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FEBRUARY 14, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 13
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Unveiling of wildfire monument delayed ANDREA KLASSEN
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A monument celebrating volunteer efforts during last summer’s wildfires won’t be ready by April. Instead, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District hopes to unveil a design for the $100,000 art installation planned for Sandman Centre. Allysa Gredling, executive assistant at the regional district, said the TNRD’s initial plan to have a completed monument in time for National Volunteer Week in April proved too condensed. “Just in order to give it a fairer process and give everyone a chance to get their submissions in, give our jury a chance to review them properly, the time was not realistic,” she said. The artist submission process for the monument closed at the beginning of February. About 15 artists from around the province sent in concepts.
Gredling said artists were asked to focus on volunteering in their works, but otherwise had few restrictions placed on their submissions. “We left it very openended for people to interpret that as they may and give us back what their visual representation of volunteerism looks like,” she said. Staff is now removing identifying information from artists’ proposals so they can be judged blind by a panel of seven jurors, including Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian and TNRD board chair John Ranta. “They’ll be rating it for different items related to technical aspects, how well it fits with what the request was, whether or not we think it will be a good fit in the space, that kind of thing,” she said. Five members of the region’s arts community will also sit on the panel. Members could be working artists or be involved in arts institutions.
The panel is similar to those used by the City of Kamloops to choose new public art — a five-member arts panel signed off on the nearby Rivers sculpture in the roundabout between the Sandman Hotel and Sandman Centre. Jurors will meet several times before selecting their top three submissions, Gredling said. Those artists will then be asked to produce a maquette — a miniature, three-dimensional version of their work — before a final decision is made. The TNRD hopes to unveil the winning maquette in April. Board members approved the monument last fall in recognition of residents who are estimated to have volunteered more than 75,000 hours during the 2017 wildfires, which saw residents from Cache Creek, 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Williams Lake and other communities evacuated to Kamloops, where they were often housed at Sandman Centre.
GAMES FEVER
To celebrate the start of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games and next week’s arrival in Kamloops of the 2018 BC Winter Games, students at Bert Edwards Science and Technology School took park in Olympic-themed activities. The fun included (above) students winding their way from class to class, picking up yet more peers and torches before assembling in the gymnasium. There was also the torch relay, with by Grade 6 student Ewan Uppenborn (left) leading classmates Brandon Ford and Jonas Ens. Students and teaching staff dressed in school colours and Olympic garb, watched Olympic video clips and sang a rousing rendition of O Canada. Speaking of the Olympics, Kamloops’ own Josie Morrison was skating on the weekend in Pyeongchang. She spoke to KTW from South Korea. Turn to page A23 for the full story. DAVE EAGLES PHOTOS/KTW
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