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Fiction For You: Blaze of glory Page 15

While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to cancellation of the annual Canada Day celebration in Riverside Park, the city and Kamloops Arts Council are planning an online festival. More on that endeavour on page 4. Also in this edition of the Kamloops Connector, a truly tough Canada Day Quiz.

Turn to page 2 to test your Maple Leaf knowledge.

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Canada Day QUIZ 2020

Canada, the political entity, turns 153 on July 1. Of course, the First Nations were on this land for thousands of years before colonization and the geography itself that comprises Canada is estimated to be about 65-million years old. So, happy 153th, or 14,000th, or 65th millionth. Take our Canada Day quiz and see how you do. Answers can be found at the bottom of page 14.

1. Canada is an Iroquoian word meaning what?

2. Canada is home to Santa Claus and Canada Post has the proof. What is Santa’s postal code?

3. During the Cold War, Canada was the second-largest nation in the world, behind the Soviet Union. Where does Canada rank in size since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991?

4. An anagram of the word “Canada” is the nickname of a well-known sports team. Name the team (city and nickname) and the sport it plays.

5. You are standing in the centre of Newfoundland and travel directly south.

Which country do you first encounter?

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6. The flags of England and France have flown over Canada, as has the flag of one other European country, from 1789 to 1795. Name the country.

7. How many points are there on the maple leaf on Canada’s national flag?

8. Under what Canadian city lies the world’s deepest underground lab?

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11. Which Canadian city is known by the nickname Bytown?

16. What is the highest mountain in Canada?

12. Three prime ministers have performed the Grey Cup ceremonial kickoff. Name them and the years in which they booted the ball.

17. In what year did O Canada officially become the country’s national anthem?

13. Kamloops and the Stanley Cup have something in common. What is it?

18. The Great Lakes contain what percentage of the world’s fresh lake water?

9. Canada’s longest street is also the world’s longest street. Name that street.

14. According to Reporters Without Borders, World Press Freedom Index, where does Canada rank globally in terms of press freedom?

19. When did First Nations get the vote in Canada?

10. In what Canadian city would you find an official UFO landing pad?

15. Name the first Indigenous MP to be elected to Parliament and the city he represented.

20. What province has the largest population of aboriginal people in Canada?

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Rating our local food system and plugging the gaps system, shifts must first occur on an individual level, then at a community and government level.

We call to action all levels of community, including citizens, service providers, institutions and governments to work together in building our ideal food system in Kamloops, one that is regenerative, just and sovereign.

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I attended my first Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) network meeting in November 2018. I felt welcomed and inspired from the moment I walked in the door.

In January 2020, I was hired as a student research assistant to complete an assessment of the Kamloops food system. Seven vision statements were created in collaboration with the KFPC network in early

food system, alleviation of poverty and local economic vitality, while food literacy (food knowledge/food skills) showed moderate development primarily through local programming and is rated as plant.

The highest rated is our network, rated at flower.

The Kamloops Food Policy network is inclusive and collaborative. In the past year, partnerships have exponentially increased and continue to be built on throughout the region.

The assessment has shown us that change must start from within.

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Various research methodologies were utilized throughout the assessment, including semi-structured interview, food program database creation and analysis, webbased research and data collection from network meetings and other foodrelated events.

Five ratings were created to assess our current status of each value statement: seed, sprout, plant, flower and fruit — seed being little to no development and fruit being the area is very strong and gaps are well managed.

Our assessment showed we have large gaps in our current food system, especially related to Indigenous food sovereignty and food commons (the idea of food as a shared public resource), which were both rated as seed. Three value statements showed some development and were rated as sprout.

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Getting connected on Canada Day

There will be no mass celebration of Canada Day in Riverside Park on July 1, with the annual festival yet another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced all manner of events with large gatherings to postpone, cancel or get inventive.

In Kamloops, Canada Day organizers are aiming My two cents to celebrate the day with Christopher Foulds the community — online.

Editor The City of Kamloops and the Kamloops Arts Council, with help from a Heritage Canada grant, are organizing the Virtual Kamloops Canada Day 2020 Celebration.

The online event will feature musical performances, artists, interactive activities and more. Participating groups include the Kamloops Ukrainian Dancers, Canada Wide Drumming and Western Canada Theatre.

There will also be an array of interactive activities for kids, including face painting and a science experiment.

A list of supplies for the event’s activities — and all the information on the big day — can be found online at Kamloops.ca/CanadaDay. The annual July 1 celebration draws tens of thousands of people to Riverside Park to take in activities, music, food and more, with the night-time fireworks capping off the day. The novel coronavirus has changed all that and more, but perhaps those Kamloopsians taking part online can cap their night off with their own version of fireworks — sparklers or candles?

Speaking of Canada Day, on July 1, the political entity that is Canada turns 153, a birthday marking Confederation in 1867. Of course, this land we call Canada existed well before then, with First Nations here for thousands and thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

So, Canada Day can serve as a celebration of all things Canada, or more properly, Kanata.

On that note, let’s borrow from the annual KTW editorial and salute some of the contemporary things that make this nation unique, with a salute to Canadian inventiveness that spans three ocean coastlines and six time zones.

Give a toast to this country of comics, of spendthrift senators, of wild weather, of vinegar on French fries, of hockey, of high taxes, of CanCon, of pogey, of icky-bicky, of loonies and toonies, of adoring the CBC, of hating the CBC, of voting, but against rather than for a party, of choosing not to vote, but bitching about the results anyway, dammit!

Salute this remarkable land that has blessed us with all this and more. Don’t for a moment think we cannot be brilliant. Consider just a smidgen of what Canada has offered the rest of the globe: CPR dummy, anti-gravity suit, automatic lubricators, Balderdash, basketball, electric cooking range, electric wheelchair, Fuller brush, ice hockey, kayak, kerosene, lacrosse, computerized braille, electric car heater, electric light bulb, JAVA, instant mashed potatoes, prosthetic hand, film colourization, Pablum, jetliner, Jolly Jumper, snowblower, snowmobile, garbage bag, Avro Arrow, heart pacemaker, electric organ, IMAX movie system, goalie mask, electric microscope, electric streetcar, gramophone, lawn sprinkler, insulin process, Marquis wheat, Robertson screwdriver, newsprint, odometer, football goalpost with single base, Trivial Pursuit, paint roller, Plexiglass, McIntosh apple, standard time, telephone, music synthesizer, television camera, safety paint, television, telephone handset, railway sleeper car, undersea telegraph cable, mobile blood transfusion service, light bulb, walkie-talkie, wireless radio, Pictionary, birchbark canoe, retractable beer-case handle, snow shoes, steam foghorn, table hockey, Superman, toboggan, Velcro, five-pin bowling, Abdominizer, Yahtzee, AC radio tube, acetylene — and, of course, three-down football, the way God intended it to be played.

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Swallows! It’s a bird, silly kamloops birdwatch NAOMI BIRKENHEAD

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wallows to me are some of the most relaxing birds to watch and easiest to identify.

Their sleek bodies manoeuvre through the sky in a cascade of effortless barrel rolls and dives as they pursue their insect prey. On sunnier days, the light illuminates the brilliant blues of the tree swallow or deep green of the violet-green. These are the two we see more commonly playing above our city.

Tree and violetgreen swallows are both secondary cavity nesters, meaning in old flicker or woodpecker holes, bird boxes along open fields and even between blockings of retaining walls. Peterson Creek, Pine Park and the Lac du Bois Grasslands are great areas in which to see and hear them.

Swallows are very musically gifted and it is said the way a male sings

gives the female hints as to his physical condition and mate-ability. They increase their song chatter when excited and interacting socially. Swallows will often nest close together and, in some instances, such as the banks and cliff swallows, construct large colonies.

Barn and cliff swallows can often be mistaken due to their terra cotta rouge and cobalt-blue colouring. The underbelly of a barn swallow tends to be awash with red and has a very distinct forked tail, while the cliff swallow’s cheeks and neck are rouge and the belly white, with nondescript tail and longer wings. Cliff swallows are also some of the most social birds and will perch tightly knit on wires and fencing.

Both barn and cliff swallows construct homes on manmade structures, utilizing mud. They have adapted readily and harmoniously to the changing landscape we develop. Currently, Mount Paul and Sun Peaks have small, active cliff swallow nesting sites — one being

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Flash of green, streak of blue, sometimes just the earthen hues.

A wash of white keeps them out of sight As boomeranged wings aid in acrobatic flight To feast on flies snatched as they buzz on by the traditional cliff face and the other in the eaves of the lift shacks. They form the mud nests using their mouths.

However, not all birds benefit from our development. Years back, I was shocked and appalled by the construction of a strip mall outside of Winfield, right on an active bank swallow nesting site.

I had witnessed 20 pairs with as many as 50 cavities.

Today, there is hardly a remnant and have not noticed if any mating pairs have ever returned.

Bank and northern rough-winged swallows are not as common in this area. They are also a little harder to distinguish from each other. Both species are a smooth deep bronze highlighted by the typical white underbelly. Both use burrows in soil banks and line the inside with moss, grass and other materials.

Next time you’re next to a sand bank, retaining wall, manmade structure or tree, take a peek and see if a feathered friend has been making it something to prolong its species.

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The most important thing is your credit score.

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Both are free and do not impact your credit score.

They are updated frequently throughout the year and provide you with your current credit score position and historical information.

Your aim is for score over 700. Anything at 800 and above is excellent. At 600 and lower means you need improvement. If that is the case, hold off on hiring a mortgage broker or having your bank pull your credit reports until you are ready.

Things that impact your credit score include late payments, banks and credit agencies pulling your credit report, collections and judgments.

Things that improve score include keeping your balance for each credit item below 50 per cent of the total credit amount,

making payments on time, longevity of credit accounts, cleaning up any outstanding issues you weren’t aware of (for example, if you changed cell providers and not realize there was a small balance owing that was sent to collections).

Once you are ready to buy or refinance, you don’t want to scramble, so cleaning up little issues on your credit score can make your approval for a mortgage much more seamless.

These steps cost you nothing and can save thousands of dollars in interest savings on a mortgage or, in fact, on any credit you need for a car loan, rent approval or job application in certain circumstances.

Once you have your credit where you want it

and are ready to refinance or buy, here’s the next step — in addition to retaining a mortgage broker and a realtor, also contact your lawyer once you have a draft contact or signed mortgage approval in place.

You can call your lawyer with questions at any stage of the process and they encourage you to do so.

In particular, your lawyer can advise you about any closing costs you may not be aware of, such as title insurance, appraisal and inspection costs, legal fees, land title fees and adjustments for taxes, as well as identification and residency requirements for various tax and fee exemptions.

Being prepared and getting professional advice are the key to success with any purchase or refinance.

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and that’s because it’s true — physical activity is just as healthy for your mind as it is for your body. This doesn’t mean you have to train for a marathon or become a yoga guru.

Start small. Simply going for a walk or doing basic stretches can help keep your mind and body at their best.

• Connect with family and friends. Having a strong support system is important during good times, but even more so during challenging ones.

Reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in a while to see how they’re doing.

Send a text or card or give them a call. If your family is spread out across the country, use digital apps to connect and play games.

• Stick to a schedule.

When you’re stressed, it often takes a toll on your sleep schedule. Keeping a consistent routine can help. Get up and go to bed at the same times each day, even on weekends. Know your stress triggers and pay attention when you notice them flaring up.

While it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world, focusing on the bad news won’t help your financial strategy or your health. Remember, you’re in it for the long term.

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out. Here are some ways to tune out negativity during uncertain times: • Put down the phone and turn off the news.

Allow yourself just one hour of news time each day, preferably in the middle of the day. This ensures you don’t start or end your day anxious. It’s important to stay informed, but once a day should suffice.

• Focus on the positive.

List the top five (or more) things you’re grateful for each day. Your list may be the same from day to day or it could change based on the past day’s experience. It could be as simple as being thankful for the roof over your head or a smile from a stranger as you walk your neighbourhood.

• Get physical. You’ve probably heard it before

couple of weeks ago, with the help of a neighbour, I pulled my 1982 CBX motorcycle out of the shed, where it sat all winter. I looked at it with a point of determination, knowing I had some muchneeded maintenance and mechanical surgery to perform. Fortunately, I have another functioning motorcycle ready to ride, so I won’t have to be without.

Let’s bring on warm weather and dry roads, especially the nice roads of the Interior.

Now comes the important part — what do I have to do to be road ready.

Tires, condition/depth of the tread is foremost, followed by inflation pressures, tread wear patterns and age of the tires. Since the contact patch with the road of the motorcycle tire tread is so small, about 1/20th of those on cars, good quality and condition of the tires is critical. I usually time wear my tires out before they road wear, so they get

replaced every three years.

Usually most street tires last from 5,000 to 15,000 kilometres depending if they are high-traction or touring tires.

High-traction tires have a specifically designed tread pattern and are made of a compound that really sticks to the road, but they wear out very quickly. This type of tire is usually used on performance- oriented motorcycles or aggressive riding individuals.

Recently, these tires have been constructed with multiple tread compounds to provide longer mileage traction when riding straight up, yet giving the rider a softer compound on the side treads to give that cornering grip.

It is not uncommon for touring-style motorcycles to require tires with an extended life tread that can give up to 15,000 or 20,000 kilometres of safe usage. Be sure to do some research at tire replacement time. You can follow the recommended OEM (original equipment manufacturer) information or speak to a knowledgeable service person to aid in your selection.

Off-road or dirt bike tires should be used as

recommended. You will be somewhat dissatisfied with these tires for smooth road applications, as you would be using traction tires in the dirt.

In speaking to local motorcycle service department staff, they comment quite often on riders’ lack of service maintenance knowledge.

Oil changes are recommended in the fall, before storage, so there is clean oil in the engine and not dirty acidic glop, which really causes premature engine wear.

Kamloops is also known for its dusty winds that really load up the air filter.

If the air filter is dirty, it is doing it’s job. Just think of all the dirt that was not inhaled by the engine. For the record, shaking out the dirt won’t help much — it’s still dirty. Change the filter.

I also highly recommend that during your spring service so the shop can look at the condition of the front forks, chain and sprockets, lights, horns, exhaust system and mirrors. Lubrication of pivots and maintenance of recommended items should also be performed at this time. When riding, there are a couple of biker terms to remember and

please don’t forget them: 1. “In the face of death, I am a coward,” meaning if any circumstance looks sketchy, immediately avoid it.

2. “Rubber side down, shiny side up,: meaning don’t crash if you can help it.

And remember, asphalt does not discriminate.

It will rub off any skin surface if exposed to the opportunity. Wear proper and good quality protective apparel. In the days of my youth, I road-raced motorcycles at a proper race track.

During one of those speed competitions, experienced a high side crash at about 130 km/h.

Wearing the proper suit, gloves, shoes and helmet, I was able to get up and walk away with only a few minor bruises. When I see some riders without proper clothing, especially a passenger, I am almost brought to tears because even if something as small as a bug hits them going at speed, it will be an unnecessary long-term hurt.

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Screen the facts for a burn-free summer

HEALTH MATTERS MISSAGH MANSHADI Pharmacist

Once again, summer weather is here in Kamloops and we need to protect ourselves against sunburn during hot, sunny days.

According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, more Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all other cancers combined. According to the Canadian Skin

Cancer Foundation, more than 80,000 cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in Canada each year, 5,000 of which are melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. However, when detected early, the five-year survival rate for melanoma is 99 per cent.

We need to protect ourselves from excessive sun exposure that can cause sunburn. We have been using sunscreen for years without much concern.

However, a recent study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that drugs in chemical sunscreen enter the bloodstream after just one day of use.

We should not have been surprised about the results of the new study. Skin is the largest organ in the body

and everything we put on it, be it makeup, sunscreen or moisturizers, will get to bloodstream sooner or later.

They are two types of sunscreen: physical sunscreen and chemical sunscreen.

Chemical sunscreen contains organic (carbonbased) compounds, such as oxybenzone, octinoxate, octisalate and avobenzone, which create a chemical reaction and works by changing UV rays into heat, then releasing that heat from the skin. The study found these chemical ingredients can enter the bloodstream quickly, but we do not yet know if they are harmful to the humans.

Sunscreen companies need to do more studies and show that the chemical

ingredients that end up in the blood do not cause adverse outcomes.

We do know some studies have shown chemicals such as oxybenzone have been found to damage ocean floors and are the most common cause of contact allergies.

Physical (mineral) sunscreen contains titanium dioxide and zinc oxide and is considered safe. Zinc oxide is the gold standard.

Physical sunscreen deflects and blocks sun rays, providing broad-spectrum protection that protects against both UVA and UVB. We know it is best that everything we put on our skin should contain more natural ingredients.

Once again, anything we put on our skin will enter

our bodies and eventually be excreted into sewage and can end up in our rivers and oceans. Physical sunscreen is safe for our environment. It can leave a white cast on the skin and this whitening effect depends on the amount you apply, skin colour and brand and formulation. There are newer formulations on the market that minimize the discolouration.

Another helpful hint for those who wear makeup is to let your physical sunscreen fully sink in before applying makeup.

Physical sunscreen applied on the skin is considered better than that sprayed on the skin, which contain very small particles that can get into blood stream easily.

Generally speaking, sprayed

physical and chemical sunscreens are convenient to use, but they have been made into nanoparticles (small particles ) and get to bloodstream faster.

Some simple steps to follow: Wear light, longsleeved clothing, a widebrimmed hat, sunglasses and put lotion or creambased physical sunscreen on exposed skin. Seek shade, especially between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., when the sun is at its hottest and whenever your shadow is shorter than you. Remember, you can choose chemical sunscreen if you prefer since we do not know if it causes adverse reactions. However, I like physical sunscreen because it is safe for both humans and the environment.

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our neighbour takes a supplement she bought at the drugstore and her headaches disappear. Your doctor gives you a thyroid pill, but you continue to feel sluggish and moody and your hair keeps getting thinner. For months, you religiously follow the calorie-restricted diet your dietitian gave you, but your weight continues to climb. Your pharmacist recommends the best skin cream for your rash, but the redness and itch persist and even seems to worsen.

Your insomnia medication seemed to work at first, but then your night-time agitation has returned and you feel even more exhausted than usual.

Have you ever had such

experiences? Have you found yourself asking: “Why doesn’t it work for me?”

In my 40 years of working with clients, there is one important thing I have learned. Simply put, each one of us is unique. You are one among 7.5-billion people on the planet and there is no one exactly like you. No one has the same genes, history, environment, parentage and upbringing, teachings, exposure to stressors, burdens, thoughts, feelings, emotions and experiences.

And, as such, there is no one cookie cutter that fits all when it comes to one’s health. So, what are the odds that a protocol-based solution to each individual’s health problems will actually benefit one and all?

Try as we might, however, we seem set on trying

to put people and their symptoms in a labelled box and solve their problems with a prescribed and predictable corresponding box of protocols, pills or procedures.

One thing is apparent with all the accumulating pandemic statistics dominating our news intake. We are beginning to see that as much as the science community would like to nail down an exact picture of this coronavirus disease,

evidence is mounting to the contrary. There is no exact course of spread, no exact symptomatology, no exact progression, no exact cure, no exact indicator of immunity. Is it that science is failing or is it that we are looking for something immutable and stable when, in reality, there is no such thing?

There is no magic bullet or protocol for addressing any problems of life.

However, we can all make our lives better by eating

healthy foods, exercising and doing our best to enjoy what life has to give us.

When we eat healthy food and savour life with all its little cherished moments, our happier immune systems can be the best they can be and thereby reduce our risk of various ailments.

Instead of thinking, “Why not me?”, why not choose to live well and stay well?

Oh wait, I can hear the kale and the strawberries calling from the garden.

Time for a smoothie?

Cathy Lidster, GCFP, ABF, ACNRT,ABF is a semiretired health consultant, helping those who wish to help themselves live a happier, healthier and more vital life so they can raise future generations of healthier, happier and wiser humans. She can be reached by phone at 250-819-9041 or by email at cathy@ cathylidster.com. More articles about health and nourishing wellness can be found at cathylidster.com.

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Tears form in my eyes as I struggle to express myself.

I am in a conversation with Murray Pruden, the newly appointed executive minister for Indigenous ministries and justice circle in The United Church of Canada.

The image of a black man dying beneath the knee of a white police officer has filled our screens. Protests are happening around the world. Systemic racism has been brought into the light once again. While some in positions of leadership deny its existence, the voices of black and Indigenous people in both the United States and Canada — and here in Kamloops — speak loudly of its presence in our world.

I am awakening to just how systemic white privilege is. I want to speak to it and have reached out to Murray for wisdom — and perhaps for words. I try to articulate my request,

uncertain even in my asking that I seek answers from a place of white privilege.

As I finish sharing my thoughts, Murray wisely asks what emotions I feel as I speak and invites me to sit with those emotions — to unwrap them.

Fear. At the bottom, behind all the other emotions, I find fear. Fear that to acknowledge my own white privilege will expose me to the anger of those who do not share that privilege. And fear that such acknowledgement will expose me to the anger of those who do share that privilege. How does one become part of the solution to a system that is centred around privilege, visible or not, afforded one based on skin colour?

Murray’s advice to sit with my emotions — to have a cup of tea with them — prompts me to fill my travel mug, don my backpack and head to my favourite circle of trees to sit with fear. I often head to the wild world to connect with the Holy One because I believe the wisdom of Creator is found in creation.

Fear and I sit together under the trees. Somewhere in the midst of our dialogue, the trees remind us that they have experience to lend to the conversation as they live alongside one another, in a neighbourhood

of vast diversity. Our circle conversation includes three spruce trees, two Ponderosa pines, a stray cypress, Saskatoon berry bushes and sage.

They speak to us of their interconnectedness, of their ability to live together and support one another. They remind us of the fungal network — the mycelium threads — that connect all of them, that survive and thrive by drinking deeply of their extra sugars while pumping nitrogen, phosphorus and other necessary minerals back to them. The entire forested area in which I sit is part of an interdependent network that operates to enable abundant life for all. This network shares a “cuppa” life with one another every single day.

I walk out of the forest.

Fear still accompanies me, but together we walk with the wisdom of Creator. I have learned the value of listening. In his listening to me, Murray heard my heart. In my listening to my emotions, I heard fear.

In listening to the trees, we heard wisdom.

Proverbs 18:13 tells us “if one gives answer before hearing, it is folly and shame.” So I will learn to listen. And I will acknowledge my own white privilege and seek ways to change a system rigged in

my favour.

I long to live in right relationship with all of creation: brown-skinned, black-skinned, whiteskinned, bark-skinned, furred, feathered. What I have to offer to the very real problem of systemic racism is a willingness to listen — and to listen beyond the words to the heart. What I want is to become part of a mycelium network that, like the one in the forest, is mutual and that offers abundant life to all those who reside in my network, a network that sends extra resources to those with the greatest need, a network that teaches us that together we are stronger.

Creator tells us this, creation tells us this.

Rev LeAnn Blackert is in ministry with the new Wild Church in Kamloops (wildchurchbc.org), where she works with Michele Walker and Lesly Comrie.

Blackert is spending her “stay home” time with her partner and two cats.

She enjoys walking local trails, taking a cuppa into the local “wilderness” and sharing a moment with her neighbours there. She also enjoys connecting online with her Wild Church community. She yearns to build a network committed to creating abundant life for all of creation, both human and more than human.

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DIMENSIONAL TILES Tile manufacturers aren’t just playing around with colours and patterns.

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In particular, there is a resurgence of the hexagon shape, which is now available in all sizes, colours and textures.

Geometric tiles are great because they can be used in several ways, whether on a large scale or as an accent. Either way, it will create a unique look and add interest to a space. Use them in small bathrooms paired with neutral colours to help improve the perception of space.

In large bathrooms, they can be used to create artful accents.

TEXTURAL FINISHES Incorporating textured tile adds variation, depth and interest to a space.

Depending on the tile used, textures can be subtle or pronounced based on the finish applied or the desired colour. 3D tiles come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colours and styles, which you can combine into endless combinations to create a one-of-a-kind space. These tiles create a focal point that can be considered a piece of art.

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50 years of culture & history at the

Kamloops Arts Council

By Shay Paul and Terri Hadwin

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his July, the Kamloops Arts Council (KAC) celebrates 50 years of incorporation, creativity and community in Kamloops.

During the past halfcentury, volunteers, members and staff of the KAC have built up a charitable organization that supports local artists and encourages them to share their work and build their artistic businesses.

“Artists are called upon to enrich community life,” said board member and local artist Gerry W. Davies. “However, their contribution is sometimes not acknowledged or rewarded for the significant effort and talent required. Artists big and small, young and old, professional and emerging should be shouted from the tallest shinning building on the hill.”

Since the creation of the Kamloops Arts Council in 1968, many hardworking people have lent their time and energy to lift up the artistic community in Kamloops. When the KAC incorporated less than two years after it first began, on July 17, 1970, it was the first major step towards becoming the professional group that it is today. Over many years, the people who built up the KAC also built up a solid and secure platform for artists of all disciplines, which has been a direct influence on the strong artistic community that embodies Kamloops in 2020.

The Kamloops Arts Council has provided the City of Kamloops with many different programs and initiatives over the years.

“The Kamloops Arts Council has always been a tremendous grassroots, volunteer-led organization that brings artists of all kinds together and helps them promote their craft,” said Kathy Sinclair, current Kamloops councillor and KAC executive director from 2012 to 2019. “The

KAC has been best known as a producer of events like Art in the Park, but that is just a small part of what the organization does.”

The Kamloops Arts Council also organizes the 21-year-old event, Children’s Arts Festival, held annually in September. The Rivertown Players, an outdoor performing summer theatre group that provides free entertainment for families in all corners of the city, is yet another arts initiative the KAC has provided the City of Kamloops for more than two decades.

Annual exhibits, such as Art Exposed, a juried art show that features in excess of 100 artists of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, are other initiatives. Most pieces are available to be purchased and it has been named as the best event to attend when seeking to find the perfect piece of art to add to your life.

New artists are exceptionally grateful for Art Exposed, SMALL// works (a teeny, tiny exhibit with smaller pieces available for purchase right around Christmas time) and Art in Public Spaces (which hosts artwork in highly visible locations like Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops Airport and Investors Group).

All of these exhibits, along with year-long rotating solo artist exhibits at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, provide a welcoming environment for artists to showcase their work for the first time.

“The annual Art Exposed has greatly benefitted local artists and the ability to display their works in a non-threatening environment, which allows artists to take the next step,” said Cara Gates, the city’s liaison with KAC since 2005. “I have always done art for my well-being and KAC gave me the confidence and challenged me to have an exhibition in 2011. I co-shared that show with Connie Karst.”

Whether it is encouraging an emerging artist by providing a

first-time exhibition opportunity or giving yet another platform for established artists to showcase, the Kamloops Arts Council has continued to support local artists achieve their goals and explore themselves through creativity.

The KAC perhaps shows its greatest commitment in the Crossing Bridges Outreach program that began in 2013, in which artists are hired to provide workshops at participating partner social work groups, currently partnered with a dozen agencies.

The motto of the program is “Art Changes Lives” and the work proves it.

“The program that has had the most impact on me is the Crossing Bridges Outreach program,” said KAC executive director Terri Hadwin. “Hearing that these classes impact and change people’s lives, their perceptions of themselves, the confidence that it builds within the participants, as well as the instructors, there is really no better feeling than knowing you are helping to keep that program going.”

Within the KAC’s fiveyear strategic plan that was released in August of 2019, the Crossing Bridges Outreach program was highlighted as being the cornerstone of the organization.

The Kamloops Arts Council wishes to thank the many people, businesses, volunteers, donors and artists who have contributed to the success of this charity and made the 50-year milestone a possibility.

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Above: 50 Years Mural, created by the Connections Storytelling Crew at Thompson Rivers Unversity.

Left: The certificate that confirmed the incorporation of the Kamloops Arts Council in 1970.

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Seniors and their vintage cars

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on Potts was born and raised in Duncan, on Vancouver Island, and began his long association with all things automotive in 1955 with the purchase of a $15 Austin A-10 2-door sedan.

An after-school job at the local Red and White store would eventually result in a life-long career in the grocery business and, in 1956, Don quit school and started work in the meat department of the Duncan Super Value store.

After hours, Don, his brother and his cousin, who owned an auto wrecking firm and a car hauler, would make trips to the Prairies, filling up the car hauler with old vehicles and taking them back to the Island, where they were either fixed up and sold or parted out. It would have been nice to have shared some photos of these events, but they were all destroyed when a house Don was living in burned down.

In 1957, Don transferred to Courtney with Super Value to help open a new store and around this time went through several vehicles, including a 1950 Chevrolet, a 1951 Monarch and a 1934 Chev pickup.

On a visit to the local GM dealership, Don spotted a brand new Oldsmobile 98 four-door sedan on the showroom floor and put

that on his wish list. The next year, Don transferred to Campbell River to open another new Super Value store and, on a weekend, dropped by the Courtney GM dealership again, just to see if the Oldsmobile was still there. It was.

The salesman caught him looking at it and Don ended up trading the ’34 Chev pickup for what became his first new car.

In the early 1960s, Don moved to Kamloops, transferring to the North Kamloops Super Value.

This is when he met Lillian Armstrong. They were married in 1966 and Lil became a big supporter of Don’s automotive projects.

Lil was born in Kamloops, growing up at 903 Columbia St. She became a music teacher, a secretary for the provincial assessor and the mother of their two daughters: Jennifer and Candice.

I spent my high school years at Kam High and sometime about Grade 12, I was heading home on the school bus one afternoon and I noticed a very different car in the backyard of the house on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Columbia Street (remember that house at 903 Columbia St.?). The vehicle had a very German staff car look about it and we were never sure if was a Mercedes, a Horch or some other obscure marque. It even still had the flag holders on the front fenders, so the rumours were rife that maybe it was one of Hitler’s cars! It disappeared from Columbia Street

about a year or so later.

Fast forward about 55 years and Don and I were having a chat over a cup of coffee, naturally talking about old cars. Somehow the subject came around to that same German car and it turned out that it belonged to Don at that time, when I saw it sitting in his mother-in-law’s backyard.

Learning the history of your old car is one of the attractions of the hobby and I probed Don for the story. It is one of the best I have ever heard.

The meat-cutting business has its hazards and, in 1964, Don seriously sliced his thumb with the bandsaw. The accident resulted in a six-hour emergency surgery session. While Dr. French, the operating surgeon, was rebuilding Don’s thumb, the conversation turned to cars and it just happened that the doctor talked about a 1939 Audi Cabriolet he had in storage that Don became interested in.

This car had apparently been hidden by a serviceman during the Second World War and, after the war, he unearthed it and brought it back to Canada. Dr. French somehow ended up with it and had it stored in a barn in Barnhartvale.

A few months after Don’s surgery, a firefighter friend phoned him up in the middle of the night to inform him that the barn containing the Audi was on fire — if he wanted to save it, he should get right out there. Don raced up

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to Barnhartvale, hooked a rope to the Audi and pulled it out of the barn with the convertible top on fire, just before the barn collapsed. He eventually ended up buying the car from Dr. French and moved it to that backyard on Columbia Street.

Another calamity occurred when Don’s brother removed the grille from the car to do some repairs and took it to his workplace at the GM garage in Prince George.

Somebody decided to clean up the shop and the extremely rare grille was thrown out. The Audi was then sold to Murray Gammon, who owned the Victoria Classic Car Museum, and restoration was begun by a shop in the Okanagan. They had to borrow a grille from someone in Germany, had it sent over and then had a duplicate fabricated.

The last Don heard about the car was that after the museum was closed, the Audi was sold at a Harrah’s auction in Nevada.

The vehicle would likely fetch more than a million dollars today. What a story!

In 1966, Don changed employers, to the Overwaitea store on Victoria Street, and the family then moved to Williams Lake, then Merritt, then Langley and finally back to Kamloops in 1973 with that company.

In 1980, he started to rebuild a 1940 Chevrolet four-door sedan, fitting a Cadillac LaSalle grille, filling in the rear quarter windows and attaching landeau irons, along with many other custom touches to give it some class.

Along with a group of car enthusiasts, he was

instrumental in forming the Kamloops Street Rod Association in 1987, serving stints as president, secretary and treasurer.

The 1940 Chev was finally finished in 1998 and sold in 2004. Don’s next project was a 1953 English Ford Thames van, which had extensive modifications done to the body and drivetrain. When our club held swap meets, Don was a longtime participant and, after helping us out many times, decided to join the Kamloops Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada (VCCC) in 2003.

He has been an tireless worker on our cook trailer and other duties ever since.

Don’s nephew on Vancouver Island had obtained a dismantled and rusted out 1953 Plymouth Belvedere convertible, but was unable to carry out its restoration. In 2013, Don took over that project, hauling the chassis and 17 boxes of parts back to his shop to begin his latest restoration marathon. It was finished last year and this rare and now gorgeous convertible is another testament to Don’s skills and dedication.

Don is a very busy senior and cancer survivor, giving back by volunteering to drive the Mason’s cancer van to and from Kelowna for the past 15 years.

He is always helping out his children and grandchildren, has been heavily involved with Hot Nite in the City since its inception, does all the household cooking and, of course, participates in many VCCC events.

We couldn’t ask for better members than Don and Lil. And his cakes and pies are marvellous!

Above: The 1939 Audi Cabriolet rescued

by Don Potts from the fire and resting on blocks in the backyard of 903 Columbia St. Right: This 1953 Ford Thames van restored by Don Potts.

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Nervously pondering the future of our health-care system

THE INSIDE STORY WENDY WESEEN

I wanted to take a break from the constant stream of COVID-19 pandemic news and status, wondering what is truth and what is false, and maybe write something funny.

But I woke up with coronavirus on my mind, right in the middle of my own existential geriatric crisis. I was wondering if the universe likes to play tricks on me and was not able to find anything funny in my situation.

I’m not ready yet. What has happened in our inner and outer landscape in the past three months in the

face of the pandemic is monumental, overwhelming and dumbfounding. It has been life-changing, challenging our minds, emotions and souls.

It’s tragic and, at the same time, enlightening as we become introspective about who we are as individuals and in response to increased awareness when social values and beliefs became illuminated, forcing us to examine our priorities in a way we have never done before.

The logistics of distancing and staying home have been vexing, but have given us time to pursue things we have always wanted to do, some release from a crazy, busy life we may have been leading mindlessly, forging new outlets of greater closeness to family and friends and acquiring connections of compassion.

If you are grandparents, it may have given you a chance to help children develop resilience surely needed in their future. It has been scary and we’ve been anxious about our health,

but at the same time, it has been calming when we were released from hurried lives.

Finally, and importantly, the discovery of resilience and strength we did not know we had as individuals, families and a community.

The experience has farreaching implications for the new normal. The pandemic revealed, magnified and uncovered the extent of racism, sexism and for seniors ageism. For a while, I felt as if I was being pushed under the bus and incredibly devalued. As long as it’s only the elderly, we need not worry about longer term maintaining of strict protocols of protection. As long as the revelations were about long-term care, we could ignore the other areas of neglect.

I started to worry about what will be available when or if I need complex longterm care. Health care has for a long time been a concern of mine and I have written letters, belonged to the Kamloops Health Coalition, protested privatefor-profit senior care and, in

my professional life, become involved in elder care, palliative and death with dignity activities.

My mother lived to be 99. I moved to Kamloops to assist my sister in her care.

My mother was fortunate she had money from the sale of her condo to pay for a space until a subsidized space became available.

When a space finally

became open, we had to fight for it and she was flat broke.

As I move into a new phase of my life to a retirement (with assisted living) residence, after having engaged home care (private) and other resources for elderly and disabled people for some time, I fear my own journey will be into an inadequate

and financially demanding health-care system.

My journey began with home care, transportation supports, grocery and pharmaceutical deliveries and is now moving onto assisted housing and — hopefully, if needed — quality long-term health care given equal importance and priority as acute and primary health care.

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lthough there is little activity right now due to the cancellation of the 2020 55+ BC Games, Zone 8 salutes all volunteers who are waiting anxiously to resume their duties and to start preparations for the 2021 Games in Victoria, as well as the Canada Seniors Games in Kamloops next year.

We especially recognize people of all ages who are helping keep our population safer through these trying months. Thank you.

June was a month to feature a number of people. There are still some seniors alive who survived D-Day on June 6, as well as their families who remember. June 1 to June 8, Seniors’ Week. On a more sombre note, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was June 15. Then, just as mothers were feted on May 10, fathers were recognized on June 21.

Although we think of pioneers as old people, they were once young, vigorous and daring. My husband, Tony, has a book titled Lomand and District History. His late mother, Emma Tolsdorf/Haas, and her family are featured among the many pioneer families of the region. Of the original nine children, Tony, Maxine and Delbert now live in Kamloops, Jeanette in Salmon Arm and 90-year old John in Abbotsford.

The book is dedicated to all the descendants of early pioneers who courageously endured the hardships necessary to make a new life for themselves and those who followed in their footsteps.

It contains an anonymous poem that, while referring to the Prairies, encompasses the spirit of so many of the older generation that has influenced us and still live amongst us.

OLD-TIMER

He sits in his chair with a thoughtful air And he listens to wisdom flow; He lives in the present with those who are present But he knows what they cannot know.

Together they drink the ice-cool draught Of sterilized limpid dew, But when he came first he slaked his thirst ‘Neath scum from an alkalized slough.

He covered the prairie’s weary miles With only a trail as a guide, Where trains now run from sun to sun And highways are many and wide.

He is marked by the years of toil and fears, The gamble with frost and drought, His face is lined and his hair is grey, But the same brave eyes look out.

He sees the yield from the planted field, Which makes him proud to know, He toiled in the past with those of the past Who struggled to make things grow.

Zone 8 seniors hope to see each other again at the general meeting in September. In the meantime, consider helping out Zone 8 by serving on the board of directors, as many of you are currently doing, although this year sadly underemployed. We especially need help for someone to take over the executive position of treasurer. Please contact Peter Hughes by phone at 778-471-1805 or by email at zone8pres.peterhughes@shaw.ca.

The Connector will help keep us all upto-date by confirming future dates. Please help yourself and others to stay safe over the summer and onwards.

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well-designed crossword can be one of life’s simple pleasures, a respite from the daily stresses we all face.

In this 20th anniversary edition of the Canada Crosswords series, we have 100 puzzles that not only engage recall of facts, history and vocabulary, but also tickle the funny bone on occasion and spur creative thinking when a standard response isn’t the right answer.

Here are some examples – the clues are on the left, the answers on the right: • Isolate on an island? Exile • Astronaut Roberta? Bondar • Shatner’s sojourns? Treks • Police officers’ thicket? Copse • Estrange an extraterrestrial? Alienate Canadian content is a focus, with a wide range of themes, including the entertainment industry, (for example, “A Cut Above – Diamond Certified Albums of Canadian Stars”), geography (for example, “From A to Sea”) and sports (for example “Hockey Hardware – Trophies for Top Players”).

As with the other Canada Crosswords books, good quality paper allows for the erasure of errors, the publisher perhaps assuming most people enter their answers in pencil, or erasable ink, with only the few remarkably confident using permanent ink.

Another helpful feature is the large-grid format and reasonable font size, reducing the need to squint.

To help with clues, a good dictionary or thesaurus,

2. Canada is home to Santa Claus and Canada Post has the proof. What is Santa’s postal code? H0H 0H0.

3. During the Cold War, Canada was the second-largest nation in the world, behind the Soviet Union. Where does Canada rank in size since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991?

SECOND. 4. An anagram of the word “Canada” is the nickname of a well-known sports team. Name the team (city and nickname) and the sport it plays. COQUITLAM ADANACS, LACROSSE. 5. If you are standing in Richard's Harbour, Newfoundland/ Labrador and travel directly south, which country's territory will you first encounter? FRANCE (THE FRENCH ISLANDS OF SAINT-PIERRE AND MIQUELON).

6. The flags of England and France have flown over Canada, as has the flag of one other European country, from 1789 to 1795. Name the country. SPAIN.

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As the Canada Day long weekend nears, sharpen your pencil, find your best heavy-duty eraser, settle into your own comfy chair and prepare to have some fun with the Canada Crosswords Book 20.

Book creator Gwen Sjogren holds a degree in English.

She has a flair for puns, palindromes, rhymes and other plays-on-words, and is keen on Canadiana and pop culture. She began designing word puzzles when she was 20. She lives in Alberta.

Canada Day Quiz 2020 answers from page 2: 1. Canada is an Iroquoian word meaning what? VILLAGE.

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8. Under what Canadian city lies the world’s deepest underground lab? SUDBURY. 9. Canada’s longest street is also the world’s longest street.

Name that street. YONGE STREET. 10. In what Canadian city would you find an official UFO landing pad? ST. PAUL, ALTA. 11. Which Canadian city is known by the nickname Bytown?

OTTAWA. 12. Three prime ministers have performed the Grey Cup ceremonial kickoff. Name them and the years in which they booted the ball. JOHN DIEFENBAKER, 10959; LESTER PEARSON, 1959, PIERRE TRUDEAU, 1968.

13. Kamloops and the Stanley Cup have something in common. What is it? CITY INCORPORATED AND TROPHY CREATED IN 1893.

14. According to Reporters Without Borders, World Press Freedom Index, where does Canada rank globally in terms of press freedom? 16TH. 15. Name the first Indigenous MP to be elected to Parliament and the city he represented. LEN MARCHAND, KAMLOOPS. 16. What is the highest mountain in Canada? MOUNT LOGAN IN YUKON. 17. In what year did O Canada officially become the country's national anthem? 1980.

18. The Great Lakes contain what percentage of the world's fresh lake water? 18 PER CENT. 19. When did First Nations get the vote in Canada? 1960.

20. What province has the largest population of Aboriginal people in Canada? ONTARIO.

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wenty-twenty, the year of the devastating pandemic of the novel coronavirus, saw 88-year-old Gail self-isolating. Relaxing in her rocking chair, she remembered an electrifying experience she had decades earlier, which was emblazoned on her memory.

Breaking into her state of reverie, the phone rang.

Seeing it was her devoted neighbour, Rose, Gail sang Yellow Rose.

“Whatcha doin?”

“Same as yesterday — perusing old files.”

“So, you’re OK? Need anything?”

“Thanks, I’m good. Did I ever tell you I had an awesome part in the history of the ’88 Olympic Winter Games?”

A bit embarrassed, Rose replied, “Uh, I don’t remember.”

“Well, the torch relay made its way along the West Trans-Canada Highway, past Afton Mine, where I worked, and through Kamloops.”

“Oh, yeah! Every wanna-be athlete, or not, showed up at Riverside Park to celebrate.”

“I escaped work n’ jogged down from my office at the mine, to the highway, in time to see the escort car’s lights flashing as the caravan appeared on the horizon.”

Gail carried on with her tale as if it happened yesterday, reminding Rose the flame had travelled by foot, plane, dog sled, ski and Skidoo. She’d been impressed by the flags waving and the moving medley of songs echoing from loudspeakers.

“Sirens screamed across the valley and motorists honked their horns,” she told Rose. “And, the afternoon silence was broken by everyone chanting, ‘Share

the Flame!’”

The women bounced their memories off each other. Rose spoke of the fantastic hoopla at the park, with hundreds of Kamloopsians enjoying the entourage, and Gail pondered her photo recall of the troupe of torchbearers in the convoy — especially picturing the team’s enthusiastic smiles and camaraderie.

Rose chimed in about David Foster’s composition, Coming Together in Calgary.

“What a message that was,” she said. “We still know the importance of coming together!”

In Gail’s mind, Foster’s composition, Winter Games, played from memory. It had been performed for the first time during the opening ceremonies and she boasted she had pulled it up on YouTube recently and logged the melody in her head.

“I loved Foster’s tribute song to the Olympic spirit, too. There’s a line in Dream on the Horizon, which goes, ‘I can see the new horizon.’”

Gail’s memory was good.

“It’s odd to think like that these days with all the uncertainties,” Rose lamented and quoted a phrase she’d heard lately: “I can see the new reality and it will be better in many ways. Change is happening and it’s all good.”

“Remember the red track suits?” Gail asked.

Everyone was warm from running, but the day was really frigid. She had run on the spot, then fell right in step behind and alongside legitimate torchbearers.

Describing the backs of their jackets like a fashion designer, she elaborated: “Embossed with the Calgary logo and ‘Canada’ in caps over the exquisite stylized flame.”

Curiously, her old friend asked, “Did you ever write

about the torch relay?”

“No, just made notes.”

“Why not now, then, while you’re distancing?

Um, on that bright idea, I have to get going, Gail, I’m a bit rushed.”

“Oh, but I haven’t told you the best part!”

“Save it, Gail, for your story! Bye-bye n’ take care!”

“Okay. Thanks for checking in on me.”

Gail dove into the old files, a pastime she’d enjoyed while laying low. When the phone rang again, to stay well connected with friends, she picked up and heard a familiar voice: “You gotta tell me the best part, Gail!”

“Really? Well, I ran beside a girl who said she was near the end of her one-kilometre segment — and she asked if I wanted to carry the torch a few metres before the next-leg runner would take over!”

“Wow!” Rose howled.

“Yep, n’ I told her she was such a kidder.”

Rose listened intently as Gail described the fire rising out of the top of the polished aluminum cup. The bright flame and blustery wind in her eyes blinded her with emotional tears. She’d blinked hard to compose herself and tried to read the Latin inscription on the receptacle, but couldn’t.

The torchbearer translated it — “Stronger, Higher and Swifter” — while Gail’s arm was way up there with hers, waving. Then, without actually letting go of the torch, the runner gingerly planted the long, maple handle in Gail’s hand.

“It took my breath away to touch it,” she told Rose.

“The torchbearer yelled, ‘Careful! It’s heavy!’ and when she was sure I had a good grip, she blasted over the hype, ‘OK? She’s all yours; I’m letting go!”

“That’s incredible,” Rose hollered over the phone,

proud Canadians practise safe distancing a we count down to Canada Day 2020, we are coming together. The economy is slowly moving into the new normal and, as per the motto of the ancient

Roman Goddess, Spes, I can say,”While I breathe, I hope.” That’s what we’re all doing as we figuratively run, in a blaze of glory, the downward slope of this pandemic.

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“You carried the Olympic torch! Congratulations! I never knew!”

Gail admitted the weight of it made my arm give way and she was breathless from excitement and wheezing from running in the cold.

But an adrenalin rush gave her the ability to strong-arm the torch and, holding it as high as she could, she ran almost 100 metres with it.

“It felt like my heart beat as loud as the cheers. I was near hysterical and couldn’t control my giggling, Rose, and tears drenched my cheeks!”

Gail’s experience in the 1988 Olympic Torch Relay was historical for it had the largest number of torchbearers in its history.

Gail’s pride gushed, “I can boast I added one more number to the tally!” She told her friend, “All that drama infused me with a life-long dose of nostalgia.”

“What a wonderful story, Gail. Get busy and write that one!”

Author’s Note: A torch relay unifies everyone and it was an exhilarating emotional odyssey for me.

Using the words of a TV announcer, the truth is: “When you’ve touched the torch, the torch touches you.” The forever-symbol of Olympic interlocking circles represents togetherness.

So, it is relevant while, as

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