Taiwanese man s iPhone returned one year after it fell into lake
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A Taiwanese man surnamed Chen said his iPhone still works after spending a year at the bottom of Sun Moon Lake. Photo by aixklusiv/Pixabay.com
April 7 (UPI) A Taiwanese man who dropped his iPhone into a lake while paddleboarding said the phone was recovered when a drought caused the water to recede a year later and it still works.
The phone s owner, a man with the surname Chen, posted in the Bao Fei 1 Commune group on Facebook that he dropped his iPhone 11 Pro Max into Sun Moon Lake while he was paddleboarding on March 15, 2020.
“While the site is being used to provide healing services for people, it has the potential to touch many more lives through delivery of more mental health services, recognition and preservation of natural features, opening safe and affordable housing and developing a complete community,” said David Eby, Attorney General and the BC Minister Responsible for Housing, in a statement.
“We look forward to working with the Kwikwetlem First Nation to create a plan with the community for the site’s future.”
Riverview Hospital (Sumiqwuelu) in Coquitlam. (BC Housing)
To kick off the planning process, the lands have gained the name of Sumiqwuelu, meaning “the place of the great blue heron” in the traditional language of the Kwikwetlem people. The site was previously a roosting ground for the great blue heron due to its proximity to what was previously the Coquitlam River floodplain.
iPhone returns to B.C. owner after eight months of seafaring from mainland to Gulf Islands Hunter Hoffman lost his phone last July when the dingy he was in capsized on Coquitlam River; it washed up on a Mayne Island beach eight months later.
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: Mar 09, 2021 • March 11, 2021 • 3 minute read • Hunter Hoffman shows a photograph of his lost phone on his replacement phone at his home in Port Coquitlam. Lost while he was rafting on Coquitlam River, it washed ashore on Mayne Island eight month later. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG
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When their raft flipped and threw its three occupants into the Coquitlam River last July, the kids were battered a bit by the turbulence and rocks, but they were OK.
In new picture book, B.C. poet Jordan Scott helps kids see stuttering as something natural
Award-winning Canadian poet Jordan Scott joined Q s Tom Power to discuss his first children s book, I Talk Like A River, about a boy who feels isolated and unable to fit in because of his stutter.
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Scott’s first children’s book, I Talk Like a River, is based on his own childhood struggle with stuttering
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Posted: Mar 05, 2021 2:07 PM ET | Last Updated: March 5
Jordan Scott is a poet based in Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, B.C. His award-winning first children s book is called I Talk Like A River.(Andrew Zawacki, Penguin Random House Canada)
“We were on rapids about 10 minutes from Lions Park and the dinghy flipped,” recalled 16-year-old Hunter, the youngest of eight children in the Hoffman family. His young niece and a buddy of his were also thrown into the water. “I missed my contact information the most,” Hunter said of the phone he thought he had lost forever. The iPhone 7 Plus was inside a watertight case so the family returned to look for it, albeit with almost no hope. After scouring the area downstream, they gave up. On Saturday, eight months after it went missing, Hunter’s mom Angela received a text from Mayne Island saying the phone had washed ashore in Piggott Bay, where the current comes down Navy Channel and sometimes swirls around the bay.