A6 ❘ NEWS ❘ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010 THE TIMES
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Surrey Six town hall meeting in Abby Three years to the day since one of British Columbia’s most grisly mass murders – the Surrey Six slayings – one of the victim’s relatives is hosting a public forum in Abbotsford about the killings. Steve Brown was the brother-in-law of murdered gas fireplace repairman Ed Schellenberg, 55, an innocent bystander who was shot to death in the grisly Oct. 19, 2007 murders involving Chris Mohan, 22, Edward Narong, 22, Corey Lal, 21, his 26-year-old brother Michael and 19-year-old Ryan Bartolomeo. Brown is putting on the evening to discuss our justice system in a town-hall style meeting. Abbotsford Mayor George Peary, Abbotsford Police Chief Constable Bob Rich and retired provincial court judge Wallace Craig will also be featured speakers for the evening. The event is at the Matsqui Centennial Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Oct. 19. Admission is free.
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More guns coming from America firearms seizures up, MacDonald said the department wished it could take credit and link the two. “We’d love to be able to say we’re seizing more guns before people shoot them, but I don’t think that’s the case,” MacDonald said. “When and where we come across a [firearm] we’re obviously seizing it.” While big guns are showy, and look as formidable as they perform, MacDonald said smaller firearms are still the preferred weapon of organized crime and gangs in the Lower Mainland. “We’ve come across assault rifles in our warrant executions, but still the
weapons of choice are handguns,” he said. “[Assault rifles], because they’re difficult from a portability standpoint, and not easily concealed, [are used less] . . . handguns are easily carried around and can be kept close at hand.” Cross-border shipments involving drugs for cash and guns are bringing more weapons to criminals in Canada, MacDonald said. “Firepower that is utilized in the United States, and to a lesser degree Mexico, is going to be observed more frequently on our side of the border.”
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Canada’s king of kid-lit, Robert Munsch, brings his Love You Forever tour to Abbotsford on Saturday for two shows at the Abbey Arts Centre. Munsch has published more than 50 books, and sold more than 30 million books around the world in 20 different languages, including French and several different First Nations languages. His first efforts, Mud Puddle and The Dark, were published in 1979, followed by another classic, The Paperbag Princess in 1980. Munsch has been publishing two books a year with Scholastic Canada since 1997. His most recent books are Roar! (fall 2009) and Put Me in A Book! (February 2010). You can laugh and cry with Munsch on Saturday Oct. 16, at 1 p.m. or 3:30 p.m., at the Abbey Arts Centre, 2329 Crescent Way, Abbotsford. Buy tickets at www2.sd34.bc.ca/schools/abbeyarts.
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And while officers couldn’t definitively tie the weapon to the person of interest in the investigation, MacDonald said they were nonetheless relieved to get the assault rifle off the street. “We had to secure that firearm, if by warrant, then we would have gone that way. But, in this case, the warrant wasn’t required because the ownership of the storage facility wasn’t in question,” MacDonald said. Regardless of whether the firearms seized are aged shotguns or assault rifles, MacDonald said getting weapons that police cannot trace ownership to off the street is paramount. With shots-fired calls down (26 in 2010 compared to 84 in 2009), and
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