Teen to perform at local coffee shop Saturday night
A teenager who does it all will be performing at the Art We Are this weekend. Madison Olds sings, dances and writes music and she’ll be performing live on Saturday, April 5 at 8 p.m. at the downtown...
View ArticleVolunteers needed for Amazing Race in Westsyde
You don’t need to be the most physically fit person to compete in the Westsyde Community Development Society’s Absolute Amazing Race. You do, however, need to be ready for anything. “Last year, teams...
View ArticleNational art show returns to Kamloops
The largest juried art show outside the Lower Mainland returns to Kamloops beginning Saturday showcasing artists from throughout Canada. The Thompson Nicola Shuswap Chapter of the Federation of...
View ArticleRecumbent rider
Jan Nademlejnsky cycles his recumbent trike in Riverside Park on a sunny Tuesday afternoon (April 1). The Brocklehurst resident is fairly new to Kamloops and says he regularly enjoys his bike ride into...
View ArticleCoach gets year in jail for sex crimes
Calling it a breach of trust, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has sentenced to a year in jail a minor hockey coach who engaged in a sexual relationship with one of her players. Justice Hope Hyslop...
View ArticleTriple-generation cruise
Three-year-old Jonah Crawford helps Grandpa Dale check storage space while dad Scott watches his young skipper. The trio was visiting the annual Kamloops Boat Show, which was held on the weekend at The...
View ArticleFaith: Noah, the Great Flood and Lake Agassiz’s fury
Russell Crowe looks pretty good for a 600-year-old man. That’s how old the Bible says Noah was when the flood came. There are plenty of scoffers who say the biblical flood account is a quaint myth,...
View ArticleStop Bill C-18 and preserve our right to non-modified foods
Editor: This is a copy of an email we have sent to our Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod: We are opposed to multinational companies having greater power and control over Canada’s...
View ArticleAjax brochure focuses on selective information
Editor: I find it very difficult to trust anything KGHM Ajax reports when it chooses only part of the information and omits the other related data from what it calls a “conversation.” On page 13 of the...
View ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: April ice age
Dorothy Woodward (left) and Shirley Sanderson found quite a surprise on their hike in Kenna Cartwright Park above Home Depot on Tuesday, April 1. Shrubs and grasses were frozen in a thick layer of...
View ArticleDirectors Festival begins next week
With the end of another school year in sight, it’s time for the third- and fourth-year theatre-arts students at Thompson Rivers University to show off. The 15th annual Directors Festival is now on at...
View ArticleSomething fishy at KAG
If it was crunch time for the Arbour Aboriginal Aritsts’ Collective members gathered in the Tricia Sellmer and Ken Lepin studios at the Kamloops Art Gallery one Thursday evening, it didn’t feel like...
View ArticleUsed book and music sale coming soon
The annual Barb’s Used Book and Music Sale begins this weekend. For more than 20 years. the sale has been raising important funds for the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. This year’s event begins tomorrow...
View ArticleTRUSU election raises questions
In the photo: Abdullah Abalkhail, who was defeated in the recent Thompson Rivers University Student Union elections, is unhappy a complaint about the recent student election was overturned. He has...
View ArticleStorm lose Game 5, face elimination
In this photo Kamloops Storm forward Felix Larouche (19) works against Beaver Valley’s Walker Sidoni (24) as goaltender Brett Clark (35). Allen Douglas photo For the first time in the 2014 Kootenay...
View ArticleTop American prospect to pitch in Kamloops tonight
The Tournament Capital will play host to one of the top baseball prospects in the United States tonight, Friday, April 4, as Gage Hinsz takes the mound for the Langley Blaze in the Best of the West...
View ArticleBCLC lays off 67 — including 29 in Kamloops
The B.C. Lottery Corporation (BCLC) is cutting jobs and looking for ways to bolster revenues as it discovers young people aren’t as attracted to lotteries and gambling as their parents’ generation. The...
View ArticleColumbia a bumpy ride — for now
Since December, a couple of torn-up patches of pavement on Columbia Street have caused more than their share of bumpy rides and driver woes. Located near the Grandview Terrace turnoff, the pavement at...
View ArticleDYER: Afghanistan mission not accomplished
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron rambled a bit on his visit to Afghanistan last December, but ended up sounding just as deluded as former U.S. president George W. Bush had been when he proclaimed...
View ArticleView from school board: ‘Alt-ed’ programs help students gain needed diplomas
Did you know there are many adults living and working in the community who have never had the opportunity to graduate from high school? It’s estimated there are thousands of working British Columbians...
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