North Shore Echo April 6

If you were to think about what makes you shop at the places you shop, what would it be? Obviously they have a product or service that you want or need, but what are the other contributing factors? There are some stores, especially here on the North Shore that are so warm and inviting that you feel instantly part of the fam-ily when you walk through the doors. One fine example of this is Heather’s Fabric Shelf.

Heather’s Fabric Shelf, which is owned and operated by quilting super-star and all-around fabulous personal-ity Heather Fagervik, is more than just a place to buy fat quarters and notions. Heather cares about all her custom-ers, and spends hours teaching them. She cares about the outcome of their projects, not just the products she sold to them. Each year since Heather’s Fabric Shelf opened she has been holding a Quilt Show and Tell where she invites everyone in to show off their finished products, brag, visit, and get a little inspiration.

“This will be our third annual Quilt Show and Tell,” says Heather. “It is happening on Sunday, April 10. Every year the show gets bigger and bigger, and we are very excited for this year. There will be lots of quilts on display; the Boogie the Bridge Quilt will be on display and Nancy Garrett-Petts who created it will also be here to sell raffle tickets to win the quilt.”

Quilts, tote bags, table runners - if you can make it chances are it will be there and be on display. This is the first show since Heather has moved into her new location. It is much larger store and that means there will be more display items and more room for everyone to enjoy.

“The Quilt Show is running right from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.,” she continues. “We are usually closed Sundays, so this is an extra special day for us. Not only will there be tons of quilts on display but we will also be having a special showing of quilts at 1:00 p.m. for people who cannot bring in their quilts beforehand. For everyone who does want their quilt displayed all day, we would like to know by April 5 so we can plan the setup and locations. You don’t have to worry about them, they will be well taken care of.”

In addition to being able to see what all your classmates, co-shoppers and friends have been up to all year, Heather will be drawing for hourly door prizes, and she promises that absolutely everything in the store will be on sale. There will also be a variety

of beverages and snacks to cure that sweet tooth.

“Come one, come all, this is an event that you won’t want to miss,” Heather finishes. “This is the day to come and get inspired. It is also a great oppor-

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Quilters will delight in this special show

Standing in front of a beautiful, hand-stitched quilt that is up for raffle is (at right) Heather Fagervik, owner of Heather’s Fabric Shelf, and Willa Dale, a member of the Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) Quilters Guild. The RIH Quilters have two quilts as prizes, with the proceeds going to the RIH Foundation. Heather’s Fabric Shelf is one of the locations where you can purchase a raffle ticket. Many quilts such as these will be on display at the upcoming annual quilt show at Heather’s Fabric Shelf.

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tunity to bring that piece that is giving you trouble. If you’ve got something and you don’t know what to do with it, bring it in, someone else may have a great idea or be able to steer you in the right direction.”

So if you like to quilt, like to look at quilts and enjoy the com-pany of like-minded people, make a point to head over to Heather’s Fabric Shelf. If you have not yet visited the hottest quilting shop in town you are missing out. One step into Heather’s and it will be hard to go anywhere else. There is always laughter flowing and

smiles galore. They have a fabu-lous selection of great fabrics, notions, and pretty much every-thing you need for your project and more. Heather and her team are fountains of knowledge who have a passion for sharing their love and knowledge of quilting with anyone who wants it.

The Third Annual North Shore Quilt Show and Tell is on Sunday, April 11 at Heather’s Fabric Shelf, 4-685 Tranquille rd (next to Baskin robbins). You can also reach them by phone at �50-376-7630. Get your project ready and see you at the show!

Tanya Orozco, freelance

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rod and debbie Wray were longtime Kamloops residents until they moved to Haiti eight years ago. rod was an electrician at royal Inland Hospital and debbie was an elementary school teacher. The Wrays are set-ting up the first sports camp of its kind in Haiti. On the property there is an orphan-age called Camp Mahanaim that a team of firefighters and church groups from Kamloops helped build in �010 and �011. Kamloops Fire Fighters are organizing an effort to send building equipment and kids’ sports equipment to the project in Haiti. Kamloops Fire Fighters have arranged to have a container at the City Yard by the end of April, which they aim to fill with donated goods. Kamloops regional Correctional Centre is willing to run a bike program, through which the inmates fix up old bikes to be sent to Haiti. Kamloops Fire Fighters are looking for a mobile trailer, which will travel around to vari-ous Firehalls, schools and churches for pick-ups. They are also looking for contri-butions from the community, through donations and help with promotional material and developing a website and mission statement. To get involved, contact daniel Funk of Kamloops Fire rescue at �50-571-�966

“Text-to-donate” a hockey puck for ICU On April 7, day 5� of the 365

day Mark recchi Challenge, the royal Inland Hospital (rIH) Foundation is announc-ing the newest way to support the Intensive Care unit (ICu) Campaign. With a simple and easy text message, you can make a $10 donation to the new ICu Compassionate Hearts Campaign at rIH. Simply text the word “rIHF” to 30333 and a $10 donation will be added to your next mobile phone bill. With a $10 donation your name can be put on a puck and added to the eight foot Team recchi jersey located on the second floor outside of the Foundation’s office at rIH. The Mark recchi 365 day Challenge incorporates many fundraising events, such as the “buy a puck” fundraiser, and will help to complete the funding needed to build a new ICu at rIH.

For almost 30 years, critically ill and injured patients have received life-saving care in the Intensive Care unit (ICu) at royal Inland Hospital. These patients and their families are faced with an intense, emotionally charged, and sometimes touch-and-go experi-ence. A modern ICu will bring

upgraded technology, improved privacy, greater efficiencies for doctors and nurses, and much-needed support and comfort to patients, and their families and friends within the community. For more information about making a donation, visit w w w. r i h f o u n d a t i o n . c a .

The first Kamloops Housing Board is being formed thanks to the efforts of the Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan (HAP) and $60,000.00 over three years from the City of Kamloops. HAP is pleased to invite interested members of the public to forward Expressions of Interest to HAP for several posi-tions on the Kamloops Housing Board. This new committee will be an avenue to discuss recent housing trends, to evaluate housing supply and demand, to establish community priorities

in an open forum, and to discuss policy and legislative reform where deemed necessary.

Expressions of Interest should include a brief cover letter and resume.

The Homelessness Action Plan Steering Advisory Group is looking to fill the following positions: Market Housing (� positions), Houses/Suites Non-Profit Housing (� positions) - residents in the community (1 position).

This committee will meet bi-monthly during each calendar

year. For information on the Terms of reference, please visit www.kamloopshap.ca.

If you are interested in apply-ing, please submit a brief resume with a covering letter outlining your background and interest by March �5, �011 to Tangie Genshorek by email at: [email protected].

For more information, please contact Tangie Genshorek, Coordinator Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan at �50-571-9665 or by email at [email protected].

Open burning of yard wasteFrom April 1 to May 1, open

burning of yard and garden waste on properties of one acre or great-er within the City of Kamloops and Kamloops Indian Band is allowed upon obtaining a permit.

Permits for burning within the city must be picked-up at Fire Station No. 1 at 1�05 Summit drive from Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Permits for burning within the Kamloops Indian Band must

be picked-up at The Kamloops Indian Band at #�00 - 355 Yellowhead Highway.

For residents with properties less than one acre, the follow-ing alternative disposal methods are recommended: Compost as much material as possible on your own property, or take green waste to one of the City’s three drop-off sites: Cinnamon ridge, Eliza road in Barnhartvale, or at the end of McGill road.

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Quilting QuipsBlessed are the children of the piecemakers for they

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It’s waste-free for this familyA North Shore family

had pledged to produce no landfill waste and to purchase no material goods for at least one month, and they started the first of April.

Inspired by a Vancouver couple who went waste free for a whole year (cleanbinproject.com), parents Marcia and Trevor, with 16-month old Elianna dick (along with Friday their cat) are challenging themselves to a waste and consumer free month in April, or for more if all goes well! The rules are simple and focused around the 5 r hierarchy of rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle, residuals. Buy no material goods (clothes, toys, household items) and buy only consumable goods that come in recyclable packaging. recycle all paper, plastic, glass and metal that is recyclable, which is easy in Kamloops with curbside recycling). Compost all organic waste (luckily they have a backyard composter and the City composting facility for yard waste). Everything they can’t recycle or compost will be collected in a Tupperware bin in their front yard. According to mom Marcia, “not buying any material goods should be easy (for Trevor at least), but there are plenty of

challenges when it comes to consumables, not impossible to overcome. We will use cloth diapers all the time and double up on liners for those long wet nights. We will take our reusable containers to the butcher shops and delis to buy meat and cheese and bring our own bags to the grocery store for our produce, bulk goods, and general groceries. We won’t buy anything that comes wrapped in soft plastic

like chips, crackers, cookies, cereal, and all that stuff in the center aisles of the grocery store. We will avoid excessive packaging like single serving items, even if it the packaging is recyclable. We will make things like toothpaste, laundry detergent, crackers, and pasta.” To find out more about the dick family’s enviro-venture, visit their blog at wastenaughtbc.blogspot.com.

(L-R) Trevor, Elianna and Marcia Dick are ready to reduce and reuse all month long,.

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To the editor:An attempt is being

made to bar Green Party leader Elizabeth May from the National Leaders debates. This is a ridiculous decision! More than 940,000

Canadians voted for the Green Party in the last federal election. Public opinion polls show that the Green vote will be in the millions in the next election. Voters have a right to hear where all the

major parties stand on the issues. That’s one of the cornerstones of democra-cy – an informed elector-ate. After all, Canadian taxpayers finance the Green Party. Shouldn’t they get to hear about its

policies?As they did in �008 I

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To the editor:I am heading a project

cataloguing the history of a long-derelict commu-nity in the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales and would like to ask your help with a sad local story that has a Kamloops con-nection. The project is being undertaken by Cofio Cwmorthin remembered, an informal group cata-loguing the social and archaeological history of the old community of Cwmorthin in Wales

On August 9, 194�, Sergeant riddoch and Pilot Officer robert Bruce McIntyre, a Canadian from Kamloops, British Columbia, were to fly to rAF Valley for a gun-nery course. The two Hurricanes departed from Speke near Liverpool. The flight briefing was to fly along the coast at �,000 feet or below cloud. Soon after take-off the radio-telephone (r/T) failed on riddoch’s aircraft, and he indicated this to McIntyre in the lead Hurricane by sign language:

Later riddoch noticed that the cloud was thicken-ing and they had climbed to 4,000 feet. As McIntyre was the senior and more experienced pilot he fol-lowed. He noticed a fun-nel through the cloud and could see the shine of water below indicating a river. McIntyre appeared to have also seen the fun-nel since he altered course

and started to lose height into cloud. riddoch fol-lowed.

Then McIntyre’s flying became somewhat erratic. riddoch realized with a shock that dark shapes looming through the mist were mountains. Without r/T, tucked in between the leader’s wing and cock-pit, the only way for him to communicate in cloud was to lift a wing of his Hurricane and accelerate past the other aircraft.

He hoped that McIntyre would see him and follow as he climbed away from those deadly peaks. He broke out of the cloud into sunlight, circling for a full

five minutes to wait for his companion who did not arrive. riddoch head-ed back to find the clear funnel, flew down to the river to follow its wind-ing course to the sea at Conway, and on to Valley to report losing sight of McIntyre.

Seventeen-year old Maelor Hughes lived at Plas Llyn alongside Llyn Cwmorthin. He was out-side when he heard the sound of an aircraft coming closer, followed by a ter-rible crashing noise from the summit of Allt Fawr mountain. He scrambled up through the cloud only to find the wreckage of a

fighter aircraft. Hurricane P3385 was no more and Canada had lost another of her sons.

We are asking you to use your media to try and locate a photograph of robert McIntyre so that he can be featured in the book. We believe he is buried in a cemetery in the town of Porthmadog, Wales. His recorded date of death is August 9, 194�, and his parents are list-ed as Harold and Olive McIntyre of Kamloops, BC.

I can be contacted by email at: [email protected]

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Photo sought of WWII pilot officer from Kamloops

Pilot Officer McIntyre’s grave is located in a cemetery in the town of Porthmadog, Wales. He is buried alongside another Canadian pilot, two from the Polish free air force and an English pilot.


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recchi is NHL’s marathon manJames Mirtle of the Globe and

Mail recently wrote an article about Kamloops hometown boy and Boston Bruins star Mark recchi. The �� year NHL veteran recently moved into fifth All-Time on the NHL games played list with 164�. He has his sights

set on passing Chris Chelios for fourth on the list. recchi has played in all 71 games for the Bruins this season, and if he plays in the 11 remaining games, he would be only 114 games away from Gordie Howe’s games played record of 1767!

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Olympian leads swimming camp Julia Wilkinson, a �008

Canadian Olympian will lead the Future Stars swimming camp for competitors AA level and higher who are ten to 15 years of age. The program will be held at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre from April �9 to May 1 and will focus on improving stroke tech-niques, starts, turns, and overall performance.

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The Kamloops Stamp Club is hosting the first Kamloops Stamp Show on April �3 from 10:00 a.m. to �:00 p.m. at Calvary Church, 1�05 rogers Way. There had been a very suc-cessful Kamloops Stamp Club since inception in 1954. New people arriving in Kamloops recently spearheaded the revival of the Kamloops Stamp Club. Active now with �0 members, the club meets once a month at desert Gardens Senior Centre, and has the desire to have a

major event for collectors. At the free Stamp Show on April �3 people can see displays of stamps, covers, postal history and all connections to the stamp world, including a free table for youngsters and a stamp auction. There will be dealers from the interior and the availability of fellow members with whom you can “talk stamps.” For more information or for table rental, contact Ingrid vanTamelen at at �50-314-10�1 or by email at: [email protected].

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Love them or hate them, the NDP shows a sense of humour with this cleverly designed error page. A 404 error page is used to indicate that there is a broken link on the website. Website designers often overlook and underestimate the power of this page however, designed carefully, these pages can make a random visitor stay on a website, take a look around and eventually find the information he or she was looking for in the first place. The stroke of brilliance behind this page is that it is humorous, unexpected and with a little luck may even go viral.

Letter to the taxmandear revenue Canada (or whatever your

current name may be): Enclosed and/or attached, you will find my

�011 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.

Please note the attached article from the Toronto Globe and Mail; dated 1� November, wherein you will see the Canadian department of National defence is paying $171.50 per hammer and Fisheries and Oceans Canada has paid $600 per toilet seat for its icebreak-ers.

As payment, I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued at $�,400) and six (6) ham-mers valued at $1,0�9), which I secured at Canadian Tire, bringing my total remittance to $3,4�9.

Please apply the overpayment of $�� to the ‘Help Gilles duceppe Election Fund,’ as noted on my return.

You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5’ Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from The Globe and Mail detailing how the department of Public Works pays $��.00 each for 1.5” Phillips Head Screws). One Philips screw is enclosed for your convenience.

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. God Bless Canada!

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Canada’s weirdest political partiesAs if the real political world

weren’t already weird and ridic-ulous enough, over the years a number of satirical and joke political parties have been formed in Canada. Here are a couple of the stranger political parties that may come asking for your vote.

Rhinoceros Party of CanadaProbably the most famous of

all, this Party was started in 1963, and for nearly 30 years they con-sistently made headlines for their media stunts and bizarre cam-paign promises, which included a solemn vow “to keep none of our promises.” Other parts of the platform included repealing the law of gravity, annexing both the united States and Antarctica, and storing all the country’s nuclear waste on the floor of the senate, because “we’ve been storing political waste there for years.” despite their tongue-in-cheek platform, The rhinoceros Party was able to garner a sur-prising number of votes in most

elections, finishing second in one Federal election where they nominated a professional clown, and stealing hundreds of votes in another when they ran a candi-date with the exact same name as the frontrunner.

The Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party

This Party was formed in Newfoundland in 1999 by a group of amateur and profes-sional wrestlers. The party is known, among other things, for choosing its leader by staging an 11-man wrestling battle royale, where the last person standing was declared the winner. despite their bizarre methods, the par-ty’s platform was surprisingly serious, and addressed environ-mental and economic issues, as well as Canada’s involvement in NATO. In �000, the Extreme Wrestling Party ran former WWF star Sailor King Moondog White for a seat in the Canadian parlia-ment, but finished last out of the five candidates in the race.

Can you make this work?A young engineer was leaving the Ottawa office at 4:45 pm when

he saw the Federal Member of Parliament from the engineer’s riding, standing his Office, in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

“Listen,” said this Member of Parliament, “this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary is not here. Can you make this thing work?”

“Certainly,” said the Ottawa young engineer. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

“Excellent, excellent!” said the Member of Parliament as his paper disappeared inside the machine, “I just need one copy.”

Don’t laugh, the Guns and Dope Party was started as a joke in 2003 by cult author Robert Anton Wilson in response to the high-profile California recall election that was eventually won by Arnold Schwarzenegger.


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Kamloops Homelessness Action Plan Public Forum on April 6 from 6-9pm, Kamloops Alliance Church at �33 Fortune dr. For more info contact Tangie Genshorek at �50.571.9665 or [email protected].

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Community Buffet Dinner on April 10 at 5pm. Live enter-tainment by Carl McLaughlin. Pick up advance tickets at North Shore Community Centre, 730 Cottonwood Ave. For info call �50-376-4777.

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