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THE OKANAGAN Challenge feel confident the club is gelling just at the right time with the Pacific Coast Soccer League playoffs on the horizon.
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THE 2011 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon was a natural choice to be awarded the Canadian Automotive Jury Best of the Best Award for Automotive Excellence, a vehicle that offers something for just about every buyer’s taste.
BE PREPARED to have your breath taken away when the Alegria tour for this Cirque du Soleil production makes a stop in Kelowna for performances at Prospera Place from Aug. 25 to 29.
NEW CONCEPT to raise the profile of available real estate in city’s downtown core needs better longterm gain for artists.
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FRIDAY July 16, 2010 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com Best in BC
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FAMILIAR TERRITORY… A forest fire was ignited Thursday afternoon at the south end of Lakeshore Road, in an area the Okanagan Mountain Park fire of 2003 had burned before.
Forest service helicopters and an air tanker (above) combined with the Kelowna Fire Department to keep the blaze under control. See story and more photos on A3.
▼ MURDER TRIAL
Mother overcomes grief at loss of daughter, grandchild Kathy Michaels CONTRIBUTOR
Over sobs from the man who killed her daughter and grandson, Marla Smith shared memories of the day that forever changed her family and explained how she’s learned to
move forward. “To this day it seems surreal (that they’re gone),” she said at Nicholas Coopper’s sentencing hearing Thursday. Two years later, she still expects to hear her 28-year-old daughter’s car come barrelling down the street with its
stereo blasting, or soak in time with her bright and vivacious 20-month-old grandson. “My family has been diminished by this act,” she said. “…I so wanted to hate and exact revenge…but for me to heal and move forward, I cannot carry my hatred.”
Considering the circumstances she’s faced, finding forgiveness is a feat many have told her they don’t understand her capacity for, Smith said. On Dec. 17, 2008, Smith drove to her daughter Karen’s house after she was told she was absent from work.
She told the court she remembered pulling into the driveway, and realizing something wasn’t right. Getting frustrated by banging on the door for so long, she enlisted a neighbour’s help to break into the Rutland townhouse and came upon a gris-
ly scene in the upstairs master bedroom. “I found my daughter’s lifeless body exposed,” she said. “I consider myself fortunate we didn’t have to find Ayden.” See Grief A4
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