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Friday, June 28, 2019
Young boy hit and killed in driveway
Rescue teams search for woman on Mount Heather
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BY ROBERT BARRON
Members of Cowichan Search & Rescue are searching on Heather Mountain for a missing 55 year-old woman. CSR president Jamie Tudway-Cains, said the woman was hiking on Heather Mountain, a 1,250-metre summit west of Lake Cowichan, on Wednesday afternoon when she became separated from the group and became lost when they were descending from the snowcapped top of the mountain. He said the woman, whose name has yet to be released, was keeping in touch with her friends by text and said she would return to the summit Continued on A14
Ava Klepsch (left) and Victoria Chumsa-Jones dance their way down the red carpet at the Cowichan Community Centre on their way to the Cowichan Secondary School grad banquet last Saturday. Congratulations to all grads in the Cowichan Valley. (KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN)
A GoFundMe page for the family of a toddler that was hit and killed by a vehicle in a driveway on the morning of June 25 in Cobble Hill has raised more than $13,000 so far in its first day. The original goal of the fundraiser for the family of the child, who has been identified as Wilder Kevin World, was $4,000. Tiffany Jeanne, a friend of the family who helped start the GoFundMe page, said Wilder was “a fun loving little boy, full of energy, and had an infectious smile”. “His spirit lives on in his three older brothers and older sister, who loved him deeply,” Jeanne said. Jeanne said she has known Wilder’s mother Pamela since they were in elementary school together and said she is the “most wonderful and strongest Continued on A13
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