Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 24 No. 34 Friday, Aug. 23, 2013
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Final touch-up
n Vit Polak applies eyeliner before heading out to perform as a member of Corvus Corax, a medieval metal band who closed out Friday night’s main stage at the 21st annual Roots and Blues Festival held at the Salmon Arm Fairgrounds. This year’s event drew 26,000 patrons over the three-days.
Victim seen riding on car’s hood By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
Police are now calling the death of a Sicamous man an accident, though criminal charges have been laid against a Sicamous woman. On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, at approximately 2:30, an officer on patrol found the severely injured body of 49-year-old Troy
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Charlton laying on Main Street. Charlton was rushed to hospital in Salmon Arm, where he died from his injuries. Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk later announced that on Aug. 15, police had arrested 46-year-old Sicamous woman Christina Laforge, who was subsequently charged with criminal negligence causing death and impaired driving causing death.
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She is scheduled to appear in Salmon Arm Provincial Court in midSeptember. Dubnyk states in an Aug. 21 news release that Charlton and Laforge, “had been at the same social gathering at a Sicamous residence the evening before the accident” and, after leaving the residence, Charlton was witnessed riding on the hood of a vehicle being driven along Main Street
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