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TUESDAY April 29, 2014 • www.langleytimes.com NEWS Ecstasy Lab Busted
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ARTS & LIFE The Big and the Small of It
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SPORTS Eleven in a Row for Blaze
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ONE YEAR AFTER HIS DEATH, BRENDAN WILSON’S FAMILY IS FOCUSING ON THE GOOD TIMES G A RY A HUJA Time s Re po rte r
‘Celebrate the 18 years’
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A hockey stick gloves and a puck, lay as a tribute to Brendan Wilson on the frozen pond behind the Wilson family’s Langley home. Wilson, who was an avid hockey player, drowned last spring, along with his best friend Austin Kingsborough, when the canoe the two young men were paddling overturned in Nicola Lake. A year later, Wilson’s parents and siblings prefer to remember the good times they shared, rather than dwell on their loss.
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They knew something was wrong immediately. The game was about to start and Brendan Wilson’s family did not see him in the stands at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre in Burnaby. It was not like him to miss one of his younger sister Chelsea’s hockey games, especially with his sister’s team playing at the Esso Cup, the midget female AAA national championships. “It was through the game we put two and two together,” recalled mom, Connie Wilson. “He scheduled his life around B R ENDAN being there W ILSON for her,” said dad, Barry Wilson. “When he wasn’t (there) we knew something was up.” Chelsea scored a pair of beautiful goals that game in a 4-2 loss. But while there was jubilation for Chelsea’s on-ice heroics, the family was in for some devastating news off of it. The parents had realized that Brendan was missing but withheld it from their daughter. “Even after the game, we didn’t tell her what was happening,” Connie explained. But Chelsea knew all was not right. “I knew something was going on. He would have been there,” Chelsea said. Brendan Wilson had gone away with one of his close friends, Austin Kingsborough, to the Wilson family cabin at Nicola Lake, near Merritt. The boys went missing last April 21 and the following morning — after they were reported missing — Brendan’s truck was still at the cabin and the family’s overturned canoe was found on the lake. Continued Page 11
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