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Photos clockwise from the top: Substation fire shuts down Chilliwack; a fight to save the Paramount; teachers take to the streets; Fraser flood threat; byelection battle. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE

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City takes aggressive steps to speed up downtown renewal Jennifer Feinberg The Progress

The long held dream of downtown revitalization for Chilliwack was back in the news spotlight for 2012.

City officials decided it’s too long to wait the 30 years or so that the consultants say it will take to see any significant redevelopment in the downtown core, so they moved ahead with a 20-point plan to get things going quicker.

It all hinges on tricks like land assembly, revitalization incentives, marketing, greening, taking care of social issues and unsightly premises. But the actual implementation is still expected to be incremental, and dictated by market forces.

Certain measures are aimed at effectively hastening the changes, and the first one the city is moving on is full lot consolidation or land

assembly.

Council voted in early November to issue a notice of intent to expropriate a key property, known as the Irwin Block at 9282 Young Road.

Chilliwack officials are willing to pay “fair market value” for the property and have been in contact with the owner.

The block eyed for land assembly is bounded by Young, Yale Nowell, and Princess. The aim is to create a massive property measuring 1.5 hectares that will appeal to future investors. The concept plan they unveiled features commercial and mixed residential uses in three mid-rise buildings surrounding an urban park.

City of Chilliwack already owns 10 lots on this central city block and wants to acquire the majority of the remaining properties through CEPCO over the next several years.

The future of downtown received

a real boost when the community learned that UFV would be opening a business education centre at Five Corners next year.

Bank of Montreal officials announced on Dec. 7 the donation of their former branch building on Yale Road to the University of the Fraser Valley, for an education “plaza” focused on business development and training.

The gift of $850,000 from BMO Group to UFV, along with $650,000 from CEPCO for renovations, make for a total donation of roughly $1.5 million to build the newest UFV campus in the heart of downtown.

The downtown core will be “transformed” by the arrival of a new UFV campus in the middle of it.

Renovations will start in the new year, with the new UFV Plaza expected to open in September 2013.

Concept plan for a major piece of downtown Chilliwack that the City wants developed sooner, rather than later.

Curtain closes on Paramount Theatre

About 200 teachers and supporters lined Luckakuck Way on Feb. 27 in an effort to raise awareness for their fight for public education. Teachers were also rallying outside various schools throughout the district. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE

Teachers join provincial protest

The labour unrest that greeted students when they returned to school in September, continued as they began the new year.

Chilliwack teachers, unhappy with the pace of negotiations with the BC Public School Employers Association, had already cut back on some administrative duties, like noon-hour supervision.

In February, teachers vowed to stop writing report cards, leaving that responsibility to school administrators.

They took their message to the streets, protesting the B.C. Liberal government’s introduction of Bill 22 – legislation, they

said would strip the union of hard-won bargaining rights.

More than 250 teachers lined Vedder Road in an effort to protest the government’s zero per cent wage offer, and seek public support for their work-to-rule campaign.

However, the dispute erupted into a full-blown strike in March.

Chilliwack teachers joined public educators from across the province in a three-day walk out. They said they were angered and insulted by legislation that extended the current teacher contract terms until June 2013, while imposing the gov-

ernment’s two-year “net zero” wage mandate and a new teacher evaluation and selection process.

That anger grew when it was learned that on the first day of the strike, Premier Christy Clark was in Chilliwack, visiting a private Christian school. That visit was postponed when teachers descended on the school to protest the legislation.

In April, the dispute escalated again when teachers voted to withdraw from all extracurricular activities. The move affected field trips, drama productions and athletic events.

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The fate of the old Paramount was sealed this year.

For years officials had been trying to figure out what to do with the old Theatre building on Yale Road that City of Chilliwack was gifted.

Without a plan they deemed viable coming forward, it now sits awaiting the wrecking ball, a move that sorely disappointed those who were trying in earnest to save the 60+ year old building.

The adjacent Ewert building came down earlier in December and the Paramount is next.

City officials put out the call out for serious proposals earlier this year. Two applicants came forward in the first RFP process in March,

Explosion, fire darkens Chilliwack It was an ominous plume of black smoke shooting straight up into the air that could be seen all over Chilliwack.

A major electrical substation fire early in 2012 knocked power out across the city, and took what seemed like forever to clean up.

The fire erupted on Jan. 27 when a 40,000litre tank of insulating mineral oil burst into flames at the Atchelitz substation, located on Lickman Road, near South Sumas Road.

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A Save the Chilliwack Paramount group formed quickly to try to save the building. They were given a 90-day reprieve, and proposed it be turned into a repertory theatre and run as a not-for-profit.

But the city had no appetite to spend money to save the building, and the group could not raise enough to be considered compliant with the RFP process, again because a lack of financial backing.

in Chilliwack and Abbotsford were without power for most of the day.

Explosions at the site sent flames and dense smoke into the air, and most of the mineral oil spilled out.

At one point city officials were warning residents to stay inside, close their windows and turn off their furnaces to prevent toxic smoke from being drawn inside.

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A dozen employees at the substation were quickly accounted for and confirmed as safe, and four went to hospital for assessment.

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The Fraser River rose higher and peaked later than usual in the 2012 causing flooding in Chilliwack’s unprotected areas in what city officials deemed a onein-20-year event.

Chilliwack property owners outside the dike system feverishly worked around the clock last May to keep the Fraser River at bay by building a makeshift berm.

But on Friday, June 22, the hastily built structure that was about a kilometre long, made mostly of soil and fervent hope, was breached and the water came flooding over it.

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The holidays, at least, according to the media, advertising, and everything else that bombards us with messages, is about spending time with family and being filled with ‘Christmas cheer.’

That’s OK for everyone who has a family that fits into the mould of the perfect family. Happy faces, laughing children, people who love you, and an abundance of cash, that is.

But not everyone has a Martha Stewart home.

Rather than being the happiest time of year, for many people the holiday season is an unbearably lonely time.

For those who don’t have family to share food and gifts with, being surrounded by images of merriment and perfect families only highlights the fact that they don’t fit the mould.

Canadian statistics from helplines have shown that both the number and severity of calls by depressed persons increases every year through November and December, returning to normal volume towards the end of January.

But sometimes, all that is needed is someone to notice a person’s existence.

If you know anybody who is spending the Christmas holiday alone, stop by with a card, invite them for dinner, or just knock on their door and say “Merry Christmas.”

How good does it make you feel when a stranger smiles at you for no reason other than to show friendliness? Walking down the street, look people in the eye and smile.

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VICTORIA – NDP leader Adrian Dix has completed yearend interviews with members of the legislative press gallery. Here are highlights from my discussion with him.

TF: On the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion proposal, federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair says the federal environmental process would have to be strengthened before a project like that could get a thorough enough hearing. Do you agree?

AD: The B.C. Liberal government has signed an equivalency agreement that says that the federal decision is the provincial decision on these projects. If it applies to Enbridge Northern Gateway, presumably the B.C. Liberals would apply it to Kinder Morgan.

They could have done a joint process, where [the final decision] would have gone to both cabinets. They chose instead to

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So what we’ve said is within a week of coming to office, we would end that equivalency agreement, and British Columbia would make decisions about Tom both Enbridge FLETCHER Northern Gateway, which applied in May 2010, and any other pipeline, including the Kinder Morgan proposal, for which no application has been made.

Obviously it would have been desirable for everyone had they chosen a true joint review, as they have in Site C [dam proposed for Peace River], as they did with

Kemess North [rejected mine expansion proposal] and other cases.

TF: You don’t want duplicated review processes here, you just want a provincial cabinet say in the decision?

AD: That’s right.

TF: On your relationship with the B.C. Federation of Labour, your caucus is considering a proposal that B.C. should once again do away with secret ballots for union certification.

AD: The B.C. Fed makes a case to the government on a series of issues on employment standards every year. Labour law, every year. WorkSafeBC, every year.

Trades and training, every year.

With respect to [accepting signed union cards for certification], it is a democratic process that the Newfoundland Conservative government just put into place a few months ago. So

it’s a proposal from the labour movement and we’re looking at it.

For most of B.C.’s modern history, since World War II, we’ve had that card-check system in place. The question would be whether [returning to that system] is a priority for this term in government.

TF: So those kinds of things will be made clear in your platform?

AD: Absolutely.

TF: You picked up some serious money from the business community at a fundraiser in October. Is that some kind of a record for the NDP? AD: [Laughs.] It might be a record, I don’t know. I think the business fundraiser we did at the Hotel Vancouver netted $350,000.

I think what it reflects is, this year I’ve had about 230 meetings with the business community. The purpose of it has been principally to build understanding, particularly on issues of skills training.

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With the priority I give to skills training, I think I’m much more attuned to their concerns than the government has been.

TF: I suppose that kind of success in fundraising might make it more difficult to follow through with your pledge to ban corporate and union donations.

AD: I don’t think so. The B.C. Liberal Party has a very high level of corporate donations as a percentage of its total. We’re overwhelmingly dependent on individual donations. We get support from unions, but it’s not even close to what people would think.

TF: So you’ll campaign for that, as you have before?

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UFV settles in to new home It took a little longer than planned, but by September, and in time for the start of the fall semester, the University of the Fraser Valley completed its move to its new campus at Canada Education Park.

The relocation followed years of planning and co-ordiation between various levels of government and Chilliwack Economic Partners.

Located in a dramatically redesigned and enlarged remnant of the former Canada Forces Base Chilliwack, the building marks a significant step in a presence that UFV will expand upon in the coming years.

The new $44 million campus is not the first at the educa-

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But it does consolidate its local programing, creating what UFV president Mark Evered called “synergies” that the university hopes to further encourage.

The new building is 150,000 square feet, offering state-of-theart teaching areas for departments like health sciences.

Currently, the campus can accommodate 1,500 full-timeequivalent students, with the capacity to add 300 more.

But that won’t be the end of it.

UFV’s 30-year plan calls for construction of several more buildings with the eventual capacity of

7,000 full-time-equivalent student spaces.

The relocation does leave vacant the UFV’s property downtown, except for the university theatre, which is still available for performances. After an earlier effort to redevelop the former campus failed, the property remains for sale.

Although UFV now calls Canada Education Park home, it will maintain a presence north of the freeway. In December it announced it was creating a downtown businesses training centre, thanks to $1.5 million in donations from the Bank of Montreal and CEPCO. The centre will be located in the former BMO office at Five Corners.

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Most read online A season of unrest for teachers Teachers from page 3 Chilliwack Teachers’ Association president Katharin Midzain said the decision was a difficult one. However, “There are so many things in [Bill 22] that are just so potentially damaging. What will happen in classrooms is so long term that we need to take a stand and it will be a long one.”

But predictions that the labour dispute would drag on into September proved wrong. In June the two sides made the surprising announcement that they had reached a tentative agreement.

The contract was essentially a roll-over from the teachers’ last contract, which had expired a year earlier. Although there were some improvements to teacher benefits, there was no wage increases, or changes in class size and composition – both of which were contentious issues early on in negotiations.

The current contract now expires in June of 2013, setting up another round of negotiations.

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1. Power substation erupts in flames Explosion and fire at a BC Hydro substation knocks out power to half of Chilliwack for a day.

2. ’Another miracle’ as second monster sturgeon caught on Fraser River The second of two mammoth sturgeons pulled from the Fraser 3. Hit-and-run driver sought by Chilliwack RCMP Pedestrian struck and killed while on the sidewalk.

4. Drifting snow closes roads across Chilliwack January storm paralyzes Chilliwack.

5. Yarrow mill fire causes cable and online disruptions Fire burns through overhead communications lines 6. Premier’s tour of Chilliwack Christian school draws protesters Teachers protest Christy Clark’s visit to a private school 7. Yarrow gas station destroyed by fire Gas station fire forces evacuation 8. RCMP release name of helicopter pilot killed in crash near Chilliwack Pilot killed during training exercise 9. Chilliwack gaming centre walls go up Construction begins on Chances Community Gaming Centre in Chilliwack 10. Chilliwack teacher charged with luring a child released from custody

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Just a few weeks prior to the fatal flight Orders had taken a recertification course that included the pre-launch readiness procedure.

In a prepared statement, Orders told reporters after a bail hearing that he “cannot and will not” return to hang-gliding.

He said he would have to “endure forever” the tragic events of that day.

“I want so much to relive that day and to have it turn out differently,” he said.

“Lenami was someone’s daughter and that I find especially difficult to deal with.”

Orders’ own 12-yearold daughter was at the Mt. Woodside launch site at the time of the fatal flight.

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An investigation by the Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada found a “hang-check” was not performed by Orders and another pilot/ instructor at the start of the fatal flight.

The HPAC investigator also found that having a second pilot at the scene may have created “distractions” that led to the failure to hook Godinez-Avila into the glider.

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MLA Gwen O’Mahony, under-funding of Chilliwack’s home care and home support system was highlight-

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The $2.5-million rehab unit had opened in 2006 to provide patients with less intensive medical needs a “seamless” transition from hospital to home.

But Fraser Health officials said in a news release that an outpatient rehab program call the Rehabilitation Early Discharge initiative (REDi) - had proven successful at four other hospitals in the region, allowing patients to go home an average 9 to 11 days sooner, yet achieve the same, or better, levels of recovery.

However, it was the health authority’s lack of consultation with anyone in Chilliwack that upset doctors, patients and politicians.

The head of Chilliwack hospital doctors took the unusual step of going public in reaction to the closure.

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Byelection breakthrough for provincial NDP Robert Freeman The Progress

After 30 years in politics, Chilliwack MLA John Les announced on Aug. 30 that he will not be seeking re-election in May, 2013. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE

Local Liberals make way as provincial election looms The Progress

Chilliwack’s political landscape underwent a seismic shift with the resignations of BC Liberal MLAs John Les and Barry Penner.

Penner’s seat in ChilliwackHope, a BC Liberal stronghold since his first election in 1996, was promptly snagged in an April byelection by NDP candidate Gwen O’Mahony.

Les decided to keep his seat in the Chilliwack riding until the next provincial election on May 14, 2013 John Martin, the BC Conservative Party’s candidate in the Chilliwack-Hope byelection, will run in Les’s place in the Chilliwack riding after switching his political affiliations to join the BC Liberal Party.

Laurie Throness, the BC Liberal candidate in the byelection, will run against O’Mahony a second time and try to reclaim the Chilliwack-Hope riding for the BC Liberals.

Penner, a former Chilliwack lawyer and park ranger, was B.C.’s Attorney General in August, 2011, when he announced his decision not to run for re-election a fifth time.

The party’s youngest MLA when first elected, Penner rose to become one of B.C.’s longestserving environment ministers, and held the Aboriginal relations and reconciliation portfolio as well.

In November, Penner announced he was resigning his seat and leaving politics to join the prestigious law firm of Davis LLP in Vancouver and spend more time with his wife Daris and newborn daughter Fintry.

“It’s been an incredible journey for someone who grew up in the eastern Fraser Valley,” he said.

Les announced his decision not to run for re-election in August, 2012.

Other BC Liberal MLAs were announcing they would not run for re-election as opinion polls suggested the NDP might win the next election and form government.

But Les, a political veteran after 30 years as Chilliwack mayor and as MLA, said he was confident the BC Liberals could win back the ChilliwackHope riding, and hold onto the Chilliwack riding he had represented since 2001.

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Kinder Morgan’s plan to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline surfaced in March sparking immediate fears about an oil spill — although the pipeline in Chilliwack had been operating since the early 1950s without an incident.

However, there was a pipeline ruptured by a construction crew in Burnaby in July, 2007 that spilled more than 1,500 barrels, and a 90,000litre spill occurred in January, 2012, at a company tank farm on Sumas Mountain in Abbotsford.

And tar sands — also called diluted bitumen — pumped through an aging pipeline was the major concern of a new citizen’s group called

the PIPE UP Network that organized opposition to the proposed pipeline.

Kinder Morgan spokesperson Lexa Hobenshield said pipelines “are proven to be the safest and most efficient means of transporting large volumes of crude oil and natural gas over land.”

“Our industrial safety record is first-class compared to any other

way to move large quantities of energy ... this is absolutely by far the safest and most environmentally sound way to do that,” she said.

But an investigation by the National Energy Board found it took more than four hours from the time the first alarm noted a possible leak at the Kinder Morgan tank farm on Continued: Pipe/ p30

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Les was cleared of any criminal charges, but with his reputation under a cloud for three years as the investigation dragged on, his political career seemed to stall.

But Les told reporters in August that his decision to leave politics was based on several factors, one of them being “a certain weariness” after 30 years living in the “fishbowl” of politics, and the cost of that on his wife Mattie and their growing brood of children and grandchildren.

“They put up with a lot in 30 years,” Les said. “Now we can live like a normal family, without the ‘Old Man’ in the fish bowl.” rfreeman@theprogress.com twitter.com/paperboy2

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Gwen O’Mahony scored an upset victory for the NDP by taking the Chilliwack-Hope riding away from the BC Liberals in an April byelection.

Although the BC Liberals outspent the NDP in the election campaign, O’Mahony walked away with nearly 42 per cent of the total vote - 6,022 votes — compared to the nearly 32 per cent — 4,593 votes — garnered

by BC Liberal candidate Laurie Throness.

BC Conservative candidate John Martin came third with 25.15 per cent — 3,615 votes — of the total ballots cast.

But those votes siphoned from the BC Liberals may have made all the difference.

The byelection campaign was the third for O’Mahony who had run previously — but unsuccessfully — as the NDP candidate in the 2009 provincial election and the 2011 federal election.

O’Mahony had hammered the BC Liberals during the campaign on local issues like the demand for a dialysis unit for patients in the Chilliwack

area, and the backlog of court cases.

She also made political hay out of the BC Liberals’ apparent delay in calling the byelection.

“The Legislature has been sitting for two weeks, and people in our communities have not had a voice at the table,” she said. “It’s time for the Premier to call this byelection to make sure that we have a voice in the B.C. Legislature.”

BC Conservative candidate John Martin agreed, saying there was no reason for the delay, which treated voters in Chilliwack-Hope are “like second-class citizens.”

After the byelection, Throness said the NDP victory was due only to the split in the conservative vote, as the upstart BC Conservative Party took votes away from the BC Liberals.

He said voters in Chilliwack-Hope, angry with the BC Liberals, had voted “strategically to send a message” to the BC Liberal government.

But he didn’t believe they would do the same in the upcoming provincial election on May 14, 2013.

“I think they will send a message again ... that they don’t want an NDP government,” he said.

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City finalizes area plan for the Eastern Hillsides Jennifer Feinberg The Progress

A revised area plan for Chilliwack’s Eastern Hillsides has slightly higher densities. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE

In a bold stroke of the pen, Chilliwack city council revised its comprehensive area plan for the Eastern Hillsides with a call for more “realistic” densities.

The Eastern Hillsides Area Plan originally pre-

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Kindergarten teacher Garry Penner and his students on the first day in their new classroom at the new Rosedale traditional community school on Jan. 3. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE

and their families, and facilities to accommodate the Fraser Valley Distance Education school.

The new facility is expected to be completed this spring, prompting plans for one of the biggest school reunions Chilliwack has ever seen.

Organizers are hoping to welcome 10,000 former students and staff to an event that will allow them to say good-bye to the old facility – which is slated for demolition – while welcoming a new era in

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Rosedale students were the first to move into their new home.

The $31.6 million combined facility, which celebrated its official opening in May, replaces the 57-year-old Rosedale elementary and the 51-yearold Rosedale middle school.

With a capacity for 570 students from kindergarten to Grade 9, the school also includes a “Neighbourhood Learning Centre,” thanks to a $200,000 contribution from the City of Chilliwack.

The learning centre provides a “hub” for community activities.

As the new year dawned, elementary students were the first to move into the new school, prompting words like “Wow!” “Cool!” “Awesome!”

School board chair Louise Piper call the new Rosedale Traditional Community school “an excellent example of design and vision working together to create a supportive and collaborative learning environment for both students and community members.”

Yarrow elementary students had to wait until September to move into their new school. The $15 million facility offers about 7,000 additional square feet of space and can accommodate 475 students.

In addition, the school offers nearly 5,000 square feet of “community learning space.”

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Reid Johnson, president of the Health Sciences Association, said home care and home suppor t in Chilliwack “needs additional money.”

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FHA spokesman Scott Brolin tried to assure the audience at the town hall that the health authority had learned from this experience, and sees “the need to involve folks” the next time an initiative like this is introduced.

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Police say the shooting was a targeted attack, however they say they don’t believe it is related to any of the recent Lower Mainland gang murders.

By 1 p.m. Saturday RCMP had arrested a Chilliwack man without incident in a residential part of the city.

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near an underground aquifer which supplies Chilliwack’s drinking water.

At a public info session in Chilliwack, one of a series of community consultations the company has promised to hold, Greg Toth, director of Trans Mountain’s expansion project, said a new “horizontal directional drill” will be used to bore under water ways like the Fraser River.

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“I’m against it because of the risk,” he said.

“I know they’re doing their best, but if something does happen,” he said, the potential ecological damage to water ways and water sources will “affect a lot of other industries and hurt our economy.”

And Chilliwack will see little of the economic benefits of twinning the pipeline, he said, while accepting double the risk of a spill.

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VICTORIA – Releasing a snakehead fish into B.C. waters could cost you up to $250,000.

The B.C. government has amended its controlled alien species regulation to impose steep fines for releasing invasive fish such as the snakehead, a Chinese import with a voracious appetite and the ability to wiggle across land to get to new waterways.

A snakehead fish discovered in Burnaby Lake in June forced environment ministry biologists to pump the lake level down so it could be captured.

The toothy beasts were being imported and sold alive in Asian specialty food stores.

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“The impact of the snakehead and zebra mussel in other jurisdictions has been devastating to those local ecosystems,” Environment Minister Terr y Lake said Thursday, announcing the latest changes.

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After an absence of more than 30 years, GW Graham brought it back, fielding brand new teams at the Grade 8 and junior varsity levels.

Like all brand new programs, the Grizzlies came in with low expectations.

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The junior varsity squad started the season the way everyone expected them to, losing their regular season opener 24-0 to the mighty Mission Roadrunners.

They lost 23-0 to Robert Bateman in week two, then didn’t lose again the rest of the season.

GWG ripped off wins over Rick Hansen (508), Samuel Robertson Tech (19-6), Abbotsford Collegiate (18-8) and Pitt Meadows (14-12) to finish the regular season at 4-2.

The early season stumbles cost them dearly though, as they failed to qualify for playoffs.

“To know that you lose the first two games and you’re out, that’s tough, but you live and learn,” said head coach Laurie Smith. “Had we known it was that competitive, we might have approached the early season intensity different. That team had the talent to pull off upsets in the playoffs, and I

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“I think next year’s team will be the best that I’ve ever been a part of,” Smith said.

“The kids who are coming back and the ones coming up from the Grade 8 team, there’s a chance for something special.”

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They won five, most in dominant fashion, to finish first overall in the AA conference.

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The Grizzlies were bumped up to the AAA level, where they would supposedly be throttled by the big boys.

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“To be perfectly honest, I didn’t expect to beat the AAA teams,” Smith said, reflecting on the wins over Van College and St. Thomas More. “When we won that final regular season game against Abbotsford and got bumped up to AAA I was of mixed emotion.

But by the time we got to that provincial championship game, I really believed that we would win.”

All the hours to launch the program, far more than Smith or anyone else expected — it was all worth it. And not just for the on-field results.

“I had a call from a parent of a kid who has experienced trouble in school before,” Smith said. “That parent said their kid wouldn’t be in school without football. So we’ve definitely connected kids with GW Graham, and it’s making a difference. It has been a remarkable experience.”

Come September, GWG will be adding another team to the mix, with a senior squad (Grades 11-12) hitting the field.

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Everyone’s been waiting for this. This is the team that makes history for us and takes it to the next level.”

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Huskers break through with win

of Exhibition Stadium, the Huskers rose up.

Ty Derayos and Josh Hayden ran for majors.

Dan Erickson added a 32 yard field goal.

When the final whistle blew, the Huskers had won their first game since October 2009, taking a 17-10 final.

“You got this sense of a weight being lifted off your shoulders,” head coach Tyson St. James said afterwards.

“Watching the guys celebrate,

that’s what you do it for. To see what they accomplished after such a long and enduring season, what’s what all of us were doing it for.”

The question heading into 2013 is, was it a blip on the radar or the start of a longawaited upswing?

St. James is in the midst of his first full offseason, with plenty of time to recruit.

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Chilliwack’s Chiefs back on top of junior A world bling their win total to finish 32-22-2-3.

The Chiefs pushed the eventual BCHL and Canadian champion Penticton Vees to six games in the first round, the toughest test Penticton faced in the 2012 playoffs.

In the summer, Smyl lost his entire first line, with Malcolm Gould and David Bondra heading to school, and Derek Huisman heading to Merritt in a trade for Austin Plevy.

As the 2012-13 season dawned in September, expectations were suitably modest.

An above average team perhaps?

A contender for the Mainland division crown maybe?

They’ll play hard, but how good will they really be?

Getting away from the year in review for a second, the Chilliwack Chiefs lost a player late last week, with Mitch Skapski defecting the Western Hockey League’s Everett Silvertips.

The 16-year-old had eight points (three goals) in 29 games.

His brother Mackenzie plays for the Kootenay Ice.

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I believe we are a top five team.”

If Smyl believes that, you can expect him to try and improve the team early in 2013. The trade deadline is Jan. 10 and Smyl is open to possibilities.

“We’ve identified some things we’d like to add, and we always want to make the club better,” he said. “We don’t want to sell off the future to do it, because we like the pieces we have. But if there’s an opportunity, we will

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Regardless, Smyl is confident that win or lose, his Chiefs have been firmly re-established as Chilliwack’s team.

“There may have been some discouragement with what went on in the past with other junior franchises,” he said. “But I think the community being what it is, they embrace hard working teams. They’ve embraced us in a very solid way, and it’s going to continue in 2013.”

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The question now is what might Smyl and company do to get into the top stories of 2013?

Are the events of the first half reality, or a mirage.

Are the Chiefs among the elite, or are they an average team overachieving?

Will we be talking about a BCHL championship this time next year?

“We have some high end talent on our team, but our identity is in our work habits,” Smyl said. “We have to work for everything we get in all three zones. If we continue to work hard all the time and believe in the system, then yes,

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Chilliwack Chiefs mascot Chief Wannawin will drop by at 1:30 p.m. and free hot chocolate and other goodies will be provided.

Skate rentals and ice access are free for youths accompanied by an adult.

The Optimist Club asks for a food donation to be sent on to the local Food Bank.

Quite good, as it and the team’s architect turns out. deserves a ton of credit.

As we come out of “Ever yone who’s the Christmas break, been involved has a the Chiefs sport the little piece of this,” Smyl third best record in said. “It’s been a chalthe league at lenge getting to 21-8-1-1, trailing this point, but only Penticton it’s not like we and the Victoria were building Grizzlies in the anything from overall standscratch.” ings.

Smyl credits The Chiefs the culture and have locked framework that down a spot existed from Harvey in the weekly the original CJHL top-20 Chiefs franchise SMYL rankings. for making the They have the rebirth easier.

BCHL’s second leading “We’ve established a scorer in Luke Esposito standard over the years, and the league’s prob- a model that we folable MVP in goalie low,” he said. “We have Mitch Gillam. things we feel we must The ascension of the live up to, to continue Chiefs to the top of the making our franchise junior A hockey world what it always has been. has to be one of the top If we didn’t have the sports stories of 2012, knowledge and experi-

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Two years ago, Smyl took the reigns of a team that had gone 13-44-3 during the 201011 season.

The Millionaires were a perennial mess, with bad teams playing in a bad barn in a remote British Columbian town.

When the Mills moved south to become the reborn Chilliwack Chiefs, Smyl assured everyone that it was going to be a long process.

His team exceeded expectations in year one, more than dou-

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PAGE Arthur (Art) Harold Mr. Arthur (Art) Harold Page late of Chilliwack then Abbotsford, BC went PAGE to be with his Lord and Saviour on December 17, 2012 at the age of 84.

He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Peggy Lee Page and their daughter Tara (Kevin) Meyer and 2 grandchildren, children from a previous marriage, Ron (Joan) Page, Bob (Deb) Page, Karen (Dave) Pflug, Bill (Francine) Page, 6 grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren.

He was predeceased by his son Gordon Page.

Art was born September 9, 1928 in Regina, Saskatchewan and moved to BC at the age of 10. He lived in Surrey, BC for many years. His passion for fishing brought him to the Sardis area where he never passed up a good morning of fishing or a weekend garage sale. He

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worked in sales for many years and had a joy for making Burl clocks, tables and other wooden crafts. He also enjoyed crafting fishing rods and was proud of his handy work.

Art served the Lord faithfully and for many years was eager to share the gospel and had a gift of praying for the sick.

Thank you to the staff at Menno Hospital for the compassion and care shown to Art in his final hours.

A Memorial will take place on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 2:00 pm in First Ave Christian Assembly located at 46510 First Ave, Chilliwack, BC with Pastor Jay McAllister officiating.

Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Fraser Valley Salmon Society.

Beyond the gate our loved one finds happiness and rest: And there is comfort in the thought. That a loving God knows best.

Henderson’s Funeral Home Abbotsford, British Columbia (604) 854-5534

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Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of the late STANLEY GLEN RAWLINS, formerly of 7525 Topaz Drive, Chilliwack, BC, are hereby required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executor, c/o ROSE SHAWLEE, Lawyer, 9259 Main Street, 390, Chilliwack, BC V2P 6K2, before January 24, 2013 after which date the Executor will distribute the said Estate amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which he then has notice.

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Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land and Allocation of Water: Development Plan Preparation Take notice that Lizabet Patheiger of Vancouver BC has applied to the Provincial Government for a hydroelectric power project. The Crown land tenure covers a tract of land in the vicinity of Herrling Island, together with unsurveyed foreshore or land covered by water being part of an unnamed creek and lake, in the Yale division situated on Provincial Crown land located near Four Brothers Mountain.

The proposal includes utilizing 0.33m3/s of water from an unnamed creek The works included in the proposal are an intake, penstock, powerhouse and powerline running to Highway #1. The proposed point of diversion for the project is located at a tributary confluence, approximately one kilometer upstream from the mouth of the creek.

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The File Numbers that have been established for these applications are Land File 2409394 and Water File 2002908.

Written comments regarding the Development Plan preparation should be directed to Eric Redmond at 3130 Dunbar Street Vancouver, V6R3N9, micro_green@ hotmail.com, with a copy of all correspondence provided to Al Shaw at 7077 Duncan Street, Powell River BC, V8A 1W1, al.shaw@gov.bc.ca. Comments will be received until January 26th, 2013. Please quote the above file numbers when commenting. If you are a water license holder you must identify your water license number in your response. The Applicant may not be able to consider comments received after this date.

Please visit the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations applications website at http://arfd.gov.bc.ca/Applications Posting/index.jsp to view the proposed Project Development Plan Template. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For more information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations regional office.

The Development Plan Template is a guiding document that defines information to be required by the Province prior to a decision being made on Project authorizations. Comments regarding the Development Plan Template will be considered at this time. An additional public comment period will be held once the APPLICANT has conducted studies and analysis in the Project area and has submitted the Project Development Plan to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations.

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