THE WEDNESDAY
AUG. 10, 2011
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Man attacked, bear killed ‘I could feel her, I was waiting for her, waiting for her to do it,’ says bear’s victim By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A day after being attacked by a bear near his Anmore home, Ken Hogue was able to joke with his neighbours about the harrowing incident and expressed sadness that his 200 lb. adversary had to be killed. The only reason the mother bear didn’t eat him, Hogue speculated, was that he didn’t taste good without ketchup. But during the Monday morning incident in Countryside Village near Buntzen Lake, Hogue feared for his life when the black bear KEN HOGUE ran at him, prompting him to dive down an embankment. “I just came upon it and, boom, all of a sudden it came at me,” Hogue recalled. He was just 500 feet from his house, walking along the treelined residential street with his shih tzu dog Shelby, when he spotted a bear embroiled in an aggressive encounter with another neighbour’s dog. The bear saw Hogue and began running toward him, bowling over his little dog and leaping down the embankment after him. see BEAR THAT ATTACKED, CK , page g 3
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Andrea McDonald and son Kai show off equipment that will be available Saturday at KidSport Tri-Cities’ used equipment sale.
A sporting chance By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Outfitting young people with new equipment can be an expensive proposition for any family trying to get their kids involved in sports. So KidSport Tri-Cities organizer Andrea McDonald is not exaggerating when she said it is important people get to the organization’s used equipment summer sale early this Saturday. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Conservation officers carry a tranqillized bear cub in Anmore on Monday after its mother attacked a local man who was out for a walk with his dog. The man suffered minor injuries but the mother bear was shot and killed.
see EQUIPMENT QU OFTEN, O , page g 4