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August 8, 2013
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Saturday was SAR’s busiest day ever Long-line used in 3 different rescue events BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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o say Josef Seywerd and his fellow Chilliwack Search and Rescue (SAR) members had a busy Saturday would be understating things. Long-line helicopter rescues are relatively rare, but on Saturday, SAR crews were involved in three such operations, with Seywerd the main technician in two of the rescues. And all those so-called HETS (Helicopter External Transport System) calls helped make Saturday the busiest day for search and rescue crews ever. The day began with Chilliwack SAR called to rescue a man who had ridden his all-terrain vehicle over an embankment on the Liumchen Bench Road near Cultus Lake. Seywerd and another member hiked to the injured man and helped prepare him for extraction by a Bell 407 from Valley Helicopters. The ATVer was subsequently transferred to an air ambulance and flown to hospital. His condition is not known. Before that call ended, Chilliwack SAR was called for another helicopter rescue, this one involving a dirt biker who rode over a steep embankment and fell some 200 feet at a recreation area north of Hope. So off went the SAR crews, including Seywerd, who extracted See SAR, Page 5
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Anna Maria Kiener waters flowers at the Sunshine Community Garden. Vegetables from the garden will be harvested this weekend and donated to the Salvation Army Food Bank.
See how her garden grows BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
First food bank crop harvested Sunday
fter 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— cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, peppers and more—will be harvested and promptly donated to the Salvation Army Food Bank. A client with the Chilliwack Society for Community Living, Kiener
has long been an avid gardener. So when her careworker, Patricia Thom, suggested that she get involved with the garden, Kiener threw herself into the project with gusto. “Anna Maria’s worked really hard on this garden,” Thom told the Times. “There are other individuals who have tended to the garden, but I don’t think anybody’s put in as many hours as Anna Maria.” Kiener helped decide what and where she wanted to plant her
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crops, and she spent many days watering and weeding various vegetable beds around the garden. And when she wasn’t tending the vegetables, Kiener could be found volunteering at the food bank, a perfect synergy for the energetic 63-year-old. “I like helping people,” said Kiener, who likes the fresh corn the best. Thom said the produce should provide a healthy influx of gardenfresh vegetables for the food bank,
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which tends to rely on non-perishable goods. “Fresh food is something they don’t often get,” she said. Laura Deslisle, who has been involved in the community garden since its opening last April, said she has been excited to see it grow over the past year and have a larger impact in Chilliwack. “It’s been heart-warming to see the community garden grow to the
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