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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 78
Page A26 is your guide to events in the city and region
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Federal Election CANDIDATE PROFILE AND MORE The federal election is 31 days away. In today’s paper, another look at a would-be MP and information voters need to know A16, A17
CHARGE LAID Trent Larsen is accused of killing Angel Fehr in 2000 A3
TRADE WINDS
Ryan Hughes is on his way to Kamloops from Saskatoon A31
WEEKEND WEATHER: Sunny and cool High 11 C Low 2 C
‘RETIREMENT’ FUND TIED UP IN WOOD SEIZURE SEAN BRADY STAFF REPORTER sbrady@kamloopsthisweek.com
A Kamloops man has had a large cache of firewood seized by the government, leaving area residents scrambling to find new suppliers as winter approaches. Rick Farr, 63, told Kamloops This Week that crews out collecting water samples at his Napier Lake property south of the city in early August stumbled upon his firewood supply and began questioning him about it. “They come in and say, ‘Boy, you’ve got a lot of wood in here. What are you doing?’” he said. Farr answered plainly and told them he was selling firewood, sourced from up in the mountains from piles left by loggers and anything fallen or left on the ground. “I said, ‘What? It’s just firewood,’” he recalled. Farr has been providing firewood to hundreds of people in rural communities in and around Kamloops for 15 years and is well-known as a reliable supplier. He said he had been storing and seasoning the seized wood for about two years and had amassed “well over” 500 cords, which he said would have sold for more than $100,000. “That was my retirement,” he said. The loss is significant for Farr, who has been distraught since his wood was seized. “I’m so sick right now. I can’t eat. I can’t think right. I’m just walking around my house. I’m so pissed off, especially when it didn’t have to happen,” he said. See FARR’S LAWYER, A12
DAVE EAGLES/KTW Rick Farr stands along a side road off Highway 5, just north of Rayleigh. Behind him, piled on Tolko property, is the massive load of firewood he had collected on Crown land and that was destined to be delivered to many residences from Lac le Jeune to Sun Peaks and from Savona to Paul Lake.
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