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Hurt hero recovering in hospital
Making. Preparations
Carleton University master’s student, one of three survivors of airplane crash in Nunavut, is set to have foot surgery JOE LOFARO
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Ottawa Folk Festival supervisor Mark Monahan, centre, gesturing, shows media the preparations at the new festival grounds at Hog’s Back Park, including the folded-up hydraulic main stage, seen in the background, which was being set up yesterday. SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO
Ottawa Folk Festival keeps things safe
Following the Bluesfest main-stage collapse during a freak wind storm, folk fest supervisor Mark Monahan has hired a private meteorological service to keep watch for any dangerous weather. Monahan said the stages at the folk fest are smaller, heavier and stronger than those used at Bluesfest. The festival, which features such headliners as Hawksley Workman and Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, runs Aug. 25-28. More coverage, pages 25-28.
As Nicole Williamson lies in bed at the Ottawa Hospital, with cuts and bruises on her body, she is being praised as a hero. Amid the fiery debris of Saturday’s plane crash in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, the 23-year-old Carleton University master’s student selflessly came to the rescue of sevenyear-old Gabrielle Pelky, whom she found on a rock with a broken leg. “She scooped her up in her arms and got to a better place ... moved her to a place where she felt she was safer,” said RCMP Sgt. Paul Solomon. “It’s amazing they survived such a thing.” Now the Halifax native is recov-
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ering in hospital with images of the tragedy fresh in her mind. An Ottawa Hospital spokesperson confirmed yesterday she is being treated at the General campus and is set to have foot surgery and undergo pain management therapy. Williamson’s family released the following statement yesterday: “Nicole wishes to express her deepest gratitude to the members of the Canadian Forces, Operation Nanook, and to the Resolute Bay responders present at the crash site for their efficiency under the circumstances,” the statement says. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. WITH FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS
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