In the two years I worked for the Mississauga News I photographed all manner of local community news stories from "grip and grin" award presentations to festivals in the park, wedding anniversaries to dance recitals, local celebrities to ribbon cuttings and all manner of sports from amateur to professional. The short tenure of working for the paper gave me a wealth of experience due to this variety. Before I was hired full time on the paper I was an "ambulance chaser" and carried a police scanner in my truck to follow news stories if I heard them on the scanner. This image is of a local woman being hoisted out of her vehicle after a collision. Images like these were what showed the photo editor at the newspaper that I had perseverance and was partially why I got hired.