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Updated: Stolen stained glass window returned to Buntzen trail

By jeremyshepherd

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May 7, 2023

photos supplied Deborah Campagnaro

The stain seems to be permanent after all.

A little more than two weeks after a stained glass window was ripped from Polytrichum Lookout at Buntzen Lake, the window was recently returned.

“I was going up to work on something else and it was there,” said Fred Bardle, who restored and installed the piece. “It was leaning against the tree.”

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For at least 15 years, Bardle has been salvaging and repairing stained glass, sometimes installing his work on the trail.

The window at Polytrichum Lookout had been attached to a two-by-four and attached it to the tree with three six-inch nails. However, in late-April, someone apparently grabbed the window and left the nails in the tree.

“To me, the cost is minimal, I’d just like to embarrass whoever happens to have it,” Bardle said following the theft.

However, during a trip up the trail on Sunday, Bardle spotted the window back at the lookout.

Bardle quickly re-attached it.

“It’s back,” he said. “That’s all that matters.”

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A chiropractor and a folk singer, after having one great kid, decided to push their luck and have one more, a boy they named Jeremy Shepherd.

Shepherd grew up around Blue Mountain Park in Coquitlam, following a basketball around and trying his best to get to the NBA (it didn’t work out, at least not yet).

With no career plans after graduating Porter Elementary school, Jeremy Shepherd pursued higher education at Como Lake Middle School and eventually, Centennial High School.

Approximately 1,000 movies and several beers later in life, Shepherd made a change.

Having done nothing worth writing, he decided to see if he could write something worth reading.

Since graduating journalism school at Langara College, Shepherd has been a reporter, editor and, reluctantly, a content provider for community newspapers around Metro Vancouver for more than 10 years.

He worked with dogged reporters, eloquently indignant curmudgeons and creative photographers, all of whom shared a little of what they knew.

Now, as he goes about the business of raising two fascinating humans alongside a wonderful partner, Shepherd is delighted to report news and tell stories in the Tri-Cities.

He runs, reads, and is intrigued by art, science, smart cities and new ideas. He is pleased to meet you.