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Paramedics respond to a drug overdose at the homeless camp on Cliff Avenue on Wednesday.
OD kit helps save life at Cliff camp By Phil M elnyc h u k pmelnychuk@mapleridgenews.com
A person suffering a drug overdose at the Cliff Avenue homeless camp Wednesday survived thanks to the help of a good samaritan prepared for such an emergency. Ambulance and firefighters responded to a call about the overdose at about 1:45 p.m. The person was found lying on the street just outside one of the tents, at the east end of the camp, which is behind the Salvation Army on Lougheed Highway. “One of the homeless people there had a Narcan kit,” said Dan Herbranson, civilian spokesman for the Ridge Meadows RCMP. “Certainly, the administration of this boost of Narcan [naloxone] went a long way to saving this person.” He didn’t have a name or age of the victim. The atmosphere was tense at the camp as temperatures climbed, while fire, police and ambulance attended and a life hung in the balance. Herbranson said he didn’t know what drug was ingested and pointed out the person needed medical care after the naloxone injection. See Overdose, 3
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Jeff Struchtrup brings flowers to the memorial at the intersection where his daughter was killed in a collision on Mother’s Day.
Petition for ‘Katie’s Corner’ Family wants bypass intersection made safer
that had flowers and well wishes piled at the base of the light pole in the concrete traffic island at Callaghan Avenue. “We stood there looking at the memorial. It was an emotional time. But more than anything, it was scary,” Struchtrup said. What he saw were motorists making last-minute lane changes so they could continue along the bypass rather than have to turn right. Fully loaded dump trucks barreled down the hill from Lougheed Highway as they approached the corner, just past Callaghan, which would take
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eff Struchtrup remembers when he visited the spot with family and friends in the days following the car collision that claimed his daughter’s life on the Haney Bypass on May 10, Mother’s Day. There was a group of about eight of them and they gathered around the makeshift memorial
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them on to the flats beside the Fraser River, then quickly to the other side of town. His daughter, 15-year-old Katelynn Kirkland, was a passenger in a Volkswagen that was in collision with a Toyota pickup truck and didn’t survive. Now Struchtrup wants to at least improve the odds for future drivers. Three others were also injured in the collision. “I don’t want to see anybody else die here,” Struchtrup said. “There have been so many accidents since this bypass has been built. Something has to
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happen here.” He plans on going door-todoor in the area to get people to sign their support. He and his sister, Nicole Grant, have also started the Petition for Katie’s Corner on change.org to be directed to the city to ask it to change the intersection and make it safer. Within hours of being set up, it had 250 signatures. The petition says the road needs to be widened into four lanes, maybe a traffic light installed and speeds lowered. See Petition, 10
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