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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 Nandi’s about $45,000 in 2018. Five years’ worth of purchases on Gill’s TNRD credit card show abo...

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 receive a phone call, telling him the responders could not find his building. “I said, ‘You ju...

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 employees about that and and we are really disappointed that the union would spread untruths about it.�...

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 called “huge.” “It will have an impact on some of the programs we have been talking about a l...

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 — in lieu of being able to visit an actual museum themselves. A five-minute documentary on the pr...