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School Garden a Sustainable Plot
Driver fined $1,500 in flagger’s death By VIKKI HOPES Aldergrove Star
HARRY HUNT PHOTO Aldergrove Secondary school’s garden has been a rewarding exercise in sustainable living for the participants. Story, page 12.
Pistol ‘prank’ frightens senior By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
A senior Aldergrove man almost had a heart attack when an adolescent boy pulled a pistol, pointed it at him at point blank range and pulled the trigger, Sunday afternoon. Don Fowler said the “prank” incident was entirely unprovoked and unexpected, and was not at all funny. Fowler had been driving his pickup truck west on 32 Avenue about 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 14 when he spied three young boys between the ages of 11 and 14, crossing the road ahead of him in the 26800-block. Two of the boys continued crossing from south to north in the middle of the
block but Fowler stopped his truck when he noticed that one boy had stopped walking when he was in the middle of the road and stood still on the solid yellow line. “Not knowing what his plans were I slowed right down in case he ran in front of me,” said Fowler. “It was raining and the streets were wet. I pulled up very slowly and put my window down to ask if he was OK.” It was then that the boy lifted his hands up, holding a Colt-type black pistol from about two feet away from Fowler’s face. “He pointed this gun right at my face. I could see the barrel was big enough to be a .22 revolver,” said Fowler. “He started pulling the trigger and I started to duck
when I heard three snaps from a very real looking cap gun.” Fowler said the boy and his friends were laughing as he pulled away and drove a block and a half before stopping to catch his breath and let his pounding heart slow down before calling Langley RCMP. Fowler, who has been taken to hospital twice this year because of his heart condition, said police did follow up but so far have no suspects in the case. “I know this is not an earth-shattering incident but to me it might have been,” said Fowler. “But to the young fellow and his two young buddies jumping up and down and laughing on the side of the road, that sure was funny.”
A flagger who witnessed co-worker Don Cain get hit by a car in Mission in July 2010 and dragged to his death sobbed in court Monday as she told Judge Jill Rounthwaite how the incident had affected her. Ingrid Ayana, in giving her victim impact statement during the sentencing hearing for driver Thor Shay of Mission, said she can’t sleep, has panic attacks, and can’t get images of the crash out of her mind. She said she had switched places with Cain only six minutes before he was struck, and she blames herself for his death. Crying could be heard throughout the packed courtroom during her statement. The judge wiped away her own tears before stepping down from her bench to hug and comfort Ayana. Rounthwaite sentenced Shay, 59, to a $1,500 fine and a one-year driving ban for a charge of driving without due care and attention. Shay was scheduled to begin trial on Monday in Abbotsford provincial court, but entered a surprise guilty plea. The judge acknowledged to family members in attendance that the sentence was “laughable in comparison to the death of your son and brother. “There is nothing that the court can do that can possibly make it better or can in any way compensate, or be sufficient for, the death of a loved one,” Rounthwaite said. According to the provincial Crown counsel spokesperson, the maximum Flagger Don Cain amount applicable under the law for that offence is $2,000. Cain, a 49-year-old Aldergrove resident, was working as a flagger on Lougheed Highway just west of Oliver Street on July 15, 2010 when he was struck by Shay. It was a clear day and roads were dry at the time. Crown and defence lawyers said during their agreed statements of facts that Shay had been temporarily blinded by the sun and did not see Cain before he hit him. He was not speeding at the time, they said. But Cain’s sister, Sherry Isenor, read from a WorkSafeBC report during her victim impact statement, indicating that an investigator from the agency had travelled the same route, at the same time of day in similar weather conditions within a week of the crash, and reported the sun was not an issue, Isenor said. She also read a portion of the report that stated Shay’s windshield had been cracked and dirty at the time of the incident. SEE: Page 3
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