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Emergency service workers encouraged to give blood during Sirens for Life campaign
KAMLOOPS - Emergency personnel are being encouraged to give blood during the Sirens for Life campaign this month. Various emergency service workers gathered at Oasis Church Thursday morning (May 2) to...
May 02, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
LEGASSIC: Focusing on honesty after losing someone to suicide
SEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, I was at my school, telling some of my closest friends the hardest thing I've ever had to say out loud. My best friend, Chelsey, was dead. I'll never forget the reactions from m...
James Peters May 02, 2019 Image Credit: Justin Lee Photography
Turtle Valley residents protest biosolids dumping outside Kamloops City Hall
KAMLOOPS - On Saturday, residents of Turtle Valley gathered outside Kamloops City Hall to protest the transportation and application of City of Kamloops Biosolids to a piece of property near their hom...
James Peters Apr 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Cariboo Memorial Hospital low-risk delivery services to resume
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Interior Health has announced that maternity services at Cariboo Memorial Hospital (CMH) for low-risk deliveries will resume on Tuesday (April 30). Low-risk deliveries are define...
James Peters Apr 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
New palliative care resources come with Kamloops Hospice expansion
KAMLOOPS - What was once just a dream has now become reality. Following a generous donation from the Cooper Family Foundation, the Kamloops Hospice Association unveiled its new community resource cent...
Apr 26, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Milobar
After tragic passing of its dentist, Mustard Seed looks to the community for help
KAMLOOPS - The Mustard Seed Community Outreach Centre has launched a campaign to encourage dentists around the Kamloops community to volunteer some of their time to the centre.Called 'Give a Day to Ch...
Apr 26, 2019 Image Credit: Mustard Seed New Life Community
PETERS: Decriminalizing drug use can't make the problem much worse — and could make it better
THERE ARE TWO PLAUSIBLE EXTREMES when it comes to the legal system's handling of drug possession.On one extreme is Singapore, which has capital punishment and uses it 70 per cent of the time to execut...
Vern Strecheniuk Apr 26, 2019 Image Credit: Standret | Dreamstime.com
Kamloops mom hopeful after pitch to decriminalize possession of personal drugs
KAMLOOPS - Every day, Jennifer Cottell worries about her daughter Sam who uses fentanyl. It's been a rocky 14-year journey helping her through her addiction. "It's very scary to think that they feel t...
Andrew Snook Apr 25, 2019 Kamloops mom Jennifer Cottell says decriminalizing possession could save her daughter Sam's life (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Kamloops woman shares experience with Parkinson's disease
KAMLOOPS - April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. Parkinson's is a degenerative neurological disease that affects around 13,000 people in B.C. It may cause tremors, stiffness, or balance issues. There ...
Andrew Snook Apr 25, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Provincial health officer says decriminalization of drugs could help mitigate opioid crisis
VICTORIA - Decriminalization is at the forefront for one of several possible solutions to the opioid crisis. That's according to a new report by B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, titl...
Andrew Snook Apr 24, 2019 Image Credit: Ieva Geneviciene | Dreamstime.com
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