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K a m l o o p S

tranquille lakeMoving forward means remembering the past

FindinG sPirits It's all in the wood

active community Interview with RunClub

founder Jo Berry

may/june 2012

road warriors

Hills, speed and a need to push physical limits

fuel these cyclists

healthy landscapes, healthy living

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The Pesticide Use Control By-law is in effect. It regulates the cosmetic use of pesticides on ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, and turf on residential properties.

What can homeowners do?Preventing pests initially is the best way to maintain plant health. However, pests and plant diseases do exist and sometimes need to be managed. Choose pest control methods that are least hazardous. Try the following strategies:

· Try companion planting techniques to manage pests:

· Use host companion plants like Nasturtiums and small flowered plants to attract beneficial insects.

· Use companion plants as traps to distract or draw pests away. Rose gardeners use Geraniums.

· Use repellent companion plants like Marigolds to drive pests away.

· Replace pest-prone plants with pest-resistant varieties.

· Prune out infestations.

· Wash aphids and spider mites off your plants with a strong stream of water.

· Some examples of excluded pesticides: (reduced risk products that homeowners may use)

· Install pest barriers and sticky traps.

· Try a Btk spray (natural occurring bacteria) for caterpillar pests.

· Buy ladybugs to prey on pests like aphids, spider mites, mealybugs and other pests.

· Try a vinegar (acetic acid) spray for weeds in patios, pathways, and sidewalks.

· Use corn gluten meal to manage weeds. It is an organic fertilizer that prevents the germination of seeds, however, it does not control existing weeds.

Note: Homeowners may use an approved applicator for non-excluded products.

There are some exceptions to the by-law. Homeowners may use regulated pesticides for:

· Fruit trees & vegetable gardens

· Agricultural land & farms

· Greenhouses

· Noxious weeds/insects (as defined in the by-law)

· Hard landscapes (e.g. paved areas, sidewalks, brick pavers)

· Mosquito control and other pests that transmit human disease

· Pests that impact commercial forestry.

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Tther's an old fishing adage that says an angler never wades into the same river twice. The phrase hints at the notion that even if things look the same on the surface,

the river’s currents are always changing, bringing new things.So it is in a community like Kamloops as well, and with a magazine like Currents. Kamloops is a vibrant, lively community with many interesting people and worth-while activities.While the city might look the same from a distance, up close it’s possible to find all kinds of new happenings, faces, personalities and places different from before. And while Currents might look the same from a dis-tance, step in and you might see a couple of new things.For starters, there is a new editor, for a brief time, any-way, as former Currents editor Danna Bach takes time to adapt to life with a second child. She will return to her post in early 2013, inevitably fully rested, recharged and ready for work. (Ha).I’ve been a reporter at The Daily News since 1992, large-ly involved with reporting crime and the courts. This is a change for me, but they say sometimes change is as good as a holiday.With change in mind, there’s a couple of differences readers might spot in this issue of Currents — addi-tions of a couple of new features — items I hope read-ers will enjoy. The Gallery section in this issue features the work of master Kamloops painter Lance Weisser. His stunning watercolour pieces are collected and enjoyed by many. The pages mark a small departure from past formats, in which Currents featured the work of local photog-raphers. There are many talented artists of all descrip-tions in Kamloops, and Currents will open its pages to them all.Also new is my column, On The Fly, an outdoors piece about things like fishing, hunting and other outdoors pursuits. Those who have been around Kamloops for a while might remember I wrote a similar column in The Daily News’s Outdoors section before it was retired several years ago. I always missed writing that column, and took this opportunity to breathe some life back into it.This issue’s cover feature is about cycling— road biking specifically. While Kamloops has long been recognized as a Mecca for off-road riding, increasing numbers of road riders can be seen here every season. They have a culture all their own and are serious about their sport.So, please, feel free to let me know what you think about what is or isn’t in this month’s Currents. My (e-mail) door is always open. – Robert Koopmans, [email protected]

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5 Finding SpiritsLocal carver Kelly Taylor describes the secrets to his artwork

8 Cover Story: Road WarriorsMeet the city’s newest breed of bikers

12 Food & Drink: Weekend ChefHot and fast cooking – making great food with Baihua Chadwick

16 The Gallery: Lance WeisserPainter welcomes what nature has to offer

18 Capturing Tranquille's HistoryLooking for memories from the lake's rich past

22 Homes: Going GreenBuilding an environmentally green home is just the right thing to do

28 History: Golf Club Rich in HistoryKamloops Golf and Country Club had humble beginnings

29 Q&A: Active CommunityInterview with RunClub owner Jo Berry

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catcH currentsTo catch Currents on the Kamloops Daily news website, go to www.kamloopsnews.ca and click on the Special Publications box. We welcome your story ideas for future issues of Currents. Drop us a line at [email protected].

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oN thE CovER:Ray Nyuli gets set to start a Westsyde

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A sampling of happenings in the Kamloops region

VFS 2012 Cross-Canada Roadshow – May 3Vancouver Film School is hitting the road April 11 to May 5 to celebrate our 25th anniversary, and you're invited! We'll be traveling across Canada in search of talented artists who are passionate about entertainment. Register today for an info session where you will: get an inside look at student life at VFS; discover how VFS prepares you for your career in film, TV, games, and design; meet a VFS Admissions representative for application and portfolio tips; and hear about our acclaimed programs. Find out more and register at vfs.com/2012roadshow.

Pro-D Day Camp, at The Kamloops Museum May 18, 2012From 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Fee — $45, for 8 to 12 year olds. Join the Kamloops Museum & Archives and learn all about the history of Kamloops. Step back in time and discover pioneer life, explore the world of fur trading and unearth hidden gems. Pre-registration is required by calling 250-828-3500.

The Way of the Shaman: Basic Workshop - Intro to Core Shamanism – May 26 and 27 Participants are introduced to core shamanism and initiated into the classic shamanic journey for awakening dormant spiritual abilities, healing, problem solving, and restoring spiritual power & health. To register contact: [email protected] More Info: www.shamanism.org

River City Guided Walking Tour with The Kamloops Museum – June 21 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fee — $8 , for 9 years old and up. Join the Kamloops Museum on a guided walking tour and learn about the various floods that have plagued our city. Pre-registration is required by calling 250-828-3500.

Beaver Bonanza, at The Kamloops Museum June 15From 2:30p.m. to 3:30p.m. Fee — $5. Pre-registration is required by calling 250-828-3500. Attention pre-schoolers. Come down to the Kamloops Museum and learn all about beavers and why they are an important part of history. Create a cool craft, tour the museum and make new friends.

Free Kids Fishing Day, at Johnson Lake Resort June 23 and 2410 a.m. to 4 p.m. Teaching children how to fish, and to have fun doing it! This fun filled day is for children ages 5 to 15 years old, and includes prizes and tackle give-aways! Learn to tie knots, casting and retrieving and proper fish handling. There will be crafts and activities, BBQ lunch, fun for the parents and all fishing gear is supplied. Space is limited and participants must register in advance with the resort.

Theatre BC Mainstage 2012, at Sagebrush Theatre – June 30 to July 17 Tickets available at Kamloops Live Box Office! or 250-374-LIVE Join us to celebrate the best of the best at our Annual Provincial Drama Festival-Mainstage.


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He can’t help himself. Even as he is being interviewed, Kelly Taylor’s hands sneak over to his knife and he begins to carve.It’s impossible for him to just sit when a piece of bark and his carv-

ing tools are within reach. “I’m quite the fidgeter anyway,” he grinned. Taylor is a wood carver – a prolific producer of large and small pieces of art from the bark of cottonwood trees. His workshop is a large desk in his living room where he has a collection of palm gouges and carving knifes of varying shapes. A box of wood shavings is always full. His art is displayed on his walls and on his shelves. There is even a smooth walking stick, with two faces lightly carved into the handle, propped up by the door. Primarily, Taylor carves wood spirits and whim-sical castles, but he also produces outhouses – a

hit with consumers – and miniatures from old-style boots to sophisticated cellos. Some of his work turns up in unexpected places. Walking through Riverside Park, a pass-erby might be startled to see a face peering out from the bark of a tree. Another spirit is hidden in a tree in North Kamloops on Schubert Drive and Fort Street. Most of his work, however, is produced in his living room and sold at farmer’s markets in Kamloops and Sun Peaks or at Art in the Park on the July long weekend. He is also quick to emphasize that a tree has to be dead for more than a year before the bark will come off it. “I harm no living trees in the produc-tion of these pieces.” He collects his own bark. In fact, he’s not certain what he enjoys most about his passion – finding, carving or selling. It’s a hobby that provides him with an experience that combines nature, crafting and socializing. ➤

Finding spirits

CaRvER

It’s All in the Wood

STORy By SUSAN DUNCANPhOTOS By MUrrAy MitChell

Above: When Kelly Taylor puts a carving knife to a rough piece of bark he has no idea where his hands and eyes will take him.


Above: Examples of Taylor's work. At right, one of Taylor's carved faces peers out from a tree in Riverside Park. Below, tools of his trade.

Taylor’s day job is building maintenance. Off hours he cycles to stay fit, but most of his spare time is spent working with wood. “I carve almost every day. I even carve in the morn-ing before I go to work.” When he isn’t carving, he’s probably looking for dead cottonwood trees, which he finds almost anywhere there is water. Most of his travels are to Ja-mieson Creek, North Barriere Road, Heffley Lake and the Shuswap region. His farthest venture for bark has been to McBride. “These faces,” he said, pointing to the wood spirits on his walls, “they are from the Thompson Valley clan.” But, regardless of where he is hiking, his eyes are on the hunt for product. “Walking on the beach is hard because the drift-wood is all calling out to me, ‘pick me up, pick me up’,” he said, and he’s only half joking.Taylor, 53, began carving 10 years ago at the encour-agement of his father who is also a wood carver. To date, he has carved 1,470 pieces, all with an individu-al number. “If I didn’t sell them, I don’t know what I would do with them. I wouldn’t be able to walk in here,” he said, gesturing around his apartment. Taylor has no emotional attachment to his work, except maybe his first carving, which he still has. He likes to sell them. The money helps keep him inter-ested, he admitted. But he gets a sense of satisfaction from the actual work. “I enjoy the creativity of it. I enjoy seeing what I’ve come up with when I’m finished.”There is no written draft of a design. The bark deter-mines the end result. “If I gouge too deep in the eye, then the cheeks have to go further back and then the nose gets bigger.“It’s almost as though the wood plans it for you.”


A PhILOSOPhER’S PERSPECTIVE

“Some philosophers think that there is a significant difference between art and craft. In his book, The Principles of Art, British 20th-century, philosopher R. G. Collingwood. argues that craft is shaping matter to create an object to serve a definite purpose, such as a potter shaping clay to make a jug. There can be a great deal of skill and technique employed in craft, but it is not art.Art, on the other hand, is a work of the mind. The artist does not start with matter, like clay or wood, but with an experience such as an emotion. By putting the emotion into words, or into music, or sculpture, or painting, the artist discovers what the emotion was. This is similar to discovering what you were thinking by putting your thoughts into words. Other people, by experiencing the object created by the artist, can re-enact the process of expression, which took place in the artist's mind, and so discover for themselves some unique emotion or experience. Craft is making useful objects that serve a definite purpose, and that purpose existed prior to the making of the object. Art is expressing emotions with the aid of words, music, paint, sculpture etc., and the product of art is not a useful object, but an experience in someone's mind (first, the artist's, then the viewer, reader or listener). On this view, how ever useful or attractive the craft is, it does not have the value of art, which is to reveal our own thoughts and emotions to us. The craftsperson may make useful things and even beautiful things, but he or she is not an artist. Of course, that’s just one view.”

– Bruce Baugh TRU, professor of philosophy

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Road Warriors

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Kevin Langevin agrees it might be hard to explain to those who don’t get on bikes much how riding up steep hills can be fun. Inevita-bly, they envision a rider at the top of a long hill, pitched over their handlebars, lungs heav-ing as they gasp for breath.

That’s not far off the truth either, he concedes, but the fact is, grunting-hard uphill rides and road bikes go together like mountain bikes and screaming downhill descents.

Riding hills is part of the experience — it’s in the culture of road biking — going back deep into the sport’s European roots. The Tour de France — the annual culmination of road racing and the sport’s greatest display of cycling prowess and endurance — is often won or lost in France’s mighty Alps. Riding enthusiasts know it, and worship those who have the legs and lungs to conquer altitude.

“And it is fun,” Langevin says. “I love riding hills. It’s a drive to see what more can I do, to see how much I can push myself.”

Testing the limits of physical endurance is one of the defining characteristics of road biking culture, he says. And there is no doubt that culture is taking root in Kamloops.

Long known as the dusty Mecca for off-road riding, the area’s road routes are gaining popularity. More riders are seen every year on popular road routes in Westsyde, Dallas and Barnhartvale, as well as on Kamloops’ notori-ous hills including Highland Drive, Barnhartvale Road, Rose Hill Road and the road to Mount Lolo.

The new breed of hard-core “roadies” are easily spotted. Often decked out in colorful Lycra, they whip about on ultra-lightweight carbon fibre bikes that often cost more than some motorized vehicles. Increasingly, they ride in groups, covering distances up to 100 kilometres in a ride.

City’s newest breed of bikers eat up hills, love speed

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PhOTOS By robert KoopMANS

MUrrAy MitChell

Kevin Langevin gets set to take on a

Kamloops hill.


Road Warriors

Some of them race as well — the Interior Grasslands Cycling Club (www.interiorgrasslandscycling.ca) has weekly events in-cluding criterium races and time trials — but many don’t. For most “roadies,” the thrill is in pushing one’s own limits.

“I enjoy pushing myself to whatever limits I can. It’s great mode of transportation, and it just makes you feel so good.”

Langevin says he’s been riding most of his life, but it was the utility of the bicycle that drew him when he was younger. It was cheap transportation.

Today, he still uses his road bike to commute. It takes him roughly 30 minutes to ride from his Barnhartvale home (at the top of a steep hill, no less) to St. Ann’s Academy, where he teaches.

It’s hardly “cheap” transportation anymore, however, since his new ride is a 15-pound Orbea Orca he purchased a few years ago. It’s top of the line, the kind of bike that makes other riders drool. He won’t say precisely what it cost, but a quick review of the U.S. company’s web site reveals Orcas sell for, well, a lot of money.

“It just loves to climb,” Langevin says, almost affectionately, like he’s talking about a living creature with a mind and soul of its own.

His words reflect another key part of the road-bike culture and experience — one that makes road riding more than mere sport or recreation. Riders love their bikes. A lot.

Most people who become enamoured with road riding are wooed by the bike, lured in by it’s high-tech yet amaz-ingly simplistic siren call. Road bikes are efficiency in motion, masterpieces of physics and design. So little about the basic design of a bike has changed over the decades because there is so little reason to change it.

Bike components improve every season — frames get lighter or stronger, wheels become more aerodynamic — but the underlying principles never change. Bikes are two wheels and a frame, gears and a chain, a seat and handlebars — all powered by human strength and endurance. It’s a perfect blend of muscle and machine.

Langevin estimates he rides 6,000 kilometres a year now, often by himself, for no other purpose than to stay fit and feel the freedom that comes whipping along at 30 to 45 km/h in rolling Kamloops country.

And there are those hills, including the Barnhartvale hill he must ride to return home every day. It takes him 12 minutes to climb from the newly built traffic circle just off the Trans-Canada Highway to his doorstep. And it’s non-stop unrelent-ing hill all the way.

“(Riding) is always a physical challenge. You can always make it more physical for yourself than it is, you can always push a little harder,” he says.

Brad Heyman, the owner of Taboo Cycles in Valleyview, says there is no question the popularity of road biking is growing in Kamloops.

His shop used to stock a handful of road bikes and racks of mountain bikes. This year, the split is more like 50-50, and more people are stopping by to ask about road machines all the time.

Road bikes can be extremely expensive, he agreed — it’s possible to spend $10,000 or more on a high-end road bike — but people don’t have to shell out so much to get riding.

“You can get an excellent bike for $1,500,” he says.Heyman attributes the growth in road biking to a couple of

things. First, people are getting older and running is no longer working for them. “Their knees are breaking down.”

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Cyclists and drivers, for the most part, must mix together on city streets. how do we keep the two from coming together — literally — as they do so?

Part of the answer lies in improving the cycling infrastructure, including dedicated bike lanes and multi-use routes, in order to minimize that unwanted “blending” of two distinctly different modes of transportation.The City is just now putting the finishing touches on its Valleyview bike exchange, a grand $5 million project that created safe passage through a corridor primarily designed for vehicle traffic.It was an improvement identified in the City’s master biking plan, said traffic and transportation engineer Chris Darwent. That document, visible on the City’s web site, lays out Kamloops’ vision for bike infrastructure over the next two decades.The City will pay for those upgrades largely from the $1 million it gets every year from gas surcharges. That money has been earmarked by council for pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure.The next big project for Kamloops will be a paved multi-use path connecting Summit and Notre Dame drives to the downtown core through Peterson Creek Park. That work is likely five years away, Darwent said.In the next year or two, however, the City will make smaller improvements to bike and pedestrian paths on the North Shore and other parts of Kamloops, including a major reconstruction of Highland Drive in 2013. Then, the city will build a full paved multi-use path connecting Qu’Appelle Drive with Highland Drive in Valleyview.Tarwent said overall, he believes Kamloops is headed in the right direction with its cycling plan. Building bike friendly infrastructure here is made more challenging because of the city’s sprawling nature, as well as the fact it traverses exceptionally hilly terrain.“It’s hard to convince people to cycle (to work) when they have to cycle long distance. And cycling on a 10- to 12-per cent hill can be tough to encourage, but we are really taking steps in the right direction,” he said.He said the annual Bike to Work Week, set this year to start May 28, is an example of the City’s commitment to the idea of cycling as an alternative means of transportation.


Good question. There’s no easy answer, but it’s clear it’s one aspect of the sport that annoys non-riders almost as much as cyclists who run red lights or groups of riders that claim entire lanes of a street.

Search “why cyclists wear Lycra” on Google and you’ll find pages of forums and bloggers mocking men stuffed into too small shorts, and generally pondering the curious relationship between road bikes and Lycra.

Carolyn Berry, co-owner of Spoke N Motion in Kam-loops, says appearance aside, bike wear is functional and designed to make long-distance cycling easier and more comfortable.

The tight fit improves a rider’s aerodynamic form, something that saves minutes on a long ride and much effort when the wind is blowing strong.

“It does make a huge difference, just in the feel of it. You get blown around quite a bit if you wear baggy clothes.”

As well, the clothing ma-terials wick perspiration and prevent chafing.

Brad Heyman at Taboo Cycles says the fact cycling gear is branded and de-signed to resemble “Tour” wear is an indication how strong road riding culture can be.

“People definitely want to look the part. I think it gives them a sense of belonging. People want to belong to the group, and buying the kit goes a long ways toward doing that.

“A lot of people are buying into the brand. The buy a Canonndale bike, and they buy a Cannondale gear. It is a culture. There is a distinct riding culture.”

why lycra anyway?What is it about road riders that make them want to wrap their skinny little bodies in stretchy fabric emblazoned with logos suggesting corporate sponsorship, even though we all know they’ve paid for every piece of gear they own?

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weekend chef:Baihua Chadwick cooks hot and fast

Baihua Chadwick’s adventurous cook-ing style is the result of many years of experience. She does not follow recipes, does not measure ingredients and does not monitor cooking times. Her only real rule is high heat, which she says is “the

best kept secret for Chinese cooking.” “In Chinese cooking we don’t focus on ingredients

that much. We focus on the timing and the heat,” she said. “It’s really more the cooking technique than the actual ingredients.”

Chadwick is the Director of TRU World, but friends know her as an exceptional chef and planner of last minute dinner parties.

Her work requires her to travel internationally. When she is home, she has guests over at least once a week to gather at her round dining room table,

where she can easily host 12 people comfortably.“I love entertaining. I love sharing my cooking with

friends,” she said.That is why she keeps at it.“My main inspiration actually comes from when

I watch how much my friends enjoy my cooking,” she said.

Chadwick creates meals using whatever basic ingredients she has on hand. She grows vegetables in her backyard, and any other ingredients she uses can be found at the local grocery store. When hosting a dinner, she makes a minimum of five to six dishes.

Chadwick does all types of cooking, but it is her Chinese cooking that is requested the most, she said. When people ask her for advice, her number one tip is to cook stir-fry at high heat for a short time.

“The high heat is the trick.”

STORy By KryStAl Kehoe


Baihua Chadwick’s Curried Beef Slices

1 beef steak, thinly sliced 1 onion, sliced2 potatoes, sliced2 carrots, sliced2 tablespoons oil1 tablespoons rice starch2 tablespoons soya sauce2 tablespoons yellow curry powder1 teaspoon sugar2 garlic cloves, crushed (or 3 depending on preference)Dash of seasoning saltGround pepper

Left: A plated curried beef dish,

served simply with rice.

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• Marinate the sliced beef with soya sauce, crushed garlic, rice starch, sugar and oil. Refrigerate overnight. Stir periodically to ensure that the flavours marinate the meat evenly.

• Heat wok at high heat. Wait until the wok is hot before adding oil. Once the oil is hot, add the onion. Stir quickly to prevent burning. Add the curry powder and a splash of soya sauce, followed by the carrots and then potatoes. (Tip — In order to ensure your vegetables are cooked evenly, you can stir fry each vegetable separately and remove it from the wok to avoid overcooking/undercooking the different vegetables.)

• Add water, if necessary, and a dash of seasoning salt. Cook until the potato is soft (10 to 20 minutes). Remove the stir-fried vegetables from the wok.

• Make sure the wok is hot again and add the beef. Once the beef is cooked return the cooked vegetables back to the wok and mix. Season with freshly ground pepper.

• Serve with rice or by itself.

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crease in the number of big road events, Heyman says, like the RBC GranFondo Whistler, a 122-kilometre group ride from Vancouver to Whistler. It attracted 7,000 riders in 2011, selling out months ahead of its September date.

Carolyn Berry, a hardcore roadie and mountain biker and co-owner of Spoke ’N Motion in Kamloops, says she too is seeing a huge surge in the popularity of road biking in Kamloops, espe-cially among women. Her store hosts a weekly Sunday ride. Typi-cally, it’s been sought out by men wanting an intense workout. This year, she is adding a second group — the “Spoke Fondo” — for those who want to get in on a group ride, but aren’t wanting to lose a lung doing it.

The ride will appeal to those who don’t necessarily subscribe completely that road biking must be physically demanding all the time. “It’s a much more social atmo-sphere. That’s definitely big,” she says. Kevin Langevin, celebrating his daily commute from

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ocal artist Lance Weisser has dedicated 45 years of his life try-ing to master the

most difficult medium for painters-watercolour. “Most of the time it masters you, but once in a while you get lucky.”

His first formal introduc-tion to painting was the summer after graduation when he attended The Manchester Art Center in Manchester, Vermont. His instructor, a renowned local watercolourist, encouraged him to choose one medium and stick with it.

The Silt Bluffs on Shus-wap Road are one of Lance’s ideal places to paint.

“I think it's important to take what nature offers you and put your stamp on it.

You need to humanize it and make it personal.”

A member of The Federa-tion of Canadian Artists for over 15 years, one of his fa-vourite pursuits is the paint-ing of miniatures, some as small as one by two inches.

“Watercolour is a very mental medium, in which you have to plan the entire painting out first.”

The son of a pastor, Lance has lived in many places across Canada and the United States, but says: “Kamloops is a treasure, uniquely suited to painters, with a number of ecosys-tems at our doorstep.”

His work is on permanent display at The Old Court-house Gallery, where he will be one of the feature artists for the month of May.

STORy By DeSirAy FeNwiCK



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Tim McLeod knew from the first time he saw Tranquille, its past would be inseparable from its future.

Besides its diverse beauty and rich, fertile land, it quickly became apparent its incredible history would more than just ignite the imagi-nation. It would infiltrate every aspect of the new Tranquille on the Lake devel-opment. Its history would provide depth no backhoe could make and richness no money could buy.

As development manager of Tran-quille Properties Ltd. (a consortium of owners that includes local Kamloops lawyer Russ Cundari), McLeod has long been getting calls and emails from people around the world who had a connection with Tranquille's past. Some wanted to share their story, others were looking to complete their story.

"There's a very interesting past to the site...and it is said the site gives you the planning," said McLeod.

Archeological evidence of human settlement at Tranquille dates back about 6,000 years with the First Nations people. Once gold was discovered in 1857, it attracted the attention of for-tune seekers. But by 1884, it was settled by the Cooney and Fortune families and became a working farm.

In 1907, the property became a tu-berculosis sanatorium. After a cure was found for tuberculosis in 1957, the sana-torium closed its doors and it became a school for mentally handicapped children (while still operating as a ➤

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Below: Many of Tranquille's build-ings exude character and history.

working farm) until the school closed in1984.

McLeod wants to honour that past, at the same time as developers work to resurrect Tranquille. He turned to the Kamloops Heritage Society for help.

"I went to the Heritage Society and said, 'What should we do?' " he said. "We were looking for a gatekeeper."

Melody Formanski, executive direc-tor of the Kamloops Heritage Society, quickly came on board, and turned the concept of a gatekeeper into gatekeep-ers. There are now several groups and individuals involved in documenting Tranquille's history, including TRU, the Community-University Research Alli-ance, the Kamloops Heritage Commis-sion and Friends of Tranquille.

TRU researchers have collected more than 50 hours of video, record-ing stories from former workers and residents. They have filmed school children talking and interacting with those closely connected with the former community. “The oral history is very important. We need to get all this information before (former residents and workers) die,” said Formanski.

The TRU team also compiled three large binders of microfiched pages of every newspaper story ever printed about the property, since the turn of the century. Documenting the graphic and natural history are the next steps. Formanski knows there are pictures and other artifacts stored away in people's attics or basements, and she hopes they will come forward to do-nate what artifacts they have.

Even the natural history is being considered, as an online "walking tour"

detailing the area's natural history is being developed.

"(The history) is fascinating on so many different levels. It was a work-ing farm, then the sanatorium, then a hospital, then there's this wonderful narrative with the First Nations who used to winter there," said TRU’s Will Garrett-Petts. "The question is how to maintain (that) history and still look forward."

McLeod said Tranquille’s developers are keenly interested in incorporating the history directly into the develop-ment plan. Interpretive signs through-out the development will give pass-ers-by bites of relevant information, and buildings are being renovated to preserve glimpses of the site's history. Materials will be taken from the build-ings that cannot be preserved and used throughout the development.

An interim interpretive centre has already been created in the former superintendent's shed, a stunning character building that has been refur-bished. This will be a temporary home to artifacts and exhibits until a more formal interpretive centre with educa-tional displays can be created.

But one of the most stand-out as-pects of the area is that it was always a working, urban farm. It was a self-sustaining farm within the community, and that is just what the developers intend on creating again as a way to benefit those who live there and the city as a whole. It will be history, again, in the making.

"We look at this as an asset of the people," said McLeod. "Retelling its his-tory honours the past.”


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STORy By Sherry beNNett

Two years ago, Dick and Danielle Nguyen sat down to design their dream home. Living in a large house in Sahali at the time, the couple

wanted to “rightsize” into a smaller healthy, low-impact home that could accommodate their lifestyle well into the future.

Determined to live in a location where they could walk to work, the young professional couple opted to subdivide a 6,000-square-foot property they owned in the city’s downtown.

They wanted a useful, cosy space. From the moment you walk through the home’s front door, (a faux-wood door constructed of fibreglass and chosen for its insulation qualities), it’s clear they met their goal.

A key feature of the house is its passive solar heating system. It uses the sun’s energy to heat and cool the house throughout the year. The south-facing wall of the house is made of large double-glazed windows posi-tioned strategically to draw in as much light and heat as possible in the winter.

As well, the house incorporates

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On an unseasonably chilly spring day, every level of this three-storey home feels warm, due in large part to the living-friendly features built into the walls.

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Golf Club in the spring of 1914.Constructed for $500 on a borrowed

parcel of land on Archie Johnson’s 160-acre ranch south of the city – a ten-minute walk from the top of First Avenue – the city’s first golf course was funded by the club’s 50 inaugural members, who contributed $10 each for the thrill of sinking the ball into the cup. No turf? No problem.

The links’ nine putting greens – or putting browns more aptly – were fashioned by levelling the hardpan, covering it in sand, soaking it in oil and rolling it compact.

With sagebrush, rock piles and swirling clouds of dust serving as the courses’ natural hazards, driving preci-sion was essential because a Hudson’s Bay Company Honor Built golf ball fired errantly into the abyss would set a golfer back 70 cents; a half day’s wages for a farm worker in 1915.

Fuelled by a North American explo-sion in the popularity of golf in 1923, after renovating its 2,000-metre course to soften long walks and hazards, the local club joined the Provincial Golf Association, affording members the opportunity to participate in annual championships.

After kicking off each new season with a formal Golf Ball, golfers would take to the links each weekend in stroke, bogey and handicap competi-

tions. Come autumn, women vying for the privilege to hoist the coveted Yale Cup – the award for the ladies golf champi-onship of the Interior – would congregate at the course.

In 1946, with the in-vention of golf carts still decades away, even the city’s hardiest golfers be-gan to tire of the course’s undulating slopes. So when the city offered to purchase the land for de-velopment of the Hillside Cemetery the same year, club members jumped at the opportunity to relocate to a more level playing field.

Through an agreement reached

with the city to lease a parcel of land near Fulton Field, the Kamloops Golf

Club opened its new nine-hole sand course in the fall of 1946. Four years later – offering annual memberships at $24 for men and $18 for woman – club member-ship almost tripled.

In 1950, the Kamloops Golf and Country Club purchased the 171-acre Brocklehurst property from the municipality and began work on golf-ers’ long-awaited dream of a velvety-green golf

course. Information contained in this article from an essay by Elisabeth Duck-worth, and newspaper articles.

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There’s few people more enthusiastic about running in Kamloops than Jo Berry. A longtime

resident, Berry has been instrumental in getting the community active, both through her business RunClub and her long involvement with The Daily News Boogie.

This year’s Boogie, set to happen April 29, will again see thousands of residents take on the 5K, 10K and 21K challenges. Hundreds have been training with RunClub through the spring, building legs and lungs that in some cases may not have been used in such a way for years.

It’s all part of a vision Berry has about the power of movement to change lives, a philosophy reflected in her own life as well.

q. how did RunClub and Boogie get started?A. Boogie started with four amazing women who wanted

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q. did you ever think Boogie would grow into one of kamloops’s biggest events?

A. No. But I’m excited. And grateful, especially for the sponsors who have come aboard . . . allowing us to take it to a bigger audience and develop it as a signature event for our community.

q. how many people do you think have started run-ning in kamloops because of RunClub and the daily News Boogie?

A. Thousands. I think the most crazy thing for me now is I see so many pockets of runners who started at RunClub or through the Boogie training. It’s incredible to drive around and see so many people who started there.

q. talk about your history. what led you to running?A. I started running when I was in my early 20s. I always

wanted to be a runner and never thought I could. I joined a running clinic and I did not fare well. And then I started running with my best friend Brenda, and I started run-walk-ing, and discovered I could become a runner. I discovered the brain chemistry change that comes with running. And now I have been running for 25 years.

q. two years ago, your marriage to adrian Berry ended. did RunClub and the running community help you through that difficult period?

A. Oh my gosh, it was so huge. The running was the ther-apy I used to get through that crisis, but the people around me — my family, the (Boogie) team and the RunClubbers — helped me heal. Going out (running) every day when I was devastated was an amazing gift. It changed my state and put me in a better place. It was one of the hardest things I ever went through for sure.

q. how do you stay motivated to run?A. It’s so easy for me now. I can’t live without running. It’s

my divine place, it’s my church. It’s not about weight loss for me, it’s truly a spiritual experience. I don’t have any trouble being motivated, it’s part of my soul. And I love coaching and sharing that currency with others.

q. Is RunClub a cult?A. No, it’s not a cult, but it is an energy, a way of living. It’s

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Fitness philosophy runs deep in Jo berry By robert KoopMANS


on the FlyQuality of the experience more important now than quantity of them

STORy AND PhOTO By robert KoopMANS

So here it is, late April with a warm spring sun heating the Kamloops hills, and I have not yet so much as looked at my fly rods.

Not that many seasons ago, by this time of year, I might already have fished several times. Back then I always had my lines cleaned and spooled, my fly boxes in order and the my boat loaded by late March, ready for the first hint of a crack in the ice at any number of local lakes.

I was a keener then, anxious to bust onto a lake — any lake — to catch a fish. So what happened? Why is it now that it could be late May before I lower the boat on to my trailer and head for the hills.

Well, kids happened in part. Two growing daughters demand a lot of time. There’s sports and music and social activities to take them to, but that’s more excuse than answer, more symptom than cause. The fact is, as time has passed, my expecta-tions — what I want from fishing — has changed, and as a result, so has the way I go about the pursuit of it.

Ten years ago, it was common for

me to fish 40 to 50 days a year. Not as much as some, perhaps, but a great deal more than many.

I was often in the April 1 crowd fishing Six Mile Lake, and joined many others pitching rocks at Jacko’s frozen surface, wondering when winter was going to let those waters loose.

Later in the season, I would be on Roche May 1 and Rossmore as soon as the ice cleared. I was a big fan of opening days. I was so anxious to hook a trout, to feel that first big pull of the season.

I wanted a lot of time on the wa-ter. I was learning the craft of fish-ing then, so that made some sense. One needs to put in time in order to develop ability. Like skiing or tennis or picture taking or pottery, you don’t get good at something unless you practice.

The reality is, however, many of those early fishing trips were not that productive, as the fishing can be slow in the first days after ice-off. As well, it was often cold, windy or rainy, or if things were particularly nasty, some combination of all three.

In other words, as nice as it was

to get out, the overall experience wasn’t that great, (unless your definition of good fishing is cold wet windy days with no fish. Then the fishing was awesome.)

I pick my times a little more care-fully now, and have adopted the phi-losophy it’s better to be wishing you had a little more of something than feeling like you’ve had too much.

I’ve been raking my dead grass these past few weeks, knowing oth-ers have already likely braved Jacko and Six Mile. I’m waiting patiently for May and June, when I know the good fishing arrives. If one thing experience has taught me, it’s when to be on the water. I have my secrets, and know with pretty good certainty when and where I need to be to have a great day.

Perhaps it’s the wisdom of get-ting older (and slower, some might suggest). The quality of experiences count more for me now than the quantity of them.

Robert Koopmans is the editor of Currents at The Daily News. He can be reached at (250) 372-2331, or by email at [email protected]

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