plans to develop a new sexual assault training curriculum.

It said the training will look at existing legislation and consent law and focus on traumainformed investigative tools and approaches.

It will also highlight common myths and stereotypes, reinforce victim rights and support services and bolster supervisory oversight and review.

“This training will be inclusive of vulnerable populations including but not limited to: Indigenous people, senior citizens, persons with disabilities, sex trade workers, children and youth under 18,’’ the force said in a statement.

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FOND DU LAC, Sask. — One of the survivors of a plane crash in northern Saskatchewan says he knew something was wrong about 10 seconds after takeoff.

“The plane was just moving up and down, side by side,’’ said Willie John Laurent, a band councillor with the Fond du Lac Dene Nation who was on the plane.

“The last I remember is it touching the ground. That’s the last I know.’’

Laurent, his wife Helen and their daughter Amanda were among the 22 passengers — including an infant — and three crew members aboard a West Wind Aviation turboprop that crashed Wednesday around 6:15 p.m. near the remote community of Fond du Lac in the boreal forest area of northern Saskatchewan.

It was scheduled to travel 80 kilometres east to Stony Rapids, then on to Wollaston and Prince Albert.

No one was killed in the crash. At least five people were seriously injured and needed to be airlifted to hospital.

Darryl McDonald said his 70-year-old mother, Ernestine, suffered a broken jaw and facial injuries when the plane went down about a kilometre from the airstrip. His sister also suffered injuries to her leg.

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TORONTO — The Canadian Real Estate Association said Thursday its lower home sales forecast will cost the economy $1 billion next year — as the impact of tighter mortgage regulations that come into effect New Year’s Day take a toll on the sector.

CREA said in an updated projection Thursday the banking regulator’s revised mortgage underwriting guidelines, which include a stress test for uninsured mortgages, will reduce sales activity across the country, particularly in and around Toronto and Vancouver.

The association now forecasts a 5.3 per cent drop in national sales to 486,600 units next year.

That new estimate shaves about 8,500 sales from its previous 2018 forecast.

Citing research by Altus Group, CREA said this forecast decline of more than 27,00 sales from 2017 to 2018 translates into a decrease of $1.1 billion in economic activity and nearly 12,000 fewer jobs, although it did not

provide more detail on how or which jobs will be affected.

“With some homebuyers likely advancing their purchase decision before the new rules come into effect next year, the ‘pull-forward’ of these sales may come at the expense of sales in the first half of 2018,’’ CREA said in a statement.

“Meanwhile, other potential homebuyers are anticipated to stay on the sidelines as they save up a larger down payment before purchasing and contributing to a modest improvement in sales activity in the second half of 2018.’’

The national home price is expected to slip by 1.4 per cent in 2018 to $503,100.

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by Royal LePage in a report on Wednesday. In its market survey forecast, the real estate firm suggests its house price composite will increase 4.9 per cent next year to $661,919 even as stricter mortgage rules slow the housing market.

In November, the number

of homes sold through CREA’s Multiple Listing Service rose by 3.9 per cent compared with October, led by a 16 per cent sales spike in the Greater Toronto Area. Sales were up 2.6 per cent from last November, marking the first year-over-year increase since March. That helped send the national home price up 2.9 per cent, year-overyear, to $504,000.

The number of newly listed homes rose 3.5 per cent in November, which reflected a large increase in new supply across the greater Toronto area.

In October, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions announced the final version of its revised guidelines, called B-20.

The new rules, which come into effect on Jan. 1, require would-be homebuyers to prove they can still service their uninsured mortgage at a qualifying rate of the greater of the contractual mortgage rate plus two percentage points or the fiveyear benchmark rate published by the Bank of Canada.

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TWEED, Ont. — Four Hydro One employees were killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in eastern Ontario, police and the utility reported.

No one survived the crash that occurred just before noon outside Tweed, north of Kingston, provincial police said.

Kim Clayton, who lives near the crash site, said Hydro crews had been working for weeks on the power lines strung on the towers that cross the property, and she was used to hearing them fly back and forth.

Clayton said there was no indication of any trouble until a loud crash shook the house. She scrambled to a window, where she said she saw part of the chopper in the trees that surround an open field. Other hydro crew members were running around.

“My heart started pounding in my chest,’’ said Clatyon, 45, who moved onto the property just six weeks ago. “I was in panic mode.’’

She said she heard workers yelling that a helicopter had crashed and to call 911.

Initially Clayton didn’t think the situation was that bad but then she said she feared for the worst when she saw ambulances turn away without transporting any of the chopper’s crew.

“I then said to myself, ‘They’re not coming out of this’.’’

The helicopter was apparently heading for a landing, Clayton said, adding she was relieved it didn’t hit anyone on the ground or her horses, which were on the other side of the field.

Clayton, whose husband was away and children in school, said she choked up when the orange

tape started going up she realized just how bad it was.

“They have families, it’s almost Christmas time,’’ Clayton said.

“I still can’t believe four guys died on this property today and it’s sad.’’

The Tweed fire department confirmed it responded to the crash. Ontario’s air ambulance service also responded to the scene but left without any casualties.

In a statement, Hydro One expressed its condolences to the victims’ families.

“We are deeply saddened to confirm that an incident involving one of our helicopter aircraft occurred in the Tweed area and has resulted in four fatalities,’’ Hydro One said in a statement.

“Names will not be released as next of kin are being notified.’’

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The end for ISIS? Or does the war rage on in Syria?

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ate last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin met the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Syria, allegedly to discuss a final peace settlement in the Syrian civil war.

This past Monday, Putin was in Syria to announce a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the country because they had inflicted a “total rout” on the jihadist militants of Islamic State.

Is the war really over?

Islamic State, also known as ISIS, no longer exists as an actual, physical state in either Iraq or Syria.

Last summer, it lost Mosul to Iraqi troops backed by U.S. air power. Over the past four months, it has lost all of eastern Syria, including its capital Raqqa, to a variety of forces, including Kurdish, Syrian and

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Just one year ago, Islamic State controlled a territory the size of Belgium and the Netherlands, with seven- or eight-million people.

Now it is homeless and even its propaganda output has dropped by 90 per cent as its video production facilities were overrun one after another.

Its credibility among the faithful has taken an even bigger hit.

When ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the re-founding of the traditional Islamic Caliphate in the territory controlled

by ISIS in mid-2014, he was claiming quite specifically that the enterprise had God’s blessing.

So it’s deeply embarrassing when it loses all that territory again within 30 months to the local “enemies of God” and their infidel foreign allies.

The standard tactic of prophets, when their prophecies don’t come true, is to say God is just testing people’s faith.

We are already seeing some of this in ISIS propaganda, but the people who watch it are not complete fools.

If they are fanatics interested in waging jihad, they will not abandon the idea, but they will look for some other organization that has a better claim to

divine support.

That alternative organization, at least in Syria, is al-Qaeda.

It still has credibility because it planned and carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and its Syrian branch still controls most of the province of Idlib in northwestern Syria.

It was never as interested as Islamic State in attracting foreign volunteers, but if you’re a Syrian jihadi, it’s now the destination of choice.

The Syria branch of al-Qaeda was known as al-Nusra for a long time, but in the past two years it has changed its name approximately every second weekend in a bid to disguise its origins.

It wasn’t trying to hide its loyalties from potential recruits. It was pretending to be a moderate rebel group so it wouldn’t get hit by American bombers.

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This didn’t actually fool the Americans, of course, but it did allow al-Qaeda to denounce the Russians — who were bombing al-Nusra/al-Qaeda — as evil allies of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad who were killing “good” rebels Oh, and they were killing innocent civilians, too, as if American bombs never hit civilians.

Al-Nusra was the Russians’ main target because it was a bigger threat to the survival of the Syrian government than Islamic State.

It was al-Nusra, for example, that controlled the eastern half of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, until Assad’s forces took it back a year ago with the help of Russian bombers and artillery.

Remember how the Western media covered the end of that siege?

They never mentioned al-Qaeda or al-Nusra and you never

saw a fighter in the video clips coming out of east Aleppo. They just ran the footage of suffering civilians without any further comment or context.

It was hard to tell whether former U.S. president Barack Obama’s State Department was being delusional or merely hypocritical, but it insisted there was a third force of non-jihadi Syrians that was also trying to overthrow Assad.

The U.S. was supporting them and the wicked Russians were trying to kill them. But the “third force” didn’t exist. It had been swallowed up by al-Nusra years ago.

So the U.S. bombed Islamic State and nobody else, while the Russians only did that occasionally.

Instead, they concentrated on bombing al-Nusra, which held territory much closer to Syria’s big cities. And

Washington scored propaganda points by claiming the Russians were bombing innocent civilians and “good” rebels.

Now, with Islamic State defeated, the U.S. forces will probably leave eastern Syria.

(They have no legal status there since they were never invited in by the Syrian government or authorized to intervene by the United Nations.)

But most of the Russian forces will stay because it will probably take another year to destroy al-Nusra in Idlib province.

So, why was Putin in Syria to announce a Russian troop withdrawal?

Because there’s a presidential election coming up in Russia and he wanted to declare a victory and bring some troops home now.

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OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government has expanded its directions covering the use of foreign intelligence likely obtained through torture to include the Canada’s military, diplomatic service and electronic spy agency.

The move means the Canadian Forces, Communications Security Establishment and Global Affairs Canada are being prohibited from using information gleaned from torture, unless it means saving lives.

That includes preventing a terrorist attack or protecting Canadian soldiers on overseas missions.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland say the directives are designed to ensure Canadian officials have clear guidelines and are not complicit in any abuse.

The directives “clarify and strengthen the measures on the disclosure or requesting of information that would result in a substantial risk of mistreatment,’’ Sajjan said in a statement issued Thursday.

“They also prohibit certain use of information likely obtained through mistreatment, except when it is absolutely necessary to prevent loss of life or significant personal injury.’’

The measure has sparked mixed reactions, with NDP defence critic Randall Garrison describing it as a “public-relations exercise’’ that will have little real effect because of the exception allowing torture-tainted intelligence.

“In the end, the Canadian government remains complicit with torture,’’ he said. “The prohibition on the use of torture. It’s not: sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t.’’

Amnesty International Canada called the new directives a welcome change from those issued by the previous Conservative government, although the group expressed concern with the fact that some torturetainted info would still be allowed.

That concern was particularly acute when it came to the military, said Alex Neve, Amnesty Canada’s secretary-general, given its recent history in Afghanistan and Iraq of partnering with groups that have questionable records.

Canada soldiers “may therefore be faced with decisions about what to do with information that bears the taint of torture on a regular basis,’’ Neve said, so “the need for extra vigilance to ensure that the Canadian military is not implicated in torture is all the greater.

“That is why there should simply be an absolute ban on using any such information.’’

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arrett Pilon will consider four wins in six games a successful tour of the East Division.

The 19-year-old Kamloops Blazers’ forward from Saskatoon is doing his part in that endeavour, helping his team to a 2-1-0-1 record on the road trip with four goals, one in each game, and an assist.

“We’re playing pretty complete hockey right now,” Pilon said. “Solid defensively. We’re looking at 4-2. That would be a really good road trip.”

The Western Hockey League-leading Moose Jaw Warriors plan on foiling the Blazers’ plan.

Moose Jaw (26-51-1) will play host to Kamloops (15-16-0-1) on Friday, the Warriors looking to blitz the Blazers with an offence that has produced a league-high 150 goals.

“If we let up for five minutes, it could be over,” Pilon said. “It’s going to have to be one of our best games.”

Luc Smith, who was traded to Kamloops from the Regina Pats last season, notched a goal against his old team in a 3-0 win for the Blazers on Wednesday.

“It was nice to get the win and that’s the

A smart thief would have targeted Jermaine Loewen’s home town of Arborg, Man., on Tuesday.

Loewen and his Kamloops Blazers were playing the Wheat Kings in Brandon, prompting a bus load of friends and family to make the 330-kilometre trip.

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most important part, and obviously nice to have some personal success,” said Smith, a 19-year-old forward from Stony Plain, Alta.

“But I’ve kind of closed that chapter.”

Dylan Ferguson stopped 42 shots between the pipes for the Blazers in a shutout performance that earned the 19-year-old Lantzville product firststar honours in Regina.

Pilon had 11 shots on goal against the Pats.

Kamloops began the trip with a 6-5 shootout loss to the Prince Albert Raiders last Friday, coughing up a two-goal third-period lead in the process, but bounced back by dominating the Saskatoon Blades in a

4-1 victory on Saturday.

Brandon edged Kamloops 3-2 on Tuesday.

“That was a close game,” Smith said. “It could have went either way.”

In the Raiders (1313-5-2), Blades (13-162-1) and Pats (16-15-20), the Blazers squared off against teams ranked in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference.

The Wheat Kings (23-7-0-1), Warriors and Swift Current Broncos (24-7-2-0) represent more stringent opponents and the Blazers will have to beat at least one of them to consider the road trip a success.

“It would be a big confidence boost for us [to beat Moose Jaw],” Pilon said. “If we can get a win or two in two games, that would be good.”

Swift Current will play host to Kamloops on Saturday, the last game for both teams before the holiday break.

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Kyllo overcomes Scotties disappointment AFC showdown Kamloops resident Alyssa Kyllo throws skip stones for the Vernon-based Kim Slattery rink that has qualified for the 2018 B.C. Scotties Women’s Curling Championship in Victoria.

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Alyssa Kyllo questioned her own mental fortitude last season.

She throws skip stones for the Vernonbased Kim Slattery rink, always a bridesmaid at qualifiers for the 2017 BC Scotties Women’s Curling Championship in Duncan.

The Slattery rink advanced to the A and B event finals at the first of two provincial playdowns in December 2016, but lost both games on home ice and failed to advance past the C event semifinal.

At the second playdown in Abbotsford, team Slattery bowed out in the semifinal round of the A and C event playoffs.

“That was heartbreaking, super heartbreaking,” said Kyllo, who moved to Kamloops from Vernon to attend Thompson Rivers University in 2009. “It was so close, but so far.

“It makes any athlete

question themselves.”

Self-doubt evaporated last weekend.

The Slattery rink, which was formed in 2016 and features skip Kyllo, third Kelsi Jones, second Morgayne Eby and lead Kim Slattery, wasted no time in

qualifying for the 2018 BC Scotties, besting Karla Thompson and her Kamloops Curling Centre (KCC) quartet 6-4 in the A event final at the first of two provincial playdowns in Hope.

“I’m super proud, like so proud of my team,” said Kyllo, who manages the BC SPCA Kamloops and District Branch. “We came out, we didn’t overthink it, we trusted our instincts, threw the rocks and made it happen.”

Kyllo and her team will make their BC Scotties debut at the 2018 provincial championship, slated to run from Jan. 2 to Jan. 7 in Victoria.

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win the B event in Hope last weekend, snaring one of three Scotties spots that were up for grabs. Holly Donaldson and her Vancouver/ Victoria team qualified by winning the C event.

Two BC Scotties berths were awarded based on Canadian Team Ranking System points gained between Nov. 30, 2016, and Dec. 1, 2017.

Corryn Brown and her KCC rink earned one spot and the New Westminster-based Diane Gushulak team earned the other.

The final three 2018 BC Scotties spots will be awarded at a playdown in Kelowna this weekend, with Lori Olsen and her KCC rink among the teams in the hunt.

Kyllo has become a little too familiar with the road to Vernon over the past two winters, but the travel and practise paid off last weekend.

“There were some tears,” Kyllo said. “We were all pretty happy when we won the game.”

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PITTSBURGH — The soul searching began the moment the Pittsburgh Steelers walked off the field last January in snowy Foxborough.

They had spent three painful hours watching Tom Brady and the New England Patriots toy with them in a one-sided 36-17 victory in the AFC title game that didn’t even feel that close.

While the Patriots moved on to the Super Bowl and ultimately another championship parade through Boston, the Steelers lurched into an offseason wondering what it was going to take to end nearly two decades of torment at the hands Brady, Bill Belichick and New England’s seemingly endless string of role players turned difference makers.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger openly pondered retirement while simultaneously challenging the front office to upgrade the talent around him.

Coach Mike Tomlin and defensive co-ordinator Keith Butler set about revamping a secondary that looked confused and overmatched as Brady picked it apart.

Roethlisberger opted to return for a 14th season. Pittsburgh grabbed wide receiver JuJu SmithSchuster in the second round of the draft and welcomed Martavis Bryant back from a year-long suspension and signed two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Joe Haden in August with an eye specifically on New England.

A chance to see how far the Steelers have come over the past 11 months — and how far they may still have to go — arrives Sunday when the AFC North champions host the Patriots (10-3).

“It’s better to be in big games than ones that nobody is watching,’’ Tomlin said. “We better be appreciative of this spot and not resist it in any way, but embrace it because this is what we’ve been fighting for since March.’’

Or, you know, way before that.

The Steelers (11-2) haven’t lost since Oct. 1, but have beaten Brady just twice in 17 years and only once since 2004, a 25-17 victory in 2011 that Roethlisberger jokingly admits he barely remembers. Maybe that’s because the sting of New England’s dominance remains so fresh.

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Aaron Dunn of Kamloops won a car at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.

Some folks who win $7 at Chances Casino Kamloops look more excited than Dunn did after his shot from centre ice went through a tiny hole in a board covering the net during the second intermission contest.

“In the most Canadian thing you’ll see today, here’s a Vancouver Canucks’ fan named Aaron Dunn showing basically no emotion after winning a freaking car during a

Aaron Dunn’s reaction to winning a new car at Rogers Arena on Wednesday is taking friendly fire.

shoot the puck game between periods,” Satchel Price wrote on sbnation.com.

“Don’t worry, man,

it’s OK to celebrate a little!”

The Canucks and Dunn ended up scoring the same number of

goals. Nashville pounded Vancouver 7-1.

Dunn’s first two shots were near the target, one a touch left and the other a smidgen right, but his third and final shot was bang on.

The Rogers Arena crowd went nuts as Dunn glanced over at his brand new 2018 Toyota C-HR. Canucks’ game host Hannah Bernard could barely contain herself, but managed to muster a question after Dunn’s money shot, asking him to try to put into words what was going through his head.

“It’ll be a long drive home, but it will be worth it,” he said.

Storm to host two weekend games The Kamloops Storm will play three games in three nights this weekend, their last Kootenay International Junior Hockey League contests before the holiday break.

Kamloops will play host to the Revelstoke Grizzlies

(17-5-1-0-3) on Friday and Sicamous Eagles (4-23-1-0-1) on Saturday. Both games are slated for 7 p.m. at Memorial Arena.

The Eagles will play host to the Storm in Sicamous on Sunday.

Kamloops is second-last in the five-team Doug Birks Division, six points ahead of Sicamous.

Chase (19-11-0-0-1) is atop the division, followed by Revelstoke and 100 Mile House (15-11-3-0-0).

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K A M LO O P S C r i m e S to p p e r s WA N T E D

www.kamloopscrimestoppers.ca CRIMES OF THE WEEK

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ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY HARM ON SEYMOUR STREET A Kamloops man was taken to hospital with a non-life-threatening stab wound to the back following an altercation on Sunday night (dec. 10) on a downtown street.

Emergency crews were called to a store on Victoria Street after a wounded man entered the business. He told police he left the 7-Eleven store at Seymour Street and Sixth Avenue at 9 p.m. and was followed by a woman on a BMX bike, who claimed the man owed her money. The woman was with a man who was on foot.

The victim said the woman stabbed him in the back when he did not hand over the money she claimed he owed her.

The woman is described as having blond, shoulder-length hair. There is no description of the man who was with her.

Anybody with information on the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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This program is jointly sponsored by Kamloops Crime Stoppers & Kamloops This Week.

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HELP CATCH THIS THIEF On Nov. 19, someone broke into several vehicles on the South Shore.

The thieves made off with numerous items, including a wallet that contained a credit card.

Later the same day, a male made purchases with the stolen credit card and attempted to use a bank card to withdraw money from an ATM. The male suspect is described as having short dark hair and was wearing a black hoodie with a short-sleeved camouflage T-shirt over top.

If recognize this male, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Remember, we just want the information, not your name.

SEEKING SHOPLIFTER WHO STOLE FROM LANSDOWNE VILLAGE STORE On Thursday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m., a woman entered a store in Lansdowne Village downtown and shoplifted some items.

The suspect has long, darkcoloured hair and was wearing a grey/black winter jacket and a black hat with a coloured pattern on the front. She was carrying a large bag in which she placed the items.

The attached surveillance photo is a bit blurry, but if you know who this the person is, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

POLICE PROBE EXPLOSION NEAR MONTE CREEK Police are looking for a suspect after a homemade bomb was set off on a roadside east of Kamloops on Wednesday, Dec. 13.

The improvised explosive device was detonated just after 7 a.m. on the shoulder of Dallas Drive, between Hook

Road and Sonora Road, near Monte Creek. The blast and resulting smoke and a small fire was heard and seen by a nearby resident who called the police.

There is evidence of a vehicle being in the area at the time of the explosion.

The police are interested in determining

who was involved in this dangerous act.

There were no injuries reported.

If you have any information about this device and the resulting explosion, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 or submit a web tip online at kamloopscrimestoppers.ca

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Quarterback Jonathon Jennings and the B.C. Lions will not have to play three games in 11 days next season, one of a few changes to the CFL schedule.

CFL schedule stretched over additional week to increase rest, safety THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — The Canadian Football League season will be spread over an additional week next year in an effort to promote player safety.

The league announced its schedule on Thursday, two months earlier than last year. The season kicks off a week earlier on June 14, when the Winnipeg Blue Bombers host Edmonton.

The schedule stretches the regular-season over 21 weeks rather than 20 to reduce the number of short turnarounds. No team will have to play three games in 11 days, something that had been part of every schedule dating back to 2005. The number of games to be played on less than a full week’s rest has been cut to 44, down from 51 last year and 54 the year before.

The number of games played on five days rest has been cut from 21 last year to 15 this year, a 29 per cent decrease. And every team will get three bye weeks instead of two, reducing the number of consecutive weeks a team must play.

The Toronto Argonauts kick off their Grey Cup title defence on June 15 in Saskatchewan and then return home to raise their championship

banner on June 23, when they host Calgary in a Grey Cup rematch.

Rounding out opening weekend is a double header on June 16 that has Hamilton visiting Calgary and Montreal travelling to Vancouver to face the B.C. Lions.

CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said the early release of the schedule is in response to fans.

“For years, our fans have asked to have the schedule released as early as possible, preferably in time to consider buying season tickets as gifts for family and friends,’’ Ambrosie said in a statement.

“We are pleased today to deliver on that request. Not only is this schedule out two months earlier than last year’s, it promises a season that starts a little sooner and will deliver all the excitement Canadians have come to expect from the CFL.’’ The schedule will conclude with the 106th Grey Cup in Edmonton on Nov. 25.

Labour Day Weekend features the traditional rivalries — Montreal visits the Ottawa Redblacks on Friday, Aug. 31; the Bombers visit the Riders on Sunday, Sept. 2; and the holiday Monday on Sept. 3 features a doubleheader, with Edmonton at Calgary in the afternoon followed by Toronto at Hamilton in the evening.

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Sports unions unveil universal declaration of players’ rights; heavy hitters involved STEPHEN WHYNO

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Leaders from the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball players associations helped unveil a universal declaration of player rights designed to establish a new approach to governing sports and protecting athletes.

Among the 17 articles laid out in the declaration are rights to unionize and collectively bargain, express opinions freely and receive equal pay for equal work.

The declaration was made Thursday by the World Players Association, which is affiliated with 100 organizations that represent 85,000 professional athletes.

“It will change the content and the terms under which sport is regulated,’’ said Brandon Schwab, the association’s executive director.

“And, secondly, it will change the culture of sport.

Sport must now be run in

Don Fehr represents the NHL Players’ Association in a group of unions that released a declaration this week.

partnership with the players and sport must act proactively to prevent and minimize and address any adverse human rights impacts.’’

Executive directors DeMaurice Smith of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), Michele Roberts of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), Don Fehr of the NHL Players’ Association and Tony Clark of the Major League Baseball Players Association are part of the group of more than 100 unions that released the declaration.

“The importance of the

declaration is actually philosophically bigger than just the issue of collective bargaining,’’ Smith said as the NFLPA hosted the gathering of 40 union representatives.

“It’s reminding everyone that where we start in this process is the men and women who play sports did not choose to give up the basic human rights that we would want for every worker.’’

The launch of the universal declaration of player rights comes on the heels of Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players kneeling or sitting during the national anthem

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to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

Roberts said she and members of the NBPA “fullthroatedly support’’ the declaration that seeks to provide athletes worldwide with the type of constitutional protections that exist in the United States.

The World Players Association recently negotiated a binding human rights agreement with FIFA, and Schwab said it is in talks with the International Olympic Committee to amend hosting contracts to add human rights requirements.

Schwab said the declaration came about after surveys of thousands of players and in concert with human rights experts. Smith said a key piece is recognizing that human rights cannot be ignored because players put on uniforms.

“We demand a respect, a certain humanity that comes with who they are before they decided to do what they decided to do,’’ Smith said.

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FAITH

Story tells of God’s good work amid dark forces

T

he rule in our house is that Christmas movies aren’t allowed until Remembrance Day has passed.

After that, the family ration is one Christmas film per week.

Since we had already finished the trilogy of The Santa Clause movies and since it was the first Sunday in Advent — and, as a pastor, I am paid to notice things like that — my wife and I decided it was time for something a little more sacred.

I found our copy of The Nativity Story (directed by Catherine Hardwicke) and slid it into the DVD player.

Squeezing in between my wife and my two daughters on the couch, we all settled in for a familiar feel-good story.

Big mistake.

STEVE FILYK

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What I had forgotten is that the movie is a retrospective that begins after Jesus’ birth.

The opening scene was the infamous “slaughter of the innocents.”

King Herod sends soldiers through Bethlehem to murder all male children two years and younger in an attempt to eradicate any potential pretenders to his throne.

Our ears were assaulted with the

sound of hooves pounding the pavement. Our eyes were seared with images of children being ripped from the arms of screaming parents.

My girls closed their eyes and covered their ears. So much for a feel-good family movie.

Thankfully, that scene was short and we were quickly whisked away to an earlier part of the story.

The lens softened as it focused on the daily rhythms of life in Nazareth, the hometown of Mary and Joseph.

There were scenes of planting and harvesting, baking and eating, negotiations for marriage and elders teaching children their history.

Set against this homey backdrop emerged a series of artfully depicted dreams and visions, those memorable angelic

pronouncements that form the ancient Christmas story.

And yet there was no hiding the harsh realities of life in Roman-ruled Palestine.

Food was scarce.

Soldiers were an everpresent threat.

So were the tax collectors, whose collections made a difficult life near impossible.

Children and cattle were hauled away to pay off debts.

In this harsh world, even angelic pronouncements of blessing caused difficulty.

While Mary was given the good news that she would bear the promised saviour, the timing was off.

Mary was betrothed, not married. As her baby started to show, she endured the sneers of friends and the suspicions of family and neighbours.

A woman in her position risked being

stoned to death.

In this way, the story of this first Christmas was set against a grim backdrop of hunger and oppression and threats.

I knew the story by heart, but the drama was still gripping.

Would God keep those angelica promises? Would Joseph reject his pregnant fiancée? Would the two survive their trip to Bethlehem? Would the family escape King Herod’s assassins?

This Christmas story is so different from the regular fare of Christmas movies.

It’s no cutesy tale about Santa’s sleigh skidding through Central Park.

It embraces problems much larger than the shared custody of children or a dad who can’t cook Thanksgiving dinner (à la The Santa Clause).

It’s a story of terrible

desperation and of incredible hope.

And maybe that’s what makes it so powerful.

By depicting all the pain and disorder of first century Palestine, this story has the capacity to speak to the worst of our modern world: Syrian refugees, missing women and widespread indifference.

When it boldly declares the arrival of a saviour, it expresses our deepest hopes for deliverance — not just better relationships with our children, but the transformation and renewal of all things.

In the movie, the closing scene takes us right back to the opening scene at the beginning.

We hear the hooves pounding the pavement as Herod’s death squad is kicking in doors in Bethlehem.

But Joseph has been

tipped off by yet another dream and his young family have made their escape.

And we are left with the realization that while dark forces threaten our world, God is doing something powerful and new through this baby born in Bethlehem.

Rev. Steve Filyk is minister at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, which is located in the South Kamloops (Sagebrush) neighbourhood at 1136 Sixth Ave. KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Columns should be between 600 and 800 words in length and can be emailed to editor@ kamloopsthisweek.com.

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• Thursday, Dec. 21, PIT Stop/B.C. Lottery Corporation second annual Christmas dinner, Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul St., 5 p.m.

• Saturday, Dec. 23, New Life Community Kamloops annual Turkey and Trimmings, 181 West Victoria St., 1 p.m.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Ronald Roy Bredesen

He opened Superwood - a Home Hardware Building Centre and later a car wash.

Ron passed away in Kamloops on Friday, December 1, 2017. He was predeceased by his father Roy and his mother Martha. He leaves behind his wife Jeanette, his three sons Rayn, Derek (Josie) and Court (Danette), sister Lois and brother Brian (Claire).

In 1985 Ron met his second wife Jeanette. Born on the same day, they were a perfect match.

Married in 1992, they lived happily in High Level until 1997.

Then a move to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island to be closer to Ron’s Mom and Dad.

In Loving Memory of

Albert (Al, Ab, Abby) Head February 12, 1945 - December 15, 2016

July 11, 1947 - December 1, 2017

Born in Camrose, Alberta, Ron was the apple of his father Roy’s eye and his mother Martha’s number one son. A child of the fifties, he played hard but had to work hard too. He often told the story of coming home from school to straighten nails that he and his dad collected from discarded railway ties - nails his dad used to build their house. Money wasn’t plentiful but Ron’s childhood was happy.

Sadly missed along life’s way, quietly remembered every day...

No longer in our life to share, but in our hearts, you’re always there.

Your open arms, warms hugs and easy going nature are missed so much. On this day and every day forward, may the fish be huge and the beer be bottomless. Cheers to you and the life that you gave to us.

We love you Abby, Dad, Papa and Grandpa Holding you close just as you are us.

Jeanny, Trevor (Jenn) Nicole (Mark), Emily and Nicholas.

The family moved to Grande Prairie when Ron was in his teens. Ron was athletic, musical and mechanically inclined. He played guitar in a local band (The Sneakers), was on the basketball team, participated in ski jumping competitions and was passionate about cars and motorcycles.

After graduation, Ron worked for NCR and Safeway.

He found his niche when he was hired by Beaver Lumber and moved to Forestburg. A hands on kind of guy, Ron quickly became Manager. During this time, Ron met and married his first wife and adopted her son (Derek).

In the mid-seventies, Ron was transferred to High Level, Alberta where his two boys (Rayn and Court) were born. Life in Northern Alberta suited Ron. Active in the community he was a member of the volunteer fire department and chairman of the Alberta Housing Authority. He loved the outdoors - quading, snowmobiling, fishing and camping.

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A talented woodworker, Ron spent hours in his workshop building things. He picked up the odd job to keep busy but found he wasn’t ready to retire and so in 2004 bought the Westsyde Home Hardware store in Kamloops and another adventure began.

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by Greyhound. Not anymore. Liability issues, I suspect.

So nowadays it’s Canada Post or “on the road again!”

Ron was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007 but never complained, he accepted. Ron’s only concern was for Jeanette and his family. Ron was a kind and gentle man. He had a quick wit and wicked sense of humour. He loved a drink, a cigarette and a good story.

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Patricia Margaret Godfroid (DesJarlais) It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our dear and loving mother Patricia Margaret Godfroid who passed away on November 28, 2017 in Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. Pat is predeceased by her husband Frederik Godfroid and her parents Denis and Margaret DesJarlais. Left to cherish her memory are her three children Laura, Ron (Michele) and Shelley (Paul) and seven grandchildren Scott, Randy, Krysta, Ashley, Brenden, Kristine and Hailey.

Patricia (Patsy) is also remembered by her three siblings, Denise Keenan, Doug DesJarlais and Nancy DesJarlais and brother and sister in-law Jan Godfroid and Carla (John) Tilly, as well as aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins and many long-time friends.

Pat will always be remembered for her kind heart and thoughtful nature, always thinking and caring of others. She loved taking pictures; one of her favorite hobbies was making beautiful calendars and bookmarks for family and friends. She also enjoyed scrapbooking on her computer, creating three special memory books for her children. Pat looked forward to her holidays, particularly in Puerto Vallarta and always looked forward to a night out at bingo.

The family wishes to thank their many relatives and friends for their support during this difficult time. We would also like to thank the Kamloops Home and Community Care Support for their services.

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

A Memorial Service will be held at First Memorial Burkeview Chapel, 1340 Dominion Ave., Port Coquitlam, BC on January 5, 2018 at 11:00 am.

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Tuula Irene Helin

In Loving Memory of

Kenneth Howard McClennan “Ken” June 1, 1936 – December 15, 2016

His Journey’s Just Begun Don’t think of Ken as gone away his journey’s just began.

Life holds so many facets, this earth is only one.

Just think of Ken as resting from the sorrows and the tears in a place of warmth and comfort where there are no days and no years.

Think how he must be wishing that we could know today, how nothing but our sadness can really pass away.

And think of Ken as living in the hearts of those he touched.

For nothing loved is ever lost, and Ken was loved so very much.

It’s been a year since we heard you laugh. We know your in a more peaceful place but we still miss you so very much.

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August 16, 1956 ~ December 6, 2017 Tuula Helin passed away suddenly but peacefully at home on December 6, 2017.

She leaves behind her husband, best friend and love of her life Chris Pyett, her dog Furly and her friends and family.

Chris and Tuula met at university where she was studying to become a CGA and they spent the next 40 years together.

Tuula had a sharp, inquiring mind and although she was an excellent accountant, she often said that she would have been a better lawyer. She was a brilliant, talented, wise and compassionate woman who was endlessly curious. Conversations travelled down surprising pathways after which one was left enriched and enlightened. Although Tuula chose a career in accounting, she was also a talented artist and Reki Master. Her art was joyful but when one looked closely, you could discern deeply understood truths.

Tuula’s parents immigrated to Canada from Finland after the war and she was born in Williams Lake in 1956. Although she grew up there, her family often visited relatives in Finland, a connection that she and Chris continued to enjoy throughout her life.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Tuula’s memory to one of the following: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Dogwood Initiative, Medecins Sans Frontieres, World Wildlife Fund or David Suzuki Foundation.

A small celebration will be announced at a later

date.

Love Irene and Family

Condolences may be left for the family at www.firstmemorialkamloops.com

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Robert Richard Tronson August 23, 1933 - December 11, 2017

(Welsford) Kenneth Herritt December 20, 1948 – December 5, 2017

The family of Robert Richard Tronson would like to announce with sadness his passing in Kamloops at Royal Inland Hospital on Monday, December 11, 2017, at 2:31 pm.

With profound sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Ken Herritt at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House in Kamloops on December 5, 2017 with Eleanor at his side.

Robert is predeceased by his wife Christine (nee LaRue) and daughter Debra Tronson, his father Harry Tronson, mother Ida Tronson (nee Brewer), his sister Aggie and brothers Tom and Charlie Tronson. He is survived by his children Ron (Christina), Janice (Mike), Brian, Ken, Bernice (Mathew), Joan (Harry Jr), thirteen grandchildren fifteen great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews.

Ken is survived by his loving wife Eleanor of 32 years. He is also survived by son Adrian (Carolina) and grandchildren Kaylin, Gabe and Nadia of Sterling, Virginia, as well as daughter Chrystal (Jeff) and grandchildren Micheal and Anjolina of Calgary, Alberta. He loved them all dearly.

Robert was the youngest of four siblings and was born in Vernon, British Columbia. He grew up in a family of loggers. At the young age of eight, Robert had stopped going to school, due to WWII as the school was shut down. Robert then started working alongside his parents in the logging industry. At the young age of fourteen, Robert purchased his first chainsaw; this was the beginning of his lifelong career. He worked on a barge boat on the Okanagan Lake for a short period of time. With his hard earned money, Robert would travel to Kamloops on weekends where he eventually met the love of his life in 1955. Robert and Christine began dating and after a few short months Robert had proposed and married Christine on October 4, 1956. Robert and Christine started their life together in Chase, where he worked for the Mattey Brothers for ten years. He then went on to building his own successful logging company for fifteen years, which supported his family. In the early 1980s, Robert had an opportunity to begin working with his son Brian in logging camps in the coastal areas of BC. Robert spent several years working in a logging camp until his health no longer permitted him to work in the bush. Robert had lengthy battles with many health issues. He was a kind, caring, gentle man who loved his wife, kids, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends, including his dog Sparky.

Ken is also survived by mother and father-in-law Gladys and Harold Honda of Lillooet, BC, sisters Waynne and Robin (Cliff), brothers Hugh (Jeanette), Rory (Suzanne), Lionel (Cheryl), brothers-in-law Dan (Julie) and Gordie (Theresa) and sister-in-law Sherry. He was predeceased by his parents Wels and Dene Herritt and sister Lori. Also left to mourn is a large extended family and many, many friends.

He will be dearly missed by his family and all that knew him.

We wish to thank the doctors and nurses at the Kamloops Cancer Clinic and Royal Inland Hospital 4th Floor North. Ken’s final days were spent in the wonderful compassionate care of the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House.

The family extends a big thank you to Karen Irving from Urban Native Health, Lisa Perry, Deanne Campbell, Tiger Sperling, Katherine Jules, Kacey Gottfriedson and Virginia Sheep from Qwemstein Health Society, Annie Leonard, Barb Jules (Tk’emlups te Secwepemc), as well as the excellent staff on the fourth floor of the Royal Inland Hospital and numerous prior doctors. Thank you to the Okanagan Indian Band and the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc for all of the support and help.

The family will be bringing Robert home on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at 10:00 am at 1188 Kamloopa Road. On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 11:00 am there will be a Celebration of Robert’s Life at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 200 Chilcotin Road, Kamloops, BC.

William “Bill” Harold Heighton 1937-2017

Bill Heighton suddenly but peacefully passed away on December 8, 2017, at Hillside Centre in Kamloops, BC. He was a resident of Cranbrook, BC, for many years.

Together nearly 35 years Ken and Eleanor had many adventures together. Ken’s work took them to South Africa for 5 years and then to Australia for 2 years. They also cruised 19 times and managed to get in a few more land vacations as well such as Hawaii, Mexico and the Cook Islands.

As per Ken’s wishes, there will not be a service. Cremation will be followed by interment at Hillside Cemetery in Kamloops, BC.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House, 72 Whiteshield Crescent South, Kamloops, BC V2E 2S9.

Phone 250-372-1336 or to the Lillooet District Hospital Foundation, Box 1642, Lillooet, BC V0K 1V0.

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In Loving Memory of James (Jim) Hunter March 9, 1941 – December 16, 2007

Bill was born on June 3, 1937, in River John, Nova Scotia. He was the son of Harold and Catherine Heighton (deceased). Bill started his career at Cominco in Trail, BC, and soon became a warehouse storekeeper at various mines in Fort St. James (BC), Pine Point (NWT), Kamloops (BC), and Yellowknife (NWT). He met and married Eleanor in 1964 and they welcomed their son, Tim, in 1968.

Bill was a skilled baseball player at a young age and became an avid hockey fan.

He especially enjoyed watching Tim play hockey. He loved following sports of all kinds, including curling, baseball, tennis, golf, football and more. Bill was an experienced fisherman, both from a boat and on the ice. People remember him for his sense of humour, his contagious laughter, and his many stories. Bill was an excellent caregiver to Eleanor while she had Alzheimer’s, never missing a day of visiting her at the F.W. Green Home in Cranbrook. Near the end of Bill’s life, he enjoyed having coffee with friends and helping out friends in need.

Bill is survived by his son, Tim (Jennifer), sister Kay Crockett and her children Terry, Tammy, Brad, and Doug; sister Shirley Langille and her children Korry and Kelly; brother’s wife Joyce Heighton and her children Calvin Jr. and Kim; and nieces and nephews Cheryl, David, Kathy and Brenda. He is also survived by his brother-in-law Keith Pople (Maureen), and their daughter Janet (Dave) Clement. Bill is predeceased by his wife Eleanor, his sister Betty (Stan) Langille, brother Calvin Heighton, brotherin-law Rod Crockett, and nephews Kevin Langille and Ken Pople.

The family would like to thank Myrna Weibe, Michelle and Mike Benson, and Linda Oliver of Cranbrook, for their support during Bill’s early days of his health struggles.

We would also like to thank Dr. Carol Ward and the rest of the support staff at Hillside Psychiatric Center in Kamloops for their thoughtful care.

It has been ten years since you left us no time to day goodbye.

There are no words to say how much you are missed.

Even the passing years has not dulled the heartache.

Never more than a thought away as your name is mentioned often.

A special person who loved life and enjoyed many activities.

You were also always there to assist others when needed.

One who we can never replace!

There will be no funeral service by request. A reception to celebrate Bill’s life will be announced at a later date, to be held in Trail, BC, probably in the summer.

Always in our Hearts

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division (Suite 905 – 1130 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4A4; www.cmha.bc.ca).

Chris, Russ, Tara, Bennett and Sophie

Love & Hugs

Barry William Cornish August 6, 1952 – December 6, 2017

Barry passed away peacefully at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice at the age of 65 with his family at his side.

Barry is survived by his children Tim Cornish, Clark Cornish, Cory Hodson and Laura-Lee Hodson and his four grandchildren.

Barry had a passion for trucks, vintage vehicles and Harleys.

He will be missed dearly.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Kamloops SPCA. A celebration of life will be held in the New Year.

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Peace Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

When there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that I may not so much Seek to be consoled, as to console; To be loved, as to love; For it is in the giving that we receive; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Please forward salary expectations within your cover letter. Email a cover letter and resume, plus copy of Degree(s) to: hr@jhstr.ca The successful applicant is subject to applicable criminal record checks prior to commencement of rst shift: Personnel Screening, Consent and Authorization (Government of Canada), Police Information Check (RCMP) and Consent to a Criminal Record Check (Provincial). No formal offer will be extended until the successful clearances have been received.

For access to the full Director of Corporate & Financial Services job posting please contact the agency at hr@jhstr.ca.

Position is open until a suitable candidate is found.

We thank all applicants in advance; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: NEWSPAPER AND DIGITAL MARKETING Kamloops This Week is always looking to add superb sales people with a creative flair to our team.

Our business requires highly organized individuals with the ability to multi-task in a fun, fast-paced, team environment.

We offer our clients traditional marketing ideas and products, in addition to cutting-edge, state-of-the-art online strategies to help them compete in today’s digital environment.

Good interpersonal skills are an asset and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are desired for those who wish to join the vibrant KTW team. Excellent communication skills, a valid driver’s licence and a reliable vehicle are what you need to become a part of a growing business entity.

If you are a competitive and creative individual and enjoy challenging yourself, we want to hear from you.

Interested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to sales manager Ray Jolicoeur at ray@kamloopsthisweek.com We thank all applicants, but only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

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Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Work Wanted Drywall repair, taping, textured ceilings and painting.

Reasonable rates and seniors discount. Bonded. Graham 250-374-7513/250-851-1263 Experienced truck driver and loader operator.

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Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

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(250) 377-3457.

2sm antique armchairs $600, wool area rug 9x7 $400 (778) 471-8627 8ft Antique Couch $900.

Round dining room table w/4chairs & 2 bar stools. $700.

Couch & matching chairs $149. 250-374-1541.

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

Skylar Peppler dining set, 2leaves, 6 chairs, 2pc china cabinet, glasstop wooden bottom. Exec cond. $1750/obo.

250-828-0359.

Heavy Duty Machinery 1948 Ford Tractor.

New tires/chains, rear blade. Good cond. $1800. 250-573-3165.

Pets

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Medical Supplies 2015 M300 power wheel chair w/charger Roho air seat, ext arm like new asking $6000obo (250) 554-1257

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1975 Cat Loader, good condition. $30,000/obo. 250-5733165 or 250-371-7495.

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

1 Computer desk. $50. 1 cloth rocking chair. $150. 1 glass top side table. $50. 250-5795696.

Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988 MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, 1-Standard 8ft truck canopy $300. Call 250851-1115 after 6pm or leave msg.

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ASK Wellness provides a continuum of services to help individuals on a journey to wellness and supports individuals in our community and provides them with opportunities and the resources to change their current situation. It’s about reaching out to those people who are homeless and battling addictions, helping them find housing and medical care, addressing their addictions, stabilizing mental health issues and ultimately, providing them with the skills to re-enter the work force. ASK Wellness administers an unconditional sense of hope to those who are convinced that they are incapable of ever achieving a stable, meaningful life.

SENIORS TENANT SUPPORT WORKER (KAMLOOPS) PERMANENT FULL-TIME

Monday to Friday (8:30am-4:30pm) The Housing Outreach Worker (Surge Project) works in conjunction with the Housing Outreach Team. To provide intensive support and service to the clients seeking housing services with a hope of reducing homelessness in the community. The overriding purpose is to assist clients with multiple barriers and challenging behaviors in finding appropriate shelter and/or detox, treatment, health services, supportive housing and market housing.

Qualifications: BSW, Human Service Degree or equivalent/experience with mental health/addictions and homelessness issues; knowledge of community resources.

Criminal record check required, vehicle and valid driver’s license with relevant insurance in order to transport clients.

For full job description please go to www.askwellness.ca/category/careers/ Salary Range is between $17.51-$23.00/hr based on experience.

Apply by sending your Resume to careers@askwellness.ca by December 21st, 2017 at noon.

12ftx50ft Mobile with 8ftx40ft long addition. $39,000. 250260-0312 or 250-320-0504.

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent Riverbend Senior Community 1bdrm Mayfair Suite w/balcony f/p. Optional supports as needed $1200 554-2016 owner

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Bachelor Suite starting at $845 per month 1 & 2 Bedroom Suites Adult Oriented No Pets Elevators / Dishwashers Common Laundry $850-$1,200 per month North Shore 250-376-1427 South Shore 250-314-1135

Bed & Breakfast BC Best Buy Classifieds

NEW 2 bdrm daylight. Dufferin N/S, N/P, No Noise. $1200/mo+DD. 250-314-0060 Westsyde 1bdrm. Priv ent.

F/P. Lndry, util/cable incld.

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Suites, Upper New 2bdrm bright daylight suite near TRU/bus stp/ns/furn wifi util inc $900 778-257-1839

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554-6877/250-377-1020.

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

2004 Chrysler Sebring. Auto, fully loaded, well maintained. $2,850. 250-578-7888.

2013 Chev Impala, 2nd owner, auto, winter tires 86,000kms $12,000obo (250) 376-0125 Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadillac Deville one owner low kms $5,500.00/obo 250-554-0580

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Duplex / 4 Plex 2bdrm 2bth upper duplex Lafarge $750, ac, n/p, n/s mature couple pref Avail Jan 1st. 250573-2529.

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.

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W/D, N/S, N/P. $550/mo. DD. Dec. 1st. 250-574-0395.

Furn room close to Downtown all amenities, for working person w/own transportation avail now $550 mo 250-377-3158

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

Suites, Lower 1bdrm clean, perfect for student/working person, n/s, n/party, n/p util incl $800/mo.

Avail Dec. 1st. 250-851-2025 2bdrm daylight. N/S, N/P, No Noise. w/d, util incl $1200/mo+DD. 250-314-0060

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RENTED

1985 Dodge Ram Charger.

Very good condition. $5,000/OBO 250-579-5551 2006 Equinox. 168,000kms.

Auto, 6cyl.

Good cond. $5,500/obo. 250-554-2788.

DOWNTOWN Sat. Dec. 16th. 9am-2pm. 432 St. Paul St. Inside at the back in the bsmt. Furniture, Indoor plants, pictures in frames, bedding, kitchen accessories, records, CD’s & much more.

25% off all beauty products.

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2011 Lincoln Navigator like new. 106,000kms.

White, black leather interior, 3rd seat. 4X4, Navigation, sunroof. $28,800.

250-319-8784

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NO PETS 1982 Mercedes 300 SD TD. 2 owners, original and documented.

242,000km no drips. Show car quality.

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

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Motorcycles 2003 Harley Davidson 100th Ann. Edition Fat Boy CID 95 Stage 3 exc cond 17,000km $14,500obo. (250) 318-2030

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Trucks & Vans 1994 F150 Lariat 5L 5spd 4wd ext cab Flat deck $2500obo 250-376-7129/250-319-0046

Motorcycles

1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

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

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

Auto Accessories/Parts 4-Eagle GTII P275/45R20 M&S $400. 2-275/40ZR17 BF Goodrich M&S $275. 2-Goodyear Eagle 245/50VR16 M&S $200. 2-P215/60R16 M&S Pacemark $200.

2P225/60R16 All Season Motomaster $175. Call 250-3198784.

4-P265/70R17 Goodyear All Seasons. $400/obo. 250-8193848.

Cars - Domestic 1998 Chrysler Intrepid, auto, good cond. Winters on rims, remote, air. $1,800. 376-8628.

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Recreational/Sale 2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $16,900. 236-421-2251 2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $69,000 250-374-4723

1996 Chevrolet C/K 2500 HD 3/4 ton Truck.

Good condition. $9,900.

250-374-1988

SOME SHOES NEED FILLING Looking for Door to Door Carriers.

Kids and Adults needed!

ABERDEEN Rte 508 – 700-810 Hugh Allan Dr. – 40 p.

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 748 – Crawford Crt, Crawford Pl, 387-495 Todd Rd. – 38 p.

Rte 759 – Beverly Pl, 67247250 Furrer Rd, McIver Pl, Pat Rd, Stockton Rd. – 40 p.

Rte 761 – 6022-6686 Furrer Rd, Houston Pl, Parlow Rd, Pearse Pl, Urban Rd. – 57 p.

DOWNTOWN Rte 311 - 423-676 1st Ave, 440533 2nd Ave, 107-237 Battle St. 135-173 St Paul St. – 31 p.

Rte 317 – 535-649 7th Ave, 702-794 Columbia St (even), 702-799 Nicola St. – 46 p.

Rte 323 – 755-783 6th Ave, 763-884 7th Ave, 744-878 8th Ave, 603-783 Columbia St (odd Side), 605-793 Dominion St. – 48 p.

Rte 325 – 764-825 9th Ave, 805-979 Columbia St (odd), 804-987 Dominion St, 805-986 Pine St. – 65 p.

Rte 335 – 1175-1460 6th Ave, 1165-1185 7th Ave, Cowan St, 550-792 Munro St. – 59 p.

Rte 339 – 916-1095 Fraser St, 1265-1401 9th Ave. – 30 p.

Rte 373 – Clark St. 24-60 W. Columbia St. – 20 p.

Rte 380 – 610-780 Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. – 61 p.

Rte 381 – 20-128 Centre Ave, Hemlock St, 605-800 Lombard St. – 41p.

Rte 382 – 114-150 Fernie Pl, Fernie Rd, 860-895 Lombard St. – 31 p.

Rte 387 – McBeth Pl. – 23 p.

Rte 388 – 455, 460 & 580 Dalgleish Dr. – 46 p.

Rte 389 – 390 Centre Ave, 242416 W. Columbia St (even side), Bluff Pl, Dufferin Terr, Garden Terr, Grandeview Terr. – 67 p.

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

LOGAN LAKE Rte 910 – 308-397 Basalt Dr, 202-217 Basalt Pl, 132-197 Jasper Dr, Jasper Pl. – 68 p.

LOWER SAHALI Rte 402 – 14-94 Bestwick Dr, Mahood Pl. – 31 p.

Rte 406 – 108-492 McGill Rd. – 59 p.

Rte 408 – Monashee Crt & Pl. – 37 p.

Rte 410 – 56-203 Arrowstone Dr, Silverthrone Cres. – 44 p.

Rte 411 – 206-384 Arrowstone Dr, Eagle Pl, Gibraltar Crt & Wynd. – 49 p.

Rte 412 – Thor Dr. – 36 p.

RAYLEIGH Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 58 p.

Rte 833 – 4102-4194 Cameron Rd, 3990-4152 Davie Rd. – 44 p.

Rte 834 – Armour Pl, 42054435 Spurraway Rd. – 34 p.

Rte 835 – Mattoch-McKeaque, Sabiston Crt & Rd. – 30 p.

SAHALI Rte 470 – Farnham Wynd, 102298 Waddington Dr. – 63 p.

Rte 492 – 2000-2099 Monteith Dr, Sentinel Crt. – 40 p.

VALLEYVIEW/JUNIPER Rte 652 – Coldwater Crt, 16162212 Coldwater Dr, 1921-1999 Skeena Dr (odd side). – 58 p.

Rte 657 – 1913, 19182195 Skeena Dr, Skeena Pl, Iskut Pl. – 49 p.

Rte 662 – 2763-2895 Capilano Dr. – 35 p.

WESTSYDE Rte 220 – Gilbert Rd, Settlement Rd, 2915-2991 Westsyde Rd. (odd side) – 39 p.

Rte 233 – Cactus Crt, Countrysyde Pl, Dunes Dr, 36053783 Overlander Dr, Sagebruch Crt, Sandstone Pl. – 75 p.

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2013 Dodge 2500 Crew Cab, long box.

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250-299-9387 2017 Coleman Travel Trailer 2 slides, A/C, Rear kitchen, front bedroom. $29,995.00. 250-320-7446

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Boats 14ft aluminum boat w/trailer and new 9.9HP Merc O/B w/asst equip $4000.

(250) 523-6251 14ft. Runabout boat. 40hp Johnson motor on trailer. $1500/obo. 778-469-5434.

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Packages for the above project may be picked up at the Canfor Vanderhoof Office, located at 1399 Bearhead Road Engen, BC, between the hours of 07:00 and 15:00 hours, Monday through Friday starting December 6th, 2017. Alternately they can be digitally emailed to you upon request.

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here’s a short video on YouTube, just under three minutes, that’s all about tea. But, in reality, it’s all about defining the word “consent” in society.

It’s cute, and memorable.

It replaces sex with a cup of tea and points out that if you ask someone if they want a cup and they say yes, for sure, you know they want it. But if they say no, I don’t, don’t make them tea.

If they say yes, but when the tea is made, they have changed their mind, that’s OK. Don’t give them the tea.

The creator, Blue Seat Studios, used stick characters to create the artwork. South Kamloops secondary student Alex Wood anticipates other media being used for an art show she has planned for January that takes a look at issues including harassment, sexual assault and what consent looks like.

Wood, a Grade 12 student at the school, said the project flows from work she was doing for her socials class, one taught

by Don Wilson.

“It just grew into more because I know people who have been assaulted and harassed and others know people who have had that happen and more needs to be done,” Wood said. “This happens every single day somewhere.”

As she prepares for graduation and taking the next step into post-secondary education,

the definition of consent in particular has become more important to Wood in her quest to understand how these issues continue in today’s society.

Wood has already had some artists indicate they will take part in the Jan. 13 show but is looking for more. Works submitted need to address the issue in some way.

This happens “every single day somewhere.”

— ALEX WOOD, South Kamloops secondary student behind Art to Change School show

Right now, Wood is calling the show Art To Change School because she’s hoping the works will “show the school board that consent needs to be a part of our curriculum.”

School district 73 assistant superintendent Bill Hamblett said the subject is directly addressed in grades 8 and 9 through physical and healtheducation classes, although the new curriculum allows for more flexibility in how and when it can be included.

Wood will have some of her creations in the show. She works in charcoal and tends toward the “more realistic,” she said.

For more information, contact her by email at alex.art. page@gmail.com. The show will be at Lansdowne Village in the space the Kamloops Arts Council uses. It will run from noon to 4 p.m.

DAVE EAGLES/KTW South Kamloops Secondary student Alex Wood is the organizer of an art show centred around the theme of sexual harassment and assault.

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GINGERBREAD KIDS YMCA-YWCA Downtown After School Care kids recently showed off their gingerbread house creation, complete with a school bus. The tasty house has been entered into a gingerbread house competition hosted by Romeo’s Kitchen and Spirits. The public can view them and vote for their favourite until Dec. 24, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way. Bottom row: Alexa Hawkes (left) Nova Bishop, Waylon Stites, Jack Kaltenrieder, Charlotte Kaltenrieder and Dax Bishop. Top row: Joel Klyne (left) Jacob Falk, Nolan Thesen, Darrian Akerley, leader Anthony Spada, Jasmine Thomas, site supervisor Deanna Gay and Liam Vohradsky.

FEB-01 JOHN CHAPMAN The Evolving Metallogeny of the Canadian Cordillera FEB-15 JOANNE NELSON The Road North Join us for a meet ‘n greet at 5:30 before the lecture.

MAR-01 KYLE LARSON Building the Himalaya: Implications of Tectonometamorphic Discontinuities MAR-15 ROB YOUNG Subglacial Megaflooding on the Alberta Plain, with Analogies to the Channeled Scablands APR-05 MELANIE KELMAN A Recently Discovered Fumarole Field at the Mount Meager Volcano in Southwest British Columbia APR- 19 TBA

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CP HOLIDAY TRAIN Friday, arrival at 4:45 p.m.; entertainment from 5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at Sandman Centre on Lorne Street

The CP Holiday Train will roll into Kamloops on Friday, providing entertainment and collecting donations for the Kamloops Food Bank. The train, which is emblazoned with Christmas lights, travels through communities across Canada and the U.S.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE KSO Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Sagebrush Theatre, 821 Munro St.

The Kamloops Symphony Orchestra celebrates the season, featuring soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh with the orchestra’s chorus. Leading the chorus will be Scott Seaton. Tickets are available from Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

DANCE Saturday, 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Brock Activity Centre, 9B-1800 Tranquille Rd.

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THEATRE READING Saturday, 2 p.m. at the Kamloops Library, 465 Victoria St.

The library’s theatre club will present a staged reading of scenes from several plays by William Shakespeare.

HOPE FOR CHRISTMAS Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Kamloops Alliance Church, 200 Leigh Rd.

Kamloops Christian School presents Hope for Christmas. The early show is a dress rehearsal. All are welcome.

JAZZY CHRISTMAS Thursday at the Rex Theatre, 409 Seymour St.

The Ladies of Company B return to Kamloops next week.

Tickets $34 for adults and $20 for youth, available at Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or kamloopslive.ca.

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LIGHTING UP THE PARK AFTER DARK Wildlights returns on Friday The B.C. Wildlife Park is once again hosting its annual Wildlights festival, beginning on Friday. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the event, which sees the park lit up with myriad light displays during the holiday season.

Thousands of lights are displayed throughout the park, which is located just east of the city.

Light displays feature animals, familiar car-

toon characters and more, with a bonfire and hot chocolate to set the winter scene. Families may also opt to hop aboard the miniature train, the Wildlife Express, at an additional cost of $1.

Other highlights include performances by Uncle Chris the Clown, story time, a scavenger hunt and animal meet and greets, such as the Arctic wolf encounter. The activities are featured daily.

For a complete schedule of the events, go online to bcwildlife.org/eventslist.htm.

The festival continues through Jan. 7.

Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $8 for kids ages three to 17 and free for kids ages two and younger.

Families receive a discount, with two adults and two kids paying $35 and families of three and four kids paying an additional $5 per kid. Annual pass holders receive 50 per cent off admission.

The Dipper Falls nature park was washed out earlier this year when Campbell Creek flooded and it is unclear whether it has been restored.

KTW did not receive a call back from the park’s staff before deadline.

Wildlights kicks off on Friday at the B.C. Wildlife Park, located just east of the city.

The winter festival of lights will continue through Jan. 7, complete with vivid displays and family friendly activities.

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Christmas letters to be featured during Cantabile concert DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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n 1925, Father Christmas sent a letter to the children of British author J.R.R. Tolkien.

In it, he described how busy he was and all the problems he was having getting the presents ready to distribute. His bear had fallen through the roof and the

ensuing damage had ruined many of those ready to be packed into the sleigh.

Father Christmas continued the tradition for 23 years through the penmanship and creativity of Tolkien, the author of the annual stories. Those letters will be an integral part of the holiday concert on Dec. 22 by the Cantabile Singers as they present Make Ye Merry.

Director Chris Linton said

she discovered the Tolkien Christmas writings while researching letters children have written to Santa through the years.

The writings were published by Tolkien’s son in a book, Letters From Father Christmas. Linton bought and from which she has taken four stories.

Linton has softened the language because Tolkien’s version of Santa Claus was

a bit harsh (but then, he did have Karhu the bear, who caused a lot of havoc.)

Some of the other letters chosen to bind the 14 musical selections together come from as far back as 1878 — when the writer wanted pomade for his dad, among other gifts for family members — to 2014, where the writer wanted tickets to see Taylor Swift, clothes from Nordstrom and a boyfriend.

The youngster who wrote the 2002 letter chosen included a reminder to Santa to bring batteries if any of the gifts require them.

Reading them to the audience at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 1136 Sixth Ave., will be the star of the season himself, taking time out from his mall visits and North Pole duties to join the singers and guest pianist Bonia Wiens.

Afterward, people are invited to join the singers and musicians outside the church, where propanepowered fires will be lit and fresh cookies available.

Linton has a special gift planned, something she’s not willing to divulge — but would say Karhu serves as inspiration.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. Admission is by donation.

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Marchand, Loring leaving WCT to set up Indigenous Theatre in Ottawa T

wo people closely associated with Western Canada Theatre (WCT) are heading to Ottawa to take over the helm of the new Indigenous Theatre of the National Arts Centre (NAC).

Lori Marchand, executive director of WCT, has been named managing director of the new theatre and will be joining Kevin Loring, who has both acted with and had plays produced by WCT, as artistic director.

Loring was named to the position earlier this year. Among his WCT connections are acting in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Merlin, as well as seeing his own play, Where the Blood Mixes, produced by the theatre company.

Marchand has been with WCT since 1999, when then-artistic director David Ross hired her as administrative director. She was charged with not only helping create successful theatrical seasons alongside each artistic director, but with dealing with all the administration issues and fundraising.

Marchand has been praised in particular for maintaining that drive and determination when Ross and his successor, Jeremy Tow, died within two years of each other.

“Lori’s contribution to the success of Western Canada Theatre has been immeasurable,” said WCT artistic director James MacDonald.

“She has been a brilliant leader for our company and in our community and has been instrumental in developing Western Canada Theatre’s reputation as a home for Indigenous artists and their work.

“As much as we will miss her, we know that she is the perfect

Western Canada Theatre executive director Lori Marchand has been with the theatre company since 1999. The first play Marchand ever saw was in Ottawa and she called returning to Ottawa an “artistic homecoming.”

person to assume a leadership role with the NAC and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with her in the development and production of Indigenous theatre in the years to come.”

The Indigenous Theatre plans to launch its first season in 2019.

Its creation began in 2014, when members of the National Arts Centre met with others engaged in Indigenous theatre, artists and students, other Indigenous lead-

ers and, eventually, a wider national theatre community to talk about the need for it.

A study involving the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance and the Debajehmujig Storytellers followed and the work they did moved into the broader Canadian theatre sector.

The work continued to determine how to create it within the NAC framework. Last fall, the hiring process began that saw Loring chosen.

The first play

Marchand saw was at the NAC. Her father was sitting in the House of Commons and the family lived in the nation’s capital.

Len Marchand Sr. was a Liberal MP from Kamloops who served in the 1970s.

“Returning to Ottawa is like an artistic homecoming,” Marchand said.

“I am inspired by and hopeful for the future of Indigenous people in Canada. For the NAC to make the historic commitment to build a theatre for Indigenous voices and expression is a significant step toward this future. It’s an inspirational challenge and a daunting challenge and I am honoured to take it on.”

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Canadian co-production The Breadwinner gets Golden Globe nomination Nomination highlights:

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TORONTO — Canadian author Deborah Ellis was ecstatic about Monday’s Golden Globe nomination for The Breadwinner, an animated film that’s based on her children’s novel, but said she won’t be attending the awards show next month.

While Ellis is hopeful the nomination for best animated film will spark discussions about the story of a young girl and her family under Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001, she doesn’t plan to go to the Jan. 7 gala in Los Angeles due to President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens of mostly Muslim nations.

“I’m not travelling to the States because of basically the Islamic travel ban,’’ Ellis said in a phone interview after the Golden Globe nominations were announced.

“I write about refugees often in Islamic countries and it would make no sense for me to be able to go to this kind of a celebration when they can’t get in.”

The Trump administration has argued the travel restrictions are not anti-Muslim, but are necessary for national security.

“But that’s so unimportant,” Ellis said of her personal opposition to the ban. “The important part is that the film has been nominated, people are seeing it and people are going to talk about it, and that’s fantastic.”

Toronto actress Saara Chaudry voices the lead character, 11-year-old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to be able to go out in public alone and support her family while her father is wrongfully imprisoned by the Taliban.

“To have a movie that’s specifically about women’s rights and that empowers women, especially right now in Hollywood and around the world, it’s really important,” said Chaudry, 13.

The film is a Canadian coproduction with a Toronto cast, many of whom are Muslim and have Afghan heritage. Oscarwinning actor-director Angelina Jolie is an executive producer.

“Everyone keeps saying that this is a film that’s come out at the right time because of what’s going on, especially in the States, the Muslim ban, and I think this is a film that can actually help shed a light on what’s going on around the world that we’re not normally used to — especially that’s a film for kids,’’ said Andrew Rosen, a Toronto

producer on the movie.

“We’ve had a lot of kids watch this and ask their parents and ask at Q-and-A’s, ‘Is this real’ or ‘Did this happen 100 years ago?’

And we have to say ‘No, this is happening now.’ I think it’s really helpful when families go see it, for families to actually have this conversation with their kids.”

Ellis wrote her children’s novel based on the testimony of Afghan women she spoke with in refugee camps in Pakistan.

She also wrote the initial draft of the screenplay for the film, while Canadian filmmaker Anita Doron wrote the final script.

“It’s a film that shows the effects of war on ordinary people and we don’t see that nearly enough, and I think it will help inform our decisions about whether or not we allow our governments to go to war,” Ellis said from her home in Simcoe, Ont. “Do we really want to keep doing this to other people, people who we would probably be friends with if we got to meet them in ordinary time? So I think the film is going to contribute to those kinds of discussions and that’s wonderful, because the people who are seeing it now, the young people who are seeing it now, are maybe going to have that stuff imprinted in them — and when they become decision-makers, they might hesitate a little bit before killing people in other countries.”

Irish animator Nora Twomey directed and acclaimed Canadian composers Jeff Danna and Mychael Danna did the score for the film, which is open in several cities in Canada and the U.S. Rosen and his Aircraft Pictures partner Anthony Leo have been working on the project since 2009.

The other co-producing countries are Ireland and Luxembourg.

Some of the post-production was done in Toronto.

• NO FEMALE DIRECTORS, COMPOSERS: Women might be at the centre of four out of five of the films that snagged best director nominations, including The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Post and All the Money in the World, but the filmmakers behind the projects this year were men. It’s an oversight in a year with excellent femaledirected films, like Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Dee Rees’ Mudbound, Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father and Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled.

• THE BIG SHUT OUT: One exclusion is the romantic comedy The Big Sick, which has been celebrated since its premiere last January at the Sundance Film Festival and splashy acquisition

by Amazon.

• JORDAN PEELE IGNORED: Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out scored a best comedy/ musical nomination and a nod for its lead actor, Daniel Kaluuya, but the man behind the phenomenon wasn’t recognized for his screenplay or direction.

• LOVE FOR UNREVIEWED FILMS: Two films yet to be released or reviewed (and in some cases even seen) by critics, All the Money in the World and The Greatest Showman, scored three Golden Globe nominations each. The P.T. Barnum musical The Greatest Showman earned a best musical or comedy nomination and an acting nod for Hugh Jackman. The Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, which got a publicity boost when Scott decided to replace Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer six weeks before the film’s release, got a nod for Plummer, actress Michelle Williams and Scott.

• NEWCOMERS OUTSHINE MAINSTAYS: Veep, Narcos and Orange is the New Black were shut out, giving way in some cases to newcomers like Showtime’s SMILF, USA’s The Sinner, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and HBO’s Big Little Lies and The Deuce, but the Globes often favour the new and shiny television shows.

• SEXUAL MISCONDUCT TAKES ITS TOLL: Under the glare of sexual misconduct allegations against Kevin Spacey and Jeffrey Tambor, neither House of Cards nor Transparent received any Golden Globe nominations.

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Nevada’s Highway 50, The Loneliest Road in America, stretches to the horizon. Much farther north lies its Canadian counterpart, the Klondike Highway — an equally forbidding and lonely road.

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n 1986, Life magazine described a 462-kilometre stretch of Nevada’s Highway 50, which traverses forbidding desert terrain, as the “Loneliest Road in America,” warning that drivers better be equipped with survival skills. But surely, I thought, Canada has an equally forbidding and lonely road.

I set out in search. Like Nevada’s Highway 50, the Canadian road has to be less travelled but still a reasonably important artery.

Crucially, it needs to traverse lonely, even hostile, terrain.

Choices are numerous, but I pick the 533-kilometre Klondike Highway connecting Whitehorse and Dawson City in the Yukon Territory. Interesting com-

parison. The American road is in simmering sagebrush-covered desert; the Canadian road runs through boreal forest close to the Arctic Circle.

My next challenge is to drive both highways and survive.

I start in the heat of Nevada with many jugs of water in the car. At Great Basin National Park, I enjoy the coolness of the renowned Lehman Caves.

Then I start, heading west along Highway 50 through desiccated brown land dotted with sagebrush and cacti. The air conditioner hums constantly.

I stop in Ely, a little town of 4,260 and once the centre for copper mining. How different from straightlaced, rural Canada.

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Suddenly, five pronghorn antelope bounce across the road. Later, a herd of wild mustangs is silhouetted on the horizon.

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With ghosts accompanying me, I stroll past red cliffs inscribed with ancient marks at the Hickison Summit Petroglyph Area.

From a nearby rocky outlook, I see lonely Highway 50 transecting a vast desert landscape, following the route taken in 1845 by explorer John Fremont and, later the Pony Express.

Fallon flies past and then urbanization approaches. In Reno, malls, high-rise casinos and traf-

fic lights greet me. I yearn to be back on Highway 50 with views stretching forever.

A few weeks later, I disembark at Whitehorse Airport, clamber into an enormous red pickup truck and start north along the Klondike Highway (No. 2) toward Dawson City, the epicentre of the 1898 Klondike gold rush. Soon civilization peters out and I’m alone driving through a forest of spruce and white-trunked aspen, past marshes and lakes.

The road, unlike the well-kept one in Nevada, is often pot-holed and dusty, due to heaving permafrost.

A bear ambles across the road. Signs warn of caribou herds. And lurking around every corner is the icy threat of winter. The highway parallels the Yukon River and loosely follows the original winter route to the goldfields.

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I stretch my legs at Carmacks (population 500).

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obstacle to the thousands of wannabe goldminers in their homemade boats.

Many lives were lost here.

I fill the tank again at Pelly Crossing, a community of 300 souls.

The cultural centre of the Selkirk First Nation is a replica of Big Jonathan House of nearby historic Fort Selkirk.

Finally, extensive piles of rounded cobbles left by gold dredges announce Dawson City.

Soon I am reflecting on my quest in Diamond Tooth Gertie’s Gambling Hall. The two roads I’ve driven are totally different in so many ways, yet they are amazingly similar with their vast empty landscapes and mining histories.

I can’t decide which is the lonelier, but I’m glad I survived.

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The free parking decision came as a result of a request from the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA).

KCBIA general manager Gay Pooler said the move should encourage people to visit the downtown core during the holiday season. The business association will be asking merchants to ensure their employees continue to park off-street, leaving free parking for shoppers.

The three-hour time limit in effect downtown will still apply. Free Saturday parking will run through Dec. 30.

No parking rate hike in 2018 COUNCIL DECIDES HOURLY FEE WILL REMAIN AT $1.25 City council is rolling back a planned downtown parking rate increase for 2018.

Parking rates downtown were set to rise from $1.25 per hour to $1.50 per hour on Jan. 1, but the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA) asked council to reconsider until the city finds a use for the cash it will generate.

KCBIA president Mike O’Reilly and general manager Gay Pooler noted the city is already generating a surplus each year from the meters, money intended to pay for parking improvements, but which has not yet been used.

Council recently voted down a study of the area’s parking needs, with a price tag of $100,000, which would have been funded from the surplus.

A new plan for the cash is on the way for the new year, however.

CAO David Trawin said staff will bring a proposal to council for a more expansive transportation study for the city core, which will look at transit, decreasing reliance on single-passenger vehicles and other issues as well as parking issues.

Meanwhile, the city hoping a new iPad-style screen not yet available in North America could reduce complaints about its downtown parking kiosks.

Community safety and corporate services director David Duckworth said the city has asked contractor Precise ParkLink to let it pilot the touch screens, which will replace the existing keyboard setup, as soon as they are available.

The screens are already being used in Europe.

The city is also planning to internally pilot Woosh!, a new app to pay for parking via phone.

Duckworth said if the app, also being tested in Ottawa, is successful it could roll out to the public by mid-year.

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Events downtown • The Rocky Mountain Rangers and the Kamloops Legion are bringing back the New Year’s Levee and will host one at the Legion Hall, 425 Lansdowne St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 1.

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Pooler is stepping down and returning to the private sector as of February. The KCBIA is searching for her successor.

Pooler plans to work as a consultant and will stay involved in community-building work.

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