Riverside Park

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]