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Uncompromisingly watchable: tchable: Peninsula Productions’ uncompromising promising Death and the Maiden – at Coast Capital Playhouse only until Saturday – is a must-see for or those who appreciate hard-hitting theatre and strong acting, writes reviewer Alex Browne. owne. i see page e 21
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City-truck leak ‘looks significantly worse than it was’: fire chief
Diesel flows down streets into the bay Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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A city worker pumps out catch basins along Fir Street between Royal and Columbia avenues Tuesday morning as part of efforts to clean up diesel.
Fuel leaking from a City of White Rock truck caused a “rainbow trail” along a number of streets and into Semiahmoo Bay Tuesday morning, raising concern of area residents. But, despite appearances, fire Chief Phil Lemire said the incident was not one for alarm. “It looks significantly worse than it was,” Lemire said. The spill was the result of a fuel cap left off of a city recycling truck, causing diesel to leak as the driver progressed for an hour along his route, Lemire said, noting the truck covered “a couple kilometres” before the leak was noticed at 9:15 a.m. The quantity of fuel lost was less than 20 litres, the fire chief said. One witness who contacted Peace Arch News described seeing a stream of fuel running down Vidal Street. Another, Mike Kaburda, said the fuel “stained (Victoria Avenue) all the way down.” Soon after, crews were seen cleaning catch basins on Fir Street. Lemire said crews applied sand and Absorb-all – a substance used to soak up hydrocarbons – to roads slick with the diesel. They checked and cleaned area catch basins, and – after a report of a fuel slick near the pier – set up booms around storm outlets into the bay. i see page 4
Ellaray begins next step in journey after childhood of surgeries
Dad helps daughter cut through latest challenge Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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Ellaray puts on her modified cast.
Just 24 hours after doctors wrapped his daughter in a body cast, Craig Lewis knew something was wrong. It wasn’t just that Ellaray was getting scratched by the rough fibreglass edges under her arms and chin. That was bad enough. But when the seven-year-old started to complain that her hip – one that had only recently been grafted with new skin – was hot and tingling, Craig decided to act. “It was… the way Ella said, ‘I think it’s burning me there’,” he said, of what drove him to cut
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the cast off with the only tool he had available, a butter knife. “We would’ve lost all that new skin.” Peace Arch News readers were first introduced to Ellaray in May 2008, when the then-toddler’s story captured their hearts. Since she was born, Ellaray has undergone two dozen surgeries to remove patches of skin and muscle affected by a rare condition that developed into an aggressive skin cancer. While doctors could initially stretch her young skin to cover the areas removed, in 2009 they had to start growing new skin in expansion bags under her healthy skin to replace the diseased tissue. Craig is sure that process – which at one point
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had Ellaray carrying an extra four pounds off of her right hip – contributed to the scoliosis that prompted doctors to put her in the body cast. Diagnosed with the abnormal curvature in her lower spine in October, she underwent the cast procedure two weeks ago, on Feb. 21. “It wasn’t fun at all,” Ellaray told PAN. “It makes this arm go up and this arm go down,” she said, lifting first her right arm, then left, in an exaggerated demonstration. Craig said he was told Ellaray will likely spend the next 11 years in a cast or brace as a result, and that she will eventually need a rod fused to her spine to correct the problem. i see page 4
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