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A wrong turn running in Peterson Creek Park trapped a Kamloops woman and her beloved dog several metres down a rock face as the sun began to fade late Tuesday afternoon.
Fortunately for Sarah Sparrow and three-year-old Great Dane, Maverick, she took her phone with her on the run. I don t usually bring my cellphone or go (running here) this late, she said when back on solid ground.
Sparrow phoned 9-11 when she realized she was in a precarious position. She said a dispatcher stayed on the line with her the whole 12 minutes it took Kamloops Fire and Rescue to reach her.
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The organizer: Rob Chalmers
The reason: To fund wishes for young women with terminal cancer
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When Mélanie Chalmers died from breast cancer at the age of 39, her husband Rob was taken aback by how many people were affected by her love of life.
“We saw this wave of support come in,” Mr. Chalmers, 46, said from his home in Toronto. Dozens of people Mr. Chalmers barely knew talked about how they had been inspired by Ms. Chalmers and her refusal to be defined by cancer. “It kind of gave us this realization that there was something here that people connected with and there were other people who wanted to achieve the same type of things that Mel d