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very in sight

NV boy at home after 14-hour heart surgery

Robert Galster

News Reporter vabert@nsnews.coun
NORTH Vancouver's Thomas
Cranwill is on the road to recovery
following a 14-hour surgery to mend
his heart.

Vhe nine vear oid underwent the procedure
on fan. 20 at BOC. Children’s: Hospital, The
soperaion, the first of ity kind: attempted: tn

severe compheations wile he underwent ome
genes surgery as ababy. Since then he hats heen
dagiessd with bran damage and cerebral pabe.
He has alse surtered 2 partatiass of heanmg and
vision

Ve Cranwaills lunged a [aw sat against the
Calgary doctor responsible tor mivnig Thomas?
diagaests at birth but were only partially ste
cesstil While the presiding pidge ruled wrong
doing had occurred, he tound: the Cranwilly’
lawyer filed to draw a tine beowecen the doctor's

Canada moh ed the insertion of a nibe grat to
case the How of blood to the boy's
area. The grant also replaced a portion ofan tor

sting gratt that had compressed.

The procedure was asuccess and the bev wats
relcased from the hospital on Feb. 10.

Thomas was born with a heart detect that
was slot ihmhediately diagnosed. [Te resulted: in

Dangerous
body search
abandoned

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Grind trail Monday morning
failed to recover Manning's
body.

Ao “stepped-up” search,
involving 40 volunteer rescue
pernonnel and four avalanche
dogs from North Shore Search
and Resette was called olf in
the early afternoon.

Jones was unceriain ay to
when rescue efforts could be
renewed, He said the snow
pack on the Grind was so deep
that it may not mele until the
summer.

Jones advised anvone who
may be considering. searching
the Grind for Manning's boay
to “stay out of there — it’s just
too dangerous.”

As aresult, the family has be
the le
Nore than S300,000.

tt chest

totaling
Dongtions to the

ie made
Canada,

FORMER NEWS
columnist Barbara
McCreadie has died at
60.

She stecumbed to) cancer
Sunday at Lions Gate Hospital,

For 18 years, | Mrs.
MeCreadig dvlighted readers,
who shared her interest: in
adventurous travel and down-
home cooking, with her travel
and food columns, She stopped
writing for the News in 1995,
TI hrough her writings, which always included
mgny personal anecdotes, readers came 1
know her Susband Brian, her daughters
(Lon, Suzy and Janine) and her beloved cats.
Barbara and Brian had

y RV across North
America, with many of the stories from the
couple's road trips filling the writer's final
columns.

Mrs. MeCreadie was born in Toronto and

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and ‘Fhomas’ brain damage.

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ab tees of both sides ap the suit

ASHLEY Cranwill is over-
seeing her son’s recov-
ery from heari surgery.

lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta,
berore moving to Vancouver to
attend university and later
working as a high-school home
economics teacher,

North Shore News associ-
ate editor Noel Wright, who
hired Mrs. MeCreadie asa
columnist, remembered the
writer for her breezy writing
style.

“Her columns \
bright. They always had a litde
bit of fun in them,” said Wright.

Mrs. MeCreadie is survived by her has-
band, three daughters, sons-in-laws Gerry,
Pan and Rick and grandchildren, i
1 Meghan and Conner, A
her fife is planned for Munda
p.m. at Mr. Seymour United Chu
Parkgate Ave., North Van. In tieu of flowers,
donations to othe Canadian Diabetes
Association are requested.

~~ Layne Christensen

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