THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 2013
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Another day another scam Phishing scam targets Shaw customers C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
There are countless scams out there, and at the root of almost all of them, is an attempt to get someone’s personal financial information. Kimberley senior Murray Dean reports that someone claiming to be from Shaw Communications contacted him via email to say that the Dean’s latest payment on their Shaw account had been declined by the bank. The email states: We are unable to process you last payment with the information we have on file. Reason: Declined by Bank. Did you recently change your credit card, bank, address or phone? Sign in (in the email this is a link) to update your billing information, otherwise your account will be deactivated. To reactivate your account, you will be required to pay a $15 reactivation fee.” The email is signed “Shaw Support”. See SCAM, page 3
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Aboriginal education students at Selkirk Secondary recently completed a project that allowed them to get to know the elders in their community. They have produced a book called “Connecting with the Elders”. The book was launched at Selkirk this week. Above, front row, are students Chayse Buchar, Justice Gauthier, Crystal Dolan, Victoria Milligan, True Marshall, Cassidy Kitt, Levi Gerlib. In the back row are Herman Alpine (elder), Joan O’Neil (elder), Gary Mummery (elder), Dan Joe (elder), Patricia Hamilton (elder), Kyoko Hashimoto (elder), Wendy Morton (Poet), and Rhonda Haws (Aboriginal education Support Worker).
Hopley hearing Connecting with the Elders enters 3rd day SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Randall Hopley has been rated as having a one-in-four chance of committing another sexual offence against young boys within the next 10 years. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Emlene Murphy gave evidence Wednesday in the week-long dangerous offender hearing for Hopley, who has pleaded guilty to the abduction of threeyear-old Kienan Hebert from his bed in Sparwood in September 2011.
Students publish book C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Selkirk Secondary aboriginal education students, along with their counterparts from Golden Secondary and David Thompson Secondary in Invermere, were proud to launch their book “Connecting with the Elders” this week. The Elder Project was
brought to the Rocky Mountain School District by poet Wendy Morton. This is the eighth such book for Morton, who has been working with school districts around the province. Morton assists the students in getting to know Elders in their community through informal interviews, and then helped the students compose poetry to express their feelings. “Elders who shared their
stories offered a window to deeper understanding of their experiences growing up in Canada as Aboriginal people. We were blessed by their honesty, and we were equally blessed by the commitment of the young people who listened to them and turned their words into poetry,” says Golden Secondary principal in the book’s forward. And from Aboriginal Educa-
tion support worker Rhonda Haws from Selkirk: “The students of Selkirk Secondary were eager to participate in the Elder Project. They threw their hearts and minds into the poetry they wrote for the Elders, learning history from a very personal level. Not only poems were created, but connections between the students and the Elders. There was magic in the room.”
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