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FEBRUARY 17, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 21
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We tabulate ballots on notable issues
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YES NO
EXPECT PECT ANOTHER TH HER SURPLUS PL LUS Mike de Jong brings down budget today
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CROWN APPEALS TOM GAGLARDI’S SENTENCE
KAMLOOPS BLAZERS OWNER CONVICTED LAST YEAR OF HARMFUL ALTERATION OF FISH HABITAT TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
TOM GAGLARDI: Was fined $140,000; Crown wanted $300,000.
The Crown is appealing a December sentence handed to the owner of the NHL’s Dallas Stars and the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers. Tom Gaglardi was ordered to pay $140,000 for damage done to the shore of Kamloops Lake during renovations on his vacation home in 2010. He was convicted last year of two counts of harmful alteration of a fish habitat. The 47-year-old, who also heads up Northland Properties — which owns chains including Sandman hotels and restaurants and bars Denny’s, Moxies, Shark Club and Rockford Grill — was ordered to pay the $140,000 fine, which is less than half of the $300,000 the Crown had sought.
Northland was also convicted on the same charges. Robert Gaglardi, Tom’s father, was found not guilty. The charges were laid because of riprap installed by workers taking orders from Gaglardi in the construction of a boat ramp and shoreline trees he ordered removed from the property. “There was an element of wilfulness here — a desire to get the job done and seek forgiveness later,” Kamloops provincial court Judge Stephen Harrison said in handing down his sentence on Dec. 12. Harrison also quoted an expert in salmon habitats who testified at trial that the work changed the shoreline on Gaglardi’s property “from a very good fish habitat to a moonscape.” During the trial, former Northland employee
and star Crown witness Jim Parks said he was ordered to destroy documents and throw his computer hard drive “in the lake” when federal investigators began looking into alleged environmental improprieties at Tom’s Shack. Gaglardi wrote in his notebook throughout the trial, alternating between notes on the proceedings, Northland business and what appeared to be line combinations for the Dallas Stars. He also had to be told repeatedly by sheriffs to turn off his iPhone, which, at one point, he concealed in a book. Court heard it will take more than 40 years to restore the salmon habitat that was destroyed by Gaglardi. The Crown’s appeal is scheduled to be heard in the Kamloops Law Courts during the first week of June.
Prohibited driver gets house arrest for pedestrian death
MEDAL MOMENT
Kamloops athlete Dylan Armstrong salutes the large crowd at the Tournament Capital Centre on Sunday, Feb. 15, after receiving his bronze medal from the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. Armstrong finally secured his medal after the shot putter who originally won bronze was stripped of his medal for cheating via the use of performanceenhancing drugs. For more on Armstrong’s big day, turn to Sports on page A17. To see many more photos from the event, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com.
TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned a sixmonth jail term handed last year to a chronic prohibited driver who in 2012 struck and killed a pedestrian in a downtown Kamloops crosswalk. Instead, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Alison Beames placed Donald Charles Isadore on three months of house arrest to be followed by four-and-ahalf months under a strict curfew, ruling the original sentence did not take into consideration Isadore’s aboriginal background. Beames knocked 44 days off of the original sentence for time served, which is how long Isadore spent in jail before being granted bail for his appeal. See JUDGE, A2
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