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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 6 2012
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Dal Richards has been in the music business for almost 80 years, and brings his signature sound to The Columbia in New West on Friday. See Page A25
Freshet fears easing Grant Granger newwestnewsleader.com
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Tanya Foulds with daughter Isabella, husband Joel Wilson and daughter Charlotte, 4, have set up a $5,000 fund in memory of Isabella’s twin sister Brooklyn, who died two days after birth. The Brooklyn Wish Fund is being set up to help parents of children in Royal Columbian Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Couple thanks hospital with fund Looking to help other NICU parents in memory of their daughter Grant Granger ggranger@newwestnewsleader.com
Finding parking near Royal Columbian Hospital is frustrating at the best of times. When the exasperating search follows an aggravating trip over the Port Mann Bridge and is added to the stress of tending to a premature baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) whose twin died two days after birth, the irritation is
compounded. It’s one of the many issues Tanya Foulds and her husband Joel Wilson hope they can help NICU parents like themselves with after starting a $5,000 trust fund as a memorial to their daughter Brooklyn. It all began a little over a year ago. Foulds had been coming to RCH from Aldergrove during her pregnancy to see her obstetrician. The doctor was worried because her hips were starting to separate. The twins weren’t due until early September, but on May 9, 2011 she noticed some spotting. Her doctor told her to come in
immediately. When she arrived they told her she was three centimetres dilated and they wanted to do a surgery to stitch her cervix back up. When they got her to the operating room several hours later she was up to seven centimetres. “By then they were really worried it wasn’t going to work, but they managed to do the surgery.” Over the next ¿ve days Foulds was shuttled back and forth to the delivery room several times. On May 15 at about 6 a.m., a doctor doing a regular check all of a sudden started calling for help and Isabella came into the
world a few minutes later, 23 weeks premature. “It was fast, it was like a whirlwind. I’ve never seen so many people in a room,” says Foulds. The medical team decided to see if they could stop Foulds’ contractions before Brooklyn came out but, unlike her sister, she was out of her sac. When Brooklyn emerged 2 1/2 hours after Isabella she was bruised from all the banging around. The babies, both weighing slightly more than one pound, were put in NICU. Please see COUPLE, A3
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This year’s cool weather may be making life miserable for sun seekers, but it is quelling Àood fears in New Westminster. However, the city is still taking precautions in case the large snowpack built up over the winter causes the Fraser River to overÀow its banks. The city has unloaded 1,500 huge, white 400-pound sandbags, most of them in the Braid industrial area and at the east end of Quayside. “If you were to run into them with your car you’d put a pretty big dent in your car. They’re solid, that’s why we use them,” said Dave Jones of the city’s emergency management of¿ce. Jones said this year’s snowpack is much like 2007 when sandbags were also deployed. But concern this year isn’t as strong because the snow isn’t melting as fast as ¿ve years ago. “The conditions are different in the environment in that the rapid snow was accumulating much later in the year and the weather wasn’t complicit, it wasn’t acting nice,” said Jones. Please see LARGE, A8