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Opportunities to smoke in Lumby could be severely restricted. The village is in the early stages of considering a bylaw that may ban smoking for all residents in public spaces such as trails, parks and even possibly sidewalks. “We will draft a bylaw and get public input,” said Mayor Kevin Acton. “It’s about the kid who is not smoking yet and the children. I smoked and I wished I never started because it’s
tough to stop. We don’t want “When I was a smoker, I to model cigarettes in front of would have understood about our youth.” blowing smoke in people’s Smoking is the No. 1 pre- faces,” said Acton when asked ventable cause of if some residents illness and death may challenge reguand the Canadian lations. Cancer Society estiVillage staff can mates that smoking also spend considkills about 6,000 erable time cleaning British Columbians up discarded cigaannually and costs rette butts in public the B.C. economy areas. Kevin Acton $2.3 billion a year. In 2012, the Second-hand village adopted a smoke can negabylaw that permits tively impact the health of all signs to be installed that proresidents. hibits smoking around loca-
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Maybe it was his method of trying to get into the truck that alerted a Vernon resident to a suspicious man in the downtown area. Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Monday, Vernon RCMP received a report from a concerned citizen in the 3300 block of Centennial Drive that an unknown man was seen throwing rocks at the back window of a black truck. According to the citizen, the man threw rocks at the window until it broke, then climbed inside. “Our officers responded to the scene and noticed the man was still inside the vehicle, rummaging through items,” said Vernon RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk. “Our officers called the suspect out of the truck.” When the man got out of the truck, Molendyk said officers “immediately recognized him.” “He is known to our officers from propertyrelated and other offences,” said Molendyk. The 36-year-old Vernon man was arrested and remanded in custody pending a court appearance on Monday on a charge of mischief. As there were other thefts from vehicles over the weekend, Molendyk said police would be looking to see if there was a possible connection to the truck suspect.
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