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First child born at LGH in 2014 a boy Vancouver couple deliver at Lions Gate when St. Paul’s, Women’s wards full on Jan. 1 JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
New momTrisha Manio was as surprised as anyone when her baby boy Parker became the North Shore’s NewYear’s baby Jan. 1. For starters, Parker wasn’t due until Jan. 9. Manio, who lives in Vancouver with her husband Herman, had also planned to have her baby at St. Paul’s Hospital, where her midwife usually works. But fate has a way of intervening. When Manio’s water broke and she went into labour eight days early in the wee hours of Jan. 1, she and her husband arrived at St. Paul’s maternity ward to find it already full. “We arrived with all our bags, ready to check in.There was a queue of three ladies long,” said Manio. Her midwife met the couple and told them it was a busy night, and they might have to go elsewhere. Women’s Hospital was also full of labouring women. The next closest hospital was Lions Gate. “We’d never been there,” said Manio. “We didn’t even know how to get there.” But with contractions coming about three minutes apart, she had other business to attend to. After being deemed safe to make the trip, Manio and her husband got back in their car and zoomed over to the North Shore around 5:30 a.m.,
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Seymour rescue raises concern JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
The North Shore Rescue team safely plucked a young British woman from the slopes of Mount Seymour Monday evening, just days after suspending a search for another U.K.
tourist in the North Shore mountains. Team leader Tim Jones said while he’s relieved they got the woman out safely, the latest rescue is part of a worrying trend of tourists getting into serious trouble in the mountains. “We’re seeing a pattern of
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people getting on a bus and thinking they can just get off and wander up a trail,” said Jones. In the latest incident, the young tourist stepped off a transit bus near Parkgate Community Centre. From there, “She just started wandering up the trail
system of lower Seymour,” said Jones. She eventually found herself stuck near the snow line with darkness setting in. Luckily, the woman was warmly dressed and had a charged cellphone that she See Search page 3