Intergenerational team wins soap box derby
Ted Clarke Citizen staff tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
Eleven-year-old Aldon Papick and his great-grandfather Stu Hayne were born 71 years apart, but for one afternoon Saturday at the Prince George Soap Box Derby they were kindred spirits living a dream that’s going to last a lifetime.
Papick’s smooth driving behind the wheel of a lighting-quick cart he and Hayne spent five weeks building together made him the fastest of the fast. Aldon completed the course twice in just 34 seconds and he beat 24 other derby competitors who came out of the woodwork to revive the city’s soap box race tradition after a 46-year absence.
“I’m just so amazed, I’d be happy without a trophy but I definitely prefer one, this is just crazy,” said an incredulous Aldon, when told he’d won his 10-and-over age category and had the fastest overall time.
“I think it’s fast because it’s aerodynamic and because by great-grandpa helped me, of course.” Hayne, 82, was looking for a project he and his great-grandson could do together and when he learned the derby was returning to Prince George for the first time since 1973, that got the wheels in motion. Hayne remembers when the carts used to race across from the old Woodward’s department store at Parkwood Mall but said back then he was always too busy earning a living to attend the races.
He did some internet research to help him come up with his own design for the cart and ended up spending about $600 to make it happen. Although gravity is the only engine, Hayne made it look like Aldon had plenty of horsepower under the hood when he installed exhaust headers on each side of the cart.
“From what I researched they said weight didn’t make much difference, it’s mainly your aerodynamics and your wheels and axles,” said Hayne.
They practiced a few times on a hill at Reid Lake and that made all the difference for Aldon.
“I was used to the speed, I wasn’t swerving or anything,” said Aldon. Hayne didn’t want to give away all the trade secrets that went into building a champion but he plans to make one change for next year he thinks will make Aldon’s cart even faster.
“We’re going to put a wing on it,” he said.
Nine-year-old Silas Arding was the big winner in the six-to-nine-year-old class –clocking 20 seconds in each of his two runs. Arding and his grandfather, Ian Bennett from Cluculz Lake, built the cart which they had decked out in the sponsorship lettering of the family business, Atkins Growers Greenhouse.
“It was zooming as fast as a car,” said Silas. “It was my first year doing this and I didn’t expect to win. That was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done, I think that would rate Number 5.
“I built it with my grandpa and the hardest part was getting the axles in the same (balance). It wasn’t hard to control, it was pretty easy. I just turned (the steering wheel) a little to avoid the manhole covers and that’s why I didn’t go way around and crash it.
“I figured out of you turn really sharp it slows you down, and don’t even tap the brakes because that makes you slower.”
Bennett said he tried to build the cart with as much stability as possible and used an online article as his guide. The article was
headlined: “If Formula One drivers were to build a soap box racer.”
“There’s all kinds of little tracks and gimmicks and stuff like the golden ratio, they called it, and we just applied that to this little car,” said Bennett.
“They said it should look like an upsidedown canoe. Nobody’s got a book on how to build these things after 46 years, some people back then would have more experience.”
Bennett figures it took about 150 hours work to build their cart. The driver had considerably less time than that for testing.
“We live out a Cluculz Lake and we found a hill very similar to this one, so he knows how to drive this car,” said Bennett. “The centre line is all covered with manhole cov-
ers and it figures, our little guy aimed for every one and hit every one of them.”
The race began with the nine-and-under kids zooming down from the top of the second hill, until a crash early in the start order prompted a course correction, just before it was Silas’s turn. Six-year-old Weston Amayone got going a little too fast and lost control right at the base of the first hill on Victoria Street and his bullet-shaped cart flipped. He was wearing a hockey helmet and bumped his nose and skidded on his elbow on the pavement before he came to a stop. When first-aid attendants got to him the first thing he uttered was: “At least I’m not dead.”
He wasn’t the only one who went sideways. A couple other drivers discovered defects in the steering designs and hit the curbs, which broke wheels and steering control mechanisms. Fellow competitors chipped in and lent parts and after a few quick repairs they made it back down the hill for a second run.
Weston got an ambulance ride to the hospital and aside from a mild concussion and some road rash, doctors cleared him to leave and he came back in time for the awards ceremony. It turned out Weston’s mom Robyn placed her cell phone in Weston’s cart with a speedometer app turned on and it hit 30.7 kilometres per hour before his crash.
She confirmed he was not texting while he was driving.
All 25 cart drivers were given a push at the top within a 30 metre zone and that made for some fun at the top of the course.
“I see moms and adds up there pushing the kids as fast as they can and they’re just laughing their faces off, and everyone else is laughing because they’re staggering all over the place,” said Ken Shuttleworth, whose 11-year-old son Kyle was one of the faster kids in his class.
Kyle got used to driving the cart he helped build with his dad and grandfather while being towed on the street with his mom’s car. They arrived at the track at 6 a.m. to get in as many practice runs as he could before the races began. He had to put his brakes on hard during that first run when a pickup truck crossed into his path.
“I saw a lot of videos on YouTube and it looked pretty fun,” said Kyle. “I was the first one to try it and the first time was bumpy because of the manholes, but this time I actually dodged them. I just made slight turns and went around them.”
Next year the Shuttleworths plan to ditch the wheelbarrow wheels they used and replace them with bike tires to decrease the rolling resistance.
“They will be faster, the more ball bearings, the faster you go,” said Ken Shuttleworth.
The event raised about $1,500 for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Prince George.
CITIZEN PHOTO BY JAMES DOYLE
A derby car races down Victoria Street on Saturday afternoon during the 2019 Prince George Soap Box Derby.
CITIZEN STAFF PHOTO BY TED CLARKE
Aldon Papick,11, won the 2019 Prince George Soap Box Derby on Saturday, with some help from his great-grandfather Stu Hayne.
Gallery hosting Tworow exhibit
Christine HINZMANN Citizen staff
chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca
In the Rustad Galleria at the Two Rivers Gallery, Mark Tworow’s exhibit called 370KM W will be on display Thursday, starting with opening reception at 7:30 p.m.
Tworow said he’s exploring a new kind of art for his latest exhibit.
“This is a new direction that I’ve been going in, the idea of these tangles that allow you to be quite abstract with them and yet still allows you to refer to the landscape as well,” Tworow said from his
Smithers home.
“There’s some playful colour in there. I’ve been painting for quite a while, graduated from art school in 1991 and have just been working away and finding my direction, which is sometimes quite varied. But I’m still moving on this path where I’m using lots of colour, which I think is very exciting to use. It kind of captures an exaggeration of what a photograph does, which never quite does it.”
Tworow said he finds he can’t quite capture the essence of nature through photography because he finds the colours just fall flat.
“I kind of exaggerate things to try to get the essence of a place,” Tworow said.
Tworow grew up camping and hiking in Alberta, which anchored his love of nature.
“I find in our day that there’s so much that nature offers if you take the time to slow down in our fast-paced world,” Tworow said.
Being on the edge of the wilderness in Northern B.C. makes it easier for us to be in nature, he added.
The exhibition will continue until Sept. 15 with opening reception at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. There will be light refreshments. Admission is free.
Proposals requested for new Indigenous art at UNBC
Citizen staff
UNBC is seeking B.C.-based Indigenous artists to create a permanent, public art installation to welcome visitors to its Prince George campus.
“Indigenous art is about celebrating Indigenous peoples, cultures, and contributions,” says Zoë Meletis, a faculty member on several committees that have been pushing for a new prominent piece of Indigenous art at UNBC.
“Having Indigenous art is an amazing source of knowledge, history, representation, and inspiration.”
A total of $20,000 is available to the artist, or artist-led team, to cover all the costs of the creation, transport, and installation of the art project. The artwork can be traditional or contemporary, and range from different forms including painting, carving, statue, sculpture, interactive, perfor-
mance, or digital art piece.
“BC-based Indigenous artists at any stage of their career with any preferred medium can apply,” says Meletis.
“The committee purposely did this to attract diverse proposals. We could get a new majestic piece along the lines of some of the more traditionally inspired works in the halls of UNBC, or we could soon be hosting a video performance, a large graffiti-style piece, or a pop-art influenced installation. “Either way, it’s exciting that we will have a new piece of contemporary Indigenous art to appreciate, whether we’re showing a guest around campus, teaching a class gathered around it, or reflecting upon it with friends.” Further details are available in the request for proposals, available on UNBC’s Aboriginal Resource Dati page. ‘Dati’ means ‘doorway’ in Dakelh First Nation language.
Water system flushing in Hart to starting
Citizen staff
City workers will start flushing water in the Hart today.
The work, which occurs each summer to maintain the system’s quality, will be carried out between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. from Monday to Friday until about the end of the month.
Residents may notice a slight drop in water pressure for a few
hours each day as well as cloudy water as iron deposits get stirred up. The water will remain safe to drink, the city said, but households may want to store some water for drinking and avoid doing laundry from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to avoid discolouration.
“The City of Prince George appreciates the patience of residents as work is completed on this important project,” the city said.
One killed, two injured in highway crash
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
A woman was killed and two males were seriously injured in a vehicle accident which closed Highway 97 Friday afternoon near McLeese Lake.
North District RCMP Traffic Services said the male driver of a northbound Ford Expedition SUV crossed the centre line and collided head-on with a southbound Ford F-350 pickup truck on the highway between Hill Road and Pickard Road north at about 1 p.m. Friday. The female passenger of the
F-350 was pronounced dead at the scene by the time first responders arrived. The Expedition driver was airlifted to a larger hospital, while the F-350 driver was taken to hospital by ground ambulance.
The road was closed for several hours while police accident reconstructionists carried out their investigation. Drivers hoping to reach their destination on the first day of the B.C. Day long weekend were forced to find alternate routes. RCMP spokesperson Chris Manseau said the identities of the victims will not be released, pending notification of next of kin. The cause of the accident was not revealed.
Stolen goods discovered in backyard
Citizen staff
An alert citizen has helped the Prince George RCMP uncover a trove of stolen goods. Police acted on a tip received on Wednesday that an all-terrain vehicle was hidden behind an old mattress of a 1300-block Carney Street home. When RCMP arrived, they determined that it had been stolen earlier that day and also found bicycles, power and hand tools, and three rifles hidden away in the yard and shed.
A Prince George man, well known to police, was arrested at scene and held on outstanding warrants, RCMP said.
Mounties are also asking anyone who may have been a victim of theft and has not reported the incident to call the Prince George RCMP detachment at 250-5613300. and provide details of their loss including any available serial numbers or descriptors.
“Police would like to reunite the stolen items with their rightful owners,” RCMP said.
HANDOUT PHOTO
Mark Tworow’s exhibit, 370 km W, showcases his most recent works including this one called Forest Tangle with Pink. The exhibit starts on Thursday and goes until Sept. 15.
Citizen
ABOVE: Alexis O’neill-Pearson, 6, chows down on a piece of watermelon during a watermelon eating contest on Monday afternoon at Huble Homestead during the historic site’s annual Homestead Days. LEFT: A group of adults take part in a wheelbarrow race on Monday afternoon at Huble Homestead.
BOTTOM LEFT: Shannon Fairservice demonstrates how to make candles on Monday.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Saltwater Hank, right, plays with Bex & the Bullpen on Monday afternoon at Huble Homestead
Death toll reaches 31 in pair of U.S. mass shootings
Matt SEDENSKY, Astrid GALVAN
The Associated Press
EL PASO, Texas — Anguished families planned funerals in two U.S. cities, politicians pointed fingers and a nation numbed by gun violence wondered what might come next Monday as the death toll from two weekend mass shootings rose to 31.
The attacks 1,300 miles apart – at a packed shopping centre in El Paso, Texas , and a popular nightlife stretch in Dayton, Ohio – also injured dozens more. They became the newest entries on an ever-growing list of mass shooting sites and spurred discussion on where to lay the blame.
U.S. President Donald Trump cited mental illness and video games but steered away from talk of curbing gun sales.
For all the back-to-back horror of innocent people slain amid everyday life, decades of an unmistakably American problem of gun violence ensured it wasn’t entirely shocking. Even as the familiar postshooting rituals played out in both cities, others clung to life in hospitals, with two new fatalities recorded among those injured at the shooting at the Walmart in El Paso.
As in a litany of other shooting sites before, the public juggled stories of the goodness seen in lives cut short with inklings of the demented motives of the shooters, and on-scene heroics with troubling ideologies that may have sparked the bloodshed. Equally familiar, Washington reacted
along party lines, with Trump’s vague suggestion of openness to new gun laws met with skepticism by an opposition that has heard similar talk before.
“Hate has no place in America,” the president declared in a 10-minute speech from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room, condemning racism and rehashing national conversations on treatment for mental health, depiction of violence in the media, and discourse on the internet.
A racist screed authorities were working to confirm was left by the alleged perpetrator in the Texas shooting, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, mirrored some of Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Some, like Ernesto Carrillo, whose brother-in-law Ivan Manzano was killed in the Walmart attack, said the president shares blame for inflammatory language Carrillo called a “campaign of terror.”
“His work as a generator of hate ended in this,” said Carrillo, who crossed the border from Ciudad Juarez on Monday for a meeting in El Paso with Mexico’s foreign minister. “Thanks to him, this is all happening.”
Trump, in turn, tweeted that the media “contributed greatly to the anger and rage that has built up.”
Trump suggested a bill to expand gun background checks could be combined with his long-sought effort to toughen the nation’s immigration system, but gave no rationale for the pairing. Studies have repeatedly shown immigrants have a lower
Wave of shootings in Toronto
Emerald BENSADOUN
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Thirteen people were injured after nearly a dozen shootings across Toronto over the long weekend, one of which sparked chaos as gunshots rang out in a packed nightclub.
“This is not a normal weekend in the City of Toronto,” said Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders at a press conference on Monday.
He said there were 11 separate shootings since Saturday, with about a third of the incidents taking place in north Toronto.
Saunders said he was particularly concerned about a shooting at District 45 nightclub, which left five people injured.
“I find it disturbing when you’ve
got over 100 people and someone would be brazen enough to pull out a gun and start shooting,” he said.
Police spokeswoman Const.
Allyson Douglas-Cook said the club was at capacity with gunshots were fired early Monday, injuring two men and three women.
One of the male victims remains in life-threatening condition, she said.
Saunders said no suspects have been identified in the shooting, but he called the case “very solvable.”
He said investigators are reviewing the club’s surveillance footage and he asked witnesses and anyone with information to come forward to police.
District 45 released a statement that said it was co-operating with police on the investigation.
level of criminality than those born in the U.S., both shooting suspects were citizens, and federal officials are investigating antiimmigrant bias as a potential motive in the Texas massacre.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a leading voice on gun reform since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his state rattled the country with the slaughter of 20 children, immediately dismissed the president’s proposal as meaningless.
“Tying background checks to immigration reform is a transparent play to do nothing,” he wrote on Twitter.
Whatever the political back-and-forth, or the re-energized presence of gun control talk on the presidential campaign trail, the very real consequences of gun violence were still being bared by victims badly injured in the two states.
In both incidents, a young white male was identified as the lone suspect. Though authorities were eyeing racism as a possible factor in Texas, where the alleged shooter has been booked on murder charges, in Ohio police said there was no indication of a similar motivation.
Police in Dayton said they responded in about 30 seconds early Sunday and fatally shot 24-year-old Connor Betts. While the gunman was white and six of the nine killed were black, police said the quickness of the rampage made any discrimination in the shooting seem unlikely.
over weekend
Another shooting early Monday left two men in hospital. Police said a nearby vehicle was found riddled with bullet holes.
Mayor John Tory released a statement reaffirming his position on banning handguns, which he said he believes would address gun violence in the city.
“This was always put forward as a part of the answer to gun violence together with changes to other laws affecting things like bail, additional support for police, and the paramount need for all three governments to invest together in kids, families and neighbourhoods,” said his statement. Saunders said the decision to ban guns is up to politicians, but he welcomes anything that removes firearms from Toronto streets.
Betts’ sister was also among the dead.
“It seems to just defy believability he would shoot his own sister, but it’s also hard to believe that he didn’t recognize it was his sister, so we just don’t know,” said Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine visited the scene Sunday and said policymakers must consider: “Is there anything we can do in the future to make sure something like this does not happen?”
Hours later, hundreds of people stood at a vigil and vented their frustration at the Republican governor, interrupting him with chants of “Make a change!” and “Do something!” as he talked about the victims.
“People are angry, and they’re upset. They should be,” said Jennifer Alfrey, 24, of Middletown, who added that she didn’t agree with interrupting the vigil but understood why so many did.
In Texas, where 22 were killed, authorities said the accused shooter hailed from a Dallas suburb a 10-hour drive away. Authorities seemed to take some solace in knowing the shooter wasn’t one of their own.
“It’s not what we’re about,” El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said.
Contributing to this report were John Seewer in Dayton, Ohio; Julie Carr Smyth and Kantele Franko in Columbus, Ohio; Cedar Attanasio and Morgan Lee in El Paso, Texas; Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas; and Zeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire in Washington.
RCMP complete search of Manitoba river for suspects
The Canadian Press GILLAM, Man. — RCMP say they will no longer be searching a river in northern Manitoba for two murder suspects.
Mounties say the search of the river began after a damaged aluminum boat was discovered on the shore of the Nelson River on Friday. The dive team arrived in Gillam and conducted an underwater search “of significant areas of interest” on Sunday.
Police say the search team won’t be conducting any more dives on Monday.
Police say a roadblock has been put in place in the Sundance, Man., area for other search efforts, but they declined to provide further details.
The area has been the focus for more than a week in the hunt for Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, who are wanted in connection to the deaths of three people last month in B.C. The news comes after police said Wednesday they would be scaling back the search in the Gillam area, which is where the last confirmed sighting of the pair was more than a week ago.
AP PHOTO Dr. Julio Novoa, left, and Danielle Novoa, right, visit a makeshift memorial with their 10-month-old son Richard Novoa at the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex on Sunday in El Paso, Texas.
R. Kelly accused of soliciting 17-year-old girl in Minnesota
Jeff BAENEN
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota prosecutor charged singer R. Kelly on Monday with prostitution and solicitation related to an allegation that he invited a 17-year-old girl to his hotel room in 2001 and paid her $200 to dance naked with him.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is accused of soliciting the girl after meeting her before a concert in Minneapolis.
Freeman said the girl was trying to get an autograph from Kelly, and that the R&B performer gave her his signature and a phone number. When the girl called the number, she was invited to Kelly’s hotel. There she was offered $200 to take off her clothes and dance, Freeman said. He said Kelly took his clothes off and they danced together.
A criminal complaint said the girl said Kelly lay on his bed and the girl climbed on top of him “body to body.”
“According to Victim, the defendant was rubbing her body” and fondling himself, according to the complaint. “Victim stated that the defendant touched all over her body.”
The complaint said the girl attended Kelly’s concert “as a guest who did not have to pay,” and told her brother what had happened in Kelly’s hotel room.
The charges are felonies, each punishable by up to five years in prison. Freeman said his office investigated after getting a tip from a Chicago tip line.
“We felt we had more than enough to charge based on her testimony and corroboration from her brother,” Freeman said. “I don’t like buying sex from minors, and I don’t think most other people do either.”
Kelly’s attorney Steve Greenberg tweeted:
“Give me a break. This is beyond absurd.” He did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.
The criminal complaint didn’t name the accuser, and her attorney, Gloria Allred, said it would not be disclosed. She called the woman “a child victim of Mr. Kelly” and said she showed courage to come forward.
“As this new case demonstrates, it is not too late for there to be justice for even more victims of R. Kelly,” Allred said in a statement.
The charges are the latest legal problem for Kelly, who remains jailed in New York after pleading not guilty last week in federal court to charges that he sexually abused
women and girls who attended his concerts there. He is accused of using his fame to recruit young women and girls into illegal sexual activity. Kelly, 52, is also charged separately in Chicago with engaging in child pornography.
Associated Press writer Doug Glass contributed to this report.
Musician R. Kelly leaves the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago in June. Minnesota authorities charged singer R. Kelly on Monday with two counts of prostitution and solicitation involving a girl under 18 in 2001.
Conjecture about murder suspects is not helpful
By the time you read this, Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod might be behind bars, safely in jail cells after a couple of weeks on the lam.
Or they could still be out there, somewhere, evading police and polar bears, or holed up in some spot well off the grid. Or, bluntly, they could be dead.
The two murder suspects from Port Alberni have been the subject of a massive manhunt for two weeks and, at this writing, it appears that the police are no closer to finding out where they are, or even where they have been since the last confirmed sighting in northern Manitoba almost two weeks ago.
It could be said, based on the torching of that stolen Toyota, that Schmegelsky and McLeod are either remarkably smart or pathetically dumb. Dumb, for bringing attention to the car when they could have left it hidden in the bush, where it might have been found in a few weeks or months. Or smart, for keeping attention in that
area after they were long gone. But here is the catch: comments like that one aren’t helpful. There has been far too much speculation about what the duo have been up to, most of it driven by social media as well as, sad to say, the established media. In the absence of hard information, there have been far too many theories and conjecture, quoting people who have only been guessing at what Schmegelsky and McLeod have been up to. Too much unconfirmed information has been taken as fact. We can understand the desire to be first with the news, or to blurt out what you want to believe is true. But facts still need to be verified, a notion that appears to have been forgotten in this social media age, where everybody can pretend to be a journalist but too few seem to be willing to take responsibility for what they are putting out.
Case in point: the reported sighting of the two men at a garbage dump near York Landing, Man. It was a shaky sighting at best; even the men who called it in said they had to think about if for a few minutes.
As soon as the word about the alleged sighting was out, social media went into overdrive. The men who called in the sighting were hailed as heroes.
It was said that the two suspects were rummaging for food. There were reports of shots fired, and then that the men had been captured. There was a lengthy discussion about the geography in the area around York Landing and Gillam, driven by people who it seemed had never been there.
A few days later, after the York Landing sighting had been dismissed, there were reports on social media that Schmegelsky and McLeod were in northern Ontario, based on a quick look at a vehicle passing by.
It’s no wonder that the police have called on the public to report possible sightings to the police rather than posting them on social media. And it’s no wonder that police have also urged the public to get their information from the police, not from the amateurs in the Twittersphere.
There are good reasons for this. One is that the spread of false information does not help anyone, and in fact can cause the
One thing links all mass shootings
Another day in America, another flurry of bullets, another massacre. Sometimes, the gunman opens fire at Walmart, apparently because he believes America is being invaded by Mexicans, who must therefore die, as in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday (22 dead; more than two dozen injured).
Occasionally, he shoots up a former workplace after resigning for murky “personal reasons,” as in Virginia Beach, Va., on May 31 (12 dead; four injured).
At other times, as in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, according to police, the killer takes aim at Jews whom he hates for allegedly plotting to resettle the U.S. with refugees (11 dead; six injured).
Or a shooter will barge into the offices of a newspaper against which he has a grievance, and start mowing people down, as occurred at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., on June 28, 2018 (five killed; two injured).
It is not unheard of for someone angry over a domestic quarrel to invade a church and begin shooting indiscriminately, as on Nov. 5, 2017, at Sutherland Springs, Texas (26 dead; 20 injured).
Once in a while, someone will point a weapon out of an upperfloor hotel window and, for no particular reason at all, rain 1,100 rounds on people attending a country-music concert, which is what happened in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017 (58 dead; 851 injured).
Then there’s the shooter – “fueled by rage against Republican legislators” in the words of a subsequent report by the local prosecutor – who attacked GOP congressmen as they practiced for a charity baseball game, on
June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Va. (Six injured; thanks to the intervention of a Capitol Police security detail, the suspect was killed before he could complete what would otherwise have been a mass political assassination.).
Another time, on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla., a perpetrator entered a nightclub frequented by gay Latino men and began shooting, pausing to call 911 and tell the police that he was a follower of the Islamic State terror group exacting revenge for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria (49 dead; 53 injured).
It has also happened, in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 2, 2015, that a married couple, inspired by Islamist terrorist groups abroad, planned and carried out an attack on an office Christmas party (14 people killed; 22 injured).
And going back a bit further, to Dec. 14, 2012, there was the time when a 20-year-old in the grip of “severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems... combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence,” as an official investigation concluded, brought a semi-automatic rifle and huge quantities of ammunition to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (27 dead; two injured).
Every time, the story is a bit different. The shooters are white (e.g., El Paso, Pittsburgh), black (Virginia Beach, Dallas), young (Charleston), middle-aged (Las Vegas), Muslim (Orlando, San Bernardino) or Christian (Sutherland Springs).
What all the cases on this very limited partial list of American carnage have in common is that, each time, someone bent on mass murder found it possible – easy, really – to get the weaponry with which to carry out those intentions.
Sometimes, as in Sutherland Springs, they did so despite laws (which were not properly enforced). For the most part, though, they got their guns legally; the killer in Las Vegas had no fewer than 24 firearms in his hotel room, of which 22 were semi-automatic rifles, many with 100-round magazines and “bump stocks” for rapid firing.
Max Weber, the German sociologist, provided the classic definition of the state as “a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force” and “is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.”
By that definition, the United States is not a state; it has a constitution that distributes the right to use armed force among the federal government, state and local governments and, via the Second Amendment, individuals. And there is a special interest lobby, with near-total control over the Republican Party, that exploits and distorts the nation’s founding document to block reasonable firearm regulations that would be consistent with individual freedom but protective of modern society.
No doubt there are benefits (hunting, self-defense in remote areas) to this situation. What’s now more apparent than ever, however, is the cost – the traumatic, bloody, unbearable cost.
Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer specializing in economic and fiscal policy, and a weekly columnist.
police to put resources in the wrong spots. Another is that the unrestricted flow of information could help Schmegelsky and McLeod, assuming of course that they are still alive, still have phones with charged batteries, and still have access to wifi or cell service.
If the police get a tip that the two have been spotted, then set up a trap to bring them in, and those efforts were exposed through social media, the murder suspects could get away again. More lives would be put at risk. The public has certainly helped with this case, providing to police video evidence that Schmegelsky and McLeod were in Meadow Lake, Sask., and reporting sightings in other locations in Alberta and Manitoba. That help from the public was crucial to tracking the pair to northern Manitoba. With all of this in mind, some tips that should apply at all times: don’t spread speculation.
Don’t interfere with the police. Help, don’t hinder, a police investigation.
— Victoria Times Colonist
Canada caught between China, U.S.
When it comes to Canada’s choices of pleasing or displeasing America or China, we are not caught between a rock and a hard place.
We are caught under two rocks.
Like the James Franco character in the movie 127 Hours, we got ourselves there with wayward adventures out of our depths. We miscalculated the circumstances.
Now, like him, wedged helplessly by boulders, we have an opportunity to reflect on our lives and decide if we will amputate a limb to get back to safety. The difference between us and the movie plot is we have two limbs from which to choose if we wish to sever.
We have time, it seems, because the Justin Trudeau government has lost its assertiveness with its two largest trading partners and most significant influences. It is, in a football sense, punting on second down rather than playing the ball and risking a fumble.
The dithering has been diminishing.
The latest pipsqueak policy approach was news last week that there will be no decision until after the October election on whether we will use 5G technology from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The Conservatives are against doing so, and to date the Liberals have been for it. The company is working with our universities and is on a charm offensive to coax us to work together.
No one should be surprised about Trudeau’s non-move, but it is cowardly in pretending Canada does not have the data to decide and naive to think it won’t be a campaign issue. It is also harmful to the businesses whose progress depends on the technology.
Ultimately it could cost companies billions of dollars in adjusting their plans, in which case consumers will pay, or in federal restitution, in which case taxpayers will pay. Pick which pocket of ours to pick.
Most of our intelligence allies are one by one determining that Huawei – or rather, its tie to the Xi Jinping regime – is too troublesome to bear. Apart from America’s animus, which has to be discounted due to the president’s erratic pronouncements, the verdicts are in from Australia and New Zealand. The United Kingdom has taken the same kick-thecan-down-the-road approach as Canada, but it is clear that government wants Huawei to have only
a minor role in the major arrival in our lives of 5G.
Canada, meanwhile, is trapped in policies it advanced in an early Xi period in which it was assumed China would be opening its markets and its democracy. Trudeau has failed to adapt to the more recent Xi posture or to engage China with something more than benign accommodation. That China can imprison innocent Canadians for months with impunity indicates our lack of spine, and that we claim without any evidence that allies have our backs in this episode indicates our lack of synapses.
We have, of course, our own Vancouver hostage in Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, at the moment wearing the only non-jewelry ankle bracelet among residents of Shaughnessy. The American government’s request to pinch her at the airport and make Canada extradite her was excessive. She could have been convicted in absentia and fined like the other purported cybercriminals the U.S. has prosecuted. But there, too, we didn’t bow up and didn’t realize this would blow up.
Instead she is an emblem of the fruitless state of our diplomacy, trade, foreign policy and place in the world. We stand to lose if the courts extradite her to the U.S. and we stand to lose if the courts deny it. One of the two boulders will exact a price.
As Donald Trump fixates on tariffs and protracts a trade war, as China retaliates and threatens nearby sovereignty, Canada finds itself in the familiar bed as the peripheral mouse, only now with two elephants who can roll over us. What did we do to deserve this? Simple: we mistakenly assumed our trading position and ambition was insurance that would supersede superpower aggression, and now we are learning that we were out of our minds to think so.
No wonder the Trudeau government has deferred a decision on Huawei. Sometimes doing nothing is way better than doing something, even if the Franco character might disagree.
Kirk LaPointe is editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president, editorial, of Glacier Media.
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OTTAWA (CP) — Updated currency exchange rates were not available Monday, due to the long weekend. These are indicative wholesale rates for foreign currency provided by the Bank of Canada on Friday. Quotations in Canadian funds.
Stock markets have worst day of 2019
The Washington Post
There wasn’t much to smile about after Monday’s massive selloff on Wall Street – the worst drop of 2019 – as investors become increasingly alarmed about fraying U.S.-China trade relations.
Bright spots were hard to find in the day-long scrum. Gold prices, a fear barometer, jumped. The Japanese yen and Swiss franc, long safe harbors, advanced. “They are viewed as safe havens when the world falls to pieces because these countries are politically stable,” said Joachim Fels, chief economic adviser at Pimco.
Utilities, another go-to sector in times of stress, edged into positive territory before succumbing and turning negative late in the day. Investors also flocked to the safety of the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, evidence of a loss of faith in stocks altogether.
The losers were everywhere.
Most stocks. Technology. Retail. Oil prices, down. Natural gas, down. Dow transports – a closely watched marker for the economy – fell. Even the Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks ($2.5 billion and below) was off. The volatility index, VIX, soared 30 per cent.
Trader John Bishop works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Stock markets fell on Monday, causing the largest drop in value of 2019.
for its fifth down day in a row. The past two weeks have laid waste to the Dow, erasing more than six per cent since the index hit a record high on July 15.
The markets today
TORONTO (CP) — North American markets endured one of the worst weeks of the year as heightened trade tensions between the United States and China rattled investors.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision Thursday to add 10 per cent tariffs on US$300 billion of Chinese goods as of Sept. 1 was the dominant issue in a risk-off day as the Chinese vowed to retaliate.
“It seems like the trade wars, pardon the pun, trump all else,” said Allan Small, senior investment adviser at HollisWealth.
He said U.S. consumers will be more affected by this round of tariffs than the earlier 25 per cent on US$250 billion worth of imports that were strategically placed to avoid technology gadgets and other popular items.
“We’re seeing a lot of people up in arms about this 10 per cent and of course, who knows, if nothing happens 10 could easily become 25 very quickly.”
The unknown manner in which China will retaliate if a big concern, Small added. Will they increase tariffs of their own, limit access to China’s large supply of rare earth elements used in batteries, and buy fewer U.S. treasuries?
“I think everyone is a little bit nervous as to what the retaliation from the Chinese will be,” he said in an interview.
Some market watchers expect a ramp up of trade war rhetoric could prompt the Federal Reserve to further cut interest rates in the coming months.
But Small said that will have little impact on corporate business decisions.
Stodgy value stocks like Verizon, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson were hurting, but not as much as such tech stalwarts as Apple, Visa, Facebook, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet. Technology companies, as a whole, accounted for a major share of the day’s losses.
“A market like this brings the high-flyers low,” said Michael Farr, president of Farr, Miller & Washington. “The Dramamine names like Pepsi, Coke and J&J, with stable balance sheets, provide a somewhat smoother ride.”
China retaliated Monday against the latest round of U.S. tariffs by allowing its tightly controlled currency to slide to an 11-year low against the dollar. The move provoked the ire of President Donald Trump, who believes that Beijing unfairly suppresses the value of the yuan to bolster Chinese exporters at the expense of the United States. It also rattled investors who’d just come away from the market’s worst week of 2019.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled as much as 961 points Monday before scraping back to a 767-point decline.
It ended the regular session down 2.9 percent, at 25,718.15,
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 2.98 percent to close at 2,844.74 on Monday. The techheavy Nasdaq Composite, the index most vulnerable to a China trade war because of the number of businesses there, plunged 3.47 percent for its fifth-worst session ever. All 11 market sectors went negative Monday, with technology, financial services and energy the hardest hit. Even defensive sector consumer staples took a punch. All 30 Dow stocks fell.
And if history is a tell, there is more angst to come; August has put up some the worst numbers for stock investors over the past three decades.
Apple, which relies on China for 20 percent of its sales, took a shellacking. Its stock fell five per cent on Monday and is down nine per cent since the start of the month.
“The losers are anybody with big exposure to China,” said Ivan Feinseth, chief investment officer at Tigress Financial Partners.
“Boeing, Caterpillar and the semiconductor stocks are most vulnerable. The biggest consumer of computer components, including semiconductors, is China. Nvidia is made there and used there.”
The yield on the benchmark 10year U.S. Treasury bond was trolling at 1.725 percent, which means investors are scared and locking up their money for safety but very little return. Mortgage rates follow the 10-year closely, the one bright spot for consumers coming out of Monday’s mess.
“In the short run, big beneficiaries of this quick market decline include anyone in the U.S. who is looking to borrow money as long term rates continue to decline,” said Wayne Wicker, chief information officer at Vantagepoint Investment Advisers, which has $29 billion in assets under management.
“Mortgage rates are down over 1.1 percent from their peak in the fall of 2018, giving current and prospective homeowners another chance to (refinance) or purchase a home at substantially lower rates. Auto finance rates may soon start to reflect better terms as well.”
The plunge arrived after China struck back against Trump’s threat to levy further tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese goods, effectively escalating the trade war, by Sept. 1.
“The Chinese have retaliated against the U.S.’s proposed 10 per cent tariff by lowering the value of its currency – the yuan – below the psychologically important seven-yuan-per-dollar level,” Sam Stovall of CFRA Research said.
“By weakening their currency,
China is attempting to offset the effects of the 10 per cent tariff, since a weaker currency makes the cost of China’s exports more affordable around the globe, while causing the cost of U.S. imports into China to go up.”
Trump criticized the move in a tweet Monday, while using China’s decision to devalue its currency as further ammunition against the Federal Reserve, which disappointed him last week by cutting interest rates by only a quarter-point in its first rate cut in more than a decade.
The trade conflict has tied up the world’s two most powerful economic engines for more than a year, threatening the health of the global economy and upending the foundations of international trade.
The abrupt escalation of the trade war sent fears rippling through global markets. Asian markets slumped, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index closing down 2.85 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.7 per cent, and Korea’s Kospi tumbled 2.6 per cent. European stocks also fell across the board, with the Stoxx 600 index slipping two per cent in midday trading.
Scrounging for a positive takeaway from Monday’s morass, Fels offered a bright note.
“This may be the short-term pain that is needed for a better trade deal with protections for intellectual property rights and fairer trade practices,” he said.
U.S. accuses China of currency manipulation
Paul WISEMAN The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department labeled China a currency manipulator Monday after Beijing pushed down the value of its yuan in a dramatic escalation of the trade conflict between the world’s two biggest economies.
The decision, which came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump accused China of unfairly devaluing its currency, marks a reversal for Treasury.
In May, it had declined to sanc-
tion China for manipulating its currency.
The U.S. had not put China on the currency blacklist since 1994.
The designation could pave the way for more U.S. sanctions against China.
Earlier Monday, China had allowed its currency to weaken to an 11-year low, a move that gives its exporters a price edge in world markets and eases some of the damage from U.S. tariffs on Chinese products.
In a statement, Treasury said it would work with the International Monetary Fund “to eliminate
the unfair competitive advantage created by China’s latest actions.”
Trump had gone on Twitter to denounce China’s move as “currency manipulation.”
He added, “This is a major violation which will greatly weaken China over time.”
China’s central bank sets the exchange rate each morning and allows the yuan to fluctuate by two per cent against the dollar during the day.
The central bank can buy or sell currency – or order commercial banks to do so – to dampen price movements.
China’s central bank blamed the yuan’s drop on “trade protectionism” – an apparent reference to Trump’s threat last Thursday to impose tariffs Sept. 1 on the $300 billion in Chinese imports to the United States in addition to the $250 billion he’s already targeted.
For more than a year, the U.S. and China have been locked in a trade war over allegations that Beijing steals trade secrets and pressures foreign companies to hand over technology.
AP business writer Marcy Gordon contributed to this report.
Kicking it up a notch
The UNBC women’s soccer team were put through the paces on Sunday at Northern Sport Centre during a field session as part of their 2019 training camp.
T-wolves striking Spain off their bucket list
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
As the only Spanish-speaking player on her team, Maria Mongomo will be the one to break down barriers for the UNBC Timberwolves later this month when they begin a week-long tour of Barcelona, Spain.
Mongomo excels at navigating through traffic and has shown that throughout her four-year basketball career as one of the top point guards in the U Sports Canada West Conference.
But playing tour guide for a team of foreigner visitors is a new role for Mongomo, a native of Las Palmas, Spain, and she’s anxiously awaiting their arrival in her home country on Aug. 26, where the T-wolves will be based for a week of training sessions and two exhibition games lined up against a semipro Spanish team.
“Maria is excited to share with us her culture and show us the city and country, it’s going to be a good one,” said UNBC women’s team head coach Sergey Shchepotkin.
“I’ll just need Maria’s help and Google Translator.
“I’m trying to have an international trip every three or four years and last time we traveled to Greece four years ago. We’re going to practice every day over there, plus we will have a couple of games and we will try to see all the sights, so I hope it will be a good trip for the girls.”
Mongomo, a two-time Canada West all-star who made the U Sports all-rookie team in 2016, will be one of two Spaniards on the T-wolves roster this season, now that they’ve added 18-yearold Laura Garmendia Garcia, a native of Castelldefels, near Barcelona.
The environmental science major is one of eight new players wearing the green and gold, but an ACL knee injury last season will keep the six-foot-two forward out of game action until the 2020-21 season.
“Laura will be a redshirt this year for us, as she recovers from her injury,” said Shchepotkin. “I think it will be a good thing, as it gives her time to rehab, while also adapting to Canadian lifestyle and Canadian university.”
Garmendia Garcia played for a club team last season that finished
fourth in the national championship.
“She’s a tall girl but she is light,” said Shchepotkin. “She’s a hard worker and she’s very good at rebounds and defence and hope she will give us a lot of energy and help on defence and on the boards. She has a pretty good shot, too.”
Shchepotkin, a native of Russia who coached the Moscow Dynamo women’s team before he came to UNBC six seasons ago, has also recruited six-foot-one Russian post Svetlana Boykova, who comes with university experience.
The bioscience major will try to fill the huge void left when
Vasiliki Louka graduated after five stellar years with the program. Louka, a Canada West first team all-star, left Prince George as the T-wolves’ all-time leader in points, rebounds, minutes played and blocks and is now with a pro team in her native Greece.
Shchepotkin played 15 seasons of pro basketball in Russia and also coached in Lebanon before he came to Canada. His contacts in Europe have found talented players willing to make the move to Prince George who have been key in the team’s progressive success the past few seasons. The T-wolves made the postseason for the third straight
year last season and won their first-ever U Sports playoff game. Forward Alina Shakirova of Moscow, Russia is about to begin her third season at UNBC, which gives the T-wolves four European players.
“Its quite challenging to recruit local students here and we want the program to grow faster and to be well-known in the country, so my first thought was to bring good foreigners here to help our program and it’s worked out quite well,” said Shchepotkin. “Hopefully it will help us.
“There are big changes this season with eight new players, so it’s going to be different, but I hope
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we will stay in the same level. We have a really tough schedule with UVic, UBC and Trinity Western and in the second part we have Calgary and Regina.”
UNBC opens at home against UVic on Nov. 1. The team begins its exhibition schedule in October with two games in Nanaimo against Vancouver Island University, then will travel to Montreal to play Concordia, McGill and the University of Quebec. Shchepotkin, his wife Alla, their daughter Katie, 15, and nine-yearold son Sam, will spend two weeks in Spain sightseeing and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea before the team tour begins.
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UNBC Timberwolves forward Maria Mongomo drives to the net around University of Winnipeg Wesmen defender Faith Hezekiah on Nov. 3, 2018 at the Northern Sport Centre.
Midget Knights back on top
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
The P.G. Surg Med Knights have stitched together another provincial baseball championship.
They did it the hard way, ripping victory out of the jaws of defeat with a late comeback in their semifinal playoff before going on to beat the Vancouver Canadians 9-4 Sunday afternoon in the BC Minor Baseball midget double-A final in Kelowna.
In the final, the Knights were down 4-2 after three innings until Kaelon Gibbs tied it in the fourth with one swing – a two-run home run.
Jake Anker got them going with a single and a stolen base and came home on Jacob Fillion’s base hit to give the Knights the lead. Fillion then stole two bases and scored from third base when Zach Fillion drove out a single. The Knights added two more in the sixth and had one in the seventh.
Kolby Lukinchuk pitched 6 1/3 innings for the Knights, giving up just seven hits. Semifinal starter Jacob Ross came in and got the last two outs.
“We were on a pretty big high there after the semifinal and it was tough not to think that the boys were going to come through and even in the semifinal I didn’t have a doubt,” said Hannon.
Zach Fillion, who played in the outfield, finished with 18 RBI in the six games. The Knights outscored their opponents a combined 86-22 in their six games.
Hours before the final Sunday, the Knights put together a comeback for the ages in their semifinal against the Vancouver Expos.
Trailing the Expos 8-1 to start the bottom half of the sixth inning of their semifinal playoff in Kelowna, Derian Potskin swatted his fifth home run of the tournament, and with two out they scored 13 more runs to take a 14-8 lead.
Vancouver added one more run in the seventh inning but it wasn’t nearly enough and they lost 15-9.
“We were down 8-1 in the bottom of the sixth and I brought the boys in and said, ‘we’ve got a lot of pride in this program and you’ve got keep your heads held high
and just chip away,’ and Darien Potskin led off with a first-pitch home run that sparked the boys,” said Hannon.
“Unfortunately after that we went down two outs, but we put a lot of pace into the play and a lot of singles and doubles and a lot of hits to put up 13 runs and won that game 15-9.
“That wasn’t an easy game on the coaches or parents but everybody stuck with it. We had Brady Pratt come in (to pitch) in the second inning and he shut the
door the rest of the game.”
The Expos gave up six walks.
Richard French, Jacob Fillion and Zach Fillion each doubled for Prince George and Pratt hit an RBI single.
“It was an hour-and-10-minute inning and the other team was just deflated,” said Hannon, part of a Knights coaching staff that includes head coach Murray Lukinchuk and assistants Dylan Lukinchuk, Buck Schmidt.
The Knights lost the BC Minor provincial title last year in the
final, losing to Aldergrove. In the last four years the Knights have won five provincial championships – three B.C. Minor crowns and two Baseball BC titles. They’ll go after their sixth in four years when they head to Burnaby Thursday for the Baseball BC provincial tournament.
The winner of that seven-team event will advance to the Western Canadian championship in Strathmore, Alta., Aug. 15-18. The Knights are the defending Western Canadian champions.
Canadian teen silver in Pan Am fencing
The Canadian Press
Ask coach Yoann Lebrun what teenage sensation Jessica Guo might be capable of in her fencing career and be prepared for an immediate two-word answer. Olympic champion.
After Guo’s stellar performance at the Pan Am Games on Monday, it’s hard not to take Lebrun at his word.
Guo fenced like a veteran in her first appearance at a senior-level multi-sport Games. She went unbeaten in the women’s foil competition until finally dropping a 1510 decision to American Lee Kiefer in the gold-medal bout.
Not bad for someone who turned 14 just two months ago.
“I feel like the whole day I wasn’t really thinking about, ‘Oh, I have to get a medal,’ Guo said. ”I was just into my bout. I was focusing on one hit every single time.“
With an air of confidence on the piste and seemingly mature beyond her years off it, it’s hard not to get the feeling that Guo will succeed at whatever she tries to do.
She already speaks three languages and is an excellent student.
Guo is preparing to begin high school this fall and would like to become an eye doctor one day.
The Toronto fencer thrives on challenges and seeing them through to completion.
“She’s incredible,” Lebrun said. “But the first thing is that Jessica works two times harder than others. There’s no success without work. She’s a really really hard worker.”
Guo rolled through the preliminary round at the Lima Convention Centre and defeated teammate Eleanor Harvey of Hamilton 14-12 in the semifinal.
“I guess I was patient,” Guo said. “I wasn’t rushing and just worked with
what she was doing.”
In the final, Kiefer and Guo were tied 5-5 before the American started to pull away.
Kiefer scored six of the next seven points and they shook hands moments later.
“She was moving me,” Guo said. “She has really good point control and a flick. The actions I’m best at didn’t work. She’s also really good at moving her legs.
“So there were a lot of times where I missed or didn’t hit my right actions (on attack).”
After posting strong results at the cadet/ junior level, Guo reached the quarterfinals at her third World Cup appearance at the senior level.
Her fluid movements and quick reflexes leave opponents guessing. She doesn’t seem fazed in the slightest about competing against the best athletes in her sport.
“She’s really strong in the head,” Lebrun said. “It’s the biggest part of her game.”
Athletes are using the Pan Ams as preparation for upcoming Olympic qualifiers ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Guo, meanwhile, is enjoying her accomplishment of winning Pan Am silversomething she wasn’t entirely expecting this trip – and isn’t thinking too far ahead about future fencing goals.
“I’m living in the present,” she said with a smile.
Harvey earned bronze with the semifinal loss. In men’s individual epee, Marc-Antoine Blais-Belanger of Montreal was eliminated in the quarterfinals after dropping a 15-10 decision to Cuba’s Yunior Reytor Venet. Seraphim Hsieh Jarov of Surrey did not make it out of the preliminary round. Fencing continues through Saturday.
Canada won one gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.
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The P.G. Surg Med Knights beat the Vancouver Canadians 9-4 on Sunday in Kelowna to win the BC Minor Baseball midget double-A final.
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Canada’s Jessica Guo, left, silver medallist, and teammate Eleanor Harvey, bronze medallist, pose after the women’s foil individual event at the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru, on Monday.
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