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Police look for owners of two pitbulls that were off-leash By Cornelia Naylor
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A bloody encounter with two unleashed pit bulls could have been worse, according to a New Westminster resident who says he and a dog he was walking were viciously attacked on Aug. 11. “I shudder to imagine what the outcome might have been if my wife had been walking Atticus (the dog) instead of me or if children had been in the area,” said the man in a statement to animal control officials. Cam, who didn’t want his full name used, was walking Atticus, his neighbour’s eight-year-old wheaten terrier, on a leash near a grassy area at the east end of Agnes Street, he said, when they turned a corner and saw a man, woman and two unleashed pit bulls lying about 50 to 75 feet away. As one of the dogs charged, Cam said, the man with the pit bulls shouted the dog wasn’t friendly and the woman shouted it was acting aggressively because it was pregnant. “I attempted to keep between the two dogs and was bitten several times by the pit bull,” Cam wrote in his statement. “The pit bull then got Atticus by the back of the neck and viciously attacked him. I tried to pull it off but it had a vicelike grip on Atticus’s neck and would not let go.” He said the second pit bull joined in the attack, and, at one point, Cam, the man and the three dogs were all Continued on page 3
PLAYING IT COOL Colby Wolf keeps cool in the misters at Westminster Pier Park, as temperatures reached a reported 32 C last weekend. Temperatures are expected to reach highs in the low 30s again today and tomorrow before cooling slightly for a partly cloudy weekend. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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A group that’s been an outspoken opponent of the New Westminster Secondary School replacement project is at it again, this time suggesting stakeholders have been misled about the location of the Chinese cemetery. In a statement, the Canadians for Reconciliation Society, a Chinese Christian-based society that, according to its website, works to promote reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous peoples and to raise awareness of the histories of minority communities in B.C., accused the province of misleading the public about the location of the Chinese burial grounds at the former Douglas Road Cemetery – now the New Westminster Secondary School site. Between 1860 and 1920, the cemetery was the final resting place for the poor, prisoners, stillborn babies and mentally ill patients from Woodlands and Essondale (Riverview). It was also used by the Sikh, First Nations and Chinese communities to inter their dead. Bill Chu, CEO of the reconciliation society, claims that in a report on places of historical significance for the Chinese community, which was released by the province last year, a map outlining the Chinese cemetery on Douglas Road (now Eighth Street) is incorrect. Chu argues the map suggests the burial grounds used by the Chinese community was in the northwest corner of the site near the Continued on page 5
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