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The months of rehearsal are over. Les Misérables opens Wednesday.
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Grizzly attack, Part IV
What can be learned Wildlife biologist says grizzlies are not just a high elevation species CAROLYN GRANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
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When a relatively small school community attempts a project as big as Les Misérables, adaptability is important. Luckily, Selkirk’s female students have stepped into key roles traditionally played by men. Les Mis opens tomorrow night.
Part 4 of a 4 part series. One thing Susan Bond and Peter Moody have come to understand since an encounter with a grizzly sow and her cubs injured them last November, is that they walked into a situation that had trouble written all over it. Conservation Officer Jared Connatty said it was a triple whammy of circumstances — surprising the bear at very close quarters, presenting a threat to her two cubs and walking near the carcass of a deer killed by the sow.
Wildlife biologist Michael Proctor, who has made the study of grizzlies his career, called it a “perfect storm” of circumstances. Proctor, who lives in Kaslo, has been researching grizzly bears in the Kootenays since 1995 and earned a PhD in 2003 from the University of Calgary. He says the bears encountered by Susan and Peter were likely from the Rocky Mountain population, which is at fairly healthy numbers, unlike the grizzly population in the Purcells, which is a bit lower. Given they were on the east side of the highway, they were likely from the Rockies, he said. “Generally, the Columbia Trench is probably a barrier for bears, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see them at lower elevations.”
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In court
Conspiracy trial continues in Kamloops BY CAM FORTEMS Kamloops Daily News Staff Reporter
An RCMP member testified last Thursday there was no mistaking a federal prisoner on the run who was reported to be armed and hiding out in Cranbrook. That prisoner, who walked away from a halfway house in Vancouver and was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, was John Garry Shank. Months later Shank would become a po-
lice agent and is expected to be the key witness against three men in a murder conspiracy trial underway in Kamloops. Cpl. Lee Gregor said during testimony that Shank’s tattoos included a spider beside his left eye and an elaborate design on his neck. The markings were obvious in a mugshot distributed to police. During cross-examination, defence lawyer Don Campbell asked Gregor if she knew of any significance of a teardrop tattoo below
Shank’s left eye. “That’s them bragging they’ve killed someone?” Campbell asked. Gregor agreed, saying: “It can be taken that way.” Shank is expected to testify he conspired as a police agent with Lonnie Adams, Lorne Carry and Colin Correia to murder a Cranbrook drug rival. A Crown prosecutor said in her opening address Wednesday that Shank started talks
with RCMP that led to him signing on to become a police agent after he was returned to jail. He agreed to wear a recording device and take direction from RCMP on his release from jail. Gregor testified that information given to police before the arrest included that Shank had a criminal record for arson and forcible confinement and was armed with a handgun.
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