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Burnaby south fought hard in a tournament on home ground this past weekend. See Page a9
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Burnaby rcMP responded to a call of a man with a knife and the man was later shot dead by police near hastings street at Macdonald avenue. he was the son of the squamish first nations chief gibby Jacob. See Story on Page a4
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Burnaby city hall plans to clean up the yard of a South Burnaby home which made headlines last month when the owner had to be rescued after being trapped for days under his clutter. City staff were to ask for council’s authorization Monday to clean up the property and overgrowth at 6925 Mandy Ave. which has been
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mainly due to materials stored in the yard. In 2006, the city ordered a cleanup of the property but after appeals to council, the owner was given deadline extensions so he could do the work himself. He managed to bring the yard into compliance with the unsightly premises bylaw in 2007 and over the next five years city staff have kept in contact with the
owner and neighbours to address neighbourhood concerns when necessary, said a city staff report. Last July, the city received another similar complaint. “Enforcement action was initiated and staff contact with the elderly property owner led to a request for Fraser Health Authority to conduct a health assessment,” the report said. On Jan. 14, the man, who is in his 70s, had to be rescued. Someone who had not been able to reach the man for a couple of days called Burnaby RCMP noting he had been
ill and had mental health issues related to hoarding. When police officers and Burnaby Fire Department arrived, the man managed to call out to let them know he couldn’t move and had been trapped under a pile of debris for days. Firefighters knocked down the door and cut him free of the clutter with a chainsaw, before he was taken to hospital with a severe injury to his leg, which had been trapped underneath him the whole time. Please see $20K-$25K, a3
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed a woman’s lawsuit in which she attempted to sue her five long-estranged children for parental support. Shirley Anderson started the suit in 2000 using a rarely used section of the Family Relations Act which allows for parents to claim support from their children due to “age, illness, infirmity or economic circumstances.” The section was repealed in 2011, largely as a result of the publicity around Anderson’s case, which went ahead because it pre-dated the change. The children say their mother abandoned them when they were teenagers and have been estranged for 20 or 30 years. According to the judgment by B.C. Supreme Court Justice G. Bruce Butler, Shirley Anderson, 74, is dependent on government benefits to cover her expenses which include a rental apartment, home telephone, Internet, cell phone, cable, operation of a 1990 Chevrolet and a cat.
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