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It is with great sadness that we announce Mic Jones has passed away. Mic was a great member of the Kalamalka Highalnders Pipe Band and was a playing piper past the age of 80! We will truly miss this kind and caring gentleman and our condolences go out to Lynda and family members.  KHPB and ACMPB Members win BIG at 2015 BCPA Annual Gathering held in Vancouver on Easter Weekend!!4/9/2015
Members of the Kalamalka Highlanders and Arran Campbell Memorial Youth Pipe Bands placed VERY WELL at the 2015 British Columbia Pipers' Association Annual Gathering in Vancouver on the Easter Weekend. (Saturday, April 4th). KHPB Pipe Major Maureen Soichuk was 1st in both the 2/4 March and the 6/8 March competition of the Adult Class to win the Aggregate Trophy!! This is the first time an adult member of our pipe band has won an aggregate trophy at the Annual Gathering competitions! Maureen also played with the Kamloops Pipe Band in the Bands Competition and they placed 2nd and 3rd in the Piping Section. Piper Kyle Wilson of ACMPB and RMM Gr. 3, was 1st out of 13 pipers in the 2/4 March competition in Grade 4 Piping! Well done, Kyle!! Kyle also placed 3rd in the Grade 3 Band Competiton. ACMPB Bass player, Allison Anderson, placed 1st in the Grade 5 Band Competition event with RMM. KHPB Drum Sergeant, Neil Morrison, presented the 2015 BCPA Arran Campbell Memorial Pro Drumming Aggregate Trophy to Grant Maxwell, son of SFUPB D.S. Reid Maxwell, at the Gathering. Congratulations to all of these band members!!  Aggregate winners at the 2015 BCPA Annual Gathering Competiton in Vancouver on Easter Saturday, April 4th. This is the biggest Indoor Piping and Drumming Competition in the Pacific Northwest.  Maureen Soichuk's two Gold Medals for placing 1st in the BCPA Annual Gathering Adult Class Piping event on April 4th, 2015.  Pipe Major Maureen Soichuk holding the Carl Ian Walker Memorial Shield as the 1st place Aggregate winner of the Adult Class Piping event at the 2015 BCPA Annual Gathering in Vancouver on Saturday, April 4th, 2015. 
P.S. Don Campbell, P.M. Maureen Soichuk, and P.S. Gord Mathers pose with the 2015 Vernon Winter Carnival Bandarama Trophy they won on Saturday, February 7th. Photo by Craig Tilander.
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