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JANUARY 10, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 4
INCHING FORWARD
MILESTONE PASSED TODAY’S WEATHER
Clearing — finally High -8 C, Low -17 C
KGHM one step further in Ajax assessment
Don Hay closing in on WHL record for all-time wins
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North Shore health clinic to open in March DALE BASS
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ANDREA KLASSEN/KTW Up to 11 centimetres of snow fell Sunday through Monday. City crews don’t expect to reach side streets until tomorrow.
WINTER BLAST CONTINUES ANDREA KLASSEN
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If you live on a cul-de-sac, don’t expect to see city of Kamloops snowplows until tomorrow at earliest. While city crews have been working round the clock since snow began falling on Sunday, streets supervisor Joe Luison said
crews are focused on arterial and main roads, and don’t expect to hit local roads until about 32 hours after the end of a snowfall which was not expected to taper off until late last night. “Things are going pretty good, crews got a good jump on it yesterday and are out and about again today,” Luison told KTW on Monday. “We’ve got a contractor ready to go and equipment’s up
and running, sidewalk plows are going. It’s just a matter of staying on top of those arterials and bus routes and going from there.” Environment Canada meteorologist Alyssa Charbonneau said six centimetres of snow fell on Kamloops overnight Sunday, with two to five more centimetres piling up yesterday. See ‘ARCTIC,’ A5
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A new primary-care health centre on the North Shore is expected to open on March 2. The clinic at 370 Tranquille Rd. is now being renovated. Six nurse-practitioners have been hired and work continues to recruit doctors for the site and a second one at the Northills Mall. It is expected to open on April 10. Two doctors from the practice-ready assessment program the province created to work with doctors educated outside Canada have accepted three-year placements in the city and should begin their practices in the spring after finishing their clinical assessments. Three other doctors expected to graduate this spring have also been chosen to practice in Kamloops after
they complete a clinical assessment. They are expected to start their own three-year placements in late summer. The clinics were announced last year by Health Minister Terry Lake. Described as practice-ready, they will be equipped by Interior Health Authority and doctors working there will not have to use their own funds to set up the clinics. Lake said he expects that would appeal to young doctors just starting out in their profession. When operational, it’s expected about 75 full-time IHA positions will work out of the two centres. Some will be transferred from the Kamloops Downtown Health Centre. The Tranquille Road clinic will be on the first floor with other services on the second floor. Specialized teams will be there to deal with patients who have
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