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T UESDAY , A UGUST 17, 2010
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Record heat should let up
Another amazing show
Saturday’s high shatters old record CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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space in the shade or near cold water was the place to be last weekend in Abbotsford, as well as the entire province of B.C. The heat wave that rolled through southern B.C. brought record“The ridge looks breaking temperatures to to weaken by Abbotsford and a host of other Tuesday and municipalities generally that in the Lower Mainland on means cooler Saturday. Mercury levconditions . . .” els hit 34.9 degrees Celsius – David Wray in Abbotsford o n S a t u r d a y, shattering the previous daily record for Aug. 14, which stood at 32.1 C recorded in 2008. see HEAT, page A7
– JEAN KONDA-WITTE & DARREN MCDONALD/TIMES
Crowds braved the blazing heat to witness an exhilarating array of showmanship at the 48th annual Abbotsford International Airshow last weekend. Whether they were there for the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds (both photos, above) or other astonishing flying machines, everyone left impressed. For more photos, see page A2 (with bonus images at www.abbotsfordtimes.com), and for a recap of the event, read page A7.
Samaritan, 62, runs down purse-snatcher
Punk pushed elderly woman to the ground CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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t 62 years of age, Abbotsford resident Ross Evison is in great shape – something a local purse-snatcher can easily attest to. Evison, an avid baseball player for 30 years, gave chase to a 41-year-old man who knocked
down and mugged a 72-year-old woman of her purse in the parking lot of the Sevenoaks Shopping Centre last Wednesday. Evison, who saw the encounter from the beginning, pursued the robber for several blocks, giving live updates of the chase, including location, to police from his cell phone. “My initial thought was that I could run and I’m not going to let this guy get away with
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something that is a cheap shot to an older ourselves and the victim are grateful for what person,” Evison told the Times on Friday. he did in this case.” “I thought at first that I could catch the guy Police contacted Evison on Thursday folthen I thought ‘I’d better not, I better just stay lowing the incident, but he said he doesn’t with him.’ All I had to do then was keep him special recognition for what he did – not even view, nothing else.” his picture in the newspaper. Evison didn’t enga“I’m not here as a hero. I’m “I’m not here as a hero. I’m here here ge the robber, but as a citizen doing what thanks to his quick as a citizen doing what a citizen a citizen should to do to help thinking and high should to do to help deter crime deter crime in our communifitness level, police ty,” he said. were able to track in our community.” “It makes a guy feel good down the thief and because he helped out somearrest him. – Ross Evison body who was in need without “He’s either in realknowing who they are or ly good shape or he anything about them, other was extremely motivated at the point in time,” than the fact that all I saw was an elderly lady being pushed down – it doesn’t make said APD s Const. Ian MacDonald. “Either way, there’s an element of danger you feel good. “I would hope somebody else would do the involved in what he did. We’re not here to second guess what he did . . . and I think both same thing for any older lady.”
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