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AUGUST 15, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 97
HILLSIDE HEARTBREAK
STIFF COMPETITION
Broncos cough up late lead in tough loss to Westshore
New gym offering rates at fraction of those of competition
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TODAY’S WEATHER
A mix of sun and cloud High 26 C, Low 11 C
City staffers ‘disappointed’ with report on Ajax Council expected to hear about staff displeasures at Tuesday meeting after joint federal-provincial report ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
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HOT WEEKEND DOWNTOWN
The city centre was bustling over the weekend, with Ribfest — including Gator BBQ (above) — fillied tummies and Hot Nite in the City attracted car enthusiasts and vehicles from across North America. For more photos from the events, turn to Page A12.
Weather shifts, but fires rage on SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com
The change in the weather over the weekend brought some bad with the good. While rain poured down over a large portion of the province and wind briefly cleared the skies, it wasn’t enough to temper the
larger and more aggressive fires plaguing B.C. With the weather also came lightning, which is to blame for most of the new wildfires started over the weekend — a combined 52 new fires from Friday to Sunday, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service. Several fires in the province
saw aggressive growth over the weekend, despite the rain they received. Although some of the increases in size can be attributed to the better visibility, allowing for them to be more accurately mapped, both the HancevilleRiske Creek and Elephant Hill fires continued to grow. See FIRE, A4
City of Kamloops staff are “disappointed” with a report from federal and provincial regulators on the Ajax mine, city council will hear Tuesday. In a staff report, the city’s environmental services co-ordinator Emily Lomas said the report, released to the public last week for 60 days of comment, fails to reflect concerns raised by the city and other organizations who helped review the mine’s environmental application. “The report also reads as if every concern or potential project effect is avoidable or mitigated, does not list concerns regarding the proposed mitigation plans and mentions very little about the level of confidence in some of the assessments of the project’s effects,” Lomas wrote. She also suggests conditions put forward by staff around areas of city concern have been discarded.
A S H I N I N G E X A M P L E o f o u r C R A F T S M A N S H I P.
The report . . . does “ not list concerns regarding the proposed mitigation plans.
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— EMILY LOMAS City of Kamloops
SPEAK UP What do you think? Should the city be concerned if some of its questions about Ajax were apparently discarded in a recent joint report by federal and provincial officials? Are you worried about the proposed mine? Or do you think it’s a good idea? Send letters to editor@kamloopsthisweek.com.
Council is being asked to write a letter to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office and Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, as well as environment ministers in Victoria and Ottawa, and reach out to ministers directly to express concern over the report.
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