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FRIDAY, October 11, 2019
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OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THANKS TO ALL FOR RUN FOR CURE SUPPORT Editor: I would like to thank all my CIBC Run for the Cure sponsors for their support. As a survivor, I have been on the receiving end and I just can’t thank people enough for their generosity and kindness. I would also like to thank all the businesses for their support, including Fabutan on the North Shore, Brendan, manager of the North Shore Safeway, La Dolcevita Day Spa & Salon in Sahali, the Brock Centre Liquor Store in Brocklehurst, the Tranquille Road Animal Hospital in North Kamloops and the Brocklehurst community for their generosity. I was able to complete the run (I walked) last Sunday in Riverside Park and the weather was beautiful. Kamloops did an awesome job and I am looking forward to next year’s event. Cindy Rose Kamloops
AJAX NEEDS TO BE BURIED FOR GOOD Editor: Our universities teach a course in business about corporate social responsibility. It encourages managers to be sensitive to the needs of the community. Business is not about just making a profit, as we are now learning. It is about people, too — customers, employees and the community. It is too bad the people who want to resurrect the Ajax mine project are apparently not familiar with the trend, otherwise they would not behave as they do and try to bring back
to life a project that has been turned down by senior levels of government. The Ajax project will harm people. It will rob people and give profit to a foreign entity that cares little for the dangerous pollution of a spent mine when it is closed. Ajax will leave behind a billion-dollar cleanup bill even as it will cost us billions of dollars in health issues and property and economic losses. A thoroughly documented report by a well-known cardiologist, the late Dr. Dennis
Karpiak, and myself showed Ajax would cost $6 billion and benefit the community in the amount of $2 billion for a loss of $4 billion. But the major concern is the terrible effect the mine will have on the environment and people. It is time these uncaring promoters faced reality, along with a good dose of social responsibility, and buried this albatross for good. Dr. Ken Blawatt Kamloops
KAMLOOPS TRANSIT’S CITYPASS HAS ITS BARRIERS Editor: The new CityPass program offered by the City of Kamloops for affordable transit seems like a good idea in principle if a person can actually get it. Having put my paperwork in order and with the application filled out, I headed to the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society, which is one of only two public screening agencies that can approve
the Arch/CityPass. The other agency is The Family Tree Family Centre, which is open Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This in itself creates a barrier for those trying to get the pass who may work dayshifts and have children. After speaking to the receptionist at the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society, I
was turned away due to the fact I already have the Arch (affordable recreation for community health) pass and was only applying for the CityPass and she wasn’t sure what to do. I was directed to city hall and subsequently left three days’ worth of voice mails with the appropriate department, with no return phone call during that time. I am still without the
CityPass and am no further along with the application process than I was when I first started. This is a frustrating and dubious process for a low income-earning single father just trying to break down some of the cost barriers that affect myself and my son’s quality of life. Colin McKay Kamloops
ROAD CLOSURE AND REMOVAL OF DEDICATION AS A HIGHWAY BYLAW NO.18-380
(Adjacent to 1880 McKinley Court) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on October 22, 2019, Kamloops City Council intends to adopt Bylaw No. 18-380, a bylaw to authorize the closure of road and removal of dedication as a highway shown as being a part of road dedicated on Plan KAP87840 , Sec. 31, Twp. 19, Rge. 17, W6M, K.D.Y.D, as shown below:
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The Bylaw may be inspected at the Legislative Services Division, City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops, BC, during regular office hours from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, or inquiries may be directed to 250-828-3483. All persons who wish to register an opinion on the proposed closure may do so by:
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• Appearing before City Council on October 22, 2019, 1:30 pm, in Council Chambers, City Hall, 7 Victoria Street West • Written submission - please note that written submissions must be received by the Legislative Services Division no later than October 21, 2019, 4:00 pm Written submissions may be hand delivered or sent by regular mail to Legislative Services, 7 Victoria Street West, Kamloops, BC, V2C 1A2; faxed to 250-828-3578; or emailed to legislate@kamloops.ca.