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Online voting not on the horizon
As municipalities across B.C. look to boost voter turnout for their Nov.15 local government elections, there’s one option they won’t have — sending voters online to fill out their ballots. While...
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Larger voter turnout expected
When it comes to voter turnout, being in line with the provincial average isn’t much to celebrate — especially not in the case of municipal elections. In 2011, only 29 per cent of eligible voters in...
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Talking business and finance
Questions on business and finance took centre stage as Kamloops’ council and mayoral candidates made one of their final joint appearances of the campaign season on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at a meeting of...
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Couple claims they are being ‘persecuted for being Indian’
A First Nations couple facing poaching charges claim they are being “persecuted for being Indian.” Jay Coutts and Fara Palmer were in Kamloops provincial court on Thursday, Nov. 13, where they entered...
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WALLACE: Put that duckface to good use this Saturday
You just voted in the municipal election. You exercised your democratic right and helped shape your community for the next four years, just days after paying homage to Canadian soldiers who died for...
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Q and A, ‘I see hair as fabric’
The other day, while driving around town with my husband, we became engaged in a conversation about the difference between art and craft. He suggested building speakers could be considered art because...
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MITRA: Making sense of disasters: Manmade or natural
Two major anniversaries are being observed this month on two different continents and with varied emotions. The 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is a cause of major celebration in...
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Send us your best Christmas stories!
Let’s get merry for Christmas! Kamloops This Week is gearing up for the Christmas holidays and we want you — our loyal readers — to help spread the spirit of the season. We want your Christmas stories...
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Kamloops construction firm suing city over awarding of Aberdeen firehall...
In the photo: Kamloops Mayor officially opens the Aberdeen firehall in September 2012. KTW file photo A local construction firm has lost its bid to obtain legal advice given to the city on the...
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Former Daily News reporter hired to write for City of Kamloops newsletters
Former Kamloops Daily News city hall reporter Michele Young has been hired by the place she spent plenty of time in recent years. She will paid by the city to produce six newsletters in a year. Tammy...
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Where can you vote? Glad you asked . . .
Here is where you can vote on Saturday, Nov. 15. All polling stations are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the exception of Sahali Centre Mall, where the polling station is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30...
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A stolen purse returned — 35 years later
In the photo: Martha Shepherd with ID she had stolen on Vancouver Island in 1979. Andrea Klassen photo/KTW When Martha Shepherd’s phone rang last week and the man on the other end of the line...
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Rational Thoughts: Rationalizing what’s in the news
I want to touch on a couple of items that have been in the news lately. First, there was the issue of a little girl not being allowed to wear a head scarf to Lloyd George elementary because she did not...
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DYER: 25 years later: The Berlin Wall
I n China, the communists had just massacred the students in Tiananmen Square and won themselves another quarter-century in power. On the other hand, the Poles voted overwhelmingly for Solidarity in...
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A nutty excursion to West Kelowna
There is no better place to feel like a nut than the Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park in West Kelowna. This nutty story started in 1900 when the Gellatly family purchased more than 120 hectares of land...
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Kids! Send us your Christmas drawings!
Kids! Christmas is coming and that means we need your BEST Christmas drawings! Every year, Kamloops This Week publishes plenty of Christmas drawings — and some of the kids get a cool prize for their...
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Learning to volunteer
Sales is nothing without practice, according to Thompson Rivers University (TRU) sessional instructor Sheena van Dyk, who reached out to partner with Volunteer Kamloops to help her students complete a...
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And the class-size averages in Kamloops-Thompson are . . .
With final enrolment established, the Kamloops-Thompson school district can now report average class sizes in 43 schools. A report going to the board of education on Monday, Nov. 17, states...
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Cyclist killed in Upper Sahali collision
A cyclist is dead after being struck by a vehicle on a residential street in Upper Sahali this afternoon (Nov. 15). Emergency crews were called to the 1500-block of Springhill Drive at about 3 p.m....
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Storm chasing: Chronicling KTW’s trip through the Kootenays with the Kamloops...
KTW reporter Adam Williams is on the road with the Kamloops Storm this weekend as the junior B Kootenay International Junior Hockey League club makes its way through the Kootenays. Keep checking in as...
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