Kamloops celebrates National Public Works Week
KAMLOOPS — It was a busy day at the City of Kamloops Public Works Yard, as hundreds of local families came out to a Public Works Open House hosted by the city. The event was a celebration of the unseen heroes who make sure our sewers and water work, our garbage and recycling is collected, and our streets are repaired and cleared of snow, and was held to wrap up National Public Works Week.
“The intent is to celebrate the work that the men and women of public works do each and every day,” Director of Public Works and Utilities Jen Fretz explained. “It’s not something the public sees all the time, it just happens, and is assumed, really. So the idea is for people to come as see what it is we truly do.”
Kids of all ages got the opportunity to get their hands on some of the equipment the city has. Kids were able to hop into excavators, or on boom trucks, and into loaders, and get first hand (and supervised) experience in what many of the municipal workers do to keep the infrastructure in the city repaired and running well.