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MAY 2 , 2018 | Volume 30 No. 35
Dhaliwal may run for mayor JESSICA WALLACE
STAFF REPORTER
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After seven months on council, Ray Dhaliwal wants a shot at the mayor’s chair. One of Kamloops’ newest city councillors said he plans to run for mayor this fall in the municipal election, provided his busiRAY DHALIWAL nesses are self-sustaining. He will make a decision by the end of August. “It is a big job to be the mayor in town, but I’m open to the challenge,” Dhaliwal said. “I’ve never been afraid of a challenge and I jump in with both feet. I’ve done very well that way.” See DHALIWAL, A6
Flood fears prompt sandbag action MICHAEL POTESTIO
STAFF REPORTER
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Clay Chalmers always wanted a house next to a babbling brook for his family, but he is instead dealing with a raging river. “Our nice, babbling creek has become something a little more torrent,” Chalmers told KTW on Monday. High flows from Cherry Creek west of Kamloops has turned the typically small, peaceful creek into a gushing, brown river through the unincorporated area, leading to the closure of Beaton Road. The creek could be seen rushing over Beaton Road on Monday afternoon, with signs closing it in both directions. A few vehicles behind the water line could be seen turning back. The creek usu-
Cherry Creek resident Todd Burroughs and sons Brayden and Mathew fill sandbags near Gardi Road on the weekend in an attempt to protect the pump house on their property. PETER OLSEN PHOTO
ally runs underneath Beaton Road through a culvert, but the amount of water coming down the river has filled it up and flooded over the road, which was washed out in the same spot during serious flooding last year. One middle-aged resident, who did not
wish to give her name, said the creek appears to be 20 times the size of normal. “It’s like a babbling brook. This is a river,” said the woman, who lives up Beaton Road and has called Cherry Creek home for more than 40 years. Residents told KTW
the Thompson-Nicola Regional District dropped off sand and sand bags this past weekend, noting the community as a whole has rallied to help each other safeguard their property along the river. Chalmers estimated nearly 2,000 sandbags
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were placed around the area over the weekend. Usually, the creek is just a trickle through Chalmers’ property, but he has noticed it gradually rising during the past couple of weeks, surging an estimated two feet in the past two days.
The creek has forged new channels through his property that weren’t there on Saturday morning and his weekend was spent using machinery to try to shore up neighbouring property along the creek with rip rap and sandbags. “It’s spring. You want to do cleanup, but this takes precedence,” he said. Chalmers had some new rip rap dropped off at his home and is concerned of a potential surge of water flooding more of his property if there is a blockage over by Beaton Road. But Chalmers is taking the flooding in stride, as the water isn’t affecting his home and rip rap laid down last year is keeping it away from a pump house on their property. See EMERGENCY, A6
DRAFT DAY LOOMS
The Western Hockey League Bantam Draft will be held on Thursday. The Kamloops Blazers hold the No. 5 pick. Will Tournament Capital phenom Logan Stankoven still be on the board by then?
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