A blog about the news industry, municipal issues and politics.
Mel Rothenburger is Editor of The Daily News in Kamloops, B.C., and past mayor of Kamloops (1999-2005).
He has previously served as Chair of the Kamloops School Board, Chair of the Thompson-Nicola Film Commission, Director of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, founder and Chair of the Kamloops Griffiti Task Force, founder and Chair of the Kamloops Air Services Committee, founder and Chair of the Kamloops Task Force on the Sex Trade, Director of the Kamloops Airport Society, and founder and Chair of the Kamloops-Tangalle Friendship Committee.
He currently serves as a Director on the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce board, and sits on the Graffiti Task Force and Kamloops-Tangalle Friendship Committee.
Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (2003), the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship (2006), and the Eric Dunning Integrity Award (2008).
Congrats Mel, nice blog site (or antiblogsite;-)
No harm in letting you know you have at least 1 reader!
Cheers!
Good for you Mel. I’m glad you’ve joined the Bloggers. It seems as if the older intellectuals in society have decided “blogging” is not for them. As a result, there is probably not an intelligent “blogger” out there. —- yet, what do we read? No wonder we’re so well informed
Well, the way I see it Peter is a one-term mayor as Mayor Mel gets ready to retire and re-enter politcal life.
Hello Mel: Glad to see you’re still stirring the pot and running a damned good newspaper. You must have one super-sized wall to fit all those achievement awards. Sorry to see you didn’t get the Senate job. Among my very large collection of tomes is “They’ve Killed John Ussher” which you penned and gave me in 1973. If you send me your address, I’ll send you mine “Cracking the Glass Darkly.” Keep creating and stay well. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Bob Egby, Chaumont, upstate New York.
I was looking for an article and ended up coming across your blog. I met you 35 years or so ago when I was very little and the paper was still located by the Keg on the North Shore, you were the head boss of my mom, Leta, and both her and my dad thought you were just an amazing man with a huge heart. Just thought you should know her kids still think you’re a pretty great guy and made her feel really special when she was so sick.
I don’t mean to leave this as a comment on your blog but couldn’t find a direct email address to send this to you.