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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Vol.8 • Issue 45
Kiesza returns to her alma mater See Page 2
Climate march draws 500 See Page 3 Will Johnson photo
Convicted bank robber testifies in partner’s trial
Puss in Boots (aka Lisel Forst) has arrived in Nelson for the Capitol Theatre’s 28th annual pantomime, which opens Thursday. His quest is to help a friend struggling with affordable housing reinvent himself as the Marquis de Cannabas.
Will Johnson photo
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If you were driving over the big orange bridge Sunday morning, there’s a chance you might have witnessed the arrival of a feisty Spanish feline named Puss in Boots, who showed up in Nelson
just in time for Thursday’s opening of the 28th annual Capitol Theatre pantomime. “I’m here for a bit of Christmas fun,” Boots told the Star, after being picked up hitchhiking by the Welcome to Nelson sign. “I hear there are many attractive gatos,
so I wanted to come by and check out the scene and the señoritas.” The annual extravaganza, which will feature community members of all ages in the cast, tells the story of Colin, Boots’ CONTINUED ON A19
Convicted bank robber Andrew Stevenson appeared Monday in Supreme Court in Nelson as a witness for the defence of Krista Kalmikoff, who is on trial in connection with a spate of West Kootenay robberies in the spring of 2014. Kalmikoff and Stevenson were living together during the period of the robberies. Kalmikoff ’s defence has been based on her contention that she didn’t know Stevenson was committing crimes as she waited for him in the car during the robberies of the Nelson and District Credit Union and the Kootenay Currency Exchange. Stevenson pled guilty to his part in the robberies earlier this year and is serving a 10-year jail sentence. In court on Monday, under examination by Kalmikoff ’s lawyer, Blair Suffredine, Stevenson said he didn’t tell Kalmikoff, with whom he was living at the time, about the robberies. He also said he didn’t remember the robberies. “With the amount
of drugs I was using, I don’t remember them,” he said. “I didn’t remember one day from another half the time.” He said that on April 25, the date of the Nelson credit union robbery, he left Kalmikoff to go shopping and asked her to meet him in the parking lot at the Real Canadian Wholesale Club. “She did not know what I was going to do,” he said. Stevenson said Kamlikoff didn’t know about the robberies but did know he was buying and selling pills almost daily, which included selling prescription oxycontin to buy street morphine. Under cross examination by Crown counsel Sunday Patola, Stevenson explained he’d been addicted to morphine and oxycontin since he was a teenager after getting rheumatoid arthritis at age 12, and that during the period of the robberies was injecting 300 millilitres of morphine (prescription and black market pills which he cooked for injection) every day. His daily routine, he said, was to shop for CONTINUED ON A4
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