Lois Cutler (image credit - CFJC Today)

By Michael Reeve

IN MEMORY

Former CFJC host of Carefree Cooking and Let’s Visit a While passes away

Dec 19, 2022 | 4:00 PM

KAMLOOPS — For many Lois Cutler was a staple on their television screens during the formative years of CFJC TV. Over the course of decades, she delighted viewers with both ‘Carefree Cooking’ and ‘Let’s Visit a While’.

Cutler first took to the screen of CFJC in 1964 with the debut of her first show ‘Let’s Visit a While’, a program that would run for more than 20 years, bringing in legendary guests along the way.

“She had the ability to attract people in to get interviewed. Stars that probably would be impossible now to get them, but somehow she was able to do it. Some that I remember, Johnny Cash, Jose Feliciano, Chief Dan George, and Johnny Crawford who played Mark McCain,” said Former CFJC Sports Anchor Earl Seitz.

Seitz also remembered Cutler bringing in the k-9 stars of ‘The Littlest Hobo’.

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She was just the second woman to host a program on the station, trailblazing a path for many to follow.

“She was a trailblazer no doubt about it, with the programs she did with Lets Visit a While and Carefree Cooking. And of course from Lets Visit a While we went into the Midday Show which Tanya (Cronin) does now. so, you can certainly say she was a trailblazer,” added Seitz.

Eight years later, in 1972, Cutler would begin connecting with the diverse culinary scene in Kamloops with launch of ‘Carefree Cooking’.

“You look back now about the phenomena of the food network is, she was like 30 years ahead of that. She would bring chefs in from all the hotels and restaurants around town. She did on-location stuff for Carefree Cooking,” said Dave Somerton, who worked with Cutler for more than 30 years.

Carefree Cooking would air for 28 years.

Throughout her nearly four-decade tenure at the broadcast centre, Cutler helped carve out CFJC as a hub for local Kamloops content.

“Her show brought the community to the station, and the station to the community, she was a bridge. She was on top of what was happening with community groups and charities and always giving them the exposure they needed,” added Somerton.

“The memory of Lois is the kind of person she was, kind and gentle, just a beautiful soul, inside and out,” said Seitz.