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Cpl. Cameron Hunt (left) and Cpl. T. Kim lift a portion of a medium girder bridge during Exercise Paladin Response 2013 last Friday. Master warrant officer S. Fisher stops the action (below) as the nose starts to slip off the landing pedestal. For more photos see www.chilliwacktimes.com.

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old rain came down in sheets last Friday as dozens of army combat engineers assembled a medium girder bridge across a gap at the OPSEE Training Area in the hillsides above Cultus Lake. The bridge was put together with much smaller pieces much like a giant Meccano set. While the finished product has to be strong enough to allow for a 70-tonne battle tank to cross, no one piece is too large for four soldiers to carry, according to Major Ryan Donahue. During one assembly, the tip of the

Bridge-building combat engineers hone their skills in annual exercise engineered bridge—the light nose—was pushed slowly onto a landing pedestal on the other side of the gap. Suddenly, the piece, which was attached to a heavy nose and the full bridge itself, started to slide sideways off the rollers. The light nose jumped launching water in the air and startling those watching, but the soldiers did not panic. Major warrant officer S. Fisher ordered stop, and the sappers jumped into action to remedy the situation,

which they did. It’s all a learning experience for the crews, according to Donahue. The bridge crossing was part of Exercise Paladin Response 2013, an annual tradition in the days between Christmas and New Year’s when as many as 200 army reserve combat engineers and support troops practise water and gap crossing tasks.

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Chilliwack’s flattened Paramount Theatre has made it on to the dubious list of worst losses of heritage buildings in 2013, according to the Heritage of Canada Foundation (HCF). The inclusion in the worst losses list isn’t surprising given that a year ago, the HCF had included the Paramount on its top 10 list of most endangered heritage sites in Canada.

July 2

Parents of struggling primary students are upset by the Chilliwack school district’s decision to close two of its four so-called Early Success classes. But superintendent Evelyn Novak said the school district would not be saving any money by closing the intervention support classes at Watson and Little Mountain elementary, adding that the district will take the two full-time equivalents of teaching time that went into the classes and spread it over five different schools next year.

July 4

If Spectra Energy can’t get onto land blocked by five Chilliwack farmers in the next couple weeks, the company’s natural gas pipeline replacement project will have to wait until 2014. The project to replace three kilometres of pipeline to meet safety standards—as ordered by the National Energy Board—was set to begin on June 1, but was delayed when corn farmer Gord Mitchell said he would not allow Spectra onto his property without a negotiated agreement.

July 4

If you hear a knock on your door over the next four weeks, it just might be one or two of the thousands of Jehova’s Witnesses in town. As many as 14,000 members of the church will be in Chilliwack to attend conferences that run over four weekends starting Friday.

July 9

The scene was chaos at Harrison Hot Springs Sunday afternoon as a 27-year-old New Westminster man— allegedly high on drugs—plowed his SUV into three pedestrians and one vehicle just metres from the Harrison Festival of the Arts beach stage. Three members of one Abbotsford family were struck, and rushed to hospital via ambulance where they were treated for non-life threatening

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Four Jehovah’s witnesses were baptized on July 13 at Prospera Centre during the second weekend of four in a row for the religion’s annual conference held this year in Chilliwack. injuries.

July 9 Many municipalities have long hoped changes coming to the medical marijuana program on April 1, 2014 would, among other things, take marijuana growing out of residential areas. The federal government recently announced the new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) and from what Coun. Chuck Stam, chair of the Public Safety Advisory Committee, has seen, it will address most of council’s concerns. Chilliwack has a large number of licensed marijuana users and growers, something that is a concern to local RCMP, fire officials and city hall.

July 11 Owners of an idle dairy farm offering storage space for RVs have been told they can no longer provide the service as the 22-acre property is in the Agricultural Land Reserve. After unintentionally falling into the storage business, Corine and Tom de Groot decided to apply for a permit with the City of Chilliwack to house RVs on their property, only to

be told their new business venture violated ALC rules and city bylaws for zoned agricultural land. Non-farming related equipment being stored on agricultural land is a common sight in the area, but Mayor Sharon Gaetz said the city does not have a lot of enforcement capability.

July 11 A Chilliwack gangster is facing possible gun and drug charges after two properties were raided last Tuesday. Members of BC’s anti-gang agency, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia, executed warrants in the 9700 block of Sidney Street and the 8500 block of Aitken Road. Officers seized a stolen sawed off shotgun, two over-capacity loaded magazines, two empty pistol magazines, a crossbow, large amount of ammunition, gun-cleaning kit, crystal methamphetamine, scales and money counters.

July 16 The mother of a four-year-old boy who was the target of an abduction is upset with how the case was handled and that no charges were laid.

Mounties say 41-year-old Jonathan Lee Landsman walked into a Williams Street apartment July 9 and grabbed the hand of a child and began to walk out of the building. The boy refused to go past the lobby, at which point Landsman left. Police originally said he would be charged with abduction but Crown counsel concluded there was insufficient evidence to go through with the criminal charge.

July 16 After their first 300-person petition was rejected, Sue and Gary Lister need to collect as many signatures by June 26 to have it considered in the current legislative session in Victoria. The Listers want to see the provincial government amend the Cultus Lake Park Act so that there are five park board commissioners all elected by residents of Cultus Lake Park—as opposed to the current two.

July 18 An unforeseen BC Hydro requirement has added $345,000 to the cost of the City of Chilliwack’s Tyson Road roundabout projects. That, along with the design-build

proponent running $55,000 over budget, means the entire project will be pushing $2 million, up from the budgeted $1,575,000.

July 18 A timely break in the hot, dry weather helped fire crews contain a 1.3-hectare wildfire near Cultus Lake this weekend. The blaze, which was discovered Monday near Lindell Beach, was 100 per cent contained by Wednesday morning and crews had begun breaking apart, digging up, wetting and burying smouldering debris. Officials believe the fire was sparked by human activity.

July 23 A high-risk sex offender has moved to the Chilliwack-Hope area, according to the Corrections Branch of the Ministry of Justice. Graham Lackey, 46, is a high-risk, repeat sex offender with a significant criminal history, including: indecent exposure, possession of child pornography, uttering threats, theft under $5,000 and breach of probation. See JULY, Page 4

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July 23 Local Columbia Valley mom Susi Vander Wyk is one of 20 semi-finalists for Walmart’s Canada-wide 2013 Mom of the Year Award. The mother of three was nominated by her niece and her story was picked from more than 24,000 others for a chance to vie for a spot in the next round. Victory would earn her $100,000 for the charity of her choice and another $10,000 to dispose of however she wants.

July 25 A record 150 people headed down to the water on Saturday

to take part in the 39th Chilliwack-Vedder River cleanup. This was the second cleanup of the year for the Chilliwack-Vedder River Cleanup Society.

July 25 The Forest Practices Board says the company logging in mountain goat and spotted-owl territory in the Chilliwack River Valley has followed the rules, but its communication with residents was lacking. The report was issued this month in response to complaints about Tamihi Logging’s work—permitted by the provincial government—within a spotted owl wildlife habitat area near Chilliwack Lake.

July The complaints were that the company continued to log after a rare owl had been spotted and that the company did not honour a promise to log only between May 1 and Oct. 31 to accommodate mountain goats in their winter range.

July 30 The Chilliwack RCMP have some of the lowest clearance rates in British Columbia, according to numbers released Thursday by Statistics Canada.

Chilliwack’s weighted clearance rate was 18.69 in 2012, down 17 per cent from the previous year. That ranked Chilliwack 159th out of 168 policing jurisdictions in British Columbia.

July 30 Chilliwack secondary school’s J.Y. Halcrow Gymnasium is no more. The old gym, once affectionately known as the old airplane hangar, was demolished Monday to be replaced by a suite of state-of-the-art athletic facilities at the new high school, scheduled to open this September.

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Aug. 1

A local hiker escaped a face-toface confrontation with a cougar on Teapot hill unharmed but shaken Wednesday. The incident caused conservation officers to evacuate the popular local hiking trail as they searched for the large cat.

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It might have been the driest July in recent memory, but last month’s string of sunny, hot weather didn’t set any monthly records in Chilliwack. You may have missed it, but Chilliwack did actually get some rain last month—two millimetres on an otherwise hot sunny July 17. It wasn’t much but it was still more than July of 1960, when Chilliwack recorded only trace amounts of precipitation.

Aug. 6

The federal government paid a lawyer more than $40,000 over nine years to prosecute a local First Nations woman for a Fisheries Act violation, the Times has learned. Hope lawyer Finn Jensen was hired by the Public Persecution Service of Canada to act as Crown counsel in the case of Patricia Kelly, a Sto:lo woman charged in 2004 with “purchasing, selling and possession of fish against the Fisheries Act.”

Aug. 6

Conservation officers shot an aggressive cougar near hiking trails and campsites in Cultus Lake Provincial Park Thursday after it threatened a second group of people. The cougar, which had boldly approached several hikers on Teapot Hill trail the day before, confronted a group of hikers on the nearby Seven Sisters trail Thursday afternoon. The cougar hissed at the hikers and tried to prevent them from leaving the area.

Aug. 8

After months of carefully tending her crops at the Sunshine Community Garden, Anna Maria Kiener will finally see her hard work pay off this weekend. On Sunday, vegetables planted by Kiener and other volunteers will be harvested and promptly donated to the Salvation Army Food Bank.

Aug. 8

A Cultus Lake woman charged in a 2010 hit-and-run was found guilty of two lesser offences by a Supreme Court Justice in late July. Virginia Bast was found guilty of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and operation of a motor vehicle while impaired but acquitted

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A bronc rider is launched off his mount during the bareback competition at the Chilliwack Rodeo held during the Chilliwack Fair on Aug. 11. of leaving the scene of an accident and causing bodily harm charges.

Aug. 13 Tempers among local First Nations fishers flared Friday when they were told there would be no sockeye opening on their stretch of the Fraser River over the weekend and only an abbreviated 12-hour opening for Chinook. First Nations fishers were angry at being denied a sockeye opening this weekend because openings for aboriginal fishers above and below their stretch of the river haven’t been shut down, and they say local sport fishers are going after sockeye illegally close to home.

Aug. 13 The Fraser Health Authority is urging residents of the eastern Fraser Valley to get vaccinated against measles after about 60 women and newborns were exposed to the highly contagious disease at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre. Relatively low immunization rates in some parts of Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack, Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs and Hope have led to several “clusters” of the virus in those communities in previous years.

Aug. 15 A man with a history of commit-

ting sexual crimes is accused of repeatedly breaching his long-term supervision order in Chilliwack earlier this year. James Leo Gracie, 53, is facing eight counts of breaching the order. The offences are alleged to have been committed in Chilliwack on March 1 and 29 and May 11 and 14, according to online court records. Gracie has a long criminal history dating back to 1992. He has previously been found guilty of abusing children of both sexes and adult women.

Aug. 15 A crash that involved a single car that left the eastbound side of Highway 1 and rolled near Annis Road, backed up traffic causing a second fatal crash just hours later on Tuesday. Mounties say a 72-year-old Pitt Meadows man was riding his 2006 Suzuki motorcycle in the left lane when he came upon the backed-up traffic and tumbled from his bike after attempting to brake. The man died at the scene.

Aug. 20 A fire broke out in a landfill on the Skway First Nations Reserve early in the morning, sending pungent smoke wafting through the air and challenging firefighters for several hours. At its largest, the fire covered 75 square metres of three-metre high trash.

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Aug. 20 This year’s Chilliwack Flight Fest ranked among the top two in terms of attendance, according to early estimates by organizer Ray Firkus. He put the number of attendees between 10,000 and 11,000—just a little behind the airshow’s banner year in 2002, when almost 13,000 people showed up to watch the RCAF Snowbirds 431 Air Demonstration Squadron make its first and only appearance at the Chilliwack show.

Aug. 22 On Tuesday evening, Pauline Jollymour, 90, pleaded with council for more time to clean up her property. Jollymour said she has tried to clean up her property for years, but all attempts were stymied by her son, whom she says has obsessive compulsive disorder. Mayor Sharon Gaetz referred to Jollymour’s residence, which is overgrown with grass and bushes and surrounded by piles of debris and garbage, as “filthy” and “disgusting.” Council voted unanimously to enforce the remedial action which was issued on July 16.

Aug. 22 Two men busted in 2010 at a Chilliwack opium field were sentenced to house arrest after a judge rejected Crown counsel’s valuation of the

poppy crop. The crop did not contain half a million poppy plants valued at several million dollars, Judge Roy Dickey ruled at a sentencing hearing Wednesday for Abbotsford’s Tehal Singh Bath and Missions’s Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal. Bath and Dhaliwal are believed to be the first people in Canada to be sentenced for producing opium for doda.

Aug. 27 Police say 18-year-old Adam Burchart fell out of the box of a pickup truck Sunday night as the vehicle travelled down Boundary Road in Chilliwack. Paramedics and fire crews attended the scene, but the Chilliwack teen died at the scene of the accident.

Aug. 27 Federal Liberal deputy leader Ralph Goodale visited Chilliwack Friday at the request of the local riding association and as part of an outreach process encouraged by party leader Justin Trudeau.

Aug. 29 One person is dead after a collision between a car and a train Monday evening. The incident took place around 10 p.m. at the Prest Road railroad crossing near Prest’s intersection with First Avenue.

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ooking back at the stories of 2013 in Chilliwack, there was loss and there was gain. The city lost the Paramount Theatre. We gained the Sardis Library and the Health Contact Centre. We lost our first NDP MLA, Gwen O’Mahony, and school trustee Louise Piper. We gained two new BC Liberal MLAs, John Martin and Laurie Throness, as well as new trustee Dan Coulter. Sadly, there was real loss, too, as the city lost Hal Singleton, Dorothy Kostrzewa and little Lilee-Jean Putt. On the bright side, the Christmas Parade is back. And we gained a Target and two more Tim Hortons. Beyond the many other important stories of 2013, though, this was the year of the environment. Four stories led the way: water chlorination, garbage incineration, hazardous waste and an oil pipeline. And, I would argue, Mayor Sharon Gaetz has to be the person of the year as far as these stories go. City hall, and specifically Gaetz, was outspoken on two of these subjects and silent on two others. In her role as Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) board chair, Gaetz spent much of the year fighting the ongoing battle for local air quality against Metro Vancouver’s plan to build a garbage incinerator. She’s had support from former mayor and MLA John Les and it’s hard not to be buoyed by

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Simply A Musing her gutsy opposition to Metro’s trash plan. Gaetz also led the way in raising an obligatory—and arguably theatrical—opposition to the chlorination of Chilliwack’s water supply mandated by Fraser Health. Public meetings were held. Voices were raised. Proverbial fists were pounded on tables. The city, however, never had any standing to oppose the edict for chlorination, long a mainstay of water supplies in communities both larger and smaller across Canada. Then there was/is the proposal by Kinder Morgan to run a 36-inch pipe across Chilliwack that will bring as many as 690,000 more barrels of diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands under farmers’ fields, Sardis backyards, elementary school properties, the Vedder River and possibly right through the Cheam Wetlands. The mayor’s response? Nothing so far. And while the city has no real say in this federal matter, which is now before the National Energy Board, jurisdictional impotence didn’t stop Gaetz from standing up

to chlorination. Then, at the end of the year, an Ontario company, Aevitas Inc., came to council for a rezoning application to build its first British Columbia hazardous waste facility where it will recycle PCB-laden transformer oil, mercury-filled light bulbs and infectious waste just metres away from the Fraser River on a property that needs to be pumped from flood waters. On this topic Gaetz responded first with legislative support (unanimously supported by city council), then indifference to the opposition, and later still with belligerence and deflection when pressed. So why the glaring difference in approaches from Chilliwack’s mayor to issues that will certainly affect our land, air and water in the coming years? A cynic might suggest we follow the money. Fraser Health’s chlorination mandate and Metro Vancouver’s garbage incineration add nothing to City of Chilliwack coffers. (In fact, the former adds to our tax bill.) Kinder Morgan and Aevitas, on the other hand, will add plenty. Literally millions of tax dollars will flow into city hall to help fix roads, maintain parks and add to the longterm infrastructure that improves life for all city residents. I suspect Gaetz has her finger on See SIMPLY A MUSING, Page 12

fter a season of over-indulging, many Canadians woke up Jan. 1 and said this will be the year they get hearthealthy. That wake-up call to become more active and eat better can’t come a moment too soon, according to the Canadian Medical Association. The CMA’s latest report on the nation’s heart health says we’re not doing very well—in fact, we’re almost on life support. Across the nation, fewer than 10 per cent of Canadian adults meet the criteria for “ideal” cardiovascular health, which means most still don’t get enough exercise (at least 30 minutes of walking per day), and most don’t eat properly (consuming five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day). People are getting heavier and we see this everywhere, and in our own waistlines, which seem to expand with each passing year. But adults aren’t alone in risky health behaviours. According to the study, only about 20 per cent of kids between 12 and 19 years are making lifestyle choices to keep them healthy—including being active for an hour or more a day. Where is all this heading? The bad news is unless people’s habits change, there will be higher incidences of diabetes, hypertension, cancer, heart attacks and stroke. If you think our hospitals are crowded now, imagine what the wards will be like a few years from now. The sad part is that many baby boomers are planning for long lives. Unless they make changes now, however, they will be sick or disabled for 10 of those years, according to a Heart and Stroke Foundation report released in 2013. Ironically, most boomers think they are healthy but in fact many are stressed, sedentary, eat poorly and drink too much alcohol. Could this be the year Canadians change those statistics and turn this unhealthy ship around? Pass the veggies while we think about it.

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Salmon fishers were back on the Fraser River this weekend. Cooler water, improved sockeye run-size forecasts and reports that sockeye had started to arrive at spawning grounds in “good shape,” promoted fisheries officials to lift a ban on Fraser salmon fishing imposed in mid-August to protect the vulnerable species.

Sept. 3

A new three-year, $167-million agreement with China Gas Holdings has Chilliwack-based manufacturer IMW scrambling to find enough local talent to fill new jobs. The long-term purchasing deal announced Thursday will see IMW supply up to 416 compressed natural gas (CNG) compressors to the Chinese natural gas giant for the construction of 310 CNG stations in China. While all the equipment will be assembled and tested at IMW’s facility in China, all key components will be manufactured in Chilliwack for intellectual property reasons. The company currently has 80 jobs listed, most related to the China deal.

Sept. 5

A teenage girl helped save her family from a fire that burned down a Vedder Crossing home late Monday night. The girl was putting her younger brother to bed on the second floor when she looked outside and saw flames eating away at the house’s outside deck. She helped get her two younger siblings out of the house and alerted her parents, who also made it out safely.

Sept. 5

Changes coming next year to the way paper material is recycled in British Columbia could mean consumers will pay higher prices for products while still paying fees for collection. The system being foisted onto municipalities under a strict deadline by the provincial government could also be a “step backward,” according to Chilliwack city staff, as the new system will require more

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Members of Ken Malloway’s Tzeachten First Nation fishing crew toss pink salmon onto a sandbar during a commercial seine fishery on Sept. 14. separation of recyclables than the current comingled collection.

brain cancer whose story captivated the local area and beyond.

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A Cheam First Nation fisherman is presumed dead after falling into the Fraser River from his boat early Friday morning near the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge. Two fishermen were thrown overboard after their 12-foot skiff became unstable and overturned on Monday morning before 6 a.m. They both attempted to swim to shore, but only one made it.

Questions have been raised about the credentials of the man most recently in control of the Cultus Lake Park Board’s finances. Siamak Saidi, who faces a civil suit and a number of criminal charges connected to the alleged misappropriation of more than $800,000 from Simon Fraser University, has been using the designation ‘Chartered Accountant’, which he is not permitted to use, according to the Certified Management Accountants of B.C.

Sept. 10 Little Lilee-Jean Frances Putt passed away on Friday as her mother held her in her arms while her father played guitar. Vigils were held in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Harrison Hot Springs Saturday night for the little girl with

Sept. 12 A pack of pit bulls attacked four teenage boys in Popkum on Sept. 4, leaving one 14-year-old with a puncture would and shredded shorts. This is not the first incident involv-

ing the dogs, as they also attacked Area D director Bill Dickey earlier this year. But police say as there is no animal control bylaw in the Popkum-Fraser Valley Regional District Area D, there is not much that can be done legally to stop the vicious animals from terrorizing the neighbourhood.

Sept. 17 The resignation of a trustee will cost the Chilliwack school board significant unbudgeted funds this year. Second-term trustee Louise Piper has resigned and a byelection to find a new board member will likely be set for Nov. 30. At the present time, the school district does not yet know how much the byelection will cost.

Sept. 17 A Chilliwack teacher already facing

child porn charges was back in court Monday to face new accusations. John Patrick Davy is alleged to have viewed child pornography in September, two months after he was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. Davy, 43, was charged with breaching the conditions of his bail by possessing an Internet account and accessing the Internet.

Sept. 19 B.C.’s education minister has told the Chilliwack school board he can’t set aside legislation requiring it to replace one of its trustees, and the board now faces a November byelection and $50,000 in unbudgeted costs. Louise Piper, who stopped attending meetings in January due to

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Riders take a jump at the Future West Productions BC Motorcross Fall Classic at Heritage Park on Sept. 14.

Jonathan Zandberg shows the wound left by a pit bull last week while he ws with friends (left to right) Chris Rosenow, Elijah Henshall and Ben Rosenow.

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UFV Cascades striker Carly Neeson pursues the ball during an exhibition game on Sept. 3.

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SEPTEMBER, from page 9 undisclosed medical reasons, surprised the board with her resignation on Aug. 23.

Sept. 19

Due to a story in the Times, local police have been made aware of a possible solution to a pack of pit bulls that run loose on a 20-acre property in electoral area A. Previously, police had said due to a lack of animal control bylaws in rural areas,

there was little they could do unless the dogs were caught in mid-attack. They have now been made aware of special powers in relation to dangerous dogs, detailed in Section 49 of the Community Charter, which allows a Mountie to substitute for an animal control officer.

Sept. 24 A 59-year-old pedestrian was killed near Five Corners in Chilliwack early Sunday morning.

Police say the Vancouver man stumbled into the southbound lane where he was hit by a vehicle at the 45800 block of Yale Road jus before 1 a.m. The driver stayed at the scene and charges against the driver are not being considered.

weekend in connection with the death of a 14-month-old Chilliwack girl Friday night has been released without charges. On Friday, RCMP attended a Promotory-area home, where they found an infant who appeared to be in distress. She was taken to the hospital but attempts to revive her were unsuccessful.

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Sept. 26 A man is grateful after a group of local fishermen helped save his daughter from the dangerous rapids of the Vedder River last Sunday. The man’s 14-year-old daughter was swept off her feet by the river’s strong undercurrent, which also overpowered the man when he went into the river to save her. Both were rescued by local

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Staff recommended— supported by Mayor Sharon Gaetz—that the crosswalks on Vedder at Storey Avenue and Wells Road be upgraded due to safety issues and “frequent resident complaint.” Expressing concern over traffic disruption, Coun. Jason Lum made a motion to defer the matter to be looked at closer by the Transportation Advisory Committee so that a traffic study could be completed.

October Oct. 1

Police have confirmed they have one man in custody and are now looking for second person of interest after a double stabbing at the District Public House in downtown Chilliwack Sunday. The fight, which took place in the upstairs lounge of the pub, left one man in serious condition and another in stable condition at Chilliwack General Hospital. By the time staff went upstairs, the fight had broken up and two men in their mid-30s were heading downstairs with stab wounds.

Oct. 17 The wedding of Bill and Amanda Young on Sunday was a bittersweet affair, as the occasion was also the last event to take place at Minter Gardens before it closed Monday. Bill’s grandfather, Jim, helped build many of the buildings in the show garden.

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A new curling rink, more artificial turf, a renovated Landing Sports Centre and the elimination of the Rotary Pool might all be on the 10-year horizon in Chilliwack. These are just a few of the short-, medium- and long-term suggestions in the city’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Department’s strategic master plan. The city is still after public input in preparing the final master plan.

Oct. 3

Adam Teskey and Jake Barstad weren’t looking for trouble when they walked into the District Public House in downtown Chilliwack Sunday night. Teskey and Barstad were stabbed after two other men followed them into the upstairs lounge of the pub and harassed them into playing a game of pool for money. Uninterested, Teskey and Barstad declined. When the two men continued to return, Barstad finally challenged them to put their money on the table, and that’s when the pair were attacked and stabbed. Unlike media reports that say the attack was over a game of pool, Teskey believes the attack was motivated by money.

Oct. 3

Seven injured military veterans got on board two Great River Fishing Adventure boats for two days of sturgeon fishing in the Fraser River recently as part of a national program. The Soldier On program uses sport and recreation to empower retired and serving members of the Canadian Forces who have injuries. A majority of participants also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Despite a record rainfall, the Unbridled Mud Trials saw hundreds of people slip and climb through its obstacle course at Island 22 Equestrian Park on Sept. 28. All the money made from the Mud Trials will be put towards trail maintenance and upgrading for the park.

Oct. 8 A car explosion that rocked the Riverside Drive area of Chilliwack Saturday evening was not the result of a criminal act, according to RCMP. Police evacuated residences and called in police dogs and a bomb disposal unit after an explosion at a residence in the 46000 block of Riverside Drive rattled windows and set off car alarms Saturday. Subsequent investigation determined that the explosion was not caused by a criminal act, but a motor vehicle defect.

Oct. 8 Jason Epp, a former Grade 2 teacher at Sardis elementary, who previously faced charges of sexual assault and sexual interference, has admitted professional misconduct with the Teacher Regulation Branch. The Consent Resolution Agreement, a voluntary agreement signed by Epp, covers incidents that involved him touching students at Sardis elementary between 2002 and 2009. Epp has agreed all incidents constitute professional misconduct and he has agreed to the cancellation of his teaching license. Charges of sexual assault and sexual interference against Epp were dropped in August 2011 after Crown

counsel decided it was unlikely he would have been convicted if his case went to trial.

ponds, removal of mature trees and impact on Luckakuck Creek.

Oct. 10

A Chilliwack court acquitted Steven Frederickson on Friday of the second-degree murder of Robert-Jan Planje, but found him guilty of the lesser-included offence of manslaughter. Crown counsel will now seek dangerous or long-term offender status for the 47-year-old Frederickson.

Oct. 15

The future of the Chilliwack Airport looks bright as management has shifted to the hands of local businessman and pilot Byran Kirkness. Kirkness purchased Magnum Management, the company that holds a 50-year lease to run the airport for the City of Chilliwack, which owns the property and the terminal. He said some potential at the airport includes further hangar development and attracting more aerospace business.

Oct. 10 The Dogwood Drive project was first proposed by local developer Larry Les, but it came up against fierce opposition at a public hearing on July 17. Due to concerns about traffic and environmental impact on Luckakuck Creek, Les withdrew his application to rezone the property for townhouses and submitted a new one to create 31 single-family lots. The new project, however, is still being met with environmental concern by residents and the Water Wealth Project over animal habitat,

Oct. 15 The man accused of stabbing two local men at a downtown Chilliwack pub on Sept. 29 turned himself in to police on Thursday. Dustin Russell, 20, of Chilliwack, faces three counts in connection with the incident that saw Adam Teskey and Jake Barstad stabbed in a supposed fight over a game of pool at the District Public House. Russell is charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

Oct. 17 Chilliwack city council chose to defer a decision to install full-stop pedestrian signals at two contentious and dangerous crosswalks on Vedder Road on Tuesday.

Dairy farmers and local cheese makers are worried about a glut of foreign products now that Canada has signed a new agreement with the European Union (EU). But Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Mark Strahl hailed the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement with the EU as a boon to Canada’s exporters and a benefit to consumers. He emphasized that supply management for dairy has been maintained and the deal will in fact help local cheese makers who will get access to 500 million more customers.

Oct. 22 About 350 search and rescue personnel, representing every province and territory in Canada, were on hand at the RCMP’s Pacific Training Centre for SARScene this weekend. The annual national search and rescue conference featured live demonstrations, including a longline helicopter rescue simulation by Chilliwack SAR, and a demonstration of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Oct. 24 Rural areas outside of Chilliwack city limits are one step closer to having a bylaw in place by January to deal with aggressive and dangerous dogs. A Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) service area bylaw approved by the board of directors will only apply to Areas D (Popkum and Bridal Falls) and E (Columbia Valley, Chilliwack River Valley/Lindell Beach). The bylaw goes to the province for approval next, after which it will come back to the FVRD.

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Oct. 24 The challenges of parents and families of special needs kids has come to the forefront, after a local dentist refused to treat Paulette Weismiller and Bernard Filiatrault’s 12-yearold autistic daughter Sophia. After being treated badly and being asked to leave following a second visit to a local dentist, Paulette and Bernard wondered how many more times their daughter would be rejected by service providers. After some research, Paulette and Bernard filed a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal, but all they want is an apology.

October Oct. 29 Twenty seagulls first thought to have died after eating garbage exposed during construction work at Bailey Landfill were actually killed by canines. Mayor Sharon Gaetz said preliminary autopsy results from the Ministry of Agriculture say the seagulls died from dog, fox or coyote bites.

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Oct. 31 The Chilliwack school board will not change the drug and alcohol policy that saw 12 Sardis secondary soccer players suspended for smoking pot at an overnight tournament in September.

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YEARINREVIEW November Nov. 5 Chilliwack real estate investors Mark and Tony Gore were featured on the TLC network show, Hoarding: Buried Alive, after purchasing a home that was in foreclosure in Washington State. After taking a look at their Spanaway property up close, they found garbage, food, boxes, bags and clothing all over the place, and the home’s former owner, Michelle, still living inside.

Nov. 5 School District No. 33 will get $1.2 million in Learning Improvement Fund money from the province in 2013-14 and most of it will go towards extra education assistants (EAs). But the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association isn’t pleased with that plan and says there’s a vastly disproportionate amount of funding going towards EAs compared to teaching staff.

Nov. 7 A year after giving it a tentative go-ahead, city council approved the development permit for a large housing project on some of the steepest slopes on Chilliwack Mountain. Most of the 298-home development on four Lickman Road properties, totalling 56 hectares, will be built on slopes with a high geotechnical hazard, according to city mapping.

Nov. 7 A group of local military collectors have a 29.6-tonne surprise in store for Remembrance Day in Chilliwack this year. Come Monday morning, they will park North America’s only running Achilles tank at the All Sappers’ Memorial Park in time for the day’s ceremony.

Nov. 12 Members of the CFB Chilliwack Historical Society were left reeling last week after a set of valuable Winston Churchill commemorative medals were stolen form under the noses of volunteers at Hocking Avenue Museum.

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Walter Georgeson, Second World War veteran, sits with wife Lyla Georgeson in their Chilliwack home on Nov. 1. The stolen item was a 1974 book of 24 gold-plated Churchill Centenary medals.

Nov. 12 A fire destroyed three homes in Hemlock Valley last Wednesday. The Hemlock Valley Volunteer Fire Department arrived to the scene of a fire on Snow Flake Crescent to find a residence fully engulfed in flames. An hour later, two duplexes and one single-family dwelling were fully involved, despite help from the North Fraser Volunteer Fire Department and the Agassiz Fire Department. It took firefighters two hours to get the fire under control.

ippines Nov. 8. Monique Baker, 36, originally from Tacloban, has learned eight family members are dead and many more are missing after the storm flattened her hometown.

Nov. 14 The public will have a chance to comment Tuesday on a 50-acre mixed housing development proposed for a piece of untouched federal land along the Vedder River. Between 350 and 500 units are proposed for the development called River’s Edge, so named after a contest run by the Times and the property owner, Canada Lands Company.

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A Chilliwack woman is asking for donations to help financially assist her family who are struggling after a typhoon struck Tacloban in the Phil-

About 70 people rallied against oil development and pipelines in front of Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Mark Strahl’s office Saturday.

The local rally was one of more than 130 events held across Canada in protest against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Proposal and Kinder Morgan’s proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs through Chilliwack.

Nov. 19 A dense cloud of black smoke caused a 17-car pile-up in the westbound lane of Highway 1 near Chilliwack Friday morning. The crash closed the highway in both directions and sent 14 people to hospital, six with serious injuries.

Nov. 21 A Chilliwack RCMP officer faces numerous charges after he allegedly discharged a firearm in or near his downtown residence while off-duty. Const. Darren Mulrooney faces two counts of assault, one count of

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Nov. 21 Five people face serious charges after a man kidnapped on the Skwah reserve escaped and ran to the band office to make a 9-1-1 call last week. The Chilliwack RMCP Serious Crimes Unit responded to the man’s call on Nov. 13 and arrested two men and a woman that day after executing a search warrant on the Landing Drive house where the man had been confined.

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Chilliwack’s Ali Renwick (right) and Casey Freeman of the Team Hawes rink sweep hard during the team’s 8-4 win in the third draw against Team Brown during Friday action in the 2014 BC Junior Curling Championship held at the Chilliwack Curling Club.

Modest win streak rekindles hopes for a playoff berth BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

ith any luck, the Chilliwack Chiefs’ last two games of 2013 will serve as a harbinger of what’s ahead in 2014. The local boys won back-toback games on the weekend against the Surrey Eagles. The first was a 5-3 victory Saturday night at the South Surrey Arena, and the second was 5-2 Sunday at Prospera Centre. The Chiefs had success on the scoreboard but also with Spencer Tremblay who allowed just five goals on 70 shots in the two contests. Surrey outshot the Chiefs 31-26 on Saturday and 39-30 on Sunday. Five different goal scorers lit the red light Saturday: Jaret Babych, Kurt Black, Blake Gober, Austin Plevy and Tanner Cochrane. Black and Plevy each also had an assist that night. The team was outshot 10-5 in the first period and went into the dressing room down

1-0. Whatever was said worked as they came out hard, scoring two goals in the first four minutes to take a lead they would never relinquish. Sunday night the scoring was led by Ben Butcher who scored two minutes apart in the first period at Prospera. Surrey got one in between Butcher’s, but Mathieu Tibbet made it 3-1 at 10:17 of the first. Surrey made it 3-2 at 4:08 of the second and then Tanner Cohrane scored from Tibbet 29 seconds later to regain the twogoal cushion. Cooper Rush would score the Chiefs’ fifth goal, assisted by the Plevy brothers, Austin and Mitchell. There was no scoring in the third period. The two wins put the Chiefs’ record at 10-26-1-2, meaning the playoffs are a long shot but possible. ◗ The next game is against the 22-12-1-4 Langley Rivermen at Prospera Centre on Jan. 3 at 7 p.m. The Chiefs host the 21-112-2 Prince George Spruce Kings Jan. 5 at 5 p.m.

Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review November 29, 2013 to January 24, 2014

The Province is conducting a province-wide consultation and engagement to seek input about safety and speed limits on B.C.’s rural highways as part of the Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review from November 29, 2013 to January 24, 2014. How Input Will Be Used Public input, along with information gained through the technical review of provincial highways, will be used to identify and prioritize proposed highway and safety improvements. Public Open House Schedule Please attend one of the open houses listed below to learn more and provide your feedback. Alternatively, you can provide your feedback online by visiting the Rural Highway Safety and Speed Review web site: gov.bc.ca/safetyandspeedreview Community

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December Dec. 3 Dan Coulter is Chilliwack’s newest school trustee. In a by-election that saw only 1,453 of the city’s almost 68,000 eligible voters cast ballots, Coulter won the six-candidate race Saturday with only 520 votes.

Dec. 3 Chilliwack RCMP is looking for a man who asks elderly women for help and then steals their purses and wallets. There have been four similar incidents in the last two weeks, two on Nov. 16 and two on Nov. 24.

Dec. 5 A hazardous-waste recycling plant on the shores of the Fraser River opposed by environmentalists, wildlife groups and First Nations was unanimously approved by Chilliwack city council Tuesday evening. The move will permit Ontario-based Aevitas to construct a plant that will recycle 5,000 litres of transformer oil containing PCBs and 500,000 lamps containing mercury each month.

Dec. 5 Filed away in dozens of boxes in Rick and Brenda Davis’s soon-to-be empty studio are thousands of memories. The couple, owners of Norman’s Photographic, will be donating 400,000 negatives and prints, as well as cameras and props used in the business from 1948 to 2006 to the Chilliwack Museum and Archives.

Dec. 10 A Chilliwack man arrested during a drug raid at the Trader’s Inn downtown in October was sentenced to one year in jail last month for drug trafficking. Jeremy Ray Commodore, 32, pleaded guilty in Chilliwack Provincial Court Nov. 15 to two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Dec. 10 After a wave of social media frustration over council’s approval of a

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Professional wrestler Short Sleeve Sampson (Dan DiLucchio) puts opponent Christopher Ryseck (The Ideal Reflection) to the mat during All Star Wrestling action at Vedder middle school on Nov. 30. hazardous-waste recycling facility, Mayor Sharon Gaetz has deflected concern to Cheam First Nation’s “toxic landfill.” Public outrage was expressed after council voted unanimously to rezone a property near the Fraser River for a plant that will recycle 5,000 litres of PCBs and 500,000 lamps containing mercury monthly.

Dec. 12 Dan Coulter, who won the school board byelection on Nov. 30 with 520 votes, was prematurely sworn in on Dec. 3. A review of the Local Government Act found that Coulter could not legally be sworn in until after the period for a judicial recount had passed, which is nine days after election results are officially declared. He will be sworn in a second time Friday.

Dec. 12 Chilliwack RCMP is looking for help identifying a man who sexually assaulted a woman while she was looking for her lost dog on Fairfield Island over a year ago. Police released a sketch of the suspect Friday—more than a year after the incident—because of new information received by police that changed the nature of the case and direction of the investigation.

Dec. 17 Kent elementary has started a fundraiser for two of its students after a fire burned down their family home in Agassiz Monday. The blaze started when a small heater inside the residence caught fire.

Dec. 17 CRED BC, a group of more than 90 businesses and professionals,

released a report that concludes oil spills have direct and lasting impacts on property values. The report looked at eight oil pipeline spills over the last 20 years, and concluded that Kinder Morgan’s proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline could put home values at risk if a spill were to occur.

Dec. 19 A request from the Chilliwack Metis Association to perform ceremonial smudging and an aboriginal pipe ceremony in a school building has raised concerns on a Chilliwack school board committee. Smudging is a traditional aboriginal practice that involves burning sweetgrass, sage or cedar for purification and to help create a positive mindset.

Dec. 19 Representatives from 11 environ-

mental, First Nations and sports fishery organizations gathered on the exposed sandbars of the Fraser River Tuesday to express continued opposition to a proposed hazardous waste recycling facility on the Cattermole Lands. The groups collectively demanded relocation of the proposed facility to a site that does not pose a risk to fish stocks.

Dec. 24

Police are advising residents not to touch found explosives and to contact police instead, after a Chilliwack resident brought an improvised explosive device to a police station last week. On Dec. 13, the resident found a small, homemade explosive device at the intersection of Yale and First

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Brenda and Rick Davis among some of the camera equipment and studio props they donated to the Chilliwack Museum and Archives.

Sardis secondary’s Eric Rogers and Hayden Lejeune battle with an MEI opponent for a loose ball during senior boys basketball action.

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Staff and students cheer as Santa makes a drive-by appearance on an ATV at Promotory elementary school Dec. 13.

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Dec. 24 Jeff and Tracy Dyck, who have a son and two daughters, are winners of the 10th Annual Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway after nine letters of support were sent on their behalf from friends and family.

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Dec. 26 Third-generation dairy farmers Jacqueline and Richard Boer, of Elmido Farms, are finalists for the 2014 BC & Yukon Outstanding Young Farmer Award, making them the second Chilliwack-area farmers to be shortlisted in the last two years, after Peter and Nicole Tuytel won the award in 2012.

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Benefiting The Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve

Saturday February 8, 2014 7:00 pm The Rotary Theatre at The Chilliwack Cultural Centre

Tickets will be available at the Theatre box office and online at www.chilliwackculturalcentre.ca General Admission $28 ● Students $20 Dave Nachmanoff is a guitar player and vocalist extraordinaire making his home in Davis California. He continues to accompany Al Stewart of “Year of the Cat” fame in concert and in studio on a regular basis. Dave has recently returned from a European tour playing popular venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall. Please visit davenach.com to learn more

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Combat engineers carry a portion of the heavy nose used to bring a medium girder bridge across a gap during Exercise Paladin Response 2013 at the OPSEE Training Area near Cultus Lake last Friday.

Defence against natural disaster As well as the work at the OPSEE Training Area, soldiers used assault boats and assembled Acrow (“Bailey” style) medium girder bridges and used medium floating bridge equipment on Cultus Lake. Many of those involved in the exercise are

veterans of international operations in Afghanistan, the Balkans, and elsewhere; as well as domestic operations, including the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and the 2003 British Columbia forest fires. The work done is to practise for combat engineer response in the event of a natural disaster.

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Christmas Tree Composting

Christmas trees can be placed at the curb for composting between January 2 - 11, on your regular curbside collection day. Please ensure your tree is free of ornaments, flocking, and tinsel. Thank you to BioCentral, the operators of the Parr Road Green Depot, for providing this service to our community.

Phone Book Recycling Please recycle your old phone books with your curbside recycling.

Property Assessment Notices

Please watch for your 2014 Property Assessment Notice to arrive by mail in early January. To appeal your property assessment, you must notify the BC Assessment Authority by January 31, 2014. For more information, visit BC Assessment at bcassessment.bc.ca or phone 1.800.393.1332.

Utilities & Property Taxes

PLEASE NOTE – Any unpaid utility balances from 2013 will be transferred to property tax accounts on January 1, 2014.

Winter Fire Safety Tips

During the winter months, the Chilliwack Fire Department would like to remind residents of the following fire safety tips: •

Maintain a 1 meter (3’) clearance between portable unit heaters and all combustibles.

Dog License Renewal Reminder

A license is a lost dog’s ticket home!

Residents will soon be receiving dog license renewal notices from the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD), who administer the program within the City of Chilliwack. The deadline to renew dog licenses is January 17, 2014. Licenses can be renewed online or at the Fraser Valley Regional District office which is located at 45950 Cheam Avenue, Chilliwack, BC V2R 2Z1. The District’s office will be open late during the week of January 13, 2014. For questions about dog licenses, please call 604.702.5000. For questions or concerns about animal control services, please call at 604.795-4628 or visit www.fvrd.bc.ca.

Snow Removal in Chilliwack

During a snowfall event, we request that residents assist City crews’ efforts by removing vehicles from the street and keeping drains clear. The City does not remove snow and ice to bare pavement conditions, therefore the travelling public is requested to use caution and ensure you have proper tires for the weather. Clearing snow from the sidewalk outside your property is your responsibility. Please help keep pedestrians safe by clearing snow as soon as possible after a snowfall. For more information, including a map of priority roads, please visit the City’s website at chilliwack.com/snow or call 604.793.2810.

Snow Angel Program

Can you volunteer or do you need a Snow Angel? For more information, please contact the Seniors’ Resources Society office at 604.793.9979 (Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm) or email lhayden@shawbiz.ca.

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Do not thaw frozen pipes with torches or open flames - call a professional.

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Ensure all stove elements are “turned off” before leaving your home.

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Install, test and maintain your smoke alarms.

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Develop and practice your home fire escape plan.

During the fall and winter seasons, we request residents assist City crew’s efforts by clearing street drains in front of their homes of leaves and debris during the autumn and snow and ice during winter storms. Cars parked over catch basins prevent street sweepers and snow plows from clearing roads to the curb.

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Help us keep our roads safe:

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Provide smokers with adequate cigarette disposal facilities, especially on exterior balconies or decks. Do not dump ashes in waste containers.

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Look at the curb in front of your home today to see if there is a catch basin close by.

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If possible, avoid parking over street drains to allow street sweepers and snow plows to clear to the curb during fall and winter.

Please call us at 604.792.8713, for additional information or if you have any questions.

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Adopt a Catch Basin

Thank you for your assistance in keeping our streets safe. If you suspect a blocked catch basin, please notify Public Works at 604.793.2811.