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Sumeet Sharma couldn’t head to the Czech birthplace of Pilsner beer last year for the world powerlifting championships, but the B.C. corrections’ officer hopes to be in the Kazakhstan home of the wild apple this fall representing Canada.
In the meantime, he’s been tirelessly criss-crossing the Lower Mainland delivering refreshments and nourishment to front-line workers during COVID-19. That would include Indian fare, pizza, nutrition bars, coffee and bottled water, not beer from Pilsen, Czech Republic, or
Malus sieversii (the Central Asian apple that has grown for thousands of years near Almaty, Kazakhstan, home of this year’s planned world championships).