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FRIDAY August 7, 2015 • www.langleytimes.com NEWS Virtual Crime Watch
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For the foreseeable future, Joshua Low plans to sleep with his new prized possession. The Langley man was the first Canadian athlete to capture a gold medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles. Low won gold in the 25m backstroke event — setting a personal best in the process — to give Canada its first of many gold medals at the Games, which ran July 25 to Aug. 2. Team Canada returned from the Games with an all-time high of 144 medals. That included 70 gold, 48 silver and 26 bronze. Another Langley athlete, Karl Anderson, helped capture the bronze in softball while two others — Alastair Singh and Matthew Williams — just missed the podium as part of the basketball team. “There is no better way to describe Team Canada’s performance at the World Games than awesome,” said Johnny Byrne, Team Canada’s chef de mission. “I could not be more proud of our athletes and coaches and how they performed on and off the field. “We return home knowing that we achieved our goals and honoured our great country.” “The road to the World Games and the experience of international competition has proven to be an incredible journey for this team,” added Sharon Bollenbach, the chief executive officer for Special Olympics Canada. “They demonstrated passion, dedication and represented our country with utmost pride.” ••• GARY AHUJA L an gley Time s
Langley’s Joshua Low was the first Canadian athlete to capture gold at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, which wrapped up Aug. 2. He won gold in the 25m backstroke, setting a personal best. See page 22 for more pictures.
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A mysterious Good Samaritan in a blue shirt is being credited for saving two teens who nearly drowned in Fort Langley on B.C. Day. Langley resident Bev Nicholls was sitting on the dock just below the Fort Pub looking over across the water to Brae Island. She was watching all the families with young children and teens enjoying the day and the water. Along with many other witnesses, she watched five teens swimming across the channel, when two men in a metallic brown speed boat with chrome exhaust pipes came speeding under the bridge. Witnesses said the boat slowed and the driver appeared to be glancing around at the beach full of people and the swimmers. That’s where people say the boat gunned it — flying up the river where the teens were swimming. The boat created such a big wake in the water that it overwhelmed the teens who were swimming. The teens started to scream and panic, said witnesses. They also screamed for help. That’s when another witness Amanda put on Facebook that many screamed for anyone to help these teens. ‘We felt helpless’ and were too far away, she wrote. Two of the teens were struggling in the water and crying out for help, she wrote. Out of nowhere, a man wearing a blue shirt ran down the embankment, jumped in the water and rescued the pair, bringing them to shore. The original Facebook post about this near drowning has been shared around 11,500 times. Because of the narrow channel, the wakes from speeding boats can create large waves, putting those using kayaks, canoes or swimming in danger. Many have shared their concern about speeding boats in Fort Langley before. The original Facebook post by Amanda asked that this story be shared as far and wide as possible because, “You men in the boat don’t know that you almost took five young, beautiful lives from this planet and their families. I hope this finds you somehow, so you know what you did, and so that it will never happen to anyone else.”
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