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Performing arts centre discussed at TRU

Social studies teacher uses tech to engage young students in federal election

For many young people, national politics can feel like a complicated and

overwhelming process that has no bearing on their lives. One social studies teacher at Westsyde Secondary is trying to change all that through a Twitter account that allows students to engage directly with local election Candidates.

The account, “Teenagers at WSS” (@BlueWaveWSS) is moderated by Jeremy Reid and draws its insightful questions from his Grades 10, 11 and 12 social studies classes. Reid said he began the program during the last federal election with the goal of “making learning real” and stopping students from “tuning out politics.” • CONTINUES page 2

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Westsyde Secondary School social studies teacher Jeremy Reid. (Submitted)

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CONTINUED (COVER)The primary concern for Reid’s

students seems to be the contro-versial Bill C-51. Students posed questions about the bill to both Liberal candidate Steve Powrie and Green Party candidate Matt Greenwood. Powrie provided a detailed summary of his party’s planned reform of the bill while Greenwood tweeted back “should never have passed and must be repealed. It does nothing to make Canada more safe ...”

Other questions asked about job opportunities for young people, the NDP’s proposed federal minimum wage increase, green

energy and plans for taxes. More questions from the West-

syde students will likely continue until the end of the election. On Sept. 24 they tweeted “Thank you to @Cathy_McLeod @bsundhu @MattGreenPC @Powrie15 for taking the time to answer this week’s #elxn42 Q’s more next week! #Kamloops.”

Reid’s classes were already uniquely focused on the latest technology before the election, with every student being given access to one of the 100 iPads owned by WSS. Students in Reid’s classes have used the iPads and Twitter in the past to post short poems about the Red River Rebel-lion and publish e-books about Kamloops history created by the class.

When asked if he thought that his method should become standard for social studies teachers trying to engage their students

politically, Reid said that political engagement was important, but every school needs to find its own way to create it.

TRU has acquired a 76-acre parcel of land next to the TRU Research and Education Centre in Wells Gray Provincial Park.

The transfer of land, which was approved at a TRU Board of Governors meeting on Sept. 25, is an old agricultural pasture that was formerly owned by Kamloops lawyer John Kurta.

According to dean of science Tom Dickinson, the land was previously logged, so it is valuable for the study of natural reforesta-tion and other unique ecological processes. The land also has a wetland area, which houses a rare plant called a moon wart, which will be valuable for study.

Other TRU-owned property in Wells Gray has been used by Natural Resource Science and Geography students, as well as for retreats for language classes. Dickinson said that TRU’s other properties have accumulated a total of 17,000 user days since they were acquired.

“All TRU programs are eligible to use the new land, but the ones who will make the greatest use of it are natural resource science, the biological sciences, geography and tourism students,” Dickinson said.

Dickinson also hinted that the existing Wells Gray Research and Education Centre will be undergoing a $340,000 facelift by next year. The new building was designed by TRU’s Architectural & Engineering Technology program.

“It’s an energy-efficient, very stable building that will house 20 students and provide the class-room space and cooking space and other things for them,” Dickinson said.

TRU had been granted a tempo-rary stewardship of the land prior to the transfer of ownership, but Dickinson said that “the benefit of owning it is that we are entirely in control of what happens on it … now we know that what goes on there will be consistent with our goals for education and research.”

The land, which is valued at $290,000, was a donation to TRU.

Engaging young students in #elxn42Jim ElliotNEWS EDITOR Ω

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The current state of TRU’s provincial funding has left the university administration, faculty association and student government wary about TRU’s ability to meet its mandate.

A joint statement from the TRU Student Union (TRUSU), the TRU Faculty Association (TRUFA) and university administration was presented to the B.C. govern-ment’s standing committee on finance and government services on Sept. 17. The statement claims that TRU’s needs have changed since its funding model was planned, and as a result the university can no longer meet its mandate as an institution.

Co-operative education, academic advising, the math and writing centres and summer school are all named in the report as services in need of greater funding. TRU’s Masters’ programs and research initia-tives are also underfunded.

Tom Friedman, TRUFA’s president, said that many of TRU’s active researchers require external grants. Friedman also said that TRU doesn’t receive any funding for graduate students, making it difficult to offer them the TA positions and stipends necessary to succeed in their education.

The report mentions that more funding is needed to ensure access to education for TRU’s non-traditional learners, includ-ing those “supporting families while studying, working while studying or accessing education from remote areas.”

TRUSU’s portion of the budget submission deals with alleviat-ing the financial burden on these students.

“TRUSU’s main role in the budget submission was to talk

about tuition fees, financial aid and funding, and how that can improve completion, transition and participation rates for students and their families,” said TRUSU VP external Amber Storvold.

TRU also operates satellite campuses in Williams Lake and other remote communi-ties, something Friedman said is already showing cause for concern.

“There’s also a real concern about our ability to continue Williams Lake programs. We have a regional responsibility and the campus at Williams Lake has seen cuts. We’ve had a decrease in the number of tenured faculty, programs being cut and courses being cancelled,” Friedman said.

According to Friedman, the University of the Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island University, and Kwantlen University (all of which are similar in size and funding to TRU) have a legislative mandate that is different from TRU’s, and they all serve smaller regions.

TRU’s funding model was last reviewed in 2004 when it was awarded university status. According to Friedman, the ad-ministration at the time assumed that the new status would bring in enough new enrollment and revenue that more funding would not be necessary.

There will be no feedback about the future of TRU’s govern-ment funding until the Budget Committee’s official report. The committee receives their final submissions in late October.

Friedman was realistic about TRU’s chances of receiving more funding, saying that “many of the committee’s recommen-dations are not approved by government,” but warned that TRU’s “comprehensive nature is potentially jeopardized” if more funding is not received.

Jim ElliotNEWS EDITOR Ω

TRU, TRUSU, TRUFA claim university can’t fulfill its mandate

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Westsyde Secondary School students asking questions on Twitter.

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Today marks the end of the “nine days of scandal” prom-ised by politics and satire news website The True North Times. They promised to reveal past remarks by nine candidates each day from Sept. 22 to Sept. 30. And in their digging, they’ve hit some gold.

The campaign’s biggest fish landed so far has probably been Alex Johnstone, the NDP candi-date for Hamilton West–Ancas-ter–Dundas. Seven years ago, Johnstone made a dumb joke on a friend’s Facebook photo of Auschwitz about how the pillars holding up an electric fence look

“phallic.” The comment itself was dumb, but what followed was probably Johnstone’s bigger mistake. In defense of her seven-year-old comment, she claimed ignorance and said she didn’t know what Auschwitz was. Many have criticized her for this and claim she had to have known.

Conservative candidate Tim Dutaud was dropped after his crude prank call YouTube channel was discovered, Liberal candidate Joy Davies left the race after someone found controversial comments she made about marijuana and NDP candidate Morgan Wheeldon resigned when comments made about Israel brought him more attention than he wanted.

I lost track at about 15

candidates who had got them-selves into trouble this election year – many of them because of comments they made in the past on social media.

Social media, as a communi-cations platform, has now fully matured – but as evidenced by the parade of candidates being led out in shame over embarrassing, hateful or ignorant posts they’ve made in the past, its users aren’t quite there yet.

Sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have proven promising archives of past indiscretions for those looking to do some extracurricular vetting, but how far should we go back? To what extent do we want to hold people accountable for the kind of mindless crap most people put

on Facebook? I guess that’s up to those who read it, but we should be mindful of the fact that we only get to do this for a couple more elections before everyone is the wiser. If everyone figures out how to stay on message all the time, public discourse will un-doubtedly suffer, and who knows what people are really thinking if so disinclined to be verbose on social media?

When I started using the Internet in the mid-to-late ‘90s, no one really used their real name online. Everyone went by a handle, allowing them the ano-nymity a fake name afforded, and along with that anonymity, fewer inhibitions to say what you really thought, even if you probably shouldn’t. This continued until

Facebook came along, and it came with a big request – it wanted you to use your real name online. To my surprise, people were buying into this, so I bought into it, too.

Facebook grew and grew, and with it, the amount of people using their real name online did too. After seeing what anonymity could do to online discussion, I thought this might be a turn for the better, but looking at the state of things today, it seemed to do no such thing. People are still making hateful and ignorant posts, but now they’re (mostly) identifiable. So have things really changed? I guess so, but only if you’re running for public office, and I guess that’s something – at least for now. Less than three weeks to go.

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On Monday, Sept. 28, it was revealed that TRU would change the phras-ing of its branding to remove the word “unearth” from its new tagline “We believe that everyone has the right to unearth their potential.”

The change follows a petition created by TRU faculty member Michael Mehta.

“This brand strategy clearly demonstrates that the University is not neu-tral on this resource project, and moreover that corporate and government lobbying and largesse have the potential to significantly influence the ac-ademic mission and future of the institution,” Mehta wrote in the change.org petition.

As of Monday, Sept. 28, the petition had gained 43 signatures.

What do you think of the complaint against the phrasing, and what do you think of TRU’s reaction to the petition?

Make your voice heard and write us – whether you’ve got a full-page rant or just a few sentences, we want to hear what you have to say about the de-cision. Please include your name and position (student, faculty, Kamloops resident, etc.) as well.

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The Tournament Capital Ranch, located just past Rayleigh, is normally host to slo-pitch base-ball games and the home of the Kamloops Rugby Club. However, the city has grander plans for the ranch, which sees a large amount of its land go unused.

As early as the spring of 2016, the ranch could have a sustainable agriculture program intended for new farmers, said City Parks Plan-ning and Sustainability supervisor Michael Doll. Community Futures of Thompson Country (a nonprofit, entrepreneurial assistance orga-nization) has partnered with the city to develop five hectares of land on the ranch for a Farm Business Incubator Program.

“Community Futures is a nonprofit partner that will develop and manage the Farm Business Incubator Program in the long term. For now, it will just be a pilot

project,” said Community Planning supervisor Maren Luciani.

Since December of 2013, when Kamloops adopted the first Agricultural Area Plan (AAP), the city has been taking steps towards creating a resilient and sustainable local agricultural sector.

The AAP identified that one of the top issues on the minds of many of the Thomp-son-Okanagan’s farmers was a need to educate and support those attempting to enter the industry.

Traditionally, high land prices in the region have proved an insurmountable barrier to many aspiring farmers and ranchers. The Farm Business Incubator Program (FBIP) addresses this problem by offering new farmers access to land, training and shared equipment. The hope is that, with time, the FBIP will give aspiring farmers the chance to develop important skills in sustainable farming while creating a business

plan and forming relationships within the local farming commu-nity. Once they have developed the necessary skills and resources, they would move on and free up space for new farmers for the next season.

Luciani has said that that would be an ideal situation, “but other programs have found this difficult and have changed their models to let farmers stay on indefinitely.” Despite this, Farm Business Incu-bator Programs elsewhere have been quite successful, allowing

farmers to receive the proper training and mentorship oppor-tunities, and allowing them to sell and market their produce to their communities.

However, Luciani has also said that the project isn’t meant to give

the tenants of the plots an unfair advantage over other farmers in the region, as there will be costs involved. These costs will mostly stem from the resource sharing and mentorship aspects of the program. Revenue earned will immediately go back into the program to keep it afloat.

“This will allow farmers to get a better sense of the costs involved in farming,” Luciani said. “It will still likely be a

much more affordable starting point than going off on your own.”

So far, the Kamloops farming community has showed interest in the project, with 10 people signing on to become the first tenants. Many more experienced farmers and ranchers have

volunteered to become mentors when the program starts. A few of whom have also offered to donate equipment and to help with the preparation of the land.

Other resources, such as water, will be worked out in individual contracts between Community Futures and the new farmers. The city is already prepared to provide topsoil for the location, which sits upon class 1 and 2 soils, which are very arable. The city will also be partnering on a fencing program for the area as well, although they have not stated who they’ll be partnering with.

Although TRU has yet to be contacted by the city and has thus far had no input on the project, Jim Gudjonson of TRU Environment and Sustainability believes the project is a good starting point for agricultural sustainability in Kamloops and beyond.

“It’s something we would like to look into in the future. We might even attempt a similar program of our own design,” Gudjonson said.

Tournament Capital Ranch calls for new farmersSustainable agriculture program on five hectares of land to start as early as 2016Wade TomkoNEWS EDITOR Ω

Undergraduate Research Experience Award (UREAP) programYou could receive a $4,500 scholarship to complete your own research project.

tru.ca/myresearchFall Deadline: Oct. 15, 2015 at 4 p.m.

Companion is a relatively new app that was originally designed by five college students to help their fellow classmates feel safe while walking around campus alone. Though it is unfortunate that an app like this needs to exist due to how unsafe stu-dents feel around campus at night, it does a pretty good job of providing the user with a simple user interface and several distinct safety options.

Here’s how it works: first you have to sign up, entering both your name and phone number, which allows them to track your location in case you need to hit the “Call Police” button. Second, you pick the destination you’re going to walk to from the map on the screen. Once you’ve located your final stop and press “Start Trip,” you add the com-panions you would like to virtually

accompany you on your trip. The person (or people) you choose to be your companion do not need to have the app installed to be able to partici-pate, but must have a smartphone.

Every step is accounted for once you start moving. A green line on both the user and the companion’s screen follows your activity in live motion. While I was testing it, the app registered me running erratical-ly to avoid being hit by a sprinkler. During your walk you have the option to alert your companion by pressing the “I Feel Nervous” button, to which they can reply via text message.

Pressing “Call Police” will alert your local police department, and any abnormal behavior that is recog-nized by the app (such as your phone falling to the ground, having your earphones pulled out or a change in walking speed or route) will prompt a “smart trigger.” These triggers pop up on your screen asking if you

are okay, and you have 15 seconds to confirm that you are indeed okay before an alert is sent to your companion to check on you.

This app has a great foundation and has gained traction recently, but it is not without its issues either. When you get close to your destina-tion, it assumes you “have arrived safely” even though you could still be an entire block away. This poses a problem if your destination is in a particularly unsafe location, and could result in your companion falsely presuming that you are securely where you are supposed to be. It also has been known to send your companion’s messages to an entirely different phone number than originally entered.

Hopefully with some tweaks and bug fixes this app will reach its full potential, and continue to successfully address the growing social issue of feeling unsafe while walking alone.

App review: CompanionAn attempt to make your walk home alone a lot safer

Rachel WoodPRODUCTION COORDINATOR Ω

Following the previous meeting’s appointment of Eric Rankin to the position of Vice President Internal, the Board of Directors tendered Rankin’s resignation as Director-at-Large. TRUSU is now actively looking for someone to fill the vacant Director-at-Large position.

TRUSU carried a resolution, by a vote of 5–4, to grant the TRUSU India Club $1000 to host their annual AGM/Election and Welcome Night on October 2.

Other resolutions carried include:- $2000 grant to send students to attend the LinkBC competition on October 19–21.- $2000 grant to send students to attend Hockey - Arbitration competition on November 9.- TRUSU to allow expansion of campaign encouraging students to vote

Club ratifications: - Adventure Tourism Club - TRUSU International Club - TRUSU Speech Club - TRUSU International Hip Hop and Dancing Club - TRUSU Chess Club - TRUSU Swing Dance Club

TRUSU Board of Directors meeting – Sept. 22

““It will still likely be a much more affordable starting point than going off on your own,”

Maren Luciani, Community Planning Supervisor with the City of Kamloops

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Kamloops held its first ever Brew Loops beer festival last week to celebrate local breweries. Based on Victoria Beer Week, the festival kicked off on Sept. 24 with Brew University at the Noble Pig. For $20, the public sampled four of the Noble Pigs’ “Noble 7,” which consisted of the Fascist Pig Pilsner, the Wallonian Pig Belgian Pep-pered Ale, the Mocha Porter and the Imperialist Pig IPA.

Dustin McIntyre, advancement office coordinator for TRU and ex-manager for the Noble Pig, gave the group a tour of the brewery and explained the beer brewing process.

The tour started with the showing of malted barley going into a giant vat called a hopper.

“Sugars are collected from the barley, which gives beer its sweet-ness,” McIntyre said.

“Wart” is created from the process. Afterwards, hops are added to give the beer flavour and bitterness. The “kettle” is then used to boil the mixture, followed by the “whirlpool” which gets rid of residual solids in the beer. After cooling the beer, the yeast is added and then the beer is fermented. The whole process takes about a month and a half.

“This being the first beer festival in Kamloops, it’s really exciting that the Noble Pig is the first and only brew pub in town right now. We’re all trying to build beer culture

together here,” McIntyre said.Jennalee Johnson, assistant

manager, said Kamloops is becoming recognized as a beer destination “which the interior doesn’t have.”

McIntyre said he has met people from Australia that recognized the Noble Pig and its beer. “People love it,” he said. But, “It’s all about the beer culture, it’s not about competition.”

Fifty per cent of the proceeds from the festival will go to Western Canada Theatre and Kamloops Rotary West.

Brew Loops ran from Sept. 24 to 27 and included the Cannery, Driftwood Brewery, Four Winds, Howe Sound, Noble Pig, Phillips, Persephone, Red Collar and Three Ranges Brewing.

Brew Loops: Beer UniversityCarli BerryCONTRIBUTOR Ω

TRU alumnus Dustin McIntyre pours the Mocha Porter as part of the sampling that took place at Brew University on Sept. 24. (Carli Berry/The Omega)

The Kamloops Voters Society sponsored an open forum discussion about the proposed performing arts centre that would be built on the old Kamloops Daily News property downtown.

The forum was part of the Culture Days series of events taking place from Sept. 25 to 27.

In attendance were Mayor Peter Milobar and the consultant for the project, Tomer Curiel. Former city councilor and TRU instructor John O’Fee served as moderator.

The 40 other attendees were mostly from the arts community. Frank Dwyer, self-described “not an insider [of the arts community]” and former mayoral candidate Pierre Fili-setti were the only vocal opponents to the project.

The performing arts centre would have a 1,200-seat main theatre, a 350-seat black box theatre and 350 parking spaces. Construction would run from 2018 to 2020 and the

project’s estimated cost is $91 million, with the city needing to borrow approximately $49 million of that total cost.

“Worst case scenario, taxes would be raised one per cent in 2016, and another one per cent in 2017,” Milobar said.

Dwyer summed up his argument against the project as “too much, too late and in the wrong place.” Dwyer suggested it would be better placed at the university campus and worried about the theatre’s long-term relevance. He also worried that the current design would negatively affect the downtown core’s ambience.

Derek Cook, President of the Kamloops Voters Society and political science professor at TRU, asked Milobar how long it would take to come up with another proposal should this one be voted down. “Politically speaking, I would say it would be at least 10 years,” Milobar said.

Much of the discussion was devoted to comparing Kamloops to other B.C. cities of similar size, with many saying that the performing arts

centre would bring Kamloops up to par with the surrounding area.

Those in favour also argued that the Sagebrush Theatre is difficult to book even for Western Canada Theatre classes, and that the acous-tics, though ideal for theatre, are not adequate for musical performances. The centre could also be used for more diverse events like speakers and convocations, said Kathy Humphries, general manager of the Kamloops Symphony.

While many attendees expressed concern over engaging young people in the arts, the youngest people at-tending the forum were the reporters covering it.

Both for and against sides agreed that the details of the project needed to be better understood by the public and Dwyer expressed concern that the only voices heard so far were people who would benefit profes-sionally from the centre.

The information about the project as it was presented to the city council can be found at kamloops.ca. The referendum on the proposal will be held on Nov. 7.

Performing arts centre up for discussionMarlys KlossnerARTS EDITOR Ω

Artist alum Casey Koyczan returns to mentor students

Casey Koyczan, TRU alum and artist, returned to campus on Sept. 24 to speak to students. Koyczan also offered individual half-hour consultations the next day, where he could mentor students and give them feedback on their art.

Koyczan showed a slideshow of his work: a timeline of how his life influenced his art and how he explored different media. Koyczan explained how moving from Lethbridge to Yellowknife to Kamloops influenced his work.

Refreshingly, Koyczan ac-knowledged his artistic lim-itations as he showed some of his work done while he was in school.

“Really wanting to draw, but knowing you’re not good at it

– that was me,” he said.Koyczan worked in long-expo-

sure photography, digital collage, painting and 3D modeling before finding his niche with installa-tion pieces. Sound is as much a part of Koyczan’s work as the visual component.

Koyczan finished his talk with some stirring advice for budding artists.

“There are going to be people who tell you you can’t do some-thing. There are people who still doubt me. Trust yourself and you’ve got to at least try to bring something to fruition, because when you do that after someone tells you you can’t, that feels so good.”

Koyczan’s work now follows a theme of nature reclaiming architectural space. His installa-tion “Ek’èt’à” (Returning) was on display in the TRU art gallery last week.

Marlys KlossnerARTS EDITOR Ω

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Puzzle of the Week #3—Six Sheets to the Breeze? While on a walk, you found some pages from a small booklet. You recognise the source and know that the booklet consists of 32 pages numbered from 1 to 32 in that order. You found six of the sixteen sheets. What is the probability that at least one page’s page number on the pages that you found is prime?

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With fall fast approaching, the busy time of TRU athletics is upon us: the soccer, volleyball, basketball, and baseball teams were all in action in the past week.

After a bye week last week, the men’s soccer team dropped both games they played down on the coast this weekend, falling 2-0 to UBC and 5-1 to UVIC. The women’s soccer team played their home opening games at Hillside Stadium this past weekend and lost both, falling 3-0 and 4-0 to UVic and UBC respectively.

Men’s volleyball continued their pre-season schedule as they headed to Edmonton for an exhibition tournament. They would end the tournament with one win and four losses, with the lone win coming against Lethbridge College. The women’s volleyball team dropped the only game they played, as they were beaten in straight sets at the Tourna-ment Capital Centre by UBCO.

Women’s basketball split a pair of exhibition games against the University of Calgary, losing the first game 98-57 before rebounding with a one point win Saturday night taking the game 74-73.

And finally the baseball team had a busy week, recording one win and five losses in the six games that they played. The Pack split a pair of games against the Fraser Valley Collegiate Group midweek before losing all four that they played against UBC this weekend.

The TRU cross country team officially got their season underway Sunday Sept. 27, taking part in the Kamloops leg of the Dirty Feet Trail Series. Six of the eleven men on the team took part in the 10 km run, while seven of the nine female members of the team competed in the 5 km portion of the event.

Many of the key contributors have returned from last year’s team, including the women’s captain Alesha Miller and the men’s captain Ryan Pidhirniak.

There will be one major change for the team this year however, as former assistant coach Carmin Mazzotta steps into the head coach-ing role for the 2015 season. Cross country is another TRU Athletics program that has recently made the jump from the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) to the top tier of University athletics Cana-dian Interuniversity Sport (CIS).

This brings with it a whole range of challenges and one of the changes that Mazzotta wants

to bring to the program is in their approach to recruiting.

“The goal in the next few years will be to start recruiting and build-ing a program where we draw in more high school talent,” Mazzotta said.

Mazzotta, himself a former uni-versity level runner, also sees room for improvement in how the team is currently monitoring the level of iron in their blood throughout the gruelling season.

“We have a standard physical. It’s a very basic physical. It’s kind of an archaic model,” he said.

Top level runners compact the red blood cells in their feet during the course of training and racing. This can cause them to develop an iron deficiency and in some cases anemia.

“Female runners are much more prone to anemia than people in other sports,” Mazzotta said.

Especially important in this

process is a protein called ferritin, which circulates in the blood stream and releases iron for red blood cell synthesis when neces-sary. Keeping a runner’s ferritin level high is important.

“When you don’t have a high ferritin level you have no energy in your system, you can’t really go to the well,” Mazzotta said.

Over the course of a 10 km run, a high ferritin level can shave minutes off of an athlete’s time.

Due to a lack of a formalized CIS cross country schedule, the WolfPack team will be competing in community runs throughout the fall, hoping to record times that will impress Mazzotta as he will be choosing which athletes from the team will be making the trip to Guelph to compete in the CIS national championships that take place on Nov. 14.

Five minutes after the Kam-loops Broncos stepped onto the field Sept. 26, the game was over. Sure there was still more than 50 minutes of game time to come off the clock, but after just those first five minutes it was readily apparent that the Broncos were not going to be challenged by the visiting Valley Huskers.

Playing in the BC Football Conference (BCFC) of the Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL), the Broncos are a team on the rise. Hidden by years of losing records is the fact that, season after season, the Broncos were slowly improv-ing. This improvement has begun to pay dividends as of late as the Broncos put up a winning record last year, and appear poised to do

the same in 2015.“We played well tonight. The

goal today was to try and get some young kids into the game and get them some game experience and we accomplished what we wanted to,” said Broncos Head Coach Brad Yamaoka after the game Saturday night. The team achieved their goal of getting the more inexperienced backups into the game by jumping up to a substantial lead from which there was no way back for the Huskers.

20-year-old running back Jacob Palmarin certainly did his part. The BCFC leading rusher looked un-stoppable all game long, scoring an 18-yard touchdown on the Broncos’ first possession of the game, and adding another score before half time. Palmarin also crossed the 1,000 yard threshold for the year during the game, tightening his hold on the BCFC rushing crown.

The Broncos possess more than just a punishing ground game however. As Yamaoka pointed out, “We’re pretty balanced, we run the ball well, we can throw the ball ob-viously. Offense has never been our problem, we can move the ball on the best of teams, it’s just a matter of putting a full game together.”

The aerial attack was also on full display Saturday. Quarterback Stephen Schuweiler was able to pick the Huskers defense apart at will. Helped out equally by the offensive line giving him an impenetrable pocket from which to throw and the wide receivers finding huge holes in the defense, Schuweiler threw for three touchdowns before the end of the night. One of those touchdowns was caught by wide receiver Devin Csincsa, who joins Palmarin in the 1,000 yards gained club.

Not to be outdone by the guys on

offense, the Broncos defense was also impressive Saturday night as they kept the Huskers attack under wraps en route to the 58–15 victory.

Dominant in all phases of the game, this is a football team that is clicking at just the right time, with only one game remaining before the playoffs begin. “There’s been a few ups and downs, like any football season, but I’m happy with the way the kids have performed, they’ve come out and played hard. The playoffs are coming up, we just have to gear up for that and that’ll determine where we are as an organization,” Yamaoka said.

Currently sitting in fourth place in the BCFC, the Broncos next take to the field Saturday Oct. 3 at Hillside Stadium here in Kamloops, where they will play the league-leading Okanagan Sun in what could be a playoff matchup preview.

Cross country starts season with dirty feet

Broncos dominate Huskers on way to playoffs

WolfPack action over the weekend

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Start of the Dirty Feet race at Kenna Cartwright Park on Sept. 27. (Cameron Doherty/The Omega)

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