Kamloops This Week, February 23, 2016

Kamloops This Week has been granted an order in B.C. Supreme Court to publish video footage of a police re-enactment video in the case of a former New Zealand poli-tician now standing trial for first-degree murder.

KTW succeeded in applying for access to the video, which

was played for jurors in the Peter Beckett trial last week.

Beckett, 59, is accused of drowning his wife while on vacation at a Revelstoke- area lake in 2010.

In the video, filmed before his arrest in 2011, Beckett is taken by police to Upper Arrow Lake, where he is put on a boat with three detectives.

Beckett details his version of the events of his wife’s drowning mul-tiple times.

The video can be viewed online at kamloopsthisweek.com/beck-ettvideo/.

The trial is slated to resume on Monday, Feb. 29.

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The upper-level grass-lands immediately south of the city have been tromped on and dug up by mining, logging and

grazing and are criss-crossed by roads that brought noxious weeds.

Despite a century of sometimes hard use, consultants working for KGHM Ajax — using an array of methods including bird calls, combing the grasses and listening for nighttime calls — discovered a complex environment home to rare plants and amphibians and a transit area for migratory birds.

“No one has done an awful lot of work there,” said Francis Vyse, a local naturalist.

Until now.For the report — part of the

daunting 18,000-page application to the federal and provincial govern-ments — botanists spent nearly 400 hours sampling and listing the ecol-ogy near the mine and in the larger regional study area.

“It’s an area that’s been grazed for decades, or a century,” Vyse said. “The original composition of the grasslands has changed. But there are areas where cattle just don’t go.”

Trevor Goward, a Clearwater-based lichenologist and naturalist, said environment around the city

is globally rare, the tip of the Great Basin Desert in North America.

“It’s right on the northern edge . . . There’s not a lot of it — not just in B.C., but generally.”

The report notes microhabitats that are home to some of the rarest plants in B.C.

In one case, botanists found an example of a lichen with a great name and a low profile: ten cent tarpaper.

The lichenologist who named that plant, and scores of other fungi, said the report is just skipping over the top of what’s really there.

Goward said science knows little about the delicate world of grass-lands, even this imperfect one.

“There are species identi-fied by Conservation Data Centre or COSEWIC or the Nature Conservancy that are threatened. But we know so little about lichens and mosses.”

Using a different methodology, he said, “I’d guarantee you’d find species without names yet.”

There are only eight recorded populations in B.C. of ten cent tarpaper — so literally named by Goward. And, despite any efforts from KGHM, the report notes “it will be lost as a result of project construction.”

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Rare species abound in Ajax mine areaSUCH AS TEN-CENT TARPAPER LICHEN

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Accused killer Peter Beckett (standing in boat) joined RCMP officers on Upper Arrow Lake in 2011, where he detailed his version of what happened the day his wife drowned. This photo is taken from video shown in B.C. Supreme Court.

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Public pool talk to begin on March 3The City of Kamloops will hold four public

meetings in March to discuss the proposal that would see three pools closed, a new pool open and an extra sheet of ice added to the inventory.

The meetings will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the following days and at the following locations:

• Thursday, March 3: Arthur Stevenson ele-mentary gym, 2905 Gilbert Rd., Westsyde;

• Monday, March 7: Parkcrest elementary gym, 2170 Parkcrest Ave., Brocklehurst;

• Wednesday, March 9: NorKam senior secondary cafeteria, 1198 Kenora Rd., North Kamloops;

• Tuesday, March 15: Sandman Centre Parkside Lounge, downtown next to Riverside Park.

On Feb. 2, city council decided to move ahead with community consultation as it grap-ples with mounting repair costs at the Westsyde and McDonald pools, as well as a citywide ice time shortage.

Under the proposal, McDonald Park pool in

North Kamloops would become a spray park and Brocklehurst’s outdoor pool would become a new ice sheet, creating two rinks in Brock Arena.

Westsyde Pool, which has been closed since last summer due to moisture leaking through the pool’s vapour barrier and into the roof, would remain open as a fitness centre with a sauna and hot tub, but with its pool converted to a gymnasium for basketball, pickleball and other sports.

An engineering firm hired to fine-tune repairs to the Westsyde pool, where years of trapped moisture in the ceiling have rotted the roof from the inside out, is recommending the city spend millions more than it budgeted if it wants to keep the pool operating.

While replacing the roof will cost $3 million, $210,000 more than the city has already banked for the repair, additional upgrades to the heat-ing and cooling and dehumidification systems to eliminate the moisture problem and prolong the building’s life would push the price tag to

almost $5 million.Modernizing the pool further would cost

about $13 million.McDonald Park’s outdoor pool is facing

about $200,000 in repairs after both its hot-water boiler and main drain failed late last year.

Meanwhile, the closure of the private Ice Box Arena last summer has left the city with more demand for skating time than it has ice.

Staff has said the reconfiguration they are proposing could save the city money in the years ahead.

If the city, through the four March meetings, can find support for the proposal, it would then spend $100,000 drafting a full plan for the new pool on McArthur Island, which would take more community consultation.

Since council moved forward with the pro-posal, online petitions to keep the pools in Brocklehurst and Westsyde have been created.

As of yesterday, the Westsyde petition had garnered 1,595 signatures, while the Brock ini-tiative had collected 1,482 names.

SHOOTING THE BULLAllan Fenton of Fenton Hereford Ranch in Irma, Alta., catches up with Norm Parrant of JoNomn Hereford Ranch in Westlock, Alta., while at the weekend’s 21st annual Pine Butte Ranch Horned Hereford Production Sale at the B.C. Livestock Producers Co-op in Dallas. All bulls were from Ray Van Steinberg’s Pine Butte Ranch in Cranbrook. A regular sale today will be followed by another bull sale on March 5. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com to see more photos.

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LOCAL NEWS

Botanists found 27 endangered plants listed by the B.C. Conservation Data Centre.

“Sagebrush steppes are habitat for a very large number of plant taxa, including some of the rarest in the province,” the report notes.

In addition to plants that will be destroyed from construction and min-ing activities, some are also susceptible to dust that will be produced by the mine.

Important microhabitats include rocky outcrops and wetlands, isolated areas that are home to species including western toad and spadefoot. Both are classified as red listed — the highest level of concern that includes threat of complete loss in B.C.

Threats to amphibians range from loss of nearly 1,000 hectares of habi-tat — site clearing itself will result in loss of a quarter of the local area populations — to what promises to be decades of continuous noise that can disrupt breeding by masking calls, for example.

It can mask the sound of predators.“Noise can also cause stress levels to rise by increasing the perception of

predation risk,” according to the report.

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Noise can aid predators

Destruction of habitat and loss of plants and animals are inevitable if KGHM Ajax builds a giant open-pit copper and gold mine immediately south of Kamloops.

The bigger question for the com-pany and government is what will the proposed mine do about it?

The company’s application to the provincial and federal governments lists hundreds of detailed measures it promises to take to lessen damage and, in some cases, offset it.

That can be as simple as driv-ers watching for rare toads as they cross a road or organizing shuttles to reduce traffic, to measures as com-plex as translocating some species and creating new habitats.

Consultants recommend reduc-ing vegetation around the proposed tailings pit as a way to deter birds from using the contaminated waters.

Special habitat areas not directly beneath the mine’s footprint will be flagged and barriers created to avoid contact.

The consultant report on rare

plants estimates 40 per cent can be preserved through mitigation and eventual reclamation when the mine closes after two decades of produc-tion.

“Re-establishment of red- and blue-listed [plant] communities could take more than 25 years, depending on soil conditions, seed mixes and project activities, but may be reversible over the long term,” it states.

During two years of construction, the report recommends creating diversions for amphibians so they do not go into industrial areas.

In some cases, the report recom-mends transferring them to other nearby habitat.

Scott Benton, executive director of Grasslands Conservation Council of B.C., said the group will be looking at proposed measures to see if they are good enough. It will also make its own recommendations regarding what are known as “offsets.”

One example is creating similar habitat elsewhere in the local area.

“There are losses, particularly with the tailings processes they want to use,” Benton said.

“What is the offset?”

Looking for mine offsets in natureCAM FORTEMS STAFF [email protected]

WIKIPEDIA PHOTOA lichen with a great name and a low profile — ten cent tarpaper. This and other rare plant species can be found south of Aberdeen, where KGHM Ajax hopes to mine for copper and gold.

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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IS NOT EASY

The reality is our infrastructure is aging. We need to provide quality recreation services and we need to do it in a �scally responsible way.

It’s important the community is involved in these conversations. So, come talk to us about recreation services and a concept for our city. Everyone is welcome, please attend a public meeting near you. Visit kamloops.ca for more information.

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The reality is our infrastructure is aging. We need to provide quality recreation services and we need to do it in a fiscally responsible way.


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When the lottery-ticket kiosk at the Kelowna Superstore opened for the morn-ing, Robert Goertzen started off small.

First, he asked the cashier — who had sold him his ticket package every week at the end of his regular grocery outing — to check the winnings on a ticket good for a free play.

Next up was a los-ing ticket.

After that, it was the moment of truth.

“Boom! The whole thing just lit up,” Goertzen recalled.

Around him, the store went quiet.

The 44-year-old father of one had matched all six digits in the Feb. 20 Lotto 6/49 draw on a quick-pick ticket.

Goertzen was now worth $21.9 million.

Yesterday, Goertzen was at B.C. Lottery Corporation

headquarters in Kamloops to collect his winnings — and he was still getting over the shock.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet,” he said.

“A million dol-lars — $1,000 in my account is OK, but $1 million. I don’t know anybody that has that.”

It’s only the second time the heavy duty equipment instructor could recall winning a prize. The last was a skill saw he won in a raffle.

Goertzen feels 21 is a special number for him — after all, he won $21.9 million on a lottery-ticket pack-age that cost him $21, and he learned of his windfall on Feb. 21.

So far, Goertzen said he plans to use some of his winnings to buy a new truck and fifth-wheel trailer for himself and a new jeep for his girlfriend.

Other plans include helping his parents retire, fund-

ing his eight-year-old daughter’s education and building a new house.

The winnings won’t, however, mean a permanent vaca-tion.

Goertzen said after years of living paycheque to pay-cheque with a few hundred dollars in the bank, he wants a chance to work for reasons besides

paying the bills.“I have a lot of

things I want to accomplish at work,” he said.

“Now I’m going to go for fun . . . but I’ll retire early.”

LOCAL NEWS

Kelowna man claims $21.9-million Lotto 6/49 jackpotANDREA KLASSEN STAFF [email protected]

Robert Goertzen and Jobina Young examine the cheque for $21.9 million at BC Lottery Corporation headquarters in Kamloops yesterday.Goertzen, a heavy equipment instructor from Kelowna, matched all six numbers to win the Lotto 6/49 draw for Saturday, Feb. 20.Another B.C.-purchased ticket — one bought in Mission — was worth $1 million.ANDREA KLASSEN/KTW

Dogs, graffiti, kept city staff busy in 2015

Dogs, graffiti and transient camps all kept City of Kamloops bylaw offi-cers busy in 2015.

According to year-end statistics from the department of corporate services and community safety, ani-mal control issues — mainly over dogs — accounted for nearly 30 per cent of calls to bylaw enforcement.

Of the 1,786 calls about animals, 1,449 concerned canines. Of that number, 117 involved aggressive dogs.

Meanwhile, bylaw officers saw increases in complaints about both transient camps and graffiti in the city.

While panhandling complaints dropped slightly, from 73 in 2014 to 63 in 2015, calls about transient camps were up by 10 per cent, to 337 from 306.

Graffiti complaints on private property were up by 31 per cent, from 82 complaints in 2014 to 118 in 2015. Instances of graffiti on public property stayed about the same, with 93 calls in 2015.

Overall, bylaw officers dealt with 7,707 complaints in 2015, up from 7,035 complaints in 2014.

• Meanwhile, Kamloops firefight-

ers fielded more than 10 times as many medical calls as fires in 2015, according to year-end stats.

A breakdown of emergency calls shows 3,785 medical calls, in 2015, compared to 338 calls for fires of all types.

Of the fires called in, 48 were motor vehicles, 39 landscape fires and 28 were interface fires.

Also more common than actual fires were false alarms.

False commercial and residential alarms accounted for 434 emergency calls.

KFR also had 611 calls about motor-vehicle incidents and dealt with five bomb threats (down slightly from 2014 when there were six).

• Most kinds of crime are on the decline in Kamloops, but according to year-end statistics from the city’s Mounties, property crime was on the rise in 2015.

Kamloops RCMP numbers show a double-digit decreases on narcot-ics files, crimes against persons and other types of lawbreaking, but a 13 per cent increase in property crime.

Last year, 5,941 crimes of this type were reported, compared to 5,255 the year before.

RCMP also saw a small increase in the number of provincial statue violations it dealt with, which rose by 4.4 per cent.

ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF [email protected]

Activity Programs

Please pre-register. Programs are canceled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Modern Contemporary Ballet $75Ages: 14-20This program is for the advanced dancer. Work on technique, poise, and flexibility. Dancers will work on the barre and centre floor.

Jul 14-18 Course: 102233 1:00 am to 2:30 pm Rainbow School of Dance

Fairy Tales and Musicals $175Ages: 9-12Children will work on building skills while acting, singing, and dancing. Stage crafts are also part of this program. Join the gang at Rainbow for a fun afternoon this summer.

Jul 14-18 Course: 1021863:00 am to 5:30 pm Rainbow School of Dance

Oronge’s Girls Only Skate Clinic $20No boys allowed! It does not matter if you have never stepped on a skateboard or have been skating for years. We will help all skill levels master street, transition, and all the fun skateboarding tricks. Bring your helmet, skateboard, water bottle, snack, and a positive attitude. Do not miss out on all the fun. HELMETS ARE MANDATORY.

Jul 11 Course: 99738 9:00 am to 11:00 am McArthur Island Park

Aug 15 Course: 99739 9:00 am to 11:00 am McArthur Island Park

Sunshine Kids $30Ages: 9-12This sunny experience includes singing, painting, playing, creating and pretending. Enjoy a week of mini-hikes, bubbles, water play and more. Bring a snack for our picnic.

Jul 15-17 Course: 10150011:15 am to 1:15 pm Hal Rogers CentreInstructor: Danielle Duperreault

Jul 22-24 Course: 10150111:15 am to 1:15 pm Parkview Activity CentreIntructor: Leanna Smeaton

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To register call 250-828-3500 or visit www.kamloops.ca/ezreg

For registration please call (250) 828-3500 and please quote program number provided. For online registration please visit https://ezregsvr.kamloops.ca/ezregPrograms are cancelled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Activity Programs


Front and Centre, $5 Western Canada Theatre at 40 Western Canada Theatre is celebrating its 40th season and the Kamloops Museum & Archives is proud to help celebrate! Join the Museum’s guided tour of this temporary exhibit.Kamloops Museum» Feb 27 2:00-2:45 PMSat 249945

Adapted Yoga $48Enjoy basic yoga exercises in a safe and supportive space. Move at your own pace and learn the joys of mindful exercise. Caregivers are required to join in when needed.Yacht Club» Feb 16-Mar 15 1:15-2:15 PMTue 25043

Pacsport - Xplore Sportz $150Are you looking for something fun and active for your child this spring Break? Try our XploreSportz Spring Break camp! Each day, the kids will participate in two different sports. Ages 7-12.Stuart Wood Elementary School» Mar 21-Mar 24 8:30 AM-4:30 PMMon-Thu 249734» Mar 26-Apr 1 8:30 AM-4:30 PMMon-Fri 249735

Wood Craving Basics $140Begin to learn the art and craft of wood carving. Learn the safe use of the pocket knife while carving a simple human face. You will also carve a functional birch or aspen walking stick with a face. Some instruction on sharpening will also be provided.Ages 14+Parkview Activity Centre» Mar 22-24 6:00-9:00 PMTue, Thu 251983

Activity Programs

Please pre-register. Programs are canceled if the minimum numbers are not met.

Modern Contemporary Ballet $75Ages: 14-20This program is for the advanced dancer. Work on technique, poise, and flexibility. Dancers will work on the barre and centre floor.

Jul 14-18 Course: 102233 1:00 am to 2:30 pm Rainbow School of Dance

Fairy Tales and Musicals $175Ages: 9-12Children will work on building skills while acting, singing, and dancing. Stage crafts are also part of this program. Join the gang at Rainbow for a fun afternoon this summer.

Jul 14-18 Course: 1021863:00 am to 5:30 pm Rainbow School of Dance

Oronge’s Girls Only Skate Clinic $20No boys allowed! It does not matter if you have never stepped on a skateboard or have been skating for years. We will help all skill levels master street, transition, and all the fun skateboarding tricks. Bring your helmet, skateboard, water bottle, snack, and a positive attitude. Do not miss out on all the fun. HELMETS ARE MANDATORY.

Jul 11 Course: 99738 9:00 am to 11:00 am McArthur Island Park

Aug 15 Course: 99739 9:00 am to 11:00 am McArthur Island Park

Sunshine Kids $30Ages: 9-12This sunny experience includes singing, painting, playing, creating and pretending. Enjoy a week of mini-hikes, bubbles, water play and more. Bring a snack for our picnic.

Jul 15-17 Course: 10150011:15 am to 1:15 pm Hal Rogers CentreInstructor: Danielle Duperreault

Jul 22-24 Course: 10150111:15 am to 1:15 pm Parkview Activity CentreIntructor: Leanna Smeaton

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with Robert YoungThursday, February 25th - TRU Mountain Room - 7 PM

MAGNITUDE 9 - COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT GIANT EARTHQUAKE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

with John ClagueWednesday, March 9th - Ashcroft, BC at the River Inn - 7 PM

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WELLS GRAY WORLD HERITAGE: VOLCANIC GEM OF THE CARIBOO MOUNTAINS

with Catherine HicksonWednesday, April 6th - Clearwater, BC at the Dutch Lake

Community Centre - 7 PMThursday, April 7th - TRU Mountain Room - 7 PM

There will be a KEG Social before the April 7th talk in the Mountain Room beginning at 5:30 PM.

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T. REX DISCOVERY CENTREThursday, April 21st - TRU Mountain Room - 7 PM

The Kamloops Exploration Group is pleased to present their

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LOCAL NEWS

A Kamloops city councillor wants KGHM Ajax to release to the public all weather-related data that has been gathered on the mining property south of Aberdeen.

Donovan Cavers will file a notice of motion at today’s council meeting, to request support from fellow council members.

Cavers wants council to contact KGHM CEO Marcin Mostowy, KGHM Ajax external-affairs manager Yves Lacasse and project manager Clyde Gillespie and ask that the following weather-related information be made publicly available:

• raw data archived since August 2010 from the Ajaxmet climate station;

• raw data archived since 2006 by the Goldmet cleat station;

• raw data archived since 2014 by the AjaxAQ-1 climate station;

• exact geographical co-ordinates of the locations the climate stations;

• descriptions of the types and spe-cific names and model numbers of the meteorological instrumentation used at each site.

Cavers’ notice of motion states there is no indication raw-source meteorolog-ical data has been made available by the company and notes the time-sensitivity of the request, citing the 75-day public comment period attached to the Ajax application.

The comment period ends on April 11.

More Ajax on agendaAnother Ajax-related delegation is

scheduled to appear before Kamloops council today.

Kamloops residents Jim Thomson and Mark Brown will appear to talk about “the economic opportunities offered to Kamloops by the Ajax project . . . as detailed from the perspective of

a member of the local business com-munity.”

In January, KGHM Ajax submitted its 18,000-page application to provincial and federal authorities, kicking off a 180-day application-review period. A 75-day public-comment period ends on April 11.

On Jan. 12, council voted 5-4 to allow Ajax-related delegations to appear fol-lowing a longtime policy of disallowing them from a public-information portion of the meeting.

Domtar says emissions downDomtar said it has reduced particu-

late emissions at its Mission Flats pulp mill by 68 per cent over the past seven years, a time period during which it has spent more than $35 million in new technology.

The information is contained in a report from Domtar going to Kamloops council today.

The report from Kristin Dangelmaier, Domtar’s environmental manager, notes the company has reduced partic-ulate emissions from the pulp mill’s four boilers incrementally since embarking on a seven-year plan in 2009.

The report documents progres-sive decreases in particulate emissions based on 2009 levels — decreases of 13 per cent in 2011, 38 per cent in 2012, 43 per cent in 2013, 59 per cent and 68 per cent at the end of last year.

Domtar bought the pulp mill from Weyerhaeuser in 2007.

In 2013, it shut down its sawdust pulp line, reducing mill production by 25 per cent and resulting in 125 employ-ees being laid off.

As a result, Dangelmaier said, equip-ment in several process areas was retired, including the No. 1 black liquor recovery boiler, resulting in the elimina-tion of associated emissions.

Council today:Cavers wants data

Let’s Ta!k

Meeting ScheduleTuesday, February 23, 20167:00 - 10:00 pmSandman CentreParkside Lounge

Give us your ideasOver the years, the City of Kamloops has made budget meetings more personal with a chance to have your say. This format continues to work well and we invite you to be a part of the proposed 2016 supplemental budget discussions coming up.

As part of this ongoing conversation we‘ve learned that you want to be involved earlier in the budget process.

We hear you, we think that’s a great idea.

Feedback on the 2016 supplemental budget and sharing ideas for the 2017 budget helps ensure that staff has time to research items before they go to council for consideration.

That makes good sense and we invite you to provide some input on our budget process.

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LOCAL NEWS

For the second time in 15 months, Kamloops Mounties were called en masse to the same Upper Sahali address as part of a swatting prank.

Dozens of Mounties sped to 1775 McKinley Court at 5:30 p.m. Friday after receiving a call at 5:27 p.m. about a shooting .

Sgt. Karen Delorey said a male called police to say he was armed and has shot someone inside a townhouse in the complex.

Mounties set up a perimeter in the area of Monarch Drive and McKinley Court.

A resident of a townhouse on McKinley said there were approximately eight police cruisers on the street, with armed officers walking the complex.

The call came less than 24 hours after a real shooting occurred in west Kamloops.

On Thursday night, a 32-year-old man was shot in the leg at the Kamloops Travel Centre in west Kamloops, at Copperhead Drive and Versatile Drive. His injuries were not life-threatening and police say it was a targeted hit. The suspects remain at large.

The address that was the focus of the police operation Friday is the same address that was the target of a swatting prank on a Friday night in September 2014.

On Sept. 19, 2014, Mounties rushed to 1775 McKinley Court after receiving a call from a man who claimed he was armed, had shot someone inside a home at that address and would shoot any responding police officers.

The RCMP’s emergency-response team was deployed, along with other Mounties and paramedics, and the area was cordoned off for hours, until all units in the townhouse complex were cleared.

Ultimately, police determined the call had been a prank, one intended to have Mounties rush to a non-existent event, a practice known as swatting and one that can lead to criminal charges.

Police look into swatting incident

CRIME

A hearing is set for April 11 to determine whether delays in criminal proceedings should overturn the conviction of a Shuswap Lake boater who crashed into a houseboat, killing its pilot.

In October, Leon Reinbrecht was found guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops of criminal negligence causing death and criminal negligence causing bodily harm for his

actions on July 3, 2010.Reinbrecht’s speedboat

on Shuswap Lake ran into a houseboat piloted by Ken Brown, killing Brown and injuring a number of passengers. The speedboat ended up inside the houseboat.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Donegan found Reinbrecht guilty on both counts, finding he was travelling too fast and recklessly in the moments before he struck Brown’s houseboat in the dark.

Defence lawyers working for Reinbrecht earlier filed a challenge alleging delays in legal proceedings caused by the Crown breached Reinbrecht’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It took 17 months for charges to be laid against Reinbrecht and there were a number of delays before the trial.

The hearing was originally set for March, but the defence successfully applied for an adjournment to give more time for preparation.


Reinbrecht hearing set for April

The man shot in the leg at the Kamloops Travel Centre on Thursday night will survive his injury, but he is refusing to talk to police about who shot him and why.

Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cpl. Jodie Shelkie said the 32-year-old is “very well known” to police, noting the shooting was a targeted incident, not a random attack.

“Although the victim is not co-operating with our investigators, the Kamloops RCMP continue to do all they can to identify the subject or subjects who were involved,” Shelkie said.

“The Kamloops RCMP are committed to keeping the streets of Kamloops safe, and all available investigative avenues are being pursued.”

A neighbour reported hearing gun shots at about 8:45 p.m. and, shortly after 9 p.m., approximately a dozen police cars had arrived at the travel centre on Versatile Drive and Copperhead Drive and taped off the entire parking lot, restricting public access.

The victim was shot outside and stumbled onto the Petro-Canada gas station, where he collapsed.

He later underwent surgery at Royal Inland Hospital.

Shelkie said the suspects drove away in two small, light-coloured vehicles, heading east on Versatile Drive.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

A B.C. Supreme Court justice ruled Friday the manager of a Kamloops cocaine ring will not go jail and will instead serve two years of house arrest, followed by probation.

Steven Currie pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic cocaine, a high-level drug charge.

While the Crown asked for a four-year jail term, Justice Hope Hyslop sided with defence lawyer Jordan Watt, who argued a conditional sentence order, so-called “jail in the community,” is a tough penalty that will deter others from serious drug crime.

Currie ran the day-to-day operations of a dial-a-dope operation in Kamloops in 2012, collecting money at the end of the night and reloading drivers with product.

Five driver-dealers rotated shifts selling small amounts of powdered cocaine and delivering it throughout the city in a dedicated work car.

They regularly collected thousands of dollars in revenues.

Through wiretapping phones, search warrants and undercover buys, RCMP dissected the workings of the operation headed by Richard Crawford.

By opting not to send Currie to jail, Hyslop handed

him a sentence similar to the lowest-level cocaine delivery drivers, all of whom received some form of house arrest.

Crawford was given a five-year jail term, while the cocaine wholesaler to the ring, Jean Claude Auger, received a four-year sentence.

The defence argued conditional sentences have been allowed to slip into lighter penalties than originally designed when legislation was introduced in the 1990s.

Watt argued for a strict conditional sentence over two years that would allow Currie little freedom to leave his parents’ home in Ontario, other than to work.

For the first six months of the three-year probation that will follow, he will be under an evening curfew.

Shooting victim won’t talkJESSICA KLYMCHUK STAFF [email protected]


Drug-ring ‘manager’ avoids jail

POLICE

B.C. Supreme Court judge goes with plan for house arrest for Steven Currie, who profited off of cocaine dealers

What do you think?Is the sentence handed to Steven Currie an appropriate one? Should B.C. Supreme Court Justice Hope Hyslop have sent him to jail — like his ex-colleagues — or is house arrest OK?

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The B.C. Liberal gov-ernment made a big show of selec-tively easing Medical Services Plan fees in

its budget for the coming elec-tion year.

In what is becoming a pattern for Premier Christy Clark, the biggest beneficiaries are single parents. The new MSP is calcu-lated for adults only, so a single parent with two children saves as much as $1,200 a year.

Premium assistance is expanded, with discounts for single people making up to $42,000, rather than $30,000. But for singles, couples and seniors who don’t qualify for discounts, the rate is going up another four per cent effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Indeed, with population growth, the finance ministry expects its take from MSP premi-ums to rise every year, reaching $2.5 billion in the coming years.

MSP revenue covers about 17 per cent of B.C.’s health budget and Clark and Finance Minister Mike de Jong insist Canada’s only direct health-care charge is a vital signal to people that health care isn’t free.

This argument has failed.One seldom-discussed fact is

that for half of the people charged MSP, it’s paid by their employers. In private-sector terms it’s a hefty payroll tax, creating one more obstacle for businesses to hire full-time staff with benefits.

So, most full-time employees don’t receive this supposedly vital signal, unless they get laid off because their employer is losing money.

Also note that politicians and public-sector employees have never paid MSP premiums. Their employers — taxpayers — pick up the tab for them.

People who have to pay out of pocket are what the bureaucracy calls pay-direct accounts.

Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation recently revealed that nearly 400,000 of these accounts are in arrears by more than 30 days, owing a grand total of $457 mil-lion.

Of course, this is Canada, so even if you haven’t paid or even registered for MSP, you still get treatment at the hospital.

This is another potential signal lost in the noise.

For people who lose their jobs, MSP is like being kicked when they are down. Their employer stops paying and the slow-mov-ing bureaucracy charges them based on their income from the previous year.

There was a fuss in 2004 after the B.C. Liberals contracted out MSP administration to a Virginia-based back-office specialist,

delightfully named Maximus Corporation.

Now Maximus goes after delinquent MSP accounts with collection-agency tactics and attempts to keep up with the comings and goings from other provinces and countries.

Opposition parties decry the continued inequity of the MSP premium system, which charges the same for a single person mak-ing $45,000 or $450,000 a year.

NDP Leader John Horgan rails about inequality and accuses Clark of using MSP revenues to establish her prosperity “slush fund,” but he stops short of call-ing for the elimination of MSP premiums.

One would expect the new Democrats to lead another axe-the-tax campaign, as they did with the carbon tax and the HST, but they aren’t. Perhaps this is because workers for this unneces-sary Maximus machine remain members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union.

Green Leader Andrew Weaver has it right. He staged a popular petition drive to roll MSP pre-miums into income tax. If the government wants to send a mes-sage, it can interrupt its continu-ous Jobs Plan advertising.

Scrapping MSP and raising income-tax rates on higher brack-ets to compensate would fix the private-sector payroll deterrent, make salaried employees (includ-ing me) pay their share and end a tax break for the wealthy.

Don’t hold your breath.

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ANIMAL ABUSERS MUST BE STOPPED

In the video, the dog is shaking with fear.

It has just been rescued from an alleged puppy mill.People at the SPCA have trimmed off the filthy, matted fur and

bathed it. The dog is safe, but it doesn’t know it, so it starts to back away from the camera lens, terrified.

It was one of the 66 dogs seized from a Langley location earlier this month by the SPCA. The animal protection agency took away 32 adult dogs and 34 puppies on Feb. 4, including Old English sheepdogs, Bernese mountain dogs, soft-coated Wheaten terriers, poodles and Portuguese water dogs.

The starving dogs were living in small, stacked crates and cages, in dark, unheated buildings. They had serious medical and psychological issues including broken bones, missing ears and eyes, infections and abscesses,

dental disease, severe matting and overgrown nails.Another property in Surrey housing distressed

animals was raided after the discovery in Langley.The eye-opening shock in Langley has prompted

the province to announce it will pass legislation next year that will include codes of practice for dog breeders and kennel and cattery operators.

The province will also consult this spring on licensing to operate as a breeder.

Premier Christy Clark announced the changes yesterday in Vancouver, saying the government has already begun consultations with the province’s SPCA and others. The codes of practice will include rules on housing, ven-tilation, food and water, care and supervision, and record keeping.

While the move is welcome, it is too late for the dogs in Langley, ani-mals that require especially skilled and understanding owners, because while the physical scars can heal, the psychological damage will take a lot longer.

People who work with emotionally wounded dogs will tell you that helping them recover from their ordeal takes a very long time and lots of love and patience.

And that it is very much worth the effort.

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Editor:The recent Kamloops RCMP jailing without

charge of Robert Werbowsky, who had report-ed to police that he had been recently robbed, raises serious questions about RCMP conduct and its role as our city police force (‘Robbed of his rights?’, Feb. 19):

Kamloops This Week is to be commended for bringing this insolent action of Kamloops RCMP officers in Kamloops to our attention.

By not charging Werbowsky, the RCMP admits it had no basis for his jailing.

With the failure of RCMP officers and their superintendent, Brad Mueller, to respond to

questions from this newspaper, they clearly believe they have no sense of responsibility to the people who hire and pay them — the City of Kamloops and city council.

This raises the larger question of whether Kamloops should continue to contract the federal police force to do its municipal polic-ing.

RCMP officers and their superintendent are well aware they are responsible only to the federal RCMP Office in Ottawa and its provin-cial headquarters in Surrey.

This incident clearly focuses this issue.As a taxpaying citizen of Kamloops, I would

like my city council to ask Mueller to appear before council to explain the actions of his force in this disturbing incident.

Should he have initial reservations about appearing before council, I am sure council would agree to meet with him in-camera.

If he refuses outright, it would be definitive proof the RCMP does not really see itself as our own Kamloops municipal police force, but rather as a national police force responsible only to federal masters.

John Hart Kamloops

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Editor:I was surprised to read that a name with

a good history behind it got whacked when Kamloops-Thompson school trustees decided to drop the “Beattie” monicker from two schools.

I like names with some character; location and thing just does not do it for me.

Letter writer Sheila Park (‘Let the Beattie name live’) stated it well in the Feb. 19 edition of KTW.

The Beattie sisters deserve their fame and the decision to rename Beattie school should be reversed.

Let us hear about our heroes (if the area is already named for a hero, then let us hear about another hero).

Gene WirchenkoKamloops

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online

RE: STORY: DOMTAR CITES 68 PER CENT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS AT KAMLOOPS PULP MILL:

“Can you imagine the vitriol and fear-mongering that would happen if Domtar had tried to start their business this year?

“The anti-industry wingnuts would be screeching in full tenor.”

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RE: HASTINGS COLUMN: JAMMED BY THE JAWLINE AT SPEED-DATING SOIRÉE:

“Marty, you made my Sunday morning a brighter day — and it’s pretty sunny out there!

“Just know I am sure there are many living vicariously through you and giving life a confident pull because of your stories.

“Hang in there, pal. You are a genuine gem just waiting to be polished.”

— posted by Troylana

RE: STORY: SHOOTING VICTIM REFUSES TO CO-OPERATE WITH KAMLOOPS MOUNTIES:

“Lock him up and throw away the key until he co-operates.”

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ANIMAL WELFARE IN DARK AGESEditor:

The federal government enjoys a favour-able international reputation on the subject of animal welfare, one it it does not deserve.

Here are the facts obtained from the World Animal Protection Index:

More than 50 countries have been evalu-ated on their concern for animal welfare on a scale from A to G. European countries are some of the best, with mostly A’s and B’s.

The UK has earned an “A” and India is rated with a “C”.

Canada is lagging behind with a “D”. Canada is worse than China and India

in the categories of protection of animals in captivity, scientific research, protection of farm animals and recognition of animal sentience.

The federal laws look good by stating animal abusers can receive fines and jail sentences, but the reality is only one-third of one per cent of abuse complaints lead to criminal charges.

The federal government ignored public opinion back in 2012 after taking a poll asking whether Canadians approved of cos-

metic testing on animals. Despite the fact 88 per cent of respondents disapproved, the practice continues.

There are no federal regulations for animals in zoos and circuses, nor for farm animals during rearing. Animals can be transported for up to 52 hours with no food, water or rest. Animals left in pounds for a minimum of three days can be used for research under the Animals For Research Act.

Many amendments to existing laws have been presented to Ottawa, but have been rejected by the Senate because it favours animal-use industries. While many coun-tries throughout the world are making progressive changes to animal-welfare laws, federal laws in Canada have had no signifi-cant changes since 1892.

Canada is still in the Dark Ages concern-ing animal welfare. Please help our ani-mals by contacting your local member of Parliament and voicing your outrage against government-sanctioned animal abuse.

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While there were no specifics in last week’s provincial budget, the city’s two MLAs and cabinet minister said Friday that work is continuing on the second phase of the Royal Inland Hospital upgrade and that there is possibility of investment at TRU.

Kamloops-South Thompson MLA and Transportation Minister Todd Stone, along with Kamloops-North Thompson MLA and Health Minister Terry Lake, pro-

vided an update at the traditional Kamloops Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting following the pro-vincial budget.

The pair outlined the balanced budget that provided a $100- million down payment on the promised Prosperity Fund, which Premier Christy Clark said in the 2013 provincial election would be funded with revenue from liquid natural-gas (LNG) projects.

The $100 million does not stem from LNG projects, but from the province’s surplus.

Critics have called the Prosperity Fund a fantasy because

no corporations have moved forward with LNG investments, though Stone predicted that will change by next year.

That budget makes B.C. the best performing province for a number of categories, including jobs and credit rating.

Stone said that is evident from the numbers and from looking at the number of Canadians and immigrants moving to the prov-ince.

Lake said in an interview the $80-million first phase of RIH upgrades, the visible parkade and clinical-services building along

Columbia Street, is due to be com-plete by July.

The next phase is the $240- million surgical tower.

“I’m hopeful we’ll go to request for proposals in February 2017,” Lake said.

Local taxpayers will contribute another $160 million to the proj-ect.

“I’m hopeful sometime in 2017 we’ll have shovels in the ground,” Lake said. “I don’t want to get too far ahead.”

That 2017 date would put activity in the midst of the next provincial election, which

will be held in May.Treasury board of cabinet

is considering a set of capital projects for post-secondary institutions in B.C., one of them Thompson Rivers University’s pro-posed new trades building, valued at $30 million.

“TRU put forward an excep-tional business plan for a trades and technology building, a new building adjacent to the existing one,” Stone told reporters.

That plan is under evaluation“I’m hopeful we should have

some good news on that project soon,” he said.

Kamloops MLAs outline balanced budgetCAM FORTEMS STAFF [email protected]

Search and rescue operation in city this weekKamloops will be among locations used

this week for a significant search and rescue exercise involving a number of agencies.

The 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force will be conducting a search and rescue exercise through Friday.

Most exercise activity will be initiated with the launch of aircraft from Kamloops Airport into the local area and into the Chilcotin military training area.

Some exercise support will also be pro-vided in Williams Lake.

The purpose of the exercise is to provide members of the squadron and B.C.-based search and rescue partners with realistic training.

Exercise participants will include the B.C. Search and Rescue Association, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, the Provincial Emergency Program Air, Kamloops Search and Rescue, the Rocky Mountain Rangers and Kamloops Airport.

The 442 Squadron is responsible for providing a search and rescue capability in support of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination

Center in Victoria.The Victoria Search and Rescue Region

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“442 Squadron conducts search and res-cue operations throughout B.C. and Yukon Territory and we see the value in training with our search and rescue partners dem-onstrated on a regular basis,” said Lieut.-Col. Clinton Mowbray, commanding officer, of the 442 Squadron in Comox.

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A boost to BC Transit’s budget should mean improved ser-vice in Kamloops — and, in particular, for those who ride HandyDart — the province’s transporta-tion minister said.

Flanked by fel-low politicians, tran-sit employees and representatives of other city organiza-tions, Transportation Minister Todd Stone said Friday that B.C. is adding $12.7 million to the transit budget over the next three years, bringing total funding for that period to $324 million.

The minister and Kamloops-South Thompson MLA said

the city had asked for 2,500 more HandyDart service hours in the 6,000-hour increase it had hoped to under-take before transit funding was frozen in last year’s provincial budget.

Stone said he expects much of the requested HandyDart hours could be provided.

Coun. Ken Christian, who attend-ed the press confer-ence at the bus loop on the Thompson Rivers University campus, said council will discuss how the service in the city will be improved once it learns how much of that increase will be coming.

Christian said he anticipates major routes and HandyDart

will see improvements, particularly routes that take students to the university.

Christian said the challenge in improving routes in outlying areas of the city comes from the few numbers of passengers that use the service.

“You have to look at how many people are on a bus,” Christian said.

Mayor Peter Milobar said he welcomed the additional money, but noted a key change that will have an impact on the city’s transit system flows from a regula-tory change made late last year that will let municipalities transfer unused transit dollars from year to year.

BC Transit pays 47 per cent of transit costs

in communities where it provides services.

The year-to-year funding for transit breaks out as $106 mil-lion for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, $108 million for 2017-2018 and $110 million for 2018-2019.

Last year, the gov-

ernment announced it had planned to restrict the budget input for 2016 through 2018 at $104 million each year.

The Crown agency will also receive $110 million for capital investments in the next three years.

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More money for city transit hours

Transportation Minister Todd Stone (at right with Health Minister Terry Lake during Friday’s announcement at Thompson Rivers University) is adding $12.7 million to the province’s transit budget over the next three years, bringing total funding for that period to $324 million.Some of that extra money will find its way to Kamloops in the form of improved service.DAVE EAGLES/KTW

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Dale Cassell has earned his stripes.

The 75-year-old hockey official, born and bred in Kamloops, has been refereeing since 1955, the

same year riots erupted in Montreal when Maurice Richard was suspended for knock-ing a linesman unconscious during a game against the Bruins in Boston.

If you know Cassell, and many in the local hockey community do, there’s something fit-ting about that coincidence.

He was borne of that era.Life and hockey, which can’t really be

separated when it comes to Cassell, have changed a great deal since then, but officiat-ing has been one of the constants, so it made sense to catch up with the retired welder at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre, minutes before he took to the ice to call a men’s league game.

“I come from the old school, rough and rugged with lots of blood,” said Cassell, who was inducted as a community builder to the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

“When I was a player, I knew exactly where the penalty box was and I tell every-body that, hey, I can referee the same way I play. If you want to dig in, we’ll dig in.

“Sometimes, we might have a rough start, but by the time it’s all over and they know I’m going to be the boss anyway, I get along very, very well with the players.”

The first period of Cassell’s officiating story began 60 years ago on a Saturday.

“This fellow asked me to help because the other referee was sick,” Cassell said. “I didn’t know anything about refereeing. Nothing. To make a long story short, I’m still here.”

Cassell has presided over countless Kamloops Minor Hockey Association con-tests, spent about 30 years calling games in the junior A B.C. Hockey League and logged 12 seasons — the most enjoyable stint of his officiating career — as a linesman in the Western Hockey League.

The list of Hall of Fame NHL players and well-respected referees with whom he shared the ice is too long to recount, but he rattled off names like Dave (Tiger) Williams, Bryan Trottier and Dan Marouelli, and cited Rob Brown as one of the lippiest players

to lace them up under his patrol.Cassell is no stranger to international

duty, having refereed in a Canada-Russia series in 1966 at the Vancouver Forum and during a tournament featuring Canada, the U.S., Czech Republic and Russia south of the border in the early 1970s.

Kamloops resident Bob Davoren, a seem-ingly endless wealth of sports knowledge, was best man at Cassell’s wedding in 1964.

“Dale had ice in his veins,” Davoren said, noting Cassell got the two out of trouble on several impromptu road trips, including one to New York City, where they watched Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and company in the Yankees-Dodgers 1963 World Series.

“He could have made a career out of being a referee, there’s no doubt about it, but family came first and that’s what Dale was all about,” Davoren said.

“He was very unflappable, probably because he was so good at what he did.”

(Trouble arose on the Bronx trip when Davoren misplaced a large sum of money on the wrong side of town. Cassell kept his cool and retrieved it.)

Cassell was an excellent player and belonged to the Chicago Blackhawks’ orga-nization in 1958, but decided to call it quits upon hearing he would be traded to Flin Flon from Moose Jaw.

“I came home, picked up the whistle and

I’ve been tooting it ever since,” he said.Cassell’s mettle was tested in 1962 when

he was burned badly in a welding accident and found himself stuck in Royal Inland Hospital for three months.

Plenty of good emerged from the fire.“That’s where I met him,” said Jeanette

Cassell, Dale’s wife, then a nursing student at RIH. “He was burned on his legs and arms and part of his face and I just happened to be his nurse.

“There was no way you could get mar-ried if you were a nursing student in those days, so we waited for two years and, when I graduated, we got married.”

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Dale Cassell (right), 75, was asked to help officiate the WHL 50th season pro-am alumni game on Feb. 4 at Sandman Centre during Hockey Day in Canada week. The retired welder is still blowing the whistle on a regular basis in Kamloops, where he first donned the black-and-white stripes in 1955. “Everybody says, ‘Dale, when are you going to pack it in?’ I say I’ve still got a mile-and-a-half left in me yet,” Cassell says.

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Jeanette has been a sound-ing board for her husband, who for more than half a century has come home from the rink with stories to tell, missed calls to confess and wounds to be patched up.

“We never expected that he would want to referee this long, but you just keep going and going,” Jeanette said. “It’s different now and there are no big fights that he has to get in the middle of. I’d always have to bleach his shirts because there was blood on them.

“Some of the other ref-eree friends weren’t married, so they’d bring their shirts over, too, if they needed to be washed.”

Cassell expressed a great fear of public speaking, interviews and the spotlight, saying para-lyzing stage fright is one reason he nearly declined the KTW interview, but he spoke with the flare of a seasoned entertainer and touched on a number of refereeing topics.

On hockey parents: “I have never, ever had trouble with parents. I have never, ever come close to throwing a parent out of a hockey game. If you go out there and do your job and do it well and they can see it, they appreciate it.

“To me, one of the big things, especially for the young guys, is hustle. You’ve got to get out and move and show that you’re interested. The parents appreci-ate that.”

NHL refs have it easy these days, Cassell said: “The biggest change in officiating is the four-man system. They don’t have the whole responsibility of the hockey game on their shoulders and today we’re playing like the old Montreal Canadiens and the Russians, skating and passing. It’s a piece of cake for the NHL referees, compared to what it used to be, in the days of the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins. Those days have come and those days have gone.”

Cassell sticks to recreational-league games now, operating mostly in between the blue lines. He only referees when he has an officiating partner, one of them being Willy Saari, a well-known figure on the local sports scene.

“He’s been my mentor since I started and I’ve done this for 32-plus years,” Saari said. “I’m still honoured on a Tuesday night to come out and ref with him.

“It’s the highlight of his day. I just envy that. I wish I had that passion all the time.”

Cassell and Saari were invited to don the stripes at the WHL 50th season pro-am alumni game, a showcase showdown featuring a litany of hockey leg-ends played in front of about 5,000 fans at Sandman Centre during Hockey Day in Canada week.

“There might have been some concern about him [from organizers], but we said, ‘He’s in the best shape out of all of us and he’ll do the best job,’ and they shut up real quick,” Saari said.

“He has respect from every player in this town. He’s earned it over the years.”

They might not like all the calls he makes and his in-your-face style may irk some players, but they respect him.

Clay Cartie, one of the play-ers involved in the men’s-league game the night Cassell was interviewed, has grown familiar

with the 75-year-old’s unique, talkative style of refereeing.

“He’s out there having fun and he still loves doing it, which is nice to see, and his banter on the ice is great,” Cartie said.

“Not many refs will come back with a witty comment like Dale does, so it’s nice.”

“He does pretty well, although he makes us shoot the puck down the ice on the icing calls,” Cartie said with a laugh.

“He makes us shoot it down to the other ref.”

Jeanette was in the stands watching the pro-am alumni game and she has a bone to pick with Don Cherry over what happened during the pre-game festivities .

“We took the grandkids and our two daughters came to the alumni game. He [Dale] was supposed to drop the ceremo-nial puck,” Cassell’s wife said.

“Well, here comes Don Cherry. I thought, hey, that’s not fair. They asked Dale to do it and, here, Don Cherry marches in and does it. Dale said it’s no big deal, but it was. The kids wanted to see that. They’re 10 and seven years old.”

Cassell, who sat at the same bench at Argo Road Maintenance for the last 38 years of his welding career, exhibited no sour grapes over the Cherry incident.

And gone are the days in which missed calls followed him home to Jeanette and the South Shore house they’ve lived in for 40 years.

“Blunders used to drive me nuts for days,” Cassell said. “We are not perfect. Do we make all the right calls? No. You learn to deal with it. Now I can go to bed and not think about it.”

There are more important things to worry about, like when he’s next scheduled to referee or his next trip to the cross-coun-try skiing trails at Stake Lake and Sun Peaks Resort.

“I’m just built that way. I’m made to move,” he said. “I don’t do it for my health. I just can’t sit around too long. I’m one of them guys. I gotta move.

“Everybody says, ‘Dale, when are you going to pack it in?’ I say I’ve still got a mile-and-a-half left in me yet.

“As long as I feel this way, I’ll be dropping the puck.”

Cassell has earned respectFrom A13

Dale Cassell: “As long as I feel this way, I’ll be dropping the puck.”

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Karla Thompson was trying to be politically correct when speaking about the pre-qualifying round at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

“Some people feel, and I kind of feel that way, too, that it’s too bad all the teams can’t be here, everyone that wins their province,” said Thompson, the Team B.C. skip who spoke to KTW ahead of yesterday’s clash with Nova Scotia at the women’s national curl-ing championship in Grande Prairie.

“Everyone else is going into their fourth game and we’re going into our eighth game. Getting in the extra games was to our advantage to settle in a bit early, but now we’re going to get a little more tired than everyone else.”

Skip Jill Brothers and her Nova Scotia rink scored three in the 10th end to sink B.C. 7-4 yesterday afternoon.

Thompson’s crew is 1-3 and scheduled to play twice today — at 6:30 a.m. against Jenn Hanna of Ontario and at 11:30 a.m. against Jolene Campbell of Saskatchewan.

Curling Canada decided at its annual

general meeting in June to expand the field and abolish the pre-qualifying round in time for the 2018 Scotties, but that doesn’t do much for the Kamloops Curling Centre group this week.

The Thompson rink — which includes third Kristen Recksiedler, second Tracey Lavery, lead Trysta Vandale, alter-nate Sasha Carter and coach Jeff Richard — scored three in the fifth end and held off

veteran Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories to win the sudden-death pre-

qualifying final 8-5 on Saturday morning.

Hours later, Thompson played its first main-draw contest, its fifth game overall, and conceded a 10-2 defeat to the Kerri Einarson rink of Manitoba (2-1), which was playing its first game of the tourna-ment.

“I think we were still on a high and didn’t quite refocus,” Thompson said.

“Regardless, we have to make our shots.”

Skip Chelsea Carey of Alberta (4-0) knocked off B.C. 8-5 on Sunday morn-ing, but Thompson squeezed out a 7-6 vic-tory over Marie-France Larouche of Quebec

(2-2) on Sunday night.“It’s always nice to

get your first win and get that monkey off your back,” Thompson said. “We’re feeling good and we’re mov-ing upward.”

As of KTW’s press deadline yesterday, Alberta was atop the Scotties standings with its unblemished record.

“It’s been a grind already, but we’re grinding it out,” Thompson said. “The pre-qualifying is a bit of a controversial issue for a lot of people, but it is what it is and everyone knew about it coming in.

“They’ve heard the suggestions and they’re going to make a change.”

SPORTS

Thompson rink to fight fatigue MARTY HASTINGS STAFF [email protected]

Skip Karla Thompson and Team B.C. played four games before starting main-draw play on Saturday night at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Grande Prairie. Staying fresh will be a tall task for her Kamloops Curling Centre rink, which brings a 1-3 record into today’s action.

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The Kamloops Storm will not have to travel far to find their first-round Kootenay International Junior Hockey League playoff opponent.

Following a 7-2 loss to the Osoyoos Coyotes in their final game of the regular season on Saturday night, Kamloops has a first-round date with the Chase Heat.

The series’ opening game will be played tonight at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre, with puck-drop slated for 7 p.m.

Kamloops will play host to Game 2 tomor-row, before the series shifts to Chase for games on Friday and Saturday at Art Holding Memorial Arena.

Game time is 7 p.m. tomorrow at McArthur.Should they be necessary, Games 5, 6 and 7

will be played on Feb. 29 in Kamloops, March 1 in Chase and March 2 in Kamloops, respectively.

The Storm finished the regular season second in the Doug Birks Division, three points ahead of the Heat, and played to a 4-4 record against their Shuswap rival, with each club winning one contest in overtime.

The 100 Mile House Wranglers won the Birks Division, finishing three points ahead of Kamloops, and will play the division’s fourth-place Revelstoke Grizzlies in Round 1.

STORM TO BRAVE HEAT IN ROUND 1

Brett Watkinson (left) and the Kamloops Storm fell short of winning the Doug Birks Division title and will square off against the Chase Heat in Round 1 of the playoffs. Game 1 of the series will be played tonight on McArthur Island, with puck-drop scheduled for 7 p.m.

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The Kelowna Owls knocked off the NorKam Saints 63-37 in the senior girls’ AAA Okanagan Championship basketball game on Saturday to claim a berth in the provincial championship, which will run from March 2 to March 5 at the Langley Events Centre.

Cassie Morris had 10 points and 16 rebounds in a losing effort for the Saints, who had home-court advantage. Julia Cantin pitched in with 11 points for the home team.

Morris and Billie Sankey of the Saints were named first-team tournament all-stars, while Tamika Tallio of the South Kamloops Titans and Emily Ferguson of NorKam cracked the second-team all-star list.

NorKam downed South Kam 54-41 in semifinal play on Saturday.

Hannah McDonald had seven points and Lynn Morrison netted nine points for the Titans. Morris had 14 points and 27 rebounds for the Saints, while Grace Campbell poured in 11 points.

Taya Hanson of the Owls was the tournament MVP.

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The Kamloops Blazers were winless on their three-games-in-three-nights road trip to the Coast and Vancouver Island on the weekend and did themselves no favours in the hunt for the WHL’s post-season.

They knew points would be hard to come by in two games against the red-hot Victoria Royals and they were right — Victoria topped Kamloops 4-1 on Friday and 6-3 on Saturday.

“The first game we got off to a pretty slow start,” Blazers’ forward Collin Shirley told KTW.

“We weren’t as pre-pared as we could have been.

“That was a tough way to start the road trip, but the second game we showed some pushback.”

Momentum from a much-improved per-formance on Saturday did not translate to the scoreboard early against the Vancouver Giants at Pacific Coliseum on Sunday, but the Blazers sal-

vaged a point by eras-ing a 3-0 second-period deficit to force over-time.

“He [Blazers’ head coach Don Hay] called a timeout and every-one was almost in disbelief,” said Shirley, whose Blazers fell into the 3-0 hole when Radovan Bondra tallied for the Giants at 2:38 of

the second period.“Don just said calm

down and get back to playing our game. That helped a lot.”

Jiri Smejkal, Nick Chyzowski and Gage Quinney scored to force a wild three-on-three overtime session, which included a disallowed Vancouver goal, and the Giants prevailed

4-3 in a shootout.“The last game in

Vancouver we would have liked to have two points, but we had a really good second half and showed some good compete,” Shirley said.

“It was a much-needed point.”

Connor Ingram was between the pipes for Kamloops on Friday

and Sunday. Backup Dylan Ferguson was in the crease on Saturday.

The WHL playoff system sees the top three teams in the B.C. and U.S. divisions

qualify, along with two wild-card spots reserved for the next two best records.

Kamloops sits in the second wild-card slot with 63 points and is four points up on the Tri-City Americans, who have two games in hand on the Blazers.

The Spokane Chiefs occupy the first wild-card berth, holding a one-point lead on the Blue and Orange.

Shirley and the Blazers enjoyed a day off yesterday, but will begin preparing today for another three-games-in-three-nights haul, which starts on Friday against the Silvertips in Everett.

“Everett is a team

we’ve talked the most about through the year, about how they play a good, defensive game,” said Shirley, who leads the Blazers with 65 points.

“We’ll do a lot of work on that this week in practice to prepare for them.”

The U.S. Division-leading Silvertips are among the Blazers’ potential first-round playoff opponents, if Kamloops can snare the first wild-card berth.

“We’re going there on Thursday, so there’s no excuse not to be ready to play,” Shirley said.

“This is a huge weekend and every point we can get really matters.”

The Giants will be at Sandman Centre for a 7 p.m. start on Saturday and the Seattle Thunderbirds will be in town on Sunday, with game time set for 6 p.m.

SPORTS

Blazers skunked on three-game tripMARTY HASTINGS STAFF [email protected]

Team PTS

1. Victoria 862. Kelowna 853. Prince George 684. Kamloops 635. Vancouver 53

B.C. Division

Collin Shirley and the Kamloops Blazers will look to snap a three-game losing skid against the hometown Everett Silvertips on Friday. The Blazers will play host to Vancouver on Saturday and Seattle on Sunday.

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MONTREAL — A baby struck in the head by a puck star defenceman P.K. Subban tossed into the stands following the Montreal Canadiens annual open practice was released from hos-pital yesterday.

The one-month-old girl’s mother, Valerie Meloche, said on Facebook her daughter suffered a concussion when hit by the puck Sunday.

Canadiens play-ers tossed them into the crowd following

the practice.“Unfortunately,

one of the fans who received a puck from P.K. Subban was just a month old and she stopped it with her head,’’ Meloche wrote.

Baby Beatrice was taken to the Montreal Children’s Hospital and kept overnight.

A team spokesman said Subban also want-ed to meet the family.

— Canadian Press

The Calgary Flames acquired forward Hunter Shinkaruk from the Vancouver Canucks for centre Markus Granlund on Monday.

Shinkaruk will be assigned to the AHL’s Stockton Heat.

Shinkaruk, a Calgary native, was selected in the first round, No. 24

overall, by Vancouver in the 2013 NHL draft. The 21-year-old had 21 goals and 18 assists in 45 games with the AHL’s Utica Comets and

made his NHL debut with Vancouver on Nov. 16, 2015 against Montreal.

Granlund, 22, had four goals and three assists in 31 games with the Flames this season. He also registered five goals and four assists in 12 games with Stockton.

NATIONAL SPORTS

Bautista has told Blue Jays what deal he’d agree toDUNEDIN, Fla. — Jose Bautista sees no reason for a lot of back and forth about his contract.

The Toronto slugger said yesterday he has let the Blue Jays know what it would take to keep him and is waiting for an answer.

Bautista is enter-ing the final year of his deal. The 35-year-old outfielder is coming off a 40-homer season in which he helped Toronto to an AL East title and its first post-season appearance since 1993.

“I don’t think there

should be any negotia-tions. I think I’ve proved myself and the question has been asked — what will it take? — and I’ve given them an answer,’’ Bautista said.

“I’m not going to sit here and try to bargain for a couple dollars.’’

Wearing a shirt that said “HOME IS TORONTO,’’ Bautista spoke to reporters for about 15 minutes yes-terday after the Blue Jays held their first official workout for pitchers and catchers.

It was fitting that Bautista’s comments made the biggest news of the day.

Toronto is still a team built around its

offence after Bautista, Josh Donaldson, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki powered the Blue Jays to the AL Championship Series last year.

Bautista and Encarnacion are in the final year of their con-tracts. Bautista said he let the team know a cou-ple of weeks ago what kind of deal he wanted and that his agent has been involved in the process.

“I’m not trying to sound like it was ada-mant and I put down the law and I drew lines in the sand,’’ Bautista said. “They asked me a question and I gave them an answer.’’

Toronto general manager Ross Atkins is expected to talk to reporters later this week. Atkins was hired to work with Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro after GM Alex Anthopoulos left the team this off-season.

Bautista said he has “nothing but praise’’ for what Shapiro and Atkins have done so far, even while his own future remains uncertain.

“I think they know and realize the things that I say and agree with me. It’s just a matter of, are they willing to go there?’’ Bautista said.

“And it’s not just necessarily Ross and Mark. I can’t say that, I don’t know. Some of that

decision making, of a contract the size that I presented, has to come from ownership.’’

The Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.

“In a publicly traded company, everybody can track their perfor-mance fairly easy. It’s not a secret. It’s out in the public,’’ Bautista said. “Stock prices are monitored very closely by the whole financial world, and I think there is a direct correlation with the success of their earnings-per-share after we start experiencing success.

“Are they going to put it out in the media and say because of the Jays,

we made all this money? No. But everybody can read between the lines.’’

Bautista made $64 million over the past five years and the Blue Jays exercised his $14-mil-lion option for 2016. He said he feels he’s outperformed that con-tract and he dismissed the idea of a so-called hometown discount.

“That doesn’t exist. Not in my world,’’ Bautista said. “In my eyes, I’ve given this organization a five-year hometown discount already.’’

Bautista signed his long-term deal in 2011, when he was coming off a 54-homer season that more than tripled his

career high in that cat-egory. He has averaged 35 home runs a year since then.

Encarnacion’s agent has said his client would cease negotiations once the regular season begins. Bautista didn’t say any-thing like that, but he cer-tainly seemed intent on leaving the issue firmly on management.

“I didn’t want to waste their time or their effort, so they can start planning ahead, and if it’s not going to happen, they have plenty of time to do so,’’ Bautista said.

“They asked me about two weeks ago, and I told them, and that’s it. There’s no nego-tiation.”

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ALICE REBA HAYNES Alice died peacefully in the early evening of February 15, 2016 with family by her side. She is survived by her children Lynda (Allan) Fraser, Pam (Milton) Drake, Sandi Larsen, Lesley Thomas, Russell (Anne) Preston. She also leaves her grandchildren Duane (Janine) Fraser, Kirk (Tracy) Fraser, Stacey (Rick) DeLeeuw, Vikki (Everett) Prescott, Debi (Dean Desilets) Drake, Richard (Nadia) Larsen, Lesley (Bruce Zidar) Larsen, Aaron (Maria) Preston, Alexander Preston. She is survived by thirteen great-grandchildren, Nina Jean Fraser, Mercedi, Shanna and Tarin DeLeeuw, JaiLynn and Bryce Prescott, Cheyanne and Dane Drake and Sienna Desilets, Riley and Amy Larsen, and Aven Preston and Kayla Hopkins.

She was predeceased by her husband Bob Preston in 2004 and her great-granddaughter Halley Sabine Larsen in 2002.

Alice was born on January 21, 1930 in Napa Valley and moved to Kamloops in 1964. She was involved volunteering for numerous organizations over many years including The Pine Tree Riding Club, the RCMP, Team Roping Assn of BC, the KXA, RIH, the White Cane Club and CNIB.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:00 am at Hills of Peace Lutheran Church, 695 Robson Drive (corner of Robson and Summit Drive), Kamloops with Pastor Jane Gingrich presiding.

If friends so wish donations for Alice’s special two charities — Kamloops Salvation Army and Kamloops SPCA would be appreciated .

Schoenings Funeral Services are in care of arrangements.

MALCOLM “MICK” CHARLES MCPHEE

August 18, 1944 – February 16, 2016

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, Malcolm “Mick” Charles McPhee passed away peacefully after a brief battle with cancer.

Mick is survived by his children Mike (Cathie) and Michelle (Randy), his grandchildren Alexandra (Mark), Samantha, Duncan and Aidan, and his siblings Don (Sandra), Judy and Rex, numerous cousins, nieces and nephews, and many good friends. Mick is predeceased by Gloria, his beloved wife of 47 years.

Mick was born on August 18, 1944 in Chilliwack, BC. He moved to Kamloops with his family when he was two years old. After attending Norkam Secondary, he trained as a mechanic in Nanaimo, BC. He returned to Kamloops to begin his career, where he spent thirty-five years at Dearborn Ford. Mick’s hobby as a gunsmith grew to become a second career and he distinguished himself as an internationally known barrel maker and a competitive target shooter.

Mick met his wife Gloria in 1962 and they were married in 1965. Together, they raised their two children and immensely enjoyed being grandparents. Mick especially enjoyed family barbeques, car shows and teaching his grandchildren to shoot. Mick volunteered as a softball coach for several years and spent countless hours passing on his joy of fishing and the outdoors.

A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 2:00 pm in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Drive.

Special thanks for the exceptional care and dedication of Dr. Cribb, Dr. Chevalier, Dr. Proctor and the staff of 6 North and Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice House.

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

OLIVE ILEAN HUGHSONNovember 2, 1929 - February 18, 2016

Olive passed peacefully at Overlander Residential Care facility on February 18, 2016 with two of her daughters by her side. Olive enjoyed being outside taking her little dog “Qeenie” out for walks and tending her many flower gardens. In fact, many of the children in the neighborhood referred to Olive as the flower lady. Olive also enjoyed sewing, knitting and reading. Olive will be sadly missed by her blended family, her daughters Linda (Doug) Thomson, Susan (Phil) Lingren and Debbie (Paul) Nadeau, her step-daughters Ellie (Doug) Stockford, Holly (Brian) Eastabrook, her sons Robert (Roberta) Taylor, Barry (Selina) Taylor as well as her step-son Hartlley (Pat) Hughson. Olive will also be remembered by her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Olive is predeceased by her husband Roy Hughson, her four sisters Eva, Margaret, Isabella, Beverly and her granddaughter Laurel. The family would like to thank each and every one of the staff at Overlander Extended Care for the outstanding care and kindness that their mom had received. The family would like to close on a Quote from one of her caregivers Bunny “Now Mom is back in Roy’s arms dancing”.

At Olive’s request there will be no formal service.

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IRENE AYAKO TABATA (NEE TAKASAKI)

July 9, 1933 – February 18, 2016

In loving memory, Irene Ayako Tabata of Kamloops, B.C, passed away on February 18, 2016 at the age of 82.

Irene is survived by her adoring husband of 57 years Shoji and by her loving children Sharlene (Dave), Eiko (John), Rosanne (Blaine), Russell (Mary Ann) and Kevin (Romy). She will be deeply missed by her four grandchildren Tyler (Heather), Derek, Nathan and Aly.

She was predeceased by her parents Rikimatsu and Sakiye Takasaki and all her siblings Matsuye, Takeo, Jun, Yoshio, Akio and Hiroshi.

Irene was born in Port Haney, B.C. on July 9, 1933. In 1942, her family was relocated and interned in New Denver. It gave her great joy to know it was her family’s cabin on display in the Nikkei Internment Memorial Center in New Denver, B.C. After internment, she moved back to Vancouver in 1950 where she met Shoji, the love of her life. They moved to Kamloops in 1970 to raise their five children.

Irene was a loving and caring mother and her greatest joy and pride came from the raising of her children and seeing them grow into adulthood.

A Memorial Service will take place at 1:00 pm on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at the Kamloops Buddhist Church with Reverend Miyakawa officiating.

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PATRICIA (PAT) GORDON HANEY (NEE WESTGARTH)

July 25,1937 - February 11, 2016It is with saddened hearts that our family announces the passing of Patricia Gordon Haney of Chase, BC. She passed away peacefully in Hospice in Kamloops on February 11, 2016.

Patricia is survived by her husband Ralph of 35 years. Her children Ken (Lisa), Laura (Rick), Alana and her grandchildren Kelsey, Derek, Kyle, Amanda and Kaitlyn.

Pat had an uncanny ability to reach people in a deep and positive way. She will always be remembered as a very caring compassionate person who treasured time with her family and friends. She also had a special spot in her heart for animals having loved many of them during her life.

A private family interment will precede a memorial reception held for both family and friends at 2:00 pm on February 26, 2016 at the Chase Creekside Senior Centre, 542 Shuswap Avenue, Chase, B.C.

The family wishes to express our heart felt thanks and love to family friend Kathy Miller who was there for Pat every step of the way. We would also like to thank Dr. Kruger, Dr. Conley and Dr. Gorman who helped make her last years possible.

Thank-you to the nurses and doctors at Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice in Kamloops for their compassionate care of Pat in her final days.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice.

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In Loving Memory

ANNA LOUISE MILLERMay 28, 1945 – February 12, 2016

It is with heavy hearts we announce the peaceful passing of our mother, grandmother and beloved friend, A. Louise Miller on Friday, February 12th, 2016. Louise is survived by her two children, Rhonda Swanson (Tony, Chelsea and Chase) Doug Miller (Stacey, Rylea, Sydney, Emily, Carson, Travis and Nicole) and numerous relatives far and near. She was predeceased by her husband Jack Miller in 2004.

Louise was born on May 28th, 1945, in Nanaimo, BC, living her youth in Clinton and Penticton, before settling in Kamloops, BC. Our beloved Mom was always “game” for any adventure. She had such a zest for life. Which is truly what made her the person she was! Always a joy to be around. She made the best out of any situation. One of her favorite things to do was to share stories from her “teen town” days in Penticton, to Heffley Creek Hall dances, to parasailing in Mexico, and her love for adrenaline race car driving at Schiedam Flats Race Way. Whether it was a good bedtime story, crazy art project, or ice cream for breakfast she would do anything to put a smile on her grandchildren’s faces. She was able to fulfill her dream of taking her kids and grandkids to Disneyland for her 60th birthday and she was the biggest kid there. An unforgettable memory. Not only was she open to adventure, but so was her heart and home. Many people over the years were recipients of her caring and giving spirit. She was affectionally called Weezy, Blondie, Fuzz and Ma Miller.

At Louise’s request there will be no service. Her ashes will be spread at a later date by her family. If you so desire those wishing to make a donation in Louise’s name may do so to a charity of your choice.

Gramma/Mom/Friend you will live on in us all, everyday and always.

We love you, and you will be greatly missed.

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In Loving Memory of

FLORENCE STARK

June 2, 1936 - February 23, 2015

You’ve held my hand

You’ve held my heart

We’ve shared our lives for many years

Yet for a moment, we’ll have to part

I’ll cherish our memories

until we share our lives again

Miss you my lovely wife

All my love, Ted


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We are saddened to announce the passing of Agnes on February 18, 2016 in Kamloops at the age 80.

Gus, as she was known by many is survived by her husband of 60 years Allan Halliday, daughter Sheena Vivian and her husband Paul and their children Graeme and Laura (all of Surrey), son Allan Halliday and his wife Etta and their son Braeden (Kamloops), brothers William Hunter and Drew Hunter and family, as well as numerous other family members in Scotland on the Hunter and Halliday sides. Gus was predeceased by her mother and father Agnes and Henry Hunter, brothers Harry, George, Tom and Jim and her sister Bette all of Lanarkshire, Scotland. Gus is also survived by her long-time friends Margo Cole, Sally Clow, Pat Mochizuki and Louise Sawatsky.

Gus was born in 1935 in Bellshill, Scotland and trained as a clerk/typist. Upon graduating from school she immediately found employment with Garrion Grain Mills and then with the National Coal Board. She met her husband Allan while working at Garrion and they were married in 1956. In 1957 they immigrated to Canada (Winnipeg) where she found employment with Winnipeg Natural Gas and later, as the executive assistant to Manitoba’s Chief Pathologist. She and Allan had two children Sheena and Allan Jr. before moving to Kamloops in 1967. She worked with the Town of North Kamloops prior to amalgamation and later with the City of Kamloops, as the assistant to the City Clerk until 1971, when she left the City to open her own business, Hunter-Dunn Business Services. Gus was a fixture in the Kamloops community for nearly 50 years, not only through Hunter-Dunn which she ran successfully for nearly 30 years, but also through her

community service including; Chair of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce; Chair of the Royal Inland Hospital Board; and Chair of the Thrupp Manor Board of Directors. Well respected in the Answering Service industry, she was elected Chair of the Telephone Answering Association of Canada (TAAC). She was also a passionate Liberal and stood as the Liberal candidate for Kamloops in the 1988 Federal Election.

Gus valued her career, but when she retired she focused her passion to her family and particularly her grandchildren Graeme, Laura and Braeden who spent countless hours at “Gran and Papa’s” on weekends and during the summers while growing up. She will be deeply missed by her family, close friends and former business associates.

Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 27th at 1:30 pm in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Drive.

In lieu of flowers, kindly send donations to: Alzheimer Society of BC, 300 - 828 West 8th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2, www.alzheimer.ca/en/Get-involved/Ways-to-donate or Freemason Cancer Care Program 1-250-712-1101 or 1-800-299-0188

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.kamloopsfuneralhome.com

AGNES MAIN HALLIDAY (NEE HUNTER) “GUS”Born Bellshill, Scotland — May 7, 1935 – February 18, 2016

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RENE AUGUST CORDONIER

April 25, 1929 - February 19, 2016

Rene August Cordonier passed away peacefully surrounded by family on February 19, 2016. Dad was born in the small village of Lens, Switzerland on April 25, 1929.

Rene spent his childhood working in the family vineyards and farmlands and in his late teens he apprenticed at a local garage and started his lifelong interest in all things mechanical. As a young man of 21, he left home on a grand adventure accompanied by his best friend Gerard Mudry.

They traveled to Canada to work with Rene’s uncle’s John and Peter, and dads mechanical ability enabled him to operate and manage John’s portable sawmill.

While Dads physical size and language could work against him, his ability to have an arm wrestle to set the record straight never let him down.

In 1955 Rene traveled back to Switzerland and not long after that he started dating the love of his life Josiane Praplan. Rene and Josie were married on October 2, 1957 and were married for over 58 years!

In 1959, with his wife and their newborn son Alain in tow, their Canadian adventure was renewed. Once back in Canada, the family continued to grow with the addition of Francois in 1960, Ernest in 1962, and then Marc in 1967. As with this, also grew new

traditions of camping holidays, Swiss picnics, skiing, and annual trips to the Okanagan to pick fruit to can for the winter, enjoyed by both children and grandchildren.

No matter what else was happening in Rene’s life it was apparent that family and community were extremely important, as attested by his involvement as a leader with the Cubs and Scouts, President of the Swiss Society, coaching and refereeing soccer, and involvement with the church.

Any errands around town typically took 2 to 3 times longer than it should as he could scarcely leave the house without running into friends or acquaintances ...you never really knew Rene until you heard the words” let me put it this way “or “believe you me” as he offered you some of his advice....

Dad instilled the value of hard work as everyone was expected to pitch in and help around the house and garden. Some of the strongest lessons taught by Dad can be summed up as “you don’t always get what you want, but you do get what you need.” Work ethic and loyalty carried him well as he was a valued employee for Dairyland, delivering milk for over 30 years, and then upon his retirement he drove and maintained the school bus for Saint Ann’s Academy.

Dad eventually retired (for real this time) to pursue those activities which he loved most including skiing, gardening, choir and volunteering at his church.

He continued to enjoy all of these activities well into his 80’s.

It is with heavy hearts but also with overwhelming Pride that we bid “adieu” to a wonderful man. Rene August Cordonier is survived by his loving wife Josiane, his four children Alain, Francois (Donna), Ernest (Teri), Marc (Cindy), seven grandchildren Kirsten, Kelsie, Chad, Taylor, Eric, Liz and Jill and one great-grandchild Nixon, three sisters Jan, Bertha, Helene and predeceased by his two brothers Pierre and Francois. Rene lived a very full and productive life!!

We are truly thankful for the care of our father that Dr. Miranda Du Preez administered and to all of the wonderful folks that work at Gemstone, for their kind and genuine care of Rene.

Prayers will be recited at Holy Family Parish, 2797 Sunset Drive at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, February 26, 2016.

The Funeral Mass will be in the church on Saturday, February 27 at 10:30 a.m. with the Reverend Father Fred Weisbeck Celebrant.

Friends are invited to join the family for a reception to follow.

Condolences may be expressed at: www.schoeningfuneralservice.com

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ROSARIO BOSSIO

October 1, 1933 – February 24, 2010

We who loved you sadly miss you

As it dawns another year

In our lonely hours of thinking

Thoughts of you are always near.

Love from Augie & Family

and Mike & Family

In Loving Memory of My Mother

FLORENCE STARK (SHIELDS)June 2, 1936 - February 23, 2015

The moment that you diedmy heart was torn in two,

one side filled with heartache,the other died with you.

I often lie awake at night,when the world is fast asleep, and

take a walk down memory lane,with tears upon my cheeks.

Remembering you is easy,I do it everyday,

but missing you is heartachethat never goes away.

I hold you tightly within my heartand there you will remain.

Until the joyous day arrives,That we will meet again.

Love you forever and alwaysTanya

There’s a comforting thought at the close of the dayWhen I’m weary and lonely and sad

That sort of grips hold of this crusty old heartAnd bids it be merry and glad.

It gets in my soul, and it drives out the blues,And finally thrills through and through.

It’s just a sweet memory that chants the refrain,“I’m glad I touched shoulders with you.”

Did you know you were brave, Did you know you were strong,

Did you know there was one leaning hard,Did you know that I listened and waited and prayed

And was cheered by your simplest word?Did you know that I longed for that smile on your face,

For the sound of your voice ringing true,Did you know I grew stronger and better because

I had merely touched shoulders with you?

I am glad that I live; that I battle and striveFor a place that I know I must fill;

I’m thankful for sorrows I’ll meet with a grinWhat fortune may send good or ill;

I may not have wealth, I may not be greatbut I know I shall always be true,

For I have in my life that courage you gave,When once I touched shoulders with you.

I’m Glad I Touched Shoulders

With YouFrom Bob White’s

Scrapbook


NATIONAL NEWS

OTTAWA — The federal govern-ment said next year’s budgetary deficit will be nearly five times larg-er than forecast just three months ago — a shortfall likely to more than double the $10-billion cap promised by the Liberals.

Battered by the fallout from col-lapsing oil prices, the government is projecting a deficit of at least $18.4 billion for 2016-2017 — a far cry from the $3.9-billion shortfall it predicted back in November.

And, by the time the Liberals unveil their maiden budget on March 22, it will likely exceed $20 billion.

That’s because while yesterday’s economic update factored in the struggling Canadian economy, it did not include billions of dollars in forthcoming Liberal campaign promises, including infrastructure spending.

It’s rare for a federal finance minister to release economic pro-jections just weeks before a budget — a sign, perhaps, that Finance Minister Bill Morneau wanted to

give Canadians a chance to brace for impact next month.

Morneau staged a campaign-style town hall event yesterday to deliver the bad news, even going so far as to reassure those who voted Liberal last October not to lose faith in the decision they made at the ballot box.

“Given the economic situation in which we find ourselves today, Canadians made the right choice,’’ Morneau said.

“I know the cries will get louder over the next few weeks, but I won’t have budget 2016 simply become a knee-jerk reaction to recent eco-nomic shifts. We’ll be acting out of reason.’’

The federal Finance Department is also predicting a $15.5-billion deficit in 2017-2018 — significantly higher than last fall’s $2.4-billion estimate.

The Liberals are banking on some of their vows to help revive economic growth and create jobs in Canada’s struggling economy.

The party’s election platform called for billions in “new invest-ments’’ for 2016-2017, a tally that doesn’t include numerous uncosted

Liberal promises.“I’m talking about investments,

not spending,’’ said Morneau, who, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself, has dropped hints the Liberal promise to balance the budget in four years may also be in jeopardy.

“In a volatile economic situa-tion, it may take a little longer than we expected,” Morneau said.

Interim Conser vative leader Rona Ambrose wasted no time portraying the Liberals as wanton spendthrifts who have no regard for the long-term consequences of their cavalier bookkeeping.

“Today is a sad day for Canadians,’’ Ambrose said from the House of Commons foyer.

“I don’t think the Liberals know that no matter how much money they actually borrow, they actually have to pay it back . . . they cannot blame their broken promises and runaway spending on a slowing economy.’’

The Conservatives insist they left the Liberals with balanced books, a claim buttressed yesterday by the latest fiscal monitor numbers, which showed a budgetary surplus

of $3.2 billion over the first nine months of 2015-2016 — from April to December 2015.

Morneau’s department, how-ever, said Canada is on track for a shortfall in the current fiscal year, though its updated projection is now $2.3 billion rather than the previous estimate of $3 billion.

The fiscal downgrades for the next two years are largely due to lower oil prices and weaker-than-expected growth in the United States and world economies.

Morneau’s calculations are based on an average projected oil price of $40 for 2016, down from $54 in the government’s fall update, and projected growth of 1.4 per cent, down from two per cent in the fall.

The Finance Department said the fiscal projections are also about $2 billion lower per year because recent developments have been accounted for, including the Liberals’ changes to the income-tax brackets and Canada’s operations in the Middle East.

The government traditionally bases its fiscal predictions on the average forecasts of private-sector

economists, whom Morneau met earlier this month.

However, after crunching the numbers from the economists, Finance officials knocked about another $6 billion per year from the bottom lines in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.

The department described the accounting move as an adjust-ment for risks that could arise from factors such as further disap-pointment in the U.S. economy or oil prices that fail to rebound as quickly as expected.

But the decision to show a bigger deficit forecast could also make it easier for the Liberals to score politi-cal points by beating expectations.

Yesterday’s release, less extensive than the government’s annual fall updates, comes amid numerous downgraded growth forecasts for Canada, which has been hit par-ticularly hard by the steep slide in oil prices.

Morneau also announced Monday that Dominic Barton, a director from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, will lead a new advisory council on economic growth.

Federal Liberals shatter deficit promiseNEXT YEAR’S PROJECTED SHORTFALL LIKELY TO EXCEED $20 BILLIONANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS

A: CanadiansQ: Who is not eligible?

NEW YORK — Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, a famous Canadian, appar-ently won’t be seeing many of his countrymen on the popular game show for the foreseeable future.

The show said Canadians were precluded from taking last month’s online test — which is a pipeline for Jeopardy! contestants — because of a change in Canada’s online privacy laws.

Producers said yesterday they were working to clear up the issue for future tests.

Canadians have traditionally been included in the American version of Jeopardy!, which airs in both coun-tries.

“We have had many Canadians as contestants throughout the his-tory of the show and we hope that will continue because Canadians make great game-show contestants,’’ Trebek, a native of Sudbury, said in a statement.

The issue came to light because of a story in the Ottawa Citizen.

Jeopardy! producers were not made available for an interview and said in a statement that “ever-chang-ing and complex’’ international laws governing the sharing of informa-tion over the Internet precluded the Canadians’ participation.

That left unclear exactly how the test runs afoul of Canadian laws.

Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa expert in online privacy, told the National Post anti-spam legisla-tion was the only major legal change in this area recently, noting there was nothing in that law that would prevent Canadians from taking an online test no matter where it origi-nates.

Canadian contestants are still appearing in this season’s shows because they are drawn from the results of a test given a year ago — and Trebek noted one competed on last night’s episode of Jeopardy!.

When this pool dries up, however, so will the Canadian contestants.

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Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to, the City of Kamloops, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops BC, V2C 1A2 by March 15, 2016.


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The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 5,831 residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last month, up 33.2 per cent from January of last year.

Total sales dollar volume was $4.39 billion in January, up 69.1 per cent compared to the previ-ous year.

The average MLS residential price in the province was up 26.9 per cent year-over-year, to $752,906.

“The B.C. housing market continues to build on momen-tum from a very strong 2015,” said BCREA economist Brendon Ogmundson.

“Heightened demand is being met with the lowest level of supply in a decade, resulting in increased pressure on prices in much of the province.”

The housing market has seen a blistering start to 2016, with housing demand supported by low mortgage rates and rising employment and wage growth in the province.

However, MLS residential sales are forecast to edge lower this year.

Total MLS sales last year were the third-highest on record at 102,517.

A record 106,310 residential unit sales were recorded in 2005, while the only other year eclips-

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Locally, housing starts for January were up compared to the same month last year .

There were 16 units that got underway in Kamloops in January, compared with 10 units in the same month last year.

Of those 16 units, 12 were single-family residences, which was double the six single-fam-ily homes that broke ground in January 2015.

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Kamloops theatre audi-ences gravitate toward

musical productions that grace the city’s stages from the clas-sic ballads of Les Miserables to last year’s Mary Poppins.

But, for it’s lat-est, Western Canada Theatre is dialling back the complex-ity and showcasing Patsy Cline’s rise to fame with an intimate, small-cast play that promises good music and a lovely story.

On stage for A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline is Alison MacDonald as the country music star, accompanied by a four-piece band and Tyler Murree as Little Big Man — a radio host in Cline’s hometown of Winchester, Va., who is retrospectively nar-rating her growth from bars to Vegas to the Grand Ole Opry and Carnegie Hall.

Murree also plays various comedians who introduce Cline at the venues, if only to add some comic relief and give MacDonald time for a costume change and a sip of water between the 22 songs.

“This is a musician I think lots of Kamloops is really excited to hear,” said artistic

director Daryl Cloran, noting local audiences have been responsive to musicals in the past.

“We see her journey from a really keen little country girl into the polished performer.

“People who just want to hear Patsy’s songs are going to love this because it really is just the two of them and a band of four, as opposed to our bigger musicals.”

For MacDonald, that means perfecting her Patsy.

Cloran is well aware audiences will be expecting specific attri-butes and MacDonald has spent many hours researching the star’s every move to bring authenticity to the classics Walkin’ After Midnight and I Fall to Pieces.

But that’s not to say there wasn’t some room for interpreta-tion.

“I think learning about her has really helped me approach the songs because, every time she sings them, you kind of feel

her weight and her experience when she’s singing,” MacDonald said, adding the abun-dance of reference material has provided reliable examples of how to portray Cline.

“At the same time, there is an element of interpretation because we all picture her a bit differently and even how I remember her from the few things when I was younger,

seeing videos, it’s dif-ferent than when I actually sit down and study her.”

For those less familiar with Patsy Cline, Cloran says the production — written by Dean Regan and debuted in Vancouver in the 1990s — offers an accessible overview of the star whose broad appeal has a lasting legacy.

“I feel like it crosses

generations,” he said. “I think audiences know more of her music than they think.”

A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline runs from Feb. 25 to March 5 at the Sagebrush Theatre, with matinee show-times on Feb. 27 and March 5.

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The “MCR1” - a new antibiotic resistant gene is able to be transferred from bacteria to bacteria which heralds the end of the antibiotic age says Dr Michael Mulvey chief research microbiologist at the National Antimicrobial laboratory in Winnipeg. In the past 3 months over 12 countries confi rmed MCR1 including Canada - dating back to ground beef samples taken in 2010.

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As if it wasn’t enough baggage heading into the

bush with a toddler and newborn twins, Nika Guilbault also had a film crew in tow.

“I make them baby-sit, too,” she said with a laugh, speaking to KTW just before the February premiere of Yukon Gold, the Canadian mining docu-series her family is featured in for the second time.

Kamloopsians will remember Guilbault as the woman who made headlines after confi-dently birthing twins in her truck on the way to Royal Inland Hospital from her native Sorrento a year ago.

“Life in general has been a whirlwind of a birth for them and it just hasn’t stopped,” she said.

Just four months later, Guilbault, hus-band Chris St. Jean, their three-year-old daughter Zyla and the twins were in Stowe Creek for their third season mining gold.

The couple bought the remote gold mine in 2012.

“We paid a whole lot of money for it and really were hoping to make something of it,” she said. “That first year was a really tough year for us.”

Guilbault cut her teeth doing hard labour.

She grew up farm-

ing and started work-ing in the oil patch at age 18. Never the type to shy away from a challenge, she set her sights on operating heavy machinery.

“I worked really hard, worked my way up,” she said.

“It’s always men up there who are work-ing. They have all the truck-driving jobs and all the good jobs. I wanted the good jobs.”

Just after getting her class 1 driver’s licence, she went into mining.

She and Chris decided to purchase their own site after meeting on the job.

The couple lived in their sled trailer for a year in hopes an opportunity would come up and, eventu-

ally, one did.“Every year, it gets

better,” she said. “There’s some years

you just wonder what the hell you’re doing.

“We’ve tried a lot of different things and we just keep working toward something big-ger and better all the time and hopefully finding some really good gold one day.”

It was during their second season in Stowe Creek produc-ers from the History channel reality show approached them.

Guilbault is the first lead female miner to appear on Yukon Gold.

Interest from the channel came from a desire to look at the dynamics of a profes-sional mining family,

the day-to-day strug-gles of Chris trying to support his loved ones and Nika as both mother and miner.

Their 18-hour days aren’t the typical nine-to-five.

“There’s lot of fami-lies in mining, but we were one of the only ones at the time with a young kid and just the two of us trying to pull things off,” Guilbault said.

“A lot of the min-ers grew up that way. That’s how they started back in the day.”

With new additions — baby Hunter and baby Nevada — this season was a new ball game.

The crew spent 10 weeks filming the family, chronicling the

hardships of the labo-rious mining season, battles with mother nature and getting by in the middle of nowhere.

Guilbault said the summer was a blur and, she too, will be sitting down to watch the show — if only to remember what hap-pened.

Yukon Gold airs Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on History.

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Mike Yuhasz had never visited Kamloops before this week, but he’s already playing tour guide.

The Ontario-based art-ist’s Vanscura was in town for one weekend as part of the Kamloops Art Gallery’s ongoing Midnight Sun Camera Obscura show.

Vanscura is not your typical tour.

For one thing, your aver-age sightseeing tour doesn’t take place in a darkened room built in the back of a windowless white van.

For another, there aren’t many times you’ll view a city entirely upside-down.

On Thursday I packed myself into the back of the van, along with two other participants (tours can hold up to four at a time).

Settled on a pad on the van floor, we were in nearly complete dark-ness until Yuhasz hit the engines, pulled into traffic and a small lens in the wall

between our heads started projecting images of the street outside onto a screen

mounted in front of us.Yuhasz first designed

the tour for participants in

the Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival in Dawson City, Yukon, an event

organized on the summer solstice by Kamloops artist Donald Lawrence.

Other pieces from the festival form the rest of the gallery’s show.

“There’s a lot of town tours, walking tours, shuttle buses going around,” he said.

Combining the city’s summer tourist trade with the camera obscura — an ancestor of the modern photographic camera, which projects images upside-down — seemed like a natural fit.

On a clear, sunny day, the lens lends a vibrant, over-saturated tone to the images projected into van, Yuhasz said.

On this overcast, rainy morning, we instead see the world outside through a haze.

Colour comes only in flashes — a red stoplight or the orange glow from a basement window.

Depending on the shifts in the clouds, buildings and traffic around us seem alternately hyperreal, like

a 3-D movie, and smudged beyond any recognition.

Between the warping perspective, the changes in contrast and the simple fact of riding in the dark, my companions and I are lost within minutes.

Any recognizable land-mark — the poles of the sculpture in the Lorne Street roundabout, a famil-iar street sign on what might have been Seymour Street — produces a flurry of conversation as we try to pinpoint our location.

Another few turns of the van and we’re unmoored again.

It’s easily the most con-fused I’ve been on a drive through Kamloops since I first moved here and hadn’t yet worked out which high-way ramps lead to which parts of the city.

But, for the length of the 24-minute tour, I can see the city through the eyes of a stranger.

Midnight Sun Camera Obscura is at the Kamloops Art Gallery, 465 Victoria St. until March 19.

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Ontario-based artist Mike Yuhasz prepares to load a group into his sightseeing tour turned art show, Vanscura. It was part of Kamloops Art Gallery’s Midnight Sun Camera Obscura show.

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Thirteen-year-old Inez Hegekstag and seven-year-old Sara Foreman (above) came out to the Kamloops Art Gallery over the weekend for Family Art Saturday. Clockwise from bottom left: Angelica and Evelyn Lukawski work together on a clock while Jenna, Kidron, Jessica and Jasmine Bylsma are busy creating their own projects. Two-year-old Justin Bylsma may not be old enough for a set of scissors, but he gets help while sitting on the knee of his uncle Trevor. Another chance for families to engage in arts and crafts returns on Thursday with Baby and Me: Art Exploration. The workshop is geared at kids ages three and younger, where toddlers can experiment with all-natural art materials with their guardians at no cost. No registration is required, but participants are advised to “dress for mess.” For more information, go online to kag.bc.ca.

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The Kamloops Cowboy Festival will celebrate its 20th year next month.

The largest such festival in Canada, and one of the largest in North America, will be

held from March 17 to March 20, a four-day celebration of Western heritage that showcases the best in cowboy poetry and music, as well as cowboy artists and artisans.

The Kamloops Cowboy Festival week-end of entertainment begins with jam ses-sions and a kick-off party on Thursday night (March 17) and goes all weekend.

There will be three stages offering cowboy poetry and Western music each day from noon until the evening.

On Friday (March 18) and Saturday (March 19) nights,

guests have a choice between main-stage concerts at the Calvary Community Church or dinner theatre shows at the Kamloops Convention Centre.

Both locations are on Rogers Way in Aberdeen.

Cowboy Church will be held Sunday morn-ing at the church, while the Spirit of the West Rising Star Showcase will once again be split into two groups.

There will be a sec-tion for poets and a section for musicians. Poets and musicians will perform through-out the weekend and six finalists will be on the on main stage Sunday afternoon.

Those interested in being part of the Spirit of the West Rising Star Showcase can go online to bcchs.com.

The Western Art and Gear Show runs all weekend, displaying a range of artwork and custom-made cow-boy equipment. The goal of this event is to showcase the art of the West in all its forms and locales.

This year, the show will feature work in all mediums, photography and sculpture. There will be booths selling and taking orders for saddles and leather work, Western clothing, cowboy hats, books, jewelry, art, bronzes and some educational booths.

A series of seminars and workshops are also offered over the week-end, with some promi-nent entertainers and artisans facilitating.

The lineup includes: Gary Fjellgaard (song-writing), Ed Peekeekoot (guitar-picking), Mike Miltimore (guitar-making), Nathan Tinkham (guitar-playing), Andy Knight (Let’s Talk Saddles), Daniel Gordon (cowboy boots), Jim McLennan (guitar-playing as back-up), Horse Crazy (har-mony) and Jinglebob Music (how to make a record).

Tickets for are available at The Horse Barn in Kamloops, 517 Mount Paul Way, 250-374-3511.

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WELDING A LASTING PARTNERSHIP: Canadian Welding Association Foundation (CWA) technical outreach officer Trent Konrad (left) dropped by South Kamloops secondary with a donation of welding helmets, proudly sported by students Rob Kennedy and Mason Legault, along with their technical education teacher Martin Ilic. The CWA Foundation is donating 1,800 welding helmets across Canada, with each school in SD73 receiving at least two.

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Addictions Support WorkerLittle Shuswap Lake Band –Skwlax Wellness Centre, Chase BC.

JOB SUMMARY: Under the direction of the Health Director/Offi ce Manager, the Addictions Support Worker is an essential part of an integrated team approach to addictions and mental wellness programs.

Education/Training• A minimum of two years post-secondary addictions training• Crisis interventions • Current knowledge chemical, process, prescription drugs use and Mental Health

Experience• Minimum of 2 years Addictions counseling Training• First Nation organization/communities preferable• Experience with co-occurring disorders• Harm reduction & Wellbriety

ESSENTIALS: • Self-directed, independent and ability to work collaboratively• Organize, plans and communicates • Maintains confi dentiality• Group facilitation skills

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:• Advanced Criminal Records Check • Class 5 DL/Own Vehicle• First Aid, Immunization/TB Test

TERM: 4 Days a week – some evening and weekend.

Send resume to by FEBRUARY 25, 2016Email: [email protected] Fax: 250 679 3742

ONLY THOSE SELECTED WILL BE NOTIFIED. NO PHONE CALLS ACCEPTED.

Eagle Homes seeks a New Home Specialist/Sales Professional to join our team with opportunities in Kamloops.

The primary attributes for our ideal candidate are a proven successful track record in sales, a high level of accountability, and a successful track record of turning prospects into customers. Our ideal candidate is driven to succeed, accepts problems as unique challenges, and is open to change and taking action to move the sales process forward.

PRIMARY DUTIES:• Prospecting for new business (including

making cold calls)• Ability to qualify opportunities fast and early

in the sales process• Rapport building is key, with the focus on the

end result of increasing sales• Manage home projects from initial contacts

with clients through to completion

NEXT STEPS:We encourage prospective candidates to find out more about our company and our products by visiting us at www.eaglehomes.ca and then send your resume via fax to 250-803-0555 or to [email protected]

SALES PROFESSIONAL REQUIRED FOR MANUFACTURED HOME PROVIDER

Only successful candidates will receive contact to establish immediate next steps.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

call 250.828.5104 or visit tru.ca/trades

CERTIFIED ICBC AIR BRAKE COURSEMarch 4-6 • March 18-20

Truck Driver TrainingProfessional Truck Driver Program - Funding available for those who qualify!

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PRIME TIME CATTLEBULL SALE

MARCH 7/15 - 1:00 pmMarch 5, 2016 @ 1:00pm

BC LIVESTOCK - Williams Lake BC- 35 Two Year Old Bulls

- 19 Yearlings Bulls - Consisting of 49 Black Angus, 2 Maintainer,

3 percentage Simmentals.For more information contact

Prime Time Cattle - Jason Kelly587.377.3450

Cutting Edge Cattle Co. - Wayne Pincott 250.395.6367

Catalog online at www.primetimecattle.com

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Employment

US capable Class 1 Drivers required immediately: We are an Okanagan based transport company looking for qualifi ed drivers for US loads we run primarily in the Pacifi c North-west, Utah, Arizona and Neva-da. We offer a new pay rate empty or loaded. All picks and drops paid. Assigned units company cell phones and fuel cards. Regular home time Direct deposit paid every second Friday with no hold backs. We offer a rider and pet policy. Company paid US travel Insurance. All applicants must have reliable transporta-tion and a positive attitude. Please fax resume & abstract to 250-546-0600 or by email to [email protected] NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Education/Trade Schools

HEALTHCARE DOCUMEN-TATION Specialists are in huge demand. Employers want CanScribe graduates. A great work-from-home career! Train with Canada’s best-rated program. Enroll today. 1-800-466-1535, www.canscribe.com [email protected]

HUNTER & FIREARMSCourses. Next C.O.R.E. Feb. 27th & 28th, Saturday and Sunday. P.A.L. March 5th, Saturday. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Pro-fessional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

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Employment

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Help Wanted

Vernon Service CompanyRequires F/T

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$38/hr. Call 1-250-549-4444

or email: [email protected]

I PAY Cash $$$ For All Scrap Vehicles! and $5 for auto bat-

teries Call or Text Brendan 250-574-4679

Employment

0985941 BC Ltd. Is hiring farm workers for outside production worker at its vineyard and ranch in Monte Creek, BC. Salary is $10.45-$10.59 per hour and work is full time (6 days a week ) seasonal. Apply by fax 1-800-567-1081 [email protected]

EARN EXTRA $$$KTW requires door to door

substitute carriers for all areas in the city.

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is looking for substitutedistributors for door-to-door

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Need extra $ $ $ Kamloops This Week

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Employment

Chef - Kitchen Manager. Full-time. Min. of 2 years experi-ence cooking Authentic, Mexi-can, Central American Cui-sine. Must know how to make Pupusas and Tortillas. Span-ish and English are a require-ment. Wages negotiable. Send resume to: [email protected]

SalesADVERTISING Consultants:Our company is always look-ing for great sales representa-tives to add to our team. Our business requires a highly or-ganized individual with ability to multi-task in a fun, fast-paced team environment. Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required. Excellent communication skills, valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle are necessary. If you have a passion for the advertising business, are crea-tive and thrive on challenges, we want to hear from you. In-terested applicants should email their resume and cover letter to:[email protected] We thank all ap-plicants; only those being con-sidered for an interview will be contacted.

Work WantedHOME & YARD HANDYMAN If you need it done, Give us a call ! Steve 250-320-7774.

Employment

Job wanted by Computer Programmer-Analyst /Offi ce

Worker/Tutor Detail oriented, organized, problem-solver, extremely computer literate. Strong proofreading, editing, technical writing, public speaking skills. Can teach practically anything I know. IT work preferred but any job using problem-solving skills could be a good match. Gene Wirchenko 250-828-1474. [email protected]

Pets & Livestock

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

PETS For Sale?

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Merchandise for Sale

AppliancesInglis Washer and Admiral Dryer. Excellent condition. $400. 250-554-1219.

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Computer Equipment

WANTED! Newer MacBook Pro or MacBook Air 250-371-1333

Firewood/FuelALL SEASON FIREWOOD. For delivery birch, fi r & pine. Stock up now. Campfi re wood. (250)377-3457.

FurnitureRedwood dining room set, 8-chairs, buffet & hutch. $4000/obo. 250-828-1983.

Teak dining room table w/6 chairs.$340. Golf clubs & cart $30. 250-579-8584

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-Steel Shipping Storage Containers. Used 20’40’45’53’ insulated containers. All sizes in stock. Prices starting under $2,000. Modifi cations possible doors, windows, walls etc., as offi ce or living workshop etc., Ph Toll free 24 hours 1-866-528-7108 or 1-778-298-3192 8am-5pm. Delivery BC and AB www.rtccontainer.com

Jewels, FursWhite Gold engagement ring. Main diamond is .94 carat with another .5 carat in smaller dia-monds. Size 7. Recently ap-praised at $5500 asking $4000 Call to view 250-578-7202 af-ter 5pm

Misc. for Sale4 Goodyear winter tires. 235/55/R17, used 1 season $400. 250-377-3002.

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Drivers/Courier/Trucking

Education/Trade Schools

Help Wanted Hospitality Work Wanted $500 & Under Misc. for Sale500 LP’s. Variety. $100/all. 250-376-7195.

8” ION electric ice auger. Nev-er used still in the box. $450. 250-554-9747.

9’ Pool table, excellent condi-tion $1500 obo 250-573-5142

Beer /Wine mini jet fi lter w/many pads $80 (250) 374-0486

Double Hospital bed, brandnew w/pressure relieving mat-tress. $2,000. 250-376-2504.

MISC4Sale: Camperette$300, Oak Table Chairs-$400, 2-Standard 8ft truck canopies $300/ea Call 250-320-5194 after 6pm or leave msg.

Older 33rpm records $2 each call for info (778) 470-2145 af-ter 5

Solid oak table $97, China Cabinet $119 Kitchen cabinet set $395 (250) 299-6477POLE BARNS, Shops, steelbuildings metal clad or fabric clad. Complete supply and in-stallation. Call John at 403-998-7907; [email protected]

REFORESTATION NURSERYseedlings of hardy trees, shrubs and berries for shelter-belts or landscaping. Spruce and Pine from $.99/tree. Free shipping. Replacement guar-antee. 1-866-873-3846 or www.treetime.ca

ROLL ENDS AVAILABLE

$5-$10/ ROLL

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SAWMILLS FROM only$4,397. Make money and save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock, ready to ship. Free Info & DVD: 1-800-566-6899 ext: 400OT.www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT

STEEL BUILDING Sale. Real-ly big sale, extra winter dis-count on now!! 21x22 $5,190 25x24 $5,988 27x28 $7,498 30x32 $8,646 35x34 $11,844 42x54 $16,386. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedLocal Coin Collector BuyingCollections. Gold Silver CoinsEstates 1-778-281-0030 Chad

Musical InstrumentsYamaha Clavinova (Organ). Like new. Original $7700. Asking $1500. 250-372-0041.

ToolsHolzer saw $1500, Safety Harness $500, Myte Extractor $2500. 250-377-8436.

Relax and unwind with a full body massage for appoint-ment couples welcome (250) 682-1802

Financial Services

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Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

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Fitness/Exercise

WE will pay you to exercise!

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Garden & LawnGrassbusters Lawn and Yard Care. Now booking for the 2016 season. 250-319-9340.

RICKS’S SMALL HAUL

For all Deliveries & Dump Runs. Extra large dump

trailers for rent. Dump Truck

Long and Short Hauls!!250-377-3457

Home Improvements

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PlumbingFULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928.

Stucco/Siding

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FULLY FURNISHEDTOWNHOUSE FOR SALE

This very bright, fully fur-nished, three bedroom/two bath corner unit townhouse in Big White ski resort offers your very own hot tub, carport, high end furniture/appliance pkge, stacking washer/dryer and rock-faced fi replace. Short stroll to Gondola, skating rink, tube park, Day Lodge. Ideal for family or as a revenue gen-erator throughout the ski sea-son. $199,900 (May consider a trade for an apartment in Kamloops. Call Don at 250-682-3984 for more informa-tion.

Mobile Homes & Parks

Lease to own New 16 x 58 2bdrm 2bth mobile home in new mobile park. Trouble with fi nancing? One or Two year term Call Gerry 250-371-1849

Rentals

520 Battle Street,Kamloops, BC, V2C 2M2

250-372-0510

THOMPSON VILLA APARTMENTS

1 Bedroom Apartments$880 - $910

• Seniors Orientated• Close to the Hospital• Quiet Living Space• Underground Parking• Newly Renovated Suites• No Smoking

Available spacious 1bdrm apts. Starting at $850/mo. The Sands Apartment. Centrally located. On-site Management. 250-828-1711.

Nicola Towers Downtown Se-cure building w/prk, 2bdrm 3appl n/s, n/p $1000 372-7161

Northland Apartments

1 Bedroom SuiteAdult Oriented

No Pets / No SmokingElevators / Dishwashers

Common Laundry $825 per month

North Shore 250-376-1427

NORTH SHORE 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

Clean quiet buildings. Reasonable Rental Rates

Utilities not includedCALL

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Brand new1 and 2 Bdrm Apartments

Downtown Kamloops555 8th Avenue

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Sahali 2bdrm Gordonhorn Gardens newly renovated, n/s, n/p $1200/mo. 250-579-8428

Sahali Gordonhorn Gardens. $825/mo. +util. 1bdrm. N/S, N/P. Ref. 250-318-2269. Email: [email protected]

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Recreation

✰SHUSWAP LAKE!✰ 5 Star Resort in

Scotch Creek B.C. 1-bdrm 1-bath Park Model. Tastefully decorated guest cabin. One of only 15 lots on the beautiful sandy beach with a wharf for your boat. Provincial Park, Golf, Gro-cery/Liquor Store and Mari-na all minutes away. Resort has 2 pools, 2 hot-tubs, Adult and Family Club-house, Park, Playground. Rents for $1500/week. FMI CALL 1-250-371-1333

Senior Assisted Living

6976954

Shared Accommodation

IN private home, pleasant sur-roundings fully furnished work-ing male pref.3near amenities behind sahali mall 10 min walk to TRU 374-0949 or 372-3339

Looking for roommate to share apt. N/Shore. N/S. $500/mo. (250) 319-8674

Male seeking roommate West-syde Furn. Close to bus $550/mo util incl. Avail Immed. Call 250-579-2480.

Near TRU Room $325-per month util included. No Pets. 250-554-6877, 250-377-1020.

North Shore $400 per/mo incl util & basic cable, np/ns 250-554-6877 / 250-377-1020

Retired male seeking room-mate, N/Shore. Close to bus/shopping. $500. 376-0953

Suites, Lower1bdrm +den fenced yard, pet friendly, w/d $800 + 1/2 util 250-377-6888

2BDRM daylight Brock. Pri-vate entr/parking. n/s/p. Ref’s. $1000/mo. 250-319-1911.

2bdrm daylight suite N/Shore n/s, n/p, priv. ent fenced yard $950 util incl, (250) 318-4647

2Bdrm NShore, w/d n/p/s, util incld $950/mth. Avail now 250- 579-9225

3BDRM/1 bath parking laun-dry near shopping/bus Feb 1st $1150 inclds util 778-220-8118

Aberdeen 1bdrm daylight util and int incl n/s, n/p $825. Avail Now (250) 851-9950

Brand new 1bdrm, Westsyde. Sep entr, W/D/F/S. $1050 util incld. Ref’s. 250-579-0404

Riverfront 1bdrm daylight level entry, util incl $650. Avail March 1st 250-579-9609.

Semi furn 1bdrm. in Batchelor area private ent and driveway. n/s/n/p, ref req’d. $750 Util/int incld. 250-554-3863.

Rentals

Welcoming Cumfy 1bedroom. Close to University, Hospital. Student or quiet person. Ex-cellent Location. $495or$725 ns/np. Call (250) 299-6477

Suites, Upper2bdrms, N/Shore. N/S, N/P. $900 inclds heat/hotwater. Ref’s required. 250-372-7695.

Brock 2 bdrm, no dogs, avail Immed, $900/mo 250-374-5586, 250-371-0206

Townhouses3BDRM 3bth Valleyview pet neg, $1300 close to school and shopping. Avail Immed. 250-374-5586 / 250-371-0206

Lower Sahali 2bdrm +den 6min to TRU n/s, n/p $1300 1-250-459-7771 250-571-4852

TOWNHOUSESBest Value In TownNORTH SHORE

*Bright, clean & Spacious 2&3 bedrooms

*Big storage rooms*Laundry Facilities*Close to park, shopping & bus stop

PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED

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Transportation

Antiques / Classics1967 Ford Falcon Futura St.6 Auto 2dr all original runs good, $5,500 obo (250) 376-5722

1984 Volvo (Collector), auto, air. 181,000kms. No winter driving. $3,400. 250-587-6151

68’ Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (350 V8 type S). Convertible. Black interior+exterior w/chrome. Restored. Excellent condition. $16,500/obo. 250-572-0714

Auto Accessories/Parts

1-set of Nokian Winters on rims 235/75/R16. Used one season. Regular price new $1200 selling for $400. Call 250-851-1304.

2-215/60R16 Snow tires. $200. 2-245/50VR16 Eagle Snow. $200. 4-275/45R20 Ea-gle M&S. $400. 2-225/60R16 M&S. $200. 2-275/40ZR17 M&S. $300. 250-319-8784.

Cars - Domestic1972 AMC Javelin SST. Sec-ond owner. Exec mech cond. $3,000/obo. 250-372-2096.

2002 Nissan Altima. 4 door, auto. Fully loaded. Good condition. $5,500. Call to view. 250-376-4077.

2005 Toyota Corolla 5 speed extra set of mounted tires /rims $4500.00 250-318-8870

Transportation

2005 VW Passat. 119,000kms. 2.0L Turbo Diesel. Well maintained. Stereo, bluetooth. Win-ter/rims. $5500. 250-320-5255.

2006 VW Jetta TDI Highline, fully loaded, auto, sunroof. Very well maintained. 180,000kms, No acci-dents, very clean. $8,500. 250-318-6257.

2008 Cadillac CTS Premi-um. 130,000kms. AWD, Great in the winter, BLK w/leather interior, CD, power windows, seats, mirrors, locks, heating/cooling seats. $13,800. 250-320-6900.

2011 Nissan Juke SL, AWD. Sunroof, winters, heated seats. $13,800. 250-319-8240.

2013 Nissan Leaf SL, electric, black/tan. 12,000kms under warranty $27,500 250-377-8436

‘98 Honda CRV good shape, Honda serviced, maintenance logs available medical prob-lems. $4000. 250-374-5266

Absolute gorgeous 03 Cadil-lac Deville one owner low kms $6900.00 obo 250-554-0580

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Commercial VehiclesContractors Tundra HD Eco-no Custom. Hwy, hauler $35,000 Concrete work as possible part of the payment. 250-377-8436.

Motorcycles

2012 Road King, stock 103, ABS, Cruise, Full Size Tour-pak, Rider Backrest, Custom Bars, No Scratches, 15,000 kms, $18,000.778-471-1089.

2014 Motorino XPH Electric Scooter bike. 850kms. No scrapes. $1400 250-574-9846

Off Road VehiclesHonda Big Red 3 Wheeler top shape $1650 250-554-0201

Transportation

10.5ft Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom. Well main-tained. $8,900/obo. 372-3437.

1989 Fleetwood AClass 120,000km slps 6, well kept, $8000obo (250) 579-9691

1990 Ford Flair 27’ Motorhome. 104,000kms. Good condition. $12,049. 250-851-2579.

2005, 38’ RV trailer 2 slides, sleeps 6, appl incld, fully load-ed, $16,900. (778) 468-5050.

2005 Sprinter 25’ w/slide 1995 F250 Ford diesel w/low mile-age both in exc cond. asking $20,000 obo for both (250) 314-6661

2008 Fleetwood Mallard. 23ft. like new, fully loaded. $15,000. 250-554-1035.

9FT Okanagan Camper. F/S, bathroom. Good shape. $1,300/obo. 250-376-1841.

Open Road 2007 349, R.L. 36ft One owner, 3 slides, elec/stabilizers, awning. 1 ton 2005 Ford Diesel, 200,000km club cab $49,500 package (250) 372-5401 [email protected]

Run until sold New Price $56.00+tax

Do you have a vehicle, boat, rv, or trailer to sell? With our Run til sold specials you pay one fl at rate and we will run your ad un-til your vehicle sells.*• $56.00 (boxed ad with photo)• $35.00 (regular 3 line ad)

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Scrap Car Removal

Sport Utility Vehicle

2000 Subaru Forester S - AWD, 4 DRSW, green, well maintained, 247,000 km, de-pendable winter vehicle, new battery, good Nokian snow tires on separate rims, roof racks and crossbars, trailer hitch & rear window defl ec-tor. Asking $4000 250-319-1960 to view.

Jeep YJ 4x4 1987 restored, 6cyl 5sp, lifted, 33”tires on Ea-gle Rims, 10,000 lb Winch, over $15,000 invested asking $12000 (250) 828-0931

Transportation

Apt/Condos for Sale Apt/Condo for Rent Bed & Breakfast Suites, Lower Cars - Domestic Recreational/Sale Sport Utility Vehicle

2008 Ford Escape XLT. Urgent Sale. $7,500. 250-376-3741.

Trucks & Vans1983 GMC 2500 on propane. 350, auto. Running order. $1,000 +hitch. 250-376-7195.

1995 Dodge Ram 4x4. Canopy, AutoStart FOB, A/C, power windows etc. $2,500/obo. 250-318-5861.

1996 GMC Suburban 4x4 good shape runs great $2900obo Call (250) 571-2107

2008 Ford Diesel 350 King Ranch Lariat Super Duty. 96,398kms. $30,000/obo. 250-828-1081.

92 Ford Ranger XLT 4x4 runsgreat, needs clutch. First $500 takes it. 250-371-1333

Boats

1979 Peterburough 14ft 4 seater c/w ladder, cover, paddle, anchor, and trailer. No Dents Or Scratches “MINT”. $3900.00 Doug 250 579-5944

2007 Sea Doo Speed Boat, 4 Seater.$15,000obo Call 250-320-5194 (after 6pm)or lv msg

Erickson aluminum customboat,new, 12’ one piece con-struction $3000 778-257-6079

Legal

Legal Notices

NOTICE OF SALEREPAIRER’S LIEN ACT

Jeffery Limpright. Please be advised that 2005 Pontiac Wave, License Plate #079-DMB Vin # KL2TD626665B342007 will be sold for $2,875.00 to recover vehicle repairs, storage and interest. This vehicle be will sold on or after March 10, 2016. Contact: Compton’s Automotive Ltd., 236 Briar Avenue, Kamloops, B.C. V2B 1C1. Contact Paul at 1-778-212-1742.

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__ 27. Audio sound network 30. Girls actress Dunham 31. 1000 calories 33. Mekong people 34. Floor covering 35. Moroccan capital 37. Curtsy 39. Cheer 41. Database mgmt.

system 42. Enough (archaic) 44. Release for a price 47. Similar 48. Not frequently

experienced 49. Doctor 50. __ King Cole,

musician 52. Lady Spencer 53. Nauseated 56. More 61. Stevenson classic 63. Uncontrolled 64. Homesick 65. Law

DOWN 1. A continuous tube 2. Wet nurse 3. Rural France vacation retreat 4. Greek capital 5. Synthetic hormone 6. Qatar capital 7. Of she 8. Maya __ of Vietnam

Veterans Memorial 9. Not out 10. Tip of Aleutian Islands 11. __ Ling, Chinese

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Adams 22. Bury 23. Adventure stories 24. Swedish krona 25. Several carangid fishes 26. Spiritual leader of a

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43. Eerie 44. Root mean square

(abbr.) 45. A nearly horizontal

entrance to a mine 46. Assembled 51. Racketeer 54. Grand __, vintage 55. Cognizances 56. Hair product 57. Iranian monetary unit 58. This (Spanish) 59. Jeopardy’s Trebek 60. Small amount 62. Atomic #44

HOROSCOPES FEBRUARY 23 - FEBRUARY 29, 2016ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20

Excitement surrounds any get-together you are involved in this week, Aries. This puts you in a good mood for some time, and the positive energy can bring about change.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21Taurus, this week you may find yourself in the right mood to organize your home or office. If high-tech equipment will be part of the project, enlist a friend to help out.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 2Gemini, if you’re feeling particularly amorous this week, schedule a few date nights or even cuddle time with that special someone. A new person may come into your life as well.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22Plenty of projects around the house need your attention this week, Cancer. Take advantage of some slower days to devote time to repairs and other tasks on your to-do list.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23Leo, important new information may come your way this week. This could be the catalyst for new professional ventures or even provide new ways to network.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22Virgo, a job you have put a lot of effort and time into is completed successfully this week. You now can enjoy the fruits of your labor and the praise coming your way.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, an unexpected raise has you spreading the wealth to others. You tend to be good about sharing your good fortune, and that is why so many people look up to you.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21A sense of adventure may find you booking a vacation, Sagittarius. Otherwise, you may be looking to dive into an exciting new relationship. Be impulsive because you deserve it.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, you may be drawn to flashy colors and high energy this week. Plan a fun and energetic date or take in a movie with a lot of special effects.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18Aquarius, you’ve adopted the attitude that life is an adventure and you’re ready to face any challenge that comes your way with an open mind. This may prove to be a busy week.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20Do not be surprised if big changes lie in store for you this week, Pisces. You may end up with a new job or begin thinking about relocation.

WEEKLY CROSSWORD

Crossword Answers FOUND ON B3

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23Communication improvements with your romantic partner have you feeling optimistic about the future, Libra. Don’t make any definitive plans, but start thinking ahead.

SUDDENLY, A SHOT RANG OUT. OR WAS THAT SOMEONE SCREAMING AFTER BEING STABBED? Sherlock Holmes considered the following evidence and then announced correctly who the murderer was. What did Holmes conclude? — FILL IN THE BLANKS.

The cook was the murderer only if the murder was done neatly. But it was not done neatly unless it was done with the revolver. The butler was the murderer just in case his affair with the maid needed to be hidden. If the butler didn’t do it, then either the maid did it, the gardener did it or the cook did it. Neither the gardener nor the maid did it provided it was done with the revolver. A necessary condition that the murder was done with a knife is that the maid did it. However, it was not done with a knife. Although it was done neatly, the butler’s affair with the maid did not need to be hidden. Therefore, Holmes concluded that the [who] did it with the [weapon] [neatly/not neatly].

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