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SuperValu building comes down, making way for new rental apartments MIKE DAVIES CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
“A little piece of me died today,” Lindsay Ellis says through her tears after watching the old SuperValu building in Tyee Plaza come down this week. Her father, Gordon Ellis, was the assistant manager of the grocery store for 32 years. He died of leukemia shortly before the store shuttered its doors in December of 2009. “I grew up in that store,” she says. “All my problems went to that store. I was 17 years old when I went there to tell my dad I was pregnant.” And those memories – both difficult and wonderful – all came flooding back as she watched the crews do their work on Monday, systematically ripping the building into rubble from one end to the other. “The staff there was like one big family,” she says, using the example of how employees with young children would often have them running around the store as they waited
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Catching a wave
Dave Stock (above) and his friend Tyler Salmond took advantage of waves being whipped up by high winds Sunday afternoon and got in some surfing off the foreshore at the mouth of Simms creek.
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