Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 17 April 24, 2015
Market News
Urination prompts altercation
Inside Shuswap
A3 Silver Creek fire
Barn contained legal marijuana grow-op. Plus South Shuswap A8,9 Sports
Sicamous: Citizens object to tourists’ behaviour.
A24
Chase
By Lachlan Labere
A19
markEt nEws staff
Trial put on hold
Officer ‘meddles’ in defence case. Plus What’s On A20 Yard fire A21
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n Robert James Nichols volunteers his time trimming the bushes outside the Salvation Army Lighthouse Emergency Shelter.
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 witness captured a video of the altercation and police will be reviewing the video.” That video was filmed by Sicamous resident 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 there 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 See Video on page 2
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