New Westminster Record November 10 2016

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VETERAN RECALLS BEING STRANDED AT SEA IN WW2

‘They kept waking me up to ask the time’ By Theresa McManus

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A man’s wartime memento has stood the test of time. Harold, who asked that his surname be withheld, served as an engineer for the British Merchant Navy in the Second World War.While he was in a reserved occupation and didn’t have to serve in the war, the 20-year-old chose to join the Merchant Navy in 1941. “I wanted to go and see the world,” he explains. “I took off and was on the Celtic Star, one of the Blue Star Line ships.” Harold, 94, crisscrossed the North Atlantic during the war, often sailing through atrocious weather. “It was bad. Just rough. Rough waters and howling wind,” he says. “I used to get seasick. I wasn’t a good sailor. Sometimes I would feel like Continued on page 9

KEPT ON TICKING: A Rolex wristwatch purchased in Argentina during the Second World War has served one veteran of the British Merchant Navy for 70 years, including three-and-a-half days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Africa.

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Trump election shocks city politicians By Tereza Verenca

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Shock, sadness and surprise – just some of the feelings expressed around the world after Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United

States in a stunning upset on Tuesday. The Royal City was no exception. New Westminster NDP MLA Judy Darcy, while shocked by the results, views Trump’s victory as a lesson for politicians on this

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side of the border. “People were voicing their feelings of being left out in the corridors of power and feeling their government was out of touch with what affects them in their daily lives,” she said, adding it’s a message she also hears in

her own riding. “I think the key lesson is you need to stay grounded, you need to listen to the people you are honoured to represent and you need to stay in touch with them every day.” Darcy also suggested the message that Trump rode to

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