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‘A NIGHTMARE’: FAMILY RECOUNTS CRASH TRAUMA
A vehicle dragged a stroller with a baby inside it for blocks, while a grandmother faces a long recovery from head trauma SCOTT TIBBALLS
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PHOTO BY KAYLAN WORSNOP
BRIGHT NIGHT LIGHTS: Squamish and seemingly everyone else in the world got to enjoy quite the lightshow over the weekend, with a stunning display of the aurora borealis lighting up the night sky courtesy of an intense geomagnetic storm from our sun. Nobody was short on opportunities to see the lights, and millions of people shared pictures online from around the world. Here, local photographer Kaylan Worsnop captured the bright colours above the Stawamus Chief.
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n Monday, April 22, a driver struck a grandmother pushing a stroller crossing the road in Squamish, throwing her to the ground and dragging the stroller—baby still inside—for multiple city blocks. Sara, who is the daughter of the woman struck, Carolyn, and the mother of the baby, Quinn—shared her family’s story in the hopes it can prevent anything like it happening to anyone else. Sara, along with her parents and two of her three children, had flown to British Columbia from Ontario to be with her sister, who was due to welcome her first child within days. She said her family was going for an after-dinner walk on Monday evening when tragedy struck. “My mom was pushing Quinn in the stroller and they were going west on the south side of Pemberton Avenue. They were in the crosswalk on Second when the car heading south on Second struck her and the stroller,” she said. Sara, her father, and her three-year-old were on the NIGHTMARE: Continued on 3
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