Abbotsford Times - April 30, 2013

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Dance teams from throughout the province gave it their best at the 18th annual B.C. Ukrainian Cultural Festival at the Clarke Foundation Theatre in Mission on Saturday. Here Zirka – Vernon Tropotyanka dancers go airborne to impress the crowd. The festival included food, displays, wheat weaving demonstrations and more. For more photos of the Ukrainian dancers, see www.abbotsfordtimes.com.

Thwarted in love & crime ROCHELLE BAKER RBaker@abbotsfordtimes.com

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15-year-old boy who succumbed to the lure of romance against his better judgment is facing $759 fines after being nabbed going 175 km/hr in the family Cadillac along Hwy. 1 in Abbotsford. The young Surrey teen – who doesn’t have a licence and had taken the car without permission – was stopped by a RCMP traffic officer near Bradner Road at 2 a.m. on April 20, said RCMP Cpl. Robert McDonald of Lower Mainland Traffic Services. The boy used the car to meet a girl he had recently met on a school trip and was trying to get back home before anyone noticed the vehicle missing. Apparently the teen’s criminal caper was thwarted

in more ways than one. “He met her and it turns out she just wanted to be friends,” said McDonald. Not only is the young driver facing a total of $759 in fines for excessive speeding and driving without a licence, but he also had some serious explaining to do when his parents arrived roadside in the middle of the night as their 2008 Cadillac CT was being impounded. The alternative could have been much worse, noted McDonald, adding the arresting officer was stunned to discover the driver’s age. “At that speed, a young driver with no licence, no experience. What would have happened if he lost control?” McDonald asked. “If anything goes wrong, there’s no tomorrow . . . no romantic life. No future.”

B.C. Conservatives step aside for van Dongen Liberal Plecas derides party as ‘extremists’ CHRISTINA TOTH CToth@abbotsfordtimes.com

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t’s no oversight the B.C. Conservatives don’t have a presence in the Abbotsford South riding – the party won’t split right-leaning votes by running against independent John van Dongen, even though he snubbed the party last fall. “As far as it goes, we support John

all the way and we wish him the best. He’s a good man,” said Paul Redekopp, the Conservative candidate in Abbotsford West, who called van Dongen a friend. Redekopp said local BCC party organizers discussed the plan and took it to party leader John Cummins, who agreed. “John van Dongen would represent his riding so effectively there’s no point in us going against him. We want to support him rather than go

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