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Today’s Raeside Editorial Cartoon

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Age is just a number — ask Mick Jagger or Clint Eastwood

June 7, 2014 // 1 Comment

SATURDAY MORNING EDITORIAL: This is Seniors Week in B.C. The following is a guest editorial by B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel MacKenzie, who will be in Kamloops next Friday for [Continue]

Monster Trucks film unit still rolling

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

ARTS/ ENTERTAINMENT — A second camera unit working on Paramount Pictures’ Monster Trucks has a couple more days in the Kamloops area before shooting wraps up here. The [Continue]

Teddy Bear Picnic at Prince Charles Park

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

COMMUNITY — The TNRD Library System is co-sponsoring a free Teddy Bear Picnic and Parent Child Mother Goose Celebration at Prince Charles Park on Thursday, June 19, from 11 [Continue]

LRB asked to make exams and report cards essential services

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — The Labour Relations Board is being asked to declare Grade 10 to 12 exams and report cards as essential services. A letter from lawer Eric Harris on behalf [Continue]

City loses well-known educator, volunteer Betty Inouye

June 6, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS/ PASSING — A memorial service will be held Monday for well-known educator and community volunteer Betty Inouye, who died Tuesday at age 79. A former teacher and former [Continue]

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