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Trail time: Zoey the dog leads owner Blair Randall with son Hans Randall, and Jamie Boyd with son Dyson Van Altema on a hike around Sicamous Creek Falls – one of the local hikes the group enjoyed on Friday, April 17. While the creek trail is in good shape, help is wanted with trail maintenance and construction needs elsewhere. See more on page 5. Photo by Lachlan Labere
Public urination prompts backlash from residents RCMP: Video to assist police investigation of altercation. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Urinating in public has put a group of men in hot water with Sicamous residents and, potentially the police. Sicamous RCMP Sgt. Scott West confirmed Monday that police are investigating a series of related incidents that occurred Thursday, April 16 on Main Street in the parking lot of the former True Hardware building. The investigation so far has revealed an unknown man or men were relieving themselves in a parking lot after stopping their vehicles, West says in a news release issued Monday, April 20. “Three people took exception to this and an argument ensued which developed into a physical altercation,” said West. “One wit-
Altercation: Eagle River Secondary students, left, stand up to a group of men who were witnessed urinating along Main Street. Brent Graf video ness captured a video of the altercation and police will be reviewing the video.” That video was filmed by Sicamous resi-
dent Brent Graf, and is posted on his Facebook page. As of Monday afternoon, it had been viewed more than 126,000 times, and
shared more than 3,000 times. Graf was picking up his daughter at Eagle River Secondary when he saw the group of men urinating in the neighbouring lot. “I yelled at them because they were facing right at the school, they were all standing their with their wangs hanging out, and the kids were literally just walking out of school, all the young girls were just walking out,” said Graf. “So I yelled at them, I said, ‘Hey!’ And you’d think they would turn towards their trucks and be embarrassed. Instead they just stood there.” Graf says moments later, one of the students confronted the men, told them to “get out of here,” and this led to an altercation. “The one guy was yelling at the kids and stuff, and the one kid started going over and got a little closer and closer, telling him to… ‘get out of here, we don’t need that kind of stuff.’ And all of a sudden, the guy comes out of the truck and just hammered the kid one and jumped on him and then his buddies got See Video identifies on page 2