Salmon Arm Observer, August 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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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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