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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020 | Volume 33 No. 36
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THESE KIDS HAVE DRIVE
CRASH FROM BIRD STRIKE?
These Juniper siblings raised $10K for BC Wildlife Park
RCAF preliminary probe into May 17 accident released
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PIPELINE EXPANSION WORK HAS BEGUN IN KAMLOOPS MICHAEL POTESTIO
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Tom Dhaliwal and his son Paul helped Kamloops RCMP officers change a tire along 12th Street in North Kamloops on Sunday. Officers had been responding to a report of a man with a gun in the area, which turned out to be unsubstantiated, when the Dhaliwals lent a hand. The scene was a stark contrast to the images of violence seen in the United States during the past week as protesters in dozens of cities continue to gather nightly following the May 25 death of George Floyd as he was arrested by police in Minneapolis.
Peaceful protest planned for park KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK
A peaceful protest in honour of the recent deaths of people of colour is being planned. A group on Instagram calling itself kamloops.blm.movement is organizing a noon rally in Riverside Park this Thursday. BLM stands for “Black Lives Matter.”
A notice for the rally states it is “a protest in honour of Regis Korchinsky-Paquet, George Floyd and the many other unarmed P.O.C. (people of colour) being murdered daily. Remember their names. Fight for equal rights.” The rally will be moved to Prince Charles Park downtown if there are flooding issues in Riverside Park, according
to organizers. Paquet was a 29-year-old black woman who fell to her death from a 24th-floor apartment unit in Toronto on May 27. At the time, she was in the apartment unit with police officers, called there by Korchinsky-Paquet’s mother, who said her daughter was in a state of distress. See ORGANIZERS, A4
Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Kamloops began this week with preparatory work underway for a sevenkilometre stretch through that will take about seven months to complete. A workforce of up to 50 people are in the city this month and that number will swell to approximately 600 workers at the peak of construction in August. “Initially, we’ll be setting up a construction yard and commencing work up and around Ord Road, north of the airport,” Trans Mountain president and CEO Ian Anderson told KTW. Work in June and early July will involve preparing yards and construction sites in the city, followed by installation of the new pipeline in the vicinity of Ord and Tranquille roads near the airport. In July, the pipeline will pass under the Thompson River near Tranquille Road, east of the airport, to the south side of the river using trenchless crossing techniques in which a drill bores under the river to pull the pipeline through to the other side. That work was initially pegged for April, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Anderson said the work under the
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river is expected to be seamless, noting crews replaced the existing pipeline that passes under the Thompson River last summer, in under two months. Changes to the riverbed over time moved the old line closer to the bottom of the river, so a new line was placed lower in the ground, he said. Construction will continue on the south end of the city, travelling up the hillside, west of Mount Dufferin and toward the Trans Mountain terminal south of city, near Highway 1 and Lac Le Jeune Road. Anderson pegged spring 2021 before any significant construction begins around the Jacko Lake area southwest of Aberdeen. Clearing the right-of-way for the section of pipeline expansion running along the Lac Du Bois grasslands above Westsyde won’t begin until the fall and installation of that section of pipeline will not commence until next summer. Work from Valemont south to Kamloops and from Kamloops toward Merritt will begin this fall. “This fall will be a busy time — come August, September — across the whole corridor,” Anderson said. Weather permitting, construction will be around the clock. Anderson said at its 600-worker peak, multiple sites in Kamloops will be worked on at once.
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