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Glaim memorial vandalized By Kendra Wong
ongoing and the site offered a place for people to grieve and remember him. “I’ve got feelings too, his sister, his aunts, his uncles, they all have feelings and that’s where we go to spend time with Stephen,” she said. “I just feel empty now.” Glaim understands it’s too late for the smaller things, but insists she just wants the cross back. In the meantime, she is in the process of finding a new home for Stephen’s memorial in Riverside Park. “I’m starting over again. . . . I’ll find a new place for it by the river,” she said. “I just want my son’s stuff back.” Stephen committed suicide in May in Prince George.
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A memorial for a Telkwa man that was put up less than a month ago was the target of vandalism early last week. The memorial for 29-year-old Stephen Glaim was put up on a tree trunk in Riverside Park next to the Bulkley River in mid-June following a walk in his memory. His mother Lisa went to visit the site last Wednesday only to find the tree completely stripped of the bandanas, sunglasses, eulogy and cross that family and friends put up. “We went down there and everything is gone,” said an emotional Glaim. “I don’t know if they
Last month, friends and family of Stephen Glaim put up a memorial at Riverside Park. It has since been vandalized.
Kendra Wong photo
realize what they took, but I would really like it back.” Though she doesn’t know who did it, Glaim speculated the act may have occurred overnight on July 15
since she visited the memorial on July 14 as well. Smithers RCMP said they are aware of the situation but because it’s a makeshift memorial
and not one officially sanctioned by the town, there is little they can do to help. According to Glaim, the investigation into Stephen’s death is still
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