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HIGH-RISK DRIVERS TARGETED BY RCMP A month-long campaign started in Mission last week
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Flood risk elevated all along Fraser
Council may nix drive-thru ban bylaw Mission Record
Council may soon kill a bylaw preventing new or existing developments from adding drive-thrus. Following a verbal report by Coun. Dave Hensman, Coun. Larry Nundal led a motion Monday that staff prepare legislation to amend zoning bylaw 5050, repealing sections which currently prohibit drive-thru restaurants. Mayor Ted Adlem, who ran a drive-thru Wendy’s restaurant for 15 years, has been a vocal opponent of the bylaw. When council voted to approve a Wren Creek development with two drive-thrus in April, Adlem said the bylaw prevents Mission from being taken seriously by prospective developers. Adlem has said between 60 to 65 per cent of a fast food restaurant’s business comes from drive-thru windows. But former councillor Heather Stewart, who voted against applications involving drive-thru restaurants and was instrumental in getting the bylaw approved, was disappointed with the move. “It will affect Mission’s image, first of all, as a
forwardlooking ccommunitty respondiing to all kkinds of nnew ideas Nundal about how communities should develop,” she said. “These fast-food drive-thrus are run by corporations. They may be franchised to local people but they’re run by corporations.” Council is also ignoring the bigger picture of global warming and our carbon footprint, she added. According to the Office of Energy Efficiency on the Natural Resources Canada website, each litre of gasoline produces about 2.3 kg of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), one of the gases suspected to be responsible for creating the greenhouse effect linked to climate change. And the province’s Idle Free BC initiative claims Canadian drivers would collectively save 630 million litres of fuel, and $945 million in fuel costs (assuming a fuel cost of $1.50/L) by reducing idling by three minutes a day. This would also save 6.3 billion kg of greenhouse gas emissions. See FINANCIAL Page 3
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This one’s mine Mission Secondary School’s Kevin Wiens snags his fourth interception of a seven-a-side football game last weekend against Rick Hansen, hosted by MSS. The local team bested the competition and won all three of its games in the round robin-style event. ROD WIENS PHOTO
Heavy snow in B.C.’s Interior poses a risk of flooding in the Fraser Valley this year, but much will depend on the weather patterns in the weeks ahead. The entire Fraser River watershed has 29 per cent more snow than normal, as of the latest readings taken by the River Forecast Centre May 1. And the upper Fraser and Nechako basins — which supply about a third of the Fraser water that flows through the Lower Mainland — are running at around 50 per cent above normal. “There is an elevated flood risk present through the entire length of the mainstem of the Fraser River from the Robson Valley to the Fraser Valley,” according to the centre’s latest bulletin. Some B.C. communities have already been hit with isolated flooding due to rising local creeks and rivers and forecasters say the risk of seasonal flooding later this spring is “exceptional” in some regions. But they say the Fraser won’t likely peak in the Lower Mainland until sometime between mid-May and late June or July, depending on the weather. A lengthy run of hot temperatures, heavy rain or a combination of the two is described as the worst case scenario. Floodplain dwellers should hope for seasonal temperatures and dry weather for the rest of the spring, particularly in the watershed’s northern basins. Above-normal temperatures are expected in most of the watershed by this weekend. Local residents would have plenty of warning of any high water. The River Forecast Centre runs computer simulations to generate five-day forecasts of flow the length of the Fraser. Flood warnings are issued if rivers are forecast to approach or reach flood level.
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