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HEIGHTON – Another perspective on the North Shore improvement issue

September 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

NOTE: The following was posted Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 on the CFJC Facebook page in response to the Armchair Mayor editorial of the same day, Tranquille corridor upgrade a [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Some ideas for redefining street outreach and police work

June 18, 2020 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA THERE HAS BEEN A TON of press lately about de-funding police, and changing the way that policing is done in Canada and around the [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Community leaders, please keep up the great work in this crisis

March 19, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT IS TIMES LIKE THESE that I consider my past trips to third world countries to assist in community development initiatives. In the countries I have been to, the basics of [Continue]

HEIGHTON – It’s time to reset the conversation on our community

October 25, 2019 // 4 Comments

This article was originally published in the North Shore Business Improvement Association newsletter. By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, North Shore BIA … I HAD A [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Plastic ban will affect businesses but change is needed

June 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA I REMEMBER GOING grocery shopping with my mom, getting the big paper bags from Safeway or Woodward’s that always seemed to [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Road is long and winding on street issues, not insurmountable

May 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, North Shore BIA THIS PAST WEEK, I and Bryce Herman, our President, attended the annual Business Improvement Association of B.C. [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Why is parking such a hot button topic in Kamloops?

February 1, 2019 // 4 Comments

PARKING. IT’S A TOPIC WE LOVE TO DEBATE, discuss, dissect and study. The question for me is: Why is parking is such a hot button topic? Depending on who you talk to, [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Why the downtown core is a good place for performing arts centre

January 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON North Shore BIA THE 2019 PAC (Performing Arts Center) concept plan was presented to City Council recently by Ron Fawcett. This proposal is a step [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Community policing is broken, we need to find solutions

October 20, 2018 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON North Shore BIA THIS WEEK, I HAD to encourage a member to call the RCMP and press charges to have a squatter removed from his property. It was [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Nasty post about political foe ignored the three Cs of leadership

September 28, 2018 // 3 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Kamloops North Shore BIA I WAS DISMAYED RECENTLY, when I read a post from a political figure here in town that celebrated a political foe being seriously [Continue]

NORTH SHORE BIA – Postponing Overlanders Day was a tough decision

August 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Kamloops North Shore BIA THE SMOKE BILLOWED across the city like an acrid blanket of opaque doom. For days all you could see was a semi-lit scene straight [Continue]

HEIGHTON – How we can work together on resolving hot topics

July 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

By JEREMY HEIGHTON Executive Director, NSBIA I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO that a great idea, communicated with the best of intentions, can be interpreted in a very different [Continue]