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Appeal for food raises questions
By Jennifer Lang Instead of looking through her cupboards, Helen Torrance turned on her A Cloverdale resident is raising doubts about a Langley-based society computer and logged onto the society’s website where she that recently canvassed discovered that Fair Share her neighbourhood for Food Services operates a food donations, raising “We don’t diss the grocery store for low-inan urgent appeal. The letter – attached food bank. We’re just come people in Langley. She was surprised that to an empty grocery bag doing our part.” the letter didn’t mention – was from Fair Share that the society runs a Food Services Society, - Kelly Fowler, Fair store, even if it does sell outlining its Operation Share Food Services the food at a discount. Clean Out Your Pantry “Even though it is apSociety campaign, asking for doparently a non-profit sonations of non-perishable ciety, it bothers me that foods and canned goods. it isn’t clear that they are “Just leave your bag of groceries by your front door and we asking people to donate food which will pick it up this Sunday afternoon,” See SURREY / Page 10 it read.
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It took the combined know-how of GWIL Crane Service, PLC Carriers, Ace Pilot Cars and the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society to transport an 84,000-pound freight motor from Abbotsford and lift it onto the tracks at its new home in Cloverdale May 20. Destinted to be a major new attraction at the heritage railway’s passenger operations, BCER 961 served on the original Fraser Valley line through Cloverdale. It was sold to Edmonton Transit in 1980.
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When lightning strikes Three-year-old Cloverdale boy is in need of a life-saving seizure rescue dog
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Jakob Chambers suffers several seizures a day.
By Kevin Diakiw She lives in constant fear of when the next proverbial lightning bolt will strike her son. When it does – and it will about three times a day – the brain of Sheri Chambers’ three-year-old boy Jakob will be thrown into a complete short circuit, electrical charges jumping between neural pathways, causing his eyes to roll and head to drop. This is the more common type of event for Jakob, called a juvenile seizure. The seizures are result of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), which causes nonmalignant tumours to grow throughout his entire body. They invade his kidneys, heart, eyes and
skin, and at this stage of his life, kob dropped to the ground and they are showing up in his brain. trembled. There are about five tumours As in all the other events of this present now, but they continue to type, Sheri calls an ambulance, grow in size and number. and paramedics medicate her son And while the frequent juvenile heavily to stop the seizure as soon seizures are bad enough, they have as possible. a much more serious counterpart. The high dose of medication That is the status seizure, a lifeshuts down his breathing, so he threatening event that throws has to be intubated (a tube surgiJakob into a prolonged series of Sheri Chambers cally inserted through his throat convulsions. into the airway so he can breathe). These seizures are troubling, violent and He’s then rushed to the hospital. potentially deadly. At his Surrey home on Friday, Jakob The last time it happened was July 2013, presents as a happy and playful tot, and freSee CANINES / Page 3 at Langley’s Willowbrook Mall, when Ja-
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