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Rounding up and riding the RAM range 2014 RAM Roundup The full-size truck market is big business for automakers and a big deal for the businesses and people who depend on them. For almost five decades the Ford F-150 has been the best selling truck, with little chance they will lose that crown in the near future. What has been happening, over the last few years, is a strong shift from General Motors to RAM in terms of establishing the second best selling truck brand. The rise in RAM
transmission advancements. While GM was selling the same trucks year after year, RAM moved forward and has been rewarded handsomely. GM too has recently released all-new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks but the initial sales response has been rather lacklustre. I drove the 2014 RAM model range recently, on a beautiful fall day, just outside of Toronto. The “RAM Roundup” was a great opportunity to get my hands on these new trucks well before
and macho exterior styling. Front and centre is a grille that was enlarged, but better integrated, for the 2013 model year. Depending on the trim the grille finish can be chrome, painted or with a different insert. This feature is one RAM owners love so, in this case, larger is better. Behind the grille are “active
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air suspension that can be lowered for easier entry into the RAM or loading into the bed. Plus this system automatically lowers over 100km/h to also reduce aerodynamic drag. At lower speeds and for offroad duties, the air suspension can be raised for better ground clearance. Having had a chance to
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Chances tries again for liquor primary Jennifer Feinberg The Progress It’s been about a year since Chances Chilliwack community gaming centre opened with all due fanfare on Young Road. Chilliwack Gaming Ltd./Chilliwack Chances reps will be making a case this Tuesday at city hall for why they should be granted a liquor primary licence. An information meeting is set for Nov. 5 to allow the public an opportunity to comment on the application. They tried and failed to get a revision to their existing food primary licence earlier this year. They wanted a clause that would allow gaming patrons to get up out of their seats and dance with a “public participation” clause. At the time, some local bar owners and members of council said it would be better if the Chances management went directly into an application for their liquor primary licence, instead of accepting any interim option. “We said absolutely, and that was always our long-term desire,” said Chuck Keeling, executive director of stakeholder relations for Great Canadian Gaming. As indicated in earlier press reports, they want to be seen as more than just a gambling venue. “We also want to underscore the entertainment aspect of what we do. And if people can’t dance to a band that’s playing, it’s a lost opportunity.” Right now there is no dancing permitted and minors are allowed to come in by a side entrance to the The Well dining room, which is not licensed to serve alcohol. “Why didn’t we open with this type of licensing? The property on Young Road is not currently designated under the OCP for a facility with liquor primary licensing. “If we were going to open when we did, we knew it had to be with a food primary licence,” said Keeling. How will it differ with liquor primary licensing? Continued: CHANCES/ p4
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Harry Mayne speaks to a group of students from Evans elementary with fellow veterans Pieter van der Maden (left) and Pat Johnston (right) during Canada Remembers at the Masonic Temple last week. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Students learn lessons of sacrifice Katie Bartel The Progress Three elderly men sat before a group of school-aged children, speaking to them of things their young minds could not fathom. They talked of playing soccer next to a minefield, of starving with nothing but a cup of cold, watery soup to sustain them. They told of sleeping in air-raid shelters, in slit trenches, and underneath vehicles in the jungle. Their audience was riveted, wide-eyed, with hands spearing the air and a bevy of questions ready to roll off their tongues as soon as the opportunity was granted.
“Were there tommy guns and old-fashioned cars?” “Did people get forced into the war if they didn’t want to go?” “What are the Germans like now?” “Did you ever get attacked by an animal?” For 13 years, the Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack Historical Society has been offering Canada Remembers presentations to Chilliwack schools, inviting classes into the Masonic Hall to tour the artifacts and listen to local veterans speak of their times in war and peacekeeping missions. Every year the program brings in more than 1,000 stu-
dents during the course of the week it runs. For CFB veteran Jim Harris, it’s personal. “When I was in Europe, I noticed the kids over there knew more about Canadian military history than our own students,” Harris said. “I wanted our students to know as much or more than what kids outside the country know. They’ve got a lovely, beautiful country here, they’re free, and they should know the reasons why, and what the price was that our Canadian soldiers, men and women, have paid.” On a brisk morning last week, students from Evans elementary listened to the
military tales of Pieter van der Maden, Harry Mayne, and Pat Johnston. van der Maden was just five years old, living in Holland, when the Second World War broke out. He went from having a house full of food to his mom having to ride into the city, on a bike with a flat tire, to sell her jewelry just so she could get a handful of potatoes for her children to eat. In 1944 – the “Hongerwinter” – van der Maden was nine years old and skin and bones. More often than not, the only sustenance available was a cup of ice-cold soup that was “90 per cent water.” Continued: STUDENTS/ p14