Although tot returned home safe, questions linger
The Calgary Herald reports.
The town of Sparwood sits in a mountain valley at a sharp turn in Highway 3 in the middle of nothing between the Crowsnest Pass and Fernie.
It boasts a grocery store, one decent hotel, an A&W and what was once the world’s largest truck — titled the Terex Titan, the coal-carting behemoth is large enough to carry two Greyhound buses and two pickup trucks. It’s a relic of this town’s lifeblood: coal. Most of its 4,000 residents depend on the soot-stained mines that dig deep into the Rockies.
These blue-collar workers live in hidden bungalows, or sheet-metal mobile homes shaded by cedars. Townsfolk are the type to say they moved to Sparwood to escape the evils of the big city.
But this town has seen its share of tragedy, from fatal coal mining accidents to a 2009 avalanche that killed eight men. And earlier this month, a little thread of evil wiggled its way into the home of Paul and Tammy Hebert and stole one of their eight children.
