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JUNE 14, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 71
CLOSING TIME TODAY’S WEATHER Showers, stormy High 15 C Low 4 C
The Keg restaurant will shut its doors on Aug. 31
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NEVER TOO OLD FOR THE OLD BALL GAME Hitting the field with Coffin Dodgers and others
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Accused: ‘I love them and I’m sorry’ TIM PETRUK
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DAVE EAGLES/KTW Al Deacon, owner of Fox ‘N Hounds Pub and the Sahali Liquor Store, shows the selection of Kamloops and B.C. wines on the rack at his store. The Overwaitea Food Group will today ask city council to reconsider its decision to not allow its Save-On-Foods store in Sahali to sell B.C. wines. Deacon appeared before council last month, urging the city to reject the grocery store’s application.
WHAT DRIVES DEACON IN WINE BATTLE? DALE BASS
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Al Deacon said he didn’t plan on becoming the point person in the wineselling debate in Kamloops. It’s disheartening, he said, to read some of the things people have been saying about him, “that they’ll never darken the door again,” as he continues to speak out for private retail outlets that sell wine.
The reason he was the spokesman when Save-On-Foods asked city council to let it sell VQA wines is because he has always stepped up to advocate on behalf of his industry, Deacon said, adding he wasn’t at the May council meeting on his own. There were other private liquorstore owners there who couldn’t get into the council chambers to be seen standing behind him or speaking with him. It’s an industry Deacon believes in,
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one in which he has grown up. He jokes he was conceived on a pool table. His family owned hotels in the Williams Lake area and, at one time, a family hotel was also home for the Deacon family. He went to work at the age of 15 for Overwaitea — ironically, it’s the company that owns the Save-On chain — and continued there until he was 20, when he went to work in the family business.
The mother of a Salmon Arm man standing trial in Kamloops for a murder hung her head in the courtroom yesterday as jurors watched a video recording of him apologizing to a detective after his arrest and saying how much he loves his family. Her son, now 24, is alleged to have shot a romantic rival while a senior in high school. His identity is protected by a court-ordered publication ban because he was 16 at the time of the murder. His 25-year-old ex-girlfriend is also charged and due to stand trial in November. Similarly, she cannot be named because she was 17 at the time of the slaying. Tyler Myers, 22, was shot three times — twice in the back and once in the back of the head — in a Salmon Arm schoolyard on Nov. 21, 2008. His killing has been described in court as a love triangle turned deadly. Jurors have been told both Myers and the male accused were involved romantically with the female accused. Crown prosecutor Bill Hilderman said the two accused hatched a plan to borrow a .22-calibre rifle from a friend and kill Myers. Hilderman said the female accused lured Myers to the Bastion elementary schoolyard, where the male accused was hiding in a wooded area with the rifle. When he had a clear shot, Hilderman said, the male accused fired a bullet into Myers’ back. Jurors were told the male accused then emerged from the wooded area and fired two more shots into Myers’ body, both at the direction of the female accused.
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