Just another routine Kamloops Project

It wouldn’t be Kamloops Project day if I didn’t write something about how I’ve been spending this Oct. 19, 2010. You never know how something brand new is going to turn out until you try it — suffice it to say, the Kamloops Project is already a roaring success, and it’s not over yet.

I began by driving up to the Broadcast Centre where associate news editor Catherine Litt — the heart and brains behind the Kamloops Project — and I did stints with Cheryl Blackwell on B100 and with Stan Bailey and Henry Small on 98FM. Thanks very much to them, as well as TV7 and Peter Olsen at NL for your support today and during the past several days.

Since the Kamloops Project is all about capturing everyday goings-on in Kamloops, I wondered what my contribution would be. I settled on something near and dear to my heart — my 1955 International Harvester pickup truck, which I inherited from my dad many years ago and sat in my yard for a long time until one day the guys from Jay’s Service came out to pull my everyday vehicle out of a snowbank. They left with the International and an understanding that they’d work at it whenever they had some time.

That was six years ago. I check in on it every once in awhile and get an update from Jay, Evan and Richard on any progress. Sometimes there’s not much, sometimes quite a bit.

Anyway, this seemed like a good day to visit with my truck so I headed down to Jay’s Service and took a picture of Richard with the truck and submitted it to the http://www.kamloopsproject.ca website. I think maybe I’ll write about that, and other Kamloops Project stuff, in my Armchair Mayor column for Thursday. It’s been a great day — I haven’t had this much fun in awhile.