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THURSDAY, MAR. 22, 2012
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Guilty plea brings family some relief BY JASON ROESSLE Mission Record
The Surakka family was relieved to hear Jack Woodruff plead guilty to murdering their daughter and her boyfriend Monday morning, but it’s one small step toward to a complete resolution of the ordeal. Lisa Dudley, 37, and her boyfriend, Guthrie McKay, 33, were shot in their rural home on Greenwood Drive in September 2008, which according to a statement of facts entered Monday in court, had housed a marijuana grow operation. Woodruff was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years. Woodruff said he was going to be the shooter, and went to the house with the intention of shooting Dudley, and McKay if necessary. According to the admitted facts, he went to the back deck and fired six shots inside as the couple were watching television. McKay was hit three times, and Dudley twice.
McKay was pronounced dead on the scene. Dudley was in severe medical distress and died en route to hospital. Mission RCMP Cpl. Mike White was given a written reprimand and docked one day’s pay in March after an RCMP disciplinary hearing determined that he failed to properly investigate the shots-fired call. He left the scene after being there for 10 minutes and did not follow up the next day, the board of adjudication concluded. There are still two other people, Justin MacKinnon and Bruce Main, who are charged with the first-degree murders, and Mark and Rosemarie Surakka said that ordeal, coupled with the family’s request for a coroner’s inquest into the 911 response, make the road ahead still challenging. Rosemarie said that what Woodruff did was a “gutsy thing. “He completely owned up to everything he did,” she said Tuesday. - with files from Vikki Hopes and CTV
Teachers respond to Bill 22 The B.C. Teachers’ Federation’s response to Bill 22 was expected Wednesday afternoon, and could see extra-curricular activities culled from school calendars. The BCTF’s plan was unveiled after The Record’s press deadline, however, the Mission District Parent Advisory Council chair, Scott Young, said in conversations with Mission Teachers’ Union President Mike Trask, educators will not participate in extracurricular activities and sports such as rugby and track and field are likely to be cancelled this year. “We have been requesting information on how [parents] can get more involved on a coaching level” in
schools, said Young on Tuesday. Parents locally are split on the current issue. “I’m hearing a mixed reaction. Some blame government and some blame teachers,” he said. Bill 22 was pushed through last week by the provincial government, and it gives Education Minister George Abbott the authority to appoint a mediator, and restricts any mediated settlement to be within the “net zero” wage mandate imposed across public sector union negotiations in 2010. The bill also imposes new restrictions on class size and special needs support, declaring the issues off limits to negotiation between the B.C. Teachers’ Association and school districts.
Spring break work Mission Secondary School’s Jack McCall pulls the 170 lb dummy during a physical test for the Mission Fire/Rescue’s cadet program. Ten high school students are spending the week at fire station one on Seventh Avenue learning the basics of firefighting and the skills and aptitudes the job requires. In addition to the physical component, the cadets had to pass an interview and written and mechanical tests. JASON ROESSLE PHOTO
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