Posted by Don Moores Death – Is Dead: Kamloops Blazers’ leader and COO Don Moores have passed on at 65 years old.
Moores fell in the about early afternoon on Wednesday (June 30) while playing golf at Kamloops Golf and Country Club.
Club senior supervisor Alec Hubert was among the individuals who hustled to Hole 3 with cold water and clinical gear, including a defibrillator, to keep an eye on Moores until a rescue vehicle showed up.
“We went out there and did all that could be expected,” Hubert said. “I’m clearly stirred up.”
The Blazers delivered an articulation on Wednesday concerning his passing.
“We are disheartened and devastated of the abrupt passing of our leader and COO, Don Moores, recently,” the group’s assertion peruses.
“Wear was a committed family man and a column locally being brought up in Kamloops. Wear worked enthusiastically in the course of recent years in making the Kamloops Blazers a main association in the WHL. The Blazers family is crushed at the misfortune. Wear and his family are in our musings and supplications right now.”
Moores was playing his twelfth opening of the day, as he began his round on the back nine.
“I visited with him in the first part of the day,” Hubert said. “The entire day, he was simply so tickety-boo. He halted in after nine holes, snatched a sandwich.
“It’s a pitiful day. Donnie is a genuine diamond, generally good, give-the-shirt-of-his-back kind of fellow. That person deserves a wide range of admiration. I don’t have a clue what to say about it.”
Moores was employed by the Blazers on June 30, 2016.
“It’s quite wrecking for everyone. He was a column for Kamloops and a major column for his family and a column for the Blazers, a person that has such a lot of energy and inspiration, simply an indispensable individual to the association and for his family, too,” Blazers’ head of hockey tasks Tim O’Donovan said.
O’Donovan keeps going addressed Moores on Tuesday.
“Simply normal Don, consistently happily, a ton of energy and liveliness,” O’Donovan said. “He had a decent perused on individuals. In the event that you were battling, he had a method of causing you to feel great pretty fast. He was a diligent employee and he’ll be woefully missed, without a doubt.”
He was brought up in Kamloops. He became distributer of Kamloops This Week inside its initial two years of activity after it began distributing in 1988. He later filled in as a provincial president for the parent organization Black Press.
Coun. Dale Bass worked with Moores for quite a while upon her landing in Kamloops This Week in 2000.
Bass was a columnist and, later, colleague editorial manager of KTW when Moores was local VP and in an office only a few doors down from Bass and the newsroom.
“Wear Moores was the sort of paper chief whose entryway was consistently open,” Bass said.
“He was consistently up for a talk about the paper, the climate, the Blazers — anything by any means. He was one of us. He wasn’t ‘only a suit,’ yet a man who thought often about each and every individual who worked at KTW and we as a whole thought often about him. I accept that says a lot for what a great individual he was and what a pleased Kamloopsian he was.”
Moores played junior hockey for the Kamloops Chiefs from 1973 to 1976 and was an associate mentor for the Kamloops Blazers from 1985 to 1990.
Moores left the city on various events to seek after work openings — remembering stretches for Red Deer and Nanaimo — yet consistently got back to the Tournament Capital.