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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
Armed robbery at Subway
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WLSS staging Alice — A Wonderland
A woman was arrested following a report of an armed robbery at the Subway restaurant in Williams Lake Monday evening. The Williams Lake RCMP say they responded to the armed robbery call at about 6:30 p.m. A 22-year-old woman, who is known to police, was arrested in the incident. The RCMP say that limited information can be provided at this time, as the details of the robbery are sensitive. The investigation is still ongoing.
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Parents warned about the Internet Monica Lamb-Yorski Tribune Staff Writer
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Williams Lake Secondary School drama students will be staging the musical Alice — A Wonderland by Canadian writers Roy Surette and Sandra Head in the school commons June 12 to 23. The play, based on Lewis Carroll’s popular classic Alice In Wonderland, is being directed by drama teacher Sidonie Boll who is very familiar with the play having played Alice in the first professional production of the Canadian musical staged at the Carousel Theatre in Vancouver. In the WLSS version, Boll was given permission to expand the play’s original small cast to include 25 drama students. Although just 14 and in Grade 8, Nicole Curbello won the role of Alice, but despite her young age, Boll is confident Nicole will be brilliant in the part. “We have a better Alice than even I was,” says Boll, who was a professional actor of 29 when she took on the role. Look for more on the story in future editions of the Tribune.
More and more information found on the Internet is being used to verify the character of scholarship or job applicants, deny insurance claims, or lead children as young as seven to live pornography sites, says social media expert Jesse Miller. Speaking before two dozen parents and youths at Columneetza Secondary School in Williams Lake Tuesday evening, Miller described how he has worked for eight American universities this year to identify character and ethics of scholarship applicants by searching them on the Internet, how he’s worked with the RCMP to help them with cases and been called into schools where students are involved in illegal activity because of the information they are sharing via social media. Last year Miller spoke to 175,000 students in B.C. schools and is convinced society needs to take the Internet back. “People haven’t changed that much, but the Internet has amplified human behaviour that we’ve chosen to ignore,” Miller says, adding a student known as a motivator letting the world know he’s lazy or disgruntled through his Facebook or Twitter feeds will come back to haunt him. See SHARING Page A3
Separate fires set to vehicle, stairs Monica Lamb-Yorski Tribune Staff Writer Two nuisance fires this week have not amounted to much damage, but have required the Williams Lake fire department and RCMP’s attendance. The first, an abandoned vehicle fire at the Dairy Fields on Monday evening, resulted from youths throwing Molotov cocktails at the vehicle,
fire chief Randy Isfeld says. He says the vehicle has been there for a long time. “I have no idea how long. It was pretty much wrecked at the time. There wasn’t much to burn. The seats inside caught on fire, but the fire was almost out by the time we got there. It only took us a couple of minutes to get it out,” Isfeld says, adding the act itself was disturbing. The second fire took place Tues-
day and involved the stairs at an abandoned building on Mackenzie Avenue. Sgt. Rick LeBeuf says the RCMP were advised that a person walking a dog noted the back of the building had been burnt. “Police attended and noted smoke coming from part of the building and the fire department was called to the scene.” Isfeld adds that someone had lit
part of a staircase on fire at an abandoned building. “The fire itself was pretty minor, but the act itself wasn’t. Somebody had lit it, although it was actually just smoldering,” Isfeld says. LeBeuf adds there are no witnesses to the fire, but a bottle located at the scene contained a possible flammable substance. The case is still under investigation.