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MARCH MADNESS
MARCH 19, 2013
Crosstown rivals Mouat and Yale met in the fifth-place game at the AAA provincial tourney A15
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Parks manager missing Rescue workers continue search for Mark Taylor after ski accident Vikki HOPES Abbotsford News
Crews were hoping to resume their search yesterday afternoon or Tuesday morning for a City of Abbotsford department head who fell down a crevasse while backcountry skiing in the Rockies. Mark Taylor, the general manager of
the City of Abbotsford’s parks, recreation and culture department, has been missing since just before midnight on Tuesday, March 12. He had been backcountry skiing with two others – his daughter in her 30s and a man in his 60s – on the B.C. side of the Wapta Traverse, located northeast of
Golden on the B.C.-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies. Omar McDadi, spokesperson with Parks Canada, said the trio were on a five-day excursion in the area – a popular mountaineering spot – and would have been staying at huts along the way. Continued on A3
RALLY TO END EXPLOITATION
RECOGNIZING DIVERSITY
A7 Six awards were handed
out on Friday night during 11th annual ceremony
DNA LEADS TO ARREST
A5 Vancouver man charged in 2010 assault of an Abbotsford woman
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A13 Betty and David Giesbrecht to be awarded Queen’s Jubilee Medals
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ALEX BUTLER Abbotsford News
Community members gathered for a public rally on Thursday afternoon along South Fraser Way to raise awareness about the sexual exploitation of youth. The rally was organized by the Fraser Valley Community Action Team and started at the Abbotsford Youth Commission.
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