Riverside Park

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]