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May 7, 2010
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Dumb thief traps himself in SUV
Not all criminals are overly clever. On May 6 a 35-year-old man broke into an SUV in the 21100 block of Glenwood Avenue and was arrested by Ridge Meadows RCMP when he got locked into the vehicle he was trying to steal. Police got a call at 1:30 a.m. after the vehicle’s owner saw the man in the vehicle. The owner “rescued” the man by letting him out and he and the man waited for the police to arrive. The man committed some damage while inside the SUV.
Booze thief scares staff
A thief threatened an employee at a B.C. government liquor store at Valley Fair Mall on May 5. The man was seen stealing three bottles of alcohol from the store just before 5 p.m. The employee approached the man, who pulled out what the employee believed to be pepper spray. The employee backed away. The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 40 years old and 5’6 tall with a stocky build. He was wearing a dark-coloured flat top hat, black glasses, a black ski jacket with black and white lining, a red sweater, and a black T-shirt, which had a brightly coloured band on the collar.
Butterflies for Brianna (Above) Tristan Linardis (foreground) concentrates on his artwork. (Below) Caralee Salonga and Jacqueline Elliott were friends of Brianna Ferguson.
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cacophony of voices filled a room inside Pitt Meadows Elementary on Tuesday afternoon. Boys and girls in Grades 3-5 stood shoulder-to-shoulder, busily painting wooden butterflies that will honour the memory of a former student at the school. The butterflies were made to remember Brianna Ferguson, a girl who passed away from brain cancer in the spring of 2008. Brianna was diagnosed with cancer when she was three years old. She underwent cancer therapy, which put the disease into remission for a few years. In kindergarten, Brianna had a relapse and underwent radiation while continuing with her school program. Her mother Josie Tabarez said Brianna loved her kindergarten teacher and had three special friends in her class.
After a healthy summer, Brianna relapsed again in November, 2007, after having just started Grade 1, and by January of 2008, the cancer was determined terminal. Brianna succumbed to the disease in late April, 2008. Now, Brianna’s memory
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lives on through the butterflies that will hang on a school fence, near a bench also donated in her name. As part of the project, the Pitt Meadows Elementary community donated money to Brianna’s Treasures, a fund used to purchase toys for
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children undergoing cancer treatment at BC Children’s Hospital. Students Jacqueline Elliott and Caralee Salonga helped decorate the butterflies Tuesday. Both girls were friends of Brianna, and knew her since pre-school.
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“It m e a n s a l o t t o m e because we are doing something for my friend,” said Caralee, who described Brianna as a “really nice girl,” adding that she felt “really sad” after learning of Brianna’s passing. “I stayed home for one day because I was really sad,” Caralee recalled. “She was a nice person - a really nice person,” Jacqueline added. “We were really, really good friends and sometimes we would have sleepovers together.” Teacher Cynthia Flett said the students are aware of Brianna’s story, even if many of them never knew her. “I think most of them are aware that this little girl had cancer, and that she had died, and that she really wanted to help those other children at the hospital,” Flett said, “and they have taken [the butterflies project] on as trying to help those other children.”
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