Since 1986, Brampton’s Shirley Nash and her late husband John have sponsored more than 100 children in countries around the world through the Christian Children’s Fund. On the table are photos of some of the children the family has helped.
Photo by Ken Hay
Traffic ground to a halt on Hwy. 410 Wednesday night after a transport truck without a trailer lost control and rolled into the centre median during rush hour. There was heavy rain at the time and there were no reports of injuries— only frayed patience.
Photo by Sean Magenniss
Rahim and Nazifa Shahghasy were laid to rest Monday at Brampton Memorial Gardens. More than 200 mourners, some of whom had flown in from Australia and the United States, attended the service.
Photo by Ken Hay
Brampton Guardian Publisher Ken Nugent, left, and Mayor Susan Fennell present John Cutruzzola with The Brampton Guardian's 2007 Citizen of the Year Award during a ceremony Thursday night. For his dedication and love of Brampton, his volunteer work with the Salvation Army Family Life Resource Centre, the local business community, several city committees, and for the time, money and artistic donations he has contributed over the years, Cutruzzola received the honour.
Photo by Bryon Johnson
Rahimullah Shahghasy, 53, of Brampton was stabbed to death Wednesday while trying to save his wife, Nazifa, 52, from a man wielding two kitchen knives with 9- to 10-inch blades, according to Peel police homicide Insp. Norm English. Police are looking at the possibility the stabbing was a carjacking gone horribly wrong.
Submitted photo
A Good Samaritan was stabbed to death when he tried to prevent the killing of a woman during an apparent domestic dispute at a Brampton plaza this afternoon.
Police were called to the plaza, in the McLaughlin Road and Williams Parkway area, around 12:25 p.m. A woman and a man had been fighting, and the man appears to have stabbed the woman, police said. When a passer-by tried to intervene, it appears the man stabbed him as well, before trying to take his own life, police said.
By George Beshiri
This Mother’s Day, many children around the world may be looking to Brampton and feeling thankful to a foster mother they have never met. And if the day is celebrated in other countries, Brampton resident, Shirley Nash might receive more than one Mother’s Day card— in fact, she could expect more than 100.
Since 1986, the Brampton resident along with her late husband John, has sponsored more than 100 children in countries all over the world through Christian Childrens’ Fund. The selfless couple who have three children of their own, felt that it was their duty to help those in other countries who were less fortunate than themselves.
“We saw the need and we enjoyed knowing that we were helping children go to school,” said Nash. “Some of them were in such need that we really wanted to help. And we always felt that we should...
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