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Shambhala shake Be kind to your kidneys: walk, wheel or run down nets new court caseload BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
The numbers are in. With a âstrongâ police presence throughout the Shambhala Music Festival the provinceâs finest were able to uncover a little bit more caseload for the court systems. During Aug. 6-14 RCMP orchestrated numerous traffic road checks, as well as enforcement and patrols conducted within Salmo and on the surrounding roadways within the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment area (Highway 3, Highway 3A and Highway 6). âIn an effort to keep area roadways safe, police maintained a strong presence on the highways prior to, during and immediately following Shambhala,â said RCMP staff Sgt. Dan Seibel in a press release. Shambhala is the largest event in the West Kootenayâheld annually on a 200-acre private property site off of Highway 3 near Salmoâand attracts over 10,000 people for its four days. The festival was
POLICE REPORT Report from West Kootenay Traffic Services, Integrated Road Safety Unit (IRSU) Roving patrols were conducted along with road checks to detect high risk drivers traveling to and from the Shambhala Music Festival. ⢠Speeding: 118 ⢠Excess speed (vehicle impoundment): 2 ⢠No driverâs licence: 31 ⢠Drive contrary to restrictions: 17 ⢠Novice (drive contrary to restrictions): 16 ⢠No insurance: 5 ⢠Seatbelts: 37 ⢠Intersection offences: 8 ⢠Moving, electronic device: 7 ⢠Other traffic: 22 ⢠Drive while prohibited: 10 ⢠Vehicle impoundment: 1 ⢠24-hour suspension (alcohol): 2 ⢠24-hour suspension (drugs): 2 ⢠Impaired driving (drugs): 2 ⢠Impaired driving (alcohol): 1 ⢠Liquor Control Act (alcohol charges): 8 ⢠Criminal (possession of stolen property): 1
After attending the Kidney Walk for the last two years, Karen Fontaine will be able to participate in the walking portion for the first time. Over the course of the last two years that Fontaine participated, she was recovering from health problems ranging from kidney and pancreas failure to Riddle Diabetes to creating a Fistula and even Ielets. As a result, she could
only fundraise money for the cause. On Sunday, August 26, the Trail Kidney Walk will take place in Gyro Park between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. The scope of problems that she suffered drained her so much that she doesnât actually remember a lot of the last ten years. âI spent more time in the hospital than at home,â she said. âBut the pancreas transplant changed my life.â
Former Trail princess takes one of three top spots in royal win at the B.C. Ambassador program BY BREANNE MASSEY Times Staff
marred by the death of Mitchell Joseph Fleischacker from Sidney, B.C. who died from a possible drugoverdose. The 23-year-old man was found collapsed without any identification early on Sunday, Aug. 12.
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Cannabis: 41 Ecstasy/MDMA: 16 Psilocybin: 6 Hash: 1 LSD: 2 Ketamine: 1 Ritalin: 1 Trafficking: 1 Drug property seized (related to above): 17
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Fontaine received a call less than one year after her kidneys failed indicating that she could come into the hospital for the pancreas, but that the staff didnât know if the organ donorâs kidneys could be used. âWhen I woke up, I was told that I got both,â she said excitedly. âBut I never had kidney disease very long. Some people have it for several years before they get a transplant.â
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Carley Henniger is crowned one of the three B.C. Ambassadors during the ambassador programâs final show in Merritt on Saturday.
For the first time in the history of the Silver City one of its own will be representing the province in the B.C Ambassador program. Carley Henniger, the Trail Princess from 2009, was dubbed royalty at the 2012 version of the show at the Merritt Civic Centre on Saturday. After a week-long competition the B.C. Ambassador program (BCAP) crowned three girls to represent the province, including Castlegarâs Mariah Morris and Kamloopsâ Acacia Schmietenknop along with Henniger. âIt was really stressful,â the 20-year-old Henniger said in Gyro Park on Monday. âAll of the girls were really talented, and I was so surprised that I won.â But the win didnât come easily. Henniger said the week was one of the hardest in her life, and it began on Aug. 17 with a speaking competition and talent
showcase. That was followed by a three-hour knowledge test about the government, major exports and sports teams, national parks as well as the geography of the province. On Aug. 18, all 14 candidates participated in personal interviews with the judges, modeled their gowns and participated in an impromptu questionnaire.
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Carley Henniger is congratulated by Trail councillor Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson.
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