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MARCH 17, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 33
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Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.
COUNCIL ON THE EDGE
WOLFPACK READY FOR SPOTLIGHT
Councillors set to tour mine towns
TRU draws defending champs at nationals
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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship. The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
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CITY HALL
PROPERTY TAXES TO RISE 2.35 % English (vertical)
Bilingual
French (vertical)
French (horizontal)
2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Logo Guide
Council approves modest hike of $45 per year for the average Kamloops family ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com LACHLAN LABERE/BLACK PRESS
An investigation is underway into a spill at Canoe Forest Products, which saw thousands of litres of run-off water containing glue and fuel products dumped into Shuswap Lake near Salmon Arm.
Shuswap water cleared following chemical spill Salmon Arm told yesterday it could resume intake from lake CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com
The City of Salmon Arm has been advised it can revert to its main water intake following a chemical spill on Shuswap Lake more than a week ago — an incident that wasn’t made public until yesterday. Interior Health Authority recommended the alternate source as a precaution following the spill at a lakeshore plywood mill. Mayor Nancy Cooper said IHA notified the municipality about noon yesterday it could
resume normal operations following the spill of water containing fuel and glue products into Shuswap Lake from nearby Canoe Forest Products. Residents with intakes in the lake near the mill are advised to not use the water until lab results are returned. The spill was reported at Canoe, located on the south side of the lake’s Salmon Arm, beside the Trans-Canada Highway. Canoe Forest Products said yesterday in a statement it has repaired the leak from its glue room pit.
“On March 7, there was evidence of a water leak with accumulations of water in the glue room pit (where the glue used in making plywood sheets is collected). While the leak was being investigated, the increased volume of water was pumped out of the glue pit to collection vats outside,” it said in the statement. “It appears some of the water may have escaped and possibly entered the Shuswap Lake shoreline. Reports, however, that ‘thousands of litres’ reached the lake are inaccurate.” See COMPANY, A14
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plan to improve the boat launch at Pioneer Park is out, but Kamloops city council gave the nod to almost every other item on its supplemental budget list this year. In a special budget meeting Tuesday morning, council approved a series of staffing, equipment and recreational requests that bumped the property tax increase for 2016 to 2.35 per cent, or $45 for a home assessed at $350,000. Most expensive is a four-year funding package to deal with the city’s stormwater infrastructure, which has been hard hit by multiple intense storms in recent years. Public works director Jen Fretz said a plan by staff will provide about $1 million in funding for stormwater projects each year, which the city hopes to round out with federal infrastructure money, which Ottawa has said will be available to help communities deal with extreme weather related to climate change. In 2016, the city will use $50,000 in tax money and $980,000 from its RCMP reserve fund for upgrades and
to hire a staff person to inspect storm channels. “We don’t always have enough people on the ground to look at all of these storm channels, especially after large events,” she said. “That’s one of the things that will really help us prioritize where we need to get our crews.” Mayor Peter Milobar said the RCMP reserve is overfunded, since the city’s detachment isn’t fully staffed and new officers requested by council aren’t arriving any time soon. Starting in 2017, the city would require $325,000 more in taxes per year to continue funding its the upgrades. Many of the requests don’t have a direct impact on this year’s tax rate, because council will pull money from its reserve of gaming funds — money paid to the city by Kamloops casinos each year. Gaming-funded projects include six new pickleball courts, which will be built on an unused strip of land between the Riverside Park tennis courts. The project will cost the city $225,000, with the club providing $25,000 through a grant.
See PICKLEBALL, A14
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