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Friday, November 27, 2015
Vol.8 • Issue 44
Perrier Rd. fire causes $75,000 damage See Page 3
Osprey Foundation honours Simon Grypma See Page 5
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Ready for Customer Appreciation Day Nelson business owners are excited about tomorrow’s Customer Appreciation Day. There will be discounts, gift draws and other special promotions. This year’s organizer Mike Borch has enlisted over 40 businesses to participate. Here, Tribute owner Shane Johnsen, Kootenay Carshare Cooperative executive director Colleen Doyle, Main Street Diner’s Nick Diamond, Mountain Baby owner Judy Banfield, Cartolina owner Fiona Richards, DeVito’s Shoes owner Vince DeVito, and Gerick Cycle and Ski employee Jeanie Dwyer show off some of their merchandise. Will Johnson photo “It is my goal to work hard to reach your goals”
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Accused bank robbery accomplice denies involvement
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ccused bank robber Krista Kalmikoff testified in Nelson Supreme Court this week that she wasn’t complicit in a number of local robberies committed by Andrew Stevenson and that she didn’t know he committed them. Kalmikoff is charged with using a prohibited or restricted weapon to commit a criminal of-
fence, knowingly occupying a vehicle in which there is a prohibited firearm, knowingly possessing property obtained from a criminal offence, and failing to stop a vehicle while being pursued by police. The charges stem from a series of robberies in the spring of 2014 to which Stevenson pled guilty earlier this year. He is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence. Stevenson and Kalmikoff
were arrested on April 25, 2014, following a high-speed police chase after Stevenson robbed the Nelson and District Credit Union. Kalmikoff pled not guilty to all charges on the premise that in the instances she was his getaway driver she didn’t know he had just committed a robbery. Stevenson and Kalmikoff were living together before and throughout the CONTINUED ON A29
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