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Wild and colourful birdhouses provide homes for feathered friends.
The Mercer house in Rosedale gets relocated.
Hayden Guilderson appears on TV show Hit the Ice.
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FN fish sales are legal now Jennifer Feinberg The Progress Roadside stands by local First Nations may be popping up around Chilliwack with fresh fish for sale. Two economic opportunity fisheries were provided to aboriginal fishers this week by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Recreational fisheries on the Fraser are also underway concurrently during this mega-return of Fraser sockeye, with a limit of two sockeye per day, above the Mission bridge. There is also a recreational limit of four chinook/springs, with a maximum of one over 50 cm, and three under 50 cm long. Fish boats from signatory First Nation bands on the Lower Fraser headed out on the river for chinook and sockeye using set nets and drifted gill-nets Wednesday and Thursday this week. The market fisheries stem from a 2014 agreement that allows aboriginal fishers to sell their salmon, on the heels of a Supreme Court of Canada ruling last year that upholds First Nations rights to fish and sell their catch. “The majority will sell to cash buyers, who are usually agents for processors,” said Ernie Crey, fisheries advisor for Sto:lo Tribal Council, and Cheam councillor. Once the salmon are landed and counted, there is also the option of selling at roadside operations to individuals. “So people can feel confident when buying fish that these are authorized and legal fisheries now,” Crey said. jfeinberg@theprogress.com twitter.com/chwkjourno
Roadside stands may soon sell fish.
Father-and-son team, Bud and Ross Granley, is one of many aerobatic acts set to go at this weekend’s Chilliwack Flight Fest at the airport. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS FILE
Flight Fest Airshow will be awe-inspiring Jennifer Feinberg The Progress Look up — way up! Experience the thrills and chills of the 23rd annual Chilliwack Flight Fest Airshow at the Chilliwack Airport Aug. 16-17. Back for the 2014 Flight Fest Society event is Kent Pietsch, Bud and Ross Granley, and of course Super Dave Mathieson and his Sheyden MX2, and so many more. It’s the first time ever that Super Dave will be part of the Twilight Show, doing an aweinspiring night routine. “It’s aerobatics at night with pyrotechnics exploding off the
wing,” he said. Super Dave has been training with Ken Fowler of Team Rocket for the night show, and found it quite different than doing daytime manoeuvres. “You don’t have much depth perception, so you have to be very careful and keep vigilant,” Mathieson tells The Progress. Super Dave will be live on the jumbo screen for the Twilight Show routine. “It will show me inside the cockpit!” He’ll have a sequence of 10 buttons to press, while strapped in and hanging upside down to ignite the roman candles. “The day show is different. The night routine is more slow
and gentle. Sort of a ballet in the sky.” The only trick is remembering not to look at the blinding lights while he’s doing it. Should be a blast, he figures. Organizers are particularly proud to have a P51 Mustang in town for the show, said Ray Firkus of the Chilliwack Flight Fest Society. The P51 warbird is here along with a Grumman FM-2 Wildcat, courtesy of the Tillamook Air Museum. “It’s the first time we’ve ever had a P51 in Chilliwack,” Firkus said. Mathieson helped make it happen. “Getting a ride in this Mustang
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is on everyone’s bucket list,” he said. “The sound of the engine is so powerful and it looks so majestic.” It’s one of the most famous military planes used by the U.S. Army Air Force during the Second World War, and it’s aircraft like this “that helped win the war,” he said. The P51 is accented with bright red tails. It was first commissioned in 1945 by the RAAF, and has been proudly restored to commemorate 332nd Fighter Group, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-American military aviators. Continued: AIRSHOW/ p4
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