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JULY 25, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 59
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CRAPPING OUT The strike by BCGEU members at Cascades Casino and three casinos in the Okanagan is in its fourth week after the latest round of negotiations failed to find common ground between the two sides
International Buskers Festival begins Thursday
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DAVE EAGLES/KTW Richard Lee, 86, stands next to a cutout of his uncle Frederick Lee as retired lieutenant-colonel Dave Hanna attaches a Hill 70 pin to his jacket. Hill 70 project organizer Jack Gin watches from behind.
FOLLOWING FREDERICK LEE’S TRAIL SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com
Frederick Lee died on Aug. 21, 1917. It was five days after Canadian forces launched their attack on Hill 70, an important strategic diversion that prompted 21 German counter attacks and persisted for 10 days, relieving the pressure on the Allies in the midst of the Passchendaele campaign during the First World War.
The attack was hard on the Canadians, who suffered 9,000 casualties and lost 1,877 men, but it was even more costly to the Germans, who recorded an estimated 25,000 casualties. Lee’s part of the attack on Hill 70, which has since come to be recognized as one of the most important battles of the First World War, occurred just months after his fighting in another major Canadian campaign — the battle at Vimy Ridge in April 1917.
Efforts continue to trace the ChineseCanadian man’s historic path in the war meant to end all wars. “This guy’s father arrived in Kamloops before Canada was Canada — in 1861,” said Jack Gin with the Hill 70 project, which has been working since 2012 to have a memorial erected at the site of Hill 70. See MEMORIAL WORK, A11
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Money the City of Kamloops will be getting from the provincial government’s new community overdose crisis innovation fund will go toward initiatives and projects to address the opioid crisis in Kamloops. Natalie Serl, the city’s acting community and social development supervisor, said some of the $100,000 will be used to support the planned street newspaper, a social enterprise involving the livedexperience committee of the Elizabeth Fry Society. “That’s a wonderful tool,” Serl said, noting it will not only provide work for people who live in poverty and are often unemployed, but will be a communication method to the
broader community. Those behind the newspaper are hoping to have the first edition out by the end of summer. Other potential partners in the plans, which have a communityinvolvement mandate, include finding other ways to clean up discarded needles, Serl said. One such project in the city, in which residents Dennis Giesbrecht and Caroline King are collecting needles and paying those who provide them five cents per used syringe, doesn’t fit under the mandate the city is following. However, Serl said, the pair has been invited to a meeting of the community action team to talk about ways the issue could be better dealt with.