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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW TOP STORIES: 2003 wildfires In the summer of 2003, thousands of Kamloops-area homes were evacuated as flames tore through giant swaths of land, destroying structures and leaving behind scorched earth

Thousands of people were displaced due to wildfires burning in the region. That statement could easily be applied to last summer’s historic infernos in Interior British Columbia, but the wildfires to which we are referring are the Strawberry Hill and McClure-Barriere fires of 2003. The year has been burned into the minds of residents in the area. Evacuees came to the city — people from Rayleigh were also forced out at one point — seeking basic necessities downtown at the local arena, which was then known as Sport Mart Place. All the while, the fire could be seen from within the city in the mountains north of Kamloops. Gordon Campbell was premier at the time and described, having seen some of the damage firsthand, devastation by the McLure fire to Louis Creek.

“There is virtually no structures left standing,” Campbell said in a story in the Aug. 6, 2003 edition of KTW. “It’s devastated. It’s like the life has been sucked out of it.”

Issues of KTW from that time describe a lush green valley turned to black. Thousands of firefighters battled the blazes and others in B.C. The man responsible for the McClure-Barriere fire apparently caused the blaze by tossing a cigarette butt, a stark reminder that most wildfires are human-caused.

TRIUMPH: Blazer dynasty The Blue and Orange were the most successful team in Canadian major junior hockey in the early 1990s, winning three Memorial Cup titles between 1992 and 1995

In two years, the Kamloops Blazers hope to host the 2020 Memorial Cup tournament, featuring the host squad and the champions of the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Winning the bid would be a monumental victory on its own, considering Kamloops is battling Kelowna, Victoria and Lethbridge for the right to host.

For newcomers to Kamloops who have only the recent past as a measuring stick, there was a time when the Kamloops Blazers were a dominant force.

In the early 1990s, the Blazers were the most successful major junior hockey team in Canada for an extended period of time.

The club advanced to the Memorial Cup in 1984 (as the Junior Oilers), 1986 and 1990, but did not win the cherished hardware.

In 1992, the dynasty began, with Kamloops winning the Cup that year and again in 1994 and 1995, the final title coming on home ice in a resounding 8-2 win over the Detroit Junior Red Wings.

The names from those championship teams echo today: general manager Bob Brown, coaches Don Hay and Tom Renney and players Scott Niedermayer, Darryl Sydor, Darcy Tucker, Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Nolan Baumgartner, Jason Strudwick and Corey Hirsch.

It’s been 23 years since the Blazers hoisted the Memorial Cup. Fans are hoping the drought will end in 24 months.

TRAGEDY: Columbia calamity On Oct. 27, 1989, the driver of an 84,000-pound truck carrying a load of steel lost control of the vehicle on Columbia Street, careening off the road and killing five

Why was he there?

That question was on the front page of Kamloops This Week on Oct. 29, 1989, and many residents likely still wonder that when thinking back to the day five people died when an out-of-control semi-truck barrelled down Columbia Street.

At about noon on Oct. 27, The 84,000 pound truck, towing a load of steel I-beams, lost its brakes and crashed into cars stopped at Third Avenue and Columbia Street for a red light.

The truck bounced from car to car before a smoking mess of flaming twisted metal was left in front of Royal Inland Hospital.

Amongst the dead were the truck’s driver, three women and a child.

Another 14 people were injured.

Council had passed a bylaw years earlier restricting truck traffic through the city and with the driver deceased, it was a mystery as to whether he missed the bypass because he was new to the route or lost control before he had time to exit.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW From the time plans for a large-scale copper and gold mine on the outskirts of Aberdeen were initially announced nearly a decade ago, the issue divided Kamloops residents — until its defeat last year

There may have never been an issue that polarized Kamloops as did the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine south of Aberdeen.

From the moment the environmental-assessment process began in May 2011 to the second the project died when rejected by the provincial government in December 2017, Ajax seemed to have cleaved Kamloops in half.

From Stop Ajax Mine bumper stickers to I Support Ajax retorts, from company-hosted events to myriad protests on the streets, the $1.5-billion mine proposal created us and them factions in the community. In fact, more than a few politicians noted the city will need time to “heal” following the acrimonious years that fostered emotional debate. Those supporting the project cited economic benefits in the form of direct and indirect jobs and a community-benefits agreement with city hall.

Those opposed cited health concerns due to the mine’s close proximity to residents.

In the end, the NDP government said “adverse effects of the Ajax project outweighed the potential benefits” in its decision to not issue an environmental certificate.

While the mine was rejected — it requires approval from both the federal and provincial governments — it is not technically dead as KGHM could decide to seek approval in the future.

TRIUMPH: ‘93 Canada Games In the summer of 1993, more than 8,000 volunteers sprung to action to help ensure things went as planned when Canada came to what would become the Tournament Capital

Look at Canada Games Aquatic Centre, Hillside Stadium and the various facilities on McArthur Island.

They all owe their existence to a seminal event 25 years ago that transformed Kamloops and continues to position the city as Canada’s Tournament Capital.

The 1993 Canada Summer Games, held in Kamloops’ Centennial year, shattered numerous attendance and performance records, supported by an 8,400-strong army of volunteers who helped make the event happen.

More than 3,000 athletes and more than 600 coaches took part in the most successful Canada Summer Games ever held.

The legacy of the event — new and upgraded facilities valued at more than $11 million and more than $700,000 in equipment — continues to be felt to this day.

TOP STORIES: The Bushman Twenty years ago, John Bjornstrom was living off the grid in the Shuswap, setting up elaborate camps and breaking into area cabins to steal items that allowed him to live in the woods

John Bjornstrom became infamous 20 years ago as the Bushman of the Shuswap.

At the time, he was the most wanted person in Canada, a man who disappeared into the backwoods of the Shuswap because he claimed information he had relating to the massive Bre-X stock scam put his life in danger.

For three years — after walking away from the Rayleigh Correctional Centre, where he was serving time for burglary — the Bushman survived in the woods, creating elaborate camps and breaking into cabins for goods.

Bjornstrom had become a legend, his exploits — and law enforcement’s inability to capture him — leading to international headlines.

Nobody had spoken to Bjornstrom until early September 2001, when KTW reporter Dale Steeves scored an exclusive interview by meeting with the Bushman in a remote part of the Shuswap.

Steeves spent hours talking to Bjornstrom, with a riveting 2,000-word feature splashed on the front page of Kamloops This Week and dropped on every doorstep in town.

But the timing of the interview and subsequent publication date were more than a little unfortunate.

As Steeves ruefully noted later, his landmark story was published on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the most devastating terrorist attack ever conducted on North American soil.

Bjornstrom was eventually arrested by Mounties, who took a page out of Steeves’ notebook and posed as journalists.

The Bushman eventually settled in Williams Lake, where, on Jan. 13 of this year, he died suddenly.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW TRIUMPH: TRU a university What started as Cariboo College in 1970 kept growing and evolving until 2005, when TRU was granted university status

Cariboo College opened with little more than 550 students in 1970. Almost 50 years later, the modest campus has grown into a fledgling university with more than 25,000 students. The university status came in 2005, along with a $20-million capital expansion investment.

Programming has expanded significantly over the years, as well. In September 2011, the school accepted its first cohort of law students as part of the country’s newest law school. The nursing program is often waitlisted and the province has given a green light for a new engineering program. The university has become central to the fabric of Kamloops, not only in the students who continue to work within the community, but also in the number of people it employs and development it has attracted. One only needs to look at McGill Road to see the impacts of the university on the area.

TOP STORIES: Mayor Kenna Kamloops has had one female mayor in its history — Kenna Cartwright, who served one term beginning in 1990 until hear death in 1991 Kenna Cartwright became the River City’s first and only female mayor in November 1990.

Records from the Kamloops Museum and Archives detail her road to the mayor’s chair.

She first served as a school trustee for three years in the late 1970s before she became a city councillor for five years in the early 1980s.

Her first crack at the mayor’s chair was in 1988, when she lost to Phil Gaglardi. She ran again two years later and won, securing her place in the city’s history before dying of cancer in 1991.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW TOP STORIES: 1210 McGill In 2002, Kamloops found itself in the middle of a sad national news story after a 55-year-old government employee opened fire on co-workers, killing two before turning the gun on himself

On Oct. 15, 2002, police arrived at the Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection on McGill Road within five minutes of a 911 call.

In what was described at the time as “24 hours of shock, terror and tragedy,” Richard Glenn Anderson shot and killed two men before turning the gun on himself.

“I can’t imagine what it must be like for the people who work in that building, particularly the two women who were there for four hours wondering if a man with a gun was going to come and find them,” a communications officer with B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union said at the time. “Absolutely terrifying.”

The 55-year-old Anderson had been given a disciplinary letter when he killed his 54-year-old manager James William McCracken and David Humphrey Mardon, also 54.

Early reports had misidentified the situation as a hostage-taking. Police found a nine-millimetre handgun at the scene registered to Anderson.

Firearms and ammunition were also seized after a search of his home.

The tragedy put Kamloops in the spotlight, with media from as far east as Montreal descending on the city.

TRAGEDY: The opioid crisis Thousands of lives have been lost during B.C.’s recent opioid crisis, and Kamloops has been no exception — overdose deaths have spiked in recent years, sparking change

One of the saddest stories KTW has had to cover in its 30-year history is still unfolding.

The recent opioid crisis in B.C. has hit every community and Kamloops is no exception.

The number of people dying from illicit-drug overdose deaths continues to remain high in Kamloops year after year.

In all of 2017, Kamloops saw 39 overdose deaths.

The year before, 44 died, which remains the record level.

In the period from 2008 to 2015 — years when the opioid crisis was not as prevalent as it is now — annual deaths in Kamloops were in the single digits.

During the first three months of 2018, Kamloops recorded 12 illicit-drug overdose deaths, which has the city on pace to register the most such deaths in a calendar year.

With governments scrambling to combat the opioid crisis, many dollars have been spent and initiatives spearheaded, such as a mobile safe-injection RV Interior Health began operating in Kamloops in the fall of 2017.

TOP STORIES: The Coliseum Ground was broken on Kamloops’ downtown coliseum in September of 1990 and, though its name has changed many times since, the building continues to serve its purpose well

It has hosted a Memorial Cup tournament, numerous concerts, many local, provincial, national and world sports championships, trade shows and religious conventions.

And, in the summers of 2003 and 2017, it was home for thousands of people who fled wildfires throughout the B.C. Interior.

Today, we call the iconic arena downtown Sandman Centre. Before that, it was known as Interior Savings Centre and Sport Mart Place.

But some longtime Kamloopsians may still refer it by its original monicker — Riverside Coliseum.

The 5,400-seat home of the Kamloops Blazers was a much-talked about dream in the early and mid-1980s. The idea became a reality in 1988, when voters took part in a referendum that approved the project.

That was followed by a dedicated group of residents forming a fundraising committee to help the cause.

In September 1990, the city finally broke ground on the arena. Riverside opened in August 1992, carrying a construction price tag of about $23 million.

It has aged extremely well, thanks to constant care by city staff and due to regular upgrades, some of which are now underway.

These include board, glass and lighting upgrades, along with a Blazer-funded private balcony section, due for completion in time for the start of the 2018-2019 WHL season.

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Before he deemed Canada a security threat and began a bromance with a dictator in North Korea, Donald Trump was a simple attention-seeking rich man who became part of KTW lore.

In 2008, the future United States president stepped in to donate $1,000 to a homeless man in Kamloops after Trump was shown a photo in KTW taken by staff photographer Dave Eagles.

The photographer was shooting an assignment, after which a striking scene caught his eye: Paul Lyons, a one-legged homeless man, was sitting on a downtown sidewalk with his back against the wall of a business. On the sidewalk next to him was a family of stuffed animals.

In his hands was the most unlikely of books — Trump: The Art of the Deal.

Eagles said the scene immediately brought his camera to his eye.

He approached Lyons and showed him a soccer photo, taken earlier that day with his digital camera.

“This is what they sent me to shoot,” Eagles told Lyons.

Eagles then scrolled to the photo he had just snapped of Lyons.

“This is what I want to shoot.”

Eagles wrote a short profile of the scene he came across and the article and photo appeared in the Sept. 21, 2008, edition of KTW (less than two months before the election of Barack Obama, the man Trump would succeed in the White House).

Our KTW photographer wasn’t the only one taken with the picture.

When that edition of Kamloops This Week landed on 30,000 doorsteps in the city, a reader — Audrey Karpoff — was also drawn to the photo that offered such a jarring juxtaposition.

“I saw the article and I just thought, ‘Wow,’” Karpoff said. “I just thought that this is the ultimate positive attitude of someone who just doesn’t give up.”

She decided to clip the story and photo and mail it to Trump’s Manhattan offices.

And so began a brief connection between a community newspaper in a small B.C. Interior city and one of the wealthiest people in the U.S. Someone in Trump’s Fifth Avenue offices opened the envelope, looked at the contents and was inspired enough to send it up the chain to Trump’s office.

Trump liked what he read and sent to Eagles a cheque for $1,000, made out to Lyons.

In an interview with KTW’s Dale Bass, Trump said he was

The above photo of Paul Lyons reading Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, taken in 2008 by KTW photographer Dave Eagles, caught the attention of a kindhearted reader who sent a clipping of it to the self-proclained billionaire who would later become the 45th president of the United States. Trump responded by sending a letter to Eagles commending him for the photo, and included a $1,000 cheque to be passed on to Lyons. In an interview with KTW’s Dale Bass, Trump said he was moved by the photo. “To be honest, I just wanted to help him out,” he said. “You know, you work hard and it’s not easy sometimes. This guy seemed to me to be trying so hard.” Trump also called KTW “a good paper” — something we’ll always have on the failing New York Times.

touched by Eagles’ story.

“To be honest, I just wanted to help him out,” Trump said of Lyons, whose home at the time consisted of a cardboard box behind a transformer in downtown Kamloops.

“You know, you work hard and it’s not easy sometimes. This guy seemed to me to be trying so hard.

It was really interesting. He really seemed to be trying to figure out life.

“He looked like a really good guy and Dave Eagles took a great picture and it all added up and I just wanted to do this. And it’s a good paper.”

KTW lost track of Lyons over the years and we have often wondered how he fared after his brush with The Donald.

In any event, the connection of rich and poor, fostered by a reader with a heart of gold, remains one of the more remarkable stories in the life of Kamloops This Week.

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KTW A Look Back 1991 The King of Pop released his third-to-last album, Dangerous, on Nov. 26, 1991. At Kmart, the album was available on both cassette and CD, which was just becoming popular. Money problems led to the sale of Kmart’s 112 stores in Canada to Zellers in 1998, which is also defunct.

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KTW A Look Back 1991

KTW A Look Back 1990 Just before the decline of B.C.’s Social Credit Party, the Socreds held a nomination meeting in the River City. Patrick Kinsella ran the campaign of Socred leader Rita Johnston in 1991.

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Keller recalls unlikely path to Kamloops in ‘88 JOSH KELLER

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We weren’t actually planning on moving to Kamloops in the spring of 1988 and, when we did decide to make the move, we really only expected to stay for a year or two.

Thirty years later, I still look back on two stories behind our move and give thanks for taking the chance.

When you are young and single, working in media relations in the professional sports world in Vancouver was fun, exciting and a seven-day a week job with long hours and lots of travel.

I was truly young and single when I started working with the original Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League in 1977 and I was sure I was living the dream. The same was true when I spent a year working for the infamous Peter Pocklington sports empire in Edmonton before coming back to Vancouver in 1981 to join the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League.

Later, however, I met the girl of my dreams and in 1987 we started a family. By the end of that year, it would be fair to say life had changed considerably. With a new house and a new baby, finding myself out of a job was a shock, though not uncommon in the sports world, where coaches and general managers are hired to be fired.

I had a number of job options to consider, but when a call came from a place I had never heard of — Cariboo College in Kamloops — I decided to check it out. They asked me to come up for an interview and, as it turned out, three unexpected events made it memorable.

The night before driving to Kamloops for a 2 p.m. interview, I

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ate something that clearly wasn’t good. I was up all night fighting illness. Feeling only marginally better in the morning, I finally decided to make the drive up the Coquihalla, paying $10 for the privilege, as I recall.

When reporting to the HR office in the only building of any consequence on a campus that was hidden among the trees, it seems I took them by surprise. I was supposed to interview with the president, but he was in Williams Lake. Our wires somehow got crossed.

“Not to worry,” said the nice lady I would come to know as Irene. “We’ll just call him and he will come back. You can do the interview tonight. Can you stay over?”

“Sure,” I replied, thinking a good nap in the afternoon would make me feel much better.

Not so fast — the other interviewer, who I came to know as Mel, came by to take me on a tour.

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take more than two hours. It could have had something to do with the fact Mel just loved to talk.

I finally did get a couple hours of sleep and felt much better by the time I returned to the campus to meet the president, who I came to know well as Jim, along with Mel. True to the way in which this experience was unfolding, it wasn’t your typical interview.

Yes, we did talk about the job and some related things for a short while, but as I recall, what they really wanted to talk about was sports, since I have been working in that field for more than a decade.

They wanted the inside scoop.

As the evening neared an end, I did have a question: Who did this new position of media-relations officer actually report to? There was no mention of that in the job posting.

“Who do you think it should report to?” the president asked.

“Why, to you, of course,” said the quick-thinking me, who had learned quickly many years before that the only way to get things done was to have access to the top.

And that is how I came to work directly for the president of the college/university for the next two decades.

I returned home next morning, the job offer followed and, after several days of considering the advantages and disadvantages of leaving the big city for a smaller place we didn’t know much about, we decided to try it for a year.

If we didn’t like the place or the job, we could go back.

My first day on the job was April 1, which I wasn’t sure was a joke or just an omen. It was also board meeting day and the wonderful lady chair of the board, who I would come to know as Stella, welcomed me as the first media-

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relations officer and wished me success. I’m sure she wasn’t suggesting I was going to need it.

I did, however, discover one most interesting reality that first week. Cariboo College had just acquired a wonderful new piece of technology called a fax machine.

I was told it would make moving information to our local media so much better.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t a media outlet anywhere north of Burnaby that had a fax machine.

So much for that theory.

Not long after I arrived, Clarence Wiseman opened the newspaper that would become Kamloops This Week and it didn’t take too long for the two of us to start working on connecting it to the family-like little college of which I had become a part.

In fact, for the next 20-plus years, I had the privilege of writing a weekly column in KTW about all things Cariboo College, which became the University College of the Cariboo and, finally, Thompson Rivers University.

Thirty years later, I marvel at the changes in technology that have altered our world in less than half of my own lifetime and I look back with a great deal of pride on what I know I was able to contribute over my 26 years, in a small but important way, to the evolution of an unknown college that is now such an important part of our community.

I was actually feeling so sick on that morning back in March of 1988 that I was going to cancel the interview at that college I had never heard of. But they weren’t at work that early at that college to answer the phone.

I still don’t really know why I decided to go ahead, at the very last minute, but our family of five are glad we did.

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Don Moores took a second and then laughed at the question.

Trying to nail down what’s changed most about Kamloops in the last 30 years was no easy proposition. Perhaps his reaction was a good enough answer in itself.

“How am I supposed to answer that?”

Moores quipped.

Moores was born and raised in Kamloops. He became publisher of Kamloops This Week within its first two years of operation and later served as a regional president for the parent company.

He played junior hockey for the Kamloops Chiefs from 1973 to 1976 and was an assistant coach for the Kamloops Blazers from 1985 to 1990.

Moores has left the city on multiple occasions to pursue employment opportunities, but has always returned. He is now the Blazers’ president, chief operating officer and alternate governor.

“The overall growth of the city has been amazing,” Moores said.

“It may not have been as quick as other big centres, but when you look at the area that we’ve stretched out to, it’s pretty amazing. Where they had the boundaries for Kamloops 25 years ago, I thought to myself the city is never going to reach out that far.

And it has.”

Moores, part of a coaching stable in the late 1980s that included head coach Ken

Hitchcock and assistant coach Don Hay, had an easier time answering a question about hockey and how it has changed since he was behind the bench.

“Speed,” Moores said.

“No question. Because of the way they’ve changed the rules, the speed has become a major factor. I think that’s a good thing. It’s become much more exciting and the other part is the skill. It has to kind of keep up with that. It’s a combination of the two.”

There was plenty of speed and skill on the teams Moores coached, but there was ample toughness, too. He gave special mention to Rudy Poeschek and Dave Marcinyshyn.

“I really felt teams absolutely hated coming to Kamloops,” Moores said.

“I always thought we were a couple goals ahead before the game started.

“We were a community team. No money.

We had to shoestring budget. We really had some amazing players and we didn’t even really know it. We had a terrible rink [Memorial Arena], but we had the most loyal fans, sitting in the arena in mid-February in minus-30.”

Part of Moores’ mandate since returning to the Blazers in June of 2016 has been to attract fans and sponsors to Mark Recchi Way. “Even though we’re not winning, we still have that pride,” Moores said.

“That hasn’t changed. A lot can be said for that.”

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KTW reader celebrates 30 years We moved here in 1988 and haven’t left.

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My father was a school teacher and my mother was a government worker. I finished high school in Kamloops, played hockey in Kamloops for the best association ever (and attended a national title tourney) and now own a business in Kamloops.

This is an amazing city and I cannot every imagine leaving.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW

KTW’s first editor recalls startup experience DALE OLSEN

FORMER KTW EDITOR

I was the original editor of Kamloops This Week; dragged there by Rick O’Connor, for whom I’d worked with in Quesnel, my first newspaper job, and again in suburban Vancouver.

It was an easy move for me having gone to Valleyview junior secondary and graduated from high school in nearby Chase.

I knew the area. I just didn’t know what I was in for. Black Press had purchased Clarence Wiseman’s shopper.

In the package, we got the entire Wiseman family.

Clarence led the ad department, daughter Kelly was our everything receptionist and mom Sandy, who had little to no experience, became my only reporter — but keen, always keen.

Our office was in a cavernous basement on Victoria Street.

It looked OK at the reception desk, but beyond that it truly was a basement, except we had our computers wired through

the ceiling.

The paper quickly took off.

We worked liked dogs and partied very hard every Friday in the Coast Hotel’s O’Flaherty’s Pub — everyone there completely understanding how much we needed lots of beer after “putting the paper to bed.”

In reality, flats were on a bus to Williams Lake to be printed.

Staff was added.

Crazy Rob Lentz was our photographer and he managed to fill

the paper with pretty girls. He could even get a pretty girl in the picture of a car crash.

Sharon Cooper, an ad rep and even better cook, kept us going with sugary treats daily.

The paper soon moved to two days a week.

The always fun Don Moores was added to the ad sales department, with Clarence trying to retire.

Sandy stayed on, her mad cackle of a laugh ever-present.

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My fiancee, Marie Zirk, moved to Kamloops, joined the ad-sales team and we bought a classic old house on Columbia Street.

It was a near miracle Marie moved, having grown tired of driving up on Friday nights, only to find me asleep on my couch on Battle Street after, once again, stopping at O’Flaherty’s with the crew to have “a couple.”

I remember the next editor, Rob Demone, who took over when I switched to the ad depart-

ment, befuddled when on a Firday afternoon, his wife called the pub and asked for him.

The Italian bartender, who was a fixture, promptly called Rob to the phone.

Amazed, Rob, who is from Lunneburg, N.S., went to the phone and returned to the This Week post-work party shaking his head and saying “that would never happen at home.”

“In Nova Scotia, a bartender would just tell a wife, ‘Nope, you just missed him,’ while looking right at you.”

Kamloops was fun.

My wife and I really enjoyed our time there and the city.

It even led to my current job.

In an effort to get back to Victoria, where I went to university, and to get out of newspapers’ crazy pace, I purchased the Kamloops menswear store Outlooks, owned by Ted Desireau, and moved to B.C.’s capital.

I’m still running it today.

— Dale Olsen was KTW’s first editor.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW

KTRA also celebrating its 30th in 2018 The Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association shares a birth year with Kamloops This Week as both organizations are celebrating 30 years in the city in 2018.

The KTRA is a non-profit charitable organization that provides therapeutic horseback riding to people with disabilities. In addition to programs for people with physical and psychological disabilities, the KTRA has been offering equine-assisted therapy lessons to youth at risk in the community.

Therapeutic riding has numerous positive physical effects for those who participate in programs, using the horse as a means of influence. There are also many mental and emotional benefits of riding, including increased self-esteem, improved concentration and improvement in socialization skills.

Horses elicit a wide range of emotions and behaviours in people of all ages. Because they are prey animals, they are supremely sensitive to body language, tone and touch. At the same time,

horses are large, powerful animals that follow quiet, strong leadership.

A brief history of the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association: 1988: The KTRA is incorporated as a society, with its initial operations in Barnhartvale.

2000: Operations moved to Knutsford.

2005: Operations at current location on Crestline Street in Brocklehurst.

2005: The riding program was seasonal and had only one staff member — an instructor. All hard labour for cleaning the yard, tack, etc. was done as a work bee with board members.

2008: A successful capital project saw a new barn purchased and erected.

2009: Tiffany Burns was hired as instructor and began to provide many good ideas about expanding. She moved into the role of program director and more staff was hired.

2014: Ashley Sudds was hired as session co-ordinator and the KTRA hosted its first recorded

open house.

October 2014: Ashley Sudds moved into the newly created role of assistant manager.

September 2015: Ashley Sudds moved into the newly created role of executive director.

2015: Youth At-Risk Program started.

2016: Two instructors receive their CanTRA (Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association) certification.

2016/2017: Another capital project is completed — a hay shed, with help from Warner Rentals and Shawn Anderson.

2017: A new office trailer is donated and delivered by Horizon North. A vaulting program begins.

Two instructors receive their PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) certification.

2018: 30th anniversary of the KTRA. Go online to ktra.ca to view the KTRA’s 30th anniversary video.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW

Kurenoff remembers driving cattle, snakes GORD KURENOFF

FORMER KTW EDITOR

Peppy then-publisher Kelly Hall, who had often golfed, ran a marathon and planned his week’s work schedule before most normal people had swatted the snooze button on their alarm clock, bounced into the office nine years ago repeatedly yelling, “Yahoo!” and “Yeehaw!”

My initial thought was this delightful dude had OD’d on triple espressos at Starbucks or that, in his quest to glean more online cred, he did The Google and stumbled across a couple of new search-engine favourites.

“How do ya want to be my deputy?” smiled Hall, throwing in a few butchered cowboy accents and a “howdy” for y’all.

“Assistant publisher?” I smiled back, thinking more money and more out-of-office golf days had to be included.

“No, silly — Kowboy Kurenoff in the Kamloops Cattle Drive,” he explained.

“You know, write a dude’s diary

awake), we ate, danced a bit and drank a bit more and shared sidesplitting stories with silly strangers who got dustier and darker as the scorchinghot week progressed.

When people ask me about Kamloops, I tell them I truly loved the place.

Best people on Earth by a country mile.

I tell them about Sheriff Hall and how I truly loved golfing and talking hockey with this classy guy,

for the paper, mingle with the neat horse-ranch folks, camp, sing songs, eat beans and enjoy an experience you’ll never forget.

“Can you think of a better gig, Gordo?”

Well, yes, but since he had already signed me up ...

I didn’t get a chance to reveal my real dream gigs — being a Triple Crown jockey or a gigolo.

But, because I was much too big for one and not big enough for the other, becoming a deputy for Sheriff Hall had to be the next best thing, right?

It was, all kidding aside, the ultimate highlight of my life. (To keep peace at home, I told the wife it was No. 2.)

The people were truly terrific, the outdoor experience was second to none and, to this day, the cool belt buckle, cowboy hat and Cattle Drive swag sits proudly in my office, next to the other bucket list accomplishments.

We watched a horse whisperer do his amazing thing, we camped one night near rattlesnakes (for some reason I stayed wide

or discussing curling strategy with sales rep extraordinaire Linda Bolton while wearing crazy horns at a birthday bash, or debating politics and civic referendums with Dale Bass, whose “bread, not circuses” line on government spending was way ahead of its time but oh-so-relevant now.

I was often amazed at how Dave Eagles could capture, in

a single frame, a picture that told endless stories. Many of the reporters I worked with at Kamloops This Week have gone on to become editors, leaders and even better people.

And I’m proud that I got to see Christopher Foulds, perhaps the best young reporter I saw rise through the community-journalism ranks, become editor of an important Kamloops institution and crank out excellent work week after week at a time when newspapers manoeuvre to maintain readers, many who seem to prefer their “global” information (wink, wink) in 140 characters or less.

Congrats on your first 30 years, KTW. And good luck on the next three decades, pardners!

It was a real pleasure to be there for a small part of it.

Godspeed — and cowboy up!

— Gord Kurenoff was KTW editor and editorial director of Cariboo Press from 2003 to 2005. Today, he works for the Vancouver Sun.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW KTW A Look Back 1991

Gary’s KTW A Look Back 1995

It was only $2 to enter Sagebrush Downs, but it might have cost you more if you bet on the wrong horse. Race days were a regular feature in the River City until 2010, when the track shut down.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW KTW founder says paper provides a necessary voice CLARENCE WISEMAN

KTW FOUNDER

When the Kamloops Sentinel closed its doors in 1987, I felt that another public voice was needed in the community and also wanted to preserve some necessary jobs.

So, I elected to commence a publication called the Kamloops Super Shopper.

As the months moved onward, we started to add some editorial content and began to look more like a little weekly newspaper.

The publication was more of a family-run operation, with my wife, Sandra, daughter, Kelly, and some staffers from the Sentinel in production and sales.

Bob Grainger of the David Black newspaper group offered us an opportunity to move forward with their resources.

This was vital for the success

of the operation and, with their expertise and financial resources, was born Kamloops This Week.

It is great to see the newspaper has continued to flourish and expand and move forward in the community.

It is providing another sounding board for the dissemination of news and editorial content and I wish the newspaper many more years of sold growth.

Rick O’Connor, the first publisher, and Bob Grainger of Black Press really were the brains behind those early years and should be applauded for what they brought to the city — sound journalism and a great newspaper.

Congratulations to all.

— Clarence Wiseman was the founder of what is now Kamloops This Week. He is retired and lives in Salmon Arm, where he can often be found on the golf course.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW

Reader celebrates KTW milestone, looks to future Sarah Rhode graduated from college the same year the newspaper was founded

KTW A Look Back 1991 In 1991, the Nintendo Entertainment System was staring down extinction — almost. Canadian Tire put the classic Nintendo Entertainment System, which first came to Canada in 1986, on sale at both of its Kamloops locations, which are still operating. The NES faced competition from the Sega Genesis and its successor, the Super Nintendo, which would launch months after this ad ran.

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My sister was born in Royal Inland Hospital in 1972, as were my beautiful sons and daughter between 2001 and 2006.

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In September of 1988, I attended the University of Victoria, from which I graduated with honours, majoring in psychology.

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF KTW The team at Kamloops This Week is thrilled to be celebrating our 30th anniversary of keeping the Tournament Capital in the loop.

JOIN US THIS SUMMER AS WE CONTINUE TO CHAMPION THE GREATEST CITY IN THE PROVINCE.

KTW SUMMER EVENTS

KTW’S FIRST EDITION Sunday, Aug. 28, 1988

KAMLOOPS FARMERS’ MARKET

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The Summer of KTW is already in full swing with our booth at the Saturday Kamloops Farmers’ Market downtown. Drop by between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and chat with the various KTWers at the booth.

We would love to make new connections and you may even be able to enter a contest or two.

We are inviting all KTW alumni to join us at our office for a staff (past and present) barbecue.

SATURDAYS, • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

CANADA DAY

SUNDAY, JULY 1

The KTW team will be in Riverside Park, celebrating Canada Day with the community.

Drop by, say hi, snap a selfie in our photo booth and enter to win some prizes.

CARRIER APPRECIATION BARBECUE

FRIDAY, JULY 27 • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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RIBFEST

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10

Kamloops This Week will be at Ribfest in Riverside Park, helping add local flavour to summer’s tastiest event.

Please come by, say hi and compare delicious ribs.

OVERLANDERS DAY SUNDAY, AUGUST 19

KTW will be setting up at Overlanders Day in beautiful McDonald Park, helping celebrate the cultural DNA of all things North Shore.

FRIDAY, JULY 13 • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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All advertisers who team up with Kamloops This Week are invited to our office at 1365B Dalhousie Drive for an appreciation barbecue. While devouring a flamebroiled smokie, you can take aim and send your sales reps into the murky depths of the dunk tank.

We are hosting a carrier appreciation barbecue.

All carriers are invited to come to Kamloops This Week’s home at 1365B Dalhousie Drive. There, lunch will be served — along with a chance to plunge your boss into the water in the dunk tank toss.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

RSVP to sales@kamloopsthisweek.com

Kamloops This Week is more than a newspaper, more than a website and more than a digital leader in the community. We take pride in being the community and we thank our readers, our advertisers and all of our staff members for helping to keep the Heartbeat of Kamloops beating for years to come.

KAMLOOPSTHISWEEK.COM Phone: 250-374-7467 • 1365B Dalhousie Dr. Kamloops

FRIDAY, June 29, 2018

www.kamloopsthisweek.com

Come home to Orchards Walk

We pay tribute to James and Eva Skelly of Jimeva Farms, the original pioneers of our land. The Skelly family planted over 4000 apple trees and farmed for over 40 years, hence our namesake, Orchards Walk, in memory of their contribution to our city.

We are pleased to feature our new development of beautiful homes in a master planned neighborhood, designed for new families, young professionals and empty nesters alike.

Now Open

The Residence at Orchards Walk

Modern seniors living featuring condo-style suites, 24/7 security, weekly housekeeping, flexible dining and in-house amenities. Five star service included for one monthly fee. We take care of the daily tasks-you do what you love to do!

Now Open

Orchards Plaza

PHARMASAVE and ORCHARDS MEDICAL CLINIC

Now Selling

Construction has begun on our next phase of beautiful homes.

Register today to select custom options for your new home.

THE ARLINGTON

THE BELMONT

CAMEO

TYDEMAN

A collection of 14 townhomes

15 single-family homes

15 duplexes

37 single family lots

Make your move today at orchardswalk.com and theresidencekamloops.com

Move-in ready - stop by for your tour today 778.362.9525 | theresidencekamloops.com  

Register today at orchardswalk.com

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BEST IN WESTERN CANADA CITY FURNITURES’ RISE TO #1

City Furniture and Appliances Ltd. was presented with the prestigious Western Canadian Retailer of the Year Award

City Furniture & Appliances owners; founder Ray Kandola (centre), Sid Kandola, Kamloops City Furniture owner (right), and son Paul Kandola (left) at the Canadian Home Furnishings Aliance 2018 Awards Gala in Toronto. Bottom right: City Furniture Grand Opening ad 30 years ago, in one of Kamloops This Weeks’ first editions in 1988.

City Furniture & Appliances Ltd. was presented with the prestigious Western Canadian Retailer of the Year Award on May 24, 2018 by the Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance at their 2018 Awards Gala celebration. The Retailer of the Year Award is dedicated to recognizing exemplary models of excellence and community service by retailers in the Canadian home furnishings industry.

City Furniture opened its first store in 1976. The strong values, respect, trust and honesty of its founding partners, have allowed City Furniture to grow to 22 stores in British Columbia and Alberta.

The stores are all owner-operated by family which has been the key to their success. City Furniture carries all top brand names in Furniture, Appliances, Mattress and Electronics. They take pride in supporting BC and Canadian Manufacturers and have the largest selection of Canadian products in Western Canada.

The success of the City Furniture Group is attributed to three factors: friendship, family and community.

Developing strong relationships and friendships with suppliers and staff has been critical to the success of the organization. A solid family base and the firm belief in family first has carried the Kandola family

and City Furniture into its 3rd generation.

In each city where individual store operators live and work, ties are strong. They take pride in giving back to the community by supporting local charities and sports teams. The City Furniture Group hosts their annual charity golf tournament which is now in it’s 20th year. Kamloops City Furniture hosted it’s 19th tournament in 2017 and raised $10,000 for Kamloops charities including RIH, Kamloops Hospice, Food Bank and the Boys & Girls clubs.

After much success with City Furniture & Appliances, 2nd generation Paul Kandola brings Ashley HomeStore back to Kamloops at 150 Oriole Road, while also managing construction of the new 35,000 sq. ft. Ashley showroom slated to open end of 2018.

“Our customers are our reason for being!” Says Kamloops owner Sid Kandola. “Without their support over the years we wouldn’t be able to reinvest in another furniture store, create more jobs, and contribute to the economic development of our city, Kamloops. “We have reinvested our returns into the very city that has invested in us, and that’s why this project means a lot to our family.”

Grand Opening City Furniture October 1988, 150 Oriole Rd

2017

FURNITURE STORE CITY FURNITURE & APPLIANCES LTD. Monday, Wednesday & Saturday 9-6pm Thursday & Friday 9-9pm • Sunday 11-5pm

We don’t sell. We help you buy!

1350 Hillside Dr. • 250-372-7999 Across from Aberdeen Mall, Kamloops

VISIT TO SEE COMPLETE SELECTION OF MATTRESSES ON SALE! 1683 East Trans Canada Hwy 778-471-4771 Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday 10-5pm Friday 10-5pm • Sunday 11-4pm