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ROTHENBURGER – Canceling Canada Day won’t solve what ails our country

June 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

EACH JULY 1, we traditionally celebrate the diversity of our community and of our country. The usual celebrations at Riverside Park won’t happen this year, cancelled again [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Fist bumps and other things from the pandemic we should keep

June 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

PHASE TWO, WEEK ONE and things are looking fairly rosy as far as getting through the pandemic goes, assuming that SOB Delta variant doesn’t get a foothold in B.C. So, a few [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘I could write a book’ about working security on Victoria West

June 12, 2021 // 1 Comment

THREE MONTHS AGO, Rick Eldridge was working in a job he loved. After 35 years as a chef, he’d moved to Kamloops from Bella Coola and gotten certification as a security [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Man who ran down family with his truck doesn’t deserve notoriety

June 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A DESPICABLE YOUNG MAN jumped his pickup truck onto a sidewalk in London, Ont. last weekend and killed four members of an extended family. A [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canada Day Ray ’90 per cent’ ready to kick off run for mayor

June 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT MIGHT SEEM EARLY to start talking about next year’s civic election but, not really. That’s because there’s already a mayoralty race in the making. Nobody is going to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Finding somewhere for the street folks to go isn’t easy

June 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, as you drive up from Victoria Street West onto Seymour, there’s usually a half dozen street folks hanging out at the honking big utilities box [Continue]