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Jeff and Tracy Dyck, winners of the 2013 Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway, pose with daughters Alexis and Jessica, friend Rayleen McCaghren and local business donors.
Friends helping friends BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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he last two years haven’t been easy for Jeff and Tracy Dyck, but their burden got a little lighter last week when they were handed the keys to a fully refurbished 2001 Toyota Camry. The Chilliwack couple, who between them have a son and two daughters, are the 2013 winners of the 10th Annual Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway. Two years ago, the couple’s life was turned upside down when Tracy was
United effort by the many friends of Jeff and Tracy Dyck helped make Christmas Car Giveaway possible getting ready for work one day and fainted. When she regained consciousness, she couldn’t move for half an hour. Since then, what has been diagnosed as a somatoform disorder, has incapacitated Tracy suddenly and unexpectedly every four to seven days, leaving her unable to work or drive. Until last week, the only car Jeff
had to drive to his wife’s aid was a 20-year-old Honda Civic with 600,000 kilometres on it. Besides having to use the old clunker to drive Tracy to and from medical appointments in Chilliwack and Vancouver, Jeff had to use it to zip back and forth from work every day to drive 12-year-old Alexis and eight-year-old Jessica to school. When the ancient Civic broke
down recently, Alexis had to miss part of her school day to walk her little sister to and from school. “She was awesome about it. She didn’t complain,” Tracy told the Times. But for Tracy and Jeff’s friends and family, that was the final straw. “I just thought, ‘This is crazy; it’s out of control,’” said Rayleen See GIVEAWAY Page 3
on’t touch found explosives” is the message Mounties are spreading after a Chilliwack resident brought an improvised explosive device to a police station last week. The resident found the small homemade explosive at the intersection of Yale Road and First Avenue Dec. 13, according to a news release by Chilliwack RCMP Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen. Out of concern for public safety, the citizen picked it up and delivered it to the local RCMP. “Fortunately the device was not brought into the police office,” said vanNieuwenhuizen. When police came out, they inspected the tiny bomb, commonly known as a “cricket.” The cricket was made from a soldered brass shell casing with the remains of a fuse in one end. “Although this was a small explosive device it still has the potential to cause serious physical harm or property damage,” said vanNieuwenhuizen. “We advise anyone finding such a device to please not handle or move it and to contact the police at earliest opportunity. “ The Mounties’ Explosive Disposal Unit was called in to dispose of the cricket.
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The Times, it is a-changin’. This Dec. 24 issue of the Chilliwack Times paper you have in your hands will be the final Tuesday edition printed. As of Jan. 2, the Times will publish once weekly on Thursdays. The move comes a month after the finalized deal that saw Black Press purchase both the Chilliwack Times and the Abbotsford-Mission Times from Glacier Media. That same deal involved Glacier purchasing four papers from Black Press: the South Delta Leader, the North Shore Outlook, the Bowen Island Undercurrent and the Westender. After the deal to purchase the Times, Black Press, which also owns the Chilliwack Progress, decided to make some publication changes. Readers will have noticed that as of Dec. 4, the Progress publishes on Wednesdays and Fridays. Both papers will continue their ongoing online coverage, and Chilliwack readers will now receive three community newspapers a week: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Other changes to how we look and how we cover the news will be coming to the Times in the new year. We look forward to what’s ahead and our continued coverage of all things Chilliwack in the Times.
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Niels Larsen of Valley Toyota hands Jeff Dyck the keys to the 2013 Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway car Thursday, with Valley Toyota general sales manager Michael Thomas, left, and Fix Auto chief operations manager Ben Alleckna and eight-year-old Jessica Dyck, right.
Local businesses proud to chip in GIVEAWAY, from page 1 McCaghren, Tracy’s longtime friend who nominated her for the giveaway. McCaghren didn’t have the means to help her friend on her own, but when she read about the Christmas Car Giveaway in the Times, she knew what she had to do. “I saw this is the paper, and it was like someone just went, ‘Hallelujah!’” McCaghren said. While most nominees for the 10-year-old giveaway usually see only one or two letters of support, a total of nine people stepped up to recommend Tracy and Jeff for the vehicle. “This family is in desperate need of this car,” wrote Caren Law. “ They have been through so much in the past two years and have stuck to together through thick and thin.” “A lot of people ask for help even when they don’t really need it,” Virgina Loyie wrote, “but this family doesn’t ask even when they need it most because they feel someone else needs it
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Tracy Dyck’s mom Jean Gordon, longtime friend Rayleen McCaghren, sister Kelly Gordon and daughter Alexis Gordon-Vanherk look on in tears as Jeff and Tracy Dyck are presented with their car. more. I’m here to tell you they need it the very most this year.” The couple’s friends and family were in tears last Thursday when Tracy and
Jeff were handed the keys to their new car at Fix Auto on Yale Road. “I’m so pleased with all the people that love me so much,” Tracy said.
For the last 10 years, Fix Auto has brought together businesses from all over Chilliwack to make the life-changing Christmas giveaway a success, and this year was no exception. “It’s a lot of work,” FixAuto chief operating officer Ben Alleckna said, “but once you start reading the letters, talking to the people that nominate and the folks, you remember, ‘Oh yeah, this is why we do this.’ It’s magical.” For the last two years, Valley Toyota donated the vehicle. They had already set aside the Dycks’ new vehicle, a one-owner car that was purchased and serviced at the dealership, last summer. “It’s just a great thing to be able to do because we can,” Valley Toyota sales manager Niels Larsen said. “We’re in a position where we can help the community in that way. The biggest challenges in some people’s life is they don’t have a car, and if we’re able to help them, why not?” Neil Simpson of Simpson See GIVEAWAY, Page 16
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hilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz overcame a challenge from Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman Tuesday to win re-election as the 2014 board chair of the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) board. Abbotsford Coun. Patricia Ross was acclaimed into the position of vicechair, a job she also held in 2013. Over the past year, Gaetz has frequently been in the news as an outspoken critic of Metro Vancouver’s proposal to build a waste-to-energy garbage incinerator. The FVRD board is made up of 22 representatives including: seven electoral area representatives for the unincorporated areas; six municipal directors from the City of Abbotsford; four municipal directors from the City of Chilliwack; two municipal directors from the District of Mission; one municipal director from the District of Kent; one municipal director from the District of Hope; and one municipal director from the Village of Harrison Hot Springs. Couns. Jason Lum, Ken Popove and Chuck Stam are the other three representatives for Chilliwack. Bill Dickey is the director for electoral Area D, which includes Popkum and Bridal Falls just to the east of Chilliwack. Dave Lamson is director for Area E, which includes the Chilliwack River Valley, some of the area surrounding Cultus Lake and the Columbia River Valley. The FVRD chair is paid $26,940 a year. All other directors on the board earn $6,613, with the vice-chair getting an extra $1,740. Electoral area directors are paid an additional $11,510 and the chair of the electoral services committee (Dickey for 2013) earns a further $5,113. Gaetz was also paid an extra $1,743 for her role as chair of the corporate services committee. As mayor of Chilliwack, Gaetz earns just under $90,000 a year.
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Violent offender may be heading our way Extensive criminal record BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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violent criminal sought by the Prince George RCMP could be headed to Chilliwack. Neil Robert Simpson failed to return to his designated Prince George residence this month, and a Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest on Dec. 9. The 38-year-old—described as aboriginal, five feet seven inches and 190 pounds with black hair—has an extensive criminal record and police say
he should be considered violent. He has tribal tattoos on his neck and right hand, as well as a tear-drop tattoo by his right eye. Simpson is originally from the Northwest Territories and has contacts in Prince George, but Prince George RCMP say he may be headed to Chilliwack. In January of 2007, Simpson was at large from a Chilliwack halfway house when he robbed an Abbotsford credit union. He was arrested the same
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Neighbours take pride in busting drug house “It’s a good neighbourhood with good people. It’s a beautiful place to live. We’ve raised our family here.”
Watched and recorded licence plate numbers BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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rug dealers looking to set up shop in Chilliwack might as well give up if they’re thinking of doing it in the 46200 block of 3rd Avenue. Two men, one identified as Jerry Lee Elliott and another 40-year-old man, were arrested on that downtown block earlier this month, and the flop house where neighbours say the two peddled drugs for the last six months has now been cleaned up. “I’ve been here 22 years, and over the years we’ve had different drug houses try to establish,” one neighbour told the Times. “The only way to get rid of them is to be out there on the street and letting them know you’re watching them and that this is not acceptable in our block.” The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said the effort to keep the street safe started as soon as the two men moved into the house at the corner of 3rd and Williams. “They tried to put up a nice front,” she said. “They were always trying to be nice to the neighbours but their actions were not, of course, with
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A cleanup crew picks up furniture and trash, including half a grocery bag full of used needles, from a drug house on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Williams Street Thursday. everything going on.” Shortly after the men moved in, a tent trailer was set up on the property, and a small tent city soon mushroomed around it. “At one point we figured there was about eight people actually staying on the property,” the neighbour said. “We had witnessed the people living
outside using the trees and the grass as their washroom facility and the smell was getting in.” As activity at the house ramped up, neighbours observed people coming and going at all hours of the day and night, often carrying power equipment and tools in and leaving emptyhanded.
Street crime also spiked, according to the woman, who had four vehicles damaged when thieves stole diesel and gas from them on two separate occasions. She said one neighbour had told her he had found a trail of fuel leading from his truck straight to the front door of the drug house.
“But that wasn’t enough evidence as to who did it because there were so many drug guys in there at the time that the police couldn’t say which one of them did it,” the woman said. Tensions mounted, and the woman said some of the neighbours talked about waiting for a time when the house was empty and driving a vehicle through it or burning it down. “It was frustration talking,” she said. Instead, the neighbours alerted every agency they could about the problem. They contacted the Ministry of Children and Family Development about a little girl who had lived in the house for the first two months, the city about obvious bylaw infractions, the landlord (Surrey real estate agent B.J. Ram) and, of course, Chilliwack RCMP. “The RCMP have always been very good to respond any time we call, but we don’t throw them stuff that’s full of nuisance either,” the woman said. She and other neighbours also waited near the drug house and told
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the Times they heard shots fired on the night in question in the area of Third Avenue and Nowell Street. “It shook the house it was so loud,” one Chilliwack RCMP officer who faces numerous charges after he allegedly neighbour said. Two marked police cars were parked near discharged a firearm at his downtown the house for at least 36 hours after the residence while off duty is allowed to incident, according to the neighbour. return home. She also said a family member saw At a bail hearing in Chilliwack court police officers “escorting crying womThursday, a judge granted a request by en out of the house” close to the date Const. Darren Mulrooney’s lawyer to of the alleged incident. change the conditions of his bail that EB IRST Mulrooney is the subject of an interdisallowed him to attend the residence where the alleged incident occurred First reported on nal code of conduct investigation, and one of the alleged victims resides. chilliwacktimes.com according to a BC RCMP spokesperson. A publication ban prevents the He is currently on administrative leave. Times from reporting on the details of the hearMulrooney was recognized and honoured in ing. Mulrooney faces two counts of assault, one March by the RCMP for outstanding achievecount of careless use of a firearm and one count ment in service along with a number of other of possession of a weapon for a dangerous pur- officers, auxiliary constables, civilian members, pose in connection with an Oct. 26 incident on volunteers and others. His next court appearance is scheduled for Third Avenue. After the incident, a number of sources told Jan. 3.
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inder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson likely let out a little cheer when he heard the federal joint review panel give its stamp of approval last week to Enbridge’s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline project. If built, the pipeline will bring Alberta oil sands bitumen to Kitimat over 1,177 kilometres across more than 1,000 waterways and land of 48 First Nations. Two massive oil tankers will then leave every three days on a trip through the Douglas Channel, down the west coast to California and beyond. The “green light” issued Thursday comes with 209 conditions. And as the protracted hearings into the $6.5-billion project come to a close with this decision, the National Energy Board (NEB) has a new application on its hands filed Dec. 16. That application, of more direct interest to Chilliwack, is to twin the 1,150-kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline that runs from Alberta to Burnaby. This $5.4-billion “twinning” is in fact a tripling of capacity with a larger pipe that will, if approved, run parallel to the existing pipeline, which was built in 1953. An outsider might think the two projects were at least at some level in competition: Two different companies vying for public, First Nations and government approval to build multi-billion-dollar oil pipelines from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean. So wouldn’t Kinder Morgan be
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Simply A Musing looking, if secretly, for Enbridge to fail? Not a chance. Two things: Firstly, if one looks past the environmental and overlapping aboriginal concerns over shipping diluted bitumen across the wilderness, the economic demand is staggering. The current Trans Mountain pipeline is capable of shipping 300,000 barrels per day (bpd). Kinder Morgan originally called for a doubling of capacity to 600,000 bpd, which rose to 750,000 bpd and finally to 890,000 bpd. Anderson has even said that demand for Alberta crude exceeds what could be delivered by a twinned Trans Mountain and Northern Gateway combined. The second and main reason Anderson likely let out a cheer when he heard the Joint Review Panel’s (JRP) decision is that if the NEB can say OK to a greenfield project as broadly opposed during a process as terribly handled by Enbridge from a public relations perspective, how can they possibly say no to Kinder Morgan who plan to build a pipeline mostly in an existing right-of-way?
And even though the Trans Mountain project is second in line in terms of consideration by the NEB and the government, Enbridge says Northern Gateway would be running by 2018 while Kinder Morgan says its pipeline could see oil flowing by 2017. The national and provincial media’s attention has been more focused on Northern Gateway over the last year or so. That changed for one week as Kinder Morgan filed its application, but attention is back on Northern Gateway with its green (well, amber) light. Enbridge’s battle has just begun. An old high school friend who is an archeologist working with First Nations bands in territories Northern Gateway would cross tells me there is no way the thing will ever be built. Remember Idle No More? In recent months that seemed to have turned into Meh, Let’s Idle Some More. This decision will absolutely rev that engine up again. There is a distinct chance that some First Nations folks will stand on the ground to physically stop construction. I predict, however, that will not come any time soon, if ever. Northern Gateway will soon leave the collective discourse as, before anyone can lay down in front of a bulldozer, Enbridge will be mired in court case after boring court case. I suspect next year we will slowly tune out chatter about Northern Gateway and tune in to Trans Mountain.
ith so many people in need in our community and our world, it’s sometimes hard to resist the temptation to throw up our hands and do nothing. What’s the point of scratching the surface with isolated acts of charity? Some even say such efforts, unless they’re aimed at root problems, are counterproductive. “Don’t give the guy on the street corner a toonie. He’ll just use it for drugs.” “Don’t give the third-world guy a fish. Teach him to fish instead.” Wise as those sentiments might be, most of us don’t respond by educating ourselves about complex social problems and getting more involved in tackling them. Many of us respond by throwing up our hands and doing nothing. But letting the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to charity not only cuts us off from doing what we can, it also gets us out of the habit of giving. That’s why for 10 years we at the Times have been happy to have the chance to do at least one solid good deed every Christmas through the Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Car Giveaway. It’s true: the businesses that get together every year to give a fully refurbished and reliable used car to someone who really needs it could do more—we all could. But we’re happy that hasn’t stopped them from stepping up and doing something. Because it’s nice to know that right now a local family is driving around town without worrying about whether their vehicle will make it home (See story page 1). It’s nice to know a couple who’ve been trying to build a better life for their kids here in Chilliwack now has one less obstacle to overcome. And it’s nice to know we’ve been a part of that. It might not have ended world hunger, but one little family is happier because of the Christmas Car Giveaway, and those of us who’ve been involved have once again been reminded how great it feels to give.
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Editor: There is something wrong with the picture of UFV students relying on the latest technology, in a “state-of-theart,” “one-of-a-kind” facility, so that they can make an “investment” in food security. Working with specialized equipment in a controlled environment is one way to throw farmers into a subsidy program, so that their insecurity can be guided and exploited by agricultural lobbyists and their agrochemical cohorts. Food security should at least address how our food is grown (not just where it is grown), so that we are not simply bringing closer to home the depletion of the soil’s fertility through monocultures, intensive tilling, and chemical fertilizers. Furthermore, this conception of farming has precious little to do with humane treatment, much less how to work in harmony with the cycles of nature. If you need crops to be grown under an ultrasonic misting system or technology to regulate milk production and keep your animals inside, then you are obviously going to sacrifice individual nurturing and empathy for an investment in the scale and productivity of the operation. The loaded statement “high-end equipment of a large dairy farm,” captures the essence of that mentality (reminds me of anti-whistleblower laws passed in the U.S.). To simulate its conditions perfectly all one needs to add is pesticide-dependent GMOs and dead animal wastes (slaughterhouse waste as feed is banned in the EU, but not in Canada) as sustenance to the diet of livestock, and accompanied with antibiotics, so you can experience an antibiotic-resistant infection (again, non-therapeutic use of antibiotics on food-producing animals is banned in the EU, but not in Canada). If we want to make a contribution to food security, we can all start by learning about how animal suffering is passed on to us—the consumer (hence the metaphorical expression, “next crop of farmers”), what is in the chemicals we use to inject into animals and spray onto (and now into) crops, the dangers of genetic mutation, the wastefulness of lawn maintenance, preserving seed diversity, the benefits of raw milk, catchment systems, pollinator gardens, rotational grazing, carbon sequestration, microclimates, soil stewardship, permaculture principles, energy alternatives, water conservation, green manure crops, guilds and polycultures, and companion planting. Sadly, no “industry professionals” from any marketing campaign are going to show you the path to nature and natural thinking that makes us all producers and consumers of our own food—and stewards of a healthier planet. Damian Fajenski Sardis
Send us a letter TO INCLUDE YOUR LETTER, use our online form at www.chilliwacktimes.com, contact us by email at editorial@chilliwacktimes.com, fax 604-792-9300 or mail us at 45951 Trethewey Ave, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1K4. Letters must include first and last names and your hometown and should be fewer than 200 words. To view our letters/privacy policy visit our website at www.chilliwacktimes.com. for myself on Tuesday morning. It is a bermed-off wetland, a stone’s throw from the Fraser River, drained by a stream and pumpstation discharging water into an adjacent Wildlife Management Area. All the surrounding lands are higher, meaning that water is continually draining into the site. The berm will apparently keep overland floods out during the Fraser freshet, but the water will seep under them through the gravelly soils, requiring continuous pumping to keep the site dry. Why would we site a facility handling some of the most toxic materials our society produces in such a place? Any spill will seep into the ground and be pumped off site into sensitive wetlands and the Fraser River. The facility itself may be built to a high standard, but the material must still be transported to and from it. Accidents will happen eventually. City council did not think this one through and their failure to consult with the community allowed their error to go unchecked. This facility needs to be on higher ground. Mike Pearson PhD, RPBio Agassiz
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Editor: I too agree with L. Keeley (Times, Dec. 10). I believe it is about time the city starts to fix up some of our older side streets. Many residents have lived at a certain location for more then 20 years, only to see many newer streets get repaved. There does not seem to be any incentive to pay taxes at one location, only to see one’s street crumble away. I, myself, have lived on Mayfair Avenue for more then 25 years, only to see the road crumble away, and grass that can actually be cut, growing in the gutters, which now has choked one end of the gutter. The pavement, which is close to 50 years old, has a depression in front of every home, due to people switching over from oil to gas. I take pride in my neighbourhood, by clearing the sidewalk in winter, cleaning the gutter on a regular basis, and even pressure washing the sidewalk in front of my home. I asked the city about repaving, but was told that the computer program, indicated that it was not time for our street to get repaved. My reply was, “try dragging that computer down our street.” I was even told once, that, if our street was repaved, it would create more traffic down our street. Traffic versus potholes? Not sure of their logic. In saying that, the city does repair our street when needed. It is time to repay back some of our original neighbourhoods with some improvements, before some of us long-time tax paying citizens move on. Chilliwack has many great
places to see and visit, but how about let some of us, to look out our own window and see some changes. P. Mitischev Chilliwack
Get additional tax credit for donating Editor: Help us help our community. The Canada Revenue Agency has made some rule changes that can benefit first-time donors to Canadian charities like the Ann Davis Transition Society. The new “First Time Donor Super Credit” (FDSC) allow firsttime donors to claim an additional amount on his or her tax receipt, increasing the amount of tax benefits from the donation. The credit is available starting in the 2013 taxation year and effectively adds 25 per cent to the rates used in the calculation of the CDTC for up to $1,000 of monetary donations. As a result, a first-time donor will be allowed a 40 per cent federal credit for donations of $200 or less, and a 54 per cent federal credit for the portion of donations over 200 but not exceeding $1,000.The credit can only be claimed once in the 2013 to 2017 taxation years. For more information on the FDSC, visit the Canada Revenue Agency’s website at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ To donate to the Ann Davis Transition Society or find more information visit www.anndavis.org, call 604-792-2760 or email info@ anndavis.org. On behalf of the board and staff of Ann Davis Transition Society. Patti MacAhonic Executive Director
Editor: First chlorine to ruin our pristine water and now a waste facility near the shores of the mighty Fraser? What guarantee does city council give us, that all the toxins being transported in and out of the area, like mercury and PCBs, will not leech into the ground and further destroy our depleting stock of salmon, which is the very life force of our lands? Without the salmon, bears, eagles and many more species will perish. Who exactly made this decision and have they no concern for our mother earth? Get a grip and save our land and rivers for our children’s future. Do not allow Aevitas Inc. anywhere near our mighty Fraser River. J. Brown Chilliwack
Mayor’s letter just Facility needs to be fear mongering Editor: on higher ground The letter by Sharon Gaetz in the Editor: Recycling is a good thing, and nothing is more important to recycle than hazardous material like mercury and PCBs. We clearly need facilities such as the one proposed for Chilliwack, but the site chosen has generated a groundswell of opposition for good reason. I drove to the site to take a look
spend billions of dollars and employ thousands of scientists to look into protecting the environment and they all maintain websites where the latest and best information on the environment are available. Waste management experts define the most to least preferred as: reduce, reuse, recycle, recover energy, and dead last—landfill. There are several ways to recover energy from garbage, the simplest being incineration. Another is to try and capture methane escaping from landfills which is generally around 20 per cent as effective as burning. Denmark has embarked on a program to collect yard waste, kitchen scraps, sewage sludge and manure from farms and digest it to produce bio-gas and organic fertilizer to supplement incineration. Chilliwack uses mostly landfill; throwing the trash in a hole and kicking some dirt over it. If you have land for waste it is the cheapest way to go. The Cheam landfill is a response to Chilliwack’s inability or unwillingness to deal with what is mostly construction waste, a clear candidate for waste to energy incineration. John Elmore Chilliwack
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Dec. 17 edition of the Chilliwack Times is a fine piece of fear mongering but is short on fact. The Danish Environmental Protection agency, the German Umweldbundesamt, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency all agree that burning garbage is a responsible part of waste management for the 21st century. These agencies
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Children lunge to give Santa a high-five after his arrival at the Cultus Lake Golf Club in a helicopter last Thursday as part of the Cultus Lake Christmas celebrations. The celebrations will profile Cultus Lake Park and local businesses and draws people from the surrounding areas to enjoy the spirit of Christmas.
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Giants of the gridiron do us proud Kurtis Flynn and Mason Murphy shine south of the border
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Local football players Mason Murphy (left) and Kurtis Flynn represented Chilliwack well after a strong performance at the North American Football Championships with Team BC earlier this month.
Sardis junior girls choking up victories
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he Sardis junior girls basketball team continued its winning ways last week before taking a break for Christmas. In their last game before the holidays, the Falcons defeated Agassiz 62-58 in an exhibition game to improve their record to 11-2 overall. Brynna Kearl, who has been an
arlier this month, two of Chilliwack’s finest Grade 6 football players made the trip south to represent Team BC in the FBU North American Football Championships for their age group. Kurtis Flynn and Mason Murphy were both selected after a rigorous tryout process. Both Flynn and Murphy play football for the Chilliwack Giants two peewee teams and both are standouts for their respective teams, but that’s where the similarities end. Flynn, whether he’s on defence making tackles or on offence knifing through the opposition as a running back, is as quick as lightning, playing the game with a skill and finesse not often seen at the peewee level. Murphy, on the other hand, is as dominant a lineman as
there is for his age group. O f t e n s e e n b u l l d oz i ng opponents offensive lines and accumulating sacks and tackles, Murphy has made an art of shutting down his opponent’s pass game through shear strength and power. At the North American Championships, both players stayed true to form and displayed the skills that had them playing for team BC. In their first game against Eastern Washington in the regional semi-finals, Team BC, led by defensive captain Flynn, dominated the game and won 38-7. Both Flynn and Murphy made several tackles, with Flynn capping the scoring off in the fourth quarter with a late interception for a touchdown. In the regional final game against Oregon, Team BC lost 52-0, outplayed by their much bigger and faster American counterparts. Despite the loss, both Chilliwack boys played strong games again and represented Chilliwack very well. Flynn and Murphy graduated from the Peewee level this year and now have their sights set on an equally dominant reign at the junior bantam level in the upcoming season.
Weijdeman knocking down three-pointers offensive rebounding machine this season while averaging seven points per game, led the Falcons offence with 16 points. Nicole Reid put up 12 points, and Demi Weijdeman scored eight,
including two big three pointers. Weijdeman is the Falcons leading scorer so far this season, averaging 9.8 points per game and draining 14 three pointers in 13 games. “That’s exceptional for junior
girls,” Sardis coach Gina Graves said. The Falcons, who are 5-1 in regular season play, play their next league game Jan. 8 against Yale secondary in Abbotsford.
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undreds of young hockey players from around the province and beyond will descend upon Chilliwack Dec. 27 to 30 for the Chilliwack Minor Hockey Association’s largest tournament of the year. The 55th annual Chilliwack Peewee Jamboree will have 40 teams and 675 youth from the Lower Mainland, Interior, Vancouver Island and U.S. face-off in 104 games at Prospera Centre and Twin Rinks. “This is probably one of the largest that it’s been,” said Les Lindhout, Peewee Jamboree chairman. “We’ve put a lot of effort into soliciting teams from far and wide and we’ve had some success in getting a really strong tournament this year.” Currently one of Canada’s longest running peewee tournaments, the jamboree had small-fry beginnings starting as a one-day event in 1958 with 15 participating teams. In the early years, the event was completely volunteer-run, including scorekeepers and referees, and pancake breakfasts were served for all teams in Evergreen Hall. Hockey action took place at the Chilliwack Coliseum and visiting youth were actually billeted at player’s homes, Lindhout said. “I would say that in a town of 80,000 people, I bet there are 40,000 to 30,000 that have been directly involved in some way or form,” he said. “They’ve either attended, been a spectator or a player, coach or volunteer.” This year the jamboree will have 10 Chilliwack teams participate, including seven in the recreational division and three in different levels of rep teams. Teams from outside the Lower Mainland
include Portland, Seattle, Everett, Cowichan, Nanaimo, Juan de Fuca, Peninsula, Prince George and Kelowna. “We would love to have people come attend and watch and support these minor kids of all age and levels and really help build their memories by having people cheering and being in the stands,” Lindhout said. Having a longstanding presence in the community, Lindhout said the event has become multi-generational, with parents, and sometimes even grandparents, watching their children and grandchildren play in an tourney they once took part in. Lindhout, who played in the tournament himself as a child, will be watching his own 12-yearold son play for the Chilliwack Peewee A1 team this year. “It’s a great place to run into friends and family in the community,” he said. “If it’s raining outside and it’s in between Christmas and New Year’s and you want to do something, keep dry and be very well entertained and see some excellent hockey, just stop by either Prospera Centre or Twin Rinks.” All four ice sheets at Prospera Centre and Twin Rinks will be in use throughout the four-day tourney from as early as 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information on the jamboree or to stay up-to-date with tournament schedules, game results, events and the 50/50 draw, visit their Facebook page, Chilliwack Peewee Jamboree 2013. The Chilliwack Chiefs will also be hosting a “Fill the Rink for the Food Bank” night, which will collect food and cash donations for the Salvation Army, following their game against Surrey at Prospera Centre at 5 p.m. on Dec. 29. Tickets are only $5 with a non-perishable food donation.
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the people coming and going that they were being watched and their licence-plate numbers recorded and forwarded to police. Though confronting people involved in the drug trade made her feel “exposed,” the woman said keeping her neighbourhood safe was worth the risk. “It’s a good neighbourhood with good people,” she said. “It’s a beautiful place to live. We’ve raised our family here.” And the neighbourhood’s concerted effort paid off this month when the two men were arrested and the house’s occupancy permit revoked by the city. Last week, the landlord was on site with a cleanup crew, removing a small dump-truck load of trash from the house and yard. One worker said he’d picked up half a grocery bag full of used needles and brought them to the needle exchange. “The place was littered with old rigs,” he told the Times. On Dec. 6, the police search of the house and surrounding vehicles had turned up heroin, methamphetamine, knives, cash, scales and packaging used in the sale of drugs. They also said the residence was guarded with the use of infrared surveillance cameras throughout the property to warn occupants of police or others intending to interfere with the operation. After the arrests, Mounties said the investigation had been sparked by the neighbours’ calls. For the woman who talked to the Times, the whole ordeal has driven home the point that it’s up neighbours to pull together if they want to keep their neighbourhoods safe. “As long as everyone’s in the loop and knows, then they can do something about it, but when people sit back and do nothing, nothing happens,” she said.
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G.W. Graham raffles off car
Purchase raffle tickets for family and friends this Christmas and help support G.W. Graham students in their only grad fundraiser of the year. Tickets are $10 each and give ticket holders a chance to win a 2013 Honda Civic. Other high-value prizes include an alarm and stereo system, $1,000 travel voucher and $500 gas card. The car and students will be at Cottonwood Mall starting Dec. 28. Tickets are available at G.W. Graham school, Cooper’s Foods, Ken’s Tire & Wheel, Voltage Sound and Security, Roblin Travel and Panago, Vedder locations.
Foster parents meet
BC Federation of Foster Parent Association has formed a local chapter in Chilliwack. It meets the first Monday of every month (Jan. 6) at 10 a.m. at Chilliwack Community Services on Wellington Ave. All foster parents are invited. Contact Anita at anitavw@telu.net for more info.
Storytime
Introduce children to the love of books and language! Children five years and younger, along with their parents and caregivers, will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and puppets. Storytime helps prepare children to learn to
Community events To include your event, contact Tyler Olsen at tolsen@ chilliwacktimes.com. Put your event on our digital calendar by visiting www.chilliwacktimes.com.
read. Monday Mornings from Jan. 6 to April 28 (excluding Feb. 10, March 17 and April 21) from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Sardis Library.
Car clubbers wanted
The Chilliwack Chapter of the Vintage Car Club of Canada meets the first Tuesday of each month (Jan. 7) at 7:30 p.m. at the Atchelitz Threshermen’s building on Luckakuck Way. Newcomers welcome. For details call Barb or Ross at 604-824-1807.
Mental Silence Meditation
Mental Silence is the experience of inner silence which brings a peaceful and clearer awareness. It is easy to learn and with the guidance of Sergiy Fadyeyev, can generate significant results quickly. Mental Silence can reduce stress and have a profound balancing effect on physical, mental and emotional dimensions of the students, enhancing both resilience and total well being. To take place at the Sardis Library
Mondays from Jan. 6 to April 28 (except Jan. 20, Feb. 10 and April 21) from 7 to 8 p.m.
NEW! Knit and Knatter
Pack up your yarn and head to the library! Knitting is fun, relaxing and a great way to connect across the generations. Join knitters of all ages and abilities at the Sardis Library for our warm and welcoming drop-in knitting group. Children and beginners are welcome. At the Sardis Library Wednesday (Jan. 8) from 12 to 1:30 p.m.
eReader Workshops
Learn how to borrow free eBooks from the library through FVRL Overdrive and BC Library to Go. This workshop is designed for those using dedicated eReaders with their home computer. Registration is required. Sardis Library: Jan. 9 and Jan. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. Chilliwack Library: See EVENTS, Page 19 6296269
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association’s 95 years of “amputees helping amputees” and joined the float. Stefanie de Koning, 13, of Chilliwack, is a left leg amputee. She rode on board the float with her fellow Champs. The colourful, animated float is specially designed to capture the attention of children, with ASTAR, the gold robot from
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n unsatisfying visit to a franchise restaurant, and the expectation of the New Year’s Eve celebration, has compelled me to write this column on nachos. With fierce competition in the restaurant industry, it surprises me that there are any menu options that lack flavour, let alone something as simple as nachos. For approximately $10 (plus the cost of adding chicken or beef), I was presented with a mediocre-sized plate of bland nachos. The presentation was great as it offered many colours to please the eye, but flavour was very scarce. There was nothing special about them. One would like to assume that restaurant owners/managers actually taste their wares and make efforts to offer the most superior product within their means and food cost budget. Flavour comes from a variety of ingredients that will produce a complex complimentary taste in the final product. First, let’s discuss seasoning. The chips weren’t even seasoned not even a light dusting of salt. This gave the impression that the nachos were made with pieces of crispy cardboard. The
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On Cooking so-called “spicy chicken” that accompanied the toppings was even bland. Seasoning is very crucial. For example, if one was consuming tomato slices, chances are they would be lightly seasoned with salt and pepper to help enhance the natural tomato flavour. When preparing nachos for the crowd at New Year’s Eve, make sure to use a number of toppings to add depth of flavour. I recommend starting with salted tortilla chips that are thick enough to support a number of toppings and inhibit sogginess. Rather than placing all of the ingredients on top the nachos, build three or four layers of chips, cheese and toppings. This ensures that toppings are in abundance throughout the dish, and no one is left with plain chips once the top has been consumed. One can use an array of ingredients, but I recommend
the following: aged cheddar cheese, beef or chicken cooked with blackening spice or taco seasoning, fresh diced tomatoes, sliced black olives, green onions, and jalapenos. Furthermore season each layer with a sprinkling of salt, pepper and chili powder. The additional seasoning will guarantee the full taste of the toppings will be prominent. Make a habit of being selective with ingredients in any recipe you prepare and you will have a more superior tasting product. For example, instead of using mild cheddar cheese, use extra-old aged cheddar - the taste will be more prevalent throughout. For the other topping suggestions, make sure you use “fresh” whenever possible. Serve with side dishes of sour cream, fresh salsa and homemade guacamole for the perfect accompaniments and you will have everybody raving about your celebratory fare. All the best to you in 2014. Dear Chef Dez: Is it just me, or do you find that jalapeno peppers aren’t as hot as they used to be? John M. Chilliwack Dear John:
You are absolutely right. When I was a teenager, it was considered daring to order these fiery green rings on nachos, and downing three or four slices was a feat in itself. I won’t reveal how long ago that was, but the demand for these peppers have grown considerably over the years. Through some investigation, I learned that in many instances they are now cultivated to be milder. This is done to expand the appeal of this pepper to a larger consumer market and thus increase sales even further. Send your food/cooking questions to dez@chefdez. com or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6R4 ◗ Chef Dez is a food columnist, culinary instructor and cooking show performer. Visit him at www.chefdez.com.
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