The fifth annual Culture Days, a national celebration of culture, heritage the arts and artists, takes place Fri. Sept. 26 – Sun. Sept. 28, with many events happening throughout the community. These free events for residents include: • World Rivers Day shoreline cleanup, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Free admission to the Kam- loops Art Gallery on Sept. 26 & 27, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. • An open dress rehearsal of the Kamloops Symphony Orches- tra on Sept. 27, 1 – 3:30 p.m., at Sagebrush Theatre. • Many activities at the Kam- loops Museum and Archives each day, including crafts, kite making, programming for edu- cators & free admission on Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. • Live painting demonstration with Ken Farrar on Sept. 27, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Old Court- house Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St. • Hoop dancing with Daryl Black, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Riverside Park. • A book launch by Ian Weir, Sept. 26, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., Pavil- ion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St. • Behind the scenes backstage tour of Pavilion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St. • Kamloops Photo Arts Club Dig- ital Darkroom Demos & Discus- sion Sept. 26, 7 – 9 p.m. & Sept. 27, 2 – 4 p.m. at Exposure Gal- lery, 351 Victoria St. (next to the Lingerie Shop) • Ukulele Sit-In, with the Kam- loops Ukulele Circle, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Sept. 27 at St Andrews on the Square, for a concert followed by a jam. Everyone’s welcome especially beginners. Bring your ukulele along if you have one and if you don’t you can borrow one of theirs. More information is available online at culturedays.ca. Friday, September 26, 2014 Vol. 10 No. 13 FREE Bringing the mountain to the people The only solely owned and operated newspaper on the Kamloops North Shore Published weekly in Kamloops, B.C. Phone: 250-819-6272 • Fax: 250-376-6272 • E-mail: [email protected]Online: http://issuu.com/jmnews • Follow us on FaceBook TRU student, friend win Amazing Race Canada A Thompson Rivers University tourism student and his teammate were winners of the second season of The Amazing Race Canada. The season finale aired on CTV Sunday, Sept. 21. After trekking 40,000 kilometers across Canada, Macau, Hong Kong and France, Pete Schmalz and childhood friend Mickey Henry split the $250,000 grand prize, and each received a Chev truck, free flights for a year on Air Canada, and free gas for life from Petro-Canada. Originally from Parry Sound, Ont., Henry is founder of wakeboard park and Schmalz is a construction worker now studying tourism and hotel management at TRU. Driven by the motto “Long hair, don’t care,” the duo proved to be among the more fun and relaxed teams. The 24-year- olds beat out B.C. bartenders Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard, and Cana- dian Olympic hockey players Natalie Spooner and Meaghan Mikkelson. Oddly enough, Schmalz and Henry never won any of the legs except for the last one, though they did have a few podium finishes as they steadily improved along the way, while Spooner and Mikkelson won seven of the race’s 11 legs. When they learned they were the first team to cross the finish line, Schmalz and Henry celebrated their accomplishment by dropping their pants. “I can’t believe we did it, man,” Schmalz said. “My life is just heading in a completely different direction!” Culture Days celebrate heritage, arts, culture MICKEY HENRY AND PETE SCHMALZ
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The fi fth annual Culture Days,
a national celebration of culture,
heritage the arts and artists, takes
place Fri. Sept. 26 – Sun. Sept.
28, with many events happening
throughout the community.
These free events for residents
include:
• World Rivers Day shoreline
cleanup, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
• Free admission to the Kam-
loops Art Gallery on Sept. 26 &
27, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• An open dress rehearsal of the
Kamloops Symphony Orches-
tra on Sept. 27, 1 – 3:30 p.m., at
Sagebrush Theatre.
• Many activities at the Kam-
loops Museum and Archives
each day, including crafts, kite
making, programming for edu-
cators & free admission on Sept.
27, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Live painting demonstration
with Ken Farrar on Sept. 27, 11
a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Old Court-
house Cultural Centre, 7 West
Seymour St.
• Hoop dancing with Daryl
Black, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.,
Riverside Park.
• A book launch by Ian Weir,
Sept. 26, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., Pavil-
ion Theatre, 1025 Lorne St.
• Behind the scenes backstage
tour of Pavilion Theatre, 1025
Lorne St.
• Kamloops Photo Arts Club Dig-
ital Darkroom Demos & Discus-
sion Sept. 26, 7 – 9 p.m. & Sept.
27, 2 – 4 p.m. at Exposure Gal-
lery, 351 Victoria St. (next to the
Lingerie Shop)
• Ukulele Sit-In, with the Kam-
loops Ukulele Circle, 10 a.m. – 12
p.m. Sept. 27 at St Andrews on
the Square, for a concert followed
by a jam. Everyone’s welcome
especially beginners. Bring your
ukulele along if you have one and
if you don’t you can borrow one
of theirs.
More information is available
online at culturedays.ca.
Friday, September 26, 2014Vol. 10 No. 13
FREE
Bringing the mountain to the people
The only solely owned and operated newspaper on the Kamloops North ShorePublished weekly in Kamloops, B.C.
– 3 p.m. at North Shore Community Centre 730 Cottonwood Ave. Ad-
mission by donation. To book a craft table ($25), call 250-376-4777.
Christmas Craft Fairs
Ant iques &
Col lec t ib les Sa le
The North Shore Community Centre’s
Annual Fall
730 Cottonwood Avenue
Ph: 250-376-4777 • Fx: 250-376-4792
October 4 & 5Saturday 9 am - 4 pm Sunday 9 am - 3 pm
Admission $4Children under 12 free
More than 30 vendors
from across the Interior
EXERCISE CAUTION NEAR SCHOOLS,PLAYGROUNDS: RCMP
Kamloops RCMP are reminding drivers to exercise caution around
schools now that all schools are back in session this week.
“Now that BC’s public schools are offi cially beginning the school
year, drivers can expect to see an increase in the number of children
and vehicles around our schools,” said Superintendent Denis Boucher,
Offi cer in Charge BC RCMP Traffi c Services. “We want to remind
drivers that all school zones will now be in effect and that they are
required to obey speed limits during school hours.”
School zones speed limits are 30km/h between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Penalties for speeding in school zones range from $196 to $483.
All playground zones, which require reduced speed, remain in effect
from dawn until dusk.
Lizsa Bibeau
Mommyisms
HoroscopesSeptember 29 - October 5, 2014
Enthusiasm for what you believe has future possibilities will be at an all-time high this week. Give & take between you & others will seem easier, if not expected by them, ‘til late-Oct. What they really think can become diffi cult to ascertain as they can become more secretive. Be cautious about taking on obligations now.
Greater focus on your health, fi tness, diet & exercise may be wise from this week ‘til Oct. 24, esp. if there has been a lot of social activity of late that has seen you overindulging. Someone may express their opinion harshly, making you realise there may be aspects to them that are very different to what you presumed.
More opportunity for leisure, pleasure or social activity can be-gin to present itself from this week & for the next month. You may also meet some interesting people but maintain caution when it comes to instant attraction or swiftly made promises. Apply a strict analytical process to details of some sort.
You’ll begin to feel this week that you can apply a balanced ap-proach to whatever you have considered during Sept. that needs a better structure established. Someone else will likely want some sort of control but perhaps it is time they learned that you won’t necessarily bend to their wishes entirely. Stay strong.
Start thinking about taking a more balanced approached to dis-tractions that come your way. You have likely been lazy on this score during Sept. In your mind you need to take a yes or no approach & allow no grey shades to enter into what needs to be established. This can save you a lot of time in the long run.
Start to feel happier about being able to sort things out in your mind in a practical way. You can feel more decisive though there will be more than one stage to matters. You may need to spend more money than you expected this week. Be alert to impulse spending – rather wait to give time for urgency to pass.
Venus, your ruling planet, moves into your sign this week where it will remain ‘til Oct 24. This should make you happy as well as give a sense of getting back to your old self if this hasn’t seemed to be the case of late. At the same time you’ll be dealing with pressure. Battle it out with discussions to gain a fair outcome.
Mercury, the planet of communication, has moved into your sign, where it will remain for its fi rst stay ‘til Oct. 11. This will encourage some serious thinking about your personal position or anything that involves you, as well as commitments attached. Not everything is out in the open, so have patience.
Expect the unexpected this week, & while you may have to quickly take advantage of opportunity as it arises, you also need to be very cautious about being reckless. Someone else won’t be as open as you & it’ll be diffi cult to know exactly where they stand. It’s important you don’t give up independence for them.
Consider the things you have learnt that have led to changing you as a person, particularly when it comes to a strengthening of character. Obligations will be involved somehow. This may include greater awareness of what you shouldn’t take on. You can fi ne tune & balance this out over the next month. Go to it.
Start focussing your mind on commitments this week in a seri-ous way. There’ll be more than one stage before you’ll get it settled. When you get an idea, fi nd some quiet time to yourself to analyse where it could go in the long term or how you could be affected long term. Others have greater freedom.
If you feel someone is drifting away, it’s because they’ve found you vague or changeable. Not that they’ll be direct about it. This week, start to focus in a straightforward manner on what you are realistically prepared to commit yourself to in the long term. You may need some help later, to fi ll in the details.
Java Mountain News September 26, 20143
It has been a long summer. Any
parent in BC knows this because
of the teacher’s strike, extending
summer vacation by a month, and
bringing every parent to the brink
of madness with their bored/anx-
ious/crazy children. A collective
cheer erupted last week as the
teachers voted to return to work,
and all teachers, parents, and stu-
dents were relieved to get back to
school.
Being a coordinated (ahem,
anal) mother, I needed structure
weeks ago. And so, I did a make-
shift version of homeschooling
for Zachary. Bedtime was back to
the school bedtime of 7:30 p.m.
Wake-up time was 7 a.m. And so,
Zachary’s homeschooling sched-
ule began when public school
was supposed to start.
Each day, Zachary would
wake up as I was getting ready
for work, have breakfast, do
the dishes and proceed with the
“lessons” I structured for him.
He would do a math workbook,
read a chapter or two of his novel
(currently Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire), and write a mini-
book report on said chapter.
However, I decided he needed
to learn more – in the ways of re-
search and reports. Together, we
decided on the topic of France. I
printed off many pages of research
information (and gave Zachary
access to the computer for further
research if he wanted), and gave
a list of topics that were to be in-
cluded in this report. Zachary was
eager to start it all, and loved it!
(He is defi nitely my child!)
Alas, upon this fi rst week of
being back to school, my home-
school routine has fallen by the
wayside, the six pages of the
France report lay untouched in a
pile on his desk, and math book
lay closed – as Zachary has be-
gun to be reacquainted with his
school, friends, and teachers.
Autumn is offi cially here. Stu-
dents are back to school. Activi-
ties are underway. It’s good to be
back to school.
Back to school blues
M O N K E Y I N G AROUND. Zach-
ary is happy to be
back in school,
reacquainting him-
self with his teach-
ers and classmates
and the school
itself – especially
the playground
equipment – par-
ticularly the mon-
key bars.Lizsa Bibeau photo
Java Mountain News September 26, 20144
• THE BIG LITTLE SCIENCE CENTRE, 655 Holt St., open for
public drop-ins Tues – Sat, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., with daily hands-on fun
in the exploration rooms; interactive science shows Sat. at 11 a.m. &