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Chilliwack has a couple of ways to help feed the hungry.
Leaders debate as final roster set.
The BC Lions go back to class.
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Candidates urged to fight WTE Alina Konevski The Progress
Metro Vancouver’s plan to build a waste-to-energy garbage incinerator is the single biggest issue facing Fraser Valley residents, according to Fraser Valley Regional District board chair Sharon Gaetz. FVRD is calling on candidates running for an MLA seat in the Valley to declare a position on the incinerator. “On behalf of all Fraser Valley residents, I votes 3 want to 1 0 2 ask each political candidate to offer a direct answer on where they stand on garbage incineras tion invthe FVRD chair oteregion,” Sharon Gaetz 3 01 said in a release. 2 “Deferring to any outside environmental or planning process isn’t an answer — people deserve to know whether their next MLA will fight for or against burning garbage — period.” FVRD stated that a WTE incintes Vancouver would erator v inoMetro create as20much 13 smog as 30,000 additional cars on the road, and the emitted pollutants would drift to Fraser Valley’s airshed. “Here in the Fraser Valley, the main issue for residents and voters is the v threat otesto our air quality. It needs to be13 a key issue for all the 20 aiming to be elected individuals as MLAs,” said Gaetz. “There are plenty of other reasons — like the burning of materials that should be recycled, and filling landfills with the highly toxic ash left over from the process — that play a part of the larger debate.” At an all-candidates’ panel meeting in Chilliwack on April 18, no candidate supported the WTE plan.
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Austin, 6, Conner, 12 and Tyler, 10, want their puppy Zoey back after she went missing last week. JENNIFER FEINBERG/PROGRESS
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B votes 2013 Puppy stolen from family’s yard Jennifer Feinberg The Progress
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puppy. 2013 Kim Demeter said her boys were heartbroken when their yellow-lab named Zoey was snatched from the McNaught Avenue yard last Tuesday. “We are just devastated,” she told The Progress. The family is sharing their stolen puppy story in the hopes that someone saw something suspicious that morning that may help them find her.
They believe the older black lab, Abby, had been secured in the backyard by the dog-napper and thrown some raw meat as distraction. The Demeters found some mysterious chunks that the big dog couldn’t finish, making it clear the puppy-theft was premeditated, rather than simply a crime of opportunity. “A neighbour told us she saw both dogs running loose on the front lawn at about 9 a.m. But I came home to find Abby behind the gate. I couldn’t find the puppy anywhere,” said Demeter. Chilliwack SPCA manager Ivanna Ferris said the phenom-
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enon of dog-napping isn’t all that common. “In my experience, certainly cute puppies and small breed dogs can be targeted if left unattended in a yard. So it’s definitely something to watch out for, but it’s not that common.” A large wagon sits out front of the Demeter home on McNaught near Yale Road. The neighbour said she didn’t know what to do so she’d tried to put Zoey in the decorative wagon for safekeeping. When they came home, the family found what looked like raw meat mounded into some pea gravel in the backyard, where the older dog had been sick, so they
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know something untoward, possibly criminal happened while they were away. “Abby, the big dog, is very protective and would have been barking like crazy.” The pure-bred puppy was nowhere to be found, no matter how hard they looked. They called police and animal control and made reports, to no avail. “I don’t understand how someone could do this,” she says. “We only had her for five days.” Police said it was likely to have been someone in the area. “Maybe someone suddenly has a new puppy that looks like Zoey.” Continued: DOG/ p12
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