FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25, 2016 VOL. 43, NO. 48
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Restorative Justice
Return of the Coho
It’s a Wrap
Islanders celebrate 20th anniversary of Restorative Justice Week
After massive chum spawner return, the fish keep coming
New wish list for popular Gallery yearend show
From rescue dog to rescuer dog Pet saves his owner from burning home; community response to help is ‘overwhelming’
threw a blanket over him – he was naked and every piece of clothing CONTRIBUTING WRITER he owned was inside that burning Ten years ago, Harry Monahan house. saved a life when he adopted a rescue Suddenly Monahan realized his dog he named Shadow. vital documents, including his passLast week, Shadow returned the port, were in a metal drawer near the favour. door. He darted back in to grab it, Monahan, a 29-year resident of Shadow following him back into the Bowen Island, lost nearly every burning house. earthly possession he owned in a The pair emerged and Monahan devastating house fire was treated for smoke on Creek Road last inhalation at the scene. Wednesday night (Nov. He emerged relatively 16) – and if it hadn’t CONTRIBUTE unscathed, but had lost been for Shadow, he his home of 20 years to ‘Harry’s Fund’ and would have lost his life everything in it as well. at the First – from a priceless colThe fire is believed Credit Union lection of antique tools to have started in the to a designer Willie kitchen around 10:45 Bowen Island Nelson jacket to a botp.m. Neighbours were branch tle of bourbon from a alerted by explobatch made to celebrate sions coming from the end of the Second Monahan’s house, World War. called the fire department at 11 p.m. That’s when the second miracle and were screaming to Harry to try kicked in – the generosity of Bowen to get him out. Islanders. Monahan was upstairs, sleeping In the past several days Monahan through it all – he’d had a hard day at has been given clothes, had his pharwork and fell into bed exhausted, he macy bills (and pints at the pub) paid explained. for by strangers and even had the “I was dead.” sparse cabin where he was staying He was woken by Shadow nudging furnished. him in bed. “She’s not allowed up on An account has been set up at the the bed, so I knew something was First Credit Union Bowen Island wrong,” Monahan said. “I sit up and branch, and more than $2,100 in the smoke’s two feet above my head.” donations came in in the first week Choking for breath, Monahan alone, according to bank manager dropped to the floor and crawled Kevin Manning. toward the top of the stairs, where he This Saturday’s Movember shavefound Shadow crouched down waitoff event at the Bowen Island Pub ing for him. has been converted to a fundraiser “She wasn’t moving until I did.” for Monahan as well. The two made it down the “I can’t get over the response,” he stairs and out of the house and as said. Monahan emerged, his neighbour Shadow, too, is being taken care of TIM SHOULTS
Harry Monahan with his dog Shadow, who saved him from a fire which destroyed his house on Creek Road late last Wednesday night (Nov. 16). Meribeth Deen photo by generous Islanders. “She’s being spoiled rotten” says Monahan, who is now applying to have her designated as an official service dog. “I want her to be with me 24-7,” he said.
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“That’s why I called her Shadow.” But the gift that seems to have touched Monahan the most is one he’s carrying with him everywhere. The day after the fire, he went back to his neighbour’s house to get
his passport so he could apply for a new driver’s licence, and the neighbour’s small daughter Delilah came up to him and handed him a red stuffy toy with a note. Continued page 3
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