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MARCH 15, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 32
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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.
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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2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Logo Guide
TIM PETRUK
STAFF REPORTER
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A trial is underway for a man accused of holding his 75-year-old exmother-in-law hostage and repeatedly beating her over a period of two hours before threatening to burn down her house and force her to sign a document forgiving his debts. Rudolph Atzenberger is charged with one count each of forcible entry, break-and-enter, assault causing bodily harm and uttering threats stemming from an incident at his mother-in-law’s Louis Creek home in the late-night hours of Oct. 9, 2014. The 56-year-old’s trial, in front of a 12-person B.C. Supreme Court jury in Kamloops, began on Monday with testimony from the alleged victim. “I was sound asleep and suddenly my covers were thrown off and Rudy was standing over me,” Susan Denison said. “He grabbed my hair and pulled me up and kind of pushed and shoved me into the living room.” See NO LAWYER, A4
SNAKES ALIVE!
Larissa Deneault (left) of the B.C. Wildlife Park introduces Magna the rubber boa to two-yearold William Koldewijn and mom Alicia during the weekend’s Meet a Reptile event at the east Kamloops tourist attraction. The park has spring break camps for kids and is gearing up for its annual Easter egg hunt. For more information, go online to bcwildlife.org. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
Public to get peek at city’s $300K review of Ajax ANDREA KLASSEN
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Kamloops residents will get their first look this week at the results of the city’s $300,000 review of KGHM Ajax’s proposed copper and gold mine. SLR Consulting will present its preliminary findings on Friday at 6 p.m. in the Grand Hall at Thompson Rivers University. Public works director Jen Fretz said the city’s consultants will go over their findings so far, then take questions from the public. The meeting is the second the city has held with its consultant. A first session in September took ques-
tions from the public, which were incorporated into SLR’s review. Fretz said SLR should be able to answer many of those questions in its Friday presentation, but in some cases it is seeking further information from KGHM or the B.C. Environmental Office. “Where they’re at is they’ve done their initial application review and they’ve submitted a number of comments to the EAO, so we’re waiting for that information to come back,” she said. “So there may be instances where SLR will say, here are our initial findings, we can’t say anything more one way or the other any further than that because we’re waiting for information back from KGHM and the EAO.” See PUBLIC, A4
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Public open-house meetings are set for today and tomorrow on KGHM Ajax’s application to develop an open-pit mine immediately south of the city. Information sessions are scheduled at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre, 1250 Rogers Way, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. both days. The open house meetings are part of the public input period under the joint harmonized comprehensive environmental impact assessments by the federal and provincial governments.
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