Country issues

Complaints about animal rescue shelter prompt TNRD move to create noise bylaw

March 14, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS/ TRND — Complaints about dogs will result in an anti-noise bylaw for rural areas. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District, meeting in committee as a whole today, [Continue]

With bees on the agenda, backyard chickens should be brought back for discussion too

March 14, 2014 // 2 Comments

FRIDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — There’s a lot of buzz about the upcoming public hearing on allowing backyard bees in Kamloops. People will, no doubt, swarm to it. [Continue]

Vibrations rattling cups in Cherry Creek, says TNRD director; New Gold invited to meeting

March 13, 2014 // 2 Comments

NEWS/ TNRD — Residents of Cherry Creek are feeling the effects of work on the underground New Gold mine project, says regional director Ronaye Elliott. She told the [Continue]

Canada Post to cut service in rural areas

March 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ TNRD — If it’s true that misery loves company, rural TNRD directors will have plenty of it as they look at the latest changes from Canada Post today. A raft of [Continue]

Attack of the mozzies is well underway

July 10, 2012 // 1 Comment

I knew we were in trouble when the cat suddenly became airborne – ascending at least 20 metres off the ground – and headed east. Mozzies. I was tooling along on the yard [Continue]

Watching the river rise takes a keen eye

June 9, 2012 // 1 Comment

“Flood watch” or “river watch” has a different meaning to those who live on the river than it does to everyone else. In the newspapers, it’s an official-sounding [Continue]