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MAY 5, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 54
TODAY’S WEATHER Cooler, rainy High 14 C Low 6 C
FIRE SEASON IS HERE
DRAFT DAY LOOMS FOR BLAZERS
Tankers, crew arrive at airport
Will Kamloops kid Ryan Chyzowski be available?
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MP MCLEOD IN EUROPE
HUFFMAN THROWS THE HEAT
Pitcher Tobin Huffman of the midget Kamloops RiverDogs sends one across the plate during weekend action at Canada Games Field. Kamloops took three of four at home on the weekend to improve to 7-2 on the season. For more on the Riverdogs, turn to page A20. For a complete look at sports in the Tournament Capital, turn to pages A19 to A23 and go online to kamloopsthis week.com.
KAMLOOPS MP COMMEMORATES LIBERATION OF THE NETHERLANDS CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com
A three-kilometre silent march through the Dutch countryside yesterday to commemorate liberation by Canada was “incredibly powerful,” according to Cathy McLeod. The Conservative MP for KamloopsThompson-Cariboo is in the Netherlands this week as part of a Canadian delegation marking the 70th anniversary of liberation of the European nation from Nazi Germany at the end of ON LIBERATION the Second World War. “Today [Monday], “It would be a better there was a march and world if we’d learn and there was 2,500 people, behave ourselves and live which included 800 in harmony.” students,” McLeod told — Don Somerville, 92, KTW in a phone intera Second World War view. combat engineer revisitThe silent march ing the Netherlands included Dutch citizens lining the streets, also in silence. Following yesterday’s solemn ceremonies is a celebration event today. McLeod returns to Canada tomorrow. Sixty-eight Canadian military veterans of the liberation are central to the event. McLeod said the average age is 93. They are accompanied by spouses, children or grandchildren. The Canadian delegation includes Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Veterans Affairs minister Erin O’Toole and a small contingent of MPs. More than 7,600 Canadians died in the liberation of the Netherlands from the Nazis from the fall of 1944 to the spring of 1945.
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May 26 deadline for referendum question ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
The clock is ticking on the proposed performing-arts centre. By May 26, Kamloops city council needs to have a referendum question to put to the public if it is to meet its goal of a November vote on the estimated $90-million parkade and theatre complex that would rise on the former Kamloops Daily News property at Seymour Street and Fourth Avenue. In an information update included in today’s council agenda, CAO David Trawin said that, by the end of the month, council will have a proposed date for the vote, along with a referen-
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dum question and a loan authorization bylaw that would proceed if the majority of voters agree to build the centre. “It should be stressed that the setting of a referendum date does not mean council cannot cancel or delay the referendum if it feels additional information is required based upon future public input,” Trawin’s report notes. Meanwhile, the city’s contractor for the project, MHPM Project Managers, has also been tasked with putting together more information on the centre, after an open house earlier this month turned up a number of frequently asked questions about the proposed arts centre.
The new information will include the economic impact of the centre, a more precise cost estimate, examples of shows that might be staged at the venue and their projected attendance and a determination of how the 350-stall parkade will be used at various times of day. Trawin said the money for the latest round of consulting work will come from the original $240,000 council budgeted for preliminary performing-arts centre studies last year. The city has already spent $150,000 of that money to come up with its arts centre proposal, which calls for a 1,200seat main stage theatre and a 350-seat black-box theatre above the underground parkade.
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