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MAY 23, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 41
BANKS TARGETED TODAY’S WEATHER
Sunny and hot High 30 C Low 14 C
DROPPING IN ON CITY
Many financial institutions damaged in vandalism spree
May Meet, baseball and soccer tourneys part of busy weekend
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First Nations sell permits for morels JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
do, so something’s going to go there. What did you think? You were looking at that and thinking nothing’s ever going to happen there? But when you had a chance to get some high-end stuff in there and they go, they start squawking like that? Shame on you because now you don’t know what the hell you’re going to get.”
In what Skeetchestn First Nation Chief Ron Ignace calls a “historic” move, six communities have asserted jurisdiction over Elephant Hill near Ashcroft and have regulated mushroom picking and buying. “This morel picking has been like a wild, wild west where they’ve gone and left a wake of destruction behind them,” Ignace told KTW. “We’re trying to prevent it. We’re calling on the public to stand in support of us to make sure this doesn’t happen.” Six First Nations — Skeetchestn, Bonaparte, Clinton, Tk’emlups, Pavilion and High Bar — began two weeks ago selling permits to pickers, buyers and campers. Individual pickers need to buy a $20 permit and buyers are being charged $500. In return, the areas are being serviced with garbage cans, portapotties and information, such as where logging trucks are frequently hauling. The Tsilhqot’in First Nation in Williams Lake has implemented an identical permit system for harvesting morels. Ignace said the regulations were also implemented for health and safety and aboriginal title reasons.
See CULOS, A13
See PROVINCE, A4
MIKE CULOS ON HIS PROPERTIES NEXT TO SANDMAN CENTRE: “I think the city should buy it all back from me, give me my money and make this the railway heritage museum in here and put something else out there. Not my best-case scenario, but I think it’s one that works for them.” DAVE EAGLES/KTW
Fencing with the city downtown JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
A divide is building between a Kelowna developer and the City of Kamloops — and a chain-link structure will rise six feet from the ground. Last week, the Culos Group began erecting a fence around two undeveloped lots beside the heritage CN building in
downtown Kamloops that used to be home to The Keg restaurant. The private property that previously doubled as green space will no longer be accessible to the public. “Just because you’re there and you’ve had your dog park out the front door for how many years — shit changes,” Mike Culos told KTW. “The zoning says this is what we can
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