
With the arrest of 43-year-old John Francis Dionne last Friday, Feb 25, on warrants that included the alleged kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl from a Calgary shopping mall, the quiet village of Linden was once again inundated with a barrage of media. Not since the release in October 2010 of the public advisory poster of this controversial new Linden resident, has the Village witnessed such a flurry of media scrutiny. The community at large did not take well to the news that a man with a histo