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The children’s program at Campbell River Baptist Church held its first ever soap box derby last Sunday. Pictured are, from left, Daniel Loeb, Sara Watt and Joren Isdaal racing down the hill of the church parking lot. For more pictures of the soap box derby, see page 16.
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idan Anderson and Tyler Kelly got their first inkling that their idyllic trip to the base of Mount Everest had taken a bad turn when the mountain around them began to disintigrate. The lifelong friends, soccer teammates and 2014 Carihi graduates were hiking a trail linking two remote Nepalese villages last Saturday morning when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck, wreaking disaster on the small mountain country. “Aidan said they were on the hardest part of the trail that day, near the edge of a cliff,” his mother, Denise Henley, said. “First they felt the ground shaking, and then they heard a loud thunder. Then the cliff edge in front of them, he said, just exploded.” “Tyler said they were about 700 metres up and they had avalanches coming down all around them,” added Shari Jensen, Kelly’s mother. The two women sat together at Henley’s dining room table Wednesday, monitoring a computer and two cell phones for updates on their sons’ status. With occasional nervous laughter and a few tears, they recounted the young men’s tale while often completing each others’ sentences. It was one moment in a nervewracking week for families at opposite points of the earth, with children seeking a way out of a remote, potentially dangerous village and parents desperately working to facilitate that extracContinued on Pg. 3
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