INSIDE: Long delay, but high school ag program good to grow
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Rolling, rolling, rolling, roll on!
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Boss murderer using ‘faint hope clause’ BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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Chilliwack man convicted of murdering his boss 20 years ago will go before a jury next week to seek early release from prison. On the morning of May 17, 1993, Allan Crawshaw shot his boss, Trevor Newberry, three times in the
Twenty years ago, Allan Crawshaw shot his boss three times . . . now he wants to be set free early
head at close range in the parking lot of Fraser Valley Foods, where the two men worked. Crawshaw, a shop steward at the plant, had received a one-day suspension. He was sentenced to 25 years in
prison for the killing, but the socalled“faint hope clause” allows him to apply to seek early parole after serving 15 years of his sentence. (The statute has been removed, but remains in force for offences com-
mitted before Dec. 2, 2011.) Crawshaw’s parole eligibility will be decided by a 12-person jury, which will be selected Monday. From there, a three-week trial is expected, at which jurists will hear
details of Crawshaw’s crime, his time in prison and any other information a judge deems relevant. Crawshaw applied for release in 2010, but his application was turned down—albeit not rejected outright. Jurists have several options available to them. See MURDERER, Page 10
Pitch perfect
With history on the line, Shane Kraemer threw five scoreless innings in a game for the ages
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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Sardis secondary grad Shane Kraemer pitched the South Dakota Jackrabbits into their first NCAA tournament last weekend. The Jackrabbits play this Friday against the Oregon Ducks.
Don’t bury EFI just yet, T says Dyck
BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
ime is running out, but early French immersion could still become a reality in the Chilliwack school district by 2014 thanks to an 11th-hour motion by trustee Silvia Dyck. Dyck voted against starting an EFI program in 2014 earlier this month on the grounds the district
hilliwack’s Shane Kraemer had just 35 minutes to think about starting the biggest baseball game in his university’s history. Which might have been a good thing. Kraemer, in his senior year at South Dakota State and what could have been his final college baseball game, pitched five scoreless innings
didn’t have enough money for it. But she has since decided the program is worth the risk of dipping into the district’s $600,000 contingency fund. At a board meeting Tuesday, she announced plans to introduce a motion to that effect at the board’s June 11 meeting. The proposal calls on the board to generate money for EFI by changing its policy of maintaining
a $600,000 reserve balance. “Eventually it has the potential to be self-funding,” Dyck said of EFI. “Now is the time because we have a group of committed parents willing to work with us to make this program happen.” Dyck’s motion doesn’t include a specific timeline. If it’s passed, she said the matter would be sent to district staff, who would then come back to the board with those
See KRAEMER, Page 16
details for approval. A 2014 startup would require a bit of a scramble, but it’s still possible, superintendent Evelyn Novak told theTimes. “The timeline now certainly is getting tight, as far as getting things in place, confirming enrolment, names of students that would attend, doing the hiring, getting the location ready,” she See EFI, Page 6
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last Sunday to help his South Dakota State Jackrabbits advance to the biggest college baseball tournament in the world. It was a high-stakes situation Kraemer wasn’t expecting. His Jackrabbits entered the double-elimination Summit League championship tournament as the top seed, but quickly found themselves in trouble when they lost their first game. With no room for error,
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