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Two dead following shooting A Chilliwack neighbourhood was woken up by gunshots early Thursday morning. Neighbours in the 46100-block of Gore Avenue heard shots ring out around 4 a.m. One neighbour posting on Facebook says eight shots were fired and said five people took off in a white four-door Mazda hatchback. The Chilliwack RCMP’s Crime Scene Investigation team was first to respond to Hawthorne Manor, followed by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). IHIT has confirmed two people are dead, with a third person injured. Police are calling this a targeted shooting and are asking anyone with info to call the IHIT tip line at 1-877-551-4448 or email ihittipline@rcmp-grc.gc.ca. Tips can also be provided anonymously by calling CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
An RCMP officer speaks with a man following a double murder at the Hawthorne Manor apartment building on Gore Avenue at Nowell Street Thursday morning. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
UFV ag program gets $2.1 million boost from the feds Equipment funding will ‘help drive the western Canadian economy,’ says minister of state Katie Bartel The Progress A funding boost Thursday from the federal government has launched UFV into the leading edge of universities for agriculture programs. Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Wester n Economic Diversification, announced $2.1 million in state-of-theart training equipment for the University of the Fraser
Valley’s Agriculture Centre of Excellence. The investment will equip the university for advanced technology in areas of automation and robotics. It will enable students to acquire skills in design, installation and maintenance of advanced automated systems. Not only will it train the next generation of agricultural technicians, engineers, researchers and scientists, said Rempel, it will
also help drive the western Canadian economy. “This investment will provide industry with the skilled workforce it needs to adopt new technologies, ser vices and processes, and ultimately grow the agriculture sector,” said Rempel. In 2012, B.C.’s agrifood sector generated $11.7 billion in revenue and exported $2.5 billion worth of products to more than 130 countries. The province is
targeting $14 billion in revenue by 2017 according to the B.C. Agrifoods strategy for growth. The federal funding will help push that mandate. With the new equipment, UFV is adding new engineering in mechatronics and automation technician programs. “We’ve recognized it’s going to take some advanced methods, advanced equipment, automation, robotics, all those
things, to help keep the industr y competitive and vibrant,” said John English, Dean of UFV Trades and Technology. “We’ve taken the view all along that everything we do at the Centre of Excellence must support the ag industry directly; that it has to be driven by their initiatives, their ambitions, their problems and desires.” The new equipment “allows industry locally to tap into the training and
education, as well as the research that would go with it to make them more competitive and productive,” said English. The funding announcement was the second in a week for UFV’s trades and technology depar tment. Last week, the provincial government announced $872,000 to reduce wait lists into UFV’s trades and technology programs. kbartel@theprogress.com twitter.com/schoolscribe33
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