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Kathy Sinclair knows what Canada Day at Riverside Park means to local artists.

Baking and decorating are creative pastimes. The culinary arts is truly a high-art form as it is the only creative expression we can see, feel, touch, smell, taste and sometimes even hear — if, perhaps, it’s crunchy.

Werner Braun was a lover of history. After retiring to Kamloops, the German-born painter set out to paint more than 100 of Kamloops’ heritage buildings in watercolour or acrylic, rendering the city’s past in bold colours and with trademark detail.

Chris Hergesheimer had a passion for grains — the kind that leads a man to drive across B.C.

For JP Lancaster, a brewery is more than a place to make beer.

Linda Boutilier (left), Barbara Basaraba, Johanna Walters and Vera Cook share a hearty laugh together under the shade of a tree in the Butterfly Garden in McArthur Island.

Two years ago, everything changed for Angela Ippolito. The 17-year-old Beattie School of the Arts student was in Grade 10 and her father had been having liver problems.

Teaching children can be an extremely challenging and rewarding profession. It takes years of dedication and a degree of stamina to keep all of those young minds engaged and excited about learning.

Kamloops Arts Council is seeking volunteers for Art in the Park on Canada Day. Tasks include fundraising and take-down — just a few hours before the annual event which sees artists set up in booths throughout the park on July 1.

David Charbonneau wasn’t sure what Peter Milobar would think. It’s why the Kamloops artist showed the mayor the portrait he painted of him before giving it to him.