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Walsh to take another run at saving former Kamloops Daily News building

KAMLOOPS - After a confusing meeting back in December that left Coun. Denis Walsh frustrated by his own mistake, he plans on bringing the issue of saving the former Kamloops Daily News building back to council next week. Walsh announced in a news release he once again plans to ask council to rescind his own...

Kamloops Daily News building to remain standing following council confusion

COUNCILLOR FACES OFF AGAINST MAYOR IN HEATED DEBATE KAMLOOPS - What started as routine approval for capital projects at a regular Kamloops city council meeting today turned into confusion, then anger as one councillor made his discontent known to all in chambers. Councillors were discussing the fate of the former Kamloops Daily News building during capital project...

City plan to tear down the Daily News building draws both criticism and approval

KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops is planning to tear down the former Daily News Building downtown, the spot originally picked for a proposed performing arts centre. While at least one city councillor is against the plan, the spokesperson for group which fought and lost the referendum to build the performing arts centre believes it...

Kamloops city council passes on community emissions plan

KAMLOOPS – City council has decided not support the creation of a plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions in Kamloops. At a meeting this week, the councillors voted 5-4 against the plan proposed by the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association. Kamloops already has an air shed management plan and it has a corporate emissions plan, but...

More than two hours of discussion nets zero change for North Shore bus stop

KAMLOOPS - It took more than two hours to decide on the fate of the bus stop near the Norkam Clinic, and in the end no changes will be made and the clinic will not get a new patient drop-off zone. The issue came to council again yesterday, Dec. 1, and after numerous speakers and...

Kamloops council gives thumbs down to hand counting ballots

KAMLOOPS - It was a close vote in council yesterday, but no recount is needed on an effort to bring in post-election audits.  Coun. Denis Walsh wanted to bring further accountability in both election and referendum voting systems and argued for hand counts after the fact. He feels electronic voting machines are susceptible to computer...

Kamloops councillor demands a recount, by hand

KAMLOOPS - There is an absence of accountability in both our election and referendum voting systems and the only way to ensure accuracy is to count ballots by hand, a Kamloops councillor is arguing. Coun. Denis Walsh let his fellow council members know yesterday, Nov. 18, he will be asking them to support the idea...

Kamloops councillor asking for public input on taxpayer funded trips to Japan

KAMLOOPS – Kamloops city council’s cultural exchange to Japan is either far too expensive or actually quite reasonable, depending who you ask, and one councillor is asking residents for their input. Coun. Denis Walsh would never suggest severing ties with Kamloops’ sister city Uji, Japan but is concerned about the cost of the exchange. Kamloops...

‘Annoyed’ Kamloops councillor walks out of council meeting

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops councillor walked out of council chambers in the middle of a meeting yesterday because his colleagues disagreed with him. Coun. Donovan Cavers wanted to see a change in how Kamloops councillors are voted to the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board and wanted staff to look at how other communities voted on or...

Two Kamloops councillors worry Parks Master Plan takes away too much green space

KAMLOOPS – The Kamloops Parks Master Plan was recently unveiled and but not everyone is excited about the upgrades. Coun. Arjun Singh and Coun. Denis Walsh worried the new infrastructure, mostly located in Riverside Park, would take away from the parks’ green spaces. The city looked at three parks along the Thompson River: Riverside, Waterfront...

Council to consider permanent smoking ban in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – A temporary ban on smoking in nature areas of the city is currently in place, but a local resident wants council to consider a permanent ban on smoking in all parks. Resident Bob Wren calls smoking in parks a 'repetitive problem' and says he is 'chased away' by wafting cigarette smoke while at...

Councillors for pesticide ban say public and business were appropriately consulted

KAMLOOPS – The decision by Kamloops councillors to approve a ban on pesticides in the city next year was a "foregone conclusion," one councillor says. The issue was all but decided because seven of nine councillors already debated the concept before elections last November, Coun. Donovan Cavers says. “I thought it was a foregone conclusion,”...

ELECTIONS 2014: Vision Kamloops building off individual strengths

KAMLOOPS - The loosely knit alliance Vision Kamloops says they will be helping each other by sharing their strengths, but will also be focused on their own campaigns as we head into the November election. The members of the group all identify as being against the proposed Ajax Mine but do not list that as one...

ELECTIONS 2014: Candidate ‘alliance’ emerges

KAMLOOPS - A ‘loosely-knit alliance’ of five city council candidates announced Tuesday morning they are running under the umbrella of Vision Kamloops, but they were not yet ready to say what they stand for as a group. Dieter Dudy, Jenny Green, Brad Harrison, Daphane Nelson and Denis Walsh say they began talking about the possibility...

Group continues fight to save Stuart Wood

KAMLOOPS - It may be too little too late but a group of concerned citizens are not giving up their fight to save their downtown school. Denis Walsh, the chair of the Downtown and West End Residents Association, admits they were a bit slow out of the gate but based on previous changes within the...

Council faces off: Is Stuart Wood more important because it is downtown?

KAMLOOPS - More than an hour was spent discussing the merits of keeping Stuart Wood as an elementary school and whether the city should step in to provide ‘support’ to the school district in making the decision. “Where was this passion for John Tod last term?” Mayor Peter Milobar said, “Was it because it was...