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WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 20 2013 www.newwestnewsleader.com
Women’s rugby takes to the field at Hume Park. Page A35
Fake story sparks a fuss Student paper apologizes to New West cops Grant Granger
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A worker in a lift is dwarfed by the glass curtain wall at the front of the new Anvil Centre that is under construction on Columbia Street.
Mother ‘appalled’ by investigation delay NWPD expect to file report soon about accident that killed Australian woman Grant Granger
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The mother of an Australian woman killed at a Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue crosswalk in March is appalled the investigation by New Westminster police is taking so long. In an email to the NewsLeader from her home in Perth, Margaret Snowball said the NWPD has
had ample time to investigate the mistakes are made. accident. Her 25-year-old daughter “The New Westminster Police Gemma was struck by a vehicle late empathize with the mother of in the evening of March 11 Ms. Snowball, the loss of a shortly after she completed child is something that no her shift working the deli parent should ever have to go counter of the Royal City through,” said the statement. Centre Safeway. “In this case, the NWPD New Westminster police Traffic Section and said in a statement a report the Collision Analysis GEMMA SNOWBALL Reconstruction Team have is expected to be submitted to Crown counsel soon. been working diligently on The NWPD said collision this investigation which is close to investigations can be very technical being concluded. We anticipate and they want to make sure no submitting a report to Crown
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Douglas College’s student newspaper, The Other Press, issued an apology to the New Westminster Police Department after publishing a fictional ‘humour’ article about the NWPD accidentally distributing illegal drugs as Halloween candy to children. The article entitled ‘New Westminster police under investigation,’ was written by staff writer Aidan Mouellic. It was run on a full page in the Nov. 5 edition with a large photo illustration and a ‘Humour’ label at the top right corner of the page. The fake story said the NWPD was continuing its annual tradition of handing out candy on Halloween from its Columbia Street headquarters, but this year “a few hundred children received grape-flavoured LSD lollipops.” It went on to describe how local schools and hospitals reported dozens of children showing up experiencing the psychedelic effects of the drug. see THE OTHER, A3