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WOMEN’S MARCH The third annual Kamloops Women’s March will take to the streets of downtown Saturday

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COUNCIL FLIP-FLOP City council has voted to reverse a hike in downtown parking rates, going back to 2018 pricing

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CALLING A TREWS The Trews will take the stage at CJ’s on Saturday along with Friday Night Fires and The Carbons

BCLC’s downtown Kamloops headquarters had been slated for a rebuild, but those plans were shelved on Thursday.

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This rendering shows philanthropist Ron Fawcett’s plan for a performing arts centre in downtown Kamloops, on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Seymour Street.

Fawcett pitched the idea to city council last week, and councillors met late in the week behind closed doors to discuss any potential next steps in the process.

Councillors engage in ‘robust discussion’ about arts centre behind closed doors But it will be six weeks until public finds out what next step for $70M proposal could be JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

It will be weeks before any council direction will be made clear about the community-based performing arts centre proposal, which went before council last week.

Local philanthropist and businessman Ron Fawcett presented his vision to council for a $70-million performing arts centre in downtown Kamloops and pledged to donate the Telus annex building, as well as updated plans for

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the centre. That contribution is expected to be worth between $8 million and $10 million, Fawcett said.

“We had a robust discussion about the performing arts centre

and you will read about that in six weeks,” Mayor Ken Christian told KTW. Six weeks is the time when the mayor expects council’s strategic plan to be completed.

Council participated in closeddoor meetings last week to determine its vision and priorities for its four-year term.

A new council was elected in the fall.

“I was really pleased with it [strategic planning sessions],” Christian said.

“Every councillor was there.

They were prepared. They rolled up their sleeves. They participated equally.”

Christian acknowledged council could direct city staff to come up with a business case for the arts centre.

“That could be an objective falling out of the strategic plan,” he said.

“The plan is not about, you know, being that specific. It’s about general themes.”

Among those themes, Christian cited livability, the economy and environment.

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Council Calendar January 21, 2019 3:30 pm - Junior Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

NEVER MISS A CURBSIDE PICKUP! Residents can download our Waste Wise app for free from their app store and choose weekly garbage and recycling collection reminders via email, phone, text, or in-app notification. It’s easy!

There is also plenty of information about how and where to recycle numerous items to help keep material out of our landfills. The following services are available for free on the app:

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• view the upcoming collection schedule • sign up for weekly collection reminders • search how to recycle or dispose of hundreds of products and items in our Waste Wizard • report problems with your collection service • sign up to receive waste wise tips and reminders

February 5, 2019 9:00 am - Council Budget Meeting 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West February 7, 2019 7:00 pm - Public Budget Meeting Valley First Lounge, Sandman Centre

You can also use the Waste Wizard desktop app directly from your computer. It is available at:

February 12, 2019 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Kamloops.ca/WasteWise There’s even a game on the Wase Wizard that lets people test their recycling knowledge. Check it out!

February 26, 2019 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Not online? Collection schedules are also available at City Hall, the Tournament Capital Centre, and the Civic Operations Centre.

On-street Parking Rates City Council voted to reverse the on-street parking rate increase that took effect on January 1, 2019. Effective Monday, January 21, 2019, parking rates will revert back to: • $1.25 per hour for the first two hours • $2.50 for the third hour There are two convenient ways to pay for parking—at any one of the 96 pay stations in the downtown core (via cash or credit card) or by using the new Whoosh! app.

The Whoosh! app allows residents to pay for parking from anywhere, using a smart phone. There is no additional fee for using the app; drivers pay the same rate with the app as they would pay at the parking kiosk.

WOOD STOVE & FIREPLACE REBATE PROGRAM UP TO $1,100 IN REBATES AVAILABLE

The City and ICBC are partners in road safety. Pedestrians should be alert at all times, especially in the winter season.

City residents may be eligible to receive up to $1,100 in rebates for upgrading their old, uncertified wood-burning appliance for a new, certified, low-emission heating option. In partnership with the BC Lung Association and the Government of BC, the Wood Stove and Fireplace Rebate Program aims to replace old, smoky wood stoves with cleaner technology.

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• Be careful at intersections. Watch for drivers turning left or right through the crosswalk.

• Don't jaywalk—always use crosswalks and follow the pedestrian signs and traffic signals.

• Make eye contact with drivers, as it's hard to see pedestrians when visibility is poor.

Never assume that a driver has seen you.

• Remove your headphones and take a break from your phone while crossing the road.

• Be as reflective as possible to make it easier for drivers to see you in wet weather, at dusk, and at night.

A maximum of 35 rebates will be issued in 2019, and they will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. One rebate per household.

For more information on the program steps and eligibility requirements, visit: Kamloops.ca/WoodStove

WARNER RENTALS FIELD AT HILLSIDE STADIUM The City is proud to recognize Warner Rentals Ltd. as the new sponsor of the field at Hillside Stadium. The "Warner Rentals Field at Hillside Stadium" is part of a renewed agreement worth a total of $112,500 for in-venue naming rights that also includes the "Warner Rentals Leisure Pool and Waterslide".

An avid supporter of the Tournament Capital Centre, Warner Rentals has held naming rights in the facility since 2014 through the Tournament Capital Club Partnership Program, which helps the City attract hosting opportunities and support local community organizations. The program also benefits TRU Athletics, which will receive a portion of the sponsorship money each year to support its athletic bursary program.

Through partnerships like this, Kamloops is able to repeatedly shine as Canada's Tournament Capital and provide our residents with opportunities to stay active and engaged in all stages of life.

PUBLIC BUDGET MEETING FEBRUARY 7, 2019 The City would like to update residents on the 2019-2023 Five-year Financial Plan and introduce staff and community-driven supplemental items along with potential funding sources.

The public is invited to provide feedback on supplemental items or provide ideas for future consideration to City Council and staff.

The planning process is continuous, and many projects take multiple years to implement. By sharing your priorities and participating in the City’s budget process, you can help create a strong future for Kamloops.

ATTEND THE MEETING Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 7:00 pm Valley First Lounge, Sandman Centre, 300 Lorne Street For more information, visit: LetsTalk.Kamloops.ca/Budget

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Athlete of Influence - Finalist The Personal Injury Team is excited to announce our fourth finalist, Natalie Pietramala.

Natalie, in grade 12 at St. Ann's Academy, has been a competitive dancer since she was 4 years old and has competed in both the Kamloops and Penticton Performing Arts Festivals with her dance team. She played rep soccer with KSYA for a number of years and eventually switched to house soccer to give more time for dance, but she still finds time to play soccer and volleyball for her school teams. Natalie encourages others to try new activities, saying that "you do not have to be amazing at a sport to be able to play, you just have to try your best and have fun" - so true!

Outside of dance and sports, Natalie likes to spend time outdoors with her family, exploring Kamloops and area.

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KTW FILE PHOTO B.C. Lottery Corporation’s planned redevelopment of its downtown Kamloops headquarters will not proceed, a move criticized by Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone, who says it could cost the community as many as 200 jobs.

BCLC scraps ambitious plan for new headquarters JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Local politicians say the city should be disappointed following news Thursday that the NDP government has scrapped plans to build a new B.C. Lottery Corporation headquarters in downtown Kamloops.

On Thursday, the Crown corporation announced it would defer further redevelopment discussions, shelving an ambitious plan to construct a new headquarters where its current offices stand. No commitments were made on when the supposed deferral could regain steam and general consensus is that the project is effectively dead.

BCLC CEO Jim Lightbody told KTW the corporation learned in the summer project costs had increased to “well north of $100 million.” A third-party review determined the current building, which is located on the corner of West Victoria and Seymour streets, is “well-maintained and functioning.”

Instead of a shiny new building at a key location in the city’s core, the half-century old facility — which was historically home to Woodward’s department store — may now see renovations down the road.

“In about five years, we’ll have to make some significant

investments up to around $10 million to maintain [the building],” Lightbody said.

Prior to the transfer of power in Victoria in 2017, the BC Liberals authorized BCLC to engage the private sector and come up with options — build to own, build to lease or build to own strata units — to erect a new headquarters in Kamloops, at a cost of between $30 to $50 million. By those estimates, which were provided

by Kamloops-South Thompson Liberal MLA Todd Stone, costs have at least doubled.

Lightbody would not comment as to whether the decision was related to the shift in power when the NDP took office.

Instead, he said the province is “investing wisely” for Kamloops and British Columbians.

A disappointed Stone called the decision a “complete disregard” for Kamloops and the region.

“It is outrageous that as recent as only months ago, the government appeared to be suggesting that the project was still on track, that they were committed to it,” Stone said.

“And, in the span of only a matter of months, we now learn that the construction of a new headquarters in the city of Kamloops is dead.”

By his estimates, renovations

to existing infrastructure will cost between $20 and $25 million. He also said up to $15 million has been spent upgrading parking and acquiring land for the project. Lightbody, said that number is closer to $1.8 million.

Stone said building a new headquarters would have been the “strongest affirmation” the government could have made toward the viability and continued growth of BCLC. Stone said the executive and majority of BCLC employees should be based in Kamloops and called for significant local representation on BCLC’s board.

Before the NDP took office, Bud Smith chaired the board and Stone noted that of nine directors, only one (Fiona Chan) currently hails from Kamloops.

“At the end of the day, my worry on all of this is BC Lotteries has been in Kamloops for about 33 years now, the headquarters, and it’s been a constant battle,” Stone told KTW. “It’s ebbed and flowed through those three decades, where at times in BC Lotteries’ history, with different governments in power, there has been an impulse to migrate jobs out of the Kamloops headquarters down to the Lower Mainland office.”

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Anyone involved in or witnessing a motor-vehicle accident between two vehicles in the late evening or early morning on the above date(s) at the intersection of Tunqwa Lake Road and Highway 97C, also known as Meadow Creek Road, at or near the District of Logan Lake, where a vehicle was making a right hand turn onto Highway 97C and a vehicle collided with that vehicle and the driver of the other car fled the scene of the accident. Anyone who may have witnessed this accident, or if you are or know the driver of the vehicle that struck the other vehicle, please contact Scott Clarke at Morelli Chertkow LLP at (250) 374-3344 or by email at service@morellichertkow.com – Attention: Scott Clarke.

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Pritchard Bridge Rehabilitation Project The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure invites the public to attend an information session regarding upcoming construction on the Pritchard Bridge.

Ministry representatives will be available to provide information and answer questions.

The drop-in session is scheduled for the following date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Pritchard Community Hall 1941 Duck Range Road, Pritchard, B.C. For more information, please contact Project Manager Dave Shibata at 250 819-5750

KTW FILE PHOTO The 2018 Kamloops Women’s March attracted marchers of all ages, many of them carrying signs. This year’s event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, starting with speeches outside Sandman Centre at 10:30 a.m.

‘It’s pretty obvious women in our community feel unsafe’ Annual women’s march slated for Saturday in downtown core JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Preserving Chinese Canadian history and culture You have until February 8th to provide your feedback on B.C’s commitment to establish a Chinese Canadian Museum.

You can respond online and attend a community meeting scheduled in Kamloops on: Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Thompson Rivers University Conference Centre, Mountain Room – Campus Activity Centre, 1055 TRU Way Visit engage.gov.bc.ca/chinesecanadianmuseum to share your ideas online and to register for the community meeting.

Frontline workers will speak and people will march through the streets of downtown Kamloops on Saturday during the annual women’s march.

The event, which was inspired by a similar rally in Washington two years ago to promote equality, is in its third year.

“This just acknowledges that there’s still work to be done,” coorganizer Alix Dolson said.

About 200 people turned up in Kamloops last year to wave signs of empowerment in the city’s core.

Dolson, a social worker who works at the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter and Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre, said she sees the issue of inequality firsthand.

“I think there’s a misconception with a lot of people that in Canada, women’s rights aren’t really an issue,” she said.

“But seeing what I’m seeing

every day — it absolutely still is. So much of the violence I see and inequality is rooted in gender.”

Dolson said people do not consciously recognize sexism, but rather is is implicit. For example, she said, little girls are often called “adorable” while little boys commonly receive kudos for being “clever.”

While seemingly harmless, Dolson said, that rhetoric compound by the time a child reaches adulthood. She said it will take a societal shift away from traditional gender roles to realize gender equality.

“Children aren’t born with inequality in mind,” Dolson said.

“This is socially conditioned.

It’s something we learn.”

Dolson hopes to build on recent momentum, including from the Time’s Up movement in Hollywood. Still, she reiterated, there is work to be done.

“There are a lot of ways that women’s rights have progressed, even in the past couple of years, but ask any woman what walking down the street late at night

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feels like and it’s pretty obvious women in our community feel unsafe,” she said.

Saturday’s march will start in front of Sandman Centre, with speeches beginning at 10:30 a.m. and the march to follow.

Speakers include White Buffalo Indigenous Urban Services indigenous healing co-ordinator MJ Paluck, A Way Home Kamloops executive director Katherine McParland and Interior Health mental health worker Raj Chahal.

“We wanted to inspire activism, so we’ve asked people doing front line work within the community,” Dolson said.

The march will leave the arena and travel along Lorne Street, up First Avenue and turn down Victoria Street before looping back on Third Avenue back toward Sandman Centre.

The route is wheelchair accessible. Signs are encouraged and the event is not limited to women.

“Fighting this fight is going to be for the betterment of everyone,” Dolson said.

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Police search for young boy and his 28-year-old aunt KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Police are trying to track down a six-year-old Kamloops boy and his aunt, neither of whom have been in touch with family since last weekend.

Nikaeo Supernault, 6, and his 28-year-old aunt Roseanne Supernault, who was looking after her nephew, last spoke with the boy’s mother on Sunday, police said.

Roseanne Supernault wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday that she and Nikaeo were safe, but police said they are still considered missing.

Nikaeo is described as standing three-foot-six and weighing about 45 pounds. He has light brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a blue jacket, black pants and tan boots.

Roseanne was last seen wearing a black jacket with white fur on the hood, jeans, black boots with white fur and carrying a light-coloured purse.

She is a professional actress known for her roles on the TV show Blackstone and the film Maina.

Anyone with information about the pair’s whereabouts is urged to call police at 250-8283000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Kamloops Mounties are trying to locate six-year-old Nikaeo Supernault (left) and his 28-year-old aunt Roseanne (above). Police have said the pair have not had contact with Nikaeo’s mother since Sunday, though investigators have not publicly labelled the incident a kidnapping.

Airport officials look to increase offerings for business leases New tenants at Fulton Field would mean more money for city and Kamloops Airport JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Kamloops Airport wants to open up lots for aviation development, after seeing an increased interest in air-side land.

Seven new leases were negotiated last year and managing director Heather McCarley told council on Tuesday the airport has applied for provincial funding for a taxi lane extension that would open 10 to 12 additional lots.

Mayor Ken Christian, who is also president of the Kamloops Airport Authority Society, said the airport is expanding its apron.

“If you’ve got an industrial park and airplanes can’t get to it, it’s not the best place to handle air freight, for instance,” he told KTW. “If you’ve got a space that airplanes can drive up to, things like aviation electronics, aviation detailing, aviation updates, all of the motor updates and things they have to do — all of that kind of stuff is done much better air-side, so we are expanding the air-side opportunities here.”

He said money from the leases go toward airport improvements.

“That is good news because half of the revenue of that goes to Vantage and half of it goes to the city and we’re generating a lot of money through our airport operation that goes back into improvements so that the taxpayer is getting a better asset and not paying for it,” Christian said.

Consultation on Saturday for planned B.C. Chinese museum Government officials will be in Kamloops on Saturday for an Interior-wide meeting looking for input on a planned Chinese Canadian museum the province intends to build.

The event is slated to run from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Mountain Room inside the Campus Activity Centre at Thompson Rivers University.

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hen it comes to governments and user pay fees, they’re usually characterized as cost recovery.

That’s true for small fees for mailing out hard copies of bills, but it also serves another purpose — as a disincentive for people who insist on having a largely redundant piece of paper sent to them through the mail on a monthly basis.

Compared to the automated process of an e-bill, the cost of sending out that piece of paper is significant, and it comes at a cost of staff time not just for whoever is sending the piece of correspondence, but also for postal employees — though they may appreciate the work.

There are two arguments against the mail fee, the first being that not everyone has access to email or is able to use it easily. At a time when B.C.’s population is becoming increasingly senior, and while some of those older British Columbians are adept at using computers, others are not — and likely will never be. Should those members of our community be financially penalized because computer use doesn’t come naturally to them?

The second argument is one that applies to governments of all levels. It’s also an argument that we lost a long time ago. That’s the question of whether governments should be charging user fees at all.

We pay taxes when we earn money, and we pay taxes when we spend it. Should we be paying again when we access common government services? Is that not part of what we pay taxes for?

Can you imagine having to pay the RCMP directly in order to get an officer to attend the scene of a break-and-enter? What about having to pay a bill from the fire department for the engine they sent to the scene after you got rear-ended?

A mail surcharge from government would be acceptable as a disincentive, but it’s not right to charge even a small segment of the community with a fee that they can’t avoid.

Perhaps a reward from government for changing to e-bills would be more fair.

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.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered this stark warning in Cairo last week: “Where America retreats, chaos follows.”

It’s not the sort of remark you’d expect from an American diplomat only three weeks after President Donald Trump declared that U.S. troops were pulling out of Syria. Is it possible that behind Pompeo’s severe and even pompous exterior there lurks a secret ironist?

Probably not. Pompeo truly believes (like many American evangelical Christians) that the United States is engaged in a struggle of good against evil in the Middle East. “It is a neverending struggle … until the Rapture,” he said three years ago. He may just be angry at Trump, in a passive-aggressive way, for abandoning Syria to the (evil) Iranian and Russian forces that back Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator.

At any rate, Pompeo is right about the chaos that will follow, but it would be wrong to blame it all on Trump. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyib Erdogan is much better informed than the American president and probably a lot smarter too, but he is just as impulsive, just as ruthless, just as much a bringer of chaos.

It was Erdogan, in a telephone conversation in midDecember, who persuaded Trump that pulling all the U.S. troops out of Syria would be

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WATCH a good idea. Turkey would be happy to take the strain instead.

Trump has always opposed America’s endless Middle Eastern wars, so he swallowed Erdogan’s suggestion hook, line and sinker — and tweeted his decision to pull the U.S. troops out without discussing it with anybody.

Only later did the remaining grown-ups in the White House explain to him that Erdogan planned to subjugate or kill America’s main allies in Syria, the Kurds.

To his credit, Trump hated the idea of betraying the Syrian Kurds, whose militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), suffered thousands of deaths while helping U.S. forces to defeat the fanatical jihadis of Islamic State.

Trump still wanted to bring the U.S. troops home, but now he had one condition. The Turks must promise not to invade north-eastern Syria and crush the YPG as soon as the U.S. troops leave.

Erdogan replied that nothing Trump said or did could stop him from destroying these Kurdish ‘terrorists’ (who have never attacked Turkey). At which point, last Monday, Trump tweeted that the United States “will devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds.”

All clear so far? Good.

You’d never guess, from the story thus far, that the United States and Turkey have been close allies for the past half-century, but the alliance is fading fast. Erdogan has been playing his own hand in the Middle East, and playing it quite badly.

The “Sultan,” as his admirers call him, wants to secure his own one-man rule and re-Islamise Turkey, which had evolved into a secular and democratic republic over the past eighty years. He also wants to promote Sunni Islam throughout the region.

Erdogan thinks the Syrian Kurds are allied with the Turkish Kurds, who make up one-fifth of Turkey’s population, live just across the border from Syria, and are currently at war with Erdogan’s regime. (That’s why he calls them ‘terrorists’.)

Given Erdogan’s ruthlessness and Trump’s volatility, I have no idea how all this works out.

Badly, I suspect. But I actually admire Trump’s refusal to betray his allies, once he realised what Erdogan was up to. You don’t see that much in the Middle East.

Of course, it probably won’t last.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist.

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GET PAC BUILT WITH VISION, FUNDRAISING, NOT TAXES Editor: The latest vision for a performing arts centre in Kamloops would be nice to have, the design is much nicer from the outside, it lacks a parkade however, but appears to offer some parking, and the cost is less.

If the city pursues this vision, they ought to be very mindful of attempting to place extra tax burden on property owners as a means to get this project built.

I believe the last proposal failed not only because of the overall cost, but also because of the “elephant in the room,” which was the inclusion of a two percent property tax increase on top of already annual tax increases and of course, the usual corresponding convenient arguments and justifications.

To date, Kamloops councils and city administration have displayed an insatiable thirst for yearly prop-

erty tax increases, usually on either side of two per cent.

In short, they appear to be trying to creep taxes up slowly over years, to meet whatever goals they have.

It’s no wonder taxpayers get their backs up when extra taxation for projects like this is foisted upon them.

In my view, our governing fathers locally have failed to make the necessary hard choices so that these yearly, unsustainable tax increases could become less frequent.

Indeed, it appears this city has become addicted to yearly tax increases to the point they think this is normal.

It has been noted often that many municipalities are outspending their available financial resources and I believe Kamloops is one of these municipalities.

If this performing arts centre

is pursued, I think it would help the cause to get it built, if the groups and individuals who support it would put a fundraising mechanism in place first, to more seriously pursue further financial assistance through other donations.

They need to display that they are also making strong effort to fund this project and not just look for public money.

Kamloops and the surrounding area has already proven itself to be very generous when it comes to fundraising.

There are a lot of professional groups, corporate and business groups and capable citizens that are interested in this venue, who would probably get on board, if they also could be assured that their donations would be used solely toward getting this project built.

The Fawcetts have been very

generous to our city’s needs and should be applauded, but I don’t think they should be viewed as the only ones who could help fund this venue.

There is one taxpayer, and that’s us, so we should have a say in where that money goes and how it gets used.

Therefore, before any public money gets used for a project such as this, that is nice to have, but not necessarily essential, the public ought to be consulted.

Think about it and respect the ability of those taxpayers in our city who may be struggling to pay.

Our elected and paid officials are there to work for the people, not the other way around.

Currently, they appear to be attempting to build a vision of our city but forget they are doing it on our dime, largely.

Bob Wren Kamloops

STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW, JEAN WASTEFUL SNOW CLEARING METHOD Editor: In response to Jean Lefevre’s letter which ran in the Wed. Jan. 16 edition, a “snooty aristocrat” is responding.

Of course, the symphony and theatre company will be the main tenants as they are businesses that generate income and hire people and use the facility the most.

We need and deserve something better than a box.

I find your attitude insult-

ing and no, I can’t afford triple digit seats and champagne. I am also not an oligarch on an ivory throne.

I am a singing senior who would appreciate a decent place to watch a play, watch a concert or performer passing through to Kelowna because we don’t have a decent sized theatre.

Stick to what you know, Jean.

Tracey Pointer Kamloops

Editor: On Boxing Day Aberbeen residents received a skiff of snow, yet city crews were running up and down the streets at holiday overtime rates.

Staff claimed it was required for Boxing Day shoppers.

On January 9 we had a far more significant snowfall on a regular work day and school day, yet not a plow was seen until late afternoon the next day.

The way the city operates and refuses to respect taxpayers’ money is not only a slap in the face of hard working citizens — it is borderline environmental terrorism.

We pay our own carbon taxes and the city’s carbon taxes.

When the plows run for no reason it wastes fuel, equipment life and consumables, like salt and cutting edges.

Denise Douglas Kamloops

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“I don’t believe that the 25 cents is the make or break in terms of business success,” Christian said in opposition of the motion.

“And I fully believe that if we’re not collecting the money there, we’re going to have to collect the money somewhere else.”

In addition to lost revenues are costs of changing the meters. Ramsay told council it cost the city about $12,000 to increase the rates — three days of work and lost parking revenue. He told KTW it will take four more days, beginning Saturday, to roll back the increase at a cost of about another $16,000, adding up to a $28,000 flip-flop.

“This was something that we had canvassed and had general agreement over,” Christian said.

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O’Reilly said the city should wait for data from an impending downtown parking study to make decisions on increased parking rates, not act on a “hunch.”

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Downtown parking study will proceed JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

A pricey parking study nixed by city council in 2017 is back, but the city is getting more for its money this time around.

The Downtown Transportation Choices Strategy aims to understand transportation in the city’s core and create strategies to encourage alternative transportation, such as walking, cycling and transit. WSP Consulting was retained for the project, at a cost of about $100,000 — about the same cost of the previously nixed study.

“With the transportation choices strategy, which we are undertaking, we’re including the parking study as part of the project,” City of Kamloops traffic and transportation engineer Elnaz Ansari told KTW. Council vetoed a November 2017 downtown parking study, with half of the council of the day deeming it too expensive and unnecessary.

City of Kamloops development director Marvin Kwiatkowski said that council called for a more “holistic study.”

Councillors unanimously supported an update Tuesday, brought forward by staff following council direction in its 2015 to 2018 strategic plan and adoption last year of the Transportation Master Plan.

“Not only looking at the parking, but also looking at ways to reduce, I guess, transportation to vehicular movement in the downtown,” Kwaiatkowski told council.

“So coming up with a strategy to look at what other options exist to relieve the pressure downtown, with regards to traffic and regards to parking.”

The project will study current downtown parking, forecast downtown parking needs up to 20 years down the road and determine how much parking, if any, can be offset by alternative transportation. It will also consider programming to promote such modes of transportation.

One city goal is to increase sustainable transportation from 20 per cent to 30 per cent by 2039 or by the time the city reaches a population of 120,000.

“It actually is one of the projects that would really help reaching some of the targets identified in that [Transportation Master] plan,” Ansari said.

That plan, however, was approved by the previous council and some councillors on Tuesday had reservations about the city’s push toward alternative transportation.

Rookie Coun. Bill Sarai noted the inconvenience of transit and winter challenges, while newcomer Coun.

Dale Bass wondered about those living on the outskirts of town.

“I’m sure not riding a bike 18 miles,” Bass said.

Options for those people, Ansari said, include carpooling and working from home. She also noted that, while some residents will never change, the city hopes to work with residents who need a “nudge.”

The city held a public open house related to downtown transportation on Tuesday and is encouraging residents to complete an online survey, which can be found online at letstalk.kamloops.ca/transportationchoices.

Results from the public feedback will go to council in March and the final strategy is expected to wrap up in June.

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A new grant could mean fewer stray cats wandering the streets of Kamloops.

The local branch of the BC SPCA has received $50,000 from PetSmart Charities Canada, enabling the organization to offer 400 free spay or neuter operations to cat owners for their feline friends.

Charleen Holloway, manager of the local BC SPCA branch, said she hopes the surgeries will lead to a significant reduction in the number of unwanted litters of kittens that end up in their care.

She described Kamloops as a city “in desperate need of intervention” to the issue of cat overpopulation.

According to the BC SPCA, the Kamloops branch has the highest cat

intake of any of their shelters in the province and those numbers have been steadily increasing.

Last year, the Kamloops branch took in more than 1,000 cats and kittens.

Holloway said the expectation is this will be a multi-year project, and surgeries in 2019 will be available exclusively to residents of the North Shore and Brocklehurst — two neighbourhoods identified as areas in need of the service.

Eligible residents from the North Shore and Brocklehurst can fill out a form online or visit the branch to receive a voucher for a free spay or neuter surgery.

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The victim of Monday’s fatal shooting in Cache Creek appears to have been identified through social media.

A Go Fund Me account asking for donations for a celebration of life has been set up for a Brock Ledoux who died Monday.

The RCMP has not released the name of the deceased, saying little other than officers responded to a residence in the 1000 block of Collins Road for a reported shooting at about 7 p.m. Monday where a deceased

male was found — the apparent victim of an “interaction” between two males who knew each other, according to police.

The fundraising account does not state Ledoux was murdered, but his name matches information circulated on social media since the shooting. The crowdfunding initiative is seeking $5,000 for a celebration of life.

Money donated to the campaign will go to Ken Ledoux, Brock’s father, for the service for Brock, and any leftover funds will go to Brock’s two children.

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The Phoenix Centre treatment facility has a waitlist of about 40 beds a day, ED says JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Kamloops city council is requesting a meeting with Interior Health to discuss a shortage of publicly-funded treatment beds in Kamloops.

“This is a big need we have for detox beds,” Coun. Arjun Singh said, noting the city can put pressure on Interior Health.

The invite follows recommendation from B.C.’s mental health and addictions minister, Judy Darcy, who wrote to the city after meeting at the Union of BC Municipalities convention this past fall.

In that letter, Darcy stated: “… there is a need for more publiclyfunded treatment beds and stronger 24-hour crisis assistance services.

The budget for such services is limited at this time, but I encourage you [Kamloops council and staff] to continue your discussions with Interior Health to find a longer-term treatment and recovery options for Kamloops residents.”

Phoenix Centre executive director Sian Lewis told KTW the detox facility — which is located downtown at 922 Third Ave. and provides firststage addictions treatment — has a waitlist of about 40 people per day.

Lewis said the opioid crisis, shelter shortage and a growing community are driving numbers. Calling the situation “complex,” she said it comes down to more than funding.

“Money helps and there’s a whole bunch of pieces around process and procedures and just logistics that probably need to be addressed in tandem to figure out how we just better serve the population,” she said.

The centre, which is the only one of its kind in the city, has 20 beds.

It is rare, however, for all beds to be utilized because rooms are double-occupancy. Someone’s age, sexual identity, communicable disease or mental state may require them to have their own space — meaning one less available bed.

“We’re really up against it in terms of actually being able to be 20 beds,” Lewis said.

“We need to actually restructure ourselves from an infrastructure perspective, find money, build a second floor, do something and make these single-occupancy rooms so that we can actually increase our bed occupancy, where we’re not faced all the time with having to be down a bed because we can’t have somebody share a room.”

Those beds also serve more than Kamloops. Between 60 to 70 per

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cent of clientele comes from the Thompson-Cariboo-Nicola region, while about 25 per cent comes from the Okanagan and five per cent from the Lower Mainland and other areas.

“The reason that would happen is somebody’s relocated, they’re not actually living here,” Lewis said. “Or somebody, like one time, we had a very professional person from the Lower Mainland want to come and detox here because they were afraid of bumping into people they may know in detox in their own region.”

Substance-use treatment works on a continuum and includes withdrawal management, detox and residential treatment. Typically, detox is required prior to residential treatment. That’s also where the money runs out.

“Even the publicly funded residential treatment beds are not entirely funded, so we have a tiered model,” Lewis said.

“So it’s different for somebody who has an ailment who has to go into hospital. When somebody goes to detox, yes they can have that first five to seven days paid, but when they take that next step, residential treatment, they are expected to pay a per diem even in the publicly funded beds. Which, when you’re staying for weeks or months, still adds up to thousands of dollars. These individuals are then faced with how do they pay for that?”

Singh brought forward the idea, which was unanimously approved, during last week’s council meeting.

It is unclear when Interior Health will meet with the city. The Phoenix Centre is also working with the RCMP to lobby the province for a sobering and assessment centre, which would prevent intoxicated people who have not committed crimes from ending up in police cells.

A business case was shipped to the Ministry of Health.

“The last I heard, we hadn’t had a response from that office,” Lewis said.

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At about 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 9 two male suspects stole the tools from the construction site of the new SPCA building in the 2800 block of Tranquille Road.

Among the stolen items was a Titan 600 paint sprayer and power tools with the names “CHUDRICK” or “MEECHAM” engraved on them, police said.

The theft was captured by security video and and the suspects drove to the location in an older Dodge pickup truck, said RCMP Sgt. Edward Preto in a press release.

The thieves and were wearing dark clothing and their faces were covered, but the footage was of a poor quality, making it difficulty to provide a description of the suspects, Preto told KTW. “We don’t have a lot to go on,” he said.

Anyone with information is urged to call police at 250-828-3000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.

Latest Cavers ‘ghost motion’ unsuccessful Former councillor wanted to change language at city hall KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

A notice of motion by former city councillor Donovan Cavers to change language at city hall failed to gain traction around the horseshoe.

Coun. Denis Walsh was the lone councillor who voted in favour of removing words such as “customer” from city rhetoric.

Coun. Dale Bass said she gets nervous legislating people how to talk.

“It would seem to me this would be a simple senior administration initiative to have a discussion with its staff about the appropriate language,” Bass said.

“When we start legislating it, it just gives me 45, orange-hair, creepy thoughts.”

Council voted eight to one against Cavers’ notice of motion. Cavers filed 11 notices of motions during his final council meeting, after failing to secure re-election in October’s civic election.

Subsequent so-called “ghost motions” will appear on agendas through fall. The next notice of motion will attempt to put a deadline on the implementation of organic waste collection.

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An oily substance spotted on Kamloops rivers is caused by a reaction between bacteria and minerals in the water.

City of Kamloops environmental services co-ordinator Emily Lomas called the iridescent substance a “humic sheen”, which has a similar appearance to petroleum products on a water’s surface.

It is born, however, of nature.

“Apparently, it’s fairly common around our area,” Lomas said.

KTW earlier reported concerns of a Westsyde resident, who spotted the sheen on the North Thompson River and contacted this newspaper with concerns due to its proximity to the Trans Mountain pipeline. The substance could be seen on a half-kilometre stretch of the river banks between Overlander Drive and Harrington Road in Westsyde.

Trans Mountain said the substance did not originate from its pipeline and an investigation has since confirmed that.

Environment and Climate Change Canada said enforcement officers conducted an inspection to determine if the river had been polluted.

It worked with the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the City of Kamloops and determined “there was no evidence indicating that a violation of the Fisheries Act had occurred with respect to the anomalies detected in the North Thompson River.”

Lomas said city staff looked at the area and received a call reporting a sheen on the South Thompson River, as well.

“We’re confident based on our discussion with both the Ministry and Environment Canada that it is a bacterial sheen,” she said.

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Locally, the Tk’emlups event will open at noon at the Riverside Park beach. The march is expected to get underway at 12:40 p.m., heading south to Victoria Street and then to City Hall.

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Still, BCLC maintains it is committed to keeping its headquarters in Kamloops.

Lightbody told KTW “there’s no doubt in my mind” in that regard.

“We are firmly committed to Kamloops,” he said. “Kamloops has been very good to BCLC.” Currently employing about 450 people in Kamloops, Stone said BCLC’s business plan calls for another 200 to 250 jobs in the city. He fears those jobs could now end up filled in the Lower Mainland.

“The existing footprint does not allow for that much growth,” he said.

“No level of remediation or repair to the existing building was going to make it possible for BC Lotteries to expand by 200 to 250 positions. I am very,

very, very disappointed that the government has made this decision.”

Lightbody said BCLC’s projection of 700 employees, however, was based on what was required in the request for proposal and future of the corporation more than 50 years down the road.

He said that will continue to be monitored to “make sure we’ve got the people we need in Kamloops.”

Kamloops mayor Ken Christian echoed Stone’s disappointment. He met with Lightbody, as well as BCLC director of corporate services and facilities Ted Ockenden, on Thursday morning before the announcement.

He earlier told KTW he was meeting to discuss a potential partnership with BCLC related to the building, which is located immediately next to BCLC

downtown. Council heard last week City Hall is nearing the end of its life.

“The investment, I was looking forward to that building being an entry point into the downtown core. That’s going to have to wait,” Christian said. “I was also looking forward to the potential for us to do some kind of partnership in terms of the needs of city hall. We’re going to have to address those needs on our own.”

Christian said down the road City Hall will need $9 to $12 million in renovations or require an alternative location.

“My biggest concern is that they [BCLC] are still committed to Kamloops as the headquarters of BCLC,” Christian said. “And that they are still committed to accommodating the organic growth within that business in Kamloops.”

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VANCOUVER — Cannabis activist Marc Emery has posted a response on social media to allegations of sexual harassment.

In a Facebook post late Wednesday, the self-described Prince of Pot denies he ever harmed anyone, but admits he is a “touchy” guy who doesn’t always get it right when speaking openly about sex.

The alleged incidents were made public on Twitter by Deidre Olsen, who was hired by Cannabis Culture but did not end up taking the job. Emery owned Cannabis Culture in downtown Vancouver but said ownership was transferred to his wife Jodie Emery in 2009.

In an interview Thursday, Olsen, a journalist now living in Toronto, said she was traumatized by sexually suggestive emails that Emery had sent her in the past. She alleges it was common at Cannabis Culture for Emery to invite girls as young as 15 to sit on his lap and smoke weed.

Olsen alleges Emery made unwanted sexual advances

when she was 17 and hung out at Cannabis Culture in 2008 in Vancouver. She said his stories of sexual exploits made her extremely uncomfortable.

“They made me feel weird,” she said. “I was always so worried that my mom or my boyfriend would walk in and see these creepy emails from a man who was 50 so I would delete them really quickly.”

She describes Cannabis Culture, which she thought would be a really cool place to work, as an old boys club where middle-aged men worked with vulnerable teenage girls and young women, who she alleges Emery “groomed, harassed, assaulted and exploited.”

Olsen never went to police and none of the allegations have been tested in court.

Olsen said many of the young women were homeless or from poor backgrounds who desperately needed the job.

“I was lucky. I came from a good home had a very loving mother who pulled me out [of Cannabis Culture.]”

Emery said, in the post, that he has lived a “very outspoken, provocative, possibly even out-

rageous life” and has offended lots of people. He adds that he is sexually outspoken but denies that he ever had sex with anyone who was underage.

“I do say outrageous things but it is my sincere belief that I have never harmed anyone, or sexually aggressed anyone, in my life. I do write provocative things. I do talk about sex and in the old days 15 years ago I used to write about sex, but I have never ever had sex with anyone under 19.”

He said it wasn’t uncommon to smoke pot with 17 year olds at 4/20 events, but denies ever supplying them with drugs.

The allegations include that Emery gave young women inappropriate back-rubs and spoke about sexual exploits that made staff uncomfortable.

“I am a touchy guy probably.

But I would like to think that it was modest non-sexual touching always,” he said, in the post, adding that some staff voiced concerns to his wife, who then asked him to leave.

He claims he was affectionate with Olsen but never asked her for sex while she worked at Cannabis Culture.

Extradition imminent for B.C. pair accused of honour killing in India CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Canada’s Department of Justice says two British Columbia residents accused of hiring assassins to kill a young woman and her new husband in India will be extradited to that country within days.

Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh Badesha are accused in India of conspiracy to commit

murder for their alleged involvement in the slaying of Sidhu’s daughter and Badesha’s niece, Jaswinder “Jassi” Kaur Sidhu.

She was killed and her husband was severely beaten after Sidhu travelled to India to marry the man her family did not consider acceptable.

The victim’s mother and uncle were earlier ordered extradited to face charges and were en route to India in

September 2017 when their trip was halted in Toronto when defence lawyers filed a lastminute application for a judicial review.

Last month, the B.C. Court of Appeal denied their requests for a stay of proceedings and a judicial review.

An email from the Justice Department said Badesha and Sidhu will be transferred to India before Jan. 25.

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NATIONAL NEWS

COLIN PERKEL

CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Despite government efforts over the years to fix the situation, Canada’s Indian Act still discriminates against Indigenous women when it comes to passing on their status to their descendants, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled this week.

The committee found the act violates Canada’s international obligations and urged Ottawa to put an end to the differential treatment of an estimated 270,000 women and their descendants.

The complaint came from Sharon McIvor, 70, and her son Jacob Grismer, 47, both of Merritt, who argued they had not been treated as “real Indians’’ because of flaws in the Indian Act, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week called a “colonialist relic.’’

“This decision is a gamechanger for First Nations women and for Canada,’’ McIvor said in a statement. “If the government of Canada fulfills its obligations and finally treats First Nations women as equals, it will be a new day for

us, for our communities and for Canada.’’

McIvor’s grandmother was a member of the Lower Nicola Band — part of the Nlaka’pamux Nation — who married a non-Indigenous man. As a result of prevailing rules that determined Indian status on the basis of male lineage, their daughter was ineligible for registration as an Indian.

As a result, neither McIvor nor her siblings were deemed to be Indians because their ineligible mother married a non-Indian.

McIvor would also marry a non-Indian and had three children, including Grismer.

The federal government changed the Indian Act in 1985 in response to complaints and various court decisions in an effort to address the overt gender discrimination.

However, McIvor and Grismer argued the changes didn’t remedy their situation but instead continued the “existing preference for male Indians and patrilineal descent.’’

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Her brother, on the other hand, can pass on full status to his children as well as his grandchildren.

“The committee notes that Sharon McIvor is treated differently from her own brother under the Indian Act,’’ the committee said.

In addition, McIvor said she had suffered from the stigma of being a lesser-status Indian, while Grismer said he, too, experienced “isolation and stigmatization’’ despite spending his life in the territory of his forebears.

The federal government told the committee that it made changes to the Indian Act in both 2011 and again via Bill S-3 in 2017 to deal with gender issues — although not all the bill’s changes are in effect pending consultations with First Nations. “[Canada] regrets the historical discrimination and other inequities to which Indigenous women and their descendants have been subject,’’ the committee report cites the government as saying.

McIvor and Grismer countered

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The throttle of Bruce Porter’s snowmobile stuck and he watched from beside it as the machine started up and launched over a snowbank, straight through the window of his Porterville, N.L., home on Tuesday.

The runaway machine destroyed furniture and sent debris and glass flying, finally landing on top of Porter’s wife Louise. Amazingly, she suffered only cuts and bruises.

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that Ottawa was wrong to claim a “sub-class’’ of Indian no longer exists under the act, specifically in Section 6 (1). While the changes have improved the situation, they argued they are still victimized.

“The 1985 act as amended in 2011 still excludes from eligibility for registration status Aboriginal women and their descendants who would be entitled to register if sex discrimination were completely eradicated from the scheme,’’ they told the committee.

The committee ruled that Canada must remove the discrimination and ensure all First Nations women and their descendants are granted status on the same footing as First Nations men and their descendants.

In response to the ruling, the government called elimination of all sex-based discrimination from the Indian Act a priority, and said it was doing so through Bill S-3.

The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said the government was putting in place an implementation plan for the rest of the bill’s measures.

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Condemnation from Freeland on Africa slaying CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX — Canadian officials are condemnNational ing the killers of a Halifax mining executive praised as a muchloved family man and highly talented geologist with a knack for spotting producing mines.

Kirk Woodman, who worked for Vancouverbased Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead Wednesday in Burkina Faso’s Oudalan province.

He had been shot multiple times, Jean Paul Badoum, an official with the west African country’s Ministry of Security, said from the capital Ouagadougou.

The geologist had been kidnapped a day earlier by gunmen as he worked on a gold mining project, but officials have not yet identified the kidnappers, Badoum said.

Woodman was vice-president of exploration for Progress Minerals, according to social media.

“Kirk was a loving and hardworking husband, father, son and brother,’’ Woodman’s family said in a statement.

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VANCOUVER — Former United States president Barack Obama is heading to Vancouver.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade said in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at Vancouver Convention Centre West.

It’s billed as a conversation with the first African American to be elected to the presidency.

Iain Black, board of trade president and CEO, says the organization is delighted with the appearance.

Obama, who was elected 44th U.S. president in 2008 and served two terms, is scheduled to make an appearance in Calgary earlier in the day.

Tickets to the Vancouver appearance will be offered to board members first, but any remaining tickets will be made available to the general public on Feb. 1.

“It is an honour for our organization to host one of the most respected world leaders in recent history, in light of his lifelong dedication to principled diplomacy and creating a more equal society,’’ Black said in the release.

Board chair Lori Mathison said B.C. business leaders have repeatedly placed Obama’s name at the top of surveys on desired speakers.

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Chinese ambassador calls Canada’s arrest of Huawei exec ‘backstabbing’ CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye says Canada’s arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive was an act of “backstabbing’’ by a friend.

And Lu warns of “repercussions’’ if Canada bars the firm from its new 5G network for security reasons, as have three of its intelligence-sharing allies.

In a rare interview with Canadian journalists, Lu also told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to back off recruiting interna-

tional support in Canada’s feud with China. He said it would be a bad idea for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to use the upcoming World Economic Forum summit in Davos to press that case.

Lu said economic relations between the two counties can be repaired and the current impasse could be resolved through negotiations, but he defended the arrests of two Canadians in China and criticized Canada’s arrest of the telecommunications executive, saying Meng

Wanzhou didn’t break any Canadian laws.

Canada detained her in Vancouver on Dec. 1, at the request of American authorities who want her to face fraud charges for her dealings with American banks.

She is out on bail and faces extradition proceedings.

China detained Michael Kovrig, a Canadian diplomat on leave, and Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur, after Meng’s arrest on vague allegations of “engaging in activities that endanger the national security.’’

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani now says he “never said there was no collusion’’ between Russia and members of Trump’s 2016 White House campaign, contradicting public positions that he and his client have taken.

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contacts, in light of court filings in the past year that have detailed ties between Trump aides and Russia.

After his comments in a CNN interview Wednesday night, the former New York City mayor tried to clarify what he meant.

“I represent only the president, not the campaign,’’ he told the Associated Press in an interview.

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LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May was consulting opposition parties and other lawmakers Thursday in a battle to put Brexit back on track after surviving a no-confidence vote, though there was little immediate sign of a breakthrough from talks branded a “stunt’’ by the main opposition leader.

European Union countries were stepping up preparations for a disorderly British exit on March 29 after the U.K. Parliament rejected May’s Brexit withdrawal deal with the bloc.

Lawmakers threw out the deal Tuesday, in a crushing defeat for May, who suffered the worst parliamentary defeat in modern British history.

The drubbing was followed by a no-confidence vote in the government, but May’s minority Conservative government survived it on Wednesday night with backing from its Northern Irish ally, the Democratic

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May said she would hold talks “in a constructive spirit’’ with leaders of opposition parties and other lawmakers in a bid to find a way forward for Britain’s EU exit.

The government confirmed that May will meet a Monday deadline to publish a Plan B, and that lawmakers will have a full day to debate it — and, crucially, amend it — on Jan. 29.

There was little sign of a breakthrough in uniting Parliament’s feuding Brexit factions, whose conflicting demands range from a postponement of Britain’s departure date to a new referendum on whether to leave the EU or remain.

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said he wouldn’t meet with May until she took a no-deal Brexit “off the table.’’

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May said she would hold talks “in a constructive spirit’’ with leaders of opposition parties and other lawmakers in a bid to find a way forward for Britain’s EU exit.

The government confirmed that May will meet a Monday deadline to publish a Plan B, and that lawmakers will have a full day to debate it — and, crucially, amend it — on Jan. 29.

There was little sign of a breakthrough in uniting Parliament’s feuding Brexit factions, whose conflicting demands range from a postponement of Britain’s departure date to a new referendum on whether to leave the EU or remain.

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said he wouldn’t meet with May until she took a no-deal Brexit “off the table.’’

“To get a deal that can command a majority in Parliament, Theresa May has to ditch the red lines and get serious about

proposals for the future,’’ Corbyn said during a speech to supporters in the English seaside town of Hastings.

“Last night’s offer of talks with party leaders turned out to be simply a stunt, not the serious attempt to engage with the new reality that’s needed,’’ he said.

Green Party lawmaker Caroline Lucas, who met with May on Thursday morning, said the prime minister was “in a fantasy world’’ if she thought the deal could be transformed by Monday.

“Parliament is gridlocked,’’ she said.

May so far has showed little inclination to make major changes to her deal or lift her insistence that Brexit means leaving the EU’s single market and customs union.

Many lawmakers think a softer departure that retained single market or customs union membership is the only plan capable of winning a majority in Parliament.

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Videos circulating on social media show panicked officers hauling injured colleagues on stretchers with debris and body parts strewn in front of red tileroofed cadet barracks. In the distance, the skeletal steel remains of the truck used in the attack can be seen still burning while approaching ambulances blare.

President Ivan Duque rushed back to the capital with his top military advisers from a visit

to a western state to oversee the police investigation, which points to a possible suicide bombing — something unprecedented in decades of political violence in the Andean nation.

A prosecutor said a 56-yearold man named Jose Aldemar Rojas, driving a 1993 Nissan pick-up loaded with 80 kilograms of pentolite, carried out the attack.

The defence ministry said 10 people were killed and another 66 injured.

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Derek Rhodes leads the TRU WolfPack men’s basketball team in scoring, but compiling wins, not points, is his primary goal as the Canada West season winds down.

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Graduating TRU WolfPack guard Derek Rhodes has never experienced post-season basketball at the Tournament Capital Centre.

That could change this year. If it doesn’t, it never will.

“It’s my third year here. We haven’t been able to do it yet,” said Rhodes, the Antioch, Calif., product who leads the WolfPack with 217 points in 14 games.

“That would be really nice in my final year. It’s very important having the home crowd and playing on your home rims you shoot on every day.”

The WolfPack men’s basketball team will play four consecutive home games before finishing the regular season with a pair of tilts against the undefeated Dinos (16-0) in Calgary.

Canada West’s top 12 teams will qualify for the post-season.

They will be reseeded based on a ratings-percentage-index statistic, with the top four teams receiving first-round byes and the fifth-, sixth, seventh- and eighth-seeded teams hosting Round 1 play-in series.

TRU (6-8) is tied for 11th in Canada West standings, but well within striking distance of seventh place and achieving an RPI worthy of hosting a play-in series.

“There’s no excuse this time of year,” said fourth-year WolfPack forward Joe Davis, a Westsyde secondary graduate. “You’ve got to be able to play your best basketball when your best is needed.”

The most-recent TRU men’s basketball post-season contest on home court was a momentous occasion, the WolfPack’s 62-61 tri-

umph over the Winnipeg Wesmen on Feb. 20, 2015, securing the program’s first-ever U Sports playoff series victory.

Davis saw two minutes of action in that game and the only thing he racked up was a personal foul.

Rhodes wasn’t even on the roster.

Both now key cogs, they want to feel the buzz of home-court advantage in the playoffs — and they know this upcoming homestand will make or break that goal.

The WolfPack and Regina Cougars will clash at TCC on Friday and Saturday. Game time is 7 p.m. both nights.

Regina (10-4) is sixth in league standings, eight points ahead of the Pack, but the Cougars will be wary of their opposition.

TRU was one overtime defeat away from sweeping a two-game series against the Wesmen (11-5) in Winnipeg last weekend.

Winnipeg bested TRU 100-94 in OT last Friday. The WolfPack knocked off the Wesmen 85-77 on Saturday.

Nearly beating a top-five team twice in their home barn had to be great for confidence ahead of the stretch drive.

“Urgency should be every day, but, definitely, when you see playoffs in view, everyone picks up the intensity and practices are much harder,” Rhodes said.

Manitoba (5-9) will be in town to play TRU on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26.

WolfPack head coach Scott Clark, who led the team to its first and only berth at nationals in 2016, is not looking that far ahead.

“You’re only as good as your last game,” Clark said. “We’ve got a game coming up. The only thing we control is our preparation and what we do for the next game.”

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Jermaine Loewen appeared irritated, mumbling under his breath and shaking his head as he walked toward reporters.

The fed-up captain has had enough.

“I’m upset,” Loewen said.

Those words, the first two in a fiery piece of discourse, came following his Kamloops Blazers’ 5-2 loss to the Moose Jaw Warriors on Tuesday at Sandman Centre.

Loewen can see the standings.

His time in this league is almost up. He’s seen the playoffs slip away before. It happens quickly.

He wants every one of his teammates to know that now, while there is still time to right the ship.

The Blazers, last in the Western Conference, were a defensive mess at times during the first period, with both individual and team gaffes leading to Moose Jaw goals.

Tristin Langan capitalized on a Sean Strange turnover to give the visitors a 1-0 lead at 3:26 of the first period.

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Stuart for his 13th goal of the campaign.

Kobe Mohr spent 11 seconds in the penalty box for slashing.

Justin Almeida made sure Mohr’s sin-bin stay was cut short by wiring a wrist shot past Kamloops netminder Dylan Ferguson for a power-play goal at 9:59.

Daniil Stepanov put the finishing touch on a pretty Warriors’

passing play at 16:01 of the first period. A stagnant, bunched group of Blazers’ defenders had a front row seat for the action.

“It’s very frustrating to see,” Loewen said. “We have to come back from behind in every single game — every single game. We talk about it all season and we’re like, ‘We need to work hard, we need to keep the game simple, we

need to eliminate the turnovers,’ and then we just revert back to playing not as a team.”

Ferguson, the Blazers’ overage, No. 1 goaltender, allowed three goals on 13 shots. He finished the first period, but 16-year-old Dylan Garand took over from there.

Blazers’ head coach Serge Lajoie was asked about the deci-

sion to switch netminders.

“It was a situation where we had to make the change,” Lajoie said. “Something just came up and Dylan Ferguson just wasn’t available to us anymore. I was not prepared to do that. I thought he was doing the job for us.

“I just want to reiterate that we have the utmost confidence in Fergy, but we just didn’t have access to him after the first period. There was an ailment there.

He wasn’t able to compete at the level that he needed to. We erred on the side of caution. He’s going to be available to us moving forward.”

The Blazers were much improved in the second period and rewarded when Loewen tipped in a pass from Montana Onyebuchi, who sprawled to reach the puck and slide it to his captain.

That was the last shot to sneak past Warriors’ netminder Adam Evanoff.

He made 34 saves in victory, which became inevitable when Almeida fetched the puck at his own blue line and glided around the Blazers’ defence to score at 15:27 of the third period.

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Reinforcements have arrived in time for the Kamloops Storm’s stretch drive toward the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoffs.

The additions of forward Hayden Hirsch and defenceman Jayden Castle, both 18, helped pace the Storm (14-19-0-2) to a pair of weekend victories — 4-3 over the visiting Chase Heat on Sunday and 3-1 over the hometown 100 Mile House Wranglers on Saturday.

Kamloops coach Jassi Sangha was thrilled with his team’s effort in the win over the Wranglers, but displeased with a vacuous performance on Sunday.

“Any team we play against, we can beat them if we play our system,” Sangha said.

“Guys did on Saturday. It was almost robotic. We came back Sunday and we weren’t systematic. It could have got ugly without our goaltending.”

Ethan Paulin-Hatch stopped 34 shots to pick up the win between the pipes on Sunday. He made 32 saves in victory against the Wranglers.

Sangha is expecting another jolt to the lineup, with 18-yearold defenceman Lucas Gaudet expected to join the Storm this week.

Gaudet, Hirsch and Castle toiled for the

Storm in 2017-2018, but did not return to the KIJHL to start the 2018-2019 campaign.

Hirsch, the son of former Kamloops Blazers’ and Vancouver Canucks’ netminder Corey Hirsch, was in Phoenix when he contacted Sangha before the Christmas break to express interest in coming back to the Tournament Capital.

He arrived about three weeks ago.

Gaudet had been playing junior A hockey in Saskatchewan this season with the Notre Dame Hounds. He was released and joined Kamloops last week.

Castle bounced around the junior B Pacific Junior Hockey League before Kamloops acquired him in a trade last week.

The Storm, who are 4-2-0-1 since the Christmas break, will play host to Summerland (20-132-2) on Friday. Game time is 7 p.m.

Doug Birks Division standings: Revelstoke (60 points), 100 Mile House (42 points), Sicamous (31 points), Kamloops (30 points) and Chase (24 points).

The top four teams in the division will qualify for the postseason.

“Our goal is to get into third and have a first-round matchup with 100 Mile,” Sangha said.

“We only have 14 games left. We have to be on our game.”

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Brice MacDermott will be leaving his post as general manager of Kamloops Golf and Country Club on Feb. 8.

The search is underway for his replacement.

Applications are being accepted and the club is aiming to name his successor by early March.

MacDermott took the GM job at KGCC when Harold Simkins left the position in

the spring of 2015.

“He’s been given an opportunity he thinks is unique,” KGCC club captain Brian Peters said, noting news of his impending departure came as a surprise.

“I can’t give much more

information. We are disappointed to lose him. He’s done a really good job over the last four years.”

MacDermott has not yet responded to a request for comment.

The club received about

30 applications when Simkins left. Five candidates were interviewed.

“Our four managers are picking up the slack until the new person is in,” Peters said.

“It hasn’t affected plans for the future. It’s a great place.

We want to keep it going.”

MacDermott’s wife, Lindsay, will be leaving her position as a club instructor.

“We’re not sure who we’ll miss more,” Peters said. “His wife had done so many good things for junior golf in this city.”

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Mo Bradley is 81 and partially blind, but the local fishing legend is still going strong.

He is again spearheading the annual free family ice fishing day at Walloper Lake, an event that drew about 60 people 15 years ago and is expected to draw about 400 on Sunday.

“It’s all about showing people what we have in Kamloops,” said Bradley, noting the event is organized by the Kamloops and District Fish and Game Association.

“There is nowhere better in the world. One family took 20 pictures and made a collage for me last year.”

Bradley said the icefishing extravaganza, which will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is a hit with Thompson Rivers University international students.

Fish and game members will be there to teach newcomers.

“We had two guys from Kenya last year,” Bradley said. “They were both about fivefoot and 99 inches tall.

They went around the bonfire. They’d never seen anything like it before.”

Registration will begin at about 9:30 a.m.

Burgers, hot dogs and hot chocolate,

among other treats, will be served free of charge by fish and game members, thanks to donations from local businesses.

Bradley will provide rods, about 300 of them, each of which he made himself.

Those with icefishing bait and tackle are asked to bring it to the lake, but there will be bait and tackle available for use. Bradley said Surplus Herby’s usually offers support.

“There will be no garbage left,” Bradley said emphatically.

“That would drive me mad.”

A stroke five years ago, suffered a few days before Christmas, left Bradley with about 40 per cent vision in his right eye and, on a good day, 10 per cent in his left eye.

He helps out with a free fishing excursion on Father’s Day weekend and plans to lead an angling trip for the blind in September.

“The blind leading the blind,” Bradley said with a laugh.

Walloper Lake is home to rainbow trout.

The lake is 35 kilometres south of Kamloops and can be found by taking Exit 336 on the Coquihalla Highway.

The event is free to attend, but donations are accepted.

For more information, call Bradley at 778-470-8372.

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Cougars aiming to claw at Pack’s playoff hopes Kanesha Reeves is among the TRU WolfPack’s graduating fifth-year players making a last-gasp effort to reach the Canada West post-season.

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Kanesha Reeves can see the end.

She’s trying not to focus on it, but it’s impossible to ignore.

“Honestly, I’m trying not to think about it because if I do, I’m going to get too upset and emotional,” said Reeves, a South Kamloops secondary graduate.

“I’m just trying to take it game by game right now.”

The TRU WolfPack women’s basketball team is hanging on to slim post-season hopes, but a home playoff game has been ruled out.

Reeves, Emily Vilac and Michelle Bos, the Pack’s graduating fifth-year players, have four more opportunities to play in front of friends and family at the TCC — two tilts this weekend against the Regina Cougars and games against the Manitoba Bisons on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26.

TRU’s most recent post-season contest in Kamloops was on Feb. 28, 2015, a 77-75 loss to the Victoria Vikes in the deciding game of that Canada West quarterfinal series.

The WolfPack (4-10) snapped a five-game losing streak last

Saturday by knocking off the hometown Winnipeg Wesmen 65-61, earning a split of the weekend series against a squad they are chasing in the standings.

“It brought us closer together, for sure,” Reeves said. “When you’re a struggling team and you don’t have as many wins as you’d like, to come from behind against a team you should be in the running with was awesome.”

Winnipeg (6-10) and Manitoba (6-8) are tied for 11th in conference standings and in playoff position, as the top 12 teams will qualify for the post-season.

The WolfPack trail the Wesmen and Bisons by four points and will likely need to squeeze at least one win out of this weekend’s games against the Cougars (11-3) to keep the playoffs within realistic reach.

Regina will be motivated to sweep TRU to keep its place among the conference’s top four ratings-percentage-index teams, each of which receive first-round playoff byes.

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Bos, from Surrey, is the WolfPack’s leader and has enjoyed a noteworthy Canada West career.

She leads the team this season in points per game (16), rebounds per game (7.1) and minutes per game (34.2).

Vilac, a South Kam graduate, has started 13 games this season and is averaging 7.3 points per game.

The Cougars and WolfPack will get underway at 5 p.m. at the TCC on Friday and Saturday.

TRU will wrap the regular season against the Dinos (13-3) in Calgary, the games — potentially the last for the WolfPack’s graduating trio — scheduled for Feb. 1 and Feb 2.

“It’s been a surreal experience, unlike any other experience that most people my age get, which is super special,” Reeves said.

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SPORTS Rob Ellis (left) was introduced as the Kamloops Broncos’ head coach in January of 2009, when this picture was taken at the Tournament Capital Centre. He left the job after the 2010 campaign. Ellis will now begin his second tenure as the B.C. Football Conference franchise’s head coach.

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City of Kamloops

ACTIVITY PROGRAMS

For registration please call 250-828-3500 and please quote program number provided.

For online registration please visit

WWW.KAMLOOPS.CA/EZREG

Programs are cancelled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Beginner Flannel Rag Quilt

$70

Rag quilts are wonderful first‑time quilting projects.

Spend the day making a beautiful flannel rag quilt. Your instructor will take you step by step from cutting your fabric to the final step of instructions on how to wash your completed blanket. You will need to bring your own fabric, sewing machine, and supplies.

Parkview Activity Centre » Feb 11 Mon

9:00 AM‑5:00 PM 295606

Coed Ice Hockey: Beginner

$85

Learn skating skills, stick handling, and puck control techniques, and finish off the session with a scrimmage.

Full gear and a CSA‑approved helmet are required. This program is for beginner hockey players.

McArthur Island Sport Centre - Olympic Rink » Jan 27‑Mar 3 Sun

11:15 AM‑1:15 PM 293932

Snowshoe with Baby

Harper Mountain » Jan 24‑Feb 28 Thu

12:30‑1:30 PM 296282

Transforming Leftovers

$47

Grocery costs have sky‑rocketed, kids are picky, and throwing a way good food isn’t eco‑friendly. Re‑invent last night’s dinner into tonight’s meal or something to freeze for another day. Join a community kitchen and learn some great tips, tricks, and recipes. » Jan 26 Sat

MARTY HASTINGS

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Rob Ellis will have another chance to turn the Kamloops Broncos into a competitive B.C. Football Conference franchise.

The organization’s board of directors voted unanimously on Wednesday to make him head coach, a position he held in 2009 and 2010 before

health concerns forced him to relinquish the job, according to a club press release.

Kamloops was 2-8 in 2008, the year before Ellis’ first tenure began. He led the team to a 5-15 record over the following two seasons.

He is inheriting an 0-10 club this year.

The winless 2018 campaign sparked a major organizational overhaul.

Gone are former head

coach Brad Yamaoka, former president Dino Bernardo and former general manager Jan Antons.

Joe Liberatore has taken over GM duties and Darren Watt is listed as interim president on the club’s website.

“With the recent changes in the executive structure of the Kamloops Broncos, coach Ellis adds a sense of stability and structure,” the press release said. “His presence

assures our fans, supporters and, most importantly, our players that we are seriously moving forward with renewed vigour and enthusiasm in putting the best possible product on the field.”

Ellis was unavailable for comment before KTW’s press deadline on Thursday.

Read more about Ellis’ hiring in these pages on Wednesday and online at kamloopsthisweek.com.

$60

Snowshoe with your baby. Get your little one ready in the cozy lodge and then, using supportive carriers, explore the guided trails at Harper Mountain. This course is run in partnership with Harper Mountain. Cost includes trail fees. Rentals are available on site.

Mt. Paul Food Centre

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Birthday Party at the Kamloops Museum & Archives LOOKING TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY?

Come explore the KMA! Find out more about hosting your big day at your local museum.

Call 250-828-3576

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LAJOIE: ‘WE’VE GOT TO MAKE A DECISION — ARE WE ALL IN OR ARE THERE SOME OF US IN THE WAY?’ From A25

Dalton Hamaliuk tallied a power-play goal at 17:55 to put an exclamation point on the triumph. Garand allowed two goals on 19 shots in 40 minutes of work.

Onyebuchi, a bright spot for the home team on Tuesday, dropped the gloves with Kale Clouston at 18:31 of the third period and landed two clean right hands to win the tilt.

He told KTW he fought to show he cares.

“I was fired up,” Onyebuchi said. “Just buying in. That’s all that is.

“We have to have everybody buying in and ready to go every game, coming to the rink ready to work and starting on time. It’s frustrating.”

Lajoie said fisticuffs were not necessary.

“He doesn’t have to

prove anything to me,” Lajoie said. “I know he’s a competitor. He cares for his teammates. I’m not sure it was necessary at that point of the game. I really hope that we don’t lose him for the next game in that situation. He was the defenceman we could really rely on.”

The Blazers called up top-prospect 15-year-old forward Logan Stankoven for Tuesday’s game and deployed him on the right wing, with Josh Pillar at centre and Kyrell Sopotyk on the left wing.

“I really liked how Sopotyk and Pillar had been playing,” said Lajoie, who used Stankoven at centre during his WHL debut

on Oct. 19. “I just wanted to start him there at the wing. For me, you start at the right wing at faceoffs.

After that, positions are interchangeable. I thought he did a fantastic job, created a lot of energy.”

Stankoven, who’s been playing centre for the Thompson Blazers and leads the B.C. Major Midget League in scoring by 20 points, has now experienced both victory and defeat in the WHL ranks.

The St. Ann’s Academy student had an assist on the gamewinning goal in his debut, a 5-3 victory over Swift Current.

He was held pointless and was minus-1 in Tuesday’s game, his second WHL contest.

“It was different playing on the wing tonight, but everyone has to adapt to different situations,” Stankoven said. “We

wanted to come into this barn and get a win tonight. There is still lots of season left.

There is no time to quit or have breaks. You’ve got to keep going.”

The CHL’s No. 1-ranked team, the Prince Albert Raiders (38-5-0-1), will square off against Kamloops at Sandman Centre on Friday. Game time is 7 p.m.

For the Blazers, a loss to the Raiders would not be the end of the world. Far more damaging than defeat would be a lacklustre effort, given the gauntlet that has been thrown down.

Here’s Lajoie: “We need to let this loss sink in. We’ve got to make a decision — are we all in or are there some of us in the way?”

That sounds a lot like a coach challenging his players.

“We’re getting the results we are getting

because we’re not chipping in and doing what we need to do,” Loewen said.

“Once we figure that out, we’ll be good, but time is running out and other teams are pressing.”

Loewen ambled back into the dressing room, mumbling and shaking his head along the way.

IN THE STANDINGS B.C. Division standings: Vancouver (56 points), Victoria (45), Kelowna (38), Prince George (35) and Kamloops (33).

Five straight losses and 13 consecutive road defeats have left the Blazers outside of playoff position.

Prince George holds the second and final Western Conference wild card playoff spot.

The Cougars will play host to the Blazers on Saturday and Sunday.

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The ASK Wellness Society is Hiring Who is the ASK Wellness Society ?

We are a not for profit organization that supports individuals within the BC Region with opportunities and the resources to change their current situation. It’s about reaching out to those people who are homeless and battling addictions, helping them find housing and medical care, addressing their addictions, stabilizing mental health issues and, ultimately, providing them with the skills to re-enter the work force. The ASK Wellness Society administers an unconditional sense of hope to those who are convinced they are incapable of ever achieving a stable and meaningful life.

The ASK Wellness Society is dedicated to promoting diversity/multiculturalism with inclusion as one of our Core Values.

We are fully focused on equality and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

We have a variety of shifts including Permanent Full-Time, Permanent Part-Time and Casual/On-Call !! ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾

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Spero House

W e a r e l o o k i n g f o r Te n a n t S u p p o r t W o r k e r s , a Licensed Practical Nurse and a full K i t c h e n Te a m a t o u r n e w 2 4 / 7 S u p p o r t i v e Housing Unit on the North Shore!

As the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), you will work in collaboration with the Spero House Team, performing assessment/planning, implementing and providing medical care to clients.

The LPN operates in accordance with the competency guidelines and practice within the Standards of Practice as outlines by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of British Columbia.

As a member of the Kitchen Team at Spero House you would work together to prepare and cook large quantities of food for 50+ tenants seven days a week (continental breakfast and dinner).

As a Tenant Support Worker you will provide life skills services to Program Participants who are at-risk of homelessness in our community. You will encourage and support Program Participants to live as fully and independently as possible within the local community by providing information, emotional/practical support and training as appropriate.

Service delivery is based on a client centered and non-judgmental perspective.

Seeking qualified and dedicated Human Service Workers!!

All Spero House positions close on January 16 2019 at noon th

To apply please send cover letter and resume to Careers@askwellness.ca and ensure you reference which position you are interested in as there are multiple positions available!

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SWM 65 NS. Genuine, passionate, caring. Interests include music, movies, walks, just being outdoors. Seeks adventurous, fun-loving lady 58-65 to enjoy life with.

Please reply to box number KTW 1465 c/o Kamloops This Week 1365B Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops, BC V2C 5P6.

Travel PERFECT Part-Time Opportunity

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Housesitting Peace of mind house sitting and pet care. Keep your house and pets safe while your away.

374-6007.

GENERAL LABORERS We are a well established, growing plywood and veneer manufacturer. If you have your own transportation, can work shift work, are fit and have a good work ethic, then we need you.

We are located east of the City of Kamloops, on Dallas Drive and are requiring full time General Laborers.

We offer a great benefits package after a satisfactory probation period. Please submit your resume in person, Monday to Friday 8:00 - 4:30 pm.

THOMPSON RIVER VENEER PRODUCTS LTD. If you cannot apply in person you can fax a full resume with references to 250-573-6052

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TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING Funding available for those who qualify!

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HUNTER & FIREARMS

OPEN ROUTE CREW WANTED Kamloops This Week is looking for a driver and crew to deliver open routes Wednesday and Friday mornings (approx. 4 hours per delivery day). A delivery vehicle will be provided. Pay is $14 per hour.

Candidates must have a Class 5 drivers licence and be physically able to deliver newspapers (up to 60 addresses per hour).

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SALES PROFESSIONAL REQUIRED Are you driven? Can you solve problems & take on unique challenges?

We are seeking a Sales Professional to join our Kamloops team.

For more details & to apply, visit: eaglehomes.ca/careers

SANDMAN INNS RURAL BC recruiting management couples, both full-time and part-time roles available. Ask us about our great employee perks and accommodation. Apply: sbraid@sandman.ca

Education/Trade Schools AAA - Pal & Core

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Help Wanted Activation Laboratories We are looking to fill positions for Laboratory Technician (BSc required) and Sample Prep Technician. No experience necessary. Email resumes to: nolangoddard@actlabs.com or apply in person at 9989 Dallas Drive. Competitive wages and benefits.

I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto batteries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

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NEW - Intro to Reloading & Bear Aware courses on demand.

For schedules see www.pal-core-ed.com or 778-470-3030

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Optical Assistant. Looking for part time employee for optometry office. Experience preferred but not necessary. Apply to optical360@hotmail.com

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TRI-CITY SPECIAL! for only $46.81/week, we will place your classified ad into Kamloops, Vernon & Salmon Arm.

Merchandise for Sale $500 & Under

Work Wanted HOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774.

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Happy New Year

FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF TL’ETINQOX GOVERNMENT

CURRENTLY RECRUITING THE FOLLOWING FULL-TIME POSITIONS: • Justice Program Coordinator • Reintegration Support Worker • Supported Child Development Worker • Youth Recreation Coordinator & Culture and Language Coordinator.

Contact katrina.elliot@4cmc.ca for detailed job description and to apply by January 25th, 2019

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $5-$10/ ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive

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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 $200. 250-374-1541.

Diningroom table w/8-chairs, c/w Buffet and Hutch. Med Colour. $850. 250-374-8933.

Misc. for Sale 5th wheel hitch $300. Ford air flow tailgate w/lock black $160. 250-374-8285.

Stacking Maytag washer and dryer in gd cond asking $475 (250) 299-9342

Misc. Wanted 001 Able buyer of all your old coins,coin collections,R.C. MINT COINS, all silver, gold, rare, common, old money.+ Todd The Coin Guy (250)-864-3521 #1 COIN BUYER $$$ Buying Coins, Collections, Silver, Gold, Olympic Coins, Bars, Bills + Also Buying ALL types of Gold & Silver. Call Chad 250863-3082

Musical Instruments

Approx 450 45rpm records. $700/all. 250-318-0170.

2-3/4 French and German Violins c/w case/bows. $150$250. 250-434-6738.

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

9010337 REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER (MSW)

Tl’etinqox Government is seeking a Registered Social Worker (MSW) who works well in a team environment and has extensive experience with advanced and complex social work cases. Under the direction of the Health and Wellness Director, and in consult with the health team and related government agencies, the individual will manage complex psychosocial problems, and perform a variety of casework and counselling services.

Preference will be given to candidates with First Nation experience.

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Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Temporary/ PT/Seasonal

Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week is currently hiring Substitute Carriers for door-to-door deliveries.

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

commercial Butcher-Boy meat grinder 3-hp. 220 volt. c/w attachments. $1800. 250318-2030.

Carboys 23L. $30. 11.5L $20.

1-gal jugs $3/each. Bottle dry rack $15. 250-376-0313.

Fishing Kayak 10ft. $450.

IGO Titan 36 Electric Bike w/battery. $900.

778-4711096.

Folding dog stroller for small to medium dog. $45. 778-4717687.

Hockey Gear fits 5’4” 120 lbs, brand new + skates 6.5 size.

Serious inquires only $650/obo. for all. Call 9-6pm 250-374-7992.

La Sportiva Nepal Cube GTX climbing boots, men size 10.

New. $500. 2-161cm Snowboards. Never used $375.

Gently used. $325. 578-7776.

Loveseat, brown tones in good condition. $50. 250-3773604.

MISC4Sale: Oak Table Chairs-$400, Call 250-8511346 after 6pm or leave msg.

Animals sold as “purebred stock” must be registrable in compliance with the Canadian Pedigree Act.

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is looking for substitute distributors for door-to-door deliveries.

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at

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Pets

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For a complete job description email katrina.elliot@4cmc.ca by January 29th, 2019

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

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

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Only successful candidates will receive contact to establish immediate next steps.

No phone calls please.

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Dreaming Of Driving A New Truck?

“0” Down Lease to Own! Shadow Lines is offering new 2019 tractors to a few select candidates as lease to own trucks. These trucks will be fully equipped with full warranty, for work in our Dry Bulk division, running from the Okanagan region to the Lower Mainland and back.

Candidates for these trucks must have a clean drivers abstract, good work ethic, and pneumatic tank experience. We offer, along with the new truck, year round work, great rates.

Call Natalie at 604-830-1037 or 604-888-2928

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Have your say on the best places and faces in

KAMLOOPS’ EXCELLENT DINING SCENE

VOTERS WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN A $100 GIFT CARD to the Kamloops restaurant of your choice

Select who you feel are the top businesses in at least 25% of the total categories. Contest closes January 31, 2019 at noon.

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Best place for a birthday dinner ______________________________________________

Best place for girls’ night out ________________________________________________

Best place for an anniversary dinner _________________________________________

Best place to celebrate your kid’s birthday ____________________________________

Best place for a Valentine’s dinner ___________________________________________

Best place for your first legal drink ___________________________________________

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Best dining with a view______________________________________________________

Best place to take guests from out of town ___________________________________

Best washroom facilities ____________________________________________________

Best place to eat for under $10 ______________________________________________

Restaurant with most diverse menu __________________________________________

Best place to watch the big game ____________________________________________

Best late-night restaurant ___________________________________________________

Best place to party__________________________________________________________ Best place to meet singles ___________________________________________________ Best happy hour ____________________________________________________________ Best place for a business lunch ______________________________________________ Best place for after-work drinks______________________________________________

Best restaurant using local ingredients _______________________________________ Restaurant with the best desserts ____________________________________________ Restaurant you miss the most _______________________________________________ Restaurant you wish would come to town ____________________________________ Best server _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________

Best place to go after the movies ____________________________________________

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PARLOR TRICKS

By Andy Kravis

ACROSS 1. Locale for a bottom feeder 7. Relinquish 11. Total nerdburger 16. The Mormon Church, for short 19. Having come apart 20. Company with a Roman centurion logo, informally 21. Name shouted at the end of the “Flintstones” closing theme song 22. I.S.P. option 23. At the ice cream parlor, the grand marshal ordered a …

25. R&B’s ____ Brothers 26. Effort 27. Atoms 28. Weak-minded type 30. Something lost in old literature 32. Airline to Ben Gurion Airport 33. Water 35. Sites with corporate names, often 36. Low-status, as work 38. Govt. org. under Homeland Security 39. The confirmed bachelor ordered a …

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49. Navigational aid, for short 50. Actress Aniston, in the tabloids 52. God, in Rastafarianism 55. “Get ____!”

57. Winds, as videotape 59. Frequent co-star of Mastroianni 61. “Frozen” snowman 63. Question of doubt 65. How many verbs in Esperanto are irregular 66. Premium Cuban cigar brand

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76. What an auctioneer’s gavel indicates 77. In a way 78. Home planet of TV’s ALF 80. Planted 82. Rapper who founded the record label Mass Appeal 83. Japanese drama 84. Slippery, say 85. ____-free 87. Friendly greeting on the highway 89. Wine from central Tuscany 92. The Apollo Theater usher ordered a …

97. The pastry chef ordered a …

100. Eastern philosophy 101. Ocular socket 102. Simpson with the 2004 hit “Pieces of Me” 103. Arthur who composed “The Yeomen of the Guard” 106. Approximately 107. All out 110. Won 111. Without alteration 112. Filming locale 113. Places for cheap drinks 115. And the homebody ordered an …

118. “We’ll teach you to drink deep ____ you depart”: Hamlet 119. Stores with Småland play areas 120. Perspicacious 121. Fishing sites 122. Director Guillermo ____ Toro 123. Earth 124. Beaux-____ 125. Vaporize

DOWN 1. Elided greeting 2. One who facilitates selfdestructive behavior 3. Supermodel Lima 4. Marina apparatus 5. Stops 6. It can symbolize an open mouth in an 8-Down 7. Kind of intake, to a nutritionist 8. See 6-Down 9. Some narcs 10. What “X” may stand for 11. Bad thing on a motorist’s record, for short 12. Pufflet 13. First name of the First Lady of Song 14. Some sights in Oz 15. Where many Golden State Warriors fans live 16. Like much of the Western Hemisphere 17. Along the back 18. Most foxy 24. Pres. who signed the Glass-Steagall Act 29. Rehab affliction, for short 31. Bulbous, narrownecked bottles 32. Lifesaver, for short 33. Successful presidential slogan of old 34. ____ al-Fitr (holiday marking the close of Ramadan) 37. Miles away 40. Fails (to) 41. Problems of amnesia 43. Stop 44. Channel with highlights 48. Angry chorus 51. Annual science fiction award 52. Isn’t serious 53. Family support group

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SUDOKU FUN BY THE NUMBERS

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes.

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WEEKLY COMICS

FRANK & ERNEST by Bob Thaves

ARCTIC CIRCLE by Alex Hallatt

THE BORN LOSER

BABY BLUES

BIG NATE

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by Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott

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by Chris Browne

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SHOE by Gary Brookins & Susie Macnelly

PARDON MY PLANET by Vic Lee

ZITS by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

GUESS WHO?

HERMAN

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FAMILY CIRCUS

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I am an actor born in California on January 18, 1955. I was inspired to act after seeing a film at age 7. I have appeared in many notable films; two about baseball. I won two Academy Awards for work on a film about Native Americans.

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM Shinichi Omatsu

In Loving Memory of

It is with a very sad and heavy heart that we announce the passing of Shinichi Omatsu in Burnaby, BC on December 21, 2018 after a short battle with lymphoma.

June 20, 1932 – January 19, 2016

He was predeceased by his first wife Asayo (1997), his second wife Shirley (2013) and his son Masahiro (2015).

Bill Cook

He is missed by his daughter Keiko Arlene (Kent Wong). He leaves to mourn his passing numerous relatives and extended family, friends/staff from Sienna Rideau Manor and the many friends from the different neighbourhoods he lived in.

He will be remembered for his kindness and generosity.

The wealth of memories of a life welllived always keep you close.

Loved and Missed!

Barrie, Nancy, Dave

Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to Dr. Salvino (his family doctor and friend of many years), Dr. Telio (his oncologist) and the emergency staff at Burnaby Hospital.

In lieu of flowers, a donation in his name to your favourite charity may be made; no koden please.

A celebration of life will be held in the spring of 2019.

Patricia Bernadette Leslie (née Burgher) February 18, 1948 - December 22, 2018

Ask DRAKE Drake Smith, MSW Funeral Director

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It is with great heaviness in our hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Patricia Bernadette Leslie (née Burgher) at Royal Inland Hospital on December 22, 2018 with family at her side.

Q. I don’t want to take Murray’s ashes home. Is that weird?

Pat was 70 years old, she was born on February 18, 1948 in Vanderhoof, BC. After spending many years in the north, Pat and her family moved to Kamloops, BC, then onto Logan Lake, BC where she spent her retiring years.

A. A lot of people feel that way. Upon your request, the funeral home has to keep them for 60 days at no charge.

It gives you time to figure out what you want to do.

Pat was predeceased by her husband Bill, her mother and father, two brothers and one sister. Missing her greatly are her four daughters Valerie, Debbie, Wanda, Linda and their spouses. She leaves behind seven grandchildren, eight greatgrandchildren, two sisters, three brothers and their families.

A Memorial Service and Catholic Mass will be held for family and close friends on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm in Logan Lake, BC at St. Michael’s Parish with Father Derrick officiating. A small reception to follow. ! !

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Jeffrey Clayton Durrant 1961 - 2019

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Jeffrey Clayton Durrant of Kamloops, BC on January 12, 2019 at the young age of 57.

He is survived by his loving mother Patricia (Patsy) Durrant, his brother Jim (Betty) Durrant as well as his three children Sara (Greg) Durrant of Vernon, BC, Stacey (Mark) Tassie of Mission, BC and Kyle (Margaret) Durrant of Wetaskiwin, AB. Jeff had eight grandchildren he cherished, Mikaela, Caiden, Camryn, Clayton, Daxton, Asher, Madison and Marina, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his father and role model Cecil Durrant.

Jeff was born in Kenora, Ontario and raised in Calgary, Alberta. His adult life was spent in Vernon, Lumby, Winfield and finally settling in Kamloops, BC. He was known as a devoted and loyal man with a solid work ethic. He dedicated his last 16 years to Van Houtte coffee services. He loved his Van Houtte family and their many clients, holding a special place in his heart for the Lillooet First Nations community.

When Jeff wasn’t working you would find him out on his favourite lakes fishing with his beloved dog, Stash. He was a proud Father and Grandfather who had a deep connection with nature. This was reflected in the time he spent with his children passing on his love and respect for the outdoors through camping, fishing, ice fishing, hunting and many other outdoor activities. All his children will dearly miss the long conversations and life advice that he so willingly gave.

As per Jeff’s wishes there will be no formal service but a memorial will be held with close family sometime in 2019.

Those wishing to make a gesture on behalf of Jeff may do so to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

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Iris LaPlante (née Olson)

1944 - 2019

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of David Singh Dhaliwal on January 15, 2019 at the age of 74.

David “Subby” was born and raised on the family farm in Kamloops and worked for the City of Kamloops for over 30 years. David was a passionate fisherman who enjoyed fishing with his boys. You know the fish that got away, that was bigger every time!

David leaves to mourn his wife of 49 years Brenda, his sons Dean (Annette) and Neil (Sharon), his grandchildren who he loved very much Tianna, Justine, Chantel and Tyler; also left to mourn is David’s brother Sone (Baljit), sister-in-law Ambo Harjinder and numerous nieces and nephews. David was predeceased by his siblings Saba, Jeto (George), Puro and Sadu.

We, David’s family, would like to thank the staff in the ICU for all of their support and care.

As per David’s request there will be no formal funeral service but an Open House will be held on Friday, January 18, 2019 from 4:00 to 8:00 pm at the Family Home.

Donations may be made in David’s memory to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation. Flowers gratefully declined.

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The family of Iris (Olson) LaPlante regret to announce that she passed away peacefully in her sleep at home in Kamloops, BC on January 11, 2019 at the age of 83 years.

She will be lovingly remembered by her longtime companion of 35 years Bob Evans, as well as her son Lonnie (Dorrit) of Vernon, BC, her daughter Tammy (Ricky) of Fort Fraser, her daughter Jodi (Randy) of Okotoks, Alberta, her son Troy of Mission, BC and her sister Arlene Delaney of Cave Junction, Oregon, grandchildren Carrie (Jim), Kurt (Ashley), Matt (Shelley), Leni (Shane), Miranda, Jennifer, Darien and Davanna and fourteen great-grandchildren, as well as many nieces, nephews, friends and relatives.

Iris was predeceased by her parents Edward and Hilda Olson.

There will be a celebration of life in the spring date to be announced.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Celiac Foundation. https://www.celiac.ca/donate-today/.

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM DOWNS, Danial Steven March 28, 1955 - January 3, 2019

Patricia Anne Brkich (nee Steffens)

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Danial Steven Downs of Clearwater, BC passed away suddenly on January 3rd, 2019 at 63 years of age.

Born March 28th, 1955 in Quesnel, BC to Ernest and Reta Downs.

Dan is survived by his loving wife of 39 years, Leslie Downs, two sons Vincent (Cindy) Downs, Justin (Kayla) Downs, his mother Reta Downs, brother David (Yvonne) Downs, 7 grandchildren (Caitlyn, Kirsten, Tori, Hayley, Jayden, Tiannah and Darian) and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.

Dan served in the Navy at a young age and dedicated his working years to the logging industry where he was loved and respected by many.

His passion was the outdoors; hunting, fishing, golfing, camping or just sitting around the fire in his own backyard enjoying a glass of wine. Dan was a family man with a contagious laugh who had a deep love and admiration for his wife “girlfriend” and his beautiful grandchildren.

There will be an intimate celebration of his life at a later date.

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There’s a comforting thought at the close of the day When I’m weary and lonely and sad That sort of grips hold of this crusty old heart And bids it be merry and glad.

It gets in my soul, and it drives out the blues, And finally thrills through and through.

It’s just a sweet memory that chants the refrain, “I’m glad I touched shoulders with you.”

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of Patricia Anne Brkich (nee Steffens), on January 2, 2019.

Pat is survived by her husband of 57 years, “Smoking Joe”, son; Gordon (Chantal), sister; Donnie Aquillon (Ken) of Kelowna, brother; Allen (Ruth) Steffens and grandchildren; Hollie, Justin and Cody.

Predeceased by her parents, James and Olive Steffens, brothers; Jim and Larry Steffens and daughter; Beverly Anne Brkich.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the Comfort Inn in Merritt, on January 20, 2019, from 1 - 4 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or charity of your choice.

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Q. What do you do if Murray says “No service by request?”

Did you know you were brave, Did you know you were strong, Did you know there was one leaning hard, Did you know that I listened and waited and prayed And was cheered by your simplest word?

Did you know that I longed for that smile on your face, For the sound of your voice ringing true, Did you know I grew stronger and better because I had merely touched shoulders with you?

A. Invite some friends and family over for a pot luck and set a place for Murray. Maybe put his picture and urn where he used to sit and serve up a plate of his favourite snacks. Tell some stories about him.

Is that a “service”?

I am glad that I live; that I battle and strive For a place that I know I must fill; I’m thankful for sorrows I’ll meet with a grin What fortune may send good or ill; I may not have wealth, I may not be great but I know I shall always be true, For I have in my life that courage you gave, When once I touched shoulders with you.

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Carol Margaret Broderick (née Grieef) My sister Carol graduated from life on earth on January 6, 2019 at the age of 68 years to embark on a new journey in Heaven.

She left suddenly from an unknown illness.

Carol lived in Kamloops for many years. She was born on December 5, 1950 to Sylvia and David Grieef and was raised in Prince Albert, SK. She graduated from Prince Albert Collegiate Institute at the age of 17 years and went immediately to work in the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, first in Prince Albert then in Kamloops, BC retiring after 38 years.

For many seasons, she and Brian harvested the many apple trees in her yard and sold them to appreciative neighbours and friends. She was a talented crocheter and produced awesome afghans for her family.

She had several domesticated Mallard ducks that decided to make her backyard their home.

Carol was out every day filling up the paddling pool providing her ducks with a place to swim and making sure they had enough to eat! Carol had several pets during her lifetime, both dogs and cats, and she loved them all dearly.

Cleo (her cat) would snuggle up with her and

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Cleo’s antics around the house were a source of great entertainment.

Carol is survived by her sister Valerie Audette (Bob) and family Deborah, Quinn, Kyle, Clint and Kim and their families, her sister Meriel Bodie and family Debra, Derek, Diane and Dean and their families, her close friend Joan and caregiver Stephina.

She was predeceased by her parents Sylvia and David Grieef, brother-in-law Steve, her partner Brian Zeck, uncles, aunts, grandparents and her close friend Nancy.

Rest in Peace, dear Carol, We will miss you.

Friends are invited to join the family for a reception tea in the First Memorial Chapel, #8 - 177 Tranquille Road from 1:00 to 3:00 pm on Monday, January 21, 2019.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Kamloops SPCA in memory of Carol would be appreciated.

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THE LITTLE UNICORN

by Peggy Kociscin,Albuquerque, New Mexico There lived a little unicorn (From when the earth was new), His coat so white it glistened, His eyes a sparkling blue.

To love meant to be happy, And yet it also brought him pain; For those he loved could hurt him Again.. and yet again.

In innocence and beauty, He danced through woods and streams.

The animals danced with him, His heart aglow with dreams.

His mother held him lovingly And tried to ease his fears About the sadness life could bring...

The lonely, bitter tears.

He laughed and played with rainbows, So happy all day through, He loved to kiss the flowers As their petals shone with dew.

She said, “Life is like a mountain, (And surely this is true) That we must climb as best we can.

There’s no ‘around or ‘through.’”

The unicorn tried tirelessly, And gave the climb his best; But he felt it was not good enough, He felt he’d failed the test.

He wandered through the meadows In the moon’s soft, silver light.

He loved to gaze at all the stars That lightened up the night.

He listened to the music Of the birds that graced the trees.

He frolicked with the butterflies And raced the gentle breeze.

But, as he grew and learned of life, The sparkle in his eye Grew misty as he realized Just what it means to cry.

He learned that there are shadows In spite of shining sun.

The more he grew, he found that life Was never always fun.

For now he’d learn of feelings That come from deep within; No longer in the “dream world” Where (for so long) he’d been.

His gentle heart desired But to know the pleasure of To give and to receive The very precious gift of love.

He could not understand it When he felt himself rejected – When all his gentle being asked Was but to be accepted.

All this was just too much for him, He knew not what to do.

That he was special as himself, Somehow, he never knew.

His spirit crushed, he felt defeated, And lonely tears would start.

Not understanding how to love, It simply broke his heart.

But now he’s in a loving place Where all his pain has ceased, Where all accepted him and his love, Where all he knows is peace.

A loving Being tells him, “You’re delightful as you are.”

His spirit free, his brilliance now Outshines the brightest star!

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hen Bonnie Green put pen to paper, she intended to write a serious play inspired by the experience she and her siblings had when her mother’s health began to fail.

But once she started, what she found on the page was a comedy rather than a serious drama — and she embraced it.

Now, the play is set to make its world premiere at Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops.

Meet My Sister tells the story of Stella, portrayed by Linda Prystawska, and Blanche, portrayed by Sharon McFarlane, who are two sisters trying in vain to get their dementia-suffering mother to come out of her locked-up house on the day she’s supposed to be moving into a seniors home.

The play has just one other cast member, Sly, an unrevealed character portrayed by Julien Arnold.

Despite the serious premise and emotional moments in the story, the play is very much a comedy — and much of it involves the rivalry between the two main characters.

“Sharon [Bajer], the director, is pushing us to be really hardcore with each other — she talks of her experience and nothing is too far,” McFarlane said.

The way the conflict emerges on stage is Stella’s obvious frustration with Blanche’s free-spirited ways, and conversely, Blanche’s annoyance by Stella’s obstinacy.

“It’s deep-seeded. As soon as

DAVE EAGLES/KTW Sharon McFarlane and Linda Prystawska as Blanche and Stella, the two main characters of Western Canada Theatre’s latest, Meet My Sister. The play is set to make its world premiere on Jan. 24 at Sagebrush Theatre.

they come together as adults, that child-like competition is totally there — and in heightened circumstances,” McFarlane said.

McFarlane is making her WCT debut, but her list of credits is long, including screen credits like Oscar-winning film Spotlight and CTV’s Saving Hope, while her theatre credits include The Merchant

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of Venice at the Stratford Festival and Dancing at Lughnasa at the Citadel Theatre.

But when it comes to sibling rivalry, McFarlane will have to put her acting chops to work.

“I have a sister and brothers who are much older than me, so I was like an only child,” she told KTW, noting that support from

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Bajer and Green has helped bring the character to life.

Prystawska, on the other hand, has some experience in tormenting a sibling.

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Because the play is brand new, McFarlane and Prystawska first attended a workshop with Green in November to suss out the playwright’s motives with the script.

“We were digging for more intentions and what she was looking for, what she hoped to achieve.

The characters are really well written, the actual words that we say give you a sense of what the character is about,” Prystawska said.

The workshop also included changes to the script.

“It was a cool part of the process, which is different. Often you just get the script and that’s it. With this, we had input,” McFarlane said.

She said that one of the challenges in staging a play for the first time is the need to experiment and develop her character.

“Things are often arbitrary at first, but then you sort of let go of the things that didn’t work or didn’t make sense. And sometimes things feel really great and you come back to the scene a day or two later and go, ‘Wow, that doesn’t feel good anymore,’” McFarlane said.

Meet My Sister is a comedy with a lot of heart, according to Prystawska, who said she’s found kinship in her co-star McFarlane.

The two will hit the Sagebrush Theatre stage on Thursday for a show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets and future showtimes are available at Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or online at kamloopslive.ca.

The play runs until Feb. 2, with shows each day except Sundays.

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Eight-time Juno Award-winner Tom Cochrane and Red Rider will play in Kamloops at Sagebrush Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 18. Tickets are $78 and available now through the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 and online at kamloopslive.ca.

Art Battle is back in Kamloops. Artists will duke it out in this competitive painting event, with 20 minutes to turn their canvas into something beautiful. Work will be up for auction after the dust has settled. To register, go online to artbattle.com/register.

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Richard Graham’s Backbeats offer soul jazz stylings at Mayor’s Gala SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com

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ichard Graham’s upcoming performance at the Mayor’s Gala for the Arts is one that stands out for him — not just because it’s a big show with lots of fanfare, but because he’ll be facing an audience full of his peers and past teachers.

“I’d say there’s more pressure, but it’s a nice feeling and I’m extremely grateful for everyone that’s working on it with me,” Graham told KTW ahead of the performance.

Graham was born and raised in Kamloops and has lived in the city for much of his life, with stints away in the United States and Vancouver. Everywhere he’s been, he’s been playing music.

“Music was always something that was fed to us growing up,” he said.

Graham took music lessons

in the city and has played with a wide range of musicians over the years.

Now, he’s taken to music he describes as groove-based soul jazz and R&B, and he’s doing it with a handful of other local talents, all of whom Graham is proud to have around.

The Backbeats lineup includes Jon Treichel on lead guitar, who Graham called “a bit of a musical encyclopedia.”

“He’s been recording my work a lot and engineering my work a lot,” Graham said.

And it includes Neil Brun on bass.

“He’s studied as well in university. He’s a delight to have in the band because he’s so good at what he does.”

And then there’s Graham Howe on trumpet. He’s a “one-man horn section,” according to Graham and performs a New Orleans-style revue.

RICHARD GRAHAM PHOTO Richard Graham’s Backbeats, from left to right, Alex Ward, dancer Bronwen Kettleson, Graham Howe, Richard Graham, Neil Brun, dancer Dela Coutts and Jon Treichel.

On keys, you’ll find Alex Ward, a musician Graham has a particular connection with despite the age difference between the two performers.

“I grew up playing with his father. We had a jazz band when I was in my late teens,” Graham said.

Ward’s father Peter died in 2017, making his son’s presence in the band along with Graham that much more significant.

“Alex is out there with his dad’s big old upright bass playing jazz with me, so it’s really quite a feeling. There’s quite a vibe from that

young cat,” he said.

Graham said Ward is poised, keen and “quite good.”

Graham himself provides the vocals from behind the drum kit.

If you’re curious to see these players in action, you’re in luck.

Graham and company have just released a new video filmed last year, performing Harry Connick Jr.’s Come By Me, complete with dance, choreographed by local dance instructor Dela Coutts and performed by Coutts and Bronwen Kettleson.

The video, among others, is available on the Richard Graham’s

Backbeats YouTube channel.

The group’s upcoming gala performance won’t quite be the same, given the 1950s theme of the event, but there will still be plenty of style and the band will be ready to perform.

“They want quite a show and we just have to deliver,” Graham said.

Ticket sales for the Gala officially ended Tuesday, but a limited number of tickets may still be available through the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or online at kamloopslive.ca.

Kamloops Film Series sets lineup for winter season

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he Kamloops Film Series returns Thursday with its winter season lineup and a new film on at Paramount Theatre every Thursday at 7 p.m.

First up is The Bookshop, a U.K. drama telling the story of Florence Green opening up a bookshop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough in Suffolk — and the unexpected opposition she faces.

On Jan. 24, catch Tea with the Dames, a documentary featuring legendary British actors Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins. The four reflect on decades of memories from their time on screen and stage.

American film Beautiful Boy

will play Jan. 31. Director Felix Van Groeningen tells the story of teenager Nicholas Sheff, a model student and son who falls prey to the power of addiction as his father tries to save him from the drugs that have taken hold.

Oscar Wilde is the subject of a film that will play on Feb. 7. The Happy Prince tells the untold story of the last days of the famous poet and playwright.

Border tells the story of Tina, a customs officer with the ability to literally sniff out the guilt on anyone — except Vore, a man she’s just met and finds herself attracted to as she tries to understand their bond. This English-subtitled Swedish fan-

tasy/romance/thriller film plays on Feb. 14.

Rounding out the series is A Private War starring Rosamund Pike, who portrays American journalist Marie Colvin, who worked as a foreign affairs correspondent on the front lines of conflict. The film, playing Feb. 21, tells the story of her and photographer Paul Conroy, played by Jamie Dornan, on their most dangerous assignment.

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t’s going to be a busy year for one Kamloops indie rock band.

At Mission Dolores will release two albums in coming months and is currently touring in B.C. and Alberta.

In May, the band plans to release Last Night Outside Her Apartment, a nine-song record the band produced with Jordan Koop, best known for his work with another Canadian indie rock band, Wolf Parade.

At Mission Dolores frontman JP Lancaster told KTW he wanted to work with Koop because of how he approaches recording.

“Jordan did a master class with Steve Albini, who produced Nirvana’s In Utero, and Steve Albini’s approach, which is very much Jordan’s approach, is to capture how the band sounds at that moment in time,” Lancaster said.

At this moment in time, At Mission Dolores has had a lot of practice on the stage, as Lancaster said that’s how the band spent 2018, rather than in the studio. Its last release was in 2017.

“A strength of At Mission Dolores is the dynamic of the five of us playing live on stage and we really wanted to capture that in

the most honest way possible,” he said.

The five of them include Jared Wilman on drums, Stu McCallum on bass, Maggie Ollek on keys and Jared Doherty and Lancaster on guitar and vocals.

The band spent five days recording with Koop at his studio on Gabriola Island last summer.

“He’s going to do a really honest representation of what the band sounds like in the room,” Lancaster said.

The songwriting for Last Night Outside Her Apartment was productive, and not every track made the final cut, but Lancaster said he and the band felt the remaining tracks were strong.

Not wanting to put good material to waste, the band embarked on the production of another album to precede the May release.

Cool World will be released on Feb. 8. Its eponymous single is already available online.

The band’s approach for Cool World’s eight tracks was much different.

“We wanted to approach them in the complete opposite manner,” Lancaster said. “Nothing was tracked live.”

Instead, the band recorded in pieces, never more than three musicians at once, and at different locations, including home studios.

The album also features five different mixing engineers, including Jon Anderson, Jordan Koop, Jackson Gardner (of the formerly Kamloops-based band Gleneagle), Kris Ruston and the band’s own Jared Doherty.

“Each mixing engineer has their own personal style and sound. If you gave a recording to two different mixers, you would end up with two very different sounding songs,” Lancaster said.

Anderson is someone Lancaster said he’s wanted to work with for some time now.

“He picks and chooses what he works on, so I just emailed him on a whim asking if he wanted to take it on and he agreed to it,” he said.

Anderson has worked with artists like Andy Shauf, Foxwarren and Aidan Knight, three acts that

From left, At Mission Dolores is JP Lancaster, Maggie Ollek, Stu McCallum, Jared Wilman and Jared Doherty.

Lancaster said the band has found inspiration in.

“I think they do a good job playing music that falls into the pop music genre in the sense that it’s accessible and pleasant sounding, but it also incorporates weird elements — stuff that’s slightly offcentre,” Lancaster said.

Those slightly off-centre elements are common in At Mission Dolores’ music. Cool World, the single, features psychedelia-

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inspired wavy guitars and a relaxed melody. To hear it yourself, go online to factotumco.bandcamp.com.

Cool World is also among the tracks to be heard live on stage here in Kamloops. The band will play a show at the Blue Grotto, 319 Victoria St., at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24. Joining them will be local band Phosphenes and Post-Modern Connection from Kelowna.

Listen to ‘Cool World’ in the online version of this story at kamloopsthisweek.com

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himera Theatre has always leaned towards producing challenging and provocative material for Kamloops audiences.

For their fifth season’s mainstage production they’re tackling something even more challenging.

Their adaption of The Grimms’ Fairy Tale The Robber Bridegroom is going to be a minimalist, mostly non-verbal, puppet show.

And it’s for adults.

“It’s bloody. It’s graphic in a great way. It’s fun,” said Andrew G. Cooper, co-director of the show. “Anyone who likes horror movies I think would be engaged by it — so don’t bring your kids.”

The play has evolved out of a collaborative process between the four core members of the cast and crew: Cooper, who is the co-director and plays The Magistrate, Melissa Purcha who is the other co-director and plays The Old Woman and The Little Girl, Maddison Hartloff who plays The Bridegroom and is designing and building the costumes, and Brittney Martens who

plays The Maid and is painting the puppets.

“Andrew had the idea to kind of go back to Chimera’s roots, which was the Brothers Grimm story,” Purcha said.

“And so we were looking at different Grimms’ Fairy Tales. And for me, I really wanted to find a current and engaging conversation that could be had with a really old story, because that’s kind of my jam.”

They eventually settled on The Robber Bridegroom, a tale that might not be familiar to most.

“It kind of started off with a lot of dialogue between Andrew and I,” Purcha said. “And then we brought some designers in on the conversation.

“And then in December we had three back-to-back long days, where we brought Brittney and Maddie heavily into that process, and got all of their creative input, and started fleshing things out.

Compared to earlier Chimera productions, The Robber Bridegroom has a much smaller cast and crew, and Cooper said that was intentional.

“One of my goals going in was

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Melissa Purcha and Brittney Martens work with puppets during a rehearsal for Chimera Theatre's upcoming production of The Robber Bridegroom.

to be able to pay everyone professionally,” he said. “So we knew it was going to be small scale.”

The smaller scale will also help them to tour the show after its run in Kamloops. Dates are already set in Calgary and Cooper is hoping to hear about others soon.

For those on stage, the challenge of this production has been channelling their performance

through the puppets.

“I’m so used to moving my face,” Hartloff said. “So I have to find a way to channel all that body language and emotion without using any sort of facial expression.”

Brittney Martens said, “They’re so delicate that they have a grace to them that I don’t usually have as an actor. So I’m learning from my puppet in that way.”

Rounding out the team are Joel Feenstra as technical director and carpenter, Jared Rashke as set and lighting designer, Lucas Vanderlip is doing sound and Kaylee Erno is doing props.

The Robber Bridegroom runs at the Pavilion Theatre from January 23 to January 26. Tickets are available at Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or online at kamloopslive.ca.

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n September 2018, a Toronto Star investigation at a ticket seller’s conference in Las Vegas exposed a serious breach in ethics with Ticketmaster, a company responsible for selling tickets for music and sporting events.

Ticketmaster had been recruiting socalled scalpers, or ticket resellers, to cheat its own software to expand revenues for itself.

Scalpers have long been a problem for music fans. Scalpers would often buy tick-

ets early for low prices, then resell the tickets at higher prices later, costing concertgoers much more money to get good seats to see their favourite bands.

In a session closed to the media, Ticketmaster revealed that they had developed a program with resellers, linking into TradeDesk, their own ticket selling software.

The software allowed resellers to buy Ticketmaster tickets, then list them almost immediately for resale on Ticketmaster’s website.

In addition, resellers could create hundreds of accounts in TradeDesk and allow them to buy and list tickets automatically through so-called “bot” accounts.

Ticketmaster also collects a fee based on tickets sold through their website, allowing them to collect

on both the ticket sold and the resale.

Because the resold ticket was often listed for a higher price, Ticketmaster collected even higher fees from them.

Scalpers have been so problematic in ticket resales that some governments, like Ontario, have put caps on the prices of tickets to be resold, but this law has been stalled by the Doug Ford government.

While Ticketmaster did issue a statement saying they did not allow ticket resellers to buy up large amounts

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of tickets, the practice was seen to be widespread in the Star investigation.

The investigation has resulted in a class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster over violations of the Competition Act. Ticketmaster has been part of controversy in the past as well. Pearl Jam famously sued Ticketmaster in the mid ’90s over a perceived monopoly over ticket sales and high service fees.

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RADIO EDIT in 2003, with the suit settled in 2004.

Bruce Springsteen is another artist who took on Ticketmaster, accusing them of diverting ticket buyers to their website TicketsNow, which offered their own tickets at premium prices.

Steve Marlow is the program co-ordinator at CFBX, an independent radio station in Kamloops. Tune in at 92.5 FM on the dial or go online to thex.ca.

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he Hamilton, Ontario-based hard rock band The Trews is coming to Kamloops to play Cactus Jack’s Nightclub, and the band’s guitarist says he’s glad to be on the road again — with some reservations.

“There’s always a bittersweet component because I have a young family at home,” said John-Angus MacDonald.

“But I miss it when I’m not doing it.”

The tour is in support of their latest album, Civilianaires, which was recorded in late 2017 and early 2018 and released in September of last year.

It’s their first album since 2014, and MacDonald said that getting the record together was a bit of a process.

“It had been awhile,” he said.

“We had amassed a lot of material.”

He said they’re happy with how the album turned out and that waiting to put it together ultimately paid off.

“The songs have legs,” he said. “We’re pretty proud of them.”

But as proud of the album as he and the rest of the band are, MacDonald said that’s not always where you find the best version of a song.

“They grow,” MacDonald said. “That’s what happens with songs.

“It’s a shame that the optimal version of songs is never captured on a record. The album is always the starting point.”

This album and tour mark some of the first work of their new drummer Chris Gormley.

MacDonald said the new band-mate has brought an interesting dynamic to the band, as he was someone who was already a fan of The Trews.

“I think he likes the cata-

logue,” MacDonald said with a laugh.

Their tour will bring them to Kamloops for a performance at Cactus Jack’s on Jan. 20 and MacDonald noted the show would also feature Kelowna band The Carbons as the opener.

“I was out in Kelowna last year, in November, to produce some songs for them,” he said.

“They’re sort of up and coming, the stuff I did for them should be getting released in the next few months.

“Get there early and check out the up and coming stuff.”

MacDonald said that The Trews were looking forward to getting back to the West Coast again, and Kamloops in particular.

“We always look forward to it.” He said. “It’s a beautiful part of the country, physically it’s stunning.”

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

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• 10:00 - 11:30 am • TCC - Championship Court, 910 McGIll Rd.

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• 3:30 - 5:30 pm • Kamloops Makerspace, 207 Victoria St. West • 4:00 - 5:00 pm • John Tod Centre Gym, 150 Wood St.

Family Fort Night

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Interactive Early Learning Centre Drop - in Programs (Ages: 0 - 5) • Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:00 - 12:00 pm • Tues, 9:00 - 11:30 am • John Tod Centre, 150 Wood St.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Nature & Science Stories

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Storytime

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Fancy Schmancy Tea Party

• 10:30 am - 11:30 am • North Kamloops Library, 693 Tranquille Rd.

Family Yoga Class

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Family Dance Party

• 1:00 - 3:00 pm • Boys & Girls Club, 150 Wood St.

Ukulele Workshop

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Four more acts added to Roots and Blues Festival This summer’s Salmon Arm Roots and Blues festival has added more talent to its roster.

Irish Mythen, an Irish singer who lives on Prince Edward Island, will squeeze in Roots and Blues into her busy summer festival schedule. Mythen last played Roots and Blues in 2017 and played in Salmon Arm in 2018 — both performances were well received.

The Hamiltones, who supported six-time Grammy Winner Ry Cooder on festival stages last year as his band, have also been added to the lineup.

In addition to that work, The Hamiltones also played on three Grammy-nominated albums in the past year alone, including PJ Morton’s Grumbo, Jonathan McReynolds’ Make Room and Tori

Kelly’s Hiding Place.

Birds of Chicago is a folk and Americana group that has honed its skills on the road, playing 200 shows a year and main festival stages in England, the U.S. and Canada. Its latest albums, Real Midnight in 2016 and Love in Wartime in 2018, were well received and have kept the band in the spotlight.

Garifuna Collective

hails from Belize. The group features the best artists of Garifuna’s music scene and some unique instruments, including turtle shells and jawbones, alongside hand drums, guitars and bass.

The collective has topped world charts in Europe and won a Juno with Danny Michel.

Their album with Andy Palacio was voted alltime number one in the

world music genre on Amazon.

The 2019 Salmon Arm Roots and Blues music festival will take place from Aug. 15 to Aug. 18.

Early-bird (holiday) passes for the festival are available for sale at the Roots and Blues office, 541 Southwest Third St., Salmon Arm, or online at rootsandblues.ca. Holiday prices last until Jan. 31.

A search for talent in Barnhartvale MICHAEL POTESTIO

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Consider it Barnhartvale’s version of America’s Got Talent.

Saturday will mark the third annual open mic contest at the Barnhartvale Community Hall, where contestants can show off their skills to a supportive local crowd.

“The audience determines the winner. They get ballots as they as they come in the door and they are given the opportunity to vote for their favourite act,” said event organizer Chrisy Biddlecombe.

Acts register at the door, so the lineup isn’t clear yet, but Biddlecombe expects about 20 contestants, given the numbers from previous years.

The audience is likely to see a variety of acts, including stand-up comedy, poetry and a range of musical performances such as bluegrass, folk, country and classic rock.

“We had a rapper last year, which was quite surprising, but he was actually really good,” Biddlecombe said. “It’s a real good variety of people who come through the door.”

Depending on the numbers, each participant will receive about 10 minutes each to perform.

The winner will be determined the next day and announced in February at Biddlecombe’s next coffee house show — part of a series of organized,

not-for-profit open mic nights Biddlecombe and her husband Dave put on each year. Saturday’s winning act receives a paid feature act during the fall 2019 coffee house season.

Plenty of young people have been participating in the contest since its inception.

“It’s amazing how much local talent we have,” she said.

As an organizer, Biddlecombe said she hopes to see first-time performers take the plunge and sign up.

“I think people don’t realize the talent they have until they get in front of an audience and they hear all that clapping,” she said. “It’s just fun to see the reaction.”

Anyone wishing to take their talents to the Barnhartvale Community Hall at 7390 Barnhartvale Rd. on Saturday can sign up for free at 6:15 p.m. ahead of the 7 p.m. show. For those who just want to watch and vote, the show costs $5, with kids under 12 getting in for free. The doors open at 6:30 p.m.

There will be a full concession with coffee, tea, pop and homebaked goodies for $1 each, as well as a 50/50 draw.

Biddlecombe said she feels local open mic nights like this give residents an opportunity to try their hand at performing in a supportive, judgement-free atmosphere.

“It’s hard to find venues you can take your talents to and not feel too nervous about it.”

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Closure of major distributor means local record shop is on the hunt for new supply SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com

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losure of a major vinyl distributor will inconvenience a local record store, but will not interrupt business.

Last Wednesday, RPM Distribution suddenly announced it would cease operations effective immediately. In a press release issued by the company, it said new orders would no longer be accepted and all existing orders would be cancelled.

Barnacle Records co-owner Jessie Kobylanski said RPM supplied the Kamloops shop, which is located at 290 Third Ave. downtown, with 60 to 70 per cent of its new records.

“For us, as soon as we got that email, my husband Ronan was immediately contacting other distributors we had initially looked at when we opened,” she said.

Kobylanski said Canadian and American suppliers contacted

the store to offer services in the wake of RPM’s closure. She doesn’t expect a new supplier to have much impact.

“Nothing is dire straits about this,” Kobylanski said. “It’s just about adapting and moving forward.”

Suppliers, such as RPM, serve a unique function in the vinyl business. They funnel music from mainstream and indie record labels to local stores, which tend to order small numbers of each title.

Major labels, like Universal, don’t work directly with stores that don’t buy enough annual inventory, making a middleman the best option for smaller retailers like Barnacle Records.

“It’s going to impact independent sellers, absolutely,” Kobylanski said. “It’s kind of a pain but you’ve just got to put the work in.”

The resurgence of vinyl has seen its share of casualties in

recent years, partly because manufacturing costs are high and the number of production facilities is limited.

Two years ago, Calgary-based Canada Boy Vinyl — one of the country’s only pressing plants — closed down little more than year after opening.

Despite the industry hurdles, vinyl sales rose more than 21 per cent last year, according to Nielsen Music Canada, selling more than 975,000 units.

The closure of RPM might be a setback for the Canadian vinyl industry, but Kobylanski is hopeful she will have access to a larger supplier soon.

“I hope the market responds with someone filling the gap and stepping in, whether that’s the other three Canadian distros really stepping up their game or Universal playing ball with smaller businesses,” she said. “Something like that, hopefully.”

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Netflix rejects request to remove Lac Megantic images from ‘Bird Box’ GIUSEPPE VALIANTE

CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Netflix is refusing to remove from its hit movie Bird Box footage of the rail explosion that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, despite an appeal from the town’s mayor.

But the streaming company has said it will ensure no future productions on its platform use images of the disaster for entertainment, according to Lac-Megantic Mayor Julie Morin, who spoke to a Netflix representative Thursday.

Morin said in a statement she is satisfied that Netflix has “committed to reflect with their partners on the use of images so that this situation is not repeated.” She said she “sensed a sensitivity to the recovery of our citizens.”

Lac-Megantic spokeswoman Karine Dube said the Netflix representative called the mayor unsolicited Thursday morning and told her the company would not be removing the images from Bird Box. At least two dramas currently on

Netflix’s Canadian platform, including Bird Box, briefly use actual footage of the 2013 derailment. Morin told Canadian Press Tuesday that she wanted the company to review its catalogue and remove the images. She said use of the videos showed a lack of respect and had upset residents, many of whom are suffering post-traumatic stress.

The company that sold the stock footage of Lac-Megantic for Bird Box another Netflix production, Travelers, says it is saddened the images were used for entertainment.

In a statement released Thursday, Pond5 said the footage of the disaster was taken out of context and used in entertainment programming. “We deeply regret that this happened and sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended, especially the victims and their families.”

The New York-based company added it is contacting customers who have “purchased any related clips to ensure they are aware of the sensitive nature of this footage.”

Netflix has declined to comment.

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arts&entertainment Bryan Adams teams with Ed Sheeran, J Lo on upcoming album CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Bryan Adams is getting some powerhouse support from two of pop music’s biggest names on his upcoming album.

The Canadian hitmaker says he’s enlisted both Ed Sheeran and Jennifer Lopez for his 14th studio release Shine a Light, which arrives March 1.

Sheeran co-wrote the titular lead single, which debuted on streaming services Thursday, though the Shape of You performer doesn’t sing on the track.

Adams says the two met at one of Sheeran’s Dublin concerts and stayed in touch afterwards.

He explained in the announcement that one day he sent Sheeran the chorus for a song he called Shine a Light, asking him if he’d consider a writing collaboration. Sheeran responded by sending Adams a few

verses which ultimately became part of the song.

The Grammy winner also recorded a duet with Lopez called, That’s How Strong Our Love Is. Adams, who recently co-wrote songs for the Broadway show Pretty Woman: The Musical, plans to launch a world tour in Belfast on Feb. 25, following a run of Canadian tour dates in the coming weeks.

The musician is playing nine shows, including Moncton, N.B. (Jan. 22), Halifax (Jan. 23), Montreal (Jan. 26) and Kingston, Ont. (Jan. 30).

Shine a Light will be distributed in two versions, each with an exclusive track.

One will include the song The Last Night on Earth, and will be available on streaming services, CD and cassette. An alternative vinyl edition will replace that song with the cut I Hear You Knockin’.

Drama featuring portrayal of Rob Ford to play major festival CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A drama that features a portrayal of the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford will make its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

Run This Town is in the “Narrative Spotlight” section of the festival, which runs March 8 to March 17.

Tony Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen star Ben Platt plays the lead role of a fledgling journalist trying to break a story involving the city’s controversial mayor.

Ford isn’t specifically mentioned in a description of the film on the festival website.

But in an interview from the Toronto set last April, writer-director Ricky Tollman told Canadian Press that Homeland star Damian Lewis was playing Ford in the film.

Tollman stressed it’s not a biopic and that the mayor is actually a fairly minor character.

“This isn’t the Rob Ford story, this is a story about people that I know and people I grew up with and a

generation of people,” said the firsttime director, who noted the Ford character is only “in a few key scenes and a few key moments.”

He added that he wanted to create “a sympathetic portrait” of Ford and his tumultuous time in office before he died in 2016.

Tollman also said Platt’s character isn’t based on any real-life reporters who covered Ford’s tenure.

The film’s SXSW synopsis describes Platt’s character as Bram, a new graduate whose journalism dreams are dashed by click-bait assignments and a tough economy.

“After the paper is hit with another round of layoffs, Bram stumbles upon a potentially explosive story involving the city’s controversial mayor,” says the synopsis.

“But he needs to beat the mayor’s smooth talking aide, Kamal, to the punch. This could be Bram’s big break — if he had any idea how to be a real journalist.”

Other cast members include Canadian actors Nina Dobrev, Mena Massoud and Scott Speedman.

LOS ANGELES — Steve Carell is starring in a new workplace comedy that could be out of this world.

Netflix said Wednesday that Carell is re-teaming with The Office producers Greg Daniels and Howard Klein on the series Space Force.

It’s about the people assigned to create a sixth branch of the armed

services focused on space, the streaming service said.

The premise is grounded in reality: Last year, the Trump administration directed the Pentagon to form a Space Command aimed at the creation of a Space Force branch.

Carell and Daniels are the sitcom’s co-creators and will serve as executive producers along with Klein.

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CRIMES OF THE WEEK SHOTS Great Canadian Superstore Theft On Jan. 12 three male suspects were involved in theft of items from the Great Canadian Superstore, in two separate occurrences. The first suspect was described as Caucasian, 20 -25 years old, slim build, 5’8” with short brown hair wearing a black baseball cap, backwards, and a

white jacket with blue jeans with a satchel. The second suspect was described as First Nations, 5’6”, approximately 18 years old, wearing a black hoodie, jeans and a thick gold chain. The third suspect was described as 20 years AILANAK, old, 5’8”, wearing a plaid black and Willie Junior white jacket and jeans.

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First Nations male 177 cm (5’95”) 70 kg (155 lbs) Black Hair | Brown Eyes Wanted For: Theft Under $5000

Theft from a Local Electronic Store On January 2nd a male entered a local electronic store in Kamloops. Once inside the store the male waited for staff to be busy and then made off with product. The male is described as being Caucasian, very pale, some facial hair, approx.

30 y/o, wearing a dark coloured baseball hat with possibly a bird logo, dark coloured “O’NEILL” zip-up hoodie, blue jeans, a gold necklace and black shoes.

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B: 1993-10-21 | Age 25 East Indian female 168 cm (5’06”) 59 kg (130 lbs) Black Hair | Brown Eyes Wanted For: Breach of Probation

www.kamloopsCrimeStoppers.ca If you know where any of these people are, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). The tip line pays up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of fugitives.

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People featured are wanted on arrest warrants not vacated as of 3 p.m. on January 16, 2019

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B: 1997-05-07 | Age 21 First Nations female 163 cm (5’04”) 59 kg (130 lbs) Black Hair | Brown Eyes Wanted For: Breach of Probation

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HOLY COMMUNION: NOSHING THE BREAD OF LIFE

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t was the middle of an extreme famine.

A widow had just enough flour for a last meal for her and her son — she knew death would soon follow for both of them.

But then a hungry man shows up, saying, “Make me something to eat.”

What would you do?

Bread is a staple in most cultures in the world. We even use it in the West as a slang expression for money. When we share a meal, an old expression is, “Let us break bread together.”

And, by “bread,” we mean food of all kinds.

Bread is a theme running through our lives and also throughout the Bible.

The story in the first paragraph is a reference to the prophet Elijah and a poor widow at the very end of her rope. He asks her to give everything she has and trust him that a miracle will happen.

Elijah says to her, “Don’t be afraid … first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”

She went away and did as

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Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.

Some people fear becoming a Christian because they may risk all that they know and have.

God asks people to trust Him and that unlimited blessings will follow.

Jesus says, in the Sermon on the Mount, “Give to others, and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands — all that you can hold.

The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.”

In the book of Malachi, God challenges people to test his generosity by donating freely to

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the needs of the church. “ … see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”

Psalm 78 says, “ … he gave them the grain of heaven. Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.”

You simply cannot out-give God. The story of the widow is not the first story of miraculous provision of bread. After Pharaoh’s army was destroyed, the entire host of the Israelites faced starvation in the Sinai desert. They complained to Moses that at least they had plenty to eat when they were slaves in Egypt.

So God said, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.” That “bread” was called “manna,” which, ironically, is a Hebrew word meaning “what is it?”

The sweet flakes formed on the branches of ground shrubs and could be easily gathered by hungry Israelites. The Lord promised that manna would be provided as a daily staple until the day they entered the promised land (40 years later) — and it was.

A young boy had five barley loaves — a small lunch packed by his mother — when the boy went to hear Jesus speak. More than 5,000 people were there and they were hungry. No one else had thought to bring food

along and, moreover, there was nowhere nearby to buy any.

Jesus took the loaves, prayed over them, then asked the disciples to distribute the food to the gathered listeners.

After everyone was full, they collected 12 baskets of leftover food. It was a miraculous provision of bread.

In the sixth chapter of the book of John, Jesus declares plainly he is “the bread of life.”

Jesus said, “It is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world … I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my

flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

This is the incredible mystery of Jesus, who promised he would be with us always.

He asks us to remember him, by partaking in the holy bread of the communion table. When we eat God’s bread, he becomes one with us.

Thus, Jesus is the spiritual manna which miraculously sustains us in our holy walk with God. KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page. Columns should be between 600 and 800 words in length and can be emailed to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.

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Women strive for larger roles in male dominated religions DAVID CRARY

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Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful men linked to sexual misconduct.

Yet in most of the world’s major religions, women remain relegated to a secondtier status. Women in several faiths are still barred from ordination. Some are banned from praying alongside men and forbidden from stepping foot in some houses of worship altogether. Their attire, from headwear down to the length of their skirts in church, is often restricted.

But women around the world in recent months have been finding new ways to chip away at centuries of male-

dominated traditions and barriers, with many of them emboldened by the surge of social media activism that’s spread globally.

Millions of women in India this month formed a human wall nearly 400 miles long in support of women who defied conservative Hindu leaders and entered an important temple that has long been off-limits to women and girls between the ages of 10 and 50.

In Israel, where Orthodox Judaism has long restricted women’s roles, one Jerusalem congregation has allowed women to lead Friday evening prayers. Roman Catholic bishops, under pressure from women’s-rights activists, concluded a recent Vatican meeting by declaring that women, as an urgent “duty of justice,’’ should have a greater role in church decision-making.

Many feminist scholars are challenging the rightfulness of long-standing patriarchal

traditions in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, calling into question time-honoured translations of verses in the Bible, Torah and Qur’an that have been used to justify a male-dominated hierarchy.

Social media is seen as a big catalyst in boosting activism and forging solidarity among women of faith who seek more equality. The #MeToo movement has been evoked — even in the ranks of conservative U.S. denominations — as a reason why women should expect more respectful treatment from male clergy, and a greater share of leadership roles.

“Women are looking for opportunities to have their voices heard and be more effective in their religious traditions,’’ said Gina Messina, a religion professor at Ursuline College in Ohio who describes herself as both a feminist and a Catholic theologian. “Using social media is an opportunity to say what they think.’’

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e were on a quest to expose our trio of teenagers to a culture vastly different from that of Canada.

And so, this past summer we chose Bangkok, with a twofold goal: keep the kids stimulated, and excited so that the word “boring” would never be heard, and avoid tourist hotspots, instead, choosing off-the-beaten-path travel that would enlighten and inspire them.

One way to accomplish this was to hop on a bike.

Jetlag was still a close companion the morning we joined Tom, a guide at Grasshopper Adventures, for an all-day tour, which promised a view of Bangkok’s back trails.

Within minutes of cycling from the bike store we were immersed in peaceful corridors and alleyways of the city’s residential quarters.

Our destination was Bang Kruai, 20 kilometres away and one of Bangkok’s oldest neighborhoods. To get there, we crossed the impressive King Rama 8 bridge over the Chaopraya River.

Tom knew the quiet alleyways like the back of his hand and expertly navigated through tight residential corridors, designed for pedestrian, scooter and bike commutes. The air was fragrant, with lush potted plants decorating alleyways, a heady aroma of freshly fried fish and chicken wings cooking over open flame reached our nostrils.

It was a hot, sticky day so we stopped for freshly cut mango and sipped heavenly juice of coconuts.

Now, lunchtime, we ordered plates of pad thai from vendors in a river-side food court, watching as catfish performed lazy somersaults upon the water’s surface.

Later, we pedalled past serene

GRASSHOPPER TOURS PHOTO TOP: A guided bike tour is a fabulous way to experience the back roads of Bangkok and gain insight into local lifestyles.

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temples surrounded by tall trees.

Slipping off our shoes, we entered a sanctuary and stared in amazement at the massive, gold-painted statues of buddha. We observed monks in meditation, immersed in their daily rituals.

Carrying on, we rode alongside banana and coconut orchards, their trees heavy with fruit. We finished our trek feeling tired but exhilarated. We were energized by the beauty and serenity of Bangkok’s back roads.

Determined to expand our culinary repertoire while visiting

Thailand, we enrolled in a cooking class with Thai Cooking Academy in Bangkok.

Our session began at an outdoor food market where we handled vegetables we had never before laid eyes on: galangal ginger, kaffir lime leaves, turmeric roots, banana flowers and rich scented lemon basil.

In the classroom we chopped garlic and onions, bending over gas stoves as we prepared steaming plates of fragrant yellow curry, papaya salad, pad thai and sticky rice with mango.

The secret, as we learned, is in the mixture of sauces, tropical fruit and vegetables that are, for the most part, impossible to source in Canada.

Still, we left with sated appetites, beautiful memories, new recipes and good intentions.

The road was calling, so we boarded a plane for Chiang Mai — the next leg of our journey.

It would take us on a hike into the Thai jungle, spending one night in a Palong village.

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1984, set up villages deep in the jungle and began small-scale farming operations on the lush mountain slopes.

To reach our village, we hiked uphill through steep bamboo forests, ducking to avoid webs of massive spiders. It was a muggy 35 degree Celsius day — a regular temperature in Thailand’s monsoon season.

Within minutes we were saturated with perspiration, huffing our way up a mountain with the aid of bamboo walking sticks.

The villagers we met straddled the line between their Myanmar traditions and the draw of modern civilization.

Locals commuted on muddy pathways, riding scooters.

A toddler sat with eyes fixated on a mobile phone — the sound of radios and televisions were a testament that even in an electricityfree village as this one, generators made these luxuries an irresistible draw.

As night fell, a chirrup of frogs filled the air. A group of young girls and women having donned traditional, handmade sarongs and colourful jackets, serenaded us in their native Mon-Khmer tongue.

They then sat down with my teenagers for an animated game of cards, one that required no common language whatsoever.

We crawled beneath mosquito nets when bedtime arrived, knowing our Thailand vacation would live long in our memories.

We hoped, quietly, it will continue to inspire our offspring to travel meaningfully, when they become adults.

To venture beyond their comfort zones to remote regions of the world, and, eventually, to discover and appreciate their own place within it.

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