>From: "La N" <[email protected]> >Newsgroups: alt.obituaries >Subject: Dianne Trottier, CBC producer, dies in hit-and-run, 33 >NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:58:06 MDT
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/689095 CBC producer dies after hit-and-run THE CANADIAN PRESS/CBC Dianne Trottier, a 33-year-old Toronto-area woman, has died after her motorized wheelchair was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Saturday night, Aug. 29, 2009 in Fredericton. Writer with `huge' personality played hockey in wheelchair Sep 01, 2009 04:30 AM Danielle Wong Staff reporter Nothing seemed to be a barrier for Dianne Trottier - not a fractured femur, and certainly not a broken elevator. So when friends heard the 33-year-old CBC employee had died after a hit-and-run driver in Fredericton struck her motorized wheelchair over the weekend, they were shocked and upset. "It makes me feel angry, for someone to have killed her and not own up to what they have done," said childhood friend Michelle Du Boulay. "It almost feels ironic because these are the things that would get her fired up." Trottier was going to her hotel after a meeting with friends in Fredericton on Saturday when she was hit in a crosswalk. She died Sunday at the Saint John Regional Hospital. Trottier, who had osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder sometimes known as brittle bone disease,was hired as a CBC writer in 2003. She later became a producer for the Newsworld TV show CBC News: Around the World and had flown to New Brunswick last week to help the local bureau. CBC senior writer Marianne Policelli said she didn't observe Trottier's wheelchair when she first met her. "The very first thing that struck me about Dianne was that you didn't notice the chair ... because her personality was so huge," she said yesterday. "She was so quick and witty." The Toronto native, who loved to travel and cook, played centre for the Pirates in the Toronto Power Wheelchair Hockey League. "A lot of players looked up to Dianne," said Esther Dzura, the league's president. "She would set them up to help (them) score the goals." Trottier broke her femur last year at a Minnesota tournament and was airlifted to a Toronto hospital, but still managed to play again before the season ended, Du Boulay said. "Everything she wanted in life, she fought for it. No experience made her weaker." One time, CBC radio producer Ing Wong-Ward recalled, the lift at a supermarket in their neighbourhood was broken. Trottier called the head office right away and was told: "They're going to build a ramp next week." "That was Dianne: she was on it immediately," she said. "It was not acceptable to her. She had every right to shop in peace." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
