"You shouldn't wait to go through what I did to tell the person next to you that you love him or her."
Former miner Franklin Lobos, 54, says he's reconnected with his estranged wife and daughters after being rescued from a 69-day underground ordeal that followed the cave-in at the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile in 2010 (from a Sept. 28 news story).
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"We had the dog services; we had B.C. Ambulance; we had multiple cars. What if there had been an armed robbery at the other end of town?"
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong explains the problems caused by a North Vancouver man who crank-called 9-1-1 this week to say two people were attacking each other with axes in front of his home. Fifty-two-year-old William McCallum is facing charges of mischief (from a Sept. 30 news story).
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"The door's open, certainly."
District of North Vancouver mayor Richard Walton offers his thoughts on the possibility of a new provincial police force if negotiations to renew the provincial RCMP contract don't yield new cost control measures (from a Sept 30 news story).
