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COMMUNITY Meet this years Ambassador Candidates Page 12
SPORTS Minor hockey grateful to industry and business
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The Similkameen
Volume 64 Issue 10
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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Danced right into the heart of Princeton Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
The sound of rolling thunder permeated the theatre at the Riverside Centre last Saturday as the De Dannan School of Irish Dancers introduced their talent to the audience. A full house enjoyed the evening of soft-shoe and hard-shoe dance, right down to the beauty and grace of dance that shared the story of bobbins, threads and weaving looms that weave Irish linens. As an added bonus attendees were treated to performances by Princeton’s own Scottish dance angels, the Princeton Highland Dancers. Four local dancers performed in between the De Danaan sets. History with De Dannan was discovered with the school’s art director. Leslie Wilson has ties to Princeton. Her grandparents, Unice and Gordon Cook were long time residents and her mother,
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Daylight Saving time
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Students in the Social Justice class at Princeton Secondary decorated the school and set up a peace sign to mark Anti-Bully Day Pink Shirt Day 2013. 70 percent of the student body wore pink on Wednesday. To view more photos of the community on Pink Shirt Day please visit www.facebook.com/pages/Similkameen-Spotlight/125668670529?ref=hl
Shoppers Drug Mart robbery solved
begins Sunday, March 10 at 2:00 a.m. Turn your clocks ahead by 1 hour. (or before you go to sleep on Saturday.)
RemindeR: Time change is the perfect time to check and change the batteries in your smoke detectors as well!
Weather Watch Wednesday
High 5/Low -2
Thursday
High 7/Low -1
Friday
High 8/Low -4
Saturday
High 8/Low -4
Sunday
High 7/Low 3
Lisa Carleton lisa@similkameenspotlight.com
Two Okanagan men have been arrested and charged with the robberies of Princeton Shoppers Drug Mart and Peoples Drug Mart in Golden, B.C. Shortly after noon on Jan. 30 two individuals armed with pocketknives robbed the Shoppers Drug Mart taking approximately $825 worth of prescription drugs. Expectant mother and pharmacist Julie Traballo, was threatened with a knife. On Feb. 16, the Peoples Drug Mart Pharmacy in Golden, B.C., experienced a similar robbery. Two men entered the store and went directly to the pharmacist counter, demanding narcotic type prescription drugs and threatened the pharmacist with a knife. The suspects left with a large amount of prescrip-
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tion drugs. After both robberies the suspects fled on foot. Combined efforts of Princeton and Golden RCMP, the Penticton South Okanagan Similkameen RCMP General Investigation Section along with support by local Forensic Ident units has resulted in the arrest of two Okanagan men. “As a result of some good basic information sharing and tenacious police work, investigators from two BC RCMP jurisdictions were able to link the two crimes in short order, quickly identifying the suspects and arrested the two accused before they had a chance to possibly reoffend and cause any further risk to public safety,” stated Cpl Dan Moskaluk.
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