Vandalism

EDITORIAL – Razor blade scare a reminder of the need to be cautious

November 4, 2024 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT SEEMS Kamloops makes news too often for the wrong reasons, and Halloween presented another of those times. We were in the provincial and [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – A once-pleasant neighbourhood is now under siege

November 19, 2023 // 8 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist SIRENS BLARING, three fire engines, two ambulances and two police cars arrived shortly after 11 p.m. last Sunday night. Lynne [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Vandals strike again, this time on the Valleyview bike overpass

August 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THESE DAYS — or so I’d like to think — I’ll stand here and report that Kamloops has become a cleanly scrubbed city respected [Continue]

LETTER – Looking at the social pressure gauges for answers to vandalism

August 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

Re: EDITORIAL – Do we have to build cages around the nice things in our city? You are looking at the social pressure gauge that tells us how the people of the country are [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Make no assumptions about what a vandal looks like

July 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WROTE YESTERDAY about the bull sculpture that has been removed from Riverside Park because of ongoing vandalism. The patina has been worn [Continue]