The Cloverdale
Your Weekly Clover Valley Newspaper September 13, 2012 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖ 604-575-2405
Answering the last call
A Cloverdale firefighter is memorialized on national monument
Cloverdale hosts world record bid
By Jennifer Lang You might have called it a day of peace, music and careful crowd counting. Cloverdale was poised to help set a Guinness World Records yesterday (after The Reporter’s press deadline), when the Millennium Amphitheatre park was the site of an attempt to form the world’s largest human peace sign. Organizers say 6,000 people were needed to join in for the record-setting attempt Sept. 12 at Cloverdale Millennium Amphi-
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theatre, a site chosen because “you want somewhere safe and with lots of parking,” said Joy Ross of Kindness is Key Training Inc., based in North Delta. “We’ve been working on this over a year and it’s coming to fruition.” The event featured an array of performers, from storytellers to singers and musicians. Aerial photos taken of the crowd forming a peace sign will be featured in a charity calendar benefiting the Mercy
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– To find out how the attempt turned out, check out our website at www.CloverdaleReporter.com or visit www.humanpeacesign.com.
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Cindy O’Brien Hugh traces the letters of her father’s name. It’s inscribed on a memorial in Ottawa commemorating Canadian firefighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
By Jennifer Lang on the way to a fire, landing in a deep ditch. He One of Cloverdale’s own travelled to Ottawa died at the scene. He was survived by his wife Arlie, and two last weekend to attend the dedication of a memorial site honoring Canada’s fallen firefight- daughters, Kerri and Cindy, who was a Grade 10 student at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary at ers. Cindy O’Brien Hugh and her sister Kerri the time. The loss was devastating, said were among the relatives who Cindy’s husband, Rick Hugh. gathered alongside fire services Cloverdale was still very much a personnel for the Sept. 9 ceremony small town in the mid-1970s. Evat the Canadian Firefighters Meeryone knew everyone else. morial. The tragedy touched the entire Designed by Douglas Coupland, community. the new memorial was officially The sound of the fire alarm at dedicated by Governor General Hall #8 – an air raid siren perched David Johnston at the ceremony, in the hose tower of the fire hall – hosted by the Canadian Fallen could be heard throughout CloverFirefighters Foundation, or CFFF. dale and beyond. The memorial consists of a sixWhen the alarm was raised, volmetre-high bronze statue of a fireunteers hurried from their jobs and fighter and a wall inscribed with Larry O’Brien families, converging at the hall. the more than 1,100 names of fireO’Brien was captain of Hall #8 in fighters who have died in the line of duty since 1848 – while answering their last Cloverdale at the time of his death. He was just 44 years old. call. He followed his father, Bill, a 20-year veteran Johnston thanked the nation’s firefighters for their willingness to go “the wrong way” into and proprietor of O’Brien’s Super Service gas danger, adding they “represent an ideal of ser- station, into the Cloverdale Volunteer Fire Brivice and selflessness that is very rare and very gade, in the early 1950s. “Larry served proudly and passionately for precious.” On August 12, 1974, Cloverdale resident 23 years,” says a biography included on the Larry O’Brien was the driver and sole occupant See EMOTIONAL / Page 3 of a pumper truck that skidded on a wet road
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