Here are Black Press Media鈥檚 top stories for Friday, May 17.
1. Corgis race in first-ever Cloverdale Rodeo competition
The Cloverdale Rodeo welcomed a new kind of competition to its longstanding roughstock events this year: corgi races
The idea for competition, which saw excitable corgis pitted against each other in a race of speed and mental readiness, came from general manager Mike MacSorley who is the proud owner of Lou.
2. Man arrested after police standoff and fire at Abbotsford home
A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon in Abbotsford after a fire forced him out of a home in which he had barricaded himself for more than three hours.
Const. Jody Thomas said when police arrived at the home, they found out that a man who was inside the home was breaching his court-ordered conditions to have no contact with a woman inside and to not go to her home.
3. Family of B.C. pilot killed in Honduras trying to 鈥榩iece together鈥� tragedy
The family is 鈥渘ot doing good,鈥� father Larry Forseth said.
鈥淲e are taking it very badly,鈥� he said. 鈥淗e was way too young 鈥�. It鈥檚 a horrible thing to lose your child and he was a very special child. And we are a very close family.鈥�
4. Hungry bear takes snack from Maple Ridge kitchen
April Migneault got home from work Sunday evening and found that a bear had been in her kitchen and stole some chips.
She had left the back deck door open to let some air in as the temperature reached 24.2 C outside Sunday, according to Environment Canada, as recorded at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport on the Victoria Day long weekend.
5. Should B.C. already be implementing province-wide fire bans?
Concerned British Columbians are hoping a petition urging B.C. Wildfire Services to implement a full fire ban will help reduce the risk of wildfires.
The 鈥楰eep B.C. Green Full Fire Ban Now鈥� petition was created on Change.org recently. See more >
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