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The District of Hope has a new director of finance.

Carolyn Bidwell took over the position at the beginning of December and brings both business and municipal experience to the job.

“Before I got into municipal government, my specialty was businesses in trouble or businesses that were expanding and needed support that way,” she said.

“I’m used to looking over the finances of an organization and making sure we move forward in a positive manner. This is a perfect fit.”

Bidwell was born and raised in Regina, Sask., and graduated from

high school with honours before as a controller in various industries, attending the University of Regina. most notably as a corporate accounHer first accounting position was in tant for Field Aviation. While living 1989 as the controller for a Nissan in Calgary with two young children, dealership in Moose Jaw, she passed her Certified Sask. where she trained Management Accounting with a manual accounting exam in 2001. system for over a year. In Bidwell was hired as the the early ’90s, she transadministrator for the ruferred the organization ral municipality of Gravinto a computerized enelbourg, Sask. in 2011, vironment and, within having received her Rural a few years, became the Municipal Administrators controller for a second CAROLYN BIDWELL Class C Certificate. While Mazda dealership owned in that position, she perby the same partnership. sonally finalized the adopBidwell continued her career in tion of an Official Community Plan the accounting and administration and revised zoning bylaw, as well field for the next 22 years, working as many other bylaws, policies, and

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Although she was born and raised in Saskatchewan, her two boys were born in Alberta and raised in Nelson, B.C. Bidwell said she was excited to move back to the province she and her family considers home.

Her eldest son currently attends the University of Alberta in Edmonton, while her youngest is a Grade 11 student at Hope Secondary School.

“We knew this was a good place for us,” she said.

“We love it here. It’s a really good community. The people are wonderful.”

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Fraser Valley Regional District sets ‘zero waste’ goal Alina Konevski Black Press

The Fraser Valley Regional District has committed to diverting 90 per cent of solid waste from the landfill by 2024, a big jump from its current 51 per cent diversion rate.

The board of directors unanimously approved the draft solid waste management plan at a recent board meeting.

By the district’s own admission, the target is aggressive and aspirational.

“Reaching 90 per cent diversion is a formidable target and will be challenging to achieve, but it is achievable,” the FVRD notes in the plan, the first update to solid waste management in the district since 1996.

Key to the plan is removing as much recyclable and compostable material from garbage bags as possible so that only 10 per cent of the region’s solid waste goes

into landfill. The Fraser Valley’s 290,000 residents produce about 200,000 tonnes of waste annually.

“We’ve now adopted a full zero waste goal,” said director Jason Lum, who also chairs FVRD’s zero waste committee. “We’ve actually written zero waste into our plan, zero waste being the aspiration to eliminate waste through diversion, waste reduction, and material recovery.”

FVRD intends to bridge the chasm between its current diversion rate and its target by developing a largescale organics collection program and reducing the amount of waste produced.

The district also plans to establish the Fraser Valley’s first mixed waste materials recovery facility (MRF). The high-tech centre would break open the garbage bag by removing recyclable and compostable material from waste otherwise destined for the landfill. While there are facilities that

Kids, happy hour coming to B.C. pubs Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. government has uncorked another round of liquor law reform, with children to be allowed in pubs and restaurants allowed to serve drinks without food.

Premier Christy Clark announced the changes, as the provincial cabinet works its way through a list of 70 recommendations from a recent public consultation on updating B.C. liquor laws.

As with earlier rounds of liquor reform, the announcement was short on details and long on populist appeal. Some time next year B.C. will see the changes, and will also join all other Canadian provinces in allowing pubs to offer discounted drinks for happy hour.

Permitted times and a minimum drink price are still to be determined.

Children are to be allowed to accompany their parents into pubs up until an evening curfew time, also yet to be determined, but Clark said it will allow families to have

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lunch or dinner together at a pub.

Royal Canadian Legion branches will have the same freedom to admit under-age family members.

Restaurants with “food primary” licences will still have to offer a full menu when liquor is available, Clark said, “but customers who don’t want to order food shouldn’t be forced to do so, and food primary businesses that want to fully

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transition away from food service after a certain hour, and operate for example as a night club, will be able to apply for a special licence to do so.”

NDP critic Shane Simpson said the changes effectively erase the distinction between a licensed restaurant and a pub, and are being announced for popular effect without any research to support them.

The province also intends to make its Serving it Right liquor training mandatory for all servers in B.C.’s 5,600 licensed restaurants, as well as staff at B.C. Liquor Stores and rural agency and wine stores.

Licensees, managers, sales and serving staff “should also be required to recertify,” according to a government news release.

Clark and Richmond-Steveston MLA John Yap, who led the public consultation on liquor law reform, recently announced that regulations would be eased for winery tasting rooms. Farm markets will also be allowed to offer samples and sales of locally made beer, wine and spirits.

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can process organics and recyclables separately, there are none currently in the Fraser Valley than can remove a large percentage of these items from a mixed bag.

“Traditional recycling and source separation, we know that it’s not going to remove all the recyclable material out of the waste stream,” said Lum. “There’s still going to be recyclable material left in those black bags…What happens with the mixed waste recovery facility is we get to break the bag.”

The district would partner with the private sector to build and operate the MRF, which FVRD believes would be less expensive than either landfilling or burning solid waste.

The draft plan is being submitted to the environment minister for approval, and circulated among member municipality councils for endorsement.

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A Supreme Court of Canada ruling to strike down Canada’s prostitution laws is being hailed in B.C. as an irrevocable step toward protecting sex trade workers from violent predators.

The unanimous 9-0 ruling gives the federal government one year to craft new legislation or else the industry will legally be able to communicate openly, operate brothels and profit from prostitution.

“This is a total victory,” Pivot Legal Society staff lawyer Kat Kinch said after the ruling was announced Dec. 20. “Sex trade workers’ lives can’t be sacrificed at the cost of regulating prostitution.”

Kinch predicts it will enable a range of practical safety measures for sex workers, including better screening of customers, spotting by friends, hiring of security guards, and the use of apartments or hotel rooms.

She said the ruling makes it clear Ottawa must put safety first in considering any further legislation, adding sex workers should be at the forefront of those discussions.

The court referred to the murders by Port Coquitlam serial killer Robert Pickton in striking down the law as a violation of the constitutional right to life, liberty and security of the person.

“Parliament has the power to regulate against nuisances, but not at the cost of the health, safety and lives of prostitutes,” the judgment said.

“A law that prevents street prostitutes from resorting to a safe haven… while a suspected serial killer prowls the streets, is a law that has lost sight of its pur-

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pose,” it said. “If screening could have prevented one woman from jumping into Robert Pickton’s car, the severity of the harmful effects [of the law] is established.”

SFU criminology professor John Lowman said the Harper government has a range of choices if it opts for new legislation.

He said the U.S. approach of criminalizing both the purchase and sale of sex hasn’t worked well, although there are variations south of the border.

“You could have legalization of prostitution as you have it in Nevada, which is the state acting as a pimp, controlling and regulating prostitution and using criminal law to keep it off the street,” he added.

The owner of Nevada’s BunnyRanch brothel has already said he aims to expand into Canada if allowed.

Lowman said he thinks federal Conservatives are more likely to gravitate toward the so-called Nordic model used in Sweden that makes it legal to sell sex but not to buy it, while criminalizing any third party that profits.

“What you have is the ridiculous spectre in countries with that legislation that they can only focus on street prostitution,” he said. “Because what are the police going to do? Set up escort services and massage parlours in order to entrap men. I don’t think that would fly in Canadian law.”

That would invite more constitutional challenges, he said, although it may be embraced by feminists who think women’s equality can only be achieved by ending prostitution.

“Unlike radical feminists, who treat prostitutes as if they’re infants – a highly paternalistic approach – my position is we need to give women choices, we need to create economic equality.”

He said addicted survival sex workers arguably don’t have much choice, but added social programs are what’s needed to enable them to escape prostitution.

“Ironically, it’s social programs that the Conservatives seem least interested in providing.”

Lowman said there’s a good chance the Tories could let the

law be struck down and let individual municipalities or provinces try to regulate prostitution at a local level, rather than enforce a national approach.

That could result in a spectrum of approaches from city to city, with some attempting various tactics to ban prostitution to those that license and regulate brothels in specific areas, he said, predicting more court challenges would ensue. A more constructive approach, he said, would be to follow New Zealand’s model, which legalizes prostitution, subject to regulation, and relies on other criminal laws to control violence, coercion, trafficking and exploitation of children.

Lowman said politicians have been told for decades the laws on prostitution don’t work but they refused every chance to enact reforms until the high court finally forced their hand.

“This is precisely a situation where the court is justified in telling the government to do its job when the government has consistently refused and over 300 women involved in prostitution have died as a result,” he said.

“They didn’t die as a result of government directly wielding the knife, they died as a result of the government herding those women into dark areas where they were forgotten, where people like Pickton could wield the knife. Government has blood on its hands.”

Justice Minister Peter MacKay said he’s concerned about the ruling’s ramifications and will explore “all possible options to ensure the criminal law continues to address the significant harms that flow from prostitution to communities, those engaged in prostitution and vulnerable persons.”

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Recycling changes Maybe the hand-over of recycling to Multi Material BC won’t be a disaster. But for the program to work, it has to be two things: userfriendly and cheaper than the current system.

Concerns that MMBC was gouging cities with hefty fees for hardto-achieve low contamination rates seems to have abated.

The threshold appears to be attainable and, what’s more, there is a lengthy process that must be followed before cities are docked the fee; as well, cities will have plenty of opportunities to clean up their act before they are slapped with a fine.

After some painful beginnings, the industry-led non-profit organization charged with the responsibility of taking over recycling in B.C. seems to have softened its stance and come to acceptable agreements with cities on how paper packaging, plastics and containers will be dealt with in the future.

And for some cities, the deal could mean a slight break on utility charges — or at least a slower rise as garbage, water and sewer rates are likely to increase in future. This is important because we know prices for packaged products will rise to cover the cost of the program and people shouldn’t be dinged twice.

Still, there is one caveat to this whole project and that is the handling of glass, which won’t be allowed in recycling carts beginning in May. Thus, it’s important for MMBC to find the right contractor. One idea would be to co-locate glass depots in conveniently located stores. It’s a no-brainer that without convenience, glass will become a big problem — and a potentially messy and dangerous one, at that.

If MMBC truly wants to ensure its packaging is dealt with properly, it will do its best to ensure glass drop-off is easy and trouble-free. And if cities want to make sure their contamination rates stay low, they will need to educate residents about expectations and what it could cost them if they throw organic materials or other contaminants into the bin.

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A hopeless wish list for 2014 B.C. VIEWS Tom Fletcher Here are a few things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t.

An orderly schedule of legislature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall.

I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our yearend interview, and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been optional since old Gordon what’s-his-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a decade ago. Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to discuss legislation.

They need to all right, but what governments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so

that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three chambers running simultaneously and opposition members trying to prepare as they run down the hallways.

It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cynicism about the whole business, but it gets things done with minimum exposure of the government to criticism. Stephen Harper would approve.

A political debate about real issues, rather than just a competition to score points in an endless election campaign.

I appreciate that this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to consider issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happening occasionally.

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An opposition with ideas.

The B.C. NDP will have another leadership contest in 2014, and they’d better bring more modern policy to the table than they had in the last one.

Remember the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up. Health care? Local organic carrots into the hospital food. Forest industry? A job protection commissar to force the mills to stay open. Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it.

These guys need a Tony Blairtype makeover. They need to be for something, and they need to leave the past behind.

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News organizations are in bad shape these days, and the competition for a rapidly fragmenting audience is having some ugly effects.

One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide?

The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walking to the corner is good exercise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal!

How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling

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Efforts of our local firefighters applauded I want to thank our gentlemen and our young lady volunteer firefighters who graciously volunteer their time and risk their personal safety. Great job on the recent string of fires they battled to save our town. My heart goes out to them and their families. It bothers me to hear that there is negative criticism about the job they performed from those that have never donned turnout gear, been on the end of a fire hose, stepped into a blackened shell where there is only darkness and smoke wearing a SCBA device to breathe, pulled out bodies from the remains or attended a weekly fire practice. I’ve done it for 10 years. These people are our everyday heroes.

The public sees them performing in a high stress environment that

is very unpredictable and demands quick action and thinking so things are apt to go wrong. I wonder if those that criticize know all of the crucial facts. For example, the blaze on Fourth Avenue had been fueled for approximately one and a half hours, the length of time it took for the gas company to arrive to shut things down. It’s the nature of the business when working against the clock with limited resources and manpower, while trying to protect surrounding structures and keeping their own members, some of whom are pushing 70+ years of age, safe. And that is the “glamorous” part.

Then they go back to the halls, physically exhausted and dog tired and work for many more hours cleaning up, hanging hoses to dry, repack-

ing the trucks with dry hoses, filling oxygen bottles, filling the tenders with water, washing the trucks and then some go back to their career jobs that hopefully pay more than the nominal fee volunteer fire departments are paid by the municipalities. Did I mention that this nominal fee the volunteers are paid is donated, by choice, right back to the community?

Thursday night, the day after the three fires, the Silver Creek fire hall opened its doors again to the community with the annual Christmas party for the kids and Christmas carolling through the community on decorated fire trucks.

God bless you all and your families and once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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prognosis. While her mobility and pain have improved, she continues to live with chronic impairments that require ongoing therapies and costly treatments. As a result of Lyme Disease treatments, Kari is able to participate in family life and some

activities in her community. Her daughter was only three years old at the time Kari became ill. For years Kari parented her daughter with the invaluable assistance of a support worker however she is now able to parent independently and with her

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husband. One Mother’s Day Kari’s daughter wrote me saying, “thank you for giving me my mother.”

Her 80-year-old mother-in-law is from Ireland and the family wanted to travel with her to visit her homeland and the relatives. After much consideration, the family determined that while supports in Ireland would be in place for Kari, they could not manage it economically.

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For three years she was largely restricted to bed or a wheelchair and lived in chronic intractable pain.

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Happy New Year

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2013 Year in Review in a post-natal unit at Abbotsford Regional Hospital being exposed to the virus by a visitor who was in the early infectious stage at the time. Communities that could be impacted include Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack, Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs and Hope.

Hundreds of people poured into downtown Memorial Park for Canada Day festivities on July 1. The annual Classic Car Show featured about 140 entries this year, offering a wide variety for car enthusiasts. There was also Canada Day cake, Hope Mountain Market vendors, kids crafts and live music.

July For the second time in a month, Kinder Morgan shuts downs its Trans Mountain oil pipeline. An estimated 20-25 barrels seep from a small defection in the pipeline 40 kilometres east of Hope near Highway 5.

Development plans for Hope Community Recreation Park are temporarily put on hold. Council passes a recommended resolution directing staff to work with stakeholder groups to determine new priorities of work for the park, within current resource limitations, no later than Oct. 31, and bring those new priorities to council for endorsement.

Some stakeholder groups raised concerns about the design, the ability for locals to bid on the job, the perceived lack of communication, and the Sports Bowl seating area as the priority.

Bobs & LoLo – Robyn Hardy (left) and Lorraine Pond – perform in Memorial Park as part of Story Time in the Park. The Van-

couver-based children’s music duo are familiar faces on Treehouse TV and teach kids about themselves, their neighbours and the planet.

Hope’s first ever cash mob takes place at Jungle Juice.

Inspired by a flash mob, the goal is to encourage people to support small local businesses through coordinated sales. As a result, both local businesses and the community benefit from the economic stimulus.

Residents in Hope are taking action to voice their frustration over the current property tax increase.

A group led by Ray Zervini launches a petition demanding fiscal restraint from council. They want to see zero tax increases for the next three years and a review of all current and future spending.

A high-risk repeat sex offender is arrested in Memorial Park for breaching his probation conditions.

Immediately upon Graham Lackey’s release from Ford Mountain Institution, RCMP plain clothes officers

began conducting surveillance. Lackey was found the next day breaching his probation order not to attend a public park or playground where anyone under the age of 16 is present or can reasonably be expected to frequent.

A Hope artist makes his debut at the The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford.

A 3 x 6-foot illuminated photo-based abstraction by George Rychter is included in the 2nd Regional Fraser Valley Biennale.

Hope Legion receives a $25,000 federal grant, which goes towards covering the cost of upgrading aging infrastructure in the building. Four new high energy efficient furnaces and a four-ton air conditioner are installed.

All open fires, including campfires, are now banned in the Hope, Fraser Canyon and Manning Park areas.

The Coastal Fire Centre makes the announcement to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety. The fire danger rating is currently high to extreme.

A local advocacy group is calling for an overhaul of the provincial Water Act. The WaterWealth Project argues that a lack of water regulations in B.C. currently allows companies, such as Nestle Waters Canada, to bottle and resell the natural resource for free. The food and beverage giant is not required to measure, report or pay for the 269 million litres of water it draws annually from the Kawkawa Lake sub-watershed – the same aquifer shared with the District of Hope.

The District of Hope donates three surplus computers to the Tillicum Centre, which clients will use for journals, typing, playing games and accessing the Internet.

The Hope Mountain Black Bear Committee and local conservation officers issue a cougar alert in the Hope area. Numerous sightings have recently been reported, with the latest at the end of Acacia Drive. A dog was also attacked by a cougar along the Fraser River near Wardle Street and there’s reports of another dog killed by a cougar weeks prior.

Yale Historic Site and Hope Mountain Centre team up to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Cariboo Wagon Road, from Yale to Spuzzum. The event featured a historic guided bus tour of the route, salmon

Hope Minor Hockey product Jeff Hoggan hoists the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup on Mount Hope on July 27 during a visit to town.

Valley Helicopters took Hoggan and his brothers to the top for photos.

barbecue hosted by the Yale and District Ratepayers, performance of “Tales and Trails of the Canyon”

by Hope Performing Arts Community Theatre, and John Mitchell’s talk, “B.C.’s Road to Gold: The story of the Cariboo Wagon Road.”

The presentation was followed by a rededication of the Cariboo Wagon Road in the park at the foot of Albert and Front streets in Yale. A park enhancement project,

which includes a new National Historic Site plaque, information kiosk and picnic table, was completed through a partnership between Parks Canada, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Emil Anderson Maintenance, Province of B.C., Fraser Valley Regional District Area B, Yale & District Historical Society, Yale & District Ratepayers and Gallant Mills.

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August Tammy Shields takes over as executive director of AdvantageHOPE. With new leadership comes a new vision for the organization.

Shields brings an innovative approach to economic development that maximizes local resources with a team of five local contractors.

Abdol Vahimi from Port Coquitlam fishes for Chinook and pink salmon off the banks of the Fraser River near Highway 1 exit 170 on Aug. 13. There’s been no commercial or sport fishing for Fraser sockeye this summer, with no prospect for any unless the main summer run merely turns out to be late in arriving.

Fraser Health’s chief medical health officer warns the public about a rise in measles cases in the eastern Fraser Valley. Dr. Paul Van Buynder says the most recent case involves up to 60 women and newborns

Mike Klassen (middle), director of provincial affairs for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, and Hope & District Chamber of Commerce president Glen Ogren (right) listen as Ray Zervini addresses a crowd of other over 100 residents at a tax petition rally in Memorial Park on Aug. 21. The signed petition handed to council garnered more than 1,250 signatures.

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The District of Hope receives $15,344 from the federal government to attract, retain, and expand foreign direct investment.

October A new dance studio is offering an intensive training program in Hope. No Limits Dance Studio on Third Avenue provides structured classes in hip hop, jazz, tap, ballet, and acro dance (dance mixed with gymnastics). There’s also a master class led by Lisa Ho, an adjudicator for B.C. dance competitions, and other guest professional teachers from the Royal Academy of Dance, Washington and California.

Hope Brigade Days featured RCMP Musical Ride shows on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8, featuring 32 riders and horses executing a variety of intricate figures and cavalry drills choreographed to music. The weekend celebration also included fireworks, a parade, kids carnival and demolition derby.

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Emil Anderson Maintenance and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure partner on a greenhouse replacement project for Hope Community Garden.

This year marks a century of international cooperation in conserving and managing Fraser River salmon, and many politicians, dignitaries and First Nations representatives from both sides of the border were on hand at Hell’s Gate to mark the milestone and unveil two commemorative plaques.

The Hell’s Gate rockslides of 1913 and 1914 forever changed the river ecosystem and the migration of sockeye to every major tributary in the B.C. Interior. In 1937, a treaty between the United States and Canada provided the foundation for a largescale formal cooperation to restore and manage Fraser River salmon through the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission (IPSFC). The IPSFC facilitated the construction of massive concrete fishways around the blockage at Hell’s Gate in 1945 and 1946, a major engineering feat that endures to

this day. The 1937 treaty was eventually replaced in 1985 with a new agreement – the Pacific Salmon Commission.

September A new school for theatre and the allied arts opens its doors in Hope. The joint venture between Hope Performing Arts Community Theatre and Lori’s Piano Studio offers students the Music for Young Children program; dance classes for children, adults, youth and seniors; voice lessons; acting lessons; self protection courses; and a variety of workshops, group and private lessons.

Carly Ferguson takes over as the new publisher of The Hope Standard. Ferguson, who grew up in Chilliwack, brings extensive marketing, sales and management experience to her new position.

She joined Black Press in 2007 and after a short time at the Langley Times, assumed the role of advertising manager at the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News.

The Fraser Valley Regional District confirms that it will ban medical marijuana pro-

duction on its rural residential land. But the regional district is still determining whether grow-ops will be permitted on industrial land, on agricultural land, or both.

A recently concluded reorganization of federal electoral boundaries will see MP Mark Strahl running in a new Chilliwack-Hope riding in the next election. The readjusted riding will encompass only Chilliwack and Hope. Strahl’s current Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon riding includes the District of Kent, Harrison Hot Springs, Yale, Boston Bar, Lytton, Lillooet, Cache Creek, and Ashcroft.

These communities will be covered by the new Mission—Matsqui – Fraser Canyon riding for the next federal election.

Despite an overall three per cent decline in student enrolment, the Fraser-Cascade school district is experiencing its highest kindergarten registration in nine years. The current preliminary headcount shows there are 1,692 students registered, down 52 students from the same time last year. However, kindergarten numbers are currently sitting at 134, up from 102 in 2012.

Hope receives the coveted Five Bloom award and a special mention for the Othello-Quintette Tunnels in the 2013 provincial Communities in Bloom competition. The provincial Communities in Bloom judges toured the community in July and made short stops at numerous points of interest, including You Grow Food Aquaponics and Thacker Marsh. They were also treated to a tour of the area in the air, courtesy of Valley Helicopters. The local Communities in Bloom Committee received $5,000 in funding from the district this year and relied on 32 volunteers to run the program, logging a total of 406 hours.

Young children in Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs and Hope are among the least ready for school in the province, according to a recently released community summary. The report, created through UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership, measures vulnerability in kindergarten aged

More than 350 yellow ducks competed in the first annual Hope Rotary Club Rubber Ducky Race on the Coquihalla River Sept. 15.

The 2.5-hour event started at the Kawkawa Lake Road Bridge and finished at Rotary Trails where the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers meet. Each duck was sponsored by a local business or resident, raising about $2,5000 for the club’s scholarship fund.

children across B.C. While the provincial average is 32.5 per cent vulnerability, Fraser-Cascade school district received a rate of 45 per cent. Fraser Cascade children are the most vulnerable when it comes to physical health and wellbeing, at 26 per cent. However, language and cognitive skills was fairly low at eight per cent vulnerability, and falling over previous years.

The numbers were different between Hope and Agassiz/Harrison, with Hope receiving a rate of 49 per cent overall vulnerability. In Agassiz/Harrison, the rate is currently 39 per cent.

Hope council discusses the idea of adopting a revitalization tax exemption program to encourage new investment in designated areas.The goal is to create economic activity in Hope that will provide jobs for local residents and provide incentives for new residents to move to the community.

The Fraser Valley Regional District board decides

that Area B director Dennis Adamson must reimburse the district for costs that couldn’t be justified. Adamson underwent an audit earlier this year of his 2011 and 2012 expenses after failing to provide supporting documents for claims of $28,545 incurred in 2011. After the completion of the audit in July 2013, he still had expenses of $1,545 that could not be explained.

Hope is slated to be a construction hub for the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The hub would be the headquarters for about 85 kilometres of pipeline construction, spanning from Coquihalla Lakes to the Walhleach pump station. In addition to housing workers, the town would also be the base for construction yards, pipeline lay down areas, construction management, craft inspectors, environmental protection and monitoring, administration support services, and right-of-way restoration and remediation.

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Hope Minor Softball had a major rebirth this summer.

After being shut down for almost five years, minor softball registration shot up to 135, mirroring numbers for the well-established Hope Minor Soccer Association.

Rhylln Heitsman, a Grade 7 student at Silver Creek Elementary, passes a bag of clothes to Eric Hammer of Trans-Continental Textile Recycling Ltd., who was in town on Oct. 2 to pick up donated items from a school district-wide clothing drive. Just under 700 bags of clothing, weighing about 15 pounds each, were collected from the local schools, with Boston Bar Elementary Secondary School generating the most at 191 bags.

Heinz and Susan Schiller sell their grocery store on Wallace Street after 39 years as an independent retailer in Hope. Buy & Save Foods is purchased by Buy-Low Foods, which plans on keeping the “friendly and qualified staff ” that have served the community well over the years.

Paving crews work on a 1,100 square metre area of Othello Road in front of the Nestle Waters bottling plant on Oct. 16. The company spent about $80,000 to correct drainage issues and upgrade the deteriorating section of the road with six inches of asphalt.

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2013 Year in Review priority list for seismic upgrades, but low enrolment in the district meant there was an option to close the school and move the students to different locations.

Sydne Mitchell from the Hope Secondary School SH(OUT) group dishes out chili to Coun. Tim Hudie Nov. 19 at the Great Chili Cook-off at Blue Moose Coffee House. The event, hosted by the Hope & Area Transition Society, raised $1,440 for the United Way of the Fraser Valley.

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Manning Park Resort is gearing up for a busy ski season. The resort has purchased two new snowcats this year, bringing the total fleet size to four – the most the resort has ever had. Building and lift maintenance improves the image and functionality of the alpine area, while downhill runs and cross-country trails are being brushed to ensure the resort can open with a minimal amount of snow. A revamped day lodge has also been launched to fuel visitors after a full day of skiing or boarding.

Faced with the shutting down of women’s curling last year — and a significant drop in the last year’s men’s bonspiel registrations — the Hope Curling Club decides on a few new paths to help build interest in the sport locally. A critical route is to get the game introduced to school students, so the club is working on attracting players from Grade 5 to 12 for two programs that will run on Tuesdays, starting in November.

Trevor Linden comes to Hope to talk about the importance of teamwork and leadership. The evening, hosted by the Hope & District Chamber of Commerce, included a ca-

tered dinner, keynote speech and photo opportunity with the former professional hockey player. Linden shared stories and tips on leadership and strategies for success. Some of the themes he touched on were goal setting, team building and creating a positive culture, all woven around some hockeyrelated stories.

November Hope Crime Prevention Society celebrates an important milestone this year. For the first time in a decade, there are no police files at Othello Tunnels. The non-profit group has been regularly canvassing the parking lot area for years in an effort to curb vehicle break-ins and thefts. The area has been known as a hotspot for crime in the past, with total police files peaking at 13 in 2009, but targeted volunteer efforts have helped reduce the number of incidents.

Hope resident and rally car racer Taisto Heinonen wins gold at the Rocky Mountain Rally in Invermere.

The school board votes in support of keeping C.E. Barry intermediate school open, and applying for funding to have seismic upgrade work completed. The school is on a high

Potential changes to the traditional school calendar are being considered in the Fraser-Cascade district. Three separate options were brought forward through the education committee. The first is to remain the same, with the two week spring break. The second is to build a ‘balanced’ calendar, with three months of school instruction followed by one month off, on a continual basis. The third option is to begin school a week prior to Labour Day, with an added week at either the winter or spring break.

Chilliwack-Hope MLA Laurie Throness opens a parttime satellite constituency office in Hope at 366A Wallace St., across from district hall.

The office is now open on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The B.C. government provides just over $17,000 in grants-in-lieu of property taxes to Hope. These funds are part of the nearly $18.2-million in grants going to 63 communities across the province, including nearly $2,650 to Kent.

AdvantageHOPE expands the scope of its operations under the leadership of a new team of part-time contractors.

The group includes executive director Tammy Shields, Ali Harwood (marketing and branding), Rudy Kehler (communications), Riley Forman (tourism services), Michelle Richardson (events and attraction) and Stephanie Hooker (asset management). AdvantageHOPE determines that the path to economic development is through tourism.

Hope RCMP arrest a 32-year-old man in connection with a break-in at Cooper’s Foods in October. An undisclosed quantity of cigarettes were stolen from the local grocery store and Jason Gurniak

Nineteen firefighters from Hope and Yale battle a structure fire on Dec. 18 on Fourth Avenue. Flames from a garage on a neighbouring property quickly spread to an abandoned house and office/residential building, destroying both structures. No one was injured, however a business and man living in upstairs were displaced.

Parade commander Ian Williams (left) and Cpl. Steve Cameron, with the EME branch of the 39 Service Battalion in Richmond, give a salute after laying a wreath at the Memorial Park Cenotaph on Remembrance Day. Hundreds of people attended the Nov. 11 service honouring Canada’s veterans. The annual parade from the Hope Legion featured veterans, local dignitaries, RCMP, firefighters, service clubs, cadets and a flag party. A piper played lament following two minutes of silence and the Hope Secondary School band performed during the wreath laying.

is arrested after police discover evidence linking him to the break-in. He is charged with one count of break and enter and commit indictable offense.

December Kathleen Alexis takes over as acting president of the Hope & District Chamber of Commerce after Glen Ogren steps down for personal reasons. She will stay on as acting president until the next Chamber AGM. The District of Hope adopts a zoning amendment bylaw to ensure medical marijuana grow operations don’t pop up in residential neighborhoods.

The decision was made in preparation of a new federal Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations program

by Health Canada, which takes effect April 1, 2014. The change will see small, personal medical grow operations replaced by a number of large commercial dispensaries that meet extensive security and quality control requirements.

Hundreds of people turn out to the CP Holiday Train visit in North Bend and Lytton. CP Rail brings a $4,000 cheque for the food bank, topping off donations for Hope and the Fraser Canyon, which was accepted by Area A director Lloyd Forman.

A Hope resident helps people cope with the loss of their furry companions over the holidays. Ed Stephens and his neighbour set up a pet memorial tree on Union Bar Road, near the entrance to the Thacker Marsh nature trail.

Two local 14-year-old males are arrested in connection with three fires on Dec. 18. The first incident took place at about 6 a.m. on a property across from Memorial Park on Fourth Avenue. Later that morning, an employee at Hope Arena notified police that two plastic bins

had been set on fire outside the rink and the back door of the Curling Club had been spray painted. The fire managed to extinguish itself before causing any further damage. While firefighters were putting out hot spots underneath the debris on Fourth Avenue, the fire department and RCMP were called to a third fire at the corner of Nelson and Raab streets at about 4 p.m. Smoke was seen billowing from a portable trailer on the property when crews arrived on scene. Firefighters quickly knocked down the flames inside the structure and contained the fire to one unit. Police recommended charges of arson and mischief for one youth, and arson for the other.

Hope Community Services hands out 352 hampers this year in the Hope and Boston Bar area, up from 320 in 2012.

Hope RCMP officers collect 1,610 pounds (730 kg) of food and $1,151.50 in cash for the local bank during the fifth annual Stuff the Cruiser event at Cooper’s Foods. In Boston Bar, residents donated 803 pounds (365 kg) and $1,622 in cash.

The regional district challenges a report that ranks the Fraser Valley as the cleanest air in Canada.The FVRD pointed to a 2012 report by the B.C. Lung Association that found that although B.C. cities faired much better than other parts of Canada, within the Lower Mainland the Fraser Valley’s air quality was worse than that of Vancouver. Specifically, the B.C. Lung Association found ground-level ozone to be highest in Hope, followed by Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and Maple Ridge.

Karter Hansen and his kindergarten classmates try out the new floor curling equipment at Coquihalla School in early December. Principal Monique Gratrix applied for a grant from the Aboriginal Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Partners Council — and received full funding to purchase two sets of floor curling equipment.

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The successful candidate will possess the following fundamental requirements: • A Bachelor of Commerce or Masters of Business Administration degree or equivalent with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in business and economic development or an equivalent combination of education and experience; • A proven track-record of successfully operating a for-profit enterprise, preferably with experience working with surrounding communities, First Nations and/or in the natural resources or retail sectors; • Essential CEO skills, including: leadership, coaching, human resource management, strategic planning, financial, administrative, policy development, risk management, negotiation and marketing; • An ability to prepare and analyze business plans, financial forecasts, feasibility studies, concept papers, etc. for presentation to boards of directors, potential business partners and lending institutions; • Excellent listening, verbal and written communication as well as interpersonal skills; • Demonstrated tact and diplomacy as well as sound judgment and decision making skills; • The ability to formulate and execute major policies, programs and objectives to promote and ensure accountability, transparency and an organization’s sustainability and profitability; • Experience working effectively and collaboratively with First Nations communities and organizations and willingness to learn about Seabird’s culture and traditions; and • Ability to travel and relocate to area close to Seabird Island Band, BC. **Pursuant to the Aboriginal Employment Preference Program, preference may be given to applicants of Aboriginal Ancestry Salary Range: Competitive. Based on Qualifications.

Apply with cover letter, resume and three references to : SQEWQÉL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Chair, Board of Directors, C/O Human Resources – Seabird Island Band P.O. Box 650, Agassiz, BC V0M 1A0 Email: drewpaddon@seabirdisland.ca Please quote competition JP-2013-008 Phone: 604-796-6814 Fax: 604-796-3729 Deadline: 4 pm Friday January 17, 2014 (will remain open until filled)

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

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ELECTRICAL

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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LANDSCAPING

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MOVING & STORAGE

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CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977

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CONTRACTORS

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353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

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AUTO FINANCING

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MISC. FOR SALE

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APARTMENT/CONDO

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Position Title: Director of Corporate Affairs Competition Number: JP-2013-018 Position Summary: Under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer, the Director of Corporate Affairs shall provide leadership and management expertise, in accordance with Band policies. Specifically the Director of Corporate Affairs shall be responsible for the efficient, effective and productive operation of the Corporate Affairs Department.

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Qualifications/Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in a related field accompanied by 7-10 years of progressive experience in a related field.

Experience in a First Nation or municipal setting Experience supervising staff in a multi-level environment Proven project management skills Position Title: Director of Public Works, Housing and Capital Competition Number: JP-2013-017 Position Summary: Under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer, the Director of Public Works, Housing, and Capital will provide leadership and management expertise, in accordance with Band policies. Specifically the Director will be responsible for the efficient, effective and productive operation of the Public Works, Housing and Capital Departments.

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