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89-year-old woman lying in bed as crook barges in and demands money
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n Abbotsford senior is traumatized after a home invader kicked down her door early Sunday morning. “She’s still shaken up,” said Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald. “Victims’ services is “I don’t know how still working with her you get any lower and will continue to do so until she’s achieved [criminal acts], but some level of comfort, but it’s not something apparently these she’ll get over quickly, two were trying.” and it’s unlikely she’ll ever forget the inci– Const. Ian MacDonald dent.” The 89-year-old victim woke up to find a man in her bedroom demanding money. The suspect had forced his way into her apartment in the 2000 block of Gladwin Road around 1:45 a.m. by kicking in the front door. see INVASION, page A6
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The W.J. Mouat Hawks and head coach Paula Thompson celebrate a last-second basket that clinched a 69-64 win over the Claremont Spartans and sealed the Abbotsford school’s first-ever B.C. Senior Girls Triple-A Basketball Championship Saturday. For more, see pg. A18.
Sister city and UFV student survive unscathed
Are you ready for the big one? Quake could submerge chunks of the Valley CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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UFV student on exchange in Japan and Abbotsford’s sister city of Fukagawa are both doing fine following Friday’s devastating earthquake. The female student landed safe and sound at Vancouver International Airport around noon yesterday, university staff
told the Abbotsford-Mission Times Monday. The university will not be releasing her name right now, said Leslie Courchesne, UFV’s director of marketing and communications. Courchesne confirmed the girl did not suffer any injuries from the magnitude-8.9 earthquake that shook Japan and created a devastating tsunami, killing as many as 10,000 people.
The student had been studying at Jissen Women’s University in Tokyo, about 304 kilometres northeast of Sendai, the city hardest hit by the quake. “We have been in contact with her and her parents, as well as some staff following the earthquake and tsunami,” said Courchesne. “She [was] met by family at the airport and UFV is offering support and counselling ser-
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abbotsfordtimes.com vices should she need them.” There are also 24 Japanese international students currently studying at the local university, and staff in the international department have been working non-stop since Friday morning to help them contact their see EARTHQUAKE, page A7
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