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House arrest ordered for teenager
Arthur Stevenson students had a hirsute November to remember. Dave Eagles/KTW
Police concerned after finding directions to make bombs By Tim Petruk STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
’stashing Movember in memory By Dale Bass STAFF REPORTER dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
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ASS PICKERING HASN’T yet had the talk with her dad — but she’s planning on doing it. Michael Bouttger plans on encouraging his dad to step up exercising a bit and Vienna Brown is happy her dad takes his fitness seriously. Klaire Hartley has found it fun wearing a moustache, but she’s pretty sure her mom would not be happy if dad was to grow one — even for Movember. The Grade 5 students at Arthur Stevenson elementary in Westsyde, along
with the other 18 kids in their class, spent the past year learning about the reasons behind the Movember prostate-cancer awareness month. Their teacher, Tony Berardi, said he had an interest in turning the Movember campaign into teaching moments for his class for educational and personal reasons — his father and uncle were both touched by cancer. The class has learning “buddies” in Dessa Gottfriedson’s kindergarten/Grade 1 class, so the two teachers worked together with their students to talk about healthy living and eating, about the role exercise plays in health, about why men grow moustaches, about how important annual
checkups with the doctor can be and about how to talk to their own dads about the issue. Along the way, they learned about Terry Fox, his fight with cancer and his own fundraising series of marathons. Each class also brought in an art component; Berardi’s students made stick-on moustaches while Gottfriedson’s students did artwork with their dads — and one mom — with whiskers between their lips and their noses. For the younger ones, it was a chance, as Lindsay Gustafson said, to learn “why men are growing moustaches now. X See CREATING A6
A Kamloops teen who has been labelled by the RCMP at high risk to commit an act of “catastrophic terrorism” will live under house arrest until he turns 20, a judge has ruled. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was in Kamloops provincial court on Monday, Dec. 2, for a Crown application to alter his probation. He pleaded guilty last year to one count each of arson and break-and-enter after setting ablaze the home of an ex-girlfriend, killing her family’s dog. As a result, he was jailed for more than a year and placed on a three-year probation term, which began upon his release from custody in August. The Crown applied to tighten up that probation order based on a number of “suspicious items” found in the teen’s bedroom in a ministry access home in a recent search. Prosecutor Chris Balison said the search was conducted on Sept. 26, while he was out past curfew. Court has heard social workers found instructions detailing how to make pressure-cooker and chemical bombs, an improvised cellphone detonator and information about the hierarchy of terrorist groups. Also found was a document referring to an alQaeda cell in Canada, books on torture and notes about robbing specific Kamloops jewellery and gun stores. In addition, social workers found prescription drugs, Quebec identification, a mask and pepper spray. In four binders, social workers located “meticulous notes,” court heard. X See TEEN’S A21
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