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"Klunder, Collins and Russ did not recall seeing the wind warning when they checked the weather before practice nor accessing the details of that warning," said the university report.

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Before the start of practice around 3 p.m., the report said, three staff members—director of football operations Chad Klunder, director of football video Tim Collins and head athletic trainer Jim Russ—checked online weather reports and saw that no gusts had been reported that afternoon exceeding the department's 35 mph limit for using the hydraulic lifts.

Notre Dame Denies It Knowingly Risked Life of Student Kevin Helliker 2011

Chatting with Klunder, one quickly realizes that the Laura Secord story is an ongoing passion with the artist the two textile pieces in the current show are remnants from a previous exhibition, presented 20 years ago.

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Our animated talk ranged from Secord studies to Canada's cultural need for myths and heroes, to Klunder's own life she is kin to Secord herself as a "loud-mouthed rebel."

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Klunder stages the interior of Secord's racing mind with convincing emotional accuracy.

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If the Yankees try invading again, Klunder will be ready to do her duty for Queen and country.

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These small works are elaborated on by a handful of enormous, visually generous assemblages, including an arresting, diaphanous paper dress; flat dioramas that make large the allegorical elements in Klunder's tiny paper puppet show.

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Indeed, anyone who has ever met Klunder knows the woman thrives on her passions.

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We may never know all the factual details of Laura Secord's travails, but we can now, thanks to Klunder, imagine her trek through the fearsome woods in vivid, atavistic detail.

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Toronto multimedia artist and no shrinking violet herself Barbara Klunder explores the life and legend of Laura Secord via a spectacular series of madly intricate paper cut/silhouette works and layered paper assemblages at David Kaye Gallery - works that seek to reveal both the reality of the Secord story and the tale's dreamy, forest gothic elements.

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