Multiple user groups competing for space at former McArthur Island golf course
KAMLOOPS — It’s been more than a month since the McArthur Island golf course reverted back into city hands, and city continues to listen to public feedback on possible uses of the old golf course.
Jesse Ritcey and other members of the Kamloops Naturalist Club are taking a walk on the former McArthur Island golf course. They all have ideas as to what the city should do with the now vacant property.
“We’d like to keep it natural, bring in more passive recreation, group activities, classes,” said Ritcey. “We don’t really have a dedicated nature centre in Kamloops. That’s something other communities have. Williams Lake has Scout Island, there’s Allan Brooks [Nature Centre] in Vernon. Basically everyone has one. We don’t.”