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JULY 26, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 89
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CROSSING FINISH LINE
POT: PART 2
The 2016 Kamloops Marathon welcomed hundreds of entrants
Today, KTW looks at marijuana dispensaries operating in the city
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Use a naughty word on city streets and Kamloops bylaw officers could soon be after you with a swear jar. Corporate services and community safety director David Duckworth said the city is looking at new bylaws targeting swearing, fighting and other bad behaviours in public spaces. Measures could come to city council for debate this fall. Duckworth said the city is looking at bylaws such as Nanaimo’s public-nuisance law, which includes $150 fines for public urination and fighting and prohibits “drunkenness, profane swearing or indecent, obscene or grossly insulting language on a highway or in a public place,” as well as obstructing people and traffic. Picketing is excluded from the bylaw. “Certain things like that we don’t necessarily have a bylaw that prohibits that,” Duckworth said. “So we’re looking at tools we can use to ensure that our community is safe and vibrant and welcoming. So we’re looking at what other communities do.” During yesterday’s meeting of the city’s police committee, Duckworth said the goal is to give RCMP and bylaw officers more tools to use against disruptive people who may be loitering downtown or in the Tranquille Market. Calls about unsafe and nuisance behaviour in public spaces are up, with 75 calls compared to 49 by this time last year, while calls about aggressive panhandlers have stayed fairly flat at 37, compared to 33 last year. Complaints of drinking in public fell slightly, with 34 files compared to 45 at this time in 2016.
The Kamloops Chamber of Commerce has criticized a city councillor for attending last PRESENTED BY: week’s Trans Mountain pipeline panel hearing as a private citizen to speak against the proposal. Donovan Cavers appeared at the hearing at Thompson Rivers University, raising the issue 8TH ANNUAL of climate change in his opposition to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline plans. “The elephant in the room is climate change,” Cavers said. He encouraged the three-person ministerial panel chaired by First Nations leader Kim Baird to focus on climate-change impacts from shipping more crude petroleum products to offshore markets.GOLF RESORT SEPTEMBER 10th, 2015 - SUN RIVERS “I don’t understand the gold-rush mentality to PLAYER REGISTRATION get it out of the ground in Alberta,” Cavers said. “In all likelihood, the value of the commodity will Sun Rivers Golf Resort • 1000 Clubhouse Drive, Kamloops, BC only increase.” Registration: 10:00am • Shot Gun Start: 11:00am In a release, Chamber president Ryan Scorgie called attention to Cavers’ remarks. PLAY FORMAT: “It is our understanding that the City of BEST BALL LOW GROSS AND LOW NET, MEN AND WOMEN’S PRIZES PRIZES FOR KP, LONGEST DRIVE IN BOTH MEN’S AND WOMEN’S Kamloops officially maintains a neutral posiThe entry fee is $175.00 per person.This includes an 18-hole round of golf, prizes, welcoming gift, awards banquet and cart rental. Banquet will tion on the Trans Mountain expansion project,” be at 6:00pm.The number of tournament participants is restricted, so please register early to avoid disappointment. For your registration to be Scorgie said. processed, the registration form must be complete and payment must be received. “While neutral, the opinions expressed by ATTENDING GOLFER’S FIRST AND LAST NAME EMAIL PHONE NUMBER BANQUET Donovan Cavers seemed to show a rather pesNO simistic perspective on a project that YES will clearly bring substantial economic benefits to the resiYES NO dents of Kamloops.” YES viceNO Joshua Knaak, the Chamber’s second DAVE EAGLES/KTW president, spoke in favour of the proposed pipeGILLIGAN’S EYE LANDS A SPOT YES NO Dwayne Newman takes the family pet, an African grey parrot named Gilligan, for a line project at last week’s hearings.
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