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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 71
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City will soon take control of parkades
A sample of a poem submitted in the New York Times’ Black Poetry contest. From 2,500 submissions, 61 were selected as winners and runners-up — including works by Brocklehurst Middle School students Shreya Sharma and Gracie Dempsey. NY TIMES PHOTO
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SD73 kids get ink in NY Times Two Kamloops students have been recognized by the New York Times for their poetry skills. Shreya Sharma and Gracie Dempsey, Grade 9 English honours students at Brocklehurst Middle School, were among 61 teenagers who had their works singled out from a pool 2,500 submissions to the newspaper’s Blackout Poetry contest. A blackout poem involves taking a black marker to existing text — such as in a newspaper — and blacking out words until a poem is formed by the remaining text. The Times asked applicants to have fun playing with language, fiddle with different combinations to create new imagery and ideas and use illustrations, if desired, to enhance the meaning of the words. A panel of six judges selected 25 poems as their favourites and another 36 poems as runners-up.
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Shreya’s poem, A Piece of Music, was one of the winners, and Gracie’s Of Interest was chosen as a runner-up. “Without the support and guidance of their teacher, none of this would have been possible,” said SD73 superintendent Alison Sidow. Below is Shreya’s poem, A Piece of Music: A piece of music In part conveys A new ground A fresh wave Strings of time Knotty and gnarly Compose that piece Meticulously
After more than four decades of management by an independent corporation, the city will in the new year assume operation of its only two parkades, both of which are downtown. The Kamloops Downtown Parking Corporation has been silently working behind the scenes since 1975, monitoring the cityowned Seymour Street and Lansdowne Street parkades. Effective Jan. 1, the city will move toward automation — possibly a gated system similar to that found at Royal Inland Hospital — with bylaw officers enforcing parking rules similar to other city parking stalls. Acting bylaw services manager Tammy Blundell said the deci-
sion by council not to renew the corporation’s contract, which expires on Dec. 31, was made to improve efficiency and provide customers with pay option alternatives to cash and cheque. The corporation didn’t have the resources to automate, she said. Currently, the corporation employs one full-time office manager, a part-time assistant, a maintenance person and about a half-dozen people who work in the cash box booths. The office manager, who works out of an office in the Seymour Street parkade, will stay on through the first three to four months of 2020 to ensure a smooth transition. The others will be out of work with the corporation’s dissolution at the end of the year. The value of the city contract with the Kamloops Downtown
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Parking Corporation is unclear. Blundell said it fluctuates from month to month, with the corporation managing the parkades and collecting fares, paying its operating costs and sending anything remaining at the end of the month to the city. Blundell said automating the process will likely mean more money in city coffers. “That is definitely expected,” she said, noting revenues will go into a parkade management reserve for future city needs. Parkade users can expect new technology in the future, including online payment. More information is expected in the coming months. Blundell said bylaw officers will be responsible for the parkades until 9 p.m. and discussions will also occur in the coming months about evening security.