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70 year old charged following altercation on flight
richmondreview.com
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012
40 PAGES
Mother’s Day always special for family of 10 Secret to raising large family is providing structure and plenty of love
by Martin van den Hemel
by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter A 70-year-old North Vancouver woman has been charged after she allegedly grabbed a flight attendant around the neck during an Air Canada flight from London, England to Vancouver International Airport earlier this year. Moira Evelyn Gentry made her first appearance in Richmond provincial court this week in connection with the Jan. 4 incident. Richmond RCMP Staff Sgt. Dave Conrod told The Richmond Review Thursday that Gentry was displaying occasional erratic behaviour during the inbound flight to Vancouver. When a flight attendant approached her, Gentry allegedly grabbed her around the neck, Conrod said. Gentry was later restrained and kept in her seat, and was arrested after the plane landed at Vancouver International Airport. She volunteered to go to Richmond Hospital, and was held for further examination. Gentry, who has been released, is scheduled to make her next Richmond provincial court appearance on June 5 at 10:30 a.m.
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very morning at 6 o’clock sharp, Julia Dee rolls out of bed, gathers her nine-monthold daughter Lucy for her feeding, and takes a half an hour to gather herself in prayer for the wonders of the day to come.
Martin van den Hemel photo Mother Julia Dee and her eight children.
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“Otherwise, I can be a little grouchy,” she said with a smile as she sat at a large rectangular dining table Tuesday morning, beside her husband Stephen, their eight children and a steaming cup of coffee. It’s breakfast time, and the kids—some dressed in school uniforms, others still in pajamas or diapers—are scooping rice, asking for more bacon, pouring milk from a jug, or chomping on a piece of chicken. It’s a distinctly rich Filipino breakfast. Large families were once much more commonplace, but the economic realities of the 21st century mean these days, a family with eight kids is relatively rare, and will often turn heads. But all Julia and Stephen see are blessings and the familiar. Julia is from a family of 11 children, and Stephen has eight siblings, so both are accustomed to being around plenty of kids, whether sisters and brothers, or children of siblings and cousins. Ranging in age from nine months to 13 years, the Richmond chapter of the Dee clan is continuing a sizable family tradition. The gathering of 10 at breakfast is anything but chaotic on this particular morning, as some children chatted as they ate, others played quietly by themselves, and still others were distracted by the presence of a photographer on this crisp overcast spring morning at their East Richmond home. In Julia’s and Stephen’s families, mothers have always been strong figures, and that’s something that’s been carried over in Julia. “I’ve always been a sports girl, and with that you’re always disciplined,” said Julia, who recalls playing tennis with her dad each day before school. “But you can’t just expect them (children) to be disciplined. You have to be disciplined too.” Even as she’s pulling one young child down from the top of a bench next to a window—“she’s the dramatic one”—another is all smiles, fiddling with food as she’s perched in a high chair. See Page 18
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