THE WEDNESDAY
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
APRIL 30, 2014
TRI-CITY NEWS CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
Vimy visit a trip to past
Putting pain into art
SEE LIFE, PAGE A14
SEE ARTS, PAGE A24
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INSIDE
Tom Fletcher/A10 Letters/A11 A Good Read/A15 Sports/A27
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Natasha Pavan of Pulse Dance Centre in Port Coquitlam performs in the solo acrodance category (for dancers 13 to 15 years of age) on the final weekend of the month-long Surrey Festival of Dance. The festival concludes with the No Borders Dance Challenge and awards show on May 10 at the Surrey Arts Centre.
Union is raising alarm after ERH nurse assaulted By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The BC Nurses Union (BCNU) is complaining that a faulty paging system and inadequate staffing at Eagle Ridge Hospital led to unsafe conditions and a nurse being hit in the head with a rock by a patient. The incident happened April 22, when a nurse tried to prevent a dementia patient from falling off a second-floor balcony at the Port Moody hospital. She called for a Code White to be put through the paging system but the announcement was garbled and hard to hear, so she had to deal with the man alone. see DELAYED CALL, page A6
‘Egregious behaviour’ took 2 lives, left 2 moms broken ‘I torture myself every day,’ driver Sater tells court By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
The drunk driver convicted of killing two people in a hit-and-run collision three years ago in Coquitlam apologized for his actions and said he is still haunted by the crash. At his sentencing hearing Monday, Cory
LORRAINE CRUZ
CHARLENE REAVELEY
Sater told Supreme Court Justice James Williams that “sorry” does not describe how
he feels about taking the lives of Lorraine Cruz and Charlene Reaveley, a Coquitlam mother of
four children. “It’s torture,” Sater said in an emotional statement at the end of the hearing. “Every day, I think about it… I torture myself every day. “The worst part of it is the children. The four kids left behind without a momma.” Sater also apologized to his family, some of whom were in the gallery crying while he addressed the court. The 40-year-old Port Coquitlam resident was severely impaired when
he struck and killed the two women and injured a third victim, Paulo Calimbahin, who lost his leg in the crash. In January, he was convicted on six charges: two counts each of impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death and one count each of dangerous driving and impaired driving causing bodily harm. Earlier in the trial, he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. see ‘I FEEL’, page A3