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Jim and Sherry Carroll are among nearly 200 residents dealing with hazardous public roads as they travel to and from their homes and businesses in Knutsford. Located just south of City of Kamloops boundaries, the Argo-maintained roads of pavement and secondary dirt routes have become almost impassable, especially when it rains. Calls by residents to both Argo Road and Ministry of Highways officials have not brought help needed. Jim Carroll says in his many years of travelling along Rose Hill, Deleeuw and Scott roads, he’s never seen it so bad. SEE STORY ON PAGE A10.

Valleyview secondary will likely receive good news on Friday, as Education Minister Rob Fleming will be at the school for a funding announcement.

Ministry spokesperson Sean Leslie confirmed Fleming will be in Kamloops, but wouldn’t divulge further details regarding the announcement.

Fleming will be at the school on 1950 Valleyview Dr. at 2 p.m. to announce provincial funding for expansion at the overcrowded facility.

“It will be very exciting,” Leslie said of the announcement.

School District 73 submitted a project definition report to the ministry last fall.

It is unclear if the announcement will be for an addition to the existing school or a new facility on that site entirely — which was an option the school

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Kelson Group to buy Paramount LANDMARK CINEMAS WILL CEASE OPERATIONS OF THEATRE ON APRIL 17, BUT NEW OWNERS ARE WORKING TO HAVE SOMEONE KEEP RUNNING THE PROJECTORS The Paramount Theatre has been the home of non-mainstream movies for decades. Landmark Cinemas is selling the building to the Kelson Group.

April 18 is set to be the final movie date before the theatre ceases operations.

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While Landmark Cinemas has announced it will cease operations of Paramount Theatre in downtown Kamloops, KTW has learned the building is in the process of or has been sold to Kelson Group, which is owned by local arts supporter Ron Fawcett.

Kelson Group has been redeveloping parts of downtown Kamloops and the Fawcetts are behind a proposal for a performing-arts centre on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Seymour Street, just one block south of the Paramount.

KTW reached out to Ron Fawcett, who said the sale is still in the works.

Asked about the fate of the old theatre, he would not comment, but did say an announcement on the future of the building may be made on April 18.

“We’re trying to find a solution to keep the theatre operating, but at this point, we’re not ready to make an announcement,” Jason Fawcett of the Kelson Group told KTW. “Hopefully next week will have more details for the community.”

He said the company is intending to buy the building next week, provided closing happens on time. He said Kelson Group is working with a potential operator to keep the movies running.

Landmark Cinemas CEO Bill Walker told KTW the company, which is pulling out of the Kamloops market

for good on April 17, is leaving behind an “operational theatre,” complete with sound systems and projectors.

“Particularly for the [Kamloops] Film Society that is quite active, we’re hopeful and they’re hopeful that they will continue to operate their film society and film festivals through that centre until such time that it gets redeveloped,” Walker said.

He said the Kamloops Film Society will host an event on April 18, a day after Landmark’s final showings of the movies Hotel Mumbai and Five Feet Apart.

Walker said Landmark decided to sell due to a tough market. The company owns 44 theatres across the country, including 13 in B.C. “For us, that theatre in its format in competition with Cineplex, it was difficult for us to make it overly profitable or really make any profit there,” he said.

“The developer has a long-term view of what they think they can do with the property. There was good

value in the underlying real estate and there is a lot of new developments going on in downtown Kamloops, which is nice to see. And I think the Kelson Group sees an opportunity long term to do something different.”

Landmark Cinemas announced it would cease operations of Paramount Theatre on its website: “Attention movie lovers: Landmark Cinemas will cease operations of this location, end of day on April 17, 2019. We’d like to thank you for your patronage over the years.”

A staff member at the theatre confirmed to KTW that staff were informed on April 1 and about 10 parttime employees will lose their jobs as a result.

“It kind of came out of the blue for all of us,” the staff member said. “Nobody saw it coming.”

Walker said from Landmark’s perspective, layoffs had to be done.

However, he noted the “possibility” of opportunities with Kamloops Film Society,

being that staff are knowledgable with the equipment and building.

“Nothing that we can guarantee,” Walker said. “So, from our perspective, we do need to lay them off and that’s just an unfortunate reality in these processes.”

Kamloops Film Society executive director Dusan Magdolen said it would be sad if the theatre closes permanently, but noted the society is holding out hope new ownership will continue operating the building as a theatre and allow the film society to continue using it.

“If we lose that venue, it’s a huge hit for us,” he said.

Magdolen said if the film series and festival do need to move, Cineplex Cinemas at Aberdeen Mall may be an option for the series. The festival, which he said is more nimble, could change to something held at various venues all across town.

Magdolen said he was aware Paramount probably wasn’t doing “gangbuster numbers” for Landmark and the society has previously

discussed venues in its strategic planning.

“For this, we haven’t had those conversations because we want to see how it shakes out. But it’s definitely a concern,” he said.

The final film in the society’s spring film series is Stockholm, which will be screened on April 18.

The theatre has for decades been located downtown. Walker thanked moviegoers who have supported the theatre.

“We enjoyed our time and place in the community,” he said, citing the history of the Paramount.

“Sometimes the industry just changes and, certainly, the competitive nature unfortunately makes it what it is, as it is now. But we are happy to see it go to a group that can re-invest in it and eventually can make it into something that is an additive to the downtown core. ““These theatre projects don’t always turn out this well, so we’re hopeful that the Kelson Group can do something great.”

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Council Calendar April 16, 2019 10:00 am - Committee of the Whole 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Mayor and Council formally acknowledged nine individuals this week and thanked them for dedicating their time and service to the community.

April 29, 2019 4:00 pm - Development and Sustainability Committee Executive Boardroom, 7 Victoria Street West

Freedom of the City Legendary broadcaster Mr. Doug Collins and long-time civic servant Mrs. Patricia Wallace were each honoured with this prestigious award for their significant contributions to the city.

Freedom of the City is awarded infrequently (most recently in 2013) and is symbolically known as “Key to the City”, as it gives recipients certain privileges, such as special invitations to all civic functions.

May 6, 2019 1:30 pm - Civic Operations Committee Kenna Cartwright Boardroom, 955 Concordia Way May 7, 2019 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Exemplary Service The following seven citizens were acknowledged for their exemplary service to the community.

Mr. Tyson Andrykew Mrs. Penny Douglass Ms. Lisa Fuller Ms. Cheryl Kabloons

May 13, 2019 4:00 pm - Community Relations Committee Executive Boardroom, 7 Victoria Street West

Ms. Lisa Lake Ms. Kristin McLaughlin Dr. Andrew Yarmie

For more information, visit: Kamloops.ca/FreedomoftheCity and Kamloops.ca/ExemplaryServiceAward

May 14, 2019 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

Spring Road Marking is Underway The City has started the annual spring line painting, and the painting will continue for the next several weeks. During this time, motorists are asked to watch for posted signs as crews make their way through each neighbourhood. Please slow down and use caution when approaching areas that are being painted. The City thanks you for your patience.

City Street Sweeping Continues Crews continue to sweep streets throughout Kamloops. The current focus is on the Downtown area. Residents can help by parking their vehicles off of the street when work is underway. Stay up-to-date on which streets complete and which ones will be cleaned next by visiting Maps.Kamloops.ca/StreetSweeping

City of Kamloops Seeking Interactive Booths for Canada Day Festivities Be part of our national holiday celebration on Monday, July 1, 2019, at Riverside Park. Priority will be given to engaging, interactive booths and organizations that promote a creative message of community spirit to the 30,000 expected attendees.

Applications must be submitted by May 2, 2019. Applications be found at: Kamloops.ca/CanadaDay

TREE COUPONS NOW AVAILABLE A total of 750 tree coupons are available on a first-come, first-served basis, with a limit of one coupon per household. Residents who pick up a tree coupon are able to redeem their coupon for a $20 or $50 value (depending on the value of the tree) at a participating location.

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COUNCIL STRATEGIC PLAN Council has finalized and published its new strategic plan for the next four years.

Council's vision of "bold leadership for a strong, inclusive, and healthy community" encompasses the following four strategic priorities: Governance & Accountability The City of Kamloops has strong, accountable governance and makes informed decisions. Residents are engaged in Council’s strategic priorities.

Livability The City of Kamloops maintains a vibrant, high quality of life for an inclusive, healthy, and diverse community.

Vibrant Economy The City of Kamloops supports a diverse, vibrant, and resilient economy.

VICTORIA STREET WEST IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT STARTS APRIL 15 Extreme Excavating will begin construction of the City’s Victoria Street West Improvements Project on Monday, April 15, starting at the east end of the corridor near 1st Avenue. The work will be carried out over the next 18 months to two years.

Construction will take place Monday–Friday, 7:00 am–5:30 pm, with additional night and weekend work as required.

Two lanes of traffic (one in each direction) will be maintained through the construction zone. Businesses will be open and accessible throughout the project.

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The City is asking motorists to zipper merge when approaching the construction zone. Drivers are encouraged to use both lanes until the point of merging, and then take turns to safely ease into the remaining lane. Maximizing the full use of two lanes until the point of merging can reduce congestion and help keep traffic flowing.

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The Personal Injury Team is thrilled to announce our eighth finalist for the 2018-2019 Athlete of Influence $1000.00 Scholarship, Amanda Haw. Amanda (grade 12, Westsyde) has danced for 15 years, taking 5-6 classes a week since she was 9 years old. She's received scholarships and awards, and has danced in California at Disneyland and in New York on Broadway. After graduation, Amanda plans to attend TRU, to pursue her lifelong dream of a psychological nursing career.

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On Wednesday night at Sandman Centre, the City of Kamloops handed out two Freedom of the City Awards and seven Exemplary Service Awards. All nine recipients received their awards from Mayor Ken Christian, with every honoree citing the importance of volunteering in their short speeches to a large crowd that included family, friends and city staff. Clockwise from top left: Andrew Yarmie (Exemplary Service), Kirstin McLaughlin (Exemplary Service), Cheryl Kabloona (Exemplary Service), Tyson Andrykew (Exemplary Service), Doug Collins (Freedom of the City), Lisa Lake (Exemplary Service), Penny Douglass (Exemplary Service), Patricia Wallace (Freedom of the City) and Lisa Fuller (Exemplary Service). Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com to read recipients’ biographies.

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Potential TCC upgrades eyed on a tour of the facility, with staff pitching a series of improvements that could be done at the same time as work to the pool facility.

City community and protective services director Byron McCorkell said the ideas remain in the highlevel conceptual stage, noting the city continues to collect feedback from residents online.

McCorkell said the grant application for the pool repairs needed

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“If you’re going to peel everything off of the building down to the studs as it were, do you then not take the opportunity to say, ‘OK, if we’re going to expand, now’s the time to expand’?” he said.

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Victoria Street West Improvements Project STAGE 1 BEGINS MONDAY, APRIL 15 Starting at the east end of the corridor near 1st Avenue, construction will take place Monday–Friday, 7 am–5:30 pm to start, with night and weekend work as required. Two lanes of traffic, one in each direction, will be maintained through the construction zone.

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Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian made no apologies on Tuesday for what he called a “passion” for solving a crisis killing dozens of Kamloops residents annually.

Last year, 48 people died locally from illicit drug overdoses, primarily drugs contaminated with fentanyl. In 2017, 38 people died. In 2016, there were 44 deaths.

“If anyone in the front row [in council chambers] had come to us with a death from a swimming pool or a death from a hockey rink or a death from a crosswalk, we would be all over it,” Christian told an Interior Health delegation, which travelled from Kelowna to Kamloops for a face-to-face meeting to discuss addictions treatment programs.

“And yet you come every year with 50 deaths in our population.

That is just of grave concern to myself and to our council.”

Council heard from IH that harm reduction continues to be most effective, following a significant spike in overdose deaths in 2016 that has not let up.

In 2008, the province recorded 183 overdose deaths. A decade later, in 2018, the province recorded 1,510 overdose deaths.

Through the end of January, two people have died this year in Kamloops by overdose.

According to coroners information, most of the deaths involve men between the ages of 30 and 39 and 50 and 54 and occur in private residences. Interior Health said it is addressing the crisis with services based on people’s relationships with drugs.

People who don’t use drugs are targeted through education and peer engagement, while those who

Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian said the number of overdose deaths is of grave concern to city council.

experiment with drugs or use occasionally can access naloxone and harm-reduction supplies. People with substance-use disorders have the most resources, including supervised drug-use sites.

However, two of every three people dying by overdose are doing so behind closed doors and IH mental-health and substance-use administrator Deborah Morris acknowledged a “hidden population,” with education and destigmatization the only answers given about how to help.

IH said society’s negative view of people with substance-use problems prevents them from accessing help.

IH medical health officer Dr. Kamran Golmohammadi called on families, community members and the media to help remove barriers.

Pushed outside of council chambers on whether removing stigma is enough, Golmohammadi said: “It is not enough, for sure. So education is another point. What we have through different channels.

“Media has done outstanding work in providing relevant information to people who either occasionally use or recreationally

use about the dangers of these substances.

“We feel media has played a very important role in informing the general public with relevant and helpful information.”

Coun. Dieter Dudy asked if IH would be willing to lobby for decriminalization or legalization of illicit drugs, given drugs are not safe and people continue to use and use alone. Golmohammadi would not go that far, but said health officers agree strict rules around safe substances is one of the most effective ways to prevent overdose deaths.

“We have now trying and piloting injectable opioid-agonist therapy in Kelowna and we are exploring other communities, as well,” Golmohammadi said.

Coun. Bill Sarai did not mince words.

He expressed concerns about providing syringes to drug users to purchase drugs illegally, shoot up and “cause havoc in our city.”

Sarai said drug users repeatedly return to supervised drug-use sites in Kamloops and believes harm reduction is not working.

“Some of those same people are coming back to you and ODing in front of you and you’re reviving them and then you’re throwing stats out there that we saved some lives,” Sarai said. “Those people aren’t coming there to ask you to help them. In my opinion, from what I’ve heard, they come there because they’re looking for that next high.”

Interior Health’s mobile supervised drug-use site — a converted RV that stops downtown and in North Kamloops — has had more than 10,000 visits, with 1,400 of them for supervised drug use.

Since opening, there have been 37 overdoses reversed at the sites and no deaths.

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hat defines talent? How does one know if that person playing the guitar at the corner of Fourth and Victoria is any good?

If one person applauds and hands her a twoonie, is that validation of her talent? What is the next person walks away plugging his ears? Does that mean our guitarist is a lousy musician?

Talent, like beauty, is in the eye (and ear) of the beholder, which makes a controversial plan by the city to licence buskers downtown all the more bewildering.

No sooner had KTW published the story in its April 10 print edition and online than the comments began pouring in. And pour in they did, with our Facebook page logging 186 comments as of yesterday afternoon — virtually all condemning the licensing idea.

The intent is clear. The city wants to differentiate between actual performers and panhandlers.

But the question arises: Can a homeless person playing music for donations be considered any different than a person with an address performing for the same reason?

Under the proposal, which has yet to go to council, approved performers would be vetted by the Kamloops Art Council and be required to pay $40 for the right to use city streets as their stage.

Like the overwhelming majority on our Facebook page decried the idea, Coun. Mike O’Reilly — who owns a coffee shop on Victoria Street — was equally skeptical.

“I don’t mind somebody juggling to try and make a little bit of money instead of going and breaking into a car,” he said.

Based on the response to the proposal, don’t be surprised to see the idea modified significantly or scrapped altogether.

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s various locals fight a move by the provincial government to ship land title documents from Kamloops to Victoria, it is interesting to look back 16 years, when officials in the Lower Mainland were fighting to stop their records from being moved to Kamloops.

And, amid this political soap opera that is so blatantly transparent in its partisanship, we should also pause and remember that no political party is innocent in this land title tumult.

The current NDP government certainly deserves to have its knuckles rapped for making an utter mess of this issue.

To recap, the two Kamloops B.C. Liberal MLAs — Todd Stone and Peter Milobar — were doing their jobs well when, a couple of months ago, they mentioned hearing rumours the Kamloops land title office might be closing.

It turns out they were on to something. While the office isn’t scheduled to close (yet), land title officials finally confirmed to media that documents stored here would be moving to Victoria and that staff in Kamloops would be leaving their offices in the Kamloops Law Courts to a yet-to-be-determined location in the city.

In a March 21 email to KTW reporter Sean Brady, the Land Title and Survey Authority said: “We are currently seeking alternate space in Kamloops, which will be a smaller, modern office in keeping with the quality of our other land title offices in Victoria and New Westminster.

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MUSINGS “The Kamloops hard copy records will be moving to our stateof-the-art vault space in Victoria, where they will be conserved as required. There will be no reduction in staff in our Kamloops office.”

That was close as anybody has come, as far as I can tell, in trying to find out why the records are being moved.

That they are being moved without consultations with local MLAs, city council or First Nations in the area is offensive.

And it has prompted Whispering Pines Clinton Indian Band Chief Michael LeBourdais to launch legal action this week to stop the movement of the original documents.

While the current NDP government, from Premier John Horgan down to Forests Minister Doug Donaldson (whose ministry administers land title registries), should be criticized for this boondoggle, let’s not forget that other governments under different political flags have done exactly the same thing with land title offices —

including the B.C. Liberals.

For more than a century, there had been seven land title offices in the province: Kamloops, Nelson, Prince George, Prince Rupert, New Westminster, Vancouver and Victoria.

Following the NDP’s election in 1991, those seven offices began to be reduced, with Vancouver records moving to New Westminster, Prince Rupert records moving to Prince George and Nelson records moving to Kamloops.

In 2003, under the B.C. Liberals, the Prince George land title office was closed and all its records moved to New Westminster. At that time, the B.C. Liberals also announced plans to close the Kamloops and Victoria land title offices and move those records to New Westminster.

(So, as we can see, such decisions are not exclusive to particular political parties.)

But, as a Kamloops Daily News article of April 5, 2003, notes, thenpremier Gordon Campbell was praising a plan by Kamloopsians — including then-mayor Mel Rothenburger — to convince the province to instead move the New Westminster records to Kamloops and use this city as a centralized land title registry.

Alas, Vancouver city council and others in the Lower Mainland balked at the plan, leaving the land title grouping as we see it today.

This brief history illustrates that how dastardly a government decision is remains predicated on which side of the legislature aisle one sits. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com

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HOUSE PRICES ARE TOO HIGH MAKE CULTURE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL Editor: Re: KTW’s front-page story of April 10, regarding a proposal to have street performers buy licences (‘Pay to play in Kamloops?’): Instead of arguing about who can be a busker, how long they can busk and who controls them, we should be using our time, brainpower and energy toward developing our cultural resources and cultural landscape.

Here is one way to consider that — an alternative vision for Kamloops’ cultural future.

Consider an access culture network, where culture is accessible to everyone, every day in Kamloops.

Thanks to the city’s access culture network, consisting of a network of municipal performances and exhibition halls, all citizens can enjoy an array of cultural outings.

This network would include municipal venues that present free or inexpensive cultural activities in some 10 locations throughout the city.

In addition to a broad range of programming, the access culture network would offer artist residencies, cultural mediation, mentoring activities and events of interest to the general public, seniors, families (young audiences), people with disabilities and school groups.

The mission of the access culture network would be to make culture accessible to everyone based on principles of democracy and fairness and to encourage Kamloopsians to take part in the cultural life of their neighbourhoods.

Glenn Hilke Kamloops

Editor: So, the new median price for a Kamloops residential home is $502,000, according to an April 3 KTW article (‘Median price for home sales in Kamloops crosses half-million-dollar mark for first time’).

In the mid-1960s, a new three-bedroom split-level house in Delta sold for between $7,900 and $9,900. In 1970, the average price of a three-bedroom house in Kamloops was between about $20,000 and $22,000. In the 1980s, the average Kamloops home sold for roughly between $75,000 and $90,000. In the 1990s, that cost rose to between $165,000 and $180,000.

These are prices as I can best recall them, but I believe I am reasonably close.

Here we are, only 25 years later, at $502,000 for the median home — and don’t forget the amount of interest being paid on the loan.

Why has the cost of a residential home

that you need to raise a family been allowed to soar so high?

The price of rental accommodations is also going through the roof. How many people can say that their incomes are keeping up to these housing costs?

The writing is already on the wall if this ship doesn’t get turned around soon.

It is well past time all levels of government recognize the costs of residential housing cannot continue to climb like this and do more than provide shelters or subsidized housing to solve the problem.

Where are people supposed to live? In dugouts or caves dug into the sides of our hills?

We need to change our ways and stop treating residential housing as a commodity.

Every time a residential property changes hands, the price of that property usually goes up. It’s not only supply and demand or

BC TRANSIT SHOULD LOOK INTO SNAPPER SYSTEM Editor: BC Transit would do well to see how transit payment apps and methods have been implemented in other parts of the world before deciding to do away with transfers because they are hard to deal with

WOMEN DESERVE AWARDS

(‘Transfer fate trips up transit changes in Kamloops for now,’ April 3).

More than a decade ago, several cities in New Zealand implemented a tag on and off system using an NFC card.

A phone app would work

just as well today.

Transit users would swipe their card at the start and end of each ride. The system would deduct the charge for the number of zones crossed accordingly, no matter how many buses or train segments were used.

Editor: I was delighted to read in the April 10 edition of KTW (‘City to hand out Exemplary Service Awards’) that five of the seven recipients of the Exemplary Service Awards are women in our community.

These women are excellent role models for our

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money laundering that is behind the excessive increases in residential housing prices, as many would have us believe.

There are a wide range of groups and processes that need to get examined to determine how or if they are contributing excessively to the unaffordable housing problem, not the least of which are government regulations and fees applied to land development and housing construction.

If prices continue to rise at the present rate in Kamloops and other B.C. communities, we won’t just be looking at the problems Vancouver and Toronto are having — we will be looking at ourselves in the mirror.

Perhaps a few citizens’ task forces to help the guys with the big ideas might help root out and solve some of the problems plaguing the residential-housing industry.

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Valleyview has nine portables around school From A1

The work on Valleyview secondary is expected to take up to four years to complete.

It’s not clear yet how much SD73 will be contributing to the capital cost of the project, but any costs over budget will likely be the district’s bill to foot.

Valleyview is over-capacity, operating with nine portables around the main building this school year. Another five portables are pending in SD73’s long-range facilities report.

There are 942 students attending the school in east Kamloops this year, meaning the facility is operating at 140 per cent capacity as it was built to accommodate 675 students, per the Ministry of Education’s calculation.

SD73 projects Valleyview to be at 163 per cent capacity within the next five years without expansion.

Friday’s funding announcement is coming a year after the ministry asked SD73 to submit a detailed project plan for the expansion.

Last month, SD73 received $1.8 million from the province to fund new boilers, dust collectors and buses, prompting a press release in which district secretary treasurer Kelvin Stretch said that SD73 was “confident that the Ministry of Education will be successful in presenting our capital request to the treasury board for approval.”

With funding approved, the project will then move to the design phase. An expansion is expected to add on approximately 5,000 square metres to the current facility.

Chris Ponti, chair of the parent advocacy group Advocates for SD73, said in a Facebook post the group plans to be at the announcement.

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“It’s just unbelievable.”

That’s how Jim Carroll describes the state of roads near his family home in Beresford, south of Kamloops.

Each year, Carroll said, when the mercury rises and snow melts, the roads — Deleeuw Road, Scott Road and Rose Hill Road — heave and jerk.

But 2019 is like never before, he said.

“We’ve been there 25 years and it’s never been this bad,” Carroll told KTW. “It can be impassible. This morning we almost didn’t make it out and I don’t know if we’re going to make it back.”

The Carrolls and their neighbours have asked government officials for help, but say their claims have largely fallen on deaf ears.

“We called the Ministry of Transportation and they put some rock in so they could at least get an ambulance in, if needed,” Carroll said.

The Carrolls were told by a ministry staffer this spring that something would be done, but nothing has happened.

Sherry Carroll, Jim’s wife, said a ministry worker visited the site to see things for himself.

“He drove out and said they were going to do something one day,” she said.

Sherry Carroll said a Minstry of Transportion worker visited to view the roads and said something would be done. She is still waiting.

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“We just beg and say, ‘Please.’ What do we do if it’s an emergency?”

B.C. Ministry of Transportation did not make anyone available to speak to KTW for this story, but did provide

a statement acknowledging that the roads in question fall under its jurisdiction.

“During the spring, as roads thaw, the overall strength of the roads decreases,” the statement reads.

“The ministry places load restrictions on our highways and roads in an effort to prevent as much as possible any further road damage.”

According to the statement, roads in the Kamloops area are presently restricted to between 40 per cent and 70 per cent axle weight.

“Whether a result of abnormal strength loss this season or lack of compliance with our restrictions, we have seen more damage to local roads than in recent years, including those referenced in the Rose Hill area,” the statement reads.

“Argo Road Maintenance has been taking steps to temporarily repair the damage to the roads. Planning for the necessary long-term repairs to the damaged roads is currently underway; however, until the roads dry out and drain naturally, work cannot begin.”

Jim Carroll said he just wants to know he and his family can get to and from their home as required.

“It just needs to be passable,” he said. “It doesn’t need to be a four-lane highway, but having it passible would be good.”

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Ron Fawcett says there is no room for conference space in the performing-arts centre proposal, which he presented to city council earlier this year.

Fawcett said the amount of space required to host conferences would be “tremendous” and the design put to council has no extra room.

“I don’t even remotely think it’s possible,” Fawcett told KTW. Fawcett wanted to make clear he has not been working with Tourism Kamloops on the concept of a civic centre, which CEO Beverley DeSantis has floated to include in a performing-arts centre convention space to attract more events and business travellers to the city.

DeSantis said she raised the civic centre idea when the Fawcetts — Ron and wife Rae — appeared at a Western Canada Theatre meeting, before they proposed the

performing-arts centre to the city in January at a council meeting.

She said there was no pushback during that exchange, noting the couple’s “passion” lies in the performing arts.

Fawcett, meanwhile, said he does not recall meeting DeSantis, but he earlier heard a rumour of someone promoting a convention centre idea in the city.

DeSantis also said she met with councillors and a couple of Rotary clubs about the idea.

Asked if he considered working with Tourism Kamloops, Fawcett said unless more land is available, “it’s not possible.”

The proposed performingarts centre would rise at the corner of Seymour Street and Fourth Avenue, on the former site of the Kamloops Daily News.

The property is now cityowned and is a parking lot.

The Fawcetts purchased an adjacent property on St. Paul Street they plan to donate to

the PAC project as office space for the various arts groups that will use the PAC. Fawcett said that while he is open to discussing anything, the city needs a performing-arts centre.

The proposed facility would include space for the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, Western Canada Theatre, travelling groups, larger schools and other user groups.

Sagebrush Theatre, out of which the groups usually perform, is closed until at least the fall, due to a cracked roof truss.

The closure has left arts groups scrambling to find suitable space and are currently performing in churches and at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre in Aberdeen.

The performing-arts centre proposal is in the council’s hands and no direction on the $70 million venture has so far been made clear.

However, council did include in its recent four-year

strategic plan the priority of livability, including council direction to “explore options for community cultural facilities.”

Fawcett, who owns the Kelson Group — a Kamloopsbased property-management company — is a local philanthropist and businessman who offered millions of dollars worth of land and design plans to resurrect a plan for a performing -arts centre in downtown Kamloops.

The 103,000-square-foot centre would include three theatres, with 1,200, 450 and 75 to 100 seats, respectively.

The proposal includes 36,000 square feet of underground parking for 70 spaces, with the option of adding additional layers of underground parking if the city chooses.

In a 2015 referendum, voters rejected a proposed $91-million PAC and parkade at the same location. At that time, the Fawcetts pledged $5 million toward the overall cost if the proposal was approved by voters.

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Christina Boucher (left) and Morgan Schmold were among Kamloops School of the Arts students performing a Malaysian folk song, Wan Bulan, at the school on Tuesday. More than 800 students from nine schools under the instruction of 12 teachers from across School District 73 are performing in the 2019 Arts in the High Country Festival this week.

Performances include band, drama, dance and classroom music. “This is a celebration and an opportunity for students to see what their peers are doing and to get feedback from recognized adjudicators,” said Christy Gauley, SD73 district fine-arts co-ordinator.

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What’s old is new again for the annual Law Day festivities at Kamloops Law Courts.

The public is invited to learn how the legal system works in B.C. next Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Columbia Street courts.

The main event, a mock trial, will revisit the past theme of Harry Potter to showcase court proceedings.

The Boy Who Lived is in hot water, facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of professor Quirinus Quirrell. Real life costumed lawyers and judges will play the parts.

“I like that the judiciary gets so involved in these things,” said event organizer Aachal Goundar.

The trial will run in courtroom

2D and the jury will be selected from kids in attendance.

The trial will be held between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., but there are plenty of other activities.

New this year is the community justice passport — a slight twist on last year’s scavenger hunt.

Children will be given a sheet of paper when they enter the courthouse. They will be tasked with visiting various information tables set up by organizations such as the RCMP, ICBC, Crime Stoppers, Legal Aid BC and the BC Sheriffs Services.

To get their passports stamped and win a prize, participants will need to stop and ask a few questions.

Goundar said she is hoping this year’s passport will lead to more kids engaging with the representatives.

Also returning is the Truth and Reconciliation Room, where people can learn how First

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Raymond Phillips from the Lilooet First Nation, who was named a judge last December, will be available to answer questions about First Nations Court.

The barbecue grill will return to the back lawn of the courthouse, where residents can grab a free hot dog.

“We found that it was a huge success last year,” Goundar said.

The Ask a Judge forum will also be back in room 3B with justice Chris Cleavely, as will tours of the cells with a sheriff.

As long as they don’t get called out, RCMP Police Dog Services will be back this year for a demonstration.

Law Day in Kamloops started in 1991 and is organized by a local committee made up of sheriffs, police officers, court registry staff, judges and lawyers.

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In advance of the Kamloops Regional Farmers’ Market opening later this month, organizers were at city hall on Tuesday, asking for public bathrooms and storage space.

In doing so, they also opened up their wallet.

“We would be happy to put forward between $7,000 and $10,000 a year for however many years it would take to build something [bathroom] or have something mobile on site or even nearby,” farmers’ market president Tristan Cavers told council.

The farmers’ market launched more than 40 years ago with four vendors and has since grown as abundantly as ruby red tomatoes on a hot summer’s day in Kamloops, with about 100 vendors and 5,000 visitors in 2019.

The market operates from late April to the end of October, Saturdays in the 200block of St. Paul Street and Wednesdays in the 400-block of Victoria Street.

Council heard the market spends about $7,000 per year on porta-potties, money it would like to redirect toward a more permanent bathroom initiative.

“It has its own challenges with deliveries and pick-ups of the porta-potties, but the secondary thing is having facilities for vendors, especially having good hand-washing facilities,” Cavers said.

“So, we have sort of piecemeal operation right now, where people have developed relationships with downtown businesses where they can go and use a bathroom. There is hand sanitizer, obviously, in the cubicles or in the portapotties, but that’s not necessarily sufficient.”

Coun. Arjun Singh asked whether public washrooms already planned downtown would suffice. The city approved a public washroom facility to be built at the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association storefront in the 300-block of Victoria Street, about a five-minute walk from the market.

However, Cavers said that location would not be accessible enough for elderly vendors, with too much time needed to use the washroom and return to the market.

Council did not make any commitments to the delegation following its request.

The farmer’s market will open on Saturday, April 20. Saturday markets will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The first Wednesday market will open on May 1. Wednesday markets will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Vendors this year will no longer provide plastic bags to customers as part of a larger trend in banning single-use plastics. The delegation also brought reusable bags as a gift to council, a gesture intended to encourage the city to also ban single-use plastic bags.

Council recently directed staff to come back with bylaw chang-

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Swann admitted to having been behind the wheel at the time his truck struck Watson, but argued he had “a disease of the mind” at the time.

After input from doctors, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley ruled in February that Swann could not be held criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.

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“That issue is very different than the issue I am dealing with today — and that is whether or not Mr. Swann poses a risk to the public.”

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A new education program implemented by Kamloops Fire Rescue last fall revealed that seven per cent of homes visited did not have a functioning smoke alarms.

“The irony is that it’s such a simple procedure,” KFR Chief Mike Adams told KTW. “We’d really like to remind everybody at minimum is a smoke alarm at each level in your home. It’s a low-cost item,” he said.

“They do have a life expectancy of 10 years and we encourage everyone to install one, test one annually. Smoke alarms save lives.”

Like any other piece of equipment, Adams said smoke alarms need to be checked to make sure they’re functioning. Smoke detectors do have lowbattery alarms, though the nuisance of the beeping can sometimes lead to problems.

“Often, people being what we do, because it’s a nuisance we just remove the battery and, therefore, the smoke alarms is inoperable,” Adams said.

KFR will began another wave of public education this week, this time targeting private property close to interface zones. That program, which is a partnership with the city’s parks department, will target 400 homes in Heffley Creek, Westsyde and Pineview Valley.

Residents will be given fire assessments of their property and the opportunity to have debris chipped by parks staff. Adams hopes the two pilot projects will become part of an annual program.

“Really, at the end of the day, we’re public-safety professionals,” he said. “We’ve always been really response-focused and we want to be proactive.

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Recent growth in Kamloops can be measured by new car washes. Or by a new furniture store and storage facilities. Or by simply taking a drive and making note of developments popping up.

“Things are happening,” city development director Marvin Kwiatkowski told Canadian Home Builders’ Association-Central Interior members on Wednesday night.

Calling it an “exciting” time, Kwiatkowski recapped for industry reps 2018 and forecast another busy year. Last year, the city issued a record-breaking $285 million in building permits.

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On Monday, April 15, Valleyview residents are invited to an open house and information session from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Valleyview secondary school, 1950 Valleyview Dr. “What we’re trying to do is formalize the process and go into neighbourhoods, allow the opportunity for them to bring forward things that are specific to the area or that may be impacting that neighbourhood and just provide a touch point for people to be able to come and talk to whoever from the city,” city community and protective services director Byron McCorkell said.

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“It [Step Code] was brought out and presented to the province in one way and it’s been significantly changed,” Reid said. “So it’s something that has become a concern quite recently.”

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Kwiatkowski noted a performingarts centre in council’s strategic plan, though he said that likely wouldn’t come to fruition this year. Proposed projects include a new Sheraton hotel at 1250 Rogers Way, with 99 rooms and a 75-seat restaurant, and a “food store” in the former Sears space in Aberdeen Mall.

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Massive cave’s publicity is worth millions The entrance to the massive cave that was spotted earlier this year in British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park.

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More research of a recently discovered cave in Wells Gray Provincial Park has the potential to be a marketing boon in the surrounding community, according to geologist Catherine Hickson.

Hickson led an expedition to explore the massive hole last September and detailed the journey to a crowd at this year’s Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) conference Wednesday.

“What’s exciting about it is it is a geological feature that’s rare and unusual, has the potential for new species [and] new understanding of the role between water and rock in the alpine environment,” Hickson told KTW. With one expedition to the vertical

cave under her belt, Hickson now hopes to lead another into its depths in 2020.

The cave has a waterfall flowing into it that may be moving too fast to allow many creatures to call the area home, but Hickson said more research is needed.

“Is it just a huge tube that’s flushing water from one side to the other or are there passageway that would have things like draperies, stalactites and stalagmites,” Hickson told the KEG crowd.

The massive hole in the ground was spot-

ted and photographed last April during a mountain caribou survey, and was initially dubbed Sarlacc’s Pit by due to its similarity to the Star Wars creature.

Yellowhead Helicopters pilot Ken Lancour contacted Hickson, and she in

turn contacted colleague John Pollack, a cave expert and surveyor. Together they planned and permitted a reconnaissance trip in early September.

The trip confirmed just how immense the cave is — placing it among the largest

in Canada, if not the largest.

The entrance pit to the cave is about 100 metres long and 60 metres wide. While its depth is hard to measure because of the mist from a waterfall running into it at about a half a cubic metre per second, initial examinations show it is likely more than 137 metres deep, Hickson said.

Hickson noted the enormity of the cave in her presentation comparing it to the Statue of Liberty, which is 93 metres from pedestal to torch.

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One member of the expedition was lowered about 80 metres into the cave and confirmed there was a clear passage inside as far as he could see.

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oung Kamloops entrepreneurs took home some cash and, more importantly, proof of concept in their budding businesses at last week’s Junior Dragons’ Den event.

Sixteen applicants from a pool of about 500 went into the den — the Brown House of Learning at Thompson Rivers University — to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.

Four emerged victorious in the three categories, each receiving cheques for $500.

Lara Turner and Landon Spencer from Robert L. Clemitson elementary in Barnhartvale finished first in the junior category for their automatic animal feeder, LTS Feeds. The senior category resulted in a tie between Rohkeya Diaou, Sarah Baughan and Alia Sandeman-Allen of Recycled Sounds and Kamloops School of the Arts students Abbey Seymour, Vivian Hill and Emily Waterman with their Clean Kitchen business.

Thompson Rivers University student Kenton Sanderson won in the university category for his painting business Quick Fix Painting.

“Initially, I was shocked and it still really hasn’t set in, but it’s getting easier to process,” Lara Turner said of winning the junior category.

The automatic animal feeder she and Landon Spencer presented to the judges was inspired by the Grade 6 students’ shared distaste for the chore

of having to get up early in the morning to feed their hungry chickens, goats and rabbits.

“I was like oh, we actually have a really good invention that we could move forward, maybe we could get this in the stores,” Landon said.

The pair is now considering using their $500 grand prize to build a full-sized prototype.

The Grade 7 students behind Clean Kitchen make cutting boards, coasters and wooden spoons from reclaimed and recycled wood in an effort to reduce waste.

“We all like doing environmentally friendly things, so we wanted to help out a little bit more,” Emily Waterman said.

Competing against high school kids in their category was a bit intimidating, she said, but noted that feeling was soon replaced by jubilation.

“When they announced our name and we got the big cheque, it was really exciting and it was a great opportunity,” she said.

Emily said they want to put their share of the prize money toward the food-safe mineral oil they use to finish the wood products and buying tables at craft fairs and farmers’ markets.

Recycled Sounds is a natural speaker made from reclaimed wood that amplifies the sound of a smartphone.

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Community Futures Development Corporation of Central Interior First Nations general manager George Casimir, left, presents TRU student Keaton Sanderson with a $500 cheque for winning the university category of Junior Dragon’s Den.

4th Meridian Auctions & Vintage Shop Sarah Baughan said the group made a submission to Junior Dragons’ Den because they wanted to practise their business pitch and meet other business people in the community.

“The event was well organized and it was great to meet other like-minded people,” she said.

Next up for the entrepreneurs is to expand their business by finding new places to sell their product.

Kenton Sanderson’s painting business that won over the judges is heading into its second year and the entrepreneur is in the midst of trying to implement direct online bookings.

“I’ve seen similar industries do something fairly similar,” Kenton said, adding he believes the idea can also be successful in his industry.

He hopes to have a booking website and iPhone application operating next year. If it’s successful locally, Kenton would like to expand it around B.C. “I was one of the last pitchers in the competition, so I had to wait one of the longest, so that was a bit of butterflies in the stomach,” he said.

“But it was definitely a good evening.”

Winning his category gave Kenton a sense of confidence in his business.

“Just to win and get that validation that I’m on the right track is going to give me a boost,” he said.

The student business competition hosted by Community Futures is modelled after the CBC show Dragons’ Den, offering entrepreneurs from Grade 5 to university the opportunity to create their own summer job or business, or expand an existing one.

Students are required to submit a business concept paper for their business idea, which speaks to all the pertinent details of the business/ idea and its start-up costs, capped with a letter explaining why the applicant should be chosen to compete in the event.

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When? Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 1:15 p.m.

The Board of Directors of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District gives notice that it will hold a Public Hearing in the TNRD Boardroom, 4th Floor - 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC, to consider proposed Bylaw No. 2678.

What is Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2678, 2019?

Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2678 comprises three primary areas of change to Zoning Bylaw No. 2400: 1.

A variety of changes related to cannabis production and the creation of specific parameters for small-scale commercial production. The proposed amendments would align TNRD zoning with recent federal legislation and clarify the Bylaw.

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Minor amendments to Zoning Bylaw 2400 that further restrict the construction of second or temporary dwellings on Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) land, all to align with recent changes to provincial legislation.

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To rezone the north 3.2 hectares of an 8 hectare vacant lot (legally described Lot A, Section 7, District Lot 377, Township 21, Range 24, W6M, KDYD, Plan 21950, except Plan 36130) at the intersection of the Trans-Canada and 97C Highways, in Boston Flats, as shown on the adjacent map. Rezoning from RL-1: Rural to P-3: Civic Works will enable a proposed TNRD Eco-Depot, a one-stop drop for recyclable material and waste. All materials collected are transported off site for final processing or disposal.

All persons who believe that their interest in property may be affected by the proposed Bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing. Additionally, they may make written submissions on the matter of Bylaw 2678 (via the options below) which must be received at our office prior to 4:30 p.m. on the 17th day of April, 2019. The entire content of all submissions will be made public and form a part of the public record for this matter.

How do I get more information?

A copy of the proposed Bylaw and all supporting information can be inspected from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday (except statutory holidays) at our office, from April 6th, 2019 until 1:15 p.m. the day of the Hearing; or please contact us via any of the options below.

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The Kamloops chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada will hold its 49th annual Easter Parade of Vintage Vehicles — 2014’s event is depicted in the above photo — on April 21. Featured this year will be Chevrolet Camaros. The event will begin at The Dunes in Kamloops golf course in Westsyde, where a pancake breakfast will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Drivers will leave The Dunes at 1 p.m. and travel to Riverside Park via Westsyde Road, Eighth Street, Fortune Drive and West Victoria Street. Vehicles will arrive in the downtown park by about 1:45 p.m. and will remain on display until 3 p.m. Parade vehicles are limited to the stock vintage variety, with no modified entries accepted. For more information, call Dick Parkes at 250-573-5740 or Rich Vandermey at 250-828-2318.

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Participants can donate gently used bikes (outgrown, under-used, kids or adult, but in good working order) and pick out a new bike.

The bike exchange will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a donation is required to pick out a new bike.

There will be a limited by supply and not everyone will be guaranteed a bike.

Donation of bikes will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., with bike selection set for between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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Spring perogy sale set for this Saturday The Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League is holding an Easter breads and perogy sale this Saturday at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, at 109 Tranquille Rd. in North Kamloops.

The sale will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, while supplies last.

Items for sale will include paskas and babkas (Easter breads), potato and cheddar cheese perogies, poppy seed rolls, cinnamon buns, beets and horseradish and sausage.

Kidney group meeting The Kamloops Kidney Support Group meets on the second Wednesday and second Saturday of every month.

This weekend’s gathering — Saturday at 9 a.m. — will be held at Chances Barside Lounge and Grill, 1250 Halston Ave. in Brocklehurst.

Those attending the informal meetings can have coffee, breakfast and talk about life and kidneys while sharing experiences.

For more information, call Edna Humphreys at 250-376-6361 or Dorothy Drinnan at 250-573-2988.

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Westsyde fair and market Westsyde Spring Fair and Market will be held this Saturday at Westsyde secondary, at 855 Bebek Rd. The event will feature a bake sale, a 50/50 draw and raffle prizes.

Proceeds from the fair will go toward the school’s 2019 grad class activities.

Stuff the cruiser Kamloops Mounties are asking the community to help them cram police cruisers with donations of food and cash for the Kamloops Food Bank.

The annual Cram the Cruiser event will take place this Saturday at Real Canadian Superstore, at 910 Columbia Street West in Sahali, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Honour Ranch will move from Kamloops area to Ashcroft site Location in Rayleigh carried with it many issues JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

Property north of Kamloops intended to help first responders and armed forces members cope with post-traumatic stress disorder turned out to be cause for emotional triggers.

Noise from a nearby train crossing was among challenges that led Honour House Society to move its proposed ranch project this past fall to Ashcroft.

“The sounds could trigger certain things,” Honour House Society president Allan de Genova said.

“Because it ran so frequently at night and you can feel the ground shake a bit. … It’s very traumatic when that train’s coming through and you’re asleep and, all of a sudden, 11 at night you hear them rumbling very heavy.”

The land was donated by Rick and Donna Wanless as a gift to Honour House to expand its work.

Honour House opened in 2011 in New Westminster, providing free lodging to first responders and armed forces members who are seeking medical treatment and care in the Lower Mainland.

In 2016, the Wanlesses gifted their ranch along the North Thompson River to Honour House to create Honour Ranch.

De Genova said the project fell through in the fall, with additional

issues including a lack of railway signals and flood plain concerns.

He labelled it a “miracle,” foreclosed property in Ashcroft gifted by a friend within 30 days of the Wanlesses site falling through.

“We picked up the time that we lost, which was good,” de Genova said.

In Ashcroft, the property is 120 acres and has 10 cottages and a main lodge. It is about 90 per cent completed and a work party will conduct cleanup and minor repairs.

The ranch is expected to be ready by this summer.

De Genova has asked the Thompson-Nicola Regional District for support on an application to the Agricultural Land Commission.

“We look after hundreds and hundreds of first responders and Canadian Forces personnel from the TNRD that stay at Honour House while they’re getting treatment in the Greater Vancouver area,” he said.

“This ranch will give them the treatment they need.”

The Honour House Society is also looking to expand to Ottawa and Halifax. De Genova said he was initially challenged by a general to open Honour House and he has since been challenged to open houses in every Canadian province.

“I’m starting with Ottawa, Halifax — coast to coast to coast — and now I’ll start working my way across the country,” he said.

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2015 HYUNDAI SONATA GL

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2012 FORD F150 LARIAT

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2016 DODGE RAM 1500 BIG HORN

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WAS $13,373

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Spring Spring 2019 2019

John Tod Centre Y (250) 554-9622 John Tod Centre Y (250) 554-9622

Downtown Y

(250) 372-7725 Downtown Y (250) 372-7725

CCRR-Early Years (250) 376-4771 CCRR-Early Years (250) 376-4771

Youth Employment Youth Services Employment

Services (250) 377-3670 ext.377-3670 5512 (250) ext. 5512

Y Women’s Y Women’s Emergency Shelter Emergency Shelter (250) 374-6162 (250) 374-6162

Administration Administration (250) (250)376-9744 376-9744

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A Private Classical School

EVERYEVERY KID KID DESERVES DESERVES A CHANCE CHANCE Please give today FIRST BAPTIST CLASSICAL ACADEMY

The Y is a trusted charity that believes no child should be denied the opportunity to participate

For information contact Cheryl Breitkreutz, Director of Fund Development Phone: 250-372-7725 ext 204 • email: cheryl.breitkreutz@kamloopsY.ca

We invite you to consider a new way to educate your child, a classical and Christian approach to learning. First Baptist Classical Academy is not government funded, and offers an entirely classical and Christian educational program for elementary students from Kindergarten to Grade 6.

INFORMATION SESSION & OPEN HOUSE FOR INTERESTED PARENTS ON MAY 9TH @ 6:30 PM, 454 COLUMBIA STREET

Please give today Charitable Registration #107556060RR0001

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Phone: 250-372-7725 ext 204 • email: cheryl.breitkreutz@kamloopsY.ca

REGISTER TODAY! at KAMLOOPS GYMNASTICS / TRAMPOLINE CENTRE

Active Kidz Gymnastics (14 months - 5 years) Gymnastics & Trampoline (6+ years) Performance Gymnastics (boys & girls) Competitive Gymnastics & Trampoline (boys & girls) High School & 18+ programs Ongoing Enrollment

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Register Today Enjoy the all inclusive benefits of a Y membership Full access to the John Tod Centre Y including two fitness studios and gymnasium Access to Playcare (child minding)

Over 100 group fitness classes Expert fitness staff at each Y location

Full access to the Downtown Y including pool, hot tub, sauna and aquafit classes Access to YMCAs across Canada

Hours of Operation

Downtown Y

400 Battle Street • 250-372-7725

John Tod Centre Y

CCRR-Early Years

Monday-Friday

5:30 am - 10:00 pm

6:00 am - 9:00 pm

8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday

7:00 am - 8:00 pm

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Closed

Sunday

8:00 am - 8:00 pm

Closed May 5 - Sept 1

Closed

Statutory Holidays

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Closed

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Please note: There are no fitness classes, playcare or swim lessons at either Y location during holiday long weekends.

Bi-Weekly Membership fees

Adult (26 years +) Senior (65 years +) Young Adult (19 - 25 years) Youth (12-18 years) Child (0-11 years) Family*

$22.15 $16.62 $16.62 $14.31 $11.08 $44.31

Drop - In Full Facility

Adult (26 years +) Senior (65 years +) Young Adult (19 - 25 years) Youth (12-18 years) Child (5-11 years)

Family (2 adults & dependents)

$10.15 $7.60 $7.60 $6.50 $5.10 $20.30

Playcare Drop-in

$7 50 for maximum 1 5 hours per day * A family is defined as 2 adults (married or commonlaw) and their dependents, all residing at the same address. The first member must be an adult. All children and dependent students must reside with their parent. * Picture ID is required when purchasing Day Passes for ages 13 years+ * Fees subject to applicable taxes

Holds & Cancellations Hold Requests memberships can be put on hold for 1 to 4 months Cancellation requests for memberships with a pre-authorized payment plan must be submitted in writing 30 days before next scheduled payment date For our full Hold and Cancellation Policies, please visit www.KamloopsY.ca/membership

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SIX SESSIONS TO CHOOSE FROM

Week 1 • July 2 – 5 (4 days) Week 2 • July 8 – 12 (5 days) Week 3 • July 15 – 19 (5 days)

Week 4 • July 22 – 26 (5 days) Week 5 • July 29 – Aug 2 (5 days) Week 6 • Aug 6 – 9 (4 days)

SUMMER CAMP

Accelerate your child’s swimming!

3 x 45 min swim lessons/day | strong stroke development focus | certified instructors

$260.00 per week • Full Day Camp • 9 am - 4:30 pm $175.00 per week • Half Day Camp • 9 am - 12:30 pm Ages 5 -12 years

SPACE IS LIMITED

Register online at swimkamloops.com

Also offering...

Fun out-of-pool activities!

cardboard boat building | mini-olympics | water-fights & games | outdoor activities will be done indoors in case of smoke

FOR MORE INFO

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LIFESAVING CAMPS

$175.00 per week (12:30 - 4:30 daily) Week 4 • Junior Lifesaving Camp | Week 6 • Senior Lifesaving Camp

What do the Mannequin Tow, Rope Toss and Barrier Swim all have in common? They’re all part of the exciting new sport of lifesaving! Learn new skills while improving your stroke. (*does not include any lifesaving certifications)

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Sign up for Summer Camps Now! SCHOOL-AGE SUMMER CAMPS

PRESCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS

Drop off: 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Pick up by 5:30 p.m. $200.00 per week.

Exceptions: July 2-5th $160.00 per week.

August 6th-9th $160.00 August 12th-16th 210.00

Drop off: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Pick up by 12 noon $120.00 per week for half day.

Exceptions: July 2-5th $100.00 per week.

August 6th-9th $110.00

Please ask our teachers for more camp info and registration forms or contact us at 250-374-9565 for further information.

Programs will include Art, Musical Theatre, Science, Cooking & Soccer

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CANOE &KAYAK CLUB Summer Day Camps Available July 1st – August 31st: 5 day camps for Kids ages 7-14 Canoe, Kayak, Paddle Board, Dragon Boat, Water Trampoline, Games and Hiking (activities may vary depending on strength and weather).

8:30- 3:00 PM Mon to Fri Cost: 1st child $195, siblings $175

KCKC runs all programs on Shumway Lake, located 20 min south of Kamloops on the Old Merritt Highway.

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, June 1 1 - 4 pm

Here’s your chance to give paddling Specials for holiday weeks (limited availability): a try! see website for prices and hours.

Competitive Racing Program: If you want to try an exciting sport that is both for individuals and teams then Sprint Canoe and Kayak may be for you. We offer High Performance and Introductory Programs.

Masters and Adult Learn to Paddle Programs Through a variety of programs our Club reaches out to all members of the Kamloops community from ages 9 to 109. Most of our participants are interested in developing canoe and kayak skills and just having fun on the water. Should an individual be ‘bitten by the bug,’ competitive training and coaching opportunities are available.

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Aquatics Schedule

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Recreational swim

Effective: March 23rd—June 28th, 2019

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

POOL HOURS

5:30 AM– 10 PM

5:30 AM– 10PM

5:30 AM– 10PM

5:30 AM– 10 PM

5:30 AM– 10 PM

7AM— 8 PM

8 AM8 PM

EARLY BIRD LANE SWIM

5:30-9 AM

5:30-9 AM

5:30-9 AM

5:30-9 AM

5:30-9 AM

Aquatics

Spring Swim Schedule PUBLIC Recreational 12 -2 PM 9-2 PM 12-2 PM 6-8 MONDAY PM

SWIM SENIORS POOL HOURS SWIM PUBLIC SWIM Limited space during programs

7:30-10 PM TUESDAY

5:30 am - 10:00 pm

2-3 PM

11:30 am - 2:00 pm 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:00 pm AM—12 3:30 pm -PM 6:30 pm

5:30 am - 10:00 pm

2-3 PM

10:30 am - 2:00 pm 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm

9 -2 PM 6 -10 PM 7-10:00 PM WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 5:30 am - 10:00 pm

2-3 PM

10:30 am - 2:00 pm 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

8-9 AM

12-2:00 PM 3-10FRIDAY PM

12-8 PM

SATURDAY

12:30-8 PM

SUNDAY

5:30 am - 10:00 pm

5:30 am - 10:00 pm

7:00 am - 8:00 pm

8:00 am - 8:00 pm

10:30 am - 2:00 pm 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm

11:30 am - 2:00 pm 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

1:30 pm - 8:00 pm

1:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2-3 PM

2-3 PM

2019 Spring Aquatic Schedule

AQUATICS SCHEDULE

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MORNING 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm 3:30 pm - PM 6:30 pm 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm10 AM—12 10:30 am - 12:00 9:00 am - PM 12:009AM—12:30 pm LESSONS 10 10 AM—12 PM pm 8:30AM-12 PM LESSONS 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm SENIOR SWIM AFTERNOON 5:30 am - 9:00 am4:15-6:30 5:30 amPM - 9:00 am 3:30-6 5:30 am - 9:00 am 1—2PM 5:30 am - 9:00 am 5:30 am - 9:00 am 8:00 am - 10:00 am EARLY BIRD LANE SWIM 3:30-6 PM PM 3:45-7 PM LESSONS 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ICE TOWER FRIDAYS* ICE TOWER 3:30-4:30 PM 11:30 am - 1:30 pm 11:30 am - 1:30 pm TOYS & TOTS FRIDAYS 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm OLYMPIC LANE SWIM Moonlight 8-10 PM Swim PUBLIC SWIM SENIOR SWIM (55+) LESSONS ONLY

The diving boardclubs or rope is open along Swim with toys and mats in the Monday pool.

This time is designated for seniors to Tuesday come in and Wednesday enjoy the quiet Thursday atmosphere of the pool all to themselves.

* At least one, often two lanes are MASTERS 6 -7:30 AM available for lapCLUB swimming SWIM * Space may be limited during advanced courses, staff SENIORS in-services, some Aqua-Fit classes, or other events 8 - 9 AM SWIM CLUB ICE TOWER SWIM-FRIDAYS, 2ND YMCA SWIM AND LAST OF THE5:30—6:30 MONTH*PM CLUB

6 - 7:30 AM * The hot tub and sauna are still available for public use. * No senior swim on Friday or Monday 8 -9 AM of Holiday weekends PM SWIM EARLY5:30-6:30 BIRD LANE

Swimming lessons occupy most pool Friday Sunday space; there isSaturday limited public use space.

There is at least 1 lap lane available.

7:30 - 9 AM

TOYS & TOTS

Tot-docks are placed in the pool for little ones to stand in and enjoy the water.

Fun toys are available during this time. * Please make sure all little ones are

Come and get your early morning swim earing Little Swimmers diapers. workout; 4 lanes (leisure, slow, medium * Check out our pool programs on page 14 * Tot-docks placed in water upon request.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday to see when the Ice Tower is in the Pool and fast) plus a double-wide “open water” 9:15-10:15 AM 9:15-10:15 AM 9:15 -10:15 AM 9:15 -10:15 AM 8:30—9:30 AM SPECIAL OLYMPIC LANE SWIM * No lap lanes available HYDRO-FIT all morning long.

Master’s Jessica M Cathy C Cathie Clane available Cathy C Cathy C The pool is a frenzy of Special Olympic Swim Club occupies 2 lanes from 6:00 am 2:00-2:45PM 2:00-2:45PM 2:00-2:45PM athletes training for their swim club. All lanes GENTLE-FIT - 7:30 am on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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A deep**water cardiovascular strength training A shallow water with low tomonth moderate Shred body fat in this one hour boot Thursday Shallow Shred occurs on the 1st, 4th and 5thclass week of every subject to change.

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2:00 pm 2:45 pm Mon-Fri: 5:30am-10:00pm Community YMCA-YWCA give us atocall visit our website kamloopsy.org.

400 Battle Monday Friday: 8:45am-1:00pm Monday, Wednesday &or Friday 7:30 pmat - 8:30 pm Street, Kamloops Sat: 7:00am-8:00pm 250-372-7725 No sessions Apr 2 and7th May 21 & Thursday Registrations start June for SummerTuesday Lessons Saturday: 8:30am-11:45am Sun: 8:00am-8:00pm * Children Under 7 years must be within arms reach of an adult Kamloopsy.ca Monday & Wednesday: 4:30pm-7:00pm Stat Holidays: 12:00am-5:00pm

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All Birthday Packages include 1 hour in the multi-purpose room for cake and presents.

Please note that hot areas remain open to the public during all birthday party bookings. All Birthday Party Fees mush be paid in full at the time of booking.

Contact Aquatics Supervisor at 250-372-7725 ext 211, or by email at Robert.lee@kamloopsy.ca

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

10:30-11 AM

8:30-9 AM

9:30-10 AM

PARENT AND TOT (0-3 YEARS)

Splashers & Bubblers

10-10:30 AM

11-11:30 AM LITTLE DIPPERS (3-6 YEARS)

BOBBERS FLOATERS GLIDERS

11-11:30 AM 4:30-5 PM 11:30-12 PM 4 –4:30 PM 10:30-11 AM

5:30- 6 PM

11:30-12 PM 4:30-5 PM

4:30- 5 PM

3:30-4 PM

10:30-11 AM 11-11:30 AM

10-10:30 AM

11-11:30 AM

11-11:30 AM

10-10:30 AM

4:30-5 PM

DIVERS

10-10:30 AM

10:30-11 AM

5-5:30 PM

SURFERS DIPPERS

9-9:30 AM 10-10:30 AM 5:15-5:45 PM 9-9:30 AM 11:30 AM-12PM 5:30-6PM 9:30-10 AM 4:30-5 PM

6-6:30 PM

9:30-10 AM

5-5:30 PM

5-5:30 PM

11:15-11:45 AM

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3:30-4 PM

SEALS

4 - 4:30 PM

DOLPHINS

4:30-5 PM

SWIMMERS

5-5:30 PM

5-5:30 PM

4-4:30 PM

5-5:30 PM

3:30-4 PM 5:30-6 PM

4-4:30 PM

9:30-10 AM 9-9:30 AM

10:30-11 AM

4:30-5 PM

10:30-11 AM

11 -11:30 AM

5:30-6 PM

10:30-11 AM

STAR PROGRAM (6+ YEARS) STAR 1

3:30-4:15 PM

4:15-5 PM

STAR 2

5-5:45 PM

3:30-4:15 PM

STAR 3

4:15-5 PM

4:30-5:15 PM

9:45-10:30 AM 11 -11:45 AM 9-9:45 AM

STAR 4

4:15-5 PM

9:45-10:30 AM

STAR 5

4:15-5PM

9:45-10:30 AM

STAR 6

5-5:45 PM

11-11:45 AM

STAR 7

5-5:45 PM

11-11:45 AM

ADULT LESSONS (13+ YEARS) EXPLORERS ENDURERS

7 -7:45 AM

9:45-10:30 AM 6-6:45 PM

10:30-11:15 AM

COMPETERS

Schedule subject to change. For the latest schedule, please check our website: kamloopsy.ca

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Whether it is bonding with friends on field trips, swimming, playing sports, or simply enjoying time outdoors, Day Camps create life long memories.

DOWNTOWN Y & JOHN TOD CENTRE Y July and August 2019 Weekly: Members $160 Non-members $165 Monthly: Members $560 Non-members $600

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Thursday, May 9 • 2:00 - 6:00 pm John Tod Centre: 150 Wood Street

Free family entertainment • All ages welcome!

Bouncy Castle • Face Painting • Fun Activities • Free Giveaways!

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or its 2019 production, the Westsyde secondary theatre program is taking things to a level students have never tried before.

Instead of putting just one show on stage, they will be performing two: Farce of Nature and Farce of Habit, two comedies from writers Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.

“The first one was written back in 2014,” said Stephen Sawka, artistic director of Performing Arts Westsyde. “Then last year, they printed a sequel to it. So I thought, let’s give it a try.”

Sawka admits that putting on two shows concurrently is a challenge, but that is precisely what he wanted for his students.

“Since most of my senior actors have worked together since Grade 8, I thought, let’s give them the opportunity to work

“We probably don’t really get an opportunity like this outside of high school. So I’m really grateful for that.”

— Mary Funk, Westsyde secondary student together on a nice comedy and challenge them to do not just one show, but two shows.”

And the students appear to be up for the challenge.

Caleb Castagna, who plays Carmine DeLuca in Farce of Nature, said the students have never done something so extreme and have so far had a great time staging the plays.

“I know it’s been stressful for some people when it comes to having to do two shows,” said Molly Egli, who plays Lola Barbosa in Farce of Nature, “but at the same time, it’s cool because we’ve never done any-

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thing like this before.”

For Mary Funk, who plays Maxie Wilburn Suggs in both shows, it’s about the unique opportunity.

“I also think we’re really grateful just to have the opportunity as high school students to do something like this,” she said, “to have the opportunity to do two shows and be so involved in drama, because we probably don’t really get an opportunity like this outside of high school.

So I’m really grateful for that.”

All students will be working on both shows in some capacity — some will be on stage playing the same characters twice, others

will play two different characters, and some will be on stage for one show and helping backstage on the other.

Audiences can expect to see a professional level production from these students.

“We actually run this place like a theatre company,” Sawka said. “We hire professional set designers, professional costume people to pick up the missing pieces, and all the kids work on it. So they’re responsible for coming in, we came in on Christmas break to put it all together. So the dedication’s there.”

Westsyde secondary’s two

shows mark the start of the high school theatre season, as area schools coordinate with each other to ensure no performances overlap with others.

Farce of Nature runs on April 17, 19, 24 and 26 while Farce of Habit runs April 18, 20, 25 and 27. Both shows are at the Rachel Ball Theatre at Westsyde secondary and curtain time is 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $12 for general admittance and $10 for students and seniors, while combo tickets for both shows are only $20.

Tickets are available in the office or by phone at 250-579-9271.

Audiences are encouraged to come to both shows for the best experience.

“It’s farce, it’s comedy, it’s surreal situations in a fun, fun way,” Sawka said.

“I think it’s going to be an entertaining night or entertaining nights for them. Because you’ll see the first show and you just want to see what happens next with these characters.”

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West Coast Amusements will stop by Kamloops and bring with it a number of classic carnival rides and stands that will be set up in the Aberdeen Mall parking lot. Hours are dependent on weather and attendance, but are currently set to go until 10 p.m. each night except April 22, when things will shut down at 6 p.m. Single tickets are $1.25, a book of 20 is $25, a book of 40 is $45 and wristbands are $40. On Thursday, bring two cans of non-perishable food items to receive a $5 discount on wristbands.

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VIRTUOSIC PIANO Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Oasis Church, 1205 Rogers Way

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The next show for the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra is Virtuosic Piano. The first half of the show will feature two Polish composers: Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa and Frederik Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. To conclude the concert, Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3, what the orchestra calls a “woefully underperformed� piece from the 19th-century French composer.

Tickets are $42 or $10 for youth under 19 and are available at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 or online at kamloopslive.ca.

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The annual Directors Festival — a multi-day set of performances by fourth-year TRU theatre students — will run until Saturday.

Plays include I’m Not Stupid, St. Francis Preaches to the Birds, A Roz

by Any Other Name, Throws of Love and Realer Than That. Tickets are $15 and available online at brownpapertickets.com.

TENNESSEE WALKER Saturday, 7 p.m., Tumbleweed Lounge at The Plaza Hotel, 405 Victoria St.

Local country music trio Tennessee Walker will play an acoustic show at Tumbleweed Lounge. The trio is currently working on its debut album after forming last summer.

JAM AT THE CENTRAL Thursdays, 8:30 p.m., Central Station Pub, 126 Fourth Ave.

The Central’s weekly Midtown Jam event is on every Thursday.

The pub calls it a “weekly creative playground� put together to “spread culture, blend musicians, bands, improvisers and audiences.�

SPRING CRAFT MARKET Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mastermind Studios, 954F Laval Cres.

The Kamloops Social Club is hosting a community dance.

Tickets are $10 at the door and the event will feature music by The Journeymen.

DIRECTORS FESTIVAL Until Saturday, 7:15 p.m. daily, TRU Black Box Theatre, 805 TRU Way

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Father and son broadcasters finally speak, leading to Empire of the Son WCT presenting play by former CBC broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu, begins April 25 SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com

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kira Shigematsu was a man with stories he long withheld from his son.

He was in the room when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy.

He once had tea with Queen Elizabeth II. He grew up during the Second World War in Japan and stood in the ashes of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb dropped in 1945.

But it was his career as a radio broadcaster for the BBC in London that, as his health was failing, allowed him to finally talk to his son.

“In my whole life I never had a single conversation with him that was more than ‘pass the soy sauce.’ Our communication was always very terse or pragmatic, or even violent,” Tetsuro Shigematsu said.

The two connected over the microphone — just as his father did with those he interviewed and just as Tetsuro had during his tenure as a CBC Radio broadcaster.

In 2015, Tetsuro debuted Empire of the Son in Vancouver, just three weeks following the death of his father.

“We didn’t really lock the script until 48 hours prior because my father’s death was unexpected,” he said.

The performance was also a difficult one, and Tetsuro said he was just barely able to deliver his lines and, seeing his initial performance as “stiff.”

But the sold-out audience at The Cultch was receptive and the show’s success allowed for a

Tetsuro Shigematsu debuted Empire of the Son at The Cultch in Vancouver in 2015. It was just three weeks after the death of his father, upon whom the play is based. The play opens in Kamloops on April 25.

remount in 2016 and now a tour that has taken it across Canada, including a run in Kamloops that begins April 25.

And Tetsuro said he’s hitting his stride with the play, feeling present and relaxed in the moment and feels the power behind the words — his own and

his father’s — now even more than before.

“I really feel the power of the work, the same way a rogue wave might hit you in the ocean.

Suddenly the emotions are there and I’m surprised by them,” he said.

Tetsuro said at some point he

asked himself, “This man I don’t really know is going to die soon, am I OK with that?”

He admits he was, but considered that someday his own two children might start wondering about their identity just as he did. So for their sake, he began a series of interviews with

his ailing father.

“It wasn’t long before I realized, wow — this man’s life so closely follows the contours of the 20th century,” he told KTW. The interviews found further purpose when Tetsuro started work on his doctorate at the University of British Columbia — which he recently defended successfully.

“I had to ask his permission in a very formal manner. I had been putting it off for two years,” he said.

His father had said no to being a research subject before, but with his fellowship coming to an end and student loans piling up, Tetsuro knew it was a make or break moment and built up the courage to ask again.

“I wanted his permission, but he shook his head in incredulity.

He said, ‘I cannot conceive why anyone would have the slightest interest in the banality that is my life.’”

Pushing forward, Tetsuro insisted his father’s stories were of interest and he finally agreed.

Knowing he might not have the courage to revisit the matter, Tetsuro asked his father why he agreed to the interviews that led to the play.

“If you tell my story, my life will have had some meaning,” he said.

While the play is filled with power and emotion, Tetsuro said it’s not without its share of belly laughs.

Empire of the Son will open in Kamloops on April 25 at Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St. Tickets are available at the venue through the Kamloops Live box office, 250-374-5483 or online at kamloopslive.ca.

New exhibits, programs on offer at art gallery KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Two new exhibits recently began showing at the Kamloops Art Gallery.

In the central gallery, find Presences by Samuel Roy-Bois, featuring sculpture, photography and installation. The exhibit explores the “relational network of

objects and their historical resonance” and asks whether we are making things or things are making us.

Roy-Bois is from Quebec City but based in the Okanagan, where he teaches in the faculty of creative and critical studies at UBC Okanagan.

His work will be on display

until June 29.

Meanwhile in The Cube, find Four Oldest Daughters by Darlene Kalynka.

The Kamloops-based artist has created large etchings of life-size scythes as stand-ins of each of the oldest daughters in three generations of her family.

The scythe has a literal his-

tory for Kalynka, whose family had farms in their home country of Ukraine and in northern Saskatchewan, where they immigrated, but it also serves as a symbol for the sacrifices made in order to care for family and fulfill responsibilities.

Four Oldest Daughters shows until June 29.

Other upcoming KAG events include baby-friendly art-making on April 25 (downtown library) and April 26 (North Shore library), ladies’ drawing night on May 1 and Drink and Draw on May 8 at Red Collar Brewing.

The KAG will also host its annual general meeting on April 24.

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he latest charming installment of the Flavia de Luce mysteries is The Golden Tresses of the Dead.

Precocious to the point of being pugnacious, our petite prognosticator is almost perfectly perspicacious.

With her genius IQ accompanied by a morbid fascination with poisons, murder and death in general, Flavia de Luce sets out to solve all of the afterlife’s mysteries scientifically, specifically via chemistry.

Part Sherlock Holmes and part Pippi Longstocking, Flavia is a unique character.

She also includes reflections of Marie Curie and even Wednesday Adams. All of those references still fail to fully encompass the entirety of her delightful character, so I’ll leave it to the lucky reader to add their own characteristics after the fact.

The latest genius in a family full of them, Flavia is the scion of the de Luce name and heir to Buckshaw, a country estate in Bishop’s Lacey.

The author has stated that the exact location of Bishop’s Lacey is “in the exact geographical centre of the reader’s mind,” although it could be Devonshire, Yorkshire or perhaps the Cotswolds.”

It is set in the aftermath of the Second World War and this has impacted the surrounding community profoundly in a number of ways.

Flavia’s father was a survivor of the death railway in Burma, as was his comrade Dogger. The two may have made it home, but parts of their psyche have been irre-

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vocably altered by the experience.

One of Flavia’s remarkable sisters is even romantically involved with a German pilot that had been shot down over English soil. Bishop’s Lacey abounds with interesting characters and resonates with the idea of a golden age of postwar England. It also has a much-higher-than-average number of murders that makes it perfectly suited for our prepubescent protagonist.

The newly formed Arthur W. Dogger and associates have just been officially employed for the first time, giving Flavia an opportunity.

But quickly, their client dies mysteriously, seemingly poisoned.

Flavia is of course not deterred, pursuing the initial case and this new mystery with equal vigor.

When a shocking event shakes up her sister’s sacred nuptials, a third ball enters the juggler’s dance and Flavia has all that she and Dogger can manage.

Doggedly, Flavia and Dogger delve into a clue that appears to have a connection to smuggling, only to find out that that red herring was but the first of many. Somehow our irrepressible sleuth will win the day.

The Flavia de Luce mysteries have won numerous awards of note for the genre, including the Ellis, the Agatha and the Dagger.

Bradley’s writing is both witty and playful and is rich with literary references.

Indeed the title of the book is derived from a gloomy sonnet

by Shakespeare, in which he references the practice extant at the time of harvesting the resplendent hair of the freshly-deceased for wigs for actors and others.

This grisly timepiece serves as the novel’s epigraph. Sadly, it seems as though this may be the final novel in the series.

This collection of cozies is not to be missed for fans of character-driven mysteries.

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Porn star who wrote tell-all on Trump en route to Kamloops KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Stormy Daniels is coming to Kamloops.

The award-winning porn actress who wrote a tell-all book about her encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump — and the ensuing $130,000 payment he made to her — will be at The Duchess on June 2 for a meet-and-greet event, according to her website.

The event is part of Daniels’ Make America Horny Again strip club tour in cities across North America.

Her book, Full Disclosure, was released in October 2018.

Daniels shot to mainstream fame after she came forward claiming she had an affair with Trump in 20062007.

Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, who is headed to prison in May, made a $130,000 payment to Daniels just days before the 2016 election, with the money intended to keep her from talking about the tryst.

Tickets are not yet on sale and no further details of the event have been released.

Monument for wildfire volunteers to be unveiled The monument to volunteers during the 2017 wildfires will be unveiled in downtown Kamloops on Friday morning.

In the fall of 2017, following a devastating wildfire season, ThompsonNicola Regional District board approved spending up to $100,000 on commissioning a public piece of art that would be installed to recognize the volunteers who helped during the wildfires, as well as the volunteer community in the region as a whole.

The wildfires in the B.C. Interior led to thousands of people being evacuated from their hometowns, with Kamloops a destination for a large portion of those people.

After a call for artists, three designs were chosen by a panel.

The designs were shown in regional libraries during June and July of 2018 to allow for a people’s choice vote.

The chosen Lend a Hand monument, designed by Lee-Anne Chisholm and Aaron Harder, is dedicated to the countless volunteers who willingly gave their time and effort to volunteering throughout the TNRD. The artists say the piece is an expression of support created through the kindness of helping fellow neighbours.

Lend a Hand will be unveiled on

CRIMES OF THE WEEK SHOTS Liquor burglars sought On the evening of April 7th, two males stole product from a liquor store.

The first male is described as wearing a black and grey zipped sweater, blue jeans, red shoes and a dark-coloured ball cap.

The second male is described as being First Nations, he was wearing a black hoodie, black pants and a black ball cap.

If you can have any information that could help identify the people in the photo, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-TIPS (8477).

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Use of Stolen Credit Cards Overnight on April 7th a vehicle was broken into and a wallet stolen that was inside. Later that day, credit cards from the stolen wallet were used at various convenience stores.

The male suspect is described as being Caucasian, he was wearing a red jacket, blue jeans and a light-coloured ball cap.

If you can help identify him, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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On February 4th, a wallet was lost.

Later that day, credit and bank cards from this lost wallet were used at numerous convenience stores in Kamloops.

The male suspect is described as Caucasian, has a full beard, brown hair, he was wearing a blue coat with a hood, a dark-coloured toque and blue jeans.

If you can help identify him, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Friday at 11 a.m. outside Sandman Centre, which housed thousands of wildfire evacuees in the summer of 2017.

Taking part in the ceremony will be the artists Chisholm and Harder, TNRD chair Ken Gillis, Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian, KamloopsThompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod, Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone, Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar and emergency support services volunteer Gord Davis.

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his Sunday marks the Holy Week in the Christian calendar, starting with the conventional Palm Sunday (April 14) and culminating with Resurrection (Easter) Sunday on April 21.

Of the upcoming seven days, Palm Sunday once again reminds the Christian church of the difficult

course and experience of Jesus. His processional route from Pilate’s judgment hall to the hill called Calvary was strewn with not only sadness, but a whole lot of suffering.

What thoughts surged through the minds of the people that day will never be known fully. Those who loved him were stunned and horrified at the rapid pace

with which events had moved to the dramatic climax.

They still looked for something to take place that would relieve this gentle man of his suffering, but each moment that passed decreased the likelihood.

Those who had never made a decision concerning him, but had seen the loaves and the fish and other

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wonderful things that he did, now watched him as he mounted his last pulpit.

The soldiers who cared nothing for all this sat down beneath the shadow of this dying man to gamble for the last vestige of his belongings.

But over it all hung a question that even his enemies asked silently to themselves: Why would this man die?

Two of the condemned had committed crimes that were known, but this man had really done nothing.

Insistently, we ask this question even today.

Via Dolorosa, or the Way of the Cross, was reality because Jesus was such a good man.

We have our little mottos that say virtue brings rich rewards and honesty is the best policy, but in fact we are forced to admit these things do not work out in everyday living to our material advantage.

The person who is virtuous sometimes sees the procession of fame and fortune pass him by with scarcely a nod in his direction.

Jesus, who was incarnate goodness, bowed his head before the onslaught of Jewish hatred and Roman cruelty — and all of his goodness failed to release him from the

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For his kindness, he received a crown of thorns; for his gentleness, he got a scourged back; for his love, he was given a cross too heavy to bear.

Does it pay to be a good person? It depends entirely upon the kind of pay that we want.

Jesus had no earthly reward, but his name is more profoundly influential today than that of any other person who ever lived.

Think of all the storms that have swept across the face of our world during the last 20 centuries and one cannot fail to be moved by the fact this man still stands as a monument to the satisfaction of right living.

No weakling could have cast such a spell upon the ages. Only a man who had learned a secret deeper than any that men had hith-

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erto revealed could have pointed out such a way for people to follow.

Ultimately, we find the problem devolves into a question of selfishness or unselfishness. The man who lives for the moment finds his appetites can be met, his desires can be somewhat realized and his hopes can be fulfilled.

But there is a scant happiness to it all. For man was not meant to live like that and no amount of the material serves to meet the deep-rooted needs of his spirit. These things do not satisfy and he is foolish who thinks so.

Alexander changed the map of the world and died sighing for more world to conquer. Jesus changed the motives of men.

Caesar pushed back a frontier and died surrounded by false friends. Jesus purified and enlarged the faith of men.

Charlemagne carved out a kingdom for himself and died an embittered and disillusioned ruler. Jesus laid the foundation for a kingdom of righteousness and justice and truth.

Yes, goodness crucified him, but I take my stand on that side, knowing full well that such is the only way for permanent happiness.

Yet again, Jesus was crucified because of the stubborn convictions of men.

Judas, believing that this man had tremendous power, attempted to force him to manifest it.

He sold the master not for greed — 30 pieces of silver was a paltry amount of money — and not even because he was disappointed in him.

He sold Jesus because he firmly believed that once the shackles of Roman authority were placed about him, the master would call down fire from heaven and consume all his enemies.

Judas had a stubborn conviction that he was right and that the way of Jesus was wrong.

Jesus is still a menace to those who would follow their stubborn and stupid convictions as to the way that things ought to be done in this world.

He has offered us a way of life and we have not been willing to accept it because we have been convinced in our thinking that we know much more about modern occidental life than he could ever know.

If Jesus really ruled our thinking and we gave over our convictions to his care that they might be molded in accordance with the principles that he laid down, what a different world this would be.

If he was really the ruler, then war as a method of settling international differences by slaughtering large numbers of children would be no more.

Our narrow, nationalistic outlook would be broadened so that economic interests would not always dictate our foreign policy.

Our racial problems would sink into the background of an understanding that would sweep all else before the flow of its tide.

Jesus trod slowly the Way of the Cross because people were convinced he was all wrong in his estimates of life and its values.

May God forgive us that so often we have the same conviction.

Narayan Mitra is the pastor of Merritt Baptist Church. He is also a volunteer chaplain at Thompson Rivers University under the sponsorship of Kamloops Campus Ministries Society.

Mitra can be reached by email at merrittbaptist@gmail.com.

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Have you heard of Waddesdon Manor?” asks my hostess Diane, as she hands me a cup of tea across the breakfast table.

I venture a guess. “One of those stately homes of England?”

Diane nods. “It’s not too far from here.”

“Shall we take a look?”

Taking a secondary road while driving over to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, I’m once again enchanted by the English countryside — rolling meadows and village lanes where houses crouch under thatched roofs and wild roses trail over stone walls.

At first sight, the honeycoloured baronial mansion at the end of a broad driveway is like something out of a romantic Victorian novelette.

Cupolas, spires and tall windows give it the appearance of a chateaux set amid spacious lawns and arbors of yew, cedar and chestnut trees.

Waddesdon Manor — according to the booklet from the front desk — was built by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, one of Europe’s leading financiers, in 1889.

After his death, the estate passed to his spinster sister, Lady Alice de Rothschild. It was eventually bequeathed to the National Trust of Britain by her successor, James de Rothschild, on condition that it be managed by the Rothschild Foundation. The Foundation is now chaired by Lord Jacob Rothschild, a connoisseur of art and culture.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild invited the crème de la crème of English and European society to Waddesdon, and they, like me, would have entered first into the Red Room, and found themselves surrounded by rich textiles, red

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damask walls, portraits of noblemen, and the room’s dramatic painted ceiling.

I am gawping, but they were probably fashionably blasé, and the room would have been filled with the sound of conversation — perhaps the latest society gossip.

Baron Ferdinand spared no expense in collecting the finest Sevres porcelain, French 18th century furniture, paintings (including those of Gainsborough and Reynolds) and, as I walk through the Manor, I am overwhelmed by the sheer opulence of my surroundings.

The dining room, for example,

with its tapestries and its elegant banquet table decorated with a magnificent centerpiece of fresh flowers, is breathtaking.

The bedrooms, with their four-poster beds and dressing tables, remind me of scenes from Downton Abbey and I half expect Lady Mary Crawley to appear and ask me what I’m doing wandering around her suite.

Which makes me wonder — are there any ghosts living in Waddesdon?

I pose the question to one of the staff in the Blue Drawing Room. She shrugs: “They say Lady Alice can’t stay away from

Waddesdon,” she adds.

“She was a regular martinet, that one ... and some say that she comes back to oversee the staff.”

Ghosts aside, there are some very real curiosities at Waddesdon that halt me in my tracks.

A chandelier called Porca Miseria (a polite translation is “Oh My Goodness”) on display in the Blue Dining Room is an artful accident.

The chandelier made of broken cutlery and crockery was glued together from shards of porcelain dropped (on purpose) by its sculptor Maurer, and then mounted onto a metal frame.

To my eye, it appears to explode above an elegant tea table setting.

Even more intriguing is an elephant automaton designed by French clock maker Martinet in 1774.

The ornamental pachyderm plays a tune, waves his trunk and tail and moves his eyes (rather ghoulishly) from side to side.

The Maharaja on his howdah on top and the musicians below move back and forth and then the entire piece comes magically to life with rotating flowers, images of diamante studded stars and Indian costumed figures and scenes that appear in windows.

Intrigued by accounts of Waddesdon Manor, Queen Victoria reputedly invited herself over, and was so amazed by the electrical switches in all the rooms, that she spent several minutes flicking them back and forth.

However, she drew the line at riding the newfangled elevator.

Other guests included Winston Churchill who was apparently banned from smoking inside his room by the formidable Lady Alice.

He would stay in the Portico bedroom so that he could step out on its porch to enjoy a stogie or two.

To wrap up our visit, we linger in the gardens — Lady Alice’s pride and joy. This being a sunny summer day, the beds are alive with colour — purple asters, dahlias as large as plates, borders of lavender, fat peonies, phlox, and of course, roses.

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This was a special week for RunClub and Boogie the Bridge.

On Tuesday after our run, we gathered at Red Collar Brewery downtown for the annual Boogie Beer.

A special cask of beer is tapped just for RunClub and all proceeds go toward Boogie charities. Turnout was great and getting to sit down and have a beer (or cider or water) with everyone was exactly what I needed.

My run was hard. During the past week, I have been pushing myself as Boogie draws ever closer and the warning signs of overtraining were starting to show.

So I dialed back and focused more on finishing my run than pushing myself.

After that, being able to sit and relax with what has very quickly become my family was perfect.

I had focused so much on the run part that I had forgotten the club part and the reminder, being drawn into so many different conversations with so many amazing people, helped me to remember we are all in this together.

I’m forever grateful to Jo Berry for introducing me to these fantastic people and forever grateful to my RunClub family for their acceptance and zero judgment. I can’t wait for April 28 to arrive, to run with them all and to see their smiling faces cheering as I cross that finish line.

GROUP GOAL WARM-UP

Patience is a virtue, a virtue in which I sometimes lack — and, boy, is learning to run teaching me patience.

I went out this week with new shoes.

I was hydrated and I stretched. I was full of hope this week would be the week I could keep up. It was better and I ran much longer than I had in previous weeks before my same problem in my calves emerged.

This week, we “Boogied the Bridge” and ran a little more than five kilometres.

The coaches all prepped us for the bridge and running uphill is no joke.

As someone who is new to running, I started this journey with no clue how important pace was. When going up that bridge, it was so important to keep mental track of pace.

As always, the support of the coaches was fantastic, without which I would never be able to push through this and keep going on my own.

As Jo reminded me, working through my body’s issues and pains is the easy part. The hard part is being kind to myself mentally. It’s so easy to tear yourself down for not doing something as well as you thought you would and thinking that you’re failing because of it.

The RunClub team and coaches are excellent at reminding you that you’re succeeding because you’re there.

I made improvements, I ran farther and longer than I did the week before and I’ll do the same next time.

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MAX PATEL KTW digital sales associate 10K Bold It’s just two weeks from Boogie the Bridge and I can feel the excitement and energy when training with RunClub.

It surprises me how I learn something new in each training session. RunClub coaches are not only great at what they do, but they also look after every member in their group, which includes handling the fastest members of the group and running alongside with the last member of the pack.

It’s amazing to watch their multi-tasking skills as they need to keep the group together, decide which route to run, track down the stats of the run (which they use to provide feedback at the end) and answer all the questions posed by Boogie participants as they are running.

During this past week, I trained on Sunday, when I learned the right technique to run, as explained expertly by Wayne Richardson. On Tuesday, our coach, Bob Dieno, taught us how to be efficient in long-distance running. He explained a technique that helps us to sprint within our long-distance running without exerting too much energy.

Toward the end of my Tuesday training, Bob gave me some important tips that will help me become a better runner.

I now have a goal to complete the 10K Boogie run in under 50 minutes.

This goal is exciting. I am confident I will achieve it on race day, April 28, when I would will use all I’ve learned to achieve the 50-minute mark.

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Walking warm-up of 10 minutes.

Walking warm-up of 10 minutes.

1) Walk easy for 25 minutes, then power walk for for 15.

Total 40 minutes.

1) Walk 2.5 minutes, run 3.5 minutes. Repeat 8 times.

Total 48 minutes.

1) Walk 2 minutes, run 7.5 minutes.

Repeat 6 times.

Total 57 minutes.

1) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 8 times.

Total 80 minutes.

1) 19-kilometre run.

2) Walk easy for 20 minutes, then power walk for for 15.

Total 35 minutes.

2) Walk 2.5 minutes, run 3.5 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 36 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 7.5 minutes.

Repeat 5 times.

Total 47.5 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 5 times.

Total 50 minutes (with hills).

3) Walk easy for 20 minutes, then power walk for for 15.

Total 35 minutes.

3) Walk 2.5 minutes, run 3.5 minutes. Repeat 7 times.

Total 42 minutes.

3) Walk 2 minutes, run 7.5 minutes.

Repeat 6 times.

Total 57 minutes.

3) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 60 minutes.

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10 minutes walking cool down and stretching.

10 minutes walking cool down and stretching.

10 minutes walking cool down and stretching.

10 minutes walking cool down and stretching.

10 minutes walking cool down and stretching.

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Walking is just as great as running. Proper walking form includes relax; arms swinging at the hips. Pace yourself and vary your pace.

The time on your feet is now more than five kilometres.

Congrats — you got this. Start to strategize your pace going out (2.5km) and coming back (2.5km).

You are now at the 10K mark — congrats. Next week is your longest run of the Boogie program. Then it’s taper time.

In the last six weeks, you have built a fantastic 10K base. This is your distance and you are strong. Goal-setting is part of your practice and Boogie is your spring goal.

The longest run of your program is now complete — congrats! It is time to taper back your running and let the body prepare, build and rest. The goal is to get to the Boogie start line feeling amazing.

PLAYWORK

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 6 times.

Total 60 minutes.

2) Walk 2 minutes, run 8 minutes. Repeat 7 times.

Total 70 minutes.

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s I get older, I see clearly that running has changed me.

Without running, I would have missed so much in my life. The mere thought of it brings tears to my eyes. In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure and purpose into my soul.

This touchstone is in all who have chosen the running life.

Running may be considered an inconvenience, unattainable and odd to the in-experienced. In fact, once discovered, running is an enormous gift.

Without running, I would have missed much, such as knowing my city geographically and knowing the people to the core.

I love Kamloops, every single part of it, and community health is once again happening in our spring training.

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As the weeks Go online to runclub.ca of training are or send an email to completed, I am joberry@ blessed to see boogiethebridge.com. people’s faces completely light up as they discover their “I can do this” moments.

People become comfortable in the uncomfortable. They no longer shrink back because something is challenging them. Their strength and resilience becomes stronger not only in their running, but in their life, too. They reach out to others more easily.

They feel the safety and support of the RunClub community and they, too, see clearly how running is changing them.

That is the magical thing about running — it’s always evolving us, physically emotionally, spiritually and mentally. A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go run. I grow.

Each run, each event, each finish line and, yes, each Boogie is a new me and new for every single person who chooses to Boogie. They, too, have embraced their “I can do this” moment and will cross the finish line already excited about running toward the next one.

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South Kamloops secondary held a pep rally on Wednesday to fete its senior girls’ basketball team. The Titans won a B.C. title in March, their second consecutive AA girls’ provincial championship victory. Point guard Maddy Gobeil was showered with high-fives.

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ne year ago, Martin Gardner may not have been an obvious choice to lead the Kamloops Venom into a new era, but his appointment to the club’s general manager and governor positions offer more proof the B.C. lacrosse scene is never short on unpredictable storylines.

“I have a really good relationship with the Venom,” Gardner said. “Not that I didn’t before, but I was on the outside looking in.

No one knew who I was.

“If you can’t beat them, join them. I’m all about kids playing lacrosse at the highest possible level. That will never, ever change.”

Gardner toiled to bring the intermediate A Okanagan Wild into existence and succeeded when they joined the B.C. Intermediate Lacrosse League for

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the 2017 campaign.

The Wild were forced into oneand-done submission, folding in part because the Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League refused to go along with a threetier junior B system voted in prior to the 2018 season by the B.C. Lacrosse Association.

BCLA directorate members who voted in favour of the move envisioned a system in which former intermediate A squads would become tier 1 teams, junior

B teams from 2017 would become tier 2 squads and intermediate B outfits would become tier 3 teams.

TOJLL governors voted unanimously to declare tier 1 junior B league status, cold-shouldering the provincial governing body and waxing the Wild.

Gardner has come to see why the Venom were opposed to the three-tier system.

“It would have been devastating to the league [TOJLL],” Gardner said. “We’re down to three teams. If I had taken 25 to 30 players and gone tier 1 and they declared tier 2, I think the league would have folded and I didn’t want to be responsible for that.”

Gardner succeeds a pair of longtime Snakes, former governor Carol Pittman and former GM Brandon Pittman.

Liam Hagerty is head coach, replacing Doug Clark, who remains with the squad in an advisory role.

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AND THEN THERE WERE THREE The Kelowna Raiders folded prior to the 2018 season and will miss a second consecutive TOJLL campaign.

This year, the Venom, Tigers and South Okanagan Flames of Penticton will compete for league supremacy, as the Armstrong Shamrocks confirmed last month they do not have enough numbers to play in 2019.

“We haven’t had an influx of players for a couple of years,” TOJLL commissioner and former Shamrocks governor Jeff Hanley told the Vernon Morning Star.

“With the graduating midgets

(from North Okanagan Minor Lacrosse), the lion’s share has gone to Vernon. There was one eligible midget this year. For the last couple of years, we’ve had declining numbers and declining commitment. Players that just don’t want to show up for most of the stuff.”

There does seem to be silver lining.

South Okanagan, which was 1-8-2-1 in regular-season play last year and swept by Vernon in Round 1 of the playoffs, should be stronger in 2019, in part because of the addition of players from Kelowna.

Some former Shamrocks have joined the Venom or Tigers, or moved up to play senior lacrosse, helping to replenish rosters in a league that has its own membership problems.

Armstrong struggled in 2018, posting a record of 2-9-1 before Kamloops swept it from the postseason.

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Matt Hans and Andy Hebden will help out behind the bench.

Jan Antons is the squad’s assistant GM and alternate governor.

Gardner has shifted focus to solidifying shaky ground occupied by the TOJLL and returning the Venom to league champion status, which it lost last year after falling 3-0 to the Vernon Tigers in the best-of-five final.

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Thrash breaking into Kamloops MARTY HASTINGS STAFF REPORTER sports@kamloopsthisweek.com

Thrash Wrestling came to Kamloops 10 years ago, in June of 2009.

The event at the Pavilion Theatre did not draw well and Thrash never came back.

“When I went the last time, I wasn’t financially set to start running the town, so when I lost my shirt, due to my own poor promotion, I wasn’t prepared to come back,” Thrash promoter Nick Szalanski told KTW last weekend on Wrestlemania Sunday.

The pro wrestling organization is enjoying a period of growth across the Okanagan — and it’s time to give the Tournament Capital a rematch.

Thrash will hold an event, Just for Kicks, on Friday, May 10, at Moccasin Square Gardens (334 Chief Alex Thomas Way).

Ticket vendors include Tumbleweed Lounge/Plaza Liquor Store (405 Victoria St.), Big Don’s Super Pawn (345 Tranquille Rd.), ticketseller. ca and MSG. Tickets cost $15 each, four for $50 or $20 at the door.

Liquor will not be sold at the familyfriendly event.

“The last few months, I‘ve been trying to track down a venue in Kamloops and they’re all either arenas, way too big, or venues that won’t get back to

me or tell me straight up no. I almost gave up,” Szalanski said.

“Another promoter said Moccasin wants wrestling. Once we get into town, anything can really open up. For now, it’s a pretty good start. It seems to have generated interest, just by hanging up posters.”

Szalanski, whose in-ring persona, Slave, is known to dabble in the hardcore side of sports-entertainment, is promising a slobberknocker of

a night at Just for Kicks.

“You’re going to see a lot of hard hitting, some strong style, some comedy, some funny angles and there will be some women matches,” Szalanski said.

“It’s about everything that pro wrestling is all about, tag teams, we touch on every angle.”

Thrash is putting on shows on a monthly basis and has developed followings in Okanagan cities such as Vernon, Penticton, West Kelowna, Osoyoos, Enderby, Armstrong and Lumby.

“We’re trying to branch outside of the Okanagan,” Szalanski said. “It beats me why it took me so long to come back to Kamloops. It’s such a huge market to open up.”

Most of the wrestlers who enter the squared circle in Kamloops will be from the Okanagan, but Szalanski said a few Vancouver and Edmonton grapplers have shown interest in joining the card.

The talent will be hanging around Tumbleweed Lounge after the show.

Fans are encouraged to join.

Whether Thrash returns to the River City may depend on how many people show up to MSG on May 10.

“It’s going to be an explosion,” Szalanksi said. “There is no better show than wrestling, as far as live events.

Nothing can touch it. We’ve just got to prove it. Once they see it, I’m pretty sure they’ll be sold.”

Watch the Broncos The Kamloops Broncos will begin B.C. Football Conference regular-season play against the Okanagan Sun in Kelowna on Aug. 3.

Each of the conference’s six teams will play each other home and away, according to the B.C. Football Conference schedule released on Monday.

Kamloops will host Langley on Aug. 10, Valley of Chilliwack on Aug. 24, Westshore of Langford on Sept. 7, Okanagan on Sept. 14 and Vancouver Island of Nanaimo on Sept.

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The conference champion will host the Canadian Junior Football League championship game — the Canadian Bowl — on Nov. 16.

Ontario Football Conference and Prairie Football Conference champions will meet in a national semifinal, with the winner advancing to the national title tilt in B.C.

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“Reflecting back in five years, it might be a good thing Armstrong isn’t in the league [this year],” Gardner said. “I think they would have had a tough time competing. It’s tough for those boys to come out and get blown out every game.”

Gardner said Kelowna was close to having a team this year.

“The Kelowna Raiders have been working diligently, maybe a little bit too late, but continuing to work and came up a little bit short, as far as putting the original Kelowna Raiders back in the league or there is another group working with minor on creating a new Kelowna team.

“I think it’s inevitable Kelowna will have a team next year.”

Armstong may be in the same boat, with about 10 projected midgetaged players from Shuswap Minor Lacrosse in Salmon Arm expected to graduate after this season and a few more coming out of North Okanagan, leaving optimism that numbers will increase in 2020, according to the Morning Star.

THE SCHEDULE Each team will play 14 games, seven each against two opponents on the three-team loop.

Kamloops, which will play in an icebreaker exhibition tournament this weekend in Armstrong, will open the regular season with a pair of home games.

The Flames and Tigers will be in town for games at Memorial Arena on Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, respectively, with faceoff set for 7:30 p.m. both nights.

Last year, in part due to discord between the TOJLL and BCLA, the Tigers did not advance to compete for a B.C. title against the winner of the provincial tier 1 junior B league.

Gardner said the TOJLL is working with the BCLA to determine a provincial championship format for 2019.

THE SENIORS The Kamloops Rattlers will have more than one team to play this season, as the Thompson Okanagan Senior Lacrosse League is regaining two teams to create a four-team circuit. More on that in KTW on Wednesday.

Evely leads KGTC charge Eleven Kamloops Gymnastics and Trampoline Centre athletes were in action at the B.C. Compulsory Championships for women’s artistic gymnasts, an event held last weekend in Langley.

Among the top KGTC performers was Polly Evely, who finished second on floor, third on balance beam and sixth all-around.

Evely, Brooklyn Hansen, Saoirse Vanwerkhoven, Madelyn Alston, Rosie Begg, Serena Hughes, Halle Bean, Elle Rollins, Faith Talla, Sofia Nunez-Palma and Freyja Steinsland, most of whom are in their first season of competitive gymnastics, relished the

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chance to compete on the provincial stage.

Four KGTC men’s artistics gymnastics athletes will be in action at the B.C. Artistics Gymnastics Championships,

which get underway in Coquitlam on Friday.

Drew Kanigan, Jakob Sirianni, Lachlan de Fouw and Eduardo Nunez-Palma will represent the club at the event.

A BLAZE BEGINS Mykaela Woods and Taryn Meixner had goals for the under18 Kamloops Blaze girls in a 2-0 win over Vernon United in Thompson Okanagan Youth Soccer League play at Hillside Stadium on Sunday.

Sadie Moyer posted the clean sheet for Kamloops, which is 1-0 on the campaign.

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Kamloops track athletes enjoy success The Kamloops Track and Field Club recently played host to three events, the B.C. Masters Indoor Championship, the Van Ryswyk Meet and the Spring Throws Meet.

Many of the club’s athletes finished on the podium in their respective divisions.

Sunette Lessing’s performance at the Masters meet was among the KTFC’s highlights, as she won gold

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BRIEFS medals in high jump, long jump, shot put, 60-metre hurdles and pentathlon.

Lessing set provincial records in her division in the 60m hurdles and pentathlon.

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Danica Renwick, 13, won six gold medals at the Van Ryswyk event, finishing atop the podium in the 60m, 200m, 300m, 800m, 1200m and long jump.

Matthew Arnold, 17, represented the local club well at the Spring Throws Meet, snaring a gold medal in hammer throw with a toss of 51.20 metres.

For complete results, go online to kamloops thisweek.com.

TRAINING GROUND Talent adjudicators will be looking for the next great Canadian Olympians at the RBC Training Ground event scheduled for this Sunday at the TCC. The free-to-attend combine, at which athletes will be measured and tested, will run from 9 a.m. to noon.

Athletes ages 14 to 25 are invited to the event, a qualifier for the national final in Calgary.

Last year, nine athletes at the Kamloops stop were discovered to have high-performance potential.

More than 30 combines will be held across Canada. Some athletes will be chosen as RBC Future Olympians and receive funding and resources to pursue their Olympic dreams.

For more information, go online to rbctrainingground.ca.

ACTIVITY PROGRAMS The City is transitioning to a new registration system, PerfectMind, which will launch on March 6, 2019. To learn more and to set up your new account, visit Kamloops.ca/PerfectMind Programs are cancelled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Beginner Photography Workshop This camera workshop is designed for those who wish to know more about how to use their camera. Bring your camera manual to guide you because you’ll be changing some settings on your camera to shoot more deliberately for creativity. In this hands-on workshop, you will take photographs to practise almost all of the different settings and scenarios that the average person would encounter when taking pictures.

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WEEKLY COMICS

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ARCTIC CIRCLE by Alex Hallatt

THE BORN LOSER

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM William Earl (Earl) Shepherd MD FRCPC Earl Shepherd died peacefully on March 29, 2019 at Sunrise of Vancouver.

Born January 20, 1929 in Winnipeg, MB, he was predeceased by his beloved wife of 62 years Anne in October 2014. He is survived by his children John (Verna), Cathy, Heather (Don) and Nancy (Joseph) as well as his ten beloved grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister-in-law Eleanor Best and three nieces.

Born at the onset of the Great Depression, Earl was imbued with a drive to succeed by his parents and he excelled academically and athletically during his high school years, winning both the gold medal for his high school class and the 100-yard dash! Entering United College, now the University of Winnipeg, at age 15 his life was altered for the best when he met Anne Williams with whom he formed a loving partnership that lasted 70 years until her death.

He graduated from the University of Manitoba medical school in 1952 and moved to Vancouver to pursue further studies, eventually doing his residency in Pathology. He continued to excel during this period, winning a prestigious Markle Scholarship in 1961 during which he took further training at Louisiana State University (becoming a lifelong Tigers fan) and worked in Central America for many months.

As his career developed, he worked with many of the great men and women of Pathology and Medicine in BC; his long friendship with the late Dr. Don Rix and his professional relationship with the late Dr. Cam Coady were sources of pride to him. After working for the Federal Government at Shaughnessy Hospital, the family moved to Kamloops in 1968 where he developed particular interests in medical microbiology and medico-legal pathology. During this time, he did volunteer professional work in Western Samoa and Sierra Leona and formed fast friendships with others who did the same.

In 1981 Earl, Anne and Nancy moved to Chilliwack where he spent the last years of his working career with CJ Coady and Associates and again formed many lasting friendships both professionally and personally. He retired in 1989 but continued to be active in Rotary, being awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship and other community service organizations. He was proud of his magnificent garden and spent countless hours improving it. In 2002, he and Anne moved to Vancouver so they could spend more time on their love of music, particularly opera. They travelled extensively during retirement and he made trips to Ethiopia, the Silk Road and Tibet after Anne was unable to travel—he was immensely proud of climbing the steps to the Potala Palace in his 80s.

Family was important to Earl and Anne and they were the kind of parents who always supported and contributed to the activities of their children with their time and money. Every one of his children has wonderful memories of him as a coach, umpire, travel companion and community leader—these memories are his greatest legacy to us. They were similarly generous in their support of many community and educational organizations both locally and internationally.

In their latter years, Anne and Earl lived at Tapestry at Arbutus Walk where the caring staff provided both of them with support allowing independent living for a number of years. Following Anne’s death, Tess Aquilario supported Earl for over four years with warm and comforting care allowing him to stay at Tapestry into his 90th year. For the last 11 months of his life, Earl was fortunate to be under the care of the loving and compassionate staff at Sunrise of Vancouver—each and every one of them was kind to him and genuinely interested in his well-being. We are profoundly grateful to all of them.

A Celebration of his Life will be held on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 1:30 pm at the UBC Golf Club in Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Vancouver Opera Association or the University of Winnipeg to the Anne and Earl Shepherd Tuition Credit Bursary Fund are most gratefully appreciated.

Edward (Ted/Ed/Teodoro)

Manners

September 24, 1937 - April 7, 2019

It is with great sadness that the family of Edward “Ted” Manners, 81 years, announce his passing at Manitoulin Health Centre-Mindemoya Hospital.

He will be missed by his children Valita (David Lloyd), Robert (Peggy-predeceased) and Margaret Kennedy and also by his caregiver Claudette (Roy) (former spouse).

Ted was born in Owen Sound, ON to Edward and Ethel (Simpson) both predeceased. Eldest brother of Franklin (Rita) and predeceased by David (Marg).

“Grandpa Ted” to Nicolas, Hayden, Aubrey and Hannah. Uncle to Heather (predeceased), Kelly, Kimmy, Tate and Teal. Special friend of Gloria Locking Fenton and Barry Mills (Owen Sound).

Ted graduated from O.S.C.V.I, the Provincial Institute of Mining of Haileybury and from Laurentian University with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in geography and history. In his younger years, he was a member of the 167 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Owen Sound. Early on, Ted loved motorcycles. He and his friends formed a riding club in Owen Sound, the

Allan Fred Morgenthaler was born in Kamloops on July 29, 1937.

He passed away peacefully at Kamloops Hospice House on Friday, April 5, 2019. Allan is survived by his wife of 59 years Caroline, his son Lyle, daughter in-law Marja, grandson Alexander and also by his brothers Jake and Dennis and sister Rose (Len) Steinke, as well as many friends and in-laws.

Allan had a unique sense of humour and always loved to make people smile and laugh. He enjoyed all of his coffee buddies, both at the Dunes Golf Club and at Timmies on the North Shore.

He had a long career with the Ministry of Highways before he became ill with kidney disease. He fought the good fight, and for the past six years he was taking dialysis treatment at the North Shore Unit. He very much appreciated the care extended to him by the staff at the unit, the HandyDART staff and drivers, and all other caregivers.

There will be no funeral by request. A celebration of his life will take place at his home later this summer.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Kamloops Kidney Foundation, if so desired.

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“I lived my life to the absolute fullest.

Travelled roads not taken, met faces unknown.

Felt the wind, touched the mountains.”

Happy trails Ted, until we meet again!

Donations may be made in Ted’s memory to Manitoulin Pet Rescue and may be made through www.simpsonfuneralhome.ca.

We wish to extend our appreciation to Dr. Al Hadi and all of the compassionate staff at the Mindemoya Hospital.

In keeping with Ted’s wishes, there will be no service or visitation.

Arrangements entrusted to the SIMPSON FUNERAL HOME, Gore Bay.

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“Lucky Riders”. He was also passionate about sports cars, but eventually graduated to his 1963 and 1965 Volkswagen Vans “Broomhilda I & II” which became his home on wheels. A vagabond at heart, Ted resided in Sudbury, Toronto, Calgary, Alban, Kamloops, Maruata, Michoacán, Mexico and many, many places in between. Along the way, Ted made thousands of friends, many of which were like family to him (especially in BC and Mexico where he spent numerous years). Ted was one of the last true hippies travelling far and wide in his VW to attend festivals, music events, and get-togethers, often selling his famous falafels out of his van. Along the way his best companions and travelling buddies were always his manx “kitties”. Ted was a highly intelligent and open-minded individual who loved in-depth conversations with anyone and everyone. He was adept at analyzing the stock market, passionate about astronomy and happenings in the world, enjoyed reading, photography and backroads, as well as being an avid music lover/connoisseur having a life-long subscription to Rolling Stone magazine.

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MaryLee Shannon On April 7, 2019, the heavens came calling and a new angel was granted her wings.

MaryLee was the first born to Giuseppe and Liliana Posteraro.

Family was huge to MaryLee, from the visits with her cousins, to the big Italian dinners with her family. MaryLee was the oldest of three. She always showed great dictatorship and a true leader. She loved everyone and was always trying to help crack a smile. Hard work was instilled to MaryLee at a young age and she took pride in all her jobs. McDonald’s during her teenage years, then Beaver Lumber and finally one of the originals at Zellers. She loved to work, meet new people and make many friends along the way. She had many accomplishments in her life, ones to be proud of. For the past seven years, MaryLee had lived at The Hamlets. Even faced with the challenges she made the best of her days. Helping others and working at the tuck stop, she loved to gab and make people smile. She made a numerous amount of friends there, that she called her family also.

MaryLee always said her best accomplishment in life was being a mother. She did everything for her kids from the many sleepless nights to the many trips with her son to the Children’s Hospital. Even after her illness she would do whatever it took to see them happy, from watching Three’s Company, doing crafts, learning a new videogame or even being the make-up queen for her daughter to practice on. Her kids were her world, her two most precious gifts.

MaryLee leaves behind her children Nickolas and Mackenzie (Shannon), her mother Liliana Posteraro, her sister Melisa (Shaun) Dyck, her brother Michael (Lindsay) Posteraro, her many nephews Thomas, Derian, Elias and Felix and her only niece Milana Posteraro. She also leaves behind many uncles, aunties and cousins both in Canada and Italy. She is predeceased by her father Giuseppe, her Nonno Michele and Giovanni and her Nanna Maria Nina and Milana.

The family would like to thank the staff on 4N RIH for all their kind help, also to The Hamlets for all their help making MaryLee’s stay the last few years as happy as it could be. We were truly blessed to have the best nurse to help with her care, even on her stubborn days.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 11:00 am in the Holy Family Catholic Church, 2797 Sunset Drive, Kamloops. Private family interment will follow at Hillside Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Diabetes Association in memory of MaryLee. Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM Alexander Bruce Tucker

Eric Alfred Bresser 1961 - 2019

Bruce passed away on Friday, April 5, 2019 at Kelowna General Hospital of complications from lung cancer.

In Loving Memory of

Robert “Bud” Forbes July 11, 1942 – February 15, 2019

He is survived by his wife Leslie, his son Jonas and wife Krystal, daughter Gillian, grandson Merlin, brother William (Barb Heath), ex-wife Ruth Tucker, nephews Mike and family and Mark and family. He was predeceased by his son Taylor Joseph, his parents Isabel and Stewart.

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Bruce was an active member of the community: one of six founding members of the Overlander Ski Club and president for several years, past member of the Kamloops Ridge Runners, a coach for the Kamloops Track and Field Club, a long time board member at the Kamloops Golf and Country Club and in recent years, he sang bass for the River Harmony Choir.

He graduated Dentistry at University of Toronto. After graduation, he did his externship in Northern BC and then joined a dental practice in Burnaby before opening a practice in Kamloops, BC. He also did dental work at the Tranquille School and KRCC. After “retirement”, Bruce volunteered his services at the New Life Mission in Kamloops. He loved dentistry and was a lifelong student, opening his practice up to the Kamloops Dental Study Club.

His family doesn’t have words to express the loss of this incredible man. We will miss him like a front tooth.

He had many passions, but flowers were not among them. Please donate to a charity of your choice.

Final farewell will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 2:00 pm, at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre in Kamloops, BC.

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It is with saddened hearts we announce the passing of our brother Eric Bresser, who fought a long and hard battle with cancer.

He was predeceased by his brother Ken and survived by his two sisters Diamond and Debbie and two daughters.

Eric was extremely strong willed and a perfectionist, who enjoyed trucking alongside his brother, fishing and gardening. He taught us many things and stood by the saying, “If you’re going to do it, do it right or don’t do it at all.” We all live by this motto in his memory.

We love you Eric. May you be at peace.

There will be a family a gathering at a later date.

Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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Bud’s life will be celebrated on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 1:30 pm at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 360 Nicola St, Kamloops, BC. In lieu of flowers, donations in Bud’s name are gratefully appreciated by the family to an organization of your choice.

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Ian Robert Birkett

Wayne Robert Jennings November 19, 1935 – March 2, 2019

It is with great sadness and love that our family announces Ian Robert Birkett, loving husband and father, passed away on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at the age of 52.

Left to celebrate his life and cherish his memory is his loving wife Theresa, his parents Joan and Hal, his children Zachary and Zoe, his step-children Makayla and Dylan (Angeli), his sister Sandi Miller (Peter), his brother Philip Hulet (Evelyn), several aunts, uncles, cousins, a niece, a nephew, Gord and Linda Miller who were family to Ian and friends from every walk of life not the least his inspirational group the Motorheads.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 2:00 pm at The Kamloops Yacht Club, 1140 River St, Kamloops, BC. Family and friends are welcomed to the celebration and the family invite you to remain into the evening as we will continue to celebrate together in Ian’s memory and sharing his stories.

Flowers are most gratefully declined. Memorial donations, if desired may be made to the BC Fires Appeal or the Red Cross.

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Wayne taught English literature at the high school level in Edgewater, BC, Nelson, BC, Golden, BC, finally settling in Kamloops teaching at NorKam Secondary, Westsyde Secondary and St. Ann’s Academy.

He had many interests, was a member of The Kamloops Naturalist Club, holding many positions within the club and monitoring a Bluebird Route for over 26 years.

Always with a loyal dog at his side, Wayne enjoyed camping, fishing, hiking and cross-country skiing.

He also golfed, curled, downhill skied and enjoyed travelling to many countries. Following heart surgery, Wayne volunteered with the Vascular Improvement Programme enjoying the nursing staff and patients.

Ian was born on November 28, 1966 and raised in Fort St. John, BC by his loving parents Hal and Joan (King).

He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1988 and honed his craft for over 30 years.

At a young age, Ian developed his passion for hockey and his love for family. To this day, Ian’s allegiance to the Philadelphia Flyers could only be matched by his passion to experience life on his bike in the chill morning air with the love of his life, Theresa by his side. To know Ian was to understand selfless acts of his time followed by endless hours on his views on life.

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Wayne was a true character and his many friends and family will miss his stories and love of a good laugh.

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Wayne Robert Jennings on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at The Hamlets in Kamloops, BC. Wayne, an only child, was born in Antler, Saskatchewan.

He felt lucky to grow up with his mother Freda on the farm near Gainsborough, Saskatchewan belonging to his aunt Greta and uncle Coral Fisher and their two children Audrey and Maxine.

Predeceased by his mother Freda Jennings (née Cowan), his father Robert John Jennings, his favourite aunt Greta Cowan Fisher, his cousin Maxine Mains, his uncle Ken Cowan and many other aunts and uncles.

Wayne is survived by his good friend Jo Chipperfield and his cousins Audrey Fisher of Waterloo, Ontario, Terry Mains (Louise) of Peachland, BC, Bonnie Freitag (Mel) of Carlisle, Saskatchewan, Valerie Mains Roy (Marcel) of Gatineau, Quebec and their families.

Wayne didn’t care for farming, so at the first opportunity he boarded a train for Vancouver, BC to attend the University of British Columbia. He was forever grateful to his uncle Ken Cowan (Burdina) for providing a home during his years of study at U.B.C.

The family would like to thank the staff at The Hamlets and his fellow residents there for their kindness and care. The Fisher and Mains families would also like to extend thanks to Donna Edwards and Jo Chipperfield for their gentle care and kindness over these many months. A special thank you to Dr. A. Cribb for her wonderful support.

Donations may be made to the Kamloops SPCA or The Heart and Stroke Foundation.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 11:00 am at the Kamloops Funeral Home, 285 Fortune Dr., Kamloops, BC. Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM In Loving Memory of

In Loving Memory Of

In Loving Memory Of

(née Crucil)

December 28, 1966 – April 13, 2013

Who walked through Heaven’s Gate on April 14, 2011

Kevin Hussey

Mafalda Podorieszach Although deeply saddened with the loss of our loving mother Mafalda Podorieszach on April 7, 2019 at 87 years of age, she is finally at peace. She enjoyed many years of good health, with only a decline in health over the last two years. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late February, 2019.

Iolanda Guido

Mafalda is survived by her loving sons Primo (Eileen), Peter (Shelley), John, her six grandchildren Brandon (Andrea), Bryce (Maggie), Michelle, Aaron, Cara (David), Sarah and five great-grandchildren Keaton, Ethan, Nathanial, Cayden and Ava. She lived to see her grandchildren, then great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by two brothers Pietro (Enerstina) and Alessandro, sister in-law Francis and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was born in Italy, immigrated to Canada in 1955 and married her late husband Giuseppe Podorieszach (pre-deceased in 1999). She had many friends in Clearwater and Kamloops.

We thank all the staff of the Ponderosa Lodge who cared for Mom in her final days.

We especially thank Dr. Susan Vlahos for her empathy and care.

Prayers will be recited for Mafalda at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 12, 2019 at OLPH with the Funeral Mass to be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at OLPH Church, 635 Tranquille Road, Kamloops. Father Paul Simms, Celebrant.

All are welcome to join us in sharing memories at the reception, after funeral mass in the OLPH Parish Centre, next to the church and/or attending burial at Hillside Cemetery, 750 Notre Dame Drive, Kamloops .

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to BC Cancer Foundation or charity of your choice.

Arrangements entrusted to Kamloops Funeral Home 250-554-2577 Condolences may be sent to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

RIP God called your name so gently That only you could hear No one heard the footsteps of angels drawing near…

Softly from the shadows, there came a gentle call, You closed your eyes and went to sleep…

You quietly left us all.

Iolanda my wife, 8 years have passed.

Iolanda you are dearly loved and missed by your family.

Mom, Dad, Cheryl, Tom, Sean and Patrick

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Remembering Edward Allan Russell January 28, 1943 October 26, 2018

Rosemary “Rosie” Casimir Dearest family and friends, we regret we inform you that our beloved Rosemary “Rosie” Casimir passed away on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Rosemary’s services were held on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

Rosemary worked at the Little Fawn Daycare until the doors were closed on her in December 2017. Rosemary dedicated her time and love to all the children and parents that walked through the doors for 37 years.

A gathering of family and friends will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2019 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm at West Highlands Community Centre, 1185 Links Way, Kamloops. Casual Seahawks sports attire most welcome.

Drop in for coffee/tea and desserts and share your stories of Ed.

Rosemary is predeceased by her mother Edna Howse, father Ronald “Joe” Lee, uncles Martin Howse and Dennis Lee, auntie Dorthey Howse, Chapon Mary Bruneau, nephew Jesse Tyler Seymour and granddaughter Lydia-Diane Casimir-Eneas.

Rosemary will forever be loved and cherished through the many children she cared for and will be missed by her family and friends.

Please donate to BC Cancer Society in her memory.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

In Loving Memory of

Barbara Ellen Basaraba August 2, 1946 - April 5, 2019

With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Barbara. After a hard fought eight month struggle with leukemia, the cancer took her life.

Born and raised on the South Island of New Zealand, Barbara immigrated to Canada in 1968 where she began a full and fulfilling nursing career. Barbara and Ed (RCMP member) married in 1969 and lived in Lethbridge, AB, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Whitehorse, YT, Mayo, YT, Golden, BC, then Kamloops, BC, where she eventually retired helping thousands of people along the way.

They raised a family - daughter Kerry and son Ryan, and have three grandchildren - Greg, Josh and Chloe whom they love dearly.

She leaves behind her four dear sisters Catherine of Vancouver, BC and Madeline, Mary and Theresa of Christchurch, NZ. Barbara was a fine artist who enjoyed painting and tending to her flower gardens. She loved visiting with her family and many friends favourite time being after 4:00 pm - wine o’clock/happy hour. She was an amazingly kind and loving person that always put

others’ needs before her own. Her outgoing and energetic personality made others gravitate towards her and her living nature and beautiful smile will be dearly missed by all.

Barbara’s family sincerely thanks all the fine doctors, nurses and staff that went well beyond their calls of duty towards her care throughout her journey.

She was overwhelmingly proud of you all and so happy to work with people like you throughout her career.

She was a woman of strong faith in God and loved her parish.

A Funeral Mass and reception will be held at the Holy Family Parish Catholic Church on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 11:00 am.

No flowers please. If you choose, donations preferred to the Royal Inland Hospital Cancer Clinic.

Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com (250) 377-8225

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM Marilynn Kiehlbauch

Celebration of Life Elfrieda Lubin

(née Washington) 1939 - 2019

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Marilynn on April 6, 2019 at the age of 79 after a battle with cancer.

She is survived by Larry, her husband of 56 years and children Laurie (Dale), Shelley (Anthony), Shayne (Andrea) and Allison (Tyler) and her grandchildren Broydon, Jacob, Samantha, Tayllor, Carissa, Erika, Abby, Ross, Danielle, Elias and Owen.

April 28, 1928 – December 27, 2018

Celebration of Life Iris LaPlante

Marilynn was born and raised in Summerland, BC and attended university in Victoria. Prior to settling in Kamloops in 1965, she enjoyed teaching in both Gibsons and Penticton. Her two great passions were family and quilting.

After dedicating many years to raising her children Marilynn branched out into quilting and found a great love for it. She was a devoted member of the Rivervalley Quilters for many years and was instrumental in organizing quilt workshops, patterns and labels for premature baby quilts. Marilynn organized several quilt shows over the years as well as teaching classes that influenced hundreds of quilters. She served as chair person for three quilt groups and often served as program chair person. Additionally she was one of the founding members of the Royal Inland Hospital Quilters, who did fundraising with quilts and quilted crafts.

Being so active in the community, she was loved dearly by her many friends.

Marilynn will be greatly missed.

We would like to thank the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice for their wonderful care and compassion.

In Marilynn’s memory a donation can be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice or the Kamloops SPCA. A gathering to celebrate Marilynn will be held at a later date Condolences may be sent to the family at DrakeCremation.com

(250) 377-8225

Please join us for a Celebration of Life appreciation luncheon on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 1:00 pm at the Signature Sandman Hotel, 225 Lorne Street, Kamloops, BC.

A Celebration of Life for Iris will be held at the Holiday Inn, 675 Tranquille Rd., Kamloops on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 1:00 pm.

Prayer For

Peace Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

When there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that I may not so much Seek to be consoled, as to console; To be loved, as to love; For it is in the giving that we receive; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

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We have an immediate opening for a capable and enthusiastic individual to join our team. The Payroll Administrator will be responsible for coordinating and administering the Savona hourly payroll and benefits as well as providing clerical support to the production team.

The successful candidate will have at least three years payroll experience. This position requires a self-starter who can manage multiple projects with little direction. The ideal candidate must be organized, have excellent interpersonal skills and able to balance competing priorities and deadlines. This person will have strong math and computer skills and will be a quick learner to become proficient in our custom computer programs.

We offer a competitive salary including a comprehensive benefits package.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a covering letter and resume outlining their experience and qualifications by April 18, 2019.

Savona Specialty Plywood PO Box 127, Savona, B.C. V0K 2J0 Fax: (250) 373-5665 Or email resumes to jobs.savona@apgroup.ca We thank all applicants who express interest however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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Call 250-371-4949 to place your ad and for more details.

LET’S DANCE Saturday, April 13, 2019 @ Brock Activity Centre, 1800 Tranquille. Live music by: The Journeymen. Tickets $10 @ the door. (limit of 100 tickets).

7:30-11:30pm.

Kamloops Social Club also has appie nights, potlucks, hikes, and other social activities. Meet & Greet Potluck: 3rd Tues/month, 6pm.

Meetings: 1st Wed/month, 7pm. Both at Odd Fellows Hall, 423 Tranquille Rd. Call Bonnie 250-319-8510 for more info.

Information Buying Coin Collections+ Paper Money Collections United States,Canada & World Collections WANTED! Todd’s Coins

(250)-864-3521

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HAIRSTYLISTS Chair Rental $700 per month Own your own business in friendly hair & esthetics studio in Valleyview.

Good location, free parking.

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We are now taking applications for a permanent part time position for the Administrator of Rayleigh Waterworks District.

Key requirements for this job are: At least 2 yrs experience working with A/R, A/P, payroll and general office duties.

Familiarity with Simply Accounting, Microsoft Office, Excel & Publisher.

Able to work without supervision, be self motivated and have superior organization skills.

Great people/phone skills.

Must have a driver’s license and access to own transportation and be available for weekend and evening work on occasion.

The ideal candidate should also have formal accounting credentials and familiarity with Improvement District operations and regulations.

Those who reside in Rayleigh will be considered preferential only if Candidates’ Qualifications are equal.

Send applications with resumes and covering letter to: Rayleigh Waterworks District Office 4953 Spurraway Road Kamloops, BC V2H 1M6 Or email Or fax

admin@rwwd.ca HYPERLINK "mailto:admin@rwwd.ca" admin@rwwd.ca 250-578-0502

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FIRST NATIONS LIAISON OFFICER 9131525

MANAGEMENT POSITION (Kamloops)

TCS is seeking a skilled, experienced and self-directed individual for a full-time management position to assist in the development and monitoring of a Community Based Program for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Applicants must demonstrate extensive experience as a Community Service Worker in a residential and/or community setting. Supervisory experience, mediation and advocacy skills are an asset. You must have sincere commitment to providing quality services to individuals with developmental disabilities. We oer a competitive salary with an excellent beneďŹ t package.

Start date will be determined. This position is based in Kamloops.

Please reply in writing by April 19, 2019.

Thompson Community Services Attn: Chantel Horvath, Director of Services chorvath@tcsinfo.ca

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Education/Trade Schools

send Resume to: Roger Webber or Ashley Ricalton Webber Law #209 – 1211 Summit Drive Kamloops, BC V2C 5R9 roger@webberlaw.ca ashley@webberlaw.ca tel: (250) 851-0100 | fax: (250) 851-0104

courses mid-week & weekends.

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

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

Gateway Property Management seeks a Resident Caretaker for a 61 unit apartment building in the City of Kamloops. Duties include day-to-day management, maintenance, and janitorial services associated with proper care of the building.

The successful candidate will have good computer skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and working knowledge of the Residential Tenancy Act and Strata Property Act. Previous relevant experience preferred.

Send cover letter and resume by May 1, 2019 to: Hauer and Co. 1201-B Summit Drive Kamloops, B.C. V2C 6C5 Or email resume to: ghamonic@hauerandco.com

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The successful candidate will have: · Excellent interpersonal and communication skills · Self-starter, self-motivated and good problem-solving ability · Detailed oriented with great organizational skills · Ability to maintain confidentiality · Strong desire to work with First Nations to improve the quality of legal services provided to these communities.

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Courses. A Great Gift. Next C.O.R.E. May 4th and 5th.

Saturday and Sunday.

P.A.L. Sunday, April 14th.

Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

Bill

We are seeking a candidate to fill the exciting role of First Nations Liaison Officer. As the First Nations Liaison Officer, you meet with the Chiefs, Councils and Elders within the Interior of British Columbia to discuss their legal issues and concerns relevant to their communities. The position promotes the provision of professional legal services to First Nations in a variety of legal specialties on behalf of Hauer and Co. We offer a highly competitive salary along with a comprehensive benefits package.

250-376-7970

Experienced cleaning lady references avail. N/Shore Discount. Lana 250-554-4710.

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

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /OfďŹ ce 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

FACULTY HDME 1900 Heavy Mechanical Trades Sampler &/or Foundation/Apprenticeship School of Trades and Technology

Part time cleaning person needed. Evenings 4hrs a night 5 nights a week. Reply to Box 1087, c/o KTW, 1365B Dalhousie Dr. Kamloops, BC. V2C 5P6

Temporary/ PT/Seasonal

TMGT 3000: Practicum in Tourism Tourism Management For further information, please visit:

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We wish to thank all applicants; however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information.

Firewood/Fuel

BUYING & SELLING: Vintage & mid-century metal, teak, wood furniture; original signed paintings, prints; antique paper items, local history ephemera; BC pottery, ceramics.

4th Meridian Art & Vintage, 104 1475 Fairview, Penticton.

Leanne@4thmeridian.ca

Auctions

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.

April 13/14 Huge Restaurant Equip Auction

Misc. for Sale

Featuring: Like-New Rental Return Silverchef CertiďŹ ed Used Equipment, Woodstone Oven, Contents of Restaurants, Bakery & HighEnd Microsoft Cafeteria! Over 200 Lots of NEW Discontinued and Overstock Appliances - Refrigeration, NG & LPG Cooking, Countertop Electric Appliances, Massive Quantities of Glassware, Cutlery, Cookware & Stainless Fixtures

9’ Inflatable Kayak Like new pump paddles etc only 35lbs $130 cash only(778) 470-5797

10am start * Online www.KwikAuctions.com 7305 Meadow Ave, Bby BC Shipping & Storage Available Auction Hosted Online by Bidspotter.com View our Auction Showroom Monday-Friday, 9-3

$500 & Under

ATTENTION: LANDSCAPERS

New and Established. Equipment for Sale. R600 Backpack blower (Stihl). H100 Hedge trimmerp +extension (Stihl). Chainsaw 16� bar (Stihl). 110 Grass trimmer (Stihl). HRX Honda lawnmower. 12ft. alum orchard ladder. Trailer 4x8 w/working lights. $2,150. Call John 1250-889-1290.

BEE FRAMES ETC For price list email boxworks @shaw.ca Quality work at a fair price 250-573-4078 Butcher-Boy commercial meat grinder 3-hp. 220 volt. c/w attachments. $1600. 250318-2030.

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

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KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city.

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

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Everything Must Go! Furniture, some shop tools. misc items. 250-377-5956.

Fishing Kayak 10ft. $450.

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

778-4711096.

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.

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Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band Job Posting Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band Job Posting

For more information, visit our Careers page at www.gatewaypm.com

TRU invites applications for the following positions:

Antiques / Vintage

1886 Little Shuswap Lake Rd • Chase BC • VOE 1M2 tel 250.679.3203 • faxLake 250.679.3220 1886 Little Shuswap Rd • Chase BC • VOE 1M2

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

Janitorial

BOUVIER Pups parents CKC. Family/farm raised. Classic Black. $1200. Call 250-4944092

Merchandise for Sale

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Help Wanted

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

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INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SCHOOL Hands-On Tasks. Start Weekly. GPS Training!

Funding & Housing Available! Job Aid! Already a HEO? Get certification proof. Call 1-866-399-3853 or go to: iheschool.com

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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Position: Finance Supervisor Full-time Position: permanent Finance Supervisor Full-time permanent Summary: Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band is seeking a self-motivated individual with experience working with First NationsLake to fillIndian the position Financea Supervisor.

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LOOKING FOR DOOR TO DOOR CARRIERS

Kids & Adults needed!

ABERDEEN Rte 527 - 2009-2045 Hunter Pl, 902-992 Huntleigh Cres. – 28 p.

BATCHELOR Rte 175 – 1800-1899 Norfolk Crt, Norview Pl, 821-991 Norview Rd. – 38 p.

Rte 187 – 2100-2130 Doubletree Cres, 1050-1100 Latigo Dr, 2100-2169 Saddleback Dr. – 56p

Rte 333 - 1003-1176 Pleasant St, 1005-1090 Pine St.– 37 p.

Rte 755 – 6159-6596 Dallas Dr, McAuley, Melrose, Yarrow. – 72 p.

Rte 372 - 22-255 W. Battle St, 660 Lee Rd, 11-179 W. Nicola St. – 54 p.

Rte 759 – Beverly Pl, 6724-7250 Furrer Rd, McIver Pl, Pat Rd, Stockton Rd. – 40 p.

Rte 380 - Arbutus St, Chaparral Pl, Powers Rd, Sequoia Pl. – 71 p

Rte 761 – 6022-6686 Furrer Rd, Houston Pl, Parlow Rd, Pearse Pl, Urban Rd. – 57 p.

BROCKLEHURST/NORTH KAMLOOPS

DOWNTOWN Rte 317 - 535-649 7th Ave. 702-794 Columbia St,(evenside)702-799 Nicola St.-46 p

Rte 4 - 727-795 Crestline St, 2412-2714 Tranquille Rd. – 73 p.

Rte 15 - 2203-2391 Bossert Ave, 2195 Parkcrest Ave, 1054-1094 Schreiner St.-52 p.

Rte 320 – 483-587 9th Ave, 801991 Battle St, 804-992 Columbia St (Even), 803-995 Nicola St. -51 p.

Rte 142 –215-297 Alder Ave, 219-293 Cypress Ave, 300-348 & 430 Fortune Dr, 225-298 Juniper Ave, 325-439 Schubert Dr, 225-287 Spruce Ave. – 65 p.

Rte 322 - 694 11th Ave, 575-694 13th Ave, 1003-1091 Battle St, 1008-1286 Columbia St, 1004-1314 Nicola St. – 61p.

DALLAS/ BARNHARTVALE

Rte 325 - 764-825 9th Ave, 805979 Columbia St(odd), 804-987 Dominion St, 805-986 Pine St.-65p

Rte 701 - 5317-5356 Freda Ave, 601-906 Klahanie Dr, 5310-5430 Morris Pl, 5300-5399 ShellyDr, 901-935 Todd Rd. – 92 p.

Rte 327 – 1103-1459 Columbia St, 1203-1296 Dominion St. – 38 p.

Rte 706 - 1078-1298 Lamar Dr, 1001-1095 Mo-Lin Pl.-29 p.

Rte 328 – 935 13th Ave, Cloverleaf Cres, Dominion Cres, Pine Cres, Park Cres. – 62 p.

Rte 750 - 5101-5299 Dallas Dr, Mary Pl, Nina Pl, Rachel Pl-31p Rte 751 – 5310 Barnhartvale Rd, Bogetti Pl, 5300-5599 Dallas Dr, 5485-5497 ETC Hwy, Viking Dr, Wade Pl. – 64 p.

Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 56 p.

Rte 387 – 643-670 McBeth Pl. – 22 p.

Rte 831 - 4904-5037 Cammeray Dr, Mason Pl, Pinantan Pl, Reighmount Dr. & Pl.-62 p.

Misc. Wanted

100 Mile House, B.C.

WANTED: PULPWOOD Dead, Alive or Scorched 1JOF t 4QSVDF t 'JS t "TQFO Please contact us at

250-395-6218

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Houses For Sale

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Rte 602 – Apple Lane, Knollwood Cres, Parkhill Dr, 1783 Valleyview Dr. – 47 p.

Rte 671 – 1830-1997 Qu’Appelle Blvd, Myra Pl.

LOWER SAHALI/SAHALI Rte 403 – 405-482 Greenstone Dr, Todd Cres. – 28 p.

Rte 405 – Anvil Cres, 98-279 Bestwick Dr, Bestwick Crt E. & W, Morrisey Pl. – 49 p.

Rte 603 – Chickadee Rd,Comazzetto Rd, Strom Rd,1625-1648&1652-1769 Valleyview Dr-44 Rte 612 – 2079 Falcon Rd, Flamingo Rd, 2040-2177 Glenwood Dr. – 64 p.

Mobile Homes & Parks

1 Bedroom + Den 2008 Park Model Trailer

RUN TILL

Rte 449 - Assiniboine Rd, Azure Pl, Chino Pl, Sedona Dr. – 90 p Rte 470 – Farnham Wynd, 102-298 Waddington Dr. – 67 p.

Rte 478 - 191-299 Chancellor Dr, 2025-2085 Sentry Pl, 2021-2099 Sovereign Crt, 1904-1992 The Pinnacles – 42 p. & Panorama Crt.- 76 p.

HOME & LAND PACKAGE

RENTED

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Rte 253 - Irving Pl, 2401-2477 Parkview Dr, Rhonmore Cres, 2380&2416 Westsyde Rd.-54p Rte 257 - 801-863 Alpine Terr, 2137-2197 Community Pl, 2192-2207 Grasslands Blvd, 908-918 Grasslands Pl, 881-936 McQueen Dr, 805-880 Woodhaven Dr. – 53 p.

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Custom Floor Plan

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Call us at

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250.573.2278 or toll free at

866.573.1288

Rte 258 - 806-879 McQueen Dr, 2136-2199 Perryville Pl. – 36p Rte 260 - 2040 – 2185 Westsyde Rd. – 24 p.

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Rte 331 - 948-987 9th Ave, 1125 10th Ave, 901-981 Douglas St, 902-999 Munro St, 806-999 Pleasant St. – 31 p.

INTERESTED IN A ROUTE? Livestock

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

REIMER’S FARM SERVICE

Misc. for Sale

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

OSPREY

Misc. for Sale

Queen Boxspring/mattress like new $200. 12ft. alum boat, oars, seats, 55 elec motor $650. 2-New cedar chest $250/each. Steel boat rack for p/up $50. 750 Spoon collection $375. 236-421-4201.

Shop Rider Scooter Good battery Low Milage Red $1500 250-554-4427 aft 5pm

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Free Items

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Plants /Nursery Colorado Blue Green Spruce.

Field grown major trees - 6’ to 14’ 32� B&B - blue $16 per ft. green $14 per ft. Min base width - 6’ to 10’. Call 250-8199712 or 778-220-4443 (McLure). Save 10% on 3 or more order.

Fruit trees any kind. 5ft-7ft. $35-$40. Call all summer 250376-3480 or lv message.

Real Estate Acreage for Sale

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Misc. Wanted

BUYING gold dust,gold nuggets,coins, jewelry, scrap gold+, antique silver, all sterling, silverware, bullion, bars, collections of coins+. Todd’s Coins (250)864-3521

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

Recreation **BOOK NOW FOR BEST WEEKS IN 2019** Shuswap Lake! 5 Star Resort in Scotch Creek BC. REST & RELAX ON THIS PRIVATE CORNER LOT. Newer 1bdrm, 1-bath park model sleeps 4 . Tastefully decorated guest cabin for 2 more. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial park, Golf, Grocery/Liquor store & Marina all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, Adult & Family Clubhouse, Park, Playground. Only $1,400 week. BOOK NOW! Rental options available for 3 & 4 day, 1 week, 2 week & monthly.

Call for more information.

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Transportation Antiques / Classics

Includes Free 1 Year Home Insurance 1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794.

Musical Instruments

Steel Shipping Storage Containers 20,40,45,53ft.

Rentals/insulated/modification Sales 1-866-528-7108

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1-3/4 Violin c/w teardrop case or rectangular case. $150-$250. 250-434-6738.

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HOME & LAND PACKAGES

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

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250-838-0111 Misc. for Sale

In adult orientated park, $750/mo includes grounds and yard maintenance.

Available May 1st

Suites, Lower

For more information call the Circulation department 250-374-0462

Livestock

Louis Creek

250-299-2252

WESTSYDE

Rte 454 – Crosby Rd, Humphrey 5G 6HGRQD 'U 6SULQJÀHOG 3O 1600-1799 Springhill Dr.-46 p.

Commercial space for rent, was previously used as a Dance Studio. Approximately 1500 sq feet. Great parking, close to downtown, bus stops.

2000 a month plus utilities to view please contact Scott at (250) 318-0485 or conex @shaw.ca or Randy at (250) 214-0485 or conex randy@gmail.com

Homes for Rent

VALLEYVIEW

Rte 655 - 2202-2458 Finlay Ave, 2202-2385 Skeena Dr , 2406-2458 Skeena Dr. – 36 p.

Commercial/ Industrial

Under the Real Estate Tab

Rte 842 – 3945-4691 Yellowhead Hwy. – 35 p.

JUNIPER RIDGE

Rte 669 - 1400-1634 Emerald Dr. – 60 p.

Rte 319 - 545 6th Ave, 609-690 Columbia St,(evenside), 604-692 Nicola St.-16 p

Rte 121 -103-105 Dot St, 501-566 MacKenzie Ave, 290-381 Maple St, 102-196 Yew St – 60 p.

RAYLEIGH

Rte 754 – Hillview Dr, Mountview Dr. – 39 p.

Misc. Wanted

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160 Acre Estate or 50 Potential View Lots

Located in the Village of Lumby.

2 springs on property. $675,000 Call 250-260-0217

Apt/Condos for Sale RiverBend 2bdrms, full kitchen. W/D, 920 sq/ft. $349,000.

780-904-3551 or 778-4708338.

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Renovated Bachelor Suites $1,000 Renovated 1&2 Bedroom Suites with New Fixtures; SS Appliances; Luxury Plank Flooring.

Adult Oriented, No Pets, No Smoking Elevators / Common Laundry $1,100 - 1,650 per month.

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PAPER ROUTES

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1989 Mercedes 560 SEC. 61,000kms. Hagerty Appraisals #2 car $10,000USD. Selling $10,000 CDN 250-574-3794

Auto Accessories/Parts 4 Summer tires on rims and balanced. 195/60/R15. $400.

Used 1 season. 250-579-9710

Cars - Domestic

2010 Dodge Charger SXT Sedan. 4dr., AWD, V-6, auto. 50,001 kms.

Excellent condition. $12,900. 250-374-1541.

One owner 92 Toyota Camry 204,000 km, good condition, new tires $2600 250-314-1002

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Level entry Rancher at 2022 Pacific Way. Main floor has 2 bdrms, 2-bath, living, dining and kitchen. Downstairs is 1 bedroom and bath, rec-room, laundry, workroom and storage rooms. Gas F/P and A/C. Quiet dead end street. $420,000. 250-863-1058.

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GarageSale DIRECTORY Garage Sales

Garage Sales

Garage Sales

DOWNTOWN Sat Apr 13th 9-2pm. 432 St. Paul St. inside at the back in bsmt. Hand tools/clothing, furniture, plants, starter pots, VHS (Walt Disney) & DVD movies, hsld items & much more.

ABERDEEN 908 Huntleigh Cr. April 12/13th 9am-12-noon. Hens & Chicks Succulents, CN switch lamp & CN memorabilia. Games, bar acc, carry on luggage, hassock, elec plus more.

ABERDEEN Sat, April 13th. 9am-2pm. 362022 Pacific Way. Lots of tools, housewares etc.

BROCK Multi-family sale Apr 13 9-2pm 819 Invermere Crt Tools, tires, household items, recreation BROCK Sat, April 13th. 9am-3pm.

2620 Greenfield Ave. Something for Everyone.

DEL ORO Sat, April 13th. 9am-3pm. 654 Durango Dr. Huge 2 Family.

TV, 2 antique dressers, elec F/P insert etc.

Legal Notices

Falkland

Moving Sale

3633 Smith Road (off Hwy 97) Saturday, April 13th Sunday April 14th 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Double beds, dressers, Tables, crafts, dishes, drill press, and lots more!

NORTH SHORE Multi Family Sale. Sat and Sun 10-5pm. 118 McGowan Street.

Lots of tools and household.

IT’S GARAGE SALE TIME Call and ask us about our GARAGE SALE SPECIAL

ONLY $12.50 FOR 3 LINES (Plus Tax) ($1 per additional line)

250-371-4949

classifieds@kamloopsthisweek.com Garage Sale deadline is Thursday 10am for Friday Call Tuesday before 10am for our 2 day special for $17.50 for

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Wednesday and Friday Garage Sale Packages must be picked up Prior to the Garage Sale.

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Legal Notices

Legal Notices

NOTICE TO REMOVE PRIVATE LAND FROM WOODLOT LICENCE W0389 Please be advised that Frolek Cattle Company Ltd., is proposing to remove private land from Woodlot W0389. Private land area of 232 hectares located near Trapp Lake, 129 hectares located near Frogmoore Creek and 323 hectares near Palmer Meadows Lake are proposed for removal.

Inquiries/comments to this proposal must be submitted to Atlas Information Management Ltd., c/o John Childerley, RPF at 101-1383 McGill Road Kamloops BC V2C 6K7 by April 29, 2019.

Only written inquiries/comments received by April 29, 2019 will be answered.

Information about this proposal can be obtained by contacting John Childerley at 250 372-0857.

Cars - Sports & Imports

Recreational/Sale

Trucks & Vans 1996 GMC Suburban 4x4 good shape runs great $2750obo Call (250) 571-2107

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BUSINESSES & SERVICES

RUN TILL SOLD turn your stu INTO CA$H

Motorcycles

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one at rate and we will run your ad until your vehicle sells.* • $56.00 (boxed ad with photo) • $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

Call: 250-371-4949

*Some conditions & restrictions apply.

Private party only (no businesses).

Scrap Car Removal

Wanted: HARLEY GEAR. Chaps, Jacket, Vest and Gloves. Ladies Medium and Mens Xlg. Send pics to: rajol@telus.net

2007 CHEV SILVERADO 2500 HD D-Max Diesel Allison 6spd, 4 wheel drive, extra K&N Air filter, tool box, 90 gal fuel tank, tow package, 4 extra tires, H.I.D Headlights, 6 disc player. All Maintenance Records.

Asking $5000 (250) 320-1049

Off Road Vehicles Yamaha Grizzly ATV. KMS 011031 $4,500 250-579-3252

Recreational/Sale

Snowmobiles 2003 Arctic Cat 600 EFI - 1M Mountain Cat 144� track, 1582 miles as new cond trailer avail $2199/obo. (250)376-3881 or 250-371-7605

Services

Services

Financial Services

Home Improvements

Home Improvements

2014 Ford Platinum 4x4 Immaculate F150 Supercrew, 3.5 Ecoboost, Sun Roof, white, brown leather, Fully Loaded Only $35,800 250-319-8784

35

$ 00 PLUS TAX

additional lines $10 each

Renovations, finishing sundecks, framing hourly or contract. 604-240-1920.

GET BACK ON TRACK!

Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify.

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Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

Household Services

CHOOSE LOCAL “Our Family Protecting Your Family�

PRESTIGE LOCAL ALARM MONITORING STATION

Fitness/Exercise

KAMLOOPS ONLY ULC CERTIFIED MONITORING STATION

WE will pay you to exercise!

Deliver Kamloops This Week Only 2 issues a week!

FREE ESTIMATES FOR SYSTEM UPGRADES OR SWITCH-OVERS

call 250-374-0462 for a route near you!

LIVE ANSWER | EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE | LOCAL COMPANY

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Cleaning Services

250-374-0916

Springs Home Cleaning Services

Call for your free estimate today Call Spring at (250) 574-5482

PAPER ROUTES AVAILABLE

250-374-7467

Garden & Lawn

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Grassbusters Lawn and Yard Care. Now booking for the 2019 season. 250-319-9340.

Misc Services

Handy Persons

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump trailers for rent.

Dump Truck Long and Short Hauls!!

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250-377-3457

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Landscaping

Landscaping

BOLTON LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE 10% OFF YOUR FIRST MOW!

Yard Clean-up, Irrigation, Planting, Lawn, Hedges, Pruning CertiďŹ ed Horticulturist, Licensed Pesticide Applicator

250-573-5598 or 250-320-8109

JA ENTERPRISES Furniture Moving and Rubbish Removal jaenterpriseskam@gmail.com 778-257-4943

Lawn Care & Odd Jobs Reasonable Rates

Trustworthy Reliable Service General Cleanup, Painting, Gardening, Lawn Care, Organizing, Hauling and much more.

Customer References Available

Call or Text Mike 250-682-7012

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Masonry & Brickwork

Security/Alarm Systems

Masonry & Brickwork

Luigi’s SMALL

Run until sold

New Price $56.00+tax

Silver 2006 Mazda RX8 136,000km. Auto, Sunroof, A/C, leather heated seats, great body, tires and interior, Suicide style back doors. $7900.

250-376-7672 Financing avail 855-6007750

Services

CONCRETE JOBS

BRICKS, BLOCKS, PAVERS, SIDEWALKS + PRUNING

F R E E E S T I M AT E S !

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Home Improvements

CHOOSE LOCAL “Our Family Protecting Your Family�

PRESTIGE LOCAL ALARM MONITORING STATION KAMLOOPS ONLY ULC CERTIFIED MONITORING STATION

FREE ESTIMATES FOR SYSTEM UPGRADES OR SWITCH-OVERS LIVE ANSWER | EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE | LOCAL COMPANY

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Home Improvements

Restrictions apply

THERE’S MORE ONLINE

Sport Utility Vehicle 1999 - 32ft. Southwind.

Slide, V-10, Jacks, Solar, Generator, Dual-air, TV’s, Vacuum, Inverter etc.

Low kms. $31,500 250-828-0466 2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $16,900. 236-421-2251 2013 Keystone Fusion Toy Hauler slps 9, 41ft 12ft garage asking $60,000 250-374-4723

1997 Ford Expedition.

200,000+kms. New brakes.

Runs well. $3,700. 250-3725033.

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee LTD. V-8, 168,000kms. Good Shape. $3300. 250-815-0120

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Boats

Trucks & Vans

10Ft. Flat Bottom Alum. Boat.

Complete package. $750. 250579-8363.

1995 Chev 2500, 4x4, 5std Canopy, w/tires on rims $4000obo 250-579-8675

14ft. Runabout boat. 40hp Johnson motor on trailer. $1500/obo. 778-469-5434.

1365 DALHOUSIE DRIVE

250-371-4949

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208

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GENERAL PRACTITIONER PROVIDING PREVENTATIVE, RESTORATIVE, COSMETIC & FAMILY DENTISTRY.

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arnail Singh Gill hopes to see people of every race, religion and creed at this year’s Vaisakhi celebration.

“Anyone can attend — doesn’t have to be of Sikh religion or East Indian or anything like that,” said the president of the Kamloops Sikh Cultural Society.

Observed every year, Vaisakhi — also spelled Baisakhi — marks the founding of the Khalsa way of living in the Sikh religion, as well as the spring harvest.

Festivities at the temple on Cambridge Crescent on the North Shore will begin on Friday, April 12, with the continuous reading of the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, starting at 10 a.m.

“It will be read right through until Sunday,” Gill said.

Those taking part are specially qualified to read the Punjabi scripture in two-hour shifts while in the presence of a priest.

At that time, vegetarian food

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Turn to page B8 to view a route map of Saturday’s Vaisakhi parade will be served to people who visit throughout the three-day ceremony, Gill said.

The morning of Saturday, April 13, marks the most important part of Vaisakhi festivities, with the changing of the Sikh flag ceremony.

“The flag will be brought down in the presence of five beloved ones — five beloved ones are the baptized Sikhs,” Gill said.

As part of the ceremony, the flag pole will be washed with homemade yogurt and milk to clean it and a new flag will be attached before being raised again.

“Milk is considered pure,” Gill said.

Once the flag is aloft, a community meal — know as langar — will be served.

The ceremony will begin on Saturday at 10 a.m. and everyone is invited to attend.

On Sunday, April 14, the reading of the holy scripture will be completed, followed by a closing ceremony filled with prayer and another meal.

The closing ceremony is extremely important in Sikhism, Gill said, adding that while the Kamloops Sikh Cultural Society observes the religious aspects of the celebration, back home in India there is also a social component celebrating the harvest.

The Kamloops Sikh Society was established in the early 1970s and Vaisakhi has been celebrated in the Tournament Capital ever since.

Gill said this year’s festival will include a parade on Saturday that will begin at 700 Cambridge Cres. at 11 a.m.

“It’s more at the smaller scale [here] and now we are just trying to bring it to the next level,” he said.

Gill said they hope to educate people about Sikhism, the reasons behind traditions such as wearing a turban and that the temple can be used by everyone.

He also noted they don’t impose the religion on anyone.

“We’re not here to say you need to be a Sikh. No, we’re saying believe in your own religion and be with us in this very important celebration for us.”

On Vaisakhi day in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh summoned Sikhs from all over India to the city of Anandpur Sahib, where he called upon them to uphold their faith and preserve the religion.

According to the Sikh tradition, Guru Gobind Singh named five volunteers willing to sacrifice themselves the Panj Pyare — the five beloved ones.

After completing prayers, the

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guru sprinkled a nectar known as amrit on each of the five. He then knelt before the quintet and asked them to baptize him as well and proclaimed that the Panj Pyare would be the embodiment of the guru himself.

The Panj Pyare were the first members of the new Sikh community called the Khalsa.

Singh gave the Khalsa a unique identity with five distinctive symbols of purity and courage, known today as the five Ks (turn to page B5 for more on those).

He gave all Khalsa men the surname of Singh (lion) as a reminder to be courageous. Women took on the surname Kaur (princess) to emphasize dignity.

With the distinctive Khalsa identity, Guru Gobind Singh gave all Sikhs the opportunity to live lives of courage, sacrifice and equality.

These Sikhs were to dedicate their lives to the service of others and the pursuit of justice.

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Timeline leading to the birth of Vaisakhi

April 15, 1469: The birth of Sikhism’s founder, Guru Nanak, at village Talwandi (Punjab, India; now in Pakistan).

1507 Guru Nanak proclaims, “There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim” — and Sikhism is founded.

Gobind Singh, Sikhism’s 10th and final personal guru, innaugurated Sikhism’s orthodox Khalsa order on Vaisakhi Day in 1699.

1522 Guru Nanak establishes the town of Kartarpur (now in Pakistan) on the banks of the river Ravi and the first Sikh community begins to take shape.

1539 Guru Angad (1504-1552) takes over and, given Guru Nanak’s eldest son Sri Chand’s claim on Kartarpur (Pakistan), decides to run affairs from his hometown of Khadur.

communities of Kartarpur (Jalandhar) in 1593, Hargobindpur and Tarn Taran.

1552 Guru Amardas (1479-1574) takes over and, with Kartarpur (Pakistan) still under Guru Nanak’s lineage, establishes the town and community of Goindval (also known as Gobindval or Govindval or Goindwal).

1601 Guru Arjan completes the compilation of the Adi Granth (or the Guru Granth). Construction on the Darbar Sahib (or Harmandir, now also known as the Golden Temple) in Amritsar is completed.

1574 Guru Ramdas (1534-1581) takes over and establishes the town and community of Ramdaspur or Amritsar.

1581 Guru Arjan (1563-1606) takes over and continues to run affairs from Amritsar. He also establishes the towns and

1604 The Adi Granth (or the Guru Granth) is installed at the Darbar Sahib (or Harmandir, now also known as the Golden Temple).

1606 Following Guru Arjan’s execution and martyrdom in Lahore

by Jahangir, Guru Hargobind (1595-1644) takes over and runs affairs from Amritsar (1606-1628) and Kartarpur, Jalandhar (1628-1634). Facing persecution from the Mughals, in 1634 he establishes the town and community of Kiratpur in the Shivalik foothills and remains there until his death.

1644 Guru Har Rai (1630-1661) takes over and runs affairs from Kiratpur.

1661 Guru Harkrishan (1656-1664) takes over at the age of five and remains in Kiratpur until his untimely death from smallpox at the location now marked by Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi, where he was staying following a summons from Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

1666 Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621-1675) founds the city of Anandpur (near Kiratpur) in 1664.

1675 Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) takes over, following Guru Tegh Bahadur’s execution and martyrdom in Delhi. In 1708, before leaving the world, Guru Gobinel Singh Ji said to all Sikhs: “Guru Granth Sahib Ji will be your guru after us.”

April 13, 1699 Sikhism’s 10th and final personal guru, Gobind Singh, innaugurates Sikhism’s orthodox Khalsa order on Vaisakhi Day (marking the annual harvest season) at Anandpur.

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he Sikh religion is the fifth-largest in the world, with as many as 30-million adherents.

There have been Sikhs in Canada since the late 1880s, when hundreds arrived from the Punjab, seeking a new life and employment in mines, mills and construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Today, according to the 2011 census, there are 468,673 Canadian Sikhs. More than 201,000 live in British Columbia.

The basic tenet of Sikhism is expressed in the words “Ik Onkar” (One God).

Guru Nanak Dev founded Sikhism in the Punjab in the 15th century, though at the time it was not his intention to form a standalone new religion.

He preached the equality of all humans and spoke against tyranny, social injustice, and religious hypocrisy.

Sikhism advocates equality for men and women of every race and religion.

The Guru Granth Sahib is a compilation of the teachings of all of the early Gurus and is the main scriptural source.

Worship is conducted in a place known as the gurdwara — doorway to God. The kirpan, one of five articles The Five Ks are the articles of faith of faith worn by Sikhs. worn by Sikhs.

Most wear one or more, although those who have taken amrit — similar to baptism — wear them all: • Kesh, unshorn long hair, protected by a dastaar, better known as a turban; • Kangha is a small wooden comb used to comb the hair twice a day; • Kara is an iron bangle worn on the dominant hand; • Kachera is an undergarment; • Kirpan is a short dagger.

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Pictured from left to right: Resham Singh Ramdhawa; Iqbal Singh Mann; Puran Singh Plawn; Satwant Singh Bains; Jarnail Singh Gill; Sukhwinder Singh Bains; Gurmit Singh Badesha; Mandeep Singh Heyer; Ishar Singh Bhatti; Jaswinder Singh Nijjer and missing from photo, Gurmel Singh Basran.

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celebrating the birth of Khalsa (the Pure One) at the 2019 Vaisakhi Celebration. Festivities will take place at the Kamloops Sikh Cultural Society, located at 700 Cambridge Crescent, Kamloops, BC. Festivities will include shabad kirtan (spiritual music) and langar (a traditional, vegetarian meal).

Board of Directors of the Sikh Cultural Society encourage the attendance of you and your family in this wondrous occasion.

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The Nishan Sahib, the Sikh triangular flag, rises above the Cambridge Street Sikh Temple during a previous Vaisakhi celebration.

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Sikh Cultural Society Women’s Group of Kamloops Organizer, Kulwinder K. Basran, poses with some of the women of the Kamloops Sikh Cultural Society whom are part of a much larger group of women, as they prepare for April 13 Vaisakhi celebrations at the temple. By juggling work and family the women have always found time to prepare meals for temple programs, social events and charities including JDRF Diabetes, Red Cross Blood Donation and the Gur Singh Golf Tournament, July 1st Canada Day celebrations, Kamloops Immigrant Services Diversity Walk, and RIH Foundation.

Pictured above, left to right: Gurshan K. Sidhu, Harjinder K. Dhaliwal, Surinder K. Gill, Gurdev K. Basran, Amarjit K. Thakhar, Kulwinder K. Basran, Balbir K. Shanger, Baldesh K. Moti, Gurdev K. Dhillion, Ambo Dhaliwal, Pritam K. Khale, Manjit K. Bhatti, Nirmal K. Pulan, Narinder K. Dhillion

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A look at Sikhism’s rites and rituals

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n addition to worship, there are other important rites and rituals within Sikhism.

The Sikh Rehat Maryada is the Sikh Code of Conduct, giving instructions for all ceremonies:

Baptism-Amrit: Initiation into the Sikh religion is called the Amrit ceremony.

Sikhs undertake the Amrit ceremony when they are ready to do so and understand the commitment they are making to the religion.

The ceremony is held in the presence of the Guru Granth Sahib. It is conducted by five baptized Sikhs, called Panj Pyare, who wear the five Sikh symbols.

The five Sikhs prepare the Amrit (holy water) in a round iron-vessel containing fresh water and sweets called patasas.

They recite the five Banis (Japji Sahib, Jaap Sahib, Ten Swayyas, Chaupai Sahib and Anand Sahib) and stir the water with a double-edged sword, called a khanda.

After preparation, the Amrit is drunk by the initiation candidates, then sprinkled on their eyes and hair.

The ceremony concludes with the eating of the ceremonial karah parshad.

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Marriage-Anand Karaj: The Sikh marriage is called Anand Karaj, meaning ‘blissful union. Sikh weddings take place in the presence of the Guru Granth Sahib.

Anand Karaj consists of the couple revolving around Guru Granth Sahib four times as the Lavan (marriage hymns) are being recited.

The marriage ceremony may be performed by any Sikh, male or female, who has undergone the Amrit initiation.

Sikhs practice monogamy. Widows or widowers may remarry. Child marriage is forbidden.

Naming of children: After a child is born, the baby is often taken to a gurdwara for a naming ceremony.

Prayers (ardas) are recited for the newborn child.

After reciting ardas, the Guru Granth Sahib is opened at random. The hymn on the opened page is recited.

The first letter of the first word of the hymn is selected as the first letter of the child’s name.

The word “Kaur,” meaning “princess,” is added after a girl’s name; the name “Singh,” meaning “lion,” after a boy’s.

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Cambridge temple marks 48 years in city

In 1971, Sikh Cultural Society members gathered at 700 Cambridge St. on the North Shore to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new Sikh Temple.

The temple fund was created in 1967 and collected an initial $20,000. About $26,000 more was needed to complete the project, with the final cost of the temple upon completion being $46,000.

It was fully paid off.

At the front of the photo to the left are Khushdev Heed, Indira Heed and Ranjeet Heed, son and grandchildren of Sher Singh Heed, donor of the land for the temple.

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FOLLOW THE PARADE ROUTE The Nagar Kirtan, a parade in which songs are sung, is a big part of the Vaisakhi celebrations.

The parade will begin on Cambridge Crescent, then follow Nicolani Drive, Lethbridge Avenue, 14th Street, Halston Avenue, 13th Street, Lethbridge Avenue and Ollek Street, before returning to the temple.

Motorists should expect traffic delays on the North Shore between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Food and community stalls will be open at Lethbridge Avenue.

CLOSED

CLOSED

OLLEK ST.

Road closed during Parade Approx 20 min closure between 11:00am to 11:45am

NICOLANI DR.

Road closed between 11:30am and 1:30pm

CLOSED

Road closed during Parade Approx 20 min closure between 1:15pm to 2:00pm

CLOSED

DETOUR

DETOUR

CAMBRIDGE CRES.

Tranquille Rd to be closed for 20 mins between approx 11am to 12pm and between approx 1:30pm and 2:30pm Detour in affect

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