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A former high school quarterback from Sherwood Park has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing a senior couple while drunk driving.

Justice Shaina Leonard passed the sentence Monday on Taylor Yaremchuk, 30, for driving his car into Jim and Annie Macdonald while twice the legal limit.

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Leonard expressed frustration about the prevalence of drunk driving despite a “decades long” public education campaign about the dangers of being impaired behind the wheel.

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