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Man recovering after weekend stabbing Victim’s language barrier slowing investigation: RCMP Wanda Chow
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At 93, Irene Henri is always up for new challenges. That’s partly why she got her first iPad last week.
‘I feel like I want to live to be 193’ Burnaby woman gets herself first iPad days before 93rd birthday Wanda Chow
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A Burnaby woman got herself her first iPad days before her birthday. There’s perhaps nothing too unusual in that except Irene Henri is marking birthday No. 93. And she’s beating her three children to the punch. Neither her two daughters
nor her son, all in their 60s and scattered across the U.S., have tablet computers themselves. Henri figures she got her first computer, a hand-me-down from her daughter, some time in the 1980s. More recently, she had been using a laptop for years to communicate with friends and family. But when it started to act up and cause her problems, her 25-year-old granddaughter in California told her she simply had to get an iPad.
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And with that, she was convinced. “You have to keep au courant, keep up to date,” said Henri, a native of Pinewood, Ont. “I like the challenge.” Henri’s late husband, Claudius Schlichting, was a mechanical engineer back in the days before computer use was widespread. She says they moved around a fair bit, which is how her children came to settle down in California, Washington state and Ohio. Perhaps few moves exemplify her
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A Burnaby man is recovering in hospital after being stabbed several times Sunday night. Burnaby RCMP and ambulance crews were called to an apartment in the 7100-block of Fulton Avenue in the Edmonds area shortly after 11 p.m., said Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Major John Buis. The 52-year-old victim was stabbed multiple times in the back and buttocks somewhere around Boundary Road, said Buis, stressing it was “not a random act.” He then managed to drive himself home before emergency crews were called. Police don’t believe the injuries are lifethreatening. The man is cooperating with police but English is not his first language, making communication difficult, Buis said. “It’s unusual for somebody who’s the victim to drive themselves home. It indicates it might not have been that serious, but he did end up in the hospital.” see InvestIgatIon, a3