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These happy hockey players are the Kimberley PeeWee Dynamiters Tier 4 team. They are celebrating their victory in their home tournament this past weekend, in which they went undefeated, winning the final over the Mindapore Mavericks from Calgary. Above back row, Mark Vanzyl, Chase Flegel, Avery Burki, Leif Olafsen, Ally Murray, Zoey Callwood, Aspen Cooper and Ben Verigan. Middle row, Ryan Renaud, Casey Miller, Cam Read, Sam Daprocida, Brayden Hoglund and Declan Armstrong. Front row, Tyden Wilson, Daxton D’Etcheverrey and Brad Traverse. Congratulations to the home team.
My Health is Sexy campaign
All adults encouraged to get tested for HIV ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
A new campaign launched by Interior Health encourages all adults to get tested for HIV. The “My Health Is Sexy” campaign uses intimate images to convey the message that knowing your HIV status is an important part of a healthy sex life and a good relationship.
It is part of the province’s Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS (STOP HIV/AIDS) program, which aims to reduce HIV transmission and improve the health outcomes of those living with HIV. That is done by offering widespread HIV testing, treatment and early engagement into care. Dr. Trevor Corneil, Medical Health Officer with Interior Health, noted that the treatment actually suppresses the patients viral load.
“If you can do those three things you shouldn’t actually have any new infections,” Dr. Corneil said. However one of the problems is that though doctors know where the high prevalence of HIV infections lie — Corneil noted gay men, sex workers, drug users, Aboriginals, immigrants and refugees — there is another 20 per cent out there that doesn’t know they have HIV, and doesn’t fit into those categories. See HIV, page 3
Autopsy discussed at Learn trial TRE VOR CR AWLEY
A pathologist and another RCMP officer testified in Cranbrook Supreme Court as the trial for Cheyenne Learn resumed on Monday. In front of Justice Dev Dley, Dr. Gilles Molgat reported his findings on the autopsy of Tammy Ellis, while Cpl. Eric Barnes testified about his actions the day of and the day after the shooting. Learn is on trial for the shooting death of Ellis on Dec. 17, 2007. Learn was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 but the decision was overturned on appeal in 2013 and he was awarded a new trial. Dr. Molgat, who is based out of Ka-
mloops, received the body of the deceased three days after the shooting, upon which he performed the autopsy in the presence of two RCMP members. Crown counsel Lianna Swanson began her questioning of the witness before defence counsel Brent Bagnall cross-examined. Warning: Details follow that some readers may find too graphic. The body of the deceased had a wound in the lower left side of the back consistent with an impact from shot pellets fired from a shotgun, according to Dr. Molgat.
See AUTOPSY, Page 3