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18 LOCAL JOBS LOST IN LAUNDRY PRIVATIZATIONINTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITY SIGNS 20-YEAR DEAL WITH COMPANY TO CLEAN SHEETS IN KELOWNA

Eighteen people could lose their jobs at Royal Inland Hospital — along with more than 100 others through-out the region — after the Interior Health Authority decided on Tuesday to contract out laundry services.

The IHA has signed a 20-year agreement with Ecotex Healthcare Linen Service, based in Abbotsford, to do most of the laundry services at a Kelowna-based facility.

The decision affects hospitals in Kamloops, Kelowna, Nelson, Penticton and Vernon, involving 112 permanent positions and several casual positions. There will still be regional distribution sites, including one in Kamloops.

Ecotex was one of two compa-nies that responded to a request for proposal from the IHA and was the lower bidder.

The company has also been a supporter of the provincial Liberal party, contributing $127,940

between 2005 and 2015.The contract with Ecotex will cost

the IHA $11.5 million in the first year, with an escalation each year capped at the consumer price index to a maximum of 1.5 per cent

That annual contract cost was not provided to the Hospital Employees Union (HEU) when it was informed of the privatization, said Jennifer Whiteside, HEU secretary-business manager.

It also appears to be greater than the estimated $10 million operating

cost for running the service publicly that IHA reported when it began the laundry-services study in late 2014.

However, in a statement, the IHA said: “The $10 million previously stated did not include the capital component for equipment as well as costs for infrastructure upgrades, it was purely direct operating costs.

“The $11.5M from the proponent includes the operating costs associ-ated with capital investments.

“As Interior Health has moved through the process of examining

outsourcing laundry services, we have continued to refine the costs of maintaining and expanding laundry services over the next 20 years — the previous mention of $10M was pure-ly an estimate on equipment.

“Based on the review, we have undertaken, we believe $35 million is a reasonable estimate of the capital costs over the next 20 years,” money IHA board chairman described as a saving to the authority.

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MIO MY! AN HONOUR TO LISTENKamloops-Thompson Honour Choir members rehearse for their scheduled adjudication today in the Kamloops Festival of Performing Arts. Singing O Mio Babbino Caro from the opera Gianni Schicchi are, clockwise from top left, Morgan Androlick, Maddie Boutry, Natasha Adams, Darby MacPherson, Sophia MacDonald and Claire Nevin.

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Inquest into death at RIH

A public inquest will be held into the 2014 death of an 18-year-old man at Royal Inland Hospital.

The inquest will be held on April 11 at the Kamloops Law Courts.

Jacob George Setah died in June 15, 2014, after falling from the top of the hospital parkade.

Setah was committed involuntarily under the Mental Health Act on June 9, 2014, and fled from a secure ward in the hospital.

He made his way to the top of the parkade, where Kamloops Mounties attempted to talk him down.

Officers were talking to Setah for about 40 minutes when a physical altercation took place, according to a previous BC Coroners Service release. Setah broke free from the officers and jumped from the third level of the parkade.

A Mountie used a Taser to prevent Setah from jumping, but it had no effect.

He sustained serious injuries and was immedi-ately hospitalized, but later died in hospital.

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In 2008, there were only 20 overdose-related deaths in the Interior Health Authority (IHA) region.

Last year, the number had risen to 60.In January this year alone, there were 15

overdose-related deaths in the IHA, including at least four in Kamloops.

The numbers “are out of the ordinary,” said Trevor Corneil, IHA’s senior medical officer of health, and have prompted the health author-ity to issue a regional bulletin addressing the concern.

Corneil noted the statistics are preliminary pending toxicology results from other deaths in recent weeks, a process that can take the prov-ince’s coroner’s office some time to complete.

The bulletin said no particular group is affected; the deaths are connected to those who use drugs recreationally and those dealing with addiction.

It said there is no specific bad batch of drugs, but the majority of overdoses being reported involved opioids like oxycontin and heroin. Eighty per cent also involved opiates.

“You hear about bad batches until it’s all bad,” Corneil said, although he noted at least one-third of the overdose deaths were either caused by fentanyl or the drug was found in toxicology screening. Most overdoses are caused by mixing substances including street and prescribed drugs and alcohol.

“We just want people to be aware because everyone is impacted,” Corneil said.

The IHA hopes to increase the number of hospital beds dedicated to substance abuse in

the next couple of years. It also wants to add to the mental-health staffing. Corneil said the next step after harm reduction is finding ways to engage people and encourage them to take steps to address their substance use.

He said the IHA works with ASK Wellness, among other social agencies, to help with pro-gramming for drug-withdrawal management, opioid-replacement therapy, counselling and finding housing.

Naloxone kits — the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose — are also available at the Royal Inland Hospital emergency room and at other health-care facilities in the IHA region, including ASK Wellness.

Corneil said he’s expecting discussions to begin later this year with the public on poten-tial safe-injection sites in the region, including Kamloops.

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ELDERS HONOUREDIn celebration of Thompson Rivers University’s Aboriginal Days, the university hosted an Elder Luncheon on Tuesday in the Grand Hall at the Campus Activity Centre. Elders from throughout the Kamloops region attended the event, which sought to connect learners with elders’ knowledge.Estella Patrick Moller (left), Mike Arnouse and Jim Jack were recognized during the luncheon.DAVE EAGLES/KTW

Robbery with machete leads to arrestsPolice have arrested two men in

connection with a North Kamloops robbery this week.

A man walking along Tranquille Road just after 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday told police he had been held up by three people — one of them bran-dishing a machete.

Just before 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Kamloops Mounties arrested two men — one 18, the other 21 — in relation to the incident.

Both men were subsequently released on promises to appear in court.

The suspect had his wallet and cellphone stolen in the robbery.

The wallet was found and turned in to police later in the day on Tuesday.

Charges have not been laid, no names have been released and the investigation is ongoing.

The reported robbery follows

another reported robbery a few blocks away on the same street in January.

On the night of Jan. 15, Robin Werbowsky said he was walking on Tranquille Road near Poplar Street after withdrawing $200 from a near-by ATM when he was approached by two men.

“They crossed the street to head me off,” he said.

“They just roughed me up,

went through my pockets.”Werbowsky said the thieves took

his wallet, which held the money he’d withdrawn from the bank and $100 in lottery tickets.

Werbowsky said one suspect was about his age — 53 — and the second suspect was a tall, thinner man in his early 20s.

Kamloops Mounties have closed that file, but have refused to com-ment on the case.


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As multiple media outlets in the city com-plain of a communication breakdown with Kamloops RCMP, Mayor Peter Milobar said he believes police are being as open with reporters as possible.

“I personally don’t have a big problem with it. I think there is a difference between the media’s expectations and the RCMP’s,” said Milobar, who chairs the city’s police and co-ordinated enforcement committees.

Media, including Kamloops This Week, have argued local Mounties aren’t releas-ing information in the public interest, from

names of two people murdered in the city in January (one of which was eventually released through court proceedings) to confirmation of day-to-day arrests and inci-dents.

Kamloops RCMP moved to an encrypted radio system in 2014, which can’t be moni-tored by journalists or members of the pub-lic. The move was part of a cross-country digital encryption effort by Mounties, who said open scanners could be used by crimi-nals to monitor police actions.

“Frankly, the media wasn’t happy when the RCMP went away from that and I’m not surprised you guys aren’t happy now that you feel the RCMP aren’t providing every-thing you’re asking,” he said.

“But there’s a time and place for public disclosure on these types of matters. I fully support that stuff should get disclosed, but there is also a legal framework and a time and a place for this and it doesn’t always match with the media’s question timeline.”

Milobar said communications between city hall and police remain good and said it appears RCMP are answering questions when doing so won’t hurt an ongoing inves-tigation.

“I would suggest there’s no shortage of coverage on any of the stories as they move forward, be it court coverage or RCMP when they have bigger things going on,” he said.

“You guys seem to cover most things that I know about.”

Setah was from Hanceville, a small community about 90 kilo-metres west of Williams Lake.

The Independent Investigation Office of B.C. inves-tigated the death and exonerated Kamloops Mounties, finding officers did not commit a crimi-nal offence and that a report to Crown counsel would not be forthcoming following a probe that included interviews with three Mounties and four wit-nesses.

The report stated: “The CEW [conducted electrical weapon, or Taser] ended up being ineffective and the affected person ‘began fighting’ to get away.

“Subject officers 1 and 2

attempted to gain control; how-ever, the struggle lasted mere seconds before the affected per-son broke free. The affected per-son ran and went over the ledge.

“Subject officer 2 was faced with making a split-second deci-sion.

“As long as it appeared that the effective deployment of the CEW allowed for the affected person to be taken into protec-tive custody, the decision to deploy the CEW at that moment could not possibly constitute wanton and reckless disregard for human life or safety.

“In fact, there is no reason to believe that the deployment of the CEW was for any purpose other than attempting to ensure

that the affected person was no longer in a position to self-harm.

“The tragic result of the unsuccessful deployment was that the affected person reacted and jumped from the parkade. It is impossible however to know what actions the affected person might have taken if no attempt, other than negotiation, was made to ensure protective custody.”

Presiding coroner Margaret Janzen and a jury will hear evi-dence on April 11 from witnesses under oath to determine the facts surrounding Setah’s death.

The jury will have the oppor-tunity to make recommenda-tions aimed at preventing deaths under similar circumstances.

From A1

Taser failed to stop plunge at RIH

That equipment cost also came as a sur-prise to HEU, which had been told the IHA estimated a $10.5-million investment was required to replace laundry equipment in coming years.

IHA chief financial officer Donna Lommer said the new estimate was deter-mined after a study last year by an outside consultant at two hospitals — including RIH — on the cost to replace the laundry equipment in coming years.

The consultant advised the $10.5 mil-lion was too low, estimating the complete work to replace equipment and make any infrastructure changes to be closer to $35 million.

IHA board chairman Erwin Malzer said the $35 million in savings is money IHA can use “to increase our investment in facilities and equipment to support direct patient care.”

Health Minister Terry Lake said the deci-sion “gives me no pleasure because some people in Kamloops and the area will lose their jobs.”

However, the Kamloops-North Thompson MLA also said that, as health minister, he understands the need for health authorities to save money where they can to put into front-line health care.

Lake noted one hospital on the Coast, which has already contracted out laundry

services, has since renovated the space it occupied to add another medical clinic.

Whiteside condemned the decision as shocking, noting six city councils, includ-ing Kamloops, had asked IHA to reconsider contracting the service to an outside com-pany. More than 13,000 people also signed petitions calling for the service to remain as it is.

Mayor Peter Milobar said he was sur-prised to see a decision made so quickly — and surprised to see the service taken out of Kamloops.

“The last discussions I had, it sounded more like IHA was leaning towards going with Kamloops and Penticton as distribu-tion centres instead of centralizing things in Kelowna once again,” Milobar said.

“This really isn’t a Kamloops and Kelowna thing; it’s about that concern of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you keep amass-ing everything in Kelowna, of course the economies of scale are going to say it’s your best location.”

Whiteside called the move “devastating.“These are good jobs. This is a big eco-

nomic loss,” she said, arguing the IHA is “privatizing the most efficient laundry ser-vice in the country . . . and funnelling public tax dollars to a private corporation.”

She said audits have shown it to be efficient since the IHA and HEU worked together in 2003 — when contracting out the service was considered and abandoned

— to find savings and fine-tune the opera-tion.

Last November, Simon Fraser University economist Marvin Shaffer — using docu-ments obtained through a freedom of infor-mation request — concluded there was no valid business plan to privatize the service.

Malzer praised IHA laundry employees for delivering “high-quality service to our patients for many years,” adding he under-stands they will be disappointed.

“While there will be job displacement within our sites, we believe the commit-ment by Ecotex to build a facility in the Southern Interior and hire residents from our region will offset some of the impact felt,” Malzer said. “We will also work with the HEU to support laundry employees as they consider options for the future, whether that is through accessing vacancies or retraining.”

Lommer said IHA will work with the contractor to see if some of the Kamloops staff can fill jobs at the distribution centre. With almost 19 months of transition, “we have the luxury of time” to help staff with retraining or other assistance, she said.

The transition from in-house work to contractor is expected to be complete by mid-2017.

Small laundry sites will continue to remain in hospitals in Ashcroft, Lillooet, Golden, Princeton, 100 Mile House and Williams Lake.

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As multiple media outlets in the city com-plain of a communication breakdown with Kamloops RCMP, Mayor Peter Milobar said he believes police are being as open with reporters as possible.

“I personally don’t have a big problem with it. I think there is a difference between the media’s expectations and the RCMP’s,” said Milobar, who chairs the city’s police and co-ordinated enforcement committees.

Media, including Kamloops This Week, have argued local Mounties aren’t releas-ing information in the public interest, from

names of two people murdered in the city in January (one of which was eventually released through court proceedings) to confirmation of day-to-day arrests and inci-dents.

Kamloops RCMP moved to an encrypted radio system in 2014, which can’t be moni-tored by journalists or members of the pub-lic. The move was part of a cross-country digital encryption effort by Mounties, who said open scanners could be used by crimi-nals to monitor police actions.

“Frankly, the media wasn’t happy when the RCMP went away from that and I’m not surprised you guys aren’t happy now that you feel the RCMP aren’t providing every-thing you’re asking,” he said.

“But there’s a time and place for public disclosure on these types of matters. I fully support that stuff should get disclosed, but there is also a legal framework and a time and a place for this and it doesn’t always match with the media’s question timeline.”

Milobar said communications between city hall and police remain good and said it appears RCMP are answering questions when doing so won’t hurt an ongoing inves-tigation.

“I would suggest there’s no shortage of coverage on any of the stories as they move forward, be it court coverage or RCMP when they have bigger things going on,” he said.

“You guys seem to cover most things that I know about.”

Setah was from Hanceville, a small community about 90 kilo-metres west of Williams Lake.

The Independent Investigation Office of B.C. inves-tigated the death and exonerated Kamloops Mounties, finding officers did not commit a crimi-nal offence and that a report to Crown counsel would not be forthcoming following a probe that included interviews with three Mounties and four wit-nesses.

The report stated: “The CEW [conducted electrical weapon, or Taser] ended up being ineffective and the affected person ‘began fighting’ to get away.

“Subject officers 1 and 2

attempted to gain control; how-ever, the struggle lasted mere seconds before the affected per-son broke free. The affected per-son ran and went over the ledge.

“Subject officer 2 was faced with making a split-second deci-sion.

“As long as it appeared that the effective deployment of the CEW allowed for the affected person to be taken into protec-tive custody, the decision to deploy the CEW at that moment could not possibly constitute wanton and reckless disregard for human life or safety.

“In fact, there is no reason to believe that the deployment of the CEW was for any purpose other than attempting to ensure

that the affected person was no longer in a position to self-harm.

“The tragic result of the unsuccessful deployment was that the affected person reacted and jumped from the parkade. It is impossible however to know what actions the affected person might have taken if no attempt, other than negotiation, was made to ensure protective custody.”

Presiding coroner Margaret Janzen and a jury will hear evi-dence on April 11 from witnesses under oath to determine the facts surrounding Setah’s death.

The jury will have the oppor-tunity to make recommenda-tions aimed at preventing deaths under similar circumstances.

From A1

Taser failed to stop plunge at RIH

That equipment cost also came as a sur-prise to HEU, which had been told the IHA estimated a $10.5-million investment was required to replace laundry equipment in coming years.

IHA chief financial officer Donna Lommer said the new estimate was deter-mined after a study last year by an outside consultant at two hospitals — including RIH — on the cost to replace the laundry equipment in coming years.

The consultant advised the $10.5 mil-lion was too low, estimating the complete work to replace equipment and make any infrastructure changes to be closer to $35 million.

IHA board chairman Erwin Malzer said the $35 million in savings is money IHA can use “to increase our investment in facilities and equipment to support direct patient care.”

Health Minister Terry Lake said the deci-sion “gives me no pleasure because some people in Kamloops and the area will lose their jobs.”

However, the Kamloops-North Thompson MLA also said that, as health minister, he understands the need for health authorities to save money where they can to put into front-line health care.

Lake noted one hospital on the Coast, which has already contracted out laundry

services, has since renovated the space it occupied to add another medical clinic.

Whiteside condemned the decision as shocking, noting six city councils, includ-ing Kamloops, had asked IHA to reconsider contracting the service to an outside com-pany. More than 13,000 people also signed petitions calling for the service to remain as it is.

Mayor Peter Milobar said he was sur-prised to see a decision made so quickly — and surprised to see the service taken out of Kamloops.

“The last discussions I had, it sounded more like IHA was leaning towards going with Kamloops and Penticton as distribu-tion centres instead of centralizing things in Kelowna once again,” Milobar said.

“This really isn’t a Kamloops and Kelowna thing; it’s about that concern of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you keep amass-ing everything in Kelowna, of course the economies of scale are going to say it’s your best location.”

Whiteside called the move “devastating.“These are good jobs. This is a big eco-

nomic loss,” she said, arguing the IHA is “privatizing the most efficient laundry ser-vice in the country . . . and funnelling public tax dollars to a private corporation.”

She said audits have shown it to be efficient since the IHA and HEU worked together in 2003 — when contracting out the service was considered and abandoned

— to find savings and fine-tune the opera-tion.

Last November, Simon Fraser University economist Marvin Shaffer — using docu-ments obtained through a freedom of infor-mation request — concluded there was no valid business plan to privatize the service.

Malzer praised IHA laundry employees for delivering “high-quality service to our patients for many years,” adding he under-stands they will be disappointed.

“While there will be job displacement within our sites, we believe the commit-ment by Ecotex to build a facility in the Southern Interior and hire residents from our region will offset some of the impact felt,” Malzer said. “We will also work with the HEU to support laundry employees as they consider options for the future, whether that is through accessing vacancies or retraining.”

Lommer said IHA will work with the contractor to see if some of the Kamloops staff can fill jobs at the distribution centre. With almost 19 months of transition, “we have the luxury of time” to help staff with retraining or other assistance, she said.

The transition from in-house work to contractor is expected to be complete by mid-2017.

Small laundry sites will continue to remain in hospitals in Ashcroft, Lillooet, Golden, Princeton, 100 Mile House and Williams Lake.

From A1

Mayor surprised at IHA laundry move

MILOBAR SAYS RCMP AS OPEN AS POSSIBLEANDREA KLASSEN STAFF [email protected]


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Angus Reid was tired of fighting.On his back in B.C. Children’s

Hospital and in unrelenting pain for two months, the 13-year-old boy was tired of fighting for his life.

He turned toward his mom and told her the battle was over.

“I love you,” Reid told his moth-er. “I’m going to die tonight.”

Reid’s mom invoked her paren-tal right — and withheld permis-sion.

She scooped up her son, weak-ened by a ruptured appendix that he tried to ignore for seven days as poison seeped out of the damaged organ, and walked the hospital halls with him.

“Because she knew — I close my eyes and it’s over,” Reid said as he told his tale in Kamloops on Tuesday. “She made me walk until the sun came up. Don’t ask me how it happened, but I was out of there three days later.”

The lesson a near-death Angus Reid learned during those dark days of his adolescence?

“Don’t wait until you’re about to die before you ask for help.”

Reid, the former B.C. Lions’ cen-tre with two Grey Cup champion-ships to his name, spoke at a B.C. Lottery Corporation-sponsored Kamloops Chamber of Commerce luncheon,

Reid used his message of never being afraid of asking for help to explain his success in conquering

the Grim Reaper, at beating the longest of odds to become a pro football player — and of doing the same in his battle with gambling addiction.

For 13 years in the CFL, Reid said, he worked week to week with no guaranteed contract, unem-ployment a broken bone away.

That he became a starting cen-tre countered all common sense when it came to physical require-ments for the demanding posi-tion on the offensive line: he was too short, his wingspan not long enough, his foot size too puny and his hand size relatively Lilliputian.

“I had no business doing this. I had nothing,” Reid said. “But I had ridiculous dreams. I believed in myself.”

His road to the CFL was filled with every roadblock imaginable — a late start in the sport accom-panied by self-taught knowledge; serious injuries at Simon Fraser University related to his burst appendix episode; getting cut from the Toronto Argonauts after being their first-round pick; sitting on the sidelines in Montreal before being traded to B.C.

And, Reid said, through every downturn, he would turn to his fam-ily and ask for help — which is what he did again when the lure of the blackjack table proved irresistible.

“When you start winning and life gets good, you get mentally lazy,” Reid said.

In 2007, life for the Richmond kid was good — and then it got

bad. Too much partying, embrac-ing his celebrity too often, a crum-bling first marriage piled on top of each other.

Hitting the casino with team-mates after practice for harmless fun morphed into lone trips to the blackjack table for hours on end.

Days and weeks and months flew by as Reid watched the cards.

“If you’re trying to deal with problems at a table, and it’s not entertainment, life gets bad,” Reid said. “I’m blowing my paycheque before I even have it.”

In a two-year span, he had spent every cent to his name, perhaps $50,000, and blew through every penny in credit. His marriage was done and he was back at home, liv-ing in his parents’ basement.

It was during a game in Regina in 2009 when a badly broken foot brought clarity.

It was the prospect of not having football to focus on that brought Reid to the realization he need to ask for help — again.

He went to his family and enrolled in the BCLC’s volun-tary self-exclusion program that sees problem gamblers ask to be banned from casinos and race-tracks.

He worked on his addiction and returned to the football field, win-ning his second Grey Cup in 2011 and retiring in 2014.

“I’ve seen the dark, ugly places and to get through them is to see the beauty of life,” Reid said.

“And that’s how I get through life.”

CHRISTOPHER FOULDS KTW [email protected]

From gridiron to gambling, Reid battles through life

Former B.C. Lion Angus Reid spoke about

challenges in his life during a Tuesday

visit to Kamloops. Reid outlined traits

common to pro athletes and addicts:

being hyper- competitive

being extremely stubborn

and possessing a delusional belief they

can always win.DAVE EAGLES/KTW

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A rain barrel is used to capture and store rainwater runoff from the roof of a home. The collected water is then used for various pur-poses, from irrigating lawns and gardens to washing vehicles.

The city cites ben-efits of using rain barrels, including free irrigation for lawns and gardens, a reduction in household water use, the creation of a water source during water-restriction months and a reduction in the need for the city to treat, pump and distribute water.

Rain barrels can be ordered online at kam loops.ca/rainbarrel.

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When a 40-year-old man told two boys he would pay them cash if they came to his home, they knew something was amiss.

As a result, Kamloops Mounties are looking for the man they say was behind the odd request.

Cpl. Cheryl Bush said the detach-ment received a report on the night of Sunday, Feb.

28, that a man had approached two boys playing in the area of Tranquille Road and Kelly Drive in Brocklehurst.

Bush said the man asked them to visit his home and suggested he would give them money.

The man is about 40 years of age, has dark hair, a smaller

build, was wearing sweat pants and a black coat at the time and was carrying a

black and red back-pack.

Anybody with information on the

suspect’s identity is asked to contact Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000.

Informant in murder trial spars with defenceA career criminal turned police

agent who snitched on his murder-accused cellmate in 2012 in exchange for $10,000 traded verbal jabs with a defence lawyer on Tuesday trying to paint him as a lying fraudster.

Peter Beckett’s first-degree mur-der trial continued in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops with the start of the cross-examination of a paid police informant who cannot be named due to a court-ordered pub-lication ban aimed at protecting his safety behind bars.

Beckett, a 59-year-old former New Zealand politician, is accused of kill-ing his wife, Laura Letts-Beckett, who died near Revelstoke in 2010.

Letts-Beckett drowned in Upper Arrow Lake on Aug. 18, 2010. Her death was initially believed to be accidental, but Beckett was charged one year later.

The Crown has alleged Letts-Beckett was killed out of greed, say-

ing Beckett’s motive was financial.Prosecutor Sarah Firestone has

told jurors Beckett stood to gain a significant amount of money in life-insurance and accidental-death benefits, as well as from his wife’s schoolteacher’s pension.

Defence lawyer Doug Jenving started his cross-examination of the informant, Agent A, after more than a day of testimony under questioning from Firestone.

The jury has heard Agent A describe his interactions with Beckett between July and October 2012.

Agent A said he contacted police after Beckett, his cellmate at a Lower Mainland jail, started talking about “eliminating” witnesses.

Agent A said he contacted police and “played along” with Beckett’s scheme. He said Beckett wanted him to murder five Crown witnesses — a police sergeant, a lawyer, his in-laws and his dead wife’s cousin — after his release from jail.

Jenving started his questioning by running through a list of more than

a dozen aliases Agent A has been found to have used while commit-ting crimes in the past. Jenving then went over the actions of Agent A over a two-week period following his Oct. 26, 2012, release from jail.

In that time, the jury has heard, Agent A was completing tasks on behalf of RCMP investigators and telling Beckett what they wanted him to say.

For instance, Agent A told Beckett he went to Westlock, Alta., and retrieved diamonds from the windshield-washer fluid reservoir of Beckett’s Jaguar — where Beckett had told them they would be. In reality, Agent A never travelled to Westlock. Instead, investigators staged a break-in and took the supposed diamonds from the reservoir.

Agent A also told Beckett he locat-ed a stash of dynamite Beckett had directed him to. In actuality, police found the explosives.

In addition to working on behalf of Mounties, Agent A was also com-mitting crimes. The jury heard he

stole an iPhone and found a wallet, the credit cards inside of which he used fraudulently.

After a series of questions about the frauds from Jenving, Agent A appeared to become frustrated.

“It’s irrelevant to this whole thing,” he said. “It’s been established that I’m a criminal. My record speaks for itself. I’ve come in here and been open.”

Jenving continued with his line of questioning.

“Is there any questions about this case that you have?” Agent A eventu-ally shot back.

“For the moment, we’ll talk about you a bit,” Jenving replied, before implying Agent A had lied under oath at previous hearings.

“That’s your job to say that,” Agent A responded. “Up here, right now, where I’m sitting, it’s obviously not a lie.

“It’s been substantiated. . . . I’ve never even been to Westlock and the evidence was found.”

The cross-examination of Agent

A was adjourned to a later date so lawyers could sort out an applica-tion. The trial is slated to resume Wednesday with evidence from a police witness.

Beckett and Letts-Beckett met in 1995 in New Zealand. Five years later, he moved to Westlock to be closer to her.

The couple married in 2003.Previous witnesses have

described their relationship as a rocky one. The Becketts split up in late 2007, but reconciled months later.

Letts-Beckett also went to police alleging physical abuse on the part of her husband, but no charges were laid.

Through her questioning, defence lawyer Donna Turko has suggested Letts-Beckett was depressed prior to her drowning.

Beckett was formerly a city coun-cillor in Napier, New Zealand.

His trial, which began in mid-January, is expected to last three months.

A provincial court judge has backed a decision by a federal fire-arms official to deny a licence to a Thompson Rivers University student.

Judge Chris Cleaveley ruled Tuesday the decision made last year by a civilian RCMP employee to deny Matthew McFadden a gun licence “is based on safety, both for the public and Mr. McFadden.”

The 25-year-old university stu-dent appealed the denial by the Canadian Firearms Program. His appeal was opposed by the federal justice branch.

McFadden testified he hunted as a teen and passed both firearms-safety and hunting courses.

He was denied a licence in 2010 by the firearms program and again last year.

During his hearing, McFadden testified he comes from a rural back-ground and wants the chance to hunt as an adult. He claimed an offi-cial with the firearms program told him he couldn’t have a gun after the October 2014 murder of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the Canadian National

War Memorial near the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. The gunman, Michael Zehaf Bibeau, did not have a weapons licence.

The firearms official testified four of six friends and associates of McFadden said he shouldn’t be allowed a gun — one of them warn-ing McFadden would “go postal.”

Cleaveley also said McFadden listed an email address as [email protected].

McFadden’s reluctance to obtain a letter from a physician sealed the decision for both the firearms officer and provincial court judge.

“It was a reasonable decision for the firearms officer to require Mr. McFadden to provide medical infor-mation about his current health,” Cleaveley ruled.

In 2014, the RCMP program renewed or issued about 100,000 licences to possess or acquire a fire-arm. In the same year, it denied a new licence to about 800 people in Canada, a refusal number that has risen over the past three years.

Questionable firearms licence applications or renewals are flagged by the centre in New Brunswick.

The files are sent to local employ-ees for investigation.

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One of the enduring legacies of Pierre Trudeau’s time as prime minister is the legal suprem-

acy of the individual, as articu-lated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We are seeing this played out with greater force than ever today by an activist high court that swatted aside Stephen Harper’s attempts to restrain it and now orders a meek, politically correct Justin Trudeau government to do its bidding.

The Federal Court decreed last month that people have the right to grow their own medical marijuana. This ruling is unlikely to be appealed, given Trudeau the Younger is committed to legalizing marijuana for everyone.

There are conditions that show measurable relief from marijuana products, such as glaucoma or the nausea and loss of appetite associ-ated with cancer treatments. But much of the so-called medical-marijuana industry is based on unsubstantiated claims about an inconsistent herbal remedy that hasn’t been studied much because it’s been illegal.

The Federal Court case involves four people from B.C., which boasts more than half of the contested medical-marijuana growing licences issued across the country.

One of the petitioners suffers from a vaguely defined condition known as chronic fatigue syn-drome, which led to a disability pension from a federal civil-ser-vice job at age 45.

The judge cited no research to support the claim that sitting

around smoking dope all day relieves this condition.

Indeed, it defies common sense that a set of symptoms with no identified cause, which might be confused with what we used to call laziness, would be alleviated by chronic consumption of a drug that promotes eating chips and watching TV.

But we peasants aren’t sup-posed to question our monarchs, especially those in ermine-trimmed red robes at the Supreme Court of Canada.

That court has decreed our charter, which in Section 7 pro-tects the “right to life, liberty and security of the person,” includes a right to have a doctor’s help to commit suicide.

Euthanasia has been re-brand-ed as “assisted dying” by all the most “progressive” countries — and Canada has been given a firm deadline to join the club.

(Meanwhile, the term “right to life” is all but banned from uni-versity campuses, to minimize the risk of a coarse literal interpreta-tion that it means, you know, a right to life.)

A Liberal-dominated com-mittee of MPs and senators has recommended full-throttle imple-mentation, not restricted to termi-nal illness and including mental conditions such as depression and dementia. The majority suggested even “mature minors” should have this new right.

The politicians support allow-ing doctors to opt out of cases they won’t condone, as long as they provide a referral to another doctor.

In Belgium, one of the pioneers of this brave new world, most of the growing number of euthanasia patients have had cancer.

But as the New Yorker maga-zine reported in a ground-break-ing article last summer, others have been euthanized because of autism, anorexia, partial paralysis, blindness with deafness, manic-depression and, yes, chronic fatigue syndrome.

Health Minister Terry Lake expressed the hope Canada ends up with a consistent policy on doctor-assisted suicide, rather than a provincial patchwork.

The closest Lake came to politi-cally incorrect criticism was to caution that “deep discussion” is needed around the court’s notion of a “competent minor,” someone not yet entrusted with the vote or access to a liquor store.

Three dissenting Conservative MPs went so far as to say the rec-ommendations don’t adequately protect seniors who might be coerced into checking out and passing on their estates.

How old-fashioned.

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Bowing to judges’ power

IHA NEEDS TO HELP LAUNDRY STAFF

Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union gathered near Royal Inland Hospital Monday to protest the possibility of privatization of laundry services.

Less than 24 hours later, they learned their action fell on deaf ears.

The Interior Health Authority decided Tuesday to contract out laundry services at five facilities, including RIH, impacting 93 full-time equivalent positions in the Interior, including 18 in Kamloops.

“A clear case exists to proceed with outsourcing laundry services at our major facilities,” said IHA board chairman Erwin Malzer of Kamloops, Kelowna, Nelson, Penticton and Vernon.

The six smaller communities of Golden, Ashcroft, Princeton, 100 Mile House, Lillooet and Williams Lake will retain in-house laundry

services.Malzer claims a savings of $35 million over

the 20-year life of the contract, enabling the IHA to increase investment in facilities and equipment for patient care.

However, a recent study by a university economist didn’t find a valid business case for

contracting out and nearly 13,000 residents signed a petition oppos-ing the loss of good-paying jobs that helped support local econo-mies.

The debate will likely continue, with good reason, and we cer-tainly understand the frustration and loss felt by union members and their families.

A case can also be made that management wasn’t listening to their concerns.

Now that the decision has been made, we hope that IHA fulfills its pledge to help the HEU to “support laundry employees as they consider options for the future, whether that is through accessing vacancies or retraining.”

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A selection of comments on KTW stories, culled online

RE: STORY: IHA TO PRIVATIZE LAUNDRY SERVICES; 18 JOBS WILL BE LOST AT ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL:

“I hope the people in Kamloops will remember this in the provincial election.”

— posted by Tim Hulsey

RE: STORY: JUDGE DENIES UNIVERSITY STUDENT GUN LICENCE:

“‘[Judge] Cleaveley also said McFadden listed an email address as [email protected].’

“And this guy can’t figure out why he isn’t allowed to have a gun? This is why we have gun laws and I am happy to say they appear to have worked in this case.”

— posted by MogRules

RE: STORY: CITY OF KAMLOOPS OFFERS RAIN BARRELS FOR $55:

“I think you’re free to go col-lect water from the river for free if you’d like.

“A couple of barrels in the back of your truck and some bleach — there ya go!”

— posted by M0nst3r

Editor:Gouged? No. Robbed? Yes.Where is the gun? The price of gas in Kamloops jumped 11 cents a

litre in a matter of hours this week.There was hardly a peep from the public, but

if they raised the price by an equal amount in the U.S. (44 cents per gallon), there would be rioting in the streets.

There are more than 200 litres in a barrel of oil. How much did a barrel of oil go up in one day? Only in Canada can they get away with this.

Jay BarlowKamloops

ROBBED AGAIN AT THE GAS PUMPS

Pump prices in Kamloops jumped by about 11 cents per litre at once this week, rising to about 99.9 cents — while the world price of oil remains mired in the low $30s range.

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We asked:

Should residents who live outside Kamloops, but who use city services, have a greater say in Tournament Capital matters?

What’s your take?If you could vote, which candidate would get your nod as Republican candidate?

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IDEA WILL ENHANCE SKEETERSEditor:

What is city council thinking with its plan to sell rain barrels to residents?

Council will now bring the mosquitoes to you.

Are there not bigger issues to deal with in this town?

Just imagine what an itchy summer lies ahead.

Heather ChristiansonKamloops

B.C. LIBERALS CARE NOT FOR LOCAL JOBSEditor:

I see the government has decided to close the laun-dry service at Royal Inland Hospital.

Continuing the abys-mal policies of the Gordon Campbell era, the current gov-ernment looks to privatize and eliminate local jobs yet once again.

I suppose they have no real reason to support local resi-dents with good-paying jobs.

Along with privatizing the kitchen services, this leaves our hospital out in the cold when a disaster hits.

Where in previous decades these services were provided in the hospital, now if roads are taken out, patients will be out of luck.

I couldn’t help but notice the new clinical-services building on Columbia Street, which will add much-needed parking.

This will add no new beds, but there is an advertisement on the side of the building for “retail space.”

Maybe instead of being the only province that charges MSP premiums, the govern-ment could enact legislation that guarantees 75 per cent of UBC medical spots go to B.C. residents who achieve a mini-mum mark of 80 per cent — at least until the severe shortage of doctors is filled and taxpay-ers can find a general practi-tioner.

Kevin BonellKamloops

Editor:Driving along Third Avenue downtown one recent morn-

ing, I could not help but see that an angel was missing from the streets of Kamloops.

I imagine many people have noticed the same.Pat Liddy walked everywhere, usually with her jewels, Ruby

and her little friends, and often her family by her side.I always looked forward to seeing Pat.She openly shared her gift, rain or shine, rich or poor. Yes, Kamloops lost an angel last week and heaven shines

brightly with her radiant smile.

Lauraine WakelyKamloops

Editor:A class reunion is

being planned for stu-dents wo attended L.V. Rogers high school in 1969, 1970 and 1971.

The reunion will ne held in Nelson on Sept. 16 and Sept. 17.

Those interested in more information can call 250-319-7675.

Patrick LindsayKamloops

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LOCAL NEWS

Get used to the lineups

Lining up overnight didn’t work for some parents who want their children in French immersion — and the Kamloops-Thompson school district likely can’t address the issue before September 2017.

Superintendent Karl deBruijn said this was the first year a lineup began at the two elementary schools with French immersion — Lloyd George and South Sa-Hali — and wait lists exist at each.

DeBruijn said the delay is the result of the Ministry of Education’s mandate that school boards must continue to cut administrative costs again during this school year.

While there are empty schools in the city and a desire to create a third French immersion school on the North Shore, doing so would add administrative costs, includ-ing principal, vice-principal and other non-instructional staff.

KTW contacted the Ministry of Education to ask how the dis-trict could accommodate what is a growing demand for French immersion education while con-forming with the existing budget-ary-reduction mandate.

In an email, the ministry

replied: “There is flexibility for school districts in identifying savings so that funds flow into programs offering the greatest opportunities for students.

“School districts are given great autonomy as to the programs and services — including immer-sion programs — that are offered in their district to best meet the needs of their students and com-munities.”

A request to the ministry to respond to the specific SD73 issue was not answered, with a ministry spokesman referring to the origi-nal email.

Trustees asked for information to get an idea of the interest from the North Shore.

In a report to trustees based on Lloyd George elementary, 46 students applied for enrolment for the upcoming school year.

That group has 27 siblings already in classes at the school.

The kindergarten wait list consists of 16 children.

Those potential kindergar-ten students would come from the downtown (22), Sun Rivers (2), Rayleigh (2), Pinantan (2), Batchelor Heights (4) and Brocklehurst (14) areas.

North Shore students who enrolled in kindergarten at the start of the current school year came from school catchment areas including Parkcrest (4), Kay Bingham (6) A.E. Perry (2), Arthur Hatton (6), Westmount (7) and David Thompson (1).

• In other business, trustees approved new courses, including volleyball skills and officiating (Grade 10), volleyball leadership (Grade 11) and sports history (Grade 12) at Sa-Hali secondary.

The annual RCMP youth acad-emy camp at Brock middle school will now come with three credits for participants.


SD73 urged to keep Beattie nameHistory has value and it is

one of the reasons the name Beattie should remain part of the school system, Kamloops-Thompson school trustees were told on Monday night.

In a presentation to trustees, Kamloops resident Sheila Park urged them to retain the name when Stuart Wood elementary is closed in the summer.

Stuart Wood students will be moved to the former Beattie ele-mentary, named for the teaching

sisters of that family and a name that was retained at the school because it was home to the dis-trict’s first school of the arts.

The board has decided to name the building McGill elementary when Stuart Wood students and staff move there in September. The current elemen-tary grades at the McGill Road building will join their second-ary arts-school students at their campus on Ninth Avenue.

“You’re taking away the hon-

our of a family who pioneered here and I’m hoping you might rethink that whole issue,” Park told trustees.

Park, a retired teacher, noted the former John Tod elementary kept the same name when it became a neighbourhood com-munity centre.

She noted McGill Road was named for a former police chief in the city.

Trustees declined to act on Park’s request.

Parents lined up through the night last month in a bid to have their children enrolled at Lloyd George elementary, one of two French immersion elementary schools in Kamloops.LEVERNE BORTON PHOTO

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Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Section 60(2) of the Transportation Act, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure has received an application to permanently close the northernmost 53.5 metres of Buff Road, as dedicated on Plan 1317 registered in 1912, lying to the east of Lot 6 A, DL 432, KDYD Plan 1317, except Plan H 84.

The subject land contains the Westwold Community Hall, which was inadvertently built upon the road right-of-way in approximately 1939. It has existed as such since that time, and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the Westwold Community Association wish to rectify this error.

A plan showing the proposed road closure may be viewed from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Vernon office at the address below.

Any person(s) wanting to provide comments regarding this application for road closure should do so in writing no later than March 31, 2016, to the following ministry contact:

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He worked at a mural company, studied digital art and design and learned how to cut vinyl, how to make signs and how to create large-format graphics.

It was the early 1990s and the film business was booming in Vancouver, another hub of creativity into which Warren drifted to cre-ate scenery, design props and make sculptures.

He also moved into the dance-music scene, he said, where he would create “crazy props and wild backdrops.”

Through it all, however, he said,

“I felt a frog in the boiling water kind of thing being in Vancouver.”

So, he came back to Kamloops, the place where his love of art began — and where he recently received a Mayor’s Gala for the Arts Award for craft and design.

As a child, Warren had the run of his mother’s Crafted for You Hobby, Toy and Games shop on Fortune Drive.

“It was a complete wonderland,” he said.

“I’d be the one to make the poster or the T-shirt,” a go-to role that con-tinued into high school.

It was a rainy day when Vaughn Warren walked out of Emily Carr University of Art and Design on Granville Island.

He had arrived full of hope and was now feeling “my world had stopped turning.”

After so many years pursuing his love of art, his dream of attending the institution had been dashed, his port-folio of works described as not the kind that would get him a place in classes there.

“It kind of made me mad,” Warren said, “but I also felt this surge of determination to do it myself. Instead of spending four years in school, I would do four years of working and learning.”


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Committed to safety since 1953.

How feedback has resulted in a stronger, safer and better project:

• A $100 million investment in the West Coast Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) for marine safety enhancements.

• A commitment to offset any greenhouse gas emissions resulting from construction.• An increase in safety valves along the pipeline from 94 to 126.• An increase in pipeline wall thickness in sensitive areas, such as urban locations and at river crossings.• Routing of the pipeline to avoid 22 crossings at fi sh-inhabited rivers including

the Fraser, upper North Thompson, Albreda, Coldwater and Coquihalla.• Routing to avoid environmentally sensitive areas, such as Cheam Wetlands and three

BC Class A parks.• Routing of the pipeline to minimize community impacts to the Westsyde neighbourhood in Kamloops

and the Westridge neighbourhood in Burnaby.

For more than four years, we’ve worked together with our neighbours and local communities to hear what they have to say about our proposed pipeline expansion. By listening closely and having an open dialogue, we’ve been able to create a stronger, safer and more responsive project. We are working to meet all the requirements of the regulators, as well as consulting with communities, Indigenous people, government agencies and municipalities – and we’ll continue to work with them throughout development, construction and operations. We know how critical it is to get this right. Most importantly, we’re acting on what we hear with signifi cant changes to the Project.

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FLAVOURS AND FLICKS NEW TO FILM FESTIVALThe Kamloops Wineries

Association is partnering with the city’s film festival to pro-mote local cuisine.

Flavours and Flicks will run concurrent with the Kamloops Film Festival, which opens today and continues to March 12, and includes 12 res-taurants.

Each has created a special three-course feature menu

priced between $35 and $45; for an additional cost, the meals can have wine pairings with vintages created by Harper’s Trail, Monte Creek Ranch and Privato wineries.

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To learn more about the film festival, go online to kamloops thisweek.com.

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All the children in the family were required to pick some outside activity they could learn and, after trying piano for a couple of years, Warren decided it wasn’t for him and visual art forms beckoned.

Those art lessons were the turning point.

“I felt what I was doing had value,” he said. “So I drew and drew and drew. I would draw so much.”

He attributes the portfolio failure to the works he was doing in high school and a lack of guidance on what would get him past the front door of the school.

Words from his father helped Warren recover from that dis-appointment.

“My dad would say, ‘The harder you

work, the luckier you’ll get.’”

Like his mother, his dad gave him the run of his workshop and he used every tool and every supply.

“He’d come home from being away [his father worked in min-ing] and he’d spend two weeks fixing every-thing,” he said.

Warren volunteered on the Kamloops Arts Council board and on the city’s graffiti task force.

He was employed at the Kamloops Art Gallery and said his work with then-executive director Jann Bailey included a lengthy trip to Venice

for the 51st annual Venice Biennale in 2005.

“Jann called me up and asked if I’d be willing to spend two months at the Venice biennale,” Warren said.

“I said yes. I had no idea what it was.”

He soon learned he would spend two months helping install Canada’s exhibition at the prestigious event.

The River Pole is another work that took up a lot of his life.

Warren spent about 700 hours carving the many characters that can be seen on the red cedar at the corner of Summit Drive and

Columbia Street.“It shows what’s

possible if you believe in yourself,” he said.

“I think I’m a better carver now.

“But I was grateful for the opportunity. It is a unique object that was a key part of my learning and under-standing of art.”

He’s stayed busy, working with local high schools through the provincial ArtStarts program, doing stage design for an upcom-ing music festival, carving mammoth ivory jewelry and tak-ing on commissions.

Warren said he would love to do more public art in Kamloops — he also created the Turbulent murals at the bridge at Lansdowne Street and First Avenue by the entrance to Riverside Park.

“I’m excited to be part of its growth.”

Vaughn Warren (above) received a Mayor’s Award for the Arts in January in the craft and design category. Among many city icons, he designed the children’s museum (above) at the Kamloops Museum and Archives.

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“My dad would say ‘The harder you work, the luckier you’ll get.”

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The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure gives notice pursuant to Section 60(2) of the Transportation Act that a portion of Goose Lake Road #2024, being an approximate total of 6.8 km, is to be closed through the NE1/4 of Section 34, Township 18, Range 18, W6M, KDYD to the SW ¼ of Section 18, Township 19, Range 17, W6M, KDYD.

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Anyone wanting to provide comments on the proposed road closure should do so in writing no later than April 11, 2016 to the Thompson Nicola District Office.

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On the list of iconic Olympic athletes is the name Balbir Singh Sr.

In 1952, Singh set a record that has never been surpassed, scoring five goals in the final field hockey match at the Helsinki Games.

It was the second Olympics for the Indian athlete — in 1948, he led his team to gold and in 1956, the team also took gold, although Singh missed the last two matches due to an injury.

Despite this, said Patrick Blennerhassett, Singh can walk down the street virtu-ally unrecognized by anyone. In his homeland of India, his accomplishments are overshadowed by the focus put on another field hockey player — Udham Singh — who also was on teams that took three gold med-als in Olympics, one of them alongside Balbir in 1956.

Blennerhassett believes much of that discrepancy comes from religion — Balbir is a Sikh and Udham is Hindhu and, in India, Sikhs have always been on the outside, mis-treated and persecuted because of their faith.

The Vancouver-based author and for-mer Kamloopsian said research he did into his new book, A Forgotten Legend: Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold and Modi’s New India, led him to believe Balbir’s anonymity is because he was a Sikh in a Hindhu country.

“And, sadly, it’s not just a case for forget-ting,” he said.

“It’s a religious thing. But he rises above it. He said it was his job to score goals and he leaves it to journalists to tell his story.”

Balbir scored plenty of goals. In 1948 at the London Olympics,

he took to the field for the first time as an Olympian in the second match, play-ing against Argentina. Indian won 9-1; Balbir scored six of the goals.

In the final match, played against Britain, Indian won 4-0 and Balbir scored half the goals.

Four years later in Helsinki, his team beat the host country in the semi-final 3-1 — Balbir scored all three goals.

In the final against Holland, his team won 6-1 with Balbir scoring five goals.

In 1956, Balbir again scored five goals in the opening match, but was injured.

He returned for the semifinal and final, which India won 1-0.

During those games in Melbourne, the Indian team held every competitor it met off the scoreboard.

Blennerhassett learned of Balbir through his family; the hockey player’s son worked with Blennerhassett’s father and, through a chance encounter in 2011, learned of the man who led his team to India’s first Olympic medal fol-lowed the partitioning of the country to cre-ate Pakistan and the Union of India.

In November 2014,

Blennerhassett trav-elled to Chandigarh in India to meet Balbir, at the time 90 years old.

“He told me the story of his father and it seemed too good to be true,” Blennerhassett said.

“So I thought OK, I’ll go there and see what I can find.

“The more I learned about his story, the more I had to do a book on this. His life is incredible.”

In the 1970s, Balbir moved to Canada, becoming a Canadian citizen in 2000. He splits his time between his homeland and adopted home.

“Olympic athletes are in the limelight every four years and we know their names,” Blennerhassett said.

“When we go for walks in Canada or India, nobody knows who he is.”

The book will be officially launched on Saturday, March 5, at Simon Fraser University.

Blennerhassett hopes to hold a similar event in Kamloops.

This is his third book; Monument was published in 2008 and Random Acts of Violence in 2011.

More information is available online at patrickblennerhassett.com.

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Author Patrick Blennerheassett (left) stands with Balbir Singh Sr. (right), the subject of his book A Forgotten Leged: Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold and Modi’s New India.

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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.

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NEW YORK — Looking out across an urban or even some suburban skylines, most people see an expanse of roof-tops.

A few enterprising gardeners, however, see something differ-ent: wasted acreage just waiting to be planted.

Rooftops are an underutilized resource “in precisely the places where space is every-thing and fertile land is most scarce,’’ said Annie Novak, author of a new book, The Rooftop Growing Guide.

“It makes you want to roll up your sleeves and get growing.’’

Novak is co-founder and head farmer of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn.

Her book is filled with images of rooftop gardens and farms in cities and suburbs across the country.

“Rooftop growing is nothing new,’’ Novak said. “It’s actually an ancient tradition that has been largely over-looked. Urban people in tight spaces have always made room for rooftop gardens.’’

She offers a 5,000-year timeline that includes Scottish sod-roof houses dating to around 3000 B.C.; Mesopotamian ziggu-rats featuring rooftop shrubs and trees; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; European rooftop gardens of the 17th and 18th century; and recent green-roof projects in Chicago, Portland, New York

and Montreal.“It’s important to

reconnect with that long tradition and real-ize that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. You just need to try to improve upon it,’’ Novak said.

“There’s a big com-munity of expert roof-top gardeners out there, with lots of experience and wisdom to share.’’

She advises begin-ners to search online for “rooftop’’ “garden” and their city’s name to find like-minded gar-deners.

Successful rooftop gardeners, she added, must be energetic and unafraid of standing out in a crowd.

“You have hard work ahead of you,’’ she writes in the book’s introduction.

“You will find your-self climbing multiple flights of stairs or rid-ing up in an elevator in which you are the only person carrying a bag of potting mix, your flats of lettuce next to someone else’s brief-case.’’

In addition to bring-ing fresh food and jobs to urban centres and helping the environ-ment, some types of rooftop growing also help keep buildings cooler in summer and warmer in winter, pro-ponents say.

Green roof growing systems, in which the

rooftop is protected by waterproofing mem-brane and layered with a relatively lightweight soil mix engineered for rooftop use, can add to a flat roof’s longevity by reducing UV light expo-sure and helping with common problems like stormwater runoff.

Not all rooftops are created equal, though, and the first step is to check your building’s specifications and how much weight the roof can handle, along with local laws.

There must be safe access to the roof and some sort of wall around the top so no one falls off.

“Rooftop grow-ing requires permis-sion, practicality and patience,’’ Novak wrote.

Consider building codes, zoning, climate and wind (a major chal-lenge in this type of farming).

John Stoddard, whose Higher Ground Farm in Boston serves restaurants and farmers markets, said rooftop growing is unlike other kinds of gardening.

“We don’t have rab-bits to contend with, but we have seagulls here and we have wind, so we need to stake our tomatoes accordingly,’’ he said.

On the upside, “Bees somehow find their way up here. We’re on the ninth floor, but I’ve

seen dragonflies and plenty of ladybugs.’’

There are three main systems used for roof-top gardening: contain-er gardens (easiest for novices or gardeners on a budget), greenhouse gardens (more com-mon in four-season cli-mates where they can be productive even in winter) and green roof growing.

“Unlike the other two, the green roof has environmental benefits, provides an insulating layer to the building, holds storm water and can allow for gardening much the way it’s done on the ground,’’ Novak said.

Her guide includes sections on soil, seeds, pests, microbiology (“those teeny guys are important’’) and even business 101 for when it comes time to sell rooftop produce.

Nicole Baum of Gotham Greens, a hydroponic green-house grower with a staff of 120 and a total of 4.5 acres of rooftop greenhouse space in Brooklyn, Queens and Chicago, said, “People can easily farm in cities, be it on the windowsill or on a commercial scale like us. We bring our produce down on the elevator every morning. It’s way fresh-er and tastier this way and there’s plenty of potential for more.’’

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Scott Clark is just thinking about the next game.

He’s not thinking about being on the verge of the first Final Four berth in men’s basketball history at Thompson Rivers

University or the fact the WolfPack could end up hosting that Canada West championship.

He’s not thinking about how far his team has come, what some of this week’s key one-on-one matchups will be or how many fans will come out to watch the WolfPack’s best-of-three series against the Regina Cougars.

He’s only thinking about Game 1 tonight at the Tournament Capital Centre.

Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m., with Game 2 tomorrow and Game 3, if necessary, on Saturday.

“The goal, the goal the entire year, has been to win your next game. That’s all we have control over,” Clark told KTW yesterday.

“It has been pretty good for us so far, look-ing along those lines. We’ve never gotten too far ahead of ourselves. I don’t think the guys, they haven’t thought about what might be.”

But “what might be” is the most success-ful season in WolfPack men’s basketball his-tory.

The Wolves finished the season atop the Canada West’s Explorer Division, playing to a 16-4 regular season record and receiving a bye through the first weekend of playoff action.

Thompson Rivers has seen the playoffs before — last season, the club won a best-of-three play-in series against the Winnipeg Wesmen, before losing in a quarter-final against the Saskatchewan Huskies — but never before has the school reached the conference’s Final Four and never have they hosted a quarter-final contest.

The club may earn a trip to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national cham-pionship, too. The Canada West’s top two clubs will head to the tournament in Vancouver, as will the UBC Thunderbirds,

the championship hosts. Big things are on the line at tipoff tonight,

but the Regina Cougars stand in the way of all of it.

Regina finished the season at 11-9, fifth in the Explorer Division, and defeated the Wesmen in a play-in series last weekend.

Thompson Rivers and Regina last played in 2013-2014, a game the Kamloops club won 100-95, but the Cougars are largely an unknown quantity for the WolfPack.

“They’re a good team,” Clark said. “They’re athletic and fast and seem to be

able to score, so that presents problems.”The tale of the tape paints the picture of a

close series, but one that might lean, if only slightly, in the WolfPack’s favour.

Thompson Rivers finished the season with a near perfect record at home, losing only one game in 10 contests at the TCC.

The Wolves scored 80.9 points per game, had a shooting percentage of 45.9 and aver-aged 39.5 rebounds per game.

The Cougars, meanwhile, averaged 81 points per game, shot 41.7 per cent and finished with 43.2 rebounds per game, but played to a 3-7 record on the road.

Regina eliminated the Wesmen in three games last weekend but that, too, was on its home court.

Clark wouldn’t speculate about the Pack’s chances against the Cougars yesterday, again choosing to focus on Game 1 tonight.

A week and a half after their regular sea-son ended, Thompson Rivers is just ready to get started.

“Once there’s a bit of a bye, and you can only practise so much, the guys want to get to some playing,” Clark said.

Women on the roadThe WolfPack women will also open their

post-season tonight, in Edmonton to face the Alberta Pandas.

Thompson Rivers finished second in the Explorer Division, playing to a 15-5 record. The Pandas, meanwhile, were 17-3 and third in the Pioneer Division.

The best-of-three series runs tonight, tomorrow and, if necessary, Saturday.

SPORTS SPORTS: MARTY HASTINGS

778-471-7536 or email [email protected]: @MarTheReporter, @KTWonBlazers

ADAM WILLIAMS778-471-7521 or email [email protected]

Twitter: @AdamWilliams87INSIDE: Whundas win high-school slobberknocker| A26

Wolves preying on CougarsADAM WILLIAMS STAFF [email protected]

WOLFPACK ON HOME COURT TONIGHT FOR PLAYOFF MATCHUP AGAINST VISITORS FROM QUEEN CITY

Reese Pribilsky and the TRU WolfPack will be looking to rise above the Regina Cougars to book their spot in the Canada West Final Four, but head coach Scott Clark has his charges focused solely on tonight’s Game 1.

ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW


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SPORTS

Ken Huber broke his opponent.

In front of what amounted to a home-town crowd, Prince Albert fighter Clay Dumais threw in the towel after the third round of his profes-sional debut, dis-mantled in a dominant performance by the Kamloops Boxing Academy’s Huber.

“He didn’t get off the stool for the fourth round,” Huber told KTW.

The victory in Saskatoon, also Huber’s professional debut, leaves the 32-year-old with a 1-0 record.

“It’s one thing to stop a guy uncon-scious, but I made him consciously quit in front of his hometown crowd on the stool,” he said.

At one point in the

third round, the fighter known as Heavy Hands thought Dumais might quit before the round ended.

“I beat him down, right from round one,” Huber said. “It was a dominant perfor-mance. I took his body away from him. His left eye was swollen right shut. He couldn’t handle the power.”

Huber escaped his professional debut virtually unscathed, a sore neck on Sunday the only indication he had fought the night before.

“I came out and

it was just boos, the whole place was boo-ing me,” he said. “It was something I had never experienced before, but it fired me up. It motivated me.

“I got into it, I got the crowd into it and when I left there, there wasn’t a person that wasn’t cheering me on out of that ring.”

Huber’s next oppo-nent hasn’t been confirmed — he has fielded four offers since defeating Dumais — but will likely be Nanaimo’s Mike Dowsett in a May fight on Vancouver Island.

They’re reaching the final straightaway and a pit stop in Kamloops may well be the dif-ference between winning and losing.

The seventh of eight races on the 2015-2016 Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series, a radio-controlled vehicle com-petition circuit, will be held in Kamloops this weekend.

“It’s a pretty huge deal and people come from all over Western Canada to race for the weekend,” said Boni Braem of the Thompson Valley R/C Race Club, which is playing host to the event.

“It’s a huge track and we take up two basketball courts in the Tournament Capital Centre.”

There are more than 115 driv-ers signed up for the event, some of whom have raced at each of the first six stops — in Sasktoon, Penticton, Edmonton, Kelowna, Victoria and Regina — and plan to chase overall titles at the final race in Calgary on April 1.

Eight main classes — Great Hobbies TC Stock, Awesomatix USA TC Mod, Reedy 12th Stock, Novak 12th Mod, CRC World GT,

Gravity RC CTA-GT, AutoTrim F1, ATD Hobbies Mini — will feature cars of different shapes and sizes, some store-bought and some pieced together by owners.

Most of the action will be held on Saturday and Sunday, with finals preceded by quali-fying heats inside the TCC Fieldhouse.

The event is free for specta-tors.

Thompson Valley is a non-profit group and has between 20 and 30 active members who race in the winter at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and in the summer on a track behind Valleyview Arena.

The club’s last race day of

the winter season is March 20 at OLPH and “people are more than welcome to come and check it out,” said Braem, Thompson Valley’s lone female racer.

Brent Wende is the club president and can be reached by phone at 250-320-1957.

Thompson Valley’s website can be found at tvrcrc.com.

“If you’re looking for some exciting action to check out or would like to participate in any of our events, we welcome spec-tators and racers of all ages,” the club’s website says.

Interior RC and Interior Crafts and Hobbies are among local stores that deal in radio-controlled vehicles.

Remote-controlled racing at TCCMARTY HASTINGS STAFF [email protected]

BONI BRAEM PHOTO

Heavy Hands bludgeons opponent in first pro winADAM WILLIAMS STAFF [email protected]


SPORTS

Kamloops is building quite the dynasty in the Okanagan Mainline Amateur Hockey Association.

The Kamloops Junior Blazers repeated as ban-tam tier 1 champions at Memorial Arena on Saturday afternoon, defeating the top-seeded Kelowna Junior Rockets 6-2 in Game 2 of the best-of-three OMAHA cham-pionship final.

With the victory, the Blazers have won six-con-secutive bantam tier 1 titles.

“The boys played really hard,” Blazers’ head coach Kyle Allan said in the moments after the victory.

“We didn’t give them many chances and give them credit, when they got their chances they capitalized. But, we did a good job, stuck to our plan and the boys played hard.”

Possibly no one played harder than the Blazers’ Ben Ward, who finished the night with a hat trick and was,

at times, one of the most noticeable players on the Junior Blazers’ roster.

“It was a pretty big sur-prise,” Ward said of his per-formance on Saturday.

When asked to describe his thoughts on clinching a league title, the 14-year-old was at a loss for words.

“It feels great. I lost all my thoughts. I’ve been screaming them all out.”

The Junior Blazers put in a solid performance Saturday against a team that had their number through-out the regular season.

Kelowna finished the year atop the OMAHA standings,

boasting a 7-3-2 record in league play, along with one of the league’s top offences.

Kamloops, meanwhile, was 5-7-0 in regular-season action and was 2-4 against the Junior Rockets.

“It feels great. It’s always a good feeling to win,” said Blazers’ captain Josh Van Unen, who finished the night with two goals. “We deserved it — we played a full 60 minutes.

“It’s awesome beating Kelowna. I love it.”

Goaltender Bailey Monteith was solid in the crease for Kamloops and forward Cole Howaniec fin-ished the night with a goal and two assists.

The Blazers will be in Coquitlam for the bantam tier 1 provincial champion-ship, which runs from March 13 to March 16.

“We knew it was going to be close,” Allan said, reflect-ing on the OMAHA series.

“We believed that we had the ability to go out there and we were the better team — we showed it today.”

Six straight for bantam BlazersADAM WILLIAMS STAFF [email protected]

Josh Van Unen goes top shelf for a goal in the OMAHA championship final on Saturday at Memorial Arena. Kamloops won 6-2 to claim the league title. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

The Thompson Okanagan Lakers advanced to the female midget AAA provincial semfinal round after sweeping the Kootenay Wildcats in a best-of-three quarter-final series on the weekend.

Kayla Waldbiling scored the double-over-time winner in Game 1 on Friday, with Kendra Woodland posting the shutout in a 1-0 victory.

Samantha Head, Jenna Fletcher and Riley Henderson tallied in a 3-0 victory in Game 2 on Saturday.

Ripley Burd recorded three assists and Sydney Carter was between the pipes.

The Lakers will square off against the Northern Capitals this weekend in Prince George, with the winner advancing to the provin-cial final.

The B.C. champ will go to the ESSO Cup, Hockey Canada’s

national female midget championship, in April.

Silver liningKelowna 1 knocked

off the Kamloops Blazers 3-1 in a tourna-ment final to claim the A1 atom development title on the weekend in West Kelowna.

Notching points on the weekend for Kamloops were Nolan Viesner (8G, 5A), Brady Milburn (6G, 4A), Reggie Newman (6G, 4A), Jaxsin Vaughan (3G, 2A), Jack Kennedy (2G), Nicolas Leggett (2G), Logan Krug (1G, 2A), Owen Aura (1G, 2A), Roman Wolynec (1G, 1A), Cole Angstadt (1G, 1A). Jobie Siemens (3A), Corbin Vaughan (1A) and Hudson Clarke (1A).

Lakers reach midget final

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Kamloops’ athletes captured 11 medals at the B.C. Winter Games on the weekend, helping the Thompson-Okanagan zone team to a third-place finish in the medal standings in Penticton.

Thompson-Okanagan fin-ished the 28th incarnation of the Games with 92 medals — 25 gold, 22 silver and 45 bronze.

Matthew Hanks of the Aberdeen Judo Academy was among the gold medallists in Penticton, capturing gold in under-55kg judo action. Meanwhile, Ben Haughton of the Kamloops Judo Club grabbed bronze in the over-73kg category.

In karate, Gabriel Wilkinson won bronze in advanced kumite for boys over-55kg. He nabbed a second bronze medal in the team kumite as part of a four-person group from the Thompson-Okanagan.

Both Cheyanne and Jayme Fennell won bronze in girls’ team kumite.

Hanneli Ladyman was also a gold medallist at the games, fin-ishing atop the podium as part of a team in the mixed 4x2km cross-country skiing relay. She also captured a bronze medal in the juvenile girls’ individual sprint.

Holly Antifay headlined Kamloops’ speedskaters in

Penticton, winning a bronze medal in the under-16 girls’ 500m. She won a second bronze medal in the under-16 mixed 3,000m, skating with fellow Kamloops racer Calvin Forbes.

Owen Robertson was a part of a bronze-medal duo in boys’ badminton action, pairing up with Kelowna athlete Joel Comfort to finish on the podium.

Finally, Emily and Cassie Ferguson and Emma Lizzee won bronze in team netball action.

Kamloops was represented by 21 athletes in Penticton.

Saskia Speed, Elijah Meixner, Martina Antifay, Brynn Applegath, Ben Jacoby, Rio Shatzko, Luc Dallaire, Finn Storie and Chelsea Lloyd also competed for the Thompson-Okanagan.

Clayton Dent and Noa Hooton, both of Heffley Creek, were also in action at the Games.

Fraser River finished atop the podium at the Games with 107 medals and Vancouver-Coastal was second with 105.

Along with being the first multi-sport Games for many participating athletes, the B.C. Winter Games can act as a

springboard to the next level of competitive sport.

Fifty-seven per cent of Team B.C. athletes at the 2015 Canada Winter Games were B.C. Games alumni, while 18 of Canada’s athletes at the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Russia were alumni of the program.

The 2016 B.C. Summer Games will be held in Abbotsford in July. The 2018 B.C. Winter Games will be hosted in Kamloops, while Cowichan Valley will take on the Summer Games that year.

The B.C. Games Society is cur-rently soliciting host bids for the 2020 and 2022 Games.

SPORTS

MORE SPORTS ON A25, A26

Local athletes fare well at B.C. Winter Games

Holly Antifay of the Kamloops Long Blades won two bronze medals at the B.C. Winter Games on the weekend in Penticton. There were 23 local athletes in action and they combined to rack up 11 medals.

KELLY DICKINSON/PENTICTON 2016 BC WINTER GAMES


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SALES PROFESSIONAL REQUIRED FOR MANUFACTURED HOME PROVIDER

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Editor - Merritt HeraldMerritt, BCAre you looking to grow your career in an environment where you have the freedom to produce, curate and edit content that is useful and interesting to a growing readership?

Our award-winning community newspaper located in the beautiful Thompson-Okanagan is seeking an editor to lead a small, talented team of journalists.

Provincial issues like the ongoing biosolids debate and public access to lakes are always simmering under the surface, and national and international lumber, mining and agriculture markets are very influential in this region. As editor, you have the opportunity to tell the stories that matter to the people of the Nicola Valley, many of whom continue to rely on the newspaper to keep them informed.

The successful applicant will work with the newsroom’s general-assignment and sports reporters on story assignment and editing. The successful applicant will be responsible for producing six to eight stories per week, taking photographs to accompany those stories, writing columns and editorials, and editing the stories coming in from the reporter and columnists.

The editor will also lay out the newspaper twice a week using Adobe InDesign and upload the paper and photo galleries to the newspaper’s website and post them on social media.

The successful candidate will be community-oriented and have a serious interest in current events — locally, regionally, provincially, nationally and globally.

This position is ideal for a candidate with at least two years of reporting experience wishing to gain editor experience in the ever-evolving world of journalism. Qualifications:The preferred candidate will be a self-starter with an accredited journalism degree who works efficiently on his or her own. The preferred candidate will also be highly organized and flexible in the hours she or he works in order to cover community events as they arise. The successful candidate will be committed to a high standard of writing and will be proficient in CP Style. Proficiency in InDesign and PhotoShop are required, as are strong layout skills. Applicants must have their own transportation.

Please send your resume to:Theresa Arnold - [email protected] Herald - 2090 Granite Ave. P.O. Box 9Merritt, BC V1K 1B8Tel: (250) 378 4241Fax: (250) 378 6818

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Education/Trade Schools

HUNTER & FIREARMSCourses. Next C.O.R.E. April 2nd & 3rd, Saturday and Sunday. P.A.L. March 5th, Saturday. Challenges, Testing ongoing daily. Pro-fessional outdoorsman & Master Instructor:

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Farm WorkersTREE To Me: Farm Manager (Or-ganic) Tree To Me is a new organic farm operation located in Kereme-os, BC that has a farm market, cof-fee shop, bakery and bed and breakfast. The company requires a full time Farm Manager. This is a career position with the opportunity for equity ownership in the busi-ness. The current farm operation in-cludes tree fruits, perennial vegeta-bles and berries, annual vegetables and a greenhouse operation. Along with increasing production in these areas, additional farming activities will be added in the future. The suc-cessful candidate will have both academic and practical farm experi-ence, an aptitude for equipment and building maintenance and be capable of functioning within a man-agement team. An attractive remu-neration package will be offered. Reply by email to [email protected]. www.TreeToMe.ca

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North Enderby Timber is hiring trades people for the positions of Industrial Mill-wright and Steel Fabricator. Sawmill experience is pre-ferred. Please email resume to [email protected]



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

Homelite Generator 4000W asking $300 (250) 376-4884

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Obituaries & In Memoriam

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JAMES (JIM) WILSON DEWAR

James (Jim) Wilson Dewar died peacefully at home in Kamloops on February 24th, 2016, aged 87 years. He is lovingly remembered by his wife Edna, children Gordon Dewar of Kamloops, Hilary Wahlstrom (Keith) of Salt Spring Island, Rona Tennant (Alan) of Calgary, Elaine Dewar (Shorty) of Saranac Lake, NY, grandchildren Michelle Carre (Matt), Lisa Tennant (Laura), Carl and Lina Wahlstrom, and great-grandchildren Lochlan and Smith Carre. He was predeceased by his brother Tom Dewar of Motherwell, Scotland.

Jim was born on April 22, 1928 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he also spent his childhood. He graduated from the University of Glasgow’s School of Medicine in 1951. In 1952, he married the love of his life, Edna Chambers, after which he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in both Egypt and Cyprus. In 1956, he returned with a young family to the UK and practised family medicine in Southern England for seven years. In 1964, the family immigrated to Canada where they ultimately settled in Kamloops, with Jim joining the Irving Clinic in 1965. Jim loved his new homeland, exploring many parts of Canada in his trusty Westfalia. Although camping, hiking, reading, and getting involved in various causes for social justice brought him much joy, his main passion was music. During Jim’s years in Kamloops, he conducted the Bel Canto Chorale, played Noye in Britten’s Opera,”Noye’s Fludde” (for which he grew a beard in 1972 -and thereafter never shaved off!), and was founding president of the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. With the KSO, he performed the solo harpsichord part of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #5, guest-conducted, and played timpani, generally supporting the local classical music scene. After a long and happy medical career with emphasis on geriatrics, nephrology, and family medicine, Jim gave up his practice in 1994 and retired to Chase in 1998. In 2013, Jim and Edna returned to Kamloops, where they could be closer to amenities and friends.

The family would like to thank the exemplary staff at Kamloops Seniors’ Village who cared for Jim so well during the last two years of his life.

A Celebration of Jim’s Life will take place at Schoening’s Funeral Home, 513 Seymour St., on Tuesday, March 8th, at 2:00 p.m.

Should friends desire, donations made to the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia would be very much appreciated. (Alzheimer Society of BC, 300 - 828 West 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1E2 or www.alzheimer.ca/en/Get-involved/Ways-to-donate. )

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com.

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Thank you all for your condolences and a

heartfelt thank you to those who attended

the celebration of Patrick Desmond’s Life: the Prayers, the Holy Celebration of the

Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral, the interment at Hillside Cemetery, and

the reception at Hotel 540. Thank you for your sharing, fellowship and

extended eulogies.

For all the beautiful sympathy cards, the

holy sacrifice mass cards for Pat, the delicious

food, the fruit baskets and beautiful flower

arrangements. Your kindness will never

be forgotten.

A special thank you to Glen Peter and the staff of Schoening Funeral

Chapel.

Alice Desmond and Family

Thank You

STEPHEN JOHN DYER 1991- 2016

With great sadness Stephen’s struggles ended on February 21st, 2016.

Left to mourn him is his mom Rhonda Dyer of Kamloops, his brother Ken (Becca) Dyer of Port Hardy, BC., his sister Alicia (Joel) of St. Albert, Alberta as well as many aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. He will also be missed dearly by his good friends and hockey buddies Amanda Robertson and Ian Zellick.

Stephen was pre deceased by his dad John Dyer in April of 2014, his grandmother Sherry Foreman in August 2014 and his very close friend Mike Evenson in December of 2014.

Stephen was born in Vancouver, BC on February 5th, 1991. He attended and graduated from Brock Secondary in 2009 and he later attended TRU part-time. He loved most sports but hockey was his game, he was an avid Canucks and Blazers fan from a very young age, he was a Blazers season ticket holder for many years. One of his other passions was the radio; he started working at radio NL/ The River at the young age of 16 until his passing where he developed close friendships with many of his co-workers.

Stephen you are forever in our hearts.

A gathering will take place at a later date.

Arrangements entrusted to Alternatives Funeral & Cremation Services 250-554-2324

Condolences may be expressed to the family from www.myalternatives.ca

ROBERT ALEXANDERWHEATLEY

April 23, 1936 - February 18, 2016

Bob died at Kelowna General Hospital in the loving arms of his youngest daughter Leah Wheatley. Her strength and devotion is a reflection of Bob’s unconditional love for his family.

Leah’s husband Norbert Felst was also cherished by Bob. Daughter Deborah Wheatley and her partner Greg Darling will miss him as Deb’s best friend forever. Bob also leaves his eldest daughter Wendy, her husband Gary Grono and their children Matthew, Christina and Suzanne. Also Deb’s daughter Creenagh Gloria Flynn and great-granddaughter Shannon Flynn. Carol Genberg has lost her big brother Bob.

Bob over came tragic losses in his life from his baby son Daryll Robert, his beautiful wife Gloria Jean Pratt and then his son Richard Alexander.

Sweet Kisses, Walk Tall and Breathe Easy Dad.

With Love Always

TOM MIYAHARA1937 - 2016

Tom Miyahara passed away peacefully in Royal Inland Hospital on February 22, 2016 with his wife and family at his side. He will be fondly remembered by the many people he touched through his dedication to service - at work, through sports and the community.

Tom was born in Cumberland, B.C. on February 5, 1937 and left us at age 79 in Kamloops. He is survived by his devoted wife of 51 years Mary, brothers Frank, Gordie (Edna) and Larry (Laura), sister Marie (Grant) and extended family in Vancouver, Kamloops, Lethbridge and Toronto. Tom was predeceased by his mother

Hatsumi and father Walter.

Tom led a life of challenge and grace. As a young child in 1942, at the start of World War II, his family was interned - first in Vancouver Hastings Park and subsequently in Tashme (Sunshine Valley). Following the war, his family moved to New Denver and after four years, they made the final move to Kamloops in 1950. Soon after the move, Tom met Mary and they married in 1964.

Tom graduated from Kamloops Senior Secondary School in 1955. During his school days, he was active with basketball, hockey, baseball teams and played saxophone in high school band. After graduation, he furthered his studies in Alberta in the field of mechanics specializing in diesel technology. With new credentials, he returned to Kamloops and started working at Kamloops Lumber where he was employed there for 12 years. Then he worked at Kamloops Pulp and Paper (Domtar) from 1967 to 1995. He retired in 1995 after 40 years of collective service.

Tom’s greatest passions were sports and community. Through the years, Tom enjoyed curling, golfing, baseball, slo-pitch, hockey, bowling and salt-water fishing. His most notable sporting accomplishment was playing for the championship baseball team Kamloops Mohawks, the team was inducted into the Kamloops Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

Tom was an active member of the Kamloops Japanese Canadian Association. He volunteered at almost every event held at the Cultural Centre and became the Centre’s handyman.

A Celebration of Tom’s life will be held at 1:00 pm in the Kamloops Funeral Home Chapel, 285 Fortune Dr., on Saturday, March 12, 2016.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice in Tom’s honour.

Tribute stories and comments can be posted on the Kamloops Funeral Home website: http://kamloopsfuneralhome.com/online-tributes/

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JOHANNA BARBARA

MATUSSeptember 3, 1929 -

February 16, 2016

Survived by husband Emanuel and one sister Elvina (Joe), children Glenn (Paola), Gerald (Diane), Gail (Phil) and Gina (Harry). Also survived by seven grandchildren Kathryn (Paul), Justin (Danielle), Victoria (Jessie), Carly (Siyamack), Brent, Steven, Sheldon and eleven great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

Johanna is predeceased by many loved ones and will not be alone in Heaven. She had a courageous fight with cancer but lost the battle February 16th.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Cancer Society.

Condolences may be sent on-line to

www.bakerviewcrematorium.com

We still think of you everyday, still love and still miss you.

It is coming on to one year since

you left us.

Sadly missed but not

forgottenLove

Gladys and John, Louise and John,

Kim and Blair and five Great-grandchildren

In Loving Memory of

LOIS CLISBY March 1941 - March 3, 2015

ONE FINALGIFT

Scatter me not to restless winds,

Nor toss my ashes to the sea.

Remember now those years gone byWhen loving gifts

I gave to thee.

Remember now the happy times

The family ties we shared.

Don’t leave my resting place unmarkedAs though you never cared.

Deny me not one final giftFor all who come to see

A single lasting proof that says

I loved... and you loved me.

DJ Kramer


Obituaries & In Memoriam



In Loving Memory ofSHEILA CHARMAINE SPERLINGSheila was born on December 8th, 1966.

She left this world to be with the angels and the Lord. Our brave beautiful, courageous daughter, sister and auntie passed away on February 27th, 2016 at Hospice House in Kamloops, B.C. surrounded by the comforts of love and family.

Left to miss her very much are her mother Veronica, brothers Gordon (Sandra), Joe, sisters Leona (Martin), Belinda (Donny), Tammy (Brock), nieces and nephews Austin, Carington, Kyle, Tyler, Brayden, Izabella and brother-in-law Mike and numerous family and friends.

Sheila was predeceased by her dad Leo Sperling, sister Michelle Heibein, brother-in-law Alan Wood, sister-in-law Wanda Meade and nephew Travis Durieux.

Prayers will be recited in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on Sunday, March 6th at 7:00 p.m.

The Reverend Father Paul Simms will concelebrate the Funeral Mass on Monday, March 7th at 11:00 a.m.

Cremation will follow.

Condolences may be sent to www.schoeningfuneralservice.com.

EMILIO MAGLIOCCHI 1928 – 2016

On Sunday, February 28th, 2016, Emilio Magliocchi passed away peacefully.

Emilio was born October 5th, 1928 in Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Italy. He was the son of the late Luigi and Luisa Magliocchi of Italy.

At the age of 25 he made the long journey to Canada and resided in Prince Rupert, B.C. until 1968. He and his family then moved to Toronto, Ontario for 3 years and in 1971 decided to move and make Kamloops his home.

Emilio had many jobs throughout his life. His last job being with the City of Kamloops, Parks and Recreation, although, he never really stopped working.

He enjoyed gardening, woodworking, fixing and repairing anything that was broken. He enjoyed spending time with family and friends and he loved to play cards (especially winning) and never without a glass of his homemade wine.

He is survived by his loving wife of 68 years Nelina. He leaves behind his caring daughter Luisa Cuzzetto, his daughter-in-law Giovanna and his grandchildren Emilio (Cassy), Amanda (Clint) Martin, Joe (Marietta), Michael, Sarah Cuzzetto and Nelina. His most precious great-grandchildren Vallah, Thayodin, Lucia and Kenzie.

Emilio also leaves behind his treasured siblings, his sister Carmela and brothers Gabriele, Mario (Rosa) of Toronto, his brother Giuseppe and sister Rafaela of Italy and his sister-in-law Francesca of Toronto. He also leaves many cherished nephews and nieces, too numerous to mention.

He was predeceased by his brother Francesco of Prince Rupert and his youngest brother Roberto of Toronto.

Emilio will once again be happily reunited with his loving son Luigi who passed away in 2005.

The family would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Eccleston, Dr. Dong, and all the nurses and caregivers from The Hamlets. Thank you for taking such good care of him throughout the years!

Prayers will be recited on Monday, March 7th at 7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church. The Reverend Father Paul Simms will celebrate the Mass of Christian Burial in the Church on Tuesday, March 8th at 11:00 a.m. Entombment will follow at Sage Valley Mausoleum.

In lieu of flowers, should family or friends desire, donations to the Alzheimer Society of B.C. in memory of Emilio Magliocchi would be greatly appreciated.

Condolences may be expressed at www.schoeningfuneralservice.com.

ROBERT RING

Robert Ring passed away peacefully in

his home on February 27th, 2016.

The Funeral Service will be held at

Pleasant Valley Funeral Home

Visitation - 12 noon to 12:50 p.m.

Funeral Service in the chapel beginning at

1:00 p.m.

Interment in Pleasant Valley Cemetery at

2:00 p.m.

Reception will follow in the Pleasant

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The sweet and tender feelings

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SPORTS

Sitting in an empty Kamloops Storm locker room on Wednesday morning, his team’s first-round playoff exit still frustrated Ed Patterson.

But the five-year head coach was trying to find the positives in a season cut short.

Losing four players to the B.C. Hockey League at the roster deadline hurt Patterson and the Storm, as did having four regulars in the stands with injuries and another serving a suspension in Kamloops’ first-round battle with the Chase Heat.

It was a difficult way to con-clude a season in which a roster made up primarily of rookies — only five of Kamloops’ regulars had played in a previous KIJHL campaign — nearly brought a third-consecutive Doug Birks Division title to McArthur Island.

Patterson said sometimes play-ers need to go through the experi-ence of under-achieving in the post-season to grow — but that doesn’t make the 4-1 series loss to the Heat easier.

He felt this group had the talent to again be playing for a

KIJHL title. “Unfortunately, we’re not, but

the good thing is there’s lots of guys that will be moving on from this year’s team and that’s what we’re all about anyway,” he told KTW.

“All in all, it’s a good thing.”Much like the Kamloops Storm

of 2014-2015, which lost in Game 6 of the KIJHL final against the Kimberley Dynamiters, Patterson expects much of his 2015-2016 roster to graduate to higher levels of hockey next season.

He said as many as two-thirds of the Storm should be playing in the BCHL next year, with goal-tender Tavin Grant, defencemen Garrett Ewert and Austin Crossley and forward Zack Andrusiak among those who will get long looks from Western Hockey League clubs.

A handful of players will return for 2016-2017, possibly more than this year’s team boasted.

“It’s not that they’re not good players, we just have at least five or six guys that did a good job in a limited role, but need to do a great job in a bigger role on this team next year to be fully ready for junior A and have success, rather than limp on somewhere,”

Patterson said.As for his own future, the head

coach said he plans to return to the Storm bench for 2016-2017, as does the rest of his staff.

And, as he did throughout the regular season, Patterson said he’ll take the long view when assessing the true success of the Kamloops Storm this year.

“You can’t win every year, you can’t get to the finals every year,” he said.

“Really, I think how many guys we see on opening-day rosters next year will really tell us how well we did this year. That will set us apart from everybody else.”

NOTES: All four KIJHL divi-sional finals have been set and action gets underway on Saturday. In the Kootenay Conference, the defending-champion Kimberley Dynamiters will take on the Creston Valley Thunder Cats, while the Beaver Valley Nitehawks will face off against the Grand Forks Border Bruins. In the Okanagan/Shuswap Conference, the Osoyoos Coyotes and the Summerland Steam will square off, while Chase will head to 100 Mile House for a series against the Wranglers.

Storm coach ponders early playoff exitADAM WILLIAMS STAFF [email protected]

Brett Watkinson has aged out of junior hockey and will not be back with the Kamloops Storm next season. He is just one of many who have played their last game in a Storm uniform and head coach Ed Patterson expects to see plenty of new faces in 2016-2017.

ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW


The parking lot was packed, bleachers were overflowing and a trip to the provincial high school basketball championship was hanging in the balance.

Everything was on the line and Sa-Hali secondary’s gym turned into a madhouse on Tuesday night, an asylum split nearly 50-50 with fans of the home-court Sabres and visiting Westsyde Whundas, cross-town rivals with a score to settle.

With eight minutes to play and only two points separating the teams, a frazzled-looking Ryan Porter, Westsyde’s head coach, walked to get a drink from the water foun-tain and muttered a phrase that described fairly accurately the first three-and-half quarters of the game.

“It’s a bloodbath out there,” Porter said.It was a gladiator-like arena, filled with

pageantry, and neither side was giving an inch.

Whundas’ standout Reade Bentz took over late in the fourth quarter and led his team to a 48-35 victory, a win that booked Westsyde’s spot at the AA Boys B.C. High School Basketball Championship in Langley later this month.

Sa-Hali’s season is over.Bentz scored 11 of his team-high 15

points in the fourth quarter, breaking open a slobberknocker of a game that was any-one’s for the taking through three quarters.

“I just kind of got hot a little bit and I just rode it,” Bentz told KTW after the game. “It was a close game into the last five minutes and we kind of took over.”

Sa-Hali head coach Dean Magierowski was forced to floor a team that was missing a few key cogs and was elated with how well his charges performed.

“We were missing three starters because of a little bit of discipline reasons, but I can’t really speak on it,” he said.

“It’s the best game I’ve ever been a part of, coaching-wise. We assembled a team last night. I literally submitted my roster today to B.C. Sports.

“We had about seven new faces and we

were still in the game with seven minutes left.”

Sa-Hali athletic director Jody Vosper would only say four Sabres did not play due to discipline issues.

Loud horns sounding, drums beating, body-painted students screaming and silly string flying through the air made it hard to think — and the first quarter was hectic.

Mo Mahbobi displayed his nerve early when he stepped up to the free-throw line and made both shots, showing his Sabres what it means to handle pressure.

He was likely Sa-Hali’s best player on the night and finished with a game-high 16 points.

“It was absolutely insane out there,” Mahbobi said. “It’s one of the best feelings in the world when you get on the court and, say, you hit a bucket and the crowd goes crazy.”

Scott Barry of the Whundas stared back at the pro-Westsyde bleacher and stuck his tongue out in celebration after canning a three-point shot and teammate Scott Lemphers showed his mettle in taking two charges to force Sa-Hali turnovers.

The Whundas carried a 13-8 lead into the second quarter, which was tame until

Sa-Hali big man Dima Pokhylov beat the shot clock to send the Sabres’ faithful into a frenzy.

Josh Bosher of the Whundas made his presence felt in the second quarter with a pair of hard drives to the basket that result-ed in four points.

Westsyde led 23-17 at the half, but the third quarter belonged to the Sabres.

Explosions of noise that followed three-pointers from Albert Park and Jacob Branch nearly sent the Sa-Hali gym roof to Pritchard.

Mahbobi and Jarrett Larsen chipped in and the Sabres had cut the Whundas lead to one point late in the third quarter, but Anthony Matusiak connected on a miracle, unorthodox prayer from the baseline with seconds remaining on the clock to give his team a 32-29 lead heading into the fourth stanza.

Branch, one of the juniors called on by Magierowski to round out the depleted Sabres’ lineup, started the final frame in style, dialing up a high-arcing three ball to tie the contest at 32-32.

“You’ve got to give Sa-Hali a huge amount of credit,” Porter said. “If you knew what Sa-Hali had gone through in the last

couple days, for them to put up an epic battle, I just want to give that coaching staff, their juniors and their whole team all the credit in the world for making me sweat hard for 40 minutes.”

Bentz answered to make it 34-32 and the diminutive Whunda was just finding his groove.

He began scoring at will and made good on a nail-in-the-coffin three pointer to seal the deal with about three minutes to play.

“There are times where you see Reade gets down on himself and he’s his own worst critic,” Porter said. “I just know if he stays confident, there will come a time in every game where he’ll take over and put his stamp on the game. Thankfully, he saved it for clutch time. We needed him.”

Sa-Hali’s shooting went cold, Westsyde was stronger underneath the basket and the Whundas cruised for the final two minutes.

“We didn’t make the big shots down the stretch, we couldn’t control the boards, we didn’t have enough strength and experience and they made the rebounds and shots when they needed to,” Magierowski said.

Added Mahbobi: “We played our hearts out and tried our best. Sometimes, the shots just don’t go in. That’s how basketball is.”

Sa-Hali placed second at the Okanagan championship on the weekend in Oliver and Westsyde placed third, but the two Kamloops teams never met at the tourna-ment, so the Whundas had the right to request the play-in challenge game against the Sabres on Tuesday night.

Porter is aiming to carry momentum into provincials, which run from March 9 to March 12 at the Langley Events Centre.

“We’re going to give it our best shot,” he said. “You never know. We’ve got a real solid team and I’d put us up against anybody.”

SPORTS

Raucous crowd treated to high-school thriller at Sa-HaliMARTY HASTINGS STAFF [email protected]

ABOVE: Jacob Branch soaks in praise from Sa-Hali Sabres’ fans after connecting on a three-pointer in a provincial play-in game against the visiting Westsyde Whundas on Tuesday. Westsyde won 48-35.LEFT: Anthony Matusiak of the Whundas tries to block out distractions from Sa-Hali fans on this free-throw attempt. MARTY HASTINGS/KTW

The 5 Pin Youth Bowling Provincial Championships will be held in Chase and Kamloops on Saturday.

Bowlertime 5 Pin Centre is the host site for bantam- and junior-division team events, while Falcon Lanes will play host to senior-division action.

Madison Ursulak, Ava Loehr, Isabel Loehr, Anaka Niedziejko and coach Della Lyons belong to Falcon Lanes and will compete in the junior-girls team event at Bowlertime.

Bowling gets underway at 12:45 p.m. and wraps

up at about 4 p.m.Village Lanes Fun Centre in

Chase will be the location for the bantam- and junior-division singles play on Saturday.

The top 26 athletes in the singles and team events advance to the national championships,

which will be held in Calgary in May.

TOFC tidbitsThompson Okanagan FC

(TOFC) kicked off the EA Sports B.C. Soccer Premier League spring season against Surrey United in Cloverdale on Saturday and Sunday.

Liesl Milovick of Kamloops posted a shutout for the under-13 TOFC girls and Tournament Capital product Domenico Comita made his debut for TOFC’s under-14 boys.

The TOFC under-13 girls tied

0-0 with Surrey, while Surrey blanked TOFC’s under-14 boys 6-0.

Soccer champs decidedThe Middleton Petroleum and

Sweet Mullets won Kamloops Women’s Indoor Soccer League Competitive Division finals at the Soccer Dome on Sunday.

Holly Krutop and Val Godard scored goals for Sweet Mullets in a 2-1 victory over Kamloops Kia in the Group A final.

Linnea Pasternak tallied for Kamloops Kia.

Middleton Petroleum edged

the Rebels 2-1 to claim the Group B crown.

Dana Shaw and Carrie Joudrey bulged the old onion bag for Middleton. Cathy Schmid was the lone scorer for the Rebels.

United Spirit will square off against Reccos in the league’s Recreation Division final on Sunday at the Dome.

Game time is 7 p.m.The Kamloops Youth Soccer

Association assumed responsi-bility for running the women’s indoor adult leagues last year when the organization took on a management role at the Dome.

Pins in place for bowling provincials in KamloopsTournamentCapital Sports

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