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In the world of racketlon, a sport requiring a broad skillset, a Brentwood couple is tops, page A8
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Back on his blades Peninsula Panther Brett Sjerven takes to the ice for a practice with the team last week. Sjerven suffered a collapsed lung earlier this summer and after surgery to correct it, he’s working on getting his stride back with hopes of play with the junior B team later this fall. See the story, page A21. Devon MacKenzie/News staff
An old boy’s big adventure Devon MacKenzie News staff
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s the sun went down on the Peninsula on Monday, Aug. 6, a large search was underway for Riley on both land and water. The 10-year-old black labradorborder collie cross was spending an average evening on Island
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View Beach with his owner Christal Hazard, her friend Keri Ward and their children. That is, until he went missing. But Riley hadn’t just gotten lost. Instead, he wound up nearly two kilometres away after a swim uncharacteristic of a canine of his age. His disappearance was the subject of a large and
panicked search involving Good Samaritans, firefighters, police and Saanich Marine Rescue volunteers. As midnight came and passed and the search was called off, Hazard returned home feeling hopeless and defeated. “At that point I figured we were basically going to be searching for his body [the next day],” she
said. The night at Island View began normally with Hazard’s children and the dog playing nearby, something they do often. “The kids were playing in the grassy area and there were some other people down on the beach as well, including some people who were shooting off a potato gun. I didn’t think too much of it
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at first, but I realized after a few minutes that Riley wasn’t hanging out with the kids where he had been a couple of minutes before. When I called for him, he came running back and that was when I realized he had been spooked by the sound of the gun.” PLEASE SEE: Search lasted, page A14-15
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