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JANUARY 6, 2014 | Volume 28 No. 3
WEATHER
Risk of freezing rain High 1 C Low 0 C SUN PEAKS SNOW REPORT Mid-mountain: 127 cm Alpine: 152 cm Snow phone: 250-578-7232
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The end of the chapter for eatery JESSICA WALLACE STAFF REPORTER jessica@kamloopsthisweek.com
For those who missed one last sopaipilla from Chapters Viewpoint restaurant before it closed, don’t worry — they are just down the hill. Same goes for the Chapters’ salad — and the head chef. Former owner Rob Nordin closed the longtime Sahali restaurant with a view and began yesterday (Jan. 5) as manager of the Kamloops Curling Club (KCC). The restaurant’s 15-year-lease ended in December and the club position was vacant when former manager Paula Williams moved to Chilliwack. The Columbia Street building housing the restaurant needs an update and Nordin said he’s just not all that interested any more. Chapters opened in 1984. “I’d done that for a long, long time,” he said. “It’s just time for a change.” Nordin and his family are immersed in the local curling scene. His four daughters make up the sibling quartet that earned a spot at the 2015 Scotties BC Women’s Curling Championship, with his wife as coach. Nordin curls recreationally on two teams and has been president, has sat the board and has been a member at KCC for more than 20 years. “I’m down here (curling club) probably four to five times a week anyway,” he said.
Richard Zorn Demos was among many Kamloopsians out snowblowing and shovelling yesterday (Jan. 5) and Sunday as the snow fell — and would not stop falling. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
SNOWPLOWS COULD BE DAYS AWAY ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
Residents hoping to see a plow drive by their homes could be waiting days if they live away from the city’s major arterial routes. City of Kamloops public works director Jen Fretz said the city is focusing on main transportation routes throughout Kamloops as snow continued to fall on the Tournament Capital yesterday (Jan. 5). Under normal conditions, Fretz said, the city’s mandate is to plow side streets within a day-and-a-half of a snowfall, but due to the extreme amount of snow
Rare snow day for kids page A4/A5 dumped on the city, it’s likely that timeline will be extended. “The snow hasn’t even stopped yet,” Fretz said late yesterday morning. Up to 35 centimetres of snow fell on Kamloops between Sunday afternoon and yesterday morning, with Environment Canada calling for another 15 centimetres to come down through last night. “We are, in very few cases ,getting to some side streets where there are hills, but people should not expect to have
their roads, their side streets plowed for a number of days, probably” Fretz said. The city had 10 trucks, a sidewalk plow and three graders on the streets as of yesterday and had contracted out for another four graders, two of which were in service. Fretz said the city is looking to contract more graders if it can. “It can move serious amounts of snow and it can move snow from a very wide area, whereas the underbelly plows we have on our dump trucks are not as effective with this amount of snow,” Fretz said.
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