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WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 22 2012
Burnaby’s Curtis Moss was all thumbs up about his experience competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, including getting to meet the Queen, despite not qualifying for the javelin final. See page A4
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Larry Sewell is looking forward to participating in this year’s Terry Fox Run in Burnaby again. He was unable to run last year and only help out as a volunteer as he struggled with symptons that turned into his own battle with cancer.
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It will be a special moment for Larry Sewell when he laces up his sneakers to for this year’s Terry Fox Run on Sept. 16. Sewell looks forward to the run every year as a way to honour his adoptive parents, both of whom he lost to cancer. But he was unable to participate last year, helping out
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says Sewell, whose father had succumbed to pancreatic cancer, a big, strapping man reduced by the illness to a shadow of his former self in less than eight months. He was referred to an oncologist who ordered even more tests. In November, he underwent a biopsy on the lymph nodes on his groin’s right side. He waited 10 fearful days for the results; they were inconclusive. Please see EAGER, A9
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After months of planning, organizers of the 2012 B.C. Seniors Games in Burnaby are raring to go this week. The annual event’s opening ceremonies take place 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22 at Swangard Stadium, featuring nonagenarian and legendary bandleader Dal Richards as MC. “It’s free and open to the public and everybody is welcome to attend,” said Darlene Gering, chair of Games. The Games organizing committee has recruited 2,000 volunteers to help out during the event, which ends Saturday. As of Monday, 3,700 people had registered to compete in 26 different sporting events at 28 sports venues. All the venues, except for Royal City Curling Club in New Westminster, are in Burnaby and apart from new bocce courts that had to be built at Confederation Park, nothing else had to be constructed from Please see GENERATE, A9