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NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 89
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WEDNESDAY FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS The South Kamloops Titans delivered hits and heartbreak in denying the Westsyde Blue Wave a berth in the high school football post-season.
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Leilani Vanderydt is selling purple poppies in exchange for donations this week at her family’s business — Greenhawk Equestrian Sport in Valleyview. The purple poppy is worn to remember animals that served in war. KTW PHOTO
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HONOURING DIFFERENT ANIMAL VETS CHRISTOPHER FOULDS EDITOR editor@kamloopsthisweek.com
The red poppy is known the world over. But the purple poppy? “It means for the animals, so we remember the animals,” said eight-year-old Leilani Vanderydt. “A couple of years ago, I was wondering why we don’t remember the animals.” With help from mom Debbie and dad Kevin, she did some research and discovered the purple poppy is worn to honour animals in wars. Last year, Leilani wore a paper purple poppy she made. This year, she acquired the real thing — ordering 100 purple poppies from Australia, where the Australia War Memorial Animal Organisation boasts a plethora of items honouring animals in combat.
However, rather than stick pins through the purple poppies, as is done with the familiar red versions, Leilani’s poppies can be tied to a dog’s leash or to a cat’s collar. She is selling them at her parents’ Valleyview store, Greenhawk Equestrian Sport, each day this week after school. Visitors to the shop at Oriole and Falcon roads (in the strip mall that houses The Office pub and Falcon Lanes bowling) can find Leilani from about 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., sitting at her creatively decorated table. The purple poppies can be had for donations, with money raised going to the Royal Canadian Legion and Animal Aid. Leilani lives on a farm and has a horse, dogs, cats, chickens and goats — so her love for animals comes naturally. Her mom said most of the family’s
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animals are rescue animals. “Remembrance Day has always been important to us and it’s something we have always followed carefully,” Debbie said. “She always wondered about the animals because we see in pictures horses pulling machinery, there’s horses being ridden, there’s dogs and even cats down in the mess halls. My brother would talk about how they kept the mice out.” DID YOU KNOW? According to Britain’s Animals in War Memorial Fund, eight-million horses died in the First World War, as did countless mules and donkeys. They were used to transport ammunition and supplies to the front line. The fund also notes pigeons, dogs, elephants, camels, oxen, bullocks, cats, canaries and even glow worms were used in combat.
A Kamloops man charged in connection with a shootout with police and a lengthy standoff in a trailer park last year is expected to plead guilty, a judge was told this week. Shane Caron was arrested at 4 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2017, following a 17-hour standoff with police in the SHANE CARON G&M Trailer Park on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc reserve. The standoff followed a police chase and multiple exchanges of gunfire between the suspect and officers, Mounties said at the time. The 39-year-old is facing a raft of charges, including four counts of attempted murder, which allege Caron was trying to kill four police officers by firing shots at them. During a brief hearing in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday, defence lawyer Jonathan Avis said a plea agreement has already been reached on another one of Caron’s outstanding criminal files and he expects the same outcome for the remaining charges. “The other one seems to be going toward resolution,” he said.
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