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For these elves, it’s all about the woodwork
When the guys get together in Gary Harker’s workshop, there’s the usual light-hearted banter, but then they get down to work. It’s all about the toys. They will spend the next several hours putting...
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Union claims nurses leaving due to violence
In the past two weeks, there have been two more incidents of violence against nurses at Hillside Centre — and six nurses have left the psychiatric facility for other jobs. Judy Surkon, the regional...
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Will Kamloops have a white Christmas?
If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, Kamloops is the place to be in 2013. At least that’s the word from Weather Network meteorologist Dayna Vettese. “It looks like there is some snow on the ground...
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BASS: When the business of death hijacks common sense
I drove over to the North Shore on the weekend, just to check out something. And yes, there are people living near the Kamloops Funeral Home. Houses across the road, houses beside it, houses on the...
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Club Kindness gets kids to do good
When Natalie Peace was a child, there was a poster on the wall next to the doorway of her house. It’s message was simple, she said — “When you step out into the world, who do you want to be?” The...
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Snow-covered road causes confusion, crash
Traffic was delayed late Sunday, Dec. 22, after a two-vehicle accident on the Battle Street off-ramp to Highway 1 at about 10 p.m.. Kamloops RCMP said the driver of a westbound vehicle was disoriented...
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TRU hires director of environment
Thompson Rivers University has appointed Jim Gudjonson to the position of director, environment and sustainability as of Jan. 1. Gudjonson has worked in the role on an interim basis since Tom Owens’...
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SLIDESHOW: KTW’s photos from the 2013
Kamloops This Week photographers Dave Eagles and Allan Douglas capture images of Kamloops over the past year.
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All aboard the Wildlife Express
The Wildlife Express takes off for another run around the B.C. Wildlife Park during this season’s Wildlights festival. The annual extravaganza features hundreds of thousands of lights in dozens of...
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Kamloops Mountie forced to shoot dog on Christmas morning
A Kamloops Mountie was forced to shoot a pit bull-Labrador cross dog on Christmas morning as officers were dealing with a distraught woman wielding an axe at a North Shore home. The shooting occurred...
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Year-end interview: Premier Christy Clark
After a whirlwind year that started with a come-from-behind election win, Premier Christy Clark sat down for the traditional year-end interview in her Victoria office. Here are excerpts from that...
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Murder victims deserved fundamental justice
Editor: As the aunt of Kenneth Yaretz Jr., who, along with Damien Marks, was murdered in April 2009 by Roy Fraser, I would like to comment on behalf of our families. Section 7 of the Canadian Charter...
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Year-end interview: Mayor Peter Milobar
Mayor Peter Milobar can pick out a few City of Kamloops highlights of 2013 — an $80-million expansion that broke ground at Royal Inland Hospital and better streetlights on Tranquille, to name two. But,...
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Faith: Season of making — and breaking — resolutions
Soon after Christmas ends comes the annual ritual of making resolutions, with all its accompanying hopes and trepidations, for the year ahead. Many of us make them, or at least feel that we should....
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Kamloops helps Rotary reach its gooooooooooooaaaaaal!!!!
Editor: A special thanks to all who supported the recent collection of soccer shoes for an international Rotary project. We had a wonderful response from the Kamloops community, receiving more than 400...
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Mental Health Matters: After Season to be Jolly — then what?
T oday we answer a question we received 11 months ago and it’s only now that it seems like the right time to address it: What causes that “let-down” feeling I have right after Christmas and what can I...
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Cuisine: Gingerly, we enter the new year
There’s a trail of wrapping and tissue paper that leads from the Christmas tree, up the stairs, and into each room. Wrapping paper, you see, was the cats’ present this year, since they already have...
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Dog’s thick skull may have saved animal’s life
A dog’s thick skull may have saved its life after it was shot by a Kamloops Mountie on Christmas Day. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the pit bull-Labrador cross was shot in the head at...
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PARKER: Resolving to master 2014
Andria Parker Originally for this column I had written something about New Year’s resolutions — mainly about how mine were slowly starting to drag me into a deep and bottomless pit of despair, seeing...
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Search is on (again) for out-of-bounds skiers at Sun Peaks
For the second time this week, the search is on at Sun Peaks Resort for skiers who travelled out of bounds and became lost. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Lane Jumaga said Mounties and members of Kamloops...
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