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MAY 15, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 39
WEDNESDAY IGNACES HONOURED
RUNNING ON EMPTY? TODAY’S WEATHER
Showers likely High 22 C Low 11 C
Fate of 2019 Kamloops Marathon remains in doubt
Ron and Marianne Ignace to receive prestigious award
NEWS/A14
SPORTS/A24
COOPER FAMILY SPENDING $40 MILLION ON NORTH SHORE DEVELOPMENTS MICHAEL POTESTIO
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WHEN DOVES FLY
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What’s a peace walk without doves? The beautiful birds were released on Saturday at the 44th annual Walk for Peace, the Environment and Social Justice. Participants met at the Kamloops Farmers’ Market before marching through downtown Kamloops. More photos are online at kamloopsthisweek.com.
The Cooper family has plans to transform the site of the recently closed Bowlertime and Dirty Jersey pub into a focal point in North Kamloops — the Cooper Centre. New housing in Brocklehurst to support the project is also in the works, representing the family’s $40-million investment in the area between the two initiatives. Cooper Family Foundation president and CEO Nelly Dever announced the developments Monday at the Eighth Street location, which is pegged as the future home of Kamloops Search and Rescue and the B.C. Search Dog Association, the next two recipients of the Cooper Family Foundation’s Wings Above Kamloops project. Wings Above Kamloops sees the Cooper Family Foundation raise money through the family’s
real estate projects and use the proceeds for worthy causes. The first of the foundation’s endeavour was last year’s silent auction of a new home in Aberdeen, with money raised going to help fund a $1.4-million expansion at the Marjorie Snowden Willoughby Memorial Hospice Home. Dignitaries and other visitors gathered for Monday’s announcement of the next two recipients were given tours of the currently gutted 11,780-square-foot space, which is being retrofitted to accommodate KSAR and the search dog association. “We’ve been working on it for months,” Dever told KTW. The facility will contain a 3,000 square-foot canine physical training centre, regional command centre for KSAR, lecture hall, board room, decompression station and 3,500 square-foot vehicle bays. The two organizations will
move in some time in 2020, with their rent being covered by the Cooper family. With most of the building sitting empty six months ago, the foundation approached the family about using the space for the next Wings Above Kamloops recipients. “When we saw that it was a good fit for the search teams because of the size of the building and access to the highway, we saw a new vision for the site itself,” Dever said. The Cooper family has owned the property for decades and has other development plans for the site. A day care will open in the former bowling alley and there are plans to add a two-storey, 25-stall parkade and a Tim Hortons outlet in the parking lot. “The whole site will be reconfigured,” Dever said.
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