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January 11, 2011

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Sucha Thandi recalls the contributions made by Sikh pioneers at the Abbotsford Lumber Mill (top left) and his uncle Sundar Thandi (top right, third from right) to the historic Gur Sikh Temple.

ucha Singh Thandi gingerly unwraps the tissue paper from around a small, creased black and white photo of an elderly Sikh man sporting thick

City signing sets Sikh centenary in motion

dark-framed glasses, a turban and a snow-white beard. Sucha, 77, contemplates the image of his uncle Sundar Singh Thandi, affectionately known to

Abbotsford’s Sikh pioneer families as taya ji or uncle. Thandi was critical to the establishment of the historic Gur Sikh Temple on South Fraser Way that

celebrates its 100-year anniversary this year. Yesterday afternoon Mayor George Peary and city council made an extraordinary proclamation to kick off a yearlong

celebration of Abbotsford’s national historic monument, completed in 1911 by struggling Sikh pioneers. “Our family did a lot to support the old temple and the new one across

flash snowstorm Saturday night resulted in several car crashes, and more white stuff is on the way for Abbotsford and Mission later this evening and into Wednesday. Between five and 10 centimetres fell in Abbotsford through Saturday night and into Sunday morning in what Global BC meteorologist Mark Madryga described as an isolated snow shower. “In this case it was cold enough to snow in just a few select areas,” Madryga told the Times Monday. “If you think of a rain shower sitt i n g ove r yo u for half an hour, you could eas- “It’s going to ily get three or be a nasty day, four millimetres of rain, but if it’s Wednesday.” cold enough to snow, that three – Mark Madryga or four millimeters of rain, if meteorologist it falls as snow, would translate to three or four centimeters of snow, maybe more.” The inclement weather was the main cause of the 12 car collisions Abbotsford police responded to over the weekend, as people were slow to adjust to the icy road conditions, said APD spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald. Now the region is bracing for an even bigger snowfall expected to hit sometime this evening. Madryga said the central Fraser Valley, including Abbotsford and Mission could be hit with as many as 10 centimetres of snow, or more, by Wednesday morning when precipitation should

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Briefly Spaghetti bridges Abbotsford middle school students will be cooking up some nifty contraptions during the district’s spaghetti bridge skills competition Thursday at the Abbey Arts Centre. Two teams from each middle school will vie to construct the lightest pasta bridge that can support a one-kilogram weight for a full minute without collapsing. The br idges must be composed of only spaghetti and glue and must be completed within three hours. Students will also present their bridge designs to judges prior to the project’s construction. The Old Spaghetti Factory will be providing a pasta lunch before the official weigh-ins and award ceremony in the afternoon. -STAFF REPORTER

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Kids had a great time sledding on Sunday morning after a sizable dump of snow Saturday night blanketed the Fraser Valley in white. From left, Kailey Fehr, Nathan Fehr, Noah Dietrich and Josh Lacoste zoom down the hill at Walnut Park in a race to see who gets to the bottom first.

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begin to turn to rain as temperatures rise above the freezing level. And there is the small possibility youngsters could be “It’s going to be a nasty day, Wednesday,” he said. looking forward to a day off from school Wednesday, Colder air from the B.C. interior will mix with an according to Abbotsford School District spokesman oncoming pacific front, which will produce widespread Dave Stephen. snow across the Fraser Valley and Lower “We’re certainly prepared for any Mainland, said Madryga, before milder eventuality.” temperatures take over for the rest of “If the recommendation is we Transportation workers will assess the week. the roads and school grounds early in cannot open schools, or buses After dealing with numerous weaththe morning, said Stephen. er-related accidents throughout the can’t run for some reason, that “If the recommendation is we canweekend, MacDonald said police are not open schools or buses can’t run urging the public to prepare for the call is made by the Superintenfor some reason, that call is made wintry road conditions. by the Superintendent by about 5:30 dent by about 5:30 [a.m.] . . .” “Where people have that information [a.m.] and we’ll start communicating in advance, it affords them the ability to that out through our various medido a couple of things: plan ahead and – Dave Stephen ums.” adjust their driving behaviours now in Stephen said school cancellations advance of that,” said MacDonald. aren’t based necessarily on snowfall While the snowfall meant hazardous conditions for accumulations, but on other factors such as road consome, there were those who were able to enjoy the blast ditions, blowing snow and visibility, or underlying ice of winter. beneath the snow. Kids and parents took turns sliding down the hills of “We really have to play it situation by situation.” Walnut Park in Abbotsford Sunday, as Saturday’s snow was followed by a brisk sunshine and temperatures ◗ For more information on school closures, parents are recslightly above freezing. ommended to visit www.sd34.bc.ca.

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bbotsford police will be investigating an incident where a Kelowna RCMP officer was caught on video and appears to kick a man in the

head while arresting him on Friday. The officer is now on administrative duties after Kelowna journalist Kelly Hayes, who works for Castanet.net, recorded the incident on his iPhone. Abbotsford police Const.

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do that, and we will gladly comply.” Hayes told The Vancouver Sun he was sure the officer had kicked the man in his face during the incident. For more details visit www. abbotsfordtimes.com. – POSTMEDIA NETWORK

omeowners in Abbotsford and Mission received their 2011 property assessment notices last week and have noticed a small increase over last year with residential stratas increasing zero to 10 percent and single-family homes up five to 10 per cent. “The reason we don’t put a specific number there is because assessments and market values are a range and if it falls within that range it would be deemed to be accurate,” regional assessor Michael Lomax said of the Fraser Valley Assessment Region. An increase in property assessment does not necessarily mean a homeowner’s property taxes will go up. Council has the ability to lower the mill rate to keep the same operating revenue, so people’s taxes usually remain the same or only go up with the rate of inflation, he explained. Assessed property values are created based on appraisers review of the marketplace (reflecting sales transactions in a particular area). One area in west Abbotsford near the Aldergrove border, south of the freeway, has seen property assessments jump 20 per cent. Mission assessment increases are a little bit slower than Abbotsford. Some areas have received a zero increase. It’s a little flatter, and just like Abbotsfor, the numbers are very small, Lomax added. For the past five years homeowners have seen 1525 per cent increases every year, so the zero to 10 per cent increase in 2010-2011 is small by comparison. Lomax presented his report to Abbotsford city council on Monday.

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Mission mom stays strong after crash kills husband GLENDA LUYMES The Province

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Mission family is drawing strength from each other as they recover in hospital from a terrifying car crash that took the life of husband and father Myron Berg three days after Christmas. The Berg family was returning home from a holiday in Harrison Hot Springs Dec. 28 when an SUV swerved into the path of their minivan, causing a head-on collision.

“As I hung upside down in the van, I realized that Taeryn had been thrown from her booster seat.” – Gillian Berg mother

Myron, 48, died in the driver’s seat, while his wife Gillian and four kids, ages five to 14, were pulled from the wreck and rushed to hospital. The family is now recovering a few beds apart in Children’s Hospital and focused on getting well. “We’re still in crisis, focusing on the physical healing,” Gillian told The Province. The grieving mother said prayers and support from family and friends give her strength, but a “huge part” of her courage comes from her kids. “I’m so proud of them,” she said. “They’re drawing on their [Christian] faith. They want to forgive the person that caused

the accident.” Gillian said she often turns to talk to her husband in her pain, forgetting he’s not there. “I hear his voice in my head telling me not to hold a grudge, telling me, like he did every day, that I’m a great mom, a great wife,” she said, her voice breaking. According to a blog Gillian has started to detail the family’s recovery, the couple’s eldest daughter, Lauren, 14, was sitting in the van’s back seat and suffered a broken arm. Beside her was the next oldest daughter, Bryn, 10, who suffered a shattered leg between the hip and knee. She was airlifted to Children’s Hospital and is expected to spend 10 weeks in a body cast. The couple’s youngest daughter, Taeryn, 7, was the most severely injured. She was sitting directly behind her dad, who was driving. “As I hung upside down in the van, I realized that Taeryn had been thrown from her booster seat,” wrote Gillian. “She was unconscious, unresponsive and I feared with all my being that she had been killed.” The little girl’s upper legs were snapped. She suffered other broken bones and had a deep liver contusion. Her top vertebrae was cracked, and glass was embedded in her right eye. She was also airlifted to Children’s Hospital and spent her first days in intensive care. “She is now on the floor with her siblings and yesterday, after days of just not being Taeryn, the light turned back on within her. It is a

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Four children of the Berg family from Mission are recovering from various injuries. Lauren (L), 14, and Taeryn (C), 7, had the worst injuries, while Karson, 5, broke his pelvis and is in a wheelchair at B.C. Children’s Hospital. miracle to hear her laugh, talk and see her beautiful smile. It feels like hope,” wrote her mother. Taeryn will be in a wheelchair before beginning physiotherapy to learn to walk again. The couple’s youngest child, five-year-old Karson, suffered head trauma and a broken pelvis. “He was in ICU next to his sister,” wrote Gillian, “but one morning [at] about 4 a.m. he fully woke up and just started talking. And talking. And talking. I heard him telling the nurses all about mammals and reptiles . . . and thought, “He’s going to be alright!” Gillian was in the passenger’s seat and suffered soft tissue injuries. “Myron saved my life by . . . reacting as quickly as he did,” she

said. “My children would be completely alone [if he hadn’t turned the family’s minivan away from the oncoming SUV].” Gillian said she was thankful to the people who came to the family’s aid at the side of the Lougheed Highway, including a firefighter who held her as she struggled for control. The embrace gave her the strength to be there for her children as paramedics worked. “[I have] so much to say to those from the crash site whose faces I still see in my dreams . . . I am sorry for the pain you had to witness, but thank God for your tenderness,” she wrote on the website of a local newspaper. “To the man who was driving the other vehicle: My heart has been bleeding for you. I wonder daily

how you are healing, and how you are coping. Please find a way to forgive yourself. We have.” Gillian said she wants to meet the strangers who helped her family “face to face.” “I just want them to know how grateful we are.” Friends have set up a trust fund for the family. Donations can be made at any TD Canada Trust to the account “Teena Forstbauer and Cathy Bates in Trust for Gillian Berg” located at the Mission, B.C. branch. ◗ Cheques payable to the account above can be mailed to the Mission TD Canada Trust (Unit 140, 3255 London Ave, Mission, B.C. V2V 6M7).

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Kidnapping suspects released; no charges Mom and teens are safe after bizarre abduction

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hree men in their 20s have been released from police custody following the kidnapping of a mom and two teenage males in Abbotsford early Friday morning. Abbotsford police Const. Ian MacDonald said the three suspects, who were released on Sunday, have ties in the community and have had previous negative contacts with police. However, there was not enough evidence to secure immediate charges, said MacDonald, who added the trio are still the focus of the investigation. “We had to go where the evidence led us, and in this case we didn’t have enough evidence to lead to a charge,” he said. “There are obvious circumstantial components to the case, but its not enough . . . there is a fair amount of physical evidence, but that evidence requires lab analysis, which takes time.” The incident started at 1:30 a.m. Friday when two 19-year-old men were heading home after a movie. One of the victims was driving the family car, a black two-door Infiniti G37, on the way to his friend’s house in west Abbotsford when the pair stopped and entered a path near a green belt off of Homestead Crescent. Masked suspects confronted the pair on the path with weapons, forced them back to the Infiniti and to drive to one of the victim’s home in the 500 block of McCallum Road. A 44-year-old woman, the mother of one of the victims, was waiting for her son to arrive home when the armed suspects forced their way into the house. They bound her, her other 17-year-old son and a 70-year-old uncle before abducting her and the other two young men in the waiting Infiniti. Abbotsford police got a call at 2:15 a.m. from the 17-year-old son who managed to free himself and dial 911. Officers located the two teens and the mother a short time later after getting calls from passing motorists about a woman in distress and the Infiniti stopped along Highway 1 near Clearbrook Road, said MacDonald.

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abbotsfordtimes.com Police arrived to find all three victims abandoned but unhurt by the suspects, who had fled in a car described as a white Acura Integra. Three men were arrested in Langley on Highway 1 by RCMP following an alert put out by Abbotsford police describing the car and suspect details. The victims’ family owns a jewelry store in Abbotsford and investigators will determine if this was motive for the kidnapping. “We can’t say definitively that it’s connected as a motive, but certainly it is one we would have to entertain,” said MacDonald. The home where the kidnapping took place is listed to Sukhwinder Dhillon. A Nirbhai Dhillion, an owner of the Quality Gold Jewelry Store in Clearbrook, was in the store when it was robbed May 31, 2007. She was in the store in the evening when two men entered with a grocery bag and told her to put jewelry inside. The suspects set off pepper spray, leaving her struggling to breathe as they fled. It was too early in the investigation to say if the robbery or abductions were linked or not, said MacDonald. The two “burning” questions to be explored by investigators are why the teens initially went for their late night walk, and why the kidnap victims were left behind. “Why did the suspects either abort or abandon the kidnapping, or make a very strange plan to leave folks on the side of Highway 1?” he asked. “There are other places you could do that.” Police are now appealing to any witnesses who were heading westbound on Highway 1 between Clearbrook Road and McCallum Road during the hours of 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to come forward if they have any information. “Now the work begins. We’ve got several scenes we have to process and try to extract evidence from, and we’ve got two teams of detectives out doing work right now,” said MacDonald.

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he candidates for the leadership of the B.C. Liberal party have offered a smorgasbord of policies, although none of them qualifies as a new “big” idea. But one of the promises put forth by one of the candidates has the potential of causing serious problems if it’s ever repeated. I’m referring to George Abbott’s promise to use the upcoming HST referendum to also determine the fate of the carbon tax. Setting tax policy via a referendum is a bad, bad idea. If you don’t believe me, check out what’s going on in places like California or Arizona. They are just two of many states that have used referendums to greatly hamper (or even eliminate) the abilities of state governments to raises taxes to meet rising demands for services. As a result, states are finding themselves slashing services in such areas as K-12 education, post-secondary education, municipal services and public sector wages. States are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and many have simply refused to pay creditors (i.e. individuals and companies contracted to do work on behalf of government). The financial mess south of the border has much to do with the recent recession, of course, but its roots extend back to the notorious Proposition 13 passed by California voters in the 1970s.

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From the Ledge That referendum enshrined in state law a requirement that any new tax had to have the support of two-thirds of the electorate in a referendum. In other words, it made it impossible for a state government to raise taxes because the bar was set too high. Other states have since passed similar laws and the result is the financial meltdown we are seeing today. The people most hurt by this tax revolt are, naturally, the most vulnerable: the poor, the disabled and the young. Tax revolts are tinged with populism, of course, but they are the philosophical offspring of right-wing conservativism. As demands for health care, education, higher wages and infrastructure continue to climb, more and more revenues have to be found – either through taxes or user-pay models, or spending cuts elsewhere. Many people simply can’t connect the dots when it comes to taxes and services. They simplistically think that cutting things like the salaries of politicians will provide the money to take care of the rising demands of society. One of Abbott’s leadership rivals, Christy Clark, has rightly

called him on this idea. To his credit, Abbott appears to have the most extensive and thoughtful platform of any of the candidates. But if he ultimately wins the leadership, I hope he confines the tax-by-referendum idea to a one-time-only occurrence. ************* A lot of observers were quick to write off NDP MLA Harry Lali as a serious leadership candidate, but I think he has the potential to have a significant impact on the race and on the party’s future as well. While I don’t think he stands a good chance of actually winning the contest, Lali has signaled he’s prepared to play rough and engage in some serious hand-tohand combat with people. As a veteran MLA and former cabinet minister, Lali cannot simply be ignored by the party’s hierarchy. In fact, Lali says he wants to take down what he considers to be the “establishment” of the party. Again, I don’t think he’s going to necessarily be successful in his quest, but if he pushes the theme hard enough things could get very, very ugly indeed within the NDP. And perhaps that’s just what the party needs. ■ Keith Baldrey is chief political correspondent for Global BC.

here are still a few out there who continue to disregard the law, their own safety, and their responsibility to others. But for the most part, the year-old law aimed at curbing the dangerous actions of compulsive talkers and texters among us has taken hold. It was a year ago this week that it became time to put down the cellphones and Blackberrys while driving – at least for those who weren’t intelligent enough to have already done so. The province started 2010 with a ban on the use of all hand-held cellphones and portable devices used for games or texting while driving. Speaking of which, the provincial government is to be applauded for two further measures it took in 2010 to help make roads a bit safer. Lowering the provincial impairment limit below the federal level – to .05 per cent blood-alcohol from .08 per cent – is an acknowledgment that the legal limit specified in the Criminal Code of Canada is not severe enough. You don’t have to be falling-down drunk to be a deadly hazard to fellow motorists. And for those who choose speed, instead of alcohol, as their weapon of choice, the province has made it more painful for drivers who get caught speeding by more than 40 km/h over the speed limit. All in all, that amounts to a pretty strong year in favour of road safety. Not every new law deserves hearty applause, but this suite of 2010 traffic laws are worth a hardy pat on the back.

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Talk is cheap and programs work Editor, the Times:

I wonder if Robert. T. Rock, other then uttering venomous and belittling

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Harsh reality is that these people do need to be shown a lot of kindness once they do go back home in their own communities. Yes, Robert T. Rock, churches have, and do, play a big role in assisting those in need. This happens to be one of the core beliefs of Christianity in the first place. I truly wish that you would not portray church business with such absurd, despicable, ruthless and ill mannered choice of words, a subject you seem to know precious little about. Gertie Pool Abbotsford

Quick to forget about the common man Editor, the Times:

I do believe some of our councillors may have the interests of the people at heart, but are not in touch with the common folk. When we hear that the food banks and charities are not receiving donations and are running low in supplies and now even twoparent families are now going to the food banks it makes you wonder if any one is paying attention.

How does a mayor bringing in well over $100,000 a year understand that people living on $30,000$40,000 have trouble coping with all the nickel and dime charges that our government seems to slip in at every chance they get? When was the last time they cut a coupon out of the newspaper to supplement their budget or drive out of their way to get gas at a cheaper rate? Our leaders can only foresee higher taxes. Property tax, user fees, dumping fees, carbon tax, HST, dog licensing, parking charges – there appears to no end to the creativity involved in draining our pockets. As a disabled, retired citizen living on a fixed income without the ability to tell my pension plan that I need more money, I have no choice but to cut back. A lesson our council has not yet learned because they function on an unlimited credit card: that would be you and me. It is time to be a government closer to the people, or get out. Tom Lester Abbotsford

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What a shocking ranting diatribe of a letter readers endured from Robert.T. Rock (Addicts don’t have a prayer, Times Jan. 4). If anything qualifies as hate mail, this is certainly one possibility. Rock ridicules Christian churches in their caring outreach to poor unfortunate persons caught up in various addictions. His attacks on these churches is so vile and intense that he does not hide his hatred of Christianity. Or, on the other hand, is it his hatred of the B.C. government, or the Fraser Valley Health Authority, that these two organizations supported by our tax dollars - have failed to adequately protect him from the sight of these individuals struggling with their demons of whatever type, while receiving some help from the churches he despises. These churches are helping. Attitudes such as Rock’s are highly destructive. Please spare your readers from any more of such transparent hypocrisy! George Bochenek Abbotsford

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The Alzheimer Early Memory Loss Support group, for people living with a diagnosis, will be meeting Tuesday, Jan. 11 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Abbotsford. Call Jillian at the Abbotsford/Mission Alzheimer Society Resource Centre for more information at 604-859-3889 and leave a message.

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The Business & Professional Women’s Club of Abbotsford is hosting speaker Vicki Gabereau at its luncheon Wednesday, Jan. 12 starting at 11:30 a.m. at Cascade Community Church - Convention Centre, 35190 Delair Road, Abbotsford. The cost is $15 per member

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The Abbotsford Seniors Association (2631 Cyril St., Abbotsford) is hosting computer classes for seniors. Registration is Jan. 12 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Classes run every Wednesday and Friday for three weeks. Beginner classes run 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and intermediate classes from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The cost is $60. Call Jodie at 850-2465 for details.

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The Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild will meet on Thursday, Jan. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at Robert Bateman Secondary School, 35045 Exbury Ave. in Abbotsford. This month will be an open discussion meeting on a variety of subjects. All are welcome. For more details contact Brian Murphy at 604-858-8083 or bmur56@telus.net.

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Heat take two in a Rheault Forward helps Heat to back-to-back victories CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com

o say this season hasn’t quite lived up to expectations for Jon Rheault would be something of an understatement. Rheault came out of nowhere last season to become one of the Abbotsford Heat’s best players in the Calder Cup playoffs, which earned him a training camp invite from the Calgary Flames and a shot at making the NHL in September. He was close. One of the last cuts out of Flames camp, the 24-year-old well-travelled forward was sent down to Abbotsford with hopes of getting back to the big leagues. But things haven’t gone according to plan, at least not yet. “I’ve felt like there’s been spurts during the year when I’ve played well and then [other times] when I’ve been pretty inconsistent,” Rheault said after Friday’s 3-2 shootout win, which snapped a sevengame losing skid for the Heat. Rheault’s stat line lends hard evidence to his previous struggles this season. Four goals, 14 points and a minus-three rating are hardly flattering numbers for a skater who in September was far and away one of the best players at the Canucks prospects tournament in Penticton, and came within a hair of making the Flames after toiling in the ECHL and AHL for the better part of the last two seasons. But there has been a change in his play of late. Rheault has arguably been the Heat’s best player for the last four games, including Saturday’s 3-2 shootout win, which extended the winning streak to a modest two games. He has two assists in the last two games, but has had numerous scoring opportunities while adding a physical, in-your-face dimension as well. “Lately I’ve just gone in with the mindset that I’m going to finish my checks, I’m going to be good on the forecheck,” said Rheault. “When you start thinking that way instead of ‘I’m going to score goals,’ it’s a lot easier to play

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Heat right winger Jon Rheault is playing some of his best hockey of the season lately for the Abbotsford AHL team and his play has received high praise from head coach Jim Playfair. when you simplify your game and that’s what I’ve been doing, and it’s allowed me to get scoring chances. “I’m not burying them right now, but that will definitely come.” His recent play hasn’t gone unnoticed, either. Heat head coach Jim Playfair praised Rheault for his effort Friday and has seen the recent difference

in his play, rewarding him with power play time and the odd double shift. “My challenge to him has been ‘bring it’,” said Playfair of Rheault’s speed and skill. “We know you have it, you know your capable of it so bring it more consistently.” The Heat take on the Toronto Marlies Friday and Sunday at the AESC.

UFV women split games with Dinos The University of the Fraser Valley women’s basketball team extended their CIS win streak to five with a 76-60 dusting of the University of Calgary on Friday night. But Saturday proved a different story as the Cascades were on the losing end to the Dinos in an almost identical score 77-60. “The team came out tentative tonight and never answered Calgary’s determination,” said head coach Al Tuchscherer. “I thought defensively we played very ‘personally’ tonight and we did not play as a unit. Our help was late, our second rotation was late and our recovery was late. Too many easy buckets as a result.” In Friday’s contest, four different Cascades were in double figures led by Tessa Klassen with a game-high 17 points, Alyssa Gaukel, with 13, Courtney Bartel added 12 points and Aieisha Luyken, chipped in with 10. “We have some things we need to work on with our shooting. We need to be better tomorrow if we are going to beat this Calgary team,” said Tuchscherer. Perhaps his words were an omen of things to come. The loss Saturday brings Cascades CIS regular season record back to the five hundred mark at 7-7, and UFV remains in seventh place in the 13-team Canada West standings. Wierks was again the high scorer for the Cascades with 14 and Gaukel added 13.

BCS Championship a family affair “You have no idea how excited I am.” – Lokombo CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com

oseko Lokombo has never been short on motivation, and that wasn’t about to change as his University of Oregon Ducks went into last night’s BCS Championship confrontation against the Auburn Tigers. Aside from the BCS finale standing second only to the Super Bowl as far as football goes, the former W.J. Mouat Hawk gridiron star has taken a whirlwind journey from

the depths of war-torn Africa, to the snow and cold of Montreal, to the agriculture Mecca of Abbotsford, and finally to his position as a starter for the Ducks linebacking corps. A plethora of life experiences that meshed with football led him to last night’s pinnacle. “You have no idea how excited I am,” the 20-year-old Lokombo said last week in preparation for last night’s game with the No. 1 ranked Tigers. “It’s the biggest game in college football and we’re just privileged to be here. It’s just a surreal moment for me. It’s just something that I would’ve never imagined ever in my life and I just feel privileged to be here.

“I put in a lot of work within the many years that I’ve played sports, including soccer, basketball and it’s all coming in as one and I’d never thought I’d be in this game and I’m just excited.” Then mention his parents, father Leon and mother AnneMarie, and suddenly Lokombo’s air of excitement changes to feelings of humility and gratitude. Lokombo is the first to admit that without the love, support and ideals of his parents, a spot on the Ducks likely wouldn’t be possible. With the Congo engulfed in the ravages of war, Leon sought a better life in Canada, where the family of seven would flee to in the middle of winter, January 1996.

The Lokombo family touched down in Montreal to the sight of snow and the feeling of bitter cold. A year later, they moved to Abbotsford and Boseko’s jet towards becoming one of the best young football players of the province a decade later was off the ground. With his parents and family looking on during the 2008 high school season, Lokombo would amass 22 touchdowns and help the Hawks reach the B.C. Subway Bowl. That is what made his parents’ trip to Arizona to watch their son play on the biggest stage of his life so far that much more – CHRIS PIETSCH/THE REGISTER-GUARD/FOR THE TIMES special. see FOOTBALL, page A14 Boseko Lokombo at the University of Oregon.

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Lokombo and Ducks played Auburn for Natl. Championship FOOTBALL, from page A13 “That’s going to be pretty cool for them to experience that with me,” said Lokombo. “Just looking at them just before the game starts, it’s like we’re home again and it’s like they’ve been there the whole time. “It’s just amazing to be able to experience that and have them in my corner and to go on this journey together. It’s

been a blessing.” Lokombo’s two-year journey with the No. 2 ranked Ducks has provided its fare share of challenges and triumphs. He went from a red-shirt freshman a year ago to an upstart linebacker who saw his hard work on and off the field pay dividends when he recovered a fumble for a 32-yard touchdown at the end of September. Lokombo became a student of the game in every sense of the word. His God-given skills – speed, agility, power and a frame that stands at 6’3” and 220 pounds – got him to the University of Oregon. But his team-first mentality was what he said earned him the respect of his

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