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2016 property assessments have risen modestly for many, while for some, they’ve gone . . .

You could say it was hot and dry

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they haven’t already, owners of single family homes in Chilliwack will get a bit of a surprise this week as 2016 assessed values are up between five and 15 per cent over 2015.

Owners of townhouses and condominiums, however, will see small increases in the zero to five per cent range.

The average residential increase across all properties in Chilliwack is 5.35 per cent, and the average increase in business assessments in Chilliwack is 6.5 per cent.

But even those increases at the upper end locally are lower than jumps as high as 25 per cent in some Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods, even as close as Surrey, and other areas in the Fraser Valley region such as South Delta and parts of Richmond.

Some examples in Chilliwack: a single family home on Portage Avenue downtown increased 8.9 per cent to $368,000 this year; a duplex on Cheamview Crescent in Garrison Crossing increased 11.4 per cent to $322,000; and a home on one acre in Rosedale increased five per cent to $341,300.

“The majority of residential homeowners within the region can expect a modest increase compared to last year’s assessment,” said BC Assessment deputy assessor Brian Smith.

None of this will come as a surprise to those in real estate as demand for housing locally went through the roof in 2015 with near record sales month after month, according to the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB).

Last month there were 229 sales worth $82.2 million in the district up from 163 sales worth $55.2 million in December 2014.

And it’s the demand for, and subsequent short supply of, single family homes that is driving the numbers up. The highest number of sales last month were in the $400,000 to $500,000 range.

“We have seen a substantial increase in the sale of single family homes, spurred by a number of factors,” CADREB resident Travis Heppner said.

“Buyers are still on the migration from points further west, and with the latest assessments in metropolitan areas driving taxes up, homeowners will look to the Fraser Valley even more so for housing affordability.”

City hall, however, reminds property owners that an increased property value does not necessarily mean increased property taxes as is often assumed. The effect of increases and decreases in assessments are factored out when

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wo words best describe the weather in 2015 in Chilliwack: Hot and dry.

With mean temperatures 2.64 C above normal, it was the second consecutive year with record-breaking high mean temperatures, continuing the warming trend that started in 1986, according to Roger Pannett, volunteer weather observer for Environment Canada.

After the record-breaking summers of 2013 (2.33 C above normal) and 2014 (2.64 C above normal), the summer of 2015 was the hottest on record at 3.81 C above normal.

EB IRST T h e r e w e r e First reported on a t o t a l o f 6 7 chilliwacktimes.com record-breaking high temperatures observed in 2015 in Chilliwack and no low temperature records.

Hot, yes, but dry too.

With April and May’s combined rainfall 58 per cent below normal it was the driest since 1912. This was followed by the driest June in over 136 years with rainfall 89 per cent below normal, Pannett said.

The lack of rain in May had farmers desperate for rain in June. And in July, Chilliwack city hall increased water restrictions a week after the provincial government announced the drought rating for the area was at level four, the highest possible.

While rainfall was actually above normal in July and August (March, too), total precipitation for the year was 1,402.6 millimetres (mm), 25 per cent below the 30-year average of 1,880.1 mm.

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o say one theme defines any broad overview of 2015 and a look forward into 2016 in Chilliwack may be simplistic.

Yet I am struck by a thread that runs through so many stories we covered this past year, and it’s one that I foresee being all the more important in the months and years that come.

That theme is “location.” So many stories are about place; about the “where” of the five Ws. Where does business go Concern about the location of a proposed hazardous waste recycling facility in the first half of the year was quelled when the applicant pulled the plug.

Then there was controversy about a proposed slaughterhouse near an apartment building and Airport Road businesses, a project pulled by the proponent but that will likely come back again in 2016.

And then there was a positive response to a new blueberry processing plant to be up and ready for the 2016 blueberry season.

Where the water runs Situated as the city is on a floodplain, issues of flood protection and diking are inevitable and come up every year. But the opposition to the Young Road dike project, which was completed in 2015, and the controversy about the Town Dyke project (Nov. 26), which is coming in 2016, is really about location. The route of this substantial measure of flood protection excludes Island 22, large tracts of city-owned land, homes on the west side of Young Road and, if completed as mapped out currently, would leave most of three Sto:lo reserves on the Fraser River side of the dike. And if one of those First Nations bands doesn’t give approval to raise the dike running through its reserve, the emergency plan could exclude hundreds of homes west of Ashwell Road and north of Wolfe Road.

Just where this dike goes will be an important story in 2016.

Where we grow Farming is integral to Chilliwack and the entire Fraser Valley, and in a growing community hemmed in on all sides by mountains, water or the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), clashes about the latter are always inevitable and are only likely to grow.

Local politicians said “not there,” but a big story (Sept. 3) last year was the provincial government forcing the city to amend bylaws to regulate, but not prohibit, medical marijuana growing in the ALR. And just where owners of agricultur-

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As many as 10 Syrian families could be al properties situate their residential coming to Chilliwack in 2016. This is truly a structures and driveways and yards—the story about place. so-called “farm home plate” was the subject (Oct. 15) of another story as 178 propIs crime here to stay? erties in the ALR in Chilliwack were found The problem of prolific offenders continto exceed provincial standards. ues to plague the city and it doesn’t seem Where should weddings be allowed? to be getting better. Property crime was up Concern began in 2015 and continues into as much as 10 per cent in 2015 over 2014, 2016 among agri-tourism destinations according to the RCMP. about a crackdown (Dec. 3) on weddings in And while the overall crime rate is down the ALR. over the previous decade, Statistics CanAnd the owner of Vedder View Gardens ada said there was a slight increase in the Cemetery had his plan to expand buried by latest data from 2014 over the prior four the Agricultural Land Commission. years. And at 11,122 incidents per 100,000 population, it’s still one of the highest in the A place for military history Fraser Valley.

Situated for eight years in an apt locaSomething needs to be done or I think we tion on the old CFB Chilliwack grounds, may see vigilante justice in 2016 as threats the Canadian Military Education Centre (CMEC) Museum was booted out (Sept. 10) of this kind are on the rise on social media.

How is this a story of place? Where does by its tenant, City of Chilliwack’s economic that crime occur? Well certainly all over, development arm, Chilliwack Economics but it can’t be denied that downtown has Partners Corporation (CEPCO), to make its disproportionate share of troubles. City way for the Canada Border Services Agenplanners, politicians, business owners, artcy. ists and others are all working on improving The hundreds of pieces of Canadian the downtown, the heart of the city. military uniforms, weapons, artifacts and vehicles were sent far and wide to other Where it all happens locations, possibly never to be brought But the best story of place from 2015 and, together again.

But one woman, Carol Law, is spearhead- I predict, one that will continue into 2016 is how much so many of us love Chilliwack. ing a project that will continue into 2016 The paper’s I Love Chilliwack contest in to find a one-stop location in the area to the summer made it clear just how much house Chilliwack’s military history. locals love this town, this city, this valley, this place.

Where is the middle of nowhere?

There is a conscious move afoot to push Three unrelated stories had us wondering if some folks west of here think the Chil- Chilliwack as a tourism destination. More and more work is being done by hikers and liwack River Valley is the proverbial middle bikers on the trails. Sports fishery groups of nowhere. and outdoor lovers are cleaning and pushA drug treatment facility for prolific ing conservation. And Tourism Chilliwack offenders in the valley (Aug. 13) called is doing a great job of pushing the city and VisionQuest at The Creek sees one client environs as a place to get away too. Tourism a week with an unknown criminal record Chilliwack launched the #sharechilliwack walk away to be tracked down and scooped video in November spawning 15,000 views up by police and returned to the insecure and 40,000 impressions on Facebook in 24 facility. hours.

BC Conservation Officer Steve Jacobi That push by local outdoor adventure took the Times on a ridealong (Aug. 13) in companies and city hall to get Chilliwack the valley to see the abuse of our natural resources by those who clearly think no one noticed by visitors in the Greater Vancouver area, coupled with rising house prices in cares what happens there. the city, and a trend across demographics And related to that was the 70 bags of to get closer to where food comes from, asbestos found unloaded from a dump could spur even more positive business and truck (Dec. 23, online only) in the valley. residential growth in the city.

For some this is the middle of nowhere.

It’s all about this place, right here in 2016.

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He may be a big baby . . .

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e’s a big boy, Jude Francis Stanley Carr, and he came exactly when his parents knew he would.

That’s because mom Anna Carr scheduled a Caesarian section for the second day of 2016.

Since it was Jan. 2, Anna and dad Dain were surprised to learn that their nine-pound, seven-ounce boy born at Chilliwack General Hospital at 10:11 that day was the New Year’s Baby in Chilliwack.

Two days after the birth, all three were back at their downtown Chilliwack home, resting and receiving

. . . but Jude Francis Stanley Carr has the honour of being 2016’s first

help from Jude’s grandparents.

So why Jude?

“It’s from the Beatles song,” Dain said.

“We had a hard time with a boy name,” Anna added, “And I just started singing ‘Hey Jude,” and said, ‘Why not Jude?’”

As for the Francis and Stanley middle names, the former is Anna’s grandfather’s name and Stanley is the name of both of Dain’s grandfathers.

Anna, who moved to Canada

from England with her family when she was 12, is a children’s pastor at Chilliwack Alliance Church. And Dain, who is originally from Langley, works at Pacific Dairy Centre in Abbotsford.

Little Jude joins the family alongside his two-year-old brother. And while he was the first baby born in Chilliwack, the first baby born in B.C. in 2016 was Grayson Heinrich Jackson born at 12:15 a.m. on Jan. 1 to mom Naomi Vosshans and dad Ryan Jackson at Surrey Memorial.

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Proud parents Anne and Dain Carr with this year’s New Year’s Baby, Jude.

If you plan to hold a Public Function in the City of Chilliwack, you will require the approval of the City of Chilliwack’s Committee to Approve Public Events (CAPE). CAPE is now inviting applications for Public Special Occasion Licences (Public Events Involving Alcohol) for events which will occur in 2016. Applications can be obtained from the Corporate Services Department of the City of Chilliwack or on line at www.chilliwack.com/services/specialoccasionlicences. (a)

Public Functions are events that are open to the public where alcohol is being served and have been publicly advertised in any type of media. Such events include tournaments, special events and festivals. Public event functions must be approved through the Committee to Approve Public Events (CAPE) process and successful applicants will receive a Special Occasion – Public Event Licence.

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Private Functions are events limited to family celebrations, organization membership and invited guests where alcohol is being served. The identities of all guests are known by the members of the family or organization, either directly or indirectly, prior to the event taking place. These events are granted as a Special Occasion – Private Event Licence. The CAPE Committee is not responsible for issuing Special Occasion – Private Event Licences. Licences for private functions are obtained and approved through the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch online at www.solo.bcldb.com.

A CAPE meeting has been scheduled for January 28, 2016. Any applications received prior to this date will be reviewed at that meeting, following which all applicants will be advised of the status of their request. Subsequent meetings are scheduled for April 28, August 25 and October 27, 2016, and at the call of the Chair, as required. All groups interested in applying for Public Special Occasion Licences should submit their requests a minimum of 2 weeks prior to the scheduled CAPE meeting. Please note, when submitting applications that do not correspond with the regularly scheduled meetings of CAPE, the application process can take up to three weeks, so we encourage you to allow yourself plenty of time when submitting your application.

Applications can be forwarded to the Corporate Services Department, City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC, V2P 8A4, during regular office hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, except holidays, or by email to mcmurray@chilliwack.com.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the undersigned at 604-793-2700 or mcmurray@chilliwack.com.

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› July July 2 A Chilliwack man accused of a double stabbing at a downtown pub in 2013 was acquitted on all counts of assault in BC Supreme Court.

Dustin Russell was in court to hear the judge’s decision in the case where he was on trial for aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm during an incident that occurred Sept. 29, 2013 at what was then the District Public House at Five Corners.

Justice Brian Joyce said in his analysis of the evidence and testimonies leading up to the decision that he had at least a reasonable doubt with respect to the elements in relation to each of the charges.

July 9 A dozen friends and family members of Kelly Rideout gathered to search the blackberry bushes around a property where she was last seen.

Rideout’s birth mother came to Chilliwack from Montreal to aid in the search for the troubled mother of four who most think was killed in 2011 by a local drug dealer.

Seeking closure, family members hoped they could find Rideout’s body, but they were unsuccessful.

July 9 After months of fundraising and organizing, a committee ready to host over 200 people struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was left scrambling to pick up the pieces with the cancellation of

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Chilliwack’s opportunity to hold a four-day Wounded Warriors Weekend (WWW) event—scheduled less than a month away—was abruptly cancelled by the head foundation in Nipawin, Sask.

July 9 Commuter relief got one step closer for Promontory residents who suffer the daily line-up of cars up and down Teskey Road onto Prest.

City council chose the designbuild contractor for the $4.2 million Prest-Promontory-Bailey construction project, which included the construction of two roundabouts on Prest Road.

July 16 The long-awaited and long-rumoured Vedder Bridge replacement project was announced by Chilliwack and Fraser Valley politicians from all levels of government.

Construction was scheduled to start on the new $12.6 million Vedder Bridge in 2016 with completion scheduled for fall 2018. Funding is split three ways between the municipal, provincial and federal governments.

The project also includes the construction of a roundabout just to the west of the current Vedder Road-Chilliwack Lake Road intersection.

July 16 A BC Supreme Court decision that struck down Canada’s dangerous offender law, calling it unconstitutional, caused considerable uncertainty at the sentencing of a Chilliwack man convicted of manslaughter.

Steven Frederickson killed Robert-Jan Planje in December 2010 after a night of drinking and drug use at an Ashwell Road residence the two men shared.

In Chilliwack, Justice William Grist decided the Constitutional questions needed to be addressed in the Frederickson case.

July 23 A Chilliwack man was lucky he wasn’t killed by police after a violent confrontation where he aimed a gun

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July 23 On the heels of another weekend of record temperatures in Chilliwack, and as the province declared the highest drought level for B.C., city hall increased restrictions on residential water usage.

The city moved to stage three watering restrictions reducing the number of lawn sprinkling times to three hours once a week.

A week earlier, the Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations announced the drought rating for the south coast and Lower Fraser areas was at level four, the highest possible.

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Mayor Sharon Gaetz helped the Times kick off its I Love Chilliwack contest. Hundreds of people shared with readers what they loved most about of our amazing city. at an officer, threw a dumbbell at another, tried to take that Mountie’s gun and got hold of a Taser.

“The reality is he is lucky he didn’t get shot,” Judge Richard Browning told Preston Terepocki’s lawyer in court.

Terepocki faced a raft of charges, including disarming a police officer,

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July 30 A veteran support teacher in Chilliwack announced her resignation from her job—and British Columbia—in a Huffpost blog entry, citing shrinking resources and growing class sizes as main reasons for leaving the provincial education system.

Cecelia Griffiths wrote, paradoxically, in her headline that she loves being a B.C. teacher so much that she had to quit her most recent job at Sardis secondary.

Griffiths became so frustrated with increasing paperwork and meetings that kept her away from contact time with students that she said she was leaving her family behind to move to the Yukon.

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› August August 6 Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Rideau Hall to recommend the dissolution of Parliament thereby triggering one of the longest federal elections ever.

Five official candidates were in place for the new riding of Chilliwack-Hope, which is a significantly smaller electoral district than the previous Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon.

Incumbent Mark Strahl sought a second term in office and faced challenges from university professor Seonaigh MacPherson for the NDP, local business owner Louis De Jaeger for the Liberals, university student Thomas Cheney for the Green Party, musician Alexander Johnson for the Libertarian Party of Canada. Marxist-Leninist candidate Dorothy-Jean O’Donnell would later join the race.

August 13 Reporter Paul J. Henderson spent an afternoon in the Chilliwack River Valley with B.C. Conservation Officer Sgt. Steve Jacobi.

In just three hours, Jacobi admonished illegal campers, found young men drinking in public, saw garbage dumped and issued fines for illegal fishing.

Jacobi is the officer in charge of the Fraser Valley Zone, a massive area roughly from Surrey in the west, east to the Coquihalla, south to the U.S. border and north to the top of Harrison Lake.

August 13 A treatment facility for prolific offenders in the Chilliwack River Valley raised concerns from elected officials at the City of Chilliwack and the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Chilliwack RCMP report that about once a week a prolific offender walks away from VisionQuest at The Creek, a centre run by a Delta-based

non-profit society.

And while concerns were raised about the lack of security at The Creek by residents in the valley and municipal officials, Chilliwack-Hope MLA Laurie Throness lauded the facility.

August 20 Jaime Tiller wept openly before and after a BC Supreme Court jury declared her guilty of theft and breach of trust for stealing $2,800 from the Chilliwack RCMP exhibit room in 2011.

The jury deliberated for nearly two days before deciding on the guilty verdicts Friday morning.

Tiller faced the possibility of jail time for the thefts while she served as exhibit custodian at the Chilliwack detachment.

August 20 City council approved a new bylaw regarding smoking in outdoor public spaces.

The purpose of the bylaw was to regulate places where smoking is allowed, therefore reducing the risk of fires as well as second hand smoke.

The bylaw states that smoking will be banned at all parks, playgrounds and outdoor public spaces, within 15 metres of the entrance to any public pool or ice rinks, within 10 metres of a bus stop and on any trails.

August 27 A former Chilliwack youth support worker was convicted of sexually abusing a teenage client, leaving yet another blemish on the legacy of Stehiyaq Healing and Wellness Village.

Darren Vincent Justice, 45, was found guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack of sexual interference of a person under 16 and sexual assault.

The offences took place in August 2011 and involved a 14-year-old girl who was a Stehiyaq client.

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REVIEW September 10 A man with a violent and extensive criminal history from Quebec to Chilliwack was handed a longterm offender designation along with a seven-year jail sentence in B.C. Supreme Court in connection with a violent 2012 home invasion.

A diminutive and stubble-faced Marc Cadieux, his right arm in a sling, actually nodded in acceptance or agreement when Justice Brian Joyce handed him the seven-year federal penitentiary term.

September 17 When a group of Chilliwack condominium owners kicked federal Liberal election canvassers out of their downtown apartment building, they were shocked at the response.

“She said to me, ‘No, I’m not leaving. I have every right to be here,’” one resident said.

And the law, however unusual and unknown to some people, is on the side of the canvassers.

The Elections Act says that it is a violation to bar canvassers from entering apartments, condominiums or other multiple-residence buildings or gated community areas.

September 17 Proponents of a controversial abattoir slated for a piece of Chilliwack land in the heart of the city just north of Highway 1 withdrew their application a day before the

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September 17 Flanked by Chilliwack-Hope NDP candidate Seonaigh MacPherson and Liberal candidate Louis De Jaeger, Conservative Mark Strahl’s empty seat pointed to the incumbent’s conspicuous absence at the first local public federal election candidates meeting.

But while there were reports Conservative candidates were advised not to attend public meetings or talk to local reporters, Strahl did make himself available to the media and said the reason he did not attend was because of a Conservative Party event in Pitt Meadows attended by Stephen Harper.

September 24 The Chilliwack school board snubbed oil giant Kinder Morgan’s compensation offer at the first public meeting of the 2015/16 school year.

With Martha Wiens absent, the board voted 4-2 in favour of declining an offer from the oil company for its expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline right-ofway under Vedder middle school’s field.

September 24 With more and more blueberry production coming online in Chilliwack in recent years, Abbotsford-based Berryhill Foods decided to build a processing plant in town.

Site preparation for the 35,000-square-foot facility began at the Brannick Place property in the Kerr Avenue Food Processing Park.

Construction was set to begin in late October with a goal of being operational for the 2016 blueberry season.

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September 10 Eight years after the establishment of a popular military museum in an apt location on the grounds of the old CFB Chilliwack, the Canadian Military Education Centre (CMEC) Museum had a little over a month to move out.

CMEC doors closed to the public with no home for hundreds of pieces of Canadian military uniforms, weapons, artifacts and vehicles.

Sited in a building owned by the City of Chilliwack’s economic development arm, Chilliwack Economics Partners Corporation (CEPCO), the museum was in operation since it set up a temporary display in 2007.

The new tenant for the building was to be the Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) training program.

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September 3 A $36-million expansion of the Rogers Foods mill in Chilliwack will increase the facility’s capacity by 80 per cent, and bring a handful of new jobs to the community.

Japanese parent company Nisshin Seifun announced the construction of an additional flour milling unit at the Chilliwack facility located on Simpson Road near South Sumas and Lickman roads.

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The proposal to build the 22,000-square-foot slaughterhouse with a daily processing capacity for up to 100 beef cows on Brannick Place across Chilliwack Creek from a number of Airport Road businesses was met with some opposition on social media and in letters to city hall and the Times.

A spokesperson for the company said only ‘We are just reviewing our options.”

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September 3 Corn, hay, cranberries, sure, but prime farmland in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in the Fraser Valley is no place to grow marijuana.

That was the position of Chilliwack city council with regard to medical marijuana grow operations (MMGOs), but the provincial government ordered the city to allow exactly that.

“It’s unfortunate and disheartening that the province is forcing us into compliance,” Coun. Chris Kloot said.

The provincial government amended the ALR rules to say federally licensed medical marijuana production is a farm use, and all municipalities needed to write new bylaws to regulate, but not prohibit, marijuana growing in the ALR.

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here was nothing in the way of damage reported from last week’s 4.3-magnitude earthquake centred off Sidney Island, outside of maybe the odd piece of ill-placed glass or china knocked off a shelf.

But for those surprised at how much it felt like a “real” earthquake, the 10-second shaker may well be the event that prompts them to finally take the initiative and assemble that grab-and-go container they’ve been meaning to put together for some time now.

Emergency preparedness officials in our communities have long pounded the drum to be ready for the big one, when it inevitably comes and this latest seismic event will give them even more fodder with which to drive their message home.

We appreciate the fact local school districts are being proactive in reinforcing their older buildings to be able to withstand a major shock and protect our children in the event a damaging earthquake occurs during the school day.

For those of us who might find themselves at work—or at home, as most of us were when last week’s tremor was felt—being prepared with emergency supplies and a plan could be enough to provide some peace of mind. It would also put you in a small but slowly growing group of people who can say they know what they’ll do when “the big one” really does hit.

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BC Lib crowdfunds to hire lawyer L

aura Miller might just be on to something.

Sure, she’s a high profile member of the BC Liberal Party, likely pulling in a six figure salary as executive director.

And sure, someone like her has a lot of friends both real and digital and corporate through her connections and her career, but legal bills are expensive.

So she’s crowdfunding.

Ms. Miller is facing mischief and breach of trust charges from her time as deputy chief of staff to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty.

“Laura is facing substantial costs as she works to defend herself and clear her name. Your donation will go 100 per cent towards her legal costs.”

That’s right, your donation, so says the introduction to the crowdfunding campaign she launched Dec. 24 to raise $100,000 to pay for a lawyer. Not just any lawyer: Miller has retained high-profile Toronto human rights lawyer Clayton Ruby. Miller is alleged to have been involved in the deleting of emails connected to the Ontario Liberal government’s decision to cancel gas-fired electrical generating stations.

“It was never intended to be a public

PAUL J. HENDERSON @peejayaitch campaign,” Miller said, apparently not ironically, in an email to The Canadian Press about the Funrazr.com campaign.

Miller even denied it’s a crowdfunding campaign.

“This is not crowdfunding,” she wrote to the Globe and Mail. “It is a private fundraising effort set up in response to family and friends who offered to assist.

The page is not indexed (searchable) on the fundrazr platform or Google. I have not shared the link proactively through social media or email.”

Enter the terms “Laura Miller defence” into Google and it’s the first hit.

There must be something about this woman that compels others to come to her rescue, because in just 12 days she raised $33,000.

She could bring in a Syrian refugee family for a year for that much money.

To compare to another FundRazr campaign, in 147 days Chilliwack Mur-

ray Honda’s Backpack Program, which hoped to raise $1,500 to fund backpacks and a full year of school supplies to 1,000 local students in need raised just $250.

Crowdfunding sites like Fundrazr and GoFundMe, for those unfamiliar, are used for all kinds of reasons: a family in need after a fire, an animal’s surgery, a blind woman raising money to take a piano tuning course.

Among the donors to Miller’s campaign is former deputy premier of Ontario Dwight Duncan who gave $500.

“Please accept this contribution to your legal defence as reaffirmation of my view that you have been wrongly accused,” he commented along with his donation. “I have always known you to be a person of great integrity who has committed her life to public service.”

There are several B.C. donations as well. In her less than three years in the province she has clearly had an impact on BC Liberals.

BC Liberal MLA for RichmondSteveston John Yap gave $500.

“Sending you my very best wishes for success Laura! Hang In There!! Happy New Year!!!”

And there is a local angle to this story

as former Chilliwack mayor and Chilliwack MLA John Les apparently gave $500. (We can never confirm who is actually behind the donations next to an individual’s name if they don’t confirm they donated, but “John Les” appears on the list of donors. When asked Tuesday why he donated, the usually forthcoming Les wrote back “no comment”.)

Others donated, too: Premier Christy Clark’s former chief of staff Ken Boessenkool gave $1,000. BC Liberal Party president Sharon White gave $2,500. Former Liberal Party spin doctor and Toronto lawyer Warren Kinsella put in $200 with this missive: “You will prevail.”

Chilliwack BC Liberal campaigner Susan Mathies put in $200 and added: “Believe in you Laura.”

Fraser Valley-based BC Liberal organizer Bruce Burley, who frequently visits Chilliwack during campaigns, gave Miller $1,250.

There is nothing illegal or even improper about Miller using a crowdfunding website to raise money to hire one of the most famous lawyers in Canada, but it has certainly raised some eyebrows.

And it sure is original.

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Incumbent MP Mark Strahl held on to his seat in the federal election. Liberal candidate Louis De Jaeger placed second and took solace in the fact that Justin Trudeau was named the new prime minister.

October 1 A man who met a 15-year-old girl on a popular social media site, picked her up at her Chilliwack school and had sex with her while filming the statutory rape, will spend more than a year-and-a-half behind bars.

The 24-year-old pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack to two counts of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16, one count of drug possession and one breach while out on bail.

Justice Brian Joyce sentenced Lowney to 15 months in jail.

October 1 A Chilliwack RCMP constable known around town for his hard work taking down drivers who violate the rules of the road received a national award.

Const. Michael Sabulsky was honoured in Toronto with the Terry Ryan Memorial Award for Excellence in Police Service.

October 8 Concern in the dairy industry over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were allayed as the final agreement appeared to be not as bad as milk

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producers feared.

The dairy industry feared supply management would be dismantled in the TPP, but in the end the deal allowed additional foreign access of dairy products into Canada amounting to about 3.25 per cent of Canada’s 2016 milk production.

October 8 Aboriginal issues were front and centre as the Sto:lo Nation hosted a federal election all-candidates meeting.

But the absence of incumbent Conservative Mark Strahl was again the focus of other candidates and many who asked questions of those who did attend.

October 15 Chilliwack may not have the “monster home” problem that popped up in other Fraser Valley communities over the years, but a great many residential portions

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of farm properties greatly exceed provincial government recommendations.

The homes exist in every agricultural area of Chilliwack. Most have very long driveways, homes as far as 400 metres from the road, surrounded by swimming pools, outbuildings, RV garages, even tennis courts and koi ponds.

Some of these residential footprints—known as the “farm home plate”—are as much as two to three acres in size, taking valuable farmland out of production.

October 22 There was something incongruous about the moods at respective Conservative and Liberal gatherings in Chilliwack-Hope as federal election results rolled in.

Over at the winner’s camp, the mood was calm and measured; Conservative incumbent Mark Strahl didn’t actually appear in the room until his victory was sealed at around 8:45 p.m.

While over at the second-place finisher’s gathering at his downtown campaign office, Liberal candidate Louis De Jaeger was hosting what turned out to be quite a party thanks to the national election of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister.

October 29 The family of a man who has suffered with schizophrenia since he was 14 years old was upset Fraser Health decided to close the facility where he lived on Boundary Road.

Barry Johnson Jr. has lived at Mountain View Home for 20 years, and his mother was upset the “wonderful little facility” is set to close by August 2016.

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October 1 The 540 students at Mt. Slesse middle school were among hundreds across the district taking part in Student Vote 2015, a mock election process to coincide with the federal election.

And teacher Michael Florizone was trying to engage the young people in his class in politics.

“We are so lucky to live in a democracy and many students don’t realize what we have,” Florizone said.

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Online: www.chilliwacktimes.com Email: editorial@chilliwacktimes.com Mail: 45951 Trethewey Ave., Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1K4 Letters must include first and last name, and a daytime phone number. Please remember, brevity is the soul of wit. beginning of the slippery slope that MLA Paul Throness referred to.

As a Christian who believes in the sanctity of marriage being between one man and one woman as clearly stated in the biblical text, are we heading down the road of having to stand our ground and defend a virtue that has been practised for centuries and stood the test of time.

Let us never forget that what is legal is not necessarily moral.

Ultimately the question that will be forefront in this matter is: What happened to the Canada of the past that welcomed a difference of opinion?

I have worked over the years with those of opposing points of view to

mine in a number of roles, and we have always had healthy discussions and concluded agreeing to disagree and yet been able to maintain an amiable friendly working relationship. This is the foundation of a healthy pluralistic society. Is it logical that I could be prosecuted for holding to an opposing view and labelled bigoted, homophobic and hateful, when the one opposing my belief is granted the freedom to render such accusations. Clearly we have a double standard.

The implications of the Law Society winning their case is as I say astronomical, and will open up a Pandora’s box that we as a society will greatly regret.

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Editor: Re: “MLA seeks to sway Law Society members,” Times, Dec. 31.

I thank MLA Throness for his timely and intelligent response to the Law Societies consideration to appeal the BC Supreme Court decision to grant Trinity Western University the right to establish a law school.

If the Law Society win their case, the implications from such a judgment could be astronomical as Laurie Throness has indicated.

A judgement against TWU is a judgement against any person, Christian or otherwise who disagree with same sex marriage, and this is clearly a blight on our pluralistic nation Canada that has always held up the right to retain a difference of opinion.

As a certified ordained clergy who has conducted many weddings, pre-marital sessions, and private counselling of individuals, it troubles me that the day may come when we refuse to conduct a samesex marriage ceremony that our licence to marry could be revoked.

If the Law Societies appeal wins its case it only follows that those who refuse to conduct same-sex marriage could be seen as criminals and law breakers. This is only the

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A mighty wind did blow in November causing havoc for residents as trees toppled on to homes, vehicles and roadways during an epic blast that few had ever seen the likes of in the Fraser Valley.

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November 5 Provincial riding realignments proposed for the 2017 provincial election will take Hope and the Fraser Canyon out of the current Chilliwack-Hope electoral district and move some Sardis residents from one riding to another.

The changes, which are part of the Electoral Districts Act introduced in the Legislature, bring back the old name Chilliwack-Kent, which was changed to Chilliwack-Hope after 2008 changes.

November 12 Thirteen local individuals put their names forward to fill the vacant spot on the Chilliwack District school board.

A byelection was scheduled for Dec. 12 to fill the seventh seat to replace long-time trustee Martha Wiens who passed away in September.

November 12 The Greater Vancouver migration east to Chilliwack continued as local real estate sales were at near record-breaking numbers in 2015.

The 288 home sales in the previous month worth $96.1 million

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made it the second highest number for October in the history of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB).

“Housing activity has taken off like a rocket since February,” CADREB president Travis Heppner said.

November 19 Gary Allain stepped out of the prisoner’s box in BC Supreme Court, turned, took off his blazer and stood facing the family of the man he killed, Darcy Garnot.

Garnot’s family watched as sheriffs emptied Allain’s pockets, placed the 64-year-old’s wrists in cuffs and escorted him to cells at the Chilliwack Law Courts.

The case may have come to a dramatic conclusion that day, but no one was left with any sense of satisfaction.

“No matter what I do here today, everyone is a loser,” Justice Joel Groves said a few minutes before he sentenced Allain to 30 months in jail for criminal negligence causing death.

November 19 A day after the windstorm that nearly paralyzed Chilliwack, city and BC Hydro crews were still working feverishly to remove trees and restore power.

“Mother Nature was certainly in a snit,” Mayor Sharon Gaetz said.

“I’ve never seen anything like it and I’ve lived here all my life.”

During the day of the storm there were 23 road closures, 75 trees down blocking roads, and the Chilliwack Fire Department responded to 100 calls in 12 hours, the equivalent of three normal weeks of calls.

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November 5 A proposed run-of-river hydroelectricity project is not wanted in the Chilliwack River Valley.

That was the message the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) sent to the provincial government about KMC Energy Corp’s application for a project on Tamihi Creek.

“After receiving strong community input, the Fraser Valley Regional District Board voted not to support this project,” FVRD chief administrative officer Paul Gipps wrote in a letter to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

FVRD director for the Chilliwack River Valley (Area E) Orion Engar went further.

“In B.C.’s rush to be an exporter of electricity, we are increasingly degrading many of our super natural wild places,” Engar said via email.

November 26 Amber Price, Daris Lapointe and Eleasha Sabourin are the kind of women who get things done.

All three are mothers with young children, extremely hard workers, and as if their lives didn’t have enough going on, they decided to take on one more challenge: bringing a Syrian refugee family to Chilliwack.

The three women, along with Lapointe’s parents and, they hoped one more person, planned to partake in a 40-year-old provision in the federal immigration act that allows a small group of employed adults to sponsor a refugee family.

November 26 The city’s plan to raise the Town Dyke to meet provincial flood protection standards faced numerous hurdles, including a jurisdictional morass, opposition from some residents and no guarantee of co-operation from the local First Nations.

The Town Dyke upgrade project involves raising the dike from Young Road to Schweyey Road at Chilliwack Mountain.

The project is the next step after the controversial raising of Young Road in the summer to new provincial flood standards.

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{ ASSESSMENTS, from page A1 } calculating property taxes with the use of a mill rate. The municipality creates its budget then sets a rate.

“As a result there is not a taxation ‘win’ in years with higher assessment increases, nor do communities have a budget crisis in years with reduced values,” explained Coun. Chuck Stam, who is serving as acting mayor.

What this does mean is that single family homeowners may see modest property tax increases since the value of their properties increased at a rate higher than owners of condominiums and townhouses.

Along with the annual release of assessment data, BC Assessment compiles a list of top 100 highest value residential properties in each region. In the Fraser Valley, tops

online visit bcassessment.ca. was a $16.1 million acreage in SurHomeowners with questions about rey and number two was a $12.2 their assessment, or those who feel million acreage in Surrey. the valuation does The only local reflect market property to crack “. . . there is not a not value as of July 1, the top 100 was taxation ‘win’ in 2015, or see incoran acreage in the information on Columbia Valyears with higher rect their notice, should ley assessed at contact BC Assess$4,639,000 coming assessment ment as soon as in at 87 on the list. increases.” possible in January.

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YEAR IN Greg Laychak/TIMES

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December 3 The man accused of bilking investors in The Falls Resort in Chilliwack out of millions of dollar has been fined more than $1 million and permanently banned from the province’s capital markets by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC).

The BCSC panel found Rodney James Wharram, West Karma Ltd. and the Falls Capital Corp. committed fraud when they took $139,000 from Falls Capital, deposited it with West Karma, and then used it for Wharram’s personal expenses.

Wharram also took $130,000 from Deercrest Construction Fund Inc., deposited it with West Karma and then used it for his personal expenses.

December 3 Some popular Chilliwack agri-tourism destinations were under threat and some 2016 weddings are cancelled thanks to a crackdown on non-farm activities on farmland and proposed provincial government changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

That’s the message from owners of the Chilliwack Corn Maze & Pumpkin Farm in Greendale and Fantasy Farms in Rosedale and others, each of whom have different concerns.

“This is very alarming for us,” Gary Moran of Fantasy Farms said.

“It is concerning for us,” Diane Bruinsma of the Chilliwack Corn Maze said.

December 10 Ken Popove wasn’t surprised to find garbage dumped next to a dumpster behind his Alexander Avenue tire shop Tuesday morning, but what he found did surprise him.

“We found three or four pipe bombs,” the city councillor and owner of Ken’s Tire & Wheel said later in the day.

Chilliwack RCMP confirmed Monday that what they found were suspicious in nature, but Popove said police confirmed to him they were pipe bombs and two of the three pipes were “live.”

December 10 A local cemetery owner had his plan to expand buried by the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC).

Greg Peterson, owner of Vedder View Gardens Cemetery, applied to the ALC in January to expand Vedder View Gardens into the southern 2.28 hectares (ha) of an adjacent Watson Road property he bought in 2009, leaving 3.64 ha of that property to farming.

In its decision, the ALC panel found: “While the panel recognizes that the current cemetery . . . predates the ALR, it does not believe that further expansion into the ALR is an appropriate use of land that is intended for agriculture.”

December 17 Family and friends of the victims of accused double murderer Aaron

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It was an amazing ending to a year Charmaine Aiken would rather have forgotten. Aiken was pleasantly surprised when she walked through the front door of Fix Auto to discover she was this year’s Christmas Car Giveaway winner. “It was definitely a surprise,” said a tearful Aiken.

Douglas found out they will have a long way to go see justice and a long wait as well.

Douglas is charged with the Aug. 7, 2014 murders of Richard Blackmon and Tyler Belcourt in a downtown apartment. He is also charged with the attempted murder of a woman who survived.

At a pre-trial conference his lawyer argued the press coverage meant he could not get a fair trial in Chilliwack, and Crown agreed to move the case to New Westminster.

The case likely won’t be heard

until 2017.

December 17 A Chilliwack gangster with a long criminal history faces serious charges in connection with a drug trafficking syndicate working in B.C.’s north.

Clayton Archie Eheler was arrested in Richmond by B.C.’s anti-gang agency, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC), after a long investigation into a Fraser Valley crime cell dealing drugs in Fort St. John.

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December 24 A small group of employees from a local business had a Christmas party that was literally out of this world.

And while the private screening of the new Star Wars movie planned

by Kaseya employees would have been cool on its own for the 15 or so workers, an act of generosity took the day up a notch.

That’s because the company invited Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley to fill most of the otherwise empty seats in the theatre for a 9 a.m. screening of The Force Awakens at Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack.

December 24 A man who stole or defrauded thousands of dollars from dozens elderly people in Chilliwack and Agassiz was sentenced to four years in jail in Chilliwack provincial court.

Donald Quinnell pleaded guilty to 22 counts of fraud and theft under $5,000—he was originally charged with 15 counts of fraud and 14 counts of theft—for a string of incidents before and over Christmas of 2014.

Quinnell preyed upon vulnerable, older and trusting individuals with complicated, confusing and calculated scams.

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For the first time, experience a UFV Theatre production produced and presented exclusively by students in The Romeo Initiative. Selected by the Ensemble Project class, The Romeo Inititiave, by Trina Davies, is a story of love, lies, and intrigue, told against a backdrop of Cold War politics in 1970s Germany. See this brand new project at the UFV campus at Canada Education Park, Building A, Room 2106.

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JAN 7 - JAN 14 COME ENJOY OUR BRAND NEW SEATING! WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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he Chilliwack Cultural Centre has plenty of opportunities to find your New Year rejuvenation through the power of creativity this January.

To give you the most variety and choice for doing this, we’ve spent the last few months hard at work organizing our Arts and Crafts classes for 2016 (amongst many other things).

It’s exceptionally exciting to see the preparation blossom to life, with a bigger-than-ever range of classes providing every kind of aspiring artist the opportunity to explore their own creativity.

The potters and jewelry makers will be thrilled to know we’ve got many of our favourite classes back once again—but we’re also exploring some new territory with an expanded set of painting and drawing classes, crafting sessions, photography workshops, and more opportunities for kids to unleash their inner-artists. All together it becomes an arts and crafts program that reflects our passion for bringing art to our

community, and presents a fantastic resource for personal and creative enrichment.

And while we may have been concentrating on things other than our shows throughout December (your incredible support of our Christmas events made that happen), one particular organization in town was a little more preoccupied with performance. The Chilliwack School of Performing Arts spent December gearing up for their annual main stage production, bringing the well-loved classic Mary Poppins to life in a whole new musical way.

They’ll be camped out at The Centre through the middle of January performing the show, so make sure to check out some of the local performing arts talent cultivated here in our community.

Of course we’ve got a few shows

of our own coming up this month, and 2016 will get off to a magical start with the third installment of Shawn Farquhar’s Cabaret of Wonders (Jan. 22). Next up will be another step in an exciting series, with the second The Centre Rocks (Jan. 23). concert bringing a bunch of Chilliwack bands together for an energetic display of local musical talent. And thrillingly, for the first show in our 2016 theatre series, The Chilliwack Arts & Cultural Centre Society will present what is perhaps our most socially significant show yet. Seeds (Jan. 26) tells the story of Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer that took on Monsanto in a fascinating and controversial legal case that reached Canada’s Supreme Court.

A riveting piece of dramatic and thought-provoking theatre, Seed, featuring Eric Peterson of Corner Gas as Schmeiser, tackles some of the pressing environmental issues of our time, and is sure to resound with our community’s agricultural identity.

There’s also some good news

for liquor connoisseurs. The Centre’s key partner, the Chilliwack Academy of Music, invites you to the Fraser Valley Distillery Festival (Jan. 29), a benefit event that will raise funds (and spirits) for music education in the community.

The month will come to a close with the hysterical fringe comedy of Suddenly Mommy! (Jan. 30 and 31)—a show that moms, non-moms, and everybody else in between will relate and laugh along to.

That’s it for January, but as always, you can contact The Centre Box Office at 604-391SHOW(7469) for tickets and other details, or visit our website at chilliwackculturalcentre.ca for more info. Have an inspirational start to 2016. ◗ Rich Taylor is the Marketing Assistant at Chilliwack Cultural Centre. A fan of dark beer, heavy metal, and fluffy cats, he can be reached at Richard@chilliwackculturalcentre.ca and on Twitter at @ ChwkCulturalCtr.

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› Letters { LETTERS, from page A10 } by them and asking them to not appeal a ruling contrary. The other part of the letter dealt with a concern that his religion was under attack. I feel the need to respond because of Mr. Throness’ position as an elected member of our legislature, hence a representative of the people and because his letter was highly disturbing to me in what seemed fearmongering and lack of supporting detail.

Firstly, I support the Law Society because I support the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as what I consider to be both the most important document in the Canadian legal system and as (to use Mr. Throness’ phrase) a form of “community covenant” that is in place for all Canadians, regardless of religion, sexuality, or gender identity. It seems, at the very least, to be an inauspicious beginning to expect prospective members of the Canadian law community to, as a prerequisite of beginning their studies and training to renounce their rights and protections under this cornerstone of our law.

I think that the “social ethos,” to borrow another of Mr. Throness’ terms of Canadian culture is already that religion should be a personal and not public matter. This is not to say it should be private or not spoken of but that a person’s religion should not be used as a measure of who they are or what their capabilities are any more than their racial heritage or gender are. A person’s religion and their expression of it should be something that comes from within themselves and is not enforced by others. I further can not see how forcing people to adhere to a “community covenant” under threat of academic censure can possibly be a cause of behaviour based on good morals or encourage the type of thought that leads

to the ethical decision making we expect from those that dedicate their lives to upholding our laws.

Mr. Throness expresses concern that secular post-secondary institutions will begin barring members of his religion from attending in future. What evidence has he that this is either taking place or likely to occur in the future? I know of only one post-secondary institution in the province that currently engages in any form of discrimination based on religion and that school is not secular. I would really like to know which others are even discouraging of students based on a protected class under the Charter, as we are currently looking into post-secondary opportunities with both of our children and we would never consider a placement that did not reflect the cultural mosaic that we are so proud to belong to in our Canadian society.

I am also extremely curious as to how religious freedoms are being eroded. It seems to me that when that phrase is used now, it is used to express that certain groups are no longer allowed to discriminate against other groups as they have been used to doing in the past. Discrimination is not a right and it does not stand up in the court of public opinion even if it does stand in the court of law in certain instances, such as in private organizations.

Religion is something you do, with yourself, for yourself. It should not be an excuse to hurt others or to trample their rights and freedoms as individuals. Not being allowed to do so and not being recognized because you do so is not a threat to your religion, it is being part of a pluralistic society. And that is the society that I want to live in and that I choose to live in and protect.

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Council Chambers Council Chambers Council Chambers 8550 8A4 8550Young YoungRoad, Road,Chilliwack, Chilliwack,B.C. B.C. V2P 8A4 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, B.C.V2P V2P 8A4 www.chilliwack.com www.chilliwack.com www.chilliwack.com TAKE NOTICE that the Council the City Chilliwack will hold Hearing, asasnoted noted TAKE NOTICE that the Council the City Chilliwackwill will hold aPublic PublicHearing, Hearing,as notedabove, TAKE NOTICE that the Council ofofof the City ofofofChilliwack hold aaPublic above, on the following items: above, on the following items: on the following items: 1.1.ZONING ZONINGBYLAW BYLAWAMENDMENT AMENDMENTBYLAW BYLAW2013, 2013,No. No.3944 3944(RZ000806) (RZ000806) Location: 5971 Wilkins Drive (a portion of) Owners: Alfred Sawatzky Owners: 5658 Alfred Sawatzky andJenny JennyLynn LynnSawatzky Sawatzky Location: Vedder Road and 22 portion Purpose: ToTorezone a 634m portionofofthe thesubject subjectproperty, property,asasshown shownononthe themap map Purpose: Custom rezone Owner: Fenceaan &634m Gate Inc. below, below,from from anR1-A R1-A(One (OneFamily FamilyResidential) Residential)Zone ZonetotoananR1-C R1-C(One (OneFamily Family Residential – Accessory) Zone to facilitate a 2 lot subdivision and the Residential – Accessory) Zone to facilitate a 2 lot subdivision and the Purpose: The applicant requests to rezone the subject property, as shown on the map construction ofofaa(Service single home aalegal secondary suite. construction singlefamily family homewith with secondary suite. below, from a CS1 Commercial) Zone tolegal a C2 (Local Commercial) Location Map Zone, in order to bring the existing uses occurring on the property in-line with Location Map

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3.3.ZONING ZONINGBYLAW BYLAWAMENDMENT AMENDMENTBYLAW BYLAW2013, 2013,No. No.3947 3947(RZ000810) (RZ000810) Applicant: City of Chilliwack Applicant: City of Chilliwack Purpose: Purpose: AAnumber numberofofamendments amendmentstotoZoning ZoningBylaw Bylaw2001, 2001,No. No.2800 2800are are proposed proposedtotoprovide providefor forand andregulate regulatefederally federallylicensed licensedcommercial commercialmedicinal medicinal marihuana marihuanagrow growoperations operationswithin withinthe theCity CityofofChilliwack.

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All submissions will be recorded and form part of the official record of the Hearing. written submission, including your full name and address, to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 4:00 p.m. onThese the dateproposed of the Public Hearing.

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HOMES FOR RENT

OWNERS WE CAN MANAGE YOUR RENTAL PROPERTY FOR A LOW MONTHLY FEE HOUSE RENTALS

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1 bdrm twnhse................... $600 Vedder Xing, 2 Levels, Patio Available Nov. 13

New SRI Manufactured Homes Singles $74,900. Doubles $94,900. Park Spaces Available Repossessions 1974 - 2010

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Foxridge Homes, a division of Qualico is recognized as the largest intergrated real estate company in Western Canada.

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Youth Counsellor/ Learning to Lead (L2L)

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EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

In the Vancouver area we are rapidly expanding and currently building new homes in Surrey, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge and Langley. With our rapid growth we are recruiting for the following positions: • Labourers • Level 2 or 3 First Aid, trained in site safety personnel • Carpenter/Back Framer/Foreman • Pre Occupancy/Warranty Service Representatives • Foundation Foreman/Supervisor • Foundation Crews • Framing Crews

1 bdrm suite ....................... $675 f/s, w/d, gas incl’d

2 bdrm suite ....................... $750 f/s, shared laundry, utilities

2 bdrm suite ....................... $775 f/s, bath, gas incl’d

2 bdrm apt .......................... $725 f/s, heat incl’d

2 + bdrm small house ....... $850 f/s

2 + bdrm twnhse ............. $1150 Garrison, f/s, w/d, dw

3 bdrm twnhse................. $1000 Chwk, f/s, dw, wd, 2.5 bth

3 bdrm suite ..................... $1395 1100 sq ft, 5 appl, gas f/p, internet and util incl’d f/s, d/w, w/d, 1.5 bth, family rm, carport

3 bdrm suite ..................... $1350 1 1/2 bath, 1/2 garage, util incl’d, Sardis

3 bdrm twnhse................. $1100 f/s, dw, 1.5 bath, carport

We offer an excellent benefits program and an excellent remuneration package.

Forward your resume and covering letter to: Foxridgecareers@qualico.com

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(John) Patrick Dennis

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went to be with the Lord on Sunday, December 27, 2015 in Chilliwack British Columbia. He was 46 years old.

Patrick was the perfect representation of a "good ol' fashioned southern boy". Born in Mobile, Alabama he was raised as the only child to a United States Air Force family. As an adult Patrick moved from Florida to British Columbia to reside and work in the Fraser Valley where he established a loving family.

Patrick lived life full and unencumbered by conformity.

He was a soulfully happy, kind and compassionate man who showed unconditional love. Patrick brought laughter and warmth wherever he went.

His passing was sudden and peaceful. He was and is forever now a free spirit.

Patrick is lovingly remembered by his parents, Thomas Edmund and Linda Kaye Dennis, Deborah Dennis, children Jacob and Amelia Dennis, step-daughter Brianna Steunenberg, extended family both near and far and many, many great friends. He will be forever missed this side of heaven.

"Roll Tide Patrick .. Roll Tide ... we will meet again on that glory side."

Celebration of Life will be held in Chilliwack, British Columbia; a date and time to be announced via social media.

OBITUARIES

Call 866-865-4460 to place your message

LOOKING FOR WITNESSES to a MVA on Dec 6/15 at 7:30 AM near the Lickman off-ramp W/B on Hwy 1 involving a tractor-trailer unit which moved into the passing lane forcing a vehicle off the road into a guardrail.

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