Stuart Wood

HOMELESSNESS – Stuart Wood winter shelter set to open after delay

November 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

After several days of confusion over the state of winter shelters for the homeless, the Stuart Wood shelter will open tonight (Nov. 7, 2022). The City announced late this [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – Keeping Stuart Wood as a school needs a strong lobby

October 4, 2020 // 4 Comments

Re: Stuart Wood needs to be recommissioned as a school Mel, I agree 100 per cent with your editorial for the reasons you have stated, including many more. The recent Downtown [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: 10 big Kamloops ideas that never made it off the drawing boards

August 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT TAKES IMAGINATION to build a great city, and that means coming up with a lot of ideas, big ideas. Some of them succeed and endure, like the Tournament Capital of Canada, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Ditch current plans for Stuart Wood, make it a school again

August 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT, the more I think a big mistake is being made with Stuart Wood school. As the painfully long process drags on sorting out control of the property, [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Why Stuart Wood was included in Fraser Institute’s report card

April 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

Several people asked why Stuart Wood was included in the new Fraser Institute report card on elementary schools even though it closed in 2016, so I asked the Fraser Institute [Continue]

LETTER – Piecemeal social services are not a long-term solution downtown

December 5, 2017 // 1 Comment

To Mayor, City Council & CAO David Trawin, From Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association Board of Directors: The Kamloops Central Business Improvement [Continue]

YOU SAY – Using Stuart Wood School for the museum is a great idea

February 13, 2017 // 3 Comments

Facebook feedback on Feb. 11, 2017 Armchair Mayor column, “Is community willing to invest in a new use for Stuart Wood School?” on proposal to use it for the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is community willing to invest in a new use for Stuart Wood School?

February 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

STUART WOOD School is a good place for a museum. It would have been a good place for other things, too, but a museum is within the community’s reach when it comes to public [Continue]

‘Save Stuart Wood’ call picks up speed

June 10, 2014 // 4 Comments

‘It’s all excuses,’ councillor says School needed downtown, says KCBIA Having school in core ‘key,’ say residents /By MICHELE YOUNG and MIKE YOUDS As a [Continue]

Residents urge reprieve for Stuart Wood

June 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

‘Help look for funding for upgrade’ asks association in letter to board /NEWS/ SCHOOLS — A downtown residents group is urging the Kamloops-Thompson school board [Continue]

Search for performing arts centre site: Grube Centre might be for sale if offer is ‘significant’

May 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ CITY — Never say never but it would take an awfully good offer to part School District 73 from the Henry Grube Centre for a performing arts centre site, says [Continue]

Performing Arts Centre, Stuart Wood’s future can be linked if government gets creative

March 29, 2014 // 1 Comment

SATURDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — When levels of government want to accomplish something, there’s usually a way to make it work. One of the reasons detractors of the Henry [Continue]