Tag Archives: People
Kamloops Curling Club now home to an emergency homeless shelter
KAMLOOPS - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a potential problem for shelters across Canada. As health guidelines limit the number of people who can gather in a space, communities run the risk of losi...
Jan 21, 2021
Kamloops arts organizations pivot, look ahead to the end of the pandemic
KAMLOOPS - We've now surpassed the ten-month mark of the COVID-19 pandemic in B.C. While there is hope that a vaccine could bring life back to some sort of normalcy within the calendar year, it will b...
Jan 14, 2021
Kamloops businesses hope NHL season brings benefits amid the pandemic
KAMLOOPS - The sound of steel on a sharpening wheel will be heard in NHL arenas across the continent Wednesday (Jan. 13). The best players in the world will lace up their skates, as the National Hocke...
Jan 13, 2021
How do you move a 100-year-old, 100-ton rail car? Kamloops Heritage Railway brought in the cranes
KAMLOOPS - Tuesday (Jan. 12) was moving day for the Kamloops Heritage Railway (KHR). The society transferred a passenger car built in the late-1920s from an active line to the static display area. How...
Jan 12, 2021
Burnout, mental health concern Kamloops teachers amid pandemic
KAMLOOPS - As the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to grow in our region, teachers find themselves perched precariously on the frontline of that fight against the virus. Just one week into the ne...
Jan 11, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Dr. Bonnie Henry seriously needs to rethink her leadership style
WHEN I SUGGESTED recently it might be time for Dr. Bonnie Henry to take a break from being the voice and face of B.C.'s COVID-19 response, it wasn't exactly greeted with agreement.Dr. Henry is still r...
Jan 11, 2021
Staying inside may have helped spur COVID-19 spread in Kamloops: medical health officer
KAMLOOPS - Almost three weeks into winter, and so far, the weather has been mild. However, the virus that kept us apart over the holidays has been the opposite. The week after Christmas saw a dramatic...
Dylana Kneeshaw Jan 08, 2021
New program aims to help Kamloops businesses embrace technological transformation
KAMLOOPS - Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, technology was changing how businesses were run and customers were reached. As a result of the pandemic, that change has been accelerated. That's one of t...
Jan 07, 2021
Despite gathering limitations, Orthodox Christmas perseveres in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Tonight marks Christmas Eve for hundreds of Orthodox Christians around the city. Late-night services and large caroling groups can't be in-person this year, but Orthodox Christmas will stil...
Jan 06, 2021
Managing mental health during grey winter months — and the COVID-19 pandemic
KAMLOOPS - It was a slow spring for Corrinna Douglas' counselling schedule but, by the time fall arrived, therapy bookings began to fill up. "I'd say September-to-October, there was a huge increase in...
Jan 06, 2021
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