Kamloops Graffiti
Canada Post pushing limits of graffiti cleanup in Kamloops
MILOBAR TOLD TO REPORT IT TO 1-800 NUMBER KAMLOOPS - The city has a bone to pick with Canada Post, but it’s not about the cessation of door to door service. Instead, Mayor Peter Milobar and several city administrators are concerned about the Crown company’s lack of graffiti cleanup on mailboxes in the downtown core....
Graffiti tagging hits all time high in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - The amount of graffiti tags being cleaned up on a daily basis in Kamloops is roughly equivalent to the entire outside of two 1,000-square-foot homes, including the roofs. While crews were even out regularly cleaning graffiti-covered surfaces during the winter months this year, the Graffiti Task Force has had to increase the number...
Bylaw officer assaulted in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - RCMP are trying to identify a man who attacked a city bylaw officer last night in Kamloops. A female officer was investigating a male who was spray painting the back of the Memorial Arena on Victoria Street around 8:30 p.m., June 28. The male struck the officer with his skateboard, knocking her to...
Ministry building vandalized with anti-mine message
KAMLOOPS - Employees at the Ministry of Environment offices in Kamloops arrived at work to discover their building targeted by someone with a message for Imperial Metals. On Wednesday, April 29, the message 'shut down Imperial Metals' was found scrawled across four different parts of the building. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the Kamloops...
Elementary schools vandalized in Aberdeen neighbourhood
KAMLOOPS – The weather has warmed and with it has come an upswing in vandalism, most recently at two South Shore elementary schools. School District 73 Facilities Manager Art McDonald says Pacific Way Elementary and Aberdeen Elementary schools both had windows broken last week. “It’s nothing out of the ordinary,” he notes. “It’s weather-dependent. We...