BY CRAIG STEPHENS
Jan 6, 2021 The first time I dropped acid was the night before my Grade 10 geography exam. I took half a white blotter of LSD and waited. Thirty minutes later, feeling no effect, I took the second half. Within minutes, the first half kicked in, and I entered a dreamily beautiful and terrifying realm. I had willingly untethered the subconscious filters that had anchored reality for 15 years. It took all the control I could muster to remind myself it was only a drug. But I knew the second half of the dose would soon make its presence felt, a gathering tsunami of altered reality. The thought of it made my heart pound.
He said he has been working alongside a Lower Mainland developer, Ignition Group, conducting due diligence over the past three years. Ignition has a contract to purchase the 500-acre (202-hectare) waterfront property. To envision what is intended to be developed on the former sanatorium grounds, McLeod suggested picturing a village like Sun Rivers on Kamloops Lake and inside city boundaries, complete with residential and commercial buildings, a developer-subsidized day care (not a school, as previously reported), a community centre, a country lakefront inn, a city park, a boat launch, trails, a farm, a market and a winery. McLeod described plans for Tranquille as a family-friendly community, with 1,500 mixed housing units (from apartments to cottages) and interesting enough to draw people. The village will include waterfront pathways, lookouts, viewpoints and enhanced access to Kamloops Lake and Tranquille River via Kamloops’ only lakefront municipal park.