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Veteran B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger will find time to take in the sights after deciding to call it a political career. The Kamloops-South Thompson MLA was first elected in 1996 and has decided to not seek re-election in the May 14, 2013 election. Go online to kamloopsthisweek.com to watch video of Krueger explaining his decision. KTW file photo
Read all about our history KRUEGER WILL NOT Do you know what the Stanley This year, Kamloops is celebrating Cup and the City of Kamloops have 200 years as a community. in common? To commemorate the occasion of Do you know we once had a king? the bicentennial, Kamloops This Week Once you read is proud to present a KTW’s special edi40-page broadsheet tion, you will know newspaper docuall of this — and a menting much of the whole lot more. history that has led The special edito the Tournament tion could not have Capital being what it been published is today. without the help of From a riveting Elisabeth Duckworth read regarding what and her staff at the the first settlers saw Kamloops Museum as they arrived in the and Archives. Thompson Valley, to If you have past centennial celalways wanted to ebrations with links know why Kamloops to Nazi Germany and is the way it is today, Gone With The Wind, Visitors to Canada Day a visit to the Archives KTW’s special edition festivities at Riverside Park on is full of stories from Sunday, July 1, should keep an eye will quench even out for Deadline Don, KTW’s the deepest thirst for the past. Do you know why newsboy who will be handing out knowledge. copies of KTW’s special edition. KTW’s special Dwight Eisenhower Every Kamloops doorstep will edition will land on visited Kamloops in receive a copy on Tuesday, July 3. Kamloops doorsteps the 1930s? on Tuesday, July 3, Do you know the with some copies being handed out at name of the first non-native baby Riverside Park on Canada Day. born in the community?
SEEK RE-ELECTION By Andrea Klassen and Dale Bass STAFF REPORTERS andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
If his name were on the ballot in the May 2013 provincial election, Kevin Krueger thinks he’d be headed back to Victoria for another term as Kamloops-South Thompson MLA. But, he won’t be putting that theory to the test. The veteran B.C. Liberal MLA is calling it quits, stating he will not seek re-election in order to spend more time with his family. Krueger will serve as MLA until the May 14,
2013 election campaign begins. “I think everyone has a best-before date and I have the sense that I’m approaching mine,” Krueger told KTW. While he said there was no pressure from Premier Christy Clark to pack it in, Krueger thinks a fresh face in Kamloops-South Thompson will help the party. “I think it’s better for the new premier and for my colleagues if they don’t have to have my name on the ballot or my face in the pictures,” he said. “She needs some of the old guard to be
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replaced by new, competent people.” People who had nothing to do with the HST, that is. Krueger said he’s still smarting from the backlash the B.C. Liberals unleashed when they introduced the unpopular tax, which was eventually defeated by provincial referendum. While he still supports the HST, Krueger wishes the party had brought it in differently. “In hindsight, I would way rather we’d consulted for two years rather than fought for two years,” he said. X See HST A7
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Kevin Krueger was known for his bombast and colourful quotes — inside the legislature and anywhere else in B.C., for that matter. Turn to page A7 for a selection of some of the venerable MLA’s more potent quotes.
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