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Members of the Argyle Secondary School Pipers congratulate each other after winning the 4A B.C. Girls Provincial Volleyball Championships, held this weekend in Cranbrook. The undefeated North Vancouver team took on the undefeated Riverside Secondary School Rapids (Port Coquitlam) in the gold medal match Saturday night, Nov. 29, at Mount Baker Secondary School. See later this week in the Townsman for a wrap-up story on the 16-team tournament.
Court hears from The Jumbo to and fro RCMP in Learn trial
War of words heats up as proposed resort decision nears C AROLYN GR ANT Daily Bulletin
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It was a brief day of testimony in front of Justice Dev Dley on Friday for the fourth day of the Cheyenne Learn trial in Cranbrook Supreme Court. Two members of the RCMP testified under questioning from crown counsel, with defence counsel also completing cross-examinations. Learn is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Tammy Ellis in December 2007. He was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009, but an appeal overturned the decision in 2013 and he was awarded a new trial. Crown counsel Lianna Swanson
began the proceedings by examining Const. Travis Dow, who was on scene and collecting evidence at the residence where the shooting on Dec. 17th, 2007. After testimony from Dow, the court also heard from Cpl. Philip Sullivan, the officer who arrested Learn at a family member’s house a day after the shooting occurred. Defence counsel Brent Bagnall also cross-examined both witnesses. Sullivan’s testimony centred on the night of the shooting and the events of the next day.
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As proponents and opponents alike await the word from the provincial Environmental Assessment Office as to whether construction on the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort has substantially started, neither side is backing away from commenting on the issue. Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald, long a vocal opponent of Jumbo, has issued a press release stating that the state of construction of the Jumbo Glacier Resort continues to tell a story of “incompetence, sloppiness and amateurishness”.
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“A few weeks ago, the public discovered that the BC Liberal government had allowed the proponent of Jumbo Glacier Resort to lay the foundation of their day lodge in a Class 4 avalanche path,” said Macdonald. “Now we have discovered that not only is the day lodge foundation situated in a dangerous location, the day lodge has been placed outside the boundaries of the area established for the resort.” However, Tom Oberti with Pheidias Project Management Corp. the project manager for Jumbo, refutes that claim. “The Jumbo Glacier resort project has been under attack by
special interest groups for a long time with a vast barrage of exaggerated and inaccurate claims,” Oberti said. “The report that the daylodge is in a Class 4 avalanche path is purely based on a media attack by representatives of the RK Heli-ski company based in Panorama. The daylodge is near but not on the run out of an existing avalanche track, as documented by the existing forest, and as checked by the experts. Peter Schaerer, the foremost avalanche expert in Canada, has reviewed the claims by RK Heli-Ski and stated:
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