Riverside Park

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]