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MARCH 9, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 20
WEATHER Sunny, warming up High 7 C, Low -5 C SNOW REPORT Sun Peaks Resort Mid-mountain: 188 cm Alpine: 230 cm Harper Mountain Total snow: 290 cm
TIME TO CHANGE THE TIME CHANGE?
CHASING A CHAMPIONSHIP
As we spring our clocks forward this weekend, the Kamloops-led group campaigning to end it carries on
Boys’ basketball teams from Westsyde and South Kam are in the hunt in Langley
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SPORTS/A23
Culos loses bid to MADISEN’S MEANING rezone Landmark Developer hoped to have first-floor commercial unit changed to residential JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
The lone business owners to buy into the final phase of the Landmark Centre development on McGill Road are lauding a decision by city council to deny a Kelowna developer with deep investment in Kamloops his bid to rezone commercial space around them. But it means an ongoing parking dispute on the property will likely continue. “We’re very excited,” Jonni Yeomans told KTW outside council chambers Tuesday night after the decision. “We’ve worked really hard. This is our life savings.” Jonni and husband Darrel Yeomans bought unit 101 at Landmark Place, 765 McGill Rd. Their business, Jonni’s Styling Studio, operated for more than three decades downtown. The couple invested between $350,00 to $400,000 into transi-
tioning to the Landmark development to expand their business and capitalize on residential growth from the planned The Reach project at TRU. The Yeomans were among business owners and residents who attended a public hearing to oppose an application by Culos Group of Companies to rezone as residential five commercial units on the ground level of the Landmark Place building. The salon, which opened at the front of the building earlier this week, shares an entrance with one of the units that was up for rezoning. “Without other commercial development in the property, we are alone and, without the proper critical public access, this will negatively impact walk-in traffic to our business,” the Yeomans stated in a letter to council. See DEVELOPER, A15
Kamloops fifth-grader Madisen Fehts earns national recognition for her poem on the meaning of home NEWS/A5
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