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JUNE 6, 2018 | Volume 30 No. 45
Weaver: Past year proves minority governments work MICHAEL POTESTIO
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RIVER POLE RESTORATION
Artist Vaughn Warren is busy at work under the tarp, completing some much-needed touch-ups on the River Pole he constructed at the corner of Columbia Street and Summit Drive in Sahali. The work involves pressure washing, sanding and refinishing the seven-metre (22-foot) tall structure. It’s all part of regular maintenance work the City of Kamloops commissions him to do on his scultpture every five years. Warren said this is the third time he’s done maintenance on the pole, noting he enjoys smoothing out carving lines and filling cracks in the wood. The tarp will come off next Tuesday after three weeks of work.
Fungi forager found
The lure of the mushroom in a postfire landscape left a forager lost near Lost Lake and in need of being rescued by Kamloops Search and Rescue volunteers. And the massive popularity of the morel in a landscape scorched by wild-
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fire has the KSAR anticipating more such rescues this summer. Search and rescue members from around the Interior, including Kamloops, were called to the Loon Lake area on Saturday night. See KSAR FEARS, A7
A year of co-operation between the Green and New Democratic parties is proof minority governments can work in B.C., according to Green Leader Andrew Weaver, who was in Kamloops on the weekend to attend the party’s annual convention. Decked out in a flowery shirt and weary from previous engagements, the MLA from Oak Bay-Gordon Head sat down with KTW and a small napkin’s worth of food to discuss what has been the most influential year of his party’s existence. In May 2017, three Green MLAs signed a confidence and supply agreement, pledging to vote with the NDP on matters of confidence to hold Premier John Horgan’s minority government in place. Weaver said their working relationship since then has been good, noting only some initial rockiness trying to figure out
MARKING 74 YEARS SINCE D-DAY
What are your thoughts on the first year of the NDP minority government and its agreement with the Greens?
email editor@kamloops thisweek.com how they would collaborate. “It’s been a remarkable experience. We didn’t know what was going to happen after we agreed to support [the] NDP government,” Weaver said. The Greens have been successful in banning big money in politics, ensuring the establishment of the fair wage commission on increasing minimum wage $15 per hour to keep politics out of the decision and pushed the NDP to adopt an innovation foundation, which focuses on bringing the tech sector with the resource sector — all of which were conditions of the confidence and supply agreement. See GREEN LEADER, A10
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