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Small fry
friendship
making
many smile

THE ROMANCE involving
a North Vancouver
kindergarten student and a
Langley youngster continues
to flourish.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

And it also continues to attract
the attention of several media
outlets.

The romance began on July 1
when North Vancouver's Tyler
Barnes and Langley’s Bayley
Lemkay, both five years old, met
while attending a Canada Day
picnic in Langley

Ed Barnes said his son, Tyler,
had spent most of the day playing
with Bayley, whom Tyler had met
for the first thme at the picnic. It
was friendship at first sight for
the young couple.

Tyler returned to have dinner
with his family but insisted he
wanted to say goodbye to Bayley
and thank her for the nice time

“fore they left.

The only problem was that
Tyler did not know his young
friend’s name, and finding her in
a crowd of between 10,000 and
20,000 was not going to be easy.

“*We believed that locating this
five-year-old girl was going to be
fraught with major difficulties.
However, my son continued (to

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A ROMANTIC lunch for two. North Vancouver youngster Tyler Barnes and Langley's Bayley Lemkay
enjoy a romantic lunch at a McDonald's restaurant. The two met during a Canada Day picnic.

persist that he wished to see this
girl again and thank her for the
nice day,’* said Barnes.

Tyler’s mother, Lee, said her
son was upset that he was unable
to find Bayley.

“She had her face painted as a
cat, and that’s what he was upset
about at the end of the day that

he couldn’t say goodbye to the
cute little cat girl,’’ she said.

But Tyler’s parents were intent
on finding the littl girl and his
dad enlisted the help of Van-
couver radio station 93.7 FM JR
Country, which had hosted the
Canada Day picnic.

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several phone calls, managed to
find Bayley. But Tyler wanted to

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do more than just thank Bayley
for the good time they had.

“By this time my son had
decided that he wanted to take the
young lady out for lunch and that
he -vished to have a fine car to
ride in. 1 advised the radio station
that this was beyond his budget,"
said his father.

The radio station decided to ac-
commodate Tsler's wishes and
sent a stretch limousine to pick up
Tyler and his mother in North
Vancouver. They then drove to
Bayley’s Langley home, where,
upon arrival, Tyler, with flowers
and stuffed bear in hand, greeted
Bayley at the front door, She in
turn, greeted Tyler with a huge
balloon bouquet.

The friendship was rekindled
and the young couple dashed off
to play in Bayley’s tree house be-
fore embarking on their lunch
date.

The limo then took the pair to a
McDonald's restaurant in Bur-
naby, where they were entertained
by fiddler Frankie Rodgers. The
restaurant, after hearing about the
couple's romantic story, threw in
the meal for free.

But the romance didn’:
with lunch.

Lee Barnes says the two
youngsters continue to talk on the
phone, and she is planning a trip
for the two to the Vancouver
Game Farm.

“Things are rolling right along.
There’s been a lot of interest in
their romance from B.C. Report
magazine, a Langley newspaper
and Twang magazine," she said.
‘*When he phones her up he says
‘hi, it’s me’ and she doesn’t need
to ask who it is.”

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