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Your Kamloops Blazers are one win from eliminating Spokane in the opening round of the WHL playoffs. KTW’s Marty Hastings has a recap of the weekend wins and a preview of Game 4 in Spokane.

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Family doctor cites several crises MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTER michael@kamloopsthisweek.com

A local doctor is closing his practice, but he isn’t leaving Kamloops or the medical field behind.

Dr. Hancke de Kock, a family physician who has served Kamloops for more than a decade, will close his practice on June 30, leaving some 2,000 people without a doctor.

The closure comes as de Kock has decided to enter addictions medicine as it is an area of interest he specializes in and facing as much need and challenges as B.C.’s doctor shortage, he told KTW. “For me, it’s like I’m going from one crisis to the next crisis,” de Kock said. “Family medicine is in crisis, addiction medicine is in crisis, the overdose emergency is in crisis.”

De Kock said he is joining the virtual addictions medicine clinic that will see him based in Kamloops as part of Interior Health’s new outpatient withdrawal management services, which were announced earlier this month. The new job will see the physician take appointments over his computer from home.

“It’s where my career was going,” he said,

noting the ongoing opioid crisis that has been worsening in B.C. “I think it’s time I spent more time and energy on this to see if I can make more of a difference than just doing it part-time.”

On April 12, IH announced the new virtual addictions services for Kamloops, Penticton, Vernon and Kelowna, which are expected to begin in the summer.

De Kock, however, has other medical roles in the community of which he will still be a part. He remains a member of the assessment and evaluation team in Kamloops for UBC’s family practice residency program, which trains new doctors to open practices, and will continue working in family medicine at Royal Inland Hospital.

De Kock said his patients will be placed on a waiting list for a new doctor as there are none accepting patients, but he noted there are about 12 vacancies for family doctors in the city. Other patient options are the Urgent Primary Care Centre at Royal Inland Hospital or virtual care like Telehealth.

According to a joint Venture Kamloops-Thompson Region Division of Family Practice committee, an estimated 900,000 British Columbians

don’t have a family doctor.

De Kock said being a family doctor is challenging and he felt a “big learning curve” when he began practising — first in Hope in 2008 and in Kamloops since 2009. He feels new medical school graduates today find it difficult and intimidating to open a practice, so instead they continue to work as locums (fill-in doctors where needed).

“We’re in this vicious cycle at the moment,” de Kock said.

He said being a family physician means doctors having to run businesses — something he thinks students aren’t prepared for when training in medical school.

“You have to employ staff, you have to cover your expenses, you have to run a business and you need to make sure you make a profit at the end of the day,” he said. “I don’t think people know how to do that and that’s why people aren’t opening offices.”

One way he believes the problem could be addressed is to allow doctors to simply focus on medicine at their practices and have the business management side of it operated by another party, such as the government or an organization.

“I think it will be easier,” he said.

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Mayoral candidate wants shelter review JESSICA WALLACE

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A mayoral candidate and spokesperson for Victoria Street West businesses and residents wants BC Housing to fund an independent review of shelters and facilities in Kamloops.

In a press release issued on Monday, Tru Market vehicle dealership owner Reid Hamer-Jackson called for an independent review into Canadian Mental Health Association and ASK Wellness Society clients in beds, rooms, apartments and shelters throughout Kamloops.

Hamer-Jackson said there has been little response from multiple levels of government and agency heads to numerous issues.

“Due to the lack of action, with respect to these facilities, problems have grown throughout our community,” Hamer-Jackson said in the release.

“Furthermore, original intent has not been followed.

(ASK Wellness Society CEO) Bob Hughes told us over 10 years ago the Emerald shelter was going to be a shelter for women and children

REID HAMER-JACKSON fleeing violence, with 24/7 nurses from IH,” HamerJackson said. “I thought that was great and was in full support. It’s disappointing that this hasn’t materialized.”

Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian, who is not seeking re-election, said he does not wish to get involved in every mayoral candidate’s platform. However, he noted that a number of reviews have already been conducted, a matter he said is between BC Housing and the social agencies.

KTW reached out to BC Housing for comment and is awaiting a response.

Hamer-Jackson furthermore stressed the need to include in the review feedback from residents, business owners, community services (bylaws) officers, outreach workers, RCMP officers, street nurses, BC

Ambulance representatives and more.

“We do not want to see BC Housing research centre data that has the residents and clients struggling with addictions and mental issues doing a review or questionnaire on themselves, with only 50 per cent participation,” HamerJackson said.

“We need a comprehensive look at all aspects.”

Hamer-Jackson said the review would include overdose deaths, crimes and emergency calls arising from the management, staff, residents, clients or visitors of the facilities.

He added the review would also help to get more wraparound services and improve community safe.

Hamer-Jackson has been vocal about street-related issues in the Victoria Street West area, first speaking with Kamloops This Week about the matter in 2020, alongside a number of other business owners.

Also seeking the mayor’s chair alongside HamerJackson are businessman and former city councillor Ray Dhaliwal and current councillors Dieter Dudy and Arjun Singh.

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Singh unveils ‘bold ideas’ in mayoral campaign Kamloops Coun. Arjun Singh announces his bid for the mayor’s chair during a March 3, 2022, press conference outside city hall. The civic election will be held on Oct. 15.

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If Coun. Arjun Singh were to become mayor, he proposes to lower city subsidization for the proposed Kamloops Centre for the Arts, have discretionary spending at city hall revised, hold monthly open office hours and host a three-month festival for healthy and low-carbon transportation.

Singh laid out campaign ideas on Monday at a press conference at Spirit Square in North Kamloops. Singh told reporters he is also beginning 100 community conversations, during which he hopes to receive ideas and have his platform reviewed from a variety of residents.

His platform, which will be finalized in August or September, closer to the Oct. 15 civic election, includes 10 “bold ideas for action.”

Singh said the job of a mayor is to lead and propose ideas, which he said should be based on innovation and evidence.

The arts centre business case includes city subsidization of operating expenses of $700,000

in year one and reduced to $380,000 by year five.

Singh suggested space in the arts centre for businesses as one idea to reduce the operating subsidy for the centre.

“I think as close to zero as possible,” he said when asked how much the city should subsidize the facility’s operating costs.

“I mean, obviously, we subsidize. We’re not in the business of

making money, but we are in the business of keeping taxes as low as possible.”

Singh pointed to increasing taxes and policing and emergency preparedness costs.

He is also proposing a review of discretionary expenses at city hall, which he described as “tough,” but “important.”

Asked what kinds of expenses should be reviewed and what

such a review would look like, Singh said it would be a conversation between staff, council and the community, but he questioned whether residents want to spend $200,000 annually on tournament bidding and fund marketing budgets.

Singh is known for being a city councillor who is readily available to the public and he wants to reserve one day each month for open office hours to hear from residents about ideas and/or concerns.

He said he wants to promote the fact that the mayor should be open to everyone.

A proposed three-month festival would focus on healthy and low-carbon transportation in an attempt to show residents how they could utilize carsharing, transit, ebiking, cycling and walking and identify how to make active transportation safer.

“It’s like Bike to Work Week on steroids,” Singh said.

Singh’s other ideas include: • establishing 24-7 crisis outreach teams; • gathering local representatives of all orders of government to work together on community safety; • funding a citizens assembly on housing supply and affordability, including recommendations for council to implement; • involve the mayor’s office in recruiting health-care professionals; • encourage expansion and business attraction that adds to the city’s tax base, such as a film studio partnership with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District; • create a business case to build a youth and seniors community centre, similar to the John Braithwaite Community Centre in North Vancouver.

Singh is among four people to announce their bid for the mayor’s chair after Mayor Ken Christian announced on Family Day he will not be seeking reelection.

Businessman Ray Dhaliwal, Coun. Dieter Duty and businessman Reid Hamer-Jackson have also declared.

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Confusing policy on cannabis, alcohol

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May 3 public hearing on a bid to move a liquor store 400 metres down the road in North Kamloops might prove to be contentious, as some neighbours fight the proposal.

Beyond the application to move the liquor store, however, is the fact the hearing has reminded us that Kamloops council and staff can make decisions that prompt many heads to be scratched in bewilderment.

Copper Tree Holdings has applied to rezone property at 780 Windsor Ave. The location is the Cooper Centre development that has replaced the Dirty Jersey pub, SoccerQuest and Bowlertime, a trio of businesses that used to operate in the building that sits at the corner of Eighth Street and York Avenue, alongside a new Tim Hortons outlet in the parking lot.

Once the rezoning sign went up, some neighbours contacted KTW to raise various concerns about a liquor store opening right across the street from Bert Edwards elementary.

Concerns include access of alcohol to young people, neighbourhood traffic, transients and garbage.

Neighbours told KTW traffic in the area has increased significantly since Tim Hortons opened next to the school.

They also noted the transient population has risen in the area since the coffee and donut shop opened (and the Tim Hortons location two kilometres away, at

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MUSINGS 481 Tranquille Rd., closed). There was also consternation brought forward regarding the proposed liquor store and the nearby Moira House shelter for the homeless, which opened on April 15.

While the proposed liquor store site was for years home to a pub within spitting distance of the school, the concerns of neighbours revolve around liquor sales and more traffic coming and going.

Amid all of this are citymandated rules regarding mindaltering substances that, for some reason, are not uniform.

In other words, alcohol and cannabis bring far different legislative responses from city hall.

As we noted in stories on the liquor store bid and some neighbourhood opposition, there are no local bylaws or provincial laws mandating liquor outlets be a specified distance from schools.

With cannabis stores, however, a Kamloops bylaw stipulates they be at least 150 metres from a school.

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Why liquor stores can be right next to a school, but cannabis stores cannot, is a mystery, especially since alcohol remains the king of health and social problems in society.

Amplifying the confusion is the fact we can have a liquor store next to a school, yet one cannot walk past that school while sipping a beer. Yet a cannabis store cannot be opened next a school, but one is allowed to walk past that school while smoking a joint.

(That bizarre scenario is brought to you courtesy provincial legislation.)

In Kamloops, cannabis stores must be at least 100 metres from another cannabis store, while liquor outlets must be at least one kilometre from one another, unless already operating prior to the adoption of the bylaw, which explains some clusters in the city.

Why we can have cannabis stores every 100 metres in approved areas, yet there must be at least 1,000 metres between liquor stores, is not clear. The

confusion is amplified when one notes the disparate rules regarding schools and these operations of legal intoxicants.

The biggest oddity, though, can be found in the oceanic gulf between what cannabis retailers must pay to the City of Kamloops for a business licence, compared to what liquor operators must pony up.

The differences are mindboggling and, as far as I can tell, do not make sense.

If you own a store in Kamloops that sells cannabis, you must pay city hall $5,000 per year to operate. If you own a store in Kamloops that sells liquor, you must pay city hall $196.40 per year to operate.

Business licence fees for nightclubs and neighbourhood pubs ($617.20) and theatres selling booze ($146) are also much, much less than what cannabis retailers must pay.

Perhaps that vast monetary discrepancy explains why the mandated distance between

$5,000-a-year cannabis stores is so much shorter than that of $196.40-per-year liquor stores.

By my count, there are 18 liquor stores and 20 cannabis stores in Kamloops. Based on those numbers, the city takes in $3,535.20 annually in business licence revenue from 18 liquor stores, while taking in $100,000 per year from 20 cannabis stores.

Why the massive discrepancy?

Liquor-related problems cost us collectively — in policing, court, health-care and myriad other expenses — far more than issues that are cannabis-related, so why are cannabis retailers required to pay 25 times more for a business licence in the city?

Perhaps it is time the operators of these new ventures ask city hall that question. However, government being government, would you wager on the cannabis cost coming down or on liquor licensing lucre lifting? editor@kamloopsthisweek.com Twitter: @ChrisJFoulds

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LET’S KEEP CITY CLEAR OF GARBAGE

KTW reader Robyn Editor: Wright wants the City As I walked the highlands trail in Upper of Kamloops to crack Editor: Aberdeen on the weekend, I was both disapdown on those who This letter is pointed and disgusted at the amount of condo not contain to acknowledge struction debris and garbage left behind by contheir garbage from the professionaltractors building new homes in the area. construction sites. ism, kindness and Is there nothing the City of Kamloops can compassion of first do to ensure these contractors clean up after responders, shown themselves? While picking up garbage in West to myself and othHighlands Park, I spoke with two homeowners ers on the night our who echoed my sentiments. friend passed away The grassland green spaces around the Upper at a local seniors Aberdeen neighborhoods are so beautiful. I hope facility in Kamloops. the city will act on keeping them garbage-free.

All those Robyn Wright responders showed Kamloops a great deal of understanding during a difficult situation. These include the first responders Editor: patients who have had heart attacks at 911, ambulance I wonder how many people in previously, I can only say I received, attendants, RCMP the Kamloops area are aware of the and continue to receive, the very officers and the incredible role Al Patel has played best care I could hope to get. coroner. over the past 10 years in support We are blessed to have the experIt was greatly of Royal Inland Hospital and, more tise we have in cardiology and other appreciated durspecifically, the cardiology unit. units. ing a very difficult, As a recipient of care I received We are also blessed to have a stressful and emoin the hospital in January 2021, man such as Al working tirelessly tional time. Thank and continuation of support from and passionately to raise funds for you. our own cath lab here so the trip to Arlene Smith special cardiac nurses/cardiologists Kelowna in the back of an ambuKamloops through the VIP program offered to

Correction There was an editing error in the letter to the editor from Dr. Grant Del Begio (‘We all deserve a doctor’) in the April 20 edition of Kamloops This Week.

The number of British Columbians who do not have a family doctor is, in fact, approximately 900,000.

JOIN AL’S TIRELESS CAMPAIGN FOR CATH LAB AT RIH lance will be a thing of the past for people already stressed out.

It has to be said that the ambulance crews are fantastic as they do their best to make the journey to and from Kelowna as bearable as possible.

However, that being said, a city the size of Kamloops, covering the area that it does, should not have to plead with anyone to get its own cath lab, which would prevent

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Mounties probing discovery of body in river KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

The Kamloops RCMP’s serious crimes unit is investigating after a human body was found in the Thompson River off Mission Flats on Monday night.

But the death of the male

is not believed to involve foul play.

Police and Kamloops Fire Rescue were called to the 2000block of Mission Flats Road at about 7 p.m. after a couple out walking their dog spotted a body in shallow water.

The Kamloops RCMP

Serious Crime Unit and the BC Coroner Service attended the scene.

Police are still working to identify the deceased male.

“Although the investigation is ongoing, the cause of death appears to be non-criminal at this time,” Const. Crystal

Evelyn said in a release.

The 2000-block of Mission Flats Road is located just west of Rabbit Island and extends to the Mission Flats Nature Park — a three-kilometre stretch that encompasses the Paper Excellence pulp mill.

The BC Coroners Service

has been called and is conducting its own, concurrent investigation into the circumstances of the person’s death.

Anyone with information related to the discovery is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and reference file 2022-13459.

Second bone found is that of an animal KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Further examination of a second bone discovered on a trail near Kamloops Airport has revealed the bone is from an animal, not a human.

On Monday, the Kamloops RCMP said the bone, found by a hiker walking their dog on April 9, had been confirmed as human. The discovery came exactly two weeks after another person walking their dog on a trail in the area off Aviation Way also found a human bone.

While the bone found on March 26 is indeed human, police say further examination by the BC Coroner Service’s identification specialist has determined the bone found on April 9 is actually from an animal, possibly a juvenile deer.

Const. Crystal Evelyn said the investigation into how the human bone ended up in the area is ongoing and is being done in conjunction with the BC Coroners Service.

Police have not revealed what type of human bone was found.

Evelyn said the human bone discovery is not related to the body discovered in the Thompson River on April 25. Police have said the death of that male is not believed to be criminal in nature.

Since March 26, the area near the airport has been searched — on land, in water and by air — by police and search and rescue personnel, with no additional human remains being found.

Anyone with information is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and reference file 2022-11538.

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Kang declares candidacy for trustee in election SEAN BRADY

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A non-incumbent school trustee candidate has emerged ahead of the October civic election.

Jo Kang, 24, said he attended schools in the Kamloops-Thompson district from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and wants to bring a youthful presence to the board of education.

If elected as school

trustee in October, Kang said his top priority will be to help further ease students out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“My No. 1 priority would be coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and jumpstarting things — getting things, hopefully, back to normal without restrictions,” he said, noting sports and group activities being hindered by restrictions over the past two years.

Kang said his other top priorities include boosting Indigenous graduation rates and assessing the budget and spending.

“I want to look at the budget, understand where money is going and, hopefully, realize that all of this money is being used correctly and in the right places,” he said.

Although Kang did not mention anything specific within the budget, he said he would like to go in with

reform in mind.

“I would like, going forward, to make some drastic changes and ruffle some feathers and actually do some changes on the school board that are well needed,” he said.

Kang said he has been working in the public service since graduating from high school. He worked as one of the city’s first community services officers in Kamloops and, for the past eight months, has worked

as a service co-ordinator for the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. He also worked as a library assistant at the ThompsonNicola Regional Library and graduated from Thompson Rivers University with a diploma in police and justice studies.

He said he also took part in school sports, including volleyball, soccer and basketball. Kang can be reached by email at jodhbirkang@gmail.com.

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Medical episode believed to have led to crash in Brock KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

A pedestrian was sent to hospital as a result of an erratic driver whose vehicle ended up crashing into a pillar in the Brock Shopping Centre on Sunday afternoon.

The bizarre crash involved a small, personal bus that struck a female pedestrian in her 60s while she was on the northern sidewalk at the intersection of Tranquille Road and Desmond Street just before 4:20 p.m., when officers responded to the scene.

After striking the pedestrian, the bus swerved into a business parking lot, collided with a parked car and a power pole and kept going until coming to rest against a building pillar, according to Kamloops RCMP Const. Crystal Evelyn.

According to Evelyn, the crash is believed to be the result of a medical episode experienced by the driver and

not criminal in nature.

The pedestrian was taken by ambulance to hospital in serious, but stable condition.

The driver, a man in his 50s, was treated for minor injuries.

Photos taken at the scene at about 5 p.m. showed the bus up against a pillar outside Gino’s Barbershop in the shopping centre. The vehicle sustained heavy damage to its front and back ends.

The vehicle was seen by witnesses driving through the parking lot of the 7-Eleven store across from the Brock Shopping Centre. There, it jumped a curb, went across Desmond, over another curb and across the Tim Hortons drive-thru before crashing into a pole outside the barbershop.

Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and reference file 2022-13303.

The vehicle was seen by witnesses driving through the parking lot of the 7-Eleven store across from the Brock Shopping Centre. There, it jumped a curb, went across Desmond, over another curb and across the Tim Hortons drive-thru before crashing into a pole outside Gino's Barbershop.

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Survey of businesses highlights criminal issues SEAN BRADY

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A new survey paints a dire picture for businesses in downtown Kamloops and on the North Shore with respect to the impact of social and criminal issues.

The survey was conducted by the North Shore Business Improvement Association, the Downtown Kamloops Business Association and the Kamloops and District Chamber of Commerce.

Surveyors contacted 1,500 businesses and compiled data based on 128 responses, with most coming from downtown (65) and North Shore (54).

Most (54 per cent) respondents indicated their business had seen a “significant increase” in impacts from criminality and social issues since 2018, while only three per cent indicated a reduction and 10 per cent said

there was no change.

A similar percentage also indicated a significant increase in impacts to customers’ perception of safety and customer complaints.

Among the most common complaints were loitering/trespassing, open drug use, needles/ hazardous waste, vandalism and defecation.

The survey also addressed costs associated with preventing or dealing with the impacts, noting $1 million in costs to responding businesses and $1.16 million in crime-prevention costs.

Crime-prevention costs noted by businesses include lighting, improved/changed locks, security cameras, staff training and fencing/barriers, with an average outlay of $9,109 per responding business.

Response to social issues and criminality was also rated by businesses, with half (48 per cent) indicating they had contacted city community service officers in the

past year and two-thirds indicating they had called the RCMP in the past year.

Thirty-four per cent said they had changed how often they called police because response times are too long, with 50 per cent saying they called less often because they thought prosecution was questionable.

Comments received by the surveyors were mixed, but in line with the survey results: • “Very slow response and unlikely to actually resolve the situation.”

• “Again, do not show up and, if they do, it’s days later. Why are we paying for a force that won’t do anything?”

• “They responded promptly at various hours of the day and night and always stayed until the problem was resolved.”

• “They can be harsh.”

The surveyors also collected general comments, with many respondents indicating problems with open drug use and a general

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Said one respondent: “I grew up in Kamloops and it saddens me how much it has changed.

Not just the downtown core, but everywhere. The garbage, the vandalism and the open using and dealing of drugs.”

Said another respondent: “In my opinion, the current social housing strategy is not working. There appears to be more criminality in all areas where social housing exists. Please stop catering to those who do not pay taxes, do not contribute to society (as employees, business owners, etc.). Our streets are more unsafe for our young people than ever before. Our resources are being disproportionately utilized for a very small segment of the population. Those who do not want to get help and are caught doing illegal activities must be taken off the streets consequentially. Please take different action for the sake of our community living.”

Some of the commenters addressed approaches they find are not working, while others proposed their own solutions.

“We need to assess the situations of the severely mentally ill people living on the street in a much different manner that doesn’t put them on the street.

They need a facility where the doors are locked and there is adequately trained staff to assist them because what is currently being done with them isn’t working,” read another comment from a responding business owner.

Going forward, annual survey data will be compared year-overyear, with some questions changing based on perceived impacts from similar issues.

“We’ll be able to understand whether impacts change based on the evolution of housing, or social supports, or criminal activity, across the entire city,” said Jeremy Heighton, executive director of the North Shore Business Improvement Association.

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Support for new school in Batchelor Heights SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com

The Kamloops-Thompson school district said the provincial government has provided formal support for a new elementary school in Batchelor Heights — a school that topped the district’s list of needs in its latest capital plan.

The district had previously requested $23.98 million in capital funding for the project.

Students living in Batchelor Heights currently attend Westmount elementary, but

that school has nearly twice as many students as it was designed for, operating at 181 per cent capacity, with 41 per cent of all students in portables.

To alleviate enrolment pressure, the district made catchment changes in March that will see 95 students from Westmount — students who live in Batchelor Heights — attend David Thompson and Westsyde elementary schools beginning in September 2022.

At the time, however, it was acknowledged by board members that the only permanent

STUDENT ATTENDANCE RATES NORMAL IN SD73

solution to the overcrowding problem was a new school.

The site for the school is near Hook Drive and Griffin Terrace.

“Our enrolment numbers are climbing by the equivalent of a medium-sized elementary school each year,” board of education chair Heather Grieve said. “This support for a new school in Batchelor Heights is a welcome sign that some relief is coming to our most overcrowded school facilities in Kamloops.”

Once the funding for the school is approved, the district

SEAN BRADY

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Student attendance rates in School District 73 have returned to normal, but absences among teachers and support staff have continued.

In the two weeks following

expects it will take three years for the design and construction phase to be completed.

“This is certainly a positive step as, throughout this last year, and years prior, we have heard from parents and staff about the need to address enrolment pressures at this school,” district Supt. Rhonda Nixon said.

It’s not the only funding the district is expecting for a new school. In 2021, the district got the nod for a new elementary school in Pineview Valley, following a request for $33

spring break, student attendance has been above average, according to the latest report from SD73 Supt.

Rhonda Nixon.

Nixon said the district continues to emphasize that masking is a personal choice and that those choices must be respected.

Daily health awareness checks also continue in order to keep those who are sick at home.

Absences among teachers were the worst on April 11, with 183 staff requesting a replacement for the day — and the equivalent of 11.5 full-time positions going

million in funding.

The province also contributed $35 million to the replacement of Parkcrest elementary, following its destruction by fire in September 2019.

Other new school projects on the district’s wish list include a new secondary school in Aberdeen ($74.9 million in funding), a new elementary school in Juniper Ridge West ($21.7 million in funding) and a new school in Sun Peaks ($25.3 million in funding). unfilled that day.

Noticing the trend, Nixon said the district has hired nine additional teachers on call and has interviewed 16 other applicants in hopes of shoring up available substitutes.

“But, overall, we’ve had less than 10 per cent of positions unfilled,” Nixon said.

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School District 73 received funds for programs in Ralph Bell elementary in Valleyview and in Happyvale elementary in Brocklehurst, each with 24 spaces for children under

three years of age and 48 spaces for children three years old to school-aged.

The spaces are expected to become available in the spring of 2023.

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Part of the funding agreement, which grants each site $2.8 million, is that SD73 continue to operate each space for no less than 15 years.

The district will use the funds to acquire four portables for each school site, to be placed in the fields of each school, according to Grant Reilly, the assistant superintendent for early learning and elementary at SD73.

Reilly said the $2.8 million in funding is basically just for the buildings, and staff costs for new hires will be covered by the district under its fee

structure.

“The whole idea is to make this as affordable as possible for families,” Reilly told KTW. The provincial government funded a total of 336 new child-care spaces in the ThompsonCariboo. This includes spaces in Sun Peaks, where 45 spaces will be created — 16 for infants and toddlers, 24 for children ages twoand-a-half to kindergarten age and five for school-aged children.

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This year’s Brewloops will be a oneday event on Saturday, May 28.

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Canada’s highest court rejects Kamloops man’s bid for appeal hearing on second-degree murder conviction MICHAEL POTESTIO

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Canada’s highest court will not hear an appeal from a Kamloops man convicted of seconddegree murder, ending his years-long bid for a new trial.

Stephen George Fraser, who is in his early 60s, was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in 2018 to a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for at least 12 years in connection with the Feb. 11, 2017, stabbing death of 26-year-old Cody Foster.

Fraser applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal the judgment of the B.C. Court of Appeal, which

ruled against his claim in November 2021.

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed hearing Fraser’s appeal in a decision posted April 21 — the last possible avenue for a new trial.

Fraser had appealed his conviction on the grounds Crown counsel prejudiced his right to a fair trial when cross-examining him and submitting to the jury that he tailored his evidence to fit the disclosure he was given of Crown’s forensic reports. He also argued prosecutor Alex Janse inaccurately summarized the forensic evidence in her jury address.

The B.C. Court of Appeal found Crown had the right to cross-examine Fraser on whether he had

Cody Foster was killed at this RV park in east Kamloops on Feb. 11, 2017. Stephen George Fraser was later convicted of second-degree murder.

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constructed his evidence to fit Crown’s forensic evidence because his testimony in regards to how events unfolded was inconsistent with how he had described

those events in a statement to the police. The court also determined there was nothing improper in Janse’s jury address and that in the context of the

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“By that time, in my view, Mr. Fraser will pose a very low risk to public safety,” B.C. Supreme Court Justice Len Marchand said at the time of Fraser’s sentencing.

Foster was found dead in a trailer in an RV park near the BC Wildlife Park in east Kamloops. Fraser claimed at trial to have been acting in self-defence, but failed to sway a jury.

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Governor general at Tk’emlúps ceremony MICHAEL POTESTIO

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Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc will host a ceremony marking a year since it announced finding signs of 200 probable graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The all-day event will be held on May 23 at the Tk’emlúps Powwow Arbour, at 345 Powwow Trail, beginning at 5 a.m. with a sunrise ceremony, followed by numerous speakers, dancing and drumming.

Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon, will also be in attendance for the event, which will wrap up at 7 p.m. with closing remarks.

Tk’emlúps announced on May 27, 2021, that over the Victoria Day long weekend, it found signs of 215 potential unmarked burial sites

using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) that detected disturbances in the soil that displayed characteristics associated with graves.

They were found across two acres of an apple orchard near the Secwépemc Museum and Heritage Park, just south of the brick building that housed the school, which operated from 1890 to 1977.

The band believes the probable graves belong to children who did not return home from the Kamloops Indian Residential School, having dubbed them Le Estcwicwey (the missing).

In July 2021, the 215 number was revised to 200 probable graves by GPR expert Dr. Sarah Beaulieu of the University of the Fraser Valley, who led the search.

The number was revised after records of previous archaeological work and construction in the search area

came to light that could have impacted the results.

“With ground-penetrating radar, we can never say definitely they are human remains until you excavate, which is why we need to pull back a little bit and say they are probable burials, they are targets of interest,” Beaulieu said at the time.

“They have multiple signatures that present as burials, but because of that, we have to say they are probable until one excavates.”

No excavation has been done to date on the site, but Tk’emlúps representatives told CBC’s Fifth Estate in January of this year that the band intends to do so.

Ted Gottfriedson, the band’s language and culture manager, said there are elders who want the site to be left alone, but a Tk’emlúps committee decided the site will be exhumed.

Former Tk’emlúps kúkpi7 (chief) Manny Jules, who chaired that committee, told the CBC that family representatives at the meeting all agreed on that course of action, noting their main goal is to repatriate those remains.

Since the discovery last May, the band has conducted additional GPR searches — one on the same property as the May discovery site and the other across Highway 5, where the band is building a grocery store, Tk’emlúps Kúpki7 Rosanne Casimir told KTW. She said there were no further findings of graves, but some artifacts were recovered.

Tk’emlúps has also been calling for any outstanding or concealed government and church records pertaining to the Kamloops Indian Residential School to be released for its investigation into missing children who may be buried at the site.

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Rec facilities receive cash boost from city QUESTIONS ABOUT WHICH RECREATIONAL GROUPS SHOULD RECEIVE CITY OF KAMLOOPS FUNDS WERE RAISED AT CITY COUNCIL DURING RECENT SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET TALKS JESSICA WALLACE

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Questions about which recreational groups should receive city funds were raised at city council during recent supplemental budget talks.

Council approved an additional $80,000 in Norbrock Stadium upgrades at the request of the Kamloops NorthPaws baseball team. The city had already began work on $70,000 worth of upgrades at the stadium on McArthur Island in anticipation of the West Coast League team’s inaugural season, which begins on May 31.

According to staff, that money was within the city’s existing budget and council was asked to approve the additional funding from the city’s gambling reserves in order to

complete numbered seating in stands, a temporary press box, umpire room upgrades, padding on exposed steel and concrete, widened pitcher mounds, additional safety netting on stadium chairs and fuel (propane) for a food truck.

Coun. Bill Sarai said he has heard positive community feedback, including anticipation of the North Paws season.

Council voted unanimously, 9-0, in favour of the funding request.

The Kamloops Tennis Centre, will be provided a loan for $175,000 to complete geotechnical work and court resurfacing at its facility at 758 Front St., east of downtown.

Coun. Arjun Singh said he struggled with the idea of providing the club with a loan and said he preferred to see the club receive a contribution.

Singh said the facility, which is on city land, is a community asset, similar to the BC Wildlife Park or Kamloops Heritage Railway. He questioned support for the NorthPaws and what policy was being applied for financial support to local recreation groups. Singh suggested the city could fund upgrades via the city’s community works fund.

The city’s community services director, Byron McCorkell, said Norbrock Stadium will be utilized by the general public in addition to the NorthPaws. He likened it to Sandman Centre and the Kamloops Blazers, along with the Kamloops Curling Club, which has also received a city loan in the past.

He said even though the city owns the land upon which the tennis club operates, the club requires membership and

restricts access.

Coun. Kathy Sinclair, however, said the tennis club is run by a non-profit society and noted the public can book tennis courts. She said the idea that the centre is a “country club” gives the wrong impression.

Sarai made a motion to offer the $175,000 loan to the club.

Mayor Ken Christian and councillors Dale Bass, Dieter Dudy, Mike O’Reilly and Denis Walsh voted in favour. Councillors Sadie Hunter, Singh and Sinclair were opposed.

Council also voted to support a request from the Kamloops Volleyball Association to build a washroom for tournaments at a cost of $325,000. An annual taxation requirement of $35,000 will also be required to maintain the facility.

Sarai suggested hiring a private company to provide wash-

rooms during volleyball tournaments, rather than the city take on the ongoing maintenance.

In the past, the city has faced costs for extensive vandalism to public washrooms.

However, the city’s community development manager, Barb Berger, noted need for a community washroom on the North Shore and said the facility will be indestructible.

She said intention to put the washroom in a higher traffic area was unsuccessful, noting businesses did not want it.

Council voted unanimously in favour of the request. The project will be funded with money allocated for the deprioritized North Shore washroom ($210,000), and with cash from the community works funds ($85,000). The Kamloops Volleyball Association will contribute $30,000.

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Sabrina Stace (left) and Stephanie Kong visit the Kamloops Regional Farmers’ Market opening day this past Saturday.

The market is downtown in the 200-block of St. Paul Street and runs Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. through Oct. 29. The Wednesday markets will begin on May 4 and take place in the 400-block of Victoria Street from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year an accessibility ramp has improved access to the schoolyard at the former Stuart Wood elementary via the middle gate in the market area. Organizers say it has long been a barrier to those using wheelchairs, mobility scooters and walkers in accessing that area of the market. As for COVID-19 protocols, organizers will continue to follow safety protocols outlined by the BC Centre of Disease Control. Masks are not required, but visitors make the choice for themselves. The market will see the majority of vendors arrive from within a 100-kilometre radius of Kamloops.

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KTW named a finalist for 2021 Michener Award KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

Kamloops This Week is a finalist for the 2021 Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism, Canada’s premier journalism award.

KTW has been named a finalist for its series of stories examining spending at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District under former CAO Sukh Gill.

The judges has this to say about the KTW investigation: “They began to pursue the money trail; conducting dozens of interviews, filing dozens of Freedom of Information requests and ultimately creating a database that detailed five years of question-

able spending of taxpayer resources.

“Their stories resulted in major policy changes tightening district oversight on everything from grants and sponsorships to catering and dining, the launching of an RCMP criminal investigation and an independent forensic audit that only confirmed KTW’s findings.

“The journalists conducted their investigation at a time when they were pressed to cover other major stories: the pandemic, B.C. wildfires and a federal election.

“If civic governance is the bedrock of democracy, then the independent work done by this newsroom is an outstanding example of the bedrock of journal-

ism.”

Other finalists for the 2021 Michener Award include CBC News, CBC Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatoon, Global News and the Globe and Mail with two entries.

“Despite the challenges of working in the second long year of a pandemic, I am heartened to see the number and quality of submissions for the 2021 Michener Award,” Michener Foundation president Pierre-Paul Noreau said.

“The scope and depth of these investigations are remarkable and their impacts will be felt for years to come.

Journalists have increasingly become the target of threats and verbal abuse — and even violence — by those who no longer believe in facts. But our judges this year were inspired by these newsrooms’ dogged efforts to uncover the truth and pursue it for the public good.”

Added chief judge Margo Goodhand: “I was most impressed with the strength and variety of submissions this year, coming from both large national newsrooms and smaller community newsrooms, as well as smaller web-based publications across the country.”

The Michener Award was founded in 1970 by then-governor general Roland Michener to honour excellence in public-service journalism. The judges’ decisions are heavily influenced by the degree of public benefit generated by the print, broadcast and online stories submitted for consideration.

Judges for the 2021 Michener Awards were Goodhand, former editor of the Winnipeg Free Press and the Edmonton Journal, Pierre Tourangeau, former ombudsman and news director of Radio-Canada, Sally Reardon, former senior CBC-TV news producer, Katherine Sedgwick, journalism professor at Loyalist College and former deputy editor of Montreal Gazette, Jim Compton, producer at Rising Day Media, formerly of CHUM-TV and APTN, and Mary McGuire: retired journalism professor at Carleton University.

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pring is a time of awakening from the colder winter months, a time when new growth of plants begins.

Some growth is a result of the life cycle of the plant, but some plants need fire to stimulate their growth. This is achieved through the use of cultural burning for land management.

Cultural burning has been practised worldwide by Indigenous cultures for generations. If we look after the land, it will look after us.

As grasses and shrubs in the bottom valleys slowly emerge from dormancy, there is a window of time where brown, cured grasses can be burned in a careful and controlled manner by experienced individuals prior to green up to “clean up” areas and improve habitat.

Fire Keepers, an English term that has been adopted recently by First Nations in Canada and tribal nations across both North and South America, are working to educate the public about the importance of traditional ecological fire knowledge and how it benefits all of us.

Fire Keepers look at local weather conditions, such as winds, humidity and terrain to plan and design burns.

These cool burns (approximately less than 260 C) are based in ceremony and involve controlled, low intensity, slow burning of select areas of land that are planned in the spring and fall.

LEFT: A spring 2020 cultural burn for rose hips and Saskatoons on the Coldwater reserve lands in the Nlaka’pamux territory. A cultural burn on the Coldwater reserve in spring 2021.

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In many First Nation communities, it was the grandmothers who determined where burns were to take place.

As family matriarchs, they knew areas that needed to be managed or areas of food harvest. This knowledge centres on the respect and care for the land and acknowledges the intimate relationship between plants, people, smoke, soil and controlled burns.

Syilx Fire Keeper and retired fire warden Walter Archachan, who has worked in the Merritt Fire Zone for more than 50 years said “our lands need a good smudge.”

The smudge is coming from the smoke — from good smoke. Good smoke is lightcoloured. It can be white, which indicates that material is off-gassing moisture and water vapour, meaning the fire is just starting to consume material.

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Grey smoke on the land indicates a slow-burning fire, with larger shrubs and logs burning. Scientific data is also reminding us that plants, trees and animals also benefit from good smoke.

The benefits from controlled cultural burns are vast. Cultural burns enhance plant growth for hunting and basket materials, cycle nutrients back into the soil (calcium, potassium and magnesium, to name a few), reduce massive fuel buildup, improve tree resiliency and reduce pest infestations.

Burns also improve ground bird nesting habitats as birds lay their eggs in black burnt areas to speed up egg incubation. We also see an improvement in ungulate (deer, moose, elk, sheep and caribou) and bear habitat.

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Cultural burns also retain water in the forest canopy, soils and wetlands, helping prevent catastrophic wildfires. Salish Fire Keepers Society members are working with Interior communities to relay implementation of this land-based practice.

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uke Toporowski has a soft spot for Spokane and its Chiefs, with whom he played 223 regular-season games and 21 post-season contests.

He’s also skewering his former club, with a WHL-leading five goals in three post-season games for the Kamloops Blazers, who cruised to a 5-1

victory over the Chiefs on Monday at Sandman Centre, the win giving them a 3-0 stranglehold in the best-of-seven Western Conference quarterfinal series.

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“I put in my all in my time in Spokane,” said Toporowski, who had 76 goals and 165 points in 223 games for the Chiefs. “I’d like to think I worked really hard when I was there and did everything I could to help the team and the city. I love the city so much. I love the fans. I

can’t say anything bad about Spokane. It will always be home and I’m just hoping they kind of feel the same way about me.”

Kamloops is proving to be a better, deeper team than Spokane and the visitors, who were starting backup goaltender Cooper Michaluk in place of injured No. 1 Mason Beaupit, needed to play a near perfect game on Monday and get some bounces to get back into the series.

They conceded first, at 2:55 of the first period, went 0-for-6

on the power play and generated next to zero Grade A scoring chances.

“Until that final horn goes and you’re eliminated, you’ve got to hope and you’ve still got to believe,” said Chiefs’ interim head coach Ryan Smith, noting his club started well, but its anemic power play and the opportunistic Blazers were too much to overcome.

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Toporowski, who had a goal disallowed at 2:10 of the first period, opened the scoring for real less than a minute later and gave fans a laugh with an exaggerated point at goal, as if to say, “That one counts.”

With eight points in three games, Toporowski is second in WHL playoff scoring. His linemate, Logan Stankoven, leads the way with 10 points, including a goal and two helpers on Monday.

“Drew [Englot] opens up a lot of ice for us and he’s just awesome on the forecheck,” Toporowski said. “Logan is the best player in the league. He makes plays and makes it easy for me. I’m just happening to bury my chances right now.”

Fraser Minten tallied his third goal of the post-season, a power-play marker at 18:44 of the opening frame, and Stankoven, with his fourth of the playoffs, gave the home team a 3-0 lead early in the second stanza.

“We want to get this series over with,” Toporowski said. “To get that done in four would be ideal, but they’re a good team.

We have to give them credit. We have to come out in Game 4 and be ready to play.”

Erik Atchison broke Garand’s shutout bid at 14:33 of the second period, but Daylan Kuefler, sporting stitches above his lip after taking a slap shot to the face in Game 2, restored the Blazers’ three-goal cushion less than three minutes later.

Co-captain Quinn Schmiemann notched his first goal of the playoffs, a powerplay marker, to round out the

scoring at 6:44 of the third period.

“We get two. They get zero,” Blazers’ head coach Shaun Clouston said when asked about his team’s special-teams performance, which included a 2-for-6 outing on the power play. “That’s a big part of the game.”

Michaluk, who turned 17 in January and is undergoing trial

by Blazers’ fire, stopped 34 shots in a losing effort.

Kamloops netminder Dylan Garand has a .959 save percentage and 1.01 goals-against average after three post-season contests, numbers bolstered by a proficient 25-save performance on Monday.

“Garand was real good tonight — like really good,” Clouston said. “Not just stopping the puck, but his puck handling, his gamesmanship.

He was real good for us.”

The series has a 3-3-1 format due to a scheduling conflict with a Paul McCartney concert this week in Spokane.

Crowds never eclipsed the 4,000-person mark in the opening three tilts in the Tournament Capital, with 3,981 in attendance for the 9-0 romp on Friday, 3,900 on Saturday and 2,962 on Monday.

“They’ve been pretty loud,” said Garand, the New York Rangers’ prospect. “They’re not sellouts. But for the amount of people here, it’s been really loud, especially that first night, with all the towels. That was really cool. Tonight is a Monday night. It’s not a great night for fans, but they were still out. We appreciate them being loud, they’ve been good so far and we’ll see if it gets better going on.”

The road-weary Chiefs are expecting a boisterous crowd on Friday, when they must win against Toporowski and the favoured Blazers to avoid a firstround sweep.

“We haven’t been home at all,” Smith said. “Twelve of 13 games on the road to end the season and start the playoffs. It’s

not ideal to play three in a row on the road. We’re looking forward to getting into the arena in front of our fans. There has to be desperation in everything we do. Our home crowd and maybe getting in our own beds for a few nights surely will help.”

EXTRA FRAME The Chiefs will soon introduce a new general manager, a replacement for Scott Carter, who, citing health and family reasons, announced in January he will leave the organization at the end of this season.

Gregg Drinnan, in his blog Taking Note, wrote in February he was told former Blazers’ general manager Matt Bardsley is “in the mix” for the job in Spokane.

KTW spotted Bardsley, an amateur scout for the Philadelphia Flyers, inside the Chiefs’ coaches’ room after the game on Monday in Kamloops.

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Minutes after the conclusion of their ultimate game, a lopsided victory for the South Kamloops Titans over the underdogs from Grand Forks secondary, the teams gathered to mingle and soon a sort of highland fling broke out.

They danced and chanted while South Kam co-coach Alysia Francis struggled to talk over the merriment.

“What you’re seeing right here is done up to the highest level,” said Francis, the B.C. School Sports ThompsonOkanagan zone rep for ultimate, a game that entails plenty of running and the passing and catching of a disc.

“At worlds, you’ll see teams do that. They gather at the end and just kind of recognize the sportsmanship that happened on the field, highlight a couple of players — and sometimes they even play a game.”

The Titans hosted and won a 13-team tournament last weekend on McArthur Island.

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“My favourite part about it is everybody on the field is friends,” said Issa Diaou, who showed off his rocket arm, athleticism and tenacity throughout the game against Grand Forks.

“Not only do you have to compete with the other team, you’re also there to build friendships and bonds.”

South Kamloops placed 11th at the ultimate provincial high school championship in 2019. The pandemic pre-empted the 2020 season.

Francis was concerned about the sport losing momentum due to the

COVID-19 hiatus, but any fears were quashed when 60 students signed up for training sessions in 2021.

“Apparently, ultimate is the second-fastest growing sport in Canada, behind pickleball,” Francis said. “Probably the thing that makes it most unique is it’s self-officiated.

Our athletes need to learn 250 pages of rules if they want to be a very good and respectful athlete. They call all their own fouls.”

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“I just love this sport so much,” said Sydney Fraser, a multi-sport athlete at South Kam. “Everything about it. It got me hooked. Ultimate — it makes my day to play.”

Only one team from the Thompson-Okanagan region will advance to the 2022 B.C. High School Ultimate Championships, which will take place on May 28 and May 29 in Surrey.

The Titans are aiming to have a great time while trying to get there.

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President Doug Clark said his Kamloops Venom look to be rejuvenated after the pandemic pause and it appears the same can be said of the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League.

“It sounds like it’s really good,” Clark said. “Kelowna’s got a really good group. Vernon is strong, as usual. South Okanagan and Armstrong both seem like they’re ready to rock.”

Three years ago, the junior B circuit was down to three teams, with the Kelowna Raiders folding prior to the 2018 campaign and the Armstrong Shamrocks following suit in 2019.

Kelowna, now playing under the Kodiaks moniker, and Armstrong are back in the fold for 2022, rejoining the Venom, South Okanagan Flames and Vernon Tigers to round out the five-team league.

“It was painful, like for everybody else,” Clark said of inactivity during the pandemic. “When you’re driven to compete, whether it’s as an executive, player or coach, to have that taken away from you is very painful. It was a very slow to start, but as we started going and word started to

ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW Brandon Jacobsen of the Kamloops Venom slips a Vernon check in Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League play in Memorial Arena in June of 2019.

spread, more and more kids just came back to the game. I think it’s probably just a result of them itching to play again.”

More than 35 players have participated for the Venom in pre-season practices and games.

Roster cuts were expected to take place on April 26.

Kamloops will begin the TOJLL season this weekend with a home-and-home set against Kelowna.

The Kodiaks will play host on Saturday, April 30, a 7 p.m. start at

Rutland Arena, with the rematch slated for Sunday, May 1, a 5 p.m. faceoff for the Venom’s home opener at Memorial Arena.

South Okanagan bested Kamloops 3-1 in the 2019 championship series to win the TOJLL title for the first time in the league’s 20-year history. Both teams featured displaced players from the clubs that folded.

The Tigers and Venom met each season in the championship series from 2012 to 2018, with Kamloops posting a 4-3 record.

Saskatchewan and Manitoba vying for a doubles championship and men’s and women’s fours titles.

Team Brown, which included skip Corryn Brown, third Erin Pincott, second Rachel Erickson and lead Samantha Fisher, along with coach Allison MacInnes,

knocked off Beth Peterson of Manitoba 5-3 in the final to claim the winners’ cheque of $10,000.

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JO BERRY Founder, RunClub/Boogie the Bridge

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DANIEL MILLS Executive director Kamloops Symphony What a blast!

In short, my first in-person Boogie did not disappoint.

After arriving at McDonald Park at about 7:15 a.m. — after less than the ideal hours of sleep due to our Kamloops Symphony concert the night before — I did a quick warmup, wished my fellow RunClubbers well and made my way to the start line.

In the start corral with the other 21.1K runners, it was clear everyone was so excited to be back racing, myself included.

My race strategy was to head out with a personal best in mind, but also to see how the day went and not worry if things didn’t work out. After all, fun can certainly be had without striving for records.

Go time came and I started knocking off the race one kilometre at a time. Hearing the bands and other entertainment on the course was certainly a highlight. We were reunited with the racers who were completing the other distances and live music is something I obviously 100 per cent support.

But my absolute favourite part of the race was seeing the other RunClubbers I have met over the past few weeks, cheering them on and getting return cheers.

During the last few kilometres, I picked up my pace and the sounds of the bands got louder.

Final result? An in-person personal best in the 21.1K distance and a whole lot of smiling.

Thank you to Jo and the RunClub and Boogie teams for putting on an incredible event. I’ll definitely be at Boogie 2023 — and so should you!

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PAUL DE LUCA Sales representative Kamloops This Week This past Sunday is what everything had been for.

I had heard stories about Boogie, but it surpassed everything I expected. The atmosphere was electric as I was about to start. It was hard to not get caught up in the energy and want to sprint out of the gate with all my added enthusiasm.

I managed to contain myself and keep a steady pace.

The race was fantastic. I passed singers, dancers, cheerleaders — basically anything to avoid listening to my increasingly laboured breath.

Close to halfway through the race, I started to see people doubling back, I came across Daniel Mills. I was filled with joy to see him doing so well. As I finished the race, I was elated/ I had achieved my goal. As I soaked in my surroundings, I noticed how I was surrounded by all kinds of racers who were sharing my feelings. It was amazing to be in an environment of pure joy, happiness and accomplishment.

Sitting back and now reflecting on my journey, I feel it is paramount to give recognition to all the people who helped me get to this point.

These include my coaches, Howie, Tanja and Terry, the RunClub members who helped provide wisdom or an avenue to vent. And my girlfriend, Corrine, who supported me start to finish. These include the volunteers who donated their time and skill and, of course, Jo Berry, without whom none of this would have happened.

Thanks to everyone. You have changed my life.

his past Sunday, we celebrated being back. The CFJC-TV Boogie the Bridge took flight after a two-year hiatus with a sky full of sunshine and a community abundant with smiles. So many feelings, so many emotions.

Upon seeing our community back together in that big sea of red, there are no words to describe the feeling except to say it was felt deeply in the heart.

The colour red has never been so powerful and meaningful. Boogie red has always symbolized love, kindness, energy and change.

This year, the 25th annual Boogie, featured a park full of heart-centered humans all sharing the same heartspace. All in agreement. This Boogie felt amazing.

It takes a whole community to raise a Boogie as a huge amount of energy, time and passion goes into creating an event of this magnitude. A huge thank you to all the incredible sponsors, our charity, community partners, entertainers, volunteers and fabulous participants. Together, they all create the vibration of community health and happiness that is felt all morning.

Let us also salute our incredible Boogie team members, without whom there would be no Boogie. They never missed a meeting for the past two years. Together we Zoomed, laughed, cried, made decisions and expelled the biggest and best effort to keep Boogie alive. The 8 Days of Boogie happened virtually in 2020 and 2021. The past two years tried to break us (personally and professionally), but didn’t.

This past Sunday, we stood in our traditional team circle. It’s our way of coming together and making an offering and a prayer to keep our participants safe. It is an important reminder to not get stuck in the quicksand of self. There is no finer motivation than love for community.

Thank you Kamloops.

See you next year!

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Robert W. Doull, Publisher of Kamloops This Week, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ray Jolicoeur to the position of General Manager of Kamloops This Week.

Ray has worked in the newspaper industry for more than thirty years in a variety of roles from pressman to advertising sales and management. He was the founder of Edge Publishing Inc. which published the Downtown, North Shore and Senior’s Own Echo publications. Ray has held the position of Sales Manager with Kamloops This Week since 2017 and is Google Certified in Digital Fundamentals and Google Analytics.

Ray’s involvement in the community is quite extensive, including roles on the boards of Interior Community Services, Oncore Community Services and the Kamloops Sports Legacy Fund Society.

Ray is the recipient of the City of Kamloops Distinguished Service Award for his service to our community.

“We’re pleased that as our community grows out of COVID, Kamloops This Week can benefit from Ray’s experience,” said Doull.

“He will be a great asset to our team and our customers in this new role.”

Robert W. Doull, Publisher of Kamloops This Week, is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris Wilson to the position of General Sales Manager of Kamloops This Week and KTW Digital.

Chris came to us over four years ago to head our KTW Digital division and has had great success connecting our clients with products that help them reimagine their business in an ever changing digital marketplace.

He brings a formal education in business marketing and a history of success in the marketing industry. Chris has a wealth of knowledge and experience from past roles as a Sales Manager at a local radio station and at a promotional and branding shop located here in Kamloops.

Chris attributes his past success to putting the client’s needs first and having a strong connection to the community. Pre-covid Chris was an active Rotarian and served on not-for-profit boards and still donates his time as an active board member for The Modern Man Family Project.

Aa a dedicated father of three, Chris understands the work life balance that many business professionals face on a daily basis and strives to continue the family first culture that he has thrived in over the past years at Kamloops This Week.

Please join me in welcoming Chris to his new role.

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Kitchen cupboards brown, inclds pantry with 3 pull-outs. $850. 778220-0499.

Satellite phone Model Iridium 9505A handset w/attachments. $1300.

250-374-0650.

Shoprider Scooter. $750.

250-574-0325.

Tonneau cover for 2003 Ford Supercab 7ft. $200/obo. 250-851-8884.

Trek Madone 5, Project Series 1, fully carbon, 56cm. custom frame, like new. Numerous accessories. $2700-firm.

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For Sale - Misc 42” Panasonic TV. $75.

2 Sony speakers $200/each. JVC 3 disc DVD player. $50. Corner part of sofa $125. 250579-9483.

60pc set of Royal Albert dishes. Celebration pattern. $400. 250-682-7622.

6pc Bedroom set like new. $500. 1 Western Horse Saddle $150/each.

Miter saw $125. Battery charger $65. Angel grinder $75. Small radial alarm saw $50. 250-374-8285.

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Plants / Shrubs / Trees Scotch Pine trees smaller ponderosa in pots 2ft (50) $10 each obo 250376-6607

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Antique Duncan Phyfe table, extra leaf, buffet, hutch and 4 chairs. Exec cond. $600.

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Boats 12ft. Alum flat bottom boat. $800.

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• Parcel Identifier: 017-029-040, Block C of District Lot 343 and of Section 26 Township 20 Range 19 West of the Sixth Meridian, Kamloops Division Yale District

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Motorcycles 2017 Harley Davidson Road King Milwaukee 8 engine.

35,000kms. $14,000/obo.

236-3133152

Sports & Imports 1995 Volvo SW, 940 turbo. Classic. Exec cond. $2,100. 250-672-9712.

Huge Selection of Items – Over 1500 Lots – Partial List includes: Jewellery, Watches, Ladies Handbags, Antiques, Collectables, Train Collectables, Modern Furnishings, Electronics including 86” TV, Bedroom & Dining Suites, Queen Size Elec. Bed, Music Instruments, Large & Small Appliances, Paintings & Prints, Furs, Sports Jerseys, Camping Gear, Golf Clubs, Fishing Gear, Bikes, Digital Cameras, Vacuums, Patio Furniture, Laptops, Plus Much More!!!

Vehicles & Misc. 1994 Ford E350 Diesel Cube Van, 2008 & 2006 Chev Impalas, 2009 Pontiac Torrent, 16’ & 12’ Flat Deck Trailers, Suzuki RV125 Trail Bike, 12’ Alum. Boat, John Deere Riding Mower.

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• Parcel Identifier: 017-029-503, Block E, District Lot 342 and District Lot 343 and of Section 26 Township 20 Range 19 West of the Sixth Meridian, Kamloops Division Yale District • Parcel Identifier: 017-029-805, Block F, District Lot 342 and District Lot 343 and of Section 25 and Section 26 Township 20 Range 19 West of the Sixth Meridian, Kamloops Division Yale District Anyone having concerns or comments with regard to the above proposal, please contact me/us at the above address or Tim McLeod Project Manager by email (tim.ignition@ gmail.com) in order that I/we may discuss the issues and arrive at a mutually acceptable arrangement. Objections to this application may be directed to Colleen Dreger, Assistant Water Manager, Thompson Rivers District, 1265 Dalhousie Drive, Kamloops, BC V2C 5Z5, or Colleen.Dreger@gov.bc.ca. The comments should quote File Number 20012815 and should be made within Thirty (30) days of the publication of this notice.

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The (a) point of diversion will be located about 50.72164 / -120.54318. The quantity of water to be diverted or stored is 1,144,757 m3/year average. lat/long and the purpose for which the water will be used is domestic and lawn irrigation.

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I/We Tim McLeod with Ignition Tranquille Developments Ltd. of 9075 Queen Street, PO Box 1160, Stn. Fort Langley, BC, have applied for a water licence to divert water out of Kamloops Lake which flows West and discharges into Thompson River N, E, S, W and give notice of our application to all persons affected.

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Eliza Archie Memorial School 1.0 FTE School Calendar Year – September 2022 – June 2023 On Year Term Contract (renewable) Principal

RATE OF PAY:

Based on Canim Lake Band Teacher Salary Grid

Eliza Archie Memorial School, a Community School, located in beautiful Canim Lake area, is seeking a 1.0 FTE Principal for Academic Year September 2022-June 2023.

Our educators work as part of a collaborative, energetic teaching team focused on creating success for all our students. Our staff follows the BC Curriculum with additional programs such as Readwell, Reading Mastery, Six Minute Solution, Jump Math supported by the First Nations Schools Association.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION INCLUDE: • Bachelor of Education ~ Preferred Master of Education in Administrator Leadership ~ enrolled in or completed • Must be a member of BC College of Teachers in good standing • Training and experience working in a First Nations School • Demonstrated ability in leadership and team building KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • A commitment to incorporating Professional Learning Communities initiative • Knowledge and/or experience working with the education programs offered through the First Nations School Association, i.e. Readwell, Reading Mastery, Dibels Testing, CAT testing, Jump Math and Six Minute Solution; • A commitment and demonstrated ability to nurture a school culture that is inclusive of and focused on the learning needs of diverse learners; • Knowledge and understanding of First Nations education issues and highly successful experience working with First Nations Communities; • Demonstrated knowledge of research driven instructional assessment strategies especially for elementary; • Demonstrated conflict resolution and problem skills • Demonstrated knowledge of BC Ministry prescribed learning outcomes and current resources for the elementary level; • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with parents, staff and community; • Innovative ideas and experience in developing and supporting a positive, safe and caring school climate; • Criminal Record Check clearance COMPETENCIES: • Must be adaptable, flexible and be willing to work closely in a collaborative teaching environment • Preference will be given to those candidates who have experience in First Nations Schools Thank you for your interest in the position, but only those short-listed for an interview will be contacted.

DEADLINE: Monday, May 16, 2022 Please submit cover letter with resume, references to: Michelle Archie, Education Administrator Canim Lake Band Box 1030, 100 Mile House, B.C., V0K 2E0 EMAIL: michelle.archie@canimlakeband.com PHONE NUMBER: 250-397-2225 FAX NUMBER: 250-397-2334

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Rte 485 – 690 Robson Dr, 2020 & 2084 Robson Pl. – 50 p.

Rte 492 – 2000-2099 Monteith Dr, Sentinel Crt. – 35 p.

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Rte 525 – Farrington Crt, Greybriar Crt, 2132-2196 Van Horne Dr. – 53 p.

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Rte 532 – Harrison Pl & Way, 1181-1290 Howe Rd. – 38 p.

Rte 542 – Coal Hill Pl, Crosshill Dr, Dunbar Dr. – 58 p.

Rte 544 - 2070-2130 Van Horne Dr, Holyrood Cir. & Pl. – 23 p.

RAYLEIGH Rte 830 – Chetwynd Dr, Stevens Dr. – 55 p.

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Pl, Marsh Rd, Paul Rd, Peter Rd, 2440-2605 Thompson Dr. - 58 p.

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Rte 61 – Popp St, Stratford Pl, 1371-1413 Tranquille Rd, Waterloo Pl, Woodstock Pl. – 38 p.

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Aaron Mitchell Manson September 13, 1994 - April 26, 2021 Age 26 years

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February 27, 1947 - April 12, 2022 Herb passed away at Gemstone Care Centre surrounded by his family. It has been a long journey as in 2016 he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle and he subsequently went on to develop a frontal temporal dementia. He knew who everyone was right to the end and gave great hugs.

Drake Smith, MSW Funeral Director Every Wednesday in KTW! Q. Can part of Murray go back to Scotland?

He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Alix, his children David (Nicole) and Jenn (Aiden), three grandkids (Mattias, Wren and Kylan) and his four siblings.

A. Some countries are more open to this than others. It’s best to check with the consulate if you’re not sure. I’ve heard from many people who have taken an urn or a keepsake to another country without incident. But I’d check to make sure.

Herb worked for the City of Kamloops as a Manager. His life was his family and friends. He loved skiing at Sun Peaks, being at the little Shuswap Lake cottage, bike riding and travelling. In between, he was always building or fixing something! Our family is very grateful for the community of support we’ve received on this journey.

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We invite you to visit, with a friend or in solo, Aaron’s picnic table near the entrance of Peterson Creek park located downtown Kamloops BC, and/or Aarons bench at TRU located outside near the entrance of the International building, where he was creating the best version of himself.

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John Cartwright April 29, 1934 – May 3, 2021

Never a day goes by without remembering our time together, so many thoughts and so many precious memories.

Gone but not forgotten.

Love from your wife Marjorie, Stu, Kim and family, Hugh, Jan and family.

Thanks to Dr. Bantock, Jana and Brooke (our home caregivers), YMCA John Tod Centre, Jenny and Dr. Barb at Elderly Services, Seniors Wellness/Home Health, the amazing team at Gemstone Care Centre, Drake Cremation Services, and our family and friends.

Donations may be made in Herb’s name to either the Kamloops YMCA or Brocklehurst Gemstone Care Centre.

A celebration of life will be held at our cottage on May 14, 2022.

Megan Perry Megan was born March 14, 1925 at Royal Inland Hospital and passed away on April 19, 2022.

Megan was raised in the North Thompson Valley and cherished many happy memories in the Darfield area. Megan moved to Kamloops and called it home.

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OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE Others who have gone before Hold up my trembling hand.

They comfort me in the blind despair I cannot understand.

They suffer with me when I hurt, Weep with me in my pain, Remind me that we are not lost ...

Though I must now remain.

Those who’ve gone before me, Hear me when I cry.

Sing softly with me soothing chords Of unsung lullabies.

Mourn anniversaries never marked, A future I cannot keep.

They gently kiss the pain away, And love my heart to sleep.

The ones who’ve gone before me Hold me in my dreams.

They gently stroke my furrowed brow, And calm my silent screams.

They love me in my heartache, Wait quietly nearby., Hold patiently, one to another Till I join them by and by.

By Joanetta Hendel, Indianapolis, Indiana

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She married Alfred Perry on September 11, 1945. She had many happy days in the Shuswap area including managing Perry’s Place Ladies and Men’s clothing store. From 1950, she spent summers at Copper Island Resort with her boys until the mid 60s. Megan loved travelling the world and each trip had many wonderful highlights.

Megan has been blessed with family.

Her two sons, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Celebration of Life for Linda Trowski A Celebration of Life for Linda Trowski will be held on Sunday, May 22, 2022 from 1:00-5:00 pm. at 272 Birch Avenue, Kamloops.

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Celebration of Life for Joyce Worsfold A Celebration of Life will be held for Joyce Worsfold on Saturday, April 30th at 1:00 pm at Colombo Lodge, 814 Lorne St, Kamloops, BC. We kindly request that if you wish to attend, please RSVP to joycecelebration2022@gmail.com

Celebration of Life for Mark Fisher Join us to celebrate the life of Mark Fisher on Saturday May 21st, 2022 1:00 pm - Doors Open 1:30pm - Service Begins Sports Centre Lounge McArthur Island 1655 Island PKWY, Kamloops Please RSVP to Rose, Derek or Kathleen Fisher

Celebration of Life for Susan Bell A Celebration of Life for Susan Bell will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 11:30 am at the Hal Rogers Centre, 2025 Summit Drive, Kamloops, BC

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Marion Roberts Marion Roberts of Kamloops, BC went home to the loving arms of our Lord on April 12, 2022 at 82 years of age.

She is survived by her daughter Debra Cardinal of Monroe, Washington and her son Connolly Wyers (Selena) of Kamloops, BC. She is also survived by her grandchildren Thomas, Stephanie, Brooke, Tristan and Maria as well as several greatgrandchildren. Marion is also survived by her brothers Bryan, Ike (Shirley) and Clint (Janet).

Marion was predeceased by her father Wallace Heigh, her mother Fern Heigh, her brother Darrel Heigh, her sister Clara Olsen and her son Stuart Cardinal.

Marion was born and raised in Cold Lake, Alberta then moved to Chinook Valley and then to Golden all by age 18. As an adult she moved a lot throughout Alberta and BC having several careers. The jobs that meant the most to her were the ones as cook where she could share her faith.

Marion’s love for the Lord was a testimony to all who knew her. She made many friends in the churches she attended.

She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Westsyde Fellowship Church on Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:30 pm.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society in Marion’s name.

Elmer Aaron Kujanpaa April 17, 2022 in the early evening Elmer Aaron Kujanpaa passed away. He leaves his wife Marlene, his children Liisa, Karen, Leila and David, eight grandchildren and eleven greatgrandchildren. He was predeceased by a granddaughter Caitlyn.

Elmer loved life, he had been an actor in Finnish plays, belonged to a folk dance troupe with Marlene and he was a ski instructor up Seymour Mountain. And as his family came along, he shared his love of life with them.

In the early 1980s Elmer and Marlene moved to Eagle Creek

by Canim Lake, about 30 miles or 49 kms from 100 Mile House. In 1982 he dedicated his life to serving Jehovah. Both Elmer and Marlene were members of the Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 100 Mile House.

We want to thank the staff at Overlander Residential Care, Blueberry Unit for their care and love they had for Elmer. It was not an easy time as Covid had affected the residences in that unit, including dad. And it was Covid that took him away from us.

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I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is on object of beauty & strength & I stand & watch her, until at length, she is only a speck of white cloud just wheret he seas & sky meet and mingle with each other. Then someone at my side exclaims, “There, she’s gone!”

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. She is just as large as she was when she left my side & just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me, not her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side says she is gone, there are other eyes watching for her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout “There she comes!”.

by Henry Van Dyke

THE TIME IS NOW If you are ever going to love me, Love me now, while I can know The sweet and tender feelings Which from true affection flow.

Love me now While I am living.

Do not wait until I’m gone And then have it chiseled in marble, Sweet words on ice-cold stone.

If you have tender thoughts of me, Please tell me now.

If you wait until I am sleeping, Never to awaken, There will be death between us, And I won’t hear you then.

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In loving memory of Wasyl (Bill) Skakun Wasyl (Bill) Skakun was born in Vegreville Alberta in 1928 and grew up in Two Hills as the son of a general merchant and fur trader.

Bill was a good student, and his activities included hockey, baseball, track and pocket billiards.

Following one of his mentors and role models, Bill studied Pharmacy at the University of Alberta. In 1952 the new graduate married his sweetheart Lynne Eliuk of Hairy Hill and managed a small pharmacy in St. Paul. The business grew, as did the family, with sons Gary and Wesley. Bill was quite active in the Chamber of Commerce, School Board, PTA, Wolf Cubs and the Golf and Curling Club, where he helped develop and nurture both projects.

Sadly, Lynne passed away in 1970, and the family moved to Fort Saskatchewan, where Bill worked as a relief pharmacist. A romance with Eve Fertile led to their marriage in 1973, and then a move to Kamloops, BC. An extended family was made with Candy and Kevin, and the newlyweds were tasked with handling two teens and two pre-teens.

Things could get dicey at times, however Bill and Eve led with firm tolerance, and the four youngsters eventually matured.

Gary (Patricia), in Houston TX, have Roman, Valerie, and granddaughter Juliana. Wesley (Nancy) reside in Richmond BC. Candy lives in Victoria BC. Kevin (Sandra), in Kamloops BC, have Kyle and Sarah.

Bill and Eve travelled, curled, golfed and played bridge together, with Bill advancing to life master status. The couple were outgoing and entertaining. Bill practiced pharmacy for 52 years, evolving with the profession from the small dispensary and

apothecary to the age of bubble packs, computers and megastores.

After Eve passed away in 2019, Bill moved to an extended care facility. He passed peacefully on April 17, 2022, with family members at his side. The family is grateful to the staff at Delta View for their compassionate care of Bill.

Rainer George Renneberg January 29, 1934 - April 20, 2022

On April 20, 2022, Rainer (Ray) Renneberg passed away peacefully at home with his children and their spouses by his side. Ray leaves behind his wife of 64 years Stella (née Hurley), children Judy (Dean), John (Brenda), Michele (Clay), Lisa (Jamie) and Berni (Murray), grandchildren - Giselle and Levi, Jason and Lindsay, Jodie, Lisa and Rae-Anne, Jordan and Erin, Kent, and numerous greatgrandchildren. Ray is survived by two siblings - Oscar and Muriel.

Ray was born January 29,1934 in Leofeld, Saskatchewan. He was the 3rd youngest of 12 children and spent his childhood working on the family farm. At 20 years old he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was transferred to New Brunswick in 1956 where he met Stella. They married in October 1957, moved numerous times across the country, finally settling in Kamloops in 1976 where he retired from BC Tel as an HVAC mechanic.

Ray took great pride in his garden, skunking people in cribbage, and he always enjoyed a cold beer. He was a devoted husband, loving father, grandfather, a hard worker, a man’s man. He looked forward to visits to Saskatchewan, singing with his siblings and trying to find his camper afterward. His grandchildren, nieces and nephews always looked forward to seeing him as they would get their nose back that he had previously stolen. Well dad/grandpa, we wrote the book, it’s finished. You will be greatly missed!

Special thanks to Dr. de Villiers, Dr. Gorman and his niece Mary Lou Hurley for their assistance in navigating the last 16 months.

A celebration of his life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be offered to the BC Cancer Foundation.

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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend, Pietro (Pete) Bittante on April 20, 2022. Pietro passed into the arms of our Lord with his close family around him, after a brief illness.

It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I announce the peaceful passing of my dearly beloved husband, Adrian Augustus Taylor on April 15, 2022, just five days short of our 43rd wedding anniversary. On April 12, 2022, Adrian suffered a stroke and had a brain bleed that continued to grow.

Pietro Fortunato Bittante was born on November 25, 1932 in Coste di Maser in the Italian province of Treviso. He was the eldest of seven children born to Alberto and Maria Bittante.

Left to cherish his memory are his sister Sylvia Berryere of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, his nephew Clive Berryere of Los Angles, California and his wife Jo-Anne.

Pietro is survived by his loving wife Elsa of 61 years and his five children Agnese (Mike), Renso (Laura), Roberto (Jana), Gianni (Leah), and Michele (Celine), his fifteen grandchildren, many cousins, nieces, nephews, and his sisters Rina and Luisa, and brother Armando (Lucia).

Pietro made the decision to start a new life in Canada and travelled here in 1956, following his uncles Carlo and Narciso, where he built his life-long house and home in Kamloops, British Columbia. He had met Elsa (née Foscarini) in Italy, but it was only after several years of exchanging letters that he saved the money to send her a ring, and she joined him in Canada, where they were married on July 16, 1960. He was eventually followed to Kamloops by his brother Arturo and his sister Luisa. He is predeceased by his parents, his brothers Iseo, Arturo, and Luigi as well as his sisterin-law Angela, his brothers-in-law Bruno and Mario, his uncles Carlo and Narciso, his aunt Pierina and his niece Caterina.

Pietro enjoyed 28 years of retirement after spending 27 years working for the City of Kamloops. His retirement years were filled with family, gardening, fishing, woodwork, and more recently crafting rosaries for schools, prison inmates, and various Catholic organizations. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, and a long-time member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in North Kamloops.

He will be remembered forever in the hearts and memories of his family and friends.

Prayers were held on Sunday, April 24 at 7:00 pm, and the Funeral was held on Monday, April 25 at 11:00 am, both at OLPH Church in North Kamloops.

Special thanks to the first responders, staff at Royal Inland Hospital, and the staff at Trinity Care Hospice, where he spent his final hours.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Trinity Care at 953 Southill Street, Kamloops, BC V2B 7Z9 in memory of Pietro.

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Adrian was predeceased by his parents Flora and Gus Taylor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, his brother-in-law Ed Berryere of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and his son Patrick of Kamloops, BC. Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan on March 5, 1939, he grew up on the C.N.R. as his father was a station agent. The family moved several times to many small towns and on June 29, 1956, at 17 years of age, he began his own career on the railway working the Asquith - Biggar - Young swing. From there he went to the Peace River working on the G.S.L. Then on to Edmonton, Kamloops, Red Pass and finally back to Kamloops.

In January of 1978 he met the love of his life, Jo-Anne, and we were married in April 1979. Our son Patrick, was born in October 1981. Losing Patrick in August 2017, after he suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm was devastating for Adrian. Pat and Adrian were very close.

Morse Code was a part of the railway life and Adrian learned it well becoming a ham radio operator at the encouragement of his brother-in-law Ed Berryere, who was also a ham radio operator. They talked to each other every Sunday morning over the ham radio and we looked forward to these visits each week. Adrian belonged to the Ham Club for many years and we participated in a lot of the activities of the Ham Club such as the car races at White Lake. We especially enjoyed the Ham Fests each year, our favourite being at Sunnybrae.

Telegraphy was also a part of railway life and Adrian learned this very well too. He became part of a group of old telegraphers who met every evening. These fellows were from Canada, the United States and Australia. They chatted about their lives and got to know each other quite well. After suffering a stroke in May 2009, Adrian was no longer able to “work the bug” and so had to say good-bye to these friends.

He is a lifetime member of the Morse Telegraphy Club. April 20, 1994 saw Adrian retire from the railway after working for 38 years. Following retirement, he spent many happy hours volunteering at the Wildlife Express train at the Wildlife Park and he also spent time volunteering at the 2141.

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

Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday May 3, 2022 at 11:00 am in the Schoening Funeral Chapel, 513 Seymour Street with The Reverend Father Fred Weisbeck officiating. Interment will follow at Hillside Cemetery.

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May 24, 1932 - April 1, 2022

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Janet Ashby. Janet leaves behind her loving husband Jim, of 69 years, her daughter Carol Upstone (Dave), son Brent (Kari), granddaughter Dionne Trottier (John), grandsons Brandon Upstone (Crystal), Ryan Upstone (Lindsay), Brady Ashby and six great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her son Don in 1981 and by her parents Ewart and Elizabeth Freathy, sisters Beth Desjardine and Jessie Dinicol and brother Jim Freathy.

Janet was born in Edmonton, Alberta and moved to Kamloops in 1941. She met the love of her life, Jim, who she started dating on July 27, 1950 when they both worked at Palm Dairies. They were later married on August 11, 1952.

Janet was always giving of her time whether it was helping out with her children’s activities or within the community. She spent more than 45 years volunteering at the Royal Inland Hospital’s Afternoon Auxiliary’s Thrift Seller and many years assisting at the Diabetes Clinic at RIH. Janet enjoyed curling, lawn bowling and watching hockey. She and Jim were long time Blazers season ticket holders. Janet and Jim enjoyed travelling over the years to many places with family and their best friends Bep and Marv Crawford. Some of her fondest memories were of Hawaii and Portugal along with numerous bus tours they ventured on.

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Casey Marie Johnston passed away April 7, 2022 at Royal Inland Hospital with her family by her side. She was born March 20, 1979 to her parents Grace Johnston and Frank Leland.

Casey had a knack of making people laugh. She loved karaoke and spending time with family and friends.

Casey is survived by her brother Frankie Leland (Ashlee), sister Candy Flieger (Mike), sister Keri Leland (Michael), brothers Brent and Bradly Leland, grandmother Georgina Johnston, the two loves of her life, Brooke and Zackary Conner, aunts Maxine (Raymond), Merna, Brenda, uncles Robert and Bret and many nieces and nephews.

A special thank you to the Fryer family for all their support. Special thanks to Kenny Fryer for being there and never leaving her side. Our Family cannot thank you enough.

A Memorial Service will be held, Monday, May 2, 2022 at 11:00 am in the Kamloops Funeral Home (285 Fortune Dr.), followed by refreshments and coffee. Please join us to celebrate Casey’s life.

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

The family is grateful for the care provided by the medical staff on 6 North at Royal Inland Hospital.

Janet will be laid to rest at Hillside Cemetery. A Celebration of Life will take place at a later date.

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It is with sadness and fond memories that we say goodbye to Nathalia Eberle who passed away peacefully on April 11, 2022 in Salmon Arm, BC. Nathalia was born in Ratner, Saskatchewan on July 23, 1940, the second child to Lester and Mary Lokken. Her early years were full of the adventures and hard work that comes from living on a small farm in rural Saskatchewan with family and friends close by. By the time Nathalia was 17 she was working as a waitress in the nearby town of Nipawin where she met the love of her life, Chris Eberle.

The two fell in love almost immediately and although were separated by 1000 miles when Chris went to work in BC they kept that spark alive with love letters sent back and forth and lovingly saved to this very day. The two were married in Ratner on July 25, 1958. A few years later Chris and Nathalia moved to Kamloops, BC, where they raised their five children and stayed until retirement when they moved to Sorrento, BC. Nathalia will always be remembered as a gentle and kind soul who loved her family and her dear friends. A garden full of vegetables, homemade bread and buns, butter tarts and pies, and a pantry full of home canning kept her family well fed and happy and ensured that there was always enough food even when unexpected company showed up at mealtime.

Nathalia worked for a time at Tranquille and various group homes in Kamloops, a testimony to her beautiful, caring nature. When retirement came travel and adventure followed. Chris and Nathalia enjoyed cruises to Alaska, adventures in Reno and Nathalia even tried her luck with parasailing in Bermuda! Nathalia also enjoyed crochet and has had her doily patterns published in magazines and even into her own pattern booklet. Later she would use her talent in crochet to make beautiful afghans for each of her many grandchildren.

Nathalia is lovingly remembered by her children Roger (Helen), Blain, Marianne (Joe), John, Mark (Chris), her sister Linda, brothers-in-law Bernard and Karl, sistersin-law Connie, Jo, Karin and Sarah, her grandchildren Dustin (Nakita), Chelsie (James), Michael (Nicki), Joseph (Jessica), Rose-Marie, Nicholas, Mary, Hannah (Chris) and John, her great- grandchildren Dustin Jr., Stephen, Andrew, Emily, Camilla, Edith, Miller, James, Jazmine and Jenae, and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband Chris, her parents Lester and Mary, mother and father-in-law John and Anne, brother Leslie, sister-in-law Joanne, brothers-inlaw Walter, Allen, Conrad, Ralph and Jake and niece Janice.

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Keith died peacefully on 19 April in Vancouver of cancer of the prostate, with Gay and their girls by his side.

Born at Althash farm in North-East Scotland on March 20, 1937, Keith grew up in the Orkney Islands and Grantownon-Spey before studying medicine at Edinburgh University.

While working at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary he met and married Gay and they emigrated together to Kamloops BC in 1969. Keith practiced internal medicine and medical oncology at Royal Inland Hospital and was the long-time head of the Kamloops Cancer Clinic until his retirement in 2003.

Keith enjoyed many happy days with his family at Sun Peaks and Shuswap Lake. He was known for his gentle kindness, his storytelling and birthday odes, his endless enthusiasm for helping with homework, his acute yet understated sense of humour, and his powerful memory of often irrelevant but interesting facts.

Keith is survived by his loving family: Gay, his wife of 56 years, his three daughters, Victoria, Sally (Brad) and Jill (Mike), his five adored grandchildren Harry, Liv, Will, Mandy and Fiona, and his sister Sheina (Roy).

Online messages of condolences may be left at www.Kearneyfs.com In lieu of flowers please consider donating to a charity helping to combat cancer (such as the BC Cancer Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society) or to an institution helping those affected by cancer (such as St. John Hospice at UBC).

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Heaven gained a faithful prayer warrior named Anna Pearl Hall (née Rupp) on September 15, 2021, when she at last got to be with her beloved Saviour. She knew only in part before, and now she knows in full, her precious Jesus.

We, her family, revel in her eternal joy, knowing we’ll one day join her in it.

She’s joined her husband Jesse and her eldest son John, though she leaves behind a legacy in her kids: Carol (Alec-predeceased), Melvin (Ellen-predeceased), Norman (Linda), and Barb (Tex); grandkids: John (Tonia), Juanita (Carey), Candice, Ben (Sabrina), Erica, Anna, Patricia, Kirk (predeceased), and Daryl; great-grandkids: Alexander, Kristopher, Adina, Brodie, Joshua, Hannah, Sarah, Felicia, Taylor, Ethan, Sarah, Brooke, Owen, and Sophia; great-great kids Aleeya, Kahlead, and Keegan.

Anna was born on July 13, 1925 in Kestern, Saskatchewan. She grew up as the eldest on a farm in the Vernon area with a large garden, which she loved to work in.

Being a hard worker and keeping busy came easy to her, whether in life or in school.

After ten years, her family moved to the Arrow Lakes in BC, where she would later spend most of her life. This is where she met her husband, Jesse who taught Sunday School at the time and they married in February of 1943.

They went on to raise their family on a farm, where Anna maintained a garden with corn stalks 12 feet tall. They spent many, many years teaching Sunday School in her local church in Burton, and Anna led a variety of ladies’ groups. She used her many creative skills to quilt blankets for missions and can goods for people in need.

After Jesse passed in ‘86, she discovered a hidden talent for painting beautiful oilpainted landscapes. Through it all, her hand remained firmly in the Lord’s and she always made it clear that was the focus of her heart. After moving to Kamloops in 2004 to be closer to family, she continued to use her creativity to quilt and sell pot holders, make cards, and continue painting at her leisure. “Bloom where you’re planted...” she would say.

Anna was always steadfast, whether it was being an active member of the White Cane Club for the last number of years as her sight declined, or showing up to church each Sunday, dressed in her best. Anna always served God and her family well, and she provided such a faith-filled legacy to all who knew her.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at Kamloops Full Gospel Tabernacle. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada.

Gabriella Daniella Tulliani Cole 1958 - 2022

Gabriella passed away peacefully on April 20, 2022 after a courageous battle with cancer. She had her family and friends by her side during her last days at Ponderosa Lodge.

Gabriella will be forever missed by her devoted and supporting spouse Jan Ross and son David Cole and her step-sons Brock and Dakota (Jessica) Ross. Her many blessings include her granddaughters Brooklyn, Courtney, and daughter-in-law Cherie Bitz.

She also leaves to cherish her many memories her father Pasquale Tulliani (Mila), her brothers and sisters Claudio (Lynn) Tulliani, Emilio (Colleen) Tulliani, Anna Cechinni, Franco Tulliani, Maria (Robin) McKay, Pamela Tulliani (Nick) along with numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews from Kamloops, Vancouver and Italy.

She is predeceased by her brother Enzo Tulliani and her mother Raffaella Tulliani.

Gabriella was born in Sicily, Italy moving with her family at five years old to Louis Creek, then to Barriere and finally Kamloops where she spent many of her years working and raising her son David.

Her life’s work has been as a care aide in Kamloops for 20+ years working at various locations including Pinegrove, Ponderosa and Royal Inland. She loved her clients and co-workers, and it was returned 10-fold. The family’s appreciation of the loving care Gabriella received during her last months can never be repaid. Sending a very special thank you to all the nurses and care aids.

In her spare time, she loved staying active, boating, and relaxing in the Shuswap, spending time with loved ones, laughing and dancing whenever she could. She was truly a special spiritual beautiful lady and although she is gone, she will not be forgotten.

A service will be held for family and friends at Summit Drive Church at 1975 Summit Drive in Kamloops on May 14, 2022 at 11:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, a donation box will be available for her favourite charity, The Mustard Seed Foundation.

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We think it is South Kamloops secondary student actors, in Sagebrush Theatre, with a play, on April 28, 29, 30 DAVE EAGLES

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rade 12 student Adrianna Shupenia has been working on the play Clue since her Grade 10 year — playing the role of Mrs. Peacock, the church-going wife of a senator.

Mrs. Peacock is a bit batty, neurotic and quick to hysteria.

Adrianna said it’s a character to which she can definitely add some of her own personality.

The COVID-19 pandemic put South Kamloops secondary’s live theatre on a long pause, with students’ acting performances only seen by the virtual setting of prerecorded video on the school’s website.

This spring, though, live theatre is returning to South Kamloops secondary with the production of Clue: On Stage, written by Sandy Rustin and adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn.

Finding out “whodunit” is already drawing plenty of interest from the school body as a whole — many students who likewise have not been able to present their artistic efforts in a live setting due to the pandemic.

For Adrianna, finally being able to act “live” on stage will be a sweet moment, especially for Grade 12 students who have missed the opportunity due to

lockdown impacts of the pandemic.

“All the effort that we put into this play for the past two or three years, I just felt like it was going to waste,” Adrianna said.

“Being cancelled and then cancelled again, but this year we finally get to put it on. I think everyone’s just so relieved and excited to put it on.”

It’s a sentiment shared by the play’s stage manager, Alyssa Upshaw, who has spent a lot of time working with actors, managing props, handing lines to the cast and giving support wherever it’s needed.

Working on other school productions has given Alyssa a unique insight into how the pandemic has impacted her fellow students.

Alyssa noted they have been trying to put the play on for several years while faced with so many complications.

Some of the students would be chosen for roles they were cast in during previous years.

“And we didn’t even realize it, they were just so good,” Alyssa said.

In January, casting for Clue opened to all students in the school, with priority given to Grade 11 and 12 students for main roles.

Drama teacher Amy Fonseca said Paul Cuthbert from Western Canada Theatre has been helping out with set-building, teaching students how to properly make

sets and how to repurpose them for the future.

“It’s been a lot of work, a lot of learning and woodworking,” Fonseca said. “It’s been a great learning process.”

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Tickets prices are $10 for students and seniors and $15 for adults and can be purchased at the door or at the South Kamloops secondary office during school hours.

South Kamloops secondary and adjacent Sagebrush Theatre are in Sagebrush, at Ninth Avenue and Munro Street.

South Kamloops secondary students rehearse a scene for this week’s production of Clue: On Stage.

From top left: Leila Khelouiati, Grade 12, playing Mrs. White; Adrianna Shupenia, Grade 12, playing Mrs. Peacock; Hannah Baughan, Grade 9, standing in for Miss Scarlet; Lucas Neufeld, Grade 10, playing Professor Plum and Elliot Baskin Smith, Grade 11, playing Col. Mustard.

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Library users can now borrow a Riversong guitar from any library in the regional district for up to six weeks at a time. There are two libraries in Kamloops: downtown at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue and in North Kamloops in the Library Square development at 693 Tranquille Rd. Riversong Guitars is local, but its reputation is worldwide. The company’s award-winning guitars have been played by musicians such as Jim Cuddy, Trace Adkins, Eric Church and Tenacious D. The company has even built a guitar for the legendary Paul McCartney.

Riversong CEO Mike Miltimore was at the downtown Kamloops library on April 21 to make the guitar-lending announcement, along with chief librarian Judy Moore and local band Margit Sky Project.

“Guitars save lives. I think that was one of our very first discussions we had [with the library]. What a profound affect a guitar can have on somebody,” Miltimore said.

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The new program also includes resources to learn how to play guitar, with beginner-friendly guides available through the TNRL website.

Moore said it all wouldn’t have been possible without Miltimore’s support through Riversong.

“I can’t be more excited. This partnership, and the discussion with Riversong and Mike, started about two-and-a-half years ago and,

of course, we all know what’s happened since then,” she said, referring to the pandemic.

Margit Gossage, music teacher and half of the local duo Margit Sky Project, was with bandmate Rod Bandura at the announcement to demonstrate the guitars.

“I’ve lent guitars out, purchased guitars for kids and I think this idea is brilliant — and I know there’s going to be many grateful families out there who will have the opportunities to play some music,” she said, before belting out a rendition of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads.

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This weekend, try lawn bowling for free DAVE EAGLES STAFF REPORTER dave_eagles@kamloopsthisweek.com

Riverside Lawn Bowling Club past-president Bruce Clary (left) and president Laurel Hunt are looking forward to joining the community of lawn bowlers for the club’s Try It Days event on April 30 and May 1 at the downtown club.

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The Riverside Lawn Bowling Club is offering a chance to try the game, free of charge, on Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. during the Try it Days event at Riverside Park.

Anyone from ages 12 to 99 can take part and receive a short lesson and play a game.

Club members are hoping anyone interested may want to come inside the gate to “try it.”

“Now our focus is on attracting more adults,” said Bruce Clary, the club’s past-president and current membership chair.

The near-century-old club has about 50 members, operating on prime real estate downtown at Riverside Park. Its clubhouse is on the bottom floor of Heritage House.

Clary would like to see the club’s membership grow, with a focus on building general membership.

With the club’s 100-year anniversary this year, plans are underway to celebrate its rich history in the River City. On Aug. 3, a private open house with an anniversary cake will be held for all Interior lawn bowling clubs.

There is also a committee planning a Silk

Tea Social with period costumes. Among the invitees are city officials and some of the club’s sponsors.

Burgundy and gold club hand towels have been designed and will be provided during this summer’s Invitational 2 in 1 Lawn Bowling tournament. The tournament allows two people to play pairs and singles games, with combinations of singles play. Clary said it always provides a fun time.

Reflecting back while reviewing scrapbooks full of photographs and newspaper clippings, Hunt noted it was a different time back then for the grassy game.

“Women weren’t able to participate in this club 100 years ago,” club president Laurel Hunt said. “They had to create their separate club. The men would not permit them to bowl at all. It was 1953, I believe, when they were finally permitted, with restrictions, to bowl. You wouldn’t have thought it would’ve gone on that long.”

Hunt said women were better than men at raising money — they had quite a fund established — and, as men needed some new equipment and buildings to be repaired, the men thought women should be admitted to the club.

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The women responded to the invitation to join, but stipulated they weren’t handing over control of any money they had already raised.

Today, the Riverside Lawn Bowling Club sees a blend of men and women of various ages getting into the game.

To register for this weekend’s Try It Days, or for more information on the club, call Bruce or Laurel at 250-5545177, email bclary@hotmail. com or go online to kamloopsriversidelawnbowlingclub.com.

THE GAME Two teams of one to four players earn points by rolling bowls — biased balls — closest to a smaller ball, called a jack.

It’s mostly played outside

on grass or turf.

Though it sounds a bit like bocce, it’s more like curling without the ice. The games are similar in how the balls curl, ends are structured and points are tallied.

Originating in England, lawn bowling is popular in places like Australia, where the game can be played while sharing a bevy — or two.

Flat shoes are all one needs to get started. The Riverside Lawn Bowling Club features casual dropin nights and league play.

Some players compete in tournaments at the club throughout the season and go on to provincials. A novice tournament is held in the fall. Another club meets on McArthur Island.

Membership fees are $130 for the year, but youth members, ages 18 and younger, pay $50. Renting

bowls is $20 for the year, compared to a new set of four that costs about $500.

A coin flip determines who throws the jack. It must be centred just right, so after it is tossed, the jack is adjusted.

One side of the ball is rounder than the other.

Each player has a set of four bowls that should fit comfortably in the hand.

Stepping one foot onto the mat, players line it up with the jack and let it fly.

Logos on the side of the bowl help to identify which way the bowl will curl, a slight bias barely noticeable when looking at its curved sides.

Alternating shots down the rink, the closest to the jack gets the point, with more points awarded for bowls on the same team closer than the opposing team.

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Popular music had a longawaited return on April 21 when the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra performed with Cree Métis-Irish artist Iskwé (meaning “blue sky woman”).

Her appearance in Kamloops, along with guest conductor Bradley Thachuk, is another COVID-19 story.

In a support group for conductors started by Thachuk, the KSO’s Dina Gilbert mentioned that Iskwé’ was on her post-pandemic wish list.

With Gilbert on medical leave, Thachuk was the one to realize Gilbert’s wish.

Cree Métis-Irish artist Iskwé and Kamloops Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Bradley Thachuk perform in front of an appreciative crowd at Sagebrush Theatre on April 21.

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Iskwé fits into that special class of Canadian artists that includes performers such as Diana Krall and Celine Dion.

She has the same deeply serious and original content, a unique and penetrating voice and a mesmerizing presence. Her arms and wrists must be the envy of ballet dancers.

Each of Iskwé’s songs puts the audience into a particular time, place and emotion.

Little Star, the child who struggles to be the person she was meant to be, Storm, about the desperation of depression, and Night Danger and the tragedy of missing women.

The orchestral arrangements by Darren Fung of film music fame were so much more than back-up.

There were shining moments for trumpet, violin and cello. There were terrific snare, timpani and piano parts, all so well played by the KSO principals.

“Just a little sorbet to cleanse the palette,” was guest conductor Thachuk’s comment on the opener, Pizzicato for String Orchestra, by another Juno Award-winning Canadian, Vivien Fung.

Special mention must to be made about the foursome who blessed and welcomed the audience so graciously: Charli Fortier, River Prairie Chicken, Ashley and Aveah Michel.

Changes to the backdrop and lighting were great improvements and a foretaste of KSO’s next season.

In the words of Thachuk, it is “a wonderful orchestra.”

BUY A BOOK, HELP THE KSO The semi-annual Barb’s Used Book Sale will take place from May 7 to May 21 in the former Value Village building, downtown at Seymour Street and Fifth Avenue.

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The city last week honoured Kamloops residents for their service during the annual Exemplary Service Awards ceremony at Sandman Centre.

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Day of Mourning ceremony set for April 28 The National Day of Mourning will be marked on Thursday, April 28.

The event, with a call to “Mourn the Dead; Fight for the Living” gives workers and families an opportunity to come together every year to mourn for the dead and re-commit to the fight for the living.

Workplace deaths are preventable deaths and the latest figures show a worker somewhere in the world dies at least once every 10 seconds. In Canada, approximately 1,000 worker deaths a year are recognized by governments and workers’ compensation boards.

This year, Canada’s unions are continuing to demand that the International Labour Organization adopts occupational health and safety as a fundamental right at work and that Canada commits to showing leadership on the international stage to ensure this happens in 2022.

The Kamloops and District Labour Council said the right to be safe at work is as important as freedom of association and the elimination of forced labour, child labour and discrimination in employment.

For the first time since 2019, the annual National Day of Mourning ceremony in Kamloops will be held at St. Andrews on the Square, downtown at Seymour Street and Second Avenue, on Thursday, beginning at 6 p.m.

The pandemic led to cancellation of in-person events in 2021 and 2020.

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Work-related death claims for 2020 • There were 151 work-related deaths in 2020. Of those: • 2 were young workers • 88 were the result of occupational disease, with 51 as a result of asbestos exposure • The gender breakdown for work-related deaths is 146 males and 5 females.

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General Construction

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t the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) convention in 1984, a resolution was submitted by the Canadian Union of Public Employees national health and safety committee.

The resolution, recommending the creation of a remembrance day for workers killed or injured on the job, was readily adopted by the convention delegates.

The date of April 28 was chosen because on April 28, 1914, the first comprehensive workers’ compensation act in Canada was passed in the Ontario legislature. Provincial legislation followed elsewhere, incuding in B.C. in 1916.

The CLC officially declared and recognized the National Day of Mourning on April 28, 1985. In Canada, over 25,000 workers have died due to work-related injury or disease since 1985.

In December 1990, following years of lobbying efforts by Canadian unions and the NDP, the federal government passed Bill C-223, the Workers’ Mourning Day Act, making April 28, 1991, the first government-recognized National Day of Mourning.

The act is a brief piece of legislation that reads, in part: “Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the 28th day of April shall be known under the name of Day of Mourning

for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace.”

This movement quickly spread outside of Canada. In the United States in 1989, the American Federation of Labour began to recognize April 28 as Workers’ Memorial Day. The United Kingdom began its campaign to recognize this day in 1992.

Workers’ Memorial Day was adopted by the Scottish Trade Union Congress in 1993, the UK Trade Union Congress in 1999 and the UK Health and Safety Commission in 2000.

The International Labour Organization and the International Trade Union Congress declared the International Day of Mourning in 1996.

The international cry remains “Mourn for the dead and fight for the living.”

— BC Federation of Labour

dayofmourning.bc.ca April 28, 2021

Last year, 161 B.C. workers died. When you lose a loved one, the pain never goes away.

We all have responsibilities to ensure workers and workplaces are healthy and safe.

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VOLUNTEER WEEK

Kamloops RCMP salutes volunteers Our dedicated RIH Auxiliary Members & Hospital Volunteers!

We celebrate, acknowledge and honour our volunteers whose empathy and compassion mean the world to the people we serve.

Royal Inland Hospital

Is grateful for all that you do!

In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, the Kamloops RCMP detachment knows it takes volunteers to help police a community.

In 2021, local volunteers donated more than 4,500 hours setting up Speed Watch boards, facilitating restorative justice forums, conducting crime prevention by environmental design assessment and so much more to help keep the community safe.

“It’s because of our volunteers that we’re able to do more in the community,” said Cpl. Dana Napier of the Kamloops RCMP’s crime prevention unit.

“Their time is appreciated by the crime prevention unit and victim services unit.”

To celebrate their contribution to the community, the City of Kamloops and the Kamloops RCMP are highlighting volunteers during National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 24 to April 30.

On this page, Aaron Phipps is being featured. An Alberta

AARON PHIPPS native, Phipps settled down in Kamloops in 2016, moving to the city with his wife, who had grown up in the Tournament Capital.

Along with a passion to give back to the community, Phipps also brought with him a background in working with youth and vulnerable-sector adults.

In 1999, Mr. Phipps moved to Trinidad and Tobago to join his parents, who had moved there after retirement. During the eight years he spent there, he obtained his undergraduate in theology,

We love our Volunteers!

The Mustard Seed Kamloops wants to thank all our incredible volunteers for their amazing contributions over the past year.

Your selfless contributions significantly uplift our clients’ lives each day For anyone interested in volunteering, please visit: TheSeed.ca/volunteer

with a minor in philosophy, then worked as a youth pastor.

Phipps moved back to Alberta in 2007 and continued to find employment related to youth, including by working with boys who had displayed sexually intrusive behaviours, and youth probation.

In Calgary, part of his job was to help youth get more acquainted with the community. He really enjoyed getting them involved with volunteering, but he never had the opportunity to work with police and get acquainted with their perspective.

That opportunity came in 2017, when Phipps joined the team of Kamloops RCMP volunteers. Since joining, he has been involved in the 529 Garage Program, Speed Watch, Cell Watch, Business Watch, Citizens on Patrol and restorative justice, something he is particularly passionate about.

“It falls in line well within my belief system that I try to bring to corrections,” he said, adding the

program helps find and work on the root of the problem.

“Restorative justice is a good opportunity to be proactive in addressing the well-being in both the victim and offender … hopefully, they’ll be able to understand the impact their behaviour has had on a person and community. At the end of the day, I just want to give back to the community and, with the number of programs available through the RCMP, I’m able to do my little bit.”

Phipps works in corrections and recently secured a scholarship through work toward his masters in criminal justice, specializing in forensic psychology. He hopes to use his experience and education to one day become a probation officer.

For more information on becoming a Kamloops RCMP volunteer, call the North Shore Community Policing Office at 250-376-5099 or email kamloops_crime_prevention@rcmpgrc.gc.ca.

Volunteer fair set for April 30 Volunteer Kamloops is hosting an volunteer fair in conjunction with Karen Knight Consulting on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Aberdeen Mall.

The event will be a wrap-up of National Volunteer Week, which runs from April 24 to April 30.

If your organization is interested in attending or is in need of volunteers, go online to program@volunteerkamloops. org for more information.

The event is designed to connect local not-for-profit organizations with potential new volunteers.

Similar to a career fair, the volunteer

fair will feature numerous tables staffed by organizations who are currently seeking volunteers to help in their efforts to improve the community.

With participants from a wide range of causes, such as seniors care, animal welfare, homelessness, LGTBQ+ rights and the arts, there is something for everyone to find a match with an organization or a cause.

Get more details by checking out the event on Facebook: shorturl.at/eqA12.

For more information on Volunteer Kamloops, go online to volunteerkamloops.org.

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Share It Forward with Save-On CHRIS ROSE WALK FOR AUTISM The 11th annual Chris Rose Walk for Autism will take place on Saturday, April 30.

The first walk was held in April of 2011 and the event has continued to grow within the autism community. All funds raised stay within the centre to promote programs and services for individuals with autism (children, youth and adults).

Kamloops Kia is this year’s presenting sponsor and Kamloops This Week is the media sponsor. All registrants will have opportunity to enter for a chance to win a prize bag from Kia Kamloops.

The walk starts at the Chris Rose Therapy Centre for Autism, at 1111 Tranquille Rd. in North Kamloops, with registration beginning at 10 a.m. and warm-up at 10:45 a.m. Participants will then proceed to McArthur Island and return to the centre, where the North Kamloops Lions Club will have hamburgers and hot dogs available for purchase for a small fee.

The Walk will take about an hour to complete. Registration is by donation, but there is a minimum $10 donation to receive a T-shirt.

Pledge forms are available online at chrisrosecentre.org.

BOOGIE WAS BACK, BABY! Thousands of runners and walkers gathered at McDonald Park in North Kamloops on Sunday to take part in the 25th Boogie the Bridge, the first in-person Boogie since 2019. The pandemic led to cancellation of the popular charity event in 2021 and 2020. Western Canada Theatre and its First Nations Youth Theatre Program is the Boogie’s charity of choice in 2022. Turn to page A28 to read the final Boogie page in our eight-part series. Today’s page features insights on Boogie after the fact from founder Jo Berry and participants Paul De Luca, Joshua Gottfriedson and Daniel Mills, all of whom have been detailing their experiences in training for the big day. Many more photos from the 2022 Boogie the Bridge can be found online at kamloopsthisweek.com, under the Community tab.

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All art submissions can be sent via email to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.

The drawings above and below were both created by six-year-old Ripley Mensing earlier this year.

This art submission, Reflection, is from Evangeline Vaal. She is a Grade 6 home-schooled student.

Percy M. Ritchie

stone lithographs 1977-1989 Exhibition & Sale April 2 - 30

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Difference between violence that destroys and violence that unites

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ome years ago, I read a fascinating (if difficult) book recommended to me by one of my parishioners entitled Violence Unveiled.

The author, Gil Bailie, is a scholar who explores the phenomenon of violence in modern society through the lens of the Christian Gospel.

Bailie uses the work of French philosopher René Girard to suggest that the increasing violence of today’s world is the result of a breakdown between “sacred” and “profane” forms of violence, a breakdown that began with the coming of Jesus Christ.

Bailie’s argument is complex, but it goes something as follows.

Society has always struggled with destructive violence. Before Christianity, societies dealt with this violence by turning their violent impulses on a scapegoat — a person or a marginalized group with some obvious, but superficial differences from themselves.

By elevating violence against the scapegoat to the level of religious mythology, societies were able to use “good” violence against the minority to unite their peoples and bring an end to the “bad” violence that threatened to tear the majority apart.

As long as the majority of that society continued to believe the mythology, they would remain united in their common enmity against the scapegoat, as opposed to being torn apart by internal conflicts.

For this system to work, however, members of a society had to rid themselves of one key quality — pity.

For as long as they could manage to regard their victims without pity, they could continue to justify their violence as a necessary part of a divine mythology of redemption and salvation.

The Christian teaching of the crucifixion of Jesus was supposed to be one more

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instance of this mechanism, which tries to combat “bad” violence with “good” violence.

As Caiaphas, the high priest in the Gospel of John says, “It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” (John 11:50).

According to the Christian, however, the resurrection of Jesus threw a spanner into the works, because in this case the victim of Jewish “sacred” violence — Jesus himself — is proclaimed as the king and conqueror of death.

In the words of the Apostle Paul, the one who was humbled even to death has been exalted and given “the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

(Phil. 2:9-11).

The Christian Gospel has had profound implications on subsequent history, according to Bailie.

Since then, societies that have encountered and fallen under the influence of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus can no longer rid themselves of pity for their scapegoats — at least not for very long.

It has awakened in human society a sense of compassion for all victims, and as a result, we can no longer pretend that our scapegoats are just an abstract part of the religious

myths that justify our “good” acts of violence as an antidote for violence that would tear us apart.

Of course, so-called “Christian” societies since the Gospel have frequently engaged in scapegoating violence: the Crusades, the witch hunts, the persecution of Jews throughout European history, culminating in the Holocaust, to name just a few.

Bailie’s point, though, is that although modern societies still try to cure destructive violence with “good” violence, the Gospel has ensured that those of us under its influence can no longer make the cure “stick.”

We inevitably wake up, tormented by the feeling that we have somehow crucified Jesus all over again, many of us without ever being aware of it.

Bailie’s central point is that the traditional cure for destructive violence in the world is becoming less and less effective.

We are less and less able to distinguish between violence that destroys and violence that unites, because the Gospel has completely overthrown our ability to believe in the curative power of violent acts, no matter how exalted the terms in which they are justified. The so-called War on Terror following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is just one example.

Yet, Bailie suggests that

even as the Christian Gospel is responsible for the unravelling of the efficacy of “good violence,” it can also provide a solution.

While the Passion may have taken away our collective ability to be pitiless towards our scapegoats, it also offers us a way beyond the whole system that makes scapegoats necessary in the first place.

Rather than using sacred violence to try and cure destructive violence in society, the Gospel presents an alternative: a culture of cosuffering.

This way of life rests on the proclamation that God is the one who suffers with all of us.

As creatures made in God’s image and likeness, therefore, our very human identity depends on a commitment to suffer daily with each other.

More next time on the meaning of a co-suffering culture.

V. Rev. Richard René is the priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas Orthodox Mission, (orthodoxkamloops.ca), an English-language Eastern Orthodox Church for the Kamloops community.

KTW welcomes submissions to its Faith page.

Columns should be between 600 and 800 words in length and can be emailed to editor@ kamloopsthisweek.com.

Please include a very short bio and a photo.

Places of Worship KAMLOOPS

Join us for our in-person or online gatherings each weekend:

Christian Science Society, 1152 Nicola Street, Kamloops

Saturdays at 6:30pm Sundays at 9:00am & 11:00am

Sunday Church Services 10:30 - 11:30 am

200 Leigh Rd | 250-376-6268 kamloopsalliance.com

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City of Kamloops

ACTIVITY PROGRAMS We thank you for your patronage, understanding, and patience as we work together during this unprecedented time.

Visit Kamloops.ca/COVID for updates Programs are cancelled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Historical Book Club

FREE

Join the KMA and the TNR Library for a book club with a historic twist. We will explore works of historical fiction, nonfiction, and a variety of historical topics based on monthly themes.

Kamloops Museum and Archives Fri May 27 10:00 am – 11:30 am Fri Jun 24 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Artistic Adventure

Ages: 7 – 12

Ignite your child’s creative! This day consist of variety of activities through arts and crafts, acting, singing, and dancing. Can register for half or full day.

Fri May 20 9:00 am - 12:00 pm 1/$35 Fri May 20 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 1/$65

Mom and Baby Disc Golf

$25

Progressive Adult Tennis

$90

Join us for this mom and baby program where you will get an opportunity to learn new skills and socialize with other moms.

You will enjoy learning the fundamentals of disc golf outside in nature with your baby.

Strollers or baby harnesses welcome.

McArthur Island Disc Golf Fri May 6 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tue Aug 9 10:00 am – 11:00 am

this program, you will learn skill progressions and use low-compression balls and appropriately sized racquets and nets. You will start using a smaller court and work your way to the baseline for full-court play. You will experience immediate success by building your skills as you learn to play. This program is in partnership with the Kamloops Tennis Centre.

Kamloops Tennis Centre Sat May 7 - Jun 4 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Fri Jun 3- Jun 24 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

All are welcome www.christianscience.bc.ca csskamsoc@yahoo.ca

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WEEKLY COMICS

ARCTIC CIRCLE by Alex Hallatt

PARDON MY PLANET by Vic Lee

BABY BLUES

SHOE by Gary Brookins & Susie Macnelly

by Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

ZITS by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

by Chris Browne

WEEKLY HOROSCOPES

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Aries, a mild feeling of discontent has you searching for new projects.

There may be something that has been on your to-do list, but you can’t seem to figure it out right now.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 A lot of things are keeping you on your toes, Taurus. There’s a good chance you have been craving some quiet time. Find a retreat and stay there for a couple of days.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 There are no obstacles in your way on the path to success this week, Gemini. If you have been holding off on big plans, now is the time to push things into action.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22

Cancer, aligning your goals with others is a surefire way to get things accomplished. You can deviate onto your own course when action is established.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, take a moment and be sure a goal you’re pursuing right now is really worth it. If finances are involved, you will likely have to pay it back in the near future.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, collaboration could be key in the days ahead. Another person gets the ball rolling and now you can join in. Follow their lead and trust this person’s judgment.

LIBRA

APRIL 27 - MAY 3, 2021 - Sept 23/Oct 23

So many voices are shouting at you from different directions, Libra.

With so much advice coming your way, you may not know which way to turn. Mull it over a bit longer.

SCORPIO

- Oct 24/Nov 22

Nothing is guaranteed, but taking a risk this week could pay off in a big way, Scorpio. Things are more likely to go your way this time of the month, so start moving!

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Pay some extra attention to your life at home, Sagittarius. There are issues that can use a little attention. Letting them fester could lead to big problems.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan20 A hectic week is likely ahead of you, Capricorn. Things seemingly pop up out of nowhere and you have to figure out how to tackle them all.

Try to delegate some of your tasks.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 It’s understandable that you want to make some waves right now, Aquarius. However, it may be better to aim for subtle ripples instead of a cannonball splash.

PISCES

- Feb 19/Mar 20

Express your confident side at work and others will be inspired, Pisces. It’s good to stray out of your comfort zone every so often.

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SUDOKU FUN BY THE NUMBERS

WORD SCRAMBLE

Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to Animal Welfare.

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!

ANSWERS

ANSWER: ADOPTED

11TH ANNUAL ADULT TEAM SPELLING CHALLENGE MONDAY, MAY 16 • 7:30 - 9:30 AM • DELTA KAMLOOPS

8 Participants (whole table): $1000 donation • Single Participant: $125 donation Includes Breakfast and 120 minutes of FUN!

BOOK YOUR TABLE AND REGISTER NOW!

Registration Form at www.literacyinkamloops.ca • Registration Deadline: Monday, May 2 For more information contact Fiona Clare: literacyinkamloops@gmail.com To comply with Revenue Canada guidelines a tax receipt will be provided for the charitable portion of the donation.

Raise-a-Reader campaign funds are eligible for a percentage of provincial government matching funding

All funds raised by this event benefit literacy programs in Kamloops and are part of our local Raise-a-Reader campaign.

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