Tuesday July 3, 2012 (Vol. 37 No. 53)
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Furniture flashback: Allyson and Henry Chenier of K&D Furniture have a lot of happy memories emories to reflect on, now that their iconic ic South h Surrey store has closed its doors after 40 years on the Peninsula. see page 11
Hero plumber frees kitten
School safety urged
Purrfect rescue
40 km/h floated for city
Dan Ferguson Staff Reporter
Plumber David Radey discovered a new use for his sewer camera Thursday afternoon in White Rock. It turns out the snake-like video device the Pitt Meadows resident uses to inspect pipes from the inside is also handy for locating a lost kitten after it falls down a furnace vent. Suzanne Burke was cat-sitting threemonth-old Timbit for her father, Sonny Burke, when the curious calico kitten managed to lift up a vent cover early Thursday morning and fall inside. Burke could hear the cat’s panicked wailing, but couldn’t reach her. After several plumbing companies turned her down, Milani Plumbing in Burnaby sent out Radey, a cat owner himself, who told Burke and her father that he didn’t plan to leave without finding Timbit. It took about seven hours of drilling holes and cutting plasterboard before Radey located the cat in the ceiling of the antique store underneath Burke’s Johnston Road apartment. When Timbit’s face suddenly popped up on the sewer camera video monitor, Burke gasped and started calling the kitten. That – and a tin of cat food – was enough to lure the kitty close enough to the entry hole for Radey to pull her out uninjured and present Timbit to Burke and her father. “I’m ridiculously happy,” a grateful Suzanne Burke said. It was the first time Radey’s ever been involved in extricating a trapped cat, though he said he may amend his resumé to include “cat retrieval” on his list of skills.
Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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David Radey (left) uses his sewer camera to locate trapped Timbit, to the relief of Suzanne Burke.
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Parents of students attending Peace Arch Elementary are concerned about the safety of children walking to school, and want better enforcement of the area’s speed limit, White Rock council has heard. And while the politicians gave unanimous support to having staff review the matter and report back – including on a suggestion by Coun. Grant Meyer to implement a citywide speed limit of 40 km/h – at least two noted the worst offenders are often the parents themselves. “We need to educate the parents,” Coun. Al Campbell said, citing incidents of the roadway being blocked by parents dropping off their children. Area resident Ron Eves appeared as a delegation June 25 to present a three-page petition to council. Signed largely by parents, it calls for “better and more substantial police presence to enforce speeding/pedestrian safety in and around École Peace Arch Elementary.” Explaining he was spurred to act after witnessing a number of close calls at nearby intersections involving pedestrians, Eves said he discovered parents at the Roper Avenue school are similarly worried. “The parents noted that drivers are failing to yield… and that vehicles are speeding excessively,” Eves said. He added that ICBC statistics on speed enforcement in the area point to minimal police attention to the matter in recent years. Coun. Helen Fathers – whose daughter attends the school – echoed the safety concerns. “It’s become an absolute nightmare down there,” she said. Coun. Larry Robinson said speeding has surpassed other highprofile concerns – such as those around dogs – to become the city’s number-one issue. see page 4
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