WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28, 2015
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BARRY COULTER PHOTOS
Alan Doyle and the Beautiful Gypsies and The Barenaked Ladies performed before a boisterous audience at Western Financial Place Monday, Oct. 26. See more in Thursday’s Daily Townsman, or online at www.dailytownsman.com.
City council looks over the bylaws ARNE PETRYSHEN
City council looked over five bylaws at the Oct. 19 council meeting. Four bylaws were given third reading and one was adopted. The first bylaw dealt with the third reading of a proposed amendment of the Official Community Plan to change the land use designation of a property located at 9 Little Van Horne Street South from Low Density Residential to Medium Density Residential. The owners of the subject property applied for an amendment to enable consideration to rezone the property from R-1, Single Family Extended Residential Zone to R-5, Medium Density Multiple Family Residential Zone to bring the existing fourplex building to conform with the zoning bylaw.
See COUNCIL, Page 3
Hopley to appeal
Sparwood child abductor should be given more credit for time already served, lawyer says
Just in time for winter
CANADIAN PRESS
Open fires once again permitted in East Kootenay region
A lawyer wants less time behind bars for a man who abducted a three-year-old boy from his bedroom during a late-night break-in at a home in southeastern British Columbia. Ken Beatch has argued in the B.C. Court of Appeal that his client, Randall Hopley, should be granted more than three years’ credit for time already served in order to reduce his seven-year sentence. Beatch has told a
Wildfire season is slowly coming to an end, as the Southeast Fire Centre has reinstated open burning effective Monday. While the Fire Danger rating in the Cranbrook and Kimberley area is low to moderate now that the season is all but over, however, it was one of the worst on record. In the middle of September, B.C. Finance minister Mike de Jong reported that wildfire fighting costs had reached $380 million, even though the province had only budgeted $60 million. The Testalinden Creek fire south of Penticton is the only active Wildfire of Note in the province, which has burned since August, consuming 5,202 hectares and is 95 per cent contained. Even though open fires are now permitted in the Southeast Fire Centre, the BC Wildfire Service is asking the public to remain vigilant with any fire use.
TREVOR CRAWLEY
Randall Hopley is led into Cranbrook courthouse on Nov. 29, 2013, for his sentencing. (File) trio of appeal judges that granting Hopley more than one-to-one credit for time served,
to one-to-1.5, is a question of fairness.
See HOPLEY, Page 3