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There were brief court appearances Tuesday for two prominent local cases before the North Battleford Provincial Court. One involved the charges of Johnathan Gunville in connection with the Amber Alert incident on Sept. 16 in North Battleford. Gunville appeared Tuesday by closed-circuit TV on counts of abduction of a person under 14, kidnapping, unlawful abandonment of a child, stealing a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle in a manner dangerous to the public, among others. The Tuesday court date was Gunville’s third court
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appearance and was scheduled for a show cause hearing, but that did not happen Tuesday. Instead, Judge Kim Young has accepted a joint request from counsel for an adjournment to Oct. 19, when Gunville will appear again by CCTV. The indication from defence lawyer Bill Archer is pleas could likey be entered then. Gunville remains in custody. The other court appearance of note involves Tristan Pinder, who appeared by CCTV. He faces attempted murder and numerous other charges in connection to a shooting incident with police near Highway 16 in April. A return date of Oct. 29 has been set for Pinder to appear again by CCTV. Pinder remains in custody. The case against his co-accused, Verena Petrucka, is also still before the courts.
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Les Guthrie, a longtime resident of North Battleford, celebrated his 100th birthday Oct. 6 at Harwood Manor with a large group of family and friends in attendance. Guthrie worked for many years with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and was a noted photographer with that paper. He was a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, Ionic Lodge No. 31, North Battleford. A number of his lodge gathered at his party and Don Finan, lodge secretary, presented him with a 70-year membership certificate. Mark Barclay, master of the lodge, presented him with his 70-year membership pin. Photo submitted
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Mayor Ryan Bater took CTV’s W5 to task for its documentary about North Battleford crime at Tuesday’s city council meeting. In particular, he raged over CTV’s depiction of the “eight individuals” responsible for 38 per cent of the calls for service within the downtown core. Those statistics were mentioned by Insp. John Sutherland in the
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documentary during Sutherland’s interview with CTV’s Avery Haines. Bater took issue with how that statement was then misreported in the story. “That [statement] was interpreted by the reporter to mean that eight individuals are responsible for 38 per cent of all crime in the entire city, and that’s really inaccurate. That’s not what he had meant, nor what he had said.” Instead, the 38 per cent
referred only to “calls for service” in the downtown core. Bater noted the individuals responsible for the high percentage of calls for service downtown “tend to be public intoxication, nuisance, mischief, those kinds of things,” he said. The reason Sutherland has always brought it up, Bater said, was to highlight that the RCMP were spending extensive with these individuals and more was needed to address the
underlying issues, such as addictions and mental illness. “There are service delivery agencies and other levels of government, other orders of government, specifically provincial and federal agencies, who are responsible for providing services to address those needs, and they are not necessarily being met in this community,” said Bater. Instead, it is RCMP and City resources that are be-
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ing used. That’s what Sutherland had really meant, Bater insisted, not that eight people were responsible for 38 per cent of all crime in the city. Bater further said that it was “really irresponsible for it to have been framed that way,” and an “insult to people’s intelligence” for it to have been done so. Bater concluded by saying he had wanted to “clear the air” in public about it. Continued on Page3
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