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HIGH-PROFILE HOOPS The Cascades men’s basketball team hosts the Rice University Owls, an NCAA squad from Texas, next week A52
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Manure dumping plan revealed in city documents Multiple departments involved in decision to deter homeless A4 Alex BUTLER Abbotsford News
Multiple managers at city hall were involved in or aware of a decision to dump chicken manure on a homeless camp on Gladys Avenue on June 4, internal documents show. Though city manager George Murray ultimately took the heat for the decision, assuming re-
sponsibility and declining to name any city staff involved, emails and documents obtained by The News through a freedom of information request implicate staff from several departments. The site, on Gladys Avenue across from the Salvation Army facility, had been the topic of emails between city staff, discussing ways to deal with the gathering of the city’s homeless
there. The ideas included removing brush cover, cutting down the large cedar at that site – sometimes known as the Happy Tree – or placing concrete rubble in the area. A June 3 email from the city’s urban forester Eric Fong – the subject of the email being “spreading chicken manure…” – to James Continued on A4
A15 South Korean couple bring their teddy bear museum to Abbotsford
A place to call home Renovated entirely through donations of material and labour, Cyrus House will provide a stable family environment for at-risk kids A5
SAMARITAN ASSAULTED A7 Man attacked after trying to intervene in fight at bus stop
ELMO BACK TO MAKE MUSIC A48 Sesame Street Live will perfom in Abbotsford in December
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Les Talvio in the kitchen of Cyrus House, which was renovated through the efforts and generosity of local volunteers, business owners and contractors.
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