An athlete before birth.Vancouver Vancouver, city, Canada Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. -- Nineteen-year-old Justin Pogge, star goalie of the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. junior men's hockey team, has recently been signed up by the Toronto Maple Leafs The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). . But Justin's life Almost ended before it began. When his mother, Annet, was deserted by her fiance after she told him she was pregnant, she contemplated throwing herself from a bridge in Fort McMurray Fort McMurray, town (1991 pop. 34,706), NE Alta., Canada, on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers. Since the beginning of the mining of Alberta's oil sands in 1964, the town's population has grown from 1,200. , AB. As she stood there intent on ending her own and her child's life, she felt a light kick of the unborn baby and realized "God wants me to live." Despite the hard work and sacrifice involved, Annet successfully delivered and raised a son of whom she could be proud. Justin Pogge knows he was born out of love and that it was his action that saved the life of his mother and himself (LifeSiteNews.com, Jan. 4, 2006). |
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