Kristen Holliday

1 week ago | castanet.net | Kristen Holliday

Teams of people will be dashing around downtown Kamloops on Friday to compete in the fifth annual Amazing Race to Inclusion. The event, hosted by Speak Up Self-Advocacy Awareness Society, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. Participants will set off from the Sandman Centre. “This event isn’t just about competition, it’s about sparking change,” SUSA Society said in a press release.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Kristen Holliday

The Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre emergency room will be closed over Wednesday night. It’s the latest in a series of closures for the ER, which was most recently closed on Tuesday night, and saw a closure last weekend which lasted more than 50 hours. In a news release, Interior Health said emergency services will be unavailable from 7 p.m. Wednesday until 8 a.m. on Thursday. “Patients can access emergency care at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops during this time,” IH said.

1 week ago | castanetkamloops.net | Kristen Holliday

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has tossed out a legal petition seeking to remove a Kamloops city councillor from office, saying the allegations were “replete with speculation, inference and assumptions.” Last fall, a group of 10 Kamloops voters filed a petition to disqualify Coun. Mike O’Reilly over an alleged conflict of interest related to his involvement with the city’s $140-million arena multiplex to be built in Dufferin.

1 week ago | castanetkamloops.net | Kristen Holliday

A group of Kamloops residents is calling for a town hall meeting, blaming the "drug-addicted homeless" for fires across the city last weekend — although the official cause of these blazes has not yet been identified. Two Sunday fires happened on private property in Rayleigh and in a mobile home park near McArthur Island Park. Another Sunday fire was sparked along Schubert Drive.

1 week ago | castanetkamloops.net | Kristen Holliday

Kamloops city council’s new public input process did not last long. Council voted 7-2 on Tuesday in favour of suspending this portion of its meeting agenda for the rest of the year after a prankster identifying themselves as Al Koehollic — say it out loud — was the only person who registered to make a comment. This week marked the first time the new process was enacted since a months-long pause to re-evaluate the former public inquiries portion of the agenda.