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A priceless gift Firefighters pitch in to help paralyzed mother of two get her life back with specially-equipped van Robert Mangelsdorf, editor South Delta Leader Sitting in her light-weight titanium-frame wheelchair, Jennifer Rumley is almost at eye-level with her two young children; three-year-old Cameron and five-year-old Kaitlyn. The children are bundle of energy on this sunny day. Less than a year ago she would have been able to keep up with them, chasing them as they play. Rumley became paralyzed from the waist down after suffering cavernorma hemorrhage a kind of spinal aneurysm - resulting from an undetected birth defect which left blood vessels wrapped dangerously around her spinal column. But thanks to the remarkable generosity of her dearest friends and perfect strangers - including firefighters from across Western Canada - Rumley is getting her life back. Close to $70,000 in donations has been raised to purchase a specially-equipped van with a custom wheelchair lift and hand-drive controls for her. Having the van, Rumley says, doesn’t just mean she can get from A to B now. It gives her independence and lets her be a mom again. “It’s been hard to believe,” she says of the generosity she and her family have received. “It’s still not real.” Rumley’s husband Mike Bjarnason is a Delta firefighter, and when word got around about her condition, donations came pouring in from Bjarnason’s fellow firemen and women. Local firefighters held a pub night fundraiser for Rumley in November, raising close to $30,000. “It’s been unbelievable,” says Bjarnason. “Having all the support has made it a lot easier for us. Not just financially, but we had guys cooking meals for us, coming by the house, helping with the kids, babysitting, doing what-
ever we needed, they were there.” Delta firefighter and union local president Brad Wilson soon got the word out to departments as far away as Edmonton. “We’re firefighters, so we look after each other,” he says. But even Wilson was surprised at the response. Across B.C. and Alberta, firefighters who had never even met Bjarnason or his wife, donated more than $23,000. “We had some small departments way up in the middle of nowhere, and every guy would put in a couple hundred bucks,” he says. “It’s amazing.” Friends of Rumley also put on a fundraiser at the local Boston Pizza, where close to 300 people came out to raise $10,000. “It was quite shocking and very humbling,” Rumley says. “People from every corner of my life came out to help me.” Adjusting to life in a wheelchair is never easy, but Rumley was arguably better prepared than most. Before she was paralyzed, she was a workplace therapist at Langley General Hospital, and worked with many people who suffered similar paralysis. After a particularly vigorous workout close to a year ago, Rumley says she began to experience severe back pain. “Right away, I knew something was not right,” she says. Rumley was sent to Vancouver General, where an MRI showed the blood vessels had ruptured and bled into her spinal column, causing irreparable nerve damage. “When I went in to VGH I was walking,” she says. “And six days later I was in a wheelchair. “It was just a total freak thing.” Continued on P.6
PICTURED Mike Bjarnason’s coworkers at the Delta Fire Department helped raise $30,000 towards the purchase of a wheelchair-accessible van for his wife, Jennifer Rumley, after she was paralyzed last year. Now Rumley says she can get back to being a mom again, and drive her threeyear-old son Cameron and five-year-old daughter Kaitlyn instead of having to rely on others. Robert Mangelsdorf
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Delta Community Update APRIL 2013 Spring Clean-Up
During Spring Clean-Up, normal garbage volume limits are waived and residents can place excess or bulky household material at the curbside for collection. Visit delta.ca to view the list of items accepted.
Free Compost Week April 13 – 21, 2013
Don’t miss free compost week when Delta residents can pick-up one cubic metre (pickup truck-size load) of compost for free from the Vancouver Landfill. Proof of Delta residency required. Contact the Vancouver Landfill for more information at 604-873-7000 or visit vancouver.ca/landfill.
Delta Earth Week April 21 - 28, 2013
Join us in celebrating Earth Day during our week-long schedule of events, activities, environmental tips, challenges and prizes. Your school, business and family are invited to participate! Visit delta.ca for more information on the contests and activities scheduled including our annual photo contest – great prizes to be won!
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Lodge residents on the move to North Delta facility
Historic Ladner home for seniors with mental health issues deemed too old to upgrade Adrian MacNair, reporter South Delta Leader A heritage home that has housed seniors with mental health issues for the past three decades will soon close its doors and move to North Delta. Delta Lodge, located on Arthur Drive, is a family-run nursing home for people with a wide range of mental health issues that has operated out of a 108-year-old farm house for the past 29 years. Although the owners have made numerous attempts over the years to find a way to renovate the building to meet modern health care standards, it was deemed too costly and difficult owing to its status as a heritage building. "This has been a process in terms of identifying a location that has been ongoing for a few years so it hasn't been something that's transpired over the past six months," said Roy Thorpe-Dorward, a spokesman for Fraser Health. Fraser Health has worked with BC Housing for several years to identify a new location that was within the same municipality and as close to the old facility as possible.
The result is a new eight-year-old, 18-bed facility on River Road in North Delta, recently purchased by BC Housing and renovated for $500,000. Located beside the 103-year-old Trinity Lutheran Church in Annieville, residents will be moving from one historic part of Delta to another. "Staff are very cognizant that when any of us move to a new community we need an opportunity to orient and to settle and to learn where things are," said Becky Doherty, housing manager for mental health and substance use for Fraser Health. There are large communal living spaces, a functional and spacious kitchen and well-maintained, landscaped and fenced grounds. The facility has been newly furnished, is on a bus route, and is within walking distance to a local shop. The good news is that the staff at Delta Lodge, consisting of a mother, father, and two sons all working as registered nurses, will be moving with the residents to the new facility to continue care. Continued on P.6
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After 5 Business Social 5 – 7pm Tilbury Ice, 7187 Vantage Way 2013 Provincial Election All Candidates Meetings: APRIL 30TH
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You are invited to the Provincial ElEcTion all candidates Debate at the Genesis Theatre
Date: Tuesday, april 16 time: 6:45 p.m. - 9 p.m. Location: Delta Secondary School, Genesis Theatre 5005 45 ave., ladner
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Not your garden-variety course Boaz Joseph, reporter Surrey North Delta Leader
Patricia Fleming has her hands full. Not only does she tend to the daily upkeep of the Boundary Bay Earthwise Garden and Farm – soiled hands and all – Earthwise Society’s executive director is gearing up to be, for the fourth year, a teacher. Starting on April 8, and running for the following 16 weeks, Earthwise Society is hosting the spring semester of its annual Organic Master Gardener course. It’s not for the faint of heart, nor the casual gardener – not at around $700 a pop. The course is aimed at both enthusiastic home gardeners and landscape professionals (working in both design and maintenance) looking to upgrade their credentials. Fleming describes the course as an “intense” combination of classroom study and hands-on
exercises for those with already a good knowledge of gardening. “It’s like being in school,” she notes. “There are assignments you have to do.” In recent years, with new pesticide bylaws, there has been an increase in interest in organic gardening. “There’s more demand on landscape professionals to maintain a garden without the use of chemicals,” explains Fleming. “It helps them build up their credentials and market themselves to potential clients – to put something after their name.” The Organic Master Gardener course provides continuing education credits in arboriculture and landscape agriculture and can lead to eligibility for an examination that leads to certification in organic land care from the Society for Organic Urban Landcare (SOUL). To teach the course, Fleming will be joined by Jennifer Ryan,
an instructor of horticulture at the University of the Fraser Valley. The course will focus on healthy soil, the basis of all organic gardening. Students will learn about composting, small-space urban landscaping, water-wise planting, gardening for habitat, Japanese zen gardens and edible gardens. Students will be provided with a textbook and access to resource materials through an Earthwise “online campus.” The Organic Master Gardener program will run every Monday from 6-9 p.m. from April 8 to June 24, including a few weekends. Tuition is $695 plus HST. To learn more, email info@ earthwisesociety.bc.ca, visit www.earthwisesociety.bc.ca or call 604-946-9828. The Boundary Bay Earthwise Garden and Farm is located at 6400 3 Ave.
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Reach rocks for kids Delta's Reach Child and Youth Development Society is hosting its second annual Rockin’ for Reach benefit concert and dance in Tsawwassen on April 13, with proceeds going to help build a new, community-based child development centre in Ladner for children and youth with developmental disabilities. Last year the event sold out to a crowd of 280 people who came from all over the Lower Mainland, and raised close to
$9,000 for Reach. Headlining the event again is Vancouver rock and blues band Incognito, with special guest Jerry Doucette (“Mama Let Him Play”) and opening act Tyson McIlroy, guitarist for The Simpson Brothers Band, and Carter Low. Event fundraising activities include a 50/50 draw, $5 Easter egg prizes, and the return of the silent "Rock-tion" auction offering music themed products including an electric Fender Squire guitar signed by Paul McCartney, framed album
autographed by Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, and framed sheet music autographed by Adele. The event takes place Saturday, April 13, at KinVillage Community Centre, 5430 10th Ave., Tsawwassen. Doors open 7pm. Tickets are $20, or $30 at the door. Tickets available at Videoland Ladner or Tsawwassen (beside RONA), or at Reach's offices at No. 3 - 3800 72nd St. in East Ladner. Ages 19 and over, only. More event details at www.faceboook. com/rockinforreach
Booze-soaked party buses get warning from minister Jeff Nagel, reporter Surrey North Delta Leader
Transportation Minister Mary Polak says party bus operators in B.C. have been warned they must obey laws that ban liquor consumption by their passengers or face costly licence suspensions. But at the same time Polak says the province is reviewing the current regulations to check whether they still make sense. A commercial vehicle like a limousine or a bus is considered a public place in B.C. so boozy revellers on board are drinking in public contrary to the Liquor Control and Licensing Act and can be subject to a $230 fine and liquor pour-outs. Any drinking in a moving vehicle is also against the Motor Vehicle Act and it's also a violation of the operators' licences under the Passenger Transportation Act. "I have made it very clear to the operators I have absolutely no difficulty pulling their licences if it's found any one of them is not in compliance," Polak said. That message was delivered to operators at a meeting Thursday by officials of B.C.'s Passenger Transportation Board. It comes several weeks after 16-year-old Ernest Azoadam died in Surrey after riding on a party bus where alcohol was plentiful despite operator claims it doesn't
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permit alcohol or drugs. The stretch SUVs or buses are often outfitted with nightclub lighting and may act as rolling parties, particularly for those under age, rather than deluxe transportation to an actual event. "It's kind of tough to swallow that [operators] are saying 'Look it's not our fault' when their advertisements in many cases imply alcohol is going to be part of the celebration these folks are going to be paying for," Polak said. "It's very troubling." She said her immediate concern is underage drinking by teens and the associated risks, particularly as grad celebration season approaches. The party bus business isn't a big industry, but Polak said it's growing and it's time for a broader review of how the laws
apply and whether changes are justified. Legalization of alcohol use on limousines or party buses – strictly for adults – is one option that might be considered, she said. "Is there any benefit?" she asked. "I don't know the answer but it's a question worth asking." Asked whether the province's shift to tougher roadside administrative penalties for impaired driving, rather than criminal prosecution, may have fueled the industry, Polak said she doesn't think so. "This industry has been growing prior to the 0.05 [blood-alcohol level] legislation and the changes that went with that," she said. "I think it's more a reflection of society's ideals arround alcohol and their own decisions on what's appropriate and what isn't."
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Historic Ladner home up for sale
Pictured delta Parks and recreation rec leader Jennifer Starheim shows baby Brixton Ferguson – whose first birthday was March 19 – a set of rings in the play area of the North delta Baby Fair earlier this month. the second-annual event at the North delta recreation centre was organized by the delta early childhood development committee. Boaz Joseph
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"I'm very familiar with the quality of care they provide, it's exceptional and we're very pleased to have them carry on as the contracted caregivers at the new site," said Doherty. She said the family will provide continuity and reassurance for the residents to make the move less stressful. Thorpe-Dorward said the key reason for the move is about accessibility. The new facility has a wheelchair lift, wider hallways, and bigger bathrooms. "The goal over time is upgrade all older sites to current standards, mostly to do with accessibility but also a single occupancy room," he said. Single occupancy rooms are now the preferred health care standard for residential care in order to cut down on the transmission of cold and flu. The Ladner home is owned by the current service providers, so Fraser Health isn't looking at converting the home for another type of health care facility. The Delta Lodge owners declined to comment on the story for privacy reasons, but said the house in Ladner will likely go up for sale. Fraser Health is looking to move residents to the new facility in mid May. adrian@southdeltaleader.com
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For Rumley, one of the biggest adjustments has been having to constantly rely on others to do many of the simple things a lot of moms take for granted, like dropping off the kids at school, or picking up some groceries. “We were relying on my parents to drive them back and forth to school when Mike was
working,” she says. “[With the van], I feel like a mom again, I can drive them to school and take them to their events, and be a part of the community.” The family has also had to move out of their two-bedroom townhouse and into a groundfloor condo that’s more wheelchair-accessible. But just because an injury
changes your life, doesn’t mean you stop being a mom, Rumley says. “You adapt,” she says. “But with the van, now I feel like I’m getting back to how it was before this happened. You start to forget about being paralyzed and start to get back to normal.” editor@southdeltaleader.com
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• Delta Police located a male on March 19 on the 7600-block of 115th Street who was wanted on a warrant of arrest for possession of a weapon out of Vancouver. The man was arrested without incident, transported to cells and is being held pending his appearance in court. • A resident on the 11900-block of 79th Avenue called Delta Police on March 19 to report his vehicle had been stolen from his front driveway sometime during the evening. Investigation revealed that his garage had been accessed and items stolen from within. A neighborhood canvass was completed with negative results and the investigation is ongoing. • Delta Police located a male in breach of his release conditions out of Kootneays on the 11800-block of 88th Avenue. The man was arrested without incident, transported to cells and is being held pending his appearance in court. • The owner of a shed on the 11000-block of Davie Way reported a break-in to police on March 18. The break-in was believed to have taken place sometime over the previous few weeks and items stolen were entered into the police database. • On March 18, a three-car motor vehicle collision on the 11300-block of 86th Avenue resulted in a fight between the parties. Delta Police responded, with the forensic identification attending to assist the investigation. Two of the parties were taken to hospital with minor injuries. • Delta Police received a call about a large oil spill at the intersection of Nordel Way and 120th Street on March 17. The oil had spread across two south bound lanes causing hazardous driving conditions. Investigation revealed the spill was due to a large commercial trucks pipes bursting. Delta Works attended and cleaned up the spill, resulting in the roadway being closed for a few hours. • A Delta police officer shot and killed a pit bull on March 16 after it attacked the officer and his dog. At just before 11 p.m., two Delta police officers were on patrol with their police dogs in the 700-block Chester Road on Annicis Island in North Delta. Two pit bulls approached, attacking the officers and the dog. Police say they took out a baton and struck one of the attacking dogs causing it to flee. However the second pit bull continued to attack. Several attempts to fend off that attack were fruitless. One of the officers drew his sidearm and fatally shot the dog. The pit bulls' owner and a second person arrived and allegedly attempted to obstruct the investigation. The two were subsequently arrested without incident, and have been released pending charges of obstruction of
a police officer. The officer was treated at the hospital and is home recovering from a bite wound and possible broken bones to the hand which required numerous stitches. The police dog has suffered puncture wounds to the head, ear and eye area and is currently receiving medical attention. The second officer is reported to have received several minor injuries to both hands as a result of fending off the other pit bull. The investigation continues. • Delta Police responded to a call at North Delta Secondary on March 15 that a male had lit smoke bombs inside the school hallway. The school was evacuated until the Delta Fire Department could clear out the smoke. Witness statements and neighborhood enquires were obtained with positive results. Investigation continues to locate a possible suspect for charges. • On March 12, Delta Police received a report from a woman on the 800-block of Cliveden Avenue that a vehicle belonging to her company had been broken into, and that an unknown suspect had stolen a credit card. The investigation revealed that the credit card had been used fraudulently over the course of several days, and the card was subsequently cancelled. A business canvass was conducted with negative results, and investigators will be following up with businesses that the card was used at in an attempt to locate CCTV surveillance video. The investigation is still ongoing. • A resident on the 10800-block of Monroe Drive called police on March 12 to report that two known suspects had just broken a window at her home. Upon arrival to the scene, investigators located a male and a female and spoke with them about the incident. A query of one of the suspects determined that he was in breach of his court ordered conditions, and he was subsequently taken into custody without incident. The 17-year-old male was transported to police headquarters where he was held pending his appearance in court and charges of mischief under $5,000 and breach of undertaking are being recommended. The female was later escorted to her residence where she was released with no charges.
South Delta • A resident called Delta Police on March 16 to report they had located bones along the Tsawwassen Beach area. Delta Police attended and seized a single bone which appeared to be from an animal. Investigation on going to test to confirm that it was in fact from an animal. • On March 15, Delta Police
received a report that a building on the 1900-block of Tsawwassen Drive had been broken into sometime overnight. Police arrived and investigation revealed that the building was not accessed, although unknown suspects attempted to gain entry causing damage to the building. An investigation is ongoing. • Police responded to a report of an intoxicated person being difficult as a result of being refused service at the liquor store at 6:15 p.m. on March 9 at the 5200-block of Ladner Trunk Road. Police informed the suspect that any store can refuse service to any customer whether intoxicated or not. Suspect subsequently left the area. • At 11:22 a.m. on March 9, a report was received that the door of a business on the 1000-block of 56th Street was unlocked and had set off the alarm. Police arrived and met with the person responsible for the lab who stated that nothing appeared suspicious inside and that her cleaners must have left the back door unlocked, • Two males were observed smashing glass at a house in the 1200-block of 56th Street at 1:30 a.m. on March 9. As the police arrived the suspects fled on foot. Police were able to apprehend one of the suspects who was arrested for mischief and causing a disturbance. Damage caused by a beer bottle hitting the window of the house is $400. • A driver of a vehicle pulled over for a traffic stop and admitted to having marijuana in the vehicle and was arrested for possession, at 9:45 p.m. on March 8, at Highway 17 and Tsawwassen Drive. A search of the vehicle revealed one gram of marijuana. The passenger was found to have an outstanding warrant and was arrested. Marijuana seized for destruction, driver released at the scene. • Police located several youth behind Delta Secondary School drinking and being loud at 7 p.m. on March 8. The youth were required to clean up the grounds, warned, and escorted off the property. • Delta Police took a drunk driver off the road on March 5 on the 5700-block of Ladner Trunk Road. A witness called police to report the possible drunk driver and investigators were able to locate the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. The driver of the vehicle admitted to consuming alcohol, and was given a roadside breathalyzer test. As a result of the test, the driver of the vehicle was given a 90-day immediate roadside prohibition, and the vehicle was impounded for seven days. The driver and two passengers were released at the scene.
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