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Home invasion accused headed for trial
Two of the four plead not guilty SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Two people charged over a series of home invasions in Cranbrook have pleaded not guilty and are headed for trials later this year. On Monday, March 3, Megan Sands appeared via video in Cranbrook Provincial Court and entered not guilty pleas on all 16 charges against her. She has chosen to have a trial before a provincial court judge. A date will be set for her trial on March 31. One of her co-accused, Jay Hills, has also pleaded not guilty and is headed to trial in Cranbrook provincial court on June 17. Meanwhile, Terrence Allan appeared in Cranbrook court on Monday and told Judge Grant Sheard that he plans to plead guilty to the charges he faces. In the meantime, he remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing. Allan will next appear in Cranbrook court on March 17. The final of the home invasion accused, Andrew Monnette, was granted bail in Cranbrook on Feb. 17 with a $10,000 recognizance. His next appearance is also on March 17.
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Grade 9 Selkirk student Brooke Janzer was one of twenty students from across the province selected to be part of the ERASE Bullying Student Advisory Committee. She will travel to Vancouver to meet the other students and be part of important discussion on creating safe and positive school culture.
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CLIMATE ACTION CHARTER
City reports greenhouse gas emissions C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The City of Kimberley had completed its Climate Action Report for 2013, and will be submitting it to the province. Since signing the Climate Action Charter in 2007, Kimberley committed to the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2012. Communities who signed the charter are eligible to receive a grant which offsets the carbon tax. In addition to striving for carbon neutral-
ity, communities must measure and report on greenhouse gas emissions and work towards being a “complete, compact and energy efficient community”. While it has been generally acknowledged that reaching carbon neutrality is not a realistic goal, Kimberley’s GHG emissions were down considerably in 2013 — to 1,236 tons of carbon dioxide emitted from 1,612 in 2012. This was primarily due to a major upgrade at the Aquatic Centre, which was one of the biggest GHG producers, as well as
continued behavioural shifts. Coun. Jack Ratcliffe, in addressing the issue, said he would take the opportunity to “rant”. Ratcliffe said that while there was no doubt that climate change is occurring, he was not impressed with the way the whole world was addressing it. He pointed out that Canada was well down the list in terms of emissions. In fact, he said, the yearly increase in emissions from the biggest offender, China, was larger
than Canada’s total emissions. “This needs a massive action, something on the scale of the Manhatten Project, and we’re messing around changing light bulbs,” Ratcliffe said. Coun. Kent Goodwin said that while he agreed that greater action needed to be taken, Canada’s emissions were low due to a low population density and per capita emissions were close to the highest in the world. “But absolutely, changing light bulbs is not going to do it,” he said.
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