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Girls show appreciation to SAR for dog rescue Jessica Peters The Progress Once their rescue missions are over, the volunteers at Chilliwack Search and Rescue don’t usually hear back from the people they’ve saved. It’s even more rare to get follow ups about the animals they’ve rescued along the way. So when the Chilliwack SAR team had heard that two young girls wanted to thank them for saving their grandparents’ dog, they were pleasantly surprised. The girls, named Abby and Anna, were bringing along a sizable cash donation, too. “I could be wrong but I think this is the first time in the 18 years I’ve been on the team to have young people donating to us,” said Doug Fraser, SAR’s search manager. When the girls visited the SAR headquarters with their mom, they were treated to a tour of the facilities, and Fraser was told the story of how a dog they rescued came to be lost. Their story goes back to the late spring, when the two girls were helping to dog sit for their grandparents up at Cultus Lake. At some point, the dog “caught a scent of something and off it went,” Fraser said. Hours passed as the girls and their mom searched frantically. Finally, they received a tip that the dog had been seen around Sweltzer Creek, and off they went to find him there. “This was in May,” Fraser said, “and the water was running fairly high in the creek. This dog had gone in a place in the creek where the banks were too steep for it to get itself out. It was exhausted when the girls’ mom found it.” So, as any animal lover would probably do, the mom went down into the creek to help the stranded canine. Continued: SAR/ p13
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Chilliwack slam poet is heading to the UN Jennifer Feinberg The Progress Gautham Krishnaraj of Chilliwack likes to take on global topics with the creative twist of the spoken word. The student and slam poet has been advocating for international issues like girls’ education, and has presented at local schools like G.W. Graham and Sardis secondary. The 20-year-old is the co-founder of Raise Your Voice, and he’s right now gearing up to participate in the 59th session of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), from March 9-20,
2015 in New York City. “As a young male, advocating for gender equality and girls’ education is something I find to be very important, and I am anxious to meet with the key world stakeholders and partake in valuable discussions,” Krishnaraj told The Progress. The enthusiastic, bilingual university student is in 3rd year microbiology and immunology at McGill University in Montreal, and lives on Promontory Heights in Chilliwack. Krishnaraj is outgoing and passionate about making a difference. “He’s been actively involved is serving his community since he was in Grade 6,” said his mom,
Thilaka Krishnaraj. He doesn’t sit around and wait for other people to ask him to join an effort, she explains. He forges ahead and does it on his own. “To me, he’s a leader,” she said. He said he’s excited to see what will happen at the UN session that he has preparing for in the new year. It’s especially timely because it’s been 20 years since the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And 2015 is all about implementing the lofty goals they drafted. “I’m glad to see the focus this year is in on tangible action,” he said. “People always say the UN is
only about talking, but this is about action. That is very important and Raise Your Voice was founded with this in mind.” He once spoke before a crowd of 20,000 at the Me to We event in Vancouver in 2011, as part of Tedx Victoria, so it won’t be the first time he discusses the power that young people have to change the world. Krishnaraj launched the nonprofit, Raise Your Voice, two years ago, with his friend, Nik Carverhill, when they were at Pearson College UWC on Vancouver Island. The aim is to “empower youth with Continued: VOICE/ p13
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Looking back at 2014 The Progress continues its review of what was making news, July to December JULY Modern Family
Justin Mallard and Brett Rancourt tell their story of a modern family. The married couple became fathers through a surrogate pregnancy and earned emotional support from thousands of residents through Mallard’s blog, Love and Science: Our Modern Family. Chilliwack flying flag at BC Summer Games
Twenty-two athletes from Chilliwack took part in the BC Summer Games in Nanaimo. City puts a lid on recycling.
Sam Waddington, owner of Mt. Waddington’s Outdoors store, announces intention to run for city council. The 24-year-old earned a seat in November, with the most votes earned by any of the candidates.
Chilliwack champions take provincial title
Three Chilliwack FC squads won provincial championships at Townsend Park and Exhibition Field. The U-13, U-14 and U-15 teams claimed crowns, an unprecedented feat for Chilliwack soccer. Riverside campground at Cheam beach
Recreational fishers were invited to cast their lines from the shores of the Cheam beach this summer, as the small First Nation band created a new campsite. The venture is hoped to be a turning point in attitudes between First Nation and recreational fishers along the Fraser River, where friction has led to frustrations and even violence in the past. “We want to go down a different path now,” said Darwin Douglas, Cheam band councillor at the time. “We think it’s a good way to move forward.” Amphibian award
Steve Clegg was recognized for his work protecting endangered toads and frogs, through Superman Award from Fraser Valley Conservancy. Every year, toadlets travel across roadways near Ryder Lake. Over the years, Clegg has been a key player in helping ensure the amphibians have a safe crossing to the lake. Mayor Sharon Gaetz was elected for a third term on Nov. 15. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
AUGUST Two dead following shooting
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a roud table discussion with Minister of International Trade Ed Fast (left) and IMW Industries president Brian Nguyen during a tour of the local plant on Aug. 20. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
rocked the neighbourhood around Gore Ave. on Aug. 7. Richard Blackmon and Tyler Belcourt were killed and one person was sent to hospital. The shooting launched a manhunt for a suspect, Aaron Douglas, that ended almost two months later, on Sept. 25. Douglas was found at a home in Abbotsford and there was a two-hour standoff before his arrest. The case is still before the courts. Gate locked at Soowahlie
Speeding drivers along the backroads near Cultus Lake caused the Soowhahlie First Nation band to protect the community by closing off access on weekends and some evenings. Mercer move
A centur y-old farmhouse, known as the Mercer house, was moved from its original location on Yale Road in Rosedale, on steel beams to a field behind its new owner’s house on Nevin Road. The house was offered for free to whoever could coordinate the removal of the house, which was on land purchased by Tycrop. The land is now a parking lot for the manufacturer. Harper visits Chilliwack to talk trade
The prime minister came to town to speak with community and business leaders, with a stop at IMW Industries. The event was intended to showcase Canada’s first trade deal in the Asia Pacific region — the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
SEPTEMBER New UFV facility opens at Five Corners After missing a total of five weeks of school (two in June, and three in September) thousands of students in Chilliwack returned to class on Sept. 22. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
UFV’s newest facility was opened to great fanfare in September, and features a bright lobby, a classroom, a computer lab, meeting rooms and offices over two stories
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Brett Rancourt (left) and Justin Mallard became fathers to Jordyn and Sawyer in July. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
and 7,000 square feet. The prominent building at Five Corners was donated to the university by the Bank of Montreal, has been sitting in its location for more than a century. CEPCO also helped with the project, donating $850,000 for renovations. The location will be used for Continuing Education courses, including public relations and records management.
Students stay home as strike continues
Schools remained empty as the strike continued, and teachers returned to the picket lines. The strike ended on Sept. 22, with kids heading back to school after missing five weeks in classes (two weeks were also lost in June). Teachers inked a six-year deal, with 86 per cent of 31,741 teachers voting in favour of the new contract. Additionally, parents of children from kindergarten to age 12 were given $40 a day allowances to help offset extra childcare costs or loss of work.
The new settlement expires on June 20, 2019, includes a 7.25 per cent salary increase, improvements to extended health benefits, better rates for on-call teachers and a $400 million education fund for hiring specialist teachers. Final campfire doused at CLUCC
After 81 years, the Cultus Lake United Church Camp closed its operations. The campground’s lease, Cultus Lake Provincial Park, was set to expire on April 30, 2015. There are plans to begin converting the 15-acre piece of land into a public campground.
OCTOBER Hall of Famers
Rick Klassen was one of several athletes who were inducted into the Chilliwack Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 25 during its second induction ceremony. Klassen is a Sardis graduate from the ‘70s, played in the Canadian Football League for 10 years. Continued: YEAR/ p5
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The cupboards were completely bare at the Salvation Army’s food bank this October, prompting a desperate plea to the public to help restock before Christmas. At the same time, the number of people using the food bank has risen. The plea led to a successful Food Mob event in midDecember.
NOVEMBER Bringing them in from the cold
Chilliwack shelter providers applied for BC Housing funding specifically for extreme weather shelters when temperatures fell below zero. The most recent homeless count for Chilliwack showed there were 77 people living on the streets. Sardis students left in limbo
Sardis secondar y is home base for one of the province’s best high school boys basketball teams. But this fall the squad was left without a coach for the first few months of the
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DECEMBER Avian flu hits local farms
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whether to prescribe pot, while cities worry about how to handle a rush of would-be commercial pot producers. Marijuana reform advocates, coming off the failure of their signature campaign to trigger a referendum in 2013, were more upbeat in 2014 after legal pot shops opened in Washington State and ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery was released from a U.S. prison.
APRIL Medical marijuana
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Port Metro Vancouver approves a planned coal export terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks despite intense opposition from
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Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters to win power in next October’s federal election. He has taken direct aim at the prime minister’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “message control.” Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of information. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper government,” actual information from MPs and civil servants is often sparse. While some MPs are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not. Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press conferences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavailable to the media. He makes a few appearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion. Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while. Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government. ~ Black Press
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systems and wildfire adapted communities” over the next 10 years. The final discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the key research is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than Tom FLETCHER in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute. The report calls for fuel management beyond community boundaries to stop “mega-fires” by creating landscape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting, prescribed burning and new silviculture practices. It notes that bark beetle infestations and bigger, hotter fires are
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Metro tax won’t fix congestion One has to shake one’s head with the ‘Metro Vancouver congestion tax’ referendum, as clearly the Metro mayors haven’t a clue what they are talking about. The name, Metro Vancouver congestion tax is false advertising, as the only way to reduce road congestion and associated gridlock is by reducing road space for cars and this is not being done. Subways don’t reduce congestion and are only built to accommodate high ridership on routes which demands long trains and large stations. Traffic flows along
Broadway nowhere close comes to justify a multi billion dollar subway and if built, will drag TransLink into a financial morass as it has done in other cities. The ill planned LRT for Surrey, which is being planned as a poor man’s SkyTrain and will do little in alleviating congestion. Don’t Metro mayors realize that after investing over $9 billion in ‘rapid transit’ mode share by auto has remained at 57% for over 20 years? The one mode with a proven record of alleviating congestion is modern LRT because it uses
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Liberals take shot at Tory year years, to get help. Spending on infrastructure projects through the Building Canada Fund has been cut by 90%. Employment Insurance payroll taxes have been frozen at artificially high levels. Other taxes, such as tariffs on imports, have gone up. Public safety has been shortchanged, from search and rescue to food inspection and rail safety to environmental protection. All for the sake of income splitting, which will cost the federal government a whopping $2 billion a year, but will not benefit 85% of Canadian households. Single mothers and fathers, those who have the least and couples with similar incomes will get nothing. Among the few who will benefit,
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SAR from page Front “She climbed down into the creek to look after the dog,” Fraser said. “The dog was so tired it was leaning on her the whole time.” But the woman herself was standing in cold spring waters up to her chest, too. Knowing she was in a predicament, she moved to a different spot in the creek and waited for help to arrive. “We came out and we had nine or 10 people on that call,” Fraser said. “We rigged a little harness for the dog and brought the dog out and then helped the girls’ mom out, and everybody was safe and sound.” Little did the rescuers know that the young girls were avid fundraisers for animal welfare, collecting bottles and cans as a way to be able to donate to the OWL society in the past. Because of the way the Chilliwack SAR team rescued their mom, and the dog, the girls decided to donate $200 to the local organization. “It sure was a nice gesture on their part,” Fraser said. While rescuing animals is not the
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Youth ‘raising voices’ at UN for gender equality VOICE from page Front debate, spoken word poetry, and education.” They partner with schools and communities to provide outreach to the most vulnerable youth with messages of empowerment. They fund girls’ education scholarships and are helping three students currently studying in Malawi. “Raise Your Voice is about getting marginalized youth involved in the public discourse,” he said. The UN session he’ll be participating in March will also address “oppor tunities for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women” and will look at the post-2015 development agenda. It is also timely in the
context of HeForShe, the solidarity movement for gender equality, he explained, which features men standing up for women’s rights worldwide. The HeForShe.org has an online “commitment” which asks signatories to agree that: “Gender equality is not only a women’s issue, it is a human rights issue that requires my participation. “I commit to take action against all forms of violence and discrimination faced by women and girls.” In March, he’ll be flying to New York City to attend the 59th session of the CSW, with the Canadian permanent mission, representing the International Relations Student Association at McGill
(IRSAM). Krishnaraj will also be representing his home community and his nonprofit group, Raise Your Voice, since it advocates and sponsors girls’ education around the world. “The themes will includes youth engagement and women in diplomacy,” he said. “It’s a unique space that we will fill at the UN.” The local youth wants to represent not only his own views when he gets to the UN, but those from youth in his communities of Chilliwack and Montreal as well. Anyone in Chilliwack can email him directly with any ideas and/or comments to gauthamkrishnaraj@hotmail.ca jfeinberg@theprogress.com twitter.com/chwkjourno
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Eric J. Welsh, The Progress The best team in Chilliwack last season endured a tumultuous offseason. The Sardis Falcons, fourth place finishers at last spring’s AAA provincials, were on life support in early October. With Kyle Graves stepping aside as head coach, there was no one to guide the team until Harvev Adrian and Martin Giesbrecht stepped up at the 11th hour. “Martin and I both feel that we have the ability, and value the opportunity to pour into the lives of these young men to help them become good leaders on and off the basketball court,” Adrian said at the time. “The biggest challenge will be keeping up with them. They are all very motivated and the game has changed so much.” There’s little pressure on the Falcons as the new season dawns. With only four returnees, this is a clear rebuilding year. Gone are big guns Hayden Lejeune, Cam Ser vatius and Eric Rogers. But that doesn’t mean Sardis is a young team, with a roster that includes eight Grade 12s and five Grade 11s. John Nagayo figures to be one of the key players, running the offence from the backcourt. “He is a good floor general and can shoot ver y well,” Adrian noted. Senior Brayden Speaks-Chinda brings size and skill to the front-court as the team’s most athletic player. Peter St. Louis is a versatile player, capable of scoring off the drive
and dropping longrange bombs. At six-foot-six, Edward Stanciu is the tallest Falcon, a raw project who hasn’t played a lot of basketball. Among the younger players, Logan Clegg is the team’s best rebounder and has been a scoring leader in most early season games. “He had a high of 30 in one game,” Adrian observed. Other roster members are Adam Wise, Michael Kim, Sam Shin, Ram Manfero-Placente, Scott Chen, Santana McKay, Matt Haley, Keegan Lightle and Quinn Hoeppner. “We are young as far as basketball experience goes, with some Grade 12 players who haven’t played team ball for a few years,” Adrian assessed. “We hope to improve greatly as the season goes on. Making the playoffs in our league will be a tough task.” — This year’s top local squad figures to be the GW Graham Grizzlies. The GWG roster features many familiar names who spent their offseasons playing for the Grizzly football team. Diego Pineda has a pigskin scholarship to Guelph waiting for him. In the meantime, he brings size and strength to the post position for GWG. Other football players on the roster include Brett Westad, Emerson Smith, Treyvon Walsh, Tyler Sprott and Jordon Breuker. The leader on the floor is Gabe Mannes, younger brother of former GWG scoring star Lucas Mannes. “He’s been averaging over 25 points per game,” coach Jake Mouritzen said. “He penetrates the paint at will, can hit the deep three and the pull-up jumper.” Ryan Trottier was a standout at GWG’s Showcase Invitational tournament. “He scores with ease every way possible on offence,” Mouritzen said. “And he can shut
Chilliwack secondary school’s Matthias Alleckna (right) is one of three seniors leading a young Storm squad into the 2014-15 high school basketball season. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
down a point guard or four-man on defence. He’s become an outright star.” Mateo Urbano was another shining light in the preseason tournament, making his return from sports-hernia surgery. Lightning quick, the Grade 11 shooting guard helps the Grizz push the pace against slower squads. Phil Weston is another notable up front as a dominant post player. He is probably the team’s top defensive rebounder. Other roster members are Josh Morgan, Curtis Kmyta, Colton Cymbaluk, Jon Steele and Kyle Helsloot. “After graduating 12 players in 2012 and going through a two
year rebuild, we believe we have the players to compete against anyone in the province,” Mouritzen said. “We have the most size in the post that we’ve ever had. Combined with a lethal back court, that gives us opportunities to win every night.” — The Chilliwack Storm go into this season with new faces patrolling the bench. Longtime head coach Joe Mauro is guiding the juniors this year, leaving Wayne Johnson in charge of the senior squad. Johnson takes over a team that is ‘small in stature but big in heart.’ “We need to out work and out hustle our opponents to compete a this level,” he said. “We
need to gel as a team and get the most out of everybody.” The Storm have just three seniors in Matthias Alleckna, Brandon Gandire and Jordan Shultz. Gandire can play shooting guard or power forward, with great leaping ability that makes him the team’s best rebounder. Gandire often matches up against the opponent’s top player, and Johnson feels he can be a dominant star. “When he wants to,” Johnson added a qualifier. “He just needs to be consistent and hard working.” Alleckna is one of the team’s back-court leaders (along with point guard Lucas Lunt), and Shultz brings good
shooting from the small forward-shooting guard spot. Among the Grade 11s, Marius Anghel brings physicality to the post position, playing with an edge and thriving when the going gets tough. Kayl Graydon is a high level field lacrosse player with athleticism that can translate to the court. “He rebounds well and plays tough defence, He needs to work on getting to the right position on the floor.” Johnson has players who can hit the outside shot, with Rashad Mohammad the most lethal from three point land. Akeem Williams brings wheels and hus-
tle as the fastest Storm player. Other roster members are Jimmy Fooks, Matthew Warren and Cameron Betker. “We have a tough schedule ahead of us as we play in the powerful Fraser Valley East,” Johnson said. “We face some of the best teams in the province, but I am looking forward to the challenge to change the basketball dynamics at CSS — to build a tradition that every one of our students can be proud of.” BC high school basketball on the boys side can be followed online at bcboysbasketball. com. Stay tuned for an upcoming senior girls b-ball preview in the pages of the Progress.
The Chilliwack Progress Tuesday, December 30, 2014
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2014 car year in review Mercedes-Benz GLA 250 4MATIC: MSRP $37,200 (AMG version is $50,500) Another vehicle that shone brightly is Mercedes-Benz’s GLA. The luxury compact crossover starts at under $40K but does so many things well. It has a hatchback, great styling and the fuel economy is quite good, too. I wouldn’t even need the AMG version to keep me happy. It’s just a stellar vehicle.
It’s hard to believe that 2014 is over. Subaru WRX STI: Where did it go? At a time when we tend MSRP $37,995-$44,995 to reflect on what we’ve done, what we The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI is can do better and what was awesome, an incredible car within its own right. that brings me to my personal Car Year It has a cult following and has the in Review. street cred to back it up. And just when It takes a special vehicle or experience you think you’re getting the hang of by Alexandra Straub to stick in my memory. Not to say that putting it around the Buttonwillow short-term memory loss is a problem but Raceway in California, you let Tommi with constant streams of information bombarding Mäkinen take you for a spin. Gosh, it’s like he could my brain, it’s not hard to forget where I was and drive ten times faster, smoother and more confidently what I was testing a week ago! in his sleep. Heck, he had one arm on the windowsill Though this is a review of wheels past, because we when he wasn’t shifting or going into a tight corner. often test vehicles well ahead of their full production Moral of the story: the car makes you feel like a hero this also points to what people will be driving in even if you can’t drive like Tommi. And what a cool 2015. experience. Let’s start small because the micro cars might be Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: miniscule in price, but aren’t about to disappoint. MSRP $63,495 (but the new 2015 Challenger SXT Nissan Micra: MSRP Range, $9,998-$15,748 starts at an MSRP of $28,495) For under $10K, this pint-sized vehicle can be yours. The name says it all. Put “Hell” in something and But just because it’s inexpensive doesn’t mean it’s you’re bound to have a helluva good time, right? cheap. And it’s a blast to drive. Sure, 109 horsepower Especially when you have 707 horsepower at your won’t get you where you need to go in a flash, but disposal. But to say I wasn’t apprehensive to take this that’s not the point of this car. Besides, for basic beast on the track at Portland International Raceway transportation, it has the goods. would be a lie. And the reason is, American muscle cars haven’t always been the pinnacle of exceptional Ford Fiesta 1.0L, $15,999 + $1,500 for the 1.0L option; for an MSRP of $17,499 handling dynamics. Sure, it has a lot of horses, but will it get me through the corner with minimal body roll? Ford’s smallest engine available here in Canada sure Or will the steering have enough feel that I won’t be packs a lot of punch. And considering it only weighs constantly inputting actions? 98 kg when assembled, this 1.0L, 3-cylinder powerIn this case? Hell(cat) yes. I was blown away as to plant is pretty impressive. If you opt for this bitehow well this car drove, not just on the track, but on sized engine, you’ll be getting 123 horsepower and the street, too. Disclaimer: if you need to get anywhere 125 lb-ft of torque (148 lb-ft with the overboost). The quickly, this isn’t the car for you. People will talk your Fiesta was designed and engineered in Europe so it ear off about it if you give them an opportunity. isn’t bad to look at either.
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