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By Jill Sperling

Wings Above Kamloops

KSAR and BC Search Dog Association announced as next Wings Above Kamloops beneficiaries

May 13, 2019 | 5:19 PM

KAMLOOPS — The Cooper Family Foundation announced its next Wings Above Kamloops recipients, involving significant investments into the North Shore.

Part of a $40 million investment will be used to build the Cooper Centre at 1200 Eighth Street.

The centre will include stores, a daycare, a Tim Hortons, and the two recipients of the Wings Above Kamloops donation: The BC Search Dog Association and Kamloops Search and Rescue.

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Both organizations will be provided a permanent home inside the former ‘Bowlertime’.

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“This is going to be a much bigger facility,” said KSAR President, Alan Hobler. “It’s going to be professional. Hopefully it brings in more membership, something we can show off and something our members can be proud of as well. As well, we’re hoping that our neighbouring teams spend more time here and spend more training with us as well. We have a 40-chair meeting room so we’ve got lots of room to bring in lots of people to train with us.”

The Cooper Family is building a community of 73 houses in Brocklehurst called Catalpa.

$10,000 from the sale of each house will be donated to the Cooper Family Foundation, which will in turn be used to support the two Wings Above Kamloops donation recipients.

“With Kamloops Search and Rescue and BC Search Dog Association they are so selfless,” said Tod Cooper. “Even now, they don’t believe that they deserve this, and yet every day of the week they’re ready to drop everything and go out and try and help somebody. You can’t find better recipients than that.”