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Volume 66, No. 50
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Culture centre society folds BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Hope for a multipurpose arts and culture centre took a step back last week when volunteer directors announced they are returning Community Works grants of $70,000 and folding the Friends of the Ingham Centre for Arts and Culture Society. “It is with deep felt disappointment that we have come to the decision to not accept the areas B, A and C grant monies,” spokesperson Dave St. Germain said at the Dec. 4 Creston Valley services committee (CVCS) meeting the community complex. See INGHAM, page 4
Dan Caverly
’TIS THE SEASON — Downtown Creston was alive with Christmas cheer on Saturday evening when the annual Santa Claus Parade wel-
comed jolly old St. Nick to the valley. Following the parade, crowds enjoyed late night shopping, Christmas stories, a bonfire and a performance by the Creston Community Band. More parade photos at www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/ourtown.
Blackmores, Oler returning to court in January BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff
Winston Blackmore and James Oler will appear in Creston Law Courts on Jan. 29 to choose whether they want their polygamy
charges to be tried by a judge or jury. Blackmore appeared in court Dec. 4, telling Judge Grant Sheard that he had retained legal council and would be ready for trial election proceedings in January. Oler forwarded a similar message through
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Crown counsel. In an unrelated case, Emily (Crossfield) Blackmore appeared before Sheard. She and her husband, Brandon, are charged with unlawfully removing a child under 16 from Canada with the intent that an offence of a
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sexual nature would be committed outside of Canada. They, too, will appear on Jan. 29 to choose their form of trial. Charges were approved in the cases in August, and the four previously appeared in court on Oct. 9.
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