Mayor makes ‘superhuman’ effort to get help after being shot in face
HAPPY VALLEY GOOSE BAY, N.L. — A Labrador mayor somehow got on a snowmobile and reached a nearby highway to flag down help after he was shot in the lower face while hunting, his friends say.
Mayor John Hickey of Happy Valley-Goose Bay is in critical but stable condition after being airlifted for surgery Sunday in St. John’s.
“The adrenaline and sheer will power to get himself to the highway was remarkable,” said provincial Speaker Perry Trimper, who has known Hickey for 30 years.
The mayor was out alone Saturday with a shotgun checking rabbit snares just west of the town when he was wounded, he said.