Sooke News Mirror, June 26, 2019

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Sooke Canada Day plans change to make the party bigger and better /A7

The Sooke Minor Fastball U16 girls qualify for the provincial championships /A30

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Teen killed by tree hailed as local hero

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Island health officials sound alarm about rise in youth vaping Page A21

Vaping by teenagers has spiked by 74 per cent and has been accompanied by an increase in cigarette smoking among youth in Canada, say health officials.

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Tai Caverhill is being remembered as a hero following a tragic accident last week that took his life and left another student in hospital in critical condition while on a school field trip to Camp Barnard west of Sooke. Emergency personnel were called to the area of the Jack Brooks Hatchery at 3:26 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a report a 13-year-old boy was trapped under a fallen tree. He was unconscious and not breathing, officials said. Life-saving measures were performed on the teen by camp personnel and first responders, but the Lansdowne middle school student did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. A second boy who was hurt has been released from hospital. Caverhill was the first to spot the tree falling towards where he and his friends were walking, quickly alerting the group to run away. “Sadly, he saved his friend’s lives but couldn’t save his own,” reads a GoFundMe description set up by the Thai Kids Club of Victoria – where he was one of the first students – to help assist the family in their time of need. Caverhill would have started Grade 9 at Oak Bay secondary school in September. His last word’s to his mother before he left for the Year End Wilderness Camp were “take care of Lanna and Daddy for me,” according to the GoFundMe page. Continued on A12

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