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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 117
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BRIGHT SPOT IN ROUGH WEEKEND
A link to mining, according to professor
Pilon shines, but Blazers swept by Kelowna
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City says CP off track with bid
DAMIEN TAYLOR MURDER TRIAL
Teenager was pregnant when she was slain
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Canadian Pacific Railway wants to see the city close its rail crossings downtown at Second and Third avenues — and it’s asking Transport Canada to back up its request. Company spokesman Jeremy Berry said CP is concerned about “the actions of pedestrians and motorists” at both crossings, including trespassing. Berry said while there have been safety concerns about the crossings for years, the issue of “continual trespassing” on the rail line came to a head in the last year as new businesses opened near the crossings. “CP has met with the city on multiple occasions to discuss our concerns and made operational changes to mitigate these concerns, to no avail,” Berry told KTW in an email. “We have provided information to Transport Canada and they are investigating our concerns.” Mayor Peter Milobar said the city has no plans to close either crossing and has offered other options to solve some of the problems, including additional fencing along the rail line. “I think everyone would agree the city, CP and Transport Canada want the safest crossings possible; however, there’s other options, too, such as maybe CP could no longer park their trains east of Second Avenue,” he said. “There’s a whole lot of options out there. CP, the only thing they’re bringing to the table is they want them closed and we don’t agree with it.” Milobar said it’s not the first time CP has urged the city to close the crossings. “It even goes back to when we were looking at downtown parkade locations. “They were willing to consider letting us have the corner of Third and Lorne Street if we agreed to close Second and Third avenue, and that deal was off the table,” he said. Last year, CP Rail’s Mike Lovecchio urged the city to look at overpasses or underpasses for the two crossings and suggested the rail company would help Kamloops secure federal and provincial funding.
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THE WORLD STEPS UP IN KAMLOOPS
Frank and Jan Dwyer of Kamloops make their way down the colourful steps of the pedestrian bridge that spans the railway tracks between Third Avenue and Lorne Street. The steps have been wrapped with brightly coloured advertising for the 2016 Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship, which will come to Kamloops from March 28 to April 4.
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Dog walkers in Guerin Creek in Kamloops discovered a lifeless CJ Fowler beneath a 56-pound concrete block, her cheekbone and jaw broken and airway crushed. Prosecutor Alexandra Janse told a jury Monday morning the Crown will attempt to prove that her boyfriend Damien Taylor, on trial for seconddegree murder, killed the 16-year-old girl in the early morning of December 5, 2012 — hours after an emergency room physician told them she was pregnant. Tests showed Taylor was the father of the baby. The Crown will call 21 witnesses in the first week of what is expected to be a three-week trial CJ Fowler with Damien in B.C. Supreme Court in Taylor. Taylor is accused of murdering the 16-year-old Kamloops. Among them are the girl in December 2012. dog walkers who stumbled across Fowler’s body and a forensic pathologist who will testify to her injuries, including that she died of asphyxiation. Also expected to testify are Fowler’s stepfather, who bought a pair of bus tickets for the two from Kamloops to Terrace, the emergency room doctor who treated Fowler for symptoms of crystal meth use and a nurse who saw Taylor and Fowler arguing as they walked out of Royal lnland Hospital. Hours after that argument, Janse told the jury, Fowler’s body was discovered. Taylor headed north on a bus to Terrace that morning. See SOCKS, A4
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