Rising burn survivor Jed Franklin speaks to students on fire safety
Jed Franklin, who survived a 2000 degree fire and underwent 13 reconstructive surgeries, tours Chetwynd and Lillooet schools with firefighters to teach fire hazards and escape planning. His Healing Inside Too video and talks aim to show burn victims are still friends and advocate safer homes.
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Jed Franklin
Jere
Jed
Franklins
Chetwynd
United States
Lillooet
The Poet Surgeon of Ypres John McCrae
John McCrae a 43 year old Canadian Medical Corps officer from Guelph Ontario served as an artillery veteran of the Boer War. At Ypres on April 22 1915 he worked at a dressing station on the Yser Canal dressing hundreds of wounded without removing his clothes for 17 days. He penned the famous poem In Flanders Fields before leaving Ypres.
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John McCrae
Canadian Medical Corps
Guelph
Ontario
Ypres
Yser Canal
McCrae
Flanders Fields
Bridge Improvements Delayed in Moberly Lake
Maureen Killian Gammon reports from Stan Gladyr and the Ministry of Highways that the Moberly Lake Bridge will not see work this year due to technical difficulties. The project, planned as a two year design effort to straighten the span, is pushed to start in early spring 1991 and finish within the same year. East Pine Bridge on Highway 97 nears completion, promising quicker crossings for motorists.
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Maureen ‘Killian’ Gammon
Stan Gladyr
Ministry of Highways
Moberly Lake
Gladyz
East Pine
Highway 97
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Leo Sabulsky
Don Wheeler
Linda Franklin
Jere Franklin
PUNTO
Punto Ball Cap & Key
Lottery
The
Chetwynd Echo
Hudson's Hope
Tumbler Ridge
Jackfish Lake
Hasler Flats
51St Street
Pioneer Place
P.O. Box
B.C
VOC
Maureen 'Killian' Gammon
Nita Flack
Sue Houde
Maureen Hawkins
Wendy Coomber
Jim Nichols
Julie Houde
Canadian Community Newspaper Association
British Columbia & Yukon
Canada
USA
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