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The downtown core of Kamloops is a unique and won-derful place; lovely little indepen-dent boutiques and stores line the manicured streets, people congre-gate to listen to live music, eat at fabulous restaurants and walk around enjoying the ambiance. it almost doesn’t matter what city you are in, if you are looking to learn a little bit about the people in the city you are visiting and want to soak up some culture, there is no safer bet than heading into their downtown core.

Look around our downtown, we have everything we need and more: restaurants that serve almost anything you could desire, shops that stock unique clothing, shoes and home furnishings… you want it, you can come down-town and get it.

Local resident Mike gilgan loves visiting the downtown core of all the cities he visits. he likes to embrace the culture and he loves coffee. in his many travels he noticed that it was really easy on his pit stops to just blow past everything that makes each city unique. That led him to come up with a brilliant idea. with his brain in full gear, he worked to develop a smart phone app that would lead travelers to indepen-dent coffee shops all around the world, which more times than not

are located in the downtown cores - the centres of culture in all the cities you travel through.

“The main reason i designed this app is because i found myself

passing real nice independent coffee shops and always won-dered why i never stopped,” he explains. “your big box coffee shops are very location- oriented,

so it was always really easy to stop at strip malls along the high-way. i thought it would be nice to have an app to help me find them, so that is what i did.”

The indyjava app, which is available for download for both the iphone and android devices, has over 4000 independent cof-fee shops listed worldwide, 12 of which are right here in Kamloops. That is a whole lot of coffee, cul-ture and ambiance just waiting to be discovered.

“what i discovered by visiting all the independent coffee shops along my journeys is that they are great!” continues Mike. “The quality tends to be exceptional, the food great and the experience unique.”

his app is really quite interest-ing; not only does it list all the independent coffee shops near you, but it can tell you which ones are open for business right that second. Just think, you and peter are going to meet for coffee, but where? press the serendipity but-ton and it will find you the nearest unique spot that is open and wait-ing for your business. another cool and unique feature is its Java Trekking function, which will schedule your stops along your trip at unique cafes that you would normally just drive right past.

Local designer has smart phone app for indy cafes

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Kamloopsian and Indyjava smart phone app designer Mike Gilgan loves nothing more than heading out on a java scouting trip.

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“i did a java trek just this morn-ing on my trip to Vancouver,” finishes Mike. “it makes your trip about the journey, not the destina-tion. it’s really enjoyable; it turns each of the places you go through into locations, so it’s a bit of a treasure hunt. you get to see a lot of downtown cores that have cool and eclectic cafes and discover cool areas you normally wouldn’t. The cafes are usually little gems, little pockets of culture.”

Mike may be onto something - instead of spending your life in strip malls and highway pull

offs, put on your adventure hat and experience the downtown core and all of its interesting little quirks and quarks. There almost couldn’t be a better way than drinking cappuccinos and lattes along the way! with an app like this you are much more likely to skip the big box coffee store and spend your dollars at worthy and unique locally-owned and operated businesses. There are currently 12 local independent coffee shops in the Kamloops area, discover them all today!

Tanya Orozco, freelance

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celebrating 25 yearSin Downtown KamloopS!october 19, 20, 21 & 22

Public invited to parks meetingKamloops residents are invited to attend a public meeting regarding

the future management direction of the city’s nature parks, including areas such as petersen creek park and Kenna cartwright park.

The purpose of this meeting is to start the process of establishing a Kamloops natural areas advisory committee. The committee will start by advising on the updating of nature park management plans.

The meeting is on october 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the sports action Lounge at interior savings centre. For more information contact the city of Kamloops parks, recreation, and cultural services department at 250-828-3551.

New Chamber president namedThe Kamloops chamber of commerce has announced that Maurice

hindle, marketing and sales manager of Moly-cop canada, has been named chamber president for the 2011-2013 term.

hindle has served on the board of directors for the Kamloops chamber of commerce for five years and moves into this position mid-year due to a re-aligning of the executive last March. he will continue in this role until March 2013. peter aylen served in the capacity of president for 18 months to facilitate that change.

The new board executive will be voted upon at the next board meet-ing in november.

OrtNer’s hat iN riNGChris Ortner, a mediator, forester, and economic development specialist, is one of the latest citizens to declare his candidacy in the November 19 municipal election. His volunteer involvement includes Venture Kamloops (three years as president), and director at the New Life Mission, and the Elizabeth Fry Society Court Worker Program. In 2011, Chris was instrumental in forming the Kamloops Voters Society, and served as its president until very recently. This organization is dedicated to maintaining a high quality of life in Kamloops, the wise use of taxpayer dollars, and early, effective involvement in decision-making by business and community interests.

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Common self, the life force that connects usover and over again in my spiritual coun-

selling, i find that the issue underlying almost every difficulty is a lack of a sense of self-worth. how insidious it is, this teach-ing that we are worthless. who hasn’t been told that “children should be seen and not heard,” that “nobody cares what you think,” or that “pride goes before a fall? ”

in my family, it was a badge of honour to be humble, self-deprecating, meek, sub-missive. That meant that we were “good” people. “you sure like yourself, don’t you?” was the ultimate insult.

There is a huge difference (though often a fine line) between self-esteem and arrogance. The difference is ego. now, the ego has often taken a bum rap; healthy ego is necessary for our physical survival. but more and more of us are noticing that there must be more to life than physical survival.

ego is associated with the “little-s” self, as in selfish,

self-serving, self-aggrandizing. it is that which separates us from others, competes, flaunts our successes, and stakes our terri-tory.

but there is a “capital-s” self that is asso-ciated with the spiritual, with expansion and transcendence. it encompasses all of our selves, it is the common self, the life force that connects us rather than separates us.

if, in the beginning there was only god, then god had nothing to create with except itself, so all of creation must be god. all

of creation, including you, is made of god-stuff. how dare you think you are unworthy? god didn’t do a good enough job on you?

The “namaste” greeting from the indian subcontinent can be translated as “the god in me salutes the god in you.” namaste.

Rev. Patricia Zogar is spiritual director of the Centre for Spiritual Living, Kamloops, www.cslkamloops.org.

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interac payments. The development and engineering services department, 105 seymour street, will continue to sell Taxi saver coupons until december 31. after that date, coupons will only be sold at city hall. if residents are unable to travel to city hall, cheques may be mailed to: attention: cashiers city of Kamloops 7 Victoria street west Kamloops bc, V2c 1a2. coupons will then be mailed to the client, so be sure to include full name, address, and handypass client number.

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no matter what side of the political spec-trum you sit on, what your thoughts on war are, no matter how old you are or if you have children, everyone should take a few minutes out of their day this upcoming Thursday, July 28 and head down to riverside park to take a look at the portraits of honour tour that will be rolling into town that day.“157 Canadian soldiers have died in combat in afganistan,” explains portraits of honour artist dave sopha. “The portraits of honour national Tour is centred on a 10’ x 35’ oil painted mural featuring the hand painted por-traits of the 155 Canadian soldiers, sailors and aircrew who have lost their lives while serving in afghanistan. The last two have lost their lives since the tour has started and their por-traits will be in progress along the way.”The mural has taken Kinsmen and volunteer artist dave sopha over 6,500 hours so far to paint but admits that his work won’t be com-plete until our combat mission in afghanistan comes to a close. The mural will be toured across Canada in a specialized mobile display trailer and organizers expect to raise over $1.5 million. The funds raised will support the Military Families Fund and established military charities to assist families of the fallen and to assist the thousands of military personnel who return home with physical or emotional injuries. organizers will also seek to fund other charities who offer additional troop and family support that falls outside of the Military Families Fund mandate.although the journey across Canada only started this May, the whole project has beengoing much longer. it all started back in

2008 while dave’s nephew was serving in afganistan. “in 2008 my nephew was on his 2nd or 3rd tour in afganistan,” he explains. “we would watch and read the news and hear of fallen soldiers, we always had our fingers crossed that it wasn’t sean and were happy to find out it wasn’t him. i was ashamed to be happy at someone else’s loss as these soldiers are somebody’s child. These postage stamp

size pictures did not give these soldiers justice so i went out and had a special made canvas created and painted bigger than life portraits of all of our fallen soldiers. The response has been overwhelming.”More than coming to see his work, dave hopes that people come out in every city to show support for those families who have lost

Mural at Riverside Park honours fallen soldiers


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with a wagon in tow, three of

the hardest working summer stu-

dents make their way to riverside

park every Tuesday through

saturday. These university stu-

dents are andrew Crabbe, Kirsten

sandberg and dianna springford,

also known as the Kamloops arts

Council’s rivertown players.

“Join the rivertown players

as they bring don Quixote, sir

gawain and The green Knight,

and percy and The dragon to

life. This is storytelling of epic

proportions – physical comedy,

songs, and interactive fun with

each character telling their own

story,” explains Jacquie brand,

general manager of the Kamloops

arts Council.The rivertown players theatre

company is only two years old

but the program as a whole has

been going on for seven. They

have been making headlines in

Kamloops for the last few sum-

mers and this season is no excep-

tion. The talented theatre group

stages live theatre shows for kids

of all ages twice daily at riverside

park and special performances

elsewhere throughout the summer

including every day of the western

Canada summer games.

“it’s a lot of fun,” explains

Kirsten. “we’ve all gone to school

to do this. it is great working expe-

rience.” “To get a job within the-

atre in the summer is really good.

There are not many opportuni-

ties,” adds diana. “having a sum-

mer job in your field is definitely

really nice,” finishes andrew.

out of school for the sum-

mer doesn’t mean their learn-

ing has stopped. all three of the

rivertown players, have worked

extremely hard on these summer

performances. They have done

everything from build the sets and

design the costumes to write the

material and do their own set up

each day. a hands on approach to

learning first hand what it takes

to put on a show will help these

young adults for years into their

future careers.with a medieval theme in hand,

the team went to work writing,

designing and producing. what

they came up with was two dif-

ferent productions; part one which

they performed all of July and

now part two which you can catch

down at the riverside park until

the end of august. They have also been making

appearances at different events

and festivals within the city and

were recently were awarded the

first place prize in the commu-

nity street performance category

at the Kamloops Central business

improvement associations sum-

mer busker’s showdown, which

Summer performances under the oak trees


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i think i hear the school bell ringing and with that all too familiar sound comes lunch making, extra curricular activities, home-work and the hardest job a parent has to do, which is encouraging and guiding theirchild through another school year.Like everyone else, children are all indi-viduals; there are kids like my daughter who love school with a capital L, there are kids like my son who are extremely brilliant but just the thought of going to school makes them weep inside. how oh how do you con-vince your children that working hard now and taking an active part in what could be viewed as the most important period in life is something that is worth it for them to do?well no one person has an exact answerfor that but by learning what is importantto your child sometimes you can think cre-atively and motivate them with something they do care about. Just ask north shoreresident and grandpa harry Madden. at the spry young age of 79, harry promised his granddaughter rose douglas, a north shorehigh school student, that if she buckleddown and took an active role in her educa-tion that he would do the unthinkable (to him that is) and get his ear pierced.“i am not a jewelry man,” laughs harry. “i have gone my whole life only wearing a wedding band and sometimes a watch. iam definitely against any kind of piercing. iagreed to get an earring just to motivate my little granddaughter.”The good news – it worked. harry gave his granddaughter a reason to stop procras-

tinating and that little push made her standup and take an active role in her life. sheworked hard and made the semester honour roll for the first time in her life.“she got on the honour roll,” continuedharry, “and i had to put my money where my big mouth is. i didn’t know it was a semester system. i thought i would have been a year until she reached her goal but he got it on the

very first one. she got on the honour roll and i got an earring. she says it’s cute, but i don’t know about that. you have to do anything you can for your children. it’s as simple as that. you do what you have to do to help guide them through life.”The moral of the story is as a parent you need to be an active participant in your– continued on page 2

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we are lucky that we live in the

midst of some of the best farm

land and natural food sources

around. That tied with the fact that

we also have a myriad of amaz-

ing culinary artists and chefs that

could go toe to toe in competition

with chefs from all over the world

make being able to enjoy a great

meal using fresh, delicious, and

sustainable products pretty easy.

The Thompson-shuswap Chef

Farmer Collaborative (TsCFC) is

a non-profit organization made up

of chefs and farmers who seeks to

celebrate local food in our region

using sustainable programs that

inspire and educate our member-

ship and the community about

the benefits of eating local. They

work on helping foster respon-

sible regional agriculture, sustain-

ability, and food security.

in an attempt to showcase this

fact to the community as a whole

the Thompson-shuswap Chef

Farmer Collaborative has come

up with a way to introduce the

community about the benefits of

eating locally. The one day event

is aptly named Farms2Chefs

Fundraiser and it will be one

event that you will not want to

miss.“we take over a farm for the

day, invite the public, and let

our chefs show off the best of

what our farmers/producers

offer,” explains ed walker of

the Thompson-shuswap Chef

Farmer Collaborative. “Chefs

create tasty one-bite dishes, local

wineries and breweries pour the

finest of beverages. Come enjoy

live entertainment and children’s

activities.”Connecting the best farmers and

producers in the region with the

best chefs from the best restau-

rants, Farms2Chefs is happen-

ing sunday, august 7 from 3pm

to 8pm at Thistle Farms out in

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saturdays Farmer’s Markets, at

some participating restaurants

and online at tscfc.org. The pub-

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our membership. Money raised

goes towards the TsCFC grant,

available to farmers and local

food security groups.

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food security issues for a long

time,” explains dieter dudy of

Thistle Farms. “in order to make

the event viable, we had to pick

somewhere close where people

are likely to come, so i offered to

do it. The whole event is thanks

to ed walker who pursued it and

made people aware. This is such

a great opportunity for everyone,


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no matter what side of the political spec-trum you sit on, what your thoughts on warare, no matter how old you are or if you have children, everyone should take a few minutes out of their day this upcoming Thursday, July 28 and head down to riverside park to take a look at the portraits of honour tour that will be rolling into town that day.“157 Canadian soldiers have died in combat in afganistan,” explains portraits of honour artist dave sopha. “The portraits of honour national Tour is centred on a 10’ x 35’ oil painted mural featuring the hand painted por-traits of the 155 Canadian soldiers, sailors and aircrew who have lost their lives while serving in afghanistan. The last two have lost their lives since the tour has started and their por-traits will be in progress along the way.”The mural has taken Kinsmen and volunteer artist dave sopha over 6,500 hours so far to paint but admits that his work won’t be com-plete until our combat mission in afghanistan comes to a close. The mural will be toured across Canada in a specialized mobile display trailer and organizers expect to raise over$1.5 million. The funds raised will support the Military Families Fund and established military charities to assist families of the fallen and to assist the thousands of militarypersonnel who return home with physical or emotional injuries. organizers will also seek to fund other charities who offer additionaltroop and family support that falls outside of the Military Families Fund mandate.although the journey across Canada only started this May, the whole project has been going much longer. it all started back in


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no matter what side of the political spec-trum you sit on, what your thoughts on warare, no matter how old you are or if you have children, everyone should take a few minutes out of their day this upcoming Thursday, July 28 and head down to riverside park to take a look at the portraits of honour tour that will be rolling into town that day.“157 Canadian soldiers have died in combat in afganistan,” explains portraits of honour artist dave sopha. “The portraits of honour national Tour is centred on a 10’ x 35’ oil painted mural featuring the hand painted por-traits of the 155 Canadian soldiers, sailors and aircrew who have lost their lives while serving in afghanistan. The last two have lost their lives since the tour has started and their por-traits will be in progress along the way.”The mural has taken Kinsmen and volunteer artist dave sopha over 6,500 hours so far to paint but admits that his work won’t be com-plete until our combat mission in afghanistan comes to a close. The mural will be toured across Canada in a specialized mobile display trailer and organizers expect to raise over$1.5 million. The funds raised will support the Military Families Fund and established military charities to assist families of the fallen and to assist the thousands of military personnel who return home with physical or emotional injuries. organizers will also seek to fund other charities who offer additionaltroop and family support that falls outside of the Military Families Fund mandate.although the journey across Canada only started this May, the whole project has been going much longer. it all started back in


size pictures did not give these soldiers justice so i went out and had a special made canvascreated and painted bigger than life portraits of all of our fallen soldiers. The response has been overwhelming.”More than coming to see his work, dave hopes that people come out in every city to show support for those families who have lost














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on september 1, 1964, just as Kamloops was beginning to grow, 20 dedicated women re-ceived their certificate of incorpo-ration as a society and were well on their way to becoming one of the leading charitable social clubs for women in the city.

This group, the can-ital La-dies are now over 100 strong and have been active members of Kamloops society for almost 50 years. To this very day they are true to their initial vision of being there for each other and the community.

“The membership in 1964 consisted of 20 ladies of ital-ian heritage and wives of italian men,” explains Louis Malahoff, one of the founding and still ac-tive members. “we aim to pro-mote friendship, cultural, social, and charitable causes among our members and the community and elsewhere. When we first got to-gether it was a social thing to

get all the women together to do some fun things. We held our first bazaar and afterwards thought that we should give some money away. over the years we contin-ued those donations and since our first donation of $100 in the early 1960’s, we have contributed thou-sands and thousands of dollars to multiple causes. The royal inland hospital has been the recipient of many of those funds and one large project several years ago was the donation of $50,000 for a wom-en’s Trauma room.”

in order to make all of this hap-pen, the ladies work very hard throughout the year. among many other things, twice per year they host a deluxe dinner and fash-ion show at the colombo Lodge. Known as the Fashion extrava-ganza dinner and Fashion show, it is a fun evening filled with beau-tiful clothes from local boutiques, delicious dinner and lots of fun and laughs.

“we have been doing these shows for probably 20 years,” continues Louise. “it is a fun way of raising money for the com-munity. we probably give about $12,000 in specific donations each year. we committed $35,000 for a room at the Marjorie willoughby snowden hospice and we are just winding up paying for that.”

Louise and the rest of the can-ital Ladies invite you to join them in their efforts and enjoy a nice evening out with friends at the next fashion show, which is hap-pening this coming wednesday, october 19. There will be fash-ions presented by genesis Fash-ion, the Look boutique, Fashion 5, Viva bridal, and Jardines-do-maine. Tickets are only $35 and include dinner. They are avail-able at genesis Fashion & beauty complex at 319 Victoria street. For more information, call gen-esis at 250-374-9755.

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Can-ital Ladies fundraise with annual fashion show

The Kamloops art gallery presents the exhibition On the Nature of Things from october 15 to december 31. The Mem-bers’ preview and opening re-ception take place on saturday, october 15 at 6:30 pm. guest curator patrik andersson and various artists from the exhibi-tion will be in attendance.

On the Nature of Things ad-dresses the relationship be-tween nature and civilization and is meant to summon up the words and images of ro-man poet and philosopher Lu-cretius in his epic poem De rerum natura. its purpose was to explain epicurean philosophy to roman audiences in the 1st century bc. in keeping with Lucretius’ clina-

men principle, the exhibition On the Nature of Things is organized with a multi-directional and non-linear curatorial approach that highlights individual artistic prac-

tices through a close reading of specific works. The exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose work is drawn from a wide range of sources such as advertising, cinema, music, nature, design, mod-ernist art and conceptual art. The artists use wit to give new life to both the outmoded and clichéd.

The artists include Kim Ken-nedy austin, andrew dadson, sarah dobai, rodney gra-ham, alexander gutke, so-fia Hulten, Jack Jeffrey, Evan

Lee, Kristi Malakoff, shannon oksanen, Kathy slade, gordon smith, T&T (Tony romano and Tyler brett), Jacques de la Vil-leglé, and neil wedman.

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Shawn Haley was the lucky winner of the Echo Newspaper’s Johnny Winter ticket giveaway. A big music fan, Shawn was happy to be spending last Friday night with the blues rock legend from Texas.

it’s Pinktober for BlazersKamloops blazers hosted two

games over the Thanksgiving weekend as they launched their third annual pink powerplay breast cancer campaign. There is an ongoing silent auction held for specially designed reebok blazers breast cancer ribbon jerseys. bids can be placed at all blazers home games through october or online by emailing ashley neuls at aneuls@blaz-

erhockey.com. blazers players will wear the jerseys on pink powerplay night on october 28 for their game vs. the Kelowna rockets and present the winning bidders in a “jersey off our back” ceremony. The canadian breast cancer Foundation will be on site throughout the month at home games selling raffle tick-ets for a westJet Flight as well as other pink ribbon items.

symphony chamber debutThe Kamloops symphony

presents the daily news chamber Music series perfor-mance by the sun rivers Trio on october 15 with sally arai on clarinet, naomi cloutier on piano, and cvetozar Vutev on violin/viola.

sun rivers Trio started play-ing together as an ensemble in 2009 and has since been fea-tured once each year as part of the Kamloops symphony’s chamber Music series. recently dubbed The daily news chamber Music series, thanks to a generous sponsorship from the daily news, the series is a highly regarded part of the vibrant arts scene in Kamloops.

sally, cvetozar and naomi need no introduction. They are all well known as versatile per-formers in all of the Kamloops

symphony’s programs, as members of a variety of other performing ensembles, and as music teachers at the Kamloops symphony Music school.

The program for the saturday, october 15 concert at 7:30 p.m. at calvary community church combines repertoire by danish composer carl reinecke (1824-1910), hungarian com-poser bela bartok (1881-1945), and two canadian composers, patrick cardy (1953-2005) and david Mcintyre (b. 1950).

program and ticket informa-tion is available on the website at www.kamloopssymphony.com. subscriptions for the daily news chamber Music series can be purchased until october 15 at Kamloops Live! box office by phone at 250-374-5483 or toll free 1-866-374-5483.


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the best of the christmas sea-son. admission is free, facil-ity is wheelchair accessible, and there is lots of parking. it all takes place saturday, october 29 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Kamloops convention center. For more information, go to www.play-ingwithfire.info.

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Barb Rivest (L) of Shuswap Unique Adventure Tours shows Michele Kennedy the Segway at the Great Green Transportation Challenge’s Imagination Station event. The Segway is “the world’s first self-balancing human transporter.” Unlike a car, the Segway only has two wheels, yet it manages to stay upright by itself. To move in any direction, the rider just leans slightly in that direction. Although they’re ideal for short jaunts, Segways can travel as far as 38 km on a single battery charge, depending on terrain. While a Segway is incredibly fun to ride, its inventors say it’s “serious transportation designed for today’s world!”

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Thompson rivers university students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the Kamloops community are asked to spend a night under the stars this semes-ter to raise funds for youth at risk in Kamloops.

interior community services (ics), in partnership with a group of students at Thompson rivers university, are well on their way with planning the second annual camp out on campus. The first annual event held on March 22, 2011 raised nearly $5,000 toward supporting and sustaining youth outreach programs in the Kamloops area.

The second annual camp out on campus will be held over-night on october 18 and reg-istered volunteer campers are asked to bring a single backpack, sleeping bag and tarp for the experience.

Matt osborne, chair of the camp out on campus organiz-ing committee, a third year social work student at Tru comment-ed, “Last year we raised nearly

$5,000 and our goal this year is to double that. we have an amaz-ing committee again this year, and i can’t wait to see how much more we can do. a big thank you to Thompson rivers university for the support we have received for this event. youth outreach is a very important program in our community and one that i’m very grateful to be able to help support. reaching out to help the youth in our community is important for all of us...please help to sustain this program now and for the future.”

From april 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011 the youth outreach program has had 1,378 interac-tions with over 400 youth and has prevented loss of housing for 134 youth. Money raised will con-tinue to help young people learn life skills, find housing, and build confidence and self-esteem.

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Haunted House for all ages at sahali Mall open during mall hours Thurs. and Fri. eve-nings in october. everyone welcome. FMi Marg archibald 250-374-3033.

Kamloops Bicycle Summit: A look at Velo Culture - arnica gallery, 7 w. seymour st. runs to oct. 29. exhibits, film festival, guided bike rides. halloween graveyard bicycle Tour. FMi visit arnica.ca or call 250-372-8808 or e-mail [email protected].

Letter From Wingfield Farm presented by wcT until oct. 22 at the sagebrush Theatre. For tickets call 250-374-LiVe (5483) or visit www.kamloopslive.com

ajax Mine public Forum for municipal can-didates, which was planned for oct. 12 at Tru, co-sponsored by TruFa human rights committee and Tru political science, has been postponed until the last week in oct. or the first week in nov. (date Tba), as the company has declined as participants.

Ultimate Frisbee Indoor League in four-week sessions Thursdays from oct 13-nov 3, with games from 6:15 and 7:15 at Tcc, 910 Mcgill road. FMi contact Mark at [email protected].

Steam Punk Burlesque on oct. 13 at the blue grotto, 319 Victoria st. doors 8pm. For ages 19+. FMi or if interested in performing visit: facebook.com/kamloops-burlesque.

Kamloops Film Society presents “The guard” oct. 13 at 7pm at paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria st.

The Art We Are, 246 Victoria st. 250-828-7998. showtimes are 8pm. oct. 14, gadjology gypsy Jazz, oct.17 Katie schaan.

Revitalized Woman Weekend at south Thompson inn and guest ranch oct. 14 at 7pm, oct. 16 at 11:30am. FMi contact gerrianne clare at 250-434-5132.

2141 Steam Locomotive Ghost Train one-hour long journey of restless souls. all depar-tures have sold out the past five years so book early. departure dates: oct. 14, 15, 21, 22, 28,

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mony group perform folk, blues, jazz at the barnhartvale coffeehouse on oct. 15. doors at 7pm, music at 7:30. Tickets at the door, open mic performers free.

Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers Harvest Dance oct. 15, 7:30-10:30pm at heritage house, 100 Lorne st. FMi 250-376-2330.

Sun Rivers Trio at the calvary community church on oct. 15 at 7:30pm. Tickets at Kamloops Live! box office or FMi 250-372-5000.

Kamloops Stamp Show oct. 15 at 10am-2pm at the calvary church, 1205 rogers way. displays, stamp dealers, free table for youngsters and a stamp auction. Free event, free parking, wheel chair accessible. Light lunch available. FMi 250-314-1021.

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Boudoir Beauty Marathon at beauty code boutique on oct. 15 from 9am-3pm, with pho-tographer Kathryn Learie from owen-imaging hair. Limited spots available FMi 250-851-2633 or email [email protected] to book.

Pavlo will be performing on oct. 16 at 8pm at Kamloops convention centre for a 19+ show. FMi contact Kamloops Live box office 250-374-5483.

Philosophers’ Café “what is the average citizen’s role in a democracy?” with chris ortner on oct 18. The council of canadians meets at 5:30pm on the second wed. of every month at the smorgasbord deli, 225-7th ave. FMi contact anita or dalton 250-377-0055.

Can-Ital Ladies Dinner and Fashion Show at the colombo Lodge on oct. 19 at 6:30pm. Tickets available at genesis, 3-319 Victoria st.

KCBIA Open House & Mixer for Think green publishing and roi Media works at 204 - 242 Victoria st. on oct. 20 from 5 to 7pm. entertainment by small world studios and refreshments by Flavours of india. FMi 250-374-7336

Dr. Daniel Amen, “a Magnificent Mind at any age” on oct. 20 at 7pm at the calvary community church, 1205 rogers way. FMi 250-374-0679 local 209.

Kamloops Business & Professional Women’s Club networking evening on oct. 20 at hotel 540 from 5-7pm in the lounge. everyone is welcome.

Multi-Genre Concert featuring local duos at Kamloops united church, 421 st. paul st, on oct. 21. FMi contact alan corbishley at 250-819-7373. For tickets call 250-374-LiVe (5483) or visit www.kamloopslive.com

Cuz I’m Talented at The art we are, 246 Victoria st. oct. 21 at 7pm. sign up at cuz i’m Magic, 240 3rd ave.

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