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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship. The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
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Five-month-old Aurora Winter seemed delighted to watch her mom and dad take part in Sunday’s Runners Sole 4xMixed Relay Indoor Triathlon at the Tournament Capital Centre. For a list of results, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the Sports tab. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
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The B.C. Coroners Office is investigating the case of a woman on the Tk’emlups Indian Band being mauled to death by a dog on Saturday night. Coroner Barb McLintock told KTW her office was called Saturday. “We have just started the preliminary investigation,” McLintock said, noting her office is working with the Tk’emlups RCMP detachment. The victim is TIB elder Kathleen Green, 78, a residential-school survivor who lived with her grandson in a home on the band’s reserve. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Cheryl Bush said officers from the Tk’emlups detachment were called to a home on West Shuswap Road just after 5 p.m. to investigate “a reported death, possibly related to a dog mauling.” Bush said Mounties had to shoot and kill the animal, believed to have been a Rottweiler, to allow paramedics to reach Green. The dog was tethered outside when the attack occurred. RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Aird was asked if dogs are a significant problem encountered by Mounties. “I would say it’s a rarity,” he said. “In my 34 years, it’s the first time I’ve encountered it.” TIB Chief Fred Seymour met with family members yesterday morning. “The family is stricken by this,” Seymour said. “We’ve been there since it happened. We’re counselling and doing as much as we can. “It’s a rarity, I guess,” he said of the dog-attack death. “It’s never an easy thing to deal with. You never know what’s coming down the pipe.”
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Lowest salmon return since 1939 CAM FORTEMS
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The number of sockeye that returned to the South Thompson and Adams River in the fall is the lowest on record for the cycle dating back to 1939. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its late-run sockeye report detailing record-low numbers of returning salmon in the South Thompson; lower Fraser; HarrisonLillooet; and Seton-Anderson (Lillooet) regions.. For all those runs, the number of returning salmon numbered just 14 per cent of the brood year 2011. The numbers in the South Thompson were worse, with only six per cent of the 2011 brood year returning — a total of 9,700 sockeye — and just three per cent
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of the average returning fish recorded for nearly eight decades. The peak in the four-year, sub-dominant cycle was 1991, when more than 1.2-million sockeye returned to the South Thompson. “It’s worrying, for sure,” said Kim Fulton, a retired teacher from Armstrong who has been involved with salmon education and the Adams River run for decades. “There’s so many factors. They had the Cohen Commission and I followed that and read as much as I could. I don’t think anyone knows.” The commission studied the collapse of the 2009 sockeye run. Ironically, the next year produced the largest run in the province’s history, something that caught scientists and ecologists off-guard.
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Fulton has been involved extensively with education and habitat improvement in the Interior, something he said is important to sockeye conservation. But, he believes the larger problem is outside the rivers and tributaries. “My sense is problems are in the ocean,” he said, citing temperatures and climate change as factors. Last summer, much of B.C. suffered from drought conditions, but the report said water temperatures on all the spawning grounds were favourable in the fall of 2015. Water levels also gradually increased in the South Thompson during the spawning period. Another concern noted in the report was sockeye that died before getting to spawning grounds, as well as low spawning success. STARTING FROM
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Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.