Burnaby Now June 30 2017

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CELEBRATING CANADA

Just some of her favourite 150 things Fourth-generation Canadian takes to Twitter to share her Canadian memorabilia By Tereza Verenca

tverenca@burnabynow.com

A former Burnaby school trustee has taken to Twitter to celebrate Canada’s big 1-5-0. On Sept. 23, 2016, Mondee Redman spotted a tweet about the 100day countdown until 2017 and the country’s birthday. The following day, she announced on the social media platform that she’d tweet “a Canadian thing” every day until July 1, using the hashtag #Canada150.Those things would be collectables Redman had lying around the house. “I have a Canada 1967 mug in a china cabinet. I just thought, hey I’m going to post this, and just kind of went from there,” she said of her first tweet. “I have a lot of neat stuff, and I don’t get to show it off to enough people. I love Twitter for this.” Redman is a fourth-generation Canadian. Her great-grandparents homesteaded in the prairies. “We always had stuff around the house, and I come from people who Continued on page 11

ECLECTIC TASTE: Mondee Redman, a longtime Burnaby resident, shows off her Canadian memorabilia in her front yard. The former Burnaby school trustee is showcasing her items on Twitter by posting a different photo every day with the hashtag #Canada150. Redman’s collection ranges from piggy banks and paintings to spoons and stamps. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

FLAGPERSON RUN OVER IN BURNABY

Hit-and-run driver may face charges By Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

Criminal and motor vehicle charges are being considered against a Surrey woman suspected of hitting two flaggers in

Burnaby Wednesday with her SUV before allegedly assaulting two children. An online video of one of the hit and runs shows the SUV stopped in front of a female flagger on 10th Avenue near Kingsway.

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The flagger is then knocked down and run over after stepping in to stop the SUV from merging into a moving line of traffic. The suspect vehicle fled the scene without stop-

ping, according to Burnaby RCMP, who got the call at about 11:30 a.m. When police arrived, they found two flaggers had actually been hit in the same construction zone.

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The first was sent to hospital with a head injury and bruising, according to police, while the other escaped with minor injuries. Shortly after arriving at the scene, police got a call about a woman assaulting

two children, according to Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis. “It was learned that the female assault suspect was the driver of the suspect Continued on page 9

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