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Duo puts their hearts into project BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
Two local women are combining their creative juices to raise funds for a cause close to their hearts. Jennifer Pistor and Kait DeWolff have teamed up on A Hart for the Cause, which is raising funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Society. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Canada. “Unfortunately, in the summertime I found out that my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had been going through it for a little bit but waited to tell the family,” Pistor says. “When I found out, I went through all the classic emotions. I was upset and sad. I was angry and frustrated.” Along with her aunt’s battle with breast cancer, Pistor’s mother-in-law and a family friend are breast cancer survivors. “I just felt like I wanted to do something. I was tired of being mad and wanted to do something about it,” says the New Westminster resident. “I started thinking about what I would do for a fundraising idea. A print came into my mind.” Pistor, a Saskatchewan native, works in social media and writes the Prairie Girl in the City blog. While both women live in New West, they met when Pistor hired DeWolff to design her website – and then asked her to collaborate on the fundraiser.
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Have a heart: Kait DeWolff, left, and Jennifer Pistor, right, have teamed up on A Hart for the Cause, which is selling a print to raise
funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Society. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Canada. “I had an idea but I knew I couldn’t actually make any of that happen. It wasn’t going to be pretty if I did it,” Pistor laughs. “I got together with Kait, we had a coffee and had this great chat. One of her aunts had gone through it as well, so it really resonated with her. We had a couple of creative meetings, chatted about it and a print
was born.” DeWolff, who works in web and graphic design, was eager to take part in the project. “I think cancer is one of those things that touches so many people. It’s not just the person that is fighting the cancer, it is their families and everything like that,”
she says. “I have had cancer in my family, it’s breast cancer too. I even had a friend in high school who was 17 and had to have a double mastectomy. It hits all ages. It’s important to see that people care.” A New Westminster native, DeWolff ran ◗Art Page 8
‘Traffic chaos’ around school raises concerns BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
Qayqayt Elementary School parents are appealing to the city for action to help address “traffic chaos” around the school before a tragedy occurs. Rhonda Field, a parent at the school, said people have been double parking and
parking in the middle of the road. She said the traffic issues have led to people yelling and swearing and almost resulted in fisticuffs. “There seems to be a lack of traffic control and markings,” she recently told city council. “It has been leading to daily chaos at the drop-off and pickup times.” Field said she’s been advised that traffic
is being studied and it’s unlikely there will be any action until construction is finished at the school. “We have to say that our parents are very concerned about the situation and we are calling on council to facilitate an immediate solution before there is a tragic accident,” she said. “We have got some proposed solutions for these problems. The
first thing is we really feel that having crosswalks painted on the intersection surrounding the school would be very helpful because there are no crosswalks.” Installation of curb cuts at major intersections would help with accessibility, said Field. “The installation of a four-way stop at ◗Traffic Page 8
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