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Killer on the loose
When a curb becomes a hurdle Oversight at emergency entrance hard on seniors
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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ounties are searching for a convicted killer who breached his parole for the second time. Police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for the arrest of Frank Joseph Federici, who was on parole for a 1998 manslaughter charge. RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Lea-Anne Dunlop said Federici is violent and has EB IRST “ties to the Chilli- First reported on wack area, as well chilliwacktimes.com as Abbotsford and Mission.” In 2000 Federici and an accomplice were sentenced to 14-year prison terms for killing a man during a
BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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fficials have been singing the praises of the new emergency room at Chilliwack General Hospital (CGH) for months, but some seniors are finding it hard to get in the door. The temporary entrance to the ER by the ambulance parking lot off Hodgins Avenue opens onto a small doctors’ parking lot with no ramp for walkers, wheelchairs or those with trouble walking. For seniors like Enid Kulesh, who has had to negotiate the entrance more than once while helping an elderly friend, that’s a problem. “I’m surprised at this huge oversight at a hospital particularly,” s h e s a i d “I re a l i z e i t’s o n l y temporary, but illnesses aren’t necessarily temporary.” Kulesh first ran into the problem two months ago when she was picking up her friend Elfrida Marlon-Lambert, who is 92 years old. Since the main doors of the hospital were locked (they are locked at 9 p.m. every night), Kulesh had to pick her friend up at the temporary ER entrance. Be c a u s e o f a p a i n f u l b o n e infection in her foot, MarlonLambert, who uses a walker, had See CURB, page 9
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Enid Kulesh (right) helps as Elfrida Marlon-Lambert braces for a long and painful step off the curb outside the temporary emergency entrance at the Chilliwack hospital.
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