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The nose knows: Good villains make great heroes, and Pinocchio, White Rock Players Club’s current Christmas pantomime, is no exception to the rule. › see page A27
Family members appeal to driver, after woman airlifted from crosswalk incident
Joggers mowed down in hit-and-run Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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One of two victims is rushed from the scene.
Family members of one of two women injured by a hit-and-run driver in a South Surrey crosswalk Monday night are appealing to the person responsible to come forward. “That would be the right thing to do,” Cathy Halpin, sister of victim Shelley Lammers, said Tuesday. “I think you’ll feel a lot better if you turn yourself in,” her mother, Sally Rossi, said.
Lammers, a 51-year-old Delta resident, suffered multiple injuries when she was hit just before 8 p.m. as she jogged across 152 Street at 32 Avenue with her running partner, 54-year-old Nola Carlson. The impact threw Lammers into Carlson. Lammers suffered a concussion, fractured ribs, a collapsed lung, two broken vertebrae and a lacerated liver, and was airlifted to Royal Columbian Hospital, where she remains in stable condition. Carlson, who was less-seriously injured,
was transported to RCH by ambulance, suffering a broken nose and fractured cheek. Rossi told Peace Arch News Tuesday that her daughter – an avid runner – doesn’t remember what happened but was doing “everything right” to be safe on the road. Both women – who were at the back of a group of runners out that night as part of an organized running clinic – were wearing reflective clothing and headlamps when they were hit. › see page A4
$3-million estimate
Casino clarifies city share of payout Alex Browne Staff Reporter
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Mindy Dick gives a male bald eagle a head start on freedom at Crescent Park Wednesday, after a week at the OWL rehabilitation facility in Delta.
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When it came to releasing a pair of recovering bald eagles back to nature Wednesday, ladies first was clearly not the way to go. “So he has a chance to run,” explained Mindy Dick of the male. Dick, a bird care and education instructor at OWL (Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society) in Delta, was among three people to rescue the pair last week from bushes just off
of a walking trail in Crescent Park. Bev Day, founding director of OWL, said They were found around 4 p.m. Nov. 26 – it’s unclear why the pair were scrapping, and interlocked by the talons – by a woman who likened the tussle to children fighting over a was out walking her dog. The male had one of popsicle –“it’s the only analogy I can think of. Getthrough a FREE 10the Year the female’s talons his neck; female,Warranty Some of the characteristics are like spoiled kids.” weighing nearly a kilogram heavier, had a talon Dick, who carried the raptors out of the park with the purchase of any puncturing her left thigh. Both also had puncwith the help of OWL volunteer Todd BowlMiele vacuum before ing and ture wounds in their feet and bruising. fellow staffer Sue Davies, said the two 2012. Believed to December have been fighting30, for some time, didn’t struggle through the process. the eagles were exhausted when found but didn’t “They didn’t have much fight in them at all.” › see page A4 relax their hold on each other until netted.
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Surrey’s estimated share of gaming revenues from the proposed Gateway casino/entertainment complex in South Surrey will be closer to $3 million and not $6 million, as widely reported in the media. That’s the word from Tanya Gabara, community relations liaison for Gateway Casinos. Asked about the different estimate announced at a news conference hosted Tuesday by Surrey’s three chambers of commerce (see page A5), Gabara said that the figures have not changed but acknowledged “the way the information was originally communicated could have been confusing.” She said an estimated $6 million gaming revenue share – featured in the ‘economic benefits’ graphic on the project website www.southsurreyentertainment.com) – includes $2.9 million already received by Surrey from Fraser Downs casino – and is not in addition to it. “(The new project) would provide more than $3 million annually in estimated gaming revenues,” she › see page A4
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