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Photograph By Catherine Litt A couple of weeks ago, Kamloops Daily News reader John Harrison asked our Readers Reporter to hunt down a mystery thats plagued his AM radio reception for months. Its been a challenging quest to find the answer, but we think weve done it. Harrison had asked why his car radio goes haywire every time he drives through the St. Paul Street and Second Avenue intersection while tuned to Radio NL on the AM dial. We hunted high...

WE ASKED: Help our Readers Reporter solve the great brick mystery. Last week, our Readers Reporter tracked down the history behind old wood pilings along the shoreline of the North Thompson River, near Rayleigh. It was discovered that the pilings are remnants of an old riverside brickyard operation that turned out thousands of bricks a day in the late-1800s and shipped them downriver by barge. While onsite getting photographs of the pilings, our Readers Reporter found four large curved bricks i...