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Pair pinched in Canada’s largest poppy bust
Seven-acre field had up to 60,000 plants BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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hilliwack Mounties made the largest opium poppy plant bust in Canadian history Monday, discovering a seven-acre field with as many as 60,000 plants. When police arrived they found two men tending the fields. A 31-year-old Abbotsford man and a 24-year-old Mission man were arrested and are likely facing charges of production of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking. While opium can be used to produce heroin, police believe the plants were grown to produce doda, a powder that is combined with tea or hot water. The drink, which produces a quick high
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Police harvest Canada’s largest known poppy crop earlier this week near Chilliwack. A man from Abbotsford and another from Mission were arrested at the scene. The seven-acre field contained as many as 60,000 plants, which are being pulled before going to seed. and a sense of well-being, is popular with certain South Asian communities. Cpl. Kurt Bosnell with the RCMP’s drug section said that after police learned of the field, they began investigating whether the plants grown were, in fact, opium pop-
pies. “There’s very few instances where this has occurred in Canada before so it took some time in order to confirm exactly what it was,” said Bosnell. “One of the things that we were looking
for was the presence of the opium flower. Once we started seeing these buds, they’ll actually open up into nice bright pink and purple flowers.” see POPPY, page A7
Fire destroys rural temple Suspicious end to heritage landmark
JEAN KONDA-WITTE JKonda-Witte@abbotsfordtimes.com
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Abbotsford firefighters sift through debris after an early morning fire Thursday destroyed the Sant Baba Vasakha Singh Sikh Society temple. The blaze at the heritage building on Townshipline Road is deemed suspicious and is under investigation.
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beloved rural heritage landmark was lost in a devastating blaze yesterday morning. Pe o p l e d r i v i n g t h r o u g h Ma t s q u i Pra i r i e o n Tow n shipline Road may never have noticed the small cluster of buildings at the corner of Glenmore Road in rural Abbotsford, but for 100 or so parishioners, the fire that destroyed their Sikh temple early Thursday morning has left holes in the hearts of many.
“I’m really sorry, I [was] crying at home,” Kulvir Sandhu said, her eyes welling with tears. She was driving by Thursday morning with her family to have a look at the charred re m a i n s o f t h e Sa n t Ba b a Vasakha Singh Sikh Society temple where she has been coming with her children for more than 15 years. “This place – my children love it. I love it too.” Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service responded to the structure fire at 31957 Townshipline
Road at 4 a.m. to find the old wooden building fully engulfed with heavy smoke and flames shooting through the roof.
“It [the temple] reminds you of the old pioneers. There’s just something about it.” – Doug Rennie neighbour
The temple, one of three buildings on the site also known at the Gurmat Center, was destroyed. see FIRE, page A3
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Upfront O P I N I O N
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Homecoming for new money man
Months after a six-figure farewell for Mark Lee, school district names new secretary-treasurer JEAN KONDA-WITTE & CORNELIA NAYLOR jkonda-witte@abbotsfordtimes.com
and his positive track record in three previous school jurisdictions,” Julie MacRae, Superintendent of Schools fter four months in limbo with District 34, said in an e-mail. the Abbotsford School Dis- (MacRae was not available for an trict will once again have interview). someone at the financial “Our posting attracted more than helm as Ray Velestuk 25 applicants and has decided to leave his First reported @ the four people position as secretary- abbotsfordtimes.com who best met the treasurer with the Chillirequirements were wack School District and take the interviewed by the board. In the end reins in Abbotsford. it was felt that Mr. Velestuk’s skill “Mr. Velestuk was chosen because set and his experience in the Fraser of his extensive previous experience Valley made him the best fit for our
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Lee vacated the post after only 10 months and received a lump-sum payout of $105,574.75 for reavacancy,” the e-mail stated. sons the Abbotsford Velestuk is moving on after School District has yet only two years with the Chillto explain. iwack School District. Velestuk is unruffled “He’ll be hard to replace,” by the controversy. RAY VELESTUK said Chilliwack superinten“I have no reservadent Corinne McCabe. “He’s tions about that at provided strong leadership over the all,” he said, declining to comment last couple of years.” further. In Abbotsford, Velestuk will be He is equally undeterred by any taking over from deputy superinten- bad blood that might be lingering dent Kevin Godden, who has filled in Abbotsford over the deep cuts the position since the unexplained his predecessor engineered in the departure of secretary-treasurer district’s last budget. Mark Lee in June. “I don’t think their big cuts were
Road rage leads to fist fight
Man in Mercedes beats other driver, continues on his way CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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bbotsford police are condemning the actions of two individuals after a bout of road rage turned into a curb-side fight on the Mount Lehman exit Tuesday morning. A 45-year-old man from North Vancouver is recovering from numerous facial injuries, including a swollen lip and missing tooth, after he and another man got into a confrontation on the side of the exit just off the Trans Canada Highway at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Another man, who was driving a white Mercedes involved in the incident, is being investigated for assault charges stemming from the
melee. Although APD Const. Ian MacDonald felt sorry for the complainant’s injuries, he said both men were at fault. “We’ve got now some other independent witnesses that are saying the driving behaviours of both these individuals was questionable,” he said. MacDonald added that slapping both men with dangerous driving fines is still being looked at, however it is difficult because while the witnesses are offering their account of what happened, none of them yet have been experts when it comes to speed or dangerous driving. “We’ll have to interview them further to see if there is something specific about the driving behaviour that
FIRE, from page A1 The nearby community hall and preschool (formally Glenmore School) were not damaged by the fire. Abbotsford pioneer Doug Rennie has lived on the acreage south of the temple all his life and while he said he never heard the fire trucks, his son-in-law Keith Nelmes (also an auxiliary firefighter) said the flames were shooting high into the night sky. The heritage building was already gone. The temple was built in the 1940s by Albert Borg and it was used as a Pentecostal church in those early days. Later it was bought and used as a Christian Reformed church before landing in the hands of the Sikh community. “It was an old landmark,” said Rennie.
would afford us the ability to lay a violation ticket on somebody.” The incident started to unfold when the 45-yearold man was driving eastbound on Highway 1, said MacDonald. The North Vancouver man, who was dr iving a pickup truck, noticed a white Mercedes following closely behind them. “The complainant admits, in his own words, that he and the other driver were engaged in what he called a ‘cat and mouse game’ for several kilometers,” said MacDonald. The driver of the pick-up then tapped his breaks several times as the two continued to pass each other and break suddenly in front of the other along the stretch of highway. MacDonald said hand gestures were made between the
Investigators on scene “It’s real sad to see it go. I almost had tears in my eyes.” Rennie and his six children all went to school at the Glenmore School (now the Gurmat Centre Preschool). “It [the temple] reminds you of the old pioneers. There’s just something about it.” In recent times the temple was used for religious services for children of the Gurmat Center and their families. It is an independent centre, not affiliated with any of the other Sikh temples in the community, said Iqbal Singh Flora, one of the directors of the Gurmat Center. Children aged six to 18 study there. “We teach them how to do the prayers,
two and “the invitation to meet on the side of the road was offered and taken up.” According to a statement released by the APD, the driver of the Mercedes got out of his car and confronted the pick-up driver. The complainant received several blows to the head while standing, and while down on the ground. He told police he believes he lost consciousness for a brief period, as well. The driver of the Mercedes left the scene. Police are asking any witnesses of the fight or someone with information on this person’s whereabouts, to come forward. He is described as a Caucasian male in his 30s, 5’6” with a shaved head and a tattoo on his chest. “This was not only dangerous for themselves, but for other traffic,” said MacDonald.
the [Punjabi] language and the Holy Scripture,” said Singh Flora. Mel Schroeder has lived near the temple for 24 years and said he often saw families gathering there for functions. “They’re doing a good thing here with the kids and young people,” he said. Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said major crime detectives were examining the scene with Abbotsford Fire Rescue investigators. “We’ve collected evidence from the scene to send in for analysis,” he said. Forensics will help police decide whether the fire was, in fact, an arson, and MacDonald wouldn’t comment on whether an accelerant was used. “There are enough indicators at the scene for us to conclude it was suspicious.”
any different than our big cuts,” he said. Velestuk came to Chilliwack in 2008 from the Mission School District where he was secretary-treasurer for four years. He had spent more than seven years before that as secretary-treasurer for the Yorkton and Yorkdale School Divisions in Saskatchewan. The Mission resident said his move to Abbotsford is mostly career motivated. “Abbotsford’s obviously a bigger district,” he said, “and it’s also closer to home.” Velestuk will continue in his current position in Chilliwack until the end of October. He starts in Abbotsford on Nov. 1.
Rapist likely living along S. Fraser Way Convicted sex offender Dale Koenders goes AWOL RAFE ARNOTT RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com
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bbotsford police continue to receive reports that a convicted rapist who walked away from a community corrections centre in Chilliwack on July 7 is in hiding near the South Fraser Way corridor. Dale Edward Koenders, 46, a known drug user, was serving a lengthy sentence for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 19-year-old Chemainus, British Columbia woman at knifepoint in 1986. RCMP considers him violent, and has designated him as a dangerous offender. Police are warning the public not to approach him. With the number of Koenders sightings increasing, Const. Ian MacDonald said he must have gone to ground in the area. “He must call home somewhere close to South Fraser Way,” MacDonald said. “He essentially went AWOL while being on a day-parole DALE KOENDERS program, so it’s really difficult to pin down who he would have been associating with while on those day leaves.” MacDonald said police don’t think Koenders is staying with someone he might have met in prison, but rather, that he is homeless. “He might be living on the street, or tucked away in an alley or near a dumpster or maybe living in a park. But with the number of sightings we’ve had, there seems to be a pattern,” he said. Police are concerned for public safety as long as Koenders is possibly still at large in the community, MacDonald said. “I think everyone would feel a lot better, especially with the number of sightings, if we had him in custody.” ◗ Anyone with information regarding Koenders whereabouts is asked to call the Abbotsford Police Department at 604-859-5225.
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Four years for fatal stabbing
Froese could serve less than half of sentence RAFE ARNOTT RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com
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he man who stabbed Paul ‘Pockets’ Denis to death last August in Abbotsford was sentenced in provincial court last Friday to four years behind bars. But Michael Froese will only serve two years and 16 days of his sentence because of a two-for-one credit towards time already served, Abbotsford Crown prosecutor Wayne Norris said. Froese, 30, was arrested and initially charged with second-degree murder for killing 37-year-old Denis during a fight at his Hopedale Avenue residence on the morning of Aug. 28, 2009. The home was well known to police
as a problem residence, APD Const. Ian MacDonald said. “It was on our radar, and we had received a lot of calls and concerns on it,” he said. “Based on [area] residents’ reports, ever ything from drug activity to stolen property was going through the residence.” Froese confessed to killing Denis to police, but evidence surrounding the case didn’t support the murder charge and it was dropped to manslaughter Norris said. An Abbotsford prosecutor for 11 years, Norris said the Crown was satisfied with the case. “He plead guilty to manslaughter . . . it was a matter of sifting through the evidence, the eyewitness evidence,
to determine exactly what happened inside the house,” Norris said, adding that there just wasn’t enough to convict for murder. Norris said Froese and an associate, Melissa Cox, attended Denis’ house to confront him about a personal matter on the morning of the stabbing, and that when the exchange became heated, violence erupted. “A scuffle ensued, and somehow in that scuffle Paul Denis got stabbed once in the chest,” Norris said. “As far as we know, Froese had it on him. He brought the knife.” Norris described the weapon as a single bladed, sheathed-type fishing knife. Fro e s e c o u l d s e e h i s s e n t e n c e shortened if he decides to apply for parole.
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esidents of a local estate community are trying to throw water on the proposed construction of a fire hall in their neighbourhood. The planned two-bay fire hall, which is in the preliminary stages, would be built on city land next to a park and right across the street from the Slater Ridge Estates. Residents of the estate are sounding the alarm, they don’t want a new fire station in what is otherwise known as a quiet part of town. “I think it’s a silly mistake,” Slater Ridge Estates chairman Stewart Kennedy said. “We’re going to be awakened many, many times at 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., that sort of thing.” Kennedy added that a petition against the proposal has begun circulating around the neighbourhood. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service pamphlets were distributed Aug. 19 to residents in the area notifying them of the proposal. A meeting between Abbotsford Fire chief Don
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Stewart Kennedy holds up a notice about a proposed fire hall that would be built across the street from Slater Ridge Estates. Beer and residents of the estate was scheduled to take place last night after the Times afternoon deadline. Beer said on Tuesday he wanted to hear any concerns people might have about the proposal, but he also wished to let residents know that a new fire hall in the area would help reduce response time on a call. “What we’re trying to do is reach the appropriate response time targets that council has set for within our urban core and within our rural core,” Beer said. “And right now, in that neighbourhood, we’re not meeting them, so this will
provide us the opportunity to meet them.” The city feels the proposed space, which is city land bordering designated park land, makes the most sense, city manager Frank Pizzuto said. “Certainly we think it’s a good site, we think that it’s worth perusing. If we do it, it provides us flexibility around not having to purchase land for a fire hall because we already own it. “The land is not well used. It’s a clump of land that is not part of the park . . .” ◗ Fo r m o re, v i s i t w w w. abbotsfordtimes.com.
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The following schedules outline the school bus service provided by School District No. 75 (Mission). ELIGIBILITY FOR BUSING: Bus service will be provided only to students who have registered and recieved a 2010/11 school bus pass prior to the first day of school and who live outside the school district's walk limits. Students CANNOT board the bus on the first day by submitting a completed registration form to the driver. Walk limits are 4km for Kindergarten to Grade 7 students and 4.8km for Grades 8 to 12 students.
SCHOOL BUS REGISTRATION: Families requiring school bus transportation for the 2010/11 school year must submit completed registration form and payment to the finance department at the Board of Education office, located at 33046 Fourth Avenue. Space on school buses cannot be guaranteed to students who have not yet registered. Bus registration forms and further and further information regarding bus pass rates are available by clicking on the 'Bus Service' icon at www.mpsd.ca. Students that registered in May or June will receive their passes by mail prior to school starting.
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ROUTE 4
Destination: Deroche / Dewdney / HSS / Riverside
Destination: Durieu / HSS
7:52
Wilson St & Ruskin Crescent
Destination: Mission Central / HPSS / A. McMahon / MSS / HSS / Hatzic Elem
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PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
7:53
Triple Creek Trailer Park - (10021 Wilson St)
PICKUP TIME
Leave Bus Yard
7:55
Ruskin Trailer Park - (9950 Wilson St)
7:45
Leave Bus Yard
8:05
SILVERDALE ELEMENTARY - (MSS transfer students to Bus #8)
7:56
32980 10th Ave
8:01
Cedar St @ Briskim
Nelson St & McFall Tr
8:02
Cedar Valley Connector - infront of Mall @ Bus Stop
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7:25
ROUTE 6
ROUTE 11 PICKUP LOCATION
7:20
Leave Bus Yard
7:40
Lake Errock Store
7:36
Farms Rd & Mountainview
7:42
Lougheed Hwy @ Scowlitz Access Rd
7:37
Farms Rd @ Sward Rd
7:45
Errock Place Rd (across tracks)
7:40
Stave Lake @ Dale
7:46
Squakum Rd
7:41
10980 Farms Rd
8:11
Nelson St & Israel Ave
8:07
32539 Fraser Crescent
7:48
Low Rd @ Errock Pl
7:42
11475 Farms Rd
8:13
Nelson St & Bench Ave
8:08
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8:10
7:50
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7:42
Stave Lake Rd & Farms Rd
8:15
Nelson St & Galliford St
8:11
MISSION CENTRAL
7:53
43779 Lougheed Hwy
7:43
Stave Lake Rd @ Durieu
8:16
Clay St & Viewcrest
8:13
HERITAGE PARK SECONDARY - Bus Stop on Stave Lk
7:54
Lougheed Hwy & Ohman Rd
7:44
12462 Stave Lake Rd
8:17
Clay St & Olson Ave
8:15
Cherry Ave & Stave Lake - on Cherry
7:57
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7:47
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8:18
9036 Clay St
8:18
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8:00
DEROCHE ELEMENTARY
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8:19
Clay St & Mingo Ave
8:24
8:03
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7:49
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8:21
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8:30
MISSION SECONDARY
8:04
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7:50
Stave Lake Rd @ Hartley
8:23
Cedar St & Rosetta Ave
8:31
14th Ave & Grand St - Centennial Park
8:28
ALBERT MCMAHON - (HSS students transfer to Bus #3 / MSS students transfer to Bus #2 / Hatzic Elem students transfer to Bus #13 - Pickup students from Bus #13 and walking students)
8:32
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8:34
Best Ave & Forbes St- at Bus Stop
8:35
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8:40
HATZIC SECONDARY
8:42
HATZIC ELEMENTARY
8:07
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7:54
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8:10
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7:55
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8:12
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7:57
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8:14
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8:21
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7:59
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8:23
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8:01
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8:24
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8:02
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8:33
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8:04
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8:38
RIVERSIDE
8:05
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8:06
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8:07
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8:08
Hartley @ Sylvester Rd
Destination: Deroche / Dewdney / HSS / Riverside / MSS / A. McMahon
8:09
Sylvester Rd @ Kussman Rd
PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
8:10
Sylvester Rd @ Lundgren
7:30
Leaves Bus Yard
8:12
Sylvester Rd @ Cascade Ridge
7:45
41168 Lougheed Hwy (Oasis)
8:14
DURIEU ELEMENTARY
7:50
Nicomen Village
8:20
10199 Sylvester Rd
8:00
DEROCHE ELEMENTARY
8:28
HATZIC SECONDARY
8:02
41679 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:02
41495 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:03
Nicomen Island Tunk Rd @ Dyke
8:04
Nicomen Island Trunk Rd @ Deroche Landing
8:05
Nicomen Island Trunk Rd @ McDonald
8:07
40217 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:08
39482 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:12
Lougheed Hwy @ Rowan Rd
8:14
DEWDNEY ELEMENTARY
8:22
HATZIC SECONDARY
8:25
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Penner
8:27
RIVERSIDE
8:28
Harms St & Dewdney Trunk Rd
8:32
ALBERT MCMAHON - (Pick-up walking students and transfer students from Bus #5, #6 & #13)
8:37
MISSION SECONDARY
ROUTE 3 Destination: HSS / Hatzic Elem / Riverside / A. McMahon
PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
7:25
Leave Bus Yard
7:40
Stave Lake & Timbercove
7:43
10728 Stave Lake St
7:47
11475 Farms Rd
7:49
10980 Farms Rd
8:35
ROUTE 7 Destination: Hatzic Elem / HSS
ROUTE 12
PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
Destination: Dewdney / HSS / HPSS / MSS / Hatzic Elem / Riverside
7:20
Leave Bus Yard
7:33
Clay Rd @ Mingo Ave
PICKUP TIME
7:34
Clay Rd & Olsen Ave
7:38
Nelson St @ Israel Ave
7:50
9950 Wilson St - Ruskin Trailer Park
7:51
10021 Wilson St - (Triple Creek Trailer Park)
7:52
Wilson St & Ruskin Crescent
7:54
11450 Wilson St
7:58
Carr St & Taise Pl
7:59
12468 Carr St
ROUTE 5
8:00
29585 Hudson Ave
Destination: ESR / A. McMahon / HPSS / HSS
8:04
12483 Powell St & Berg Ave
PICKUP LOCATION
8:05
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Rolly Lake
7:28
Leave Bus Yard
8:07
30260 Berg Ave
7:45
2977 Aherne Pl
8:10
Bell Ave & Nikula Ave
7:48
30439 Malquist Ave
8:15
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Pilgrim St
7:50
Keystone Ave & Jacobson St
8:20
12401 Dewdney Trunk Rd
7:51
Keystone Ave @ Wallace St
8:21
12196 Dewdney Trunk Rd
7:56
11083 Shaw St
8:22
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Cardinal
7:57
Shaw St @ Greenwood Dr
8:29
32601 Dewdney Trunk Rd
7:58
10394 Shaw St
8:31
Ferndale @ Barr St
PICKUP TIME
HERITAGE SECONDARY
8:14
Stave Lake Rd & Dlugosh Ave
8:40
MISSION SECONDARY
8:17
9131 Dewdney Trunk Rd
8:17
Dewdney Trunk Rd @ Tunbridge Ave
8:18
Dewdney Trunk Rd @ Dalke St
8:20
ESR
8:23
ALBERT McMAHON - (MSS students transfer to Bus #2 / Pick-up walking students going to HPSS
ROUTE 8 Destination: Silverdale / HPSS / MSS
PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
7:08
Leave Bus Yard
7:17
Albert McMahon Bus Shelter
7:20
Cedar St & Egglestone Ave
8:30
HERITAGE PARK SECONDARY
7:30
10935 Greenwood Pl
8:38
HATZIC SECONDARY
7:31
11083 Shaw St
7:35
Shaw St @ Keystone Ave
7:36
31474 Townshipline Rd
7:56
9549 Sylvester Rd
7:31
7:58
36489 Davies Rd
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Bell St - turn right onto Bell
7:33
Bell St & Nikula Ave - pick-up and turn around
7:34
30436 Berg Ave
7:36
Berg Ave & Rolley Lake - left turn
7:38
Rolley Lake & Dewdney Trunk Rd - pick-up at STOP sign
HATZIC ELEMENTARY
HATZIC SECONDARY - (pick-up walking students and transfer students from bus # 1 & 3
RIVERSIDE
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Cardinal
8:40
8:25
8:35
7:21
HATZIC SECONDARY
DEWDNEY ELEMENTARY
HATZIC SECONDARY
9766 Sylvester Rd
8:35
Lougheed Hwy @ Waring
8:18
8:40
7:55
ALBERT MCMAHON - (Pick-up walking students and transfer students from Bus #6)
39160 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:13
Stave Lake Rd @ Doyle St
Leave Bus Yard
8:25
Nicomen Island Trunk Rd @ Gourlay
8:12
8:10
7:00
RIVERSIDE
38811 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
8:11
Dewdney Tk @ East Penner St
9623 Farms Rd
8:22
8:10
8:32
7:54
HATZIC ELEMENTARY
Nicomen Island Trunk Rd @ Thompson Rd 38567 Nicomen Island Trunk Rd
HATZIC ELEMENTARY
Nelson St & Israel St
8:18
8:07 8:09
8:38
Nelson St & Galiford St
HATZIC SECONDARY - (HPSS & MSS students transfer to Bus #12
McKamey Rd @ Newton Rd
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Bodner Tr
7:46
8:17
Newton Rd @ Hyde Buker Rd
8:00
8:07
7:44
9267 Shook Rd (Green Acres)
36489 Davies Rd
7:59
HATZIC ELEMENTARY
PICKUP TIME
8:08
7:55
8:31
Destination: Silverdale / HPSS / A. McMahon
Shook Rd @ Lakeview Rd
36401 Davies Rd
8:29
Farms Rd @ Sward Rd
Shook Rd @ Little Beach
Eagle Rd @ Shore Rd
7:54
9043 Draper St
Farms Rd @ Mountainview Rd
8:06
9267 Shook Rd - Green Acres
7:52
Ferndale @ Draper St
7:53
8:07
Shook Rd @ Little Beach
7:45
8:36
7:54
Shook Rd @ Moore
Shook Rd @ Lakeview Rd
7:43
8:34
ROUTE 6
8:05
7:41
Keystone @ Townshipline Rd
10494 Farms Rd
Eagle Rd @ Shore Rd
Lougheed Hwy @ Shook Rd Shook Rd & Moore
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Cedar St
Farms Rd @ Riverside
Lougheed Hwy @ Shook Rd
7:40 7:41
8:00
7:51
8:00
PICKUP LOCATION Leave Bus Yard
8:06
7:52
8:04
7:35
PICKUP LOCATION
7:47
Nelson St & McFall Tr
7:55
Hayward St & Anderson Ave
8:01
Silverhill Ave & Wolfe St
8:02
9374 Manzer St
8:05
SILVERDALE ELEMENTARY - Pick-up MSS transfer students from Bus #6
8:07
Haywood St & Anderson Ave
8:12
Wolfe St & Malquist Ave
8:13
Wolfe St & School Ave
ROUTE 13 Destination: McMahon - Hatzic Secondary - Hatzic Elementary
PICKUP TIME
PICKUP LOCATION
7:13
Leave Bus Yard
7:45
Smith Ave & Sabo St - (turn)
7:48
Roach St & Ainsworth St
7:48
Ainsworth St & Cardinal
7:54
Cardinal & Johnson St - (turn)
8:03
Dewdney @ Hampton Common
8:03
Dewdney @ Richards Ave
8:05
Richards Ave & Cedar St
8:06
33060 Richards Ave
8:07
33262 Richards Ave
8:08
Richards Ave & Barr St
8:10
Stave Lake & Doyle St - (ESR students transfer to #5)
8:15
Stave Lake Rd & Dlugosh Ave
8:16
Stave lake Rd & Hartman Ave
8:17
Stave Lake Rd & Ferndale Ave
8:18
Stave Lake Rd & Laxton Ave
8:20
Dewdney Trunk Rd & Cade Barr St
8:23
ALBERT MCMAHON - (MSS transfer students to Bus #2 / HPSS transfer students to Bus #6. Pickup walking students going to HSS and Hatzic E.) Dewdney Tk @ East Penner St
7:40
Dewdney Trunk Rd @ Centre St
8:14
Silverhill Ave & Wolfe St
7:42
Carr St & Carlson Ave
8:15
9049 Manzer St
7:44
Carr St & Taise Pl
8:17
8925 Manzer St
7:45
12436 Carr St
8:18
Gaglardi St & Law Ave
8:28
HATZIC SECONDARY HATZIC ELEMENTARY
7:47
12629 Powell St
8:21
30050 Silverdale Ave
8:30
7:47
12551 Powell St
8:22
30429 Silverdale Ave
8:35
7:48
12483 Powell St
8:23
30709 Silverdale Ave
7:49
Powell St & Berg Ave - at intersection
8:33
7th & Alder St
7:51
9906 Wilson St
8:38
HERITAGE PARK SECONDARY
Notes for students: 1. Be 5 minutes early at bus stop.
2. Dress for weather. 3. No skateboards on buses.
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Hasn’t gone to seed
The petals then fall off and what remains is a pod capsule that contains seeds, which can be ground up to create a fine opium powder. “Once we were able to confirm there were opium poppies growing in the field, then we took some steps to gather the evidence and the grounds needed to get a search warrant for the field,” continued Bosnell. “Some pressure was put on us because we were trying to get to the field before the opium poppies were too mature. If we left it too long, we were going to run the risk of thousands of seeds from each pod capsule on the top of these opium poppies being
spread not only within this field but . . . within other fields in the area.” RCMP spokesperson Cpl. LeaAnne Dunlop said police have worked to try and ensure that the Chilliwack poppy crop is gone for good. “What’s going to be important now for this investigation is the eradication of the plants in the field and to ensure they’re not going to come back,” she said. “We’ve also contracted out to a local farmer to till the field for us quite deep down to hopefully eradicate the crop that was growing in this field and hopefully that will be the end of this particular location.”
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just came back from our place in the woods where I bury my head in the sand for a few days every year. It’s kind of the opposite of the way you recharge the batteries for whatever digital gizmo suits your fancy – instead of plugging it in, I kind of pull the plug out while I’m at Machete Lake. Indeed, I was quite distraught to learn that our granddaughter’s latest digital toy, an iSomethingorother, was actually able to keep her connected with the Internet and the digital avatars that take the place of up-closeand-personal friendships these days. That was, until the power source died . . . and we have no facilities up there to effect a recharge (at least, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it). Now, I should interject here, in the midst my Luddite ranting, that there is a major upside to the connectivity (as opposed to personal contact) that the Internet offers. Emma and her family hosted a young lady on an exchange visit from Korea some time ago, and the two girls have kept in touch, often daily, in ways that would not have been possible – or even imagined – when I was her age. They can write back and forth over a span of minutes, when such distances as separate them would only a few years ago have required days or weeks. They quickly and easily share pictures,
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Odd thoughts drawings, and their favourite songs. But please don’t tell her I approve. I prefer to remain like all the other old fogeys who deem all this texting and twittering nonsense as impersonal and socially destructive. In the meantime, I will continue to pretend that, when we head off to our hole in the woods every year, modern technology has not yet followed us there. Indeed, my own cell phone – now several generations old, as electronic devices are measured – remains a truly faithful companion, in that it, too, severs its ties with the outside world while we’re up there at our lake near the top of the mountains, ensuring that I can continue my excuse for dealing with surprises when I get back to work, instead of feeling a need to allow the rigours of work break into my vacation time. According to surveys commissioned by various companies and governments over the past few years, too many Canadians already short-change their time off that way. And the Computer Age, I recall
being told more than once in the glorious 1970s, was going to set us free. Fat chance, eh? By being cut off from the rest of the “free” world over the past couple of weeks, I missed: ■ the successful completion of Bill Vander Zalm’s anti-HST petition; ■ the legal contestation of the anti-HST petition by business and other pro-HST interests; ■ Elections BC’s decision to hold back the anti-HST petition until the legal challenges were resolved; ■ vocal expression of concern by the anti-HST petitioners that there was foul play afoot, and the legal challenges were merely a ploy to allow Gordo and his BC Libs to circumvent or at least defer the democratic process; ■ the resolution of the antiHST petition challenges; ■ the subsequent release of the anti-HST petition to the Legislature by Elections BC; and ■ several triumphant ultimatums coupled with declarations of imminent recall petitions by the anti-HSTers led by Vander Zalm. So what did I really miss? I suppose there is still plenty of BC Liberal whining ahead. And I’d happily have missed that, too.
afer roads are just around the corner. At least that’s the goal behind new drinking-and-driving legislation that will come into force in less than a month. As of Sept. 20, police in B.C. will be armed with the toughest legal tools in Canada to get impaired drivers off the roads, faster and for longer periods of time. According to Solicitor General Mike de Jong, impaired driving has been on the rise in B.C. – an alarming revelation that spurred the provincial government to make it easier to remove the perpetrators from their vehicles. When the new law comes into effect, drinking drivers who fail the Criminal Code standard 0.08 per cent breath test will be immediately banned from driving for 90 days, will have their vehicle impounded for 30 days, and will be fined $500 – aside from possible criminal charges that carry additional fines and potential jail terms. The new provincial legislation adds a “warning” range to the standard breathalyser test. A reading between 0.05 and the criminally liable 0.08 per cent will earn the errant driver a three-day driving ban and a $200 fine. Getting caught at that level more than once within five years ups the ante to a seven-day ban and $300 the second time, and a 30-day ban with a $400 fine for a third time. Research has shown that, although below the Criminal Code’s radar, drivers with breath alcohol levels between 0.05 and 0.08 per cent are seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than sober drivers are. Numbers of impaired driving charges rose 18 per cent from 2008 to 2009. That is unacceptable. That is, in fact, fatally unacceptable. There will be no tears from us for anyone who feels hard done by when they get nailed under the new law.
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Payout: too much, too soon John R. Redekop’s letter to the Abbotsford-Mission Times, (Fed-up reader writes a letter to treasure, Aug. 20), thoroughly expressed the opinions of most the Abbyarea tax paying residents. Reading about the recent $105,574 bonus given by the Abbotsford school board to a fly-bynight departing secretarytreasurer after a 10-month employment stint is enough to raise the ire of the most docile soul amongst any of us. Here I thought after the last school board elections that we as citizens had chosen a conscientious and well-balanced group of school trustees fully qualified to take care of the fiscal responsibilities that go along with the job. Judging by the recent
outlandish lavish Santa Claus bonus gift that equaled $10,557 for each month, was I wrong! Why has business life in the public sector become such a cut-throat practice anyhow? What has happened to the honest, non-greedy, integrity and desire to use one’s talents to better the lives of other people without making it one’s first priority of fattening their own purses first of all? If giving this grotesque sum of bonus money, over and above secretarytreasurer Mark Lee’s already $112,122 in earned wages, was met with unanimous consent of all school trustees not one of them deserves to be re-elected for another term in office. Gertie Pool Abbotsford
Long-running beef with census Editor, the Times:
I don’t want the long-form census questionnaire. I filled one out 10 years ago and was upset by one particular question. Or rather, the lack of one answer and the targeting of one faith group. The question was esentially: what faith are you? I scanned down the answers . . . Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim . . . but no Christian! Instead there was a selection of the more common denominations: Baptist, Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox. This troubled me as other faith groups didn’t receive such attention. Why should I care? Ask the Muslim-Shiite, Sunni,
might feel it was ‘harmless.’ Even if they didn’t, I would not trust the security of their computers. Paula Brown Mission see LETTERS, page A11
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SECONDARY SCHOOLS • The first day of all 3 secondary schools will be Tuesday, September 7th from 8:30am to 11:20am (Buses will depart at 11:35am) • Wednesday, September 8th will be a regular school day. • Regular School hours: Mission Secondary & Heritage Park Secondary: 8:50am to 3:00pm • New Registrations for all secondary schools are on Monday, August 30th to Friday, September 2nd at each school. Please direct inquiries to: • Hatzic Secondary 604.826.3651 • Heritage Park Secondary 604.820.4587 • Mission Secondary 604.826.7191
French Immersion Parents wishing to enroll their children in French Immersion should contact the following schools: Grade K to 7: École Christine Morrison 604.826.6528 Grade K to 7: École Mission Central 604.826.1414 Grades 8 to 12: École Mission Secondary 604.826.7191 Special Education Parents who have questions regarding placement of special education students should contact the Director of Instruction, Randy Huth at 604.814.3705. Riverside College Registrations for Riverside College and the Continuing Education Centre are ongoing throughout the school year. For more information or to make an appointment please call 604.814.0446.
Russia's unprecedented it through traffic—and summer heat wave continuing service has been much in the because, said a metro news. Acrid smog with spokesperson, “You have concentrations of carbon no idea what would have monoxide and other happened if we’d closed poisonous substances down an entire branch two to three times higher of the system.” Mikhail than what is considered Blinkin, a traffic expert is safe blanketed Moscow quoted: “The city is on the for at least a week during brink of transportational Cedric Hughes Barrister & Solicitor early August. The smog collapse.” is said to have been Moscow was built as a caused by the thousands of wildfires burning series of walled forts with the Kremlin at the around Moscow and throughout western centre. Avant-garde Bolsheviks envisioned Russia. Moscow’s top health official said that a “socialist Moscow of clean right angles” deaths in Moscow doubled to an average of but the mediaeval radial structure worked 700 people a day. At the time of writing, relief (not surprisingly) for Joseph Stalin, who appears to be on the way from a northwestern merely widened the streets into avenues that cold front expected to bring heavy rains and provided “a fine, broad line of sight for Soviet colder temperatures. leaders during military parades.” Moderating weather, however, will not wholly While grid cities tend to function more efrelieve Moscow of its smog problem. In 1991, ficiently than radial cities, Kiichiro Hatoyama, Moscow had 60 cars per thousand residents; a Japanese traffic engineer who teaches at in 2009, 350 cars per thousand, and the the Moscow State University, says this need number continues to climb. As Keith Gessen in not be decisive. In Moscow’s case, in addihis Letter from Moscow, “Stuck” in the August tion to the road organization, are two critical 2nd issue of the New Yorker magazine noted, determining factors: driver behaviour and the “The first great post-Soviet fortune, after all, “the social system which is always reflected was made not from oil or gas or nickel: that on the roads.” Russian drivers are described came later. It was made when Boris Beras “impatient” and “angry” seizing “whatever ezovsky, a mathematician and game theorist, inch of road is offered them” at however inapstarted selling cars.” propriate the time. While 350 vehicles per thousand still comNot surprisingly, some relief is provided for pares favourably to North America’s 800 per the rulers. Mr. Hatoyama also describes a thousand, Moscow’s capacity for handling the traffic system that accords special privileges resulting traffic is already overwhelmed. So for the Russian elite reflective of its age-old much so that Mr. Gessen’s ‘letter’ begins by feudal structure. This he says “causes many describing Moscow’s traffic as “an existential problems.” When asked if he knew of any threat,” and then supporting this assertion other place with different rules for different with chilling anecdotes: an ambulance driver drivers, he answered with a single word, lazily throwing snowballs off an embankment, “China.” in traffic so long that reportedly his patient had died en route; subway bombings during Cedric Hughes L.L.B. rush hour that resulted in helicopter rescue Leslie McGuffin L.L.B. for the injured-no ambulances could make www.roadrules.ca
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Tamils taking away from legit immigrants Editor, the Times:
I’m confused in regards to the Tamil refugees. With a little research I have learned that the following countries accept refugees: Australia, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the UK. I’m sure there are far more than this. So why did these refugees choose Canada? The
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answer is simple. Our laws are lapse. We welcome them with open arms and allow them to stay for years while we review their claims. We provide food, shelter, and an abundance of lawyers to defend their rights to remain in our country. Many of them pay thousands of dollars for their trip across the ocean. How bad did they have it in their
country with these financial means? Why can’t we expedite the process for legitimate claimants using the proper channels instead of wasting my tax dollars on people who, if they were true refugees, could have stopped at a large number of countries much closer to their point of origin. Kevin Olund Mission
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h e Un i t e d Wa y o f the Fraser Valley’s increase in grants will help groups on both sides of the Fraser River, said Leona Fleck, chairwoman of the United Way’s impact committee. The increase in impact g ra n t s i s u p t o $ 8 7 , 0 0 0 from $37,000 in the past year for the Fraser Valley area, reaching Aldergrove, Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack, and all the way to Boston Bar. UWFV grants help two Mission projects, including Talking and Playing Together, a Mission Literacy in Motion program. This offers parents a 14-week skills program for better parenting right in their own home. Another grant goes to the Mission Community Kitchen
Worship Centres SUNDAY EVENINGS Old Fashioned Hymn Singing and Healing Service 7:00 pm
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CENTRE Garden Park Tower (north side entrance)
2825 Clearbrook Road
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offered by the Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley. The kitchen teaches basic food prep with nutritious and inexpensive ingredients, plus canning and backyard gardening. The UWFV funding also provides grants for Autumn House, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, H.O.M.E. Society, CNIB, Sardis Doorway and Positive Living Fraser Valley and other agencies. The donations from Abbotsford and Mission and its other communities go towards preventative work the UWFV agencies d o t o r e d u c e p o v e r t y, homelessness and ensuring children under the age of six succeed, said Fleck. ◗ See more about the United Way at www.uwfv.bc.ca.
BAPTIST
Maranatha Baptist Church
We are a smaller group of friends that have transplanted our gathering from Cloverdale to Abbotsford. We enjoy our praise and worship led by gifted, talented and inspiring worship leaders who lead us into wonderful expressions of adoration to God. We find help and inspiration and direction in teaching by those who share each week. We have a desire to help teach children to be all God created them to be in class ages to 12 years. We desire to make friends with all who are maturing in their relationship with God or if they are curious spiritually. We work diligently at making everyone feel welcome. Our hope is that the hurting, seeking, lonely and anyone for that matter; would find a place to mature and be able to contribute in some loving way to the community of Abbotsford. We have a no pressure attitude so that people can interact with others, hang around the fringes in curiosity, enter in with gusto, ask for prayer, worship in intimacy – simply come and go according to each one’s comfort zone and zeal. Our hope is that you would feel to blend in as a part of what is happening at Connect Church and share your own unique self to actively contribute in our movement to enrich our own gatherings and to self sacrifice in helping to introduce God’s love into broken lives around us. Connect Church is led by a Pastoral Team consisting of Blake & Adrienne Joiner and Sean & Jamie Sabourin. We meet in the gymnasium at the Secondary Campus of Abbotsford Christian School every Sunday morning at 10:00 am. There is a coffee time beginning a t 9:30 am and again following the service.
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Worship Service & “Heroes of the Faith” for 2 year olds to entering Grade 5 every Sunday all summer. 3440 Mt. Lehman Rd 604-607-5031
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CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH
CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH
(corner of King & McKenzie Rd.) 604-854-5185
Sunday Worship Services 10:00 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.
(nursery provided) Free Bible Course Offered Listen to “Gospel Talk” Mon-Fri 2:45 pm on Kari AM 550
604-852-4746
Our Family Welcomes You Sunday Worship 10:30AM Kids’ Lighthouse Classes Pastors: Keith Falconer & Vernon Forbes
INDEPENDENT
LUTHERAN
LUTHERAN
Youth, Adult, Children’s Ministries, Celebrate Recovery & more. Everyone Welcome
BODY OF CHRIST MINISTRIES
Saturdays @ 3130 McMillan Road
11:30 am Snack & Fellowship 12:00-2:15 Music, Message & Prayer **The first Sabbath of each month a POTLUCK dinner is held from 11:30-12:30 and the main service will begin at 12:45** Contacts: Enrique & Sharilyn Ortiz @ 604-855-4492 Raphael & Linda Meadows @ 604-859-5244
PENTECOSTAL
PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 10:30 am Holy Communion 10:30 am Children’s Ministry 9:00 am Deutsch 2029 Ware St. at Marshall 604-859-5409
www.abbotsfordchurch.com
Trinity Lutheran
Lutheran Church - Canada (LC-C) Church of the Lutheran Hour 3845 Gladwin Road North 604-853-3227
9:45am Sunday School & Bible Studies 10:30am Worship Service www.trinitylcc.ca
Pastor Christoph Reiners www.plc-abby.org
Pastor: David Hilderman
PRESBYTERIAN
PRESBYTERIAN
NEW LIFE Calvin Church
PENTECOSTAL A mainstream church CHURCH with an evangelical heart 2597 Bourquin Crescent East 33668 McDougall Street Phone:Abbotsford 604-859-6902 604-859-0039
Pastor: Hans Kouwenberg Sunday School & Kids Connect: Smitham Adult Bible Classes Sarah . . . . 10:30 Evangelistical Service . . 11:30 am WORSHIP SERVICES Thursday Bible Study . . .7:00 pm 10:00 am Pastor: D. Rideout Come as you are!
604-850-7579
(IN MISSION)
St. Pauls 8469 Cedar St. 604-826-8481
10:30 am
Worship & Children’s Church Interim Minister:
Rev. Donald Hill
Youth Leader: Doug McKellan
http://pccweb.ca/stpauls-mission You are welcome!
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ANGLICAN
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
Anglican Network in Canada (corner of Marshall Rd. & Guilford Dr.)
Sunday Services Traditional Service 9:30 am Contemporary Service 11:00 am 2575 Gladwin Road,Abbotsford 604-853-0757
Sundays
Service on Sunday at 11:30am Meeting at the Seniors’Centre in the Matsqui Recreation Centre on Clearbrook Road ½ block S of MacLure
8:30 am 10:15 am
Wednesdays Holy Communion 10:00 am
604-853-2416
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Invites you to worship according to the Book of Common Prayer
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
CHRISTIAN REFORMED
COMMUNITY CHURCH
(South of Vye Road)
Come and join us for worship
LIVING HOPE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
MENNONITE
MENNONITE BRETHREN
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite 29623 Downes Road
Sunday Worship Services
Everyone Welcome
2285 Clearbrook Road 604-859-4611
RESURRECTION JESUS Come play ball with people who love Jesus.
Ray: 604-807-7470 David: 778-878-1189 Patrick: 778-908-9824
MENNONITE BRETHREN
MENNONITE BRETHREN
CLEARBROOK MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH Phone: 604-850-6607 9:45 am German Worship Service and Sunday School 11:00 am Family Worship Service 7:00 pm Evening Service 10:00 am Wednesday Bible Study German/English “We preach Christ crucified and risen” 1 Cor. 2-3; 1 Cor. 15-20
LIFE CHURCH
THE SALVATION ARMY
CELEBRATION
CASCADE
Sunday @ 10:00 am SENIORS DROP IN CENTRE
2631Cyril Street (off Essendene)
Come To Jesus Pastors:
Weekly activities for students and children as scheduled. Lead Pastor - Warren Schatz Associate Pastor - Adam Palesch Worship Director/Jr. High Youth - Andrew Jager
2719 Clearbrook Road
Worship Service 10:50 am
Sunday School 10:00 am
Worship Service - 10:15 am & Children’s Ministry
(Corner of Clearbrook & Old Yale Roads)
8:45 am Traditional Service 10:45 am Contemporary Service 10:45 am Liturgical Service 9:55 am Adult Learning Centre 11:15 am Summer Cinema (children)
Corner of Ross & Downes Rd.
604-859-9937
Rev. Colin VanderPloeg Youth Director: Adam VanDop Sunday Services: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Sunday School: 10:30 am (Nursery provided) Weekly activities for all Everyone welcome
GRACE
EVANGELICAL BIBLE CHURCH 2087 McMillan Road
34631 Old Clayburn Road 604-853-6151
604-852-4564
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He is not here...He is risen
Community Church 35190 Delair Road Abbotsford, BC 604-556-7000 Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. Kids Time for age 2½ to 11 Nursery for under age 2½ Evening Service Service 6:00 6:00 p.m. Evening Suspended Sept. 19 Everyone is to welcome Everyone is welcome
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3160 Ross Road, Abbotsford (1 block north of Fraser Highway)
Phone: 604-856-2024 SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES 10:00 AM “KIDS PROGRAM DURING BOTH SERVICES” ALL ARE WELCOME!
18th Ave.
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BAHA’I
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Central Valley
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COMMUNITY CHURCH
Mountain Park Community Church
There’s always a place for you!
contemporary worship excellent children’s program
Summer Service Time July 4 - Aug. 29 • 10:00 am Meeting at 2393 West Railway Street 604.864.ACTK www.actk.ca Senior Pastor - Justin Manzey
Contemporary Worship Biblical Teaching A Great Community Join us
Sundays @ 10:00am
(Children’s programs during service)
Meeting at: Abbotsford School of Integrated Arts 36232 Lower Sumas Mtn. Rd.
Regular service times resume Sept.5
604-855-0911 • www.mpcc.ca
NONDENOMINATIONAL
NONDENOMINATIONAL
Meeting at Abbotsford Christian School | Secondary Campus 35011 Old Clayburn Rd. Sunday Service: 10:00 AM Connections Groups: Wednesdays @ 7:30 PM Thursdays @ 7:00 PM Pastoral Team: Blake & Adrienne Joiner Sean & Jamie Sabourin 778-808-9684 www.connectchurch.ca connect with God | connect with people
3300 Mount Lehman Road, Abbotsford
Worship Services 10 am and 5 pm
Sunday school for children after the morning service
Pastor E. Moerdyk Everyone Welcome!
604-755-8726
NONDENOMINATIONAL
The Potter’s House Church
33336 2nd Ave. Mission
Abbotsford
www.ieastgate.ca
Trinity Memorial United Church
St. Andrew’s United Church
Gladwin Heights United Church
33737 George Ferguson Way Abbotsford
7756 Grand Street at 10th Ave. Mission
3474 Gladwin Road Abbotsford
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FREE REFORMED CHURCH EMMANUEL FREE REFORMED CHURCH
604-746-4411
Meeting at
10:00 am Service
604-826-8296
(3 blocks east of White Spot) 604-850-3204 Traditional Services Sunday School. . . .10:00 am Morning Worship . .11:00 am Evening Worship . . 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study & Childrens Club 7:00 pm
Abbotsford Traditional Middle School 2272 Windsor St.
(10:15 am coffee & tea bar)
10:00 am Service
Rev. Tim Bowman
Baptist Church
33393 Old Yale Rd., Abbotsford
Prayer for the sick, healing, deliverance in Jesus’ name! SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Thursday Service - 7:00 pm Friday & Saturday Concert & Movie Night - 7:00 pm
10:30 am Sunday services
10:00 am Service
604-853-2591
Cade Barr St.
Cherry Ave.
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Rev. Connie Thompson
CEDAR ST.
Egglestone Ave.
Cedar St.
DETOURS IN EFFECT.
Tunbridge Ave.
Abbotsford Seniors Assoc. Drop-In Centre 2631 Cyril Street (between Old Yale & George Ferguson)
The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada part of the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion
617 McKenzie Road Abbotsford
On Cedar Street between Cherry Avenue and Tunbridge Avenue.
5781 Riverside Street The Rev’d Michael Shier 604-951-3733 Info.: 604-856-6902
Sermons available on website: www.stmatthewsanglicanchurch.com
! !
ROAD CLOSURE & CONSTRUCTION WORK
“RADIANT ACQUIESCENCE”
Matsqui Lutheran Church-Matsqui Village
For information call 604-853-6083 Anglican Network in Canada
Sundays at 10:30 am + 6:30 pm
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF
HOLY COMMUNION 12:30 PM
www.sevenoaks.org
Many learn the words Few learn the Song
www.vancouver.anglican.ca
TRADITIONAL ANGLICAN
ANGLICAN
Traditional Holy Communion Contemporary Family Eucharist
Contact: The Diocese of New Westminister for more information 604.684.6306
Hurd St.
is my rock. He trains hand fully” The bird will my hands for war and flutter its wings, and it gives my fingers skill will fall and die. An intifor battle. He is my mate place is like my FRED loving ally and my cupped hand, neither MOORE fortress, my tower of totally open nor totally Faith that closed. It is the space safety, my rescuer. matters He is my shield, and where growth can take I take refuge in Him. place.” He makes the nations submit to me.” God’s powerful hand is certainly But we must apply this protection. to be respected and feared. But for How do we do this? Through prayer, the faithful believer, it is also a place reading and meditating on the Bible, of refuge and rest. Realizing we are applying faith, right thinking, felsafe in His hands, we can enjoy the lowship with other Christians, and untroubled and secure calm He depending on the power of the Holy intends for us. Spirit. No one – neither the devil nor our These disciplines will keep the enemies – can take us out of His world from getting through to us. God hand. In the intimacy of His presence, is truly our shield and protector. we do not need to be afraid. Praise Author Henri Nouwen has written the Lord! about Jean Vanier, who tells a story illustrating our need for intimacy with God. He stretches out his arm and ■ Fred Moore and his wife Margaret are members of Sevenoaks Alliance Church then cups his hand as though it holds in Abbotsford. He may be reached at a small, wounded bird. fmmoore@telus.net. “What will happen if I open my
Holy Communion August 29th, 2010 at 8am St. Matthew’s Church 2010 Guilford Drive, Abbotsford
Wren St.
I
t seems that we waited a long time for summer to come to Abbotsford. But now it definitely is here, and we need to be very careful to be sure that the sun’s powerful rays don’t have adverse effects on us. Some people may have a disease like lupus. Exposed to the sun for extended periods of time, they have a visible and painful reaction. To protect themselves, they often wear large-brimmed hats and clothing to cover their arms, legs and necks. They may use the strongest sunscreen possible to protect exposed skin areas. They probably spend the midday hours in the shade. In a similar way, Christians need spiritual protection from Satan’s evil world system. We are bombarded continuously with temptations and pressures that will weaken our testimony and even turn us away from the Lord. But God himself provided us with all the protection we need. In Psalm 144:1.2 we read: “Praise the Lord, who
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604-852-3984
Rev. Dorothy Jeffery
Elks Hall
604-302-2066
WORSHIP CENTRE A church with a vision for Restoration ...welcomes you
Times have changed, the Gospel Wednesday Night message Home Bible Study has not 7:00 pm changed Sunday Worship 2:30 pm
For more info call 604-870-9770
2455 W. Railway St. Abbotsford (Faith Bible Church)
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Mission’s Centennial marked as off-leash dog park CHRISTINA TOTH CToth@abbotsfordtimes.com
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Mission’s mutts and manicured purebreds alike will have room to roam at Centennial Park this fall.
ission’s Centennial Park will become the district’s first official off-leash park for dogs. A portion of the park off Grand Street will be delineated with shrubs, where dog owners can let their pooches run free, Mission’s parks director Ray Herman told council Aug.16. “It is central and it is utilized by people already as an off-leash site,” he said. The cost will be about $7,000 for landscaping, seven in-ground trash cans, five doggy bag receptacles and
signs. The designation for this and six other sites to be off-leash dog parks was included in the district’s most recent parks master plan. The shrubs will be planted later in the fall when the weather cools, said Herman. Other parks, such as Griner or Hatzic are being considered, but because they are smaller and are adjacent to residences, the district may have to install fencing, he said. “We want to make them look nice. We don’t want a doggy ghetto.” After Herman’s presentation, however, Shelley Clark-
son, a caretaker at Fraser River Heritage Park, urged the council to consider putting up fencing, not just shrubs, for the off-leash portion of Centennial Park. “Pe o p l e d o n’t h a v e a s much control of their dogs
as people think. I’d like you to look at your liability as a district,” she suggested. The council said they’d ask the parks department to report back after Centennial has been an official dog park for three months.
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On the edge The most common question I get asked about our contest is why am I/the Times doing this? Well, it’s simple – it is to promote cultural diversity and to continue to build relationships and to correct any misunderstandings that may exist between different groups in our communities. Last week I proposed a race-relations question to my Facebook friends. I received a dozen or so lengthy responses. I wanted to get some personal insight into racism in our communities. It was an open discussion and I asked no one to hold back. Here are some of the comments I received. “Racism is alive and well in every culture.” “I am Caucasian, so I hear Caucasians utter comments that embarrass me. I don’t know what the East Indian people or Chinese think. Once we are Canadian, I would like us to work toge-
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dashed. But she didn’t give up. Support from her parents, peers and community helped her reach her goal of the Top 20 in 2010, and she can’t thank CAM TUCKER those people enough. camtuckertimes@gmail.com “It’s honestly really overwhelming,” she said. “You rom the comfort of think you can try and preour couch, watching a pare yourself for it all, but reality dance show may you can’t prepare for it. This seem like over-hyped drama, just hits you. but Charlene Hart is debunk“When we’re up on that ing that theory. stage, we’re doing something The Abbotsford dancing that we love and that’s an queen advanced amazing thrill t o t h e To p 2 0 to share that for So You Think “It’s honestly really with everybody, You Can Dance but then feeling Canada Tuesday overwhelming. You the support, night after she think you can try going home watched two of and my phone her competitors and prepare yourself has been ring(and friends) get for it all, but you ing off the hook eliminated. and numerous T h e i m a g e s can’t prepare for it. text messages caught on cam- This just hits you.” . . . it’s kind of era of Canada’s crazy, you’re best dancers not expecting – Charlene Hart anxiously pacit.” ing around are Hart has been real, and so are a dancer most the emotions competitors of her life. She started when go through during the entire she was three and has let her production. dancing skills, which include “I was so nervous,” Hart, 24, everything from classical baltold the Times on Wednesday, let to tap to hip hop, take her one day after she was put around the world, from the through the show’s Top 20. PNE, to Paris and Rome. “We all skipped dinner we But making it into the Top were so nervous.” 20 on the show ranks up Nerves are a part of danc- there as one of her proudest ing, especially in front of a accomplishments. national audience, and they “I always had dreams of are not something that easily being on Broadway, and that go away. would be a dream come true This is Hart’s second time . . . I don’t think, growing up, on the hit CTV show. Last I ever thought ‘one day I’m season, she came tantaliz- going to be on stage on TV, ingly close to making the Top and I’m going to be dancing 20 list of female competi- for all of Canada,’ and I’m still tors, only to have her hopes pinching myself everyday.”
Downie at the Clarke
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Charlene Hart doesn’t want her time on the popular TV show So You Think You Can Dance Canada to end, citing hometown backing as a key factor. “I would love for people to keep up that support.”
Tribute to Dean Martin coming this fall here was a time when a guy or a gal knew that they were really ‘hitting the big time’ simply because a man called Dean Martin was in the room, either on stage performing, or else at a table nearby, laughing it up with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Houston MacPherson has been there and he
Cotton on the harp
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The Dean Martin Variety Show on Friday, Oct. 1 in the Cascades Casino Summit Theatre at 20393 Fraser Highway in Langley. Tickets are available for $26.50 (plus charges) at casino guest services and at www.ticketweb.ca . Doors open at 7 p.m. and showtime is 8 p.m. For more information call 604 530 2211.
The Historic Dewdney Pub features the return of a great young performer Casey Jones on Friday Aug. 27 from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Jones is talented beyond his years and his brand of classic rock is great for listening and dancing. This continues our Friday night format featuring talented young local performers. We are also looking for new performers. On Saturday Aug. 28 from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Dewdney Pub features the local band Oliver and the Elements playing a great danceable mix of classic rock and blues music. Join us outside, weather permitting. The Historic Dewdney Pub is located five minutes east of Mission, just off Hwy 7, watch for the signs. Call 604-826-4762 for more information. – STAFF REPORTER
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Twilight wrap-up
The final concert of the 2010 Envision Twilight Concert Series brings What is Hip? to Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission on Friday, Aug. 27 from 7 to 8 p.m. The seven-piece rhythm and blues show band based in the Fraser Valley performs a mix of cover tunes from artists such as The Commitments, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Joe Cocker, the Blues Brothers, Van Morrison and more. Fortified by a three-person horn section of trumpet, trombone and tenor sax, What is Hip? is sure to end this season’s concert series with a triumphant blast. Admission is free but donations are welcome.
Big B Saloon
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Season passes for Gallery 7 Theatre are available at the House of James, 2743 Emerson St., Abbotsford, or online. Its season includes Peter Pan, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Panic Squad, and much more. See details at www.gallery7theatre.com or call 604-504-5940. Volunteers are also wanted.
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WORKING & TRAINING Health care jobs on the rise Canada is on the cusp of a major change. The first wave of our country’s aging baby boomers is about to turn 65. With this milestone birthday comes retirement, of course, along with a host of challenges that will dramatically transform the country. Most significantly, mass retirement will have a striking impact upon employment and health care in Canada. As Canadians enter their golden years, they will be turning to the medical community to keep them healthy. In fact, over the next twenty five years, the passage of about 10 million boomers into retirement will present both major challenges and opportunities for our country’s medical system. From dental work to x-rays to in-home support, these new Canadian seniors will be creating a significant demand for health care across the board.
Dental Assistant
Dental assistants can perform a number of duties in support of a dentist. These can include polishing teeth, applying fluoride, preparing patients for dental examinations, preparing dental instruments and taking x-rays. Dental assistants require training in a college program and, in all provinces but Quebec, licensing is mandatory. Once graduated, Dental assistants can expect to earn about $16.51 per hour. The growth of employment for this field is above average and expected to remain as such due, not only to the aging population, but also to the increase in Canadians with insurance coverage and improvements in dental technology.
Of the 40 or so occupations listed as “Good” prospects for 2010, over half are in the health care industry. As the country prepares for the upcoming 25 years of boomer retirement and its accompanying need for increased health care, this number can only be expected to risegood news for current and potential health care workers. So what are some of the careers that stand to prosper from this mass retirement? We’ll take a look at three of these rising-star careers to learn more about the nature of the work, the education required and what one can expect to earn while contributing to this booming field.
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In addition to the increased need for health care, as older workers retire, the mass retirement will create openings for advancement and entry into jobs previously held by boomers. In short, the swell in the senior population spells out security for workers in the health care industry and opportunity for students seeking a future with good prospects. According to Jobfutures.ca, Canada’s National Career and Education planning tool, a number of occupations in the health care industry have been given the “Good Prospect” stamp of approval. By “Good”, the government of Canada is indicating that new entrants into that particular field have “a relatively easy time finding permanent employment in targeted occupations with relatively high pay or attractive labour market conditions.”
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WORKING & TRAINING The online advantage: Education for everyone Many schools now offer courses that can be completed online which gives students the opportunity to upgrade their skills, study for a career, or take the proper training to switch jobs without having to attend a traditional college or university. For students wishing to work, maintain a family or study a program not offered at a school near them, online education is a great solution. Check out the top six reasons why learning online clicks with your lifestyle: 1. Attend courses anytime, from anywhere. Maintain your job, your family and your current schedule by logging on to study whenever and wherever is convenient. 2. Study at your own pace. Since course material is always accessible online, get a head-start on lectures or reread the difficult ones. 3. Participate openly and freely. Online chats are an anonymous environment
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4. Benefit from instructors with diverse backgrounds. Students are exposed to instructors with varied work histories and on-the-job knowledge which are valuable additions to any education. 5. Technology is vital to online learning and, as such, students need to master the internet to communicate research and participate in class. Since internet technology is an important • Qualified stylist • Guaranteed wage $10.50/hour • Yearly wage increases • Profit sharing & gratuities • Dental, drug & eyecare plan
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Stó:lô Nation, one of the leading employers in the Fraser Valley with offices located in Mission and Chilliwack, requires the services of an ASCD/AID Program(s) Coordinator to fill a vacancy with the Health Services Department. Pursuant to section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code, preference may be given to applicants of Aboriginal ancestry. Please self-identify on your cover letter or resume. The ASCDP/AID Coordinator will oversee the day-to-day program operations of the ASCDP and AIDP. The Coordinator will provide planning, coordination, administration, and supervision of the Programs. This position reports to Support Services Supervisor. The successful candidate will work out of the Central (Chilliwack) office. Some travel may be required for this position. Based on services needs, the department reserves the right to relocate workers within the service delivery area.
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Shirley Virginia (nee Schols)
Please Note: a skill and knowledge based test will be administered at the time of interviews • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree majoring in Infant Development; Early Childhood Development; First Nation Child and Youth Care; Social Work; Nursing or Therapy • Hold a valid Special Needs Certificate an Asset • Minimum 3 years experience working with infants and young children with their families • Minimum 3 years experience successfully supervising staff, program development, implementation and evaluation. • Must have coordination experience in the Early Childhood Development services field. • Must demonstrated knowledge of SCDP, childcare and early intervention programs and services. • Must demonstrate effective written and oral communication • Must have strong interpersonal skills and leadership skills • Must be able to model a healthy lifestyle in an office environment • Must demonstrates respect and professionalism for families, community members and co-workers • Must hold and maintain a valid First Aid and/or CPR certificate • Maintain confidentiality • Actively supports and follows the principle of Zero Rejection • Experience work with children and families with complex social issues • Ability to work independently and with a multi-disciplined team environment • Understand and be familiar with Aboriginal history and issues in Aboriginal communities Successful candidates will be required to provide the following if screened in for an interview: • Proof of education documentation • References: Three names and phone numbers of recent supervisors • Must possess and maintain a valid BC Drivers’ License • Must successfully pass the required pre-employment RCMP Criminal Records Check Salary Range: Will be based on qualifications and experience Type of Position: Full-time Annual Term and subject to six month probationary period and planned performance evaluations.
APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM Candidates will be screened according to the qualifications/requirements. Interested candidates are required to submit a resume and covering letter. Please include position title on subject line. Submit required resume and covering letter to: ATTN: Crystal Schmitz, HR Officer, Stó:lô Nation Personnel Department Bldg. #7, Floor #2 – 7201 Vedder Road, Chilliwack, B.C., V2R 4G5 Email: jobs@stolonation.bc.ca Fax: (604) 824-5342
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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Shirley after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Her children at her side, Shirley passed peacefully at the age of 68. Predeceased by her husband Harold, and her daughter Lynn, Shirley leaves behind children Rick (Darlene), Sherry (Guy), Cindy, grandchildren Richard, Preston, Crissy (Steve), Cody, Natasha, Pascal, Stacey (Derek), Lorrie (Mark) and Sean (Rachel). Great Grandchildren Tyler, Matthew, Riley, Noah, Dillon, Julianna, and Dawson. Shirley was loved by many including her 8 siblings, many special nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives and countless friends, especially missed and remember by faithful friends, Lynda and Rick. Special thanks to Dr. John Yun and the staff of the Richmond Oncology Department. Shirley will always be remembered by her beautiful smile, contagious laugh, and her loyal friendship to all that knew her. Memorial and tea service will be held at her residence on September 11th at 1 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to The Richmond Caring Place. Although you’re gone, we will never forget you, we love you always and will one day meet again.
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Successful applicants will be available for day, afternoon and weekend shifts, have reliable transportation (no public transit available), possess proficient English communication skills, and enjoy repetitive physical work that requires lifting 20-80 lb cases of grocery products. Starting wage is $12.76/hr with regular progressive increases every 500-1000 hours worked. We offer flexible work schedules (will include a minimum of 1 weekend day), and an excellent training program is provided. As one of the largest employers in the Fraser Valley, EV Logistics operates two distinct facilities – a 380,000 sq ft refrigerated facility, and a 485,000 sq ft dry goods building – both facilities are located in the Gloucester Industrial Park (at the 264th St exit off Hwy #1). Apply on-line at www.evlogistics.com
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GASFITTER / SERVICEMAN Required immediately. Gasfitter Furnace Serviceman. Fax resume to 250-787-1320. Call 250-787-1361. This is a full time position with excellent future for the right person.
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WASHER DRYER stacker in good working cond. $200. 604-826-2430. WHITE FRIDGE in good working cond. $100. 604-826-2430.
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PAPILLONS. THREE females for sale. Two puppies and 3 yr female. All have CKC, microchip, vaccines. Small and friendly. $600 - 1200 Call 604 527 8948
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Summer Garage Sales Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Tackle those piles of work. It’s nit-picky, detailed work, and all the details are rife with mistakes, camouflaged instructions, missing pieces. But you gotta do it – so march ahead. Important relationships – friends, enemies, lovers, partners, competitors, counsellors – remain unusually favourable. You might give or receive attention. One who is attracted, or attracts, is a “door” to worldly success. (E.g., that sexy person might also bring career luck.) Better if you met some time ago. Start nothing major before Sept. 12. Chase money Sunday/Monday. Be home Friday/Saturday. Taurus April 20-May 20: Romance wafts happily on the breeze! An old flame could grow hotter, especially if a co-worker is involved. Beauty, pleasure and a nice winning streak accompany you. A former recreational or creative venture might return. There’s still plenty of work to do, though. One chore, which might involve education, travel, cultural or media work, will take about two more years to complete. Your energy and charisma soar Sunday to Tuesday – tackle things that usually intimidate you, and see how easily you achieve! Money’s lucky Thursday. Be a friend Friday/Saturday. Career intuition is accurate. Gemini May 21-June 20: The weeks ahead accent your domestic situation, kids, security, real estate, gardening, nutrition and “the end of matters.” Usually this is a good time to decide who and what belongs in your life, and who/what should be left behind. But make no big decisions (in any of the areas listed) before Sept. 12. Your romantic prospects remain high, but attraction might compete with a natural physical lethargy – or, romance and co-habitation make a natural “pair.” You’re weary but lucky Sunday/Monday. Your charisma’s obvious midweek. You’re discovering love’s “other benefits.”
Cancer June 21-July 22: Communications, travel, paperwork, details, errands, casual acquaintances and “daily business” are accented now—and all are delayed or prone to mistakes. Check addresses on mail, figures on cheques, etc. Don’t start anything important before Sept. 12, particularly in these zones. (E.g., avoid a new advertising “mail out.”) You might hear long-lost news, receive a “lost letter,” hear from an old friend, etc. Your home remains sweet’n’sour, but ends “inspired.” Optimism, popularity and social joys bless you Sunday to Tuesday! Lie low mid-week. Your energy, charisma return Friday/Saturday. Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Your money (and career) luck rises, but more from past efforts, contacts, than new ones. Don’t launch any ventures before Sept. 12, especially in money areas. If you absolutely need a job, seek and land it (Sunday to Tuesday are good for this) – but realize that you will want to, will benefit, if you seek a new one within a year. (You’re headed for great career luck June 2011-June 2012, but that’s then.) Mid-week brings happiness, good friends, popularity, flirtations – with a Gemini? But retreat, lie low and contemplate (don’t plan) Friday/ Saturday. The best partner is a friend. Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: Your energy, charisma and effectiveness reach a yearly high – but that effectiveness is confined to ongoing and “returning” projects (and people – a former attraction might be rekindled). Beware starting important new things before Sept. 12. Intellectual, far travel, educational, publishing, religious or cultural affairs flow very well Sunday to Tuesday afternoon. Love is gentle, wide. Your career and relations with higher-ups (including parents, police) are emphasized mid-week.All’s well, but don’t act unpredictably Thursday night. Hopes and friends make a good combo Friday/Saturday!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Start nothing new before Sept. 12. Secrets, mysteries, financial plums, intimate clinches, subconscious desires surfacing – these fill Sunday through Tuesday. (Best Sunday, Monday morning.) Work in the background all week, especially these three days – a government agency, institution, large corporation or charitable organization could be your ally. Wisdom, a mellow mood, and matters of law, culture, education, thought, love and “meaning” arise mid-week – with misunderstandings Wednesday, sweet understandings Thursday. Don’t push anyone Friday/Saturday. All week, conserve energy. Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: Wishes can come true this week and next – especially former wishes, events you wanted to occur in the past, then gave up on. (E.g., a sweet or flirtatious friend returning.) (You might be tempted by a clandestine romance August and September.) Remember, start nothing new – projects nor important links – before Sept. 12. Relationships fill Sunday to Tuesday – open, exciting, sometimes challenging relationships. Be diplomatic, eager to join. Sex, secrets, intimate commitments, “big” finances arise mid-week. (All’s well.) Avoid ethical, educational, publishing commitments late week. Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Delay major initiatives until Sept. 12. Stick with the old or ongoing – and protect these from mistakes and “no shows,” especially in business and career zones. This is a fairly easy, mellow week. You’ll have to work hard – your performance is being watched. But friends, light flirtations, entertainment and happy hopes lighten every day! Tackle work Sunday to Tuesday – success awaits. Relationships, opportunities and challenges fill Tuesday eve to Thursday. Be open, honest, receptive: love’s “around.” Careful with finances, sex, commitments (no pregnancies!) Friday/Saturday.
August 29 - Sept. 4 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: Sweet, mellow thoughts, solutions, dreams, revisions float through your head – but if you actually sit down to write them out, you’ll discover they were “gossamer on the breeze” – insubstantial, impractical, even nonsensical. This gossamer is the “chatter” as your lower mind sorts out the past two years. The true results are substantial and beneficial – and sub-conscious. Do events since 2008 seem grim? No worries: you are coming into your power. Your career efforts need pruning: encourage growth by ending/clipping some involvements. Early week, love, pleasure. Mid: work. Late: caution. Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: Secrets, mysteries, dreams, subconscious desires (and fears) research, diagnosis, health, investments, debts, large finances, lifestyle choices, commitments, sexual intimacy – these are emphasized, and in all, mistakes run rife. However, these are also mines filled with rich veins running through the past – there might be an old investment, a former intimate partner, an old piece of research that holds deep benefits for you! (Most likely to appear Sunday to Tuesday.) But make NO new investments (etc.) before Sept. 12. Romance calls mid-week. Careful with health, chores Friday/Saturday. Pisces Feb.19-March20:Thepastisalive;thepresent, as if scared, dithers around, circling uncertainties. So deal with the past – former agreements, opportunities, negotiations, relationships. These yield benefits. Every relationship holds something in its hands: money, love, sex, commitment, the future: especially now. The deeper you plunge, the more you will find, most of it gratifying. You could get hooked on someone, August September! Sunday to Tuesday accent travel, communications. Mid-week draws you toward home, foundations. Friday/Saturday bring romantic, pleasure urges: be honest, cautious. timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014
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Apartments & Condos
1 BR, $825, den, patio,u/g prkg, w/d, f/p, n/s. September 1 604-842-9559 NEW 2 Bdrm 2 Bath, Crossing condo, top floor, covered deck, granite counter, hardwood, vaulted ceilings, in suite laundry, secured parking, near hospital & UFV $1100, 604 852 9383
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APARTMENTS
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CEDAR GREEN
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1 BDRM newer attractive spacious suite, dining rm, lam flooring in living room, mountain view, sep ent, f/p, walking trails, includes heat, power, cable, share laundry. suit prof or senior person. n/s, n/p, ref’s req’d. Avail Sept 1, $750. leave message at 604-855-7627 1 BR, BACH, unfurn/furn, FARM, SHOP, prkg, W/D, pool, sat/TV $600, MISSION. 604-826-3874 1 BR + spare room, n/s n/p, City Ctr Clearbrook, $600. Sept 1. 778-549-8876, 604-854-5386 2 BDRM bsmt ste, Abbots, 32582 Nootka Pl. nr transit & shops, $750 incl utils. NOW. Call Kim 604-557-9277or 604-832-0631 2 BR bsmt, Mission, fish pond by covered patio, $750 incl utils, shrd w/d, ns ns, Sept 1. 604-841-4834 2 BR clean bsmt suite, Abbots, nr all amens & school, own entry, np ns, avail now 604-864-8409 2 BR newer home, own entry, E. Abbts near downtown, ns, np, avail now. 604-504-5842 ABBY 2 br new, 5 appl, 910 sf, i/net, nr parks/shops/schools. ns np $900. Avail now 604-308-4326 ABBY 2BR bsmt suite,1000sf open ground level, bright, no pets, ns, now, $750 incl. 778-846-1160
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Sports From Wolves to Hawks – a look into the four Abbotsford high school football training camps CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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wo practices a day, glaring sun and relentless heat aren’t enough to wither the spirit of head coach Bill MacGregor. He’s having too much fun building the Robert Bateman Secondary football program, which is now set for its first full season as a member of B.C. high school football Tier II varsity division. “I’m having a blast,” he said Wednesday after the team wrapped up its second practice of the day. “You have to have a purpose in life bigger than yourself because if you’re always chasing things for yourself, you’ll be disappointed. But once you get outside that and you start to see the big picture . . . that’s what distinguishes this group of coaches from any other.” The team is a mixture of accomplished players from the Abbotsford Falcons program and athletes that have never laced up cleats or strapped on shoulder pads.
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gridiron glory – JEAN KONDA-WITTE/TIMES
Robert Bateman Wolves and coach Bill MacGregor, centre, shout out a cheer before team practice on Wednesday.
It may be an interesting season, but MacGregor said you can’t measure a program’s success in its first year by wins or losses.
“The winning will take care of itself. We have people who are very knowledgeable and these are very good kids. The improvement has
been extraordinary.” Regardless of the scoreboard, MacGregor said the most important thing is his athletes are focusing
their energy in a positive way. “The purpose of this program is to make sure we get involved in the lives of kids,” he said.
Hawks chemistry a catered affair
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Training camp is a time most high school football teams use to build chemistry. Not the W.J. Mouat Hawks Triple-A team, or at least not four of its players, anyway. Starting quarterback Cam Bedore, standout receiver John Watson, linebacker Luke Friesen and back-up pivot Daniel Markin were all employed by Culinary Touch Catering and the Q Steakhouse in Abbotsford this summer, which has helped strengthen their bond. “You get to know these guys on a more personal level so it’s easy to get to know how they play on the football field,” said Bedore in between workouts on Tuesday, the second day of Hawks training camp. “We know how to work to each other’s strengths and we just get the job done,” said Bedore. The Hawks will have to battle conference rivals Centennial and Terry Fox to make it back to the Subway Bowl.
The Rick Hansen Hurricanes Double-A varsity football team is in a rebuilding phase, admitted head coach Paul Gill after the second day of training camp on Tuesday. At least nine starters on offence, as well as defence have graduated, including quarterback Greg Bowcott, from last year’s 6-1 regular season team, and that means someone will have to step in to fill the void. Enter Grade 12 pivot Steven Martinez, who spent all last season backing up Bowcott. Not the easiest task to be handed the starting quarterback, but Martinez said he’s up to it. “I’ve been behind Greg for a while, he’s helped me a lot and been a good leader for me and I guess it’s my time to shine,” said Martinez. Gill said he has no worries about his new starting QB. “He’s been working hard in the off-season and has kept trying to improve his game and he’s done a helluva job.”
The Abbotsford Collegiate Panthers are still a growing member in the B.C. high school football world, Double-A division. And because of that, head coach Jay Fujimura isn’t necessarily basing the success of his program on the scoreboard this season – despite a 1-6 record last year - but rather on improving as the gridiron gambit rumbles on. “It’s a very new program so I don’t gage [success] on wins and losses, but more on how the boys play and their attitude, their discipline,” he said. With Grade 10 quarterback Carter Williams slated to start behind centre, and the addition of more running backs to the offensive scheme, Fujimura will be relying on a strong contingent of returning offensive linemen. “For the most part, they all had the benefit of playing together last year, so that should help,” he said.
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Peewee Angels win gold in Western championship JEAN KONDA-WITTE
provincials in Kamloops. In the Westerns, the Angels were a perfect 4-0 through round robin play and faced Maple Ridge in the semifinal. This time Abby pulled out a 5-2 victory to avenge their earlier loss and earn a spot in the championship final. “ T h e re’s a b i g r i va l r y. They’re BC 1, we’re BC 2. It was a big win for us,” said Pankratz. In the gold medal game, Abby played the host Brandon team, which hadn’t lost a game all summer. The Angels were down 9-4 but rallied
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h e Abbotsford Angels captured the gold medal at the Peewee Triple-A Western Canadian Baseball Championships, defeating the host Brandon Knights 13-11. “It was a huge win for us,” said head coach Scott Pankratz. “But it was actually the semifinal that was the marquis game of the day.” The Angels travelled to Brandon, Man. last weekend following their second place finish to Maple Ridge in the – SUBMITTED PHOTO/FOR THE TIMES
The Abbotsford Angels were all smiles after winning gold at the Peewee Triple-A Western Canadian Baseball Championship in Brandon, Man. on the weekend.
Heat open on the road CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com
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t was a week later than last year, but on Wednesday the Abbotsford Heat released their schedule for the upcoming 2010-2011 American Hockey League season. Up first for the Calgary Flames farm club is a threegame swing beginning Oct. 8 against North Division rival Grand Rapids Griffins, AHL affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings. The Heat will then travel to Milwaukee for a battle with the Admirals on Oct. 9 before finishing the season-opening road trip against the Toronto Marlies on Oct. 11. The Heat will return home to the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre to open the home portion of their schedule on Oct. 15 and 16, and it will not be against the Manitoba Moose, the Vancouver Canucks affiliate. The Heat will instead open up at home against the Rockford Ice Hogs, AHL affiliate of the Stanley Cup winning
Chicago Blackhawks. But despite playing just one Canadian team in the first 21 games of the season, playby-play man and Heat director of communications and broadcast Dave Sheldon said he wasn’t overly surprised by anything on the schedule. “As much as we want to see the Canadian teams, they shouldn’t be weighted anymore from a hockey point of view,” he said. “From a business point of view, we want to build our brand. You get a Canadian team in the building every game and that’s the Abbotsford Heat.” The Moose come to town for the first time this season on Nov. 26 and 27 (Friday and Saturday). The Heat will play a trio of games on CBC this season, including an 11 a.m. showdown at the AESC with the Marlies on Jan. 16. The Heat will also travel to Calgary for a home game against the Oklahoma City Barons, farm club of the Edmonton Oilers on Feb. 17.
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Pair pinched in Canada’s largest poppy bust
Seven-acre field had up to 60,000 plants BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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hilliwack Mounties made the largest opium poppy plant bust in Canadian history Monday, discovering a seven-acre field with as many as 60,000 plants. When police arrived they found two men tending the fields. A 31-year-old Abbotsford man and a 24-year-old Mission man were arrested and are likely facing charges of production of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking. While opium can be used to produce heroin, police believe the plants were grown to produce doda, a powder that is combined with tea or hot water. The drink, which produces a quick high
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Police harvest Canada’s largest known poppy crop earlier this week near Chilliwack. A man from Abbotsford and another from Mission were arrested at the scene. The seven-acre field contained as many as 60,000 plants, which are being pulled before going to seed. and a sense of well-being, is popular with certain South Asian communities. Cpl. Kurt Bosnell with the RCMP’s drug section said that after police learned of the field, they began investigating whether the plants grown were, in fact, opium pop-
pies. “There’s very few instances where this has occurred in Canada before so it took some time in order to confirm exactly what it was,” said Bosnell. “One of the things that we were looking
for was the presence of the opium flower. Once we started seeing these buds, they’ll actually open up into nice bright pink and purple flowers.” see POPPY, page A7
Fire destroys rural temple Suspicious end to heritage landmark
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Abbotsford firefighters sift through debris after an early morning fire Thursday destroyed the Sant Baba Vasakha Singh Sikh Society temple. The blaze at the heritage building on Townshipline Road is deemed suspicious and is under investigation.
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beloved rural heritage landmark was lost in a devastating blaze yesterday morning. Pe o p l e d r i v i n g t h r o u g h Ma t s q u i Pra i r i e o n Tow n shipline Road may never have noticed the small cluster of buildings at the corner of Glenmore Road in rural Abbotsford, but for 100 or so parishioners, the fire that destroyed their Sikh temple early Thursday morning has left holes in the hearts of many.
“I’m really sorry, I [was] crying at home,” Kulvir Sandhu said, her eyes welling with tears. She was driving by Thursday morning with her family to have a look at the charred re m a i n s o f t h e Sa n t Ba b a Vasakha Singh Sikh Society temple where she has been coming with her children for more than 15 years. “This place – my children love it. I love it too.” Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service responded to the structure fire at 31957 Townshipline
Road at 4 a.m. to find the old wooden building fully engulfed with heavy smoke and flames shooting through the roof.
“It [the temple] reminds you of the old pioneers. There’s just something about it.” – Doug Rennie neighbour
The temple, one of three buildings on the site also known at the Gurmat Center, was destroyed. see FIRE, page A3
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