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APRIL 21, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 48
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John Yuzik next to his kitchen window, into which he said three shots were fired from a BB gun as his wife stood nearby.
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Threats of violence, pellet guns fired at windows, slashed tires, eggs and rocks flying over his fence — John Yuzik feels like a prisoner in his own home. The 50-year-old North Shore resident said he’s been dealing with a “neighbour from hell” for more than a year and, after facing dead ends with police, city staff and even school-district officials, he is at the end of his wits.
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they said, ‘There’s nothing we can do.’” Yuzik, his wife and their seven-yearold daughter moved into their Nanaimo Street home in July 2014. He said the problems with one of his next-door neighbours started seven months later. Yuzik said he has a prescription for medical marijuana and used to smoke it on his back deck. He said his neighbour started popping over while he was smoking, offering him handfuls of weed out of a large bag.
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“I’ve carried it myself for a long time and hoped it was going to change, trying to live in peace,” he told KTW as he sat on his back porch, six feet from a kitchen window pocked with four pellet holes — marks he said were made on Friday while his wife was baking in the kitchen. “It hasn’t changed.” According to Yuzik, police came to investigate the pellet-gun shooting. “They told us that without proof, there’s nothing they can do,” he said. “It seems pretty straightforward, but
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Four community groups and five private developers are in the mix as Kamloops city council considers the future of the former Kamloops Daily News property on Seymour Street. Dave Freeman, the city’s real-estate manager, said council will see nine proposals for the property at a closed meeting on April 26. Five of the proposals are from private developers, based either in Kamloops or the Lower Mainland, and four come from local community groups, Freeman said. “The private-sector development interests are basically, ‘We’ll acquire the property from you,’” Freeman said. “And, as a private-sector project, we’d have to sell it at market value. “And then the community groups are very much, ‘This should be held by the city and for the city and funded by the city, whether it be for a revamp of the performing-arts centre proposal or recreational use.’” In 2014, the city purchased the property from Glacier Media for $4.8 million, with plans to use it to expand parking options downtown. But a proposal for a $91-million combined performing-arts centre and underground parkade was defeated in a referendum in November, leaving the future of the lot in question. The newspaper building, which once housed the Hudson’s Bay department store, was supposed to be torn down this year to make way for more surface parking stalls for monthly rental, but that plan was put on hold in order to take suggestions from the public for the property’s future.
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