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MARCH 8, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 29
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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.
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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.
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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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Bowled over The first of what will be an annual fundraising event for the Kamloops Food Bank saw $17,000 raised. The Empty Bowls lunch, held last Friday at Hotel 540, benefitted from a $10,000 donation from the B.C. Lottery Corporation, said food bank executive director Bernadette Siracky. The rest was raised through silent and public auctions that included 14 bowl-centred packages and 11 bowls autographed by famous people, including the prime minister and actor Johnny Depp. The Depp bowl brought in the largest donation — $1,800. Taking part in the event were seven restaurants and one bakery.
Mayor Peter Milobar and Kamloops Food Bank warehouse manager Wes Graham auction off the Johnny Depp bowl, which fetched $1,800. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
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Suspect in jail when charged with murder
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For four decades, Westsyde Pool has been a focal point of all things aquatic for those living in the neighbourhood and beyond. In this 2013 KTW file photo, A.E. Perry elementary student Moses Zobotel-Got (centre) learns the correct manoeuvre to climb onto an ice surface from the water during the Swim to Survive School Program lesson.
A decades-old pool debate
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he protest was over quickly, but it had numbers. On a Friday morning in April of 1974, 600 students stood up from their desks at Westsyde junior secondary and walked out of school A spokesman told reporters a march on city hall might follow. The issue? A recommendation from the city’s recreation commission that a multi-purpose gymnasium with sports hall and meeting space be built in the neighbourhood, rather
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than a swimming pool. Westsyde Alderman Don Couch had called the proposal “ridiculous” a week earlier in an article in the Kamloops Daily Sentinel. What the area needed, in his opinion, was a skating rink and a pool. “They argue that a population of 20,000 is needed to support such facilities, but that is not valid,” he said. Sound a little familiar? This week, the City of Kamloops continues a round of community meetings, mostly north of the river, to determine what it should do with its aging slate of pools. A proposal from the city
would see the outdoor pool at McDonald Park converted to a spray park, Brocklehurst’s outdoor pool converted to an ice sheet and Westsyde Pool turned into a multi-purpose gymnasium, though sauna, hot tub and fitness facilities would continue to operate. To replace the pools, the city suggests building a new aquatic centre on McArthur Island. That may also sound familiar to longtime residents. It’s the same spot the city had been planning to build its first indoor pool when the Westsyde debate elbowed its way into the spotlight 42 years ago.
The man charged with murder in connection to a stabbing outside a North Kamloops sushi restaurant had been released from jail on a breach charge just before the Jan. 22 killing. Charges were formally laid against Eric Charlie late Sunday, but he has been in custody on the unrelated breach charge for more than a month. Court documents identify the victim as 30-yearold John Southwell. To this point, police have not released the name of Charlie or Southwell. Kamloops This Week reported in January that a 32-year-old suspect in the murder had been arrested four days after the stabbing. The man was arrested on Jan. 26 on an unrelated breach-of-probation ERIC CHARLIE IN A PHOTO charge and was serving ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE. a short jail sentence that would have been scheduled to end around this weekend. KTW had not named the man, pending charges related to the murder. Just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 22, emergency crews were called to the 400-block of Tranquille Road for a reported stabbing. A man had been injured in an altercation outside Hatsuki Sushi. He was rushed to hospital, but died hours later.
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