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Kamloops service businesses adjusting to work in COVID-19 world
KAMLOOPS - While many local businesses have been forced to close as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, many are still operating, albeit in a modified fashion. Service businesses like auto-repair shops, ...
Mar 27, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Share Sheds close across Cariboo Regional District
WILLIAMS LAKE - Many spring cleaning projects are being put on hold as residents come to grips with the COVID-19 virus. Messages of handwashing, self-isolation and social distancing are at the forefro...
Mar 27, 2020
B.C. government introduces new clinical guidance to help at-risk population during COVID-19 outbreak
VICTORIA - The provincial government is providing additional support for vulnerable and at-risk people, specifically those entrenched in addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Mental Heal...
Mar 26, 2020
TNRD shutters eco-depots to building materials and yard waste as a result of a spike in dumping
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Nicola Regional District is working to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on hundreds of employees and thousands of residents of its geographic area.Interim CAO Randy Diehl says t...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops hospice using webcams to allow family to see loved ones under visitor restrictions
KAMLOOPS - Watching a loved one enter hospice is hard enough. But imagine not being able to see them at all. With the doors now locked at the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home, that is...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops MLA Stone hopes funding for renters comes soon as Apr. 1 nears
KAMLOOPS - Todd Stone acknowledges the importance of Wednesday's announcement by the B.C. government of $500 in financial support in wake of the COVID-19 crisis."It's universally acknowledged that nob...
Mar 26, 2020 Kamloops-South Thompson MLA and provincial housing critic Todd Stone says he'll be monitoring to see whether the renters support program is meeting the needs of people during the COVID-19 crisis (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops small businesses still operating, with uncertain financial future
KAMLOOPS - The local business sector is feeling the impacts of COVID-19 both in revenue, and operations. Provincial health officials have mandated that certain businesses need to close for now, to kee...
Mar 25, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Consumer demand after COVID-19 interruption expected to prevent full economic recession
KAMLOOPS - A widespread economic downturn as a result of the COVID-19 virus has brought financial anxiety to many Canadians - however experts are not forecasting a permanent hit. For families, and ind...
Mar 24, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Kamloops Golf and Country Club to close as COVID-19 precautionary move
KAMLOOPS - By tomorrow (Mar. 25), the Kamloops Golf and Country Club will join many other courses who have chosen to shutdown amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic. As a non-essential business, Genera...
Mar 24, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Local distillery brings much needed sanitizer to Mustard Seed Kamloops shelter
KAMLOOPS - A local distillery is working to use its business for good in the community, as Kamloops deals with COVID-19. Kamloops-based company Forager Vodka has made a batch of hand sanitizer and is ...
Mar 23, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
