Coronavirus

KNOX – When in Rome, wash your hands but don’t steal the hand sanitizer

March 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

THEY HAD to screw the hand-sanitizer dispenser to the church wall. With all of Italy desperate for disinfectant gel, and the dispenser tantalizingly close to the front [Continue]

CORONAVIRUS – School district cancels spring-break trips to Europe

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Kamloops-Thompson School District announced today (March 6, 2020) it has cancelled school group tours to Europe during spring break. The decision, due to the worldwide [Continue]

GINTA – Fighting coronavirus: prevention is great; panic is not

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to avoid the news about the coronavirus or COVID-19 nowadays. A couple of days ago a red and yellow photo depicting the virus caught my eye. Dramatic [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We have a right to know where coronavirus cases are found

March 3, 2020 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE’RE GETTING MIXED MESSAGES from health authorities on the coronavirus, officially now known as COVID-19. On the one hand, we’re told [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s a big, wide world, and it all eventually comes to Kamloops

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

EVERYWHERE I WENT this week, there were small signs of the bigger happenings. First I drove to Lytton and back to Kamloops. On railway sidings from Kamloops down to Lytton [Continue]

KNOX – Viral message – Keep calm and wash your hands

February 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

TO REPEAT: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As [Continue]