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Celebrating black history and a birthday
Poetry matters
Louise Rose stars in a concert to celebrate Shady Creek Church’s 150th year and its black roots, page A7
Order of Canada recipient Lorna Crozier hosts a special talk, page A12
Friday, February 24, 2012
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The Peninsula News Review’s Erin Cardone is the first reporter to talk to “Ed,” who is half of a campaign to raise awareness of Woodwynn Farms
Off the
streets and on the farm A
s they stomp up to the red farmhouse door, mud clinging to their boots, Ed and Sue talk fences. They’ll need to install a barrier on the farm soon, maybe today. The pigs and ducks have already been fed. Hours earlier, Ed awoke in his bed – in a bedroom – including pillow, blanket, and a bathroom nearby. It’s an average life, quite normal for most. But for Ed, it’s a far cry from what his life has looked like these past two years. He had just started a new carpentry job when a rung of the ladder snapped beneath him. Ed, then 56, fell and his foot broke. “I was out of work,” he says. “I had just started a job. An hour into the job the step on the ladder broke.”
A father’s plea
PLEASE SEE: Trading places, page A3
Frazer Smith Sr. explains how the totem pole marking his son’s grave was lifted and stolen from a cemetery on West Saanich Road. The Tsartlip father is appealing to the community to help locate the six foot tall totem. See the story, page A6 and the video online at peninsulanewsreview.com.
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