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NV man dies to save wife, unborn child
Whidbey Island head-on collision kills 3 Claire Ogilvie The Province
THE first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that her father, Brian Wood, died to save their lives.
“In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31. With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-yearold North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force and avoid a head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby. “All the policemen say that, if we had hit the car head-on, all of us would be dead. At the very last second, (Brian) braked really hard and turned right so that he would be put in the path of the SUV and not me and the baby, and that is the only thing that saved us both. “More than anything, he was a wonderful man. . . . He was so excited to be a father and he did the only thing he could to save his baby and it is so telling about who he is as a person that he was willing to sacrifice himself to save us. “That is the true measure of a husband and a father. He loved life and was just so thankful for everything. I am not going to waste the gift he See Passenger page 3
Judge hands credit-card fraudster conditional sentence Jane Seyd
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A fraudster who bought more than $5,000 of sporting equipment from a North Vancouver store on a fake credit card was given a break by a judge Friday who opted not to send the man to jail.
Instead, Judge William Diebolt sentenced Joel Toevs, 30, to a 21-month conditional sentence after his mother made an impassioned plea to the judge to give her son another chance. Toevs was arrested May 17 after trying to use a fake credit card to make off with expensive sail-boarding equipment from North Shore Ski and Board shop on Lonsdale Avenue. According to a police report, Toevs and another man came to the store late in the day and selected $5,058 worth of equipment. But when the manager tried to run Toevs’ credit card through his reader, it didn’t work. He stalled the duo while alerting police, then took a carbon copy of the credit card. When police See Long-time page 3
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Virtual reminder
NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
THIS 3-D illusion of a small girl chasing a ball has been installed for one week on the northbound lane in the 1100-block of 22nd Street in West Vancouver near Ecole Pauline Johnson. A sign in front of it tells drivers: You’re Probably Not Expecting Kids to Run Out on the Road. The illusion, Canada’s first, is a partnership between Preventable, BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation and the District of West Vancouver.
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