Kamloops Last Week

Kamloops city councillors Mike O'Reilly and Katie Neustaeter are on the Build Kamloops program select committee, which has identified five facilities to explore building as part of the program — the Kamloops Centre for the Arts, an aquatics centre, a multi-sheet ice complex, an indoor soccer dome and a curling facility.

They hop in with KLW [at 15:59] to talk cost, community appetite for spending, potential referendum, locations and Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's comments relating to the program made last week on KLW, among other topics.

A seniors centre or community space would be built in conjunction with one of the above facilities, according to https://letstalk.kamloops.ca/buildkamloops.

We're also joined on the show by Calgary Flames' rookie sensation Connor Zary and American Hockey League points leader Logan Stankoven in the Tattle of Hastings [42:56].

We barely sneak past border guards in our weekly sponsorship improv [11:39] session, with the help of Gord's Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops and McDonald's. We thank the Kamloops Blazers for their support.

Here lies Kamloops Last Week — May 12, 2021, to Feb. 7, 2024.

Co-hosts Christopher Foulds and Marty Hastings offer reasons for the show's demise.

We dig into the archives — along with Bill and Showmaster Magic Mike Miltimore — to find highlights and reflect on the life of KLW.

Thanks to all of the #LastWeekClique members who helped us eclipse the one-million-view mark across all platforms, the amazing guests who made our show special and the sponsors who kept us alive: Holmes is Where the Heart Is, Nu Leaf Produce Market, Twin River Painting, Cold Control Mechanical, McDonald’s, Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Betstamp, Club Car, Kamloops Y Dream Home, Maca Ranch and the Kamloops Blazers.

Special thanks to Brandy Sekhon of McDonald's, Steve Rodgers of Gord's, Terry Lowe of Volkswagen and Herman Hothi of Nu Leaf.

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Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson joins Kamloops Last Week for an unscheduled visit, Zooming in from Mexico [at the 47:15 mark] to address concerns about his whereabouts, most notably from Kamloops city coun. Stephen Karpuk.

Hamer-Jackson also denies a report that notes he said these words to City of Kamloops CAO David Trawin: “I’ll bury you.”

KLW 125 includes a visit [27:55] from Dan Ondang and Andrew Robertson of Chimera Theatre, two of the driving forces behind William Shakespeare Mystery Box, the play that will open on Feb. 1 at the Pavilion Theatre.

The jam-packed show also features our monthly KLW on the Blazers segment [39:15].

Blazers’ defenceman Ryan Michael and club game-day-operations and ticketing co-ordinator Missy Cederholm hop in to talk about KMHA/Literacy in Kamloops Book Drive Night this Saturday at Sandman Centre.

Co-hosts Chris Foulds and Marty Hastings delve into another dubious record for overdose deaths in B.C., decriminalization, Build Kamloops and the proposed performing arts centre, Guy Lafleur and Kamloops coun. Nancy Bepple’s decision to withdraw a recent notice of motion.

We can’t do our show without our loyal sponsors: McDonald’s, Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops, Maca Ranch and the Kamloops Blazers.

Check out our weekly sponsorship improv session [25:07] and take a trip [16:31] to Maca Ranch to find its good, clean food.

We can’t thank Maca Ranch — find them online at macaranch.ca — enough for being on board with us for 10 episodes and we hope to visit the ranch soon.

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Connor Zary has become a rookie sensation with the Calgary Flames.

The 22-year-old forward played for the Kamloops Blazers in the WHL from 2017 to 2021 before the Flames nabbed him 24th overall in Round 1 of the 2020 NHL Draft.

Zary hopped on a Zoom call with Marty Hastings of Kamloops Last Week on Friday, Jan. 19, the day after his third-period goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs was disallowed and the day before his Flames played host to Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers.

Topics include his rookie season in the NHL, McDavid, Kyrell Sopotyk, the Vancouver Canucks, the Flames’ recent dads’ trip and his time with the Blazers.

Kristen Holliday of Castanet Kamloops and James Peters of CFJC pop in to discuss Kamloops news [at the 26:13 mark] in Episode 124 of Kamloops Last Week.

We’re also joined [at 47:27] by Samantha Fisher and Erin Pincott of Team Brown, which will compete for the provincial women’s curling championship next week on Vancouver Island.

Co-host Chris Foulds takes issue [12:10] with a notice of motion from Kamloops city coun. Nancy Bepple, saying her request for the mayor to pen a letter to Ottawa on behalf of council about the Israel-Gaza conflict is “cherry picking.”

Topics in our Last Week Media Clique segment with Peters and Holliday include B.C. United’s pledge to ban cellphones in classrooms, Bepple’s motion, coun. Katie Neustaeter’s request for residents to write provincial politicians about the drug ban law that was upended by the B.C. Supreme Court, the city hiring a FireSmart co-ordinator and Black Press entering creditor protection.

Holliday asks [44:13] Foulds about rumblings: What’s the latest on the effort to start a newspaper in Kamloops?

Also discussed on today’s show: benevolent viewer Chris Koehn donates $100 to the KLW 600 Subscriber Party Fund, the honeymoon phase of relationships, the Buffalo Bills winning the Super Bowl and Swervin’ Mervyn Fernandez of the B.C. Lions.

We can’t do our show without our sponsors — Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, McDonald’s, Volkswagen of Kamloops, Maca Ranch and the Kamloops Blazers.

Find our weekly sponsorship improv session at 22:21 and take a trip to Maca Ranch for good, clean food at 16:53.

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Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson returns from Mexico and hops in for the first Reider's Digest of 2024.

 Many topics are covered. The segment begins at 22:09.

Thanks to McDonald's, Gord's Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops, Maca Ranch and the Kamloops Blazers for sponsoring our show.

Find our weekly sponsorship improv at 59:52 and take a tour of Maca Ranch at 10:14.

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A motor-vehicle accident on Nov. 29 in Kamloops took the life of TRU WolfPack men’s volleyball player Owyn McInnis of Guelph, Ontario.

McInnis was killed and two of his teammates — Riley Brinnen and Owen Waterhouse, both from Kelowna — suffered life-altering injuries in the accident that took place on McGill Road at University Drive, near the university campus.

They were stopped at a red light in a Volkswagen Jetta when an out-of-control pickup truck hit several trees along McGill Road before crashing into the Jetta.

Brinnen incurred a serious spinal injury and Waterhouse suffered severe brain trauma.

WolfPack men’s volleyball head coach Pat Hennelly and three of his players — Rylan Ibbetson and Mason Sodaro of Kelowna, along with Dylan VanSpankeren of Calgary — spoke to Kamloops Last Week on Monday, Jan. 8, before practising at the Tournament Capital Centre.

Kamloops Last Week starts the year with a countdown of its top 10 news stories of 2023 [at the 24:58 mark] and a visit from Global BC chief meteorologist Mark Madryga [11:23].

Co-host Chris Foulds claims [29:55] to have created the ideal education system, which includes the abolishment of summer break, and takes issue [7:22] with a list of the top 30 bingeworthy shows in TV history.

Madryga — who fell through dry wall and down onto his garage floor during the holiday season — reveals his favourite TV show and answers questions on this warm and dry winter in Kamloops and beyond.

Showmaster Magic Mike Miltimore talks Gulliver’s Grill [27:19] and informs the viewers and listeners of his chicken-wing-eating dominance.

Get Foulds’ review [4:23] of Maca Ranch pork and join us on our weekly sponsorship improv session [1:24:09], with help from Volkswagen of Kamloops, McDonald’s and Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre.

Thanks to the Kamloops Blazers for their support.

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The KLW Christmas special is here, complete with a visit from Santa Claus and Buddy the Elf, who field video questions from children across B.C.

Why is the big guy’s tummy so fat? Can he deliver an army full of nutcrackers? Does Buddy still sing with Josie? How do the reindeers fly?

We get all the answers at the 20:59 mark.

We’re also joined [at 59:12] in our KLW on the Blazers segment by Kamloopsian Dylan Sydor, who talks Christmas and hockey and takes a video question from superfan Mason.

Co-host Christopher Foulds brings us into the spirit with a reading [1:15:15] of Yes, Virgina, there is a Santa Claus.

We can’t thank our sponsors — McDonald’s, Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops, Maca Ranch and the Blazers — enough for their support in 2023.

Find the weekly sponsorship improv at 16:45 and our weekly tour of Maca Ranch at 13:18.

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Kamloops Last Week welcomes CFJC and Castanet into the bowels of Lee’s Music in Episode 120 for the debut of a brand new segment — the Last Week Media Clique (26:57).

James Peters, news director for CFJC, and Kristen Holliday, regional editor for Castanet Kamloops, join KLW co-hosts Chris Foulds and Marty Hastings to discuss local news.

Topics include city council’s decision to decline asking the provincial government to do a third-party review of BC Housing-related shelters/social housing in the city (Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson wants a review), congestion on Landsdowne Street, Build Kamloops and the potential 10.8 per cent tax hike. We also interview Brant Zwicker (48:30), who was recently honoured with the Toronto Blues Society Blues Booster of the Year Award.

Zwicker is longtime host, producer and writer of syndicated radio program At the Crossroads.

Hastings drops by the Fulton Cup press conference (1:00:25) to speak to high school basketball players ahead of the city championship tournament, which gets underway on Dec. 20 at the TCC.

Longtime lead organizer Will Blair is handing the reins to Sean Garvey, who is planning to introduce a half-court-shot competition, with the winner receiving a new car.

Chris Throness, lead pastor at Kamloops Alliance Church, hops in (1:09:13) to discuss the extreme weather shelter and a potential church plant in Sun Peaks, where two Christmas Eve services will be held later this month.

We head to the Blue Grotto on our sponsorship improv trip (23:15), along with Volkswagen of Kamloops, Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre and McDonald’s.

Thanks also to the Kamloops Blazers and Maca Ranch for their support.

At 16:59, we order in good, clean food from Maca Ranch.

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