4 Lea teppei tie ES TY ye te “Ny fa rEnannnS nner EIoRET CoeeeEESS f \ { 4 . . mn \ ; a if ; , Sunday, June 16, 1907 » North Stora Nowa = 3 iF “ : " 1 an t, 1 | Hy aan fi frien 3 1 8-year-old’s Suicide hits'hard gs ,, at Handsworth = By Michael Bock A ES eel jl PEE News Editor ka mitehnel@nsnewseann ec FRIENDS remember Loren ~ Bradfield as the kind of guy Who would say, “Laok, it's os polng to get better” The 18-yeareatd didn't think soon TE June 2 and took bis life, Things had “Just kept on getting worse, Le wasn't allowed to stay at home with his family becauge he couldn't, ‘ live wp tothe roles, Loren had recent i ly been Kicked out ofa shared house in o. -North Vancouver afer he lost it dur “P< tng a night of drinking, 2 He spent his last night-on earth Sleepy in his mother’s car’ my doren was frelng same court dates on various charges, “80 ae He knew he needed ta get into a’ 8 -rhabilitation program to try to beat. « wo bis drug and aleohol problem. gE o>. Things weren't. “iioving fast TB enough though, — ~ : no «, Over his bs 1 «point of paying back “everyone,” he 4) owed money to. He dropped in on”: ‘cold. friends: unannounced, ; Loren, was -nvaking -a° ‘polut of tyin up the loose ends of his life, Those who knew hin] at Handsworth school’ . . can’t make sense of his death, A, ; n Grade 12 at - ‘Handsworth. Jesse. was Loren’s: friend for, many : ‘ Bightcen-year-old Jesse Tucker is in wot x aes » “He was a chatty polite guy whe could talk to: _your'partints, but he was alse a regular goof just like othe est oF uss? ee alles ‘ The suicide doesn’t ‘add up‘ for 17-year-old Mike Kammermayer either, * . ple. A lot of people remember him as being differ. © ent, That's hard to accept” ee, Mike last saw Loren on the day before he died: ay w je didn’t really talk a lot, He didn’t seem real: : ~ ‘ly out of his usual character, but he wasn't happy “either, He sort of seemed a little bit.uncasy,” .. the score cards, “He'd pick up the (score) cards and ' again. Tthought he was distracted.” ; Loren ‘had also dropped in-on Mike without” calling first. That was out of character, , 4’ “He seemed nervous to be at my house, which T thought was ‘kind’of weird because he used to come over all the tine”. . we i Mike knew Loren for at least 12 years, since: . So , . hi st few days he mide a JESSE Tucker, 18, ft, 9 friend who committed suicide on June 2. years! ‘ a : They played golfat Murdo Frazer. e 2” Mike remembers how Loren was fidgeting with a j ‘. ; Ma oe } ee ‘ ee . . ~ eth 8 Y ie L ay left, and Mike. Kam " mermayer, 17, friends by Grade 6 and 7, 7 “They lost couch when Loren couldi’t live at Grade 1 at Cleveland, They became really good home tor the first time and he moved to Maple * Ridge to five with his aunt Alison, Although most kids at school experiment with drugs and alcohol, Loren’s enthusiasm for the stu? was a bit too intense for some of his friends, 4, Said Mike, “It sort of pushed him away from us, He wanted to do it more often than everyone else, Ever’ % af he called me up and wanted to do something knelt that there would be something going on as well.” “ : Mike thinks that,Loren’s spontaneous visit on Jesse last saw: his’ friend about a month betore the suicide, wo Jesse was inva car talking with a friend one night at the bottom of his Upper Capilano driveway, “T saw this big, looming figtre staring through the window. [thought 1 was going to get shot or there ready to'scare us out of our wits, . 4 “We waited tor our hearts t6 start again and we jumped out of the car, He was coming home trom a party, ILwas just like any’ memory, Phave of him walking home from a party, going home too late for his curfew, IC was raining out and he was gran: ‘bling about having 1@ be home at a certain time,” te tee foe . We I 4 } lsc, depression, one got sick of it and he isolated himself, June Y was his way of saying goodbye, / ‘f acd 4 NEWS photo Bred Ledwhige eh i i" ao dada aik ‘about Loren Bradfield, their 18-year-old \ ft was the Loren he'd always known, Jesse first met Loren in kindergarten, n He believes that the drugs and alcohol Jed) to ‘Loren’s ultimate decision, 4 “"There’s no question about that, but {think his choice to use that stuff.wvas just because of all the other things in his lite, He really didn’t think he had a lot of other choices to make. T guess drugs were something he saw as a;way of getting out of his * 2 : eo tat it \ Jesse said Loren didn’t like to be controlled, “He‘ really couldn't handle it ifthe was being “People don’t associate suicide with the type of I'd be hesitant.to do something with him because T “told what to do all the tine, He didn’t like that, His person he was, That's what’s really shocking peo: . ' way of showing that he didn’t want to be con- trofled was to break the rules a few too many times, ° to go'a little bit farther than he really had to.” * Jesse knew that his friend was unhappy but he didn’t realize just how deep the trouble really was. * Tithe meantime fesse is rethinking how he feels about drugs and alcohel, sw “Everybody is getting into it, You think ir’s not,” really'affecting that much of your spirit, = 4. : * “Locking at this, it really does, [Panybody takes shuffle them and pick them up and shuffle them. something and i¢ turns aut that it's Loren standing something trons this, drugs really are a bad route, “You've, got to be able to know yourself and know Where you're going. It just seems he couldn't stop, Onee they've taken ever you, you're not real- ly yowanymore” og 2S Ss Says Mike; “I know that drugs are getting into younger and younger kids, “That really scares: me.” ‘" 4 he “ ie nS i ; ; os ‘Puhaltvay between, Nanaimo — vafSabout the importance of Morning ‘quake rattles © North | shore | By lan Noble Newe Reporter: san@nsnews.com I'T wasn’t another Hell’s Angels funeral, * Tewasn’t the coffee. For those of you who were | moved Friday morning, itwas » an earthquake, goths ww. Utmeasured 3.4 on the & “Richter scale and was centred 3.5 kilometres (2,2_ miles) under the Strait. of Georgia, and Bowen Island, “North: -and West . Vancouver Emergency , Program: coordinator: Ross ~, Peterson said it struck at 6:44 © yaaa ; “A Tittle, wake-up eall, "she called the rumbler, He said the quake felt as if someone had pushed his Edgemont Village. home.“ “Very brief. =! No damage was: reported, he said. , . “Undoubtedly, a. few things toppled, over, but a quake of this magnitude would not be expected to cause any structural damage.” ’ The wee shaker creates a» window of opportunity to get people ,.to start ~ thinking Epon “earthquake preparedness,’ he i said, - we uo “te does tell us .earth- quakes do’ happen. and we should be making plans,? he said. ui 7 Earlier, Peterson said: a moderate to large earthqiake stich as the. one that shook.. Kobe, Japan, in 1995 can be expected every, decade. or so” in the Lower Mainland, ..% © On Friday morning, Horseshoe Bay -artist Ross “ Penhall) was. at his” easel, painting a landscape in his _ second-floor studio. Ms At first, the Argyle: resi- wdent thought, the ferry had landed ‘at the terminal with a birniore force than necessary. |; » Then he thought it might be semi-trailer trucks coming off the ferry, otk “, But he quickly discarded a Frout page 1 ‘ { |. these thoughts, ” , 8 w vo - . “T fete the whole thing bright. Al tuo often she is out of sight", oS ’ shake. ‘The canvas started to Teachers said Antone had a flair tor art and writing, wriggle, You could feel the Antone’s high school annual bio wrapped up her ambitions as, . “to finish school, marry, have a tuillion kids aid, Eve happily ever alter.” os creaking In the building.” ” He said he could-tvel the quake continue after the “Dominic Mattson-Antone. & 5: Antone was'a member of the’ Squamish Nation. en when contacted on Thursday. Be 2k We have had diserassi say, ‘Ho comment’,” said Williams, Const. Lidstone said Antone. was © months only. fe on Hastings “s. goto,” said Lidstone, u J He added that the power of addiction can take “places, offered to help Antone recover from drug use. , 4 “She indicated at that point that drugs were no | ing clean and happy.” , Lidstone said Antone’s mother used to drive arou « her daughter. yes He said the murder has devastated Antone’s fami Antone leaves a seven-month-old son whom she named Sky Gerald festyn® * Squamish Nation Chief Bill Williams declined to speak about Antone swith the family and the family have told me to “Her addiction took her places a lot of people didiv’t think she would ever |B The police constable said he last saw Antone 10 months ago. Lidstone life,” said Lidstone. “At that point, [felt she was cleaning her life up and live “The Richmond RCMP have given out few details about the murder inves’ Street for a couple of a good person to low. - tigation. On Friday, Richmond east end of Triangle Road onger a problem in her nd at nights looking for NEWS photo Terry Peters KEITH Lynn students Jessie:Lambert (left) and Selicia Lewis look at a painting by Cassandra Antone which hangs in a hail- way at the alternate school. Antone was murdered June 1. RCMP.asked anyone who was in the area of the between midnight on May 3! to 9 aan, on June 1 to contact Cpl. Gary Shinkaruk of Const. Russ Howard at 278-1212, Sgt. Willy Laurie, of the Richmond RCMP, said last week that abour 12 ‘police officers were “going full tile’ on the murder investigation, An autopsy was performed on Antone’s body, bur Laurie said investiga- tors did not wish to release the cause of death. ly. . death),” said Laurie. “They have traced her travels throughout most of the evening (before her ’ shaking by touching his more sensitive easels The quake, he said, started off slowly, built up and drifted off, taking between five and 10 seconds. Penhall- said he thought the quake was very exciting, “E like it] would hate to see my home tumble down, | don’t know what a full-scale earthquake is, But these little tremors we get every now and again, they make you go “wow, You're suddenly shot back into the present. “They just put you in your place as a human being. We think we have control of our lives to an extent but we real- - ly don’t. That’s what I find so exciting.”