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THE KELOWNA ROCKETS firstround playoff game with the Tri-City Americans Friday at Prospera Place will be televised on Rogers Sportsnet, so, as a result, its start time has been pushed back to 7:30 p.m. The Rockets lead the best-of-seven series two games to one.
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THURSDAY March 27, 2014 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
Ten years ago, when he was in Grade 5, UBCO residence advisor Matthew Hoogveld followed his mother to chemotherapy appointments as she battled a squamous cell carcinoma, skin cancer, found in her tongue. Over the three years as she fought for her life, she made routine trips to hospitals and clinics. She had home visits from doctors. She took $500 medications that Canada’s universal health care system does not cover. She even did a magazine shoot, to raise awareness. “All those expenses behind the scene, you just don’t really know about them unless you’ve experienced it,” said Hoogveld, organizer of the most successful Cut for the Cure head-shaving and styling event the university has ever held. For five years, the residence advisors on campus have been helping students donate their hair and raise funds for cancer patients by bringing a styling team on campus for donated cuts. The event helps new students get involved in
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KURTIS SPENCE, a second year engineering student, had his head shaved for cancer at UBCO on Wednesday
by Plan B stylist Brett Kelly, who donated his time, along with a team of stylists from the salon, to raise an estimated $7,000 at the mass shaving and styling event. Students also donated their hair to have it made into wigs. campus life and it’s a demonstration of how students and university graduates can make a difference in the world—a key theme on the campus. “I’m not grieving that my mom has passed. I’m celebrating that she survived three more years than the doctors said, and that those three years gave me the experience to put on an event like this,” said Hoogveld, a human kinetics student. Pulling in an estimated $7,000 by midday Wednesday, Cut for the Cure filled the courtyard with students willing to shave their heads and chop off locks, hair that
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I’M NOT GRIEVING THAT MY MOM HAS PASSED. I’M CELEBRATING THAT SHE SURVIVED THREE MORE YEARS THAN THE DOCTORS SAID. Matthew Hoogveld
will be donated for wigs cancer patients will wear to achieve a little normalcy. Sadly, many of those who stepped up for the
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cause could name a loss that spurred their action, including Hoogveld, who also had a very close friend pass away from cancer two weeks ago. “It was definitely a little bit more difficult waking up this morning to come to this event,” he said. “But this is about coming together.” Many raised good sums. Chemistry major Kate Collins brought in $500 to lop the locks she has been growing out since Grade 10. Jackie Girard, a second-year nursing student, watched her brother shave his head as a teen-
ager in honour of a close friend who passed away, at 11 years old, after an unsuccessful battle with the disease. Now working on the oncology ward at Kelowna General Hospital two days a week, she felt it was time to follow in his foot steps. She cut her long hair short and raised more than $300 with the effort. Kurtis Spence said he and his friends planned to be in the annual event last September in honour of their friend, Beth Hutchinson, who died of brain cancer earlier in the school year. jsmith@kelownacapnews.com
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Matthew Foerster admitted he caused the injuries that killed an Armstrong teenager in 2011, but the nature of those wounds and how they were inflicted was scrutinized in a Kelowna courtroom as his murder trial continued. Tasked Wednesday with explaining the trail of medical evidence left on Talyor Van Diest’s body was Dr. John David Stefanelli. Stefanelli, a forensic pathologist who works out of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, conducted the autopsy on Van Diest Nov. 3, 2011, the jury heard. He told the court that other than “traumatic injuries” the 18-year-old looked to be a fit, young, healthy person. Van Diest, however, suffered a long list of traumatic injuries Halloween 2011 and any number of which could have caused her death, said Stefanelli. Ultimately, he concluded it was a severe head trauma that killed the 18-year-old. Stefanelli counted six separate gashes, measuring around five-centimeters long apiece. They started at the back of the
five-foot-four girl’s head, and stopped near the top. It looked like a “series of strikes that happened all to the same area,” Stefanelli said, noting later that he believed the object that caused the damage was metal. “The person was standing in the same position for all of the blows.” Each potential strike left its mark, but the sixth was particularly violent. “The force of the blow has caused the scalp to tear,” he said, adding that the skull had broken into a number of small pieces in that area. Below those wounds, however, is where the deadly damage was done. Van Diest’s brain was bleeding in several areas due to the injuries she sustained, both on the top from the force levelled against her, and in front, from where the blows would have caused her brain to rub against her facial bones. Van Diest suffered a number of less serious wounds as well. There was bruising around the eye, that extended across her nose and a laceration above one of her eyelids. “Something solid
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