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DECEMBER 28, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 155
Heighton hired to head the NSBIA
KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? A look back at some of the stories and newsmakers of 2017 and years previous
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Saddling up with Cowboy Gordo This is one of those times when it’s probably best to not try and write this Where Are They Now? profile and just let the subject do it. So, here is where Gord Kurenoff has been since he left the editor’s chair at KTW back in 2005:
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nyone ever watch Punk’d, Just For Laughs or Candid Camera? Those prankster TV shows came to mind when former colleague Dale Bass, now warming the associate editor’s chair at Kamloops This Week, asked this Langley-based scribbler and wannabe cowboy what I’ve been up to since leaving her B.C. Interior paradise. Me: What, slow news day? Did esteemed and engaged editor Christopher Foulds phone in sick and you need some space filler? See KURENOFF, A4
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Former KTW editor Gord Kurenoff liked to play cowboy when he lived in Kamloops. Today, you can find him running down Lower Mainland roads clad in Lycra.
JEREMY HEIGHTON
“Everybody really just felt his local experience working with the chamber and having his own business, working in this market as well as his great cross-section of background, would be an ideal fit for this snapshot in time,” Herman said. “I have been so blessed to be a part of the Kamloops Business Community over the last 15 years and this move feels so right,” Heighton wrote on his Facebook page. “The ability to
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The North Shore Business Improvement Association has found its next executive director. NSBIA president Bryce Herman confirmed the association has hired Jeremy Heighton, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce’s member relations co-ordinator. Heighton announced on his Facebook page that he will step into the role as of Jan. 8. The NSBIA has been without an executive director since Steven Puhallo resigned in the fall to start up an online gaming company. Herman said the NSBIA’s selection committee received more than 45 applications, most from within Kamloops.
assist developing the North Shore Business Association and is members, our amazing North Shore communities and Kamloops as a positive business destination for new and developing businesses, as well as building momentum which yields positive and powerful outcomes for all.” Herman said the board will begin strategic planning for the next three to five years once Heighton officially joins the organization, but added building relationships with businesses and agencies in the city, including the chamber of commerce, will be a key focus. Herman said the association will also continue to monitor the effects of Interior Health’s mobile supervised drug-use site.
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