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On tour Members of the 2012 Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock team, including Sidney resident Bob McDonald, left, rode from Nanaimo to Duncan and back to Nanaimo last Sunday to prepare for September’s two-week ride. The Peninsula is also represented on Tour by former Sidney North Saanich RCMP officer Kathryn Goodyear, now a reserve officer at the Victoria International Airport. Read her story about why she’s participating in the successful pediatric cancer fundraiser on page A3. Chris Bush/News staff
‘Mitch had a heart of gold’ Celebration of life honouring 23-year-old Mitchell Fleischacker scheduled for Saturday Devon MacKenzie News staff
Even though a formal funeral was held for Mitchell Fleischacker back in his hometown of Stettler, Alta., his closeknit group of friends on the Peninsula where he’d most recently lived will be remembering him in a more celebratory fashion.
“It’s going to be a real celebration of his life,” said Frank Stevens, the father of the family with whom Fleischacker lived. “We’re going to have all the people there who mattered to Mitch and it’s not going to be a sad thing. We want to do what he would have wanted, which is a celebration.” Fleischacker, 23, recently attended Shambhala Electronic Music Festival in Salmo, B.C. where it is suspected he may have overdosed on drugs which led to a fatal heart attack on Aug. 12. Stevens and his wife, Dallas were listed as his next of kin and received the call about his death. “I’ll never forget the look on my wife’s face when she came downstairs crying,” said Stevens. “It was just such a shock for us, Mitch was like our adopted son. I had just spoken to him on the Friday night and we got the call Sunday
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that he’d passed. It was just very, very sad.” Fleischacker moved to Sidney five years ago to be with Dallas’ daughter, Carley, who he was dating at the time. The two were high school sweethearts when they both lived in Alberta. “He moved in with us and Carley and really became our adopted son,” explained Stevens. “Mitch had a heart of gold and was always trying to please or help out in any way around the house. He was a tall blue eyed guy who always caught the attention of the ladies,” he laughed. “He was really just an awesome kid.” PLEASE SEE: Fleischacker remembered, page A10
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