WEDNESDAY, December 30, 2020
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CITY COUNCIL FAILS TO LISTEN CITY BLESSED WITH SPEED CONTROL HOLES Editor: Thumpity, thumpity, thump, thump, thump is the sound of driving in Kamloops — with the occasional bang, or BANG. Instead of labelling them potholes, how about speed control holes? If you have a small vehicle, it will be shaken to pieces. And, while weaving over the lane to avoid holes, the police may think you are drunk and pull you over. At least the city managed to fix many holes and areas in the fall. Ray Jones Kamloops
MUSIC TO OUR EARS
Editor: Thank you to the gentleman who performed an impromptu trumpet concert of Christmas carols in front of Ponderosa Place earlier this month. What a terrific way to spread cheer in this difficult holiday season. Thank you again for reminding us of the true spirit of Christmas. Sylvia Gandy Kamloops
Editor: Kamloops council has failed to listen to residents of Dallas Drive after an overwhelming negative response to the proposed modification to the covenant of 7750 Dallas Dr. to allow for construction of a restaurant and gas bar. The city mailed out 163 notices and received 99 responses that were opposed to the proposal. There was also a 54-name petition against the plan. The covenant has been in place for 20 years for a reason — and for council to ignore residents is a slap in their collective face. What is the point of asking the resi-
dents of Dallas Drive, who will be directly affected by the development, if city council was just going to ignore them? The Dallas Community Association did not have an official stance on the project because the developer didn’t engage the group, yet Coun. Dale Bass claimed the association was in favour. The association was not asked because it does not have an address within 100 metres of the development. We, the residents of Dallas Drive, moved to this area to have a relatively quiet lifestyle. We don’t need a car wash, restaurant, excessive lighting and more truck traffic all hours of the day and night.
The address of the property on which council has approved removal of the covenant, 7750 Dallas Dr., is less than 300 yards from an existing card lock, gas station, eat-in restaurant and pizza parlour. We don’t need to look like downtown Kamloops. If city council truly cared about what residents want, perhaps council should look at having the property developed from light industrial to residential. The plan should be for more housing, not the addition of a gas station, car wash and restaurant. Carrie Hubert Kamloops
MIGHT IT BE TIME TO SHIFT OUR THINKING? Editor: We saw some beautiful sunrises earlier this month. shortly after 7:30 a.m. Sunsets were equally glorious, coming at about 4 p.m. However, I can’t help but think how much darker this winter would have been for people heading to work for 8:30 a.m. — not to mention kids heading to school — if we hadn’t all turned our clocks back earlier this fall. Had the provincial government gone ahead with its plans to eliminate the fall time change, most people would be heading to work or school entirely in the dark from late November to early
February. (You can check out sunrise and sunset times for Kamloops yourself online at timeanddate.com.) And for those who work until 5 p.m. or later, the only chance to see the sun at all on work days might be during a lunch hour walk.
We all find the time change trying, but those twice-annual clock adjustments might be preferable to living with no sunlight at all on winter mornings. One way to solve this problem, you might be thinking, would be to leave the clocks
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at their current settings yearround. However, this option for avoiding the time change also has a significant drawback — unbearably early sunrises in the summer months. I shudder to think of tent camping in July, with the sun rising at 4 a.m. For those with small children, the 5 a.m. summer wake-up times are probably early enough. One way or another, if the province decides to go ahead with eliminating the time change, it might be a good time to invest in either solar lamps or blackout blinds. Nichole Rae Kamloops
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