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OCTOBER 13, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 124
Killer gets 14 years in jail TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
students — a time when students often start to struggle with difficult words. While the study was mainly focused on teaching methods, one group of students was also given iPads with educational apps to use. To the surprise of researchers, the use of extra technology seemed to pay off.
Friends and family of a Lower Mainland man killed in downtown Kamloops more than five years ago after being caught in the crossfire of a violent gang war gasped in court after hearing his killer texted “LMAO” after being told his deadly attack killed an innocent bystander. Calling the attack that killed Archie Lepretre unprovoked and calculated, B.C. Supreme Court Texts sent by Travis Justice Dev Dley yesterday Johnny after he killed sentenced 27-year-old Archie Lepretre. Travis Johnny to 14 years in federal prison before becoming eligible for parole. Lepretre’s friends and family let out sighs and clapped as Dley delivered his sentence. “This was a planned and deliberate attack done to advance the interest of organized crime,” Dley said. “It was the culmination of several days of stalking and looking for the victims.” Johnny, 27, pleaded guilty last November to second-degree murder relating to the March 2011 stabbing death of Lepretre.
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Juniper Ridge elementary students Connor Cross, Hannah Stone and Carissa Price are among those weighing in on the design of a new game for computer and mobile phones being built with the help of Thompson Rivers University computer-science students.
DESIGNING A VOCAB APP
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Mike Bowden didn’t set out to become an app designer. Originally, the principal at Juniper Ridge elementary teamed up with other educators in School District 73 and Thompson Rivers University to study vocabulary teaching methods for Grade 4
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