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JULY 28, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 90
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SILVER LINING STORY
A YOUTHFUL TAKE ON SHAKESPEARE
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WILL DEATH IN WEST VA. LINK TO JESSIE FOSTER?
HAVING A BALL AT MUSIC IN THE PARK
Sophie and Holly Bergsveinson toss a beach ball to the beat during a visit to Music in the Park in Riverside Park. The nightly concert series continues through July and August and begins at 7 p.m. The folk roots and country sounds of Tanner James Band are on stage tonight, followed by the blues vibe of the Kirby Sewell Band tomorrow and Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band The Longriders on Thursday. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
Suspected serial killer eyed in 2006 disappearance ADAM WILLIAMS
STAFF REPORTER
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Glendene Grant couldn’t look at the pictures of Neal Falls. An Oregon man who was shot and killed by an escort in West Virginia as he tried to strangle her on July 18, Falls is being investigated in connection with the death and dismemberment of several women in the Nevada area. The investigation may also be linked to the disappearance of Grant’s daughter, Jessie Foster, who was working in the Las Vegas area as an escort when she went missing in 2006. “When I first looked at his picture, JESSIE I could not look, I looked away. I had FOSTER to close my eyes, I had to turn my head,” Grant told KTW. “Something about his eyes . . . he just gave me the creeps. There was something monstrous about him that I couldn’t even look at.” To this day, Grant believes her daughter is alive, a feeling she can NEAL FALLS only attribute to what she calls a heart string — a connection she shares with all of her children. Though she knew she was staring at a monster when pictures of Falls began to surface, Grant isn’t convinced the 45-year-old had anything to do with her daughter’s disappearance. “I’ve never really had much of a feeling that there is a full connection to Jessie with him,” she said. “That’s never changed.” See MOTHER, A10
Leong reaches plea agreement CAM FORTEMS
STAFF REPORTER
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A former veteran Kamloops councillor has struck a deal to avoid trial on six criminal charges stemming from his role as treasurer of the Kamloops Heritage Railway Society. Joe Leong will instead plead guilty to contravening two sections of the Society Act. Leong’s defence lawyer, Ken Walker, appeared in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday to set the Aug. 11 date, when guilty pleas to two counts will be entered. Leong will also be sentenced on that day. In return for pleas under the act, two counts each of fraud, theft over $5,000
and breach of trust will be stayed by the Crown. Walker said there will be a joint sentencing submission proposed together with the Crown. He declined to provide details on that submission. Crown prosecutor Chris Balison confirmed the agreement. The charges were laid in 2013 after Kamloops RCMP was asked by city administration to look into the finances of the Kamloops Heritage Railway Society, where Leong served for years as treasurer. After an audit of the society’s books was completed, the city still had questions about the group’s accounting practices and what appeared to be two instances of $100,000 being moved out of society bank accounts for several months, then returned.
The audit was called for after Leong’s successor as treasurer of the society had questions about some of the bookkeeping. Walker said the sections of the Society Act that Leong will plea to contravening involve duties of directors and disclosure of outside interests.
Former city councillor Joe Leong.
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