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Face time One-year-old Genevieve Timms and her big sister Elizabeth, six, closed in on a very curious baby goat in a petting zoo enclosure set up at Carnival for the Cure on Saturday at the Milner Village Garden Centre. The animals in the petting zoo came from Gold Fox Acres. Saturday’s event, which included pony rides, a dunk tank, carnival games, face painting, a bouncy castle, food, Langley Township firefighters, and live entertainment, served as a fundraiser for the MS Society of Canada and raised more than $4,000 for the cause.
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Guinness world record
Ebike rider recognized for long ride
A local activist is the proud holder of a Guinness World Record for his lengthy trip.
Halmo said. He felt like he had received a master’s degree in electric vehicles. Doing the record was an outgrowth of work Halmo had done locally in Langley, riding electric scooters and working with groups by Matthew Claxton like PosAbilities, which works for mclaxton@langleyadvance.com and with people with physical A Langley man who crossed the disabilities. country on an electric bicycle last He realized that no one had year is now the official holder of ever done a complete cross couna Guinness World Record. try trip on an electric bike before. Danny Halmo spent weeks ridElectric bicycles are similar to ing from Vancouver to Halifax, motor scooters in design, but raising awareness about fossil slower and usually with pedals fuel dependence and the needs of for manual propulsion as well as the disabled. electric. After months of back Halmo had a few close View and forth with officials calls and strange experivideo & with the Guinness comences while on his Gio photos pany, Halmo got the conRXR 800 ebike. with firmation Monday that he The worst was getting holds the official record hit by his own support for Longest Journey on vehicle in Saskatchewan. or online the Motorized Bicycle. Halmo’s support driver He drove 6,721 kilodrifted off at the wheel metres during his trip, for a moment, and when charging his bike from Halmo stopped his bike solar panels on top of his for a quick rest, the van support vehicle, and often ran right into him. dressing as Darth Vader or a yeti The moment was captured on along the way. dashboard video, as Halmo was Getting the official nod for the using the camera to document his record felt great, Halmo said. entire trip for the record attempt. “It was a sign of achievement,” He also had his cellphone run
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Danny Halmo dressed as Darth Vader for part of his cross-country ride.
over, lost (and later recovered) his wallet with all his ID, and finished the event somewhat banged up. During the trip, Halmo made several stops to do a little protesting, including wearing a yeti suit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa to protest the Enbridge pipeline. Getting the record confirmed involved sending in terrabytes of video and reams of GPS data collected over the course of the trip. With all the forms finally filled out and the Guinness officials convinced that he made the complete trip, Halmo hopes to be in
the next record book, which usually comes out in the fall. He doesn’t think he’ll be overtaken soon, as an American team planning a long ebike trip isn’t covering as much ground as he already did. “I don’t expect the record to come down any time soon,” Halmo said. If it does, though, he’ll consider another trek to take it back. “I’ll do a complete lap around Canada next time,” he said. Halmo said his ultimate goal is to become the “David Suzuki of electric vehicles.”