Emmanuel Koroma hopes to be reunited with his five children living in Nigeria

Star readers open hearts to refugee
Published On Thu, 11 Aug 2011

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Nicholas Keung
Immigration Reporter

Star readers have opened their hearts — and wallets — to a refugee from Sierra Leone who didn’t have money to bring his five children to join him in Canada.

For Victoria businessman Jack Lee, ‘family was first’
By Richard Watts, timescolonist.com August 12, 2011

Victoria businessman Jack Wai Yen Lee has died at age 89.
Photograph by: HANDOUT

Victoria businessman Jack Wai Yen Lee, a philanthropist and member of the Order of Canada, lived his entire life committed to the notion of family.

Lee died Aug. 2 in Victoria at the age of 89.

“Family was always first,” said son Robert.

A six-month-old Kanata boy will be fine after he was dragged face-first almost 12 metres by the family car Saturday morning as it rolled backwards and down their driveway when it was accidentally knocked out of gear by his three-year-old sister.

Baby dragged by car suffers head injuries
By Gary Dimmock, The Ottawa Citizen August 13, 2011

A six-month-old Kanata boy will be fine after he was dragged face-first almost 12 metres by the family car Saturday morning as it rolled backwards and down their driveway when it was accidentally knocked out of gear by his three-year-old sister.
Photograph by: Jana Chytilova, The Ottawa Citizen

A six-month-old Kanata boy will be fine after he was dragged face-first almost 12 metres by the family car Saturday morning as it rolled backwards and down their driveway when it was accidentally knocked out of gear by his three-year-old sister.

Congolese Richis Bondo Katumbay dies while tubing on Chestermere Lake without wearing life jacket or flotation device

Man’s body pulled from Chestermere Lake

Nadia Moharib, Calgary Sun

First posted: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:38:43 MDT PM

The search for a man presumed to have drowned in Chestermere Lake may be at an end. Richis Bondo Katumbay, a 33-year-old a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was tubing on the lake, pulled by friends when he disappeared on Saturday.

Does this new name crest include both ways of writing the Wong character in Chinese?

World’s Wongs hold massive Toronto reunion
CBC News Posted: Aug 13, 2011 10:05 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 13, 2011 10:05 PM ET t

Toronto is hosting a family reunion for the record books — the Wongs’ National Convention, with more than 12-hundred people named Wong arriving by the busload from across Canada and the United States, even as far away as Hong Kong.

Canadian Wongs come together every few years in meetings that date back to the 1950s, but the Toronto convention, which lasts through Sunday, is expected to be their largest gathering yet.

“I think everybody shares, that if you’re Wong, you’re family,” says Greg Wong, a Wongs’ National Convention organizer. “I think it’s special because a lot of the people came a long way, to see family, old friends.”

The Wongs aren’t a family in the traditional sense and many aren’t related by either blood or marriage.