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An Abbotsford man who punched a bus driver three times in the head during an assault last June has shown no remorse and is at high risk for another violent offence, a Crown lawyer said during the man’s sentencing hearing on Thursday. Lawyer Simon Thomson, speaking in Abbotsford provincial court, submitted details from a pre-sentence report and a psychological assessment of Landy Pierre Falk, 27. Falk previously pleaded guilty to the assault of bus driver Dallas Warner on June 25, 2013. The attack resulted in Warner suffering hearing loss in his right ear, ringing in his head, and psychological and emotional damage that has left him unable to return to work, Thomson said. “It’s had a profound impact on him and his life and his family,” he said. The court previously heard that earlier on the day of the assault, Warner had an encounter on his bus in which Falk was verbally abusive. Warner recognized Falk later on when he and his pregnant girlfriend boarded Warner’s bus in the 2700 block of Bourquin Crescent West. When Warner asked Falk to leave the bus because of the earlier incident, Falk punched him repeatedly in the face. Defence lawyer Philip Derksen said Falk’s explanation for the attack was that Warner Continued on A4 MAZDA 3
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Abbotsford firefighters battled a cardboard fire at the Abbotsford-Mission Recycling Centre Tuesday JASON ROESSLE Abbotsford News afternoon.
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Mark Field was operating a Bobcat inside the local recycling facility Tuesday, moving cardboard onto the conveyor, when his machine started to give off a burning odour. Half a minute later, he realized it wasn’t his loader. “I could see smoke and then saw that the end of the load closest to the door was on fire,”
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said the plant supervisor. Field used his machine to shove the entire 30-foot-long mass of cardboard out the large metal sliding doors, then slammed them shut. That action earned high praise from the fire department and the Abbotsford-Mission Recycling Centre on Valley Road. “He saved the building,” said Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service Asst. Chief Jeff Adams.
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