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Rosanna Beraldin has a photo on her cell phone of her late daughter Lucia Hazelton, who was killed in an accident Christmas Eve 2008. But losing Lucia’s birth certificate when her wallet was stolen from her purse as she worked a table at the Kidstuff swap meet at the Bonsor rec centre over the weekend was like a ‘punch in the stomach.’
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Rosanna Beraldin has had her daughter Lucia Hazelton stolen from her twice. The first time was five years ago on a snowy Christmas Eve when Lucia was killed in a tragic accident near their home in Coquitlam, where they lived at the time. Lucia was just four years old. And just this past Sunday, Rosanna lost a part of Lucia that she keeps with her always when her wallet was stolen as she worked a table at the Kidstuff Swap Meet at
the Bonsor Recreation Centre. In the wallet, besides the usual money, driver’s license and credit cards, was Lucia’s birth certificate. Rosanna carried the little laminated card with her as a way to stay connected with Lucia during her day-to-day activities. In her own way, it helped ease the pain. “She was always with me,” said Rosanna. “I carry her around wherever I go. It makes me feel like she’s still around.” It was Rosanna’s first time at the swap meet, selling items like toys and clothes her other two daughters
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had tired of or outgrown. She’d squirreled away her black Nine West wallet with its shiny patent leather front into her purse placed on a chair under her jacket and pushed into her table. She used an apron and a little cash box for her transactions during the day. It wasn’t until later, after Rosanna got home, that she realized her wallet was gone from her purse. Losing her ID, credit cards and money was upsetting. But losing Lucia’s birth certificate was “like a punch in the stomach,” she said.
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“It’s hard enough going on from day to day, but when something like this happens, you go right back to that place again.” Nothing has turned up at Bonsor yet, and on Monday she reported the theft to Burnaby RCMP. She doesn’t care about the money, she’s cancelled her credit cards and is in the process of replacing her ID. But she’s hopeful someone will find the wallet or birth certificate and turn them in at Bonsor or to the police. “That’s the one thing I may not be able to replace.”
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Westridge residents are sounding the alarm after noticing intense fumes coming from Kinder Morgan’s nearby marine terminal on Burrard Inlet in the last couple months. Laura Dean has lived in the North Burnaby neighbourhood for 25 years and was disturbed back in August to come across a strong nauseainducing smell while out for a run along the Drummond bike path. It was so strong she had to close up all her windows and doors at home. Living next to a facility that loads crude oil and petroleum products onto tanker ships, Dean is used to certain odours once in a while. But this wasn’t the usual. “After 25 years you have some idea of what’s normal,” she said. “It’s invisible. What are we breathing when it’s not detected until it gets to that level?” The problem is only evident when there are tankers at the terminal, lately about once a week, she noted. see OIL SANDS, A3