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Flagperson and mother of three Maggie Feeley has died of injuries she sustained in an accident in Duncan Monday. Two funds have been set up to help her family. [SUBMITTED]
Flagger succumbs to fatal injuries SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
The 29-year-old flagger involved in a horrific construction site accident Monday morning has died and her colleagues are rallying to ensure her devastated family is supported. Maggie Feeley was taken off life support late Wednesday night. Since Monday, the wife and mother of three had been in critical condition with internal bleeding and brain damage at Victoria General Hospital, after being run over and pinned by a reversing dump truck at a road-paving site while she directed traffic near the
roundabout where Beverly and York streets intersect. A resident of Cobble Hill, Feeley had been a traffic controller with Island Traffic Services for the last two years. “She was probably one of the best workers. She was always very reliable and very safety conscious with her job. That’s why this thing is so freaky,” said Al Jorgensen, Feeley’s boss at Island Traffic Services He said the incident has “really affected a lot of people” on the job site and off and Feeley will be See Two funds • page 8
Canada World Youth participants from Canada and Mozambique carve pumpkins at the Forest Discovery Centre in anticipation of the Halloween Train festivities. For more photos and video from the pumpkin carving, scan this image with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Mozambicans carve into Canadian Halloween KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
It was a new experience for nearly everyone involved in one way or another as participants in the Canada World Youth program from Canada and Mozambique carved pumpkins at the B.C. Forest Discovery Centre. The participants arrived in the Cowichan Valley after three
months together in Nampula, Mozambique. In both places, they stay with local host families and engage in a variety of volunteer activities, including environmental and social events, and, of course, pumpkin-carving. “Today, we get to show them a bit of Halloween culture,” said Will Millar, one of the Canadians, who hails from Ottawa.
Benny Langa, from the Mozambican capital, Maputo, was amused by the way Canadians go overboard celebrating Halloween. “In Mozambique, Halloween is different,” he said. “We don’t have candies. Some people carve pumpkins and wear masks and See Halloween • page 11
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