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OCTOBER 5, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 119
KAMLOOPS RESIDENTS DESCRIBE ‘SHEER PANIC’ IN LAS VEGAS MASS SHOOTING TIM PETRUK
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Moments of “sheer panic and fear” is how a Kamloops woman who sustained minor shrapnel injuries in the deadly Las Vegas shooting Sunday describes the terrifying experience. At least 59 people, including three Canadians, died and more than 500 suffered injuries during a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Thea Dunn told KTW she didn’t even realize she had been injured until she got back to her hotel room hours after the incident. “I didn’t know what it was from,” she said. “We were just running and stopping, running and stopping with the gunshots.” Dunn travelled to Las Vegas for the Route 91 Harvest country music festival with her husband and three other Kamloops
Marquette University in Milwaukee had this dome installed over a sports field in 2016, allowing its teams to practie through the winter. Yeadon, a company specializing in such structures, built the dome at an estimated cost of US $3.5 million. The dome has a 25-year lifespan.
City looks to cover Hillside Stadium field with dome SEAN BRADY
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The City of Kamloops is exploring the idea of an air-supported dome covering the Hillside Stadium track and field. The project is in partnership with Thompson Rivers
University, which is helping the city fund a feasibility study. The city’s notice of intent filed on Tuesday says it will contract Dialog Design Inc. to come up with a conceptual design and cost estimate for a dome that would cover the entire football field and
400-metre oval track. The city’s notice also mentions a new storage building for the dome, modifications to bleachers, an air-lock connection to dressing rooms and a viewing window into the dome from the second level of the existing field house. See DOME, A4
couples. Among that group was Stephanie Carter, who said she was at the festival grounds on Sunday for about three hours before the headliner took the stage at about 9:40 p.m. “Jason Aldean started. The first few songs we were hooting and hollering and having a great old time,” she told KTW. Carter said she had to use the washroom and left with a friend to find a port-a-potty. “We walked there together,” she said. “I said, ‘Oh, if we go to the back ones, they’re usually empty and fairly clean.’” Little did Carter know that port-a-potty would become her temporary hideout. “All the sudden, I heard the music abruptly stop and I thought, ‘That’s weird — I wonder if they’re having technical difficulties,’” she said. “Then we heard, ‘Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa,’ and I thought, ‘That’s gunshots.’ There was a break and then it started again. There would be a pause and then it
would be, ‘Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa’ — it would start again. It just seemed like the gunshots went on for so long.” Dunn said she was about 20 feet from the stage when Aldean’s performance started. “I was on the right-hand side of the sound booth and I heard gunfire,” she said. “It was chaos. Everything happened at once. People were being very heroic around me. I turned to run and somebody told me to get down. He put himself in front of me.” Dunn said people were working together to try to keep safe, even as bullets sprayed the large crowd from above. “The shooting kept starting and stopping,” she said. “Every time it started again, we just run and stop, run and stop. I think it may have been sort of controlled chaos, like the guy who laid on top of me — ‘If we work together as a team, we’re going to get through this.’” See HUSBAND, A7
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