Chilliwack Progress, May 29, 2012

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Mountie in fatal crash now facing charges A Chilliwack RCMP officer has been charged in connection with a collision that killed 20-year-old Steve Genberg of Mission last summer and seriously injured his 19-year-old passenger. Const. Jordan Braid has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm. The Abbotsford Police Department investigated the incident and forwarded its findings to Crown counsel. The charges were sworn against Braid last Friday. Braid was on duty and driving a marked police vehicle just after 11 p.m. on July 12, 2011, apparently en route to a reported domestic dispute. He allegedly crossed the centre line and collided head-on with Genberg’s Ford Mustang on Highway 7 near Bodnar Road in Agassiz. Genberg was reportedly leading a convoy of four or five vehicles travelling on their way to Harrison Hot Springs. Baird is also facing an ongoing code of conduct investigation in relation to this incident. He remains on administrative duties and is currently not involved in any front-line police operations, according to the RCMP. He makes his first court appearance June 26 in Chilliwack.

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Emily Goodman, 7, searches for water creatures during the Fraser Valley Young Naturalist Club’s monthly explorer day at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve on Saturday. The club is co-sponsored by the heron reserve and the Chilliwack Field Naturalists, and is geared towards children aged 5 to 14. Family membership is $25 for a year. For more info, go to www.ync.ca or call Cynthia Berg at the heron reserve at 604-823-6603. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

New role for Chilliwack hospital rehab unit Some Chilliwack patients will now go outside community for care Robert Freeman The Progress A 20-bed subacute unit at Chilliwack General Hospital lauded for it’s “homelike atmosphere” is being turned into an outpatient clinic. But Fraser Health officials say

rehab patients will be “happier and improve faster” at home than in hospital. “In the past many services were only provided in a hospital setting,” Valerie Spurrell, Fraser Health’s rehab director, explained in a Friday news release announcing the change.

“Outpatient programs, like those we’re adding at Chilliwack, are changing that,” she said. Fraser Health expects to double the number of rehab patients who can be cared for at hospitals in the region, as a result of the change. But Chilliwack patients who continue to need “high-intensity” rehab will need to go to hospitals in Surrey and Port Moody, and those with “less intensive” inpatient requirements will need to

go to rehab beds at Abbotsford General Hospital. Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz was not available at press time to comment on Chilliwack patients needing to leave the community for inpatient rehab care, but she told The Progress she would be phoning FHA officials later Monday. FHA officials were also not available for comment Monday. Continued: REHAB/ p4

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