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White Cane Week spreads word on vision loss
In the photo: Vision Mate volunteer Petrina Dumais (left) chats with Les Nolin of the CNIB. It’s White Cane Week, which highlights awareness of the blind and vision-impaired. Dave Eagles photo/KTW...
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Food on the go — but where?
In the photo: The popular food-truck industry in Kamloops includes Eats Amore, among others. KTW file photo Kamloops’ rolling restaurateurs will most likely return to the downtown this spring, but...
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Privacy commissioner says anti-terrorism bill lacks teeth to protect...
The Conservative government’s new anti-terrorism bill lacks sufficient protection for democratic values, including free speech and privacy, according to B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner....
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Premier Clark needs to stop her bullying ways
Editor: It will not be long now until Premier Christy Clark is promoting Pink Shirt Day by donning a pink shirt and denouncing bullying for a day. To many people in this province, it will seem as if...
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DeCap, Nelson set sights on B.C. title
In this photo: Team DeCap — skip Scott DeCap, third Ron Douglas, second Pat DeCap and lead Grant Olsen. KTW file photo Two Kamloops Curling Club (KCC) rinks are chasing men’s provincial curling gold...
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KGHM Ajax to revisit dry-stack tailings option at proposed mine
KGHM Ajax will conduct a “trade-off study” to determine whether it will return to a dry-stack tailings system for its proposed mine in wake of a report advocating the technology. The Mount Polley...
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Smart meters and old homes are not a good mix
Editor: I am keeping my analog meter on my 1912 lath-and-plaster-built home. I refuse to have a smart meter installed as a result of FortisBC’s and BC Hydro’s own explanations for fires in our...
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BASS: We should all be pro-vaxxers
About two-dozen years ago, while still just a toddler, my middle son came down with a runny nose and cough. Considering our house was kid-central back then, I assumed he had picked up some bug that...
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KYSA’s Guise suffering from brain abscess
Colin Guise and daughter Briana. Doctors said Colin Guise had a better chance of being struck by lightning. When the 43-year-old Kamloops man walked into Royal Inland Hospital complaining of a...
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Study finds city needs to communicate better with developers
A consultant says Kamloops’ development and engineering department need to be clearer about what the expectations are for developers and deal with notions the city sometimes “plays favourites.” The...
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We must not allow fear to dictate Ajax debate
Editor: I am for the proposed Ajax mine. In 1914, while the CPR railway was being built through the Fraser Canyon, a large rockslide came down and dammed the river, stopping the fish from swimming to...
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Speaker says councils should take activist roles
Gil Penalosa There was plenty of talk of parks and public transit during Gil Penalosa’s speech on Wednesday, Jan. 28, but what really got the crowd assembled at Thompson Rivers University going was a...
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Senior social
Brian Bursey (left) and Yvonne Tremblay share a laugh as enjoy pattern dancing with the Kamloops Old Time Fiddlers branch 12, in the Dogwood Room of North Shore Community Centre. The centre hosts...
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Going for a road test? Here’s what you need to know
If you’re taking an ICBC examiner for a ride, ensure your vehicle is gassed up, you can see through the windshield and your vehicle’s horn works. Those three items are among the public insurer’s Top 10...
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FOULDS: Travelling back to the 1980s in a ‘carpool car’
As the wood-panelled car crossed the Columbia River and into Portland, six bare feet poked out the back window, 30 toes enjoying the summer air as the station wagon chugged southward. Those three pairs...
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Over 18,000 breakfasts projected through Power Start
The Boys and Girls Club of Kamloops operates a program called Power Start, which aims to ensure vulnerable children have consistent transportation to school and also feeds them a nutritious breakfast...
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Faith: Contemplating the prayer of CATS
I recently saw a T-shirt that said: Drinking is my religion. Care to join me in prayer? It was irreverent, but still kind of funny. However, it got me thinking about prayer. What is prayer? Does it...
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Accused claims victim made sexual advances
A man on trial for second-degree murder told an investigator he woke up drunk and confused as the friend he had been staying with stood naked — a knife in his hand — and made a sexual advance toward...
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FLETCHER: Teachers, not union, adapting
The B.C. education ministry put on a forum on the future of education recently, bringing together public and private school leaders with experts from around the world. I watched the proceedings via...
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LISTINGS: Feb. 6 to Feb. 12
Friday, Feb. 6 • Art: Obsolete Spaces, by Wendy Weseen at the Old Courthouse Cultural Centre, 7 West Seymour St. On until Feb. 7. Body Heat, male entertainers based out of Alberta who perform ladies’...
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