On Wednesday, hundreds of schoolchildren across B.C.'s Kamloops-Thompson region participated in the school district's first-ever district-wide powwow, which had been delayed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shannon Ainslie
A homeless encampment at Arthur Hatton Elementary School in Kamloops, littered with garbage, a smashed lightbulb and a piece of two by four with nails in it.
Image Credit: Shannon Ainslie Amanda Leach’s Kamloops neighbourhood has become increasingly unsafe and she has had enough. Just today, July 4, she and her husband Scott walked outside their front door and came upon a discarded tent and used needles. It was unnerving but her husband cleaned up the needles and took the tent next door to Arthur Hatton Elementary school, where people have been camping out since summer started. “Scott walked over there and saw a man and a woman passed out, both with needles still stuck in their bodies,” Amanda explained.
January 16, 2021 - 7:00 PM In the two weeks since school got back underway, the number of school exposures has grown Central Okanagan Public Schools announced three new COVID-19 exposures Saturday, adding Springvalley Elementary, South Rutland Elementary and Mount Boucherie Secondary to the list, according to a press release issued by Central Okanagan Public Schools. Within the last two weeks, potential exposures have been reported at eight Central Okanagan schools, including Kelowna Secondary on Jan. 4,5, and 7, Rutland Secondary, Jan. 4 and 11, Okanagan Mission Secondary, Jan. 7-8, Hudson Road Elementary, Jan. 5-8, Spring Valley Elementary, Jan 11-12, Glenrosa Middle, Jan. 7-8, Mount Boucherie Secondary, Jan. 5, 7, 8, 11-14 and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Elementary School, Jan. 7-8, according to Interior Health.