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STUNG BY SQUATTER IN TRAILER Owner of mobile home that was firebombed is living a ‘nightmare’

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Kamloops Mounties collect evidence following an attack Wednesday on a trailer in the L&E Mobile Park on Ord Road. Somebody shot at and firebombed the home. There was nobody home and no injuries reported.

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The owner of a mobile home that was the scene this week of a shooting and firebombing said her life has been “an absolute, complete, total nightmare” since a drug-dealing squatter took up residence in her rental in December.

Bernie Field has owned a trailer at L&E Mobile Park on Ord Road in Brocklehurst for the past eight years. She said she bought it as an investment, hoping to earn rental income each month.

Field told KTW she was preparing to list the unit for sale late last year when a friend said her son needed somewhere to stay for a few weeks.

“He needed a place to crash for two weeks while waiting for a job, and that was Dec. 15,” Field said.

In January, she said, the man offered to pay her a month’s rent, but it never materialized.

“I went there on Feb. 1 to evict him and he threatened me with bodily harm if I ever came back,” she said.

“There is nothing I can do to collect rent.”

Field said she has hired a lawyer and is going through the Residential Tenancy Branch, but noted the process is lengthy.

She has two hearings scheduled, with the sec-

DAVE EAGLES PHOTOS/KTW Glenda Escott points to damage inflicted in a trailer in the L&E Mobile Park as a result of a firebombing earlier this year. The same trailer was targeted by gunshots and another firebombing this week.

ond slated to take place in June.

“In the meantime, I have to continue to pay his bills — insurance, pad rent, garbage collection — for whoever is in there,” she said, adding she is being evicted from her residence as a result.

“I cannot afford to do this for two places. It’s written into the act that the tenant is able to enjoy my property whether I like it or not.”

Emergency crews were called to Field’s rental early Wednesday morning after neighbours reported hearing a series of loud noises.

“It shook my house,” Glenda Escott told KTW.

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Police arrived and found a small fire and several shell casings. Witnesses told investigators they saw a car fleeing the area.

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FIRE HYDRANT FLOW TESTING Do you have a fire hydrant on your property? If you do, please leave at least 1 m of clear space around its circumference.

Between March 15 and May 30, Kamloops Fire Rescue will be inspecting the City’s fire hydrants and conducting tests to ensure adequate flow and operation. The program will run from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm, seven days a week. Please note that all private hydrant owners must also have their hydrants tested at this time.

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

Please assist us by keeping shrubs and trees pruned back from fire hydrants. Fire Prevention Bylaw No. 10-37 requires a minimum of 1 m clearance around a hydrant in all directions for the safety of emergency and maintenance personnel. Please ensure any trees, shrubs, or landscaping are kept out of this working area.

For more information, call 250-828-3461 or visit kamloops.ca/hydrants.

April 10, 2018 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West April 11, 2018 4:45 pm - Heritage Commission CANCELLED DES Boardroom, 105 Seymour Street April 12, 2018 8:00 am - Parks and Recreation Committee TCC Meeting Room A, 910 McGill Road April 16, 2018 4:45 pm - Arts Commission Corporate Boardroom, 7 Victoria Street West April 17, 2018 9:00 am - Council Budget Meeting 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

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The City of Kamloops Cemetery 2014 Bylaw states all artificial flowers and other tokens of remembrance composed of artificial foliage can only remain on gravesites from October 1 through to April 9. We are asking family members to remove all items before Monday, April 9. Any items not collected before this date will be placed at the Hillside Cemetery flower storage area and available for pickup no later than April 23.

The City is inviting residents to participate in a round-table discussion to provide input on an Affordable Housing Strategy that will guide housing-related investments and activities over the next 5+ years across the full housing continuum.

The City is hosting discussions throughout the city, and residents are encouraged to attend the meeting specific to their neighbourhood. Children and youth are welcome to participate in discussions or illustrate their ideas at the drawing table.

For any questions, please call 828-3462. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Starting Thursday, April 12, and every Thursday through to October 8, flowers placed on gravesites will be removed and placed at the flower storage area for our scheduled turf maintenance. We recommend that grave embellishments be limited to fresh cut flowers during the turf maintenance season. We also recommend that anyone who wishes to place flowers on graves do so after 4:00 pm on Friday of each week.

The annual turf maintenance contract for flower stands is exempt from this rule.

Upcoming Meetings Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 6:30-8:00 pm Valley First Lounge, Sandman Centre, 300 Lorne Street For residents of Downtown, West End, Lower Sahali, Sagebrush, Heffley Creek, and Rayleigh

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Distracted driving is considered to be any activity that impacts a driver’s ability to focus on the road and is one of the top contributing factors in police-reported injury crashes in BC.

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You’re five times more likely to crash if you’re using your hand-held phone, and distracted driving now causes more fatalities on BC roads than impaired driving.

Bridge washing will take place on the following dates:

When you’re behind the wheel, take a break from your phone.

April 7-8, 2018 - Overlanders Bridge (northbound and southbound), Tranquille Overpass April 14-15, 2018 - Overlanders Bridge (if needed) April 21-22, 2018 - 8th Street/Halston Overpass

The best way to stay safe is to not use your phone at all. If you must take a call, use a hands-free device and keep the conversation short. While operating a motor vehicle, you should avoid any distractions and be focused on the road and your driving.

Work will begin at approximately 5:00 am each day and finish before 9:00 am on Overlanders Bridge.

Please expect delays and use caution when driving near crews.

Hands-free devices must be activated or deactivated with a single touch and in a fixed location.

Using hand-held personal electronic devices while driving has been banned in BC since 2010.

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INJURED WITH NO DOCTOR? The challenging reality of life in the Interior means many of us no longer have family physicians. If you are then injured in an accident, it can be confusing to know how to proceed without one specific doctor to guide your care.

MIKE KEETCH PHOTOS Conservation officers had to put down this young cougar after it wandered into downtown Kamloops on Wednesday.

“We don’t make these decisions lightly,” said conservation officer Kevin Van Damme.

Cougar cub euthanized

Should you find yourself injured without a family doctor, it is very important to make every effort to return to the same walk-in clinic. This will ensure that your medical files are in one place, and even if you see a different doctor each time, that doctor can refer to your chart to make informed decisions about your care.

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A young cougar that wandered into downtown Kamloops on Wednesday had to be killed by conservation officers because the cat was too young to be returned to the wild and too old to be housed at a sanctuary such as the BC Wildlife Park.

The docile feline could be seen perched on a ledge just outside the Ashley Court seniors condominium’s entrance in the 300-block of Nicola Street, drawing the attention of a few onlookers.

Ultimately, the animal had to be tranquilized by conservation officers.

While the hope was the cat could be relocated, it had to be put down, said conservation officer Kevin Van Damme, noting the cat was only a cub and appeared to have been orphaned.

“The age assessment came back at four or five months,” Van Damme said.

“Unfortunately, those animals don’t have any means of making it on their own. They need their mother to guide them though life and to make sure they can be successful and catch their food.”

At that age, and with no mother, the cougar would have surely starved to death, Van Damme said.

“We don’t make these decisions lightly,” Van Damme said, adding it was a last resort option, but the humane thing to do.

While the cougar wasn’t a candidate for relocation in the wild due to its youth, Van Damme said it was also too old to be sent to a wildlife park.

“The parameters around receiving a kitten for care in a zoo setting — where it’s going to be held in captivity for its life — those animals need to be one to two months of age,” Van Damme said.

“Unfortunately, this cougar was much older than that and its ability to adjust in a caged environment is a challenge.

“We don’t have any other facilities in British Columbia that you could put a large predator like this in. Unfortunately, we just didn’t have any options.”

BC Wildlife Park wasn’t contacted by the conservation officers in this instance, though the two groups do work closely.

Conservation officers dropped off a cougar kitten to the wildlife park just last year, Van Damme said.

Glenn Grant, executive director of the park, said the Kamloops facility wouldn’t have been able to accommodate the cougar permanently.

He said there are many factors that go into a decision to house an animal, including its health and the park’s ability to find a place to relocate it.

“The COs make that determination prior to calling us,” he said.

Mike Keetch lives in Ashley Court and had a window seat to the excitement of seeing a cougar stroll into the neighbourhood at about 9 a.m.

“It was a young one. It was very calm,” Keetch told KTW. “There was police all over the place with rifles and everything, and then conservation officers came.”

Keetch aid the cougar was quite small.

“I’ve seen cougars before. I

grew up on Vancouver Island and, there, full-grown cougars are way bigger than that one.”

Keetch estimated the cougar was about 60 pounds and, without taking his tail into consideration, about four feet long.

Police had the street blocked off and a perimeter set up, monitoring the cougar as they waited for the conservation officers to arrive, Keetch said.

“It just kind of sat there. At one point, it was cleaning its paws and it was like a house cat — kind of an oversized house cat,” Keetch said with a laugh.

Van Damme said officers waited for the animal to leave the populated area on its own.

When it didn’t, the decision was made to tranquilize it for public safety.

“Cougars in general, often times when they’re faced with a lot of pressure from people, they’ll just find a place to shelter,” said Van Damme.

“We were concerned for the community and concerned for the people in and around in close proximity to the downtown core where this cougar was moving through.”

Officers asked for access to Keetch’s bedroom so they could use his bedroom window, as it was the best vantage point to take the shot.

“They came up, we took the screen out of the window, they darted it and packed him up and took him away,” Keetch said. “He went down in a couple of minutes. It didn’t take long.”

The shot was so close, the conservation officers’ range finder didn’t even work, Keetch said.

“The range finder doesn’t go down that low, so their shot was 15, 20 feet, that’s it,” he said.

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An Alberta-based cannabis producer plans to begin operating in B.C. once its facility in Kamloops is licensed and operational.

Sundial Growers is a Health Canada-approved licensed producer of medicinal cannabis that has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Alliance of Beverage Licensees (ABLE BC) to market and sell its cannabis products to its members when recreational marijuana is legalized.

The alliance is an advocacy organization representing British Columbia’s private liquor industry.

The Kamloops facility will process and ship up to 20-million grams of cannabis products per year and, once fully operational, will provide between 50 and 100 jobs, Sundial executive chairman Ted Hellard told KTW. Dr. Richard Brownlee — who had a warehouse at 8170 Dallas Dr., in the Gateway Industrial Park rezoned for a medical marijuana grow-op in 2015 — confirmed he sold the property to Sundial last year.

Hellard said Sundial is in the middle of trying to obtain cultivation and processing licenses from Health Canada for the Kamloops facility, which will both grow and process marijuana.

“It’s just a fairly drawn out process. There’s a lot of construction we have to do to be able to get to the point where Health Canada can issue those licences,” Hellard said.

The company is now focused on completing another facility it has in Olds, Alta., but plans to revisit construction at its Kamloops location within the next four months.

The operation will involve two phases — the first will be a 10,000-square-foot extraction and processing facility followed by a marijuana-growing operation that will be up and running shortly after phase one.

“The Kamloops facility will be about 60,000 square feet of grow, which will be under modular

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purpose-built construction,” Hellard said.

He said Kamloops is a good choice for the operation because of its central location for distribution.

B.C. will have a governmentrun wholesale distribution model for recreational marijuana operated by its Liquor Distribution Branch.

Victoria has said recreational marijuana, once legalized by the federal government later this year, will not be sold in liquor stores, but in separate government and private stores that will sell nothing but pot.

The agreement between ABLE BC and Sundial was signed before this was known, said Jeff Guignard, executive director of ABLE BC. Despite this, Guignard still envisions being able to encourage its members to purchase Sundial items though the LDB. “This agreement was kind of an initial handshake we wanted to work together and we’ve taken no additional steps on it since then until we figure out how our members can participate,” Guignard said.

In the liquor industry, suppliers do have some ability to allocate product and ABLE BC was expecting something similar with cannabis, but Guignard said that is not clear at this point.

“I’m sure our members would work well with them and British Columbians wouId enjoy their products and I appreciate they’re building a production facility in Kamloops and investing in the B.C. economy,” he said.

“We’re just not really sure how that partnership’s going to evolve over the next several months because so much of the regulations are changing or they’re not clear at the moment.”

One area not clear is what each municipality and a building’s landlord will and won’t allow, he added.

But there is great interest from private liquor store owners in setting up separate marijuana retail shops in B.C. and ABLE BC’s agreement with Sundial is one of about a half-dozen the advocacy group has signed with other producers.

“In British Columbia, there’s 670 private liquor stores and I would say a large majority of them are interested in this business,” Guignard said.

If Sundial gets all its licenses from Health Canada to become a licensed producer of recreational marijuana, it’s unlikely ABLE BC members wouldn’t be able to buy from the company.

“That would be very strange to do that. That would be like them saying we don’t think a private retailer should be able to buy from Labatt.

“If they tried to do that, both we and Labatt would sue them,” Guignard said.

Hellard said discussions with the provincial government on becoming a distributor in B.C. are ongoing.

Hellard believes the Kamloops facility should be fully operational by the spring of 2018 after getting the necessary approvals from the City of Kamloops, along with all of its Health Canada licences.

When operational, the extraction facility in Kamloops will produce marijuana oils.

The extraction component will be able to process 20-million grams of marijuana flower, but the grow-op will only supply about half of that raw product.

“The other 50 per cent will come from our raw product sourcing from our micro-grow program, which will be throughout B.C.,” Hellard said.

Sundial’s product will be subject to the terms and policies of the provincial regulatory authority within the jurisdiction of the supply agreement, a Sundial press release stated.

Sundial and ABLE BC will also work together on product trials, marketing and branding strategies, technology services and consumer education.

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Kamloops’ top Mountie will soon arrive from Terrace KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Ottawa has endorsed the City of Kamloops and RCMP’s pick to replace Supt. Brad Mueller as the top cop at the local detachment.

Insp. Syd Lecky has been selected as the new officer in charge after an interview process led by Mayor Ken Christian, CAO David Trawin and the RCMP. Their recommendation was approved by the commissioner of the RCMP. Although a selection has been made, no formal start date has been established.

Mueller has accepted a promotion within the national police force and a position in Edmonton, where he will be deputy criminal operations officer.

“I am excited to work with City of Kamloops, residents, businesses and those agencies working with marginalized persons to enhance and champion initiatives that will keep our community safe,” Lecky said in a press release.

“As a proud member of the Passamaquoddy Nation (in New Brunswick and Maine), I also look forward to working with the Shuswap Nation served by the Kamloops detachment, including Skeetchestn, Tk’emlúps and the Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band.”

Lecky said the posting gives him a chance to be closer to his two oldest children, who attend a nearby university.

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he will be formally promoted to the rank of superintendent.

“We’re excited to welcome Insp. Lecky to our community,” Mayor Ken Christian said in a press release.

“We’ve been fortunate to have amazing dedication and leadership at the Kamloops RCMP and I’m confident Inspector Lecky will continue that tradition.”

Lecky has spent the past four-and-a-half years in Terrace, the last two in charge of the detachment.

“Insp. Lecky has consistently demonstrated the ability to connect with the communities he has served, while also empowering and supporting the employees he works with,” said chief superintendent and Southeast District commander Brad Haugli.

“He brings with him a collaborative and engaging leadership style that will continue to build on the Kamloops RCMP’s

successes, while also addressing any community safety or policing issues.”

Lecky joined the RCMP in June o1996 and was initially posted to Kelowna for eight years.

In 2004, then-constable Lecky was transferred to the Nootka Sound detachment in Gold River, a small community on Vancouver Island, followed by three years with the Terrace RCMP. In 2008, the now-corporal Lecky was promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to Prince George, where he was an advisory non-commissioned officer in charge of the Aboriginal policing program throughout Northern B.C. In this role, Lecky travelled throughout the northern twothirds of the province, working with detachments and First Nations communities.

Following three years as the Mackenzie RCMP’s detachment commander, he returned to Terrace in 2013 and was later promoted to the rank of inspector in March of 2016.

“Insp. Lecky is an excellent choice for the next officer in charge of the Kamloops RCMP,” said outgoing Kamloops detachment commander Supt.

Brad Mueller.

“I am confident that he will be dedicated to the job and continue to advance the quality service delivery and public safety mandate of the detachment in the City of Kamloops.”

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THE WAR ON TRUTH RAGES ONWARD

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nknowingly, the human race has slipped into the Third World War. This time, the battlefields aren’t in Europe or the Middle East. They’re right in front of you: your desktop computer, your laptop or tablet. The battle is even being waged on your

smartphone.

It turns out the Russians aren’t the only ones meddling in elections.

Cambridge Analytica, the company embroiled in a data scandal with Facebook, has been exposed in a British news documentary as being a meddler-for-hire in elections around the world.

An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News shows the firm’s chief executive, Alexander Nix, claiming the firm secretly influenced more than 200 elections in countries around the world.

Methods range from entrapping politicians in compromising situations with bribes or sex workers to the simple method of spreading misinformation.

“I mean, it sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true, as long as they’re believed,” Nix told the undercover reporter in a hidden camera interview.

Cambridge Analytica — which was also employed by Donald Trump’s campaign — denies the reports, but true or not, it’s an insight into how easy it is to sway and mould opinions. And we can be sure that other groups are manipulating opinion behind the scenes.

The tools of this war aren’t guns and bombs, but websites and whispers.

Remember when Pope Francis endorsed Trump’s campaign for U.S. president? Never happened, but the fake website that posted the false story got plenty of hits, making lots of money for the man who created the site and no doubt influencing the election.

There is no easy way to fight back against purposefully spread misinformation, no soldiers to man the barricades, no laws to send perpetrators to jail. The only defence is in your head. Don’t believe something just because it sounds true, or you want to believe it — think critically.

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Tackling Ticketmaster

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ertz, Dollar Thrifty, Avis and Budget rental-car companies have paid millions of dollars in penalties to the federal Competition Bureau in the past two years for essentially scamming consumers by engaging in what is known as drip pricing.

Next on the Competition Bureau’s hit list is the Dr. Evil of drip pricing — Ticketmaster.

The bureau calls it “drip pricing.” The rest of us know it as getting “ripped off.”

It is the practise of advertising ticket prices for an event, perhaps a hockey game or a concert, then deceiving the consumer by adding additional fees once the buyer has reached the final step in a lengthy online purchase.

We have all been victimized.

Just think back to the last time you used Ticketmaster to buy tickets to an event and recall how your blood boiled as you reached the payment page.

I bought two tickets to a concert this summer in Vancouver.

The band is fantastic, the venue is legendary and the ticket prices were impressively affordable — $39.50 each — when I viewed them online.

After filling out the requisite identification and payment fields, I clicked the button to go to the checkout, which is when my total ticket purchase of $79 magically and instantaneously became $105.

I did not major in math, but a quick calculation tells me Ticketmaster charged me a loan shark-like 33 per cent for the right to buy tickets to the concert.

I’ve had bookies threaten to

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MUSINGS kneecap me at lower interest rates.

However, as the Competition Bureau proclaimed in July 2017, Ticketmaster and all other ticket sellers should display the real price of tickets upfront, including all service, order processing and facility fees, which greatly inflate the original ticket price, sometimes to amounts that consumers cannot afford.

As the bureau noted, Ticketmaster’s mandatory fees often inflate the advertised price by more than 20 per cent (as I experienced) and, in some cases, by more than 65 per cent.

From last July to now, it appears Ticketmaster has not heeded the bureau’s call, which is why the bureau has now taken action against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation.

“The bureau’s investigation found Ticketmaster’s advertised prices are deceptive because consumers must pay additional fees that are added later in the purchasing process,” the bureau stated.

The bureau has filed an application with the Competition

Tribunal, seeking an end to deceptive marketing practices and an administrative monetary penalty.

In April 2017, Hertz Canada and Dollar Thrifty agreed to pay a combined penalty of $1.25 million and to stop engaging in drip pricing in advertising. In June 2016, Avis and Budget agreed to pay a combined $3-million penalty and clean up its advertising practices.

How Ticketmaster justifies such exorbitant fees remains a mystery, but in a capitalistic society, where profit is the goal, the company is a success story — and, like every other consumer, I had the choice to decline the purchase and log off.

But the larger problem is the monopoly Ticketmaster has on many venues. In exchange for a cut of the profits on ticket sales, venues agree to give Ticketmaster exclusive rights to sell tickets to events in those venues — which gives consumers no choice but to agree to be ripped off or forego attending the event.

This is why I will always have admiration for Pearl Jam, the band that challenged Ticketmaster’s despicable methods back in the mid-1990s.

Pearl Jam eventually failed in its antitrust complaint against the ticketing giant, but its fight brought the issue to the public.

Using Ticketmaster for events 350 kilometres away in Vancouver may be unavoidable, but whenever possible, my money will be spent at independent box offices and non-Ticketmaster agencies. cjfoulds@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LACKING COSTS ARE THE KILLER OF BUSINESS ON LE JEUNE Editor: Forget about potholes as they are a fact of life in the spring.

What about the city portion of Lac Le Jeune Road? Its condition has been utterly deplorable for the past several years.

Every year, this portion of city roads receives no attention.

I am not referring to Band-Aid pothole repairs as the road requires a complete facelift.

Once you are past the Inks Lake overpass, the road is obviously looked after by provincial resources and has always been in good condition.

Being a frequent user of this road, I hate to think what Lac Le Jeune residents who commute every day would have to say about the road.

G. Buttuls Kamloops

Editor: ICBC has been in the news a lot lately.

Well, I have another government agency I would like to discuss — WorkSafeBC. When I was in business for more than 18 years, in Kamloops, Golden, Nelson and Chase, I paid more than $1,000 per year, per business for “insurance”.

Fortunately, I never made a claim.

I did have cause to investigate a possible claim when I was the victim of an armed robbery at one of my retail locations in December 2007.

Luckily, I did not have to go through the hoops as I was covered for counselling by another policy.

Recently, I stumbled upon a website called Glass Door, which lists the salaries and pay scales for many WorkSafeBC positions.

Wow, sign me up.

An entry-level field Inspector, including all the benefits, rounds out about $100,000 a year.

I have often wondered how it would look if the private sector provided this kind of pay and benefits.

I wonder what the premiums

are now. In business, overhead is the killer, at least it was for me as a entrepreneur. I am not sure how it works for corporations.

I am all in favour of safety and continuous improvement, but not at any cost.

Hidden costs can really add up.

Much like crime, the cost to all of us is astronomical, but we just don’t seem to be able to get a handle on it — or we don’t care enough to change it.

No judgment here — observation only.

Brian Husband Kamloops

NOTE TO POT PURVEYORS: BE PROFESSIONAL Editor: I attended the recent city meeting on the fate of marijuana dispensaries in Kamloops.

If I were moving from a position of illegal to legal, I would be thinking about how to set myself apart from the competition when applying for a permit to operate.

I would begin by presenting myself in a respectable manner.

I would dress in business attire. I would adopt an attitude of collaboration and co-operation with the city.

I would develop

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Turn to page A10 patience and acceptance of the bureaucratic process.

I would choose an assertive rather than an aggressive posture.

I would leave my emotions out of the boardroom.

I would be working on my business plan in order to secure adequate financing.

Cannabis dispensaries are coming and I would argue that the

success of the legal ones will depend on the same model that make all businesses successful.

It is my opinion our city has the opportunity to make the face of cannabis dispensaries that of a respectable business.

What can I do now to restructure my antiquated model — the illegal home-based-hidingin-the-dark-grow-op — into one of a modern, respected and successful

business?

I would not be waiting for Ottawa, Victoria or the city to make the next move.

I would be proactive, maintaining a positive outlook and excited about becoming one of the leaders in this new industry.

This will take work and effort.

I can only imagine the changes I would have to make in my thinking and my acting if I were transitioning from an illegal to a legal system.

Marguerite Dodds Kamloops

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“Good ideas, but Tranquille and Ord need to be four-laned first. The multi-use path would (and should) need to be relocated to the dike.”

— posted by 1LoneWolfess “Great to hear of some actual projects out of Fulton Field. That airport has been stagnant for so long and has so much potential.

“I would love to see a master plan developed for the next 20 years or so.

“With a new hotel, there could be a cool business opportunity to capitalize on golfers by staying at that hotel, playing Kamloops Golf & Country and transporting by boat to Tobiano, The Dunes, Rivershore, Sun Rivers and Talking Rock.”

— posted by Will

RE: LETTER: WE CAN TRUST TEENS WITH THE VOTE:

“There’s a reason they have learner’s licences when driving.

“There’s a reason their car insurance is high.

“They’re just not ready.”

— posted by Poleman

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BILLBOARDS BLOCK OUT THE BEAUTY Editor: First impressions are lasting and influential, not only in personal interactions, but also when we first encounter a new place, Think of times you have been impressed by a beautiful entrance to a valley or an oceanside that is picturesque and memorable.

It seems there is something happening in our community that is perhaps ruining, or at least detracting, from the first impression that is made when entering Kamloops from Highway 5 North.

Initially, it is a beautiful grasslands scene and the hills around Kamloops offer a peaceful aspect. But as one approaches the city, there is an amazing number of billboards that take much away from the natural beauty.

Not only have the numbers of these advertising billboards increased, but we

are now faced with what looks like giant TV screens with rotating messages and lighting systems.

Drivers can now be distracted both day and night and encouraged to buy a certain type of burger or engage the services of various businesses.

Added to that is a recent addition, which appears to be about three storeys high, promoting a music festival.

Kamloops is not alone in this; the natural beauty into Vernon and Kelowna is also impacted by billboards.

I realize the train has indeed left the station on this issue. I also know that as long as the billboards are available, there will be interest in “promoting your brand,” as one empty board suggests.

I prefer to consciously not examine these forms of advertising and have other ways to find businesses and services should I need them. Perhaps there are

people who enjoy looking at billboards and are not terribly interested in the natural landscape and I will need to accept their position on this.

Is there a tipping point in advertising?

Will the tiny logos that have started to appear on NBA uniforms eventually turn into the overdone uniforms we see in European leagues, with the team name barely noticeable?

Will the unsolicited advertisements that seem to pop up on Facebook eventually become unbearable?

That is difficult to say.

I can only hope the spread of this type of advertising is seriously considered in the future and not further overdone, as it is not (in my humble opinion) the best first impression of our beautiful community and surrounding area.

Patrick C. McDonald Kamloops

LET EXPERTS DECIDE ON MINING Editor: Re: (‘Kamloops council wants community approval to be part of mining application process,’ Feb. 28): On Feb. 27, city council met to discuss a proposal to install a buffer where no mining could take place or where the city could retain veto power over proposed mining projects.

This attitude reflects a general sense that mining is awful and is to be avoided anywhere near a city, even outside of the city’s boundary.

To all who work directly for, or otherwise benefit from, mining, such as those at New Afton just 10 kilometres west of Kamloops, this is a slap in the face.

The ignorance of some council members is revealed in their attempts to compare mining to marijuana grow-op approvals (as stated by Coun.

Dieter Dudy) or liquor store licensing (as stated by Coun.

Donovan Cavers).

The idea that approval of

a mine should be similar to approval of a liquor store or a grow-up is astoundingly lacking in perspective.

The primary principal that needs to be understood is that mines occur naturally and cannot be moved to fit some sort of obtuse city planning.

Dudy summed up well what anti-mining people continue to say.

His words were, “I like and respect mining; I just don’t like the environmental aspect.”

That is similar to stating I like to eat beef, but I don’t think we should be killing cattle.

You cannot have one without the other.

Dudy also went on to state we “dodged a bullet with Ajax.”

Did we? Those who support and advocate for the industry would say Ajax caught the bullet and that we have lost the positive benefits of what that mine could have offered.

In the end, who is to decide

where and when mines are permitted?

As Coun. Arjun Singh stated, the city does not have the resources to assess a mining project.

Therefore, any decision for or against a particular proposal would be based upon personal beliefs and anecdotal information, as opposed to scientific evidence.

Maybe for some it is easier to deny a major project due to personal anti-mining sentiment, as opposed to supporting the more arduous task of scientific review.

But is that the best way?

Leave the process to the provincial and federal governments.

After all, we do elect them to look after us outside of city limits.

Let’s leave it that way and direct our city council to spend more time looking after what occurs within city limits.

Perry Grunenberg, P.Geo. Kamloops

TRANS MOUNTAIN PROJECT MUST BE COMPLETED Editor: It past time for Kinder Morgan’s expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to be built.

Communities and First Nations will receive money from Kinder Morgan.

The frost will soon be coming out of the ground and Canada needs this pipeline.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is trying her best

to get the project done and we can help with the effort.

Write to your member of Parliament and demand they do what they can to push this project through.

Frank Lang Kamloops

NO TAX CASH FOR RAINBOW Editor: Re: (‘Rainbow to grace exit at Kamloops Airport,’ March 21): As a taxpayer, I strongly object to the use of tax money for some group, regardless who they are.

The crosswalk is also on public property, which cannot be used on the whim of any government official, including Mayor Ken Christian.

Ed Skretka Kamloops

LET’S STOP CHANGIING TIME Editor: My husband and I would like to add our names to the movement to abolish the twice-yearly time change.

More daylight is far healthier for my husband, who suffers from seasonal affective disorder syndrome.

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A Kamloops lawyer says marijuana dispensaries recently received letters from the city “strongly recommending they cease operation by the end of the month.”

“They’re saying you need a business licence,” Shawn Buckley told KTW. The city’s development, engineering and sustainability services director, Marvin Kwiatkowski, confirmed letters were given to local dispensaries but said most were informational.

He could provide no further detail — noting it will be dealt with in-camera for legal reasons — but said the message is clear.

“The key we want to get out there is because you’re operating now does not guarantee you’ll be operating in the future,” Kwiatkowski said.

As long as recreational marijuana remains illegal, the city has refused to issue licences to the stores.

Last summer, the city’s property-use inspector told KTW the city was awaiting legal advice as to whether it should look at taking on the dispensaries for operating

KTW FILE PHOTO The Canna Clinic is one of many marijuana dispensaries in Kamloops.

without a business license.

Kamloops council voted in December to approve bylaw changes that would allow the city to apply pressure to dispensaries, including increasing fines for operating without a business license to a maximum of $10,000 per day.

At the time, councillors said there were no plans to shutter most stores, but declined official blessings at the recommendation of staff.

Last month, council decided against extending temporary-use permits.

Buckley said some dispensaries were “alarmed” by city letters.

“Our Supreme Court says

people have a constitutional right to have access, but the federal government hasn’t brought in regulations to allow it,” he said.

Multiple operators told KTW they want to work with the city, but feel it is using a blanket approach.

“Mostly if it does come down to it, a lot of them will be co-operative with the city,” an operator told KTW. “How do you remove one shop that’s a problem that’s generating 99 per cent of the problem?

“They have a pile of money to litigate against the city ...

It’s not the best use of our tax dollars to litigate against it.”

Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian said there is confusion among some about medical and recreational retail marijuana and called existing operations in Kamloops “illegal.”

“There are people very passionate and very connected to their supplier for medical marijuana,” Christian said.

“That’s a federal issue and it’s illegal the way it’s being done in Kamloops.”

He said dispensaries won’t automatically convert to recreational marijuana retail shops when the laws change.

While the city works to prevent grandfathering in of existing shops, it has yet to roll out what it intends for the retail landscape in Kamloops.

The matter is due to land in council chambers on April 17.

City staff are researching recreational marijuana sales in other jurisdictions, such as Washington state.

Christian’s said his main concern is preventing a criminal element.

The federal government is preparing to legalize recreational marijuana at the end of the summer, while the provincial government has been releasing information regarding its regulatory framework.

Ethyl alcohol, methadone led to teen’s death DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

The B.C. Coroners Office is recommending the province’s Representative for Children and Youth look into services provided to Angel Middleton, who died in a North Shore home last year.

Coroner Adele Lambert called the 18-year-old’s death accidental, a result of ethyl alcohol and methadone toxicity.

Middleton, a student at Twin Rivers Education Centre, was born female but self-identified as male. At the time of his death, friends said he had experienced many hurdles in life, something Lambert acknowledged in her report.

Lambert said Middleton, who had been in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development for

years, had mental-health concerns and high-risk behaviour that included drug and alcohol use Although he had a history of selfharming behaviour, he was not considered depressed or at risk of killing himself at the time of his death.

Lambert reported he had a quick sense of humour a good relationship with peers and adults. Middleton also competed an inpatient treatment program for substance use in 2015, had a relapse afterward and survived an unintentional overdose.

In 2016, two adults close to him died and he experienced a relationship breakup, which led to increased drinking.

Lambert said the teen was referred to a mental-health program for an assessment in October 2016 and several recommen-

dations were made to manage the many issues.

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His friends thought he was sleeping and said he appeared to be breathing normally until about 4 a.m. on Jan. 7.

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The Tranquille River rumbles back to life as the snow and ice melt with the arrival of spring. The area west of Kamloops Airport is a popular hiking spot as residents don’t have far to embrace nature and get away from it all for a while.

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DAVE EAGLES/KTW The windows of this trailer in the L&E Mobile Park on Ord Road were destroyed in an attack early Wednesday morning.

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Wednesday’s attack on the home follows a similar fire-bombing earlier this year, Escott said, evidence of which is still visible in scorched paneling on the front of the trailer.

Escott said the escalating incidents are worrisome.

“As soon as he came in, it turned into a drug house,” she said.

“Young people, crazy guys, street chicks coming in at all hours of the morning, there’s cameras going up.

Bad activity coming and going. Not loud parties, but lots of bad activity.”

The activity is especially concerning for Field, who said she has been told by her insurance company that drug dealing would void her coverage in the event of a fire that spread and caused significant damage.

“I am being abused to the nth degree,” she said.

“I have to pay the pad rent to keep him there. I have to pay the garbage removal, insurance. And my insurance has told me if something happens, it won’t be covered because it’s ‘illegal activity.’

“So, if he torches the place, I’m not covered by insurance. Then I get a phone call saying, ‘Hey, your place has been firebombed — it’s on fire.’

What?”

Kamloops lawyer Alicia Glaicar, who is not representing Field, but

does work on residential tenancy issues, conceded the process can be a frustrating one for landlords.

“It can take longer than the landlord likes, especially if there’s criminal activity happening,” she said.

“I never advise my clients to change the locks or turn off the heat and water because that’s against the Residential Tenancy Act. “So, it can be difficult. And a lot of the time the RCMP doesn’t want to get involved in civil disputes.”

Glaicar said it can take two months for a landlord like Field to get a hearing in front of an arbitrator.

“The Residential Tenancy Act serves a good purpose, but unfortunately, in some situations it can be quite detrimental to the landlord,” she said.

“The remedies are there, but they can take longer than the landlord might like.”

Field said she can do nothing but wait until June, when she hopes to be able to get that remedy and have the squatter booted from her trailer.

“To think that I have to pay because of this mistake,” she said.

“This is my best friend’s son. I was doing this as a favour to her.

This has been an absolute, complete, total nightmare.”

The police investigation into Wednesday’s incident is ongoing.

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Wade Dupont’s yard has a dollhouse, a sandbox, a treehouse and, every four years or so, fence shards flying through the air.

The last time a vehicle crashed into the North Shore resident’s yard was about a year ago.

A silver Chevy Blazer came crashing into the space facing MacKenzie Avenue a half-hour before his kids were supposed to go outside and leave for school.

The five- and eightyear-olds didn’t spend much time playing in the yard this past winter.

“As soon as it snowed, it’s like, ‘Oh, dad, we want to go outside,’” Dupont told KTW. “It’s like, ‘No. You can’t go outside.’

Because that could be the day, right?”

Dupont recalls up to seven accidents on the southeast-bound route near McArthur Island in 20 years living at Woodland Mobile Home park.

“About five of them have gone through my fence,” he said.

The brown wooden

perimeter, which is owned by the trailer park, has been replaced several times.

A portion of fencing is visibly newer than other weathered boards, where the vehicles “all pretty much take out this last 50 feet of fence,” he said.

“They hit the fence, the fence sprays all over the yard,” Dupont said.

“Shards of wood just go flying.”

Dupont noted several factors, but mostly blames speed and the

corner at MacKenzie Avenue and Kenora Road.

A school zone on Kenora Road in front of NorKam secondary ends at Sherwood Drive, where drivers accelerate for about 100 metres before they are required to slow to 30 km/h to round a curve that merges onto MacKenzie Avenue.

Dupont’s home is located a couple trailers in on that curve.

“They can’t slow down and they don’t see

it,” Dupont said.

The area made headlines in recent years and was mired in tragedy eight years ago.

In March 2010, Wayne Fedan, with a blood-alcohol reading twice the legal limit and driving upwards of 100 km/h, slammed into a tree and killed passengers 20-year-old Brittany Plotnikoff and 38-yearold Kenneth Craigdaillie.

At Fedan’s trial, an accident reconstructionist detailed the “critical curve speed” — the speed beyond which a vehicle would start to slide as it rounded the turn — to be 79 kilometres per hour.

The crash occurred in Dupont’s neighbour’s yard, when Dupont’s daughter was two months old. Now that his kids are older, Dupont fears for their safety and wants change.

Dupont believes three things could protect his family and pedestrians: extending the NorKam secondary school zone an additional 100 metres, adding a barricade along MacKenzie Avenue and installing additional signage.

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LOCAL NEWS On March 8, 2017, this silver Chevy Blazer crashed into into Wade Dupont’s yard, which faces MacKenzie Avenue. The vehicle burst through the fence 30 minutes before Dupont’s kids were set to go outside and leave for school.

WADE DUPONT PHOTO

GOOGLE MAPS PHOTO The 30 km/h school zone ends at Sherwood Drive on Kenora Road.

Not all crashes reported to ICBC From A16

“The one thing that I’ve been hammering on is just safety for my children, safety for my children,” Dupont said. “But also, you know, a valid argument is safety for pedestrians that come along here, too.

“Because they’re somebody’s kids too, somebody’s dad.”

According to documents provided to KTW, ICBC collision history shows two crashes in the general vicinity between 2012 and 2016, but ICBC road safety co-ordinator Ingrid Brakop noted neither are southbound-curve related.

Even though the numbers are relied on by the city and ICBC, they don’t tell the whole story.

“This does not mean that there were no southbound off-road right crashes,” Brakop stated in an email. “It just means they weren’t reported to ICBC or recorded in our database.”

Brakop also stated in her email to KTW that “if there were a significant history of crashes, our database would capture those.”

She did not, however, respond to calls and emails for follow-up questions about how the database could capture significant history when some crashes are not reported to ICBC or recorded in the database or why the data did not include 20 years of accidents.

The city’s traffic and transportation engineer, Elnaz Ansari, said the city looked at ICBC collision statistics.

“From what I understand, staff looked at the crashes even for a 10-year-period and there wasn’t an overrepresentaiton around the crashes he’s concerned around,” Ansari said.

She said the city also looked at the road curve and added a dashed yellow guideline in the centre of the lane. Signage was deemed sufficient, including curb warning and speed limit warning signs.

The city looked into the industry standard around guard rails but Ansari said they “weren’t warranted. In fact, they could cause more of a hazard to the drivers of the road.”

That’s not good enough for Dupont.

“They could hit through negligence and be accountable for themselves or they can wreck somebody else’s life and not have any damage to themselves,” he said.

Ansari recommended Dupont contact the mobile home park strata to do something on the private property or report speed issues to RCMP. Dupont said when the crashes occur, ICBC simply covers the cost of the fence repair. He also said enforcement has not let to improvements on the busy stretch.

Asked how many crashes it would take for the city to take notice, Ansari said complaints are addressed by statistics, site conditions and industry standards.

She said the city has done its due diligence.

“There isn’t a magic number of how many crashes has to happen before we do anything,” she said.

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Meet your Neighbours Join your Neighbourhood Association and the City of Kamloops and meet your neighbours, learn about your neighbourhood association, and discuss topics important to your neighbourhood.

Neighbourhood Gathering Schedule Tuesday, April 3, at 6:30 pm Aberdeen Neighbourhood Association West Highlands Community Hall 1185 Links Way

Tuesday, April 24, at 6:30 pm Pineview Valley Community Association Dufferin Elementary 1880 Hillside Drive

Wednesday, April 4, at 6:30 pm Batchelor Heights Community Association Bert Edwards Elementary - Library 711 Windsor Avenue

Wednesday, April 25, at 7:00 pm North Shore Central Commmunity Association Mount Paul Food Centre 140 Laburnum Street

Monday, April 9, at 6:30 pm Sahali Community Association Beattie Elementary - Library 492 McGill Road

Monday, April 30, at 6:30 pm Barnhartvale Community Association Barnhartvale Community Hall 7390 Barnhartvale Road

Wednesday, April 11, at 6:30 pm Heffley Creek Recreation Association Heffley Creek Hall 6995 Old Highway 5

Tuesday, May 1, at 6:30 pm Valleyview Community Association Marion Schilling Elementary 2200 Park Drive

Monday, April 16, at 6:30 pm Juniper Ridge Community Association and Rose Hill Community Association Juniper Ridge Elementary - Library 2540 Qu’Appelle Blvd

Thursday, May 3, at 6:00 pm Brock Community Association Brock Middle School - Library 985 Windbreak Street

Thursday, April 19, at 6:30 pm Sagebrush Neighbourhood Association Bible Truth Church 1099 Fraser Street

Tuesday, May 8, at 6:30 pm Westsyde Community Development Society Westsyde Neighbourhood Centre 3550 Westsyde Road

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Thursday, May 10, at 6:30 pm Friends of McDonald Park Parkview Activity Centre 500 McDonald Avenue

Where’s my neighbourhood gathering?

If you live in any other area of North Kamloops, or in Dufferin, Dallas, Knutsford, Rayleigh, or Upper Sahali, your neighbourhood does not currently have an active association. Want to start one? Attend one of these gatherings to learn more!

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TCC sees drop in full facility passes The number of full facility memberships to the Tournament Capital Centre fell last year.

Data in the annual parks and recreation report reveals monthly and annual passes in 2017 were both down from 2016.

The city facility at Thompson Rivers University had 329 fullfacility annual memberships last year, compared to nearly 900 annually in each of 2016 and 2015.

Monthly full facility passes also dropped to 16,363 memberships,

compared to more than 19,000 in each of the two years prior.

The number of punch cards for the indoor track, as well as pool and track punch cards, remained steady.

In January, the city adjusted its fee structure to allow patrons to purchase a gym-only membership. They are no longer required to pay for pool services they may not use.

Tournament Capital and business operations supervisor Sean Smith told KTW at the time it

was a result of feedback from members and the community.

“With the increase in gyms around, you know, it became apparent to us that we need to be a little more competitive in providing our members what they want,” he said.

The TCC’s costrecovery rate has also decreased, from 80 per cent in 2015 to 71 per cent last year.

Last summer, Planet Fitness opened a lowrate facility at Sahali Mall, just down the road from the TCC.

Parks and rec wants you The City of Kamloops is looking to fill a vacant position on its parks and recreation volunteer advisory committee.

The committee advises council on matters pertaining to parks, sport and recreation.

More information about the role on the committee can be

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Those interested in applying are asked to submit a brief resume and cover letter detailing their background and interest in the committee subject area.

Deadline is 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3.

CALLOUT TO THOSE WHO VOLUNTEERED DURING THE 2017 SUMMER WILDFIRES Were you one of the countless volunteers who contributed in the efforts to support evacuees and their animals during the 2017 wildfires in Thompson-Nicola region?

If you have not already been contacted by the TNRD, or the agency you volunteered with, we want to hear from you.

Please contact Volunteer Kamloops at 250-372-8313 by April 5, 2018.

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Millennia-old wisdom is inspiring millennials.

In the sun-dappled backyard of the Cplul’kw’ten gathering place, a circle forms.

Drums sound. A song rises, and weaves its way from student to elder, staff to faculty, joining those present and honouring the past. The Secwépemc people have lived here for millennia. Now, their wisdom is inspiring new learning opportunities across TRU through an initiative called Coyote Brings Food from the Upper World. It’s one example of our university-wide focus on making Indigenous thinking inherent to the TRU experience.

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LOCAL NEWS WAY OF THE ROAD, BOYS

The problem of “piss jugs,” as they are known, persists in Kamloops.

In 2015, KTW published a story on the problem in west Kamloops, where ditches along Highway 5 are littered with plastic containers containing the urine of truckers.

Rather than find a place to stop and relieve themselves, some truckers empty their bladders into a container while driving, put the cap on the jug and toss it out the window. The melting of the snow has revealed more of the same in east Kamloops, near the truck stop in Dallas. Fans of the TV show Trailer Park Boys will be more than familiar with piss jugs and the argument the practice is simply “the way of the road.”

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Shtuka, 20, who is from Beaumont, Alta., just south of Edmonton, went missing in the Sun Peaks area after leaving a

house party at about 2 a.m. on Feb. 17.

His family and friends, along with others in the Kamloops and Sun Peaks areas, have been searching desperately for him ever since.

One issue they’ve encountered in co-ordinating volunteer searches is providing accommodations to those who have travelled from outside the area to help, according to a Facebook post from one of the search organizers.

Thanks to the Ramada, finding accommodations won’t be an issue this weekend.

“I have two children and I would hope that all of my friends

would gather around and do the same thing and the community would reach out and support them like I have,” Ceron said.

Ceron said he heard about the search from his wife, who was contacted by one of the friends of the family to provide bus service to Sun Peaks.

“There’s one lady that’s paying for everything that she can and I didn’t think that she needed to be paying for this to come and search for a poor lost kid,” Ceron told KTW, noting the friend did not ask for the free rooms.

The donated rooms stand to save the group about $2,700.

“I figured if she’s not asking, I

should just step in and offer and, hopefully, it gets more [searchers] here from there,” Ceron said.

It’s not clear how many people will be attending, but the search party is scheduled to arrive in Kamloops on Friday night and plans to depart for Sun Peaks on Saturday with the hope of finding some sign of Shtuka.

He is white, stands six feet tall, weighs 81 kilograms (180 pounds) and has blond hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is being asked to contact Kamloops Rural RCMP at 250-314-1800 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

RYAN SHTUKA

TRU students set for second business conference can interact with each other,” said Your Edu Connect member Jasleen Haur. A panel discussion and networking social will be part of the four-hour conference. Non-university members of the public are encouraged to attend.

The group’s last conference featured mostly speakers from within the university, but this one will go a notch above, bringing in business experts such as Tai Tran, a digital program director at Apple named to Forbes 30 under 30 list, BCLC vice-president

of finance and CFO Amanda Hobson and entrepreneur Manu Goswami, who was inducted into Canada’s 20 Under 20 for his business pursuits.

About 300 people are expected to attend the second TRU conference on March 28 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at TRU’s Campus Activity Centre.

The conference is free to TRU students, but tickets for members of the public range from $10 to $15.

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In an effort to enhance the educational experience and connect with industry leaders, a student-led group is bringing in a number of high-profile speakers to TRU next Wednesday.

Your Edu Connect, in partnership with Thompson Rivers University, will host its second conference since October.

“This is going to be a conference that’s going to be beneficial to local businesses in Kamloops as well as students, and we’re hoping to create that space where students and professionals

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A little brown bat with visible symptoms of fungal growth typical of white nose syndrome.

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Keep an eye out for dead bats RESEARCHERS WANT TO KNOW IF WHITE NOSE SYNDROME IS IN B.C. KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

The simple act of reporting a dead bat may help save the lives of other B.C. bats.

The B.C. Community Bat Program is asking people to report any dead bats they find in an effort to determine the distribution of white nose syndrome, a fungal disease harmless to humans but responsible for the deaths of millions of insect-eating bats.

The disease has been spreading across North America and reached Washington state in 2016.

White nose syndrome attacks bat colonies as they hiberate. The enclosed spaces can be quite humid and the fungus grows on their fur, face and wings.

The itchy fungus weakens the bats, forcing them to use energy to wake from their hibernation to scrape it off, fatally depleting their stored resources.

So far, the disease hasn’t been reported in B.C., but to monitor its spread, bat

program co-ordinators are collecting reports of unusual winter bat activity across southern B.C. and ensuring dead bats are sent to the Canadian Wildlife Health Centre lab for disease testing.

Information gained from dead bats and reports of live bats can help determine the extent of the disease and determine priorities for conservation efforts.

There are no treatments for white nose syndrome, but lessening other threats to bat populations and preserving and restoring bat habitat may provide bat populations with the resilience to rebound.

Funded by the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, the Province of B.C. and the Habitat Stewardship program, the bat program works with the government and others on public outreach activities, public reports of roosting bats in buildings, and our citizen-science bat monitoring program.

Spring conditions mean increased

bat activity and an increased chance of detecting the disease.

As bats begin to leave hibernation spots and return to their summering grounds, chances of seeing live or dead bats increases and the Community Bat Program is continuing to ask for assistance.

People are asked to report dead bats or any sightings of daytime bat activity to the Community Bat Project as soon as possible by calling 1-855-922-2287 (extension 24) or by emailing info@ bcbats.ca.

Never touch a bat with your bare hands as bats can carry rabies, a deadly disease.

If you or your pet has been in direct contact with a bat, immediately contact your physician and/or local public health authority or consult with your private veterinarian.

More information about bats is available online bcbats.ca.

Annual General Meeting Monday April 23, 2018 @ Brock Arena

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Meeting will begin at 7:20PM For ANY current 2017/2018 member of the Kamloops Skating Club

www.KamloopsSkatingClub.com FREE SKATING 7:15-8:30 PM DURING THE MEETING FOR CLUB MEMBERS, SIBLINGS OF CLUB MEMBERS THAT ARE ABLE TO SKATE UNASSISTED ARE WELCOME, FOR ANY MEMBERS WHOSE PARENT ATTENDS THE MEETING TO VOTE. HELMETS ARE MANDATORY FOR THOSE WHOM HAVE NOT PASSED LEVEL 6 CANSKATE

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Bat Watch is a citizen science program to annually monitor bat populations in roost sites.

Abandoned houses, barns, church steeples — and even occupied structures — can provide a summer home to female bats and their young.

Monitoring these maternity colonies can give biologists a good idea of how bat populations in an area are doing from year to year.

With the occurrence of white nose syndrome in North America, monitoring these colonies is more important than ever.

Ideally, the bat count includes four counts during the summer: two between June 1 and 21 (before pups can fly) and two more between July 21 and Aug. 15 (when pups are flying and leaving the roost with their mothers).

Doing all four bat counts is the best way to compare data from year to year and between sites.

However, if you don’t have time, you can choose your level of participation: • Level 1: Bat reporter — one count over the summer (try between June 1 and June 21); • Level 2: Bat tracker — two counts between June 1 and June 21; • Level 3: Bat enthusiast — two counts between June 1 and June 21 and two counts between July 21 and Aug. 15.

Generally, bat counts are simple.

Arrive at your bat roost at sunset as bats will begin to emerge at dusk. The air temperature should be at least 12 C with low wind speed.

Sit or stand outside so the bats’ exit point is visible from a comfortable distance. More than one person might be needed if bats are leaving from multiple points.

Tally the bats as they fly out for their nightly insect-eating. Bat Watch can provide you with a hand clicker to make counting easy. Record your observations on the data sheet that can be downloaded from online.

Mail us your data sheet at the end of the summer.

Do not enter bat roosts or handle the animals.

Please respect private property. Ask permission if the bat roost is on someone else’s land.

All the information on bat counting can be found online at bcbats.ca.

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Feed it Forward this weekend SEAN BRADY

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Those in need of a hot meal and a little extra help will have a place to visit this Sunday to get what they need.

Feed It Forward is the brainchild of Cheyenne Ferguson, who organized and held the first version of the community support event in November.

Now, with the help of another community organization, Feed It Forward will return to the North Shore, serving hot meals and handing out hampers packed with whatever people might need, including food, toiletries and baby supplies.

Feed It Forward is being held in conjunction with Love Hard, a Kamloops community support and enhancement group that is based on social media.

The group started after the 2017 wildfires ravaged B.C. Interior communities, driving evacuees to Kamloops and other centres.

With so many in need, Love Hard co-founders Amy Giddens and Mark

Moran used social media to help fill the gaps where they saw them.

Moran remembers putting the word out for help unloading a 40-foot-truck full of donations for evacuees.

The truck was due to arrive at 6 a.m. the next day and he didn’t have much time to get find volunteers — but it worked.

“There were about 20 or 30 people that showed up at 6 a.m. and this army had this thing unloaded in about half-an-hour,” he said.

After the fires, the group organized more formally in the fall and is now on its way to becoming a registered society.

Moran described Love Hard as a group aiming to fulfil the “little needs” that need quick, effective solutions.

On Facebook, where the group operates, Love Hard has 610 members.

Feed It Forward, in conjunction with Love Hard, will take place on Sunday, March 25, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Hall, 423 Tranquille Rd.

City keeps focusing on sustainability JESSICA WALLACE

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From saving rib scraps for cattle to promoting electric vehicles at Hot Nite in the City, strides in sustainability were made at various city events last year.

According to the annual parks and recreation report, efforts were made to reduce waste and promote environmental options.

At Ribfest, 2.1 tonnes of food waste — equal to about 20 garbage bins — was diverted from landfills and given to a local farmer, who used the scraps for livestock feed and to create compost.

“Guided by key learning from the 2016 waste audits conducted at TCC, Canada Day, Ribfest and a Blazers game, we are working towards zero waste in partnership with the parks and civic facilities division,” the report states. “Portable zero waste event bins divert recyclable and compostable waste

from the landfill.”

The city’s EcoSmart team lent a hand at Riverside Park, sorting garbage and recycling into the bins and preventing an additional 160 kilograms of food waste, 150 kilograms of mixed recycling and 30 kilograms of liquids from ending up at the dump.

Hot Nite in the City included an electricvehicle category for the first time in the event’s 23-year history.

Last spring, the city once again offered residents discounted rain barrels in advance of its annual Green Living Expo, which will return to Sandman Centre on April 28. In the past two years, more than 1,500 discounted rain barrels were sold. The barrels collect and store rainwater that runs off the roofs of homes. The city says the water, which is diverted from storm drains and reduces the risk of overflow during rainfall, is ideal for washing and watering gardens.

According to the

report, the city’s ECOSmart Team and sustainability educators, who visit schools, summer camps and community events, reached more than 11,000 people.

The April 28 Green Living Expo runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event includes a kids’ zone, speakers on a variety of sustainability topics and locally sourced food and beverages.

Last year, more than 60 exhibitors were featured and the event drew more than 2,000 visitors.

MORE GREEN EFFORTS More people planted trees last year with help from the city.

Fewer tree coupons were issued in 2017, but more people redeemed them, according to the report.

Last year, 474 coupons were issued and 262 (52 per cent) of them were redeemed, compared to 690 tree coupons issued in 2016 and 122 (16 per cent) redeemed.

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A WALL OF HAPPINESS

Lynnette Sukut (left), Danica Comito, Michelle Littke and Natalie Brown of Nerium Skin Care were in charge of the Happy Wall at Aberdeen Mall last weekend. The Happy Wall was hosted by American organization Live Happy and Nerium International and was erected to mark International Happiness Day, which was on March 20. Each note of happiness posted on the wall led to $1 to be donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters.

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The latest antique and collectibles show, held last weekend at the North Shore Community Centre, featured an eclectic mix of objects.

Clockwise from above: Royal collectibles including Charles and Diana wedding dolls and baby Prince George; Brenda Walliser of West Kelowna with an antique rocker; tobacco collectibles, including a Trump cigar box; 50-year-old Beatles postcards and classic car models still in their boxes.

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The act regulates licensing of community-care facilities including those that provide child and residential care.

“These legislative changes create transparency for individuals and facility operators, and make sure consistent information is available so families can easily check to see if a facility or residence is operated legally, and whether there have been any substantiated complaints about the care they provide,” said Health Minister Adrian Dix. For child-care providers, summaries of substantiated complaints and inspection reports will be posted for five years for both licensed facilities and facilities operating unlawfully.

Currently, only highlevel summaries of inspection reports for licensed facilities are posted.

High-level, substantiated complaint summaries are available at this time only for licensed seniors’ longterm care facilities.

By policy, these are posted for a period of only two years.

For all residentialcare facilities, both licensed and those operating unlawfully, summaries of substantiated complaints and inspection reports will be posted for five years for both licensed facilities and those operating unlawfully.

High-level summaries of substantiated complaints reports currently are also posted by policy for two years for assisted-living facilities but will now be available for five years.

Inspection reports will also be accessible for the same time frame.

All the information will be located on health authority websites. For Kamloops, that is located online at interiorhealth.ca.

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Many Canadians are pledging to delete their Facebook accounts as part of an online campaign encouraging people to permanently log off the site amid mounting concerns the social media giant is inappropriately sharing users’ information beyond their circle of friends.

Privacy experts say numerous Canadians are taking to other social media platforms to join in on the #DeleteFacebook hashtag in the wake of recent revelations about the potential for their personal information to be mined for political gain.

Canadian data scientist Christopher Wylie has accused a voter-profiling company of improperly obtaining private Facebook data from some 50 million users in an effort to tip the scales in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and the U.K.’s Brexit referendum.

Former Ontario privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian said a data leak of that scale was an “unthinkable proposition’’ for many Canadians who have long harboured frustrations about Facebook’s apparent lack of safeguards to protect user data from being shared with dubious actors.

“People are very concerned and they feel they’ve lost control, and this

just confirms that,’’ said Cavoukian, who is an expert-in-residence at Ryerson University’s Privacy by Design Centre in Toronto.

“You just reach the point where you say, ‘Enough is enough. I’m out of here.’’’

She said the exposure of the dataharvesting technique has been a wake-up call for citizens who fear similar tactics could be used to influence Canada’s 2019 federal election, and now feel compelled to stand up for their country’s democratic institutions.

“No one wants to be under that kind of dark influence,’’ Cavoukian said. “You have no idea what ... massive shifts are happening as a result of this. You’re being manipulated.’’

University of Toronto marketing professor David Soberman said there has been increasing awareness about the risk of political operatives using social media tactics to sway elections.

Soberman said he thinks the Facebook data leak has resonated not only because it punctured public confidence in the social media company’s privacy protocols, but because it had a tangible effect in the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, whose campaign has been linked to the data analytics firm allegedly behind the data-harvesting technique.

Edmonton police lay 460 charges against 34 teens after violent crime wave CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Police in Alberta’s capital have laid 460 charges against 34 teens following a wave of violent crimes at transit stations, malls and recreation centres.

In one case, Edmonton police released video images of a teen kicking a woman down a flight of stairs who suffered severe internal injuries.

Investigators said another case saw some teens use social media to create a flash mob in a swarming attack on two teen boys.

The 34 accused range in age from 13 to 18 and the alleged crimes go back to January 2017.

The charges include aggravated assault, assault, robbery, weapons offences, theft under $5,000, pos-

session of stolen property and other offences.

Supt. Tom Pallas said the suspects have left a path of victims across the city.

“Officers have responded to close to 90 criminal events involving 66 complainants, some of whom are now dealing with very serious internal and facial injuries,’’ he said.

He said investigators believe 12 of the 34 suspects were involved in most of the crimes.

“Many of these individuals have been arrested, gone through the court system and rearrested by our officers, after being released on bail, in some cases within hours.’’

None of the accused can be named because they are either under 18 or were under 18 when the alleged crimes were committed.

B.C. vows to cut wait times for some surgeries CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s preB.C. News mier says the province will address long wait lists for hip and knee replacements, allowing an extra 4,000 people to have the surgeries in the coming year.

John Horgan said a $75-million investment this year is expected to increase to up to $100 million in 2018-19 with the opening of new programs focusing on system improvements, such as operating room efficiencies.

In 2005, health ministers for all provinces set a benchmark of a 26-week wait time for patients needing hip and knee replacements.

However, the latest figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information show British Columbia was third from the bottom of the pack in 2016, with only 61 per cent of patients getting hip replacements within that benchmark.

Nova Scotia was in last place, with only 56 per cent of patients getting the surgery within 26 weeks, followed by New Brunswick, at 60 per cent, while the best outcomes were for patients in Ontario.

B.C. fared second worst in Canada when it came to patients needing knee replacements, with 47 per cent having the surgery within the benchmark, while Nova Scotia was at the bottom, with only 38 per cent of patients getting the surgery within 26 weeks.

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Province issues warning to pet rabbit owners as virus spreads to Vancouver VICTORIA — A virus that has already killed hundreds of feral rabbits on Vancouver Island has spread and the British Columbia government is warning pet owners to take precautions.

The government said recent tests on dead feral rabbits in Nanaimo and Delta confirmed the presence of rabbit haemorrhagic disease, a calicivirus that includes a fever, convulsions and kills a rabbit within 36 hours.

It said dead rabbits found in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island are being sent to the provincial lab for testing.

The government issued its initial warning earlier this month after three rabbits sent to the Animal Health Centre in Abbotsford were determined to have died of the disease, which is exclusive to rabbits and does not affect cats, dogs, horses, other pets or humans.

Transportation Safety Board to probe cause of smoke on WestJet flight NANAIMO — Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board are being sent to Vancouver Island to determine why thick smoke suddenly filled the cabin of a commuter plane travelling to Nanaimo.

A news release from the board says a team will gather information and assess what happened Tuesday afternoon onboard WestJet Encore flight 3161.

The Bombardier Q400 turboprop with 56 passengers and two crew aboard had almost completed its hop from Vancouver to Nanaimo when smoke began wafting into the cabin.

Passenger Addison Becker said as conditions became smokier, the plane descended quickly.

It landed safely after the pilot declared an emergency, a procedure a spokeswoman for WestJet said establishes priority landing and also summons emergency vehicles.

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HEARTS DELIGHT, N.L. — Concern was mounting in a small Newfoundland community where a pod of dolphins became further hemmed in by ice Thursday, pushing the wayward mammals closer to shore and shrinking their small opening in the ice.

Fisheries Department spokesman Kevin Guest said the dolphins that have been trapped in the harbour in Heart’s Delight since Sunday were further enclosed by ice overnight. He said the pool where they have been surfacing became much smaller as winds shifted late Wednesday and

into Thursday morning.

“The situation right now is very fluid,’’ said Guest. “Depending on the wind and what way the ice shifts, the dolphins could be potentially beached and if they are we’ll have to deal with that as it presents itself.’’

Heavy ice off Heart’s Delight has cut off the exit route for the whitebeaked dolphins, leaving them stranded in the shrinking pool of open water.

Guest said an excavator on the harbour’s edge was breaking up ice Thursday in an attempt to widen their swimming area.

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Montreal Police Insp. Ian Lafreniere says 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou was last seen near the Riviere des Prairies and that there are no images of him elsewhere after that.

The boy’s father has repeatedly said he believes his son was abducted and that he would never have gone to the river.

Police divers searched the river on six different occasions this week but found no clues.

The investigation is continuing.

The boy left his home in the city’s north end on March 12 to visit a

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“I can’t say with absolute certainty it was an accident but what I can say is that it is the No. 1 hypothesis,’’ Lafreniere said.

Besides the diving, police have KOUAKOU gone door to door in the neighbourhood and used horses, the canine unit, all-terrain vehicles and a helicopter to search the area.

Police said they have received some 700 tips and that a command post is still in place at a shopping centre near where Ariel disappeared.

There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to the boy being found.

Court documents shed light on alleged TorstarPostmedia conspiracy OTTAWA — The federal competition watchdog alleges in court documents that Torstar Corp. and Postmedia Network Canada Corp. conspired in their deal to swap newspapers that resulted in the closure of dozens of mostly community publications.

In filings used to obtain search warrants earlier this month, the Competition Bureau alleges the deal included lists of employees to be terminated and that the companies agreed they would not compete in specific areas for five years as part of their November deal.

The watchdog claims the companies conspired to agree to divide up sales, territories, customers or markets for advertising or flyer distribution.

White House quizzed more on Trump’s past THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Haunted by Russia and World News beset by internal strife, Donald Trump’s White House is also increasingly being forced to confront allegations from the president’s past, as an adult film star, a former Playboy model and a onetime Apprentice contestant press court cases.

In court, on social media and with upcoming television interviews, these women are making allegations about Trump’s past sexual exploits.

And while previous accusations have not derailed the thrice-married businessman, now they are surfacing in the context of the rising #MeToo movement.

The White House has little to say publicly about the accusations, which are only likely to get louder.

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006. She filed a lawsuit in California this week seeking to invalidate a confidentiality agreement with a company that owns the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer.

Onetime Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos is also suing Trump for defamation, alleging unwanted sexual contact in 2007.

Scheduled to air Sunday is a CBS 60 Minutes interview with porn actress Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. She is looking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election so she can discuss her relationship with Trump, which she said began in 2006 and continued for about a year.

Trump is also under heightened pressure after a New York City judge ruled Tuesday that Zevros’ lawsuit can move forward while the president is in office.

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Syrian rebels to leave key town in eastern Ghouta enclave BEIRUT — Syrian rebels and their families were preparing to leave a besieged town in the eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus on Thursday, in a deal that could see the bombed-out town handed over to the government following years of siege.

It is the first such arrangement for a town inside the besieged enclave, which has endured more than one month of relentless shelling and bombardment as the government, backed by its ally Russia, pushed to retake the region after seven years of revolt.

More than 10 government buses drove into Harasta to transport the rebels and civilians out of the town. State media said the evacuation began with the departure of 238 people, including 36 gunmen and 202 civilians, but no buses were seen crossing out.

As rebels prepared to depart the town of Harasta, thousands of civilians streamed out of other areas in eastern Ghouta that were still being bombed by the government. They included dozens of civilians who appeared to be wounded, some hobbling on crutches, another with an eye injury.

The government’s assault has sparked a tide of displacement in the Damascus suburbs as civilians try to escape the violence. Some have moved deeper into the rebel-held enclave, while some 50,000 others have crossed the front-lines, to government authorities.

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Cenovus cuts oilsands production Company cites price differential and pipeline constraints as reasons for action IAN BICKIS

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CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. said Thursday it has been running its oilsands operations at reduced production rates and storing excess barrels due to wider-thannormal light-heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

The company has been operating its Christina Lake and Foster Creek facilities at reduced production levels since February, CEO Alex Pourbaix said in a statement.

“We’re taking steps to respond to a critical shortage of export pipeline capacity in Western Canada that is beyond our control and is having a negative impact

on our industry and the broader Canadian economy,’’ he said.

The company has resorted to using its significant oil storage capacity because Canadian heavy oil is selling at a wide discount to West Texas Intermediate.

It plans to sell the crude when pricing improves, he said.

Cenovus stock was trading down as much as five per cent

at $10.99 per share in midday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The move is a “sensible commercial decision’’ in the face of a challenging set of pricing conditions, RBC analyst Greg Pardy wrote in a note.

Cenovus is also evaluating opportunities to optimize the scheduling of maintenance and

holding talks with rail providers to resolve a shortage of locomotive capacity.

Railways have been hesitant to add oil shipping capacity because they fear the business will evaporate once new export pipelines come on stream, demanding long-term take-or-pay contracts and higher rates to take on the risk.

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WASHINGTON — The European Union, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and South Korea are among the nations that will get an initial exemption from looming steel and aluminum tariffs from the Trump administration, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Thursday.

President Donald Trump is planning to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on imported steel and 10 per cent on aluminum — trade penalties aimed at China for flooding the world with cheap steel and aluminum.

Lighthizer told the Senate Finance Committee that there are countries involved in various stages of trade talks with the U.S., and that Trump decided “to pause’’ the tariffs for those countries.

The trade official also cited Canada and Mexico in his list.

The U.S. is in consultations with the two countries in an effort to

U.K. urges EU unity against Russia THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRUSSELS — British Prime Minister Theresa May urged European Union leaders on Thursday to unite and condemn Russia for not respecting international rules or borders, while Moscow slammed the U.K. as untrustworthy in its investigation of the poisoning of a former spy.

Amid heated words and frosty relations between London and Moscow, May accused Russia of staging “a brazen and reckless attack against the United Kingdom’’ by attacking Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a nerve agent March 4 in the English city of Salisbury.

“I will be raising this issue with my counterparts today because it is clear that the Russian threat doesn’t respect borders,” May said.

renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump moved on a separate trade front Thursday, paving the way for tariffs on China as punishment for what he said is the theft of American technology. He told reporters that the threat of the steel and aluminum tariffs was already having an impact.

“Many countries are calling to negotiate better trade deals because they don’t want to have to pay the steel and aluminum tariffs,’’ Trump said.

Lighthizer identified the countries initially exempted from the steel and aluminum tariffs in response to a question from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who said lawmakers wanted more consultation from the administration on trade.

“There are countries with whom we’re negotiating, and then the question becomes the obvious one that you think, as a matter of business, how does this work?’’ Lighthizer said.

“So what he has decided to do is to pause the imposition of

the tariffs with respect to those countries.’’

Before Lighthizer’s congressional testimony, Germany’s economy minister, Peter Altmaier, said he had found officials in Washington “open to our arguments’’ during a recent visit with the EU trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom.

Altmaier told Germany’s parliament “it is a question of fundamental significance: whether we all stand for open and fair world markets in the future.’’

Trump campaigned on promises to bring down America’s trade deficit, which stood at $566 billion last year, by rewriting trade agreements and cracking down on what he called abusive commercial practices by U.S. trading partners. But Trump was slow to turn rhetoric to action. In January, he imposed tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines. Then he announced the steel and aluminum tariffs, saying reliance on imported metals jeopardizes U.S. national security.

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LOCAL NEWS WRAPPING A RIBBON AROUND KIDNEY CARE

Joining in on the ribbon-cutting to officially declare the month of March as Kidney Awareness Month was Coun. Kathy Sinclair (centre) at the recent World Kidney Day health fair at Northills Centre. With her were TRU third-year nursing students Vanessa Leggett (far left), Sa-hali secondary Grade 8 student Alysha Fehr, nursing student Elizabeth Amaraizu, TRU nursing program field guide Florriann Fehr, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, Kamloops chapter executive committee member Linda Bonner-Brown and TRU nursing students Erika Byrne, Alex Bryenton, Kiana Moore and Shenise Sigsworth. This year’s health fair was larger than ones in the past, with more tests offered for free, including a kidney function screening and a focus on women’s kidney health.

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New round of heavy rain pounds California LATEST STORM SPURS EVACUATION ORDERS, WITH JANUARY DEATHS STILL BEING MOURNED ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Although the first wave of a worrisome Pacific storm didn’t cause any major problems in California, a new round of heavy rain arrived ON Thursday, leaving authorities and disaster-weary residents on edge.

After an overnight lull, the storm picked up intensity before dawn on the state’s central coast, where thousands of people have been evacuated because of the threat of debris flows and mudslides from wildfire-burn areas.

Forecasters warned disaster was still very possible.

“We’re very concerned,’’ National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Sirard said.

“We’re hoping this isn’t a cry-wolf scenario where people will pooh-pooh what we’re saying.’’

The storm came ashore earlier in the week on the central coast and spread south into the Los Angeles region and north through San Francisco Bay, fed by a long plume of subtropical moisture called an atmospheric river or a Pineapple Express because of its origins near Hawaii.

It also moved east, bringing the threat of flooding to the central California interior and Sierra Nevada, where winter storm warnings for heavy snow were in effect and many routes required motorists to put chains on their vehicles.

Rain was expected to end in Southern California by early Friday while storms continued in the north.

Record rainfall was recorded in five spots, including Santa Barbara, Palmdale and Oxnard, where nearly 4.5 centimetres (1.8 inches) had fallen

by Wednesday evening.

That’s compared to the record of 7.6 centimetres (1.3 inches) set in 1937.

Nearly 13 centimetres (five inches) of rain had fallen in northern San Luis Obispo County, while seven centimetres (2.7 inches) fell in Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles and 6.6 centimetres (2.6 inches) was recorded at one spot in Santa Barbara County.

Authorities kept a close watch on Santa Barbara County, hoping there would not be a repeat of the massive January debris flows from a burn scar that ravaged the community of Montecito and killed 21 people.

Mud and rockslides closed several roads in the region, including Highway 1 at Ragged Point near Big Sur, not far from where the scenic coast route is still blocked by a massive landslide triggered by a storm last year.

A large pine tree was felled in Los Angeles, landing across a residential street into a picket fence. No one was hurt.

Carolyn Potter, 59, was evacuated from her home in Casitas Springs in Ventura County on Wednesday — the fourth time since September — and plans to sleep in her car in a grocery store parking lot to avoid hotel costs and the bustle of an evacuation shelter.

Meanwhile, her husband, Alan, is staying home, just like he has the other three times Potter has left because of fires or storms since September.

“It’s OK because we’re not fighting,’’ Potter said. “I get to leave and he stays. It’s like, ‘See you later.’

We’re both happy.

“I feel better not being under the cliff in my sleep,’’ Potter said. If he feels OK, that’s his problem.

“If something happens, maybe I’ll zip on down and dig him out.’’

On Thursday, there was concern about the combination of rainfall rates and the long duration, said Suzanne Grimmesey, a spokeswoman for Santa Barbara County.

With the grim Montecito experience in recent memory, Santa Barbara County ordered evacuation of areas along its south coast near areas burned by several wildfires dating back to 2016.

“We actually do feel good about the

evacuation order,’’ Grimmesey said.

“Law enforcement was out in the extreme risk areas of Montecito yesterday knocking on doors.

“For those that were home, we had a very good co-operation rate with people leaving.’’

Many residents in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have faced repeated evacuations or advisories since December, when a wind-driven fire grew into the largest in recorded state history and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings.

In Los Angeles County, authorities cancelled some planned mandatory evacuations because of a projected decrease in rainfall, but kept others in place because of debris flows in one canyon area stripped bare by wildfire.

Vitamin C for Collagen?

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Everyone is talking about collagen these days, and with good reason. As we age, the body’s production of collagen slows down, which can result not only in aging skin, but also contributes to osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and many other conditions, including declining cardiovascular health. This is where vitamin C comes in.

Vitamin C is the single most important water-soluble antioxidant in the human body. Aside from supporting immune health, vitamin C is needed to manufacture collagen, the major component of the body’s connective tissues, including cartilage, tendons, ligaments, bones and most importantly, blood vessels.

High doses of vitamin C, combined with lysine, support healthy arteries and overall cardiovascular health. Vitamin C is required to manufacture healthy collagen, the glue that holds coronary cells together, just like mortar is needed for bricks.

Lysine, like steel rods in cement, makes collagen stronger. Together they provide healthier arteries and reduce risk of heart attack and stroke.

Coronary arteries are under more pressure than any other artery in the body. The heart beats 100,000 times every 24 hours and 2.2 billion times if you live to 70 years of age. Without healthy arteries, this constant pounding causes minute cracks in collagen, resulting in atherosclerosis, blood clots, or rupturing of a weakened artery, resulting in a stroke.

As we age, the key to healthy collagen for cardiovascular health, joint health, teeth, gums, wound healing, and more is vitamin C combined with lysine. If that doesn’t convince you, all the beauty experts will also tell you that collagen helps keep skin looking youthful.

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GLOBAL VIEWS Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was elected in 2016 with 39 per cent of the vote.

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DUTERTE: A MASS MURDERER IN POWER

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hilippines President Rodrigo Duterte once said Ferdinand Marcos, who was overthrown by the first non-violent revolution (“People Power”) in 1986, would have been the Philippines’ best president “if he did not become a dictator.”

Just as Duterte himself had the potential to be the Philippines’ best president if he had not become a mass murderer.

He doesn’t react well to criticism, either.

Last month, the International Criminal Court began to investigate a complaint by a Filipino lawyer that the extrajudicial killings in Duterte’s anti-drug war (now 8,000 and counting) amount to “crimes against humanity.”

Duterte responded by declaring the Philippines would no longer accept the authority of the world tribunal.

Last weekend, he

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WATCH went further, urging other countries to withdraw from the ICC, too.

“Get out, get out, it’s rude,” he said.

Rude? That’s a bit rich coming from a man who has called former U.S. president Barack Obama, former U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg and even the Pope “a son of a whore,” but Duterte does not suffer from an excess of self-awareness.

Less than two years into a six-year term, he has already threatened to pull out of the United Nations, too.

Duterte’s main mode of speech is stream-of-consciousness, so he doesn’t necessarily mean what he says, but you can never be sure.

He is not unintelligent, but the one constant that shapes everything he says and does is his tough-guy persona.

That’s what Filipinos love him for (last year, he had a 91 per cent approval rating), but the problem is that he really is a tough guy — and not in a good sense.

He graduated from law school and became a prosecutor in his home city of Davao, the biggest city in the southern island of Mindanao. It was then the most violent city in the country and he set out to tame it.

It is not clear when Duterte decided a death squad was needed to accomplish that task, but he makes no secret of its existence.

In fact, he boasts about it and sometimes

hints that he did some of the killing himself.

He became the mayor of Davao in 1988 and claims 1,700 suspected criminals were killed on his watch.

Most of them were street kids — petty thieves and small-time drug dealers — but it did work, after a fashion as Davao is now among the safest cities in the country.

It was his promise to do the same thing country-wide that won him the presidency in 2016 with 39 per cent of the vote, almost twice as many votes as the nearest runner-up among the five candidates.

It would have made more sense if the Philippines was an ultra-violent country overrun by crime and drugs, but it isn’t.

It is a profoundly unequal country whose politics has been dominated by a privileged and largely hereditary elite, but neither the crime rate nor drug usage is significantly

higher than in other Southeast Asian countries.

Amphetamine use (the Filpino drug of choice) is at about the same level as in the United States or Australia and opioids and cocaine are virtually absent in the country.

The murder rate is at about the same level as the United States: four per 100,000 people in 2015 (but up to six per 100,000 people in 2016 due to Duterte’s killing spree).

In less than two years in office, Duterte has presided over the “extrajudicial” murders of some 8,000 people, most of them drug users who do little harm except to themselves.

It is a classic displacement activity: the real problems are corrupt politicians and police and income disparities so huge that a quarter of the population lives in absolute poverty, but it’s much easier to wage a war on

drugs and crime.

Displacement tactics are quite common in politics, like U.S. President Donald Trump promising to bring back millions of lost American jobs from foreign countries when most of them were really destroyed by automation.

But the pity of it is that Duterte, for all his bombast and vainglory, had other qualities that would have been useful in the presidency.

He is an honest man, as Filipino politicians go, and he has a real empathy with the poor.

During the Marcos dictatorship, he protected opposition protesters in Davao.

He is also gay- and Muslim-friendly in a country that has little tolerance for either.

He calls himself a socialist, but the city of Davao achieved the highest economic growth rate in the country under his mayorship.

Alas, Duterte is also

a mass murderer. He has said he will sign a pardon for himself “for the crime of multiple murders” before he leaves office.

He has become addicted to the cheap popularity he gets from saying and doing shocking things and lacks the discipline to work on the country’s real problems.

Duterte is a disaster for the Philippines, but that’s probably where the damage ends.

Although he occasionally talks about abolishing the Congress and leading a self-appointed “revolutionary government,” he is unlikely to be able to carry it off because by then, he will no longer be popular.

The Philippines will not prosper under his rule.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. gwynnedyer.com

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NORTH AMERICA’S BEST-KEPT SECRET

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he Orthodox Church is often called North America’s best-kept secret because not many people on this continent know much about this church.

I want to use this opportunity to tell you a few things about the church to which I belong.

Historically, the Orthodox Church was started on the Day of Pentecost of 33 A.D. in Jerusalem when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and the first Christian community was started (Acts 2).

From Jerusalem, the message of the Gospel and the Church spread to the rest of Judea, the Middle East and the entire Mediterranean basin, all the way to the Balkans, Spain and the British Isles.

In time, because of some historical events, Christians in Western Europe could not keep in touch with the Christians in the eastern part of the continent or the Middle East.

As a result, they started to develop separately until they reached the point of separation at the beginning of the second millennium of Christianity.

The church in Western Europe continued its existence and called itself the Catholic Church (meaning “complete” or “universal” in Greek), while the church in the east continued its existence and called itself the Orthodox Church (meaning “right worship” or “right teaching” in Greek, the language in which the New Testament was written).

Eventually, the Catholic Church spread westward to North and South Americas.

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Beginning in the 1500s, the Protestant churches came out of the Catholic Church.

The Orthodox Church continued its existence in the Middle East and southeastern Europe and spread northward to what is today Ukraine and Russia.

It eventually made its way to Siberia and Alaska.

Today, the Orthodox Church is the second-largest single Christian body, with more than 250-million believers organized in 15 autocephalous and 10 autonomous churches on five continents.

Usually, these churches are organized within the borders of a specific country. They are administratively independent, but are in communion with each other and hold the same teachings and beliefs.

The main teachings of the Orthodox Church were formulated at the Seven Ecumenical Councils from 325 AD to 787 AD. Orthodox Christians believe Christ is fully God and fully man in one divine person — the person of the eternal Son and Word of God. They also believe Jesus shares the same divine nature with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father.

They believe in the oneness and holiness of the church through which God gives His uncreated grace to

the believers and the world through the mysteries or sacraments.

Traditionally, Orthodox Christians do not have a specific number of mysteries, but everything in the relationship between God and humanity is considered a mystery.

Orthodox Christians believe Jesus is present in reality in Holy Communion, which is given to the believers as bread and wine transformed into the Body and Blood of the Lord.

The mystery of Holy Communion is prepared, consecrated and partaken during the Holy Liturgy, the most important service of the Orthodox Church.

The people of God get together to celebrate the Liturgy and most of the services in the church building, which is designed, decorated and built following the revelation of God about worship spaces in the Old (Exodus 25-29; Isaiah 6) and New Testaments (Revelation 4; Hebrews 9).

Orthodox Christians consider the Bible to be inspired by God and part of the tradition (or life) of the church.

Our New Testament contains the same 27 books as the New Testament of our Catholic and Protestant brothers and sisters, but our Old Testament contains 49 books (46, Catholic; 39, Protestant).

It is because we follow the Septuagint version of the Old Testament (a Greek version used by the early church and quoted by the writers of the New Testament, which was written in Greek, the international language of the time).

By offering and uniting their lives with the life of the church, the Body of Christ, Orthodox

believers become one with Jesus, who offered Himself to humanity and became one with her in the first place.

Through Him and in the Holy Spirit, the believers become one with God the Father, they become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4), which is the goal of human existence for the Orthodox Christians.

It is necessary to say in this process of deification or union and communion with God, the human being will not become God, but will become the “likeness” of God as He intended us to be from the beginning (Genesis 1:26).

This process of deification or of becoming like God requires the co-operation between two unequal, but equally necessary partners: God’s grace and our free will.

God is the one who created us, -he is the one who became one with us and brought us into communion with Himself; He is the one who first loved us (1 John 4:19) and we are called to give an answer to His love.

Everything Orthodox Christians do — participation in the mysteries of the church, learning about God, praying, fasting, giving of alms or whatever they do in word or deed every day of their life — they are called to do it “in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:17).

Father Cosmin Sicoe is an Orthodox Christian priest who served churches in Regina, Lexington, Ky., and Romania.

He also visits St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kamloops. Sicoe lives in Kelowna with his wife and two daughters.

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Speak Easy makes its way back to the River City ‘We’ve been told we’re like psychedelic rock but with soul inspirations in the vocals and groovy rhythms’ DALE BASS STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com

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liver Sandberg describes the music his band creates as moody grooves.

“You can dance to it,” he said with a laugh, “but you’re pouting at the same time.

Well, maybe not pouting but a rough face.”

Sandberg plays guitar and shares vocal duties with bassist Lauren Giorgio alongside drums/percussionist Scott Cole in Speak Easy, a Kelowna-based band sharing the stage at The Blue Grotto next week with local band Mugsy.

“We’re pretty eclectic,” Sandberg said, “and we’ve been told we’re like psychedelic rock but with soul inspirations in the vocals and groovy rhythms.”

The band came together formally about two years ago, he said, but he and Cole had been jamming for a couple of years before then, writing some songs and starting to develop a pathway with their music. Sandberg’s day job is in a coffee shop in Kelowna and one day, he was chatting with a customer who had played bass in a band in Toronto.

“Interesting. We need someone to play bass,”

Sandberg said of the encounter with Giorgio.

She was asked to jam with them and the trio was formed. Plans are to take their music to the Coast for the summer.

The Kamloops show came together through J.P. Lancaster, who wanted to put Speak Easy’s Where I Am track on his Engine Noise Compilation release. Sandberg mentioned he would like a gig in Kamloops and Lancaster paired the band with his own At Mission Dolores for a show last November.

They write their own music but include a few covers “to please the crowd. They don’t want to listen to just new music.”

Mugsy started as a project for serious musicians who want to play rock and roll. It’s made up of Alex Ward and Dan Hum, both well-known in Kamloops through other bands they have played with.

Ward said they bring in jazz rhythms and voicing to their rock to ensure it doesn’t “come across as dated, cheesy and cliche.”

The Thursday show is part of a plan Grotto owner David Johnston wants to promote, opening the club on Thursdays and featuring indie acts and local musicians.

Kelowna-based Speak Easy will return to the River City for a show at The Grotto on Thursday, thanks to a little help from local musician J.P. Lancaster.

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artin Kratky and Cvetozar Vutev have waited a long time to play one particular piece of music.

The long-time members of the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra asked often for Double Concerto for Violin and Violoncello in A Minor by Johannes Brahms because of the role their respective instruments play in the music.

Kratky has been playing cello since he was five years old and Vutev has played

violin since he was six years old.

The concerto was the last piece of music Brahms wrote for an orchestra. It has three movements and the orchestra will be doing the entire piece when it presents German Romantics on Friday, April 13 in Salmon Arm at The Nexus at First and again on Saturday, April 14 at Sagebrush Theatre.

Also on the program are two works

by Robert Schumann: the overture for Genoveva, and Symphony No. 1 in B Flat, also known as the Spring Symphony.

The guest conductor will be a familiar

face to the orchestra and many in the audience — Bruce Dunn, who retired last year after 27 years with the KSO. Kratky said he loves the Brahms piece not only because of the solos dedicated to the cello but because it is “so epic, so lovely.”

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483.

On Saturday, April 21, the KSO will also present Bohemians in Brooklyn at The Rex Hall, 417 Seymour St., at 7:30 p.m.

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SHRED KELLY Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., The Blue Grotto, 319 Victoria St.

Shred Kelly bills itself as producing tracks “soaked in electronic crescendos” and “folk-tinged sing-along” anthems. If you’d like to sing along, you’ve got a chance coming up right here in the River City. Tickets are $15 in advance plus taxes and fees. Tickets for all shows available online at kamtix.ca.

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Shred Kelly will embark on the European leg of their tour once their B.C. shows wrap up at the end of March.

A longtime member of the theatrical troupe, Rancort will work with Andrew Cooper, Brendan Law, Taylor James McCallum, Allandra Gardner, Dan Ondang and newcomers Kennedy Crame and Jamie Mason.

The Slips present comedy improvisational shows monthly at 7:30 p.m. at Stage House Theatre, 422 Tranquille Rd. This year’s schedule includes: • March 24: 80s Tight ’n’ Bright; • April 21: Sheer Luck, an improv mystery; • May 26: Star Wars vs. Star Trek; • June 16: Harry Potter Improv!; • July 21: Beach Blanket Bingo Party; • Aug. 18: Strip ’n’ Sip. Tickets are $15 in advance and are available online at chimeratheatre.com/tickets. Tickets are $20 at the door. Parental discretion advised, troupe recommends ages 16 and older.

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Shred Kelly en route to Europe via Kamloops Fernie-based band finding new fans across the Atlantic McBride said they try to add some extra days at the start or end of tours to actually see the countries they are performing in. It’s something that dates back to the early days of the alt-folk sound, when they were travelling from the Pacific to the Atlantic and getting a chance “to discover our own country,” she said.

On the day KTW contacted McBride, the band members were relaxing in their homes in Fernie after spending three days at the South by Southwest conference and music festival in Austin, Texas, where their reception was “pretty fantastic” and they got to see several other musicians perform during their stay.

“It was pretty overwhelming,” she said.

“What to do? Where to go? We saw some cool bands but we didn’t really sleep.”

They’re looking forward in particular to the European leg, which starts on April

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ometime this summer, probably while they’re making the rounds of music festivals, Shred Kelly will mark its ninth anniversary.

The reason for its longevity, said Sage McBride, is what brought them together to begin with.

“We all just love creating music together and every year, there seem to be new neat opportunities that keep it interesting.”

Along with Tim Newton, Jordan Vlasschaert, Ty West and Eddie Annett, Shred Kelly kicked off a tour this week that starts in Vernon and ends in Dresden, Germany, with stops through B.C. and then into Europe. The band is playing The Blue Grotto on Tuesday, March 27.

7 and wraps up April 23, with shows in Germany, England, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

McBride said while their audience base is firmly established in Canada, it’s still growing in other parts of the world, especially in Germany, which they have visited four times.

The band is touring to promote its fourth album, Archipelago, which was released in February. Two videos have been released to support it and McBride said the one for the single Don’t Ever Look Back, created by Calgary company Light Factory, is a highlight as it is based on the play Heterophobia by Pam Rocker, which has a plot that involves role reversals and social norms flipped on their ears.

Tickets for the Kamloops show are available online at kamtix.ca.

Snowbombing economic impact measured ment created through the festival.

Alexander Bennett, director of festivals for Broadwick Live, the promoter, said the inaugural year and first time the festival has not been held in Europe was remarkable and he anticipates this year’s festival from April 5 to April 9 will be “bigger and bolder than last year.”

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Snowbombing organizers expect Sun Peaks to see at least a $6-million impact on its economy when the music festival returns for a second year next month.

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ties with DJs, electronica and other musical acts.

This year’s headliner is Odesza, an American electronic-music duo from Seattle. It was nominated for a Grammy Award last year for best dance/electronic album, losing to Kraftwerk.

Festival passes and links to accommodation, travel and sports-equipment rentals are online at snowbombingcanada.ca.

The semi-annual Barb’s Used Book and Music Sale will take place at Lansdowne Village again this year, running from Saturday, March 31 to Saturday, April 14, in the former Field’s location.

The fundraiser for the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra includes gently used books, sheet music, records and CDs. Volunteers will accept donations starting Wednesday, March 28 and throughout the sale.

The fundraiser will be open Monday to Thursday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. It will be closed on April 1, Easter Sunday.

Sun Peaks art summit in the works

The Rotary Club of Sun Peaks and Tourism Sun Peaks are combining to create an art summit at the resort community on July 28. The show will coincide with the annual Blossom Festival, displaying the works on the main street of the village.

Application forms to take part in the summit are online at sunpeaksresort.com.

Arnica exhibitions on display

Two new exhibitions open soon at Arnica Artist-Run Centre at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St. The Laundry Series by Teresa Ascencao uses clothing and the artist herself as its main subjects and delves into gender, sexuality, identity, poverty, capitalism and “otherness.” She will do a performance of Helping from the series on Friday, March 23, at 1:45 p.m. at the Art Gallery in the Old Main Building at Thompson Rivers University.

Hallowed Winds by Laurel Terlesky is a participatory audio and soft-sculpture installation that addresses touch, memory and the extended body in relation to social screen-based technologies.

She will give a talk about it on campus just before Ascencao, also in the Old Main Building but in room 1494. The talk starts at 12:30 p.m.

Both exhibitions run from March 24 to April 28.

An opening reception will be held at the cultural centre on Saturday, March 24, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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amloops This Week has partnered with the Kamloops Society for the Written Arts and the Council of Canadians to create a poetry contest with the theme of nature and the more-than-human-world.

The contest is meant to celebrate April, which is National Poetry Month and Earth Month.

Winning poems will be published during the week of April 23 in Kamloops This Week. In addition, all entrants will be invited to read their poem at a May 9 open mic event at The Art We Are, 246 Victoria St. downtown.

Winners will be chosen through a blind process by a single judge. Your name should not appear on the same page as your poem. Instead, include a cover page that includes name, address, e-mail address, phone number, poem title and number of lines in the poem.

The poetry contest guidelines are as follows: • Submit one poem, original and not previously published, of 20 lines or fewer; • Submissions should be single-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font;

• Submissions must be in Word or .txt format; • Deadline for submissions is April 14; • The contest is open to anybody over 18 years of age; • Entrants must be a resident of Kamloops or the surrounding area; • Send submissions by email to info@kswa.ca with “poetry contest” in the subject line; • No entries will be returned. Poems and personal information will be shredded after winners are selected;.

• Submission implies the winning authors are granting first right of publication to Kamloops This Week during the week of April 23. Rights then revert to the author; • Entering the contest also grants the Kamloops Society for the Written Arts the right to publish the entrant’s name on the society’s website, should the entrant win the right of publication.

Questions about the contest should be directed by email to info@kswa.ca, with question concerning writing contest.” in the subject line.

For more information, go online to kswa.ca.

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Registration open for Summer School of Music, fees go up April 1 Registration for the Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music is open.

The annual program runs from July 9 to July 27 and will include more than 50 classes ranging from Music Maker courses for those who have finished kindergarten up to Grade 3 to senior courses for those who have completed grades 9 to 12.

Tuition is $550 for the three-week program, $470 for a two-week enrolment. There’s an earlybird discount for the three-week cost of $40. Each tuition includes a $25 discount for additional family members registered.

This year, students will present three musicals:

the juniors will do Seussical the Musical, intermediates High School Musical and seniors presenting Grease.

There are two new pieces of music commissioned by the school for its senior and intermediate choirs and bands. The school is also introducing marching band as an elective for its senior students.

More information is available online at kamloopsmusiccollective.info/kissm-events or by calling 236-425-4221. The collective can also be reached by email to info@kamloopsmuisccollective.ca.

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he sun beats down from a steely sky, shadows are sharp-edged.

Small dust devils whirl and die. Horses neigh in the distance, the clop of their hooves and creak of carriage wheels drawing nearer.

Then, suddenly the deep, sonorous call of the muezzin from the nearby Koutoubia mosque reverberates through the air.

This is the Djemaa elFna square in Marrakech and the scene in front of me seems unreal. Like a movie clip, it is an everchanging panorama of movement and colour.

Women in parrotgreen and electric blue gowns thread through shifting crowds, dancers in scarlet robes, and beaded skull caps leap to the rhythm of a drum, a hooded cobra sways to the wail of a snake charmer’s flute and acrobats and astrologers entice audiences.

On the fringes of the square, stalls display clay terrines, bamboo woven baskets, cotton kaftans and pyramids of powdered spices.

Along with my group of fellow travellers, we stroll through the narrow lanes of the adjoining souk, pausing to look at displays of sticky-looking halva,

A merchant sits waiting for customers in front of his shop (above) at the Djemaa-el-Square in Marrakech.

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In contrast to the surging energy of the souk, the Majorelle Jardin is a haven of tranquility.

Moorish architectural design predominates and buildings, ornamental pots, pillars and borders around a lily

pool are painted a vivid Majorelle Blue.

The gardens, bought in 1980 by Yves Saint Laurent (and his partner Pierre Berge) are laced by avenues of bamboo and palm trees, where the earth smells fresh and cool.

A riot of orange and scarlet bougainvillea

creepers cascade over walls and trellises, but the thing that halts me in my tracks is the collection of cactus on display — some of them spiny explosions standing on end like a rock star’s hairstyle, others as gnarled and twisted as a knuckled fist or splayed like the talons of a bird

of prey.

Nothing prepares me for the extravagant decor of our next destination — the El Bahia Palace.

Set in a fragrant garden of roses, cypress and orange trees the palace was built in the latter decades of the 1800s and took 15 years to complete.

Mouth agape, I stare at ceilings decorated with zouak woodwork, with designs of flowers, birds and stars in bright natural pigments derived from saffron, poppy and mint.

Intricate zellij geometric mosaics line walls of passageways, arched carved screens embellished with designs as delicate as white lace overlook shady courtyards and verandahs with tiled floors, dazzling the eye.

Our group assembles for dinner at a restaurant that conjures romantic images of clandestine trysts: flickering candlelight in a palm-fringed courtyard, tables set among flowering bushes of jasmine, a lute and tambourine play softly in the background, shadowy servers, goblets of rich red wine and tagines heaped with aromatic herbed Moroccan cuisine. It’s exotic, bewitching.

With dinner over, we emerge fully nourished, onto a small cobbled lane leading to the Djemaa el-Fna square.

By night the square is transformed into a world of mystery and

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Catharine Pendrel lived through that chapter in 2017, a year after winning bronze in women’s crosscountry Olympic (XCO) mountain biking at the Olympic Summer Games in Rio and winning her third World Cup overall title in 2016.

“The year after, you want to maintain the same level of performance, but your body just doesn’t always have as much to give,” Pendrel said. “In retrospect, it’s easy to look back and see how you could have gotten more rest, but sometimes your body just needs a little bit of a breather, and your mind, to go full charge into another season.”

Results in 2017 were sub-standard for her pedigree on the World Cup circuit — 21st in Nové Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic, 14th in Albstadt, Germany, 16th in Vallnord, Andorra, 10th in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, third in Mont-Saint-Anne, Que., and 12th in Val di Sole, Italy.

She placed 12th overall.

The Fredericton-born rider, a two-time world champion, finished 27th at the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Cairns, Australia.

“If you’re a competitive person, it’s hard to not perform where you want to,” Pendrel said.

Husband Keith Wilson has taken over coaching duties this season and a refreshed Pendrel, 37, is off to a much better start in 2018, with a seventh-place finish at the first of seven stops on the World Cup circuit in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on March 10.

She was jostling for fourth position late in the race with 2017 world champion Jolanda Neff of Switzerland, but was passed by a few riders and fell out of podium contention.

“I lost position in that last little bit, but my form is pretty solid and everything felt pretty good,” said Pendrel, who finished one minute and 55 seconds behind gold medallist Annika Langvad of Denmark.

“It’s definitely a better start to the year.”

Pendrel will compete in a Canada Cup race in Victoria on March 31 and three U.S. Cup races later this season, but will not enter the Commonwealth Games, opting to let Emily Batty and Haley Smith fly Canada’s flag in Gold Coast, Australia, in April.

“I’ve had a tonne of experience at Games and it was time to give another rider [Smith] an opportunity,” said Pendrel, who won gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. “I know they’re going to do a great job and I get to do a little less travel.”

The U.S. and Canada Cups will offer Pendrel the opportunity to earn points that can help her move up the UCI world rankings and improve starting position at World Cup events. Pendrel is ranked 18th in the world among women’s elite cross-country riders, up two spots after the strong showing in the Rainbow Nation.

She will be in Albstadt, Germany, for the second World Cup stop of the season, an event that runs from May 18 to May 20 and will see the introduction of a new wrinkle.

At each of the remaining six World Cup stops, riders will compete in a short-track (XCC) event that precedes the XCO race.

The much-shorter XCC race, expected to last about 20 minutes, counts for worldranking points and determines starting position for the XCO race.

The World Cup season concludes in August and riders shift focus to the 2018 world championships, which will run from Sept. 4 to Sept. 9 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

By then, local mountain biking fans will know if Pendrel was able to cure the Olympic-year hangover with a bounceback season in 2018.

“I had a really solid winter of training,” Pendrel said. “I felt a good energy and more excitement for racing. Everything all around is better.”

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Catharine Pendrel walked the tarmac at Kamloops Airport with an Olympic bronze medal around her neck in August 2016. The 37-year-old mountain biker is aiming to return to top form in 2018.

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KBRA KIDS LEAGUE Pendrel is president of the Kamloops Bike Riders Association, which is ramping up for a new Kids League season.

The league will run from April 20 to May 25. KTW will have details next week.

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Fisher wants to leave Brown rink on high note MARTY HASTINGS STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Brown rink has become part of Kamloops’ curling fabric, a group of women who were girls when they began to win over hearts in this city.

When lead Sam Fisher leaves the team after this season to concentrate on schooling, only two original members will remain — skip Corryn Brown and third Erin Pincott.

“It’s been an emotional week, for sure, just thinking about not having that everyday contact with them and not doing what I love every single day,” said Fisher, who is studying respiratory therapy at TRU. “It’s going to be a big adjustment. I can’t do both and do both well, so I had to make a decision.”

Now is not the time for tears.

Brown, Pincott, Fisher and second Dezaray Hawes — the Kamloops Curling Club quartet that won bronze at the Scotties B.C. Women’s Curling Championship in Victoria earlier this year — is aiming to win a national university title for the TRU WolfPack.

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KTW FILE PHOTO Sam Fisher has grown up curling with the Brown rink, but will be taking at least a two-year leave following this season to focus on school.

Championship will run from Saturday to Wednesday in Leduc, Alta., and will offer the Brown rink the chance to send Fisher off in style — and make up for a few disappointing finishes at the same time.

Brown, with teammates Fisher, Pincott and Ashley Nordin, suffered defeat in the championship game at university nationals in 2015 and 2016, losing both years to skip Kelsey Rocque and the Alberta Pandas.

“We want to play the best we

can and, hopefully, go out with a big bang for Sam,” Brown said.

“Me and Erin have had a great 12 years with her. It would be nice to cap it off.”

Original member Sydney Fraser left the Brown rink after the 2015-2016 season. She was a fifth for the WolfPack at nationals in 2015.

Fisher plans to return to curling after a two-year hiatus and may rejoin the Brown rink. The search for her replacement in the meantime is on the back burner.

“It’s not going to be an easy spot to fill, but we’re not concentrating on that right now,” said Brown, who led her team to three provincial titles and one national championship in the junior ranks.

Brown said this year’s team should benefit from familiarity, having played the entire 20172018 campaign together, along with coach Allison MacInnes.

In 2014, when Team Brown placed fourth at university nationals, 2015 and 2016, Nordin was not a regular teammate throughout the season.

Nordin, who has since graduated from TRU, belonged to her own women’s team and would join Team Brown sporadically for WolfPack events.

“When Ashley came in, we had to get used to each other again,” Brown said. “This has been nice playing with each other because we have a good dynamic already.”

The Brown rink did not ice a university team last season, as it did not have a fourth, so it is eligible to curl for TRU for one more season. That won’t happen because Brown and Pincott are graduating this year.

There will be no more shots at

gold in the university ranks and who knows what the future holds for Fisher.

The Brown rink will qualify for the 2019 World Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, if it wins nationals.

“We’re going to put it all out there,” Fisher said. “We’ve had a great season. I would absolutely love to go out with a win.”

THE TOURNAMENT The U Sports women’s curling championship will feature eight teams.

TRU will be joined by the Pandas, Brock Badgers of St. Catharines, Ont., Memorial Sea-Hawks of St. John’s, Mount Allison Mounties of Sackville, NB., Queen’s Gaels of Kingston, Ont., Regina Cougars and Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks of Waterloo, Ont. Each team will play each other once in round-robin play. The top four teams qualify for playoffs, with No. 1 playing No. 4 and No. 2 squaring off against No. 3 in the semifinal round.

Each of the Brown rink members are 22, notwithstanding Hawes, who is 20.

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KTW FILE PHOTO Sarah Koopmans has qualified for the Canadian Swimming Trials in Edmonton this summer.

Blazers to draft fifth The Kamloops Blazers finished fifthlast in regular season WHL standings and will pick fifth overall at the bantam draft on May 3 in Red Deer.

A Kootenay Ice ball was drawn at the draft lottery in Calgary on Wednesday, held to determine the first six selections.

The Ice moved up two positions and will pick second, behind the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Prince George (traded to Prince Albert), Calgary, Kamloops and Saskatoon round out the top six.

The order for the second round and following rounds will be the inverse order of the 2017-2018 WHL regular season standings.

IN THE POOL Sarah Koopmans and Emily Dagasso of the Kamloops Classic Swimming club posted qualifying times for national swimming events at the BC Senior Open Provincial Swimming Championships on the weekend in Vancouver.

Koopmans placed fourth in the 50-metre fly and qualified for the Canadian Swimming Trials in Edmonton this summer.

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Koopmans placed ninth in the 50m breast and 10th in the 400m individual medley.

Dagasso placed fourth in the 50m backstroke and qualified for the national swimming championships in Montreal in April.

Keana Smart won bronze in the 1,500m free, was fifth in the 50m backstroke and seventh in the 100m and 200m back events.

Ryley McRae was seventh in the 50m fly, 10th in the 100m fly and 10th in the 200m free. Jack Savage was fifth in the 200m back, sixth in the 1,500m free, eighth in the 50m back and ninth in the 100m back.

Elise Laupland was ninth in the 800m free.

Koopmans, McRae, Savage, Laupland, Emily Dagasso, Eden Saari and Michael Dagasso also qualified for B finals at provincials.

Matt Gauthier and Nolan Paul of the TRU WolfPack

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Gauthier placed 10th in the 50-metre breaststroke. Paul was seventh in the 200m fly, sixth in the 400m individual medley and 10th in the 50m back.

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Notching goals for the Blaze were Tano Torchia (6), Riley McClymont (3), Luukas Dong (2), Russell Mochrie (2), Cole Bellamy (1) and Daniel Ma (1).

Kamloops goalkeeper Jaxson Haywood posted two clean sheets, including one in a 2-0 victory over the Harbour City Surge of Nanaimo in the final.

ON THE DIAMOND The TRU WolfPack will begin the 2018 Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference season on the road.

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KAMLOOPS BLAZERS’ MAJORITY OWNER DISAPPOINTED WITH SEASON, MISSING PLAYOFFS MARTY HASTINGS STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

The 2017-2018 WHL season did not tickle the tastebuds of Kamloops Blazers’ majority owner Tom Gaglardi.

“It was a tough sandwich to have to eat,” Gaglardi said. “I expected to be a playoff team this season. It’s disappointing. The 0-9 start did us in. Had we gone .500 even in the first 10 games, we would have kept our best players at the trade deadline and probably even added and we would have been in the playoffs. I really believe that.”

Instead, general manager Stu MacGregor traded away top scorer Garrett Pilon and top-pairing defenceman Ondrej Vala, both 19, for younger players, prospects and draft picks.

“We took our medicine. I think we did enough at the deadline,” Gaglardi said. “It’s really important not to trade everybody. At the end of the day, it’s a developmental league, as well.

“Nick Chyzowki, a 20-yearold who is not returning, there would have been an opportunity to perhaps move him for an asset,

KTW FILE PHOTO Kamloops Blazers’ owner Tom Gaglardi expected his club to crack the post-season.

for example, but it’s important to leave some good leaders and mentors behind to work with your younger players who are your future. Joe Gatenby was the same.

“Jermaine Loewen and Dylan Ferguson, those are two players we expect to have back next season. Obviously, it’s not a certainty, but it wasn’t the right time in terms of trading.”

The Blazers were in the thick of the playoff race at deadline time, another reason why it did not make sense to sell the farm, Gaglardi said.

Gaglardi, who also owns the NHL’s Dallas Stars, was asked if

he could put a finger on why the Blazers have started poorly these last few seasons.

“Yeah, I’ve got some hunches,” he said. “Nothing I’m particularly prepared to say. Two years in a row we’ve started badly.”

The Blazers’ majority owner said coaching staff reviews will not happen until the WHL Bantam Draft on May 3 is complete.

“We’re going to look at everything,” said Gaglardi, who brought head coach Don Hay back to Kamloops prior to the 2014-2015 season. “We don’t talk about any changes at this stage of the game.

It never makes any sense to and you usually don’t arrive at the right decision.

“We went through a full, exhaustive study last season and arrived at the decisions we arrived at. We’ll be doing the same thing this year.”

Gaglardi has a personal relationship with the family of Logan Stankoven, the Kamloops forward who will likely be selected in the top five at the bantam draft this spring.

“I have an ’03-born son who has played against Logan since he was five or six years old,” Gaglardi said. “I know the kid. I know the family. They’re first rate. They’re at the top of the list for sure, but there are some good players. We’ll see who comes to us. We’re not the only ones who have Logan high on the sheet.”

Gaglardi was asked about the 2020 Memorial Cup bid and what will be most important to its success this summer.

“I personally think that these bids are more and more coming down to the perceived strength of your hockey club more than anything else,” he said. “Kamloops is going to be viewed very positively

as a host city. Facility-wise, we have it all. The important part is to get the hockey side right and demonstrate to the rest of the league that we have Memorial Cup-calibre team.”

The plan, according to Gaglardi, is not necessarily to make a host of roster moves in the spring and summer.

“They look at the assets that you have, having a full set of draft picks,” Gaglardi said. “We well know what high draft picks can return in terms of players. We’ve got a good nucleus of young guys and we feel like we’ll be competitive in terms of that evaluation.

“I don’t know that we are going to change our approach, because of the Memorial Cup, in the summer of 2018. If we’re successful in getting it, it’s going to dictate decisions you otherwise may not make.”

The WHL board of governors is expected to decide in October which city will host the Memorial Cup. The Victoria Royals have stated their intention to bid. Kelowna may also throw its hat in the ring before the bid deadline at the end of May.

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NORTH BAY, Ont. — Canada’s Jennifer Jones locked up a playoff spot and extended her winning streak to nine games on Thursday with an 8-7 victory over Russia’s Victoria Moiseeva at the World Women’s Curling Championship.

Jones had hammer in the final end and drew the fourfoot ring for the win. The stone was a little heavy out of her hand but slowed down just in time.

“That wasn’t my best game for sure but we made some big shots and managed to score more points than them and pull out a win,’’ Jones said.

The Winnipeg skip remained in first place at 9-0, just ahead of Olympic champion Anna Hasselborg of Sweden.

Hasselborg also secured a playoff spot by holding off Japan’s Tori Koana 6-4 to improve to 9-1 in round-robin play. South Korea’s EunJung Kim (6-2) was idle while Russia fell into fourth place at 6-3.

Canada’s latest victory capped a tough three-game stretch that included wins over South Korea and Sweden.

“To be honest it seems like every team is playing really well against us,’’ Jones said.

“You don’t really look at who you play, we just want to play as well as we can heading into the playoffs.’’

Two more draws were scheduled for later Thursday.

Jones was scheduled to play Italy’s Diana Gaspari in the evening.

The Czechs moved into fifth place at 5-4, followed by American Jamie Sinclair (4-4) and Japan (4-5). Denmark, Switzerland and China’s Yilun Jiang were 3-6.

Round-robin play continues through Friday night. The top six teams in the 13-team field will make the playoffs.

The top two seeds will qualify for the semifinals while the remaining playoff teams will meet in qualification games Saturday morning.

The medal games are set for Sunday.

Ottawa’s Rachel Homan won gold at last year’s world championship in Beijing.

Masters curling underway The Kamloops Curling Club is hosting the B.C. Masters Combined Championships this week.

Sixteen teams from the BC Interior Masters Curling Association are joining 16 teams from the Pacific Coast Masters Curling Association to crown champions in four categories.

There are four divisions — men’s 60-plus, women’s 60-plus, mixed 60-plus and men’s 70-plus.

The Kamloops team of skip Wayne Saboe, third Dennis Jeannotte, second Vince Hunter, lead John Sutton and fifth John Cox are defending champions in the 70-plus men’s division.

Team Saboe was 2-0 after Day 1. The tournament will wrap up on Saturday. For the complete schedule, go online to playdowns.com.

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TRACK RESULTS The Kamloops Track and Field Club played host to a pair of events earlier this month, the B.C. Masters Indoor Championships and the Van Ryswyk meet.

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ters, there were several local standout results in their respective divisions.

On the women’s side, Margaret Rhebergen earned gold in the 60-metre dash and high jump, Annie Stark placed second in the 60m dash, Miriam Dziadyk won gold in shot put and Diane Matus placed first in weight throw.

In the men’s category, Dwight Liburd was first in the 60m dash, the 200m and earned gold in high jump with a B.C. record leap.

Shane Wiebe set B.C. records and won gold in shot put and weight throw.

Ryan Gill was second in the 60m dash. Derm Strong won three bronze medals — in the 60m, 200m and 400m — and won gold in 60m hurdles.

Earning gold medals on the girls’ side at the Van Ryswyk meet were Stephanie Jones (3), Paige Planden (3), Bryn Walsh (3), Danica Renwick (3),

Sophie D’Amore (3), Anika Owen (2), Michelle Ritter, Keisha Lacroix (2), Micah Lowen (2), Vanessa Hicks (2), Katie Gill (1) and Kendel Rogers (1).

Boys who won gold include Joel Stride (3), Jacob Heer (3), Lucas Heer (3), Solomon Wong (2), Logan Hwang (2), Jensen Tremblay (2), Chaz Purves (2), Ryland Sheldon (2), Mark Vernette (1), Stephan Kruger (1), Tomas Heer (1) and Kelsy Bentz (1).

Wong set the meet record in his age category in shot put.

In pentathlon, Rhebergen, 62, set the B.C. record. She also set provincial records in pentathlon in the 800m, 60m hurdles and high jump, and set B.C. records in triple jump and pole vault.

Kruger and Ashley Coss, both 17, won silver overall in pentathlon.

For complete results, go online to kamloops thisweek.com.

Milestones

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You are rare like a diamond and pure like an angel.

We can’t tell you how blessed we are to have a mother like you.

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MONECA JANTZEN KTW Graphic Designer RunClub+ What a nice way to welcome spring and get rid of the winter cobwebs. The last time I perspired this much was walking the beach for an hour during my trip to Mexico in January — such a treat!

Our first session with RunClub+ was wonderful. There was an amazing turnout and lots of new faces. We met at the Happyness Centre beforehand to welcome everyone and share a bit about the Boogie/RunClub philosophy.

Many inspirational stories were shared and lots of laughs were had.

Then we wound our way around Riverside Park for at least three kilometres, chatting, laughing, sweating and sharing.

While there are various deterrents that keep many of us from exercising regularly, one of the many things I love about the group aspect of RunClub is that everyone else is also sweating, possibly having a bad hair day or worried about the size of their backside.

But how one looks simply doesn’t matter here. It truly is a judgement-free zone and time at RunClub helps me learn to ignore all the nasty things I imagine the rest of the world must be thinking as I exercise.

Ironically, most of us are our own worst critics and we keep ourselves from doing good things for ourselves. Having support from my fellow RunClubbers and coaches helps get me out of my comfort zone every time. It’s great to be back with everyone, making Mondays a little brighter.

GROUP GOAL WARM-UP

EVAN CHOY Manager of Customer Service, TD Canada Trust 5K Sweet

TIM SHOULTS Operations Manager, Aberdeen Publications 5K Sweet

As I was finishing group projects and assignments on Saturday night, I realized I had to get up at seven the next morning to train with RunClub.

It’s hard to get your body conditioned to wake up early and be physical active right away.

As I was driving to the airport to run the Rivers Trail along the dike, I was thinking that I didn’t feel like training at all. It was cold and windy and the last thing I wanted to do was train.

Once I got out of the car, I heard people cheering and laughing, which got me energized.

I don’t usually go trail running, so I was very curious as to how my body was going to react. At the start of the run, I felt stiff due to the cold wind and lower temperature.

My only focus was to push myself and determine my cardiovascular levels.

I wanted to really push the envelope because I wanted to know how out of shape I was.

After the run, I felt really good. I cleared my head and was ready to tackle my day.

I started my Sunday off with good conversations, smiles and positive energy.

It has begun.

The reason I joined RunClub again, and the reason I agreed to write this training diary, is that when it comes to diet and exercise, I lack internal motivation.

I know the importance of healthy eating and regular physical activity, I know the benefits and I know I feel better when I’m doing both regularly.

But that knowledge and that feeling often just aren’t enough to get me started — or, once started, to keep me going. So, as it says on the Oracle at Delphi, “Know Thyself” — and what I know is I need external prodding.

This diary — this public accounting for my journey with RunClub — is that prod. I can’t write why I didn’t get off the couch this week to go to RunClub. Well, I could, but I really don’t want to.

This accountability comes with a bonus level: people I know, and several people I don’t know, but who recognize my picture from this page, take it upon themselves to comment on my progress and offer helpful feedback.

When I say helpful, it usually takes the form of, “Did you do your playwork this week?!”

That’s what I mean when I said, “It has begun.” There’s nowhere for me to hide.

And I suppose that’s for the best.

So, in a way, you, in reading these words, are keeping me accountable to myself.

Thank you for doing that. I think.

Walkers

Beginners

10k Sweet

10K Experienced

21 Club

5k or 10k Boogie walk

5k Boogie Learn To Run

10k Boogie run, entry-level

10k Boogie Run

Half-marathon distance

Walking warm up of five minutes.

Walking warm up of 10 minutes.

Walking warm up of 10 minutes.

Walking warm up of 10 minutes.

Walking warm up of 10 minutes.

1) Walk easy for 25 minutes, then power walk for 20. Total 45 minutes.

1) Walk 4 minutes, run 2 minutes. Repeat 8 times.

Total 48 minutes.

1) Walk 2 minutes, run 6 minutes.

Repeat 6 times.

Total 52 minutes.

1) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 7 times.

Total 70 minutes.

1) 15.5-kilometre run.

2) Walk easy for 20 minutes, then power walk for 15. Total 35 minutes.

2) Walk 4 minutes, run for 2 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 36 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 6 minutes.

Repeat 5 times .

Total 45 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 5 times.

Total 50 minutes (with hills).

3) Walk easy for 20 minutes, then power walk for 20 .

Total 40 minutes.

3) Walk 4 minutes, run 2 minutes. Repeat 7 times.

Total 42 minutes.

3) Walk 2 minutes, run 6 minutes.

Repeat six times.

Total 48 minutes.

3) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 60 minutes.

COOL DOWN

Ten minutes walking cool down and stretching.

Ten minutes walking cool down and stretching.

Ten minutes walking cool down and stretching.

Ten minutes walking cool down and stretching.

Ten minutes walking cool down and stretching.

TIPS

Spring is a beautiful time to be outside. Take in all the sounds, smells and your surroundings.

Being outdoors is so important for our health and happiness Your goal is to walk 5K or 10K.

Remember, rest days are also training days. Rest days are when your body is recovering and strengthening. Try not to run two days in a row.

The best complement to your run is yoga. Yoga packs serious perks for runners, including flexibility, easing aches and pains and recovery.

Get your stretch on. Learn four or five basic yoga stretches designed specifically for your running body. This can improve all aspects of running.

Recovery eating after your long run: Consuming carbs with a bit of protein in the first 90 minutes post-run speeds muscle recovery.

PLAYWORK

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 60 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 7 times.

Total 70 minutes.

WEEK 3 MOVEMENT IS CHANGE with Jo Berry

Move through that trauma

M

ost everyone will go through at least one traumatic event in his or her lifetime.

One of the ways to move through pain is literally to move.

Our mantra, “movement is change}, means movement on every level: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Every year at Boogie, training is different — and yet the same. We train not only our outsides (running) but also our thoughts feelings and beliefs (insides). Life is always happening and having a human experience can at times be very challenging for all of us.

Every year, there Questions? will be participants Go online to runclub.ca going through transor send an email to joberry@telus.net. formative change through a crisis or loss. Our coaching, support and the experience of movement can release emotions and heal and change a person’s emotional state. Being in community takes us out of our thoughts and into a different energy.

Because the feelings of grief or trauma can come to surprise us, sometimes in waves, it’s important to have something right there, something strong and steady.

This is our community and our mission — to serve, support and understand the human condition.

Every day and with each footstep, we can all learn to choose healing rather than resentment, freedom rather than unforgiving, love rather than fear and joy rather than despair.

Each choice made faithfully leads to more choices Eventually, we are all surprised to find ourselves healed, whole and happily living a new life. It’s OK if you think that sounds crazy or impossible, because in 2010, I felt the same thing.

God loves to laugh at the impossible. Soon enough, you’ll be turning your impossible into everything possible.

Movement is change.

Join the Boogie movement. Contact Jo Berry by email at joberry@telus.net. For more information, go online to RunClub.ca and boogiethebridge.com.

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THE BORN LOSER

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GUESS WHO?

HERMAN

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KIT ’N’ CARLYLE

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FAMILY CIRCUS

by Bil & Jeff Keane

I am a singer born in California on March 18, 1979. I met my bandmates while attending Brentwood School. We formed a band with a red-hued color in the name and have produced many chart-topping hits. I’ve been a singing coach on TV for several years.

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Happy Easter

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We provide training & tutoring.

Talk to Karl Neff 250 377 250-377-3030 SStart your new career today!

Education/Trade Schools

Looking For Love?

Coming Events

Kamloops This Week will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018 for the Good Friday Statutory Holiday.

Considering a Career in Real Estate?

Building Maintenance and Commercial Janitorial Business. Includes equipment, vehicle, training and existing contracts with 30 hours per week. Administrative support provided for Accounts Receivable & Sales. Gross income of approx. $3,100 per month plus. Asking $19,500. or best offer. Contact Darrell 250-319-1394.

Small Engine Mechanic

Exeter Forest & Marine Sales Ltd is looking for a Small Engine Mechanic, experience proffered, will train, Full Time.

Please drop off Resume: 130 Horse Lk Rd, 100 Mile House, B.C. or email exeter@telus.net 250-395-4441

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HUNTER & FIREARMS

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Hazelwood Construction Services specializes in delivering high quality civil infrastructure projects on time and on budget throughout BC. We are looking to fill the following temporary positions for an upcoming project near Lillooet, BC: SITE SUPERINTENDENT CONSTRUCTION SAFETY OFFICER OPERATOR

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For more information please call the Circulation Department at

Permanent positions are also available on Vancouver Island: CIVIL CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN SUPERINTENDENT PIPE LAYERS OPERATORS

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Largest major retail store in the Interior carrying major top furniture brands like Ashley, La-Z-Boy, Serta, Simmons and more is seeking a skilled salesperson. We place value on teamwork, positive attitude and ability to learn, along with personal motivation and drive. Guaranteed wage/commission for the right top performer.

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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society (1) Full-Time Family Circles Coordinator Objective: The Family Circles Coordinator provides preventative support and maintenance programs to preserve families where possible. The Family Circles Coordinator will bring all relevant parties together to promote cooperative planning and decision making to rebuild family support networks. This position will provide strong leadership in advocating the rights and jurisdiction of family units and will develop positive working relationships with community groups, agencies and societies.

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Scw’exmx Child & Family Services Society (1) Full-Time Social Work Case Aide TRU invites applications for the following positions: FACULTY Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Mechanic Programs School of Trades & Technology Power Engineering Program School of Trades & Technology Piping Trades Foundation & Apprenticeship School of Trades & Technology

For further information, please visit:

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We wish to thank all applicants; however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

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Home Care/Support Home Support worker for personal care required.

Assisting person in wheel chair. Training provided. P/T, F/T. DL Required. Competitive wages.

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Start date: April 9, 2018 Pay: $45,069.91 per annum Deadline: March 23, 2018 Interviews to take place: March 26, 2018

Children’s Circle Daycare Society is looking for casual ECE staff or ECE Assistant to do breaks, holiday relief and sick days.

The right candidate will have a current certificate to practice, First Aid and a love of children. Our wages are per the BCGEU Agreement. Our casual staff get 10.2% holiday pay in lieu of benefits until they are working more than 21 hours in a week. Children’s Circle Childcare is a Non-profit childcare centre catering to the children and families of Kamloops and the surrounding area. We pride ourselves on having wonderful centres with great friendly staff. This position is open to both male and female candidates.

If you believe this position is right for you, please send a cover letter and resume to: stpauls@ccdaycare.ca.

Sales 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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Employment will commence May 1, 2018 and continue to September 4, 2018. following standards: x x x x x x x x

Eligibility will be based on the

Have been registered as a student in the previous academic year; Be students in a secondary, post-secondary, vocational technical program but not attending full-time classes while employed; Intends to return to school on a full-time basis during the next academic year Be between 16 and 30 years of age; inclusive Must be a Canadian citizen; Not hold another full-time (30 or more hours) summer job; Valid Class 5 driver’s license preferred, minimum Class 7; Able to start May 1, 2017 preferred.

The rate of pay is $13.00 $15.00 as per C.U.P.E. Collective Agreement. $15.00- per hourper as hour per C.U.P.E. Collective Agreement.

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For details on available positions, please contact: Jeff Carter, Director of Public Works and Recreation Phone: 250.523.6225 ext. 225 E-mail: jcarter@loganlake.ca

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

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

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or visit : www.loganlake.ca/career-opportunities All interested applicants can submit a resume to the above by 4:00 p.m. on March 31, 2018, e-mail is preferred.

Please specify area of preference (i.e. Parks, Visitor Centre, Campground). Preference may be given to post secondary students.

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Employment

Employment

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Operations Manager Applicant must have general knowledge of plumbing, electrical, carpentry systems, and general computer knowledge. Must be receptive to site visitors and tour groups, as well as employee base.

This is a seasonal position from April to October only, exempt, full time.

Responsible for daily grounds maintenance, safety, and operation. Reports to General Manager and works with Program Director on operations, budgets, and employee management. Site is open 9–5 Daily, May through September. Position starts April 1 and ends in mid-October. www.Historichatcreek.ca for site information.

Please email resume to Donp@Historichatcreek.com

Career Opportunity Pacific Hospitality Inc. DBA 627170 BC Ltd Hampton Inn & suites, located at 1245 Rogers Way, Kamloops is looking for the following fulltime positions:

Front Desk Supervisor

Duties include: Develop, and implement policies & procedures for department. Prepare budgets, monitor revenue and expenses, supervise staff, oversee training and resolve customer complaints.

Wage: $24.00 per hour.

Housekeeping Supervisor

Duties include: Establish and implement procedures for depertment. Co-ordinate and inspect areas for safety and health regulations. Train and supervise staff, maintain budget and payroll records.

Wage: $23.59 per hour.

Please apply in person, by fax: 604.580.1043 or by email to charanrai00@hotmail.com

School District No. 73 KAMLOOPS/THOMPSON Distance Learning Support Programmer School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson) is presently seeking a Distance Learning Support Programmer to provide custom software design and network administration to support the District’s Distance Education program. The successful applicant must possess a postsecondary diploma in Computer Science.

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science would be an asset. Must possess a minimum Linux Certification LPI Level II or equivalent certification with a minimum of four years’ experience with Unix-based systems (Linux/ FreeBSD) and Wide Area Networks.

Applicants can review the complete job posting and job description on the makeafuture.ca web site and apply by completing their profile by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2018 detailing qualifications and experience. For further information, contact: John Cuzzola, Director of Information Technology School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson) 1383 Ninth Avenue Kamloops BC V2C 3X7 E-mail to jcuzzola@sd73.bc.ca

Employment

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent

Cars - Domestic

Northland Apartments

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

Work Wanted

Firearms

Misc. for Sale

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

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

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

Gene Wirchenko at 250-8281474. genew@telus.net

300 Winchester Magnum wood stock, recoil pad, leather sling. PAL. $350. 573-4173

MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, 1-Standard 8ft truck canopy $300. Call 250851-1115 after 6pm or leave msg.

MP Yard Care. Pruning fruit trees, hedge trimming.

Comm/Residential. 851-0800

Pets

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

PETS For Sale?

TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm. (250)371-4949

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Merchandise for Sale

Books, Coins, Stamps Local Coin Collector Looking to Buy Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins, Bills+ Please Call Chad 250-863-3082 The Coin Guy.

$500 & Under Do you have an item for sale under $750?

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

Call our Classified Department for details!

Kimber Model 1911 22 caliber pistol stainless, new in box. $600.

250-372-8633.

Must have restricted PAL.

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

Stock up now. Campfire wood.

(250) 377-3457.

Furniture 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.

Misc. for Sale 11pc setting 55pcs of silverware in beautiful box. $65.

250-374-7534.

2-1955 Original Fringed Suede matching Leather Jackets.

M-42, F10-12. $400/both. 250377-6920.

29,000 grain water softener New in box $350 2-XL kids snowmobile helmets $20 ea (250) 256-0084 A-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifications possible doors, windows, walls etc., as office or living workshop etc.,Custom Modifications Office / Home” Call for price.

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

Misc. Wanted 00000000000000000000000 Numismatist buying coins, collections,paper money, gold, silver +. Todd 250)-864-3521 Christine is Buying Vintage Jewellery, Gold, Silver, Coins, Sterling, China, Estates, etc.

1-778-281-0030 Housecalls.

Coin Collector Buying Coins Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver+ Chad 1-250-863-3082

Have Unwanted Firearms?

Have unwanted or inherited firearms in your possession?

Don’t know how to dispose of them safely and legally?

Contact Wanstalls and we will come and pick them up and pay you fair value for them.

Wanstalls has been proudly serving the Lower Mainland firearms community since 1973. We are a government licensed firearms business with fully certified verifiers, armorers and appraisers.

Call today to set up an appointment 604-467-9232 WANSTALLS TACTICAL & SPORTING ARMS

Musical Instruments 2-3/4 French and German Violins c/w case/bows. $200-$ 300. 3-Full size violins. $200$500. 250-434-6738.

Real Estate

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

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

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Beautiful Westyde 1997 Park Mobile covered deck, natural gas, built in w/d No dogs $82000 (250) 852-1201

BY OWNER $55.00 Special!

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*some restrictions apply

Computer Equipment Samsung Tablet E. Brand new still in the box. $250.

250-299-8078.

Kubota AV2500 Generator. $585. 250-374-1988 Shoprider Scooter, cherry red. Like new, less than 30miles. $3500/obo. 250-3764813.

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Cars - Sports & Imports

BC Best Buy Classifieds Place your classified ad in over 71 Papers across BC. Call 250-371-4949 for more information

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

242,000km no drips. Show car quality.

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

Duplex / 4 Plex 3Bdrm duplex top flr 2 full baths, new floors, N/P. Avail Mar 1st $1500. 778-908-6882

Recreation **BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2018** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,300 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly.

Call for more information.

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Motorcycles 2003 Harley Davidson 100th Ann. Edition Fat Boy CID 95 Stage 3 exc cond 17,000km $11,000. (250) 318-2030

Recreational/Sale 1998 Chev 2500 club cab HD fully loaded w/8ft camper and jacks $5200 (250) 319-1742 2003 21ft Bigfoot Travel Trailer. Very good cond. Slps 4. $22,500. 250-578-7888.

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $22,500. 236-421-2251 2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $69,000 250-374-4723

Senior Assisted Living Crescent Gardens Retirement Residence.

South Surrey/White Rock.

Spacious 2 bedroom ground floor suite for rent (privately owned). Full kitchen /laundry.

Available May 1. Open House Mar.31 and Apr. 1, from 1-3 Call 604.290.3453 for an appt or more info.

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

Run until sold

Shared Accommodation

New Price $56.00+tax

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one flat rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* • $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) • $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

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

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Mobile Homes & Parks ATTENTION HOME BUYERS!

Call: 250-371-4949

1BDRM Sep. Entr. Shared Lndry. N/S N/P $900/mo+DD+ ref’s, util. incl. Brock 554-2228

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

Scrap Car Removal

Grt loc, 2bdrms, sep entr. patio, nice yard. Ref’s. No Pets. $900/mo. 250-376-0633

Suites, Upper Valleyview 2bdrm, 4appl sep ent, cls to bus, util incl. Avail now. $1200. 250-572-0608.

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Antiques / Classics

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Sport Utility Vehicle HOME & LOTS AVAILABLE

1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

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

1985 Dodge Ram Charger.

Very good condition. $5,000/OBO 250-579-5551

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2006 Equinox. 168,000kms.

Auto, 6cyl.

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

Trucks & Vans 1996 GMC Suburban 4x4 good shape runs great $3100obo Call (250) 571-2107

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Transportation

LOOKING FOR DOOR TO DOOR CARRIERS

Trucks & Vans

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

Good condition. $9,900.

250-374-1988

Utility Trailers Heavy Duty Trailer 5’8� inside 14’ long. 2x8 stud axles, elec brakes, ramps. $3000/obo.

250-577-3120.

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

(250) 523-6251

Legal

Legal Notices Residential Tenancy Act Notice is hereby given to Tenant: Elizabeth M. Charleyboy.

Rental unit: 2304 Martin Prairie Road, Pritchard, BC. Landlord: Lori Jaik of 2304 Martin Prairie Road, Pritchard, BC. Items to be sold/disposed of: Various animal fence panels, chicken coops (X2), animal feeders, power chords, saw horses, plastic bins, misc. children’s toys, children’s play house, trampoline metal frame, bicycle parts, misc. gardening item/tools, plastic/ metal planters, greenhouse, wooden garden chair and table, tarps, wood pallets, plastic/wood shelving units.

The above items will be disposed of after 30 days of the notice being served or posted, unless the person being notified takes the items, or establishes a right to the items, or makes a dispute resolution application with the Residential Tenancy Branch, or makes an application in Supreme Court to establish their rights to the items.

Kids & Adults needed!

ABERDEEN

Rte 504 – 2146-2294 Sifton Ave, Sifton Lane – 44 p.

Rte 506 – Gloaming Dr, Heatherton Crt, Laurel Pl, Stirling Pl. – 86 p.

Rte 520 – Canongate Cres & Pl, 805841 Dunrobin Dr, Whitburn Cres. – 74 p

BATCHELOR HEIGHTS

Rte 171 ² *ULIÀQ 7HUU +RRN Dr, Napier Pl. – 75 p.

Rte 184 ² 6DGGOHEDFN 'U 2001-2071 Stagecoach Dr. – 29p.

DALLAS/BARNHARTVALE Rte 754 – Hillview Dr, Mountview Dr. – 36 p.

Rte 759 – Beverly Pl, 67247250 Furrer Rd, McIver Pl, Pat 5G 6WRFNWRQ 5G ² S Rte 761 – 6022-6686 Furrer Rd, Houston Pl, Parlow Rd, Pearse Pl, Urban Rd. – 57 p.

DOWNTOWN

Rte 317 – 535-649 7th Ave, 702-794 Columbia St even, 702-799 Nicola St. – 45 p.

Rte 319 – 454 6th Ave, 604690 Columbia St even, 604692 Nicola St. – 15 p.

Rte 323 -755--783 6th Ave, 763884 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 side), 804-987 Dominion St, 805-986 Pine St. – 65 p.

Rte 331 – 984-987 9th Ave, 1125 10th Ave, 901-981 Douglas St, 902-999 Munro St, 806-990 Pleasant St. – 38 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 – &ODUN 6W : Columbia St. – 20 p.

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

Rte 381 – &HQWUH $YH +HPORFN St, 605-800 Lombard St. – 41p.

Rte 382 – 114-150 Fernie Pl, Fernie Rd, 860-895 Lombard St. – 30 p.

Rte 384 – 407-775 W. Battle St, 260-284 Centre Ave – 47 p.

Rte 385 – 350-390 W. Battle St, *UDQGYLHZ 7HUU 6WUDWKFRQD 7HU ² S Rte 389 – Bluff Pl, 390 Centre Ave, 242-416 W. Columbia St, 'XIIHULQ 7HUU *DUGHQ 7HUU *UDQGYLHZ 7HUU ² S

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Rte 482 – 101-403 Robson Dr. – 55 p.

Rte 461 – Glen Gary Dr & Pl, Glencoe Pl, 700-799 Gleneagles Dr. – 53 p.

Rte 492 – 2000-2099 Monteith Dr, Sentinel Crt. – 37 p.

VALLEYVIEW/JUNIPER

Rte 605 – 1770-1919 Glenwood Dr, .QROOZRRG 'U 9LFDUV 5G ² S Rte 606 – Orchard Dr, Russet Wynd, 9DOOH\YLHZ 'U ² S Rte 652 – Coldwater Crt, 16162212 Coldwater Dr, 1921-1999 6NHHQD 'U RGG VLGH ² S

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Gordon Gill

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Merle McNabb

It is with sadness we announce the passing of Gordon Gill on March 19, 2018 at the age of 82 after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

December 23, 1933 - January 29, 2018 Merle departed this world for heaven surrounded by family at Royal Inland Hospital on January 29, 2018 at the age of 84.

He was predeceased by his parents Alexander and Katie McNabb, sisters Elenore and Shirley, brother Alfred and grandson Nicholas. He will be greatly missed by his wife Shirley, daughters Linda (Merv), Carol (Howard), Connie and son Brian (Pia), grandchildren Kevin, Solita, Jason, Lindsay, Andrew, Clifford, Stefanie, Nathan and Chelsey, great-grandchildren Mataya, Jayda, Warren, Brooklyn, Caleb, Hunter, Noah, Jordan, Rylee, Emily, Kenzie, Kinsley and Hudson, brothers Gordon and Orville and sister Betty, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Merle was born in Cookson, Saskatchewan and moved to British Columbia in 1957 with his family. He spent many years working and raising his family in 100 Mile House, British Columbia. During his retirement years, Merle and Shirley moved to Kamloops, British Columbia.

Terry Allen Gallis

Gordon is predeceased by his son Brian and leaves to cherish his memory his wife Joyce, his daughter Karen (Dan) Doyle, his brother-in-law Tim (Tamme) Barzaghi, his daughter-in-law Eileen, his dear family friend Koji Kobayashi, his grandchildren Shea (Sarah) Doyle, Craig (Kate) and Devan (Lindsay), his great-granddaughter Samantha Doyle, his sister Beth (Marsh) Gardecki and his brother Vance (Jenny).

The family would like to thank the staff at both Ponderosa and Gemstone.

A private family gathering will be determined at a later date.

A Celebration of Merle’s Life will be on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 1:00 pm at the Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, 702 Columbia Street, Kamloops, British Columbia. Refreshments to follow the service.

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Edward James Dunnigan On March 19, 2018, Mr. Edward James Dunnigan passed away peacefully in Kamloops. He was born on August 7, 1932 in Edmonton, Alberta to John and Vera Dunnigan, he was the first of twelve children. Shortly after graduating from high school, he joined CN Railways as an Engine Serviceman becoming a Fireman Hostler in 1952. He was promoted to Locomotive Engineer in 1957, spending 18 years working various runs in and around Edmonton.

In Kamloops, after 38 years of service, Ed retired from the railway. Ed enjoyed bird hunting and fishing with his brothers, other relatives and friends; he was a member of the Aberdeen Hills Golf Club for 20 years. He was predeceased by his parents, brothers John and Joe and sister Margaret. Left to cherish his memory is his wife of over 60 years Marion, his children Janice (Reilly) Thompson of Edmonton, David of Vernon, Patricia (Russell) Bloomfield of Kamloops, Mark of Edmonton and Angela Dunnigan of Kamloops, granddaughter Alicia of Kamloops, great-grandchildren Christopher and Edward. Also left to cherish his memory, his brothers and sisters Thomas of Kelowna, Richard “Dick” (Jan) of Edmonton, William (Jan) of Nanaimo, Robert (Maureen) of St. Albert, AB, Kathleen Eliot of Vernon, Irene Wood of Calgary, Evelyn Dunnigan of New Waterford, NS and Ronald (Linda) of Edmonton, sister-in-law Adele Dunnigan of Edmonton, brother-in-law John-Paul Pronovost of Keremeos, BC and sisterin-law Sharon Buchan of Edmonton as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.

Prayers will be recited on Friday, April 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 255 Nicola St, Kamloops. The Reverend Father Derrick Cameron will celebrate the Funeral Mass at the Cathedral on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the John & Vera Dunnigan Physical Education Scholarship at Catholic Education Services, Assistant Superintendent of Education Planning, 9807-106th St. N W, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 1C2 or the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

January 28, 1958 – March 26, 1997

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.

She is on object of beauty & strength & I stand & watch her, until at length, she is only a speck of white cloud just wheret he seas & sky meet and mingle with each other. Then someone at my side exclaims, “There, she’s gone!”

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large as she was when she left my side & just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination.

Her diminished size is in me, not her.

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Unseen, unheard, but you are always near, Still loved, still missed and held so dear Terry.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says she is gone, there are other eyes watching for her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout “There she comes!”.

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Obituaries & In Memoriam Ruth Caroline Cherry

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

On March 18, 2018, the Angels watched in awe as Mom opened her Beautiful Butterfly Angel Wings in Heaven.

Predeceased by her husband Charlie and son Bob, Mom leaves to mourn her children Wayne (Moira), Jim (Pauline), Ken (Joan), Vicki and Gordon. Gramma leaves to mourn nine grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Mom was also loved by many friends and she was known as Mom to them as well.

DYLAN THOMAS

Daughter of Augusta and William Dreger, she was born on February 10, 1926. Ruth was predeceased by sisters Minnie, Norma, Shirley, Joan, Alma, Viola and Mildred. She is survived by sisters Eileen and Donna, and brothers Walter (Diane) and Gordon (Darlene).

Pauline, where would our family be without you in it? Your commitment to Mom for the best care undoubtedly allowed Mom to live a happier life. Your weekly visits with groceries or anything Mom needed along with the friendship you and Mom had was so special. Thank you a million times for everything. We love you so much.

Nicky, there are no words to express our gratitude for always being there for Gramma. Wednesday night Yahtzee games and running errands, you are Grammas sweet Angel.

Special Thank you to Dr. Francois Malan for years of loving care for Mom, to Dr. Steven Rollheiser for your gentle and comforting ways and also to the staff and volunteers of Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Home. You all go far beyond in giving the gentlest loving care at such a difficult time. Thank you all!

In lieu of flowers, please donate to M.W.S. Hospice Home.

A memorial will be held at a later date.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightening they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

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