Kamloops Advocate Demands Action on River Safety After Series of Preventable Drownings

Kamloops Advocate Demands Action on River Safety After Series of Preventable Drownings

A Kamloops man is renewing his call for urgent river safety upgrades after the recent drowning of an international student from Thompson Rivers University—an incident he says could have been prevented with simple, cost-effective precautions. Robert Griffiths, a lifelong Kamloops resident and founder of the Thompson Rivers Water Safety Society, says the city must do more to address the growing number of tragic drownings in local waterways, especi…