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• State of emergency extended over B.C. wildfires as windy weather expected

  18-08-2017 23:27 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — British Columbia has extended a provincewide state of emergency because of wildfires that have scorched a record amount of land this season.
  Chris Duffy of Emergency Management B.C. said the third extension issued since July 19 is expected to remain in effect until Sept. 1, which will bring its total duration to eight weeks.
  “This will be the longest provincial declaration in the history of the province,” he said, adding the 2003 wildfire season saw a six-week state
  
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• Investigators release first official details of 'Deadpool 2' stuntwoman's downtown Vancouver death

  18-08-2017 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s workplace safety agency has released the first official account of a “Deadpool 2” stuntwoman’s death, saying SJ Harris was thrown off a motorcycle and propelled through a plate glass window.
  Joi “SJ” Harris is shown in a handout photo. Harris, a stuntwoman killed while filming a scene for the movie “Deadpool 2” in Vancouver on Monday is being remembered as a pioneering motorcycle road racer who lived her life to
  
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• Senegal has it all for the adventurous traveller

  18-08-2017 22:55 via vancouversun.com
  Plage de Ngor, SENEGAL – It happened 30 km. off the stormy coast of Dakar near the western most tip of the African continent. That’s where I hooked into a 236 kg. dream marlin – more than twice my body weight – that was to be the fight of my sports fishing life.
  I snagged him just as a fiery sun began to set and we duked it out for the next couple of hours. In the end I was totally depleted, nearly too weak to remove my fishing harness. I felt sick to the stomach and my h
  
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• Destination: Cumberland a Comox Valley gem

  18-08-2017 22:37 via theprovince.com
  It is a small Vancouver Island community with a very large history.
  Cumberland, in the Comox Valley, is called home by about 3,750 full-time residents and is part of Vancouver Island’s growing reputation for both outdoor and culinary adventure.
  This hidden gem of a village — a booming coal mining town in 1897 that almost became a ghost town when the mines closed in the 1960s — sits 10 minutes down the road from its better-known big sisters Courtenay, and 20 minutes from Comox,
  
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• Film industry feeling real estate woes - The Globe and Mail

  18-08-2017 22:33 via theglobeandmail.com
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  Film industry feeling real estate woes
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  The owners of Shannon Mews still allow filming in the main building, but condo redevelopment around it has changed the grounds quite a bit, eliminating much of the historic gardens. Adam Hogarth. Kerry Gold. 1 day ago August 18, 2017. Adam Hogarth's ...
  
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• Preliminary inspection report into death of ‘Deadpool 2’ stunt driver released

  18-08-2017 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Harris successfully completed the stuns multiple times before the incident.
  
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• 10 world-class adventures here in B.C.

  18-08-2017 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Up for an adventure? Here are ten B.C. adventures to squeeze in before summer is over.
  Rock Climb in the BugaboosIn B.C.’s Purcell Mountains, a series of glacier-sculpted granite spires make up Bugaboo Provincial Park. This place has long held a certain mystique for climbers and mountaineers around the globe. Sleep in Conrad Kain Hut—named after the renowned climber who visited the area in 1910—or at Applebee Dome wilderness camping area. There is a steep 3-4 hour hike int
  
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• Tips to keep your wine cool

  18-08-2017 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  Lifestyle Expert Shannon Heth shares her stylish tips for keeping your wine cool during the heat of summer.
  
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• ‘Scutt-eld’ season: Excruciating injury nearly shelves defending B.C. PGA champ

  18-08-2017 21:10 via theprovince.com
  Shoulder pain can be par for the course for golfers, but the aches Gordy Scutt began experiencing this spring were unlike anything he’s felt before.
  As a result of the soreness, which he said began in early April and was eventually discovered to be a calcium build-up in his shoulder, his 2017 season was essentially derailed.
  Still, Scutt is slated to tee off in the 2017 PGA of BC Championship, a 36-hole stroke-play format with a field of nearly 100 professionals from across the province, n
  
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• West End parking permit increases

  18-08-2017 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Residents who live in Vancouver’s West End have until the end of this month to buy their parking pass before prices go up significantly.
  
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• Low B.C. sockeye returns, fires, give Indigenous groups fishing priority: DFO

  18-08-2017 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The Fisheries Department says low salmon returns to British Columbia’s Fraser River mean Indigenous groups have priority access to the fish as conservation efforts are underway.
  Jennifer Nener, director of salmon mangement for the Pacific region of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says some Indigenous communities that were evacuated during wildfires in the Interior missed the opportunity to catch fish to sustain them through the winter.
  Nener says the department held an 18-ho
  
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• Town Talk: Revisiting past Augusts and the man who gave the month its name

  18-08-2017 21:01 via vancouversun.com
  RERUNS OF AUGUST: On this day 2003 years ago, 40-year Roman emperor Augustus kissed his wife and said: “Live mindful of our wedlock, Livia, and farewell.” Then, abiding by a favourite utterance, he died “quicker than you can cook asparagus.” Known previously as Mensilis Sextilis, the month was renamed to honour Augustus who “found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
  The images here are of folk who provided both bricks and mortar for this colum
  
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• Editorial: Why Canadians should care about Charlottesville

  18-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, there’s a good chance the specimen in question is, in fact, a duck.
  If one offers up the Nazi salute, brandishes a swastika flag and chants “blood and soil,” there’s a sporting good likelihood the young man — as they invariably seem to be — is a neo-Nazi. That U.S. President Donald Trump struggled to immediately and clearly acknowledge this is nothing short of shameful.
  But the issue is larger
  
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• Douglas Todd: Should Vancouver homeowners take the 'big profits'?

  18-08-2017 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  The popular historian and poet George Bowering feels guilty about selling his Point Grey home in Vancouver at the market price.
  He hates that real estate has ridiculously inflated in Metro Vancouver. He is appalled that there is no longer any real correlation between the city’s (tepid) median wages and its astronomical housing and rental costs.
  “We feel terrible about the high housing prices. But we took advantage of them. So we’re hypocrites. We didn’t say: ‘We can
  
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• B.C. extends state of emergency for third time because of wildfires

  18-08-2017 20:33
  Fires have burned through nearly 900,000 hectares of forest in B.C. this summer, the highest number on record
  
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• Ex Vancouver neo-Nazi urges parents to talk to kids about Charlottesville

  18-08-2017 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A former neo-Nazi from Vancouver says the violence in Charlottesville, Va., presents an opportunity for parents and educators to become more aware of how easily youth can be lured into a seemingly exciting but potentially deadly world of hate.
  Tony McAleer, 49, became immersed in white supremacy at age 15 when some skinheads befriended him through a subculture of punk music.
  “By the time I got into organized groups I was 17, 18,” said McAleer, adding he has dealt wi
  
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• Jones, Small among the names to know as WLA final opens tonight at Queen’s Park

  18-08-2017 19:56 via theprovince.com
  In a Western Lacrosse Association best-of-seven final loaded with storylines, Mitch Jones tops the chart right now.
  The 25-year-old southpaw is playing the best lacrosse of his career as he and the rest of the New Westminster Salmonbellies get ready to take on the Victoria Shamrocks in Game 1 of the set tonight (6 p.m.) at Queen’s Park Arena.
  Game 2 is Sunday a 6 p.m. at The Q Centre in Victoria.
  Jones put up 18 goals and 32 points to help No. 3-seeded New Westminster beat the No. 2 Maple
  
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• Makeover: Vancouver restaurant owner Lydia Ranallo goes glam

  18-08-2017 19:55 via vancouversun.com
  Lydia Ranallo, 54, is a restaurant owner. She was planning a trip to Italy and her daughter wanted to surprise her with a makeover.
  Lydia has medium weight, naturally curly hair. It was previously coloured in a dark black-brown shade, and was feeling very dry due to over processing. I felt that her hair colour was too dark for her and I wanted to soften it by creating a tone-on-tone effect.
  I placed foil highlights throughout her hair using a gentle silk-infused decolourizer to softly lighten he
  
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• 3% of Metro Vancouver men gay or bisexual: study

  18-08-2017 19:46
  New, 'most accurate' data on men who have sex with men will help public health services and policy, hopes UBC scholar.
  
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• August poses challenges for food gardeners

  18-08-2017 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a critical time in our food gardens. It is true that we’re harvesting, but some potential challenges need to be addressed to ensure all our efforts come to fruition. 
  Tomatoes usually present the greatest array of problems.  Already some of the larger varieties have a black splotch on the bottoms of their fruits.  It’s called blossom end rot, and although the tomato is still edible, a good portion of the fruit will not be usable.  This problem is a calc
  
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• Three men rescued after boat capsizes in Howe Sound

  18-08-2017 19:12 via globalnews.ca
  A father and his two sons are safe after a rogue wave sent them into the chilly Howe Sound waters on Thursday.
  
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• Island Health, RCMP investigating allegations of caregiver stealing money from senior

  18-08-2017 18:58 via globalnews.ca
  A woman hired to take care of a Nanaimo senior is also using the opportunity to take his money, allege 93-year-old Douglas Fairbanks and his daughter Susan Tye.
  
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• B.C. state of emergency extended once again

  18-08-2017 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  The state of emergency declared in response to the raging wildfires in British Columbia has been extended until Sept. 1.
  
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• Strong winds, lightning raise concern over British Columbia's wildfires

  18-08-2017 17:43 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Windy and unstable weather was forecast for most of southern and central British Columbia, conditions that officials say have the potential to kick up wildfires.
  Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning an incoming cold front packing winds of about 60 kilometres per hour was expected to hit the central Interior today before sliding south and diminishing.
  The system was also forecast to carry isolated lightning storms with little rain.
  The Cariboo Regiona
  
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• BBQ tips: Beer brined chicken in a white Alabama BBQ sauce

  18-08-2017 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  Rusty Johnson is here with his BBQ tips and cooks up some beer brined chicken in a white Alabama BBQ sauce.
  
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• Movies with Dana Gee: Lucky Logan and Ingrid Goes West

  18-08-2017 17:21 via globalnews.ca
  Dana Gee gives us her take on three new movies opening this weekend – Lucky Logan, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and Ingrid Goes West.
  
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• Letters: No one hunts grizzly bears to eat their meat

  18-08-2017 17:00 via theprovince.com
  I applaud the B.C. government for banning the trophy hunt of grizzly bears. I grew up hunting and fishing in the Peace River area, but never had the urge to go kill grizzlies — or black bears for that matter.
  Anyone who knows anything about bear hunters is that they don’t hunt grizzlies for any other reason than in taking the head and hide — certainly not for the meat, which is apparently unappealing at best.
  Would I eat grizzly or skunk, for that matter, to survive possible st
  
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• Diner en Blanc: Head chef dishes on all-white dinner

  18-08-2017 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Le Dîner en Blanc Vancouver
  Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. | To be announced
  Information: Vancouver.dinerenblanc.com 
  For the past six years, Dîner en Blanc has been one of Vancouver’s most buzzed-about events of the summer.
  From the all-white outfits to the element of surprise (diners aren’t notified of the event’s location until just before the dinner begins), it’s one of the most talked-up — and socially shared — evenings of the city&rs
  
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• BC politics: One month report card

  18-08-2017 16:43 via globalnews.ca
  It has now been one full month since John Horgan was sworn-in as Premier. Global News Morning checks in with their political panel to take a look at how the NDP-Green Party alliance is doing.
  
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• Family rescued after boat capsizes in Howe Sound

  18-08-2017 16:39 via globalnews.ca
  A family is speaking out Friday, a day after their harrowing rescue on the waters near Porteau Cove.
  
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• The Creek a flagship red for Tinhorn Creek Vineyards

  18-08-2017 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Tinhorn Creek Vineyards CEO Sandra Oldfield says “we’ve been part of the South Okanagan since 1993 — growing grapes, making wine, and having a good laugh whenever we can,” it’s not just talk. Oldfield has been a force in the region for a quarter of a century, and she has done it with charm and grace.
  Tinhorn was born between friends: Barb and Bob Shaunessy and Ken and Sandra Oldfield launched the Oliver-based winery in 1993 with a few barrels of wine in th
  
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• Dog left in hot car in Squamish wearing a diaper returned to owners

  18-08-2017 15:54 via globalnews.ca
  The dog was discovered inside the car parked at the Sea to Sky Gondola on Wednesday afternoon around 1:30 p.m.
  
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• Neo-Nazi flyers found stuffed into East Vancouver mailboxes

  18-08-2017 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of East Vancouver were surprised to discover Neo-Nazi flyers stuffed into their mailboxes recently.
  
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• Five Things to Know: Seawall groper, 'anti-Islam' rally

  18-08-2017 14:00 via vancouversun.com
  VPD has warned the public after a series of sex assaults on the seawall, an anti-Islam rally organizer insists he only cares about safety, and the wildfires are doing damage to B.C. tourism. Here are five things you need to know.
  VPD warns about cycling seawall groper
  Vancouver police are warning women after a series of sexual assaults along the Vancouver seawall. 
  On Aug. 11, the VPD received separate reports from three women who say they were groped by a man on a bicycle as they walked al
  
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• Animal rights groups seek intervenor status in Vancouver Aquarium’s attempt to overturn cetacean ban

  18-08-2017 12:08 via globalnews.ca
  Two animal rights groups have filed for intervenor status in the Vancouver Aquarium's bid to overturn the Vancouver Park Board's cetacean ban.
  
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• In the face of hate, doing nothing isn't an option

  18-08-2017 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  With all that’s happened since Donald Trump’s election and now with the American president’s unwillingness to denounce racism, hate, domestic terrorism and rifle-toting men in camouflage clothes, it’s hard to know what to do.
  Yet, doing nothing isn’t an option. History teaches us that and it’s why Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, should be on this summer’s required reading list.
  It’s simple, though
  
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• Making strides for Mental Health

  18-08-2017 07:44 via globalnews.ca
  Kyle Patterson is hoping to raise funds and awareness for mental wellness by walking 1,000 km this summer. Global videographer Travis Lowe caught up with Patterson on his journey through the Okanagan.
  
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• Bacon murder trial: Disclosure issues with key witness force more delays

  18-08-2017 07:29 via vancouversun.com
  KELOWNA, B.C. — Concerns about disclosure relating to a key witness in the Jonathan Bacon murder case have prompted further delays in the lengthy trial.
  Cross-examination of the former gangster who testified on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week in Kelowna has been pushed to Aug. 28 so the defence has time to review documents that have yet to be disclosed by the Crown.
  “I was surprised by the information I received from my co-counsel when I arrived regarding the state of disclos
  
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• Monday's solar eclipse: Where to go and how to watch it safely

  18-08-2017 07:13 via vancouversun.com
  It’s where the fun is, Bruce Springsteen claims in the song, Blinded by the Light.
  But even with 85 per cent of the sun blocked by the moon, please don’t stare at Monday’s partial solar eclipse. It’s as damaging as staring into the full sun, experts say.
  “Even though the sun will be 85-, 86-per-cent obscured, it’s very important that people do not look at the eclipse with the naked eye,” Dr. Stanley Greenspoon of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada&
  
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• Opinion: Wildfires can wake us to need for climate action

  18-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  For several months, my five-year-old daughter has had nightmares that cause her to wake up screaming. When we asked her what they were about, she refused to tell her pediatrician father and I, leaving two doctors feeling helpless. Last week, I started guessing, and she finally said in a small voice: “There are lots of fires.”
  That should have been my first guess.
  When she was two, we lived through the worst wildfire season on record in the Northwest Territories when smoke blanketed Y
  
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• Opinion: Court precedents should encourage Canada to act on new pardon legislation

  18-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s time for the federal government to take action on the issue of pardons in Canada. Since the government changed the rules in 2012, pardons have become more difficult to obtain and more expensive.
  Recently, two provincial cases, in Ontario and B.C., have given some people with criminal records new hope for their futures. It was found that extending the wait times retroactively caused the punishment of the offender to be increased after sentencing. This affects people with indictable off
  
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• Opinion: Binoculars over bullets

  18-08-2017 07:00 via vancouversun.com
  It may have taken a while, but the tide has finally turned for our giant grizzly bear friends roaming the Great Bear Rainforest. As of Nov. 30 this year, once this fall season is over, all grizzly bear hunting in the region will be banned; throughout the province, all trophy hunting will be prohibited.
  At Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort, having supported the initiative for three years with our “Bullets for Binos” program, we can’t be more thrilled. We have seen 10 hunters swap thei
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Aug 17

  18-08-2017 05:33 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Thursday, August 17, 2017.
  
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• Live Review: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rock Rogers Arena

  18-08-2017 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are celebrating four decades in the business of rock ‘n’ roll with a 40th Anniversary tour that hits Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Thursday.
  Petty and his crack backing band have a career-spanning set that includes many sing-along moments and more than a few killer solos from guitarist Mike Campbell.
  Follow Stuart Derdeyn’s live coverage of the concert:
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• Study finds online shoppers spend more using smart phones than desktops

  18-08-2017 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  Having trouble resisting the urge to splurge? The solution could be a simple as putting down your smart phone and opting for a desktop. As John Hua reports, new research from the University of British Columbia Okanagan shows shoppers tend to spend more when the purchase is in the palm of their hand.
  
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• Second suspicious wildfire in less than 24 hours at West Kelowna canyon

  18-08-2017 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  "This is very concerning to have another fire just a day later in the same vicinity but not the same fire."
  
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• RCMP Musical Ride stops at PNE on Canada 150 tour

  18-08-2017 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP Musical Ride has been entertaining crowds since 1876. The legendary equestrian team is touring the country to celebrate Canada’s 150 birthday. Linda Aylesworth takes a behind the scenes look at what goes into the show.
  
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• Peanut Allergy Treatment Breakthrough

  18-08-2017 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  IN HEALTH NEWS — A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN TREATING DEADLY PEANUT ALLERGIES — RESEARCHERS HOPING THIS DISCOVERY COULD EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A CURE.
  
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• Man convicted in deadly hit and run receives 4 year jail sentence

  18-08-2017 04:26 via globalnews.ca
  Four years to the day that Robert Paterson was struck and killed in Surrey, the man responsible for his death has learned his fate. As Geoff Hastings reports, Christopher Griffith will spend time behind bars and will not be allowed to drive for more than 11 years.
  
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• Family grieving young daughter’s death robbed of irreplaceable items

  18-08-2017 04:26 via globalnews.ca
  A family devastated by the death of their daughter is making a public plea. As the girl lay dying at Canuck Place Children’s Hospice on Tuesday, her father’s truck was broken into and some priceless possession were taken. Jennifer Palma reports.
  
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