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Bike ride turns into bloody hospital trip Tara Bowie Review Staff
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Matt Glada, 35, poses with daughter Haylie, 5, days after a terrible bicycle accident that resulted in at least 15 stitches. Glada has become a strong advocate for helmet safety since the incident.
In the blink of an eye a nice evening bike ride around Pine Park with the kids suddenly turned into a bloody and terrifying mess that led to an emergency trip to the Penticton hospital. Matt Glada, 35, bought two second hand bikes for him and his girlfriend Stacey, so the whole family could go for a ride together. The family including children Haylie, 5, and Damien, 9, hopped on their bikes for a March Break ride last Wednesday night. “We made sure the kids put their helmets on and away we went,” he said. “I didn’t even think to check over the bikes.” They got to Pine Park and Dad decided to try a few tricks from his younger years. Unfortunately the front forks didn’t hold and Glada went smashing face first into the ground. “It was terrible. I could have had a broken neck,” he said. Paramedics attended the scene and
took Glada away on a spine board in case he had caused himself serious injuries. After testing in Penticton it was determined he hadn’t suffered a spinal cord or head injury and despite the 15 stitches and having an eye so swollen he hasn’t been able to open it for over a week, he feels lucky. “It could have turned out so much worse. I’m actually OK considering. It looks bad but I’m OK,” he said. Every year on average in the Southern Interior, about 110 cyclists are injured and two killed from May to October. The data was compiled using statistics collected between 2008 to 2013. It’s unclear how many of those injuries or deaths could be prevented by wearing a helmet. “It’s a hot-button issue around the house whether or not a helmet would have prevented the injury and I really don’t know, but I do know, it wouldn’t have hurt. Everyone needs to wear a helmet and check their bike before they go out,” he said.
Cawston Players set to take stage in Carnage
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The Cawston Players present God of Carnage at The Cawston Community Hall April 10, 11 and 12. Pictured Amanda Elyzen, Melissa Marr, Eben McKiblin and Morris Holmes are two warring couples near the end of a raucous evening.
The upcoming Cawston Players production of God of Carnage is a change from the successful round of light comedies. “This one is called a comedy of manners without manners, which is to say that the laughs have a hard edge,” said play director, Dave Cursons. The play is about a sit down chat between two sets of parents following playground violence between their young sons. Their awkward efforts to come to terms go awry and the meeting goes, well, ballistic. It may not be suitable for sensitive ears. The Cawston Players are a community theatre company and the members all have day jobs. Eben McKiblin, a builder, has lately appeared in Boeing-Boeing, Hotel Bethlehem and Barely Heirs. He was the sheriff in a very early Cawston Players production of The Death and The Life of Sneaky Fitch. Melissa Marr, an orchardist is with the players for her fourth year and gave us both The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present in Christmas Chaos and a Wise Person in Hotel Bethlehem.
Morris Holmes is a garlic farmer and new to the valley but no newcomer to the stage with extensive acting experience with Stage North Theatre in Fort St John. He was the sardonic shepherd teamed up with John Butcher in Hotel Bethlehem. From the Maritimes and formal stage training in Quebec, Amanda Elyzen is a winemaker and has had three years directing for the players. Amanda played Gretchen in Boeing-Boeing, the prospective heiress in Barely Heirs and the harried Stage Director in Christmas Chaos. Stage manager for the Cawston Players, Louise Giguere, an orchard worker, has ably taken charge behind the scenes since the days of Christmas Chaos. Cursons has been with the Cawston Players from the start with nearly 50 years of community theatre involvement on the Coast, Okanagan, Kootenays and Similkameen. God of Carnage is onstage at The Cawston Community Hall April 10, 11 and 12. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Curtain is 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 at Cawston Marketplace and Similkameen Agencies.