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Volume 67, No. 19 | Thursday, May 7, 2015
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BY LORNE ECKERSLEY Advance Staff Creston RCMP are investigating the cause of a fire early on April 30 that left a male youth in serious condition with burns covering much of his body. Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday that the fire is believed to be suspicious in nature. Creston Fire Rescue Chief Mike Moore said on Friday that the Creston fire department responded to a report
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of a fire at 202 18th Avenue South. “Upon arrival it was determined that there were still multiple occupants unaccounted for from within the building,” he said. “Firefighters performed searches of apartments, bringing four additional occupants out of the building. A fifth occupant was rescued from within the unit on fire.” The male was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later flown to Vancouver. SEE APARTMENT, PAGE 2
After a half-century of weaving wool tapestries, Lika Meers Skarzynska has retired from the art form, having sold her loom and given away the wool she spun and dyed over the years. She made the decision after the death of her husband, beloved judo instructor Joe Meers, died a couple of years ago. Knowing she could not keep up the Lister acreage that she and Joe had called their dream home, Skarzynska made the decision to make one final tapestry, a do-over of an earlier attempt to depict the impending end of the world. Then she could sell the property. She describes tapestry weaving as her “most impulsive means of self-expression.”Her fascination
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with the art form began when she still lived in Poland. An education in theatrical art and art history led to a professional career in theatre, where she adapted stories and directed them for children’s productions. She started working with wool and hemp to make costumes and puppets for her children’s show. Other art forms soon evolved. While her tapestries can be found the world over, Skarzynska’s most famous piece remains in Creston’s Holy Cross Catholic Church, exactly where she intended. Her strength of character was put to the test when she visited the Vatican, where she was invited to take Madonna (formally titled Miraculous Image of Our Lady at Jazna Gora) to have it blessed by Pope John Paul II.
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