Kamloops Last Week celebrates its second birthday in style. The guest list: BC United MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson Todd Stone [16:14 mark], Dallas Stars and Kamloops Blazers’ owner Tom Gaglardi [1:07:48], Keri Lewis and Giulianna Durfeld [42:44] of Freeze Athletics cheer and four B.C. Lions [1:01:40] — Lucky Whitehead, Vernon Adams Jr., T.J. Lee and Sean Whyte.

Stone takes aim at the BC NDP on several issues, including deteriorating pre-natal care in Kamloops, recruitment and retainment of doctors across the province and radical forces influencing elections.

He also discusses a public-private health care system in Canada and drinking local IPAs from the Memorial Cup.

Gaglardi recaps his Blazers’ loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds and looks ahead to the Memorial Cup.

He also shares thoughts on his ownership tenure in Kamloops — does he plan to stick around for the long haul?

The Lions pay homage to their mothers and restaurants in Kamloops, while we discuss the future of training camp in city, as wildfire smoke rolls in.

We feature video of cheer routines and athlete interviews taken at the Freeze gym, while club part-owner Lewis and athlete Durfeld fill us in on the club’s historic season.

Whistling in the workplace is a theme — should it be banned outright? Co-hosts Marty Hastings and Chris Foulds disagree on the matter.

We thank Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops, McDonald’s and the Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery for their support on our sponsorship improv tour [11:12] of rattlesnake-infested walking trails in the Tournament Capital.

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In Kamloops Last Week 91, we dissect [at 39:16] the end of the Kamloops Blazers’ WHL playoff run and sit down with Kamloops city coun. Nancy Bepple [17:47], who lays out her case against the provincial government’s Homes for People plan.

Bepple shares her opinion on Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s town hall proposal and addresses comments made about the mayor by Radio NL’s Brett Mineer.

Co-host Chris Foulds takes issue with red tape that seems to hinder city and council.

Foulds also defends dessert trifles and takes aim at key fobs.

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This week’s sponsorship improv journey [7:12] takes us down the Thompson River, where we encounter stray VW Turtle River Race participants, incredibly buoyant and well-constructed Sealy mattresses from Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre (Gord’s is hiring to its delivery team), an abundance of filet-o-fish burgers on McHappy Day and the gorgeous Kamloops Y Dream Home.

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Dr. Carol Fenton, Annemarie Watts, Jody Vosper and Kaleigh Gnoato are our feature guests in Episode 90 of Kamloops Last Week.

Fenton, medical health officer for Interior Health, offers opinions [at 10:02 mark] on several hot-button issues in Kamloops, including open drug use in public spaces, mandatory treatment, enforcement and the four pillars drug strategy.

We’re also joined by Grade 10 Valleyview secondary student Kaleigh Gnoato [34:06], who talks of an upcoming BC School Sports vote that has potential to nix gymnastics from its programming.

Gnoato explains why losing gymnastics would hurt her and many students across B.C. Watts, a phys-ed teacher at Valleyview secondary, and Vosper, athletics director at Sa-Hali secondary, have been invited to receive BC School Sports awards on May 12 at a banquet in Whistler.

They join us [44:30] to talk about the awards and offer a different side to the gymnastics conversation.

We also hear from Kamloops Blazers’ goaltender Dylan Ernst [3:39], who helped his club earn an important victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds on Tuesday at Sandman Centre.

Our weekly sponsorship improv [6:19] recaps unruly performances at a recent lawn-bowling event that features Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops, McDonald’s and the Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery.

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Episode 89 of Kamloops Last Week is vivacious.

Four interview subjects — Kamloops city coun. Katie Neustaeter (18:28 mark), Shaun Clouston and Logan Stankoven (50:17) of the Kamloops Blazers and Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery spokesperson Bryce Herman (39:35) — deliver insight on Tournament Capital happenings.

Neustaeter talks of a bylaw amendment — one she championed — that would ban open drug use in public spaces, addresses criticism from Dr. Carol Fenton, Interior Health’s medical health officer in Kamloops, recaps wooing the 2027 North American Indigenous Games delegation and finds glimpses of hope in the relationship between council and Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

Blazers’ captain Stankoven wants to put an exclamation point on his incredible WHL career by winning a league title.

The Seattle Thunderbirds stand in his Blazers’ way in the Western Conference final, which gets underway on Saturday in Kent, Wash.

Stankoven and Blazers’ head coach Clouston look ahead to the Seattle series.

Herman provides information on the $1.3 million Dream home at 2197 Coldwater Dr. in Juniper West and notes all fundraising proceeds will stay within city limits.

The show opening goes a little haywire.

Mike Miltimore rubs shoulders with Premier David Eby and Prince William and Kate Middleton (5:35), co-hosts Chris Foulds and Marty Hastings discuss dreams (8:16) and mental health, and our weekly sponsorship improv (14:35) goes off the rails.

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Seattle Thunderbirds’ head coach Matt O’Dette answered questions on Saturday (April 22), offering his take on what is likely to be a classic Western Hockey League post-season series featuring his club and the Kamloops Blazers.

Reider’s Digest, our monthly interview segment with Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, returns (at the 16:37 mark) in Episode 88 of Kamloops Last Week.

We also welcome KTW reporter Jessica Wallace, who after years of enduring hardship and lost pregnancies joins us (46:31) — along with baby Joseph — to talk about mom life, pay tribute to health-care workers, express concerns about prenatal care in Kamloops and share thoughts on mayor and council.

The VW Turtle River Race, a fundraiser for the Kamloops Brain Injury Association, is coming to Riverside Park on May 7, from noon to 3 p.m.

Volkswagen of Kamloops owner Terry Lowe pops in (56:39) to preview the event and issue a challenge to local businesses.

Hamer-Jackson touches on many subjects, including shelters, his work to address tainted drug supply after a recent overdose death in Kamloops, the potential upcoming referendum on borrowing money for infrastructure projects, safe-injection sites, the proposed drug-use bylaw, extensions for two shelter locations in the city and allegations council has made against him.

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Anaheim Ducks’ prospect Olen Zellweger and Minnesota Wild prospect Caedan Bankier of the Kamloops Blazers hop in with Kamloops Last Week (12:48 mark), along with Tina Lange (26:13), formerly a Kamloops city councillor and co-owner of Plaza Hotel.

The Blazers offer scouting reports on the Winterhawks, talk about hockey crowds on both sides of the border, reveal which signed players forked up money for a team dinner on Monday, wonder aloud if majority owner Tom Gaglardi has any special treats for the team up his sleeve during the playoffs and suggest the league has not yet consistently seen the full force of their team, which they hope to reveal in Round 2 against Portland.

Game 1 is slated to get underway at 7 p.m. on Friday. KLW has two tickets to give away for Game 2 on Saturday.

Lange discusses the Plaza Hotel, which she believes is haunted, and shares ghost stories that help make the iconic building a tourist destination for those seeking a brush with the paranormal.

Plaza topics also include a strippers’ pole that has gone missing and the honeymoon suite that was renovated to host Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Lange offers her take (36:13) on Kamloops city council and Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, noting her disappointment in both.

Our weekly sponsorship improv session (9:26) takes Magic Mike Miltimore in a sweet ride from Volkswagen of Kamloops to a Strong Man Competition, at which he is pelted with a Chicken Big Mac from McDonald’s and swings one of his Riversong guitars at a judge, who is saved by a pillow and Sealy Mattress from Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, which has wonderful beds on sale at the moment.

Miltimore licks his wounds and hopes for better luck at the Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery.

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Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo [at 24:20 mark] and B.C. Wildlife Park GM/executive director Glenn Grant [10:42] hop in for Kamloops Last Week 86.

Caputo analyzes his handshake experience with U.S. President Joe Biden, talks Chinese interference in elections and criticizes the federal budget, with Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan in town to sing its praises.

Caputo, who takes aim at GST on gas and the carbon tax, also talks tomatoes and the KTW-famous photo of him and his wife snapped by Dave [The Hawk] Eagles on election night 2021.

He also tap dances around a question on offering advice to Kamloops mayor and council.

Grant raves about the success of wildlights (best attendance since 2005) and looks ahead to the park’s plans for Easter, sensory friendly activities, a more inclusive playground and an outdoor classroom that will open soon to serve students and corporate events.

Co-host Chris Foulds boycotted Expo 86 for political reasons. He was 18. We get into that decision.

Magic Mike Miltimore shares a disturbing story of late-night criminal activity at his home in Valleyview, where his irate wife had harsh words to scare off the intoxicated perpetrator.

KTW is nearing 400 subscribers and has amassed hundreds of thousands of views across all platforms.

The Kamloops Y Dream Home Lottery joins the KLW support crew, which also includes Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Volkswagen of Kamloops and McDonald’s.

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Fraser Minten and Daylan Keufler of the Kamloops Blazers hop in [at 20:52 mark] with the Kamloops Last Week crew to look ahead to their first-round playoff series against the Vancouver Giants.

Co-hosts Chris Foulds and Marty Hastings and showmaster Magic Mike Miltimore walked the streets with Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, aiming to learn more about street and social issues in the city. We discuss the experience [at 3:49].

Intrepid KTW reporter Michael Potestio joins [35:53] to talk of his interview with City of Kamloops chief administrative officer David Trawin, who responded to comments made about his health and workload by Hamer-Jackson.

Foulds is critical of the mayor’s comments in the story, along with what Foulds says are attempts to appoint friends and supporters to city and committee roles.

He also takes issue [44:05] with city council’s approval of up to $100,000 for 11th-hour upgrades to Sandman Centre for the Memorial Cup.

We thank out sponsors — Gord’s Appliance and Mattress Centre, Club Car Beverage Company, Volkswagen of Kamloops and McDonald’s — for their support. [Sponsorship improv at 18:30].

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Kamloops Last Week 84 is dedicated to discussion on turmoil on city council.

The City of Kamloops offers information on community services officers and point-in-time counts in response to claims made last week on KLW by Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.

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