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Hope Standard Tuesday, December 24, 2013 A7
2013 Year in Review
American Cable Network National Geographic Channel picks up the U.S. rights to Highway Thru Hell from Beyond Distribution. A fire destroys a home on Marie Street. Flames are seen shooting from the trailer when three fire trucks and 10 firefighters arrive on scene. The homeowner was not injured, but several pets perish inside. Hope is starting to rein in its spending, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. The 2012 Municipal Spending Watch Report lists the municipality among the 10 most improved cities in the Lower Mainland for cost control. Semi trucks are pulled over at the Hunter Creek scales, Highway 1 exits, and throughout Hope for hours as drivers wait out Highway 1, 3, and 5 closures east of Hope due to a high avalanche hazard in the mountain passes. C h i l l iw a ck - Fr a s e r Canyon MP Mark Strahl announces $99,660 in federal funding for upgrades to Hope Regional Airpark and four other regional parks. The project will include framing and drywall installation, plumbing, and retrofits to improve wheelchair accessibility. Several yellow bear caution signs are missing around Hope. The Hope Mountain Black Bear Committee uses them on trails to warn residents when bears are spotted in the area. However, seven of the
Dec 24: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Dec 25: Closed Dec 26: Closed Jan 1: Closed The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team surveys a property on Othello Road on Jan. 14 for evidence following a murder-suicide at the home. Twenty-six-year-old Alec Lamb and 29-year-old Taylor Insley were found dead inside just before 2:30 a.m. the day before.
10 signs funded by the local Rotary Club have been stolen in the last six months. Earl Rowe, Hans Jeschek and Richard Zervini receive Queen Elizabeth ll Diamond Jubilee medals for their service to the community and Canada. A 58-year-old Boston Bar man is arrested in connection with a marijuana grow-op. Police seize 91 harvested plants, along with six to seven pounds of bud in the drying phase, from a home on Gibson Road. Police are looking for two men involved in a home invasion in the Silver Creek Trailer Park in Hope. According the RCMP, the suspects entered the home and began to assault the lone occupant. They demanded cash from the man and eventually fled the trailer with an undisclosed amount of cash and other items of value to the victim.
Hope is one step closer to having a new residential zone legalizing secondary suites after council gives third reading to an amendment bylaw that permits single family residential and secondary suite use on the same parcel of land.
February Fans of the hit television series Highway Thru Hell can now purchase Jamie Davis merchandise. The local towing company partners with Vancouver’s Great Pacific TV to launch an online store in addition to selling hats, T-shirts, hoodies and toques at Hope Drive-In and at the Jamie Davis yard on Silver Skagit Road.
A new survey is launched to get public input on Hope’s community branding initiative. The results will be used to determine the spirit and personality of Hope, and find out what makes Hope the community and attractive place to visit, relocate or do business.
Please contact the office at 604-869-2421 for advertising deadlines as there are changes for the holiday season. 12/13H_HS12
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B.C. celebrates a new statutory holiday with the addition of Family Day, which will now fall on the second Monday of the month each year. Dr. Ernie Murakami is the first recipient of the Chilliwack-Hope Citizenship Award, which honoured him for his renowned medical insights and community activism. Continued on 9
Celebrate
The following people and groups helped make this event successful: Sherry Farley Hope MotorSports Group Talarico Excavating Lordco Tri-West Contracting & Excavating Hope Lions Fraternal Order of Eagles Branch # Story Time in the Park Hope Performing Arts Community Theatre Hope Towing High School Leadership Group Nestle Waters Sixth Ave. Sports
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and a big thank you to our event sponsors:
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With a member of the RCMP hockey team lurking in front of the net, fire department goalie John Fortoloczky smothers the puck during the Battle of the Badges game on Feb. 9 at Hope Arena. The firefighters prevailed 9-8 in an overtime thriller, but the real winner was the Cops for Cancer initiative, which raised approximately $2,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Hope Rotary Hope Chiropractic ReMax/Nyda Grove Bookkeeping Sharon’s Deli Blue Moose Sears - downtown Hope Hope Brewing Hope Auto Body Adam’s Freight Forwarding Cooper’s Foods Pharmasave Kent Peterson Design Envision Financial Spectra Energy Hope Standard