Riverside Park

PETERS – Park debate shows elections better than one-off consultations

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU KNOW HOW EVERY TIME AN ELECTION APPROACHES, there are impassioned pleas for people to get out and vote? It’s often a case of too little, too late. Unless a potential [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – More on the park decision and high-risk takedowns

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

SOME FURTHER DETAILS need to be laid out to fully understand how an extremely effective lobby from within the business community quickly worked its way up through the City [Continue]

EDITORIAL: City council blew it by springing Riverside Park plan on public

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC CONSULTATION is a great aspiration for public bodies but Kamloops City council failed the test yesterday on the issue of [Continue]

GINTA – Our city parks deserve better than to be commercialized

May 17, 2021 // 7 Comments

IT WAS ALMOST a decade ago while contemplating a move to Kamloops that my sons and I first visited Riverside Park. They splashed and splattered at the waterpark and we had a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A few yoga classes won’t ‘commercialize’ Riverside Park

May 8, 2021 // 2 Comments

ALLOWING THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR into Riverside Park has long been a worry for the denizens of Kamloops. Commercialization of the city’s gem must be avoided at all costs, [Continue]

LETTER – Outdoor skating rink is a nice-to-have frill that should be postponed

August 14, 2020 // 5 Comments

Re: Editorial, ‘Outdoor skating rink is a great ideal pandemic or not’ Bad Timing… I cannot support any frills in these uncertain times. To some, this [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Outdoor skating rink is a great idea, pandemic or not

August 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT ON EARTH is the City thinking, spending almost $5.8 million on an outdoor skating rink, in these times of a struggling economy amid the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Assault on 71-year-old security guard deserves extra punishment

July 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MEDIA HAVE A BAD HABIT of stereotyping older folks as helpless; others have an equally bad habit of stereotyping them as irrelevant. Anybody [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Nothing inherently wrong with allowing businesses in Riverside

March 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE SPECTRE OF BUSINESS in Riverside Park has raised its head again and will undoubtedly raise the hackles of those who think anything that [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City is dragging its feet on replacing stolen monument plaques

April 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SPRING HAS SPRUNG and the nicer weather inevitably encourages the graffiti vandals to renew their destructive pastime. They recently tagged [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How easy it is to spend money and delay decisions

March 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IN POLITICS, IT’S SO VERY EASY to put things off, and so easy to spend taxpayers’ money. A couple of unrelated items caught my eye [Continue]

PETERS – There are no sacred public spaces, including Riverside Park

December 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

IF YOU HEAD DOWN TO RIVERSIDE PARK on any given summer day, you’re likely to see members of the Kamloops Society for Creative Anachronism, also known as the Shire of [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Handling of parkade incompetent or brilliant?

May 4, 2018 // 8 Comments

The following Armchair Mayor column was published Oct. 12, 2011 as the proposal for a parkade in the Heritage House parking lot came to a conclusion: AS THE COUNTING gets [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Theft of commemorative plaques calls for special justice

May 26, 2017 // 2 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE REALLY ought to be a special place in hell for the contemptible lowlifes who have been stealing plaques from community [Continue]