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Lauren Tjoe earns Caring Canadian Award
was started in 1995 and recognizes individuals who volunteer their time to help others to build a smarter and more caring nation. Tsawwassen Grade 8 student Tjoe, who attended Sacred Lauren Tjoe got the shock of her Heart School before life recently when she found moving to Little Flower out she was about to receive Academy this year, the Governor General’s received the award for Caring Canadian Award. her work with Sacred Tjoe was heading in to Heart’s Missions Club. the recent We Day Evening She joined the club, of Champions when her which aims to raise mom told her she was going Lauren Tjoe money and awareness for to receive the award. various organizations, “It was a really big sursuch as Free The Children and prise for me,” she said. “I was Operation Smile, five years ago. really shocked.” This year, Tjoe said, the students The highlight for the Little are raising money to give children Flower Academy student was in rural China a better education. receiving the award from Craig Kielburger, one of the founders of The club also helps out closer to home, making food for resiFree The Children, Me to We and dents of Vancouver’s Downtown We Day. Eastside. The Caring Canadian Award BY
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Carol Berner released from prison BY
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The woman found guilty in the 2008 death of four-year-old Alexa Middelaer was to be released from prison yesterday. Carol Berner was convicted in July 2010 of impaired driving causing death and bodily harm, and dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm, in the 2008 crash that killed Alexa and seriously injured her aunt, Daphne Johanson. She was sentenced to 30
months in prison in November of that year but was released on bail to launch an appeal after serving just two weeks of her sentence. After exhausting all her appeals, Berner, who is now 62, began serving her sentence in March 2013. Her release, after serving the statutory two-thirds of her sentence, comes with a number of conditions, including not to consume alcohol, avoid drinking establishments and follow a treatment plan; and not to own or operate a motor vehicle.
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