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Riverside Park Fire
Artist and city to decide together on safety changes for rock sculpture
KAMLOOPS - A city supervisor says before potential changes to the Raven’s Nest sculpture in Riverside Park move forward a structural engineer’s report will be brought forward to the artist. Changes were proposed by Kamloops’ parks department after a woman caught fire in the small space beneath the sculpture’s five large carved boulders last month. Parks...
City plan to fill in sculpture is ‘breaking the law for artistic expression’
KAMLOOPS - The artist behind a rock sculpture in Riverside Park is concerned about the city’s plan to alter his piece of work to prevent others from entering the space beneath it after a woman died there last month. Bill Vazan, a Montreal-based artist, was commissioned to carve his granite stones piece Raven’s Nest in...
Death in Riverside Park rock sculpture prompts city to action
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops is going to make changes to a scuplture in a local park in an effort to make it safe and prevent others from climbing into the rock structure. The Parks Department has plans to fill in a space inside the Uji Feature Garden sculpture at Riverside Park following the...
Kamloops park fire death ‘a ritual gone horrifically wrong’
KAMLOOPS - While authorities are still investigating how and why a woman was set on fire early Tuesday morning in a Kamloops park — and later died in hospital — people close to her say it was a pagan ritual gone wrong. The Uji Feature Garden rock formation, where the woman was found, remains blocked...