Nearly four months of work to renovate the Kamloops Soccer Dome on Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc is expected to get underway next week.
It comes as the City of Kamloops approved a loan to the Kamloops Youth Soccer Association to help maintain the indoor turf facility at 313 Nishga Way for another 25 years.
Councillor Mike O’Reilly says the loan will help maintain the Tournament Capital’s only indoor field while a new facility is worked on as part of the Build Kamloops initiative.
“We know we need that field, so we are working to help provide a loan for that surface to be rebuilt in there. And that has to happen,” O’Reilly said. “If we lose that, we lose an artificial field but as well as when winter recreational time as well, and and so we thought that was important.”
Kamloops Youth Soccer Association General Manager Lyle Dos Santos says the plan is to completely restore the facility.
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