KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK THURSDAY
FINDING FOCUS AMID THE FLAMES
Tyler Hodder on taking to the field while his Fort Mac home burned to the ground. SPORTS A17
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MAY 12, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 57
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NorKam courses face elimination DALE BASS
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environmentally unfriendly paints once used to mark roads. Farrow said the city’s regular paint has improved in the past few years, but it’s still looking for options that will require it to re-paint less often. At the Ord Road intersection, Farrow said, re-painting markings once a year requires significant and costly traffic control and creates a greater risk for staff because of high traffic volumes. The city won’t decide if the product is successful for some time. Farrow said it will examine the markings this fall and again in the spring to determine how they have held up to regular traffic and snow, sand and plows.
The hairdressing program at NorKam secondary has been saved — at least temporarily — but the school’s cooking class still faces cancellation for the 2016-2017 year. School District 73 Supt. Karl deBruijn said administration will use money it receives from the province’s IN AND OUT: CommunityLINK Fifteen full-time teaching (Learning Includes positions face the axe at Nutrition and Knowledge) Fund to end of school year. keep the hairdressing CUTTING TO program running in THE BONE: hopes more students Board of education sign up in coming sends letter to Victoria, months. expressing frustration. He is also hoping to see more students Pages A10-A11 enrol in the cooking program before September. However, interest is so low that the program could be eliminated. Kamloops-Thompson board of education chairwoman Denise Harper said she is heartbroken over the possible loss of the cooking course, but noted with funding based on students alone, it can’t continue.
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Lane markings on Kamloops streets often disappear as winter gives way to spring, as is evident on Columbia Street in Sahali. The city is testing a a product called polyurea at the intersection of Eighth Street, Batchelor Drive and Ord Road. Polyurea is said to last five times longer than road pain now used on streets. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
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t’s been used successfully on roads from Texas to Alaska. Now, a new product that promises to last up to five times as long as regular road paint is making its Canadian debut in Kamloops. Streets and environmental services manager Glen Farrow said the City of Kamloops has agreed to test a product called polyurea at the intersection of Eighth Street, Batchelor Heights Drive and Ord Road. “We were approached by a company to give it a shot, a supplier down in the Lower Mainland who wants to start
selling this stuff, and they want to be able to drive their customers to a location where it’s proving out,” said Farrow. In return for hosting the test, Farrow said the city had the markings put down free of charge by Magnolia Advanced Materials, a company based in Atlanta. “It’s a very high-wear area,” Farrow said of the testing site. “There’s a lot of buses going into Ord Road, a lot of logging trucks coming from Westsyde, people changing lanes. There’s a lot of traffic, so the lines there tend to wear out much quicker than our other spots.” The city has been on the hunt for better paints for some time, since regulations changed to prohibit the long-wearing but
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