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JULY 22, 2011 www.tricitynews.com
TRI-CITY NEWS Saving the girls
Theatre for kids
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INSIDE Letters/12 Spotlight/22 Brian Minter/37 Sports/45
Taking aim at cancer Kick For A Cure to raise funds for children’s cancer research By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Four years ago, Domenic Runghen had a cold. Or, at least, that’s what his parents thought. It wasn’t until the two-year-old’s daycare operator voiced concern about the boy’s health that his father took him to the hospital. Nuvin Runghen, a Port Moody resident and dog handler with the Canadian Border Services Agency, remembers that day well.“I walked in to get him checked out and left with a child with cancer,” he said. “He had leukemia, and I had no idea.” Thankfully, after numerous treatments “that filled him with poison in his system,” doctors last month declared his sixyear-old son free of the disease. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A cancer-free Domenic Runghen, six, of Port Moody, will be part of the fourth annual Kick For A Cure at Coquitlam Town Centre Park tomorrow (Saturday). Proceeds from the fundraiser will aid childhood cancer research.
Family steps up to help others in crisis
Get out Plenty to do and see just a few clicks away on the highway, see page 25 PoCo has a new guide out for local trails, see page 34
see KICK, K CK, page g 16 6
By Todd Coyne THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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Dan Reaveley, whose wife, Charlene, was struck and killed in an accident has started a society for families dealing with the loss of a loved one.
On the morning after his wife was struck and killed by an alleged hit-and-run driver, Dan Reaveley was left with four young kids and a burning question: “What’s next?” Kaeden, 11, Rebecca,7, Alicia, 4 and two-year-old Tristan would need grief counselling — as would he — after their mother, Charlene, 30, died along with Lorraine Cruz, 26, whom she had stopped to help on a Coquitlam roadside. The kids would also need full-time childcare and eventually, perhaps, post-secondary education, all of which would be tough to provide as a newly single parent. Still, Dan considers himself fortunate. He thanks the support — both emotional and finan-
cial — from his family, friends and community for getting him through the darkest time in his life that began last February. But, as he told The Tri-City News Wednesday, not everyone in similar situations can count themselves so lucky. “Financially, I’m not doing too, too bad,” Dan said in an interview, “but when you think about people that aren’t, it’s really hard what this could do to you.” And so, on April 4 — what would have been Charlene’s 31st birthday — Dan applied to the provincial government to establish a not-for-profit society in Charlene Reaveley’s name to provide assistance to families with children experiencing the loss of a loved one. see HELP FOR FAMILIES, FAMILIES, page 3