RIJAVEC o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-31 published
RIJAVEC,
Silvano
In found memory of my dear husband Silvano, who passed away December
Ten years have gone by since you left me, and I still love and
miss you very much. God knows that I pray every night and day
for your guidance and protection for your wife and children.
Remembered by your wife Marcella, children Michael and Lidia,
grandchildren, your sisters and all your Friends. Ciao mio amore
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RIJN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-12 published
VAN
RYN,
Gerardus "
Gerry"
Johannus
Suddenly at London Health Science Centre - University Hospital
on Saturday, September 10, 2005, Gerardus (Gerry) Johannus
VAN
RYN, devoted husband of Beatrix (née
LITJENS)
VAN
RYN, in his
84th year. Dedicated father of Jack and his wife Mary of Toronto,
Jerry of Ottawa, Ted and his wife Cathy of London, Betty and
her husband Neville of Christchurch, New Zealand, John of Toronto,
Herman and his wife Karen of London, Dorothy and her husband
Fred of London, Joe and his wife Nora of Ottawa and Leny and
her husband Chris of Ottawa. Dear brother of Leny
VAN
RIJN,
Jan
VAN RIJN and Lien
YSBRANDY-
VAN
RIJN all of the Netherlands. Predeceased
by his 2 sisters Grad VEGTER-VAN
RIJN and Bep
VAN
RATINGEN-
VAN
RIJN.
Also survived by 18 grandchildren. Visitors will be received
at the John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King
Street, London on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9
o'clock. Funeral Mass at Saint Martin of Tours Church, 46 Cathcart
Street at Duchess Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, September 14,
2005 at 1 o'clock. Interment in St. Peter's Cemetery. Prayers
Tuesday evening, September 13, 2005 at 7 o'clock. Donations to
the Parkinson Foundation would be appreciated.
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-24 published
VAN
RIJN,
Kiran▼
An athlete and scholar, Kiran died suddenly, of cardiac arrhythmia,
while training for the sport he loved most - rowing - on Burnaby
Lake, British Columbia, on September 21, 2005, at the age of
29. Kiran was the beloved only
son of Carol and Dr. Theo
VAN
RIJN of Vancouver. He also leaves his devoted younger sister
Catriana, of Vancouver and his grandmother Katherine (Stevens)
HICKEY, of London, Ontario. He was predeceased by his grandparents
Mary and Arie
VAN
RIJN, who adored Kiran. He never knew his maternal
grandfather, Stewart
STEVENS, who died before Kiran was born.
He will be sorely missed by his aunts and uncles, Susan
(VAN
RIJN) and Duncan
GOW of Kingston, Ontario, and Lin and Geoffrey
STEVENS, of Cambridge, Ontario. A brilliant student on the cusp
of life, Kiran graduated from St. George's School in Vancouver
and earned his B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia, his
B.A. at the University of Victoria and his master's degree at
the University of Toronto, where he was working toward his Ph.D.
in the history of science and technology. If academic life was
to be Kiran's future, his passion was rowing, a sport in which
he excelled and in which he competed at an elite level in Canada
and abroad. Formerly a member of Canada's national rowing team,
he was a finalist in the senior men's singles sculls at the Canadian
Henley Regatta in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, this past summer.
A memorial service will be held later at St. George's School.
In lieu of flowers, a donation to a rowing scholarship in Kiran's
name at St. George's (4175 W. 29th Avenue, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6S 1V1) or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would
be greatly appreciated by the family.
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-28 published
Kiran VAN
RIJN,
Graduate
Student And Athlete (1975-2005)
B.C. rower who competed for Canada had devoted himself to the
sport since boyhood
By Tom HAWTHORN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Wednesday, September
28, 2005, Page S9
Victoria -- The first sign of trouble was the sculler rolling
from his shell into the lake. Kiran
VAN
RIJN, a former national
team member, was rowing in an ordinary training session on Burnaby
Lake last Wednesday when he collapsed.
Mr. VAN
RIJN managed to haul himself from water into a powerboat
operated by Dick
McCLURE, a hall-of-fame coach who won a silver
medal for Canada in the eights at the 1956 Olympics.
Mr. VAN
RIJN complained of giddiness and lightheadedness. As
his statements became nonsensical, Mr.
McCLURE raced to shore.
The rower collapsed again in the boat and stopped breathing.
He was lifted from the boat and placed on the dock where a lifejacket
was used to support his head.
An ambulance was called, but despite the efforts of paramedics
Mr. VAN
RIJN died. He was 29.
On August 7, he had finished fifth as a finalist in the senior
men's single sculls at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta at Port
Dalhousie, Ontario
In 2001, he rowed for Canada in the double sculls at the Princeton
World Cup. Mr.
VAN
RIJN, paired with Brian Siebert of Fort Saskatchewan,
Alberta., finished fourth on Mercer Lake in Princeton, N.J. The
same pair won the men's senior double sculls at the Henley in
In recent years, Mr.
VAN
RIJN rowed for the varsity team at the
University of Toronto, where he was completing his doctorate.
He teamed with Ming-Chang
TSAI to win the Ontario University
Athletics gold in the men's doubles earlier this year. He also
won men's singles titles at consecutive regattas for the Blues
in the 2003 season.
"Rowing is a sport that can reward those who keep at it for a
long time," he told the Varsity student newspaper two years ago.
"Getting to where I am now was a very gradual process, achieving
little bit by little bit."
In 1998, Mr.
VAN
RIJN won four gold medals at the Central Ontario
Rowing Championships on Martindale Pond at St. Catharines, Ontario
He took the intermediate heavyweight single title and belonged
to Ridley Grad Boat Club crews that won the men's double, quad
and eights.
He had taken up rowing at the suggestion of his Grade 9 teacher.
A graduate of St. George's School in Vancouver, Mr.
VAN
RIJN
later earned a bachelor of science degree at the University of
British Columbia, followed by a bachelor of arts in English and
history at the University of Victoria.
He completed a master's degree at Toronto and had been working
on a doctorate at the university's Institute for the History
and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He was examining the
marketing to hospitals of expensive medical-imaging technologies
such as ultrasound in the latter half of the last century.
On the death of his 90-year-old paternal grandmother two years
ago, Mr. VAN
RIJN wrote an obituary for the Globe and Mail's
Lives Lived column. He noted how in her years of travel she had
presciently left Berlin in 1939, Japan in 1941, and China on
the evening of the bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
On Saturday morning, 75 members of the Burnaby Lake Rowing Club
gathered at lakeside to observe a moment of silence. Mr.
McCLURE
spoke a few words. Flowers and petals were scattered on the placid
waters. So many attended the brief service, the floating wooden
dock began to sink, so the mourners retreated to the concrete
wharf, their ankles wet and their hearts heavy.
Kiran VAN
RIJN was born in Vancouver on December 18, 1975. He
died of cardiac arrhythmia on September 21, 2005. He was 29.
He leaves his parents, Carol and Dr. Theo
VAN
RIJN, and a younger
sister, Catriana, as well as a grandmother, Katherine
HICKEY,
of London, Ontario
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-28 published
VAN
RIJN,
Kiran▲▼
An athlete and scholar, Kiran died suddenly, of cardiac arrhythmia,
while training for the sport he loved most - rowing - on Burnaby
Lake, British Columbia, on September 21, 2005, at the age of
29. Kiran was the beloved only
son of Carol and Dr. Theo
VAN
RIJN of Vancouver. He also leaves his devoted younger sister
Catriana,▼ of Vancouver and his grandmother Katherine
(STEVENS)
HICKEY, of London, Ontario He was predeceased by his grandparents
Mary and Arie
VAN
RIJN, who adored Kiran. He never knew his maternal
grandfather, Stewart
STEVENS, who died before Kiran was born.
He will be sorely missed by his aunts and uncles, Susan
(VAN
RIJN) and Duncan
GOW of Kingston, Ontario, and Lin and Geoffrey
STEVENS, of Cambridge, Ontario. A brilliant student on the cusp
of life, Kiran graduated from St. George's School in Vancouver
and earned his B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia, his
B.A. at the University of Victoria and his master's degree at
the University of Toronto, where he was working toward his Ph.D.
in the history of science and technology. If academic life was
to be Kiran's future, his passion was rowing, a sport in which
he excelled and in which he competed at an elite level in Canada
and abroad. Formerly a member of Canada's national rowing team,
he was a finalist in the senior men's singles sculls at the Canadian
Henley Regatta in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, this past summer.
A memorial service will be held later at St. George's School.
In lieu of flowers, a donation to a rowing scholarship in Kiran's
name at St. George's (4175 W. 29th Avenue, Vancouver, British
Columbia V6S 1V1) or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would
be greatly appreciated by the family.
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-01 published
VAN
RIJN,
Kiran▲
An athlete and scholar, Kiran died suddenly, of cardiac arrhythmia,
while training for the sport he loved most - rowing - on Burnaby
Lake, British Columbia, on September 21, 2005, at the age of
29. Kiran was the beloved only
son of Carol and Dr. Theo
VAN
RIJN of Vancouver. He also leaves his devoted younger sister
Catriana,▲ of Vancouver and his grandmother Katherine
(STEVENS)
HICKEY, of London, Ontario. He was predeceased by his grandparents
Mary and Arie
VAN
RIJN, who adored Kiran. He never knew his maternal
grandfather, Stewart
STEVENS, who died before Kiran was born.
He will be sorely missed by his aunts and uncles, Susan
(VAN
RIJN) and Duncan
GOW of Kingston, Ontario, and Lin and Geoffrey
STEVENS, of Cambridge, Ontario. A brilliant student on the cusp
of life, Kiran graduated from St. George's School in Vancouver
and earned his B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia, his
B.A. at the University of Victoria and his master's degree at
the University of Toronto, where he was working toward his Ph.D.
in the history of science and technology. If academic life was
to be Kiran's future, his passion was rowing, a sport in which
he excelled and in which he competed at an elite level in Canada
and abroad. Formerly a member of Canada's national rowing team,
he was a finalist in the senior men's singles sculls at the Canadian
Henley Regatta in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, this past summer.
A memorial service will be held at 4: 00 p.m. on Wednesday, October
5, 2005, at St. George's School. In lieu of flowers, a donation
to a rowing scholarship in Kiran's name would be greatly appreciated
by the family. Cheques may be directed to The St. George's Foundation
(a registered charity) and sent to 4175 W. 29th Avenue, Vancouver,
British Columbia V6S 1V1. If you prefer, donations could be made
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or a charity of your choice.
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-14 published
Shot man died shielding brothers
By Emily MATHIEU and Nicolaas
VAN
RIJN,
Staff
Reporters
A 22-year-old man shot dead in an Etobicoke apartment Saturday
afternoon was killed defending his two young brothers, his grief-stricken
mother said yesterday.
Toronto police say Orlando
GRUNDY was killed after "a number
of persons" entered his 13th-floor apartment at 2777 Kipling
Ave. and began shooting at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
Residents in neighbouring apartments talked of hearing shotgun
blasts coming from apartment 1308 where
GRUNDY, of Jane Street,
had gathered with his brothers and several other people.
GRUNDY's mother Sydney is in no doubt about her son's bravery.
"He dove in front of his brothers," she said yesterday as the
family gathered to discuss what little they knew about Saturday's
events. "He took the bullet for the other two."
The two younger boys, both injured in the gunfire, "were holding
their brother in their arms" when police arrived on the chaotic
scene, she said.
"His brother was laying in their arms, and they handcuffed them."
Two other men were injured in the attack, which
GRUNDY's family
said occurred when "people came in and started shooting at everything."
They were taken to Sunnybrook hospital, where one victim remains
in critical condition with a gunshot wound to his face, while
the other is out of intensive care and expected to make a full
recovery.
GRUNDY's mother said she was beginning to hear details from her
two younger boys, who were later released from custody and gathered
with family members yesterday.
"We all loved him," she said softly as she reflected on her dead
son, whom she called a "soldier of love.
"He's my oldest son."
The gunmen fled the building and, despite a massive search by
police and members of the Emergency Task Force, managed to elude
capture.
Toronto police yesterday appealed for the public's assistance
in tracking down the shooters responsible for Toronto's seventh
homicide this year, but investigators have so far not released
a description of the wanted men.
The GRUNDY family's grief capped a violent weekend in Toronto,
one that also saw Szilvia
VERES, 35, of Toronto killed in a Friday
night shooting and 50-year-old Donald Andrew
LATREMOUILLE die
of unknown causes during an argument with roommate Christopher
Gordon PHILLIPS at their Davenport Rd. residence Friday.
PHILLIPS,
27, has been charged with manslaughter.
Saturday's violence included an early-morning shooting at the
Flamingo Bar on College St. that left a man and a woman slightly
injured.
A suspect in the Flamingo bar shooting turned himself in late
Saturday.
Edwin VALASQUEZ, 20, turned himself in to 14 Division police
around 9 p.m. Saturday; he faces numerous charges including attempted
murder while using a firearm and two counts of aggravated assault.
Faruth PORTOBANCO, 25, of Toronto was arrested earlier in the
Flamingo incident.
Two off-duty paramedics, in the club when gunfire broke out at
2: 30 a.m. Saturday are being recommended for civilian citations
after they tackled the gunman and disarmed him.
Gunfire continued to echo on Toronto streets just after noon
yesterday, sending shoppers ducking for cover in the parking
lot outside several stores in the Albion Rd. and Islington Ave.
area of Rexdale.
Police said a man was sitting in his car in a plaza parking lot
at 950 Albion Rd. when three suspects approached and "almost
immediately opened fire with three guns."
Although a number of bullets hit his car, shattering the windows,
the intended victim was able to flee without injury, Detective
Debbie HARRIS said in a statement.
Police converged on the area and, with the assistance of heavily
armed Emergency Task Force officers, arrested three suspects
and recovered two handguns and a quantity of drugs.
Ali Nassir
SHOWBEG, 23, faces charges including attempted murder
and possession of cocaine for trafficking.
The other two suspects, Sean Conrad
GRANT, 21, and
Vanessa
Charlene
BAILEY, 19, are charged with possession of a restricted firearm
and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
And police are continuing their search for the suspect in Friday's
fatal shooting of
VERES, who died instantly after a man opened
fire as she and her husband, 46-year-old Kemenczy
MIKLOS of Toronto,
were in a parking lot at 15 Brookbanks Dr., in the York Mills
Rd. and Don Valley Parkway area.
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for John
KOVACS, 52, of
Etobicoke, who was last seen fleeing in a 1999 silver Honda with
Ontario plates 149
WRX.
KOVACS faces charges of first-degree
murder and attempted murder.
With files from Jordan
HEATH-
RAWLINGS, Priya
RAMANUJAM and Jim
WILKES
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-07 published
FRYER,
May
Barbara
Resident of Rosewood Retirement Centre. Peacefully surrounded
by her family on Saturday, March 5, 2005, in her 82nd year, at
Kingston General Hospital. Predeceased by her loving husband
Charles and son Larry. Beloved mother of Linda
VAN
RIJN and her
husband Trevor, and loving mother-in-law of Gina. Beloved nanny
of Melanie and Melissa
WARD and Christina and Ashley
FRYER.
Survived
by her sisters Kay
LECLERC and Gertrude
HUBBARD.
Predeceased
by her brothers Everett, Ernie, Rollie and Alan
PARKER and her
sister Alice
ENGLEHART.
Sadly missed by her nieces Marie
SAVARIA
and Kathy McMULLEN and family. The family received Friends at
the Township Chapel of the Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Homes,
435 Davis Drive (Waterloo Village) in Kingston on Sunday between
the hours of 6-9 p.m. and will receive Friends on Monday between
the hours of 6-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held in our chapel
on Tuesday at 1 p.m. Reverend Bill
WHISTON officiating. Interment
will follow at Glenhaven Memorial Gardens. Memorial donations
for those wishing may be made to the Lung Association or the
Heart and Stroke Foundation. In care of the Gordon F. Tompkins
Funeral Homes Township Chapel, 435 Davis Drive, Kingston 613-546-5150.
Relatives and Friends are invited to sign the Book of Condolence
at www.gftompkins-township.ca
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RIJN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-04 published
Boyfriend charged in toddler's death
Toddler found dead in wooded lot near Cambridge
Mother's boyfriend charged with first-degree murder
By Nicolaas
VAN
RIJN,
Staff
Reporter
The desperate search for a little boy just shy of his second
birthday has ended with the discovery of his body in a wooded
lot on the outskirts of Cambridge and the arrest of a man on
a charge of first-degree murder.
Police found the body of 22-month-old Donny
CLUBB in a wooded
area between the Grand River and the Whistle Bear Golf Club early
yesterday, but would not say what or who led them there.
"Those human remains we believe to be that of Donovan
CLUBB,"
Waterloo regional police Insp. Bryan
LARKIN told a news conference,
adding an autopsy must still be done. "We're in the early hours
of investigation at the crime scene."
The discovery left the little boy's parents devastated.
His mother, 21-year-old Courtney
CATTON of Chatham, was in disbelief,
her sister Britney said.
"It isn't real," Britney
CATTON said. "It's one thing to lose
your baby, but to lose him to murder is another thing. It's unexplainable.
The only break that my sister had in so long was her kid. He's
never gone from her side, ever."
Matt CLUBB, the boy's father, was in shock. "I can't believe
this is happening," said
CLUBB, 21. "It's like a bad dream and
I'm waiting to wake up. But I can't.
"I don't want to believe that this has really happened, I just
miss him so much."
CLUBB said police "won't tell us much... if he was buried or
not... because they don't want it to interfere with their investigation."
Pam CLUBB, the boy's grandmother, was overcome with grief. "I
have a picture of him in a bathtub, he looks so beautiful....
I've been looking at it and all I want to do is hold him, but
I can't."
Donny, who had been the subject of a seldom-used province-wide
Amber Alert after his mother reported him missing Thursday, was
last seen a week ago, when his mother's 35-year-old boyfriend
took him on what police believe was a fishing trip in Simcoe,
where he has connections.
"Donny's mother was well aware that Donny was going to go away
for a period of time," said Chatham-Kent Insp. George
FLIKWEERT.
"What they did there, we're not 100 per cent sure, but they were
there for several days."
Casey PETERS, who lives next door to the Kitchener house sometimes
used by the boyfriend, said she saw a little boy she believes
was Donny in a car with the man Monday.
"The kid looked content,"
PETERS said.
The fishing trip was to have ended Wednesday, and the boy's mother
went to bed that night thinking he was back home.
When she found Donny missing Thursday morning,
FLIKWEERT said,
she called police, who began a missing person investigation at
10: 48 a.m.
Donny's mother told police her boyfriend returned home to their
Chatham residence late Wednesday night, and told her that her
son was sleeping in the basement of their home.
The man left at about 5: 30 a.m. Thursday, but when
CATTON went
to look for Donny later that morning she couldn't find him, and
called police.
After the boyfriend was arrested in Kitchener on Canada Day,
he was interviewed by detectives with the assistance of members
of the Ontario Provincial Police's behavioural sciences unit.
"The investigation revealed the circumstances surrounding the
death of Donny," Deputy Chief Jack
CHAMBERS of Chatham-Kent police
said.
Neighbours of
CATTON said she had been living with Donny and
her boyfriend on Edgar Ave., a quiet street on Chatham's south
side.
Rosaire STERLING and his wife
Ruth, who have lived on Edgar for
37 years, recalled seeing the energetic child playing in front
of their home.
"He used to play right on the road, but my three granddaughters
played in the back," Sterling said. "I used to holler at the
mum to pull him in. It's a calm street, but there's still a bit
of traffic.
"These people didn't cause any rumpus,"
STERLING added. "They
were good people."
Neighbours and other well-wishers began placing flowers in front
of CATTON's house, roped off with yellow police crime scene tape,
shortly after the news of Donny's death broke yesterday.
Among those paying their respects were Brenda
McKINLAY, her young
son Zack and boyfriend Bob.
After she placed a single red rose and a small stuffed teddy
bear in front of the house, her boyfriend paused and considered
the little boy standing beside them.
"Zack's the same age as little Donovan," said Bob.
"It kind of hits home."
Donny's father, meanwhile, was struggling to cope with his loss.
"He was an energetic little boy, always moving, always smiling,
always full of life,"
CLUBB said. "I'll never have the chance
to see him grow up and be with him."
Donny's grandmother, too, thought of the good time that will
never come again.
"When he would cry, I would take him to the kitchen window and
he would look outside, and he would laugh, but that will never
happen again," Pam
CLUBB said.
Charged with first-degree murder is Shawn Tyler
PALMER, who was
arrested Canada Day on a warrant charging him with abduction.
He is to make an audio court appearance in Chatham on Wednesday.
With files from Amy
BROWN-
BOWERS, Patrick
EVANS, Bob
MITCHELL,
Nick PAPARELLA, the Waterloo Region Record and Star wire services
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