Thursday May 24, 2012 (Vol. 37 No. 42)
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Faces at the fair: It started out under sunny skies and wrapped after a downpour. Last weekend’s Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair attracted thousands of fans. see page 11
Peninsula expatriate in running to be 12th since 1919 to achieve thoroughbred racing’s top honour
One more step to Triple Crown Nick Greenizan Sports Reporter
He’ll have another. One-time South Surrey jockey Mario Gutierrez, who now lives and races primarily in Southern California, is one win away from the horse racing industry’s rare Triple Crown, after he and Canadian-owned horse I’ll Have Another won The Preakness Stakes Saturday at
Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. I’ll Have Another and Gutierrez – who raced for South Surrey horse owner Glen Todd at Hastings Park Racecourse and lived at Todd’s South Surrey home, before moving to the United States – won the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, and have now set their sights on New York’s Belmont Stakes in three weeks, looking to become the first to win the Triple Crown since
Steve Cauthen rode Affirmed in 1978. After his Derby victory, Gutierrez, 25, returned to visit Lower Mainland friends. He admitted all the attention – from hundreds of media requests to an autograph-signing event that drew thousands to Hastings Park – was a new experience. “I usually try to avoid the attention as much as possible, as much as I can,” he said last week. see page 4
Jim McCue photo
Victory at the Preakness Stakes.
Kamloops standoff
Bomber ‘gave no warning’ Andrea Klassen Kamloops This Week
Gord Goble photo
Robb Dunfield – White Rock’s second-to-last medal-bearer – travels up Johnston Road.
Man in Motion motivates
White Rock welcomes Hansen Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Celina Strachan photo
Man in Motion Rick Hansen celebrates.
Inspirational. Moving. A tangible sense of pride. Words used to describe Saturday’s end-ofday celebrations in White Rock had a common theme. The evening event at the White Rock Community Centre was held to welcome Canada’s Man in Motion, Rick Hansen, on Day 270 of
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There was nothing in Dennan Bruce Crosby’s history to predict his fiery end. The B.C. Coroners Office has identified Crosby as the 48-year-old local man responsible for a police standoff in Kamloops last Thursday that ended in an explosion and fire that left him dead and destroyed one home. Crosby strapped himself with explosives and entered the Dufferin house at about 5:30 p.m. For about six hours, he held the woman living there, Sherry Young, hostage, finally releasing her after a long conversation with an RCMP hostage negotiator. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said that, while Crosby wasn’t known to local police, he had previous dealings with the law in Alberta in the 1980s and 1990s. Learned didn’t give out specifics, but said incidents had involved property and drug offences. Learned said Mounties had heard nothing about Crosby that would indicate he could be capable of his actions. “There was nothing that had been brought to our attention that would suggest the actions that he took could be either predicted or even suggested,” said Learned. “There was just nothing.” see page 4
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