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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 76
Page A26 is your guide to events in the city and region
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Federal Election CANDIDATE PROFILE AND MORE The federal election is 31 days away. In today’s paper, another look at a would-be MP and information voters need to know A18, A19
CLINT SPEAKS Former NHLer at TRU next week to talk mental health A31
DROP THE PUCK Read KTW’s 12-page Kamloops Blazers season preview B1
WEEKEND WEATHER:
Sunshine, then showers High 24 C Low 10 C
DOWNTOWN HOME FOR SCIENCE CENTRE Parkcrest fire fallout has Big Little Science Centre moving to former Value Village site MICHAEL POTESTIO
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Tom Beater, great-great-grandson of Ernest Brocklehurst — after whom the Brocklehurst neighbourhood is named — visited Kamloops to see for himself the roots of his family tree. Turn to pages A6 and A7 for the story.
The Big Little Science Centre is moving downtown, to the building at Seymour Street and Fifth Avenue formerly occupied by Value Village. BLSC executive director Gordon Stewart said the science centre will be leasing about half of the 24,000-square-foot building and will need to make renovations to the area it will be using. Stewart said the washrooms will need to be enlarged and some walls built to create a few classrooms in the space. The building’s landlord, Total Concepts Developments, will be helping science centre staff with the renovations, Stewart said, noting a layout plan is being drawn up, which will help identify renovation costs. This week, the charitable organization is moving from its current location in the former Happyvale
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elementary on Holt Street in Brocklehurst and equipment is being placed in storage until the centre can reopen in the downtown location. An early November opening is planned. However, Stewart said, offsite events at schools will continue. While the move has been going smoothly, the science centre may need donations of cash and/or materials once renovations begin. Stewart said the science centre is working on a three-year lease at the Seymour Street location. He said moving downtown will help the science centre interact more with tourists than at its Brocklehurst site and enable opportunities to partner with other nearby organizations, such as the Kamloops Library, the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Kamloops Film Society, to make the area more of a destination. See SCIENCE CENTRE, A5