1. Advocate questions use of traps after raccoon gnaws paw off
An adult raccoon was recovered by the Critter Care Wildlife Society after it was found wandering around a neighbourhood in Burnaby last Thursday. The male鈥檚 right paw was snared in a cuff-styled duke trap.
2. Murals 鈥榞iving life to dark corners鈥� of Newton
An Indigenous mural is being brought to life in Newton this week, and it鈥檚 the second on the same building in the span of a year.
| Artists Danny Fernandez and Corey Bulpitt create an Indigenous mural along 72nd Avenue in Newton on Tuesday (April 17). (Submitted photos) |
3. Vancouver first in B.C. to allow liquor sales in grocery stores
Wine, beer and spirits will be sold via the 鈥渟tore within a store鈥� model approved by the B.C. government back in 2015.
| Vancouver will begin taking applications for grocery store liquor sales in May. (Black Press file) |
4. Young Chilliwack girl raises more than $1,000 for family devastated by fire
When 12-year-old Chase Lloyd heard about a local family of six losing their rental house in a devastating fire, she had just earned more than $150 in her elementary school鈥檚 young entrepreneur program.
| After earning money selling emoji pillows at her school鈥檚 young entrepreneurship day, 12-year-old Chase Lloyd decided to donate $20 to a family who lost everything to fire. That $20 snowballed into more than $1,000. (Paul Henderson/ The Progress) |
5. Man accused of Abbotsford school stabbing hearing voices, intensely paranoid
Gabriel Klein, 23, is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 13-year-old Letisha Reimer at Abbotsford Senior Secondary on Nov. 1, 2016.
| This image of Gabriel Klein was released by police at the time of his arrest in November. |
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