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Re-elect
Kathy SINCLAIR for Kamloops City Council
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OCTOBER 10, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 81
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WEDNESDAY Candidate
Q&As
The third instalment in KTW’s four-part question-and answer segment with the two candidates running for mayor, the 21 council hopefuls and the 10 people vying for school board seats. Parts 1 and 2 are online at kamloopsthisweek.com. Part 4 will appear in the Oct. 17 edition of KTW. See pages A10-A11 for this week’s responses.
BC Housing adds 30 beds for winter SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com
DAVE EAGLES/KTW Pat Wallace reflects on three decades of being in civic politics. “I’m ready,” Wallace said of her decision to retire and not seek re-election on Oct. 20.
DECADES LATER, NOT STANDING PAT JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
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at Wallace rattles off the years like a bingo caller. “Eighty, ’82, ’86,” she said of her council terms. “That’s three two-year terms. And then ’93, ’96, ’99. Uh, well, I’ve been in 31 years, this is my 31st year. ’93, ’96, ’99, 202, 205, 208, 211, 214.”
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In 2018, the 85-year-old veteran city councillor is hanging up her campaign signs after a tenured political career. She is not seeking re-election after more than three decades in civic politics. KTW visited Wallace at her home in the RiverBend Seniors Community in Brocklehurst in advance of her final meetings around the horseshoe at city hall. “I’m ready,” she said of her retirement. Wallace arrived in Kamloops from
Ontario in 1974 and began teaching employment prep at the newly minted Cariboo College, which opened its doors in 1970 and has since grown into Thompson Rivers University. She still keeps in touch with students, one of whom shares a position Wallace held — past-president of the Union of BC Municipalities.
Temporary housing will soon be in place on Royal Avenue ahead of the opening of more permanent supportive housing on the North Shore and downtown. A new housing project will open at 185 Royal Ave. and will contain 30 short-term beds and onsite services. Each resident will have a designated bed and access to showers, meals and outreach services, such as life skills training, employment assistance and community services referrals. The project just off Tranquille Road on the North Shore, is expected to open on Nov. 1 following renovations now underway by BC Housing, the building’s new leaseholder. The temporary housing project is being called an “interim measure” by the province and is expected to remain open until the spring, when its residents will be relocated to modular housing projects at 317 Tranquille Rd., about one block away, and 259 West Victoria St. downtown. In August, the province announced it would construct 55 units of similar temporary housing on city-owned land at several Mission Flats Road addresses. The opening of those units is expected to coincide with the availability of 13 additional beds at the Emerald Centre homeless shelter downtown beginning in November. Privately run social agency JUMP Kamloops currently offers 15 meals a week to homeless and non-homeless alike at 185 Royal Ave. and is working with the city to determine its next steps.
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