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Photograph By Dave Eagles/KTW The inside of the TNRD Building, headquarters of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, which is located downtown at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue. Photograph By Dave Eagles/KTW Nandi Spolia (top right) and Sukh Gill (bottom right) have longtime membership ties to the Aurora Rotary Club and together organize the IndoCan Links Golf Tournament, an annual charity event. According to annual financial reports, the TNRD paid Nan...

In the first weeks after moving into The View, at 945 West Victoria St. on the bottom of the Summit Connector, Schmid-Meil said mail sent through Canada Post did not arrive, items ordered were not delivered — and an ambulance could not find his new home. “It drove by, they stopped at this place,” Schmid-Meil said, pointing to an adjacent established apartment building and explaining that he ran out of his building during a medical incident and tried to wave down the paramedics, only to...

On Wednesday, April 28, HIR served lockout notice at the BC Labour Relations Board, which officially processed the 72-hour notice, which can take effect at 3:49 p.m. on Friday, April 30. However, Delta Kamloops vice-president and general manager Bryan Pilbeam said there is no plan to lock out employees at his hotel. “Delta Kamloops has absolutely zero intention of locking out our employees or negatively impacting them in any way,” Pilbeam told KTW. “We are speaking directly to our empl...

Christian said the city usually receives $3.6 million in infrastructure funding annually through gas taxes, but will instead receive $7.2 million in 2021, for one year only. Christian said the city will be looking at the eligibility criteria, with roads projects and active transportation traditionally among infrastructure projects that have been funded in the past utilizing such dollars. Meanwhile, the provincial budget included $500 million for mental health and addictions, which Christian ...

Early on, Wilson said, her students had a hard time with interruptions to their learning due to the pandemic. “They weren’t really going very deeply on topics. They were reluctant to write. They were writing a couple sentences and considering that finished,” she said. Summit elementary student Reid Bissell explains his Dinosaurs From the Past project. - Dave Eagles/KTW In an effort to get her students to dive deep, Wilson came up with the idea for her kids to create a virtual museum...

An image outlining the locations shows one site to the left of the Riverside Park pier, two sites between the pier and the Sandman Centre parking lot and one site directly to the north of the Sandman Centre parking lot. “Not to our surprise, there was intact deposits throughout the park,” LeBourdais said. “Even though these were just sort of a limited area where our testing was conducted, we recovered some incredible data.” LeBourdais said the sites show continuous occupation of the ...

UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP said the incident that led to the lockdown of all schools on the North Shore was related to a threat directed at NorKam secondary. “Administration at the school immediately issued a lockdown for it and others in the area” Const. Crystal Evelyn said. There is police presence at several North Shore schools, all of which are under lockdown orders as of 2 p.m. as of Wednesday (March 31) at 2 p.m. Armed Mounties can be seen at many schools, including NorKam secondary, Ka...

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On March 5, Kamloops This Week editor Christopher Foulds, 52, reporter Jessica Wallace, 32, and Kamloops Coun. Mike O’Reilly, 37, took the new fitness assessment, which is called the Community Services Officers’ Physical Abilities Test (CSOPAT). All three participants admitted to being out of shape amid the COVID-19 pandemic. None had trained for the test nor had taken it before. City staff demonstrated the test elements, which include running up and down a set of stairs six times, zigza...

He was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for charges of armed robbery, assault with a weapon and forcible confinement stemming from a drug-related Valentine’s Day robbery and kidnapping in 2019. Rennie was one of three men arrested in connection with the incident. The other two men — Michael Mathieson and Justin Daniels — have since been sentenced. The robbery and kidnapping took place in the midst of a violent local gang war and involved people active in the Kamloops drug trade. In Janu...