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KELOWNA singer Ari Neufeld will be one of the performers for the upcoming Lille Gard Arts & Music Festival at the Bottega Farm Inn.
THE FRANCHISE owner of the Southern Interior chain of Wendy’s restaurants and guiding light behind the Disneyland Dreamlift campaign is moving on in the business world.
KELOWNA OWLS’ grad Sam Davies has been rewarded for his outstanding senior season by being awarded a scholarship to McGill University.
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THURSDAY June 14, 2012 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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2007 murder Hockey dream realized by goalie coach trial now before a jury Kevin Parnell STAFF REPORTER
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KIM DILLABAUGH, a goaltender coach with the Los Angeles Kings who also serves the same coaching role with the Kelowna Rockets, had his chance to lift the Stanley Cup along with the team’s other staff members after the Kings beat the New Jersey Devils 6-1 to win the team’s first NHL championship. sixth year with the Kings organization as the coach in charge of goaltender development where he works with the team’s young goaltenders. Once the team’s AHL franchise in Manchester, N.H. was out of the playoffs, Dillabaugh joined the Kings and was with the team for most of the Stanley Cup run. Watching Kings goalie Jonathan Quick win
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YOU WAIT YOUR TURN AND WHEN YOU GET IT, IT’S LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, YOU RAISE IT OVER YOUR HEAD AND GIVE IT A KISS. Kim Dillabaugh
the Conn Smythe trophy was extra special for Dillabaugh, who watched Quick rise through the ranks to an elite level in the NHL. “Jonathan had a tremendous season and obviously carried that through the playoffs,” he said. “He gave his team a chance to win every night and that’s what a goalie has to do.
“When you see a guy like that, who has been with us since he was drafted, work his way up through the minors to win the most coveted trophy in sports, it’s special.” During the season, Dillabaugh splits his time each month working with the Rockets goalies and traveling to work with Kings’ goaltending prospects. kparnell@kelownacapnews.com
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A jury has started to hear testimony that will allow it to determine what was in Trevor Shannon’s mind five years ago, when he allegedly pulled out a handgun and fatally shot a Kelowna teen. At the start of Shannon’s second degree murder trial Tuesday, Crown Counsel Duncan Campbell told the jury of five men and seven women that the accused’s mindset that fateful night is “what this case is about.” According to an agreed upon statement of facts read to the court, Evan Wilkes, 18, was shot in the head April 12, 2007, at 12:54 a.m., during a house party on Vimy Avenue. The gunshot came from a semi-automatic handgun belonging to Shannon—although not licenced to him— and not long after it was fired, he buried it in front of a dock on Okanagan Lake. It wasn’t found until several days later. The merits of other details offered by future witnesses about the night’s events and aftermath, however, will have to be scrutinized by jurors. And there will be plenty for them to sift through in the days ahead. Crown counsel is bringing forward 13 witnesses to recall the details of a night that’s already shaping up, through photo-evidence, to be a chaotic mess. A mix of forensic experts, police officers and the young friends of both Wilkes and Shannon, now 27, are scheduled to testify throughout the next couple of weeks. In an attempt to give the jurors a roadmap to their testimony, Campbell outlined his interpretation of the events that night. By his estimates, Shannon arrived at the Vimy Avenue party with several others some time after 8 p.m., which was well after the party had started. Several hours later, one of Shannon’s friends got into a disagreement with one of Wilkes’s friends, and the latter pulled out knives. Shannon then intervened and pulled out his gun as a means to defuse the situation, said Campbell. It worked, he said, but it also meant Shannon’s friends were no longer welcome to stay. Party-goers flooded into the driveway in front of the house as the young men left, said Campbell. At that point, Wilkes and Shannon got into a confrontation, and the teenager was fatally wounded. Witness testimony will continue over the next two weeks.
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Kelowna Rockets goaltender coach Kim Dillabaugh fulfilled a childhood dream this week as a member of the Los Angeles Kings coaching staff. Dillabaugh was on the ice with the rest of the Kings staff as the franchise celebrated its first Stanley Cup championship. It was also the first time a Kelowna Rockets coach or former coach has been associated with a Cup winning team. “To be on the ice and to get your hands on the Stanley Cup is something everybody dreams of,” said Dillabaugh, on a stopover in the Vancouver airport, returning to Kelowna with his wife Bonnie and child Ellie, who were also at the game six victory. After the Kings clinched the Cup, Dillabaugh made his way to ice level, where he waited with the rest of the Kings’ staff for their turn to raise the Stanley Cup. “You wait your turn and when you get it, it’s like everyone else, you raise it over your head and give it a kiss,” he said. “It’s a special moment. It’s surreal. I don’t think it’s set in yet. “Being a part of the celebration…it’s something you dream of. I wasn’t fortunate enough to play at the highest level, but to be a part of it on a different front and to be associated with this organization was great.” This was Dillabaugh’s
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