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JUNE 23, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 75
TODAY’S WEATHER
The heat returns High 29 C Low 14 C
DOG DAYS OF DEBATE
WEARING THE E MAPLE LEAF ON N THE DIAMOND D
Pooch park has some in a pickle
Tyson Gillies (right) and Colin Kleven make Team Canada
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RIH down to one oncologist
DECLARING TITLE AT MINE SITE
Skeetchestn Indian Band Chief Ron Ignace (left), Splatsin Indian Band Chief Wayne Christian and Tk’emlups Indian Band Chief Shane Gottfriedson sign documents declaring aboriginal title at Jacko Lake during a ceremony on Sunday. The Tk’emlups and Skeetchestn Indian bands have taken a stand that the proposed Ajax copper and gold mine south of Aberdeen cannot proceed without their approval. For more on the declaration — and comment from KGHM Ajax — go online to kamloopsthisweek.com. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
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Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops is down to a single oncologist and new patients will be referred for consultations in Kelowna. The move comes after one of two oncologists in the city went on maternity leave, leaving just Dr. Brad Proctor. The unit of the B.C. Cancer Agency is supposed to have three medical oncologists, but efforts to recruit have not been successful. “It’s been a hard-to-recruit location,” said John Larmet, regional director of the Sindi Ahluwalia Hawkins Centre for the Southern Interior. To cope with the shortage, Larmet said newly diagnosed patients will go to Kelowna for an initial consultation, along with follow-ups this summer. The agency is scrambling to install a high-quality video link that will eventually allow subsequent consultations to be done from Kamloops to one of about 10 oncologists at the Kelowna cancer centre. That system is used in the Cariboo and Kootenays, where there are no oncologists available in person. Larmet said patients will continue to travel to Kelowna to receive radiation treatment for cancer, but will be able to undergo chemotherapy at RIH as usual.
Strike puts halt to recyclables collection Do not put your recycling bin out for collection this week as a strike means you will need to hang onto your newspaper and milk jugs. Employees with Emterra Environmental, the City of Kamloops’ contractor for processing recyclables, are behind picket lines at the Valleyview recycling plant at 1733 Kelly Douglas Rd. The strike went into effect on Monday. They are members of the United Steelworkers Local 1-417. Glen Farrow, streets and environmental services manager, said the city doesn’t have anywhere it can store recyclables as it waits for Emterra to re-open. Farrow said the city will not be picking up
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recycling material from homes until further notice. This includes not collecting cardboard from some businesses. Nor will the city be collecting material from its four recycling depots (located on McGill Road, Ord Road and at the Mission Flats and Barnhartvale landfills). Residents are asked to store their recyclables on their property if possible. Alternatively, recycling can be taken to the following MultiMaterial BC recycling locations, but all materials must be separated and sorted prior to drop off (i.e. paper, plastic, foam, glass, etc.). • Lorne Street Bottle Depot: 270 Halston Ave. • General Grant’s Recycling Centre:
611 Fortune Dr. • General Grant’s Recycling Centre: 963 Camosun Cresc. Allen Langdon, managing director of MMBC said that while Emterra is also one of its processors, the organization has other options for dealing with recycled materials. “We’re expecting there’ll be more material coming to the depot and we’re expecting at this point we can handle it,” he said. Regular garbage collection will not be affected and will continue as usual. City landfills remain open. For regular updates, go online to kamloops. ca. For more information on Multi-Material BC Recycling, go online to recyclinginbc.ca.
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