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BEPPLE – Pink Shirt day and the challenges of dressing like a woman

February 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

TODAY IS PINK SHIRT DAY, or Anti-Bullying Day, in Canada. It is a day where every Canadian is encouraged to wear something pink as a stand against bullying. It started in [Continue]

BEPPLE – ‘Disorganized’ sports and rec groups need to be given a voice too

February 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

SOME DAYS I think we need a Disorganized Sport and Recreation Association to give voice for the rest of us. That’s what I thought this week when I heard that the Kamloops [Continue]

BEPPLE – Kamloops needs another, more central, long-term care home

February 10, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT MAY BE FORGOTTEN by many that in 2020 the B.C. provincial government announced an expansion of almost 500 more extended care beds across the province. Of these, 100 beds [Continue]

BEPPLE – Hard-working school teachers deserve a two-week spring break

February 3, 2021 // 5 Comments

YESTERDAY, OUT FOR my lunchtime walk, I happened to go by my neighborhood school. It was so wonderful to see groups of children running and playing together. The air filled [Continue]

BEPPLE – Words from a friend show we’re going in the right direction

January 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

THIS WEEK, I GOT a lovely letter from an 86-year-old friend. In it was the news that she had been vaccinated from Covid. All the news reports, and Twitter tweets I read [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for TNRD to invite region’s First Nations to the table

January 20, 2021 // 5 Comments

GO TO ANY SETTLER TOWN or city in B.C., and there will be a First Nations community close by. The same can be said within the Thompson Nicola Regional District. In [Continue]

BEPPLE – January rain storm a wakeup call that climate change is upon us

January 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

I AWOKE EARLY this morning to the sound of rain beating on my window and wind shaking the trees. The looming threat, climate change emergency, had awoken me. Like many, [Continue]

BEPPLE – Here’s to the little people who find small pleasures as COVID rages

January 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

FINDING JOY is innately human. Even in stressful times, people find joy. This holiday season, despite restrictions, people still found ways to enjoy the season. Zoom [Continue]

BEPPLE – COVID-19 isn’t the only pressing health issue in the Interior

December 30, 2020 // 3 Comments

IF 2020 HAS TAUGHT us anything, it is that health drives everything else. Without it, everything else grinds to a halt, individually, and collectively. It’s no surprise [Continue]

BEPPLE – Vaccine brings light at the end of the tunnel but we’re not out of it yet

December 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

CHRISTMAS IS JUST a couple of days away, but in some ways, it has already arrived here in Kamloops. Yesterday (Dec. 22), the first person in Kamloops received a COVID-19 [Continue]

BEPPLE – Plans for the Tranquille property must consider species at risk

December 16, 2020 // 5 Comments

KAMLOOPS IS RUNNING OUT of buildable land, or so it might seem. Which must lead to excitement by many with the revived plans to develop the lands at Tranquille on Kamloops [Continue]

BEPPLE – Katherine McParland gave us a collective vision of who we are

December 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

FOR ALL HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, which were many, Katherine McParland’s greatest legacy is how she made us feel. She helped us come together as a community. She gave us the [Continue]

BEPPLE – There are some bright spots as we battle with the pandemic

December 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

AS WE ENTER the ninth month of COVID restrictions in British Columbia, things don’t seem to be getting any better. The number of infections and the number of deaths [Continue]

BEPPLE – Transgender people are an important part of our community

November 18, 2020 // 1 Comment

NOVEMBER 13 to 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a week that raises visibility of transgender people and issues they face. It is followed by Nov. 20, Transgender Day of [Continue]