Noble Creek

LETTER – What the world needs now is more rip rap in the river

April 21, 2024 // 1 Comment

Maybe council can answer the question, do more fish live on the outside of a curve or on the inside of a curve in a river? If the answer is the inside of the curve then maybe [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Three headstones by the river, and a rediscovery of ancestors

December 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

RELATIVES SHOW UP in the darndest places at the darndest times. Three of mine did it this week. Their headstones are side by side in a hayfield off Dairy Road. Massive bank [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – What City council doesn’t get about living on the North Thompson River

September 9, 2023 // 14 Comments

AS A RIVER DWELLER I’ve been struck by the death of insight of most Kamloops City councillors into the challenges of depending on the North Thompson as a source of water. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Simple answers to Noble Creek quickly become complicated

September 6, 2023 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BEST SOLUTION to a problem is sometimes the simplest. There are, however, two problems with simple solutions. One is that we don’t [Continue]

PETERS – Noble Creek Irrigation System a hot potato no one wants to hold

August 19, 2023 // 3 Comments

THE NOBLE CREEK IRRIGATION SYSTEM situation has ballooned into one of the most confounding conundrums the City of Kamloops has faced in decades. It should never have come to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Noble Creek farmers at least got City council to listen to them

August 16, 2023 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MOTHER NATURE made them do it. And the provincial government. Boiling down some six hours of debate and discussion yesterday, that’s the [Continue]