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MEMENTO. OF Dunkirk attack shows pictures of two British
Expeditionary Forces buddies, about to be re-united after 50
years.

Dunkirk reunion made possible

Bellingham TY station KVOS
and Eaton’s made a Christmas
wish come true for Second World
War veteran Cecil Anderson of
Sidney.

His wife of 50 years, Elsie,
called it “an impossible dream”
that the couple could go overseas
for the 50th anniversary of the
Dunkirk attack. But contest orga-
nizers selected her request and will
pay the couple’s fare to Britain,
Dunkirk and De Pan in late May.

Cecil will meet a fellow British
Expeditionary Forces veteran of
Dunkirk, Gordon Halliday, who
answered an ad Cecil placed in a
British community newspaper.
Halliday is the only war chappie
he’s found in a search that goes
back to 1950, and the two haven’t
seen each other since 1939 or
1940.

The wish-come-true was a sur-
prise: “I was so shocked I don’t
even know what I said to the girl
on the phone,” said Elsie.

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Media say policy marae

Transport Canada’s policy for
allowing media close to a disaster
on Victoria International Airport
property is too restrictive, news
media said.

Airport manager Laurie Brown
said a significant amount of time
would pass before airport officials
would consider allowing news
photographers on airport land with
a police escort.

“The timing would be based on
the mature of the incident. We
would ensure any casualties were
removed and the situation was
stabilized,” Brown said.

“And we would allow (person-
nel) time to implement fan-out
procedures for notifying next of
kin.”

Brown said that any subsequent
media tour would be restricted to a
distance 100 metres away from the
actual crash site.

“Itll be a judgment call on -

when (a tour) is appropriate,”
Brown said. “I want to do as much
as I can to balance both (media
and airline operators) concerns.”

Photographers representing two
newspapers and two television
news outlets were at a recent
minor air crash when a Cessna
aircraft’s landing gear collapsed
on landing.

No photographers were allowed
access to airport land although no

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Injuries resulted from the minor
crash. :
Review editor George Lee said:
“In case of a major airline disaster
he’s naive about the amount of

media that will be covering it.

When you have a major air crash
his policy is 100 restrictive on the
media.”

Victoria Times-Colonist manag-

ing editor Gordon Bell said: “1
don’t think the press has an abso-
lute right to go anywhere.”

“But unless there is some actual
physical danger or staff is imped-
ing things, they should be allowed
on airport land,” Bell said.

CHEK-6 News director Tony
Cox said in the past the television
Staion has had a good relationship

with Transport Canada officials

“I'm not aware if there was a
problem gouny footage,” Cox
said.

Brown said of the recent news —
coverage of a helicopter crash into
Thetis Lake, “I?m not sure that’s
the kind of stuff we want to show
people.”

Brown told a Review photogra-
pher during the recent Cessna
crash that access to airport lands
would have to be authorized by (®
aircraft's owner, Burrard Air. Bur-
tard Air’s chief pilot refused to
allow media close to the plane.

Brown did accompany the pho-
tographer to the roof of the termi-
nal building, a substantial distances,

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