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Man flown to hospital after trying to stop knife-wielding youth Benjamin Alldritt
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A North Vancouver man was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital with life-threatening injuries earlier this week after attempting to break up a late-night brawl in Whistler. The 24-year-old ran from across the street and tried to intervene when he saw two men, one of whom had a knife, fighting with five others in Whistler Village just after 2 a.m. Aug. 14. In the resulting melee, the knife-wielding suspect stabbed one of the five, a 20-year-old Burnaby man, in the ribs underneath his left arm. According to Whistler RCMP Sgt. Shawn LeMay, the suspect then produced a second knife and stabbed the North Vancouver man in the chest, puncturing his left lung and narrowly missing his heart. Several witnesses made “frantic” calls to the RCMP, LeMay said, leading to some confusion over whether there were two separate attacks in progress. “Officers were able to get some clarity on the situation as they arrived on scene to discover two victims bleeding from stab wounds,” LeMay said. The suspect, an Abbotsford resident and a minor, fled the scene of the stabbings on foot but RCMP officers quickly located and arrested him. The youth faces two counts of assault with a weapon and will appear in North Vancouver provincial court Sept. 15.
Grouse turbine finally cleared to produce power Tessa Holloway
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BC Hydro and Grouse Mountain have reached an agreement that will allow the Eye of the Wind turbine to start producing power within a few weeks.
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TREASURY Board President Stockwell Day, speaking near West Vancouver’s Blue Bridge Thursday, announced $42 million in new stimulus projects to be built around B.C. before the end of March 2011. The spending includes some $3 million for West Vancouver, mostly for road resurfacing. See story Page 11.
The turbine’s blades have been spinning for several months, but a disagreement over safety concerns from BC Hydro has kept it from being hooked up to the grid. That appears to have been overcome thanks to some new equipment Grouse has agreed to install, said Hydro spokesman Dag Sharman. “That will enable them to actually start generating. That was the last missing piece,” he said. The dispute centered on the mechanisms that allowed the power generators to connect safely to the province’s electrical grid. One monitors
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