We Remember
107th Year - Week 45
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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CARVING SLOPES Snowboarder makes provincial team.
SPORTS/A13
REMEMBERING WAR WWI memories remain for Pat Scott.
OUR TOWN/B2
SOCIETY SPAWNS SUCCESS Chicago Creek Environmental Enhancement Society president Ian Johnston stirs up some of the 1,500 coho salmon that surprised conservation volunteers by contradicting a forecast that just 150 fish would reach the Mission Creek fish fence. Full story, C1. Alicia Bridges photo
NEW SCHOOL NAME John Field School renamed in Gitxsan.
THREE RIVERS/C3
INSIDE LETTERS A6 SPORTS A COMMUNITY A19 OUR TOWN B2 THREE RIVERS C1 CLASSIFIEDS C4
Teen killer sentenced By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News
A Burns Lake area teen who murdered his 17-year-old sibling when he was 15 will be released from prison before his 20th birthday under a sentence handed down by the B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers last Tuesday. The 19 year-old, whose name is withheld due to a publication ban, pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder for killing his older sibling with a bat in 2011. The crime took place during a dispute over comments made on social media. The teen had been in custody since he was arrested and charged in 2012, more than two years before last week’s hearing. Supreme Court Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg imposed the maximum
seven-year sentence, including a further six months in custody ending in April next year. The remainder of the sentence will be served in the community under an Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) order, which involves regular treatment and therapy. Justice Koenigsberg handed down her decision after considering the recommendations in a pre-sentence report prepared by a youth probation officer from the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development. Other exhibits included psychological assessments and a DVD outlining the history of First Nations in the Burns Lake area. The court heard the killer had an abusive and traumatic childhood that led to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder when he was still a toddler. See MURDER on A3
Full candidates forums coverage There were four chances for voters to get to know their candidates last week, but if you missed out on any of them we have full candidates forums coverage in this issue. Read up on what candidates for Smithers town council, Telkwa village council, and Bulkley Valley School District 54 board had to say on pages A8, A9, A10, and A27.
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