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Lorene Keitch / OBSERVER
Joe Schulz still gets excited as people stop by his Rosedale home to look at his 23,000-light Christmas display.
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Owner loves to share his joy of Christmas with the thousands who come to admire his displays By Lorene Keitch THE OBSERVER
A display 20 years in the making. 23,0000 lights. Five weeks of set-up. This is the must-see house of the Christmas season. From the spinning miniature table saw to the life-size sleigh, this house has it all. A train set that is every little boy’s dream come true. Seven tracks, multiple trains with cargo, passenger cars, even logs, moving around in an intricate set-up. There are those big red plastic candles you used to see everywhere but have
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slowly broken and been replaced by most people. Sparkly, light-up snowmen, a giant tree made of lights and a beautiful manger scene with a wall of Christmas light-filled trees fill out the yard. Joe Schulz takes care of each one of his decorations, especially the oldie but goodies that you just can’t find anywhere. He has dolls that look like they come out of a museum beside moving angels and inflatable snowmen. It’s a cornucopia of Christmas. Joe’s wife Lorraine puts it simply:
“He’s really into Christmas.” No kidding. The humble beginnings for this Christmas wonderland began 20 years ago with the building a church. His grandson was two years old at the time and Joe remembers the little guy could clamber inside the chapel. Now that grandson is grown up and there are four more buildings sharing the driveway. Each building has music corresponding to the action inside. There’s the snoring Santa with Mrs. Clause busy downstairs. There’s Santa’s workshop
where he paints a toy to the chapel where the congregation listens to a choir. There's the dancing Santa, where every four minutes, the jolly old elf shakes his hips to a Christmas tune. “I plan all year," Joe says. "I can hardly wait for it to start up.” Joe has been doing this for a long time. But he still gets excited when he sees children watching with wonder. They peer in the windows, calling to their parents to come see. Continued on 9
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10 years of studying the reintroduced elk before any harvesting regulations will be decided. • Farmland filling with water Local farmers dealing with flooding on a more regular basis. Agassiz farmers and District staff working together to pinpoint why the water levels are higher than usual. •Official Community Plan input concludes District gathers material through more than 10 public discussions to aid in the creation of the new OCP • Inquiry into a trio of inmate deaths An inquest will probe the deaths of three Mountain Institution inmates, all who were being housed in the medium security's segregation unit at the time of their deaths over a period of eight months. • Balanced calendar not popular Forum reveals three months of school then one-month breaks not ideal for students or support staff. • Agassiz couple serves time for cash smuggling Jonna and Robert Booth caught with $73,000 cash in a compartment in their motorhome.
February: •Veteran service cuts under fire Changes to how veterans services has come under scrutiny after several offices were closed across the country. • Hang glider sentenced to five months A Burnaby man whose negligence while piloting a passenger on a hang gliding flight in Agassiz caused her to fall to her death has been sentenced to five months in jail. • Doctors looking for efficiencies with a busy workload Local doctors are working hard to
There was no shortage of snow as Hemlock hosted ski events during the BC Winter Games. The slalom was canceled midway due to dangerous conditions.
improve health care, including a recent survey on questions such as patient's needs to availability of care. More than 3,000 community members filled out a survey to give doctors a better sense of residents without a consistent family doctor. • Seabird aims to remove road from park Seabird Island wants to remove a road from Sasquatch Provincial Park to allow logging
trucks to travel along its route. The road connects Hicks Lake to Rockwell drive. • Hemlock hosts BC Winter Games Snow didn't deter the freestyle competitions but the slalom was canceled midway due to dangerous conditions. More than 2,000 participants attended the games. • Two-year grace period for business operating on farmland
Meinen Brothers Agri Services, located on the Agricultural Land Reserve, can continue to operate until a decision by the Agricultural Land Commission even though it doesn't comply with local bylaws.
March: •Agassiz residents feeling snowed in About a food of snow covered the Fraser Continued on PAGE 3
Excavator tips over on Harrison area work site during building of new road at east end of Lillooet Ave.
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valley, causing multiple traffic accidents and closing schools across the region Monday. The heavy snowfall put forward a challenge for the District of Kent as they set out to remove the snow from local roads. •RCMP take suggestions from public at forum Small turnout didn't deter a hearty discussion about the key issues facing Agassiz, Harrison and the surrounding areas. • Arrest made in Agassiz cold case RCMP charged Rosedale resident Richard MacInnes with the second-degree murder of Michael Scullion. Scullion went missing in 2008. • ACE student speaks at a bullying forum in Surrey Domanic CharlieFrancis wowed the crowd with his message, one of only five speakers chosen from across the province to speak about bullying at an event that included
Premier Christy Clark, Education minster Peter Fassbender and Travis Price, co-founder of Pink Shirt Day. • Lions celebrate 50 years A g a s s i z - Ha r r i s o n Lions Club celebrated their semi-cennennial with dinner, special guests and dancing at the St. Alice Hall in Harrison Hot Springs. • Ramada Inn receives approval from Council for renovations Harrison council unanimously agrees to remove a covenant that allowed public access • Measles vaccination clinics set up Following an outbreak o the preventable illness, two measles vaccination clinics set up • Tax increase proposed to cover rising policing costs This year's budget showed a tax increase of 3.25 per cent as a new police officer was added. • Gunfire and blood on set
News Final episode of the 10-episode dramatic series set to wrap up filming in Agassiz •Spring break with a difference Three Agassiz high school students go through an RCMP training camp at Stillwood's RCMP Youth Academy. • Community consulted on health The conversation around improving improving access to local health care continued, with a community forum between health care providers and the public. The program, called A GP For Me, has been communicating with doctors and other healthcare professionals to pinpoint what's working, and what's not, in local health care. • Wayward Pines production company offers to buy out the park cleanup Council declines an agreement to take money in lieu of cleanup, on advisement
from staff who are already busy with usual maintenance and spring work. • Agassiz cheese maker earns national award Debra AmreinBoyes won two awards at the 2014 Canadian Cheese Awards for her clothbound cheddar. • Teacher strike action begins Stage one strike action began in schools across the province, limiting teachers from performing certain duties. • Social Club celebrates 10 years of good times The Harrison Hot Springs Social Club, which began in 2004, gathered to celebrate time spent as friends over the years.
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Opinion Stay informed
It's not often you get to reflect on a 52 week period and see what worked well, and what didn't. We take this time once a year to remember what makes this place unique. We look at the newsmakers and policy makers. We look at the impacts of events on your life and, hopefully, learn from our mistakes so we can start 2015 afresh. It's been a busy year for Agassiz and Harrison. The debate about Sasquatch Park took up a lot of editorial space this year, as did the filming and aftermath of Wayward Pines. The District of Kent's adoption of the Official Community Plan was a big one. This new OCP will help guide and direct the town as it works towards building a sustainable community. There were renovations and beautification projects, flooding on farmlands and health scares across the Fraser Valley. One of the big news items this year was the municipal election. And so it should be. Who you vote in to Council makes a difference in your daily lives. It's not just some random person you stick into a
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Will you adopt a healthier lifestyle in 2015?
chair and don't hear from until the next election. These friends and neighbours will be shaping the future of Agassiz and Harrison as they make decisions that affect you. They work together (hopefully), to decide on projects and policies for the upcoming term and, consequently, how to spend your tax dollars. So, to the new Council, don't treat it lightly that you sit in the elected seats. Take 2015 seriously; it is a grave responsibility to make decisions for an entire community. And, to the community, you're not off the hook now that the elections are done. It's your responsibility to make your voice heard if you don't like what's happening. Don't wait until after decisions are made to whine about what you don't like. Be proactive. Keep informed. And hopefully, by the end of 2015, these two thriving communities will be further ahead than we are now and more unified in our vision. After all, we're all in this together. Happy new year everyone.
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2015: the year of climate adaptation
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Tom Fletcher Victoria – It’s time to look beyond the protests and political battles around climate change that dominated 2014, and look at the year and the decade ahead. From the California drought to shifting forest patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squabbling about the significance of humancaused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare. A draft discussion paper from the B.C. forests ministry on wildfire control was released in December after an access to information request. “Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wildfire Management, 20142024” describes the progress made
in the province’s community forest fire prevention plan, and its goal to create “wildfire resilient ecosystems 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 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 being seen across North America, with costs rising along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake fire in northern Alberta generated the second largest insurance charge in
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Canadian history. The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be catastrophic. Also in 2014, the B.C. government appointed an advisory committee
“There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.”
to prepare for the renewal of the Columbia River Treaty with the United States. While this 1964 the treaty has no end date, its flood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford and Jon
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O’Riordan, members of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior policy author Robert Sandford, have written a provocative book on the treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agreement that will be a model for a changing world. “If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period, for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harford said. “For the B.C. side, we’re looking at heavy precipitation and potential increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow. “There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.” The treaty, sparked by devastating floods in 1948, led to construction of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Washington that backed up Kookanusa Lake into B.C. Between OFFICE HOURS Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed Sat., Sun., & Mon.
that reservoir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000 hectares of B.C. land was flooded, including orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people. Those dams hold back spring flood water and provide for irrigation that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture to a $5 billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the value of hydroelectric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricultural benefits that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal territories. O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic benefit for B.C. The U.S. has no more dam capacity to exploit, and needs us more than ever, for flood protection and water supply. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers. Email: tfletcher@ blackpress.ca
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injured in a crash at the Agassiz Speedway. Jaws of Life used to remove her from the car. • Wind sports lagging behind industry growth Number of members in the Harrison Windsport Society have dropped from 150 to 37 over past six years. • Videos showcase best of Agassiz The District of Kent’s website now features a trio of slick videos to help promote the region to the world. • Monday Painters Art Show Group celebrated their 53rd anniversary with a spring art show •Enrolment numbers cause concern Fraser-Cascade school district faced reduced revenues of $283,000 for the 2014/2015 school year. Pressures on the budget include increases in BC Hydro rates, inflation and upgrades to the roof of the Coquihalla school. • Young entrepreneur starts new market Harrison council grants permission to Cole Unger, 15, to operate a farmer’s market for a trial period in June and July. •Community plan taking place The District of Kent’s new Official Community Plan passes first and second reading.
• Rotating strikes across B.C. Fraser Cascade school district is one of 16 districts that started rotating strikes. • Seabird seeks woodlot access Band continues with application to remove road from Sasquatch Park boundary, and are waiting to hear back from BC Parks regarding stage one of their application process.
June: •Students walk out to protest At least a dozen students walked out of their classes at AESS, joining thousands of other students around the province who are fed up with the teachers’ strike action and the government lockouts. • Opposition grows to Sasquatch boundary adjustment There’s an 800 hectare parcel of land sitting just on the erg of Sasquatch Park that ovule put an extra $300,000 into seabird Island’s economic base, annually - if the land could be harvested. • Rot found in local restaurant The former park Ave restaurant in Agassiz has 37 items needing to be fixed. The District registered Section 57, meaning it protects the municipality from liability on this property.
• Harrison Council decides to allow sidewalk tables on Esplanade. Businesses need to apply for a temporary sidewalk extension, pay a security deposit and license fee. • Harrison Hot Springs shows off big projects The Village of Harrison celebrated the completion of two big projects, the water treatment plant and the upgrades to Esplanade Avenue.
July: • Samples, selling allowed at market Farmers’ market customers in B.C. now have the option of buying beer, wind, ciders and spirits. Local farm market coordinator Judy Pickard works to find a few vendors to bring their brews tot he Agassiz Farm Fresh Market. • Inmates plead guilty to manslaughter Three Kent inmates have each pleaded guilty to manslaughter, in a case dating back to 2008 with the death of inmate Andrew Robert Craig. • Council votes unanimously to preserve park boundary Harrison's mayor and council has voted unanimously to not support the proposed Sasquatch Park
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boundary adjustment. The boundary adjustment would allow logging truck traffic to travel through a portion of Sasquatch Park. • Anonymous donor offers up $50,000 to complete the first portion of a major playground overhaul at Kent elementary school
• Forest fire threatened power lines on Harrison River A small forest fire along the southern bank of the Harrison River kept fire crews busy for two days. They put out the six-hectare blaze in steep terrain on the west side of Agassiz Mountain.
• New OCP Adopted in District of Kent After more than a year and a half of public consultation and planning, there is a new Official Community Plan in the District of Kent. The new plan was adopted with a few amendments that evolved from the final
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and theft appear to be on the decline. • Introducing the opposition BC NDP leader John Horgan toured Agassiz with former NDP MLA Gwen O'Mahony as part of his rounds of the province after being acclaimed the leader of the opposition back in May. • Water extraction plan goes to FVRD An application has been made to the regional district to rezone an area near Chehalis to build a water extraction plant. • Bottling plant eyed for Harrison Mills Chris Lepine is hoping to share the natural taste of a Harrison Mills spring with the rest of the world. He has submitted a rezoning request to the Fraser Valley Regional District for a small portion of his land to allow for a small bottling plant.
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• Motorcyclist dies in t. Woodside collision A Langley man died following a collision on Mt. Woodside on Labour Day. He was driving west and failed to negotiate one of the turns. He entered
an eastbound lane and collided with an oncoming car. • Sedin twins play in Agassiz Brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin show up to Kent elementary to celebrate the opening of the playground, as well as attend the new Kent Community Recreation and Cultural Centre. The brothers were here to kick of the official launch of the Sedin Family Foundation. The local elementary school was one of their first two recipients, donating $50,000 for the project's completion. • Searchers discover bodies of two missing men Kent-Harrison Search and Rescue located two deceased men following missing-person reports. • B.C. Seniors advocate makes stop in Agassiz B.C.'s newlyappointed seniors advocate stopped in Agassiz last week to take part in a day of learning or local seniors. Isobel Mackenzie is the first person to hold the title of seniors advocate for the country.
October: Seabird students on television
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The annual Harrison Festival was alive with colour, thanks to performers like the Bhangra Club.
Students at Seabird Island school took part in filming Warrior Games in the summer of 2012 and it is soon set to hit the small screen. Students showed the show's host how to play several games they've learned form their elders. • Newcomers seeking school board seats Five local candidates for the upcoming school board election have stepped forward. The deadline for nominations closes Friday, Oct. 10. • Sign agreement leads to lack of signs No-sign agreement dating back to 1990 means the District of Kent has mostly remained a signfree zone during the municipal election. • Lockdown at Agassiz Research Station A lockdown was put in place at the Pacific
Agri-Food research Centre in Agassiz in an apparent response to the shooting of a solder in Ottawa. • Candidates split on parking problem Nearly 200 resident poured into the Harrison memorial Hall to learn a little more about the candidates or the municipal election. Pay parking was area where personal opinions showed through. • Council rescinds stage purchase plan Kent Council has taken a few steps back in a recent decision to purchase a mobile stage for the community.
November: Council hopefuls show discontentment The District of Kent all-candidate's meeting gave voters a glimpse into a negative undercurrent that has been building up in the
community on issues such as business growth, the fitness centre and the mobile stage. • CRCC gym officially opens in Agassiz The District of Kent celebrated the opening of the new Community Recreation and Cultural Centre, offering free classes to guests. • Search and Rescue team logs busiest night in years Kent Harrison Search and Rescue took three calls over one night, two of them in a row. One call was for a landslide at Bridal Falls with fears the slide might impact dwellings and RV parks. The second was a report of someone trapped on a cliff near Chehalis Lake and finally, a call about four missing people lost in the Chehalis delta. • Fire destroys Agassiz home A house was
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destroyed by a fire in Agassiz Monday morning, but the family living there escaped without serious injuries. • District of Kent Council sees new and old faces join the ranks Newcomer Susan Spaeti is elected to Council with an "overwhelming" number of votes. Mayor John Van Laerhoven is re-elected. Former mayor Sylvia Pranger earns seat, along with incumbents Duane Post and Darcy Striker. • Village of Harrison Hot Springs council sees change Mayor Leo Facio beat out his two challengers to remain as mayor. Coun. John Buckley and Coun. Sonja Reyerse were re-elected while newcomers John Hansen and Samantha Piper take the final two seats on Council.
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• Banquet a time to thank members Agassiz firefighters receive recognition for their service to the community.
December: • New year to bring sewer and water analysis Harrison's new council will be taking a thorough look into ways to reduce costs for the Village. • Agassiz rocked by loud explosion A massive house fire that started with an explosion rocked Agassiz. The fire in a residential house is still under investigation. • Museum getting cash for walkway project A small portion of the Wayward Pines revenue has been set aside for the Agassiz-Harrison Museum, following an unpopular decision to use the money for a mobile stage.
Brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin show up to Kent elementary to celebrate the opening of the playground, as well as attend the new Kent Community Recreation and Cultural Centre. The brothers were here to kick of the official launch of the Sedin Family Foundation.
• Agassiz not participating in Bloom competition Agassiz will not participate in the Communities in Bloom program in 2015. • Groups calls on council to take stand on park road A delegation attempting to preserve Sasquatch Park spoke to kent council, hoping to sway their decision to not take a stand against road building through
the Class A park. • Roads study provides ammunition for the district The District of Kent will soon be able to make more informed decisions about road planning thanks to a recent investigation into all things road-related in Agassiz. • Generosity fills the food bank Multiple fundraising efforts for AgassizHarrison Community
Services has led to overflowing shelves and stuffed hampers for families in need this Christmas. • Christmas comes early for Harrison Festival Harrison Festival Society receives $114,000 over the next four years to help put in the Festival of the Arts and Season of Performing Arts.
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Councils in the District of Kent (left) and the Village of Harrison are sworn in following the November municipal election.
What was making news across the region in 2014 MARCH • Truckers strike A 28-day strike by container truckers ended with back-towork legislation and promises of government action to end rampant rate undercutting within the industry. The port, provincial and federal governments late in the year unveil a reformed system for truck licensing that's expected to shrink the number of operators. • Medical marijuana Licensed home growing of medical marijuana is supposed to end April 1 in favour of a new commercial
distribution system. But the federal government's strategy is disrupted when medical pot users get a court injunction, pending a constitutional challenge expected in 2015, that allows them to temporarily continue growing their own medicine. The shifting marijuana rules divide doctors on 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 • Health shakeup The province terminates Fraser Health board chair David Mitchell amid a probe into budget overruns at the health authority and by June CEO Nigel Murray also resigns. The findings of the review launched in 2013 are released in July, recommending a new strategy to reduce overuse of hospital ERs and expand primary and community care.
JULY • TransLink troubles Two major shutdowns of
SkyTrain force an apologetic TransLink to make transit free on B.C. Day and launch a formal review of what went wrong. The findings prompt the agency to commit to $71 million in upgrades to make the system more resistant to similar failures and faster to recover when they do happen. Meanwhile, TransLink again delays the full roll-out of its long-promised Compass Card payment system due to bus reader problems.
OCTOBER • Metro waste Environment Minister Mary Polak refuses to approve Metro Continued on 9
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er /Dance - Wednesday, Decemb fie New Year’s Eve Dinner New ts: sen Pre ion Leg Agassiz call 604-796-2332 ets available at the Legion, - Open now 31st starting at 4:30pm. Tick mated Christmas Village Ani ual Dickens 16th Ann dickenssweets.com or call Dickens Sweets presents: admission is free. FMI visit ages welcome and until January 10th, 2015. All 604-793-1981.
The er of Commerce presents: Harrison Agassiz Chamb & Spa Tourism Harrison and the display in the lobby of the Harrison Hot Springs Resortses and - On busines Annual Festival of Trees ugh the brilliant display of trees decorated by local till January 3rd. Wander thro community groups.
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Joe Schulz spends weeks planing his Christmas light display. He estimates a few thousand people come through each year.
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They stand in awe at the massive train display and watch the trains, miniature lights shining on the track, go round and round. They sit in the sleigh, complete with eight reindeer, and pretend to be Santa or smile for the endless photo ops. There's even a candy cane waiting in a mailbox for each child that comes. “Every time I see a kid out there hootin’ and hollering’, I want to do more," Joe says with a smile. Joe adds something new to his displays every year. This year, it was a streetcar track that runs alongside the train tracks. It represents a tram that used to travel around the Lower Mainland and even out to Chilliwack back in the early 1900s. Included in the display are the tram stops, where the
little red streetcar pauses before chugging along. It take Joe five weeks, working eight to 10 hours a day, to set up for the season. He says every bit of work is worth it. "I like to see people happy," he explains. With all the flash and sparkle, you'd think it might be hard for Joe to pick which display is his favourite. But he answers without hesitation: the manger scene. "It's special to me," he states. "Because that's what it's all about." The Schulzes moved to Rosedale from Cloverdale 11 years ago. While they were looking for a quieter place to live than Cloverdale, they ended up in Rosedale because that was where they could buy a large enough property to build a house and have room for their Christmas set-up and with enough amps to
run it all. Joe estimates a few thousand people come through each year. Christmas Eve is always their biggest night. Lorraine says some years, they are ready to go to bed and yet another group will come. They’ve stayed up until midnight just to keep the lights on for the legions of Christmas display sightseers. There is still time to go check out the house before Joe begins the long process of taking it all down. He's going to leave it up through the first weekend in January. The house is at 9986 Llanberis Way. Take the road to get to the Old Minter Gardens and turn right. It is not hard to spot once you turn down the street. It's the one with the 23,000 lights and, probably, Joe standing near his train set, a smile on his face.
BC Ferries ends fuel surcharge as oil falls BC Ferries is ending its 3.4 per cent fuel surcharge, effective Wednesday, in the wake of the plunge in the price of crude oil in recent months. President and CEO Mike Corrigan cited the
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drop in the cost of diesel for the decision. "With the current favourable market conditions, we have been hedging our diesel fuel costs and are now in a position to eliminate the fuel
surcharge," Corrigan said. "We know that fare affordability is an issue for our customers." Fuel surcharges were originally added when oil prices spiked to record levels of around $150 in 2008 and have
been on and off since then, depending on fuel prices. Oil prices have fallen nearly 50 per cent from their 2014 high of $110 but diesel prices have not fallen to the same degree.
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Tuesday is Toonie Day Bowling Harrison seniors are encouraged to - Agassiz and Council of Senior Citizens Orga nizat ions join 5 pin bowling every second come out and (COSCO) is an advocacy group devoted to and last Tuesday impro
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Regional round up of the year
Vancouver's new bylaw banning waste shipments out of the region. The move delights opponents of the regional district's plan to build a new waste incinerator, which may be thwarted as a result. Metro leaders say the region's recycling system is threatened because garbage firms that haul waste out of the region will avoid paying regional tipping fees or
complying with bans on the dumping of recyclables. Polak assigns MLA Marvin Hunt to study the issues involved.
NOVEMBER • Kinder Morgan More than 120 people were arrested attempting to block survey work by Kinder Morgan on Burnaby Mountain. Antipipeline activists won a victory when a court threw out most
charges against protesters and refused to extend an injunction, prompting the company to pull out early. The civil disobedience followed a series of legal challenges led by Burnaby and underscored the challenges the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will face on the ground. National Energy Board hearings are expected to begin in 2015. Most participants will be limited to written statements.
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Zoning Bylaw 1219, Amendment Bylaw No. 1517, 2014 WHAT’S HAPPENING? A public hearing on the proposed District of Kent Zoning Bylaw 1219, Amendment Bylaw No. 1517, 2014. In general, the amendment bylaw includes: • a zoning map amendment rezoning the subject property 6356 Pioneer Avenue (see Subject Land) from Rural Residential 2 Zone to Single-Dwelling and Secondary Dwelling Residential Zone (RSS); and • zoning text amendments to: ❍ amend the floor area – secondary dwelling, floor area – farm employee residence, and floor area – farm residence definitions ❍ add a definition for floor area – home occupation ❍ remove density regulations from the RSS zone ❍ include minimum lot sizes for the subdivision of RSS zoned lots WHEN: Please join us at 7:00 p.m., Monday, January 12, 2015 when Council will be receiving input from the public on the proposed Zoning Bylaw amendment. You can speak in person at the hearing or by providing a written submission to the Director of Development Services, District of Kent, PO Box 70, 7170 Cheam Avenue, Agassiz, BC V0M 1A0 or dkohuch@district.kent.bc.ca before 4:00 p.m., January 12, 2015. WHERE: The public hearing is to be held in the Centennial Centre of the Municipal Hall, 7170 Cheam Avenue, Agassiz, BC.
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SUBJECT PROPERTY (6356 PIONEER AVENUE) NEED MORE INFO? The bylaw, staff report, and other relevant background material are available for review by the public at the reception desk in the District’s Office between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (excluding holidays) from January 2, 2015 to January 12, 2015 inclusive. You may also contact Darcey Kohuch, Director of Development Services at 604-796-2235 for more information.
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