Coronavirus

EDITORIAL – Message to cheaters: leave hospital parking for those who need it

April 6, 2020 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS ALMOST INEVITABLE that the free parking now in effect at B.C. hospitals would be abused. It went into effect last Wednesday as a [Continue]

COVID-19 – Case identified in someone who visited ANAVets March 13 to 17

April 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Interior Health says it has identified a case of COVID-19 in someone who visited the ANAVets 290 Army & Navy Club at 9-177 Tranquille Rd. in Kamloops between March 13 and [Continue]

KNOX – An ode to Dr. Bonnie Henry, on guitar and standup bass

April 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS THE VIDEO BEGINS, all you see is Gordon Campbell — no, not THAT Gordon Campbell — standing in his Sidney home with an upright bass. Then Diane Campbell, an [Continue]

FORSETH – Those fractional COVID-19 numbers represent a lot of lives

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

DO WE CONTINUE THE TREND WE ARE ON, with government strongly encouraging people to self-isolate, and to maintain two metre spacing when we are out getting what should be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The pandemic will either kill newspapers or save them

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN of the community newspaper industry has a name — COVID-19. Or, the virus might prove to be its salvation. It could go either way. Several [Continue]

LETTER – Trans Mountain pipeline workers could bring COVID-19

April 4, 2020 // 2 Comments

An open letter to Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix: I draw your urgent attention to the KTW article detailing Kamloops Coun. Denis Walsh’s very legitimate [Continue]