Kamloops City Council
Farm review board won’t weigh in until complaint filed against Kamloops dairy
KAMLOOPS - If Dallas residents want a review board to look into the production of biosolids at Blackwell Dairy, a formal complaint will have to first be filed. This summer Dallas residents alleged the thick, black dust blowing into their neighbourhood from Blackwell Dairy contained biosolids. The city told residents unless farming operations were deemed...
‘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...
KGHM and anti-Ajax group being asked to help fund independent review
KAMLOOPS – An independent review of the Ajax Mine proposal is expected take place this fall and council has decided both KGHM and the Kamloops Area Preservation Association, a vocal opponent of the proposed mine, should help foot the bill. KGHM Ajax Mining is expected to submit its environmental application to the province by the end...
Bringing fun competition to compassion in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - If you know what the Hunger Games is all about, imagine the Compassion Games as the exact opposite. Instead of violent self-preservation, think kind acts of selflessness. Organizer Daphane Nelson says the games, which are coming to Kamloops for the second time later this month, are based on a 'worldwide epidemic of compassion.'...
Bus fares for everyone will soon be $2.00
KAMLOOPS – The cost of riding the bus in Kamloops will soon be the same for everyone. As of Sept. 1, bus fares will be $2.00 for children, students, seniors and adults. Back in December of 2014, city council directed staff to research the effects on ridership if fares were to increase, decrease, stay the...
Climate change warning labels on gas pumps a hard sell in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Both Kamloops city council and the Regional District Thompson-Nicola board have said no to climate change warning labels on gas pumps. The group Our Horizon has been travelling the province trying to get local politicians to agree to sticking the labels on gas pumps. Matt Husle with the group made recent pitches to...
City’s one kilometre rule between new booze vendors a ‘responsible decision,’ say liquor stores
KAMLOOPS – Liquor vendors “feel comfortable" after a city decision to create a one kilometre buffer between new liquor outlets. Al Deacon, owner of Fox’n Hounds pub and Fox’n Hounds Sahali Liquor Store, says the city’s determination to rethink the buffer rule was the right thing to do. “It's a responsible decision,” he says. “We’re...
Arrow Transportation apologizes to residents of Dallas for dust; not for biosolids
KAMLOOPS – While Arrow Transportation Systems has apologized to residents of Dallas for the sawdust which blew into their neighbourhood, the company's vice president would not apologize for its biosolids operation and denies the dust contained biosolids. Arrow Transportation operates a biosolds processing operation at the Blackwell Dairy Farm. The company trucks the biolsolids from Vancouver,...
Kamloops city councillor denies conflict of interest accusation
KAMLOOPS – Coun. Arjun Singh has been accused of a conflict of interest following a recent vote on whether to impose a buffer between liquor vendors, something he strongly denies. Singh participated in a public hearing, July 28, to decide the fate of a motion that could have seen the city enact a one-kilometre buffer...
City of Kamloops could spend $10 million to buy Owl Road landfill
KAMLOOPS – The City of Kamloops is looking to spend $10 million to acquire the Owl Road landfill and convert it into a resource recovery centre to dispose of construction and demolition waste. The landfill is currently valued at $6.3 million. Creating the centre and an additional Public Works and Utilities satellite yard has an...
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...
Council attempt to block wine from being sold in Kamloops grocery stores defeated
KAMLOOPS – Provincial legislation recently was put in place to allow B.C. wines to be sold in grocery stores and after a lack of support for a motion to limit the sale of wine by Coun. Marg Spina Kamloops grocers will get to have that opportunity as well. Spina asked to create a one-kilometre buffer...
How to fund the city’s Ajax Mine review
KAMLOOPS – Once the environmental application for the proposed Ajax Mine is submitted later this summer the city plans on seeking an independent review of the proposal, but it is unclear just how that review will be paid for. Staff is asking council for an additional $300,000 to hire SLR Consulting, a firm not believed...
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,”...
Kamloops wineries look for support through petition
KAMLOOPS – A petition aimed at getting city council to drop a motion aimed at limiting where alcohol can be sold in Kamloops is slowly gathering support. The Kamloops Wine Trail has started a petition in an attempt to lobby city council to vote against a proposed motion that would place distance parameters between liquor...