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Charities being supported this year include the Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Out of the Cold shelter, The Mustard Seed and Kamloops Brain Injury Association.

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THANK YOU, DONORS! DAVE EAGLES/KTW FILE Students at the Western Karate Academy fight through exhaustion as they aim for 1,000 kicks during the 2016 kickathon to raise money for the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund. The students were at it again this year, with sensei Jim Doan explaining the importance of collecting funds for the four charities helped by the newspaper’s endeavour.

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hey keep kicking, day in and day out — and, on two specific days each year — while counting to 1,000.

The students at Western Karate Academy have once again helped build the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund substantially through their annual kickathon.

Each year, academy owner and sensei Jim Doan organizes the event, which sees the karate kids of all ages given pledge forms and asked to fill those sheets with donations to the Cheer Fund.

On two days in late November — one afternoon in the gym at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral downtown and a second afternoon at Christ Community Church’s gymnasium in North Kamloops — students then fulfil their part of the pledge sheet bargain.

In exchange for donations pledged by family, friends and strangers, students perform 1,000 kicks in a row.

This year, academy students raised

$6,275 for the cause. Since 2002, the Western Karate Academy has kicked in more than $108,000 for the fund that helps local charities — with $70,000 of that being raised in the past seven years.

Of the $6,275 raised this year, almost 40 per cent was collected by the fatherson team of Matt and Denver Mckinlay, the dynamic karate duo who pound the pavement each year in the name of the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund This year, they raised $2,365.

Doan has often said he believes it is important to instill the value of giving in children at an early age, which is why the kickathon has been so successful through two decades.

“I want to increase the amount raised next year with more participation by our newer members,” Doan said, noting the more neophyte academy students may not appreciate how deeply ingrained the academy is with the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund.

To learn more about the Western Karate Academy, go online to westernkarateacademy.com, email westernkarateacademy@yahoo.ca or call 250-376-5428.

SEAN BRADY/KTW Jim Doan, owner and sensei of Western Karate Academy, made his annual visit to Kamloops This Week with a $6,275 donation to the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund. His students raised the money via the school’s annual kickathon.

• BC Old Time Fiddlers’ Association: $100 • Ron and Susan Durant: $100 • In memory of Pat Liddy: $20 • In memory of my brothers, Andrew and Joe Liddy: $20 • John and Val Kemp: $100 • Darren, Sharlene and Kyle McIlwain: $158 • Marg Clements: $100 • Anonymous: $100 • Anonymous: $20 • Anonymous: $125 • Passion for the Fashion Show: $194.85 • The Posse: $200 • Amy Regen: $100 • Vic and Sally Mowbray: $100 • Jo-Mary Hunter: $200 • Anonymous: $200 • Lois McAlary, in memory of Sarah McAlary: $100 • Evelyn Meyer: $60 • Anonymous: $100 • Donna Sharpe: $50 • In memory of James F. Maloney: $500 • Ladies of the Lake: $325 • Music Lovers: $72.35 • Brenda and Ken Christian: $100 • Tim Shoults, Tara Holmes and Ken Christian: $20 • St. John Vianney Bridge Club: $225 • In memory of Sam and Teresa Bruno: $100 • Anonymous: $25 • Anonymous: $500

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HOW DOES THE CITY DEVELOP ITS BUDGET?

Council Calendar January 7, 2020 (rescheduled) 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street West

The City’s budget is a financial plan for creating and maintaining programs and services for citizens. The planning process follows an annual cycle.

January 14, 2020 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street

Key budget cycle activities in November and December include Council reviewing, discussing, and adopting the utility rates and the provisional budget for the following year. The provisional budget is based on the requirements to deliver service levels approved by Council as related to priorities outlined in the Council Strategic Plan.

January 21, 2020 10:00 am - Committee of the Whole 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street

The 2020 provisional budget indicates a 2.76% increase in total municipal property taxes, which reflects a $61 increase for the average household. A 7% increase for sewer rates is also required (there are no utility rate increases for water or solid waste and recycling) and will be reflected on utility bills as an average increase of $29 per household.

January 28, 2020 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street February 11, 2020 1:30 pm - Regular Council Meeting 7:00 pm - Public Hearing Council Chambers, 7 Victoria Street

Budget discussions will continue in the new year with both Council and public input. To view a key budget timeline infographic, read FAQs, and more, visit: LetsTalk.Kamloops.ca/Budget2020

Council Meeting Recap Sign up for the Council Highlights e-newsletter at: Kamloops.ca/Subscribe

Notice to Transit Users Holiday Hours Transit users are encouraged to plan ahead this holiday season.

Holiday Service: • Christmas Eve, December 24 - regular service • Christmas Day, December 25 - no service • Boxing Day, December 26 - Sunday service • New Year’s Eve, December 31 - regular with extended service (regular fares) • New Year’s Day, January 1 - Sunday service For more information, service updates, and alerts, please visit: BCTransit.com/Kamloops

Free Parking Saturdays Downtown On-street parking in Downtown Kamloops is FREE every Saturday (and Sunday) until December 28.

This is our gift to you this holiday season!

The regular three-hour time limit will be enforced. On-street parking stalls are reserved for customers, not downtown employees.

Snow Clearing Help us clear the way for you—keep your property clear of obstructions such as basketball hoops, hockey nets, and overhanging trees. Parking in your driveway and avoiding on-street parking also makes it easier for plows to clear your street.

For everything snow related, visit: Kamloop.ca/Snow Report an issue: 250-828-3461 Emergency after hours: 250-372-1710

WE ARE KAMLOOPS VIDEO SERIES Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of City operations?

We Are Kamloops is a new video series that features City of Kamloops employees in their element.

We chat with a variety of people across the organization who help make it all happen, showcasing the interesting and important work of these dedicated public servants.

We hear what they do and what they love about their job.

Visit our video gallery to meet Equipment Operator Kyle Lawhead, Corporate Officer Maria Mazzotta, and Community Events Coordinator Dewi Evans.

We are Kamloops, and we are committed to excellence in public service in local government.

To view the We Are Kamloops videos, visit: Kamloops.ca/VideoGallery

RECYCLING CONTAMINATION

HOLIDAY COOKING SAFETY

LEARN WHAT GOES WHERE:

Kamloops Fire Rescue is reminding residents to stay safe while cooking this holiday season with the following tips:

In an effort to help reduce contamination in curbside recycling, City staff are inspecting bins in various neighbourhoods. Recycling Inspectors will be wearing hi-visibility gear and ID tags to identify them as City staff.

Items placed in recycling carts that are not accepted in the program (e.g. plastic bags, glass, and books) are tracked and, where possible, removed from recycling. A tag is left on the recycling cart to inform the resident of the unaccepted items placed in recycling.

If a cart is found with a large amount of unaccepted material, the cart is not collected, and the resident must remove the contamination prior to next collection.

In cases where there recycling bins are misused, staff will issue warning letters and may result in a $100 fine if the misuse continues.

To learn more about what goes where, download the free Waste Wise app or visit:

• Stay in the kitchen while cooking—never leave food unattended on the cooktop.

• Keep pot handles turned inward so they won't accidentally be bumped.

• Keep towels, curtains, and other combustibles away from heat sources like cooktops and toasters.

• Unplug small appliances when not in use.

• Keep cooktops and ovens clean and free of grease, which can cause fires.

• Keep a lid nearby to cover a pot or frying pan to smother flames if contents catch fire.

• Never carry a pot or frying pan that is on fire—the contents can spill over, spreading the fire or causing injury.

• Keep a fire extinguisher near your kitchen and close to an exit.

For more safety tips, visit: Kamloops.ca/KFR

Kamloops.ca/WasteWise

LET'S TALK KAMLOOPS Let's Talk Kamloops is our engagement website where you can share your voice and shape our city. We know you have ideas about our city, and we are committed to working more closely with you to improve engagement and better guide our planning and decision making.

ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES • Kamloops Centre for the Arts Referendum - Ask a question • Budget 2020 - Updates, infographics, ask a question, share an idea

Sign up and speak up at:

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The Fulton Personal Injury Team is thrilled to announce our second finalist for the 2019-20 Athlete of Influence $1000 Scholarship, Halle Smith!

KTW FILE PHOTO If you visit Kamloops This Week’s office at 1365B Dalhousie Dr. with a donation for the KTW Christmas Cheer Fund, you will meet some of our staff, perhaps even the women at the front who keep the operation intact. From left: Angela Wilson, Lorraine Dickinson, Marilyn Emery and Nancy Graham. Remember, your donation goes to help four local charities: Y Women’s Emergency Shelter, Out of the Cold shelter, The Mustard Seed and Kamloops Brain Injury Association. We are open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the following amended holiday hours: open until noon on Dec. 24, but closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

THANK YOU TO ALL KTW CHRISTMAS CHEER DONORS! From A3 • Rick Bennett: $50 • Tom and Sharon Moore: $100 • Staff at Country Auto Sales: $600 • Wendy and Kim, in memory of Peter Basson and John Healy: $25 • Sharon Cooley, in memory of Ruth Cooley: $50 • Gordon Harris and Gwen Watson: $400 • Don Whyte and Gail Cameron: $150 • Anonymous, in memory of Peter Howard: $100 • Lynne Totten: $100 • In memory of Douglas: $150 • Cal and Pat Moulton: $100 • Colleen Stainton: $200 • Anonymous: $100 • In memory of Wilf Schmidt: $200 • Jerry Neigel: $300 • Anonymous: $250 • Ken and Marylyne House: $50 • Cathy and Phil Holman: $100 • McGowan Park elementary Grade 5 class: $175 • Shirlee Ezowski: $100 • Anonymous: $100 • Lisa Michie: $100 • A. and G. Morrissette: $200 • Anonymous: $100 • Anonymous: $50 • Ms. Bea Smith: $25 • Bingley, Nek and Smidge: $75 • Anonymous: $100 • Kamloops Seniors Village: $250

• Teresa and Colman Byrne: $200 • Libby Denbigh, in memory of David and Rachel: $50 • Anonymous: $40 • Anne Wade: $75 • KTW fundraising dinner at the Commodore: $1,251.50 • Anonymous: $50 • Sandra Never, in memory of mom Pat Swaine: $50 • Anonymous: $20 • Mavis Paravantes, in memory of Teddy: $25 • Wesley, Vanessa and Christina Mah: $150 • Wally and Wendy Reddeman: $100 • Gladys and Ken Klepachek: $50 • Anonymous: $50 • Anonymous: $250 • Muriel Botham: $100 • Richard and Terry Taylor: $100 • Kenneth and Diana Sharman: $200 • Judy and Tom Edwards: $50 • Gerald and Wendy Patrick: $100 • Ed and Dianne Barker: $100 • Jane and Buzz Osterloh: $100 • J. Manville: $50 • Len Knight: $25 • Chris and Angela de Haan: $300

• Anonymous: $100 • In memory of mom and dad, Ole and Minnie Cook: $200 • In memory of Nail Dorais: $200 • Anonymous: $300 • Bill and Carol Greenhalgh: $400 • Roy Simmonds: $50 • Margaret Sandulak: $100 • Wayne and Twink Murphy: $25 • Anonymous: $35 • Anonymous: $100 • Edward and Hazel Hakansson: $100 • In memory of Noel Kirby, from family: $100 • Rosemary Anderson: $100 • J.R. Mason: $100 • Anonymous: $25 • Anonymous: $50 • Anonymous: $20 • Anonymous: $100 • Linda Jackson, in memory of George Wilmot: $100 • Jim, in memory of Betty Jean Carnegie: $25 • Lorna McMillan and Robin Johnson: $50 • Lillian Francis and family, in memory of Harry Francis: $100 • Susan Peachey: $50 • Gold’s Golden Gals: $1,029.05 • Western Karate Academy: $6,275 • In memory of Brett and Bob: $100 • Verita and Case Van Diemen: $500 • Gunny and Carmen: $25 • Ruth Silver: $20 • Libby Davies: $20 • From the Needlemania

Ladies: $25 • Noreen Rozek, in memory of Pat Rozek: $100 • Janeen Asfeldt, in memory of husband Dr. Johs Asfeldt: $100 • Barbara Humphrey: $100 • Anonymous: $200 • Sharon LeStage: $50 • Gary and Carol Bacon: $100 • Sue Turner: $200 • Patsy Schell: $100 • Tina Lange: $100 • Anonymous, in memory of Harold Bedard: $100 • Anonymous: $100 • Evan and Wendy Lichlyter: $100 • M. and D. Hegarty: $100 • Tony and Kaz Dufficy: $100 • Shirley Smith: $50 • Patti Willis: $100 • Marie Kabus: $100 • Sandy Osborne: $100 • Don Blake: $100 • Jo Ann and Peter Hall: $200 • Don and Debby Erickson: $100 • Anonymous: $100 • City Centre Auto Service: $500 • Anonymous: $100 • Spencer and Janet Bryson: $200 • Anonymous: $75 • Anonymous: $50 • Anonymous: $50 • Taya Berkhout: $250 • Anonymous: $50 • Daryl Shinkewski: $100 • Anonymous: $100

TOTAL TO DATE: $26,050.75

Halle (grade 12, Norkam), plays high school, club and academy Rugby Fifteens and Sevens, at both national and international levels, while commuting daily from Barriere to complete her International Baccalaureate at Norkam. In her free time, she volunteers with her local 4-H club and as a level 2 coach with the Sun Peaks Nordic Club.

Halle receives a $50 Sport Chek gift certificate, and is entered as our second of ten finalists for the $1000 Scholarship.

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DAVE EAGLES/KTW The Old Men’s Provincial Cemetery, just south of Columbia Street and Sixth Avenue, has more than 1,000 graves below the manicured lawns and trees on the property. The City of Kamloops is considering using the site as an arboretum to educate the public about trees and how they benefit the environment.

Tree museum mulled for cemetery JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

The city is branching out with a potential arboretum eyed for the Old Men’s Provincial Cemetery, located on Sixth Avenue, south of Columbia Street and just below St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in the Sagebrush neighbourhood.

“Essentially, it’s a tree museum,” city parks manager Jeff Putnam told KTW, noting the idea was born at a conference he attended this year in Oregon.

“There’s a catalpa, Rocky Mountain juniper. There’s some trees in there where the conditions are perfect.

They’re thriving. There’s trees that are there now, some native ones, like Ponderosa, Rocky Mountain juniper,” he said.

“Then, with an arboretum, we would add different species, explaining if they’re native to the area, how long they live. It’s more public education and also benefitting the environment.”

The Old Men’s Provincial Cemetery is a large grassy field with mature trees

and home to more than 1,000 unmarked graves, which date back to the gold rush and the city’s incorporation in 1893.

With stone grave markers beneath the grass, archival records show the location and name of each burial.

Putnam said the city would need to confirm where the grave sites are and work around them if it decides to establish an arboretum in that location.

Depending on the will of council, Putnam said he hopes to start the project next year, possibly as a phased-in venture.

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In the new year, during supplemental budget talks, City of Kamloops staff will ask council to hire another full-time arborist.

The city is working toward increasing its tree canopy to 20 per cent from the current ratio of 16 per cent.

That goal was identified in recent years as part of the city’s urban forest management plan.

In 2015, Urban Systems surveyed a dozen neighbourhoods and found Juniper Ridge was tops on the tree canopy roll call, at 15.8 per cent.

Southgate — where KTW’s office is located — was at the

bottom of the pack, with a tree canopy of 2.2 per cent.

“It will allow us to plant more trees, to keep up with the maintenance,” city parks manager Jeff Putnam said, noting tree-related issues are No. 1 among park-related calls the city receives.

The city now has four fulltime arborists on staff. Adding a fifth would cost the city about $98,000 per year, including salary, benefits, equipment and training.

If approved in 2020, the first year would cost half that amount, based on how long it takes to get funding approved in the budget cycle.

Putnam said Kamloops is lagging behind other communities, including Kelowna,

when it comes to tree maintenance.

“Kelowna would be about a six-and-a-half and we’d be about a four,” Putnam said, alluding to a scale of one to 10 with respect to arborists employed in cities. “With another arborist, it would get us halfway, so we’d be about a five.”

The city’s urban forest management plan calls Kamloops to increase its tree canopy by four per cent over two decades.

That means the city would need to plant 200 trees per year for 20 years, equating to 4,000 new trees.

Putnam said the city has averaged 157 new trees in the past few years, meaning it would take 26 years to reach its

goal at its current pace.

“We have been behind our goal and that’s why we need to get this arborist in place,” he said.

Another challenge with planting trees in Kamloops is irrigation, being that the city is a semi-arid desert. Putnam said native trees can be planted, but they take many years to mature.

Trees recently planted locally include along West Victoria Street, as part of the road rehabilitation project, and a significant number along a riparian area on the North Thompson River, at the Tournament Capital Ranch in Rayleigh.

Some trees were also planted this year in the West Highlands Park in Aberdeen.

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he season of holiday cheer can be stressful and sad for many people.

Coping with anxiety and loss is tough at any time, but can seem overwhelming during the Christmas season, when we are urged to smile and celebrate while also dealing with busy schedules, financial strain, increased expectations and sad memories.

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions has plenty of resources one can access, including HealthLink BC, which provides 24/7, confidential health information and advice (call 811or go online to healthlinkbc. ca) and the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre, which can be contacted by calling at 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) or going online to crisiscentre.bc.ca.

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The ministry also has much good advice and tips on its website, including the following: 1. Keep up with routines. Try to maintain your healthy habits during the holidays. Eat healthy, commit to regular physical activity and get plenty of sleep.

2. Acknowledge your feelings. If you have lost someone close to you or you can’t be with loved ones, realize that it’s normal to feel sadness and grief. You can’t force yourself to be happy just because it’s the holiday season. If you feel overwhelmed by these feelings, reach out for support.

3. Stick to a budget. Before you go gift and food shopping, decide how much money you can afford to spend, then stick to your budget.

4. Do not overextend yourself. Prioritize your time so you can relax and enjoy the season with people you care about.

5. Take a breather. Make some time for yourself. Spending just 15 minutes alone, without distractions, may refresh you enough to handle everything you need to do. Find something that reduces stress by clearing your mind.

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ike myself, I would think most people reading today’s newspaper have had to have tests done at medical labs in Kamloops.

Chances are, you have had blood drawn or samples collected at one of the four LifeLabs locations in the city.

And, like me, there is a good chance your medical data has been accessed by nefarious hackers who demanded and received a ransom payment from the company after its computer system was breached.

I’m not too concerned with how this might affect me, though perhaps I would be if my records contained less boring medical results.

The hackers, could, I suppose, use my health-care number, social insurance number or other data to create fake identities in my name, but I have been notified of many such breaches before and (knock on wood) have yet to encounter my datadriven twin anywhere else in the world.

What concerns me more (and, from a few calls I received this week, I am not alone), is the response to this breach from LifeLabs.

Sure, the company issued a letter of apology and explanation this week, about six weeks after it identified the breach and reported it to authorities.

But the steps patients have been told to follow have been a royal mess.

If you go online to LifeLabs. com, you can read the letter from

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MUSINGS CEO Charles Brown, at the end of which are numbers to call for patients with concerns.

It took two days of calling before I finally connected with a nice lady from the U.S. Deep South, who explained what she was there for, which was to help connect me with credit-monitoring insurance for up to $50,000 (whether it is U.S. or Canadian currency, I cannot be certain).

She gave me a website address and a special all-caps code I was to use to access that credit-monitoring insurance.

Once I completed the forms with my name, address, password and confirmation of personal financial information it has on file, I was led to a screen showing my credit score.

And that’s it. No information on the reason I logged in — to get credit-monitoring insurance.

It was a very confusing and cloak-and-dagger telephone mission.

The nice lady on the phone said she was prohibited from telling me for which company

she worked, though her accent placed her in one of a few very specific states.

She did confirm she was in South Carolina.

But she could not tell me if my medical data had been accessed by the hackers, nor could she answer why a company in Canada had employed a third party in the United States to tell me to go to a website registered in Canada.

And there was no answer given as to when any of the patients whose personal information may have been compromised would get answers on their files.

Between the revelation of the LifeLabs security breach and my call to the nice lady in the home of Clemson, LifeLabs CEO Brown was interviewed by the CBC. In that question-and-answer segment, he was asked if the data targeted by the hackers was encrypted.

He did not know.

“I should know the answer, but I don’t know if the data was encrypted,” Brown told CBC host Stephen Quinn.

It made me wonder about the security settings on the website the nice lady in South Carolina directed me toward.

How do we know if the information entered on that site is secure?

This entire episode has given additional meaning to the annual Unplug and Play week in January. editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds

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OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LET SOCIETY RUN ST. ANDREWS

WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S IRE Editor: My wife came home frustrated and disappointed with the no-smoking policy at Royal Inland Hospital and how it is not enforced.

She had to take her mother to the hospital and both had to walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke to get through the doors.

Soon after, my wife returned to the vehicle to wait for her mother, once again facing cigarette smoke along the way.

A patient came out in a wheelchair, crossed over to a bench seat, took the pillow off his lap, got out of the wheelchair and sat down with the pillow on the bench.

He settled in, dug through his pockets and pulled out a cellphone, cigarettes and lighter.

When confronted, he refused to move. Another patient came out with hospital bedding wrapped around her and joined him.

When my wife called the hospital, staff had no set answer as to who is responsible for enforcing the signage that prohibits smoking in that area.

But staff did admit it is a problem.

This is health care?

Doug Bonner Kamloops

Editor: I am deeply concerned about the future operation of St. Andrews on the Square and I find it surprising to hear Mayor Ken Christian state “it’s prudent for council to have the oversight over such an important historical asset as St. Andrews.”

How many KTW readers were living in Kamloops 30 years ago, when the church was boarded up, an ugly eyesore and unusable, with the only people campaigning for its future being members of the Kamloops Heritage Society?

We would not have this valuable asset at all if it weren’t for the dedicated members of the society who fought indifference at city hall and opposition by some in the community about the restoration of the building.

The members fought hard to have it repaired and restored. They raised funds, applied for grants and prevented the abandonment of the project by those in power

at city hall at the time.

I have attended and participated in several events at St. Andrews and always found excellent organization and assistance provided by the society’s on site manager.

Since a number of weddings planned for 2020 have already cancelled due to the removal of the society from management of the building, how does the city expect to

CITY SHOULD CONSIDER MUNICIPAL POLICE FORCE Editor: Re: the Nov. 21 KTW story (‘Kamloops RCMP officer suing national police force’) about a local Mountie suing the national police force, alleging more than a decade of bullying and harassment at the hands of her co-workers and supervisors at the city

detachment: The article raises the issue of Kamloops having its own municipal police force.

City council and Kamloops taxpayers should seriously discuss having our own police force, as many other cities do.

As a federal police agency, all RCMP decisions are

made by both provincial and national agencies.

Kamloops taxpayers pay for the RCMP, but have no say on issues of operations.

As a Kamloops taxpayer and a Canadian historian who has followed the history of the RCMP in Canada as part of my academic interest and

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responsibilities, I hope this issue will be raised by council.

The City of Surrey is presently undertaking such a process and the province of Alberta has expressed an interest in the topic.

John Hart Kamloops

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earn income — even at the level the society was able to collect — when it will not be providing the kind of support and assistance to renters that have been supplied by the society thus far?

I’d really like to see the financial justification for this ridiculous move. Where is the evidence that the city can do a better job of managing the building than the society has done for all these past years?

City hall needs to step up, provide the funds for the major maintenance items and return the day-to-day operation of the building to the Kamloops Heritage Society.

Council members who have voted to support this takeover by the city may find themselves with much less voter support in the next municipal election.

My support goes to local group involvement in the management of local facilities, keeping costs low and service levels high.

Linda Scarfo Kamloops

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STANDING BESIDE VICTIMS OF DOG ATTACKS Editor: The situation faced by Heffley Creek resident Elizabeth Weber is one that drew my interest (‘Owner of euthanized cat wants bylaws beefed up,’ Dec. 18).

I spoke on the phone with her after I read the article about her cat needing to be put down after being attacked by a dog.

Somewhere in my filing system are records of an incident that

took place on Harrington Road in Westsyde a few years ago on a lovely day in October.

My sister-in-law was walking her Irish setter on leash when two unleashed dogs charged out of a residence and attacked her pet.

Had it not been for the brave and selfless intervention by a member of the Canadian military, the attacking dogs may have killed the on-leash setter.

The fellow who saved the life of my brother’s dog now has a commendation on his military record.

In any case, that incident took place when Jon Wilson was bylaws supervisor.

The two attacking dogs were deemed to be aggressive. As a result, the owner had the opportunity to pay extra to keep his pets. I believe a secure cage-type enclosure had to be built to house

the two canines.

My sister-in-law was extremely traumatized by what happened in front of her eyes. Weber appears to have had the same emotional response.

Once I find some of the paperwork, I can cheerfully make it available to city staff and council to read and perhaps come to an understanding of what happened in that particular case.

I can even deliver copies to KTW editor Christopher Foulds.

I’ll stand beside Weber in council chambers to give her emotional support if she asks that of me.

Weber seems eager to have an open dialog about her family’s situation and the loss of their cat.

John Noakes Kamloops

CP RAIL YARD FINE LOCATION FOR CITY ARTS CENTRE Editor: Why doesn’t the City of Kamloops arrange for the removal of the CP Rail yard in downtown Kamloops and use the land for the proposed Kamloops Centre for the Arts?

I travelled to Penticton to enjoy a Boney M concert and it was a fun mini-vacation.

Many people would travel to Kamloops to see their favourite artists if we had a proper facility.

The arts centre will add tremendously to the quality of life for all Kamloopsians, young and old — unlike the $3.7-million Peterson Creek trail and baseball fields I will never use.

The city could surround the arts centre in

the rail yard with parking that would serve the arts centre, Sandman Centre, Riverside Park and the downtown core.

Parking pressure at various events could be relieved and parking revenue could supplement money the centre brings in by hosting big names.

The area now occupied by the CP Rail yard is large enough to also put in a farmers’ market and, perhaps, a winter ice rink.

Without parking included, the current arts centre proposal will be hamstrung in years to come. Isn’t it time the city invests in a project from which we can all benefit?

I realize voters rejected an arts centre in a 2015 referendum, but that outcome is not

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I can’t believe it’s time for another Christmas edition of my dating column.

Each year, I try to focus on the real meaning of Christmas. I once wrote about Ebenezer Scrooge, who, after being made aware of his jaded attitude, was able to find true joy and the Spirit of Christmas.

Another time, I featured little Virginia O’Hanlon, who reached out to the New York Sun with a concern there was no such thing as Santa Claus. Our editor at Kamloops This Week usually reprints that famous response in each Christmas edition and I trust he will again this year.

Speaking of trust, that’s a word that comes up a lot in my business. There is another word that has the same meaning as trust, but sometimes can be misconstrued as having only a religious meaning.

The word is faith. Yes, for many, faith is their belief in their higher power — be it God or the universe. Others may have faith, but not realize it. For example, you probably have faith you will have the same job tomorrow, or that your friends will show up for your dinner party,

There are some people who find themselves unexpectedly single and they worry they will never find a partner. And there are the those who stay in bad relationships because they do not believe they have the strength to leave.

For a moment this Christmas, let’s all try to take a lesson from children.

When was the last time you heard a five-year-old say he is worried Santa won’t come to his house?

Kids just have faith that, no matter what, St. Nick will be there. They don’t worry about his sleigh breaking down or that Santa might call in sick. They just know he will be there. They have faith.

My favourite story of Christmas faith comes from the movie, Polar Express. A young boy takes a train trip through the mountains to the North Pole. He is astounded to be greeted by Santa and told he can pick the first gift of Christmas. He can have anything he wants.

He chooses a bell from the reindeer harness and puts it in the pocket of his robe.

On the ride home, the boy realizes the bell has fallen through a hole in

representative of the population at large because busy people did not find voting convenient and some felt the issue was not promoted as well as it could have been.

I understand some people are concerned about the arts centre’s cost to the taxpayer.

Certainly the city should do its best to keep costs down for people who truly are financially stressed, such as those on fixed incomes, but should our entire community’s quality of life be determined by the budgets of the poorest?

Surely we can find a way to move forward without putting undue burdens on these citizens.

Speaking of referendums, I don’t recall

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or that you will have hot water for your shower in the morning. These may seem like silly examples, but when we expect something to happen, and assume it will, that is faith.

I think some of us lose faith as we get older based on tough experiences, which can leave us feeling somewhat pessimistic.

Many people went into this past summer worried about a repeat of the previous two smoky summers caused by forest fires.

Others are a bit concerned there may be a lack of snow for this ski season.

Then there are those who just feel everything will work out in the end and there’s no sense worrying about it.

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his pocket and he has lost such a meaningful gift. He is devastated. On Christmas morning, his sister, Sarah, reaches behind the tree and finds a gift from Santa with her brother’s name on it. When he opens it, he sees the special bell he lost. When the boy rings the bell, both he and his sister marvel at the beautiful sound it makes. His parents, however, cannot hear the bell and remark that it is too bad the bell is broken.

The story ended like this: ”At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them.

Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”

Now, if only I knew his name because he would be a perfect match for Virginia.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and I hope your bell continues to ring for many years to come.

Contact me by email at holmes@wheretheheartis. ca and have a little faith that 2020 will be amazing.

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the city consulting us about the Peterson Creek trail or various baseball field projects.

In October 2018, the citizens of Kamloops voted in a pro-arts centre council.

We have spoken and we want an arts centre.

Perhaps instead of wasting more money on another referendum, the city should use that money to begin to cover the cost of proceeding with the planning and construction.

The CP Rail yard would be an ideal location to build a fabulous arts centre that would enhance the future of Kamloops.

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A cell in the Kamloops RCMP Battle Street detachment.

Incarcerated women will continue to be held temporarily in Kamloops RCMP detachment cells and transported around the province to serve time as government has no plans to open a female correctional facility in the Interior or make changes to the all-male prison in the city.

“It’s not something anyone cares about until their brother or their sister or their daughter has to go through it,” Kamloops criminal defence lawyer Jay Michi said. “Then, all of a sudden, it becomes something that we start to care about as individuals.

Because we like to think, ‘Well, I don’t interact with girls in the system and no one I know or care about ever will. So that’s a problem for those people.’

It’s not. It’s far more common.”

The city has been advocating for improvements to the handling of female prisoners and recently received a letter from Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, indicating there are no changes in sight.

Instead, the letter stated BC Corrections is developing a 10-year

capital asset management plan that includes women’s facilities in all new centres. But there are no plans to build a female centre in this region, nor make changes at the maximum-security Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre (KRCC), the all-male facility in Dufferin.

Women in custody remains a concern for the mayor.

“One is that it’s unfair to the taxpayers of Kamloops,” Mayor Ken Christian said. “It’s an unfair financial burden I don’t think we should shoulder. But it’s also unfair to women prisoners because this [police cells] is not a facility that’s designed for long-term keeping of prisoners. It doesn’t have recreational activities. It doesn’t have the kinds of sanitary facilities that you would

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expect in prison and that we would be expected to provide under the prisoner’s bill of rights.”

Most women ordered to serve time in British Columbia are transported by BC Corrections to the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, an allfemale facility in Maple Ridge. Female prisoners may also serve time at the South Okanagan Regional Correctional Centre in Oliver or Prince George Regional Correctional Centre, both of which have small female wings.

According to Michi, services at those centres are not at issue. Women with whom he has represented who have been to Alouette often don’t re-offend, he said.

Instead, he said, the problem occurs before women arrive at those all-female detention

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centres — during the remand period, when they may be temporarily held prior to appearing before a judge for bail hearings, applications or sentencing.

Michi has become familiar with the situation as duty counsel and while working on legal aid files, a service offered to low-income people who can’t afford a lawyer.

Gaps exist between the time women appear in court and when officials transport them to the appropriate facilities, he explained, at which time the only place for them to be detained is in holding cells at the local police station — facilities not designed for longterm stays.

It comes at a time when women — some of whom have not yet been

convicted of a crime — need to make important legal decisions that can impact their futures.

Christian added issues also arise when the courts order intermittent sentences to be served at the local detachment.

In some circumstances, women stay for up to a week in holding cells at the Battle Street detachment without proper bedding, showers, meals, chaplain services or programming.

Michi said the conditions breach section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which states that “every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based

on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”

“Every time a woman is sent back to the RCMP cells and handed a sandwich and then told to sleep on a mat underneath a fluorescent light, that’s a Charter breach,” Michi said, noting men are remanded at KRCC, which provides proper services. “She should be entitled to the exact same service that the men are getting when they’re in custody.”

In addition, Christian said, the city pays more than $200 per day to house female prisoners from outside Kamloops at the local detachment and the government pays the city $110.

Hope Latham, a public affairs officer for the

Ministry of Public Safety, maintains capacity exists within the region to house women in custody “safely,” and that remote court proceedings by video and audio are done when possible.

She said a review of police detention facilities is planned for next year, “with a view towards establishing new policing standards governing detention for all police agencies.”

The mayor said the province needs to rethink the way in which prisoners are transported, to eliminate the gap, better care for female prisoners and save the city’s taxpayers money.

“Is there a better way so they can reduce the amount of time that they will be held here?”

Christian asked.

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Accused killer’s trial to begin on Jan. 13 TIM PETRUK

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A Fraser Valley man accused of killing a woman in a Kamloops motel room will stand trial next month without a jury.

David Albert Miller, 69, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 52-yearold Debra Novacluse, who was found beaten to death in a suite at

the Super 8 Motel on Hugh Allan Drive in Aberdeen on Aug. 27, 2016.

Miller was arrested weeks later in Ontario.

At the time, police said Miller and Novacluse travelled together from Kamloops to Abbotsford prior to the murder. The two were described by investigators as acquaintances.

After years of delays due to problems with Miller retaining a law-

No suspect found in search A search for a suspicious person in the Valleyview area on Wednesday led to precautions being taken at two Valleyview schools, but no suspects were found.

Kamloops Mounties received a report of a suspicious person at about 1:10 p.m., leading to police setting up a perimeter and searching for a man in dark clothing in the area of Park Drive.

During the search, Valleyiew secondary and Marion Schilling elementary were placed under a hold and secure protocol as a precaution.

RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie police did not believe there to be any danger to the public while undertaking the search.

There are differences between a school under lockdown and a school under a hold and secure protocol.

During a lockdown, students are advised to hide under desks or in other parts of the school, staying away from windows, which are shuttered.

During a hold and secure, classes are allowed to continue as normal inside the school, but the doors remain locked and no one is allowed inside or out of the building.

Keep an eye out for Sellers from PG Prince George Mounties are warning Kamloops residents to be on the lookout for a 30-year-old man wanted for firearms offences.

Police say Jordell Anthony Sellers may be in the Kamloops or Merritt areas and are asking for the public’s assistance to find him.

Sellers is described as an Indigenous man standing 5-footJORDELL 4 and weighing 194 pounds, with SELLERS black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with any information about Sellars or his whereabouts is asked to call Cpl. Devin Huff at 250-649-3914 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Correction A story in the Dec. 18 edition of KTW contained incorrect information on the name of a man in a court story.

The story identified Adam Colligan as a drug dealer expected to head to prison following a sentencing hearing next month.

The name of the man to be sentenced is, in fact, Daniel Colligan.

yer, he had been slated to stand trial in front of a jury in January.

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hearing in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday, Miller changed his election

to judge-alone.

The trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 13 with a four-day voir

dire, during which court will watch video of Miller’s statement to police.

The trial is slated to last five weeks. Miller has been in custody since his 2016 arrest.

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class and joint concerts with other schools.

“We are proud to honour Robert Hogeveen for his important roles in the community as an advocate for music education,” KamloopsThompson school board chair Kathleen Karpuk, said.

“He is being recognized for his dedication, passion and extensive contributions to students as they expand their musical skills and learn to appreciate the joys of music.”

Established in 2015 by former superintendent Terry Sullivan, the Owl Award is for an individual, group or organization that has made significant, system-wide and outstanding contributions to public education in School District 73 over a period of five years or more and have had a positive, significant impact on the development of students, parents, teachers, support staff and educational leaders.

A five-member review team consisting of Karpuk, SD73 superintendent Alison Sidow, United Way executive director Danalee Baker, TRU dean of education Airini (who identifies by one name) and SD73 trustee and Diane Jules recommended Hogeveen as the recipient of the 2019 Owl Award.

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The Owl Award is handed out annually by the KamloopsThompson school district (SD73).

In accepting the award at Monday night’s board of education meeting, Hogeveen said music enriches the lives of students and is something they can carry with them.

“This also tells me something really cool, and that is that I’ve touched the kids’ lives and that’s what’s been most important to me,” Hogeveen said.

“Sometimes, it’s like a farmer sowing seed, except that we don’t get to see, necessarily, what the fruit of it is because we send them off to high school — and sometimes we see them, but not very often.”

Hogeveen taught music at South Sa-Hali elementary from 2000 to 2011 and now teaches at Lloyd George.

He is also the longest-serving faculty member of Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music, where he commands the attention of young musicians, inspiring them to follow their passion and reach their potential.

Hogeveen has introduced many initiatives to inspire the love of music in SD73, including the annual Squeak and Squawk, a collaboration with teachers to connect classroom learnings to the musical repertoire of music

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Nearly 15 per cent of more than 800 Thompson Rivers University students asked reported having seriously contemplated suicide in the past year, while 2.4 per cent of students attempted to take their lives, a national research survey suggests.

Those figures were presented at this month’s TRU’s board of governors meeting as dean of students Christine Adam provided an update on the state of mental health at the school.

Adam said what is known about student mental health at TRU is informed by the results of the survey — the National College Health Assessment — in which a number of the university’s students participate every three years, along with other Canadian university students.

There were 837 TRU students who responded to the survey, which was distributed last spring.

The previous survey, conducted in 2016 with 1,300 TRU students, found 11 per cent of respondents say they contemplated suicide in the previous 12 months, while about two per cent said they had attempted to die by suicide.

The National College Health Assessment is administered by the American College Health Association and asks a wide range of questions related to health behaviours, including drug use, sexual activity, diet, exercise and mental health.

Adam told KTW the numbers are in line with the Canadian average in the survey, which consisted of 55,284 respondents — 16.4 per cent said they seriously considered suicide in the last year and 2.8 per cent said they had attempted it.

“It’s the same percentages we see in society in general in Canada and we’ve done lots of good work around destigmatizing mental illness,” Adam said. “I think the earlier someone gets in for help, the better.”

She said it’s not uncommon for a TRU counsellor to deal with someone who has attempted suicide, noting staff are seeing more students reaching out early in the semester, which is a good sign.

Adam said it’s normal for students to feel stressed out around exam time, but noted when it gets to the point of being debili-

DAVE EAGLES/KTW FILE Therapy dogs are made available to students at Thompson Rivers University, in addition to mental-health counselling and peer mentorship programming.

More communication, training is TRU’s goal TRU is trying to incorporate more mental-health training in all its peer mentor programs, dean of students Christine Adam told the university’s board.

“We have peer leaders all across the campus. We have Aboriginal mentors, we have study abroad ambassadors, we have future student ambassadors, we have sustainability ambas-

tating, that’s when the university gets concerned.

“Students come with all kinds of stuff in their lives and some of it’s handled really well by their own medical practitioners and the supports they have at home and some of them need it here,” she said. “We just try and be there for the academic end of it.”

The numbers around suicide are concerning for TRU and other post-secondary institutions across Canada, Adam told the board.

“Suicide is the second-

sadors and we’ve been working to provide consistent training across those varied programs so that those students understand mental health supports and how to help their peers,” she said.

Adam said policy changes could help TRU advance and improve on mental health.

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leading cause of death for youth after vehicle incidents,” Adams said.

TRU has a team of four fulltime counsellors and two sessional counsellors who provide one-on-one appointments to students. The university also has student wellness ambassadors.

Those peer mentors are a crucial resource for the university, Adam said, noting students likely listen more and reach out to their peers before going to an adult with mental-health concerns.

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Visits to wellness centre on campus skyrocketing: TRU For Horst, most students talk to her about stress and anxiety. michael@kamloopsthisweek.com “How to deal with all that and balance that with school,” Horst said, Anna Horst is one of of about 10 adding she will usually give people student wellness ambassadors worktips for managing their stress. ing out of the Wellness Centre in the Horst said they keep the two Old Main Building, where students wellness co-ordinators abreast of can relax, listen to music, have a nap, people’s concerns and document the engage with one of their peers and number of visits they receive and the even colour on a wall. concerns expressed.

The fifth-year psychology student TRU’s Wellness Centre more than and rookie wellness ambassador doubled in size over the summer was taken aback the first time someduring renovations that saw it eat one came to her with up some storage space thoughts of suicide. from the office next door.

“It was a really crowdHaving re-opened in ed room and someone October, the centre is seejust said, ‘I want to kill ing more students than it myself’ and it was like, has in recent years. woah, what can we do to TRU tracked 900 vishelp?” Horst said. its to the centre in the She said it can be 2015-2016 school year. By challenging to deal with comparison, the centre someone who makes saw 2,541 visitors in just such a statement, but a month-and-a-half in ADAM noted the important part the fall 2019 semester — is to help someone calm down in the about 900 one-to-one appointments moment. and drop-ins at the centre between Horst said people coming to the Oct. 16 and Oct. 31 and 1,641 visits to the centre with thoughts of suicide in all of November. There were 6,077 is a common trend, but not an every- drop-in visits to the centre recorded day occurrence. in the 2018-2019 school year.

“I know when we first opened, it Dean of students Christine Adam was a really bad time in the semessaid TRU, along with all post-secter — in October — and we did have ondary institutions in B.C., received quite a few people coming in strug$40,000 this year to put toward mengling with that,” she said. tal health.

As a wellness ambassador, Horst The university used the money has received safeTALK training — to hire a second co-ordinator in suicide awareness training — teachthe Wellness Centre and provide its ing her how to handle people who complement of volunteer student express such thoughts and determine wellness ambassadors with a stipend how they can support them, which — something Adam said she would is often with literature or a referral to like the government to fund on a counselling. continual basis.

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University looking at potential new protocols From A14 She suggested new protocols, such as outlining how close together students exams can be scheduled or how early a student could be receiving feedback on an assignment.

“So that they’re not waiting until they go home at Thanksgiving and have parents asking how are you doing in your courses and they haven’t received a single piece of feedback yet,” Adams told the board.

As examples, Adam outlined a number of TRU’s mental-health services — sessions with therapy dogs on campus, the university’s Behaviour Intervention Team and its early alert program in which someone can relay a mental-health concern about a fel-

low student to staff.

While the university provides mental-health information in places like the Wellness Centre, in washrooms and at therapy dog sessions, the National College Health Assessment study showed an large increase in the number of students who want TRU to provide more information on suicide and sexual assault prevention.

In the 2019 survey, 73 per cent of respondents wanted more information on sexual assault prevention, up from 45 per cent in the 2013 survey, while 72 per cent of respondents wanted additional information on suicide prevention, up from 42 per cent in 2013.

“The more we tell students that we have services, the more they use them,” Adam said.

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In an emailed statement in response to questions from KTW, the company refuted concerns over aging infrastructure in the residential area, noting the 66-year-old pipeline was designed with an “indefinite design life.”

“Oil pipelines, such as the Trans Mountain pipeline, are not designated to have a limited life,” the company stated.

“Because the fundamental material properties of steel don’t change appreciably with time, pipelines are normally designed with an indefinite design life as long as preventative maintenance practices are in place.

“Trans Mountain has a strong focus on regular preventative maintenance and, with application of the latest technology and sound operating practices, the Trans Mountain pipeline has an indefinite lifespan.”

Trans Mountain did not answer other questions posed by KTW, including the length, in kilometres, of the existing pipeline in Westsyde as compared to the length of the twinned pipe through Lac du Bois.

Nor did Trans Mountain address a question as to why its pipeline splits into two lines through Westsyde and whether the two lines have different uses.

Earlier this week, Kamloops Coun. Denis Walsh issued a notice

of motion, calling for the Canada Energy Regulator (formerly known as the National Energy Board) to require Trans Mountain to relocate pipeline from residential areas in Westsyde to the Lac du Bois area above the neighbourhod, where the company plans to twin the pipeline.

Walsh argued the company should at the same time decommission the line in Westsyde and build two pipelines when it constructs the expansion, to bypass residents altogether.

Walsh questioned the company’s use of the word “indefinite.” He asked if that refers to an unknown lifespan or forever.

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Walsh’s notice of motion will be debated in the new year, as city council has wrapped up its final meetings before the holidays.

Walsh said he took on the cause on behalf of Westsyde residents.

He asked for residents to reach out to council with their thoughts in advance of the Jan. 14 debate in council chambers by emailing citycouncil@kamloops.ca.

The current Trans Mountain pipeline has been in operation since 1953, spanning 1,150 kilometres from Edmonton to Burnaby, including through Kamloops. The federal government has approved twinning of the line, with construction expected in the Kamloops area in spring of 2020.

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When she was a year old, Roberts was diagnosed with cystinosis, a multi-system genetic disorder that affects a body’s cells, tissues and organs. It first affects the kidneys and eyes.

When she was 15 years old and taking 78 pills each day in an attempt to slow down the disease, Roberts went into kidney failure and received her life-saving — and life-changing — transplant.

“When I was in kidney failure, I was sleeping 16 to 18 hours a day,” she said. “I was 82 pounds and five feet tall. Oh my God, I was so thin.”

Since the transplant, Roberts’ life has changed tremendously, but she finds it challenging to explain the transformation to healthy people.

“It’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t been through that,” she said. “I don’t think you realize how bad it gets until after the transplant.”

Roberts has been visiting BC Children’s Hospital since she was a year old, noting she feels she was, in a way, raised there.

Certainly the time spent there and the quality of the care Roberts received helped to inspire her current life trajectory — she is pursuing a bachelor of science in nursing at UBCOkanagan in Kelowna.

The first pediatric kidney transplant in the province took place at BC Children’s Hospital in 1993. Twenty-six years later, following that 300th transplant, Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen sees the milestone as an opportunity to consider how far medicine has come and how far it can go.

“For me, it’s an opportunity to take stock of where we are in terms of what we do, the care we’ve been able to provide the province, the success of some of the kids that have been through our transplant program and the lives they are living right now,” said Blydt-Hansen, director of the multi-organ transplant pro-

gram at BC Children’s Hospital.

“It also gives us a chance to look back on what we were doing and how kids were doing maybe 15 or 20 years ago.”

Roberts was lucky to have a donor willing to provide her with a kidney. This meant she could skip the waiting list on which many kids find themselves.

But transplanted kidneys only last for between 10 or 15 years, so Roberts knows that when she needs a new organ, it may take a little longer to receive.

That is why she is encouraging everyone to sign up as donors.

“I know so many people who are on the wait list or have passed away on the wait list,” Roberts said. “And, in the future, it’s very possible I’ll have to go on the wait list.

“It’s so life-altering to get that organ. It just takes a few seconds.

Why not save someone’s life?”

The gratitude a recipient and their loved ones feel following an organ transplant is substantial, Blydt-Hansen said.

“There’s a lot of respect and compassion for the families who have made that difficult decision to have a loved one become an organ donor,” he said.

To become an organ donor and to learn more about the process, go online to transplant. bc.ca.

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Increased rural policing is a win for Kamloops taxpayers, according to the city’s mayor.

Mayor Ken Christian is pleased, having received word from B.C. RCMP of a decision to allocate funding toward another officer at Tk’emlups Rural Detachment.

In addition, the city has learned a provincial support team will be positioned in Kamloops and two other communities to support rural communities during vacancies, emergencies or other incidents.

“I’m happy,” Mayor Ken Christian told KTW. “It means our visits with the solicitor general have at least gotten action on some fronts.”

In a recent letter to the city, BC RCMP commander Jennifer Strachan wrote that a portion of provincial resources have been repurposed to fund existing unfunded positions, including one officer at Tk’emlups Rural Detachment.

Resources were also shuffled for the provincial support team, which is expected to launch in the next year.

Christian applauded the decision. Kamloops RCMP attend incidents throughout the region, providing backup to the small rural detachment, as police remains taxpayers’ single largest expense.

“Indirectly, it helps Kamloops

DAVE EAGLES/KTW FILE The Kamloops rural RCMP detachment is responsible for policing areas outside city limits, including the Tk’emlups reserve, Sun Rivers, Sun Peaks, Savona and Tobiano. The detachment has learned it will be increasing its ranks by one officer, while the city detachment is slated to become home to a support unit to fill vacancies in area detachments.

because if they can’t respond to Sun Peaks, for instance, then Kamloops will go out there,” Christian said.

“We’re not going to leave a crime unsolved or emergency undealt with. We’re going to go out there and do that and the more that they have the capacity within their own detachment to deal with their own issues, the better. Sun Peaks is growing

like crazy. Sun Rivers is growing like crazy. The band is growing.

Plus, they go all the way out to Tobiano and Savona. They do Kamloops rural.”

The mayor noted the issue of big cities paying for policing in surrounding smaller communities is a problem not only in Kamloops, but also in the Okanagan and elsewhere in the province.

City approves rezoning along West Seymour despite opposition JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com

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Kamloops city council has approved rezoning of two properties in the West End, despite opposition from neighbourhood residents concerned about congestion, parking, shade and views.

On Tuesday night, the city held a public hearing to rezone two properties at 204 and 206 West Seymour St. from single family residential to two family residential, allowing a duplex to be built on each property.

The city received numerous letters from West Seymour Street residents opposing the application, suggesting parking is already too cramped due to the tightness of the street and several rental situations on the block.

In addition, residents

expressed concern about losing their views and excess shade that could arise from the structures. The two lots in question are currently vacant.

Council voted 7-2 in favour of the rezoning, with councillors Dale Bass and Denis Walsh opposed.

Coun. Mike O’Reilly said parking concerns he heard on Tuesday night appeared to be related to on-street issues.

Rezoning the properties to accommodate duplexes, he said, would require more on-site parking spaces — four compared to three — than the previous zoning, which could have allowed two homes with secondary suites. In addition, O’Reilly was appeased by a one-storey height covenant placed on the properties.

He said the duplexes will be one-and-a-half storeys shorter

than residential homes that could have been built under the former zoning.

“I really felt it was the bestcase scenario for that site,” O’Reilly said.

Walsh, meanwhile, thinks council should have listened to the neighbourhood, which made issues of overcapacity clear.

He called council’s decision “disappointing” and pointed to council’s approval of the Downtown Plan only hours earlier during council’s regular meeting.

“My opposition was that we had just voted in the Downtown Plan that calls for sensitive integration,” Walsh said. “It calls for single-family homes, to fit and form with the neighbourhood.”

He said the two duplexes will be squished into an already busy neighbourhood and are “not appropriate for the West End.”

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LifeLabs just the latest in series of cyberattacks DEREK PENNER

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The cyberattack on medical diagnostic company LifeLabs targeting the private information of 15 million Canadians — including Kamloopsians — was far from unique, according to Simon Fraser University criminologist Richard Frank.

“A couple of years ago, these [malware attacks] were very frequent against individuals,” Frank said. “Now, a lot more municipalities and larger organizations are falling victim.”

The City of Cranbrook was hit by a malware attack in 2018 that cost $120,000 to resolve. In Ontario, Stratford, Midland and Wasaga Beach also suffered cyberattacks. Wasaga Beach paid $34,000 in ransom, but spent $250,000 to recover from the attack, according to new reports.

“It’s obviously harder to accomplish, but if they do accomplish it, it is a lot more rewarding for the attackers,” Frank, an assistant professor at SFU and director of the International Cybercrime Research Centre, said of the trend to go after companies and municipalities.

LifeLabs CEO Charles Brown didn’t disclose details of the attack, which is still under investigation, only that the company’s regular security screening at the end of October detected an unauthorized access to its systems.

The company immediately acted to shut down the breach and isolate its servers, but information the attackers would have had access to included names, addresses, email, logins, passwords, dates of birth and health-card numbers for some 15-million patients, including most British Columbians.

In addition, test results for 85,000 Ontario residents, prior to 2016, were also compromised.

Brown said his company “retrieved the data” by paying a ransom, on the advice and with the help of experts. The amount paid was not disclosed.

Frank said there are many ways for cybercriminals to attack organizations, but two of the most common are through phishing emails that distribute

malware that infect and encrypt an entity’s data or direct hacking through the client-access portal of a website.

Phishing attacks have become quite sophisticated, Frank said, with employees receiving an email that appears to come from a colleague with a request that appears reasonable, but downloads the malicious software.

Training programs that teach employees to recognize phishing have become common, Frank said, and “testing has shown training is effective, but not 100 per cent.”

In direct hacking, Frank said criminals use the public portal of a website to infect systems with malicious code in what is called an SQL injection.

The hackers insert documents giving themselves admin access to systems then “waltz right in and take what they want,” Frank said.

“It’s very complicated to trace back to who’s sitting at the keyboard,” he said.

While Brown said LifeLabs is confident its clients’ data is now secure and there is a low risk of further harm to them, Frank said it is hard to believe criminals wouldn’t keep copies of the data or exploit it in the future.

Brown said the advice LifeLabs received is that the company was the target of the attack, not the information of individuals, noting once criminals get what they want, “they move on.”

All that individual data would be useful in crafting “really nice phishing emails,” Frank said, which is something LifeLabs clients should be wary of now.

LifeLabs made the payment “likely with nothing more than a pinky promise [by the criminals] to get rid of the data,” said Brett Callow, a VancouverIsland-based threat analyst for the antimalware software firm Emsisoft.

Callow said it would be a mistake to assume the criminals haven’t copied the information, which could be useful to commit identity theft or to even extort LifeLabs a second time.

“The only way to stop these types of attacks is to make them unprofitable,” Callow said, which means not paying ransoms and focusing on better protecting computer systems.

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LAWSUIT LAUNCHED A Vancouver man has filed a notice of civil claim against LifeLabs in B.C. Supreme Court in an attempt to launch a class-action suit against the company in response to the cyberattack that affected the private information of 15-million Canadians, including patients in Kamloops.

Kenneth Morrison is alleging LifeLabs breached its contract with him to keep his private information safe.

Any B.C. resident who has been a LifeLabs patient before Dec. 17 of this year can join the suit which alleges the company knew of the risk of a data breach and failed to implement sufficiently strong encryption and security safeguards to prevent it from being subject to unauthorized access.

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Wilson-Raybould named CP newsmaker of 2019 CANADIAN PRESS

The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the centre of it all — Jody Wilson-Raybould — is the 2019 Newsmaker of the Year.

The former justice minister was the runaway choice of news editors across the country surveyed by the Canadian Press.

Prime Minister Trudeau, whose Liberal government was reduced to a minority in the Oct. 21 election, polled a distant second.

“Jody Wilson-Raybould made us think about governance and fairness and loyalty and how all of those things play out every day behind the scenes on Parliament Hill,” said Toronto Star senior editor Janet Hurley.

“She lifted the curtain and let us see inside and, as the election results ultimately revealed, not everyone liked what they saw.

Some called her courageous; others were less kind — but in the face of all that she created a national dialogue unmatched this year.”

This time last year, Sun News editor-in-chief Mark Towhey said, “The number of Canadians who could tell you who Jody WilsonRaybould was would fit in a midsize restaurant.

“In 2019, she became a house-

PNG PHOTO MP Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks at Magee secondary school in Vancouver on Nov. 7. This week, the Canadian Press announced the former Liberal attorney general had been named newsmaker of the year following voting by editors and news directors across the country.

hold name at the centre of the biggest political story of the year.”

It began with an anonymously sourced story in the Globe and Mail in early February, alleging that Trudeau and his staff had inappropriately pressured WilsonRaybould to stop a criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal engineering giant facing corruption charges related to con-

tracts in Libya.

It suggested Trudeau’s demotion of Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first Indigenous justice minister, to Veterans Affairs in a mid-January cabinet shuffle was punishment for her refusal to override the director of public prosecutions, who had declined to negotiate a remediation agreement — a kind of plea bargain in corporate-cor-

ruption cases — for SNC-Lavalin.

The controversy quickly spiralled out of control for the government.

Within a week, WilsonRaybould resigned from cabinet. Less than a week after that, Trudeau’s long-time friend and most trusted political adviser, Gerald Butts, resigned as the prime minister’s principal secretary.

The controversy dragged on for months and would eventually trigger the early resignation of the top public servant, Michael Wernick, and prompt senior minister Jane Philpott to resign from cabinet in solidarity with Wilson-Raybould.

In almost four hours of explosive testimony before the Commons justice committee, Wilson-Raybould detailed what she described as relentless pressure to intervene in the SNC-Lavalin case from Trudeau, senior staff in the Prime Minister’s Office and Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his aides.

She accused Wernick of issuing veiled threats, on behalf of Trudeau, that her refusal to comply could cost her her job as justice minister and attorney general.

She would later reveal that she had secretly recorded a phone conversation with Wernick — a revelation that proved to be the last straw for her former Liberal colleagues.

At the behest of Liberal MPs, Trudeau booted both Wilson-

Raybould and Philpott from the governing party’s caucus and informed them they would not be allowed to seek re-election under the Liberal banner.

Trudeau, Butts, Wernick and others maintained they’d done nothing wrong, that their conduct was entirely within the law and motivated solely by the desire to protect the thousands of innocent employees, shareholders, pensioners and others who could be hurt if SNC-Lavalin were to be convicted criminally and forced to scale back its Canadian operations or relocate to another country.

Although she felt it was inappropriate to pressure the attorney general, who is supposed to be independent and above partisan considerations, Wilson-Raybould herself said she didn’t think anyone had done anything illegal.

But for opposition parties, just months away from an election, it was the gift that kept on giving.

The Conservatives asked the RCMP to investigate possible obstruction of justice. The NDP demanded a full public inquiry.

In August, a month before the start of the campaign and just as Liberal poll numbers had begun to recover somewhat from the downward plunge precipitated by the SNC affair, federal ethics commissioner Mario Dion issued a scathing report that concluded Trudeau violated federal ethics law by improperly pressuring Wilson-Raybould.

Top court Life sentence for dad says no U.S. who killed daughters ads during Super Bowl B.C. SUPREME COURT

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VICTORIA — A father who killed his four- and six-year-old daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 will have to serve 22 years before he’s eligible for parole.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper told Andrew Berry that he committed heinous crimes against his daughters as she sentenced him Thursday in Victoria.

“The girls were killed in their own beds, in their own home, where they had every expectation to be safe,’’ Gropper said.

A jury convicted Berry of second-degree murder in September in the violent deaths of his daughters, Aubrey and Chloe Berry.

Second-degree murder brings an automatic life sentence but Gropper had to determine Berry’s parole eligibility. Gropper says Berry will serve the sentences concurrently.

The trial heard each girl had

been stabbed dozens of times and Berry was found naked and unconscious in the bathtub of his Oak Bay apartment suffering from stab wounds to his neck and throat.

Sarah Cotton, the mother of the girls, told a sentencing hearing this week that the children were so full of love and her life has become a nightmare of profound pain and sadness since their deaths.

Berry claimed at his trial that he and the girls were attacked because he owed money to a loan shark.

The Crown told jurors the motive was anger towards Berry’s ex-partner, who he thought was going to end their joint custody agreement.

His lawyer told the sentencing hearing that Berry maintains he did not kill the girls.

Oak Bay Deputy police Chief Ray Bernoties said outside court that the deaths of the girls devastated residents.

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OTTAWA — The Supreme Court has overturned a decision that allowed viewers to see keenly anticipated American commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast.

Bell Canada’s media division secured an exclusive licence from the NFL in 2013 to broadcast the Super Bowl in Canada and sold ad time to Canadian businesses to be inserted into the program on both Canadian and American stations.

The practice denied Canadian viewers a chance to see entertaining U.S. commercials that often generated as big a buzz as the football game.

In 2016, the federal broadcast regulator had ruled the usual practice of substituting Canadian ads for U.S. ones was not in the public interest.

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ames Bryan was enjoying some late night local music when contacted by KTW for an interview.

Local to him, anyway. For the past year or so the Kamloops musician has been living in Paris as a transplant, soaking up the sights and sounds and learning the French way of life.

“The way they jam, it’s like classic rock. They never really got the classic rock, so they have their own, based on synthesizers and drum machines,” he said.

Bryan said he’s storing those sounds away for future use — something that is unavoidable for a musician like him.

Kamloops band James and the North Shore has developed a following in Europe after two tours through the region. Bryan said the band has familiar haunts and followers now in places like Ireland, Poland and France.

A year ago, it would not have been unlikely to see a poster for the Kamloops band on the streets of Kraków.

“It’s been a great experience, although I miss Kamloops

every single day. The community there is my favourite community. I’ve lived all over Canada and I can probably say that Kamloops is the best city,” Bryan said.

Soon, Bryan will return to the city to record the band’s next album — and to perform as part of a local music spectacle at The Blue Grotto on Dec. 27 with three other bands. Now performing as The North Shore, Bryan’s group will be joined by Echo Beach, Mother Sun and Jackson Marshall and The Jims.

The name change comes to further recognize the band as a group effort.

“We got stuck with the name because originally, I was the only person that had played a show, so my name was added to get people out there, and then we kept getting shows so we didn’t have time to think about it,” he said.

Lead singer Bryan is now no longer detached from the rest of the band: Shane Spencer, Kelly Wright, Matt Cardinal and Stephen Boyd.

“Without them, it’s nothing,” he said.

In his temporary return to Kamloops, Bryan will bring with him some new ideas soaked up from French culture, which

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“I was working 90 hours a week in the film industry. I was trying to talk to my father-inlaw, and he looks at me like I’m an idiot, asking why I worked so many hours,” he said, hearing that in France, many people work 35 hours a week and some even retire at 55.

“You know how in Canada we have cups of coffee. We’ve got a cup of Timmies. Here, you’ll never see a single person with coffee, because it’s all espresso. They take it like a shot in the morning, which is like a great thing,” he said.

“Who wants to walk around with a thing of brown hot liquid for hours?”

He said it’s been an eyeopening experience since he moved there a little over one year ago, calling it “completely different, but also in a great way.”

The new album will be the follow-up to the eighttrack Lover? I Barely Know Her, released in 2017 via JP Lancaster’s Factotum CO label, which has also recently been rereleased with three new bonus tracks recorded in Europe.

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Until Dec. 31, the main gallery will feature Hexsa’am: To Be Here Always. The exhibition is the work of 15 artists that explores themes of Indigenous land rights, access to food and services and the threat to wild salmon posed by fish farming.

WILDLIGHTS Until Jan. 5, 2020 (except Christmas Day), 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., BC Wildlife Park, 9077 Dallas Dr.

The BC Wildlife Park will be all dressed up with lights for Christmas, featuring events like the 12 Days of Christmas, the ugly Christmas sweater contest, animal feeds and encounters, the family farm, holiday maze and Uncle Chris the Clown. For more details, go online to bcwildlife.org/eventslist.htm.

ROCK PAINTING Dec. 21, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St.

As part of the SMALL//works art show, artists Mike Alexander and Eden will host a rock painting demonstration on Saturday, Dec. 21. For more information, contact the Kamloops Arts Council at 250-372-7323.

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An evening of Christmas choral music will be heard at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA Dec. 22, 10 a.m., Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way

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To support Royal Inland Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, Santa Claus is coming to breakfast — and hoping to raise $6,000. Tickets are $20 and include a breakfast buffet, cookie decorating, meeting with Santa, crafts and activities. They can be purchased online at eventbrite.ca/e/69077248911.

FOUR LOCAL BANDS Dec. 27, 8 p.m., The Blue Grotto Nightclub, 319 Victoria St.

A quartet of local bands will perform, including Mother Sun, Echo Beach, Jackson and The Jims, and The North Shore (formerly known as James and the North Shore). Tickets are $10 with the donation of a non-perishable item for the Kamloops Food Bank or $15 without, available at the door.

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The Freudian Slips will present Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals. The dinner and improv comedy combo is about the Murphy crime family celebrating a successful murder of one of their enemies, and you are one of the family members. Tickets are $41 in advance, available online at chimeratheatre.com/tickets.

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Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Sun Peaks. Events include the First Flight Big Air Invitational at the terrain park, the kids glow stick parade at the village platter learning area, the torchlight parade on the Sundance ski run and a fireworks grand finale. For more information, go online to sunpeaksresort.com.

SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR Jan. 3 and Jan. 4, 8 p.m., Sagebrush Theatre, 1300 Ninth Ave.

The Snowed In Comedy Tour will commence in Kamloops with two shows. Comedians Dan Quinn, Paul Myrehaug, Pete Zedlacher and Damonde Tschritter will perform. Tickets are $45, available at the Kamloops Live box office, online at kamloopslive.ca.

CHAMBER MUSICIANS Jan. 4, 7:30 p.m., Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul St.

The next concert by the Kamloops Chamber Musicians will be L’Amour, featuring soprano Rachel Casponi, violinist Cvetozar Vutev and pianist Naomi Cloutier. The trio will perform love songs and duets from the likes of Mozart, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin and more. Tickets are $25, available online at cmk.eventbrite.ca or at the door.

QUEEN MUSICAL Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m., Sandman Centre, 300 Lorne St.

We Will Rock You is a musical set in the future and modelled around the band’s hits. It was first performed under the musical supervision of Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Tickets start at $93.50 and are available through Ticketmaster.

RETRO HORROR Jan. 10, 7 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St.

Kamloops Film Society and the Drunk in a Graveyard podcast crew will present The Thing, John Carpenter’s classic wintery horror flick. Tickets are $11, available online at thekfs.ca.

SOLO SHOWCASE Jan. 10, 7 p.m., Alchemy Brewing Company, 650 Victoria St.

Alchemy is hosting a solo showcase featuring three artist. The first will be Daylen James, who himself is one third of local country band Tennessee Walker.

AN EVENING AT THE OPERA Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 12 at 2 p.m., Sagebrush Theatre, 1300 Ninth Ave.

The work of five opera masters will feature in KSO’s An Evening at the Opera. Works from Verdi, Mascagni, Puccini, Rossini and Mozart will be performed by the orchestra and the KSO Chorus, joined by a group of about 100 local singers led by chorus master Thomas Bijok. Special guest baritone Micah Schroeder will join the production. Tickets are $45 and available at the Kamloops Live box office, 1025 Lorne St., 250-374-5483 and online at kamloopslive.ca.

NEON DREAMS Jan. 12, 6 p.m., Blackwell Hall at The Plaza Hotel, 405 Victoria St.

Alt-pop duo Neon Dreams will perform in an all-ages show.

Guests include Kamloops grunge duo Sweater Kittens and Ila Charlotte and Guillaume Scott. Tickets are $15, available online at kamtix.ca.

ELECTRO INDIE Jan. 17, 8 p.m., The Bassment, private home venue

Andrea Superstein has been described as “Amy Winehouse meets Portishead” in her delivery of an electro/indie-infused type of jazz. She will perform a house concert at The Bassment on Friday, Jan. 17. Tickets are $21.86, available online at thebassmentkamloops.com.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band (inducted in 2004) known for its blues-inspired rock will hit the stage at Sandman Centre on Sunday, May 3, with Cheap Trick as its special guest.

The stop in Kamloops is part of ZZ Top’s Celebration with ZZ Top tour in Canada, which will

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Applications are now being accepted for potential performers at the third annual Hydra Festival.

The fringe-inspired festival began in 2017, started by Kamloops thespian and Chimera Theatre founder Andrew Cooper.

The festival’s goal is to bring innovative performing arts works.

In the past, it has done so with performances like the horrors-of-war drama Brothers, the body-positivity comedy Bodybreak or the sultry It All Started With A Dick Pic: The Stripsical.

Hydra is on the hunt for a wide variety of acts. Performance types

include, but are not limited to, theatre, dance, music, circus arts, multimedia, theatre for young audiences, storytelling, stand-up comedy and interdisciplinary work.

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Submissions must be made by the end of January. For more information, go online to chimeratheatre. com.

The festival will run from May 5 to May 10 this year and will once again be hosted at TRU’s Black Box Theatre in the Old Main building.

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Western Canada Theatre takes in $20,000 from BrewLoops More cash generated by BrewLoops has found its way back to the community and into the coffers of Western Canada Theatre.

Riding high off its success with The Sound Of Music, Western Canada Theatre staff found another reason to smile on Tuesday as they picked up a $20,000 cheque from the BrewLoops Cultural Development Society.

The cash was generated by annual BrewLoops events, including the most recent in September which saw the west end of McArthur Island Park transformed into an adult carnival complete with suds, bumper cars

and a Ferris Wheel — and a stack of local bands, food and other entertainment.

To date, the BrewLoops society has donated more than $116,000 to the community since 2018, including what is now a total of $40,000 to Western Canada Theatre.

The 2019 portion of Western Canada Theatre’s latest season has just wrapped up with The Sound of Music.

Next up for the Kamloops theatre company is The New Canadian Curling Club, the comedic story of four unlikely curlers — all recent immigrants who know little of the sport. That presentation will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 1. Tickets will be available at the Kamloops Live box office, online at kamloopslive.ca.

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ZZ Top maintains the most consistently stable lineup in the history of rock music: Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.

The band was formed in Houston, Tex., in 1969 and has created 15 studio albums, 30-million record sales and countless hits, including, La Grange, Legs, Sharp Dressed Man and Tush.

Cheap Trick has been touring since the band was formed in 1973. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 and has hits including I Want You to Want Me, Dream Police, Surrender and Ain’t That a Shame.

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, Dec. 20, at 10 a.m. online at ticketmaster.ca and at the Sandman Centre Box Office.

Tickets range from $79.50 to $99.50 plus tax and fees.

Skeetchestn sculpture work begins in new year Vaughn Warren will begin carving his next sculpture in January.

The piece will memorialize missing and murdered women, girls and LGBTQ+ individuals and will be titled Let Their Spirit Soar.

Skeetchestn Indian Band commissioned the Kamloops artist to complete the sculpture that, sometime after September 2020, will be installed near the band’s Big Sky facility on Highway 1 near Savona.

Warren specializes in large wood sculptures. His other work includes the River Pole, erected on the corner of Columbia Street and Summit Drive in Sahali and pieces created from tree trunks.

His media for the sculpture will be a massive cedar log from Gilbert Smith Forest Products in Barriere.

The band received a $50,000 grant from the federal Ministry for Women and Gender Equality to create the sculpture. Its design was conceived with input from community members and “extensive collaboration” with Skeetchestn elders.

“The helical design includes the form of a gender-neutral warrior striking a decorated drum with a powerful drumstick, sounding the alarm, calling for justice and rallying the spirits of the living and dead with an honour song,” Warren said in a release to media.

The public is welcome to watch Warren in action at the Skeetchestn Indian Band Public Works facility during visiting hours, which will be posted online in the coming weeks.

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he struggle is real during the holidays, in balancing work, friends, family and long to-do-lists. For that reason, Jingle All the Way is my favourite Christmas movie this year. Arnold Schwartzenegger can’t seem to strike the right balance, letting down both his wife and kid. To make it up to them, he tries and fails time and time again to hunt down the season’s hottest toy. The result is many funny Schartzenegger moments.

However, the takeaway is clear: the most important thing to give this season is time.

Runners up: Bad Santa, Love Actually.

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’ve never liked scary movies.

Even growing up, Steven Spielberg’s E.T. was a bit too much for me as a little kid. But having two (much) older sisters meant their teenage flicks became my childhood hand-me-downs, and the VHS hits of yesteryear are the films I grew up on. That includes Gremlins, the 1984 horror comedy that walked the line of cute and scary. There’s something about the mischievous spawn of creatures brought about by an ignored warning that really speaks to me — and I don’t know why, but catastrophe and Christmas seem to go together swimmingly. Runners up: Home Alone, The Muppet Christmas Carol, — Sean Brady, reporter

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part of me wanted to put something a little more “out there” in my top spot, but I had to go with what is, in my mind, a pretty perfect Christmas movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas (and no, it is not a Halloween movie, so don’t even try that with me). Amazing stop-motion

animations are used to tell a heart-warming story about the dangers of taking things too far during the holiday season. And those songs! Has Danny Elfman ever been better as a film composer? Runners up: Die Hard, Eyes Wide Shut.

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sleeper of a Christmas movie, Four Christmases is a film that rarely gets mentioned in Top 10 lists, but a film that should be given consideration. Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon are childless yuppies who travel to sun-soaked beaches, rather than celebrate Christmas — until one year they do, visiting the families of each of their (divorced) parents. It is simply hilarious, especially the scene in which Vaughn’s character discovers his inner thespian during a church play. Runners-up: A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story.

— Christopher Foulds, editor

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his film is a yuletide staple if for no other reason than it’s on TV every Christmas. While Home Alone is more about the importance of having a good security system than the holidays, the movie combines that classic be careful what you wish for story against a Christmas backdrop. That church scene between Kevin McCallister and Old Man Marley alone always pulls on my heart strings. Their dialogue combined with the choir singing O Holy Night gives me goosebumps.

Stressing the importance of family, Home Alone has a timeless Christmas message to appreciate what’s really important in life — and a few good tips on how to stop Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern from breaking into your home. Runners-up: The Santa Claus, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

— Michael Potestio, reporter

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weird, charming goofball movie, Pottersville and a perfectly good waste of 90 minutes. It can cleanse the palate from overindulgence of any Hallmark movie. It also boasts a starstudded cast. Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon stars as a beloved local businessman, Maynard, who is mistaken for Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. It’s dumb holiday fun and enjoyable for what it is — outrageous. Runners-up: Arthur Christmas, Polar Express.

— Dave Eagles, photographer

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he story of the McCallister family’s forgetfulness in Home Alone routinely plays a half-dozen times each Christmas season in my house, as does its stellar sequel. The stories are as funny as they are touching. If you don’t like them, you are probably one of those idiots who tries to argue Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Runners-up: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Love Actually.

— Tim Petruk, reporter

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refuse to cancelculture my truth. The only Christmas movie I ever remember looking forward to watching each year was Don Cherry’s Rock’em Sock’em. For me, like many Canadian lads, it was a traditional stocking stuffer and my late mother never failed to pick up a copy, knowing the failure to do so would result in a severe Christmas-morning chastising.

We had a pair of sheepskin rugs.

I would slide in the VHS tape, lie flat on my belly on one of those fluffy beauties, head propped up by hands on chin, and relish with great joy what Don had to offer.

Thumbs up all the way. Runnerup: Home Alone.

— Marty Hastings, reporter

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arla Thompson absolutely loves the big dance.

Arena ice, B.C. title on the line — bring it on.

The 35-year-old Kamloops Curling Club skip’s 14th spin at the Scotties B.C. Women’s Curling Championship will begin on Jan. 28 at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook.

Qualifying that many times — and with so many dance partners — is remarkable.

Here is a list of Thompson’s teammates from the last five seasons: Jodie Brennan, Amanda Guido, Lanette Nordick, Holly Donaldson, Megan Daniels, Cassie Savage, Kristen Recksiedler, Shannon Joanisse, Trysta Vandale, Diane Dezura, Erin Pincott and Tracey Lavery.

All of those teams reached provincials.

“People have to step away from the game for different reasons and that’s OK,” said Thompson, a teacher at South Kamloops secondary. “I get to learn a little bit from all the teammates I have. We maybe don’t get to gell and bond as much as we like.”

Thompson pondered her own exodus after the 2017-2018 season, when the team that included Recksiedler, Joanisse, Vandale and Dezura — none of whom were Kamloops-based — disbanded after a silver-medal finish at the B.C. Scotties.

She was lured into playing last season by the prospect of joining forces with Donaldson of Vancouver, Daniels of Delta and Savage, then Alberta-based, a crew that reached the B.C. championship, but failed to J A B B E R

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ANDREW KLAVER PHOTOGRAPHY? CURLING CANADA Karla Thompson, pictured here at the 2016 women’s national curling championship in Grande Prairie, Alta., has been the constant in a series of teams that have reached the B.C. championship. The 2020 provincials begin on Jan. 28 in Cranbrook.

qualify for the playoffs.

So what sucked her in for 20192020?

The Mom Squad quartet.

“It’s just a good group of ladies and we are all good curlers, so we thought, what the heck,” Thompson said, noting each of the team’s members took time away from curling after having children.

Second Guido and lead Nordick are Kamloops-based and third Brennan lives in Summerland, their proximity making it easier than in previous years for Team Thompson to assemble.

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work-mom-curling balance has been tough, tiring and worth it.

“I hope our kids see how hard we work to do it all, so they can be the same way when they grow up,” she said.

“Balance is key.”

Guido and Thompson played together on a KCC team skipped

by Allison MacInnes that reached the 2008 national championship in Regina.

“I really enjoy playing with Amanda,” Thompson said. “She’s a wonderful teammate, an even better friend and an amazing curler.

“When she said, ‘Hey, I want to play this year.’ I was like, all right,

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sounds good. Let’s figure it out. We picked up her sister, Jodie.

“Lanette, I played with her even before Amanda. Her boys are heavy into hockey. She stepped away from curling to enjoy watching them play.

“She said, ‘I want to curl again, too.’ So, we thought, well, you know, what the heck, let’s give ‘er a go.

“We have our Mom Squad.”

Guido was asked why Thompson has been able to find success with a litany of different lineups.

Her response was terse: “She is a good curler.”

Team Thompson had a light schedule this season, competing in four events, but did enough to bypass December provincial playdowns.

Thompson earned one of two automatic qualification berths for the Scotties available to B.C. Women’s Curling Tour participants.

The team finished third in the tour’s final standings, but the first- and second-place rinks — Brown of Kamloops and Wark of Abbotsford, respectively — qualified for provincials through other avenues, leaving the two directentry berths for the third- and fourth-place teams.

There is a potential drawback to missing provincial playdowns.

This season’s edition of Team Thompson, with the exception of the skip, has not been regularly tested in big-game environments.

“For the curling, it’s always good to go to playdowns and be in the pressure situations. We have been doing some mental training work, though,” Thompson said.

“Being a team full of moms, it’s always nice to have December off.

And we can plan what’s going to happen with children when we’re away in Cranbrook for that week.”

Thompson has twice reached the Scotties Tournament of Hearts national championship, missing the playoffs in both 2008, playing for MacInnes in Regina, and 2016, when she threw skip stones in Grande Prairie, Alta.

A third do-si-do at nationals, this time with Mom Squad dance partners, has entered the realm of possibility.

“I still love to compete,” Thompson said.

“It’s neat seeing where we started at the beginning of the year and how quickly we’ve kind of adapted and changed our ways to earn one of those spots.”

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Team Brown represented Canada and placed second at the China Open, an international curling event that wrapped up on Tuesday in Tianjin.

Russia, led by skip Alina Kovaleva, bested the Kamloops Curling Club rink 4-3 in the championship final.

“After pulling off the come-from-behind win against the Swiss in the semi, we couldn’t quite pull it off in the final, losing on the last rock to a strong Russian team,” Team Brown said on Twitter.

“It was an honour to wear the Maple Leaf.

Thank you to Curling Canada for the opportunity.”

Skip Corryn Brown, third Erin Pincott, second Dezaray Hawes and lead Ashley Klymchuk were accompanied by coach Allison MacInnes.

Brown recovered from a 4-1 deficit to Irene Schori in the semifinal round, scoring twice in the sixth end and once each in the seventh and eighth ends to post a 5-4 win.

The Kamloops rink was 5-2 in round-robin action, finishing in a three-way tie for second behind Russia, which was 7-1.

The team earned 25,000 Chinese Yuan for its round-robin victories and another 25,000 Chinese Yuan for its silver-medal finish, good for a total of about CDN $9,400.

Brown, which is ranked 10th in women’s Canadian Team Ranking System points, is the top-ranked B.C. rink in the nation and has earned about $30,000 this season.

Last season, the team won about $18,000.

The Kamloops ladies, back-to-back B.C. Tour champions, have more than a month to prepare for the Scotties B.C. Women’s Curling Championship, which will run from Jan. 28 to

Feb. 2 in Cranbrook.

Brown avoided having to compete in qualifying tournaments for the Scotties by claiming an automatic berth on the back of its standing as the No. 1-ranked B.C. team in CTRS standings.

Karla Thompson of the KCC will join Brown at the Scotties.

Team Thompson earned one of two berths awarded to B.C. Tour participants.

Sarah Wark of Abbotsford dispatched Brown 7-4 in the 2019 Scotties final in February in Prince George.

Thompson won silver and Brown snared bronze at the 2018 Scotties in Victoria.

Team Van Osch of Nanaimo topped Thompson 11-4 in the gold-medal contest.

CRANLOOPS The Grant Olsen rink of the Kamloops Curling Club has qualified to compete at the 2020 men’s provincial curling championship, which will run concurrently with the women’s B.C. championship from Jan. 28 to Feb. 2 at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook.

Read more about the Olsen rink next week in KTW. Brad Thompson, who throws skip stones, third Olsen, second Trevor Miyahara and lead Brent Yamada round out the squad, which earned its provincials berth last weekend on home ice in a playdown at the KCC. Two more Kamloopsians will be in action at men’s provincials — Jared Kolomaya, who plays third for Sean Geall of Abbotsford, and Tyler Klymchuk, who plays third for Jeff Richard’s Kelowna outfit.

There are 12 Kamloops curlers qualified to compete at provincials if including the men’s and women’s sides.

MacInnes, Team Brown’s coach, makes 13 partcipants.

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CRIMES OF THE WEEK SHOTS Liquor larceny hat trick Keep your eye out for this serial liquor bandit.

The woman in the photo is suspected of stealing booze from a Kamloops liquor store on three occasions, the latest being on Friday, Dec. 13.

She is white, has shoulder-length, lightcoloured hair and wears dark-rimmed glasses.

If you recognize her, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS because shoplifting only forces prices higher for the honest among us.

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MICHAEL MONG PHOTO Kayleigh Roberts of the Kamloops Long Blades racing last weekend in Richmond.

Long Blades qualify for provincial short track championships Kamloops Long Blades speed skaters competed at B.C. Cup No. 2 last weekend at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

The event was the second of two qualifiers for the B.C. Short Track Championships, which will run on March 14 and March 15 in Abbotsford.

Final overall rankings have been issued for Long Blades’ skaters who have qualified for short track provincials.

Kayleigh Roberts and Lienke Raath finished first and second, respectively, in the L2TB-Female Division, while Leah Hoffman finished sixth.

Meena Litt placed first in the L2TAFemale Division.

Laylah Sadegur finished seventh.

In the L2TB-Male Division, Keidis Corrigan finished fourth, Jared Roberts was 10th and Jacob Beesley wound up 12th.

Caleb Van der Merwe placed first and Nelson Smith finished fifth in the L2TA-Male Division.

Adam Turner finished fourth in the T2T-Male 12 Division,

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BRIEFS Rebecca Thomas claimed second place in the T2T-Female 13 Division and Patrick Gu placed 10th in the T2TMale 13 Division.

Sophia Pankratz and Leah Turner finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the T2TFemale 14 Division.

Cameron Thomas placed second in the T2T-Male 15 Division.

Sylvie Lloyd finished first in the senior female division and Gillian Goud was first in the senior male division.

Next up for the Long Blades are the B.C. Long Track Championships, which will run on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 in Fort St. John.

DIVERS QUALIFY FOR GAMES Five Kamloops Gymnastics and Trampoline Centre divers have qualified to represent Zone 2 at the B.C. Winter Games, which will run from Feb. 21 to Feb. 23 in

Fort St. John.

Shea LeDew, Annalisa Bynoe, Declan Rasmussen, Jace Shantz and Ryan Sherlock, each of whom cracked the Zone 2 team, were among 12 KGTC divers in action earlier this month at the Candy Cane Invitational Diving Meet and 2020 BC Winter Games Trials in Langley.

Noteworthy performances also came from Seth Bose, who won both the novice boys Group A one-metre and three-metre events, and Spencer Dick, who placed second in the novice boys Group D one-metre and threemetre events.

Mason Hill and Torrun Maurice were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the one-metre novice boys event.

Hill earned silver and Maurice placed fifth in a learn-to-dive event.

Olivia Bond-Hillman was eighth in girls Learn to Dive Group D, Nicholas Bond-Hillman took bronze medal in boys Learn to Dive Group C, with teammates Rasmussen and Nathanial Wiedenman tied for fourth in the same event.

On Tuesday, Dec. 3, a man broke into a storage room of a building in Kamloops and stole a bike.

He is described as being thinner and having a moustache. He was wearing black pants with a wide white stripe down the side, on which is printed “PUMA.” He was also wearing a brown jacket and carrying a black, single-strap N7 backpack.

If you know his name, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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On Wednesday, Dec. 11, a man stole items from a Sahali store.

He is white, under 30 years of age and, at the time of the shoplifting spree, was wearing a black tuque, a black and red jacket, blue jeans and red shoes.

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

www.kamloopsCrimeStoppers.ca If you know where any of these people are, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). The tip line pays up to $2,000 for information leading to the arrest of fugitives.

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Canadians shut out Swiss BRNO, Czech Republic — The Canadian men’s junior hockey team blanked Switzerland 3-0 on Thursday in the opening exhibition game for both squads at the World Junior Hockey Championship.

Dawson Mercer, Liam Foudy and Bowen Byram scored for Canada.

Goaltenders Joel

Hofer and Nico Daws combined for a 12-save shutout.

Aidan Dubas added two assists.

“It was good to see the team play a meaningful game,’’ Canada head coach Dale Hunter said. “Saw some good things and some things that we can work on. It’s a process and the guys are get-

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ting better every day.

We’ll use the next few days to practise and continue to build on things.’’

Canada outshot Switzerland 16-12.

“I thought we stuck with it. The first game is never easy,’’ Byram said. “We’ve got a lot of things to build on and we’ll work together to get there. We want to be a puck-moving, fast team and I think we’re starting to do

just that as a team.’’

Canada plays

Finland on Monday in its final exhibition contest.

The Canadians open the 2020 world junior championship in the Czech Republic on Dec. 26 against the United States.

Canada was eliminated in the quarterfinals at last year’s tournament in B.C. The Swiss finished fourth after losing the bronze-medal game to Russia.

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ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Brendan Sullivan and the TRU WolfPack played two exhibition games earlier this week in California.

WolfPack suffer defeat in California The TRU WolfPack men’s basketball team dropped a pair of exhibition games this week in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Northwest College of Iowa bested TRU 86-56 on Tuesday and the Vanguard Lions of Costa Mesa edged the WolfPack 71-63 on Wednesday.

On Thursday, TRU was led by Anton Bilous, who racked up 17 points.

Micheal Rouault, Tyus DeVries and Brendan Sullivan notched 10 points apiece.

The WolfPack will not play again until Jan. 3, when Mount Royal of Calgary comes to town for a regular season Canada West tilt.

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Championship games will be played on Court 1 — junior boys, 2:30 p.m., junior girls, 4 p.m., senior girls, 5:30 p.m. and senior boys, 7:15 p.m.

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ur tour guide is clearly passionate about her job.

“I’ve got an umbrella in case it rains,” Anna Grech Sant reassures when meeting us.

Malta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is like an open-air museum — you won’t want to miss a thing.

She is clearly passionate about her job. For 44 years, she’s been educating visitors about this Mediterranean island, the largest of three that comprise the Maltese archipelago, south of Sicily and north of Africa.

Because of its strategic location, we discover that Malta has had a line-up of rulers: Romans, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John and the French.

And, based on which side of the road we’re driving on, clearly the British.

By the time we reach Barracca Gardens, the clouds have magically dispersed and we’re bathed in sunshine.

Overlooking Grand Harbour, we’re privy to stunning views of the city’s bastion walls and sapphire waters beyond. Adjacent, are colonnaded gardens that date back to 1661. We walk in the footsteps of Roosevelt, Churchill and other greats when strolling around the central fountain.

Just beyond the park’s entrance is old town Valletta, a labyrinth of cobble-stone streets where golden-hued churches and baroque buildings rise in juxtaposition with more modern architecture.

We pose in front of Triton Fountain and Auberge De Castille, where the current Prime Minister hangs his work hat.

Then, we check out the many retail outlets along Republic Street.

Minutes away is our next cultural magnet, the National Museum

Malta’s majestic Grand Harbour is one of the most spectacular ports in the world. A wide stretch of water separating the capital city of Valletta from the historic towns of Vittoriosa, Senglea and Cospicua, the harbour has been a hive of activity for more than 2,000 years.

of Archeology.

“These amazing artifacts showcase our history,” Anna informs, as we meander through the impressive venue.

Beneath preserving glass are tools that date back to 5200 BC and prehistoric figurines. We gaze at the recumbent Sleeping Lady and the headless Venus de Malta, aka Goddess of Fertility who is about 10 centimetres tall.

Phoenician amulets, ancient boulders, temple replicas — so beautifully frozen in stone for all to view.

Standing on a cliff-top, we have a bird’s eye view of the Blue Grotto.

It’s the perfect photo op for the limestone caves, clear emerald waters and magnificent waveeroded arch far below.

Also boasting an unparalleled

panorama are the nearby megalithic temples of ?a?ar Qim. The 4D presentation (complete with rain droplets) is a good warm-up to these well-preserved structures. But nothing compares to seeing the real thing.

Beneath the protected canopy, we wander in awe along interconnected pathways that lead past oval chambers and 20-tonne boulders. It’s hard to fathom how these pillars were erected back in prehistoric times.

Our next stop takes us even further back in time. Although the Hypogeum is unassuming from its exterior, after descending into this subterranean grotto, it’s anything but — dating back 5,000 years to the Bronze Age. With audio sets glued to our

ear, we stroll along a scaffoldinglike ramp through a labyrinth of claustrophobic corridors to carved out chambers where skeletal bones and heaps of the dead lay until this discovery in 1902.

Vaulted domes, archways and okra paintings decorate the more important rooms like the Holy Of Holy and the reverberating Oracle Chamber.

We’re informed by our audio guide that acoustics come alive here with any sounds.

Although I have a yearning to test out my vocal chords, I’m silenced by the awestruck effect from this underground graveyard.

The same overwhelming sensation hits me again when we enter St. John’s Cathedral, a 16th Century Baroque beauty in the heart of

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An old-time Valletta icon, the Caffe Cordina is a perfect place to wrap up our day.

While enjoying healthy salads and fruit-infused smoothies, we commend our guide Anna, while sending a quiet thanks to the weather gods for a sunny day on amazing Malta.

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FAITH

Opening up a Book of Mormon Christmas

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longside Christians all over the world, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enjoy the tradition of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas.

We read, love and remember the Nativity story as told in the New Testament.

But Israel wasn’t the only nation on Earth during that glorious night in Bethlehem.

The Book of Mormon shares the story of what some of the people on the other side of the planet were doing on that Holy

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Night.

Here’s their story.

Five years before the birth of Jesus Christ, somewhere in the Americas, a man called Samuel the Lamanite stood on a city’s wall to preach

to its people.

His message, given to him by an angel, was one of repentance and of looking forward to the coming of the Son of God — and, in general, it wasn’t well received.

However, during the peoples’ failed attempts to bring him down, an important message from God was heard.

In five years, Samuel said, the Son of God would come to a faraway land to redeem all those who believe in His name. He said that on the night before the birth of the Son of God, the people would be given a sign.

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They would experience a day, a night and a day — with no darkness. They would see the sun set in the evening and rise the next morning, but on that one night, the sky would be filled with light.

After sharing the angel’s message, Samuel got down from the wall and was never seen or heard from again.

However, his prophecy about the day, night and day without darkness was remembered by both believers and non-believers.

During the next five years, the believers excitedly watched for the prophesied sign. As the expected time drew nearer, though, the faith of some wavered.

Non-believers took this opportunity to teach that the prophesied time of the sign had passed and the words of Samuel were not fulfilled; therefore, faith in a Son of God was foolish.

It wasn’t long before an uproar was caused in the land by those who did not believe.

Eventually, they decided on a day whereon if the sign hadn’t arrived yet, all believers would be slain.

The faithful continued to watch for that day and that night and that day with no darkness.

When the day appointed by the nonbelievers drew dangerously close, the leader of the faithful, a man named Nephi, prayed all day to know what to do about the situation.

In answer to his prayer, the Lord informed him that He would be born that very night.

As promised, the sign was given that night.

As the sun set, darkness did not cover the land. The sky stayed as bright as at midday.

The believers were filled with joy. The birth of their saviour meant they did not have to die to keep their faith.

The unbelievers saw the sign, too, and most accepted they were wrong. Others, how-

The Mormon angel Moroni.

ever, convinced themselves the believers had pulled off an elaborate scheme to convince the weak-minded to join their religion.

Despite differing opinions of the meaning of the sign, the marvellous fact was that it had happened just like Samuel had said it would. And, because of it, these people now knew their saviour had been born across the ocean, in Israel.

In His birth, Jesus Christ had saved the physical lives of these faithful believers. That can be a reminder to all people that from the moment He was born, His mission was to save all those who believe in Him. This group would

not see the babe lying in a manger. Neither would they see choirs of angels nor travelling wise men.

But with renewed faith and a new star in the heavens, they knew the Son of God for whom they had waited so faithfully had finally come to a distant land to save them from their sins.

Like these early believers whose stories are recorded in The Book of Mormon, we Christians today also won’t see choirs of angels, nor wise men, nor the babe lying in a manger during our Christmas season.

But with new lights decorating our homes or our hearts, and faith in the words of the Bible, we celebrate the

birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ.

He may have been born in Bethlehem, but his saving grace has affected people all over the world since the day He was born.

Remember Him this December.

Merry Christmas.

Andrew is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kamloops.

He can be reached by email at andy_ lamb30@hotmail.com.

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

The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

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Find the words hidden vertically, horizontally & diagonally throughout the puzzle AFFILIATION ASSISTANCE AUDIT BOARD BUDGET COMMITTEE DEDUCTION DONATE DONOR EXPENSES FOUNDATION FUNDRAISING GIVE

GRANT INVESTOR INVOLVEMENT LEADERSHIP MESSAGE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION PHILANTHROPY PLATFORM SOCIAL TRANSPARENCY VOLUNTEER

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Kamloops Women’s shelter

Out of the Cold

Donate online at www.kamloopsthisweek.com/cheer, by mail or in person at Kamloops This Week 1365B Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops BC, V2C 5P6

Please make cheques payable to United Way, Christmas Cheer. Tax receipts for donations of $20 or greater will be issued.

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GIVING TOGETHER to build a stronger community HELP SUPPORT LOCAL CHARITIES

Women’s shelter

Kamloops

Out of the Cold Donate online at www.kamloopsthisweek.com/cheer, by mail or in person at Kamloops This Week 1365B Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops BC, V2C 5P6 Please make cheques payable to United Way, Christmas Cheer.

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OBITUARIES & IN MEMORIAM In Loving Memory of Patrick “Pat” Rozek May 29, 1952 – December 22, 2016

Every day in some small way, we miss you more than words can say.

In our hearts you will always stay, loved and remembered every day.

Love Noreen, Nadine, Kevin, Paul, David and families

Myrle Orren Schrader It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Myrle Orren Schrader at the age of 87.

Myrle loved to help his daughter with yard work, putting fences up, roofing and other laborious tasks. His grandchildren will always remember his specialty macaroni soup, french toast, shed excursions, special treats and diner lunches. In loving memory of Myrle Schrader, he will always be in our hearts.

On December 13, 2019 in Kamloops, BC, Myrle Schrader passed away with his loving daughter Tammy de Bruijn by his side.

Myrle was predeceased by grandparents Gottfried and Matilda Schrader, parents William and Georgia Irene (Inez) Schrader, brother Arlan (Arnie) Schrader, step-daughter Scottina de Bruijn, step-grandson Kristopher de Bruijn.

Myrle was born on November 27, 1932 at his maternal grandmother’s farm near Bentley, Alberta and went by “Myrle” as taught by his mother. In his 84th year, he renewed his Alberta driver’s licence and was told he was misspelling his name for all of his life. His father had misspelled it as “Myrl” on his birth certificate in 1932. He said, “Myrle” had been his name all this time and it would stay that way.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years Velma Schrader, ex-wife Sarah Salamon and their four children Tammy (de Bruijn), Mark (Carmi) Schrader, Susan (Jeffery) Loewen and Floyd Duncan, step-children Terrence (Martine) de Bruijn, Karl (Lynn) de Bruijn, Ashley/Rosemary (James) Davy, Scott (Susan) de Bruijn, Mark (Lois) de Bruijn, six grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren and sister-in-law Wilma Schrader.

Myrle was a Jack-of-all-trades and began working in the bush, falling trees. He moved back and forth between Alberta and BC working at different job sites. He began driving heavy equipment and in 1967, he became a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers; Local 115 in Kamloops. In 2017, Myrle received his 50th year gold watch and he was very proud of this accomplishment.

A big thank you to the Schoening Funeral Service and especially, to Glen Peter for all of his guidance and care.

1932 - 2019

Myrle was a kind-hearted man who had a passionate love for spending his time tinkering in his shed and yard, carving, gold mining and using his metal detector, taking care of his vehicle and being his own mechanic, and caring for his loved ones.

Ask DRAKE Drake Smith, MSW Funeral Director

Every Friday in KTW!

Cremation by choice with no service. If so inclined, a contribution to a charity of your choice in Myrle’s memory would be appreciated.

A celebration of Life will be held in the future.

Times and dates to be announced.

Q. Money’s tight... what should I do?

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Should friends desire, condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

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210 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1X7 4638 Town Road, Box 859, Barriere, BC, V0E 1E0

73 Taren Drive, Clearwater, BC, V0E 1N2 Toll free: 1-877-674-3030

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Paul Lewis

November 5, 1954 – December 17, 2019

After a lengthy battle with prostate cancer, it is with great sadness that we have to announce that Paul Lewis of Kamloops passed away at home on the morning of December 17, 2019 surrounded by his loving family.

Left to mourn are his wife of 41 years Lesley, daughters Shauna (Rob) and Carrie-Anne, and five grandchildren Nevaeh, Maeson, Logan, Benjamin and Chloe.

A Memorial Service for Paul will be held in the Schoening Funeral Chapel on Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:00 am followed by cremation.

Family and friends are invited to drop by the house at 3742 Westsyde Road on Saturday, December 28, 2019 between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm for refreshments and a game of darts in Paul’s honour.

In lieu of flowers and if desired, the family respectfully asks that you consider making a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation in memory of Paul.

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralserivce.com

At Schoening we believe a life should be remembered.

By having a service at our home, you can do whatever you want, play tribute videos or favourite music or decorate the celebration centre in a manner that will give closure to family and friends.

Schoening Funeral Service 250-374-1454

First Memorial Funeral Service 250-554-2429

210 Lansdowne Street, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1X7 4638 Town Road, Box 859, Barriere, BC, V0E 1E0

73 Taren Drive, Clearwater, BC, V0E 1N2 Toll free: 1-877-674-3030

schoeningfuneralservice.com www.DrakeCremation.com

Helen “Janet” Dancy Helen Janet Dancy passed away peacefully on December 15, 2019 at the age of 82, due to complications from diabetes. She was a loving, caring person who will be dearly missed.

She was predeceased by her loving husband Victor, her parents and two siblings.

She is survived by her four children Wayne (Lorna) Dancy, Lori (Bruce) Angus, Greg (Debbie) Dancy and Leanne (Greg) Pentney, several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and several siblings.

Janet was a long-time member of the Eagles Club Ladies Auxiliary #3453 Kamloops having served offices including President, Mother of the Year.

A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm in the Odd Fellows Hall, 423 Tranquille Road, Kamloops.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Royal Inland Hospital.

Interment will be held in the spring.

THE ANGEL ON YOUR SHOULDER

By Jackie Huston Lena, Wisconsin

There’s an angel on your shoulder Though you may not know she’s there, She watches over you day and night And keeps you in her care.

There’s an angel on your shoulder Watching you learn and grow Keeping you safe from danger And nurturing your soul.

She’ll be there through your triumphs She’ll dance on clouds with pride, She’ll hold your hand through disappointments and fears, Standing faithfully by your side.

In her lifetime this angel was strong and true, And stood up for what was right.

In your life you’ll be faced with decisions and trials And she’ll shine down her guiding light.

Life holds so much in store for you, So remember as you grow older, There are no heights you cannot reach ‘Cause there’s an angel on your shoulder.

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No one expects to die today!

Pre-arranging your funeral is the thoughtful way to face this issue.

It allows you to express your wishes while saving you money...

AND it leaves everything in place so your loved ones don’t have to make difficult decisions at the worst time of their lives.

285 Fortune Drive Kamloops

250-554-2577 See more at: www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

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CLASSIFIEDS Phone: 250-371-4949

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WEDNESDAY ISSUES • 10:00 am Tuesday FRIDAY ISSUES • 10:00 am Thursday

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No Businesses, Based on 3 lines Merchandise, vehicles, trailers, RV’s, boats, ATV’s, furniture, etc.

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No Businesses, Based on 3 lines Houses, condos, duplexes, suites, etc. (3 months max) $ 5300 Add an extra line to your ad for $10

Tax not included Some restrictions apply

Scheduled for one month at a time.

Customer must call to reschedule.

Tax not included. Some restrictions apply

INDEX

LISTINGS

ALL ADS MUST BE PREPAID. No refunds on classified ads.

1 Issue . . . . . . . . . $1300 1 Week. . . . . . . . . $2500 1 Month . . . . . . . . $8000 ADD COLOUR. . $2500 to your classified add Tax not included

Coming Events

Farm Equipment

For Sale - Misc

Advertisements should be read on the first publication day.

We are not responsible for errors appearing beyond the first insertion.

It is agreed by any Display or Classified Advertiser requesting space that the liability of the paper in the event that errors occur in the publishing of any advertising shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for the portionoftheadvertisingspace occupied by the incorrect item only and there will be no liability in any event beyond the amount paid for such advertisement.

Case Collector Tractor only 1950s. $500.

1958 Case (utility) 350 Tractor w/blade, chains, front-end loader. $800.

250-819-9712, 250-672-9712.

Pair of snowshoes + 2 ski poles. $80/obo. 250-376-4884.

HOLIDAY SEASON DEADLINE CHANGES Kamloops This Week will be closed on the following dates: . Wednesday, Dec 25th . Thursday, Dec 26th` . Wednesday, Jan 1st

Antiques Wrought iron $300/each. High chair Cedar Hope Chest Rocking chair $150. dresser with mirror $475.

372-8177.

Deadline: 10am - Dec 20 10am - Dec 23 10am - Dec 27

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

COMMUNITY CALENDAR go to

kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the menu and go to events to submit your event.

2 Days Per Week Call 250-374-0462

Try your luck with 1x1 boxed ad $35 plus tax for 2 weeks.

Price includes box number.

Call 250-371-4949 to place your ad and for more details.

1948 Ferguson rebuilt motor & extra parts has a util. snow blade & chains mostly original $3,000. 250-374-8285. hitch

$250.

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6hp Evinrude O/B motor. $600.

70 CFM air compressor. $750. 250-574-3794.

Butcher-Boy commercial meat grinder 3-hp. 220 volt. c/w attachments. $1500. 250318-2030.

Do you have an item for sale under $750?

Found: House key with a red tag outside Thrift Store 600blk Seymour St. 250-377-4026.

Found: Prescription glasses on November 26th at the Thompson Park Mall. 250554-2940.

Found: Wedding ring Dec 7th at Sahali Save-on-Foods. 250828-2112.

Furniture 6 drawer Walnut dresser w/ mirror & matching double bed exc cond $200. 250-374-7514.

8ft Antique Couch Couch & matching $200. 250-374-1541.

For Sale - Misc

Did you know that you can place your item in our classifieds for one week for FREE?

Call our Classified Department for details!

250-371-4949 Greeting cards made in England each cellophane wrapped 90,000 for $17,000 (250) 376-6607

NORTHLAND APARTMENTS 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom suite.

Adult Oriented, No Pets, No Smoking $1400 per month utilities not included.

North Shore 250-376-1427 nnkamloops@northland.ca

Daylight 2bdrms. Brock. Private entr. $1200 inclds everything. N/P. 250-319-1911.

Fully furnished 1-bdrm with all amenities. Behind Sahali Mall 10 mins to TRU. Male Pref. $850. Jan 1st. 250-374-0949.

Commercial

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

Free: Lazy Boy chair, mushroom colour, one spring loose.

250-579-5705.

California Trimmer Reel Mower 20”, 5-blades. $600. 250828-0151.

Found

KTW requires door to door substitute carriers for all areas in the city.

Vehicle is an asset Call 250-374-0462

Free: ‘60s Swivel Rocker velvet burnt orange. Good shape.

250-376-6607.

5th wheel 374-8285.

PERFECT Part-Time Opportunity

EARN EXTRA $$$

Free

Looking For Love?

Apartments/Condos for Rent

2-Bdrms, level entry, shrd laundry. N/S, Sm pet. $1200 util incld. 250-376-1136.

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE $5-$10/ ROLL 1365 B Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops, BC call for availability 250-374-7467

Personals

3500

Basement Suites

Art & Collectibles

Happy Holidays from all of us at Kamloops This Week.

If you have an upcoming event for our

Satellite phone Model Iridium 9505A handset w/attachments. $1300. 250-374-0650.

beds $30. $400.

Oak 250-

Please note the following Classified Deadline Changes:

Paper: Dec 25 Dec 27 Jan 1

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$900. chairs

LIVE ANSWER | EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE | LOCAL COMPANY

10-989 McGill Pl. Kamloops

250-374-0916 House-sitting

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

250-374-6007.

Health WE will pay you to exercise!

Call 250-374-0462 for a route near you!

Farm Services

BARK MULCH FIR OR CEDAR

Tax not included

RVs/Campers/Trailers 2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully loaded, $14,000. 236-421-2251.

2006 Dodge 2500 4x4 HD. w/1994 11ft. camper. $15,500/both. 778-220-7372.

2014 Adventurer Camper 89RB solar 13’ awning + extras $22,000 250-523-9495.

- Regular & Screened Sizes -

REIMER’S FARM SERVICE

250-838-0111 Handyperson

Handyperson

No Job Too Small! Friendly Service.

15 yrs experience. Guaranteed. References.

DAN’S HANDYMAN SERVICES Renovations, Painting, Flooring, Drywall, Bathrooms, Electrical (Red Seal) & more 778-999-4158

danshandymanservices.net Handyman, Carpentry, Drywall, Painting, Basement finishing. 250-851-6055.

Renos & Home Improvement

Misc Home Service

Run until sold New Price $56.00+tax Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, motorcycle, ATV or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one flat 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).

Automotive Tires 4 - 6 bolt studded tires on rims. P265-R17. 50% tread. $250/obo. 250-374-2403.

JA ENTERPRISES Furniture Moving and Rubbish Removal jaenterpriseskam@gmail.com 778-257-4943

4-Blizzaks M&S 245/45 R20 $600. 4-Hankook 215/75 R15 winters on GM rims $200. 2Laufenn 235/75 R15 winters on GM rims. $200. 376-6482.

Scrap Car Removal

ATVs / Dirt Bikes Yamaha Grizzly ATV. KMS 011031 $3,800. 250-579-3252

Motorcycles

CHOOSE LOCAL “Our Family Protecting Your Family”

PRESTIGE LOCAL ALARM MONITORING STATION

For Sale by Owner $55.00 Special The special includes a 1x1.5 ad (including photo) that will run for one week (two editions) in Kamloops This Week. Our award winning paper is delivered to over 30,000 homes in Kamloops every Wednesday and Friday.

Call or email us for more info:

250-374-7467 classifieds@ kamloopsthisweek.com

Deliver Kamloops this Week Only 2 issues a week!

Tax not included

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST 10 TO 150 YARD LOADS

Security

Sports Equipment

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

BONUS (pick p up p only):

• 2 large Garage Sale Signs • Instructions • FREE 6” Sub compliments of

Based on 3 lines 1 Issue.. . . . . . $1638 1 Week. . . . . . $3150 1 Month . . . $10460

2010 Harley Davidson Softail.

Lugg carrier, cover, lift-jack. $11,000/obo. 250-374-4723.

Solid oval oak table w/6side chairs, 2 arms chairs, buffet. $5,000. Exec desk dark finish $200. Teak corner cabinet $100. Treadmill $450, Custom oak cabinet $200. 250-8517687.

Pets

12 Friday - 3 lines or less 1750 Wed/Fri - 3 lines or less

$

For Sale by Owner

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

Ultra Light Ride Snowboard w/bindings, never used. $375.

Arc Solomon snowboard w/bindings $325. 578-7776.

Farm Services

EMPLOYMENT

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To advertise call

250-371-4949

KAMLOOPS ONLY ULC CERTIFIED MONITORING STATION FREE ESTIMATES FOR SYSTEM UPGRADES OR SWITCH-OVERS LIVE ANSWER | EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE | LOCAL COMPANY

10-989 McGill Pl. Kamloops

250-374-0916 Snow Removal

Classes & Courses AAA - Pal & Core

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 HUNTER & FIREARMS Courses. A Great Christmas Gift.

Next C.O.R.E. January 4th and 5th, Saturday and Sunday.

P.A.L. January 19th, Sunday.

Professional outdoorsman & Master Instructor: Bill 250-376-7970

Brand New Yamaha R3 Motorcycle with only 6kms. 320CC, liquid cooled, ABS brakes. Still has 1 year Factory Warranty. $4,700. 250-578-7274.

Collectibles & Classic Cars

RVs/Campers/Trailers 1972 Triple E motor home 25’ 77,000miles 402 Chev lots of extras $7,000 250-523-9495 2004 Cougar 5th wheel. 12ft slide.

Excellent cond. $14,000/obo. 250-554-1744.

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1965 Mercury 4dr., hardtop.

55,000 miles. 390-330HP. $4,000. 250-574-3794

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www.kamloopsthisweek.com Domestic Cars 1997 Ford Probe. Red, 4cyl, std, A/C, 1-owner.

114,428kms. $3500 .250-3767964.

2000 Jaguar XK8 Convertible 4L, V-8, fully loaded. Exec shape. $16,500/obo. 250-3764163.

2006 Buick Allure CXS. 1owner. Fully loaded. Excellent condition.

207,000kms. $3,900/obo.

250-701-1557, 778-471-7694.

2010 Dodge Charger SXT Sedan. 4dr., AWD, V-6, auto. 50,001 kms.

Must see to appreciate. $14,900. 250-374-1541.

2014 Lincoln MKS, AWD, 4dr Sedan. 3.5 Ecoboost twin turbo like new, black in & out. 80,000kms, $22,300.00. 250-319-8784.

Employment

The Gold Trail School District seeks to fill the Human Resources Manager position at the School Board Office in Ashcroft. The position is a full time position commencing in January 2020.

The successful applicant will be a dynamic leader who possesses the following qualifications: • excellent interpersonal skills and a minimum of five years recent experience working in a unionized environment in a human resources or labour relations capacity; • an in depth knowledge of current human resource and labour relations practices including knowledge of applicable labour laws, and legislation; • experience with investigations in human resources issues including employee conduct; • a diploma or degree in Human Resources or related training/experience is required; CPHR preferred; • extensive experience with Microsoft Office.

Complete details of the position and required qualifications are available on the district website, www.sd74.bc.ca/Employment. Applications marked “Leadership Opportunity – Human Resources Manager” will be accepted until 4:00 p.m., January 7, 2020, by: Lynda Minnabarriet, Secretary Treasurer School District No. 74 (Gold Trail) PO Box 250, Ashcroft, BC, V0K 1A0 Email applications will be accepted at HR@sd74.bc.ca

(250) 371-4949

2002 Ford Escape, auto. Exec body. Mechanic special. $800.

250-819-9712, 250-672-9712.

Trucks & Vans

2014 Ford Platinum 4x4 Crew-cab 3.5 Ecoboost, white with brown leather, Fully Loaded. Immaculate.

142,000kms. $31,300.

250-319-8784

Trucks/Heavy, Commercial Cummings Gen Set Ford 6cyl 300 cu/in single and 3 phase pwr $5000 (250) 376-6607

Rims

Legal/Public Notices NOTICE OF DISPOSAL SALE Take Notice that Storage Vault Canada Doing business as Storage For Your Life, Intends to sell the following vehicle: 1998 White Ford Motorhome.

VIN#1FDWE30S9WHA77177 Owner Michael Terrance John Okane. Amount of Debt: $1653.55.

The Sale will be held on or after January 3, 2020 at 1271 D Salish Rd. Kamloops, BC, V2H 1P6.

Business Opportunities ~ Caution ~ While we try to ensure all advertisements appearing in Kamloops This Week are placed by reputable businesses with legitimate offers, we do caution our readers to undertake due diligence when answering any advertisement, particularly when the advertiser is asking for monies up front.

To advertise in the Classifeds call

250-371-4949

Employment

Employment

DH VENTURES LTD. Dark Horse Ventures Ltd R0011779218 (DHV) is a local Kamloops 5413 company that strives to

offer our customers the best fence installations in Western Canada at a competitive price and quality that is hard to match. We have been in the Dark Horse Ventures fencing industry for three decades and we have a wealth of experience in installing, repairing, and maintaining chain link, barbed wire, and game fencing. Dark Horse Ventures is also experienced in the installation of a variety of gate styles and systems from standard gates to cantilever, barrier, swing and sliding gates. Dark Horse Ventures has completed numerous projects ranging from farm livestock fencing, to large chain link fencing. We are currently seeking the following position to augment our team.

Job title: Fence Installers (3) Reporting to: Operations Manager Salary: $20/Hr or commensurate with experience Hours: 40 Hours per week Location: Kamloops, BC but travel is required Purpose of the position: Must have experience and knowledge in the removal and installation of following: • Game and Range Fence • Chain Link Fence • Wood Fencing • On-Site Construction • Experience operating a skid steer and attachments • Proficient in the use of tools including a post pounder, power saw, wire snips and wire puller Key responsibilities & duties: Work with the operations manager on the removal and construction of various types of fence installations Work experience and skills: At least three years’ experience in fencing. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license.

Career Opportunities

DH Ventures Ltd. 101-1285 Dalhousie Dr. Kamloops, BC. V2C 5Z5

Kamloops # recruitment agency

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250-374-3853 BigSteelBox Corp at 1284 Salish Road, Kamloops, BC, Canada claims a PPSA Lien Against

DALE DYCK

of Kamloops, BC for arrears of container rent amounting to $2,327.36 plus any additional costs of storage that accrue.

If not paid in full, the contents of furniture and miscellaneous items will be sold online auction via Ibid4Storage.com on December 27, 2019.

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

4 - BMW X5, X3 wheels like new. $700 Call 250-319-8784.

Employment

Human Resources Manager

ONLY $35.00 (plus Tax)

Sports Utilities & 4X4s

Employment

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 74 (G R0011779211 School District No. 74 (Gold Trail) 5413 LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

RUN UNTIL SOLD

*some restrictions apply call for details

Employment

Environmental Coordinator Castlegar, BC

Mercer Celgar is one of North America’s newest and largest single-line sustainable softwood kraft pulp mills, located in Castlegar, B.C. Mercer Celgar is part of Mercer International, which owns and operates a total of four best in class softwood kraft mills, a sandalwood mill, and a sawmill. All Mercer mills continue to invest in their core assets and investigate new revenue streams in the emerging bio-economy to further improve their long-term viability.

Reporting to the Director, Environment the Environmental Coordinator’s responsibilities will include: • Coordinating, developing and updating the Mill’s Environmental management plan • Ensuring all applicable Acts, Regulations, and Standards are adhered to • Coordinate employees, contractors and consultants for related projects • Collect and report on environmental data in accordance with Regulations, permits and internal standards; assist in permitting process.

• Lead and coordinate investigations and incident reporting The successful applicant will have the following knowledge, abilities and skills:

• Degree (B.Sc. or B.A.) or Diploma (Dip.) in Science with preference given to Chemistry, Biology, or Environment. is looking for substitute distributors for door-to-door deliveries.

Vehicle is required.

For more information please call the Circulation Department at 250-374-0462

• 4-7 years’ experience in environmental setting preferably in industry (ie, Pulp & Paper, Mining & Refining, Oil & Gas) • Knowledgeable in current Legislation and regulatory requirements for industry.

• Demonstrated ability with ISO 9001, 14001, 17025, or QA/QC Laboratory programs.

For more details on Mercer, go to www.mercerint.com.

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

Call 250-374-0462 for more information

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

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /Office Worker/Tutor Detail oriented, organized, problem-solver, extremely computer literate.

Strong proofreading, editing, technical writing, public speaking skills.

Can teach practically anything I know. IT work preferred but any job using problem-solving skills could be a good match.

Gene Wirchenko at 250-8281474. gene@shaw.ca

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Think you can make a difference? Then send your resume (as a PDF) to: andrew.east@mercerint.com by December 31, 2019; when applying for this position please quote reference id: 2019-08.

TRU invites applications for the following positions: FACULTY Instructional Support Multi-level Adult Basic Education Courses English and Math Location: Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Kamloops, BC Instructional Support Multi-level Adult Basic Education Courses English and Math Location: Lillooet Regional Centre Lillooet, BC For further information, please visit:

tru.ca/careers

We wish to thank all applicants; however, only those under consideration will be contacted.

LAWYER REQUIRED Solicitor’s practice requires an additional Lawyer.

Great career opportunity.

Contact: Roger Webber Webber Law #209 – 1211 Summit Drive Kamloops, BC V2C 5R9 roger@webberlaw.ca tel: (250) 851-0100 fax: (250) 851-0104

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Employment

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BOOKKEEPER Bookkeeper with a good working knowledge of Word, Excel, Sage 50 and Act! Pro required full time by a sole practitioner law firm practicing corporate/commercial law, wills and estates and First Nations law.

Candidate will be expected to carry out file services independently, attend to the required bookkeeping procedures, type letters, send and receive e-mails and handle receptionist duties.

Forward your resume by mail to: Craig Nixon Law Corporation 880 – 175 2nd Avenue Kamloops, BC V2C 5W1 Attention: Sari Vandegraaf or by: Fax: 250-374-9992 E-mail: cnlc@CNixonLaw.ca

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