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JANUARY 29, 2020 | Volume 33 No. 9
WEATHER Chance of showers High 7 C Low -3 C SNOW REPORT Sun Peaks Resort Mid-mountain: 166 cm Alpine: 185 cm Harper Mountain Total snow: 200 cm
CURLING FOR GOLD
CLOSED FOR SIX MONTHS
Kamloops flavour at B.C. Curling Championships
Maintenance at Canada Games Pool in latter half of 2020
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Charges stayed against teens plotting attack TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
DAVE EAGLES/KTW Big Little Science Centre executive director Gordon Stewart stands amongst a building full of supplies, which have been moved from the centre’s former location in Brocklehurst to the former Value Village location, downtown at Seymour Street and Fifth Avenue.
SCIENCE CENTRE TO RE-OPEN IN APRIL MICHAEL POTESTIO
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Gordon Stewart can see the light at the end of the Bunsen burner. The Big Little Science Centre’s executive director confirmed the educational facility will remain closed until the first
The venerable facility also recently received a much-needed $50,000 donation week of April, when it is expected to re-open at its new downtown location on Seymour Street. Stewart said an architect went through the building last week to ensure what has been
proposed in the renovation will fit the space and be in line with regulations. With planning work and permitting now completed, it’s just a matter of building out
the new centre. “Now we’ve got a better handle on how much actually has to be done in all the different spots,” Stewart said. Plumbing, HVAC installation, electrical
work, framing drywall and painting are among the tasks to be finished in the building. The science centre will take up the eastfacing portion of the of the former Value Village store at Seymour Street and Fifth Avenue. See FICOCELLI, A6
A pair of teens who plotted to shoot multiple people in “a Columbine-type assault” at a Kamloops high school had access to guns and a list of named targets. Details of the plot previously protected by a courtordered ban on publication can be made public after prosecutors on Monday halted legal proceedings against the young duo. The teenagers, a boy and a girl, as well as the school, cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The Crown agreed to stay charges against the pair in exchange for their completion of extrajudicial sanctions, which typically include community service and programming. The teens had been charged with conspiracy to commit assault with a weapon and uttering threats. They came to the attention of police on Feb. 7, 2019, when a vice-principal reported that one of them, the girl, had been talking about shooting up the school since the previous December. Police interviewed school administrators, teachers and a school counsellor before conducting a locker search. A counsellor told investigators someone had overheard the girl planning “a Columbine-type assault,” court heard, referencing a 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that saw two students kill 13 classmates, then themselves. See POLICE, A4
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