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Killing brother nets four-year jail sentence Tony Williams stabbed his half brother after a night of heavy drinking Paul Rudan Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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The River Spirit dragon boaters kick up their heels as they warm-up for the 12-hour Relay for Life on Saturday evening at Phoenix School.
Teenage survivor motivates cancer relay Paul Rudan
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he inspirational leader for the Relay For Life was a teenaged cancer survivor. Campbell River’s Joe Howie gave a powerful and personal speech on Saturday evening at the Phoenix School field, setting the tone for the 12-hour relay in support of the Canadian Cancer Society. “In mid-February 2007, I started having pain in my right leg,” the 16-year-old told the audience. “At the time, I didn’t quite understand
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what was going on. Once we got to the hospital, they did a bunch of tests on me. The next day they told me that I had leukemia.” At age 10, Howie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He would spend weeks in Vancouver, undergoing chemotherapy treatment at BC Children’s Hospital and follow-up treatment while staying at Ronald McDonald House. While undergoing treatment, his kidneys would also fail resulting in six days of dialysis treatment. Six years can change a lot. The image of the
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smiling and brave boy, who had lost his hair during treatment, is now replaced by a strapping young man who still has a big smile as well as thick mop of curly brown hair. “People used to say to me, ‘I bet you wish you could go back and change it all’,” Howie recalled. “I would say, ‘No. The fact that I have had this experience, I feel, has shaped who I am and my perspective on life in a very unique way that is so different from my peers’.” Howie is grateful for the support of the Canadian Cancer Society, the five years he’s been to
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“I love you guys. I’ll call,” Tony Williams said quietly as he waved goodbye to two sobbing women in the Campbell River courtroom. Last month, Williams turned 20 years old. On May 29, he began serving a four-year prison term for killing his half brother Edison Thomas, 33. “This is a very sad day,” said Supreme Court Justice Douglas Thompson. “This case is more tragic than most.” Williams and Thomas were among 10 children raised by their mother Mabel. Four had already died under tragic circumstances when the two half brothers began drinking heavily in the basement of their Mo Road home on Sept. 27, 2011. According to Justice Thompson, the brothers’ relationship is “at its worst” when they drink together. It deteriorated that night and shortly before 2 a.m. the younger Williams wanted to call it quits while Thomas intended to continue partying. That led to a fight between the two with Williams taking the brunt of the punishment from the bigger
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