Kimberley Daily Bulletin, February 15, 2013

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Federal Liberal leadership race

FriDAY

ski races

Candidate visits

Kootenay cup

Martha Hall Findlay, a candidate for leadership of the Federal Liberal party will be in Kimberley/Cranbrook on February 24.

February 15, 2013

There’s racing up at the Nordic Trails this weekend.

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flood Plain

City meets with Morrison Sub residents C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca

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Former CBT Board Chair Garry Merkel is receiving a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to the Basin. In photo (left to right) Greg Deck, CBT Chair; Garry Merkel, Former CBT Board Chair; Neil Muth, CBT President and CEO. See story, page 4.

Mayor Ron McRae and members of Council had a meeting with residents of the Morrison Subdivision last week. The Mayor said it was a good meeting. “It’s looking like we have a pretty strong group A creek channel typical of of people who want to be the Morrison Sub area prior part of a committee to look to development. at strategies to mitigate have been through several flooding,” he said. The City will also be im- floods, including the major plementing a flood bylaw flood last April. with specific construction City Council received requirements for any new two reports on the Morrison building in the subdivision. Sub area at their regular However, right now there meeting on Tuesday eveare 31 dwellings in the Mor- ning. rison Sub, and residents See FLOOD , Page 3

Conspiracy trial

Police agent admits starting jail riot Man testifies to living on proceeds of crime and never having a legitimate job C AM FORTEMS Kamloops Daily News Staff Reporter

The Crown’s key witness in a Cranbrook conspiracy to murder trial admitted on the stand Wednesday to starting the riot over

pancakes at KRCC in 2005. John Garry Shank, 34, began his testimony Wednesday afternoon. Clad in a three-piece suit, his face and neck showing prominent tattoos, Shank outlined his life, consisting of childhood, crime and jail. “I’ve never had a legitimate job,” he said. Shank signed on as a police agent in 2010. Wearing a recording device supplied by RCMP, he is expected to testify to that he conspired with Lorne Carry, Colin Correia and Lonnie Adams, who are charged with

conspiracy to murder a rival in the East Kootenay drug trade. In the witness box, Shank testified he lived by the proceeds of crime when he wasn’t in jail. His criminal record includes for break and enter, theft, assault with a weapon and dangerous driving. Shank said he was in KRCC in early 2005, serving time for possessing a gun, when he played a lead role in starting a riot. It began when he knocked out a guard with a kettle, after being approached by other

inmates. Three other correctional officers in the unit fled into a locked room when inmates started to riot. Shank testified he used two razor blades stuck into an electrical socket to start toilet rolls on fire. With the flaming rolls he started mattresses on fire, piled there by other inmates. For his part in the riot, sparked by inmate unhappiness with their food, Shank was given more than five years in jail.

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