Abbotsford News, February 19, 2013

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Fraser Health funding lowest per capita in B.C. ‘Archaic’ budget formula has councillor, MLA calling for review A3

Action on problem property

BODY FOUND

A3 Police investigate the

discovery of a body on Riverside Road Monday morning

CRYSTAL GALA FUNDING

Vikki HOPES Abbotsford News

George Penner has spent the last year and a half trying to evict the tenants from his home on Gladys Avenue. He gave them an eviction notice, but they wouldn’t leave, and Penner didn’t know what recourse he had. In the meantime, they turned his two-acre VIDEO property into a garbage ONLINE dump filled with used abbynews.com needles and human waste, destroyed all the vehicles on the site, allowed squatters to set up camp, and trashed the inside of his home. The property, with its large boat in the front yard, became the site of numerous complaints from neighbours and countless visits by police. A 42-year-old man was arrested at the home in July 2011, when police seized 12 firearms from the residence. Continued on A4

A5 $130,000 from fall

fundraiser will purchase an ultrasound machine

CONCERNS OVER LEGAL GROWS A11 Fire chief highlights safety issues associated with medical marijuana grow-ops

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Workers from Steve’s Towing volunteered their time late last week to clean up a property that housed problem tenants on Gladys Avenue. The site was a source of countless complaints from neighbours and numerous visits by police.

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