Remembrance Day

REMEMBRANCE – Large crowd expected as annual ceremony goes public again

November 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Remembrance Day in Kamloops will once again be marked with a public ceremony at Riverside Park on Friday (Nov. 11). The Kamloops Legion will host the ceremony, the first [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Anti-vaxxers grow desperate as their world collapses

November 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

KAMLO0PS LAWYER Jay Michi took his kids to Riverside Park Last Thursday for what he expected to be a Remembrance Day ceremony. What he didn’t know was that it was about to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Gathering to remember others strengthens our spirits

November 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

THIS REMEMBRANCE DAY, I should be thinking of all the lives lost in years gone by because of wars. Some wars which ended before my birth, some more recent, some that have [Continue]

BEPPLE: We can’t gather today but we’re together in remembrance

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

THIS IS A REMEMBRANCE DAY like no other in Kamloops. In years past, thousands have stood together at Riverside Park on damp ground under bare trees and grey skies. The [Continue]

REMEMBERING – Pvt. George McLean, a hero of Vimy Ridge

November 11, 2020 // 2 Comments

By MEL ROTHENBURGER April 9, 1917, 5:29 a.m., Vimy Ridge, France Twenty thousand Canadian soldiers sat silently in their rat-infested, urine-soaked trenches, stretched out [Continue]

GINTA – Why the poppy is not a political statement

November 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT IS SUNDAY AFTERNOON as I write this, and we’re three days away from Remembrance Day on Nov. 11. A long-overdue and overlooked commemoration has also been recently [Continue]

BEPPLE – Many reasons to wear poppies, many reasons some don’t

November 13, 2019 // 6 Comments

REMEMBRANCE DAY IS OVER. Aside for a few sorrowful poppies in the gutter, remembering is set aside for another year. Controversy engulfed Remembrance Day this year with Don [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Don Cherry was right about one thing in his poppy rant

November 12, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE WAS ANOTHER HUGE TURNOUT for the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies at Riverside Park on Monday as we joined Canadians across the [Continue]

SCHOOL BOARD – Schools carry on the legacy of Remembrance Day

November 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

By SHELLEY SIM Trustee, School District 73 FREEDOM. It may be one of the most important words in human consciousness. Our many freedoms allow us the opportunity to vote, to [Continue]

GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family

November 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s keep one special day every year free of blowout sales

November 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE HALLMARKS of the free enterprise economy is our great enthusiasm for using just about any occasion on the calendar to go on a [Continue]

KNOX – Generations hand down tales of war and sacrifice

November 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

SGT. BILL BOLDT’S letter, penned while convalescing in France, began on a reassuring note. “Now Sis, don’t be alarmed,” he wrote, referring to the Red Cross [Continue]

GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us

November 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]

WHAT’S UP DOWNTOWN – Remember the sacrifices of our war veterans

November 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

“IT WAS A SHORT PEACE in a terrible war.” These were the remarks of Alfred Anderson, a Scottish veteran, recounting the events of the Christmas Truce of 1914. This [Continue]