“She saved my life. | was lucky she was there.” The Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, Seplember 2, 1998 - A3 Man saved from raging bull By ALEX HAMILTON STACEY KENNEDY really knows how to take a bull by its horns. Kennedy, 28, saved sevenly-six-year-old Peter Ruygrok's life Aug. 15 after chasing away a Holstein bull that was attacking him. _. Ruygrok was leading his 2000-pound bull to his barn it turned on him. Ruygrok said the bull backed up, shook its bead and freed it- self from its chain, As Ruygrok quickly tried to tether the bull again, it lunged for him and shot him to the ground, ; “Before ] knew what had happened, the bull was on top of me,’’ he said. ‘‘It was standing on my Jeg and trying to ‘push his hors - right through me,”’ Ruygrok had fallen onto a ", for.the night when suddenly _ i 4 ‘ ee. steel trailer hitch and the buil was pushing his torso so hard into the ground, he said he couldn't breathe. . Luckily, Kennedy and her friend, Jamic Sussbauer, who were putting new shoes on her horse next door, saw what was going on. *T yelled over to Peter as- . king him if he was okay and _he said ‘no’,’’said Kennedy. “He was face down on the ground and the bull was ramming him with his head and homs. He was being mashed into the ground.’’ Sussbauer immediately took off to call an am- bulance while Kennedy ran to help Ruygrok. Secing that the bull was tangled in the rope, Ken- nedy untied the animal and forced it away by using a steel bar. *T just reached forward IT WASN'T that cold and rainy last week to vent Stephanie Neufeldt (standing), and:her sister, i}: . Bailey, from.going ‘out-to-enjoy.a walk-with Buddy: “The dog belongs to:their neighbour and seems'ta’ _ enjoy his outings with the sisters. ~~ — pre- and unclipped the bull on the front of its head by the horns,’’ said the five-foot- tall Kennedy. ‘‘It was really seary.”’ As she tended to Ruygrok she noticed he was very pale and disorientated. ‘He was in pretty bad shape. His glasses. were, knocked off and he couldn’t breath properly. He hada fairly big gash on his leg,” too,”’ When Kennedy propped him up against ‘a trailer the bull started charging them. “‘] had Peter’s head in my hands when the bull started going for us, It charged for- ward.”’ And that’s when Kennedy decided to fight back. She immediately lunged for the “T was trying to show the bull that | wasn’t scared of it so it would leave us alone.” The bull continued to ram its head against the trailer near where she and Ruygrok were sitting, Approximately five minutes. _ later, when Russbauer: returned from calling for help, the two women carried =Ruygrok - over-a barbed: wire fence to safety away from the bull. Dectors found Ruygrok had 10 broken ribs, a partly collapsed lung, a gash on his leg and his back was badly ‘prised from the neck down. ‘Tf those girls hadnt come over, that bull would have killed me,’’ Ruygrok said. “She [Kennedy] saved. my life. ] was lucky she was Stacey Kennedy filling up Ruygrok’s freezer. According. ta Ruygrok’s wife, Anne, the buli was “Pat Schindel, ‘the directo bull yelling swearwords and _ there.’? throwing anything she could find lying on the ground. As for the bull, it has been quartered and is currently going to be killed this fall anyway. Ruygrok had al- teady bred his cows with it this summer. Dease gets a doc WHEN THE head of the Northwest Com- munity Health Services Society visited Dease Lake recently, the last thing David ' Bowering thought he’d have to do is treat a person badly injured in a car accident, ’ But that’s what happened to Bowering, a medical doctor, because the tiny com- munity north of here on Hwy37 has had im- mense difficulty in recruiting permanent physicians. Late one night, he found himself at the Stikine Health Centre in Dease Lake prac- tising emergency medicine, ‘Tt certainly points out the urgency of the silwation of the need to have physicians on sile,’’ said Bowering of his experience. “Tt wasn’t the best of situations and I un- derstand I wasn’t the first doctor to be com- mandecered,”’ Tronically, Bowering was in Dease Lake with other health care executives for one of a regular series of gatherings to talk about northwest health care issues. Bowering’s experience isn’t al] that un- usual since Dease Lake began a cycle of ei- ther temporary physicians or none at all since losing its two staff doctors. “We've had to take unusual steps,’’ said Stikine Health Centre executive director Tom Wright in relating the need to call upon Bowering because there were no doc-, tors available fof teaporary work. ” the F of clinical ser _, vices at the health, ¢entre, says phone cof meme lact with oulside physicians in Terrace and elsewhere becomes critical when there are no doctors present. “t's medicine by long distance phone, Everything: then gets done by long dis- tance,”’ she said. In the case with the car accident victim, Bowering quickly got into contact with a — trauma specialist at Vancouver General Hospital. The health ccntre’s search for two permanent physicians has taken it overseas, a fairly common occurrence for smaller communities in northern Canada. Tt thought it had one overseas doctor lined up earlier this summer but he failed to get immigration clearance for reasons Wright says are still mysterious, Fortunately it has made contact with an- other physician who is now in South Affi- ca. Dr. Muhammad Tasneem will be flying into Terrace Sept. 15 and then taken by air to Dease Lake. “He has temporary licensing in B.C. and will be taking his exams next spring,’” said Wright of Tasncem’s qualifications. Tas- neem’s contract calls for him to stay ia Dease Lake at least three and possibly four years. ; As well, the B.C, College of Physicians and Surgeons is to go over the credentials of a second possible physician in mid- _ September oy a ca, “tor, could bé in Dease Lake before the end of the year, ‘said Wright. De IME Ea ete Repending upon how. that goes, the doc. J News In Brief Your two cents worth THE PROVINCIAL government and Alcan want to know how you'd spend $15 million being set aside for communities affected by the latter’s Kemano power project and Nechako Reservoir, They're splitting the $15 million between over the next three years. The two have now established a man- agement board which, in tum, has come up with ideas on how to spend the money. But first the board wants to hear the ideas of others and so is holding meetings between Vanderhoof and Terrace/Kitimat. The Terrace meeting takes place from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept. 23 at The Terrace Inn. Nisga’a get ‘Franked’ CANADA'S BEST KNOWN satirical magazine, Frank, has taken aim at the Nisga’a treaty. In a full-page spoof of an ad in its Aug. 26 issuc, Frenk announces the opening of ‘‘The Nisga’a Palace Casino and Hotel.’” The sub-text reads, “It’s arrived, as the prophets foretold: an ancestral-style casino situated on 500 in- accessible acres of pristine, deforested Nisga’a land,”’ Background artwork to the ad includes a photograph of a large hotei with palm trees out front. And at the bottom is a photo of Premicr Glen Clark, in native regalia, proclaiming, ‘‘It’s Nisga’arrific!”’ Frank began life in Halifax more than 10 years ago and now publishes a national edition, Its targets include national figures such as Prime Minister Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called ‘‘Byron Muldoon’? and various media personalities. This isn’t the first time Frank has discovered the northwest. In July it targeted Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott by making fun of his moustache. Internet kid porn seized KITIMAT RCMP are gathering information they say will lead to charges of distribution and possession of child pornography alter they and customs officers seized a computer belonging to a 20-year-old man. Police say the computer is believed to hold more than 10,000 images and video clips in alleging the man was trading child porn on the Internet. Charges weren’t laid as of late last week and the man’s name won’t be released until they are filed. The computer was seized Aug. 27. Kitimat Sgt. Mal Haggard said the photos and clips have to be examined by medical experts to determine approximate ages of those on the images. While the criminal code defines a child as anyone under 18, po- lice believe the ages of those in the pictures are much younger. Police started investigating after prohibited images were sent lo investigators surfing the Internet. 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