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These young adventurers from the Ladysmith Parks and Rec Adventure Zone summer day camp cheer on Canada’s hopefuls in London for the 2012 Olympics, which are being held July 27 to Aug. 12. There are still three more weeks left for this year’s summer day camps, and each week has its own theme. Last week’s theme was the Summer Olympics. For more information on the camps, call 250-2456424. Niomi Pearson/Chronicle
Petition circulating for Jaedyn’s Law Niomi Pearson
Jaedyn died July 4 when a col- because obviously our governlapsable soccer net came down ment hasn’t stepped forward and struck her in the back of and dealt with this,” Amann said. Though it is too late for his the head in Watson Lake, Yukon. “To me, it’s like the government own little girl, Paul Amann Since the incident, Amann said is failing our children. This is in hopes a petition his family and he learned his daughter is num- their own backyard, and they’re friends have circulated regard- ber 94 on a list of known inci- not dealing with it.” T h e l i s t , f o u n d a t w w w. ing soccer net legislation and dences involving youth (aged safety will help save the lives of newborn to 30) killed by soc- anchoredforsafety.org, was comcer nets in North America since piled by the Tran family after children across Canada. “We don’t want to see any other 1979. While there are several their six-year-old son Zachary family go through what we have,” Canadians on the list, Jaedyn is was killed by a 186-pound soccer goal that fell on top of him in he told the Chronicle. “There’s a the first in B.C. “It makes me sick to my stom- 2003. Eight years later, after the big gap in our life.” Amann’s five-year-old daughter ach to the point of throwing up family’s tireless advocacy, the
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governor of Illinois signed leg- ble soccer nets, that they should islation targeting the prevention all be anchored and make it law of tipping movable soccer goals. to have a guideline, maybe even Amann said former Chronicle have safety inspections before, publisher Bobbi Jean Cloke and after and during tournaments.” a lawyer from Vancouver have At press time, there were 5,000 stepped forward to help work online signatures on the petition, on the wording of the legislation. which reads, “We propose that Their goal is to advocate on both Jaedyn’s Law mandates that provincial and federal doorsteps. sporting nets across Canada be “If we don’t go across Canada, sufficiently anchored, banning the numbers are still going to collapsible nets on government grow … the numbers should not (provincial and municipal) operpass 94,” he said. “We want to ated play fields and be routinely see that there are no more portaSee People Page 3
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