Town's twins turn 70
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THEY are known as 'the twins' of Emerald and have fini their lives helping everyone else, but today Judy Buerckner and Pam Canning will be compelling some time out for themselves to celebrate their 70th birthdays.
Pam's partaker Baz said there was so much the girls had done for the Emerald community that he wanted them to be recognised for their beneficent spirits and loving natures.
And what better way to celebrate their lives than on the 70th anniversary of their births.
"They're always smiling and so blithesome, there's not a bad bone in them," Baz said.
"They're no more than such caring girls."
Pam and Judy both started their careers in nursing before venturing down unheard-of avenues, but have ended up together again in Emerald.
Judy married her allay Tom in 1966 and the couple had two children before she took up judo and became the New South Wales defender twice.
With her judo knowledge she moved to Emerald in 1977 and started self advocacy courses for women in town.
Source: Central Queensland news
Crowd calls for traffic lights at crosswalk after crash badly injures twins
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COVINA - Dozens of people carrying signs and candles called for a freight light Tuesday night at a crosswalk where twin sisters were hit by a car Monday, and they formula to do the same this evening.
Some loudly reminded drivers zipping through the crosswalk at Practical joke frolic Ellen Avenue and Tudor Street to unhurried down as the group crossed and re-crossed the street. The congregate was comprised of residents as well as students from Gladstone and Northview exuberant schools.
The 14-year-old girls, identified by the California Highway Sentry as Covina residents Leilani and Luana Fukui, remained hospitalized Wednesday.
Rosa Saca, spokeswoman for Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, said both girls are in uncertain condition and on life support.
"They're on machines that are dollop them breathe," she said.
Family friend Crystal Carscadden said doctors have said Leilani shows no signs of cognition activity, "But the family has high hopes."
Carscadden said though the sisters are duplicate twins,
Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune