A: Construction superintendent Jesse Schienbein says the wooden cutout on top of a Landmark Heights building under construction is, in fact, a rooster — or, maybe, a chicken.
He said two Kelowna foreman from The Bikers Construction are responsible for the imagery along McGill Road.
The two men are framers, sometimes contracted in Kamloops. They have been putting up the walls for the most recent phase of Landmark Heights and recently began on the building’s roof.
When their project is near completion, they put the bird on top of the roof, usually a spray-painted piece of plywood.
“They do it every building,” Schienbein said.
“It’s just been something that these framers have been doing since about 1970 . . . . to signify to the city that they’re almost done.”
Schienbein said Kamloops residents may have seen chickens or roosters on rooftops on Lorne Street and at Ponderosa Lodge in recent years.
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