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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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Man charged with beating dog to death A Kamloops man is accused of beating a dog to death after it bit a family member during a holiday meal. The Crown has charged Christopher Mathes, 39, under the Criminal Code of Canada with causing unnecessary pain or suffering to an animal following an incident on Thanksgiving on 2015. The BC SPCA reported a five-yearold Chihuahua named Jersey bit a family member during the holiday meal. The bite caused a small wound. “Mathes allegedly took the dog outside and beat him repeatedly over the head with a four-foot-long fence post,” said BC SPCA chief prevention and
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A South Kamloops secondary grad was back safe in his apartment in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday after an explosion in the airport in Brussels where he was napping before a flight. “Everything was fine and then — boom,” said Jacob Adams, who estimated he was a floor below the area at Brussels Airport where the terrorist attack occurred. The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in the Belgian capital that left more than 30 dead and more than 200 injured. A suicide bomber targeted the departures area at the airport, where two JACOB ADAMS explosions were set off, while a subway station was also the scene of carnage. Adams is studying at the University of Antwerp on an exchange from Queens University, where he is in the commerce program. He was napping outside his gateway on a planned spring break trip in Spain when he was awoken by the blast. “I thought it was a short circuit or something crazy like a flat tire,” he told KTW. “I didn’t think it could be a bomb.” But the screams shook him up.
Thompson Rivers WolfPack track team members do some speed work yesterday at Hillside Stadium. Runners Conlan Sprickerhoff (left) Josef Perszon, Andrew Paul-Morris and coach Carmin Mazzotta are preparing for the 1,500-metre event at the Emilie Mondor Invitational at Simon Fraser University on April 9.