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Kimberley couple wins Lotto Max C AROLYN GR ANT
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Canadian School Rowing Championships took place this past weekend in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Proud parents Bronwyn and Stewart Macdonald celebrated when their daughter Danielle rowed to a gold finish along with her Junior Women’s four with coxswain crew. The crew is from Brentwood College on Vancouver Island where Danielle is attending school. Danielle was also in the Junior Women’s 8+ which placed a respectable 3rd place for a bronze metal. Danielle started rowing May 2014 in Cranbrook with Rockies Rowing Club and joined 3 other rowers from here (Reili Savage, Katie Clark and Zoe Chore) to participate in the BC Summer Games in Naniamo last season. Danielle went from sculling where the rower uses two oars to sweep rowing where the rower maneuvers one oar. Danielle can be seen in the picture second from the left.
It was a last minute anniversary gift that paid off in a big way for Kimberley residents Dana Haggar and Rhonda Carr-Haggar. Two days prior to his wedding anniversary, Dana arrived home from a business trip and said he was scrambling to get a gift for his wife. “I ended up going down to Shoppers Drug Mart in Kimberley and picked up some lottery tickets and some flowers,” said Dana, who works for Teck in Kimberley. And the results of that gift? The Lotto Max ticket paid off $500,000.
“I’ll take it,” said Rhonda. Take it they did, picking up their prize in Kamloops Monday. The Haggar family has lived in Kimberley for the past four years, having lived in the Yukon before. “I can’t say this will speed up my retirement plans, I enjoy what I do,” Dana said. “My wife is already retired.” Asked what they planned for the money, they said they would put it in the bank and possibly look to purchase a home, as they currently rent. They do plan to retire in this area, though likely in Cranbrook.
Man fined for illegal guiding TRE VOR CR AWLEY
A U.S. man has been fined $2,500 after pleading guilty to operating without a compulsory angling guide licence near Fernie. Benjamin Robert Mohan’s plea comes after he was arrested by conservation officers following a joint investigation with American law enforcement agencies in Idaho. Mohan was employed as a ‘host’ for an American guiding outfit based in New York that
offered angling trips around Fernie, B.C. Clients would book the trip with the company and Mohan would accompany them for their fishing expedition. Canadian and American law enforcement agencies booked a weeklong trip at $1,900 as part of an undercover operation and Mohan was eventually taken into custody. He made a first appearance on Nov. 20, 2014, at the Fernie Law Courts.
B.C. gov’t didn’t give accused polygamist fair warning: lawyer C ANADIAN PRESS
TAYLOR ROCCA PHOTO
Engines were roaring and hearts were soaring Sunday afternoon at Western Financial Place. Prior to Monster Spectacular, Adam MacKinnon proposed to Jenevive Gillett at the centre of the floor in front of hundreds of energetic monster truck fans. Happy days are abound for the couple after Gillett accepted MacKinnon’s proposal.
A lawyer representing the leader of a Mormon breakaway commune is asking B.C. Supreme Court to throw out a polygamy charge against his client. Winston Blackmore’s
lawyer Joe Arvay says the provincial government shopped for a prosecutor in its attempt to have charges pressed against the fundamentalist leader.
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