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The RCMP’s E division marching troop held a drill rehearsal at Chilliwack’s Pacific Region Training Centre Tuesday afternoon as they prep for the 2015 Okanagan Military Tattoo, being held Saturday and Sunday in Vernon. The 6-7 minute routine to the tune of The Tragically Hip’s Blow at High Dough included traditional .303 Lee Enfield rifles firing blank ammunition. ERIC WELSH/ PROGRESS

Tunnel touted for toadlets of Ryder Lake Jennifer Feinberg The Progress There’s a spot on Elk View Road where tiny toadlets no bigger than a dime were being crushed by vehicles as they tried to migrate across the road. A new amphibian tunnel completed in June in the hills above Chilliwack should help. “One of the really neat aspects is that this is a solution that other communities can implement as well,” said Joanne Neilson, executive director of Fraser Valley Conservancy. There’s province-wide concern about declining amphibian spe-

cies in areas where development is springing up around wetlands, so the tunnel structure is being touted as a potential model for other groups to follow to reduce mortalities. B.C. communities might one day look at culvert replacement in a more toad-friendly way. Last month special fencing was used to guide the toads and frogs through the newly built culvert for the first time. FVC officials, and project partners are now getting ready to cut the ribbon on the collaborative project at Ryder Lake Hall, at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 8. Western toads, along with

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and hotspots for various amphibian migrations were obtained through research by volunteers and staff. Nighttime road surveys of amphibians helped them find migration corridors so they’d know exactly where to place the new crossing structure, which was installed on Elk View Road near Ryder Lake Road. The toadlets typically migrate en masse back to the forested areas from the breeding areas shortly after leaving the tadpole stage. In past the FVC obtained road closures with the help of Continued: TOADS/ p12

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Crime seems to be on the rise in Chilliwack, based on numbers released by Stats Canada this week. The numbers released reflect the year 2014, and include five years of reporting to keep the numbers in context. Of the five years reported, 2014 had the highest incidence rate, with 8,904 separate violations (excluding traffic violations). That’s equal to a 5.76 per cent increase from the previous year. The total number of people charged with criminal offenses was also at a five year high of 929, up from 854 the previous year but close to the 2011 total of 916. Of those charged, 68 were youth ages 12 to 17, slightly lower than the 74 charged in 2011. But in the face of what seems like rising crime, Stats Canada reports that Chilliwack’s violent crime per capita is slightly decreased, .29% from 2013 to 2014. There were 1,082 actual violent crime incidents, 320 adults charged with violent crime, and 33 youth. The list, available on the Government of Canada website, breaks down rates for each violation of the Criminal Code. In 2008, they began adding sexual violations against children, making it one of the newest available statistics. There were 16 incidents of sexual violations against children in Chilliwack in 2014, up from 10 the previous, but slightly down from 19 and 20 in the prior three years. Seven people were charged in those incidents, all adults. Break and entering charges remained fairly steady compared to previous years, with 724 actual reported incidents. A five year low of 37 adults were charged (same as 2011), but the number of youth charged for break and entering jumped from a scant few every year, to seven in 2014. “We experienced a slight increase in reported crime rates, and crime severity,” said Cpl. Mike Rail. “This was due to an increase in reports of theft of $5,000 or under, breaking and entering and theft of motor vehicle. We are continuing to work with our key partners on a wide variety of initiatives to prevent crime.”

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Low on gas, but high on humanity, hikers tell their tale Jennifer Feinberg The Progress The adventurous young hikers had their faith in humanity restored after they climbed Mt. Cheam for the first time. Chilliwack resident Samantha Fischer said she and five other friends were driving up a forest services road last weekend. Their shiny goal was to tackle one of the Chilliwack’s most popular hikes. No one noticed the gas tank had been dipping perilously low, to about an eighth of a tank, as they got closer to the trailhead. “But we underestimated how

much gas it would take to get up there and realized that we would not have enough to get down!” Fischer reported. It was their first time trying to reach the Mt. Cheam summit. One of the six hikers, Derek Froese of Abbotsford, said it was like a comedy of errors that led them to run low on gas that morning. One buddy was driving his truck, another was navigating and Froese was scarfing down some oatmeal before they headed out on the half-day hike. No one noticed the gas tank level. When they arrived, they real-

ized they wouldn’t make it back down the hill. So Froese decided to try something a little out there. He dug out some cash out his pocket, some paper and pen, and committed a total act of faith. He pinned the $30 in cash and a hand-written note onto the windshield of his 2003 GMC truck. Their note read: “Low on gas. Fill us up, take the money.” The hope was that someone would come by while they were hiking, rescue them by topping up their levels from a jerry can of extra gas. And someone did.

The group of young people returned after about five hours of taking their time, invigorated from the stunning Cheam views through alpine meadows. They said the views were “insane” and they felt willing to walk out of the bush if they had to. Instead they found another hand-written note where theirs had once been under the windshield wiper. “We were so excited when we saw there was a new note there.” It read “We gased (sic) you up!” and it also asked them to “pay it forward.” Continued: HIKERS/ p5

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Chilliwack makes list of favourite Canadian city names Jennifer Feinberg The Progress Ever heard of chuckle-inducing names like SaintLouis-du Ha! Ha! in Quebec or Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta? Chilliwack is taking its rightful spot in the pantheon of other cities with distinct city names. How about Eyebrow, Sask., or Spuzzum, B.C.? What do you think of include Meat Cove, N.S., Punkeydoodles Corners, Ont. or Forget, Sask. WestJet just announced its list of 50 favourite unique Canadian city names and Chilliwack made the list. The airline did it as a clever and cheeky marketing ploy A lot o off peo people eo ople to announce its winter flight know us for schedule — it’s been catching on. our corn in “It was a cool thing to Chilliwack see our name,” said Allison Colthorp, executive director of but they also Tourism Chilliwack. They enjoyed it so much love the name they’ve been reposting the Chilliwack cloud WestJet made of their fave city names on Facebook ~ Allison and Twitter. Colthorp Chilliwackians often say they’re from “the ‘Wack” so it has already gained the community name a somewhat “wacky” profile, the tourism official notes. They meet and greet thousands of visitors every year at the Tourism Chilliwack headquarters on Luckakuck Way. “A lot of people know us for our corn in Chilliwack but they also love the name Chilliwack,” says Colthorp. The anglicized version of the Halq’meylem name, Ts’elxweyeqw (or Ch-ihl-kway-uhk) means “slough/ backwater/quieter water at the top of the head”; or “going into a slough from the river at the top of the head (water)”, which is a reference to the many sloughs at the mouth of the Chilliwack River where it flows out of the valley and leads to the Fraser River. “We don’t get a lot of quirky questions about our name but we do get asked if the band Chilliwack comes from Chilliwack.” For the record, the band Chilliwack is not from Chilliwack, nor do the members live in Chilliwack.

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Cool cars on a hot summer day Jessica Peters The Progress About 150 cars gleamed in the summer sun on Sunday, for the Fraser Valley Classic Car Show at the Atchelitz Threshermen’s site. They ran the gamut from elegant 1920s beauties to beach-boogie wagons to wheels that would make James Bond proud. But the finest of them all, according to the visitors, was a fiery red 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1, 428 SCJ. The car, owned by Campbell Murray, won the

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Recent house fires prompt content insurance reminder Jessica Peters The Progress House fires are made more devastating when the occupants don’t have content insurance,

as was the case for the majority of people displaced in the Mary Street apartment fire last month. And again on the weekend, a fam-

ily renting a home in Promontory was displaced and without insurance after flames destroyed their home. It’s a common problem, says the manager

of the Chilliwack branch of Envision Insurance, Elaine Elson, CAIB. Only about 30 per cent of renters are estimated to have content insurance, she explains.

And that means a large portion of any community’s residents at risk of instant poverty the minute a fire or other disaster hits. While the outpour-

ing of support from the community was commendable in the Mary Street fire, she says, donations only go so far to get people back on their feet again.

“It’s so wonderful to see the community come together. We feel so horrible for those people, because those are the people who need it (coverage) the most,” she says. “They can’t afford to replace those items, most of us can’t.” But replacement value is only one facet of insurance policies. Coverage also covers the costs of relocating after disaster hits, and protects renters from liability. “It’s not just your possessions, Elson explains. “It’s also your liability. Tenants are legally responsible for the damage, or if someone is hurt, say if you have a faulty toaster and the entire complex burns down.” So if one tenant is found at fault for a fire or other damage, other insurance companies could go after that tenant — insured or not. It’s a shame more people aren’t covered, Elson said, because most content insurance packages start at about $30 a month — much less than the replacement costs of a total loss. Even someone who thinks they have little to replace may be surprised once they start to take stock around the house. “People think they don’t have a lot in possessions,” Elson says, from bed sheets to lighting to food and clothing. “It’s amazing how much you have when you start to add it up. And who could afford to replace everything at once? It’s not usually economical feasible to do that.” So, while a $30 monthly cost may seem insurmountable to some, the insurance coverage starts at a $40,000 payout — enough to get a foothold on a new life. After a fire, its victims are “so happy to sit down with us,” she said. She advises visiting an insurance office like Envision’s, which can show multiple providers and help get the best rate among them for each customer.

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Fewer bark mulch fires a good sign Jennifer Feinberg The Progress A lot of media attention has zeroed in on fire prevention messaging during the extended dry spell. And it looks like it’s working. It’s already cutting down the number of calls for bark mulch fires around town, according to the Chilliwack Fire Department. “I think people are starting to realize the risk since it’s been so tinder dry,” said assistant fire chief Michael Bourdon. “It’s important since we’re having one of the driest summers in years.” Call volume for bark mulch fires has gone down noticeably in the past couple of days, Bourdon said on Thursday. It helps if the public stays cognizant of their surroundings, and careful to fully extinguish all smoking materials, he said. “I think people are being more cautious.” One tip for business and home owners is to ensure grasses and brush are mowed down to reduce fuel loads, especially if they’re up against building structures. Putting out cigarette butts safely and calling every potential fire in to 911 as soon as possible is also very helpful. “In this day and age with instant communications, they’re letting us know right away by calling 911 if they see smoke,” he said. “The sooner the better.” jfeinberg@theprogress.com twitter.com/chwkjourno

Hikers will repay kindness in turn HIKERS from page 3 Whoever it was didn’t even take the cash. They just tucked the $20 and $10 bills back into the gas cap compartment where it couldn’t be seen. “We were all cheering. We were so relieved,” said Fischer. “It really saved our butts.” Froese said it was one of the those euphoric moments, along with reaching the summit, where it seemed it turned out just right. The day ended with them feeling it was a series of fortunate events. “It was a moment where you realize people are really okay, and that even if you are

Note that the hikers found on their return.

on a side of a mountain and in a bit of trouble, there is someone who will help. We were impressed they didn’t take the money.”

Now they want to thank those who helped them out of the jam and let them know they plan to pay it forward as well. They talked about how

they would return the favour and vowed to carry a jerry can of gas the next time they head out on a big hike, just in case they can help someone else out. “Thank you so much!! You made our day,” Fischer wrote on social media to the mystery saviours. Reaction on the Chilliwack Hiking site was extremely positive as the social media likes went through the roof. “My mom said it was because people feel good knowing there are kind and generous people actually out there.” jfeinberg@theprogress.com twitter.com/chwkjourno

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High rollers push gambling to new record BCLC profit hits $1.25 billion with rise in bet limit Jeff Nagel Black Press Foreign gamblers who bet up to $100,000 in a single hand in some B.C. casinos helped drive the provincial government’s gambling take to a record high last year. The B.C. Lotter y Corporation’s net profit that goes to the province climbed 6.8 per cent to $1.25 billion in 2014-15, up $80 million from the previous year. The corporation’s annual report says the increase was driven by “exceptional performance” from high-limit table games, which saw the maximum bet raised from $75,000 to $100,000 at some sites. Casinos such as River Rock in Richmond and the Hard Rock Casino in Coquitlam offer “ultra-private” high-limit VIP poker rooms and baccarat salons that are popular with

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A bridge too far The recent announcement that the Vedder Bridge will be replaced for $12 million brought reactions ranging from relief, to frustration. But one of the strangest reactions was a call to build an entirely new crossing nearly a kilometre downstream. True, there have been murmurs in the past. But frankly such an alignment is so fraught with challenges, that it can hardly be taken seriously. The plan would be to extend Tyson Road, cross the Vedder River and connect with Vedder Mountain Road. Simple on a map, but difficult (and expensive) in reality. Here’s why: • The two-lane Tyson Road ends in a cul-de-sac at Petawawa Road, some 200 metres from the river’s edge. At the least, it would require construction of nearly two football fields worth of roadway, through what is now forest. • The crossing at that point is wider than the current bridge location (or proposed new site), meaning more bridge and therefore more money. • It would introduce a busy roadway over the heads of the 18,000 people who use the Vedder Trail each month. And because of the width, pilings would have to be driven into the riverbed, furthering its impact on the environment. • Tyson Road, meanwhile, is woefully equipped to deal with the increased traffic flows a bridge would create. Although Evans Road was built to a four-lane standard, that was in anticipation of traffic heading north over the highway to take pressure off the congested Vedder corridor. • Heading south, Evans traffic merges onto two-lane Tyson, which then wends through residential streets, past farms, a school, a library, Twin Rinks and finally Canada Education Park. Construction of two roundabouts has alleviated some congestion, but the prospect of transferring all that Cultus Lake traffic over to Tyson is frightening. It’s important to look at all options when developing long-range infrastructure plans. But tossing out red herrings that are too costly and unworkable, only muddies the water. ~ Greg Knill, Chilliwack Progress

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Summer of 2015 remains one for the record books El Nino is back, possibly with a vengeance. The complex warm water current has been growing since early this year and it is expected to increase in the fall and winter months. That in itself is putting climatologists on guard for some pretty wild weather forecasting. In mid-July, the North Pacific sea surface temperature difference from normal was around 1.5 degrees C putting it on a path to becoming a strong El Nino event expected to last the rest of the year and perhaps into early 2016. But if the surface temperature goes to 2 degrees C above normal, we could be facing a rare super El Nino. But the elephant in the room – or perhaps the whale in the ocean – is the strange warm water “blob” persisting in the North Pacific. All bets are off

as to how these two phenomena may interact. The blob showed up in the fall of 2013 and is an unusually warm mass of water stretching from Alaska to Mexico and half way across the Pacific. It has influenced global weather patterns and is causing Margaret havoc to marine EVANS ecosystems. El Nino events often bring warmer, drier winters to the Pacific Northwest with less mountain snowpack and fewer rain events. Given how dry we’ve been this year the last thing we need is a drier than normal wet season in the fall. Sounds like the Darth Vader of weather forecasting.

El Ninos can be bad news for farmers and fishers. According to an economics study done by Texas A&M University, the last big El Nino of 1997-1998 cost about $3 billion in agricultural damage. According to Roger Pannett, volunteer weather observer for Environment Canada, last month was the driest June in Chilliwack in over 136 years with rainfall totals a mere 8.5 mm, 89 per cent below normal. What’s with that? In fact the only month since January when precipitation was above normal was March. All other months have been well below normal. Then there’s the heat! “To date (30 June) in 2015, there have been a record-breaking 44 high temperature records in Chilliwack smashing the previous total of 41 recorded in 2014,”

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humongous El Nino. That would spell disaster. You can put up with one season being hotter or drier than normal but back to back seasons will create a real issue.” British Columbia is ever ything about water. It is what defines us. It is our distinctive beauty, our irrigation, our food, our rain forest, our clouds and mists and thundering tides, our hydro power, our salmon, our ski slopes, our river, lakes and streams. “I’ve been 48 years as a climatologist and I get all excited by half a degree increase in temperature, or a half millimeter more rainfall,” said Phillips. “But you are seeing five-degree increases! You are breaking records by a landslide.” Indeed. But I don’t want record breaking days anymore. I want sloshy, cold, in-your-face rain.

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Tougher water rates needed Re: Tom Fletcher’s “Latest Nestle protest doesn’t hold water” (Chilliwack Progress, 22 July 2015). Mr. Fletcher pulls no punches, calling the SumOfUs/ WaterWealth petition nonsense in the opening paragraph of his piece. Fortunately none of Fletcher’s punches land, being aimed at places the petition never stood. As a representative of WaterWealth I sincerely apologize to Mr. Fletcher if he took the words “suck B.C. dry” literally and mistook the opening comment for the whole conver-

sation. We had not anticipated that, and feedback we have received indicates that the public went well beyond that opening comment to understand the broader issues that the petition was about--primary among them being to ensure that the Water Sustainability Act is sufficiently funded to be fully implemented. The review of rental rates under the Act, that the petition sought and that the province promised even before the petition was delivered, is but one more step in the on-going work to ensure that the public’s voice is heard in development of

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The other accidents were the crash at Whonnock(7 killed), EW210 that had mid-air explosion and crashed in the water near Point Roberts(3 killed) and the runway collision at Abbotsford(9 killed). There was also a midair with a Kittyhawk, while practicing fighter affiliation work off the White Rock Pier. This Liberator landed with minimal damage, but the Kittyhawk went straight into the water and the pilot was killed. The nor mal Liberator crew was 11, but when they were doing preliminary flying, navigation and bomb-dropping training without the Air Gunners on board, it was only 7. Also, the writer suggests that perhaps one of the deceased RAF members would be going home soon,

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Airforce training took a toll Re. your good coverage of the story of the wartime Mount Welch Liberator crash in your 15 July edition, I have a couple of historical comments and corrections to pass along to your reporters. The article says it was the “largest single loss of life in British Columbia during the Second World War”, which simply is not true, sadly enough. By my count, there were 9 Liberators written off in BC in 8 fatal accidents during WW II, and all 11 crew members were killed in four of them(Saltspring Island, Nitinat Lake, Bell Island and Mt. Welch). There were 14 killed in the Liberator crash near Bamfield, which included several non-aircrew airmen and airwomen hitching a ride from Tofino to Pat Bay on leave.

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because the war in Europe had ended. I know or have known a number of aircrew who trained on the Liberators at Abbotsford. It appears that most of the crews were sent to the Far East, as the RAF had many Liberator squadrons in India and Ceylon, attacking Japanese forces in Burma, China, Thailand, Indochina, etc. Also, some crews were sent to RCAF Eastern Air Command and RAF Coastal Command, who were mainly involved in suppressing German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean. RAF Bomber Command did not use Liberators on bombing missions in Northern Europe, but did have squadrons based in Egypt and Palestine, and later in Italy, for bombing targets in

Southern Europe, Poland, etc. Of course, the war in the Pacific was not yet over, so I would think that most of the crews graduating from No. 5 OTU would continue to head in that direction. According to Carl Vincent’s book on the Liberator, the RAF received over 2,000 Liberators through purchase and Lend Lease. I was aware that Chris Weicht and his Air Cadet squadron had erected a memorial several decades ago, but was not aware that the memorial was down on Airplane Creek and not up at the crash site. J. E. (Jerry) Vernon, S/L(Ret’d), RCAF Auxiliary President, Vancouver Chapter, Canadian Aviation Historical Society Secretary, 801(Vancouver) Wing, RCAF Association Secretary, Air Force Officers’ Association Associate Air Force Historian

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Car thieves drive provincial crime rate back up Jeff Nagel Black Press Car thefts surged 29 per cent across B.C. last year – reversing a decade-long decline – and that was one of the drivers behind a significant increase in the overall crime rate in the Lower Mainland. The crime rate was

up eight per cent in 2014 in Metro Vancouver and seven per cent in the Abbotsford-Mission census metropolitan area, according to Statistics Canada. In addition to auto theft, B.C. also saw increases in thefts under $5,000, break-and-enters, and child pornography. The property crimes

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believe many mail box break-ins are done via stolen cars, which are often found with stolen mail inside. He said the perpetrators are often better organized than would appear from Bait Car videos of the past depicting unhinged thieves just prior to arrest. “They’ll hit mailboxes multiple times and build profiles,” Jadis said of identity thieves. “Your mail will be stolen for a few weeks and then a year down the road all of a sudden there’s a new identity that

someone’s using and people see their credit ratings have gone through the floor.” Last year’s spike in car thefts followed a decline from 2003 to 2013 due to a combination of better car security technology, intelligence-led policing, the tracking of prolific criminals and the use of the Bait Car program to catch thieves in the act. The recent resurgence of the problem has continued this year, with a 40 per cent increase in arrests so far for theft of or theft from vehicles, Jadis said.

Part of the problem is that criminals have been adjusting their tactics to thwart police, often ditching stolen vehicles faster. “We’re seeing offenders rotating the vehicle a bit more. In the past they’d keep them 10 to 14 days, but we’re seeing some of them now rotating the vehicles every three or four days.” Thieves are increasingly stealing cars by first stealing their keys. Keys can disappear from your clothes in a locker at a gym or rec centre, or from inside your house, Jadis said.

Often, he said, a thief will break into a vehicle that has a garage door opener, use it to get into the home, then search for a spare pair of car keys, along with anything else that can be stolen. Or, if the car is stolen elsewhere, they can use the insurance papers to get the address and use the garage door opener to enter and loot the home. Jadis said IMPACT officers are developing a new model to strategically target suspects known to them who are likely to Continued: CRIME/ p12

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meter loop, face-painted kids climbing trees and play gyms, and geese flipping upside-down in the pond looking for food to snack on. Though the grass could use some rainfall, everyone appears to be having a great time in the afternoon sun. Soft acoustic melodies from singing duo, soul2soul, echo throughout the entire park, providing a soundtrack for couples walking the trail and visitors meeting the vendors. The pair, Bernadine Morris and Sandy Forbes had played at the Eco Market once before and they will be returning again in August. You can even have dinner while at the market, bring your own or stop by a food truck, like the Yummy Foodies wood-fired pizza. Visitors enjoy their food at the picnic tables while their dogs watch patiently from below. The Eco Market takes place in Sardis Park (6898 School Lane) Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m., May through August. There are always new food vendors, local sellers and musical acts to enjoy. Visit TheEcoMarket.ca or on Facebook to learn more or become a vendor. • Do you have a favourite place? Let us know: email sam.bates@ theprogress.com

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Taking the slow road to fine food The Agassiz Farms Cycle Tour on Saturday Jessica Peters The Progress Agassiz is a treasure trove of unique garden spaces, innovationdriven farms and speciality food producers, in a pocket of the Fraser Valley that’s rich with agricultural history. And this Saturday, cyclists will be given a backstage pass to explore a dozen different locations, each providing an opportunity to learn a little more about where food comes from. The Agassiz Farms Cycle Tour runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and participants can meander through the community at their own pace to visit each location. Many of the stops will be selling fresh produce straight from the farm. At Hammersley Farms, for example, you can pick your own blueberries right off the bushes, while over at The Back Porch you can hang out with the goats while enjoying a cup of freshly roasted coffee from a 1919 fire roaster. Now a new stop on the tour will be showing visitors just how easy it is to get fresh produce on the table more regularly — by growing it yourself. The Agassiz Community Gardens may be a new participant this year, but it’s well-known to locals. The gardens are tucked away from the downtown core of Agassiz, with a quiet spot to enjoy a closeup view of iconic Mt. Cheam. “It’s one of those hidden gems,” says Laurens Van Vliet, of the Agassiz Community Gardens Society. “It’s such a nice little area there.” The garden includes 58 separate plots, with the average size of 20 by 20 feet. The gardens are snapped up every year, by gardeners of

varying backgrounds, experience and interests. Many of them will be spending Saturday at the gardens, providing explanations and demonstrations of how to get the most out of your garden plot. “We like to encourage people to start their own gardens,” he says, “So we have some good examples of very small plots, there will be explanations about gardening, in little groups, and they can ask us questions. “That’s basically part of our objective, as a community garden,” Van Vliet adds. “To educate people in making healthy choices and growing their own food.” Van Vliet says some of the gardeners may be selling some of their produce, and they’ll be selling water as a fundraiser for their society and there’s a porta-potty on site as well. They’re eager to show off their garden to visitors, and it’s a worthwhile stop along the tour. “We are one of the largest community gardens in British Columbia,” he says. And when the harvest is more than one needs, it’s often given to the local food bank. The Agassiz Farms Cycle Tour is the only local tour this year, with Chilliwack’s not being planned. Slow Food Vancouver planned the last eight annual tours, but Tourism Harrison has picked up the organizing this time around. They’ve mapped out a 25K route along flat public roads, and brought on some other new stops, including Meille Meadows Farm. There are also long time favourite stops, like Farmhouse Natural Cheeses. The quaint shop,run by award-winning cheesemaker Debra Amrein-Boyes, has received

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Golden girl home for kayak nationals Eric Welsh, The Progress Small margins of victory or defeat in kayak slalom can drive a person nuts. When you win a gold medal by two one-hundredths of a second, as Jazmyne Denhollander did at last weekend’s 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, you may as well not try to explain it. “Someone said it was like the length of the hockey puck, that I was just that far ahead at the finish line,” she said with a laugh, holding her thumb and index finger four inches apart. Denhollander beat Brazil’s Ana Satila by .002 and American Ashley Nee by .003, winning the first ever Pan-Am gold in K1 slalom in dramatic fashion. Having been on the wrong end of narrow finishes, she could relate to her vanquished foes. “When I lose, yes it does drive me nuts!” she said. “To think that maybe if I took that one extra stroke coming out of the upstream, I might have won. That’s just part of the sport though. You’ve got to accept it and work that much harder the next race.” Denhollander can attribute some PanAm success to random chance. But it was a very deliberate decision before her final run that landed her on the podium. An afternoon thunderstorm near the Minden Wild Water Preserve set the stage. “Clouds were coming in and you could hear the thunder and see the lightning, so they delayed my race by about an hour,” she recalled. “I got soaking wet. I got hungry. I had to re-hydrate, but I look back on it as a good thing because it gave me time to re-evaluate my plan.” “I thought, ‘This is it! This is the final,’” she continued. “‘Either you go all out and take risks everywhere, or you play it safe.’ I felt confident and comfortable and decided to give it every-

thing.” The key moment came before the fifth gate. After the fourth gate paddlers reach a pool of churning water, where most of them do a spin and pick a safe line before carrying on. Denhollander didn’t spin. “My plan was to surf across and go direct, which is the fastest move to do,” she said. “I was fully committed. You’ve got to be thinking, ‘I’ve got this! Let’s go!’” Denhollander was buoyed by a massive cheering section, a wave of red and white support. At 21 years old she’s already a grizzled veteran of international competition, but she’s never seen anything like that. “When we go to Europe, it’s usually a big crowd but they’re not necessarily cheering for you,” she said. “Having people there cheering exclusively for me, that was an amazing thing!” Denhollander went third to last and was in top spot heading into her run. “During my run I had a little thought, which you’re not supposed to do, that I was having a really good run,” she said. “I finished, saw my time, thought it was pretty good and did a little fist bump in the air.” Then she waited. The last two kayakers had solid runs to cause her some anxiety, but minutes later she was finally able to celebrate. “In that moment I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I’ve won a lot of national races, but not one like this.” “I pulled through after the delay and a not-so-great semi-final run. I was proud of myself.” Denhollander’s win secured a spot for Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. But in a somewhat strange twist, Denhollander’s win doesn’t guarantee her a trip to Brazil. “There’s still a lot of

Above: Denhollander competing at an international event in Prague (BALINT VEKASSY/CKC PHOTO). Right: Wearing Team Canada gear, the 21 year old Chilliwack native shows off her 2015 PanAm Games Gold medal. ERIC WELSH/ PROGRESS

work to do, and I know they want to pick the best paddler to compete in the Olympics,” she said. “Whoever is competing well, getting results and being consistent, that’s who will go.” Six races, including the upcoming World Championships, team trials and World Cup events, will decide her fate. Meanwhile, the Chilliwack Centre of Excellence grad is home this week, and talked about all this while sitting on a log by the Vedder River. When she was 17 she couldn’t wait to leave Chilliwack and have adventures in Prague and London. Four years later, there’s nowhere she’d rather be. “It was always fun to leave and explore, but it’s great coming home because it’s comfortable,” she said. “I speak the language. It’s always beautiful here, so green.”

Denhollander welcomes Canada’s best to her hometown this weekend for the 2015 Whitewater National Championships. She’ll be back on the course she’s most comfortable with, the Tamihi Rapids she grew up on. “At the moment, there’s not a lot of water coming down, so the level is low and you’re not going too fast,” she said. “But the biggest thing is just being in the mountains. It’s so scenic up there and I just love living here.” ● A full weekend of racing at Tamihi includes age group nationals, starting at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday. The main event is open slalom nationals, with the same start times on Sunday. A full schedule and more event info is available online at ccekayak. com/spectator-page/ and find results in next week’s Progress sports pages.

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Huskers battling Broncos Chilliwack’s Valley Huskers hope to hit the ground running with a season opening win over a BC Football Conference rival. The Kamloop Broncos roll into town for a Saturday night clash at Exhibition Stadium. Kickoff is 7 p.m. as the Huskers face a veteran opponent led by star wideout and BC Lions prospect Derek Yachison. “The thing with him is we can’t let our schemes and systems be dictated by him,” Huskers head coach Adam Smith said Wednesday. “We can’t hold him to five catches while everyone else has wide-open touchdowns.” “I don’t think you can cover him man-to-man, and I don’t think having a safety over the top helps either,” the coach added. “We’ll zone it up, mix in some man and try to get in his face a bit, but I don’t think there’s anything we can throw at him that he didn’t already see practising with the Lions. He’s seen it all.” Yachison and the Broncos faced the Huskers three times in 2014, getting three wins. One was a laugher (45-15). The other two were closer (49-33 and 23-14) and Smith is eager to see if his team has narrowed the gap with one of the BCFC’s best. “They (Kamloops) finished 6-4 last year, really beating up on us and the Westshore Rebels,” Smith said. “They went into the playoffs and almost upset Langley, so they’re a bit of a wildcard to me.” “But they’ve got a lot of confidence going into this season, which they deserve.” Smith’s reloaded roster includes five

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returning receivers; Blake Draper, Keenan Godden, Kaanon Felix, Kellen Pooles and Cody Vinnish. They’ll catch passes from a pair of raw but talented quarterbacks, Brendan Briden and Noah Falconer. Falconer, a WJ Mouat grad gets the week one start. “He’s got this poise for such a young kid, gets rid of the ball quickly and he’s got a gun on him,” Smith said. ”We’re hoping he takes this opportunity and runs with it.” A revamped ground game includes GW Graham Grizzly grad Brett Westad joined by Brendan Atkinson and Spencer Yeats. Atkinson will be the main man to start, but all three should get carries.

On the defensive side, Smith hopes the Broncos experience significant shock and awe as his Huskers dial up a new level of intensity and aggressiveness. “They’ve got so much energy, passion and toughness this year, I don’t think people will recognize this group from defences Chilliwack’s had in the past,” Smith smiled. “They’ll make some mistakes, but they’ll make them at 100 per cent, and by mid-season this is going to be a scary bunch to play against.” The Huskers remain home the following weekend to face the Okanagan Sun before hitting the road to visit the Langley Rams. See valleyhuskers. org for more information.

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Seven reasons why I hate the BMI Scale The body mass index is a simple calculation of height and weight. It has nothing to do with body fat, writes Tanja Shaw

If you search for ‘BMI’ on Google, the first site that pops up is the U.S. National Institute of Health’s BMI (body mass index) calculator. The site reads “Body mass index (BMI) is a measure

of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women.” Except it’s not. The body mass index is a simple calculation of height and weight. It has nothing to do with body fat.

While one can infer that someone weighing more might carry more body fat, it’s not always the case. The Canadian Diabetes Association describes BMI a bit better. Their website states “BMI is not used for

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when BMI is used correctly for a person: as a measure of height versus body weight, I still don’t like it. Here’s why: It’s another number. Even when used within it’s limitations, the BMI is just another number. And despite knowing that it’s just a number, just like the number on the scale (because, essentially, that’s all it is), it’s easy to get caught up with that number. A number can Home of the

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muscle builders, long distance athletes, pregnant women, the elderly or young children. This is because BMI does not take into account whether the weight is carried as muscle or fat, just the number.” On a large scale, perhaps BMI can be useful. BMI can show general nationwide trends in body weight and could be useful for statistics. But, BMI loses its usefulness when measuring an individual. Even

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undermine all the positive, healthy changes that you make. It’s inaccurate for more people than just extreme athletes, or muscle builders. BMI does not take into account bone density or muscle mass. I can easily name many clients at Ascend who are extremely fit and very healthy, but are considered overweight according to the BMI scale. They are not body builders; they are strong, fit and healthy individuals. If they lost enough weight to become ‘normal’, then they would become unhealthy. Some people are naturally small; some people naturally have a stronger build and carry more muscle mass. Some people wear a size 8 shoe; some people wear a size 10 shoe. It puts unnecessary labels on people. Even if you’re aware of the pitfalls of the BMI scale, it can still hurt when the online calculator spits out the words ‘overweight’ or ‘obese’. In fact, the label ‘normal’ isn’t very effective either. Congratulations. You’re normal. BMI can put unnecessary stress on a healthy individual. Many people already struggle with negative self-image and reading that you’re ‘overweight’ despite being healthy could further promote poor self-image. No one really knows how much you’re supposed to weigh. I know a lot of very fit, healthy people who have a larger body size, or carry a bit of extra body fat. I know some very unhealthy people who are lean. It’s useless. If you legitimately need to lose weight, it’s likely you already know. It’s also likely that an attentive health profes-

sional would be able to assess whether their patient really needs to lose weight without the use of a BMI calculator. If this is indeed true, what’s the point of using BMI at all? It can lead to feelings of defeat. Imagine knowing that even if you lose 50 pounds, you’d still be considered ‘obese’. Or knowing that getting to ‘normal’ is an unrealistic goal? If someone legitimately needs to lose weight, any weight loss can positively impact his or her health. Back to point No. 5: what’s the point of using BMI at all? BMI is commonly used as a measure of health and predictor of lifestyle related diseases. While it does have some use to measure statistics across a large population, it’s not an effective way to assess health on an individual level. In fact, the repercussions of using BMI could even be harmful. If you think you could benefit from losing weight; talk to your doctor or health professional. Remember that any healthy lifestyle change, or any weight loss (if you legitimately need to lose weight) can positively impact your health. Disregard what an online calculator says and focus on being healthy. Tanja Shaw is a healthy-eating enthusiast, Rotarian, passionate entrepreneur, mom, runner, and owner of Ascend Fitness Inc. Tanja and her team of expert fitness coaches inspire and educate Chilliwack residents to make positive and power changes in their lives through physical fitness and sound nutrition. Visit Tanja at ascendfitnesscoaching. com and tanjashaw.com.

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